«Trobar», No. 5, Trobar, Brooklyn, NY, 1962 [Between the Covers, Gloucester City, NJ]
Contributors: Rochelle Owens, George Economou, Charles Olson, Robert Kelly, Robert Duncan, Paul Blackburn, Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin, John Wieners, Amiri Baraka (as LeRoi Jones), Anselm Hollo, Theodore Enslin, and others
♡Truest Treasure (Adventure Time Petrigrof AU)♡ PT 3/?
(A/N: Part 3. Just enjoy the cute, domestic, slice-of-life bullshit before angst takes them again.)
♡ My AU where pretty much everything is the same as in canon except Betty is unknowingly pregnant with her and Simon’s daughter when she jumps through the portal.
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Slashed Text - NSFW
Bold Text - Sensitive Topics
The Road to Parenthood
♡ A month after their risky Valentine's Rendezvous, Betty ends up sick with a ‘stomach bug’ that causes her to throw up after every meal for two days.
♡ It got so bad that they skipped their weekly lunch date at Captain Tasty’s. Betty had to throw up the minute they walked in and the smell wafted into her face.
♡ Simon has to convince her to let him take her to the hospital. Even when they first get there, she tries to run away from him in the parking lot. Simon caught her before she could fall from exhaustion.
♡ Betty’s doctor treated her for anemia and sent her home with pills that would help her keep down food. They also took blood and urine samples just to be on the safe side and would call her with the results within a week.
♡ When they do call Betty, they deliver her the news: she’s around eight weeks pregnant.
♡ The minute she found out, she called Simon into the bathroom to tell him
♡ “Really? You're not kidding? You’re serious right now??”
“Serious as a heart attack, Simon. You put a baby in me. . .”
♡ Sure, this wasn’t exactly how either of them pictured their lives going. Both of them were always just so caught up in their research and each other that they never really talked about kids. Maybe once or twice over the last four years that they had been together? Of course, they’d be lying if they said they hadn’t thought about having children with each other before. And both found that they wouldn’t mind at all.
♡ They both were so ecstatic that Simon picked Betty up and spun her around.
♡ When she’s 10 weeks, in the middle of their first ultra-sound appointment, Simon asks Betty to marry him; a little pressured by the presence of their future child. And while Betty knows she wants to marry Simon eventually, she recognizes that he’s doing it for the wrong reasons. After some talking, they decide to put their wedding on the back burner. They were already stressed about starting a family and they didn’t need the added stress of planning a wedding on top of that.
♡ Betty immediately connects her with OBGYN, Dr. Olson.
♡ She was on doctors to stop taking her anti-depressants until the end of her pregnancy, as they could cause side effects and complications for the baby’s development. Betty took an alternative in the meantime, but she experienced mood swings early in her pregnancy as a result.
♡ When she felt well enough to eat normally again, she started craving french fries and strawberry chocolate-chip ice cream.
♡ When she’s around 13 weeks, Betty and Simon start discussing names for their baby.
♡ Simon goes first. For a boy, he picks ‘Henry,’ ‘Silas,’ and ‘John.” For a girl, he likes ‘Grace,’ ‘Heather,’ and ‘Penelope.’
♡ For a boy, Betty likes ‘Tobias’ or ‘Toby’ for short, ‘Casper,’ and ‘Theodore.’ For a girl, she picks ‘Alice’ after her mother, ‘Juniper,’ and ‘Willow.’
♡ Neither of them had a preference for the sex of their baby. They wanted it to be a surprise. Betty didn’t care as long as they were healthy, and that they existed in the first place. Simon agreed with her. Although, whenever he pictured their baby, he saw a boy.
♡ At 16 weeks, their baby starts kicking. Betty immediately calls Simon over to her to put his hand on her bump. They spend the whole day just sitting around their apartment fussing over her stomach, trying to get the baby to move again.
♡ “I felt that. Was that the baby?”
