#issue 22

[twinkimpulse]

[shoot-i-messed-up]

LMAOOOOOOO? REAL TEXT IN A REAL JUSTICE LEAGUE COMIC.

[crowmancy]

These panels are so funny to me you've got plastic man and elongated man being buddies up the top and nightwing just chilling in the front corner while the people who are actually talking are tiny in the background

and then hector randomly gets taller in the final panel. Truly a masterpiece

[roipecheur]

Timmy, please.

[johannepetereric]

"Just because you're the main character doesn't mean you will always get the spotlight."

[oacaactcf67812]

‘Tammy Chen Fund a “Godsend”’

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The Tammy Chen Postgraduate Studentship is transforming the lives of postgraduates at Caius.

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One of the first recipients of the Tammy Chen Postgraduate Studentship says she would have probably quit the University of Cambridge, had it not been for the support she obtained from Caius.

Tiéphaine Thomason (History 2017) says the help she received during her undergraduate study at Gonville & Caius College was “pretty amazing” — and getting the funding to study for an MPhil in Early Modern History was “an absolute godsend”. Tiéphaine said: “I’d had a bit of an odd second year, and applied with my grades from then. I ended up getting a starred first in my third year, topping the College for History. Getting funding meant that I could do the MPhil work and that my grades from third year were acknowledged.”

The Tammy Chen Postgraduate Studentship provides financial support to postgraduate students studying Humanities subjects at Caius. It was established in memory of Tammy Chen, a PhD candidate at Caius killed in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso in August 2017. Tiéphaine says she felt humbled to receive funding from such tragic circumstances. Had the bursary not come through, she would have had to defer her studies.

Tiéphaine ended up getting the joint-highest MPhil grade in her cohort, and was jointly awarded the Members' History Prize for the best MPhil dissertation in Early Modern History submitted in 2020/21. She largely credited the support she received from the College, particularly her Directors of Studies Prof Peter Mandler and Dr Melissa Calaresu. She says: “The College has been so supportive in every single way. I would not have made it through Cambridge at all, had it not been for Caius.”

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“The College has been so supportive in every single way. I would not have made it through Cambridge at all, had it not been for Caius.”

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One of her most surreal memories of College was during the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020, towards the end of her third year and going into her MPhil year. Tiéphaine says: “The whole University was in the ‘red phase’, which meant that everyone had gone home, apart from a select group of us, who couldn’t go home.”

She adds that being cut off from their families was a “very odd” experience, and thanked Senior Tutor Dr Andrew Spencer for his support during this strange period. Tiéphaine says: “In my case, my dad lives in Hong Kong. You couldn’t fly back to Hong Kong during that time. The same with a few friends of mine. We were all revising for exams, so that’s quite intense. Town was absolutely silent during this period. It was a very eerie feeling but it was also very exciting because you were left in an empty Cambridge to your own devices.” The students relaxed by having sing-a-longs to Simon & Garfunkel songs in the evenings and cooking international meals from their home countries, using the limited ingredients available at the time.

Growing up in Hong King, Singapore and Zurich, Tiéphaine, who is half-French, half-English, said she was “sent to the UK to straighten out my English” at the age of thirteen, having previously studied in French. Becoming a boarder at Oakham School in Rutland, one of England’s smallest counties, was a culture shock, so finding a multicultural community at Caius was a big relief, she says. She adds: “Caius itself is a wonderful environment, we’re one of the few colleges with very regular formals in the evenings, which means we go to them quite casually. When you go to formals at other colleges, people are always dressed in a very fancy way, whereas at Caius we’re all desperately trying not to get tomato soup on our gowns.”

She also enjoyed helping out in the College Archives and now volunteers through mentorship schemes such as Zero Gravity and Insight Outreach, encouraging other students to apply to university.

Tiéphaine has a final message to those who contributed towards her bursary, saying: “Thank you so much for all the support that you give to Caius and to students here. It makes a real impact and difference to our lives and on the future careers that we can have and hopefully we’ll be able to give something back at some point through the research that we do or what we end up producing.”

Tiéphaine recently discovered that she has been successful in receiving full funding from the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarships Programme to study for a PhD in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge, based at Murray Edwards College, from 2022/23. There, she will be looking at the spread of spoken French across the early modern Francophone Atlantic. While the College is sorry to see Tiéphaine leave, we know she will stay in touch with the fellows and students at Caius.

Outstanding students like Tiéphaine continue to require funding, especially in the Humanities and Social Sciences, for which financial support is increasingly difficult to access. The appointment of Dr Calaresu as the new Deputy Senior Tutor for Postgraduates is indicative of the College directing focus on our postgraduate community and creating additional sources of funding to attract the best postgraduate students.

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written up by Tali Iserles | ‘Once a Caian’, Issue 22, p. 355 (15 November 2022) | ‘Caius News’ (22 May 2022)

[theiblistrigger]

oh silly, soft and polite shadow, how i miss you

TAKE US BACK

[red-velvet-void]

Started reading batgirl 2000 and I. I am feeling so many emotions.i love her dearly

RB MY ART 👊

[4740-art]

however we regret all we will ever know is bitter ends for we are born to war

[twinkimpulse]

please let tim relax. please

[casscainmainly]

A Collection of My Favourite Cassandra Cain Thoughts

Batgirl (2000) #5 / #6 / #8 / #9 / #58 / #61 // Batgirl (2008) #4 // Batgirl (2024) #3

[thedevilsoftruth]

Went to the theatres with @madijones tonight, and we took pictures by the Thunderbolts posters. As I was looking at them, I noticed that Bucky's kinda got a little bit of grey on him. I know it's just the heavy editing of the pictures, but I swear it's there. Let me be delusional for a moment, please. I'm so desperate for old men.

