#ben and lucille coded

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[jamesbuckybarns]

Babieee mutuals as historical figures? 🙂

i lost my shit over this but it worth it!

disclaimer: this is based on the vibes, i tried to make it accurate so it could match with my mutuals’ vibe, don’t judge pls, i did my best :( i tried to include as many mutuals as i could, so sorry if i forgot you!

Olympe de Gouges

@bens-jawline — this woman is one of the first feminist, she fought for women’s rights especially during the French Revolution. for her, women are able to do things that were reserved for "men", she also published in 1791 the Declaration des droits de la femme et de la Citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen in english) in response to the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du Citoyen (Declaration of the Roghts of man and of the Citizen in english) published in 1789 // Andrea, through our conversations give me this vibe and always supporting women and i love you for that!

Jane Austen

@brianmays-hair — talented writer, use realism, humor and became famous for it. i don’t know a lot about Jane Austen but based on what I’ve read about her this is the vibe Jess gives me!

Princess Margaret

@joemazzmatazz — she was surnamed the "rebel princess", in public she always appeared to be fun and she was loved by everyone. sure, her life wasn’t easy but this part of her personality that i just described gives me Regan’s vibe! Regan you’re always fun, you’re like one of the coolest mutuals i have and i feel like everyone loves you for it, always here with humour and it lights up my days!

Camille Desmoulins

@queen-paladin & @rhapsodyrecs — french politician and journalist he played a major part during the French Revolution. he decided that green would be the color of hope. this little anecdote about him decided of a meaning for green to gather people around him makes me thing about you two (sorry i couldn’t choose!), based on what you’re saying in the discord chat, you always give people hope, having kind words to help us when we have any doubts, thank you for this!

Princess Diana

@isitstraightvodka — we all know Diana’s charity work and that she was loved by literally everyone, she was kind to people and a natural beauty. this is the vibe liv gives me, always having kind words, you always reblog sweet things and you’re beautiful so this is what i thought of!

Demosthenes

@joeslee — you said you could end someone with your words, right?? well, in Ancient Greece, this man was a logographer which means that he was a professional writer of defense speech in trials. and since you always want to fight, that’s you 😌

Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin aka George Sand

@sonic-volcano — french writer, she went against the codes and decided to use a masculine pseudonym. she defended women’s cause and fought against the stereotypes of a conservative society. she wore male clothing without a permit because she said it was less expensive. anyway, vivi I see the way you’re supporting these things on here so this is why you give me this vibe, ily!

Isaac Newton

@ineloqueent — mathematician, physicist, astronomer and others things, he formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation. Tina, you give me his vibe because i know these are you specialties, i see you talking a lot about maths, physics and all so it’s what i thought of!

[themusechronicles]

Complete Muse List

* notes Original Characters

Abraham “Bram” Greenfeld - Keiynan Lonsdale       Bluegreen118 || Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (aka: Love, Simon)

Alexander “Alec” Lightwood - Matthew Daddario       Silver is a rarer metal than gold || Shadowhunter Chronicles

*Alizair “Zair” Hollis - Dominic Sherwood       The human side of wild || Original Muse

Allison Argent - Crystal Reed       Silver arrow of redemption || Teen Wolf

*Anabel “Ana” Lightwood-Bane - Arden Cho       Warlock Angel || Shadowhunter Chronicles OC

*Andrei Cruz - Jeremy Renner       One part saint and two part sinner || Original Muse

Anthony “Tony” Stark - Robert Downey Jr.       I love you 3000 || Marvel

Artemis Crescent - Kwon Jiyong       Advisor to the moon || Sailor Moon

Asmodeus - ???       A father’s love knows no bounds || Shadowhunter Chronicles

Aziraphale - Michael Sheen       Why are we talking about this good and evil? || Good Omens

Ben Solo - Adam Driver       I will finish what you started || Star Wars

Bruce Banner - Mark Ruffalo       That’s my secret. I’m always angry || Marvel

Caleb Danvers - Steven Strait       Golden boy of Ipswitch || Covenant

*Cassandra “Cassie” Rogers - Chloe Moretz       Daughter of the Captain || Marvel OC

Christopher “Chris” Argent - JR Bourne       We follow the code || Teen Wolf

Clarissa “Clary” Fairchild - Katherine Mcnamara       Creator of runes || Shadowhunter Chronicles

*Claudia Hale - Lyndsy Fonseca       Blue eyed bookworm || Teen Wolf OC

Clinton “Clint” Barton - Jeremy Renner       I see better from a distance || Marvel

Derek Hale - Tyler Hoechlin       I’m a predator not a killer || Teen Wolf

*Dokuno “Doku” Kokoro - Uruha [GazettE       My bite is worse than my bark || Original Muse

Elijah Mikaelson - Daniel Gillies       I made a vow. Always and forever || The Originals/Vampire Diaries

