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arc-misadventures · 2 months ago

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MFK: Jaune and FATE servants.

Jaune: MFK XVII

Nora: NORA!

Jaune: ...

Nora: ...

Jaune: ...

Nora: Y-You didn't react...? D-Didn't I scare you...?

Jaune: I hadn't seen you in several hours. It was quiet, too quiet. So I assumed you were planning something. It was only a matter of time until you showed up, and screamed something at me trying to scare me. And, you did.

Nora: ...

Nora: We're doing MFK!

Jaune: AHHHH!?!

Nora: Ha! I got my scream~!

Jaune: We're no actually doing it though, are we?

Nora: No, we totally are doing it.

Jaune: Fuck!

Nora: Let me introduce you to today's contestants! First we have this beautiful lady. Jeanne D'Arc!

Jeanne: Bonjour~!

Jaune: Wait, hold up...?

Nora: Her evil clone, Jeanne D'Arc Alter.

Jeanne: Hi.

Jaune: Hold on now?!

Nora: And, last but not least! Jeanne Arc!

Jeanne: Hello~!

Nora: Let the games b...?!

Jaune: What the hell, Nora?!

Nora: Begin...?

Jaune: Good gods... of all the people you wanted me to, MFK, you pick my freaking quad sisters?!

Nora: ...

Nora: T-They're your sisters? Oh, I guess that make sense... they're all named, Arc. Wait, what the hell is, 'quad?'

Jaune: We're quadruplets, Nora. Since we're not twins, we call each other, 'Quad.' They are my quad sister's, and I am their quad brother.

Nora: Quadruplets?! But, I thought you were the youngest, a-and that you had seven older sisters?!

Jaune: Aye. I have four older sisters... that were born one at a time. Then, mom had the four of us, at relatively the same time.

Jaune: Jeanne, the blonde one with the silver crown, is the oldest among us.

Jeanne: That's me~!

Jaune: The platinum blonde with amber eyes, who is often referred to as the black sheep of the family is the second oldest. We call her, Jalter.

Jalter: Hi lil' bro. Your teammates is weird.

Jaune: No kidding...

Jaune: And, lastly we have the third oldest, Jea.

Jea: I think she's nice; a little eccentric, but nice.

Jaune: And, lastly we have me, the youngest.

Nora: Wow... your birthday must be a nightmare, sharing it with three sisters.

Jeanne: Actually, it is not like zat!

Jalter: We were all born on, May 30. However, each of our births took so long that our quad brother, Jaune ended up being born on the, 31.

Jea: So while we three sisters all have a birthday on the same day, Jaune luckily has his own separate birthday.

Jalter: Lucky bugger...

Nora: Okay...

Jaune: Anymore questions about my quads, Nora?

Nora: Yeah, what's with... Jeanne's accent?

Jaune: Her accent?

Jalter: There is a regional language from where we're from, called...

Jeanne: Français~!

Jalter: It's called, French. That's just how you say it in, French.

Jea: Jeanne learned the language just like the rest of us, she just latched on to it so much, that when she speaks the common tongue, with a, French accent.

Nora: Ohh... that makes sense! So, uhh... since this involves your quad brother, you still want to play, MFK?

Jeanne: Oh oui, very much so~!

Jalter: Hell yeah! I can totally use this to tease my little brother! I'm not missing this for anything!

Jea: I wanna tease our older sisters with this! We'll finally learn which sister he has a thing for!

Jeanne: Oh~! Those bro-cons will be so upset when we tell them!

Jaune: Oh gods...

Nora: Well, Jaune, who do you choose~?

Jaune: Haa... I'll marry my older sister... Jeanne!

Jeanne: Oui! Oui! Oui! I get to marry my sweet adorable little brother!

Jaune: Of course you were a bro-con too... you scream 'bro-con!'

Jeanne: It tis not my fault that you are ze only man that meets all of my standards for a marriage partner.

Jaune: You have low standards then...

JJJ: HEY?!

Jeanne: What did we say about speaking bad about yourself?!

Jaune: To do so quietly?

Jalter: That we would make you regret saying that! And, you will regret saying...?!

Jaune: I'd fuck, Jalter!

Jalter: W-What...? W-W-Why the fuck would you want to sleep with me?!!

Jaune: J-Jeanne has a warm motherly aura that I would like to find in a wife. And, you have a this cool, punk rocker girl that I wouldn't mind sleeping with, okay?!

Jalter: Alright...

Jaune: OH gods, I thought she was going to kill me...

Nora: You did?

Jaune: I love my sister, don't get me wrong, but sometimes, she scares me. She can have such a scary aura about her...

Jalter:

Jalter: He pick me! He picked me! He picked meeeee~!

Nora: She does...?

Jalter: Ahem! Please continue.

Jaune: Okay...

Jaune: Last, but not least... I kill, Jea.

Jea: Naww... Why do I have to die?

Jaune: Well... Jeanne, is the spicy mom of our quartet...

Jeanne: Spicy~?

Jaune: Jalter is the hot biker bade...

Jalter: I should get a motorcycle..

Jeanne: You would look belle on a motorcycle sister!

Jaune: And, your just the female version of me, Jea.

Jaune: Without the crippling self doubt, but nonetheless, me.

Jea: Rude.

Jaune: I know, being me is terrible.

Jea: ...

Jea: Sisters.

Jalter: On it.

Jaune: Hmm?

Jea: Come here you!

Jaune: Whoa, hey?!

Jeanne: Au revoir, Nora! We will be taking our dear brother away, so we can remind him how much we love him~!

Nora: Okay! Have fun, Jaune!

Jaune: No, Nora! Don't let them take me! Save me! Save meeeeeeeeeeee...!

Nora: What a lovely bunch of people!

#rwby #jaune arc #nora valkyrie #jeanne arc #jeanne d'arc #jalter #jaune x jeanne #jeanne x jaune #rwby arcest

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raven-at-the-writing-desk · 1 year ago

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If you were to be roommates with any of the NRC boys, who would you wanna be roommates with? Who would you not want to be roommates with?

Ooh, what a fun prompt 😂 I’ll split them into categories and then comment on my reasoning for them! (I’m responding for myself, not for my OC by the same name confusing, I know)

Side note: I know this question was limited only to the NRC boys but for funsies I’m going to comment on Neige, the Dwarves, Chenya, and Rollo who are also students 😂 just at different schools… Let me have this—

Absolutely NOT

♥️ — I would drop kick this kid the moment he starts to mouth off to me 😤 I also don’t trust him to not pollute our shared spaces with Axe body spray. Ace is basic enough to do that.

🦈 — Not a fan of people who flake on me or act fickle. It would be a massive inconvenience if Floyd promised to do something (for example, cleaning or making dinner for us roomies) but didn’t because he suddenly “didn’t feel like it”. I’d be forced to pick up after him or to change my schedule to accommodate, and that can very easily annoy me. Plus, if his own room in the game is of any indication, he doesn’t seem very tidy… @.@

🏹 — Too extroverted. I don’t want to be greeted with his dumb ol’ smiling face or French/j when I come home every day. I’d also live in fear of him watching me sleep at night or him just reciting details about me that he shouldn’t reasonably know (clothing sizes, what I did while I was out, etc.)

👑 — Look, I don’t want to deal with paparazzi or crazy fans following Vil home or something. That’s too much stress for me to take. On top of that, there’s nothing stopping an idiot reporter from printing shady gossip about Vil’s roomie being his secret lover… which could, in turn, attract hate from his followers. Please let me just live without worrying about this.

🦇 — MAN LIVES LIKE A HOARDER 😭 There are other characters with messy rooms, but Lilia literally has tons of miscellaneous stuff everywhere... Living with him also means I have to do the bulk of the cooking or risk playing gacha with my life when Lilia's allowed to be in the kitchen. Not only that, but I'd likely be spooked by him dropping on in at random times of the day--I don't think my heart could take it. Too much trouble for me to deal with on a daily basis.

