#The Arms Act 1959

[madraslawyers]

இந்திய சட்டங்கள் மற்றும் இந்தியாவில் சட்டப்பூர்வ தீர்வுகள்

இந்தியா வளமான கலாச்சார பாரம்பரியம் கொண்ட பல்வேறு நாடு. இந்திய சட்ட அமைப்பு உலகின் பழமையான சட்ட அமைப்புகளில் ஒன்றாகும், மேலும் இது பல ஆண்டுகளாக உருவாகி வருகிறது. குடிமக்களின் உரிமைகளைப் பாதுகாக்கவும் நீதியை உறுதிப்படுத்தவும் இந்தியாவில் பல்வேறு சட்டங்கள் மற்றும் சட்டப் பரிகாரங்கள் உள்ளன. இந்திய சட்டங்கள் இந்திய சட்ட அமைப்பு இந்தியாவில் வாழ்க்கையின் பல்வேறு அம்சங்களை ஒழுங்குபடுத்துவதற்கும்…

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[marshslovedone]

Poly main 4 x F!Reader driving to college oneshot

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“cartman take your goddamn feet off the dash board!!” Kyle yelled as he purposely swerved in the empty road so cartman hits the door. “AYE! WHAT THE SHIT!” Cartman yelled as he rubbed his head from the impact

“Jesus Christ dude! Don’t forget that me and kenny are back here!?” Stan yelled as he hanged onto the seat Kyle sat in while kenny was leaned into stan all the way. “Jesus Kyle don’t kill us! Not before we get Y/N” kenny yelled in Stan’s back all muffled from the act that just happened.

“Well I don’t want cartman’s fucking feet on my dashboard! I’m trying to keep this car clean especially since this car is the 1959 ford galaxie skyliner..” Kyle replied to kenny as he pulled over in front of Y/N’s home before texting that they’re here.

“That doesn’t mean you can swerve!! We could’ve fallen outta this car since the roof isn’t on!” Stan yelled as he got comfortable once again in the back. “Also you’re way into cars, that’s kinda gay” cartman cackled as he went on his phone.

“You dressed up as Britney Spears once don’t even” Kyle shot back which cartman yelled loudly

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I finished getting ready, as I wear flats and a sundress since summer is coming around the corner and we’re finishing our sophomore of college, I did my hair as I had bows on my sundress and messenger bag which I grab, plus my phone and everything I need an begin to leave

I go to leave my home, locking it, as I turn to walk to Kyle’s car as I heard the arguing coming from there. Coincidentally. Kyle looked over to see if I was coming which I was as he paused what he was saying and just stared like he just fell in love with me for the first time

The three other boys confused why kyle wasn’t saying anything as they looked and saw me. I stopped in front of the driver seat smiling as I wave to them.

“Open the trunk so I can put my bag there?” I asked smiling. Kyle nodded furiously as he did I set in there back and close it. I go to hope in the back of the car but before I could cartman got out the passenger and moved the seat so I can get in.

I get in as I sit in between stan and Kenny which the instantly moved closer which made me smile. Cartman got back in as he closed the door and kyle began to drive to college.

“You should tell us when you’re gonna wear sundresses so we can be prepared..” stan said as he placed a hand on my thigh to keep my dress down. Kenny does the same which smile even more.

“Yeah and don’t hope in like usual don’t wanna flash people that aren’t us” cartman cackled out before groaning in pain as kyle hit his arm

“What the shit kahl! I was just saying the truth! I don’t want people to stare at our girl!”

“Cartman has a point don’t want people to stare at you Y/N” Kenny leaned in to kiss my cheek as stan also did the same. Which made me flustered.

Kyle just rolled his eyes before smiling and stares at Y/N in the review mirror before turning the radio on as they get to their college classes.

#south park fanfiction #south park #south park x reader #south park x y/n #eric cartman fluff #stan marsh fluff #kyle broflovski fluff #Kenny mccormick fluff #➥ kenny mccormick's gf ♡ #➥ stan marsh's gf ♡ #➥ kyle's love notes ♡ #➥ eric's love notes ♡ #eric cartman x reader #kyle broflovski x reader #stan marsh x reader #kenny mccormick x reader #main 4 x reader #Main 4 x reader fluff

[charlottan]

every book i read at least a good chunk of in 2023 ranked under the cut grin😁

1. American Gods (2001)  by Neil Gaiman (currently reading) - simply a terrific book. Neil Gaiman at what I believe to be his best. Classic novel

2. Dhalgren (1975) by Samuel R. Delaney (currently reading) - monolithic 70s postmodern book that touches on issues of gender and race. very very good

3. Shantaram (2003) by Gregory David Roberts (currently reading) - very loveable and long book about the true story of an Australian man, arrested on heroin charges, who escapes prison to India and gets involved in arms trading. I'm only on like page 70 out of 900 but I'm deeply in love.

4. Going Postal (2004) by Terry Pratchett (currently reading) - discworld’s postal service! Plenty of hijinks. excellent book

5. Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller (currently reading) - classic anti war satire, what can you say. Still ridiculously funny, the humor really doesnt age at all. it’s very screwball in a way that holds up. Such a joy to read

6. Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut - beautiful book, definitely my favorite of the three Vonnys that i finished this year. you can feel his love, as always

7. Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) by Anthony Doerr- Charming book that spans multiple characters and time periods, all concerned with an ancient codex that symbolizes a sense of faith. I don't really remember this one much but I know I had a lot of fun reading it. Would recommend to anybody

8. Hell’s Angels (1967) by Hunter S. Thompson (currently reading) - very interesting book about, of course, the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club. Thompson becomes a fly on the wall, giving the reader a very, very, perhaps almost too close look at the bikers’ ways and rituals. Very good book if you’re into that sort of thing

9. Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace (currently reading)- not much to say about the old Jest. classic annoying book. i read a good chunk this year :thumbsup:

10. Bag of Bones (1998) by Stephen King - average 90s era King. still just as gripping as his 70s and 80s work but with a more comfortable writing style i think. pretty good

11. Detransition, Baby (2021) by Torrey Peters (currently reading) - not much to say about this one really. Its pretty good so far though, pretty classic transfem lit

12. The Dead Zone (1979) by Stephen King - this book had a terrifically gripping second act but then it kindof goes off in a different direction in act 3. Or rather, it feels like act 3 could have been its own decent short story, with the first two acts together being their own novel.

13. Equal Rites (1987) by Terry Pratchett - transmasc king. Girl wants to be a wizard instead of a witch, average discworld novel, nothing memorable but still pretty good

14. Galapagos (1985) by Kurt Vonnegut - Ok vonny book. It definitely had some strong Vonny moments but overall felt a little Different from the rest of his stuff. But maybe in a good way

15. Deadeye Dick (1982) by Kurt Vonnegut - middling vonnegut novel. It was ok. But an ok kurt vonnegut book is still a really good book

16. On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac - classic beat novel. pretty good if you're into slice of life 1940s/50s stuff, which you probably arent, but if you are and you haven’t checked this out, go for it!

17. Nevada (2013) by Imogen Binnie - Decent, however it felt very bare bones in a way that, for instance, Detransition, Baby makes up for.

18. The Rum Diary (1998) by Hunter S. Thompson - To be honest I don’t remember this one At All but i know i read it in like 3 days so its gotta be good. Still cant put it too high in the ranking though sorry hunter

19. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945) by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs - first ever book written by either of them, and it’s ok. It’s supposed to be a murder mystery but the murder doesnt happen until like the last 20 pages so idk

20. The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett - first discworld. Not that memorable but i wouldnt say it was bad either

21. 1Q84 (2009) by Haruki Murakami (dropped) - I really wanted to like this one. And i did, *mostly*. However, Murakami has this writing style that is obsessively technical and formal and makes for incredibly unnatural monologues, for one thing. This is just a personal preference though; I know it's very acclaimed. I'm honestly sad I couldn't make it past the writing style to enjoy it at least enough to make it through.

22. The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy (dropped) - too edgy

#book talk

[archsarmedadvice]

What Is War?

Welcome to the introductory Article of Setting Conditions. Today, we shall attempt to answer one of humanity's most ancient questions; what is war? It might seem a trivial question to answer, but we suggest, dear reader, that understanding the varied forms and characteristics that war can take might help you develop and understand the role 'war' and conflict at large could play in a fictional setting.

But First, Why 'War'?

