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xbomboi · 14 days

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yapping about Briar. fellow Briar enjoyers assemble.

okay okay i don’t make it too obvious (or maybe i do, i wouldn’t know) but briar is my personal favorite character. i think about where the stories of all the characters would go and what their arcs would be a lot, but hers in particular is really important to me.

so i wanna talk about it.

first of all, she’s narcoleptic coded, right. we all know that. but her mom on the other hand reads to me, like, an alcoholic mother? and her dad is just willfully ignorant. either way, there’s a huge sense of neglect going on in that family. i mean go figure why briar would be the one doing most of the work raising her brothers. and of course she’s a party girl, because who’s gonna stop her? her parents? see yeah exactly.

so i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say she doesn’t have very strong parental figures in her life, at least not at home. but, and now you have to really hear me out about this one, i think baba yaga could take up a parental role in her life.

i know it isn’t much, but the seeds for her having at least a hint of a connection with baba yaga are there.

in the webisode “Stark Raven Mad”, baba yaga scolds briar for rambling about her party, and then as the commotion picks up she’s still exercising authority over briar in particular.

then there’s thronecoming, wherein, when briar is sulking at the dance, upon noticing the picture on the projector, she asks baba yaga for answers, who provides them.

and then skipping all the way to epic winter, after the girls become a little creeped out by her mannerisms and book it, briar is the one who makes sure to peak back in and give a parting remark.

so i think there’s potential there to be explored. her feeling neglected at home and then finding solace in another adult at school would be neat.

but the fact that it’s baba yaga is important, so just put a pin in that and we’ll circle back to it.

now, i think out of the core four, she was (at least at first) the hardest to actually pin-point what the future of her story could look like. with raven, i think it’s pretty clear her journey is just continuing to combat the prejudices of the world as she fights for change, apple is now pretty much on a path to figuring out her own future as ruler of a kingdom and what that’s going to entail, and maddie is the goofball that’s there to have fun and be supportive along the way.

then there’s briar. and, let me be clear, no, in my mind that girl is not sleeping for 100 years with where things are heading; in the main universe of the story, briar will be free of the sleeping beauty destiny.

but it’s like, if she’s not gonna sleep, what more is there to actually do with her? what direction COULD her life go in? because if she’s no longer fated to sleep 100 years of her life away, then she can’t just party like there’s no tomorrow anymore. she’d need to decide what she actually wants to do with her life.

and i think i have an idea.

i mentioned her narcoleptic coding at the start with intent to bring it up again. see, you might notice that a lot of the fairytale aspects of ever after high can be read as allegories for real-world problems. for example, hunter and ashlynn’s relationship is treated in their world the same way society may look at queer couples or biracial couples. or how raven’s mom being trapped in a mirror is their world equivalent to not paying child support.

with that kind of correlation in mind, i think treating briar’s curse as a condition could open up an interesting opportunity. i think, in their world, curses as a whole could be viewed as a separate branch of medical specialization, with briar spearheading this notion of thought.

we know briar is well-versed in chemythstry already. in the webisode “Briar’s Study Party” she makes note of the fact that she’s been studying forever-after, and she demonstrates enough knowledge in the subject to enthusiastically teach it to her friends, who all end up acing their tests on it as a result.

i think this is something she could potentially make a career out of. i think she could come to the conclusion that she wants to be able to help break curses for people everywhere, and could pursue learning to develop potions and elixirs to do so.

which could happen under baba yaga’s tutelage.

picture this: briar declares her newfound goal, to which baba yaga offers to teach briar all she knows in order to achieve what she’s set her sights on. briar—with an ounce of hesitance—accepts, and baba yaga officially takes her under her wing with the intent of mastering sorcery.

obviously, she wouldn’t lose who she is in this. she’s still gonna be an impulsive, adrenaline junkie who desperately needs a screentime limit on her mirrorphone. but in this process, she’d be rounded out by baba yaga and would in turn mature a bit from the experience. she’d get serious about life, but she wouldn’t let go of who she is at heart.

this could lead to her becoming the resourceful one in the main group. like on adventures, she’d be able to pull out a potion or whip something up (because i’m not going to let raven’s magic make her too o.p. she’s gotta have limitations) as a solution to problems. she could really have a role that proves useful and important to the story.

that’s my ideal pitch for where to take briar’s character.

