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Happy Birthday Jennifer 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉
Jennifer Anne Garner
April 17,1972
Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉
17 Aprile 1972
#jennifer garner#actress#world cinema#cinema#movies#film#tv shows#90s movies#2000s movies#daredevil#elektra#13 going on 30#yes day#timeofyourlife#camping#party down#the last thing he told me#alias#sydney bristow#family switch#celebrity#happy birthday
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This woman...
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Sydney : The saying “it is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission” no longer applies to mom. And dad.
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Dee's family had moved from Oklahoma to Arkansas earlier in the year, and he does not appear to have been happy about it.
(source: The Bristow (OK) Record, December 14, 1906.)
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Just stumbled on this brilliant post over on Meet The Beatles For Real. It's a german article in Bravo Magazine interviewing the women that worked at Apple. The wonderful keeper of mtbfr then typed the whole lot out and google translated it into english - all love to her for the wonderful work she does on that site.
I've not copied all of it over here, just my favourite bits... but that is most of the bits.
Janet Lumley - Kitchen maid (16)
I have been cooking for the Beatles for half a year. It is fantastic. I cook just as carefully for the four of them as I do for my own family. John is the pickiest, he is vegetarian. Paul is the hungriest and has even brought his plate back to tell us how good it tasted to him.
Sally Burgess - Press Secretary (21)
John, Paul, George and Ringo only have young, funny and talented people around and it flatters me to be a part of it. Although we work hard, the atmosphere is casual and fun, better than any other company in the world. And every day something new happens. You must learn to quickly adapt to any situation. Once however, it even became too much for me and I just crawled under my desk.
Debbie Wellum - Receptionist (20)
I have decided that I have the most exciting Apple job. I have to catch all the teenagers who want to speak to my bosses. Recently, a group of Italian scouts were here, all of whom claimed to be cousins of George Harrison. But I didn’t fall for such a dirty trick. I wouldn’t trade in my bosses for anyone else in the world, even if they had really had so many cousins!
Sally Reed - Secretary (20)
I've been a Beatle fan before I started here eight months ago. The four are no longer for me, but I've learned to respect them as businessmen and superiors. I work in the production department; the Beatles are always nice and easy going, even if everything else is wobbling around them. They have a professional attitude which is a very different attitude to these things than a normal human; sometimes I wish I could have some of that.
Dee Meehan - Assistant (25)
I have to listen to all the tapes that are sent to the Beatles from people who want to make a career out of music. A tough job, but whoever has worked in the pop industry, knows what is going on, especially if you have the Beatles as bosses. Paul is the best; he always knows exactly what he wants. George and Ringo are always nice and polite, but sometimes John gets on my nerves. But he has improved a lot recently.
Amanda Hull - Tea cook (39)
I am responsible for tea and coffee, which is used a lot with us, because Apple is a hospitable house. In a little chamber, I have a two burner stove, on which is always a pot of water and a pot of coffee standing. The tea is always fresh, otherwise it will be bitter. With Paul, I make sure that he does not get too much sugar. This is not good for his future children.
Linda Bristow - Assistant Publisher (22)
I work for Apple music publishing. Of course I'm a Beatles fan, but I do not fall into a swoon every time they come through the door. Just to be a fan is not enough for a job at Apple. There is plenty to do and you have to know something too. But as for us, we are paid well and have the best bosses in the world. My favourite boss is George. He is for me the most beautiful thing. But I cannot tell him - because he would be pissed.
Carol Padden - Press Secretary (23)
Of course, I'm a Beatles fan. Who isn’t? It's easy to work for such pleasant, young handsome men instead of old thick, bad-tempered men who are constantly, trying to flirt with you. Such a thing does not exist in the Beatles. I have never heard any girls complain that one of the Beatles had flirted with her!
Barbara Bennet - Secretary (24)
My best experience with Apple was when Paul gave me a little Yorkshire terrier. He had heard me gushing to a colleague about this breed, and a few days later he had one in tow. But once when I visited my friend Colin Peterson the terrier ran into the city by himself. I never saw him again, although I'd put up a lot of ads.
#I love Sally Reed - “the four are no longer for me...”#(I love that she respects them as businessmen)#I love Sally Burgess - “I just crawled under my desk”#I love Dee Meehan - “John gets on my nerves”#I love Amanda Hull - “Apple is a hospitable house”#(I love her being weird about Paul)#everyone here is fantastic no criticism well done and long live#bravo magazine#the beatles#meet the beatles for real#beatles#apple
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Institutionalized homophobia at the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children (part 1)
Clinicians who worked at Tavistock's Gender Service for Children (England) speak about homophobia in the transgender service: ‘I wouldn’t say we were overly sensitive,’ says Matt Bristow. ‘I think we put up with hearing homophobic remarks being made on a daily basis for a number of years. And when we tried to talk about that in the team, it was kind of ignored.’
