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Valentine Laroche (Valentine A)

part 1 / 2 (part 2)

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Valentine Laroche

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Valentine Laroche, lovely.

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Deluxe Valentine

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heyheyhello!

could you give a little updated rundown of your ocs? i know you've done one back in '17 but that was aaaages ago :3

your ocs are so cool hhhrrrrghhhhh i wanna hear you infodump about them

OUGH OOOHHHH im glad you think they're cool! my little guys,,,,, hmmm lets see 👏 this is gonna get Super long

2024 OC Rundown: GO

Axe + Cleaver

Goliath Abernathy > local hunter, former clergy member of the Harlach Parish

Elle Sinclaire > butcher in the Ros District of Kencree, currently possessed by several ghosts

Agnes Laroche > a scholar of the humanities with a focus on religious studies. she came to Kencree looking to learn about Boarstooth and the Harlach Parish and got more than she bargained for

Euan Harlach > a runaway from the Harlach Parish, the twin of the Parish's head priestess who resents what the church has become under her guidance. Angus' fiance

Angus Reid > blacksmith in the Ros District, head of the militia that keeps the District out from under the Parish's control. Euan's fiance

Odelia Harlach > head priestess of Harlach Parish and foyunder of the Boarstooth religion. a cannibalistic vampire with a taste for power and adoration

tag: rhodes butchery

Coffinmakers

Yule Jones > the local coffinmaker. a workaholic who's main hobby is visiting the oldest graves in town to leave flowers, including a mausoleum with the name Joan Haakon

Joan Haakon > an ancient vampire who doesn't get out much. she got caught returning flowers to Yule's doorstep and now she's living her worst fear (falling in love)

Donatello Jenkins > Joan's wingman, who is ever exasperated with her and finally understanding the phrase "dumb lesbians"

tag: coffinmaker

Flock

Kazmir > grew up alone traveling thru a country hit by a technological apocalypse, looking for her mother. met Mozzwood at a young age and now they're partners thru thick and thin

Mozzwood > a very anxious young gryffin. Kaz protects him more than he has the heart to protect her, but he does his best to look out for her

Valentine > a former cult child and the leading mind on agriculture in the apocalypse. sells their knowledge on agriculture for their needs. rescued Gabriel from their old church

Gabriel > Valentine's little sister and a former cult child. has lived a very sheltered life, so you can imagine what a 9 year old who suddenly doesnt have any rules is like

Neera > an older gryffin that occasionally checks in on the group. taught a younger Valentine how to care for themself

tag: flock

The Hunt

Julia > one of the Malady twins and head of the Malady clan. reacts explosively and violently towards parties outside of his clan, but is loving and silly with the rest of his group. the group's brawler, weapon of choice is his "bear paw" gloves

Angelo > one of the Malady twins and second in command of the Malady clan. much more levelheaded than his sibling, more emotional and very well behaved in social settings. skilled in forgery and lock picking. weapon of choice is a crowbar

Jack > the 3rd addition to the clan. their tech and historical expert in heists/raids. can joke around off the job but takes his work very seriously. Mitchell's mentor. doesn't fight due to an old knee injury

Mitchell > the newest addition to the clan, added after a serious brawl in which he and Julia hit stalemate, earning the clan's respect in one shot. skilled in antique restoration. weapon of choice is knives

Mama > the matriarch of the Malady clan, raised the twins and Jack. very sweet with everyone she meets. doesn't partake in the raids or the spoils, but first order of business after a raid is still to offer her pieces that were acquired on the job. doesn't fight-- has never had so much as a scratch because the rest of the clan protects her

Scottie > local lounge singer, Julia's girlfriend. knows about the clan but unaware what their "job" is. Julia makes sure her every need is met. Scottie is very bubbly and sweet with everyone, and loves hanging off Julia's shoulder

tag: the hunt

Red Heron

Alec > one of the archivists for the Red Heron Project. unable to leave the site due to physical complications regarding their body modification. guardian of the Librarian (in love with the Librarian)

The Librarian > the main archivist of the Red Heron Project. considered a failed model of heavy body modification, they're also unable to leave the site. lives with Alec in the Project's archives

