#Anna reads Oz

[companion-showdown]

Showdown 2k24 Nominations!

alright, redoing this post now that I can give a concrete start date of Monday the 15th of January!

Nominations for the tournament are open up until the start date, and you can submit anyone who could reasonable be considered a companion, either by sending me an ask or by filling out

this form.

If you make your nomination via the form you can also submit some propaganda to go alongside the poll. Anyone who was considered a regular at any point in the last year will automatically be included, as well as anyone who was in the original tournament (+/- a couple I might miss or misremember as being a regular because I don't have old lists anywhere). The exception to this is last years winner, Rose Tyler, she will not be getting a place in the main tournament, however after the final I will run a poll to see if our new winner can beat her. (oh and also maybe I'll leave the TARDIS out but not fully decided yet)

The tournament is going to be run in the same way I did @adventure-showdown, meaning I'll keep companions from different periods of the show and different mediums segregated at first so the nicher ones don't immediately get knocked out, and slowly get mingled together. The exact details are going to depend on just how may characters get included.

Errm yeah, so go wild, nominate whoever you like (as long as they are a companion). If they are from teh TV show they have to be on this list to qualify, and for EU companions I'm going with them needing a TARDIS wiki page, and also I will give them a quick proof read to make sure they pass, the bar is low but it is there

if you want to submit an alternate version of the character sorry but main version only unless you can give a really good reason, eg regenerations of a time lord

also, if they are primarily from another franchise that'll be a no

The full list of contestents is under the cut and will be updated as nominations come in. Its sorted by medium and then to be alphabetical by first name. if an eu companion exists in multiple mediums i just sort of picked one or I put them under the other category, people who exist in real life are also sorted into their own category. There are some characters under Classic Who/NuWho who were not companions on TV but were in the EU. Companions who's names are in green have had propaganda submitted for them, if they're not in green then they don't, and just because someone has propaganda doesn't mean i wont accept more

Classic Who

Ace McShane

Adric

Barbara Wright

Ben Jackson

The Brigadier

Chang Lee

Dodo Chaplet

Grace Holloway

Harry Sullivan

Ian Chesterton

Jamie McCrimmon

Jo Grant

K9

Kamelion

Katarina

Leela

Liz Shaw

Mags

Mel Bush

Mike Yates

Nyssa

Peri Brown

Polly Wright

Romana I

Romana II

Sabalom Glitz

Sara Kingdom

Sarah-Jane Smith

Sergeant Benton

Steven Taylor

Susan Foreman

Tegan Jovanka

Turlough

Vicki Pallister

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

NuWho

Adam Mitchell

Amy Pond

Bill Potts

Canton Everett Delaware III

Clara Oswald

Dan Lewis

Donna Noble

Graham O'Brien

Grant Gordon aka the Ghost

Handles

Inston-Vee Vindor

Jack Harkness

Karvanista

Kate Stewart

Martha Jones

Mickey Smith

Missy

Nardole

River Song

Rory Williams

Rose Noble

Ruby Sunday

Ryan Sinclair

Wilfred Mott

Yasmin Khan

Audio

Alex Campbell

Anya Kingdom

Bliss

C'rizz

Cass Fermazzi

Charley Pollard

Cousin Eliza: Christine Summerfield: Horus

Dalek Test Subject 2

Erimem

Evelyn Smythe

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Iris Wildthyme

Liv Chenka

Lucie Miller

Mark Seven

Molly O'Sullivan

Narvin

Oliver Harper

Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)

Tania Bell

Novels

Anji Kapoor

Anna (Good Companions)

Badger

Barusa

Bernice Summerfield

Business woman (Time on a Vine)

Catherine “Cat” Broome

Chris Cwej - have propaganda but in conjunction with another contestant

Cinder

Claudia Marwood

Compassion

Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)

Fitz Kreiner

Guinevere Winchester

Hector (All Flesh is Grass)

Homunculette

Ikalla

Irving Braxiatel

Jack McSpringheel

Larna

Marie (Alien Bodies)

Milena

Patience

Penelope Gate

Peter Summerfield

Rosie Taylor

Roz Forrester - have propaganda but in conjunction with another contestant

Ruth Leonidas

Sam Jones

Serena

Sibling Different aka Mae

The Mortimer Family (Ida, Alan, Helen, George)

Trix MacMillan

V.M.McCrimmion

Wolsey the Cat

Zeleekhà

Comics

Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer

Angus ‘Gus’ Goodman

ARC

Chantir

Child Master (The Then and the Now)

Cindy Wu

Dave Lester

Destrii

Duh

Flanx

Fey Truscott-Sade

Frobisher

Gabby Gonzalez

Gillian & John Who

Grayla

Hattie Munroe

Izzy Sinclair

Jayne Kadett

John Jones

Josie Day

Kroton

Ly Chee the Wise

Majenta Pryce

Maxwell Edison

Olla

Rose-the-cat

Shayde

Ssard

The Squire

Weeping Angel (Origins)

Real Life

Alan Turing

Claudia Winkleman

John Lennon

Jules Verne

Mary Shelley

Peter Cushing

Other

Alison Cheney

Andy Davidson

Antimony (Death Comes to Time)

Brian the Ood

Dormouse (The Red and the Blue)

Emma (curse of fatal death)

Koschie

Romana (Battle for the Universe)

Splinx

Susan Who

Tom Campbell

[lesbianjoannaharvelle]

Sapphicnatural Fic Rec List

So, I'm finally making a list of my favourite sapphic spn fanfics, so you can check them out if you're interested.

I will add more to this list as time goes on! Have fun reading. <3

Jo Daily by thereweresunflowers

→ Jo/Cassie; Rated T; 37173 Words

My favourite spn fic of all time. Read Jo's blog entries as she talks about her mum, her dead father, the Roadhouse and then, most importantly, Cassie.

2. like a song by guntherapy

→ Billie/Rowena; Rated M; 2607 Words

Billie and Rowena get to know each other after Rowena becomes the Queen of Hell.

3. the saint patron of dirt under your fingernails by sonorousangels

→ Anna/Mary; Rated T; 544 Words

Anna watches Mary and considers disobedience.

4. Faith Undone by iamfoxfire

→ Layla/Anna; Rated E; 9474 Words

Layla is dying, so she's praying for a miracle. Anna answers her prayers.

5. An Angel Bright Betwixt by depressaria

→ Anna/Ruby; Not Rated; 5228 Words

Anna and Ruby are teaming up, fighting for their lives in a world overrun by vampires.

6. Be still, my beating heart by thereweresunflowers

→ Rowena/Jo; Rated T; 1074 Words

Jo tries to kill Rowena. It doesn't go as planned. (Or the Jo stabs Rowena homoeritcally in the heart fic.)

7. We'll have our pearl by everytuesday

→ Mary/Charlie; Rated G; 2787 Words

Mary and Charlie go on a roadtrip. Charlie tries to find out if Mary is gay.

8. Your eyes were like machinery by myaimistrue

→ Anny/Mary; Rated T; 1170 Words

Anna tries to convince Mary to leave John in order to save the world. Mary doesn't want to, so Anna erases her memory and tries again and again.

9. Amidst ashes and feathers by anarchistamara

→ Amara/Mary; Rated M; 6797 Words

Mary is brought back to life by Amara. She struggles with this new life, so she confronts Amara about it.

10. The Harvelle Gospels by LaurytheLatrator

→ Anna/Jo; Rated M; 26519 Words

Jo is the Righteous Woman, raised from Hell by Anna. Now she has to prevent the Apocalypse.

11. Wolf like Me by schmevil

→ Bela/Meg; Rated T; 4084 Words

Bela is in hell; Meg shows her how to be a demon.

12. Neatly-labelled leftovers by gayliens

→ Jody/Mary; Rated E; 3177 Words

Mary constantly compares herself to Jody, who seems to be the perfect mom. That doesn't stop them from hooking up though.

13. Violet by ghost_roads

→ Jo/Cassie; Not Rated; 4573 Words

Jo and Cassie meet on a hunt.

14. Batgirl and Catwoman by lightsaroundyourvanity

→ Bela/Sarah; Rated G; 1816 Words

Sarah sees Bela at an estate sale and quickly realizes that something is off.

15. We Might Be Pretending by rubyboys

→ Anna/Ruby; Rated T; 684 Words

Anna and Ruby are on the run.

16. The Third Most Badass Wizard in the Multiverse by soullistrations

→ Charlie/Dorothy; Rated T; 1067 Words

Charlie and Dorothy travel through Oz together and share some intimate moments.

