#Kelly Kennedy

[in-sightpublishing]

The Greenhorn Chronicles 28: Hayley Mercer on Personal Story and Aspirations in Show Jumping

The Greenhorn Chronicles 28: Hayley Mercer on Personal Story and Aspirations in Show Jumping

            Image Credit: Quinn Saunders. Publisher: In-Sight Publishing Publisher Founding: December 1, 2014 Web Domain: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com  Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada Journal: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal Journal Founding: August 2, 2012 Frequency: Three (3) Times Per Year Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed Access:…

[gatabella]

"It's hard to describe what I consider beauty in woman consists of. None of the women I consider beautiful have perfect features. If there's one thing that moves me, it's when something unexpected happens in the face or the proportions. I do not think Grace Kelly is beautiful. I do think Audrey Hepburn is beautiful. The most beautiful woman I have ever photographed is Signora Gianni Agnelli. Long necks are always beautiful. Jackie Kennedy - very beautiful. The unexpected thing is the eyes - almost too far apart. Sophia Loren is one of the most beautiful women in the world today. Marilyn Monroe? Not the usual beautiful - merely ravishing, exciting, touching. But not really beautiful. She's a strawberry sundae… Ingrid! (among older women). Joan Crawford? She makes it difficult to see her beauty, but she has the most beautiful nose in the world. Marlene Dietrich? Beautiful, but in a dull way. Ditto Ginger Rogers. Among conventional beauties, I'd select Suzy Parker."

-photographer Richard Avedon

[leilaswife]

Butterflies ~ Leila Ouahabi

Part 1/?

Leila Ouhabi x reader, past!Georgia Stanaway x reader

Alexis Queen - you

You never get nervous.

Not when you got called up to your national team for the first time at 14.

Not when you came out to your parents.

Not when you moved countries to get better at football.

So why now were you getting nervous.

Why did her presence affect you so much?

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“Lex, hurry up they’re waiting to introduce the new signings” Alanna says impatiently whilst you tie your laces for the 100th time (as Hayley always says) due to your “superstitions” you have to tie and untie them twice before you could actually go to training or play a match.

You, who is standing up after finishing up with your laces responds with “Relax Lani, it's only 8:30, we don't need to be in there till 9”

“Alexis it is nine” this time it’s your captain, Steph, who speaks only a lot sterner than your national teammate. “ Or if you want me to be precise 9:02. Please both of you get to the meeting room.”

As both you and Alanna walk out the room Steph’s voice can be heard again, only this time it’s not directed at you but more so Lani “KENNEDY I SWEAR TO GOD GET BACK HERE”. At this both of you sprinted to the meeting room.

When you both finally arrived you were both hunched over in the doorway out of breath. As you slowly caught your breath back you looked up and realised that everyone’s eyes were on you both, so with a sheepish smile you walk over to the seats Hayley saved for you both and took the drink she offered when you sat down. “Thanks Razzle dazzle”

“How many times have I told her to stop calling me that?” Hayley mumbles towards Alanna when she finally sits down. “When are you gonna learn that she does it to piss you off” Alanna states in which Hayley responds by rolling her eyes. “You both know I can hear you right?” But your question goes unanswered when Steph and Gareth enter and stand at the front of the room.

“As you all know we have some new signings so I would like you to meet your new number 10 Deyna Castellanos, number 4 Laia Aleixandri, number 8 Mary Fowler, number 22 Sandy Maclver, number 2 Kerstin Casparij, number 25 Yui Hasegawa and number 15 Leila Ouahabi.” One by one as Gareth said their names the girls all walked into the room, and like any good friend when Mary’s name was announced you, Lani and Hayley all cheered which caused an uproar of laughter within the room.

“Now some of you who live alone will now have to have roommates so Laia your roommate is Alexis” At this your head shot up from where you were looking at your phone showing Hayley the texts between you and Georgia that occurred during the euros and give her a smile“Alex is the one with the cherry red hair in the middle who looks like she’s just been caught doing something she shouldn’t” at this Steph turns to laia and says “we chose this because Alex is one of the only people here who can speak Spanish so we thought it would be easier for you to improve your English with someone who speaks both languages. Is that okay?” “Sí, gracias” “Leila you’re with Denya. Mary, you are with Alanna. Sandy, you are with Esme. And kerstin and Yui you both live alone. That’s it for now, all of you have an hour before training starts so all of you get to know each other especially if you now have a new roommate.”