Eliza > considered a successful body mod, and currently works as an assistant within the Project. caretaker for Yuma and Lovelace, and currently working on a plan to get them out

Yuma > also known as Y-034. one of the two youngest subjects in the Project. a successful attempt at creating a programmable android out of a human. best friends with Lovelace

Lovelace > failed attempt at creating a programmable android out of a human. she refuses 98% of commands given to her-- an attempt to fix this leaves her wires fried, reactions violent, and movements unpredictable. does her best to help take gentle care of Yuma

Johann > one of the leading engineers within the project, but was unaware his designs were being carried out-- burdened with intense guilt after learning of Alec and Lovelace's existence, but unable to leave the site. designs and builds for Kairos' mods

Kairos > bodyguard for Johann, and a little obsessed with his own modifications. always looking for bigger and better mods, and loves when they come off intimidating. loves Johann dearly, but will get in daily fights with Alec

tag: red heron

Kor

Adriana > traveling mercenary on her "last job". she's morose, weighed down by the death of a childhood friend. she's convinced it was her fault, and so punishes herself for it constantly. finds her place in the circus after meeting Frogmouth

Frogmouth > a masked jester within a traveling circus. he's looking for revenge for a past hurt, which he refuses to share with others until he meets Adriana. Adriana's complete opposite, he's bubbly to a point of being annoying for most

Grace > duchess of the town the circus and Adriana have landed in. Adriana could swear she was familiar...

Andrew > Grace's devoted guard dog. he's over reactive when it comes to her safety and public perception. hates Frogmouth with a passion

tag: kor

With Love From Denver

The Harbinger/Denver Maldonado > a dullahan in the southwest. the loss of her head created a violent rage within her, and now that her head has been stolen, she hunts down anyone who's come in contact with it

Flora Hernandez > a mail carrier who's secretly hunting for the dullahan's head. she does find it. she also finds the dullahan

tag: wlfd

Pearl River

Dallas Whickam > an alligator hybrid living in the swamps of Louisiana. he's pretty sheltered, considering, but he has a kind personality and can't stop talking when he meets Pearl for the first time

Pearl Jones > a student interested in the swamp wildlife. he stumbles upon Dallas' shack on accident, gets the scare of his life meeting Dallas, and then begins socializing him when he finds he has nothing to fear

tag: dallas, pearl

Temperance

Magdalene > an alcoholic fisherman on the Maine coast. years of scraping by has beaten her down but she feels trapped within her industry. goes to bars and clubs to cope, during which she meets Sadie

Sadie/Temperance > Magdalene's new first mate. Sadie is the human vessel for the goddess Temperance, who's in love with Magdalene (god's favorite fisherman > Bad). Temperance has loved Magdalene thru several lifetimes and will continue to love her for many more

tag: temperance

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Can’t Wait for Comics | ‘Dark Web’ ends, plus ‘DC Power, ‘Black Tape’ + more

Check out new comics and graphic novels this week from Zeb Wells, Adam Kubert, John Jennings, Valentine De Landro, Dan Panosian, Dalibor Talajic, Ed Laroche, Peach Momoko and more.

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Gidget and the Dawn of the 1960s Surf Culture By Jessica Pickens

From The Beach Boys singing about surfing in the USA to Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in Beach Blanket Bingo, 1960s pop culture is colored with surfing and beautiful teenagers on the beaches of California.

A teenager in Malibu was largely responsible for the surf craze. During the summer of 1957, Kathy Kohner was one of the few girls who was surfing and she was nicknamed “Gidget” for her short stature – “girl midget.”

Kathy told her father, screenwriter Frederick Kohner, that she wanted to write a story about her summer, and Kohner said he would help his daughter. Kathy shared her stories and diary pages with her dad. The result was a fictional book, Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas by Frederick Kohner published in 1957.

The book was a best seller and its popularity spawned the first film, GIDGET (’59) starring Sandra Dee as Gidget; James Darren as her crush, Moondoggie; Cliff Robertson as the surf leader, The Big Kahuna; and Arthur O’Connell and Mary LaRoche as her parents.