"‘It could be completely silencing people who are gay,’ Anastassis Spiliadis says. ‘It could be dismissing the reality that sexuality can play a role in how someone identifies.’" [...] He recalls families who remarked, ‘Thank God my child is trans and not gay or lesbian.’ ‘We had this so many times.'"
"Some young people themselves would be repulsed by the fact that they were same-sex attracted. They did not identify as gay, because they did not see themselves as of their birth-registered sex. ‘I had kids telling me, “When I hear the word lesbian, I cringe. I want to die”… “I’m gonna vomit if I hear the word lesbian another time,”’ says Spiliadis."
"A large proportion of the teenage girls seen by GIDS were same-sex attracted. ‘Initially, some of them had identified as lesbian. And some of them had experienced a lot of homophobia and then started identifying as trans. It was almost like a stepping stone,’ explains Spiliadis."
"The level of homophobia she witnessed generally across her caseload shocked Entwistle. She says it wasn’t discussed in the team, and there was no training on how to talk about sexuality with young people. [S]he was surprised to find that homophobic bullying was not a ‘thing of the past’. Even more surprising, she says, was the language used by the young people themselves – ‘old fashioned slurs’ that she hadn’t heard since the 1980s."
"Matt Bristow came to feel that GIDS was performing ‘conversion therapy for gay kids’. It’s a serious claim. Some clinicians have relayed how there was even a dark joke in the GIDS team that there would be no gay people left at the rate GIDS was going. ‘I don’t think that all of the children there were gay, by any means,’ Bristow tells me. ‘But there were gay children there – in my view I think there were gay children – who were being pushed down another path.’"
Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children (2023) by Hannah Barnes (x)
#hannah barnes#homophobia#lesbophobia#gender critical#transgender healthcare#time to think#gender dysphoria#internalized homophobia#internalized lesbophobia#queer homophobia#lgbt#trans homophobia#gender ideology#radical feminism#i will elaborate on this and do more parts in the future!#based on the book; it is excellent and very fact-based and neutral#**
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It's not an unambiguously happy ending for Verona, but it feels so perfect for her. A messy, weird, lost, brilliant teenage girl, on her way to becoming a powerhouse of an adult woman. A parental relationship that doesn't quite work but has potential, to develop into something odd but healthy. A thematic rejoinder to the stagnation of practitioner society, and the abusive families mired in tradition.
Verona is a collector of broken and abandoned people - but not in the mode of Alexander or Bristow. Someone who creates a place for them to belong, somewhere they can begin to thrive, who sees in them kin not resources.
Its touching, as another former weird teenager, to see Verona choose to live. To be visible, to stand out, to change, to experiment, not to disappear. To choose to live even through the pain and discomfort and loss. To try to build something good even on the wreckage of things she loved. Something that Charles completely failed to do even to the bitter end.
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"Kemi Badenoch: I have evidence gay young people are being told they are transgender."
Via the Telegraph:
Daniel Martin, Deputy Political Editor 6 February 2024 • 8:14pm
Minister quotes clinicians who believe helping a homosexual child change gender is in effect 'making them straight’
Mrs Badenoch prepared the evidence for the Commons women and equalities select committee Credit: WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/ANADOLU
Kemi Badenoch has told MPs she has strong evidence that gay young people are being convinced they are transgender instead.
The equalities minister quoted experts who said children likely to grow up to be same-sex attracted “might be subjected to conversion practices which persuade them to change gender."
In a letter to the Commons women and equalities select committee, she revealed a former clinician at the NHS Tavistock child gender identity clinic had said that in agreeing to requests to help children change gender, they were in fact “making them straight."
Another said that agreeing to help a homosexual child change gender was in effect “conversion therapy for gay kids."
Mrs Badenoch agreed to write to the committee to provide the evidence following an appearance before them last month.
Her letter shows that the number of children in England going to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has soared from 250 in 2011-12 to more than 5,000 in 2021-22.
She wrote: “I committed to providing further details on the evidence that children likely to grow up to be gay (same-sex attracted) might be subjected to conversion practices on the basis of gender identity rather than their sexual orientation.
