#whether or not any of them are italian is up to you to interpret

[tethered-heartstrings]

Hi sorry if I'm bothering you, I just had a question? I noticed that in season three (the first part, with the Italian names) (Italian is my first language) the names are out of order. Like, S3E2 being called "Primavera" (Spring) aside, we have "Appetizers" "Second course" "Apéritif" "Side dish" "Sweets" and "Digestive". And that's not the usual order?

You usually have Apéritif late afternoon/early evening, then you sit at the dinner table and the courses are: Appetizers, Main Course (which is replaced by Spring, but I enjoy the allegory), Second Course with Sides, Sweets and lastly Digestive (or coffee lol).

So yeah I was wondering if you knew whether there was any reason for this change?

Again sorry to bother, also I love you blog. Thank you very much and have a nice day :)

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omg you aren’t bothering me at all this is a great question!

Let me start off by saying I do not know Italian, but I have some ideas as to the naming schematic.

“Apéritif” is the first episode of season one, and from what I looked up, an apéritif is an alcoholic drink used to stimulate the appetite. As it is the first episode of the show, it is meant to entice an audience to watch the rest of the show, so it makes sense that this episode is enticing the appetite of the viewer. Also, the first glimpse we get of Hannibal in this episode is him eating a meal, and as the titular character who has a particular appetite, we are kind of appealing to his appetite as well. And the first meeting he has with Will also indirectly stimulates his appetite and interest in Will as a person and his involvement with the GJH case and his decisions to intervene. Hannibal wanting to “see what would happen” is his appetite being stimulated. “Apéritif” is also a French word derived from Latin “aperire” which means “to open” which makes a lot of sense as it is the opening of the entire show.

The first episode of season 3, “Antipasto” makes sense as it is the first course of a meal, and thus the first episode of the season. “Secondo” I take to mean a second course, so pretty straight forward.

I wonder if “Apertivo” (aka appetizer) is next because we kind of go back in time a bit to Will being in the hospital and truly seeing how thing occurred, and not his hallucination with Abigail being alive. Like going back “before” the meal. We also see Will back in Hannibal’s kitchen, going back to where everything went down, but there is a peace there as if it was before it all happened. And Abigail is there, too. Granted, Will “knows” she is dead now, but it still feels like before when she was alive. Like Will is trying to take little pieces of life before, little bites of something more savory than the reality he is in. It is also before Will really confronts Hannibal again, seeing and talking to him directly. So maybe the use of “appetizer” is more of this episode and events in it happening before other things. The events of this episode happening before the “meal” episodes as it goes back in time a little bit.

While “Dolce” and “Digestivo” are in the “correct” order, I still want to talk about them. “Dolce” meaning sweet is so perfect because of the Uffizi Gallery scene, because it is so tender and perfect. And “Digestivo” is also perfect, because digestives are supposed to aid in digestion, and Hannibal was planning to eat Will. And not only could it be interpreted as literally helping the meal digest, but also the aftermath of having killed and eaten Will, having to digest the reality that not only is Will dead, but that Hannibal killed him. And that Will’s flesh is finite, and eventually there will be nothing left of him, and soon even the taste of him, the feel of him between his teeth, will be lost to Hannibal, nothing more than a memory.

I also found that bitter digestifs contain carminative herbs intended to aid in digestion. There are a lot of herbs that fall into this category, but two of them being parsley and thyme, which are herbs in the soup Hannibal spoon fed to Will while he was drugged prior to his head being cut open. Hannibal even says the soup is “more for my sake than yours,” after Will comments on how it isn’t very good. And I know that it technically happens in “Dolce” but the end of “Dolce” and beginning of “Digestivo” overlap and blur together a bit like they do. And in “Digestivo”, Will even comments on how he doesn’t have Hannibal’s “appetite”, thus tying it all in together a bit.

As a side note, I also love “Primavera” meaning spring, because this episode is another stage of Will’s becoming and his growth, shedding an old skin. We see a new perspective of what happened in “Mizumono”, and I think “Spring” is a very fitting title for this episode!

thank you for this ask and hope you have a nice day as well!!

#and THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK BTW this did not bother me at all #these are the kinds of asks i love #the ones that get my brain thinking #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #dolce #digestivo #antipsto #aperitif #hannibal meta #murder husbands #hannigram #hannigram meta #anonymous #the curious clown

[smoll-tangerine]

ten reasons why i hate you: reason #5

SYNOPSIS. while you admittedly didn’t refuse the arranged marriage between you and jung jaehyun, that didn’t mean that you’d allow him to treat you like a doormat. for the emotional distress he had put you through during the months leading up to your engagement party, you ensure that he will pay for the way he had been treating you for the rest of his life. 

PAIRING. rich boy!jaehyun x rich girl!reader  GENRES. romance, angst, drama, rich kid!au  CHAPTER WORD COUNT. 2261

WARNINGS. none. 

DISCLAIMER. this is a work of fiction based on fictional events and characters. it is unrelated to any real people, organisations, locations, and events. the laws, and legal and medical interpretations in this work have also been modified for storytelling purposes. 

TAGLIST. @crescent-iak​ @moonchele​ @ahtisa02​ @ghostfacefricker6969​ @jaehyunnie77​ @jungish​ @anya-writes-stuff​ @hey-won @ishireads​ @xxxx-23nct​ @peachibevuti @shepeelsoranges​ (bolded = unable to tag) 

[a/n]: thank you all so much for your comments!! i’m always so giddy when i read them hehe. this chapter doesn’t have any angst and it’s more fluffy(?) and it’s probably going to be the fluffiest of the chapters, so enjoy it while you can!! ♡ the honeymoon is broken down in 2 parts/chapters, so the next chapter will also be set during their honeymoon. 

also, italicized sentences = spoken in italian because i was too lazy to actually write in italian. Also, fun fact, Vini Da Arturo is an actual restaurant in Venice and its owner’s name is actually Ernesto lol 

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REASON #5  

You didn’t need a bachelorette party, but your friends digressed. 

Jennie took the liberty of charting your private jet for a small girl’s trip to Paris. Though, you were pretty sure she just wanted to go to visit the Chanel store on Champs Élysées. 

“So, spill the tea,” Jennie said to you with her famous feline-like smile. “How does it feel to be married to Jaehyun?” 

Your tongue poked your cheek and you tried to refrain yourself from huffing out in frustration. “We’re not married yet.” 

“Engaged, soon-to-be-married, married—in the end, isn’t it all the same?” Krystal commented with an air of nonchalance. “All of those specifics are not going to matter anymore in a matter of–” she glanced at her watch. “–thirteen hours and twenty two minutes.”

“No, it’s not the same.” 

Your two friends noticed how the tone of your voice didn’t match with one of a happy bride that was about to get married in a day. They shared a look of concern and scooted closer to you. 

“I thought the purpose of flying my jet instead of commercial so that we’d have our own personal space,” you mumbled tiredly. 

You could practically feel the hesitation behind their words and actions, and you sighed. You never meant to turn the atmosphere into one where your best friends needed to tiptoe around you. 

