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Little Women (2022)

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Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

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STUBBORNNESS, THOUGH COMMON, WAS AN INCREDIBLE AFFLICTION. IT COULD POSSESS AND PUPPET PEOPLE IN WAYS UNIMAGINABLE, TO THE POINT WHERE, INDEED, YOU COULD BE INCLINED TO FORGET THAT WE ARE, IN FACT, CREATURES OF FREE WILL. YET EVIDENTLY, SO WAS THIS STUPID FUCKING HAT.

His hand remained raised, wavering in the space between them from the momentum of wrenching away. Liam stared back at Matteo, bewildered at his demand. It did not matter that the hat was, indeed, whipping about rather violently above their heads, screeching as it went about chaotically in one direction and then the other. The floor around them was covered in tiny, jewel - sized bits of glass and outside, the wind howled, coming in through the windows to whirl about in the curtains. Yet none of this mattered because Liam still couldn't believe his fucking ears.

@rosetem / " Apologize? To the hat? I'm not— " Quickly, he ducked his head as the hat swooped down low, squealing as it shot past their cover. " It's a fucking hat! Just— Can't we just shoot it down? "

[ knowing ]   sender has been holding receiver's hand all this time without realizing it and hurries to let go. ⤷ from: liam quinn ✧˖°. sc. (𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨)

FASCINATING HOW QUICKLY A SITUATION COULD TURN ON ITS HEAD.      in the midst of informing everyone for the umpteenth time that the hat was NOT haunted,  liam had made an offhand comment and suddenly the damn thing was levitating and the windows were shattering.      matteo had hastily grabbed liam’s hand and yanked him under the table to avoid the shrapnel of glass.     “ okay,  so maybe it’s a little bit haunted,  but you shouldn’t have insulted it if you thought it was in the first place. ”

liam then proceeded to pull his hand free  ( the hand that matteo hadn’t realized he had still been holding nonetheless ).     well,  whatever the case,  the problem still stands.      the cursed object was throwing a fit and the only solution that made sense was to either sneak up on it and destroy it or —      “ YOU’VE GOT TO APOLOGIZE TO IT,  LIAM. ”

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ｉ．   ＴＨＥ ＭＯＤＥＲＮ  ＢＬＡＣＫＳＭＩＴＨ． olga kowalska,  aged in her mid - thirties, heiress and chief operations officer of the massive and long - established mechanical engineering conglomerate:  BLACKIRON INDUSTRIES.  a leader in technology innovation and a brilliant inventor,  olga is the new head of a old empire. they tell her she is not as cruel as she looks,  and for this, she is glad. face - claim:   Anja Rubik;  genre:   drama and crime / @hyketeria .

ｉｉ．    ＴＨＥ ＤＲＡＣＯＮＩＡＮ   ＷＯＭＡＮ．  elsa luxová,  the second eldest in a family of four girls,  neurologist, and professor in the faculty of medicine in a college on the east coast of america.  known as a strict,  discerning,  and highly principled woman,  elsa is both feared and respected by patients,  students,  and superiors alike.  I do not believe in Fate for Fate obviously does not believe in me. face - claim:  Evelyne Brochu;  genre:  realism drama / @dracovia .

ｉｉｉ．   ＴＨＥ ＬＡＲＣＥＮＹ ＭＡＥＳＴＲＯ． jade tao,  presumed dead years ago at the age of twenty - nine,  master thief and fledgling criminal mastermind based in an old city.  especially adept at escape artistry, orchestrating beauty, and designing schemes of undeniable elegance and style, jade is a scholar by nature and thievery is her preferred medium of creation. she takes those thin lines between right and wrong,  kind and cruel,  into her hands like string. face - claim:   Sui He;  genre:  crime and mystery / @foxgloev .

ｉｖ．   ＴＨＥ ＣＵＲＩＯＳＩＴＹ  ＣＡＳＥ．                  ava j. monday,  aging as expected,  scientist whose eccentric research interests and immoral methods have led to a revoked Phd and an academic red notice.             hell - bent on discovering the biological mechanism behind immortality,      ava is adamant about the advances her studies can make in radical medical treatment, physiology, and conservation.      fuck off, academia!   I’m doing this my way.            face - claim:  Aubrey Plaza;  genre:  science - fiction and mystery. / @obsinthium .

ｖ． ＴＨＥ ＷＡＬＫＩＮＧ ＭＩＲＡＣＬＥ． miranda spurling. . . biography blurb to come. . . face - claim: Winona Ryder; genre: period drama, science - fiction, and crime / @inflnsia .

ｖｉ． ＴＨＥ ＣＨＥＳＳ ＭＡＳＴＥＲ ． conrad, having lived more than six decades, head of a well - ordered, deeply - rooted, expansive criminal conglomerate who has taken every chess metaphor out there a little too far. . . likely because he was one of its pioneers; ruthless and cunning, this old - timer keeps his wits sharp and his agents even sharper through regular mental exercise and criminal executions. no face - claim, affiliated with ABSENSIA / @64stle .

Written by Ivy.

ＯＴＨＥＲ ＦＥＡＴＵＲＥＤ ＭＵＳＥＳ,

jack massoud . the troublemaker (!) a trouble - faker; con - man extraordinaire and right - hand man to jade tao ( but shh! that's a secret. . . ) /// no face - claim, 30s, chaotic good, esfp - a; genre: crime, mystery, action - comedy. liam quinn . a specialist in ( special ) acquisitions; getting what you want in this world is no easy task, even for the strong and lofty, even for the seedy and shady, hence we might require mr. quinn's special talents in locating the rare, surmising true value, surgical negotiations, and never knowing when enough is enough /// face - claim: Ben Barnes, 30s, lawful neutral, intp - t; genre: crime, drama, mystery. tali / dormouse . a talented computer and software engineer who got into an "accident," was presumed dead, woke up a blank slate from a decade - long coma, and taken in by a criminal syndicate to work as a hacker; with no remaining family and a bad case of narcolepsy, the woman who had invented an implantable virtual reality is now doomed to a waking nightmare /// face - claim: Aiysha Hart, late - 30s, true neutral, intj - a; inspo media: Alice in Wonderland, Inception, Alice in Borderland. lucille bazin . a specialist in crime ( oh, but not like that! let's try again, ) she has a PhD in criminology and a law degree, too; a bit of an overachiever, this one, but always for a good cause, right? according to some, ( cough, jade tao, cough cough ) can insist that breaking the rules can be for the greater good, then why not put such a ridiculous theory to the test? /// face - claim: Nathalie Emmanuel, 30s, lawful good, esfj - a; genre: crime, drama. maurice . previously special agent a— of the cia, even if for however brief a time; she did everything right and at 0745, made it to the office for her first official day as an analyst agent for the department of counterintelligence. by 2137 on the same day, she had been made persona non grata. burned and buried, special agent a— was no more. given explicit instructions to exile herself under a new name, maurice has forgotten what it's like to live without constantly looking over her shoulder. what she hasn't forgotten what she overheard and discovered that day. . . no one told her how easy it was to fall down a rabbit hole and bury oneself alive /// face - claim: Kim Go Eun, 30s, lawful good, istj - t; genre: crime, espionage, thriller.

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“Our horrible duty is to keep going to the end.”

— Clarice Lispector, excerpt from “As Fast As I Can Type” (April 17, 1971), Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas  (trans. Margaret Jull Costa & Robert Patterson)

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GARY HUME 

Ticket, 2017

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scalped by this quote from one of my class readings