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that-was-anticlimactic · 2 years

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whats spy x family about? and is it like- gruesome or horror or etc-

HI YES HELLO OMG OKAY LET'S GET INTO IT BECAUSE I LOVE SXF SO MUCH LIKE IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS / THINGS TO READ NOW NOT EVEN KIDDING

it's actually a comedy! there is some violence and some underlying darker themes because. they are quite literally on the brink of war. but in the end, the most important aspect of the story is found family.

imma just briefly describe the plot because. i want to talk about it lol

loid forger is a spy trying to prevent the war (and he is the most infamous spy) (codename: twilight). he gets assigned a mission to get close to this dude to help prevent war stuff. only issue is, this dude is super reclusive and quite literally like only ever leaves his house to attend very specific events for the school his two sons go to. so, the mission loid gets assigned is to get a child and a wife, get the child accepted into this super prestigious school, and get close to desmond (the guy).

he adopts a kid named anya, and unbeknownst to him, she is a telepath and can read thoughts. therefore, she knows that he's a spy. therefore, shenanigans ensue. she likes causing mischief and her favorite show from at the orphanage was this spy show so she's like super into spy stuff.

then comes yor briar. yor works for city hall and is an awkward but kind young lady but also, during the night, she's an assassin (codename: thorn princess). the secret police are these crappy dudes who idk they're just against the spy agency and hate twilight but anyways, they take suspicious people into questioning and that doesn't bode well for you. and being a single female close to your thirties is suspicious and some of yor's coworkers don't like her and were like "lol you're single you could get reported to the secret police" so she panics and is like "well actually i have a boyfriend so like y eah" and they're like "okay bring him to a party at my place this weekend then lol" and she goes to get her assassin dress fixed where she runs into loid and anya (loid is getting clothes for anya) and loid is like "oooh she's pretty, maybe she could work" and anya reads her thoughts, figures out she's an assassin and is like this woman needs to be my mom the drama would be so good and essentially gets it set up.

loid is pretending that his wife died awhile back and he needs a wife for their child (anya) to get into the school his deceased wife always wished she would get in, and asked if yor could be his fake wife. she agreed if loid would be her fake boyfriend for the party so she wouldn't get reported. loid accidentally messes up because of a mission thing he had to do right before the party and tells everyone that he's yor's husband, and then yor is like "lol what if we got married and had like a fake family so you can get your kid into the school and i can still kill people - i mean not get arrested" and loid is like "well this works even better for me"

so in conclusion: loid is a spy named twilight, yor is an assassin named thorn princess, anya is a telepath.

anya knows about loid and yor

neither loid nor yor know about each other or anya

and it's fantastic

#jingyi tag #and that's basically the first two episodes but simplified #it's such a good show i read like the entire manga that's out thus far in like two days i couldn't stop #also the eng dub is kind of bad tbh so if you watch it i suggest the sub - it's a lot better #but yeah at its core this is a show about three lonely people finding solace and happiness together and trying to convince themselves this #family isn't real as they slowly become a close-knit family who care about each other so much #and it's just. f rick. it is so good.#i love loid so much - he's just this tired overworked dude who just needs a nap and i love him #i mean i love all of them like there are only a couple characters that i hate and those are the characters you're Supposed to hate #i cannot suggest this enough #i also bawled when i read loid's backstory in the manga btw like. y eah. i bawled. it got to me.#it's just. they're all so lonely because anya is a telepath due to being experimented on and she was adopted but returned like four times #and kicked out of two orphanages and would do anything to keep loid and yor as her parents and everything loid cared about as a child was #destroyed and he feels like he has no one and doesn't know who he is and he's so scared to be close with people again #and yor is a lonely girl who doesn't read social cues v well and gets ostracized because she isn't 'girl' enough and both her parents died #when she was super young so she had to start working and sacrificed everything so her younger brother could eat and go to school #and they all happen to find each other and #AHHHHHHHHHHHHH #anyways i have. feelings.#hOPE THIS HELPS #corey rambles:)

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nexo-nex · 1 year

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Been thinking about the EAH x Selfridges merch Mattel did around 2013... It's certainly something that existed. I never see people bring them up on here, so why not write a long post about it? A little thread below about this rather obscure collaboration:

The EAH x Selfridges was a rather limited time edition designer collaboration that was made for the Frieze Art Fair, which was held in London on October 15th 2013. They created a total of 8 exclusive items: 3 shirts, 4 bags and 1 doll.