In the film, Francie “Gidget” Lawrence is a teenage tomboy, who no longer fits in with her boy crazy friends. She finds herself interested in surfing with a group of teenage boys, who aren’t welcoming, but she works hard to fit in and learn the craft. Once they realize that Gidget is serious about surfing and can hold her own, they welcome her into the group as their mascot. While Gidget finds herself in love with surfing, she also develops a crush on fellow surfer Moondoggie.

On the surface, GIDGET may seem like another Technicolor teen romantic comedy, but there is female empowerment in this story — Gidget breaks away from the mainstream and does what she wants, even though it doesn’t meet the Jell-O-mold expectations for 1950s young women.

Kathy Kohner was in college when GIDGET (‘59) was released, but she had the opportunity to meet the stars. In a 2015 interview, she remembered Dee as being sweet and considers her the best of the Gidget actresses. In comparison, Dee’s Gidget was sweet, demure and kind, while in reality Kathy said she was more of a tomboy. 

“It’s odd being that person and watching the films about what Gidget does,” Kathy said. “Sandra Dee is Gidget. There’s me, the real person, but she was great as the character.”

The success of GIDGET spawned multiple spinoffs for the next 30 year, including:

Two feature films: Gidget Goes Hawaiian (‘61) and Gidget Goes to Rome (‘63)

Three made-for-TV-movies: Gidget Grows Up (‘69), Gidget Gets Married (‘72) and Gidget’s Summer Reunion (‘85) 

A cartoon TV movie: Gidget’s Missed Connection (‘72) 

 Two television series: Gidget (1965-1966) and The New Gidget (1986-1988) 

Sandra Dee only played the role of Gidget once. A new actress played Gidget with each new project including: Deborah Walley, Cindy Carol, Karen Valentine, Monie Ellis, Sally Field and Caryn Richman. The last time the Gidget character was seen on TV or a film screen was in the New Gidget TV series (1986-1988). 

But the 1959 film didn’t just spawn a three-decade film and TV franchise, it sparked the surf culture— in sport, music, clothes and films. “I was a kid. I didn’t think of the business end of surfing with the contest and the clothes,” Kathy Kohner (née) Zuckerman said in a 2015 interview. “There was no surf music yet, we had “Rock Around the Clock” and Elvis Presley. Surf music didn’t come until 1961.” The 1959 film also changed the landscape of surfing in California. So many people descended on Malibu, that Kathy stopped surfing because it got too crowded. Many of the boys she surfed with also stopped surfing because of the commercialization and overload of novice surfers. “A bunch of us went to see the movie in Hollywood, and Tubesteak (the surfer Kahuna is based on) said ‘This is the beginning of the end,’” early Malibu surfer Tom Powell said in the documentary Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story (2010). “Which it was.”

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Vee LaRoche  also known as: Elise, Valentine, and Mandy Collins.

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Valentine Laroche (Valentine A)

part 9 / 10 (part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8 , part 10)

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Continuum s01e04 ‘Matter of Time’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?  

Yes, three times. 

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?          

Five (27.8%)

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Thirteen (72.2%)

Positive Content Rating:

Three

General Episode Quality: Solid

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel: Kiera passes with Melissa thrice, first when she asks her about her failure to disclose a legal challenge she’d filed, the second when Melissa asks Kiera not to give stolen (then recovered) data to the military, and the third time when Kiera returns the stolen data to Melissa.

Female Characters:

Kiera Cameron

Sonya Valentine

Jasmine Garza        

Melissa Dobeck

Betty Robertson

Male Characters:

Greg

Oscar

Alec Saddler (Present)

Carlos Fonnegra

Matthew Kellog

Edoard Kagame

Shane Mathers

Travis Verta

Lucas Ingram

Vincent

Inspector Dillon

Lieutenant General Rogers

Drew Laroche

Other Notes:

The scene where Sonya and Garza beat up drug dealers to take over their marijuana-growing operation is aces. 

Also aces is the show’s depiction of Kagame’s feels at being back in the past. Of all the time travelers, he’s the one old enough to see the world change, and I like the way the show depicts that. 

Kiera’s apartment in the future is is really well-designed, managing to feel both homey and cold. 

The way the episode ties together Kiera and Liber8′s stories this episode —essentially interrupting the case of the week in order to have them face off —feels weird, and I’m not sure it was necessary. 