You wondered whether you should tell them the truth about the whole situation. While they knew that your marriage was most likely arranged (a common occurrence in your world), they were also clueless to a number of details such as the fact that Jaehyun was still very much with his girlfriend, that you only went through with the engagement to spite him, and that Jaehyun hated your guts. 

Or did he? 

After the conversation you two had in your penthouse, you never saw each other again, other than just for a few dinners with the two families. You two never spoke to each other properly since then, so to speak. That was about almost a month ago. 

You also took in more surgeries than usual to avoid thinking about the what-if’s and the nature of your relationship with Jaehyun. 

Were you two now... friends? 

You rid yourself of that idea. As long as you were going to stay married to him, preventing him from being with Chaeyoung, the idea of you two being friends was simply not feasible. 

Not to mention your lingering feelings for him was an obstacle to whatever relationship you two might potentially have. 

You bit your bottom lip in slight apprehension. 

Jaehyun was no stranger to your feelings, whether they be romantic or negative. But wouldn’t it be better for your mental health and well-being if you two were to be civil with each other? 

Your two feelings were not only at the opposite ends, but they were also clashing. And thinking about the way you had to treat Jaehyun onwards was more complicated than it seemed. 

You thought that your romantic feelings for your fiancé was gone once and for all after your engagement party. But the way they so quickly resurfaced, like taking a breath of air after being underwater, showed that what you did was just bury them in hopes that they never recover. 

Your efforts proved to be futile. 

“Say, have you already gotten Jaehyun a wedding gift?” Jennie asked when she sensed that you had calmed down. 

Your fingers tapped against the arm rest, thinking about the olive branch Jaehyun had extended to you. The one that made you think whether you’d be a monster for refusing it. 

“Mhm,” you hummed as you came to a conclusion. “I think I know what I will get him.” 

The wedding ceremony was kept relatively small, despite the media’s attention. 

You wondered if that was how your wedding was supposed to be, because it certainly did not match with the vision you once had. 

You glanced at your wedding band, one that you were certain that Jaehyun asked his secretary to get. 

For some odd reason, it reminded you of Doyoung, of how he was also someone you were supposed to marry. 

Only, your engagement fell through when you refused to go with him to Germany. 

You glanced at Jaehyun who was sitting in front of you, and you felt an odd sense of déja vu. What was the point of using your private jet again if you weren’t given the space you hoped you would get? You would have thought that Jaehyun of all people would select a seat that was away from you, but contrary to your expectations, he didn’t. 

If anything, he looked excited to be going on the honeymoon with you. 

“What should we do when we land?” Jaehyun asked you as he was looking through a brochure on things to do in Venice. “I heard that Venice is always packed with tourists. But since it’s slowly sinking into the lagoon, it’s good that we get to visit it before it completely disappears, right?” 

His excitement was unnerving to you. 

“...Venice is sinking because of climate change and tourism,” you muttered as you looked outside, the jet slowly descending to land in the Venice Marco Polo Airport. “And besides, who says that I was going to spend time with you?” 

Jaehyun seemed surprised by your statement. “What do you mean? Aren’t we on our honeymoon?” 

“I don’t recall saying that we aren’t?” 

“Then, why are we not spending time together?” 

“Why do you even want to spend time with me?” you refuted almost in annoyance. “I know it’s not enough that we’re now married against your will, so shouldn’t you thank me that I’m giving you space?” 

Jaehyun fell silent. 

You immediately felt awkward at his reaction, not expecting him to be disappointed by the fact that you wanted to be away from him. 

But shouldn’t he be happy that you were giving him freedom? He could do whatever he wanted! 

But this was one of the times where your feelings for him took over whatever hatred that was left in your heart. 

You sighed through your nose. “There’s a little bit of time before check-in and we haven’t eaten lunch yet. Let’s go grab a bite together.” 

His face instantly brightened up at your words and went back to his brochure. “Oh, we can–” 

“Drop the brochure,” you said with a small smile. “I’ll bring you to my favourite place in Venice.” 

Your favourite restaurant in Venice was a very small and cozy restaurant nestled in a side alley called Vini Da Arturo, a gem of a place you have found before you became a surgical intern. 

“Ernesto!” you exclaimed happily as you two finally arrived at the restaurant. “Ciao!” 

“Ah, bella!” Ernesto replied with the same enthusiasm. “The usual?” 

“Yes, thank you.” 

Ernesto glanced at Jaehyun who only smiled obliviously. “That’s not the same man I saw you with last time.” 

While Jaehyun was not fluent in Italian, you remembered that he was fluent in Spanish instead. And those two languages were practically the same. Yet for some reason, you hoped that Jaehyun didn’t understand what Ernesto just said to you, even if you had a feeling that he probably wouldn’t care. 

“This is my husband, Jaehyun,” you said not exactly answering his question. “Jaehyun, this is Ernesto, the restaurant’s owner.” 

“It’s nice to meet you, Ernesto,” Jaehyun greeted him. “I look forward to your food.” 

“You won’t be disappointed!” 

Ernesto brought you to your favourite table, which was the second to last booth from the back. Close enough to the kitchen that you could hear what was going on, but not close enough that you’d be bothered by the kitchen commotion. 

“Do you know why Ernesto’s restaurant is so special compared to the other restaurants in Venice?” you asked giddily, ignoring how conflicted Jaehyun’s eyes seemed at the moment. 

“Jaehyun?”

“Huh, yeah?” 

“Did you hear what I said?” 

He closed his eyes for a moment. “Yeah, no, sorry, could you repeat that?” 

“I said, do you know why Ernesto’s restaurant is so special compared to the other restaurants in Venice?” 

He shook his head. 

“Ernesto’s restaurant doesn’t serve fish dishes,” you answered. “Only meat.” 

“A small restaurant in Venice that doesn’t serve fish dishes?” Jaehyun questioned. “Pardon my language, but is he mad?” 

You laughed. “A mad genius! Trust me. You’ll see when you taste his pork chop and eggplant salad.” 

True to your words, Jaehyun did call Ernesto a mad genius as soon as he took a bite of the pork chop. 

After eating, all you wanted to do was get back to your hotel and sleep off your jet lag. But Jaehyun’s eyes begged you to hop on a gondola and tour around Venice. You understand that it was, surprisingly, Jaehyun’s first time in Venice, but you were staying a whole week in Venice—he’ll have enough time to tour the city on a gondola. 

So, the compromise you two came up with was a water taxi. Though, because the hotel you were staying in was already so close and at a walking distance from the restaurant, you two had to walk back to the S. Toma’ “A” ferry terminal—located around ten minutes walking-distance away from Vini Da Arturo—so that Jaehyun could fully enjoy the water taxi ride. 

Twenty-five minutes later, your water taxi arrived at Hotel Danieli, your favourite hotel in Venice. You loved it due to its rich history and architecture. While the outside looked like the rest of the city, it was the interior décor and architecture that always blew your mind away. 

