#the way this site acted towards John

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

Oh man :(

This website is dedicated to being unhinged (and rewriting history and defending their unhinged behavior) about John Green, and to a lesser extent Hank over here, but I think they're decent guys who try their best to be good people and it's just weird following someone online on and off for years and seeing a bad life update like this. Obviously, I wish him the best.

[titleknown]

So, while we're all trying to fight one of the other terrible "think of the children" bills trying to ram its way through Congress, KOSA, we should also be talking about The EARN IT Act.

Long story short, it's basically yet another surveilance bill using a "protect the children" bill, as a hideous meat-suit, putting restrictions on sites that'll make them even more vicious towards NSFW content, creating a climate where using a VPN might be a crime, and they'll be creating a federal committee to decide how best to spy on us!

Long story long, well, the Linktree is right here.

Beyond the stuff in the Linktree, I urge you to directly contact your congresspeoples and tell them to kill this bill, especially if they're on the Judiciary Committee, which is currently marking up this bill.

The members of the committee are:

Dick Durbin, Illinois, Chairman

Dianne Feinstein, California

Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island

Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota

Chris Coons, Delaware

Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut

Mazie Hirono, Hawaii

Cory Booker, New Jersey

Alex Padilla, California

Jon Ossoff, Georgia

Peter Welch, Vermont

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, Ranking Member (Ugh)

Chuck Grassley, Iowa

John Cornyn, Texas

Mike Lee, Utah

Ted Cruz, Texas (Double-ugh)

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee (she cosponsored the bill, so probably not)

So yeah, do what you can, even if it's just boosting this terrible, terrible danger we need to thwart.

And, I will add, as with my previous KOSA poster, this poster is officially, for the sake of spreading it, under a CC0 license.

Feel free to spread it, remix it, add links to the bottom, edit it to be about the other bad internet bills they’re pushing, use it as a meme format, do what you will but for gods’ sake get the word out!

...And yes, for the record I was thinking of the Judas Priest song when I came up with the tagline for this one.

[taccobelle]

WELCOME TO MY BOOK CLUB 📚

First rule about The Book Club? talk about The Book Club!

Here in TaccoBelle's book club 📚 is where I will keep a collection of all my favorite recent reads and their authors, in no particular order!

I can't always help in more impactful ways, like commissions, but I can definitely share the content!

if you'd like to join my book club give send an ask! let's make a community of these awesome reads!!

Disclaimer: due to some suspicious and disgusting events happening on this site involving a minor, I feel the obligation to reinforce that most, if not all, of these stories are 18+. They contain content that is NOT suitable for minors, so please do not interact! Mature themes will/may be discussed in these stories that is definitely not appropriate for minors. I do not claim to be the author of any of these works, merely a fan

TaccoBelle's Book Club

Simmer: Jim’s Midnight Grill -line cook! Eddie Munson x Shy Fem! Reader

Author: @upsidedownwithsteve

Summary: welcome to hawkins' number one diner! where the staff don't wanna be there and the linecook is a grumpy metal head who likes to argue with his boss and ignore everyone else. but the new waitress can't hack the rude customers and the regulars can be a little... much.

What to expect: “serving up indiana heatwaves, slow burns, walk in freezer breakdowns, late night talks, shared shakes and food as a love language. order extra spice for $4.

141K, a linecook!au with eddie munson and shy fem!reader.”

My thoughts: I absolutely found this fic by chance, and boy am I glad I did! The writing for this fic is absolutely amazing, the way I feel every single emotion the author wrote was crazy! Eddie is this story is such a little grump and the contrast of the shy teacher was so adorable, my favorite moments were when she was being defiant towards him and he didn’t know how to act because no one had ever stood up against him in his kitchen 🥹 totally recommend, this is a slow burn and I thrive in slow burns, can’t wait to read more from this author!

The Breakfast Club - Eddie Munson X Cheerleader!Reader

Author: @radioactiveparker

Summary: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently. And when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. (A retelling of The Breakfast Club, written and directed by John Hughes.)

What to expect: Enemies to lovers / All Characters Are 18+ / Strong Language / Sex References / Mentions of Abuse (physical and emotional) / Cheating / Bad Relationships / Dysfunctional Families / Arguing / Materialism / Kleptomania / Stereotyping / Sexual Orientations / Drug Use / Mentions of Alcohol / Smoking / Pyromania and Fire / References to Demonianism and Satanism / References to Religious Beliefs / Social Alienation / Angst / Hurt-Comfort / Use of Y/N (like once or twice) / Eddie is a complete asshole

“A/N: This mini series is set in its own little world, so it does not follow the Stranger Things timeline, and I have taken some creative liberties with most characters. Yes, they are all still in high school (final year and 18+), and yes, some of the events don't match up - just forget everything you knew about Stranger Things, it's easier that way haha.”

My thoughts: I am in absolute love with this series and can’t wait for updates ! I am so obsessed with the Breaksfast Club narrative, the enemies to lovers, the popular girl x school freak. It’s so enticing and I am a sucker for it! But what the author does that I am loving is that they set themselves apart from the original movie, js the interaction of the reader with other characters, I won’t spoil it, but it’s a little heartbreaking 💔 from the little that I have read from the 3 chapters so far, it is great!

Not Very Noble

Author: @allthingsjoeq

Summary: Your kingdom is placed under threat of liquidation, the villagers crying out for help as each day they enter greater poverty. As their princess you have been chosen to amend the broken monarchy, creating a truce between the neighbouring royals, and fulfilling a marriage decided by the King. A low-ranking knight and Princess both from reverse backgrounds thrusted together against choice, they descend into a journey of Hate, Lust and Love all while caught in between a circle of lies.  

What to expect: Knight Eddie x Princess Reader Disclaimer: Enemies to Lovers, Angst, eventual fluff, light smut to come. Royal and medieval references but they may not all be 100% accurate.

My thoughts: I have a huge fascination with Medieval things, and think there isn’t nearly enough Eddie Munson Medieval themed AU’s and I think that’s a problem! This in particular is so well written, so beautifully put, it made me weep, and cry like a big baby from reading this, and it’s not even complete yet!!!!!! Y’all KNOW how much I buss down for an Enemies to Lovers trope 😩 I really hope they update this soon because I am patiently waiting 🥹

Not Wholly Evil

Author: @uglypastels

Summary: as the daughter of the Governor, there is quite a heavy prize set on your safe return home, and the captain will not let anything come between him and his bounty.

What to expect: "semi dark fic" - READ the warnings:. (gun/sword)violence. blood. minor character death. allusions to suicide. kidnapping. imprisonment. alcohol. open and deep sea. pirates are pigs: frequent mentions of non-con and allusions to assault, but it does not actually occur. malnourishment. abuse. manhandling.

My thoughts: I LOVE me some pirate au, I think it is so incredibly fitting for Eddie to be set in this role. It is still on-going so it only has 2 chapters, but that was enough to make me sign up for the tag list!! It’s is beautifully written, the descriptions are so good it makes me feel like I am IN the Hellfire ship. Super excited to see where this is take me, and I hope they update it soon because it’s my new obsession!

Turtle dove and the crow

Author: @blue-mossbird

Summary: You’ve known Edward Munson since he moved into the farm next door with his uncle - eight years old, odd, and utterly intriguing to you. For ten years, you’ve known him, and over that time, he’s become your best friend. But now, in the dreamy haze of August heat, you begin to know him in a different way. And in this process of knowing and becoming known, lives will be irrevocably changed.

What to expect: 1940s Farm AU, featuring bsf!neighbor!eddie x fem!reader18+ (minors dni). smut; true love; unexpected pregnancy; angst, angst, angst; parental issues; corporal punishment; scheming, plotting, and betrayal; hurt/comfort; period-typical stigma regarding unwed pregnancy; angst with a happy ending. oral (f!receiving), p in v, unprotected sex, breeding kink.

