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The Witches and Wizards Job 1-2

More writing! More fanfiction! This one combines two of my loves, the Leverage TV series and The Dresden Files books. It is, as usual for my fanfiction, written at speed, spell-checked only casually. However, this time continuity is a Very Important Thing, so I'm crossing my fingers. Also, since the Dresden writing style is so different from my own, I had someone speed-beta that section solely to check that the 'voice' was right.

The events here take place during Leverage's Season 4, a little after the Hot Potato Job. And at some point before Book 10 of The Dresden Files, but definitely after Book 5. Other than that the timeline's kind of scrungly.

In any case, it's no yet finished, so I don't know how long it's gonna go. It will update once a week here, but it's also up on AO3, where it will update much faster, if you don't wanna wait. Commentary is always appreciated, as would be a cuppa tea.

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ONE

Nate was fighting a one-man battle that he was very much afraid he was losing.

Boston and its surroundings spoke so very loudly of his childhood and younger years. Of times and memories he wanted very hard to forget. He would have pretended they didn't exist if he'd not been in the habit of being punctiliously honest with himself; he'd spend enough years letting a bottle lie to him.

But the truth was, he'd never hated Boston. It was home. The Common greeted him with familiar sights no matter what the season. He could go anywhere, look up, and know where he was by the sight of a familiar landmark, either the good ol' Pru, the timeless Triangle or the brand new Zakim bridge. He had fond, if mosquito-laden, memories of summers spent listening to either Shakespeare in the Park or sneaking into games at Fenway.

That love was coming back to him, no matter how he fought. He'd have to move soon or he might not be able to move at all, not without bleeding once again.

And yet, on that late summer afternoon, with a chilly sea breeze blowing in from Revere to warn the city that autumn was on its way, he lingered before the Eliot Hotel, and felt comfortable in the sights and sounds of a modern metropolis both like and unlike that of his childhood. He even fancied feeling the thrum of the Green Line trains just under his feet, even though he knew that was unlikely in the extreme. Traffic on Newbury blew past him, at its lowest ebb at the moment.

Nate had a meeting. He didn't like the meeting, he didn't like that he'd been asked to come like an errand boy to someone else's beck and call. At the pub he knew every nook, every cranny, every escape route, every weapon. Here, he knew he was at a disadvantage; worse, he couldn't tell how much of one.

But the name on the invitation had trumped all of that.

He trotted up the steps to the gracious hotel and offered the doorman the invitation. The man in his dapper uniform took it and smiled. "Ah, mister Ford." He opened the door for Nate. "You are expected."

"I'm sure I am," Nate muttered, but he still managed to offer a polite thank you. He was himself, as he always was, curling hair slightly rumpled, suit a little too loose here and there where it could have been better tucked in. He looked like a petty businessman who thought too much of himself and wouldn't see a con until it bit him in the arse.

It was a very good facade, and he only surrendered it for meeting clients.

A pert young lady in the hotel's uniform led him to the door attaching the nearby restaurant to the hotel. She held the door open for him with a bright smile.

And she closed and locked it between them.

The place was dark, the chairs up, shades lowered over the windows. The hours on the door proclaimed that it wouldn't be open for another hour, at least. Nate pursed his lips minutely.

"Hello?" he called out into the gloom.

"Mister Ford," a heavily accented voice replied. "Please excuse me, I am… surprised that you came."

"Well, you've got me curious if nothing else, mister Fedorov," Nate explained mildly, advancing in the dark. At the bar he met a man, a little taller than him, dressed in an custom-tailored three-piece charcoal suit with a very plain gold silk tie. The clothes did an exceptional job of hiding the heavy muscle across the man's shoulders, over his chest and along his arms, as well as the bulge of a gun in an underarm holster. Nate wouldn't have known either was there if he'd not expected they would be.

He had blue eyes and dark, curly hair cut and tousled artfully, and he smelled faintly of a very expensive aftershave only to be purchased in Vladivostok. Freshly shaven, his face was full of sharp, predatory angles. He didn't offer his hand, as if he knew Nate wouldn't take it. Instead he poured two cups from a nearby teapot, and the scent of the tea, heady and strong, filled the space between them. There was a laptop and a slim pile of folders behind the teapot.

Nate had run an extensive background on the man and turned up nothing he didn't already know. Vanya Fedorov was the Chief Financial Officer of a small but profitable cybersecurity start-up with offices in Cambridge, US and Cambridge, UK. He was halfway through his third decade of life, a Vladivostok native, he spoke seven languages fluently, and was a geology hobbyist. He was also third-in-line for the command chain of the Eastern Seaboard Russian mafia, after a meteoric rise to power that had him at loggerheads with his own father, the actual man in charge. He was being watched very closely by the real powers back in the Motherland because his uncle, the second-in-command, had all but tapped him already as the heir of preference. He was ruthless, intelligent, driven, ambitious, and his code of morals, if he actually had any, was known only to him. He was, to sum it up, the sort of man Leverage Inc. took down, not the sort they took on as a client.

And yet, here Nate was, having been summoned by a plea for help from, if not the last man on his list, someone pretty damn close to the bottom. He took the cup with a murmured thanks. "So, why am I here, mister Fedorov?" Before the man could speak, Nate lifted a hand. "Literally. Why."

"Vanya, please, mister Ford." When Nate's brows went up at the offered familiarity, the Russian sighed minutely. "A valid question. Believe me. It hurts that I have to come to an Irishman for help, particularly in this city. Particularly in this matter. But in truth, I am… out of my depth. We," he corrected pointedly, "are out of our depth." And with you and your people's reputation, I can only hope you won't be."

Nate sipped at the tea. "You've got my curiosity, and now you've got my attention. Still don't have my services, though."

Vanya snorted humorlessly, and dragged the laptop over. "Did you hear about the fire in Somerville? That fancy restaurant?"

"I don't think it wise for you to confess to any crimes to me, mister Fedorov," Nate pointed out mildly.

At that the Russian did seem amused, however briefly. "We did not do it, mister Ford. It was done to us." He opened the laptop and tapped a few commands before turning it over so Nate could see the screen, split into four separate camera feeds. Two belonged to the restaurant; the others were outside angles, likely from nearby businesses. "A very important member of the organization, a man in good standing, was throwing a private party, an anniversary celebration for his parents. A small thing, just family and friends."

"His friends, or the family's?"

"It was not business," Vanya persisted.

On the screen, Nate watched as one of the restaurant's cameras, aimed at the delivery area and partially covering the kitchen, was thrown into actinic brightness by a massive fireball. Plumes of black smoke quickly overtook the view of the other camera, at the front of the restaurant.

"You were, I am told, in the insurance business," the Russian said mildly. "You know what you are looking at."

"A firebomb." Nate was working hard at keeping a grimace off his face. No one needed a return to the bad old days where the crime syndicates of Boston fought more or less openly on the streets, not giving a damn who got caught in the crossfire.

Vanya's grin was sharp and thin. "I can smell your worry. Let me assure you, Ford. When I say this was not business, I mean it."

Nate couldn't hide his surprise at that. "It was not the Family?"

"It was none of the players," Vanya expanded, further catching him off-guard. "I have looked at them all. I suspected as much, but I had to do my job."

"You suspected. Why?"

"Because this is the latest in a string of attacks." Vanya slid the folders over to him, all but one. "They are not directed at our business. They are not even directed at one family within the business. But they are targeting us, all the same. Innocents are dying and we, I, cannot stop it happening. I am hoping you can."

Nate sucked in a deep breath as he flicked through the folders. A bridge collapse. An accidental lockdown and halon release in an art gallery. A train crash. The attacks, if that's truly what they were, were all over the place; it would be nearly impossible to find a signature, or any sort of commonality. Like the firebomb, they all looked like accidents.

Nate eyed the folder he hadn't been offered. "You have a suspect."

For the first time in their meeting Fedorov looked uncertain. "I have… something. In truth, I don't know what. Understand this, mister Ford. I like my other job. It is not just a thing on paper for me. I like security. I like technology. That job is the only reason I have found this one common thread binding all the incidents." He opened the last folder for Nate.

A dozen or so blurry pictures stared up at the mastermind. They were all of a woman, older, but that was all he could tell. Not one of the shots managed to catch her in more than broad strokes, as if the camera simply refused to focus. It was her, specifically - everyone else around her was perfectly clear, from the man helping her out of the train's wreckage to the two young teenagers escorting her away from some sort of flash flood.

