#The Perrin Conventions

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Troy Hughes cover art for Alarums & Excursions issue 30, January 1978. One notable article this month was "The Perrin Conventions" by Steve Perrin, describing his house rules for D&D that were adopted by many DMs and contributed to his development of Runequest. Also included were "The Arduin Chronicles" by Dave Hargrave, "Computers and Fantasy Gaming" by Barry Gold, rules for a "Musketeer Class" by Rand Freeman and Randy McMillin, and a couple of contributions by Steve Marsh.

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I cannot explain to you what hell the past week and a half have been at work. I've been battling the absolute worst cough for about two weeks, and if it weren't a week and a half before my students' AP exam, I should probably have taken a sick day or two to recover. And then there were endless meetings and two parent-teacher conferences, and my principal (who I like) got promoted to a job in the district, so now we'll have some newbie next year, and also I had to run the Beta Club induction ceremony basically alone this year, and-- friends, there is no tired like the end-of-year high school teacher tired.

Anyway. I swung by the doc on my way home (after staying after two hours so a kiddo could make up a test), got my chest x-rayed (no pneumonia, so that's good!), got some steroids and other drugs, and now--

Now we make a whole pot of tea, and settle in to rewatch the second episode of ANDOR, season 2: "Sagrona Teema!"

Okay, so first things first: this episode was the one where I realized—Nicholas Britell isn’t doing the music for this season, and I’m sad about it. I don’t think the new composer, Brandon Roberts, is bad—I just don’t think the score is as spare and unusual. I think this is more… conventional… scoring, and I think it’s therefore less surprising and effective. But it’s early days—maybe Roberts will impress me more as we go along.

Starting with that slow pan up to Luna’s delicately arched throat as he tilts his head back to catch individual drops of water in his open mouth while bound on the floor of a broken-down ship—jesus. Yeah, that’ll work. Y’all are crazy for that, Gilroy et al.

If we have to be trapped on Planet Dipshit, I dig that we get to see Cassian shot-calling even when in a shitty position. (“Hey, it’s not gonna rain forever. You might want to bank some water.”) He’s good at this, if “this” is negotiating and pushing people who are the dangerous kind of stupid.

Kleya HATES this fucking wedding. She hates these people so much. She just wants to be back with her comms where she can DO something. I need to know what her background is—like, why is she so in this? Why does she hate this all so much? She’s right to, of course, but—ho did she come to that position? I desperately need to know.

Mon and Perrin are amazing. Like, they are terrible together, but you can tell—they’ve been chained together so long that they have this awful rhythm and understanding. And sometimes they care about each other, or at least the echo of who they were at some point, and sometimes they’d happily kill each other. Mostly it’s somewhere in between. But there’s some warmth—maybe jealousy, maybe not—in Perrin warning Mon off Tay, and that little brush of her robe at the end. It’s not a good relationship, but it’s theirs, and they put in some damn work.

NO SMALL JOBS AT THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS. Syril, you obsessive middle manager. God, he’s such a dweeb. Someone shoved him in a locker and he never recovered. (I mean. Obviously that was his mom.)

Every single woman in the world has had this conversation with a fucking creep before. And you know exactly where it’s going. And how it could end. The second I saw that shot of the lieutenant coming around to the shed where Bix was, my hands balled themselves into fists, and I was like, “Get yourself out into daylight, girl. Get where someone might possibly be able to see you.”

But regarding the, “I’m not sure my husband would approve,” line—I’ve heard folks saying this is evidence that Cass and Bix are together-together again, and I don’t know? (This is not because I dislike the idea of Bix and Cass. I like them!) I’m just not sure if Cass goes from “kill me or take me in” to being in a relationship again that quickly. Especially given the awful circumstances Bix had just gone through, what with Dr. Gorst and the torture and all.

Chandrila-slash-Catalonia is gorgeous. I love the ritual hike—if you’re going to have to do some exposition dumping, do it on the way to Monserrat, where an elder will say a blessing and some children will chant, and then—poof!—purification.

Back on Planet Dipshit, the rebel factions have decided to pull the TIE into shooting range with ropes. But luckily, Cassian is good at math!

Sincerely, I need to know what his educational background is. Like, he does the calculation of how many centimeters per minute equals when the gun can hit the target in literally a few seconds. And in ROGUE ONE, he does the flight calculations in his head during the planetary destruction of Jedha. Like—that is some serious skill, and I think that it requires a little bit of training?

DEDRA AND SYRIL LIVE TOGETHER???

My brain literally blue screened when he walked in the door of that AMERICAN PSYCHO-ass looking apartment.

Tay. TAY. TAY. YOU KNOW MON IS SELLING HER DAUGHTER TO A SCUMBAG IN ORDER TO COVER THE MONEY LAUNDERING FOR THE REBELLION. THAT’S WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE WEDDING, REMEMBER??? YOU INTRODUCED HER TO THE SCUMBAG IN QUESTION. AND YOU’RE FEELING UNDER VALUED?!? Jesus christ, Tay, I’d hoped you were a good ‘un! But I should have known from the bronzer.

Kleya walking into the antiquities shop is like Batman going into the Batcave, I swear to god. She looks so at home.

Mon’s problem is that she persists in thinking of problems as negotiations and spreadsheets. Senator. Sometimes, problems are physical obstacles. And you are going to have to fucking knock them down to get rid of them.

