#he was born today!! due on the 4th but born today!!!!

[iphijaania]

had to turn down a video call to see my new (prematurely-born) nephew because i'm in a seminar now. pain and agony

#he was born today!! due on the 4th but born today!!!! #aquarius man... 😔 #and i had to turn down seeing him and learning his name (which was kept secret bcs they wanna announce it via video call) #in favour of what. talking about that bloke who confessed murdering his wife to his cats. #smh #lettos says #NEW BABY AHHHHH #live laugh law #...i guess

[lumilovessmut]

BEYOND THE VEIL OF HUMANITY

PRINCE BAIZHU X PRINCESS READER

Trigger warnings: Monster-fucking, innocent shy reader, reader is kinda naïve and innocent, nicknames such as dear, sweetheart, love, breeding kink, slight yandere themes, olden Chinese time period, established relationship, dom-sub dynamics, penetration.

A/n: Hey loves!! It's Lumi here, as promised this week's post is here hope you all like it! I have exams but I still wanted to entertain you guys lmao :0

Sry guys I'm going on a hiatus till May

Credits: This painting belongs to a Vietnamese artist on Facebook named Kyomon.

https://www.facebook.com/kyomon54?mibextid=2JQ9oc

Word Count: 2.17K

Upload date: 4th, February, 2024

MINORS PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!

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To get married was the duty of all nobles, especially all princes and princesses of Liyue. Prince Baizhu was no exception in this matter, his good looks, his intellectuality, his manners and etiquettes and his looks were always envied by the young men of the nobles and was the pride of the Emperor of Liyue. Born to His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress, the Crown Prince of Liyue was to be wedded with the Princess of the neighbouring kingdom. Though Prince Baizhu had no interest in this marriage whatsoever, however due to his duty and responsibility he had reluctantly agreed to meet with you. This however was both his worst yet best decision. A young lady in her early twenties, whose hanfu was a pretty pale pink colour with embroidered cherry blossom, oh how did you know that it was his favourite flower, of course it became his favourite flower after he saw you, your cheeks dusted pink, your hair done in a cute bun with braids and a hairpin with the same cherry blossom pattern. Your lips looked like fresh apple found in the cold mountains, oh how badly he wanted to kiss them, wanted to taste them, wanted them to utter only his name, only you can do so not even his father calls his first name.

"Greetings your Highness the Crown Prince, its a pleasure to meet you", you say in your voice and the way Baizhu wanted to hear that voice screaming and moaning in pleasure, the way you would sound so angelic under him in his chambers, making sure that no one dares to even see you in your eyes. "Ah yes, the pleasure is mine too, please do have a seat" he gestured you to sit down, you thanked him and sat down. "My, would I have known that my bride-to-be would such a beauty I would have already gotten married to you by now, but I guess this is also for the better, you need to have a grand marriage", he said while eying you like a predator would eye it's prey. "Please your Highness you must have seen more beauties than me, I am not beautiful to the extent you seem to praise me", oh, Baizhu was melting as you spoke, is that a blush he notices? My you truly were a innocent naïve princess, HIS princess. He so badly wanted to corrupt you, would you know how to pleasure him? How would you react when you see he has not one but two cocks that are as big as your face, oh how surprised would you be? Would you be scared or shocked? My this was his worst but best decision in his life.....

After months of engagement and procession and procedure for getting married, Baizhu couldn't wait to have you because today was the only night were he would sleep all alone, cause from tomorrow he would sleep with his one and only wife, he took an oath that he would never take in another concubine or mistress no matter the circumstances, that's why his mother carefully choose the bride for her beloved son, the one and only Crown Prince of Liyue. At last, it was the auspicious day, his wedding day, he couldn't get a minute of sleep because all he wanted to do was to see you in your bridal clothes in the bridal chamber patiently waiting for him. You have been getting ready since dawn, the courtesans giving you expensive facials and a luxurious bath, and they took more than 4 hours to do your make-up. Of course everything had to be perfect, after all you are becoming the one and only Crown Princess of Liyue. Finally they brought you out in the sedan chair and took you to the palace. The Empress personally visited you, giving you a hairpin, which was a the heirloom of her family, it symbolised fertility and good fortune. The moment had finally arrived, when he saw you in the red bridal wear, all he ever wanted to do was eat you right there. Oh, my he could see your cheeks were dusted pink, was it because of him? Was it because you are going to become his wife? Was it because you are going to carry his babies? Be a good girl to him? A good mother to his babies? Fuck just imagining you round with his babies? Begging him that it's too much? Or will you ask for more, once he has got you addicted to his taste, his scent, his voice, his cum? Oh, what would you do if you found out what he truly was??

The wedding and reception went without a hitch and the whole time he was starting at you, what would your face look like when finally he could remove the red veil covering your beautiful face. The whole country was celebrating for you both, but all his thoughts were about all about you. It was time for him to enter the bridal chamber, when we entered, he just froze in his place, the way you were shyly sitting on the seat, waiting for him, once you noticed his presence you hurried and stood up, bowing your head slightly. "Did I make you wait, my dear?" Baizhu asked in his calm and warm tone, "N-no your Hi-Highness the Crown Prince", "Hmm seems like I scare my wife tut-tut, now we can't have that darling", he slowly approached you and lifted your veil, and the way his breath hitched, the way he wanted to breed you, the way he wanted to reveal his true secrets to you, cause he knew that you are truly innocent. "My dear, we should drink the wine, for a happy married life", he pours two cups of wine, the both of you link your hand and drink the fruit wine.

"Blehh, I hate wine!!!", you tried to hide your disgust but you couldn't handle it. Baizhu laughed at you. "Looks like my dear wife cannot handle a little bit of liquor", you blushed at his words. "Now my wife, shall we get to the main part of the wedding, my favourite part of it", Baizhu slowed walked towards you and you by instinct walked back. He looked like a predator coveting it's prey, under the warm light cast by the lanterns and the candles added an extra layer of mysteriousness to him. He looked like a flower a beautiful one at that, but he seemed dangerous to approach, like you could get poisoned or worse get addicted to it, to HIM. Your mother, always knew someone of high status was going to marry you, but you hoped and prayed everyday for a husband who is handsome but more importantly willing to take only you in. "Y/n, eyes & thoughts on only me from now on", Baizhu whispered in your ears suddenly, you flinched and turned up to meet his eyes, which were sparkling like jewels and the slit in them reminded you of snakes. "Your Highn-", "Y/n can I kiss you? please I have been wanting to do so since I met you", you were shocked to hear that, you both will have to fulfil your duties as husband and wife so you slowly nodded yes. Within a second Baizhu was on your lips like a starved man, your lips were his oasis which cured this thirst he has been having ever since he saw you, his tongue slowly entered your mouth, but it felt weird, that's when your eyes shot up to stare at Baizhu, he was-wasn't a human but rather a, "I guess my dear dear wifey found out about me, hmm do you want to know what your dear husband his love?" You nodded scared to know the royal secrets, will you die after this? was this is the end of the life which had not even begun? "Y/n do not worry, you won't die after you know this, cause it's only you and I who will know it. I'm not human, I'm a half snake hybrid, scared of me love?" He knew actually you would be scared....

"Baizhu, will this hurt me? Will you being a snake hybrid pose a threat to my life?" you asked looking at him with curious cat like eyes. "Hahahaha, no my sweetheart, I just felt the need to let my wife know everything about me." It melted your heart that the strong and mighty Crown Prince cared so much about you. Suddenly he grabbed your hand and he placed it on his groin ,"Y/n touch me here, can you feel it? It's all for you, only you can turn me on in such ways" Your hand was on his hard cock but it felt weird like they were- Oh! shit did Baizhu perhaps have not 1 but, "How did you like my gift? Y/n I need you so badly right now please, allow me to touch you and make your body mine." "Baizhu...........", " My love please, I want to touch you, make you mine, I want to teach you how to pleasure me, I want to pleasure you." He kisses you hard and fast, he snatches the breath away from you, your tongues collide, and your teeth clashes against his, his scent is driving you crazy and you don't know where to place your hands, he slowly guides his hand to yours and moves them around his neck as if sensing your dilemma. He slowly pushes you on the lofty king sized bed with plush pillows, "My dinner is served", he removes you bridal robe slowly and groans as he sees your unclaimed skin, the innocence of it is making Baizhu crazy, he starts slowly kissing your stomach and brings it slowly to your breasts, he takes one in his mouth and sucks on it, silently imagining about how milk will flow out of it. Your moans are picking up in pitch, you have never anything like this, is overwhelming to say in the least, all you want is him, YOUR husband, you don't know why but you just want him to touch your core, the most intimate part of you, "Baizhu, touch me down there, it feels weird, I feel tingly all over." Baizhu simply laughs, "Love you are getting aroused, nothing to worry I am there to take care of you, just keep moaning like that yea?"

Baizhu slowly starts to finger you, making you widen your eyes, it hurts a bit at first but then you get used to, "Baizhu it hurts," "Don't worry, it will be okay now, just relax." He slowly adds one more finger, loosening you up, the way your cunt was gripping his fingers got him more excited just thinking about your cunt gripping this hard on his cocks makes him want to cum right then there. "Are you gonna cum for me my dear? i can feel, let it go for me, I promise to catch you" You have never felt anything like this, your orgasm was approaching at an alarming rate, "Gonna CUM! FUCK CUMMING! CUMMING!!!" Your orgasm watch soul shattering, you liquids flowing down your cunt and his fingers onto the bed..."My love I don't think I can wait anymore, please", he slowly removes his clothes and rubs his dick on your cunt, his precum is mixing with your arousal, he slowly slides one of his cock in you, moaning in pleasure he slowly kissed you, "Love are you read to have my kids? Since I am a snake hybrid my cum is like tiny eggs, we will have twins or even triplets are you ready for me?" With that he starts thrusting slowly, making sure both of you savour the moment. "Ahhhn!! Baizhu, slower plea-please, hu-hurts.." "Aw baby it's fine don't worry, everything will get okay with time ju-just enjoy it with me, sa-savour it!! Fuck!! you are ss-so ngh! ti-tight, shit!" "B-Ba-Baizhu, slower p-pl-please....." "FUCK so-sorry baby, can't do can't do, fucck gonna cum g-gonna cum" His thrusts turn sloppy and there is no rhythm in it, you are also reaching your peak. "Love, my sweetheart look at me", he cups your face thrusting hard and fast, "Look at me, when I say look at me, I'm gonna cum, cum with me, I said fucking cum-Oh!! it's cumming! Mhmmmmmmm" He paints your inside white, his cum is like jelly, with tiny clear balls, you also cum with him because of how hot his cum in your womb is, he still keeps thrusting. "You thought we were done? No, no you aren't leaving this bed until you are pregnant, Get pregnant, please please please. One more round just FUCK one more, yeah? you are ready?" "This time take both of my cocks? yeah?" He slowly inserts both his cocks, you could easily see the dick print in your tummy, it was bulging with cocks and cum, you were definitely going to get pregnant.

This was going to be a long night.

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Thank you guys for making it to the end of this long fanfic :)

I hope you all enjoyed it.

All likes, reblogs and comments are appreciated.

As always, until next time.

Luv ya guys <3

#breeding genshin #genshin imagines #genshin impact x reader smut #genshin smut #genshin #baizhu #female reader #genshin fanfic #genshin drabbles #genshin headcanons #genshin impact fluff #genshin impact smut #fluff

[seriousbrat]

quite contrary: mary macdonald + historical context, music

this is my Mary MacDonald playlist and I'd like to talk a little about my interpretation of her and her cultural/historical context! it might not align with fanon, ive no idea but idc frankly haha. I hope to have done my due diligence in terms of research (i'm an absolute research fiend) and in general this is a topic I'm personally highly interested in. because it's highly interesting and (ime) little-discussed. I'll be providing links for further reading. tagging @goldenromione bc she asked me to do this!

so in my fic Mary is a muggle-born girl from a British-Caribbean family in Croydon. Her family owns a Caribbean restaurant in Thornton Heath. She's rebellious and punky and gets a lot of this from her two older brothers, both Muggles; Toby, the eldest, is part of the Race Today Collective in Brixton, dedicated to the publication of a political magazine (Race Today) on race relations in the UK. The middle brother, Lewis (who has a fling with Sirius as a matter of interest lol) is a musician/DJ very active in the Ska Revival/Two-Tone scene of the late 70s-early 80s.

