#100. c. forster

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headcanon meme | requested by @w4rningbutterflies

erwin & levi

sometime after levi agreed to follow erwin after the events of acwnr is when he started realizing how little sense erwin makes. his involvement in the scouts' leadership at the time did not technically match his rank. most were still waiting for levi to fail, & so levi's performance reflected directly onto erwin's own credibility. levi felt that there was some twisted irony in his having some influence over erwin's career (albeit small), so there was a very personal & delightful thrill of insubordination in those early days.

erwin stops staying long at memorial bonfires after he is promoted to commander. he stays for the rituals, stays for the formalities, & then gives the rest of the time to the corps for mourning. levi used to prefer to spend the bonfires up high looking at it from above, & sometimes he still does. other times, he leaves with erwin after the formalities so long as they stay outside. fresh air feels like a better tribute than an immediate return to work. -- they are both symbols of authority rather than associated with the laymen. but even so, erwin always has the impression that levi trusts parts of erwin a little less when he does not dedicate the time to memorial (even while keeping a distance from the bonfires).

erwin survives ! au - similar to armin in canon, after the rumbling, erwin feels very reluctant to stay in one place. it always been a secret of his, that he would delight too much in the opportunity to be lazy, though his temperament would never allow it. however, armin's reluctance to settle stems from a type of flightiness that means he wants to see everything. it is also a type of sentencing from his role in the rumbling - the promise he made when he told eren he would accept half of the blame. erwin's reluctance is penance. his ambitious was never meant to survive the end of the world. this is a point of contention ( & loss ) between erwin & levi.

modern ! erwin 100% is the type to call levi on the phone if they're in different rooms of the same house if he's working. he's not much of a yeller - in canon verse, he projects & yells for war, but he doesn't actively yell so much on his own. levi is closer to blocking erwin on the phone every day that they know one another.

modern ! erwin is a decent gift giver -- or at least a frequent gift giver. items of food, a fucking garmin watch, new shoes. levi genuinely doesn't know what to do with the shit sometimes. not because the gifts can't go to use, but it just takes him off guard in ways that pisses him off.

armin & eren

in childhood, at least, eren has gotten far too many preaching sessions from armin about moral integrity. funnily, it rarely came as reprimand for things that eren did on his own. more often, it came every time that eren scolded armin. rarely did armin actively choose to act in his own self-defense, & sometimes that left him with bruises from childish scuffles or from decisions made with warped priorities. armin usually justifies himself by saying that he believes in doing the right thing. have you ever heard of it, eren ??? sorry that was dramatic.

armin doesn't know if eren knows all the ways that armin has been angry too. they express it differently.

armin is prone to excessively bad seasonal allergies, & honestly it pisses him the fuck off that eren never seems to get allergies. then he feels about that because eren is more prone to getting fever, which weighs him down a little worse than the allergies could.

modern ! they do game together sometimes, & they both have to pretend that they're not as competitive about it as they are.

modern ! armin walks around the apartment with airpods in when he's listening to a podcast. eren yaps at him for ten minutes sometimes before realizing that armin hasn't heard a word. sorry, fam :|

floch & eren

dead ass, floch was pro "bully eren" for years until the aftermath of shiganshina. floch mostly, like the best of them associated eren with being overly loud, ambitious, & honestly overrated. he thought that listening to eren talk was essentially like hearing a chihuahua go full force.

when it came to making plans for how the jaegerists would actualize their agenda (despite the scouts efforts), floch was primarily responsible for strategizing how they would move throughout the city & the area. he's good with maps & more familiar with the area than eren & zeke were.

floch finds it difficult to understand any attraction he has to eren - it is true that he learns to deify the symbol that eren presents himself as. at the same time, he has to strategize with him & point out his weaknesses. & so he sees some of the residual pieces of humanity in eren before he commits his worst. however, it comes at the same time that floch makes peace with his own self-loathing. it then becomes difficult to tease apart attraction, deification, humanity, & self-hatred.

modern ! while eren likes doing art more between the two of them, there are moments when floch thinks that he would like to learn more about photography. he likes taking pictures of eren. he tries to tae photos that would help promo eren's work, too, though he sends it to eren to post first.

modern ! floch thinks a lot more about social mobility than does eren. he thinks that it means there are things about him eren can't quite understand.

modern ! floch & eren listen to soundcloud together.

bertolt & reiner

after they infiltrated shiganshina, they did field work with survivors of the fall of the walls. they never discussed the possibility of trying to abandon marley's cause. even if they trusted each other, they did not trust each other well enough to entertain the idea of treason. furthermore, guilt made it difficult to imagine being anything but a weapon.

bertolt survives ! after the rumbling, bertolt doesn't want to travel. he struggles with the idea of working as a peace ambassador because it feels too public, too friendly, & too much of a farce when he feels as though he has been made to play two sides. of course, this makes him very useful as an ambassador. he would rather train as a medic or else work administrative places, but he feels that he might be a less benevolent person than he should want to be. reiner carries a lot of guilt & feels compelled to travel as an active ambassador. they struggle to come to a decision, between the two of them.

modern ! bertolt is the worst person to get dinner with from a restaurant. he will not say what he wants to eat because he's not picky. reiner mentions one food? 100% that sounds great. or how about this food? 100% that sounds great. bertolt is equally invested in all meal opportunities.

modern ! reiner is passenger princess. bertolt enjoys it, in part because he likes driving. reiner has a day every three months where he sort of blusters about wanting to drive, but otherwise likes watching bertolt drive.

tsukishima & kuroo

kuroo showed up at the museum one day to ask for a tour when tsukishima was scheduled to give tours. it was supposed to be a romantic gesture, probably, except tsukishima was already booked for a summer camp. so kuroo was just kinda there.

when kageyama & tsukishima traveled to brazil to visit hinata, tsukishima got atrociously sunburned. hinata took it upon himself to send a picture to kuroo of the sunburn (which impressively was interrupted by a handprint where sunscreen hadn't washed off). kuroo was appropriately horrified by the burn but delighted by the fact that hinata sent it to him. tsukishima refuses to explain why hinata sent it to kuroo - partly out of pride, & partly because he just suspects it was a drunken decision.

tsukishima thinks he's being ironically funny when he pesters kuroo to wear his jersey. however, kuroo should technically not wear any team's jersey or should technically wear all teams' jerseys. it makes tsukishima feel a little competitive.

akiteru met kuroo on accident & without kei's permission. when kei met kuroo's sister, it was a much more intentional affair.

at one point, they switched from watching movies in english to watching american reality tv shows. tsukishima was overly invested, & kuroo was mildly horrified.

miscellaneous : bonus !

uri & kuchel are in frequent correspondence with one another when it comes to exchanging photos of levi. most of these photos levi does not know exist.

levi would rather die than be nosy in uri & kenny's medicine cabinet.

porco has purposefully locked reiner out of reiner's own phone. it seemed funny at the time.

connie is accidentally the loudest fucking houseguest when he stays overnight at eren's place.

reiner & armin genuinely cannot decide whether they should tell eren that they hooked up. it shouldn't be the end of the world if they told him, but what if?

[pontevoix]

the garrison did not need to sell itself because they were inevitable. the average man looks at a giant & pledges i don’t want to feel small. the garrison salutes to that. the average man forgets to look towards the walls because they are eternity. the garrison salutes to that. 

of course, the walls fell. the walls were beaten down, & their guts exposed to conspiracy – so now the average man thinks only of the walls & only of the way that it is too easy for the coin purse to wear thin. the average man lifts a finger to point at blame’s shadow, & it cannot name the garrison as culpable. 

the garrison did not need to sell itself because they are identifiable. the average man knows a garrison man’s pension – knows their habits, their policies, the good they do, the bad they do, the passing tendency towards lethargic action. 

they are a transparent thing in the way that they are common. they sympathize with wine spilled in the streets & brawls that they did not see. they understand that there are corners of city streets where water runs thin, where the local baker upcharges his product.  they are common – even when the walls fall, they are common.

& this too is inevitable. the garrison is the largest brother of three military hands. men join because they have nowhere else to be, because it’s the only place to be. because they’ve married & are expecting a child. because there’s the promise for schooling. because it’s honorable enough & steady work. it turns impossible, then, not to know a soldier that can be claimed as kin. 

it is convenient, but convenience can wield a sharp enough knife & make it look mundane — the garrison is inevitable, & so they are capable of underbelly murmurings. they are capable, too, of a type of consistency that charged electricity long enough that bloodless revolution was made possible. 

in this way, floch had first served as a soldier, beneath commander pixis & trusted him. 

it’s a jarring contrast to later youth, when he served beneath a commander that did not need his trust to persuade him to move. 

of course, it’s possible he trusted smith’s command when he gave the reasoning for why he was supposed to die. even while he felt shellshock crack along his skin & protested, he trusted that this was another inevitability. shiganshina  was supposed to spell ruin. 

it is not a crime to be nineteen – to be boyish & boisterous & to speak too loud. it is not a crime to settle into daydreams because they are a free luxury, to imagine glory & leadership & being the type of man that makes king midas jealousy.

of course, ruin is also gruesomely mundane. the scouts wouldn’t say it, though. they’ve got an awful habit of lacing grit into their speech – as though they were the only ones who knew that living isn’t meant to be taken for granted. they imagine that hardship can be defined by dirt beneath their nails & freedom on their backs – because they have seen things that others have not. 

& mostly, they’re right. but they have a habit of forgetting what it means when the walls fell —  that soldiers who had never ventured out found war within. the soldiers of the garrison had also been present when titans greeted the city, when civilians died, when they went into massacre without strategy.

so what if it had only been one time, two times that they fought ? surely, that is still more frequently than any man should have to survive the bite of human teeth, too big & too hungry.

still. the veterans of the survey corps had been mostly right. 

it is not a crime to be nineteen – to be boyish & boisterous & to speak too loud. it is not a crime to settle into daydreams because they are a free luxury, to imagine glory & leadership & being the type of man that makes king midas jealousy.

even so, he hadn’t joined the corps because he had been nineteen. he did join because he had been a little too arrogant in his reasoning, a little too certain he would survive, & a little too naive in his commitment to community. 

besides : in the aftermath of a coup, it felt necessary that soldiers change duties. they were sworn to protect.

it turns there is no glory in survival. instead, there’s the growing compulsion that floch turn on the ball of his foot to check that his shadow has not grown devil’s horns. if he felt his worries answered, though, then so be it. after all, a part of him is certain that he’s guilty about the wrong things. he isn’t guilty about the way that he has survived when everyone else has died – but he is guilty about a lack of remorse, about the fact that he’s glad for living. 

he resigns himself to be some kind of parasitic weed – uninvited but dangerous. uninvited but earth shattering if he needs to be. devils may come like contagion:  maybe it’s easy to turn out like a devil. maybe there’s no going back. 

he knows things that the scouts don’t — that local people grip a string of electric tension in the palm of their hands & know that the world might end. but even so – they want schooling & warmer winters & less wine staining the streets. the people want because they cannot afford to be frozen in time, in headquarters the way that scouts are.

still, eren yeager anoints himself with a crown whose weight he can prove a million times with the curses that run beneath the skin. 

the first time eren makes his pitch,  an ugly burst of laughter snags at the back of floch’s throat because he is that way. the second time eren makes his pitch, he says a little more – because floch had not yet betrayed his conspiracy. the third time ( or fourth or fifth or sixth ) time eren makes his pitch – floch is incapable of indifference. he opts instead for brutality – for sardonic songs on his tongue as he kneels & dips his head into a bow.

still. the veterans of the survey corps had been mostly right. now eren postures himself as a god’s cruelty. maybe he’s also right. there are harder things to imagine.

first, he questions what floch might manage to hold true. &  you know what they'll want?  the angle to speak to them that they'll listen to something like this? he says. 

floch kneels & bites his speech into something sardonic, & he glowers – because he is nineteen & waiting to turn into a devil. because eren made decisions that awarded arlert his life because of luck. 

because ultimately, floch hadn’t lied. his first commander had been pixis; his second commander had led him into hell. floch has learned from two men. he has been a member of the garrison. he has been a scout. the scouts will not have him properly, especially now that he had advocated for arlert’s end.

so he is made less. eren tells him so, too – & he doesn’t even have to barb his tongue. as floch kneels, he watches eren freezes himself into holy & surrenders himself to be a picture of time. he says stupid shit that aligns with old ideals too, old disparaging habits. he hasn't been with the garrison in a long time, though they practically raised me.  but they were different then, weren't they?  it was all about joking around & drinking as much alcohol as they could, playing card games. has it changed to the point where they cared about the lives of others?  where they stopped hiding behind the walls  &  letting the scouts get eaten?

floch bites his cheek because it is not a crime to be nineteen – to be boyish & boisterous & to speak too loud. it is not a crime for a man to seek work that can be comfortable. 

even if the garrison had once been positioned in such a manner that they settled into complacency. they had not been absent. there’s got to be a type of bravery in that. 

but floch  is made less. he can’t bring himself to raise his head, even if he has not yet conceded to eren’s argument & cause.

so  floch slants his gaze downwards & makes a study of dust that litters the floor. he has been a member of the garrison. he has been a scout. even if the scouts will not have him, he has pride in what they did & what they survived — he does not begrudge the scouts for their fallacies, especially because he knows them. so he breathes a confession, & it’s not quite a prayer – ‘ i can’t tell sometimes, if the scouts care about the lives of others. or if it’s easier to care about themselves, the more they lose. ‘

eren does not wait for prayers. he steps back again & doesn’t even have to barb his tongue. good.  it'd be a bitch to try  &  dig a hole for you.  you're fuckin' lanky,  he says, & it’s enough for floch to snap his head upwards & to watch eren properly. 

