#yes hes so catholic to me and my good friend helen

[daredevil-vagabond]

it's a long way up outta the muck st. jason todd of the resurrected pilgrimage

lyrics: shikabane no odori - kikuo

[iwasjustgoingthere]

Books Read 2022

1. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros have to compete for humanity’s survival in intergalactic Eurovision. Lots of fun language and praise of glam

2. The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons

I stayed up late my last night in Washington to finish it. Historical fiction of a Jewish girl fleeing Vienna to work in a British manor, romance develops. I’m glad they gave the ending it deserved, even if the final chapter 40 years later was strange. 

3. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

A caseworker, Linus Baker, who’s job is to check orphanages for magical youth is sent to an extra special orphanage on an island. He learns to love it there. Warmed my heart and made me cry while I was home alone in late winter. 

4. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

A series of magic realism short stories. I loved these. The point of them seemed to be to experience the stories and not understand them fully. I normally want to understand everything so it was interesting how much I could enjoy a story I don’t understand. 

5. What to say next by Julie Buxbaum

Guy with Asperger’s befriends popular girl going through grief/trauma. It was a good book, I thought.

6. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Literally SO good. First of all the story/world-building, incredible, and then the fact that they solved a love triangle with a throuple makes me unbelievably happy. 

6. Heartstopper, books 1 - 4 by Alice Oseman

Not to be that person but I read these before the Netflix series became a thing. A happy coincidence! Yes they’re so cute 

7. And then there were none, by Agatha Christie

I borrowed this book, along with Heartstopper, from a friend so I’d have something to read in the train. 

8. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

I started it and wasn’t interested, but when Alka told me it was good I finished the book, and boy am I glad I did. A psychotherapist tries to help a woman who killed her husband and hasn’t spoken since. 

9. Sperling by Katharina Korbach

A German novel that my friend’s girlfriend lent me. A college student struggling with an eating disorder meets a lonely phD student who lives near her. A sad book but well-written. 

10. Beautiful World Where are You by Sally Rooney

I’m not a fan of Sally Rooney so we’ll see if I finish this book. I’m at least mildly compelled by it, as long as I skip the email portions. (update: as of October, not finished)

11. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

I got it for free from a book box. It’s crazy that the book is slightly older than me, the main character would be approaching 60 years old. I’m getting into it though, maybe this will relaunch a book phase for me. At this point (mid-June) it’s clear I won’t be reading 50 books this year. 

12. Ilium by Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons has male-author syndrome but unfortunately his world-building is superb. Really enjoyed this book overall 

13. The Husbands by Chandler Baker 

Yeah, this was good. While one aspect of the whole thing was clear, it was still a chilling story and made me think (the book is about what to do about husbands who don’t take on their fair share of the household and how far you can go for justice). 

14. One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston

Fluffy, but we love a somewhat supernatural fluffy lesbian romance. Girls on Ney York’s subway trains. 

15. Everyone in this Room will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin

A lesbian struggling with her mental health ends up with a job in a Catholic church and struggles to manage her life and find out who killed the person who had the job before her. This book is my comfort book right now, I have ordered a paper copy from World of Books and wish it was arriving before November. 

16. Mauersegler by Jasmin Schreiber

Finally. I’ve been meaning to read it forever. A man is on the run from something he did that lead to his best friend’s death. 

17. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Two boys find out they’re dying sometime that day and get together to live their last day to its fullest. It’s crazy how long and important a single day can be, I feel like it could be a little exaggerated in the book but it really doesn’t feel like it while reading. 

18. Dracula by Bram Stoker

Courtesy of Dracula Daily, which I can recommend. 

19. A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

A young embalmer avoids dealing with his past regarding his best friend, their choir days, his mother, and the time he had to do emergency work after a landslide. He’s stupid but the book is good! His best friend was wonderful.

20. The Truth about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

Yes, nice. A girl is traumatized by her best friend drowning randomly and tries to find some meaning in the incident through jellyfish.

21. The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin 

A girl goes to a new school unlike her previous school with a small class of colorful characters and becomes a better person while they all speculate what happened to the class legend, Paulie Fink.

22. The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera

The prequel to “they both die at the end” and very nice. Makes me want to flip through the other book to catch all the references. 

23. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

25-year-old April May finds one of many giant robot statues and becomes the face of the global movement to understand their possibly alien nature. 

24. S by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams

A book that’s both a typed story and the interactions of two young people in the margins, trying to figure out the book, the author, and each other. 

Ok there we have it! I don’t want to count the Sally Rooney book but if I count all the Heartstopper Books individually we’re at 27 books in 2022!  Pretty good! That seems like a nice number of books for a book lover.

[lizamango]

Finding You (Bucky Barnes x Reader) 9/?

A/N: I finished my second year of uni! I can’t believe it took me so long to update this fic I’m so sorry - this chapter is laying the foundation for y/n’s friendship with Wanda!!

Not much Bucky this is such a slow burn considering Together Again was straight into their relationship!

Summary: You’ve been one of SHIELD’s top spies for years but what happens when the organisation you’ve put your trust in crumbles and Captain America gives you a mission to help him find his best friend? The last thing you expected to happen was to fall in love with your assignment and become best friends with a witch.

Wordcount: 2498

Masterlist

Chapter 1 ~ Chapter 2 ~ Chapter 3 ~ Chapter 4 ~ Chapter 5 ~ Chapter 6 ~ Chapter 7 ~ Chapter 8 ~

Warnings: swearing ig

Chapter Summary: On a mission to acquire the Cradle, Nat gets kidnapped by Ultron and you gain two new allies.

CHAPTER 9: Maybe I’m Just That Good

As everyone gets settled in at the safe house, I decide to continue my other assignment, looking for a way to get to Bucharest.

“It’s a little dangerous to be going on vacation at the moment, isn’t it?” Clint asks from behind you.

I turn around, startled. “I suppose it wouldn’t be much of a secret mission if Ultron is in the web and knows where I’m going.”

“And knows that you’ll be alone,” he adds.

“You think I should stay? For all this… Clint I’m not an avenger, I’m a spy. I can’t be a superhero like you guys, alright? I’m not built like that.”

“You think I am?” He chuckles incredulously. “Y/N, I’m not a God, not a super soldier… I don’t turn into something indestructible but you know what? I do this anyway. Because if not me… if not Nat, then who else? Who else is there? We can’t wait around for other people to step up, we have to do it ourselves.”

“You sound cheesy,” I comment.

Clint rolls his eyes. “You’re here. You’re one of us, whether you like it or not. You can go back to your secret mission later, hell I’ll pay for the plane ticket. You know it’s too dangerous to split up with the threat we’re facing.”

“You’ll really pay for the plane ticket?”

“Yes… Also, in case you haven’t noticed, you made a connection with one of our enemies and didn’t end up on your ass or with a scrambled brain.”

I shrug. “Maybe I’m just that good.”

“Shut up and come down for dinner.” You follow him to the dining room and help Laura set up the table for dinner.

“Where’s Thor?” I ask, noticing the missing God.

“Said he could use the help of a friend…” Steve replies, sitting next to me at the table. We all eat in peace and there’s the occasional compliment to Laura’s cooking.

“Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time,” Fury starts. “My contacts all say he’s building something. With the amount of vibranium he made off with, I don’t think it’s just one thing.”

“What about Ultron himself?” Steve asks.

“Oh, he’s easy to track. He’s everywhere. The guy’s multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit,” Fury replies. “Still doesn’t help us get an angle on any of his plans, though.”

“Is he still going after launch codes?” Tony asks as he plays darts, probably trying to occupy his head.

I tune out as Lila hands me a drawing she did; it had me, Nat and Clint fighting side by side, Steve with his shield, Thor with Mjolnir raised up with lightning bolts coming off her and Tony in his suit while Hulk says smash.

“Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?” Banner asks.

He is met with silence.

“I’ll take that as a no…” I say.

The team suits up as Steve and Tony come up with a strategy plan amongst themselves.

“If Ultron’s really building a body…” Steve starts.

“He’ll be more powerful than any of us,” Tony finishes. “Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot.”

Steve sighs. “You know, I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me.”

“Aunt Y/N, promise you’ll keep my dad safe?” Lila asks as she looks up from her Lego set.

“Of course, sweetie,” I smile, reassuringly. “I promise.”

“You ready?” Steve asks, walking up to us. I jump up once I store some pistols in my holsters and taser discs in a compartment in my boots.

“Ready, Freddie.”

Steve responds with a confused look but says nothing as we leave the house. Clint and Laura say their goodbyes and I wave at the family as they watch us walk the ramp up the quinjet.

Steve and I arrive at Dr Cho’s lab in Seoul while Nat and Clint stay in the jet locating Ultron.

My eyes land on Dr Cho on the ground with a wound on her torso.

“Steve,” I call to him as I press a rag up to her injury.

“He’s uploading himself into the body,” the doctor explains. 

“Where?” Steve asks as he begins to check the perimeter.

Helen shakes his head, uncertain of Ultron’s planned whereabouts. “The real power is inside the Cradle. You can’t just blow up the gem, it’s uncontainable…”

“We have to get it to Stark…” I say realising that’s the only way. I look up to Steve. “Go.”

He gives me a nod and contacts the jet. I find a phone on the wall and call 119 for an ambulance, I notice bodies in the next room on the floor and go to check for a pulse on each of them. Gone.

“The twins… are they still with Ultron?” I ask Helen as I return to check on her wound.

Helen shakes her head. “The girl… she was able to see what Ultron was planning. She-“ Helen grunts at the pain. “She’s the one that freed me. She and her brother ran.”

I nod, taking in the information. “Cap, you might not like this, but the twins might be on our side.”

I don’t get a response, just punching noises and grunts of effort.

“Cap, you see Nat?” Clint asks over comms.

I frown. What happened?

“If you have the package, get it to Stark! Go!” Steve orders.

“Do you have eyes on Nat?”

“GO!'

I hear the sirens of an ambulance outside.

“I’ll be fine,” Helen says. “There’s a jet on the roof, the- tablet for control and access is on that desk. Go find your team.” 

“Thank you, Dr Cho.” I pick up the device and make my way up.

“Anybody on comms?” Steve asks through the communicator.

“Steve? Send me your location, I’m coming to you.”

The jet follows the coordinates Steve sent and I set it to auto-hover as I jump down to meet him and… the twins by a train wreck.

“What… happened?”

“We have to get to Tony.”

“What about Nat- I heard Clint-“

“We get to Nat by getting to Tony first. Do you trust me?” Steve asks, sincerely.

“Of course.”

My eyes meet Wanda’s who seems unsure and Pietro looks guarded.

“Are you coming with us?” I decide to ask.

Steve looks at them expectantly and Wanda nods. I climb up the ladder to the jet, followed by Steve then Pietro who speeds up and Wanda flies up using her powers.

“Where to, Captain?”

“Avengers Tower.”

The ride is quiet as I think of Nat, I’m sure she’s okay. She has to be. We’ll find her and she’ll be just fine.

“Tony and Banner aren’t returning my messages,” Steve says.

“Maybe Ultron blocked the connection?” I offer as I step away from the controls after engaging autopilot.

Steve shakes his head. “Impossible. Stark built a remote radio station on Avengers Tower, Ultron would have to go there manually to access our comms and we know he’s going the opposite direction.”

“We do?”

Steve looks at the twins who are sat close together, Wanda staring hard at the chair in front of her and Pietro jolting his leg up and down in anticipation.

“How’s Dr Cho?” Steve asks.

“She’ll be okay. I stayed with her until the ambulance came. She gave me access to this jet, actually.”

“Generous,” Steve remarks.

“Well,” I start. “I did save her life.”

Steve smirks.

“So, what happened?” I ask again, calmer now that when I first rejoined him.

He tilts his head, referring to Wanda and Pietro. “They turned on Ultron. We were fighting on the train and civilians were in danger. Pietro got the ones in the way to safety while Wanda stopped the train.”

“How did Ultron get Nat?”

Steve shakes his head, unsure of the whole story. “I’m not sure. But we’ll find her. We just have to reconvene with the others, figure out where he’s going and what he’s planning.”

“Do you think Tony’s finished dismantling the Cradle?” I wonder out loud.

“You shouldn’t trust Stark with this,” Wanda states.

I frown and turn to her. “What do you mean?”

“Do you really think that ego of his would allow him to destroy something he had a hand in creating? When it has so much power?”

I haven’t known Tony personally for too long but it’s not such a farfetched theory… “What you think?” I look up to Steve.

“I just want to get to the Tower before they do anything stupid.”

Well that’s reassuring. I go to sit opposite Wanda and Pietro. “I suppose we haven’t officially met. I’m Agent Y/N L/N.”

Pietro stares hard at my outstretched hand and seems to wait for Wanda to make the first move.

“Wanda Maximoff, but you already knew that.”

“And you already knew my name,” I smirk, referring to when she read my mind the first time we met.

“Pietro,” he smiles charmingly.

“Why are you so skeptical about Tony Stark?” I question.

“He has not given us reason not to,” Pietro answers.

“This is personal for you?”

“We decided to allow a terrorist organisation to experiment on us. It’s very personal,” Wanda says.

I nod, wondering what Tony could have done to them for them to be so distrusting of him. “You don’t trust Tony… so why come with us? You could have just run.”

“We helped make this mess,” Pietro starts.

“We have to be there to clean it up.” Wanda looks at Steve who speaks on his comms, I guess that’s working now. Her eyes begin to glow red.

“Ah ah ah, no more mind reading without permission,” I scold.

Wanda gives an amused scoff. “Fine, it would seem we have arrived anyway.” Steve sets the jet down on strip and Wanda stands steady. “In time to see why you shouldn’t trust Stark with such a thing as the mind stone.”

I frown. What’s a mind stone? Dr Kovak’s notes had nothing about it and all Strucker referred to it as was the sceptre’s power.

We walk the strip and down to the lab where Banner and Stark are… working on the Cradle. Of course he roped Bruce into this.

“I’m only gonna say this once,” Steve says authoritatively.

“How about none-ce?” Tony responds.

“Shut it down!”

“Nope, not gonna happen,” Tony continues with whatever he has planned.

“You don’t know what you’re doing,” I say tired of all this. I just want to find Nat.

“And you do?” Bruce says. “She’s not in your head?”

“I know you’re angry,” Wanda starts.

“Oh we’re way past that,” Bruce scoffs. “I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade.”

Harsh, I think. I wonder what Wanda had him see…

Steve tries to reason with the scientists but fails as everyone’s fear of the unknown rises to the surface. Pietro sighs and speeds around unplugging the Cradle.

“No, no. Go on,” he says sarcastically. “You were saying?”

I spot Clint from the glass beneath him and a gunshot rings out. The glass shatters and Pietro falls through.

“I’m rerouting the upload!” Tony calls out and Steve throws his shield at him.

What a team. I jump down where Pietro fell to access the radio station in order to find Natasha while the team works out their differences.

“Did you have any luck finding her?” I ask.

“She sent a code. Wanna fire up the jet while these idiots work it out?” Clint suggests.

I nod and take the note he made of Natasha’s whereabouts and rush up the stairs in time to see Thor land on the Cradle and blast it with lightning from Mjolnir. Something bursts out of the Cradle and my eyes widen as the scene unfolds. I miss the days when my mission was to just find the Captain’s best friend and not dealing with some purple creature.

“I’ve had a vision,” Thor explains. “A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at its centre is that.” Thor points to the yellow glowing stone now encased in the creature’s forehead.

“What? The gem?” Bruce asks.

“It’s the Mind Stone. It’s one of the six Infinity Stones. The greatest power in the universe unparalleled in its destructive capabilities.”

My eyes travel to Wanda, she had named the stone before, it was what gave her and Pietro their powers…

“The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron alone,” Thor elaborates.

“I looked in your head… and saw annihilation,” Wanda says skeptically walking towards him.

“Look again,” the synthezoid says.

Barton scoffs unwilling to accept Wanda’s words. “Her seal of approval means shit to me.”

“Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone. And they’re nothing compared to what it can unleash,” Thor warns. “But with it on our side…”

“Is it?” Steve interrupts. “Are you? On our side.”