All this is very influential on Mary; she is very outspoken about muggle-born rights at school, and her music taste reflects her background. I do think she would like women-led punk especially x-ray spex, but also in terms of ska a group I think she'd have liked is the selecter, which features pauline black the coolest female vocalist i've ever seen in my entire life. just look at her:

this will be explored in the upcoming 4th part of my fic, in which we see Sirius in his Brixton flat, and Mary and Lewis both spend a lot of time there. Specifically, he lives on Railton Road, which was a very important street in terms of both Black and LGBT history in Britain. It was the scene of the 1981 Brixton Riot and the location of many collectives at different points like the British Black Panthers, the 121 Centre (one of London’s longest running squats, also housed anarchist groups and other orgs), the aforementioned Race Today Collective, the Pink Fairies/South London Gay Community Centre, among others. It was also the home of many important Black British activists and historical figures like C.L.R. James, Darcus Howe and Leila Hassan. A few links:

A Radical History of 121 Railton Road By the Waters of Babylon; The Battle of Railton Road; International Centres Today in London gay history: the South London Gay Centre evicted, Brixton, 1976 Activist Streets (on history in Thornton Heath, linked above)

If anyone is interested in this topic I cannot, cannot recommend enough the miniseries Small Axe on Amazon, which covers a few different important moments in Black British history from the 60s to the 80s. It's so incredibly good and the soundtrack is SUPREME. Another good one to get a feel for the period is In the Long Run, created by Idris Elba and set in London in the 80s, loosely based on his own childhood.

Lastly, a few images of how I see Mary under the cut:

this is simona brown, my mary fancast, though the image I used for my playlist is of brenda sykes who I also think is an absolute Mary vibe.

#mary macdonald #mary #marauders era #mine #the darkest days #idk how to tag this tbh im just leaving it like that #the stranglehold that typeface has had on london signage lmao #i always thought it was futura but its johnston apparently #Spotify

[yukikurosu123]

The Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case (Junko Furuta Case)

I wanted to share this infamous and horrific case that never left my mind ever since I heard of it. The main reason why is because of how there are so many spread misinformations and misconceptions on this case, but also to add some details about the case who are quite important however were always not mentioned on the internet, particularly on English-speaking websites. The other reason is to spread awareness on violent crimes against women and how much juvenile delinquency is a big problem yet often left not punished. 

Today is the case of Junko Furuta, she was murdered on the 4th of January 1989, after having been kept captive and tortured for 40 days.  

I’ll try to make this as accurate as possible because as much as popular this case is, most of the informations about the motive of the killers seem to be incorrect, so instead of basing the source of my informations from English-speaking websites, I’ll take it mostly with Japanese websites about the case through accurate translation with DeepL.

Trigger Warning: This case contains explicit description and grotesque mentions of torture, rape, captivity, false imprisonment, immorality, injustice and cold-blooded murder.

Background: 

Junko Furuta (古田 順子) was born in Misato, in the Prefecture of Saitama on January the 18th of 1971. She had an older brother and a younger brother. As a teenage girl, she was studying in Yashio-Minami High School. (Photo down below)

She was a bright, loving and popular girl with many friends at school due to her kind personality. A good student with high grades and infrequent absences. She didn’t smoke, drink, nor do drugs unlike many of her peers. Junko also reportedly had dreams of becoming an idol singer.

She had a boyfriend going by the pseudonym of Kawamura, a 23 year old construction worker who accepted an interview to a magazine about the murder and shared his feelings of helplessness after the case. 

Here’s something you might find a bit weird, Junko had just turned 17 while he was 23, as I prescribed earlier, an adult, but perhaps it wasn’t seen as socially immoral for a minor in Japan in the 80’s for a minor to date an adult six years older than them. The two met on Christmas 1987 through a mutual friend. They started dating the day before Valentine’s Day in 1988. In Japan, it is a custom for a woman or girl to give chocolate to the man/boy they like (though there is also chocolate given to coworkers called ‘obligation chocolate’), so Junko made Kawamura homemade chocolates (according to some sources, she loved to bake sweets). He gifted her an 18K gold necklace in return. 

In the summer of that exact same year, Junko, Kawamura, and their friends went to the beach (Junko apparently loved going to the beach), where they took a famous photo about her together (link to photo) which I think was later cropped because you can only see her on it.

“A child with big and bright eyes” was Kawamura’s first impression of her according to an article. 

On 23 November, Kawamura’s birthday (but for some reasons was instead misinterpreted as Junko’s birthday on some English-speaking websites), Junko knitted him a black sweater and the two went bowling. They had also plans on going skiing in the winter which devastatingly would never happen due to the unfortunate tragedy which would occur only two days later. When Kawamura found out about the incident in March 1989, he was understandably angry and devastated. 

Link to Japanese article about him

After graduating from the high school four months later in March, she was supposed to start working for an electronics retailer company from April 1989. 

On the 25th of November 1988 at around 8:30PM, she was cycling home after her part-time job at an plastic molding factory, it was Friday, the day people would be paid at work, she was looking forward to watching the last episode of her favourite TV drama, Tonbo which is named Dragonfly in English. 

Now, about the perpetrators background: 

Offender ‘A’ (Hiroshi Miyano), the leader of the four, was born in April 1970 as the first son of his parents. With both parents working and gaining income, the family was going well financially but dysfunctional due to conflict between the parents. Miyano started showing his aggressive nature since his primary school years by stealing, bullying and vandalism. He would often break into schools, beat teachers, vandalize properties, even one time broke one of his parents ribs for buying him the wrong food. As he became violent within the family, his father even went as far as to go to his school for advice. In his middle school years he passed the three years without causing much trouble; he became good at jūdō, devoted himself to it and left good records. He moved on to a high school which was famous for being good at jūdō. The practice was hard and he was bullied by his seniors. As a result, half a year later he left the jūdō club and another half a year later dropped out of school. He started to work to become a tiler, but around that time joined a motorcycle gang. Having committed several criminal offense such as causing bodily injury, unauthorized entry to buildings and theft, he was placed under probation. Having left the motorcycle gang, for a year or so he appeared settled. He worked hard as a tiler, pleasing his boss. He started living with his girlfriend who was according to some sources offender D (Yasushi Watanabe)‘s elder sister. Wanting to marry her, he started to save money. In May 1988 he obtained a driving license and was presented by his father with a brand new car in July. Since around August, however, he became dissatisfied of his low wages and stopped turning up for work. Getting to know a yakuza member through his former classmate, he started selling fake brand goods, working as a Tekiya, looking after a yakuza office etc. He also started inhaling paint thinner. His girlfriend however soon broke up with him because of his delinquent behaviour.

Offender B (Jō Ogura to later Jō Kamisaku) was born in May 1971. His parents were separated and divorced when he was a kid. He lived with his mother and sister the majority of time, spending only two months with his father when he was ten. Good at sports, he did not show any sign of being a troublemaker, until he suffered a complex fracture in his right foot while skiing in January 1986. Unable to carry on with sports, he became lazy with studies and was expelled from his high school in November 1987. Working as an apprentice of an electrician, he enrolled at night school, but soon lost interest and was absent from the classes. From about May 1988 he idled the time away. In July 1988 he drove a motorcycle without a license and was placed on probation.

Offender C (Shinji Minato) was born in December 1972. Both his parents worked at the same surgery; his father as a pharmacist and his mother as a nurse. He had an elder brother who was born in January 1972. While at the primary school, he started causing trouble with threatening behaviour and shoplifting. Moving on to the middle high school, his verbal and physical violence intensified. He also rebelled against his father. After graduating from the middle high school in March 1988 and starting his high school years in April, his behaviour worsened. He would not attend school, would not come home at night, mixed with bad company, was violent at home, and left his school in September. Since summer that year, Minato and his elder brother’s rooms became a hangout for a gang of hoodlums as his busy parents were often not at home. Faced with their own son’s violence, Minato‘s parents were ‘helpless’, described by reports. Minato was also placed under probation after driving a motorcycle without a license.

Offender D (Yasushi Watanabe) was born in December 1971. His parents separated when he was four, and divorced two years later. His father was killed in a traffic accident soon after. Watanabe was raised by his mother and elder sister. Although he had enrolled at a night school in April 1986, he stopped attending classes only a week later, and left school in September. In October 1986 he was placed under probation for domestic violence. In June 1987 and in March 1988, he was on file for minor criminal offences. He tried a few jobs but did not last long with any of them probably due to his incompetence and violent demeanour. 

All four of them used to go to the same middle high school with A as the oldest, followed by Ogura and Watanabe in the grade below, and Minato another grade down. Minato‘s house had two rooms upstairs which were occupied by Minato and his elder brother. With both parents working and therefore often not at home, those two rooms became the hangout for a gang of youths since summer 1988, about which Minato‘s parents were at the end of their tether. Ogura was in the same grade as Minato’s brother, and started to hang out at Minato‘s that summer. In October 1988, Minato‘s older brother’s motorcycle was stolen and Miyano started to come to Minato‘s while helping his older brother search for his motorcycle. From then on, a small gang of teenage delinquents formed. Miyano was feared by the others, and under his leadership the gang behaved like yakuza. Ogura was second in command, and dominated the others in Miyano‘s absence. By the way, they often used the name yakuza as leverage to get away with violent crimes, but were not actually yakuza’s (although they had acquaintances who were low-ranking yakuza’s) and had no power, no name, no authority in the underground world. They were called yankees (juvenile delinquents), commonly found in Japan. 

Kidnapping and Abduction: 

In the evening of the 25th of November 1988, Hiroshi Miyano and Shinji Minato were wandering about on separate mopeds in Misato, the Prefecture of Saitama, with the purpose of snatching bags from or raping young women. Spotting Junko cycling home at around 8:30PM, Miyano told Minato to “kick that woman”. Minato did so and left the scene immediately. Junko fell to the side. They mentioned on a Japanese site that ‘she looked so scared’. Miyano then approached her saying, “That one’s crazy; I’ve been threatened by him with a knife a short time ago. You may still be in danger. Let me walk you home”. 

Place where Junko was knocked off her bicycle and abducted: 35°47'46.5"N 139°51'50.1"E

Gaining Junko’s trust, Miyano lured her into a nearby warehouse where he dropped his ‘good guy’ pretence and raped her, saying: “I’m his accomplice and we are both yakuza. If you obey me, I will spare your life. Let me have sex with you; if you scream you’re dead.” He then took her to a hotel by taxi where he raped her again. From the hotel Miyano rang Minato‘s home, their usual hangout, and told Ogura that he succeeded in raping the girl, actively bragging about it too. Ogura asked him to keep her in captivity so he and numerous other men could come to rape her. At around 0:30AM on the 26th of November, Miyano with Junko, Ogura, Minato and Watanabe met up in a park. After a talk between Miyano and Ogura, they decided to abduct and imprison her. They told her that they knew where she lived from her student notebook (which every student was expected to carry with them while in uniform) and that they would get yakuza members to kill all of her family if she tried to escape. She was taken to C‘s house in the Ayase district of Adachi, Tokyo, where she was easily overpowered and repeatedly gang-raped. Location of the home Unlike what some websites claim, she didn’t know her abductors beforehand, they had no grudge against her and there was nothing particular that made them do this. They were all school dropouts, serial gang rapists and juvenile delinquents. She was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, literally just riding back home after finishing her part-time job.

Captivity and Torture: 

On the 27th of November, Junko’s worried parents asked the police to search for her.  However, the gang forced Junko to call her home three times between the end of November and the middle of December.  She was made to tell her parents that she had run away from home, was safe with friends, and she wanted the police search to be stopped.

From then on, the four kept gang-raping her continuously, they also invited and sold her off to low-ranking members of the Yakuza called chimpira and many of their other friends, encouraging them to also take turns raping her. More than a hundred men are believed to have raped her over the course of her captivity. There were instances where she would be raped by 12 different men in a single day. The men who raped her also reportedly enjoyed urinating on her. 

One time, Koichi Ihara, one of the men who was invited in the house to rape Junko and who was allegedly pressured by gang members into raping her, told his brother about the incident after he left the Minato household. His brother subsequently told their parents, who then contacted police. Two police officers were dispatched to the Minato household, however they were informed that there was no girl inside the house. The police officers declined an invitation to look around the house, believing the invitation was sufficient proof that there was no girl in the Minato house, they were supposed to visit the house regardless of what the residents told them, but they didn't follow the procedure. Both officers faced considerable backlash from the Japanese community. If they had come inside the house and at least checked some clues, Junko probably would have survived and would still be alive now. The two officers were allegedly fired for failing to follow the procedure. 