“No, Simon. It was just my bowel movements. Of course, it’s the baby, you dumdum!”
♡ They sing ‘Everything in You’ to her belly whenever it’s kicking and Betty needs them to calm down.
♡ At 20 weeks, it was getting harder for Betty to get comfortable enough to fall asleep. And the fact that the baby was kicking her almost constantly didn’t help, either. She started sleeping with a pillow between her legs.
♡ Having Simon’s hand on her bump helped calm the baby down so Betty could sleep.
♡ One night, she woke up in pain. At first, she thought maybe it was just something she ate. She had been trying out weird combinations of food to satisfy her cravings. But when she sat up in bed to go to the bathroom, she shook Simon awake in panic.
♡ “Simon? Simon, wake up.”
“Betty? What’s wrong, princess? Are you okay?”
“I’m. . .I’m bleeding. . .”
♡ Sorry for the upcoming angst, guys. It's gonna get worse before it gets better. Writing about my favorite characters going through terrible shit is how I cope, okay??? I won't leave you hanging for long, though. I'll post the next part soon
This seems as good a time as any to re-post the link to this report authored by conservative GOP leaders after the 2020 election.
As part of his post-election attempts to retain the presidency, Donald Trump and his supporters filed 64 cases containing 187 counts in the six key battleground states, in addition to utilizing some of the recount and contest procedures available to them under state law. The former president maintains to this day that the 2020 election was stolen and the results fraudulent.
This Report takes a hard look at the very serious charges made by Trump and his supporters. The consequences of a president and a major party candidate making such charges are monumental. If true, our electoral system is in desperate need of repair. If not true, that must be said because such false charges corrode our democracy and leave a significant share of the population doubting the legitimacy of our system, seriously weakening the country. To have 30 percent of the country lack faith in election results based on unsubstantiated claims of a “stolen” election is not sustainable in a democracy, and it discredits the political party making those charges. We hope that setting out the full record in this Report will help restore faith in the reliability of our elections.
Signatories
We are political conservatives who have spent most of our adult lives working to support the Constitution and the conservative principles upon which it is based: limited government, liberty, equality of opportunity, freedom of religion, a strong national defense, and the rule of law.
We have become deeply troubled by efforts to overturn or discredit the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. There is no principle of our Republic more fundamental than the right of the People to elect our leaders and for their votes to be counted accurately. Efforts to thwart the People’s choice are deeply undemocratic and unpatriotic. Claims that an election was stolen, or that the outcome resulted from fraud, are deadly serious and should be made only on the basis of real and powerful evidence.
Fonte: Center For An Informed America
Di Dave McGowan13 dicembre 2000
“La decisione 5-4 della Corte Suprema di sospendere tutti gli ulteriori riconteggi è a dir poco un colpo di stato giudiziario”.Theodore P. Seto, professore della Loyola Law School
Il verdetto, come si suol dire, è stato emesso. La più alta Corte del Paese, l’arbitro ultimo dello “Stato di diritto”, si è pronunciato. E con…
By BY DAVID D. COLE, JAMEEL JAFFER AND THEODORE B. OLSON from Opinion in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/opinion/Supreme-Court-FISA-secrecy.html?partner=IFTTT
Many of the decisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have not seen the light of day. That's irreconcilable with the Constitution.
The Spy Court Is Too Secretive New York Times
hey babes !! below the cut you’ll find the draft for the list i’m making of everyone’s departments and positions. if your character isn’t on the list, we just don’t have it notated for admins purposes so please leave a reply on this post telling us so we can add them!
and if i shoved your character into a department they weren’t meant to be in, comment that as well so i can move them. they’re listed by seniority and then alphabetically.
once it’s done we’ll be making a link on the navigation so that we all have a quick reference.
