#thief birthday letter 2023

[goddamnleroiii]

THIEF LETTER 2023 SPOILERS (KINDA?)

Now. What the fuck is that letter? Why do they keep forgetting their own lore? Why now Kreacher just wants to make money with a help of orphans and calls them rats and he is a king of rats? I understand “king of orphans”, because he kinda is, but rats?????????  DO THEY LIKE.... NOT REMEMBER THESE? THAT KREACHER REALLY WANTED TO HELP THE KIDS???

“Dejected man... He wanted to help children...”

“He liked those children and stealed the money from the rich for those children”. Kinda sounds like a good father-figure?

“He created the orphanage to help these disabled children” Also he hates rich people and high class. Why on earth would he want to be one of them? It’s almost like they keep forgetting their own lore and try to paint him as a worse persone that he already is.

[ivy-diaries]

( 🍂 ) . . . — IVY JENNIFER JAMES , better known as IVY, is a korean-australian artist under BIGHIT ENTERTAINMENT. she's the only female soloist of HYBE Labels.

( 🪷 ) . . . — BASICS !

BIRTH NAME : Ivy Jennifer James

KOREAN NAME : Kang Jihye ( hangul: 강지혜 )

NICKNAMES : i ( pronounced eye ), marie, vy ( pronounced like the letter v ), Jen, jenjen, jenny, angel, nation's sweetheart

BIRTHDAY : 3 march, 2000

BIRTH PLACE : newcastle, australia

ZODIAC SIGN : pisces

NATIONALITY : australian

ETHNICITY : korean

FAMILY : parents ( 1980 ), one older brother ( 1999 ), twin sister, younger twin siblings ( 2015 )

LANGUAGES : Korean, English (fluent) ; Japanese, mandarin (conversational) ; French, Greek (beginner) ; hindi, filipino, thai (learning)

( 🌠 ) . . . — BODY !

HEIGHT : 174 cm (5’7″)

BLOOD TYPE : B+

BODY MODIFICATION : seven piercings on both ears, nine tattoos on her body.

FACE CLAIM : huh yunjin ( le sserafim )

( 🪼 ) . . . — PERSONALITY !

STRENGTHS : kind, empathetic, funny, considering, dedication

FLAWS : overthinking, short temper, anxiety, self doubt, perfectionist

( 🪸 ) . . . — MEMBER'S INFO. !

STAGE NAME : IVY

AGENCIES : bighit Entertainment ( 2011 - 2023 ) ; enca labels ( 2023 - present )

TRAINING PERIOD : 2 years and 8 months

DEBUT DATE : 20 August 2014

OCCUPATION(S) : singer, dancer, model, actress, composer, lyricist, producer

FANDOM : soleil(s)

REPRESENTATIVE EMOJI : 🫧

( 🪐 ) . . . — MISC. INFO !

dramas : the bride of haebak, hotel del'luna, welcome to waikiki 2, 18 again, true beauty, vincenzo, so not worth it, hometown cha cha cha, business proposal, sh**ting star, dr romantic 2&3, king the land.

twitter : ivy_official / poison_ivy

private twitter : prodby.jen

instagram : ivy.official / poison.ivy

youtube : ivy official / poisonivy

( 🪻 ) . . . — MISC. TRIVIA !

ivy has always been interested in studies and has been a straight a student her whole life and when asked what she'd do when she'll retire from the industry, she said she'll like to get back to school!

in 2020, it was announced that ivy and txt member yeonjun were dating and the news shook the whole industry. because the couple made it seem like they were just friends!

ivy's bffs in the industry who always have her back include inka from skz, lua from ateez, haewon from mask, eris and many more idols who she absolutely loves and would give them the world for them.

she is thick as thiefs with the rest of txt and absolutely vibes with beomgyu. her, taehyun and ruby are gym buddies and often have competitions to see who has the bigger muscles and stuff.

she has a twin sister and an older brother whom she absolutel loves and would die for. and a few years ago, the james family welcomed their new addition to the family! twin siblings lily and nathen!! the twins are about seven years now and are adored by everyone.

while her korean name used to be the same as her stage name, she officially changed it summer of 2021 to kang jihye to honor her late grandmother who always wanted her to have that name.

the death of her grandma had taken a toll on her physical and mental health and she had to be on medical attention for a few months because of her depression and anorexia problems.

eversince that incident and her hiatus, she has been pretty vocal about her struggles with body image issues and her ed. she has been a spokesperson for the said reasons ever since!