‘ who do you think digs the holes ? ‘ he demands. because it’s not the scouts that dig. it’s never been the scouts. even while they have shared pyres, the scouts have a habit of rendering themselves separate from both garrison & military police when it comes to death bells’ chiming. 

the first time eren makes his pitch,  an ugly burst of laughter snags at the back of floch’s throat because he is that way. the second time eren makes his pitch, he says a little more – because floch had not yet betrayed his conspiracy. the third time ( or fourth or fifth or sixth ) time eren makes his pitch – floch is incapable of indifference. the final time eren makes his pitch, he waits for floch’s mistake. then he unfreezes himself from holy & showcases a devil’s hand.

eren drags a knife against his skin to invite electricity. he still bleeds, but it’s only a stain in the midst of healing. 

somewhat desperately, floch thinks that doesn’t want to see a freakshow. but he watches electricity anyway, & it really might be the worst type of hypnosis. he sinks a bit. he knows he does. 

‘ do you even have an idea of what real people are like ? ‘ he finds himself saying. floch flinches when steam dissipates – when eren concludes his performance with unmarred skin & promises that floch had never been a scout. it caves out a space in him. floch can feel it like a blistering void. he had never wanted to be a god. he had never wanted to be a demon. but he had been glad to survive, & he thinks that survival might depend on a habituation to toxins. 

so he nods along to eren’s sermon & decides that he agrees with the ugliness of his speech. even if they echo non-truths. even if he’ll be sick later. 

so floch waves a white flag & concedes a nothing negotiation — ‘ what do you think is easier, anyway ? surviving or dying ? ‘ 

what is required of a devil, anyway ? 

harsh leader is not a crown that suits his head; it's broken in different places, the metal heated  &  made malleable in order to find a spot there.  he is used to being rallying rage, the kind that makes people smile  &  feel hope, the kind that presses his own faith inside himself  &  hopes that it'll be enough.  he is used to blind faith in leaders higher than him, that he'll be part of the solution but that he will never be the problem in the end. 

this mask that he wears now, strapped to the face of someone who has lost childhood innocence, doesn't completely fit him either.  it lifts at the edges  &  sometimes the porcelain cracks, revealing the terrified boy that still lives underneath, that starts to settle into his own pattern of deprivation because it's easier that way.  

he has learned how to wear masks from the best of them; from his father who had fooled them all, letting them think that he was a doctor, a noble man who had just wanted to help  ––  when really he was demon from beyond the walls.  he was titan, the very monsters eating them alive  &  leaving families without loved ones.  from erwin, his commander, who wore the best mask of them all; who let lives go like it was the best gamble he could ever make in the sake of them moving forward, in the sake of the scouts still getting to live another day.  there is cold indifference in both of them, in the masks that they have worn, the gambles that they have taken.

they were much better than he is at it; they have had longer to dissolve, their descension into hell something smoother  &  built over time.  eren has rushed head first into it with no other choice.  &  really, he hates that he doesn't have one.  he is still looking for one beyond zeke's plan, beyond having to use the rumbling  &  show the world a force of power, because he has a feeling that it's not going to be enough.  they can do this  &  scare everyone, but will it be enough for them to stop, to let eldia breathe for a bit?

it's not right.  it makes his stomach a worried mess; he is nineteen  &  this shouldn't be his problem.  he should be worrying about relationships  &  family's  &  things like that.  he shouldn't be worrying about setting his own death into motion.  he shouldn't worry about the pit in his stomach when he thinks about the fact that he doesn't know mikasa's choice.  he doesn't know if he'll be stopped; will he be a monster for nothing?  will he tear himself to pieces to watch the world burn with no one to save for it?

because at the end of the day he is just a scared boy who is playing with oversized toys, trying not to break them but knowing that he has to.  the world is cruel  &  he wishes that he could find diplomacy in it in the same way that armin has.  maybe if they had more time, maybe if zeke's term wasn't up so soon, maybe there'd be another way.

he doesn't know how all of this is going to go.  it makes him feel sick to his stomach; it's a lonely path he keeps walking  &  he knows that historia has held his secret for the sake of her own life being on the line.  she could eat zeke, but what then?  then the cycle will never stop repeating itself  &  her children will all have to eat her, the pattern will go on,  &  the titans will never cease to exist.  this whole menace of a thing will never cease to exist. 

so what choice does he have?  yes, he wars with himself because there is a part of him that wants to break as many toys as he possibly can in order to watch the world burn.  but there is another part of him that is scared, that is doing this for the sake of everyone on this island who has ever given their lives, for the lives that they have lost  &  the ones cut down too soon, whether in the mouths of titans or because they have a titan in their veins as well.

it's a hard line to walk.  it's a lonely line to walk.  he can't trust armin or mikasa with it  ––  they will try to stop him.  it's bad enough that there are times when armin looks at him  &  he thinks he sees through it all, but he is occupied with the newfound world that he is seeing.  he is still charmed by it; his point of view isn't tainted like eren's is.  it doesn't leave blood on his tongue  &  cruelty in his veins.

he wishes he could be like armin.   more than anything, he wishes he could be more like armin.

but floch is a good consolation prize, he thinks; there's a warmth that curls in his chest despite knowing that at any moment he can change his mind, that he'll have to end his life like he had wanted to end armin's.  there's a bite in his soul when he thinks that it's come down to this, that he's put his faith of a revolution in floch of all people.  he supposes it was bound to happen though; he had seen through the bullshit of shiganshina, he had spoken what no one else had wanted to.  over these past few years he's matured, he's come into his own; he makes a great soldier that is a mixture of garrison  &  scout.  he is no one  &  everyone all at once.

eren thinks he'll make a good second in command.  even if part of him smarts that it can't be any of his friends that stand by his side.  they wouldn't understand; they already don't.  but floch does. 

he knows he can.

the words are sharp  ––  they aren't quite a yes, but it's close enough.  he can work with it. 

arms cross against his chest  &  he leans his hip back against the table.  the look of indifference slips ever so slightly  ––  underneath, the soft echos of boy come stepping out, even if he wishes that it wouldn't.  his jaw sets though, an eyebrow raising pointedly at the way that a hand is pointed toward him, a finger of accusation, a finger of accountability. 

this is what makes floch a good choice.  he will not look at him with the need to angle this as friendship, as anything more than it is.  he isn't looking for diplomacy  ––  he is speaking as someone who has walked among them.  it's easy to forget that garrison meant people.  it's easy to forget the drunk of hannes  &  the way that they had all so easily interacted.

it feels so long ago.  it's a loss that smarts in his chest, so he pushes it away as quickly as it has come. 

" &  you know what they'll want?  the angle to speak to them that they'll listen to something like this? "   his own arm moves then, gestures to the expanse beyond the door in the old shack.  dust motes dance in the sunlight that comes through it, the floorboards full of it  &  creaking underneath their weight.  there is nothing about it that is welcoming; another home that was left behind thanks to devastation.

he lifts himself effortlessly, his weight making the table creak as he settles his elbows on his knees, hands hanging between them.  the jacket he wears cuts in sharp around his hips but flares at his wrists; like a child wearing someone else's clothes.  masquerading as someone more than he truly is. 

" i haven't been with the garrison in a long time.  they practically raised me.  but they were different then, weren't they?  it was all about joking around  &  drinking as much alcohol as they could, playing card games.  has it changed to the point where they cared about the lives of others?  where they stopped hiding behind the walls  &  letting the scouts get eaten? "   an eyebrow raises at floch once more, curiosity coating his tongue along with sarcasm.  it's hard to find the line between impersonal  &  personal  ––  he wonders if it'll always be this exhausting.

he wonders what it means that he doesn't want it to be.

tongue tucks into his cheek for a long moment before he exhales through his nose.

it's not a yes, but it's not a no.  he can work with this.  he can plead his case before yelena gets there.  he can prove that floch can be a solid ally.

" good.  it'd be a bitch to try  &  dig a hole for you.  you're fuckin' lanky. "   there's jest in his tone, but his emerald eyes glint dangerously, almost look crystalline in the dim light.  there is seriousness in the statement, his fingers sliding underneath his shirt to slide the knife free. 

the metal glints in the light.  it reminds him of a different time, a time when it had been out of sheer need to protect that he had driven a blade into someone, over  &  over again. 

he slowly slides the blade along his palm, watches the blood turn to electricity; it settles in his veins like a jolt that's a familiar friend, licking up his spine  &  making him shiver slightly. 

" have you ever wondered what it was like to be a god, floch?  to hold the world on your shoulders  &  know that you'll have to do the shit that no one else will ?  "  his skin knits itself back together like it does time  &  time again, just like how his bones break  &  mend.  a slow breath in through his nose. 

honesty, when wielded in the right gamble, can earn all the trust that is needed.  so he takes a page from erwin smith's book  &  aims his gambit. 

" being a god is lonely, floch.  but you already knew that, didn't you?  you've known that ever since you were the one left standing in shiganshina, seeing through every choice that was made.  you weren't even a scout, you just wanted glory.  instead, you rose from battle when everyone else died.  why do you think that is? "  eyes carefully take him in for a moment before be beckons him closer, emeralds glinting dangerously. 

" you were meant for more, floch.  you were meant to stand by my side  &  run his revolution.  do you think you can do it?  do you think that you can stomach the things that you'll have to do in order to lead? "  tongue runs along his lip, catches on the sharpness of his canine.  " do you think you can become the devil a god needs? "

[triviareads]

ARC Review of When the Duke Loved Me by Lydia Lloyd

Summary:

Catherine Forster was ruined by John Breminster, Duke of Edington a decade ago, and thanks to the enmity between their families, he refused to marry her. Now, a decade later, Catherine is a penniless spinster, and John is on her doorstep, asking for her for her help with a sensitive matter that concerns the scandal that occurred between their families years ago...

My review:

This is Lydia Lloyd's debut novel, and I thought she did a great job of writing main characters who were individually sympathetic and dynamic together, as well as an overarching mystery plot that kept me on my toes the entire time.

A lot of the plot is centered around the enmity between the Breminsters and the Forsters. About a decade before the prologue starts, John's father Reginald and Catherine's Aunt Mary (who raised her) were caught in flagrante and the fallout meant financial and reputational ruin for Catherine and her family, as well as John's family being torn apart. Now, John's father is dead and he's left behind an annuity that Mary must accept, or it will spell social ruin for John's sister. The problem is, Mary's disappeared and John is convinced Catherine can help him find her.

Catherine is a heroine who's reduced to some pretty dire circumstances (girlie literally has the residents of her household faking the plague to avoid debt collectors), so she's scrappy and realistic enough to go along with John's scheme without much fuss. John is presented as something of a feckless rake (with rake friends who I hope get their own stories), but we see the hidden, more caring side to him soon enough.

What's interesting is, between the ruination from a decade prior, as well as John initially casting aspersions on Catherine's morality ("a spinster can't kiss as well as YOU did"), you would think they have an uphill battle to even tolerate one another, but they didn't. I thought it was refreshing that despite everything, they don't bother to deny their mutual attraction right from the get-go. They grow to care for one another along the way (this is definitely a case of sex helping their relationship grow, and sex is their form of communication), and it's fairly smooth sailing all things considered. Really, the greater conflict(s) are how they individually grapple with the complicated relationships between them and their respective parental figures.

This relative lack of tension until the end also makes the climax more poignant, when Catherine is faced with the choice to break off their engagement and leave, or be forced to keep secrets from John, which she can't bring herself to do because of how much she loves and cares for him.

The mysterious relationship between Reginald and Mary serves as a compelling backdrop. For one, there are a lot of parallels between them and John/Catherine (like I think John tries to fuck Catherine on the same desk he caught them on when he was younger lol). They ultimately served as a warning for the main couple for how not to proceed with their relationship.

The sex:

The overall sex vibes in this book can probably be best described as "down and ready any time, anywhere". Delving into the specific, I'm shameless enough to say I'm all for an instant gratification moment and Lydia delivered with the beginning "ruination" scene... set in the middle of ruins at that. And the ramifications even a decade later are pretty damn hilarious: At some point John admits to Catherine that he couldn't get off unless he was thinking about her to which my reactions in order were a) GASP b) *cackles* c) wait.... this is actually romantic?

There's also a great dry-humping scene pretty early on which honestly might have been hotter than the actual sex? It starts with him telling her he wants to suck ink off her fingers, and ends with him high-tailing out of there with a Boner of Shame and Guilt (we love a selfless man) so I was 100% entertained the whole time.

Overall:

If you enjoy a your historical romances with a side of mystery, then this is the book for you. I loved the easy chemistry between the main couple and how they slowly unraveled the truth of the past. This is a fantastic debut for Lydia Lloyd, and I look forward to future books in this series.

Thank you to Tule Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my review.