“Both prospective and retrospective studies have found a link between gender non-conformity in childhood and someone later coming out as gay.
“A young person and their family may notice that they are gender non-conforming earlier than they are aware of their developing sexual orientation. If gender non-conformity is misinterpreted as evidence of being transgender and a child is medically affirmed, the child may not have had a chance to identify, come to terms with or explore a same-sex orientation."
She cited the Dutch founders of a medical gender transition service from 1999, who stated: “Not all children with GID (gender identity disorder) turn out to be transsexuals after puberty…
“Prospective studies of GID boys show that this phenomenon is more strongly related to later homosexuality than to later transsexualism."
One of the same authors said in 2012: “Follow-up studies have demonstrated that only a small proportion of gender dysphoric children become transsexual at a later age, that a much larger proportion have a homosexual sexual orientation without any gender dysphoria."
‘Reparative therapy against gay people’
Mrs Badenoch also pointed to English data from GIDS, showing that older patients expressing a sexual orientation were overwhelmingly lesbian, gay or bisexual.
For example, 68 per cent of adolescent female patients were recorded as being attracted to other females only, 21 per cent were bisexual and just 9 per cent were heterosexual.
Among adolescent male patients, 42 per cent were attracted only to other males, 38 per cent were bisexual and 19 per cent were only attracted to females.
She said she was aware of “troubling accounts" that some clinicians are hesitant to work in gender identity services because they feel under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach.
She quoted Dr Natasha Prescott, a former GIDS clinician, who said in her exit interview from the Tavistock that “there is increasing concern that gender affirmative therapy, if applied unthinkingly, is reparative therapy against gay individuals, i.e. by making them straight."
Dr Matt Bristow, a former GIDS clinician, said he had come to feel that GIDS was performing “conversion therapy for gay kids."
Tavistock was closed two years ago.
‘Discover sexuality on own timescale’
The minister also quoted a survey of 100 “detransitioners" – people who have changed gender but then regretted it – which found the experience of homophobia or difficulty accepting themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual was expressed by 23 per cent of respondents as a reason for transition and subsequent detransition.
She quoted one German gender clinic as stating: “It must be understood that early hormone therapy may interfere with the patient’s development as a homosexual.
“This may not be in the interest of patients who, as a result of hormone therapy, can no longer have the decisive experiences that enable them to establish a homosexual identity."
Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, said: “LGB Alliance is delighted that the minister for equalities has recognised the concerns that we have been raising for a long time.
“The evidence is clear. The vast majority of young people being put onto irreversible medical pathways are attracted to their own sex.
“We are literally ‘transing the gay away’ when we should be helping them to understand and accept their sexuality and grow up to live happy, healthy lives as lesbians, gay men or bisexuals."
Helen Joyce, from the women’s rights group Sex Matters, said: “It has been well-established for decades that children destined to grow up gay are far more likely than other children to be highly gender non-conforming in early youth.
“Such children need to be allowed to grow up in a safe, supportive environment, and to be allowed to discover their sexuality on their own timescale.
“Instead, trans ideology interprets gender non-conformity as a potential sign of a trans identity. This tragically misguided framing is today’s version of the historic atrocities of gay conversion therapy."
#conversion therapy#lgb#Kemi Badenoch#transing the gay away#Sex Matters#gender critical#UK#the receipts#LGB Alliance#Tavistock
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By: Daniel Martin
Published: Feb 6, 2024
Kemi Badenoch has told MPs she has strong evidence that gay young people are being convinced they are transgender instead.
The equalities minister quoted experts who said children likely to grow up to be same-sex attracted “might be subjected to conversion practices” which persuade them to change gender.
In a letter to the Commons women and equalities select committee, she revealed a former clinician at the NHS Tavistock child gender identity clinic had said that in agreeing to requests to help children change gender, they were in fact “making them straight”.
Another said that agreeing to help a homosexual child change gender was in effect “conversion therapy for gay kids”.
Mrs Badenoch agreed to write to the committee to provide the evidence following an appearance before them last month.
Her letter shows that the number of children in England going to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has soared from 250 in 2011-12 to more than 5,000 in 2021-22.
She wrote: “I committed to providing further details on the evidence that children likely to grow up to be gay (same-sex attracted) might be subjected to conversion practices on the basis of gender identity rather than their sexual orientation.
“Both prospective and retrospective studies have found a link between gender non-conformity in childhood and someone later coming out as gay.
