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what do you say to rhaegar antis who support the greens and aegon ii (a canon rapist)? it seems very hypocritical to me
sorry for the late reply—it's not hypocritical. it's fairly clear to me that the person in question is a contrarian when it comes to asoiaf, as in prefers to explore stories from the POV of the characters treated as villains or even entirely ignored due to their distance from the actual narrative.
reading/rewriting stories from a separate perspective than intended to be read isn't some new invention. milton wrote paradise lost with a heavy dose of sympathy for satan in the 17th century. sometimes it's done really well (madeleine miller's circe) and sometimes it's cringe as fuck (that movie where dalmations killed cruella de vil's mom)
there is of course the ghost of rhaegar that lingers throughout asoiaf, with daenerys particularly but also with ned, barristan, tyrion, jaime, cersei, maester aemon—i'd also point out brienne's journey through the crownlands/riverlands as connected to rhaegar/targaryen legacy (for better or worse) in general—and at some point jon. lyanna similarly with a few characters like ned, arya, bran, randomly theon (it's not random it's important!!!), once again at some point jon.
there is a feeling for some that rhaegar's wife elia & their children who were murdered despicably are unfairly shafted because they have far less connection to the overall narrative/ the 'main' characters therefore reading the rhaegar and lyanna stories from the POV of elia/the dornish is more interesting or valid or good. personally i disagree, & heavily disagree with the idea that the heart of the dorne storyline is elia martell (imo it is arianne and HER unique struggles as a female heir that will hold weight on the overall story), but to each their own.
with the dance of the dragons, meh, it's extremely clear that in this conflict the greens are the side we are meant to condemn, that they represent the entropy of old ways of thinking and how they can only destroy progress, never create future. the show adaptation is tasked with bringing nuance into this story to make it compelling. for some watchers what they've been presented with is enough for them to least argue that the greens have a fair point and should be heard out. once again to each their own.
nuance is ofc crucial to analysis. as a rhaegar enjoyer myself i don't think him innocent in the start of robert's rebellion as much as 'motivated by the information he had at the time, he took a calculated risk only for the stakes to become drastically different through a series of events not foreseeable by anyone.' ironically i think reading rhaegar from the center of elia/dorne erases some of the nuance actually important to the plot, because it's simply not relevant from that particular POV. i'd say the same if we are looking at arianne's queenmaker plot through the lens of myrcella, or heaven forbid, CERSEI
as for the greens i just personally don't care enough about the story to care about the bad guy's feelings lol. it's prologue. within that, aegon ii, to me, is a detestable misogynist who violently murders his sister rhaenyra and tortures baela. that's enough, thanks, check please! from the outside i will say this: it's interesting to me that the characters who receive "nuance" are the characters who act in ways that preserve the social order, rather than those who disrupt it. look at laenor! does he deserve a nuanced analysis considering he's one of the only exampled we get of a queer character navigating a heteropatriarchy? when he (hotd version) abandons his family despite displaying love for them, can we reasonably understand that being forced to live in close quarters with criston cole, the murderer of laenor's lover joffrey lonmouth, causes him to snap? is it popularly argued that rhaenyra having 3 children with harwin is as much a result of rhaenyra's desperation/desire for agency as it is laenor's depression? laenor is not a main character and he's also not a pretty white woman but if we are doing contrarian readings... yfm? ok cool. that's all i got
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why are ppl blaming madeleine miller for anti intellectual fanfic readers latching onto her book? i don't like that book myself but i genuinely don't understand why ppl are so mad at her 😅
madeline miller killed my parents
#jk. i think people just see her books as representative of the trend over the last 10 or so years of ‘modernizing’ greek myth with no#awareness of the actual social complexities of agr which leads to the whole anti intellectual fanfic reader phenomenon#i actually thought tsoa was good it made me cry. it just contributes to the popularity of shit like that horrid hades and persephone comic
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Jungle Indie Rock - Indie Christmas Playlist 2020
Ok the 2020 Jungle Indie Rock - Indie Christmas Playlist is a bit different to the previous years, cut from 100 tracks down to 70. All the songs are new and from 2020. Hopefully you will all enjoy it and share it, Reb
Tracklist
BANNERS - Fairytale Of New York
Bastille - Merry Xmas Everybody
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - Christmas (And Dad Wants Her Back)
Anti-Flag - The War On Christmas Is Over (If You Buy It)
Sam Fender - Winter Song
Porridge Radio - The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)
The Offspring - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
The Goo Goo Dolls - You Ain't Getting Nothin'
Circa Waves - Miss Christmas
Jesca Hoop - White Winter Hymnal
Baby Queen - Santa Baby
Shame - Snow Day
Francis Lung - To Make Angels In The Snow
My Kid Brother - White Christmas
U.S. Girls - Santa Stay Home
Twenty One Pilots - Christmas Saves The Year
Charm Club - When It Comes Around
Tori Amos - Christmastide
The Cribs - Christmas (All Year Long)
Malena Cadiz - Blue Christmas
Field Music - Home For Christmas
Julia Jacklin - Baby Jesus Is Nobody's Baby Now
Birdy - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
New Found Glory - Decenber's Here
FINNEAS - Another Year
Work Drugs - All Alone On Christmas
Haley - Like Ice And Cold
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - Christmas Is Coming (We All Know The Score)
Kathryn Williams & Carol Ann Duffy - Snow Angel
Warm Digits - Good Enough For You This Christmas
The Raveonettes - Snowstorm
The National Parks - Peace On Earth
Stats - Christmas Without You
Polly Scattergood - Snowburben
Madeleine Peyroux - Ha Ha Holiday
Scouting For Girls - Xmas In The 80's
Calexico - Hear The Bells
Karl Blau - Snow In Falling In Manhattan
Bear's Den - Christmas, Hopefully
Nova Miller - Only When It Snows
Patty Gurdy & Fiddler’s Green - The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time Is Coming)
Kandle - Christmas Mourn
The Lutras - Give It Up For Christmas
The Cornshed Sisters - Have A Good Christmas Time
Crocodiles - Christmas In Hell
Girl In Red - Two Queens In A King Sized Bed
The Petersens - Christmas Time's A-Comin'
Rock Eupora - We Need A Merry Christmas
Flight Paths - Broken Ornaments
Julia Stone - Santa Claus In Coming To Town
PINS - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To fight Tonight)
Belle Haven - Moving On
Lauren Hibberd - Rockin'Around The Christmas Tree
Sleep Party People - Our Falling Snow
Dream Nails - Lonely Star (Christmas Song)
Bradley Palermo - Satan Won The War On Christmas
The Aislers Set - Cold Christmas
Sharon Van Etten - Silent Night
Grouplove - A Grouplove Christmas
Wyldest - Another Christmas
Grant-Lee Phillips - An Old Fashioned Christmas
The Parlotones -I've Been A Good Boy Santa
Lande Hekt - December
Christian Lee Hutson - The Christmas Song
Blackaby - Last Year's Christmas Tree
Good Charlotte - Last December
Tegan And Sara - Make You Mine This Season (Happiest Season)
Blossoms -It's Going To Be A Cold Winter
The Go! Team - Look Outside (A New Year's Coming)
Sløtface - New Year, New Me
#Jungle Indie Rock - Indie Christmas Playlist 2020#indie#music#indie music#playlist#indie rock#rock#dreampop#pop#folk#folk rock#singer-songwriter#2020#Rebjukebox#Jungle Indie Rock
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{ yearly booklist: 2020 }
books read: 107
pages read: 30,689
top 5:
1 (best). the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home (joseph fink & jeffrey cranor)
2. the faggots and their friends between revolutions (larry mitchell & ned asta)
3. a little life (hanya yanagihara)
4. the summer we got free (mia mckenzie)
5. there there (tommy orange)
bottom 5:
5. pleasure activism (ed. adrienne maree brown)
4. the immortalists (chloe benjamin)
3. where the crawdads sing (delia owens)
2. the difference between you and me (madeleine george)
1 (worst). sugar land (tammy lynne stoner)
full list under the cut [in order read, *starred* are recommended]:
*bluets (maggie nelson)*
pleasure activism (ed. adrienne maree brown)
as lie is to grin (simeon marsalis)
*the mythic dream (ed. dominic parisien & navah wolfe)*
what is the what (dave eggers)
*if beale street could talk (james baldwin)*
*the stonewall reader (ed. new york public library)*
*the water dancer (ta-nehisi coates)*
*no name in the street (james baldwin)*
honeysuckle (robin gow)
where the crawdads sing (delia owens)
a tale for the time being (ruth ozeki)
*going to meet the man (james baldwin)*
*dangerous families (mattilda bernstein sycamore)*
*junk (tommy pico)* call down the hawk (maggie stiefvater)
answered prayers (truman capote)
veils, nudity, and tattoos: the new feminine aesthetics (thorston botz-bernstein)
*jacob's room (virginia woolf)*
*sag harbor (colson whitehead)*
so many ways to sleep badly (mattilda bernstein sycamore)
the red parts: autobiography of a trial (maggie nelson)
*the cancer journals (audre lorde)*
the truth (terry pratchett)
sweets: a history of candy
*a little life (hanya yanagihara)*
*tomboy survivial guide (ivan coyote)*
*feed (tommy pico)*
*red, white & royal blue (casey mcquiston)*
*are prisons obsolete? (angela y. davis)*
girl walking backwards (bett williams)
the end of san francisco (mattilda bernstein sycamore)
guapa (saleem haddad)
*tell me how long the train's been gone (james baldwin)*
pulling taffy (mattilda bernstein sycamore)
love & lies: marisol's story (ellen wittlinger)
the difference between you and me (madeleine george)