A question both for ourselves at Arch's Armed Advice, and, surely, for you who read it. Conflict and those organisations, people, technology, and impacts associated with it have appeared in literature and writing throughout history, but the specific role that War can play in one's own works can obviously vary. Some might anchor their whole project on a conflict, exploring it in minute detail from every angle; for others, military imagery and associations may simply serve to provide an interesting background for stories focused on other subjects. While the position a work finds itself on within such a spectrum will affect how much effort its writer will likely put into developing this portion of their setting, we here at AAA hope to provide a resource that all writers can learn something from, even with our own proclivity for the more in-depth examples. 'Getting it right', even for works which do not center on war or the military, adds credibility to those stories and their writers, and eases the reader's task of suspending disbelief and immersing themselves within the story and its setting.

What is War... In General?

A situation in which two or more countries or groups of people fight against each other over a period of time - The Oxford English Dictionary

The definition above and others like it both useful and generally accurate, covering most of what might spring up in one's mind when one thinks of 'war' in fiction. While AAA will certainly seek to help our readers develop believable, plausible military conflicts and the entities engaged in them within their Settings, we believe that a crucial step in doing so is to expand our understanding of 'war' beyond the most overt acts of violence and combat.

One Way, Or Another

One of our missions in producing this blog was to open Writers' eyes to the diverse ways that war and its associated topics can play a role in their setting and works, and part and parcel with this is expanding writers' perspectives on the forms that this subject can take. To do this, we must venture beyond 'Great Power Conflicts' and 'Plucky Rebels VS. Evil Empire', into conflicts bearing more resemblance to the Pig War of 1959, the Cod Wars, and others of a less conventional nature which nonetheless may open our eyes to the base principles of War. To understand what connects these varied manifestations of warfare, and to develop your own unique take on conflict which best suits your own work, it helps to know some of the most basic terms and theories behind War. The most cliche example, and thus the one we at AAA will use anyways, is to quote the famed military theorist Clausewitz's old maxim; "War is the continuation of policy with other means..." Countries, demonic cults, and other groups besides may, for one reason or another, find that their interests would be best served by undermining those of another group; war, thus, doesn't exist for its own sake, but only comes about because actors choose to engage in it. Developing the political machinations that underly the competition which, in some but not all cases, may escalate to conflict, is a subject all its own and one deserving of great attention. Plainly obvious disconnects between the interests and stakes of the (fictional parties involved, and the conflicts that us as writers force them to engage in, are among the most glaring weaknesses in any work which might have them. To fix such an issue, we suggest that a writer might take one of two courses; they may decrease the 'intensity' of their existing conflict or competition to something more reasonable, or they may develop these warring parties and their relationships to the point that such intense conflict is not just reasonable, but practically inevitable. In reality, one will likely have to commit a little bit both.

Conflict Vs. Competition

While it might seem strange for Arch's Armed Advice to advocate for the inclusion of non-violent conflicts and competitions in our readers' writing, we believe that their presence can only add value to any open wars that may occur in the same works, even without considering how interesting they can be on their own. To add nuance and believability to a conflict, it can be helpful to develop the pre-existing tensions between the parties about to embark on it, presenting specific instances where their interests had previously been in opposition. What, precisely, those interests will be, is entirely up to writers themselves, and we at AAA will likely not be able to provide so much aid in that highly contextually dependent field. We will, however, attempt to provide what advice we can when it comes to developing some of the actions and decisions that these competing actors might make, and the myriad factors they might have to consider in making them.

Conclusion

War is many things, but for us at AAA it is a subject that we hope many more writers might turn to exploring and developing on their own terms within their works and settings. Having done our best to define that most complex topic, we hope that over the course of our future publications we will be able to impart some useful, applicable knowledge on our readers on their creative journeys.

The_Archmagos

#writing advice #worldbuilding #writeblr #writing #writing resources #tags: arch's armed advice #AAA: Setting Conditions: Art. I

[tsunflowers]

I would love to take a class where the textbook is "the future is female: 25 classic science fiction stories by women, from pulp pioneers to ursula k le guin" edited by lisa yaszek, and you just read a story every week and discuss it. they're arranged in chronological order from 1928 to 1969 and are obviously picked not only to demonstrate each author's style but to reflect social attitudes of the era. there would really be a lot to talk about in an academic setting. but even if I can't teach that class I recommend giving it a read if you're interested in old scifi. these were the standout stories to me but you may have different faves when you read it

"the black god's kiss" cl moore, 1934. a female knight travels through a portal to a land she considers to be hell in order to find a weapon capable of defeating the man who conquered her. this is the one I posted saying "it's just like the alien from alien." the imagery is so vivid and engrossing that i can't believe it was written 90 years ago

"all the colors of the rainbow" leigh brackett, 1957. an alien husband and wife on a diplomatic mission to earth find that sundown towns don't appreciate aliens much either. liberal use of the n word in this one bc the characters are extremely racist but I found it to be a very unique example of sf/fantasy discrimination metaphors. I'd love to discuss this one in a class bc I kind of feel like it's not a white woman's story to write but I also don't think a black woman would have gotten it published in 1957? definitely an interesting one

"pelt" carol emshwiller, 1958. a hunting dog brought by her master to an alien planet to hunt exotic furs finds that the native species can communicate with her but not her master and becomes torn. since you're in the dog's point of view you never get the full picture of what happens but it's very melancholy

"car pool" rosel george brown, 1959. it's truly just like an episode of a sitcom where a group of women who run a hovercarpool for their kids let a three armed alien kid in and things go awry. the standout is the relationship between the protagonist and a rival mom who she envies bc the rival mom can pull off wearing a real boudoir slip

"another rib" john jay wells & marion zimmer bradley, 1963. stranded male exocolonists accept an experimental procedure from an alien friend that will allow them to give birth and further the human race despite their captain's intense homophobia and transphobia. interesting in its portrayal of gender and srs bc the alien brings up the fact that humans have already accomplished gender-affirming surgeries but there's also never any implication that the men will become women. they just become men capable of giving birth. however I learned from this anthology that ms bradley enabled child sexual abuse so fuck her

"when I was miss dow" sonya dorman, 1966. a shapeshifting alien from a masculine mono-gender race is made to take the form of a human woman to learn more about human settlers and resents it at first but is fundamentally changed by the experience. made me want to cry a little

"nine lives" ursula k le guin, 1969. two guys who are getting sick and tired of each other after a long mining expedition on a faraway planet are joined by ten sexy and beautiful 20somethings who are all clones of the same guy. the clones can act in unison but also keep each other company. this could be the future of the human race... or not

#my book review corner

[lunaryuwu]

well then. in light of ur recent reblog.

what are your thoughts on the intensely queer coded relationship of Neil Perry and Todd Anderson in the 1989 film ‘Dead Poets Society’ (and should i watch it)?

Omg i have so much to say about them

So small synopsis of the movie first, it’s basically about this teacher who teaches at this all boy prep school and inspires them through teaching them poetry so they can seize the day(which is the main message of the movie) and do what they want

(There are some spoilers in my big rant so beware)

It’s never confirmed if neil and todd were actually a thing but the subtext is there so i ship it :) the time period of the movie is 1959 if i remember correctly so they won’t really be openly gay(also the movie is released in 1989 so yeah can’t really be openly gay either) neil and todd are very close and are often laying of each others arms or being relatively close to each other so they’re pretty touchy(there’s a scene where they hug after winning a football match and i think that’s very cute) todd’s only really touchy and close with neil so their relationship is definitely very deep. In a scene talking about todd’s poetry, neil refers to todd as ‘walt whitman’ who was an openly gay poet, which could be hinting at todd being gay? In that same scene, neil says no to todd looking after himself, hinting that neil wants to look after him and help him maybe? So he has this strong urge to like protect him or look after him

There are also hints to Neil being gay as his father threatens to send him to a military school because he is acting more ‘feminine’ so he needs to ‘toughen him up’ and make him into more of a ‘man’ sort of

ALSO there was a scene where mr keating(the teacher) asks todd to make up poetry in front of the class and it cuts to neil with the most love stricken face ever like dhvdhbdbjsna COME ON

The general consensus of the fandom(i think) is that they at least had feelings for each other, especially with neil’s death(small spoiler) todd was the most affected and was sobbing and puking and screaming neil’s name while running off into snow which is super sad :(

So conclusion, i ship it, i think the chemistry is totally there and they’re really cute together <3 if you like dark academia, gay subtext and poetry this is the movie for you!! Also really recommend watching the deleted scenes too those are amazing!! And if you want to watch a more in depth analysis i’d rec this video

(Also screenshot of the todd and neil poetry scene i kept talking about this is THE scene i love them sm <3)

#ask box #dead poets society

[brokenhardies]

The Mavity of the Situation

Summary: Set during Wild Blue Yonder. Separated from the Doctor and Donna, Jane is cornered by her not-counterpart. Unfortunately for her, she finds herself staring down all her bottled up emotions and issues that she hasn’t had time to deal with.

