#yvonne royal

[lilakartoffelbrei]

Blume/Smith/Bär 9

Kennt ihr das Apfelblütental noch? Zwar ist der letzte Teil "nur" 8 Monate her, aber diesen Haushalt hab ich zuletzt vor drei Jahren vorgestellt. Neben einem stressigen Alltag habe ich tatsächlich auch ein wenig das Interesse an dieser Nachbarschaft verloren. Ich hab noch viele Bilder übrig (bin spielerisch am Ende von Teil 9) und hab die letzten Wochen auch immer wieder gespielt.

Genug langweilige Worte. Viel Spaß mit dem Apfelblütental

Der Sommer bringt Veränderungen ins Apfelblütental. Eine davon der Umzug von Larissa und ihren drei Kindern in das kleine gründe Häuschen zu Andrew und Anton. Arthur kann es nicht fassen, dass er jetzt endlich bei seinem Vater wohnt.

Die Zwillinge freuen sich über den Umzug, besonders weil der Spielplatz direkt gegenüber ist. Dennoch vermissen sie ihr altes großes Haus. Luna findet es so eng wie in einer Gefängniszelle. Und Ilias vermisst "seine Tante" Selma sehr. Zum Glück ist das Apfelblütental klein und überschaubar und alle haben weiterhin engen Kontakt.

Albert freut sich für seine besten Freunde, dass sie unter einem Dach leben. Schon länger wünscht er sich eine Jungs-WG, so wie es seine Halbschwester Eileen mit ihren Freundinnen hat. Das Erwachsenenleben rückt näher und kann es kaum erwarten.

Auch Anton träumt von der Zukunft, aber die Träume der beiden könnten kaum unterschiedlicher sein. Er möchte eine kleine Familie und ist schon jetzt ganz wild auf seine Rolle als "Onkel Anton". Auch wenn seine Beziehung zu Yasmin aktuell ruht, pflegt er eine enge Freundschaft zu ihr und Yvonne.

Ilias ist von solchen Zukunftsplänen weit entfernt. Und Mädchen findet er aktuell sowieso doof, ganz besonders Nina. Da sie die beste Freundin seiner Zwillingsschwester ist, kommt sie fast täglich zu Besuch.

Oft schaut auch Ninas Vater Hannes vorbei. Zwar ist der Kontakt zwischen Ninas Mutter und ihm unterkühlt, er versteht sich aber prächtig mit seiner Tochter. Und er hat im deutlich älteren Andrew inzwischen einen guten Freund gefunden.

Gwendolin wacht als Geist über die Familie. War sie zuerst tief getroffen, dass Andrew und Larissas Liebe so schnell wieder aufflammte, so sieht sie jetzt wie glücklich alle sind.

Doch trotz der vielen glücklichen Momente ist der Alltag oft sehr hart. Die finanziellen Probleme durch Gwendolins ambitionierte Ziele bestehen noch immer und haben sich mit der sechsköpfigen Familie nur verschärft. Dazu gibt es nur ein Kinderzimmer und zu wenig Betten. Die Teenager teilen sich das Sofa im Wechsel und Vater Andrew genießt die lauen Sommernächte auf dem Liegestuhl. Alle sind erschöpft.

Die Situation spitzt sich zu, als das Sofa gepfändet wird. Larissa verbringt so viel Zeit wie möglich in der Bäckerei, aber ihr Gehalt entspricht nur einem Bruchteil der Ausgaben. An Rente ist für Andrew nicht zu denken. Besonders da aktuell weitere städtische Gebäude in Planung sind.

Jede Geldquelle wird genutzt. Darunter auch ein prächtiger Geldbaum im Garten, den Yvonne organisiert hat. Die Familie rückt in den harten Zeiten nur noch näher zusammen.

Besonders in der Liebe zwischen Andrew und Larissa zeigt sich dies und so ist sich Andrew inzwischen sicher: Larissa ist die Liebe seines Lebens. Das letzte Ersparte wird für einen Ehering mit funkelndem Kunststein ausgegeben. Natürlich hat Larissa ja gesagt!

Steht Anton der Sache noch etwas skeptisch gegenüber, so ist Arthur komplett aus dem Häuschen: seine Eltern wollen heiraten! Schon seit längerem ist ein kleines Gotteshaus mit Friedhof für die verstorbenen geplant. Doch auch schöne Momente wie eine Hochzeit könnten dort stattfinden. Die ganze Familie sucht nach alternativen Geldquellen und findet diese im edelsteinhaltigen Boden des Apfelblütentals.

Das meiste Geld verdanken sie aber Andrews Gehalt. Die Stadt steckt in den letzten Phasen des Schulbaus. Ihm wird zwar ganz anders, wenn er an die Kosten denkt, aber für die Zukunft der Kinder wäre dies ein wahrer Gewinn.

Larissa ist viel im Fitnessstudio um ein wenig Zeit für sich zu haben. Auch wenn Larissa weiß, dass Andrew ihren Job nicht unwichtiger findet, möchte auch sie mehr beitragen. Wie gut, dass sie im Fitnessstudio auf alte und neue Freunde trifft, die sofort anbieten ihr ein wenig Geld für Trainingsstunden zu geben.

Sie genießt aber auch die Abendstunden mit Charles, der fasziniert von ihrem Aliennachwuchs ist und ihr erstaunlich viele übernatürliche Erziehungstipps geben kann. Von Erziehungstipps ist Timba noch weit entfernt. Aber auch er genießt ihre Anwesenheit (vielleicht sogar ein wenig zu sehr?).