In early December, while the gang was asleep, Junko called the police, but was stopped by Miyano before she was able to say anything. The police called back right away, but Miyano said it was a mistake. Angered by her act, they started to becoming more and more torturous with her over time. She was repeatedly punched, kicked, struck by heavy objects, foreign objects inserted into her private parts such as broken bottles, an iron bar, scissors, roasting needles, grilled chicken skewers, a hot lit light bulb rubbed inside of her vagina until it exploded inside, had her skin burned with cigarettes and lighter fluids. They burned her eyelids with hot wax and cigarette lighters. They had fireworks forced up her anus and set them off multiple times, causing severe damages inside of her orifice. They had her left nipple ripped off with pliers and sewing needles pierced through her breasts. They also stopped feeding her. Due to both external and internal injuries and malnutrition, she could hardly walk and had to crawl downstairs to the bathroom, which took her about one whole hour. When she could no longer crawl to the bathroom, she was made to urinate into a cup and was forced to drink her own urine. They forced her to consume absurdly large amounts of alcohol and milk to the point of throwing up, as well as forcing her to smoke multiple cigarettes at once. Because of the unbearable violence and pain, Junko repeatedly begged them to kill her to end the suffering. Ignoring her pleas, they continued to torture her for days. They had heavy dumbbells dropped on her stomach while she was lying on the ground with her hands and feet tied, causing her to lose control of her bowel control. They made her stand up and beat her legs with bamboo sticks, golf clubs and many other diverse objects. They kept her hanging from the ceiling and used her body as a human punching bag, because of the intense attacks her nose was so swelled up with blood she could only breathe from her mouth. Putting her in a freezer for several hours which only infected her worsening injuries. They smashed her hands and fingernails with weights, making her unable to grip anything.

The brutality of the attacks changed Junko’s appearance completely. Her badly beaten face was so swollen that her cheeks were as high as her nose. Her burned and infected skin produced body fluid with a bad smell. The gang no longer had sexual interest in her. To ‘fulfill their sexual desires’, at around 2:30AM on the 27th of December 1988, the four abducted a 19-year-old woman on her way home. They pushed her into A‘s car, threatened her with a knife, took her into a motel room and gang-raped her. Even before abducting Junko, Miyano, Ogura and Minato had committed a similar gang-rape on the 8th of November.

When January 1989 arrived, the gang talked about what to do with Junko’s body. “Kill and bury her?” “Let’s mince her body after killing.”  “We can burn her in an oil drum.” “Fill the drum with concrete and throw it into the sea. The police would never find it.” 

Murder and Death:

In the early hours of the 4th of January 1989, after losing a lot of money playing mahjong, heavily frustrated Miyano visited Watanabe‘s house. Ogura and Minato were also present. After playing computer games for a while, Miyano decided to vent his anger by going to Minato’s home to beat Junko where she laid, almost dead. The attack started at around 8AM. Junko was punched for multiple consecutive hours nonstop, violently kicked, had her face covered in hot wax with two short candles placed on her eyelids. She hardly responded. They made her stand and struck her face with swinging kicks. Defenceless Junko fell onto a stereo state and collapsed. She started a fit of convulsions.

The gang knew Junko might die, but did not stop. She bled from her nose and mouth, and bloody pus emerged from her burns. Blood spattered all over the room. Reluctant to get blood on his fists, Watanabe covered his hands with plastic bags and taped them around the wrists before punching Junko in the stomach and shoulders twenty or thirty times. Miyano, Ogura and Minato imitated Watanabe and covered their hands in bags. They took turns to punch and kick Junko in the face, stomach and thighs. They also struck Junko in the thighs many times with a heavy iron ball which was part of Minato‘s kick boxing exercise machine. Watanabe dropped the iron ball onto her stomach several times. Miyano repeatedly poured lighter fuel on her thighs, stomach, hands, feet and set it alight. Junko initially gestured as if trying to put it off, but gradually became unresponsive.

The gang taped around Junko’s ankles so that she could not escape and went out to a sauna. It is believed that she died in Minato‘s room some time during the last torture or the hours that followed.

The next day when Miyano, Ogura and Minato were at a florist run by yakuza, Minato‘s elder brother rang to tell that Junko appeared to be dead. Afraid of the murder being detected, the three gang members decided to get rid of Junko’s dead body. They wrapped her body in two blankets, pushed it into a large travel bag and taped around it. During her captivity, Furuta had mentioned to her captors several times that she regretted not being able to watch the finale episode of the show she liked, Tonbo (Dragonfly). So Miyano found the videotape of the episode and placed it in the travel bag. As he later explained, it was not because he pitied Furuta, but because he did not want her to return as a ghost and haunt him. From his former employer, Miyano borrowed a cement mixer and a truck and took them to his home. They fetched an oil drum which was used as a litter bin in the neighbourhood. They placed the travel bag which contained Junko’s body in the drum, threw in some concrete blocks, and filled up the drum with fresh concrete. The drum was taped into a large black litter bag. At around 8PM the drum was loaded onto the truck. They initially planned on dropping it into the sea, but on the way they passed an empty space near a development site and abandoned it here.

The development site where they encased Junko’s body in concrete

Investigation and Arrestation:

On the 23rd of January 1989, Miyano and Ogura were arrested for the gang-rape of the 19-year-old woman in December. On the 29th of March, two police officers from the Ayase district (where Minato’s house was) came to interrogate them. Women’s underwear had been found at their addresses and the police suspected that they might have committed theft as well.

There had been murder of a mother and her 7-year-old son in Ayase district on the 16th of November the previous year, nine days before Junko’s abduction. As the case had not been solved (and remains unsolved even today), during the interrogation one officer lightly uttered a trick question to Miyano, thinking that he was a possible suspect, because of his serial offenses around the area. “You mustn’t kill someone, you know”. However Miyano thought that the officer was talking about Junko Furuta, thinking that Ogura in a separate room had already confessed. “I am sorry that we killed”, he told probably thinking that going along with it would make him have a lesser sentence. The officers were astounded as it wasn’t what they were talking about in the first place and they were surprised as Junko’s disappearance was initially deemed as a teenager runaway. They went to the empty space accordingly to the confession, where they found a drum with a strange smell. The 305kg drum was lifted onto a truck by a crane and taken to the police the following day.

Junko’s body was found in the drum, badly decomposed and disfigured as she had been dead for almost three months. Edema all over her body. Malnutrition. Facial features unrecognizable due to severe disfigurement. It had to be identified by fingerprints. On the 1st of April Minato was arrested for another rape case and was rearrested for the murder of Junko Furuta. The arrest of Watanabe and two other accomplices (Tetsuo Nakamura and Koichi Ihara) followed after the two’s sperm DNA was found inside of her.

The location where her body was found has been developed since and is now a Wakasu park.

Autopsy:

Using the fingerprints, it was revealed that the body belonged to Junko Furuta. The autopsy found so much disturbing evidence of abuse. It was revealed that Junko Furuta was pregnant at the time of her death because of the repeated rapes. Her brain shrank and reduced in size due to the dire circumstances of Junko’s final days.

DNA found on and inside Junko’s body led the police to several other accomplices, including Tetsuo Nakamura and Koichi Ihara, as mentioned earlier, and also other semen sources that could not be identified due to two reasons: it having been too long and it being too much to identify which person it belonged to.

The autopsy found cigarettes, broken glasses, vitamin bottles, fireworks and many other deadly objects inside her vagina.

Funeral:

Junko Furuta’s funeral was held on the 2nd of April 1989. Had she not been murdered, the following day – Monday the 3rd of April – would have been her start at her job at the electronics retailer.

One of Junko’s friends’ memorial address:

‘Jun-chan, welcome back. I have never imagined that we would see you again in this way. You must have been in so much pain… so much suffering… The happi we all made for the school festival looked really good on you. We will never forget you. I have heard that the headmaster has presented you with a graduation certificate. So we graduated together – all of us. Jun-chan, there is no more pain, no more suffering. Please rest in peace.’

Junko’s future boss presented her parents with the uniform she was to wear at work. It was placed inside her coffin. At the graduation, Junko’s school principal presented her with a school diploma like all the other students in commemoration, which was given to her parents.

Prosecutions:

Despite the shockingly brutal nature of the crime, the identities of the four perpetrators were protected due to all of them being minors at the time of the crime. Some media however published their names. On the 12th of July 1991, after overturning the original terms, Tokyo High Court sentenced them as follows. 

A (Hiroshi Miyano to later on Hiroshi Yokoyama) : 17 years imprisonment which was later increased to 20 years imprisonment, because the judge was angered by the audacity of the culprit, who was trying to appeal to his already way too lenient sentence even after the severity of the crime he committed. (In my opinion, even the death penalty isn’t enough for these demons, they deserve the worst torture possible)

A‘s mother sent money (50 million yen≒USD425k) to Junko’s parents after selling their family home after they filed a civil lawsuit against them due to the unbelievable injustice of the crime. A was released in summer 2009. 

B (Jō Ogura to later Jō Kamisaku) : Indefinite 5 to 10 year term imprisonment.

In court it was revealed that Ogura‘s father started saving money for compensation to Junko’s parents, despite Junko’s parents’ refusal to accept it. Sources of information in more recent years states that Ogura‘s father’s savings, originally meant for Junko’s parents, had been consumed by Ogura for frivolous luxuries. Ogura was released in August 1999. 

C (Nobuharu Minato to later on Shinji Minato) : Indefinite 5 – 9 year term imprisonment.

D (Yasushi Watanabe) : Indefinite 5 – 7 year term in juvenile detention center.

Perpetrators Whereabouts: 

In January 2013, A was re-arrested for fraud, but remained silent during interrogation. Due to insufficient evidence he was released without charge.

Here is a text which talks about information of his whereabouts after his release.

Yellow text in the bottom right corner: “His favorite saying was “I stuck it in her mouth so far that she threw up".

White text on the bottom: “When I heard the rumor, I couldn't believe it. So I asked him over a drink. The stuff about you being one of the perpetrators of the concrete-encased high school girl murder case (Murder of Junko Furuta) is a lie, right? His facial expression suddenly stopped and turned pale. This happened in August of this year. The next day, I stopped receiving any contact from [Miyano], even though I had been spending almost every day with him.”

The photographer, mister M, said this with suspicion. M presented a photo where there was a shirtless man sitting on a bench throwing a peace sign.

“That man (Miyano) called himself “K". We met around 3 years ago. I joined a gym in Western Tokyo where I was commuting. He felt like a big brother to me, and invited me to hang out with him. This picture (panel 3 with the three guys in suits with Miyano (K)’s face blacked out and the two guys around him with pixelated faces) was taken at a barbecue we had earlier this summer. It was a time when I really didn't know about the murder incident…”

The end of 1988 marked the murder of Junko Furuta. The murder case, which is described as the “deeds of savages hiding under their masks,” is well known more than 20 years later. However, after having been released from prison in 2009, what became of [Miyano] was largely unknown.

“I could have never envisioned myself being so close to such a brutal criminal. But in retrospect, realizing he was one of the main perpetrators [of Furuta's murder] isn't that surprising. He was always talking about Judo (martial arts) or sex, and would brag about how when having sex with women how he “stuck it in her mouth so far that she threw up". He also talked about how much he liked choking women during sex. He is also 43 years old, and that is certainly his face right there. Friends of mine who have also met K would send me photos of [Miyano] and say that this is unquestionably the same person.”

The photo [of Miyano] released at the time of the murder incident [in 1989] certainly bears a striking resemblance to the photo [of K] taken in August earlier in the summer. His well-featured nose, the so-called “gyoza ears" so prevalent in Judo practitioners, and his symmetrical hairline. “A hairline is like a fingerprint in that it is unique to each individual.” Like a plastic surgeon, even if 30 years have passed, such a coincidence is further deepened.

M continues talking.

“And that's not all. [Miyano] was said to have been arrested for fraud in January, and around the same time [Miyano] was arrested, K suddenly disappeared for 2 weeks. Because it was around New Years, I thought we should all go out drinking together, so I tried calling [K] but I couldn't get a hold of him. Later, when I asked [K] about where he had been, he claimed that he got in trouble with a rental car and so he was brought to the Akasaka Police Station, but looking back in retrospect there's no way that could've been true. The reason why is because K told me directly that he knew a lot of people engaging in a group wire fraud scandal.”

There is even more evidence that [Miyano] is K.

In the spring of this year, a reporter from a certain weekly publication called the gym that M was a member of asking for information about [Miyano]. This became a topic of gossip among the other gym members. In fact, the reporter actually came to the gym to cover something.

“But at that time I wasn't really paying attention. The person who told me that K was actually [Miyano] was a guy who served 12 years in Chiba Prison. This guy told me that he had met K in Chiba Prison and was like his underling. [Miyano] got 20 years in Chiba Prison too, right? That guy let loose a secret while drinking and said “brother, the media is still chasing you for the [Murder of Junko Furuta]. Must be rough, huh?””

When M last met K, K was driving around in a BMW, he had a Hermès wallet, a gold Daytona luxury wristwatch, and overall seemed to be doing well. He is engaging in [fraudulent] multi-level marketing, and there are plenty of LINE messages from him nagging at his friends to engage in fraudulent activities.

It cannot be said that he was made to pay for his crimes after serving only 20 years in prison. To kill that girl in such a sorrowful and gloomy manner, and not even apologize or explain his actions to [Junko's] bereaved family. This magazine intends to pursue more information [relating to Miyano].