[bobbyinthegarden]

2023 Reading Challenge. Mystery: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Before I get into it, in the great tradition of mystery stories, I will not be revealing the outcome of the mystery, and will do my best to avoid spoilers for this review, as I think that this book is best enjoyed if you don’t know the outcome, so yeah, no (major) spoilers.

This book is a favourite of my partner, who taught it for a class last year. They’ve been raving about it ever since, so I thought that I would also check it out for my mystery category. It’s fitting really, since The Moonstone is an early example of the modern detective novel, with Wilkie Collins being regarded as something of father of English detective fiction. T.S. Eliot said of The Moonstone that "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe", and the story contains a number of tropes and plot elements that would become staples of the genre (English country home, a skilled and renowned detective, useless local policemen, red herrings and a reconstruction of the crime, among others).

Without giving away any spoilers, the premise of the book is as follows: Rachel Verinder is a young woman from a wealthy English family living in Yorkshire. She inherits a large Indian diamond from her uncle (the ‘wicked Colonel’) on her eighteenth birthday, the titular moonstone (a diamond most likely inspired by a number of other diamonds that were pillaged from India, including the Hope, Orlov and Koh-i-Noor (pictured) Diamonds). However, that very night, after Rachel’s birthday party, the diamond is stolen. Thus begins a roughly year-long quest to identify the thief and retrieve the diamond, with nobody evading suspicion, not even Rachel herself.

One of the things that I really liked about this book is its epistolary format. The story is told through written accounts by various witnesses and letters by other characters, if I remember correctly, there are nine different narrators, each with their own distinctive personalities and opinions on the case, and it is through each of these accounts that you gradually come to understand who stole the moonstone and how they were able to do so. The identity of the thief/thieves is not impossible to figure out by any means (in fact, towards the end of the book, I was able to correctly identify the person(s) responsible). Each of the characters also has such a strong identity and voice that they are each so memorable in their own unique way (like how Betteridge reads Robinson Crusoe all the time, or Drusilla Clack’s hypocritical, meddling piousness). If you saw my posts that I made while I was reading, you’ll know that my favourite character was Ezra Jennings, the doctor’s assistant, who is a social outcast and an opium addict with a heart of gold.

Another element that I found extremely interesting is how prominent the theme of British Imperialism is in the book. I wouldn’t go so far as to call the book a post-colonial narrative, but there are definitely elements of that present within the book. The moonstone itself, it’s explained in the prologue, was looted during the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799, a battle in which the British overthrew the Indian princely state of Mysore. The British colonising force is framed as brutal, violent and cruel, and thus the moonstone itself comes to act as a symbol of British colonial violence, of the ways that colonial territories were exploited for their wealth and resources. There are also a number of characters who can be said to represent this theme as well, including the aforementioned Ezra Jennings, who is explained to be mixed race, and experiences discrimination as a result of this, with many people harbouring assumptions about him that are later demonstrated to be untrue. There are also, of course, the ‘three Indian jugglers’, who are later revealed to be Brahmins in disguise, who also seek the moonstone for the purpose of returning it to the temple that it was stolen from. All that being said, this book was still written by a white man in the 1860s, and so is definitely still a product of its time. That is to say that, the critiques of British Imperialism and racism, though admirable, are not flawless.

But yeah, with all that said, I liked this book a lot. Highly recommend if you have an interest in mystery/detective fiction, or Victorian literature in general.