“Welcome back to Venice, signora,” the hotel concierge greeted you. “The Doge Dandolo Royal Suite has been prepared for you and your guest.” 

You smiled in thanks and handed over your passports. “Our documents.” 

“Thank you,” he said as he processed everything. “The hotel would like to offer you a complimentary night free of charge, as one of our most esteemed guests. Would you and your guest like to stay for another night?” 

You didn’t know Jaehyun’s schedule, but you weren’t about to refuse the offer. 

“We’ll stay.” 

“Wonderful,” the concierge continued. “Will everything be charged to the card we have on file?” 

“Yes, please.” 

“Amazing,” he said and handed you the keys to your room. “Enjoy your stay.” 

You followed the bellman to your room and tipped him as soon as he dropped off your luggage. Jaehyun’s jaw evidently dropped at the grandiosity of the room. The Doge Dandolo Royal Suite was exquisitely decorated, reminiscent of 14th century Italian Renaissance-style. 

Perhaps the opulence of the room scared Jaehyun a little as he stuttered out timidly, “S-so, h-how much d-does it cost for a whole w-week here?” 

You stretched your whole body as you walked across the room, taking everything in. “I don’t know, it costs around 9500 euros a night so do the math.” 

“9500 euros?” he exclaimed in disbelief. “Wait, so that’s about 67 000 euros for a whole week?” 

“I mean, they’re giving us a complimentary night so it’s technically for eight nights.” 

Jaehyun glared at you. His glare was so fierce that it reminded you of when you two first found out that you were engaged to each other. 

“Do we have to stay in such a luxurious suite?” 

You found Jaehyun’s attitude curious and intriguing. 

While Jaehyun would be considered as nouveau riche, he certainly didn’t act like one. Most of the nouveaux riches you knew loved flaunting their newly accumulated wealth. 

Aside from a few of his expenses, Jaehyun was quite particular with his money. It almost made you chuckle as you remembered just a couple of months ago, he was screaming at you that you shouldn’t look down at him for having less money than your family and that contrary to your beliefs, he indeed was able to afford the lunch at Yuta’s hotel. 

“You and your family paid for the wedding,” you answered easily. “My family and I can pay for the honeymoon.” 

It took a moment for him to accept this compromise, but Jaehyun seemed satisfied with your answer. 

“Okay,” he said. “Also, have you thought about what you want to do tomorrow?” 

You looked back at him with a weird expression. “...You want to spend time with me tomorrow too?” 

It was probably the first time you’ve ever seen Jaehyun blush in front of you. “Well, whether I like it or not, we are married and are on our honeymoon! Shouldn’t we spend some time together before we head back home?” 

This was unexpected. 

You planned your honeymoon around the fact that Jaehyun didn’t want to spend it with you. 

Did this mean that he didn’t hate you anymore? 

“I don’t.” 

“Huh?” You realised belatedly that you might have asked that question out loud and Jaehyun heard it. 

“I don’t,” he repeated, “actually hate you.” 

“Oh,” you answered dumbly. “That’s... good.” 

“So, tomorrow?” 

You shrugged and went to the bathroom to take a shower. 

“We’ll see.” 

Whether you liked it or not, Jaehyun’s sudden shift of attitude towards you was one that made you question his true intentions. 

You constantly reminded yourself that just barely month ago, this man hated your guts with a fury for supposedly ruining his life. And one small and insignificant action on your part suddenly made him think of you differently? 

What kind of game was he playing? 

You didn’t know, but one thing you knew for sure was that you would emerge as the game’s winner. 

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#neowritingsnet #cznnet #jaehyun x reader #jaehyun romance #jaehyun angst #jaehyun fluff #jaehyun scenarios #nct x reader #nct 127 x reader #nct 127 scenarios #w: ten reasons why i hate you

[mfenvs3000f23]

Small actions, big outcomes! Environment as a frequent classroom topic!

Describe your personal ethic as you develop as a nature interpreter. What beliefs do you bring? What responsibilities do you have? What approaches are most suitable for you as an individual?

This is my final blog post and you likely do not know who I am, but if you are interested, I invite you to delve into Madeline Fantin’s interpretive ethics, values, and ideas for the future.

To start, what beliefs do I bring? I am a wildlife biology and conservation student; therefore, the vast majority of my courses have looked through a scientific lens (western science that is). Perhaps the reason I chose my program is due to possibly my most core belief, that individuals have the power and influence necessary to make a real difference. This is why I became a vegetarian even though my entirely Italian family thinks I’m bonkers, I think one person cutting their carbon emissions is a worthwhile effort. Are billionaires flying their private jets around for unsatisfactory reasons and investing in all kinds of large corporations who dump pollution directly into our environment? Yes of course, and don’t get me wrong, I think part of the fight towards a healthy planet is holding the extremely wealthy accountable. Perhaps they are hoping we will put all the blame on ourselves so that we ignore their insurmountable consumption. However, we are consumers too and where possible, we can choose where to put our money and how to live our lives to a certain extent. I believe that however small, the average citizen’s fight against climate change is valuable and necessary. In conversations I have had with the people in my life, I have learned that many people become unmotivated by the “all or nothing” mindset. For example, I frequently hear people say that they “could never go without meat all the time.” So don’t! Have meatless Mondays! Have meatless weekends! Go pescatarian! Go meatless biweekly! There are unlimited combinations of schedules that could provide a more reasonable expectation. The effort doesn’t need to be “perfect” to be worth something. This can be applied to many environmental actions. In most places in Ontario, it wouldn’t be reasonable to ask people to use public transport or bike as a main form of transportation. Most cities don’t have great public transport, and most people live a long, long bike ride away from their place of work. However just because you cannot bike to work doesn’t mean you can’t ever trade the car for your bike. Maybe there’s a friend you often visit just on the other side of the neighborhood, and maybe you usually drive to them, but when the weather is ideal and if you are able, the bike could work! Many “imperfect” actions are better than no action at all I promise!!!! There is no shame in not being the perfect environmentalist all the time, it is near impossible in the society we have created.

I also believe that there is something to be gained from spending time in nature, for anyone. Whether that is a chance to gather thoughts, get some exercise, some vitamin D, you name it. I don’t think it needs to be picturesque either. Sometimes connecting with nature looks like sitting on the curb outside your east campus townhouse because the sun has reappeared after some days of gloom. Sometimes you will have the energy to head to the arboretum, but when you don’t, taking a sunny break on the curb is better than skipping the outdoors all together. Again, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

I believe it is never too late to get started! Everyone, no matter the age or circumstance, should feel like they have a place in the world of nature interpretation and the outdoors. Having not grown up in an outdoor adventure family doesn’t mean you can’t have any outdoor adventures! On that point, outdoor adventures are whatever you make them. They need not be a costly trip to the other side of the continent. Someone with the right mindset could gain more from an hour by the local creek, than someone with the wrong mindset on their trip to Mount Kilimanjaro.