TW: Body Horror, Frightening Imagery, Caps halfway through

Word Count: 1959

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The second that the Not-Doctor bent over backwards like the little girl in that movie that Jane had watched once - and only once, her previous incarnation, the gentle soul that he was, was too terrified by the movie to watch it again - Jane was racing out of the room before the Not-Donna and Not-Doctor could even blink. 

The Doctor had also raced off - hopefully the real Doctor and not their not-counterpart - but they were in a different location on the ship to Jane. Jane had found herself in the engineering room, all green and black with obnoxious lights and an almost toxic appearance. She took a minute to breathe, trying to collect herself under the pressure of the location and the terrifying creatures that they had encountered. However… That didn’t last long. Mostly as she heard a familiar voice.

“What are you doing down here?”

Her eyes widened, and she noticed her reflection was walking towards her. The engineering room was a dangerous place to be - Jane thought - as she was separated from the Doctor and Donna as the version of her with its arms a few inches too long and one eye slightly bigger than the other began to approach her. Jane took a few steps back.

“Strange,” The not-Jane said, “I would’ve thought your father would’ve come here. Always interested in machines. A lot easier to deal with than people…”

Jane blinked, noticing how her other self had spat out the word ‘father’, like it left a bad taste in her mouth. Her stomach dropped, remembering that the not-creatures had picked up on their brainwaves. It’s difficult not to think… But this one seemed more personal than the others. At least, she hadn’t seen what Not-Donna and Not-Doctor told their other selves. And it seemed hers was aiming for the stomach.

“...What?” The not-Jane asked, “Aren’t you gonna say ‘I would never think that’? Frightening, isn’t it? Hearing yourself say such things that you’d never truly believe…”

“Stop that.” Jane responded, causing her other self to laugh, maniacally and uncontrollably.

“Stop what?” She asked, “Telling the truth? God, you’re such a pathetic excuse for a child. I’m in your head, dear. And I know exactly what you think…”

Jane continued to walk backwards, trying to get away from the rubbery clone. She was able to hold her form, even if there were some minor alterations that not many would notice – an eye that was slightly bigger than the other, a strand of hair that was a little off-coloured, one wrist that appeared to be a few centimetres thicker than the other – but that didn’t particularly mattered. What did matter was the being seemed to be stalking Jane, not shutting her mouth as she spoke.

“You have a lot in that pretty little head of yours…” She continued, eyes wide as she stalked Jane, who was trying to find an exit. “All these delicious thoughts and emotions… Anger, resentment, grief… Are you still angry at them for going back to that damn old face?”

“You’re running around and acting like ‘everythings’ fine’, but in reality, every time they speak you shiver.” The clone continued, as Jane raced around a corner, but she felt a plasticky hand - her own - grab her shoulder. “You remember that day, don’t you? Waterlogged and desperate, fighting against the feeling of drowning as he shouted how ‘the laws of time are mine and they will obey me’. What an awful day for you, isn’t it?”

Jane gulped. She did remember that day on Mars. The day her second incarnation drowned and her father - wanting desperately to rewrite history - went mad with power and rescued crew members from Bowie Base One whether they wanted to or not. After Adelaide killed herself, and Ood Sigma reminded the Doctor that he wasn’t going to live much longer after that, Jane’s third incarnation locked herself in her second’s old library to recover from the regeneration burnout. That day was the day whatever hope had been left in number 2 died… With her as well. It was worse as her clone said what her father said that day in his voice. 

She pulled away. “I don’t have to listen to you.”

However, her clone continued, ignoring Jane’s pleas.

“Oh, they always liked that face, so much so they didn’t want to go, and think of all the adventures you had after he left!” She chuckled. “...And then you found out they were lying to you. About everything. You were not really their child, but a clone of them… They didn’t know, but that wasn’t the point. You were nothing more than the spare. And you were even sent to Earth to die there.”

“Stop it!” Jane exclaimed, “I, I don’t, I…”

“And it gets worse,” The other-Jane said, almost gleeful in her statement. “You know why it gets worse? Most of the universe has been destroyed. That’s why we exist. Because of you, and your parent, and the fact you couldn’t stop it! And that eats you alive, every, single, day. You look in the mirror and you see a naive individual who was responsible for the destruction of half the universe!”

Jane raced off, as her counterpart chuckled, clearly enjoying the emotional torment that she was being put through. She found a spot to hide, but the hiding didn’t last that long, mostly as - well, the clone had access to her thoughts - and she’d managed to find her hiding behind a collection of buttons, wires, switches and other technological implements. The clone scoffed, as Jane panted, looking away.

“Oh, but you really miss her, don’t you?” She asked, “In fact, the only way you’d listen to what I’m saying is if I was her!”

“D-Don’t drag Rose into this!” Jane cried, covering her eyes, panicked at the idea of her clone taking the form of her crush. 

However, that was not the case. That would have been too easy for the clone to pick apart Jane’s inability to confess her feelings due to Donna’s memories getting wiped - and the fear of both Donna and Rose dying, especially as Jane wasn’t sure if ‘letting go’ of the metacrisis was a plan that worked - in fact, it was a little juvenile. Not what that creature had been planning. 

Suddenly, the not-Jane’s head began to compress, her body shifting and altering in size and appearance. It was a strange and frightening experience, Jane was reminded of the feeling during regeneration, but in this case… It was not covered by flashing lights and glowing gold energy. Limbs stretching, hands changing, face altering, before suddenly…

Instead of appearing like an exact clone of Jane… It appeared as a copy of her mother. And yes. Her mother. Blonde bob cut, wearing the same baggy jumpsuit, striped shirt, eyes wide and brown and full of joy. Jane swallowed. She knew that it wasn’t really her mother. But the creature smirked, eyes wide.

“What’s wrong, dear?” Her voice sounded off, shifting between accents and tones as she tried to sound sweet. “Afraid of your own mummy?” 

“Y-You’re…” Jane stumbled backwards, collecting herself against a wall. “You’re not my mum…”

“Oh, I’m even better than your mum.” The not-Doctor said. “I won’t die or leave you behind. I won’t forget you in the TARDIS for so long that you end up becoming part of it. I won’t abandon you for my girlfriend who I was in denial about…” 

All the thoughts were coming to the surface and Jane felt like she was about to cry. But she didn’t, trying to keep a straight face as she crawled onto her knees, hiding beneath a table with her legs up to her chest. Suddenly, she felt a pounding, hearing the sound of skin stretching like plastic. The creature was changing once more, its voice distorted as it cried.

“Come out, come out, wherever you are!” 

The voice sounded gruffer, deeper, with a hint of a Scottish accent. She recognised the voice as one of her father’s - the twelfth, the first of the new cycle - but the voice was screeched, almost sounding mad as the being continued to stalk Jane, who was crawling under the table, trying to find a way out.

“Come on, dear, I’m not going to hurt you!” The being claimed, “I’m just going to rip you to pieces! Wouldn’t that be fun? Isn’t that what you wanted?”

More stretching, more twisting, as Jane raced out of where she was hiding, noticing a familiar shaker of salt sitting behind her. She grabbed it, holding it behind her back, as she rolled out to see… Her father’s eleventh incarnation, a transformation that would’ve looked uncanny if he already didn’t appear that way. Her stomach dropped, as the creature licked its lips. It was starving, this time walking gently towards her, giraffe-like limbs elegantly moving as Jane held the salt shaker behind her back tightly.

“...After all, you know you’re going to die.” It said, “So why not speed it up a little bit?”

Threateningly, Jane pulled out the shaker of salt, causing the creature to scoff, eyes narrowed.

“You really believe I’m going to fall for that superstition, dear?” It said, “I can read your thoughts, and I know you’re bluff–”

Jane tossed the salt into the beings eyes, causing the illusion of her father’s eleventh face to break. Shedding skin like a snake, it mutated, suddenly looking like a goopy fusion of the eleventh, the twelfth, the thirteenth and her, still underneath that being as a branching off point. She could see pieces of her skin and teeth popping out of the side of the beings face, beneath what appeared to be her mother’s eye and a strand of her hair. Limbs appeared to be duplicated, and the torso appeared split between different clothing, body parts and segments. She could even see the Eleventh’s shoe-like face popping out of the Twelfth’s stomach, but missing any discernible features. 