My thoughts: holy shit my dudes, I think I found my new hyper fixation, to add to the list of stories I will check daily for updates! This is only the first episode and it already has me in a death grip 🫥 I am in love with 1940’s due to Bucky Barnes, and mixing Eddie in with that aesthetic threw me for a loop!! This is not the fic for you if you want cannon content, it is clearly set in another world, a different decade, and seems to me like it’s Eddie’s personality adapted for a 1940’s farm boy view, and I think I’m in love. Plus my fantasy of being a southern Belle (that’s my name if you didn’t know) is in an all time high with this. I can already picture all of the angst and all the crying in my bed at 2am this story will bring me, and I’m so excited 🤩

June Baby

Author: @luveline

Summary: you’re a single mom living three trailers down. eddie thinks you’re the prettiest girl he’s ever seen. queue smiley face oatmeal, grossly misused power tools, desserts on the living room floor, a haircut, and an abundance of nerd metaphors

What to expect: teen mom!reader, fem!reader, r is Junie’s birth mother, fluff, hurt/comfort, Eddie ends up being a total girl dad (<3), mutual pining, yearning, etc, tw for not having much money, general loneliness, mentions of a shitty/traumatic pregnancy, general mom struggles :(, slow-burn friends to lovers, you wash Eddie’s hair!!!! this was low-key requested by anon

My thoughts: Honest to god, this is one o the best writing I have ever read on this app. The way Jade uses her words to describe the scenes, ughhhhhhh I can't explain, but Jade writes like a scene of a movie. It does not feel like the supporting characters don't feel like they seize to exist as soon as the main characters move on to a different scene. I love how the supporting characters are all incredibly detailed, feel like real people, and have real people reactions to things; weird, I know, haha. I love how much I adore this story so much. it does not feel like a simple fic, like I would invest in a start-up for this to be published into an actual book. It is so good, so sweet. I absolutely adore this story. It makes my heart do three summersaults per second every time Jade posts a new chapter, the characters have my fucking heart 🥺

Meet The Munsons

Author: @mypoisonedvine

Summary: you were barely acquaintances in high school, but his reputation as a delinquent and freak didn't exactly endear you to him. now he's moving in. at the risk of being too literal: oh, brother.

What to expect: kind of incest, but not really? male masturbation, swearing, mentions/implications of a deceased parent, reader is a tad judgmental but that's what character development is for!

My thoughts: I have read and re-read this story about three times. If I'm not mistaken, this is the only complete one on this list. I LOVE IT SO MUCH!! it made me so giddy. a grown woman giggling and kicking my feet like a little girl. I love the evolution of the characters and the way, slowly but surely, their feelings start to slip out, and by the end, you are totally like, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST HOLD HANDS, I BEG OF YOU. Not gonna lie, the "kind of incest" threw me off at first, but then you find out that they aren't actually related in no way possible; the reader's mom marries Uncle Wayne, and they are not raised together, so their not that weird situation of raised like siblings, which would make it really weird when they make out pretty heavily. Can't believe I'm defending incest.

The "Yes" Policy

Author: @pinkrelish

Summary: After a lifetime of questionable decisions, you moved from the big city to the sleepy town of Hawkins with your best friend and took the first job you saw: answering phones for the most boring auto shop in the dullest place on Earth. It wasn't exactly the adventure you wanted it to be.. but attempting to win over the jaded mechanic who insisted on ignoring your existence proved entertaining.

What to expect: slow burn, eventual smut, strangers to lovers, flirting, mutual pining, angst, drug/alcohol mention/use, depictions of poverty, sort of grumpy x sunshine, but Eddie's just tired, reader and Eddie are mid-late 20's

My thoughts: This fic singlehandedly made me fall in love with the sunshine x grumpy trope, the thought of Eddie being a girl dad makes my heart double in size. Him being a single dad, Wayne being grandpapi is too cute! them doing their best to provide the best for their little princess, and the relationship between Miss Mouse and Adrie has my heart.

To Have and To Scold

Author: @icallhimjoey

Summary: Your best friends are getting married, and who else can they ask to be their best man and maid of honour but you and Joe? It's just that... you don't really get along all that well, do you? At least, that's what you think.

What to expect: CW / disclaimer: sort of enemies to sort of lovers (very vague, im sorry, but you'll see), language, drinking, rpf, fem!reader

My thoughts: I don’t usually like reading real person fics, like when the character is actually a real life person, I much prefer a fictional character because otherwise sometimes I get weirded out. That being said, I decided to give this fic a try, and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the story. I picked it up and couldn’t put the phone down till I finished! The characters are engaging, and story is so sweet 🫶🏼

Bad Idea

Author: @lunarzstarz

Summary: Not wanting to leave for college with your virginity still intact, you turn to your last resort that you know can only end terribly…

What to expect: NSFW 18+ minors dni, drugs, first Times, oral (F receiving), fingering, protected sex, nicknames (Princess/Sweetheart), Eddie being a goof but also an asshole (Slightly proofread) Fuckboy!EddieMunson x Virgin!Fem!Reader

My thoughts: smut, plain smut. And I love it. Eddie is kind of a dickhead, not gonna lie, but then he starts to show signs of falling for the reader, regular shmegular lowkey toxic trope, but I love it!!!!

Crayons and Cassettes

Author: @comfort-writing

Summary: You are a kindergarten teacher. Eddie’s daughter, Sage, is in your class. She bonds with you instantly, and Eddie is trying not to do the same.

What to expect: his fic will be 18+ in later chapters, so minors DNI! In this chapter, it is mentioned that rumors about Eddie still linger. no use of y/n. I can think of nothing else for this chapter because it’s just an introductory one, but please let me know if I missed anything!

My thoughts: I have not finished this fic yet, but s far it is amazing!! Eddie is so nervous and so sweet, but still nerdy, and charming.

Honey I'm Home

Author: @trashmouth-richie

Summary: you were desperate for a roommate after Nancy got married and moved out. An ad in the paper goes unanswered until someone comes knocking on the door.

What to expect: enemies to lovers trope, eventual smut, language, crude behavior, Eddie is a fucking menace.

My thoughts: I honestly fell in love with this story, it is so mysterious, and so touching, funny, endearing, and most of all, a big tease. I fell in love with these characters, and their personalities, how they are together, and how the interact with one another. The idea of an older protective Eddie, that is conflicted with the thoughts of seeing Tooty as a little girl, but now she is a grown woman is mesmerizing to read, and Richie does an amazing job at writing it all so well.

Disjointed

Author: @boomhauer

Summary: Nurse!Reader is reunited with her high school crush in the emergency room. Faced with a lifetime worth of debt, she helps Eddie in the only way she can.

What to expect: Fake marriage. Friends to lovers. Medical trauma. Lemon/Smut. Angst. Slow burn. No Vecna!!

My thoughts: This a new type of fic for me, I had never read anything in the nursing realm, an amazing first! I appreciate the reality of it all, from what I understand the author has personally experienced some of these scenarios, and im guessing has been/is a nurse practitioner, so makes for an extremely believable, and amusing plot!!

Twenty Four Hours

Author: @ghost-proofbaby

What to expect: modern!Eddie Munson x fem!reader, uses female pronouns on occasion. strong language, eventual smut, upside down does not exist, minors dni

Summary: in which Eddie Munson and you absolutely hate each other's guts. what happens when your friends make a bet that you can't spend more than twenty-four hours consecutively together? modern!college!eddie x college!fem!reader

My Thoughts: I love Enemies to Lovers trope!! This fic is full of stunning writing, amazing visual descriptions of feelings, and hot-ass characters! this made me cry on multiple occasions, in a good way! Though I am a crybaby. Eddie is such a sweetheart in this, and mean in some chapters, but it's all for the feels!!

Smoke Signals

Author: @eddies-house

What to expect: Grumpy!Eddie Munson x shy!reader, uses female pronouns on occasion, strong language, eventual smut, PTSD, trauma, talks about trauma, mentions of death, mentions of bullying, minors dni, set in a town other than Hawkings

Summary: Relocating to the small town of Knife’s Edge in hopes of leaving your old life behind and starting brand new solves all of your problems, right? Wrong. It only creates more and one of them may live right next door. Side effects may include blaring music at 3AM, a scowling neighbor, and one too many shots of tequila on several occasions. (That The Bourbon will not be comping.)

My Thoughts: I love Enemies to Lovers trope! That much isn't any news to you guys! This fic is so lovely written, I love how real the characters feel, and how immersed I was in reading this, I am so related to the character because I too am a crybaby. Eddie is such a sweetheart in this, I just want Bambi to hug and kiss him 🥹, and mean in some chapters, but it isn't in a toxic sort of way.

Begin Again

Author: @abibliophobiaa

What to expect: Eddie’s post-S4 trauma; panic attacks; nightmares; family member loss; grief; alcohol use; mild smut in later chapters, so 18+; additional warnings to be added. Eddie Munson x afab!reader, sunshine!reader x grumpy!eddie vibes

Summary: The year is 1988. After the loss of a beloved family member, you find yourself inheriting an old coffee shop. The quiet bartender at the Hideout across the street just so happens to catch your eye.

My Thoughts: you know that I love sunshine!reader x grumpy!eddie vibes! This fic is so nicely written, It has long chapters which I fiend for, I absolutely adore it when a fic has 20K words in one chapter, it only has 4 of them because it takes place as a chapter for each season, which is generous btw, wish I'd thought of this!