Let's take a look at the shirts first. They made only 3 white shirts with Raven, Apple and the main core cast girls using watercolor paintings made by Princess Julia. They costed $30 each. More info about this can be found on Princess Julia's Blogspot.

(Apple and Maddie being mishmashed together on that 3rd shirt is kinda cursed ngl)

There were also carrier bags with these same paintings that were given away around the time of the event.

There was also these bags. According to the little info available about it, they costed around $250 each, and were made by four different designers in the Selfridges team: Claire Barrow, Ashley Williams, Ryan Lo and Bobby Abley, which were all inspired by EAH characters:

The first one with the racoon bag was created by designer Ashley Williams inspired by... Apple White? This is what Williams said about the design choice:

"I was inspired by Apple White who is the daughter of Snow White," said Williams. "I thought it would be cute for her to have a woodland creature as her pet, so the handbag I've designed is in the shape of a raccoon as I thought its stripy tail would be cool in multicolour." Source: Vogue

The shattered mirror looking one is inspired by Raven Queen and was created by Claire Barrow, whom quoted:

"I've been inspired by the daughter of The Evil Queen in Snow White. I wanted to do something with a smashed mirror to show rebellion against her past and against the traditional norms of beauty." Source: Vogue

We also got these three tea bags designed by Ryan Lo and who were inspired by Madeline Hatter (mostly based on her color pallete)

And last we have this bear-bag designed by Bobby Abley, and which it was inspired by Blondie Lockes.

(Personal opinion: I think it was a rather weird design choice to make this bag's colors red and white. Aside from the bear theme going on, It doesn't bear much resemblance to Blondie's design, I think it would have looked better if they gave it a Blue/Yellow scheme to it, but this is just my opinion lmao)

And last but not least, we also got this ""Blondie Lockes"" exclusive doll (let's be real that's not Blondie that's an Apple doll ffs) which was also made by Bobby Abley. According to the very first pic in the thread, the doll was sold for $120 (apparently).

(Also I've never seen anyone with this doll in their collection, it's so obscure that not even pictures of her doll box are available online, very interesting indeed).

Like I said before, there is not much information about this collaboration online, and I could not find any pictures or posts of people owning these merch, aside from the ones that were took in the aforementioned Frieze Art Fair, like the ones below:

Source: Wonderland Magazine

More pictures from the art fair, including the last two can be found on this link. (I didn't want to include all photos of the event cause it'll make the post even more longer than it already is oops)

Anyways! I think this was a really interesting collaboration, and I wanted more EAH fans to know about it, cause again I feel that it's not really brought up much (and I can see why, there's not much info about it online) I hope this thread was worth the read :)

#eah #ever after high #long post #fashion design #idk how to tag this help #I mostly took most of my sources that were sited in the eah wiki ... it was the easiest way to find info about this collab #apple white #briar beauty #raven queen #madeline hatter #blondie lockes

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avinmotion · 4 years

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CES 2020 | Top 20

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rebel-princess-raven · 7 years

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Verse Key:

anything w/o a verse tag is in main EAH cannon

mhverse- any interactions with a monster high muse

transfer verse- Raven is a young witch attending Monster High as an exchange student

descendants verse- Any interaction with a Descendants Muse

Auradon Transfer Verse- on the technicality of being the Evil Queen’s discarded second born daughter, Raven managed to gain passage off the isle of the lost with the core four

Isle Verse- Raven is the Evil Queen’s second born daughter who was discarded as a child as being a mother of two would of been to aging for the EQ... adoptive daughter of madame mim (and older sister to her bio daughter Maddie) these threads take place on the isle pre-movie

Upper East Verse: non-magical verse... Raven lives in NY and is the daughter of Evelyn Queen an old money heiress who died when Raven was six and Gearheardt King a real estate mogul (very Gossip Girl-esque)

Son of the Good King- Raymond King, Ever After Prince

Good Queen Verse- A verse where Raven got to choose her birthright from the start and has always been raised as the Good King’s daughter as opposed to the Evil Queen’s

Evil Raven Verse- Raven embraces her mothers evil ways

various ship based verses: dragonqueen (Raven/ @snxckersnxckisms ) hookedqueen (Raven/ @futuregentlemanpirate) outlawqueen (Raven + Sparrow muses) hoodedqueen (Raven + Cerise muses)

Any ships other then Raven/Dexter I believe I’ve given a ship-specific tag on

#ooc post #ever after high rp #monster high rp #descendants rp

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celticnoise · 4 years

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Regular readers will know that I dislike Davie Provan about as much as it’s possible to dislike any journalist out there. I don’t believe that man has a good thing to say about our club or Scottish football as a whole. The guy is irritating beyond belief and he seems to have a special – i.e. a bad – place in his heart for Peter Lawwell.