17. snowflakes and silent conversations by Anonymous

→ Jody/Mary; Rated T; 1233 Words

Jody and Mary celebrate Mary's birthday together.

18. nobody will lose their head by halfwheeze

→ Bela/Jo; Rated G; 2432 Words

Jo and Bela run away together, sort of.

19. On Begged and Borrowed Time by wartyfrogfish

→ Ellen/Mary; Rated T; 1021 Words

Ellen visits Mary who is already married to John. She tries to understand why Mary left her.

20. after the storm by puchuupoet

-> Jo/Tessa, Rated T; 1149 Words

Jo dies and she meets Tessa the reaper who wants to show her the way to the afterlife.

21. Likeness by iamfoxfire

-> Jo/Amara; Rated T; 1063 Words

Jo takes the Mark of Cain and sets Amara free.

22. Cast No Shade by thereweresunflowers

-> Mary/Jo; Rated T; 5193 Words

The lesbian cowgirl AU you never know you needed!

23. I don't know nothing (and that's fine) by halfwheeze

-> Claire/Magda; Rated G; 7319 Words

Magda moves in with Jody and the other girls and Claire starts to get to know her better.

24. welcome to your life (there's no turning back) by ElasticElla

-> Amara/Mary; Rated T; 1415 Words

Amara brings Mary back from the dead. Mary has to get used to her new life.

25. Thorns Around A Rose by HeddersTheOwl

-> Bela/Meg; Rated T; 2932 Words

Meg needs something from Bela who has made quite a name for herself in hell.

26. on sunshine by thereweresunflowers

-> Charlie/Donna; Rated M; 7250 Words

Charlie meets Donna for the first time and it's as sweet as you'd expect.

27. Pillow Talk by HeddersTheOwl

-> Jo/Mary; Rated T; 740 Words

Mary and Jo have a soft conversation in bed about whether they should exist.

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Also gonna plug my own fics here hehe

Back from Hell

→ Bela/Jo; Rated G; 2270 Words

Jo meets Bela outside of the Roadhouse and they bond over their past and their scars.

Still Breathing

→ Anna/Mary; Rated E; 1083 Words

Anna wants to kill Mary. Mary tries to seduce her to changer her mind.

Haunted

-> Jo/Cassie; Rated T; 1265 Words

Jo and Cassie move into an apartment together. As they want to enjoy their time as a couple, they realize they are not alone in the house.

Black Eyes

-> Jo/Ruby; Rated E; 4222 Words

Ruby meets Jo, a former hunter turned demon. Although she is skeptical at first, they quickly make a great team - and maybe even more than that.

Happy Birthday, Jo

→ Jo/Cassie, Rated G; 508 Words

It's Jo's birthday and she shares this moment with Cassie.

Lost on Earth

→ Ambriel/Anna; Rated G; 2231 Words

Ambriel lost her grace to Amara, so she's human now. She struggles to find her way in this new, confusing life but finds support and comfort in Anna.

Life Without Grace

→ Ambriel/Anna; Rated G; 710 Words

Glimpses of Anna's and Ambriel's life together aka them being human and happy and in love.

Weekend at Rufus'

-> Jo; Rated G; 2035 Words

Jo has a fight with Ellen and spends a weekend at Rufus' place where, to her surprise, she also meets Bobby. While she is staying there to calm down, she slowly gets the impression that these two are more than just hunting buddies.

A Weight Lifted

-> Jo; Rated G; 1025 Words

Jo shaves her head.

[europeanmusicals]

Do you know of any Euro musical productions besides Rebecca going on in Jan-March 2023?

I'm trying to plan a vacation lol, anywhere in Europe would go

TIA!

Alright this isn't going to be a full list because I'm sure I can't find them all but I've done my best. I've decided to make this a list of all musicals in Europe for all of 2023, so that everyone might find this useful (that's code for I love making lists and got carried away).

Musicals in Europe in 2023

2022.12.10 Listed alphabetically by country and then by opening date. Countries listed below are Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland. Click 'keep reading' to see the list.

Edit 2022.12.11: added some more musical in Austria, The Netherlands and Russia. Sources to websites where I found this information and where you can book tickets are now at the bottom of the list. Sorry they weren’t added originally, I made the original list at 1am.

Edit 2022.12.11: added performances at the open-air theatre in Tecklenburg, Germany.

Edit: 2022.12.12 added more shows for Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and France.

Edit: 2022.12.15 i can’t keep up with all the asks telling me to add things to the list. please see this tag (european musicals in 2023) to see asks telling me about more shows, but i don’t have the time to keep sourcing and adding them to this list anymore.

Austria

Rebecca das Musical - Vienna, Raimund Theater September 9th 2022 - TBD Cast: Nienke Latten (Ich), Mark Seibet (Maxim de Winter), Willemijn Verkaik (Mrs Danvers), Boris Pfeifer (Jack Favell), Ana Milva Gomes (Mrs Van Hopper), James Park (Frank Crawly), Annemieke van Dam (Beatrice/Alt Mrs Danvrs), Aris Sas (Ben)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) - Vienna, Ronacher November 10th 2022 - TBD Cast: Abla Alaoui (Esmerelda), David Jakobs (Quasimodo), Dominik Hees (Phoebus), Andreas Lichtenberger (Frollo), Mathias Schlung (Clopin)

My Fair Lady - Vienna, Volksoper December 14th 2022 - January 10th 2023 Cast: Juliette Khalil (Eliza Doolittle), Axel Herrig (Henry Higgins)

Catch Me if You Can - Linz, Landestheater Linz December 14th 2022 - June 3rd 2023

Anastasia - Linz, Landestheater Linz December 15th 2022 -

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Vienna, Das Vindobona January 9th 2023 - January 29th 2023 Cast: Drew Sarich (Hedwig), Anna Mandrella (Yitzhak)

Lady in the Dark - Vienna, Volksoper January 26th 2023 - February 22nd 2023 Cast: TBD

Funny Girl - Baden, Stadttheater/Bühne Baden January 28th 2023 - March 25th 2023 Cast: Johanna Arrouas (Fanny Brice), Thomas Weissengruber (Nick Arnstein)

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 - Linz, Landestheater Linz February 11th 2023 - June 17th 2023

Anatevka - Vienna, Volksoper February 23rd 2022 - March 31st 2023 Cast: TBD

Jesus Christ Superstar - Vienna, Raimund Theater March 31st 2023 - April 10th 2023 (Concert version) Cast: Drew Sarich (Jesus)

The Sound of Music - Vienna, Volksoper April 1st 2023 - May 1st 2023 Cast: TBD

Fun Home - Linz, Landestheater Linz April 13th 2023 - May 22nd 2023

Cabaret - Vienna, Volksoper May 5th 2023 - May 14th 2023 Cast: TBD

The Wizard of Oz (Arlen/Webber) - Vienna, Volksoper May 17th 2023 - June 25th 2023 Cast: TBD

Elisabeth das Musical - Vienna, Schloss Schönbrunn June 29th 2023 - July 1st 2023 (Open air concert) Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Der Tod)

Cabaret - Baden, Stadttheater/Bühne Baden July 7th 2023 - August 25th 2023 Cast: Anna Mandrella (Sally Boweles), Drew Sarich (Emcee), René Rumpold (Herr Schultz), Maya Hakvoort (Fraulein Schneider), Alexander Donesh (Cliff), Iva Schell (Fraulein Kost), Jan Walter (Ernst Ludwig)

Dirty Dancing - Linz, Landestheater Linz July 11th 2023 - August 6th 2023

England (West End & UK Tours)

Les Misérables - London, Sondheim Theatre October 8th 1985 - TBD

The Phantom of the Opera - London, Her Majesty's Theatre October 9th 1986 - TBD

Mamma Mia! - London, Novello Theatre April 6th 1999 - September 30th 2023

The Lion King - London, Lyceum Theatre October 19th 1999 - TBD

Wicked - London, Apollo Victoria Theatre September 27th 2006 - TBD

Matilda - London, Cambridge Theatre October 25th 2011 - December 17th 2023

The Book of Mormon - London, Prince of Wales Theatre February 25th 2013 - March 18th 2023

Hamilton - London, Victoria Palace Theatre December 21st 2017 - September 30th 2023

Tina (The Tuna Turner Musical) - London, Aldwych April 17th 2018 - July 11th 2023

Six - London, Vaudeville Theatre January 17th 2019 - TBD

Only Fools and Horses: The Musical - London, Theatre Royal Haymarket February 9th 2019 - April 1st 2023

Mary Poppins - London, Prince Edward Theatre November 13th 2019 - January 8th 2023