"Who is she?" When Vanya didn't answer, Nate looked up to find the most profoundly uncomfortable look on the Russian's face. "Fedorov, who is she?"

Vanya shifted minutely. It might as well have been a shriek of alarm from a man in his position. Nate blinked. Waited.

"Baba Yaga."

"Excuse me?"

"I know what it sounds like."

"Really? Because it sounds like you're telling me a fairy did this."

"She's not a fairy. Grandmother is much more than that." Anger sharpened Vanya's accent. "She is a power, a dream, a nightmare. Something older than time." He blew out a sharp breath. "I am a rational man, mister Ford. I understand abstraction, I work in cybersecurity, after all. I do not know what to believe, but I must believe something, and I have nothing else." He stared at the pictures. "Unless you and your people find something else."

"We're not monster hunters, Fedorov."

"Then do not hunt a monster. Hunt me an explanation. Hunt me something that makes sense." The Russian tightened one hand into a fist. "Hunt me something I can stop, so innocents stop dying."

"An odd request from a Russian mob enforcer."

Vanya shrugged mildly. "I am a traditional man, mister Ford. I want a return to the old ways, when we offered real protection, not a pretense of it to extort money. When a man's word was worth something more than the bullets he carries or the pain his hands can inflict."

Nate stared at the pictures, at the videos. On the laptop's screen the first responders had finally arrived.

"What if it is Baba Yaga?" he asked, if only because Vanya had offered it as an option, forcing Nate to add it to the list of possibilities and to know what sort of contingencies Fedorov expected from him.

The Russian visibly paled but rallied swiftly, a half-smile curling up his mouth. "Then I guess we will do all we can to find out why she is angry at us, so we can correct the issue and beg her apologies." He let Nate mull on that. "Have I got your services, mister Ford?"

Nate played restlessly with a breath held in his mouth. There had to be a logical explanation, of course. Just because Fedorov hadn't found it didn't mean it wasn't there. But he couldn't readily see one.

What he did see was a man in a tremendously powerful position within the Boston underworld, interested in maintaining the fragile peace between the syndicates and willing to be in Nate's debt to achieve his goals. The latter alone was worth a lot.

He scooped up the folders. "I'll let you know," he said curtly, heading for the restaurant's front door. He paused with his hand on the knob. "Uh, this is a sushi bar, isn't it?"

"A Japanese restaurant, but they do serve excellent sushi."

"Why here? Why not one of your places?"

Vanya smiled wryly. "Because I no longer dare guarantee their safety, but I have yet to find someone willing to fuck with the Japanese."

TWO

"We're not monster hunters, Nate," Eliot said mildly as he nursed a beer and stared at the array of screens before him.

"I know, but -" Nate flapped his hand distractedly. "Just ignore the, ignore the monster angle, alright? We have someone, or a bunch of someones, who are responsible for fourteen so-called accidents. Someone who's doing such a flawless job that no one's caught up onto the fact that they aren't accidents."

"Flawless is right," Hardison pointed out, pulling up on one of the screens blueprints and reports. "Arson investigation, insurance investigations, police, Interpol, private security firms, they all ruled them accidents. But you put all their reports, all their data together, and some really nasty stuff starts taking shape."

"Ugh." Sophie groaned around her coffee cup. "So clever and instead of going after the actual bad guys they go after their wives, their kids, their parents. I thought that just wasn't done."

"It isn't," Eliot confirmed. "Few universal rules in organized crime, but that one's the second biggest: don't target innocents."

"What's the first?" Parker asked.

"Don't talk to the cops," Eliot, Sophie and Nate all replied at the same time.

The team crossed a look, equal parts surprise and amusement.

"I'm not even in organized crime and I know that one," Parker admitted.

"The point," Nate fought to herd the cats back together, "is that this is happening, it's affecting innocents, and it needs to stop. This isn't like one of our usual jobs, obviously, so I do have to ask: are we taking it?"

There was silence.

"I don't know, Nate, I don't like it," Eliot said at last. "Yeah, there were bystanders in at least half those places. There's no way there weren't a few innocent people on that train, or the nitrogen spill in Kuala Lumpur. But if the frigging Russian mob can't pin it down, someone else needs to step up and do the job, yes - I just can't see what the job actually is."

"There's nothing to steal," Parker protested.

"Nothing to hack," Hardison added. "All of these 'accidents' were mechanical in nature. Analog. Even the halon release was a faulty piece of equipment, not software failure. That alone is hinky as hell, halon tech isn't new but it's not old, either, but…" He threw his hands up helplessly.

"Nothing to con." Sophie shrugged gracefully. "Even this woman Fedorov thinks is Baba Yaga, who is she? A victim, the criminal, a bystander, the target?"

"I'd be happy with just being able to see her face," Nate muttered, staring at the collection of blurry pictures on one of the screens.

"I can do that much," Hardison perked up. When everyone's attention came to rest on him, he beamed at them. "Fourteen pictures, that's more than enough to create a composite." His hands flew over the keyboard, and on the screen the fourteen pictures began to spin sedately in orbit around a blank canvas that began to fill up with gradients of gray almost immediately. "She's probably using jamming tech."

"To look… to look blurry?" Eliot blinked at him. "That's only for the movies, isn't it?"

Hardison gave him such a look before returning his attention to the screen. "You know that quote from Clarke, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is -'"

"'-indistinguishable from magic." Both Eliot and Hardison finished the quote together; Sophie, unseen to anyone but Nate, mouthed the words soundlessly and threw him a chipper little smile. "Yeah, but Hardison -"

"If you've got a smartphone you're carrying enough computing power in your pocket to out-compute anything that's twenty years old. For the record, that includes the first Playstation console and the second."

Eliot frowned, a hand automatically going to his pocket. "I thought you'd just souped up our phones."

"Well, I did that, too," Hardison admitted, typing more commands into his keyboard and staring at the increasingly refined composite on the screen. "Just didn't have to, in the case of some people." He looked meaningfully at Nate, who felt once again as if he had to defend himself from a crime he hadn't committed, or might not even be a crime altogether. "Do something with your phone, man."

"I make calls. I take pictures!" Nate protested.

Hardison rolled his eyes.

"It can play music," Sophie suggested mildly.

"So can the radio in my car," Nate grumbled.

"Nate, I am begging you. Hack something," Hardison pleaded. "Live a little." Before Nate could answer, the hacker stood up and straightened up. "Almost done -"

They all turned to look at the screen, so they were all facing it when it cracked from top to bottom with a sound like a grenade going off, showers of sparks flying in every direction. A massive puff of smoke belched out, and delicate circuitry began to drip out of the blackened guts of the screen, hissing as it struck the floor.

Cautiously, heads peeked up from behind wherever they'd ducked. A fire alarm was screeching shrilly. The loft reeked of molten electronic components. The screen had gone black. A piece of tempered glass fell off and shattered on the floor, making them all jump.

"Um," Hardison said in the silence.

"Hardison!"

"I didn't do anything!"

"It's your equipment!"

"And my equipment doesn't just blow up for no good reason!"

Eliot had no counter for that because he knew, they all knew, that it was true.

"She really is Baba Yaga," Parker breathed.

"Parker, no, just -" Nate pinched the bridge of his nose. "She's not real, alright? Baba Yaga's not real."

"Well, how do you know?" she challenged.

"Yeah, Nate, how do you know?" Sophie, ever willing to be the devil's advocate, echoed.

"I -!" He sighed in exasperation. "She's just not, alright? Can we please move on? Hardison, did you get the finished composite?"

"She's an evil Tooth Fairy, Parker," Eliot whispered to the thief.

"Not the finished one, but a few stages shy of it." Hardison printed out a single sheet of paper and began typing all over again. Somewhere in the guts of the building, heavy fans began to work. The fire alarm fell mercifully silent.

"The Tooth Fairy's not real, Eliot," Parker told him with great kindness, startling the hell out of the hitter.

Eliot sputtered for a moment. "How would you - you don't - how d'you know that?"

Parker had very vivid memories of being told to put her first tooth under her pillow, to have it exchanged for cold hard cash. She had equally vivid memories of feeling a hand sneaking up under her pillow and reacting to defend her property by snatching for a wrist, grabbing for a thumb, and twisting. Hard. "She's just not. It's just your parents." She charged over to where Nate was examining the printout. "I wanna see what Baba Yaga looks like."