“A young person and their family may notice that they are gender non-conforming earlier than they are aware of their developing sexual orientation. If gender non-conformity is misinterpreted as evidence of being transgender and a child is medically affirmed, the child may not have had a chance to identify, come to terms with or explore a same-sex orientation.”
She cited the Dutch founders of a medical gender transition service from 1999, who stated: “Not all children with GID (gender identity disorder) turn out to be transsexuals after puberty…
“Prospective studies of GID boys show that this phenomenon is more strongly related to later homosexuality than to later transsexualism.”
One of the same authors said in 2012: “Follow-up studies have demonstrated that only a small proportion of gender dysphoric children become transsexual at a later age, that a much larger proportion have a homosexual sexual orientation without any gender dysphoria.”
‘Reparative therapy against gay people’
Mrs Badenoch also pointed to English data from GIDS, showing that older patients expressing a sexual orientation were overwhelmingly lesbian, gay or bisexual.
For example, 68 per cent of adolescent female patients were recorded as being attracted to other females only, 21 per cent were bisexual and just 9 per cent were heterosexual.
Among adolescent male patients, 42 per cent were attracted only to other males, 38 per cent were bisexual and 19 per cent were only attracted to females.
She said she was aware of “troubling accounts” that some clinicians are hesitant to work in gender identity services because they feel under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach.
She quoted Dr Natasha Prescott, a former GIDS clinician, who said in her exit interview from the Tavistock that “there is increasing concern that gender affirmative therapy, if applied unthinkingly, is reparative therapy against gay individuals, i.e. by making them straight”.
Dr Matt Bristow, a former GIDS clinician, said he had come to feel that GIDS was performing “conversion therapy for gay kids”.
Tavistock was closed two years ago.
‘Discover sexuality on own timescale’
The minister also quoted a survey of 100 “detransitioners” – people who have changed gender but then regretted it – which found the experience of homophobia or difficulty accepting themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual was expressed by 23 per cent of respondents as a reason for transition and subsequent detransition.
She quoted one German gender clinic as stating: “It must be understood that early hormone therapy may interfere with the patient’s development as a homosexual.
“This may not be in the interest of patients who, as a result of hormone therapy, can no longer have the decisive experiences that enable them to establish a homosexual identity.”
Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, said: “LGB Alliance is delighted that the minister for equalities has recognised the concerns that we have been raising for a long time.
“The evidence is clear. The vast majority of young people being put onto irreversible medical pathways are attracted to their own sex.
“We are literally ‘transing the gay away’ when we should be helping them to understand and accept their sexuality and grow up to live happy, healthy lives as lesbians, gay men or bisexuals.”
Helen Joyce, from the women’s rights group Sex Matters, said: “It has been well-established for decades that children destined to grow up gay are far more likely than other children to be highly gender non-conforming in early youth.
“Such children need to be allowed to grow up in a safe, supportive environment, and to be allowed to discover their sexuality on their own timescale.
“Instead, trans ideology interprets gender non-conformity as a potential sign of a trans identity. This tragically misguided framing is today’s version of the historic atrocities of gay conversion therapy.”
[ Via: https://archive.today/bG6GF ]
#Daniel Martin#Kemi Badenoch#gay conversion therapy#gay conversion#conversion therapy#homophobia 2.0#woke homophobia#homophobia#gender ideology#gender identity ideology#queer theory#intersectional feminism#trans the gay away#religion is a mental illness
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Intro: The Queen of Lies
AU for The Prince of Thieves / WC: keeps changing, will let you know someday
Masterlist | Content Warnings | Mood Board | Vibey Song Lyrics | Ao3
I sold myself to a loveless thing / And I walk'd to the altar and there I lied
C.W.S., Harper's Weekly, 7 July 1866
At a Glance
Genres: romance, historical, whump
POV/tense: 3rd-person, past tense
Small main cast; single narrator two narrators lol
You can enjoy the story without reading TPOT - the side characters just won't feel nearly as fleshed out here (I think so, anyway.)
tbh it's a romance with added bonus of torture, captivity, dread, angst, intimidation, and fun whumpy happenings
Description
THE QUEEN OF LIES is a tale of quiet courage, inner strength, and forbidden love—and the ways we can change our lives for the better if only we dare to take a leap of faith.
Four years ago, Breanna Cooper made a choice that altered the course of her life forever.
She stayed.
Instead of running away from a man she knew did not and could not love her, she remained—and became Mrs. Breanna Hatchett. Now she exists quietly in a life half-lived, striving to be the perfect wife and always falling short.
