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[sorenphelps]

torn apart

I thought that the backstory of how and why Sirius and Remus broke up in The Bodyguard AU was already shared, oopsie.🙈 So I drew some wolftar (I actually quite miss them) both as compensation and excuse to post their backstory! As usual, tagging @goldenlionprince, @neverenoughmarauders, @lovelymasks & @diamondmeadow!

BACKSTORY: Remus and Sirius joined the army after they graduated, and even though they were assigned to different squads due to their different strengths, they kept in contact and maintained their friendship (sometimes with benefits) / relationship (mostly on-and-off). They became exclusive when they were both selected for “Operation Fawkes” as due to the top secret nature of the operation, the members were not allowed to leave the base outside of missions and all phone calls were supervised. Remus missed his home and family (he hasn't seen them in years!), and tried to find an excuse to quit, especially upon witnessing how Sirius got more and more immersed in the violence of the missions, becoming less and less able to fully separate “the Grim” and the military from his IRL identity. Sirius had already cut all his ties with his family, so he channeled all his emotional needs to his relationship with Remus. As the operation team was not allowed to leave the base, if Remus wanted out, they would have had to become long-distance - and Sirius was too hyper-fixated on the missions and being with Remus to even consider it, while Remus avoided the topic to save Sirius' feelings. These cracks in their romance blew up completely, when Remus got hurt by being too close to an explosion, and Sirius went on a brutal rampage to “avenge” his lover. This was the last straw for Remus, who finally decided to leave the forces, and advised the same to Sirius, who however, was not ready to leave the military yet, and thought that Remus was a coward for not continuing to fight. They had a nasty fight about it, which ultimately ended their relationship as well. Remus travelled back to the UK to heal, accepting a job offer from the Ministry of Defence as an intelligence officer. Sirius interpreted Remus leaving even without him as betrayal. The loss of his only “familial” tie left made him even more violent and reckless. Remus managed to build a more or less fulfilling civil life for himself, he settled down and got married. He hasn’t seen or even heard of Sirius for years, until he called him out of the blue to ask for his help.

[mangher]

Nagayama Osamu

Under the watchful eyes of Tsukuyomi, a deity was born without a name. They showed promise from the start as a vessel for darkness and night. He grew powerful with each step he took, with each swing of claw and howl at the moon. Resenting the Sun, because it kept night at bay. He was a warrior, an alpha, ranked by many victories. Thus, Tsukuyomi blessed him with a name: Yamashita Masaru.

Masaru followed Tsukuyomi blindly, keeping the God safe. Protecting them was second nature, it was easy, it was what he was told he was born to do. So he listened, and he followed. Yet, at one point in time he saw the Sun, and the world of darkness was not as inviting anymore. Next to Amaterasu was a being so beautiful and radiant Masaru has trouble keeping his eyes on them. Yet, the more he watched, the more he felt a shift happening inside him. Perhaps darkness was not what he wanted to serve after all.

Yet, he couldn't just leave Tsukuyomi. So even if his heart yearned, he couldn't stray from the path that was chosen for him.

However, one day when Tsukuyomi met with the Goddess Uke Mochi Masaru saw an opportunity. Amaterasu shunned Tsukuyomi, casting them into darkness. Masaru doesn't follow. He's being pulled into two directions; light and dark. Eventually, he decides he's going to take a gamble, take the fall that comes with it. He turns his back to the darkness and walks away towards the Sun. Enraged Tsukuyomi curses him.

It's difficult to settle into a life in the sun when you've lived your life in the shadows, but Masaru wasn't a quitter. He didn't earn his name by being weak. He'd show everyone that he could be a guardian here as well. He worked hard, determined to succeed. His goal was to be next to the Sun that captured his heart, mind and soul. Darkness swirls inside him, angry and dangerous. But with discipline he manages to keep it at bay.

His efforts don't go unnoticed. His Sun approaches him. They are even more beautiful up close and Masaru can't help but fall in love harder. Even the darkness inside him settles into a slow ripple rather than a storm. Masaru decides then and there that this omega was to be his. This was the start of a new life for him.

He was the opposite of the omega, the Sun, yet he was the same. A strong Komainu, who protects fiercly what is assigned to him, and what he deems worth protecting. And as he proves his worth and comes out victorious from the battle against darkness, he changes his name to Nagayama Osamu.

