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"The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow." 👻

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Hi friends, my name is Amber and I’m 20 years old. I’ve been roleplaying for 11 ish years and before we get started I am literate and enjoy writing lots and adding tons of detail. But you don’t have to do the same, just give me something to work with.

Now, I’ve finally just watched the conjuring movies and I am desperate to write about it with someone. I double up and will write anyone for you if you can do the same for me. I use discord or here.. maybe even instagram?? Could give it a shot. Whatever your preference is I can easily adjust to it.

Keep in mind there will be heavy religious themes plus demonic, possession, supernatural- all the conjuring type of stuff ect ect. But yeah if you’re interested please feel free to like this post and I’ll get back to you, or you can message me here or even message me on my discord which is @ stars_fading001

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oooh I have an idea for a modern!jace fic. I am a sucker for academic rivals to lovers so something like that. maybe reader finds out that jace is struggling (I thought a foreign language class since he struggled with valerian) or the teacher makes reader tutor Jace. I hope that made sense!

thank you xoxo

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You despised above everything anyone who was from a sports team. They were loud, entitled, arrogant, and made college all about them. You had a special hatred for that one guy from the football team who was banging at your dorm door at 11pm on a Thursday, thinking he was at his ex-girlfriend's dorm. 

But when Mr. Perron had asked you to tutor the center player of the hockey team in exchange for extra credits, you couldn’t refuse. 

You thought it would be easy and that he would take your tutoring seriously — his place in the hockey team was on the line —, but Jacaerys Velaryon was a pain in your ass. He had difficulty concentrating after twenty minutes and kept arguing over the spelling of words. 

‘’You can’t pronounce it like that,’’ you said for the third time since you sat at a table in the tutoring center. 

‘’Why not? It’s written that way,’’ Jace argued back, pointing to the word in the textbook.

‘’Because that’s not how you pronounce ‘croissant‘! I don’t make the rules.’’ You held back an exhausted sigh, your patience wearing thin. ‘’If you go to Paris and say it like that, they’re gonna laugh at you.’’ 

‘’They’re gonna be too distracted by my charming smile to hear my wrong pronunciation.’’ He flashed his signature smile at you, the one that made most people swoon, but you shook your head, refusing to engage in anything other than what you were there for.

‘’Unfortunately for you, your charm will not work on Mr. Perron,’’ you said, making his smile disappear. ‘’And it definitely won’t work on the exam.’’

Forty-five minutes later, Jace still couldn’t seem to get the translations right. You felt like he wasn’t even trying, but he actually was. French was just not sticking. 

‘’Look, I’m here to help you, but if you want to waste my time—’’

Panic set inside Jace. ‘’No. I really need your help,’’ he insisted, his eyes wide with desperation. ‘’I swear I’m trying. If I don’t pass, I’m gonna get kicked off the team. There’s five games left, and we are so close to the play-offs. Please, don’t let me fail.’’ He looked at you intently, almost like a puppy dog begging for a treat.  

You stayed at the tutoring center for another hour. There was a slight improvement, but Jace would need a lot more hours of tutoring to pass his exam. 

So, that’s what you did. Everyday at 7pm, he would meet you at the tutoring center and bring snacks from the campus café, claiming studying on an empty stomach was proven less effective by studies. You hated how he made crumbs on the table and how casually flirty he was, but his charming smile was growing on you and making you less indifferent by the day, much to your annoyance. 

You quickly shook those growing feelings out of your heart, refusing to fall for a hockey player. He already had a ton of girls at his feet. The chances he would reciprocate those growing feelings were too slim to even consider.

‘’Thanks for helping me. It means a lot to me,’’ Jace said on your last tutoring session. ‘’I’ve improved a lot this week, and I would not have been able to get this far without you.’’

During your time together, you got to know him a little and no longer saw him as just an entitled college athlete. He was sweet and thoughtful, and a true mama’s boy. You tried so hard to cover your fondness when he answered his mother’s call during a session. He even had a cute picture of his family as his lockscreen. 

You gathered your stuff, putting everything into your backpack. ‘’Can I ask you something? Why did you take French if you struggle with foreign language?’’ 

Jace groaned, embarrassment filling his body. ‘’Because it seemed easy…and girls like it when a guy speaks French,’’ he admitted, his cheeks pink as he covered his face with his hand. 

‘’Watch them all fall for you when you pronounce ‘croissant’ correctly.’’ 

A small laugh left his lips, amused by your teasing. 

The sound of his laugh made your heart flutter, but you played it off by facing the other way.  He couldn’t know that his charm was getting to you.

‘’There’s one week left until your exam. You gotta keep studying if you want to pass,’’ you said to him. ‘’No relenting.’’

You slung your bag over your shoulder and walked to the door, preparing to exit, but Jace called your name.

‘’What do I get if I pass?’’ 

His voice made you slowly turn around to look at him. ‘’You get to stay on the hockey team?’’ 

Jace pulled back on his Wolves hoodie, making you daydream about wearing it and smelling his woody cologne and something that was just him. ‘’No. What else do I get? I need something to motivate me.’’ 

A smirk curled at the corner of your lips, the words leaving your mouth before you could stop them. ‘’If you get above 80%, I’ll suck your cock.’’

To you, it was a joke — just a joke —, but Jace never studied this hard before. He spent all his free time with his nose in his french textbook, and even brought it to the gym so he could study while running on the treadmill. His teammate made fun of him, but he didn’t care. The reward would be worth it.

On the day of the exam, he asked Mr. Perron if he could grade his exam immediately, needing to know if he could play tomorrow night. Jace waited impatiently as the man checked everything, nerves bubbling in his stomach. When Mr. Perron handed him his exam, he walked out and started looking for you.

He found you sitting in the quad, reading by yourself. He ran over to you, and shoved his exam in front of your face. At the top right corner was a bright red 81%. 