We can all agree that Lawwell is not perfect; this site has lashed him on many occasions.

But Provan finds a negative in nearly everything he can about the man.

Yet even he can see, clearly, who has come out of the Sevco-SPFL spat with the most credit, and the great enhancement of his influence. Lawwell has played a blinder and when a guy like Provan is happy to admit that then there’s surely no more room for debate on it.

Provan gives especial credit to Lawwell for putting Celtic publicly in favour of completing the campaign on the pitch. I am surprised he finds this interesting. Why would Lawwell, why would our club, not want that? The league was over and we had another treble to look forward to.

In strictly sports terms it was obviously going to be our preferred outcome.

Yet he’s right to say that it was a crucial blow in the PR war, as this site said at the time. The moment Celtic came out in favour of finishing the campaign the Null and Voiders were in disarray. They’ve never recovered their position, and their option has been dismissed out of hand by every credible person. Oh sure, The Record has promoted it and a handful of other lunatics have said it’s a feasible plan but it has never been entertained by the clubs.

From that moment, our club’s position was unimpeachable.

When I asked yesterday if it was time for our club to come out and make a statement on this dire past month I was not surprised at the number of you who were dead set against it. Our silence has damned the Ibrox club; they and Hearts look like angry children, screaming about not getting enough cake.

Provan has also gotten right to the core of what Sevco’s recent squealing has actually been about; it really has nothing to do with SPFL votes. It is an attack on what the Ibrox club perceives to be the reach of our influence. This is why Douglas Park has taken a pathetic shot at Murdoch MacLennan in the press over the weekend, bringing up, again, alleged remarks once reported in a section of Private Eye. I mean, Good God … this really is bottom of the barrel stuff.

The issue here is that Lawwell is perceived as having too many allies on the SPFL board, which is why Doncaster and Rod McKenzie were the initial targets. MacLennan is on the list because of his alleged Celtic leanings. At the SFA there’s also suspicion at Ibrox about Mick Mulraney …

I mean just look at that name, right? The Unseen Hand isn’t even trying to hide.

This is the level of Ibrox paranoia and, dare I say it, their low self-esteem. Do you remember when those at Ibrox boasted that “no-one likes us; we don’t care”? They don’t half like to moan about it these days, eah? That’s what’s behind this last four weeks of craziness.

Incredibly, these people are so bad at politics, and so awful at public relations, that their ham-fisted, and frankly amateurish, efforts to firebomb the alleged Celtic nexus within the governing bodies has only weakened their already precarious position, with Robertson almost certain to be booted off the SPFL board when it meets on Tuesday.

Calls for the club itself to be censured are growing in volume too.

This has been a disaster for Sevco, and it has left them in a worse play than ever before, and if you check the press today you’ll see the Ibrox club and Hearts are still howling at the moon and actually making their situation progressively worse.

That takes skill, by the way. Of a sort.

Provan called it right for once today. This is about Lawwell, and it always was. The man himself has not only survived it, but he has strengthened his hold.

All without uttering one single word to the press.

That, too, takes skill.

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Requiring Employers to Assist Employees with Housing Would Unleash Innovation

BY DREW MEYERS Originally Published: January 31st, 2019

There’s no way around it. Housing costs are unaffordable. It’s not a new phenomenon, it’s been a difficult recruiting barrier to overcome for even the best companies in Silicon Valley.

And as much as real estate geeks would like to believe otherwise, technology can’t fix the problem.

Corporations are required to provide health care. Many provide 401k matching. Parental leave. Flextime. Temporary housing for relocations.

Why not offer the biggest perk of them all?

Long-term housing.

The Case for Employer-Assisted Housing Employer-Assisted Housing (EAH) is not the moonshot thinking some might assume. It’s already happening at some level within various sectors of the employment market.

