#5.21. two hearts and one home

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Events 5.21

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. 1659 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end. 1660 – The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy. 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel. 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky. 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later. 1792 – A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 15,000 people. 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held. 1851 – Slavery in Colombia is abolished. 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. 1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece. 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi. 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. 1917 – The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces. 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. 1976 – Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California. 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. 1981 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate. 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. 1988 – Margaret Thatcher holds her controversial Sermon on the Mound before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. 1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. 2000 – Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. 2003 – The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. 2014 – Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24. 2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

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writerswatch supernatural

I am doing a rewatch in groupings of the writers! The tag is #writerswatch. I have tallied the writers into groups giving the speed 1 episode per day, but I will not be consistent with that and have it listed into dates for each writer.

I have outlined it below and people can join if they do want to, whether it be for a certain writer, episode, or anything. I just thought this would be a fun format.

I am starting with Eric Kripke.

Eric Kripke: September 25th-October 10th

"Pilot"

1x02 (with Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton)

"Bloody Mary" (with Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton)

"Home"

"Shadow"

"Devil's Trap"

"In My Time of Dying"

"All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 2" (with Michael T. Moore)

"The Magnificent Seven" (with Emily McLaughlin)

"No Rest for the Wicked"

"Lazarus Rising"

"Heaven and Hell" (with Trevor Sands)

"Lucifer Rising"

"Sympathy for the Devil"

"The Real Ghostbusters" (with Nancy Weiner)

"Swan Song" (with Eric 'Giz' Gewirtz)"The Man Who Knew Too Much"

Sera Gamble: October 11th-November 8th

1.03 Dead in the Water

1.12 Faith

1.14 Nightmare

1.21 Salvation

2.03 Bloodlust

2.08 Crossroad Blues

2.13 Houses of the Holy

2.17 Heart

2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One

3.02 The Kids Are Alright

3.07 Fresh Blood

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

3.12 Jus in Bello

3.15 Time Is on My Side

4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer

4.17 It's a Terrible Life

4.21 When the Levee Breaks

5.02 Good God, Y'All

5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester with Jenny Klein (story)

5.13 The Song Remains the Same with Nancy Weiner

5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight

6.01 Exile on Main St.

6.11 Appointment in Samarra

6.21 Let It Bleed

7.01 Meet the New Boss

7.10 Death's Door

7.17 The Born-Again Identity

7.23 Survival of the Fittest

Raelle Tucker*: November 9th-14th

1.03 Dead in the Water

1.12 Faith

1.14 Nightmare

1.21 Salvation

2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

2.10 Hunted

2.16 Roadkill

2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be

*she did write some episodes with Gamble so some are repeats, so I have cut down the days.

John Shiban: Nomember 15th-23rd

1.06 Skin

1.07 Hook Man

1.11 Scarecrow

1.15 The Benders

1.20 Dead Man's Blood

2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown

2.09 Croatoan

2.15 Tall Tales

2.19 Folsom Prison Blues

Cathryn Humphris: November 24th-November 30th

1.20 Dead Man's Blood with John Shiban

2.07 The Usual Suspects

2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign

3.05 Bedtime Stories

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me with Sera Gamble

4.04 Metamorphosis

4.14 Sex and Violence

Ben Edlund: December 1st-December 24th

2.05 Simon Said

2.12 Nightshifter

2.18 Hollywood Babylon

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

3.13 Ghostfacers

4.05 Monster Movie

4.08 Wishful Thinking

4.16 On the Head of a Pin

5.04 The End

5.10 Abandon All Hope...

5.14 My Bloody Valentine

5.20 The Devil You Know

6.03 The Third Man

6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe...

6.15 The French Mistake

6.20 The Man Who Would Be King

7.02 Hello, Cruel World

7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

7.15 Repo Man

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

8.05 Blood Brother

8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler

8.21 The Great Escapist

Jeremy Carver: December 24th-January 11th

3.04 Sin City 

3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas 

3.11 Mystery Spot with Emily McLaughlin (story)

3.14 Long-Distance Call

4.03 In the Beginning 

4.11 Family Remains 

4.15 Death Takes a Holiday

4.20 The Rapture

5.03 Free to Be You and Me 

5.08 Changing Channels

5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

5.18 Point of No Return

8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin

8.23 Sacrifice

9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here 

9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles? 

10.01 Black

10.23 Brother's Keeper 

11.01 Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire

Matt Witten: January 12-January 13th

2.06 No Exit

2.11 Playthings

Richard Hatem: January 14th-January 15th

1.04 Phantom Traveler

1.10 Asylum

Andrew Dabb: January 16th-March 1st, Daniel Loflin: January 16th-31st

4.06 Yellow Fever with Daniel Loflin 

4.13 After School Special with Daniel Loflin

4.19 Jump the Shark with Daniel Loflin 

5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future with Daniel Loflin 

5.11 Sam, Interrupted with Daniel Loflin

5.16 Dark Side of the Moon with Daniel Loflin

5.19 Hammer of the Gods with Daniel Loflin

6.04 Weekend at Bobby's with Daniel Loflin

6.07 Family Matters with Daniel Loflin 

6.13 Unforgiven with Daniel Loflin

6.18 Frontierland with Daniel Loflin and Jackson Stewart (story) 

7.03 The Girl Next Door with Daniel Loflin

7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! with Daniel Loflin

7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie with Daniel Loflin 

7.22 There Will Be Blood with Daniel Loflin 

8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy? with Daniel Loflin 

8.08 Hunteri Heroici 

8.14 Trial and Error

8.22 Clip Show

9.02 Devil May Care

9.10 Road Trip 

9.20 Bloodlines 

9.22 Stairway to Heaven 

10.02 Reichenbach

10.09 The Things We Left Behind 

10.17 Inside Man 

10.22 The Prisoner 

11.02 Form and Void 

11.10 The Devil in the Details

11.15 Beyond the Mat with John Bring

11.17 Red Meat with Robert Berens 

11.23 Alpha and Omega 

12.01 Keep Calm and Carry On 

12.09 First Blood 

12.23 All Along the Watchtower 

13.01 Lost and Found 

13.10 Wayward Sisters with Robert Berens 

13.15 A Most Holy Man with Robert Singer 

13.23 Let the Good Times Roll 

14.01 Stranger in a Strange Land 

14.13 Lebanon with Meredith Glynn

14.20 Moriah 

15.01 Back and to the Future 

15.10 The Heroes' Journey 

15.20 Carry On

Julie Siege: March 2nd-March 7th

4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester 

4.12 Criss Angel Is a Douchebag

4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book 

5.05 Fallen Idol 

5.12 Swap Meat with Harvey Fedor and Rebecca Dessertine 

5.17 99 Problems

Adam Glass*: March 8th-March 22nd

6.02 Two and a Half Men 

6.08 All Dogs Go to Heaven

6.12 Like a Virgin 

6.19 Mommy Dearest 

7.04 Defending Your Life

7.11 Adventures in Babysitting

7.18 Party On, Garth 

8.06 Southern Comfort 

8.12 As Time Goes By

8.18 Freaks and Geeks

9.07 Bad Boys

9.12 Sharp Teeth

9.17 Mother's Little Helper 

10.04 Paper Moon 

10.12 About A Boy

*both hitting Dabb and Glass these are writers I don’t really even take as canon most of the time, and then adding in Buckleming soon, but I’m still going to act as if I’ll have the stomach for it.