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Sacrifice

Pairing: Lorraine Warren x Fem reader

Description: You put yourself in danger and end up hurt to save Lorraine and Ed

You knew something wasn't right as you looked around for April while Drew stayed in Brad's cop car with Christine as brad, Ed, Roger, and Lorraine kept Carolyn in the basement originally waiting for Father Gordon to arrive and do the exorcism but things grew dire leading to ed having to jump in and do the exorcism instead. "April! April where are you!?" you ran around everywhere looking for april knowing that if she was near carolyn at this point that Bathsheba would force carolyn to kill april as she had already done herself and possessed another woman to do before which only drove you to find april even more as you yelled and frantically ran back downstairs searching the kitchen as you heard small cries, you listened realizing it was from the floor leading to you opening the floor open with a crowbar where you found april underneath the floor as you reached for her tearing the floor open more before picking her up right as caroyln came making april scream as you immediately lifted April out and fell in the hole to prevent bathsheba from getting to her as everyone else tried to stop her. You yelled as you grabbed onto carolyn and held onto her tightly as she tried to climb through the hole where drew ran in and grabbed april as ed yelled out to you but you weren't letting go determined to protect april at all costs as caroyln finally yanked you up as rammed you into the ground before ed jumped in and lorraine as well which made your heart sink as you heard lorraine scream before you saw red running and ramming carolyn in the wall and pinning her there as lorraine called out to carolyn everyone telling her to fight as ed finished the exorcism and banished bathsheba leading to you almost collapsing, you teared up seeing the Perron family all together holding onto each other before you were taken to the hospital where you got stitches on the back of your head and found out that you had a concussion. You fell asleep after answering the basic questions the nurse asked you to be sure that your concussion was severe enough for you to be monitored more than a few hours or a day at the most which luckily you would only need to be monitored for the next four hours, you woke up an hour later only to see lorraine beside you learning that ed had went back to his house where he put the music box from the house in the room where things from every case was collected which you truly thought was not the best thing to do but somehow nothing had happened zoning into your thoughts until you heard lorraine speak softly and her words made your heart shatter and your eyes widen as she looked at you with an emotional and fearful expression which made you feel guilty for what you had done, "You're not a sacrifice...you're someone I care about deeply and if I lose you I don't know what I would do..." you opened your mouth to speak but your voice cracked and tears formed in your eyes out of guilt knowing you had caused her along with drew and ed worry even if you weren't trying to and had reasons for your actions. You looked down at your lap not knowing anything to say in this moment before lorraine held you in her arms relieved that you were okay that calmed the immense fear and worry that ran through her when she had seen you get thrown to the ground and collapse after the exorcism leading to ed having to carefully drag then carry you out of the house to the ambulance even with you being awake you definitely weren't in the real time and world during that moment with how dazed you were and your eyes almost glazed over, "I'm sorry..." lorraine immediately shook her head shushing you softly as she held you until you were back asleep again after repeating yourself from the questions the nurse asked before.

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29/06/2023 - the Montreal Canadiens select Jacob Fowler 69th overall | y // 1/09/2023 - Inside the Canadiens Draft Meetings, 2023

Jacob Fowler — an introduction, a collection of media

I’ll give you three shooters, and you can tell me if they’re righty, lefty, passer, or shooter. Perfect. Okay. Harvey, Chicago? He’s a passer. He’s a lefty. Lefty. (pause) Perron? Perron’s a shooter and he’s a righty. He’s got a really good shot. Fine? Fine’s a righty. Didn’t see too much of him this year. I’d say he’s a — he’s probably more of a passer, yeah. So you know your stuff. I do. You could probably go up and down the whole USHL and I could name… righty, lefty… Okay, now, how did you… When did you start studying it like that? I don’t think it was ever a ‘study’ as much as just — not even a photo memory — just; you play against those guys and if you want to stop those guys, you’re going to figure out real quick if he’s a righty or a lefty if you want to stop the puck. I mean you can’t… You can’t play your short side wrong if it’s a righty on his one side or a lefty on the other side, so… I think if you don’t know what hands they are, or if they’re a shooter or a passer, you’re not going to be very successful.

[Fowler at the scouting combine, speaking to a Canadiens psychologist] But I’m more interested in the guy who’s really inside, right? Yeah. Tell me about him. Tell me what makes him friggin’ tick. I’ve been, y’know, doubted and… Yeah! Here we go! I’ve had to prove people wrong my entire career. Of course you have, yeah! I sat in my living room in a shirt and tie with my whole family and watched, y’know, five or six hours of the entire OHL [Ontario Hockey League] Draft, the entire USHL [United States Hockey League] Draft and — to never see your name pop up on that screen is… It’s a pretty crappy feeling. To know that you played in the National Championship, you played in the national tournament twice; you’ve won just about every youth championship you could win in North America… To never be talked to, or to never see your name pop up is — it’s terrible. I don’t read too much into the different awards, but… To win the award of Goalie of the Year in this league that I was undrafted [in] — nobody wanted me. There were 16 teams and not a single one of them wanted me. I had to go out and prove that, every single night, that you messed with the wrong guy and Youngstown was just fortunate enough that I ended up in their corner. That feeling sticks with me every day, and… The last thing I want is any organisation to look back and wish they would’ve taken a chance on me because all I’ve done is prove people wrong.

Where do I even begin with Jacob Fowler? Scouts and pundits and fans have taken note — the Canadiens have had a distinct vision with their past few drafts under the Kent Hughes regime: culture and character. Jacob Fowler is yet another piece. In what I figure is typical Montreal media fashion, he's being hailed as the next goalie-of-the-future, as Carey Price come again. Big hair, big expectations, and a big fucking chip on his shoulder — that's Jacob Fowler. Also Jacob Fowler: a goalie who has always performed, always been at the bleeding edge of every leader board, a goalie who makes every net his.

The stats are the least notable thing about Fowler. Plenty of young goalies have put up good stats. It's not about his sv%, for me. It's about all the rest of it. It's the candidness with which he tells his story. It's the intensity of his complexes — borne from years of being overlooked.

Jacob Fowler rattles off skaters and their tendencies and thinks of it as a given that you should know these things by rote if you want to make saves. Jacob Fowler knows how good he is, he remembers every single instance where he'd been ignored when it came time to pick, and he's seemingly simmered this anger for just as long as he's understood it. That's what makes me care.

There's love of the game, and there's this. He's a fascinating case study: undeniably elite, yet somehow passed over again and again; confident and on the verge of cocky; calm, but only in the way the surface of a rip current hides it's pull. He's picking a fight with everyone who doubted him each time he gets in net. He's looking at the yawning chasm of where Carey Price used to be and he's going to jump. Against the searing lights of playing in Montreal? He says, "I don't think I could write the script any better. I want to be a Montreal Canadien, and I want to win a Stanley Cup for them. As a competitor, I don't want it to be easy. I think — I want the bright lights, I want the big stage, and y'know I said earlier pressure is a privilege."

It might all be bluster. It might be a media-trained, canned response. I was convinced.

x | y // x | y

[Exchange between the Canadiens' scouting team] Martin Lapointe: So, Billy, you're saying you would put Fowler ahead of [redacted]? Bobby Ryan: Yes, 100%. Fowler shows up every time and wins. It's, it's like almost — it's crazy. No one's saying Fowler was 'good' growing up. He was the best growing up. He's (redacted goalie) not better than Fowler. Like if we're playing a game right now and I said, "Alright, I'm gonna — you pick your team, we all got..." Vincent Riendeau: We're talking about the NHL today? They're not facing the NHL today. These guys will face them at 24, 25. BR: I know, but what I'm saying... He's ready — he already mastered... He's mastered his position. The other guys haven't. They have the tools. They haven't figured out in their head how to fuckin' win games. This kid does it. He's been doing it since he was like 10 years old. And he wants to do it. [...] We're all working towards the same goal. We're trying to win a Stanley Cup and... I'd want the kid who wins the most. Never been not the top goalie, ever. Ever. Look at the numbers. He's never not been the top goalie in the entire league. Not like — not the starter. He's never not been the highest save percentage in every league he's ever been in. VR: I can't deny it... I can't — but... BR: I just think we're going to regret not taking this kid.

I'm cheering for Jacob Fowler not because I think it's a sure-fire bet — he might never make it, and more promising prospects have fizzled out before — I'm cheering for him because I'm unbelievably excited to see him try.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Ten Montreal-area parents are suing a high school teacher and a school board after their children’s classroom art assignments were allegedly posted for sale online.

The lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court seeks $155,000 per family, plus punitive damages and an apology from Westwood Junior High School art teacher Mario Perron and the Lester B. Pearson school board.

A filing dated March 15 says Perron had assigned his students at the St-Lazare, Que., school to produce a “creepy portrait” of themselves or a classmate inspired by the style of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[sevinagreatergood]

Now, I am speculating here. But I have a feeling there are more women in the Harry Potter fandom than men. Since it's mere speculation, please vote if you're a woman or a man that likes harry Potter. List is below.

Moving on to the 2nd part. I write this because out of that sheer speculation. I don't know if people heard of it, but the word I'm going for today is Misandrist/Misandry.

Misandrist: a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against men.

Misandry: dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against men (i.e. the male sex).

I have met people, especially the lily Evans fans, that hate Snape simply because he's a male. They uplift Lily because she's a woman. Nowadays, we also know toxic women exist. That they would allow anything of their feminine gender because when a woman does it either isn't as bad as a man or it's woman empowerment.

You know? Those women that say "when a woman cheats it's empowerment"

Or those women that say "women can't rape"

Some of those Lily fans remind me of those women. Sure, they haven't specifically told me they hate Snape for being a man but it is completely astonishing to me how many allow Lily's behavior to slide because she's a woman.

Their reasoning is even so mysoginistic! Lily married James so it's all good. Lily died for her kid, so she's great. I wonder how many of those misandrists would become a Snape fan if he were a woman. So I wrote a scenario where I'll describe him as a woman.

Severus is 9yrs old and meets Lily and Petunia. By Petunia's voice, Severus is already labeled as unwelcome in their circle. The older girl dislikes her for her background. Meanwhile the other doesn't. So Severus befriends the actual witch who doesn't treat her the way her older sister does.

She tells Lily about her father hating magic. Seeing that Severus herself and her mother are magic, it is not far fetched to say her dad hated them too. Lily however changes the subject to what she would like to know about the magical world, being curious and all. She met Severus multiple times and in those multiple times, she had shown she didn't come from a good household either. A household that is neither caring nor wealthy enough to support themselves much less their daughter.

Years fly by and Severus looks forward to escape her family. She loves Slytherin because her mom was a Slytherin and her mom showed her the ropes of many subjects. Mostly potions and spells which her daughter became very good at. On the perron, Lily and Petunia fight as Severus waits inside the train.

Lily lashes out and left her sister on the perron. Meeting Severus in a coupe. Lily tells her to not bother talking to her which alarms Severus. She then tries to cheer up her friend by saying how amazing Hogwarts is, a new chapter awaits them and hopes to be with her friend in her favourite house, the house her mother was in, the mother that taught her everything she knew and adored. House Slytherin.

Lily cheers up a bit up but doesn't apologize to her friend. Seeing that it is a given to cheer her up. As they converse, a boy completely uninvited meddles into a little girl talk, waltzing all over Severus her opinion, because he knows better, and by knowing better he calls her opinion a load of bullshit. Without even remotely explaining why he hates Slytherin and why he was entitled enough to barge in, he involves an outsider who also rants on about their hatred for Slytherin.

Severus being raised in an abusive family, won't take shit from outsiders when she deals with her own father on the inside. So she snaps. Instead of learning from their mistake the boys label her Snivellus and try to trip her as Lily chose it was best to flee from the scene instead of confronting them. Now, at school. Severus is heartbroken to see Lily be sorted into Gryffindor. As she is in Slytherin.

Lucius Malfoy is the headboy and he became a DE, he latches onto Severus once he saw how much potential she showed with classes such as spells and potions. Slytherin in the books seems pretty much a guys club aside Bellatrix, Eileen, Pansy and Narcissa, so Severus would be the 5th woman famously known from the Slytherin house (funny thing is, even they had more influence than male Severus because their families are loaded and purebred) . She'd be surrounded by rich purebloods guys who hate her kind as well as Lily's.

Four years pass and Snape began calling others mudblood ONLY when she's surrounded by her Slytherin peers. Severus became desperate for the injustice she is served prank after prank by Gryffindor and a headmaster that adores Gryffindor. So she trusts her bully's word and goes to that shrieking shack.

She's almost killed as the truth is revealed by Remus. But she's saved by James. Without catching her breath, she is called to Albus his office and sworn under an oath and placed in a life debt towards the boy that basically ruined her life, but he's the headmaster's precious little Gryffindor. Meanwhile the one that almost attempted a murder either has such a small punishment or received no punishment at all. (1: I will explain this further why I assume this when you see a 1).

Now Lily meets up with Severus and goes on a whole rant about Snape being with her house mates even though Snape can't help it. Snape after all shares a common room, classroom and dining room (male Snape even shared showers and bedroom) with the other "bad" Slytherins. Lily accuses her in a certain way for being around her housemates even though she should know her childhood friend is nothing like them.

Her friend eventually pulls in Potter, the group Lily should have been worrying about as the prefect of her house. Lily her attitude changes towards her. "What about them?" Severus doesn't give up and tries to tell her in different ways that remus is a werewolf. She can't tell her after all "Remus is a wolf" due to that vow/oath.

Variations of telling her bestfriend is:

“What about the stuff Pot­ter and his mates get up to?” de­mand­ed Snape. Her col­or rose again as she said it, un­able, it seemed, to hold in her re­sent­ment.

“What’s Pot­ter got to do with any­thing?” said Lily.

“They sneak out at night. There��s some­thing weird about that Lupin. Where does he keep go­ing?” (variation one)

“He’s ill,” said Lily. “They say he’s ill – ”

“Ev­ery month at the full moon?” said Snape. (Variation two)

“I know your the­ory,” said Lily, and she sound­ed cold.

“Why are you so ob­sessed with them any­way? Why do you care what they’re do­ing at night?”

“I’m just try­ing to show you they’re not as won­der­ful as ev­ery­one seems to think they are.”

As you see, Snape is desperate to show the world that her bullies aren't those precious boyish little Gryffindors. At the mere thought of mentioning Potter, she gets a resentful expression. Some mere schoolyard fighting doesn't do that. She truly loathes the boys.

(Also people seem so confused about this. Severus did NOT know Remus was a werewolf by then, and went to shack to see what marauders kept as a secret. Only after he found out it was Remus lycanthropy, he aimed to reveal Remus, hoping to take maruaders out of Hogwarts 1 by 1 and to make at least James potter sour just as James made his life sour. So I don't know what Prince's tale book is about.)

Now Lily tells her "you're so ungrateful". Meaning now that James potter saved her, somehow she expects Severus to also kiss the ground James walks on after ruining now 5 years of her life. Severus becomes furious to be called ungrateful. Trying to make sense of what Lily just said. Telling her that James saved her only to keep his friend out of trouble!

Lily also tells her that at least James doesn't use dark arts, which isn't even bad. James uses it as well as Weasley family. As if that was supposed to make Severus feel any better. Matter of fact, it was to make Severus problems feel less important. So James doesn't use dark arts on her, meaning her problems aren't as deep as Lily's precious friend who met Mulciber and his dark arts.