Plenty of nonprofits have invested in housing programs. The University of Washington offers affordable apartment complexes for faculty and staffand a home loan program for buyers while Columbia, UCLA, and Hawaiimaintain similar programs. Teacher Next Door is a national home buying program and West Virginia University offers free housing to some of its nurses.

Although corporate examples aren’t as prevalent, they do exist. In the UK, “Lidl has helped to build 335 homes.” Meanwhile, the Homes for Working Families previously published research and case studies about noteworthy EAH programs within AFLAC, Harley Davidson, CVS, and others.

According to Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, the main incentive for employers is clear: attracting and retaining quality employees in a competitive job market. Additional benefits include: enhancing quality of employee life by decreasing commute times and alleviating housing costs, revitalizing communities by “pump[ing] relatively ‘lazy’ capital on corporate balance sheets directly into the economy”, and improving civic engagement.

The incentive for employees is equally clear: driving down rent costs by leasing entire floors/buildings rather than units or becoming the landlord themselves by developing the supply using their own balance sheet. They would additionally, save on management fees, control rents, and play a role in the appreciation of their employees’ communities.

While some counter that employer-managed apartment communities in close proximity to the office lead to less diversity and reduced work-life balance, research actually shows that lower commuting times greatly impact work satisfaction for the positive—on the happiness spectrum, adding a mere 20 minutes to an employee’s daily commute is equivalent to a 19 percent pay cut.

At every level, EAH makes sense for those employees priced out of the local market, and for employers eager to recruit and retain the best talent possible. Look no further than movements within the tech industry to see the validity of EAH.

In 2017, Google put $800 million into properties (locked) to house 11,000 employees and ordered 300 modular units from Factory OS at a cost of $25 to $30 million. Facebook is currently working on a planned community that includes “1.75 million square feet of new office space, 1,500 housing units, and a 112,500-square-foot hotel.”

Their endeavors into home building “could transform what it means to live and work in Silicon Valley … and simultaneously alter the traditional relationship between employer and employee” for the thousands without the capital and manpower to make multi-million dollar investments with a 10 to 20 year outlook.

Ushering in a Sea of Change of Innovation Some movement, however, is not enough to combat the housing crisis. What if, as is the case with health care, companies above a certain size were mandated to provide housing assistance? How would changing the conversation from “you should” to “you must” change the industry landscape?

Talent competition would drive employers innovation to differentiate on a broader spectrum of services. The real kicker is the distribution potential: imagine if corporations were incentivized to onboard customers.

What if Weyerhaeuser made every employee a cash buyer by using Ribbon or FlyHomes? What if every Starbucks barista were offered a Super maintenance subscription? What if every Proctor and Gamble manager was provided a Setter home manager? What if Walmart contributed $75 per month toward a down payment for any home purchased with the help of an eXp agent? What if UPS purchased renters insurance through Lemonade for all their drivers?

Sam Le Pard, adviser at Arc & Co, mentions “The greatest beneficiaries of corporate-sponsored accommodation will likely be professional serviced accommodation providers.” That means a boon for a sector I called out in my 2019 predictions: alternative lodging providers like Lyric, Stay Alfred, and Domicile.

A change is coming and housing assistance/perks offers the largest untapped upside for employers to differentiate in a global war for talent. Since housing is not a core competency of corporations, tech startups and brokerages alike should be thinking strategically about how to help them offer innovative services to their workforces.

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Requiring Employers to Assist Employees with Housing Would Unleash Innovation

BY DREW MEYERS Originally Published: January 31st, 2019

There’s no way around it. Housing costs are unaffordable. It’s not a new phenomenon, it’s been a difficult recruiting barrier to overcome for even the best companies in Silicon Valley.

And as much as real estate geeks would like to believe otherwise, technology can’t fix the problem.

Corporations are required to provide health care. Many provide 401k matching. Parental leave. Flextime. Temporary housing for relocations.

Why not offer the biggest perk of them all?

Long-term housing.

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Requiring Employers to Assist Employees with Housing Would Unleash Innovation

BY DREW MEYERS Originally Published: January 31st, 2019

There’s no way around it. Housing costs are unaffordable. It’s not a new phenomenon, it’s been a difficult recruiting barrier to overcome for even the best companies in Silicon Valley.