What responsibilities do I have? Well, there are the obvious ones such as to deliver the program I have advertised, inform guests about risk, manage and prevent dangers, present accurate information, check my bias and privilege, to be fun and engaging, and for guests to leave feeling like they have benefitted in some way. Other more specific responsibilities I believe depend on the approach…

So what approaches are the most suitable for me? Well, it is my goal to get into teaching in high school classrooms. This is not the type of environment we have spent the last few months discussing, but nonetheless I think there is a ton of relevant overlap. Nature interpretation could take place in the classroom, or the school yard. There may also be opportunity for class trips where students could be exposed to new ways of learning or new environments.

When relevant to the content, I would aim to stimulate interest and conversation about the environment and environmental issues happening around the world, as they relate to us in Canada and otherwise. I probably plan on living in Canada, and therefore will need to create programs suitable for all 4 seasons. This could mean the same topic modified with each passing season, different topics in each season, or a combination. I am excited to take advantage of the variance each season brings. I think many topics in the high school curriculum could benefit from an environmental lense, and I would look to make connections throughout where possible.

 I would look to encourage active learning and participation through mediums the students may be interested in, just like we talked about all the different mediums of nature interpretation. If I’m teaching grade 9 or 10 science, then this class is still required of them, and many may only be there by necessity. They might not want to be there or have particular interest in the content, which is ok, and I would need to navigate how to still make sure they get what they are meant to, even if they never develop excitement about it.

To revisit responsibilities, as a teacher I must provide a classroom environment conducive to learning, where everyone feels comfortable, valued, and that students look forward to attending each day.

For my final blog post outro (☹), I will say that climate doomism is very contagious and easy to get wrapped up in. I think one of the most important things we can do as nature interpreters is spark hope for change. You never know who is looking to you when they are feeling discouraged about the state of the world, and how you can provide them motivation to keep fighting the good fight!

[wolfepirat3]

Hi! I have enjoyed some of those western movies you listed, but many of them have eluded me. I'm writing a modern AU and I figured we could help each other out! I get info and you get to talk about your favs 😁 So aside from the Clint Eastwood classics, are there any on the list you'd think a southern, macho soldier guy born in '66 and who is also really into western would count among his favorites? Which one would touch a person who doesn't know how to live out his emotions, but western movies would kinda sorta give him an outlet? Which one has the best villain, which one has the best hero?

Oh my gosh hi!! Sorry for the late reply, but Thanks for the question (and thank you for letting me talk about westerns!) 😁😁😁

for movies, I'd say some of the best to think of are definitely:

-Once Upon a Time in the West, I think Frank is an excellent villain while Harmonica and Cheyenne are, definitely not heroes, but important in their own right and convey a sense of justice while not exactly being 'good guys.' The soundtrack is also excellent as well and also helps set the mood for the scenes, whether it be an intense scene or one with faint hope.

-Shane, it's such an amazing film and I think (from what i understand of how you described the character you're talking about) could relate somewhat, he's an enigmatic and closed off figure in the Starrett's life and you never actually find out what his past is nor where he goes once he leaves, but you can tell that he cares for the family-- hence being part of the reason why he decides to go after Ryker, but you can tell that somewhere in his somewhat grey morals that there's a good and honorable man in him

-The Magnificent Seven, the original movie (despite being a remake of the seven samurai) is one of the best stories ive seen played out in a western. There's a lot left up to interpretation about the seven, but theyre all heroes in their own right because even though they all took a job that didnt even pay well, they were willing to risk their lives to protect a town that none of them have an attachment to. Calvera isn't the strongest antagonist I've seen, but he plays his part well and is able to give the seven a reason to fight.

-Django, the og italian one, is interesting. I don't have much to say, it's been awhile since I've seen it, but it could have something of use. But, Django himself is a curious character, we know virtually nothing about the man, but it's clear that he has a mission and will use his resources to follow through until he achieves his goal.

-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I love this movie. Despite the main characters technically being the bad guys, you can't help but find yourself hoping for them to succeed. The dynamic between the two is fantastic, Sundance being the quiet one willing to do what needs to be done while Butch is the ideas man. It's really interesting seeing how your perception of them is skewed once you remember that they're not good people, but understand and find yourself in the characters?

I'm really hoping this helps you out somewhat and wasn't tooooo confusing? (If you need me to elaborate on anything just shoot me another message and ill try and clarify anything!!)

Good luck on your writing ventures! Have a great day 😊

#westerns #classic western

[swampcraft]

Breaking Up With Spreads

Since I recently resigned from the magazine I was writing for, I thought I would share my former upcoming article here for everyone to enjoy.

 In divinatory lingo, a spread is a pre-designed layout for the reader to arrange the cards or other lots as they are cast in a reading. 

Spreads definitely have their place in modern divination, in a professional reading a spread can act as an easily recognizable baseline and set the client’s expectation for the reading. Even most people who don’t read for themselves will recognize the 3 card past/present/future layout or perhaps the more complicated Celtic Cross arrangement. For personal readings spreads can be customized almost endlessly, although often the Little White Book that comes with a deck of cards may only offer 3 or 4 standard hits. 

And for many new readers these spreads can offer an ice breaker to learn the practice of reading a divination tool. 

However for many others, spreads can make divination feel clunky, daunting, and unapproachable. 

So why do we use spreads? Well, not all systems do, and I’d argue, not all systems need to. Some systems like I Ching and Astragals rely on casting multiple objects to receive one predetermined response. Likewise Ogham and Runes traditionally involved casting objects from a hand or vessel and interpreting how they landed in relation to the reader. 

It was in the 18th century that an Italian card game began to gain popularity as a divination system, and finally an oracle had arrived that suited itself to prescribed layouts that would become known as spreads. In 1911 Arthur Edward Waite helped publish the deck that most people would recognize as the modern Tarot deck using paintings produced by Pamela Coleman Smith, and a book to go with it. In this book he introduced the world to the Celtic Cross spread, claiming it had been in use in the British Isles for years, but exactly how long is anyone’s guess. 

Then a curious thing happened, in the 20th century, authors writing about runes began suggesting to “lay them out like tarot cards” even coming up with creative ways to design spreads around the very shapes of the runes themselves. By the late 20th century when other oracle decks began hitting the scene, the LWB offering 3 or 4 standard spreads just sort of stuck around as a practice and with notably few exceptions, authors and deck creators haven’t really explored other ways to use their tools that don’t completely mimic the Tarot. 

Which is unfortunate I think. I always find it refreshing to find the rare LWB that offers no reversal interpretations or explicitly says to pull a card a day and use it as a meditation tool, or a storytelling tool, or whatever. 

Some oracles lend themselves particularly well to single-twig daily readings 

For good or ill, the public perception of Divination as a practice centers largely around the image of a reader laying out cards in a spread. And I’d argue that this harms the practice twofold, on one hand there are those who are simply not going to engage with that, either because it seems hokey, or because frankly it feels a bit rude. Whether you believe your oracle puts you in contact with your angels, your ancestors or your God, maybe it feels a bit presumptuous to show up and say “Hey I need these 5 things from you then gtg kthxbai!”    When was the last time you approached a friend with a form letter to converse with them? So why would you want to approach your highest and closest advisors in such a way? 