One day, a chance encounter in Constable Baden Hatchett’s prison brings her face to face with a captured thief from the notorious thieving gang Iustitia aecum. Though she swears she will forget the boy to whose brutal punishment she bears witness, it soon becomes clear that forgetting him is something she simply cannot do.
On a whim, for the first time in years, Breanna takes a chance and seeks out the thief—and yet again, her life is changed forever.
Vibes & Tropes
Forbidden love
Tragic backstory
“Who did this to you?”
Gazing through cell bars
"I'll fight for you"
“Why are you helping me?”
Gloomy skies, autumn leaves, rain & thunder
Against all logic and reason…
"I will always find you"
Alternatively, if you are a music-minded person, I collected some song lyrics that make me think of this story.
Cast of Characters
Main & Major Characters
BREANNA HATCHETT: Our heroine. Four years ago, she married into an abusive relationship, and since then she has been going through her life like a ghost, doing as her husband says and trying to be the perfect wife. When fate sends her careening into the story of an imprisoned thief, her entire world is rocked to its core.
FOX/THE THIEF: Our hero. If you’re new here, enjoy spending 50% of the story not knowing his name. Sharp-tongued and defiant, impulsive and reckless, the thief is determined to take his secrets to his grave to protect his family, if that’s what it takes. He is slowly losing hope…that is, until he is granted unexpected kindness by the least likely person imaginable. Suddenly, there’s more hope and light in his life than he ever expected to see again.
CONSTABLE BADEN HATCHETT: Our bad guy. Breanna’s husband. Vindictive, controlling, and manipulative, he wields his power and influence inside and outside the prison where he works as a constable. Above all things, he despises disobedience and disorder the most. When Breanna begins to take her life into her own hands, he will stop at nothing to gain control over her once again. Whatever it takes.
JUNIOR CONSTABLE CURTIS LENTON: A constable who is not-so-secretly pining for Breanna. He is a friend to her in the only way he knows how, but this means he is sometimes overprotective of her—to a fault.
DR. ALLAN ARMSTRONG DALE: A newly employed doctor who has a habit of getting in over his head no matter what universe he's in.
SPIDER: An elusive woman who helps to run the thieving gang Iustitia aecum.
HARE: The fourth and final member of IA’s inner circle.
WOLF/THE THIEF’S BROTHER: A mysterious character whose identity the thief goes to great lengths to protect.
ALICE: Breanna’s friend who encourages her to take more risks in her life.
Other Characters
MRS. BRISTOW: A nurse working at the prison. Better at the job than the medic.
MRS. DENNISON: The Hatchetts' housekeeper.
MR. GYSBORNE: The prison medic.
JUNIOR CONSTABLE MICHAELSON: A vicious officer who works under Baden Hatchett. Notable for his leering gaze and sadistic tendencies.
MARGUERITE: Breanna’s other friend.
DR. RICHARDS: The other, not-so-nice doctor.
INSPECTOR BULWELL: The head of the prison where Baden works.
MISS DUGFORD: A cruel bully of a nurse
FAQ
What will I like about TQOL?
Well, if you liked the thief’s snark in TPOT, then it’s, like, tripled, especially in the early chapters here. But this is a different story—far more romantic—and you might like getting to see a much softer side of him, too.
You might like Breanna’s character development from a very frightened and sheltered wife to a courageous young woman who is willing to take risks and face her fears.
If you like romantic tension, forced proximity, pining, and lots of caretaking/comfort, then I hope you’ll like this story!
How do I know if this story is for me?
You can check out the Contents/Warnings here. There are spoilers in that post, so click at your own risk.
For TPOT readers:
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stop here if you don't want any vague spoilers for The Prince of Thieves!
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What are the biggest differences between TPOT and TQOL?
Shorter. Fewer but often longer chapters. 3rd-person past tense.
There's the whole name thing. The name "Cooper" only shows up 3 times in the whole thing. "Mrs. Hatchett," on the other hand...
In TPOT, we know the thief’s name right away because he and two other inner circle members are POV characters. Breanna is the only POV character in TQOL........uh....listen. We just have to wait until she learns his name. For stylistic reasons.
Since Breanna didn't run away and never joined IA, all her serendipitous meetings with the thief in her past never happened. Her first encounter with him is in Chapter 1.
Obviously, since they're married, the relationship between Baden and Breanna—while strained and 100% toxic, problematic, and unhealthy—is not as antagonistic as it is in TPOT.