After stephs announcement you all filter away out of the meeting room and into the common room into your respective groups, yours consisting of Hayley, Alanna, Mary, Esme, Chloe and Lauren. After around 5 minutes you notice 3 figures from the corner of your eye approaching you all, the tallest of the group, Leila, starts speaking “Hola, I’m Leila, this is Laia and that’s Deyna” pointing to each girl as she speaks. “Hi, I’m Alanna but everyone calls me Lani, that’s Alexis, Hayley, Esme, Lauren, Mary and Chloe” Alanna responds in her normal cheery voice, which in your opinion it’s too early for someone to be that happy, each of you hugging the girls as she said your names. Once your all done introducing yourselves you all sit down and continue your conversations but this time including the 3 women.

[wyn-n-tonic]

Books by Black Authors for Black History Month!

I wanted to share a list of books I love and books that I'm looking forward to reading that are by Black authors in acknowledgement of Black History Month. I feel like a lot of my fellow readers (especially my fellow white readers) always go into a, kind of, reading slump in February and I don't know if that's because the month of January is just ten years long that February feels like a hangover or if it's because they feel the desire to read books by Black authors but then the majority of what is marketed is usually books that are steeped in trauma or nonfiction books. And, like, yeah, nonfiction books are so important but when they're the only kind of book marketed it can make finding the other kinds of books that much harder but I believe that if you read the fun books and the happy books and the fantasy books it will make you want to seek out the nonfiction resources. I'm blabbering so long story short, I thought I would make a little list to do some of the legwork for my fellow readers to find stories that they can check out.

I used GoodReads links (and one StoryGraph) link, you can choose who to purchase from yourself (although I will suggest BookShop.org as your purchase does go towards indie bookstores, I also really like the Libby App which is just your library and it works with your Kindle/Nook/Kobo/iPad). All authors that I have included in this are American or have strong ties to the USA which is why I did not include authors such as Bolu Babalola, Talia Hibbert, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie but I do highly recommend checking them out if you haven't because they do write gorgeously.

Kennedy Ryan has an extensive backlog and beautiful writing, beautiful prose. She had a book called Before I Let Go (Skyland #1) come out in November 2022, it is a second chance romance between a married couple. It has been on my shelf forever, the cover is beautiful and I've heard nothing but truthfully incredible things. I have listened to snippets of the audiobook but keep putting off getting the actual audiobook because Kennedy is the kind of author I want to read the grammar, syntax, wording of everything from. This book actually got optioned to be adapted into a television show and there's a second Skyland book coming out in March called This Could Be Us that has the ARC readers going wild.

Jasmine Guillory is one of my favorite authors. She is a Bay Area native and has a law degree from Stanford. Not only do I think that she writes beautifully but I cannot even describe to you the way that I kick my little feet and twirl my hair. I feel like my favorite of hers changes. Up until a few weeks ago, I would've told you that Olivia Monroe in Party of Two was my favorite Jasmine girly but I listened to Royal Holiday to kick off my reading for January and Vivian Forest is such a beautiful character. She's a 56 year old Black woman who is a veteran social worker who thinks it's too late for her on several fronts and then she gets swept off her feet while on a vacation with her daughter AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. What?! I also think that Jasmine writes, like.... character appropriate sex scenes if that makes sense. Like, Vivian's scenes are more reserved than Olivia's were, Vivian's more closed door than Olivia's were. She also has a Beauty and the Beast inspired book called By The Book and I kept texting my friend the entire way through and then made her buy a copy so she could text me right back with all her thoughts. Amazing. I love her.

You want cozy fantasy romance with monsters and happy Black women being loved by their hot monster lovers? Kimberly Lemming has GOT YOU COVERED.

Plugging my new author friend P.J. Leigh and her book Olawu. She actually responded to my request for some indie author recs on Threads and sent me a copy of Olawu that will be here on Friday and I'm so excited. She describes it as: "Set in precolonial East Africa with romance, action, sisterhood, found family, and a feisty but flawed female lead." I cannot wait to dig into this one.

