#also discovered that someone I work with is very anti royals and everyone I work with hates the toris as they fucking well should

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story time today was very Robin Hood vibes works been very much about teaching the kids to be patriotic and royalists lately bc Lizzie managed to hold a job for 70 years so I had to undercut that by reading what the ladybird heard and talking about how it was bad to take someone’s livelihood when they only have a little but may have encouraged my group of four year olds to steal from corporations bc evil

all of them agreed obviously

#shoutout to liz tho I get two days off so four day weekend and we made cake and had a tea party so I got to eat cake and ice cream at work ☺ #i need a self obsessed tag #also discovered that someone I work with is very anti royals and everyone I work with hates the toris as they fucking well should

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TRACEY EMIN

Tracey Emin, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995)

https://bilderfahrzeuge.hypotheses.org/3437

Tracey Emin, Why I Never Became a Dancer (1995)

https://www.artforum.com/video/tracey-emin-why-i-never-became-a-dancer-1995-49262

Tracey Emin, My Bed, (1999)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed

Tracey Emin, I've Got It All (2000)

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/emin-tracey/artworks/#pnt_4

Tracey Emin, To Meet My Past (2002)

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5709375

Childhood

Tracey Emin was born in Surrey, in England. She grew up in Margate, on the coast of Kent, with her twin brother Paul. She lived with her mother in a successful seaside hotel, where she claims she was treated "like a princess." Her Turkish father lived with them for half of the week, spending the other half with his wife and other children. After a few years, Emin's father left and took his money with him, leaving Emin's mother bankrupt.

The family was then forced to live in poverty; Emin later recalled that they had two meters, one for gas and one for electricity, but they could never afford to have them both on at the same time. When she was 13, Emin was raped; something that she later claimed, "happened to a lot of girls."

Early Training and Work

Emin left Margate to study fashion at the Medway College of Design between 1980 and 1982. She met the avant-garde personality Billy Childish, who was also a student at the college until he was expelled. Her relationship with the colourful writer, their work at Childish's small press, and her study of printing in Maidstone Art College, are all what Emin considers important artistic experiences in her maturing as an artist.

In 1987, Emin's relationship with Childish ended and she moved to London. She studied for an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art, which she received in 1989. However, after leaving the college she went through an emotionally traumatic period in which she had two abortions, and this experience caused her to destroy all the work she had made at the Royal College.

While she was still coming to terms with her own artistic practice, she influenced a reactive movement called Stuckism, which sought to promote figurative painting rather than the sort of conceptual art that Emin was focused on at the time. It was founded in 1999 by Emin's ex-boyfriend Billy Childish. The movement's name was inspired by Emin, when she had told Childish his paintings were "Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!"

In the years after breaking up with Childish, once Emin rose into fame, he became very vocal about Emin's art practice. He opposed the art business and in turn the popularity of her work and said, "Taking cultural things and turning them into mere commerce is very dangerous. Professional football has ruined football and professional art has ruined art. A decadence and superficiality have set in and sometimes I wonder if maybe we have got what we deserve. I think it is odd that the Brit artists cite the influence of someone like Duchamp who was involved in anti-art and who was taking the piss out of the pompous pretentious art establishment. The biggest irony is that now they are that pretentious art establishment themselves, yet they still put forward this idea that they are undermining something." Childish's own Stuckism movement is more about rejecting the frenzy of conceptual art and sought to champion the work of figurative painters. The Stuckism movement is still quite active and is famous for protesting the Turner Prize every year to show their continued opposition. The Stuckism art movement is an action against artists such as Emin, and yet her artistic presence is the basis for their fundamentals, for their movement would not exist without Emin. She inspired the movement not only through her criticism of Childish's work, but also through her artwork and the public acceptance of her work. They may be in opposition to her but require her brand of art fame to continue their plight.

Mature Period

Upon moving to London, Emin become friendly with many of the other artists who would later be called the Young British Artists, which included Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. The group began to exhibit together in 1988, although Emin did not join ranks with them artistically until the early 1990s. The gallerist Charles Saatchi was a supporter and collector of the artists from the beginning of their careers and is often given credit for "discovering" them. The name of the group was from the title of an exhibition at Saatchi's gallery in March 1992 titled "Young British Artists I" but it was artist and writer Michael Corris who referred to the group of artists with that title in an ArtForum article in May 1992. Often all artists of that generation from Britain are called YBAs as it now holds a historic reference.

In 1993, Emin joined with Sarah Lucas to open a shop called "The Shop" in Bethnal Green, which was in the East End of London. They sold work by both artists, including anything from t-shirts to ash trays, to paper mache sex toys to dresses, adding a previously little-seen commercialism to their artistic practices, which would become a defining feature of Young British Art.

Emin had her first solo exhibition at London's White Cube in the same year. Named My Major Retrospective, Emin drew together a collection of personal items and photographs, creating a part-installation part-archive with a strongly autobiographical slant. This element of autobiography is key to her ongoing practice.

In the middle of the 1990s, Emin began a relationship with curator and art world figure Carl Freedman. Freedman was friendly with Damien Hirst and had worked with him on some of his important early shows that introduced Young British Art to the public. In 1994 the couple travelled in the US together, where Emin paid her way by doing readings. They also spent time in Whitstable on the Kent coast together, often using a beach hut that Emin purchased with her friend Sarah Lucas. She has spoken about how much she enjoyed owning property for the first time saying, "I was completely broke, and it was really brilliant, having your own property by the sea." In 1999 she later turned the hut into an artwork by bringing the structure from the beachfront into the Saatchi Gallery and calling the work, The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here (1999).

In 1995, Freedman curated a show called "Minky Manky" for which he encouraged Emin to make artwork larger and less ephemeral. The result was her well-known work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (1995), which was a tent embroidered with the names of everyone with whom she had shared a bed, sexual or otherwise. This artistic touch through words is a common theme throughout her work. Emin uses her own handwriting, as seen in her neon messages, embroidered words, monoprints and hand-cut letters for her applique designs. Misspellings and grammar mistakes are present in her artworks, as if to add humiliations and failures to her authenticity.

Emin first came to the attention of the wider British public when she appeared on a television show about the Turner Prize in 1997, where she was belligerent and drunk, swearing on live television among a panel of academics. She finished her appearance by saying, "I'm leaving now, I wanna be with my friends, I wanna be with my mum. I'm gonna phone her, and she's going to be embarrassed about this conversation, this is live, and I don't care. I don't give a fuck about it." She ended with, "you people aren't relating to me now, you've lost me" before taking off her lapel mic while still talking and walking off in the middle of the live show.

Two years after her drunken television appearance, Emin was nominated for the Turner Prize for her controversial work My Bed (1998). Only one British artist of the four nominated can win the prize, and Emin lost the Prize that year to Steve McQueen. The surrounding press coverage dubbed her the "bad girl of British art". At the time, many voiced opinions about the types of stains and impurities contained in her artwork, even the lowest English tabloids weighed in. Although she never won the Turner Prize (yet), it was the catalyst for her fame.

Her work evolved during this period and she developed a more specific style. Her choice to use needlework and applique techniques place her work within a tradition of feminist discourse within modern and contemporary art. These techniques were considered domestic handicrafts and were typically considered low in the hierarchy of art, and a part of normalized feminine practice - a concept that Feminist art has waged war against with significant success. Emin herself has no fear of being associated with "low art" or "women's work", for she embraces her own sexuality and femininity; and most certainly places importance upon it.

Current Practice

Emin's personal life and public appearances have become less sensational since the late 1990s. Her work is in a variety of important collections, and many celebrities have become collectors of her art, including Elton John and George Michael. She has also become friends with many famous people from the music and fashion worlds, including Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones, Vivian Westwood, Kate Moss, and Madonna. Madonna has described Emin as "intelligent and wounded and not afraid to expose herself."

In 2007, Emin was made a Royal Academician at London's Royal Academy of the Arts, marking her ascent into the upper echelons of British art society and her acceptance by the establishment. She was later also made a professor of drawing at the institution. In 2013, she was included on a list of the 100 most powerful women in the country by BBC Radio 4, and in the same year she was awarded a CBE for her services to the arts.

For the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 Emin was the second female British artist to be nominated to represent the British Pavilion (the first was Rachel Whiteread in 1997). She exhibited a work titled, Borrowed Light which featured many of her early drawings alongside her recent works. The show received mixed critique, and she was criticized for being limited in her art practice.

In 2015, Emin took the unusual decision to "get married" to a rock in her garden in France. She later stated that "somewhere on a hill facing the sea, there is a very beautiful ancient stone, and it's not going anywhere," describing her rock-husband as "an anchor, something I can identify with." She symbolically chose to wear her father's funeral shroud for the short and unconventional ceremony. This is to be understood as a universal expression of love, and an expression of the soul or the invisible self. Emin has announced numerous times that she no longer has sex and is not invested in physical conquest, but rather, seeks to focus on love and her work.

The Legacy of Tracey Emin

Emin's work as part of the Young British Artists movement placed her firmly within a key legacy that was to affect the development of art in Britain for years to come. Similarly, she holds an international stage, for her work tackles universal ideas through her relationship to human behaviour and gender. Her seminal work My Bed helped redefine what a liberated woman can be. Emin’s work influenced a generation of female artists who explore womanhood and feminism through a self-confessional tone. These include artists such as Marie Jacotey-Voyatzis, whose print works explore her emotional life as a woman and include Emin-like misspellings, and Laure Prouvost, a Turner Prize winner who works with self-revelatory video as well as textiles and found objects to create striking tableaux. Emin has evaded aligning her ideology with a larger political cause, and has stated, "I'm not happy being a feminist. It should all be over by now."

Her work can be understood as belonging to the ethos of third-wave feminism; a belief that a woman can define her sexuality on her own terms. The lack of symbology in Emin's work forces audiences to focus on the real and often taboo aspects of femininity through modern women's issues, such as menstruation, abortion, promiscuity, and the shame associated with these topics. She has carved her own place and continues to produce artwork with her signature strong, yet vulnerable edge.

Emin continues to be active in her art practice, and the basis of her work remains tied to physical identity through corporeal and spiritual anguish. She is an active participant in her artwork, and through this she lends an openness and vulnerability to her audience through universal emotion. She rejects discussion of the feminist authority in her work, and yet she engages directly with modern female identity. Art allows the violation of social norms, and in turn a way for viewers to enter sharing the human social condition - often in a controlled environment.

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TS7 is finally here!

If you’re like me or any of the millions of Swifties out there, the arrival of this next era is just as exciting as a brand-new bookshelf full of reads you get to experience for the first time.

After listening to the album on repeat all weekend, I decided to celebrate Lover with a book roundup inspired by each of the songs (since it’s the only thing I’ll be listening to for the foreseeable future, don’t @ me.).

ts1989fanatic an interesting perspective well written obviously a swiftie.

1. “I Forgot That You Existed” (Best Friends Forever, by Jennifer Weiner)

You heard it from Taylor first: indifference is the new vengeance. This solid album-opener is upbeat and poppy, a nice contrast with the lyrics about the (final?) end of a broken relationship, friendship (or feud), when you actually forget that the person you once had so much ire for still lives. She transitions from “Your name on my lips, tongue-tied/Free rent, living in my mind” to “forgot that you existed/and I thought that it would kill me, but it didn’t” with ease. But of course, insisting that you forget someone existed while singing about them would introduce interesting tension into any relationship. It reminded me of Jennifer Weiner’s Best Friends Forever, about what happens when a former friend shows up on your doorstep in a crisis, insisting you’re the only one who can help them out of a tight spot (when you’d rather do anything but).

2. “Cruel Summer” (Do You Want to Start a Scandal, by Tessa Dare)

Lyrically and sonically, this is one of my favorites on the entire album (it’s so good it should have been a single!) It’s got an Out of the Woods meets Getaway Car vibe in terms of the melody. Wistful, a bit haunting, but also a total bop. “So cut the headlights, summer’s a knife/I’m always waiting for you just to cut to the bone” describes a low point in Swift’s life (Summer 2016, ugh), juxtaposed with the high of discovering new love. There are so many books I could have picked for this, but “I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you” reminded me of the Regency romance trope where the heroine has a secret, or finds herself in a situation where her reputation is at stake, but is still tempted by a handsome rogue who might lead her into temptation and true love. (Sound a bit familiar?) Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare feels like the perfect accompaniment to this song about a woman who must prove her innocence in the face of a sullied reputation or be forced to marry a man she doesn’t think she could ever love.

3. “Lover” (Roomies, by Christina Lauren)

The title track (and the one I’ve been singing in the shower for days) is a swoony daydream of a couple in complete harmony, as Swift spins wedding vow-like lyrics such as “With every guitar string scar on my hand/I take this magnetic force of a man to be my…lover/My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue/all’s well that end’s well to end up with you/swear to be overdramatic and true/to my…lover.” But Swift is all about balance in her songs, so imagery of keeping up the Christmas lights in “our place” is juxtaposed with suspicion that “everyone who sees you wants you.” This track reminded me of Roomies by Christina Lauren, with its musician main character and the trope of having to share a space while inevitably falling in love.

4. “The Man” (The Whisper Network, by Chandler Baker)

The double-standards between men and women have been explored in songs and novels since both art forms existed. Swift has already confronted the media’s perception of her as a victim, as a girl who goes on too many dates but can’t make them stay, etc. But in “The Man”, she more directly confronts how different she’d be treated if she were the opposite gender. How could I not think of the new thriller The Whisper Network, about a group of women who come forward about their male boss’ behavior of harassment in the workplace. Instead of continuing to suffer in silence, they tell the truth, resulting in an explosive conflict. I sort of saw the ending coming, but was very glad I was right.

5. “The Archer” (Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Another slower, lyric-driven track on the album with gut-punching truths about love, friendship, and holding on to the one who has your heart. “The Archer” is associated with being a Sagittarius (which Swift is), but also her dynamic with the world. “Who could ever leave me, darling?/But who could stay?” is self-aware in a new way for Swift, as is “I never grew up, it’s getting so old” or “I see right through me.” This is one of my favorite tracks on the album, as Swift confronts her cultivated image as both archer and prey of fame and of love. Listening to the rising energy of the track as it builds to a anti-fairy-tale crescendo plus Swift’s lyrics made me think of Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet is forced to acknowledge how her own prejudices have made it difficult for others to love her, but that she is deserving of an imperfect love. (And how could “All of my enemies started out friends” not remind you of awful Mr. Wickham?)

6. “I Think He Knows” (The Duke and I, by Julia Quinn)

After a slower song, this heats things up a bit, describing the early sizzle of a relationship before it even starts. For an entire album that sings the praises of a man, I liked the moment in the pre-chorus where she says “He’s so obsessed with me, and boy, I understand.” Own your worth, girl! The bridge was my favorite part of this song (as it often is with Swift; girl knows how to bridge) as it played with tempo and rhyme. “Lyrical smile, indigo eyes, hand on my thigh/We can follow the sparks, I’ll drive.” Swift explores the tension of the moment between seeing someone and initiating contact—songs like these always sting with a bit of danger, too, because the man knows she wants him but neither of them say anything in public about it. She’s whispering in the dark, which gives me serious secret romance vibes. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn is about Simon, who is planning to propose to his BFF’s sister even though he doesn’t actually love her. It’s an arrangement that suits them both, but before they both know it, Daphne is giving Simon serious “I Think he Knows” vibes.

7. “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” (The Cheerleaders, by Kara Thomas)

If you don’t get the oft-spoken adage that “politics is like high-school,” this song takes the metaphor to the next level. Subtly political but 100% heartbreaking, Swift reimagines the political sphere (and her role in it) as a high school romance, moving from “American glory, faded before me,” painting the democratic 2016 election loss as a ripped-up prom dress (from Miss Americana, who assumed she would win.) Oozing drama and storytelling the way only Swift can, I love the moody elements of the brokenhearted girl contrasted with the new riff on a cheerleading chant (Go Fight Win!). This song is about mourning loss and then finding the strength to say “I know we’re going to win,” but it’s haunting melody and lyrics led me to pick a Cheerleader-inspired thriller. The Cheerleaders is about a string of cheerleaders murdered in a small town five years ago… and just when everyone thinks it’s time to move on, one girl becomes the center of a mystery that never truly died.

8. “Paper Rings” (The Royal We, by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan)

I’m on my fourth listen of the album and this might be my favorite track on it (though that changes minute by minute, with an album as dynamic as this—just to further accentuate the point, by the time of posting this piece, my new favorite might be I Think He Knows?). It’s a totally retro, ’60s style song—a totally fresh sound for Swift, and one that fits perfectly with her new aesthetic. (Makes me wonder why this wasn’t one of the singles released before the record.) It is a gold-mine for Swiftian lyricism, with so many gems I can’t possibly call them all out, and it moves so fast (like a good read) that you both want to cascade over them and pause to hear each line at least 5x before it passes you by. It’s an unabashed love song, relishing in the joy of knowing you’re with the one you love so much that “I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings”. The line that stuck out the most was “I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this,” which made me think of when Bex Porter goes to Oxford in The Royal We and, completely by accident, falls in love with the heir to the throne.