In the beginning, we get a little less existential dread because the thief isn’t expecting execution but rather long-term imprisonment, labour, or exile to a penal colony (no actual plot reason for this, I just wanted to play with the stakes and see how it changed the dynamics. because I can). This means that Ezra Johnston (the captured runner from TPOT) was never hanged and so we catch up with the thief in a slightly better mental state than the same point in TPOT.
Wolf and Jr. Constable Michaelson have reduced roles (compared to TPOT), while Jr. Constable Lenton (who literally only appears in two TPOT chapters) has an elevated role and gets a first name.
The time period is slightly different (because of reasons), but I doubt this is actually noticeable in the writing, only in my brain. I had to do a decent amount of research for this one particular plot thread, so now I know what decade we’re in lol.
What’s the same between TPOT and TQOL?
Well, Hatchett is still an asshole, and actually, so is the thief (affectionate)...he's still a snarky, potty-mouthed rascal. The IA setup is pretty much the same, the tattoo hasn’t changed, and the thief’s determination to keep the inner circle safe and out of Hatchett’s clutches is as strong as ever. On the IA end, everything up to the flogging has played out pretty much the same (see above q for a few lil differences). It's Breanna's life that has been wildly different.
In terms of tropes/plots….yes, I repeated a few. I don’t want to say them here bc spoilers but if you really want to know, send me a DM and I’ll spill which TPOT parts get their own AU twist.
Thanks for reading! <3 Hope you like it!
If you've made it this far, here's your reward:
Image ID: a square image of the external wall of a brick building with barred windows. White text reads: “No, not a hanging. It’s not for ladies to see or think of. No need to trouble yourself with such things.” End ID.
#lps the queen of lies#wip: breanna hatchett au#wip intro#story intro#whump#whump story#whump writing#original writing#original story#original content#new story#new whump story#lady whump#guy whump#everyone whump#romance#angst#new original story#blood tw#tw blood
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New Year's letters & diaries
Fanny Butcher Christmas card, 1956
Over the course of 200 years of American history, people bought new diaries, sent letters, and created cards to mark the change from one year to another. Here are a few of our favorite musings on the passage of time, transcribed by our amazing volunteers.
1850: "Hail Teusday! thous first born of the new year. Thou dost usher upon the world another half century. Times aged brow axious another wrinkle - his pulsied limbs now bear another semi centenial load. I shall not live to see another half century's dawn - ere 1900 is chimed upon the midnight year. I shall lie moulding in my grave." (John Mott-Smith. View this page or all pages in this set)
1853: "My thoughts at the appearance of the first morning of 1853 may better imagined than told. With a sign, I contracted my present condition with that of one year ago. I thought how changable is the human mind, and how variable the scenes of life. What a varied of changes can take place within the space of one short year. Many who one year ago were in the full enjoyment of life and health, are now beneath the sod, Many who were in affluent circumstance have been reduced to insolvency, while others have become rich." (Holmes D Van Schaick. View this page or all pages in this set)
1902: "I have said good bye to my old journal of 1901, and begin my new one, with a heart full of gratitude to the old year that gave us so much pleasure and happiness and filled us with comfort, and so bountiful and all our family such fine health." (Elvira Sheridan Badger. View this page or all pages in this set)
1989: "Our best wishes to you for a pleasant holiday, and better new year - in spite of the "Peoples' Choice" of leadership. Keep hopeful!" (Ken Bristow to Jack Conroy. View this page or all pages in this set)
Explore the rest of these New Year's diaries and more with Newberry Winter Fest ❄
#new year#fanny butcher#jack conroy#diaries#letters#transcription#newberry library#libraries#archives#winter#newberryq#collection stories
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What do you imagine eggmans father looks and sounds like?
I love coming up with a design and personality and concepts for Eggman's father so much, if they ever showed him in the game canon and he wasn't anything like what I've imagined him to be then I'd be devastated because I've become very attached to it dhajfkshdkghs
I've never been able to draw him how I want so describing will have to do. First of all, like Gerald and Eggman, I imagine he has a strikingly similar appearance because I like to think Gerald is the paternal grandfather. I never understood why non canon media went with otherwise but it made me sad. I want his dad to be a dilf with the classic sexy Robotnik family genetics too fhsjbdakdbskf
It makes sense for Gerald and Ivo to look to look so alike, as Ivo could possibly have been influenced by Gerald's appearance unintentionally, as well as having the genetics. So I don't imagine that his father is just another recolor for no reason and change it up a bit for him instead, though the resemblance is still strong for having those very unique Robotnik family genes of course.