Alec continues to disregard boundaries, and Kiera continues to call him out on it. If we must have the first, I’m glad we have the second. 

It was bound to happen eventually: Liber8 couldn’t be the enemy every episode, and so what we get instead is a murder investigation involving clean energy research.  Still, what starts out feeling a bit like filler becomes something more, as the story ends up tying to future events anyway, adds yet another wrinkle to the already complicated moral dimensions of the series when Kiera decides to let a killer go because she knows they’ll be important in the future. It’s a good character moment in a series already filled with them. 

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Valentine Laroche, very pretty.

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Meet

                                          Valentin Laroche

Age: 48 Place of birth: Calais, France Current living condition: Toronto, Canada (but travels a lot) Occupation: Owner of three big jewelry stores in Calais, London and New York (which are fronts for his drug business) Status: Divorced Connection to Sarah: Short affair when she was twenty-two and he thirty-six

Sarah and Valentin met while she was traveling around with her gang. One of them knew the French drug entrepreneur and he was hiring drug dealers and to earn some money, Sarah, along with her gang, decided to take the job. There was chemistry between them right from the start and they both noticed. Age was absolutely nothing to them. He was the mysterious, sexy, older French man with a hot accent and she was a pretty, little thing with a hot slang. It was just fun, nothing serious and that he was married didn´t matter, either. It started one night when she went to his luxurious apartment to pick up the product she had to sell (cocaine) and it turned into an affair.

Valentin is cocky, successful and also manipulative. He knows how to get what he wants. And he doesn´t mind making his hands dirty. He can be quite ruthless when someone screws him over. He is quite the asshole, but most times he´s relaxed and even generous. Basically, don´t screw with him and he won´t screw with you.

The affair between him and Sarah ended once she stopped working for him and returned home to her family.

Got a question for this asshole? | Valentin tag

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Nous sommes des citoyens d'opinions différentes et très souvent opposées qui se sont trouvés d'accord pour exprimer, en dehors de toute actualité, leur inquiétude face à la montée de l'islamisme. Ce ne sont pas nos affinités qui nous réunissent, mais le sentiment qu'un danger menace la liberté en général et pas seulement la liberté de penser. Ce qui nous réunit aujourd'hui est plus fondamental que ce qui ne manquera pas de nous séparer demain.

Le nouveau totalitarisme islamiste cherche à gagner du terrain par tous les moyens et à passer pour une victime de l'intolérance. On a pu observer cette stratégie lorsque le syndicat d'enseignants SUD Éducation 93 proposait il y a quelques semaines un stage de formation comportant des ateliers de réflexion sur le «racisme d'État» interdits aux «Blanc.he.s». Certains animateurs étaient membres ou sympathisants du Collectif contre l'islamophobie en France et du Parti des indigènes de la République. Les exemples de ce genre se sont multipliés dernièrement. Nous avons ainsi appris que la meilleure façon de combattre le racisme serait de séparer les «races». Si cette idée nous heurte, c'est que nous sommes républicains.

Nous entendons aussi dire que, puisque les religions sont bafouées en France par une laïcité «instrumentalisée», il faut donner à celle qui est minoritaire, c'est-à-dire à l'islam, une place spéciale pour qu'elle cesse d'être humiliée. La même idée se poursuit: il paraît qu'en se couvrant d'un voile les femmes se protégeraient des hommes et que se mettre à part leur permettrait de s'affranchir.

Le point commun de ces proclamations est de penser que la seule façon de défendre les «dominés» (ce n'est pas notre vocabulaire mais celui de SUD Éducation 93), serait de les mettre à l'écart des autres et de leur accorder des privilèges.

Il n'y a pas longtemps, l'apartheid régnait en Afrique du Sud. Reposant sur la ségrégation des Noirs, il voulait se disculper en créant des bantoustans où une autonomie factice leur était concédée. Un tel système a heureusement disparu.

Et voici qu'aujourd'hui, c'est un apartheid d'un nouveau genre qui est proposé à la France, une ségrégation à l'envers grâce à laquelle les «dominés» préserveraient leur dignité en se mettant à l'abri des «dominants».