"Parker, she's not -" Nate found the printout snatched out of his hands.

"Well, now we have to take the job," Sophie told him quietly. "Or she really will believe Baba Yaga's r-"

"Wait, this isn't Baba Yaga!" Parker protested, her tone betrayed. "This is just the old lady in the museum."

"The what?" Sophie asked blankly.

"In the where?" Nate added.

Hardison got a fire extinguisher.

"The old lady in the painting at the Isabella Gardner Museum," Parker explained.

"There's a painting of this woman at the Gardner Museum?" Nate demanded.

"Mm-hm."

"You went to a museum?" Sophie was stunned. "To actually look at the paintings, not to steal them?"

Parker nodded and beamed. "I have a lifetime membership."

"A… lifetime memb- how?"

"You know when someone stole all those paintings from them way back and they couldn't figure out who and they never recovered them?"

"That was you?"

"No, that was Astrid Somerset and her boyfriend -"

"Somerset, of the Arlington Somersets?" Nate asked, a little taken aback.

Unsurprisingly, he got a shrug and a vague noise in response; Parker didn't care about the woman's pedigree, only her technique. "Lousy thief. Horrible little snob," she growled, then beamed again. "So I stole back the one she hadn't sold yet and gave it back to the museum. And I've been working with them to improve security." Her smile turned mischievous. "You want me to get you in?"

Nate opened his mouth, thought better of it. "Hardison, you've got things here?"

Hardison and Eliot were taking down the neatly parted halves of the screen. The hitter looked nothing if not horrified when he pulled the heavy bit of tech away from the wall and overheated cables stretched gooeily after it like taffy.

"Yeah, we got this, man." Belatedly, as the other three walked away, Hardison called after them. "Nate, take pictures!"

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#5

Officially moved out! My new place is tiny but it's all mine and I love it.

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#4

@yueswife tagged me to write out my URL in song titles, so here we are. Thank you bestie, this was so fun!

j - Judith Ford / 36 Questions

u - Under Pressure / Queen

s - Sunlight / Hozier

t - Teeth / 5 Seconds of Summer

a - All Too Well / Taylor Swift

w - Watermelon Sugar / Harry Styles

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a - Anything / dodie

y - Young and Beautiful / Lana Del Rey

I'm tagging @lucyepiccrash, @onceuponablep, @savsfeelings, @bagel-rights-activist, and @whuts-going-on!

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#3

IT'S BEEN ALMOST 6 YEARS SINCE YURI ON ICE FIRST AIRED

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#2

One of my neighbors has recently begun parking in a different spot, and they unintentionally scared the Fuck out of me the other night.

Picture this: I'm driving home at around 1 in the morning, it's pitch black out and my neighborhood is insanely quiet for being in the middle of the city. I just got off work, I'm tired and a little out of it. I drive down the street towards my apartment, and my headlights illuminate a figure in my neighbors back seat staring through the window. Obviously, I jump and I'm more awake than anyone has a right to be at 1 am after a 9 hour shift.

I get close enough to see whatever the fresh hell is staring at me through the window in the middle of the night and see This

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My #1 post of 2022

I save you all, every day, from this.

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[whereareroo]

DAY OFF EXPLORING

WF UPDATE (5/14/24).

Your legs should be happy today. No biking. It’s raining.

We decided to visit the National Museum of the U. S. Air Force. It’s about 5 miles from our lodging.

Aviation is a big deal in Dayton. The Wright Brothers spent their childhood here. (Orville was born here and Wilbur, born in nearby Indiana, moved here with the family when he was a toddler.) When the Wright Brothers built their aircraft factory in 1903- -the first aircraft factory in history- -they built it in Dayton.

The Air Force museum is next to a big Air Force base. The base is a consolidation of two different airfields. One airfield, called Wright Field, was named after the Wright Brothers. The other field, called Patterson Field, was named after a pilot who was killed during a crash in the area. Today, the big base is called Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The museum, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, is the oldest military aviation museum in the world. It’s also the largest military aviaton museum in the world. It features more than 360 aircraft and missiles.

Don’t worry. I’m not going to barrage you with a boatload of detailed information. I know my audience. I’ll share 3 highlights:

1. Like most people my age, I have a fascination with JFK. Even though he was assassinated when I was a toddler, the older folks kept talking about JFK. Many American homes, and every Catholic School, featured a photo of JFK.

On the Dallas street where Kennedy was shot, I’ve stood on the “X” that marks the spot where the bullet hit JFK. Above that spot, I’ve stood at the book depository window where the assassin fired the shot. I’ve stood at JFK’s grave.

Today, at the Air Force Museum, I completed the rest of the JFK assassination story. I walked through the plane that carried JFK to Dallas on that fateful day. It’s also the plane that carried Kennedy’s body back to Washington DC. Just before that return trip, LBJ took the oath of office on that plane.

At the time of Kennedy’s assassination, the plane was brand new. It became “Air Force One” in 1962. It remained in service for 36 years. In addition to Kennedy, it was used by Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush I, and Clinton. That plane has seen a ton of history. It was unsettling to walk through the plane that brought Kennedy to Dallas and flew his body home.

2. On a lighter note, there’s a small plane right next to JFK’s Air Force One. When LBJ was president, he liked to go to his ranch in Stonewall, Texas. The ranch was about 80 miles from the nearest Air Force Base. The Air Force needed a little plane to fly the Johnson family from the base to the ranch. They bought a little plane and they called it the “Lady Bird Special.”

3. The last vehicle I’ll discuss isn’t a plane. It’s a Ford Mustang. This customized Ford Mustang is called the X-1. It’s named after the first plane that broke the sound barrier. From the outside, it looks like a fancy Mustang. The inside is redesigned to look like the cockpit of a jet fighter. If you saw a photo of the inside, you would think that you were looking at a jet fighter. There are two seats down the centerline of the car, one ejection seat in front and another ejection seat in the back. It’s the set-up for a pilot and co-pilot. The instrument panel looks like the panel from a plane. Like a plane, there’s a small u-shaped steering wheel The stick shift looks like a flight stick. It’s a cool car. For 10 years, the Air Force drove the X-1 all over America as a recruiting tool.

After 3 hours at the museum, we headed off for lunch. I’ll report 3 things from that trip:

1. We drove past a small storefront business that’s obviously owned by some funny guys. It’s called “Free At Last Bail Bonds.” Their slogan is “Call Us And Let Freedom Ring.” Who knew that bail bondsmen were funny?

2. Does anybody remember Erma Bombeck? I do. She was my mother’s favorite writer. She focused on everyday life. She wrote funny books and funny newspaper columns. She was hilarious. Her books included: “I Lost Everything In The Post-Natal Depression,” “The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank,” and “If Life Is A Bowl Of Cherries, What Am I Doing In The Pits?” On the way to lunch, we drove on Erma Bombeck Boulevard. It turns out that Erma was raised in Dayton, went to college at the University of Dayton, and is buried in Dayton. Small world.

3. Yes, we finally made it to lunch. Our goal was to try Dayton-style pizza. Until we got here, we didn’t know that Dayton Pizza was a thing. Did you? It has a very thin crust, unsweetened sauce, and it’s sliced in tiny squares. We hit a legendary place called Cassano’s. Yummy. Everyone who visits Dayton should go to Cassano’s.

I hope you enjoyed your day off. We’re back on the bikes tomorrow. We’ll see you on the trail.

[kiwi-rebel-57-06]

Kiwi Rebel. '36 Ford 5 Window Coupe.

