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Thomas Adés THE TEMPEST

Simon Keenlyside, Cyndia Sieden, Ian Bostridge, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Philip Langridge

Thomas Adès The Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House - Covent Garden

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Say what you will about Pretty Little Liars but at least it was not copaganda, like it was probably the most negative depiction of the police force I've ever seen in a teen show. All the cops in Rosewood were either pervs or corrupt (or both, looking at you Wilden) or flat-out incompetent to the point where it put the Liars in real danger, like Tanner. Once in a while I'll see a post about how the Liars should've gone to the police, and why didn't they go to the police, like the police has ever protected them. Every time they tried the police just accused them of something else, the police was as much of a threatening figure to their lives as A was, and frankly that was probably the most realistic part of the show

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Credit: Ontario Reign

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old-fashioned short masc and androgynous names.

orson , jago , alf / alfie , finn , amos , cliff , oli / ollie , eli , lucas / luke , theo , wyatt , ezra , ashe / asher , archie , eli / elias , beau , gil , felix , lou , hugh , silas , otto , cecil , tobi / toby , micah , dorian , claude , marcel , august / auggie , cass / casper , jude , milo , caius , jasper / jass , leo / leon , noa , cyrus , remy , graham , asa , brooks , wes / wesley , griff , luci , amos , ansel , reu / reuben , rue , abel , seth , spence , vic / victor.

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Moment of Suspicion

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pairing: jason dilaurentis x female reader.

summary: 2x03 "my name is trouble" episode imagine/rewrite.

warnings: none.

*read previous part here!

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A week later, [Y/N] came to an empty home from school. After grabbing a snack, she decided to do some reading before starting her homework.

Just as she finished up a chapter, her phone rang from next to her on her bed. When she saw the caller was Spencer, she frowned in worry. Placing the bookmark on the recent page, she closed the book before answering her phone.

"Hey, Spence," she greeted, placing her book on the nightstand before sitting up on the bed again. "Everything okay?"

"Hey, [y/n/n]. Yeah, everything's fine!" Spencer answered rather enthusiastically, which made [Y/N]'s brows furrow.

"Alright, Spence, spill," she said in a playful stern voice and heard Spencer sigh on the other end.

"I may have called you to ask a favor," the brunette answered slowly.

"Sure, what is it?" asked [Y/N].

"Toby's working for Jason and I'm really worried," Spencer explained. "Can you check on him for me, please?"

"Wait, since when did Toby start working for Jason?" [Y/N] questioned, surprised.

"Since this afternoon," Spencer replied.

"You don't sound too happy about it," [Y/N] said.

"How can I be?" Spencer sighed. "For all we know, Jason could be hiding Ian, protecting him, in that creepy house."

"Spence," [Y/N] sighed this time. "I still don't think Jason would want to help his sister's murderer."

"Then, how do you explain the shadow I saw in his house yesterday?" Spencer challenged. "[y/n/n], I was right outside talking to him when I saw someone move upstairs. And, he told me he lived alone. He was clearly lying."

[Y/N] remained silent, processing Spencer's words. She still didn't believe Jason could be helping Ian hide.

However, she did find Jason's sudden return to Rosewood pretty strange. It was true that he didn't owe anyone explanation; yet, his cold demeanor towards her friends confused her because she had thought he had changed after working on Ali's memorial with them.

"Hello? Earth to [y/n/n]?" Spencer interrupted her from her thoughts.

"Sorry, I'm here," [Y/N] replied, shaking her head, hoping to remove her suspicious thoughts regarding Jason. "But, yeah, I'll go check on him."

"Thanks so much, [y/n/n], I owe you one," Spencer breathed out.

"No problem," smiled [Y/N]. "But, I have to ask you something."

"Sure," Spencer replied.

"You literally live right next door to Jason," [Y/N] spoke. "Why not just peak and make sure Toby's okay?"

"I tried," Spencer sighed out. "But, I couldn't see anything."

"It's okay," [Y/N] chuckled. "Alright, I'll check on your defenseless boyfriend and update you soon."

"You're very funny, you know that?" Spencer deadpanned.

"Sorry, I just had to," [Y/N] giggled. "Don't worry too much, alright? I'm sure Toby's okay."

"I'll try," Spencer replied. "Thanks again, [y/n/n]."