Brett Matthews: March 23rd-March 25th

6.05 Live Free or Twihard

6.10 Caged Heat with Jenny Klein (story)

6.16 And Then There Were None

Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder: March 26th-April 3rd

6.06 You Can't Handle the Truth

6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning

6.17 My Heart Will Go On

9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon

9.13 The Purge

10.06 Ask Jeeves

10.13 Halt & Catch Fire

11.07 Plush

11.13 Love Hurts

Brad Buckner and Eugene Ross-Leming: April 4th-May 11th

(I wouldn’t recommend rewatching all of these and am assuming people know what to be critical and prepare for)

1.13 Route 666

7.05 Shut Up, Dr. Phil

7.13 The Slice Girls

7.19 Of Grave Importance

8.03 Heartache

8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin

8.15 Man's Best Friend with Benefits

8.19 Taxi Driver

9.03 I'm No Angel

9.09 Holy Terror

9.16 Blade Runners

9.21 King of the Damned

10.03 Soul Survivor

10.10 The Hunter Games

10.16 Paint It Black

10.21 Dark Dynasty

11.03 The Bad Seed

11.09 O Brother Where Art Thou?

11.18 Hell's Angel

11.21 All in the Family

12.02 Mamma Mia

12.08 LOTUS

12.13 Family Feud

12.17 The British Invasion

12.21 There's Something About Mary

13.02 The Rising Son

13.07 War of the Worlds

13.13 Devil's Bargain

13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive

13.22 Exodus

14.02 Gods and Monsters

14.07 Unhuman Nature

14.12 Prophet and Loss

14.19 Jack in the Box

15.02 Raising Hell

15.08 Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven

15.13 Destiny's Child

15.19 Inherit the Earth

Robbie Thompson: May 12th-May 29th

7.06 Slash Fiction

7.12 Time After Time 

7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo 

8.04 Bitten

8.11 LARP and the Real Girl

8.17 Goodbye Stranger 

8.20 Pac-Man Fever

9.04 Slumber Party

9.11 First Born

9.18 Meta Fiction

10.05 Fan Fiction

10.11 There's No Place Like Home 

10.18 Book of the Damned 

10.20 Angel Heart

11.04 Baby

11.11 Into the Mystic

11.16 Safe House

11.20 Don't Call Me Shurley

Jenny Klein: May 30th-June 7th

5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester with Sera Gamble (story) 

6.10 Caged Heat with Brett Matthews (story) 

7.16 Out with the Old with Robert Singer 

8.10 Torn and Frayed

9.08 Rock and a Hard Place

9.15 #thinman

10.08 Hibbing 911 with Phil Sgriccia (story)

10.15 The Things They Carried 

11.08 Just My Imagination

Daniel Loflin (without Andrew Dabb): June 8th-June 9th

8.09 Citizen Fang

8.16 Remember the Titans

Robert Berens: June 10th-July 5th

9.06 Heaven Can't Wait 

9.14 Captives 

9.19 Alex Annie Alexis Ann

10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls

10.14 The Executioner's Song

10.19 The Werther Project

11.06 Our Little World

11.14 The Vessel

11.17 Red Meat with Andrew Dabb 

11.22 We Happy Few 

12.03 The Foundry 

12.07 Rock Never Dies

12.14 The Raid

12.19 The Future with Meredith Glynn 

12.22 Who We Are

13.03 Patience 

13.09 The Bad Place 

13.10 Wayward Sisters with Andrew Dabb

13.21 Beat the Devil

14.03 The Scar

14.09 The Spear 

14.18 Absence 

15.03 The Rupture

15.09 The Trap

15.12 Galaxy Brain

15.18 Despair

Nancy Won: July 6th-July 8th

11.05 Thin Lizzie

11.12 Don't You Forget About Me 

11.19 The Chitters

John Bring: July 9th-July 10th

11.15 Beyond the Mat with Andrew Dabb 

12.18 The Memory Remains

Davy Perez: July 11th-July 22nd

12.04 American Nightmare

12.12 Stuck in the Middle (With You) 

12.15 Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell 

13.06 Tombstone 

13.11 Breakdown 

13.17 The Thing 

14.04 Mint Condition 

14.11 Damaged Goods 

14.16 Don't Go in the Woods with Nick Vaught 

15.04 Atomic Monsters

15.11 The Gamblers with Meredith Glynn 

15.15 Gimme Shelter

Meredith Glynn: July 23rd-August 6th

12.05 The One You've Been Waiting For

12.11 Regarding Dean 

12.16 Ladies Drink Free 

12.19 The Future with Robert Berens

13.04 The Big Empty 

13.08 The Scorpion and the Frog 

13.14 Good Intentions 

13.20 Unfinished Business 

14.05 Nightmare Logic 

14.08 Byzantium 

14.13 Lebanon with Andrew Dabb 

15.06 Golden Time 

15.11 The Gamblers with Davy Perez 

15.12 Galaxy Brain (story) with Robert Berens 

15.17 Unity

Steve Yockey: August 7th-August 17th

12.06 Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox 

12.10 Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets 

12.20 Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes 

13.05 Advanced Thanatology 

13.12 Various & Sundry Villains 

13.19 Funeralia 

14.06 Optimism 

14.10 Nihilism 

14.14 Ouroboros 

14.15 Peace of Mind with Meghan Fitzmartin (story) 

15.05 Proverbs 17:3

Jeremy Adams: August 18th-August 20th

13.16 Scoobynatural with James Krieg 

15.07 Last Call 

15.14 Last Holiday

Auxiliary Writers: August 21st-August 27th

1.08 Bugs by Bill Coakley and Rachel Nave

1.17 by Hell House Trey Callaway

1.18 Something Wicked by Daniel Knauf

1.19 Provenance by David Ehrman

3.06 Red Sky at Morning by Laurence Andries

7.07 The Mentalists by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker

15.16 Drag Me Away (From You) by Meghan Fitzmartin

[terrainofheartfelt]

"It's you, it Couldn't Be Awful.": a Playlist (Repost!)

another past playlist post that I have now made available unlistedly on the youtube. (link)

Track listings and color commentary under the cut

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Section 1: The Bops

Little of Your Love - HAIM A bop that embodies the energy of the 4b arc, and an energy of “Oh for crying out loud, Humphrey”

You’re just another recovering heart / I wasn’t even gonna try / you wouldn’t even give the time Stop runnin’ your mouth like that / ‘cause you know I’m gonna give it right back

Hate That You Know Me - Bleachers It’s “You owe me ten / You owe me twenty!” & “I was hoping it would go away / I was humiliated” & basically all of While You Weren’t Sleeping, tbh

Some days I, I wish that I wasn’t myself / No luck! / And I hate that you know me so well

I Like Me Better - Lauv Heavily featured in all y’all’s gifsets—and rightfully so!!! It’s also like the perfect counter to the previous song.

To not know who I am but still know that I’m good long as you’re here with me

Sweet Talk - Saint Motel It’s about Blair roasting Dan for filth and him being completely charmed by it.

when you laugh / I forget that it’s about me / But it’s alright / Yeah, cause being your punchline / Still is something

Shadow - Bleachers “You’ll still have me.”

And I know the lights have all gone dark on you / Still I will love your shadow / When the love you gave feels cheap and used

No Reason to Run - Cold War Kids In the perfect version of the show that lives in my head, this is the end credits song that plays as the two of them frolic in Rome.

I have evolved like a fish growing legs / Woke like a lightbulb clicked in my brain

So Nice - Carly Rae Jepsen He's the kind of superstar that would only steal your heart

You Make Lovin’ Fun - Fleetwood Mac The song for the couple that fucked in an elevator. Bless the work.