Severus tells her that she also suffers because Potter fancies Lily but Lily dismisses it and assures Severus she doesn't even like him. Not to mention, Lily doesn't even sound remotely worried about Severus after she almost died thanks to Sirius and Remus.

Let's get to the lake incident. Severus is doing her studies by the bushes near the lake. Sirius is bored and James sees Severus alone. Finding their entertainment for the day. They make her defenceless by taking her wand and shoving soapsuds down her lungs, suffocating her. Lily sees this and runs over to James and his group. Yelling that they should stop. James threatens and extorts her.

Slowly however, Severus reaches her wand and shouts a spell at James who gets a cut on his cheek. In anger, he lifts Severus up by ankle. Revealing her shabby underwear. Whilst up there, she sees her friend looking at her, almost twitching to smile. Only then to point the wand at him where Snape is then dropped harshly. Snape still suffocating on soapsuds and blood thumping in her head whilst being the laughingstock for kids as well as LILY.

She cusses Lily who then degrades her in 2 ways. "I'd wash your pants, Snivellus" she gives into the years of bullying her friend went through, and she degrades the poverty part of Severus Snape.

1: reason why I think Albus gave them such a minor punishments or no punishment at all. Is because the marauders did NOT learn their lesson after a whole ass murder attempt. Because a few months go by when this happens. Where James could feel no fear to say that he bullies a person because they exist.

Next scene is where Snape waited many days in front of her common room (that's not even stalking, it's like you know where your friend lives and you want to make things right so you visit them. Idk how emotionally depraved people are to label that stalking). People call that a conversation but Lily accuses her over and over again.

“It’s too late. I’ve made ex­cus­es for you for years. (Accusation) None of my friends can un­der­stand why I even talk to you. (Accusation) You and your pre­cious lit­tle Death Eater friends (Accusation) – you see, you don’t even de­ny it! (Accusation) You don’t even de­ny that’s what you’re all aim­ing to be! (Accusation) You can’t wait to join You-Know-Who, can you?”

Now Lily asks her friend that pity question. She didn't even wait for an answer. And Severus, the abused girl she is, clams up. Because as we see from a memory. Her father shouts, she cries as well as an older woman cries aka her mom. Now Lily shouts at her. Lily cuts her off because her friends didn't like her. Friends that lily befriended out of her own free will at the expense of Severus Snape. Meanwhile Snape wasn't even friends with her housemates. There isn't a single kind thought she had about Avery, Mulciber, Evan or Barty in their adult life. Meanwhile Severus went from the abuse of home to school for 7 whole years. Living a total of 18 years of physical abuse.

Lily decided to give James a chance barely a year later. She gives the guy that ruined her friend's life a chance. Meanwhile James doesn't even bother keeping his promise with Lily, bullying Snape behind her back. Remus and Sirius made sure their victim still being a victim is kept a secret from Lily, a prefect.

They grow up and Lily and Severus join opposite sides. Snape delivers a prediction to Voldemort. "Parents who escaped Voldemort 3x and had a boy born at the end of July will defeat him" which is vague as fuck. Who even keeps count on how many times people escape Voldemort. So they went to work and she heard that it could be Potters and Longbottoms. She tried to ask Voldemort to save her friend, not the child of destiny because that would get her killed and also not James for he was the one that ruined her school experience.

Voldemort didn't listen so she betrayed him and went to Dumbledore, telling him everything. Albus listens and places them into safety as well as longbottoms in return for her usefulness. Unfortunately Sirius and James labeled Remus as suspicious due to hidden discrimination and hand Peter the information. Peter snitches on Voldemort and the Potters almost all die.

She becomes suicidal after she heard friend died but Albus tells her that she wouldn't be much of use then. Telling her to keep on working for him to pay back a life debt she owed James and a child her friend cherished to properly make up for her mistakes she assumed she made between herself and Lily. So she begins to work as a teacher.

A decade passes and Harry eventually enters Hogwarts. She keeps the boy safe whilst the boy breaks school rules over and over again that brings him in life threatening danger and the headmaster rewards that behavior by giving Gryffindor points every single year. Meanwhile She also has to give actual classes, look at homeworks, prepare tests and play a spy for Voldemort too!

She has kids that make mean rumors about her. Kids that don't listen to her, in a job she didn't even remotely want.

Albus asks her many things. To work with her bullies aka Remus and Sirius. To kill him for Draco's sake. Even she begs him to think about her well being for once that it was becoming too much. Especially because he said that the kid she protected for so long had to die too. In the end, she died at the hands of Voldemort who saw her as an obstacle for his true goal because of the wand not obeying him but her.

I wonder how many Misandrists would suddenly go"Severus is such an amazing woman! Woman power there!" Especially those misadrist think that mother's are amazing to die for their kid or betray for their child's safety. That's like the bare minimum a mom (AND dad) can do, making sure their kid is safe.

Also the songs befitting female Severus Snape would be:

Burn Your Village - Kiki Rockwell

Same Old Energy - Kiki Rockwell

Labor - Paris Paloma

[fluentmoviequoter]

Surviving The Conjuring

Terrifying Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Fic-Tober Masterlist

Summary: Dalton accompanies you to the first week of the Terrifying Tuesday horror movie marathon for the tenth anniversary showing of The Conjuring. When you notice something about Ed Warren, you eliminate Dalton's anxiety and create a new game.

Warnings: spoilers for and dialogue from The Conjuring (2013) and Scream (1996), takes place after The Red Door (2023), brief mentions of anxiety, fluff, I think it could be read as platonic or romantic. 1.0k+ words.

A/N: That title is the best I could do? I watched The Conjuring for the first time last night so if the order of events I mention isn't accurate, I apologize. I hope you enjoy the Patrick Wilson horror movie inception! :)

Your phone begins to ring, and you tear your attention away from Dalton to check it. He’s been in your dorm most of the day, and you lost track of time.

“I have to go,” you say as you stand. “I’ll see you tomorrow?”

“Where are you going?” Dalton asks, eyes following you as you navigate your dorm. “Big plans without me?”

You laugh before promising, “You don’t want to go to these big plans. I’m going to see the tenth anniversary showing of The Conjuring.”

“I can go with you,” he says before adding, “so you don’t have to go alone.”

“It’s fine, Dalton. I invited Chris but she’s busy.”

Dalton looks up at you, his unintentional puppy-dog eyes getting the best of you.

“I just don’t want you to be miserable the whole time. That’s the only reason I didn’t invite you before.”

“I’ll be fine. Besides, I can hold your hand if I get scared,” Dalton responds, grabbing your hand in his.

You look between his face and your joined hands before sighing. “Fine. On one condition. If you get scared or don’t like it, any reason at all, and want to leave you have to tell me. Immediately. Deal?”

Dalton shakes your hand and agrees to your terms before walking out with you. When you arrive at the park and find a quiet area to sit where you can see the screen, Dalton pulls you as close as possible and asks you questions about the movie before it starts. 

“Remember what I said. If you want to leave, tell me. It’s not a problem, Dalton, I want you to be comfortable and have a good time,” you remind him as the screen is illuminated.