It hissed. “THAT’S CHEATING!” 

It’s voice mutated between hers and the other three disguises it had put on. Gone was the illusion of friendliness, instead replaced with a monstrous creature… And that probably wasn’t even its true form. Jane continued to race out of the maze-like tunnels of the maintenance room, as the gigantic mutant that she had helped create followed her, destroying the room in the process. Considering the ship was going to blow up at any point, it made sense for it to damage what could become its prison. 

“DON’T YOU DARE RUN AWAY FROM ME YOU LITTLE SHIT,” The creature growled, as Jane continued to race off to an exit, looking behind her to see if it was still following her. “I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE – A COWARD! A NAIVE COWARD IN DENIAL ABOUT YOUR OWN FAULTS!” 

“I know…” Jane muttered, “And I’ve made peace with that!”

As the creature continued to stalk her, she found an exit and raced out, but the creature was still following her. She could hear the pitter patter of feet and wasn’t sure if it was her father, the clone of them, Donna or the clone of her. But she pressed on, continuing to race off as she felt heat surge through her face and body. There was an explosion forming, and she noticed the TARDIS, with the Doctor’s foot dangling over the edge. It still appeared to be them, as she ran and grabbed the foot. The Doctor noticed her, and pulled her up, as she took a deep breath.

“Arms still the right length?” She asked, as the Doctor nodded.

“One eye bigger than the other?”

The Doctor shook his head. Now, to find Donna and save her before that damn monster from inside her brain found them first.

#ocappreciation #ocapp #ochub #queerocs #OC: Jane #story: life on mars #me: oh i hated the body horror in the wild blue yonder its so rubbery and goopy #also me: writes a doctor who meets the thing story so i can torment jane #the eleven twelve and thirteen cameos might just be my fave part of this #the endings a bit rushed lol i might actually make it less rushed if i ever write this formally #i prefer one shots for jane i get to mess around in the world of dw :')

[perestroika-hilton]

Following quote is from gleaning the welfare fields this is just a really nice succinct history of peasant revolt under communism

"Resistance to State Extraction during the Socialist Period (1959-1978)

The current character of rural resistance has its roots in the socialist era. This cycle of struggle begins in 1959, the first year of the Great Leap Famine, when a rupture occurred between peasants and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which had developed widespread support in the countryside to various degrees over the previous three decades. Many members and even leaders of the party came from the peasantry, and the CCP’s guidance had proven successful at winning struggles against local elites that poor peasants had already attempted unsuccessfully on their own. Peasant support grew throughout the 1950s as CCP policies (such as land reform and cooperativization), coupled with the end of civil war, led to improvements in living standards.

All this fell apart with the return of famine in 1959, following the first year of the CCP’s Great Leap Forward campaign.[12] Many peasants soon began to regard the party-state as an alien, extractive and oppressive force, and to act individually or collectively against it by hiding grain from state collectors, stealing from collective fields, looting granaries, going to cities to demand food,[13] and in some cases taking up arms and engaging in local “power seizures.”[14]

The post-Leap retreat to more conservative agrarian policies (partial decollectivization, restoration of markets) mitigated peasant unrest, but the damage was done. Henceforth it would be more difficult to mobilize peasants for mass campaigns or even everyday work. The inefficiency that Dengists[15] and liberals alike attribute to the nature of collective production in general actually stemmed, in this case, from peasants’ resistance to state extraction and what they interpreted as alien, often irrational attempts to control the production process. In the 1970s (following more moderate recollectivization in the mid-1960s), many peasants again pushed for partial decollectivization, and others welcomed the Dengist state’s forced decollectivization in the early 1980s—less because of peasants’ inherent individualism or “petty bourgeois mentality,” and more because they wanted less extraction and more control over production.[16]

 

Resistance to Price Fluctuations during the Period of Transition (mid-1980s to early 1990s)

The early 1980s was a golden age for most Chinese peasants, comparable to the 1950s in optimism and surpassing it in terms of livelihood. Several decades of peace and gradual improvement of food intake combined with post-1968 improvements in rural health care managed to double life expectancy between 1949 and 1980. Meanwhile, two decades of collective projects to improve rural infrastructure (bringing new land under cultivation, expanding irrigation systems, building roads, etc.) and state modernization of agriculture (mechanization, production of agrochemicals and high-yield varieties of seed and livestock) finally came to fruition in the late 1970s.[17] This was coupled with the first significant state increase in prices for agricultural products, supplemented by subsidies for peasant entrepreneurs who reorganized their household farms and privatized collective equipment to specialize in certain commodities, leading to the most rapid increase in agricultural productivity and income that China had seen since the Ming Dynasty—especially for those able to benefit from the entrepreneurial subsidies available from 1978 to 1984.

By the mid-1980s, however, a combination of new factors caused these increases in productivity and income to decline. The increase attributable to modernization on tiny plots of land soon reached its limits. The state then decreased its subsidies and price controls for agriculture as part of its general strategy of marketization, and in order to balance the budget and lower the price of food for urbanites. These changes spelled disaster for peasants who specialized in certain cash crops when prices fell below the cost of production, leading to the first significant round of peasant unrest in China since the Great Leap Famine,[18] beginning in the late 1980s.

There is little data available on this sequence of struggles due to media censorship and the preference of researchers to focus on either decollectivization or anti-corruption struggles, but it is memorialized in Mo Yan’s novel The Garlic Ballads.[19] Based on news reports and interviews, the novel recounts a 1987 uprising against the falling price of garlic and the government’s refusal to buy the surplus, after local officials had encouraged peasants to specialize in garlic and then pocketed the state subsidies, alongside fees they had charged for farming a cash crop instead of grain. If this case is any indication, the marketization of agriculture at this time was already intertwined with local state corruption, which became the focus of peasant resistance in the 1990s.

 

Resistance to Local State Expropriation in the 1990s and early 2000s

It was during this period that many young peasants began migrating to coastal cities for temporary jobs, incentivized by expropriation in the countryside and increasing employment opportunities in the Special Economic Zones, both occurring just as returns from modernized small-plot agriculture had reached their limits. The struggles of peasants thus bifurcated into the rural struggles dealt with here, and the struggles of ruralites as proletarians, including conflicts in the wage relation and riots against social exclusion discussed in “No Way Forward, No Way Back” (also in this issue).

Despite frequent news reporting and a sizable academic literature, the only attempt at a comprehensive history of rural struggles in China since the 1980s is a pair of articles by Kathy Le Mons Walker published in the late 2000s.[20] The following sections center on summarizing information from those articles, supplementing it with other sources and engaging critically with Walker’s analysis.

Among the many targets of peasant resistance from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, most could be characterized as direct expropriation. These included:

the issuing of IOUs in lieu of payment of cash for crops by local officials, who used the funds for speculative real estate and business deals[…]; cadre diversion of state-allocated inputs for agriculture; the pocketing of TVE [“collective” township and village enterprise] profits by local and mid-level cadres; the imposition by local cadres of a host of ‘illegal’ or ‘unaccounted for’ fines, fees, and taxes to pay for ‘development’ projects and/or for personal use; the forcible confiscation of the land, belongings, and food of peasants who could not or would not pay the extra taxes and fees; the expropriation of arable land without adequate compensation (for highways, real estate development, and personal use, or to attract industrial investors through the creation of ‘development zones’); the issuing of inferior and fake chemical fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, and other supplies by corrupt cadres; and finally the pollution of local water supplies by development projects, which has not only angered peasants but affected agricultural production as well.

This expropriation was not mere “corruption,” as both the Chinese state and liberal critics usually describe it.[21] In some cases it resembles proto-capitalist “primitive accumulation” in Marx’s classical sense, because it played a key role in the transition to capitalism.[22] In others, especially more recently, such expropriation might be better understood as specifically capitalist “accumulation by dispossession” in David Harvey’s sense—Walker’s preferred category of analysis.[23] It transferred products of peasant labor into capitalist enterprises and the infrastructure necessary for its operation. It also took the form of capitalist rents, as opposed to the tributary and socialist rents in rural China prior to marketization. Investment in this period often took the form of “collectively-owned” TVEs, but many of these functioned as profit-oriented joint-stock enterprises, while others were eventually appropriated by their managers or cheaply purchased by capitalists. During China’s reintegration into the world market in the 1990s, these privatized TVEs became the initial vehicle through which Chinese and transnational capital exploited local and migrant peasant-workers—the vehicle of their expropriation often becoming the source of their exploitation."