Sweet wonderful you / You make me happy with the things you do

No Matter What You Do - covered by Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor The energy is “I have a lot of affection for you but you are so annoying.” And this is the obligatory post-breakup s6 song.

No matter what in the world you do / Hey, I’ll always be in love with you

Love You Like I Love You - Mick Flannery & Susan O’Neill It’s 5.21 the song!!!!

Maybe you can’t look in the way you look out / Love come hand in hand with doubt / Light come tethered to the dark / And death itself doth beat your heart

Don’t Take the Money - Bleachers I see so much love for tswift on this website (valid) but I feel like the world as a whole sleeps on her collaborator Jack Antonoff bc he is brilliant and his act Bleachers has some of my favorite songs ever. Like this one. Antonoff has said before that the title phrase is more metaphorical than literal, like an idiom that means don’t take the easy way and give this up, because it’s genuine. Real “I want to have a sleepover with you” vibes.

Somebody broke me once / Love was a currency / A shimmering balance act / I think that I laughed at that

In the Morning - Nina Simone It’s about the domesticity! And the “Our relationship is our world”! And the “we’re young and still have so much life to live so everything’s gonna be okay.” did i title a smut fic with lyrics from this song maybeso.gif

Please be patient with your life / It’s only morning and you’re still to live your day

This Must Be the Place - Talking Heads This is a canon dair song bc .@mysteriesofloves titled a fic after this song, them’s the rules. But for real, this is such a good one. The lyrics are intentionally scattered, a little bewildered, like “how did we get here? how did this happen? who found whom?” and finally “who cares? we found a home in each other.”

The less we say about it, the better / We’ll make it up as we go along

Cleopatra in Brooklyn - Frank Turner Chosen for the title obviously, but the lyrics capture the royal/5b arc pretty well, I think. The narrator carries this tongue-in-cheek comparison of the woman he’s singing to to Cleopatra through the whole song, comparing himself to Marc Antony, and ending with this really earnest kind of declaration. I’m obsessed with this songwriter he’s a genius please give him a listen.

These people are adjectives to your proper noun I’ll come find you when your fortunes fail you / I’ll die with you when the gods desert you

Morphing into Section 2: Pure Vibes

Walking on a Dream - covered by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness The original is by Empire of the Sun (and omigod I just realized the coincidence), but I first heard it covered by McMahon, and he’s one of my favorite musicians of ever so I just love his rendition. And this song is sort of like…about finally deciding that the reality of love with someone is so much better than the idea of it.

Thought I’d never see / The love you found in me / Now it’s changing all the time

Wake Me - Bleachers Jack coming for my life yet again. This song is so romantic but also so melancholy? Which is such a Daniel Humphrey Vibe.

And I’d rather be sad with you / Than anywhere away from you

All I Want - Joni Mitchell I’m a white girl with a mother who grew up in the 60s, so I love Joni. And this song is so bubbly and joyful, but it’s also about a relationship between two imperfect people and wanting it to work anyway. Big “Despicable B” vibes!

All I really want our love to do / Is to bring out the best in me / And in you, too.

Dust to Dust - The Civil Wars A friend in undergrad got me into the Civil Wars by showing me their live videos, and they have such incredible musical chemistry - like, the synchronicity of their ensemble is so good that it even comes through on their studio recordings and it makes these simple lyrics hit SO HARD.

You’re just lonely / You’ve been lonely too long

NFWMB - Hozier Ok, this had to be like the first ask I ever sent @bisexualdanhumphrey bc they wrote this fantastic meta post about Hozier and Derena but I said: “consider: NFWMB is a Dair song.” And they said, “You right.” I stand by it, and that’s why this song is on this list.

If I was born as a blackthorn tree / I’d wanna be felled by you / Held by you / Fuel the pyre of your enemies

Friday I’m in Love - covered by Phoebe Bridgers This song - especially this cover - gives such Secret Friendship Arc vibes a la the end of 4x16…the inherent romance of eating pizza and falling asleep on the couch together

Always take a big bite / It’s such a gorgeous sight / To see you eat in the middle of the night

A Case of You - Joni Mitchell Queen Joni again. Like! I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints. & The “You’re the star of Dan’s book” of it all in these lyrics!

I remember that time you told me / You said “Love is touching souls” / Surely you touched mine / ‘cause part of you pours out of me / In these lines from time to time.

Longing to Belong - Eddie Vedder This is my thinly veiled attempt to tell more people about this: a song written and performed by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder on ukulele, that is actually the softest love song in the history of western music.

All my time is spent here / Longing to belong to you

Apple Pie - Lizzy McAlpine added after I saw this gifset. I couldn't stop myself.

And I'll be fine with that goodbye / As long as I don't say goodbye to you as well

Bones - Josh Record Okay, so, that Moment on the Couch at the end of 5x02? That’s this song.

And darling, when your feet are cold / Wait up, I’m coming home / And all of you I will hold / My love will clothe your bones

Duet (feat. Stephanie Briggs) - Penny and Sparrow I’ve seen you carry family / And all my insecurities

Cinnamon Girl - Lana Del Rey The song for when you reach the end of plausible deniability - One all consuming paralyzing thought & You need to go back to Brooklyn - and it scares the heck out of you.

There’s things I wanna say to you, but I’ll just let you live / Like if you hold me without hurting me / You’ll be the first who ever did

You and Me - You + Me an addition to the original, because it came on my shuffle the other day and I was like: Yes.

You can be flawed enough but perfect for a person

Section 3: Songs for Dancing in the Kitchen with Your Lover at 1 am

I’d Be Waiting - Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats It’s “I just want to spend the day with you” but in like, slow-dance, sexy harmonies format.

If you ever get lonely / If you never did

Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding The “Dan and I have a real connection song.” It’s about the romance of commonplace things when they’re with the right person.

But it seemed so natural, darling / That you and I are here

Never My Love - covered by Jakob Dylan and Norah Jones The “Words of Affirmation” love song they deserve, and an underrated love song from Laurel Canyon, imho

What makes you think love will end? / When you know that my whole life depends / On you

Dancing in the Dark - covered by Morgan James Okay so these lyrics are such Dan lyrics to me, it’s charmingly self-aware and self-deprecating. And this cover by Morgan James turns this staple rock song into something ~sexy~

I’m dying for some action / I’m sick of sittin’ round here trying to write this book / I need a love reaction / Come on, gimme just one look

Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You) - Aretha Franklin They’re literally always making each other laugh! It’s about feeling safe enough to be uninhibited and unselfconscious in your joy.

To make you laugh / I would be a fool for you

I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl - Nina Simone I want a little sweetness down in my soul

I Fall in Love Too Easily - as done by Chet Baker

No one, but no one sounds as sweet or as smooth as Chet. I know it, you know it, Hozier knows it. And this song and it’s titular thesis is so Them, it’s such a central part of their respective characters, and one of the things that makes them compatible.

My heart should be well schooled / ‘Cause I’ve been fooled in the past

Someone Who Loves Me - Sara Bareilles the uhhhh the hug at the end of 5x21? yeah.

Your gift to me is just to be / Bracing for the winds I always summon

For Me Formidable - Charles Aznavour Due entirely to this fic (Part II of a god tier s4 au) This is the end credits song for their full feature length Nora Ephron romcom.

