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tawneybel · 1 year

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Note: “Izzy Bohen x fem!reader x Jake (I forgot his last name but they’re both from Jeepers creepers 2) love triangle? I do like some rivalry. You can add the creeper if you want as well, make it into a love square? *wiggle eyebrows*” Turned this into a love (?) pentagon, because Dante 🤤.

Imagine Izzy and Jake competing for your affection.

You counted yourself and the boys lucky that Izzy just reported for the Bannon Bantams. If he’d played for them, well, he and Jake would have the cockfight of the century.

Izzy’d been disappointed when you’d opted for cheer squad instead of the newspaper. But you’d assured him the front row seats were worth it. He agreed, expression thoughtful.

Jake’d been psyched. Had even suggested the Bannon Banner do a feature. Which you shied away from, not wanting to kick off the season with resentful teammates. Of course, Jake had given Izzy shit. And continued to give him shit, all because of-

“-so much ink, huh? I’m serious, people are starting to think you’re sweet on him.”

Oh, Dante.

Izzy did write about him a bit. But that was mostly due to the reporter’s rivalry with Jake. How much messier it would be if Dante was thrown into the mix! Or if it was even just a love triangle with Dante. Izzy/You/Dante. Jake/You/Dante. Izzy/Dante/Jake.

Good thing, you figured, glancing everywhere but skyward, no one else was seriously interested in you or Dante or Jake-

“Really? I heard that was you.”

Time to step in. Bucky noticed you stroll up from behind before the other two did.

“There are no urinals… out here,” you greeted, gesturing at the vast farmland. “Why you all together?”

The team manager had already slunk off. Not because he didn’t like you. Bucky just found Jake to be more a cocksore loser around crushes. The jock at least looked slightly embarrassed. For a sec.

“Hey, ______.” Jake made no effort to conceal himself. “Caught me with my pants down.”

“Don’t turn around,” you teased. “Or get any ideas,” grumbled Izzy, pants zipped as he faced you.

“No, here’s one. Why don’t you write about a pretty girl for once?”

“What, I thought you were jealous I don't write enough about you?”

Their squabbling ceased after boarding the bus. The rivalry was still there, strong as ever, but Jake and Izzy at least sat far apart. The latter kept casting longing glances back. Dante was on the same side as you, but farther back. You could only imagine the shitstorm if you’d asked to sit next to the player with the most “ink.” Maybe he’d mediate.

Yeah, right.

A few glimpses into Rhonda’s compact mirror revealed Jake was also yearning. His eyes drifted between you and… Dante?

An image of you and him, lips locked, squeezed between Jake and Izzy popped into your head. The compact fell into your lap. You nonchalantly passed it back to Rhonda. Dante’s pretty face wasn’t likely to be within kissing distance anytime soon.

You had volunteered as a junior bus monitor for the elementary school, as part of a class. This experience came in handy when you begged Betty to let you help lay road flares. Anything to get away from crushes and admirers for a minute.

Unfortunately, Coach Hanna was spontaneously raptured and you, knocked onto your *ss after something smacked your ass, only narrowly avoided rolling out of the way after his flare dropped. You remained still. The others were talking, but the mounting horror was too distracting.

“______?!”

“I’m okay!”

Betty went to help while Barnes called out for the other coach. You shakily got to your feet. The driver continued to lay flares as she approached, before she too was ripped off the face of the earth. But not before the assailant made your rump smart again.

Note: Pluto TV kept glitching, so I couldn’t rewatch it completely. :(

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what0smart · 9 months

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bkenber · 11 months

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'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' - Our Friendly Neighborhood Web Slinger Thrills Us Yet Again

Just when I find myself getting increasingly weary of superhero/comic book movies, along comes another “Spider-Man’ installment. This friendly neighborhood web-slinger has succeeded in maintaining a high batting average on the silver screen, and this continues to be the case with “Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse” which has as much heart, soul and endless creativity as do the best entries in…

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gadriezmannsgirl · 11 months

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Not Like Others -P.G (2)

Not me ending this as soon as I got home and did all my homework a bit rushed at 1:35am knowing I had to wake up early today✌🏻😌✨😁 But still I fell asleep with my phone in hand, so I didn't posted it on the time I had finished😭🥴 and now I'm off of work and decided to take a little breather from Uni work. Anyways... I hope you enjoy it! Please, let me know what you think of this! And I want to hear/read you guys out, what do you think it'll happen in the series?!

|Chapter I| |Chapter III|

Summary: When you get the chance of meeting Pablo Gavi, you don't seem to react as the rest of people would do and that attracts him to you

Two Weeks Later

Being the new girl was absolutely awful, everyone is looking at you, talking, whispering about you, judging the way your looks without getting to know anything from you first. You hated it and you hated being in the spotlight.

You had a week going at the Universitat de Barcelona and you were still pretty much alone since no one has got closer to you for anything. You now remember why you hated the thought of moving to a new country, this was exactly what you imaginated and exactly what you disliked.

Walking into the cafeteria, everyone turned to look at you once more, you sighed grabbing your lunch and going towards the table that was in the back, ready to eat. Have you said you hated being in this kind of spotlight?

Because you had done a revalidation and equivalence of your recent college studies in Canada for the transfer, you were now in your third semester (two semesters behind of what you actually were), where the UB had been the first one interested in you and opened their doors, accepting you into their university family. You were currently sat at one of the tables eating your lunch and enjoying some words of Colleen Hoover “Regretting You” when two girls and three boys stood in front of you

"¿Les puedo ayudar en algo?" (Can I help you with anything?) You said

"Yes, ¿Podemos sentarnos contigo?" (Can we sit with you?) The red haired girl said with a small smile

"Hemos estado queriendo acercarnos desde que llegaste pero no sabíamos como" (We've been wanting get closer to you ever since you came here but we didn't know how) The sunkissed skin boy said showing his dimples as you nod witth a light smile

"Sure" You made space for them to fill the table

"Anastasia Rodríguez but everyone calls me Ana" A dark haired girl with glasses said

"I'm Olivia Montero" The red haired girl said doing a peace sign with her fingers