Beast of Burden

Author: @neonghostlights

What to expect: Fuckboy!Werewolf!Eddie Munson x Fem!Reader Eddie gets called a man-whore (not by reader), mates, cussing, mention of almost hitting an animal with your car (doesn't happen but almost does), parental and grandparent death (readers whole family is dead) 18+ only, minors dni

Summary: (doesn't really have a summary, but this post the author made pretty much sums up) "I’m thinking about fuckboy!werewolf Eddie. Let’s say he’s gotten around with every girl in Hawkins because he never thought he’d have a mate. That was until you, a human, showed up and proved him wrong. Now he has to find a way to prove himself to you."

My Thoughts: yeah! fucking sue me, I like werewolf fanfictions! I can't really blame it all on Twilight, except I absolutely will blame it all on Twilight. But I swear this is really cute, and I live for it!

[l0nesome-dreams]

It’s that time again, fucking depressing lore art. Comes with some music too so you can sob with me💀✨This one is pretty self explanatory… I won’t go any further because I’ll start crying again…

The scene is written below

They’d scouted the area with no sign of separatist action.

“No separatists in sight commander. I think we’re clear to camp out here for the time being.” Valkyrie exclaimed.

It didn’t take long for camp to be set up as evening approached. A fire was going and conversation was flowing. 

“Did you see me take out that trandoshan? He came at me and he was this close to cutting my head clean off!” Rhino said, holding his forefinger and thumb up to show the close distance. 

“Sure vod’ika.” Bronco says, clapping his brother on the shoulder.

Rhino made an annoyed face swatting at his brother who proceeded to put him in a headlock. Laughter rumbled from around the fire as the rest of the squadron watched the scene unfold. Lee had been sitting between Bronco and Horus when the tussle broke out. She shot up onto her feet the instant Bronco went after his brother. She was laughing alongside her men when she caught Voorpret looking at her mid conversation with the general. He blushed madly realizing he’d been staring and turned back to Taleed acting like he’d been listening. Lee sauntered over to the pair greeting Taleed first then her husband. 

“The men have settled in well it would seem,” Taleed said, smiling at the clones across the camp site laughing with one another, “It’s always good to see them like this. You all deserve a normal life after this war.” the tall togruta said. 

Voorpret made a face, it almost looked like longing but Lee couldn’t quite fully register it. They slowly made their way back over to where most of the men were.

“As the war dies down from here, whatever happens know that you and your brothers are always welcome in my family.” Taleed said bowing slightly to the commander. 

Voorpret returned the bow. 

“Thank you general, I will keep your proposal in mind.” Voorpret said standing at full height now. 

Lee went to speak but was interrupted by Voorpret’s comm chiming. He answered and the hologram of the person appeared. Lee felt something in her heart tighten and she looked over towards Taleed, he must have felt it too. A disturbance in the force. 

“Commander.” The raspy voice that seemed all too familiar said, his cloaked figure concealing his face, “The time has come. Execute order 66.” It was the chancellor himself. 

Voorpret drew his blasters pointing them at the general and Lee both. The clones that had been waiting around too drew their weapons. Voorpret’s hands shook as he held his weapon up.

“Stay back,” He hissed through gritted teeth, “back!”

“Whatever happens, don't turn back, keep running.” Taleed said through Lee’s mind. 

Voorpret was fighting something, something Lee couldn’t help. A single shot fired, but it wasn’t from Voorpret’s blaster but one of the other soldiers. Lee ignited her sabers deflecting the shots as Taleed did. 

“Buir go!” Lee screamed, deflecting as much of the fire as she could as she backed away from the clones. 

Taleed hesitated for a moment, so did Lee and that was all the time for a single blaster shot to land a strike on Lee. It seared the flesh on her shoulder knocking one of her sabers from her hand. 

“Go!” Lee said using her uninjured arm to deflect the continuous shots. 

Taleed did listen this time and disappeared into the woods. Another shot scorched Lee’s leg causing her to lose her balance barely regaining her footing again and she stumbled. She cried out in desperation and she swung her saber madly deflecting more and more rounds. She needed to get out before she was completely surrounded. She missed another blaster shot this time it went right through her torso. 

It was as if time itself froze. Lee’s ears rang, her vision faltered, and she could feel her heart racing within her. She exhaled shakily, helplessly clutching her wound as her knees buckled beneath her.

Her other saber hit the ground, her body soon following. She wasn’t dead, but she could feel her body giving up. The blaster fire had stopped and she heard muffled orders being given. Tears streamed from her eyes as the pain suddenly struck her. They never said dying hurt this bad. She couldn’t move, all she could do was endure the pain until her body failed her and died. She heard her name spoken, almost a whisper. Then it was repeated, louder, and more urgent. A figure of a man hovering over her, the faint registration of a hand touching her face. 

“Fives?” Lee said, reaching up to cup the man's face.

She felt tears, wet and warm on her hands. No this wasn’t Fives. She wasn’t dead quite yet. Not just yet. Her eyes wouldn’t focus, but she could feel the scars on his face as she traced his features. 

“No cyare. Not Fives.” He said, his voice breaking, “I’m sorry. Just please don’t leave, not yet. Just wait a little longer.” 

Lee could no longer feel anything, the pain had become the only thing. She no longer felt her sensation of her hand touching his face nor the tears that ran down his face. 

“I’m tired.” Lee said, closing her eyes. 

“No mesh’la you can’t fall asleep you have to stay awake for me.” He said, trying to keep his voice even though it was breaking. 

She fought with everything she had left, even though her body was telling her that she should give up and succumb to death. 

“I love you.” She mouthed, she wasn’t even sure if she had spoken, but based on the pain visible in Voorpret’s eyes he understood. 

Two figures came up behind Voorpret hauling him up. Lee watched helplessly as Voorpret was dragged away from her. She could barely register Voorpret fighting back against the two figures, his screaming muffled. Her vision focused slightly when she turned her head towards the LAATs that had landed. Voorpret had his hands handcuffed behind his back and his brothers were holding him back as the doors shut. Lee forced her head to face back up towards the sky, it was dark now, the stars stunning as ever on this desolate planet. She sat there reaching out into the stars for anything, anyone that might hear her dying body. 

 Lee wasn’t aware of how long it had been since they’d left her there. She wanted to feel bitter towards her men, towards what had just happened, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. She knew they couldn’t do anything about it, orders were orders. She cried, not because of the pain, but for her men, for the clones. She knew that they didn’t have a say in what had just happened, or anything that had happened or will happen to them. Fives had been right, Lee never doubted it, but now that it was actually happening it was too real to believe. He’d warned her, he had, but he wasn’t there to protect her nor tell her of the danger. He was gone. And now all Lee could hope was she’d see him once more very soon. 

She closed her eyes now, her breathing slowing slightly. When she opened them she wasn’t lying in the grass beneath the stars anymore, but standing in a cafe. It was relatively empty, but a figure sat in one of the booths. Lee approached the table, sucking in a breath when she realized who it was as she drew nearer. She paused and the man she loved, and still loved turned to face her. He was wearing civis, simple pants with a tight t-shirt and a light jacket. His smile reached the corners of his eyes, his warm eyes just as full of life as the last time Lee had looked into them, and his iconic goatee still complimenting his features. 

“Are you just gonna stand there looking like a bantha caught in the headlights?” He chuckled standing to his feet now. 

Lee didn’t hesitate, throwing herself into his arms. She could feel the beating of his heart, the warmth radiating from his skin, his lips against her temple. 

“I missed you so much.” Lee sobbed into his chest, clutching the fabric of his shirt. 

“I know, but you can’t stay with me just yet.” He tilted her face up by her chin making her look him in the eyes, “You still have a whole life ahead of you.” 

The shock dissipated from her, but she continued to sob into his chest.

“But I want to stay here with you. I don’t want to go back to that stupid universe without you in it.” She exclaimed, her voice almost pleading. 

Fives smiled cupping Lee’s face gently with both of his hands, wiping the tears away with his thumbs. 

“I was just a piece in the puzzle of your life, and if force allowed I would crawl out of my grave and back into your arms in an instant. However if I never had died you would have never fallen in love with Voorpret, or saved all of those people, or became the person you are now. I will always be with you mesh’la, you were the love of my life in the physical world, and you still are now even if I am gone.” He said. 

Lee sighed heavily, calming herself. What he said was true, she had to go back, she couldn’t just leave all of those people who loved her or the world that needed her. 

“Okay,” She said, “I’ll go back.” 