Osamu had proven everyone that with enough discipline anyone can change their lives and choose another path to follow. It was easy for him with Asahi (@rvinfall ) next to him, the beautiful omega he fell in love with at first sight so so long ago. Osamu couldn't be happier with such a wonderful and loving mate.

Tragedy would strike, however. During an attack against the temple they protected, Osamu sacrificed himself in order to save Asahi by stepping into harms way. His body and soul was pierced by a powerful weapon, darkness spilling out from his core along with his blood and life. The Tama he held broke into sharp little shards. As the glow of the Tama faded, so did his life in the warm embrace of the Sun.

Years went by and Osamu stepped out from the circle of rebirth. He was younger now than earlier, his life having started out anew. A strong young alpha, ready to face life head on. However, something is missing. It feels like pieces of him are gone. There are gaps in his memory, but there are also fragments of things he can't make any sense of. He also knows he should be stronger, that he should have magic pulsing in his veins in stronger waves. Instead it is a small ripple. His arms are bandaged from shoulder to finger tip. Something thrums under the wrapping, which he recognizes as seals of sort. They keep something hidden, something trapped.

Osamu realizes it's evil. It's darkness.

His heart also feels weird. It aches, but is beating just fine. A large sword is nearby and calls for him. He picks it up, getting a sudden flash of a temple's image. Perhaps, his answers lie within said temple? Osamu starts his journey. He settles into his new body and gets used to the feeling of dejavú that follows him everywhere he goes.

He reaches the temple. It doesn't look anything like he remembers (?) it being like. It's certainly seen better days. There's also just one guardian statue present. As he steps inside the weak barrier he is greeted by the Sun. An omega so beautiful and radiant Osamu has trouble keeping his eyes on them. Yet, the more he watched, the more he felt a shift happening inside him; the darkness inside him settles into a slow ripple rather than a storm. Osamu decides then and there that this omega will be his.

But, for some reason even if he is standing in the warm rays of the sun, his Sun feels cold.

Osamu is a Komainu that has entered the cycle of rebirth after his tragic death. He is a very stubborn, slightly quite insane alpha. Osamu settles into his role as a guardian of the temple once more but his statue is missing its Tama. He realizes that this is why his powers are lacking. He is still strong and an excellent swordsman, but he knows he could be so much better once his true powers are unlocked.

As a Komainu he is loyal and a fierce protector of those he loves and what he deems as his. He has more determination than should fit in a man and he doesn't give up until he's reached the goal he's set for him. He really is living up to his name Osamu.

He can't remember his previous life, other than some fragments here and there. The Tama that got broken is a key to unlocking everything, but as the shards have scattered, he is in for quite the journey to find each missing piece of himself.

[t-am-i-the-asshole]

AITA for suggesting my black colleague should get a black mentor?

I (31F) manage a mid-sized team in a large public sector organisation in the UK. The company is fairly racially diverse but majority white, like a lot of companies in the UK. I am a white woman with no children.

I recently had a 1-1 conversation with someone I manage (approx. 45F) who told me she feels she is being passed over for opportunities and promotions due to the fact that she is a black woman. She is also a single parent and has previously told me this has put her off applying for new roles. To my knowledge, she has never applied for a role above her current grade nor discussed this with me before.

The way our management structure works, everyone has a line manager but also is assigned a mentor a few grades senior to them in their specific profession (e.g. finance, project management) as someone else who can support your career development alongside your manager. You can change your mentor if you want to but typically people stick to who they are assigned unless you have a niche interest that a specific person could help with. Contact with your mentor is encouraged but entirely optional.

I acknowledged her concerns and explained what policies are in place to help prevent discrimination during recruitment. However, I also agreed that what happens in reality can be very different to what is set out in a policy. I asked who her mentor is she told me currently it’s a single, white man in his 30s and that they are not in regular contact.

I suggested at this point that she reach out to see if it would be possible for her to be mentored by one of a number of the senior black women we have in the profession (giving some suggestions of people I have worked with and look up to). My logic was they may be able to provide professional support and guidance with the added context of lived experience as a black woman.

My team member did not take this well - she felt my suggestion meant that she would be further sidelined and that the solution is not to “lump all black women together”. She also brought up that it’s putting the burden back onto black people to support each other rather than being able to rely on their white colleagues to advocate for them. She said it would reinforce the idea that minorities should “shut up & get on with it” rather than speaking out about discrimination.

