#secret operations

[awesomecooperlove]

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[defensenow]

Discover how the U.S. and Australia are secretly preparing for long-range strikes by rehearsing the delivery of precision fires from hidden locations. Watch as military forces train to execute strategic operations with maximum stealth and precision. Stay tuned to learn more about this fascinating collaboration between two powerful allies. Don't miss out on the latest updates by subscribing to our channel!

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

The Broken Truth by Reavis Z. Wortham

A Tucker Snow Thriller #2

My ~ Oh My ~ What a great addition to a thrilling series!

What I liked: * Tucker: widow, single parent, needs time to grieve but always there for his teenage daughter, strong, lethal, has his own moral code, has been uncover with his brother, thought his job with the TSCRA would be easier, seems to be “snakebit” more often than desired ~ Love him and want to see more of him

* Harley: Tucker’s younger brother, partner when under cover in the past, family man, married to Tammy with two young sons, adopting Jimma, a bit hyper, in synch with Tucker on the job, civilian with a business of his own

* The relationship between Tucker and Harley and they way they work fluidly as a team

* Chloe: strong, resilient, survivor, good friend to Jimma, has been through a lot, missing her mother and younger sibling, would like to just be a teenager at some point in time – as would Jimma

* Tammy: Harley’s wife, strong, lethal, protective, good mother, loving wife, can identify with her

* Russel & Jenny: good friends, strong, capable, there for those they care about

* The plot, pacing, setting, and writing

* That I felt part of the story and cared about the outcome

* That some of the criminals wore gray rather than black hats and perhaps some can change their ways

* Being made aware of the part the oil industry and its product has on the world

* That it made me think

* Knowing there is another book to look forward to

What I didn’t like: * Who and what I was meant not to like

* Wendell Cross, who he works for, the methods and means he used to implement his plans, and his disregard for just about everything – except himself

Did I like this book? Yes

Would I read more in this series? Definitely

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks-Poisoned Pen Press for the ARC – this is my honest review.

5 Stars

BLURB

The endless Texas landscape hides all manner of sins… Special Agent Tucker Snow knows there's big money roaming the fields under the wide Texas sky—and the cattle rustlers committing large-scale thefts on remote ranches know it, too. But when a prominent local rancher dies unexpectedly and his property is quietly sold to an unknown buyer, Tucker suspects there's something more sinister going on in his jurisdiction than the usual steal-and-resell racket. Still raw after the tragic death of his wife and young daughter, the lawman can't bear the thought of more innocent lives destroyed by people whose greed poisons everything around them.�� Working alongside his brother, Harley, Tucker uncovers a dark ring of organized crime that goes well beyond cattle rustling—a breed of deception and greed that has turned into a silent killer and will take down anyone who crosses its path. The question is whether Tuck and Harley will be able to shut it down before it finds the people they love the most…

[nelkcats]

Monster (or not?)

It was a normal day for the Justice League, nothing special had happened, but Batman seemed to have a bad feeling. So when the alarm went off, he was prepared for almost anything.

Unfortunately, not much can prepare you for a 10-foot ice-covered, invincible Eldritch in the middle of Gotham. As much as the League tried, they didn't seem to do any damage to it (Jason was the first to notice that the creature wasn't attacking, just defending itself; he frowned at the observation).

From there, many strange things began to happen. First: A group of people dressed in white (which, frankly, they had never seen before in their lives) fanned out around the League, giving them weapons capable of harming the "creature" and pointing out to them that it was a "ghost", giving information about it.

Second, a pair of colorful scientists stood at the center of all the agents in white, though they seemed to be arguing with each other. One looked murderous, while the other looked... tired, almost guilty.

Third and last, a group of students kept trying to get closer. Jason thought they were suicidal until he heard the girl in purple tell them to leave "Danny" alone. She seemed to be silenced quickly, but the detail stuck in his head.