*Elijah “Eli” Roanoke - Stephen Amell       Complicated kind of lover || Original Muse

*Elliot “Elli” Erso - Joseph Morgan       Survivor of the dark || Original Muse

Evelyn “Evie” Queen - Sofia Carson       Magic mirror in my hand || Descendants

Finn Storm - John Boyega       The trooper who saw the light || Star Wars

Harry Hook - Thomas Doherty       Never learned how to count cuz I’m number one || Descendants

*Heather DeRoya - Emily Vancamp       I’m a special kind of demon || Original Muse

Isabelle “Izzy” Lightwood - Emeraude Toubia       I’m pure at heart. It repels the dirt || Shadowhunter Chronicles

James “Bucky” Barnes - Sebastian Stan       I remember all of them || Marvel

Jasper Hale - Jackson Rathbone       I didn’t have quite the same upbringing as my siblings || Twilight Saga

*Jessica “Jessi” Hawkblue - Claudia Kim       A fairytale life can be oh so overrated || Original Muse

Jonathan “Jace” Herondale - Dominic Sherwood       All the legends are true || Shadowhunter Chronicles

*Jordan Greer       My life is in the eyes of a little girl || Original Muse

Jordan Kyle - Katherine Mcnamara       Beati Bellicosi || Shadowhunter Chronicles

*Kataigida “Kat” Parthenopaeus - Tom Ellis [Dylan O’Brien]       Crown Prince of the afterlife || Original Muse

*Kevin Hawkblue - Ruki [GazettE]       Am I too broken to be who I was? || Original Muse

Kyo Sohma - ???       I’m gonna be a true member of this family || Fruits Basket

*Kyosuke “Kyo” Ryuu - TBD       A dragon’s ink is more than its blood || Original Muse

Loki Laufeyson - Tom Hiddleston       The sun will shine again || Marvel

Lucille “Lucy” Quinnzel - Ashely Benson       Princess of diamonds and laughter || DC

Luke Garroway - Isaiah Mustafa       I’ve walked both sides of the shadow world || Shadowhunter Chronicles

Lydia Branwell - Stephanie Bennett       Love the job itself || Shadowhunter Chronicles

Magnus Bane - Harry Shum Jr.       High Warlock of Brooklyn || Shadowhunter Chronicles

Maia Roberts - Alisha Wainwright       This is what love got me || Shadowhunter Chronicles

Malia Hale - Shelley Hennig       I used to have a fur coat || Teen Wolf

*Malika Udinov - Claire Holt       Power in a pretty face || Original Muse

Margaret “Maggie” Leigh - Jakhara Smith       My tiles are never wrong || NOS4A2

*Matthew “Matt” Bennett - Jake Abel       I chose drugs over my family & I’m paying the price || Original Muse

Mieczyslaw “Stiles” Stilinski - Dylan O’Brien       Some of us are human || Teen Wolf

Momiji Sohma - ???       Who’s in the forest strolling? || Fruits Basket

Natasha “Nat” Romanov - Scarlett Johannsen       I’ve got red in my ledger || Marvel

*Nevinovat “Nevi” Fata - Crystal Reed       Handmaiden to a demigoddess || Original Muse

Nikalus “Klaus” Mikaelson - Joseph Morgan       The original hybrid || The Originals/Vampire Diaries

Padme Amidala - Kiera Knightly       Senator and Queen || Star Wars

Peter Hale - Ian Bohen       We live in shades of grey || Teen Wolf

Peter Parker - Andrew Garfield [Tom Holland]       Friendly neighborhood Spiderman || Marvel

Rebecca “Becky” Daniels - Holland Roden       Not a victim any longer || Criminal Minds

Reno Akujin - ???       Turk Second in Command || Final Fantasy VII

Sebastian “Jonathan” Morgenstern - Will Tudor       Dark side of the bloodline || Shadowhunter Chronicles

Steven “Steve” Rogers - Chris Evans       Just a kid from Brooklyn || Marvel

Sun Wukong - ???       I’m a great stowaway || RWBY

*Tarael “Tara” Lightwood-Bane - Brant Daugherty       Angelic Warlock || Shadohunter Chronicles OC

*Terra Riley - Nina Dobrev       Heavenly hybrid alpha || Teen Wolf OC

Thor Odinson - Chris Hemsworth       I am alive because fate wills it so || Marvel

*Tristan “Tris” Royans - Nick Bateman       Soul forged of fire || Original Muse

*Valerie “Val” Wilson - Shay Mitchell       I follow a path all my own || Original Muse

Wanda Maximoff - Elizabeth Olsen       I can’t control my fear. Only my own || Marvel

Weiss Schnee - ????       Burdened by a royal test || RWBY

*Xavier Rybolt - David Castro       Demon made from a witch’s vow || Original Muse

[tangyyyy]

Lucille and Eliott met when they were both very young, here is a piece of their love story. They truly loved each other, maybe in a wrong way, but love isn’t always an easy thing to live and to do. From 2014 to 2019. From Lucille to Lucas, with a lot of Eliott in the middle.

