#visser iii

[anemictoad]

Old mock-ups of andalites based on grazing animals. Embrace the Andalite Truth http://andalitetruth.org/

[cleric-posting]

It genuinely makes me happy to know that my most popular post is about animorphs.

I still love you Visser III.

I love it when you eat.

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

Who are the people attending Elizabeth Woodville's funeral?Are they all her relatives?

Hi! Yes, her three daughters - Anne, Katherine and Bridget as well as her only son Thomas Grey with his wife and their daughter (Elizabeth’s granddaughter), her nieces and nephews, Cecily’s husband - Elizabeth’s son-in-law, Edward IV’s closest male relative Edmund de la Pole.

Mourners were soon arriving, however, three of her unmarried daughters arrived on Tuesday 12 June, Princesses Anne (born 1475), Katherine (born 1479), and Bridget (born 1480) and her daughter-in—law, Cecily Bonville, the wife of her eldest son and marchioness of Dorset. With them was an unmarried niece, Elizabeth, the daughter of Katherine Woodville, sister to the dead queen and dowager duchess of Buckingham, a grand-daughter, one of the daughters of her son the marquess of Dorset and yet another niece, Elizabeth, Lady Herbert in her own right as the only child of William Herbert, Lord Herbert and Earl of Huntingdon and Pembroke; and his first wife, Mary, another sister of the dead queen — the herald-narrator is apparently not aware that the sixteen year-old heiress had just been married in the king's presence on 2 June to his favourite, Sir Charles Somerset. There also arrived Lady Egremont, Dame Katherine Grey, and Dame Guildford, either the wife of Sir John Guildford or his son, Sir Richard, a family closely linked to the Woodvilles and Hautes. Part of the narrative seems to be missing at this point; it probably reported that these ladies knelt around the hearse according to their rank, while Dirige was sung. On Wednesday 13 June a mass of requiem was held while the three daughters knelt at ‘the hed’, their gentlewomen behind them. That same morning arrived Thomas, Marquess Dorset, the queen’s son, and Edmund de La Pole, son of the duke of Suffolk, the closest living male relative of Edward IV, Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, a nephew of the dead queen by her sister, Anne, John, Viscount Welles, who had married Cecily, the second surviving daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, Sir Charles Somerset; the brand-new husband of Elizabeth, Lady Herbert and, last of the seculars, Sir Roger Cotton, Edward Haute, her second cousin through their common grandfather, Richard Woodville, Master Edmund Chaderton also came, once treasurer of Richard III and now chancellor to Queen Elizabeth of York.

from “The Royal Burials of the House of York at Windsor: II. Princess Mary, May 1482, and QueenElizabeth Woodville, June 1492.” by Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs

[holodeckprotocols]

animorphs book 46 (the deception) #thoughts 

a revelatory marco book followed by an ax book? a TREAT for ME

the audiobook narrator for ax does such a snotty voice for the andalites. love it

visser TWO 

cool that we're picking right back up where we left off!

ax's "lime green iMac" bless!

cassie, i love you and i love your role in this story, but i'm on everyone else's side here. we are the span of a single breath away from total annihilation. we NEED to be okay with morphing humans. i think the book is trying to make the point that cassie is ultimately correct but i'm sorry!!! call me a rachel!! we need to make the least bad choice here!

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm...............

boy this is gonna get bad

this other visser is such a dork. like, visser three is ridiculous, but he's scary. this guy is, if you'll forgive the parlance, cringe.

it's kind of strange that the yeerks want to intentionally cause World War III and knowingly deplete the population of earth. wasn't the 5+ billion population one of the biggest selling points at the time? maybe Earth is just so well-populated that it's all gravy if you get past 1 billion?

i don't think it's particularly realistic but i did think it was funny that a few of the people on the ship volunteered to be morphed, then fainted in shock, lol. like, i have questions about why they accepted this all so readily but the humor outweighed it. 