"Of course, talk to you later," [Y/N] answered and the two said their goodbyes before hanging up.

…

Once [Y/N] got near the DiLaurentis house, she noticed a shirtless and sweaty Toby first, who seemed to be hard at work with a shovel in his hands. With another few steps, she noticed Jason who was dressed in a tight blue t-shirt and faded denim jeans as he placed some heavy bags in a wheelbarrow.

She took a deep breath in to calm her racing heart as she walked closer to the two men. Her steps must've been quiet because neither Toby nor Jason took notice of her, lost in their work.

"Hello," she greeted, causing the two men to look up at her in surprise.

"Hello, [Y/N]," Jason greeted her back with a smile, standing straight as Toby did the same.

"Hey, [y/n/n], what are you doing here?" Toby asked, resting his hands on top of the shovel.

"A little birdie told me that you got a job so I figured I'd stop by and say congratulations," she replied, hoping her breathy voice didn't give away how nervous she was -- especially with Jason's gaze on her.

"Is that little birdie's name Spencer?" Toby asked, smiling mischievously.

"Of course, not," [Y/N] said, a little too fast for her liking. "Haven't you heard? My friends and I are spending some time apart. Doctor's orders."

"I just saw you guys together recently," Jason replied before Toby could and [Y/N] looked at him. She knew he was talking about the time he caught the girls sneaking out at night a couple of days ago.

[Y/N] looked back at Toby, who had a Cheshire cat grin on his face.

"I wonder if that was before or after the doctor's orders," he commented.

"It- it was before," [Y/N] replied slowly and shifted to look at Jason when she noticed Toby didn't believe her words.

"It's alright, I won't tell anyone," Jason chuckled, holding up his hands. A few moments later, he cleared his throat before asking, "I'm gonna grab a drink. Do you guys want something?"

"I'm okay," Toby replied just as [Y/N] said, "No, thank you."

Jason gave her a smile in return before turning to walk inside the house.

"Alright, [y/n/n], what are you really doing here?" Toby asked quietly once Jason had disappeared inside the house.

[Y/N] sighed and walked closer to Toby, glancing at the closed door of the DiLaurentis house once.

"Spencer sent me," she admitted, making sure to keep her voice as quiet as Toby.

"I had a feeling," Toby sighed.

"She's really worried," [Y/N] said.

"Why is she so scared about me working for Jason?" Toby asked in genuine confusion. "I mean, he's been nothing but nice to me so far."

"She thinks he's hiding Ian," [Y/N] whispered, taking another glance at the shut door.

"That's insane!" Toby said a little loudly when [Y/N] shushed him.

"I don't know what goes through your girlfriend's brain," [Y/N] shrugged playfully.

"What do you think?" Toby asked her suddenly.

"Sorry?" [Y/N] frowned.

"Do you think Jason's suspicious too?" Toby questioned her and [Y/N] dropped her gaze from his for a moment.

"He hasn't really given me a reason to be suspicious about him so far," she finally said, looking up at Toby, who nodded at her in understanding.

Before Toby could reply to her, Jason walked out of the house, carrying out a trash bag with him.

"I would invite you guys in but the place is kind of crazy," he said once he was closer to Toby and [Y/N].

He threw the bag to the side when it opened and several bloodied gauze fell out of it.

[Y/N] stiffened in her spot and her eyes widened at the sight. She looked at Toby, who looked at her, concerned. She had a feeling Toby might've been reconsidering their conversation and to be honest, so was she.

"Uh, I cut myself," Jason explained with an awkward chuckle, rubbing his palms in his jeans.

"Hope you're okay now," [Y/N] said meekly once she was able to get some words out.

"Yeah, it was just a small cut," Jason replied and [Y/N] nodded.

"Well, I should get going now," she said, slowly backing out of the DiLaurentis yard. "It was nice seeing you two. Good night."

"Good night, [Y/N]," Jason answered.

"Thanks for stopping by, [y/n/n]," Toby told her with a smile. "Text me when you get home, okay?"

"Will do," [Y/N] smiled back at him and gave one last wave to Jason before turning around and making her way towards her home.

While walking, she sent a quick text to Spencer, letting the latter know that Toby was okay. She decided to keep the suspicious-bloodied-gauze from Jason's trash to herself as she knew sharing this with Spencer would make her friend go on a dangerous hunt to know what was up with Jason.