9. “Cornelia Street” (Passion on Park Avenue, by Lauren Layne)

“Cornelia Street” is sort of the antithesis to I Think He knows. It’s about remembering the early days of a new relationship (“We were a fresh page on the desk/filling in the blanks as we go”) and being more than willing to give up all the good that comes with fresh starts in order to settle into something real. It aches with melancholy, because any time we give something up should be a little sad—but it brims with hope and Swift’s trademarked optimism about love. “I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends/I’d never walk Cornelia Street again/ That’s the kinda heartbreak time could never mend.” I had to pick an NYC-set story for this, like Lauren Layne’s Passion on Park Avenue. The city is another character in the romance between a successful jewelry-business owner and the son of the woman her mother used to work for.

10. “Death By a Thousand Cuts” (Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better, by Madisen Kuhn)

Inspired by the Netflix movie Something Great, this is one of the few sad songs on the record, about a girl going through a breakup who can’t help but linger in happier memories. (For the record: “I dress to kill my time” is genius, as are so many of these lyrics.) Only Swift is so good at pairing such devastating messaging with a pop beat you can’t help but want to sing. This song was the hardest one to pick a book for (especially because it’s already inspired by a movie) so I decided to go with a poetry collection! Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better is all about the aches and sun rays of growing up, told in a staggeringly relatable voice that will make you want to curl up on the couch and cry your eyes out.

11. “London Boy” (Red, White and Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston)

This is 100% about Joe Alwyn, but also… Taylor dated at least two Brits that we know of before him, so this song is also about what we already knew (“the rumors are true”): she has a penchant for London Boys. Essentially a road map of her favorite places in the city, this indulgent ditty trades “Tennessee Whiskey” for “A gray sky, a rainy cab ride” and of course, her man by her side. Red, White, and Royal Blue is the perfect pick for this song, about two boys who fall in love (after a rough start where they were almost enemies) amidst those gray, rainy skies… but one of them happens to be the son of an American President, and the other, the current Prince of England.

12. “Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. Dixie Chicks)” (Swamplandia! by Karen Russell)

Of all the songs on the album, this one gave me the most vintage Swift vibes. There’s no denying that she is an astonishingly talented songwriter, especially when you listen to what is essentially her greatest fear laid bare on this track with just a bit of guitar and the Dixie Chicks harmonizing in the background. Here, the story shines: Swift’s mother has been sick for a number of years, and while they’ve mostly kept the details of that battle private, this is the most vulnerable moment of love for her mother on an album mostly about finding true love. “Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you/Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus, too.” A friend of mine recently lost their mother just after getting married, and it made me marvel at how life often delivers us highs and lows to grapple with simultaneously. While all of this was going on—Kanye and Kim, Joe and London, another world tour, another album—in the background, Swift has been terrified of losing her mother. This song made me think of Swamplandia!, a novel about a young girl living in a gator-wrestling theme park where her mother used to be the main event, until she passed away. Now, in the wake of her death, the girl and her siblings must grapple with their mother’s legacy as a competing business rises up to swallow the success she built on the swamp.

13. “False God” (City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert)

Is that a saxophone in the background of a Taylor Swift song? This slow, jazzy number is all about love and desire—and how we come back to it even when the world around us (and sometimes we, ourselves) put it in jeopardy. “And I can’t talk to you when you’re like this/Staring out the window like I’m not your favorite town/I’m New York City” and other lyrics referencing New York seem to be the grounding force in an otherwise tumultuous relationship. Multiple times on this record Swift has alluded to rough patches in her current happiness, but connection is always the solution to fixing it. She seems to say that if you treat your relationship like it’s your religion, you can get through anything. This is one of the sexier songs on the album, but it’s also got serious NYC vibes, so I’m picking City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert: a novel all about relishing romance in the glitzy 1940’s New York Theater scene, but also how desire can either set us on the road to ruin, or redemption.

14. “You Need to Calm Down” (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid)

This song has done what Swift does best: inspire conversation and a bit of controversy. Acknowledging that it was past time for her to be an outspoken ally for the LGBTQIAP+ community, YNTCD tackles the various ways communities are pitted against one another (especially on the internet.) The first verse examines her personal haters (“Say it in the street, that’s a knock-out/But you say it in a Tweet, that’s a cop-out), the second calls out homophobes (“Shade never made anybody less gay”), and the third examines how her relationships with her female contemporaries have often been antagonistic, something she herself has been responsible perpetuating in the past with songs like “Bad Blood” and “Better Than Revenge” (“We all know now, we all got crowns/you need to calm down.”) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is about a famous actress who hid the great female love of her life behind multiple male partners and uses her platform to tell the truth (all while hiding one last devastating secret). While Taylor herself has not come out as part of the LGBTQ community, she has come out as an ally, and this book made me think about the issues of privacy, platform, allyship, and identity that the song also confronts. If there’s more to the story of Swift’s relationship to the LGBTQIAP+ community, she’s going to share it on her own terms.

15.“Afterglow” (Queenie, by Candice Carty-Williams)

This song ranks high on my favorites from the album, and it’s a rare genre from Swift: the apology song. (The other famous one is Speak Now’s “Back to December.”) In this mid-tempo song with slamming drums and a breathy falsetto, Swift yearns for the partner she pushed away to meet her in the moments after the fight ends. “It’s all me, in my head/I’m the one who burned us down/ but it’s not what I meant,” she insists. There’s still hope here though, as opposed to earlier songs on the record that signal the doom of a friendship or a breakup after-the-fact. Queenie, by Candice Carty-Williams, is a novel about a girl coming to terms with her role in a failed relationship, a career she can’t seem to succeed in, and friends she unknowingly betrays. “Why’d I have to break what I love so much?” is a question asked in this song’s chorus, and one Queenie must answer in order to find real, lasting happiness.

16. “ME! (feat. Brendon Urie)” (Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan)

This self-love anthem is bubblegum sweet and full of earworms: the “Shake it Off“ of the TS7 Era. It makes me think of lightning-fast beach reads that you can’t put down and that feel so good to read but also have a deeper meaning to them. Just because it’s not the most lyrically advanced of her songs doesn’t mean this bop doesn’t deserve to be celebrated— it reminded me of how romances constantly get a bad rep (lol, see what I did there?) as somehow lesser than other genres. I love that Taylor doesn’t care about what other people think and is 100% focused on being her authentic self— just like the heroine of Crazy Rich Asians, Rachel Chu. When confronted with the wealth and expectations of her boyfriend Nick’s family (who don’t think she’s good enough for him), she insists it’s her individuality that makes her the perfect partner for him.

17. “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” (This Love Story Will Self-Destruct, by Leslie Cohen)

This track might be my second favorite? It’s so different (Ukulele? Trombone? Is that what I’m hearing?) and such a contrast to the beginning of the album, the opener closes the door on a once meaningful friendship. It’s also a deceiving song, in that I’m still not 100% sure what it’s about. I think Swift is exploring the importance of friendship in all its forms: in childhood (“School bell rings, walk me home”) to adolescence “Something gave you the nerve/to touch my hand”) to romantic love (“Church bells ring, carry me home/rice on the ground looks like snow”). Ultimately, she may be saying that the most important thing about a romantic partner is that they make you feel like you have a friend—when you’re young, the thing that matters most is feeling seen by other people. If your lover is also your best friend, then you know they always have your back. A love story that takes place over two characters’ twenties, This Love Story Will Self-Destruct is about the missteps, betrayals, beautiful moments and connection that forms between two people over a decade.

18. “Daylight” (Evvie Drake Starts Over, by Linda Holmes)

“My love was as cruel as the cities I lived in.” What a way to begin this album closer. Swift’s last tracks have a tradition of being the ones that are most emblematic of her current state of mind, but they also have developed certain themes over time. Renewal, starting over, self-reflection, and hope are all subjects “Daylight” sheds a little light on. She acknowledges past failings (“I wounded the good and trusted the wicked”) and what she wants for the future (“I once believed love would be [burning red]/but it’s golden”). A book that feels like daylight on your skin is what’s needed for this song, and I think Evvie Drake Starts Over is the perfect pick: a story about a woman still grieving the loss of her husband but who finds herself moving on with a former major league baseball player. Both of them have pasts they are healing from, but together, they find hope for the future. “I’ve been sleeping so long in a twenty-year dark night/and now I see daylight.” And, unlike (I think?) any other song in her catalogue, she speaks in the end, not sings, in a direct appeal to her audience. Her very last words are “You are what you love.” Well, I love Taylor Swift. I love a good song lyric to sink my teeth into, or to sing. I love love. And I love a good story, whether it comes from a song or a book, and when you’re done with the album, I hope you find some here.

[lildevyl]

Idea that will NEVER See the Light of Day!

Okay, so, I’m going through a FUNK right now!  So, I’m just going to put all my ideas that are going through my head and the ones that I actually written down here.  Feel free to use any of them! Just tag me if ya do so I can R&R!

Art Ideas:

My Creative Buddies/Multi-Fandom Fiends as Yugioh Cards:

Okay, so I’ve kinda have some inspiration! A while ago I posted that I’ve been going through somethings and needed a distraction. Someone reached out and gave me an Art Request! I’m going to do it! I just need kick myself to get going! The Art Request is Joey Wheeler from Yugioh in Prince Aldan’s Costume from Disney’s Aladdin.

The idea and inspiration is draw all of my Creative Buddies (Mutals) and my Multi-Fandom Fiends as Yugioh Cards! And have a little text about the cards. Their special Attacks/Abilities, which cards go great with them.

Don’t Draw Chase!:

This is a two parter!

Part 1:  I do the little challenge/tag reblog of my drawing Chase and then gets transported to where Chase got transported too

Part 2:  I draw my Creative Buddies/Multi-Fandom Fiends who are Artists, drawing Chase and then they get transported to where Chase gets transported too! The Plot Twist is that they call me up wanting to know if I can help them get back, only for me to find out that they somehow got transported into a story or comic that I was working on!

Animal AU:  This is based on @septic-dr-schneep​​ Animal AU.  The Egos as Animals! I want to draw JJ as a Rabbit thumping his big paw in Morse Code. Something like this, thumpthumpthump Thump Thump Thump  thumpthumpthump.  SOS

I’m planning on drawing all the Egos as the different Animals that I want to draw them as in the Animal AU that’s probably never going to see the light of day of me writing it!

JJ as a Rabbit.  Chase as a Golden Retriever.  Schneep as an Owl.  Marvin as a Cat or something in the feline family.  Jackie as Service Dog.  Anti as a Buzzer/Vulture something along those lines.

Draw this in Your Own Style:  I don’t think this is going to happen.  Mainly, b/c I don’t have my own style or I just don’t know what my style is!  I wanted to draw one of @huffletrax​ Marvin’s Drawings.  This might come around, when I get myself to stop staring at a blank screen or wasting time scrolling through Reddit or Tumblr and actually do something!

Fantasy AU:  Inspired by @rogue-of-broken-time​'s Fantasy AU.  I'm not sure if I'll ever get to draw this!

I want to draw like a mini comic or something.  You're walking along a path in the woods to find someone.  It's getting pretty dark, and you have no idea where to go or what's actually out here.  You see tiny little lights and then you see a floating eyeball?!  The green floating eyeball waves it's tail at you to follow it.  It leads down the path and then off the path to clearing.  There you see the person who you've been searching for!

"Ah, I see you found them, Sam!  Come in, come in!  Have a seat!"  The person points to one of the stones to sit on.  "So, what can I do for ya?" You hand them a scroll that King has order you, the Royal Scribe to give to them.  "Ah, so you want to know what actually happened?  You're the Royal Scribe?  The one to keep all the records?  I see.  Well, I can help you!  I know what did happen all to well."  They look off into the distance for some time.  "My name's Rogue and I'll tell you the tale."

Writing Ideas:

Animal AU:  This based on @septic-dr-schneep's Animal AU.  Thank You Rilia for the inspiration but I'm sorry that I won't be able to write anytime soon!

Summary:  Sarah needs a Service Dog a for her heart condition. If her heart rate reaches above a certain level she could pass-out and die.  Her father does everything he can to make sure that Sarah get the Service Dog that she needs! Sarah, names the dog Jackie after Septic City's Superhero Jackieboy Man. Some time passes and Sarah and Jackie are having a time of their lives!

Sarah's knows that do to her condition that she will never be able to follow in her father's footsteps to become an Officer, so she decides to become a Vet instead!  Being able to help others and their beloved pets.  However, Sarah and her friends notice that something really weird is going on in Septic City.  All the stray Animals have started to disappear and it's not do the Animal Shelters either!

Sarah accidentally stumbles upon the reason why the Stray Animals have been disappearing.  Some Mad Scientist/Vet have been pet-napping them and using them for his experiments.  Now, with Sarah in his grasp and them being out near the city limits of in one of the abandon warehouses, the Mad Scientist can finally start using her as a test subject!

Sarah's father, Septic City's Police Chief asks help of someone he never thought in a million years for help to help bring his daughter back in piece, Jackieboy Man.

Fantasy AU:  Inspired by @rogue-of-broken-time's Fantasy AU.  Thank You so much for the inspiration Rogue!  Hopefully, this might get written!

Summary:  In a far away land, a Kingdom lives in peace with Magic and Non-Magic users co-existing peacefully.  But things haven't always been, this peaceful between the two Races.  Magic was heavily feared and outlawed in a Kingdom where King Anti rules with an iron fist and a Black Heart.  One Kingdom welcomes all Magical beings and has kept the peace for years.  Until the Corrupted King declares war and secrets of the Corrupted King and the heir to the Magical Kingdom comes to the surface.

Wrestling AU:  This idea is inspired by the YouTuber Tournament Series by N60Sean!  He uses Create A Wrestlers of different YouTubers and it got me thinking!  A crossover of YouTube and Wresting!

Summary:  Felix Kjellberg aka "The King of YouTube" decides to start his own Wrestling Company with the help of his friends and Indie Wrestlers! The Wrestling Company is a huge success but it also catches the attention of another Wrestling Company, AEW (All Elite Wrestling).  Cody shows up on the biggest night of them all, offering to buy Felix's Company all out with no strings attached and to buy all of the Wrestlers too!  Felix refuses and now there is an all out War!

Yugioh AU:  A Crossover with YouTube and Yugioh!

Summary:  One of Jack's friends has been kidnapped!!!  Now, he and his friends have compete in a Duel Masters Tournament to get his friends back!  Along the way, Jack discovers more about himself, and about the spirit of his puzzle Sean.

Egopocaplse:  The Universe/World of the Egos that I've been writing about!  I'm not sure if I'll ever get to write the one-shots/multi chapter stories about the Egos that I want to write.  I have most of the Head Canons of the Egos and what I like to write about these guys and have an idea on where I want to go with it.  And with the all the Guest Stars too!  I just have no idea if I'll be able to actually not only write the stories but also finish the damn things!  I have so many WIPs it's not even funny and I want to freakin' finish them but it seems like every time I'm stuck on a story, I get an idea for another!

And no, I can't really hyper focus on one thing and though I'm super into it! My brain just work like that!  I don't know why, but I just doesn't!

Love Potion:  Inspired by @m4delin and @juju-on-that-yeet Ego Ship of Illinois and Yancy!

Summary:  Yancy and Illinois have a crush on another but neither of them know it!  It’s gotten to the point where everyone in Ego Inc. has place bets on who will confess to who first!  But when Illinois and Yancy over hear the other say something, they both think that the other has crush on someone else!

Meanwhile, Yandereplier is desperate to find their Senpi!!  After helping Marvin translate one his spell books, Yandere finds a spell that they want to try out. Reveal Your True Love.  When Illinois mistakes the potion for a flavor syrup that Yandere accidentally left out on the counter, Illinois suddenly has the urge to confess his love to a very confused Yancy.

Avatar the Last Airbender:

Summary:  Hundred years have passed since the last Avatar was reincarnated. No one knows what had happened to the last Avatar an Air Bender, but now with the Commit on its way to give the Fire Nation one last powerful push.  The new Avatar, a Water Bender has been found.  A South Pole Water Bender, named Sokka.

#personal #writing ideas #art ideas #ideas that will never see the light of day #vent #rant #lildevyl's rant #lildevyl's vent #idea dump #in a funk #and don't know how to get out of it #going to be out of commission from work for almost a week #and all i'm doing is wasting time #when i could be writing #or practicing my art! #what the hell is wrong with me? #staring at a blank screen #with so many wips that need to be updated #and probably will never be updated anytime soon #i'll go a wallow in my self pity now #sorry everyone #yugioh #avatar the last airbender #markiplier #jacksepticeye #pewdiepie #crossover #au #youtube

[karliesbuzzcut]

i'm not here to stick up for ttb, but i did also notice (independently) that the pic of taylor grabbing joe's face at the globes afterparty was in fact credited to a pap agency, meaning i don't think it's truly as 'candid' as people think it is/was meant to look. celebrities are all about crafting their public image and if a picture that looks like it was sneakily taken on someone's cell phone accompanies articles saying 'taylor leaned in to kiss joe several times'... that's not an accident.

This is a super interesting topic, I think! Very layered too.