Then on the other hand, while a spread can make divination accessible for some seekers, a script can also feel rather stifling to others. When there are ten cards on the table in front of you and the second doesn’t seem to make any sense, that can become overwhelming and quickly off-putting. Or a deck’s companion book says to lay these cards out in one of these prescribed spreads but none of the 4 spreads offered really make sense to the seeker’s motives. 

More and more, divination is being approached as a tool for inner work and creative problem solving rather than the future telling practices long associated with the Tarot. For readers with these intentions, past/present/future spreads and their ilk can seem irrelevant at best and outright cheesy at worst. These querents want to talk to their own shadows and deal in jungian archetypes and have no need of what they see as Woo. 

Many readers end up not getting the most out of their practice and often don’t understand why they can like their deck(s) so much but have such a hard time reading the cards to any satisfaction. 

If the last several paragraphs resonate with you, I’d suggest its time to consider a break up. 

Maybe not entirely. Maybe y’all can hook up from time to time so long as it doesn’t become toxic. The wondrous thing about divination is that it’s only as orthopraxic as you make it. The cards themselves don’t care how you use them. 

So start thinking about how you want to use those cards. Maybe that looks like straightforward one-card pulls. Ask a question, get an answer. 

Try throwing everything at the reading mat and see what sticks

Many spiritual development courses will suggest doing a one card pull in the mornings. Asking something like “What should I look for in the day ahead”  or “What matter most needs my attention today?” carry that lesson or seed thought with you throughout the day and see how it does or does not resonate with you in your evening journaling entries. Hah ha, like you keep a journal, I see you with your seven empty notebooks; They are not too nice to use, get to it!

But what if that one card makes NO SENSE? Then ask another question! Start a conversation. Get short if need be. Just be ready to get roasted in return from time to time. Nothing stings like your favorite cards calling you an idiot, but if your pasteboard advisors can’t put you in your place, who can?

But really, if you have laid down one card on the table then there are a good twenty plus ideas still in your hand(up to 80 or more depending on the oracle deck). Shuffle and ask. Now you’re talking in an active conversation instead of filling out a form letter. You can take this in any direction a conversation could hope to go. 

As you “talk” to your oracle, it may help to lay the cards out in a pattern if you intend to journal or otherwise review the reading at the end. I like to lay cards relating to/clarifying the same topic over top of each other, while cards that answer a question or relate to a new theme or action may be laid above, below or beside the previous card. 

There is no wrong way to do this, it’s seriously whatever makes the most sense for you in the reading. In this way you sort of build out your own custom single-use spread for each new reading. 

If you have been reading with spreads for a while this may take some adjustment. Even when creating your own custom spreads for readings, it can sometimes feel like you’re limited to a pool of “divination appropriate questions,” but now that reading has become a friendly chat you may think of entirely new questions that had never seemed askable before. 

And while we are at it, another thing you may consider doing the next time a card doesn’t make sense is to bring in another oracle tool altogether. Hold a pendulum over that sucker and interrogate it. Scry that shiny pasteboard surface like it’s John Dee’s mirror. Or alternately, just pick a card from a different deck. 

Over time you may find that two decks work particularly well together 

The faeries giving you the run-around? Grab that dragon deck and ask them for some insight. Or the cast of Dr. Who. Everything has an oracle deck nowadays, just look at the kickstarters! 

Before long you may find your readings take on a whole new level of significance and you may wonder why you ever used spreads in the first place. You may also find that spreads still have their usefulness from time to time (I do enjoy a particular 2-card spread when I’m doing my shadow work journaling, it keeps that practice consistent, insightful and brief).

Whatever direction your divination practice takes, the important thing is that it works for you, and that’s where getting one of those seven empty notebooks and starting to journal about your practice can really pay off. Note the way a reading makes you feel, note the way a reading pans out over the course of a day. Make notes of the times the reading provided insight that was way off base, or that was misunderstood in the moment. Keeping track of these details builds a database of information you can look at and audit. 

By making notes of your readings and looking back at them periodically, you can gain a greater sense of what individual techniques and ideas are paying off. What decks you work best with and on which days and topics you should just leave the divination to somebody else.

There are all kinds of options for growing your divination practice if that is something you want to develop, and I’d argue that one of the most important things to keep in mind is that it is absolutely okay to break up with a deck or a practice that you feel is holding you back. #

Happy Reading Y’all /|\ 

#divination #druidry #gaywitch #spreads #reading #oraclecards

[freifraufischer]

The Hill You Want to Die On is... Steve Nunno isn’t an vaguely racist asshole?

So I have a love hate relationship with the gym subreddit.  Someone, whose post history is a big yikes and says they were born well after 1996, messaged me demanding I remove an archived post from months ago about Steve Nunno and his claims that his gymnast Mina Kim was age eligible for Atlanta.

For context here is what we’re talking about.  At the 1995 International Mixed Pairs Steven Nunno told NBC that Mina Kim, who was objectively too young to compete in Atlanta, was in fact eligible because she was born in South Korea and “Koreans are 1 year old at birth.”  Later in the broadcast they aired a fluff piece where she talks about going to Atlanta so at best he had a child pretend she thought she could go to an Olympics she was too young for and at worse he convinced her she could.  I believe I described this as evil.  Which I think it was.

This person messaged me saying that I misunderstood what was going on, that this entire pantomime was Steve Nunno commenting on the FIG debating what to do about the Kim Gwang-suk age cheating (Kim won gold, Nunno’s athlete Shannon Miller won silver).  This person claimed that the FIG was debating allowing her to keep her medals based on the tradition of Korean ages:

It was during this time before Atlanta that the age eligibility debate was ongoing, in regards to North Korea’s Kim Gwang-suk. The FIG was debating whether Kim Gwang-suk’s Korean age would make her eligible for her past competitions, including the Worlds championships where she beat Shannon Miller, and whether she would be allowed to keep her medals from them. Thus, Steve Nunno’s thought process was this: If the FIG allows Kim Gwang-suk to keep her medals in the competitions where she was eligible due to her Korean age, wouldn’t it only be fair if Mina Kim would be eligible to compete based on her Korean age as well? Unlike your interpretation, I believe he was smart for using the FIG’s ruling to give his gymnast a chance to compete. Eventually, it was the FIG that went back on their decision, so it was the FIG’s ruling that took away Mina Kim’s false hope you speak of. It was fair that Steve Nunno tried to use their own ruling in favor of Mina Kim.  I think you should take down your post, since the title is very misleading anyway, or at least unarchive it so I may comment to clear up the misinformation.  

Except... that’s not why FIG let her keep her medal (they decided that as Kim Gwang-suk had no personal part in the fraud that they would let her keep the  1991 World Championship gold)  They banned North Korea from the 1993 World Championships and the repeated fraud lead to them being banned through the 2012 Olympics.  