Perrin’s really charming sometimes, isn’t he. That’s a good speech. Bad values, I think—just pure hedonism—but an effective piece of rhetoric. You can see why he’s a useful political spouse and why Mon wouldn’t just leave him at the first chance.

Back on Planet Dipshit, our two leaders of the rival factions come forth and agree to lay down arms—and play Space Rock-Paper-Scissors. While they’re busy making, I dunno, rancor claws with their hands, Cass kicks out a compartment on his old busted ship, neutralizes the guard, and runs for the TIE Advanced—all while some sort of Jungle Dino Hog charges the dipshits and allows Cassian to make his getaway.

And as he zooms off, we see two unmistakable ziggurats—this isn’t Planet Dipshit. This is fucking Yavin IV. And Cass is going to have to come back here, and you KNOW he’s going to be so annoyed about it.

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So I wanted to elaborate on the Mat/Elayne Freyja/Odin parallel, so here’s that essay. For the sake of keeping this post semi coherent any off topic but vaguely relevant ramblings will be at the bottom of the post.

To start I was surprised to find out that while the obvious parallels between Mat/Odin and Perrin/Thor are often noted I haven’t seen anyone mention how Elayne is Freyja, so I’ll start by talking about those similarities. Freyja is a goddess of love and fertility as well as a goddess of death and war, and of course, of the magic practice of Seidhr which I covered in my precious Mat post. Freyja much like Elayne is a twin, having a twin brother(and masculine form) Freyr, the god of peace, fertility and prosperity. Freyr also has a horse cult, for some reason. Freyja of course is the second patron god of Seidhr sharing the role with Odin but she fulfills the more traditional and feminine aspects in a more socially conventional manner. Her husband, is often absent resulting in a particular myth of her crying ‘red-gold’ tears in his absence, her husband, Odr’s name actually means frenzied madness so shout out Rand. Freyja is also often depicted with having red-gold hair like everyone’s favorite Trakkand. She’s also associated with cats and she’s sometimes connected to the Phrygian goddess Cybele, who instead of a chariots drawn by cats has a chariot drawn by lions. Of course the Cybele/Freyja connection is debatable but I wanted to point it out for the lion connection.

Now onto the fun part, Freyja/Elayne and Mat/Odin, let’s talk about that dynamic. So if you didn’t notice Seidhr isn’t the only domain Freyja and Odin share, they’re both also gods of war and death, specifically they’re both gods of glorious death on the field of battle. Half of the slain are taken by Odin to Valahalla and the other half to Freyja’s realm Folkvangr. Now this might be a stretch but the sharing of the dead between Odin and Freyja reminds me of the sharing of The Band and the Dragons between Mat and Elayne in ToM and AMoL. Once again that’s a bit of a stretch but I wanted to point it out. Though I think the Band of The Red Hand is definitely a reference to Odin leading a procession of fallen warriors and the fact that Elayne gets shared custody is something I find very interesting in terms of this parallel.

Odin and Freyja are also both connected to the Valkyries for the above reasons. I think it’s safe to say that Brigitte is a Valkyrie, a spirit of a female warrior who comes to lead the dead to Valhalla and Folkvangr respectively. The fact that Brigitte bonded to both Mat and Elayne(through the horn and through the Warder bond respectively) is something I think proves this connection. Yada yada the Horn of Valere and the Heroes of the Horn are the Wild Hunt which in some stories is led by Odin with a Valkyrie at his side, Mat and Brigitte yada yada.

Also depending on who you ask Freyja is often conflated with Odin’s wife Frigg and Odin with Freyja’s husband Odr so uh- Matlayne

Now how do these connections inform Mat and Elayne’s dynamic. Well for one it explains why they are so heavily linked to eachother, from Mat’s vague connection to Manethran’s King Aemon and Elayne LITERALLY being the Rose of The Sun to Mat and Elayne sharing their weapons of mass destruction with eachother, the two spend a great deal of time with eachother and working together. Much like Odin and Freyja they compliment eachother and work together in their respective domains, whether that’s being a soldier and his Queen or two powerful people sharing battle earned death while accompanied by a woman warrior spirit and legendary procession of long dead heroes. They are complimentary halves and foils to eachother, they of course clash because they are forced to share space(share domains) but in the end they come to an understanding and make eachother stronger through their differences and similarities.

Okay okay tangent time, so I’m really insane about Mat/Elayne’s whole relationship and how Elayne is a thematic character foil to Tuon. Like Elayne is the Rose of the Sun and Tuon is the Daughter of the Nine Moons. The thematic relevance of Mat choosing to stay in Ebou Dar with Tuon vs. taking Elayne’s contract to become an Andoran general, choosing the Moon over the Sun. All I’m saying is that RJ robbed us of the potential Mat/Elayne/Tuon love triangle that would’ve shot and killed me. The Themes, The Character Foils, The DRAMA

Next tangent has nothing to do with Elayne really but was inspired by the previous tangent. So the Seanchen are represented by the night but they are also symbols of death right? Now one of Tuon’s names is Kore which is an epitaph of Persephone and with the death connection and the kidnapping that brings an obvious parallel to the myth of Hades and Persephone. But I’d argue that the story themes put Tuon in the role of Hades rather than Persephone while Mat takes Persephone’s role. I mean wed to Hades(Tuon) and brought into the underworld(Seanchen) only to become trapped there by eating a pomegranate(or accidentally starting a foreign marriage ceremony) able to return home to the land of the living(Andor) but only for short periods of time, all while becoming more than she once was as the Queen of the Underworld(Prince of Ravens). Anyways I have FEELINGS about Mat Cauthon.

