#but only recently started dating mid october

[deadn30n]

TEMP HIATUS NOTICE

DEC 18th - JAN 3rd I will be on vacation. I'm flying out to meet my boyfriend today for the first time and to spend the holidays with his family! As such, there will probably be little to no writing done during the period of time I'll be gone. I might hop on now and then to answer something, but I expect because his family is eager to meet me, I'm going to be bun-napped lmao. this also means i'll probably be pretty radio silent on discord too sdflkjghd

my queue will be running in my absence, 2 posts per day. this is everything up until last night, so if I somehow missed our thread and you don't see it post, just lmk i'm sorry AAAA

also i stole this idea from @vulpesse but i made a tree you can leave cute messages for me on in my absence if you like!

happy holidays everyone! i'll try to pop in and check on everyone now and then ♡ until then, see you next year :>

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA for blocking my suicidal friend?

TW for suicidal ideation, mental health.I know this sounds bad but hear me out.

I (25F/NB) met F(26M) in January 2017, a few months after I started university through a mutual friend, and we quickly hit it off. We started dating a few months later. We split near the end of 2021, but aside from a few awkward months right after the split, we've stayed friends. We've both seriously dated other people: F had a girlfriend, A(mid-20s F), for a little under a year, and I've been dating my boyfriend, H (30M), for about 9 months.

Throughout the time we were dating, F and I had a few problems. Money was a big one: he would borrow money a lot and not always pay it back (either when he said he would or at all). He currently owes me about £8000 that he borrowed for uni. For most of the time since he borrowed it he hasn't been in work, so I haven't been pushing the matter. One of the last straws for our relationship was when he bought a brand new PS5 and lied to me about it when he had recently borrowed money from me.

The other big one was his mental health. F has been dealing with poor mental health for about as long as I've known him, but he refuses to do anything about it. He often talks about how much he hates his life and how he should just kill himself. He often punched himself in the head or punched walls when he was upset, but he refused to admit that this behaviour was unhealthy. He wouldn't go see a therapist or doctor, or speak to anyone except me. Once, when I was visiting family, he became upset about something and I was worried he would hurt himself, so I asked a mutual friend to check on him. He refused to let the friend in, and got very angry with me.I wanted to break up with him sooner but he'd often tell me I was the only good thing in his life, and I was scared he'd kill himself if I left him. We eventually broke up near the end of 2021. Fast forward to this summer. In August, A broke up with F and F had to move back in with his abusive parents. He initially asked to stay with me but I said no (I live in a tiny flat, I can't afford to financially support another person and to be honest I'm just not comfortable with it). I later changed my mind and offered him my sofa when I realised how bad the abuse was, but he declined.

Also in August, I found out my grandmother was dying. I went to see her with my sister and brother-in-law, and the same day received a message from F venting about his life. I replied with: "Hey I'm kind of dealing with something right now can you talk to someone else? I don't really have the emotional bandwidth rn"When he asked what was up, I told him my grandmother was dying. He expressed his sympathies, and told me that his stuff could wait. He sent me the following message four hours later: "I think I'm going to kill myself""I've totally ruined my life, I've got nothing except daily torture from my parents". Again, this is four hours after I'd explicitly told him I don't have the capacity for it. I spoke to my sister and brother-in-law (28F and 30M) about it and they both said I should block him.

In September I started a new job (I recently qualified as a teacher) which has been very challenging, exhausting and intense. My grandmother died at the end of September, so the past few months have been hard for me. He knows all this, but he keeps sending me all these messages about how much he hates his life and how he should just kill himself.

Early October, I was added to a group chat between A, F's ex, and a mutual friend Z. A told us that F had sent her an email that was essentially a suicide note. I called F and made sure he was okay, and passed that along to the group chat. F was angry that, as he perceived it, we'd been talking about him behind his back. He didn't speak to me for a day or so but quickly went back to normal.

At the end of October, the day before my grandmother's funeral, I woke up to a message that was essentially a suicide note. This was not the first time this had happened. I had a panic attack, though I'm not sure whether that was due to the message or imminent funeral. I send him some messages saying that I didn't want to receive these kind of messages unless it was actually something I could help with, that he wasn't respecting my boundaries and that the friendship had become entirely one sided. I told him that I didn't want to block him but I would. He seemed to accept that, but this morning I woke up to another suicide note message. After verifying that he was still alive (he is), I started writing this ask. I feel bad, but I'm so tired of doing all the emotional labour. I have my own shit to deal with and i'm not his therapist. WIBTA if I blocked him?

What are these acronyms?

[neondiamond]

🎃 Recently Read Fics - October 2023 🎃

These are all the amazing fics I read over the past month (from shortest to longest). Don’t forget to leave kudos and comments to show the authors your appreciation if you read any of these! 🧡

🎃 Pumpkin Baby by @louisgayvodka (1k, G)

Louis paints Harry’s baby bump for their Halloween themed photoshoot

🎃 let the feeling last by @wecantalktomorrow (1k, G)

Louis had been waiting a long time for the euphoria of moments like these. To feel such pride radiating through the room for him. He spent far too long in the spotlight for an image that had been forced upon him, built to show him in a particular way. A way that was nowhere near an actual representation of himself. He worked as hard as possible to create a safe space for himself and his fans at his shows, one that represented his authentic self.

He knew that his fans heard him. They could hear him screaming at the top of his lungs in the only way he knew how while still tangled in the false sense of leniency that came with his current contracts. It still did not match the feelings that came with moments like tonight, the overwhelming sense of love and belonging.