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Books Read in 2021

1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

2. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

3. Maybe This Time by Kasie West

4. Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace

5. Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

6. The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth

7. The Enneagram Type 2 by Beth McCord

8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

9. Trade Your Cares for Calm by Max Lucado

10. Everybody, Always by Bob Goff

11. Villette by Charlotte Brontë

12. Dream Big by Bob Goff

13. Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett

14. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

15. The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

16. The Attentive Life by Leighton Ford

17. I’ll Go Home Then, It’s Warm and Has Chairs by David Thorne

18. A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer

19. Killing November - Adriana Mather

20. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis

21. Hunting November - Adriana Mather

22. You’ll Get Through This - Max Lucado

23. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz - Jeremy Dronfield

24. The 5 Love Languages of Children - Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell

25. Always Never Yours - Emily Wibberly

26. The Stranger Inside - Lisa Unger

27. The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

28. Be the Bridge - LaTasha Morrison

29. The Pieces of Ourselves - Maggie Harcourt

30. Something in the Water - Catherine Steadman

31. A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood - Fred Rogers

32. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

33. Live Fearless - Sadie Robertson

34. The More of Less - Joshua Becker

35. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

36. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins

37. The Flight Girls - Noelle Salazar

38. The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn

39. Gentle and Lowly - Dane Ortlund

40. The Spirit of the Disciplines - Dallas Willard (read 56% then quit)

41. Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty

42. Throw Like a Girl - Sarah Henning

43. The Last Summer of Us - Maggie Harcourt

44. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

45. How Happiness Happens - Max Lucado

46. A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab

47. A Gathering of Shadows - V.E. Schwab

48. A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab

49. Hunt, Gather, Parent - Michaeleen Doucleff

50. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid

51. The Last Letter From Your Lover - Jojo Moyes

52. The Road Back to You - Ian Morgan Crone & Suzanne Stabile

53. August and Everything After - Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

54. You Have a Match - Emma Lord

55. The Guest List - Lucy Foley

56. Jesus - Max Lucado

57. Field Notes on Love - Jennifer E. Smith

58. Rhythms of Renewal - Rebekah Lyons

59. The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult

60. The Firekeeper’s Daughter - Angeline Boulley

61. My Life with the Walter Boys - Ali Novak

62. The Enneagram of Belonging - Christopher L. Heuertz

63. The Chain - Adrian McKinty

64. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

65. Satisfied - Alyssa Joy Bethke

66. Say You’ll Remember Me - Katie McGarry

67. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton

68. Girl Defined - Kristen Clark & Bethany Baird

69. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

70. The Alice Network - Kate Quinn

71. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid

72. Why Suffering - Ravi Zacharias & Vince Vitale

73. 5 Love Languages Singles Edition - Gary Chapman

74. The Final Girls Support Group - Grady Hendrix

75. The Hawthorne Legacy - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

76. More Than We Can Tell - Brigid Kemmerer

77. Confessions on the 7:45 - Lisa Unger

78. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers - Maxwell King

79. Truly Devious - Maureen Johnson

80. The Meaning of Marriage - Timothy & Kathy Keller

81. The Vanishing Stair - Maureen Johnson

82. The Hand on the Wall - Maureen Johnson

83. The Box in the Woods - Maureen Johnson

84. Animal Farm - George Orwell

85. Alex, Approximately - Jenn Bennett

86. Live No Lies - John Mark Comer

87. God and the Pandemic - N.T. Wright

88. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

89. Peter Pan and Wendy - J.M. Barrie

90. One Day in December - Josie Silver

91. Daring to Hope - Katie Davis Majors

92. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman

93. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas - Agatha Christie

94. A Castle in the Clouds - Kerstin Gier

95. Take Back Your Family - Jefferson Bethke

[jeremylawson]

1936 Ford

[saintvalentinex]

1-50, your turn binch :)

Okay! :D

1. do you have a crush on anyone?

the enormous amount of Fictional characters who haunt me daily.

2. what’s your favourite candy?

Cantelope Jelly Beans

3. favourite love song?

I am Yours by Andy Grammar

4. what was your first kiss like?

It was awkward. My boyfriend at the time just kissed me by surprise in front of the whole school and then ran off

5. What was your last kiss like?

I don’t want to talk about that. :)

6. sexual/romantic orientation

Demisexual and Panromantic! But I just say I’m NBLM.

7. do you prefer poems or love letters?

Answered!

8. favourite fanfic trope?

WHEN ONE OF THEM IS LOOKING AT SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL BUT THE OTHER IS LOOKING AT THEM

9. have you ever been in love?

Yes. A million times yes. 🥰

10. favourite milkshake flavour?

Plain ol’ Vanilla or Salted Caramel

11. Dinner dates or Brunch dates?

Dinner! I’m not much of a breakfast person

12. favourite flowers?

Sunflowers!!! For sure!

13. favourite perfume / cologne?

My Loki one! But otherwise I’m not a huge fan. My nose is too sensitive

14. favourite candle scent?

Pink Sands from Yankee Candle absolutely fucks

15. what’s your ideal first date?

ARCADE AND LASER TAG!!!!

16. favourite love story?

Answered!

17. what’s the most attractive thing a person can wear?

Boots, or a long coat, or a suit, or a professor type outfit, or-

18. Chocolate, Vanilla, or Red velvet?

Vanilla :( red velvet too rich and chocolate is a hit or miss usually

19. snow, rain, or sun?

Snow isn’t fun because you have to clean it up. Sun is too hot most times. Rain is the BEST until it starts storming!!!

20. sweetest romantic memory?

Not to be cheesy, but every minute on every FaceTime call with my wife

21. favourite dating sim?

Answered!

22. fictional crushes?

I’m really gonna air this one out am I? It’s a list and I’m sorry.

ford pines, nick valentine, maximillian desoto, corvo attano, deacon, hancock, porter gage, arcade gannon, vision, dryden vos, julian devorak, gabriel reyes, viktor humphries, hiram blythe.

23. what’s your dream wedding like?

Something small. Located in the woods in an “abandoned church” during the fall, and its near Halloween so I can carve pumpkins for the ceremony.

24. what makes you blush?

Literally everything and anything. I’m a bashful bitch

25. do you believe in love at first sight?

Yes, but not in the way that’s like, typical? I believe it’s more of a “you belong in my life but how” sort of look. Whether it be platonic / romantic / fwb / enemy to kill by your sword, that’s times job.

26. do you believe in soulmates?

Ooooooh yeah. Yeah I do. But then don’t have to be romantic ones.

27. denim jackets, leather jackets, or bomber jackets?

Personally wearing? Bomber jackets. 100%.

28. what’s your sign?

taurus sun, leo moon, sagittarius rising. does it show?

29. are you single?

Nope. Not in any sense of the word. 🤍🖤💙

30. do you prefer to charm or be charmed?

ooooh to be charmed. for sure.

31. guitar or piano?

¿por qué no los dos?

32. favourite romcom?

answered!

33. do you fall in love easily?

Yes depending on the person. Otherwise, no.

34. Valentine’s decorations: yay or nay?

Legally I am bound to answer yes to this question because of my last name.

35. would you prefer to propose or be proposed to? what’s your dream proposal?

I’d like either or to be honest. And my dream proposal? Something small and meaningful. It doesn’t have to be big or be in public. Something special to not only me but the person proposing AND us as a couple.

36. cloud gazing or star gazing?

I am once again asking, ¿por qué no los dos?

37. do you like to dance?

YES YES YES

38. what’s your OTP?

Me and every fictional man I love as well as my wife.

39. kittens or puppies?

puppies, 100%.

40. coffee, hot chocolate, or tea?

Fuck coffee, but fuck hot cocoa and tea, am I right?

41. favourite soda?

Any sort of cream soda or manzanita sol

42. do you prefer gazing wistfully out the window or lying dramatically on the sofa?

My roommate can attest to this one; I love staring out windows.

43. favourite ABBA song?

THE NAME OF THE GAME!!! FUCK

44. fuck / marry / kill

fuck all my fictional husbands, marry my wife, kill my st*pdad!

45. favourite pyjamas?

Just a T-shirt and underwear. Comfy

46. favourite liquor?

Green apple flavoured Smirnoff ice. Shit slaps

47. do you think about love a lot?

Yes, yes, and yes.

48. a walk in the park or a walk on the beach?

oh the park for sure. beach I have to be in a specific mood and most of the time? I’m good :)

49. hand kisses or nose kisses?

Answered!

50. what’s your dream house?

somewhere warm and safe, with the love of my life.

[dark-infatuation]

...you know exactly what we came here to ask. - X, Gem & Mun

Yes dear, I am well aware~

1. What’s one animal you wish you could have as a pet but can’t?

Once upon a time, I would’ve said a dragon~ Now, I suppose any sort of big cat. A melanistic lion would be quite magnificent, don’t you think?

2. Favorite thing to wear to sleep?

Usually, it ends up being flannel pajama pants, with or without a shirt, doesn’t matter. But, I do have a set of silk pajamas that feel rather nice

3. What song really gets you going?

That’s a good question. I’m not very up to date with modern music. But the song ‘Endgame’ from the musical Chess is very good.

