Moominpappa's parents out on a hunting date - Joseph got a commission to hunt out a Scottish Kelpie, it already ate, like, 6 people, so it's a pretty dangerous job.
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In the decretal commission for Henry’s case, the ‘facts’ under scrutiny were three, all related to the original dispensation granted so that Henry could marry his sister-in-law: Had the marriage between Henry and Katherine been necessary to preserve the peace between England and Spain? Had Henry agreed to the marriage in order to preserve this peace? Had Henry VII, Isabella, or Ferdinand died before the dispensation went into effect? The questions were so posed that not only was it easy to arrive at the factually correct answers, but the answers themselves would be precisely those that would most effectively undermine the validity of the dispensation . . . it was to be laid down in the decretal commission that it required the facts in only one of the three matters to be investigated to prove inconsistent with what was stated in the dispensation for the marriage to be declared invalid.’’ Since the document was destroyed, it is impossible to determine how far Clement went along with this ruse, but given that it was destroyed by papal order one can safely assume that the solution it contained was in the king’s favor.
The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation, Michael Wyatt
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I love wuthering heights, but I think the internet is full of the worst takes known to man when it comes to this book. the characters are all awful and yet people jump through hoops to excuse all of them and then turn around and blame it all on *checks notes* the unreliable narrator who also happens to be a servant with virtually no power except for the fact that she is generally tolerated by all the characters in the book. "it's like nelly dean doesn't even care about the rich kids that make her life a living hell!!" good. she shouldn't.
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one of the reasons Fitz is my favorite character, besides everything about him, is that he's the character that shows the most growth in the series. Tam (learning to trust others again) and Biana (learning to accept her scars) I think are both significant, but the amount of growth Fitz in particular has shown since the first book is radical and definitely the most center stage. His perspective on the world itself has done almost a complete 180, and there are at least two significant occasions where he apologizes and learns from his actions. Like, he's just SO interesting to look at as a character because situations where his character is tested are frequent, and the way he acts in each of them shows a clear character arc. I'm obsessed with him.
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I’ve more or less made peace with the fact that I just, simply, do not like the story pacing and writing choices for Golden Wildfire now that I’m almost at the end, but it still really irks me that the writers decided to completely ignore Cyril and all his significance in terms of worldbuilding, like, I get not making him playable, but it’s now really clear that the writers didn’t even bother to pay attention to him at all which I get he wasn’t that popular a character but still, if you’re going to ignore all the worldbuilding, both the telling and the showing, at least try to write a well-paced AU for your official spinoff game story.
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Gallagher Girls and Their First Kisses
Bex: Courtney
Cammie: Bex
Liz: Anna
Macey: Liz
Anna: Courtney
Mick: Courtney
Kim Lee: Eva
Eva: Kim Lee
Courtney: Courtney's reflection
Tina: Courtney
Catherine: Abby
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@garlandgerard replied: like, anon realises that dimitri... communicates with edelgard about what she's doing, and edelgard... continues, right? edelgard isn't in it because she doesn't have the full story, she's in it because she wants to
I think that’s part of what they meant. The plot works because even though he attempts communication, she won’t meet him halfway the way he’s trying to with her. Though they do talk, she’s completely unwilling to bend with her ideas/goals. Though Dimitri suggests he could get along with her if the world she seeks is just and whatnot (which he says to Byleth), and while he seems to be willing to meet her halfway and work things out, she’s firm on her decisions and won’t change them.
Basically there’s no communication in the sense that for Dimitri it was like talking to a wall. He tried to reason with her but she wasn’t giving him a give-and-take conversation. She didn’t offer him solutions where her world could happen and his ideals would be implemented. If it had been a productive conversation you could say that would’ve been communication, but since their conversation was literally just a back and forth of “I can’t understand your vision of the world when I see it this way”, it didn’t go anywhere.
They talk, yes. They have a conversation, yes. I wouldn’t call it “communication” though because it was more of them each laying out their own vision of the world and admitting to each other that they weren’t willing to bend on their beliefs. You can have a conversation about something, but it’s not necessarily truly communication. Also, I think anon understood that with that their mention of truth versus violence, because if there’s no seeking of the truth and a war (or even just a battle in Lonato’s case) is started without personally seeking out the truth, that too is a lack of communication (like Edelgard learning about Rhea from TWS, but she didn’t make any effort to actually understand the Church and their people, so there’s no communication between her and Rhea either).
From what I understood, anon is saying the plot works the way it does because the central and side conflicts occur due to a lack of at least one side being unwilling to talk things out with their supposed enemy. Even in Hopes there’s an extreme lack of communication outside of AG (possibly even worse than Houses tbh). If Edelgard spoke to Rhea and Dimitri personally, the current plot that we have would fall apart because her war would no longer be based on TWS based knowledge and her experiences in Adrestia regarding Crests and nobles. The plot would have to be turned into something else like the lords vs. TWS and that being the main story itself.
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