I apologised for suggesting it, explained my intentions and affirmed my support for helping her progress if that’s what she wants to do. Our conversation then moved on and ended pretty amicably but I really felt like an asshole after the meeting. I will talk to her about it again at our next development meeting but I’d really like some objective feedback too so I don’t f*ck up like that again in future.

Was I wrong to suggest a black female mentor might suit her better? Was there something I should have done differently in the conversation? AITA?

[mrhaitch]

Good morning Mr.Haitch (I’m assuming it’s morning)

How was your weekend? Mine flew by, and I’m still feeling burnt out from the all-nighters I pulled to finish all my assignments.

Onwards to the questions

1) would you rather eat the same thing for the rest of your life (but it’s something you hate) or dress up in the same outfit for the rest of your life (but it’s a fashion atrocity that you committed during your teens)

2) what is your least favorite thing about being an academic?

3) can you draw/ sketch?

4) I don’t know how I never asked this before but do you also have tattoos? And if you don’t, do you see yourself getting one in the future?

5) Have your kids ever said/ done something, that amazed you to some degree?

6) what’s the worst shenanigans your kids have gotten up to?

Sorry for bombarding you with questions so early in the day.

(Also if that academic-anon is reading this, I wanted to say I see you and I feel you. Believe me, performing exceptionally in your exams doesn’t equate to happiness, and this is coming from someone who has gotten straight As all her life. Burn out, depression, constant sense of anxiety doesn’t simply go away if you scored better. Agreed, that you would feel a momentary sense of accomplishment, but like I said, it would be temporary.

I understand your need to perform better than your siblings, to be recognized as someone who has achieved something. Those are things that would help you respect yourself. Do you respect yourself? Because other’s opinion doesn’t matter until you respect the efforts you put into your work. So what if you’re not performing how you want right now, atleast acknowledge the hard work that went into it. Pat yourself on the back for these little victories. You woke up, you faced another day, and one day when you look back, you would surely be proud that you persisted.

You did good. You tried. And that’s what matters 🫂)

It is morning. The weekend was busy as usual, but we spent some time with Haitch's family which was nice.

1) Well my most embarrassing teenage outfit was oversized t-shirts, combat camo cargo trousers, and trainers that were falling apart - which was awful, but very comfortable. It'd have to be that one.

2) It would have to be the insane workload and level of expectation from managers. Teaching, research, pastoral care, administration, supporting with open days, applicant days, working shifts on the clearing phone lines, graduation, exam invigilating, assessing, public appearances, conferences, social media, dealing with the press. It's an endless horror show where, in the UK, you could STILL do all that and still be made redundant so the university can renovate their sports hall.

3) Hah. No.

4) I do not. I've got some ideas, which Haitch and I have talked over. I'd like to memorialise my PhD with a plague doctor tattoo somewhere (PhD during COVID = plague doctor, no one can take that title away from me).

5) I remember our oldest saying sarcophagus without any hesitation or errors once. To be honest, though, when your kids learn to speak it's an endless series of amazing and surprising moments - especially when their personality begins to coalesce.

6) A couple of years ago we went to Disneyland Paris for my 30th birthday. Big family thing - my parents and youngest brother came along. We'd gone somewhere for lunch and our eldest was kicking off, just bored and overstimulated, so I took him for a walk around the corner. We passed a staff member who smiled and waved, I smiled and waved back, but then I saw her face pivot to shock, and then she covered her mouth to suppress a laugh. When I looked around at my son, I discovered he was flipping her off from behind my back. I picked him up under my arm, mumbled a barely comprehensible apology in french, and took him away for a bollocking.

I'd also like to add that I agree with everything you've said for academic-anon, couldn't have said it better myself. I'm not very emotionally articulate first thing in the morning.

[merlincersei]

Merlin BBC UK TV Show - A Psychological Analysis Series Part 11

Season 2 Episode 9 - “ The Lady of the Lake”

Writing this post proved to be a challenge as I had to condense all my thoughts and ideas in a coherent manner without it being all over the place.

While providing a synopsis of the episode, I will be highlighting the subliminal themes portrayed here in CAPITAL LETTERS AS WELL AS MY ANALYSIS to cover every aspect of the episode.