And as much as real estate geeks would like to believe otherwise, technology can’t fix the problem.

Corporations are required to provide health care. Many provide 401k matching. Parental leave. Flextime. Temporary housing for relocations.

Why not offer the biggest perk of them all?

Long-term housing.

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2 surprising growth stocks that could help you retire early

Finding the best growth stocks is rarely a straightforward endeavour. Certainly, there are specific sectors which usually offer stocks able to generate above-average growth – for example the technology sector. However, looking in other industries can prove to be worthwhile, since they may offer high growth at a more reasonable price.

With that in mind, here are two stocks which may be viewed as relatively defensive by some investors. However, they could deliver stunning growth over a sustained period.

Robust outlook

Reporting on Thursday was Dechra Pharmaceuticals (LSE: DPH). The company’s year-end trading update was in line with expectations, with a good performance from its core business. This was complemented by the successful integration and performance of acquisitions. Revenue for the year was 28% higher at constant exchange rates. This was driven by a 93% rise in North America Pharmaceuticals growth, while in Europe growth was more subdued at 7%.

During the year, the company has achieved numerous product registrations. They have included approval by the FDA for the first major product from the Putney pipeline following its acquisition. The Putney products have benefitted from the integration of the sales and marketing efforts following acquisitions. This was a key reason behind the company’s North American revenue growth.

Looking ahead, Dechra is expected to increase its bottom line by 16% in the current year. This is around twice the growth rate of the wider index, and yet the company’s shares continue to offer a wide margin of safety. They trade on a price-to-earnings growth (PEG) ratio of just 1.5, which suggests that there is upside potential on offer.

As well as this, the business could be viewed as defensive due to its low positive correlation with the wider index and economy. Therefore, given the uncertainty present in the global economy, Dechra could prove to be a sound buy.

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Also offering investment appeal within the healthcare sector is Eco Animal Health (LSE: EAH). The company is forecast to record a rise in its bottom line of 21% in the current year. This puts its shares on a PEG ratio of only 1.5, which suggests that they could deliver further gains even after they have risen by 37% in the last year.

As well as its upside potential, Eco is also becoming a more attractive dividend share. In the last four years it has increased dividends by 78%. Over the next two years it is forecast to raise them by a further 29%. This puts the company on a forward dividend yield of 1.5%, but with dividends covered 2.4 times by profit there could be additional inflation-beating growth on offer in the long run.

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Hi, hello, you’re stuff is absolutely amazing and all the praises.

(Seriously everything eah you’ve made so far feels so canon plausible it’s hard to believe, are you planning to make a career out of these skills/have one? You’d do amazing)

Onto a very generic question I would not be surprised might already be sitting in your inbox.

I am aware that your current project is to continue on ever after high with all the cannon (mostly the cartoon I think, but I can assume the books count too? And maybe doll boxes/diaries? It’s a lot).

If there was one subject you would want to rewrite or remove from canon entirely, what would it be (challenge would be to not name the disaster that is epic winter).

And on a lighter note, favorite/stuck-on-repeat part of the series (I’m sorry this ask is so long, Idnk how to shorten things)?

omg no this isn’t too long at all i’m actually so thrilled to be given something this long to look at!

for starters, in terms of continuing ever after high, my thing is that i want to follow the show canon above all, but i do want to conclude a lot of the stuff touched on in external media such as books and dairies etc. though in doing so i’m not going to treat anything that doesn’t come straight from the show as something to abide by completely. because the show and the books and what not have inconsistencies in numerous ways, such as defining what a royal/rebel is, or characterization, or even the novelizations of the specials having alternate tellings of the stories. i don’t even want to really necessarily change anything mentioned in the books when adapting it so much as ADD to the information provided in ways that aid the story in which i aim to tell.

i.e. the evil queen turning raven’s puppy Prince into a bone rat. what about Nevermore? where was she? WHEN was she? well i think the evil queen could have perhaps, upon feeling remorse, secretly gone and sought out a dragon for raven, and brought Nevermore home without telling raven it was her doing, so that she would have a new pet companion.

anywho, as for your actual questions, for the first one, i’m probably gonna have to go with the whole sequence in Way Too Wonderland when they’re going from class to class. see, when i first watched it, i got this feeling they were going to go from class to class and in each one a different girl in the group would demonstrate their strong point in solving how to pass the class.