🎃 us means more than me and you by @starryhaze28 (1k, NR)

the one where Harry is sick and Louis takes care of him.

🎃 Touch the Sky and Kiss the Sun by @londonfoginacup (2k, T)

Louis Tomlinson knows without a shadow of a doubt that Harry Styles is his soulmate.

Harry Styles, Louis is virtually certain, is completely unawares of this fact.

🎃 Lights Are So Bright by @becomeawendybird (2k, G)

Newly first-string quarterback Louis Tomlinson mentions enough times in interviews that he's a fan of mega-famous popstar Harry Styles that people start to notice. At least one person does...

🎃 There and Back Again by @dedtobeginwith (2k, T)

A Keep Driving timestamp, one year later.

🎃 for you, darlin’, for you by @wecantalktomorrow (2k, G)

“Got another tomorrow before I leave,” Harry said quietly, nuzzling Louis’s blanket once more as he got comfortable in their nest. His body was still trembling with the aftermath of his sobs, but the tears had stopped for the moment. “Thank you, you know,” he rubbed his face once more, sinking farther into the comforting scent of his alpha, “you always seem to know what I need before I do.”

That made Louis smile, eyes crinkling in the corners which, in turn, made Harry’s heart race with a fondness for the man before him. “Of course I do, you’re my baby, my mate, my omega. ‘S my job to take care of you. Kept seeing the pictures coming out, and you looked more and more worn out, my love. Could feel it,” Louis breathed out, his hand coming up to prod at his own bondmark absently. The touch to his bondmark makes Harry shiver, bringing his fingers up to rest them against his own mark.

🎃 the blue never-ending sky by @justanothershadeofblue (3k, T)

“What do you suppose it’s like?”

Harry’s voice was dreamy, barely audible from where Louis lay on his back on the off-white carpet of Harry’s bedroom.

“Arizona?” Louis asked, and Harry made an affirmative noise from his position on top of his twin bed. “Wouldn’t know, would I?” Louis jerked his head at the window, dripping with mid-February rain. It was a useless gesture - Harry was busy staring at the ceiling. “On account of being British and all.”

“I bet it’s beautiful,” Harry said, and his voice sounded like he was already gone.

🎃 Got Time (But We’re Only Human) by @galacticlarry (6k, T)

Louis and Harry have been dating for years, but have been keeping it a secret from the public, which is why when they decide to go on a trip with Liam, Niall, and Zayn to celebrate One Direction’s anniversary, they end up at a farm in the middle of nowhere.

What happens when a picture that shouldn’t have been taken starts circulating on the internet, threatening to mess everything up?

🎃 always had that heart of mine by @voulezloux (7k, M)

louis is nesting, though he won’t admit to it. between being ill, the stress of uni, and near drops, the only thing keeping him afloat is harry’s scent. the fact they don’t get along is neither here nor there

🎃 If We Have Each Other by @pocketsunshineharry (23k, M)

AU where Harry is a single father and a one-night stand is going to change his life forever.

🎃 2 a.m. texts by @sun-lt (30k, T)

Harry has just come out and, with his best friend Louis’ support, he might finally be brave enough to go on a date with the guy he’s been chatting with on a dating app. Meanwhile, there’s a cat that wants to murder Louis, a fast-approaching deadline for Harry to find a new place to live, and this minor situation wherein he and Louis can’t seem to stop making out. It’s not a big deal. Louis is just being supportive.

[nelweensfic]

The real one

For @purplehotmess birthday! ✨ I wish you an amazing day and I hope you'll like this little gift ❤️ and Thank you @ladderofyears for beta reading 😘

When they first dated, Harry didn't know Draco was, in fact, a nerd. It was mid-October, their first date was in Hogsmeade and since the war had ended only recently, almost all the shops were selling merch about the Golden Trio as the media like to call Harry and his friends. 

He groaned, his eyes widened, and Draco almost let go of his hand to race toward a shop where keychains with a plushie of Harry were suspended. Draco immediately grabbed one and did a tour around. 

Amused by that, Harry let Draco buy every bit of merch Draco wanted, thinking it was cute. His boyfriend was so in love with him that he wanted all his merch like a fangirl. 

But, soon, Harry started to be annoyed by them. Draco spent all his time cuddling plushies about Harry, drinking in a mug with Harry's face, eating chocolate frogs to have all Harry's different cards he could have. 

It was ridiculous but Harry was jealous. So one day, when he came into the Slytherin dorm and saw Draco with a long pillow with Harry's body printed on the pillow case, enough was enough. 

"You see Pansy," Draco said with a serious tone, "this pillow is important, because I can sleep with it and think I'm dating Harry even in my room." 

Harry growled, catching both Pansy and Draco, who were sitting on the couches, in the middle of the full room. Harry had quite enough! He took the pillow with force and his uncontrollable magic made it disappear. 

Draco was about to protest when Harry just plopped his ass between Draco's legs and put his hands on his chest. 

"Why are you so happy to cuddle a fake Harry when you have the original all for yourself?" 

"Because…" Draco whispered in Harry's ear, tightening the cuddle. "I love to see you all possessive and jealous, it's hot." 