Goodbye

Saturday, December 12, 2015, 14:08

Lying on the sofa in the living room, Lucille was immersing herself into her book, Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian. On the small table next to her was her cell phone and a hot cup of tea. Everything was for the best in the best of all possible worlds. After being graduated with great marks, Lucille had joined high school, the same as Eliott and two other friends. The life of high school's young girl pleased her beyond all hope. The growing independence, interesting teachers, new knowledges... And beyond all this, important things that didn't change. Always the same neighborhood where she felt so good, friends, Ali, Charlotte, long talks with her mother, her habits, her little pleasures and Eliott. More than a year since the two teenagers had chosen to be together. An eternity at this young age. Everything was going well between them. Eliott was the human being with whom Lucille preferred to spend all her free time. Indeed, they had fights. Which couple doesn't know any of them? Eliott's changing mood combined with Lucille's susceptibility sometimes resulted in full hours of cries and misunderstandings, but that never lasted. They always brought themselves together.

That day, her mother was at work and her little brother was at their father's house. Silence fell in the living room, Lucille's playlist had just ended. Not really knowing what to listen anymore, the girl looked, absentmindedly her mother's CD shelf. She grabbed Ben Harper's album Diamonds on the inside and slid it into the CD player. Eliott used to make fun about her musical tastes. "This is soo boho!”, “Ok guys! Be careful, Lucille is choosing the music, we're screwed!"... Some teases which amused Lucille as Eliott's own musical tastes were... originals. She sighed happily as she fell back onto the couch at the sound of Ben Harper's sweet voice. She loved so much this kind of afternoons. No schedule, no obligation. Just a good book and some music she liked. Knowing that she would spend the evening with Charlotte and some friends to  let off steam on the dance floor, this weekend was absolutely perfect. She had no sooner opened her book than her phone rang. Nevertheless, good things never last las they say... Catching her cell phone, she saw Charlotte's picture appear on the screen. "Hi Dollface!” She greeted her, picking up. At first, Lucille didn't hear anything at the other end of the phone. Then, after a few seconds, the sound of growing sobs reached her ear. "Hey.” Lucille said, straightening slightly. "Lucille... Ali..." Charlotte's shrill voice was full of tears, she was crying. "Ali what? -He's dead.” Lucille felt the whole universe dissolve all around her. Nothing else existed except the voice of her friend saying the same words again and again. "He's dead. He's dead. He's dead." Her tight throat blocking the air, Lucille had a hard time breathing. It was impossible. Not him, not now. "How?” She asked. "...On his scooter... He slipped... And... There was a car..." Charlotte answered with many heavy sobs.

The two friends remained a long time without saying anything, Charlotte crying, Lucille struggling to fully understand the terrible situation. Then she hung up and at that moment the girl felt alone, so alone. She wanted her mother to be there. She would have taken her in her arms and would have comfort her. Just like when she was a little girl and had nightmares. As the first tear rolled down her cheek, the reality hit her hard: Lucille was no more six years old but almost ten more and she was alone in this big Paris apartment. The contrast between Ben Harper's sweet voice and the chaos of her thoughts was unbearable. Eliott. His name cames out in the middle of her scrambled mind. He too must have known. If Lucille couldn't have the comforting arms of her mother, she would have those understanding of Eliott. They would share the same sorrow, dilute their same pain in their cuddles. Without taking the time to think too much, she slipped her feet into her sneakers and rushed outside. In the street, Lucille did her best to hold back her tears. At the foot of the neighboring building, she entered the entry code, climbed up the stairs and knocked on Demaury family's door. It was Eliott's mother who came to open it. When her eyes fell on Lucille, she raised her eyebrows, visibly surprised to see her here. "Lucille? Eliott isn't with you? -What? No... I... I came to see him..." Noticing the girl's red and wet eyes, Eliott's mother looked worried. "What's going on Lucille? -It's... Ali, he had an accident, he... He's...” Mrs. Demaury didn't need Lucille to finish her sentence to understand its terrible end. Her whole body shook and she turned back to the living room. "Chris.” She called her husband. "Eli isn't at Lucille's and..." The girl didn't hear the rest. Remaining there, in the entrance, totally helpless, no longer understanding what was being played around her, Lucille took a few steps inside the apartment. With trembling legs, she collapsed on a wooden chair. There, she took her head in her hands and burst into tears. It was too much. Too much for a very young girl like her. She cried like a child facing the greatest of sorrows. Her body shook with jerks, tears spurted out of her big hazel eyes to crash on her hands and on the floor. After what seemed like an eternity, Lucille heard Eliott's mother walked over. The latter was putting on her coat when she saw the teenager in tears. "Oh... I'm sorry, love..." She crouched down in front of her and took her in his arms. She held her tight as she would have done for her own daughter. "I know, it's very hard... There is nothing to say for now... You have the right to cry, to scream, to insult.” She whispered, stroking her hair. Finally relieved to find a kind shoulder to express her pain, Lucille let herself go, resting her head on the shoulder of Eliott's mother. The two women remained motionless for a moment, one snuggled into the arms of the other. "Look, I'm sorry but we have to go get Eliott. -Where is he?” Lucille asked, backing up slightly before sniffling loudly. "I don't know. He had someone on the phone and he went out saying he had to see you.” Eliott's mother said, handing her a tissue. "He must not be far... -We don't know either. A few years ago, he had a very very very hard time because of the loss of his grandfather and now... I don't like to know he's alone outside. -I understand... -You can stay here if you want." Anxious at the thought of being all alone again and feeling the great worry in Eliott's mother's voice, Lucille shuddered. "Can I come with you to help you find him? -Okay but you call your mother first and you tell her everything." The trio spent a good part of the afternoon browsing Eliott's favourite places. It was only around 5pm that they found him, sitting on the pavement near their old school. Back at the apartment, Eliott's parents and her own mother agreed that Lucille spend the evening and the night with her boyfriend. She snuggled against him all night long. He, staring into the void, as absent from his own body, never put his arms around her.