& Juliet - London, Shaftesbury Theatre November 20th 2019 - March 25th 2023

Come From Away - London, Phoenix Theatre January 19th 2019 - January 7th 2023

Jersey Boys - London, Trafalgar Theatre July 18th 2021 - April 30th 2023

Pretty Woman - London, Savoy Theatre July 19th 2021 - April 2nd 2023

Frozen - London, Theatre Royal Drury Lane August 27th 2021 - March 26th 2023

Back to the Future - London, Adelphi Theatre September 13th 2021 - February 12th 2023

Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical - London, Lyric Theatre October 1st 2021 - January 8th 2023

Moulin Rouge! - London, Piccadilly Theatre November 12th 2021 - April 15th 2023

Cabaret - London, Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre November 15th 2021 - December 16th 2023

Heathers - London, The Other Palace Theatre November 25th 2021 - February 18th 2023

Bonnie and Clyde - London, Garrick Theatre March 4th 2022 - May 20th 2023

The Witches of Oz - London, The Vaults Theatre September 19th 2022 - January 14th 2023

Hex - London, Olivier Theatre November 26th 2022 - January 14th 2023

Newsies - London, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre November 29th 2022 - April 16th 2023

Mandela - London, Young Vic November 29th 2022 - February 4th 2023

Bugsy Malone - London, Alexandra Palace December 3rd 2022 - January 15th 2023

The Rocky Horror Show - UK Tour January 3rd 2023 - September 2nd 2023

Fisherman's Friends - UK Tour January 31st 2023 - May 30th 2023

Jersey Boys - UK Tour January 10th 2023 - May 6th 2023

Sister Act - UK Tour January 11th 2023 - January 27th 2024

Blood Brothers - UK Tour January 17th 2023 - April 29th 2023

Dirty Dancing - Dominion Theatre January 18th 2023 - April 29th 2023

Sylvia - London, Old Vic January 27th 2023 - April 1st 2023

Oklahoma! - London, Wyndham's Theatre February 16th 2023 - September 2nd 2023

Bat out of Hell - London, Peacock Theatre February 17th 2023 - April 1st 2023

The Great British Bake Off Musical - London, Noel Coward Theatre February 25th 2023 - May 13th 2023

Guys and Dolls - London, Bridge Theatre February 27th 2023 - September 2nd 2023

Titanic the Musical - UK Tour March 16th 2023 - August 5th 2023

Ain't Too Proud - London, Prince Edward's Theatre March 31st 2023 - October 1st 2023

The Rocky Horror Show - London, Peacock Theatre May 3rd 2023 - June 10th 2023

Mrs Doubtfire - London, Shaftsbury Theatre May 12th 2023 - January 13th 2024

42nd Street - London, Sadler's Wells June 7th 2023 - July 2nd 2023

Crazy for You - London, Gillian Lynne Theatre June 24th 2023 - January 20th 2024

The Spongebob Musical - London, Queen Elizabeth Hall July 26th 2023 - August 27th 2023

The Drifter's Girl - UK Tour September 12th 2023 - January 13th 2024

France

The Producers / Les Producteurs - Paris, Theatre de Paris December 9th 2022 - April 2nd 2023

The Lion King / Le Roi Lion (Disney) - Paris, Théâtre Mogador December 13th 2022 - June 6th 2023

Cabaret - Paris, Lido2Paris - February 3rd 2023

Josephine Baker the Musical - Paris, Bobino Theatre - February 22nd 2023

Notre Dame de Paris - Paris, NODUS November 15th 2023 - December 3rd 2023

Germany

Tanz der Vampire - Stuttgart, Stage Palladium Theater October 5th 2021 - September 10th 2023 Cast: Filippo Strocchi (Graf von Krolock), Kristin Backes (Sarah), Vincent van Gorp (Afred), Jakub Wocial (Professor Abronsius), Oleg Krasovitskii (Chagal), Anja Bakus (Magda), Wolfgang Zarnack (Koukol), Andreas Nutzl (Herbert), Hanny Aden (Rebeca)

Aladdin (Disney) - Stuttgart, Stage Apollo Theater October 2021 - January 19th 2023 Cast: Gonzalo Campos López (Aladdin), Rita Sebah (Jasmin), Maximillian Man (Genie), Claus Dam (Sultan), Paolo Bianca (Jafar), Terry Alfaro (Iago)

Ku-Damm 56 das Musical - Berlin, Stage Theater des Westens October 2021 - February 19th 2023 Sandra Leitner (Monika), Pedro Reichert (Freddy), Katja Uhlig (Caterina Schollack), Patrik Cieslik (Joachim)

Mamma Mia - Hamburg, Stage Theater Neue Flora October 2021 - August 27th 2023 Cast: Sabine Mayer (Donna), Anna Thorén (alt Donna), Rose-Anne van Elswijk (Sophie), Jennifer van Brenk (Tanja), Franziska Lessing (Rosie), Sasche Oliver Bauer (Sam), Tetje Mierendorf (Bill), Detlef Leistenschneider (Harry)

Hamilton - Hamburg, Stage Operettenhaus October 2021 - September 30th 2023 Benet Monteiro (Alexander Hamilton), Diluckshan Jeyaratnam (alt Hamilton/Aaron Burr), Ivy Quainoo (Eliza Hamilton), Gino Emnes (Aaron Burr), Chasity Crisp (Angelixa Schuyler), Charles Simmons (George Washington), Daniel Dodd-Ellis (Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Redchild (Hercules Mulligan/James Maddison), Oliver Edward (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Mae Ann Jorolan (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Jan Kersjes (King George)

Frozen/Die Eiskonigin (Disney) - Hamburg, Stage Theater an der Elbe October 2021 - December 23rd 2023 Cast: Sabrina Weckerlin (Elsa), Celena Pieper (Anna), Janneke Ivankova (alt Elsa), Willemijn Maandag (alt Anna), Owen Playfair (Kristoff), Bob van de Weijdeven (Hans), Elindo Avastia (Olaf)

The Lion King/Der Konig der Lowen (Disney) - Hamburg, Stage Theater im Hafen October 2021 - December 17th 2023 Cast: Hope Maine (Simba), Andrea del Solar (Nala), OJ Lunch (Mufasa), Bongiwe Happiness Malunga (Rafiki), Bernd Lambrecht (Scar), Joachim Benoit (Zazu), Tobias Korinth (Timon), S'Thembiso Keith Machiane (Pumbaa)

Moulin Rouge! - Cologne, Musical Dome Autumn 2022 - June 30th 2023

Tina (The Tina Turner Musical) - Stuttgart, Stage Apollo Theater March 7th 2023 - December 23rd 2023 Cast: Aisata Blackman (Tina Turner)

Romeo und Julia: Liebe ist Alles (Plate/Sommer) - Berlin, Stage Theater des Westens March 21st 2023 - June 30th 2023

Madagascar: A Musical Adventure - Tecklenburg, Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg May 14th 2023 - August 30th 2023

Musical Meets Pop / Pfingstgala -Tecklenburg, Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg May 29th 2023

Mozart! das Musical - Tecklenburg, Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg June 16th 2023 - August 27th 2023

Robin Hood das Musical - Fulda, Schlosstheater June 18th 2023 - August 27th 2023

Miami Nights - Tecklenburg, Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg July 21st 2023 - September 10th 2023

Tarzan (Disney) - Stuttgart, Stage Palladium Theater November 18th 2023 - June 30th 2024 Cast: TBD

Ireland

Six - UK and Ireland Tour, Belfast April 11th 2023 - April 15th 2023

Italy

Sister Act - Milan, Teatro Nazionale CheBanca December 2022 - January 8th 2023

The Netherlands

Aladdin - The Hague, Circustheater Scheveningen October 2021 - February 26th 2023 Cast: Jonathan Vroege (Aladdin), Stanley Burleson (Genie), Keoma Aidhen (Jasmine), Roberto de Groot (Jafar), Michel Sorbach (Sultan), Darren van der Lek (Iago)

Tina (The Tina Turner Musical) - Utrecht, Beatrix Theater October 2021 - February 18th 2023 Cast: Nyassa Alberta (Tina), Nurlaila Karim (alt Tina)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Netherlands Tour December 7th 2022 - March 5th 2023

The Prom - Royal Theater Carré January 20th 2023 - January 22nd 2023 Cast: Pia Douwes, Juliette van Tongeren