So imagine you're married, and he's getting a bit older, and he's got those little streaks of sliver running down his beard. AND Imagine what it's like when he's got his pretty little head between your thighs 💜

Salt and Pepper

Tags: Old man bucky love, yet another beard appreciation post for Bucky. Cunnilingus, squirting, vaginal fingering, and finger sucking 💜💜 not beta read

So many years of doing this to you, and he still fucks you like he's in his 20s again.... Or at least he tries. But he's got his head between your already trembling legs, licking you up with his beard lightly scratching your skin. He's got his strong hands holding your thighs apart as he works his mouth against you, getting you all puffy and sensitive for him. Just like he likes it.

And when he pulls his head back a little from your aching center just to spit on your pussy? Heaven in earth.

He slithers the two of his flesh middle fingers down your core to spread his saliva all around you before he goes back down. When his lips are back on you, your back is arching and your hips are bucking towards his face, begging him for more. He's groaning against your soft mound in pleasure, circling his tongue around your clit before he takes it in his mouth and sucks on it gently. And while he's moving his jaw up and down against your or whenever he lays his tongue flat on you and shakes his head, you can feel his salt and pepper beard grazing your skin.

And when you're getting close to orgasm, he's just groaning and moaning filthy things to you. " Come on, honey. Pour your sugar on me. Right on my beard, yeah? " As his pretty blue eyes are looking up at you. He redoubles his efforts. Maybe he pushes two of his flesh fingers Inside you, trying to bring out that orgasm even more. And it works because in the matter of seconds, your moans are getting more loud and broken.

" Baby, you taste so good. Wanna be drowned in you. " He praises, his eyes shutting as he curls his fingers right into the little spot he knows you so badly needed touched. He does that little thing again where lays his warm tongue flat on you and gently shakes his head. You squeak, and he sucks and slurps a straight but messy line up your pussy until he draws toward your clit. He flicked his tongue up and down it before sucking on it once again, and his fingers pump deep and fast in your cunt. And just like that, you're gone.

It. Gets. Everywhere.

From his facial hair sprinkled jaw, the the middle of his nose, to the little white towel placed underneath your hips. But Bucky has that kind of affect on you; making you cum hard whenever he's got his mouth on you. This last time has you gasping, your entire body shaking, your hips especially stuttering beneath him and your thighs quivering around his head. Your fingers in his dark, greying--but full hair become loose, and your body relaxes as he urges you to calm down with soothing massages to your thighs.

" fuck, " he moans lowly and slowly, his eyes rolling back as he lets your taste flood his senses. And you just cannot stop cumming; whimpering, covering your face in embarrassment as you squirt all over him. Just like he wanted.

" Christ's name, look at that. " He chuckles lightly, leaning back a little to look at the little fountain show between your legs. When the moment dies down, he withdraws his fingers from you, a little bit of your juices slipping out of you when he does so. He leans in to take you in his mouth one more time, his tongue eagerly lapping up at the mess between your thighs.

" so messy, baby. " He moans, smiling like a fool as he cleans you off. You're so over-sensitive that you thought you were gonna cum again just by his tongue simply being on you. His facial hair just gets even wetter as he moves against you.

As he rises up, you notice that his hair is now messy from your fingers being curled into it for so long, and his facial hair is absolutely dripping with your essence. You'd be lying if you said it didn't make you even wetter. He doesn't care that he's gonna get even wetter by you, because he's already considering having you crawl up his body and sit on his face.... If his neck will allow it and if you can take it.

" Fuck, you taste so good. " And you do, because he's holding up his right hand to you, urging you to lick his fingers off. " Lick it off for me, yeah? " You do, and you clean the little mess you made straight off his fingers. " Good girl. " He praises, his voice gruff and low. He swipes his tongue across his lips, already missing your flavour on his tongue. "Tastes good, doesn't it? " His eyes twinkle as he smiles at you, the wrinkles at the corner of his eyes becoming more defined with his smile. His mind is already racing with so many ideas of what he could do to you next and you don't even know it. You think you're done.

[ Sorry, not sorry for the terrible Def Leppard reference. I feel like Bucky would be in his 80s classic dad rock era during this time, and honestly, so am I. Requests are open btw. 💋💜]

[shoot-i-messed-up]

i love whenever they do these little icons of each superhero to tell you who's who in a team book <3 they're so cute

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Like mother, like daughter… in looks

I wanted to draw Starscream without his helmet and little Windblade more heheh

alternatively for little sister Windblade:

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Star Wars Complete Locations reveal that Vader got his hands on Padmé’s starship and kept it placed at his fortress.

💔💔💔💔

That man is broken after losing his wife, he’s holding onto whatever remnants that are left of her as best as he can.

[johannepetereric]

"LIZARD ONE HUNDRED VIOLENT SLASHES!!!!!!!!"

Hot DAMN, the Beylin Temple got WORKS!