#still here 😎

[justbeingnamaste]

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday threw out the lawfare prosecution against former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents after finding the Biden administration unconstitutionally appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith.

As part of the Biden Justice Department’s effort to jail the president’s political opponent, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump. The appointment served as the pretext for the armed 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago — where the use of deadly force was authorized — and led to Smith indicting Trump in June 2023 on 40 federal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

[jayjay-thejet-plane]

AND THEN THEY KISS

Coloured it! :D

[based off the prompt “homework help” given on wincest wednesday]

Transcription for your reading pleasure:

Page 1

D: Sammyyy get your nose out of those nerd books and pay attention to meeeee

S: The longer you distract me, the longer i'll have to study, so either quiz me or shit up jerk

D: Fine, bitch Hand me those cards

Page 2

D: Alright! What is the balance between forward and reverse processes that occur simultaneously? (I don't remember learning this...)

S: (That's because you didnt finish high school) That's dynamic equilibrium

D: Correct! Great job, time for a reward :D

S: What? No, Dean, I can't take a break after ev- What are you doing?

D: Giving you your reward <3

[thou-babbling-brook]

Kind of a fucked up thing to post on Valentine’s Day all things considered but that was unintentional tbh

[orviposition]

Oh my god side story chapter 860.... joonghak continue to remain canon i fear

41 yoo joonghyuk is fighting 40 cheon inho. he stabbed him on the shoulder with his spear and counterattacks cheon inho's way of the wind and unbreakable faith

"That skill is not yours."

"That sword is not yours either."

"Bring him back to me."

"We made a promise"

[As long as you don't give up on life, I will continue to write for you.]

"He promised to write my story."

HES A WORRIED HUSBAND YOUR HONOR

[necromash]

Something something, one of my Pelle WIPs because I turned 22 today or whatever, twinning! 😁👍🏻

[umemiyan]

guys who start absolutely begging for you to let them get you pregnant...........

[thwackk]

mayb i’ll post my boosters here too

[smilebug]

where'd you go? 💔💔💔💔

I never left 👍

[yaralulu]

this blog used to be fun and now all i do is vent and overshare 💔. need to bring back the balance i had between my thrilling (not) posts and my oversharing posts.

basically

[lovereadandwrite]

how many eclipses do you think Fyodor has seen in his lifetime(s)?🌒💕🥰

[takemeinyrarmy]

G'day cool catz!

[kikikou]

I'm saluting all of you Blauriam shippers as my fellow siblings bc at this rate I'm part-time Blauriam shipper. 🙏🫡

I have to put it in my every AU for the drama's sake. Like, it's a must. It's a very serious need. It's for the Laurphemer and Brainplayer drama. It just HAVE TO BE THERE. THERE'S NO ESCAPING.

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 13: Ava Lisbeth Morgan

Women and the Paths of Bullets

It's a special edition for our unlucky thirteenth edition of this series - an Edition of Two Firsts!

This is our first edition so far to be illustrated by a woman (yeah I know right)...

I have no idea if that Dickens portrait was made by this week's illustrator or not, sadly.

...and it's also our first to have (allegedly) been shot with a gun! Hello!

I've had this edition for a very long time - it's one of the first editions that I ever bought off the Internet, if not the first! I simply could not resist the absurdity of what I was seeing - what a story this book could tell if it could talk!

Sadly, I never saved the link to the online shopping page where I originally found and bought it, and based on my repeated failed attempts to find it again, I think it's been taken down - so you'll just have to take my word for it that the listing claimed it was a bullet hole!

The (alleged) bullet hole was the only reason I bought it, and once I had collected this little piece of intrigue and slotted it into its place on my shelf, I left it there for years.

I knew that it had these beautiful end papers, but many editions have illustrated end papers like this, so I thought little of it, especially since none of these are explicitly A Tale of Two Cities-related.

In all that time, I didn't investigate it much further (evidently not even to take a closer look at the title page) - I just let it sit there, in the back of my mind, separated off from the collection of illustrated editions that I have slowly begun to amass over the last half-a-decade.

One day recently, though, I opened it up again for the first time in a long time just to show it to a friend who was visiting - and when I thumbed through it to show the friend the path of the (alleged) bullet, I was shocked and delighted as the path led me to a new story, a new piece of intrigue that this edition had to offer:

An entire set of six illustrations that were not only "new" (so to speak) to my collection but which I had never even known to exist, by an illustrator I had never heard of! Completely new to me!

The incredible irony of this is not lost on me - I work hard to be complete and thorough in my research, and yet, on my own bookshelf, I had glossed over an entire set of illustrations - and the first (and only so far!) in my physical collection to be illustrated by a woman!

Pondering my own lapse here in living up to my usual intentions, I started thinking more about Morgan's intentions, especially along those lines - namely that, unique among the baker's dozen of sets that we've seen so far, almost all of her illustrations feature female characters as subjects.

It makes me wonder a lot about Morgan - who she was, what her interests were, what got her into illustrating, why so little appears when you look her up, what her life was like as a female illustrator in the 1940s, how she dealt with all that being a female illustrator in the 1940s must have entailed, how much control she had over what she illustrated, what her feelings were about A Tale of Two Cities...

How would Ava Lisbeth Morgan feel seeing this post - these bizarre images of the path of a mystery (alleged) bullet through her own work in a copy of a novel that has otherwise survived for generations? How would she feel tracing its path with us as it travels out of the book just before her final illustration for the novel

of the death of Madame Defarge by her own pistol?

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[rondo-of-darkness]

why does thei remind me of stupws

[whereismyhat5678]

Um... vigi?

Your granpap is bullying king ghost.

Bonus:

Maybe take what Granpop is saying, he’d appreciate it if you don’t bother his poor son, he’s already got some baggage….

[good-beansdraws]

Yaaay, I got to do an art swap with @kyanako5972 -- here's her wonderful oc Claire Inez, featured in her webcomic SWAP Ensemble 🎶 Claire was a blast to draw, I hope I could do her justice!!

Failed versions include trial song background that just looked lame/unreadable, and the original singing pose that just looked off for some reason...