*the body keeps the score (bessel van der kolk)*
nimona (noelle stevenson)
*priestdaddy (patricia lockwood)*
*why are faggots so afraid of faggots?: flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification, and the desire to conform (ed. mattilda bernstein sycamore)*
the city we became (n.k. jemisin)
over the top (jonathan van ness)
huntress (malinda lo)
patience & sarah (isabel miller)
*the art of cruelty (maggie nelson)*
tricks and treats: sex workers write about their clients (ed. mattilda bernstein sycamore)
*the end of imagination (arundhati roy)*
the evidence of things not seen (james baldwin)
*on earth we're briefly gorgeous (ocean vuong)*
*dark days (james baldwin)*
trail of broken wings (sejal badani)
the lady's guide to petticoats and piracy (mackenzi lee)
peculiar institution: america's death penalty in an age of abolition (david garland)
*alice isn't dead (joseph fink)*
three parts dead (max gladstone)
when brooklyn was queer (hugh ryan)
*the faggots and their friends between revolutions (larry mitchell & ned asta)*
the immortalists (chloe benjamin)
*semi queer: inside the world of gay, trans, and black truck drivers (anne balay)*
three guineas (virginia woolf)
*the glass hotel (emily st. john mandel)*
the girl who lived twice (david lagercrantz)
*chokehold: policing black men (paul butler)*
codename villanelle (luke jennings)
no tomorrow (luke jennings)
die for me (luke jennings)
*just above my head (james baldwin)*
*sketchtasy (mattilda bernstein sycamore)*
*angry white men: american masculinity at the end of an era (michael kimmel)*
*how to be an anti-racist (ibram x. kendi)*
white fragility: why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism (robin diangelo)
*there there (tommy orange)*
*toward an intellectual history of black women (ed. mia bay et. al.)*
jonah's gourd vine (zora neale hurston)
*the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home (joseph fink & jeffrey cranor)
animal dreams (barbara kingsolver)
*the adventure zone: petals to the metal (clint mcelroy, carey pietsch, griffin mcelroy, justin mcelroy, travis mcelroy)*
*from black power to hip hop: racism, nationalism, and feminism (patricia hill collins)*
sugar land (tammy lynne stoner)
*nature poem (tommy pico)*
*prisoners of politics: breaking the cycle of mass incarceration (rachel elise barkow)*
*all the bad apples (moïra fowley-doyle)*
body horror: capitalism, fear, misogyny, jokes (anne elizabeth moore)
*the summer we got free (mia mckenzie)*
john henry days (colson whitehead)
the memory of blood (christopher fowler)
the last smile in sunder city (luke arnold)
*the death of vivek oji (akwaeke emezi)*
*dust tracks on a road (zora neale hurston)*
*an unkindness of ghosts (rivers solomon)*
*thick: and other essays (tressie mcmillan cottom)*
first test (tamora pierce)
the noble hustle: poker, beef jerky, and death (colson whitehead)
page (tamora pierce)
*patron saints of nothing (randy ribay)*
squire (tamora pierce)
*this is how it always is (laurie frankel)*
hidden (helen frost)
jimmy's blues and other poems (james baldwin)
96 words for love (rachel roy & ava dash)
*the colossus of new york (colson whitehead)*
*heavy (kiese laymon)*
*tell my horse: voodoo and life in haiti and jamaica (zora neale hurston)*
lady knight (tamora pierce)
*nobody knows my name (james baldwin)*
*apex hides the hurt (colson whitehead)*
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Book Society presents its August Reading Event! This month, our theme is Hogwarts Houses Reads. We welcome you to join us by picking up a book that embodies the values of your Hogwarts house. The lists below are meant to be guides, but you are not required to follow them, since this theme is open to your personal interpretation. This event is open to everyone, not just our members.
✧ how to participate:
optional: reblog this post; check out our network and members
read (or reread) a book of your choice that fits your hogwarts house; there is no botm
share what book you’ve chosen, thoughts, reactions, and/or creations
use the tag #booksociety in your posts, and include “@booksociety’s Hogwarts Houses Reads Event: [insert house here] - [insert book title here]” in the description of your creations
the event starts on 1 August and ends on 31 August
✧ reading recommendations (under the cut)
Gryffindor 🦁
house values: courage, bravery, determination
book themes: adventure, heroes, honour
A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab (adult, fantasy; 400 pages)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (children’s lit, fantasy, classic; 211 pages)
An Ember In the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (young adult, fantasy; 446 pages)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (young adult, fantasy; 544 pages)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (young adult, sci-fi, dystopia; 487 pages)
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy (young adult, contemporary, romance; 371 pages)
Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett (young adult, fantasy; 473 pages)
Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh (young adult, fantasy, historical; 392 pages)
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (young adult, fantasy, lgbt; 400 pages)
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (fantasy, historical; 356 pages)
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (non-fiction, autobiographical; 327 pages)
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (young adult, sci-fi; 602 pages)
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (young adult, contemporary, romance, mystery; 284 pages)
Legend by Marie Lu (young adult, sci-fi, dystopia; 305 pages)
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona (young adult, superheroes, comic; 120 pages)
My Hero Academia, Vol. 1 by Kohei Horikoshi (young adult, fantasy, superheroes, manga; 192 pages)
Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O'Neill (children’s lit, fantasy, comic, lgbt; 53 pages)
Roar by Cora Carmack (young adult, fantasy, romance; 380 pages)
Sabriel by Garth Nix (young adult, fantasy; 367 pages)
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (adult, urban fantasy, dystopia; 466 pages)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (young adult, contemporary; 444 pages)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (classic, high fantasy; 366 pages)
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (middle grade, fantasy, mythology; 377 pages)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (young adult, contemporary, poetry; 357 pages)
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (adult, high fantasy; 831 pages)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (mythology, romance, lgbt, retelling; 352 pages)
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard (young adult, fantasy; 415 pages)
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo (young adult, fantasy, superheroes; 364 pages)
Slytherin 🐍
house values: ambition, resourcefulness, cleverness
book themes: leadership, villains, anti-heroes
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (adult, contemporary, romance; 403 pages)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (adult, contemporary, mystery, thriller; 415 pages)
Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh (young adult, fantasy, historical; 392 pages)
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (adult, mystery, thriller, contemporary; 368 pages)
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (young adult, retelling, gothic; 432 pages)
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (young adult, fantasy, comic; 272 pages)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (young adult, fantasy; 465 pages)
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (adult, fantasy; 409 pages)
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (young adult, fantasy; 370 pages)
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (young adult, fantasy, historical; 388 pages)
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell (young adult, fantasy, time travel, historical; 512 pages)
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (adult, fantasy; 499 pages)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (mystery, contemporary; 559 pages)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (adult, historical, lgbt; 388 pages)
The Power by Naomi Alderman (sci-fi, dystopia; 341 pages)
The Young Elites by Marie Lu (young adult, fantasy; 355 pages)
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (young adult, fantasy; 403 pages)
Vicious by V.E. Schwab (adult, fantasy, sci-fi; 366 pages)
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal (young adult, fantasy; 472 pages)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (classic, romance, gothic; 353 pages)
Ravenclaw 🦅
house values: wit, learning, wisdom
book themes: mystery, science, puzzles
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro (young adult, contemporary, mystery, retelling; 321 pages)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (children’s lit, fantasy, classic; 239 pages)
Emma by Jane Austen (classic, romance; 474 pages)
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (classic, sci-fi, dystopia; 194 pages)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (classic, sci-fi; 251 pages)
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (young adult, sci-fi; 602 pages)
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (young adult, contemporary, mystery, thriller; 361 pages)
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken (young adult, fantasy, time travel, historical; 496 pages)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (young adult, sci-fi; 374 pages)
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (young adult, fantasy; 456 pages)
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco (young adult, historical, mystery; 327 pages)
State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury (young adult, fantasy; 464 pages)
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (young adult, fantasy; 536 pages)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (adult, mystery, thriller; 489 pages)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (young adult, fantasy, classic; 399 pages)