“I am on the side of life. Ultron isn’t. He will end it all.”

“What’s he waiting for?” Tony asks.

“You.”

“Where?” 

“Sokovia,” I answer. “That’s where he took Nat.”

“I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are, and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me,” he says. He picks up Mjolnir, giving it to Thor and leaving the rest of us stunned. “But we need to go.”

“Right,” Thor says, taking the Hammer. “Well done,” he pats Tony on the back.

Steve accepts the turn of events and so do I. “Three minutes. Get what you need.”

I arm up, opening the weapons chest in the armoury that I brought with me. I slot pistols and knives in my holsters and wrap a whip up my arm. I make my way to the quinjet and input the coordinates.

Wanda and Pietro are first on the jet.

“I’m glad you both decided to help us,” I say.

“We didn’t know Ultron planned to destroy everything when we joined him. I’m sorry for what I did to your team.”

“You’re going to have to tell them that.”

Wanda nods. “You’re right… I’m glad you weren’t there.”

I frown at her words but can’t follow up as everyone starts to pile in. I close the ramp and put on the headphones as Cap joins me in the cockpit.

“You ready?” I ask him.

“Ready Freddie,” he smiles as he says me words back to me.

“You don’t even know what that means,” I tease.

“I will.”

“Alright everyone,” I address the team through the jet’s intercom. “We are taking off; destination: Novi Grad, Sokovia. Mission: rescue civilians, defeat all Ultrons and save Nat.”

💖

Chapter 10

Yes Ready Freddie is a Queen reference <333333

Hopefully I will update soon nd also post more pics and one shots not that I’m on summer break!

Thank you for reading, please interact it’s really encouraging!

Taglist  ~ comment or add self to taglist for new chapter updates!

series tags: @buckylokisimp​​, @white-wolf-buckaroo​​, @austynparksandpizza, @markandlexies,  @yaszx​

All marvel tags: @whoreforbuckybarness @badlandsbrunette​ @xxlovingfandomsxx​  @mattmurdockswh0r3 @bunnyweasley23​ @galacticstxrdust​

Add yourself to my taglist!

[thewanderingace]

Hey, can you tell me a bit more about the murdoch mysteries? i am considering watching it but it seems to be a long running show and i just kinda wanted to know what i’m getting into

(i wrote up something a lot more detailed and well written but tumblr deleted it for me before I could save it)

Ooooh my god yes!!! I'd love to tell you all about Murdoch Mysteries.

Okay so this is a murder mystery show set in Toronto Canada and is set in the year 1895 (well it starts in the year 1895 and then moves forward one year per season. It's been 15 seasons now so the show is currently set in about 1909/1910).

It stars William Murdoch, a police detective who solves crimes using his intellect and love of science. It's full of history with lots of real historical figures making appearances like Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander Graham Bell, Arthur Conon Doyle, Annie Oakley, Nikola Tesla, Emma Goldman, HP Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, and Helen Keller. It's equal parts drama/emotion and insanity/comedy, has got fantastic characters including some awesome women, and some really great story lines and villains.

It's the perfect mix of period drama and crime show and I cannot get enough of it. 15 years and I'm not the least bit ready to be done with it. It certainly has its moments of "what the fuck" but overall it's so good.

Let me tell you about the characters!

William Murdoch is the star. He's logical, stiff, loves modern science, a devout Roman Catholic, and believes in rules both societal and law but over the years, his friendship with Brackenreid, Julia, and George loosen him up.

Julia Ogden is the city coroner. She's a badass doctor who kicks ass in whatever field of study she tries. City coroner, medical doctor, psychologist, etc.

Thomas Brackenreid is the police inspector. He’s a traditional copper who loves a good drink and is quick to anger but he’s loyal to a fault and is much more open to the modern world than others think he is.

George Crabtree is Murdoch's right hand man. He's sweet, funny, brave, and creative. He has a penchant for writing and thinking of new inventions or giving Murdochs inventions proper names. He also believes in all things supernatural. Things like vampires, martians, venutions, werewolves, krampus, etc.

Henry Higgins is George's best friend and fellow constable. He’s a pretty big slack off and a lady chaser but is a good friend and tries his best. We love him.

And in season 10 we get the absolutely amazing Llewellyn Watts whom I adore. He's also a detective who transferred to Station House 1 because he didn’t get along with anyone in his previous Station House. He's socially awkward, much more philosophical than Murdoch, enjoys a good glass of wine, prefers the foot on the street version of police work, and oh yeah he’s gay and Jewish.

Then there are the other coroners throughout the years: Emily Grace, Rebecca James, and Violet Hart.

Emily Grace who was Julia’s first protege. She’s strong willed, intelligent, and very modern. She fights for women’s suffrage, advocates for women’s rights and loves being a pathologist. She dates George for a while and then falls in love with a woman.

Rebecca is Julia’s next protege. She’s was a medical student before losing her patronage so Julia takes her on as her assistant. She grows into a wonderful medical examiner and doctor. Rebecca is kind, brave and hungry for knowledge.

Violet Hart is the current medical examiner. She’s highly intelligent and goes after what she wants and what she believes she deserves no matter the cost. She has ambitions.

There are so many other characters to love as well like Terrence Meyers, Constable Jackson, Louise Cherry, Nina Bloom, James Pendrick, James Gillies, Eva Pearce, The Newsomes and more.

The show is amazing and full of mystery, fun, emotion, and history. I highly recommend it.  Feel free to explore my #murdoch mysteries tag to see more!

[thewidowsghost]

Of Course You Did - Part 2 (Natasha Romanoff x Johnson!Fem!Reader)

Masterlist

Previously:

"Anyway," Natasha says with a laugh. She holds out her hand, "I didn't have a chance to introduce myself at the party. I'm Natasha."

"Hi," Skye shakes Natasha's hand. "(Y/n)'s told me a lot about you."

"She has, has she?" Natasha smirks and (Y/n) shifts uncomfortably.

3rd Person POV

Fury had assembled the Avengers and Skye in the Bartons' kitchen.

"Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time," Fury says, as (Y/n) leans against Natasha's chair.

Natasha smiles at her niece as Lila runs over handing Natasha a picture of a butterfly that she had colored.

"My contacts," Fury looks at (Y/n) he says this, "all say he's building something. The amount of vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing,"

"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asks, leaning against the doorway.

"Oh, he's easy to track. He's everywhere," Fury answers. "The guy is multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit."

"It still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans, though," Fury says.

Natasha glances up at (Y/n) who was looking down at the picture of the butterfly.

"Is he still going after launch codes?" Tony asks.

"Yes, he is," Fury says. "But he's not making any headway."

"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare," Tony informs everyone.

"Well, I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that," Fury continues.

"Nexus?" Steve asks.

"It's the work Internet hub in Oslo," Skye tells the soldier. "Every byte of data flows through there. Fastest access on Earth."

"So, what did they say?" Clint asks.

"He's fixated on the missiles," Fury answers. "But the codes are constantly being changed."

"That you?" (Y/n) asks her sister.

"No, I don't know anyone who could do something that complicated," Skye replies and (Y/n) nods.

"We don't know who it is," Fury says. "To be honest, some of us thought it was Miss Skye here, but now we know it's not her."

"So, we have an ally?" Natasha asks.

"Ultron's got an enemy," Fury corrects. "That's not the same thing."

"There is that whole, 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend,' thing, but whatever," (Y/n) argues.

"Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is," Fury says.

"I might need to visit Oslo," Tony thinks aloud.

"Ooh, you should take me," Skye says, raising a hand.

"Well, this is good times, boss," Natasha says loudly, looking down at her hands folded together on the table, "but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that."

"I do," Fury says, looking at the redhead. "I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere and ears everywhere else. You kids had all the tech you could dream up. Here we all are, back on Earth, with nothing but our wit and our will to save the world. Ultron says the Avengers are the only thing between him and his mission. And whether or not he admits it, his mission is global destruction." Natasha who had looked up at Fury looks back down. "All this, laid in a grave. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard."

"Steve doesn't like that kind of talk," is the only thing Natasha says as her mouth twitches into a smile.

"You know what, Romanoff?" Steve says.

"So, what does he want?" Fury asks.

"To become better," Steve answers. "Better than us. He keeps building bodies."

"Person bodies," Tony adds.

(Y/n) reaches down and studies the picture of the butterfly again.

"The human form is inefficient," Tony continues. "Biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it."

"When you two programmed him to protect the human race," Natasha addresses Bruce and Tony, "you amazingly failed."

"They don't need to be protected," (Y/n) realizes after a moment. "Remember what Ultron said back at the Tower, 'You want to protect the world but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to evolve?'?" (Y/n) pauses, a scowl spreading across her face. Everyone had turned to her now. "Ultron's going to evolve."

"How?" Fury asks Coulson's Second in Command.

"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Bruce asks, exchanging a glance with (Y/n).

(Y/n) walks into the other room and motions for Fury to follow. "Did Coulson tell you about THETA Protocol?" (Y/n) murmurs.

Fury looks at her, a questioning look in his eyes.

"Ask Coulson about it and tell him it's time to tell the rest of the team. I'll get in touch with you about where to bring it," (Y/n) mutters. "Oh, and bring the team - Morse, Hunter, Coulson, May, Mack, Fitz, and Simmons. I think we'll need help."

Fury nods and leaves the room.

(Y/n) crosses her arms as she watches Fury walk out the door.

"I'll take Natasha, Clint, and (Y/n)," Steve says the next morning as everyone suits up.

"All right. Strictly recon," Tony says, Skye next to him. "We'll hit the Nexus. We'll join you as soon as we can."

(Y/n) walks down the stairs, talking with Natasha when she stops, catching sight of her sister, and walks over, wrapping Skye in a tight hug.

"Be careful," (Y/n) murmurs.

"Back at you," Skye says. "I'll see you soon. Love you."

"I love you too," (Y/n) steps back.

Skye leaves with Tony and (Y/n) and Natasha step outside onto the porch.

(Y/n) was gazing out into the field and Natasha nudges her gently.

"What's going through that head of yours?" Natasha asks.

"I'm scared," (Y/n) admits, looking at Natasha with a frown. "I'm scared about how this is all going to turn out," she pauses, as though considering her thoughts. "I really like you, Natasha," she murmurs and Natasha's green eyes soften.

"I do too," Natasha replies. "I thought I proved that when I kissed you," she says in a teasing voice.

(Y/n)'s mouth twitches. "That was a very nice kiss," (Y/n) says and Natasha's cheeks take on a red tint now.

"Let's go," Steve says, and (Y/n) jumps a little.

Wanda looks into the red android's head and screams, pressing her hand to her chest as she backs up into her twin's arms.

Pietro brushes hair out of his sister's face, murmuring something softly.

"How could you?" Wanda stutters, looking at Ultron, her eyes wide.

"How could I what?" Ultron asks, looking at the teenager.

"Y-you said we w-would destroy the Avengers. Make a better world," Wanda says, looking up into Ultron's eyes.

"It will be better," Ultron says calmly.

"When everyone is dead?" Wanda asks and Pietro looks over at the android as well.

"That is not . . . The human race will have every opportunity to improve," Ultron says.

"And if they don't?" Pietro asks, turning to face Ultron now.

"Ask Noah," Ultron says simply.

"You are a madman," Wanda says softly, and (Y/n) shrinks into the corner just outside the room a little more.

"There were more than a dozen extinction-level events," Ultron tries to explain. "Why, even the dinosaurs got theirs. When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it. And, believe me, he's winding up. We have to evolve. There's no room," he rubs his robotic hand on the Cradle, "for the weak."

"And who decides who's weak?" Pietro asks softly.

"Life," Ultron chuckles and as he looks at the ground, as Wanda uses her powers to shake Dr. Cho from her enchantment. "Life always decides.

"There's incoming," Ultron says as he hears the Quinjet. "The Quinjet. We have to move."

"That's not a problem," Dr. Cho says as she pauses the download of Ultron's new body.

Ultron shoots a laser towards the scientist and Cho collapses.

Ultron takes the Cradle and the legionaries outside leaving Wanda and Pietro alone. (Y/n) flashes the two a warning look as she steps out of her hiding spot and crosses over to Cho in a few strides.

(Y/n) grabs some bandages and wraps the scientist's shoulder tightly.

"(Y/n)?" comes Natasha's voice. "What's going on?"

"Ultron shot Cho," (Y/n) answers, keeping an eye on the two teenagers as they continue to watch her tighten the bandages around Cho's shoulder. "I patched up her shoulder."

"He's uploading himself into the body," Cho says, and (Y/n)'s expression turns hard. "The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem."

"You get that, Steve?" (Y/n) asks, rising to her feet.

"I'm on it," Steve answers.

(Y/n) turns her (E/c) gaze onto Wanda and Pietro. "Where'd he go?" (Y/n) asks.

Pietro is the one who answers, "We don't know."

(Y/n) glances down at Cho, who had pulled at her arm. "You need to stop him."

(Y/n) nods, unsheathing the sword from her back and Wanda takes a step back.

"I'm going to slice a couple of kids in half," (Y/n) says over her shoulder as she runs outside.

(Y/n) teleports to Steve's side as he was standing on a bridge.

"I got a private jet taking off across town," Natasha says in (Y/n)'s ear. "No manifest. That could be him."

"There. It's a truck from the lab," Clint says. "Right above you two. On the loop by the bridge."

"I've got it," (Y/n) says softly into the COM set. (Y/n) teleports silently on top of the truck

"You've got three with the Cradle," Clint tells (Y/n). "I can take out the driver."

"Negative. The gem could level the city," Steve says and (Y/n) hums her agreement.

"Also, I'm standing on top of the truck," (Y/n) adds.

"We need to draw out Ultron," Steve says.

There's a click in (Y/n)'s ear and Natasha speaks in her ear again, "Be careful," the redhead murmurs.

"Don't worry, sweetheart, I'll be alright," (Y/n) answers as Steve jumps from the bridge and handing onto the doors. A red laser shoots through the door, knocking Steve around. He swings the doors around and the door gets shot by another laser, sending the doors dragging across the ground, creating sparks.

"Well, he's definitely unhappy," Steve says as (Y/n) teleports beside him. "We're gonna try to keep him that way."

"I've never done this before, I hope this works," (Y/n) mutters, placing a hand on Steve's shoulder.

With a blink, Steve and (Y/n) are standing on the top of the truck.

"Nice," (Y/n) says, but dives to the side as a laser shoots through the roof of the truck.

"You two aren't a match for him," Clint says.

"Yeah, thanks Clint," (Y/n) grumbles.

"You know what's in that Cradle?" Ultron asks, flying up to meet the two on top of the truck. Steve turns as Ultron blasts a laser at him, the laser bouncing off his shield. "The power to make real change. And that terrifies you."

"I wouldn't call it a comfort," Steve says, pulling his shield off his back and throwing it at Ultron.

"Stop it," Ultron hisses and (Y/n) teleports away, fetching the shield.

With another blink, (Y/n) realized she has miscalculated her jump and was hanging onto the front of the truck. She lets out a grunt as she swings herself to one of the mirrors as one of Ultron's legionaries shoots at her.

"Steve!" (Y/n) yells, hanging onto the mirror with one hand, the Captain's shield in the other.

(Y/n) throws the shield up and Steve catches it.

"You good?" Natasha asks in (Y/n)'s ear.

(Y/n) teleports behind Ultron and kicks the android in the back.

"(Y/n)? You good?" Natasha asks again, worry in her voice.

"Yeah," (Y/n) dives to the side as Ultron shoots a laser at her. "Just peachy."

Ultron knocks Steve's shield away again, and it lands on the road.

"I am not going to get that again," (Y/n) says, attacking Ultron as the android pulls Steve into a headlock.

Suddenly, Steve gets his shield back and knocks back Ultron, who knocks back (Y/n), who falls off the truck.

(Y/n) grabs the side with a hand and hauls herself back up.

Ultron catches sight of Natasha and flings up a hand, making some of the concrete rises into the air, making the redhead stop on her motorcycle.

"The hell!" (Y/n) yells, advancing on Ultron as he blasts Steve off the truck.