this one got confusing for me too - i had to rewind a few times. but let me tell you i did NOT miss ax defying and knocking out jake, holy shit. 

i think the craziest part for me was seeing rachel genuinely speechless at his actions. you know you went too far when xena has nothing to say. 

wow. this was incredibly dark. a solid one, though it has the misfortune of being after the last book, which was fantastic, so it just can't shine that much in comparison. i also thought it ended way too soon! i was hoping that we'd pick up right afterwards to deal with the ax betrayal fallout, like this book picked up right after 45, but that doesn't seem to be the case. 

i have to say i feel like we didn't have many Ax-y moments for his second-to-last book :(

[zooterchet]

Spider-Man:

Online Arrests Filed, through "Glamour Girl":

1996: Andrew Wachowski, "nil".

1997: Carrie-Anne Moss, "Damn-Yankee".

1998: Brian Monaghan, "qwerty".

1999: Keanu Reeves, "Howie".

2000: Rich Kyanka, "Toggan".

2001: Anthony Weiner, "Betty".

2002: Larry Wachowski, "Apathy".

2003: Hugh Jackman, "Ghul".

2004: Sayed Adnan, "Petula".

Hannibal Rising:

Michael Charlebois: "Cain", a spy's accountant, out of "Chutzpah", a political artist.

Alice O'Neill: "Kilpatrick", a female spy, out of "U'Niall", a spy's slaver.

Kenny Winston: "Weinstein", a Gentile's banker, out of "Cromwell", a German fire fighter.

Ryan Taylor: "Gaylord", a Buddhist assassin, out of "Polk", an optometrist.

Katie Stevens: "Stevenson", a Jamaican drug runner, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Matthew Lennox: "Satan", a Jewish king, out of "Nigger", a Parisian actor's mother to Scipio Africanus.

John Remby: "Roosevelt", a poverty demanded leader, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Pasquale Acosta: "Ibn Rashid", a Medina Arab, out of "Princeps", a Central Powers mercenary.

William Morgan: "Davis", a Southern cotton obsessive, out of "Hamilton", a treasurer's informant's officer.

Mark Salib: "Harding", a munitions developer, out of "Gilgamesh", a sugar salesman.

Cassie-Leigh Stock: "Donalban", a Puerto Rican Aryan, out of "Gould", a fascist writer for Francisco Franco.

Alexandra Gaetano: "Crowley", an Irish priest, out of "Brian", the victim of Christ.

Jenna Williamson: "Bundy", a Canadian spy, out of "Booth", a Mossad hired assassin.

Zach Savell: "Morales", a firefighter's inventor, out of "Aragorn", the first cowboy.

Maureen Harrison: "Harrison", a poisoner artist Gadze, out of "Cornwallace", a disgraced general.

Jen McDade: "Aensley", a British banker, out of "Lemerise", a British cop family.

Jeremy Stevens: "Mosley", a Group Force Leader, out of "Oswald", a British undercover agent.

Raven Bush: "Desperado", a Comanche Sheriff, out of "Joseph", a defeated Greek.

David Cohen: "Adolph", a German Turkish spy, out of "Ataturk", a cigarettes salesman.

Nicholas Maynard: "Hayes", a patent swindler, out of "Bourbon", a female transgender.

Allison Haimes: "Chi Minh", a CIA undercover, out of "The Duke of York", a professional British knife fighter.

Greg Connolly: "Visser", an Afrikaans Irish, out of "Lan Ray", a Boer Holocaust victim.

Brian Monaghan: "Myers", a KGB Ireland, out of "Carnegie", a Scottish Knight.

Ivan Tomasic: "Dahmer", a professional first strike mutually assured destruction pilot, out of "Ljudovich", an Austrian Black Shirt.

Christopher Sweeney: "Sween", a Black Baron Schultzstaffel, out of "Washington", a Romalian Boelyn.

Joshua Moen: "Van Zant", a professional raconteur assassin, out of "Chaucer", a Knight's Guard.