The Gilded Wolves by Rokshani Chokshi (young adult, fantasy, historical; 388 pages)
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (adult, contemporary, romance; 333 pages)
The Martian by Andy Weir (adult, sci-fi, humour; 369 pages)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (young adult, magical realism; 301 pages)
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (young adult, contemporary, romance; 384 pages)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (young adult, contemporary, mystery; 242 pages)
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (young adult, contemporary, romance; 380 pages)
Hufflepuff 🦡
house values: hard work, patience, loyalty, fair play
book themes: friendship, empathy, heartwarming
Anne Of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (children’s lit, classic; 309 pages)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (young adult, contemporary, romance, lgbt; 359 pages)
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (young adult, fantasy, lgbt; 522 pages)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein (young adult, historical; 453 pages)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (young adult, contemporary, romance; 483 pages)
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (young adult, contemporary, romance, lgbt, comic; 278 pages)
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (adult, contemporary, romance; 309 pages)
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (young adult, contemporary, romance, lgbt; 352 pages)
Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson and others (young adult, fantasy, comic; 128 pages)
Our Bloody Pearl by D. N. Bryn (fantasy, steampunk, lgbt; 200 pages)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (classic, romance; 265 pages)
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (young adult, contemporary, romance, lgbt; 262 pages)
Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson (young adult, contemporary; 449 pages)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (children’s lit, fantasy, classic; 93 pages)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (young adult, contemporary; 213 pages)
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (young adult, fantasy, contemporary; 317 pages)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (retelling, mythology, romance, lgbt; 352 pages)
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur (poetry; 256 pages)
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (young adult, contemporary, romance; 355 pages)
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour (young adult, contemporary, lgbt; 236 pages)
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (young adult, contemporary, romance; 380 pages)
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Blue, orange and purple if you dont mind answering so many 😊
hi, nonnie! I don’t mind at all! thank you for sending this in 💕
I already answered blue here, but orange and purple are new, so here goes:
orange: what makes you feel warm inside? what’s your favorite halloween tradition? what’s the last thing you learned? when’s the last time you felt obsessed? what’s your favorite article of clothing?
what makes you feel warm inside?
talking to people I love and trust, having people send me things that reminded them of me, bathing in sunlight, certain Florence + the Machine songs
what’s your favorite halloween tradition?
exchanging candy with other people at the end of the night, tied with walking a few blocks down the road and watching a neighbor, dressed as Dracula, step out of the previously-empty coffin in his front yard.
what’s the last thing you learned?
nothing fancy, lol: that you can unclog a water-clogged ear by lying down on that side for a bit. (I think I knew that already but somehow forgot?)
when’s the last time you felt obsessed?
reading Circe by Madeleine Miller. I tend to obsess over books, Greek mythology, and women’s stories, and that all came together in that novel
what’s your favorite article of clothing?
answered this question with green, but I’ll say something else this time: a dress that I treated myself to from reformation (my first purchase from them, right before learning of their racist corporate culture. le sigh), using some of my summer internship money
(pic from refo’s website)
purple: what’s your astrological sign? what’s the best piece of advice you ever received? when’s the last time you followed your instincts? what’s your favorite food? what’s your secret dream?
what’s your astrological sign?
libra. I vibe with it, even without knowing exactly what it means to be a libra (indecisive, yes. everything else? not sure). someone versed in astrology pls explain bc astrology sites confuse me
what’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
probably to major in whatever makes me happiest. also to write my feelings down.
when’s the last time you followed your instincts?
I honestly can’t remember. most of my instincts have to do with protecting me from people, so if I’m ever in a social situation it’s precisely because I haven’t followed my instincts.
last night I followed my “instincts” and forced myself to go to bed at a reasonable hour instead of staying up for no reason, if that counts
what’s your favorite food?
my grandma’s pasta al forno? focaccia con lo stracchino? eggplant parm? comfort carbs, I guess
what’s your secret dream?
I wanted to be president as a kid, and while I gave up on that idea fairly quickly, it’s still at the back of my mind. if by some trick of fate I end up running for political office and some anti-me peeps find this account I will laugh harder than anyone else
thanks again for the asks!
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With baseball quickly approaching (for who knows how long), time for a pandemic installment of Classic Movies Everyone’s Seen But Me!
Summertime (1955)
David Lean works small (for him) in terms of both running time and vistas. He does a wonderful job with Venice, making the city practically a character in its own right -- and as someone who knows Venice well and loves it, I only caught Lean cheating on the geography a couple of times.
The real star isn’t the setting but Katherine Hepburn. Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, who claims to have given up on romance. She hasn’t, of course, but it appears as if romance has given up on her -- Jane is a third wheel for the movie’s other couples and feels left out of even men on the make’s appraisals, spending the early part of the movie bonding with a street kid and the widow who runs her pensione. I’d write that it’s the kind of part that wasn’t written for actresses in the 1950s, but it’s the kind of part that isn’t written for actresses today. Hepburn inhabits the character beautifully, letting you see Jane’s hesitation and heartbreak in piercing scenes that sometimes rely entirely on body language, and Lean gives her the space to work, even when it’s an uncomfortable experience. A near-flawless performance.
The love story feels a little slight at first, but the ambiguity about what you should feel is intriguing. (Apparently this was even more the case in The Time of the Cuckoo, the play upon which Summertime was based.) Extra points for the Code-evading shot that tells us two characters have consummated their relationship. It’s only slightly subtler than the famous conclusion of North by Northwest.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Claude Rains has a marvelous time as the title character, an unruffled bureaucrat in charge of the afterlife who has to fix the case of a boxer taken up to Heaven a bit too soon. (The film was remade in the 70s with Warren Beatty and called Heaven Can Wait, the name used in its first incarnation as a play.) Rains is terrific, but the rest of the movie is pretty forgettable: Robert Montgomery is genial but not particularly memorable as prizefighter Joe Pendleton, and the plot logic breaks down completely in the endgame.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Another Rains vehicle, in he stars as the evil Prince John, scheming brother of Richard the Lionhearted and foe of Robin Hood, played (of course) by Errol Flynn. Rains somehow retains his dignity despite a horrific wig and some astonishing costumes -- there’s one black and silver getup whose shoes have to be seen to be believed.
But all the characters are wearing ridiculous things all the time, shown off via the movie’s thoroughly saturated palette. There are men-at-arms in purple and pink motley, the merry men’s green tights, Flynn’s honest-to-goodness bedazzled emerald top, a lady-in-waiting’s Fancy Shriner fez, and we haven’t even discussed the get-ups Olivia de Havilland sports. The costume designer whizzes past All Too Much before the first reel’s over and just keeps going. And the dialogue keeps up with the costumes. Robin Hood may be the campiest movie I’ve ever seen -- it makes The Birdcage look like Shoah.
Flynn is capable with a sword and performs his stunts with swashes properly buckling, but man oh man could he not act. He has two basic expressions: fighting and making merry, and looks a little lost when the story requires him to investigate whether a situation requires choosing between the two.
Fortunately that doesn’t happen too often, and you’ll have fun anyway. This is the template for about a billion adventure stories made since then, and it’s entertaining even when you’re not elbowing the other person on the couch to point out what was waiting in Claude Rains’s dressing room this time. Think of it as a live-action cartoon and enjoy the ride.
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Audrey Hepburn is the innocent, cello-playing daughter of a Paris private investigator (Maurice Chevalier) who interferes with her father’s work by preventing an American playboy (Gary Cooper) from getting shot by a jealous husband, then pretends to outdo the playboy at his own no-consequences game.
The story is light and amusing, with Chevalier ably serving as the fulcrum who helps it turn into something poignant and more interesting at the end. (The voiceover as coda, by the way, was added for Code reasons.) And Billy Wilder (co-writing and directing) guides the ship with a light, skilled hand -- the scenes between Cooper’s Frank Flanagan and his hired band are particularly fun.