if not that, i think i’d change who got to go and do the whole storybook page thing in Thronecoming. i think it should have just been the core four + ashlynn there, really. and less of them could have opened the door for more time getting to see briar seeing what raven’s point of view is like when faced with the reality of her story.

on a more basic note i’d just go back and make sure everyone were not introduced to from the start is actually there. at least, there for Legacy Day. they don’t have to talk or do anything, it would just be nice to know they were THERE.

anywho, in regards to your other question, that’s a tough one. i mean, i have a few. basic answer is raven’s Legacy Day declaration. it’s just iconic and a real powerful moment that shapes the narrative. i love it. there’s also pretty much all of briar’s scenes in Thronecoming. (and obviously her snapping at apple moment. that shit’s too funny.)

BUT also when raven signs the real book in Way Too Wonderland and gets that dark magic power up. i’m a sucker for fight scenes and especially ones with extra narrative weight, so i always appreciated that one + the aftermath of it. and when apple declares raven as a hero. it’s great.

thanks for the ask!

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Today in the media there are a couple of “cry me a river” stories about poor Sevco and how UEFA’s “stupid rules” and “crazy regulations” are hindering them.

Gerrard sat in the front of the press and bleated over how he is restricted in how many players he can name in his team, and of course, The Record loved it.

I hate to be the one to point out the screamingly obvious, but every club in Europe is subjected to the same “crazy” regulations.

I find it incredible that an attention seeking tantrum from Ibrox should, again, compel a national newspaper to publish such utter tripe.

I’m going to do this one line by line and piece by piece. It needs it. It demands it.

So take a bow, Scott McDermott, this one is yours.

An article of undiluted pro-Ibrox nonsense which would be regarded as an embarrassment to the profession in other country.

We need to begin with the top of the piece. It is headlined thus;

“(Ibrox) boss Steven Gerrard slams ‘crazy’ UEFA rules as he makes admission over squad.”

And right away we’ve established that it’s not the Ibrox manager who is howling at the moon, it is UEFA for the nature of their rulebook. This is the Ibrox mind-set to a T, of course. A complete joke. But the sub-heading will make you laugh even more.

“Gerrard admits the Europa League rules could affect his selections in the Premiership.”

Eah? What the Hell does one have to do with the other?

This is them getting in the excuses early, not only for failure in Europe but in Scotland too.

And that’s UEFA’s fault! Here’s the opening paragraph and it is a beauty.

“Steven Gerrard wants to include more players in Rangers’ Europa League squad – but says UEFA’s crazy rules are stopping him.”

And I’m sure that all the top clubs in Europe must want to submit 50 man squads but there are good reasons – not crazy reasons – why they aren’t allowed to do so.

We’ll get to the rules themselves in a minute, but to actually write that line as if Gerrard and his club is something special and that the rules are some of joke … that’s embarrassing even for the hacks here.

“The Ibrox gaffer has been forced to leave out the likes of Jordan Jones, Greg Docherty and Jamie Murphy for the group stage.”

No, let’s be clear on this; he wasn’t “forced” to do anything.

That word does not belong in this section.

He had choices to make, and he himself chose to leave those guys out.

And two of them – Jones and Murphy – are injured anyway and probably wouldn’t have made the cut. Right away, the article it taking Gerrard’s side and assuming his point of view. Journalists are supposed to report facts; this is McDermott spinning on behalf of the Ibrox boss.

“UEFA only permits a first-team squad of 22 players, which must include four home-grown stars.”

A shocking line. Shocking.

McDermott should be hauled over the coals for that, and so should the editor who allowed that to go out.

Because, of course, this is complete bollocks.

From a senior sportswriter that is the stuff of humiliation legend.

UEFA permits a first team squad of 25 and any number of players in a B squad.

Every person who knows the tiniest thing about European football is fully aware of this … and McDermott doesn’t.

I mean, he is a football correspondent isn’t he?

He’s not the tiddlywinks editor, and wandered into the wrong cubicle?

“Gerrard admits he’d like to have more options in his Group G squads against Feyenoord, Porto and Young Boys. But the Gers manager said: “If we could have a team suited to domestic games and another to European matches, we could possibly make changes and do it.””

What a loony suggestion.