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Merlin is introduced to the character of Freya, a Druid girl trapped in a bounty hunter's cage (RESTRICTION) belonging to a man named Halig.

Despite Gaius's warnings not to interfere and against a background of a stormy night (INTERNAL CONFLICT) Merlin openly uses magic (QUEERNESS) in-front of Freya to reassure her that he is there to help and frees her, before narrowly escaping Halig.

Merlin hides the girl in the catacombs (THE PLACE THE OVERWROUGHT SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BURIES ALL OF THE PROBLEMS AND SECRETS ) beneath Camelot (SOCIETY) and promises to look after her.

She asks Merlin why he saved her and he says it could have easily been him in the cage (BOTH MERLIN AND FREYA ARE MAGICAL CREATURES LIVING IN A SOCIETY THAT CONDEMNS THEM FOR WHO THEY ARE)

Halig goes to Uther and notifies him of Freya's escape with the help of an accomplice. Uther assigns a detachment of guards to capture them.

The next 30 minutes of the episode becomes the main core of my analysis.

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Merlin performing domestic duties for Arthur:

IN THE PATRIARCHIAL WORLD OF UTHER'S CAMELOT, MERLIN PERFORMS TASKS WHICH ARE CONSIDERED FEMININE.

MERLIN PREPARES AND SERVES ARTHUR FOOD.

MERLIN PREPARES ARTHUR'S BATH.

MERLIN CLEANS ARTHUR'S CLOTHES AND SHOES.

MERLIN FUSSES OVER ARTHURS WEIGHT AND APPEARANCE.

ALL WHICH HE DOES EVERYDAY FOR WHICH HE IS NEVER APPRECIATED OR THANKED.

SOUNDS LIKE A COMPLAINT A LOT OF WIVES HAVE.

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Arthur views Merlin as feminine and lacking masculine traits:

ARTHUR SEES MERLIN CARRYING A BLACK DRESS AND ASSUMES IT IS FOR MERLIN HIMSELF

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Merlin steals food from Arthur to give it to Freya:

FOOD AND SEX HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED FROM ANTIQUITY.

EVEN MODERN STUDIES HAVE CONFIRMED THE STRONG CONNECTION BETWEEN SEX AND FOOD.

SOURCE: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlations-between-sex-and-eating-variables_tbl1_290219210

JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY SEES GLUTTONY AND LUST AS INTERCHANGEABLE, BOTH SINS OF THE FLESH.

IN MEDIEVAL TIMES, AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE WAS OFTEN ACCUSED OF HIDING FOOD FROM HER HUSBAND ONLY TO GIVE IT TO HER LOVER (MAKING HER ADULTERY AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM AS WELL).

USING THE CONTEXT ABOVE, IT IS QUITE FUNNY TO SEE HOW MERLIN STEALS FLESH (MEAT) FROM ARTHUR TO GIVE IT TO FREYA.

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Freya reveals to Merlin that she is cursed:

HERE THE CURSE THAT FREYA IS TALKING ABOUT IS HER BEING A TRANSGENDER PERSON.

THERE ARE FEW BETTER SYMBOLS FOR SOMEONE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF FEMALE-TO-MALE TRANSITION THAN THE HUMAN TO CREATURE TRANSFORMATION TROPE.

WHEN YOU ARE ON HRT TESTOSTERONE THERAPY, MOST PEOPLE BECOME HAIRIER AND STRONGER AND GAIN MUSCLE, WHICH IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE BASTET CREATURE TRANSFORMATION BY FREYA.

PLEASE NOTE, I AM NOT SAYING THAT TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE CURSED. I AM SIMPLY SAYING IT CAN FEEL LIKE A CURSE CONSIDERING THE BIGOTRY AND HATE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE FACE.

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Freya and Merlin profess their love for each other and kiss.

Against this background, Halig is narrowing in on Freya's hideout.

Freya decides to escape Camelot, believing that Merlin is better off without her. She is then confronted by Arthur, Halig and a group of knights.