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Let's (re)Read The Great Hunt! Chapter 27: The Shadow in the Night

I couldn't find any Trolloc puppets so this is what we're going with I guess. It seemed better than pictures of real life fireworks accidents where I wasn't sure if maybe someone got seriously hurt or not. I'm pretty sure that no one got hurt in this episode of Star Trek; the Gorn lived. But I can't promise that about this book series, so if you don't want that kind of spoilers for Wheel of Time, or really any kind of spoilers, it's best not to click keep reading.

This chapter has the Trolloc triptych since we will be getting Trollocs in Cairhien.

The street was empty save for one of the big puppets, a goat-horned Trolloc with a sword at its belt, coming toward them with five men working the poles, but sounds of merriment drifted still from other parts of the Foregate, where the halls of entertainment and the taverns stood. Here, doors were already barred and windows shuttered.

Presumably this is the work of the undescribed man who saw Rand awhile back. I suppose that if Fain is going to defy fate, he might as well defy narrative convention as well.

Instinct brought the sword out of its sheath in a flashing arc. The Moon Rises Over the Lakes.

Honestly the motion I picture when I think of the sword form's name is a bit more complex than a flashing arc, but it gets points for being such a great name.

“Loial, we have to get back to the inn. Hurin’s alone, and they—” He grunted as he was lifted into the air by a thick arm long enough to pin both of his to his chest.

Rand's Shadowspawn Senses still don't seem to have kicked in yet.

The Power. That could do it. How, he did not know, but he knew nothing else to try. The Trolloc had its sword half unsheathed. When the curved blade was bare, it would kill Loial.

I love it when a hero is forced to use an undesirable power because the escalation of the narrative has left them with nothing else.

Driven by a distant desperation, he tried again and again. And again and again there was only the taint.

Of course, that really only makes it all the more hilarious that Rand isn't capable of channeling consistently yet.

“I’m sorry you had to do it, Loial, but it would have killed both of us, or worse.” “I know. But I cannot like it. Even a Trolloc.” Pointing toward the setting sun, the Ogier seized Rand’s arm. “There’s another of them.”

Funny how this bit of work towards Perrin's arc is here in Rand's, considering how many dead Trollocs this boy will be making even in Zen Mode.

He pulled Loial along to the next corner and turned toward the nearest sounds of laughter and music, but long before they reached it, another group of men appeared ahead of them in the otherwise empty street with a puppet that was no puppet.

Rand has something in common with that Trolloc, I suppose. There are some parallels of course - the puppeteers are far less dangerous than the "puppet"; they control it only to the degree that it's convenient for the Trolloc, everything is being done out of sight and in the shadows - but I'm sad to say that I'm at a blank for any deeper meaning.

Sometimes, here where there were no eyes to see, a Trolloc stalked alone. More than once he was sure it was one he had seen before. They were closing in, and making sure he and Loial did not leave the deserted streets with their shuttered windows.

I really like that the Trollocs are still terrifying at this point.

“I don’t have it with me,” he snapped, “and I don’t know how it could help if I did. The dead heroes are not supposed to come back to save me from Trollocs. Selene, you have to get away. Now!”

This is (very likely unintentional) irony, since the Horn isn't blown in the Last Battle until a young boy with no other options has to be saved from Trollocs.

“Seek the Oneness, and be calm. One who would be great must always be calm.”

This is also ironic, since Lanfear has the chill of a blast furnace on the surface of the sun.

Selene cut him off. “If he wants to go in, alantin, he needs a door. Such as that one.” She pointed to a dark patch a little down the wall. Even with her telling him, Rand was not certain it was a door, but when she strode to it and pulled, it opened.

If it weren't for the fact that the far side of this wall had brackets for a bar, I'd half think that Selene had some incredible forgotten weave for turning walls into doors.

At the worst, humans had to be better to deal with than Trollocs. He might be able to talk the Illuminators into letting them go; Trollocs did not listen before they killed.

Rand of course will forget this lesson much later in his dealings with the Seanchan.

The woman’s dress, worked elaborately across the breast, seemed a pale green, and her hair was done in a multitude of short braids.

Hi Aludra! Sorry about what happens to you for the next six books or so. (Also hi Tammuz I guess? Apparently you're technically a recurring character. Good luck with that; I barely remember you from this chapter and I only reread it seven hours ago.)

In any case, fireworks were too expensive for the Village Council to have allowed anybody unskilled to open one. He could well remember the time when Mat had tried to do just that; it was nearly a week before anyone but Mat’s own mother would speak to him.

I'm pretty sure we hear about this story again. I'm also pretty sure Mat will finally open a firework next book.

Rand was just breathing a sigh of relief as they approached the low wall—and the alleys and buildings behind it—when Loial brushed against another rack, standing right beside the wall. It held ten soft-looking sticks, as long as Rand’s arm, with thin streams of smoke rising from their tips. The rack made hardly a sound when it fell, the smoldering sticks sprawling across one of the fuses.

It's like the Illuminators were asking for their chapterhouse to be burned down, frankly.

“Sometimes,” Selene said quietly, “if you are very still, no one can see you at all.” She did not sound the least bit worried.

This is both a useful observational fact about life and clearly a good weave.