Und dann ist der große Tag gekommen. Das Gotteshaus ist fertiggestellt und das glückliche Brautpaar steht vor dem Altar.

Alle Freunde und Nachbarn sind zur Feier gekommen und gerührt von der ersten Trauung im Apfelblütental. Selbst Selma und Gwendolin, die jetzt auf dem angrenzenden Friedhof ihr Zuhause gefunden haben, sind bei der Feier dabei.

Die Kinder vergessen die harten zurückliegenden Sommertage und genießen den Abend. Alle haben sich herausgeputzt.

Die Feier geht bis tief in die Nacht. Am Ende ist nur noch das glückliche Brautpaar anwesend und genießt die Stille und einen letzten Happen vom Buffet. Die Kinder sind schon lange im Bett.

Die Hochzeit war nicht die letzte Sommerparty im Patchwork-Haushalt. Die Zwillinge feiern ihren Geburtstag und laden viele ein. Das Haus ist voll.

Und mit diesen zauberhaften Teenagern endet der Sommer im kleinen grünen Häuschen. Beide sind Wissenssims.

[theroyalsandi]

British Royal Family - The Princess of Wales hugs Holocaust survivor Yvonne Bernstein as they attends the Holocaust Memorial Day in London, England | January 27, 2025

[lunarubra]

We come in PEACE! This is for the peacemakers, the artists, the thinkers, the activists, the teachers, the dreamers, the cleaners…CONGRATULATIONS to my husband who fucking did it while holding himself and his integrity intact, I love you. Thank you to all our friends, our family, our neighbours, our community, it takes a village! Thank you to the winning team who anchored and buoyed us in equal measure. We love you all ❤️☘️

by Yvonne McGuinness

[bibaybe]

OC Pride Challenge 2023 / Day Eight: LGBT Tropes

Seize the Power (Young Royals) Queer Tropes

taglist: @eddysocs @ocappreciationtag @foxesandmagic @wordspin-shares @veetlegeuse  

gif sources: x / x / x / x

[sammydem0n64]

Bffs

[heavensickness]

Underrated moments from Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess that hit me hard

Penelope wanting to do nothing with Yvonne and just wanting to escape but still warning the Duke against Yvonne's true self because he is the only father figure she ever had and she couldn't bear to see him turn on her

Reynold following Penelope at gatherings like a puppy because she asked him not to leave her during a banquet and he feels guilty for leaving her

Also Reynold remembering that Penelope wants a bunny so he looks after baby bunnies for her. He even wants to breed a rabbit with fur the same colour as Penelope's eyes

Vinter being so in love with Penelope that he still prepares the poison she asked for even if she was going to use it to kill someone, and he was ready to cover up her crime

Eckles being an illegitimate child but still being so cherished by his father and siblings that when Delman was invaded they removed his name from the royal heritage so that Eckles would not be captured and killed as a member of the royal family

Callisto hating to hear women cry because it reminds him of the times when his mother, who lost the Emperor's favour, would hug him and weep when he was a child

[acetronaut]

I’ve been listening to the Torchwood big finish audios lately, and just having listened to the ‘I Hate Mondays’ trilogy last night and ‘Disco’ this morning, there’s a lot of thoughts I need to sit with.

Thinking about Ianto’s general complicated relationship with his dad — how even way back in ‘Blind Summit’, it’s established that despite everything his dad has done Ianto will still try to save him because it’s his dad. The cliffhanger at the end of ‘Dinner for Yvonne’ being getting the call about his dad’s death.

Thinking about how ‘Disco’ happens the week between ‘Dinner for Yvonne’ and ‘By Royal Appointment’ when Ianto is away for the funeral. How Ianto is willing to risk everything for the selfish desire to save his dad, but it only makes the present day unrecognizable so in order to preserve timelines, to preserve the life that he loves with his niece Misca and nephew David and his job at Torchwood, he has to let his dad’s downward spiral happen. How at the end we learn that Ianto is named after his father, and the physical and personality similarities between them. (Imo, this episode feels like it takes the premise of Doctor Who’s “Father’s Day” a step further in an even more tragic way — at least Rose got to leave with a good memory of his father, and at least she didn’t leave him to die alone. Ianto, on the other hand, had to push his father back into the circumstances that would lead to his [Ianto’s] abuse as a child, the ensuing strained family relationships, and eventually his father dying alone.)

How after trying and failing to save his father, Ianto has to go back to work in ‘By Royal Appointment’ and be inundated with everyone offering condolences and asking how the funeral was. How he gets back and notices how much Tommy, his coworker and sort of father figure (who even gave him his iconic stopwatch!), has been drinking more often.

Thinking about how in ‘Nerves’ it all bubbles up into a confrontation between them, where Ianto likely still feels guilty for what he did in ‘Disco’ and how he was unable to save his dad, and tries to find refuge in work at Torchwood only to see his best friend there going down the same path. How in the argument it is clear Tommy is projecting a bit as well when he goes off at Ianto about how he should have visited his dad more often instead of leaving him to die alone, and Ianto knows, he just got back from time traveling to visit his dad at his prime, and was unable to save him without risking all the parts of his life that he loves. How Ianto tried to save his dad out of perceived selfishness (his words) to see “a version of [him] who laughed”, how he gave that up for his selfish love of his own life at Torchwood, how even his pleas to Tommy to stop drinking are his selfish desire to not lose his closest friend and father figure to the same way he lost his dad. How this selfishness is something that in ‘Disco’ he recognizes as having inherited from his dad.