#chuang #theory #gleaning the welfare fields

[brookston]

Holidays 6.26

Holidays

Alexandra Rose Day

Anti Drugs Day (India)

Armed Forces Day (UK)

Army & Navy Day (Azerbaijan)

Bar Code Day (a.k.a. UPC Day)

Beautician's Day

Boardwalk Day

Canoe Day

Day of the Armed Forces (Azerbaijan)

Festival of the Tarasque (France)

Flag Day (Romania)

Forgiveness Day

Global Africa Day

Good Earth Day

Good Manners Day

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Harry Potter Day

Human Genome Day

International Angel Shark Day

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (UN)

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (UN)

International Stitch Day

LGBTQ Equality Day

National Beautician’s Day

National Cancer Wellness Awareness Day (Canada)

National Canoe Day (Canada)

National DCE (Director of Christian Education) Day

National Fossil Day (Australia)

National Milkman Day

National Ranboo Day

National Rat Catcher’s Day

National Report Trade Agreement Act Fraud Day

National Sarah Day

National Sports Day (Fiji)

National Toothbrush Day

National Zachary Day

Ommegang Pageant begins (Belgium) [Ends 7.6]

Pied Piper of Hamelin Day (according to the Brothers Grimm)

Same Sex Marriage Day

Senior Citizen’s Day (Mason County, Michigan)

626 Day (Lilo & Stitch)

Shallot Day (French Republic)

Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)

Supply Chain Geek Day

UN Charter Day

World Bunny Chow Day

World Nupe Day (Nigeria)

World Refrigeration Day

Wrong Trousers Day (Wallace & Gromit)

Ziua Tricolorului (Flag Day; Romania)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Pudding Day

National Coconut Day

National Haskap Berry Day

Tropical Cocktails Day

4th & Last Monday in June

Please Take My Children To Work Day [Last Monday]

Independence Days

Madagascar (from France, 1960)

Schwanensee (Swan Lake; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

St. George (Principality Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anthelm of Belley (Christian; Saint)

Archie McPhee Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Branwell Brontë (Artology)

Carbonara Day (Pastafarian)

David the Dendrite (Christian; Saint)

El Cid (Positivist; Saint)

Feast of All Saints

Hermogius (Christian; Saint)

Isabel Florence Hapgood (Episcopal Church)

Jack (Muppetism)

Jeremiah (Lutheran)

John and Paul (Christian; Saint)

José María Robles Hurtado (One of Saints of the Cristero War; Christian)

Josemaría Escrivá (Christian; Saint)

Mar Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Maria (Muppetism)

Pelagius of Córdoba (Christian; Saint)

Pelayo (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium I (Pagan)

Vigilius of Trent (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

After the Rain, by Nelson (Album; 1990)

Baby, I Love Your Way, by Peter Frampton (Song; 1976)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Film; 1959)

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1870) [Ring of the Nibelung #2]

Donald in Mathematic Land (Disney Cartoon; 1959)

Dragonslayer (Film; 1981)

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Film; 2020)

For Your Eyes Only (US Film; 1981) [James Bond #12]

Full Metal Jacket (Film; 1987)

The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin Film; 1925)

Goo, by Sonic Youth (Album; 1990)

The Great Muppet Caper (Film; 1981)

A Hard Day’s Night, by The Beatles (Album; 1964)

The Hurt Locker (Film; 2009)

Jean de Florette (Film; 1987)

Muzzle Tough (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

My Spy (Film; 2020)

Never a Dull Moment (Film; 1968)

Out of Sight (Film; 1998)

The Philosopher’s Stone (a.k.a. Sorcerer's Stone), by J.K. Rowling (Novel; 1997) [Harry Potter #1]

Spaceballs (Film; 1987)

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (Film; 1952)

Stripes (Film; 1981)

Sweet Sioux (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Symphony No. 9, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1912)

Ted 2 (Film; 2015)

Who Let the Dogs Out, by the Baha Men (Album; 2000)

Today’s Name Days

Anthelm, Vigilius (Austria)

David (Bulgaria)

Ivan, Pavao, Vigilije, Zoran (Croatia)

Adriana (Czech Republic)

Pelagius (Denmark)

Manivald, Vaane, Vaano, Vaino, Vane, Vanevald (Estonia)

Jarkko, Jarmo, Jarno, Jere, Jeremias, Jorma (Finland)

Anthelme (France)

David, Konstantin, Paul, Vigil (Germany)

Makarios (Greece)

János, Pál (Hungary)

Elisa, Filippo, Rodolfo, Vigilio (Italy)

Ausma, Dzejs, Ingūna, Inguns, Ulvis (Latvia)

Jaunius, Jaunutis, Viltautė, Virgilijus (Lithuania)

Jenny, Jonny (Norway)

Jan, Jeremi, Jeremiasz, Paweł, Zdziwoj (Poland)

David (România)

Adriána (Slovakia)

José, Pelayo (Spain)

Lea, Rakel (Sweden)

Arley, Harlan, Harlene, Harley, Thelma (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 177 of 2024; 188 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 26 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 9 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 7 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 7 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 27 Sol; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 13 June 2023

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 9 Charlemagne (7th Month) [El Cid]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 6 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 6 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

[eretzyisrael]

Memories of the 1958 Iraqi revolution

Not many Jews have recorded their memories of the 14 July 1958 revolution in Iraq, when a bloody army coup d’état led by Abdul Karim Qasim overthrew the Hashemite monarchy. Tamara Ruben interviewed her aunt Amy, a young woman at the time, to record her memories of this period as part of Tamara’s efforts to raise awareness of the plight of Jews from Arab countries.  The events she lived through were so traumatic that  her aunt Amy, who now lives in England, resolved to depart from Iraq, even if it meant leaving her parents behind – an act that demanded much courage. These are her aunt’s words (With thanks: Nancy):

The young King Faisal II, murdered in the 1958 revolution aged 18

The revolution in Iraq of 1958 took me back to one of the scariest and most agonizing times of my life. This is because the Iraqi masses believed that killing and abusing Jews would be a safe bet at a time when the new military government was busy consolidating its power and grip on the country.

The Jews had their telephones cut off, Jewish government officials were fired (if there were any left after the establishment of Israel), and several Jewish homes, including ours, were raided.  We waited in fear for them to take us and throw us in jail. Some prominent Jews were left to rot in prison. Six soldiers armed with rifles raided our house. It was three storeys high. They searched every corner. One soldier asked my father to sit at the table and sign a document. My father, horrified and grey-faced, was ready to sign. When I mustered enough courage to ask the soldier what document he was signing, the soldier replied, “We couldn’t find any spy equipment.” After they left, I told my father that I was leaving Iraq and that he had to leave too. He refused because of his age and my mother’s various illnesses.

I was told that the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad was so concerned that he complained to the leader of the revolution, Abdul Karim Qasim, who had pledged to protect the Jews. Qasim tried to keep his promise until he was assassinated in his office in the Ministry of Defence. This was the counter-revolution of  February 1963. Power was passed to his assistant and revolutionary collaborator,ʿAbd al-Salam ʿArif, who died three years later in what they believed to be a ‘planned’ helicopter accident….

In the 1958 revolution, the entire royal family was put to death.

The body of the young King Faisal II was secretly exhumed and buried when the junta realised that there would be a rebellion if it was known that the body of the beloved young king had been dragged through the streets. I don’t think  that the British dared to intervene because Iraq had remained under their influence while it was supposedly independent!

The hated crown prince, Abdel Il-llah, whom the mob thought was the agent of the British colonialists, was tied up, murdered and his body dragged through the streets of Baghdad.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Said escaped, but was caught the next day, disguised in a woman’s abaya, and was shot immediately.

The next day, I got up to go to work as usual when I discovered that our front gate was blocked by a tank. Martial music blared on all radio stations. I left on July 14, 1959:  it took me one year to get a passport.

My parents stayed another year and left in 1960 via Turkey to join the rest of the family already in Israel”.

#Jews of Iraq #Testimonies

[donttalkaboutmemes]

Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sentence Meme

Under the cut you will find 110+ sentences from 1959 version of Sleeping Beauty to use for your enjoyment!  

