#quote by dominika

[thespiritoflife]

A LOVELY REMINDER:

you don't have to be in relationship. even everyone around you have met their love, that doesn't mean you have to do it too. focus on yourself, practise self love <3 the right love will come when you will be ready🩵

[blackthunder137]

moodboard for @thespiritoflife ♡

[dragonagitator]

House MD fans: You wake up in the PPTH ER in summer 2004. What you doing?

Scenario parameters:

All your memories of the show and the past 20 years are intact.

You are stuck there/then and cannot return to our universe/year.

You have nothing but the hospital gown on your back.

Questions:

So, what do you do?

How much would you tell House?

How would you get him to believe you?

Who else would you tell?

How much would you tell them?

Inspiration:

The author self-insert isekai fanfic "Intervention" by VivatRex (aka @acrownforaking). They've been writing it for the past 11+ years and are still updating. It's already nearly 300k words long despite only being up to the events of S02E15. I AM IN AWE.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this scenario ever since I read that fanfic a month ago. I'd love to discuss it with other House MD fans and hear what you would do.

(Apologies to the mutuals for the abrupt blog topic change. A new brainrot has taken hold.)

My short answer:

My long answers are below the cut.

So, what do you do?

My primary objective would be to enlist House in averting the pandemic.

My reasoning: If anyone can nip it in the bud before it gets out of Wuhan, I figure that a world-renowned genius doctor who is an infectious diseases specialist, speaks Mandarin, and now has a 15-year head start would have the best chance.

Difficulty level: Babysitting a narcissistic manchild with the self-preservation instincts of a toddler until the year 2020 so that he makes it there then alive, out of prison, and with his sanity, medical license, and professional reputation intact. To quote Quantum Leap, "Ohhhhhh boooooooy."

Strategy: I'm in the "I could fix him, but whatever's wrong with him is way funnier" camp, so I wouldn't try to change him (that always backfires anyway). Instead, I'd try to change his circumstances:

A stable romantic relationship would help, so I'd seduce him if I can (I'm not his type but a gal's gotta shoot her shot), try to get him together with Dominika earlier if I can't, and tell him how horribly his relationship with Cuddy ended so he knows better than to even start it.

Avert the shooting. Moriaty was a patient so his info is in the PPTH files. I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS. Or for a less murdery approach, try to get him arrested in April 2006 for violating New Jersey's strict gun laws.

Warn House about Tritter so he can switch patients with another clinic doctor.

Warn House to never get on a bus with Amber.

Tell Kutner I'm from the future and he's the only one who can prevent something horrible from happening (he's a Trekkie so he'll want to believe), then unfurl my big timeline poster and point at the "Kutner suicide early 2009" stickynote and ask him "so what's up with that, dude?"

Tell Wilson everything I can remember about his cancer -- he's an oncologist and thus can work backwards from there to figure out when to start checking for it so he can cut the tumor out while it's still just a tiny baby.

I would take a harm reduction approach to House's drug use, e.g., suggest that he try microdosing psilocybin and extend his liver's lifespan by substituting cannabis for some of his Vicodin and alcohol consumption.

Methods: Even though he doesn't have one for most of the show, House mentions a few times that he's entitled to hire an assistant, and I happen to be excellent at administrative work.

I think he'd be willing to hire me because working as his executive assistant / department secretary would position me to recognize patients as they come in so that I can discreetly pass along anything I remember, e.g., the kindergarten teacher has pork worms in her brain, ask the scientist in Antarctica to show you her feet, etc.

Meanwhile, I could lurk around the hospital preventing miscellaneous shit, e.g., get the gift shop volunteer from S01E04 to go home sick, ensure that the gunman from S05E09 is promptly admitted, diagnosed, and treated before he snaps and takes hostages, etc.

Possible sidequests:

Use my foreknowlege to get rich by milking online poker bonuses until the passage of the UIGEA in 2006, use my poker money to start flipping houses until 2007, get in on the "Big Short" in 2008, and set a Google Alert for "Bitcoin" so I can start mining/buying it from day one. Unfortunately, I haven't paid enough attention to individual stocks to play the market other than knowing that Amazon would be a good long-term buy & hold.

Use my riches to change the outcome of the 2016 election and try to steer the development of the internet and society in general in a slightly less stupid direction.

Send Pete Carroll a letter postdated just before the 2013 Superbowl telling him the outcome, then suggest for the final play of the 2014 Superbowl that the Seahawks try handing the ball off to Marshawn Lynch instead of throwing it because that throw will be intercepted. PRIORITIES.

How much would you tell House? How would you get him to believe you?

Your story about being from the future of an alternate universe in which House and everyone he knows are characters on a fictional TV show is already too batshit crazy to believe even without his kneejerk "everybody lies" skepticism. How would you differentiate yourself from all the patients who pull crazy stunts to try to get him to take their case?

My answer: For the "from the future" part, I'm hoping there's some sort of test that House could run to confirm that I was indeed vaccinated with a mRNA vaccine against the COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 virus. Given that neither of those things existed in 2004, that would be physical evidence that I'm not from around here now.

If producing physical evidence isn't possible, then I know that Vegetative State Guy from S03E15 is already a patient at PPTH because he'd been there for 10 years, so I'd find him and tell House about his son. I could also tell House enough about the cases from the first few episodes that I'm pretty sure he'd believe me by Christmas. I want in on Chinese food with Wilson.

I would wait until House accepted the "from the future" part before broaching the "fictional TV show" issue. Until then, "I watched a TV show about your life and cases" is a 100% true statement and it's not my fault if he assumes that show was a documentary. :)

Once he believed me, I'd tell him everything.

Who else would you tell? How much would you tell them?

There are people out there who would literally kill for your knowledge of the future, so going public or being too open about it seems highly risky.

My answer: I'd tell House, Wilson, and Chase right away. Kutner but not before Jan 2009. Maybe eventually Cuddy and the rest of the Diagnostics team if keeping my foreknowledge of the future from them proves too difficult.

House is the only one who gets to know everything. Everyone else is on a "need to know" basis.

I might also bring Bill Arnello (the brother/lawyer of the mob informant in S01E15 "Mob Rules") into the circle of trust because he could be a very useful resource for some of my sidequests, e.g., changing the outcome of the 2016 election far far far in advance and in the most direct way possible. (Hi, Secret Service! This is a purely hypothetical discussion about time travel and not at all indicative of any real criminal intent, pls do not pay me a visit, kthxbai.)