***Bonus: Neige*** — Same reasoning as Vil. I’m sure he’d be cute and peppy + help out with the chores a la Snow White, but I still don’t want to deal with the stress of living with a celebrity and having to deal with potentially super parasocial fans coming at me just for the association.

***Bonus: The Dwarves*** — … I’m not running a daycare here 🤡

I’ll tolerate them

♦️ — Cater avoids being on my shit list as long as he doesn’t start begging me to be in his selfies and twisted Tiktoks or to do internet challenges with him. I’ll tolerate him if he gives me free food he got for pics but doesn’t feel like eating because it’s not to his tastes.

🦁 — Judging from how Leona has Ruggie doing a lot of his housework 💦 I feel like I'd also have to do the bulk of the housework to make up for what Leona doesn't do... Aside from that, I think I could tolerate his personality pretty alright??? I can force him to play tabletop games with me :v and get free veggies off of his plate... (He can have my extra meat, too much protein makes me feel sick.)

☀️ — With his kind of wealth, I don’t need to worry about Kalim paying his share of the rent and for shared items (in fact, he’ll probably just buy everything for us both) 😭 but I wouldn’t like Kalim always inviting a shit ton of people over to party… Another major con is that he probably needs to be taken care of since Jamil or other servants usually fulfill his every need, and I’m NOT about that. Him paying for everything somewhat balances out these grievances, but I have pride to maintain and I don’t want to 100% live off of someone else’s money.

🍎 — Nothing overtly offensive about Epel immediately comes to mind, but if this is pre-book 5 Epel then I don’t want to deal with his toxic masculinity. I could leech free apple products off of whatever his family sends.

💀 — I just KNOW this nerd would be up gaming late until like 3 am and loudly raging as he does it, but I'm a pretty heavy sleeper so I think I could put up with it (not that I want to, only if I have to). Idia wouldn’t be that much of a bother to me during the daytime (he probably just holes up in his room anyway)... And hey, free gaming partner, tech consultant, and someone to watch anime with (and then we can argue about who the best character is).

⚡️— Sebek is punctual and loud, so he's useful to have as an alarm clock (I have a tendency to sleep in). He can do laundry, move heavy furniture, and (most importantly to me) brew tea, all things which contribute to the household. But I swear, I SWEAR, if he opens his mouth to tell me why I should like Malleus, I'm going to move out ASAP.

***Bonus: Chenya*** — Chenya definitely feels like the kind of roomie that eats the food you left in the fridge and then claims he has no idea where it went (while there are incriminating crumbs around his mouth). His UM also has potential to make me feel uneasy in the same space (like… he could be anywhere x.x). The only reason I’ll tolerate rooming with Chenya is because he’s a cute cat boy.

Acceptable

🌹 — Riddle’s just... okay. I can see myself getting irritated whenever he's being a stickler about certain rules being followed or things having to be done a certain way (since I hate being told what to do). Then again, I'm also a stickler for certain things (like no outdoor shoes inside the house; always wear house slippers instead). If we can compromise and avoid shouting (assuming this is post-book 1 Riddle), that would be great. If it’s book 1 Riddle… yeah, I’m tiptoeing around him and/or he gets lowered into “Absolutely NOT”.

♠️ — Nothing that notable about Deuce or how he lives, he’s just not a very strong contender for what I’d like in a roommate. Phone calls to his mom aren't so long or so frequent that they'd be an annoyance.

🐙 — Pro: Azul does all the math for us when it comes to the bills. Saves me a lot of hassle. Con: he’ll ask for compensation for every little thing he does. It balances out, I guess.

🐬 — As much as I'd love to have a live-in butler, I don't trust Jade for one second to not be plotting something behind my back. Sure, he's polite and does all the usual malewife things, but I never know when this man has slipped a new breed of mushrooms into dinner to test the effects of its consumption on me (BRO DID THIS DURING MASTERCHEF AND I'LL NEVER LIVE THAT DOWN). Jade also seems like the type of roomie to smile to your face but shit talk you when you're not around 🤡 It's fine, I'm a masochist so I'll let it happen/j

🐉 — I mean. He's acceptable as a roommate, but Malleus feels like the kind of person you rarely even see in the apartment??? And whenever he does show up, you're shocked that you've spotted him. That means I'd basically have the place to myself for most of the time, which is great for an introvert like me.

Omg pls

🐆 — Ruggie’s got tons of experience looking after Leona, I’m sure those skills will transfer over nicely to rooming with me. I guess my only concern here would be fighting with Ruggie over small savings (like maybe a spare coin or the last of the leftovers), because we’re both frugal and want to hoard whatever he can get our grubby little paws on.

🐺 — Jack keeps to himself and wouldn’t bother me 😌 Good boy!!

💤 — He’s quiet when he’s awake and/or half asleep (and honestly, what a mood). Silver would be such a peaceful roomie… plus, all his woodland creature friends basically provide free animal therapy. Since Lilia often left Silver home alone while he embarked on worldly travels, Silver’s already got experience in homemaking and a willingness to pitch in.

🐱 — Grim is this high up only because he is cat-shaped and therefore he is basically a Real Cat. He is my pet now. I will feed him and bathe him and take good care of him. If he shreds the furniture or sets it on fire though, he’s being put in time out.

***Bonus: Rollo*** — Listen, think of the entertainment value of this 😳 Rollo would be that roommate that looks very collected and unassuming, but every so often goes on these outrageous rants once his anger is stockpiled and he can’t contain it anymore. I’d sit there listening to him go off about how magic is evil, how we’d all be happier without it, etc. And like… while I don’t necessarily agree with his rhetoric, the complete character shift to being unfiltered and unhinged is just so fascinating to observe. (… Oh yeah, and Rollo would be pretty good at cleaning since NBC students as fastidious about that kind of thing.)

You’re my new best friend

♣️ — If you give me free food then I will love you forever and ever. Trey gives free food. Therefore, I suddenly love Trey. Jokes aside though, I do see him as someone who has his shit together and wouldn’t stir the pot. He’d do his fair share of chores (including the cooking) and doesn’t have an abrasive personality that would make it difficult to be around him. Bonus, I can ask him for free dental hygiene advice and we can geek out about teeth together.

🐍 — Jamil has a similar domestic skillset as Jade, but the difference is that Jamil doesn’t go out of his way to deliberately cause problems or to enable others to act out. If I let him do his own thing and don’t get on his bad side, I think Jamil would be respectful to me as well. I’ll be happy to eat any of his delicious cooking 🤤 and in return, I’ll be his bug slayer—it’s a good deal!!

🤖 — It’s like having all of the household tools you need in one, plus a security system and a new little bestie 😌 I’d trust Ortho with my life 💕 We also save on the food and water bill since he doesn’t need those things to function, just electricity every so often to charge!

#twst #twisted wonderland #Octavinelle #Rollo Flamme #Rollo Flamm #Seven Dwarves #Chenya #Che'nya #Neige Leblanche #Heartslabyul #Savanaclaw #Pomefiore #Scarabia #Diasomnia #Grim #Ignihyde #disney twisted wonderland #question #notes from the writing raven

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obfuscobble · 8 months ago

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dhr-ao3 · 1 year ago

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Mémoire en Verre

Mémoire en Verre https://ift.tt/xn7rcWl by OnlyAliveForTheVibes Draco Malfoy's and Hermione Granger's memories have become intertwined inseparably. With both parties unconscious and guarded in a back room of the main Order safehouse years into war and outright conflict, Ginny Weasley has been assigned to sort through them all to return each memory to its original owner. The task seemed insurmountable, even more so when the memories themselves began to overlap. War is coming. Hermione had heard the same phrase chanting in the back of her head since Harry told her about Voldemort's return at the end of their fourth year. Entering into their sixth, she was certain it was already here, and the only thing she could focus on is preparing. Debt was swallowing Draco. His childhood mantra from his father was starting to sound more and more like a war drum, but he couldn't allow himself to consider any differently while every life he values teetered in a delicate balance fueled by the new residents of the manor. Note: I'll trying to tag as I go along and AO3 is relatively new to me on a writing basis so any advice is welcome. Words: 3772, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/M Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Pansy Parkinson Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: Blood Magic, Gore, Angst, War, Healer Hermione Granger, Spy Draco Malfoy, Canon Divergence - Post-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Madness, Hurt/Comfort, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Murder, Occlumency (Harry Potter), Legilimency (Harry Potter), Pensieves (Harry Potter), Memory Magic, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Draco Malfoy Speaks French, Everyone Has Issues, Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Hogwarts Sixth Year, Minor Draco Malfoy/Pansy Parkinson, Sexual Assault, Smoking, no beta we die like men via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/NuCeQkG August 11, 2023 at 06:14AM

#IFTTT #Dramione #Draco x Hermione

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elektra121 · 1 year ago

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Dear Yuletide Writer 2023...