There was no “ongoing debate” at FIG over this in 1995 when Nunno was talking this up.  The matter had been settled more than two years before.  And this argument about Korean ages had nothing to do with the Kim Gwang-suk case as it was because they never did establish her age other than that the North Koreans entered her in competitions as 15 years old in 1989, 1990, and 1991.

I told this person that their explanation didn’t fly, I wasn’t removing the post (which I don’t think I can at any rate because it was archived).  

At which point they decided to report my post to reddit for "targeted harassment at someone else" and "promoting hate based on identity".  Against Steve Nunno. 

So am I attacking Nunno on the basis that he’s... Italian?  A Gymnastics coach?  An asshole?

#gymnastics

[madamspeaker]

The thing with the Catholic Church is how absolute it is on some things until it suddenly isn’t. For decades people endured fish Fridays - a weird rule in which the only “meat” you could have on a Friday was fish. Any chicken, beef, lamb etc, and you were damned. Then that changed, and you can eat whatever the hell you want on a Friday now, and so you have to wonder about those folks who perhaps slipped up and had a beef burger on a Friday evening before the rule was dropped - are they forgiven now? And that in a way sums up Catholicism - a religion full of fickle and often cruel absurdities. Here you have a religion that claims to be “pro-life” from the moment of conception but who often turns away babies for baptism if their parents are not married or gay (it can be down to sheer luck as to whether you get a priest who is welcoming of unmarried couples, or one who sees them as heretics). The same goes with blessings and funerals for miscarriages - it really comes down to sheer luck whether you get a priest who will do a blessing or not. For a religion that seems utterly absolute that life begins at conception, they are remarkably fickle about the details of that life and whether they welcome it. And then of course we have the ridiculous stance on the death penality - “pro-life” apparently only extends to the uterus, meaning the likes of Greg Abbott, a Catholic who has signed off on the executions of over fifty people has never been barred from communion, or even threatened with it. Bill Barr (also Catholic), who likewise signed off on several executions at the end of the Trump years, got a damn award from the Church - he too has never been banned from communion or threatened with it. Let’s not forget the actions of some Catholic bishops during Covid either - for such a “pro-life” Church, quite a lot of its clergy seemed absolutely hell bent to get around public health implemented lockdown rules so that they could get people to congregate in chapels. Surely being “pro-life” means looking after the health of that life too, and not subjecting your flock to a deadly virus. Catholicism would have us believe that God is always with us, but during that first eighteen months of the pandemic, suddenly God could only be found by attending a chapel (and presumably via the offertory collection plate).

Make no mistake here, Cordileone went after Nancy Pelosi for political reasons. It has nothing to do with him supposedly being “pro-life” (he wasn’t very pro-life when he got behind the wheel of a car drunk, and he certainly isn’t pro-life when he covers for abusive priests who degrade and hurt other lives), and has everything to do with her being the face of modern Catholicism - a woman with agency, a woman who embraces people from all walks of life and sexualities, a woman who fundamentally challenges his very particular conservative interpretation of the Gospel - and it is just that, an interpretation - and a woman whose “greatest sin” may well be that she simply understands that is not her place to tell others how to live their lives.

“We just have to be prayerful, we have to be respectful. I come from a largely pro-life Italian American Catholic family, so I respect people’s views about that, but I don’t respect us foisting it onto others. Now our archbishop has been vehemently against LGBTQ rights. He led the way in some of the issues, an initiative on the ballot in California. So this decision … is very dangerous in the lives of so many of the American people. They’re not consistent with the Gospel of Matthew.” - Speaker Nancy Pelosi

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

I feel like anthologists especially of poetry have such a delicate job because in addition to having to select good stuff, there's the choice of whether to write anything about the pieces and how much and how to frame it and those choices can really make or break a person's enjoyment of the content. I read one recently where the editor would put the poem in the middle of his own analysis which I found annoying and I didn't think his commentary added much to my experience and so I had trouble connecting with any of the poems. But on the other hand (and why I bring this up at all) there's this one entry in The Art of the Sonnet edited by Stephen Burt and David Mikics about the poem "The Illiterate" by William Meredith that I read three years ago and still think about ALL THE TIME. Like I read the poem and thought it was all right and then read the discussion of it and said oh. And now it's literally one of my five favorite poems, specifically because of how Burt and Mikics guided me in thinking about it.

Full transcript of these pages below the cut so don't open if you're not prepared to scroll through 2k words:

"The Illiterate" William Meredith 1958

Touching your goodness, I am like a man Who turns a letter over in his hand And you might think this was because the hand Was unfamiliar but, truth is, the man Has never had a letter from anyone; And now he is both afraid of what it means And ashamed because he has no other means To find out what it says than to ask someone.

His uncle could have left the farm to him, Or his parents died before he sent them word, Or the dark girl changed and want him for beloved. Afraid and letter-proud, he keeps it with him. What would you call his feeling for the words That keep him rich and orphaned and beloved?

[From this point is the commentary.] Now beloved of teachers, this quietly moving sonnet offers at once a tour de force of simplicity, a poem about the reading of poetry, and a hesitant, sympathetic picture of inexperience in romantic love. Meredith keeps his diction as plain as in any serious poem of his century, using only common words in common combinations, with almost no description, no sense-details. He deploys, indeed, banal phrases, such as a man unused to reading might use ("And you might think," "truth is," "what would you call"). Meredith signals simplicities further with the repetitive use of identical rhyme (also known by the French term rime riche): he fills out the Italianate scheme (abba cddc efgefg) not with rhymes, but with repeated words. One of the words, of course, is "word," or "words": the illiterate man in receipt of his first-ever letter "turns [it] over in his hand," over and over, as if that way he could figure out what it means, as if he did not yet want to find out.

Meredith repeats "afraid" and "letter," though neither occur in rhyming position. The illiterate man's unread letter, like any recipient's letter before it is opened, could disclose bad news (for example, the death of both parents). Yet this man's repeated apprehension might come from good news as well as from bad. Might the letter, once understood, solicit frightening action? Might it contain, for example, a marriage proposal? ("The dark girl" echoes the so-called "dark lady," the beautiful dark-haired and finally treacherous woman in Shakespeare's later sonnets.) Given all the uncertainty in the octave, we might expect the sestet to tell us "what [the letter] says." Instead, it repeats the situation of that octave (using "afraid" and "letter" again), without allowing any time to pass, or any potential events to take place. At the end of the poem, after one more unanswered question, the illiterate man, and the poet "touching your goodness," remain in the same situation as before: gently if nervously marveling at the letter's existence, at "your goodness," and at your mysterious "touch."

Once read, once decoded, the letter will come to mean what its contents mean. Before it is interpreted, though, the letter has another signification: it represents a gesture of human connection, what linguists call a "phatic" communication, which we might signal in person by a touch on the shoulder or hand. It shows that somebody cares what happens to this man, that somebody wants to tell him something. "Touching your goodness," the man holds on to that signal of human care.

