The sailor named Billy Bridle
There was a young sailor named Billy Bridle who climbed the masthead of a ship with a companion on 20 June 1833. Billy was quite nimble and very fast on the maintop so it took his companion a little longer. To make up for this, they both climbed even higher to reach the topmast crosstrees. After they had sitten there for a while, the companion was called down and Billy followed him. But, attempting to slide down the topgallant halyards, Billy burnt his hands so badly that he had to let go and fell to the deck from a good 7m height and died there.
As this death was very sudden and unexpected, an autopsy was carried out.
But the result was astonishing. Billy was not a man, but a woman named Rebecca Young. She had already been working as a sailor on a hatch boat on the themse for two years and some of her comrades knew who she really was, but always kept it a secret. Who exactly Rebecca was, where she came from or how old she was is not known, only that she was buried alongside other sailors at St George's Church in Gravesend after her unfortunate accident.
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Violet and Xaden first kiss from “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros
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“Oh, come on! Don’t play the guitar!”
Laurey Williams & Curly Mclain played by:
Amber Gray & Damon Daunno (Bard Summerscape festival)
Rebecca Naomi Jones & Damon Daunno (St Ann's Warehouse run)
Rebecca Naomi Jones & Damon Daunno (Broadway run at Circle in the Square)
Sasha Hutchings & Sean Grandillo (National Tour)
Anoushka Lucas & Arthur Darvill (Young Vic off-West End run)
Anoushka Lucas & Arthur Darvill (West End run at Wyndham's Theatre)
Anoushka Lucas & Sam Palladio (West End run at Wyndham's Theatre)
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Always lowkey simmering a Leverage AU in the back of my head hear me out:
Ted is an ex-insurance investigator who was able to get his son life-saving medical treatment because his first, original Crime Pal Beard was like ‘Ted if your company doesn’t come through with the coverage, we’re doing things my way.’
The company did not come through. The company did let him go due to suspicion of Ted’s involvement in the incident, but Ted will happily remind folks that no charges were formally pressed. Henry is alive and healthy and living with Michelle, who divorced Ted shortly thereafter (not just because of pre-existing marital problems, but because Ted wouldn’t tell her anything about why the doctors “””suddenly decided to do the procedure for free”””). Shortly thereafter, Ted fled the country.
What Ted learned from the whole experience is that there’s a lot of people out there, good people just trying to live by the rules, but sometimes things happen that are just out of their control. And well- if we’ve got the means to help the good people out when no one else will, then shouldn’t we try?
“We’ve got means,” Beard agrees. “And motives.”
They do things Beard’s way now.
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NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (APRIL 16TH, 2024)
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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!
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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:
Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
We're Never Getting Home by Tracy Badua
This is Me Trying by Racquel Marie
This Night is Ours by Ronni Davis
The One That Got Away With Murder by Trish Lundy
Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Pretty Furious by E.K. Johnston
The Harrowing by Kristen Kiesling , Rye Hickman (Illustrator)
King of Dead Things by Nevin Holness
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver
The End of Always by Rebecca Phillips
NEW SEQUELS:
Calling of Light (Shamanborn #3) by Lori M. Lee
The Lady of Rapture (The Bones of Ruin #3) by Sarah Raughley
Merciless Saviours (The Ouroboros #2) by H.E. Edgmon
Sheine Lende (Elatsoe #2) by Darcie Little Badger , Rovina Cai (Illustrator)
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Happy reading!
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A little eroticism for you from Violet and Xaden 😉🔥. Characters from “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros.
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