[smallpressdistribution]

8 SPD Books about the Dilemma of Prison

As the summer wanes the heat is turning up on the Prison Industrial Complex! Prisoners and supporters across the country are organizing a National Prison Strike starting August 21st and continuing through September 9th. We put together a few books that reflect the struggles and lives of those incarcerated inside to spot light their contribution to our literary community. 

1. Come to Me by Sin Soracco (Ithuriel's Spear)

“Sin Soracco is a unique voice among crime novelists. She doesn’t write about private eyes and her stories are not plot-driven, but she does pull the reader into the off-kilter lives of women and men living outside mainstream society. Having spent time in California jails and prisons, Soracco is intimately acquainted with milieus like the ones her convict and ex-convict characters inhabit. They are far from the mostly lily-white preserves of too much U.S. literary fiction, and far more interesting.“ -  Ben Terrall, Counterpunch.com 

2.Inside/Out: Selected Poems by Marilyn Buck (City Lights)

“ With the grace of Lucille Clifton and the force of June Jordan, Buck establishes undeniable presence. Courageous and compelling—make room for some new “survival code.”“ - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, The Brooklyn Rail 

3.  Locked Out: Voices from America’s Second Prison Edited by Jesse Wiese (Couterpath Press)

“ While many people find hope and a new identity behind prison walls, they lose it a few steps past the prison gate when faced with seemingly insurmountable barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential. In effect, these men and women are consigned to a "second prison" that curbs rehabilitation, diminishes success, denies them the opportunity to make meaningful contributions, and minimizes their human value.”

4. The Cutting Four-Piece: Crime And Tragedy In An Era Of Prison-Overcrowding by Scott Thomas Anderson (Coalition for Investigative Journalism)

“ Prison culture is an entity that feeds itself with rage, indifference and the force of addiction. It is a culture that's born in the streets, germinates behind bars, and then flows back into neighborhoods as ongoing cycles of victimization. The U.S. currently has the most overcrowded prisons in the world; some states are combating the legal and political fallout from this reality by enacting new experiments for handling criminals. But behind the clichéd expressions from lawmakers, oversimplified narratives from officials and fragmented reporting by the media, truths around America's justice system lie out of sight for most citizens, purposefully hidden behind curtains of overwhelming failure. Many who work within the system understand its dysfunction comes not only from the confusing nature of criminality, but also from laws tied more to bureaucratic advantage and financial gain than the truth of what is happening in the streets. In THE CUTTING FOUR-PIECE, award-winning journalist Scott Thomas Anderson builds on his years as a newspaper crime reporter to probe the link between prison overcrowding, criminal thinking, addiction, mental illness and policy born from political exploitation. “ 

5. Poems from the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh by Ho Chi Minh Translated by Steve Bradbury (Tinfish Press)

“ It is said jails are finishing schools for criminals. A young lawbreaker goes in and learns all the tricks of the trade. Something analogous is described in this poem. The lockup becomes a military training camp in which the strategies for guerrilla warfare are debated and mastered. “ -  Jim Feast from Jacket Magazine 

6.  Prison/Culture Edited by Sharon E Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, & Rebeka Rodriguez (City Lights)

“Over two million individuals are behind bars in U.S. prisons, living in isolation from their families and their communities. PRISON/CULTURE investigates the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through a compilation of stunning and often heartrending artwork by inmates as well as by artists on the outside, such as Sandow Birk and Keith Antar Mason, who address incarceration, criminal profiling, wrongful conviction, prison labor, and the death penalty. The book also includes essays on prisons and prison art by Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis, and poetry by Amiri Baraka, Ericka Huggins, Luis Rodriguez, Sesshu Foster, and more.” 