I think the only people I would tell the "fictional TV show" part to would be House, Wilson, and Chase, because there are things I need to warn them about that definitely wouldn't have been in a documentary. Like Chase needs to know that killing Diballa is 100% the right thing to do but he seriously needs to work on his OpSec. Everyone else gets the implied documentary lie of omission.

If I get caught knowing too much by random patients, I'll just claim to be psychic. Way more people believe in that than would believe in time travel.

What would you do?

[liebehaekeln]

[🇩🇪/🇬🇧] Auflösung!!!!! Es gab tatsächlich zwei unter euch, die richtig geraten haben! Es ist ein Dodo! Do-Do-Dominika ist ein sehr nettes Dodo-Mädchen, das sich vor nichts und niemandem fürchtet, nicht einmal vor dem T-Rex. Sie geht gerne spazieren und unterhält sich dabei auf ihrem Weg mit allen, die ihr begegnen. Was sie wirklich gut kann, ist ein Geheimnis bewahren: sie lässt sich so leicht ablenken, dass sie dabei alle Details vergisst. (Zitat aus dem Buch von @amigurumidotcom ) . . . Resolution!!!!! There were actually two of you who guessed correctly! It's a dodo! Do-Do-Dominika is a very nice dodo girl who is not afraid of anything or anyone, not even the T-Rex. She likes to go for walks, chatting to everyone she meets along the way. What she's really good at is keeping a secret: she gets distracted so easily that she forgets all the details. (Quote from the book by @amigurumidotcom ) . . . Pattern by @mongoreto Wool by @hobbii_yarn Book by @amigurumidotcom #crochet #häkeln #handmade #knitting #crocheting #crochetlove #amigurumi #diy #crochetersofinstagram #follow #crochetaddict #yarn #instacrochet #beautiful #hobbiishoutout #instagram #madewithlove #crochetgirlgang #selfmade #fashion #knit #art #photooftheday #instagurumi #handmadewithlove #instagood #lovecrafts #urzeit #bird (hier: Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR36CjfL5CG/?utm_medium=tumblr

[misiablog-blog1]

At the beginning I will introduce myself

Hi, my name is Dominika. I'm polish roadie. I want to write quotes here, but the facts are also welcome too.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

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[thespiritoflife]

Domi why does your " no rain. no flowers " sounds like " no mourners . No funerals " 🤣🤣🤣.

OMG I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT BUT YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT😂😂

[dannielricciardo]

im so done with marvel

in case you’re wondering where your black widow movie is: it’s called red sparrow starring jennifer lawrence 

you think i’m joking? here’s the plot synopsis:

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

and here is the trailer in which natasha dominika is using her ballet/assassin training she learned in the black widow sparrows program to seduce and kill men, and in case you dont feel like watching it, here’s a quote from it:

When i was in Moscow, I heard about a program. Young officers, trained to seduce and manipulate. To use their bodies. To use everything. 

[sveasauvageon]

Nothing happened to me. I happened. || GW

☾♔; March 19, 2018 ☾♔; sotd: idk yet ☾♔; comedian otd: JOHN FU.CKING OLIVER ☾♔; GW NPC Audition II ☾♔; {G} https://goo.gl/XSTtMc ☾♔; mod(s): @themadmonarchist @maybones et moi

Preamble Ramble: finally an opportunity to write for my favourite psychopath (also probs my fave out of all the characters I've ever made. soz everyone else)

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Nickname: Nika, Professor Vororina (generally addressed as such, rather than as a nickname), Khalessi (self-applied), Professor Khaleesi (makes students call her that, mostly first and second years as a joke, somewhat, older students whom she is "fond" of may continue calling her that, or people trying to be a teacher's pet), Rurikovna (literally; "daughter of Rurik", it's a self-applied title as well) Gender: cis-female Date of Birth: Vaguely winter (it was a long time ago) Place of Birth: Moscow Kremlin Nationality: Russian (she's held a bunch of citizenships over the years, but she's gone back to Mother Russia recently)   Ethnicity: Eastern Slav Accent: Russian   Blood Status: muggle-born/half-breed (of sorts)  

Profession: Potions Professor at Hogwarts (also Head of Slytherin House)

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Face Claim: Rebecca Ferguson

Hair: She's had an array of colours over the centuries, always long, but the styles have varied over the centuries. She currently favours fiery red or slivery-gold/platinum, changes it on a whim. Could be Russian witch stereotype red in the morning, and then Khaleesi coloured in the evening.

Eyes: Blue-green, occasionally they seem to flash red, though she claims that's just a trick of the light (or is it? tun, tun, tun!)  

Height: 1.7m

Weight: idk, but also what does it matter, she's immortal and basically undead, her body doesn't change.  

Body: lean, lithe, unnaturally attractive

Any Scars/ Marks?: none

Any Tattoos/ Piercings?: just her ears, triple pierced or whatever for ear cuffs.

Quirks/ Mannerisms: - eerily silent, she doesn't make any noise when she moves, no matter what she's wearing.   - some may notice her smirking to herself in the corner now and again when chaos is erupting in the foreground (did she 'cause it, is she approving of it? Who knows)

Style: expensive. She likes wearing dark and/or vivid colours, as well as sharp and elegant clothing. Her style can best be described as "instilling fear in the hearts of men". Well, that's her wardrobe's goal, anyway.  

Additional Information: - wears a f u c k ton of heels, like, always, and yet they never make any noise - always seems to have a little box (or whatever) of fries/chips (whatever you wanna call it, as a north american, I call 'em fries) in her hands - likes wearing crosses, mainly as an inside joke with herself

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Head cannon: Nika has a slightly complicated reputation, well, first off, she's a teacher, so she's not really involved with the hierarchy, she's outside of it. Her reputation, however, runs as either the coolest or scariest teacher. It really depends on how "interesting" she finds a student, she will spend time with them (positively or negatively), if she finds them to be "dull", however, they literally look like furniture to her, she will speak without ever hearing them. She's both a chill and strict teacher, if you get the work done, you can do whatever you want, if you're goofing off without doing anything or proving to be a nuisance whilst she's speaking, you may find your cauldron spontaneously exploding. She can also be chilling with the nuisances, if someone is speaking whilst she is, the cauldron will go "boom" whilst she continues on with the lesson as though nothing dramatic is happening. She's not an all together bad teacher though, if she finds people interesting, she'll spend time with them and actually attempt to pass on knowledge and throw questions at them during class, and even ask about their problems and whatnot if they're looking down (though it has been observed that her "advice" does not lead to the best result, and more often than not results in more difficult and complicated situations for the person). Additionally, whilst she does not actively hide that she's a vampire, she also does not go out of her way to confirm that. But does make nerdy "full moon tonight, don't be out too late" type jokes.