Les Misérables - Royal Theater Carré March 1st 2023 - March 19th 2023 Milan van Waardenburg (Jean Valjean), René van Kooten (alt Jeab Valjean), Freek Vartels (Javert), Yannick Plugers (Thénardier), Michael Muyderman (Marius), Channah Hewitt (Fantine), Vajén van den Bosch (Éponine), Ellen Pieters (Madame Thénardier), Mark Roy Luykx (Enjolras), Sem Gerritsma (Cosette)

Aida (Disney) - The Hague, Circustheater Scheveningen April 12th 2023 - June 30th 2023

Les Misérables - Royal Theater Carré July 5th 2023 - July 23rd 2023 Milan van Waardenburg (Jean Valjean), René van Kooten (alt Jeab Valjean), Freek Vartels (Javert), Yannick Plugers (Thénardier), Michael Muyderman (Marius), Channah Hewitt (Fantine), Vajén van den Bosch (Éponine), Ellen Pieters (Madame Thénardier), Mark Roy Luykx (Enjolras), Sem Gerritsma (Cosette) 

Six - Amsterdam, Delamar Theatre September 20th 2023 - October 1st 2023

Six - Rotterdam, Nieuwe Luxor Theater October 4th 2023 - October 8th 2023

Russia

Fear Nothing, I Am With You НИЧЕГО НЕ БОЙСЯ, Я С ТОБОЙ - Moscow, MDM Theatre 2022 - February 26th 2023

First Date - Moscow, MDM Theatre December 17th 2022 - January 28th 2023

Valentine’s Day - Moscow, MDM Theatre December 22nd 2022 - January 21st 2023

Demon Onegin мюзикл Демон Онегина - St Petersburg December 23rd 2022 - July 23rd 2023

Master and Margarita МАСТЕР И МАРГАРИТА - St Petersburg December 29th 2022 - July 16th 2023

Alice in Wonderland (Gleb Matveychuk) - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 2nd 2023 - January 4th 2023

Miracle-Yudo ЧУДО-ЮДО- St Petersburg January 4th 2023 - January 6th 2023

Hits From The Broadway And The Whole World - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии   January 5th 2023, January 19th 2023

The Count of Monte Cristo (Frank Wildhorn) - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 6th 2023 - January 8th 2023

Notre Dame de Paris + Romeo et Juliette - St Petersburg January 13th 2023

Can-Can - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 14th 2023 - January 15th 2023

Bely.Petersburg - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 17th 2023

Thieves’ Carnival - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 18th 2023

Peter I ПЁТР I (Frank Wildhorn) - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 20th 2023 - TBD

The Mousetrap - St Petersburg, Большой зал театра музыкальной комедии January 21st 2023

Queen of Spades Дама Пик - St Petersburg January 25th 2023 - January 26th 2023

Diamond Chariot Алмазная колесница - St Petersburg January 20th 2023 - April 9th 2023

Lolita Лолита - St Petersburg February 3rd 2023 - July 28th 2023

Seven Short Stories Семь новелл - St Petersburg February 11th 2023 - May 9th 2023

Rasputin РАСПУТИН - St Petersburg February 9th 2023 - May 6th 2023

Scotland

Six - UK and Ireland Tour, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow May 2nd 2023 - May 13th 2023, August 29th 2023 - September 3rd 2023

Spain

Company - Madrid, UMusic Hotel Teatro Albéniz November 17th 2022 - February 14th 2023

The Lion King / El Rey León - Madrid, Teatro Lope de Vega December 2022 - March 31st 2023

Tina (The Tina Turner Musical) - Madrid, Teatro Coliseum December 2022 - January 8th 2023

Switzerland

Sister Act - Zurich, MAAG halle December 2022 - Feburary 23rd 2023

Lady Bess - St Gallen, Theatre St Gallen January 12th 2022 - April 26th 2023

Wustenblume - St Gallen, Theatre St Gallen May 23rd 2023 - June 10th 2023

Wales

Six - UK and Ireland Tour, Aberdeen August 8th 2023 - August 12th 2023

Sources (links not clickable otherwise Tumblr may block/hide the post):

musicalvienna.at

muzcomedy.ru

spotlight-musicals.de

stage-entertainment.com/productions

theatersg.ch

theatreinparis.com

mm-musical.ru

volksoper.at

companyelmusical.es

charliedemusical.nl

londontheatre.co.uk/whats-on

landestheater-linz.at/musiktheater

buehnebaden.at

drew-sarich.com

carre.nl/en

freilichtspiele-tecklenburg.de

sisteract-musical.ch

sixthemusical.com

moulin-rouge-musical.de

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, April 2

Dreg: It's strange. A body might ask what exactly it is you think you're doing. He might ask what all this was meant to accomplish. Because to a humble postulant, it looks like chaos. Like unnecessary attention drawn where it ought not to be. Ben: (angrily) Get out! Dreg: Sir. Sir, forgive me. I just want to understand. Why summon the Queller? Ben: What do you think? Because I'm cleaning up Glory's mess. Just like I've done my whole damn life.

~~Buffy Season 5 Episode #87: "Listening To Fear"~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Pipes and Debts (Buffy/Spike, T) by veronyxk84

[Chaptered Fiction]

The Watching of Watchers Ch. 1 (Spike/Drusilla, T) by Scar_Eve

Bad Blood |BTVS| Book Two Ch. 18 (OC, Ensemble, unrated) by BrunetteMarionette

Weight of the World Ch. 3 (Buffy/Spike, unrated) by Enigmatist

Love Lives Here Ch. 43/100 (Buffy/Summers, E) by Passion4Spike

No Going Back Ch. 18 (Willow/Tara, M) by Tru2urheart

Goodbye to Everything That I Knew Ch. 27/30 (Buffy/Spike, M) by My_Barbaric_Yawp

lost behaviours of a self-destructive mind Ch. 6 (Buffy/Xander, Buffy/Spike, M) by EmilytheSlayer

Staying Afloat Ch. 2 (Willow/Oz, T) by dwinchester

In Case You Haven't Noticed... CH. 8 (Buffy/Giles, E) by Sdhuskerfan

… A Stranger I Go Hence Ch. 11 (Faith/OC, M) by MalkMcJorma

Recommencer Ch. 10 (Buffy/Faith, M) by FridayQueen

If We Could Freeze Time Ch. E (Buffy/Spike, E) by cosplayermadness

Do as Romans do Ch. 23 (Dawn/Spike, T, French language) by OldGirl-NoraArlani

One Girl in All the World Ch. 43 (Buffy/Faith, T) by Brenna's Urbangirl Projects

The Neighbor's Point of View, Chapter 96 (Buffy/Spike, G) by the_big_bad

Early One Morning , Chapter 29 (Buffy/Spike, E) by all choseny

Dusk Rising, Chapter 38 (Buffy/Spike, E) by HappyWhenItRains

Key Moment, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, T) by mcgnagallsarmy

The Boyfriend Swap, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Maxine Eden

Hello Cutie, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, E) by CheekyKitten

Forever and Always?, Chapter 21-25 (Buffy/Spike, M) by scratchmeout

Bang, Chapter 16-20 (Buffy/Spike, E) by scratchmeout

Bad Idea, Right?, Chapter 16-20 (Buffy/Spike, M) by scratchmeout

Sculpture of Dance , Chapter 7-10 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Desicat

Family Business, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, T) by ClowniestLivEver

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork:ats themed doodles () by genericaces

Video: BUFFY & ANGEL X MIDNIGHTS (11 Bangel vids) by bangelism

Artwork:Willow Rosenberg vs Danzu from Naruto () by MattanzaMFedora

Artwork:Leather for Leisure (Buffy/Spike) by satinsafe

[Reviews & Recaps]

PODCAST: Episode 117: Flooded by Mythtaken

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[Fandom Discussions]

god, wesley and cordelia’s friendship really gets me. by summerroomspring

do the scoobies ever find out about the wishverse? by summerroomspring

Honestly when you really think about it the whole Acathla thing is really kind of silly. by bloomfish

It’s so obvious to me by danceandsing

The thing about Spike and Angel by spangelmybeloved

I forgot that they introduced Xander by having him zooming along on his skateboard. by nicnacsnonsense

I’m actually so upset we never saw Buffy celebrate Easter by fictiongods

Spike from Buffy isn’t actually a bad poet; he was just born in the wrong generation. by penny-anna

Top 10 Spuffy fics I’ve read (March 2024) by mcgnagallsarmy

when Buffy called frappuccinos “trendy, but tasty!” I thought it was funny the first time. by zorilleerrant

btvs season 1 episode 10 “nightmares” is a story about abuse by fallingtowers

Faith and Angel was such a good relationship by bloomfish

The scene in season seven where Buffy is expressing to Spike that she’s happy he hit Faith is actually so painful to me. by fictiongods

if Buffy did an April Fools Day episode by angelthemanspanker

This will never not make me laugh lol by AxelNoir

Favorite Riley Scene by Berry-Pie216

Season 5x18 Intervention Kiss by Kindofaddictedtotv

Wild at Heart - What If edition by dragonsrawesomesauce

As much as we all love and appreciate her, were there any times you felt Buffy was the one who was actually in the wrong? by InfiniteMehdiLove

The difference in which charmed and buffy depict the goddess of witchcraft Hecate by Busy_Supermarket9006

Angel Season 4 by la_noix

I can’t stop thinking about this y’all by MCGameTime

Desires for Reboot by roverandrover6

One Buffy episode that “saved” your life. by redditwatcher11

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[unwelcome-ozian]

do you know if the falun gong group utilizes tbmc and/or programming tactics? a close family member of mine has recently fallen in with them and I'm concerned for their wellbeing

Falun Gong is considered a cult and uses methods of cult indoctrination (Brainwashing). 