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(Tyler honestly didn’t mind school. Sure people were jerks and the teacher were rude. But he didn’t mind. He was happy to have his friends Ruth and Richie….well….they were his nephew Pete’s friends but he loved to tag along with them. He had decided to hide in the library….he kinda was hiding from Jagerman after biting him again. He took out his anime book and read it, messing with his rubric cube)

“ stupid max…thinks he can hurt my nephew and his friends. Lucky I didn’t bite his arm off” he grumbles

[Toby is sitting at the library, he was supposed to meet up with his friend Spence, but he was busy, so Toby was sitting alone, finishing up his homework]

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Court Circular | 12th September 2023

St James’s Palace

12th September, 2023

The Princess Royal, Patron, the Boston Stump Restoration and Development Appeal, this morning visited completed restoration work at St Botolph’s Church, Church Close, Boston, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (Mr Toby Dennis).

Her Royal Highness, Patron, Magpas Air Ambulance Capital Campaign, this afternoon opened a new Air Base at Alconbury Weald, Barnwell Road, Huntingdon, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (Mrs Julie Spence).

The Princess Royal, Patron, Maritime UK, this evening attended the London International Shipping Week Tenth Anniversary Reception at Mansion House, London EC4.

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WE MADE PLANS & GOD LAUGHED — Beauty School Dropout (3:27 pm EST)

Over — KAIRO (3:29 pm EST)

On God — Spence Lee (3:32 pm EST)

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Rants!

Anzu/saki: Unconditional love and support... Kiss ur girl bestie... Make that stupid wizard rage quit <3

Peter/Spence: Dedicating to @versailles-dove for doing this to me:

They have the same big wet hooded eyes and pathetic natures fucjibg lanky white boys with bisexuality and neurodivergence.

There is one (1) fic on Ao3 dedicated to this ship and it's frying my brain look at it:

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Hey uh I'm Spencer, I'm 18 and going to Hatchetfield High

Decided to make this blog because everyone else has them and maybe it'll make getting friends easier, people don't notice me much, unless it's for bullying...

I use He/Him pronouns and I'm bi and polyamorous, very open to relationships! (If anyone would even be interested...)

I'm friends with Ruth, Pete and uh Toby... at least I think we're friends...?

I like video games and art, theatre too, tho I'm too nervous to do it...

I do a little bit of uh... training on the side...

@the-bastards-box here with a new oc roleplay blog

He has a connection to Tinky which resulted in teleportation powers

He's a fighter at the Roller-Rama by the name of Space Ace

Spence looks like this

He's open to shipping!!

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Currently Playing

Thomas Adès THE TEMPEST

Thomas Adès

Simon Keenlyside, Cyndia Sieden, Ian Bostridge, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Philip Langridge

The Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

[7yearsofdele]

Just want you all to know that my dad has solved all of Spurs’ problems:

1. Direct quote: ‘why the fuck are they useless in the first half when they play like that in the second half?’

2. We never replaced Eriksen and we need a creative midfielder. And we need someone who can take free kicks.

3. Our defence hasn’t been the same since Jan and Toby left and while Cuti is amazing, we still need another centre half since we look like dog shit when he doesn’t play.

4. Conte is a quality manager, but given that our strength is our attack, we don’t need a defence minded manager. We need a manger who will allow us to play to our strengths.

5. Lolo is our best midfielder. Perisic is our best crosser.

6. Emerson is a better defender than attacker and he should not be getting up the pitch.

7. Bissouma and Skipp should play more since they are good players but instead we’d rather run the legs off Pierre (who he also thinks is a great player, but should be able to take a break sometimes). He also thinks Spence and Sessegnon are quality and should get more game time too.

8. He doesn’t necessarily think we needed to buy Richy (I disagree because he can play anywherealong the front 3 and a quality back up to Kane if he can’t play isn’t a bad thing) and playing Richy as a 9 will only work if we get a creative midfielder or play him with Kane, since Kane is our creative midfielder most of the time.

9. Our tactics should always be to go after teams, since we arguably have the best team of forward players in the League. Other teams should be scared of playing us, because of Kane, Richy, Deki and Sonny, but they aren’t because we spend the entire first half allowing them to come on to us and build confidence.