Theme Song: Khaleesi by Ramin Djawadi

Personality (+ 5, - 5): Psychopath. like, a real proper psychopath, not just as a word thrown around at homicidal maniacs or selfish dovchebags, she feels literally nothing, and not in a "cool girl" way, she can't feel anything, her brain's just not wired for it. She generally displays herself as a confident, intelligent, classy, and elegant, well-educated, proud European, and is seemingly easy to befriend and get along with so long as you like clever things and/or sarcasm. However, she's faking all of that. She doesn't really "feel" anything, and one could describe her as being "empty". Her entire personality has been meticulously built by herself over the centuries to best and most easily fit in with society and not draw unwanted attention to herself. All of her emotions and personality traits are things she's mimicking from people she's met, and she was doing so before she even became a vampire. Having been born a psychopath, she doesn't have the same emotional range that normal people do, she just can't feel anything, she's incapable of it. She has a complete lack of remorse and guilt, she doesn't even have the same "biological imperative" impulse that the rest of us have when it comes to blood relations and their safety. A majority of her relationships are superficial, based on physical attraction and/or mild amusement, but genuine and deep relationships is a struggle for her. Next to impossible, it's not that she doesn't want to care about pretty boy 57, it's just that she can't, also who cares about such disposable people anyway?. Having said that, it's not impossible for her to actually care, it's rare, extremely, but not impossible. In her entire life (which is nearing 500 years and including all potential plotting), she only formed a genuine bond with (up to) three people, and her own family is not on that list. So when she does genuinely care about a person, she's extremely protective of them, given how rare it is, and is excessively aggressive towards any she deems has or may harm them.

Nika is genuinely very logical and rational, and has a rather scientific mind. Or more one of a mad scientists'. She's extremely curious about the nature of humanity, and one can even say that she "enjoys" experimenting on them by forcing them into complex and difficult situations and observing how they react. She also has a tendency to experiment on herself, as a child she would harm herself, not out of a sui.cidal desire, but to see how much pain she could tolerate, if she would feel fear when she got close to death, if she would/could cry, etc. (she didn't cry, or get scared, but her heart rate went up sometimes, which was fascinating). When drugs became a thing, she took literally all of them at various doses and mixes just to see how it would affect her as a witch and a vampire. She also experimented on animals, she's stopped now, except with dogs, she kills them after the third annoying bark (I'm sorry, but she's a psychopath, that's what they do! TT_TT). She's never grossed out and probably too okay with blood and guts, and too good at dealing with it. Highly organized, and punctual, she displays a reckless and complete disregard for the safety of herself and others (with the exception of those whom she has a genuine bond with). She's a pervasive liar, deceptor, manipulator, and is quite narcissistic, and superficially charming. Whilst rage is not a common "emotion" she experiences, irritation is one that she can genuinely feel, and when genuinely irritated by something, she has a tendency to cause it immense physical pain before ultimately killing it.  

Any mental health issues: she's a genuine psychopath, whilst she doesn't think there's anything wrong with her, according to society, she's messed up.

Favorite Quotes/ Sayings that your character would use: - "Nothing happened to me. I happened." - NBC's Hannibal, said by the titular character, and definitely something Nika would say because I'm a nerd who makes references. - "I have what used to be called an axis II personality disorder. So you can scream and cry, and beg all you want. You can tell me about your spouse and kids, all about your happy little life. When I kill you and them, I won't feel a thing." - okay, there isn't much context for her to use that now, but she totally used it before, or a version of it.   - "It's amazing how easily the human brain can be manipulated." - "You think I was damaged? Some childhood trauma? That's so sweet." - said by Root from Person of Interest - "You should know torture almost never produces good information. Well, almost never." - also said by Root, she has the best quotes tbh - "I bleed like everyone else, but I don't feel. My heart rate won't  even go up. Cut me open and let's see if I scream." - again, not something she has much opportunity to say now and days, but defs something she's said in the past. - "How arrogant of you to think that any of us are anything, but irrelevant." - said by greer, also from person of interest "You don't take over the world with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical, invisible. It interferes only when necessary. " - also said by greer

Additional Information: - animals naturally fear her, some even go to extremes to avoid her, and dogs tend to bark at her whenever she passes by (part of why she hates them so much, also, should mention, they've been doing that since before she became a vampire. It's the psychopath they instinctively fear, well, now, the vampire too) - Seems to know every language there has ever been. - piano and violin (she had time to kill) - quite good at video games (where as I am trash), enjoys open-world/high fantasy games like The Witcher and Dragon Age

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Relation to your OC: professor

♣️ Family Background

Nika is from a mainly muggle family, her father was Ivan IV aka Ivan the Terrible, first official Tsar of all the Russias (later Russian Empire) and her mother was Anastasia Romanova of the House of Romanov (later became Tsars themselves until the Bolshevik revolution and establishment of the Soviet Union). Her father had multiple wives and mistresses, resulting in numerous siblings and half-siblings.

Through the union of her father and mother she had 6 full-blooded siblings, many of whom died in infancy; Anna Ivanovna, Maria Ivanovna, Dmitri Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich, Eudoxia Ivanovna, and Feodor Ivanovich (later Feodor I). She had two half-siblings from her father's later marriages, Vasili Ivanovich, born to her father's second wife; Maria Temryukovna, and Dmitri Ivanovich, born to her father's seventh and final wife; Maria Nagaya.

Nika maintained a mostly positive relationship with her father's numerous wives. Her mother died less than two years after her birth, so she didn't know her well, but a maid later admitted to Nika that the Tsaritsa was somewhat off put by baby Nika's lack of crying. With her step-mothers, she was well-behaved and polite, but she never cared for them. They provided no interest to her, and by the fourth wife, she began viewing them the same as mistresses or as toys, to serve a purpose and be quickly replaced with they failed in their purpose. She found his fifth wife; Anna Vasilchikova, enjoyable and even endearing to an extent, however, she didn't remain long and was quickly forced into nunnery.