Reading this, we can notice that he is trying to make others not see his identity as the culprit of the Junko Furuta murder. There’s also another article I’ve found about him after his release:

Text Translation:

“It wasn't just in the gym. He (Miyano) would have both his juniors and his friends call him “K" in private, and would even have his name recorded as K in matches (Judo/Kickboxing). He even wrote his name as simply “K" on his resumé, which I got to see.”

This is what our informant, who was treated and cherished like a younger brother by Miyano, had to say. During the summer, [our informant] happened to overhear that K was actually [Miyano]; when [our informant] questioned [Miyano], [Miyano's] face turned pale and abruptly cut all contact with [our informant].

So what has K been up to since then?

First, his whereabouts. No matter how nice and friendly [our informant] has tried acting towards K [after discovering his identity], K has refused to so much as let him enter his house.

“[Miyano] will dodge the question by saying that his house is too cluttered, and he won't even come to hang out with me when I suggest we can meet somewhere other than his house. However, I do know where he lives. He was living in a small town by the riverbank of the Tama River. At least, that's were he was living until August. That address is the one that was written on his resumé, and he would pick up the phone whenever I called the number associated with that address.”

This “small town by the riverbank of the Tama River” is not a very well-known place, and is just a residential area you'd find in any suburb with a few shopping districts around the train station. When we went to the exact address, we found it to be a still new apartment building. [Miyano's] apartment nameplate wasn't anywhere to be found, but there's no mistaking that he's here. However, when ringing [Miyano's] doorbell or banging on his door, no one came out.

There is still one clue we have to ascertain [Miyano's] whereabouts: Ikebukuro. It is said that [Miyano] frequently comes to Ikebukuro to go drinking.

“K often said that many of his juniors are there. When [Miyano] was arrested by the police in January, those involved in Ikebukuro were paying money.”

[Miyano] was arrested in January for wire fraud. We got to see the exact location in Ikebukuro where K and the Ikebukuro group were meeting. However, when we questioned the Ikebukuro group [about Miyano], they all refused to tell us anything.

“Well, I don't know. Because I don't know what kind of relationship it is, I won't say anything,” said one of the former scam group members.

[Miyano] has disappeared yet again. This time we got to see what deep, dark connections he has.

In both of these articles, we see that Miyano tries his best to hide what he has done from others, which makes this even more infuriating than it already is.

Offender B (Jō Ogura to later Jō Kamisaku) is said to have learned some IT (Information Technology) skills while in prison and worked at some kind of firm after his release from prison, but got fired because the people around him knew of his involvement in Furuta's murder and serious criminal past. He later joined a gang, where he was reported to have said the following:

“When I was a boy, I went to jail for 10 years. I had put a girl in confinement, and one day when I came back to the house from when I went out to play, the girl was dead. So I lit a cigarette and put it next to her nose, and the smoke didn't move at all. That's how I knew she was dead,” Ogura bragged while laughing.

A year after this quote (2004), Ogura would go onto kidnap and beat one of the gang members he bragged about this to in what is known in Japanese as the 三郷市逮捕監禁致傷事件. At 2:00 in the morning on May 19th, 2004, Ogura severely beat one of the members of his gang on the street named Takatoshi Isono and threatened him with a bat. He then kidnapped the man and drove him 40 minutes away from Adachi to Misato where he said the following while beating the man for four consecutive hours: “You're the one who took my woman. I'll kill you. I have killed before.” It is mentioned that the man Ogura assaulted was involved with his girlfriend.

It's almost as if he perceives his past murder as a badge of honor. So he clearly hasn't learned anything or shown any sign of remorse, not like it would change anything.

Some sources of information report that B‘s mother vandalized Junko’s grave “because she ruined her son’s life”. 

Offender C (Nobuharu Minato to later on Shinji Minato) for the most part, went off the radar following Furuta's murder. He married a Romanian woman in 2006 although they soon had a divorce in which the wife took custody of their kid. However, on August 19th, 2018, Minato repeatedly beat a man on the shoulders with a baton and stabbed the man's neck with a knife. After getting arrested for this, he had the following to say about his former sentence for Furuta's murder case:

“Prison is nothing but hardships, and is not an environment where I can confront my past crimes. Even after being released from prison, society is just too difficult, so of course I couldn't face my past crimes.”

Here's another quote from Minato from the same source:

“In various articles [written about me], they say that I am beyond rehabilitation. These people have never met or spoken with me, so they have no idea how I've been living my life, so why do they arbitrarily write these things [about me]? Idiots.”

Offender D is the main culprit with the least information I could find about his whereabouts, probably because he was the only one who didn’t re-offend after his release and kept off the radar. He seems to be living with his mother after release. According to the Japanese Wikipedia page, which states the following: 

[Watanabe] was released from detention in 1996 and became a hikikomori. In January of 2001, Eisuke Inoue, a reporter from the Mainichi Shinbun, contacted Watanabe's mother and began interviewing them in the spring. On April 8th, 2001, the contents of the interviews were published in an article. The article was met the both sympathy for Watanabe as well as harsh criticism, with people arguing that the material was “too sympathetic to the perpetrator” or “rubbing the feelings of the victim's bereaved family the wrong way”. In turn, Inoue said that “the pain the victim's family was going through was beyond his imagination. I looked through the court records and reports on the case as much as I could, but somehow disregarded how brutal the case was, and am still bewildered by it even after finishing the interviews. Having read my readers' criticisms, I better understand the difficulty of compensating for one's crimes.” Has also not worked since release.

Media & Public Reaction:

This case is arguably one of, if not the most popular true crime case that has happened in Japan, with so many articles and media coverage made about it. At least three books have been written about the crime. Two low-budget exploitative snuff films, have been made about the incident. The first one, Joshikōsei konkurīto-zume satsujin-jiken (The Concrete-Encased High School Murder Case) was directed by Katsuya Matsumura in 1995. The second one which followed was Shonen no Hanzai (Juvenile Crime) directed by Gunji Kawasaki in 1997. The case was also the inspiration for the film Konkurito (Concrete) in 2004, where Furuta's name was changed into Misaki. Two mangas have been based upon the case, the first one is Shin Gendai Ryoukiden: Modern Stories of the Bizarre, made by Uziga Waita (an infamous eroguro mangaka), published in 2000, the second one is the mainstream manga 17-sai by Seiji Fuji published in 2004–2005. The volume 3 of the manga Reversible Man, written by D. Natakani, is allegedly greatly inspired by this case. Songs have also been made, based or inspired upon this case such as 44 Days by Mr.Kitty, Junko Furuta by Danilla and Taino PV by The Gazette (although this one hasn’t been confirmed but many speculate it is due to the similarities). The track list of Swerslvt’s album Don’t Be Afraid Of Dying is an acrostic of “Junko Furuta”, as a tribute to her.

Due to this event, Japanese people especially at the time were concerned about a ‘US-influenced epidemic of violent crime’ which they called the “American Disease”.

Also, the case brought national attention to the adjudication and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, especially in the context of youth tried as adults, and created a media sensation.

Note & My Point of View (about this case)

Honestly these four demons deserve worse than a simple death. They deserve a slow, painful one. For this case, I absolutely support capital punishment. These demons don’t deserve any human rights whatsoever. That also counts for these hundred boys and men who participated in the rapes. I don’t know what should I be more disgusted of, what these four abominable demon seeds did or the fact that so many guys participated in this, and they all were enjoying it?? I think the worst thing in this case is the bystander apathy, the fact that more than 100 people knew what was happening, did nothing about it and were enjoying participating in her suffering. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth should be applied in this case. All of those pieces of trash should have been executed the first day they were convicted. 

#truecrime #junkofuruta #junko furuta #horror #crime

[blessed1neha]

NAVAMANSH and DEATH

NAVAMANSH/ Navamsa/ D9 and conditions during DEATH 

Today we will discuss the death time situation from Navamansha." If the lord of the Lagna is in that Navamansha  Sign which falls in   6th, 8th, or 12th  house  in the Lagna chart  then at the time of last breath or death no family member will be present near Him "This is only possible when the person dies in the ICU, or outside the home by Heart attack,  or may be an accident. 

To understand this rule let us discuss one example. Suppose someone is born in Mesh Lagna and Mars is in 5th house in Simha rashi.. Now if this Mars is in Kanya or Vrishchik Navamansha this rule is applicable. Suppose Mars is in 6h in Kanya rashi but in Meen navamansha then also this rule is applicable.In short,  the Navamansha of Lagna lord should fall in 6th,  8th  or 12th house. See, here we have do not  to see the house position. The Lord of Lagna may be anywhere in the 12 houses but the Navamansh Sign will be the 6th, 8th, or 12th Sign from Lagna Sign.

I have seen some cases which confirms this rule. 

Some real life examples

Tula Lagna Lagna lord Venus in 4th house in Vrushabh Navamansha which falls in 8th house. The  native expired in Mumbai local train by massive heart attack. No relative around.

Virgo Lagna with Mercury in 12th in Mesh Navamansha which falls in 8th. The person commited suicide in a hotel room due to heavy debt in 2004. No close relatives around.

Scorpio Lagna with Mars in 10th in Tula Navamansha which falls in 12th. Native expired in ICU in unconscious stage after bypass surgery  at late night when no relative was allowed in ICU.,

Parvin babi film actress found dead in her room after 3 days. She was alone. Vrushabh Lagna with Venus in Dhanu Navamansha.

Om puri found murdered. Dhanu Lagna with Jupiter in 3rd but in Vrishchik Navamansha in 12th. Alone.

Lal bahadur Shashtri Dhanu Lagna with Jupiter in  Vrushabh Navamansha falls in 6th. He was alone when died at Tashkand  very far  from his family

#Dhanu #makar #vrushab #meen #Sagittarius #Pisces #scorpio #horoscope #navamsa #astrology #vastu #vedic astrology #vastu shastra expert #vaastu #astro observations #astro notes #aries astrology #astro placements #predictive astrology #astro community #astro predictions #astro posts #vedas #vedanta #rigveda #yajurveda #rg veda #veda studies #rig veda #Vedic Jyotish Online

[foster-the-world]

Vouchers

Our flights out of St Thomas were delayed by 36 hours due to a storm. Some kind lady on the airline hotline said it wouldn't hurt to send in a compliant email. Today they sent us each $300 worth of vouchers. Nothing I love more than free stuff. I also had travel insurance so submitted a claim for all of the costs we incurred over those 36 hours.

Disney cruise was great. Kids were very happy. Now that I've done one I can 100% understand why someone would book again and again and why someone else would think they are hell on earth. I'm in the middle. I'll be fine if we never do one again but also wouldn't mind taking baby boy someday. The first day every single kid was so happy. The drop off kids club was empty. By the fifth day there were so many kids were tantruming in the hallway. The line to drop your kids off at kids club was around the corner. The 4th night they do a pirate night with fireworks at 11pm. Next time I won't tell my kids about it. They stayed up late several nights but by then needed the rest by then. The three shows were really, really good. Disney knows how to put on a show. As suspected it was great to take a taxi to the port. We were 100% correct to leave baby boy home. He could not have handled all of those people in such small spaces.

The girls from Ukraine is here. She's low key and easy to host. She's been upset with all of the terrible news coming from home. She went to a protest last weekend. I'm hoping we can join her next time. She seems resourceful - which you probably need to be to make it in a brand new city. She's found herself free English classes.

Bee's going to get her ice skates fitted tonight. She starts next week. I hope she likes it. She's very particular about temperature so will see how she does with the cold. My husband went to the intro session while we were gone. The big kids are going on a trip to South Africa this year. Disney Plus is doing a documentary about the older kids team. Plus, the team will meet Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor. So amazing.

Some of Bee's classmates are hosting Halloween parties. The girls are dying with excitement. I can't blame them. I love Halloween.

Rebel's beloved PreK teacher had a foster baby returned to her after a kinship placement fell through. She started at our daycare today. Very, very cute. Waddling around. Seemed perfectly content. I couldn't resist holding her for a while. I miss the tiny babies.

Our first foster daughter's mother had a baby boy this week. 1.13 pounds born at 24 weeks. Seems to be doing well considering. This is her fourth child. Her third daughter is only 9 months old. She was also a micro premie. They did a hysterectomy due to medical issues. The foster baby we had is now six. Her Grandmother has full custody. They've never said the 2nd baby - whose 4.5ish - is not with them but I'm fairly sure she is not. Send good vibes to all of them.

[gcldensnitch]

Lainey Bell. – a hpma character’s profile.