For example, Li Hongzhi can read people's minds and that his fashen or “law bodies” — basically, copies of himself that exist in a spiritual dimension — were always next to them and watching their every move and thought.

When someone is able to leave a high control group and out of that environment they can begin to think for themselves again. 

Some of the methods are the same and overlap with TBMC, but high control groups/cults people can join as adults and raise their children in where the children become indoctrinated into the belief system.

Me And Li — Why I Left Falun Gong After Being A Devoted Believer For A Decade

Oz

[redowlkitchen]

Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible - Council of Nicea (Not the whole thing, but a lot at church and all of Genesis for my Bible as Literature class) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen (currently reading!) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Paradise Lost - John Milton The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain White Fang - Jack London The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of the Wild - Jack London The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum Don Quixote — Miguel De Cervantes Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak The Cat in the Hat — Dr Seuss The Giver — Lois Lowry Inkheart — Cornelia Funke Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri Macbeth — William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare The Child Called ‘It’ — Dave Pelzer The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank Night — Elie Wiesel Les Misérables — Victor Hugo The Odyssey — Homer The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne The Brothers Karamasov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Eragon — Christopher Paolini

[fandoms-my-fandoms]

Here is a list of 50 of my current all time theatre dream roles (musicals and non-musicals) because I am a female acting major who is having trouble in believing my dreams for my future are attainable at this current moment:

1. Christine Daaé - Phantom of the Opera

2. Emily Webb - Our Town

3. Belle - Beauty and the Beast

4. Katherine Plumber - Newsies the Musical

5. Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice

6. Veronica Sawyer - Heathers the Musical

7. Maria - The Sound of Music/or/West Side Story

8. Hodel - Fiddler on the Roof

9. Zazzalil - Firebringer

10. Eliza - Hamilton

11. Laurie Williams - Oklahoma

12. Cinderella - Into the Woods/or/Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

13. Narrator - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

14. Princess Anna - Frozen the Musical

15. Hermia - A Midsummer Nights Dream

16. Elphaba - Wicked

17. Glinda - Wicked

18. Éponine - Les Misérables

19. Winnifred the Woebegone - Once Upon A Mattress

20. Miss Honey - Matilda the Musical

21. Ariel Moore - Footloose the Musical

22. Dorothy Gale - The Wizard of Oz

23. Lucy van Pelt - You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown

24. Princess Fiona - Shrek the Musical

25. Viola - Twelve Night

26. Hermione Granger - A Very Potter Musical Trilogy

27. Ginny Weasley - A Very Potter Musical

28. Eliza Doolittle - My Fair Lady

29. Leading Player - Pippin

30. Natalie Haller - All Shook Up

31. Miss Saundra - All Shook Up

32. Cosette - Les Misérables

33. Princess Ariel - The Little Mermaid the Musical

34. Eva Peron - Evita

35. Maureen Johnson - RENT

36. Mary - It’s A Wonderful Life

37. Sue Snell - Carrie the Musical

38. Truly Scrumptious - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

39. Johanna Barker - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

40. Molly Aster - Peter and the Starcatcher

41. Gertrude Fail - Failure: A Love Story

42. Brooke Ashton - Noises Off

43. Megara - Hercules the Musical

44. Mary Poppins - Mary Poppins

45. Nora Helmer - A Dolls House

46. Queen Elsa - Frozen the Musical

47. Charity Hope Valentine - Sweet Charity

48. Fanny Brice - Funny Girl

49. Anya - Anastasia

50. Jane - Tarzan

There’s probably even some that I forgot to put on this list that should probably be in the place of some of these other roles, but I did want to incorporate roles from non-musicals as well. I do acknowledge that this list is still very much mostly musicals, but I fear I have not read many straight plays. Also, most of the work I’ve already done is musical theatre. Which is why I’m an acting major. I want to be exposed to more pieces of theatre that don’t have singing and dancing. There are a bunch of shows that I would love to be in, but don’t necessarily have dream roles solely because they are either ensemble heavy productions or they would just be really fun projects to work on. For example, my school, Illinois State University, just did Bonnie and Clyde the Musical. That shit was GUT WRENCHING. I would have loved to be apart of that project. I don’t exactly have a dream role in that show because every role in Bonnie and Clyde is so essential to telling that story. I am however, working on my first MainStage production here at ISU. I am playing the Nurse in Equus. Again, not a show that I had any dream role going into being cast in this project. But, this story is very heavy and unique. I have never worked on a show as different and dramatic as this one. I am really excited to be part of this cast, and I will be happy to post information about this show in the weeks to come, or you can message me and ask for more details! Thanks for reading my extra long blog post for today! :)

[thecatstail]

transcript of the anna the adventurer! commission w/ bennett & fischl

(the parts in [square brackets] are my guesses because the video is so compressed i can’t read some of the text, bolded is traveler dialogue choice) (also this might not be all of it the video starts abruptly)

BENNETT: Fischl. You ran off too quickly! That was really risky...

FISCHL: Hah! Mine thundering retribution spares not any evildoers...

ANNA: Oh, it’s Fischl and Bennett! Hello there!

BENNETT: Oh, it’s you, Anna. And the Traveler, too! Are you on a commission?

FISCHL: Ah, you have arrived, O you who art blessed by the Prinzessin! Surely were you led here by the weft of fate.

OZ: Mein Fräulein wishes to say that she is pleased to have met you by chance.

TRAVELER: I’m accompanying Anna o[n] a commission.

ANNA: That’s right. The traveller and I were just escorting this transport balloon.

ANNA: But all of a sudden, a whole bunch of Treasure Hoarders came charging at us...

BENNETT: Uh, I’m terribly sorry about that. That was my fault.

BENNETT: Fischl and I accepted a certain commission to investigate the whereabouts of a certain band of Treasure Hoarders.

BENNETT: Oz managed to catch their trail, and we were about to capture them... And then I tripped over a branch and fell over.

BENNETT: The noise startled those Treasure Hoarders, who turned and fled. We had no choice but to keep chasing them...

FISCHL: There was never any reason to fret. The violet light of con[vi]ction was ever failed to sever the destinies of those foul rogues.

OZ: But Mein Fräulein, was it not the Traveler who ultimately apprehended them[?]

FISCHL: [Oz!]

BENNETT: W-Well, anyway, thanks for your help [this time.] It really was fortunate that you were there to [???] their path.

BENNETT: Looks like my luck’s pretty good today, huh!

TRAVELER: Glad I could help.

BENNETT: Hehe. Well then, guess we’ll haul these Treasure Hoarders back to the Guild. Be careful now - and don’t forget to watch your step.

(Screen fades out to black)

ANNA: Bennett’s as reliable as ever, I see.

ANNA: And Fischl... Her words are as impressive as ever?

TRAVELER: What’s your impression [of Bennett so] far? / How’s Fischl been?

ANNA: My impression of him?

ANNA: When I first joined the Guild, he answered a lot of my questions and gave me a lot of assistance.

ANNA: But I’ve heard that he has especially bad luck.

ANNA: That’s just not fair. He’s such a nice person...

ANNA: Well, guess we’ve finished this commission either way. Thank you, Traveler. I’m going to report back to the Guild now.

ANNA: Still, why did I get transport balloon escort a few days in a row? Doesn’t the Guild have any other commissions?