4. Where do you usually eat your meals?

Preferably, at the kitchen table. Though I do admit I have a habit of sitting on the kitchen island to eat

5. Favorite meal: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?

Breakfast

6. Most embarrassing habit?

Uh, yes, well, I have been disconnected from society for quite some time, and I’m afraid my slang isn’t very up to date. I try not use slang as a general rule, but there are occasions where I can slip and say something that truly shows my age

7. Chocolate or fruity candy?

Chocolate, no question

8. Soft or hard tacos?

Soft

9. Worst way to break up a fight?

Participating in said fight, solves nothing

10. Best thing to say in an elevator of strangers?

Shift a pair of demon horns onto my head and boom “Going down?”

11. What color/design are your bedsheets?

Plain black, though the comforter has a nice black and white patterning I’m not sure how to describe. Swirls mixed with paisley?

12. Any hidden talents?

I don’t think it’s hidden anymore, but I can play the piano quite well

13. Favorite thing to drink out of (mug, glass, etc.)?

Mug

14. Socks or bare feet around the house?

Bare feet

15. Favorite board game?

Monopoly

16. Do you sleep with the fan on or off?

Off, I’m cold enough as is

17. Heat on or keep it cold with lots of layers?

Depends on my mood, but usually ends up being both with how big the manor is

18. Do you sing in the shower?

Yes

19. Favorite song to belt out at the top of your lungs when you’re alone?

......‘Poor Unfortunate Souls’

20. Last thing you cried about?

.....Everything, really. Everything that happened that night.

21. At what age did you first have alcohol?

When we were 7, but it was also a very different time back then. 

22. Relationship status?

I’d say I’m taken, wouldn’t you, Xanthias~?

23. What’s the most amount of money you’ve spent on a single item of clothing?

Oh I can end up spending quite a lot on my suits. I think my most expensive one was...somewhere in the $30,000 range?

24. What do you typically wear to formal events?

Suits

25. Favorite memory?

............I’d rather not say. Time has made the moment bitter, but...it had been quite beautiful while it lasted

26. Gum or breath mints?

Mints

27. Favorite shoes?

I don’t have a favorite. I have very few pairs, and all of them are the same.

28. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

The list, my dear, is longer than I’d ever care to admit

29. What is the natural state of your hair?

Usually in my eyes, which is quite annoying

30. Have you ever had braces?

No

31. Most dangerous thing you’ve ever done?

Go to that stupid party

32. Most embarrassing thing your parents have caught you doing?

Our parents were never around to catch us doing anything

33. Last time you had an orgasm?

This morning, isn’t that right, Xanthias~

34. Celebrity crush(es)?

None, I’m not sure who the modern celebrities are

35. Windows or Mac?

......Pardon?

36. How old were you when you learned to ride a bike?

...I’ll be honest, neither of us ever learned

37. Makeup or natural?

I’ll always prefer a little makeup, no matter the body

38. What color do you wear the most?

Black

39. Favorite season?

Spring

40. Umbrella or rain coat?

Umbrella

41. Have you ever fallen out of a tree?

Yes, quite a few times as a child

42. First car you ever owned?

A Ford Model T

43. What time do you usually go to bed?

That relative

44. Are you a competitive person?

Yes

45. Least favorite color?

I’m not sure I dislike any color, though perhaps yellow

46. First pet you’ve ever owned?

Does Samuel count?

47. Sweet or salty?

Sweet

48. Favorite pasta dish?

Chicken and broccoli alfredo

49. Favorite kind of chips?

Are Pringles still around? I like those

50. Talk about something you’re passionate about.

I -- suppose I’m rather fond of music. I used to hoard records, still do, actually. And I used to write my own songs, for the piano. Never wrote any of them down, however. I didn’t like them to feel so concrete. I liked to experiment with my music

51. What are some of your hobbies?

I...I’m afraid I haven’t allowed any to flourish. 

52. Caffeine? If so, what kind?

Coffee or tea

53. Favorite kind of pizza?

I don’t believe I’ve ever had it...?

54. Fast food or sit-down restaurant?

A sit-down restaurant

55. Lots of acquaintances or a handful of close friends?

Close friends

56. Something that ruins your appetite?

In terms of food? Or mannerisms? For food, any type of squash I dislike, and in terms of mannerisms, open-mouthed chewing tends to repulse me

57. Favorite labels about you?

‘Mysterious’, ‘terrifying’, ‘attractive’. I’m aware that’s not the intention of the question, but those are still labels

58. Are you a religious person?

No

59. Night out with a bunch of friends in public or night in with one friend having deep conversations?

Deep conversations with a friend

60. What size shoe do you wear?

How is this relevant...?

61. Favorite thing about yourself?

I...suppose my charm. It can be quite useful

62. Have you ever told someone you loved them first?

Yes

63. Have you ever had sex on the first date?

Yes

64. Heroes or villains?

Villains

65. Favorite fruit?

Pomegranate

66. Least favorite fruit?

Plum

67. Favorite vegetable?

Broccoli

68. Least favorite vegetable?

...Is squash a vegetable?

69. How many plates can you eat at a buffet?

Usually just one or two, plus a dessert

70. Favorite dessert?

......Admittedly, I will eat virtually anything with chocolate, though those dark chocolates filled with raspberry creme are divine

71. Do you play any sports?

Not at all

72. Age you learned how to swim?

I can’t remember my exact age, but we were children

73. Tell a funny story.

You’ve never seen Damien pine, when we were kids, he had a crush on a boy. His face would get so red whenever he could so much as see this boy, and he’d get that dreamy look on his face, and not watch where he was going, so one tiiiIIIIIIII -- THAT’S ENOUGH

74. What’s one interesting thing about your culture?

My culture? I don’t -- I’m not sure -- I don’t know all that’s happened in the world, I don’t know how culture has possibly changed over the years, I can’t confidently say what would be ‘interesting’ about modern culture

75. What’s one annoying thing about your culture?

......One thing I have a feeling hasn’t changed is that we claim to be inclusive, yet racism and homophobia and hate crimes prevail

76. What job would you be terrible at?

Anything that required a bedside manner

77. Would you rather watch a TV show or a movie?

A movie

78. What’s your favorite compliment to give?

My dear, I am not a pick-up line generator with a sole goal to get into someone’s pants. My compliments, when I give them, are sincere, and vary from person to person

79. What’s your favorite compliment to receive?

I can admit I can be rather vain. Anything complimenting my looks I enjoy

80. Has your opinion changed on something recently?

Technology. It really has come a long way, hasn’t it?

81. Do you always order the same thing at a restaurant or order something different each time?

I tend to be a creature of habit

82. What’s something you’ve always wanted to try but haven’t yet?

Hmm...I’ve always wanted to try and learn to draw. A friend of mine used to be quite good at it, and I’ve always been a little jealous of his seemingly innate skill

83. If you could learn to do anything right now, what would it be?

Switch between male and female bodies myself

84. Favorite physical feature about yourself?

My scar. As painful as it was, it’s quite beautiful, don’t you think?

85. Least favorite physical feature about yourself?

My dear, as a whole I despise this body. It’s not my own, it’s broken, but...it’s all I have

86. What’s one amazing thing you did that nobody was around to see?

I summoned the...thing, that’s in this body with us. Of course, only Damien was around to see it, and it...ended unpleasantly, but it was quite the feat.

87. If you could change your height, would you?

For my female body? Yes, I’d like to make myself a little taller in that form, but I’m quite content with the male body’s height

88. What’s something you would rate 10/10?

Music, any kind

89. Heels or flats?

Heels

90. What’s something you wish you had more knowledge about?

There’s a lot of things I wish I had more knowledge about, the list goes on

91. Would you want to be famous?

I used to be, in a sense. The public eye is quite taxing. Nowadays, I prefer the shadows

92. What’s something you would get arrested for?

Murder

93. What’s your spirit animal?

I’d like to think it’d be a lion

94. What’s the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to you?

You, Xanthias

95. Are you the type to have an organized mess, or no mess at all?

There’s a fine line between ‘organized’ and ‘organized chaos’. It depends which of us is doing the organizing

96. Do you tend to make decisions based on the past, present, or future?

I try to take all into account

97. Are you a planner or a more spontaneous person?

I’d like to say I’m a planner, but history tends to disagree

98. Thoughts on the oxford comma?

A needed grammatical tool

99. What do you hope never changes?

Having other people with me. After experiencing company for the first time in...60 years, I don’t think I could go back to isolation

100. How would you celebrate your 100th birthday?

I’m afraid that’s already come and passed. I can’t even remember my birthday, so undoubtedly it was uneventful, and spent alone.