NSFW Honorable Mention: Dinner & Diatribes - Hozier it’s the definitive “men get pegged” representation, iykyk

SFW Honorable Mention: Jack Antonoff's live acoustic performance of "Wake Me"

[claudia1829things]

"The Demand For An Ideal Woman"

"THE DEMAND FOR AN IDEAL WOMAN" Recently, the STAR WARS movie, "STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE" achieved a milestone. Twenty years has passed since it initial release in theaters in May 1999. However, there have been other recent or upcoming events within the STAR WARS franchise. One of them is the upcoming release of the third Sequel Trilogy movie in December. Another was the recent release of a Young Adults (YA) novel called "Queen's Shadow", the first stand alone story about the Prequel Trilogy's leading lady, Padmé Amidala.

 Many fans, especially women, celebrated the release of "Queen's Shadow". Written by EK Johnston, the novel focused on a period in Padmé's life, when her career underwent a transformation from the elected monarch of Naboo to a senator of Naboo. This meant that the novel was set sometime during those ten years between "THE PHANTOM MENACE" and "STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES". More importantly, this novel featured the first time that Padmé was the main protagonist in any STAR WARS movie, television production or novel. "Queen's Shadow" also led many fans to contemplate the idea of Padmé surviving the birth of her twin children, Luke and Leia, and becoming a leader for the early manifestation of the Rebel Alliance. More importantly, the novel and the 20th anniversary of "THE PHANTOM MENACE" has revived the fans' never ending complaint that filmmaker George Lucas should have portrayed Padmé as an ideal character . . . a feminist icon. As a woman, the idea of a leading woman character as a feminist icon sounds very appealing. But as a lover of films and novels, I tend to harbor a strong wariness toward such characters - regardless of their gender. Recently, some fans have suggested that Padmé should have been the main character of the Prequel Trilogy (1999-2005) and not her husband, Anakin Skywalker. Considering that Anakin eventually became Darth Vader from the Original Trilogy (1977-1983), I found this suggestion a little hard to swallow. Even worse, I find the constant complaints that Lucas had "ruined" Padmé's character, due to the manner of her death in "STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH", rather tiresome and pedantic. As I have pointed out in a previous article about Padmé, I found nothing wrong with a person succumbing to death due to a "broken heart" or allowing one's emotions to affect his/her health. Such deaths have actually occurred in real life. And considering that Padmé was in the third trimester of her pregnancy, had endured a series of traumatic events in her professional and personal life, including a recent attack by a jealous Anakin, the circumstances of her death did not surprise me, let alone anger me. In regard to the idea that Padmé should have been the main protagonist of the Prequel Trilogy Amidala . . . this did not make any sense to me. Like Han Solo and Leia Organa in the Original Trilogy, Padmé was a major supporting character in the Prequel Trilogy. The real focus of the Prequel Trilogy was Anakin Skywalker, which made sense considering he proved to be the catalyst of the Jedi Order's downfall and rise of the Galactic Empire. And in his own way, Padmé and Anakin's son, Luke Skywalker, was the Original Trilogy's main character. Although Ewan McGregor was the leading actor in the second and third films of the Prequel Trilogy, Obi-Wan Kenobi was not the central character. It was still Anakin. And I do not recall any film in STAR WARS franchise being made solely about Obi-Wan. Oh yes, there had been plans for one, but due to the failure of "SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY", Disney Studios had decided to curtail any Obi-Wan solo film. Yet, many did not complain. Many had bitched and moaned about how Lucas treated Padmé's character, because he had conveyed her weaknesses, as well as her strengths. He did the same with many male characters. Apparently, certain people cannot deal with a major female character's weaknesses being on display, unless she is either the main character or in a drama. What am I saying? Many people still cannot make up their mines on whether they want the Rey character from Disney's Sequel Trilogy to be ideal or flawed. On the other hand, I once came across an article - it might have come from "The Mary Sue Blog" but I am not sure - claimed that the problem with Padmé was not that she was not allowed to have flaws. This person claimed that the that moviegoers saw her as a problem solver who never gave up in the first two movies. The article also added that Padmé was not someone who would give up the will to live. A few years ago, I had written an ARTICLE that discussed Padmé's mistakes in all three Prequel Trilogy movies and argued that she was not the "flawless" or "ideal" character that many still regard her as. I had also pointed out that in "STAR WARS: EPISODE III – REVENGE OF THE SITH", Padmé had experienced the loss of the Galactic Republic, the rise of the Galactic Empire, the loss of her husband to Palpatine and the Sith, and his physical attack on her in a brief space of time – within two days or less. As someone who had recently experienced personal loss, I understood why she had given in to emotional despair. I had only experienced one loss. Padmé did not. Just because she was able to not give up and overcome a situation in the past, did not mean that she would always be able to do this. I still recall the "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" Season Five episode called (5.21) "The Weight of the World" in which the main protagonist, Buffy Summers, had went into a catatonic state after she failing to prevent her younger sister Dawn from being abducted by the season’s Big Bad, a hell demon called Glory. Buffy had failed to overcome her state of catatonic depression on her own. She needed help and she eventually got it in the form of one of her closest friends, Willow Rosenberg. There was no Willow to help Padmé deal with her emotional state during the downfall of the Republic and the Jedi Order. Padmé had no Willow to deal with the emotional trauma of Anakin's transformation into a Sith Lord or his attack upon her. Instead, she had to deal with going into premature labor and giving birth to twins. I hate to say this, but neither Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda or Bail Organa were as emotionally close to Padmé as Willow Rosenberg was close to Buffy Summers. And instead of providing emotional support to her, the two Jedi Masters and the senator were more focused on her going into labor and giving birth. There is something about today's feminism that truly irritates me. Women (both in real life and in fiction) are not allowed to be flawed. Actually, I think today's feminists and sexist men have that trait in common. Both groups demand that women be ideal in a way THEY believe women should be ideal. For feminists, women should be some all knowing saint, who can kick ass and have a successful career outside of the home. For sexist men (or men in general), women should be attractive or beautiful bed warmers, home carers and emotional crutches. Women are expected to revolve their lives around the men in their lives. Women in real life are not allowed to be flawed - especially if they are famous. And fictional women - especially those who are major characters in an action story - are definitely NOT ALLOWED to be flawed. Especially someone like Padmé Amidala. I do not believe that Lucas had subjected Padmé's character with weak writing. I think too many fans were too prejudiced to allow her to be a complex woman with both strengths and weaknesses. They had wanted . . . no, they had demanded she be some feminist icon. While complaining about Padmé's character, they would always compare her with her daughter, Princess Leia Organa aka Skywalker. The ironic thing is that Leia was no more of a feminist icon than her mother. Leia had her own set of flaws. Yes, she was an intelligent and capable political leader, who was also knowledgeable about military tactics and defending herself. Leia also possessed a tough demeanor and a sharp wit. On the other hand, Leia harbored a hot temper, impatience and a penchant for being both judgmental and an emotional coward. Nor was she the type to be forgiving (except with certain people). Two of Leia's flaws - her temper and being judgmental - were on full display in the 1980 movie, "STAR WARS: EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK". In that film, she had supported Chewbacca’s angry and murderous attack upon Lando Calrissian, after the latter was forced to betray them to Darth Vader and the Empire. During that scene, both Leia and Chewbacca’s anger got the best of them at a time when it should not have. Neither had pondered over how the Empire had arrived on Bespin before them. Nor did they ever considered that Vader had coerced Lando into choosing between betraying Han and them or watching the Empire destroy Bespin and its citizens. Many fans have also complained that George Lucas had failed to explore Padmé's backstory . . . especially in "THE PHANTOM MENACE" and "ATTACK OF THE CLONES". I found this complaint rather hypocritical. Lucas had never bothered to explore Leia or her future husband Han Solo's backstory in the Original Trilogy films. Yet, no one or very few people have complained about this. When Disney Studios finally green-lighted a movie about Han's backstory, many film goers and media outlets like "The Mary Sue Blog" bitched and moaned about how it was not necessary. I suspect they had made this complaint, because it was easier than criticizing how Disney Studios/Lucasfilm had handled the movie's production and theatrical release. Is it any wonder that I found this complaint that a movie about Han's backstory was not necessary, but Padmé's was? And to this day, no one has complained about a lack of Leia's backstory in the 1977-1983 films. Look, I am happy that a novel about Padmé Amidala has been written. And I find it interesting that STAR WARS fans will get a chance to peek into those years between "THE PHANTOM MENACE" and "ATTACK OF THE CLONES". But I must admit that I found myself getting irritated that so many have used the novel's upcoming release to criticize George Lucas' portrayal of her character. It seems obvious to me that a great deal of their criticism is wrapped around a lot of hypocrisy, an inability to understand human nature and a definite lack of attention toward what actually happened to Padmé in the Prequel Trilogy. I cannot help but feel that some people need to realize that in contemplating feminism, they also need to factor in the concept of human nature . . . and good writing. Good writing or a strong character is not one who can do no wrong or be strong, 24/7. A strong character, for me, is someone who possesses both strengths and weaknesses . . . or virtues and flaws. As far as I am concerned, George Lucas had included all in his creation of Padmé Amidala.