There’s a fatal flaw, though: While Hepburn has never been more luminous, Cooper is too old to be the leading man. Wilder knew this, using soft focus and dim lighting in an effort to be kind that just calls attention to the movie’s fatal flaw. Moreover, Flanagan’s neither particularly interesting nor pleasant, so you never believe Hepburn’s Ariane would actually be interested in him. (He’s rich, granted, but she doesn’t seem to care about that.)
Directors kept doing this to Audrey Hepburn in the 1950s: Three years earlier, Wilder stuck her with a half-rotted Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina; in 1957 she also had to put up with a mummified Fred Astaire in Funny Face. Beyond the fact that it’s creepy, it doesn’t work for those stories.
I’m going to look on the bright side: Hepburn deserves even more adulation than she gets, since she rises above her AARP romantic leads to carry all three pictures.
The 39 Steps (1935)
A clever early Hitchcock I found intriguing because you can see the visible language of film evolving before your eyes. Some scenes look utterly modern, with intriguing camera angles and blocking, but they’re right next to oddly static compositions, or scenes filled with cuts that cross the line for no apparent reason. But there’s also a justifiably famous transition shot from a cleaning woman’s horrified discovery to a train whistle, a tricky perspective change from inside a car, and some other nice surprises.
The movie is a prototype Hitchcock thriller, with a plot that carries you along provided you don’t ask too many questions. (Or any questions, really.) But the movie hits its stride surprisingly late, coming into focus once Robert Donat’s Richard Hannay winds up manacled to Madeleine Carroll’s Pamela. Hang around that long and you’ll be well entertained.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
This one made my list because it was an inspiration for Solo, a Star Wars spinoff movie I think deserved a better reception and suspect will be viewed more fondly in time. Yep, that’s Warren Beatty’s fur coat that Alden Ehrenreich wears, and the bar Beatty visits in the town of Presbyterian Church is a dead ringer for the one where Han and Lando Calrissian meet over cards.
So that was fun. As for the rest, after my usual post-movie reading, I get what Robert Altman was going for. This is an anti-Western that relentlessly inverts the genre’s tropes, with the climactic gunfight happening not in the center of town before all eyes, but scarcely noticed as the townspeople rush to put out a fire.
But I found that more interesting to read about than to watch. I was never invested in Beatty’s McCabe or Julie Christie’s Mrs. Miller, finding them less memorable than a young visitor who runs afoul of trouble (Keith Carradine) or the lead bounty hunter sent after McCabe (Hugh Millais, exuding genial menace).
Still, the movie has a powerful sense of place, I keep finding myself thinking about it, and lots of people whose opinions I respect consider it a classic. So perhaps I’ll revisit this one someday. But for now, my conclusion is that I’m missing whatever gene you need to appreciate chilly, airless Hollywood art-house movies of the 1970s -- a movement, ironically, that screeched to a halt when Jaws and Star Wars introduced the era of the summer blockbuster.
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Sex between undercover Met officers and public not uncommon
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Sexual activity between undercover Met Police officers and members of the public who did not know their true identities was "not uncommon" from the mid-1970s, a public inquiry has heard.
David Barr QC told the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) that some officers in the then all-male Metropolitan Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) would make jokes about intimate relationships in front of managers.
No written instructions have been found governing sexual relationships by officers in the shadowy unit, but the inquiry heard that there is evidence that, between 1972 and 1983, at least five had intimate contact with as many as 12 women.
Mr Barr said: "It can safely be said that, from the mid-1970s onwards, sexual contact between SDS officers in their undercover identities and members of the public was not uncommon."
One of the women, known as Mary, became involved with "ladies' man" Richard Clark, and said: "Had I known he was a police officer there is absolutely no way I would have had any sexual contact with him at all."
Another officer, known as Vince Miller, claimed he had four one-night stands with different women, but one of these, Madeleine, said the relationship lasted a couple of months and she was "very upset" when he disappeared.
A third, who used the name Jim Pickford, was with his second wife when he went undercover, but met a woman during his deployment who he went on to marry and have a child with.
Mr Barr said there was some evidence that officers had been warned off having intimate relationships, but "we will also be hearing evidence that there was comment and joking amongst SDS undercover officers about sexual relationships that, it is stated, would have been made in the presence of managers."
The latest series of hearings in the Undercover Policing Inquiry began on Wednesday, looking at the SDS between 1972 and 1983.
Piers Corbyn who is expected to give evidence during the latest series of hearings in the public inquiry into undercover policing. Jacob King/PA Wire
This period saw the first time that officers became involved in sexual relationships with members of the public, and were instructed to use aspects of the identities of dead children to shore up their cover names.
Witnesses will include Celia Stubbs, the partner of anti-fascist campaigner Blair Peach, who died when he was hit over the head by a police officer during a protest in Southall, west London, in 1979.
The demonstration came amid tensions arising from the National Front mounting a general election campaign that year.
Mr Barr told the inquiry that the campaign for justice for Mr Peach was described by officers as "the subsequent campaign against the police".
And in the 1979 annual SDS report, it was stated: "The death of Blair Peach, an active supporter of the Anti-Nazi League, which was a consequence of a violent anti-fascist demonstration in Southall, provided the extreme left-wing with an opportunity to mount a sustained campaign to discredit and criticise the police."
The SDS maintained that reporting on the campaign allowed uniformed officers to be deployed to locations where public unrest may occur.
Lord Peter Hain who is expected to give evidence during the latest series of hearings in the public inquiry into undercover policing. Jack Hill/The Times/PA Wire
Mr Barr said: "We note the defensive language to describe the Blair Peach justice campaign and the fact that reporting on it was communicated to the Home Office as having been part of an invaluable service.
"We shall need to examine the motives for reporting on the campaign."
Earlier, the Metropolitan Police repeated apologies for officers having sexual relationships and using the identities of dead children without their families' consent.
In a statement released by the Met on Wednesday, Helen Ball, Assistant Commissioner for Professionalism, said the period included rioting and the start of the IRA bombing campaign in England.
She said: "It was against this challenging backdrop that the SDS were operating.
"In this part of the inquiry, evidence will also be heard about officers' actions and behaviour, which in some instances were clearly inappropriate and unacceptable - certainly by modern standards, and in some cases by the standards of the time in which they occurred.
"The inquiry will hear examples of undercover officers entering into inappropriate sexual relationships with women they met during their deployments and of undercover officers using the identities of deceased children - a practice that does not happen now.
"The Met acknowledges that these cases caused significant harm and distress, and for this we are sorry."
The Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) was set up in 2015 to look at the activities of two shadowy police units after condemnation of undercover tactics.
A public outcry was sparked when it was revealed that women had been tricked into sexual relationships with undercover officers and that police spies had used the identities of dead children without their families' permission.
Family justice campaigns, including for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, were spied upon; and there are claims that some officers were arrested or prosecuted for crimes under fake identities, leading to alleged miscarriages of justice for their co-defendants.
The two units being examined are the Metropolitan Police's Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), which existed between 1968 and 2008, and the undercover part of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), which existed between 1999 and 2010.
During the current batch of hearings, being chaired by Sir John Mitting, the deployment of 29 undercover officers will be examined, who on average were on assignment for three to five years.
To date the mammoth inquiry has cost more than £36 million, although Tory peer Lord Moylan estimated last week that this could rise to £100 million, including police costs, by the time the inquiry reports in 2023.
The inquiry was adjourned until Thursday.
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Here follows spoilers, lingering in the dark with another list of stories I’ve consumed.
1. The Song Of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
I’ve heard a spectrum of comments about this story for years, most things good. I studied Latin for three years in high school, so I’ve translated more parts of the Iliad than I wanted to as a teenager. But now that years have passed, I have a fondness for classical texts like the Iliad that I couldn’t have had then when it was my homework. Though I’ve forgotten much of my Latin nowadays, I do remember the story of Aeneas somewhat--and by connection, fragments of Achilles’ story. The ending of this story did not come as a surprise to me, because it’s a story most will know if they have some familiarity with classical Latin literature. Even so, the novel is still a great read when one knows the ending. If anything, there’s a kind of beauty in knowing the end and taking in the views along the way.
Though there are prophecies in the original texts, like one that I believe where it was foretold Achilles would die at Troy, this story specifically uses the prophecies to foreshadow the kind of ending we already know will come. From Patroclus being promised to fight for Helen to Achilles being the fated warrior and dying after Hector...We’re privy to these storms coming down the road, but we’re also living in this moment of Patroclus seeing the most humane sides of Achilles. Achilles, by all means, is a flawed human, but that’s what makes this story so much more compelling. His pride is what sets most of the ending arc in motion, as it is his grief that brings the story to its penultimate end. It’s a Greek tragedy, and a story of love between two men who are seen as anything as but in many interpretations of their relationship.