[loptgangandi]

so! literally no one asked, but these last 3 weeks have been a hell of a ride let me TELL YOU 

so happy mun-day now you get to hear all about it!! (with pictures, I’m not a monster)

here’s the cliffnotes version: 

december week 1: simultaneously moved back into a place and took classes then moved out of that place while taking classes and planning a 2-day overland trip from sweden to madrid. took said trip. 

december week 2: attended the unfccc climate conference COP25 in madrid, got kicked out for protesting in solidarity with indigenous ppl & kids, got let back into COP the next day & proceeded to go to more panels and also protests. no i did not see greta thunberg but she was there. I did not see harrison ford either. I did shake al gore’s hand tho.

december week 3: week #1 with my mom’s new twin one-eyed cyclops kitties (yes both of them), spent the week frantically writing 2400 words of nonsense that hopefully resolved themselves into two coherent enough papers to snag me a nice grade then took a 36-hour trip up to london to see my sister perform at her bitchin new job.

elaboration under the cut.

Hell Week (or) Why You Sometimes Should Fly to Climate Conferences

So, after the nonsense with The Roommate From Hell (reddit rant here), I moved out of my room at her place and back into the dorms (where I still had a lease through the end of December). That required a fair bit of effort, but I moved things bit by bit over the course of about a week, and it was manageable. 

But I had to be out of the dorms and have the place clean by the time I left for the climate conference, which in itself was a whole lot of coordination. Wednesday the 4th of December was probably among the worst, most frustrating days I have ever had, and I desperately hope I never have to deal with that level of fuck this fuck you fuck me fuck everything for a very, very long time. Somehow -- by some miraculous act of the gods -- I pulled it out, and managed to get my stuff into my friend’s basement, my plants into another friend’s apartment, my bags packed, my room clean as a whistle, my self moved into my hostel, and to every damn class that week. My interrail tickets came the day I planned to leave -- it was a tight fit -- and I managed to book trains and busses from Uppsala to Madrid with half an hour to spare, and get on the first train (Uppsala to Stockholm) in good time.

The next 48 hours went like this:

Stockholm -> Copenhagen (by train): uneventful, but Copenhagen train station on a Friday night is a little dicey, especially when you’re dragging around a 45 lb suitcase and another 15 lbs on your back

Copenhagen -> Hamburg (by overnight FlixBus): Uneventful, and I was sitting by a window with no one sitting next to me, so I was able to doze a bit on the trip. 

Hamburg -> Basel (by high-speed rail): This one I should have booked. The website said that a reservation was recommended, and I understand why. If I’d had a quiet cabin -- or even just a consistent seat for the whole 7-hour journey -- I’d have been able to get a decent night’s sleep. Instead, I kept having to move to give people their reserved seats, and didn’t get more than an hour of uninterrupted sleep.

Basil -> Olten (train): this one was a mistake

Olten -> Brienz (train): where the fuck am I

Brienz -> Lausanne (train): oh right yes that’s the direction I want to go yes good get on that one

Lausanne -> Geneva (train): oh thank fuck, I 100% know where I am and am back on track. Sunglasses & 30 hours without sleep is a Look.

Geneva: Spend 3 hours with my mom, put a week’s worth of clothes into a considerably smaller suitcase, eat dinner. meet mom’s new kittens, Saga and Luna

Geneva -> Lyon (bus): Get confused about which bus to get on, get told off by the bus driver we were trying to convince to let us on his bus, realized mom had been trying to put me on the wrong bus. Get on the right bus. Go to Lyon with bus driver who speaks no French or English, only Spanish.

Lyon -> Barcelona (night bus): Hell. Just. Absolute Hell Bus. Wanted To Die all night. Assigned to aisle seat just before the very back next to a very, very tall man who was quite polite but had no room for his legs. Behind us were two men, one of whom was loudly chewing gum until he took off his shoes and fell asleep, the other of whom snored like a gd bulldozer. Aisle seat and wailing baby a few rows down meant that my chances of sleeping comfortably were 0. I did manage to doze off a bit, but only because I was so strung out from not sleeping the night before. Eventually made it to Barcelona alive and lent my phone to the very nice lady with the wailing baby (plus like 5 other family members, none of whom had cell service). 

Barcelona -> Madrid (train): Absolutely gorgeous train ride through the Spanish countryside that I really did want to stay awake to enjoy. Managed to do so until we got to an elevation where it was just thick, dense fog and I let myself fall asleep. 

Madrid: I arrived at my hostel groggy, dazed, and in pain from two bad nights in a row. I considered a nap, but also considered that I’d need to wake up early the next morning and would need to fall asleep. Opted to try to set up my COP25 blog instead. Failed due to aforementioned grogginess. Walked to the corner to get some food and tried to pay for it with Swedish kronor, which didn’t work. Apologized, explained to the amused man that it had been a long weekend, paid him in Euros instead. Used the hostel’s dry sauna (!!!!), took a shower, and went to bed. 

COP25 - The Old White Fuckening

So, listen, I’m not going to go into detail about COP. If you want to read about how much of a tonedeaf clusterfuck the negotiations were (as opposed to the really interesting, inspiring stuff happening in the side sessions), BBC has some good articles. 

If you want to listen to some of the press conferences and plenaries, here they are. I especially recommend the ones by the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, Fridays for Future, and as many of the Indigenous Peoples’ statements as you can (most of them are in Spanish and/or Portuguese. Because the COP was supposed to be held in Chile, many of the registered Indigenous participants were from Amazonas because it was supposed to not be far to travel). 

If you want to listen to some of the side events, the webcasts have been recorded here. Click the link, and then click “Join the event.” I again recommend the ones by Indigenous groups (if you can understand them -- we all had translation headphones in the sessions, but I don’t speak Spanish, so I can’t really go back and revisit them). Also, this "feminist attempt at connecting the dots” on “climate crisis, corporate power, and climate finance” and this one session from a Nigerian NGO and the government about One Health and the connection between climate change, disease, and other health risks -- and how badass Nigeria is at tackling them. 

On the subject of tonedeafness, some absolute bullshit went down on Wednesday, December 11th. 

Here is the article on BBC, but it’s a bit incomplete.

Here’s what happened.

COP25 2: The Old White Fuckeninger (Starring Military Police!)

So on Wednesday, December 11th, Greta Thunberg -- environmental wunderkind with truly glorious bitchface -- sat on a panel before a hall full of condescending adults in which she demanded accountability and immediate action from national leaders. 

At the end of her speech, the delegation of Fridays for Future -- Greta’s own youth movement, which has become a global phenomenon -- stormed the stage. Representatives of Fridays for Future admitted that they knew what they were doing was against the rules, and they were ready to face the consequences: having their admission badges taken away (being “debadged”), and not being blacklisted from future UNFCCC events. 

Neither of these things happened. Instead, UNFCCC praised the young activists, and let them keep their badges. 

A few hours later, another activist group in attendance -- not an Indigenous one, a point that was raised by a young Native American man during the Fridays for Future press conference -- staged a sit-in outside the main hall where a large plenary meeting was scheduled. Said meeting was full of gimmicks, including a live call to the International Space Station so an astronaut could talk about the view of climate change from space. 

I was going to attend the plenary. I joined the protest instead. 

Admittedly, the decision was partly made for me by security. After pushing, shoving, and jostling the (mostly adult, heavily Indigenous, mostly PoC, heavily female, heavily Queer) protesters, as well as violently snatching their badges off their lanyards, security started herding them -- as well as anyone in proximity -- out into the open docking area outside the hall. One woman nearby, who hadn’t meant to join the protest and who had just been filming, tried to duck out of the group and got sternly told by a security guard “No. Keep going forward. No turning back.” A similar thing had happened to me -- I hadn’t made up my mind about joining the protest, because I didn’t have all the information -- but security made the decision, and in the end, I’ll always prefer to be with the people facing the police rather than those they’re protecting. 

It was... furious. It was emotional. The leaders of the protest had us form a circle and turn our backs on security and the door. WoC -- many of whom were Indigenous -- led not just standard protest chants, but songs. Renewal songs, fight songs. The common theme was the intersection of environmental justice and femininity, queerness and suffering under colonization, anti-capitalism, anti-exploitation, and a call for colonizers to repay the colonized for all of the loss and damage already caused by climate change (climate reparations). 