(Screen fades out to black)

[golfuk22]

Sort out some new reading glasses after current pair lost a lens.... more expensive in UK than Oz (at least in Boots they are). A easy lazy lunch near station, farewell to Jim, who's been a great host, and off to Winchester to see Arthur and Anna and kids Lara and Sasha.... and for an added bonus Anna's dad, David and his partner Vanne, and her uncle Roger. A big merry dinner party. Went picking blackberries.... but not for dinner.... for freezer so that apple+blackberry crumble can be made in winter. Lovely night with energetic banter amongst lovely family.

[elijahkelly]

7/24/2023

It’s been over ten days since my last post and I’m baffled at how much has happened.

Dylan worked his last shift at Sanderson.  He’s been occupied all day every weekday doing grad school and stuff for his new job.  Normally I’d be sad that I don’t get to see him very often.  But for anyone who has read this blog, you know Dylan and I have been kinda tense with one another lately.  So I’m trying to put a positive spin on it, seeing this as an opportunity to grow separately from one another and spend the entire time attached at the hip.  I think it’ll be good for us.

A few days later, Ozzy called me.  He told me that his dad had passed and he was gonna be taking some space from everyone and everything for a bit.  This broke my heart.  Ozzy is one of the kindest, funniest, purest people I have ever met, and it blows my mind how such tragic, awful things can happen to the people who deserve it the least.  I spent every day after that texting him asking if he was okay.  He apparently only told me and Trent, which is touching because I was one of the two people he wanted to bring up to date.  But my heart shattered for him.

On Saturday, Trent and I went to a local tattoo shop because I was wanting to get a new tattoo for a while.  The tattoo artist was very talkative (to a fault).  He had told another customer that my tattoo would take between 30 and 45 minutes but when we got started the process ended up going for about two and a half hours.  It took him twenty minutes just to put the stencil on me, then another twenty for him to start the tattoo, because he just kept rambling.  It would’ve been fine if he were just talking about casual stuff.  Contrarily, he was telling us about how awful the other staff there are, talking about how he has almost hit a woman on multiple occasions, the origins of different racial slurs, slavery, stories about the KKK (and his roommate who used to be a member), cancel culture and how stupid he thinks it is, and celebrities that possibly have doppelgangers (his list included Tupac, Joe Biden (because sometimes his earlobes are attached and sometimes they aren’t), and Beyonce (because supposedly her ass changes size every day)).  I told him that I had heard a conspiracy once that Eminem had been replaced with someone else because of the dramatic change in his facial structure, and the artist started adamantly explaining how that was a result of rehab, as if his theories aren’t also easily explained away.  It was an experience for sure, but the tattoo turned out great and I only paid $120 for it (it’s now my biggest and cheapest tattoo).

That day, I had received a text from Ozzy.  He told me he wanted to come with us to see the Barbie movie the next day.  I was so ecstatic, as he had been (understandably) distant since his dad passed.

Yesterday, we went to see the Barbie movie.  The group consisted of me, Dylan, Heather, Ozzy, Trent, Missy, Sav, Jena, and Anna.  We all got dressed up and cute for it and it was so much fun.  What an incredible movie, wow.  It was really heavy hitting and it made me cry a couple times.  I’m going to see it again on Tuesday with Becca since she didn’t get to come with us.

After the movie, Ozzy invited me and Trent to come walk around campus with him and play Pokemon Go with him and his roommate, which I was not about to say no to since Oz had been going through it and was expressing interest in spending time with me.  It was really nice, we all talked and had a good time, and it warmed my heart that Ozzy wanted to be around me with everything going on.

The last thing I wanted to talk about here was my living situation.  I have been pretty comfortable with my living situation during my college experience, since I have never had to live with strangers.  At the college I attended during my freshman year, I managed to live alone in my two-person dorm room.  My sophomore year, I lived with my best friends (Dylan, Becca, and Sarah) and during my junior year, Sarah moved out and my other best friend Heather moved in.  So I have been pretty consistently happy with my living situation thus far.  But the cracks are forming very quickly.  Dylan is moving out because his job requires him to live on campus, so he’s subleasing his room.  Heather can’t afford to live in our complex anymore, so she’s subleasing to someone else as well.  The person subleasing for Dylan is a friend of ours who we have hung out with a few times, so at least she’s a familiar figure.  But the one who is subleasing from Heather is a complete stranger.  I’m fine living with him, but Becca doesn’t think she’ll be comfortable, so she raised the possibility of her moving back in with her mom.  So suddenly, I’ve gone from living with three of my closest friends to potentially living with two people who I don’t really know for my senior year.  This sudden change has thrown a lot of stress my way.  On top of that, I have to do my grad school searching, and I’m starting to lose momentum.  But this is a big year I have ahead of me.  It’s gonna be a lot, but I’m actually pretty excited.

Will update if anything notable happens!

Bye for now.

[witchesoz]

Volkov VS Baum

So… We know that Volkov created his own version of Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. But how different exactly is it from the original book? Here’s a list of some major differences. Note that I could not read the entire book – I only read parts and bits of it, so I might have missed some elements. Also note that I read the English translation, so…

# Dorothy is now Ellie, Toto is Totoshka, and she is not an orphan anymore, since she lives with her parents, Farmer John and Anna. She doesn’t live in a self-made house anymore, but rather in a house-trailer whose wheels have been removed. It is mentioned that the family had several times to face prairie tornadoes, but usually they hide in the cellar and it merely topples the house – they put it back up, clean things and then resume their life as if nothing happened. When Ellie is not doing chores, her father teaches her about reading, writing and arithmetic (because school is too far away for Ellie to go). However Ellie often visits their neighbors on the prairie, located a few miles away – “Uncle Robert”, with his sons “Bob and Dick”, or “Old Man Ralph” who makes toy windmills for the children. Oh, but she still lives in Kansas.

# There are several hints in the beginning of the book about Ellie’s future adventures: her father promised her to one day take her to the fair/circus, and she keeps dreaming of their “toys, candies, monkeys and lions”. Ellie also complains about her old, ugly, worn-out shoes and wishes to have pretty ones. Finally she is also sad to hear her mother say all the magicians were gone from their world, and says that she would love for magic to return.

# A HUGE change is that Volkov actually has the prologue of his story switch between the points of view of Ellie, and the one of the Wicked Witch of the East. Indeed, Volkov gives her more of a character. In this version, the Wicked Witch of the East is named Gingema. She lives in a deep and gloomy cave, where she keeps all sorts of weird and terrifying things – an enormous stuffed crocodile hanging on the ceiling, a long stout snake curled around a pillar, Great Horned Owls as pets, and a bunch of desiccated mice tied together by their tails like a bunch of onions. Gingema’s defining feature is her diet: she only eats mice, snakes, frogs and other creepy-crawlies. This however puts her at odds with the “humans” (because yes, the Witch clearly says that she is not human). She says that they keep cutting down forests, draining swamps, chasing away frogs and killing snakes, which deprives the world of all the delicious food around, forcing her to survive on mere worms… Gingema had enough.

She prepares in her cauldron a fetid brew made of dried mice and snake heads, which she mixes up by using a broom as a spoon. This brew is actually a magic ritual – she uses it to invoke the most dreadful and destructive storm the world has ever know, and instructs it to destroy all the house and humans in the world, and to only let alive the “frogs, mice, snakes and spiders” for her to feast. (If you want a look at the incantation she recites to conjure the storm, it is “Susaka, masaka, lema, rema, gema! Burido, furido, sema, pema, fema!”. To conjure the storm she had to drag her cauldron out of her grotto, and this is how the tornado actually ends up dropping a house on her head…

Another nice touch – in Baum’s book, the Wicked Witch turns to dust, and it is merely said that she was so old the sun dried her up. Here, it is explained that Gingema was indeed very old, and afraid of the sun. She spent most of her life hiding in her deep cave precisely to avoid the sunlight, and only got out of it at night or during the early hours of the morning. Hence, the sun is indeed her weakness, the same way water destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

# The Good Witch of the North is also given a name here: Villina. Physically, she is identical to how Baum described her. Another HUGE difference here is that, in this version, she is the one who actually killed Gingema. You see, she heard about how Gingema had done utterly insane (in the book, “batty”) and wanted to destroy the world for her food. So, Villina used all of her magic arts to actually twist and change Gingema’s spell: first, she removed all destructiveness of the storm, then she made it pick up from the ground only one house, and finally she directed the storm to drop the house on Gingema’s head. However, Ellie’s presence is something she had not predicted – her “Magic Book” told her usually houses were empty during tornadoes/storms.