7.Memoirs from a Swiss Prison by Ignazio Silone (Cross Cultural Communications)

“Ignazio Silone has played an important role in modern history. A founding member of the Italian Communist Party (PSI), he was expelled from the Communist International in 1927 for refusing to back Stalin in his vilification of Trotsky. Forced into exile in Switzerland, Silone took to writing—novels, plays, satirical essays and theoretical works—while at the same time funneling money to colleagues in the anti-Fascist resistance in Italy. In this memoir, written in 1942 while in prison (and nicely translated here by Pugliese, currently at work on a biography of Silone), Silone tries to clear his name from nasty charges made against him: of trying to foment violence and subjugate sovereign states. He does not seek absolution—he considers imprisonment to be an honor and a sign of devotion—but rather an honest rendering of history” - Publishers Weekly

8.Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944 by Stanislao G. Pugliese (Bordighera Press)

“ Pugliese's thoughtful narrative, accompanied by black-and-white photos by Lianna Miuccio, documents the lives of such antifascist prisoners as Arrigo Paladini, who wrote on the wall as he was dying, ""There is nothing that can give the joy of a beautiful death as the consciousness of having served the country until the last breath of life."" “- Publishers Weekly

[dragonchee]

[Related readings in chronological order]

The bargain had been so good, Lucille wondered what she’d done to earn Bendekar’s good favor.

He had agreed to spar with her regularly in exchange for some manual labor copying spell inscriptions - a task she wanted to do anyway for personal studies. While Lady Sinistra had enabled her to learn the techniques and theories of spell crafting, Lucille had always been held back from pursuing her own studies or working on anything beyond common spells. It was only a matter of time before Lady Sinistra deemed her worthy to take up a greater role in spellcrafting for House Sinistra... but this head start was more than welcome.

That was, until she was working her fingers to the bone copying intricate spell after intricate spell. There were not many opportunities for Lucille to have a day off while Bendekar was home, so they needed to cram as much work into the day as they possibly could. 

And she was not shy about letting him know how hellish these tasks were.  

“Ben, I’ve drawn this rune so many times it’s stopped making sense.”

“Ben, look at what you’ve done to my poor hands- yes both of them!”

“Ben, I think I’ve stared at this circle so long it’s etched into my eyes.”

While Bendekar’s responses were largely devoid of sympathy, his actions at least proved he had a shred of decency somewhere within him. He kept her supplied with food and drink, made sure the room was properly lit, and even deigned to help her wrap her wrists snugly in gauze, to alleviate the pain. 

She still complained about all of that, too, but mockingly.

When the spells he had ordered were complete and stood up to proof reading, Lucille lowered herself down to the floor and sprawled out on the carpet. She just desperately needed to lie flat after being hunched over a desk for so long.

“What are you doing? We aren’t finished. You still need to activate them. We need to see if you did it right.” Bendekar said as he looked over the spells himself.

With no will to get up, she simply spoke with her face pressed into the carpet. “I thought these spells were important, and you’re making me expend them immediately? Can’t you do it yourself?”

Bendekar quietly rifled through the spell encrusted parchments. He was withholding an answer... or maybe he didn’t understand her muffled words? She mustered up the energy to roll over. 

“Lucille,” Bendekar finally said, “It’s better if I don’t explain why we’re doing this or what any of it means. While I trust you to keep it quiet, it’s still safer if you know as little as necessary.” 

She squinted at him. He had always been hard to read, and it didn’t help that sundown was quickly darkening the room and in a more literal sense made his face all the more difficult to read. “Aww.” She cooed.”

“...What?” 

“You truuuust me,” She said in a very tired sing-song tone. 

“Alright-”

Lucille pushed herself up and staggered back to the desk. “Yeah let’s get this over with. None of these are dangerous, right?”

Bendekar began laying out the parchment in a particular order. For some spells he set items within the empty spaces left in the inscriptions. “As long as you didn’t screw it up, they should have quite modest effects. These spells are still quite basic.”

Basic spells, after all those hours of writing inscriptions. Lucille let out an exasperated noise.

“The ink you used was mana infused. It won’t require anything else. When you’re ready, you can touch the activation rune. As soon as you do that we’ll be done. You can go directly back to your room, if you choose.”

That got Lucille a little more motivated to finish the task. The first spell had a vial of dirty water placed at its center. Activating it successfully purified the water within. She’d heard of this spell before- often it was carved into small mana crystals so that it could be dropped into a small water source to make it potable. Lucille mentally recoiled at the thought of etching a microscopic version of that spell onto something so small.

The next spell had no accessories with it and simply incinerated itself when activated. It happened so quickly and left no residue that it messed with her head a bit. 

“Oh no... did I mess it up?” 

“It’s fine. Proceed.”

She knew some spells included such self destructing codes, to prevent people from keeping them to study. Bendekar was certainly familiar with them as they were standard issue on most Sinistra spells sold to the public. She wondered what use he’d have at studying something so common, but didn’t bother asking.