With a bad feeling, Jason turned to the college kids. A red-haired girl stood in the center of them, holding a chunk of ice? and watching the creature at the center of it all. While the League dealt with the agents in white, Jason decided to listen to them.

"He's my brother," the redhead said as soon as she saw him, "he's not a monster, they broke his core, please, you need to understand"

Jason looked at the creature again, although its body was mostly black, he could see ice covering a crystal in the center, it looked broken, he suspected that was his "core". At the same moment, Bruce finished talking to the men in white and accepted the weapons.

Danny was frightened and panicked. His form changed when his core broke in the middle of a fight, the GIW had shot him, and he didn't know how to retreat to his original form. His words came out only in Ghost speak, and the heroes around him looked ready to kill him, which didn't help his ice control.

[theminecraftbee]

also you know what feeling something about how, given that cleo is the person with the inexplicably huge wolf pack this season, for once it's not a lone wolf who has it. hell, with the wolf spawner, they even share it. don't even know what to do with that just. staring at it with some kind of emotion. they shared it. they shared the wolf pack. the thing that had almost always previously been associated with a weird loner who replaced friends with dogs they shared it--

[probablyaparadox]

hey so like- how did Germa 66 avoid talking about sanji??? Did they never get questioned on their numbering scheme? How did they cover it up??? We've got number 0, 1, 2, and 4 and they expect nobody is going to wonder what happened to 3? I'm just imagining that they go out and someone asks "hey where's number 3?" there are so many great responses to that; "We don't talk about number 3" "he hasn't been the same since... THE ACCIDENT" "what's 3" "he's on vacation right now" "he's off doing his own thing" "We're not on speaking terms" "he's not invited to family reunions anymore" all of these are correct responses and completely true and I think we need to acknowledge that.

[tiger-grace]

every time I try to discuss the Spyral arc with someone for the Nightwing comics I have to take the Sisyphus route of going “one must imagine Bruce Wayne to be a bad father…”

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Everytime I see one of your posts in my feed I jump for joy! (Not literally, I don’t want to be questioned by family as to why I’m randomly jumping due to being on the second floor XD)

I am curious, if Arle’s operatives are vanishing to join the game of hide n seek, sorry stealth training, would that mean the House of Hearth kids as well? Would Leagacy react differently to them than the other Fauti agents, or not? How would reader react? Or is everyone just too occupied by the “stealth training” to care?

(I think this counts as a request?)

i haven't the time for full length stories lately (help meeeeeee) but i just had to write a little blurb for this!!

Lyney blinks as he peers over the bush, the green leaves brushing against his cheeks. So, that's where all of Father's operatives have been going... to some random spot in the countryside? It's a bit baffling, to be sure, but he certainly appreciates a good challenge, especially when it's picking apart people's thought process. His eyes narrow, watching the operative scurry to hide in trees, behind foliage, even underwater. All with precise movements and knowledge of the environment- Father would surely be proud.

There's a faint rustling as his sister pops up next to him with her usual catlike ease, ears twitching slightly. She tilts her head over, staring impassively.

"Lyney, take your hat off. They'll see."

"What?" Lyney frowns. "No, they won't! You're not the only one who has silent steps, you know."

"Quiet feet don't matter when your hat is the size of your head."

"Hey, that's not-"

A hand lands on Lyney's shoulder, and both of the twins freeze, slowly turning to look into the eyes of a Melusine. You tilt your head, shadowed by several operatives and Foul Legacy with suspicion written all over his face, arms crossed disapprovingly. He knows these two- the Knave's preferred pair for stealth missions- and Lyney and Lynette stare up at the Abyssal Harbinger in shock.