Full name: Lainey Imogen Bell

Birthday: May 22th, 1997

Nationality: British

House: Hufflepuff

Blood status: Muggle-born

BACKGROUND

Upon arriving to Hogwarts, Lainey noticed how mixed most of the students are. She secretly wished she had some exciting story to share, however she comes from a regular muggle family. She was both born and raised in London. Her parents are regular people - her father works as an engineer, while her mother works for a small company as a book keeper. Not to mention she is an only child! All of these factors made her who she is today. Lainey is a shy yet dedicated girl, wanting to prove how even a muggle-born can be a wonderful witch. The sorting had didn’t hesitate too much to choose a house for her. Hufflepuff suited her the most!

HOGWARTS INFOS

House: Hufflepuff

Wand wood: Willow

Wand core: Jackalope antler

Clubs: Gobstones

Special magical abilities: none

Best subjects: Charms, Flying

Worst subject: DADA

Patronus: Ragdoll Cat

Boggart: Her crush rejecting her in public, embarassing her infront of everyone

Riddikulus: The crush starts to talk in a silly voice

PERSONALITY

• Positive traits: hard working, good listener, accepting, open minded, creative

• Negative traits: shy, obsessed with love, sometimes can have some inner fight due to inferiority complex

RELATIONSHIPS EXPLAINED

Love interests:

• Lottie Turner: She's the very first crush of Lainey. The two of them met in the library and became friends during their 1st year. Lainey started to feel more toward the girl, however sadly it was an one-sided thing. Lottie got confessed to when they were in their 4th year but she had to turn down Lainey. They remained friends but their relationship got slightly colder after that.

Friends: 

• Quentin Alderly (@gaygryffindorgal): Quincey is Lainey's best friend. The boy liked how she did not care about his background at all. Quincey longed for a friend whom he could share his troubles and fears only to find that friend in Lainey! He supported her when she came out as a lesbian to him which was a huge deal to her. Naturally, she also did support Quincey and his lover, Dawn’s relationship! After graduation Quincey did some modelling for Lainey’s fashion brand and she always told him jokingly how she is forever in debt to him. 

SOME FACTS

- Her faceclaim is Grace Van Dien.

- Lainey is a lesbian, but pretty much closeted.

- After graduation she opens her very own clothing boutique in Hogsmeade where she sells clothes that she designed herself.

- Her hobbies are fashion and gobstones.

#lainey bell #magic awakened #harry potter magic awakened #hpma #hufflepuff

[myhauntedsalem]

Dragsholm Castle

Dragsholm Slot is one of the oldest secular buildings in Denmark. The original Dragsholm Castle was built around 1215 by the Bishop of Roskilde. During the middle ages, the building was modified from the original palace to a fortified castle. During the Count’s Feud (1534–36) (Grevens Fejde) it was so strong that it was the only castle on Zealand to withstand the armies of Count Christoffer.

In connection with the Reformation, Dragsholm was passed on to the Crown. As Crownland during the period from 1536 to 1664, Dragsholm Castle was used as a prison for noble and ecclesiastical prisoners. In the large tower at the northeast corner of the medieval castle, prison cells were made and equipped with toilets and windows depending on the prisoner’s crimes, behaviour and the seriousness of his insults towards his Majesty, the King.

Some of the most well-known prisoners at Dragsholm Castle include the last Catholic Bishop in Roskilde, the former owner of the castle, Joachim Rønnow; the 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots; and the seemingly raving mad squire, Ejler Brockenhuus.

Numerous witnesses and psychics have claimed that there are three ghosts who are residents at the castle: a grey lady, a white lady and the Earl of Bothwell. The Earl is said to ride through the courtyard with a full horse and carriage.

With quite an active history, you might image that some figures have lingered in the castle beyond their death. There are rumored to be hundred of ghosts haunting Drasholm Slot. Psychics and mediums have visited Dragsholm Castle and repeatedly identify four active spirits. Some of them can be traced to the history of the castle and others to tales that have been passed down over the centuries. In no particular order, here are the most famous ghostly hosts you may encounter while visiting Dragsholm Castle.

The Earl of Bothwell is a very well-to-do ghost that haunts Dragsholm Slot. He was born James Hepburn and was the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Their marriage is still a controversy today because it was possibly forced. This also occured during the time of the Reformation, notably war between Catholics and Protestants across Europe. 

During conflicts over the crown in Scotland, The Earl escaped to Norway, then a Danish territory. He was captured there and imprisoned. The imprisonment was due to a complaint by his ex-wife, a Norwegian noblewoman, who wanted him held and her family’s dowry returned. Some 16th century drama, huh?

When the Danish King learned that The Earl was in Norway and that he was wanted for murder by the English, he had him brought to Copenhagen. There the Danish king deliberated his fate and decided to have him imprisoned at Dragsholm. The decision was easy because word had gotten to the King that The Earl of Bothwell’s marriage to Mary had been dissolved. 

Dragsholm Slot is where The Earl of Bothwell died at age 44. He was kept in terrible conditions – chained to a pillar and left to die. It’s said that his ghost cannot rest and appears in the courtyard of the castle. Sometimes his ghost is seen riding a horse-drawn carriage through the courtyard. Guests report hearing horse hooves in the courtyard of Dragsholm Slot, but there have not been horses on the site in years.

The story of the White Lady of Dragsholm Slot is a sad one. It’s said that her earthly names was Celina Bovles, the daughter of a nobleman. She was betrothed to a man from another noble family and her father was anticipating the prestige that the marriage would bring. 

As love goes, Celina fell for a commoner who worked at Dragsholm Castle. When her father discovered the relationship, the two decided on a compromise. She was allowed to carry on the relationship until the day of her wedding. 

That plan did not go well, and Celina became pregant before her wedding. Furious, her father had her imprisoned at Dragsholm Castle. She was chained to a wall in the basement and her captors eventually built a wall around her and left her to die. Brutal!

This story appears to have been corroborated in the 1930s. When work was being done to modernized the plumbing of the castle, a skeleton was discovered behind a wall in the basement. Today, there are reports of the ghost of a lady in white walking the castle and crying for her lover. Occasionally she even wails in agony because she has not found him.

The Gray Lady is a happier sort of story. It’s said she was a beautiful woman who worked at the castle. She developed a toothache one day and complained to the master of the castle. The castle master produced a poultice to ease her pain and for a time, she seemed cured. While the soreness and inflammation was relieved, the tooth became infected and the lady died. 

While she is gone, her spirit remains and walks the castle in an effort to thank the castle master for relieving her pain. The story is that she commits good deeds for those who work and stay in the castle. Not much else is known about the woman who witnesses claim haunts the halls looking to do good deeds, but she’s a happy ghost. 

#Dragsholm Castle #ghost and hauntings #paranormal #ghost and spirits #haunted locations #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem #paranormal phenomena

[scotianostra]

Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness was born on or around August 4th 1704.

I’ve hunted around although wiki don’t give a date for his birth, genealogy site Geni.com give today’s date, which I’m glad about as it is an otherwise quiet day so far.

Wedderburn was the son of Alexander Wedderburn, the 4th Baronet, "who had been deposed from his office as Clerk of Dundee in 1717 for supporting the Stuarts in the previous uprising of 1715, so Jacobite tendencies were in his blood.

Initially Wedderburn joined Ogilvy’s regiment i 1745 as a ‘private soldier’, he was seen at Edinburgh and had marched with the rebels to Derby and back. It seems that, sometime after the return of the Jacobite army to Scotland, he accepted the office of excise collector from Lord Strathallan, who during the uprising was the overall governor of Jacobite controlled East Scotland, and Wedderburn was tasked with the duty of raising taxes on behalf of the Jacobite cause.

He fought at the Battle of Falkirk and was again seen with the Jacobites at Perth and Culloden, armed with broadsword and pistols. He was captured by Government forces at Culloden. After his capture, he was taken south and  imprisoned at Southwark Gaol.   

Most reports regarding Wedderburn’s activities were detailed by witnesses during his trial in London in November 1746. The evidence detailed that that during the retreat of the ‘rebel force’ from Stirling to Aberdeen, he was seen on horseback, with a party of Strathallan’s cavalry crossing the Tay near Perth, he was, wearing the ‘English’ form of dress, not the ‘highland habit’, as was the custom of other leaders of the uprising and he also wore a sword by his side and pistols before him, also, he was also wearing the ‘white cockade’.  

Wedderburn sent a ‘drum’ round Perth giving notice for the inhabitants to come and pay their taxes on penalty of military execution. This collecting of taxes on behalf of the Jacobites was proven by hi signature on several receipts given for taxes on ale and leather in the fair city during November, December and January. It was these signatures that ultimately proved his support of the Stuart cause and the guilty verdict of treason in London in 1746.

There is also mention of his tax collecting activities in Dundee in the house of a Mr Ogilvy. (The Ogilvy could be Alexander Ogilvy who was collector of anchorage and other dues in Dundee at the time.)  Wedderburn was  also collecting in Angus and Brechin as one witness paid him 12/6 for his excise, that the man was berated for being late in coming to pay and was threatened with confiscation of his possessions. 

 After his capture he was held for a short time at Inverness, one of the “lucky” ones who were not executed in the old Kirk graveyard he was then transported south on board H.M.S. Exeter, part of a fleet of 10 ships carrying prisoners to London to stand trial, the prisoners were treated appallingly on board .

Although he was a person of some rank, he had been serving as a private soldier and this added to the harsh treatment he received while in captivity. It is reported that he was not a wealthy man and was not in any position to pay for any favours or luxuries while in prison.   

At his trial the prosecution produced a dozen or so  receipts for excise payments, each signed by John Wedderburn on behalf of the Prince, as I pointed out earlier and without retiring the jury found him guilty and he was taken back to jail. 

Sir John’s second son, James, just 15 years old, rode to London to petition the few contacts the family had who might have been able to plead for leniency. But due to the great suspicion surrounding known Jacobite supporters in the capitol, no one was prepared to plead for him.  James made one final desperate attempt to persuade his father to try to escape, by disguising himself as a woman. John would have nothing to do with this plan. He was determined to accept his fate with dignity.

Just hours before he was executed, he calmly posed for his jailor’s daughter as she cut a shadow profile of him, as seen in pic 2.

On the 28th November 1746, he was dragged on a sledge to the gallows on Kennington common and was hanged, disembowelled and decapitated, his body then taken back to the prison.....

"After every execution the mangled bodies were brought back to the jail, and remained there some days, to show the remaining prisoners how they were to be used in their turn. I am very sure nothing could be more shocking to nature than to see their comrades, their friends, brought back in such a condition all cut to piece - the very comrades they parted with about an hour-and-a-half before in perfect good health and top spirits. They had even the cruelty to keep up the reprieves of those that were to be saved till some hours before their execution." from — (Jacobite Memoirs," p. 343; Lyon, iii. 167).

Sir John’s older son – John, Master of Blackness, was also a Jacobite supporter and was a Captain in Ogilvy’s Regiment, he managed to escaped to America, and was later a surgeon in Jamaica, he managed to return to Scotland in 1773 and died here on the 13th June 1803. It is also said that he was the father of an illegitimate son, Robert Wedderburn, a black slave.

Another Wedderburn who also was said to be involved in the uprising on the Jacobite side was Robert Wedderburn of Pearsie, Kingoldrum, Sheriff Clerk of Forfarshire. In what respect he was involved in the uprising I could find no information as to whether he was a relative, it just muddied the waters a wee bit.

I lifted most of this information from the website below, Sir John not being someone I had heard of before today, he went to his death with dignity, as did all the subjects mentioned in the article  which also gives this short verse….

“Yet when the rage of battle ceased, The victor’s soul was not appeased, The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering steel!”

The pious mother, doomed to death, Forsaken wanders o'er the heath; The bleak wind whistles round her head; Her helpless orphans cry for bread.

“Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shade of light descend; And, stretched beneath the inclement skies Weeps o'er her tender babes — and dies.

"While the warm blood bedews my veins, And unimpaired remembrance reigns, Resentment of my country’s fate Within my filial breast shall beat."

                                Tears of Scotland.

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wedderburn/genealogy/sirjohn.htm

#Scotland #scottish #'45 Uprising #bonnie prince charlie #jacobites #history #execution

[basicsofislam]

PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH)’s BIOGRAPHY : Some other Important Incidents of the 4th Year of the Migration.Part2

Fatima, the Mother of Hazrat Ali Dies

Fatima bint Asad was the wife of Abu Talib, who was the uncle of the Prophet. She was one of the first Muslims and had migrated to Madinah. She took care of the Prophet when he was a child. She loved him and looked after him more than her own children. The Prophet always showed respect to her, visited her and enquired about her health.

This woman of high ethics died in the 4th year of the Migration in Madinah. The Messenger of God said, “My mother died today” due to his love and respect to her.

Hz. Ali (may God be pleased with him) said,

“When Fatima, my mother, died, the Messenger of God (pbuh) took off his own shirt and used it as a shroud and wrapped it around her; then, he led her janazah prayer.