Mais alors, cela veut dire qu'une femme qui ôte le voile et sort dans la rue deviendrait une proie normale? Cela veut dire qu'une «race» qui côtoie les autres serait humiliée? Cela veut dire qu'une religion qui accepte de n'être qu'une parmi d'autres perdrait la face?

Et les Français musulmans, ou de culture musulmane sans être croyants, qui aiment la démocratie et veulent vivre avec tout le monde, l'islamisme a-t-il prévu de les mettre à part, eux aussi? Et les femmes qui refusent d'être enfermées, qui décidera pour elles? Et les autres, ceux qui ne méritent apparemment pas d'être protégés: sous clé dans le camp des «dominants»?

Tout cela va à l'encontre de ce qui a été fait en France pour garantir la paix civile. Depuis longtemps, l'unité du pays a été fondée sur l'indifférence à l'égard des particularismes pouvant être cause de conflit. Ce qu'on appelle l'universalisme républicain ne consiste pas à nier les sexes, les races ou les religions, mais à définir l'espace civique indépendamment d'eux pour que personne n'en soit exclu. Et comment ne pas voir que la laïcité protège aussi les religions minoritaires? La mettre en péril nous expose au retour des guerres de religion.

À quoi peut donc servir ce ségrégationnisme nouvelle manière? Doit-il seulement permettre aux soi-disant «dominés» de sauvegarder leur pureté en vivant entre eux? N'a-t-il pas surtout pour but d'affirmer la sécession avec la communauté nationale, ses lois et ses mœurs? N'est-il pas l'expression de la haine la plus caractérisée à l'égard de notre pays et de la démocratie?

Que chacun vive dans la loi de sa communauté ou de sa caste et dans le mépris de celle des autres, que chacun ne soit jugé que par les siens, cela est contraire à l'esprit de la République. Celle-ci a été fondée sur le refus de droits privés s'appliquant à des catégories spécifiques et exclusives, sur l'abolition des privilèges. Les mêmes lois pour chacun de nous, voilà ce que nous garantit au contraire la République. C'est ce qu'on appelle tout simplement la Justice.

Le nouveau séparatisme avance masqué. Il veut paraître bénin, mais il est en réalité l'arme de la conquête politique et culturelle de l'islamisme. L'islamisme veut être à part car il rejette les autres, y compris les musulmans qui ne partagent pas ses vues. L'islamisme déteste la souveraineté démocratique car elle lui refuse toute légitimité. L'islamisme se sent humilié lorsqu'il ne domine pas.

Il n'est pas question d'accepter cela. Nous voulons vivre dans un monde complet où les deux sexes se regardent sans se sentir insultés par la présence de l'autre. Nous voulons vivre dans un monde complet où les femmes ne sont pas jugées inférieures par nature. Nous voulons vivre dans un monde complet où les gens peuvent se côtoyer sans se craindre. Nous voulons vivre dans un monde complet où aucune religion ne fait la loi.