Slowly, you raise a mitten-ish hand and give them a small wave. The twins return the gesture with the same caution, relaxing when you smile and happily tap your feet against the ground. Legacy and the rest of the operatives let out a collective sigh of relief, the former gently gathering you into his arms and bumping his head against yours. You gesture for the twins to follow, to join in on the fun even just for a little while- Freminet is already there, his helmet poking up from beneath the waves. No wonder he's been staying out even more than usual. Lynette quickly acclimates herself as Lyney watches her dart off into the trees, taking everything in stride. The Melusine that Foul Legacy holds so carefully. The markings crisscrossing over your arms and legs that shimmer in the sun. That relieved look when you saw they were friendly, not cruel.

He remembers Father mentioning a Melusine. Perhaps this is the reason it was with such sorrow and fury at the rest of the world.

[nanaosaki3940]

My Fav Korean Manhwa Recommendation List

For the last few days, I've been reading Korean manhwa/webtoon series non-stop and man, they're just so great!!! 😍😍😍

These are some of my fav manhwa I've read so far... All the stories are of modern setting btw... (I may do a separate recommendation list for historical/magical/isekai genre manhwa later on...)

Something About Us - (Childhood best friends turned lovers) Status: Completed.

Positively Yours - (Strangers met for one night stand to lovers) Status: Completed.

Seasons Of Blossom - (High school friends to lovers) Status: Completed.

Please Take Care Of Me In This Life As Well - (Childhood friends to lovers) Status: On-going.

Fly Me To The Moon - (Strangers met through unusual circumstances to lovers) Status: On-going.

The Reason I Wanted To Die - (High school sweethearts to Exes to again lovers) Status: On-going.

Revelation Of Youth - (High school friends to lovers) Status: On-going.

The Odd One Next Door - (Frenemy neighbors to lovers) Status: On-going.

Free In Dreams - (Strangers met through lucid dreams to lovers) Status: On-going.

Operation Name Pure Love - (High school friends to lovers) Status: On-going.

Just Twilight - (High school classmates to lovers) Status: On-going.

King The Land - (Childhood friends to lovers) Status: On-going.

Confession Attack - (Childhood best friends to lovers) Status: On-going.

Our Secret Alliance - (Childhood best friends to lovers) Status: Completed.

Ooh La La!! - (Complete strangers to sudden lovers) Status: Completed.

Match Made In Heaven By Chance - (Childhood friends to sudden married couple) Status: On-going.

Love Class - (Former high school Teacher X Former high school Student love story) Status: On-going.

The Man's Games - (Childhood frenemies to lovers) Status: Completed.

My Introverted Boy - (Introverted boy X introverted girl love story) Status: On-going.

The Dilettante - (Enemies to lovers) Status: On-going.

Olgami - (Enemies to toxic lovers) Status: On-going.

The Law Of Being Friends With A Male - (Classmates to friends to lovers) Status: On-going.

My Three Annoying Brothers - (Separate love stories of 4 beautiful yet chaotic siblings) Status: On-going.

Divorce Is Easy, But Love Is Hard - (College Senpai-kouhai to office colleagues in love) Status: On-going.

Marry My Husband - (Office senpai-kouhai to lovers) Status: Completed.

The Boss's Proposal - (Office senpai-kouhai to lovers) Status: On-going.

When You're Targeted By The Bully - (Enemies to friends to lovers) Status: Completed.

The ones I haven't read yet, but intend to read them later in the future...

Love Of Mine.

A Guide To Proper Dating.

Act Like You Love Me!

The Couple Breaker.

There Must Be Happy Endings/Surely a Happy Ending.

Love For Hire.

Daytime Star.

First Love, Lasting Hate.

Extroversion Of An Immortal.

True Beauty.

Wedding Delusion.

Even If It's Not.

Only Hope.

Meet In The Middle.

Situationship.

My Sweet Dark Hero.

Dating My Best Friend's Sister.

Undercover! Chaebol High School.

Dear First Love.

Melt Me With Your Voice.

Yeon Woo’s Innocence.

My Messy Marriage.

As If Love Doesn’t Exist.

Let’s Meet After Work.