I picture him with a very similar face to Gerald and Ivo with same structure, nose, and mouth. But a difference is that he actually had eyebrows and was balding too but tried to keep what hair he had left and Ivo never understood all the fuss and attachment, as soon as he got early male pattern baldness too he just shaved it all. XD He also wore glasses but a different style and also had a mustache but a lot smaller.
He was also fat as it was common for Robotnik family males to be heavyset but he wasn't quite as heavy as Ivo ended up, also not as tall as him, just like Gerald. He didn't have the gigantism type condition I imagine Ivo with as much either, though he still had above average proportions as another genetic thing. He also had blue eyes like Ivo canonically and I imagine Gerald had too. He also had Ivo's hair color.
His style was distinguished with the suits he wore as a businessman in Robotnik Corp and reflected his wealth, he had fancy outfits to wear to the casinos he liked gambling at which is what helped Ivo get into them too. The only times he dressed very casually was in the workshop and garage as his side work as a mechanic, which helped Ivo get his interests of vehicles and Ex Gear motorcycles and such.
He was also hardly ever not smoking, he was always seen with a cigar.
I've seen very few depictions of Eggman's father in fan stuff, especially ones that are to my personal liking, but I absolutely love this one. He's very close to how I've already imagined him being in my concepts for years, as you'll see he fits the description to a high degree. He looks so handsome and very well designed! I'd accept this in canon in heartbeat. 🥰
As for how he sounded, I imagine he had a bit of an accent like my Casino AU Eggman, which you can listen to here. He'd either sound very similar to how Mike Pollock does in those clips I used, or he could sound like how Deem Bristow voiced the character Kenny Sinclair, which you can also listen to in the post linked. Leaning towards the latter. It suits the personality and attitude I imagine him having well.
Are there a lot of things that make him quite like my Casino AU Egg but with less pink and sluttiness... yes lol. But that's the point as the version of his dad in the AU is mostly the same as my idea of main universe Egg's too and the only difference is that Casino Egg was more influenced by the casino stuff primarily, unlike modern who only took it up as side thing partially thanks to him.
If they ever revealed his father in a game and he was way different, then he'd still remain the Casino AU version of him forever because I'm so attached to the idea of him 💜
If you're interested in seeing more of my headcanons and concepts about his father, you can read about them in my #robotnik family tag! And if you have any more questions then feel free to ask, I always love talking about my concepts with y'all 🥰
#also extra fact I made him bi#cus I made him too hot to imagine him being unattainable to me fhakfbskfshg#(when he was alive)#asks#robotnik family#dr eggman#eggman#dr robotnik#dr. eggman#headcanons#my post
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au ask meme uhhh. otherverse baru cormorant
Baru agrees to an apprenticeship oath with a collector/merchant who striped-mined her home town and wrapped it into a Knotted Place/dropped it out of reality.
The cryptarchs are empire-builders ala Bristow (significantly more charismatic and clever about it) - Renascent is either a Lord or power behind the throne in some major city. Hesychast is of course an alchemist, Farrier is a collector or potentially a Law Mage? Very focused around debts and the exploitation thereof, anyway. The explciit ideological homphobia probably isn't part of Farrier's deal, the surrogate-daughter complex still absolutely is.
Tain Hu is the heir of a major family in the area Baru's sent to strip mine for Farrier to prove herself and be freed of the juvenile clauses of her apprenticeship oath. She's trying to change things herself in a way to strengthen the territory against the reigning lord.
Baru at one point confesses her love to Tain Hu ans makes some ill advised oath of loyalty. She realizes she's going to be betrayed and assassiniated before it happens, looks in Baru's eyes, and tells her she sore to defend her and isn't going to forswear her now. This, more than anything else, ruins Baru. Not least because it means she isn't free from her oath.
The whole BarHu thing is probably downstream of Baru using spiritual surgery to get out of enforced honesty by locking up her treason plans so she isn't aware of them. Which shit that's just Death Note isn't it.
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“I’m not really very drunk,” she told him, sitting down beside him, and laying a hand on his shoulder. “I’m other things. If you’re tapped out, you and I could retire upstairs. Work out the leftover restlessness and adrenaline of the day.”
OKAY. DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. big win for people who ship their teachers I guess? Though I'm assuming from the "Before" header that this is a flashback
Larry Bristow laughed at something.
I could have been calling him Larry this whole time...
Here, in a bar, late at night, the group of them gathered, her slightly inebriated, tired self was akin to a tiger stretched out in a sunbeam. The claws so easily protruded as she stretched.