Bernice Lamb: "De Salvo", a Nietzschean Ubermensch, out of "Panzram", a sculptor author.

Joshua Golden: "Eshkol", an intelligence programs founder, out of "Mosaic", a Hittite Prince.

Uma Thurman: "Magnusdotter", a bodybuilder assassin, out of "Catherine", a surmised monarch.

Joseph Biden: "Capone", a police officer criminal, out of "James of Scotland", a legal reformer.

Lloyd Ahlquist: "Agnew", a Rabbinical entomologist, out of "Bin Laden", a prison convicts manager.

Will Ferrell: "Adams", a carnival's lover, out of "Pedro II", a harbormaster.

Joseph Kennedy III: "Kenway", a pork meats distributor, out of "Kennedy", a Tepes, a cannibal.

Star Wars Episode 1-3:

Leadership:

"Duo": Shaun Wilcox, Hawaiian Coastal Engineer, US Navy Japan.

"Libra": James Holmes, DC Comics Development, Mossad Counter-Bay Station.

"Leo": Jeffrey Lange, Cleveland Rotary Association, Finance and Debitures Apartment.

Duo:

"Blueberry": Police code on APB scanner, to catch "ranger patrols", off cented Mounted and Royal Mounted sections (Canadian-German, Protestant Universalist).

"WTC Location Grab": Profiling of Osama Bin Laden, three days after 9/11, to DC Comics Location and Transition Wards, Mossad Afghanistan; Tora Bora Prison Complex.

"San Andreas": Capture of Toris Nelby, British Co Anchor Author, "Crack Underground"; while in live transit of threat of CIA agent Peter Tsapatsaris, "Nails", posing as "Peebo" on internet as fraud of Russian-Jewry infiltrating CIA Annex Three; Winchester Frauds, IDF Biotech Experiments. Toris Nelby, "Peebo", detained and "destroyed", by fired rounds, from Eric Frein.

Libra:

"British Exemplar": Takeover of Japan by Warerra Party, masquerading Clone Wars film, recently released, by "Lucas Arts", as actual factual plan of attack; Pearl Harbor, as represented by "Kleinmen", Rohypnol dealers for Mossad.

"Gutwill Five": Seizure of criminal resources and allies of Framingham Narcotics, rogue Israeli Defense Forces section of Massachusetts cops, out of Jewish gangsters in Ohio; biker gangs, Canadian Freemasons.

Leo:

"Assassin's Creed": Creation of Assassin's Creed concept, as alternative to parents pamphlets to place children in Mossad underground as "Moslems" or "Mussulman".

"Guantanamo Live Range Agent": Use of third degree interrogator's training from mother's Marine NCO doctor, "Glen", to hunt his killers inside INTERPOL's top ranks; Gwenn Pratt, John Washburne, Steven Charlebois, Brian Monaghan, Alexandra Gaetano, and John Kerry.

"Philips Freemasons of Boston": Stage point of removal of Ted Bundy catchem code, to take over Boston Triads for FBI and State Police, through Cyber Command aegis helix on Los Angeles Police Department server scans; return of Chinese to American policing, as FBI informants and cover agents, against rising tide of Taiwanese nationalism; unions and Russian-Jewish consortiums of film and media logic.

"Pinkville": The strike on the Hell's Angels as a capture turn of the Canadian Freemasons for operating criminal ventures in factories, sports leagues, and boarding schools, to turn children into slaves and writers and prison convicts; the French and British Freemasonic attempt to undo Bill Clinton's peace for labor, athletics, and prison inmates.

"Hideous Karl": Use of Jack Unterweger's serial killer profile, tying a necktie for a business meeting, taught by Scoutmasters in male and female scout troops, for any career or American act, to pen research work for Christopher Nolan, MGM, and FOX.