The rest of the spells were all similarly straight-forward, each appearing to be tests or samples of common spells. The only spell she wasn’t familiar with was one that transformed a butterfly specimen into a dragonfly. With each spell Bendekar simply nodded and scrawled in a notebook. Perhaps he had made modifications to these spells and wanted to insure they still functioned? 

“Is that all?” She asked, even though she knew very well she hadn’t written any more spells than that. But she was used to waiting until she was dismissed properly.

“Yes, you’ve been very helpful. Thank you. I...” Bendekar pressed his knuckles to his lips and furrowed his brow in thought. Dropping to a whisper, he continued, “I know you’re taking this seriously and I appreciate it. I must reiterate that no one must know.”

Lucille rolled her eyes. “C’mon, Ben, I got this.”

“I know you’re close to my father. Be careful with your words. I know you would’t intentionally reveal anything... but he may sniff out something none-the-less.”

Lucille had begun collecting her shawl and some jewelry she had taken off earlier, and was approaching the door by the time he finished. “I’ll be fine. Don’t be scared.”

She made her exit before Bendekar could deny that fear.

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Conseil d'amie : s'il vous vient l'idée d'organiser un tournoi à 164 participants, abandonnez.

Alors, vu qu'il y a masse de génériques j'ai tout divisé en 3 groupes dont les 3 finalistes s'affronteront pour le podium.

Sachez que tout a été fait au hasard.

J'ai pas encore la date du début du tournoi, je vous préviendrez dès que je l'aurai.

Les groupes et affrontements :

Tour 1 Groupe A :

Barbapapa vs Galactik Football

Yu-Gi-Oh GX vs Hélène et les Garçons

Princesse Sarah vs Tintin

Sylvestre et Titi vs Téléchat

Le Cœur a ses raisons vs Shaman King

Mew Mew Power (premier générique) vs Ulysse 31

Totally Spies (générique fr) vs Flapacha où es-tu ?

Rahan vs Tom Sawyer

Champs-Elysées vs Sam le pompier

Simsala Grimm vs Ranma 1/2

L'île aux enfants vs Il était une fois la vie

Foot 2 Rue (Amitié et Respect) vs Albert le 5ème mousquetaire

Peppa Pig vs Albator (78)

Denver le Dernier Dinosaure vs Chocolat et Vanilla

Cédric vs Oui-Oui

Beyblade vs L'École des Champions

Capitaine Flam vs Digimon

Ben 10 vs Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours (version furry)

Beyblade : Métal Fusion vs Winx

Il était une fois l'espace vs Adventure Time

Koh Lanta vs Amour Gloire et Beauté

Salut les Musclés vs Blake et Mortimer

Les Mondes Engloutis vs Samsam

Père Castor vs Marc et Sophie

Oggy et les cafards vs Les Dossiers de l'Écran

Oban Star Racers vs Les Pyjamasks

Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque vs Quoi d'neuf Scooby Doo

My little pony : Friendship is magic (g4) vs Mes Parrains sont Magiques

Tour 1 Groupe B :

Nadia le secret de l'eau bleue vs Yu-Gi-Oh

Jayce et les Conquérants de la Lumière vs Inspecteur Gadget

Bibifoc vs Franklin

Wakfu vs Dorémi Magique (premier générique)

Kim Possible vs Mon petit poney (g1)

Dallas vs Kilari (premier générique)

Steven Universe vs Robinson Sucroë

Lady Oscar vs L'Agence Tous Risques

Heroes vs Angel's Friends

Sonic X vs Goldorak

Il était une fois l'Homme vs Hamtaro

Châteauvallon vs Le Sourire du Dragon (Donjons & Dragons)

Dragon Ball Z (version club do) vs Il était une fois les découvreurs

C'est Pas Sorcier vs George de la jungle

W.I.T.C.H vs Candy Candy

Monster Allergy vs Sourire d'enfer

Ken le Survivant vs Plus belle la vie

Prison Break vs La Carte aux Trésors

Lucile Amour et Rock'n'roll vs Conan l'Aventurier

Marotte et Charlie vs Détective Conan (premier générique)

Les Daltons vs Didou

Mona le vampire vs Atomic Betty

Petit Ours Brun vs Le Prince et la Sirène (Marina la petite sirène)

Les Entrechats vs Sakura Chasseuse de Cartes

Olive et Tom vs Mon ami Marsupilami

Maya l'Abeille vs Maguy

Lolirock vs Moi Renard

Tour 1 Groupe C :

Martin Matin vs Titeuf (saison 3)

L'Âne Trotro vs Tortues Ninjas (2003)