The Messenger of God entered the grave of this blessed and respectable woman; he lay in the grave for a while. Then, she got out of the grave. His eyes were full of tears. The Muslims around said,

“O Messenger of God! We have never seen you act like that for anybody else.”

The Messenger of God answered,

“There is nobody who helped me as much as this woman except Abu Talib. I clothed her in my shirt as a shroud so that she would be clothed in the clothes of Paradise. I lay in her grave so that it would be easy for her.”[ Ibn Abdi’l-Barr, al-Istiab, Vol. 4. p. 1891. ]

After that, the Prophet prayed as follows:

“May God show mercy on you and reward you with good things!

May God show mercy on you, O my mother! You were my mother after my mother. You went hungry but fed me. You did not buy clothes for you but you bought clothes for me. You refrained from eating nice things but gave them to me to eat. You did so in order to attain the pleasure of God and the hereafter.

God revives and kills. He is al-Hayy and al-Qayyum.

O God! Forgive Fatima bint Asad, my mother; tell her about your proof; enlarge her grave.  

O God, who is the most merciful of the merciful ones! Accept my prayer for my sake and for the sake of other prophets before me!”

Birth of Hazrat Husayn, the Grandson of the Prophet

Hazrat Husayn, the second son of Hazrat Ali and Fatima and the grandson of the Messenger of God was born in the month of Shaban in the 4th year of the Migration.

The Prophet slaughtered two rams on the seventh day of his birth for his grandson, recited adhan into his ear and cut his hair.

Hazrat Husayn looked like the Prophet just like his brother, Hazrat Hasan. The Prophet prayed for his grandsons as follows:

“O God! I love them; please love them…”[ Tirmidhi, Sunan, Vol. 5. p. 661. ]

Once, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may God be pleased with him) saw Hazrat Hasan and Hazrat Husayn playing in front of the Messenger of God. He asked,

“O Messenger of God! Do you love them a lot?” The Prophet answered,  

“Of course, I do. They are two basils that I smell in this world.”[ Tirmidhi, ibid, Vol. 5. p. 657. ]

Zayd b. Thabit Learns Arabic, Hebrew and Assyrian Writing

Zayd b. Thabit (may God be pleased with him) was left an orphan when his father died during the fight on the day of Buath between the tribes of Aws and Khazraj before the Migration. He was six years old then.

The Messenger of God had declared that if the captives taken during the Battle of Badr did not have enough money to pay ransom, they would be set free if they taught ten Ansar children to read and write. Zayd b. Thabit was one of those children who learned to read and write then.  

Zayd b. Thabit was very clever.

In the 4th year of the Migration, the Messenger of God ordered him to learn Hebrew and said, “I cannot be sure whether they would change my writings or not.”[ Tabari, Tarikh, Vol. 3, p. 42; Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, Vol. 5. p. 186. ]

Thereupon, Hazrat Zayd learned Hebrew in fifteen days; he had a good command of Hebrew. When the Prophet wanted to write something to Jews, he called Zayd and dictated it to him. When he received a writing from Jews, he made Zayd read it.[ Abu Dawud, Sunan, Vol. 2, p. 286; Tirmidhi, Sunan, Vol. 5. p. 67-68. ]

Once, the Messenger of God asked Zayd, “Can you read and write Assyrian? I receive writings in Assyrian.”

Zayd said, “I cannot read or write it well.” Thereupon, the Prophet said, “Then, learn it very well.”

Upon the order of the Prophet Zayd b. Thabit learned Assyrian in seventeen days.[ Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, Vol. 5. p. 182. ]

Death of Abdullah, the Son of Hazrat Uthman

Hazrat Uthman had migrated to Abyssinina with his wife, Ruqiyya. They had a child there; they called him Abdullah.

When Abdullah was six years old, a rooster pecked at his face. His face was swollen. He got very ill. He died of this disease in the month of Jumadal-Awwal in the 4th year of the Migration.  

The Prophet led the janazah prayer of his grandson himself. Hazrat Uthman, his father, placed him in the grave.[ Ibn Sa’d, Tabaqat, Vol. 3, p. 53-54. ]

The Messenger of God, who placed the gravestone, started to cry. He said,

“God shows mercy on His slaves that are merciful and soft-hearted.”[ Balazuri, Ansab, Vol. 1, p. 401. ]

#Allah #god #islam #quran #muslim #revert #revert islam #convert #convert islam #converthelp #reverthelp #revert help #revert help team #help #islam help #salah #dua #prayer #pray #reminder #religion #mohammad #muslimah #hijab #new muslim #new revert #new convert #how to convert to islam #convert to islam #welcome to islam

[maypoleman1]

4th February

St Gilbert of Semperingham’s Day

Source: anastpaul.com

Today is St Gilbert of Semperingham’s Day. Gilbert is one of the less fantastical English saints and has a genuine claim to fame: he founded the only English monastic order, the Gilbertines. He founded thirteen monasteries in all, established a women’s order named the Seven Devout Women and became a particular champion of lepers, the poor and orphans. It seems his energy, and possibly his empathy, was spurred by the fact he was born into the knightly class, but was unable to pursue that path due to being born with some unamed deformity.

Also today the Rocking Ceremony took place at Blidworth Church in Nottinghamshire. A boy Christmas baby would be brought to the church and placed in a garlanded wooden cradle while the service was conducted, with the vicar rocking the cradle and blessing its occupant. It is believed this may be the descendant of a Candlemas tradition at which a Christmas baby was the centrepiece of an entire play depicting the presentation of Jesus to the Temple. The Rocking Ceremony at Blidworth which had died out, was revived early last century and is still going strong.

#st Gilbert of semperingham #the rocking ceremony #Blidworth church #candlemass #the gilbertines #seven devout women

[up2123753theories]

Performance and Movement

Definitions:

Performance-

The action or process of performing a task of function.

A musical, dramatic or other entertainment presented before an audience.

Movement-

An act of moving. 

A change or development.

(Tilting "performance architecture" House Spins 360 Degrees)

Performance and movement look at the motions and processes of everything. From a play to how a building performs, everything Our performance as students or workers is always under review, to watch progress and to ensure we are performing at a good standard. We also keep an eye on the performance of items we use in our everyday lives, from our televisions and phones to our ovens and cars and so much more. Everything performs in different ways and to different standards. As explained on Arch Daily, the term ‘high-performing’ offers different views on performance, “ranging from a star student to a virtuosic violinist to a hard-working employee”.

In Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It, he states that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Here Shakespeare expands the idea of a stage and applies it to the whole world, and any action or movement made on the “stage” is part of the performance. This really emphasis’s that anything and everything that moves is classed as a performance.

Quotes:

“place and occasion mean more” than “space and time” – Aldo Van EYk (2008) “any and all activities of human life can be studied as performance” – Schneider (2013) “any movement creates invisible traces in the space that vanish almost instantly” – Sanchez (2020)

References:

As You like It. Directed by Shakespeare, 1623.

Cooke, Lacy. “Tilting “Performance Architecture” House Spins 360 Degrees,” InHabitat, 17 Dec. 2017, inhabitat.com/tilting-performance-architecture-house-also-spins-360-degrees/.

“Definition of Performance | Dictionary.com.” Www.dictionary.com, 2019, www.dictionary.com/browse/performance.

Fisher, Fiona. Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior from the Victorians to Today. Oxford Berg, 2011.

Hornblower, Simon, et al. The Oxford Dictionary. 4th ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.

María José Martínez Sánchez. Dynamic Cartography. Routledge, 28 July 2020.

“Movement.” Dictionary.cambridge.org, dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/movement.

Schechner, Richard. PERFORMANCE STUDIES : An Introduction. S.L., Routledge, 2020.

“The Ultimate Guide to High-Performance Building Design.” ArchDaily, 30 June 2022, www.archdaily.com/983363/the-ultimate-guide-to-high-performance-building-design.

After completing some research on performance and movement I believe that performance and movement can’t be put into a singular meaning or response. This is due to it covering such a wide range of topics and being applicable to everything.

Maria Jose Sanchez wrote a book called Dynamic Cartography which looks at scoring body movement as well as performance and space. Maria was born in 1982 in Murcia, Spain, and she is a former professional tennis player.

In Sanchez’s book, Dynamic Cartography, she talks about an American environmental designer, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009). It is believed that Lawrence Halprin worked “at the intersection of architecture and dance”. By working within this interdisciplinary collaboration he used an advanced process within his designs called Motation. Sanchez explains that Motation is “a scoring system he developed which represents movement in relation to space”.

According to Sanchez, “Halprin applied a truly interdisciplinary process based on scoring actions within living environments”. Personally, this makes me think that in order to create any design or space, the actions of which will take place there need to be scored in order to create a successful environment and space. I believe this really emphasis’s the fact that performance and movement affect everything, including designs of future spaces. I find this quite interesting because other than looking at walkways and paths around a space I haven’t really considered thinking about what specific performances and movements will take place in a space I am designing.

Through my research I would say I have managed to come to a better understanding on the importance of performance and space within the design process. I have also learnt that designers work with other disciplines, such as dance, in order to score actions and create more successful designs. However, I do think that with my next topic I need to try and expand my research further.

#architecture #interior architecture #design #history #performance #movement #space

[pixoplanet]

🍎 The Amazing Life and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

Introduction: Unveiling Newton's Remarkable Journey

It's December 25th. To quote the greatest science communicator of our time, Neil deGrasse Tyson, "On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton," who was born this day in 1642 in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. According to the Gregorian calendar, which the world uses today, Newton was actually born on January 4th, 1643. However, in Newton’s day, England used the Julian calendar, and according to that calendar, Newton was born on December 25th. Mr. Tyson and I (among others) prefer to celebrate Sir Isaac’s birthday on the Julian calendar date.

And so today we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings who’s ever graced our planet. Isaac Newton was an extraordinary physicist and mathematician and is credited with laying the foundation for classical physics and jumpstarting the scientific revolution. He believed and proved that all of nature is governed by universal laws that can be expressed mathematically. Newton’s list of accomplishments are long and profound and continue to shape our understanding of the world. His influence will be felt forever.

From his early years at Cambridge University to his later role as President of the Royal Society, Newton's impact on scientific thought cannot be overstated. Sir Isaac Newton's contributions to physics, astronomy, and mathematics are unparalleled. His theories and laws revolutionized our understanding of motion, gravity, and light. Through his meticulous observations and rigorous experiments, he laid the foundation for modern science as we know it today.

So let’s celebrate the life and work of this extraordinary man and explore how his insatiable curiosity led him to unravel the mysteries of the universe. Let’s uncover the stories behind some of his most iconic discoveries, such as the laws of motion and universal gravitation and see how his relentless pursuit of knowledge forever changed our perception of reality.

Prepare to be inspired by Sir Isaac Newton's unwavering dedication to unraveling nature's secrets. His legacy continues to inspire generations of scientists and serves as a testament to what can be achieved through relentless pursuit, unwavering determination, and an insatiable thirst for knowledge.

Let’s now embark upon this fascinating journey and unveil the remarkable life and contributions of Sir Isaac Newton – a true pioneer in the annals of scientific history.

🍎 Early Life and Education: The Formative Years

Isaac's father unfortunately died two months before he was born. His mother remarried when he was three. Isaac’s stepfather died when Isaac was 12, and he was immediately pulled out of school to help run the family estate. Isaac seemed to show little promise in school anyway. His teachers described him as idle and inattentive. And Isaac soon showed he had no talent or interest in managing an estate, either.

An uncle persuaded Isaac's mother to let him go back to school. This time he must've shown some promise because after he graduated from primary school, the school's headmaster convinced Isaac's mother to send him to college. Isaac entered Cambridge’s Trinity College in 1661 at the age of 19 and began studying philosophy, science, and mathematics. He returned home in 1665 when Trinity College closed down due to a bubonic plague pandemic. Free to study whatever he wanted to while at home, he gobbled up all the mathematics texts he could lay his hands on. During this time, Isaac developed calculus and different theories on optics.

When Isaac returned to Cambridge in 1667, his newly-developed mathematical prowess was evident to all. His professors marveled at his ability to grasp complex concepts with ease and solve intricate problems effortlessly.

But it wasn't just his exceptional mathematical abilities that now set Isaac apart. His insatiable curiosity drove him to delve into fields of knowledge well beyond the confines of the classroom. He voraciously consumed more books on science, literature, and philosophy, expanding his horizons and developing a well-rounded understanding of the world.

🍎 Universal Laws of Motion: Revolutionizing Physics

The Universal Laws of Motion that Newton formulated have revolutionized the fields of physics and mechanics. These laws provide a fundamental understanding of how objects move and interact with one another.

The First Law of Motion, also known as the Law of Inertia, states that an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will continue moving at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force. This concept has paved the way for our understanding of momentum.