Another author who messaged me is indie author Quiana Glide. Her bio is that she is an unabashed fangirl and her books feature pregnancy trope, cosplay, professional wrestlers and cafe owners solving murders. Her books sound fucking great and they are available on Kindle Unlimited for my KU girlies (gender neutral).

Celestine Martin messaged me as well and she writes paranormal romance with Black witches, emo mermen and fae princes. I tripped over myself running to my Libby app to place a hold on the audiobook.

25 to Love! by Joye Johnson is another one available on Kindle Unlimited for my KU girlies (gender neutral). The synopsis is: "TV's hottest dating show is '25 to Love!'. To nab a guy from her past, Lola signs on as the token girl of color. All's fair in love and ratings--can a week on TV get Lola closer to the one that got away?" You know what I love? Second chance romances, besties, that's right.

Splinter by Jasper Hyde was another I was recommended. Jasper writes paranormal, LGBTQ+ books. Jasper Hyde is a pen name for Georgina Kiersten who also goes by Rian Fox. The pen name denotes the subgenre that they write. Georgina does go by they/them pronouns and writes plus sized rep and neurodivergent rep too.

Kelly Cain. That's it. That's the tweet. THE EVERHEART BROTHERS SERIES????? If you know anything about me, you know that I have a hearing issue and so I've used audiobooks before but I never really clicked with them or got the hype. Turns out I had boring ass narrators (look I did the audio version of a lot of nonfiction books I had to read about old dead white guys in college so of course I had that feeling). THE EVERHEART BROTHERS AUDIOBOOKS ARE WHAT CHANGED ME. Deanna Anthony, the narrator, is so engaging and I didn't feel like I was listening to an audiobook, I felt like I was sitting across the table at brunch having a gossip session with my bestie. If you read it and you didn't like it, that's fine, but I didn't lie to you and enjoyment of art is subjective but also you're wrong and argue with a wall.

I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about Pride & Protest by Nikki Payne. This is a Pride & Prejudice and one of the reviews says, "If you ever wanted P&P to feel more like watching a swoony, steamy episode of Insecure, this is the book for you."

Currently, I am reading You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. It deals with themes of grief and romance and also bisexual representation. Absolutely beautiful prose. Akwaeke is Nigerian and has been in the USA since college. They are non-binary and go by they/them pronouns.

I also cannot end this list without mentioning Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow. This follows three generations of a southern Black family in the neighborhood of Douglass in Memphis, TN (I was born a couple miles away in Raleigh) . Now, this book does have quite a few trigger warnings that I won't put here but I do encourage you to READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS before you purchase this book as it does deal with some pretty heavy subject matter.

I'm also going to end this by saying to keep an eye out for anything done by my best friend, the person who I have shared so many amazing, beautiful, life changing experiences with ALL OVER THE WORLD for the last fourteen years: Isana Skeete (Isana does not use pronouns). If you look at the GoodReads account for Isana that I linked, you'll see lists made with recommendations of books with queer POC rep and asexuality representation.

[lancer-andlace]

Grace Kelly and President Kennedy

[soccersoccer]