“I am not to blame for this, Aludra,” the man protested. “I have been sure to put everything where it belonged, and the punks, they were—”

Sorry Tammuz, I'm absolutely blaming you.

“It is said great men make their own luck,” Selene said softly.

Lanfear: Just because I'm pretending to be a helpless noblewoman doesn't mean I'm not going to expect credit for every secret thing I do to help you.

“Your greatness will make me happy.” Despite the words, Selene sounded angry. “Perhaps I should leave you to find your own way for a time. If you’ll not take greatness when it is in your grasp, perhaps you deserve to die.”

I can see why she hooked up with LTT in the first place and why the dude dumped her the second he had a chance with a slightly more chill woman.

“You let me worry about the Trollocs.” Three of them. I might do it, with the void.

Of course, Rand is finally embracing the greatness she wants anyway. Doesn't even realize it.

It tilted, started to fall over, and he caught the square wooden base; the tube pointed straight at the Trollocs.

Hence the picture above.

Blinking, Rand staggered to his feet, coughing in thick, acrid smoke, ears ringing.

Jordan should have added tinnitus to Rand's list of agonies because it is a bitch and the boy damages his ear drums way too much not to end up with it.

“An old woman, my Lord. Not a quarter of an hour gone. A servant, though she did not say from what House.” Cuale smiled as if inviting confidences.

Definitely Lanfear in disguise. She's not too vain to try and fool Rand this way as we'll know from later, and the difference in age is more than enough for Mr. Idiot here not to suspect that the Obviously Magic Woman following him around improbably might have left the letter herself.

Think of the glory. “I wish Ingtar would come.”

Rand would have been a great hornblower, since he always slides right past the glory in favor of the salvation.

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writing patterns tag game

tagged by @veliseraptor

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there’s a pattern.

"…And you can travel, too, see the world as it really is." Lanfear is still looking down at Perrin's dead body when the world around Rand flickers, just a tiny bit. (Midnight Cabaret)

Tuon's heart was already racing at her first glimpse of Toy. (Daughter of Battles, Wheel of Fortuona)

Elmindreda, she told me / Aes Sedai were gonna roll me / They boxed me up and got in my head (Al'Thor by Asha'mouth)

It was strange how different Thakan'dar was from how she remembered it. (Polar Research)

Tuon was both disappointed and relieved that Toy’s child was not his natural son. (Having The Stones)

"You only like evil girls," Rand said under his breath, sloshing the tankard down too loudly, like that would keep Mat from hearing it. (A Matter of Taste)

Mat paused in front of the sweat tent and started stripping off his clothes, hissing as the cold air hit his bare skin. (Awkward Male Sweat Tent Scene)

They'd been camped at Merrilor for five days now, and this was the first time since arriving that Mat hadn't eaten his breakfast on the go. (To Be A Silk Flower [Like I'm Never Gonna Die])

Min had braced herself for the worst when she saw Fortuona staring impassively at her non-regulation (that is to say, non-Seanchan) outfit. (Heels)

Mat woke with a start when something soft hit his rump, on the side opposite his once-broken leg. (How To Spot A Grey Man)

I almost always use past tense, to better match WoT conventions. I begin as I mean to go on, in multi-part sentences, although I think I've gotten slightly better at making the opening sentences interesting. I actually thought more of these would start with a time or place marker, but some of them drop you right into the drama. I have at least two stories that start with clothes, and a third story that's also about clothes that I skipped over for this because I wrote it a long time before it was posted to AO3. Even assuming WoT convention limited third person POV, it's hard to tell who the POV character is for half of them. I do think it's pretty clear when Tuon is the POV character, because both times here I've started with her internal thoughts. For almost all the Mat POVs here, I start with his physical location/physical reactions.

I tag… @anyboli, @asha-mage, @liesmyth, @unmarkedcards and anyone else who wants to do it.

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Charles Denner and Yves Montand in Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Pierre Dux, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer, Georges Géret, Bernard Fresson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Julien Guiomar, Magali Noël. Screenplay: Jorge Semprún, based on a novel by Vassiliis Vassilikos. Cinematography: Raoul Coutard. Production design: Jacques D’Ovidio. Film editing: Françoise Bonnot. Music: Mikis Theodorakis. 

Costa-Gavras's great political thriller, Z,  was an unsettling film to watch in 1969, the year after Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated, the police clashed with demonstrators at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and Richard Nixon was elected president. What makes it unsettling in today's political climate is the way the film shows the destructive collaboration of ideologues, buffoons, and thugs. It's an often grimly funny movie, particularly in the portrayal of the general in charge of the police, who as played by Pierre Dux is both ideologue and buffoon. There is buffoonery also among the thugs, and Costa-Gavras has fun mocking the conspirators who, once they angrily leave the room in which they've been indicted, each try to open a locked door. But we mock them in vain. For while the efforts of the prosecutor played beautifully by Jean-Louis Trintignant are heroic and Costa-Gavras and screenwriter Jorge Semprún make us expect justice to prevail, it doesn't. The story is that of the assassination of Greek opposition politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963 and the subsequent investigation that brought a glimmer of hope to the country only to be squelched by the military coup of 1967. However, the film is set in no specific country -- it was filmed in Algeria -- and only an opening "disclaimer" that parodies the usual assertion about any resemblance to persons living or dead dares to say that the resemblances in the film are entirely intentional. Costa-Gavras and Semprún were political exiles from, respectively, Greece and Spain. The composer Mikis Theodorakis had been arrested and his music was banned in Greece; he gave Costa-Gavras permission to use existing compositions for the film score. But the decision to set the film in no particular place only strengthened its ability to reach out and make its story meaningful beyond a specific place and time. Although Yves Montand and Irene Papas get top billing as the assassinated politician and his wife, Montand's role is comparatively small and Papas's is virtually a cameo. The movie is mostly carried by Trintignant and by Jacques Perrin, one of its producers who also plays a very aggressive investigative journalist, and a capable supporting cast. It won Oscars as the best foreign-language film and for Françoise Bonnot's film editing. It was also nominated in the best picture category, and picked up nominations for best director and best adapted screenplay, but lost in those categories to Midnight Cowboy and its director, John Schlesinger, and screenwriter, Waldo Salt.

