#rose cook

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The Thing Is - Ellen Bass

The Thing Is – Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of…

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Jai Rose Cook sentenced for biting police

A fashion label owner and mum-to-be has avoided time behind bars after her bizarre outburst saw her purposefully lodge herself in a stormwater drain and bite police after asking them to kill her.

Jai Rose Cook was sentenced to a nine-month suspended prison sentence on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to five charges including seriously assaulting a police officer by biting in Noosaville on October 12, 2021.

The court heard a Noosaville florist had found Cook in her backyard with a suitcase on the morning of the offence and had provided her with food and a lift before the 29-year-old claimed she had a large knife in her bag.

Police prosecutor Nick Nitschke told the court police were attempting to talk to Cook when she became uncooperative and lodged her legs in a nearby stormwater drain.

A video played in court showed police struggling to arrest Cook who intentionally bent her legs and feet to remain in the drain.

Sergeant Nitschke said during the 10-minute struggle Cook pulled down her mask and bit one of the officers on the lower leg through his sock and pants.

He said the police officer was bleeding as a result of the “premeditated” bite and had to undergo disease testing.

The court heard Cook also scratched another officer.

Cook was heard yelling strange remarks during the video including that the handcuffs were electrocuting her.

She also demanded witnesses livestream her arrest and requested police to kill her.

Sergeant Nitschke suggested a 12-month prison sentence with Cook to serve four months was an appropriate punishment.

“The attack upon … (the officer) was callous, viscous and unprovoked,” he said.

“It was an attack on police just doing their duties …”

He said Cook hadn’t taken part in any rehabilitation for her drug or alcohol use and noted she wasn’t diagnosed with any mental illnesses.

Barrister Michael Copley described Cook as being highly emotional during the offence and said the now mother-to-be claimed she was not impacted by drugs at the time.

“Her behaviour towards police was because she was emotionally overwrought rather than any malice toward police,” he said.

Mr Copley said Cook, who had an “unhappy childhood”, said she swam to the florist’s riverside house to escape a domestic violent situation.

He said the Tuluna fashion label founder, personal development author and app creator had no relevant criminal history and posed little threat to the community.

The court heard Cook attributed a leg fracture found during her second doctor’s assessment to her “antics in the drain”.

Mr Copley said the injury was an ongoing reminder of the “stupidity and wrongfulness” of her behaviour.

He said while a report confirmed Cook was not suffering from any mental disorders she did have a tendency of morbid suspiciousness, over-estimating danger and general poor judgment.

“Many of those factors were apparent from watching how she interacted with police,” he said.

“She overreacted.”

He said Cook had written two apology letters, pleaded guilty and offered to pay $3000 in restitution.

He asked for a prison sentence to be suspended or coupled with an immediate parole release date.

Cook also pleaded guilty to three counts of obstructing police and possessing a knife in a public place.

Magistrate Matthew McLaughlin said he suspected Cook was “off her head” on cocaine at the time of the offences.

Mr McLaughlin said there was no other explanation as to why someone who was not psychotic would behave the way she did.

He said there was no need for Cook to behave in the way she did stating police simply wanted to speak with her and were very reasonable and patient while dealing with her “strange” behaviour.

He noted Cook didn’t inflict any further violence against the police and the force was “out of character”.

Mr McLaughlin suspended the nine-month prison sentence for two years and ordered Cook to pay $3000 in compensation to the biting victim. Convictions were recorded.

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SHE STARTED A SECOND FIRE, HOW, WHEN?

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good night

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A story in two tweets:

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Protection, Decay

Metamy Week 2024

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chat…who is cooked?

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Yuri Manga for New (AND Not-So-New) Readers

I was talking on discord about some good yuri for beginners, and figured I'd repost here.

I get way more detailed some of these recommendations in this post, and there's great recs from another person too! Check it out!

I'm doing this accounting to various tones and tastes, so what works as a beginner yuri for one person might not for another, just read the info to figure out what your jam is.

I'll put a star by the ones about adults (which is the majority of them) since I've found that's always something people want.

Goodbye my Rose Garden (Victorian yuri w/ beautiful art, just beautiful all around)*

How Do We Relationship? (messy adult relationships and lots of actually realistic intimacy)*

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat- (A woman loves to cook but doesn’t have a huge appetite, only to find the woman next door to her does! She cooks for her and they really start to bond over food and the trials of being working adults. Yes, this is the one where the woman googles lesbian. It's really good)*

Bloom into You- a common go-to yuri for beginners for a reason, about a girl who believes she can't fall in love meeting a girl who wants to date her specifically BECAUSE she can't fall in love. Find out more about it and hear my thoughts here. It has a gorgeous anime that doesn't cover the complete story.