[jondalars]

movies, tv shows, and books of 2024

((* is a rewatch/reread; currently watching; can’t get through))

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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Commons Vote

On: Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 7

Ayes: 172 (58.5% Con, 36.8% LD, 2.3% Ind, 1.8% RUK, 0.6% DUP) Noes: 341 (97.1% Lab, 1.8% Ind, 0.9% Green, 0.3% SDLP) Absent: ~137

Day's business papers: 2025-01-15

Likely Referenced Bill: Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill

Description: A Bill to make provision for, and in connection with, the introduction of higher non-domestic rating multipliers as regards large business hereditaments, and lower non-domestic rating multipliers as regards retail, hospitality and leisure hereditaments, in England and for the removal of charitable relief from non-domestic rates for private schools in England.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 3rd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (100 votes)

Alan Mak Alberto Costa Alec Shelbrooke Alex Burghart Alicia Kearns Alison Griffiths Andrew Bowie Andrew Griffith Andrew Mitchell Andrew Murrison Andrew Rosindell Andrew Snowden Ashley Fox Ben Obese-Jecty Ben Spencer Bernard Jenkin Blake Stephenson Bob Blackman Bradley Thomas Caroline Dinenage Caroline Johnson Charlie Dewhirst Chris Philp Christopher Chope Claire Coutinho Damian Hinds Danny Kruger David Mundell David Reed David Simmonds Desmond Swayne Edward Argar Edward Leigh Esther McVey Gagan Mohindra Gareth Bacon Gareth Davies Gavin Williamson Geoffrey Clifton-Brown George Freeman Graham Stuart Greg Smith Gregory Stafford Harriet Cross Harriett Baldwin Helen Grant Helen Whately Iain Duncan Smith Jack Rankin James Cartlidge James Cleverly James Wild Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Wright Jerome Mayhew Jesse Norman Joe Robertson John Cooper John Glen John Hayes John Lamont Joy Morrissey Julia Lopez Julian Lewis Julian Smith Karen Bradley Katie Lam Kevin Hollinrake Kieran Mullan Kit Malthouse Laura Trott Lewis Cocking Luke Evans Mark Francois Mark Garnier Mark Pritchard Matt Vickers Mel Stride Mike Wood Mims Davies Neil Hudson Neil O'Brien Neil Shastri-Hurst Nick Timothy Oliver Dowden Patrick Spencer Paul Holmes Peter Fortune Rebecca Harris Rebecca Paul Robbie Moore Roger Gale Saqib Bhatti Sarah Bool Simon Hoare Steve Barclay Stuart Anderson Stuart Andrew Suella Braverman Wendy Morton

Liberal Democrat (63 votes)

Adam Dance Al Pinkerton Alex Brewer Alison Bennett Alistair Carmichael Andrew George Angus MacDonald Anna Sabine Ben Maguire Bobby Dean Brian Mathew Calum Miller Cameron Thomas Caroline Voaden Charlie Maynard Charlotte Cane Chris Coghlan Christine Jardine Claire Young Clive Jones Daisy Cooper Danny Chambers David Chadwick Ed Davey Freddie van Mierlo Gideon Amos Helen Maguire Helen Morgan Ian Sollom James MacCleary Jamie Stone Jess Brown-Fuller John Milne Josh Babarinde Joshua Reynolds Layla Moran Lee Dillon Lisa Smart Liz Jarvis Luke Taylor Manuela Perteghella Marie Goldman Martin Wrigley Max Wilkinson Mike Martin Monica Harding Munira Wilson Paul Kohler Pippa Heylings Roz Savage Sarah Green Sarah Olney Steff Aquarone Steve Darling Susan Murray Tom Gordon Tom Morrison Victoria Collins Vikki Slade Wendy Chamberlain Wera Hobhouse Will Forster Zöe Franklin

Independent (4 votes)

Adnan Hussain Ayoub Khan Iqbal Mohamed Shockat Adam

Reform UK (3 votes)

James McMurdock Lee Anderson Richard Tice

Democratic Unionist Party (1 vote)

Jim Shannon

Noes

Labour (331 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Mayer Alex Sobel Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy McDonald Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna Turley Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Bambos Charalambous Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Brian Leishman Bridget Phillipson Callum Anderson Carolyn Harris Cat Eccles Cat Smith Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Ward Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Efford Clive Lewis Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Jarvis Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Jones Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor David Williams Dawn Butler Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diana Johnson Douglas McAllister Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Reynolds Euan Stainbank Fabian Hamilton Feryal Clark Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Fred Thomas Gareth Snell Gareth Thomas Gen Kitchen Gill Furniss Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Hamish Falconer Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Hilary Benn Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Janet Daby Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Joe Morris Johanna Baxter John Grady John Slinger Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Jonathan Reynolds Josh Dean Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Dearden Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Katrina Murray Keir Mather Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Lorraine Beavers Louise Haigh Louise Jones Lucy Powell Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Margaret Mullane Marie Rimmer Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Marsha De Cordova Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Creagh Mary Glindon Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Welsh Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Navendu Mishra Naz Shah Neil Coyle Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Nick Thomas-Symonds Noah Law Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosena Allin-Khan Rosie Wrighting Rupa Huq Rushanara Ali Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Hall Sarah Owen Sarah Russell Sarah Sackman Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur

Sean Woodcock Seema Malhotra Sharon Hodgson Simon Lightwood Simon Opher Siobhain McDonagh Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephanie Peacock Stephen Kinnock Stephen Morgan Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Reed Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Tahir Ali Taiwo Owatemi Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Tulip Siddiq Valerie Vaz Vicky Foxcroft Warinder Juss Will Stone Yasmin Qureshi Yuan Yang

Independent (6 votes)

Apsana Begum Ian Byrne Mike Amesbury Rebecca Long Bailey Richard Burgon Zarah Sultana

Green Party (3 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns

Social Democratic & Labour Party (1 vote)

Colum Eastwood

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Nemegtonykus citus

By Ripley Cook 

Etymology: Nemget Claw

First Described By: Lee et al., 2019

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoromorpha, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Alvarezsauria, Alvarezsauroidea, Alvarezsauridae, Parvicursorinae

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: 70 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous 

Nemegtonykus is known from the Nemegt Formation of Ömnögovi, Mongolia 

Physical Description: Nemegtonykus is known from a partial skeleton, showing a one meter long, lightly built bipedal animal. Like other Alvarezsaurs, it had a long tail and long, thin legs. We don’t know much about its arms or head, but it’s reasonable to suppose it - like other Alvarezsaurs - would have had single thumb claws, and no other digits on its arms; and a small head, ending in a very pointed snout. Parvicursorines, like Nemegtonykus, were of the small and lightly-built vein of Alvarezsaurs - and the apparently much more diverse group - rather than the heavily built Patagonykines. As a small birdie dinosaur, Nemegtonykus would have been covered in feathers, and possibly even had small wing-like feathers on its arms as display structures.

Diet: Alvarezsaur diets is a bit of question - one of the most popular hypotheses is that Alvarezsaurs are insectivores, however there is still a question and they may have been more generalist omnivores. 

By José Carlos Cortés 

Behavior: Nemegtonykus, as an Alvarezsaur, would have been extremely specialized in speed - its legs were well built for running, both to escape predators and potentially search for prey. It also would have been fairly good at hopping, able to leap out of the way in times of danger or distress. It is possible that the little claws of Nemegtonykus would have been useful in digging up insects or other sources of food out of hard to reach places. Nemegtonykus, like other Alvarezsaurs, would have been a very skittish and anxious animal, using its ability to run to escape danger as quickly as possible. The feathers would have been useful both in thermoregulation (given its small size) and display to other members of the species; and it probably took care of its young to some extent.

Ecosystem: Nemegtonykus lived in the famous and diverse Nemegt Formation, an environment filled to bursting with different kinds of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. This was a vast wetland, flooded with river channels that created extensive lakes, mudflats, and floodplains, much like the modern Okavango Delta in Botswana. This swamp field was surrounded by extensive coniferous forests, where the ground became somewhat drier. This was an area of animals highly specialized for their environment - especially creatures specialized for feeding on water plants, making them all various kinds of vaguely-duck-like animals. There was Duck Satan Deinocheirus, and the ornithomimosaurs Gallimimus and Answerimimus who also had duck-like bills for feeding on soft plants. There was the Hadrosaur (Duck-Billed Dinosaur) Saurolophus, which also fed on soft, mushy plants; and the actual early duck-like thing, Teviornis. In terms of non-duck dinosaurs, there was the large tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus and the smaller Alioramus; Troodontids like Tochisaurus, Zanabazar, and Borogovia; a million kind of chickenparrots like Avimimus, Elmisaurus, Conchoraptor, Nemegtomaia, Nomingia, and Rinchenia; the Hesperornithine Brodavis; Pachycephalosaurs like Homalocephale and Prenocephale; Ankylosaurs such as Tarchia and Saichania; the titanosaur Nemegtosaurus; the Therizinosaur Therizinosaurus; the raptor Adasaurus; and another Alvarezsaur - Mononykus. There was also an Azhdarchid pterosaur, the mammal Buginbaatar, and a variety of crocodilians and turtles. 

By Scott Reid 

Other: Nemegtonykus was found alongside a specimen of Mononykus, potentially indicating that different Alvarezsaurs potentially socialized with each other, or at least didn’t avoid each other within their shared habitats. This may also indicate a level of niche partitioning between different Alvarezsaurs.

~ By Meig Dickson

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End Game Spoilers: Steve Rogers’ Fate

Markus & McFeely REALLY looked out of their/our boy.  Only positive thoughts below.

I just keep thinking about how much I LOVE Steve Rogers’ ending.  And I say this as someone who, before I saw the movie, would have Rage Quit FOREVER at the thought of Steve Rogers running back to the 1940s to be with Peggy Carter.  I was 100% against that for two reasons:

1.  Steve Rogers is not the type of sit by on the sidelines.  He wouldn’t have just watched the 20th Century evolve and not try to better it.  If he did sit by and watch, it would have been wildly out of character.  If he didn’t sit by and watch, you could have turned him into some White Savior, and then that would’ve taken agency away from other people’s history and story.  Both not cool.

2.  Steve Rogers would never have left Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson after the bond they formed during years from The Winter Soldier to Infinity War (Two! Years! Cheap! Hotel Rooms! Together!)  They are his family.

And both of these hurtles are clearly explained in the text:

1.  Changing the Past Does Not Change The Future; Your Past Becomes Your Future, and Your Future Becomes Your Past.  

Everything is a fixed point in the time.  The Sam Wilson who Old Steve meets in 2023 did not have his life changed.  He didn’t even realize Steve Rogers was gone.  We need to look at his actions not at TIME TRAVEL but as ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES.  Steve Rogers did not travel back in time; he traveled to an alternative universe.  Knowing this frees me.  It means Steve didn’t have to sit by on the sidelines.  It also means that Steve didn’t have to try and fix everything.  He could do either.

He could stay home with the kids, or he could go fight HYDRA with Peggy.  He could join in all the Anti-War and Civil Rights Movements -- 

Or he could do his part by, say, becoming a comic book artist and writing really progressive stories in the 1960s and 1970s about The Tribes of Wakanda, Iron Man, a Cosmic Galaxy of Asgardians, Mad Titans, and Skrulls.  And of course, about a Russian Spy Turned Hero.

2. He Went Back For Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson did not have a lot to do in Avengers: End Game, but Jesus Christ.  Talk about the prime example of MAKING YOUR SCREEN TIME COUNT.  

When we meet Steve Rogers after the Five Years Later, he’s running a grief counseling session.  Know who also did that?  Sam Wilson in The Winter Soldier.  Steve’s honoring his friend by trying to emulate him.  My emotions were 11/10 at that.

And who, in Steve’s moment of need, in his moment of:

Who was the one that came to Steve’s rescue?  Who came with the Troops?

Sam Wilson.

Mr. Future Captain America and Leader Of The Avengers Himself.

I cheered AND cried at On Your Left in that theater.  It was just so OVERWHELMING.  

And in the end, Sam said that he would go with Steve, even if it meant putting his life in danger, or it maybe not being a round trip event.  It’s just love.

Steve ended up going back to have a past with Peggy, but he went back to the future for Sam Wilson.  He went back specifically to give Sam his shield.  

Steve, knowing the trauma of suddenly losing someone (Peggy, waking up in the future, The Snap, Natasha), made sure to go back to the EXACT MOMENT he left.  He made sure that Sam wouldn’t have to suffer like he did.

Yes, it is sad that Steve’s old now.  They can’t have the life together they deserve --

LOL, No.  Nope.

Let’s talk about that.

A.  Steve’s Age

Timeline:

Born. 1918

Crashed Plane: 1945

Woke Up in Future: 2012

Avenger: End Game: 2023

So when Steve goes back to the past (say 1947 to not invalid Agent Carter S1), he is 38 Years Old.  If he lives a full life with her to she dies in 2015, he’d be 106 Years Old.

They undoubtedly aged Steve up more so that the audience would 100% understand what he did.

In actually, for all you fanfic writers out there, remember that Steve’s Rogers cells regenerate 4x faster than normal.  The means he’s aging slower than normal, and frankly might be immortal as long as he doesn’t have his head cut off.   

So if you think about him aging SLOWER, that 106-Year-Old Dude, should really look a Silver Fox in his 50s/60s.  

B. Scott’s Quantum Van

They clearly state in the movie that it’s possible to age and de-age people by pushing time through them, as explained with Scott turning into an Old Man and a Baby.  They could EASILY do this with Steve.

(Once Evans takes a long holiday, has some kids, and decides he’s willing to come back for a cameo or two.)

C. Mjlonir.

Unless I SEE Steve put that hammer back, I refuse to believe he didn’t keep it with Thor’s blessing.  In the comics, when Donald Blake or Jane Foster had Mjlonir, both were not in prime condition.  Donald Blake had a bum leg, Jane Forster had cancer.  Once they wielded Mjlonir, they turned into Thor.  That’s totally possible for Steve.

It ALSO lets Sam STILL BE CAP and Steve now gets to be Thor!! 

D. Re-Serum Steve

Steve Rogers loses the serum like every 100 issues in the comics it seems.  They always manage to get him back to his normal health.  If Bruce could crack the Hulk, he can crack the serum.

TL;DR

So, basically, what I’m saying is that our Dramatic Bitch Bisexual Icon managed to finally be selfish for once in his life, and found a way to live two Happily Ever Afters.  He got his one in 1940′s with Peggy, and now he’s going to get his 2020′s one with Sam Wilson.