And really, what’s the most refreshing is that it’s written from Patroclus’ perspective. He is a character who doesn’t have a voice as much in these stories, as a man at Achilles’ side. It’s also, if one might add, a good friends to lovers story (*winks terribly*). It is though, a stronger focus on the relationship between the two than anything else. Though Miller still does a good job at illustrating the world around the pair, the story is hyper-focused on the two.
I personally don’t think I enjoyed the story as much as it was lauded (I’ve been seeing rave reviews for years), but I very much still understand why it was lauded and liked the novel. I would like to read Miller’s other story Circe now because I think her way of writing would make the story of a witch that much more compelling. I think I may have to also re-read the Iliad, only if because I’m curious to see how it would make think about this story if I remembered more of the classical text. Even though I have some criticisms, it boils down to the fact that I enjoyed this novel. You cannot deny the beauty of the writing.
2. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
It’s hard to put my feelings on this novel into sensible terms. I was trying to make sense of whether I actually liked the book or not, and it came down to the fact that I did even though it felt like the book was trying very hard to be something more substantive than it was. That isn’t to say it’s not a good book, or that it is a great book. It is a fun read, for what it is. I believe it is a fun book, much more so than Novik’s other books I’ve read that kind of follow a relatively more serious plot in worlds she seems to have stronger footing in. It’s clear to me and one that should be noted in case there are comparisons--this novel seems markedly intended to be marketed towards a younger age group than Uprooted and Spinning Silver. This world also takes place on Earth, unlike previous novels, so there are significantly more modern references and writing that evokes our modern world. In turn, I think it opens up to more criticisms because it will be comparable to our society, which in turns up some issues I’ll mention further in this post. If anything, I feel slightly terrible that there will be comparisons made regardless of the author’s intent to Harry Potter for any who have read that series. J.K. Rowling doesn’t have the sole authorship of magical schools in fiction, but the comparison is there because it’s the most prominent ones in most readers’ minds.
Before I proceed further, there have been controversies over Novik’s writing of race in this novel. I did not take issue personally, as an Asian American, with depictions of Asians in this novel. That being said, I am not of the specific descent with which it could be taken as offensive, and so in reading the text, my personal stake in the depiction would have lessened any perceived offense in it. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, and please understand that I do empathize with those who are offended. I understand why people may take issues with Yi Liu as a name, and I particularly understand why descriptions of hair associated with race (i.e., locs, El’s hair as someone of Indian descent) being written in terms of being “dirty,” may particularly be offensive. Though the latter was related to how the scholomance, or the school, has maleficara that will attack any students and hair was a bad idea in the school in general because it’s an easy way for them to get attacked--I can understand why even that connotation (that I don’t think Novik ever intended) could be extremely problematic. It’s not okay the loc description was connotated that way, if you reread that section, and it’s something I hope she learns in future books. That being said, I do think much of the criticism is unfair. Novik is not tone-deaf as I’ve read in other writers. She is working to describe a more diverse world even if it’s not the strongest way to do so. I think it should be noted the bullies in her story are establishment, rich kids. The loc description is the worst of her offenses, but it’s something a writer is learning and reprimanded for (not hated on, as I’ve been seeing in some reviews). Novik works to write a diverse world, which is something markedly more than what many white writers in magical schools have done--and that effort is something that should be commended. I mentioned earlier Rowling. Simply compare the student body of Novik’s world to Rowling’s Hogwarts to see what I mean about diversity. I sincerely hope she takes the constructive criticisms of this novel to improve in the next one, because I sincerely think she can be better and will be.
The story definitely focuses on the grim side of magic, with larger-than-life stakes when it comes to survival and becoming accomplished students. Even the most minute details like eating lunch are filled with danger, to which all these students have acclimated to. Nonetheless, as a story led with teenage protagonists, there’s very much a sense of cliques and popularity that correlate directly to their survival and futures.
It’s interesting that El’s foil is everyone’s favorite hero and her new best himbo friend, Orion Lake. (It also made me giggle, because one of my characters is named Orion, and he’s the complete opposite of the Orion in this book) Orion is immediately likable to everyone, but he’s being used while El is disliked and refuses to be used by anyone. They’ve both never been quite treated as a normal person or friend by anyone, so their unlikely friendship is the core of this story. Quite frankly, the story shines the most when these two are working together to do whatever they need to. A review I read remarked upon their relationship as the amazing friendship of a himbo and his intelligent best friend, and it made me laugh because it’s so true and it’s fun to read.
El’s nature as someone shunned makes her want to shun everyone else and build alliances. It’s nice, for one, that she builds an alliance of other anti-establishment people at the costing of shunning establishment people, depending on how you look at it. It assumes though that all establishment people are bad, and maybe it’s my hesitance on that which makes me hesitant on liking El. Nonetheless, that’s kind of the joy of a flawed character. She’s allowed to make mistakes and reassess them as her experiences go on. We see that in her gradual interactions with Clara, and that’s a credit to the writing, no matter how minimal those interactions are so far.
Overall, I do think the book is a fun read. The execution of the writing, in El’s attitude at times to the glaring problems of depiction mentioned earlier, are the flaws in this story. Nonetheless, the dialogue and the interactions between these kids still make it a fun ride. It’s not exactly my favorite book on magic, but an enjoyable one nonetheless.
3. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Where do I even start with this one? I think I was drawn from the very first chapter. It’s a refreshing and beautifully-woven take on the multi-verse, in ways that I think I would love to see a film or TV adaptation on this. A multi-verse is a subject matter that interests me, but it’s also the way this novel was written that truly sells it for me. This might be one of my favorite novels I’ve read in awhile. It’s not a perfect novel (what novel is?), but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The story is not only a depiction of multi-verses, but also a discussion on how the conditions of your environment can dictate much of who you become. It opens in an interesting way, showing that the only people who can become traversers, or travelers through multi-verses, are those who are dead in that world. That is why Cara is a traverser, because she’s dead on almost every world they’ve discovered. She only survived by a different choice or a different means of life on this one, when the conditions of how she was raised with a poor mother, generally killed her on most worlds. The multi-verse in this story is not only just for the exploration side of things, but also a commentary on classism and social constructs. It’s what makes this story stand out. All good science fiction novels for me are a commentary on something very human, and in this case, it’s the result of how little choices or even little factors can factor in someone surviving or not. Cara’s a survivor, and there are twists that are introduced throughout the story that continually took me off-guard, when generally, I can sort of guess some twists for most stories I read nowadays. It’s a testament to how well-written the story is from Cara’s POV.
At first, I felt the last third of the novel was not as strong as the first two-thirds, but the more I think about it from a thematic standpoint, the more I do like it and the ending, at least in terms of Cara and Dell. I’m not certain I enjoy the ambiguity of what happens with Adam Brosch, our main antagonist, and his brother. That being said, I sort of understand where the author wanted to go with this. We only have one world to live with sometimes, so might as well live the best one with the brother we do have and the world we can control. At least, that’s one take on it. One doesn’t forget the atrocities of such men’s crimes, however.
The longing between Cara and Dell is quite beautiful as well. I do feel the writer put them in at times with a romantic connection that was a glowing bright light at all times, which I have my issues with, but some loves can be like that and I respect that. It doesn’t always read the best though, but for the purposes of this novel, I think it suffices and weaves in beautifully when tied to traversers. There’s a kind of haunting way in which Cara understands that on every world, she’s afraid of her abusive ex and his brother (who turns out to be her boss in this main world). There’s an even more beautiful meaning in Cara thinking that in every world, she's drawn to Dell. It takes on a different mean when you think about who you are in multiple, divergent universes and think that perhaps there is one constant factor to it with someone you love. I think it’s telling that the author ended on that note, about a couple who probably wouldn’t have worked out on any other universe because the space between them was so vast. But that it existed in just one world, with them, meant more than anything and that it was precious. In the end, the story closes to multiple worlds and talks lovingly about the possibility and hope in this one. It closes with Cara’s vision of herself with Dell, despite everything that has happened and may happen to her--and that this one out of all the infinite worlds means significantly more to her.
I also wanted to note that the author’s dedication at the end of the novel, right after the words that Cara narrates in her vision of her future with Dell, is touching. I don’t mean to read into the author’s intent, but I can’t help but feel in a good way that the story sort of takes on another meaning with that dedication. I admire that kind of affection, that I can only imagine to an extent she wrote for someone else she left unnamed. I guess, after all, I do want love stories in my fantasy and science fiction novels. I’m not surprised exactly.