To be honest, when this came up I didn’t give it too much attention. I also have to make this very clear: I know shit about the Hollywood Industry.

I decided to do a quick search, so I wouldn’t be so lost. One of the first search results I get for Coleman-Rayner (the picture agency) is a dailybeast article about Meghan Markle’s dad controversy and the agency’s role it. Which was already fascinating on its own because it seems like the agency first took the candid unflattering pictures of him and when everyone was judging him, they approached him like “hey, I know we were the ones who made you look bad, but let us help you look better”. And we know how that went.

ANYWAY. Sorry for that.

I’m going to link the article

But I’m going to also paste here the excerpts I found interesting (which are many, but come on, this is hot stuff).

Coleman-Rayner LLC— a scrappy Los Angeles-based company co-owned by two British veterans of the tabloid wars, writer/editor Mark Coleman and paparazzi photographer Jeff Rayner—is at the epicenter of a lurid scandal that has reached the far corners of Planet Earth and overwhelmed advance coverage of the happy day on front pages and television shows from England to Australia.

For Coleman-Rayner, it’s the most damaging controversy since the agency was unmasked last fall as having conducted negative research in late 2016 on one of Harvey Weinstein’s rape accusers, actress Rose McGowan.

[…]

Enter Coleman-Rayner. Mark Coleman, an alumnus of AMI’s Star magazine and Bauer Publishing’s equally down-market Life & Style, and Jeff Rayner, who’s been toiling as a celebrity photographer since he arrived in the United States on a foreign journalist’s work visa in the late 1990s, teamed up to launch the small agency in 2009; these days it remains lean and mean, boasting around a dozen photographers, reporters, and support staff operating from an office in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.

[…]

By most accounts, AMI—which owns the National Enquirer, Us Weekly, Globe, and OK!, among other titillating publications—is Coleman-Rayner’s most important client, and the agency services the various AMI titles with words and pictures.

[…]

The scandal surrounding Thomas Markle Sr., otherwise known as the “Markle Debacle,” began around two months ago with a Coleman-Rayner paparazzo named Karl Larsen—notorious on the celebrity “pap” circuit as one of its more ruthless practitioners.

The 49-year-old Larsen is best known for his 2007 photo of a just-arrested Paris Hilton sobbing in the backseat of a cop car, another photo of an enraged Mel Gibson in 2010 (taken after Larsen mercilessly taunted the allegedly anti-Semitic actor, demanding a refund for all the tickets he’d ever bought to see Gibson’s movies), and for getting flattened during a violent scuffle last year at LAX with One Direction pop star Louis Tomlinson.

[…]

Last year, Johnson sued Coleman-Rayner for libel on behalf of his client, fitness guru Richard Simmons—along with American Media Inc. execs David Pecker and Dylan Howard and AMI’s National Enquirer and Radar Online—after the agency provided photos and reporting that the publications utilized to claim erroneously that Simmons had “has undergone shocking sex swap surgery” and was living as a woman named Fiona.

[…]

In order to sell photos and copy to demanding clients, former employees said, the agency was forced to supply content that was increasingly edgy to the point of callous. Sometimes it was simply wrong, as when Coleman-Rayner produced a story that purported to discover the whereabouts of Olivia Newton-John’s long-lost boyfriend.

[...]

It was professionally risky to decline distasteful assignments, such as the December 2015 order to go to Las Vegas and secure a “last photo” of Celine Dion’s husband Rene Angélil, who was dying of throat cancer. One photographer left the agency, a source said, shortly after refusing that challenge.

[...]

“It seemed that over time, it was getting a little bit desperate,” said one of several former employees who have departed Coleman-Rayner in recent years—in part, this ex-employee said, because staffers have been increasingly required to engage in what is generally known in the business as “smash and grab”—that is, snapping pictures of people at their worst, and taking advantage of often naïve celebrity kinfolk, often elderly, to get them to dish dirt with no concern for the consequences.

After reading all of this, I have a hard time believing that Taylor’s team would work with an agency known for both being involved in the smearing campaigns of rape victims and tremendously failing to stage a “candid” photoshoot in the past.

#kaylor

[qqueenofhades]

Hello I see that your ask is open. I imagine from what I've seen that you know and like the Tennant Richard II and I only recently experienced it (had it forever but the Tenaissance is upon us at the heels of Good Omens) and I would like to invite you to share any feels or flails or complexities you might have in terms of the relationship of Shakespeare to History or Kingship to Divinity or the conflation of Queerness with Otherness etc in the context of that performance

OH NO. YOU REALLY WANT ME TO GO THERE DO YOU. 

First of all: yes, the Tennant Richard II changed my life, after I watched it with @oldshrewsburyian whilst on vacation at the start of June and had to yell at her about my feelings for like ten minutes afterward. I was just SO FASCINATED by the things it did with gender and kingship and queerness (god! It was SO GAY! I was NOT PREPARED! The kiss with Aumerle broke my brain the first time I saw it). I was compiling a preliminary bibliography for my new queer medieval book project a couple weeks ago (which is very interesting, if I do say so myself, and I am really trying to get someone to give me money to research it at their institution) and I discovered an article basically arguing that the RSC Richard II was bad because Richard was portrayed as effeminate and openly queer/bi. Now, to be mostly fair, I think it was because it wanted to critique the association of queer men with effeminacy, rather than being homophobic, but it was still…. a bad take? Or at least a substantially underdeveloped one. It never said why this was bad, it never really got into the gender politics of what it wanted to say about this performance and the queerness thereof, and I was left looking at it like… uh huh, so… what’s your point here pal? (It griped about Gregory Dolan changing the script to have Aumerle kill Richard, but given as every Shakespeare play alters the script or staging or whatever else, I was still waiting for it to say something more about that too. But no. Anyway).

My feelings about Shakespeare, queerness, and queer Shakespeare have recently been noted. I have been working my way through Shakesqueer, which is undoubtedly fascinating, though as a historian I sometimes find all this theoretical vagueness a little TOO broad and am like DEFINE SOMETHING AND SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT RATHER THAN SAYING THAT YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING. But that’s a personal methodological thing on my part, and it certainly has been delightfully helpful in pointing out how none of Shakespeare’s plays are in the least Straight ™ by modern standards, even if technically none of his characters are LGBT. Obviously, they would not be constructed as such by sixteenth-century terms, but that’s another debate. He absolutely left the exact interpretative space that many productions have taken advantage of, some plays are VERY heavy on the subtext, and while critics have argued that the gender subversion and sexual fluidity is introduced only to re-establish heteronormative supremacy at the end, I think that is a fairly shallow reading. Why otherwise HAVE it so consistently, when its negotiation and presence is part of the ways in which these characters can and often have been read? Just because everyone gets married at the end of the comedies doesn’t mean that the queerness has been negated or made irrelevant. Arguably, the opposite.

Anyway, one of my main contentions in this premodern queer lives book project that I’m developing is that when we read the past as queer, we have to take care that we’re not only considering it as thus in comparison to modern heteronormativity, which we consider to be monolithic and transhistorical and applicable to all times and places. Richard Zeikowitz (among others) has made this point in Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the 14th Century. Male desire that we would consider “queer” either in its affection or formulation was solidly mainstream, and if we read that as Queer/Other, we risk imposing an estrangement on medieval/early modern queerness that may not have necessarily existed within its community. Yes, we’re all aware of the anti-sodomitical polemics of clerical writers, but consider: why did those guys (the equivalent of right-wing religious commentators today) keep having to write things complaining about it if nobody was doing it, if it wasn’t visible or accepted at all in society, or it was only a theoretical concern that had no relevance to anyone’s daily lives? This is why it drives me so batty when the Straight Historians inevitably try the “just because it was being written about doesn’t mean anyone was doing it!!!” erasure tactic. My dude my guys my pals. How do you think rhetoric even works?

In the particular case of Richard II, there was absolutely a queer discourse/suspicion of queerness around him in his own time (see Sylvia Federico, ‘Queer Times: Richard II in thePoems and Chronicles of Late Fourteenth-Century England’) and it was part of a larger late-medieval discourse of suspected sodomy around kings and their favourites, not just in England but in other places across Europe. (Henric Bagerius and Christine Ekholst, ‘Kingsand Favourites: Politics and Sexuality in Late Medieval Europe’, and E. Amanda McVitty also talks about Richard, his favourites, chivalric masculinity and homosociality in ‘False Knights and True Men: Contesting ChivalricMasculinity in English Treason Trials, 1388–1415′). So…. yes, there is considerable leeway to depict him as queer, and Shakespeare does write it in the text in the scene where Bushy and Green are accused, prior to their execution by Bolingbroke:

You have misled a prince, a royal king,A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,By you unhappied and disfigured clean:You have in manner with your sinful hoursMade a divorce betwixt his queen and him,Broke the possession of a royal bedAnd stain’d the beauty of a fair queen’s cheeksWith tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.

“Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him/Broke the possession of a royal bed.” Yeah, they’re Richard’s boyfriends. Both we and the Elizabethan audience would have understood it that way. Bushy, Bagot, and Green are fictional, but Robert de Vere, duke of Ireland, was Richard’s real-life favourite and was accused by Thomas Walsingham at least of sleeping with him or otherwise having some taint of an “obscene relationship”. But Richard was also notably devoted to his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, so as ever, bisexuality exists, my pals. It can go both ways.

….anyway, this swiftly got away from me, so in conclusion, let me relate an actual dream I had last night, for which we can 100% blame the heat. In it, I was watching some Shakespeare play or other, and there was a scene in which the villain dramatically pushed the blonde heroine into the arms of his muscle-bound henchmen in their flowing trousers, then turned to the hero and announced that he would do the same to him. To this, in what was supposed to probably be a defiant “you just try it” moment in other versions of fictional Shakespeare plays that my subconscious writes, the hero stared him dead in the eye, whisked his tunic off to reveal he was wearing nothing but a jeweled G-string underneath, and announced that lo, NOW HE WAS PREPARED. DO THY WORST.

I can only think that this is exactly what Shakespeare would have wanted.

#shakespeare #richard ii #medieval history #queer history #rionsanura #ask

[kalluun-patangaroa]

Suede brush up

The Guardian, 21 October 2010

by Jude Rogers

(This is the actual article The Ministry Of Sound photo shoot was done for)

Drugs, ME and despair sent the poor urchins of Britpop their separate ways in 2003. Now Suede have come roaring back to life.

'Much less interested in the persona of Brett Anderson' ... Suede's frontman at the Ministry of Sound, London. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian 

This year, in the first flush of spring, a band that time forgot played the gig of their lives. "It was so special, it was impossible to leave it behind, wasn't it? We had to keep picking at it, didn't we? It was like a scab." The once long-fringed frontman who led the band that launched Britpop – albeit against his will, Brett Anderson reminds us – sits in a hotel room on a darkening weekday evening, remarkably untouched by both time and excess, recalling Suede's performance at the Royal Albert Hall in March. Next to him, drummer Simon Gilbert and keyboardist Neil Codling are similarly Peter Pan-like; bassist Mat Osman is in New York; while Richard Oakes, the young pup who replaced guitarist Bernard Butler after writing to the band's fanclub, is in the gents. 

"He's hiding," says Anderson. "He's terrified. Be gentle with him."

In 2010, something remarkable has happened to Suede. Nearly 18 years after their debut album became the fastest-selling in British history, and seven years after they split not with a bang but with a whimper, they are, incredibly, the talk of the town. Next month, they release a carefully curated Best Of – Osman says on the phone, later, that Anderson has spent months labouring over it, making his own CDs to discover the best running order. In December, they play the O2, their biggest-ever non-festival show. This is all thanks to a gig they played for Teenage Cancer Trust back in March, preceded by two "practice runs" at London's 100 Club and the Manchester Ritz. At the Royal Albert Hall, they were a revelation: five men in their 30s and 40s playing at full throttle, as if the world was going to cave in once the curtains came down. When they played Metal Mickey, they received a standing ovation that went on for five minutes. Oakes finally enters the room as we discuss it, and smiles shyly when he realises what we are talking about. "I thought someone had walked on stage, or something. It was genuinely unexpected."

"That's the one moment that I'd relive for the rest of eternity," adds Anderson. "And I did actually say on the night – here's your bold quote if you want it – I've taken a lot of drugs in my life and nothing compares to it."

Anderson at Royal Albert Hall, London, in March 2010. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA 

Everyone laughs. Suede know who the press expect Anderson to be: the easy-to-parody commuter-belt wordsmith, still in love with suburbs and skylines, nicotine and gasoline. The old dog still deploys flamboyant one-liners – when Gilbert's lost phone turns up in his pocket, for example, he says, "Oh, come on, Simon, this isn't Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World" – but in 2010, Anderson is much more self-aware. He is, he says, "much less interested in the persona of Brett Anderson", and even has a sense of humour about having a parodist on Twitter, something you couldn't have imagined 15 years ago.

Since Suede broke up in 2003, all the members' lives have changed hugely. As well as making three solo albums and reuniting briefly with Butler as the Tears, Anderson has married and gained a stepson "who likes being read bedtime stories about pirates", and lost a father, who died in 2005. Gilbert moved to Bangkok as soon as the band split, and now drums for two bands called Futon and Goo ("that's G-O-O"); Codling became "a keyboardist for hire" for Natalie Imbruglia, among others; Osman became an editor of the online zine le cool; while Oakes has been working quietly on a new band, Artmagic, though he had not been on stage since Suede played their last note seven years ago.

But then Teenage Cancer Trust came calling. At first, Anderson didn't know whether reforming would be wise. "There were two conflicting voices," he says. "One saying I'd love to play those songs again, I'm really proud of them. Another saying I should leave well alone." He spoke to Osman and Codling, called Gilbert on Skype, then spoke to Oakes – the least convinced party. Oakes stands out from his bandmates in other ways today: he wears a beige jacket and scruffy jeans while the others are stylish in black; he has a receding hairline; and he still looks acutely aware that he filled Butler's shoes, despite co-writing some of Suede's biggest hits. "I was thinking, 'Oh God, can I do it, revisiting the past?' All these emotions, I didn't think I could cope." Osman will also admit late that he had his doubts: "Men in their 40s performing teenage songs … it could have easily gone horribly wrong."

Anderson confirms there were lots of difficult conversations. "But if it had been the wrong thing for one of us, it would have been the wrong thing for all of us. We kept persevering because we knew there was still something there."

To decide once and for all whether a reunion would work, this version of Suede (Oakes joined in 1994, Codling in 1996), went to a tiny rehearsal room near Anderson's house. It was the first time they had played together for 10 years (Codling left the band in 2000 because he was suffering from ME). It was crucial there were no managers or roadies present, explains Anderson, so the five musicians could just drink tea and chat, and then hook up their instruments. They played Filmstar first, and it sounded amazing, he says. "We also noticed a purity in those songs, because we'd had distance from them," adds Codling. "It also helped everyone remember," adds Anderson, "why they were written in the first place."

As the Albert Hall show approached, Osman remembers them discussing how important it was that they present the music free of frills: "It had to be like five boys playing the Southampton Joiners Arms. To hide behind anything would have been cheating. We had to do the opposite."

Anderson felt they had a point to prove, too. "I don't think there's ever been a point in Suede's career when we haven't. We've always had our doubters. We've always polarised opinion." He stops, then smiles. "Although there's part of me that quite likes that, you know. I never wanted to be in someone's fifth-favourite band."

Suede were born to be divisive: from early on, they were criticised for being the beneficiaries of media hype, even though they had spent years in various bands playing "in front of three people". Later on, the fact that Anderson had been involved with Justine Frischmann, who became the frontwoman of Elastica and dated Blur's Damon Albarn, helped transform Britpop into a class-fuelled soap opera, with Blur cast as foppish class tourists, Suede as poor urchins looking at the stars and Frischmann a black-clad princess tearing them apart. Anderson doesn't think about the other Britpop bands now, he says, though he is still close friends with Frischmann, who now lives in LA; they had dinner together with their spouses last year, and he wishes he saw her more often.

By 1994, as Oasis became more popular, it became clear that Suede didn't fit into Britpop any more, even though it was still a year before the scene's commercial apogee. Butler's departure also gave the critics extra fuel for the fire. "They realised that a part of our armour was missing," recalls Anderson. "That was the first time I realised that people often run in packs, and when they smell blood, they attack."

Suede didn't want to run with a herd, though – and their second album, Dog Man Star, was deliberately anti-Britpop for that reason. "We didn't want to wave union jack flags. And I didn't want to talk about my life any more, or include any references about living in London on the dole. It felt weird how they became Britpop references, really, and how quickly they got turned into beery cartoons."

Anderson was also missing the departed Butler. "He's an amazing musician, so I missed him in that sense. And the two first Suede albums were obviously very special." Butler has played a big role in putting together the Best Of, Anderson says. "It was really nice: the two of us sitting together listening to Suede songs in the studio for the first time for nearly 20 years. A really lovely trip down memory lane." Anderson won't go into detail about their friendship, but thinks they made a good album together as the Tears, although they were naive not to realise how much the idea of their reconciliation being a de facto Suede reunion would overshadow it. Butler, though, will have no part of this reformation.