We could say as much of a letter unopened, turned "over and over" by a recipient "proud" to keep it and able to read it at will. But Meredith's man could not read it alone if he tried. Moreover, he "has never had a letter from anyone"; even the experience of asking somebody to help him decode it would be new for him (and he has not yet asked). As much as he cherishes this "touch," this gesture, as much as he may be "proud" to have received it, the man seems "afraid" not only of what it might say but of asking for help, of revealing his weakness, his need. Rather than show that weakness to somebody else – rather than learn what somebody else wants him to know – Meredith's illiterate retains in himself a suitably nameless feeling, sad in part (because it reflects incapacity) but appropriate to the unrealized possibility, the fearful and wonderful news, that his letter may contain. So far, the unread – and to this man, unreadable – letter might resemble an unread poem, or a poem admired but not quite understood. Part of its “goodness” derives from the way it allows the man to remain in the realm of surmise. Moreover – like a letter to an illiterate man – a poem may exert its full powers only when heard. Meredith’s “feeling” includes some marveling at the potential in language generally: in familiar epistolary language, on the one “hand,” and in poetic language (or modern lyrics poetry) on the other. Like Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet earlier in this volume, Meredith’s sonnet depends on the similarities and differences between a familiar letter and a lyric poem. Both kinds of language can embody the inner life of the author, in ways that seem exciting, but also frightening, and perhaps difficult to sustain. The familiar letter ordinarily finds just one reader, one named recipient, and refers to his or her situation alone. A lyric poem, by contrast, has an abstract or “algebraic” element (as W.H. Auden, an important influence on Meredith, put it in the 1930s). “Feeling” in poems becomes available, interpretable, in ways that leave behind the circumstances of authors’ lives and times.

But Meredith’s sonnet is not only a sonnet about lyric poetry – about the mystery and the abstraction it offers, about the personality, “touch,” or “feeling” disclosed and concealed by the “words” in poems. Though “touching” means “considering,” “regarding,” it also suggests the touch of a human hand: Meredith’s sonnet is also a love poem, a poem that ends with the illiterate man imagining himself not only rich (inheriting a farm) “and orphaned” (by the death of his parents), but “beloved.” And here the poem begins to acquire additional sense if we look to Meredith’s own life. Admired for his poetry since the 1940s, when he won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, Meredith served in the U.S. Navy from 1941 to 1946 and again from 1952 to 1954. He was also gay. His sonnet describes a particular moment in the life of a lover and a “beloved,” a moment unusually familiar, perhaps, to gay men who came to adult in an era especially hostile to same-sex love: the moment when an inexperienced lover believes (but cannot yet know) that he might be the beloved, the moment when the lover finds what he thinks (but cannot be sure) is an invitation, a pointed suggestion, a hint.

Such an invitation, like all flirtations, might come in the dual sense of some action, some word – in something that might look, to a stranger, innocent, until its doubled erotic sense is revealed. Meredith’s doubled words (ordinary, but with dual meanings, and dual uses as rhyme-substitutes) stand for the double sense of any word, any gesture, used as a romantic hint. And such invitations can always be disavowed; indeed, an ardent or a merely awkward lover may see them where they are not meant, may take hints where no hints are given, and may (especially if these matters feel new to him) embarrass himself a great deal by reacting eagerly to invitations that nobody gave.

“The obstacle – effectively a double-bind,” writes the critic Tony Tanner (he is analyzing Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion), “seems to be that you cannot speak ‘openly’ and ‘directly’ about… your feelings of love, to the person you love, until you have achieved a certain intimacy… But how do you ever manage to get intimate enough to be intimate, as it were?” As in Austen, so throughout Meredith’s poem. “Touching your goodness” could mean, simply, being touched (moved) by your goodness (benevolence); it could also refer to the brush of a hand, to the discovery that within some new friendship, there might be something physical, something more. That discovery remains merely exciting – and cannot be threatening, disappointing, embarrassing – so long as it remains merely conjectural, so long as the lover does not try to follow it up, does not try to reciprocate with his own hint.

That moment of thinking that one has received a hint, of thinking that a flirtation might have begun, of feeling unable to “read” the language of love, because it is by nature never explicit, and because it feels new – that moment is the moment of Meredith’s poem. His “feeling” is not apprehension merely, not fear alone and not quite joy, but rather the mixed feelings of a lover who cannot yet know whether he is beloved, a lover who does not know how to interpret a gesture that may signify love returned – who may not, indeed, know anybody he can trust enough to ask. Such feelings are familiar to many teenagers, to many heterosexual adults, and to the characters in Jane Austen, who can also respond by writing letters (where, as Tanner says, “there may always be another message in – under – the ostensible message”). Yet that sense of shameful inexperience prolonged into adulthood, of not knowing whether a message is “double” or not, and of not knowing how or whom to ask, might seem especially plangent in this poem about hints and uncertainties if we connect it to homosexuality in the white-collar America of 1958, before the word “gay” meant in public what it means now.

During the 1980s Meredith’s poem became an anthology staple, a sonnet about inexperience (in reading as in love) whose tact and care inexperienced readers enjoyed. By that time, the poem had acquired more poignant dimensions, ones the poet could not have foreseen. In 1983, Meredith suffered a stroke that severely limited his ability to process language – to speak, to read, and to hear. He wrote little afterward, but could, in his last years, read movingly from his work on public occasions, when “The Illiterate” became an especially appropriate, and well-received, set piece.

#I don't know there's just something about it #poetry #long post #William Meredith #is posting this technically. illegal? I feel like the book probably had one of those warnings about not reproducing or distributing any par #hmm. shrug emoji #that's probably really about resale anyway. not some queer bitch on tumblr saying guys please read this #psst. a story is true a story is untrue. etc. #also recently it's had me thinking about tedtrent. don't really know why. probably bc everything does rn. might make an edit at some point

[ramrodd]

Jesus & Josephus | You Don't Understand!

COMMENTARY:

Judea in the 1st Century wasn't Ireland during the potato famine. Josephus understood that Judea was part of Pax Romana and le dolce vita of the Mediterranean and the Jews in Jerusalem were far better off acting like diamond dealers on Time Square than Jews Against Jesus in France after the Reformation.

The reason why Josephus doesn't mention Paul is because Paul's activities took him far out side he Area of Operations of the Tenth Legion that patrolled the trade routes from the Lavant and Orient that travels through the Galilee to the land bridge into Egypt and Africa.  Josephus cribbed much of his narrative of the Jewish Wars from the intelligence archives of the X Legion which included what we now refer to as Quelle in regards to the Synoptic Gospels. The Sopel of John uses the εὐθὺς time stamp of the Roman Standard Time and login, but it is John Mark's memoir of his 3 years as the Beloved Disciple. James Tabor's intuition that Mark and John are interrelated narratives is exactly correct.

Jewish scholars don't begin to have the mushy interpretation of Josephus that Jesus Seminar scholarship. The take him entirely at face value and consider him an invaluable reflection of 1st Century Judea. Period. The issue for them isn't whether Jesus existed: it's whether He improved the legacy of Moses. Shammai, Hillel and Jesus agreed on the basis of the Law of Moses: the difference is that Shammai and Hillel were committed to sustaining and defending the boundaries of Judaism while Jesus employed it as a point of departure for the horizons Judaism made possible.