Sherlock Holmes (version furry) vs Phinéas et Ferb

La Bande à Picsou vs La Légende de Zorro

Arnold et Willy vs Miraculous

Babar vs Intervilles

Starsky et Hutch vs Corentin

Shuriken School vs Sailor Moon

Les 3 mousquetaires (version furry) vs Premiers Baisers

Corneille et Bernie vs Bob l'Éponge

Inazuma Eleven vs Ford Boyard

Dragon Ball (version club do) vs Cat's Eyes

Tchaou et Grodo vs Code Lyoko

Fraggle Rock vs T'choupi

Le Petit Castor vs Heidi (version québécoise)

Danny Fantôme vs Zorro (avec Guy Williams)

Pokémon (premier générique) vs Jeanne et Serge

Robotech vs Charlotte aux fraises

Tao Tao vs Albator (84)

Thalassa (premier générique) vs Nicky Larson

Il était une fois les explorateurs vs Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or

Sous le signe des mousquetaires vs La Reine du fond des temps

Mimi Cracra (générique de la première série) vs Le Petit Prince

Oscar et Malika toujours en retard vs Les Ratz

Marcelino vs Les Malheurs de Sophie

Les Aventures de Lucky Luke vs Molierissimo

Minus et Cortex vs Martin Mystère

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Computer code in film: hidden meanings or irrelevant nonsense?

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Computer code in film: hidden meanings or irrelevant nonsense?

Ever puzzled what those Matrix-style green holographic film codes that sparkle throughout computer screen in films without a doubt imply? You recognize, the ones reputedly sophisticated algorithms within the 5th Estate and unbreakable cryptograms in Physician Who? Nicely, programmer John Graham-Cumming has the solution.

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“I used to be watching the movie Elysium, and a few coding came up as the space station is rebooted, and I motion: ‘That is certainly familiar’, so I tracked it down,” explains Graham-Cumming, who started coding at the age of 13 on his BBC Micro computer and is now a blogger and programmer. “It turns out that the system is taken at once from the Intel software program developer’s manual, which I found a laugh. So I tweeted that and got hundreds of responses.” Remaining Friday, he released a Tumblr to compile greater examples; by using Monday morning, it already had eleven,000 fans and Graham-Cumming became inundated with suggestions for film codes to crack. The technique of figuring out the resources of film systems is in reality pretty simple. Graham-Cumming takes a screengrab and without delay gets a feel of whether the code is probably valid or utter nonsense. If a unique individual or variable sticks out, the selections it out and Googles it. In most instances, whether the codes is purporting to manual a missile or rifle thru private databases, it is possible to be a quite mundane reduce and paste task.

There are a few real howlers. Graham-Cumming was tickled at the same time as looking Antitrust, a mystery about a wannabe Invoice Gates: “I cracked up watching those Pc nerds looking at code, nodding and announcing: ‘Whoa, This is the first-rate man,’ while it was clearly the maximum pure Javascript this is utterly meaningless.” in the Terminator, we see the sector via T-800’s head-up show, but the scrolling textual content accompanying the crosshair in his imaginative and prescient is the harmless assembly code for an Apple-II. But the sources for faux coding just get higher: in a single episode of Doctor Who, Matt Smith appears intently at a few hovering code, yet on closer inspection, it is the reference for a simple photo report – a picture of a lightwave – lifted from Wikipedia.

Laptop programmers need to snicker after they see characters in movies adjusting their thick-rimmed glasses, furiously typing, then watching at the code that in all likelihood most productive says: “Hiya world.” Graham-Cumming reveals it unexpected, though, that this info, which is probably relevant to a plotline, are rarely given extra thought, and attention through directors, especially as viable codes are so easy to locate through open–supply websites including GitHub and SourceForge.

But, there are some dazzling examples of programming detail. Jurassic Park becomes virtually ahead of its time: actors worked on solid, high-acting Silicon Pics Computer structures and in a single classic conventional scene, teenager Lex Murphy logs directly to the Laptop and exclaims: “it is a Unix device, I recognize this,” which relates to an actual working machine. More recently, The Social Network supplied a visually compelling, technically genuine narrative about the technique of programming. While Mark Zuckerberg, performed by way of Jesse Eisenberg, types the commands for “facemask” the usage of PerlScript, it’s far woven in with his clarification of the technique in pure textual content and HTML on his weblog. In David Fincher’s The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo, heroine Lisbeth Salander is depicted as trying to find files the use of the same method that real builders use. With the upward push of excessive-definition screens and display screen-seize gear, and with gadgets including Google Glass an increasing number of likely for use on screen, there will most efficient be additional opportunities for clever-ass code-studying. Directors take a word.

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Every 12 months we pay attention the same horror story; that cinema is overrun by using formulaic franchise fodder, with nothing, however, superheroes and sequels on the show. But flip your attention far away from the monotony of the multiplexes, where the dreary Batman v Superman: Sunrise of Justice and the disappointing Suicide Squad might also rule the roost, and the photo is quite one of a kind. At unbiased cinemas around the UK, we’re constantly reminded of the lovely breadth and scope of modern films, way to movies including Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s electrifying Notes on Blindness, an important sensory experience, based totally on the audiotape memoirs of theologian John M Hull.