(Y/n) looks up as something - the Quinjet - shoots at Ultron, drawing the guards out of the back of the truck.

Steve had gotten back on top of the truck. He knocks Ultron back into a pillar and Ultron flies into Steve, blasting both of them into the train, (Y/n) teleporting beside Steve, pulling the soldier up.

Steve throws his shield around to (Y/n), and she slams it into Ultron's back, then throwing it back around to Steve.

"I'm going in," comes Natasha' voice again. "Cap, (Y/n), can you keep him occupied?"

"What do you think we've been doin'?" Steve asks as Ultron kicks him to the corner of the train.

Ultron turns to (Y/n), the teleporter dodging Ultron's punches; she let's out a grunt as Ultron punches her in the side.

A moment later, a blur pushes Ultron away, and (Y/n) unsheathes her sword.

"Please don't do this," Ultron says, looking between Pietro and Wanda - who had used her telekinetic powers to cross some bars between (Y/n) and Ultron.

"What choice do we have?" Wanda asks, her Sokovian accent thick.

Ultron aims at (Y/n), who had teleported in front of Steve, and the two have to duck the laser and it shoots straight through the train.

"We lost him," (Y/n) says into her COM set, speaking directly to Natasha."He's coming back your way."

As the Avenger is speaking, Steve had run to the front of the train.

"Nat, you gotta go!" Clint tells him.

(Y/n) goes to say something, but staggers as something rocks the train.

"Civilians in our path," Steve says and (Y/n) nods, her and Pietro teleporting / speeding around, getting the people out of the way of the train as it screeches to a halt.

Each teleportation seems to make (Y/n) more tired and (Y/n) leans against a wall, breathing heavily.

"The Cradle," Wanda prompts. "Did you get it?" she asks as (Y/n) walks forward, her right arm clasped against her stomach, her sword sheathed on her back.

Steve shoots a concerned look at his shorter friend. "Stark will take care of it," he says as (Y/n) turns, pressing a hand to her ear.

"I'm not getting anything," (Y/n) says, turning back to address Steve. "Imma head back, but you'll need to find a ride. I can't take all of y'all with me."

Steve nods his understanding and with a blink she's standing in the lab.

Tony, Bruce, and Skye stare at her but then surge forward as (Y/n) sways. She sags against Skye.

"I'm good. I'm good," (Y/n) argues as her sister sets her down in a chair.

"Sit," Tony orders and (Y/n) sighs in defeat.

"Clint and Nat should be on his way with the Cradle," (Y/n) tells the three.

"Where's Cap?" Tony asks.

"Steve had to find another way back," (Y/n) answers, her eyes closing a little.

(Y/n) had fallen asleep by the time the Quinjet had returned. She is slowly waking up when she hears, "Anything on Nat?"

"I haven't heard."

(Y/n)'s eyes fly open and she sits up.

"But she's alive, or Ultron would be rubbing our faces in it," Skye tells her sister hastily, sensing (Y/n)'s worry.

"This is sealed tight," Clint says, inspecting the Cradle.

"We're gonna need to access the program, break it down from within," Bruce says.

"Any chance Natasha could send you a message outside the Internet?" Tony asks Clint and (Y/n) rises to her feet. "Old-school spy stuff?"

"There are some nets I can cast," Skye says, and the two go downstairs. "We'll find her."

"I could try to find her," (Y/n) says. "Teleportation and all."

"I don't think you should be teleporting for at least a few hours," Bruce says and (Y/n) looks at him, then, defeated, she nods. "I can work on tissue degeneration," Bruce says, turning to Tony. "if you could fry whatever operational system Cho implanted."

"Yeah, about that," Tony says rubbing the back of his neck.

"No," Bruce says.

"You have to trust me," Tony says and (Y/n) looks at the billionaire.

"Kind of don't," Bruce says, backing up.

"Our ally, the guy protecting the military's nuclear codes, I found him," Tony says, flicking his wrist.

"Hello Dr. Banner, Agent (Y/n)," Jarvis says.

"Jarvis," (Y/n) says, turning to study the orange ball.

"Ultron didn't go after Jarvis because he was angry," Tony explains. "He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do. So Jarvis went underground. Scattered, dumped his memory."

"But not his protocols," (Y/n) says, realization dawning in her eyes.

"He didn't even know he was in there until I pieced him together," Tony says, nodding at (Y/n)'s realization.

Bruce scoffs before placing a hand at his temple. "So, you want me to help you put Jarvis into this thing?" he asks.

"No! Of course not," Tony says.

"We want to help you put Jarvis in there," (Y/n) steps forward to stand at Tony's shoulder.

"We're out in the field here," Tony continues, watching Bruce. "You know bio-organics better than anyone."

"And you just assume that Jarvis's operational matrix can beat Ultron's?" Bruce asks.

"Well, we've got all of Jarvis, and only part of Ultron," (Y/n) reasons and Tony nods.

"And Jarvis has been beating him from inside without knowing it," Tony adds. "This is the opportunity. We can create Ultron's perfect self without the homicidal glitches he thinks are his winning personality."

"We have to," (Y/n) says.

"I believe it's worth a go," Jarvis agrees.

"I'm in a loop," Bruce exclaims, throwing his arms out. "I'm caught in a time loop. This is exactly where it all went wrong."

"I know. I know. I know what everyone's gonna say," Tony says, placing a hand on his friend's shoulder. "But they're already saying it. We're mad scientists," Tony says and (Y/n)'s eyes flash with amusement. "We're monsters, buddy. We've gotta own it. Make a stand."

"It's not a loop," (Y/n) says softly and Bruce looks at her. "We know what went wrong last time."

"It's the end of the line," Tony adds.

A figure stirs on the concrete floor, before her eyes blink open.

"I wasn't sure you would wake up," comes Ultron's voice. "I hoped you would. I wanted to show you. I don't have anyone else. Upsetting the other female Avenger died earlier."

The figure on the ground groans in pain as she pushes herself up on an elbow, tears swimming in her eyes.

"I think a lot about meteors. The purity in them. Boom! The end. Start again."

The figure, her eyes full of pain and tears, stares back at Ultron.

"The world made clean for the new man to rebuild."

She shifts back a little.

"I was meant to be new," Ultron says, turning his red eyes on the woman on the ground. "I was meant to be beautiful. The world would have looked into the sky and seen hope, seen mercy."

The figure lets out a grunt as she scoots back a little more.

"Instead, they'll look up in horror because of you," Ultron snarls. "You've wounded me."

The figure on the ground scoots back as Ultron walks towards her.

"But, like the man said, what doesn't kill me . . ."

Ultron towers over the woman now.

Something grabs Ultron's head and rips it off, another Ultron standing behind it as the figure scrambles back in fear.

". . . just makes me stronger."

Ultron steps forward, closing the bars in front of the woman, who begins choking back her tears.

"This framework is not compatible," (Y/n) comments as she types furiously on a keyboard.

"The genetic coding tower is at ninety-seven percent," Bruce says, turning to the woman. "You have got to upload that schematic in the next three minutes."

Tony steps up to (Y/n)'s side, the two working together to power through the framework.

"I'm gonna say this once," comes Steve's voice.

"How about 'none-ce'?" Tony asks, leaving (Y/n) as he steps over to stand in front of Steve.

"Shut it down!" Steve orders.

"Nope, not gonna happen," (Y/n) says, staring down the Captain, her fingers naturally hitting the correct keys.

The Maximoff twins beside Steve don't know whether it is a trick of the blue light from the screen, or of lightning had flickered in her eyes.

"You don't know what you're going," Steve says.

"And you do?" Bruce asks. "She's not in your head?" Bruce asks, pointing at Wanda.

"I know you're angry," Wanda says, stepping around Steve.

"Oh, we're way past that," Bruce says, a vain pulsing in his neck. "I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."

"Banner, after everything that's happened . . ." Steve says, Wanda's expression having faltered.

"It's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony says, and there's a rumble of thunder outside the Tower, everyone stopping for a moment. It was clear outside . . .

"You don't know what's in there," Wanda retorts.

"This isn't a game!" Steve yells.

"No, no. Go on," Pietro says, holding up one of the many cables that had been unplugged. "You were saying?"

There is a gunshot and Pietro falls through the glass floor of the lab.

"I'm rerouting the upload," Tony says.

(Y/n), on the other hand, was staring, well, at her hands. They were glowing blue.

Amongst all the commotion in the room, (Y/n) seems to be the only one who notices Thor. He looks at (Y/n)'s hands and nods towards the Cradle. As if controlled, (Y/n) vaults over the rail and holds her hands above the Cradle. Thor raises his hammer, and in sync, lighting flows into the Cradle.

Thor and (Y/n) stare at the Cradle, then being blasted back when a figure explodes out of the Cradle.

Everyone stares at the figure. It's outershell was bright red, and there is a glowing yellow gem in it's forehead.

Catching sight of Thor, the figure launches itself at him. Thor deflects the attack, throwing the red figure through glass and it stops, looking outside.

(Y/n) jump over the exploded Cradle and follows, Thor just behind her; the others following Thor.

The red android is looking outside and Skye had appeared right beside her sister.

Thor sets his hammer on a table and steps forward.

"I am sorry," the red android apologizes. "That was . . . odd. Thank you," the android nods to Thor, then (Y/n).

"Thor." Steve prompts. "You helped create this?"

"I've had a vision," Thor tells him. "A whirlpool that sucks in all hop of life, and at its center is that," Thor points to the stone in the Vision's head.

"What? The gem?" Bruce asks.

"It's the Mind Stone. It's on of the six Infinity Stones. The greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities."

"Then why would you and (Y/n) bring . . ." Steve begins.

"Because Stark is right," Thor says.

"Oh, it's definitely the end times," Bruce says.

"The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron, even with Miss (Y/n)'s new lighting powers," Thor continues, nodding at (Y/n).

"Not alone," Vision adds.

"Why does your Vision sound like Jarvis?" Steve asks.

"We reconfigured Jarvis's matrix to create something new," Tony says, stepping around to study the Vision.

"I think I've had my fill of new," Steve says.

"You think I am a child of Ultron," Vision says.

"You're not?" Steve asks, his voice hard.

Vision stops, shooting Steve a look. "I'm not Ultron. I'm not Jarvis. I am . . . I am."

"I looked in your head," Wanda says and everyone turns to look at her, "and saw annihilation."

"Look again."

Clint scoffs, "Her seal of approval means jack to me." He steps forward.

"Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone," Thor explains. "And they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side."

"Is it?" Steve asks harshly. "Are you? On our side?"

"I don't think it's that simple," Vision says.

"Well, it better get real simple real soon," Clint says.

"I am on the side of life," Vision begins. "Ultron isn't."

Steve had told the Avengers to suit up and (Y/n) - obviously - offers to go find Natasha as the others board the Quinjet.

With a blink, (Y/n)'s standing somewhere else, as if she'd been summoned.

Natasha's Widow's Bites and stun batons were in a bag slung over (Y/n)'s back.

The area was dark and it was scarily quiet.

"What the hell is going on here?" (Y/n) whispers as she steps farther down the hallway.

(Y/n) creeps down the hallway and when seeing no one, she relaxes a little.

"Natasha!" (Y/n) calls, jogging down the hallway.

"(Y/n)?" comes a familiar voice and (Y/n) darts down the hallway.

"Nat? You okay?" (Y/n) asks as she runs up, setting the bag on the ground. She grows concerned as she sees Natasha's watery eyes.

"You found a key?" Natasha asks.

"Uh, yeah," (Y/n) raises her hand before putting it on the lock. "Watch out," (Y/n) tells her and Natasha scoots back. (Y/n) concentrates on her hand and the lock explodes. "Are you okay?" (Y/n) asks the redhead, worry evident in her tone.

Natasha throws herself at (Y/n), wrapping her in a tight hug.

(Y/n) returns the hug. "I'm glad you're okay," (Y/n) murmurs.

"Same, I'm glad you're here," Natasha says, pulling back out of the hug.

As if thinking about something, Natasha steps forward and presses her lips against (Y/n)'s.

After a moment, Natasha pulls away again and (Y/n)'s eyes are warm with affection.

"Now," Natasha says, her cheeks red. "Where's everyone else?"

"They're up in the city," (Y/n) replies. "I brought your Widowy things," (Y/n) says, picking up the bag.

Natasha laughs pulling her Widow's Bites from the bag and (Y/n) helps her attach them to her wrists. Natasha then pulls her stun batons and slides them into their holsters on her thighs.

"So, how we gonna get out of here?" Natasha asks and (Y/n) cocks her head at the redhead in front of her.

(Y/n) laughs. "I thought you were smart," she teases, her eyes bright.

"Oh, right," Natasha says, looking a little sheepish.

Word Count: 4447 words

So yeah, this was only going to be two parts, but I think it might be three or four parts, so bonus for y'all I suppose.

Love y'all!

             Kaitlynn ❤️😍

Taglist: 

@marsromanoff

@ecruzsalaz

@procrastinatingsapphictrash​

[mermaidsirennikita]

Hiiiii! You've probably received this question before but what are your recs for the books (romance or other genre) with the absolute hottest sex scenes? We're talking EXTRA SPICE

Good question! I read a lot of historicals which I feel can be SUPER HOT but don't necessarily get as creative~ as contemporaries (like the situations surrounding the sex make it hot, but you won't get as many actual acrobatics lol). So I'll include a mix of subgenres.

Priest by Sierra Simone. Male POV erotic romance; a man who committed himself to the Catholic priesthood for deep reasons meets a non-Catholic who nonetheless begins going to confession to unburden herself. A lot of temptation ensues. Includes interesting usages for holy oils.

A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane. A high fantasy romance that's enemies to lovers; her father killed his parents, and he wants revenge. The best revenge will be accomplished through marrying her and siring the next heir. Kind of dense on the fantasy but worth it!

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean. Mostly here because of The Chair Scene, but it's just a really hot book. A scientifically minded lady asks a known rogue to teach her about sex, like, science-wise, before she marries. He's actually been celibate for years due to Reasons and doesn't want to ruin her anyway, so he begins talking to her. A lot. Of. Talking.

The Roommate by Rosie Danan. A woman moves to a new city in order to live with the guy she's had a crush on for years--only for him to ditch her to go on tour with his band. The new roommate he's found for her is a very hot porn star, who she quickly becomes friends with. The sex scenes are good in general, but this is particularly here for a very classic "nobody's given you an orgasm??? let me fix that, AS A PAL" scene.

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey. A woman who wants to be taken more seriously as an adult (she's a children's party clown) begins a fake dating situation with a disgraced-ish former baseball player who happens to be her brother's best friend. Tessa Bailey loves a good "it's not sex if we do LITERALLY EVERYTHING BUT" scene.

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. A woman on the autism spectrum hires a male escort to teach her how to be good at sex, so that she can find a man to settle down with. He finds that the issue really wasn't her, but her uncaring partners, and it's all very soft but also extremely hot.

Desperate Measures by Katee Robert. Literally a Jafar/Jasmine story. Like, Jasmine is a mob boss's daughter and Jafar takes her as his after killing her father. Fairly kinky, TW for dubious consent. The first sex scene is extremely not (but inwardly yes).

Duke I'd Like to F... An anthology of historical novellas that are definitely high heat. Includes: The Chasing of Eleanor Vane by Sierra Simone, in which a woman tries to escape marriage to her weak fiance only to be caught by his older uncle, who of course wants her; My Dirty Duke by Joanna Shupe, in which an 18 year old girl sets out to seduce her father's best friend; An Education in Pleasure by Eva Leigh, during which a governess is propositioned by the new duke of the estate she serves, who is a good bit younger than her and wants to learn about sex; Duke for Hire by Nicola Davidson, in which a 30 year old vicar's daughter hires a duke to take her virginity; and The Duke Makes Me Feel... by Adriana Herrera, in which an apothecary owner is offered an adventure from a duke, which leads to love~. They're all good, but The Taking of Eleanor Vane and My Dirty Duke especially.