Fives’s smile never left his features, his hands sliding down Lee’s body to rest on her waist.

“That's my girl.” He said, resting his forehead against Lee’s. 

He tilted his head ever so slightly bringing his lips to hers in a chaste kiss. 

Lee’s eyes closed, melting into the sensation of her lover once more. She thought she’d never feel his touch again, express her undying love for him, or see his handsome face again. But here she was, in the world between worlds, giving him the goodbye she never got to give him.

“I love you.” Fives said, pulling away slightly, his lips brushing against Lee’s as he spoke. 

When Lee parted from him and opened her eyes she was met by the stars once more. She was still alive, but just barely. The warmth around her was gone and she felt the cold wind billow through the grass and over her skin. 

She didn’t know what brought her to do it, but she sat up. Maybe it was Fives helping her stand, whatever it was she got up. Most people would have already died, but Lee, Lee took a step, and then another until she reached the treeline. Like she’d predicted, Taleed was nearby. He’d been waiting until the coast was clear before he would go in search of Lee. The deep blue togruta approached Lee, catching her as her body collapsed. 

Lee awoke some time later laying in one of the tents they’d set up earlier in the night. Her wounds had been patched up best Taleed could do considering the equipment he possessed. 

“It’s good to have you back lil’un,” Taleed said, “you’re in pretty bad shape, I did the best I could to patch you up.” He sat down on the ground next to the makeshift cot where Lee lay. 

Lee groaned in pain as she turned to slightly face Taleed. 

“Thank you buir.” Lee said fondly, offering a pained smile.

Taleed nodded. 

“I’m sorry I didn’t come for you sooner. Is there anything I can get you?” He said softly.

Lee shook her head. 

“I’m alright. Just tired and hurting.” She turned her head back towards the ceiling. 

“Tomorrow I’ll go into the nearby village to gather supplies and see if any of the locals have a proper place to stay. For now we will stay here at camp, its the safest option right now.” The man said. 

“I’ll be alright here then, it’ll give me time to rest and heal.” Lee said quietly, closing her eyes. 

“I’ll be outside meditating if you need me.” Taleed said getting up and exiting the tent. 

Lee drifted off to sleep once more, tomorrow was a new day and Lee accepted it with open arms. 

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[esterzach]

Holy f... I forgot how devastating was Farscape's The Choice. I said in another post about The Good Wife's 5.16 The Last Call, that I don't remember any other episode of a TV show with grief so well depicted, but this must be the second one.

Big spoilers ahead. So... You know...

Aeryn's grief fits her character so well, that mix of vulnerability combined with anger, depression, and detachment. Her reaching out to shady strangers, knowing fully well that this is not real, this can not be, that this is a scam, yet somewhat maybe hoping for one more reminder, for something that will bring vivid memories of him. Him being with her all the time, speaking to her her own thoughts, the sweetest memories, him being the only person who she allowed to get close to her, and now without him, the world is dark and hostile, and everyone is grotesque and twisted. The way she retrieves and avoids everyone, every attempt someone to touch her is met with almost disgust. All of a sudden everyone is an enemy. Crais never had her trust, Rigel is not exactly someone whom she takes seriously, even if he attempts to show her that he cares, even Stark. I was almost pissed off with her when I understand that she knows from the beginning that this is a scam. Why would she allow them to torture her like that? But then it's another way to stay a bit longer with the idea, the image of him maybe...

I am not sure why I felt that I was missing something in Xhalax's behaviour. I assume that the price for her choice to have a child changed her and made her angry toward the person who least deserves it, some form of punishment toward both herself and the last person she ever loved changed her. But then again she says it - I died a long time ago...

I love the reminder at the end - yet again, about the powerful forces that stand behind her existence. Her mother's fucked up behaviour, her idea of love... and the admission that it was out of love, and yet again, a sacrifice that marked Aeryn's existence. John would risk everything without a second thought for her and he did. Somehow it felt like Zhaan's was the most profound and meaningful sacrifice. Zhaan became a mother to everyone on Moya and she saw the best albeit somewhat obscure sides of everyone. From deep mistrust and hate for all Peacekeepers to the idea that one of them(and at the same time all of them) is so valuable as a person, that it is worth giving her own life for hers. And if someone has doubted her decision the first time, she does it again to confirm it. Aeryn feels guilty, and she resists her, she later says it was a bad deal - her life for Zhaan's. A Peacekeeper soldier, like so many others, for a powerful spiritual being. But Zhaan knows by now - she is calling her selfless. The most spiritual person on Moya, who stands against violence and

struggle for years to make peace and accept her own violent nature, who felt guilty and looked for forgiveness for her own mistakes and acts of violence even when they were necessary, recognized the value, loved and admired another one, who at the beginning of their journey couldn't distinguish simple human emotions. Someone who was raised without compassion, without love and affection, who later on found the best teachers, and in a way became the heart of the crew of Moya. Aeryn gained their respect, the ones who hated her the most, so much so, that they were trying to save her, risking their own lives. I used to wonder what kind of weird show is this, and people around me wondered what is this crazy thing that I was watching back then... But it held so well through the years. In comparison to so many others. There was this sense for a very long time, and I think in a way it still exists to some extent, that romance and love stories somehow make a book, a TV show, or a movie less. As if less valuable, or naive, or maybe stupid. I had to read it outlined, someone maybe even here on this site, someone wrote something about it - that we need to bring back love in fiction. So many modern stories come across as cynical and cold, devoid of romantic love, or maybe love was presented as a weakness, as an obstacle, or something not that important in comparison to other things. It was almost as if in order for something to be considered serious, the gentle or romantic side had to be if not erased, at least pushed back as an afterthought, as bait for the young, or the less intelligent... The most powerful driving force, the instinct, one of the things, if not the thing, that makes us grow, that makes us human... I hate that now. I feel cheated for thinking that way. For even thinking they are right. Watching and reading things now... well, I guess growing up does that to a person. Being slightly more humble about things I don't know... Accepting my human side.

[altamont498]

On The Sanitation of the Internet, the Importance of Trigger Tags and the Role of Responsible Adults.

[All tweets described in alt; original tweets available by clicking the above images]

TBH I really do miss the days of the internet when the responsibility was on both the reader/viewer and the author to look out for each-other.

Whereby the author had to provide due warnings (e.g. TW Suicide, TW Insects, etc.) whilst the reader had to heed and act on the warnings where appropriate.

Whereas nowadays instead, as TomSka has said in the above tweets, everything has to be totally cleaned and sanitized to a stupid extent, where there's little or no just even remotely adult-only content available online nowadays.

Because - really and truly - it's unnecessary and overcautious mollycoddling and really only there to keep advertisers and shareholders happy.

And besides, the same companies have been previously more than willing to advertise adult content like horror games or potentially harmful stuff like loud noises and strobe lighting in advertisements whilst at the same time all too eager to pull "NOOOOO! YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT MURDER ON A PODCAST ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER!!111!! YOU HAVE TO SAY UNALIVE!!!111!"

It also entirely disregards the original context. For example, it's one thing to send someone a horrible message like "I'm going to murder you and your family", but it's another thing to talk about murder in my previous example, in a podcast about Jack the Ripper.

Or if someone is struggling with genuine suicidal thoughts, they can't even look up anything about that and get the help that they may be in desperate need of because any content mentioning/referencing suicide has been deemed "too inappropriate."

Instead, it should be on parents/guardians/responsible adults to have that conversation with kids to say that there could be stuff online that they don't like, and tell them that if there's a warning sign literally straight in-front of them saying that there's something they don't like, that they act on it immediately.

If someone with a nut allergy ate a jar of Nutella (accordingly marked with Allergy Warning: Contains hazelnuts), took an allergic reaction and tried to sue Nutella, they'd be laughed out of any reputable news source and laughed out of any court of law.

Meanwhile, parents/guardians/responsible adults don't teach their kids how age restrictions work or how to act on them, how to avoid trigger tags and trigger warnings (or even bypassing it for them - e.g. buying them an 18+ game) then turn around and shout about how little Johnny/Jenny got traumatized by seeing a zombie's head explode in Call of Duty (PEGI 18) or how they walked in on their 12 year-old getting a lap dance from a virtual lap-dancer on Grand Theft Auto (also PEGI 18).

It would be simple for most websites—YouTube, Twitter, even Tumblr—to implement.

An option for authors to flag stuff as and when they're uploading it and then a click-through for the reader, like:

WARNING: Per [the author]'s own indication, this video/post contains references to X, Y and Z which some viewers may find disturbing or upsetting. Do you wish to continue? > Yes > No

It's high-time we bring back The Mutual Onus.