The movie begins, and you give it most of your attention, a part of your brain dedicated to Dalton and his wellbeing. You can feel him beside you, and at the first sign of discomfort or anxiety, you plan to get him out and do something else.

As the movie plays and the scenes switch between Ed and Lorraine Warren and the Perron family, you feel a strange sense of recognition whenever Ed appears or speaks.

“It’s something inhuman,” Ed Warren speaks, referring to Annabelle.

Dalton pulls your hand into his lap and begins tracing shapes on your palm. Glancing over, he looks relaxed, so you let him continue his ministrations. Not that you’d ever complain about being so close to Dalton.

“What is an inhuman spirit?”

“It’s something demonic…” Dalton tenses beside you. “It was used as a conduit. It moves around to give the impression of possession. Demonic spirits don’t possess things. They possess people. It wanted to get inside of you.” Dalton jerks slightly, and as Ed re-enters the center frame, you finally realize why he looks so familiar.

Eager to share your revelation and hoping to get Dalton’s mind off the idea of demonic spirits, you lean over and whisper, “Ed looks just like your dad.”

Dalton’s head snaps up to the screen, your hand still in his, as he says, “No, he doesn’t.” He watches the screen for a minute with furrowed brows before conceding, “He does. That’s kind of creepy.”

You laugh lightly, then ask, “Do you think your dad could survive a horror movie?”

“I mean… he kind of has.”

“I mean a real horror movie; scripted jump scares and all. Like this one. I think he would, survive, I mean. He would just be skeptical the whole time, wouldn’t believe what he was seeing.”

“He would absolutely be a skeptic.” Dalton continues to watch, no longer seeming anxious. When Ed hugs his daughter, Dalton says, “He certainly wouldn’t do that.”

You laugh loudly before covering it up with a cough, pressing your face against Dalton’s shoulder. Inching closer to Dalton, he wraps an arm around your shoulders and pulls you into his side. The new proximity makes it easier to whisper as you discuss whether or not Josh could survive. Dalton remains on the fence, while you are confident he would.

Dalton has been silent for several scenes, enraptured with the story on the screen. When Ed jumps out of the way of the falling wardrobe, however, Dalton breaks his silence to say one word: “Dead.”

You laugh again and then argue that if Renai had yelled his name like Lorraine had, he would have had enough reaction time to get out of the way.

“You have way too much faith in my dad,” Dalton whispers into your hair.

“Maybe you don’t have enough.”

He chuckles before turning his head to watch again. Later, after Ed is nearly shot, he whispers, “Dead, for sure.”

“What are you talking about?” you ask, smiling at Dalton’s insistence that Josh could not survive the horror movie. “Brad saved him! You think Foster wouldn’t save your dad?”

“I think Foster would film it, honestly. Or not know anything was happening.”

“You have issues,” you tease, shaking your head at Dalton.

As the movie ends and the lights in the park flicker on, you look at Dalton, eyebrows raised as you wait for his final judgment.

“What do you want to hear?” Dalton asks with a sigh, pulling you to your feet.

“The truth. Could Josh Lambert, the great father of Dalton, survive The Conjuring?”

Dalton runs his hand through his hair, shaking his head while smiling. “Yes. You were right.”

You raise your hands to cheer, but Dalton cuts you off. “However, he would not believe it. He’d say,” he pauses and changes his voice to imitate his dad, “Those people are just crazy, Dalton.”

“That was a really good impression,” you point out as he leads you toward the exit. “So, what other horror movies could he survive?”

“Scream, maybe? I don’t know.”

“No, he’d be the Casey Becker,” you argue. “Or Stu Macher.”

Dalton laughs and tips his head back. “I’m telling him you said that.”

“Don’t you dare! Seriously, what horror movie could he without a doubt survive?”

“What’s playing next week?” Dalton asks as you pass the sign for Terrifying Tuesdays.

“Oh,” you laugh before stating, with absolute confidence, “Your dad would be dead in the first fifteen minutes.”

Dalton smiles as he trails behind you, wondering how you made a horror movie date so much fun. He looks forward to the next movie, something he never expected to think.

“We’ll see.”

“Does that mean you’re coming with me?”

“Are you kidding? Judging whether or not my dad could survive a horror movie is something I will never pass up.”

[acheronist]

can you make sparknotes for the Red Wings players they are all the same person to me (sorry)

dw my darling i got you 🫡 here's the regular 23 man roster we've been skating this szn

forwards (+ this is going to be the number they wear on their jerseys, not their age)

jt compher (37) - won a cup whilst he was on the colorado avalanche (red wings long time beloathed nemesis rivals team), attended umich hockey with larkin and copp. deadpan dry asf tenderhearted weirdo. very good at hockey i like him

andrew copp (18) - 🎶get up and g-get down, 911 is a joke in your town🎶, local michigander boy playing for his hometown team, attended umich with compher and larkin, kind of fuck ugly but he's gritty and has a lot of love in his heart so we like him

alex debrincat (93) - another local michigander boy playing for his hometown team, really good at hockey, we rescued him from the ottawa senators (red wings short term/very recent beloathed nemesis rival team) and he likes it here more, haha lol lmao even. good at hockey!! kind of a sniper. also kind of fighty which is hilarious because he's about 9 inches shorter than the average nhl player. new dad and really loves it, brings his family to games all of the time. and he was our all star games representative this year !

robby fabbri (14) - how are you going to be a short italian-canadian kind of bisexual professional hockey player who mixes metals and has a standing eyebrow appointment. please pick a struggle. won the stanley cup w/ st louis and then got abandoned for being 'injury prone' and was sent to detroit in a 1 for 1 trade (the most humiliating of all nhl player trades imo). he and larkin and rasmussen are the only men left standing from the red wing's historic worst-ever season in 2019 where every game they looked like they were going to kill themselves.

christian fischer (36) - new bestie alert! huge locker room guy. okay at hockey (more of a playmaker than a goalscorer) but he's so fucking sillygoofy and funny i love to see this guy on my team. spent most of his career in arizona iirc, and basically he and gostisbehere came from the coyotes directly to the red wings as a buy one get one free deal.

patrick kane (88) - narcissict. arrogant. flop. old man who can't score anymore. history of assault and violent misdemeanors he never was punished for because he was the nhl's boytoy a decade ago. i hope he contracts sepsis from an unforeseen complication with his hip surgery and takes a long walk off of the rencen's roof and lands in the detroit river where he is frozen and then chopped up by an industrial ship's propeller. fuck this guy.

klim kostin (24) - beloved enforcer. used to skate for the edmonton oilers. his entire game is based around slotting in on the third/fourth line when necessary and whenever someone gets hurt he comes out swinging to establish the fact that the red wings are not to be fucked with. he doesn't start fights but he does finish them. notoriously big hearted and silly with his teammates. coincidentally wearing the same number as the red wings most famous enforcer from the 1980s, bob probert. my guard dog boy i love u

dylan larkin (71) - michigan native, umich grad, was the previous captain's rookie, the beating heart and soul of the team, carrying the weight of a century year old hockey team's legacy and all the ghosts that come along with that, never been to playoffs and hasn't won the cup yet. literally the miserable boyking of metro detroit. he's had to suffer a lot for absolutely no reason, but still manages to come and be our best and most important player every single night.