[notquitedeadpod]

Hi! I'm one of the people currently making the wiki, and we would like to ask for some clarification, if that's okay? In episode 1, Alfie says he's 27: "and not just because I was a twenty-seven-year-old man (...)", but in the same episode, his mother says he's 26: "You’re twenty-six, you should be in love (...)". It's totally understandable if it just got missed, but still, I would appreciate a clarification what his age is supposed to be at that point

Oh nooooo! The answer is he's neither 27 nor 26 at that point. Hilariously, this is a problem I'm the midst of fixing ahead of S2's release. Please just ignore all the ages given in eps 1-5. Fixed versions are coming out very soon to patch these errors, which are there because I wrote episodes 1-5 like a man posessed and then just! Released them into the wild! Very little thought to the passage of time was given; I was writing for The Vibes and only The Vibes. And then when I came back to releasing the show after the break, I fully Forgot to Fix the Problem, which, when it came to pinning down dates for S2, became a bit of a nightmare!

It's so immensely exciting you're putting together a wiki; please bear with me as I patch up these things! Fixed early episodes will be out SOON, but in the mean time have this timeline I recently cobbled together ahead of S2, which I've included after the cut for reasons of vague spoilers.

Here's a rough timeline: - August 2020 - Alfie leaves Ben and moves back in with his mum 'for a few weeks' - September 2020 - Alfie turns 28 - January 2021 - Alfie sees the first victim, the girl on the gurney, and his mum tells him to move out - April 2021 - Alfie moves into a new flat ('it had taken me the best part of five months to actually find a place' Beer and Bloodlust) - August 2021 - middle-aged woman in athletic-wear ('I didn’t see another one of the patients with torn open necks for a long time after the third one?', Beer and Bloodlust) - Linda the day after that ('The next day, I met Haley in town for coffee', Beer and Bloodlust) - September 2021 - victims six and seven - September 2021 - Alfie turns 29 - November 2021 - Cas blurs Alfie's memory ('after months of dreaming about him, I saw him again. It was mid-November', Everyone's Miracle) - June 2022 - Ben by the river ('it was the start of summer', A Cobweb on the Soul) - June 2022 - Alfie and Cas talk about their ages and Alfie says 'I’ll be thirty in September, if you were wondering' ('A week. I had known him for a week.', What Are We?) - September 2022 - Alfie turns 30 - October 2022 - Alfie sees another victim ('I didn’t actually see another victim myself until summer was well and truly over,', What Are We?) - November 2022 - Alfie and Cas go to the vampire house ('We were a few days past Halloween', In for a Penny) - December 2022 - death of the guy from paediatrics ('A week or two into this new high alert we were living under,' Tear Me to Shreds) - Early July 2023 - Cas and Alfie find Moira in the river ('It was the middle of summer, still kind of warm', A Different Kind of Holy) - Late July 2023 - Alfie and Cas go to Whitby - Early August 2023 - Alfie nearly dies - September 2023 - Cas leaves. Alfie starts recording what's been happening to him.

Chalk any wibbly-wobbly-ness in the timeline to Alfie's brain being addled by vampire blood for now, and I'll see if I can patch the accidental wrong-aging in the first ep.

-- Eira x

[letithappeneverafter]

The last time Tame Impala per- formed in its home country, it was closing the main stage at Splendour in the Grass near Byron Bay in mid-2019, with new music al- most ready for the world’s ears.

That one-off gig came amid a busy global touring schedule that saw the Fremantle-born act booked as a headliner at some of the biggest festival stages in pop music, such as Coachella and Glastonbury.

Since that last Australian gig, what’s changed? “Everything,” Kevin Parker said with a laugh, shaking his head at the enormity of the question, not least because he became a father to daughter Peach in January last year.

For starters, the chart-topping fourth album The Slow Rush was issued in February 2020, just be- fore the pandemic subsumed everything. Strangely, those songs’ themes – rooted strongly in nostalgia and the passage of time – took on new and unintended meanings amid global lock- downs.

“A few months into the pandemic, I remember thinking it was bizarre how suited to the sentiment the lyrics were,” Parker told The Australian on Monday.

“I thought it was as weird as everyone else did.”

A solo project led by the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that expands to a five-piece band in the live setting, Tame Impala later swept the ARIAs in 2020 with five awards including album of the year.

On Tuesday night in Brisbane, Parker and his globetrotting bandmates will finally get the chance to play those songs to homeland fans on a long-delayed album tour.

With more than 80,000 tickets sold across six dates, it will be one of the year’s biggest tours by an Australian act, alongside the likes of Midnight Oil, The Kid Laroi and Rufus Du Sol.

“I’ve been fantasising about being in Australia,” Parker said.

“Touring here is such a nostal-gic thing for me, because that was really the start of this music life.

“I have so many memories of being in the airports of Australia; there’s a part of me that’s so happy to be at Brisbane Airport again – hungover, as usual.”

More than a decade removed from the grind of playing pubs and clubs, today the centrepiece of its live production is a light- infused, smoke-belching steel ring weighing six tonnes and resembling a flying saucer.

The ring was originally de- signed for Tame Impala’s head- line set at US festival Coachella in April 2019, and Parker says this tour – which concludes with a hometown concert in Perth on October 29 – might mark the last time it rises above him and his bandmates.

With recent singles including a track with British pop act Gorillaz and remixing an Elvis Presley song for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic – as well as an unreleased collaboration with 19-year-old Australian hip-hop phenom The Kid Laroi – Parker gave a conspiratorial smirk when asked about his next work.

“I’m always working on new stuff,” he said. “Music is the only thing I know how to do properly, so you can bet on that.”