Please Teach Me, Senior.

[psygull-arts]

the show must go on

[mantisgodsdomain]

More notes for Roach conlanging. Roach has grammatical gender, in which only Male, Female, and Object are grammatical genders, whereas Worker uses feminine grammar, Queen and King use a slight variant on feminine grammar, and Drone, and Queen-Alate use masculine grammar. This is because King is derived from Queen, due to their similar positions in a colony, and Queen-Alate is derived from Drone, as both are forms of alate.

Queen is an alteration of feminine grammar that functionally just adds a handful of extra syllables to it, and King is an offsprout of Queen that uses the same grammar with different pronouns. Queen-Alate, despite the name, is derived from Drone, as they are both for referring to different types of alate ant.

Most Roach dialects are intelligible to speakers of Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach, but Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach is not entirely intelligable to speakers of Roach dialects due to a mix of the excessively specialized vocabulary caused by the specific needs of its speakers, the fact that its speakers do not necessarily have Roach mouthparts and thus may not pronounce syllables in a similar way, and due to the fact that Inanimate Object is a full grammatical gender that does not exist in any other dialect of roach and replaces a decent chunk of terminology for things that previously had Other Words For Them.

[lgbtlunaverse]

I have been thinking on the nature of mdzs as a deliberately vague text that leaves many things up to interpretation, and how i've slowly come to understand "up for interpretation" less as "there is One True version of this story i must find" and not even as " Everyone has a different One True Version of this story inside their head be based on their interpretations and the differences don't make one wrong and the other right" but as "There is no One True Version. Even in my own subjective interpretation of the text multiple things can be true at once" specifically, in regard to Jin Guangyao and the many things which are left up in the air as to whether he did them or not, most notably killing his son.

There's evidence for this, but it's non conclusuve (jgy saying he killed him while also saying he killed Qin Su, who very much killed herself. The speculations on how he'd have killed him being sect leader yao just saying shit. ) it is, esentially, just up in the air enough that if you decisively fall on one side of the debate is probably says more about you and your general opinion of jgy than it does about the "true" events of canon.

I have, as a proud apologist, always fallen on the "he didn't kill him but felt in some way responsible for his death." Side but recently have become more okay with the interpretation that maybe he DID kill him, and that at the very least, that when he tells Qin Su their son "needed to die" he is being genuine. Which, once you look at it beyond. "Is jgy a poor lil meow meow who it is Okay to Like or an irredeemable baby murderer" becomes both INCREDIBLY tragic and deeply interesting. Because here is a man condemned for who his parents were and who wants nothing more than to live, saying that it is possible to be so cursed by your heritage that you need to die. There is no existence for you. The exact same thing that has been said to him.

Of course being born out of wedlock to a sex worker and being a product of incest are different things, but that begs the question: where is the line? What crimes of the father can mean death for the son? How cursed can you be until your existence is so incompatible with society it is you who needs to give? And if there is... where is it? Qin su clearly thought she was past it. Was his son really past it? Is he?

[wheregoodthingsthrive]

well trying to find hellsing community has oddly failed once more. as a result i have the deadly need to write grounded, humans-are-the-threat hellsing prequel fanfic with Daniel Silva vibes and leaning into the 2000s emphasis on hellsing as an actual operative with social repercussions for existing.

[driveintheaterofthemind]

The Hero Pulps

[ilovewebtoons]

[letshearitforthebabyboy]

What’s Peter’s favorite position and why?

i stand by it, peter's favourite position is absolutely some as-of-yet undiscovered display of all his powers. in fact, this ask prompted another of 7000 wips that i'll get around to eventually

i think ceiling sex would tickle peter's physics brain so delightfully. he needs to use his super-strength and super stickiness and oodles of uncanny balance to keep wade in place, and i think he'd just delight in the challenge of it all.

i think some of peter's favourite moments with wade are the "can i do that?? oh my god i can do that." moments.