david perron (57) - he's old by nhl standards i.e. he's in his late thirties and has been playing for like a decade, so he knows his way around an nhl rink. french canadian enough that he's got an accent. big heart and soul guy, which i really wasn't expecting tbh! he's always standing up for teammates and has gotten in a few noteworthy fights (dylan got hurt so badly this szn that dp went rage-blind and ended up getting suspended for six games after fighting the opponents who hurt dylan)

michael rasmussen (27) - big fuck off scary intimidating canadian hockey lad. kind of awkward and bizarre. also kind of a doll if i can b honest. he's very shy and quiet in interviews but always has an insane serial killer look in his eyes whenever he's on the ice. was drafted high and then i suspect he had a lot of mental struggles about not being the player he was advertised/told to be? but the last few years he's stepped away from that role he thought he should be and started being himself and playing in a way that was obviously more comfortable, and he's taken huge huge productive strides and improved a lot. moose ily

lucas raymond (23) - our youngest babiest player!! he was our highest draft pick in a looooooooong time, and immediately went from prospect training camp -> regular nhl player, which is fucking crazy. he's exceptionally good at hockey, and has a reputation for coming in clutch with goals we need to win games. besties with moritz seider + jake walman + joe veleno.

daniel sprong (17) - i had no idea what to think of this guy at first but now i can't believe he's only been here for one season. it feels like he's been a wing for ages. he's one of our sniper goalscorers, except he shoots the puck with a lil too much sauce + with a feral desperation of a man afraid he was never going to score a goal again, every single time, which i love. also he stalks twitter and runs a team GC to forward memes that the fandom makes to the guys

joe veleno (90) - if bambi was a closeted italian canadian hockey player. wears an evil eye bracelet and also a crucifix? very meek and easy to bully, tbh, not our most productive goalscorer but also somehow he's very crucial to the emotional well being of the younger half of the roster? hes sillygoofy and a sweetheart and does his best every night which is all we can ask tbh. besties with lucas raymond + moritz seider + jake walman.

defensemen

ben chiarot (8) - resident manwhore dilf fashionista who knows he's sexy and loves to be a bitch on the ice. loves to be annoying and distracting @ the opponents during plays so the red wings can have space to move.

shayne gostisbehere (41) - escaped florida man turned into an nhler, sleeper agent defensive weapon that people tend to forget about. always busting his ass up and down the blue line. always looks sopping wet and really sad though? loves to shoot the puck and sometimes it even makes it to the net!

justin holl (3) - i'm hesistant to describe him as "good at hockey" but the boys seem to love him + he's silly enough to engage in the locker room antics + i've noticed him dealing out more hits lately which is always good.

olli maatta (2) - very very very steady in the most boring way possible. does his job and not an ounce more than necessary LOL but it's fine because he's good at what he does? a classic defensive defenseman.

jeff petry (46) - not… good? at hockey? but he is also a michigan native playing for the hometown team, and he's a veteran nhler, and he's a gritty sort of guy, so i like having him. he grew up in detroit proper, as well, because his dad played on the detroit tigers baseball team, so there's a lot of michigan sports lore going on in that household. also his kids are silly + love to come to games

moritz seider (53) - my sweet perfect darling defenseman prodigy. won the calder trophy because he was the most special and talented rookie in his first year in the nhl. breaking team records for defensemen at an alarming rate. was dylan's rookie, and is also frequently mentored by red wings defense legends. he's not a rookie anymore but you can still see how much responsibility he's shouldering and how much he takes after dylan's role modeled behavior/team legacy standards. good at handling tough responsibility vs staying silly anyways. hes my shining star and i luv him. generally he's paired up with jake walman on defense and they're a little bit married because of it. besties with lucas raymond + jake walman + joe veleno.

jake walman (96) - another guy who st louis abandoned and then ended up on the red wings and said "i want to spend my entire life and career in this city" . extremely silly. known for hitting the griddy whenever he scores important goals. big on video games + making tiktoks. tremendous locker room vibes guy, and very emotional and serious about proving his place on detroit's blue line. generally he's paired up with moritz seider on defense and they're a little bit married because of it. besties with moritz seider + lucas raymond + joe veleno.

goalies

ville husso (35) - looks like a haunted little porcelain doll. always sopping wet for some reason. very softspoken and european. mid-good level goalie, kind of needs to prove himself a bit now that alex lyon's gone completely off the shits and taken over starter goalie privileges, but i feel like there's no sense of animosity or competition between them? ville just strikes me as genuinely someone who's delighted and proud of his tandem partners for their successes, even if it comes at his expense / losing some of his chances to get ahead

james reimer (47) - idc about this man lol. he's either a very good goalie or an atrociously horrible goalie and you dont know what it'll be until the games already happening. passively homophobic christian behavior as well which i do not like to see. but he's also a veteran nhl player so in the beginning of the szn he was getting more opportunity than alex or ville.

alex lyon (34) - spent his entire career in the minor league/being traded between franchises where there wasn't really a space or need for him. got on the radar after keeping the florida panthers in their playoff race before losing, and then FL traded him to us. we've had goaltending agonies for years and then he's rolled up to detroit with something to fucking PROVE because he thought his hockey career was about to be over so he's skating every night like its do or die. after reimer and husso both were injured tho he finally got his chance to shine and oh baby he's been shining. unbelievably good at goaltending. big heart, very genuine, very funny, basically a male model as well, been to therapy and actually got something out of it, i would go to war for this man if he needed me to

[m12writer]

Their Clairvoyane Soulmate (Description & Cast)

Aurelia Perron is the oldest daughter at 20 years old. Ever since she was a child, she could see, touch and feel things that no else in her family could. What happens when she and her family moves into a haunted house and something starts to terrorize her and her family? What happens when her mother gets help from Ed and Lorraine Warren, who happen to be her soulmates? How would Ed and Lorraine feel about their soulmate being terrorized?

Ed Warren x Aurelia Perron (oc) x Lorraine Warren

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Aurelia Perron

Ed and Lorraine Warren

[justforbooks]

A Man of Few Words by Carlo Greppi

An intriguing study of Lorenzo Perrone, the bricklayer who helped the famous author survive Auschwitz – then lost the will to live

When Primo Levi, the Turin-born chemist and nuanced chronicler of the human condition, pondered quite how he had survived Auschwitz, he gave the credit to a gruff bricklayer called Lorenzo Perrone: “not so much for his material aid”, he wrote, “as for his having constantly reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something and someone still pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror… for which it was worth surviving”.

Perrone was, like Levi, from Piedmont (in north-western Italy), but he wasn’t a prisoner: he was one of the workers outside the camp. He passed Levi bread, soup and clothing, he wrote postcards to Italy on his behalf and brought Levi the replies. “For all this he neither asked nor accepted any reward,” Levi wrote in If This Is a Man, “because he was good and simple.” In his books and interviews throughout the postwar decades, Levi referred often to Perrone and eventually his biographer, Carole Angier, successfully campaigned to have him elevated to the honour of “righteous among the nations” – the tribute offered by Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center) to those who helped save Jews at that time.