What about this “Magic Book” you say? Well, this is another twist to the story. In Baum’s novel, the Good Witch predicts Dorothy’s next course of action by turning her hat into a magic board. Here, Villina owns the Magic Book (which is a sort of changed version of Glinda’s Great Book). It appears at first as a very small book, the size of a thimble, that Villina keeps in the folds of her clothing. But blowing on it turns it into a thick, sizable and very heavy tome. It usually contains the answers to the question or desire that drives its reader – it turns its pages on its own to bring them what they are looking for. For example, when Villina consults it, it tells her a prophecy about how “The Great Wizard Goodwin will send home a little girl brought here by a tornado, if she helps three beings in granting their fondest wishes.” [You guess it, here Ellie’s encounter with three companions is driven by the Book’s prophecy]. It seems that the book is written in a strange language only Villina can understand (indeed, said prophecy is written in the book as “Bambara, chufara, scoricky, moricky, turabo, furabo, loricky, yoricky…” etc. Villina then disappears and leaves Ellie alone – indeed, she cannot stay too long away from her own country. And here, no magic kiss.

# Volkov changed the colors of Oz, now called “The Magic Land”. The East stays the Blue Land, where the main color is blue, and inhabited by the Munchkins. The West is however now the Violet Land, while still inhabited by Winkies. The North Land is the Yellow Land now, inhabited by… we actually never find out. And the South Land is the “Rose Land”, whose official color is Pink and inhabited by the Quadlings. Or Chatters. You see, Volkov also decided to explain the names of each Ozian ethnicity by quirks they have, habits specific to their kind. The Munchkins for example forever munch, even when not eating anything their jaws keeping moving. The Winkies, them, blink an awful lot, and use blinking to express their emotions. Finally the Quadlings where changed into the “Chatters”, because their quirk is that they “quaddle”, aka they keep chatting, talking and gossiping about anything and everything – even when a Chatter is alone he or she will end up talking to themselves. Quite annoying for outsiders, but beside that the Quadlings are noted to be kind, welcoming and hard-working people. It is also mentioned that, beyond the desert surrounding the Magic Land, there is a range of enormous mountains no one ever crossed.

# The Munchkins do not believe Ellie to be a Witch, but actually a Fairy, because fairies “travel in the wind with their own houses” and only a fairy could kill the wicked witch. They are also greatly bewildered by Totoshka, since it is a beast they never saw before – Totoshka is the one that brings Dorothy the Silver Shoes, like in the Baum book, except here he finds them at the entrance of Gingema’s grotto. The Munchkins are terrified of this place, and upon hearing that the dog went there and returned, they believe he is also some sort of magician or has great powers. The Munchkins explain that they believe the Shoes to have a great magical power, since Gingema only wore them during “great occasions”, but they ignore exactly what. They also explain that Gingema made them toil “day and night” by forcing them to fetch for her spiders, bats, frogs and leeches – all the things that are the worst fears of the Munchkins, but delicacies to the old hag. The Munchkins ask Dorothy to become their ruler, but she refuses. They also offer her an enormous feast - and interestingly, while in Baum’s Oz people rarely ate meat, here the Munchkins offer her a feast of “ram, roast geese and ducks”.

# The Scarecrow is named Strasheela. On top of being like in Baum’s book, here his “stupidity” is also played by the fact he often mixes up words or expressions (for example saying “Good night” for “Good day!” or “hateful” instead of “lovely”) – because he is just learning the human language and hasn’t grasped all of it yet.

# Volkov decided to change one of Baum’s biggest mistake – the Tin Woodman. Tin cannot rust. Volkov changed it by turning the Tin Woodman into the Iron Man, or Iron Lumberjack, whose body and necktie are made of iron (and thus can rust), and whose hat is a copper funnel. His backstory is also slightly changed – here it is the wicked aunt of his love that brought his downfall and bribed Gingema into cursing the man’s axe, in exchange of a “whole basket of fat leeches”. Here, this all also happened recently – indeed, after getting the last of his body removed, the Iron Lumberjack stopped seeing his loved one, and he precises that it was “one year” ago.

# Volkov added an entire new adventure after Ellie meets the Iron Lumberjack. You see, she takes off her Silver Shoes and puts them in her bag, to not dirty them. As a result, she gets captured by an Ogre who lives in the dark forest they travel. The Ogre lives in a castle on a hill, deep in the forest, surrounded by a high wall and a moat filled with water. The Ogre used to devour the travelers who came by the Yellow Brick Road or the woods, but as a result people stopped taking the road or the woods. So the Ogre devoured his own servants, then his horses, his cows and his sheep, until he was all alone. He has since been hunting small animals all across the forest, and finding a little girl is a true delight for him. He is so joyful he chats with the girl and spends an awful long time sharpening his big cooking knife, to the point of tiring himself out of sharpening it (yep) and falling asleep. During this time, Ellie’s companions rescue her but they make so much noise they wake up the Ogre, who tries to attack them… until the Iron Lumberjack cuts him in two with his axe. Ends of the story.

The description of the Ogre is quite interesting: not tall, but very stout, with a head like a cauldron and a body like a barrel. He has long arms like those of a gorilla, and tall, thick-soled boots. He wears a shaggy cloak made of animal skins, has a large saucepan on his head as a helmet, and is armed with a gigantic mace covered in sharp nails.

The incident actually has an utility – Ellie realizes that the Shoes have a strong protective charm and that without them, dreadful dangers threaten her (in this book the Shoes replace the Good Witch’s kiss), so she decides to always wear them, even when she sleeps. (And it is mentioned over times that Ellie has nightmares about her being tied up in the Ogre’s kitchen).

# No more Kalidahs here! Oh no, here, the beasts our heroes have to face in the forest are saber-toothed tigers. The Cowardly Lion also mentions that once they leave the forest, they will be safe, since the saber-toothed tigers never leave the woods, being afraid of open spaces.

# The Queen of the Field Mice is given a name, Ramina. Volkov also corrected one of Baum’s mistake – here Ramina gives Ellie a whistle that can invoke her when she blows three times in it. In Baum the whistle appeared at the end of the story mysteriously.

# The Guardian of the Gates of the Emerald City is called Famarant, and the Soldier with a Long Green Beard is also given a name – Din Gior. He is also given a bit more personality: he is the guardian of Goodwin’s Palace, the same way Faramant is the guardian of the city gates. Din Gior’s role is to help people cross the moat filled with water and high wall surrounding the Palace. The thing however is that Din Gior is very proud of his beard, unique in all of Magic Land by its incredible length, and he often arranges it and prepares it – with such dedication and cares he becomes deaf and blind to the world around him. Our protagonists arrive precisely when he is arranging his beard “strand by strand” and all their screams, shouting and banging from the other side of the moat don’t get his attention – only the powerful roar of the Lion can get him out of his trance.

# As you might have noted before, the Wizard of Oz is here called the Great Goodwin, or Great Wizard Goodwin, or Goodwin the Great and Powerful. Real name, James Goodwin. Volkov keeps the idea of Goodwin appearing under different shapes to people – the only alteration he makes is that the beautiful lady/angel the Scarecrow saw in Baum’s book is now replaced with a beautiful mermaid welcoming Strasheela.

# Volkov keeps the Winkies as not valorous or brave people, with master tinkers among them – but expands that a bit by explain that, before their wicked witch took over, they were renowned the best clockmakers, jewelers and mechanics of all the Magic Land.

# The Wicked Witch of the West is here named Bastinda, and stays quite faithful to Baum’s depiction as a one-eyed old hag obsessed with enslaving people and afraid of water. However there is a few changes: here Bastinda is said to be the sister of Gingema, and her fear of water is actually well-known to her subjects. In fact, during her time as a slave, Ellie purposefully “pranks” the Witch by leaving some rooms of her palace with wet floors. Her fear of the dark is also exaggerated – here, when night falls, she locks herself in her own room, with iron bars on the doors, and does not leave until the sun has risen. When she melts, Bastinda only leaves behind her umbrella, her dress, and strands of her grey hair.

# Volkov adds another character called Fregosa. She is a Winkie, and the cook at the Violet Castle, the place where Bastinda lives. She acts motherly towards Ellie, being very kind to her, easing her hard chores and bathing her. In fact, Ellie and Fregosa work together to try to undermine Bastinda – by convincing the Winkies to prepare a revolt against the wicked witch (especially since the two women learn that Bastinda exhausted nearly all of her magic by attacking Ellie's group - all her armies of magical minions are dead, and she wasted her last Golden Cap wish, so her greatest strenghts are gone).

# The road from the Emerald City to the Rose Land of the South is much shortened: no wild beasts or giant spider, no China Country, all of this is replaced by a great river the heroes have to cross through boat and almost drown in (the same way they had to cross a river when coming from the East). As for the Hammer-Heads, they are turned into the Marrans or Leapers (because they can leap inhumanly). They do not extend their heads, but are stocky little men with large heads, and thick arms with enormous fist – all containing an inhuman force.