When it comes down to it, I’m also a ruthless romantic at times. This is the kind of story that makes me want to write more and more.
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New story in Politics from Time: The Library of Congress Scrapped Plans for a 2017 Women’s March Mural, Fearing It Would Be Seen as Anti-Trump: Reports
The Library of Congress canceled a mural-sized photograph of protestors in the 2017 Women’s March in Washington D.C. out of concern it could appear critical of President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
The Post reports that the photograph was going to be included in the “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote” exhibit that opened in June, but was replaced just five days before the exhibit opened with photos from the Women’s March in Houston instead.
This reported change resembles a recent controversy involving the National Archives, who recently apologized for blurring signs in a photograph of the 2017 Women’s March in Washington D.C., some of which were critical of the President. The altered image has since been replaced with the original.
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post—Getty ImagesA close up on an altered sign in the photograph from the 2017 Women’s March that was altered by the National Archives. Photo taken at the National Archives Research Center on Friday, January 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
In a statement to TIME, Library of Congress spokeswoman April Slayton said, “When the image was enlarged in order to fill part of a wall and arrived on-site just a few days before the exhibit was scheduled to open, it became clear that the some of the language on the signs included expletives that were not appropriate for a family-friendly exhibition.” She added that some expletives would have been on the eye level of children. Slayton said the Library of Congress went with the image from Houston because it “represents the contemporary women’s movement without the vulgar language included in the original image.”
Slayton also said that the “Library’s general policy is to curate and review exhibition content internally and make any necessary edits or changes as part of that process before the exhibition opens to the public. That was the case here as well. No outside entities reviewed this exhibition’s content before it opened or opined on its content.”
The Post reports that Kevin Carroll, the image’s photographer, wasn’t told about concerns profanity but was asked in a May 29 email from the exhibition director, Betsy Nahum-Miller, if he had any images without anti-Trump signs. According to The Post, Nahum-Miller wrote that the image “has some other features that we know will be a problem politically and therefore need to be replaced. There were a couple of anti-Trump messages that appear very clearly in the image.”
The Post reports that Carroll sent other photographs from the Washington D.C. March, but Nahum-Miller told him they had selected the image from Houston because there wasn’t time to look through the photographs he sent for “unbeknownst controversial images.”
In her statement, Slayton said, “The Library of Congress also strives to present historical exhibitions that are balanced and engaging for all visitors with diverse points of view and generally seeks to avoid content that would unnecessarily alienate visitors based on political views.”
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What novels or book series would you recommend?
oh fuckin boy dude so many. 90% of what i read is either gay or scifi/fantasy or both, and some are technically for a younger audience but still great, so thats what most of this is which hopefully you’re cool with here goes
this got super long so i’m putting it under a cut. bolded titles are the ones that i’m super recommending, though i love them all
novels
the coldest girl in coldtown by holly black - vampires! a trans character! a bi character! one of the most novel approaches to vampires in fiction that i’ve seen! 10/10 would recommend
the darkest part of the forest by holly black - again, holly black is one of my favorite authors. this one’s got faeries (the proper vaguely unsettling kind that i’m all about) magical music, girls embracing their sexuality, girls being knights, interesting sibling dynamics, and a super cute m/m pairing
les miserables by victor hugo - ok yeah, it’s like 1400 pages long and historical fiction, but i love les mis a lot ok. it’s gotta be on this list just because it owns my ass. it’s like a old drunk french man trying to tell you about the june rebellion but he keeps getting distracted by things like people’s personal lives, the intricacies of the parisian underworld, and how much he wants to fuck the sewers. it’s wonderful
the night circus by erin morgenstern - magical circus that mysteriously appears for days at a time and then vanishes? a competition between young magicians drawn out for years? a wide variety of fascinating side characters? (i will say that the synopsis available for the book is somewhat misleading, as it’s actually less about our two protags and more about the circus itself. but that’s what makes it so enchanting)
the song of achilles by madeleine miller - retelling of patroclus and achilles story to be explicitly romantic. will make you feel like you’re floating on clouds and then rapidly crush your soul. sort of a happy ending? but it’s still a tragedy. their ending is the same as it was in the illiad so if you’re not prepared for that then maybe don’t read
good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett - a demon who’s not very good at being a demon and an angel who just wants to collect his books in peace thank you very much try to sabotage the end of times. absolutely hilarious
fairy and folktales of the irish peasantry by w.b. yeats - the best collection of irish faerie stories by one of my favorite poets. if you like creepy and tricky faeries i would def recommend checking these out
rootabaga stories by carl sandburg - another collection of folktales, this time inspired by the american midwest. kinda weird, kinda zany, very neat
the poison eaters by holly black - a short story collection of faery stories that are sometimes creepy, sometimes touching, sometimes gay. my personal favorite is about a library science student who finds a book collection where the characters come out at night and interact, but they’re all really great
series:
alex rider adventures by anthony horowitz - teenager gets recruited by MI6 as a spy, has incredibly high success rate, gets pretty fucked up along the way but damn those one liners tho, maybe have some self preservation alex? just a thought
all for the game by nora sakavic - about a fake sport called exy that’s kind of like indoor lacrosse but more violent. contains: crime families, found families, an aspec protag, girls kicking ass, unhealthy levels of sass, wonderful slowburn m/m that you can’t even see coming for a long while, and a happy ending for everyone!! i came for the gays and ended up reading all three books in two days. also you can get the whole series for less than five bucks on kindle! (note: tw for rape, physical abuse, torture, ptsd, child abuse, drug use, alcoholism, some use of slurs, mentions of past self harm, mental illness)
artemis fowl by eoin colfer - more faeries, but this time they live underground and are way more technologically advanced than humans. the first book focuses on our anti-hero trying to catch one and steal their gold, and they quickly become allies and solve faerie related cases together!! one of my favorite series growing up, and i cried in the middle of the hallway at school when i finished the last book
camp half-blood series by rick riordan - does rick riordan write a lot of mythology books? yes. do i love them all? yes. neurodivergent kids! kids from a huge range of racial and ethnic backgrounds! queer kids! collect them all! ft. greco-roman mythology and a lot of stupid jokes
emelan series by tamora pierce - ok this is easily one of my favorite series of all time. non-western high fantasy setting (picture greece/turkey, china, tibet, mongolia, scandinavia, etc type settings), following four young mages who have unique kinds of magic as they train and grow their skills and become powerful in their own right. only one of the kids is definitely white (jury’s still out on sandry), one is a lesbian, one is ace, one is pan, all four are raised by a loving f/f couple, body diversity, one of the best found families i’ve ever read, feminism, discussion of racism, classism, cultural identity, war, and so much more. it’s so so good and so under-appreciated please read all of the emelan books
the dark is rising sequence by susan cooper - full disclosure i have not finished this series yet but i’ve re-read the first book a million times. it’s a neat take on arthurian mythology, with dark forces trying to take over and kids getting shit done
diviners by libba bray - psychic teenagers in 1920s new york! i’m a slut for prohibition, but these are also super fun and have likable and real characters, and doesn’t only focus on wealthy white people having parties which is nice. the occult! government conspiracies! historical references! genuinely scary situations! it’s rad!
the enchanted forest chronicles by patricia c. wrede - i adore this series so so much. it’s about a princess who’s father keeps telling her that she can’t have hobbies like fencing or cooking or conjugating latin verbs because they’re unladylike and insists that she marry this doofus prince that she couldn’t care less about. so she runs away and volunteers to work for a dragon and proceeds to send away all the princes that try to rescue her. it’s genuinely funny, has a really neat magic system in the later books, great female friendships, cats, dragons who have no time for your gender roles, and wizards who are the most ridiculous group of antagonists you will ever see
the infernal devices by cassandra clare - i really really do not like the author of this series but it also broke me so it must go on the list. if you’re familiar with the mortal instruments or shadowhunters on freeform, it’s set in that universe in the 1870s in london and it’s very steampunk and very angsty and it made me cry a lot
the kane chronicles by rick riordan - see: camp half-blood series but egyptian
fablehaven by brandon mull - oooooh fuck me up i love this series. this is another one meant for slightly younger readers but all of brandon mull’s series are so wildly imaginative and i’m a slut for world building so. the premise is basically that there are secret preserves all over the world that house magical creatures, and five of these preserves have vaults with artifacts that when brought together make a key to this massive demon prison. an evil society called the society of the evening star is trying to get the artifacts to open the prison, and a different group who is allied with the preserves called the knights of the dawn is trying to get to them first to prevent this from happening. there are dragons, light and dark powers, crazy convoluted vaults to get through, and some really cool creatures and characters
beyonders by brandon mull - this guy again! this one’s about a parallel world called lyrian that people on earth can only get to through small liminal windows, and usually can’t get back through. the story follows two kids, jason and rachel, who get stuck in lyrian and end up becoming major members of the resistance against the evil emperor maldor. just like fablehaven, the world building is insane and you’ll fall in love with all the characters. this is yet another series that made me cry in the middle of class when i finished it
the kingkiller chronicle by patrick rothfuss - this is series is long as all fuck and the last book isn’t out yet but it’s my #1 favorite series of all time. i found out about it bc a cashier at a local grocery store held up the line to write it down for me and i never went back. parts of it are achingly, hauntingly beautiful, other parts are hilarious enough to leave you in stitches, others make you want to pull your hair out. there’s sass, recklessness, beautiful and deadly girls, an overwhelming love and emphasis on the importance of music and storytelling, magic that’s more like science, ethnic adversity, student loans, a thing that might be a cow or might be a dragon depending on who you ask, and more quotable lines than you could dream of. the audiobook by nick podehl is also fabulous, and lin manuel miranda is producing and adapting it for the screen and maybe stage at some point in the future!