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This is why I always add in a little culture world building foot note that nicknames are an intrinsic part the culture and that it’s second nature to be called by a silly nickname because of how formal naming convention skews. Perrin Circe becomes Parrot, Winston Fee becomes Wifies. Because thats just how it be like

Writing mcyt fanfic feels so silly because the names are on a spectrum from "normal human name" to "semi-plausible" to "Sausage"

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ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS AND OTHERS

February 1 St. Brigid of Ireland. Brigid was probably born at Faughart near Dundalk, Louth, Ireland. Her parents were baptized by St. Patrick, with whom she developed a close friendship. According to legend, her father was Dubhthach, an Irish chieftain of Lienster, and her mother, Brocca, was a slave at his court. Even as a young girl she evinced an interest for a religious life and took the veil in her youth from St. Macaille at Croghan and probably was professed by St. Mel of Armagh, who is believed to have conferred abbatial authority on her. She settled with seven of her virgins at the foot of Croghan Hill for a time and about the year 468, followed Mel to Meath. About the year 470 she founded a double monastery at Cill-Dara (Kildare) and was Abbess of the convent, the first in Ireland. The foundation developed into a center of learning and spirituality, and around it grew up the Cathedral city of Kildare. She founded a school of art at Kildare and its illuminated manuscripts became famous, notably the Book of Kildare, which was praised as one of the finest of all illuminated Irish manuscripts before its disappearance three centuries ago. Brigid was one of the most remarkable women of her times, and despite the numerous legendary, extravagant, and even fantastic miracles attributed to her, there is no doubt that her extraordinary spirituality, boundless charity, and compassion for those in distress were real. She died at Kildare on February 1. The Mary of the Gael, she is buried at Downpatrick with St. Columba and St. Patrick, with whom she is the patron of Ireland. Her name is sometimes Bridget and Bride. St. Seiriol, 6th century. Welsh monk and hermit, He is honored on Puffin Island (island of Ynys-Seiriol), off the coast of Anglesey, Wales. Other details of his life are scarce. St. Cinnia, 5th century. A princess of Ulster, Ireland. She was converted to Christianity by St. Patrick. When she entered a convent, St. Patrick gave her the veil. St. Crewanna, 5th century. A confessor who accompanied St. Breaca from Ireland to Cornwall, England. Crowan near St. Erth is believed to have been named in his honor. St. Darulagdach, 524 A.D. Abbess of Kildare, Ireland, the successor of St. Brigid. She is also called Dardulacha. St. Jarlath, 480 A.D. Also called Hierlath, Irish bishop and disciple of St. Patrick. He became bishop of Armagh and aided monastic expansion and the missionary program undertaken in that era. St. Kinnin, 5th century. Irish maiden baptized by St. Patrick. She is venerated in County Louth, Ireland.

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Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, who educated her children into chrtistianity and after the death of her husband, entered the Third Order of St. Francis and assisted the needy to the point that being rich became poor. Feb 1