Arthur manages to badly wound Freya in her Bastet form before being distracted by a gargoyle which was toppled by Merlin.( IT IS A REAL COINCIDENCE THAT ARTHUR ATTACKS FREYA WHO HAD KISSED MERLIN A FEW MOMENTS AGO, SIMILARLY TO HOW ARTHUR WOULD ATTACK LANCELOT FOR KISSING GWEN IN SEASON 4 EPISODE 9)

Merlin runs after Freya to find her mortally wounded. (IT IS THE OBJECT OF MERLIN’S HOMOSEXUAL DESIRES (ARTHUR) WHO KILLS THE OBJECT OF HIS HETEROSEXUAL DESIRE (FREYA) )

A heartbroken Merlin places her body on a boat and uses his magic to give her a traditional funeral by the lake. (I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY POIGNANT IN HINDSIGHT BECAUSE ONCE FREYA DIES AND BECOMES LADY OF THE LAKE THESE TWO NEVER SHARE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP AGAIN. SHE IS LITERALLY SUBMERGED INTO THE LAKE WHICH IS A METPHAPHOR FOR MERLIN’S CONCIOUSNESS. LOCKED AWAY FOREVER)

Back at Camelot, Arthur aware that Merlin is upset helps cheer him up before delegating him more tasks. (MERLIN'S HOMOSEXUALITY HAS FINALLY WON OUT AND HE HAS ACCEPTED HIS DESTINY I.E ARTHUR ROFLMAO. PRIOR TO THIS EPISODE MERLIN DID SHOW HINTS OF ATTRACTION TOWARDS THE OPPOSITE SEX. THIS IS EVIDENCED BY HIM ADMIRING MORGANA IN SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 AND NIMUEH IN SEASON 1 EPISODE 4. HOWEVER FROM THIS EPISODE ON, MERLIN SHOWS NO ATTRACTION TO ANY FEMALE CHARACTER WHAT SO EVER. THIS IS EXPRESSED EXPLICITLY IN SEASON 4 EPISODE 8 WHERE THE LAMIA SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO ENCHANT ALL THE MEN EXCEPT MERLIN. GWEN EVEN ASKS WHY EVERY MAN EXCEPT MERLIN HAS BEEN ENCHANTED.)

I TRULY ENJOYED THIS EPISODE AS IT IS RIFE WITH SYMBOLISM FOR ME TO PICK APART AND ANALYZE !

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Lieutenant General Darrell K. Williams (February 6, 1961) served as a Three Star General Officer in the Army directing the Defense Logistics Agency until July 8, 2020. He was the Commanding General, of Combined Arms Support Command, the Sustainment Center of Excellence as well as the Senior Mission Commander for Fort Lee. He oversees the Logistics Commodities and Services Transformation Program on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence as a Leidos Vice President and managing director. He is the founding chair of the Mary S. Peake Fellowship, a one-year program for next-generation leaders helping local businesses grow, named in honor of Mary S. Peake. He assumed office as Hampton University President on July 1, 2022.

He was commissioned into the Army Quartermaster Corps at Hampton Institute. He was a Military Graduate and earned a BA in Psychology. He became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

His post-graduate education includes an MS in Military Arts and Sciences from the School of Advanced Military Studies, an MS in National Security and Strategic Studies from the National War College, and an MBA in Business Management from Pennsylvania State University.

He has commanded logistics units at the company, battalion, brigade, and enterprise levels and has served in key staff positions at the tactical, operational/joint, and strategic levels. His prior assignments include Deputy Chief of Staff, Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal; Commander, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime; Director of Logistics, Engineering and Security Assistance, J-4, Headquarters, US Pacific Command; Executive Officer to the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4; Brigade Commander, 3d Sustainment Brigade; and Deputy C-4, Coalition Forces Land Component Command, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait during Operations Enduring, Iraqi Freedom.

He commanded the 1st Sustainment Command where he was responsible for providing theater sustainment to Army forces and elements of the Joint Force throughout the Central Command Area of Responsibility, including Afghanistan and Iraq, under the mission command of Army Central. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

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THURSDAY HERO: Nicholas Winton 

The British Schindler: Nicholas Winton

He saved 669 children.

Nicholas Winton was a young British stockbroker who rescued 669 Czech Jewish children from being sent to Nazi death camps. He never told anybody of his heroism, and the story only came out 50 years later after his wife found an old briefcase in the attic containing lists of children he’d saved.