... hot
Luisa Crowe choked on her drink.
don't think we've heard of her before. Or of any family members.
Just a week or two off of her latest hunt, she was willing and wanting to track down this Blue Heron Throne god, while Alexander did the legwork to bring them all together.
So this is how the school got founded. It's so weird to see them all friendly and relaxed together
Thoughtful and lost in thought. He was hard to get to know, and much of that had to be done not by reaching out or studying him, but by studying what he offered and what he asked, when he finally decided what he could ask that might be a good question. Seeking validation and respect in the opposite way to how Larry did. Too subtle, instead of too forced.
keeping this in mind as an analysis of Charles. Strange to think of him socializing with this circle of other practitioners. Does he miss any of them?
Charles looked bewildered. “I mean I’m not a threat, I’m willing to help but… I know how cutthroat practitioner society can be, and I imagine hollywood or any other high society is the same. I’d rather keep my throat intact.”
didn't really work out for him huh
“Smart,” Alexander said. “I don’t think I’d have it in me to hold back on revenge.”
:(
Luisa looked troubled, like she was going to say something, but she was interrupted.
think I understand why Luisa didn't stick around with this group
“There is no police force governing us. We’re still, generally speaking, in a wild west of practice,” Alexander said. “If you don’t act with prejudice, you’re setting precedent.”
I think setting a precedent of not using overwhelming lethal force is a good thing
“Charles,” Larry said. “When we were mid-job, you mentioned these special Others.”
“Others, bound by rules, get certain leeway. If they must ask questions or must do certain things, like a revenant having a very specific path laid out before it, that’s… in our analogy of a bank heist, it’s the drill. It’s more solid, it has more force.”
I wonder if this applies to any of the Kennet Others?
"Figurines were soaked into the muck. I want one, but failing that, I want it gone.”
I'm assuming that this will unbind a goddess Durocher draws on for power? Would that just weaken her, or would the goddess then be out for revenge?
The Kennet trio send friendly Others home.
He waited, studying the photograph for details. The inscription was telling. The phrasing. Not unsummoning, not releasing. Just… sending them home.
wild practitioners!
Black ink bled into the photograph, taking on three dimensions in the scene.
“Abandonment,” Alexander said. “A connection severed.”
what will this do? Just pick a random connection to sever? Most obvious would be to each other, but I think that would need more effort. The word "abandonment" makes me think about their families though, and I'm concerned that how much they've been using connection blockers might backfire
A few out in these woods, like Lucy Ellingson, who was going for a walk, now severed from critical connections. They wouldn’t renew.
which critical connections?! all of them? Connections this could potentially touch on: Avery and Verona, her family, Kennet Others, people at the school. The last two don't feel critical necessarily (annoying but the other two can help). I'm worried that this will just have people forget about her entirely, hopefully not everyone and not irreversibly.
“The first option is that you tell me everything I want to know, then die by your own hand. The second option is that you Awaken fully to this world and swear undying fealty to me in the process.”
these are bad options
He jerked, and for a moment, saw only stars, heard only raucous noise. His eyes rolled up and his head turned skyward.
umm
“Go home,” John Stiles told him.
why is john suddenly here??? I guess he wasn't mentioned when Alexander spied on the girls sending people home, so maybe he's doing a search of the woods first?
“Yeah. I won’t say anything. I could help with the body, and the crime scene.”
did John kill Alexander?! I thought the bits at the end of the last section (jerking, head dropping, kneeling) was Alexander preparing some practice, but did he just get shot?
... hilarious if so. What a way to go, in the middle of his dramatic scheming
“His head-” Lucy said. “It’s gone. Cracked open.”
She sounded so much like a kid.
:(
Lucy is getting so much gun violence-related trauma
John walked, long, quick steps, until he stood between her and the body. He put a hand out to steady her, to keep her from pulling away or moving to a point where she could keep looking.
and I'm glad he's looking out for her. Honestly, John becoming Lucy's familiar is looking like a better thing the more we see
“It protects Kennet,” she said. She was still shaky, but she stepped back so she could meet John’s eyes. “That’s my responsibility.”
I mean it's messed-up to have a kid taking on that level of responsibility, but I do love this
“I was thinking about him being my familiar.”
John remained standing where he was. He wasn’t sure he was supposed to hear this, but…
“…Not so much anymore.”
oh. Or that. I suppose the corollary to having John as her familiar would mean she wouldn't have to personally do violence is that a lot of problems would be getting solved violently in front of her
... I wonder if that was the connection that Alexander severed
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