"Jonathan Ontero" A blonde guy smiled

"Eric Wolf" A dark haired boy with deep blue eyes said

"Antonio Figueroa" The sunkissed boy said

"Nice to meet you guys, I'm Y/N Santos" You smiled softly

"Have you got any other friends? What do you think of the Uni?" Jonathan asked as you shake your head laughing

"You guys are the first ones to come by" You admit shyly "And it's huge, I keep on getting lost" They laugh "but it's really pretty"

"Is that why you came late to Paint II?" You nod shyly

"I think the professor doesn't like me though, he keeps on putting this bitchy face whenever I appear on his vision" They laugh

"No, that's his face. I promise" Eric chuckled as you nod laughing quietly

"I'm sorry if this may sound a bit out of place, but it's so cool and at the same time so weird to have a Canadian between us"

"I'm not" You shook your head "I'm Spaniard"

"You're even cooler then!" Ana exclaimed making a few heads come to where you were sitting, Jonathan sushed her as she softly pushed her finger up to her lip in a quiet motion. You couldn't help but laugh

"Lo siento" You said as they waved you off with a smile.

They kept on talking and it was safe to say you liked them, they were really funny. You don’t know how or when but after the lunch they had spent the rest of the day with you. Anastasia claiming you as one of them now, you smiled and accepted. You had enjoyed the day with their jokes, occurrences and got a hold of the whole system at college because of them.

They reminded you a little bit of your old friend group but instead of being five (six including you), your old group consisted of four, two and two. However these guys were chattier than ever and you loved that too seeing that you also loved to talk.

“Oh, Y/N! One of my friends is doing this party this Saturday, you should come!” Jonathan said as you all were meeting after the last class of the day.

"Party?" You ask "It's their birthday?" He shook his head

"More like a celebration" He added "He's in a team and wants to do a celebration for this big win" You nod processing

“Oh gosh! Yes, that’s such a good idea! You can socialize more, get to know people and even Barcelona!” Olivia said as you shook your head lightly

"I don't know" You said doubtly "I know nobody in there and I'm sure you guys will do your thing" You waved your hands around "The last thing I want is one of you stop spending a good time to practically babysit me and no, señor. That's not happening" You shook your head and also shook your finger side to side as they all smiled

"You're cute if you think we won't spend THE greatest time over there" You smiled blushing lightly at Eric

"Also, you're cute thinking we'll give up on the first try" Ana wrapped her arm around your shoulder "You just have to wait, you'll be crazy for the party"

And three days later you were tired of waiting. The persuasive method of these guys was extremely annoying and you were already guessing the words that could come out of their mouths, each one, taking turns on who was the one speaking next.

You could even say you had dreamed with the: 'You have/gotta/should come to my/Jonathan's friend party! It'll be awesome and we'll all be there, pretty please' words.

And when Antonio opened his mouth you instantly shushed him off.

"I'll be there" You said to him as he smiled nodding fist bumping the air

"I knew it!" He exclaimed a little bit too loud

"If you already knew the various artistic movements, Mr. Figueroa, I ask you to come up here and explain some of them" Miss Alba, the professor of Modern Art, told him in a monotone voice and her facial expression was up in interest as everyone turned around to look at you both. You looked down in shame and blushed hard as Antonio stuttered

"I-I...mmm"

"The most seen, used and that we can qualify as importants are cubism, futurism, surrealism, impressionism, expressionism, art brut and a few more" You spoke up with determination, you had already seen this curse back in Canada and you had nailed every test, quiz, popquiz, presentation and essays.

"Well done, señorita Santos. Now, señor Figueroa, le aconsejo que preste un poco más de atención a la clase y deje de hablar con Y/N, entendemos que es una chica muy bonita, inteligente y es nueva aquí, pero por favor, para los chats existen las horas de descanso" (Mr. Figueroa, I suggest you to pay a little more of attention to the class and stop talking with Y/N, we understand she's pretty, smart and new girl here, but, please, you can do that bit of chatting on your resting times) If you had blushed you were now rainbow coloured, Antonio had murmured a quiet "Sure, professor" and sank back on his seat as you heard the laughs of the whole class came in embarrassing the two of you

"Happy?" You whisper ask "You embarrassed us!"

"No, I embarrassed myself. You saved your ass answering to that question" He said with a light smile on

You shook your head and smiled lightly

"Good thing is" Antonio said softly leaning over you "... You'll go to the party" You smile nodding

"You did it, guys. I'm going to the damn party" He fist bumped the air again

"¡Joder que si!" He says as you sush him once more

"Stop that!"

...

You wonder how you got in this position.

Antonio said he was going to give you the lift but his car suddenly broke down and he was coming later because of it. Jonathan and Ana were already there since the evening helping Jonathan's friend out, Olivia was going with her boyfriend and he was driving her. And Eric had a last minute issue with his grandmother so he couldn't go, nothing too big though.

You didn't trusted going in cabs alone, you never liked it, ever since you were little and saw that a man had kidnapped a woman like that you had hated it, and on really weird ocassions you were going into one but you always had to be on the phine with someone or messaging.

Your parents were busy at the traffic and you were stuck, you thought of pulling out from the party but you also hated it, giving your word and then not fulfilling in what you said.

So, with a call to your mom letting her know you'll go there walking and a google map direction from Jonathan you decided to grab your keys and walked all the way there. It was 4:30pm so the sun was still visible and when you realized the walk was 25 minutes away, it got better and didn't think to much of it.

But how the hell did you decided to get to the party on foot was the best option if you only had two weeks and three days moved in the Catalan streets?

...Guess who ended up lost?

You sighed once more, the map only confusing you even more, you were supposed to be at El Camino street but you saw around you and you were at the Las Palmas street. You sighed in defeat.

"I'll die today" You murmured sighing

You tried to go up to people and ask them directions but you were either too shy or they didn't stopped not even to give you the time.

You were about to call desperate to any of the guys or even your parents to take you either back home or towards the party when you saw three boys across you eating a cup of ice cream.

This was your chance to get all sorted out and hopefully go to the right way towards the house.