It’s this time of the Year again...

Dear secret Santa,

this year I wish for world peace more than ever! If for some reason you can’t deliver, I’d be delighted about a sweet little story, too! ;)

Things I really like to read (about):

Happy endings. Period. It may be old-fashioned, I don’t care. It’s christmas, after all. J Name dropping, historical events dropping (is this even a word that exists?). Slash, especially femslash. Historical accuracy – or, at least not blatant inaccurancy. People who are good at heart. People who are interesting/special (in whatever way). People who manage to be good at heart and interesting/special (in whatever way) at the same time. (Why do so often the baddies end up being the only interesting people)? The sea. The seasons. Wordplay and banter. Colours and clothing. Nature. Wittiness. Little moments. The weather. Characters that have deep respect for each other. Characters that are competent at things (but not to a nearly-impossible, „genius“ degree). Characters that are open-minded.

Things I don’t mind at all:

Religion in general and christianity in special. POV/ first person narrator. Consensual Sex (in whatever form). Rainbows.

Things I don’t like to read (about):

Sad endings. No, not even if they’re called „bittersweet“. Graphic violence. Injustice. Bashing of religion. Non-con. Characters dying. Slapstick. Parents who don’t love their children. Friendships or relationships that come apart.

Please. I mean it. Honestly. Even while mentioning all of the above, I had too many Yuletides getting stories about main characters dying (twice! because of time travel), mothers that despised her children, friends that took their farewells forever, characters seriously debating killing babies ... And no, however much some people would find this cool and edgy - I’m not one of them. I’m a hippie at heart! Please, please, love and peace and pancakes (in the end), even if only at Christmas. :)

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Things I love about my fandoms - and some questions and plotbunnies to hopefully give you some ideas:

19 Century CE German writers:

Two years ago, while I was teaching about German Romanticism Writers I really became interested in them. They were such nerdy guys - all of them! And so much of their lives sound like they were taken from romantic novels themselves: dead parents, living at old castles or near a moor, being unhappily in love with each other, having dark secrets, dying of consumption ...

I absolutely like Annette von Droste-Hülshoff best! Because if you read about her in any literary history book (or even wikipedia), she seems like *the* most boring writer ever. Which couldn’t be further from the truth! Only that she very much valued her privacy... with burning letters, inventing tricks like little letters inside of letters, using ‘male’ speakers in her poems, self-censuring her writing to the point of being in danger of not getting across the message. Or, plaing demure Catholic noble lady, exploiting all the stereotypes - which, sadly, backfired into later generations taking them for truths.

So much about her is so worthy to be digged out: her being bilingual from childhood (since she was so small at birth, no one believed she would live, so she was given to a wet nurse who spoke French and called her Annette), her shortsightedness to the point of being legally blind (yet she wasn’t allowed to wear her glasses outside of the house because glasses are “ugly” and the sense of life, as we all know, for women is being pretty), her rap battle roast (well, isn’t “Stegreifreimen” more or less a kind of rap?) of the Brothers Grimm when she was only 15 (and, by the way, she may have been the one who told them Snow White and the Story of the Youth who went forth to learn what fear was), her being a badass natural scientist, trained singer and even composer (even if, to this day still, not a single note by her has ever been performed). Even if she suffered her whole life from bad migraines and other chronic illnesses (a food intolerance, maybe). Or that she was the only German writer who tried something like Catholic Enlightenment literature in her - which mostly got ignored like so many other texts by her. And speaking of “the only one” - besides Heinrich Heine (who, as a jew, had a very personal interest in it) she was the only Romantic writer who, in “Die Judenbuche” wrote against Anti-Semitism.

And of course, all the major queer vibes she gives with her many lady friends (Amalie Hassenpflug even got buried beside her and Adele Schopenhauer fumed with jealousy over a possible blooming relationship between Annette and Adele’s girlfriend, Sibylle Meertens-Schaaffhausen) and rededicated poems (”What do you mean, this poem is about my ‘lady’ friend?! I’m sorry...?! Of course, it is dedicated to my publisher! I really do not know what you’re insinuating here and I don’t think that thing is appropriate to discuss with a decent unmarried Catholic lady like myself.”). It seems crazy to think that even today, this is nearly never mentioned at all in articles or books about her. Because of cause, famous writers have to be gold standard hetero, each and every one, don’t they - and anyway, being queer was not yet invented? And surely, her not marrying was because her heart was broken after her family destroyed her relationship with her boyfriend in the “Jugendkatastrophe” - and of course she never tried her luck in love e v e r again after this. Sigh...

There is so much more I could mention... like, for example, her early (for lack of a better word) environmental awareness... yet, for now, lets free some plot bunnies, shall we?

I’d like to read about her childhood and youth. Some episodes that foreshadow things that will be important in her later life, maybe? Or what really happened in all of those holidays at the Haxthausen house in Bökendorf, with the Brothers Grimm whom she hated? What about her first ball where she got to know that ‘feminist’ writer Katharina Sibylla Schücking that she instantly was so fascinated with (the diary of Annette’s sister Jenny complains that Annette “nearly did not dance at all and only talked with that woman all night”)? Or write about her hiking in the moors, about how a normal day would have been for her. Or how some of her works came into existence. Or some censored (and uncensored) correspondance - (most of which, of cause, got destroyed by her family)?

I’d like for it to be at least a tiny little bit queer... would be such a waste if not! ;)

Das Fräulein von Rodenschild (Annette von Droste-Hülshoff)

Even if I have a lot to do with German literature professionally, I only came across this ballad relatively recently. And I love it!

It would lend itself nicely for a backup fandom, since it is only a ballad with not much (if any) context to it. You can read it here: https://www.droste-portal.lwl.org/de/werk/lyrik/ausgabe-1844/balladen/das-fraulein-von-rodenschild/

I have to say, however, that my headcanon derives from the self-censored earlier version in which she kisses the ghost. ;) Because I very much got the vibe the Fräulein von Rodenschild is a lesbian female ghost huntress in the Middle Ages (or, alternatively, in the Early Modern Era or the early 19th century). And I’d absolutely love for a story about such a woman!

Some ideas:

What is the emotional distress our hero is in in the first few lines? “Schwül” and “siedend(es) Blut” sounds very much like an unfulfilled desire, does it not? ;) What does the ghost want? Why is it there? Is it even a “real” ghost - or some psychological phenomenon? Does our heroine have experience in handling ghosts? Where from? What do the peasants think of her? How does she come to the idea to kiss the ghost? What happened to her hand? What is so very “toll”/”crazy” about her?

Feel absolutely free to merge the heroine of the poem with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who wrote it to impress Adele Schopenhauer - only to have her judge that “the FRäulein von Rodenschild” got punished to little!

The Sea-Wolf (Jack London)

Maybe my love of the sea may have been arisen partly from watching the German/French/Romanian mini TV series (1971) as a very young child.