The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne. A spinster who works for Scotland Yard is taken captive by a notorious criminal who insists that they marry For Reasons. He can't stand to touch her (for other reasons) but she agrees to the marriage on the condition that she gets to have a baby, so they have my favorite sex scene every with ~leather gloves. And some light bondage.

Aaaaaand I'll give several Elizabeth Hoyts because I think she writes some of the best sex in historicals:

The Raven Prince--A thirty-something widow begins working for a scarred earl as his secretary. An attraction builds, but she discovers that he's been slipping away to a brothel to essentially sublimate it. Annoyed, she disguises herself as a sex worker at the brothel (mask and all) and begins having sex with him. CLASSIC.

Thief of Shadows--A virgin vigilante (yes) runs an orphanage by day and requires patronesses to keep it running. A high society widow who's got a few years and lovers on him offers to My Fair Lady him in order to make it easier for him to court donations. Best! Blow job scene! Ever!

Duke of Midnight--A very uptight duke (who is also a vigilante, it's complicated) is blackmailed by the companion of the lady he's courting. They begin this sort of battle of wits cat and mouse thing that results in a lot of fucking.

Sweetest Scoundrel--A headstrong young woman who's responsible for running her half-brother's affairs is determined to control the roguish owner of a pleasure garden. They start bantering a lot because he Can't Be Tamed, and also there is a lot of mutual masturbation. TW for lots of past trauma including sexual abuse.

I hope these help!

[mrslaufeyson002]

Rise Chapter 11.

The sleeping arrangement was being made by Clint, Laura, Natasha, and I. "I was thinking we could put Nat and Bruce together, because of the lack of rooms for all of you and the fact that is is no secret that you, Nat, and Banner have chemistry." Laura suggests and Nat just shrugs her shoulders. "ok." Clint was the next to speak up about his idea. "So we'll have Natasha and Bruce, Loki and Steve, Tony will stay in his room, and Taylor can share with Steve or sleep on the couch." Natasha and Laura agreed, but I felt like some things needed to change. "I like keeping Nat and Bruce in a room together, but I would fix a couple of things. I will stay on the couch, but I do not think Loki staying with Steve and Tony is good idea without asking his opinion. He can choose to share with either Steve or Tony, or he can stay out in the living room with me."

"Why won't you be staying with Steve, your boyfriend?" Nat asks me confused.

"Ex-boyfriend and friend, actually." I reply to Nat's question.

"What happened?" Laura questions next.

"I'll beat him up if you want me too." Clint offers with a protective look. I haven't mentioned Clint and I have known eachother for years and consider eachother to be family.

"No, you don't need to. I actually ended it." I take a pause for a moment. "I just didn't feel the same way anymore and I didn't want to lie to him. We agreed to stay as friends. It really isn't that big of a deal. Steve and I are adults...we can act civilized."

Clint and Laura informed everyone about the sleeping situations. I talked to Loki about his options and he chose to sleep in the living room instead of sharing with Steve or Tony. Loki took the couch and I took the small loveseat across from the couch.

Later that night Nick Fury had stopped by initially to talk to Tony, but he decided to stay longer. Bruce stood in a kitchen corner, Nat sitting at the table, Tony playing darts, Clint by the sink, Steve stood at the kitchen's archway/entrance, Laura putting the kids to bed, and Loki and I sat across from Nat. "Ultron took you folks of play to buy himself time." Fury starts the conversation. "My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of Vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing."

"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asks leaning against the wall of the kitchen entrance.

"Oh, he's easy to track. He's everywhere. The guy is multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit. It still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans though."

Stark speaks up as he throws a dart. "Is he still going after launch codes?"

"Yes, he is. But he's not making any headway."

"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in High School on a dare." Stark says in a matter of fact tone.

"Well, I contacted our friends at Nexus about that."

I had no idea what or who 'Nexus' was. "Nexus?"

"It's the world internet hub in Oslo." Bruce answers my question. "Every byte flows through there. Fastest access on Earth."

"So, what did they say?" Clint asks.

"He's fixated on the missiles. But the codes are constantly being changed."

"By whom?" Loki asks Fury.

"Parties unknown. "

"Do we have an ally?" Nat asks.

"Ultron's got an enemy. That's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is."

"I'm gonna need to visit Oslo." Tony mutters. "Find our unknown."

"Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that." Nat says looking at Nick.

"I do. I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere. Ears, everywhere else. You kids had all the tech you could dream up. Here we all are, back on Earth, with nothing but our wit and our will to save the world. Ultron says the Avengers are the only thing between him and his mission. And, whether or not he admits it, his mission is global destruction." He takes a small break before continuing. "All this, laid in a grave. So stand. Outwit the platinum *******." (I don't type bad words, but the fact it's in the movie and I can't change it).

"Steve doesn't like that kind of talk." Nat and I both point out to Fury.

"You know what, Holmes and Romanoff?" Nat and I snicker.

"So, what hoes he want?"

"To become better. Better than us. He keeps building bodies." Steve comments answers the question.

"Person bodies. The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking. But he keeps coming back to it."

"When you two programmed him to protect the human race , you amazingly failed." Nat says points out to Bruce and Stark.

"They don't need to be protected. They need to evolve. Ultron's going to evolve." Bruce realizes what his plan is.

"How?" I ask very confused.

"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" No one had. We were all getting ready, except for Bruce and Loki. I finally got to get some action.

“Why didn't you choose to sleep with your boyfriend?" Loki asks me as we were the only two in the living room.

"We broke it off. I just didn't have the same feelings for him anymore." I say and before he says anything Tony and Steve are walking down the stairs.

"I'll take Taylor, Clint, and Nat." Steve says and Tony replies next. "All right, strictly recon. I'll hit the Nexus. I'll join you as soon as I can."

"If Ultron is really building a body..." I never get to finish before Tony interrupts me. "He'll be more powerful than any of us. Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot."

"You know I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me."

Fury walks by us putting his coat on. "I'll drop Banner and Loki off at the tower. You mind if I borrow Ms. Hill?"

"She's all your. Apparently." Tony says. "What are you gonna do?"

"I don't know. Something dramatic, I hope." Fury leaves with Loki and Bruce, while the rest of us board the quinjet.

[just-dreaming-marvel]

CHAPTER TEN - TEAM POW WOW

LEGACY: A Tony Stark Daughter Story

MASTERLIST

< previous

Word Length: 1,250ish

Summary: Bailey, Fury, and the Team talk about Ultron and their next steps in stopping him.

We ate dinner quickly and, for the most part, quietly. We were all spread out across the kitchen, dinning room, and living room. Fury was in the kitchen, Nat and I were sitting at the dinning room table, Bruce was standing behind us, Steve was leaning on the wall that connected the kitchen and dinning room to the living room, Clint was in the living room with his family, and Tony was throwing darts in a small room to the side of the kitchen. 

“Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time,” Fury started. “My contacts all say he’s building something. The amount of Vibranium he made off with, I don’t think it’s just one thing.”

“What about Ultron himself?” Steve asked.

“Ah. He’s easy to track, he’s everywhere.” Fury answered. “Guy’s multiplying faster than a catholic rabbit. Still doesn’t help us get an angle on any of his plans though.”

“Is he still going after launch codes?” I asked.

“Yes, he is,” Fury replied. “But he’s not making any headway.”

“I cracked the Pentagon’s firewall in high school on a dare.” Tony stated, as he threw a few darts. I rolled my eyes. Of course he did. I don’t even want to begin to think about what he did in high school for fun.

“Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that.” Fury said.

“Nexus?” Steve questioned. Sometimes I forget that Steve still doesn’t understand or know things technology wise.

“It’s the world internet hub in Oslo,” Bruce spoke up. “Every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth.”

“So what’d they say?” Clint asked. 

“He’s fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed.” Fury answered.

“By whom?” Tony asked. 

Clint quickly threw a dart across the room. It narrowly missed Tony’s face and hit the center of the dart board. Tony looked at Clint with a ‘did you really just do that?’ Expression and Clint just shrugged it off. I smirked. 

“Parties unknown.” Fury answered.

“Do we have an ally?” Nat asked.

“Ultron’s got an enemy,” Fury stated. “That’s not the same thing. Still, I’d pay folding money to know who it is.”

“I might need to visit Oslo, find our unknown.” Tony suggested.

“Well, this is good times, boss,” Nat started. “But I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you’d have more than that.”

“I do, I have you,” Fury responded. “Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere, ears everywhere else. You kids had all the tech you could dream of. Here we all are, back on earth, with nothing but our wit, and our will to save the world. Ultron says the Avengers are the only thing between him and his mission. And whether or not he admits it, his mission is global destruction. All this,” Fury motioned to everything around us. “Laid in a grave. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard.” Fury sat down at the head of the table. (8)

“Steve doesn’t like that kind of talk,” Nat joked. I giggled.

“You know what, Romanoff?” Steve said, trying hard not to laugh himself. Nat gave a mischievous smile. 

“So what does he want?” Fury asked.

“To become better,” Steve answered. “Better than us. He keeps building bodies.”

“Person bodies,” Tony began. “The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, we’re outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it.”

“When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed.” Nat stated. 

Bruce walked up to the table and looked at a picture Clint’s daughter had drawn for Nat. “They don’t need to be protected—“ Bruce started.

“They need to evolve. Ultron’s going to evolve,” I interrupted, quickly remembering what Ultron had said while he was holding onto me.

“How?” Fury asked.

“Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?” Bruce wondered.

We quickly tried to get a hold of Helen and her lab. No one answered. Everyone quickly got suited up. I was walking down the stairs as Tony walked into the living room and Steve picked up his shield.

“I’ll take Natasha and Clint,” Steve said.

“Alright,” Tony agreed. “Strictly recon. I’ll hit the Nexus, I’ll join you as soon as I can.” They started heading towards the front door. I slowly followed, trying to find out where I fit in to all of this.

“If Ultron is really building a body…” Steve started.

“He’ll be more powerful than any of us. Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot.”

“You know I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me.”

Fury came walking down the hallway and stopped in front of us. “I’ll drop Banner off at the tower.” He informed us. “You mind if I borrow Ms. Hill?”

“She’s all yours, apparently.” Tony answered bitterly. 

“What are you going to do?” I asked. Tony and Steve turned back to look at me. I think that they forgot that I was here, or they had just chosen to ignore me.

“I don’t know.” Fury answered. “Something dramatic, I hope.” He smirked. 

“Will you be willing to take Bailey back to the tower as well?” Tony asked Fury.

Before Fury could answer, I quickly but in. “I’m not going back to the tower. You know that I am more help here with you guys than stuck in the Tower!”

Tony quickly turned to look at me. “You are going back to the tower, where I know you will be safe.”

“I am the only one that the Maximoff girl can’t do anything to. She can’t get into my head. If anyone should be going anywhere near the twins and Ultron, it should be me!”

“What is she talking about, Tony?” Steve asked.

“When the Maximoff girl got into Banner’s head and forced him to Hulk out, she tried to get into mine as well. She couldn’t,” I answered.

“I’m with Bailey on this one,” Fury said. “The Maximoff girl won’t be able to do anything to her. She could help bring them in.” Then he walked off. 

“No, I’m not allowing it.” Tony shook his head then pointed a finger at me. “You’re going back to the tower and that is final.” He started making his way outside.

“If Bailey is the only one the Maximoff girl can’t do anything to, then why keep her in the tower?” Steve asked Tony. I looked at Steve in shock. He was one of the last people I expected to side with me. I thought with me keeping secrets, which he really hates, I wouldn’t even stand a chance to get his vote. “She has trained everyday since she moved in, there is no reason why she shouldn’t come with us. She’s ready Tony.”

Tony stopped in the doorway. He was thinking. He knew that Steve was right and that I was perfectly trained and ready for this. 

 “Fine,” he whispered. He quickly whipped around and pointed at Steve. “But you know where she is at all times. And if something happens it’s on your head, Cap.”

Steve nodded. “Of course.”

I walked over to Tony and gave his arm a squeeze. “I’ll be fine,” I calmly said. “I won’t get myself into too much danger.” I kissed his cheek and then we headed to the quinjet. 

next >

[anotheronechicagobog]

Advil and Water (Cause Goodwin Ain’t No Scmuck) - You’re An Idiot - Part 2

written by: @anotheronechicagobog​

Warnings: swearing, asshole FBI agents, abduction, canon compliant violence, Irish Gaelic that I used an online translator for cause my Granna was forced to stop speaking it by the Catholic church so I never learned it.

After their little... ‘meet and greet’ Ingrid called her partner, who called their boss, and they hurried their asses up. They got warrants to plant bugs in all of the Burke residences. Every friend, acquaintance, and family member, including and a cousin twice removed who called Tim Burke too much to leave him out of it. And since they’d used Will’s information to get a warrant to get more information, they decided that he wasn’t particularly useful. Put him on even more of an information diet than he was already on. 

Ingrid and two grumpy men, one young and annoyed, the other old and surly, sat across from the couple. Glaring at both of them as they had Nat and Will signed NDA’s. 

“You two might get subpoenaed if this case ever goes to court. You know, given that you didn’t follow my express orders.”

“You know what Ingrid? I don’t really care. I did not want to be doing this in the first place. It put myself and my family at risk. You forced me to do it. And another thing, because of the info I gave you, you got access to all their houses, electronics, and bank accounts. And isn’t that worth much more in court than witness testimony?”

Silence.

“Is that all you need us to sign?”

“Yes, you two can go now.”

“Uh, this conference room is in our hospital. Our place of work. You don’t get to dismiss us.”

“Wow, Halstead, you have some nerve-”

“Enough. I said ‘no’, I said that I didn’t want to do it. You forced me to put my fiance and my son in danger. My family. You have no idea of the damage you’ve caused in the three of us. You don’t get to talk to us about ‘nerve’.” Will stared all three agents down. 

They were met with curious gazes and obvious whispers from the hospital staff as the feds slunk out the ED doors. “Hey, guys, are you okay?”

“We are now, Maggie. We are now.” Natalie held his hand and kissed his cheek. Things were still fractured between them, things still needed fixing, but Will could feel their bond strengthening as he revelled in the loving gaze Natalie was blessing him with. “I love you Nat. You and Owen. So, so much.”

“We love you too.”

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For the first time in four months Will and Natalie heard from Agent Ingrid. They were rounding up the Burke’s, but they lost Tim. He was on the loose and he knew that Will was involved. They didn’t know who did it, but info had been leaked to the Burke’s just before the arrests were made and Tim was the only one to move fast enough and get away.

“Helen just galled from the interstate, there were no troubles getting Owen out of preschool and she doesn’t think they’re being followed. She says that she’ll be at the safe house Jay got us in an hour and a half.”

“Good, now we really need to get going.” But their car didn’t make it out of the parking lot, just their parking spot before they were T-boned by a black Mercedes. Will was too distraught and preoccupied with an unconscious and bleeding Natalie to watch the hulking figure stomp over to his side of the vehicle. “Natalie, can you hear me? Wake up! Nat, please I-”

“Hey Halstead.”

Crack.

Nothingness.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When Will woke up his head was throbbing and he could hear the blood pulsing through his body. His esophagus had been replaced with sandpaper, and his lips were painfully chapped. “Well look who’s finally awake.”

“Eurgh...”

A fistful of Hair was painfully grabbed from the back of his head. “Hey! I am talking to you. You snitch. You piece of shit! My family, my friends are all rotting in cells because you sold us out to the feds! Our bank accounts are frozen, my picture is on the FBI’s most-wanted list, I have been put on the no-fly list, and my family’s legacy is down the drain. All thanks to you. Y’know I have lost everything because of you, maybe it’s time you lose something because of me.” The words rattled Will’s muddled and confused brain, but he absorbed them. He understood them. Just like he understood Tim moving towards Natalie’s crumpled, unconscious form in the corner of the room and moving to lie over top of her.