"Hola" You touched one of the guys shoulder when he turned around his expression was full on scrunched up, it seemed like he was bothered by your presence and you smiled at him "Lamento molestarles" (Sorry to bother you, guys) You said softly to direct yourself towards the guy who's shoulder you touched and face was scrunched up "¿Quería preguntarte si tu podrías...?" (I wanted to ask you if you could...?) He cut you off harshly

"No estoy disponible para fotos o autógrafos ahorita, lo siento. Estoy con mis amigos en una salida y queremos pasarla bien" (I'm not up for pics or autographs right now, sorry. I'm with my friends and we just wanna have a great time) He said and you furrowed your eyebrows before laughing lightly

"¿Okay? Eso está perfecto. I wanted to-" (That's perfect)

"Please, no autographs nor pics"

"¿Autógrafos? ¿Fotos? I'm sorry, who do you think you are?" (Autographs? Pics?) You asked laughing lightly

"Like you don't know who I am" He said not believing it

"I don't know actually! Are you that important for me to ask for a pic or something?" He stood there without saying anything

"I don't believe it. Just go please, I'm not in the mood right now" He said and you sighed shaking your head

"Ay, hermano. ¿Sabes? Olvídalo. Was going to ask you to give me this address because I'm new here and most likely, lost; but nevermind" (Oh, bro. You know what? Just forget it) You shook your head watching his face fall a bit once you showed him your phone with Google maps on "Gracias de todas maneras" (Thank you either way) You said "Lamento arruinarles la tarde" (Sorry to ruin your evening) You said once more before turning around

"Oye, no. Lo siento, déjame-" This time you cut him off by showing your palm

"Don't worry, have a nice day" You smiled politely "Try not to be an arrogant asshole next time, maybe" You left them hearing the calls from the guy but you didn't paid attention to him too busy looking at your phone trying to guess if it's right or left

"Hola" Someone said behind you, you turned around seeing one of the guys that were along with the arrogant brunette "Disculpa a mi amigo. Es un poco quisquilloso" (Hi. Excuse my friend. He's a little peaky)

"Un poco arrogante, diría yo" (A little arrogant, I'd say) He laughed nodding

"Only sometimes" You hummed

"That's not nice at all, then" You say crossing your arms across your chest "So...?" You ask hinting on him to tell you the reason why he had come up to you

"I'm willing to help you out find the address" He said and you nodded taking out your phone, showing it to him "You're close, five minutes away tops"

"Really?" You ask impressed watching as he laughs nodding

"This is Las Palmas street, the next one is El Camino. It says here you take a turn on the left and at the end of the street there's this residence, it's in there" He smiles as you nod smiling too

"Okay okay, cool. Thank you so much. I'm sorry for ruining your evening"

"You didn't ruined anything in fact, I'm sorry for Gavi's behaviour" You smile shaking your head

"Is he really known? Or he was just taking the piss out of me?" The guy stays quiet for a bit as you shook your head "Well, nevermind... Just tell him to come down from that cloud of his, please. Arrogancy doesn't look nice at all" You said as he nods pointing gunfingers at you

"Got it" He smiled "I'm Diego, by the way. I hope Barcelona is of your liking"

"Thanks, it's really gorgeous... I just have to learn the streets" He laughed as you smiled waving at him "Gotta go, bye! And thanks once again"

"No problem at all!" That's the last thing you heard from the guy before you're walking away.

As you followed instructions from him, you indeed realized you were a block away from El Camino street, you smiled once you saw the big white house as Jonathan had described. You texted him letting him know you were outside, music was being heard from the inside and you smiled grew when you saw Jonathan came out opening the door for you.

"Y/N! I'm glad you are here!"

"I know, I'm glad too! I came here walking and got 'lost' and then there were these guys, one of them was an incredible hijo e'puta but the other helped me out"

"First going out, first party, first fight, first lost and first almost everything today... Checked from the list" You smiled shaking your head "C'mon, let's introduce you to Alejandro, my childhood best friend" Once you got inside, Jonathan's eyes were dancing across the people inside here "¡Balde!" He yelled across the upbeat song "There he is"

You walked next to him until you stopped in front of two guys who were talking and laughing in their world

"Guys! This is Y/N, the newest member into the Uni club" All four guys smiled

"Soy Alejandro" A black skin boy said hugging and giving you two kisses as you did the same "Alejandro Balde, es un placer conocerte. And this is a friend of mine, Ferran Torres"

You greeted the short haired boy just like you did with Alejandro

"¡Bienvenida a Barcelona!" Ferran said as you smile

"¡Gracias!"

"Y/N, mi casa, tú casa" Alejandro said "The kitchen is over there with the drinks and food, the backyard" He was pointing to everywhere he talked "And if you need the bathrooms, let me know, going to the downstairs bath in a party is a bit awful" You laugh nodding and agreeing with him

"¡Gracias!" You said once more

"Don't worry, hope you have a nice time!"

Yeah. You hoped that too.

After a long while drinking some Coca-Cola, dancing, eating a few snacks and overall having a nice time with your friends and Jonathan's buddies, you all sat down outside to enjoy the starry night

"Oh! I just remembered!" You said "Jonathan told me you guys were doing some celebration. I really don't know what you guys have achieved but congratulations" Ferran, Alejandro, Eric and Pablo Torre laughed lightly

"We're football players"

"That's nice!" You open your eyes lightly "And what did you guys won?"

"La Supercopa España" Pablo said as if nothing and you nodded once again "We're first team players"

"Really?"

"You don't watch football?" You shook your head a bit ashamed

"I don't really like it that much" They faked hurt "Sorry!" You all laugh "I rather hockey tho"

"Nice sport" You nod

"It truly is" You smile remembering your team "And which club you guys are in?"

"FC Barcelona" You smile got bigger.

Yes, you didn't liked football but that doesn't meant you don't know the game or the different leagues of it and Barça was a really good and skilled team. You knew your rookies about it, not many but enough to defend yourself.