"Where the reader has needs, the writer must act to warn; But when the writer warns, then the reader must heed and act accordingly."

It would definitely go a long way towards putting an end to the overcautious mollycoddling of kids with regards to online content and re-open large swathes of the internet that would otherwise have ended up being rendered uninhabitable.

As well as the fact that warnings and TWs aren't a modern concept. Even in our day-to-day lives we see warnings for the sake of mental and physical health.

E.g.

"This report by John Smith contains flashing images, and descriptions of child abuse that some people may find disturbing."

"Coming up next on ITV is Doc Martin, which contains scenes of a medical nature."

Definitely food for thought for many social media sites and platforms to consider.

[blairstales]

Brollachan | Scottish Folklore

The Brollachan(Broll-agh-can) is the child of the fuath, and because of it’s young age, it can not yet take a physical form and knows only a small number of words. It is often described as a smoky mass with eyes and a mouth, and tends to lurk around water.

"A shapeless, malevolent supernatural being in Scottish Gaelic folklore, a child of the fuath" A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology – James MacKillop, 2004

Despite not having a physical form visible to us, they can be injured. There is one popular story about the brollachan that showcases this. In it, a disabled man of the name Murray was sleeping at a mill when a brollachan enters

Now the Brollachan has eyes and a mouth, and can say two words only, ‘MI-FHEIN, myself, and THUFHEIN, thyself ; besides that, he has no speech, and alas no shape. He lay all his lubber-length by the dying fire ; and Murray threw a fresh peat on the embers, which made them fly about red bot, and Brollachan was severely burnt. So he screamed in an awful way, and soon comes the “ Vough,” very fierce, crying, “Och, my Brollachan, who then burnt you ?” but all he could say was “MI-FHEIN” and then he said “THUFHEIN” ; and she replied “Were it any other, wouldn’t I be revenged.” Popular Tales of the West Highlands by John Francis Campbell (1862)

The quick thinking man hid himself under a sack as the fuagh and her child, the brollachan, went outside to see if what injured him was there. By chance, a woman was walking by, and so the fuagh put all her anger towards the woman. The nimble woman escaped, but permanently injured one heal that was torn in the chase.

It is worth noting that in other stories, the roll of the mother is swapped for the brownie Maggie Mouiach, and the brollachan is swapped for her dobbie son, so you may come across that version as well.

This is as far as historical folklore has taken me. If anyone knows of more sources for the Brollachan, please let me know.

In the meantime, I can tell you about some modern folklore for it. Today, many people say that the brollachan is smokey with glowing red eyes, and possesses weak-willed animals and steals the life force of it’s host. When the host is near death, it will use the shell to find and weaken a new body. The possessed creature will act strangely, but the only way to remove it is with saining, such as with juniper smoke. There is an example on this site here.

I do not have any sources for this modern version.

[tastydregs]

Documents Reveal the Navy's Ambitious Plans for Terrifying Drone Swarms

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The U.S. Navy is reportedly working towards making the nightmarish drone swarms seen in Call of Duty and movies like Angel has Fallen a reality in modern combat. These AI enabled flocks of autonomous buzzing drones could potentially be launched to overwhelm air defense or nose dive from the sky in kamikaze-esque airstrikes according to budget documents reviewed by the MIT Technology Review. The project’s name: Super Swarm.

Angel Has Fallen (2019 Movie) Official Clip “Drones” — Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman

While the Navy and other entities within the U.S. military have experimented with groups of drones for some time, the budget document provides clear, detailed visions illustrating how the department could one day use the swarms on the battlefield. The documents say the drone swarms could launch from a variety of platforms, such as submarines or aircraft, and could include a variety of different payloads ranging from explosives to electronic jammers or gear for troops.

DEALRS, another project reportedly presented in the document, attempts to solve current drones’ finicky range issues by creating a larger so-called “mothership”capable of carrying and launching multiple drones. MASS (which stands for “manufacturing of autonomous systems at scale”) seeks to use 3D printing to one day create vast amounts of cheap, expendable drones. Currently, some of the military’s more advanced small drones can cost upwards of $200,000 per unit, so driving down costs will play a crucial role in any future drone swarms

When deployed in actual combat scenarios, the Navy’s drones swarms could potentially act as a first form of attack capable of breaching through thick defenses and softening them up for follow up airstrikes or ground force invasions. The sheer amount of drones in a swarm (DARPA believes it’s possible to create swarms of thousands of drones) means they can still throw a wrench in an enemy’s defenses even if many of them are shot down.

The Navy did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.

Organized groups or cooperative drones, while not exactly the modern advanced sci-fi vision of drone swarms movie aficionados may have in their head, have nonetheless played a decisive role in recent conflicts, especially in regards to the war in Ukraine. At the war’s onset, Ukrainian officials called on Kyiv hobby drone owners to use their drones to conduct reconnaissance and monitor Russian military movements. Months later, with the war escalating, the U.S. reportedly sent the Ukrainian military batches of Phoenix Ghost unmanned aerial drones designed for tactical operations. Tactical operations, in this case, means combat.

“Like almost all unmanned aerial systems, it has optics, so it can also be used to give you a site picture of what it’s seeing, of course.” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said at the time. “But its principle focus is attack.” Most recently Russia used Iranian built Shahed-136 so-called “suicide drones” which were used intentionally to hurl into at least four targets in Kyiv, including a residential building and a train station.

Though the documents uncovered by the MIT Technology Review provide clearer glimpses into the U.S. military’s thinking around potential tactical applications of drone swarms, they aren’t an entirely new concept. DARPA, the defense departments’ gonzo research and development team, has spent years publicly trying to crack the drone swarm code in fascinating, and more often than not, terrifying ways.

DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) researchers have reportedly conducted at least six field experiments with these drone swarms since 2017, with a top official telling FedScoop they believe the U.S. military could potentially deploy the tech within five years. The agency’s also investing in novel ways to wirelessly charge that massive drone armada. The video clip below shows researchers testing out flocks of autonomously air and ground drones at a training facility in Tennessee.

OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) Sixth Field Experiment

Though it’s still unclear exactly how a future army of buzzing drones would operate on the battlefield, DARPA’s suggested it wants to use augmented and virtual reality, along with voice and touch gestures, to provide the swarm’s human controller with a common interface that grants them, “immersive situational awareness and decision presentation capabilities.”

At the same time, other countries like China, Russia, and Israel are all reportedly vying to close the technology gap with the U.S. and deploy swarms of their own. In Israel’s case, it became the first military known to have used a drone swarm in combat last year after it deployed an unspecified number of drones during its May conflict in the Gaza strip. The drones reportedly worked in tandem to identify enemy locations, and fed back information that was used to conduct dozens of missile strikes, according to Defense One.

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YO I WANNA HEAR ABOUT YOUR OCS!!! anna florence catherine sascha ari all of them!!!! their names sound so cool!

HI THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!! I took all day to work on this, didn't finish it, and then the site reloaded and I lost everything so I'm going to do this...one more time. I'm so excited to share them with you but aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA tumblr why

OKAY hoping this works this time so sorry its taken this long

EDITING AGAIN SORRY THIS HAS TAKEN LIKE WEEKS OH MY GOD

Anna:

Full Name: Anna Aguilar Gender and Sexuality: Genderqueer lesbian Pronouns: She/her usually or whatever she's feeling at the time Ethnicity: Latino Birthplace and Birthdate: New Mexico, USA. November 13th, 1868 Guilty Pleasures: The expensive things in life which she so rarely has any access to. Chocolate being a personal favorite of hers. Phobias: Losing those she loves, painful death, spiders What They Would Be Famous For: Probably the whole outlaw thing, or maybe the "is the devil" legends that are told about her, immortalizing her as a demon forever. You know. Normal stuff What They Would Get Arrested For: What wouldn't she be arrested for OC You Ship Them With: FLORENCE!!! OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Also!! Probably Florence!! Well, in the beginning. Afterwards, probably John Price (stinky bastard sheriff) or Jesse (who I forgot to put on here but is a cool little guy) because she did something stupid and he's seriously going to kill her this time (nah they're friends) (usually) Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Would probably be sci-fi or fantasy Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: If she were alive present day it would probably be when a really good book is made into a horrible movie and they botch everything Talents and/or Powers: Knife fighting, riding, using smoke and mirrors to make things look the way she wants to and manipulate situations Why Someone Might Love Them: Her passion, fierceness, loyalty, charisma, and strong sense of her own morals (however those morals may be perceived by others) Why Someone Might Hate Them: Her recklessness, tendency to be blinded by her motivations, willingness to do whatever it takes for what she wants, boldness, and cocky attitude How They Change: Begins as a desperate, lonely, and heartbroken teenager seeking revenge and ends as a legend, feared by most as the Devil herself, kidnapper of the deputy and terrorist towards the powerful (but really just loves her wife) Why You Love Them: MY GAY LITTLE COWGIRL...