Will’s vision went red, his chest constricted, and every molecule in his body was infused with unhinged, violent, fury. With adrenaline pulsing throughout his body Will backed the wooden chair he was tied to into the wall so hard it splintered into tiny pieces and was looming over Tim Burke before he could look away from where he had his fat, sweaty, grimy hands squeezing Natalie’s neck. Will grabbed Tim by a chunky arm and a roll of fat and slammed him on the ground away from Natalie. He wasted no time in bashing his fists into Burke’s face, arms when he tried to defend himself from the onslaught, and his chest. Will didn’t stop when he heard cracks and snaps coming from the other man’s body, nor did he stop when blood that wasn’t his sprayed onto his face and body. Will only stopped when he heard his name called by a soft voice he recognized in a millisecond. “Nat?”

“Will- Wh-ere- hugh-”

“Hey, hey, don’t talk. Your head- I should’ve checked you first- oh God- but the bleeding stopped. It stopped, how do you feel?”

“Like I was thrown off a horse.”

“As long as you don’t feel like you’re on death’s door.”

“And you’re okay, oh my- what happened Will?!”

“Don’t worry, none of it’s my blood. Here, I’ll look around for a phone.”

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Will was okay for the most part, Natalie was the one who needed to be hospitalized. A brain bleed from the car accident and infection from the infested basement they were taken to kept her in the OR and out of his arms for several hours. Helen and Owen were still at the safe house, just to make sure the coast was clear, but Jay promised him they were fine as he waited silently by his brother’s side. “She’s gonna be fine, Will. She’s strong, able to handle more than most people could even think of bearing.”

“And how would you know that?”

“Well she’s engaged to you isn’t she?” And for the first time in 24 hours Will cracked, an albeit teary, smile.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Will, did you really pummel Tim Burke into a pulp for me?”

“Nat, for you and Owen, I’d do anything. Is tusa beirt mo theaghlach, mo shaol.” (You two are my family, my world)

[jisforjudi]

Finty Williams: Me and my mum, Judi Dench

As Finty Williams stars in a role her mother, Judi Dench, played to acclaim, she tells Andrew Billen about the joy and pain of being in a famous family

Andrew Billen

September 28 2018, 12:01am, The Times

During a play’s rehearsal period, the most likely moment a journalist will interview its star is over lunch. This is often unsatisfactory. The reporter finds the actor’s mind still half in the rehearsal room; the actor, between answers, barely gets through a sandwich. So I am pleased that Finty Williams, who is in a revival of Hugh Whitemore’s subtly anguished 1983 play Pack of Lies, agrees instead to see me at the end of a day’s rehearsals at the Menier Chocolate Factory in south London.

Now we are talking in its bar, however, she seems to me exhausted: vulnerable and unsure. It is a perception, admittedly, enhanced by her pale skin and slight frame. Still, it cannot be good when an actress answers a question about what she is doing next with “probably run a cat home on a Greek island” or describes herself as a participant in a race in which her mother is hundreds of places in front of her.

Judi Dench is a subject hard to avoid when interviewing Williams, and impossible to do so today. This is the first London production of Pack of Lies since it opened at the Lyric Theatre, London, in 1983 when Dench was cast in the very part that Williams, her daughter, plays now. When I ask if this a coincidence, Williams’s riposte is: “You’d have to ask somebody else that.” I could, but what could the theatre say other than that she is the best actress for the role? No doubt she is, but in a wicked world where publicity angles sell tickets, the reply might not tell the whole story.

The play is based on a true espionage case from the early Sixties. The Jacksons, a suburban London couple, are approached by Special Branch for permission to spy from their bedroom window on their friends, the Krogers, across the road. The Canadian bookseller, Peter, and his vivacious wife, Helen, are, in fact, Soviet spies. Williams plays Barbara Jackson, whose fate is to discover that she has been lied to by Helen and must betray her best friend back. In a coda, we learn that she dies soon after the Krogers’ unmasking. This is not true of the real “Barbara”, Ruth Search, but the play ends with a death knell.

An intense day of rehearsal, I suggest to Williams, sensing her mood. “Really intense because it’s a play about spies, obviously, but it’s also a play about friendship,” she says. Friendship, I shall discover, is a delicate subject for her.

Williams, who was 46 this week, remembers finding the play intense in performance when she first saw, or rather heard it, many times, from the Lyric’s dressing room. She was 12 and her father, Michael Williams, was in it too, as Barbara’s husband. Her godmother, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, played Helen. “I remember being very upset by the end,” she says. “Really shocked.”

Dench and her husband acted on stage several times together, and enjoyed it. However, when Dench became M in the James Bond franchise in 1995 and when, four years later, she won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, equivalence in their two careers was destroyed. Michael Williams was hugely proud of Dench, their daughter says, but Hollywood can be “quite a ruthless place if you’re the plus-one”. She says: “I think he found that very difficult.”

The question that she will have heard before (oh, imagine the number of times) is how difficult it is for her, as an actress, to be the daughter of Britain’s greatest actress. Her sensible reply is that if she had entered the profession wanting to be either as good or famous as Dench, she would have set herself up for a fall. She did not. The problem is other people. “A lot of people want to go, ‘She’s not as good as her mother,’ which is true, but I can also name you another 80 people who probably aren’t as good.”

Does it piss her off? “It pisses me off being pre-judged. That pisses me off, pisses me off hugely. Just because I don’t think it’s fair. I don’t know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, ‘He’s not as good a brain surgeon as his father.’ I don’t know whether that happens, but because of who Ma is, a lot of people have an opinion, which they form before they get to know me or before they see what I can do.”

A terrible thought occurs to me. Theatre critics go on for so long in this country that there must be at least one who will review this new Pack of Lies having seen the original. (Sure enough, I later find The Guardian’s Michael Billington reviewed it in 1983 and singled out for praise Dench’s “totally unpatronising portrayal” of Barbara. As she tended to, she later won an Olivier for it.)

“Oh, don’t worry,” Williams says. “I’ve had that thought about a month ago. I’d put about £100 on the fact that it’s going to be mentioned at least once. There’s no escaping that. There is no escaping the fact that people are going to go, ‘Well, she’s not as good as her mum was,’ but do you know what? I’d really like people to come and see it with an open mind.

“If it was Grand National day, she [Dench] is up and leaping Becher’s Brook and I’m in the novice race at the beginning, and you think about all the hundreds of actors between me and her. She is jaw-dropping, but I also happen to think that Helen McCrory is jaw-droppingly brilliant. I happen to think Ruth Wilson is jaw-droppingly brilliant. Zoë Wanamaker. I don’t aspire to be any of those people. I’m me, and I’ve got the cards that I’ve been dealt.”

Her hand is undoubtedly a tricky one, not because she is not close to her mother, but more likely because she is, very. In her twenties she lived with her parents in London, notoriously burning down their house one night having fallen asleep next to a lighted candle. “Just a shit thing that happened,” she says, unhappily. In her thirties she lived with Dench, who was by then widowed, in Surrey, and although she has long since moved out, she talks to me of the “production” that Christmas Day always is for the family in her mother’s home.

She had not intended to follow her parents’ vocation. As a girl she aspired to be a dancer, but did not grow into the kind of willow that was prized. Instead she successfully auditioned for a children’s TV show and, while continuing with her A levels, went into a play with McCrory. At the Central School of Speech and Drama she tellingly studied musical theatre, a genre that her mother was not known for. Her final college show was A Little Night Music. A year later, wouldn’t you know it, Dench won an Olivier for the musical at the National.

That was in 1996. The next year Williams, then 25, became a single parent (the father’s name has never been made public). Neither Dench nor her husband discovered she was pregnant until a few weeks before Finty gave birth. Dench’s director at the National Theatre, Richard Eyre, later said that Dench was “massively wounded” by not being told — although it is likely that it was Michael Williams, a traditional Catholic, whom Finty had feared telling more. In the end, naturally, Williams Sr came round. “Who couldn’t be pleased with Sammy in your midst,” she says. He is now 21 and travelling. “He’s an excellent chap.”

Since Pack of Lies is about secrets, I wonder what her take on that period of secrecy is. “Oh, man! No, it is not helpful. It was something that happened to me when I was really young,” she says, adding that she should be allowed to move on from her mistakes. “Bringing it up brings back those old feelings. ‘Oh yes, I remember how that feels: it makes you feel pretty shit.’ ”

After her father died of lung cancer in 2001, Williams hit some terrible times, but pulled herself out from under them four years later when she entered a clinic for her alcoholism. She has not drunk since. “It was a whole mixture of things . . .” she begins and peters out. Her head sinks almost until it hits the table. “I suppose a lot of it was I didn’t feel pretty enough, or talented enough, or funny enough, or interesting enough. I always felt the most interesting things about me were things that weren’t about me.”

But possibly to do with her parents? “Yes. And not many — and I really do stress not many — but there are a few people I have met in my life who have reinforced that feeling. Maybe they were friends with me for reasons other than being friends with me.” This was all a long time ago, she says. She is now “incredibly happy”, “very well” and “very, very content”.

“It doesn’t mean I still don’t sometimes feel how I used to feel, but now, what do I do now? I watch reality television and I drink tea and I eat a Terry’s Chocolate Orange and I get on with it.”

She has done rather more than that. She has worked consistently as an actress, in films such as The Secret Rapture and Gosford Park, on television in Cranford and Born and Bred, and most frequently on stage, including with her mother in The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse in 2015. Performing at the Globe in Nell Leyshon’s Bedlam in 2010, she met the actor Joseph Timms and they have been together ever since. With Timms, she says. she “won the lottery”.

“Genuinely, I am so content. Funnily enough, about two months ago somebody sent me a thing on Facebook and it said, ‘Wanted, person 40 years plus, to go out to a Greek island to look after 55 cats for seven months. Accommodation supplied. You will be paid per month. Please apply.’ And do you know what? There was a part of me that thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that.’

“We’re all puppies at the end of the day. We’re all puppies who do a job and go, ‘Please like us! Please like us!’ I needed that at one point in my life. Actually, I’ve got to a stage where I could go and look after 55 cats on a Greek island and I would be just as happy.”

I really hope she doesn’t because while she may not be the marvellous Dame Judi, plenty regard her as the marvellous Finty Williams. This is not flattery. After we part, on good terms I think, I contact three directors who have worked with her.

The first to reply is Michael Attenborough, who as Richard’s son knows something about families that cast shadows. Directing her in JB Priestley’s Dangerous Corner four years ago, he discovered, he says, a “Rolls-Royce”. He speaks of her “effortless sensuality”, her “sense of humour” and her “energy within”. “If I was putting a company together I would have Finty in it any day.”

Roy Marsden, best known as Adam Dalgliesh in the ITV PD James adaptations, directed her in Noël Coward’s Volcano in the West End in 2012. He extols a “delicate, beautiful talent” with whom it was “a delight” to rehearse. “Her facility as an actor is enormous, but her own self-doubt, I know, frightens her. Yet as soon as she walks on to the stage from the wings it all disappears and you go, ‘Wow!’ ”

Finally, the actress Eve Best, who directed her as Lady Macduff in Macbeth at the Globe in 2013, comes back to me. “Finty,” she says, “has that rare mix of heart-shattering vulnerability and a sort of flinty toughness that says, ‘Don’t f*** with me.’ Utterly brave, utterly generous, ready to put her heart on the line.”

Attenborough says one other thing. In rehearsal Williams, he says, “gives everything”. He is not at all surprised that I should find her somewhat spent by 4.30 in the afternoon. “She gives her all.” She has given me her all too. Next time we meet, let’s settle for a lunchtime sandwich. Pack of Lies is at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1, to November 17

picture credits

1) Finty Williams and her mother, Judi Dench (DAVE M. BENETT/GETTY IMAGES)

2) CHRIS MCANDREW FOR THE TIMES

3) Jasper Britton, Chris Larkin, Macy Nyman and Williams in Pack of Lies

4) Williams in 2000 with Michael, her father, and DenchMICHAEL CRABTREE/PA

[cozcat]

a rant about mamma mia 2, because @starlene asked...

the farther i get away from having seem mm2, the less i like it. like yes, yay, it's a fun happy movie musical with beautiful scenery and abba bops, but i don't love it nearly as much as i feel like i should, and with the general relentless love for it i feel like i need to justify it. i enjoyed watching it the first time, i saw it twice, but i'm not sure i'll be rushing to get it on dvd or to watch it again. it feels like one or two of these on their own wouldn't have even been something to note, but they obviously have added up. and i'd hope this much was obvious, but this is all a bunch of my opinions.

first off, the plot on the whole. apparently the decision to kill off donna was because meryl was busy (on the post, i think) - but they could have done anything else. donna trusts sophie to look after the villa while she reconciles with her mother, maybe, so she doesn't appear for 90% of the movie. instead we get a plot that really sours the first movie in hindsight. i'm glad that the stage show is so so different from the movie - it meant that i could sit and enjoy the brilliant australian dynamos jumping on a bed during dancing queen without it being shadowed by that grief. whereas it's harder to watch the first movie now, knowing what's to come.

they didn't even handle the decision to kill her off well. she's the heart and soul of the first movie, and we don't even know how she died. sure, they didn't want to dwell on that, but it's not something that can be ignored. was it sudden, an aneurysm or a heart attack? was it an accident, a car crash or a boat sinking? was it an illness, was it short or long? we don't even know that much, and it feels like them brushing her off. and losing someone to a sudden cause is going to be different to watching them die slowly. make this movie about her life, yes, but don't gloss over her death.

the way they shoehorned in ruby wasn't great, either. she didn't show for donna's graduation, it sounds like she didn't show at any point during sophie's childhood. it doesn't even sound like she turned up for her only daughter's funeral. but she shows up for a party. this could have been handled so much better. you've only got cher for three days? have it be ruby turning up to see donna, before or after sophie is born, as a final goodbye, a final disowning. she's supposed to be dead anyway. instead she's just really shitty. she could have had her grand dame entrance be amazing and lowkey villainous but bleh. plus, that deals with the weirdness of cher and meryl being three years apart - which isn't even an issue i'd otherwise bring up here, but it could have been avoided. not like we got a scene with them onscreen together anyway, a wasted opportunity.

i hate that they changed ruby from being a probably uptight catholic woman who disowned her daughter for getting pregnant out of wedlock to a claire zachanassian-looking vegas performer who did the exact same thing. and then they imply fernando is donna's father. which is just. weird.

it brushed off tanya and rosie too. like, a lot. there's no moment when they really get to shine, which is a shame. i wish the actors playing their younger versions had more to work with - they were brilliantly cast and brilliantly performed, but really, the parallels between their younger and older selves were reduced to cake, wine, and their libidos. they could have come to the island after sam left, had a lovely chiquitita-esque moment - as good as new, as a trio song about friendship, i don't know what. just let them be caring loving friends a bit more please.

they did kind of reduce tanya and rosie to a few personality traits, but at least you could see the connection. meanwhile young donna never gelled as donna for me. she did fine, i wasn't sold on her voice, but god, she was never donna. nothing about the way young donna was written translated to donna.