# The Good Witch of the South is here named Stella. Like Glinda, she is noted to be an ever-youthful sorceress who still looks fresh and beautiful despite ruling over the Chatters/Quadlings for centuries now. However, Volkov mentions one… strange incident which to the reader might question the “goodness” of Stella. Remember when I said the Chatters talked all the time? Well, apparently this annoyed deeply Stella, who one day tried to stop their bad habit by… turning them all mute. But it did not help, since they all learned sign language and chatted just as much. So she gave them back their voice.

And yes, she is one of the two GOOD witches of Magic Land.

# Oh yes, and I forgot to add - in the book, Totoshka immediately starts speaking when arriving in Magic Land (and the little dog's main trait is that he keeps saying he is the most courageous dog there is and all other are cowards - and it is tied to how he keeps attacking all the threats or enters first in all the creepy places). This was Volkov correcting one inconsistency of the Baum books - if all animals start to speak in Oz, why not Toto?

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Other interesting details: # In Baum's book it is strongly implied that what the Wizard gave the Lion to drink was alcohol, but never outright stated. In the Volkov's writing, it is explained that what he gave him was a mix of carbonated kvass (a mild alcoholic beverage) and valerian extract (a powerful cat stimulant). # Despite having a strong presence as secondary characters in the first book, future Magic Land books make the two Good witches incredibly rare. There is always a good excuse for them not getting involved in the threats to the country, be it an invading army of wood soldiers, or a GIANT SPIDER WITCH TRYING TO KILL THE WORLD WITH A POISONOUS FOG! The inhabitants of the land, as a result, need to rely on their own technology, ingenuity and abilities to help their country survive. The Yellow Land is never visited or described, and whenever Villina appears, it is always in the beginning of a book, to tell a prophecy through her Magic Book, and then she disappears again. Stella also disappears - one book mentions her sending Strasheela a magic television set, but that's it. It is later explained that the Good Witches rarely act outside of their country because when the four witches arrived in Magic Land, to avoid a magical war, they made a vow to each stay in their own corner of Oz and not interfere in the other withces' business. Villina only broke the deal for a short time, and because Gingema had gone mad and was trying to destroy everything. This supposedly explains why the Good Witches are so passive and not present much. But still, many readers tend to see them as actually no better than the Wicked Witches, or just as bad, the difference being that the Good Witches do not admit their misdeeds and put on a "good" act.

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My Top Reads in no particular order of 2022 even if that’s not when all of them were published, shhhh:

The Archie Encyclopedia - Archie Superstars

Unmask Alice - Rick Emerson

The Big Book of the Unexplained - Doug Moench et. al

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills - Chris Claremont, Brent Anderson

Starlight Tour - Susanne Reber

The Muppets Take Manhattan - Stan Kay, Dean Yeagle, Jacqueline Roettcher

Sulfur Heart - Brooke Carter

This Is Not The Real World - Anna Carey

December - Linda Oatman High

MGM's Marvelous Wizard of Oz - Roy Thomas, John Buscema

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Why You Should Be A Morning Person

What is the one thing that all successful people share? They rise early and get the most out of their morning. Here's why:

Awakening early allows you the chance to reflect before the bustle of the day gets underway. Simply put it's "you time" -- the time to write down your goals throughout the day. You can progress against them before other people have a chance to grab your attention and time. This puts you in control of your day.

Of course, it's extremely difficult to get up and that's precisely why those who rise early have an advantage over others. They are able to tackle their day when others doze off.

Here are a few examples of early risers who are extremely successful:

Virgin Branson is the founder. Richard Branson wakes up at 5:45 a.m., even when the island is his own, and utilizes the morning to train and have breakfast before getting ready for the day.

Michelle Obama is the First Lady of America. Michelle Obama starts her day at 4:30 am to do an exercise before her kids get up.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook gets up at 3:45 am each day to check his emails, workout, and go on a Starbucks breakfast before going to work

Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz gets up at 4:30 am to work out (often cycling along with his spouse) -and, of course, to prepare a cup of coffee in order to kick off his day.

Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger rises at 4:30 am and makes use of early morning time to read his newspaper and exercise or enjoy music or check emails and catch up on TV

Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour wakes at 5:45 am to play tennis for about an hour before her work demands require it.

GE President Jeff Immelt wakes up at 5:45 am and engages in a workout in the gym while reading the newspaper and watching CNBC

Did you see a consistent trend in all these successful people? Every morning routine includes exercise as a major aspect.

Alongside the general physical and mental health advantages, research has proven that moderate-intensity workouts for more than 20 minutes can provide mental and emotional energy over the course of 12 hours! That means these business leaders will be more focused, productive, and efficient in their work as a direct consequence of their exercise routine in the morning. Exercise time lets them think and think through problems in a non-stop manner which means they can begin to work immediately after they are in the office. A morning workout is an extremely efficient way to use time.

Alongside waking up earlier and working out there are additional morning routines that can help you start your day off in the correct direction

Drink 16 oz. of water after waking pre hydrate yourself after seven to eight hours of sleep

Create Your Bed -Every morning can lead to better productivity throughout the day.

Get a healthy Breakfast to fuel your body to meet all the challenges of your workday (led by the energy-rich fruit and veggies)

Drink 1 to 2 cups of Coffee -Give yourself a healthy early morning energy while reaping known health benefits

Get caught up on the News Make use of the time of silence to be aware of what's happening all around you.

Prioritize Your Day Make a list of your top priorities, and think about ways to accomplish them.

Also read: Good morning kiss image

This ensures you are successful prior to the time you even know that your "work day" even begins in whatever form it might have for you. Being a morning person isn't only reserved for only C-level executives. Everyone can benefit from implementing these practices.

Do you think it's impossible for you since you're in need of additional sleeping time? Experts suggest that you go to bed earlier at night to make the early morning wake-up call acceptable.

These strategies and stories of success can help me get up in the morning, when all I want to do is lie down a little more. I hope they will also motivate you to create your own morning weapon!

Related post: Why Is It Important To Have Good Quality Coffee Every Morning?

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Quick Oneshots/Crossovers - Part 28

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by CreativeLiterature

A collection of oneshots and/or crossovers which jump right into it.

Each chapter name mentions which fandoms it contains.

Words: 4406, Chapters: 15/15, Language: English

Series: Part 28 of Quick Oneshots/Crossovers

Fandoms: Real Person Fiction, Will & Grace, The Witches - Roald Dahl, Gone Girl (2014), X-Men - All Media Types, Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn, Jeepers Creepers (Movies), Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Line of Duty (TV 2012), RimWorld (Video Game), Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell, Freaky Friday (2003), Mad Men, Fathers and Daughters (2015), Exam (2009), The Wizard of Oz & Related Fandoms, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Original Characters, Henry Cavill, Rhonda Boney, Jim Gilpin, Amy Elliott Dunne, Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Rosario Salazar, Creeper (Jeepers Creepers), Minxie Hayes, John Willoughby, Sophia Grey, Elinor Dashwood, Mrs. Jennings (Sense and Sensibility), Mafalda Hopkirk, Gabrielle Delacour, Steve Arnott, Kate Fleming (Line of Duty), Suellen O'Hara, Scarlett O'Hara, Anna Coleman (Freaky Friday), Tess Coleman (Freaky Friday), Don Draper, Roger Sterling, Bert Cooper, Peggy Olson, Ken Cosgrove, Joan Holloway (Mad Men), Katie (Fathers & Daughters), Cameron (Fathers & Daughters), Blonde (Exam), White (Exam), The Wizard (Oz), Jack McFarland, Will Truman, Grace Adler, The Grand High Witch

Additional Tags: Screenplay/Script Format

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I'm almost done with book 3 of the Oz series and like...

L. Frank Baum really out here making me witness a chicken experience a microaggression repeatedly huh

There's a hen named Bill and she says her name is Bill and calls herself that, but Dorothy insists it has to be Billina (and makes other people call Bill that) because she's a hen and Bill is "a boy's name". And like I know Bill is like "it's fine, the name doesn't matter" but like she still calls herself Bill because that's her fucking name and clearly she has a preference.

Also this militant warlord girl, Jinjur, who briefly took over the entire emerald city in book 2, is now married to a dairy farmer and living a quiet life or whatever and they just breeze over her saying her husband can't meet Ozma because Jinjur gave him a black eye for not milking the cow she wanted him to milk. Like am I supposed to laugh at that? Yikes.