[spnjediavenger]

Chapter 6: Mind Games

Disclaimers: I do not own Supernatural, any of its characters, or Jenny

Time frame: Episode 5.21

Spoilers: Season 5 spoilers

POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING: mention/implied sexual assault, low-key panic attack

Notes: Please leave a comment and let me know what you think! And much love to those who have liked and/or reposted!!! <3

Thanks to @sarimaposthumous for co-writing again!

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, mini chapter 5.5

Chapter 6: Mind Games

           Gabriel’s dead, Dean finally was set on not being Michael’s vessel, Sam thought of saying ‘yes’ to Lucifer as his vessel in hopes of dragging him into the cage, and a bunch of people were catching the Croatoan virus.

           How could things get worse, right?

           Elliana and the boys were now in Nevada, following a possible lead on the horseman, Pestilence. Ellie had stayed back in the motel since she was too young to pass off as a CDC agent.

           Laying on her back on one of the beds, Ellie simply stared at the ceiling in boredom. Anaya had been left at Bobby’s to give the dog a break from the road and also to give Bobby something other than his disability to focus on.

           Soon enough, Elliana dozed off. Little did she know that a certain supernatural being was waiting outside the door for an opportune moment like this to sneak in and possess her, blocking her mind, snapping her fingers, and disappearing from the motel.

           Elliana woke up to something forcing its way out of her mouth in a stream of black smoke. Once it was gone, she coughed and gasped air until she could breathe better.

           “After all this time, you weren’t even hard to catch. It’s a bit disappointing, really,” a voice said from beside her, in an almost bored tone.

           Ellie jerked her head up from her position on the floor to see a face she had hoped to never run into again.

           “Damon,” she said, trying her hardest to keep her voice from shaking. The demon she had been running from for a year. The demon that possessed her brother. The demon that came back years later to possess her father and killed both her parents.

Ellie took a deep breath to steady herself and build up a tough façade. She looked around and found herself on a cement floor in a run down building. “What is it with you demons and crappy warehouses?” she snarked. “Can’t afford anything better?”

A chuckle from across the room caught the girl’s attention. Elliana looked across from where she sat to see a figure stepping out of the shadows.

“Yeah, sorry about the lack of hospitality,” he said sarcastically, gesturing around as he walked towards Elliana. When he reached her, he leaned down and put his hands on his knees, scrunching up his face. “Plus it fits the aesthetic,” he continued, smiling at Ellie as he stood up.

“Lucifer,” Ellie said a bit distastefully, though her heart dropped to her stomach. Again, she mustered up her courage to put on a stubborn front, not wanting to show any sign of fear or weakness (if she could help it).

“What do you want?” Ellie snapped.

“Now now,” Lucifer tisked. He leaned down again to grab a handful of Elliana’s hair to pick her up by. Her hands clawed at his own to try and relieve some of the pressure, to no avail. “Damon, here, wanted to just kill you. But I had him bring you here instead. So you should really be thanking me,” Lucifer said, nodding as he continued. “I thought we could chat a bit – get to know each other.”

“Didn’t daddy teach you not to play with your food?” Ellie spat, knowing full well he only wanted to mess with her before ultimately killing her; she was also getting a little fed up with the almost casual way he talked about things, feigning innocence.

Lucifer shoved her head away and stepped back. “What’s the fun in that?” he shrugged. “Besides, it’s not like anyone’s gonna come looking for you. Your little Winchester pals haven’t even blinked an eye at your disappearance,” Lucifer smirked as he crossed his arms. “You don’t mean a thing to anyone. Like Gabriel.”

Immediately, Ellie’s nostrils flared at the mention of Gabriel. “Don’t you dare-“

“He left you,” he continued, feigning sympathy. “Why else would he come rushing to die by my hands? I mean, how else was he gonna get away from you?” The look on his face at this point was a mix of savage and devilish (no pun intended), knowing he hit one weak point.

Elliana stayed silent, not wanting to give the devil any more leverage.

“I know the Winchesters are glad to be rid of you; you’re just a kid after all. A tag-along,” Lucifer added, shrugging again.

Ellie couldn’t help but consider the things he said, but she did all she could to push those thoughts away.

“The boys and I were in Nevada. We’re in Ohio. There’s no way they would even be close to this location after only a few hours; they wouldn’t even be back at the motel yet,” Ellie defended. At Damon’s confused look, she smirked a bit. “This state is my adoptive home – I know it like the back of my hand. And you,” she turned back to Lucifer. “You’re pathetic. Taking self-esteem jabs? You’ll stoop to any low just to get a reaction. And I know you’d never understand this but Gabe loved me; he was my guardian,” she continued, voice rough with emotion. “He did what he did to keep me safe. And you’re an asshole for killing your own brother. And you’re just lying about all this anyway.” Ellie was surprised by her own boldness.

Lucifer just smirked a bit. “Now, why would I lie to you, Ellie? I am an angel after all,” he said, raising his arms and circling her a bit. He stopped in front of her again, putting his finger on his chin, as if in thought; he knew Elliana would hate the silence. “But you know I’m right. Gabriel only watched over you out of pity; much like Sam and Dean,” he said thoughtfully, sidestepping the topic of Gabriel now. “You’re a burden to those guys,” he continued, putting his fake sympathy back in play, tilting his head down a bit. “But not to me. You know, Ellie – I could really use you.”

Ellie could easily detect that he was trying to gain her favor and sneered at him.

“You’re a fool if you think for even a second that I would be stupid enough to help you with anything. I would never agree to help you,” she said defiantly, crossing her arms over her chest.

“You sure about that? I can be very convincing, you know,” Lucifer countered, stepping up to Ellie. “You said Ohio was your ‘adoptive’ home,” he mused. “Let’s see what happened at your real home.”

Lucifer put his hand on top of Elliana’s head, grasping it.