Instead, Suede's current lineup is centred around their most commercially successful spell, one that gets overlooked because of the excitement of their early breakthrough. 1996's Coming Up produced five top 10 singles, and also made Suede famous in Europe and Asia. They all remember that time fondly, Gilbert says: "It was make or break, but also really exciting. We were all waking up each morning not feeling any pressure." Things only went awry with 1999's Head Music. Codling was getting ill, and having to send ideas in by email; Anderson "was off my head on buckets of drugs"; Oakes, whose guitar parts were getting replaced by electronics, was "switching off", he says. "Which I really regret."

By 2002's A New Morning, the band had grown apart, and Anderson was trying to tear Suede's sound into pieces – partly, he now realises, because he didn't want there to be a band any more. "I think that we shouldn't have made that record, quite honestly." He persevered out of sheer bloody-mindedness – wanting to prove to the doubters, once again, that Suede hadn't been a flash in the pan. Instead, the band broke up amicably with a run of full-album gigs at London's ICA, which they nonetheless remember as quiet final flourishes. "We didn't go out the way we had planned," Osman says. "We should've gone out in a blaze of fists in Bangladesh, or something."

Quietness seems inimical to Suede: Anderson misses the danger and fierceness his band used to thrive on. "I do find it weird that the last 10 years hasn't thrown up a new definitive genre. It seems that music is here to placate now, rather than provoke. Maybe a sense of apathy has crept in, or people's lives are too comfortable. No one wants to inspire extremity, as we used to do."

Perhaps sticking around beyond the winter tour would help make this happen, I suggest. The room falls silent as the notion floats around. "At the moment … we don't know," Anderson says finally, making it clear he is the ringmaster. "I think we'd have to be convinced that it would be the right thing to do. You know, has the moment passed, or should we pick at the scab again?"

Next year, after all, he releases another solo record, a big rock-inspired album – although its energy has, he admits, been fuelled by Suede's reunion. And everyone agrees that something has changed in all of them in the wake of the reunion. "The fact it happened 20 years after the band formed – isn't that wonderful? Who's to say it couldn't happen again in the future?" Anderson raises his hands, and his cheekbones gleam in the evening light as it falls through the window. Everyone smiles, and understands. This isn't yesterday's man.

The Best of Suede is released on Ministry of Sound on 1 November.

#suede #press #the guardian #ministry of sound photo shoot

[littlemisskookie]

Violet: Hogwarts!AU

Violet Ship: Ravenclaw!Namjoon | Gryffindor!Reader Description: What do you get when you mix blue and red? Bestfriends to lovers!au, hogwarts!au Warnings: Light Angst, Fluff, intercourse, Fingering, Small Dirty Talk, Slapping, Blowjob, Slight Public Word Count: 5,102

When you first got acquainted with Namjoon, it wasn't supposed to be much. You had never expected to befriend him quite honestly. After all, he was Ravenclaw and you were Gryffindor. Two different houses, and though that didn't stop past friendships, it did make the likelihood a bit slimmer.

You were only 15 at the time, and struggling severely in Charms. Ridiculous, right? Charms of all things. Potions? Proficient. Defense Against the Dark Arts? Practical master. So on and so forth, you were doing pretty well. But Charms?

Ugh.

"I can't believe I'm failing Charms of all things," you groaned, looking at your most recent grade. "I mean, seriously, how pathetic is that?"

"Pretty pathetic," your friend Soojin quipped.

"Very motivating," you glared. "I still don't see how you can't help me."

"I would, but last time I tried you made me float and stick to the ceiling," Soojin recalled, grimacing at the memory.

"I was only 11!" you groaned. "How was I supposed to know I did the Leviousa charm too intensely or whatever?"

"Well, for one, you pointed it at me instead of the feather," she deadpanned.

"Well, it was pretty funny."

"It took an hour to get me down!"

"I floated some snacks up to you!"

"Only some oranges! And you know I hate oranges."

"Hey, at least I didn't give you peanuts. You're allergic to those."

"Oh yeah, thank God you didn't do the asshole move," she rolled her eyes.

"I just don't see how I'm going to pass at this rate. I need a miracle," you said, changing the subject back to the matter at hand. "Don't you know anyone who'd be willing to tutor me?"

"That'd be impossible after the fiasco I mentioned," Soojin admitted. "Well, there might be one person..."

"Who?" Your eyes lit up at the prospect that there may be hope at the end of the tunnel.

"You see that Ravenclaw over there? Tan, dark skin, too hot for his own good?" Soojin asked, nodding towards the Ravenclaw's side of the classroom.

"Isn't that Namjoon?" you questioned. "Didn't he break all of Trelawny's teacups in the second year?"

"So he's a klutz," Soonjin shrugged. "But he's definitely in Ravenclaw for a reason. The guy's brilliant, trust me. He might be willing to help you out if you guilt trip him enough."

You let out a huff, rolling your shoulders back. "I guess it's worth a shot. I'll talk to him after class."

"Good luck," Soojin muttered.

Luckily there wasn't that much more time left of class before Flitwick dismissed everyone. Soonjin elbowed you to approach the boy, and soon enough you were racing towards him, calling out for him. "Namjoon! Wait, hold up."

He turned back to you, a questioning look on his face. "Uh, hi?" he smiled. "Anything I can help you with?"

"As a matter of fact, yes," you grinned. "Do you think you could tutor me in Charms? I'm currently flunking, and I need serious help."

"Oh? Why me? I mean, no offense, but I don't even know you," he chuckled awkwardly.

"Well, my friend recommended you to me because apparently, you're really smart- especially in Charms. I normally wouldn't bother strangers but you've got a good reputation aside from the whole teacup thing, and also no one else is willing to tutor me since I stuck Soojin to the ceiling back in the first year," you sighed.

"Oh, you're that girl!" Namjoon's eyes widened in recognition.

You grimaced. "Yeah... I am. I understand if you don't want to tutor me in fear of transforming into a balloon or something, but I really need help. At least consider it?"

"I mean..." Namjoon hesitated, then took a deep sigh. "Yeah, sure. Alright."

"Really?" you exclaimed, a disbelieving grin on your face. "You're not scared?"

"Nah, I'm sure it'll be fine. Besides, with the right tutor, you should be avoiding any more mishaps like that."

"Thank you so much!" Without thinking, you throw your arms around Namjoon unapologetically, wrapping around his arms and waist and squeezing as tight as you can, making him groan in pain. You pull back apologetically. "Oops, sorry. I forget my strength sometimes."

"You're pretty strong for someone so... short," he comments, rubbing his arms.

"I'm not that short," you snort. "And my dad's a wrestler. I'm from a Muggle family, and they're pretty athletic. My mom was a fan of my dad's, and when he retired from wrestling they got married. My dad ended up teaching me a thing or two, and as a result, I guess I've got more muscular."

"That's pretty neat," Namjoon nods. "My mom just works in Muggle studies and my dad's a stay at home wizard, so kind of boring in comparison."

"I figured you must have some knowledge on Muggles since you didn't question what a wrestler was," you grin. "Most people look confused when I say that."

"So, what time do you want to begin tutoring?" he questioned.

"As soon as possible. Today if you can, since we've got that big test coming up Friday," you groaned. "Would you mind meeting after classes are done?"

"Yeah, sure. Meet me outside the Ravenclaw common room and I'll let you in. You know where it is, right?" he questioned.

"Yeah. I dated a Ravenclaw last year who'd sneak me into the common room. I'd use the fireplace to play pranks and call Muggles- couldn't use the Gryffindor one in fear of getting traced," you laughed. "Oh shit, I said too much."

"I won't tell," Namjoon laughed, making sure you knew this would stay a secret between the two of you.

You waited patiently outside of the Ravenclaw common room, tapping your foot. You were relieved when you saw the tall figure sauntering over, finally showing up.

"How long have you been waiting?" he questioned.

"Oh, not long," you say. "Suprised I got here before you?"

"Not really, I had to talk to some people beforehand," he mentioned casually, stepping before the door.

"What's the difference between a raven and a writing desk?"

"I hate both," Namjoon shrugged, letting the doorway swing out before him.

"What have ravens done to you? They're kind of part of your house name," you laugh, not questioning the strange riddle as you stepped into the common room, seeing other Ravenclaws about, studying or reading.

"Ironically, when I was 10 one tried to pluck my eye out," Namjoon chuckled.

"Oof. Definitely ironic," you grin. "And the writing desk?"

"I have a horrible habit of bumping into tables."

"Makes sense, I heard you're the clumsy type,"

"Don't tell me, you heard about Trewlany's teacups?" Namjoon groaned, making you chuckle.

"I also heard she predicted it," you cackled. "Between you and me, I don't think she really is that good at her job. I believe in predictions- but not her."

"Don't get me started," he sighed, beckoning you closer. You guys made your way up to the boys' dormitory, and you weren't surprised to know it worked the same way it did for Gryffindor. Soon enough, the two of you had begun studying. Namjoon informed you that his other four roommates were busy- studying in the common room, practicing Quidditch, or hanging out with friends. That helped explain their absence.

Luckily, an hour later, you had only set one of the drapes slightly on fire, and almost lifted Namjoon's shirt (you were disappointed that he fixed that charm quickly).

"Alright, when I cast this jinx on you, your anti-jinx should make it deflect onto me, alright?" he explained.

"How will I know if it worked?" you ask with wide eyes.

"Well, you won't be electrocuted. That's how you'll know it didn't work," Namjoon chuckled.

You were about to protest and request to retry the spell, and just when he raised his wand, the door swung open.

"Hey, Namjoon do you have- ah fuck! I'm not looking, I'm not looking! I'm sorry!" Taehyung quickly covered his eyes. He was one of those Ravenclaws where no one could understand why they were a Ravenclaw- but he was probably smarter than what met the eye. Emotionally and intellectually. It was just his eccentric personality that had people blind to his intellectual possibilities.

"What? We're not having sex!" you say hastily, cheeks burning.

"Oh, thank God," Taehyung sighed, putting down his hands. "I'm so used to walking into girls in Namjoon's bed that it's become instinct to walk into the room with my eyes closed."

Your eyes widen at that, and you send an accusatory stare to Namjoon. He blushes hotly, rubbing his nape as he glares at Taehyung. "He's exaggerating," he informs you, embarrassed.

"Am I, Namjoon? Am I?" Taehyung accuses. He looks at you with a grin, holding out his hand for you to shake. You awkwardly shake his hand, and he leans in to whisper in your ear. "You're too good for him."

You couldn't help but laugh at that, though you definitely doubted it. Namjoon so far seemed too good to be true- he was smart, helpful, kind, and handsome. But apparently, from what you now discovered, he was using that fully to his advantage. Admittedly, the thought unsettled you, and your heart sunk slightly. Which was wrong. After all, who were you to judge?

"We're just studying for Charms. I'm pretty bad, and he's the only one willing to tutor me," you explained.

"She already burned one of the drapes," Namjoon said.

"Not that much! Just a tiny bit," you defend.

"You're that girl who made someone float onto the ceiling?" Taehyung asked with wide eyes.

"It was one time!"

"She's getting better," Namjoon admitted. "She just needs more practice."

"God, at this rate I'll teleport the entire castle into the lake," you groan, lying down flat on the bed, bouncing on the royal blue covers. "Flitwick can already fail me."

"That's quitter's talk. Trust me, you'll do fine," Namjoon said. "It's mainly in your movements and hand gestures."

"I'll leave you guys to it. I just had to get something for Quidditch practice," Taehyung explained. Ah, yes, he was a chaser. He winked at you. "You'll be rooting for us, right?"

"What? As if! You're playing against Gryffindor, we'll kick your ass," you say.

"We'll see about that at the game," Taehyung teased, walking out of the room, shutting the door behind him.

You did end up getting better in Charms. You ended up getting a C in that test, and though that's pretty good for you, Namjoon wasn't satisfied. You continued tutoring until you were acing every test, finally pulled out of the depths of failing, and from tutoring sprung a newfound friendship.

You'd find out over the next two years of your friendship that Namjoon was in fact, a bit of a player. He was smooth talking, and if the girl was particularly swoony, he'd 'give her the night of her life'. You knew he tried to hide it from you, but Taehyung was your main informant, often complaining to you as one of Namjoon's few actual girl friends about his frequent hookups, and how he'd have to be kicked out of his room and such. Your heart sunk with each story, knowing you were friend zoned in a sense- especially since Namjoon never showed the slightest interest in you romantically, but you were content with the friendship and keeping your feelings hidden.

OK, so maybe you cried once or twice over it. No biggie.

But you and Namjoon were close enough to the point where you didn't want some stupid crush to get in the way. Even if it had lasted two years, you convinced yourself that because you were 15 at the time, it was only infatuation.

But did infatuation really last two years?

The two of you were to meet up to support Taehyung during the Quidditch game. Ravenclaw was going against Hufflepuff, and evidently Taehyung had become a close friend along with Namjoon. Except you weren't romantically interested in Taehyung- he was more of a little brother and didn't seem as mature as Namjoon in your eyes.

You went up to the Ravenclaw stadium to meet Namjoon, surprised to see a Slytherin by his side. She was cute.

Too cute.

Jealousy burned at your core, seeing how his arm was wrapped around her shoulders. You forced a smile, and he greeted you with an equally warm one. "Y/N! You're here!"

"I'm always here," you shrug, sitting down next to him. "So, who's your friend?"

"This is Minnie- she's my date for the game. Minnie, this is my best friend, Y/N."

Your heart sunk, and the smile that didn't reach your eyes stayed plastered on your face as you reached over to shake her hand, admiring how pretty she was. "Nice to meet you," she said.

"Likewise," you nodded, resisting the urge to spit the words.

You felt depressed for the rest of the game, watching glumly at the streaks of bronze and blue versus the yellow and black. You could only give half-assed cheers for Taehyung whenever he got a goal. It seemed like he noticed, too, seeing how slumped over you were whenever he glanced at you and Namjoon.

Taehyung knew about your crush on Namjoon, so it didn't take half a brain to realize what had you down in the dumps. Especially when Namjoon and Minnie were looking at each other so adoringly.

It was when Hufflepuff called time to restrategize that Taehyung flew over to the stadium you resided in, hovering in front of you. "Not enjoying the game, Y/N?" he asked, cocking his head to the side.

"No, no I am," you assured him, wanting to remain polite.

He gave a sideways glance to Namjoon, who was about to say something for the five seconds his attention was diverted from Minnie, and he gave you a mischevious smile. You quirked a brow, knowing from the look on his face that this couldn't be good.

"I know something that'll peak your interests," Taehyung grinned.

You furrowed your brows. "To see you fall?"

"Nope." He leaned in on the end of his broom, meeting his lips with yours. He had his own screwed shut, and your own were blown wide, shocked by the action. Whoops and hollers sounded through the other stadiums, the other students catching onto the bold move. Namjoon was frozen by your side, and you couldn't do much more than gawk at Taehyung.

You weren't able to so much as speak, your jaw dropped open as you stared at Taehyung. He laughed, winking at you as he went to continue the game.

"Er- Y/N?" Namjoon gulped, still stiff. You glanced at him, seeing how tense and awkward he looked. Minnie gave him a look of concern- but right now his eyes were locked on you. "I... I know it's none of my business, but-"

"Yeah, it's none of your business," Taehyung piped as he quickly flew past your stadium. You combed your hair back down as it flew out from your face, frozen stiff, eyes trained on Taehyung. The blur of bronze and blue had a plan- and probably a horrible one at that. But you had no other choice but to keep shut and go along with it. He was the Ravenclaw, after all.

Namjoon also shut up for the rest of the game, not wanting to say another word. No matter how much Minnie tried to coax him to speak or talk to her again, he was silent. Quite unlike him. He seemed a lot more brooding than the usual Namjoon you knew, and you were confused as to why he seemed so bothered. Minnie got so frustrated that she left the Ravenclaw stadium to march to the Slytherin one, reuniting with her friends. It was just you and Namjoon left now.

You glance at him awkwardly, blushing hotly. "I... I'm sorry your date left?"

"Did she?" he questioned, looking over to her empty seat. "Oh, I guess she did."

"Oh." You took a deep breath. "I guess she was upset you weren't paying attention to her. Do you want to go after her? I know where she's sitting. You can continue the date."

"It's fine. I just owed her a date because she helped me with Potions."

Ah, that's right. Namjoon to Potions was you to Charms. Except you were only proficient in Potions, so you guessed that helping him there wouldn't benefit him nearly as much as he did for you in Charms.

"Oh- fuck!" Namjoon shouted, standing up.

You look back to the game, seeing with wide eyes as Taehyung was hit by a bludger by a Beater in Hufflepuff- AKA, Kim Seokjin.

"Taehyung!" you shouted, leaning over the ledge as you watched him helplessly fall the ground. You gawked, seeing everyone flock to the boy where you weren't able to see his body anymore, and your heart thudded in your chest. Your friend just got seriously injured, and today of all days!

You looked to Namjoon, and he looked equally stunned. "Namjoon?" you say weakly, eyes brimming with tears out of fear. "Do you think he'll be ok?"