Thinking about how despite everything, despite all his reinventions and moving on, Ianto is always defined by his dad.

[lillybelle238]

Everyone retained their memories from previous

In this au all the capture targets including the duke suddenly recall their respective memories of all the previous cycles. However there is one very big difference in this cycle, Yvonne is alive.

The Eckart siblings never snuck out to the festival, Yvonne had a fever from running around in the rain days before. She never convinced her brothers to sneak out to the festival, and she never got separated from them thus the Duke never adopted Penelope while looking for Yvonne.

Yvonne also has her memories from her time in the mirror of truth and being possessed by Laila.

Upon realizing that they never adopted Penelope the Eckarts begin frantically searching for her joined by the Crown Prince and Vinter. However, since it has been nearly six years by then, they have no leads. When they ask around the town about the duke who met her, they learn that her mother died but she was never buried and Penelope was nowhere to be found.

Cut to Penelope, after her mother passed away slave traders captured her, this particular group of slave traders has a reputation in the black market for selling high-quality ‘merchandise’. They initially intended to sell her along with the other enslaved children but because of her exotic hair colour, they decided to keep her until she was older so she would be sold at a much higher price. 

This particular organization is known for selling high-quality slaves as they ‘train’ them to serve multiple purposes. Penelope was able to learn to read and write because of this. However, one day the slave traders found out she could use magic, and they quickly scrapped the idea of selling her and instead using her for their own purpose. 

They forced her to learn magic on her own, she has a room with a straw bed, a bookshelf and writing material. Since she didn’t have anyone to teach her properly she had to get creative to get any results.

Compared to the other slaves she does get better treatment but she is more likely to get punished whether it was because they expect more from her and think she’s not working faster enough or she just happens to be in the vicinity whenever they're in a bad mood so they take out their frustrations on her.

Throughout the years she has gotten better at magic and has made process on her escape plan. The only problem is the colla they put on her neck that will electrocute her should she disobey an order. It's the only thing keeping her from running away and she is on a time crunch as she is finally going to be sold at the upcoming auction. And she's the main attraction.

Back to everyone else, Vinter has been looking for Penelope since the time-loop reset and has come across a rumour of a slave auction coming up at a party. It said that these merchants possess high-quality 'merchandise' and their prized possession is said to be a girl with the blood of a wizard.

This obviously gets his attention and upon further investigation, he not only finds out that the majority of the Empress's fraction are are going to attend this auction but the fact that these merchants may have ties with Laila . So he enlists the help of the Crown Prince in order to raid this event.

Callisto obviously uses the opportunity to weaken the Empress's fraction so that he could focus on finding Penelope. After much preparation, they've successfully completed the raid and arrested everyone involved.

Everyone involved is happy that she's alive and all but they quickly realized that unlike then she doesn't have memories of the time loops.

Callisto lead the royal guards whilst Vinter took stock of the slaves. You could imagine the look on his face when he came across the person he's been looking for, Penelope. He almost didn't believe it because she looked so....different.

She actually does have all her memories it's just that unlike them she went back in time to after her mother died so she now has to deal with her trauma from the six years she was a slave.

[the-torchwood-archive]

Torchwood Timeline (May 2024)

This is my canon timeline for the Torchwood TV stories, novels, and audio productions. It's fairly similar to the wiki timeline with a few small tweaks. It's also completely spoiler free, unlike the wiki timeline.

Some entries have firm dates, some have months, some have general decades, so I've tried my hardest to fit them into where I feel they fit. If anyone spots anything that I've missed or sees any glaring problems let me know and I'll try to suss it out. New stories will be added as they are released.

1879:

TV: Tooth And Claw

1885:

Torchwood Cardiff is founded

December 24th 1894:

Audio: The Empire Man

1897:

Audio: Infidel Places

1898:

Audio: Save Our Souls

December 24th 1898:

Audio: The Crown

1899:

Scenes from TV: Fragments

Jack joins Torchwood

May 17th 1899

Audio: The Victorian Age

1908:

Torchwood Glasgow is founded

1915

Audio: What Have I Done

Post TV: COE Day 5 in Jack’s timeline

1940s:

Audio: Curios

Audio: The Dying Room

1953

Norton Folgate projects himself to 2016 for Audio: Ghost Mission

1955:

Norton Folgate is projected to 2009 for Audio: Outbreak

1956-1959:

Audio: Goodbye Piccadilly

Audio: Madam, I’m

Audio: Parasite

Audio: Ashenden

Audio: The Unbegotten

Audio: The Black Knight

1965:

Scenes from TV: Children Of Earth Day Four

First contact with the 456

1970s:

Audio: The Dollhouse

1973:

Audio: Double

Torchwood Los Angeles severs all ties

1978:

Audio: Dead Plates

1980:

Scenes from Prose: Trace Memory

Toshiko’s scenes

16th-22nd August 1987:

Past scenes from Audio: Disco

1999:

Alex Hopkins kills his team and Jack Harkness becomes head of Torchwood Cardiff

2000-2004:

Audio: Piece Of Mind

Ben Brown hired by Jack Harkness

Suzie Costello hired by Jack Harkness

Ben Brown deceased

2001-2004:

Scenes from Prose: Trace Memory

Owen’s scenes

2004:

Scenes from TV: Fragments

Toshiko’s scenes

Late 2004:

Audio: Blind Summit

Ianto returns to Wales

Audio: Suckers

February 2005:

Ianto is hired by Torchwood London as Junior Researcher

Scenes from Prose: Trace Memory

Ianto’s scenes

26th March 2005:

Audio: One Rule

Ianto is working as Yvonne’s PA

2005:

Audio: The Last Love Song Of Suzie Costello

Audio: Tube Strike

Audio: New Girl

Audio: Through The Ruins

Audio: Uprising

Audio: My Guest Tonight

Audio: Lola

Audio: Less Majesty

Audio: The Law Machines

Audio: 9 To 5

Sebastian Vaughn hired at Torchwood Three

Audio: The Vigil

Late 2005:

Scenes from TV: Fragments

Owen’s scenes

March 2006:

Owen Harper is recruited into Torchwood Cardiff

TV: Aliens Of London

April-September 2006:

Audio: Sync

September 2006:

TV: Boom Town

Jack confines the team to the Hub

September-December 2006:

Audio: Wednesdays For Beginners

Audio: Crush

Audio: Retirement Plan

29th November 2006:

Audio: Moving Target

January-Feburary 2007:

Audio: Locker 15

Audio: Dinner For Yvonne

Present day scenes from Audio: Disco

Audio: By Royal Appointment

Audio: Nerves

Audio: The Rockery

February-March 2007:

TV: Doomsday

TV: Army Of Ghosts

Scenes from TV: Fragments

Ianto joins Torchwood Cardiff

Audio: War Chest

February 2007-September 2009:

Audio: Coffee

Scenes take place between TV: Army Of Ghosts and TV: Children Of Earth Day Five

August-November 2007:

TV: Everything Changes

TV: Day One

TV: Ghost Machine

Prose: Another Life

Prose: Slow Decay

TV: Cyberwoman

Audio: Broken

Scenes take place between TV: Cyberwoman and TV: They Keep Killing Suzie

TV: Small Worlds

TV: Countrycide

Audio: The Great Sontaran War

TV: Greeks Baring Gifts

Audio: Restricted Items Archive Entires 031-049

Audio: Instant Karma

Audio: Ex Machina

Audio: Drive

November 2007:

TV: They Keep Killing Suzie

November-December 2007:

TV: Random Shoes

Audio: The Last Beacon

Audio: The Conspiracy

Audio: Fall To Earth

Audio: Uncanny Valley

Early events of Audio: The Office Of Never Was

18th-26th December 2007

TV: Out Of Time

Audio: The Grey Mare

December 2007-Janurary 2008:

Audio: SUV

Audio: Missing Molly

TV: Combat

Audio: Hidden

TV: Captain Jack Harkness

TV: End Of Days

January-May 2008:

Audio: Zone 10

Audio: Lease Of Life

February 2008:

Prose: Kaleidoscope

14th February 2008:

Audio: Dinner And A Show

February-August 2008:

Audio: Sigil

May 2008:

Torchwood goes to Tibet

Jack returns to Cardiff after TYTNW

TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

TV: Sleeper

Audio: Serenity

20th June 2008:

TV: To The Last Man

June-July 2008:

Prose: Something In The Water

Audio: Everyone Says Hello

Prose: Trace Memory

TV: Meat

29th June 2008:

Audio: The Lincolnshire Poacher

July-August 2008:

Audio: torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor

Audio The Office Of Never Was

Audio: In The Shaodws

TV: Adam

Audio: Tropical Beach Sounds And Other Relaxing Seascapes #4

August 2008:

Prose: The Twilight Streets

August-October 2008:

TV: Reset

TV: Dead Man Walking

TV: A Day In The Death

August-December 2008:

Audio: Corpse Day

Audio: The Hope

Audio: The Three Monkeys

Audio: Gooseberry

31st October 2008:

Prose: Pack Animals

November-December 2008:

TV: Something Borrowed

Prose: Skypoint

TV: From Out Of The Rain

TV: Adrift

Audio: Believe

TV: Fragments

TV: Exit Wounds

Audio: Expectant

Prose: Into The Silence

Audio: Lost Souls

January-February 2009:

Prose: Bay Of The Dead

Prose: The House That Jack Built

Prose: Almost Perfect

Audio: Department X

February 2009:

Audio: Ghost Train

May-September 2009:

Audio: Dissected

Audio: Rhys And Ianto’s Excellent Barbeque

TV: The Stolen Earth

TV: Journey’s End

Audio: The Sin Eaters

Prose: The Wrong Hands

Prose: Virus

Audio: Asylum

Audio: Golden Age

Prose: Consequences

Audio: The Dead Line

Prose: Risk Assessment

Prose: The Undertaker’s Gift

Audio: The Devil And Miss Carew

Audio: Submission

Audio: Outbreak

September 2009:

TV: Children Of Earth Day One

TV: Children Of Earth Day Two

TV: Children Of Earth Day Three

TV: Children Of Earth Day Four

TV: Children Of Earth Day Five

Late 2009:

Prose: Long Time Dead

March 2010:

Audio: House Of The Dead

Events of TV: The End Of Time and Audio: One Enchanted Evening in Jack’s timeline

March-June 2010:

Prose: First Born

June 2010:

Prose: The Men Who Sold The World

October 2010:

Audio: Poppet

18th-21st March 2011:

TV: The New World

22nd March 2011:

TV: Rendition

March-July 2011:

TV: Dead Of Night

TV: Escape To LA

TV: Categories Of Life

TV: The Middle Men

TV: Immortal Sins

TV: End Of The Road

September 2011:

TV: The Gathering

TV: The Blood Line

September-December 2011:

Audio: Army of One

Audio: Fallout

Audio: Red Skies

Audio: Mr Invincible

2012:

Prose: Exodus Code

Audio: Cadoc Point

November-December 2012:

Audio: Dog Hop

Late 2016

Audio: Forgotten Lives

Audio: Visiting Hours

Audio: More Than This

Audio: Ghost Mission

Audio: Made You Look

January-June 2017:

Mr Colchester joins a rebuilt Torchwood

Audio: We Always Get Out Alive

Audio: Night Of The Fendahl

Audio: Smashed

Ng joins Torchwood after this point

Audio: Driving Miss Wells

Audio: Sonny

Audio: Changes Everything

Audio: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy

Audio: Oor

Audio: Superiority Complex

Audio: Love Rat

Audio: A Kill To A View

June 2017-October 2018:

Audio: Zero Hour

Audio: The Empty Hand

Audio: Poker Face

Audio: Tagged

Audio: Escape Room

Audio: Herald Of The Dawn

Audio: Future Pain

2017-2018:

Audio: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood

Takes place between TV: Superiority Complex and TV: Herald Of The Dawn

October 2018:

Audio: Cardiff Unknown – October 2018

October-December 2018:

Audio: See No Evil

Audio: Night Watch

Audio: Flight 405

Audio: Hostile Environment

Audio: The Green Life

Audio: Sargasso

Audio: Another Man’s Shoes

Audio: Eye Of The Storm

January-March 2019:

Audio: A Mother’s Son

March-August 2019:

Audio: Scrapejane

Audio: Day Zero

Audio: Thoughts And Prayers

Audio: Red Base

Audio: Aliens Next Door

Audio: Colin Alone

August 2019:

Audio: Misty Eyes

2021:

Audio: Goodbye Piccadilly, Audio: Ashenden, and Audio: The Unbegotten for Andy’s POV

Early 2022:

Audio: The Red List

2022:

Audio: Moderation

Audio: Propaganda

Audio: At Her Majesty’s Pleasure

Audio: Cuckoo

Audio: Pariahs

Audio: How I Conquered The World

Audio: The Five People You Kill In Middlesborough

Audio: A Postcard From Mr Colchester

Audio: Death In Venice

February 2023:

Audio: Doomscroll

2023:

Audio: Heistland

Audio: The Apocalypse Starts At 6PM

Audio: Thirst Trap

Audio: Another Postcard From Mr Colchester

Audio: Sabotage

Amendments/Additions:

Feb 2024: Moved Audio: The Vigil from 2007 to 2005

April 2024: Added Audio:Another Postcard From Mr Colchester and Audio: Sabotage to 2023

April 2024: Added Audio: Tube Strike to early 2005

April 2024: Added Audio: Missing Molly to early 2008

May 2024: Moved Audio: Wednesdays For Beginners, Audio: Crush, Audio: Retirement Plan from 2007 to 2006

May 2024: Added Audio: Dinner For Yvonne, Audio: By Royal Appointment and Audio: Nerves to January-February 2007

May 2024: Added Audio: Disco to August 1978 and January-February 2007

May 2024: Moved Audio: Hidden from November-December 2007 to December 2007-Janurary 2008:

[lilakartoffelbrei]

Blumen & Töpfe WG Teil 8

Tatsächlich habe ich diesen Teil schon vor laaaanger Zeit und mit wirklich viel Freude gespielt. Auch den Teil im Anschluss. Danach war beim Apfelblütental ein wenig die Luft raus und andere Projekte interessanter. Habe ich zwar fröhlich immer wieder hier und da ein Bild raussortiert oder einen Tag weitergespielt, so lag die Dokumentation fast ein Jahr lang brach. Ups. Noch immer mag ich diese BACC gerne und ich werde sie auch weiterhin hier vorstellen. Jedoch wird der Fokus in den nächsten Monaten mehr auf den Nachbarschaften Old Pleasant Valley und Mondscheinbucht liegen.

Mit den drei neuen Bewohnern kommt auch ein neues Geschäft. Mit ihrem Laden Blumen und Töpfe verwirklicht sich Maja einen Traum. Sie verkauft wundervoll duftende Blumensträuße und pflegeleichte Topfpflanzen. Das Geschäft und die Inhaberin werden schnell ins Herz geschlossen. Der Laden ist gut besucht.

Das Sortiment wird von schlichten Tontöpfen und ausgefallenen Vasen ergänzt. Alles handgefertig von Timba. Er ist ein draufgängerischer Künstler und hat noch keinen konkreten Plan im Leben. Ins Apfelblütental hat ihn der hohe Frauenanteil gezogen, denn er ist ein klassischer Romantiksim.

Der Laden zieht die unterschiedlichsten Sims an und wird oft noch bis spät in die Abendstunden besucht. Blumensträuße für die Liebste, der perfekte Gartenzwerg für den Vorgarten oder und Tontopf für die Terrasse. Dem Besucherandrang werden Maja und Timba alleine nicht gerecht.