a modern faerie tale by holly black - guys. i love holly black. almost everything she’s ever written is on this list. this one is fairly self explanatory by the title, but it’s gritty and dark and has those lovely creepy faeries that she’s so great at writing. also a surprising m/m couple in the last book, both of whom are characters in the other two installments. (tw for drug use/addiction, brief sexual assault, and probably other things that i can’t remember right now)
the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater - also in my top 3 favorite series of all time, i cannot begin to describe this series. i first read it while up in the nc mountains which improved the experience to a surprising degree, but it’s stuck with me for the last several years. basically 5 teenagers go in search of a dead welsh king, but along the way there is magic, psychics, ghosts, a sentient forest, dreams becoming reality, curses, teenage shenanigans, classic cars, swearing, church, kisses and not kisses, illict hand holding, a baby crow, bisexuality, a death list, hitmen, and nicknames and it will consume your heart before you know what’s happening to you (tw child abuse, implied sexual assault, substance abuse, dissociation, mentions of past suicide attempts, body horror, gore, and disturbing scenes esp. in the last book)
six of crows by leigh bardugo - a team of criminals band together to break into an impossible fortress, fall in love, con an entire city, and get rich. set in the same universe as the grisha trilogy (which is also good but not as good as soc), this is basically a heist followed by a con, but pulled off by ruthless teenagers and with the help of magic
curseworker trilogy by holly black - crime families, magic that can only done through touch so everyone wears gloves, moral ambiguity, and a twisted romance. one of holly black’s best and most underrated series
baccano! by ryohgo narita - this is a japanese light novel series which has been adapted into an anime, but is much more extensive in print. the plot is extremely convoluted, but an absolute ride spanning several centuries, although the bulk of it is in the 1930s in nyc and chicago. there’s an elixir of immortality, crime families, trains, a solipsistic assassin and his mute assassin gf, serial killers, a demon with a catch phrase, murder, explosions, adorable couples, gambling, a gang leader named jacuzzi who is always terrified, killer corporations, and much much more
no.6 by asuka asano - another japanse series, this time focusing on two boys, one who grew up in a utopian city, the other who grew up outside the walls after the city destroyed his life. they meet when they’re 12 years old, and several years later, they’re reunited when the outsider rescues the city boy from arrest. they, along with a pimp and a nonbinary dog hotel owner, try to expose and overthrow the government. also ft. drag performances, mice who like shakespeare, killer bees, and boys falling in love.
the merlin saga by t.a. barron - my favorite take on arthurian mythology, chronicling merlin as he comes into his power. there’s a vividly magical island, giants, amulets, talking trees, stones that will try to swallow you, a swamp witch, celtic deities, huge wicker hats, poetry, new kinds of fruit, people that are also deer, and human’s long lost wings.
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WASHINGTON | Freed detainees head home for big welcome, featuring Trump
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WASHINGTON | Freed detainees head home for big welcome, featuring Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freed after more than a year in prison, three Americans flew homeward from North Korea late Tuesday toward a big middle-of-the-night celebration featuring President Donald Trump — the latest sign of improving relations between longtime adversaries in the buildup to a historic summit between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Trump promised “quite a scene” at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington for the detainees, who were released as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited North Korea on Wednesday to finalize plans for the summit. Singapore was the likely site, late this month or in early June, for Trump’s most ambitious foreign police effort yet.
Shortly after they touched down on American soil in Alaska — for a refueling stop Wednesday afternoon— the State Department released a statement from the freed men.
“We would like to express our deep appreciation to the United States government, President Trump, Secretary Pompeo, and the people of the United States for bringing us home,” they said. “We thank God, and all our families and friends who prayed for us and for our return. God Bless America, the greatest nation in the world.”
The men had boarded Pompeo’s plane out of North Korea without assistance and then transferred in Japan to a separate aircraft with more extensive medical facilities. They are expected to arrive at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
Trump made a point of publicly thanking North Korea’s leader for the prisoners’ release — “I appreciate Kim Jong Un doing this” — and hailed it as a sign of cooling tensions and growing opportunity on the Korean peninsula. Kim decided to grant amnesty to the three Americans at the “official suggestion” of the U.S. president, said North Korea’s official news agency, KCNA.
North Korea had accused Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim, all Korean-Americans, of anti-state activities. Their arrests were widely seen as politically motivated and had compounded the dire state of relations over the isolated nation’s nuclear weapons.
Trump entered office as an emboldened North Korea developed new generations of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles capable of hitting the continental U.S. Those advances were the subject of President Barack Obama’s starkest warning shortly before Trump took office, and this is a crisis he’s convinced his negotiating skills can resolve.
Crediting himself for recent progress, Trump has pointed to Kim’s willingness to come to the negotiating table as validating U.S. moves to tighten sanctions — branded “maximum pressure” by the president. The wee-hours ceremony Thursday was to be an early celebration for an issue that has already put the prospect of a Nobel Peace Prize on Trump’s mind.
“Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it,” he said Wednesday when asked if the award was deserved.
The release capped a dramatic day of diplomacy in Pyongyang. After Pompeo’s 90-minute meeting with Kim Jong Un, he gave reporters a fingers-crossed sign when asked about the prisoners as he returned to his hotel. It was only after a North Korean emissary arrived a bit later to inform him that the release was confirmed.
The three had been held for periods ranging from one and two years. They were the latest in a series of Americans who have been detained by North Korea in recent years for seemingly small offenses and typically freed when senior U.S. officials or statesmen personally visited to bail them out.
The last American to be released before this, college student Otto Warmbier, died in June 2017, days after he was repatriated to the U.S. with severe brain damage.
Warmbier was arrested by North Korean authorities in January 2016, accused of stealing a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor. His parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, accusing the government of torturing and killing their son.
“We are happy for the hostages and their families,” the Warmbiers said in a statement Wednesday. “We miss Otto.”
Of the newly released detainees, Kim Dong Chul, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen, had been held the longest. The former Virginia resident was sentenced in April 2016 to 10 years in prison with hard labor after being convicted of espionage. He reportedly ran a trade and hotel service company in Rason, a special economic zone on North Korea’s border with Russia.
The other two detainees hadn’t been tried.
Kim Hak Song worked in agricultural development at an experimental farm run by the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, or PUST. The university is the only privately funded college in North Korea and was founded in 2010 with donations from Christian groups. He was detained last May for alleged anti-state activities.
Tony Kim, who also uses the name Kim Sang-duk, was detained in April 2017 at the Pyongyang airport. He taught accounting at PUST.
He was accused of committing unspecified criminal acts intended to overthrow the government.
The family of Tony Kim thanked all those who worked for his return and also credited Trump for engaging directly with North Korea. “Mostly we thank God for Tony’s safe return,” the family said in a statement.
On Capitol Hill, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer celebrated the detainees’ return but warned that “we’ll see many more hostages” if the administration provides an incentive for imprisoning Americans.
“We are happy they’ve returned, but North Korea shouldn’t gain by taking Americans and then releasing them,” he said.
During his visit, Pompeo discussed the agenda for a potential Trump-Kim Jong Un summit. Pompeo said the summit is scheduled to last one day but could be extended by a day depending on how talks progress.
North Korea’s state-run media explicitly mentioned plans for the summit for the first time. Pyongyang has been exceptionally cautious about its public framing of Kim’s recent diplomatic moves, which are a major shift from the more aggressive focus on missile launches and nuclear development that drove tensions to a boil last year.