"I... don't know," the boy admitted.

"I healed all of the broken bones already- don't know why your friend is still making such a fuss," Madame Pomfrey tsked at you. "I suppose you can see him. Maybe then he'll stop his whining."

"Thank you, ma'am," you said, bowing to her as you scurried to Taehyung's bedside.

He gave you a sheepish grin, and he looked just as fine as ever. Madame Pomfrey was easily the best nurse in the entire school- hell, even the entire country. And yet here your friend was, looking pleased as punch, sitting in a hospital bed with the most shit-eating grin you've ever seen.

"The fuck was that!" you said, slapping his arm. "You're fine, dickwad, what's up with you staying in the infirmary? I think you've insulted Madame Pomfrey."

"It's the only place I could talk to you without Namjoon sneaking in. I knew that since they probably think we're dating now, they'd let you in already," Taehyung chuckled.

"Oh, how Ravenclaw of you, thinking ahead," you huffed. "What was up with that kiss anyway? You know I like Namjoon."

"It's tiring seeing you two! It's like some sitcom, and I just want it to end already," Taehyung groaned. "Someone needed to speed things up a bit. It's our last year and the two of you still aren't a thing yet."

"I'm sorry, I fail to see how you kissing me is going to make Namjoon suddenly return my feelings," you say, crossing your arms across your chest as you glared at your friend.

"Y/N, I know you're no Ravenclaw- but don't tell me you're that stupid."

"What's that supposed to mean?" you ask, insulted.

"Did you really not see how jealous he was?"

"I think he was just in shock because you kissed a girl- he probably thinks you're gay," you snort. "Not that anyone would have a problem with that, of course."

"Very funny," he glared. "Y/N, he wouldn't have looked so stiff and uncomfortable if he wasn't jealous."

"I don't know what world you're living in, Tae, but generally anyone's uncomfortable when people are kissing in front of them," you snort. "Why do you think everyone gets so uncomfortable and squeamish during a movie in theaters?"

"A what in what now?"

"Forgot you didn't have those," you sighed. "My point is he's probably not jealous."

"That's where you're wrong," Taehyung grinned. "If he weren't jealous, and we were just two friends who happened to kiss, he would've looked away. That's regularly uncomfortable. But he was glaring and stiff and most importantly didn't look away. He's jealous!"

"Maybe that bludger hit you too hard in the head," you sigh, pressing your hand against his forehead. "You're making no sense."

"You kids are cute," he grinned, pinching your cheek like an annoying aunt. "Just wait- you'll see."

"See what?"

"Just don't be surprised when you're getting the scolding of your life later on."

"Don't tell me you gave me herpes or something."

"You'll thank me later!"

"For herpes?! Oh no, you really did give me them!" you said, feeling light-headed already.

Taehyung rolled his eyes. "Yeah- no. Now run along, and tell your future children Uncle Tae is the one to thank for their existence."

Maybe Ravenclaws shared some sort of wavelength- like telepathy or something. They were known for their genius brains, after all. But what had you thinking about this was when Namjoon stomped up to you in the middle of a crowded hallway, grabbed you by the wrist and dragged you outside to a secluded area. His grip on your wrist hurt, and the entire time you were muttering 'ow ow ow ow' and trying to pry him off.

It wasn't until the two of you were behind an oak tree that he looked you in the face- and surprisingly, he was pissed.

"When'd you and Taehyung begin dating?" he asked, fuming.

You gawked, sputtering at him. "I- wait, hold up, what?!"

"Oh come on, don't act coy. You two are my closest friends but I'm surprised he'd keep this away from me," he said, closing you in and pressing his hands against your shoulders, pinning you to the tree. You could feel the bark dig in through your uniform, and you winced- not at the pain from the bark, but from Namjoon's piercing glare. "Taehyung's a smart ass- though this is rather low of him. But I'm surprised you'd do this."

"What?" you ask, furrowing your brows.

"I can't believe I'm saying this." Namjoon took a deep breath, stepping back as he began to pace back and forth in front of you. Finally, he stood before you, staring you in the eye. "I know you like me."

Your cheeks turned as crimson as the red on your tie, and you could do no more than flush at his words. "Oh..."

Namjoon gulped. "Y/N, I-"

"Look," you say, pressing your hands against his chest to hold him back. "I get it. I'm not the most subtle person in the world. I've had feelings for you for, what, two years? Ever since I've known you. And I get that you were trying to spare my feelings by letting me think that my secret or whatever isn't known- but please, don't. You really should've just told me, as ironic as that is coming from me. I would've gotten the hint and moved on quicker if you did. You should've just rejected me the moment you found out instead of letting me pine after you for all this time."

Namjoon's eyes widened at your words. "Y/N, you're misinterpreting all of it."

Tears had begun to brim your eyes at your own words, and you wiped them away, trying not to choke on your own words as you continued to stare him in the eye. "Am I really?"

"Yes," he said, leaning in. "Y/N, I like you."

You shoved him away. "Bull fucking shit!" you say, surprised by your sudden outburst. "What about that date you had earlier today at the game?"

He blinked at you, and suddenly he began laughing. You glared at him, fuming and frustrating about what he could possibly find so amusing over this situation.

"What?" you demand, crossing your arms. "What's so funny?"

"You're such a Gryffindor."

"What?!"

"Y/N, the reason I never asked you out is that I knew that you're the one who would've wanted to be the brave one in this scenario- hell, it took me forever to even tell you that I knew just now. If I had approached you head on you would've felt- I dunno, scared? Unsettled?"

"I-I... I guess." Now that you thought about it, you probably would've been shocked immediately and run the other way if he had been straightforward. You liked being the straightforward one if anything.

"I was waiting to let you do it- I knew you needed time, and I was patient. So Taehyung suggested I take out his friend Minnie- and I typically trust his judgment since he knows you very well, and he said it'd speed things up. Something about you needing to figure out your feelings."

"That little bitch!" you blurt. Taehyung should've been a Slytherin with how sneaky he could be. That little snake.

"Well, I think I let my mind wander for a bit too long since when he kissed you I assumed he was trying to win you over and betraying me even though he knew my feelings," Namjoon admitted.

"Don't tell me- getting hit by a bludger was also part of his plan."

"I think that part was just from him not paying attention."

You can't help but smile at that, and you feel bubbly in your chest. "So... you like me, huh?"

"Why do you think I stopped sleeping around so often after I began tutoring you?" he grinned.

"Because I was constantly in your room, wrecking everything with my terrible charms, acting as a notorious cockblock?" you guessed.

"No, because I would've much rather have you in my bed instead," Namjoon grinned.

You pulled him closer, finding the Gryffindor in you as you held him in your embrace. "Shut up and kiss me, idiot."

He didn't need any further instruction, pressing his lips to yours as he pinned you against the tree. Your breath hitched as you buried your fingers in his locks, wondering why the two of you were so stupid as to wait so long for this.

You feel his hands run up your sides, careful to remain respectful. You decided in a  moment of impulsiveness to grab his hands, sliding them beneath the hem of your shirt and all the way up to the cloth of your bra.

Namjoon froze, pulling back. "Are you sure?" he asked quietly, hesitant.

"I've been waiting two years for this," you say, guiding his hands up beneath the fabric to cup at your breasts. "Someone has to be the brave one here."

All he could do was bury his face in your neck, sending his vibrations through a throaty groan as he pressed himself against you, rubbing against you sensually. You lifted your crotch to reach his as he began to grind against you, dry humping you against the tree.

"Fuck," you muttered, tugging on his tie as you began to loosen it. He was blindly sucking against the soft spot on his neck.

"W-Wait, should we do this outside?" you say, eyes wide. "Shouldn't we go up to your dorm?"

"All of my other roommates are probably inside from what I know. Besides," he said, delivering a harsh thrust that made you gasp, gripping him tightly as he bit down on your shoulder. "I need to be inside you."

"I need it too, Namjoon," you confessed, groaning at the sensation.

"I need to stretch you out first," he mumbled, hands snaking from underneath your bra to slip into the waistband of your skirt, diving into your panties. His fingers ran along your sopping folds, running over the slit. "You're so wet," he whispered, voice low and raspy.

"Please hurry," you whispered, anxious that someone might walk in on the two of you. You may be in a secluded area, but of course, there was always a risk of getting caught.

He didn't waste time, two fingers immediately entering you, crooking into the rough patch. You arched your back as he kept searching, thrusting his fingers against you. His palm dug into your clit, and you couldn't help but clasp your thighs around his hand at the sensation.

He slipped his hand out from your skirt and panties, and you whined at feeling empty. You yelped, shrieking loudly when his hand collided with your mound, and instinctively you bit your lip. "Spread your legs," was all he rasped.

You obeyed, and he ran his hand back up your thigh, going back to your mound to rub you through your panties. You looked at him with an equal amount of want, bucking your hips against his hand. "Namjoon, please stop teasing," you begged quietly.

"Are you ready?" he asked, hesitant.

You nodded eagerly. Without further reluctance, he shucked his pants off, and you slipped your panties down your ankles, turning around and flipping your skirt over to reveal your ass. Namjoon didn't hesitate, and you felt the head of his cock rub along the folds of your pussy before entering you with one slow, fulfilling thrust.

You both groaned at the feeling, and soon enough he began pumping into you, and the palms of your hand dug into the bark of the tree. You prayed no one would investigate the sound of slaps and suppressed groans, and if you were in your right mind perhaps you would've used a useful charm to keep the two of you eerily silent.

But your mind was so hazy that the only thing you could focus on was the feeling of Namjoon's dick diving in and out of you, and how his hand snaked in front of you and between your thighs to rub your clit.

It didn't feel like some mindless fucking. It felt fulfilling- you felt full. Here was the man you were in love with for about two years, and finally you could truly feel him inside of you.

It wasn't until he raspily groaned your name into your neck before sinking his teeth in to leave a mark that you realized how close you were.

"N-Namjoon," you warned. "I'm gonna cum."

"Are you?" he asked, thrusting into that sweet spot as he rubbed you harder. "Cum all over my cock, baby."

That's all it took to push you over the edge, and soon enough you were cumming all over his dick. You were breathless and panting, tired and worn out as he slipped out of you. You turned around, quick to get on your knees and suck him off as harshly as you could until he was cumming down your throat.

He pet your hair as you cleaned him up, tongue running along his cock as he shivered from oversensitivity. "You're so pretty," he mumbled, looking at you adoringly.

You smile, coming back up to press a chaste kiss against his mouth, staring at him with all the love you could muster. "So, are we dating?"

"Don't you think we did things in the wrong order?" he laughed, holding you in his arms.

"I think of it as catching up for lost time," you grinned, kissing him again. Internally you were thinking about how you would really have to thank Taehyung after all of this.

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[conspiracies-and-crime]

The Jack the Ripper case

Information about the case: The Jack the Ripper murders were a series of murders that took place in London, England. Jack the Ripper went after women, specifically prostitutes. It has been over 100 years and this case is still unsolved, no one knows who this “Jack the Ripper” as though there are suspects and ideas on who it could have been. There is also a speculation on how many women were killed. Some think that it was only five murders others believe it was eleven. It is said that he was a madman without a clear motive for the murders.

Notes:

All the victims were prostitutes

Women rather than men.

Most women in the white chapel district had to turn to prostitution for survival.

Women rather than men.

Most women in the white chapel district had to turn to prostitution for survival.

Took place between 1888 &  1891

It’s been > 100 years since this case took place.

100’s of suspects.

The white chapel district is were most-all murders took place

Is known for violence and crime.

Said to not have a clear motive

Most say that he only claimed the lives of five women.

Known as the “canonical five”

Some think he claimed the lives of eleven women.

The murders were in the newspaper and the public eventually became fascinated with them.

The public became so upset that the police commissioner + the home secretary resigned from the case.

Eight possible suspects.

August 31, 1888, at 3:40 AM was when the first victim was found.

The first victim was Mary Ann Nichols’

Found by a man named, Charles Cross.

Claims he was walking along buck’s row when he noticed a bundle near the western end.

Another man, Robert Paul approached the body with Cross.

Mary Ann Nichols’ was found on her on her back with her thought slit violently and she was disembowelled.

Only dead for a half hour.

The killer could have been nearby when Paul and Cross found her.

September 8, 1888, Annie Chapman was found in 29 Hanbury street.

Chapman was discovered by John Davis, an elderly man from the building on the street.

Chapman's throat was also slit but this time her womb was taken.

Dr, George Baxter Phillips served as the divisional police surgeon at the time had thought to have knowledge by how Annie Chapman's womb had been removed.

The killer was either a doctor or had basic anatomical knowledge.

On September 27 i888 the central news agency got a letter from the alleged killer basically saying that he had been hearing that the police had caught him but he wouldn’t stop the murders but instead he would send an ear to the police as a joke. He says that he laughs when they say they are on the right track and he won’t stop until he’s caught or dead. He brags about his last murder and how he gathered some of the blood in a ginger ale bottle to write with but it thickened up too quickly for him to write with. He jokes about them thinking that he’s a doctor.

The letter wasn’t released to the public until October 1st.

People thought the letter was faked by the journalist.

On September 30th 1888 at 1:00 AM the body of Elizabeth Stride was found on Berner street by Louis Diemschutz.

This time only her throat was slit making the police to believe that Jack the Ripper was interrupted when Diemschutz approached.

This was the second victim

People question whether this was actually the doing of Jack the Ripper as her throat was cut quite hastily & didn’t have any of the other things that had happened previously.

When she was examined at 1:15 AM it was determined that by that time she had been dead for 30 minutes.

Only 45 minutes after the discovery of Stride the body of Catherine Eddowes was found Mitre Square.

This was just west of the Strider murder.

Her body was very mutilated including her face. Her uterus was removed along with her left kidney.

The body was 10-15 mins away while walking.

After Eddowes was killed he made his way back to the first murder.

East from the body of Eddowes (?) was the only solid clues for investigators and police in the case.

The clue was a piece of Catherine Eddowes apron.

Found by Alfred Long in the doorway of an apartment block nearby Goulston street.

This was east of the Eddowes murder site.

Nearby written in chalk was a message that read “The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing.”

This was a sign of the anti-Semitism that was in this specific area.

The big thing about this clue was that it was found east of the murder site.

This was in the direction of Elizabeth Stride's murder site.

The murder that was committed 45 mins prior to this.

This meaning that the killer entered an area that, at the time, was swarming with cops.

Despite this showing that the killer could easily escape places that he could have been living in the east London area.

A postcard was received by the police on October 1st and was written by someone who had been claiming to be the Murderer.

It was written in similar handwriting.

This time talking about how he wasn’t kidding and how he couldn’t finish and how there would be a double even in the paper.

No one in the public knew about this so this lead police to believe that it was the killer as he described it in detail.

On October 13, 1888, police spent a week searching people's houses in East Densworth but found nothing

October 16 a man named George Lusk had received a letter.

He was the head of the Mile End Vigilance Committee.

This was a group to help assist the police.

The letter was signed. “From Hell”

Was delivered in a box w/ half a kidney.

The kidney was believed to be Catherine Eddowes’ kidney.

This was later to be found to be a prank by a medical student meaning that some people didn’t take this seriously and it was something they would joke around with.

(~~A month later) On Nov. 9, 1888, the body of the 5th & final victim Mary Kelly was found in her bed at 13 Millers Court.

She was found by her landlords assistant who was seeking rent.

This was the most gruesome murder.

Kelly’s body was disembowelled & “virtually skinned down”

“The sight that we saw I cannot drive from my mind it looked more like a work of a devil than a man” This is what the landlord said about the state of the body.

Some people claimed that they had seen the killer.

All murders were committed on a weekend.

Killers appearance.

In between 25-35

Roughly 5`5-5`7

Stocky, fair complexion, moustache.

Seen wearing a dark overcoat & dark hat.

Looked perfectly sane, frightfully normal.

Yet capable of extreme violence and cruelty.

. . .

Sir Melville Macnaghten, the Scotland yards head of criminal investigation department in 1903, though he had a vague idea on who the killer was.

Knew that Jack the Ripper had a basic knowledge of anatomy.

Possibly a doctor.

His notes say that he had narrowed his list of suspects down to three names.

Suspects of Jack the Ripper.

Suspect #1: Montague Johnson Druitt

A barrister who may have had an uncle + a cousin that were doctors.

~ His time of death he could have been around the age of 40.

Supposedly had an interest in surgery.

Might have lived with a cousin.

Who was practising medicine close to where the murders occurred.

It also appeared that ~ a month before the first canonical murder happened his (Montague) mother went insane.

Wrote down that he too thought he was going insane.

(though most people going or that are insane don’t know they are/going insane)

In Macnaghten’s notes, it says. “From private information, I have little doubt that his own family suspected this man of being the Whitechapel murderer; it was alleged that he was sexually insane”

After the last murder, Montague disappeared

4 weeks after the last murder he was found dead.

The body was found floating in the Thames river on December 3rd 1888

Suspect #2: Michael Ostrog

Russian doctor & criminal

Been in an asylum previously for homicidal tendencies.