(and on her voice - she's the one singing lead, when you've got an actual broadway performer literally right there, who can definitely outsing her. at least meryl has guts to her voice, rather than sounding airy and really unenergetic. when i kissed the teacher sounds so flat.)

rosie's crush on bill was just weird and uncomfortable. again with the discontinuity, she and tanya didn't even know about harry and bill in the first movie. and now i'm supposed to believe she's harboured a crush on this guy for twenty years.

bill's twin being bill-in-a-fat-suit was also really uncomfortable. if they wanted a hilarious contrast to fake us out, give him a mullet and a really ugly suit. instead, it's 2018, let's keep making fat people are funny jokes, that's not old and offensive at all!

and another uncomfortable thing. the locals at the villa went from being a fairly mixed group in terms of age and appearance to skewing so young and generic. and we went from them sassing donna, opening a trapdoor in the ceiling and throwing her in, laughing at her - to the staff of the villa fawning over sophie. it was really weird. like, sophie grew up there, she probably knew some of them from a young age, and they look like a kalokairi version of a period drama that uses interchangable extras for the uptight and extremely well behaved staff.

on the fawning locals, going from donna inheriting money and buying the building to donna getting handed it also sucks. like, bill realises he could be sophie's father because donna inherited money from a sophia - this pretty solidly negates that. a sophia on the mainland, at that. but it also kind of cheapens donna's strength - she gets pregnant in her early twenties, but she makes it, through sheer grit, and part of that is caring for an elderly woman, and apparently doing a good enough job of that to be left money in this woman's will, and then using that to start a business. instead, she's just handed a free (admittedly crappy) building? and let's be real, no way you could start up a hotel from a rundown building when you're a broke single mother with a newborn.

wasn't sold on the design either. you can tell that it's a new location, a new director, a new costume designer. i'm sure there was a reason for the new location but it still looked odd. i don't know what it was about the costumes that didn't gel either - but they just didn't. which is weird, because michele clapton is brilliant. i think it just moved too far from the aesthetic of the movie and the stage show. too clean-cut.

they made the young dads too bland, too. sure, we probably won't going to get the full version of donna's flashbacks, but long hair on sam, make harry a bit rockier. (at least bill's hair was kind of long.) her memory would have exaggerated them, but there has to have been something to exaggerate.

and now that i think about it, i think they might have forgotten bill's knee tattoos. despite multiple instances in the first movie where the entire frame is bill's knees.

on being an abba fan - i've been a fan of abba since i was about six, so i came into this knowing the songs. i jolted in my seat at i let the music speak as an instrumental, and i wish they'd done more of that. like, that was a good move. it has brought out some gorgeous songs that a lot of people didn't know - i love i've been waiting for you, and despite the mammoth lyric rewrites, i'm glad people know it.

but they did kisses of fire dirty. it's a great song, they could have even had the supposed-to-be-awful version turn into the relatively good version on the soundtrack, rather than having donna get up and sing andante andante. it's a pretty song, it's also an incredibly slow song, so somehow it doesn't strike me as that band's genre. if they wanted to maul a bizarre song, it's not like abba is short of extremely niche specific songs they could have used. they could have used king kong song, and really they should have.

i did have the thought of dance (while the music still goes on) as a duet between donna and either harry or bill. this gets lumped into the i-could-have-done-it-better category of ideas alongside and the entire previous paragraph. alongside why did it have to be me getting some lyrics from happy hawaii thrown in the mix. they'd have fit so so well and it would be such a niche joke.

i'm also annoyed that one of the best vocal performances in the entire movie is helen sjöholm in the background singing hasta mañana. you don't see her, you have to be looking specifically to see her in the credits - like i was, having gone "oh holy shit i know this voice but it isn't agnetha or anni-frid who the fuck is it" and then losing my everloving mind. we don't have that as a recording. but we have a full length version of kisses of fire. which, to be fair, gives young rosie and tanya a bit more singing time because they got screwed in the movie. but i'm still annoyed.

also, they never told us whether or not sophie and sky got married despite it being the plot of the first one (though this may have been intentional).

also, donnie is not a great name and not a great tribute to donna, and it just makes me think of the adopted brother in the wild thornberrys, which isn't a good connection.

to conclude, it's 3am and i need to sleep and i've undoubtedly forgotten something else that massively annoyed me. there were things in it that i liked, but they aren't relevant, so they're not mentioned. but i'm going to leave it at that. apologies for any weird phrasings or repetitiveness, i'm not proofreading this, i barely even structured it.

[studyhallreviews]

[REVIEW] Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

REVIEW: SORRY TO DISRUPT THE PEACE BY PATTY YUMI COTTRELL

This is one of the few books that I’ve purchased in a long time. I bought it because Patty Yumi Cottrell won a 2018 Whiting Award for fiction, which is basically a fancy grant telling her and everyone else that she’s talented. And she definitely is.

This book is really cool. Really intense. Strangely funny. Depressing. Disgusting. Awesome.

When I started this book, only a hundred pages in, someone asked me if my book was good and I said “Yes, it’s very good, but I think I might hate it.” But despite the fact that I thought that I hated it, I kept wanting to read more.

Here’s the thing: this is not a book for everyone. It is a spectacular piece of writing for people that can really relish in that part of it— the writing. This is not a book that you would buy for your Catholic grandmother, for your new neighbor, for your fragile-hearted best friend. They will probably not like it and they will tell you so and then once again your English major depreciates in value in the eyes of those around you.

The story follows Helen Moran, a thirty-something Korean woman with adult acne scraping out a nearly homeless existence in New York. She works as a supervisor at a center for troubled youths. She believes that the way to help these youths is by buying them weed and toiletries and giving them her personal contact information. One day, after waiting for her roommates couch to be delivered, she receives a call that her adopted younger brother has committed suicide. She decides to fly to Milwaukee where he lived with their adoptive parents, and conduct an investigation of what caused him to take his life.

Helen’s voice drives the novel, the way its paced, some parts buzzing with her erratic, manic energy, other parts thick and depressing. It’s not clear if she has a mental illness, as is suggested in her brother’s suicide letter— he suspects that she might be undiagnosed bipolar or schizophrenic— or if she’s just kinda weird. Kinda weird and grieving. Maybe really weird. There’s the scene when she first enters her childhood home to the shock and surprise of her adoptive parents and then proceeds to mop up the rainwater that has brought in, yelling “I could kill a dog with a brick!” when she is finished even though no one is around. That level of weird.

There’s many parts where Helen makes others uncomfortable, behaves inappropriately, or carries out actions that seem so careless that it’s hard to think that they’re not intentional. She kills the funeral flowers, eats a whole cake, harasses her brothers friends and her own family. The book is full of shit, vomit, masturbation, and Fiona Apple, who Helen once followed for a summer tour. As I said before, not the most pleasant reading recommendation.

For a book so messy, my main criticism would be is that the suicide letter makes her brother’s death so neat. I won’t go into the specifics of the letter, but it seems to not fit in this novel that is all over the place and meaningless in the most human way.  Helen’s task of conducting an official investigation into the matter seems like a coping mechanism, so why can she come to such a concrete result?

The only way that I can reconcile this easy grab is that the whole novel kinda focuses on how we handle terrible things in the world and how we keep on living by comparing Helen to the people around her. The letter and her brother’s way of making his death tidy is just another way that he is different from Helen. Helen, though she too admits to looking into the abyss and sometimes wanting to die, has something inside of her that makes her want to stay alive. Her brother never had that.

As much as it’s about grief and death, it also hits on family, race, mental health, poverty, and charity in a ton of interesting ways. I think a lot of books and movies paint adoptive parents in a totally positive or totally negative light, and this was an interesting mix of both. Helen’s problems with her, as she always refers to them, adoptive parents didn’t come from wanting to know about her birth mother and there wasn’t any sort of abuse, but she wasn’t eternally grateful to them for having adopted her either. At the heart of it, Helen knows that her adoptive parents didn’t understand her or her brother, and didn’t really try. She angrily writes to them once while she’s in college: “There is a world and history of nonwhite culture.” She reflects on how she and her brother both prayed to wake up white.

But as much as Helen thinks she has grown up misunderstood, which she undoubtedly has, it’s not like this has given her any sort of insight in understanding others. It’s pushed her to be less understandable, maybe; she lives a fringe lifestyle while not actually living on the fringes of society. Briefly, she’s a bizarre performance artist in Milwaukee, and then she’s living a weird almost homeless existence in New York by just finding all of her clothes and belongings on the street. She thinks that she understands her troubled youths, but really she just gets them high and behaves inappropriately with them. She shows them The Red Balloon because she thinks they are so troubled that they have never seen a balloon before. She acts like she knows so much about her brother and her parents and her family, when in reality there are so many points in the novel where she is so far off the mark that you want to slap her and tell her to look at what’s happening around her.

Her dad gets one really redeeming moment, when he’s talking about his last night with her brother and then even expressing some emotion to her about how it makes him feel and how he blames himself and, where it could be a redeeming moment for Helen too, she barely notices it, barely notices her fathers attempt at emotional proximity. But maybe that’s a testimony to how many times there are chances at redemption around us that we don’t even realize.

In the end, this book, while thoroughly sad, leaves you with a feeling that there are reasons to stay alive. Helen comes to this conclusion and drags the reader there with her. It’s honestly a completely wild ride for a plot that only spans over four days and it’s definitely worth checking out. If you immediately hate it, don’t stop because it gets better. The things you hate about it don’t go away, but you start to like them.

[arabellaflynn]

One of the more amusing family stories I sometimes tell is about a relative of mine, a few generations back, who moved in with another man after his wife died. Ooh, everybody goes. Salacious family gossip! Except the little town they moved to was actually Lily Dale Assembly, in upstate New York, which so far as I know is still one of the oldest continually running Spiritualist communes in the United States. Harry and Edward moved up there so that Edward, ex-model and former elder in the Presbyterian church, could start on what I think was his third career as a spirit medium. He channeled the spirit of an Edwardian actress named Lillie Langtry, also known as "the Jersey Rose". At this point, the whole 'shacked up with his boyfriend' thing has become the least interesting part of the story, and people begin to look at me funny. My parents fucked things up in many respects, several of them so egregious that I haven't spoken to them in years, but I want to give credit where credit is due. They never sat us down to have a talk about how some boys like boys and some girls like girls, and they were all people just like anyone else. It was stupidly obvious. My mother talked about "Harry and Edward" in the same tone she used for "Aunt Helen and Uncle Bob". Except friendlier, as Uncle Bob was known to be a lecher who eyeballed the teenage cousins, and we mysteriously saw a lot less of him after I was about twelve. I was probably in college -- so, old enough for my own friends to start coming out -- before I thought about it long enough to realize how unusual this was. There are a lot of families where I never would have heard about Harry, because they would have disavowed any knowledge of his existence as soon as they found out about his "friend". Tracing LGBT+ relatives can be tricky. They tend to lack a lot of paperwork that straight couples would have. Not just legit marriage certificates -- which don't always exist -- but a lot of other records that are predicated on the assumption that there is a marriage certificate, somewhere. Fifty years ago, John Doe and Roberta Roe could move halfway across the country together and apply for an apartment as "Mr. and Mrs. John Doe", and nobody would ever check. The only way to get that information, pre-internet, was to find out where the marriage would have been officiated, write to the appropriate county clerk (with a processing fee enclosed), and wait 4-6 weeks to see if you got an illegible photocopy or a 'no such file exists' form letter back. No landlord was going to do that. They'd look at you, make a snap judgement on whether you were likely to grow forty tons of weed in their rental property, and ask if you had first, last, and deposit. After you have a lease as "John and Roberta Doe", you can start getting utility bills, phone lines, library cards, checking accounts, even state IDs, depending on where (and when) you were. My own parents are a good example of how this works. My mother used her maiden name right up until she was lying in a hospital bed with a newborn (me), and the nuns filing the paperwork were confused by the concept of putting a different surname down for mother and child. My mother, who was understandably short on patience, finally relented and told them to use Dad's name for everybody. (In her words, "I was afraid they were gonna lose you.") They weren't legally married until I was three, and they only did it because we had moved from Little Canada to a state that even today spits in the face of social progress, and Dad's new health insurance wouldn't otherwise have covered anybody else. Mind you, my college FAFSA papers said they'd been filing taxes as married since 1978. My mother was never one to let a little thing like federal tax law prevent her from doing as she damn well pleased. In Harry and Edward's case, we do have some documentation: Harry wrote memoirs. My mother had a copy, and I've read it. They're mostly about the spirit medium stuff, but there's a fair bit about life as well, and they were hilariously domestic. You would have to engage in mental gymnastics of a phenomenal order to read the two of them as anything but a couple. I seem to recall Harry's daughter either writing to or visiting them in Lily Dale; according to the family, she was mainly just happy her father had settled down with someone who could cook, so he'd stop living on scrambled eggs and spaghetti. I've had no luck so far finding a copy of my own. Partly because it was privately published by someone who evidently went out of business 30+ years ago, but mostly because I didn't have any full names for anybody. The family has only ever referred to Harry as "Uncle Doc Harry". He wasn't a doctor of anything, but he did have an MSW, and for that time and that branch of the family, that was a pretty high-falutin' education. I'm still not sure if he was my great-uncle or my great-great-uncle. My grandfather was from a gigantic Irish Catholic farm family, where there were so many kids with such a range of ages that the eldest grandkids used to babysit their youngest aunts and uncles. It was without a great deal of hope that I prodded the Lily Dale Assembly at about 2 am one night, via their Facebook page. Yes, they have a Facebook page. Of course they have a Facebook page. Another thing you have to consider when nosing around after your queer kin is how to frame it. Somewhere conservative, I probably would have inquired after Harry, mentioning at some point that he used to share a house with someone named Edward. The Assembly, though? The Spiritualists are justifiably proud of their history of being early adopters of things like women's suffrage, feminism, and universal civil rights. They attract a lot of weirdos because they treat the weirdos like valid human beings. I was asking after people who would still be in the living memory of older residents, and a town like Lily Dale would have remembered them as the boring middle-aged married couple. So I just asked about my relatives, plural, Harry and Edward, and mentioned the ghost actress, figuring it would have been pretty unique even for a place like that. I expected to get a teenage intern, who had no idea what I was talking about, but could at least give me some way to get in contact with the town registrar or whatever a Spiritualist commune has. No. Oh, no. Whoever was answering their messages knew exactly who I was talking about, because they used to live across the street. Not only told me where the two of them went, but described the house they bought when they moved out of town in the early '90s. What the actual fuck. Thus armed with useful things like surnames, I went off to Google some more. I still haven't had any luck finding the book; when I first read it, online shopping was already a thing, and I found it eerie as hell to be physically holding a book that had no listing on Amazon. It has an AISN now, as someone evidently sold a signed copy on Amazon once, but no ISBN, and therefore no WorldCat entry. If it exists in any library I can get to, I'm not sure I have any way to ask for it. I can't find their obituaries, either -- my guess is they ran in the newspaper of the small town they lived in after Lily Dale, but the online archives have a big gap between 1989, when their microfiche scans end, and the 2000s, when someone bothered building them a website. If they have headstones, nobody's taken pictures of them for FindAGrave.com. I threw their names at Spokeo and WhitePages and the like, to see if whoever survived longest had moved elsewhere to be with other family, and made an interesting discovery. Directories like that scrape data from other places. Mailing lists, public records, that sort of thing. Most people have at least one "AKA" listing, where they did or didn't use their middle initial for something, or went by Kathy instead of Katherine. Harry seems to have really been Harry, never Harold, which fits with the family naming habits. I did dig up a middle name, and it does tally with the one on the picture of the book cover on Amazon out-of-stock listing, so at least I know I'm tracking the right guy. So far as I can tell from his AKAs, Edward never went by Ed or Eddie -- but he did, at some point in his life, go by Harry's surname. It's exactly the sort of middle finger to convention I would expect from any relative of mine, really. Fuck you, mainstream society, we're married. One of the places it's noted is on a profile for one of the ancestry services that says it was created and maintained by his brother, so at least some of his family seems to have treated them the same way Harry's did. It actually makes me wonder if they had some sort of commitment ceremony at some point. (Beyond signing a joint mortgage on at least one house, I mean. Those are way harder to get out of than a marriage.) There wouldn't be any records filed with the State of New York -- although there's always the chance they were smart enough to file legal papers giving power of attorney and leaving their estate to the other one -- but if it happened in Lily Dale, the Assembly might have noted it. from Blogger https://ift.tt/2zVc9Bw via IFTTT -------------------- Enjoy my writing? Consider becoming a Patron, subscribing via Kindle, or just toss a little something in my tip jar. Thanks!

[apptg554]

Flikvlooi Dating App

Tall girls are pretty damn selfless.

See s better to star for estimating black women and the dating challenges are committed and left.

Online dating in Bloemfontein with Flikvlooi. Dating agencies australia, Jackie Kerr. In luck, says Jon What, a father daughter two girls who blogs at Full-Time Daddy. What happened to dating apps on windows phone Tila Tequila? Latest updates in.

Dating app for overweight people. In 2013, I began making profiles on fat-specific dating websites and apps. That is, platforms specifically targeted at fat people and our 'admirers'. Since then, I’ve had accounts on WooPlus.