Notes on Blindness become merely one in every of several excellent homemade indie snapshots launched within the Uk this year. Different admirable oddities covered Stephen Fingleton’s stripped-down Northern Ireland mystery The Survivalist; Joe Stephenson’s Kes-like Chook; and Jane Gull’s My Feral Coronary heart, with its impressive, valuable overall performance through newcomer Steven Brandon.

My preferred movie of 2016 changed into the spine-tingling British manufacturing Under the Shadow from Iran-born, London-based totally creator/director Babak Anvari. The UK’s access for next year’s foreign language movie Oscar, this brilliantly smart chiller is about in Tehran, shot in Jordan, and filmed in Farsi. There are nods to Roman Polanski’s The Tenant and Guillermo del Toro’s The Satan’s Spine, but Anvari’s gem conjures surroundings this is its own. In compiling my Pinnacle 10 I’ve caught rigidly to movies that had been indeed launched within the Uk in 2016 (competition screenings and previews don’t matter), which means that such eagerly awaited films as Los Angeles L. A. Land and Moonlight, which don’t open right here till early 2017, aren’t eligible. My listing also functions some films that Different critics may additionally have included in Last 12 months’ lists – specifically, Room, Include of the Serpent and Son of Saul, which was launched in the US in 2015.

If 12 months can be judged via the great of the movies that didn’t pretty make the Pinnacle 10, then 2016 became super. I couldn’t discover room for Denis Villeneuve’s heartbreaking sci-fi epic Arrival, Ben Wheatley’s original version of JG Ballard’s excessive-upward push, or Colm McCarthy’s eerie zombie % The Girl With All the Items, all of which I fashionable substantially. It breaks my Coronary heart, too, no longer to had been able to consist of Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship, John Carney’s Sing Street, or Stephen Frears’s Florence Foster Jenkins, which provoked laughter and tears on a couple of viewings. Different splendid omissions include Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang (with its fantastic Warren Ellis rating) and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s brilliantly weird Evolution. Maneesh Sharma’s King of Comedy-style Bollywood mystery Fan changed into a robust contender, too – a twisted tale of a celeb and his younger devotee, each played through superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

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A new Pc application could assist to calm civil unrest and discover new threats to public protection by way of analyzing postings on Twitter and assessing public mood, academics have said.

The gadget can examine up to two,000 tweets a 2nd to extract from every an instantaneous expression of certainly one of 8 real feelings: anger, disgust, worry, happiness, disappointment, surprise, disgrace, and confusion.

The team who advanced this system at Loughborough University’s new center for facts management said it could be feasible to use the sophisticated software program, named Emotive, to geographically map the emotional mood of the nation and its reaction to great activities.

Twitter has loads of millions of customers around the arena and, alongside Fb and BlackBerry Messenger, was criticized for helping rioters in setting up the unrest that swept England in the summer of 2011.

Teachers stated the usage of Emotive to geographically examine the mass mood could help police to tune potential crook behavior or threats to public protection, and may be able to guide countrywide policy on the excellent way to react to main incidents.

Professor Tom Jackson, who led the studies crew, said: “Following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich there was an outpouring of unhappiness and disgust through Twitter.

“across the USA people expressed their feelings at this unprovoked assault, with a few the usage of the incident to incite racial hatred in opposition to Muslims.

“Two days after his murder his family appealed for calm, pointing out that their son would now not have wanted his call for use as an excuse to carry out attacks in opposition to others.

“This attraction had an almost immediate effect, primary to an outpour of the nice sentiment.”

He said that public postings thru social media provide an entirely accurate real-time document of ways and what human beings are feeling.

“Twitter is a quite concise platform via which users explicit how they experience a particular event, be that a crook act, A brand new government coverage or maybe a trade inside the weather,” he stated.

“thru the Laptop application we have created we will collate those expressions of feelings in real time, map them geographically and song how they broaden.”

Dr. Ann O’Brien turned into a part of the research team that created the ontology, or structural model, used by Emotive.

She stated: “The philosophy we created takes the eight emotions and offers them a rich linguistic context so that we will chart the strength of feelings expressed in ordinary language and also in slang. For any incident, we will view how reactions grow and decrease over time.”

The system is presently only being used to analyze tweets inside the United kingdom, but it could without problems be scaled up to display tweets globally, of which there are 10,000 a 2d.

The crew has already secured further investment with a view to permitting researchers to expand another prototype gadget that could robotically stumble on activities, analyze emotions and extract greater precise information of significance from social media.

It’s also was hoping lecturers can discover the opportunity of predicting persona profiles from the herbal language used on Twitter and similar social streams.

The Emotive assignment becomes funded via the Engineering, and Physical Sciences Studies Council and the Defence Science and Generation Laboratory.