1.      “In a far away land, long ago, lived a king and his fair queen.”

2.      “They named her after the dawn for she filled their lives with sunshine.”

3.      “A great holiday was proclaimed throughout the kingdom so that all of high or low estate might pay homage to the infant princess.”

4.      “Our story beings on that most joyful day.”

5.      “Fondly had these monarchs dreamed one day their kingdoms to unite.”

6.      “Each of us the child may bless with a single gift. No more, no less.”

7.      “My gift shall be the gift of beauty.”

8.      “My gift shall be the gift of song.”

9.      “Well, quite a glittering assemblage. Royalty, nobility, the gentry and, how quaint, even the rabble.”

10.   “I really feel quite distressed of not receiving an invitation.”

11.   “Oh dear, what an awkward situation.”

12.   “And you’re not offended, you excellency?”

13.   “To show I bear no ill will, I too shall bestow a gift on the child.”

14.   “The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who adore her.”

15.   “Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die!”

16.   “Seize that creature!”

17.   “Stand back, you fools!”

18.   “She can undo this fearful curse?”

19.   “From this slumber you shall wake when true love’s kiss the spell shall break.”

20.   “Come have a nice cup of tea, dear. I’m sure it’ll work out somehow.”

21.   “She can’t be all bad.”

22.   “I’d like to turn her into a fat, ole hoptoad.”

23.   “Now dear, that isn’t a very nice thing to say.”

24.   “You know our magic doesn’t work that way.”

25.   “Shh! Even walls have ears!”

26.   “She’d make a lovely flower.”

27.   “She always ruins your nicest flowers.”

28.   “She’ll be expecting us to do something like that.”

29.   “What won’t she expect? She knows everything.”

30.   “She doesn’t know anything about love or kindness or the joy of helping earnest.”

31.   “You know, sometimes I don’t think she’s really very happy.”

32.   “It’s the only thing she can’t understand and won’t expect.”

33.   “If humans can do it, so can we.”

34.   “We have our magic to help us.”

35.   “No magic! I’ll take those wands right now.”

36.   “You mean live like mortals? For sixteen years?”

37.   “We’ve never done anything without magic.”

38.   “It’s incredible, sixteen years and not a trace of her! She couldn’t have vanished into thin air!”

39.   “Did you hear that, my pet? All these years, they’ve been looking for a baby!”

40.   “They’re hopeless. A disgrace to the forces of evil.”

41.   “You are my last hope.”

42.   “Don’t go too far!”

43.   “And don’t talk to strangers!”

44.   “I wonder if she suspects.”

45.   “A dress a princess can be proud of.”

46.   “I never baked a fancy cake.”

47.   “I still say we ought to use magic.”

48.   “Oh, gracious! How the child has grown!”

49.   “It seems only yesterday we brought her here.”

50.   “After the day, she’ll be a princess.”

51.   “We all knew this day had to come.”

52.   “Good gracious! We’re acting like a lot of ninnies.”

53.   “Why do they still treat me like a child?”

54.   “They never want me to meet anyone. But you know something? I fooled them. I have met someone.”

55.   “A prince! He’s tall and handsome and…and so romantic…”

56.   “We walked together and talked together and just before we say goodbye, he takes me in his arms and then…I wake up.”

57.   “It’s only in my dreams.”

58.   “They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.”

59.   “There was something strange about that voice. Too beautiful to be real.”

60.   “Oh, why, it’s my dream prince!”

61.   “Your highness, I’m really not supposed to speak to strangers.”

62.   “I’m awfully sorry. I didn’t mean to frighten you.”

63.   “Don’t you remember? We’ve met before.”

64.   “But when will I see you again?”

65.   “Why, it’s a very unusual cake, isn’t it?”

66.   “Well, it’s not exactly the way it is in the book, is it?”

67.   “I still think what I thunk before.”

68.   “Now to make a lovely dress, fit the grace of fair princess.”

69.   “Not pink. Make it blue.”

70.   “Make it pink.”

71.   “This is the happiest day of my life! Everything’s so wonderful!”

72.   “You’ve met some stranger?”

73.   “You’re already betrothed.”

74.   “That’s impossible! How could I marry a prince? I’d have to be a…”

75.   “He’s coming here tonight. I promised to meet him.”

76.   “I’m sorry, child, but you must never see that young man again.”

77.   “And we thought she’d be so happy.”

78.   “No sign of her yet.”

79.   “Tonight we feast to the future with something I’ve been saving for sixteen years.”

80.   “Children need a nest of their own. A place to raise their little brood, eh?”

81.   “What do you think? Nothing elaborate, of course. Forty bedrooms, dining hall.”

82.   “The love birds can move in tomorrow.”

83.   “I haven’t even seen my daughter yet and you’re taking her away from me?”

84.   “Want to see our grandchildren, don’t we?”

85.   “Doesn’t your daughter like my son?”

86.   “I’m not so sure my son likes your daughter!”

87.   “I’m not so sure my grandchildren want you for a grandfather!”

88.   “Why you unreasonable, pompous, blustering old windbag!”

89.   “I warn you, this means war!”

90.   “The children are bound to fall in love with each other.”

91.   “Change into something suitable. Can’t meet your future bride looking like that.”

92.   “What’s all this dream nonsense?”

93.   “It wasn’t a dream, father. I really did meet her!”

94.   “I said I met the girl I was going to marry. I don’t know who she was, a peasant girl I suppose.”

95.   “Give up the throne, the kingdom, for some nobody?”

96.   “You’re a prince and you’re going to marry a princess.”

97.   “You’re living in the past. This is the fourteenth century!”

98.   “This one last gift, dear child for thee, the symbol of thy royalty.”

99.   “A crown to wear in grace and beauty, as is thy right and royal duty.”

100. “I don’t see why she has to marry any old prince.”

101.  “You poor, simple fools! Thinking you could defeat me! Me! The mistress of all evil!”

102.   “Well, here’s your precious princess!”

103.   “The sun has set! Make ready to welcome your princess!”

104.   “Seems he’s fallen in love with some peasant girl.”

105.   “The peasant girl. Who is she?”

106.   “Well this is a pleasant surprise. I set my trap for a peasant and, lo, I catch a prince!”

107.   “Gently, my pets. I have plans for our royal guest.”

108.   “A wonderous future lies before you. You, the destined hero of a charming fairy tail come true.”

109.   “A hundred years to a steadfast heart are but a day.”

110.   “Let us leave our noble prince with these happy thoughts.”

111.    “For the first time in sixteen years, I shall sleep well.”

112.   “The road to true love may be barriered by still many more dangers which you alone will have to face.”

113.   “Arm thyself with this enchanted shield of virtue and this mighty sword of truth, for these weapons will triumph over evil.”

114.    “A forest of thorns shall be his tomb.”

115.    “Now shall you deal with me, prince, and all the powers of hell!”

116.     “Let evil die and good endure!”

117.    “Oh, I just love happy endings!”

#ask meme #askbox meme #roleplaying meme #roleplay meme #sentence meme #disney meme #disney #askbox #roleplay #sleeping beauty

[manikax]

Private Magic

When: 1959 - 1968 Where: Italy 

Maja's Italy years were some of her fairest. Though, as an immortal, it was difficult to acknowledge and appreciate life when it was good. Life incessant had an almost anodyne quality - middling, inoffensive, impactless. Even when it was bad, it seemed inconsequential. 

Nothing lasted forever, but she. She was forever as a woman.

But Italy in the early 1960s was good. Even Maja had to admit that. She had saved a considerable chunk of money from her modeling work in LA and New York and was well connected in the European fashion industry. 

It was through these connections that she met Nino Barroffio. A friend of a friend of a friend had taken Maja by the arm at a boozy after party in Milan, declaring that Nino had seen some of her American modeling work and was dying to meet her.

Maja knew who Nino was. Everybody in the European fashion world did. Nino made a name for himself in the early 1950s with a series of avant-garde black-and-white portraits of men in women's wear and women in men's wear. He was also known for his androgynous and unisex clothing designs that critics called "omnipresent" and "cutting-edge."

That Nino Barroffio knew who she was and wanted to meet her was fascinating. Something new. Maja was keen to see where this precipitous encounter (like so many precipitous encounters before it) would take her.

In the smokey, wine-soaked haze of the after-party, Nino Barroffio fell to his knees before her, taking her hand in his own and kissing it a thousand times - front and back. "My angel, my muse," he proclaimed in melodic Italian. "I must put you in a suit."