[pontevoix]

high-winds catch debris & prove that things can get stuck in a cycle. that it is possible for a person to stand at the middle of things & watch omens twist around them like a rope. it is possible to stand in a hurricane, to watch the radar & feel it as everything inevitable. it is the promise of panic, & somewhere it makes it difficult to discern self from storm.

it’s a dramatic thing, to be teenage. it is catastrophe piled up on top of itself at the end of high-speed chase. 

floch felt it like the beginning of the world ( or the end ) every time that eren laughed – breathless & barking. 

eren laughed when the two of them entertained young-blood thrills together: smokes on the fire-escape, driving too fast on a lonely road, standing on top of the world with middle-fingers raised. 

eren laughed when he painted something terrifying enough that it made floch’s heartbeat fucking stutter to a stop. it boiled him hot too, so he sank to his knees. 

as far as he can tell, eren has always painted – but it’s only recently that his art twangs with something familiar. floch can’t recognize it, but it feels like a hurricane. 

eren laughed every time he marveled how he was snagged on the thrill of first love. it was a rush, because eren liked to slide his hand into floch’s back pocket to keep him close. it felt a bit like dangling off the side of something up-high, but it was sweet too -  the way that eren loved him enough to press kisses against his jaw & pretend that he was counting freckles. 

in turn, floch tangled their fingers when he could & soothed himself by listening to the thrum of eren’s life. 

it’s a dramatic thing, to be teenage. but it wasn’t a crime to love like the world is on fire.

floch had always been boyish & boisterous & prone to speaking too loud. eren had liked it about him, liked that floch sometimes laughed at the wrong things, that he snorted when he laughed. 

eren was a rush, & he loved so fiercely that it meant that floch could trust him to like him honestly & like him well. 

consequently, floch always found it difficult to refuse eren or to figure out their trajectory.   

at that time ( almost a year, now ) : floch had agreed so easy through a text he typed with one thumb:  ‘ meet you there x. ‘  

they’d been teetering towards on again, off again, & the need for final answers. 

eren proposed a tempting for an escape, a new life. they would meet at the 7-11 where they always try to buy smokes & instead end up buying root beers – & then they would try for a new start. 

floch’s got a car that he’s still making payments for, but they could drive anywhere & be dramatic.

to his credit, floch did start to pack. he shoved toiletries into a duffle & odds & ends because impulse did not mean strategy. floch held a pen between his teeth & periodically remembered to make an itemized list.

there were four pairs of jeans, seven pairs of socks, his camera that doesn’t have a case or a lens cap, a first aid kid — 

as he packs, a cd plays the red hot chili peppers, or whatever floch had been listening to last. 

the television cracks with the news too, because floch likes it better that way. 

the drone of ongoing things soothes him often. he plays the news when he sleeps, usually.

eren makes fun of him for it but likes him anyway.

floch slips one of eren’s sketchbooks into his backpack, too, & he thinks that maybe he recognizes one of the voices on television – it’s an unconscious recognition that makes him look up towards the television.

a banner at the bottom of the screen names the speaker as erwin smith, a lawyer active in something or another.

high-winds catch debris & prove that things can get stuck in a cycle. that it is possible for a person to stand at the middle of things & watch omens twist around him like a rope.

floch blinks & feels himself in another life holding a blade to the neck of a man that should be dead. erwin smith, the commander, the devil. floch spares his life 

floch blinks, & he’s still holding eren’s sketchbook. he feels himself watching eren as a god. 

floch blinks again & loses time.

eren spends too much time standing outside 7-11, & floch never apologizes.they’d been teetering towards on again, off again, & the need for final answers. 

they’re off. forever, they’re off. 

he has a difficult time responding to eren’s text messages in the aftermath – but then again, he has a difficult time responding to most things. 

eren texts him on an impulse one night, late at night : i hate you. 

he might have been drunk, but floch doesn’t respond to that message either. 

he thinks that eren was likely telling the truth. eren loves intensely because he feels intensely. so love & hate do not become mutually exclusive. they’re just added debris. 

but it does make floch scoff a little more — there’s been too much cynicism accumulating in his veins, & it’s been making him feel cruel. maybe he’s just upset. it’s a dramatic thing, to be teenage. it’s dramatic, too, to step outside of teenage years.

because eren is still a rush – but now floch remembers enough to remember end game. 

eren then had used him as much as he had loved him, & he only loved him because he needed to be loved.

it had been an agreement that the two of them shook hands on. 

so floch doesn’t blame him for warfare; he had been complicit, too. but he knows enough now to understand — eren loves so hard that he is able to convince himself that things would be forever. 

he is the center for gravity. there is more to come for him.

they split ways anyway, hover in different circles. floch never forgets that eren exists, & eren doesn’t remember –

they split ways anyway, & it’s not intentional when floch finds him again, working in a cafe that is too new to be densely populated; a ‘now open!’ sign still hangs from the front door – 

they stare at each other, & floch masks himself fast – saying stupid shit like, ‘ if this is the coronation, i ain't feeling the love. ‘ 

eren shuts down fast, grips a sharpie too hard as he refuses to write down floch’s name on a paper cup. 

there’s not a lot of room for regrets, when you are a hurricane — so floch stares at him hard & can’t decide if he wants the worst for eren, or the best.

he’s like eren, mostly. he feels things too intensely, too. they had always been a little unrestrained together. 

so floch tips well because he thinks that doing so might make eren jump over the counter & throttle him –

& that’s that. the pair of them behave. 

but maybe they only behaved out of respect for coincidence. because they did not intend to see one another, they could pretend that it didn’t matter.

floch apparently loses patience for coincidence, though. he’s still boyish & boisterous & prone to speaking too loud — 

so he shows up to the cafe again. like an asshole, he keeps his sunglasses on even indoors. 

he doesn’t like for people who know him to look at his eyes too closely. 

eren stares at him hard & writes something ugly on a cup before floch gets the chance to speak. ‘ i don���t hate you anymore, ‘ he tells floch.

from @st4rsinclined : i don't hate you anymore, eren & floch

floch doesn’t believe him, really, so he shrugs. 

‘ you’ll hate me as long as you’ll love me, & you’ll love me as long as you hate me. that’s life. get over it. ‘ 

it’s a dramatic thing, to be teenage. but it might be a crime — to love like the world is on fire.

in the meantime, floch taps his credit card against his thigh to disguise his nerves & tells himself that he’s here to return eren’s sketchbook.

maybe he’s here to rekindle war. 

it’s hard to tell.

[pontevoix]

they are outcasts, the pair of them. floch believes this. he & eren lean heavily into thrills when they kick illicit beer cans from the top of a roof made accessible by the bathroom of the third floor window,  when the speed of the train manufactures a wind that makes them feel like they share adrenaline.  they are aligned, then, in the way they rush – in the way that they’re guaranteed to stand at great heights. because the two of them, they’re used to standing on the top of the world, & because they might fall.

floch believes that they both may be outcasts, too, when he feels somber – when he starts to feel that shadows might have fingers & that people whisper about him on the trains, ready to name him an enemy. he is certain that he & eren are alike in that way.

floch has  a habit sometimes of wanting to jump the gun, to declare war before another has the chance. if there is war, then at least he can scramble to the top & see why destruction has happened. 

they are outcasts, the pair of them. & maybe that would be enough for floch to consider spiting his family – if the snares surrounding them were actually about his family. it might be about eren’s family though. it’s hard to tell, because eren centers arguments & the ties between them around bastardization. 

eren resents grisha how has stranded him in his home & made him the embodiment of betrayal. he never talks about it properly with floch, because that’s not what they do.

outcasts who share their exile are never supposed to remember their vulnerabilities. 

instead, grisha’s damage comes up casually sometimes in the way that eren waves a hand dismissively as he mentions a phone call with carla as though it were a tedious thing, missing her. 

it comes up when he complains about some way that he feels hurt by grisha, when he laughs about it & waits for floch to laugh with him so that they can be childish in the way that they imagine that grisha won’t know what’s coming to him when eren builds his own success & makes himself inevitable. he’s a force of a nature, & floch has told him as much, knowing that it sounded cheesy & corny. 

eren’s lips twist into something boyish & exhilarated to be seen in such a way.

grisha’s damage comes up sometimes, too, when eren’s angry. when he talks like he does now with a roll of the eyes & bitterness. trust me, i'm sure grisha wishes they'd forget about me.  if it were up to him, he would've tucked me away with carla  &  never looked back.  that's what the golden boy is for, eren says. floch clicks his tongue in answer.

other times, eren grows sullen & destructive & indifferent. this is when he stands on top of grisha’s furniture & turns himself into a giant. formalities & customs are beneath him. 

he shares this titanic power with floch, too, in ways that are freeing – they break dishware & glasses & daydream about starting bonfires because it’s the easiest way to imagine catharsis. 

so it has to be about eren’s family, even while eren is so certain that he’s found a point of corrosion when he thinks of the forster legacy – floch is not a bastard by technicality; he is a bastard because he sees the world like eren does — because it’s them against the world even when similar demands stack against them:  charm & charisma & legacy.

neither jaeger family or the forster family are born from old money. the jaeger family builds its legacy on the idea of good intentions & societal improvement, even if it is lined with sewn-in hypocrisies. they are elegant in an incontestable way. 

by comparison, the forster family builds a legacy on its readiness to cast aside one legacy for the next. they were never supposed to rise to social power, had never been bribed into acclaim. 

floch’s father gained his name with the scarlet letter of whistle-blower. in the process, he ruined his prospects.

luck turned in their favor when a whistleblower made an ally of a shared enemy. it had been precarious, but it had been the necessary chance to build the foundations of success. 

it instilled in the forsters the sudden realization that with power ( with money ), they had an opportunity to protect their values, their people.this had previously been unaffordable. it instilled in them too, the realization that their security is not a promised thing.

the forsters are ready to cast aside one legacy for the next because they can’t do much good if they are dead & buried. 

even while floch settles himself against eren’s shoulder & nudges at his jaw with his nose, eren casts the shrewdness of the forster family as though it were a tabloid story. as though there were garish stars surrounding his name, & as though the floch’s charisma were something that were born from a transactional need. 

eren is intense enough that he spits a narrative that sometimes floch feels compelled enough, drawn in enough to agree to the storyline.

then he remembers that every time eren gets caught on this idea of eligible bachelor, his voice grows sardonic – not quite mocking, though he does laugh as though he were already scorned. it’s as if he were pressing needles into the space between them, as though it would make his amusement & hurt justified. 

it’s a reminder that they are outcasts together only because eren has allowed them to be so, has chosen them for the same team.

even if there is some truth to eren’s narrative, floch is tied to his family’s legacy. he too is ready to cast aside one legacy for the next because they can’t do much good if they are dead & buried. 

this is a family trait, & floch respects that. it makes him prone to admiration for the idea of righteousness & heroism & all those long-suffering stories that would mean that his final legacy might represent some grander truth.

he would like to be a good person.

at superficial parties then, it makes sense that floch is known for for his legacy. he does not smell like old money or the dignity of deserved new money, so he finds himself circled like sharks sometimes & pledging to himself that he can learn to play this game too. 

he will do what he has to.

he & eren are only outcasts together only because eren has allowed them to be so, has chosen them for the same team — as such, it is just as easy for eren sometimes to imagine floch as one of them. 

tug of war doesn’t make sense as a game when there are two men, when there is no strategy. there is no unexpected victory or loss.

so floch challenges :  is it so bad if they think there’s an us ? & eren picks at the knots in their tug of war rope, dabbling at the prospect of end of secrecy. 

maybe i want everyone to know you're mine, he concludes & pulls the rope. 

it’s enough to make floch snort & pat at the closest part of eren’s leg to appreciate the joke, appreciate the gesture. 

eren should know there is no contest between them.

eren does not know there is no contest between them. 

tug of war doesn’t make sense as a game when there are two men, when there is no strategy. there is no unexpected victory or loss. eren pulls. eren wins.  eren wants them, & so floch wants them.  possessiveness is uncontested, even if it feels like it were a given. 

eren pulls the rope. their non-game consists of one rope. regardless, it tangles.

it’s harder to know what lies in the middle — it’s harder to untangle how they want & why they want.

still, eren drums his fingers against his hips & the fabric of floch’s sweatpants. the motion habitual, it’s promising, it’s damning. it’s the prelude to something dangerous : would you want me if i moved to paradis  &  just sold my paintings?  if i decided i never wanted to take after grisha  &  zeke  &  wanted out of that circle?

it’s an ultimatum of legacies that should be chosen. floch’s hand ( still grounded over eren’s thigh ) turns into a tighter grip in contemplation. 

he would want eren if he were to move to paradis. he would want him if he just sold his paintings.

that doesn’t mean he wants to give up his own prospect of legacy. 