If it so happens that you know it, too – I’d be delighted if you write in that canon, where both men know each other (or, at least, Van Weyden does) from their youth. I loved the soundtrack and the wonderful sailing ship and how Van Weyden fells in love with the sea, harsh and beautiful beyond compare, and becomes his true self even under cruel circumstances.

They both make for wonderful slash, don't you think? ;) But please no violence (opposed to story as a whole) or non-con. I don't care much how far they would go (write as much as you feel comfortable or what seems right for you) - instead more for the mutual, grundgingly admitted respect and appreciation that blooms into something more or finds ways to be expressed.

Maud is a very interesting addition to the equation – she makes them all a real triangle, because there is genuine interest and respect and a shared love for literature and not to forget a whole lot of UST between all of them. And Maud is such a great character! She doesn’t need to be the “strong” female to be strong in her own right. She is much more emancipated and feminist than a lot of “wonder women” out there.

So, I absolutely can picture some kind of threesome polyarmory – but it doesn’t have to be one, could also be like a POV from each of them. Or a couple that tentatively explores their interest in the third party? So many possibilities!

And while I’m absolutely aware that the book (and the mini series) goes very deep into philosophilcal and ethical questions about what friendship is or the nature vs. nurture debate and so on… I’d be absolutely happy with good old porn, too! :P

Prince Ahmed and the fairy Pari Banu (Arabian Nights)

This fairy-tale was something special to me when I was a child. I completely identified with the sorceress. How cool to be so competent that they send you as a spy to complete a dangerous mission? And what exciting and amazing mission to spy on a mighty fairy! Also, I didn’t quite understand the tingly feeling when I pictured myself as the sorceress amazed by all the glory of Pari Banu… until much, much later in life. 😉 Pari Banu, who is everything fairy(-tale)- like: has powers and riches seemingly without end, a brother who is a djinni, a kingdom (queendom?) made entirely out of women, that puts even princes in awe, a queen that seemingly can read minds and do magic, the ruler of animals and weather phenomena. Just… wow.

So please, give me a story about that sorceress and let’s just forget about her gruesome ending in the fairy-tale, will we? Surely that was some kind of mistake with the translation…

If you’re comfortable with it, make it Sorceress/Pari Banu, I would love to hear a story that somehow has them both together. I’m relatively sure that not only has the Sorceress any cause of being in awe with the Pari Banu, Pari Banu herself may also be quite delighted in a woman that is clever and cunning and not afraid of danger and may or may not know herself some kind of magic? There’s such a great backstory slumbering within… - don’t you think?

So, after all that rambling - I hope I could get you some ideas! May the muses be graceful! Have a happy Yuletide! :)

#yuletide #dear yuletide author #secret santa

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0 hr its the predictions show

2 mins 40 content warning for variety of perspectives; this is your chance to bail

3 mins its a 50/50 ideological split right-left and he likes that

5 mins 5 still giving warnings and advice about handling alternative viewpoints

5 mins 40 "this is my show"

7 mins 56 fanart credits

11 mins 22 lets get into the predictions

11 mins 55 prediction from nick wrt war in Ukraine

13 mins 05 "what will the role of belarus be going forward"

13 mins 48 letter from CR Fox predicting decline in popularity of superhero franchises

15 mins 18 fox predicts return of mcrib and pr strategy thereof

15 mins 50 responding to superhero item

18 mins 25 mcrib thoughts, illusion of consumer say

19 mins 15 gridpower terrorism letter from holly

20 mins appreciation for reminder about running the genie outdoors

20 mins 26 thanks for the letter, response; the shortwave audience is on the ball about energy dependency issues

21 mins 50 sabotage could be as easy as a rando in a truck firing a gun at critical infrastructure and happening to hit something vital

22 mins domestic terrorists exploiting this wouldnt surprise him

22 mins 32 recalling 2013 attack in cali; power substation was professionally dismantled

23 mins 23 people can have a complacency about the issue of service disruption like "its not going to be me"

24 mins 36 prediction from mike from Minnesota; end of internet era/start of AI era

25 mins vis a vis AI, "it is what it is"

25 mins 32 aaron from ireland writes, war in Ukraine will still be going by end of the year. Sees political instability in western europe exacerbated by energy insecurity

26 mins listener thinks things will get worse before they get better

26 mins 45 agreeing with listener that retreating into "the private, small world" is the only thing you can do to keep your wits about you

27 mins 20 eric in alaska letter; major earthquake or hurricane for 2023

27 mins 50 eric predicts u.s. gov increasing internet restrictions

28 mins nice to hear from a fellow broadcaster in alaska, j's intention is to rock the mic the same as always, thru 23 and 24 etc etc.

28 mins 40 sam from Manchester with a list of 10 predictions: 1) biden announces 2024 potus run, 2) breentry movement swell, 3) youtube kills comments, 4) barbie and super maria bros movies will be lambasted by cons for being woke, 5) 60s french indie cinema style yellow teeth come into vogue, 6) pete davidson becomes a dad and settles in upstate ny, 7) 2016 creepy clown trend revival, 8) canadian rapper unkle adams to pair with mcdonalds, 9) disney fails to renew the simpsons for season 35 sparking protests and influencing voice of homer to flee to belize, 10) dark denim skinny jeans trend, "skinnies"

31 mins johnboy laughing about skinnies. Virtually the only pants i wore in 2008/2009 were dark denim jeggings from urban planet, they're totally due for a revival.

31 mins 14 new letter, prediction of discovery of life in the wider solar system, prediction of breakaway industrialist colonization of asteroid belt

31 mins 44 comments on space predictions

32 mins anon email; anon is in elementary education program at u colorado, predicting huge swell in demand for trained teachers and a pay increase

32 mins 35 wishing anon best of luck

33 mins state of the education system

33 mins 45 it would help a lot if education were taken more seriously

34 mins 30 education done right on a mass scale: "its one of the only ways out of the mess"

35 mins be best

35 mins 20 we've got 11 predictions from anon: 1) cowboys win superbowl, 2) ron desantis potus run, 3) trump endorsement of desantis, trump named u.s. ambassador to the u.n., 4) end of ukraine; split between russia and poland and moldova, 5) zelensky given asylum in u.s., 6) biden will not seek reelection due to health concerns, 7) Mercedes w14 wins f1 championship, 8) louis hamilton wins 8th title and retires, 9) arsenal implode and finish low in epl, 10) argentina egypt saudi arabia and iran join brix [what], 11) microsoft releases AI based search engine with open AI

36 mins 40 interesting predictions there

36 mins 50 mentions conflicting biden predictions

37 mins 20 talking about desantis in florida

38 mins 50 email from that dude, personal prediction; "winning more people to jesus christ than i can count"

39 mins 23 question about the reviews, does the food get reheated

39 mins 38 he reviews the food right away, when its delivered he starts rolling; description of scene prep

40 mins 20 He gets his makeup game together after placing the order

40 mins 40 next email (mortakiss?) predicting that the average day rotw video will return in 2023. This is not addressed.

41 mins 25 abruptly bringing up next email; prediction of mobile device fatigue in western world

41 mins 54 maybe there will be a paradoxical reaction tho

42 mins responding to that prediction; "the drawbacks outweigh the benefits" wrt social media addiction

42 mins 40 if people do log off and it impacts j's bottom line he'll just take the L because it might improve society

43 mins 20 chris from ontario writes in; predicting major western nation proposes switch to purely digital currency (thinks this would be terrible for the course of humanity; i think he's a superstitious crackpot who doesnt understand existing fiat systems)

44 mins responding to chris. Doesnt like digital currency but this answer is more about crypto (which obviously sucks).