Macnaughten wrote in his notes that he couldn’t find a strong alibi for his whereabouts during the murders.

Wasn’t evicted because there wasn’t enough evidence linked.

Suspect #3: Aaron Kosminski

A polish & Jewish resident in Whitechapel.

Spent time in an asylum in 1889

Resided in asylums until his death in 1919

Known for his hatred toward women

Specifically prostitutes.

His description matched with the killers

Name recently was in headlines

Featured in the book, “Naming Jack the Ripper”

Russell Edwards (the author) talked about how a shawl was bought at an auction and contained his DNA proving that he was the killer.

Bought under the impression that it was found at the murder scene of Catherine Eddowes.

Edwards got help from a molecular biologist Jari Louhelainen from Liverpool John Moores University.

Seman on the shawl was linked to Kosminski.

With this discovery, people thought that the case was closed

“I’ve got the only piece of forensic evidence in the whole history of the case. I’ve spent 14 years working on it, and we have definitely solved the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was. Only non-believers that want to perpetuate the myth will doubt. This is it now -- We have unmasked him.” - Russell Edwards.

Louhelainen may have made a large mistake.

Dr. Louhelainen identified a mutated piece of DNA on both the scarf and in Eddowes relative Karen Miller.

Mutation believed to be 314.1C

Only found in 1 - 290.000

The match was incorrect it wasn’t 314.1C instead was 315.1C.

Mutation shared with > 99% of people of European descent.

Kosminskies DNA was linked using Mitochondrial DNA using a subtype that wasn’t unique.

Suspect #4: Jill the Ripper

The theory that Jack the Ripper was actually a female

~~ a hunch of inspector Abberline

When everyone was looking for a man instead of a woman would explain why the killer could slip by unnoticed.

A midwife could also have anatomical Knowledge.

Blood on her clothing wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow.

Though all eyewitness accounts pointed to a man.

Suspect #5: Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward (The royal conspiracy.)

Often scoffed at.

Prince Edward was frequent to places that the victims were found.

An activity that led him to contract syphilis which drove him to insanity

Caused him to have a child with a local woman which led the queen to demand that everyone who knows of the child to be “Taken care of.”

Some believe that the insanity spawned by syphilis drove him to commit the murders himself.

Conspiracy theorists believe that he was never discovered because royal aids assisted in covering his identity.

This theory is often called ludacris as there isn’t any evidence to back it up.

Suspect #6: Walter Sickert

Patricia Cornwell (Known for her crime novels and devoted her time to find out who the killer was) claims that Sickert was obsessed with Jack the Ripper.

This is proven true

Referenced Jack the Ripper in some of his paintings.titling one of them “Jack the Ripper's Bedroom”

Cornwell claims that one painting mirrors the body position of the fifth victim Mary Kelly.

Claims that another painting mimics the facial wounds of fourth victim Catherine Eddowes

Reports of Sickert ‘Cosplaying’ as Jack the Ripper for fun.

Cornwell debunks that Sickert was in France at the time of the murders.

Saying that he has sketches of music halls in London at the time of three killings at least.

Analysis of forensic paper expert Peter Bower who identified three of Sickert's letters and two of Jack the Ripper's letters from a handmade paper run with only 24 sheets of that paper.

The possibility of both Sickert and Jack the Ripper writing on the same paper that only has 24 sheets in existence is very unlikely.

While that is undoubtedly evidenced all of the Jack the Ripper letters are unconfirmed.

Suspect #7: Joseph Barnett

Suspicious because he actually lived with Mary Kelly.

May have lived in 10 different locations in East London.

So he knows the area well so he can navigate back streets.

Worked as a fish porter

Reported was in love with Kelly.

According to the Daily Telegraph Barnett referred to Kelly as his “wife”

She was only a roommate.

Disagreed with her life as a prostitute striving to make money to keep her off of the streets.

Saying. “Marie never went out on the streets with me”

Theorised that Barnett committed the first murders to keep her off of the street.

Which for a little bit worked.

When he lost his job Kelly went back to the streets.

Financial struggles lead to fights.

Barnett disliked her love of Gin.

When Kelly brought back two different prostitutes it stirred one final fight which Barnett found unacceptable.

The fight got violent

A window was broken.

Not too long after Barnett moved out of the house.

10 days later Mary Kelly was found dead.

He was questioned for 4 hrs but was set free.

Having lived there he would know knowledge about the house of which included how to unlock the door from the outside.

Also knew Kelly's schedule and tendencies.

Details say that she was killed in her sleep rather than by someone she invited in.

Clothes were folded by the bed “As though they were taken off in an ordinary manner.”

Was wearing a nightgown.

As a fish porter, he would have anatomical knowledge.

Because he knew Kelly other prostitutes would know him allowing him to get close enough for a “sneak attack”

One newspaper at the time stated that some of his friends called him Jack.

Matches both physical and mental descriptions of Jack the Ripper that were created by police & the FBI.

The murders stopped after Mary Kelly.

With his lover , that he was trying to keep off of the streets, now dead he had no reason to keep on killing people.

Suspect #8/Last suspect: James Maybrick

His death matched with the stop of the killings.

Died a year after the killings.

Upper-class cotton merchant

Resided in an estate called the “Battlecrease House” in Liverpool.

Some think that this is a large detail as they think that he wasn’t an upperman & was instead a local.

A wealthy cotton merchant would be able to travel on weekends.

Wouldn’t be killing in his own Locale (Local area)

A diary was found under the floorboards of Maybricks estate.

His diary is signed. “I give my name that all know of me, so history does tell, what love can do to a gentleman born. Yours Truly,

Jack the Ripper.”

The diary held intimate details of the killings.

Scientific tests prove that the diary matched the time of the Jack the Ripper killings.

The diary was discovered by a scrap metal dealer named Mike Barett.

Admitted to the diary being fabricated but then later took that back.

The details of how he got the diary are shaky.

Some say it fell into his hands from being handed down in his family others say Barrett discovering it himself or his associates discovering it and then bringing it to him.

If the diary truly was found under the floorboards of the estate than there is a very strong possibility that Maybrick is Jack the Ripper.

Following the diary, a golden pocket watch was found as potential evidence.

The pocket watch apparently has the initials of each of the five canonical victims scratched into it.

Including the phrases “I am Jack” & “J. Maybrick.

The scratches were analysed from an electron microscope and Dr. Stephen Turgoose who said that the scratches were not done in modern times.

Another Dr. named Robert Wild, in Bristol’s Universities Interface Analysis Center, suggests the scratches “could have been very, very old and were certainly not new but it was difficult to be precise”

The watch, which was displayed and discovered in a Liverpool Jewelry Shop by a college caretaker named Elbert Johnson.

Dated in 1846

Purchased for 225 Pounds. ( 294.88 US dollars.)

My Thoughts.

My thoughts on the Jack the Ripper case. Well, I personally have a fascination with unsolved mysteries, especially unsolved murder cases. This one in particular really caught my attention just in how the victims were chosen and how it has been so long and we have so many suspects but only a couple of them would actually make sense and possibly could be Jack the Ripper but there are places where the theory and reasons to suspect to the person kind of fall out or it would lead to at least a couple of loose ends or it starts to not support it as much as it could and some of the evidence isn’t the best so you can get confused about the true killer. As for the case itself, it is a sad thing that had happened but I honestly can see how it could stay a mystery for so long. With that many suspects and different evidence showing up and being debunked so often and random throughout the years. Like the instance where the shawl was bought at an auction and the molecular biologist got the wrong mutation and said that it was a rare one before finding out that he had said that it was the wrong one and it was actually a mutation that every descendant of a European has the mutation. Things like that can keep it a mystery although I think that we will probably solve it eventually seeing that we have a couple that might actually have been Jack the Killer.

This case is actually the case that really got me into crime and unsolved mysteries I find it fascinating about how we could solve it years and years after the crime had happened and ended. I honestly love the idea of studying cases whether they’re ongoing or if they have already ended and haven’t been solved. Even cases that have been solved are just fun to write my thoughts down or talk about my thoughts and theories about it.

My theories and who I think did it.

Okay, I have three different theories that I think committed all of the Jack the Ripper murders. I’m going to go from the one that I don’t think is very likely and I have very little evidence for to the one that has the most and that is more likely. Now let’s begin.

The Jill the Ripper Theory: Okay I think this one could be likely because at the time that the killings were going on (1888) women weren’t allowed to have a title of a doctor or anything of the sort. So when the first or second letter for Jack the Ripper was sent (now thinking back to it I do believe that it was the first letter sent in.) it says that they were shocked that people were actually thinking that they were a doctor. This leads me to believe that it really could have been a women at the time. Plus in 1888 it would be normal that a midwife would have blood on her clothes so she could have passed it off that she was just a midwife so she could slip in and out of crowds easily which could explain why the killer wasn’t found or spotted on the night of the double murder. It could have also thrown off the police because they were told to be looking for a man but instead they should be looking for a woman. Although there is something that is holding that piece of evidence back that it that the killer had been described by eyewitness accounts and at that time you could easily tell the difference between a man and a women as they had very different figures due to the corsets that they (women) would always wear. Being a midwife would also give her anatomical knowledge that Jack the Ripper obviously had otherwise how else would (s)he be able to disembowel his (her) victims and take out their womb the way they did.

Joseph Barnett: This one definitely has more of a chance than the Jill the Ripper theory does. Barnett actually lived with the fifth and last victim Mary Kelly. He had actually told the Daily Telegraph that she was his “wife” when in reality she was actually just a roommate that he lived with so people naturally started to say that Barnett had loved Kelly and because he disagreed with her being a prostitute people believe that he committed the first murders to scare her off of the street which actually worked for a bit. He said that “When Marie was with me she never went onto the streets.” This was because she didn’t need to because he was working as a fish porter. He was thought to be able to get around so easily because he may have lived in 10 different places in East London so, he could get around quickly because he knew his way around. Because he didn’t like that Kelly was a prostitute they often got into arguments they would also fight because he didn’t like her love of Gin. But when Joseph lost his job as fish porter Kelly went back onto the streets and continued with the prostitution. When Kelly brought two other prostitutes home Barnett didn’t think that this was acceptable so they got into a pretty big argument at this point it had gotten quite violent a window was apparently broken in the fight. After the fight, Barnett ended up leaving the house. 10 days later Kelly was found dead in her apartment. Because he lived there he would know how to unlock the door from the outside and around the house. Kelly’s clothes were also folded like they had been taken off and placed in an ordinary manner and she was in a nightgown so she was killed in her sleep because it didn’t look like she had any form of struggling like she had been killed from someone she had let inside. Right after Kelly was killed the killings had stopped as it is known. This ties in because why would he kill anyone else when the women that he loved was now dead and he had no reason to still be killing.

James Maybrick: James Maybrick is the person that is most likely to have done it. Maybrick was an upper-class cotton merchant so he only really had weekends to go out and do other stuff plus all of the murders took place on weekends which could potentially point directly toward Maybrick. Plus he was living somewhere else so it wasn’t so obvious it was him at first because he lived in a different location than the murders were happening it was kind of shrugged off because you know who would want to go somewhere else to commit a crime such as murder. He also resided with an estate called the “Battlecrease House” that was located in Liverpool. Under one of the floorboards, there was a diary found that had vivid and intimate details about each one of the murders of each one of the victims. The diary was signed with this: “I give my name that all know of me, so history do tell, what love can do to a gentleman born. Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper.”. There was a gold pocket watch that was found by a college caretaker by the name of Elbert Johnson had found it in a jewellery shop in Liverpool. He took it to a Dr. who said that the scratches in the watch weren’t from modern times the scratches read the initials of all of the victims and two phrases “I am Jack” and “J. Maybrick.”

#jack the ripper #Unsolved crimes

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Chirp

Wing AU

Prompto Week Day 7 (10/25): Free choice

Unfortunately, I won’t be around tomorrow, and didn’t get a chance to write what I wanted for Prompto’s birthday. So, instead you can have a work in progress Wing AU. Unedited so far I’m afraid. But I didn’t want to miss the last day. I hope you enjoy none the less! 

Chirp.

The moment the noise left him, Prompto slapped both hands over his mouth. His eyes widened and he spun on heel to dash out of the citadel. The woman that had caused the chirp snapped her head toward him and her own eyes widened. He dropped his hands from his mouth and started sprinting for the door. The woman gave a surprised cry and he could hear the beginning of footsteps somewhere behind him. He was lucky they were so far away.

“Prompto?!” He heard Noctis call, but he couldn’t stop. Nope.

He wasn’t going to let one small noise out him to his best friend.

But he was getting ahead of himself.

Prompto Argentum was adopted, he knew that. His parents were lovely people honestly, but hadn’t been prepared for what to do when their child suddenly started growing his wings. Wings were normal enough in Insomnia. The crystal gave them out left and right. No one knew why, it just was. But wings like his?

Less than common.

Like maybe one in a million winged births will result in his wing class common. (And it was a BIG maybe.) Like supposed to report his pattern to the nearest government agency common. Like supposed to be given over to the citadel for protection common, because of the abilities they supposedly granted.

That is to say, not common at all.

His parents didn’t want to give him up though. They had tried for so long to adopt a child, they weren’t going to let this take him away from them. And so, they hid him. He grew up hiding his wings. Though people knew he was one of the winged, they’d never seen them. His parents had made up some excuse of an accident before he was adopted, preventing him from flying. Made it a point that he never wanted his wings seen because of this. Made sure to invest in baggy clothes and wing binders to hold them tightly against his back.

But he was 15 now, and his parents were hardly around. He was dealing with hiding his wings on his own. He’d done his research on his wings, and knew that running into another of his wing class wasn’t ever likely. But he should have been prepared for something like this just in case. Especially since he had been planning on hanging out with Noctis in the citadel today.

A person in his wing class, as one of their abilities, could always recognize another in their wing class. He hadn’t believed it until that day.

He had almost reached the door when he heard the air shattering behind him, signaling a warp. Arms wrapped around his waist stopping his momentum. He gave a small cry of surprise and hastily grasped at the door handle. But he was lifted off his feet and away from his goal.

“YOU FOUND ANOTHER ONE!” The woman shouted, joy in her voice.

Of course, she had to be a kingsglaive. That was just his luck.

He lightly kicked his feet, and pushed at her arms, but it was half-hearted. He knew there was no way to get out of the woman’s hold. She was a trained solider, and he… he was just Prompto.

“Let go!” He said, wiggling as much as he could. At the very least, since he couldn’t get her to put him down, he could make it hard for her. And you never knew, she might listen.

But she didn’t listen and was already walking back over to the people she had with Prompto tucked under her arm like a football. “Not a chance. Do you know how long I’ve been waiting to meet another like me?”

He huffed and went dead weight.

“For about as long as I’ve been hiding I imagine.” He muttered.

They passed by Noctis, who looked distraught by the state of his own wings, and groaned. Ignis was beside him and he looked puzzled to say the least. Confused. That wasn’t a good sign either. If Ignis didn’t know what to do in this situation Prompto had no chance. Gladio meanwhile was laughing. At least he knew he was way beyond help, but in no danger. (He made a mental note to get back at Gladio later.)

“Crowe, put the kid down, you’re scaring the prince.” One of the men said in exasperation, but his expression was amused.

The woman, Crowe he mentally told himself, glanced back over her shoulder at Noctis and set him down. However, she must have known that he was going to try and dart away, because she kept her arms around him. And then rested her chin on top of his head. He could feel his feathers slightly puffing up in annoyance, not that they could see them. He was stuck.

“There, happy?” She asked.

Even though Prompto knew that the question wasn’t directed at him he said, “No.”

He crossed his arms and glowered at the men she had been walking with. He knew he should have been panicking. He didn’t know what to do if they found out about his wings. But being around another with his wings…it was actually a little calming. Didn’t change the fact he’d basically been kidnapped right in front of his friends.

He sighed and crossed his arms. “Can I please go back to my friends?”

“Yeah Crowe, let the kid go. Why’d you grab him anyways… You know him?” The other man asked while looking Prompto up and down, a disapproving look on his face.

He was tempted to make a face at him for that look.  

“Nope, sorry kid, you’re the first I’ve seen and I’m keeping you for as long as I can.” She said, and her arms tightened around him. He could practically feel the smile from her.

But that was when his friends finally decided to try and save him. Try being the operative word. They approached slowly. Gladio was still completely relaxed, but Ignis was a little ruffled. Probably from Noctis worrying about why Prompto tried to make a break for it. She was in his wing class though, and people in his wing class tended not to let go once they decided someone was theirs. Not to mention, it really did feel like he’d found a family member. And it annoyed him a little, how right everything felt. No one was ever supposed to find out, and now that they would, he couldn’t even feel panicked about it.

“Uh…Glaive Crowe, was it?” Ignis said in a careful tone of voice. “If you could please explain why you…stole, for lack of a better word, our friend?”

“Because he’s mine now.” She said, clearly keeping to her word of not letting him go. “I’ll give him back eventually.”

“Whoops, you’ve done it now Crowe.” One of the men muttered.

She was standing close enough to kick him, so she did. “Shut it Nyx.”