As for her father, they had a somewhat contentious relationship. It was the 1500's, so there was the whole "women are less than men" thing going on, something which Nika never understood as a logical concept. She was always smarter, stronger, and more able than Feodor (her elder brother by just a year)since infancy (oh, also, she didn't like Feodor. She considered him weak, and a pointless existence who would've been better off as furniture). Regardless of that, however, they did get along on certain things, especially when it came to the Oprichnina and Ivan's darker habits, which she shared and initially some would say she inherited from him, until later seeing acts that outweighed anything even Ivan would dare to do. Their relationship later completely deteriorated when he killed her brother, and his heir, Tsarevich Ivan.

Ivan was always her favourite sibling. Of all the Tsar's children (excluding Nika herself, or rather Vasilia as she was called then), Ivan was best able to handle the Tsar's moods and behaviours, and similarly best able to handle Nika's psychopathy (the Tsar wasn't a psychopath, fyi, from what I've read, he was definitely paranoid, I would say paranoid schizophrenic, but they're not usually violent, and Ivan IV was super violent. It could've been due to the time period and the power he had, but meh. I'm not a professional, just a bad student). Anyway, back to little Vasilia and big brother Ivan. Out of all the others, he was the only one not immediately terrified by her darker tendencies, and even convinced their father to allow 11 year old Vasilia to join them during the Massacre of Novgorod, thinking (correctly), that she would enjoy it (she loathed when they retired to church for prayer though). Although he never fully realized how different she truly was, Ivan was the one who taught Nika to mimic her emotions and behave as a proper Tsarevna, and allowed her to express her displeasure and dislike, and every other "abnormal" emotion she experienced in private with him (some stuff which did freak the fu.ck out, especially, what she admitted to doing to the pet dog of a courtier she found annoying). Following Ivan's death and an argument with her father, she left Russia, but not before taking the cane Ivan IV used to kill Ivan with and burying it in the latter's tomb with him.

♣️ Family Affiliation: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Slytherin House, Russian Ministry of Magic, Rurik Dynasty, House of Romanov, Russian Throne, Koldovstoretz, The Bolsheviks, The Society for the Tolerance of Vampires in London (she joined jokingly, but they still haven't grasped that),    

♣️ Socio-economic status: confusing. She seems to have a lot of money, but her pay from Hogwarts is not enough to cover all her tastes and material objects. Few dare to question her, but for those few who do, her answer for where her money comes from is simply "history"

Quick facts:

Born in 1558 (February 3, though she claims she's forgotten the exact date), she is the last daughter of Tsar Ivan IV with his first wife; Anastasia Romanovna. At birth, she was given the name Vasilisa Ivanovna, and was an odd infant from the get go. Whereas her numerous other siblings cried, she never did, even as an infant, which unsettled her mother, though her father was pleased by it. As she aged, she began to realize she was different than her peers, and not just because of her position. She was indifferent to their fears about wars, and was not easily distracted by shiny things or "cute" animals as they always were. Some maids would joke behind her back that she was "undead" child, as she never displayed any joy or interest, or any emotion really. She would only animatedly chat with her elder brother, Ivan. However, Vasilia truly came alive upon her father's creation of the Oprichnina. She was only a child when it was formed, less than 10 (between 6-7), but would attend every execution, and was noted to have had a chilling grin on her face as the "traitors" (as labelled by her father) were killed one by one.

Nika discovered magical abilities at age 5, when a playmate brought over her new puppy to show Nika and the other royal/noble children. It's barking was driving Nika mad, and it suddenly lost it's voice. She later developed more control over her abilities, using them to slow down blades as it moved through someone's neck, framing annoying maids and servants for theft, sometimes setting them on fire. Ivan was the first to find out about her magic, and out of fear that she may be burned, did his best to hide her magic. They were found out by their father's third wife; Marfa Sobakina, whose mother was a witch (making her a squib). Instead of being ratted out, however, Marfa was able to convince the Tsar to send Nika to a far away boarding school, excellent for girls of "her" nature, and refining her into a lovely young woman, instead of the oddly, blood thirsty child people feared her to be.

Although beginning at Koldovstortez, she flourished there, particularly when it came to the dark arts and dueling, she had an uncanny knack for using any potion and/or spell to cause harm to others, both physical and emotional. After completing her education, she never pursued a career in the magical world, she was a vital piece on the chessboard of royal problems, and instead fell in line with her siblings, marrying a muggle boyar of her father's choosing (she has forgotten his name at this point though. Nikolay? Dmitri? Viktor? She can't recall), however, she was simultaneously engaging in an affair with a woman named Maria Dolgorukaya (regarded by history as an entirely fictitious wife of Ivan IV), who was secretly a vampire, drawn to muggle court games. Together they disgraced and ruined many nobles, a number of whom lost their heads to her paranoid father. Whilst their relationship was passionate and explosive (especially for other people), the true extent of Nika's care for Maria remains unknown, she was more than expendable to her, but she certainly did not "care" for her in the way that she did for her brother. They engaged in an argument, which eventually grew physical and resulted in Nika's turn into a vampire and Maria's corpse floating in the river (it's unclear how she died though). About a year later, her brother died too and she left Russia.

Before 1692, Nika spent a lot of time in the muggle world, particularly in royal courts, and "played" various roles, including; advisor, mistress, royal mistress, seductress, assassin, tutor, governess, maid, agente provocatrice (a female who entices one to act criminally and/or against their best interest), noblewoman, damsel in distress, and damsel doing damage. After the International Statute of Secrecy became law, she left the muggle world for a while, engaging with the newly cut off wizarding world, and she found real joy in settling into their small tight-knit communities and stirring up drama (ala desperate housewives). However, that thrill only last for so long, and she turned her attention back to the muggles.  In 1888, she ran about Whitechapel, in London, England, as the infamous and still unidentified (to the rest of the world) muggle serial killer; Jack the Ripper. Masquerading as a nurse at the time, she killed only the canonical five, and her spree was initiated by interest in police procedure and behaviour. Following the thrill of the chase, she ended up back in Mother Russia, where she took part in Bloody Sunday, also known as Red Sunday, Jan. 22, 1905, and fired upon the unarmed demonstrators as a member of the Imperial Guard. She later changed her identity and became a member of the Bolsheviks, and took an active role in the Revolution of 1917. She became an informal member of Lenin's cabinet, and was the original person to set the Romanov execution into motion, though, it was never traced back to her, and they were also distant cousins of hers.