Ellie blacked out for a second before a mixture of images and feelings flashed across her mind. Her parents laying dead on the ground; falling to her knees, scared, and awaiting her death; a flash of light and Gabriel –

Running fearfully from a demon; starving on the side of the road with no money left to afford a place to sleep; A moment of peace when she met Shane and Jenny-

Elliana could sense Lucifer’s annoyance when he kept coming across positive memories, though he had paused for a moment when Jenny appeared. He pushed further into her mind, going back before losing her parents.

Let’s go back to your real home again.

Ellie was flooded again with feelings of fear and rejection…being uncared for. The slight emotional abuse from her father, being told how disrespectful and ungrateful she was; her brother leaving home; and something else she didn’t recognize at first.

Ooooh, what’s this? Lucifer’s voice practically purred in her mind - and Ellie could hear the smirk in it. Let’s play with this a little.

 Elliana woke up, feeling lightheaded; a dull pain on her neck.

“Finally up,” a male’s voice said, startling Ellie. “Here I thought you’d be happy to see me again. The last time I was around, we got pretty close.” The figure came around to stand in front of Ellie, kneeling down and resting his elbows on his knees. Elliana couldn’t help the fear that welled up in her chest.

This isn’t how this was supposed to work! She thought, panicking. She remembered noticing him when he came back; how he was a vampire. She called Dean asking how to kill them and she was ready once the weekend was over. But he got her alone and overpowered her.

“You’re too weak. You’re powerless. There’s nothing you can do to stop me,” he had smirked. He fed off her until she passed out.

The rest of that day was filled with feelings of fear, powerlessness, and struggling. Her body being overtaken by his. Whatever innocence she had left from Ellie’s last run in with him being stolen from her.

She had been empty the next two weeks; and the loss of her blood had made her mind weary. Her mind had repressed it for a year. As the scene unfolded in her mind, Ellie couldn’t stop the tears that ran down her cheeks.

 Lucifer pulled away and Elliana collapsed onto the floor, shuffling back fearfully until her back was against the wall. She took quick shuttering breaths as she tried and failed to push the images and feelings from her mind; she was no longer attuned to Lucifer’s or Damon’s presence and Lucifer smiled at the newfound information.

“You’ve proven to be useful to me in more ways than you can imagine, Ellie,” he said excitedly; he took a few steps towards her, smirking when she tried to push herself further away. “If you harness all that pain and anger – imagine the damage you could do. Not to mention…you can help me get to Jenny.”

Elliana hadn’t been able to process most of his words because she was so emotionally compromised. But his mention of Jenny pulled her attention back a little bit.

“What do you want with Jenny?” she said, voice shaking.

“Jenny…I want her..and her network,” Lucifer said, nodding as his voice trailed off. He turned towards Damon for a moment – “You can leave now,” he said, snapping his fingers to make him vanish. “Now,” he turned to Ellie again and walked towards her. “You and I are gonna take a little trip.” He yanked Ellie up by the collar of her shirt before transporting them to the High Priestess. They stood outside for only a moment before Lucifer kicked the door in.

A few hunters jumped to their feet when he walked in, dragging Elliana behind him. Lucifer snapped his fingers again, making everyone freeze except Ellie and Jenny, who had come rushing into the main area of the bar.

Elliana was still in shock as the weight of everything crushed her chest. She fought, albeit weakly against Lucifer’s hold on her. At this point, she just wanted to lock herself in a room and try to forget everything. She frantically searched the bar until she saw Jenny. The last thing Ellie wanted was for her to be pulled into this situation but her tear-ridden eyes locked onto Jenny’s and she let out a whimpered ‘please’.

Jenny held her gaze, hearing her plea. Her eyebrows furrowed as her heart panged in her chest. Lucifer grabbed Ellie a little tighter, yanking her closer and making the girl’s eyes widen in fear and try to push away from him.

“Enough,” she said with a surprisingly bold tone; it elicited a smirk from Lucifer. Jenny wanted nothing more than to smack it off his face. She looked around and noticed that everyone was frozen in place. Her eyes fell on Elliana again then back to Lucifer. “Let. Her. Go,” she said through gritted teeth and stepped towards him. Jenny didn’t really have a plan, but hell if she would go down without fighting.

Lucifer’s smirk deepened and he threw Ellie to the floor. Ellie immediately crawled over to sit up against the bar, hugging her knees to her chest.

“What’s in it for me?” he said lowly as he stepped forward, his tall frame towering over Jenny; said girl did her best not to cringe away in fear. But looking over at Elliana emboldened her. The girl was like a little sister to her and she would do anything for her.

Jenny’s eyes met Lucifer’s. “I’ll do anything,” her voice quivered softly.

Lucifer grabbed her face, digging his fingers into her cheek, and brought his face close to hers. “You better not be lying to me,” he said in a warning tone. He stepped back and looked around before glancing at Elliana. “I’ll leave you to clean up this mess,” he said, scrunching his face up as he gestured to Ellie “But I’ll be back.” He snapped his fingers, but nothing happened. He rolled his eyes and looked slightly sheepish as he forgot the bar’s warding rendered him almost powerless. He walked out the door and vanished.

The bar practically erupted as the hunters stood up and looked around frantically for the devil as Jenny ran over and dropped down to Ellie.

“Ellie, what happened? Are you ok? What did he do to you?”

Elliana tried to say something but all that came out was a sob. She collapsed into Jenny and squeezed her eyes shut, not even bothering to try and stay strong.

Jenny gently pulled her up and walked her back into the office. She sat her down and called Bobby.

“Bobby, Ellie is here. I don’t know how she got here exactly or what happened to her. Lucifer just – yeah. The Lucifer showed up dragging her along. She’s in complete shock. Please just tell the Winchesters she’s safe until I figure out what’s wrong. I don’t need them showing up here. Thanks Bobby.”

Jenny hung up the phone and looked at Ellie before going to grab some water, placing it on the desk when she rejected it with a shake of her head, continuing to just stare at the floor. Jenny saw how she sat curled back into the chair as much as she could, arms wrapped tightly around her legs.

“Ellie, what happened?”

She sniffled and shook her head gently. “I…he just-“ another sob escaped her lips and she took another moment to compose herself enough to talk. “He- he was in my head…he looked through my memories an-and even things I didn’t remember…he pulled away and said I could help him. And he said I could help him get to you. The demon that killed my parents possessed me and brought me here to Lucifer…he wanted to kill me but-but Lucifer said he told him to bring me to him instead…I wish he would’ve just let him kill me.” Ellie was crying again by the time she finished explaining everything. She hugged her legs tighter and wished everything would just disappear. And knowing Jenny was now pulled into it because of her made her feel worse.

Jenny carefully pulled Ellie into a hug, noticing her tense up at first.

“It’ll be ok.” She paused. “if you wanna talk about what he saw…what he made you see, I’m here. And I wouldn’t put too much stock into what Lucifer says. He’s playing a larger game – too large even for him. He just wants to use us as pawns in the grand scheme of things, but I really don’t think he’ll get to us because he has much bigger fish to fry,” Jenny smiled, lying to the girl. The truth was she had no idea what Lucifer wanted with either of them, but she would be damned if he hurt Ellie again.

She grabbed the tissue box from her desk and handed it to Elliana. She took them and straightened herself out a bit.

“Thanks, Jenny but- I just- I don’t think I can right now. I just want to forget it…”

Jenny nodded and got her phone again, giving Bobby another call to see if he would come get Ellie.

Bobby hung up the phone and quickly texted the first available person he could think of. Jenny had called him to get Elliana but he was about to storm a warehouse full of Croatoan zombies. But he also didn’t want Ellie to have to stay there too long; and Ohio would be a very long drive.