"Really cool" You said "Well, then... Congratulations on the win guys"

"Gracias" Ferran said "Let me just say... Having us a friends, you'll end up falling in love with football"

"And most important, terminarás siendo una Culé" (You'll end up being a Culé) You shook your head smiling softly

"I don't think so... Gotta stay loyal to my hockey and my Mapple Leafs" They laugh

"Nah, ya verás" (you'll see) Alejandro said shaking his head

"Lo veré" (I'll see) you all laughed

"Let's see that now, then. We'll be waiting for you" Ale said

"Waiting for me when and where?" You asked

"You're invited to the next game at Camp Nou, Y/N" Torre said as you nod

That sounds good... I mean, what could possibly happen? It's just a game with your new friends.

"Deal"

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 months

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Stinkpump Linkdump

Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."b

Once again, I greet the weekend with more assorted links than I can fit into my nearly-daily newsletter, so it's time for another linkdump. This is my eleventh such assortment; here are the previous volumes:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

I've written a lot about Biden's excellent appointees, from his National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chair Rohit Chopra to FTC Chair Lina Khan to DoJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets

But I've also written a bunch about how Biden's appointment strategy is an incoherent mess, with excellent appointees picked by progressives on the Unity Task Force being cancelled out by appointees given to the party's reactionary finance wing, producing a muddle that often cancels itself out:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/#but-muh-freedumbs

It's not just that the finance wing of the Democrats chooses assholes (though they do!), it's that they choose comedic bunglers. The Dems haven't put anyone in government who's as much of an embarrassment as George Santos, but they keep trying. The latest self-inflicted Democratic Party injury is Prashant Bhardjwan, a serial liar and con-artist who is, incredibly, the Biden Administration's pick to oversee fintech for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC):

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/did-the-occ-hire-a-con-artist-to-oversee-fintech

When the 42 year old Bhardjwan was named Deputy Comptroller and Chief Financial Technology Officer for OCC, the announcement touted his "nearly 30 years of experience serving in a variety of roles across the financial sector." Apparently Bhardjwan joined the finance sector at the age of 12. He's the Doogie Houser of Wall Street:

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2023/nr-occ-2023-31.html

That wasn't the only lie on Bhardjwan's CV. He falsely claimed to have served as CIO of Fifth Third Bank from 2006-2010. Fifth Third has never heard of him:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-occ-crowned-its-first-chief-fintech-officer-his-work-history-was-a-web-of-lies

Bhardjwan told a whole slew of these easily caught lies, suggesting that OCC didn't do even a cursory background search on this guy before putting him in charge of fintech – that is, the radioactively scammy sector that gave us FTX and innumerable crypto scams, to say nothing of the ever-sleazier payday lending sector:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usury/#tech-exceptionalism

When it comes to appointing corrupt officials, the Biden administration has lots of company. Lots of eyebrows went up when the UN announced that the next climate Conference of the Parties (COP) would be chaired by Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, who is also the chair of Dubai's national oil company. Then the other shoe dropped: leaks revealed that Al-Jaber had colluded with the Saudis to use COP28 to get poor Asian and African nations hooked on oil:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67508331

There's an obvious reason for this conspiracy: the rich world is weaning itself off of fossil fuels. Today, renewables are vastly cheaper than oil and there's no end in sight to the plummeting costs of solar, wind and geothermal. While global electrification faces powerful logistical and material challenges, these are surmountable. Electrification is a solvable problem:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/09/practical-visionary/#popular-engineering

And once we do solve that problem, we will forever transform our species' relationship to energy. As Deb Chachra explains in her brilliant new book How Infrastructure Works, we would only need to capture 0.4% of the solar radiation that reaches the Earth's surface to give every person on earth the energy budget of a Canadian (AKA, a "cold American"):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects

If COP does its job, we will basically stop using oil, forever. This is an existential threat to the ruling cliques of petrostates from Canada to the UAE to Saudi. As Bill McKibben writes, this isn't the first time a monied rich-world industry that had corrupted its host governments faced a similar crisis:

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-corrupted-cop

Big Tobacco spent decades fueling science denial, funneling money to sellout scientists who deliberately cast doubt on both sound science and the very idea that we could know anything. As Tim Harford describes in The Data Detective, Darrell Huff's 1954 classic How to Lie With Statistics was part of a tobacco-industry-funded project to undermine faith in statistics itself (the planned sequel was called How To Lie With Cancer Statistics):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#harford

But anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. When the families of the people murdered by tobacco disinformation campaigns started winning eye-popping judgments against the tobacco industry, the companies shifted their marketing to the Global South, on the theory that they could murder poor brown people with impunity long after rich people in the north forced an end to their practice. Big Tobacco had a willing partner in Uncle Sam for this project: the US Trade Representative arm-twisted the world's poorest countries into accepting "Investor-State Dispute Settlements" as part of their treaties. These ISDS clauses allowed tobacco companies to sue governments that passed tobacco control legislation and force them to reverse their democratically enacted laws:

https://ash.org/what-is-isds-and-what-does-it-mean-for-tobacco-control/

As McKibben points out, the oil/climate-change playbook is just an update to the tobacco/cancer-denial conspiracy (indeed, the same think-tanks and PR agencies are behind both). The "Oil Development Sustainability Programme" – the Orwellian name the Saudis gave to their plan to push oil on poor countries – maps nearly perfectly onto Big Tobacco's attack on the Global South. Nearly perfectly: second-hand smoke in Indonesia won't give Americans cancer, but convincing Africa to go hard on fossil fuels will contribute to an uninhabitable planet for everyone, not just poor people.

This is an important wrinkle. Wealthy countries have repeatedly demonstrated a deep willingness to profit from death and privation in the poor world – but we're less tolerant when it's our own necks on the line.