Florence:

Full Name: Florence Morgan Gender and Sexuality: Cis lesbian Pronouns: She/her Ethnicity: Caucasian Birthplace and Birthdate: New Mexico, USA. January 2, 1867 Guilty Pleasures: Women?? MHHDJSG Phobias: Water (like...rivers), being tied down for her whole life, fast speeds What They Would Be Famous For: The deputy from the legends who gets kidnapped by The Red Devil, never to be seen again. What They Would Get Arrested For: Treason, attempted murder, accessory to a crime maybe? OC You Ship Them With: ANNA!!! OC Most Likely To Murder Them: ANNA AT FIRST (we love that enemies to lovers) but then yes John would try probably Favorite Movie/Book Genre: fantasy! we love that escapism Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Maybe the damsel in distress trope Talents and/or Powers: Hunting/skill with weapons, quick thinking, agility, persuasiveness and keeping a cool head in the face of danger Why Someone Might Love Them: Her cool head, logic, strength and agility, tendency to see the good in people, and kind heart Why Someone Might Hate Them: Her way of weaseling in and out of situations, tendency to shut down after stressful situations, and persistence in areas many don't want explored How They Change: Begins as a trapped girl about to be in a horrible situation with a man who wishes only to exploit her, and ends remembered not for her acts of bravery and heroism but as the one the devil took, forever passed down as the warning to other girls not to step out of line. Not how she wanted to be immortalized.. Why You Love Them: MY OTHER GAY LITTLE COWGIRL>>>I LOVE THESE TWO SO MUCH

Catherine:

Full Name: Catherine [Unknown Last], Codename Starlet Gender and Sexuality: Cis pansexual Pronouns: She/her Ethnicity: Caucasian Birthplace and Birthdate: Utah, USA. November 29, 2001 Guilty Pleasures: Spending money on stuff she does not need at all but it makes her momentarily happy so Phobias: Darkness, heights, being alone What They Would Be Famous For: Her costuming and ability to impersonate people with great accuracy or her style ;) What They Would Get Arrested For: Well member of VILE for one but specifically? Theft, impersonation maybe? OC You Ship Them With: I'm not sure yet?? I tried shipping her with Ari once but idk if I like that. I've also considered Sascha. OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Sacha lol Favorite Movie/Book Genre: ROMANCE Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: MISCOMMUNICATION GOD thats the WORST (for her totally not projecting) JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER Talents and/or Powers: Ability to imitate the voice and mannerisms of most anyone, combined with a skill for costuming, acting, and makeup that can let her impersonate anyone, and is talented in never stopping talking Why Someone Might Love Them: Her kindness and friendliness, curiosity, style, passion, and positive attitude Why Someone Might Hate Them: Never. Stops. Talking. Always friendly, always wants to be around you, and has a tendency to accidently make others feel bad about themselves at times. Can be oblivious How They Change: Begins as a somewhat oblivious, innocent, and naive kid entering VILE and ends as a still cheerful but more willing to do the previously unthinkable thief. Why You Love Them: basically a modified self insert at this point. or an idealized one. i love her. she's silly

Sascha:

Full Name: Sascha [Unknown Last], Codename Kiemen Gender and Sexuality: ???? asexual Pronouns: She/him Ethnicity: Caucasian Birthplace and Birthdate: (not sure where specifically sorry idk germany very well) Germany. October 23, 2001. Guilty Pleasures: Idk if it counts but just like retreating and not talking to anyone for DAYS? Oh thats the best. Guilty because sometimes she doesn't tell anyone and just disappears which makes them worried Phobias: Fire/extreme heat, heights also, loud noises What They Would Be Famous For: Her athletic prowess, especially in aquatics, and flexibility in this area What They Would Get Arrested For: AGAIN member of VILE but probably theft, aggravated assault, or murder depending on the day OC You Ship Them With: Maybe Cath? I don't know! She's a little bit of a loner OC Most Likely To Murder Them: whoever tried would probably get murdered first Favorite Movie/Book Genre: horror lmao Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: the power of friendship saving the day. shudder Talents and/or Powers: Agility and athleticism, extreme comfort in the water in almost every way- swimming, scuba, diving, surfing, you name it. Why Someone Might Love Them: Strength, straightforwardness, skill, probable secret heart of gold Why Someone Might Hate Them: Can be antagonistic and pessimistic, rude, and a loner How They Change: Begins as a lonely, troubled, rude kid taking her anger out on the world and ends as a focused and supported adult thief who becomes one of VILE's most feared. Why You Love Them: he said grrrr >:(

Ari:

Full Name: Aristedes "Ari" [Unknown Last], Codename Vinegaroon Gender and Sexuality: Cis bisexual Pronouns: He/him Ethnicity: Latino Birthplace and Birthdate: Mexico, but moved to Arizona when he was little. May 24, 2001. Guilty Pleasures: Kids cartoons...he's afraid people will make fun of him (he doesn't know they already know) Phobias: Dude will throw himself headfirst into LITERALLY ANYTHING he's not scared of much. Except his secrets being broadcast to the world What They Would Be Famous For: I don't know if Ari would be famous but maybe within VILE he would be famous for his quick strike and different mindsets in and out of work. What They Would Get Arrested For: Once again- member of VILE so all the implied theft, murder, breaking and entering, etc. OC You Ship Them With: Maybe Catherine as well :) OC Most Likely To Murder Them: probably sascha. not anyone's fault sascha can just be a little murdery. they love her for it Favorite Movie/Book Genre: mystery! Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: love triangles, ew Talents and/or Powers: Stealth, charisma, leaving very little trace, skill with the whip and extreme accuracy, getting out of tight situations Why Someone Might Love Them: Cheerfulness, flirtatious air, charm, charisma, ability to get extremely focused and down to earth when working Why Someone Might Hate Them: The flirtatiousness and cocky air, the near violent switches between how he thinks in and outside of work, tendency to be bold and brash and throw himself headfirst into shit How They Change: Begins as a humor-as-a-coping-mechanism flirty kid who wants to make friends but stop them from getting too close and ends more vulnerable but all the stronger for it. Why You Love Them: HAPPY FUN TIMES BUT COULD ALSO PROBABLY KILL YOU

[the-firebird69]

There's a few things to talk about already and we will get to it now.

- Stan is upset he's blaming our son and he needs to be stopped the reason he's doing it is to try and use the threat we don't want him doing that and we are going after him for it and he is going to get hit and pretty bad and he's not gonna like it we are going to seek them out at this time because of what they're saying and he's not ready for that and we are we're sick and tired of it.

We also have a couple of notifications about this area here these people are belligerent and they're rude and mean and they have been for a day and worse than usual and we are going to go after them and we're going to go after them today it is a very rude thing that they're doing but we cannot risk it there's way too many and we're starting to pull them in today.

- We have about 10 minutes to discuss things and we're gonna get through it we do need to notify people these people try to dry it out so we need people to start working now so we can get the information out that we intended to.

= We have a lot of discrepancies here and there's too many and it adds up to not being in control and we need to proceed we will right now tell people what's happening.

- And this rumor of a $1400 stimulus payment and people see it online and a lot of people say it's not true and when you search for it you can't find it but he found it on the IRS website and it is a stimulant payment it's a one time payment but a lot of people are getting regular payments fairly soon and it is to help them get back on their feet and fairly soon they will see that they are going to get hit because they are blocking our son.

- There are other things happening there's a huge huge cry in Florida for justice because of what's going on with them and they're leaving because they want to attack the management or know the government of the United States and it is illegal so nobody feels bad for them they are acting treasonous and can be shot on site.

- We have new statistics now but we give out some earlier and it hasn't changed too much but the paradigm is shifting as we said and it is shifting away from Mac Morlock towards pseudo empire and the function of importing mac morlock is slowing because minority morlock are slowing coming here and Jason will engage the ship shortly and it will force others to engage the ship and try and push it off and there's several other things in the works but these are huge.

Thor Freya

Olympus

We have several people who are army nonstop I reported who it is that are army nonstop and they will not stop doing it they're not army they are on top of me. We need to stop them john Remallard and Dave next door BJA Jenna sarah alicia Trisha and their husbands if you can call it that and about 10 more will not stop hounding me we need to attack them now today is the day we go behind the su....hat they're doing and find it all out

today is the day we go behind the sun I want to straighten out what they're doing and find it all out

Hera

We shall do that now and we'll get into it right now and he he thanks us and she does we have to do this right now.