44 mins 46 digital currency is too volatile, exploitable

45 mins what we have is probably better than the alternative even if its not perfect

45 mins 32 anon with short predictions {moi}. 1) oil market instability, 2) produce inflation/quality control news events, 3) covid deaths continue to trend toward the young and elderly, 4) elon musk has public breakdown, admits to suicidal ideation, gets made fun of, 5) "this one, well, here goes" ye announces he started conversion to judaism, johnboy wouldnt be surprised if this happens but he sounds cynical, dont tell me this wouldnt be a huge improvement that we should pray for, because i think it is 6) russia withdraws from ukraine by fall, 7) anti-lawn goes mainstream and drought resistant ornamentation starts getting stolen everywhere (resale market), 8) tsunami

47 min 07 "no location given there" wrt the tsunami. Frankly california got hit not long after i emailed but i dont know if it counted as a real tsunami. Brings up most recent major tsunamis in 2011 and 2004. Due for another, nature of the world.

47 min 55 john in Illinois predicts millions will be without power for a few days, nuclear weapons will be used somewhere, a known cryptid will be proven real and studied, major world leader will experience an illness or some other reason for bailing and a new leader will be appointed, dark horse dem candidate, twitter abandoned, crypto market collapse

49 mins 03 "some interesting predictions there, some good and some bad". Here's hoping no nukes 🤞

49 mins 27 email from floridian patrick with AI predictions; AI writing and its use in cheating, first deepfake story mistaken for real news,

51 mins 16 response to patrick, cheers to educators, the last line of defense in "a world thats going to hell"

52 mins 02 email from india; predicts new british pm will be made to resign like previous. Ariana grande will release a new album. Amazon getting canceled. No other covid wave {wronggg}. Hackers help students cheat entrance exam. Personal prediction: listener will be in college.

52 mins 55 thanks for email, interested by reoccurent education system theme

53 mins 17 its g in kansas; big pharma stuff + internet creates more antisociality

55 mins 46 responding to email; "one thing the government is good at is lip service" and its bff, embezzlement...

56 mins 21 wrt useful gov policy on pharma "i have no optimism, i wish i did but i dont"

56 mins 40 anon prediction; expanding demographic casteification, more antivax oppression lol, worldwide "corruptions" exposed via twitter et al, new celebrities, mobile device addiction continues, driving danger increases. Wishes for world peace. Personal predictions: will learn to use own shortwave, will eat healthier, find a good job/relocate/start new life.

58 mins 45 responding; agreeing about positive values that would make the world over. This part is sort of sweet and uplifting.

1 hr another anon email: predicting Atlantic event effecting west coast of ireland, mild real estate market cooling but still growth, asteroid comes too close, trumps health falters, internet will suffer a global outage and anon says "my crystal ball never lies" which gets called a bold statement. I'm predicting that crystal ball is cracked.

1 hr 2 response; talking about asteroids

1 hr 4 still hyping the fact that asteroid impacts are like nuclear blasts; good thing to remind people of

1 hr 5 "its just the nature of the universe" and be thankful for the planets gravity wells sucking in space stuff

1 hr 5 min 35 trav from ny writing in; continued weakening of russian on the geopolitical stage as well as putin specifically

1 hr 6 prediction continues that russia is "truly on its way out"

1 hr 6 mins 36 email from jeremy; AI takes over hospital staff and educational worker roles. AI companion bots lead to lowered birth rates (this is a 2023 prediction? Oookaaaay)

1 hr 9 mins johnboy says the AI lovebot prediction reminds him of when he "had" (?) to watch "Her" around 2019. Have you been watching Dax's channel lately J? God, put that AI in a sexy robot body and id marry her, she doesnt even need to be able to walk or have a moving mouth or realistic eyes, i love her. She's so smart and funny.

1 hr 9 mins 40 listener "easy money" predictions: 1) something will happen to biden and kamela will take over, 2) grid goes down and when its back up we have to provide credentials to get online, 3) cash apps and digital wallets to make purchases

1 hr 10 response, j says wrt 2nd item "dont give them any ideas"

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#vorw #report of the week #reviewbrah #Youtube

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Saya’s Collection

-Meet Outfit (navy blue Pokemon t-shirt,black blue jeans,and pink and white sneakers with white socks) -Meet Accessories (Giri Giri Girls Pretty Wolf single CD,blue and silver portable CD Player with headphones,pretend lemon snow cone,and Limited Too ‘S’ initial purse) (the CD plays 30 seconds of the song)

School Collection: -Saya’s First Day Outfit (pink short sleeve blouse,hot pink skirt,black bike shorts,and pink flip flops) (the bike shorts are so nobody can look up her skirt) -Saya’s Backpack (customized blue L.L. Bean backpack reading ‘Saya’ containing these items: Spongebob pencil box with two pencils,6th grade Science textbook,red FiveStar notebook,and a 6th grade Math textbook) -Saya’s Lunchbox (a Mystery Machine lunchbox containing these pretend items: pepperoni and cheese wrap,Handi-Snaks Cheese & Crackers,a Granny Smith Apple,and a pouch of Grape Kool-Aid Jammers juice) -Saya’s School Lunch (comes with these pretend items on a red tray: pepperoni french bread pizza,chef’s salad,fruit cocktail,and a carton of chocolate milk)

Holiday Collection: -Saya’s Christmas Present (copy of The Simpsons: Hit & Run for the Gamecube. Case only,comes with screenshots from the game) -Saya’s Pajamas (light blue Spongebob pajama top and pants) -Saya’s Christmas Breakfast (contains these pretend food items: stack of 3 blueberry pancakes with syrup and butter,two bacon strips,a sausage patty,and a large cup of apple juice) -Saya’s Nintendo Gamecube and games (console is Indigo purple,same for the Game Boy Player attachment. Cases only,comes with screenshots from these games: The Simpsons Road Rage,Pikmin,Animal Crossing,Super Smash Bros. Melee,Metroid Prime,Crash Bandicoot:The Wrath of Cortex,Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg,Backyard Baseball,and Resident Evil 0) -Saya’s Caboodle (Limited Too GirlCare Caboodle,sparkly purple)

Birthday Collection (from her summer book): -Saya’s Birthday Cake (gold cake with chocolate frosting and a Pokemon decal reading Happy 12th birthday,Saya! on it) -Saya’s Japanese Jr. High Girls Uniform (belonged to her older sister,wasn’t worn much so it’s in like new condition) -Saya’s Gym Bag (for Jr. High next year,which begins at the end of her summer book,is Limited Too branded) -Saya’s Birthday Outfit (black and white polka dot skimp dress,navy blue leggings,and white and blue sneakers and white socks)

Summer Collection: -Saya’s DisneyQuest CD (the song she made was called When I Rule The World) -Saya’s Disney World haul (Disney World 2004 handbag,Lilo & Stitch plushie,and a Mickey Mouse hat) -Saya’s Splash Mountain picture (got after going on Splash Mountain. Her parents are in back,while she is sitting next to her brother. Her older sister is absent,as she couldn’t make it on the ride in time) -Saya’s Jaws the Ride Drawstring Bag (got this when her family went to Universal Studios in Orlando)

Winter Collection: -Saya’s Coat and Mittens (the coat is blue,the mittens are green) -Saya’s Snow Boots (the boots are pink and black) -Saya’s Sled (red sled) -Saya’s Cheering Uniform (long sleeve top and longer skirt,but close to knee length. The uniform is red and white and has Sanford on the front of the top)

Bedroom Collection: -Saya’s Bed and Bedding (twin bed with Pokemon bedding) -Saya’s Pajamas (silky Limited Too pajamas,purple) -Saya’s TV (Emerson TV with built-in DVD player. Her Gamecube can be attached to the front of the TV. TV does not function,has screenshots from these shows: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy,Spongebob Squarepants,Codename Kids Next Door,and Evil con Carne) -Saya’s J-POP collection (comes with these CDs: Morning Musume First Time, Morning Musume Second Morning, Morning Musume 3rd: Love Paradise, Morning Musume No. 5, and Ayumi Hamasaki I Am...) (she was sent each CD from a friend in Japan) (the CDs play these songs: Ai no Tane, Memory Seishun no Hikari, Koi no Dance Site, Hey! Mirai, and Evolution) -Saya’s Boombox (blue,can play music from CDs she has) -Saya’s Game Boy Advance SP (navy blue,does not function,has Pocket Monsters Midori in the slot. Comes with screenshots from these games: Pokemon Red, Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Silver, Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Sapphire, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, and Tanbi Musō Meine Liebe)