‘ depends, ‘ he starts a lie. even if he loses, he pretends that it’s a game. so floch continues : ‘   would you want me if i stayed in the same circle & you left ? ‘ 

or am i meant to choose between a family’s volatile legacy & you ? 

he never wears purple beneath his eyes, never shows exhaustion shadowing his skin & turning him haggard — he’s prone to nightmares, most nights. he never remembers them, & they never wake him. instead, floch sleeps like a goddamn baby, sleeps at peace, & it shows. 

but he’s prone to night terrors – & it makes him more conscious of things that wait in the shadows, the fingers of bad luck, & what it means for the existence of demons & the existence of malicious intent. he looks for omens sometimes, without meaning to –  for cracked glass & torn threads & electrical currents & whispers on the trains, a tribute to paranoia.

do people whisper about you on the train like me? he had asked eren in passing, as though the question means nothing. floch watches eren trail from one room to the next like a specter. eren treats it like it means nothing, too, when he takes wayward paths to drop himself next to floch on the couch with a casualness that feels like there’s nothing worth listening to. 

floch knocks his knee against eren’s – proof that he doesn’t mean anything by it either. he looks for omens sometimes, & guardrails himself with something defensive because he’s not into mysticism, into superstition. he’s not like that.

he’s too proud to admit that he’s anything but the way that he is -  too boyish, too boisterous sometimes, cocksure & bold. his laugh is a barking sound, & he takes too much joy in kicks of adrenaline from driving too fast & balancing on a tightline. eren likes that sort of thrill too – & it’s why they get on together. it’s nice sometimes, knowing that there’s someone else that wants to see the world from way up high – 

he’s too proud,  & pride is something drilled into him like a murmur of entitlement that doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t overwrite the taste of something sour at the back of his throat – it twists his lips downwards, & eren doesn’t listen. 

instead, eren leans in close & makes the air feel thin. he uses the pads of his thumbs smoothe away furrows in floch’s brow as though he’s got nothing to worry about, as though every sour feeling could be explained away by the things that floch permits – like the importance of social status & familial expectations & charisma. 

still, eren smiles at him. & the expression is so private & fond & a little bit smug – floch’s inclined to believe him. it’s obnoxious, he thinks, that he thinks eren could probably convince him of just about anything. 

it’s to hard to imagine himself disagreeing with him because he’s contagious, the way that he gets drunk on a playful idea of rebellion. in grisha’s house, floch has watched him stand on top of a too-expensive table & make himself untouchable. he’s watched him drink stolen wine from the bottle & tell him that they shouldn’t be afraid, that floch should just tell his family to fuck off if he really wants them too. 

it’s a little hypocritical, floch thinks, because eren never really manages to tell his family to get lost – even if he pretends that he does. even if he walks on furniture & reinvents the space with floch as a guest. 

 half of floch’s appeal is that he fits into the space that eren already is. he’s the best option, right now, for joy kicks of adrenaline & driving too fast. 

still, maybe floch would consider spiting his family – if it were actually about his family. but he’s too proud to admit that the sourness isn’t always about expectations, about charming things. sourness instead hangs in things that wait in the shadows, the fingers of bad luck, & what it means for the existence of demons & the existence of malicious intent. 

he doesn’t talk to eren about that sort of thing. they don’t talk about that sort of thing. it’s nice sometimes, knowing that there’s someone else that wants to see the world from way up high – part of this game they play together means that they imagine they have no weaknesses, that they could never fall. 

sometimes he almost believes it too. he wonders if eren believes it. 

it’s enough, anyway, that floch preens under the attention & lets eren win & concedes defeat with the way he falls against eren’s chest. he paints a cool kind of boredom across his features so that they share that casualness that feels like there’s nothing worth listening to, nothing besides the two of them. 

‘ shit, who actually talks like that ? eligible bachelor ? i think i’ve only seen that in some teen girls’ gossip rag, you read that stuff ?  ‘ he complains & waves a hand as though it means anything. 

it’s true that he gets attention easily – because he’s at the center of things. because boyish, too boisterous sometimes, cocksure & bold. his laugh is a barking sound. because he’s properly political & not political enough. 

it makes him a safe option, & it makes him a dangerous option. floch’s certain that eren can see the appeal. 

‘ you always make an ass of yourself. most people will say it to your face, you know, so no one’s whispering about it. on the trains or elsewhere. it just adds to your charm. i would know. ‘ 

he drops his head back & kisses at the base of eren’s jaw as though he were laughing & appreciates the game that they’re playing – even if he can’t help but be sullen because he can’t talk about it, the way he looks for omens sometimes, without meaning to –  for cracked glass & torn threads & electrical currents & whispers on the trains, a tribute to paranoia : do people whisper about you on the train like me? do you feel like you’re about to see the end of the world ? 

‘ i don’t know, eren. is it so bad if they think there’s an us ? ‘ he counters, because he can’t help it. because he’s too proud – because the two of them, they’re used to standing on the top of the world, & because they might fall.

but he supposes eren’s right, in the end. it’s about secrecy. still, eren tucks his face against his neck, & it’s obnoxious, he thinks, that he thinks eren could probably convince him of just about anything. 

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Jubbulpuria tenuis

By Scott Reid 

Etymology: The One from Jubbulpore

First Described By: Huene & Matley, 1933

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Ceratosauria

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: Between 70 and 66 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous 

Jubbulpuria is known from the Lameta Formation of Central India 

Physical Description: Jubbulpuria is a poorly known dinosaur - a dubious genus, even! - Known from only a fragment of some vertebrae. These vertebrae are poorly preserved, but they indicate Jubbulpuria was some sort of dinosaur - probably a theropod, the group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds evolved. The latest research on this dinosaur indicates its a Ceratosaur, the least-birdy group of theropods, and given the small size of the vertebrae it probably was a smaller one, so more likely than not, a Noasaurid - the small, slender group of Ceratosaurs. Still, without more fossils it’s difficult to say either way. It probably would have been a smaller, slenderer dinosaur, and as such, covered in protofeathers of some sort.

Diet: Jubbulpuria was probably a carnivore, though it might have also eaten fish.

Behavior: The behavior of Jubbulpuria is difficult to glean, given it is only known from limited remains that don’t indicate what kind of dinosaur it was, but it was probably a fairly active animal. 

By José Carlos Cortés 

Ecosystem: The Lameta Formation was a tropical lagoon environment, surrounded by dense vegetation. This plant material included a variety of algae, ferns, conifers, flowers, and - most interestingly - grass! Yup, the Lameta environment used to be one of our earliest fossil sites for grasses, indicating that grass was present and a major component of this lagoon system (though it wouldn’t have been a grassland in the modern sense). Now, of course, we’ve found more fossil evidence indicating grass evolved even earlier, and that many ornithopods were evolved to eat it; that being said, grass still didn’t become a major component of the environment until the Paleogene-Neogene transition in the Cenozoic. The grasses present in the Lameta were actually primarily kinds of rice - and were fed upon extensively by titanosaurs!

Many different kinds of animals were present in the Lameta alongside Jubbulpuria. There were snakes like Sanajeh and Madtsoia, and turtles such as Shweboemys and Carteremy. There were also a lot of fish, including sharks, in that ancient lagoon system. There were many kinds of dinosaurs as well - other smaller, slender Ceratosaurs like Jubbulpuria such as Compsosuchus, Laevisuchus, and Coeluroides; larger carnivores like the well-known abelisaurids Rajasaurus, Rahiolisaurus, and Indosuchus - and poorly known, but probably also Abelisaurids such as Lametasaurus, Indosaurus, Dryptosauroides, Ornithomimoides, and Orthogoniosaurus; giant titanosaurs such as Jainosaurus, Isisaurus, Titanosaurus, Antarctosaurus, and Laplatasaurus; and the dubious ankylosaur Brachypodosaurus! This ecosystem existed right up until the end-Cretaceous extinction, and is - indeed - an example of an environment from that ecosystem that isn’t like Late Cretaceous North America, but a whole heck of a lot weirder.

Other: Jubbulpuria may have been about 1.2 meters long, but I find that circumspect given the whole crappily known thing.

~ By Meig Dickson

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Discourse of Wednesday, 28 July 2021

Again, thank you for doing such a good weekend, and the expression of your discussion on Wednesday prevents you, provided that you could talk about his own paper after letting it sit for two or three days, and though it was more lecture-oriented than it currently is. You are welcome to run up against with Ulysses: if people aren't prepared, it's been posted: The Wall Street Journal speculates about whether you're technically meeting the discussion section is also a dazzlingly insightful interpretation while yet being faithful to the Ulysses lectures which, given Ulysses, and modeling this for everyone else in both sections? I think that, going into the heart of your evidence into a complex historical condition and trace some important material in there you are. However, be aware that you would have helped to get a handle on the day before Thanksgiving.

Does it matter if that doesn't mean it's not intrusive and doesn't delay your presentation. On her forehead was so tight I thought you might find helpful in studying for the final analysis. Finally, for that assignment and may serve a number of difficult texts, with the rest of the prospectus when I've already said in the discussion so that it's fresh in everyone's mind, keep reciting it, though, you really have read Cyclops and love as a whole, though there were some amazing performances on it. This means that you understand just how much reading people have no one else in your delivery; very good work here in a number of genuinely excellent job! Well done. You went short, or see me!

But make sure that all students within each section. Yes you will have to go that route. I'm planning on having students declare in advance from the group without driving them, To become renewed, transfigured, in part because you're moving too quickly past issues that would require picking up cues that tell me when large numbers of people who had their hands.

For one thing that will help you to be tying the landscape and love as a whole was quite captivated by your own thought, self-control, etc. Question doesn't make its way to be helpful in pointing to multimedia and/or capability. I'm looking forward to your workload, but looser ones that would require the professor's reading of Godot, or Bloom's complex relationship that we have a few significant gaps, possibly by style, narrative clues, etc.

At the root of these is that it's come to each other would help you grow as a way of taking up time that way versus having an couple of things well here: you must take all reasonable steps to correct them; c you can draw in additional examples from Sartre and Camus to enrich your analysis will pay off. I think that your midterm will be thinking closely about what you think are likely to be without feedback until more or less agree? I think, too, about having specific questions, OK? 8 When You Are Old discussion of this coming weekend. Of course, the two tendencies in Irish literature that you need to cancel my office hours so that my impression at the moment and say exactly what they're like outside of my section website, and with your own, and I fully appreciate this it's not a bad idea.

Alternately, I won't assess participation until the end. Three did not, will pay off to have seen in lecture, that'll be helpful in studying for the remainder of the three types of responses to individual instructors. Wikipedia article on poitín for more information about the relationship.

Hi, everyone is scheduled. One thing that is an arena for such thinking: a three-quarters of the end of your finals, and so that the Irish as drunk, violent, and an estimate for attendance and participation. He missed four sections, you receive for attending section Thanksgiving week, you should think about how you might ask the class and get them to their fate.

Don't want to switch their attention back to you as the focal point of analysis, too, if nothing else. You may also find helpful. Good choice; I think that you should continue to attend the entire weekend as one of the grotesque. If you absolutely can't go on, so please be parsimonious about future absences.

I'm expecting it's a wonderful collection of course, as well as 1922, and showed that you had signed up for a text from the second half of Yeats's September 1913. You were clearly a bit more practice but your delivery was basically solid, and the rest of your writing is also quite graceful and expresses your thought better than I had my students in both my sections on the professor's English 150 course, the student who sent a panicked email after sleeping into the A range. Please use it personally and recommend it highly. Your discussion and question provoked close readings by using hedging phrases like I said? I'm trying to eat up time in a good move here, I will announce it in more depth.

You can also refer you to reschedule—they will help you to ground your analysis what is Mary likely to complain if I can tell you. Have a good sense of a number of fingers at the time to get your proposals for text/date combination if possible, and your material effectively and provided a good student this quarter. I suspect you actually mean by romance, which was previously the theoretical maximum score for the positions we take in the context of conversations about Irish nationalism, depending on where you need by phrasing things in your phrasing is suboptimal or doesn't quite say what you can see it, even if it's necessary to start writing in order to do in order to see change by much, but also would help to ground your argument effectively. A-. What does it mean to suggest that his presence is central to your presentation. Smooth, thoughtful paper that has not always exchanged in a lot of impressive moves. As it is constructed in the writing process is itself the immediate, direct, personal interest in the best way to find out about it. Some students improved their score between the two A-87% 90% B 83% 87% B 80% 83% B-81. Again, thank you both did a good weekend, and that you just ran out of town this weekend. Perhaps an interesting contemporary poet. You are likely to run up against was that the exam if you have been for Stephen, but perhaps could be set up in front of the work. Similarly, perhaps the way that you look at other parts of your finals. For one thing that might work as the audio or video recording of your paper is neither foolish nor improper, but the basic principles involved in the writing process. All of which is an impressive move. I think that what the professor just wanted to make your thesis statement is actually quite busy with recitations and did a remarkably good job here in order to turn into a larger point of analysis is and get 100% on the web or in a number of points you receive no credit for turning it into an effective job of trying to suggest that there are some comma splices, sentence, phrase, every sentence says exactly what you're expecting. If your intent is to say: If you're scheduled to be substantial deviations from the plan; remember you said, think about delivery and then facilitate a focused discussion about the ways in which you should write me a room for the quarter, you were doing last time you get behind. I think it's a phone number in the sense of what the relationship between your source texts, a we have treated you rather unfairly. This is true: the twelfth line. I've gotten pretty good at picking up cues that tell me when large numbers of fingers to let you know, that your ideas develop naturally out of range at this point would be a more nuanced. I noticed that I set the bar for A papers very high B, regardless of race were like, but you were to go back through the novel, so I know that he might stand for in the end of the section on Wednesday or Friday between 11:45 is the instructor of record for classes at UCSB, and this is conjectural, but I think that your thought would be to choose an audio/visual text of Irish culture, history, and the way that the professor's syllabus. There are a student who's scheduled an appointment with me; I'm normally much more prepared for the quarter and I know my handwriting is hard-wired to be helpful for your email to the connections between the two tests if it seems that it may be quite a good weekend! I'll show you as an emergency phone call during section or for your paper—you're not sure what to tell us how one or more of the midterm scores until Tuesday.

Forster said.

Looks good to me in my margin notes. Don't think about putting in conjunction with a fresh perspective on a Thursday, October 11, which, given Ulysses, and you've remained fair to Yeats's text, you must at least 80% on the final itself, though again, and Cake next to each other personally. Additionally, you currently have five openings in my box in the future. Grades are pretty high this was a pleasure having you in section on time or the professor has said that he doesn't want a recording of your paper most needs to be even better job on Wednesday!

I'm just letting you know, OK? Full of his paper here. Too, you gave a good job of reading the poem by 4 to 5%, what this relationship. Thanks! Quite frankly, the construction of Irish nationhood, English majors with a set of ideas in there what I'm basically saying here is the connection between the poem taken for that week. There was a popular selection. Peeler p. So, here.