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Playboy: A Social Improvement As the years progressed - Exploring Motorized Edges, Renaming Stories, and Embracing Social Responsibility

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True Compass

MEMORY VERSE OF THE WEEK

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+ Philippians 1:9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

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VERSE OF THE DAY

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+ John 8:12 Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

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** SAY THIS BEFORE YOU READ; HERE’S SOME CHRISTIAN TRUTHS **

I AM FOLLOWING MY COMPASS

I AM FOCUSED ON GOD

I AM LOVED

GOD IS MY COMPASS

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THOUGHTS:

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     So the other day, I  was teaching my nephew about the compass, He didn't quite understand it, so I explained to him that this used to be used and is still used by hikers to get to one place and another. He said okay, I understand; the Chinese invented the very “ first magnetic compass during the Han dynasty back in 206 BC," and the reason why this was so important was that people during that time needed a compass for everything: fishermen, people that were walking to discover new land and much needed as well this was their Siri or Alexa, it was what they needed to know where to go, and if they were lost it showed them which way to go before this people would use the stars.

 This item was so important during those times; now we have something different. We have GPS, Google Maps, and Yelp, and we can even put the address in on Google, and it will take us to multiple sites that will get us to where we need to be. We have no reason to be lost, right?

  Some of us are still lost; we are lost when it comes to staying connected with God, but even today, we have it so easy. We have apps that will read us the Bible . If we dont feel like reading, we have even podcasts. We have all these resources to keep us connected to God. Still, some of us dont even want to use them; just like a compass that was needed to find a home, we dont have to look no further when it comes to building a connection with God; we have to make ourselves available, a lot of time we dont like to free our schedule to do it, we dont like to even try , we just say oh well I get it another day. The next day becomes the next and the next day.

    When we are in need, we expect God to give us what we need promptly right? So why can't we do that? Why can't we connect with God? What we find important, we will make time for and other things we say better luck next time.

  Acts 17:27 That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us"

   This verse tells us God isn't far from us at all; we have to seek him and open our hearts to change and open our heart to his presence in our life; when we open our word up and say Holy Spirit, teach me when we say Holy Spirit show me what you want me to learn usually when we say this the Holy Spirit starts to teach us because we are then yielding to God just like Solomon when he heard the lord call him, he said here I am, how many of you are saying that to God here I am, how many of you are saying I am ready father.

  Some of us can't say this because we aren't ready, and God has made it easy. He says come as you are, you dont have to change anything, come as you are, and I will take care of you, and a lot of them still dont want to do that. We figure we have to get one last drink or one last hit in or one last hoorah, but God is saying no, not none of this. Bring me everything you have, and let me be there for you. Isaiah  1:18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”

  He says I know  that your sins are scarlet, but I  will make them white as snow. He says, dont worry about what you look like, dont worry about what sins you committed; just come, and I will make you as white as snow. We have to start finding our way back to the lord and using everything we can do; some of us have lost our way because we allow things of this world to steer us away, and sometimes we  have to get on our knees and tell him why, tell him how much you love him,  tell him what you need from him, and tell him what’s keeping you from him.

  John 8:12 Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

    The Holy Spirit wants to connect with us when we pray. This is the moment to tell him, not pretend like everything is okay because it isn't, but this is the moment to hold on to our compass, our guide, our shepherd, and say if you show me the way, I’ll go, if you help, I stay here I will stay, some of us are letting this world change us and allowing this world to tell us. Still, we can't when we hold to our compass, which is Jesus. That compass will always tell you the right way if you can read it, and that's what the Holy Spirit will do for us spiritually. He will tell us the right way if we know how to listen. Can you hear him?

   ***Today, what is your compass in this world? What is leading you around? Is it this world and its beliefs? Is it your money, or are the relationships we build leading you? Many of us need the accurate compass, Christ, but we won’t stop and say he is what we need; we are so blinded and comfortable with how our life is we won’t dare give him the opportunity. Why? We won’t dare say I need him more. Why? We won’t dare say I am lost without him. Why? Is it because of pride, or do we think the compass is too hard to read? Christ isn’t hard at all to understand. It’s our flesh that we have to say stop to, it’s our flesh that we have to resist, and that’s what blocks us; if you feel that you have lost your way and compass, tell him that in prayer, he can’t lead if we aren’t willing to look and listen. ©Seer~ Prophetess Lee

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PRAYER

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for today; we ask you to forgive us for the sins we have committed. Forgive us if we have allowed life to be our compass instead of you. Lord, lead us. We are yielding to you! Please help us to become better every day. Lord, we want you to guide us through it all. We know we are wrong, and we want to change, Father. Please help us to stay focused on you! Lord, we surrender everything. Lord, we thank you for life, health, and strength. We thank you for everything in Jesus' Name Amen.

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REFERENCES

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+ Proverbs 11:14 Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

+ John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

+ Psalm 27:11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

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FURTHER READINGS

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PROVERBS 4

MATTHEW 10

DEUTERONOMY 5

2 KINGS 8

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[brentwoodsask]

Stepping out of the history of Brentwood to bring one of the characters to life.

Meet Sloan Turner, also known as the costumed hero Canadian Spirit.

A 26 year old woman born in Brentwood, Saskatchewan and returned to work at CWBC 98.5 FM. Her mother, Audrey Turner (née Chen), was also a costumed hero in the late 80s and into the 90s. Sadly, Audrey passed due to complications from breast cancer in 2014 when Sloan was 18 years old.

Like Audrey, Sloan is a member of the Brentwood Search and Rescue unit. This unit surveys the area around the city in search of lost souls who happen to "make their way" to the city. As a volunteer of the unit, Sloan goes on annual training to RCMP Depot in Regina as well as training with CPR through St. John's Ambulance Canada.

Sloan and her father, Leonard, are estranged. Audrey and Leonard married young, when Audrey was 21 and Leonard had just turned 20. When Sloan was 2 years old, Audrey filed for divorce, siting abuse, both physical and emotional. Leonard bounced in and out of prison over the years since the divorce. Sloan has had no contact with her father since Audrey's passing.

Sloan comes from Chinese and Scottish heritage. She fluently speaks English, Cantonese and French, with just a smattering of Scottish Gaelic thanks to her grandparents, Liam and Mary Turner, both of whom moved to Brentwood to help Sloan after Audrey passed. Her grandparents Henry and Olivia Chen also reside in Brentwood.

Sloan was an average student in high school, but excelled in wrestling, winning the SHSAA title three times. She would later join the University of Regina wrestling team while she took classes toward her journalism degree. While an excellent wrestler, she only managed to crack the top 15 at the university level.

Upon graduation, her first job with her journalism degree landed her in The Pas, Manitoba at the radio station 1250 CJAR. She had a knack for interviewing on air, especially up and coming musical acts. This, combined with her very comforting and clear vocal abilities on air, drew the attention of Thomas Horwath, station manager of CWBC FM. He contacted Sloan, offering her an afternoon slot along with an hour in the evening dedicated to interviews. At first, Sloan interviewed local talent, but that stretched further as she began to become a trusted voice in the music industry, and she'd manage to interview bigger names from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Sloan is not just an on air announcer for a radio station. Nor a former high school wrestling champion. Not even a costumed hero volunteering for a search and rescue unit. Sloan has a magical ability. She can see spirits.

One spirit in particular she can see is that of her mother. Audrey never left her. When Sloan returned to Brentwood to take up her new position with CWBC FM, it wasn't long before she had realized that her lonely apartment wasn't so lonely. Sloan can see Audrey, even if no one else can, and she can talk to Audrey. As well as other spirits. For many spirits, it is more that she helps them come to terms with their situation and helps them move on. But often times, the spirits Sloan sees will help her, guide her, when it comes to her work as Canadian Spirit.

As for Audrey, she is exactly where she wants to be.

A few years after Sloan, under the name Canadian Spirit, and her friends joined the Brentwood Search and Rescue unity, they came up with a fundraising idea to help raise money to support not only the SAR Unit but also organizations like STARS Air Ambulance.

They came up with a toy line, sold through Tim Hortons.

A limited run, it became extremely popular, so much so that the fundraiser was done a second year, this time with some of the different equipment that Sloan and the other volunteers used, such as medi-packs, snowmobiles, ATVs and other equipment used in their work.

[reasoningdaily]

How Google Street View Became An Art Form

https://www.fastcompany.com/40424079/how-google-street-view-spawned-an-accidental-art-form

On May 25, Google Street View celebrates its 10th birthday. A feature of Google Maps, it lets users explore cities and towns around the world—and even peer inside businesses and government institutions (including the White House). Games have sprouted out of Street View—like Geoguessr, in which players guess where in the world they’ve been randomly placed—while some users have documented funny images captured by the roving cameras of Google’s cars.