The Second Law of Motion is known as the Law of Acceleration. It introduces the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. It states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting upon it and is inversely proportional to its mass. This law enables us to calculate how much force is needed to accelerate or decelerate an object.

Lastly, the Third Law of Motion is known as the Law of Action-Reaction. It states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This principle explains why objects exert forces on each other when they come into contact.

Newton's Universal Laws of Motion have shaped our understanding of physics and have truly revolutionized our comprehension of how objects move in space. And they continue to have practical applications across numerous contemporary scientific disciplines such as engineering, robotics, and space exploration. They serve as a foundation for designing efficient machinery, predicting celestial movements, and even explaining everyday phenomena like walking and throwing a ball.

🍎 Universal Law of Gravitation: Unlocking the Secrets of Celestial Bodies

Newton’s development of the three Universal Laws of Motion led him to formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation — a groundbreaking theory that has revolutionized our understanding of celestial bodies and their interactions. This law describes the gravitational force between any two objects in the universe, enabling us to unlock the secrets of planetary motion and other cosmic phenomena.

Through its elegant simplicity and yet immense explanatory power, the Universal Law of Gravitation transformed our perception of gravity and its influence on celestial bodies. Newton theorized that a smaller object doesn't actually orbit around a larger object, but that the two bodies orbit around their common center of gravity. With this realization and ever-more precise measurements of the sun and planets, his model of the solar system has continued to become more and more accurate over the years.

One of the most famous anecdotes associated with Newton is, of course, the story of him watching an apple fall from a tree as he was gazing at the moon. It’s said that this event sparked Newton's curiosity about why objects fall towards the Earth, leading him to develop the Universal Law of Gravitation. This simple observation paved the way for a profound understanding of how gravity not only governs our everyday lives, but also shapes the movements and behavior of every object in the universe. It serves as a testament to human curiosity and ingenuity in uncovering nature's secrets while reminding us that even seemingly ordinary occurrences can lead to extraordinary discoveries.

Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation continues to be a cornerstone in astrophysics and cosmology, guiding our exploration and expanding our knowledge of the cosmos. By comprehending and applying this law of nature, scientists through the years have been able to unravel mysteries surrounding planetary orbits, predict astronomical events with precision, and even explore outer space.

🍎 Optics: Shedding Light on the Nature of Color

Newton's groundbreaking experiments with light have played a pivotal role in unraveling the mysteries of optics and color. At the time, scholars hotly debated the subject of whether or not color was an intrinsic property of light. Newton settled the debate in 1665 when he invented the prism and discovered that white light is composed of a spectrum of colors. By passing a beam of sunlight through a prism, Newton observed how it refracted into its constituent colors, creating a beautiful display which we now call the color spectrum.

This experiment revolutionized our understanding of light and demonstrated that different wavelengths correspond to different colors. It not only shed light on the nature of color but also paved the way for further exploration in the field of optics. His own continued experimentation led Newton to construct the world's first practical reflecting telescope in 1668.

The discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton about the nature of light have been instrumental in expanding and enriching our scientific knowledge. They continue to shape scientific advancements and inspire scientists and researchers to delve deeper into the intricacies of optics and its applications.

Our understanding of how light interacts with various materials has led to the development of innovative technologies like lasers and fiber optics. These inventions have had a profound impact on numerous fields such as communication, photography, lighting design, and even art. By comprehending how light behaves and how colors are perceived by our eyes, we’ve gained valuable insights into how we can manipulate these elements for practical purposes and creative expression in various aspects of our daily lives.

🍎 Mathematics: Pioneering Concepts Still Used Today

Sir Isaac Newton’s contributions to the field of mathematics are nothing short of remarkable. His groundbreaking work in calculus has had a lasting impact on the field and continues to be used today.

Newton's development of calculus revolutionized mathematical thinking and provided a powerful tool for solving complex problems. His concepts, such as differentiation and integration, laid the foundation for modern mathematical analysis.

These pioneering mathematical concepts are still widely in use in various fields from physics to economics. They allow us to understand and model intricate systems, make predictions, and solve real-world problems. His contributions continue to shape our understanding of the world around us and serve as a testament to the power and beauty of mathematics. When sending a probe to the outskirts of the solar system, NASA scientists don't rely on Einstein's relativity to work out the math – they use Newtonian physics equations.

🍎 Legacy and Impact: How the Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton Shaped Modern Science as We Know It

Sir Isaac Newton has unquestionably secured his place in history. He's widely regarded as one of the most important people who's ever lived. His contributions to science have left an indelible mark on our understanding of the natural world. His groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics continues to shape modern science as we know it, as many of his ideas still hold true and his equations are still in use today.

One of the most significant aspects of Newton’s legacy is his influence on future scientists and thinkers. His Universal Laws of Motion and Gravitation, along with his invention of calculus revolutionized the fields of physics and mathematics, providing a solid foundation for subsequent scientific discoveries. Newton's rigorous approach to experimentation and mathematical reasoning set new standards for scientific inquiry, inspiring generations of researchers to follow in his footsteps.

Furthermore, Newtonian physics has had a profound impact on technology advancements. From the Industrial Revolution to space exploration, his work has provided the framework for engineering marvels that have transformed society. Scientists and engineers continue to apply the principles derived from Newton's work as they make further advancements in various modern fields such as aerospace engineering, robotics, and telecommunications.

Newton was revered during his own lifetime as the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution and has since gone on to inspire and influence many scientists who have stood upon his shoulders to see even farther — Edmund Halley, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and on and on.

It’s truly remarkable how Sir Isaac Newton's ideas continue to shape our present and future. His intellectual prowess and dedication to scientific pursuit have paved the way for countless breakthroughs that have propelled humanity forward. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to this brilliant man whose legacy will forever be intertwined with modern science and technology. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese

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[sandyhookhistory]

~ William Alexander ~

We have a belated #harbordefensehappybirthday to celebrate!

Today, we honor Continental (U.S.) Army Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling who was born (most likely) on (Wed) December 4th, 1726 in New York City.

By all accounts, he was quite intelligent and well educated. He was the son of Scottish immigrants who fled Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion. There was ancestral royal blood in the family, and he sought and held a highly controversial title of Lord Stirling. He lived a life befitting the title - and racked up the bill to go with it. Living in New Jersey and deeply in debt by the time the Revolutionary War broke out, the conflict provided a timely interruption to offload his monetary problems.

He became a Colonel in the New Jersey Militia, using his personal funds to outfit the 1st NJ Regiment; he was promoted to Brigadier General in March, 1776.

At the Battle of Long Island in August, the Patriots were quickly outflanked by the Redcoats. Seeing the disaster unfold, Stirling organized troops from Maryland into a well-executed, collapsing rear-guard action that allowed the majority of the American Army to escape. Scattering his men at the very end, he himself remained to be captured. The action was so successful, even the British acknowledged his gallantry.

Released in a prisoner exchange, Stirling was decisively engaged at Trenton that December. He was defeated at Short Hills, NJ in June of 1777, but won at Brandywine and Germantown, both in Pennsylvania. That winter, by accident, he was able to expose, and stop, a planned coup by General Horatio Gates to take command from George Washington. He’s forever part of New Jersey’s legacy for his part in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse on June 28th, 1778. The fight was savage and he took heavy casualties, but his troops held their ground.

By 1781, Stirling was assigned to command the forces in the northern frontier as the Continentals moved south to Yorktown. With the war all but over, Stirling, in poor health, died on active duty on January 15th, 1783, age 56. He was buried in famed Trinity Church in New York City.

However, his legacy of service would not be allowed to end there. With War Department General Order No. 194 on December 27th, 1904, he became the namesake to “Battery Alexander,” a two-gun 12-inch caliber disappearing battery at Fort Hancock, NJ. Construction began in 1898, and it was accelerated for the outbreak of the Spanish American War. Completion and transfer to the Coast Artillery was in July, 1899.

Battery Alexander is unique, as it is the two northern emplacements of what is called “9-Gun Battery” at Ft. Hancock. A total of six 12-inch guns and three 10-inch guns were emplaced there between 1896 and 1902. Battery Alexander’s guns face due north, and cover the west into Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay, as well as the approaches to the harbor from the southeast. The Battery enjoyed an exceptionally long service life of 43 years. The guns were finally salvaged for a scrap drive in early 1943. During the Cold War, the vacant emplacement was used as ammunition storage for 90-mm Anti-Aircraft guns until the Nike missiles came online in 1954.

Today, the Battery is in poor shape, with trees and vegetation growing through the concrete. The National Park Service has classified Battery Alexander as a “ruin,” meaning it will never, ever be restored or even preserved.

Although the emplacement may be vanishing, the incredible legacy of General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, the Battery that carries his name, and the service of the US Army Coast Artillerymen that manned it across four decades is in the safest of hands, here.

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[another-random-object-show]

ANOTHER RANDOM OBJECT SHOW: Season 1

EPISODE 16: Half-a-Life

Cloudy and GyroGyro were hanging out after the events of the previous Elimination Ceremony. “I mean, it was just so irrational, how could they..?” Question Mark sighs. “Moony, what's that phrase you follow?” She asks. “You can only guarantee so many things in life, and the choices that others make is not one of them.” She recited. “What… does that even mean?” Cloudy, asked to which GyroGyro howled, ranting.

“...what?” Question Mark seems confused. “GyroGyro knows what Moony was talking about, it’s Tabula Rasa, he believes.” Cloudy said. “Yes, it is. Tabula Rasa states that we can shape our children and their characters, but it doesn't take into account when they become independent. Period is an example of this. None of us could've stopped their choice, and it was final.” Moony noted. “Essentially, I’m saying that Period wasn't going to be stopped regardless of what happened.” She sighs. “..fair.. point. I guess that's final then. I’m just sad they left, I guess.” Question Mark shrugged. “It’s alright. I’m still sad about Starry.”

Meanwhile, as Team FUN! discussed that, Cuby was taking care of Mime, who was being entertained by his silence. Just then, House appeared with Sunny, who wanted to play. “Cuby! Uhm… why don't you have a mouth? or.. don't speak?” He asked. Cuby thought for a moment, then gave Sunny a paper. “Born… this way? …you neve had a mouth?” Cuby taps where his mouth should be, which is smooth, and nods his head. “How have you been eating…?” He asks, curious, to which Cuby shrugs, unsure himself how he’s been alive so long. “What was it like to be an object, by the way— y’know, an inanimate one?” House asks.

Just as Cuby was about to write and draw , The Gourd cut him off with the announcement of the next challenge. “CONTESTANTS! Your challenge today will be to cross this valley!” He said, before removing the ground beneath The Tightrope Island and replacing it with acid. “A rope will swing in a pendulum, back and forth, between the islands, the team who has the most members on the island across will win! GO!” He snaps his fingers, and just then, Mime becomes Cloudy, confusing Team FUN! with lines like “Sorry guys, I gotta switch!”

“How easy…” Penta said, taking advantage of the confusion and debate, corporealizes himself across the platforms, before realizing; “...HOUSE!” However, it was too late, as he was counted safe.

Moony then went, realizing even if they figured out which Cloudy was real, the other would only carry about 3 people on her, and possibly a 4th person within her, therefore leaving out the possibility of 2 people. and without consideration, grabbed Sunny and swung across the platforms. “We’re safe!” Moony said to Sunny, hearing the ding.

After Moony went, Cuby took his shot, but missed by a few inches.

He fell into the acid, and began to sizzle. The last thing he felt was everything around him boiling until…

“Oh damn. You got eliminated AGAIN?” Hangman said, looking down upon Cuby, who had just died. “...you're soaking wet—” Just as he was about to talk about Cuby, Lunartic appeared, causing a commotion.

“DAMN IT! I fucking REFUSE to die like that!” He looked around, angrily. “Ugh! and THIS place?! Such a fucking sobstory, this place!” He now sat. “Y’know darling, you could TRY to have a more likable personality, but…” Heart tsks. “but of course. That's not like you.” She says. “You're more of a like, I don't know… 12-year-old Jeff the Killer Creepypasta Fan who JUST realized that curse words exist?” Lightning adds. “Oh, shut up, SLUTS!” Lunartic flipped them off. “I’ll have you know the only slut here is ME, and besides, even If I am a slut, at least I’m not YOU, a person who on the daily, probably glorifies wartime with messages such as What happened to men?, as if war is something to be celebrated.” Heart told Lunartic off. “Pathetic.” She said snapping her nail filer, before getting a new one. “Besides, in due time, you’ll probably get out, unless they FINALLY got rid of you.”

“It's not just him, Heart.” Hangman said. “Cuby’s here, so they're probably doing a lethal challenge, which means Cuby and Lunartic here are dead.” He said. Heart groaned with many of the others in The Inbetween. “We have been STUCK in this white void for numerous days on end, and Silent Boy has FINALLY come back, so why doesn't he go ahead and tell us all about his trip?” Heart says. “Go on, speak!” Heart told Cuby, who obviously couldn't say anything.