"The Steroids Scandal": Outing American-Japanese pharmaceuticals, and MI-6 doctors, for selling performance enhancing steroids, Suboxone, for decades, under different brands and claim of brands; the public lawsuit against Dr. Joshua Golden, of United Health Associates, by the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey.

"The Kennedy Campaign": Legalized marijuana, certified safe and non-sprayed by tree surgeons elected by towns, free from media myth presented on Holland and British telecasts, or by journalist work by High Times magazines authors. Held under tax stamps, through the State Police.

"Spiral": The culmination of three decades of work, as an NSA, from kindergarten to the mid-thirties, in the takedowns of INTERPOL, On Leong Tong, the Unitarian Church, and MI-6. The culmination of years of experience, placed in two blog reformatories, "Lex Luthor and the Sudbury Boys", and "Spiral - The Batman Killer", the prior academic references, the latter actual career references. The shutdown of the "United Nations Security Council", by planting a forged work on American Marxism from 2003, from an economics business professor at UMass-Amherst, Gerald Friedman, through the actual United Nations; published independently overseas, by those dependent on the United Nations as an American CIA entity; falsely framed as MI-6. The same NSA trick, used on Stephen Glass, a Vatican affiliated lawyer out of the Italian government's Nortel structure.

Spiral:

Joshua Moen: Keep the President's secret about Raven Bush getting stoned, or Cam Hollopeter marries your wife. But you don't have a wife, you're in love with Superman. Not Batman.

Method: Men's writing and literature styles, conflict terms of endearment in imago transformation.

Keanu Reeves: Clear Ben Brown of raping Raven Bush, or place yourself in perpetuity of your film, "The Matrix 1", being owned by the Crown Government.

Method: RTS counselor first sight response, however on public Majesty's review in Court.

Jenna Williamson: Place wired testimony through VFW, and accept your draft into the United States photographic corps unit for an upcoming military conflict.

Method: Coverage of the USS Cole bombing, being varied into a "K", the "Kierney" Amish mark on Marlboro cigarettes.

Ben Brown: Admit into economics program despite not earning a valedictorian's GPA through gymnastic and academic marks in highschool, or a military tour on apprenticeship to warrant officer status.

Method: US Presidential merits and statuses of badge, passed, during freshman year orientation.

Matthew Lennox: Separation from Raven Bush, under her alias, "Silver Laventi", at UMass-Amherst; attempting to engage for Elks Club, the Drake family, to remove from David's vicinity and allow him to take a law career for the Winchester CIA undercover in Israeli biotech medical testing on "Goyim", humans that have done DXM.

Method: Interjection through a Coen, the "Chutzpah" family, and placement of Raven inside the German underground as a medical advisor.

Peter Tsapatsaris: Outing that the name and alias used, is false, linking instead to a black drug dealer murdered on the MUSH.

Method: Interpreting with the actual alias, as the individual being extorted by the claimed name, out of Brian Monaghan's connection to NEWS Harvard, the studio print for the Boston Herald.

Brett Norman: Moving between ExSec operations controller, Andre Berube, after being recruited for role, and a permanent incarceration in Pembroke, watched by Steven "The Rifle" Flemmi.

Method: Placement in Pembroke military ward facility, to remove Rhode Island judge in league with Israeli Medical Authority.

The Matrix:

British Commonwealth (UK) Positions:

Boris Yeltsin: Claim, working through America for economic reestablishment.

Elie Wiesel: Claim, working to prevent anti-Semitism in United States.

Stan Lee: Claim, working in an MI-6 brand to teach police morals.

Queen Elizabeth II: Claim, defending British Isles against Adolf Hitler's traditions.

George W. Bush Jr.: Claim, Shriner's Freemasonic Lodge of England.

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) Roles:

Boris Yeltsin: National Rifle Association.

Elie Wiesel: Romalian Federation.

Stan Lee: Hitler Youth.

Queen Elizabeth II: Catholic-Sepulchre Jewish Orthodoxy.