By ANDREW McMILLEN  NATIONAL MUSIC WRITER

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

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Even if Turkey receives modernized F-16s, Greece will still have a technological advantage in air power.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 07/10/2022 - 11:36 AM in Military

The 2022 NATO Madrid Summit ended on June 30. The observations made by U.S. President Joe Biden and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the last day of this meeting may provide some initial information on what Greek and Turkish air forces could look like at the end of this decade.

President Biden said at a press conference that the United States supports the sale of modernized F-16 fighters to Turkey.

On Tuesday, Turkey provisionally agreed to raise its objections prior to Finland and Sweden's accession to the alliance. Biden denied that his declared support for the sale of the F-16 was in exchange for Turkey's crucial approval for the admission of the two Nordic countries, pointing out that he had expressed his approval even before this issue arose.

"I said in December, as you may remember, that we should sell the F-16 jets and modernize these jets as well," he said. "It's not in our interest not to do this."

"And there was no quid pro quo with it," he added. "It was just that we should sell, but I need the approval of Congress to be able to do this. And I think we can do that."

Biden was referring to a Turkish request last October to buy 40 new F-16 Block 70/72 and 80 modernization kits for his existing fleet in a $6 billion deal. Turkey needs these new fighter-bombers and modernization kits to keep its air force up to date, especially since it was banned from buying fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II jets after its fateful purchase of Russian S-400 air defense missile systems.

F-35 in the colors of the Hellenic Air Force. Photo: Antonis Roen)

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also said at the Madrid summit that his country sent a letter requesting the purchase of an F-35 squadron, 20 aircraft according to Greek authorities, with a possible option for a second, or up to 40 F-35s in all.

Mitsotakis acknowledged that it would be a time-consuming process from the order to the receipt of the aircraft, estimating that Athens would not receive the stealth jets until at least 2027-28.

"Part of this procedure is the sending of the Requesting Letter, which has occurred in recent days," he said.

If both agreements are approved, the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) will still have a technological advantage over Turkey's largest air force.

F-16 Viper of the Hellenic Air Force.

As previously described here, if the United States does not allow Turkey to buy these new F-16s and modernization kits, HAF would probably end up putting a more technologically advanced fighter fleet in the field by the end of the 2020s.

On the other hand, if Athens received its F-35 squadron and Ankara its new F-16s and modernization kits, the former would still have a clear technological advantage. And not only because it would be the only one with fifth-generation jets.

Greece has already secured a contract to upgrade 84 of its F-16s to the Block 72 configuration. Lockheed Martin will conclude this contract in mid-2027. Therefore, even if the Biden administration can obtain Congressional approval for the Turkish F-16 agreement soon, which is far from guaranteed, Greece will still place 84 modernized F-16 fighter jets before Turkey.

In addition, Greece would also start receiving the F-35s at the same time that Lockheed Martin finished updating these HAF F-16s, assuming that it can secure an agreement for at least one squadron, which is not unlikely. Athens would have previously expressed its willingness to buy second-hand F-35, which could mean that it could purchase the aircraft a little earlier.

Dassault Rafale of the Hellenic Air Force.

And not to mention the 24 Dassault Rafale F3R generation 4.5 jets that Greece has already begun to receive from France, which are more advanced than any aircraft in the Turkish arsenal.

Before the NATO summit, the Turkish government would have considered buying Eurofighter Typhoons from the United Kingdom if there was no progress in the agreement with the F-16. London suspended all arms export restrictions it had imposed on Ankara during its October 2019 cross-border military offensive in Syria in May, making the sale possible. The United Kingdom is also pushing for the sale of Eurofighter to Turkey.

Buying Eurofighters would make a lot of sense for Turkey. They could serve as a 4.5 generation palliative solution for the Turkish Air Force until it can finally acquire or build a fifth-generation aircraft and a counterweight to the Greek Rafales.

However, if Ankara gets approval to buy the F-16 Block 70/72, you can decide that such a purchase would be unnecessary, since the Viper variant has many fifth-generation features.

In any case, Turkey will still have difficulty overcoming the substantial technological advantage that the Hellenic Air Force is likely to achieve by 2030.

Even if Turkey places 120 F-16 Block 70/72 fighters (40 new and 80 updated), they will face 84 F-16 Vipers Block 72 (all in service until the second half of 2027), 20-40 F-35s and at least 24 Rafales. In other words, no less than 128 fighter jets from Greece with capacities equal to or greater than the best jets in Turkey.

And even if Turkey buys one or two squadrons of advanced Eurofighters, in addition to its modernized F-16s, Greece will probably maintain this technological advantage.

Source: Forbes

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The King’s Orphan and the Latimers

“The king started to distribute Lucy’s lands on 27 June 1285. As rewards for service on the recent campaign in Wales, he granted £100 a year from Danby to Robert FitzWalter; custody of Brotton, Skinningrove, Yarm and the remainder of Danby to William Latimer; and custody of Kirkburn to William de Leyburn. On 15 October 1285, custody of Bozeat was granted to the king’s yeoman, Roger de Fricourt. These were temporary rewards that would last only as long as Lucy was a minor. 

The more important question was who would benefit from her lands more permanently through her marriage. This was granted on 17 December 1285 to Pierre de Estaveyer, alias Peter de Stanye. He was a Savoyard and a nephew of the king’s great friend Otto de Grandison. Stanye was a king’s yeoman in October 1283 but rose to become a royal household knight between 1284 and 1286, and by 1290 he was a member of the queen’s household. In this year, Otto granted him part of his Irish lands and he obtained a protection to go to the Holy Land with Otto. 