WSL Manchester Derby at the Theatre of Dreams November 19, 2023

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

Over the years I have found that actors who are great friends for real life have the best chemistry onscreen. You can't manufacture that kind of chemistry. It's just natural. The physicality. The effortless comfortability they have around each other. The fire chemistry. These couples are James Lafferty and Bethany Joy Lenz from One Tree Hill who were great friends for real and are still close to this day. They've been to many comic cons and the chemistry is still on full display at these events (Nathan and Haley), Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes from Dawson's Creek dated for real life and remained friends even after breakup. Josh said that Katie was his closest friend on set (Pacey and Joey), Jaleel White and Kellie Shanygne Williams from Family Matters were friends onset and Kellie recently said how she had a crush on Jaleel. They recently were reunited in an interview and their chemistry is still fire (Steve and Laura), Tom Welling and Erica Durance from Smallville were great friends. I love to hear Tom talk about Erica because there's clearly so much respect and love between them. They really loved to work with each other (Clark and Lois), Kennedy McMann and Alex Saxon from Nancy Drew are great friends. I don't know much else about their relationship. I just know that Kennedy has said they are close friends and also Kennedy is a big supporter of the Nace ship. I've also heard of little improvs and story ideas that they came up with for Nace so they clearly are very simpatico (Nancy and Ace), Erin Moran and Scott Baio from Happy Days dated on and off through the years (Chachi and Joanie), Rachel Brosnahan and Luke Kirby from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel are amazing friends. And this is another situation of two actors who really support each other and have a huge amount of respect for each other (Midge and Lenny) what all these couples have in common is that they are friends and/or romantically involved. One or both of the actors in each ship are major supporters or shippers of their characters together, they all have had amazing chemistry all through the years even after the shows ended, they all respect each other as actors and each other's talents, they all have fire chemistry that remained strong through the entire run of the shows, and insane physicality where they are so comfortable with each other and and great at adding little physical intimacies to their fictional relationships.

Some chemistry you can sort of manufacture. You can create the long looks, the stolen glances, the yearning, the jealousy. But then there's the upper echelon of TV couples that just have it all. They have all these things but the chemistry endures past the yearning stage 💖

Then there are some couples who maybe weren't overly close. They either hated each other or just got along but weren't super close and those couples mostly have that manufactured chemistry and I'm not saying that it doesn't take talent to do that. It takes acting talent and some of it is genuine. Also this chemistry is not bad. I love the long looks and the stolen glances but these types of couples need long ass slowburns because some of that naturally goes away when they get together like the yearning and stolen glances for instance. They don't have those crutches to fall back on and all they have is that little bit of genuine chemistry. I do wanna clarify that I have always hated when writers make couples on and off unnecessarily. Give them the slowburn but keep them together once they get together you cowards lol

There are other couples with insane chemistry who are close for real life but I had to end this post sometime but they exist and those are special ships to be sure! 💗

[aus-wnt]

[sotogalmo]

10:06

HOW TF DID DAVE SHOVED UP AN ENTIRE EGGPLANT(AN ACTUAL ONE,,,, AS FAR AS I KNOW) UP JACK'S URETHRA???????? ik i may not want to know,, but pls. did he have to fist him,, or smth?? nono,, how the fuck did he shoved it in Jack's penis(the urethra in the male body is in their penis/dick),, so like- how tf was he able to do that?? God his sleep might just made him crazy ig,, gods damnit— ✋

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

Princess Grace Kelly and her children visiting the set of The Pink Jungle (1968), with Eva Renzi, George Kennedy, and James Garner.

[wurmeon]

BUG FIGHT

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

“He turned to me suddenly and asked, is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?” - Grace, The Princess of Monaco on her memories of US President John F Kennedy. Recorded 1965. Blank on Blank.

[oceancentury]

Leading Ladies in blue; Moria Shearer (later Lady Kennedy) in The Red Shoes (1948), Grace Kelly (later The Princess of Monaco) in To Catch a Thief (1955), Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette (2006).

[lessirussolvr]

[gracie-bird]

Princess Grace of Monaco greets Nathan Goldstein, Eunice Shriver Kennedy, and Harold Gomberg during a party at the Yacht Club of Monaco on September 10, 1968.

Princess Grace and Prince Rainier greet Frank Ruggieri.

Clipping from The New York Post

[clonesupport]

oc tag game!

thank you @socially-awkward-skeleton for tagging me to do this!💖💘

i tag @confidentandgood @sstewyhosseini @detectivelokis @captastra @incognito-insomniac @kyber-infinitygems @strangefable @gayafsatan @galaxycunt @roofgeese @inafieldofdaisies @shegetsburned @bearcina @direwombat and anyone who wants to join!