And so he did. He whisked Maja away from the glimmer of the party in his forest green Alfa Romeo, driving her to his studio downtown. He took her measurements with clinical precision and began constructing the suit from a swath of fine emerald silk. He worked like a man possessed, a mad scientist in his laboratory, hunched over the sewing machine as though it were a cooling board, and what he was assembling stitch by stitch was not a simple garment but a creature that defied the laws of nature. She shared this with him.

“Like Frankenstein, no?” He responded over the chug of the sewing machine, quirking a thick brow. "If I am the scientist, then you, tesoro mio, are the strike of life-bringing lightning."

He finished the garment as the sun came up.  

The suit - a pair of wide-legged trousers and a matching blazer - was willowy and epicene. The silk was so delicate and soft that it felt criminal to wear anything beneath it, and Maja luxuriated in the caress of the fabric against her bare skin. In the virgin light of dawn, Nino removed her makeup with a wet washcloth, using such gentle, reverent strokes the act felt almost biblical. He tied her hair back in a bun that rested at the nape of her neck.

He took her photograph in the orange glow of the breaking sun, posing her in a manner that was unfamiliar to her despite her extensive modeling work. He had her sit on the velvet chaise in the studio, relaxed with legs spread, feet planted on the floor, eyes staring down the lens of the camera. It was a position of power.

She would pose for Nino thousands of times after that night, but these ("Maja in Emerald") were among some of the only photographs he never sold. The ones he kept for himself. "There's a certain private magic to them, tesoro mio. I want to hold onto it for as long as I can."

They didn't begin sleeping together until the following year. Maja had been the one to initiate the affair. She had not found him especially attractive when they met that fortuitous night in Milan, but time and intimacy had cast its Cupid's arrow. His mind and passions transfigured his appearance before her eyes, and what was once unremarkable became charming. The fact that he had never tried to take advantage of her in their year-long working relationship made him a safe bet, a pearl amid the muck.

Nino kept her occupied for nine years, worshiping her behind his camera, in his bed, and through the garments he crafted for her, by hand. She did not love Nino, but he was kind and dynamic. He did not bore her, and that was enough. Nine years she spent in Nino's bright world of white sand, designer fashion, orange trees, and smiling faces. 

Italy suited her. She discussed politics with other expatriates. She sat front row at fashion shows for Fiorruci and Etro. She even participated in an aquatic show for the house of Missoni that saw her dressed in black and white and lounging on an inflatable armchair in the Piscina Solari.

She and Nino would part ways in 1968 on amicable terms. Though Nino was no more than a mortal man, his relationship with time had always been more in line with Maja's, and perhaps that was why they got on so well. Abruptly but harbingered all the same, Maja told Nino it was time for her to go. He looked at her for a long time, not saying a thing, and then took her face in his hands like he'd done so many times over the years. His thick black hair was speckled with steel-grey. Maja remained unchanged.

"I know, tesoro mio," he said quietly, tenderly. "I knew I could not hold onto this private magic forever."

They never again spoke. As the years went by, Maja often wondered what became of Nino Barroffio. She learned he retired as a photographer shortly after their detachment. He married a French supermodel, had a couple of kids, got divorced. Professionally, he spent his days behind the scenes, working for some of the most famous Italian fashion houses, producing his trademark gender-bent habiliments until he passed in 1987 from heart failure.

Nino made a third appearance in her life in 2022. It came to her attention that some of his "undiscovered" work was being toured in museums around the globe. His adult children discovered a storage unit crammed with prints they - and the public - had heretofore never seen. They also found a series of his journals dating from the early 50s to the mid-70s, the contents of which the narrative of the show was constructed around.

In her dark sunglasses and Hermès balaclava, Maja ventured out into the winter chill and bought a ticket for the Unseen Barroffio exhibit at Seoul's museum of modern art.

She found herself face-to-face with herself. Maja in Emerald. It was a massive print, life-size and in color. The Maja in the suit looked down at the Maja in the balaclava as if both were engaged in a telepathic exchange. The tangled yarn of time unspooled at her feet, wrapped around her waist as if anchoring her to the ground, to the world at large, to Nino long departed.

"Private magic," Maja whispered in Italian. And then she turned her back on Maja in Emerald and walked out of the museum.

#self para #character development #decade: 1960s

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.19 (after 1930)

1933 – Finnish cavalry general C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed the field marshal. 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. 1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor for repairs. 1943 – Winston Churchill's second wartime address to the U.S. Congress. 1945 – Syrian demonstrators in Damascus are fired upon by French troops injuring twelve, leading to the Levant Crisis. 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce. 1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail. 1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). 1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement. 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". 1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. 1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. 1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. 1993 – SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132. 1996 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77. 1997 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts. 2000 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station. 2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension. 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders. 2012 – Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others. 2012 – A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people. 2015 – The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast. 2016 – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board. 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.

#Events

[lboogie1906]

President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermudez (born April 20, 1960) in Placetas, Cuba. His father, Miguel Díaz-Canel, was a factory worker. His mother, Aida Bermudez, was a schoolteacher. He graduated from the Central University Marta Abreu last Villas with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He joined the Cuban armed forces and served in the army. He returned to his alma mater and taught engineering. He became involved in the Young Communist Youth League. He soon became a prominent member of the league and he was appointed the Cuban Communist Party’s liaison to Nicaragua. He became the second secretary of the Young Communist Youth League.

He became the first secretary of the Communist Party in Villa Clara province. He was elevated to membership of the national politburo, they acted as senior advisers to President Fidel Castro.

He was named Minister of Higher Education. He became one of the eight vice presidents of the Council of Ministers. He was responsible for overseeing the ministries of education, science, culture, and sports. He became the first vice president of the Council of State and the nation. He was Raul Castro’s handpicked successor.

On April 18, 2018, he was nominated as the only candidate to succeed Raul Castro as president. He was confirmed by a vote of the National Assembly on April 19 and sworn in on the same day. He is the first president born after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

He has instituted reforms. Discrimination based on disability, gender, gender identity, race, or sexual orientation has been banned but dissent has been suppressed. This is especially the case for the protests against the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hopes of many that his administration would be one of reform have not been realized.

His first wife was Marta Villanueva. His current wife is Lis Cuesta Peraza. He has two children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[alexlacquemanne]

Mars MMXXIV

Films

Le Petit Baigneur (1968) de Robert Dhéry avec Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi, Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Michel Galabru, Jacques Legras et Pierre Tornade

Coup de foudre (1983) de Diane Kurys avec Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Robin Renucci, Patrick Bauchau et Jacques Alric

Agence matrimoniale (1952) de Jean Paul Le Chanois avec Bernard Blier, Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette, Marcelle Praince, Madeleine Barbulée et Anne Campion

Les Suffragettes (Suffragette) (2015) de Sarah Gavron avec Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Anne-Marie Duff, Meryl Streep et Natalie Press

Titanic (1997) de James Cameron avec Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Frances Fisher, Danny Nucci, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton et Suzy Amis

Boléro (2024) d'Anne Fontaine avec Raphaël Personnaz, Doria Tillier, Jeanne Balibar, Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Perez, Sophie Guillemin, Anne Alvaro et Alexandre Tharaud

Le Coup de l'escalier (Odds Against Tomorrow) (1959) de Robert Wise avec Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame, Will Kuluva, Kim Hamilton et Mae Barnes

Sister Act, acte 2 (Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit) de Bill Duke avec Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Maggie Smith, Mary Wickes, Lauryn Hill, James Coburn et Jennifer Love Hewitt

Le Discours d'un roi (The King's Speech) (2010) de Tom Hooper avec Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Ehle et Derek Jacobi

Downton Abbey (2019) de Michael Engler avec Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Maggie Smith, Allen Leech, Brendan Coyle, Rob James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt et Tuppence Middleton

Dune, deuxième partie (Dune: Part Two) (2024) de Denis Villeneuve avec Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken et Léa Seydoux

Katia (1959) de Robert Siodmak avec Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Antoine Balpêtré, Françoise Brion, Monique Mélinand, Michel Bouquet et Bernard Dhéran