Les signataires

Waleed al-Husseini, écrivain Arnaud d'Aunay, peintre Pierre Avril, universitaire Vida Azimi, juriste Isabelle Barbéris, universitaire Kenza Belliard, formatrice Georges Bensoussan, historien Corinne Berron, auteur Alain Besançon, historien Fatiha Boudjahlat, essayiste Michel Bouleau, juriste Rémi Brague, philosophe Philippe Braunstein, historien Stéphane Breton, cinéaste, ethnologue Claire Brière-Blanchet, reporter, essayiste Marie-Laure Brossier, élue municipale Pascal Bruckner, écrivain Eylem Can, scénariste Sylvie Catellin, sémiologue Gérard Chaliand, écrivain Patrice Champion, ancien conseiller ministériel Brice Couturier, journaliste Éric Delbecque, essayiste Chantal Delsol, philosophe Vincent Descombes, philosophe David Duquesne, infirmier libéral Luc Ferry, philosophe, ancien ministre Alain Finkielkraut, philosophe, écrivain Patrice Franceschi, écrivain Renée Fregosi, philosophe Christian Frère, professeur Claudine Gamba-Gontard, professeur Jacques Gilbert, historien des idées Gilles-William Goldnadel, avocat Monique Gosselin-Noat, universitaire Gabriel Gras, biologiste Gaël Gratet, professeur Patrice Gueniffey, historien Alain Guéry, historien Éric Guichard, philosophe Claude Habib, écrivain, professeur Nathalie Heinich, sociologue Clarisse Herrenschmidt, linguiste Philippe d'Iribarne, sociologue Roland Jaccard, essayiste Jacques Jedwab, psychanalyste Catherine Kintzler, philosophe Bernard Kouchner, médecin, humanitaire, ancien ministre Bernard de La Villardière, journaliste Françoise Laborde, journaliste Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, essayiste Dominique Lanza, psychologue clinicienne Philippe de Lara, philosophe Josepha Laroche, universitaire Alain Laurent, essayiste, éditeur Michel Le Bris, écrivain Jean-Pierre Le Goff, philosophe Damien Le Guay, philosophe Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet, juriste Barbara Lefebvre, enseignante Patrick Leroux-Hugon, physicien Élisabeth Lévy, journaliste Laurent Loty, historien des idées Mohamed Louizi, ingénieur, essayiste Jérôme Maucourant, économiste Jean-Michel Meurice, peintre, réalisateur Juliette Minces, sociologue Marc Nacht, psychanalyste, écrivain Morgan Navarro, dessinateur Pierre Nora, historien, éditeur Robert Pépin, traducteur Céline Pina, essayiste Yann Queffélec, écrivain Jean Queyrat, réalisateur Philippe Raynaud, professeur de sciences politiques Robert Redeker, écrivain Pierre Rigoulot, historien Ivan Rioufol, journaliste Philippe San Marco, auteur, essayiste Boualem Sansal, écrivain Jean-Marie Schaeffer, philosophe Martine Segalen, ethnologue André Senik, enseignant Patrick Sommier, homme de théâtre Antoine Spire, vice-président de la Licra Wiktor Stoczkowski, anthropologue Véronique Tacquin, professeure, écrivain Pierre-André Taguieff, politologue Maxime Tandonnet, auteur Sylvain Tesson, écrivain Paul Thibaud, essayiste Bruno Tinel, économiste Michèle Tribalat, démographe Caroline Valentin, essayiste David Vallat, auteur Éric Vanzieleghem, documentaliste Jeannine Verdès-Leroux, historienne Emmanuel de Waresquiel, historien Ibn Warraq, écrivain Yves-Charles Zarka, philosophe Fawzia Zouari, écrivaine

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Can you explain all your OCs and worldbuilding in detail? I've always seen these beautiful drawings and sketches of your character is based on song lyrics and stuff, but I've never really figured out much from a cursory scroll of your blog

OKAY i'm gonna take this as an invitation to spill my guts abt my verses. so let me start by saying these get tweaked all the time, little details might change but generally once i settle on a plot it typically stays the same. And, for the most part, these are all outlines w scenes and A》B subject to change. BUT 👏

Honey Verse Compendium: Start!

Axe + Cleaver

》Agnes, Elle, Goliath, Angus, Euan, Odelia

Agnes Laroche is a theologian hellbent on writing an esssy of the Harlach Parish, a cult in a small town called Kencree. While searching for leads she meets Elle Sinclaire, a butcher in the Rhodes District of Kencree who specializes in. Less popular cuts for the smaller crowd. Elle points her in the direction of Goliath Abernathy, a former cult member and champion for the priestess Odelia Harlach.

As it turns out, the Harlach Parish is darker than Agnes imagined; members offer pieces of themselves to the priestess for her favor, trophies she collects in reliquaries. Her most favored happens to be an eye she keeps on a necklace, stolen from Goliath shortly before he left her court. As Agnes pokes around (meeting blacksmith Angus Reid and unwilling court member Euan Harlach), she catches Odelia's attention, who makes a bid to ensnare her in the cult. Outraged and fueled by old anger, Goliath finds his way into her church and a confrontation. He takes back his eye, steals documentation, and sets the church alight.

The town will take time to heal, but Odelia's death is everything she didn't want it to be: quiet and unremarkable, alone in a dark hall.