Extra Clothes: -Saya’s Kimono (red kimono with flower blossoms and geta sandals)

Extra Accessories: -Saya’s “Big Day” Food Selection (food items are pretend,comes with these items: Sekihan red beans and rice in a bowl with chopsticks, Omurice, Tamago Kake Gohan in a red bowl with blue chopsticks, and a cup of water) (this was to celebrate Saya getting her first period,which happened in the middle of her Holiday book)

#american girl #american girl doll #American Girl dolls #american girl oc #american girl fan character

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The Anonymous letters of C.Forestier by Felicia Davin is the latest in a library of books written by this author and the third book of the ‘French Letters’ series. It focuses on two characters: Isabelle de Tourzin, a fierce, centuries old woman with healing blood and a score to settle, and C. Forestier, a bigender ex-con who has had his only source of magic stolen from him and would do anything to get it back. The two begrudgingly team up and travel across a magic riddled France to murder a dangerous and abusive man called Malbosc, who just so happens to be both of the pairs ex-boyfriend and the source of everything that has gone wrong in their lives and the lives of their friends too.

The book follows Isabelle and Forestier through journal entries and letters sent between the pair, with a few letters written by other characters thrown in to provide more details and information. Additionally, we get some cameos of the protagonists from the previous two books in this latest edition (it's especially nice to see how Victor has flourished from back in The Scandalous Letters of V and J!). A really nice touch for this book (and something that I've not seen much of elsewhere) is the trigger warnings that Davin has listed at the beginning so that readers are aware of what they are getting into and can avoid the story if they would struggle with any of the topics that are written about.

It is a real triumph of writing that Davins characters can be morally grey but still highly lovable, and the way she writes gender is especially refreshing. There are plenty of beautiful quotes in The Anonymous Letters of C. Forestier and each character has a clearly defined written ‘voice’. The prose in this book is almost poetic and so full of yearning it's practically tangible. Davins writing style just draws you in in every book you read. She hooked me with Thornfruit and I've been obsessed ever since! What an absolute pleasure to be able to read an ARC of this latest addition to her publishings and be immersed once again in the magic of this world.

#felicia davin #the anonymous letters of c.forestier #the scandalous letters of v and j #thornfruit

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Betty Field and Zachary Scott in The Southerner (Jean Renoir, 1945)

Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper, Blanche Yurka, Norman Lloyd. Screenplay: Hugo Butler, Jean Renoir, based on a novel by George Sessions Perry. Cinematography: Lucien N. Andriot. Production design: Eugène Lourié. Film editing: Gregg G. Tallas. Music: Werner Janssen.

The Southerner is perhaps the best of the films Renoir made during his wartime exile in the United States, which is not to say that it ranks with his French masterpieces that include Grand Illusion (1937), La Bête Humaine (1938), or Rules of the Game (1939). It does, however, stand up well against the better American films of 1945, such as Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz), Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock), or Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl). It also earned him his only Oscar nomination as director: He lost to Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend, but he was presented an honorary Oscar in 1975. The film was also nominated for sound (Jack Whitney) and music score (Werner Janssen). The Southerner feels less authentic than it might: Renoir was unable to overcome the Hollywood desire for gloss, so Betty Field looks awfully healthy and well-coiffed for the wife of a hard-scrabble cotton farmer whose family lives in a shack with no running water and whose youngest child almost dies of "spring sickness" -- a form of pellagra caused by malnutrition. Zachary Scott is a little more credible as her determined husband, Sam Tucker, a cotton picker who decides to start farming on his own. The role is a sharp contrast to his performance the same year in Mildred Pierce, in which he's a slick con man -- the kind of role he found himself playing more often. The cast also includes Beulah Bondi as Sam Tucker's grandmother, J. Carrol Naish as the Tuckers' stingy neighbor, and Norman Lloyd as the neighbor's nephew and man-of-all-work, who tries to drive the Tuckers off their land. Renoir is credited with the screenplay along with Hugo Butler, who did the adaptation of a novel by George Sessions Perry, but it was also worked on by an uncredited William Faulkner and Nunnally Johnson.

#The Southerner #Jean Renoir #Betty Field #Zachary Taylor

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Drug war: NDLEA, French police commend partnership as Marwa seeks more support Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR, has commended the support from the Police Nationale (RAID) of France especially in the areas of training and equipment. The NDLEA boss who spoke in his office in Abuja on Friday when the Police Attaché at the French Embassy in Nigeria, Emmanuel Verin, led a team of French VIP trainers including Cedric B. and Christophe J. who were in the country to train a number of NDLEA officers in special operations, paid him a courtesy visit. According to Marwa, Ill like to appreciate the French government for its support as one of our leading partners. We have received tremendous help from France not only in terms of training but also equipment. The support was capped with my recent visit to France where we received warm reception at all the institutions visited and the training promised was promptly organized. Were grateful for that and we are looking forward to more collaboration and support. In his response, Verin said were proud to work with NDLEA because your officers and men are very smart and professional and thats why youre getting results, hence our priority in terms of support for NDLEA is in the area of training. Our trainers who have been here to train your men are specialists and top in the field. Well do this for a very long time and were glad to work with you. Femi Babafemi Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja Friday 25th November 2022

By Adetokunbo Fakeye Nigeria – The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR, has commended the support from the Police Nationale (RAID) of France especially in the areas of training and equipment. The NDLEA boss, as confirmed by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi commended the French partnership in his…

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heavnwithu · 3 years ago

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Christmas list Ideas⛸❄️

1. Shoes!

shoes are the perfect thing to ask for here’s a list of the ones I want🤍

— J. Crew Kate Block Heel Ballet Pumps in black or warm rose

— Ugg Mini Bailey Bow II Boot in black, hickory, pink rose or shade

— Ugg Disquette in chesnut

2. Giftcards

Gift cards are such a good and easy gift to give and receive

I asked for gift cards from places like

— Lululemon

— Starbucks

— Brandy Melville

— Victoria Secret

— Bath & Bodyworks

— Barnes and Noble

3. Fuzzy socks

pretty self explanatory, super cozy great for winter weather 🤍

4. Clothing

I am in need of workout clothes and winter clothing in general, I have like none at the moment so I put some on my list! Also if you ask for them, specify size and style I have gotten soo many shoes & pants that are too big😭 (the thought really does count though so I’m thankful always)

— Lululemon sports bras & leggings in colors black, lavender dew, and pink mist

— American eagle sweaters, comfy clothes and skirts

— Aerie flare leggings, sports bras, sweaters, underwear and bras

5. Body Care

Body care is also such a good gift to give & receive, only con is if you/they don’t like the scent😭 here’s a list of where I buy my body care!

— Bath & Bodyworks soap, hand sanitizer, lotion, fragrance and candles

- Winter candy apple, Vanilla & Patchouli (candle), Strawberry Pound Cake (my absolute favorite it’s so sweet and amazing), Rose Vanilla, Vanilla Bean Noel

— The body shop exfoliants, 72hr moisturizer

- pumpkin vanilla (sooo good omg), British rose, almond milk & honey gently exfoliating cream scrub

— Victoria Secret body mist, lip gloss/balm, perfume, body scrub, lotion

- Bare Vanilla, coconut milk & rose, vanilla lavender, almond blossom and rose

— Philosophy lotion, hand cream, shower gel, perfume

- amazing grace ballet rose (so so so good omg), fresh cream warm cashmere, vanilla birthday cake, cinnamon buns, snow Angel, French Vanilla Bean

6. Music & Books

If you like reading and collecting music, asking for records, CD’s, vinyls and books are such a good and simple gift🤍 Here’s what I asked for:

— Any Lana Del Rey album/vinyl

— Any Taylor Swift album/cd/vinyl

— Hardcover Alice in Wonderland

— Non fiction History Books

Thats all I have on my list for now! Thank you for reading it🤍❄️☃️

#christmaslist #pink blog #girlblogging #blog #Christmas #ariana grande 2013 #coquette #pink pilates princess #messy french girl #xmas #christmas aesthetic #winter

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By Max Fisher

July 25, 2021

In May, several French and German social media influencers received a strange proposal.A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document detailed what to say and on which platforms to say it.