So basically sack Conte and get my dad in yeah?

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pll rewatch 2x21

My blorbo returns, having achieved inner peace offscreen and yet still makes insane decisions, Mona gets drawn into the liars’ orbit, and Melissa becomes a major suspect.

Emily is very annoyed to be left out of Sparia delivering the money to Jonah. She’s like, what do you mean I don’t get to be one of the ringleaders of investigating shit anymore? 

Wilden appears to be genuinely trying to figure out what’s going on but he remains a creeper throughout.

Spencer tells Melissa that Jason is their brother. Spencer and wanting to be honest with her family....

Paige is more chill now but is still drawn to Emily like a magnet. I really like her body language in all three of her scenes

I get distracted in this scene by Paige’s background line to some other swimmer: “Just don’t sit Coach Fulton anywhere near Mr. Donovan”

What intriciate social dynamics has Paige been exposed to as swim team captain, I do not think she would enjoy that aspect at all. 

I also get distracted by Paige saying Emily is the star of the team. Emily has been off the team since her cursed ulcer! Why does this team revolve around Emily!! I say this as a big Emily fan.

Okay maybe that was Paige flirting

In trying to recruit Emily to fundraise with her, Paige says “Who could possibly turn you down?” and my friends note that Emily is so easy with how this gets her to say yes. I think Paige actually does have correct fundraising strategy here, Emily Fields is the kid to have ask for money, even after the shovel arrest.

Hanna thinks Mona doesn’t understand the dangers of A, Mona says she “can handle some radioactive texting” and I cackle because yeah Mona, you sure can.

Ashley says Tom could sue for custody if word got out about Ashley fucking Wilden to get out of the theft charge, and it’s like, Ashley, bro, Tom Marin does not want this daughter, Tom Marin would like to sue to never acknowledge this daughter again. 

Team Sparia meeting Jonah in the park is delightful. Aria keeps asking Spencer what time it is and I can already see a future where that is their married dynamic. 

Then they are so irate that Jonah gives them an address, not a number. Girls, phone numbers don’t necessarily have names associated with them, do we need Caleb to explain this to you!

Paige’s mom calls, giving Paige an excuse to mention to Emily that she came out.

Both the PLL podcasts I dabble in theorized that Paige set an alarm and didn’t actually get a call,  and I must defend my blorbo’s honor here, which is to say: Paige does not have enough brain cells to plot like that 😭 she is clearly trying and failing to play it cool with Em this episode but she is not playing 4D chess, I’m pretty sure 80% of her brain this episode is devoted to going “Emily! Emily Fields!! Hanging out with Emily Fields!!!” 

I do like it as a character note for Paige’s mom, who we will never hear about again. She’s like, my daughter is gay okay, but who is she dating?? She’s with Emily, The One Gay Girl of Rosewood, clearly this is the answer. So wrong and so right, Paige’s mom.

Love the shot of seeing Emily’s eyes narrow at that :D And the sweet conversation about coming out after, with the Guys Like Paige theme playing in the background :D :D 

Great jackets for both of them here too

When Aria tells the girls she’s been seeing Ezra without telling them, Emily is understanding while Spencer is very betrayed....she did share her vulnerability about Toby under the impression that Aria was going through something similar

Or maybe Spencer was building up to kissing Aria y’know, and this news has really dampened that. Poor Spence.

Even more so when the liars see a vid of Melissa bursting into Alison’s room and suddenly this is what makes them go oh, we should go to the cops now. 

Do enjoy the visual framing of Spencer vs the liars here, where she physically distances herself while arguing

Mona shows Hanna a document that appears to be a police report for Hanna’s shoplifting, but the conversation implies there’s a photo? Or something underneath? That is evidence Ashley fucked Wilden to get Hanna out of it? Because otherwise this conversation makes no sense.

That will make no sense in a future discussion about this document where suddenly it’s only a police report.

Spencer drinks a coffee while brooding in the bar and I note Spencer is practicing for her future of drinking alone in bars and then oops, she grabs some shots for herself. 

Garrett has apparently been accompanying Melissa to the doctor, and Wren loves spilling these deets. What medical field at the hospital does this man not cover, and has he ever heard of medical privacy.

“Home is the last place I want to go” Spencer...