Flock

》Kaz, Valentine, Mozzwood, Gabriel, Neera

Years after a series of HEMP bombs take out tech worldwide, knowledge on agriculture and horticulture are considered scarce and precious. Kaz, a tractor driver, and Mozzwood, a variant of apex predator gone anxious, are traveling cross country looking for... something. Neither is quite sure yet. They meet a ghost from Kaz's past, a seed dealer and arsonist named Valentine. In a fight to understand their actions comes the revelation Valentine was a cult child-- one that burned down the church that kept them captive, and who continues to burn churches now. Its cleansing, they say.

During their journey, Valentine burns one more church, saving a single little girl named Gabriel. This event inspires a new direction for the group: a cross-country trek to find Kaz's mother and shelter with her.

From there, the story is a road trip. It comes with the ups and downs of having a family along for the ride, with the trials of tribulations that comes with adventuring across a post-apocalyptic land. But they find Kaz's mother, find a safe place with her, and build a home.

Red Heron

》Alec, Librarian, Johann, Kairos

The Red Heron Project is an experiment in body modification, its extreme and practical uses. Alec and the Librarian are abandoned projects, experiments deemed failed but just functional enough to keep in the program as archivists. They rarely receive visitors (there's often fights when they get them), and they like it just so. Its when the doctor Johann and their subject Kairos visit that things become strange.

Alec has never known much about the Librarian; they met in the archives and he's never seen the actual body behind the modification. It happens that Johann knows everything there is to know about the Librarian-- in fact, they're the one that made it. The question isn't so much where the body is as much as it is who has access to it? Certainly not Johann, and definitely not Alec. Not now that they're both considered failed experiments.

Now. How do they get the body back?

Farmer's Bible

》Eremiah, Garrett

This is admittedly my most threadbare concept. What I know is this:

Garrett is a priest in a small town beset by a plague, one which consumes the host via spore and mycelium. The host becomes feverish, then demented, then becomes a mushroom, and Garrett is sick to death of watching his people die. He sets out to find patient zero, tracking lead after lead, until he is brought back to his hometown, and the woods behind it. He finds patient zero there: a man named Eremiah, who keeps to himself and tends an infected farm.

Eremiah doesn't really know he's infected, and if he did he wouldn't much care, benefit of having a mushroom for a brain. The real trial for Garrett is whether it would sit right with him to kill a man like Eremiah, someone who just happened to wander into town with a bad cough.

Kor

》Adriana, Frogmouth, Grace, Andrew

Adriana spends her whole life blaming herself for the death of her best friend when she was a child. Wrought with grief and self-blame, she becomes skilled in ways she shouldn't and takes up work as a mercenary. Work eventually brings her home, where she meets a strange jester with the circus visiting town. She calls him Frogmouth when he won't say his name, but soon annoyance turns to fondness as he gives her a peek of his world. She takes up singing, something she hasn't done for years, and finds herself a new life within the tents. She can almost leave her grief behind like this. Almost.

Alas, work brings her to an audience with the duchess of the town and her advisor. In a breakdown of negotiations, a fight ensues, and Frogmouth finds himself at the center of it. He steps in to protect Adriana, but in the process loses his mask, shattering against the edge of a blade as it reveals the face of the elusive jester:

Adriana's childhood friend, Kor.

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Book Review of "The CIA as Organized Crime" from James LaRoche on Vimeo.

VolumesOfValue presents insightful audio reviews of nonfiction books.Expand your horizon with our select list of books which impact society.)This episode reviews -The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the WorldBy Douglas Valentine (spell name)Publisher : Clarity Press 2016Print length : 448 pagesWebsite: douglasvalentine.comA transcript of this review is at volumesofvalue.blogspot.com.

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Valentino

Valentino

In post-World War 2, largely thanks to Christian Dior, Paris regained its position centre of international couture. Twice a year couture – foreign people are not welcome although they could enter as workers.  Italy was beginning to develop a reputation for bright, attractive sport clothes. Such as calf-length trousers= Capri pants, cashmere.

Valentine Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born on 11 May 1932 in Voghera, a small town about midway between Turin and Millan. He took a keen interest in fashion, painting, architecture.  Following this, he took a Berlin course in French and then moved to Paris. A young man of many interests and passion, he also took dance lessons and developed a love of French theatre.