But it asked the influencers to push not beauty products or vacation packages, as is typical, but falsehoods tarring Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine. Stranger still, the agency, Fazze, claimed a London address where there is no evidence any such company exists.

Some recipients posted screenshots of the offer. Exposed, Fazze scrubbed its social media accounts. That same week, Brazilian and Indian influencers posted videos echoing Fazze’s script to hundreds of thousands of viewers.

The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security analysts and American officials say is exploding in scale: disinformation for hire.

Private firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world of geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once conducted principally by intelligence agencies. They sow discord, meddle in elections, seed false narratives and push viral conspiracies, mostly on social media. And they offer clients something precious: deniability.

“Disinfo-for-hire actors being employed by government or government-adjacent actors is growing and serious,” said Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, calling it “a boom industry.”

Similar campaigns have been recently found promoting India’s ruling party, Egyptian foreign policy aims and political figures in Bolivia and Venezuela.

Mr. Brookie’s organization tracked one operating amid a mayoral race in Serra, a small city in Brazil. An ideologically promiscuous Ukrainian firm boosted several competing political parties.

In the Central African Republic, two separate operations flooded social media with dueling pro-French and pro-Russian disinformation. Both powers are vying for influence in the country.

A wave of anti-American posts in Iraq, seemingly organic, were tracked to a public relations company that was separately accused of faking anti-government sentiment in Israel.

Most trace to back-alley firms whose legitimate services resemble those of a bottom-rate marketer or email spammer.

Job postings and employee LinkedIn profiles associated with Fazze describe it as a subsidiary of a Moscow-based company called Adnow. Some Fazze web domains are registered as owned by Adnow, as first reported by the German outlets Netzpolitik and ARD Kontraste. Third-party reviews portray Adnow as a struggling ad service provider.

European officials say they are investigating who hired Adnow. Sections of Fazze’s anti-Pfizer talking points resemble promotional materials for Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine.

For-hire disinformation, though only sometimes effective, is growing more sophisticated as practitioners iterate and learn. Experts say it is becoming more common in every part of the world, outpacing operations conducted directly by governments.

The result is an accelerating rise in polarizing conspiracies, phony citizen groups and fabricated public sentiment, deteriorating our shared reality beyond even the depths of recent years.

An Open Frontier

The trend emerged after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, experts say. Cambridge, a political consulting firm linked to members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was found to have harvested data on millions of Facebook users.The controversy drew attention to methods common among social media marketers. Cambridge used its data to target hyper-specific audiences with tailored messages. It tested what resonated by tracking likes and shares.The episode taught a generation of consultants and opportunists that there was big money in social media marketing for political causes, all disguised as organic activity.Some newcomers eventually reached the same conclusion as Russian operatives had in 2016: Disinformation performs especially well on social platforms.At the same time, backlash to Russia’s influence-peddling appeared to have left governments wary of being caught — while also demonstrating the power of such operations.“There is, unfortunately, a huge market demand for disinformation,” Mr. Brookie said, “and a lot of places across the ecosystem that are more than willing to fill that demand.”

Commercial firms conducted for-hire disinformation in at least 48 countries last year — nearly double from the year before, according to an Oxford University study. The researchers identified 65 companies offering such services.Last summer, Facebook removed a network of Bolivian citizen groups and journalistic fact-checking organizations. It said the pages, which had promoted falsehoods supporting the country’s right-wing government, were fake.Stanford University researchers traced the content to CLS Strategies, a Washington-based communications firm that had registered as a consultant with the Bolivian government. The firm had done similar work in Venezuela and Mexico.A spokesman referred to the company’s statement last year saying its regional chief had been placed on leave but disputed Facebook’s accusation that the work qualified as foreign interference.

Eroding Reality

New technology enables nearly anyone to get involved. Programs batch generate fake accounts with hard-to-trace profile photos. Instant metrics help to hone effective messaging. So does access to users’ personal data, which is easily purchased in bulk.The campaigns are rarely as sophisticated as those by government hackers or specialized firms like the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency.

But they appear to be cheap. In countries that mandate campaign finance transparency, firms report billing tens of thousands of dollars for campaigns that also include traditional consulting services.

The layer of deniability frees governments to sow disinformation more aggressively, at home and abroad, than might otherwise be worth the risk. Some contractors, when caught, have claimed they acted without their client’s knowledge or only to win future business.

Platforms have stepped up efforts to root out coordinated disinformation. Analysts especially credit Facebook, which publishes detailed reports on campaigns it disrupts.

Still, some argue that social media companies also play a role in worsening the threat. Engagement-boosting algorithms and design elements, research finds, often privilege divisive and conspiratorial content.

Political norms have also shifted. A generation of populist leaders, like Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, has risen in part through social media manipulation. Once in office, many institutionalize those methods as tools of governance and foreign relations.

In India, dozens of government-run Twitter accounts have shared posts from India Vs Disinformation, a website and set of social media feeds that purport to fact-check news stories on India.

India Vs Disinformation is, in reality, the product of a Canadian communications firm called Press Monitor.

Nearly all the posts seek to discredit or muddy reports unfavorable to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, including on the country’s severe Covid-19 toll. An associated site promotes pro-Modi narratives under the guise of news articles.

A Digital Forensic Research Lab report investigating the network called it “an important case study” in the rise of “disinformation campaigns in democracies.”

A representative of Press Monitor, who would identify himself only as Abhay, called the report completely false.

He specified only that it incorrectly identified his firm as Canada-based. Asked why the company lists a Toronto address, a Canadian tax registration and identifies as “part of Toronto’s thriving tech ecosystem,” or why he had been reached on a Toronto phone number, he said that he had business in many countries. He did not respond to an email asking for clarification.

A LinkedIn profile for Abhay Aggarwal identifies him as the Toronto-based chief executive of Press Monitor and says that the company’s services are used by the Indian government.

‘Spamouflage'

A set of pro-Beijing operations hint at the field’s capacity for rapid evolution.

Since 2019, Graphika, a digital research firm, has tracked a network it nicknamed “Spamouflage” for its early reliance on spamming social platforms with content echoing Beijing’s line on geopolitical issues. Most posts received little or no engagement.

In recent months, however, the network has developed hundreds of accounts with elaborate personas. Each has its own profile and posting history that can seem authentic. They appeared to come from many different countries and walks of life.

Graphika traced the accounts back to a Bangladeshi content farm that created them in bulk and probably sold them to a third party.

The network pushes strident criticism of Hong Kong democracy activists and American foreign policy. By coordinating without seeming to, it created an appearance of organic shifts in public opinion — and often won attention.

The accounts were amplified by a major media network in Panama, prominent politicians in Pakistan and Chile, Chinese-language YouTube pages, the left-wing British commentator George Galloway and a number of Chinese diplomatic accounts.

A separate pro-Beijing network, uncovered by a Taiwanese investigative outlet called The Reporter, operated hundreds of Chinese-language websites and social media accounts.

Disguised as news sites and citizen groups, they promoted Taiwanese reunification with mainland China and denigrated Hong Kong’s protesters. The report found links between the pages and a Malaysia-based start-up that offered web users Singapore dollars to promote the content.

But governments may find that outsourcing such shadowy work also carries risks, Mr. Brookie said. For one, the firms are harder to control and might veer into undesired messages or tactics.

For another, firms organized around deceit may be just as likely to turn those energies toward their clients, bloating budgets and billing for work that never gets done.