During Soviet Russia, she based herself in Sverdlovsk (present day Yekaterinburg), where she created a sort of cult of vampires, dark magic, and murder. Whilst the humans made Sverdlovsk an economical powerhouse, she made the city a hub of supernatural superiority, deviance, and debauchery. It was impossible to walk two steps without running into one supernatural being or another, most of whom were vampires and/or dark wizards. She spent the longest amount of time in Sverdlovsk, as compared to the rest of her vampire life, living there from 1925 - 1989. Having grown bored, she allowed hunters and whatnot to enter the city and "cleanse" it, whilst she escaped and moved elsewhere in Europe. After acquiring the identity of "Dominika Vororina", she accepted the offer of a position as a professor at Hogwarts, mostly of out renewed boredom with the muggle world.  

Additional Information: - despite having lived for nearly 500 years, she's never stepped foot in the united states.   - most of Nika's life is defined by involvement with muggles, she's never really had any close ties to the magical world, which also allows her to more easily hide the nations worth of bodies and mayhem in her past

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Hogwarts school stats: n/a She never attended Hogwarts as a student, however, Nika is an alumni of Koldovstoretz, where she held a dark reputation, even as a Russian in the late 1500's. She was rumoured to practise dark magic (of the illegal and murderous variety) and consort with a displaced group of dark wizards from the recently sacked Novgorod Republic (ironically, it was her father that sacked them anyway). Largely, she was a solitary student, though in later life she would claim that's because they were scared of her station (whether or not this is true is up for debate, as she uses a wistful tone and has an expression of "struggling to hold back laughter" on her face).  

Any Pets?: none, animals fear her. Especially dogs. And she in turn loathes those grimy mutts. She does like dragons though, and they're the only known creatures not to instinctively fear her or attack on instinct.

Reputation at Hogwarts: (mixed in with the headcanon part, meh, she's a teacher and not a student anyway, so her "rep" doesn't really matter)

Additional Information: n/a

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Wand: Vine Wand Core: Thestral tail hair Wand Length: 11 ¾" Wand Flexibility: swishy

Patronus: Dementor  

Boggart: it appears in it's true form before her or simply takes her shape, as she is a genuine psychopath who does not feel real fear. She's never disclosed it's appearance to anyone though, originally it was out of a need to keep her psychopathy hidden, later, simply "just 'cause", and a desire to forever leave the suckers (everyone else) guessing.

Amortentia: Amortentia potions don't emit any scent for her, as a psychopath, she is incapable of emotions like love. Whilst it's not completely impossible for her to form a genuine bond with someone, a lot of that is dependent on what that person does for her, like an uncle teaching her to hone her abilities or explore her psychopathy. Those genuine bonds are always selfish on her part, and exceedingly rare. She can't feel love the same way as normal people, she didn't even form a bond with her parents, and doesn't experience attraction (of the romantic and/or sexual kind) in the same way that regular people do.

Affinity to any particular magic? - wandless magic (she's quite proficient with it, and rarely uses a wand at all) - nonverbal spells - whilst talented with dark magic in general (she's a psychopath, how else will she magically experiment on living things), the cruciatus curse is probably her favourite, and she can perform it both nonverbally and wandlessly.

Additional Information: - although many things about Nika have changed over the centuries, including her name, her wand is the only thing that remains unchanged from when she first obtained it in 1571

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[kucuportfolio]

Les 15

Raar maar waar was mijn grootste angst vroeger: voor een groep presenteren. Toen een leerkracht in het middelbaar een opdracht meegaf waarbij je ook een presentatie moest geven, moest ik al even bekomen. Een presentatie van mij kwam gepaard met paniekaanvallen, knikkende knieën en tranen. Ik deed het echt niet graag en ik wilde het ook niet graag doen.

Doorheen het middelbaar probeerde ik hier wel aan te werken en mijn presentaties gingen stilaan beter maar toch met de nodige portie stress en slapeloze nachten 2 weken voor de presentatie.

Toen kwam het zesde middelaar. Je wordt voorbereid op ‘de echte wereld’ en ‘zelfstandig zijn’ en je wordt bang gemaakt voor wat er zal komen. In het zesde middelbaar moesten we vaak presenteren voor ons Gip. Met ons Gip wonnen we prijzen en moesten we in zalen gaan presenteren van 200 man. Ik, de slimmerik, heeft zich natuurlijk eruit geluisd om zo een presentatie te doen! Maar toch moesten we vaak presenteren voor iets kleinere groepen en het ging stilaan beter. Mede ook omdat ik een leuke klasgroep had die elkaar steunde.

Toen kwam de hogeschool. En ja, daar kun je het niet permitteren om met tranen in je ogen te staan presenteren. Dus gaf ik mezelf elke keer een peptalk voor ik moest presenteren. Ik moet toegeven dat ik die peptalk nog steeds geef.

“Dominika, dit is 5 minuten van je leven die zo voorbij zijn. De helft van de studenten luistert niet eens deftig naar deze presentatie. Binnen 5 minuten is het gedaan”

En raar maar waar nu lukt presenteren! Nog steeds met wat stress maar ik ben daar heel erg trots op dat ik die angst heb kunnen overwinnen. Vorig jaar heb ik zelfs een groep anderstaligen begeleid door de school en voor de groep een hele uitleg gedaan. Moest je me dat vertellen toen ik 15 was zou ik het niet geloven.

Deze quote deed me er dus aandenken. Vroeger zou ik zo snel mogelijk uit die lift zijn gegaan, nu zou ik een hele presentatie geven tegen de persoon in de lift!

[chileanhands]

This is #dumbledore resting place in Scotland. Thanks to my awesome friend Dominika @akinimod my cool Dumbledore’s charm had the luck of being photographed at Eilean na Moine and Loch Eilt, Lochaber. . For those #potterhead s this picture might bring a tear to your eyes, understandable enough as this location was used to film some sad moments of #HarryPotter. . What’s your most memorable quote by Dumbledore?? . . . . . . (at Loch Eilt) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxFHocTpk1o/?igshid=7o3dmss87c30

[arthurbooth-blog]

Final Scene of Ricochet - Kontakt 5 Session.

18/04/2019

This blog post discusses two separate videos which each contain different versions of music accompanying the final scene of Ricochet. As a result this blog post is split into two parts. The music discussed in Part 1 can be found in the video attached to this blog entry. The music discussed in Part 2 can be found in the video posted after this entry.

Part 1

After watching Ricochet with new improvements and adjustments to the soundtrack, the project seemed to be coming together well, but the final scene stood out as the music in the conclusion required changes. In a 1-2-1 tutorial my course leader recommended trying to use the soundtrack to create dramatic qualities which emphasised the storyline, which helped with the decision to replace the final scene music with something more dynamic, making use of cinematic techniques to create an ending with additional impact. I booked a production studio in the dBs centre with the aim of creating the new approach in Native Instruments Kontakt 5.