George W. Bush Jr.: Kaiser's Lodge.

[universomovie]

Marc Jacobs Melissa Summer 2024 Collection

Marc Jacobs Melissa Summer 2024 CollectionSource: marcjacobs.comPublished: June 2024 In this picture: Alex ConsaniCredits for this picture: Marc Jacobs (Designer), Hanna Tveite (Photographer), Ava Nirui (Creative Director), Milton Dixon III (Fashion Editor/Stylist), Evanie Frausto (Hair Stylist), Sam Visser (Makeup Artist) All people in this campaign: Marc Jacobs – Designer Hanna Tveite –…

[photos-car]

Spada Codatronca Monza par la société Spada Vetture Sport: Supercar

​Elle est rouge, elle est italienne, elle a un V8 bourré de chevaux.

Spada Codatronca Monza : un hommage aux spyders de course des années 60

Elle est rouge, elle est italienne, elle a un V8 bourré de chevaux. C’est un spider mais ce n’est pas pour autant une Ferrari. Rassurez-vous, cette supercar ne fera pas d’ombre aux productions de Maranello puisque c’est un exemplaire unique réalisé sur commande pour le préparateur italien Aznom. Cette Spada Codatronca Monza est destinée à être exposée au prochain salon Top Marques à Monaco.

Une version plus extrême encore De la Spada Codatronca conçue par Spada Vetture Sport et fabriquée par l’entreprise italienne Aznom, on connaissait jusqu’alors le coupé. Mais en avril, Spada dévoilait quelques images de synthèse d’une version plus extrême encore, et découvrable, le roadster Monza. Histoire de teaser. Lors du Salon Top Marques de Monaco, la petite entreprise présentait pour la première fois son modèle de plein air. Aujourd’hui, Spada dévoile la bête sous tous les angles et en vidéo, dévoilant également ses caractéristiques définitives. Sous ce très long capot dont la silhouette et l’absence de réel pare-brise rappellent SLR Stirling Moss ou Veritas III. On retrouve un V8 7.0 LS7 qui, épaulé d’une paire de compresseurs de 720 ch et plus de 900 Nm. Et dans une barquette en aluminium de moins de 1 200 kg (1 180 précisément), cela donne un rapport poids/puissance riquiqui : 1,64 kg/ch… Pour situer un peu l’objet, une Bugatti Veyron 16.4 en est à 1,88 kg/ch, une Aventador à 2,2 kg/ch et une 599 GTO à 2,4 kg/ch. Spada Codatronca Monza : la barchetta italienne qui fait tourner les têtes Ainsi le temps que les 900 Nm embrassent le sol via une boîte manuelle à 6 rapports et les seuls Pirelli PZero Corsa postérieurs, l’auto aura pu atteindre les 100 km/h en 3 secondes, en route pour une vitesse de pointe de 335 km/h. Une SLR Stirling Moss de 650 ch clamait atteindre les 350 km/h! quant à la Veritas, elle est supposée culminer à 347 km/h. On évitera toutefois de confondre la Spada avec une petite joueuse. Avec son inspiration tirée de roadsters des années 60 auxquels on aurait visser une face avant de Lamborghini d’aujourd’hui! cette Spada Codatronca Monza n’est pour le moment qu’un one-off, un modèle unique. Il est néanmoins possible d’en obtenir une sur commande spéciale. Produite par Aznom en Italie contre une somme restée secrète qui avoisinerait les 250 000 €. L'héritage des spyders de course italiens La Spada Codatronca Monza est un hommage aux spyders de course italiens des années 60. Ces voitures étaient connues pour leurs performances exceptionnelles et leur design élégant. La Monza est inspirée de modèles comme la Ferrari 250 GTO ou la Lamborghini Miura. Ces voitures étaient des légendes de l'automobile et continuent à inspirer les passionnés aujourd'hui. La Spada Codatronca Monza est une voiture qui perpétue l'héritage des spyders de course italiens. Elle est une voiture qui combine performances, élégance et exclusivité. Les principaux concurrents de la Spada Codatronca Monza La Spada Codatronca Monza n'a pas de véritable concurrent direct. Cependant, on peut la comparer à d'autres barchettas exclusives, comme la Ferrari Monza SP1 ou la Lamborghini Sián Roadster. Read the full article

[joulupuuro]

“This was a painting that produced such strong reactions in people that it drove them to action.”