Favourite OC

even if i have so many oc’s she will always be my first baby, and a baby i love very much TwT🤲✨ even if i haven’t had a ronnie fixation in a while she’s still my bbg and the one oc i’ve been most active about and done the most for so she’ll always hold a special place in my heart as the oc that brought me into this whole “having ocs” life

Newest OC

hehehehehe i’ve been absolutely brain rotting over cod and johnny for like six months now. i haven’t done much with her and i’m barely still figuring out her lord cuz i’m too busy rizzing soap ai and getting rizzed back AHAHAHA. but ugh that sweet baby boy i love him so much i had to create a lovely girly to peg him i mean love him. her call sign is angel, she’s a pilot part of task force 141 of course ;)) johnny and her are my reason to breathe rn fr

Oldest OC

back at it with my snarky bastard ronnie with a soft side for her vicar, i love her so much, i love max sm, i miss tow i wanna fixate on that game again ugh plz brain TwT🙏✨ i made her officially like a year and a half ago, but i started making an inserted character for tow in like late 2019 when the game came out and i discovered it and went eh why not it looks cool, then got absolutely fucking sucked into that shit with a blood pact istg. she’s been around for a hot minute, i only recently started making ocs and now i have so many👁️👄👁️idk how this happened AHAHAHA

Meanest OC

of course it’d be my cultist girly. she’s insane and will do anything for john and has quite the body count of kills👀 it takes a brainwashed crazy bitch to be the meanest woman in my roster😌✨

Softest OC

we all knew it’d be seph lol AHAHAHA one of the rarest personality types i ever give my ocs are soft, she’s a rare soft girl, sam’s a lucky man. made her back in like 2020 when i binged all five uncharted games in like 2.5 weeks….don’t worry about me i had a lot of time on my hands. i actually decided to play all the uncharted games because i saw one photo of sam somewhere and was instantly like 👁️👄👁️WHERE IS HE FROM—- i was dedicated to see this man and i fell in love-

i know amalla is not one i’ve talked about a lot but she’s definitely a soft quiet girly. she does have a feisty side but honestly so does seph lol i cant make an oc without having them adding that big of spice TwT but she’s a sweet girl, i mean she caught the attention and stole the heart of arthur morgan so that must count for something right?🤧✨

Most Aloof/Standoffish OC

another oc i haven’t talked about a lot but she is the most stern and kinda cold one out of all my ocs, ronnie could be a good runner up as well but she’s more smart ass mean than cold mean yenno? kenny’s just known for her resting bitch face and military demeanour. but that don’t mean she ain’t soft at heart🤧🤧🤧it just takes a lot to get there🥹

Dumbest (Affectionate) OC

she’s a clumsy girly, often times quite the all boobs no brain but she’s smart when she wants to be. her job is to be a rockstar and be a good affectionate gf for viktor so she doesn’t exactly have the needs to be smart lol. but when time comes that she needs to be like on a job for example, she’s quite the persistent and hardworking gal, her determination is high but sometimes the bimbo kind of takes over when her smarts aren’t in imminent need

Smartest OC

this girly’s a trained nurse y’all she’s got the brains. even if she is usually the “soft and sweet shy baby girl” she knows her shit. knows her history and has her medical skills. often times the brothers and sully forget she’s actually quite smart until she’s full fledged patching one of them up professionally as she explains to them what she’s doing and what injury they have. she can info barf sometimes when she gets passionate about something, it’s that side of her that sam finds attractive😉😉

it takes certain brains and tactical strategic skills to be an ace pilot. tanya may seem like just some tomboy who’s here for a good time but ya girl has got some brains on her. she got the skills to fly an f-15 and often gets appointed team leader so she clearly knows what she’s doing. she was trust worthy enough to be seen as a good pilot by the soldiers and fellow squad mates hence them giving her the nickname their guardian angel, which turned into her call sign angel. she’s humble and plays it off as no big deal, quite honestly she doesn’t see herself as smart, just hard working. but johnny makes it his mission to remind her she’s incredible, he’s her biggest fan🥹

OC I’d Be Friends With IRL

I RAN OUT OF PHOTO SLOTS—-

imagine there’s banners here TwT🤲

irl i’d definitely get along with ronnie lol. ronnie, marceline and tanya i would say. i’m a clumsy dumbass smart ass and i think i’d get along well with ronnie and tanya by teaming up with them and pick on men AHAHAHA marcy and i have the same taste in music and we both are bimbo’s who can be smart and serious when we need to be✨