Eventually, UNFCCC made a decision. They decided to close the door on us. Security “escorted” us to the docking bay entrance, and the military police took over. Fortunately, none of them started anything. Obviously, none of the protesters did either. We made it back to the venue entrance eventually, but only those with journalist/media badges were allowed back in; the rest of us were not. Even people with Observer badges (like mine) who hadn’t been part of the protest weren’t being allowed in. But some people who were panelists, delegates, etc. came out to stand in solidarity with us. 

Once it became clear that no more joint actions would be taking place, I went home, and waited to see whether the negotiators would be able to talk UNFCCC into letting us back in. 

They did. Can you imagine the headlines? “UNFCCC Kicks Out Protesters, Bars Civil Society Observers From Climate Talks.” 

Talk about going down like a lead balloon.

Which is about what the conference in general did. I was able to go back and get some more stuff out of it... including another big protest, this time led by Fridays for Future and sanctioned. It was so, so good. Many of the people from Wednesdays protest were also there, and while spirits weren’t exactly high, the emotions being expressed were more along the lines of determination and tenacity than fire and fury. Both are valid, and both have their place, and it was nice to have a balance -- especially at the end of the week, when we were all flat-out exhausted. 

The Aftermath

And then I just didn’t stop moving. Saturday and Sunday I spent exploring Madrid and staying out late, Monday I flew back to Geneva from Madrid (because absolutely fuck Spanish busses and also absolutely FUCK FRANCE’s weeks-long general strike that I’m sure was for something very important. I’m sure. Because France never strikes over trivial things). 

Tuesday-Friday was a takehome exam that I swear to god was more labor-intensive than my actual undergrad thesis, and Saturday-Sunday I flew to London to visit my sister at her new job as an actor in Shrek’s Adventure. Mom was supposed to go with me, but she has a slipped disk and sent me up alone. Which was nice -- my sister and I almost never hang out just the two of us. But that’s another thing I’ve been dealing with -- quite a bit of extra Stuff To Do that Mom Can’t Do because Back Hurty and there have been days when she literally could not move. 

But now I am here! I still have work to do, and it’s holidays so there’s Holiday Stuff happening, but I’m hoping to get back to writing here in the next few days. 

And if you’ve read all of this, you’re fucking incredible and I love u and here are some one-eyed black babie kitty gremlins for ur viewing pleasure.

<-Saga | Luna ->

They’ve got little bare patches on their tummies because bbies gotta be spayed

They got this tower two days ago and have learned to share, but the learning curve was steep

Saga doesn’t like cuddles but she likes pats and being in the vicinity of humans

Saga says hello

Pictured: Luna in my arms, Saga in Proximity

Luna stole my Spot!! >:C

If Saga steals something and then tells u to answer a riddle to get it back pls let me know. she does that sometimes. it’s very naughty.

[cochino-devin]

Rollin Out to Lone Star Round Up 2023. Zephyr, Chevy, Packard, Ford, Mercury. Los CoChinos CC.

[knotbulian]

1-50

1.      do you have a crush on anyone?

Yes this girl on youtube, this one girl on my workfloor, andon @setonfirebyfiends

2.      what’s your favorite candy?

Maltesers atm

3.      favorite love song?

This or this

4.      what was your first kiss like?

Teethy lmao

5.      what was your last kiss like?

Cold, raven walked me to my train home and kissed me on theplatform goodbye

6.      sexual/romantic orientation?

straight, like8.5/10 romantically orientated lmao

7.      do you prefer poems or love letters?

Ugh both are equally fire to receive. But I only have thecapacity to write love letters.

8.      favorite fanfic trope?

Idk what this is but Twilight fanfics are the bomb

9.      have you ever been in love?

Ya

10.  favorite milkshake flavor?

chocolate

11.  dinner dates or brunch dates?

Dinner dates just cuz its acceptable to drink

12.  favorite flowers?

marigold

13.  favorite perfume/cologne?

Oud wood – tom ford

14.  favorite candle scent?

lavender

15.  what’s your ideal first date?

Homecooked dinner and a movie, movie can be either a stayin or in a theatre – its fun being seen as a couple in public

16.  favorite love story?

twilight

17.  what’s the most attractive thing a person couldwear?

Dress w leg slit and open back

18.  chocolate,vanilla, or red velvet?

chocolate

19.  snow, rain, or sun?

rain

20.  sweetest romantic memory?

A lot of dates w my first girlfriend were dope, spent a lotof time at lakeshores and creeks by our homes

21.  favorite dating sim (and favorite character)?

Ive never played one

22.  fictional crushes?

The girl from danny phantom lmfao

23.  what’s your dream wedding like?

Barn wedding with mason jar lights and bales of hay forseats

24.  what makes you blush?

Any form of compliment in person will usually make me die

25.  do you believe in love at first sight?

Absolutely not

26.  do you believe in soulmates?

Sure 😊nothings real

27.  denim jackets, leather jackets, or bomberjackets?

BOMBERMAN. Naw um probs denim but I like how leather jacketslook

28.  what’s your sign?

Aquarius

29.  are you single?

yes

30.  do you prefer to charm, or be charmed?

Both are equally fun. the gratification of knowing that what you’re doing is working on someone is indescribable

31.  guitar or piano?

I play guitar but would love to learn piano.

32.  favorite romcom (or any romantic movie)?

How to lose a guy in 10 days, love actually, eternalsunshine of the spotless mind, 500 days of summer, 50 first dates, crazy rich Asians,crazy stupid love

33.  do you fall in love easily?

Yes,desafortunadamente

34.  valentine’s decorations: yay or nay?

YES ABSOLUTELY. I work in the financial district and it wasSO fucking cute to see all the pink, white an purple decorations

35.  would you prefer to propose or be proposed to?what’s your dream proposal?

I want a bitch to propose to me. Probably just done inprivate, warm lighting, gushing full of love w whomever im with - share a slow dance after omg im driving myself nuts rn lmao

36.  cloud gazing or star gazing?

Stargazing

37.  do you like to dance?

I do, am I good naaaa

38.  what’s your OTP?

Bella and fucking JACOB black

Jo and fucking LAURIE

Ryan atwood and marissa cooper

Seth cohen and summer Roberts BRO

ZENDAYA AND MYSELF

39.  kittens or puppies?

kittens

40.  coffee, hot chocolate, or tea?

coffee

41.  favorite soda?

Vernors ginger ale – literal liquid gold

42.  do you prefer gazing wistfully out the window orlying dramatically over the sofa?

Lying. Gazing if its on a train

43.  favorite ABBA song?

The winner takes it all

44.  fuck/marry/kill? (anons name 3 people of yourchoice)

fuck the girl I went on date with two days ago, marry@setonfirebyfiends, kill amy schumer

45.  favorite pajamas?

Ball shorts and a movie tee

46.  favorite liquor?

Ciroc boys

47.  do you think about love a lot?

yes

48.  a walk in the park or a walk on the beach?

Beach, love being surrounded by water

49.  hand kisses or nose kisses?

Hand kisses, we do so much with our hands.

50.  what’s your dreamhouse?

A basement, a main floor, a second floor, a third floor, aloft, and a huge ass room for my gaming computer lmao

@setonfirebyfiends thank you ily ur my onlyfan ahhhaaaaaaa :$

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2019 Monterey Motor Week from arthur von wiesenberger on Vimeo.

Monterey Motor Week is known for a number of things especially the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. But other events also make the week exceptional including the Tour d’elegance , a morning journey that went from Pebble Beach to Carmel-by-the-Sea and back. Along the way fans lined the streets as they witnesses and heard this rolling museum of spectacular machines.

Behind the scenes the cars are polished up after the cruise. A rare Chrysler Le Baron Thunderbolt, belonging to an owner from Denver Colorado is one of only five.

A Ford GT 40 is the only aluminum body made. It currently lives in Indiana.

There was a rare 1913 blue Bugatti

A 1935 Packard 1204 Super 8 Coupe Roadster had a 150 horsepower L-Head straight eight engine. This streamlined Packard was styled by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. This car is one of 11 known to survive - and one of three to have a rear mounted spare wheel.

Auctions are also a big part of Motor Week. Some of the most exciting and rarest cars were sold by Gooding & Company.