administrative department
tamara jordan: personal assistant to rolfe masters
Full Name: Summer Louise Maryanne Jones (nee Olson)
DOB: Jun 18th 1942
DOD: July 3rd 1979 (37 years old)
Parents: Thomas and Louisa Olson
Siblings: James and Peter
S/O: Brian Jones
Married: April 16th 1960 (18 years old)
Hometown: Cheltenham, England
Nicknames: Sum, Summy
Job: Stay at Home Mum
Personality Traits: Soft spoken, Kind, Free Spirited, and Fun
Children:
Robert Atticus Jones (19, 1961)
Silas Theodore Jones (23, 1965)
Louis Jude Jones (25, 1967)
Appearance:
- Dirty Blonde Hair
- Blue Eyes
- Very naturally white teeth and a slightly bigger nose
- Short and Skinny
This counts as science content because my parasitology notes are in the background.
This perfect 3-legged baby trying his best to groom himself is Theo. Theo needed major surgery (perineal urethrostomy), he's back home now finally. If anyone wants to help out with the very large vet bills.
here’s a list of all the characters i write for! it will be updated whenever i think of new characters. there’s a link in my blog description so you can easily access this post but it’s also tagged under #character list :) requests can be through the ask box or through dms
just so you know, I don’t write any full on nsfw smut (maybe I will in future but it’s unlikely!) but perhaps there will be hints of suggestive content in some posts.
Earlier this year I ran a blog post on the most powerful justices across time, which focused on their decisions in cases with single vote margin majorities. That post accounted for the decision makers, but it did not consider the attorneys whose arguments factor into the justices’ decision calculi. This post takes a look at those attorneys by focusing on all single vote margin decisions during…
En 8 de Noviembre de 1994, Conrad McLeary, de 4 años de edad, desapareció mientras sus padres y él disfrutaban de un día en el lago, en Lancaster. El caso fue dejado en manos de Theseus Armstrong, un experimentado auror, por el que entonces era el Jefe del CGA, Gregory Morris. Tres años después, en Ormskir, desapareció una niña de tan solo 13 meses, llamada Lori Brendan. Tras las diversas incongruencias en sus declaraciones, el auror presionó a los progenitores, hasta que estos confesaron habérsela vendido a un hombre alto, delgado, que vestía ropas negras, con pelo oscuro y corto, y que llevaba perilla, el cual les ofreció 1.500 galeones por la niña, y al que habían conocido cuando trataba de ayudarles debido a sus dificultades económicas. Ambos padres fueron procesados y enviados a Azkaban, donde cumplieron una pena de 10 años de cautiverio. No fue hasta el año 2000 hasta que no hubo otra desaparición, en Leyland, esta vez con la muerte de los progenitores Makenna y Jayden Castle. En el escenario del crimen se vieron restos de un duelo evidente, que acabó con un Avada Kedavra a ambos padres, encontrados muertos en su cabaña cerca de un pequeño lago de Leyland, donde no había ni rastro de la pequeña de ambos, Gretel, de dos años de edad. Ya que todos los casos sucedían cada tres años, y los tres habían tenido lugar en Lancashire, se le llamó “Caso Bloody Bones” por la leyenda local de Lancashire del monstruo acuático que se lleva a los niños que dicen mentiras, según el folclore popular.
El término “Bloody Bones” (Huesos Sangrientos) fue utilizado “para asustar a los niños y mantenerlos controlados”, según lo registrado por John Locke en 1693. Las historias se originaron en Gran Bretaña, donde eran particularmente comunes en Lancashire y Yorkshire, y se extendió a Norteamérica, donde las historias eran comunes en el Sur de Estados Unidos. El Diccionario Inglés de Oxford cita el año de 1550 como su primera aparición escrita como “Hobgoblin, Cabeza-grande y Huesos Sangrientos”.