Heart filed her nails as Period came over. “Eugh, what’s HE doing here?” He said. “My exact question..!” Exclamation Mark said, shivering at the sigh of Lunartic. “Oh, fuck off coward.” Lunartic flipped them off too. “Oh, no, no, no! What is THIS?” Triangula said, suddenly appearing from behind Lunartic. “No. Get him OUT!” She snaps her fingers. “What is he doing here, anyways?” Period says. “God, The Colon Duo better get here, and quick.” Exclamation Mark sighs.

“Oh, those lousies were TOO easy to get rid of! Constant fighting and bickering only leads to—” …and like that, Lunartic had disappeared. “Good riddance!” Paperplates exclaimed. “Far too annoying in my taste!” She said. “Can we get updates on Flower? How’s he doing, exploring the void?” Hangman asked. “I dunno, he hasn't said anything. WOAH! Cuby got re-eliminated?!” Hangman sighed. “No, he probably just died. Lunartic was clearly not eliminated either, so… who knows.” He shrugs as The Colon Duo both ascend and descend into view. “Greetings!” Angel says. “WORSHIP SATAN!” Devil proclaims. “We have reappeared! Flower found something MOST interesting!” Angel said. “As a result we can confirm— this place is NOT just some pocket dimension for The Gourd, or whatever, instead, this is a type of purgatory!” Devil proclaims. “You see, when an object dies, they will show up here! A place we from both The Heavens and The Nether call…” now in synchrony, the duo exclaim; “THE INBETWEEN! You are all inbetween non-existence and existence, hence the name!” Angel explains.

“...well, then what was the interesting thing Flower found?” Tragedy asks. “Can we see? Can we see?!” Comedy says, excited. “Oh, of course! We shall both ascend and descend, whilst teleporting you to the location of THE INBETWEEN you desire!” Angel proclaims, allowing Devil to teleport everyone in The Inbetween to Flower’s location.

“Hello, dears…!” A very old lady stood in front of the group. “My name is Margatha, and I was 81 years old when I died in…” She thinks. “Summer 2008...” she nods. “Oh, and thank you for your kindness, Flower. It has been very many years since I have been able to get fresh vegetables…” Margatha seemed to be a very old, pruny Raisin. She was clearly senile, and wasn't in the best state. “No issue, Ms. Maū.” Flower nods. “You remind me of.. Daisy! ..she's around your age and.. lives in this part of the void, with me…!” She says, caressing Flower’s cheek. “You're very pretty, like her.” She said.

“Wait, wait, you would've lived to see WWII?” Triangula said. “Huh… how did you..?” Triangula seemed to ask, to which Margatha chuckled. “Nothing special. I lied down in my sleep, and stopped breathing, I wasn't awake, so I simply awoke here.” She sighs. “I do worry for my grandchildren sometimes, but Daisy helps to ease me… oh… speaking of her, I really should introduce her to you! You are my guests…” Maragatha now cleared her throat, and with her best holler, called for Daisy.

“Hm.. ? Yes, Margatha?” Daisy says, popping out of the doorway of the cabin. She had white petals, a yellow flower head, green leafs, and a green silky stem.

“We have guests..! Be a dear and say hello, won't you?” Margatha would say, shaking ever-so-slightly as he held onto her cane. “Well hello dear guests, my name is Daisy.” She said in a gentle tone as she waved. There were 11 guests, and one of them was another Flower, who nodded to you. The others seemed to be rather disinterested or inattentive.”What brings you here in the cabin.. ? Either way, may I be the assistance?” Daisy asks. “We need to know more about.. HERE.” Tragedy says. “Yeah, yeah! WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN?” Comedy asks, excitedly. “Well.. lets see.. I’m dead, I think..?" Daisy says not knowing how death works. “Indeed you are!” Margatha says. “I died in my sleep, as you should all recall… so we're all dead, however, we haven't quite moved on! Ohh, no… we still need to accept some things” Margatha said, still shaky as ever. “like… what?” Flower asks. “...any worries, angers, or guilt you had… do forget them. Your time has come.” Margatha said, sighing deeply. “Well.. There you have it.. I haven't moved on yet." Daisy says worriedly. “I still haven't moved on yet because, a singular Golden Rose." She said, “He's a different type of flower," She mentioned."I also died due to cancer. “ She said. “Oh… huh. What about him is so—” Flower pauses. “HOLY SHIT, WHAT’S HAPPENING TO MARGATHA?” He points out that Margatha is quickly fading, ceasing to exist. “Ohh, don't worry dears. My grandchildren will be perfectly fine. They can take care of themselves, and now I can rest. Thank you all for making me feel better about this.” she said, now fully dissipating.

The silence that filled THE INBETWEEN was silent, until someone spoke again. “Well.. she now accepted her fate, but not me. I just haven’t moved on.” she said. “This is what the cabin is really used for.” She says. “..you know, we aren't actually DEAD.” Flower states. “Cuby here is actually dead, but we were eliminated!” Flower said, speaking of Cuby.

Suddenly, as Cuby was waving to Daisy, he ceased to exist within THE INBETWEEN.

“...recovered AFTER silentboy? …how embarrassing…” Heart sighed. “Yes, indeed.. ??” Daisy said confused about the situation. “I think we should head back now, the next person will be eliminated soon..” Tragedy said. “A NEW FRIEND?” Comedy replies. “..uh.. yeah, heh..!” Tragedy chuckles, now walking away with Comedy. “Mhm..” She mumbled quietly to herself and went quiet. “.. I hope Golden Rose is okay.. I wonder if Ordinary Zero still exists.. ?” She murmured to herself. “..wait, what's Ordinary Zero..?” Flower asks, as Heart and Lightning leave. “Basically.. It’s a contest show that Golden Rose and his stepbrother often would talk about. Its reward was to get 10 billion dollars. I remember.. The host name was Bowtie.” She explained as Paperplates and Hangman left, too. “...the gameshow we were on is called Another Random Object Show— I remember the flyers calling it Season 1, for some reason. Most shows don't recognize their first season as their FIRST unless there's plans to make another season, or unless…” He pauses, staring at Daisy as Exclamation Mark and Period left, too. “Well.. Ordinary Zero was created in 2008.” She said. “and this show has been going since Summer of 2018. You don't think that… y’know, maybe Ordinary Zero was..?” Flower suggests, as Triangula left the cabin. “Well.. During Summer 2008, people were getting bored of cartoons. They wanted live-action studio audiences and such, like the gameshow you guys are on right now.” She explained. “Flower, you coming?” Triangula called out. “...sigh. I have to go. Do you wanna discuss this on our way there?” He asks. “.. Sure.” She said. Flower nodded and walked out the cabin, and when Daisy followed, the cabin disintegrated as Maragatha had died.

Once they finally got there, THE INBETWEEN began to glow green.

The Icon of Cloudy appeared in the area, before Cloudy herself finally appeared, being greeted by Hangman. “Eliminated?” he said.

“Yeah. Lunartic tricked everyone into thinking I was helping the other team.” She stated.

“...what now?” She asks.

…

“...we wait.”

END.

AROS was written by TheWiseGuest.

“Half-a-Life” was co-written by Mont, the character of Daisy belongs to her.

FIN.

A portal appeared in THE INBETWEEN, from it, Star stepped out and said; “I CLAIM HEARTUSSY!!”, before snatching her up to do… QUESTIONABLE acts with her in space. Phantom and Starry añpeared afterwards. Phantom sighed and said. “...Masqueradians. I.. apologize for—” Paperplates cut him off by hugging him, followed by Comedy and Tragedy joining in. “...Hangman, you are… welcome to come with.” He says, carrying the three out onto the moon.

“...everyone else is. If you.. wish to come with us, to the moon, then.. we welcome you with open arms!” Starry states. “...once we close the portal, there is no return. Alright?” Cloudy looks at Daisy, waiting to see if she’d come with. “.. I'm sorry, but I'm going with the others.. I need to know what it's like. I apologize, I just need to know. “ Daisy says, apologizing. “Oh, it’s fine! I’m coming!” Flower says. “Me too.. I.. need to know about Ordinary Zero now.” Triangula says. “That means Exclaimy and Period-y will stay! Let's go!” Flower says. “Oh, uh, I’ll be staying too. Like, I need time away from Heart after our, like, falling out.” Lightning says. “Oh.. good riddance!” Triangula says, leaving Lightning behind. “..I bid aiedu to you all…” Starry says, leaving THE INBETWEEN.

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[rangers-arecool]

For: Open | Within reason Muse: Skiâ Catanach Verse: Tolkien/Harry Potter crossover

“Are ye home, lass?”

“I’m out back!”

“Not gotten lost yet then?” The 6ft7 Scottish born werewolf teased as he followed the familiar scent of his human Pack-mate around the cottage and into the back part of the property. It took a few minutes to actually work out where the quiet gender-fluid witch was but then sharp wolf hearing picked up light footsteps coming closer. It didn’t surprise the almost 28 year old to find her in what most would call a garden. Although garden was probably not the right word for the cottage came with four acres of land.

“Now why would I get lost? The first thing I did when I first came to stay here, was to learn the land. A tanned faintly scarred hand ran through waist length dull red hair as Skiâ came over to give the older man a quick hug. She stepped back after a moment and eyed the Catanach Pack’s Alpha with slight curiosity as he was meant to be at work. After moving to the small Scottish town of Killin this summer, it hadn’t taken her long to figure out the general routine of the permanent residents there. It also hadn’t taken her long to become a permanent part of that routine either. “What’s up, Sam? You’re meant to be at work.”

“Trust ye tae ken where I’m meant tae be right now.” He grinned at seeing the English witch’s shrug but also noticed the coiled defensiveness of her magic, which wasn’t new unfortunately. At the question, Sam sighed and used his senses to check for any hidden dangers. Not that he was expecting to find any, due to the strong wards that had been put up when Skiâ first moved in. Dark eyes focused back on her and after a moment to get his thoughts organised, he finally said the reason why he was here. “Are ye up tae anythin' today?"

“Besides gardening? Not really, It’s the Summer holidays.” She eyed her friend with faint curiosity, recognising that something was bugging him. Or setting his wolf off, she wasn’t sure which. Either way, it wasn’t good. “Stop stalling.”

Sam wavered for a moment but seeing the narrowing look of the Panther Animagus, answered. “Filius contacted me a few minutes ago. He thinks Dumbledore an' certain members of the Order may have messed up a ritual rather spectacularly. No one double checked the translations properly an' the ritual’s not written in a language he fully recognise. Yer one of the few people who kens various old languages an' he wants ye there tae take a another look at the ritual.”

Grey eyes remained narrowed for a moment, before they widened with horror. The darker natured Gryffindor didn’t need to even see the book, in order to identify it. As there was only one book of rituals in a old language she knew of and it had gone missing from the 4th year dorm room she had shared with her twin, George and Lee Jordan.

“Ye know what book it is.” The nod was all he needed. “Then go an' stop 'em from causin' anymore damage. If ye need help, call.”

That wasn’t a question. It was a quiet command from her Pack Alpha and she nodded quickly, before sprinting off. Due to never knowing when situations would occur, the former Weasley always kept a ready to go bag just inside her front door. She grabbed it and a jacket, before using the shadows to get to where her Charms teacher, Filius Flitwick, was. “Prof- Duck!” Seconds was all Skiâ needed to take in what was happening- and the spiral of magic was all she needed to know what ritual the Headmaster had tried to use.

Without even questioning the red haired teenage witch, all of the Order of Phoenix members ducked and a wave of magic shot out from the built up spiral. They had most certainly gotten the translations wrong for it should have been a relatively simple, old Gaelic warding ritual. But if someone translated it who didn’t know their old Scottish very well, the ritual could be turned into a portal and cause problems. “Shit. Yeah they messed it up. Big time.”

“Skiâ?”

“It’s meant to be a simple old Scottish Gaelic warding ritual. But mistranslated turns it into a one way portal and now it’s pulling someone from another place to here.” The explanation was quick but no one misunderstood her at all, not even the Headmaster. There was nothing they could do to stop it though and all they could was wait. Unaware that the ritual would be pulling someone from another world in another universe and who would change a certain Gryffindor’s life.

#*|* when one door closes / another door opens *|* :: open starter #~/ sometimes it's hard just to be yourself \~ :: skia #*|* a shadow stalks the grounds at night *|* :: hogwarts years #*|* scars aren't always visible *|* :: order of the phoenix #summer of 1995 #*|*f or these are my mountains / and this is my glen *|* :: scotland #*|* the winds of change often / blow when least expected *|* :: hp/tolkien crossover