What's more, it's far easier to put the far-off risks of emissions out of your mind than it is to ignore the present-day sleaze and hypocrisy of corporate crooks. When I quit smoking, 23 years ago, my doctor told me that if my only motivation was avoiding cancer 30 years from now, I'd find it hard to keep from yielding to temptation as withdrawal set in. Instead, my doctor counseled me to find an immediate reason to stay off the smokes. For me, that was the realization that every pack of cigarettes I bought was enriching the industry that invented the denial playbook that the climate wreckers were using to render our planet permanently unsuited for human habitation. Once I hit on that, resisting tobacco got much easier:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/03/i-quit/

Perhaps OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al-Ghais is worried about that the increasing consensus that Big Oil cynically and knowingly created this crisis. That would explain his new flight of absurdity, claiming that the world is being racist to oil companies, "unjustly vilifying" the industry for its role in the climate emergency:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/27/opec-says-oil-industry-unjustly-vilified-ahead-of-climate-talks-.html

Words aren't deeds, but words have power. The way we talk about things makes a difference to how we act on those things. When discussions of Israel-Palestine get hung up on words, it's easy to get frustrated. The labels we apply to the rain of death and the plight of hostages are so much less important than the death and the hostages themselves.

But how we name the thing will have an enormous impact on what happens next. Take the word "genocide," which Israel hawks insist must not be applied to the bombing campaign and siege in Gaza, nor to the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. On this week's On The Media, Brooke Gladstone interviews Ernesto Verdeja, executive director of The Institute for the Study of Genocide:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/genocide-powerful-word-so-why-its-definition-so-controversial-on-the-media

Verdeja lays out the history of the word "genocide" and connects it to the Israeli government and military's posture on Palestine and Palestinians, and concludes that the only real dispute among genocide scholars is whether the current campaign it itself an act of genocide, or a prelude to an act of genocide.

I'm not a genocide scholar, but I am a Jew who has always believed in Palestinian solidarity, and Verdeja's views do not strike me as outrageous, or (more importantly) antisemitic. The conflation of opposition to Israel's system of apartheid with opposition to Jews is a cheap trick, one that's belied by Israel itself, where there is a vast, longstanding political opposition to Israeli occupation, settlements, and military policing. Are all those Israeli Jews secret antisemites?

Jews are not united in support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians. The hardliners who insist that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic are peddling an antisemitic lie: that all Jews everywhere are loyal to Israel, and that we all take our political positions from the Knesset. Israel hawks only strengthen that lie when they accuse me and my fellow Jews of being "self-hating Jews."

This leads to the absurd circumstance in which gentiles police Jews' views on Israel. It's weird enough when white-nationalist affiliated evangelicals who support Israel in order to further the end-times prophesied in Revelations slam Jews for being antisemitic. But in Germany, it's even weirder. There, regional, non-Jewish officials charged with policing antisemitism have censured Jewish groups for adopting policies on Israel that mainstream Israeli political parties have in their platforms:

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-strange-logic-of-germanys-antisemitism-bureaucrats

Antisemitism is real. As Jesse Brown describes in his recent Canadaland editorial, there is a real and documented rise in racially motivated terror against Jews in Canada, including school shootings and a firebombing. Likewise, it's true that some people who support the Palestinian cause are antisemites:

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/is-jesse-a-zionist-editorial/

But to stand in horror at Israel's military action and its vast civilian death-toll is not itself antisemitic. This is obvious – so obvious that the need to say it is a tribute to Israel hardliners – Jewish and gentile – and their ability to peddle the racist lie that Israel is Jews and Jews are Israel, and that every Jew is in support of, and responsible for, Israeli war-crimes and crimes against humanity.

One need not choose between opposition to Hamas and its terror and opposition to Israel and its bombings. There is no need for a hierarchy of culpability. As Naomi Klein says, we can "side with the child over the gun":

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/why-are-some-of-the-left-celebrating-the-killings-of-israeli-jews

Moral consistency is not moral equivalency. If you're a Jew like me who wants to work for an end to the occupation and peace in the region, you could join Jewish Voice For Peace (like me):

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Now, for a jarring tone shift. In these weekend linkdumps, I put a lot of thought into how to transition from one subject to the next, but honestly, there's no good transition from Israel-Palestine to anything else (yet – though someday, perhaps). So let's just say, "word games can be important, but they can also be trivial, and here are a few of the latter."

Start with a goodie, from the always brilliant medievalist Eleanor Janeaga, who tackles the weirdos who haunt social media in order to dump on people with PhDs who call themselves "doctor":

https://going-medieval.com/2023/11/29/doctor-does-actually-mean-someone-with-a-phd-sorry/

Janega points out that the "doctor" honorific was applied to scholars for centuries before it came to mean "medical doctor." But beyond that, Janega delivers a characteristically brilliant history of the (characteristically) weird and fascinating tale of medieval scholarship. Bottom line, we call physicians "doctor" because they wanted to be associated with the brilliance of scholars, and thought that being addressed as "doctor" would add to their prestige. So yeah, if you've got a PhD, you can call yourself doctor.

It's not just doctors; the professions do love their wordplay. especially lawyers. This week on Lowering The Bar, I learned about "a completely ludicrous court fight that involved nine law firms that combined for 66 pages of briefing, declarations, and exhibits, all inflicted on a federal court":

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2023/11/federal-court-ends-double-spacing-fight.html

The dispute was over the definition of "double spaced." You see, the judge in the case told counsel they could each file briefs of up to 100 pages of double-spaced type. Yes, 100 pages! But apparently, some lawyer burn to write fat trilogies, not mere novellas. Defendants accused the plaintiffs in this case of spacing their lines a mere 24 points apart, which allowed them to sneak 27 lines of type onto each page, while defendants were confined to the traditional 23 lines.

But (the court found), the defendants were wrong. Plaintiffs had used Word's "double-spacing" feature, but had not ticked the "exact double spacing" box, and that's how they ended up with 27 lines per page. The court refused to rule on what constituted "double-spacing" under the Western District of Tennessee’s local rules, but it ruled that the plaintiffs briefs could fairly be described as "double-spaced." Whew.