Hagen wurde von Andrew angeworben. Er strebt eine Karriere im Bildungssektor an. Aktuell hilft er aber täglich im Laden aus. Er hatte nie geplant in einem Blumenladen zu arbeiten oder sich in die Besitzerin zu verlieben.

Und Timba hätte nie gedacht, dass er sein Herz an die süße Briefträgerin verlieren wird. Er und Beate verbringen jede ihrer freien Minuten zusammen. Oft geht sie direkt nach der Arbeit mit ihm aus und kommt nichtmal dazu sich frisch zu machen.

Die restliche Zeit verbringt Timba im Laden. Ein Stammgast ist schon jetzt Yasmin. Die beiden finden sich unwiederstehlich und können nicht genug voneinander bekommen.

So ist Timba auch mit seinen Herzensdamen beschäftigt und nicht im Haus, als Maja einen Küchenbrand verursacht. Sie und Nachbarin und Freundin Julia wollten Kekse backen. Zum Glück konnte die Feuerwehr den Brand löschen bevor Schlimmeres passierte.

Alle sind deshalb total durch den Wind. Besonders aber Nina. Wenn sie groß ist, möchte sie einen Feuerwehrmann heiraten. Jedem erzählt sie von dem spektakulären Ereignis. Timba entpuppt sich als besonders guter Zuhörer.

Auch durch den Wind ist Maja. Ihr geht es seit dem Küchenbrand nicht so gut. Hat sie es zuerst auf die Aufregung geschoben, so weiß sie es jetzt besser: Sie und Hagen erwarten Nachwuchs.

Nur selten schafft es die WG gemeinsam zum Essen. Der Laden, Dates oder die Schwangerschaftsvorsorge nehmen alle in Beschlag. Wenn sie zusammenkommen, dann unterhalten sie sich am liebsten über den Stadttratsch wie beispielsweise die vielen übernatürlichen Gruselgeschichten, die Nina gerne über ihren Opa erzählt oder die Liebesweisheiten aus Yvonnes Wahrsagerkugel.

So ist es natürlich nur selbstverständlich, dass die ebenfalls schwangere Yvonne zur Babyparty eingeladen wird. Unter den Gästen ist auch die "verrückte Tante" des Apfelblütentals: Selma. Hagen hat sie eingeladen.

Die Party hätte keine Minute später stattfinden dürfen. Kaum fällt Maja müde ins Bett setzen auch schon die Wehen ein. Begrüßt den kleinen Rotschopf Finn Lindenlaub.

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THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION PILOT EPISODE CAST/CREW - PART ONE

REBECCA ROOT - MADDIE TOWNSEND/MINA HARKER

Rebecca trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for the National Theatre (UK and Ireland tour); Rathmines Road for Fishamble at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Trans Scripts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Bear / The Proposal at the Young Vic; and Hamlet at the Gielgud Theatre and Athens International Festival. TV, Film and Video Game credits include Monsieur Spade, This Is Christmas, Irvine Welsh’s Crime, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, Heartstopper, Annika, The Rising, Sex Education, The Gallery, The Queen’s Gambit, Finding Alice, Creation Stories, Last Christmas, The Sisters Brothers, Colette, The Danish Girl, Flack, The Romanoffs, Moominvalley, Hank Zipzer, Boy Meets Girl, Doctors, Casualty, The Detectives, and Keeping Up Appearances.  Radio credits include Clare In The Community, Life Lines, The Hotel, and 1977 for BBC Radio 4. Guest appearances include Woman’s Hour, Front Row, Loose Ends, Saturday Live, and A Good Read.  She plays Tania Bell in the award-winning Doctor Who: Stranded audio dramas. Rebecca has also recorded numerous documentary narrations, audiobooks, and voice-overs. Rebecca is also a voice and speech coach, holding the MA in Voice Studies from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

SEAN CARLSEN - JEREMY LARKIN/ JONATHAN HARKER

Born in South Wales, Seán trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He has worked extensively in audio drama, television, theatre and film.  Seán is perhaps best known to Doctor Who fans as Narvin in the Doctor Who audio series Gallifrey and has appeared on TV in Doctor Who - The Christmas Invasion and Torchwood. Recent TV credits include Mudtown (BBCiplayer/S4C), Dal y Mellt (Netflix), His Dark Materials (BBC1), All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5), A Mother's Love (Channel 4) and Series 5 of Stella (Sky1).  Films include supporting leads in Boudica - Rise of the Warrior Queen, cult horror The Cleansing,  the lead in Forgotten Journeys and John Sheedy’s forthcoming film ‘Never Never Never’