Crowley, as much as Bobby hated the idea, said he would go and snap the girl to Bobby’s house and keep an eye on her until he and the boys got back.

Chapter 7 ->

[anthonybrxdgerton]

Lily Sparks OUAT recaps masterpost.

So, @sieben9 I don’t believe you had a pleasure to meet Lily Sparks yet? She’s a tv.com journalist who happens to make pretty damn ouat recaps.

THIS POST MAY CONTAIN THE LINKS TO EPISODES YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YET, BUT DON’T WORRY, THOSE EPISODES ARE NOT TITLED SO YOU WON'T ACCIDENTALLY BE SPOILED.

ALSO: I CAN’T FIND ANY MORE RECAPS PAST 6.11 SO IF ANYONE KNOWS WHY/HAVE ANY MORE LINKS (IF THEY EXIST) PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND DON’T SPOIL ANYTHING FOR SIEBEN)

She is funny,

sarcastic,

and she’s always brutally honest.

Emphasis on brutally.

Of course, the photos are not the only thing you might enjoy, Lily’s recaps really are something else, and besides being sarcastic little shit, she’s very often on point. Here’s one paragraph from 1x06:

Snow and Prince Charming have mixed DNA, so for him to look at a windmill and decide to go back to his fake wife is not piquing my interest in their relationship so much as punishing me for caring about them in the first place. It doesn't help that Josh Dallas might seriously be into Ginnifer Goodwin. I mean, if the acting he's doing opposite his fairytale mom is any indication, I don't think that crackling energy in his scenes with Ginnifer is acting. #StartingRumors

About year later Josh and Ginny got married.

Links are under the cut!

Season 1:

1.01 Pilot (aka. Too Crazy Not to Root For)

1.02 The Thing You Love Most (aka. Curses!)

1.03 Snow Falls (aka. Kiss and Wake Up)

1.04 The Price of Gold (aka. Assassination of (Fairy Tale) Character)

1.05 That Still Small Voice (aka. Pulling the Strings)

1.06 The Shepherd (aka. Snow Job)

1.07 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (aka. Crying Wolf)

1.08 Desperate Souls (aka. Kiss My Boot!)

1.09. True North (aka. Who's Your Daddy?)

1.10 7.10 AM (aka. When Doves Cry)

1.11 Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (aka. Genie in a Bottle)

1.12 Skin Deep (aka. Deeply Disappointing)

1.13 What Happened To Frederick (aka. Real Love)

1.14 Dreamy (aka. Rotten Dwarf Eggs)

1.15 Red-Handed (aka. Time to Transform)

1.16 Heart of Darkness (aka. Straight to the Heart (of Darkness))

1.17 Hat Tricks (aka. A Tip of the Hat)

1.18 The Stable Boy (aka. Mother Knows Best)

1.19 The Return (aka. Sonny-Side Up)

1.20 The Stranger (aka. A Heartwarming Nightmare)

1.21 An Apple As Red As Blood (aka. Snackrificies)

1.22 A Land Without Magic (aka. There’s A Cloud Hanging Over Us)

Season 2:

2.01 Broken (aka. (Literally) Falling Into Place)

2.02 We Are Both (aka. The Un-Evil Queen)

2.03 Lady of the Lake (aka. A Million Little Pieces)

2.04 The Crocodile (aka. Never-again Land)

2.05. The Doctor (aka. A Patched-Together Abomination)

2.06 Tallahassee (aka. No Honor Among Thieves)

2.07 Child of the Moon (aka. Pack Mentality)

2.08 Into The Deep (aka. Bedtime for Bonzo)

2.09 Queen of Hearts (aka. New Conflict Ahoy, Me Hearties!)

2.10 The Cricket Game (aka. Can People Change? Who Cares?)

2.11 The Outsider (aka. For Whom the Belle Tolls)

2.12 In the Name of the Brother (aka. Multi-dimensional Storytelling, Literally)

2.13 Tiny (aka. Take Us to the Beans!)

2.14 Manhattan (aka. In the Name of the Father)

2.15 The Queen Is Dead (aka. Birthday Girl)

2.16 The Miller’s Daughter (aka. Sympathy for the Devil)

2.17 Welcome To Storybrooke (aka. Open Your Heart to Me (Also Can We All Start 'Shipping Emma and Regina?))

2.18 Selfless, Brave And True (aka. Bait and Switch)

2.19 Lacey (aka. The Lacey Is a Tramp!)

2.20 The Evil Queen (aka. This Show Just Keeps Bagging on Regina/the Evil Queen)

2.21 Second Star To The Right (aka. The Diamond Goes Pear-shaped)

2.22 And Straight on ‘Til Morning (aka. Straight on 'Til Season 3)

Season 3:

3.01 The Heart of the Truest Believer (aka. U Start Believing in Me & I'll Start Believing in U)

3.02 Lost Girl (aka. Breaking the Cycle)

3.03 Quite A Common Fairy (aka. Watching With Hope, Not Anger)

3.04 Nasty Habits (aka. Nasty Messages)

3.05 Good Form (aka. Bromance, Romance, and Hook-ups)

3.06 Ariel (aka. Part of Which World?)

3.07 Dark Hollow (aka. How Darling)

3.08 Think Lovely Thoughts (aka. Dusthead Deadbeat Dads)

3.09 Save Henry (aka. I Regret Nothing)

3.10 The New Neverland (aka. A Familiar Story Device)

3.11 Going Home (aka. Over the Borderline)

3.12 New York City Serenade (aka. Pawed by a Flying Monkey)

3.13 Witch Hunt (aka. A Mother's Touch)

3.14 The Tower (aka. Once Upon a Freudian Slip)

3.15 Quiet Minds (aka. Lumiere Arrives and an Old Flame Gets Snuffed)

3.16 It’s Not Easy Being Green (aka. Once Upon a Repetition Compulsion)

3.17 The Jolly Roger (aka. Your Curse Is On My Lips)

3.18 Bleeding Through (aka. What Ghost Around Comes Around)

3.19 A Curious Thing (aka. Give Your Heart a Break)

3.20 Kansas (aka. Ding, Dong, the Witch Is... Something)

3.21/3.22 Snow Drifts/There’s No Place Like Home (aka. Twice Upon a Cash Grab) 

Season 4 (titled up to episode 3):

4.01 A Tale of Two Sisters (aka. Not Cool, Bro)

4.02 White Out (aka. More Like Wig Out!)

4.03 Rocky Road (aka. A Hot Mess of a Sunday)

4.04

4.05

4.06

4.07

4.08 (those two epiodes are treated as one)

4.09

4.10

4.11

4.12

4.13

4.14

4.15

4.16

4.17

4.18

4.19

4.20

4.21

Season 5:

5.01

5.02

5.03

5.04

5.05

5.06

5.07

5.08 (two episodes as one gain)

5.09

5.10

5.11

5.12

5.13

5.14

5.15

5.16

5.17

5.18

5.19

5.20

5.21

Season 6:

6.01

6.02

6.03

6.04

6.05

6.06

6.07

6.08

6.09

6.10

6.11

[nancylou444]