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[ad_1] India vs England, Women’s U19 T20 World Cup Semi-Final (PC: BCCI Women/X) India continued their dominant run in the Women’s U19 T20 World Cup, booking their place in the final with a nine-wicket win over England at Kuala Lumpur. India are the defending champion, having won the inaugural edition held in South Africa in 2021. India will face South Africa, the only other unbeaten team in the tournament, in the final on February 2 at the same venue. India have been ruthless throughout the tournament and this semi-final was no different. After restricting England to 113/8, they comfortably chased it down with nine wickets and five overs to spare. Former Team India men’s great, VVS Laxman, was present at the venue, making the victory ‘Very Very Special’. Parunika Sisodia was named Player of the Match for returning figures of three for 21 from four overs. The scorecard might suggest that England batted poorly to post a low total. But the reality was different. After winning the toss, England captain Abi Norgrove chose to bat, and their openers, Davina Perrin and Jemima Spence, provided a flying start. In just four overs, they put on 37 runs before Spence fell on the first ball bowled by Parunika, the left-arm spinner. Perrin looked in sublime touch, punishing anything in the slot or full outside off stump. The Indian bowlers initially struggled to maintain a tight line, allowing her to find boundaries freely. However, Parunika quickly adjusted, bowling a wicket-to-wicket line, and dismissing two batters in the same over. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Parunika Sisodia in action during the India vs England, Women’s U19 T20 World Cup Semi Final (PC: ICC/X) Despite England reaching a strong position at 73/2 after 10 overs, India’s spin trio of Aayushi Shukla, Vaishnavi Sharma and Parunika turned the game around. They stuck to a disciplined line and length, choking the runs and triggering a collapse. In the final 10 overs, England lost six wickets for just 40 runs. Only Perrin (45 off 40), Norgrove (30 off 25) and Amu Surenkumar (14* off 13) managed to score in double digits.  Parunika and Vaishnavi both finished with three wickets, while Aayushi picked up two. Six of the English batters dismissed were bowled, a testament to the accuracy of the bowlers. The batters frequently attempted conventional and slog sweeps but missed, leading to a ‘you miss, I hit’ scenario. Reflecting on her bowling strategy, Parunika said in the post-match presentation: “My plan was clear. I would bowl at the stumps and let the ball do the work. The pitch suited me as a bowler, and I focused on consistency rather than turn. We did not feel too much pressure even when England started fast. We were confident we could chase this.” Chasing 114, India’s in-form openers, Gongadi Trisha and G Kamalini, provided a steady start. They put on 60 for the first wicket in nine overs before Trisha fell for 35 off 29 balls to Phoebe Brett. In the next over, Surenkumar thought she had dismissed Kamalini, but the TV umpires overturned the verdict for a catch, ruling that the ball had touched the ground. Kamalini took full advantage of the reprieve, staying unbeaten on 56 off 50 balls. Sanika Chalke (11 off 12) kept her company. Brief score: England-W 113/8 in 20 overs (Davina Perrin 45 off 40, Parunika Sisodia 3/21 in four overs) lost to India-W 117/1 in 15 overs (G Kamalini 56* off 50 balls, Phoebe Brett 1/30 in four overs) by nine wickets. Also Read: Trisha and Vaishnavi help India U19 start Super Six stage with emphatic win The post Clinical India set up Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup final against South Africa appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] India vs England, Women’s U19 T20 World Cup Semi-Final (PC: BCCI Women/X) India continued their dominant run in the Women’s U19 T20 World Cup, booking their place in the final with a nine-wicket win over England at Kuala Lumpur. India are the defending champion, having won the inaugural edition held in South Africa in 2021. India will face South Africa, the only other unbeaten team in the tournament, in the final on February 2 at the same venue. India have been ruthless throughout the tournament and this semi-final was no different. After restricting England to 113/8, they comfortably chased it down with nine wickets and five overs to spare. Former Team India men’s great, VVS Laxman, was present at the venue, making the victory ‘Very Very Special’. Parunika Sisodia was named Player of the Match for returning figures of three for 21 from four overs. The scorecard might suggest that England batted poorly to post a low total. But the reality was different. After winning the toss, England captain Abi Norgrove chose to bat, and their openers, Davina Perrin and Jemima Spence, provided a flying start. In just four overs, they put on 37 runs before Spence fell on the first ball bowled by Parunika, the left-arm spinner. Perrin looked in sublime touch, punishing anything in the slot or full outside off stump. The Indian bowlers initially struggled to maintain a tight line, allowing her to find boundaries freely. However, Parunika quickly adjusted, bowling a wicket-to-wicket line, and dismissing two batters in the same over. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Parunika Sisodia in action during the India vs England, Women’s U19 T20 World Cup Semi Final (PC: ICC/X) Despite England reaching a strong position at 73/2 after 10 overs, India’s spin trio of Aayushi Shukla, Vaishnavi Sharma and Parunika turned the game around. They stuck to a disciplined line and length, choking the runs and triggering a collapse. In the final 10 overs, England lost six wickets for just 40 runs. Only Perrin (45 off 40), Norgrove (30 off 25) and Amu Surenkumar (14* off 13) managed to score in double digits.  Parunika and Vaishnavi both finished with three wickets, while Aayushi picked up two. Six of the English batters dismissed were bowled, a testament to the accuracy of the bowlers. The batters frequently attempted conventional and slog sweeps but missed, leading to a ‘you miss, I hit’ scenario. Reflecting on her bowling strategy, Parunika said in the post-match presentation: “My plan was clear. I would bowl at the stumps and let the ball do the work. The pitch suited me as a bowler, and I focused on consistency rather than turn. We did not feel too much pressure even when England started fast. We were confident we could chase this.” Chasing 114, India’s in-form openers, Gongadi Trisha and G Kamalini, provided a steady start. They put on 60 for the first wicket in nine overs before Trisha fell for 35 off 29 balls to Phoebe Brett. In the next over, Surenkumar thought she had dismissed Kamalini, but the TV umpires overturned the verdict for a catch, ruling that the ball had touched the ground. Kamalini took full advantage of the reprieve, staying unbeaten on 56 off 50 balls. Sanika Chalke (11 off 12) kept her company. Brief score: England-W 113/8 in 20 overs (Davina Perrin 45 off 40, Parunika Sisodia 3/21 in four overs) lost to India-W 117/1 in 15 overs (G Kamalini 56* off 50 balls, Phoebe Brett 1/30 in four overs) by nine wickets. Also Read: Trisha and Vaishnavi help India U19 start Super Six stage with emphatic win The post Clinical India set up Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup final against South Africa appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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Star Trek history.

Shatner found that the scenery was especially tasty in that episode.

Star Trek season 2 episode 16 The Gamesters Of Triskelion, which aired on January 5 1968.

Kirk's "drill thrall" Shahna was played by statuesque dancer/burlesque star Angelique Pettyjohn.