He looked over at his friends and nearly squeaked. Noctis looked…upset to say the least. Magpies were known to be possessive. Like, super possessive. So it probably did nothing for his mood to hear one of the glaive claiming him.

“Prompto isn’t anyone’s.” He said firmly, but his eyes were speaking a different story. Mine. Mine. Mine. You could practically see the thoughts flashing across his forehead. He was technically in Noctis’s inner circle. Which Noctis was probably banking on to get her to release him.

“Nope, I have every right to him now.” Crowe said, which only agitated the prince more. Prompto remained silent, knowing that it was true. Wing classes were treated like family. Especially the rare patterns. Though blood always trumped wings. But, unfortunately, none of his actual family was here. And the circle ranked below wing class. So he was stuck.

Noctis was about to open his mouth to argue, but Crowe cut him off. Her wings slowly opened behind her and wrapped around both her and Prompto. It was unexpected and everyone froze. Hugging someone with your wings was considered something only for circles, or pattern families. Since they all knew she’d never met him before today, and she wasn’t a part of Noctis’s circle, it was obvious to which he belonged.

“Why didn’t you tell anyone you were friends with a Kestrel, Prince Noctis?” Crowe said, staring at him.

Instead of answering her, he looked at Prompto. “You’re a KESTREL?”

His voice rose in pitch with every word, bordering on panic.

Prompto shrugged helplessly from his feathery prison. “Uh…surprise?”

Without meaning to, he hid a bit further behind Crowe’s wings upon seeing Noctis’s panic.

“I thought you were a Chickadee! Like your parents!”

“I’m adopted!” He fired back.

The two bickered back and forth while Noctis got closer to the pair, trying to figure out a way to steal back his friend. Eventually, he settled for trying to pluck out one of Crowe’s feathers. She wasn’t too happy about that, and with the citadel’s ceiling so high, threatened to take flight with his friend. Magpies, though fast, wouldn’t be able to out fly a kestrel. The two dissolved into arguing then, while Libertus and Nyx both remained quiet and observed them with smiles.

“There hasn’t been a Kestrel in the inner circle in so long…” Ignis muttered suddenly, and at that everyone fell silent.

This changed things. A lot. Even Prompto knew that.

There already was an uproar when Noctis had been discovered to be a magpie. A pattern that hadn’t been seen since the rouge queen herself, who had turned Insomnia upside down on its head during her rule, leading the nation into prosperity. Magpie were thought to herald a change. And a Kestrel hadn’t been in the inner circle for generations, even though they had records of every kestrel since the 57th king.

He had been the one who had discovered that Kestrels have a certain degree of magic in them. He was also the one, unfortunately, who discovered that if someone killed a Kestrel patterned person, they gained their abilities. Since that king, the royal family has taken in all Kestrels to be protected from such a fate, due to the king’s loss of a dear friend. So far, Regis had only one in his care. And she was currently holding the boy who would be second in her arms.

“Just what’s going on here?” Suddenly came a voice from behind them all.

Regis and Clarus were walking down the hall together towards them, Regis looking rather amused by the groups antics. Immediately, the glaives, along with Ignis and Gladio, bowed once they saw who it was. Crowe’s bow was rather awkward considering she still had not released Prompto.

“Highness.” Ignis said before straightening. “We have a bit of a…”

Before he could finish Crowe chimed in, “This boy is a Kestrel!”

Prompto gave a noise of distress upon hearing her tell the king. Oh six, what if this really did get his parents in trouble? He once again started to struggle against her hold. “She’s delusional your majesty!”

He stomped on her foot and she hissed. But her hold only tightened. “I am not you little-“

“Enough.” Clarus called, a frown settling on his face.

Prompto immediately settled. He crossed his arms though, and tucked his head between his shoulders. He looked like a very upset chickadee then. Which, considering he was raised by two, made sense. All he was missing was the…

“We need to see his wings, and that will settle this.”

“W-what?” Prompto looked over at Noctis’s father with wide eyes.

“Please, show us your wings.” Regis said it kindly, but his face was pulled tight. To prove it, they needed to see the pattern itself.

He looked at Noctis, who was frowning. “Dad…I mean your majesty, he…his wings were hurt as a child. So he binds them to his back.”

Regis only raised his eyebrow at Prompto, and he knew he couldn’t lie. His own father would make that face at him and he knew lying wasn’t the way to go.

“That’s… not entirely true.” He said softly. “I didn’t want to leave my mom and dad.”

He lied anyways. Let them believe it was his idea. Maybe then some of the fault would be taken from his parents.

“Wait…So…” Noctis looked pale. “You’ve been binding your wings this whole time, and they’re healthy?”

“Yes.” He tucked his head behind some of Crowe’s feathers, and she subtly shifted her wings to better cover him.

“Prom!” Noctis sounded upset.

“Miss Crowe, if you could be so kind as to release the boy, I think we should probably go and get that binder off him.” Regis said. He then turned to Ignis and continued, “Ignis, if you could be so kind as to send for someone from the infirmary for a wing check?”

“As you wish.” Ignis bowed and then left at a quick pace. But not before casting a worried look back at Prompto before leaving.

“So long as I get him back soon.” Crowe said with a small smile. She let go and Prompto tried darting for the doors again, flight instincts kicking in now that he had a chance. But this time Gladio scooped him up and put him over his shoulders, while Prompto let out a yelp.

“Glady! Let go! Put me down!” He said, starting to swipe at his back. “I need to go home!”

They ignored him until he calmed down, to which Clarus said, “Are you sure he’s a Kestrel? He certainly has the temperament of a chickadee.”

“If he’s not I’ll cut off my wings.” Crowe said with a shrug. She was very sure of herself. But then she bowed to the king. “By your leave, your highness.”

“As you will.” Regis waved a hand at her and she turned to rejoin her friends. They nudged her with their elbows, grins on their face, happy that she wouldn’t be alone in the Kestrel quarters now.

Meanwhile, Prompto once again went dead weight. Noctis occasionally let out a soft noise, trying to reassure him as they walked, but he was ignoring him, content to play dead no matter how ridiculous he looked in front of the king at the moment.

Blame it on the bird instincts.

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Fall Movie Preview 2019

Fall movie season is here! This is always my favorite time of the year to see movies. There’s such a wonderful variety of films available to see in theaters. Everything from awards season contenders, indie darlings, and exciting space adventures! Get ready to make your way to the theater because this looks like it’s going to be a great season at the movies. Let’s take a look at what’s coming soon.

SEPTEMBER September 13th The Goldfinch Starring: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fengley, Nicole Kidman, Finn Wolfhard Bring the tissues and prepare yourself for a rollercoaster of emotions because this is gonna be a wild ride. The Goldfinch is based on the Pultizer Prize winning novel by Donna Tart. This is one of the best books I’ve read recently, but it’s quite an emotional journey. It follows 13-year-old Theo Decker after the traumatic death of his mother in an art museum bombing. It’s a haunting and powerful story about the human condition once grief becomes a prominent force in one’s life. The film is directed by John Crowley with Roger Deakins as director of photography. That’s what I call must-see cinema.

Hustlers Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B, Lili Reinhart Based on a New York Times article, former strip club employees band together to hustle their Wall Street Clients during the late 2000’s financial crisis. This looks a bit like the heist of Oceans 8 meets the real world story of Molly’s Game. It has quite a star studded female cast of movie/TV/and music stars and is directed by Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend at the End of the World, The Meddler.)

September 20th Downton Abbey Starring: Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith, Hugh Boneville, Jim Carter You love Downton Abbey, I love Downton Abbey. Everyone loves Downton Abbey. I can hear the theme song playing in my head just thinking of the movie being released. That’s right, the beloved TV series is coming to the big screen. Hopefully, it won’t be anything like the season 3 finale. (Real fans know the pain and struggle. We can’t go back to that time.) In the film, Downton Abbey will be visited by the royal family. I’m sure it will make for quite an impressive cinematic experience. As a fan of the show, I can’t wait to see it all on the big screen!

Ad Astra Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler Just two months after showing the world that he doesn’t age in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt is back and he’s going to space. It makes sense, fall is the only logical time to release a film in the space genre. (The Martian, Interstellar, First Man, Arrival, Gravity were all released in the fall,.) Ad Astra is all about an astronaut who takes on a mission to uncover the truth about his missing father. The film is directed by James Gray (The Lost City of Z, The Immigrant). I just hope Brad Pitt gets to wear his iconic Hawaiian shirt. Audiences demand to see it again.

September 27th Judy Starring: Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell There’s nothing like a good biographical drama. Throw in musical numbers and it’s a hit in my eyes. Renée Zellweger stars as the iconic Judy Garland in this biopic that explores her life in 1969 as she arrives in London to perform a series of sold out concerts. Word from the Telluride Film Festival is that Renée Zellweger gives a very strong performance as Judy. Could she have an awards season run on her hands for Best Actress? We’ll see very soon!

OCTOBER

October 4th Joker Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert de Niro, Zazie Beets Joaquin Phoenix stars as the Joker in this standalone film that focuses on the origins of the DC villain. The film received an 8 minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, which seems pretty excessive for any movie. I’m just not a movie applauder. It’s unnatural to me. I’m also not much of a Joker enthusiast so I can’t get too excited about this or the way it seemingly wants me to feel sympathy for the Joker. I don’t. He’s a terrorist. However, this is going to be a huge cinematic event. There are striking similarities to 70’s hit films The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver in the first trailers of the film. Director Todd Phillips clearly wanted to make a unique comic book film and this one will have people talking.

Lucy in the Sky Starring: Natalie Portman, Dan Stevens, Jon Hamm Another space movie! Fall movie season demands it. After returning from space, astronaut Lucy Cola begins to feel withdrawn and disconnected from reality. The film is loosely based on Lisa Nowak, an astronaut who lost her grip on reality after returning to earth after space travel. One thing’s for sure, with a cast including Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, and Dan Stevens, this one promises some impressive acting.

October 11 Gemini Man Starring: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen An assassin becomes the target of a mysterious government operative who can predict his every move. Soon he finds out that the mysterious operative is a clone of himself. Can Gemini Man help director Ang Lee (Life of Pi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) find critical acclaim again after 2016’s underwhelming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.

The King Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton Based on Shakespeare’s Henriad, The King follows Henry V as he takes the throne after his father’s death and navigates a kingdom filled with war, chaos, and political strife. While all of that is very interesting, I think we need to discuss the hair in this movie. First of all, there’s Timothée Chalamet’s bowl cut, which is quite a situation. So very round and tragic. Why Timothée? You know you have great hair, but the bowl cut is not your look! Then, there’s Robert Pattinson’s wig. It’s kind of amazing. The hair in this movie alone is going to keep me entertained for 2 hours. The King will be in limited release theaters on October 11th and begin streaming on Netflix November 1st.

October 18th Zombieland: Double Tap Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin This sequel comes 10 years after the popular zombie comedy first made its way to theaters. A lot has changed for the cast since 2009. Emma Stone has won an Oscar for La La Land, Jesse Eisenberg received a nomination for The Social Network, and Woody Harrelson has appeared in several projects including the Oscar nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and the critically acclaimed series True Detective. That doesn’t stop this cast for returning for a sequel!  This time around, the team is back in the American heartland to face off against evolved zombies.

The Lighthouse Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe I was initially indifferent towards this movie, but after watching the trailer I have to see it just to solve the mystery of who spilled those beans! Willem Dafoe is going INSANE over it. “Why’d ya spill your beans?” Someone please answer him before he turns into the Green Goblin! This movie is about two lighthouse keepers who try to maintain their sanity while living in seclusion on a remote island in Maine. (It’s also about beans, I think). The cinematography for The Lighthouse has a unique old Hollywood feel that is very intriguing.

Jojo Rabbit Starring: Taika Watiti, Scarlett Johannson, Roman Griffin, Sam Rockwell Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) directs and stars in Jojo Rabbit, an “anti-hate satire” about a young German boy whose imaginary best friend is an idiotic version of Hitler. One day, he discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home and Jojo’s world is turned upside down. There’s no doubt this will be controversial, but the key word here is satire. Taiki Waititi is Jewish himself and the film is obviously making fun of Nazis.

NOVEMBER

November 1st The Irishman Starring: Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci Martin Scorsese’s long awaited gangster epic is finally premiering this November. The 3 1/2 hour crime drama (Scorsese loves a good 3-hour runtime!) focuses on the life of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran a mob hitman who played a role in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Netflix is distributing the film, but it will be available to see in select theaters on November 1st for cinematic purists. It will begin streaming on Netflix November 27th. (Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Go ahead and watch a 3-hour mafia epic with your family for the holiday! It’s Martin’s gift to you.)

Harriet Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monet, Joe Alwyn The true story of Harriet Tubman and her harrowing escape from slavery that eventually led to the Underground Railroad. Cynthia Ervio is going to be amazing in this role! She was such a breakout star in Widows and Bad Times at the El Royale. Can’t wait to see her portrayal of Harriet Tubman.

Terminator: Dark Fate Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator is back. In yet another installment of the franchise that will last forever, Sarah Connor and a hybrid human must protect a young girl from a newly modified Terminator from the future.

November 8th Doctor Sleep Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Jacob Tremblay 39 years after The Shining, it’s getting a sequel. Based on the novel by Steven King, Doctor Sleep focuses on an adult Danny Torrance as he meets a girl with similar “shining” powers and tries to protect her from a cult called The True Knot. There’s a lot of talent involved in this project, but The Shining is untouchable in terms of classic movies. There’s no need to make a sequel. Not to mention, this plot summary sounds kind of weak. Consider me very skeptical that this will be good.

Last Christmas Starring: Emilia Clarke, Henry Goulding, Emma Thompson A Christmas rom-com! Let’s jump for joy because a Christmas rom com is making its way to theaters! Last Christmas is all about Kate, a depressed woman working as Santa’s elf in a department store. She keeps bumping into the same man, Tom, who may help her find happiness in the holiday season. Henry Goulding/Emilia Clarke romance+Christmas? Sounds like a recipe for the perfect holiday movie!

Honey Boy Starring: Shia Labeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe It’s no secret that Shia LaBeouf has had a chaotic lifestyle in his post-Disney days. It looks like audiences are about to find out what has gone on behind-the-scenes in Honey Boy. The film is written by LaBeouf and follows his own experiences with fame and the strained relationship with his dysfunctional father. Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges will be playing Shia LaBeouf as a child and teen actor, while Shia LaBeouf will play his own father for a meta twist. As someone who grew up watching Even Stevens and saw Shia LaBeouf’s career progress, this is one of my most anticipated films of the fall.

November 15th Ford v. Ferrari Starring: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Catriona Balfe American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles attempt to build a revolutionary race car for Ford to battle Ferrari at the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1966. The premise of this movie reminds me a little bit of Ron Howard’s Rush which is a very underrated movie that should be watched if you haven’t seen it.

The Report Starring: Adam Driver, Jon Hamm, Tim Blake Nelson The Report is a political drama about an FBI agent’s investigation into the CIA’s torture practice on suspected terrorists after 9/11. Adam Driver stars in the film and he’s about to have a major fall movie season. The Report and Marriage Story (more on that one a little later) could easily get him awards buzz. In fact, I predict he’ll be nominated for an Oscar for one of those roles. Plus, he’ll be in Star Wars in December. You’ll be seeing a lot of him in the next few months.

Charlie’s Angels Starring: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks Did we need another Charlie’s Angels reboot after the 2000’s movie trilogy and the ABC TV show? No. Yet there’s nothing Hollywood loves to more than to reboot a franchise we’ve just seen! This time around the angels are played by Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinski. Elizabeth Banks is directing and co-starring in the project.

November 22nd Frozen 2 Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Olaf go on an adventure to an enchanted autumn forest to find the origin of Elsa’s powers and save their land. Just when everyone finally got Let it Go out of their heads, Disney is gonna hit us with another Frozen movie. I have to admit, I’m intrigued by the concept of the autumn forest. We need more movies that take place in the fall! It should be it’s own sub-genre.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson He’s already played Walt Disney, Captain Phillips, and Sully so it’s fitting that Tom Hanks would play Mr. Rogers on the list of “America’s favorite people” up next. The movie is all about the friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. I cannot wait to see this. If you haven’t watched the documentary about Fred Rogers called Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, do it before this is released! It’s going to add so much depth to the cinematic experience.

November 27th Knives Out Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette When a famous crime novelist is found dead on his estate, a detective is enlisted to investigate the family. Knives Out is directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, The Last Jedi) and packed with stars. It looks a bit like Bad Times at the El Royale meets the style of a Wes Anderson movie. I’m very interested in the central mystery at play here, but I can’t lie, Chris Evans is the reason I’ll go to the theater for this.

December 6th Marriage Story Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern This one is gonna be majorly sad, so let’s all take some time to prepare ourselves. A stage director and his actress wife struggle as their marriage falls apart and they proceed with a difficult coast-to-coast divorce. Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha) directed the film which has already been receiving high praise from early festival screenings. This will definitely draw comparisons to Kramer vs. Kramer and Baumback’s The Squid and the Whale based on the trailer’s tone. The juxtaposition of the couple’s happy memories vs. the court scene at the end of the trailer is just heartbreaking. Marriage Story will be available to stream on Netflix December 6th.