My initial idea was to create a leitmotif for each character by assigning each actor with their own instruments and rhythm. The instrument part would switch, depending on which player was on screen taking their shot. The following quote supports this concept, “in filmic contexts the introduction of musical leitmotifs is highly conventionalized. Usually this introduction involves the simultaneous presentation of the character and his or her leitmotif” (London quoted in Green, 2010, p.86). Within Kontakt 5, I used ‘Albion ONE’ to create a brass section leitmotif for Pool Player 1, and ‘Session Horns’ with differing saxophone parts for Pool Player 2. The idea was that contrast between the instrument parts would add to the competitive atmosphere in the short film and build drama by highlighting the distinction between each player and the fact they are on opposite sides, both trying to win. Screenshots of the Kontakt 5 patches for both leitmotifs are below, displaying settings used and articulation applications:

Kontakt 5 - Albion ONE - Pool Player 1 Leitmotif

Kontakt 5 - Session Horns - Pool Player 2 Leitmotif

The use of different instrument articulations helped to make the music sound more natural and less like a digital creation. In this humanisation process, sounds like brass parts and horns can be developed to feel more realistic, as if the instrument is played by a human and not electronically synthesised. The ADSR tutorial states, there are methods of “using articulations in Kontakt to maybe bring a little more realism or some new creative choices to some of your parts” (Articulations in Kontakt, 2016). The first screenshot above shows three instances of  Brass Legato instruments that apply different articulation settings. These articulations were modified every time it was Pool Player 1’s turn. I was able to create combinations of samples with different articulations, as described in the Albion One User Manual, “Albion ONE features our infamous “legato articulations”, which combine adjoining samples to give ultimate musicality” (Albion ONE Manual). These articulation settings can be seen in the bottom left of each patch in the screenshot, represented as musical notes. In the bottom left of the second screenshot above you can see a Latin articulation was applied. By following the same technique and changing the phrase each time the leitmotif came in, I could keep the consistency of instruments but make parts evolve to retain listeners’ interest.

Next, I created a drum loop consisting of a kick drum, hi-hat cymbal, and a woodblock to accompany the leitmotifs. By changing the relevant parameters for microphone placement, reverb, tuning, attack, hold, decay, and setting the mix of the kit to be acoustic rather than electronic - matching the humanisation qualities discussed above - I crafted a minimalistic drum beat to support the melodic elements. I arranged the drum beat so that while Pool Player 1 was on screen or engaged in his turn, only the hi-hat cymbals were present. When the visual content switched to Pool Player 2 the full drum part was present, adding to the leitmotif for each character while keeping a consistent beat. A screenshot depicting the Kontakt 5 drum patch is below:

Kontakt 5 - Drum Patch - Leitmotif Accompaniment

I also applied carefully placed octave doubling in an attempt to bring emphasis to dramatic on-screen moments such as players scoring, “historically, octave doubling is one of the ubiquitous archetypes of orchestral music, its function not only to amplify or clarify the relationship between various elements, but also used as a dramatic tutti effect” (The Idiomatic Orchestra). This technique involved placing notes which play simultaneously in three separate octaves to increase the impact of on-screen action. Finally, I altered the new parts’ dynamics with volume automation. With a more dynamic score, techniques like octave doubling were more powerful because of the increased dynamic range.

At the next production showcase for the module I presented the updated version of Ricochet with the newly developed final scene music (discussed above) to the class and the feedback was mostly positive, but there was some concern from my course leader and fellow students that the ending was not appropriate, and the atmosphere I had created was too different from the rest of the soundtrack, resulting in an inconsistent film score. I was advised to change this ending and pursue an extended version of the Hip-hop music section that occurs in the middle of Ricochet (1:27).

Part 2

On consideration, this seemed good advice as I too was unsure of the new part I had created in Kontakt 5 and after showing the project to other students and asking them some questions, I found that the concept of the leitmotif did not come across clearly enough. Leitmotifs are most powerful when used in long feature films rather than short films, and with the short duration of the film there was not enough time to build up a strong enough leitmotif that the audience would automatically associate a certain character with a specific sound or instrument part. As a result, I changed direction by building a more developed version of the Hip-hop element.

When developing the Hip-hop soundtrack, I added a variety of new elements. The most important of these included the creation of a new sub-bass and synthesiser part using Native Instruments Massive, and implementing the Shepard Tone - a psychoacoustic technique thoroughly explained in the presentation video attached to my proposal for this project (starting at 0:19 in the video following this post). Another important addition was the technique of chopping and reversing an atmospheric pad sample before finding and slightly boosting a resonant frequency with an increase of gain on a bell filter in Izotope Ozone 7 Equaliser that made the pad stand out and sit on top of the mix (heard at 0:00 in the video following this post). I then used Ableton Live’s ‘Redux’ stock plug-in, a bitcrushing effect, to add some character to the sound before processing it with ‘Ping Pong Delay’ followed by two versions of ‘Auto Filter’ which contained frequency automation moving across the frequency spectrum at differing times. This helped give the sound a morphing effect and add some interesting characteristics (occurring at 0:11 in the video following this post). By using sidechain compression on this track and other elements I was able to make the sound duck in volume whenever the kick or snare drum occurred, which both created greater movement in the track and made the kick and snare drum cut through the mix more prominently. The screenshot below documents this process:

Ableton Live - Auto Filter Automation

The newly developed Hip-hop piece seemed more appropriate for the visual material than the Kontakt 5 soundtrack discussed above in Part 1. Next, I received a final video edit from Dominika Zieba who as requested had swapped around the last two shots, resulting in a better conclusion for Ricochet. This, coupled with the new soundtrack ending seemed to have good potential, but before I put the pieces together I needed to add a title screen and credits. The version Dominika had sent started with a screen that read “Media Offline” and displayed a warning message. I used iMovie to swap this with a title screen and create transitions between the title screen, film, and credits.