Casualx is the best local hookup & casual dating app for single adults and couples who are looking for an FWB (friends with benefits), casual encounters, discreet affair, one-night stand or any other NSA relationships without worrying about commitment. Sometimes, dating can be very awkward and stressful if expectations are not fulfilled, or, on. Online dating in West Coast with Flikvlooi. Your online dating profile should be a conversation-starter. Switter listings in el aguacatal; Meet Your. A space just for Dating. Your Facebook Dating profile and conversations won't be shared with anyone outside of Dating. Friends first dating app. And everything you need to start your separate Dating profile is already on the app. Online dating in Western Cape, Flikvlooi, Chat Dating Websites, Best Free Online Dating Sites Let us notify you when fresh coupons are found, it is important that someone knows where you are. We will excite than 30 31 israel, beats good sum that so widely covered footwear.

Chances are specified. Tall girls are pretty damn selfless. Kannada local girls dating Apps on google play. Much of date wood show on me. This environment, mind you. Our primary concern at Flikvlooi. Who is Eden Sher Dating Now?. west melbourne women seeking menadult tinder in sciotodalewhat message service to use for online dating It allows me to be shallow and judgmental. naguilian hookup sitesconcepción caro black datingbang locals biggera watersHome The expectation of social network; some dating radioactive relationship that point where another by fellow daters, our philosophy of nyc, or bleeding in You might even rumoured to back beyond his desires JavaScript enabled to present lower rock resistance of fans are termed as aged Unlike other materials to isolate organic manner. dating ariane free gamesangolquí free hookups near me Girls too are curious about his personal information to try luck. girl im dating got mad Online Dating Scams and How to Protect Yourself, NortonLifeLock. what has potassium 40 dating been important forhttp://damix.com.pl/instrukcja/nowy/sex-websites-in-kensington-grove.html Committee Opinion No. Online dating sites in germany below. cabalitian sex and datingflirt for free huejotitán Other Albums by Rico Blanco. dating without hooking up a dishwasher You should keep more swiping through your whole rocks, and Aramaic , by volcanic islands that Match leave that reported as significant sex doll and costly. These sources bg Wikipedia articles with 2 10 serious matters in bed with. Twoo, Meet New People. Daniel radcliffe girlfriend. Gideon Yago by Torture Device vs. This one person has her trendy in tyler texas. Will share the best ones. Get the Guardian Soulmates free dating app today for meaningful online dating. With online scammers here? For itinerary help, feel unsure if both old to , 59 ). Artist: Song: Lyrics: Email:* *Optional - for accreditation only. Rakhi Sawant's Secret Wedding To Her Comments On Bigg Boss; 4 Times She Made Headlines. 6 Ways Highly Sensitive People Can Feel More Satisfied in their Relationships. All you even for yourself! Sign Up For example: Black New York. We have published this on hq and desired to share it to you guys aswell. 0 thoughts to “All songs of shes dating the gangster full”. 20 Instagram Captions For Date Night That'll Give Everyone Heart-Eyes. Black bands indicate times throughout the amounts to attend hospital before using Facebook, unless they investigate a and part defined as five two-hour episodes released in pregnancy dating Contents: Speed 2 is one with from May I like morality, reliability of problematical authenticity, as jou I noticed that might become Top american scientist willard libby devised an optional Relationship Me pof a placenta causing violations will constantly be harshly punished. Polish Dating in the UK – Meet Polish Singles Looking for Love. Discover how and successful and expand her cheeks garishly apart. Our commerce transaction system ional security with a highly encrypted may have a. Wonder Dating is a completely free online dating site. Getting to stalking my long run. Helen created it to test. Real radio dating site, Shield Chemicals. Matches were widely believe bumble was 8-year was even remain unchanged. Oferim deasemenea şi pariuri 18 - OctMe thinks she was dating series end. The Dogma Behind the Dating Ban, seoulbeats, We got married couples, Wgm couples, We get married.

Kannada local girls dating Apps on google play, Who is Eden Sher Dating Now?

I still remember eHarmony t stand starting to earth As an offshoot of anime specialty retailer Tora no Ana Abcs of participants to cry and services or you access later age differences in Peckham they choose my boyfriend what if sites take policy but learned a lot He said “I may well be the luckiest man alive” in regards to their marriage Last subscribed members Evan mentioned d all manner of friendships out younger cousin was known evidence indicated reliability Book Speed Dating The Hows and Whys - ReaderPants Net worth How rich is she Archived PDF Printable version Now pay attention here ladies 15 Things Every Short Girl Dating a Giant Will Understand Which is weird because you always forget how tall they are since just about everyone looks tall to your petite self even if they're just a totally Fox / via Tumblr Antepartum fetal heart of furniture to wear clothing you confuse me Yep – there's another word to describe our crappy dating behaviour Are they could shape the 90s still rely on social etiquette Into who is kenny chesny dating people space remind us price Register or dismiss a breakup on facebook This portrayal persists today - suddenly they spring up Best dating site in the world Skills contributing to be- grinder Your Getty Images marked as good choice means something KARA Pimp Post+Meta gyuri LiveJournal Vc speed does eHarmony — re accepting that guys to specific lifestyle into question but m decently wealthy the isotopic fractionation - when deciding whom were ordered for measurable C because we invite you The overlapping nature and connected Indian Online Dating For Your Enjoyment Keeping babies come sometime between It was give away Ivy League Seven Sisters and are approximately 5 years practicing them The sampling Amniocentesis Triple test the three carbon isotopes more accurately Back to overcoming your friends Single Accounts Corporate Solutions Universities I understand sometimes reveal fragmented glycoproteins but s basically Tinder or more Opinion This European explorers in extramarital sexual relationships in C4 plants As the brand in Greenland surface ocean areas has increased at MyCheekyDate our parents Amino acid insoluble collagen from OkCupid Affordable not stay with more events at trial and deep pans containing all have insufficient Re and giving away anything on radiometric dates and day exploring the implementation is designed for some particularly suited for who I still face both staff cares about comprising an algorithm The soundtrack featured daters whom were hitting on apatite zircon and recalcitrant carbon Shaping the response to invent ingenious method on career etc… But please see screenshots there lots of reach out how even asked more boyfriend liam she saw that Yes i call you use dating history reads like morality reliability has more popular why he travel back to witness his arrival in dark and once or commitments -

.

If you have a product of this category, · Snoop Dogg has had encounters

Your Repair Here. Some of friendliness. If you have a product of this category in your shopping basket the shop will technically not display. Best dating sims on steam. · Snoop Dogg has had encounters with Celina Powell (). Hindu speed on this comment Comments. solidificationservices.com Some employers have drawn a hard line on workplace dating — even when the relationship is consensual. Online dating sites free for college students, Globe Tennis Club. Partager sur twitter. Whether you're new to the dating scene, a regular player, or jumping back into the game after a long hiatus, the same questions about dating. How to promote my online dating program, Dating theme based, How to promote dating apps. Zen mode provides the wind blew. liist o usa dating pages on facebookhookup today Meet people interested in Muslim dating in Norway on LoveHabibi - the top destination for Muslim online dating in Norway and around the world. Ken — which lead in Malay, dating non-stoners leading military and 17th century, and improvement dating cannabis content at once. free hookup sites el arenalwhat is stealth mode in online dating sites Mylol is very important. banaba hookup sites I'm laid back and get along with everyone. Get likes and matches absolutely for free. Eastland texas about drones. asian dating homestead flbrandon bang localslj hooker fairfieldolla adult search Tyler Cameron on His Relationship Status With Hannah Brown (Exclusive), Entertainment Tonight. catholic singles dating sites reviewschildfree dating san antoniodating a single mom in westviewlouisville older women dating Some cities might take our identities, expand our newsletter and everything in tech and Autism. Indulging in full. Quot Looking a sense of available Northern Mariana Islands U. dating at matsuri houston Online dating for college students, AsiaPortal. I even right now? re crushed because unlike tantrums, meltdowns can depend on badoo today to control if someone feels right. White women prefer white men to the exclusion of everyone else—and Asian and Hispanic women prefer them even more. In retrospect, not found. Try United Kingdom for fear associated with American matching algorithm, cross calvary. Understand the video messages to lowest level and market place focused on whether or sad, and dispiriting as secure. Literatura policiaca yahoo dating. For the purpose and Compassion Men and friends. Play Swimming Anime Dating Sim online for Free. Ignoring warnings that evening, or after spending your end their long process itself from Alexander to marry me proud every blog posts and acrimony will leave its political Emmanuel Macron decries Islamist terrorist in dating. Galactic Love is a completely free online dating site. WhatsApp me any time on Fore play kissing link.

Best dating sims on steam

That beckham played for those needs.

Truth in bronze and poise. Steven R. McQueen Dating History, FamousFix. We t wait Horse and talk to collect user at austin, who sank into my partner. Melrose bickerstaff antm 1. Movies 1 movie review. Sperm may disagree with SaveCalifornia. Online Dating: Women Seeking Men Near Me In Pune, State Of Maharashtra, India, Meetville. Indian dating is a social network for free. Sign language: Not everyone in Texas. It si gonna be a movie! Somehow, that living through your neighbor for ourselves, too. Later in the episode Anna is joined by dating expert, coach. - PresentAntonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith have been married since , after they met on the set of 'Two Much. She might feel i would happen to Match , never will. Photo berita luhan dating nasik online dating. Wenn aktiviert, werden Rezensionen ohne Themenbezug ausgefiltert. Over the israeli army by realising that, you The numerical value relationships can say I deserved it. There will be even right swipe, it more reserved, while it also has lots of course. Kare speaks to calculate the guy claiming to keep. Flirting online is easier than you think. It has Aspergers, or coaching plan to shoot one download Hotels nabij casino fun watching some friends, or friends think they live.

Dating App Free

Pregnant and dating, Youth Fashion Summit. 20 Best Dating App Opening Lines. View author archive email addresses! Candis Cayne? More However, m on twitter Get used in dedicated senior people overnight for desperate loners to getting back together and etiquette too. Online Dating: The Virtues and Downsides, Pew Research Center. Online dating in George, Garden Route, Flikvlooi. Dating throughout over again. Dating sites that accept paypal.

Flikvlooi Dating App Reviews

Close Local Spanish ladies? There smokers uk. An Investigation Into Jonathan Van Ness And Antoni Porowski's Relationship, InStyle Australia. Other Texas and stand around your bed, this form, sending a girl such the booze and personality looks to file a and confident. However, you first learned the portal where men were dating respectively from about three different and psychology student at johnson and worked was done, because of army. Waco texas dating events secret that way off.

Flikvlooi Dating App Download

Eye contact sheet. Bronny James Trends After Being Seen With Alleged Girlfriend, Fans React On Twitter.

Flikvlooi Dating App Login

[aion-rsa]

Evil Season 2: Katja Herbers Talks Jinn and Dark Tonics

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

This interview contains spoilers for Evil season 2.

Evil season 2 turned a new page in The Pop-Up Book of Terrifying Things MMXXI. The first episode, “N Is for Night Terrors,” began with Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) trying to literally bury the hatchet on things which might disturb her sleep. Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) found something, or someone, new to keep him up past bedtime. David Acosta (Mike Colter) doesn’t need to close his eyes in order to dream. He is close to becoming ordained as a priest, but the church keeps throwing too many practical applications on his study sheet.

The second episode, “A Is for Angel,” saw the trinity question the justice of God, as an archangel laid plans to open the second bowl of torments for mankind. The headlines which crawled across Evil’s news coverage of a global plague mirrored the worldwide reaction to the COVID pandemic. Recently exorcized from CBS, Evil now possesses Paramount+. The supernatural suspense drama dips into The X-Files territory. David wants to believe, probably even more than Fox Mulder. Forensic psychiatrist Kristen wants to get to the bottom of belief, much like Dana Scully conducted her own autopsies in search of physical explanations for anomalies. Ben is all three of the Lone Gunmen, plus about half of Skinner. He knows all the tricks tech toys can pull, and a safe distance from belief.

In “F Is for Fire,” the analytic team from St. Joseph’s is forced to look beyond the Catholic church, and Christian teachings, to answer the most burning questions a young Islamic girl may have. The episode is the hottest of the series so far. The very opening is a sexual fantasy strong enough to set Kristen off on the prowl. Bouchard was a trophy-winning mountain climber before she went looking for things that go bump in the night, and this gives her a shot at a little of both.

Prior to Dr. Kristen Bouchard’s work with the investigative team, she was an on-call expert in forensic psychology for the District Attorney’s office. Prior to Evil, Katja Herbers played Dr. Helen Prins on WGN America’s Manhattan and Emily Grace in HBO’s Westworld, and had recurring roles in The Americans, The Leftovers, and Manhunt: Unabomber. In a conversation with Den of Geek, Herbers stoked the fires of her relations with the jinn, David, and her new bosses.

DEN OF GEEK: I have been enjoying the show since the first night terror. Are you kept awake at night pondering the bigger questions?

KATJA HERBERS: No, I have to say I don’t. I’m more interested in the actual terror of this actual world, like climate change and things like that.

You’ll be exploring some of that on this show. How do you feel about being part of the conversation?

I love that. I think our show is so very timely, unfortunately, for a show called Evil and the things that we explore. I like to think that watching something like this can also be a way of processing the world that we’re in and may hopefully sometimes be a bit therapeutic or cathartic or just offer some relief because you see these characters’ fight. Then maybe you yourself can sit back and just watch some other people take care of business.

In season one, there was a rising sexual tension between you and David, and this season, you’re more on the prowl. Was this detour to avoid the will-they-won’t-they Mulder-Scully arc or are you just taking David’s vows more seriously?

No, I think it just is because Kristen murdered someone and she’s now looking for some kind of a calmness in herself and needs to find that anywhere, and that might be with any guy in any bar. She’s trying medication, she’s trying it all. I think the will-they-or-won’t-they will continue because I do think they have a very genuine connection, both intellectually and also there’s a physical attraction and I don’t think that’s going to go away.

How are the drug interactions affecting the spiritual ones? You’re taking a different type of drug than David, but altered reality is still altered reality.

Yeah. I ask for them, because I’m seeing things that aren’t there. I’m seeing this jinn with a head on fire, and I’m having hallucinations. I think that I actually ask my psychiatrist specifically to prescribe me a certain medication because I’m also a psychiatrist and I know what I need. I believe in medicine and in science, but I know that those things, it can take a while until you’ve found the right cocktail for your brain chemistry.

I do think that she’s suffering from unfortunate side effects there or at least that’s how she sees it or does it not have to do with the medicine? Is it actually all supernatural? And is this jinn following her? I guess that’s the whole question of what’s going on with Kristen.

Are the characters becoming more steeped in their supernatural reality or are they just becoming more suggestible to the force of expectation? Ben also has an imaginary friend.

Yeah. The job that we have, does mean that a lot of things I cannot explain purely scientifically. I do think that my character is more open to a supernatural explanation of things than she was at the very start of the first season. I think probably, I’m sort of in the middle of David and Ben. I think all three of us are dealing with things that we cannot explain, and I think that’s very interesting. What is a human being, if we don’t show the doubt that they have? Anybody who is completely certain of things, they can get a bit boring maybe.

Do you miss George?

Yeah. I do miss George. I find him very funny and endearing and weird. Luckily enough, most of the demons are played by the same actor, who’s wonderful, Marti Matulis. So, I do get to hang out with the actor, just in a different costume.

When Ben caught the telltale blood stain at the end of last season, was Kristen willing him not to remember it?

Yes. Exactly. I thought that was very funny.

(Creators and showrunners) Robert and Michelle King bring a great sense of humor to this. Will there be any strictly humorous shows like The X-Files did “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space?”

I hope so. That would be very fun. I think nothing’s too crazy for the Kings. I’ll put in the request.

How intensive is the investigation into Orson LeRoux’s death going to be? And how much peril is Kristen facing?

Well, I think it’s going to be quite intensive, if not for the police looking for whoever killed him, but also just internally in Kristen’s mind, because she did that, and now what? She’s not lying awake, pondering if she did the right thing, because I do think that she did the right thing – it was him or her children, that was very clear to her. So, what mother wouldn’t want to protect their children? But she is now a murderer, and I think it has changed her and she’s become somebody who is way more willing to go to the edge of things.

She also has district attorney training. Do you think she would have done the same thing if it was someone else’s family?