That's your Saturday linkdump, jarring tone-shift and all. All that remains is to close out with a cat photo (any fule kno that Saturday is Caturday). Here's Peeve, whom I caught nesting most unhygienically in our fruit bowl last night. God, cats are gross:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/53370882459/

It's EFF's Power Up Your Donation Week: this week, donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation are matched 1:1, meaning your money goes twice as far. I've worked with EFF for 22 years now and I have always been - and remain - a major donor, because I've seen firsthand how effective, responsible and brilliant this organization is. Please join me in helping EFF continue its work!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/02/melange/#defendants_motion_to_require_adherence_with_formatting_requirements_of_local_rule_7.1

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tagged by @scorchedhearth to list my top 9 favorite first watches of 2023! everyone pls, indulge me in being slightly jealous that i saw poor things and the end we start from at the lff in october.

in order of watch date:

petit maman dir. céline sciamma

a league of their own dir. penny marshall

funny girl dir. william wyler

across the spider-verse dir. joaquim dos santos, kemp powers and justin k. thompson

bound dir. wachowski sisters

wendy dir. benh zeitlin

the end we start from dir. mahalia belo

poor things dir. yorgos lanthimos

marie antoinette dir. sofia coppola

honorable mentions: the favourite dir. yorgos lanthimos, cronos and nightmare alley dir. guillermo del toro, hit man dir. richard linklater, the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes dir. francis lawrence, barbie dir. greta gerwig, nimona dir. nick bruno and troy quane, past lives dir. celine song, chitty chitty bang bang dir. ken hughes, dungeons and dragons: honor among thieves dir. jonathan goldstein and john francis daley, puss in boots: the last wish dir. joel crawford, and women talking dir. sarah polley

in conclusion: i love the movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and women. <3 tagging anyone who would like to do this, pls tag me and show me your top 9 first watches

#what can you tell from these top 9? do tell #tag games #should i do this for tv? i feel like i should do this for tv

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With willing minds and loving hearts go straight to grasp the fire.

Regula Black betrays the Dark Lord Voldemort in October of 1979.

She wakes up screaming in July of 1993 with fragmented memories, shortly before her brother breaks out of Azkaban.

With the war long over but both her Death Eater status and betrayal public knowledge, it's a race against the clock to gain allies and deduce what, exactly, she was doing thirteen years ago that she's so desperately horrified at leaving incomplete.

Teen & Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply. Primary Relationships: Regula Black & Cedrella Weasley née Black, Regula Black / Percy Weasley, Regula & Others. Alternative Universe: Canon Divergence, No House Elves, Always A Different Sex/Gender. Additional Tags: Arranged Marriage, Magical Amnesia & Chronic Fatigue, Horcrux Hunting, Dysfunctional Family, Woman Out of Time.

Title: lyrics from Florence & the Machine's Drumming Song. Epigraph: lyrics from Mercedes Lackey's Cost of the Crown.

All images sources from Unsplash: Floating book, Jaredd Craig. Hourglass, Jonathan Cooper. Pocketwatch 1, Lucas Santos. Bottles 1, Matt Briney. Spiral staircase, Kieran Sheehan. Pocketwatch 2, Mélanie THESE. Quill, engin akyrut. Telephone, Pawel Czerwinski. Bottles 2, Jan Raft. Bookshelves, Iñaki del Olmo. Diadem, Rhii Photography.

#Regula Black #Regulus Black #Cedrella Black Weasley #Percy Weasley #all three get point of view scenes but Regula's arc is the focus #HP tag #Min Writes Stuff #Negative Chill Ship #this gets an image board now that I've finished the PoA draft #editing chapters as I post #esteemed readers we have a chapter count!

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Most Anticipated Reads of May 2023

I know I say this every time I write about my TBR, but holy crap -- there is so much good stuff coming out in the next month or so. I am not kidding! Have you seen it? Take a peek at our Release Calendar if you don't believe me. It was super hard to pick what is at the very top of my to-read pile, but I did indeed manage to pull it off. So here is what I'm really looking forward to reading in May:

Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa -- Out May 2

Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary love story about a Mexican-American teen who falls in love with an undocumented Mexican boy. Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martínez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family's taquería. It's the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that give them hesitancy. That give them the thought, are they ready to leave it all behind?

To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year, their family "fires" them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college. That is, until they meet Santiago López Alvarado, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi's first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home. Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is. How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them. And when, eventually, the world starts to win.

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee -- Out May 16

Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that follows an aspiring chef who discovers the recipe for love is more complicated than it seems when he starts fake-dating a handsome new customer.

Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs—in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt’s struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan’s stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons.

In Theo’s glittering world of pomp, privilege, and crazy rich drama, their romance is supposed to be just pretend . . . but Dylan finds himself falling for Theo. For real. Then Theo’s relatives reveal their true colors—but with the mooncake contest looming, Dylan can’t risk being sidetracked by rich-people problems. Can Dylan save his family’s business and follow his heart—or will he fail to do both?

Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g. haron davis -- Out May 16

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature for trans and gender nonconforming stories.

Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you’ll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and expressions and experiences—because magic is for everyone, and that is cause for celebration.

Featuring stories from: AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy g. haron davis Mason Deaver Jonathan Lenore Kastin Emery Lee Saundra Mitchell Cam Montgomery Ash Nouveau Sonora Reyes Renee Reynolds Dove Salvatierra Ayida Shonibar Francesca Tacchi Nik Traxler

#long post #transmogrify!#fake dates and mooncakes #Ander & Santi Were Here

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statisticalcats2 · 1 year

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So I had originally very sadly decided to skip this round of the US Tour but I decided to take a shot at buying will call tickets at the box office today (it's cheaper) and I was able to get some and they were actually pretty good seats!

Cast was mostly first-cast, covers were:

Old Deuteronomy - Jonathan Heller

Skimbleshanks - Max Craven

Sillabub - Megan Arsenau

Tantomile - Gracie Anderson

Highlights from the show include:

Mungojerrie and Sillabub interacted a lot, which I love because hcs.

This Tugger really enjoys tormenting Munkustrap, it's so hilarious and great whether you view it as flirting or annoying sibling behavior. He was always taking any chance he got to tickle or poke at Munkustrap.

This Tugger (Hank Santos) was also constantly moving. Fidgeting, shaking or rolling his body, etc, he always needed to be moving and it was a really interesting character touch. It was more visually apparent in his movements and behavior how quickly his attention changes, a lot of moments in his song actually felt quite abrupt (in a good way) in how he would just suddenly leave cats because they lost his attention in the middle of dancing with him.