Greppi’s biography of this elusive figure is intriguing. He was born in Fossano, roughly halfway between Turin and Nice, in a poor suburb called the Burgué, home mostly to bricklayers and fishers. Perrone was nicknamed Tacca – short for attaccabrighe (“troublemaker” or “brawler”) – and his family emerges as largely silent and surly. They were even confused as to the correct spelling of their surname (it was written with both one or two “r”s). Perrone was, Levi wrote without scorn, “very ignorant, almost illiterate”.

He had tried to be a feramiù, selling junk like his father but enrolled in the army and then became a bricklayer, joining the many subsistence workers who went to southern France when required: “for decades”, Greppi writes, “that porous border had been crossed by shepherds and pedlars, by beggars who appeared at fairs with dancing marmots, by the cavié who bought and sold women’s hair for Parisian wigmakers, by sellers of fireworks, woollen sweaters and canvases”. In the 1940s, Perrone ended up at Auschwitz with an Italian company called Boetti. It was there that he met Levi and almost certainly saved his life.

After the war, Perrone walked back to Italy. Greppi imagines him navigating by the stars, sleeping in haylofts and stealing potatoes as he goes. What happened postwar is almost as touching and melancholic as what happened during it: poles apart in terms of education and class, the two men stay in touch, writing warm but formal greetings to each other. But there was an agonising sort of role reversal: as Levi the former prisoner became a literary superstar; Lorenzo, his rescuer, sank into depression and alcoholism.

When Levi went to visit him, he described a man who is “mortally tired”, suffering from “a weariness without remedy. We went to the osteria for some wine together and from the few words I managed to wrest from him I understood that his margin of love for life had thinned, almost disappeared.” Perrone was rarely working any more. He had become a vagabond, collecting and carting scrap iron, spending all his money on wine and sleeping in ditches and under hedges. He was often hospitalised but would immediately check himself out to source more alcohol. According to Levi, Lorenzo’s was a slow-motion suicide: he had “seen the world” and “he didn’t like it, he felt it was going to ruin. To live no longer interested him.”

Greppi is good on the various historical settings, but is severely challenged by the paucity of source material, frequently having to resort to questions and speculation. Almost his only reliable source remains Levi himself, who wrote many iterations of his interactions with Perrone. Levi was, of course, a brilliant portraitist, able to nail characters with wry precision, surprising insights and arresting metephors. But Perrone in many ways confounded him: “in the violent and degraded environment of Auschwitz, a man helping other men out of pure altruism was incomprehensible, alien…”

That altruism was all the more confounding because it didn’t spring from any religious or political faith. Perrone was equally dismissive of any offer of money or recognition. “He was a morose saviour, with whom it was difficult to communicate,” Levi wrote: “a very silent man. He refused my thanks. He almost didn’t reply to my words. He just shrugged: Take the bread. Take the sugar. Keep silent, you don’t need to speak.”

Greppi suggests in his conclusion that Perrone’s untutored altruism answers the deepest question of Levi’s oeuvre: what it means to be human. Because within what Levi called the “infernal order” and “complicities” of nazism, Perrone’s solidarity had neither motive nor reason. It was simply instinctive. And there’s something beautifully poetic in the fact that such instinct was revealed through a man who was so simple and so troubled.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[ghostickori]

The Perron Family Estate, AKA "The Conjuring House"; Burrillville, Rhode Island

[servants-hall]

Julian Fellowes's period drama Belgravia is an adaptation of his novel of the same name. The plot, which follows the trajectory of a family secret from a party in Belgium on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1825 to England's Belgravia neighborhood in the 1840s, is a self-contained story, but in March 2023, MGM+ announced there will be a sequel series to Belgravia, aptly titled Belgravia: The Next Chapter. It will be set in the same world, but in a different time.

"I’m so proud of everything this dedicated team accomplished with the original Belgravia series. I cannot wait for the world to return to Belgravia for this new iteration, expertly crafted by Helen Edmundson," Julian Fellowes, Executive Producer, said in a statement. "Old and new fans alike will be swept off their feet with an emotionally engaging story, memorable characters, and brilliant production and costume design."

Here's what we know about season two:

The second season will be Belgravia: The Next Chapter.

Hannah Onslow as Emily Dunn; Sophie Thompson as Mrs. Dunn; Harriet Slater as Clara Trenchard [MARK MAINZ/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

The show will pick up in 1871, three decades after the events of season one. Per Deadline, "the series tells the love story of Frederick Trenchard, who has grown up as the third Lord Trenchard, and his new love interest, Clara Dunn, who is a newcomer to London society. Unaware that his birth was the product of an affair between his mother Susan and the scoundrel John Bellasis, a troubled childhood has left Frederick deeply insecure, which challenges his courtship of and marriage to Clara."

There's an entirely new cast:

Hannah Onslow as Emily Dunn; Harriet Slater as Clara Trenchard; Sophie Thompson as Mrs. Dunn; Sophie Winkleman as Duchess of Rochester [ROBERT VIGLASKY/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

Harriet Slater as Clara Trenchard. [COLIN HUTTON/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

Harriet Slater will star as Clara Trenchard (née Dunn), "a young, smart, and striking woman, and a fresh face amongst the society of Belgravia, Clara is thrilled by her marriage to the enigmatic Frederick … but as she comes to learn more of her husband and the trauma he carries, Clara finds her marriage will not be as smooth as she first thought and is something she must fight for."

Benjamin Wainwright as Frederick Trenchard; Harriet Slater as Clara Trenchard. [ROBERT VIGLASKY/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

Ben Wainwright will play Frederic Trenchard, "the young and handsome third Lord Trenchard, Frederick takes after his grandfather with a ferocious work ethic, having built a large business empire. Immediately smitten with Clara, he marries her after a whirlwind romance, but brings with him traumas from his past that threatens his newfound happiness."

The rest of the cast is as follows:

Edward Bluemel as Dr. Stephen Ellerby [COLIN HUTTON/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

Hannah Onslow as Emily Dunn; Toby Regbo as Reverend James Trenchard [COLIN HUTTON/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

Liam Garrigan as Fletcher; Elaine Cassidy as Davison [MARK MAINZ/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

Edward Bluemel will play Dr. Stephen Ellerby, a young idealistic doctor captivated by Clara

Claude Perron will play French businesswoman the Marquise D’Étagnac

Toby Regbo will play Rev. James Trenchard, Frederick’s estranged brother

Elaine Cassidy will play Clara's lady's maid Davison

Hannah Onslow will play Clara’s older sister, Emily Dunn

Sophie Thompson will play Clara and Emily's mother, Mrs. Dunn.

Benjamin Wainwright as Frederick Trenchard; Sophie Winkleman as Duchess of Rochester. COLIN HUTTON/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+

Plus, the show will feature Sophie Winkleman as the Duchess of Rochester, described as "the queen of Belgravia" who sits atop the social hierarchy. Winkleman, also known as Lady Frederick Windsor, is a member of the British royal family. In August 2023, Winkleman opened up to the Daily Mail about the allure of Regency-era romances. "Just the way you compose yourself, the way you speak the words, we are in such a casual era," she explained, "To go back to some kind of formality, you realise how oddly sexy it is, because everything's so out there in this current century. There's actually no intrigue at all, so going back to then, when everything had to be so covered up for the sake of propriety, everything ripples under the surface. It is quite a sensual experience."