Born Dorothy Lee Perrins in Los Angeles, California on March 11, 1943, Angelique had many small parts in film and TV in addition to her burlesque career. She also attended Trek conventions and was quite popular in her "Shahna" costume and makeup.

She also posed in a "modified" version of her Star Trek costume, where the carpet did indeed match the drapes. You'll have to go find that for yourself, tho.

Terrible episode but some classic Shatner

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You know how in a previous post I talked briefly about how Mat is subversion of masculinity? Yeah that but now I’m also going to talk about how all of that and the contradicting nature of his character can all be traced back to him being Odin. Bare with me lmao.

So let’s start with the fact that Odin as a god covers a LOT of domains, and a lot of them contradict eachother. He’s a god of war and death but he’s also a god of healing and poetry. He’s a god of wisdom and knowledge but also frenzy and bloodlust. A god of royalty favored by princes and also a good of thieves and tricksters. The Allfather indeed! Odin is a god but very importantly he’s Mortal, he’s a god of wisdom because he seeks it out, he is a surprising Human god, with complex and often selfish motivations. Which is very perfect for a character like Mat. But this post isn’t just going to be me pointing out every single thing about Odin that parallels Mat because we’d be here all day and even though I can because everytime a mythological reference appears in those books and twirl my hair and kick my feet I will refrain lol

The main focus of this post is talk about one really interesting facet of Odin’s domains and myths. And that is his connection to magic, specifically the distinctly feminine magic tradition of Seihdr(and that in of itself is a whole thing that’s makes me scream and blather in reference to wheel of time). Odin stands out as a male practitioner of Seihdr, which is traditionally considered a ‘feminine’ craft. Seidhr is a type of magic related to telling and shaping the future(so no shock Odin as the ever curious god of knowledge practiced it) but according to Snorri in the Ynglinga saga the practice of Seidhr leaves the practitioner weak and helpless thus male practitioners were considered ‘ergi’ a designation for men in Norse society who were unmanly and feminine. Odin was no exception being called ‘ergi’ by Loki in Lokasenna.

This is really interesting when we view Mat’s characterization through this lens. Specifically he’s described in relation to other more traditionally masculine characters and his relationship to the one power specifically Saidar. Long before I did any research involving Seidhr and Odin I had noted to myself that Mat would’ve had an easier time channeling Saidar vs Saidine. I’ve always felt that Mat was better at embracing and submitting to power and change than he ever was at forcing it, which of course is mostly because of his adaptability and flexibility which make him such a great general in the first place. There’s a reason Mat never got a handle of the flame and the void despite both Rand and Lan trying to teach him in books 1 and 2. Mat also acts the most like the women in the series in comparison to say Rand or Perrin. jokingly I’ve mentioned how in Shadow Rising a big plot point in Rand and Elayne’s relationship is a miscommunication because Elayne was upset Rand didn’t ask her to stay when she left for Tanchico, and Mat practically has the same exact fight with Rand over Rand not asking HIM to stay when he said he was going to leave before the battle at Cairihan. I also want to point out that in the Wheel of Time, daggers and throwing knives are mainly used by women(see, Min, Faile, Berelain, Tuon) with Mat and Thom being the only men we see using throwing knives(something something the idea that subterfuge and caution are feminine traits) while swords and axes are mainly used by men or women specifically breaking gender convention such as Cha Faile and Elayne’s Queen’s Guard. interestingly spears(Mat’s other weapon of choice) is an androgynous weapon used by both men and women(this is solely because the entire Aiel culture uses spears and will fight with them), bows are also a relatively androgynous weapon in the context of WoT used pretty universally. There’s also something to be said about how the entire subplot with Tylin puts Mat in the role of the ‘pursued’ or as Mat himself puts it ‘the woman’ where Tylin takes the commanding and dominant role in their dynamic. There’s a whole different essay to be written about Mat’s romantic relationships and the vast power dynamic disparity in them and how the relationships with Tylin and Melindra primed him for the way his dynamic with Tuon works but once again that’s a different essay.

Mat’s relationship with the one power is also really interesting, because for a non-channeler he’s pretty heavily linked with magic. He’s effected by the magic inherent in the world despite for all intensive purposes being perfectly normal to start with. The Aelfinn and the Eelfin, the fact that he’s hunted by the Gholam who was created solely to assassinate channelers. Both of his sisters being born with the spark and him marrying a woman who was trained as a sul’dam(and in a prophetic vision said woman literally collaring him after we had just been introduced to the concept of a’dams). His medallion that negates channeling, the cursed dagger and him getting the first powerwrought weapon of the series in his Ashandarei. Mat’s practically rolling in magic nonsense despite wanting nothing to do with it. Not all of this was created by the one power, but he’s still very associated with it whether he wants to be or not. It’s also probably safe to say that between his sisters and being Ta’veren it’s likely he could probably learn to channel if he wanted to, of course he never would want to learn and as I established earlier I think he’d have a hard time channeling Saidine in the first place. Trying to wrestle a force of nature using brute force isn’t exactly his forte.

There’s also another essay about Mat and Elayne’s dynamic and how I think Elayne is a Freya parallel, and how that relates to Odin and Freya being the two patron gods of Seidhr- but I digress.

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State Senator Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson (November 18, 1948) is a politician and member of the Democratic Party, who serves as a member of the Florida State Senate from the 15th district. She served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 44th District from (2018-22). The district included Windermere, Winter Garden, Gotha, Lake Buena Vista, Oakland, parts of Ocoee, Dr. Phillips, Horizon West, and Williamsburg communities in Southwest Orange County, FL. The district contains Walt Disney World, Universal Studios Florida, SeaWorld, International Drive, and the Orange County Convention Center.