SAM CLEMENS - ARTHUR JONES

Samuel Clemens trained at the Drama Centre London and is an award-winning director with over twenty years’ experience. Samuel has recently written and directed his debut feature film ‘The Waterhouse’ with Take The Shot Films & Featuristic Films and represented by Raven Banner Entertainment, which is due for release this coming year.  In addition, he has directed fourteen short films, winning awards all over the world including shorts ‘Surgery (multi-award winning), A Bad Day To Propose (Straight 8 winner 2021), Say No & Dress Rehearsal’. Samuel also directs critically acclaimed number one UK stage tours and fringe shows (Rose Theatre Kingston, Swansea Grand, Eastbourne, Yvonne Arnaud, Waterloo East Theatre) and commercials include clients JD Sports, Shell and Space NK. Samuel is also a regular producer and director for Big Finish Productions & Anderson Entertainment. He has cast, directed, produced and post supervised numerous productions of ‘Doctor Who – (BBC), The Avengers (Studio Canal), Thunderbirds, Stingray (Anderson Entertainment), Callan, Missy, Gallifrey’& Shilling & Sixpence Investigate’ and many more. Samuel has directed world class talent such as, Sir Roger Moore, Ben Miles, Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Alex Kingston, Frank Skinner, Rita Ora, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, Rufus Hound, David Warner, Celia Imrie, Samuel West, Youssef Kerkour, Sophie Aldred, Ian McNiece, Colin Baker, Olivia Poulet, Stephen Wight, Jade Anouka, Mimi Ndwendi, Michelle Gomez, Peter Davidson, Paul O’Grady and many more. Samuel is one of the founding members and directors at Take The Shot Films Ltd and is Head of Artistic Creation and Direction. Lastly, Samuel is a regular tutor at The London Film Academy, The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting & The Rose Youth Theatre and is a member of The Directors Guild UK. As for upcoming projects, Sam is currently in pre-production on his next feature film “On The Edge of Darkness”, which is based on his dad’s stage play “Strictly Murder”.

ATTILA PUSKAS - DRACULA

Attila Puskás is a native Hungarian Voice Actor born in Transylvania – Romania, so Romanian is in his bag of tricks too, but most of his work is done in English, in a Transatlantic Eastern European Accent, but is quite capable of Hungarian, Romanian and International Eastern European accents, plus Standard American. His voice range is Adult to Middle Aged (30-40+) due to his deep voice. Vocal styles can range from authoritive, brooding to calming and reassuring and much more. He’s most experienced in character work, like Animations and Games, but his skills encompass Commercials to Narration as well. He’s received training through classes and workshops, pushing him to the next level to achieve higher standards. Now on a journey to perfect these skills and put them to good use!

PART TWO: HERE

PART THREE: HERE

[bibaybe]

If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power // Honey

Between my fingers, she leaves, then she lingers If she's gonna go, well, then I'm goin' with her And I know that I won't forget

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[the-bi-library]

Here is the part two of my bisexual BIPOC books posts!

Part 1 here

Books listed:

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea The Relic Spell: Book 1 of the Phyrian War Chronicles by Jimena I. Novaro The Warlock Snare by Jimena I. Novaro Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert The Aurora Circus by Viano Oniomoh Rescues and the Rhyssa by T. S. Porter Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon Flip the Script by Lyla Lee A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Shatterproof by Xen Sanders The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan When Tara Met Farah by Tara Pammi Royally Yours by Everly James For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene More To Love by Georgina Kiersten False Hearts by Laura Lam Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues by H. S. Valley Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose The Black Veins by Ashia Monet Hearton by Amy Jo Cousins

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Dylan O'Brien, Jason Reitman, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Gabriel Labell and Lamorne Morris with Stacey Yvonne at the “Saturday Night” premiere After Party at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) at Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada. (September 10, 2024)

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[pigeonflavouredcake]

My Grimoire Research Library

this is a list of my major resource I've referenced/am currently referencing in my big grimoire project. For books I'll be linking the Goodreads page, for pdfs, websites and videos i'll link them directly.

There are plenty of generalised practitioner resources that can work for everyone but as I have Irish ancestry and worship Hellenic deities quite a few of my resources are centred around Celtic Ireland, ancient Greece and the Olympic mythos. If you follow other sects of paganism you are more than welcome to reblog with your own list of resources.

Parts of my grimoire discuss topics of new age spiritualism, dangerous conspiracy theories, and bigotry in witchcraft so some resources in this list focus on that.

Books

Apollodorus - The Library of Greek Mythology

Astrea Taylor - Intuitive Witchcraft

Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham - Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests

John Ferguson - Among The Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion

Katharine Briggs - The Fairies in Tradition and Literature

Kevin Danaher - The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs

Laura O'Brien - Fairy Faith in Ireland

Lindsey C. Watson - Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome

Nicholas Culpeper - Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

R.B. Parkinson - A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World

Rachel Patterson - Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness

Raleigh Briggs - Make Your Place: Affordable & Sustainable Nesting Skills

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Ronald Hutton - The Witch: A History of Fear in Ancient Times

Rosemary Ellen Guiley - The Encyclopaedia of Witches and Witchcraft

Thomas N. Mitchell - Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy

Walter Stephens - Demon Lovers: Witchcraft S3x and the Crisis of Belief

Yvonne P. Chireau - Black Magic: Religion and The African American Conjuring Tradition

PDFs

Anti Defamation League - Hate on Display: Hate Symbols Database

Brandy Williams - White Light, Black Magic: Racism in Esoteric Thought

Cambridge SU Women’s Campaign - How to Spot TERF Ideology 2.0.

Blogs and Websites

Anti Defamation League

B. Ricardo Brown - Until Darwin: Science and the Origins of Race

Dr. S. Deacon Ritterbush - Dr Beachcomb

Folklore Thursday

Freedom of Mind Resource Centre - Steven Hassan’s BITE Model of Authoritarian Control

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Royal Horticultural Society

The Duchas Project -National Folklore Collection

Vivienne Mackie - Vivscelticconnections

YouTube Videos

ContraPoints - Gender Critical

Emma Thorne Videos - Christian Fundie Says Halloween is SATANIC!