This 2005 Ferrari 575 Superamerica realized a price of $240,800

A 2018 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso 70th anniversary edition flew out the door at $417,800 … not a bad price for a stylish station wagon

This fun loving 1961 Fiat 600 Jolly with wicker seats and a canopy fringe sold for $156,800

For those in need of speed, Niki Lauda’s 1975 Ferrari 312T, the one he drove and ultimately won the 1975 Formula One Drivers Championship passed the finish line at the auction for $6 million.

A couple of Highway Patrol officers were looking at the 2015 Aston Martin Vulcan and when we asked if they could catch it they said, no way. “I’d just turn off my lights and turn around to go home”. This one didn’t sell at its $2million estimate so it turned around and went home too.

A 2007 Ferrari F430 Challenge race car sold for a bargain price of $72,800

But foreign exotics weren’t the only stars at Gooding. This 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Z06 Big Tank Split Window Coupe came with the factory “Special Performance Equipment” which performed well and sold for $588,000.

But the 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO didn't reach its $600,000 estimate.

This Porsche came with its original window sticker, a car sold by a dealership in Goleta, California called Trans World Auto. It was a good investment for someone.

Lamborghini’s first production model, the elegant 1965 350 GT, got an elegant price of $610,000.

But this 1997 Ferrari F50 didn’t reach its reserve and estimate of $2,800,000. Nor did this racing 1989 Jaguar XJR-10 at $1,500,000.

But this unusual strawberry metallic 1955 Mercedes- Benz 300 SL Gullwing did catch the eye of a buyer at $1,435,000 - -unrestored but a fine example of the original 64 year old car.

Other vintage and prewar cars, some that are boat tail roadsters, were stunning to look at even if they were mechanically challenging.

The 1986 Citroen Deux Chevaux Dolly sold for $28,000. Sacre Bleu, this was a real deal for this French cultural icon.

For a little fun, and little being the operative word, this 1959 BMW Isetta 300 sold beyond its estimate at $41,440.

For the buyer who wanted a Ferrari at a bargain this 1967 Ferrari 330 P2 sold for only $35,840.. But it was a 5/8 scale Ferrari designed for children.

A stunning 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series 1 Cabriolet, originally belonging to Prince Alessandro Ruspoli in Rome, it was at the time the most expensive 250 GT and one of the most successful collaborations between Pinin Farina and Ferrari. It’s hammer price was $6,800,000.

Other classic post war cars were statements of their era. A particularly eye catching example was a 1948 Delahaye 135MS Cabriolet. It was one of 3 by Faget Varnet and was the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Class Winner in 2008. It sold for $550,000.

Steve McQueen, an avid motorcycle and financier of the motorcycle classic movie, On Any Sunday, had this 1936 Indian Chief. Unrestored it was sold in the 1984 McQueen Estate Auction in Las Vegas. Asking $240,000 it is still available and open to offers.

A 2019 McLaren Senna, derived from McLaren’s 720S, has remarkable aerodynamics, a duel clutch, seven speed gearbox and a 4.0 liter twin turbocharged engine that produces 789 horsepower. Available at $1,500,000.

The 1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Superflow was one of the most advanced sports cars of the early 1950s. Only 8 were built making this a very rare car and available at $5.5 million.

The 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Tour de France Berlinetta, one of 36, sold for $5,100,00.

The Gooding auction made a number of records thanks in part to the charming auctioneering talents of Charlie Ross who has also been an antique expert on numerous BBC programs. One of the records set was for the unique Czechoslovakian 1938 Tatra T77A Limousine which sold for $412,000, a pinnacle of prewar design. The Gooding auction realized more than $76 million sold and 17 of the cars sold over the $1 mark.

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MEMORY LAME (REALIZED)

MEMORY LAME (REALIZED)

One year ago, Topshelf Records released our fourth album Memory Lame! BUT GUESS WHAT? (Attention: Music Nerds, Aesthetic Completists, big G? G! fans) That wasn’t the really “real” thing. Memory Lame is REALLY one continuous piece of music: one 41 minute song told in one long breath- meant to be experienced and absorbed as a whole. The movements are all connected, self-referential, and tell a greater musical story.

To celebrate its birthday, Topshelf Records has gathered the limbs and reassembled the monster! Originally released in the form of six tracks composed of 37 chapters, Memory Lame is being re-released in its true form as: MEMORY LAME (REALIZED). Available now on all your favorite digital music providers!

ADDITIONALLY, Topshelf Records is running a 20% OFF SALE on Memory Lame merchandise in their store all weekend!!! www.topshelfrecords.com/products/612879-giraffes-giraffes-memory-lame (Discount applied in cart)

THANK YOU again to Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab for engineering this weird thing, Carl Saff for his excellent mastering, Topshelf Records for being super cool, and most of all YOU for giving a shit :)

ABOUT MEMORY LAME: Part autobiography/part fiction, Memory Lame is a hallucinatory story and soundtrack about the mind. How we perceive and remember, unwittingly absorb, accidentally appropriate, and gradually lose. It follows an incident on a beach, where our narrator is bound on a labyrinthine adventure traveling back through memories, time, and space. It's a journey that examines existence, explores universal themes, and is laced with musical and literary references.

MEMORY LAME by GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!

HERETICAL DOSES

Chapter 1: “Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!” Shouts A Voice Over The Crashing Waves As A Huge Pile Of Dead Christmas Trees Are Ignited In The Moonlight And I Find A Place To Sit In The Sand.

Chapter 2: UNEXPECTED: Free Concert At The Boardwalk And Eddie Money Rips Into ‘I Wanna Go Back.’

Chapter 3: The Heat This Fire Throws Is Starting To Make Me Sweat... (Intrusive Thoughts: I’ve Made A Huge Mistake)

Chapter 4: THE FEAR And The Worm Turns. And Turns. And Turns. And Turns. And Turns. And Turns. And Turns. And I Start To Run

Chapter 5: And Fall And Smash My Head Open On A Rock. While Passing Out, I Think I Feel Hands In My Pockets.

Chapter 6: Susceptibility

HUG OF DEATH

Chapter 7: Cult Ethics 101: IMAGE1.JPG

Chapter 8: TL;DR

Chapter 9: Cult Ethics 201: Like For Likes

Chapter 10: PRE COOL (Soft Reset)

Chapter 11: Sinister Purpose: Precognition

Chapter 12: RE: TL;DR >>> DEFRAG

Chapter 13: Troll’d Goals

Chapter 14: I Am An Electronic Device Skipping Across The Pavement And Flipping Fucking Wild Into The Woods.

Chapter 15: NEW COOL (Totally Bricked And Whereabouts Unknown)

THE TEENAGERS IN THE WOODS BURNING THINGS LYING AROUND

Chapter 16: Burning Plastic / Dripping Flame Part I: Martian Teardrops

Chapter 17: The Curious Bird Lands And Tilts Its Head To The Side Like "What's Up?"

Chapter 18: Burning Plastic / Dripping Flame Part II: The Airborne Toxic Event

Chapter 19: The Coughing Bird Flies Away Like “What The Fuck?”

Chapter 20: Black Bird, Black Lung (A Screaming Camed Across The Sky)

Chapter 21: Sinister Purpose: Prophecy

Chapter 22: The Choking Bird Falls Toward The Highway And The Air Feels Like An Embrace…

Chapter 23: THUNK! And Pulsate Gently In The Morning Sun.

KNIFE EYES: ’04 JAILBREAK

Chapter 24: White Ford, Red Blood (“Swish Swish Swish”)

Chapter 25: CAFFEINE AND NICOTINE: A LOVE STORY

Chapter 26: White Ford, Dead Bugs (“Beep Beep Beep”)

Chapter 27: The Open Windows Create Tiny Tornadoes

Chapter 28: CAFFEINE AND NICOTINE: 3,000 MILES IS A LONG DRIVE INSIDE A CAR.

Chapter 29: Raindrops And A Downward Spiral...

PUTZING AROUND THE UNDERWORLD AKA THE LOSER’S JOURNEY

Chapter 30: Always Living, Always Dying! Part I: Into The Dirt.

Chapter 31: As I Lay Here Floating In This Subterranean River

Chapter 32: ([{Don’t} Fuck] The) Reaper

Chapter 33: Alone Again (Supernaturally)

Chapter 34: HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY!

Chapter 35: Mouthful Of Ash, Fistful Of Ass

Chapter 36: Always Dying, Always Living! Part II: Out Of The Ground.

AT THE TURF FIELD BEHIND MY PARENTS' HOUSE

Chapter 37: At The Turf Field Behind My Parents' House (Be Here Then)