“It’s about a reaction the painting received that was so intense, so violent, it set off a chain of events that shook the art world to its core.”

“Like many abstract expressionist artists, Newman saw his work as a reaction to the horrors of World War II. For Newman, figuring out what a painter could do after witnessing events such as the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki required ignoring all of art history and starting over from scratch.”

“The painting elicited the kind of response that a lot of people still have to abstract art  — questioning why this constituted art at all when it seems as though anyone could do that.”

“there are a set of rules that conservators must follow when restoring a painting, the first being that you should make every effort to not use any material that cannot be removed or reversed in the future.”

“preserve as much of the original material as possible, touching only the areas that need treatment. They should also really study the artist and look at their past work in order to get a sense of what the artist was trying to achieve.”

“But when the painting went back up, people immediately noticed that the red paint looked different.  It was the same hue as before, but previously there had been a shimmering quality to the red that gave it a sense of depth.  All of that was gone, replaced with flat-looking red paint that, according to the restoration’s critics, robbed the painting of its original power.”

“The painting is in a storage facility at the edge of town. It waits there, hoping for a day when future conservators might be able to undo what was done to it. To remove the layers of paint, and get to the original experience, the one the artist created, still sleeping underneath.”

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

Has anyone done this?

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

trying 2 push visser three’s shapes a little harder 

[miss-m-calling]

Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage (Act III: Passage), Royal Ballet, 2022

Set design by Jay Gower Taylor

Lighting by Tom Visser

Photos by Tristram Kenton

[henryfitzempress]

Richard III’s book of hours.

“On Oct. 2, though, there is a note in handwriting found nowhere else in the book. In a heavy, sprawling hand, the inscription reads, "hac die natus erat Ricardus Rex Anglie tertius Apud Foderingay Anno domini mlccccliio."

Translation? "On this day was born Richard III King of England A.D. 1452." The note must have been written after the king's coronation on July 6, 1483, "and probably by the King himself," Sutton and Visser-Fuchs wrote.”

Link: [https://www.livescience.com/57989-king-richard-iii-prayer-book-goes-online.html]¹

Link: [http://leicestercathedral.org/book-of-hours/]²

¹ the link to have full access to the book of hours is broken, at least for me, because it’s been “page not found”.

² this one has opened without difficulties.

[bestiarium]

The Longma [Chinese mythology]

Hailing from Chinese mythology, the Longma is an omen of good luck: seeing one is a sign that a great and wise ruler will soon sit upon the throne.

It was most commonly depicted as a horse with the scales and head of a dragon. Sometimes it also has the wings of a dragon. And rarely it’s depicted with antlers, probably due to association with the qilin, another creature from Chinese mythology.

The creature is said to measure 8 ch’ih and 5 ts’un in height and has the ability to walk on water without sinking or getting wet.

According to legend, a Longma once emerged from the yellow river, thousands of years ago. The people went to fetch the king, a wise and intelligent ruler, who recognized the beast as a mythical Longma. He beckoned to the beast and invited it to come ashore, and the Longma knelt in front of the king. On his back was a very detailed pattern of small dots and a golden sword. The king removed the weapon and memorized the position of the dots, as they formed a map with instructions on how to raise and lower the water level (this played a role in the ancient Chinese flood story).  