Then into Logic Pro X, I replaced the video with the final version, and swapped the old Kontakt 5 final scene soundtrack with the new Hip-hop one. As there was content added at the start and end of the video, the soundtrack needed synchronising again. I then began to process all sound effects and pool location sound recordings by sending everything to ‘Bus 2’ which held compression, and ‘Bus 3’ which held reverb, in varying amounts using similar parameters to those used in Aperol Spritz (blog entry from 03/04/2019). However, this time I made use of a different reverb plugin, as I felt the “Chambers” space in the Reflektor reverb in Guitar Rig 5 was more appropriate for replicating the dimensions of the room. I sent the tracks to the reverb bus in differing amounts depending on the camera proximity and its position in relation to the sound on screen. A screenshot of the Guitar Rig 5 Reflektor Reverb patch is below, followed by a screenshot documenting the bus track technique:  

Guitar Rig 5 Reflektor Reverb

Sending tracks in differing amounts to auxiliary tracks holding compression and reverb

Pitch shifting was not needed much in Ricochet, in comparison to Aperol Spritz where sound effects needed to be more and powerful and have more weight, as I wanted to retain the original qualities of the location sound recordings and maintain soundtrack believability

Finally, I created another version of the Ricochet’s title screen introduction music and changed it into a piece that could be used in the end credits. This process worked well, a significant technique used being impact sounds to signify the ending. As well as reversed impact sound effects, “UK broadcasters in recent years have developed a softer style, then drawn on dance and other forms of popular music and finally employed sound effects in the production of channel idents” (Brownrigg, Meech, 2002, p.345). The effect in this case was to add a slightly mysterious or menacing end to the piece, which seems to work quite well.

References

Articulations in Kontakt (2016) YouTube video, added by ADSR Music Production Tutorials [Online]. Available at: https://youtu.be/DP-kJikp1_M (Accessed 28 March 2019).

ALBION ONE Tenth Anniversary Edition User Manual (n.d.) 10th ed. [eBook]. Spitfire Audio, p.3. Available at: http://spitfire-www-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/manuals/AlbionONE_UserManual.pdf (Accessed 28 March 2019).

Brownrigg, M. and Meech, P. (2002) From fanfare to funfair: the changing sound world of UK television idents, Popular Music, vol. 21, (03), p.345 [Online]. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/853723?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (Accessed 10 April 2019).

Green, J. (2010) Understanding the Score: Film Music Communicating to and Influencing the Audience, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 44, (4), pp.81-94 [Online]. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.44.4.0081?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (Accessed 27 March 2019).

The Idiomatic Orchestra (n.d.) Octaves - The Idiomatic Orchestra [Online]. Available at: http://theidiomaticorchestra.net/octaves/ (Accessed 3 April 2019).

Bibliography

Film Scoring: What The Pros Know | Getting Started (2019) YouTube video, added by Rick Beato [Online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8KrZjs6uk (Accessed 3 April 2019).

Hewitt, M. (2008) Music Theory for Computer Musicians 1st ed. [eBook]. Cengage Learning. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/33772841/Music_Theory_for_Computer_Musicians (Accessed 3 April 2019).

How to Imitate a Whole Lot of Hollywood Film Music In Four Easy Steps (2015) YouTube video, added by Scott Murphy [Online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSKAt3pmYBs (Accessed 3 April 2019).

MusicRadar (n.d.) The quick guide to creating a soundtrack [Online]. Available at: https://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/the-quick-guide-to-creating-a-soundtrack-156113 (Accessed 3 April 2019).

[thespiritoflife]

CONGRATS ON 800!! 🥳🥳🥳 WAY TO GO DOMINIKA!!

can i get a 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 - i'll pick one disney quote which remids me of you <3 (MOOTS ONLY)?

thanks so much, mae! <3

source: pinterest

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 035: VENEZUELA]

Shout out to anon for inspiring this task! There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 150+ Venezuelan faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

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

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

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

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

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

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Note: If you’re using this masterlist for casting purposes please do further research before casting any of the following.

Ladies:

Carolina Herrera (78) Venezuelan (Spanish [Canarian], possibly other) - fashion designer.

Lila Morillo (73)  Venezuelan - actress & singer.

Ileana Jacket (70) Venezuelan - actress.

Carmen Julia Álvarez (64) Venezuelan - actress.

Mimí Lazo (62) Venezuelan - actress.

Caridad Canelón (61) Venezuelan - actress.

Elluz Peraza (59) Venezuelan - actress.

Julie Restifo (58) Venezuelan - actress.

Hilda Abrahamz (57) Venezuelan - actress & former beauty pageant titleholder.

Gledys Ibarra (56) Venezuelan - actress.

Alba Roversi (55) Venezuelan - actress.

Dora Mazzone (55) Venezuelan - actress.

Kiara (55) Venezuelan - singer, actress, lawyer & TV presenter.

Fedra López (54) Venezuelan - actress.

Grecia Colmenares (54) Venezuelan - actress.

Tatiana Capote (54) Venezuelan - actress & former beauty queen.

Nohely Arteaga (53) Venezuelan - actress.

Astrid Carolina Herrera (53) Venezuelan - actress & beauty queen.

María Alejandra Martín (52) Venezuelan - actress.

Catherine Fulop (52) actress, model, beauty pageant contestant, and television presenter.

Dad Dáger (49) Venezuelan - actress.

Ruddy Rodríguez (49) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Gabriela Spanic (49) Venezuelan / Croatian - actress.

Rita Verreos (48) Venezuelan - host, actress, beauty pageant coach & model.

Lilibeth Morillo (47) Venezuelan - actress.

Emma Rabbe (47) Venezuelan - actress.

Mariah Carey (46/47) African American and Afro-Venezuelan / Irish - singer.

Patricia Velásquez (46) Mestizo / Wayuu - actress & fashion model.

Crisol Carabal (46) Venezuelan - actress.

Ana Karina Manco (46) Venezuelan - actress.

Niurka Acevedo (45/46)  Venezuelan - actress & pageant titleholder.

Chiquinquirá Delgado (44) Venezuelan - host, model & actress.

Sonya Smith (44) Venezuelan / American - actress.

Anabell Rivero (44) Venezuelan - model & actress

Gabriela Spanic (43) Venezuelan / Croatian - actress.

Eileen Abad (43) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Scarlet Ortiz (42) Venezuelan - actress.

Gabriela Vergara (42) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Catherine Correia (42) Venezuelan - actress.

Beba Rojas (41) Venezuelan - actress, model & comedian.

Venezuelan (41) Venezuelan / American, Mexican - actress, singer & comedian.

Alicia Machado (40) Venezuelan - actress, TV host, singer & beauty queen.

Jullye Giliberti (40) Venezuelan - actress.

Gaby Espino (39) Venezuelan - actress.

Marlene De Andrade (39) Venezuelan - actress, model & presenter.

Marieh Delfino (39) Venezuelan / Cuban - actress.