He won a competition for fashion design run by the international Wool Secretariat – Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were to be winners a few years later.

During this period, he was learning his craft, he paid a visit to the opera in Barcelona and was stuck by the fact that all the costumes onstage were red. Then as he recalled “that after black and white there was no finer colour” so he favoured red above all other colours at Desses. It would be associated with his name as shocking pink.

In 1957, Valentino went with Guy Laroche, who decided to open his own salon. Two years later he decided to set up his own fashion house with financial help from his father. He presented his first collection of 120 styles in Rome. The first to be impressed by the young designer was the movie star Elizabeth Taylor, in Rome. She ordered a white dress to wear for the world premiere pf Spartacus. Numerous film stars, from Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth to Italians like Monica Vitti, Sophia Loren, Ornella Muti and Claudia Cardinale to Hollywood’s Jessica Lange and current luminary, Sharon Stone were to follow.

Early in the 1960s, swinging Loudon caught the world’s attention and inexpensive London fashions overshadowed couture. Valentino was ready to meet the challenge. Within a year, he had introduced his first ready-to-wear collection.

In the same year, 1960, Giancarlo Giamatti, an architecture student, joined the fashion house so Valentino was able to spend more time on the actual designing.

In 1962 Aleida Valli was chosen as the most elegant women at a Venice festival. Two years later Jacqueline Kennedy started you wear his clothes and in 1968 she would choose valentine as designer of the dress for her wedding with Aristotle Onassis. She remained a friend of Valentino, wearing his clothes throughout her life. In the years Marisa Berenson and Elsa Petretti were to be his fetish models.

Jacqueline Kennedy is his favourite lifetime model

1960s, Valentino produced many styles that reverberate in the history of fashion. It was a turbulent decade, representing the growth of a counterculture that saw elegant clothes was as an irrelevance. But Valentino consistently incorporated details from the world’ s cultural heritage, from the ancient Egyptian and classic Roman cultures to the painting of Klimt and Schiele. Echoes of art Nouveau and Pop Art also gave breath to his collections.

His continued use of black combined with white was widely popular and his animal prints, included leopard, zebra and giraffe marking were timeless in their appeal.

Valentino’s work became increasingly mature during the 1980s, mixing elegant craftsmanship, luxurious but often delicate embroideries and complex pleating. Details carried echoes of diverse cultures, drawing on medieval statuary, eightieth-century Chinese ceremonial screens, Japanese lacquered boxes and art Deco architecture.

Motifs favoured by Valentino from the beginning of his career.

Pleats were both used both horizontally and vertically to create patterns of their own.

Animal patterns were achieved using fabrics alone, like the alternating black -and-white panels of pleated chiffon that slithered around the body to suggest a zebra’s stripe.

Flesh-coloured chiffon is embroidered in gold, copper and brown sequins to resemble a leopard’s spots, while in a long narrow dress under a black lace obvers-skirt the addition of black sequins gives the effect of a cobra’s skin.

Not everything is severely classic. The double coat, e.g is a practical idea: two coats in matching or contrasting coloured which can be buttoned together to form a single warm coat or separated to make two lighter garments.

Black is the foundation for elegance in dress, is varied by Valentino’s constant preoccupation with red.

Red – whether chiffon, organza, satin or crepe – has been a leitmotif throughout Valentino’s career. It is popular with stars and fashionable women who want to be noticed.

Red – the color of life, blood and death, passion and love, the ultimate cure for sadness.

Morris, B. (1996). Valentino. London: Thames and Hudson.

Personal Life

Valentino and Giammetti maintain homes around the world, including villas in Spain, France and Switzerland. These homes are filled with art, which they avidly collect. Valentino has a penchant for dogs, particularly pugs—of which he owns many.

Later Career and Retirement

In 1998, Valentino and Giammetti sold their company for approximately $300 million to the Italian conglomerate HdP. In 2002, HdP sold the Valentino brand to Marzotto Apparel. Valentino remained actively involved with the company throughout these changes in ownership.

In 2007, Valentino announced that he would hold his final haute couture show in January of the following year. This final show, presented at the Musée Rodin in Paris, featured legendary models including Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Eva Herzigova, who had worked with Valentino throughout their runway careers.

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