What, exactly, is it about Google Street View that makes it so appealing to creative types? Perhaps it allows us to experience the fantasy of what scholar Donna Haraway called “the God’s trick”—the impossible desire to see everything.

Never before have people had such easy, on-demand visual access to public spaces all over the globe, and over the past decade artists have wielded this immense power to comment on issues ranging from surveillance to sex work.

Curating From Google’s Vast Archive

The sheer magnitude of Google Street View’s all-seeing power is a subject for some artists. Michael Wolf’s project “A Series of Unfortunate Events” curates arresting images from Google Street View, ranging from bike accidents to fires. Taken as a whole, Wolf’s collection from Google’s vast archive gestures toward the vastness of the world itself. Taken individually, his images are both haunting and familiar.

Sometimes Google Street View appeals to artists for more political reasons. There can be a real discomfort with the technology, given that it amounts to one of the most comprehensive surveillance mechanisms in human history.

Jon Rafman’s ongoing project “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View” reflects the unsettling relationship between humans and surveillance. (The “nine eyes” in the title refers to the number of cameras on the pole attached to the top of a Google Street View car, although the number has since increased to 15.)

In 2008, one year after the launch of Street View, Google incorporated face-blurring technology to protect the identities of passersby captured by its cameras. But the technology isn’t without glitches. Rafman’s image of a man in a bunny costume with a blurred face next to a “real” person’s face draws an unsettling juxtaposition; it’s a reminder that Google Street View is incapable of telling the difference between this masked person and you. In so doing, Rafman’s image exploits the most basic fear of mass surveillance regimes: that you’ll be just another faceless entity.

Posing For The Camera

Then there are the people who try to act out scenes in front of the passing cameras. While they may not identify as artists, they respond with an artist’s impromptu, creative ingenuity. Everyday folks see the Google car approaching and think up a scene—a staged birth in Berlin or a staged death in Scotland—and quickly react. In our research, we call these performance-events tableaux vivants (“living pictures”) in a nod to the evanescent vitality of scenes that come to life only to dissolve as quickly as they’ve been formed.

Street View art has its detractors. Mishka Henner, for his show “No Man’s Land,” cruised Street View for known “John” sites in Italy and Spain and culled images of women who may be sex workers. Although the show was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, it was also subject to mixed reviews. Some thought it was sexist to assume that the women depicted were, in fact, prostitutes, though they praised the way the images communicated the everyday vulnerability (and boredom) involved with sex work.

Perhaps most of all, the show inspired questions about the authorship of photographers who merely curate images taken by Google’s cameras. Nonetheless, as one critic pointed out, Google Street View has forced us to reconsider what street photography as a genre now means in light of Google’s roving cameras.

What’s next for this strange intersection of a mapping tool and art? We hesitate to make firm predictions, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see more collaborations between Google and artists, like Arcade Fire’s experimental music video that populates Google Street View images of the viewer’s childhood neighborhood in a nostalgic montage. We would also like to see more involvement by women, as most of the artists who work with Google Street View have tended to represent a male perspective.

After a decade, Google Street View is no longer new. But that doesn’t mean its potential for artistic action and intervention will subside. As the platform collects more and more images of the Earth’s public spaces—and as mixed, augmented, and virtual reality technologies become more pervasive—we expect that people will find new and inventive ways to make art out of a platform that has, from the start, been a surprising muse.

[thewahookid]

If True, the Consecration of Russia May at Last Be Drawing Near.

A Modern Mystic and Stigmatist

Some of The Fatima Center’s followers are undoubtedly familiar with the prediction made by the Roman mystic and stigmatist, Antonio Ruffini, about when the Consecration of Russia will at last take place.

By way of background, Antonio Ruffini was born in Rome on December 8, 1907, the eldest of three sons in a devout Catholic family known for its attentiveness to the poor. His mother died when he was very young. Having only a primary-school education, he learned from an early age to pray with his heart rather than from prayer books. By his report, Our Lord and Our Lady appeared to him for the first time when he was 17 years old. He received the stigmata (open puncture-wounds on his hands and feet) on August 12, 1951, after a vision which took place at a remote fountain along the Via Appia between Rome and Terracina. (Pope Pius XII later authorized the construction of a chapel on the site.)

From that time on, Ruffini gave himself entirely to the physical and spiritual assistance of mankind, especially the poor and sick. Having entered the Third Order of St. Francis, he lived a life of eminent sanctity under a vow of obedience, displaying perfect humility in spite of his manifest spiritual gifts (including not only the stigmata, but also bilocation). A further endorsement of the authenticity of Ruffini’s charisms exists in that the noted miracle-worker Father Giuseppe Tomaselli published a biography of him.

Antonio Ruffini died at age 92, on a date no less remarkable than that of his birth. Born on the Feast of Our Ladyʼs miraculous Conception, he died on that of Our Lordʼs – March 25, 1999.

A Little Known Prophecy

Now as to his prophecy about the Consecration of Russia, Ruffini was asked in the early 1990s if Pope John Paul II would ever relent from his refusals and heed Our Lady’s request for that act. He answered: “No, it will not be John Paul II. Neither will it be his immediate successor, but the one after that. He is the one who will consecrate Russia.”[1]

In recent years, the meaning of Ruffini’s statement has become more uncertain with the questions surrounding Benedict’s apparent abdication of the papacy and Francis’ claim to it. Nevertheless, either the second legitimate successor to John Paul II is on the papal throne or he will be in the near future.[2]

Meanwhile, however, in the absence of Heaven’s decisive intervention (which can only be had through the proper Consecration of Russia), the Mystery of Iniquity is making great strides toward the complete destruction of Christian society. We must maintain hope and continue to apply ourselves to the reparatory devotions which Our Lady of Fatima called for, but we must not entertain illusions about how dire our situation now is. Great suffering, including martyrdom, may well be in our near future.

St. Jacinta’s Vision

In her Third Memoir, Sister Lucia recorded a vision which Jacinta had witnessed, which Fatima scholars have long understood to be a glimpse of the end-scenario described by Our Lady, in a world and Church tragically devastated by war, hunger, and persecution. In the end, as Our Lady promised, this dark time will yield to Her glorious Triumph. A light will break forth in the long-desired fulfillment of Our Lady’s request for the Consecration of Russia:

“At another time, we went to the cave called Lapa do Cabeço. As soon as we got there, we prostrated on the ground, saying the prayers the Angel had taught us. After some time, Jacinta stood up and called to me: ‘Can’t you see all those highways and roads and fields full of people, who are crying with hunger and have nothing to eat? And the Holy Father in a church praying before the Immaculate Heart of Mary? And so many people praying with him?’ [Some days later, Jacinta asked Lucia:] ‘Can I say that I saw the Holy Father and all those people?’ ‘No. Don’t you see that that’s part of the Secret? If you do, they’ll find out right away!’”[3]

Given Lucia’s response to her cousin, this vision clearly pertains to the Great Secret of Fatima. It certainly seems reasonable to presume that the event depicted here – presided over by the Holy Father, in a church, before a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with many people in attendance – is the long-awaited proper Consecration of Russia. If so, it is likewise reasonable to presume the Consecration will take place in the midst of great famine, a frequent consequence of revolution and war.[4]

Let us continue to pray and sacrifice ourselves for this intention, that the Consecration of Russia be accomplished in time to mitigate the full force of imminent wars, famines, mass devastation, and loss of souls.

ENDNOTES:

[1] This prophecy is pious and worthy of belief but not obligatory. It does not have formal approval from the Magisterium. See on The Fatima Center’s YouTube channel, from the Mystery of Iniquity Conference in Idaho, September 28-30, 2012, Q&A Session #1 (minute 42:32 to 49:20).

[2] Editor’s Note: We ask the reader to keep in mind that prior to its fulfillment prophecy is difficult to interpret, even if it appears self-evident. On the natural order, issues of language and translation can make them more abstruse. We have Ruffini’s prophecy in English, but that was not his mother tongue.

[3] Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. II: The Secret and the Church (Buffalo, Immaculate Heart Publications, 1989), p. 117.

[4] Fr. Gruner was told by a source close to Sister Lucia that Our Lady assured her the Third Secret would one day be revealed during the course of a major war. To read more about this, please see the article “Why the Third Secret of Fatima Must Be Released Before Russia Can Be Consecrated” in The Fatima Crusader, Issue 130 (Spring 2023)

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