Owen Morgan (Telltale) - The Source Of All Conspiracies: A 1902 Document Called "The Protocols"

The Belief it or Not Podcast - Ep. 40 Satanic Panic, Ep 92. Wicca

Wendigoon - The Conspiracy Theory Iceberg

Other videos I haven't referenced but you may still want to check out

Atun-Shei Films - Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archaeology

Belief It Or Not - Ep. 90 - Logical Fallacies

Dragon Talisman - Tarot Documentary (A re-upload of the 1997 documentary Strictly Supernatural: Tarot and Astrology)

Lindsay Ellis - Tracing the Roots of Pop Culture Transphobia

Overly Sarcastic Productions - Miscellaneous Myths Playlist

Owen Morgan (Telltale) - SATANIC PANIC! 90s Video Slanders Satanists | Pagan Invasion Saga | Part 1

ReignBot - How Ouija Boards Became "Evil" | Obscura Archive Ep. 2

Ryan Beard - Demi Lovato Promoted a R4cist Lizard Cult

Super Eyepatch Wolf - The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers and Mediums

Weird Reads with Emily Louise -The Infamous Hoaxes Iceberg Playlist

Wendigoon - The True Stories of the Warren Hauntings: The Conjuring, Annabelle, Amityville, and Other Encounters

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For One Night Only: David at the RSC Fringe Festival (oh, and one other thing he probably didn't do...)

For today's post in "obscure things David Tennant did way back when," we'll need to travel back in time to the late 1990s. It was a busy time for David. By May 1997, he'd just wrapped up his first Royal Shakespeare Company repertory season (in which he simultaneously played Touchstone in As You Like It, Jack Lane in The Herbal Bed, and Alexander Hamilton in The General From America). This set of three plays had begun their runs in Stratford in early- to mid 1996; they then transferred over to London's Barbican Theatre, where they had ended their runs by mid-1997.

Programmes for The Herbal Bed, As You Like It, and The General From America

Next on David's theatre agenda was the role of Mickey in Hurlyburly (a play I've talked about before) which ran at the Queen's Theatre in London from August to November 1997. He then performed a one-off staged reading of Derek Jarman's Blue at the Chelsea Arts Theare on 16 November 1997 (which, by the way, is another little-known DT performance I want to explore!)

That was it for 1997, theatre-wise.

Then, beginning in March of 1998 - as I've explored previously - he began his run as Moon and Brindsley Miller in The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy. This double bill ran first at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Surrey and then in London, first at the Richmond Theatre and then at the Comedy Theatre. That play finally wrapped in August 1998.

But a month before wrapping The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy, David had popped over to Stratford to do something interesting, something that's the focus of this thread. It was called For One Night Only, and - as it says on the tin - it was, indeed, for one night only!

First, though? A little history!

Around 1990, the RSC began to hold an annual summer festival called the Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe Festival. Intended as a showcase for RSC talent, it included a mix of events: short plays, devised pieces, stand-up comedy, concerts, etc., as well as new works making their Stratford debut. The festival lasted two weeks and saw actors, directors, stage managers, musicians and staff all taking part in more than 25 events. All the events were either on Sundays, or timed around RSC productions, so audiences could go see fringe shows after seeing the actors perform in their usual RSC roles.

Most of the events for 1998's festival took place in a specially adapted 100-seat rehearsal room at the RSC's 'alternative' theatre, The Other Place. But not all of them. Their opening night event - on Sunday, 19 July - was to take place at the Swan Theatre.

That opening night event? For One Night Only!

Starring Desmond Barrit, Emma Handy, and Amanda Harris as well as David, the launch event cost £4-£12 and began at 7:30 pm. It was called a "curtain raiser" as well as "aptly-named."

And just what was it about? Well, um....I know it was organized and compiled by its star, Desmond Barrit...and that it was supposed to take its audience on a journey through the theatre. These articles say so.

But that's about all I know. I wish I had more details.

I am, however, supremely lucky to own a piece of ephemera about this one night only event.

Here's the front and back of my For One Night Only flyer, and as I'm sure you'll notice, it promises "an evening of theatrical prose and poetry...and a little gossip!"

Great. Could you tell us a bit more, thanks?

While researching For One Night Only, I came across something else of interest, which I thought for a moment David might have been involved in - an event staged nine days before For One Night Only. But after researching this event in more detail, I don't think he was involved, after all. Such a shame, really. He would've been perfect!

On Friday, 10 July 1998, at 1 pm in the afternoon, some Royal Shakespeare Company members got together to do a fund raiser and preview of the upcoming Fringe in the forecourt of the Other Place. Called a Sonnetathon, this three-hour event featured various RSC members reading all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets!

Now a Sonnetathon would've been right up David's alley, am I right? He'd have loved it! But I'm about 99% certain he wasn't there - and here's why. That Friday night at 7:30 pm, David was onstage in The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy at the Comedy Theatre in London, that's why!

But here's why I say 99%. It's not impossible to imagine he got up early that Friday (after doing a show the night before) and took the train in to Stratford to do the Sonnetathon - wrapped it up by 4pm, then hopped on another train back to London in time to make the 7:30 curtain up for The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy.

But you have to admit, it seems unlikely.

But The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy wasn't showing on Sunday, 19 July 1998, so David was able to get to Stratford and go onstage as part of 'For One Night Only' to open the Fringe...and then get back to London in time to go onstage once more the following night.

So now you know what I know about For One Night Only.

Of course I'll keep looking for more!