Sources: greatgodbeast.blogspot.com The Chinese Classics, Volume III, translated by James Legge The Dragon in China and Japan, by Marinus Visser (image source 1: Xiaodi Jin) (image source 2: greatgodbeast.blogspot.com)

[persephoneflouwers]

Harry in Inferno - Canto III

I was talking to the ladies in my gc yesterday night. It was not a very optimistic moment and I said “sometimes I think Dante would have put Harry among ignavi”. One of them replied “yeah, weren’t ignavi the ones who were forced to run after a flag or something?” The word flag triggered my brain instantly. So here I am, 2 rewatches of golden and lights up and a reread of the iconic Canto III of the divina commedia later.

I’m gonna leave the text in original language (translation on the right) and just have fun with words. I like the upcoming parallels, as useless and pointless as they are lol. I’m not trying to decode anything. Let’s pretend this is just the way I would teach Dante to my kids, if I were a high school teacher. Just say the word Harry and you got their attention for an hour. Okay, so.

Canto III: the scene opens with the most emblematic words in the Italian literature. Not kidding! EVERYONE knows them.

Per me si va ne la città dolente, «Through me the way is to the city dolent»

per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, «Through me the way is to eternal dole»

per me si va tra la perduta gente «Through me the way among the people lost.»

Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore: «Justice incited my sublime Creator»

fecemi la divina podestate «Created me divine Omnipotence,»

la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore. «The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.»

Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create «Before me there were no created things,»

se non etterne, e io etterno duro. «Only eterne, and I eternal last.»

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate". «All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"»

Dante is reading this message written on Hell’s door. It’s a warning to whoever comes in to leave all their human expectations outside this realm. The journey is about to get rough and the things they will see there are the worst that people can experience.

I thought of the previous parallels Harry x Persephone immediately.The myth was kind of pessimistic; Persephone can’t leave the Underworld because of the consequences of her actions (eating 6 seeds of pomegranate), but Dante’s journey is a discovery journey. He is travelling through hell, describing what he sees and how he feels (Dante cries and passes out A LOT during the journey), but the ultimate reason behind his trip is to enter Heaven, where he will meet Perfection, Love and Eternity. Also his muse, Beatrice, is waiting for him.

Quivi sospiri, pianti e alti guai «There sighs, complaints, and ululations loud»

risonavan per l'aere sanza stelle, «Resounded through the air without a star,»

Per ch’io al cominciar ne lagrimai, «Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereat.»

Diverse lingue, orribili favelle, «Languages diverse, horrible dialects,»

parole di dolore, accenti d'ira, «Accents of anger, words of agony,»

voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle, «And voices high and hoarse, with sound of hands,»

facevano un tumulto, il qual s'aggira «Made up a tumult that goes whirling on»

sempre in quell’aura senza tempo tinta, «For ever in that air for ever black,»

come la rena quando turbo spira. «Even as the sand doth, when the whirlwind breathes.»

Dante enters Hell. He calls it “aura senza tempo” to give the idea of something that it’s meant to last forever. It’s dark like a starless night. You somehow can sense this because anything looks timeless, foggy and not meant for the human eyes to see. The souls’ pain is endless, it goes on and on non stop forever.

Dante meets the damned souls for the first time. They are screaming, cursing, in agony. He feels their sorrow and starts crying out of compassion.

Ed elli a me: "Questo misero modo «And he to me: "This miserable mode»

Tegnon l'anime triste di coloro «Maintain the melancholy souls of those»

che visser sanza 'nfamia e sanza lodo. «Who lived withouten infamy or praise.»

Mischiate sono a quel cattivo coro «Commingled are they with that caitiff choir»

de li angeli che non furon ribelli «Of Angels, who have not rebellious been,»

né fur fedeli a Dio, ma per sé fuoro. «Νor faithful were to God, but were for self.»

Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli, «The heavens expelled them, not to be less fair;»

né lo profondo inferno li riceve, «Nor them the nethermore abyss receives,»

Ch’alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d'elli". «For glory none the damned would have from them."»