He is not heard of in England again and by 1303 he was living overseas and nominated attorneys to act for him in England and Ireland. Peter did not marry Lucy himself and transferred her marriage, in unknown circumstances and at an unknown date, to his household colleague, William Latimer. The Latimers were not quite a ‘new family’ but had recently risen to prominence. 

The principal Latimer property was the manor of Scampston (Yorks E.R.), which they had held since the mid-twelfth century, and by 1202 they were also holding the manor of Terrington, but the first important member of the family was William (d.1268) who was active during the 1250s and 1260s and rose to prominence in the service of Henry III. His son William II (d.1304) and grandson William III (d.1327) followed in his footsteps, with William II serving Henry’s son Edward I, and William III serving Edward I and his son Edward II. 

It was a common pattern for generation to follow generation in royal service and it created ‘curialist’ families. William I served as sheriff of Yorkshire between July 1254 and May 1260, and also as escheator north of the Trent from November 1258. By 1260 he was one of the king’s knights and in October 1263 he was appointed, with another, to negotiate in the king’s name with Louis IX of France, being present when Louis made his ‘award’, the Mise of Amiens, on 23 January 1264. He was reappointed as sheriff of Yorkshire in May 1266, but his son, William II, acted as his deputy at the Michaelmas 1267 audit, and he died in November 1268.

He had enlarged the patrimony and provided for a younger son by acquiring the marriages of the sisters Alice and Christine, heirs of the Ledet inheritance in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Bedfordshire, who were married to his sons, William II and John. Much of the estate was still held by the girls’ great-grandmother, Christine Ledet, who died some time between 1266 and 1270, and another portion by their mother Ermentrude, widow of Walter Ledet (d.1256), who died between 1282 and 1292.

Ermentrude had her dower third and also had custody of the rest of her late husband’s lands during the minority of her daughters. William II was married to the elder daughter, Alice, by June 1268, when she was of full age, and he had seized some or all of the lands. Ermentrude forced him to restore the lands to her and pay her a fine of twenty-five marks before she would make over to him formally the lands that would make up Alice’s portion.

On 8 November 1268 an order was given to provide a valuation of the lands in Northamptonshire so that Alice and William could have livery. William II Latimer was distinguished as ‘a long-serving and talented household knight’ of Edward I. In May 1271 he was preparing to join Edward on crusade and he was a member of Edward’s royal household throughout his reign, as a knight in 1278 and 1279, and as a banneret from 1284 until his death in 1304.

It was because of his services on the Welsh campaign of 1282–83, during which he had a lucky escape from drowning at the Menai Straits, that he was granted custody of part of Lucy’s lands in 1285, and this may have prompted him to acquire Lucy’s marriage from Stanye. She may have been transferred in 1290, when Stanye was preparing to leave the country and she was eleven, but this was certainly done by 9 November 1293 and, by 19 August 1294, if not sooner, Lucy was married to Latimer’s eldest son, William III. 

According to an enquiry held in July 1328, they were married by words of present consent, and this was later ‘solemnised’ in church. There is no evidence of Lucy’s whereabouts from the time of her birth at Kilton in 1279 until 1294, but it can be assumed that, after the death of her grandfather, she was kept securely in the custody of Stanye and then the Latimers. Lucy reached her fourteenth birthday in March 1293 and her husband was then entitled to take possession of her inheritance, but the Latimers again failed to observe the formalities and tried to take possession of the lands they did not already hold before proving her age.

These were the manors of Bozeat, still held by Roger de Fricourt, and the more valuable Kirkburn, custody of which William de Leyburn had given to Walter de Rokesley. The writ for Lucy’s proof of age was not sued out until 28 October 1294 and the return eventually included a woeful tale by Rokesley’s attorney, Walter de Throcking. According to this, control of Kirkburn had been wrested from Rokesley on 9 November 1293 by Lucy, Thomas Latimer and others.

On 16 February it was restored to Rokesley, but on 22 February, presumably at the Latimers’ instigation, the escheator was ordered to go to Kirkburn and Bozeat to investigate reports that the custodians had been committing waste. Rokesley was again ousted on 19 August (1294) by Lucy and William Latimer, now identified as being married, and others. He was restored on 6 October but ejected again on the following day. 

The Latimers obtained their writ on 28 October but Rokesley was restored on 11 November. On 3 December, he was ejected again by men from Kirkburn and Scampston, acting on behalf of William and Lucy, who had broken the doors of the hall and grange, taken Rokesley’s corn and goods, and beaten and ill-treated Throcking. An inquisition for the proof of age was not taken until 7 January 1295 but this proved to be inadequate. 

It did not specify Lucy’s age, nor that Leyburn and Rokesley had been warned to be present, saying only that Latimer had sent his bailiff in his place but Leyburn and Rokesley had not come because they did not hold any of Lucy’s lands in the county. Two weeks later, on 22 January, another writ was issued and another inquisition was held on 17 March at Kirkburn. This time it was attended by Throcking, who gave an angry and detailed account of how he and Rokesley had been treated by the Latimers.

According to this, Lucy had been present during the ejections, but it is likely that she was there simply in a passive role as the person in whose name title was being claimed. Equally, it was because the lands were her inheritance that Throcking concluded by saying that she should not be allowed to have possession of them until she had been punished for her contempt of the king in her repeated violations of the orders for Rokesley to have possession, and had compensated Rokesley for his losses. 