The Tower of Babel is a cautionary parable waring against the vertical structures of theocracy, in general, and Temple Worship, in particular. That warning applied to the pre-Reformation Vatican.. In the final analysis, the Torah is a military field manual for cultural transformation with a primary purpose to create a cultural test tube to create Jesus, a good Jewish boy with impeccable breeding  from Eve, forward.  Jesus shares the cultural vanity of intellectual rigor. It's His side of the bet He makes with The Satan in the Wilderness. The sociology that is favored by the intent of the Bible is horizontal.. like the federal organization of the Pharaoh's in Genesis 41.  If Moses had been a Marxist, Jewish sociology would have stopped evolving with the Book of Judges and the horizontal confederation of the 12 tribes., but the advantages of the economies of scale of the Egyptian federal system was not lost in the racial memory and the central executive of a king led to the verticle structures of the Temple. What was beginning to emerge as the current synagogue rubrical  structures from the influence of Aristotle on Alexander the Great in the 3rd cnetury BCE is essentially the central reform Jesus was promoting. Josephus could see the Temple business model fitting in quite nicely with the Pax Romana of Hellenistic Judaism in the synagogues that existed througout the Galilee that represented a diamond exchange on the Times Square of Rome.

Josephus had a very intimate relationship with the X Legion resulting in his surrender and subsequent eye witness of the investment and reduction of Jerusalem. The X Legion is the incubator of Quelle. What would be fascinating is to determine his interaction with Cornelius at any time from his treason against Jerusalem and the Triumphal in Rome. If he was aware of the Talking Cros covenant with the Italian Cohort in Rome doesn't seem to cme up in conversation.

The Gospel of Mark is written from the perspective of the garrison of the X Legion in Capernaum and the Gospel of John is written from the perspective of the household of Martha, Mary, Lazarus and John Mark in Bethany.

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[dtp-labs]

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Think ahead while choosing your fonts: Not all of the languages will be supported by your font selections. For languages like Spanish or Italian, you might be missing accents or specific punctuation. Your Latin alphabet fonts won't help with Greek, Russian, Chinese, or any other language based on another writing system if you have full letters missing.

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Gg Belt

The traditional inexperienced and purple stripes scream Gucci and will look superb on your Instagram feed. Gucci belt kinds come in a variety of colours, thicknesses, and designs. When selecting a Gucci belt for yourself, take into consideration whether the belt will match with a lot of your pants. Authentic Gucci belts are created from top-quality leather, and will feel and scent as such. wikipedia designer belt If the belt feels light-weight and thin, it is virtually certainly a pretend. Little adjustments have been made to the design through the years, making this the statement piece of the twentieth and 21st centuries. The GG belt will elevate any look, even the most informal one. One of my private favorite methods of styling this belt is with denims. https://skel.io/replica-designer-belts/fake-gucci-belt.html It seems fabulous with both high-waist and low-rise jeans. When measuring a belt, you must do it from the sting of the buckle to the center gap. Fitting a belt to the center gap is essential because it gives you more flexibility along with your belt. Real Gucci belts even have a serial quantity located on the leather-based part of the belt. Make certain to check the belt to see if it has a serial number, if one isn't there, it's a fake. A crocodile belt with Double G hardware, an archival play on the unique Running G. Black crocodile. If you are in search of an announcement merchandise that is wearable 24/7, you probably can fearlessly make investments in this one! The home has been making belts since its founding in 1921, back when it was basically just a luxurious model for bougie, equestrian types. At that point, the quintessential Gucci belt of the time was impressed by horsebits, a style they’re still producing. In February 2019, Gucci eliminated a black balaclava sweater with a rollup collar and a cut-out red-lipped mouth from its cabinets after it had been compared to a blackface costume. Alessandro Michele responded that his inspiration got here from the flamboyant Leigh Bowery but apologized for the best way it had been interpreted. In May 2019, the Sikhs neighborhood in India criticized Gucci's cultural appropriation of a spiritual item when the Italian brand commercialized turbans at $800 apiece. In July 2019, Gucci appointed a Global Head of Diversity to address the brand's latest issues with cultural range. She additionally decreased the variety of objects bought by Gucci from 22,000 to 7,000. She moved Gucci's headquarters back from Milan to Florence, the place the history of Gucci is deeply rooted. Gucci launched a Rolls-Royce luggage set in 1970 and partnered with American Motors Corporation to create the Gucci model of the AMC Hornet . Gucci became one of the first American vehicles to offer a particular luxury trim package created by a famous designer. From 1978 to 1984 a Miami-based coachbuilder marketed a Gucci version of the Cadillac Seville sedan . The belt comes with 5 holes, and the Gucci measurement is measured in centimeters to the center gap, but you can have extra holes added at your local leather store if the belt is simply too small or massive. If you get it to swimsuit your pure waist, it will be too small on your hips. Gucci have recently up to date their belt sizing chart, possibly in an try to make it easier for shoppers to determine on a dimension. However, I suppose they have made things even more complicated. There are two charts – one for hip measurement and one for natural waist measurement . Meticulously crafted with 30 carats of flawless diamonds set in a pure platinum Gucci brand, the sensational Goldstriker belt is value a staggering $250,000. The Gucci Diamond belt is the good reward for your billion greenback buddies. I purchased it in my regular measurement after which had them add two holes so I could put on it on my waist too. It’s the best thing I could’ve done as a outcome of I can put on it with my denims and as a waist belt as nicely. Second, there are some items that may by no means exit of favor and that is one of them. No matter how much time passes the basic Chanel purse, Christian Louboutin pumps, and Manolo’s will never exit of favor. After WWI, he labored for the maker of fine baggage Franzi. “Now we wish aunty's response to the 'Gucci gang' music,” one other joked. Only mothers can deliver down a worldwide luxury fashion model like this,” commented a fourth. Instagram consumer Chabi Gupta posted this video in which she tells her mom, Anita Gupta, about a Gucci belt she just lately bought. I’ve seen the belts in a variety of leather-based finishes – clean, textured and faded. The pale leather is probably the most informal of the three finishes – with an total rustic look. Perfect as a waist or hip belt, the antique brass buckle is the ideal method to show you imply enterprise, with out making an attempt too hard. Made in Italy, this belt comes in a multitude of various types and widths, but the more traditional fashion will always be in season. In today’s publish, I needed to handle some common questions that I obtain about my Gucci belt. I simply love how it elevates the only of outfits and comes in so many alternative choices to suit your personal fashion. Then, Harlem celebrity Dapper Dan enters the game to totally flip over the brand’s “dusty” attraction. Whether you need to put on it belted with a costume, a skirt, jeans, shorts, broad leg pants, you have so many options! Here is a roundup of a few more outfits I’ve styled with my GG belts to give you concepts of the variety of appears you'll find a way to create. This means that the merchandise and prices offered at each could additionally be completely different.

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