Pompeo’s trip, his second to North Korea this year, had not been publicly disclosed when he flew out of Washington late Monday aboard an Air Force jetliner. Trump announced the mission Tuesday afternoon as he laid out his case for withdrawing from a landmark nuclear deal with Iran, another bitter U.S. adversary.
Accompanying Pompeo were a few senior aides, a security detail and two journalists — one from The Associated Press and one from The Washington Post.
Pompeo, who first traveled to North Korea as CIA chief in early April, was only the second sitting secretary of state to visit the nation with which the U.S. is still technically at war. The first was Madeleine Albright, who went in 2000 as part of an unsuccessful bid to arrange a meeting between then-President Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Il.
A Trump-Kim meeting seemed a remote possibility just a few months ago when the two leaders were trading threats and insults over North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests. In March, Trump unexpectedly accepted an offer of talks after the North Korean dictator agreed to suspend nuclear and missile tests and discuss “denuclearization.”
By MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER by Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (U.S)
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TOP 10 - From a Certain Point of View
In the order of appearance:
The Sith of Datawork by Ken Liu - a witty Imperial logistics office worker walks us through the ways to bend Imperial bureaucracy to get out of trouble with superiors :)
Rites by John Jackson Miller - brilliant Tusken story as well as a follow up to the Tusken storyline from his novel Kenobi.
The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction - a tale of a financial dependency and debts between a group of cantina patrons and what happens when someone steals a horn. I loved the unique writing style and the climate of this story. Featuring Muftak and Kabe!
Secrets of Long Snoot by Delilah S. Dawson - exploration of the Kubaz from cantina, giving him an interesting backstory. Pretty good and satisfying read.
Born in the Storm by Daniel Jose Older - a story of stormtrooper who was mindtricked by Obi-Wan told through his written report. Quite funny and insightful.
An Incident Report by Mallory Ortberg - Motti passionately rants about being choked by Vader for no good reason. That was entertaining to say the least.
Verge of Greatness by Pablo Hidalgo - a great Tarkin piece. Grand Moff on point.
The Trigger by Kieron Gillen - a story about Aphra was just a very good piece with a very good characterization, revealing to us more about the anti-heroine of the comic series.
The Baptist by Nnedi Okorafor - the story of dianoga from the trash compactor. More emotional and engaging than it sounds. Full marks for creativity and characterization.
Desert Son by Pierce Brown - the story of Biggs Darklighter’s part in the battle of Yavin. Biggs’ optimism, heroism and his view of Luke were everything.
Honorable mentions go to:
Eclipse by Madeleine Roux - the story of the last moments of Breha Organa and a fitting bookend to Breha we knew from the book Leia Princess of Alderaan.
There Is Another by Gary D. Schmidt - the story about Yoda’s daily life on Dagobah was interesting, however the author should have brushed up on Yoda’s opinion about Anakin.
Contingency Plan by Alexander Freed - Freed’s nuanced take on Mon Mothma as a leader and realist hit the right, grim tones but didn’t make the list.
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WASHINGTON | Detainees freed in North Korea, returning to US with Pompeo
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WASHINGTON | Detainees freed in North Korea, returning to US with Pompeo
WASHINGTON— Three Americans detained in North Korea for more than a year are on their way back to the U.S. with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday in the latest sign of improving relations between the two longtime adversary nations.
Trump said on Twitter that Pompeo was “in the air” and was with “the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting.” The president, who had been hinting about an imminent release, said he would greet them at Andrews Air Force Base at 2 a.m. Thursday.
The release of the detainees came as Pompeo visited North Korea on Wednesday to finalize plans for a historic summit between Trump and the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Trump said on Twitter that there had been a “good meeting with Kim Jong Un,” adding: “Date & Place set.”
North Korea had accused Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim, all Korean-Americans, of anti-state activities but their arrests were widely seen as politically motivated and had compounded the dire state of relations over the isolated nation’s nuclear weapons.
The family of Tony Kim thanked “all those” who worked for his return and also credited Trump for engaging directly with North Korea. “Mostly we thank God for Tony’s safe return,” the family said in a statement, and they urged people to “continue to pray for the people of North Korea and for the release of all who are still being held.”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that Trump viewed the release “as a positive gesture of goodwill.”
The release capped a dramatic day of diplomacy in Pyongyang for Pompeo. After his 90-minute meeting with Kim Jong Un, he gave reporters a fingers-crossed sign when asked about the prisoners as he returned to his hotel. But it was only after a North Korean emissary arrived a bit later to inform him that the release was confirmed.
The three had been held for periods ranging between one and two years. They were the latest in a series of Americans who have been detained by North Korea in recent years for seemingly small offenses and typically freed when senior U.S. officials or statesmen personally visited to bail them out.
The last American to be released before this, college student Otto Warmbier, died in June 2017, days after he was repatriated to the U.S. with severe brain damage.
Warmbier was arrested by North Korean authorities in January 2016. He was accused of stealing a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor. His parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, accusing the government of torturing and killing their son.
Of the newly released detainees, Kim Dong Chul, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen, had been held the longest. The former Virginia resident was sentenced in April 2016 to 10 years in prison with hard labor after being convicted of espionage. He reportedly ran a trade and hotel service company in Rason, a special economic zone on North Korea’s border with Russia.
The other two detainees hadn’t been tried.
Kim Hak Song worked in agricultural development at an experimental farm run by the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, or PUST. The university is the only privately funded college in North Korea and was founded in 2010 with donations from Christian groups. He was detained last May for alleged anti-state activities.
Tony Kim, who also uses the name Kim Sang-duk, was detained in April 2017 at the Pyongyang airport. He taught accounting at PUST. He was accused of committing unspecified criminal acts intended to overthrow the government.
Pompeo, in his visit, discussed the agenda for a potential Trump-Kim Jong Un summit in his meeting with Kim Yong Chol, the vice chairman of the central committee of North Korea’s ruling party.
The two sides plan to meet once again to finalize details. No specifics were offered although officials said Singapore is emerging as the most likely venue. The unprecedented meeting has been slated for this month or early June.
Kim Yong Chol noted improved relations between North and South Korea and pushed back against the idea that U.S. pressure led to the likely summit.
“This is not a result of sanctions that have been imposed from outside,” he said. That contradicted Trump, who has said repeatedly that his pressure tactics brought North Korea to the negotiating table.
Pompeo’s trip, his second to North Korea this year, had not been publicly disclosed when he flew out of Washington late Monday aboard an Air Force jetliner. Trump announced the mission Tuesday afternoon as he laid out his case for withdrawing from a landmark nuclear deal with Iran, another bitter U.S. adversary.
Accompanying Pompeo were a few senior aides, a security detail and two journalists — one from The Associated Press and one from The Washington Post.
Pompeo, who first traveled to North Korea as CIA chief in early April, is only the second sitting secretary of state to visit the reclusive nation with which the U.S. is still technically at war. The first was Madeleine Albright, who went in 2000 as part of an unsuccessful bid to arrange a meeting between then-President Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Il.
A Trump-Kim meeting seemed a remote possibility just a few months ago when the two leaders were trading threats and insults over North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests. But momentum for diplomacy built this year as North and South Korea moved to ease tensions, including the North sending a contingent to the Winter Olympics in the South. The Koreas’ leaders’ held their own summit last month.
In March, Trump unexpectedly accepted an offer of talks from Kim after the North Korean dictator agreed to suspend nuclear and missile tests and discuss “denuclearization.” According to South Korea, Kim says he’s willing to give up his nukes if the United States commits to a formal end to the Korean War and pledges not to attack the North.
Kim was quoted by China’s official news agency Xinhua as saying on Monday, “I hope to build mutual trust with the U.S. through dialogue.” He added that a political resolution of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and denuclearization should proceed in stages, with all sides moving in concert.
But his exact demands for relinquishing weapons that his nation spent decades building remain unclear. Previous U.S. efforts to negotiate an end to the North’s nuclear weapons program failed under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.
Pompeo and officials traveling with him said the Trump administration would not repeat mistakes of the past, which they described as accepting gradual, incremental and long-term disarmament in exchange for immediate benefits.
Trump has said that withdrawing U.S. forces from South Korea is “not on the table.” Some 28,500 U.S. forces are based in the allied nation, a military presence that has been preserved to deter North Korea since the war ended in 1953 without a peace treaty.
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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, and Ken Thomas in Washington contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to correct that crossed fingers came after meeting with Kim Jong Un.
By MATTHEW LEE and CATHERINE LUCEY, By Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (A.S)
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