On 20 April 1295, when Lucy was already sixteen, William and Lucy officially and formally took possession of her lands. William was at that time in Wales in the midst of the campaign against the Welsh revolt and he did fealty to the king while they were both at Llanfaes on Anglesey. On the same day, William promised in the presence of the king himself that, within forty days of leaving Wales from the king’s service, he would compensate Rokesley for having ejected him from Kirkburn without having proved Lucy’s age.

Lucy and Latimer’s marriage had begun in disturbed circumstances. It is curious that the same problem should have occurred in succeeding generations but it would be facile to assume that a disregard for legal niceties was a family failing, or that such an attitude, if it existed, might be symptomatic of a wider attitude that would affect their marriage. There is next to nothing to indicate the nature of the marriage between Lucy and Latimer, which lasted until 1303. 

She occurs once directly and once indirectly during this period. The direct reference comes from early 1302 when she and Latimer confirmed a grant made by a burgess of Yarm to the Dominican Friars there at what was evidently a gathering of local notables. Both the grant and the confirmation were witnessed by Nicholas Lord Meinill, his kinsman Sir John de Meinill of Middleton, Sir Arnold de Percy of Kildale, Sir Robert Gower and various others. 

The other reference, equally conventional, was the birth of a son to them, another William. The date of his birth is unknown, the only evidence being the statements in his father’s inquisition post mortem that he was aged twenty-five or twenty-six in March 1327. While the ages given in the inquisitions are known to be unreliable, they become more so the younger the heir, so it is possible that these were reasonably accurate and that the boy was born in 1300 or 1301, or a year or so either side. 

There is no evidence that any other children were born and, while this does not necessarily mean that there were none, circumstantial evidence suggests that none survived to adulthood. There is inevitably a great deal more information about Latimer’s activities during this period. Possession of Lucy’s lands gave him a landed position of consequence, entirely independent of his father who lived until 1304. 

He was knighted by the king in 1294–95, probably while he was serving in Wales. Later in 1295 he was summoned to serve in Gascony and in October obtained a protection. He received the usual military summonses from 1297 onwards, in February 1299 he received his first individual summons to parliament, and in 1300 he was a banneret of the royal household like his father.

Both Latimers were among the twenty-one knights who represented Yorkshire in January 1300, the father representing the East Riding and the son the North Riding, and the younger William invested further in the North Riding by acquiring the manor of Sinnington, at some date between 1300 and 1303. This was later held jointly with Lucy, and his acquisition was enhanced on 12 December 1303 when he was granted free warren and a market and fair there.

He was serving in Scotland with the king in May 1298, obtained a protection in November 1299 when planning to go again with the king, and in the autumn of 1300 was serving in the Berwick garrison led by his father. He was setting out again in June 1301, and he received wages as a banneret, and for another knight and six esquires with him for the period 20 July to 22 September.

In early 1302 he was evidently in Yorkshire when he and Lucy confirmed the grant to the friars of Yarm, but he was back in Scotland by September 1302 when he was instructed to stay where he was, despite the recent summons to attend parliament. In October, he obtained a protection because he was staying in Scotland, although at the end of November he led a murderous attack on Nicholas Lord Meinill’s manor and chase at Ingleby Greenhow.

A constant stream of letters of protection and of respite of debts suggests that he remained in Scotland between June 1303 and the summer of 1304 during the long over-winter campaign. He was almost certainly with the king at Dunfermline on 12 December 1303, and he may also have been there on 12 February 1304. Before leaving for this campaign he had left Lucy to reside at Kirkburn. 

While little is known of their marital life together, for Lucy, at least, the marriage had become intolerable and she had decided it should be terminated. On Monday 16 December 1303 she fled from Kirkburn, and by 22 September 1304 she had begun a suit at the court of Archbishop Thomas Corbridge for her marriage to be annulled. There is no surviving direct record of the case but, according to later references, the grounds were consanguinity, but it was established that neither had known of the impediment when they were married so their son remained legitimate.”

-  Bridget Wells-Furby, Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century: The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347)

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Things you see that he is healing a little here and there but not that great and we are expecting more we're hoping it starts growing at some point there's a lot of that medicine in him and it's wearing off but Jesus this seems to be a ton of it we've done recent testing and it shows he is more anything than we thought or in him he always thought so it's really bad but the Prilosec will be gone inside anything or outside but the zyprexa is in the bone and there's a lot of it so we're hoping that it's this weekend when it comes out but it doesn't seem it so he's getting a dose every few days and it's not small it's keeping up Connor which he needs to be he needs more sleep and it helps sleep we expected to wear off what we said is fully in two to three years and it's true it depends how much breaks off but the date when it fully deteriorates will be about two and a half years from today so he says that's 25 May 26th May June July August September October November 2026 but that's the completely gone face it will be 80% effective in June of 24 60% effective in December of 24 and 40% effective in May of 25 and 30% effective in September of 25 and at that point when it breaks loose there's only about half a regular dose or less and it deteriorates so really only about 3% or 5% of a regular dose comes out it's just enough to affect the hormones for another year so basically September 25 that's a year and a half from now but it'll mostly be out when he starts to really grow would be December and 40% of the medicine in him would be out any stoves will be around 10 mg but it gets cut in half with the blood depending on the oxygen level we think it's going to be higher than expected so would be around 4 mg or 3.5 and it will deteriorate in the bloodstream faster and only about 2 mg will get to them or get to organs and it really is disposed of in all the tissue and everything it doesn't stay or accumulate so 2 mg in December it's enough to regulate growth but it's not enough to impede it notably from what we anticipated that's where we calculate it from but there was more and we think that our guests might stay anyways because of oxygen and if they force him around on his bike and he gets a lot of air and the exercises so he doesn't grow that much but it does burn the stuff off and then he'll grow and but not real fast so from and it is may now. It may he will probably grow a quarter of an inch by June 1st and when she's moving he will grow another half inch by July 1st so he'll be 5:10 and a quarter no big deal not yet from July 1st to August 1st he might grow an inch in height and some bulk and some muscle and some bone then it will slow down from August to September he'll get a little chunkier and gain 10 or 15 pounds and is slowly beginning like the whole time September to October he'll go up about 3/8 finish and then October to November he will get bulky and grow up a little bit probably a quarter and then he will be in December and he'll go up a half an inch a month practically in about 15 lbs a month and a few months to be 20 to 25 pounds they just keep getting bigger but by December he will be 6 ft 3 and 1/2 by July 1st it will be 5 ft 11 and 1/2 which is no big deal. And end of August he'll be 6 put 1 in and that is going to be noticeable a little bit not massively but his muscles and things will be big he's going to be noticed end of June or starting mid June then it'll be a change with kind of slow for people here they're experiencing massive change in their bodies in the world all the time