Nicholas was a 29 year old clerk at the London stock exchange getting ready for a ski trip to Switzerland when he received an urgent call from his friend Martin Blake. Known to be passionately opposed to Nazism, Martin urged Nicholas to cancel his vacation and come to Prague immediately. He told Nicolas, “I have a most interesting assignment and I need your help. Don’t bother bringing your skis.”

It is a testament to Nicolas’ sterling character and strong moral compass that he didn’t waver for a moment. It was an easy decision to sacrifice his fun and relaxing ski trip and instead travel to a dangerous place on a mysterious mission.

Two months earlier, in October 1938, Nazi Germany had annexed the Sudetenland It was clear that the Nazis would soon occupy all of Czechoslovakia. When he reached Prague, Nicholas was shocked by the huge influx of refugees fleeing from the Nazis. In early November, the Kristallnacht pogrom occurred in Germany and Austria. Jews were killed in the street and hundreds of synagogues burned down, as well as Jewish-owned businesses. This horrifying event shocked the Jewish community in eastern Europe, and thousands were now desperate to flee.

Born to Jewish parents, Nicholas was actually Jewish himself. However, his parents changed their name from Wertheim and converted to Christianity before he was born. Nicholas was baptized and raised as a Christian, and he didn’t consider himself Jewish (although was doubtless aware that Hitler would.)

In Prague, organizations were springing up to help sick and elderly refugees, but Nicholas noticed that nobody was trying to help the children. In his words, “I found out that the children of refugees and other groups of people who were enemies of Hitler weren’t being looked after. I decided to try to get permits to Britain for them. I found out that the conditions which were laid down for bringing in a child were chiefly that you had a family that was willing and able to look after the child, and fifty pounds, which was quite a large sum of money in those days, that was to be deposited at the Home Office. The situation was heartbreaking. Many of the refugees hadn’t the price of a meal. Some of the mothers tried desperately to get money to buy food for themselves and their children. The parents desperately wanted at least to get their children to safety when they couldn’t manage to get visas for the whole family. I began to realize what suffering there is when armies start to march.”

Nicholas knew something had to be done, and he decided to be the one to do it. He later remembered, “Everybody in Prague said, ‘Look, there is no organization in Prague to deal with refugee children, nobody will let the children go on their own, but if you want to have a go, have a go.’ And I think there is nothing that can’t be done if it is fundamentally reasonable.”

Nicholas decided to find homes for the children in the UK, where they would be safe. He set up a command center in his hotel room in Wenceslas Square and his first step was to contact the refugee offices of different national governments and see how many children they could accept. Only two countries agreed to take any Jewish children: Sweden and Great Britain, which pledged to accept all children under age 18 as long as they had homes and fifty pounds to pay for their trip home.

With this green light from Great Britain, Nicholas did everything possible to find homes for the children. He returned to London and did much of the planning from there, which enabled him to continue working at the Stock Exchange and soliciting funds from other bankers to pay for his work with the refugees. Winton needed a large amount of money to pay for transportation costs, foster homes, and many other necessities such as food and medicine.

Nicholas placed ads in newspapers large and small all over Great Britain, as well as in hundreds of church and synagogue newsletters. Knowing he had to play on people’s emotions to convince them to open their home to young strangers who didn’t even speak English, Nicholas printed flyers with pictures of children seeking refuge. He was tireless in his efforts and persuaded an incredible number of heroic Brits to welcome the traumatized young refugees into their homes and hearts.

The office in Wenceslas Square was manned by fellow Brit Trevor Chadwick. Every day terrified parents came in and begged him to find temporary homes for their children. Despite Nicholas’ success in finding places for the kids to stay, British and German government bureaucrats made things difficult, demanding multiple forms and documents. Nicholas said, “Officials at the Home Office worked very slowly with the entry visas. We went to them urgently asking for permits, only to be told languidly, ‘Why rush, old boy? Nothing will happen in Europe.’ This was a few months before the war broke out. So we forged the Home Office entry permits.”

The first transport of children boarded airplanes in Prague which took them to Britain. Nicholas organized an amazing seven more transports, all of them by train, and then boat across the English Channel. The children met their foster families at the train station and Winton took great care in making the matches between children and foster parents.