Doughnuts Under the Crescent Moon (sweet office lady romance, ace rep) *

Catch These Hands! (These two women were delinquents and rivals in high school, they meet up again, one reveals she was always into the other, she challenges her to a fight on the condition that if the other woman loses she'll date her. Lots of slapsticky fun and great for any lover of girl delinquents)*

Run away with me, Girl (there's some abuse shown in this one, but it's a story about healing, the premise is these girls dated in high school, but one of the pressured herself "normal" and marry a man, that man turns out to be abusive, so when the former lovers reunite, they decide to run away together. It's got beautiful art and a well done story)*

The Moon on a Rainy Night (absolutely spectacular, explores the relationship between a hard of hearing girl and her closeted classmate, the characters are complex and the writing is so good!)

Kase-san And...- Starting with Kase-san and the Morning Glories, this is a very fluffy and sweet high school romance. It also has a short movie. (as the manga goes on they become college students, too)

The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (slice of life about a voice actress and anime screenwriter who live together as a couple. Unfortunately the ending is a bit abrupt (and likely premature) but I love their relationship)*

My fave Otherside Picnic is great for scifi and (mild) horror lovers. It's Scifi creepypasta adventure yuri. It's a slow burn but does truly spectacularly deliver on the gay. Has an anime, it's not great, you should start with the novels. Wrote an article here. https://www.animefeminist.com/how-otherside-picnic-masterfully-uses-horror-to-explore-abuse-and-show-healing-queer-love/ *(v young adults, college students)

The Guy She was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All: (A web manga about a girl who works at a record shop. Her classmate , Aya, wanders in but doesn't recognize her because she has her hair hidden with a hat and is wearing a face mask, and Aya assumes she's a guy. They bond over music and slowly start to get closer...and Aya's finds her heart is fluttering not only over this mysterious boy, but her female classmate that seems a lot like him...) It's going to get a physical release soon.

I Married my Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up (girl and her friend get married simply so her parents will stop bugging her about being single. You can probably guess where it goes from there) *

I Married my Female Friend (similar premise, except no parents involved, it's a platonic marriage they both agreed to with the promise they'll divorce if one of them falls in love. But one woman has decidedly not platonic feeling for the other that she's hiding from her, so It will likely turn romantic, it hasn't all come out here yet so I haven't finished it)*

Monthly in the Garden with my Landlord* (it didn't really hit with me but I might give it a shot again, it's solid despite the terrible title, a woman moves into a house and finds she'll be cohabitating with an idol) (Some more titles I haven't fully read that could appeal: After Hours*, Still Sick*, Cheerful Amnesia*)

My Cute Little Kitten (two roommates adopt a cat...and maybe fall in love?)*

I think all of those work as solid intro- though it does depend on what flavor you're looking for!

This article also covers some of these recs and some manga I didn't mention due to not having completely read it. so check it out: The Beginners Guide to Yuri Manga.

Here's some titles to try when you're a little more familiar with yuri (or you can try them now! I'm not your boss!)

SHWD (action yuri that's taking forever to come out over here physically, featuring extremely muscular women fighting monsters. I think it was forced to end prematurely too)*

Kiss and White Lily for my Dearest Girl: (I'm only three volumes in, but it's really enjoyable. The main storyline is about two academic rivals, where one is determined to rank first in class, and the other is an effortless genius who becomes intrigued at the possibility of someone beating her. Honestly they have the kind of messy combative sexual tension I wish we'd see more often in yuri because it's so good. The story follows other couples too. However, big warning for some nonconsensual kisses in the first volume at least).

Sweet Blue Flowers/Aoi Hana- (This one is a little bit dated, and boy is the ending weirdly paced, but a lot still holds up imo. A painful and sweet coming of age tale, it also has an anime that's good but ends too soon.

One teenage characters backstory involves incestuous (older cousin) the perpetrator of which pulls the "oh no did I turn you gay? thing" but it's definitely framed as a bad thing. )

Yuri is My Job- a story about messy lesbians in a yuri-themed cafe, and how their real relationships differ from the personas they put on. Read more about it here. Big warning for sexual assault of a minor (by an adult villain) in volume 12. Has an anime covering early material.

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Peach rose cupcakes

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Quote from Mary Oliver

One morning the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought:   so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful. Photo by Rose Cook

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honestly I fear Rosé was really giving Gyaru just now

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What if I went bonkers

Mighta lost my mind. Sorry folks it won't happen again

+ Bunch of multifandom doodles below. BEWARE

Og images

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✨Sth Barbie Diamond Castle au✨

The girlfriends ever!!!

Again i reiterate that i should not be allowed to watch media dyjdkydk and i ended up making lore and world building with the three muses too cuz im insane but i’ll ramble about them later!!

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