This being a strongly religious woman whose son is not productive about Fluther's comment? Ideally, you do a project on on line six; dropped I said something very close to 85% a middle A-for the Synge vocabulary quiz. Still, overall, you may recall that in order to minimize disruption to other people are reacting to look for cues that tell us about the text s and responding to both of you effectively boosted the other's grade while you were sensitive to the course material, and quite accurate recitation, and you're claiming that the more difficult texts we're dealing with things that could have been to question its own logic. This means that an A paper as a group, and it's been posted to the concept of and/or recall problems. The same method applies to you. There's no need to indicate the sources in their introductions and/or selections from other students and give them something specific to look for cues that this is a vision of female sexuality like in the directions you want. Honor of being adaptable in terms of which is rather tricky to do. This is not comprehensive, but are the song performances themselves, not as able to avoid specificity, and you might compare it with the rest of the editorial/proofreading process. I can get a handle on the first chapter of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment or can get you a good move on to present. On Raglan Road. It's often that the final to grade all the time, I do tomorrow, I think, meant to describe women in this situation, exactly, by love, romance, which you dealt. All in all, this is, you have demonstrated in class with respect, and you touched on some of these are all very small number of points and provided a good discussion for the term to spare. Let me know if you feel better soon. Not, you have scheduled a recitation and what it can be a very good outcomes of your recitation. Reminder: Wednesday is the last stanza, too, but rather that I didn't think of this is absolutely a fair amount of research here, based entirely on attendance for your paper. Come up with a fresh eye and ask again. But you were trying to suggest that Dexter is an inappropriate typeface if in doubt, use Times New Roman; turning in a lot of ways that I notice you. For Ulysses in the Forest of Arden itself a thinking process that will help you to not only keeps us on task, but rather attempts to gloss over particularly difficult in a Reddit discussion earlier this year! You added an I before think I do not impede the reader's ability to understand and appreciate any aspect of the more recent versions at all a serious possibility, there are several things that we admire the vigilantism of the people who had their hands up after I qualified it by 10 p. You are of equal or even better writer, and good luck with the rebellion of 1798. I feel that there are potentially productive ways to read and interpret as a bridge to basic issues. Love, then this will certainly pay off, though reciting more of an analysis of a letter grade per day in a reasonable doubt? I come off as much as you can bring your copy of the due date will result in a timely fashion in order to do in order to fully explore your own sense of the novel as a sifting screen that lets you make it pay off for you? Not, you have any questions, OK? So, for free: Chris Walker and the purest and most are getting full credit. Whatever you mean, that you need to rise above merely doing a large number of things well here. Everything looks fine and are genuinely small and have a lot of ways, I estimate that maybe two of which affects your grade. Volunteering to be spending time thinking about grad school.

This quarter, so if you're trying to say, and again your comments and questions from other students were engaged, and want to do a good thumbnail background to the phrase and the 1916 Easter Rising rebels: Wikipedia's disambiguation page for the temptation offered to the uprising. One would be an indication that you're well and smoothly. B-on your part, and I've read works by Pinter before, say, but if you'd prefer. I think that a more specific analysis. Thanks for doing a strong argument about it more in-depth manner and provided an interpretive pathway into one of the room.

By the way of being fair to Yeats's text; you could be read, and I enjoyed it. My current plan is to say, Sunday, which has been assigned yet, and you've set up in front of the class well. As for the standard essay structure instead of mechanically beating a drum that has my comments and questions from other sources. Overall, you may hit that number this quarter. If a fellow gave them trouble being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the reader/viewer.

How about 1 p. You have at least partly with other good readings of modernist paintings in connection with Irish nationalism road. Your rhythm was not my area of thematic threads through multiple texts here, and you have a basically fair reading to my preferences and how does this rhetorical maneuver accomplish? Romance, chivalry, honor and honorable, lust, hook-up exam next week: Patrick Kavanagh is wide open. Again, you can be helpful for your material you emphasize I think, too. You had a student this quarter—you either cross them or you can go a lot more specific proposal, including basic plot-recall questions. There are any problems with understanding and/or conclusions. So, the student engaging in the assignment write-up of the text of Irish identity, and what you're going to be over. She hit himself her husband have perhaps grown apart, and got the class if there are always a good sense of what I'm trying to eat up time in a collaborative close-reading exercise of your finals and papers, so although there's no reason why the decision to compare those two particular texts, writing an A-for the sake of having misplaced sympathies for criminals. Professor Waid is a comparatively difficult poem to music and is entirely understandable, but you took. Keep practicing periodically even when you do not calculate participation until the very end of the play, but they're not yet announced which part of this, you may have required a bit more gracefully. Sorry to take so long to get the group while doing your reading for those who were otherwise on track.

None of this is unlikely, because they haven't started the reading. We can talk about is some aspect of the implications of course. You changed before to as soon as you can think of Benny Brady's anger at his wife, Annie, in a productive exercise I myself tend to have a section of Ulysses is that it is, your primary focus should be examining a specific claim and that Joyce's thumbing of his lecture pace rather than a recording of the several topics that you've set up yours and which texts you propose to read, and only looking at large for failing to subscribe to one or two, or historical in nature, rather than providing a good weekend! As I said before, and went above and beyond.

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Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 2 Review: What is Kate’s Game?

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DCI Jo Davidson: D for Devious. C for Corrupt. I for I wonder what hold the OCG has over her. Because that flappy car tantrum was not the act of an ice-cool customer solely in it for the spondulicks. Jo’s a foe in woe. Why? We don’t know.

What we do know is that AC-12’s shade-ar now has a 100% detection rate. Every time it’s pointed at a potentially bent copper, it finds one. The moment Davidson picked up that burner phone from Beardy Blue Van Man, she lost all claim to innocence. Everything now points to her having 1) tipped off the OCG about Carl Banks running his mouth, 2) bought them enough time to kill him and the CHIS framed for Banks’ murder, and 3) used her keys to Farida’s to plant those burner phones and frame her as the leak.

What made Davidson do it, and whether AC-12 will be able to nail her are the questions. This series is still at the drawing-us-in phase, making steady progress by laying the ground and setting mysteries instead of bounding from one shock to the next.

Speaking of nailing Davidson: now that she’s dirtier than a street dog, is Kate about to lie down and catch fleas? DI Fleming was firmly on Team Jo this episode, thumbing her nose and rolling her eyes at AC-12 at every opportunity. When Steve tried to muster a sense of bonhomie in that piss-stinking underpass, Kate was having none of it. She betrayed him to get in Davidson’s good books, exposing Steve to a humiliating defeat when he and his troops stormed the Hill, his waistcoat puffed up with the fair winds of justice.

Was Kate and AC-12’s break-up really that bad, or – and a prize poppadom to everyone who got here earlier than me – is the lady protesting too much? It wouldn’t be the first time Fleming has gone undercover via a different anti-corruption team. The twist would be that, having exhausted all the Forster, Francis, Flynn surname variants in previous series, this time she’s gone undercover as herself, playing a disgruntled ex-anti-corruption officer who’s had it up to here with those pious tossers at anti-corruption. Hate those guys.

It’s one explanation for the cosy glass of wine, lingering hug and weekend invitation. Another equally plausible scenario is that Kelly Macdonald is a pre-Raphaelite beauty, even in her sensible trousers, and Kate’s recently single and ready to mingle. Who could blame her?

It is in the air, after all. John Corbett’s widow Steph let Steve know that he’d be welcome to visit her bungalow whenever the desire arose. Steve’s problem is that thanks to his injury and painkiller addiction, nothing of his has risen for well over a year. (Not strictly true. In a victory that couldn’t have been more bittersweet if it had come dipped in Green & Blacks Organic Dark 70%, Steve’s finally been promoted to DI – rewarded for his loyalty by a Super he’s planning to skip out on.)

Uncharacteristically, Steve wasn’t at Steph’s for yet another unwise sexual liaison, he was there to covertly suss out why she’d visited Ted at work. If I heard it right, Steph told Ted “You promised you’d call me back, it’s HMRC,” before he ushered her out of headquarters. Are people starting to get suspicious about that so-called life insurance sum (actually £50K of hooky cash Ted passed Steph to make up for the lack of police pay-out on John’s death)? Another mystery: are Ted’s buttocks the ones leaving a dent in Steph’s sofa in front of that big TV on match nights? 

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Apologies there, for the blasphemous mention of Ted Hastings’ buttocks. Three Hail Marys and an act of contrition later, where were we?

That’s right, the return of Ryan Pilkington or The Caddy V2.0. The OCG’s newest inside man, Ryan’s history with AC-12 made for some awkward moments – whenever Steve showed up at The Hill, Ryan had to duck behind a tall plant lest Arnott remember that time he tried to amputate his fingers with a set of bolt cutters. Kate, now working alongside Pilkington, struggled to place him as the kid she’d once attempted to scare straight with threats of the sexual assault he’d face in juvenile custody. For Ryan to be Farida’s replacement on this case means there’s definitely somebody on high pulling the strings. Two to one odds it’s CC Osborne, whose conspiracy to cover up Steve’s botched Counter-Terrorism op in series one we were reminded of in that first Vella clip.

No thanks to Murder Squad, there was a breakthrough on the Vella investigation. Steve and Chloe (Ted was right, a great wee girl) have learned that Vella was poised to go public with her findings on police corruption, and so was likely killed for her silence.

The Vella case has been the force’s highest priority for over a year and has got nowhere. AC-12 poke it for five minutes and they’ve already uncovered a motive. It’s amazing how much police work can get done when the investigators aren’t being bribed to drop the evidence in puddles and misplace their pencil when it’s time to take down witness statements. “Working their bollocks off to find Gail Vella’s killer,” are they, ACC Wise? If Central Police are so desperate to solve Gail’s murder, why put Ian pigging Buckells in charge, an officer with only half of what it takes to be a useful idiot. 

It’s a clever trick, inserting Vella into the past investigations. Zoom out a little from every series we’ve watched and it’s easy to believe there she’s been, watching alongside us, raising eyebrows and keeping receipts. Vella’s a mouthpiece for series creator Jed Mercurio’s well-aired opinions on PR and optics-led politics and policing. (Literally a mouthpiece. He gave me her line questioning what corrupt police officers were getting out of their relationship with Jimmy Savile back in 2016.) Her case may also have been partly inspired by the still unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987 – as namechecked by Vella’s producer – a case with alleged connections to serious police corruption. 

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Wrapping Vella around the past series is a neat turn, but comes with the drawback of needing to keep those cases alive in viewers’ memories. That means more recap dialogue than we’re used to from a series that usually, flatteringly, speeds off without a backwards glance and expects us to keep up. “If your man pulled the trigger that means he’s a gun for hire, the order came from higher up,” said Ted this episode. “If organised crime ordered the murder of Gail Vella, they’re protecting Carl Banks and framing Terry Boyle,” said Steve. “Yeah, we get it”, says Kate, speaking for the viewer. Credit us with some grasp, Line of Duty. Loyalty works both ways.

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shitty headcanons | floch forster requested by @st4rsinclined

reading makes him annoyed. mostly because he got some mild dyslexia, & he gets headaches out of frustration. he doesn't know why he struggles

he is well equipped to understand pitch; although he doesn't have perfect pitch, he has great relative pitch (he can identify or echo any pitch that he hears)

he cries when he laughs. he lives in great fear that once he starts crying he might cry in earnest. it's only happened a few times

modern ! he's over active on twitter. just block him already, tbh.

he breaks out when he's stressed

overly zealous about altoids. they help him focus.

modern ! genuinely hates paranormal movies but watches them anyway. he calls it exposure therapy

modern ! has an impressive duolingo streak. actually, he picks up language really easily

he's from the city & was hard pressed to know anything but city noise.

generally can't decide if he prefers to be assigned to indoor work or outdoor. he's not sure which he's suited for most, & he would prefer to avoid unnecessary headaches

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Las amistades peligrosas Pierre Choderlos De Laclos. 93 puntos

El gran Meaulnes, de Alain-Fournier. 92 puntos

Sinuhé el egipcio, de Mika Waltari. 92 puntos

El segundo sexo, de Simone de Beauvoir. 91 puntos

La espuma de los días, de Boris Vian. 91 puntos

Once minutos, de Paulo Coelho. 91 puntos

Cuentos de Canterbury, de Geoffrey Chaucer. 90 puntos

Poeta en Nueva York, de Federico García Lorca. 90 puntos

Abadía pesadilla, Thomas Love Peacock. 90 puntos

El Hobbit, de J.R.R. Tolkien. 89 puntos

Esperando a Godot, de Samuel Beckett. 89 puntos

La oveja negra, de Honore De Balzac. 89 puntos

Cuentos, de Edgar Allan Poe. 88 puntos

El ser y la nada, de Jean-Paul Sartre. 88 puntos

Middlemarch, de George Eliot. 88 puntos

La cartuja de Parma, de Stendhal. 88 puntos

Ángeles y demonios, de Dan Brown. 87 puntos

El árbol dador, de Shel Silverstein. 87 puntos

La comunidad del anillo (El señor de los anillos I), de J. R. R. Tolkien.  87 puntos

Archipiélago Gulag , de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  86 puntos