Bombalurina entering the Glamour Cat song had an interesting vibe where it seemed to be treated as her actively interrupting Demeter. She didn't actually vocally cut her off but Demeter's reaction to her coming in to sing definitely gave that vibe. It was a more apparent "Bombalurina is actively stopping Demeter's sympathetic treatment and reaching out to Grizabella."

On that note though, Erica and Nora's voices are astounding. I already loved them in this song, I was straight up losing my mind during Macavity, their voices are so good and fit the characters so well!! They both had rather smoky, old-timey feeling voices, very fitting for Bombalurina and Demeter in my opinion!

During the first Macavity scare, Sillabub specifically went to Alonzo for protection and he covered her body with his own 😭

When Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer did the final pose in their song, they didn't look out at the audience, they looked at each other, really feeding me and my love for Mungoteazer held gazes!

At one point during the Pekes and the Pollicles, Jenny barked at Tugger and he got like legitimately jumpscared 😂

Honestly, coward Tugger rights all around, he was always like the first to run away each Macavity scare gfrihwuedoaisj (he did grow a bit braver during the Macavity fight and joined the rest of the Tribe in chasing Macavity off.)

Mungojerrie tried to grab Demeter back from Macavity when he was dragging her away 😭

Tugger's fickle attention span was still on display even in Mistoffelees's song. When Tugger was presenting Misto to newly returned Old Deuteronomy, he had a moment where he like, suddenly remembered what he was doing and had to search out where Mistoffelees was because he no longer knew because his attention had been drawn elsewhere.

New favorite performers from this production:

Bombalurina - Erica Lee Cianciulli

Demeter - Nora DeGreen

Rum Tum Tugger - Hank Santos

#cats the musical #cats us tour 6-2 #jemonzo #demejerrie #mungoteazer

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Of Darkness — Missa Tridentina (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

This reviewer generally has little time for funeral doom, a subgenre that requires a whole lot of time, given its intrinsic relation to glacially slow paces and patterns of development. Instead of the oft-intended existential terror, much of the music inspires tedium, a narcotized death march into slumberland, not nightmare. The fact that this funeral doom band has hung the insipid moniker Of Darkness out on its shingle does not help or augur well. But some of the musicians’ names improve the picture: Javier Félez Rodríguez, appearing here as “Bastard” (ok), provided scorching lead guitar on Teitanblood’s excellent The Baneful Choir (2019); CG Santos also performed on that record, and his noise/blackened drone project Emanation makes hugely effective, deeply unpleasant sounds. But does the alchemy among the players lead to music that makes your skin crawl, rather than inducing terminal lassitude?

The answer is yes, for the most part, but you’ll first need to penetrate a thicket of fairly stale semiotic gestures. The anti-Catholic iconography on Missa Tridentina’s album cover art and song titles is plentiful — and sure, the Church is an evil mess and has been for centuries. But all the Latinate verbiage and skeletal figures sporting ritual robes and relics of occult significance fail to scare up anything all that terrifying. Better to let the music speak for itself. That speaking does not commence with promise. “Adjutorium Nostrum in Nomine Domini” is an instrumental intro that goes for symphonic grandness, but it’s dull stuff.

The next 38 minutes or so are much more interesting, and a large measure of that is generated by the electronics that warp the massive sheets of droning guitar noise. That’s Santos at work. Of Darkness has been releasing records intermittently since 2004, but Missa Tridentina is the first to feature Santos. His addition is crucial, if not obtrusive. Check out the long, climactic track “Requiescant in Pace.” The warble and fade in the vocals, the expert use of reverb—those are production techniques, but the band’s greater attention to the textures of their massive sound likely has much to do with Santos’s addition. In the song’s sixth minute, he asserts himself with flashes of piano, bordering on atonal runs. It’s just the right touch of dissonance. The creepiness the record seeks starts curling your toes. When the thick riffs returns, Santos treats it with several layers of weirding noise. It’s the best song on the record.

This reviewer underscores his lack of interest in the subgenre, but he also notes that there’s an interesting set of synonymies between music devoted to slow, agonizing dramatizations of death and the earthball’s current condition. All the attention to Christianity on Missa Tridentia suggests a backward-looking sensibility, to metal’s traditions and to older ideological forms. Bands like Of Darkness might stir more urgent emotions if they turned their gaze toward the present, to the modalities of slow death the human race endures, right now, this very minute.

Jonathan Shaw

#of darkness #missa tridentina #sentient ruin laboratories #jonathan shaw #albumreview #dusted magazine #metal #funeral doom

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Jokes 12/18/23

In Delaware this week, adrunk driver hit one of the cars in President Joe Biden’s motorcade with him just feet away from the incident. Although no one was harmed, conservative news outlets are calling the drunk driver a hero.

Two men in Montana have been charged with killing around 3,600 birds including bald eagles. The two men are claiming there’s literally nothing else to do in Montana.

Actor, Jonathan Majors, has been fired by Marvel Studios following today’s a guilty verdict in his assault and harassment trial. Without Marvel, Majors next role is expected to be "Guy who's very sorry in prison. "

Earlier this week it was revealed that Israeli soldiers killed three Israeli hostages waving a white flag by mistake because they assumed they were Palestinian. The soldiers in question are being investigated with a representative saying, “This was a tragedy, we would never knowingly commit a war crime against our own people.”

The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery will be dismantled this week, just in time for your least favorite relative to make it his whole personality at Christmas.

Southwest Airlines will pay a 140 million dollar fine for its meltdown last year that stranded millions of passengers. Southwest Airlines promises passengers this year will be different but to be realistic because they’re still Southwest Airlines.

Earlier today, disgraced Congressman, George Santos, sat down with talk show host Ziwe for his first interview post-expulsion. In the interview, Santos surprised everyone by admitting to not knowing who James Baldwin is, instead of making up something insane.

This week the House of Representatives voted to look into impeaching President Biden. The primary charge against Biden being something about his son, maybe? No one is really sure yet.

The National Highway Traffic Safety said this week that they’re working on using technology in new cars that would detect alcohol on drivers, making white trash people everywhere nervously think to themselves, “They don’t have that yet, right?”