Meanwhile, the other three investigate a sketchy looking location that used to house a law firm that Ali received scary texts from. 

I’d completely forgotten this sequence. Hanna simply opens the gate when Aria and Emily are baffled by the locks on one side, Aria gets literally scared off the porch by a squatter, a classic PLL scare.

Spencer is sooo drunk while in Wren’s apartment and while I do find drunk!Spencer charming, it’s soooo bad....mr grown man creeping.

Hanna is currently the liar most invested in investigating, because she wants to minimize the danger to Caleb and/or her mom ASAP, so she googles law firms while Aria tends to her own wounded leg

When Emily mistakes some other black girl at the restaurant for Maya, the girl’s companion is so offended by this mistake, she gives Emily such stank eye that I must share this screencap with all of you

Emily runs into Paige right outside the restaurant and oof, I do not enjoy the things Paige says about Maya here. Much like Maya’s grumbling about swim teammates in the previous episode, I don’t even understand it on a character level, because these characters have never interacted.

One of the podcasts suggested this is the writers setting up the mystery next season, and huh, yeah, it makes sense on that level.

Paige makes it worse by....going for the kiss....oh buddy...

In my notes I wrote “Paige! Bad choices McGee!!” 

Yeah. RIP Paige, please kiss Emily outside of a relationship in more normal circumstances. And if you ever encounter non-normal circumstances with her in the future, please dodge her lips.

Mona turns in her own stolen necklace to save Hanna and Ashley, and I am reminded of Halloween 2008, when Ali nobly goes out to the dangerous hallway to call the cops for the liars

I have grumbled about Ella before, but this right here is where she fucking loses me. Aria throws one (1) tantrum about Ezra moving for a job and Ella acts as if Aria will elope with him right now if she doesn’t Have A Conversation with Ezria

Ella loves Having Conversations and Doing Nothing

She says she’s not endorsing anything, but her appearance at the apartment is an endorsement. It is like a dark mirror of Pam hosting Emaya dinner 1.0 back when she was still homophobic

Melissa interned at the law firm Ashley used for the divorce, but it’s so goddamn funny to me the way this reveal is phrased implies Ashley chose it specifically because Melissa was interning there???

Okay fine, maybe she asked Veronica for recs and Veronica pointed her there. But I can’t imagine Ashley ever asking the Hastings for anything. 

My next thought is wondering if anyone’s ever written Ashley/Melissa fic skldfjsldkf

Barry Maples (it’s been so long! We haven’t seen him since Mike was doing B&Es!) shows up to tell Emily that Maya is officially a missing person.

Reminds me of a question I had about Emily’s behaviour this whole episode, because she kept treating Maya not replying to her as like....a ghosting breakup as opposed to a sign that maybe something bad happened to her?

Which yeah, is a very teenage self-centered approach, fair.

Yikes, A’s got a gun.

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ITV‘s post office drama that has led to an intense period of reckoning for multiple institutions and pushed the issue to the front pages of UK newspapers for weeks has found a U.S. home.

PBS Masterpiece has picked up Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which will air in April.

Starring BAFTA-winners Toby Jones and Monica Dolan, the four-part show launched at the start of 2024 and dramatizes what is now deemed one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.

When money started to seemingly disappear from its local branches, the government-owned Post Office wrongly blamed their own managers for its apparent loss. For more than a decade, hundreds were accused of theft and fraud, and many were even sent to prison – leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. But the issue was actually caused by errors in the Post Office’s own computer system – something it denied for years.

Since launch, the post office scandal has dominated UK newspapers and news websites for weeks now and numerous strides have been made in the drive for justice for hundreds of post office workers.

It has beaten Downton Abbey to become ITV’s biggest new drama launch in over a decade and is averaging 13.1M viewers per episode – a rare feet for a British show.

“Our ambition in telling this story was simply that the Subpostmasters felt heard,” said EP Patrick Spence, who produced for ITV Studios alongside Little Gem.

Susanne Simpson, Masterpiece EP, added: “Mr Bates vs The Post Office is a testament to the people who persisted in their search for truth and justice. The producers of this powerful drama have reignited the public interest in the Subpostmasters’ 20-year quest for justice. I’m incredibly proud that we will bring this story to the American audience.”

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hate to say it (no i dont) but spence literally has more chemistry w anyone BESIDES toby