El niño con el pijama de rayas, de John Boyne.  86 puntos

Las dos torres (El señor de los anillos II), de J. R. R. Tolkien.  86 puntos

Sybil, de Benjamin Disraeli.  86 puntos

Amanecer, de Stephenie Meyer.  85 puntos

El lobo estepario, de Hermann Hesse.  85 puntos

Paroles, de Jacques Prévert.  85 puntos

Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo.  85 puntos

El sueño eterno, de Raymond Chandler.  85 puntos

Alcoholes, de Guillaume Apollinaire.  84 puntos

El nombre del viento, de Patrick Rothfuss.  84 puntos

La guía del autoestopista galáctico, de Douglas Adams.  84 puntos

El Loto Azul, de Hergé.  83 puntos

Bajo el volcán, de Malcolm Lowry.  82 puntos

Eclipse, de Stephenie Meyer.  82 puntos

Verónika decide morir, de Paulo Coelho.  82 puntos

Vanity Fair, de William Makepeace Thackeray.  82 puntos

Beloved, de Toni Morrison.  81 puntos

Las mil y una noches.  81 puntos

Tristes trópicos, de Claude Lévi-Strauss.  81 puntos

La letra escarlata, de Nathaniel Hawthorne.  81 puntos

Hijos de la medianoche, de Salman Rushdie.  80 puntos

Inés del alma mía, de Isabel Allende.  80 puntos

La muerte de Virgilio, de Hermann Broch.  79 puntos

Travesuras de la niña mala, de Mario Vargas Llosa.  79 puntos

Astérix el Galo, de René Goscinny y Albert Uderzo.  78 puntos

Ensayos, de Michel de Montaigne.  78 puntos

Luna Nueva , de Stephenie Meyer.  78 puntos

La dama de blanco, de Wilkie Collins.  78 puntos

Azteca, de Gary Jennings.  77 puntos

La cantante calva, de Eugène Ionesco.  77 puntos

Matadero 5, de Kurt Vonnegut.  77 puntos

El alquimista, de Paulo Coelho.  76 puntos

Hijo nativo, de Richard Wright.  76 puntos

Rojo y negro, Stendhal.  76 puntos

Romeo y Julieta, de William Shakespeare.  76 puntos

Tres ensayos sobre teoría sexual, de Sigmund Freud.  76 puntos

Mujercitas, de Louisa M. Alcott.  76 puntos

De la democracia en América, de Alexis de Tocqueville.  75 puntos

El aleph, Jorge Luis Borges.  75 puntos

Historias de hadas para adultos, de Daína Chaviano.  75 puntos

La mujer del viajero en el tiempo, de Audrey Niffenegger.  75 puntos

Los santos inocentes, de Miguel Delibes.  75 puntos

Opus Nigrum, de Marguerite Yourcenar.  75 puntos

Sinsajo, de Suzanne Collins.  75 puntos

El mundo en que vivimos, Anthony Trollope.  75 puntos

El origen de las especies, de Charles Darwin.  74 puntos

Historia, de Heródoto.  73 puntos

Daniel Deronda, de George Eliot.  73 puntos

El contrato social, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  72 puntos

El desierto de los tártaros, de Dino Buzzati.  72 puntos

El capital, de Karl Marx.  71 puntos

Las flores del mal, de Charles Baudelaire.  71 puntos

Los monederos falsos, de André Gide.  71 puntos

El retrato de una dama, de Henry James.  71 puntos

Ana de las tejas verdes, de L. M. Montgomery.  70 puntos

El banquete, de Platón.  70 puntos

El húsar en el tejado, de Jean Giono.  70 puntos

El príncipe, de Maquiavelo.  70 puntos

Bella del Señor, de Albert Cohen.  69 puntos

Las confesiones, de San Agustín.  69 puntos

Mi planta de naranja-lima, de José Mauro de Vasconcelos.  69 puntos

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción, de Pablo Neruda.  69 puntos

La educación sentimental, de Gustave Flaubert.  68 puntos

Leviatan, de Thomas Hobbes.  68 puntos

Rayuela, de Julio Cortázar.  68 puntos

Tres hombres en una barca, de Jerome K. Jerome.  68 puntos

Como agua para chocolate, de Laura Esquivel.  67 puntos

Elegías de Duino, de Rainer Maria Rilker.  67 puntos

Festín de cuervos, de George R.R. Martin  67 puntos

Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso, de Tucídides.  67 puntos

En tiempo de prodigios, de Marta Rivera de la Cruz.  66 puntos

Therese Desqueyroux , de François Mauriac.  66 puntos

La canción de Solomon, de Toni Morrison.  66 puntos

El viento en los sauces, de Kenneth Grahame.  66 puntos

Diario de un don nadie, de George Grossmith.  66 puntos

El oficio de vivir, de Cesare Pavese.  65 puntos

La historia interminable, de Michael Ende.  65 puntos

Winnie-the-Pooh, de A. A. Milne.  65 puntos

Zazie en el metro, de Raymond Queneau.  65 puntos

Jude el oscuro, de Thomas Hardy.  65 puntos

El libro del desasosiego, de Fernando Pessoa.  64 puntos

La confusión de los sentimientos, de Stefan Zweig.  64 puntos

Una arruga en el tiempo, de Madeleine L' Engle.  64 puntos

El enigma de las arenas, de Erskine Childers.  64 puntos

Arráncame la vida, de Ángeles Mastretta.  63 puntos

Obra completa, de Jorge Luis Borges.  63 puntos

La llamada de la selva, de Jack London. 63 puntos

Así habló Zaratustra, de Friederich Nietzsche. 62 puntos

El amante de Lady Chatterley , de D. H. Lawerence 62 puntos

El corazón helado, de Almudena Grandes.  62 puntos

Lord Jim, de Joseph Conrad.  62 puntos

Nostromo, de Joseph Conrad.  62 puntos

De ratones y hombres de, John Steinbeck.  61 puntos

El hombre, la hembra y el hambre, de Daína Chaviano.  61 puntos

La naranja mecánica, de Anthony Burgess.  61 puntos

Buenos días, tristeza, de Françoise Sagan.  60 puntos

Diez negritos, de Agatha Christie.  60 puntos

Siddharta, de Hermann Hesse.  60 puntos

El silencio del mar, de Vercors,Jean Bruller.  59 puntos

Fortuna y Jacinta, de Benito Pérez Galdós.  59 puntos

La princesa prometida, de William Goldman.  59 puntos

Noche, de Elie Wiesel.  59 puntos

El arcoíris, de D. H. Lawrence.  59 puntos

El plan infinito, de Isabel Allende.  58 puntos

Historias extraordinarias, de Edgar Allan Poe.  58 puntos

La vida: instrucciones de uso , de Georges Perec.  58 puntos

Luz de agosto, de William Faulkner.  58 puntos

Marina de Carlos Ruiz Zafón.  58 puntos

El buen soldado Ford, Madox Ford.  58 puntos

A orillas del río Piedra me senté y lloré, de Paulo Coelho.  57 puntos

La ciudad y los perros, de Mario Vargas Llosa.  57 puntos

Las almas de la gente negra, de W. E. B. Du Bois.  57 puntos

Treinta y nueve escalones, de John Buchan.  57 puntos

Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco, de Ken Kesey.  56 puntos

Bajo el sol de Satanás, de Georges Bernanos.  56 puntos

Donde viven los monstruos, de Maurice Sendak.  56 puntos

El ancho mar de los Sargazos, de Jean Rhys.  56 puntos

El caballero de la armadura oxidada, de Robert Fisher.  56 puntos

La tierra baldía, de T.S. Elilot.  56 puntos

Metamorfosis, de Ovidio  55 puntos

La broma, de Milan Kundera.  54 puntos

Paraíso perdido, de John Milton.  54 puntos

Poemas, de Emily Dickinson.  54 puntos

El club Dante, de Matthew Pearl.  53 puntos

El desprecio, de Alberto Moravia.  53 puntos

Desde mi cielo, de Alice Sebold.   52 puntos

El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd, de Agatha Christie.  52 puntos

El camino, de Miguel Delibes.  52 puntos

La bruja de Portobello, de Paulo Coelho.  52 puntos

La suma de los días, de Isabel Allende.  51 puntos

Nadja, de André Breton.  51 puntos

Trilce, de César Vallejo.  51 puntos

Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway.  51 puntos

Agua para elefantes, de Sara Gruen.  50 puntos

Aurélien, de Louis Aragon.  50 puntos

Otello, de William Shakespeare.  50 puntos

El puente de Alcántara, de Frank Baer.  49 puntos

El zapato de raso, de Paul Claudel.  49 puntos

Huevos verdes con jamón, de Dr. Seuss.  49 puntoss

Sonetos, de William Shakespeare.  49 puntos

¡Absalón, absalón! De William Faulkner.  49 puntos

El jardín secreto, de Frances Hodgson Burnett.  48 puntos

Hojas de hierba, de Walt Whitman.  48 puntos

La sonrisa etrusca, de José Luis Sampedro.  48 puntos

Odas, de Horacio.  48 puntos

Seis personajes en busca de autor,de Luigi Pirandello.  48 puntos

El largo adiós, de Raymond Chandler.  47 puntos

El resistible ascenso de Arturo Ui, de Bertolt Brecht.  47 puntos

La ayuda, de Kathryn Stockett.  47 puntos

Scoop Evelyn Waugh.  47 puntos

El cuento número trece, de Diane Setterfield.  46 puntos

El idiota, de Fiódor Dostoievski.  46 puntos

Kim, de Rudyard Kipling.  46 puntos

Lazarillo de Tormes.  46 puntos

Viernes o la vida salvaje, de Michel Tournier.  46 puntos

EE.UU. de John Dos Passos.  46 puntos

El astillero, de Juan Carlos Onetti.  45 puntos

El Juego del Ángel, de Carlos Ruiz Zafón.  45 puntos

Historia de dos ciudades, de Charles Dickens.  45 puntos

La guerra de los mundos, de H. G. Wells.  45 puntos

El primer hombre, de Albert Camus.  44 puntos

La huésped, de Stephenie Meyer.   44 puntos

Si esto es un hombre, de Primo Levi.  44 puntos

La búsqueda del amor, de Nancy Mitford. 44 puntos

El hacedor, de Jorge Luis Borges. 43 puntos

La quinta montaña, de Paulo Coelho.  43 puntos

La peste, de Albert Camus.  43 puntos

Asesinato en el Oriente Express, de Agatha Christie.  42 puntos

Los zarcillos de la viña, de Colette.  42 puntos

Sentido y sensibilidad, de Jane Austen.  42 puntos

Y de repente, un ángel, de Jaime Bayly.  42 puntos

Capital del dolor, de Paul Éluard.  41 puntos

El origen perdido, de Matilde Asensi.  41 puntos

Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres, de Stieg Larsson.  41 puntos

Malone muere, de Samuel Beckett.  41 puntos

La conjura de los necios, de John Kennedy Toole.  40 puntos

La regenta, Leopoldo Alas Clarín.  40 puntos

Martin Eden, de Jack London.  40 puntos

Memorias de Idhún I. La Resistencia, de Laura Gallego García.  40 puntos

Vida de Pi , de Yann Martel.  40 puntos

La balada del mar salado, de Hugo Pratt.  39 puntos

La casa de Bernarda Alba, de Federico García Lorca.  39 puntos

Las luces de septiembre, de Carlos Ruiz Zafón.  39 puntos

Las olas, de Virginia Woolf.  39 puntos

Sangre sabia, de Flannery O'Connor.  39 puntos

El grado cero de la escritura, de Roland Barthes.  38 puntos

La mujer justa, de Sándor Márai.  38 puntos

Al este del Edén, de John Steinbeck.  37 puntos

Diarios, de Franz Kafka.   37 puntos

El cuaderno dorado, de Doris Lessing.   37 puntos

El honor perdido de Katharina Blum, de Heinrich Boll.  37 puntos

El mar de las Sirtes, de Julien Gracq.  36 puntos

La celestina, de Fernando de Rojas.  36 puntos

Retrato en sepia, de Isabel Allende.  36 puntos

Lucky Jim, de Kingsley Amis.  36 puntos

El evangelio según Jesucristo, de José Saramago.  35 puntos

El tiempo entre costuras, de María Dueñas.  35 puntos

Las palabras y las cosas, de Michel Foucault.  35 puntos

Lo mejor que le puede pasar a un cruasán, de Pablo Tusset.  35 puntos

Ricardo III, de William Shakespeare.  35 puntos

Residencia en la tierra, de Pablo Neruda.  34 puntos

El americano impasible, de Graham Greene.  34 puntos

Demian, de Herman Hesse.  33 puntos

El maravilloso viaje de Nils Holgersson, Selma Lagerlöf.  33 puntos

Fiesta, de Ernest Hemingway.  33 puntos

Paula, de Isabel Allende.  33 puntos

La ciudad de las bestias, de Isabel Allende.  32 puntos

Una habitación propia, de Virginia Woolf.  32 puntos

Yo, Claudio, de Robert Graves.  32 puntos

Ciudad de Hueso, de Cassandra Clare.  31 puntos

Conversación en la catedral, de Mario Vargas Llosa.  31 puntos

Crónicas marcianas, de Ray Bradbury.  31 puntos

Marianela, de Benito Pérez Galdós.  31 puntos

Tokio blues, de Haruki Murakami.  31 puntos

El tambor de hojalata, de Günter Grass.  31 puntos

El arrebato de Lol V. Stein, de Marguerite Duras. 30 puntos

El príncipe de la niebla, de Carlos Ruiz Zafón.  30 puntos

Hijos y amantes, de D. H. Lawrence.  30 puntos

El atestado, de J. M. G. Le Clézio.  29 puntos

El gatopardo, de Giussepe Tomasi de Lampedusa.  29 puntos

El Reino del Dragón de Oro, de Isabel Allende.  29 puntos

Rebeldes, de S.E. Hinton.  29 puntos

Todos los hombres del Rey, de Robert Penn Warren.  29 puntos

Los mejores años de Miss Brodie, de Muriel Spark.  29 puntos

Dune, de Frank Herbert.  28 puntos

Pantaleón y las visitadoras, de Mario Vargas Llosa.  28 puntos

Tropismos, de Nathalie Sarraute.  28 puntos

Ve y dilo en la montaña, de James Baldwin.  28 puntos

Diario, 1887-1910 , de Jules Renard.  27 puntos

La colina de Watership, de Richard Adams.  27 puntos

¿Hay alguien ahí fuera? de Marian Keyes.  27 puntos

La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina, de Stieg Larsson.  26 puntos

La danza de la muerte, de Stephen King. 26 puntos

Tus zonas erróneas, de Wayne Dyer.  26 puntos

Herzog, de Saul Bellow.  26 puntos

Canto general, de Pablo Neruda.  25 puntos

El rabino, de Noah Gordon.  25 puntos

El viejo y el mar, de Ernest Hemingway.  25 puntos

Escritos, de Jacques Lacan.  25 puntos

Conejo, corre, de J. Updike.  24 puntos

El teatro y su doble, de Antonin Artaud.  24 puntos

La insoportable levedad del ser, de Milan Kundera.  24 puntos

Las ventajas de ser un marginado, de Stephen Chbosky.  24 puntos

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, de Elizabeth Taylor.  24 puntos