December 13th A Hidden Life Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts Few movies have affected me the way Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life have. It’s certainly not a movie for everyone, but it works for me. The unconventional narrative, epic cinematography, and orchestral score are unforgettable. Critics from festival screenings have said that A Hidden Life is his best work since The Tree of Life meaning I’ll need to see it ASAP. The film is based on a true story about an Austrian farmer named Franz Jaggerstatter who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. The trailer looks beautiful and poetic.

December 20th Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega The latest Star Wars trilogy will complete with The Rise of Skywalker. Taking place after The Last Jedi, the members left in the Resistance will face the First Order once again. The conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches a breaking point bringing the Skywalker saga to an end. I have so many questions about this movie! Was Kylo Ren actually lying to Rey about her parents in The Last Jedi? Could they really be important people? Will she turn to the dark side like this preview suggests? (I hope not). Why is Palpatine (the villain who died in Return of the Jedi) talking in all of the trailers? Thankfully, J.J. Abrams is returning as director for The Rise of Skywalker to answer all of my questions and hopefully deliver a great Star Wars film.

Jumanji: The Next Level Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was one of the biggest surprise box office hits in recent years, appealing to people of all age groups. It’s no surprise that The Next Level is being released so quickly after the massive success of Welcome to the Jungle. This time around, the group goes back into the game, but a few of their grandfather’s are sucked in as well. That means Kevin Hart will be playing Danny Glover and Dwayne Johnson will be portraying Danny DeVito.

Cats Starring: Francesca Hayward, Jason Derulo, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift Forget Star Wars, forget A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, forget A Hidden Life. Disregard everything on this list. Cats is going to be the cinematic moment of 2019! That CGI? Legendary! The actors could have worn cat suits or make up like the stage play, but director Tom Hooper decided that this is the 21st century…time to try out a new technique called digital fur technology! So now this movie exists. It’s difficult to describe what this digital fur technology looks like, but it’s not cats. I will say the trailer was released with plenty of time before the movie gets to theaters so there’s hope that the finished product will look way better than the original trailer. If I’m being totally honest, I love anything musical, so I’m totally going to see this.

December 25th Little Women Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern Greta Gerwig’s highly ancitipated second film is a remake of the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel, Little Women. You all know the story, but I’ll do a quick plot recap anyway. Little Women is told through the eyes of Jo March as she recounts her life growing up with her 3 sisters: Meg, Amy, and Beth. Each have their own distinct personalities, but have a very strong bond with each other. The film reunites Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet as Jo March and Laurie for a mini-Lady Bird reunion. It also contains a little Big Little Lies reunion with Meryl Streep and Laura Dern. What a great Christmas day release!

That concludes this Fall Movie Preview! As you can tell, there are tons of movies releasing this season in all genres. What are you most excited to see this fall?

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Let’s ramble a bit more about Changeling Sim ideas! This time a bit about the awkward lil royal family and their interlocking relationships~!

Kiddo

It our deuteroganist! Hello! The protagonist’s cute little daughter is actually the next heir to the faerie throne, sent to be raised by her as a challenge to prove that the human world has good in it and is worth saving. And also secretly because Xana Mega is pretty awkward and cute under her scary facade, and was worried she was too distant to make a good mother to her child. In the golden ending you can help patch up their relationship, even though Jackie is still the one Kiddo knows as her true mother, and her biological parent becomes more like the family’s aunt. Kiddo is technically half human, but it’s not because Xana Mega married a human or anything. Fairies don’t follow biological genetics, theyre grown from giant flowers after all! Xana created Kiddo entirely by herself, and she acquired her human side solely from being given to Jackie to raise. Baby fae are more metaphysically squishy than their older counterparts, the classic changeling ploy is simply to replace a human child with a fae baby and it’ll naturally shift into the shape of the human. For a time they’ll be just that- a fairy wearing a disguise. But if they don’t know theyre not human, they’ll grow into what they’re taught and completely transform into a real mortal around puberty. Changelings do tend to retain a heightened sense to the supernatural and occasionally a few odd abilities, but generally they’ll never return to what they once were. Traditionally nobody had a choice in this whole matter, it was a very sketchy and horrid practise of ancient fae who didnt even respect humans as real sentient people. But in this case Kiddo wasn’t replacing an existing human, and she’s being raised knowing of her origins. Eventually she’ll face the question of whether she wants to stay or return to being a fairy, but it’ll be 100% her own choice. Similarly, it’s her own choice whether she wants to take the throne or if she finds a different career choice during her adventures in this other world. Many endings for you, the player!

Xana Mega

The current queen of Mag Mell, an ominous towering figure who rules with strict efficiency and commands the current anti-human war. Everyone’s pretty damn scared of her, and she lives a very lonely life disconnected from her own people. Despite her frightening persona and dedication to all things rational, she’s called for this mysterious truce for the next 18 years, and is permitting certain humans to enter our realm?? Truly the queen works in mysterious ways... but is she going soft...? Deep down she’s really a kind person who feels she has to put up this front deliberately in order to retain order. Its half that and half not really knowing how to function well socially, since she’s been groomed to be a ruler from a young age and had to live with a distant father. Because she was scared she’d repeat his mistakes, she gave her child to somebody else... but ultimately has she just become the same absent parent? It doesnt matter, because at least the kid will have a good mother, even if it isn’t her. But the decision does haunt her, and she’s both excited and terrified of the day she’ll see the child again on her 18th birthday and she won’t recognise her. But hopefully (if the player does well) she’ll be able to see that Kiddo has grown up into a wonderful young woman and had a fullfilling life that makes it all worthwhile ^_^ Ultimately if you’d ever get to know the real Xana beneath the royal role, she’s a slightly adorable awkward dork with a weary sadness yet a childish joy for experiencing new things. When you’d given up hope on this stuff, its hard to restrain yourself! Its possible to get a super secret route where Jackie romances Xana and Kiddo acquires DOUBLEMUMS~! And they’re super cute going out together on Real Authentic Human World Dates while Xana flails happily like this small hotdog stand is disneyland. Who’da thought that after the war ended, the old queen would become a human world weeaboo as soon as she set foot in our dimension? ^_^

Alberich

Xana’s father and previous ruler. Known as the Good King, he was responsible for starting the grand reforms of society that Xana continues nowadays. If peace is ever achieved between humans and fae, he was the one who sewed the first seed even if he didn’t live to see it sprout. Despite his success as a ruler, he was pretty flawed as a father, and passed that on to his daughter. He couldn’t completely escape the trappings of ancient fairy tradition, and his daughter was mostly raised by maids and tutors while he remained just this distant silent figure she could never reach no matter how hard she tried. She never even knew very much about him since he died when she was young. The young queen was just left with a million different opinions everybody else had on him, coalescing into an abstract cluster of an unknowable, empty pillar of ideal regal emotionlessness. .....Of course, the real Alberich was just as far from this as she is! To those who personally knew him, he was a complete softhearted goofball whose overidealistic ramblings would surely doom the whole country. And isn’t that just why he’s so loveable? Ultimately, his failure as a father was just that... a failure. Xana tried to justify it as if he’d made the right decision to be distant, and she should become the same sort of person, and take it further to become distant to even her own citizens. But Alberich never pretended his decision was the right one, he was a good man who despite his best efforts didn’t know how to raise a child. He had no-one to learn from, and his fear of messing up is what caused him to flee from the concept of parenthood entirely. He thought that hiring the best educators and minders would help compensate for the ways he was lacking as a dad, never knowing that all his daughter wanted was the one thing he could give- love. :( In the end he perished sadly to a simple disease that could have been cured if the country’s infrastructure wasn’t so ravaged by the war with the humans. His decision to prioritize the remaining money towards protecting the citizens was what caused him to waste away from a simple fever. While a certain someone raced against the clock to fetch the medicine on foot, arriving just late enough to miss the chance to hold his hand as he passed away...

Rafferty

A simple court jester who was promoted to the king’s butler and eventually promoted/demoted (?) to the finance minister after the new queen took the throne. Why is he even in the royal family section...? He’s always been sort of a stuffy grumpy neat freak, but he used to be a symbol of fun amoungst the court once. Now he’s just become bitter and hateful, leading the anti-human sentiment and questioning the country’s leadership at every turn. He’s globally hated by all of his coworkers and suspected of being corrupt- he was the major scapegoat for the culprit in the king’s death, and never managed to shake the stigma. He’s only really here and has any sort of power because the king’s will secured his position for the foreseeable future. He’s also hated because (GASP!) he’s a disgusting former human turned fairy! In his former life he was a homeless peasant in the 1800s that Alberich brought home one day and hired as a servant. Everyone humoured the king with his new pet, but it started to get ridiculous when he gave the thing legal rights and a career! It’s tradition to just consider a fairy a fairy when they become one, and forget about whoever they were in their past life, but gossipping housewives like to ignore this rule and hold it against him anyway. Its also kinda why Rafferty has such a personal hate of humans, he used to be one and he’s seen nothing but the worst side of them... His role in the current story is really just to be a small obstacle in plotlines, and a possible befriendable character. I’m an optimistic person so I like stories of cliche ‘evil vizier’ type guys having more complex motives and being able to be redeemed in the end. In the end you can discover that the real secret behind him and the king was that they were actually dating, and Rafferty really was loyal to the kingdom all along. And he endured all this hate for so long because he doesn’t want to tarnish Alberich’s memory by letting people know about their affair. Xana is actually his biological daughter from when he was human, making him Kiddo’s grandpa. Neither of them knew this fact though, and in fact Xana was one of the people who hated him the most. She just knew him as her funny friend who kept her company when she was lonely as a child, one of her father’s servants who seemed to care about her more than the rest. So she took it as a personal betrayal when he was suspected of killing the king, and kept believing it well into her adult years. Its gonna be a messy reunion for them when the misunderstanding is all sorted out, but a happy one too, hopefully...

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A slightly unrelated side note but I ideally wanna make a full cast of court employees and lesser nobility! At the moment all I have is Rafferty, unnamed scribe dad and kiiiinda a cupid type figure I dont know much about yet? I dunno, I just got that concept in my brain while I was thinking about Raffles and Ritchi’s past back when he was king. I imagined maybe Rafferty did have at least one friend amoung the royal court who knew about his relationship with the king and supported them. And it sorta came together in my brain as some sort of champion of love and justice, and maybe designed around a traditional valentine’s day fairy cliche. But like a world weary chain smoker one? BUT still one that really is a kind loving figure, not a dark subversion or anything. I just feel like they’re someone worn down by seeing injustice in the world, and questioning other people’s definitions of love that’re being forced upon them. Someone who was doubting this country... I get the feeling they’ve left the plot by the time we get to the present, but I don’t know if they died or maybe they just left the country after the king died and they’d lost their last hope the place could change. But I do generally think maybe everyone who was in the fairy court back when Rafferty was jester is now dead and/or gone, he was the youngest member then and he’s the oldest one now. And he was hated by all his former friends, they died, and now he’s left being hated by all new people... But yeah I just have this good image of some broken but kind person finding a tiny bit of happiness realizing grumpy old rafferty found love, and reassuring him that they dont hold the same stupid homophobic ‘no dating humans’ views that everyone else is pushing. A brief bit of calm before the storm, making it even sadder that cupid just wasnt strong enough to keep trying after that hope died, and ran out even on rafferty, their last friend... I guess... a Nanu cupid?

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Looking Back at 10 Years of Sentaler Milestones, Including the “Meghan Coat”

It was a piece of advice from Karl Lagerfeld that got Bojana Sentaler into the fashion business. A graduate of the Schulich School of Business with a degree in marketing and finance, the Belgrade-born Canadian’s passion had always been design but she wasn’t quite confident enough to pursue it as a career.

“In 2008 I lived in Dubai for a year, and I worked in media,” she says, as we sip tea during London Fashion Week, where she’s showcasing her fall/winter 2019 collection for media. “One of the most amazing people that I interviewed was Karl Lagerfeld. At the time he was designing villas in Dubai and I remember chatting with him off the record after the interview, letting him know I love fashion and would love to be a fashion designer, but I don’t have a design background. And basically he really bluntly told me that you either have it or you don’t, and if you have it go for it.”

Holding on to that “little source of inspiration,” a germ of an idea was born when Sentaler visited Peru the following year.

“I spent half a year living in Lima and that’s where I discovered the alpaca fabric,” she recalls. “Peruvians are very proud of this material. I began researching it, and found out that it has microscopic air pockets that act as thermal insulators. So that’s why alpaca is very warm, but also very lightweight. And that was it, a light kind of [went on] and I ended up designing my first collection of seven coats while I was living in Lima.”

In the 10 years since, her alpaca wool coats have been seen on everyone from Sophie Gregoire Trudeau to Gigi Hadid to the Duchesses of Sussex and Cambridge. Meghan Markle, in particular, has become a de facto brand ambassador of sorts, having first discovered the brand while living in Toronto during her Suits run. She owns multiple Sentaler coats, bringing them out for significant official appearances, including her first Christmas outing with the royal family.

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Dressed in shades of brown from head to toe, Markle topped off her subdued ensemble with a camel coat knotted at the waist. She wore a version of the same coat, in striking scarlet red this time, for her first public appearance of 2019. “She actually also owns the same coat in green,” says Sentaler. “She appeared in the green coat while she was living in Toronto. So I brought it back for the 10th anniversary collection.”

Perhaps it’s unsurprising that Markle’s style hasn’t changed significantly even as she settles into her high-profile new role in the global spotlight; her public appearances over the last year or so have seen her patronize many of the same brands she wore before marrying Prince Harry, with a focus on brands with a sustainable or ethical focus.

“She was very lovely and kind, and just very down-to-earth, which we can still see today,” Sentaler recalls of her first meeting with Markle, many years ago. While they know Markle owns multiple coats from their brand, it’s as much of a surprise to them when she dons one for a public appearance, as it is for everyone else.

“Usually, I find out through Twitter,” she laughs. “Somebody posts it and because of the identifiable details, the media already knows that it’s Sentaler, they’ll spot it right on. I feel so happy that even before we send out a press release, people know it’s a Sentaler. To any designer that’s really rewarding.”

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Creating a brand with signature elements that are easily identifiable was a part of Sentaler’s vision from the start, whether it’s the ribbed detail on the sleeves or cuffs, the shawl collars, the knotted bow, or the square pockets. The buttons on all the coats are engraved corozo, an anti-scratchable, anti-breakable natural substance. Another element of the Sentaler ethos since its inception is the strict use of cruelty-free fur. The alpaca fabric for their coats is sourced from 3,000 to 5,000 metres above sea level in Peru where the alpaca animals are protected by the Peruvian government. The fur is obtained from shearing the animal every two to three years, and eventually when the animal dies, or if it dies prematurely from the extreme changes in temperature, the farmers can still profit from the pelt.

“A lot of designers are opting out of using fur now, so I’m really happy that from day one, from the day I launched Sentaler ten years ago, I have always used animal-friendly and cruelty-free fur,” says the designer. “I was never a person that wore fur; I love animals. But once I found out how alpaca fur is obtained, it’s something that I became very passionate about. It’s the most ethical, the way it’s sourced. The animals are not harmed at all.”

A focus on sourcing cruelty-free fur (or choosing to go fur-free entirely) is a definite recent shift in the fashion industry, as is customers’ demand for transparency.

“Customers are very sophisticated,” Sentaler says of the way consumers have changed in recent years. “They want to know where their product is made, how the material is sourced, whether it’s sustainable, and cruelty free. They are very sophisticated and they want to know, ‘why am I purchasing this product and if I do, is it making a difference for someone?’”

A few years ago, Sentaler started a partnership with Sick Kids, a world-renowned Toronto hospital that provides care not just to Canadian children, but to kids all over the world. “I knew of the hospital, but until I became a mother I didn’t really know the extent to which they offered care. I know they have a goal to build a new hospital with new equipment. So I chose to build a partnership with them: proceeds from all sales of Sentaler accessories—the ribbed hats, gloves and scarves—go towards the foundation.” For the past two Christmases, she has also donated Sentaler hats to the hospital because their hypoallergenic nature makes them safe for kids with allergies to wool or cashmere.

Photography courtesy Sentaler

For her 10th anniversary collection, Sentaler dove back into her archives, pulling out signature pieces that she wanted to reintroduce for 2019, like the Oversized Hooded Wrap Coat, the Long Wide Collar Wrap Coat (known as the “Meghan Coat”) and the Wrap Coat with Ribbed Sleeves (dubbed the “Kate Coat”). She also brought back hues like Mulberry and Army Green from previous seasons. Designing the collection gave her the opportunity to reflect, and look at her earliest efforts with fresh eyes. What was that like, the nostalgic process of going back to the start?

“Oh my god, it was so much fun,” she smiles. “I have a design studio at home, and I have pictures and inspiration on all four walls from the last 10 years. Everything is so close to my heart, and everything has a story. I remember the feeling I had when I designed a piece a few years ago, and the feeling I had when I designed the very first collection. It was really nice to discover that I still love those pieces.”

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