The Kripke Era

Season One

1.01 Pilot

1.02 Wendigo

1.03 Dead in the Water

1.04 Phantom Traveler

1.05 Bloody Mary

1.06 Skin

1.07 Hook Man

1.08 Bugs

1.09 Home

1.10 Asylum

1.11 Scarecrow

1.12 Faith

1.13 Route 666

1.14 Nightmare

1.15 The Benders

1.16 Shadow

1.17 Hell House

1.18 Something Wicked

1.19 Provenance

1.20 Dead Man’s Blood

1.21 Salvation

1.22 Devil’s Trap

Season Two

2.01 In My Time of Dying

2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown

2.03 Bloodlust

2.04 Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things

2.05 Simon Said

2.06 No Exit

2.07 The Usual Suspects

2.08 Crossroad Blues

2.09 Croatoan

2.10 Hunted

2.11 Playthings

2.12 Nightshifter

2.13 Houses of the Holy

2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign

2.15 Tall Tales

2.16 Roadkill

2.17 Heart

2.18 Hollywood Babylon

2.19 Folsom Prison Blues

2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be

2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One

2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two

Season Three

3.01 The Magnificent Seven

3.02 The Kids Are Alright

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

3.04 Sin City

3.05 Bedtime Stories

3.06 Red Sky at Morning

3.07 Fresh Blood

3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

3.11 Mystery Spot the best spn episode ever

3.12 Jus in Bello

3.13 Ghostfacers

3.14 Long-Distance Call

3.15 Time Is on My Side

3.16 No Rest for the Wicked

Season Four

4.01 Lazarus Rising

4.02 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean Winchester

4.03 In the Beginning

4.04 Metamorphosis

4.05 Monster Movie

4.06 Yellow Fever

4.07 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

4.08 Wishful Thinking

4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer

4.10 Heaven and Hell

4.11 Family Remains

4.12 Criss Angel Is a Douchebag

4.13 After School Special

4.14 Sex and Violence

4.15 Death Takes a Holiday

4.16 On the Head of a Pin

4.17 It’s a Terrible Life

4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book

4.19 Jump the Shark

4.20 The Rapture

4.21 When the Levee Breaks

4.22 Lucifer Rising

Season Five

5.01 Sympathy for the Devil

5.02 Good God, Y'All

5.03 Free to Be You and Me

5.04 The End

5.05 Fallen Idols

5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future

5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

5.08 Changing Channels

5.09 The Real Ghostbusters

5.10 Abandon All Hope

5.11 Sam, Interrupted

5.12 Swap Meat

5.13 The Song Remains the Same

5.14 My Bloody Valentine

5.15 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

5.16 Dark Side of the Moon

5.17 99 Problems

5.18 Point of No Return

5.19 Hammer of the Gods

5.20 The Devil You Know

5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight

5.22 Swan Song

[kayawagner]

Beginner Baubles: Esoteric Charms

Publisher: DeepDark Designs

Get equipped for adventure with Beginner Baubles, the groundbreaking series from DeepDark Designs that makes 5th Edition character creation even more exciting, thrilling, and rewarding than ever before. Once you've experienced Beginner Baubles for yourself, you'll wonder how you ever got by without them!

Beginner Baubles are rare, one-of-a-kind objects that are either magical in nature or else exceptional in some other way. The rules governing their acquisition and use are a little bit different to those that relate to Magic Items, but the two function similarly enough that anyone who's played 5th Edition should feel at home with their use right away. What makes them super fun and interesting is that unlike magic items, which are generally kept under lock and key until the players have chalked up hours and hours at the table (and their characters trudged through a litany of tasks and trials), Beginner Baubles instead serve as an exciting new facet of character creation and are usually provided before the players hit the table with their characters for the very first time.

With Beginner Baubles, every adventurer is blessed with a powerful gift at the start of their career. A boon worthy of the brave deeds and legendary feats of the hallowed heroes of yesteryear, in whose footsteps they will walk as they embark on their own grand adventure. Though their story is not yet written, the call to adventure is strong, and all true heroes must heed it.

Esoteric Charms is the latest entry in the Beginner Baubles line. Released monthly, each new issue in the series is packed to bursting with weird and wonderful prizes just waiting to be greedily devoured by the gluttons at your table. In addition to the baubles themselves, each supplement also includes fully-playtested new rules and mechanics, outstanding presentation and production values, a torrent of premium-quality artwork, and extra materials designed to help you get the most out of the series. Additionally, Beginner Baubles are completely setting-neutral, ready to be dropped into almost any fantasy world that allows for magic items and objects. Best of all, adopting a completely modular approach, each entry in the series can be used as a standalone supplement or in conjunction with any others that you acquire.

Beginner Baubles: Esoteric Charms presents 20 obscure, opaque, and often occult baubles perfect for use by those with a firm heart and unflinching determination in the face of the unknown. Champions of the light, cultists, researchers into the dark arts, sectarians, shamans, vampire hunters, warlocks, witchdoctors, witches, and those who belong to secretive orders will all unearth a relic of cultural or religious significance to aid them in the fight against, or indeed for, evil here.  

Esoteric Charms includes the following baubles:

Dancer's Dirge. This unsettling music box is no ordinary carillons à musique, as even ghosts shudder as it falteringly strikes its offkey notes to form a children's lullaby in a bizarrely dischordant, moribund fashion. 

Phantasmal Rail. This gothic rail has long since lost its tarred canvas curtain, though it has gained a friend in the form of the ghostly apparition whose spirit resides within it and serves as both a bane and boon to the one who wields the rail.

Xeixaura's Hand. This perfectly preserved hand once belonged to a tiefling chiromancer and has been severed, deboned, mounted on a wooden stand, and decorated with dark musing and eldritch symbols–what dark powers could it posses?

Monstrous Matryoshkas. This collection of painted stacking dolls is anything but a child's toy. Each doll in the set is decorated in the style of a demon and at its heart resides a vial of demon's blood. 

Eye of Ojb. Formed of willow bound together with purple string to form a web and decorated with a pair of bird skulls, other bones, fangs, claws, feathers, beads, and gemstones, this creepy dreamcatching is as eerie as it is eye-catching.

Head of Zorbo. You'd be forgiven for assuming that the spark of life has long since departed this shunken, severed goblin head. However, thanks to ancient rituals and forbidden rites known only to practitioners of voodoo witchcraft, a semblance of life permeates it yet.

Price: $5.21 Beginner Baubles: Esoteric Charms published first on https://supergalaxyrom.tumblr.com

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.21

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. 1659 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end. 1660 – The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy. 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel. 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky. 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later. 1792 – A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 15,000 people. 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held. 1851 – Slavery in Colombia is abolished. 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. 1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece. 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi. 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. 1917 – The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces. 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. 1976 – Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California. 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. 1981 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate. 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. 1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. 2003 – The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. 2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.21

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. 1659 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end. 1660 – The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy. 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel. 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky. 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later. 1792 – A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000 people. 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held. 1851 – Slavery in Colombia is abolished. 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. 1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece. 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi. 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. 1917 – The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces. 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. 1976 – Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California. 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. 1981 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate. 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. 1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. 2003 – The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. 2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.21

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. 1659 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end. 1660 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and his caravan explosively suffer an Iroquois defeat at Long Sault. 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky. 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later. 1792 – Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the island of Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, erupts, creating the deadliest Megatsunami that kills 14,524 people, as also a Pyroclastic flow in 1991. 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held. 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America. 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. 1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece. 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi. 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. 1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces. 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. 1976 – The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history. 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1980 – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters. 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. 1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. 2003 – The 6.8 Mw Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.

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Events 5.21

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England. 1659 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end. 1660 – The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy. 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel. 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky. 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later. 1792 – A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000 people. 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held. 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America. 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. 1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece. 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi. 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. 1917 – The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces. 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. 1976 – The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history. 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. 1981 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate. 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. 1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. 2003 – The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.