-yeah there's another war to forming but the one we're talking about is the above and people have been poisoned including our son very badly and incorrectly way too much stuff we have sick for years and they did it wrong and it's horrible and the max had it done on purpose and badly has been trying to heal him help him and he's been helping him it's very difficult to struggle for survival actually and people are declaring war of them and Mac Daddy is trying to figure out who and their senses mingling company and Max's and talk to Justin and they have a big meeting coming up so we're going to publish because he wants people to make it there

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"the FF schedule starting in mid January is so confusing. Are they supposed to film the whole thing in under a month? How are Pedro and ebon gonna work around that… maybe the casting announcements are actually not true after all 🧐"

I would rather bet the announcement that FF will begin filming in January is false. Matt Shakman himself was talking about filming in spring 2024 in a very recent interview (October I think) and because one person said they heard that filming would take place earlier, everyone started to believe it. For me, it's pretty clear that they're going to start filming FF at the earliest in April/May as it was planned. This is also I think the reason why we haven't yet had news of the casting, if they were to shoot in January they probably wouldn't wait until the very last moment to announce it, but we'll see.

it just doesn’t make sense to me. Really the only thing we can look at is that one website that has all of the filming dates for everything on it. But you have to pay for it. And none of us are going to do that.

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The former transport secretary has said it would be “crazy” not to review plans for the HS2 rail link as costs have soared.

Grant Shapps told the BBC that the Ukraine war and a spike in inflation mean any government would need to make “serious decisions” on affordability.

The BBC understands a definitive decision on HS2 could be made as soon as this week.

The government has so far refused to commit to the current plans.

HS2 is intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England – the first part, between west London and Birmingham, is in mid-construction.

But the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, cost increases and cuts – including to the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds.

The last official estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, added up to about £71bn.

This was in 2019 prices so it does not account for the spike in costs for materials and wages, for example, in recent months.

The numbers were given to Parliament in June and include up to £26bn for the whole of Birmingham to Manchester. They also exclude what is left of the eastern leg, and a scrapped Golborne link in Cheshire.

Speaking to Victoria Derbyshire on the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Shapps said that no decision on the project’s future had been taken as of yet.

“We do have to respond to the budgets,” he said.

“We’ve not only been hit by the coronavirus, but the war in Ukraine… any responsible government has to ask whether that sequencing still stacks up for what the country requires.”

He added that when previous commitments had been made, “no-one knew we’d be in a war in Europe right now with all of the consequences, all of the costs, and all of the inflation.”And any government that doesn’t go back and then look at it is crazy.”

The prime minister and the chancellor have been discussing the future of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the project against the backdrop of spiralling prices.

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said last week that costs were getting “totally out of control”.

The June statement to Parliament included figures for how much had been spent on HS2 so far, although they were not completely up to date.

It said £22.5bn had been spent on the London to Birmingham leg, which is mid-construction, while £2.3bn had been spent on preparing other sections, on measures such as buying up land.

Work has been going on for a while to try and identify cost savings as concerns have mounted.

Johnson warns against ‘mutilated’ version of HS2

HS2 rated ‘unachievable’ by watchdog

Many in Westminster believe that almost all of the planned line from Birmingham to Manchester is likely to be axed, potentially ahead of the Conservatives’ party conference in the city on 1 October.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has warned, however, against “mutilating” the project in a letter to Rishi Sunak.

It was under Mr Johnson’s government that HS2 was given the green light to start construction in 2020.

Cabinet minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday it would be “irresponsible” to carry on pumping money in because of cost increases and delays.

He said there was a “perfectly legitimate question” about the “sequencing” of the high-speed rail line.

Mr Shapps also suggested that HS2 was not the “be all and end all” for rail connectivity and said the government had spent £22bn on transport in the north of England since 2010.

However, he would not comment on whether or not separate plans for the Northern Powerhouse rail scheme between Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool would still go ahead if the northern section of HS2 is scrapped.

Labour has so far refused to confirm it would fund the HS2 line to Manchester if the Conservatives axe it, despite pressure from local mayors such as Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham.

On Sunday, Darren Jones, new shadow chief secretary for the Treasury, said the Labour party would “love to build the HS2”, but said little “proper” information had been made available by the government.