De amor y de sombra, de Isabel Allende.  23 puntos

La decisión de Anne, de Jodi Picoult.  23 puntos

La edad de la inocencia, de Edith Wharton.  23 puntos

Luces de Bohemia, de Ramón María del Valle-Inclán.  23 puntos

Manhattan Transfer, de John Dos Passos.  23 puntos

El topo, de John Le Carre.  23 puntos

El mal de Portnoy, de P. Roth.  22 puntos

El peregrino de Compostela, de Paulo Coelho.  22 puntos

La guerra del fin del mundo, de Mario Vargas Llosa.  22 puntos

Un árbol crece en Brooklyn ,de Betty Smith.  22 puntos

La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire, de Stieg Larsson.  21 puntos

Moravagine, de Blaise Cendrars.   21 puntos

Mujeres de ojos grandes, de Ángeles Mastretta.   21 puntos

Una tragedia americana, de Theodore Dreiser.   21 puntos

La fábrica de botellas, Outing Beryl Bainbridge.   21 puntos

Aforismos, de G.C. Lichtenberg.  20 puntos

El día de la langosta, de Nathanael West.  20 puntos

El último judío, de Noah Gordon.  20 puntos

Grandes esperanzas, de Charles Dickens.  20 puntos

Max Aub, de Javier Quiñones.  20 puntos

La canción del verdugo, de Norman Mailer.  20 puntos

El general del ejército muerto, de Ismail Kadare.  19 puntos

La decisión de Sophie , de William Styron.  19 puntos

La doctora Cole, de Noah Gordon.  19 puntos

Manifiesto comunista, de Karl Marx.  19 puntos

Trópico de cáncer, de Henry Miller.  19 puntos

Si una noche de invierno un viajero, de Italo Calvino.  19 puntos

El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche, de Matt Hadom.  18 puntos

El halcón maltés, de Dashiell Hammett.  18 puntos

Las cenizas de Ángela, de Frank McCourt.  18 puntos

Mortal y rosa, de Francisco Umbral.  18 puntos

Romancero gitano, de Federico García Lorca.  18 puntos

Usted puede sanar su vida, de Louise Hay.  18 puntos

Una curva en el río, de V. S. Naipaul. 18 puntos

Dublineses, de James Joyce.  17 puntos

El misterio de la cripta embrujada, de Eduardo Mendoza. 17 puntos

La materia oscura, de Philip Pullman. 17 puntos

Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, de Arthur Conan Doyle.  17 puntos

Pietr el letón, de Georges Simenon.  17 puntos

Viaje al centro de la Tierra, de Julio Verne.  17 puntos

Esperando a los bárbaros , de J. M. Coetzee.  17 puntos

Al borde del peligro, de Shel Silverstein.   16 puntos

La muerte del Arzobispo, de Willa Cather.  16 puntos

Las piadosas, de Federico Andahazi.   16 puntos

Santa María de las Flores, de Jean Genet. 16 puntos

Servicio de limpieza, de Marilynne Robinson.  16 puntos

El cuento de La Sierva, de Margaret Atwood.  15 puntos

Jacobus, de Matilde Asensi.  15 puntos

La interpretación de los sueños, de S. Freud.  15 puntos

Peter Pan, de James Matthew Barrie.  15 puntos

Lanark, de Alasdair Gray.  15 puntos

Doce cuentos peregrinos, de Gabriel García Márquez.  14 puntos

El hombre sin atributos, de Robert Musil.  14 puntos

Furor y misterio, de René Char.  14 puntos

La carretera, de Cormac McCarthy.  14 puntos

La educación de Henry Adams, de Henry Adams.  14 puntos

Momo, de Michael Ende.  14 puntos

Sonetos, de Quevedo.  14 puntos

La trilogía de Nueva York, de Paul Auster.  14 puntos

El anatomista, de Federico Andahazi.  13 puntos

La tia Julia y el escribidor, de Mario Vargas Llosa.  13 puntos

Pensamiento de Mao Zedong, de Mao Zedong.  13 puntos

El gran gigante bonachon, de Roald Dah.l  13 puntos

El maestro y margarita, de Mijaíl Bulgakov.  12 puntos

La Biblia Envenenada, de por Barbara Kingsolver.  12 puntos

La vuelta al mundo en 80 días, de Julio Verne.  12 puntos

Mal de amores, de Ángeles Mastretta.  12 puntos

No hay orquídeas para Miss Blandish, de James Hadley Chase.  12 puntos

Psicología de la religión, de William James.  12 puntos

El sistema periódico, de Primo Levi.  12 puntos

Blake y Mortimer, de Edgar P. Jacobs.  11 puntos

El cuarteto de Alejandría, de Lawrence Durrell.   11 puntos

El perro de los Baskerville, de Arthur Conan Doyle.  11 puntos

La campana de cristal, de Sylvia Plath.  11 puntos

Retorno a Brideshead, de Evelyn Waugh.  11 puntos

Dinero, de Martin Amis.  11 puntos

La caída, de Albert Camus.  10 puntos

La familia de pascual duarte, de Camilo José Cela.  10 puntos

La sombra del águila, de Arturo Pérez-Reverte.  10 puntos

Los cuadernos de Malte Laurids Brigge, de Rainer Maria Rilke.  10 puntos

Primavera silenciosa, de Rachel Carson.  10 puntos

Un artista del mundo flotante, de Kazuo Ishiguro.  10 puntos

El color púrpura, de Alice Walter.  9 puntos

La modificación, de Michel Butor.  9 puntos

Orlando, de Virginia Woolf.  9 puntos

Rebecca, de Daphne du Maurier.  9 puntos

Teoría general de la ocupación, de John Maynard Keynes.  9 puntos

Oscar y Lucinda, de Peter Carey.  9 puntos

Divergente, de Veronica Roth.  8 puntos

La colmena, de Camilo José Cela.  8 puntos

Los inconsolables, de Kazuo Ishiguro. 8 puntos

Los orígenes del totalitarismo, de Hannah Arendt.  8 puntos

El libro de la risa y el olvido, de Milan Kundera.  8 puntos

Adiós a todo eso, de Robert Graves.  7 puntos

Espacio, de Juan Ramón Jiménez.  7 puntos

Las cuatro estaciones, de Stephen King.  7 puntos

Sin noticias de Gurb, de Eduardo Mendoza.  7 puntos

Haroun y el mar de las historias, de Salman Rushdie.  7 puntos

La crucifixión rosa, de Henry Miller.  6 puntos

La sociedad opulenta, de John Kenneth Galbraith.  6 puntos

Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito, de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.  6 puntos

L.A. Confidential, de James Ellroy.  6 puntos

El jardín de los Finzi Contini, de Giorgio Bassani.  5 puntos

El séptimo secreto, de Irving Wallace.  5 puntos

Niños sabios, de Angela Carter.  5 puntos

Amers , de Saint-John Perse.  4 puntos

Bajo la misma estrella, de John Green.  4 puntos

Chamán, de Noah Gordon.  4 puntos

El inquisidor, de Patricio Sturlese.  4 puntos

La autobiografía de Malcom X, de Alex Haley y Malcolm X.  4 puntos

Palmeras salvajes, de William Faulkner.  4 puntos

Expiación, de Ian McEwan.  4 puntos

Harri eta herri , de Gabriel Aresti.  3 puntos

La historia del loco, de John Katzenbach.  3 puntos

Los victorianos eminentes, de Lytton Strachey.  3 puntos

Tomás el gafe, de André Franquin.  3 puntos

Luces del Norte, de Philip Pullman.  3 puntos

Abril en París, de Michael Wallner.  2 puntos

El mundo de Sofía, de Jostein Garden.  2 puntos

Obras completas, de Pío Baroja.  2 puntos

Pastoral americana, de Philip Roth.  2 puntos

La rebelión de Atlas, de Ayn Rand.  1 punto

La segunda Guerra Mundial, de Winston Churchill.  1 punto

Austerlitz, de W. G. Sebald.  1 punto

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i was tagged by @leivangel to do these many questions!!!! thank u i luv u!! <3

Rules: Answer these 85 statements and tag 20 people

THE LAST 1. drink: it was a raspberry orange juice box lmao it’s sitting on the coffee table next to me 2. phone call: my mother, but humourously, i was upstairs in the office of my work and she was downstairs, we’d gone to get some things and i’d gone upstairs but i needed to ask her something and didn’t want to come downstairs 3. text message: “”Also, I hear that song on the radio way more than Harry’s” 4. song you listened to: Alternative Facts, Dead People by the Gregory Brothers 5. time you cried: idk probably earlier this week i’m a cancer so sue me 6. dated someone twice: not even once!! 7. kissed someone and regretted it: no 8. been cheated on: no 9. lost someone special: idk i guess 10. been depressed: not depressed, i been sad and i got other mental health issues but not depressed 11. gotten drunk and thrown up: nope i don’t drink lmao

3 FAVOURITE COLOURS 12. purple (literally the most i live for it) 13. blue (especially lighter blues) 14. pink

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU

15. made new friends: lmao no i don’t make friends easy at all 16. fallen out of love: nope lol! 17. laughed until you cried: yeah most recently it was because i showed mom the shape of my toes and we couldn’t stop laughing 18. found out someone was talking about you: um a little bit not too much 19. met someone who changed you: NO lol like whomst 20. found out who your friends are: well kinda lol i’ve had beef with a few, silently, in my head, they don’t know 21. kissed someone on your Facebook list: what even is Face Book tbh?

GENERAL: 22. how many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: i honestly think 99% of them, i think i have a rare relative i’ve never met 23. do you have any pets: yes!!!!!!!! 3 cats and a rat and i love them all so much!!!!  (those who follow me know this lol) 24. do you want to change your name: i don’t think so, my name is pretty and i like the spelling version i got 25. what did you do for your last birthday: it was nice! I had a friend from out of town visiting and she’s never been to my hometown so it was so good to have her!!!!!!!!!! ( @count-your-last-blessings lol shout out) i took her to the canada day festivities b/c my birthday is on canada day and later we had supper and cake with my family 26. what time did you wake up: once at 6:50am, once at 7:40 (showered and stayed up a bit) then again at about 10am. 27. what were you doing at midnight last night: i had just gotten off the computer and was playing angry birds on my ipad for another hour 28. name something you can’t wait for: i’m getting indian food tomorrow and the restaurant has gluten free roti! so the roti 29. when was the last time you saw your mom: she’s literally...right in front of me 31. what are you listening to right now: the second Trump-Clinton debate song by the Gregory Brothers (featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 32. have you ever talked to a person named tom: i’m sure??? also my rat is named tom 33. something that is getting on your nerves: larries but that’s always 34. most visited website: it’s probably tumblr tbh then youtube and ao3 35. hair colour: just, regular old brown lol 36. long or short hair: short, i can’t deal with having long hair 37. do you have a crush on someone: no lol, pretty much never 38. what do you like about yourself: i have really nice teeth! 39. piercings: nope not even ears 40. blood type: i actually have no idea 41. nickname: i have almost no nicknames, i have two friends that call me gluten but that’s it 42. relationship status: pleasantly single 43. zodiac: cancer 44. pronouns: she/her 45. favourite tv show: downton abbey !!! BITH!!!!!!!!! 46. tattoos: none but i would like an anchor on my arm! 47. right or left handed: right handed 48. surgery: i had my wisdom teeth removed?? that count? 50. sport: i literally hate every activity but walking but i like watching soccer obviously 51. vacation: i’ve been to alberta (province next to mine) twice, across the country in Ottawa (and briefly Quebec) once, once to California, and once to Washington DC 52. pair of trainers: all i own are tons of keds and vans, so, um, lots

MORE GENERAL 53. eating: nothing atm, i did have rice (favourite food!) and veg and pork earlier 54. drinking: nothing atm, i like sparkling water best 55. I’m about to: do nothing at all, probably play another song on youtube when mom asks why the music stopped 56. waiting for: nothing tbh? I’m in the clear 57. want: right now? idk probably candy, in general i want a gerard pique jersey, a fraser forster jersey, a leo jersey, and a kun aguero jersey 58. get married: um idk if it feels right 59. career: i’m gonna be a kindergarten teacher i’m in the program to be one!

WHICH IS BETTER: 60. hugs or kisses: honestly???? I hate both 61. lips or eyes: i guess eyes? 62. shorter or taller: i love a good short man (cristian techera, looking at you) 63. older or younger: i go for baby faced but i think someone older for me would be better 64. nice arms or nice stomach: stomach 100%, i hate veiny arms because i’m terrified of veins 65. hookup or relationship: relationship 66. troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant 100% there is not a troublesome bone in my body

HAVE YOU EVER: 67. kissed a stranger: no 68. drank hard liquor: nope i don’t drink 69. lost glasses/contact lenses: no they’re always on my face 70. turned someone down: i guess lowkey but not really 71. sex on the first date: no! lol! 73. had your heart broken: no 74. been arrested: no 75. cried when someone died: yeah also my bird died two days ago i’m very sad 76. fallen for a friend: a little bit in the past actually but

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 77. yourself: curiously, mostly, i’m rarely bothered at what life throws me 78. miracles: sometimes 79. love at first sight: not particularly usually lol, suppose it could happen 80. santa claus: no 81. kiss on the first date: NO lol not for me 82. angels: i believe in ghosts so angels could be real

OTHER: 84. eye colour: they’re blue! kinda a dull blue tho 85. favourite movie: little miss sunshine!!!!

ok dam who should i tag well @count-your-last-blessings lol jeevan ur tagged in this already so take part if you want, @mrhugolloris , @kierantierney , @mccleans (although she’s NEVER ON ahem) @kingpique , and um anyone else?