The children’s transport organized by Nicholas Winton was similar to the later, larger Kindertransport operation, but specifically for Czech Jewish children. Nicholas saved an astounding 669 children on eight transports. Tragically, the largest transport of all was scheduled for September 1, 1939 – but on that day, Hitler invaded Poland and all borders were closed by Germany. Winton was haunted for decades by the remembrance of the 250 children he last saw boarding the train. “Within hours of the announcement, the train disappeared. None of the 250 children aboard was seen again. We had 250 families waiting at Liverpool Street that day in vain. If the train had been a day earlier, it would have come through. Not a single one of those children was heard of again, which is an awful feeling.”

Nicholas joined the British military and spent the rest of the war serving as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, attaining the rank of Flight Lieutenant. After the war, Nicholas worked for the International Refugee Organization in Paris, where he met and married Grete Gjelstrup, a Danish secretary. They moved to Maidenhead, in Great Britain, and had three children. Their youngest child, Robin, had Down Syndrome, and at that time children with the condition were usually sent to institutions. However Nicholas and Grete wouldn’t consider it and instead kept their son at home with the family. Tragically, Robin died of meningitis the day before his sixth birthday. Nicholas was devastated by the loss, and became an active volunteer with Mencap, a charity to help people with Down Syndrome and other developmental delays. He remained involved in Mencap for over fifty years.

Humble – and perhaps traumatized by the children on the train he wasn’t able to save – Nicholas rarely talked about his wartime heroism and his own family didn’t know the details. It was only in 1988 that Nicholas Winton became widely known. His wife found an old notebook of his containing lists of the children he saved. Working with a Holocaust researcher, she tracked down some of the children and located eighty of them still living in Britain. These grown children, some with grandchildren, found out for the first time who had saved them.

The BBC television show called That’s Life! invited Nicholas to the filming an episode that became one of the most emotional clips in TV history. With Nicholas in the audience, the host told his story, including photos and details about some of the children he’d saved. Then she the told Nicholas that one of those children was the woman in the seat next to him! They embraced, teary eyed, and the host announced there were more grown children in the audience as well. She asked everybody who owed their life to Nicholas Winton to stand up. The entire audience stood up, as Nicholas sat stunned, wiping away the tears.

After that, Nicholas was showered with honors, including a knighthood for services to humanity. Known as the British Schindler, he met the Queen multiple times and received the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement, both for saving refugee children and working with Mencap to improve the lives of people with cognitive differences. There are multiple statues of him in Prague and the UK, and his story was the subject of three films.

Nicholas Winton died in Britain in July 2015, at age 106. Today there are tens of thousands of people who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton.

For saving hundreds of Jewish children, we honor Nicholas Winton as this week’s Thursday Hero.

[goldenpinof]

I wonder if the dnpg havent an agent confirms that they want to properly turn the 'dan and phil' brand back into a Thing, like properly. Which is a lot if they are also focusing on solo stuff, but idk, its all very exciting, ig we'll see how it works out

i'm overwhelmed by thoughts right now. it doesn't make sense even in my head.

like,,, let's see. dnpg returned because wad almost flopped and Dan realised that he needs the audience back. great, better late than never. a complete change of management. aiming for UK and USA agencies, and getting them! IT pitching wad to companies to make/sell wad dvd. amazing stuff. at the same fucking time dnpg's return was in the works. not only dnpg but the whole dnp brand. the only difference is dnp™ doesn't intervene with AP and Dan's solo image/projects. they are investing so much time and money into dnpg. 3 different managers in IT!! that's a lot of help. Dan has at least 1 manager in UTA. and all of them are assigned to different projects related to dnp. soft and neat, mfs.

at the same fucking time, pardon my french, if dnpg was brought back to life to bring the audience back, it should be used to promote their solo stuff. how? i don't know! if the main goal was to separate AP / Dan / dnpg, then throwing wad promo on dnpg would be strange, unless it's done in relation to Phil/ with Phil (mukbang, because in 2018 they said they could do it again. or something similar). i can't even say anything about dan is not okay, i'm so scarred. like, i WANT him to use their platforms wisely, i want him to promote his solo stuff so it reaches the majority of us. i want him to succeed. the separation between brands just confuses me a bit. unless they don't take it seriously, and the lines can be blured when it comes to promo. which is yeah, go for it!

if we have something other than wad and dan is not okay – 🤯. touring. oh boy. ladydoor tour 2.0? Dan's real stand-up comedy attempt in smaller venues? if he is actully aiming for 2025/2026, i'm gonna die.

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