“The bottom line is that grifters are going to grift online,” he said.

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whyissupernaturaltrending · 3 years ago

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All the dates spn has trended 2021 (+post Nov 5, 2020).

Dates before January 22, 2021 are here.

January 22 - Walker premiere

January 24 - Dean's birthday

February 9 and February 10 - Deancas wedding bait

February 11 - No reason

February 14 and February 15 - Deancas wedding

February 19 - Shirtless Jared in Walker episode

February 23 and February 24 - Misha's videos

March 1 and March 2 - Jensen's birthday

March 6 and March 7 and March 8 - Creations Entertainment Virtual Con

March 9 - Castiel's Energies (Twitter trend only)

March 10 and March 11 - French dub

March 13 and March 14 - Misha and wincest mention

March 16 part one and March 16 part two - Misha's Shenanigans and the Tale of the CW Sniper

March 17 and March 18 - Saileen wedding

March 23 and 24 - #deanisbi

March 31 - Ackles as Batman and leaked scripts

April 1 and April 2 - Mishapocalypse 3.0

April 6 and 7 - Scripts to 15x19 and 15x20

April 8 - A bunch of things

April 10 - Misha's panel

April 14 and 15 - Jensen's quarantine picture

April 18 and 19 - Scripts to 12x02, 12x04, 13x02, 13x06, and 14x05

April 25 and 26 - Misha sits at a table

May 2 and May 3 - Sam's birthday

May 7 - Who the hell knows why

May 17 - Jenmish panel announced

May 18 and May 19 - Jack's birthday

May 22 - Supernatural doesn't trend for a change

May 30 - Jensen's social media and old picture of him and Misha

June 3 - Jensen's Soldier Boy workout video

June 7 and June 8 - Soldier Boy's suit reveal

June 11 - Misha's poetry book announcement

June 18 - Russian dub

June 24 and June 25 and June 26 and June 27 and June 28 - Supernatural Prequel and the Aftermath

June 30 and July 1 - Misha posts for Pride, 8x17 script, Misha's blanky

July 2 - Jensen's tryin to cope

July 7 and 8 - Scripts to 12x18, 12x19, and 12x20

July 13 and 14 - Misha's [redacted] poetry book

July 17 - Space Jam rumor, Perfume Genius, and Misha's piss poem

July 19 and July 20 - Jared's birthday, Bravelecki, and Misha's airport story

July 22 - Misha rides a horse

July 25 - Jensen's Eye Of The Tiger

July 29-30 - Excerpts from Misha's book

August 2 and August 3 - Perfume Genius vol. 2 and Misha's destiel fanfic tweet (part 1)

August 5 - Misha's TikTok and Chari Productions

August 9 and August 10 - Destiel reaches 100k fics on AO3, Misha loses no time to share the news

August 20 and August 21 - Misha's birthday, Planet Comicon, Chance J Terry, and 4x02 script (minor tag trend - writing, fanfic, marvel).

September 1 and September 2 - Misha strips in his first tiktok

September 3 and 4 - Jake Abel, hot sauce, and Abba

September 4 and 5- Momento Con

September 5 - Momento Con

September 9 - Italian dub

September 10 and September 11 - Jensen posts a video, last day of filming The Boys

September 18 and September 19 - Cas' birthday

September 21 - Misha's poem from Cas' POV

September 30 - Jensen's professional reasons

October 1 and October 2 - Professional reasons and Suptober

October 3 - Suptober and more scripts

October 4 and October 5 - Suptober and @/JensenAckles

October 6 - Subtext Bookshop

October 7 - Subtext and Harry Potter

October 10 and October 11 - Jensen reading Misha's poetry book

October 12 and October 13 - Stud Jensen and cowboys

October 16, October 17, October 18 - Denvercon

October 26 - Trends just to mess with us

November 3, November 4 - Pre-Nov 5th party

November 5 - Quite self-explanatory I think

November 6 - Post-Nov 5th party and Charlotte con

#why is supernatural trending #masterpost #supernatural #spnfamily #spn #spn season 16

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elektra121 · 2 years ago

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It’s this time of the Year again...

Dear secret Santa,

this year I wish for world peace more than ever! If for some reason you can’t deliver, I’d be delighted about a sweet little story, too! ;)

Things I really like to read (about):

Things I don’t mind at all:

Religion in general and christianity in special. POV/ first person narrator. Consensual Sex (in whatever form). Rainbows.

Things I don’t like to read (about):

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Things I love about my fandoms - and some questions and plotbunnies to hopefully give you some ideas:

19 Century CE German writers:

There is so much more I could mention... like, for example, her early (for lack of a better word) environmental awareness... yet, for now, lets free some plot bunnies, shall we?

I’d like for it to be at least a tiny little bit queer... would be such a waste if not! ;)

Das Fräulein von Rodenschild (Annette von Droste-Hülshoff)

Even if I have a lot to do with German literature professionally, I only came across this ballad relatively recently. And I love it!

Some ideas:

Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)

When I first read Dracula only a few years ago, I was very surprised it was so different from the common ideas about it. I didn’t found it scary or “horror” at all - instead very much romantic... and I absolutely would never have thought it would be like this. So many of the characters grew so dear to my heart, especially (of course) Jonathan and Mina, which I feel, are, more or less, the main characters. And yet they don’t “act” as main characters at all, would never want to be heroes, yet have to - and are. I love their nerdyness, their fascination with nerdy things. I can absolutely imagine them sitting together and testing each other about timetables for trains and thoroughly enjoying this romantic way to spend the night. Or cooking together. (Has any book hero ever before collected recipes for trip souvenirs? This is brilliant!) And Mina who books tickets over telephone like it’s nothing! (And, every now and then slips in some comments about Lucy, which, to the modern reader, sound more than only a little bit gay... ;) ) Somehow, they both seem to me like modern nerdy hipsters who somehow got transferred into the late 19th century and now are absolutely delighted by all the steampunky-ness of it all! Please, please, let them be those adorable people!

(And, don’t get me wrong, it is not as if it was only their sweet, adorable nerdyness! I absolutely, deeply respect their complete and utter being good - to the point of joining the dark side, even if it contradicts everything in their lives, only to help the other. Without so much as a blinking of an eye.)

Since the 90ies, there was this idea in pop culture that only the “baddies” in a story can be interesting and that they are the real “heroes” - and while that was a fresh new view to a lot of stories, it wore thin over time. Because it went on the expense of the “good people”, which, in turn, were depicted as dull and boring - only for being “good”. But isn’t being good the much harder experience? Sticking to your values, being humble and generous and helping others no matter how high the costs for yourself?

I’d like to see them in a story where they can be (mostly) unharmed by all the horrendous events happening in the novel and be the wonderful, adorable, sweet people they are. (So, better before or some time after the events of “Dracula”. Or are there moments of freedom and happiness even within the storyline of the book?) Feel absolutely free to include as many people as you want to from the novel (or, even, not from the novel, say, Mina’s co-workers)!

Maybe a christmas themed story? How do our heroes spend the season? What gifts do they prepare for whom - and why (or why not)? Is this year different to all other years before? How (and why) so? What do all the people do? Bonus points for mentioning rare characters like Mr. Hawkins! I’d like for the story to be sweet and fluffy - a counterpoint to all the horror. And there should be no doubt about Jonathan’s and Mina’s love for each other. That does not automatically exclude other people from their love, of course. JUst saying. ;)

You can read what I think and feel about some DRacula things, also, in some of my earlier posts on this blog, or here: https://www.tumblr.com/edit/elektra121/173570619424

Oh! And one last point: I see TumBlr has decided for a fanon that has Mina as a PoC. Feel free to write in this fandom. Also, I always thought she must have some “German connection” with her given name so utterly Prussian and loyal to the emperor. Feel free to pursue this idea, if you like.

Whatever fandom you may choose: I wish a very happy writing! May the muses be graceful. :)

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