In a recent interview, Comedian, Ray Romano, said he wouldn’t want to do a reboot of Everyone Loves Raymond because reboots are never as good as the original, also half the main cast is dead.

#jokes #news #monologue

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Wednesday 8 November Mixtape 394 “Cosmic Structures EXCLUSIVE” Downtempo Multi-Genre Library Music Lounge Wednesdays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to subscribe or tip so future shows can bloom. https://www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/

Trevlad Sounds-Welcome in you wonderful listener 00:00

Sven Wunder-Pop-Jazz Structures 00:31

Piero Umiliani-Princess - Extended Alternate Version 03:38

Kutiman-Ripples 06:35

THE DANDELION SET & ALAN MOORE-Pristina Strawberry Girl 09:38

Golden Brown-Dusty 11:59

Blank Banshee-Data 15:01

Molero-Jaguar Capybaras 17:25

Slow Haste-Honey 22:41

gooch , gooch wills-pass of light 24:16

Space Ghost-Virtual Age 25:44

Hybrid Palms-Neon Gallery Meltdown 30:16

Surprise Chef-Iconoclasts 35:10

ATA Records-Siren's Sea 38:34

Gianni Marchetti-Milano- il clan dei calabresi - Seq. 14 42:05

Jonathan Fitoussi-Edream, Pt. 1 45:41

King Crimson-I Talk To The Wind 47:10

Synthetrix-Sequestered Sonata Above the Grass 53:06

Hello Meteor-The Evergreen Prefecture 59:18

Vermont-Ebbe 1:01:54

Amedeo Tommasi-Thomas 1:06:03

Air-La Femme d'Argent 1:09:24

PBS'73-Our Photosynthesis 1:16:06

The Sorcerers-The Viking of 5th Avenue 1:18:39

The Breathing Effect, Lionmilk-Cosmic Zoo 1:23:18

Buttering Trio-God Is Sitting 1:26:43

Glåsbird-Cocodrilo 1:30:27

JB Dunckel, Jonathan Fitoussi-Syntesia 1:34:49

Quiet Dawn-Give Us Some Time 1:38:23

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra-As I Walk (ft Josephine Oniyama) 1:40:35

Spectrin-Miral 1:43:55

Sol Monk-Be On Say feat. Nitai Hershkovits 1:46:08

Charlotte Dos Santos-Watching You 1:49:01

UKDD, Slug-Overboard 1:52:13

Kratos Himself-Revelation 1:54:34

Walter Wanderley-O Barquinho 1:57:32

Aaron Cherof-A Foe Pause 2:00:30

URBS-Mandarin Sparrow Song 2:04:16

Onepointwo-Island's Breeze 2:10:31

The Metamorph-TwiceOnce 2:13:38

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"Hipócritas são monstros que tem língua de santo e coração de demônio" Jonathan Edwards Desde os primórdios da fé temos hipócritas entre nós. Lobos vorazes em peles de ovelha que fazem e dizem coisas de aparente verdade para transparecerem que são bondosas e caridosas, quando na verdade são más, incrédulas e enganadoras. Mas, diante do Senhor não há nada oculto que não venha a se revelar. Em algum momento os hipócritas tropeçam em suas próprias mentiras e revelam quem são e o que conspiram. "Ai daqueles..." quando a conta vier. Cuidado com a língua dos hipócritas para que não te desviem do caminho, da verdade e da vida, pois são filhos das trevas e buscam destruir o rebanho do Senhor. Para não sermos destruídos temos de ser firmes na palavra de Deus e ter nosso olhar na pessoa do Senhor Jesus, autor e consumador de nossa fé. Aos que perseverarem, está garantida a coroa da vida. A Graça salvadora de Jesus Cristo é acessível a todos que crêem em seus corações e que confessam com seus lábios. Amém? Pr. Ney Bellas "Ai de vocês, professores da Lei e fariseus, hipócritas! Pois fecham a porta do Reino do céu aos outros, mas vocês mesmos não entram nem deixam entrar os que estão querendo” Mateus 23:13 #bomdia #devocionaldiario #biblia #palavradevida #jesus #senhor #deus (em Iguaba Grande) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkLKAdhOIiE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bomdia #devocionaldiario #biblia #palavradevida #jesus #senhor #deus

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seancamerons · 8 months

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top 5 degrassi characters and top 5 stranger things characters? 💞

degrassi (no particular order, a long list for this 20+ year-old show !)

sean cameron

emma nelson

lola pacini

bianca desousa

fiona coyne

holly j sinclair

alex nunez

rick munro

jake martin

manny santos

craig manning

spinner mason

lisa guthrie

the late jt yorke

jay hogart

maya matlin

zig novak

christine 'spike' nelson

zoe rivas

stranger things

el/jane/eleven/011 hopper

nancy wheeler

steve harrington

robin buckley

max mayfield

lucas sinclair

jim hopper

the random sister of 011 who can make butterflies show up and shit happen that no one really cares about but i do kind of. i believe she was number 008, kali i guess is her gov't name. she was on some vigilante shit. hope she's doing good. maybe she can help hawkins crew kill vecna.

jonathan byers

argyle

the late, BARB, rip

murray

erica sinclair

idk why but, dustin's ld girlfriend suzi who sings and saves the friggin world

dustin henderson

joyce byers

rip BOB!

that one arizona doctor who broke el out of jail and tries to help her gain her powers is a real mvp (also helped her get adopted by hop and adjusted in california when she was living with joyce after hopper was lost after the battle of starcourt.)

rip alexi

rip EDDIE munson

rip chrissy!

will byers

mike wheeler

the benny guy who helped el in the first episode and gave her a burger and fries and was gunned down protecting her. later his abandoned burger shop is where lucas' weird basketball buddies hang out and plan to murder eddie with no evidence or basis and get basically trashed at. a real shame.

av science teacher at the hawkins middle school

..ok carried away with waaay more than 5 or 10 but, thanks again! 💕

#asks #stranger things #degrassi #degrassi the next generation #degrassi next class #💌thanks for the ask #sansalicents

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