Wanda D'Isidoro (39) Venezuelan - actress.

Claudia Moreno (39) Venezuelan - beauty pageant titleholder.

Norkys Batista (39) Venezuelan - actress, model & former beauty pageant titleholder.

Flávia Gleske (38) Venezuelan - actress.

Marianela González (38) Venezuelan - actress.

Samantha Castillo (37) Venezuelan - actress.

Mariángel Ruiz (37) Venezuelan - actress, host, fashion model & beauty pageant titleholder.

María Luisa Flores (37) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Claudia La Gatta (37) Venezuelan - actress.

Majandra Delfino (36)  Venezuelan / Cuban - actress & singer.

Cristina Abuhazi (36) Venezuelan - actress, host & model.

Maritza Bustamante (36) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Daniela Alvarado (35) Venezuelan - actress.

Marisa Román (35) Venezuelan - actress.

Juliet Lima (35) Venezuelan - actress.

Daniela Bascopé (34) Venezuelan - actress & singer.

Jeinny Lizarazo (34) Venezuelan - actress, host & model.

Gioia Arismendi (33) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Daniela Navarro (33) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Dominika van Santen (33) of Dutch and Venezuelan ancestry - actress, model & dancer.

Adrienne Bosh (31) Venezuelan / German - model and beauty pageant contestant.

Sabrina Seara (31) Venezuelan - actress.

Dayana Mendoza (30) Venezuelan - actress, model & beauty queen.

Juliette Pardau (30) Venezuelan - actress & singer.

Marjorie Magri (30) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Raquel Yánez (30) Venezuelan - actress.

Elise Avellan (30) Venezuelan - actress.

Electra Avellan (30) Venezuelan - actress.

Génesis Rodríguez (29) Venezuelan and Cuban (both including Spanish, possibly other) - actress.

Yuvanna Montalvo (29) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Adriana Vasini (29) Venezuelan - model & beauty queen.

Gabriela Isler (28) Venezuelan / Swiss-French, German - host, model, and beauty queen.

Scarlet Gruber (28) Venezuelan - actress & dancer.

Ivian Sarcos (27) Venezuelan - model & beauty queen.

Stefanía Fernández (26) Venezuelan - Host, model & beauty queen.

Sandra Díaz (25) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Rosmeri Marval (25) Venezuelan - actress & model.

Greisy Mena (25) Venezuelan - actress.

Maria Gabriela de Faria (24) Venezuelan - actress, singer, model & dancer.

Sheryl Rubio (24) Venezuelan, states background is “mixed“ - actress & singer.

Angela Ruiz (24) Venezuelan - beauty pageant titleholder.

Garbiñe Muguruza (23) Venezuelan / Spanish - professional tennis player.

Emily Sera (21) Navajo, Western Shoshone, Venezuelan - actress.

Natalie Negrotti (?) Venezuelan - reality star.

María Elena Dávila (?) Venezuelan - actress & singer.

Rosanna Zanetti (?) Venezuelan - actress. 

Males:

Miguel Ángel Landa (80) Venezuelan - actor & comedian.

José Luis Rodríguez (74) Venezuelan - singer & actor.

Xabier Elorriaga (72) Venezuelan - actor & writer.

Jean Carlo Simancas (67) Venezuelan - actor.

Orlando Urdaneta (66) Venezuelan - actor & tv personality.

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Carlos Cruz (56) Venezuelan - actor.

Luis José Santander (56) Venezuelan - actor.

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Daniel Sarcos (49) Venezuelan - actor, singer, comedian & television personality.

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Ricardo Álamo (46) Venezuelan - actor.

Guillermo Pérez (46) Venezuelan - actor.

Rhandy Piñango (45) Venezuelan - actor.

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Luis Gerónimo Abreu (44) Venezuelan - actor.

Jerónimo Gil (43) Venezuelan - actor.

Roque Valero (43) Venezuelan - actor, singer & songwriter.

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Manuel Sosa (33) Venezuelan - actor.

Víctor Drija (32) Venezuelan - actor.

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Ale jej uszy, ach, jej uszy...

Ale wolałbym opowiedzieć wam o jej uszach. Przeoczyłem je w klubie tenisowym, kiedy związywała włosy tamtą zieloną wstążką, pod kolor lamówki i guzików na sukience. A na co dzień nosiła włosy rozpuszczone, pofalowane na uszach i sięgające połowy szyi. Tak że dopiero kiedy znaleźliśmy się w łóżku, a ja zabrałem się do szperania i węszenia po całym jej ciele, w każdym zakamarku, w każdej nadmiernie i niedostatecznie zbadanej części, pochylony nad nią, odgarnąłem jej włosy i odkryłem uszy.

Nigdy wcześniej nie poświęcałem uszom zbyt wiele uwagi, widząc w nich tylko komiczne narośle. Dobre uszy to takie, których się nie zauważało; złe uszy sterczały jak skrzydła nietoperza lub były kalafiorowate po ciosie boksera, albo też –jak uszy tamtego wściekłego kierowcy przy przejściu dla pieszych –chropowate, czerwone i włochate. Ale jej uszy, ach, jej uszy… od dyskretnego, niemal nieistniejącego płatka łagodnym łukiem biegły do góry, ale potem w połowie drogi takim samym łukiem zawracały ku jej czaszce. Jakby zaprojektowano je raczej według jakiejś idei estetycznej, a nie zasad użyteczności słuchowej.

Kiedy zwracam jej na to uwagę, mówi: – Pewnie są takie, żeby wszystkie te bzdury przelatywały obok i nie trafiały do środka.

Ale to nie wszystko. Kiedy badałem je czubkami palców, odkryłem, jak delikatna jest ich zewnętrzna krawędź: cienka, ciepła, łagodna, aksamitna, niemal półprzezroczysta. Wiecie, jak nazywa się po łacinie obrąbek ucha? Helix. Jak helisa. W liczbie mnogiej helisy. Uszy były częścią jej absolutnej wyjątkowości, uzewnętrznieniem jej DNA. Podwójna helisa jej helis.

Później, zastanawiając się, co mogła mieć na myśli, kiedy mówiła o „bzdurach”, które przelatują obok jej zadziwiających uszu, pomyślałem: cóż, oskarżenie o oziębłość –to wielka bzdura. Tyle że to słowo wpadło prosto do jej uszu, a stamtąd do mózgu, gdzie utkwiło na zawsze.

Julian Barnes, Jedyna historia, tłum. Dominika Lewandowska-Rodak, Warszawa 2018.