Alice Eve as Susan Trenchard. [COLIN HUTTON/CARNIVAL FILM & TELEVISION LIMITED/MGM+]

There's two returning cast members from the original Belgravia: Alice Eve as Susan Trenchard and Richard Goulding as Oliver Trenchard.

Belgravia was intended to be a limited series.

“For me, this is a completed story, although whenever I say this to any of the actors, they disagree with me violently, so I’m not sure we know the definitive answer to that, really,” Julian Fellowes initially said at a preview for Belgravia. “We’ll have to see. If anyone wants any more…”

“We definitely made this as a limited series because it’s really enjoyable at times to have a clear beginning, middle and end,” Gareth Neame, who also worked on Belgravia, said, per The Wrap. “And it’s obviously been adapted from a novel that has a clear ending. So that’s where we are right now. But obviously one never knows. If we find it does really well and we find another way to bring the title back in the future then I guess we would consider that. But right now it’s very clearly a limited series.

Belgravia season two premieres January 14, 2024.

Harriet Slater as Clara Trenchard; Benjamin Wainwright as Frederick Trenchard. MARK MAINZ

There will be eight episodes in the season. Watch a first trailer:

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ISSUE 69 BLOCKS MAGAZINE PAGE 32 + 33

[ID 1: A magazine page, on the left is text and on the right is two pictures. The first is digitally painted concept art of the Demon Bull King, behind him are flames, flags, and silhouetted bull clones. Under it is a photo of designer, Chris Perron showing Simon Lucas a work-in-progress LEGO build of DBK. Below the text is a picture of six LEGO designers sitting at a table with several Monkie Kid s] 

[ID 2: A splash page of the set 80010 Demon Bull King. The Bull King is brick-built out of LEGO. He has two black cannons mounted on his shoulders, and a flame-thrower replaces his left arm. His chest is flaming and his legs are robotic. He wields a large axe. A minifigure of Princess Iron Fan sits atop his right shoulder, she wields a fan. ] 

Transcript:

Researching Monkie Kid

Simon and his core crew of LEGO designers flew to Shanghai, where the LEGO Group has an international hub office. 'I really relied on my colleagues in China to tell me everything they think of when they think of their home and their culture. That was a great brainstorm, because you realize how much culture there is; how much creativity. Also, the mix of old and new is fascinating - China's an amazing place that embraces newness like nowhere else."

The design team sat down with their China-based colleagues to get that feel for where they should go next, which led to a number of different potential sparks. 'At the beginning we explored multiple ideas - we had nine directions that we tested with children. We filtered that into three really strong themes,' Simon explains, but keeps the two ideas that didn't make it this time around under wraps. 'They actually tested really well, so there is huge potential there.

In August 2018, the testing was conducted with children and families across China, with the team visiting Chongqing, Xi-an, Beijing, Manjing and Nanjing as well as Shanghai. There was something special about how children responded to LEGO Monkie Kid. 'It blew me away, just how iconic and recognizable the characters from Journey to the West and the Monkey King were. I can only compare it to how when testing in America children recognize the Avengers, they know all the backstories. In China, when they saw this line-up of concept art that Xiaodong made of these characters we recreated, they were like, "That's Pigsy, that's Sandy, that's Sun Wukong.

'While it is a 500-year-old novel, Journey to the West has been brought to life in many different ways over those years and it is still so relevant. I learnt that everyone has their own connection to the story, whether their parents read it to them, or they studied it at school, or they watched a cartoon version of it that was made in 1968. But I realized that everyone I met had a universal love for the 1980s TV series that they made in China.

"CAN YOU MAKE A FANTASY PLAY THEME FOR CHINA THAT IS ROOTED IN CHINESE CULTURE? THAT WAS THE BRIEF - A WHITE PIECE OF PAPER"

Thanks to still being repeated on television during the summer holidays today, different generations all have a fondness for the show. To pay homage to that we have been allowed to use a couple of the sound effects in our animated TV series,' Simon explains. "You hear it, and I think you are only going to know it if you are familiar with that, but it sounds fantastic."

Testing with children; ensuring that Chinese designers worked on the theme; visiting the country to brainstorm - more consideration for local sensibilities has been taken than ever before. 'Authenticity has been our goal. We do take a risk here in reinterpreting a classic that is so dear and is part of the Chinese culture.'

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Is it true that Persians are Aryans, and that Iran means land of the Aryans?

Two thousand five hundred years before the term ‘Aryan’ became popular among nationalists across Europe and Asia, the Persian king Darius I (522–486 BC)The Great introduced himself in the rock inscription of Naqsh-i Rustam as follows:I (am) Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries possessing all kinds of people, king of this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid, a Persian, the son of a Persian, an Aryan, of Aryan lineage. The term ‘Aryan’, as used by Darius, was a self-designation that described belonging to a people, and conveyed an ethnical connotation. ‘Aryan’ and related expressions like ‘Arya’ also appeared in other ancient Persian inscriptions and texts, most importantly in the Zoroastrian Avesta . In the eighteenth century, when European explorers developed a rising interest in Iran and ancient Persia, they soon found out that the Aryan is the self defination of Iranian since 2500 years ago until today In 1768, before the inscription of Naqsh-i Rustam was decoded, the French Orientalist Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron concluded from the writings of Herodotus and Diodor that ‘Aryan’ was the ancient name for the ancient ‘peoples of Iran’.Once introduced by Perron, the expression spread rapidly among European scholars. In Germany, for instance, the term ‘Aryan’ appeared for the first time in Johann Friedrich Kleuker’s translation of Perron’s article from French into German in 1777.

What is the Aryan race?

Aryans: name of the ancestors of the Persian elite of the Achaemenid Empire. (Not to be confused with Arians.)

The word "Aryans" has in the past been used by philologists, historians, and archaeologists to describe the speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages, one of the main branches of the Indo-European family. The scholars choose this word not without good reason, because the expression is in fact used by several ancient nations that refered to themselves as Aryans, like the early Persians (Arya-) and Indians (árya-).

The original nation must have lived in Central Asia in the fourth millennium BCE, and moved to the south at the end of the third or the beginning of the second millennium. In what is now Uzbekistan, they appear to have separated into two groups, one of them invading the Punjab and the other Iran. Perhaps, the division was caused by a religious dispute, because the words for "demon" and "deity" are linguistically related but theologically opposite (Indian: asura and deva; Persian: daiva and ahura).

As said, the expression is used in many ancient Iranian sources. For instance, when king Darius I the Great (522-486 BCE) ordered new, Persian alphabet to be developed, he called it an "Aryan script". The Sasanians created the political concept of Iran (Eranšahr) as a unity of Aryan nations; Eran and Aneran were often contrasted, the former referring to the Sasanian Empire, the latter to, e.g., the Roman Empire or the tribal areas in the northeast