Séries

Maguy Saison 1, 2

Crise cardiaque - Aux armes mitoyens ! - Le prix concours - Fou et usage de fou - Le péril John - La position du démissionnaire - Changer de look, quel souk ! - Échec aux maths - Ni fête, ni à faire - Maguy lave plus blanc - Un ami qui vous veut trop de bien - En avant l'amnésique - Connu comme le loulou blanc - Pour le meilleur et pour le Pierre - Play black - Médecin malgré elle - Juste a rigolo - L'entre deux mères - Cœur de pierre - La plus belle girl - L'homo, ça pince - C'est grève, docteur ? - La marche funeste - Un mari classé ex - Électrode à la joie - Le vide par le nettoyage - Héla ! Elle est là - A votre bunker, messieurs dames - Souvent l'infâme varie - Fossiles et marteaux - Recherche sosie désespérément - Macho effroi - La comtesse aux pieds noirs - L'humour en héritage - L'amère porteuse - Hip hip hip Oural - Ça déménage à trois - Papy fait de la résidence - L'envers du jeu - Silence, hospitalité ! - Des flics et des claques - Une Maguy… démagogue - Épouse et maire - Fiançailles aïe ! aïe ! aïe ! - Tiens-toi à Caro

La croisière s'amuse Saison 2, 3, 4

La Fête à bord - Meurtre au large - La Fête des mères - Tiens mon frère - Mais vous êtes toujours jeune - La Sérénade - Sauve qui peut ! - Du rythme, toujours du rythme - Un peu de cœur, que diable ! - La Perfection - Bizarre, bizarre - Sacré Gopher ! - Les Amis - Ah ! C'est la fête - Qui est le maniaque ? - Amis et Amours - La Proposition : première partie - La Proposition : deuxième partie - Un trait de génie - Folie double - Boomerang

The Grand Tour Saison 4, 1

Seamen - Virée à l'Italienne

Les Simpson Saison 2

Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera - Le Saut de la mort - Simpson et Delila - Simpson Horror Show - Sous le signe du poisson - Le Dieu du stade - Mini golf, maxi beauf - La Fugue de Bart - Tous à la manif - Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité - Un poisson nommé Fugu - Il était une fois Homer et Marge - Tu ne déroberas point - Jamais deux sans toi - Fluctuat Homergitur - Une vie de chien - Un amour de grand-père - Le Pinceau qui tue - Mon prof, ce héros au sourire si doux - La Guerre des Simpson - Un pour tous, tous contre un - Le sang, c'est de l'argent

Affaires sensibles

La malédiction du triangle des Bermudes - Les Brigades rouges : la fin de l'exil ? - Qui a eu la peau du tramway ? - Le « Grand smog » de 1952 : Londres asphyxiée - 1972, le rapport Meadows : premier cri d’alarme pour la planète - Le roi maudit de Pyongyang - Mediapart, l’indépendance en bandoulière - Jeffrey Epstein, le prédateur de la Jet Set - Front National : petit meurtre en famille - Ku Klux Klan : histoire d'une Amérique de la haine - La rumeur d'Orléans : l'histoire d'un délire antisémite - Les zones d'ombre de l'affiche rouge

Coffre à Catch

#157 : Goldust ne vieillit pas! - #158 : Prochain arrêt : Night of Champions 2009! - #159 : Christian ECW Champion 2.0 ! - #160 : Extreme Rules avec Dimby !

Messieurs les jurés

L'Affaire Lusanger - L'Affaire Hamblain - L'Affaire Savigné Montory

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 3

Meurtres au Pensionnat

Kaamelott Livre V

Corvus corone - La Roche et le Fer - Vae soli

Commissaire Dupin

Un cadavre disparait

Castle Saison 5

Après la tempête - Nuageux avec risques de meurtre - Œil pour œil - Meurtre dans les Hamptons - Sans doute possible - Tueur intergalactique - Rock haine roll - Seuls dans la nuit - Pas de pitié pour le père Noël

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 4, 5, 7

La Gentille Serveuse - La commère - Flic d'un jour

Top Gear France Saison 9

Ceux qui partent en Allemagne - Ceux qui infiltrent la police - Ceux qui revivent leurs années tuning

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 23

La fin du monde - Secrets et mensonges

Les Brigades du Tigre Saison 2

Collection 1909 - L'Auxiliaire - Les Compagnons de l'Apocalypse - Le Défi - La Couronne du Tzar - De la poudre et des balles

Meurtres au paradis Saison 13

Une vie gâchee

Spectacles

Billy Cobham & George Duke Band Live At Montreux Jazz Festival (1976)

Deux sur la balançoire (2006) de Bernard Murat avec Jean Dujardin et Alexandra Lamy

Billy Idol In Super Overdrive (2009) Live from Congress Theater, Chicago

Bungalow 21 (2024) de Jérémie Lippmann et Sarah Gellé avec Mathilde Seigner, Emmanuelle Seigner, Michaël Cohen et Vincent Winterhalter

Livres

Une enquête du commissaire Dupin : L'inconnu de Port Bélon de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Kaamelott, tome 2 : Les Sièges de Transport d'Alexandre Astier, Steven Dupré et Benoît Bekaert

Kaamelott, tome 3 : L'Énigme du Coffre d'Alexandre Astier, Steven Dupré et Benoît Bekaert

Deux sur la balançoire de William Gibson et Jean-Loup Dabadie

J'écris mon premier roman de Louis Timbal-Duclaux

#mediatheque #mars24

[freehawaii]

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JANUARY 2024

The Return of Our Nation... One hundred and thirty-one years ago, on January 17, 1893, hiding behind 162 heavily armed U.S. troops, and the cannons of a U.S. warship in Honolulu Harbor, the peaceful, innocent Hawaiian Kingdom was ruthlessly pirated by a gang of greedy white businessmen proclaiming themselves to be the new heads of the government for the Hawaiian Kingdom... THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM By the mid-Nineteenth Century, the Hawaiian Kingdom was a progressive, literate, flourishing, peaceful, independent, Christian nation, conducting lively trade and discourse among the nations of the world. In the 1840s Hawaiʻi’s enlightened leaders transformed Hawaii into a highly literate nation and instituted a constitutional form of government. In 1843 the Hawaiian Kingdom became the first non-Eurocentric nation to be formally recognized by the great colonial powers of Europe as a fellow sovereign, independent nation state. By the 1890s the Hawaiian Kingdom had numerous treaties with foreign nations and more than 130 diplomatic posts around the world. Hawaiian monarchs had traveled the globe, establishing formal relationships with crowns and heads of states in Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. The Hawaiian Kingdom initiated a confederation of Pacific Island nations. ILLEGAL INTERVENTION In January 1893, without provocation and without warning, a company of fully armed United States Marines suddenly landed in Honolulu to support a coup dʻetat by a cabal of white businessmen to unseat Queen Liliʻuokalani and seize control of the Hawaiian Kingdom government. To avoid escalation into a bloody war, the Queen made a conditional yield — not to the insurgents, but to the United States — diplomatically protesting the United States’ military intervention as an illegal act of aggression (an international wrongful act) and placing the responsibility to repair the illegal act squarely upon the shoulders of the President of the United States. Months later, after conducting an official investigation, U.S. President Grover Cleveland admitted the U.S. committed a wrongful act of aggression and informed the U.S. Congress that the United Statesʻ armed intervention amounted to an illegal “act of war” against a friendly, sovereign nation. Cleveland indicated the U.S. had a moral and legal international obligation to repair the wrong by restoring Queen Liliʻuokalani and the lawful government of the Hawaiian Kingdom. President Cleveland and Queen Lili’uokalani agreed to terms to settle the matter, but the U.S. Congress failed to implement the settlement. It remains unfinished business to this day. WRONGFUL TAKING Instead of honoring that 1893 agreement, the United States, in 1898, did the exact opposite. Under then-President William McKinley, and under cover of the infamous Spanish-American War, the U.S. concocted and staged a quasi “annexation” and took possession of the Hawaiian Islands calling it the “U.S. Territory of Hawaii”. In 1959, that fake “Territory of Hawaii” was converted into the fake “State of Hawaii”. Today, 131 years and 24 U.S. presidents later, there have been decades of dedicated, sacrificial efforts by countless Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiʻi patriots) to bring about a graceful and peaceful end to the belligerent occupation of our homeland. Thankfully, the return of the Hawaiian Kingdom is now in sight. As we take the time on January 17, to attend the Peace March from the Royal Mausoleum at Maunaʻala and the ʻOnipaʻa Rally at ʻIolani Palce, to reflect on the events of the past and advancing our Lāhui into the future, let’s remind ourselves, our ʻohana and our friends, that we are the legacy — the evidence and heirs — of the living Hawaiian Kingdom... Ua Ola Ke Ea! Sovereignty Lives!

“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani ---------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.

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