A veteran member of the Florida Legislature, she served as a member of the Florida State Senate (2012-16, representing parts of Orlando and western Orange County. She served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives (2006-12).

She was born in New Orleans and moved to the state of Florida, where she grew up in Perrine. She attended Miami-Dade Community College and received a scholarship to attend the University of Miami. She received a BA with honors in Journalism and Business Education. She moved with her husband, Emerson, to Tallahassee. Her first position in Tallahassee was as Executive Secretary to Representative Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry, the first African American woman to serve in the Florida House of Representatives. he sought an MS in Communication from Florida State University. She began work as a teacher in Orange County Public Schools. She accepted a position as Director of the Equal Opportunity Office at Valencia Community College where she served as Assistant to the President. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

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Conventional wisdom is that there are objective good guy/bad guy syndicates (with Meridian and Hexis usually the good guys and Loka/Veil taking the bad position) but my hot take is that they're all equally nuts and Meridian/Hexis just appear to have more conventional good guy values.

Meridian is allied with Veil, after all. That alliance makes the Grineer torture scene you find in the Veil base hit a little different. Cressa is either going "torturing people I don't like is fine" or "That's not my business," both of which are interesting perspectives for a supposed freedom fighter.

Similarly, we see Loka allied with Perrin. That suggests that their obsession with purity is more performative than one first expects.

[cannoli-reader]

Actually, they used scouting on a few occasions in the Two Rivers in season 3. The problem is everything else.

Robert Jordan wrote lines like "an army is a general's sword and a general who uses another blade has mistaken his job" or "the general who fights on the front lines has put aside his baton and become a common soldier."

He had incidents like Lan rebuking Rand for looking for a duel with Couladin and the Maidens conspiring to keep him away from the front lines. Perrin being restricted to observing the first attack on the village, from the rear, on horseback. He actually joined the front lines for the final assault, in a section where Bran al'Vere held the actual command. Rand impatiently sitting in a command position behind the forward lines during the Altaran campaign. Karede praising Mat by saying that he seemed brave, but not the sort to get men killed proving it. Elayne constantly being held back from the front lines of conventional battles, and even before she got pregnant, told that she should not have been the one to bring Elenia & Naean from Aringill because of her rank.

Whereas the show seems to subscribe to the RPG version of rank, in that the higher the rank, the more hit points and more powerful your attack, so of course Perrin's "leadership" consists of charging into the fray swinging his weapons and singlehandedly turning the tide of the battle.

Scouts were just a manifestation of Jordan's depiction of warfare being all about preparation and all sorts of other work that had little to do with the actual fighting. The keys to the three campaigns featured in his final book, KoD, were all due to the preparations of the commanders, Perrin, Mat & Elayne, their attention to detail, the attention Perrin & Elayne, at least, paid to the logistics end of things, and the value of information, of which scouts & their efforts were merely a component. Mat also took advantage of geographical data, Perrin questioned prisoners about the conditions in Malden and behavior of the enemy leadership, and Elayne used spies & informants to good effect. Although Perrin went off on his own to fight personally in that battle, as in Emond's Field, he made sure to delegate authority and establish a chain of command, under an actual professional, before doing so.

What was worse in the show, is that scenes servicing these aspects of the story would actually have been cheaper than the marathon battle that didn't advance story, characterization or world-building to any real degree, and was simply an exercise in spectacle and shallow gratification.

I think the only thing now that would make RJ roll in his grave right now is the sheer lack of scouts in the various battles. He was extremely insistent on scouts and y'all got none so of course y'all gon die!

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Philippe Noiret and Salvatore Cascio in Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

Cast: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Agnese Nano, Antonella Atti, Enzo Cannavale, Isa Danieli, Leopoldo Trieste, Roberta Lena, Nino Terzo, Leo Gullotta, Tano Cimarosa, Nicola Di Pinto. Screenplay: Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli. Cinematography: Blasco Giurato. Production design: Andrea Crisanti. Film editing: Mario Morra. Music: Ennio Morricone.

Will today's kids feel sentimental about the multiplexes in which they see movies, the way I feel about the small-town theaters where I grew up, the places where I learned to love movies? I have my own lost cinema paradises, so I should be the right audience for Cinema Paradiso, with its tribute to a bygone era of moviegoing. Tornatore's movie has some good things going on, including the performance of Philippe Noiret as Alfredo, and the wonderful rapport between Noiret and young Salvatore Cascio as Toto. Leopoldo Trieste's performance as the censorious Father Adelfio is also a delight, and ending the film with Alfredo's assemblage of the kissing scenes the priest made him excise is a masterly bit. But once Toto grows up to be the lovestruck teenager Salvatore (Marco Leonardi), I begin to lose interest, as Tornatore's screenplay lards on more and more sentimentality. I've seen the 155-minute version twice now, though I have yet to see the 173-minute "director's cut" of the film, in which, I am told, the grownup Salvatore (Jacques Perrin) is reunited with his teen love Elena (Agnese Nano), now grown up and played by Brigitte Fossey. Frankly, I don't much want to: The 155-minute version seems overlong as it is. Cinema Paradiso is beloved by many, and often makes lists of people's favorite foreign-language films, but I find it thin and conventional.