Se dice que Huesos Sangrientos usualmente vive cerca de los estanques, pero de acuerdo con Ruth Tongue en Folclore de Somerset", “vivía en un armario oscuro, por lo general debajo de las escaleras. Quien fuera lo suficientemente valiente para espiar a través de una grieta, obtendría un visión de una criatura horrible, en cuclillas, con sangre corriendo por su rostro, esperando sentado sobre un montón de huesos roidos que habían pertenecido a los niños que dijeron mentiras o malas palabras.
Debido a que los casos sucedían en Lancashire, y que casi siempre los niños desaparecidos vivían o estaban cerca de un lago, río o estanque, se denominó así a este caso. Pero todas las investigaciones fueron infructuosas. Se divulgó un retrato robot del secuestrador y asesino llamado Bloody Bones por las autoridades, a través del recuerdo obtenido de los padres de Lori Brendan, pero todas las búsquedas fueron infructuosas.
Cada aproximadamente 3 años, Bloody Bones volvía a actuar, y en 2003, Maverick Olson desapareció en Accrington. Su madre, Gillyflower, arrepentida, acudió a las autoridades diciendo que había vendido a su hijo a un hombre, y que después había visto su rostro en un cartel de una tienda del Callejón Diagon. Gilly, que era madre soltera y squib, y que tenía dificultades economicas para criar a su hijo, había accedido a la venta de esta, creyendo que era lo mejor para el pequeño Maverick. Tras los interrogatorios, y enfrentándose a una pena en Azkaban por la venta de su propio hijo, Gilly Olson se ahorcó en el calabozo del CGA antes de su juicio, dejando una carta para su hijo por si este aparecía.
Tres años después, Bloody Bones volvió a actuar. Asesinó a Kirsten y Caiden Bertrand, los padres de Theodore, de 9 meses, llevándose al bebé en Burnley, mientras estos dormían. Familia y conocidos dijeron que un hombre había estado tratando de persuadir a Caiden y a Kirsten de que les vendiera al niño, días antes de su asesinato.
El 11 de Agosto de 2009, desapareció Amber Louisville, por primera vez en otra ciudad que no era del condado de Lancashire. Los padres de Amber, unos humildes granjeros que no tenían una buena posición económica, fueron encontrados sin vida mientras dormían, en Derby, condado de Derbyshire.
Tres años después, en Overton, un matrimonio denunció la desaparición de su hijo, el cual según su confesión, les había sido robado mientras su niñera, una chica muggle, Sally Anderson, cuidaba de él en su casa de Overton, Gerald Law, de catorce meses. Tanto los padres como la niñera fueron congruentes en sus declaraciones, razón por la que fueron declarados inocentes y no relacionados con la desaparición del niño.
El último caso conocido de Bloody Bones sucedió en Stow on the Wold, en los Costwolds, donde hallaron sin vida los cuerpos de unos humildes granjeros comerciantes de lana, Bryanna y Thadeus Relish, que tras una epidemia que había acabado con la mayor parte de sus ovejas, arrastraban una cantidad de deudas que apenas podían solventar, y que estaba poniendo en juego la tenencia de sus tierras y de su propio hogar. En plena pobreza, Bloody Bones podría haber sugerido a la joven pareja comprar a su bebé de 3 meses, pero ante su negativa, este asesinó a ambos mientras dormían, la noche de 8 del Diciembre de 2015, con la desaparición de Caleb Relish.
Con el paso de los años, Bloody Bones, el captor de niños y asesino despiadado que mataba a sus padres, desapareció de la faz de la tierra. Theseus Armstrong se jubiló en el año 2021, con la desazón de no haber podido encontrar jamás a esos siete niños, y al asesino de esos inocentes padres. En el año 2025, tras haber transcurrido diez años desde la última desaparición, el caso fue archivado por el Departamento de Investigación.
Ahora se sabe que estos casos, están relacionados con la Sociedad Lamanita, debido a la localización de Caleb Relish, el último niño desaparecido en el caso de Bloody Bones, por lo tanto, Harry Potter, Jefe del CGA, ha procedido a su reapertura.