Dante introduces the “ignavi”, the ones “who lived without infamy or praise”. He was referring to people who weren’t able to take positions and stand for what they believed in their lives. It’s something very close to Dante’s heart because his passion for politics was the reason of his exile from the city he was born in. He couldn’t stand those people who wouldn’t fight openly for what they believe (or maybe for who they are?)

Isn’t this the major accusation people do to H? Don’t Some people call out the ambiguity of his actions, choices, silent clear enough to point the finger against him for not picking a side? The queerbaiting thing too? And H just… lets them? Kinda?

Questi non hanno speranza di morte «These have no longer any hope of death;»

e la lor cieca vita è tanto bassa, «And this blind life of theirs is so debased,»

Fama di loro il mondo esser non lassa; «They envious are of every other fate.»

misericordia e giustizia li sdegna: «No fame of them the world permits to be;»

non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa. «Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.»

E io, che riguardai, vidi una 'nsegna «And I, who looked again, beheld a banner,»

che girando correva tanto ratta, «which, whirling round, ran on so rapidly,»

che d'ogne posa mi parea indegna; That of all pause it seemed to me indignant

His words are strong words. Even Virgilio, his mate for the trip, suggests to not waste more time worrying about them. They leave together for the next stop

And they go on with their journey not before Dante sees what the damned souls are doing: running after a flag they kinda neglected in their lives.

H doesn’t, hough. He waves it anytime he can :) remeber that video of H taking the little rainbow flag out of his jacket and waves it? How cute was that?

♥️ this post is for @moonslust who seemed very enthusiastic of the idea

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Top Aces fighter pilot training company suffers ransomware attack

A ransomware attack hit the Canadian defense company Top Aces and 44 GB of data was allegedly stolen.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/13/22 - 09:00 AM in Military

The Canadian company Top Aces that offers fighters for air training exercises was hit by a ransomware attack, when hackers take control of the data and demand a payment to return the information.

In a brief statement to The Record website on Wednesday, Top Aces confirmed that it is investigating the incident.

The Montreal-based company - which was said to be the "exclusive adversary air supplier of the Canadian and German armed forces" - appeared on the leak site of the ransomware group LockBit.

A screenshot of the Top Aces page, a victim of LockBit. (Photo: Brett Callow)

Top Aces was founded in 2000 by a group of former fighter pilots and now says it has the "world's largest presence of privately owned operational fighter aircraft".

In addition to its work with Canada, Germany, Israel and other countries, the company signed a lucrative contract with the U.S. Air Force in 2019. It explicitly mentions the provision of training tools for Russian weapons defense.

Emsisoft threat analyst Brett Callow noted that attacks on defense companies are worrying because "there is no way to know where the stolen data can end up".

"Even if the individuals behind the attack are simply for-profit cybercriminals, they can sell the data or make it available to third parties, which could include hostile governments," Callow said.

“There have been several attacks on companies in the defense industrial-based sector in recent years, and the government really needs to find a way to increase the security of its supply chain.”

Callow pointed to previous attacks on Visser Precision, a parts supplier for Lockheed Martin, and Westech International, a U.S. military contractor that provides support for the Minuteman III nuclear deterrent missile.

Top Aces A-4 Skyhawk jets.

The LockBit ransomware group gave Top Aces a deadline of May 15 before leaking the 44 GB of data it allegedly stole.

LockBit remains one of the most prolific ransomware groups, with hundreds of attacks last year. They have attacked at least 650 organizations so far this year, according to data collected by Recorded Future.

Recently, the group caused controversy with an attack on a popular German library service and another on systems linked to the Secretary of State for Finance of Rio de Janeiro.

The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) issued a security warning last August warning of a sudden increase in LockBit ransomware attacks.

The group has been operating since September 2019 and was a marginal player before developing a new version of its Ransomware-as-a-Service platform, called LockBit 2.0.

Source: The Record

Tags: Military AviationcybersecurityTopAces

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in a specialized aviation magazine in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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