No wonder Mark Allen chucked it if this is the kind of nutty idea being promoted within the club.

It is also an insult to the rest of the Scottish football. What egotistical claptrap that is.

And you know what else?

Everyone would like to have “more options” in European football … but only some could afford them, which is why the rules exist.

��“But the rules make it impossible. You can only pick 22 players, which is crazy. And four have to be association trained.”

That’s where McDermott got the number; from Gerrard’s own mouth.

And he didn’t even question if it was factual or not, he just wrote it and stuck it in there.

I repeat, this is a nonsense.

A squad can include 25 players and, yes, four have to be association trained … but you can boost if the squad if a further four have been produced in-house, a la Forrest, McGregor, Tierney when he was here, Mikey, Ewan Henderson … I’ve written about this before.

““I wish I could use more people across the domestic and Europa League games.”

Listen to this pitiful nonsense would you?

He has built two full squads at Ibrox.

He is entitled to name 17 players to his European squad without a single Scottish produced footballer being amongst them. On top of that you can have domestic produced footballers – as many as four – without a single one having to come from your own club ranks.

He thinks the ability to name a provisional 21 man squad without a single club produced player is limiting?

I thought this argument was settled 20 years or so ago?

Everyone accepts the European regulations; they are just good sense.

“But I can’t and that might have an effect with my selections in the Premiership.”

Awww who has the violin today?

That, I’m afraid, is just plain old rancid stale pish.

“That’s something I have to play around with in my head.”

Play with it on your big tactics board instead, see if it starts to make sense to you.

“It’s unfortunate and frustrating because I wanted to pick someone like Jordan.”

NOBODY WAS STOPPING YOU.

“But I’ve got three people in his position who are fit and well so I have to do what’s right for the club.”

THEN WHAT ARE YOU MOANING ABOUT?

Honestly, this is the weakest of all the articles I’ve highlighted this week, with McDermott simply reproducing whatever came out of Gerrard’s mouth without editorialising or subjecting a single one of his claims to the scrutiny it deserved.

Let’s open with this; Celtic named a 23 man squad, because of the same restriction.

We didn’t moan about it.

Indeed, I wrote a piece about how creative our squad management was here.

We included Odsonne Edouard and Kris Ajer in the B team because both are young and both had spent the proper number of years in Scotland, under the age of 21, to qualify for it.

The better way for us to manage the squad is to have a core of club-produced players in it, which is exactly what we’ve done over the last few years, and with great success. The conveyer belt has Mikey Johnson (also in the B squad) and Ewan Henderson on the brink of the first team, and Tony Ralston would have been in the side except he’s out on loan along with Henderson.

UEFA introduced their squad cap for this explicit purpose, and the national leagues of Europe endorsed it for the same.

It is to encourage clubs to develop their own footballers, and that almost every European league has, in the years since this rule was introduced, produced at least one top class footballer, with many of them – even from the so-called smaller countries – produced many, many more than that, shows what a success it has been.

But yes, those rules don’t account for clubs with lunatic transfer policies and manager’s who can’t coach.

The problem Gerrard has – as anyone who read McDermott’s drivel realises – is that he has no idea how to improve the footballers he has.

Kenny Miller was in the papers the other day slamming their youth development process as well … and he was right.

He points out that not a single current Ibrox first team player was produced by their academy.

For a club that clawed its way from the bottom tier with the ambitious goal of doing so with a team full of its own home-grown stars, that is atrocious.

We all know what happened to that plan.

It is a failure that goes back a long, long way and can’t simply be foisted on Gerrard; that club has signed over 40 players since it won promotion to the SPL … think about that.

Where the Hell was youth ever going to stand a chance?

But his predecessors were allowed to do the same thing, so how much can you really blame him?

Gerrard is wailing over the club’s latest self-inflicted wounds … and he was the one who inflicted some of them on it.

The real disgrace belongs to Scott McDermott and his rag, for letting him get away with it.

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Requiring Employers to Assist Employees with Housing Would Unleash Innovation

BY DREW MEYERS Originally Published: January 31st, 2019

There’s no way around it. Housing costs are unaffordable. It’s not a new phenomenon, it’s been a difficult recruiting barrier to overcome for even the best companies in Silicon Valley.

And as much as real estate geeks would like to believe otherwise, technology can’t fix the problem.

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Why not offer the biggest perk of them all?

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