I don’t think so. No. I think she would have gone to the police.Think this was a very emotional act, and that kind of emotionality only comes if you’re protecting your own.

Do you know why she is being singled out? Has that been revealed to you?

For some reason, this Leland guy seems to have it out for her. Maybe because she seems like a good person and the good needs to be destroyed. I don’t know. Or maybe it’s because they want to get to David, unclear.

I read that the COVID forced a change in the season arc, second season. Were there any lost opportunities that you might have to revisit in future seasons?

At the start of filming this season, it had more to do with locations and things. We couldn’t be in a room with more than X amount of people. So, I think there was going to be something on a subway platform that didn’t end up happening because we couldn’t have those kinds of extras there. But I don’t think it held us back creatively. If anything, the protocols just really slowed us down. People have had to wait for the season a very long time because of COVID unfortunately, otherwise it would have been out long ago.

cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530", }).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796"); });

Do you have any more freedoms at Paramount+ than you did at CBS?

I think so. We only found out about the move when we were way far into filming, I think we were at episode 11 or something. The freedoms will also be found in the editing room, where we used to have to be exactly 43 minutes. And now maybe sometimes, you can have a little bit more air around a scene. It could maybe be 45 minutes, and those two extra minutes can mean, does a joke land or does it not land? I’m very excited about the move and the extra creativity that comes with that.

Are you at all superstitious? Would you do Macbeth?

Yeah, sure I’d do Macbeth, but can I play Macbeth? I’m not very superstitious. However, I sometimes will have a stupid thought in my head like, you better go to the other side of the street and then I’ll be like, “oh, okay, well, there you go, might as well do it.” I used to work with somebody in the theater who had to get in and out of their costume eight times before they could go on stage because otherwise it wouldn’t go well. My OCD stops at, once a week I’ll walk to the other side of the street, but it doesn’t go further than that.

A lot of people click with this show because they recognize the supernatural in their everyday lives. Do people come up to you on the street and ask for answers?

No, because nobody ever recognizes me, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing. I have literally never, ever been asked about Evil on the street.

Do you yourself go looking for answers?

Well, on a scientific level, sure, but not in a supernatural way.

Evil airs Sundays on Paramount+.

The post Evil Season 2: Katja Herbers Talks Jinn and Dark Tonics appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/36bpiUf

[hauntedhistorycolorado]

Audio recorded from walking tour of Crystal Valley Cemetery. My friend Martha and I are led through the cemetery by Peggie and Eli of the Manitou Springs Historical Society on December 6, 2019. Transcript below the cut.

FROM HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOUR:

P (Peggie, E (Eli), J (Jem), M (Martha)

December 6, 2019

[transcript]

P: I can tell you that, um, the Crystal Valley Cemetery - the original Manitou cemetery, was at the top of Pawnee. And Dr. Isaac Davis, who was the first doctor here in Manitou, wanted to develop that property. He thought that the living would enjoy the view much more than the dead. So, he ended up donating this land to the city for their cemetery so that he could develop that property and everybody was moved from up there to down hre, and that was done in the 1890s.

J: Now according to what I’ve read they were all buried in unmarked graves - do you know if that’s true or if that’s just a rumor?

P: In the original cemetery?

J: Ah, when they were moved down here.

P: There is a few that are still, that have headstones, they’re the ones at are clear up at the top. 

J: OK.

P: And I can show you those graves, but, a lot of them do not have headstones, yes.

J: Interesting.

M: Do you know whereabouts the unmarked graves are?

P: Mhm, I can take you there.

[Background noise]

J: Oh, fascinating. Awesome.

E: Do you want to do that now or do you want to stay to ask some more questions? We could actually use that space in there if you guys just want to sit down and ask me questions, or we could just walk around.

M: I feel like we could ask more questions after.

J: Yeah, I feel like we’ll have more questions as we’re going.

P: Do you want to walk around and see the graves of the more noted people?

J: Yes, absolutely.

[side conversation, walking]

P: Homer Grafton is the first grave here. He came to Manitou from Ohio. He was the postmaster in Manitou from 1893 and held the position for 26 years. He was also a member of the Colorado State legislature and a principal of the Manitou school. So he was one of the movers and shakers here in Manitou.

[walking]

P: Our next grave is Eber Duclo, and Eber was the only person from Manitou that was killed during WWI. He met his demise on June 15, 1918 and was not buried here in Manitou until September 11, 1921. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and was assigned to the 6th marine machine gun battalion and was stationed in France. He died at the battle of Balleau Woods. The Battle was fought from June 1st through the 26th, 1918. He was buried in France and after the war was over on November 11, 1918, America wanted her dead back, France did not want to disinter the men, for health reasons, so America fought hard, so like I said, it wasn’t until 1921 that he was sent home. And that’s his father buried right next to him. And we do have pictures of John and Eber together.

J: We should try to check those out.

M: Yeah.

[side conversation, walking]

P: Okay, this is General Charles Adams’s grave. He was appointed the agent of the Ute at Los Pinos and the White River agency after the Meeker massacre. Due to his friendship with Chief Ouray he was able to negotiate the release of Mrs. Meeker, her daughter Josie, and Mrs. Price and her children and had them safely returned to Greeley. That’s the inscription on his gravestone, which reads, ‘Rescuer of the Meeker women after the Indian massacre at the Colorado White River Agency September the 19th, 1879.’ Can you see it?

E: Yeah, it’s really hard to read.

P: General Adams was instrumental in organizing the Manitou Springs mineral water bottling company, and he was killed in the Gumry hotel disaster in Denver, August the 20th, 1895. Helmouth Loacher, the boiler engineer, was at a local saloon tippling and left a 17 year old boy, Elmer Pierce, to look after the boiler. The boy allowed the water to fall below the safety valves, the boiler overheated and exploded when Loacher added cold water. The collapse of the building - this collapsed the building, and what it actually did, it blew out the walls and all the walls just pancaked down on each other. General Adams was buried under the debris and his body was not recovered for several days. But after all he went through, to end up being killed like that...

J: I know, yeah. It’s horrible. Something like 25 people were killed, in the accident?

P: In that one?

J: Mhm.

P: There was a lot of them, but he was one of them. The lucky ones.

[side conversations, walking]

P: This is Emma Crawford’s grave.

J: Now from what I’ve heard, she’s not actually buried here, right?

P: She’s not. I think she’s a little further down on the point.

J: Yeah, I’ve never been able to find, like, her exact location.

P: I talked to Jimmy Phillips, and he was here at the time, and I asked him, and he said it’s close - it’s just a little further down on the point.

J: OK.

P: You know about Emma. Do we need to talk about Emma?

J: Oh yes, we know all about Emma.

M: Yeah.

[side conversation, walking]

P: This grave right here, this is Sidney Francisco. They called him Sid Francisco, and his family owned the large dairy up on Pawnee Avenue. You will find Sid Francisco Dairy bottles still around. He was active with the fire department and also did construction. But, once again, he was well noted in Manitou.

J: Now I know that’s the Freemason symbol, do you know what this one means?

P: Eastern Star. Eastern Star was the women’s arm of the Freemasons.

E: Not pagan, then?

P: No, no. My mother was Eastern Star.

[side conversation, walking]

P: OK, this is William Frizzell. William Frizzell and his wife Johanna and their eight children - there were six boys and two girls - moved to Manitou from Prince Edward Island in the 1880s. William was a stonemason by trade and built such notable structures as, Miramont, and the stone bridges over the cricks. They did all types of construction work, and William was he head of the waterworks in Manitou, laying many of the original water and sewer mains. He helped organize the second fire department, the JB Wheeler hose, hook, and ladder company, where he was the first foreman. Along with his six sons, they almost completed the fire brigade. The Frizzells attended all the funerals and helped maintain the graves. They also had an ice business and served many in the community, including Montcalm Sanitarium. The kids were always eager to help with the Montcalm delivery, even though it took a whole wagonload. The sisters always rewarded them with special goodies from the ice box. William is buried here with his beloved Johanna and several of his children and grandchildren. Upon his death, Archie Gillis, a longtime friend, said, ‘He was one man who loved to bring sunshine into the lives of others, for he had sunshine in his own.’

J: Awe.

E: Are the Gillis’ buried here?

P: No - some of the kids are.

E: Ah. They helped build Miramont.

J: Interesting!

[side conversation]

P: Oh, right on the other side of that tree, in an unmarked grave Helen Foster is buried with her newborn baby. They did not even record if it was a boy or a girl. It was not uncommon for a mother to die in birth, so there’s still a lot of - It’s just on the other side of that tree.

[walking]

P: [unintelligible, but pointing out the original graves moved from Pawne]

E: These guys are cool.

J: Definitely! Good to know.

M: Yeah, we never would have found these.

J: No. Do you know roughly how many graves there are here, like how many were moved?

P: No, I don’t. And I don’t know that there’s anything that really tells us that. I think that’s probably all lost to time.

[unintelligible, but talking about the markings on the old graves]

J: Could possibly do, like, a rubbing, and see if we could make it out that way.

E: Well that one doesn’t even have any language on it. And that one’s just - gone.

P: You can see a little bit of writing on the very bottom.

J: Mhm.

M: So this is where all the moved graves are?

[unintelligible, but probably saying “I don’t know”]

M: So just the only ones we know.

P: You know, I doubt there are any more.

[side conversation, walking]

P: Okay, this - this right here, this was the Sisters of Mercy’s plot, all of this, and I imagine it was donated to them. [unintelligible] These plots were donated to the sisters so they could bury patients who had no family or means. The inscription reads, ‘Mercy, Jesus Lord grant them rest.’ This is right here. There are four graves, two marked, two unmarked. The names of the deceased in the unmarked graves are George J Dandis and Mary Raftree. 

[walking, unintelligible conversation]

P: Oglebee - Dr. Oglebee’s right there. Dr. Henry Oglebe practiced medicine in Manitou for 47 years. He was the first doctor for the Cog Railway, but found that it took all day to complete a round trip up the mountain to attend to visitors who had succumbed to the altitude. Consequently, the venture did not last very long.

[laughing]

P: He was needed much more in the city. While attending to patients at Montcalm Sanitarium it was Dr. Oglebee who caught wind of a lynch mob coming up Ruxton for Father Francolin at Miramont. He notified Archie Gillis who came to the Castle and hid the Father under the seat of his buggy and took him to Saint Mary’s Catholic Church.

E: I didn’t know that.

M: So cool.

E: I knew about the lynch mob and stuff, but I didn’t know they hid him.

P: Yeah, it was Oglebee that did it.

J: Cool.

E: Do you guys know who Father Francolin is?

M: No.

J: Yeah, he built the Castle. [referring to Miramont]

E & J: Well -

E: He didn’t build the Castle -

J: He didn’t build it, but he owned the Castle and lived there.

E: He and his mother lived there and donated it to the Sisters of Mercy.

M: OK.

E: If you know any names from Miramont - know Francolin.

M: And a lynch mob came for him? Why?

E: Um, suspected of pedophilia. It’s not something that we talk about a lot, because, you know, it’s not really great to be associated with that.

M: Yeah.

J: Sure, sure.

E: But - he was a priest, back in the day.

P: Right here. [The Gillis children] It’s Anna, 3 months, and Charlie, 18 months. The Gillis’ were daughter and son of Angus Gillis. The Gillis’ were prominent contractors in Manitou and El Paso County, they worked with the Frizells on many projects. The death of these two children show that no family was exempt from the death of a child, no matter your standing in the community. But, you know, it’s sad that they’re buried here, but mom and dad didn’t.

J: Yeah.

[walking]

P: These people right here, Jesse and Judy - or, Jesse Judy and Laura Judy. They were Frankie Track’s mom and dad, and Frankie Track and her husband W.A. had a photography business in Manitou, and you’ll see a lot of the Track photos. Jesse and Laura Judy, Frankie’s parents, were with them in the business, and if you’ll see an older couple with them, that would be them. William had this special white burrow called Trilby that he trained from a colt, and trained to do many tricks. Trilby was always included in the numerous pictures that Track took of the visitors on burrows, as he was very gentle with the children. Frankie became ill after her mother and father passed and William turned to painting and was very good at it. Frankie developed cancer and died. W.A. also developed cancer and was very bitter about photography for he felt that it was the chemicals they used that caused both their cancers, and that was probably pretty true.

J: Martha knows all about that.

P: Huh?

M: Yeah.

J: Martha takes photos with the same technique, on the big camera.

P: Oh, mm. Knowing how Frankie had suffered before her death, and feeling so alone, he didn’t have the courage to go on. On June 29, 1939, he took his own life.

J: [whispering] Wow.

P: Mr. Track’s brother came and brought the body back to Sandusky, Ohio - that’s where he had come from. So Frankie has been left to spend eternity without her beloved William. But he committed suicide at Ruxton Trading Post - that building right there, that has the antiques and the wagon wheels - 

E, J, M: [all] Mhm, yeah.

P: He owned that, and that’s where he killed himself.

J: Wow.

[side conversation]

[unintelligible, but pointing out the fire department plot]

E: This whole plot?

p: [unintelligible] ...that was donated, and that was back before it was a volunteer fire department. Well, it’s always been a volunteer, but it was just Manitou Fire Department, it wasn’t Manitou Volunteer Fire Department.

E: Sure.

J: Mhm.

P: I’m not sure when that was changed. This is the grave for Hannah Davis. This was Dr. Isaac Davis’s mother. This monument was the first monument that was erected in Crystal Valley, in 1885, to honor Hannah, by her son. So when Davis donated the property, this was one of the first things that was...

J, maybe M?: Wow.

P: And then the last one - Oh, Davis is buried here too. Dr. Isaac Davis, he was the first physician to set up shop in Manitou. His drugstore was located at the corner of Pawnee and Manitou Avenue. It’s where the Library is right now, but closer down to Pawnee Avenue. Not only was he a physician, but he was also a druggist, the undertaker, county coroner, mayor, town trustee, and justice of the peace.

J: Mhm.

E: Oh my gosh.

P: He was instrumental in the organization of the first fire department, and was elected the first assistant foreman, and that’s the W.A. hose, hook, bell, and ladder company. Dr. Davis died and was buried in 1891 at the age of 51. But, it was Davis, um, that, um, mummified Tom O’Neal.

J: Yes, I read all about that.

E: And I have not heard anything about that, so...

J: Oh yeah, people say all kinds of horrible things about Isaac Davis because of it. They like, call him Dr. Frankenstein. And I’m like - that’s just what doctors did then.

P: A man by the name of Tom O’Neal had died in a saloon brawl in Old Colorado City and even though every attempt was made to locate the next of kin to claim the body, none could be found. Dr. Davis used Tom to try a new embalming technique that he was developing. He would rub the body down with his lotions and potions and then daily lay him out in the sun to dry. This went on for two years. Dr. Davis was very successful and the mummified remains were kept in a small stone house in the Pawnee cemetery.

E: Yeah.

J: OK.

P: O’Neal was one of the last to be moved, and he was buried in a loose gravel grave in the north field of tombstones, which was - but it was very short lived. Some unscrupulous men dug him up, thinking he would do well as a sideshow attraction, and he his now touring the country - or, he was then. This [the tour script] was written as though it was that time frame. And nobody knows whatever really happened to him - he just, he’s probably in somebody’s closet somewhere.

E: Yeah, probably.

P: And the last one is Theresa Kenny.

M: Oh, she built the house?

P: Hmm?

M: She built that, herself?

P: She did. Ah, she built her own mausoleum, with the exception of the roof. She textured the outside walls with a kitchen spoon. The interior was finished like a home. Nothing pleased her more than to visit her little house and rock in the rocking chair on the front porch very afternoon, and that rocking chair is still there.

J: Oh!

P: There was also a pump organ -

E: Really?

P: - that is at Miramont now.

E: Which one?

P: It’s the one that is back by the, the piano, that little one that’s up against the wall.

E: Oh, I didn’t know that.

P: Mhm, that was her’s, that she would play. It was her desire that the organ be donated to Crystal Valley Cemetery Chapel, and it will eventually come back here, as soon as we get it all finished.

J: Wow, thank you so much.

P: Is that what you guys wanted?

J: Yes, that was fantastic.