Through the smudged looking-glass and what Peter found there
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Baldur und die immerdarige Härte des Frühlings (Baldur and the Everlasting Harshness of Spring), 2023 by J.G.Wind
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Blacker proffered the hand of friendship directly to the left, inviting the participation in his society's affairs of Haldane, whom he disliked; Hogben, whom he scorned (according to Blacker, Hogben delivered his inaugural lecture as professor of social biology at the London School of Economics while wearing "a pink tie and [with] his hair arranged in such a way that three curls dangled down over his forehead, rather like what you see behind the counters in Selfridges – we were not entirely pleased"); and even Penrose, an outspoken opponent of eugenics, who accepted a lecture invitation with the warning: "You know the risks you are taking."²⁷
27. Osborn to Kenneth L. Ludmerer, Nov. 5, 1970, American Eugenics Society Papers, box 3; Joan Fisher Box, R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist (John Wiley, 1978), pp. 282-84; A. M. Carr-Saunders to Blacker, June 6, 1932; Blacker to J. S. Huxley, Oct. 24, 1930; Penrose to Blacker, July 14, 1948; Eugenics Society Records, files C.56, C.186, C.271. The thirties, Blacker later wrote, was a "bad time for eugenists to assess their values in terms of class." C. P. Blacker, Eugenics, Galton and After (Duckworth, 1952), pp. 140-41.
"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles
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Oh my gosh oh my gosh we finally get to see Frankie's parents!!! And the question that was on my mind for soo long is finally answered! Their monster types were never specified before, but their dad is a zombie and their mom a goblin. Didn't see that coming. But she's so tiny, I love it XD
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The LAYERS needed in a modern/human Dreamling au. Some level of Endless family dysfunction, obviously. Hob's family can be be dead or not, it's all good. Are they old enough to have individually gained the awareness they are off-puttingly intense and should hide it a bit at first, or still in that "no, why would I need to Elsa this" stage?
Option A is both of them trying to play it cool, like "don't scare him off" except they so badly want to go from zero to sixty.
(Death and Desire have ruthlessly drilled Dream with flashcards about how to react appropriately in situations.
Desire: it's your one-month anniversary, what do you do?
Dream: [hesitantly] NOT propose?
Desire and Death, conferring, because that's technically correct but the delivery was suspect.
Death, encouragingly: Good start. And?
Dream: a nice dinner and maybe a walk?
Desire: well done!
Death: and for a three-month anniversary?
Dream: give them a key to my flat.
Desire: [airhorn] NO. RED CARD.)
Option B makes them the classic anecdotal "my grandparents got engaged within seven days of meeting each other and still are happy together".
(Death, rubbing her temples: so you met this guy--
Dream: Hob
Death: -- Hob, and within 1 day you gave notice to the Registrar's Office and figured out the best day to get married. And Hob agreed to this?
Dream: NO.
Death: oh thank go-
Dream: Hob SUGGESTED this.
Death: . . .
Dream: are you going to be a witness or not?
Death, 29 days later in the Registrar's Office, to Hob's witness: Is he sane?
Johanna Constantine, drinking heavily from a large flask: unfortunately yes, by all legal definitions.
Death: fuck
Johanna: [passing the flask over] if your brother's even a tenth as intense as Hob, they'll be fine. Probably.
Death, brightening: Is Hob that bad?
Johanna: You know how sometimes you meet somebody and think "oof, they're a bit much, best give them a wide berth"?
Death: yeah.
Johanna: Hob's like a camouflaged hole in the ground of muchness. Except he's done the hole up all nice and he knows that sometimes you just want to be left alone in the hole to sulk and rattle the spikes for a bit, and occasionally get a F&M hamper tossed in.
Death: [hmmmmmmm'ing approvingly]
Johanna, morose: the bastard.
In the background, Hob and Dream are pressing their foreheads together and basking in each other's presence)
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