“We’re only responding to leaks from the Tory party”, he said, adding that the party could not make infrastructure commitments worth tens of billions of pounds without seeing all the figures.

More than 80 companies and business leaders also sought clarity over the commitment to HS2 on Saturday.

The bosses of dozens of businesses and business groups – including Manchester Airports Group, British Land, Virgin Money, and the Northern Powerhouse – all signed a letter to the government urging renewed commitment to HS2, saying that repeated mixed signals are damaging the UK’s reputation and the wider supply chain.

In the letter, they expressed “deep concern” over “the constant uncertainty” that “plagues” the project.

HS2 is meant to create more capacity and speed up journey times.

The government has previously argued it would have economic benefits too, but critics think it is far too expensive and the money could be better used in other ways.

In March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said there would be a two-year delay on the Birmingham to Crewe leg. Work on Euston was also paused while an “affordable” design was worked on.

However, a government spokesperson said on Friday that “our focus remains on delivering” HS2.

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Happy Birthday Tim Scully!!!

Robert "Tim" Scully born August 27, 1944

In heyday of LSD, secret Windsor lab produced millions of Orange Sunshine pills

Inside the Windsor Historical Society museum there are collections of fine art, archaeological artifacts, tools and household gadgets, thousands of items on shelves, in hutches and behind glass, some dating back nearly four centuries.

Two recently added items at the Hembree House - discretely placed posters in the two bathrooms - provide a hint, however, to a time in Windsor's past that is neither well known locally nor widely publicized.

In the late 1960s, a small group of hippie zealots worked feverishly in an old Windsor farmhouse to produce an especially pure form of LSD, on a mission to turn on the world.

Little was known about the clandestine lab because it was never busted. Authorities only found out about it several years after it was dismantled.

That hidden chapter of history had its start in late 1968 when the lab was set up in Windsor. Within a few months it produced roughly 3 pounds of LSD, or enough to make 4.5 million hits of “Orange Sunshine,” a nickname for the orange-colored, barrel-shaped pill that produced an especially powerful psychedelic trip.

It would become one of the iconic drugs of the late 1960s, proclaimed the finest acid in the land by Timothy Leary, the former Harvard instructor who famously advised people to “turn on, tune in, drop out.”

It was the year after the “Summer of Love” when thousands of flower children flocked to San Francisco to get high and groove in The Haight, espousing peace, love and Utopian ways. Some would come north to Sonoma County for back-to-the land communal living.

Among those who discovered Sonoma County was Tim Scully, a wonky East Bay kid and a physics major who'd dropped out of UC Berkeley. He and his associates chose Windsor to make LSD, which they saw as God's gift to humanity because of the ecstatic, consciousness-raising experience they had with the drug.

They chose a secluded Windsor farmhouse screened by trees, on 2 acres off Wilson Lane, now Mitchell Lane, to the west of Baldocchi Way. It was demolished more than 30 years ago to make way for Vintage Green subdivision homes.

“They invented Orange Sunshine, right here in Windsor,” said Windsor Historical Society President Steve Lehmann. “To me it's history. I'm surprised we don't have people doing some kind of pilgrimage here.”

“Sunshine Makers” come to Windsor

When Scully took LSD for the first time in April 1965 he felt at one with God and all living things.

Later that year he began hanging out with the San Francisco-based Grateful Dead, helping as sound engineer for the rock band along with Owsley “Bear” Stanley, already dubbed “The King of LSD” for the purity of his product.

The late Stanley, then 30, took the 21-year-old Scully as his apprentice beginning in mid-1966 at a lab in the basement of a rented house in Point Richmond. Stanley, his girlfriend and Scully cranked out 300,000 doses of “White Lightning” LSD. With the approaching 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the mayor of Richmond is trying to pinpoint the location and put up a commemorative plaque.

But in October 1966, LSD became illegal in California, and Stanley and Scully moved to Denver to set up a new lab.

The following year, Scully was introduced to Nick Sand, another underground chemist, and they collaborated in San Francisco to produce STP, a new psychedelic which was not yet illegal. Sand, another LSD proselytizer, had been introduced to LSD at Millbrook, an upstate New York farm and experimental community frequented by Leary.

By late 1967, Stanley was busted in connection with a tableting LSD lab in Orinda and Scully moved the Denver lab to another house.

But that was discovered in mid-1968 by authorities, when a water pump broke and police were called to the house while Scully was in Europe looking for precursor chemicals to make LSD.

Sand agreed to finance a new lab if Scully would teach him the Owsley Stanley manufacturing process.

Scully did on the condition that any LSD made be distributed through the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, rather than the Hells Angels. The former was described by some as a hippie mafia, a group of California surfers who evolved into a worldwide drug distribution network. The latter were notorious for gratuitous violence.

By late December, Sand through an intermediary, purchased the farmhouse in Windsor where he and Scully set up the large-scale LSD lab.

The real estate agent was told the buyer was a physics professor who wanted to set up a photography darkroom in the old farmhouse. The money came from proceeds of sales of psychedelics from Sand's STP lab.

Scully and his partner were in a hurry to make as much LSD as they could, because they believed the raw material would become unavailable. The drug is manufactured from lysergic acid, which is produced by the ergot fungus that grows on rye and other grains but can also be synthesized in a lab. The LSD made in Windsor came from one pound of lysergic acid that was made in Italy, but purchased in London.

Like an early version of “Breaking Bad,” a utility room of the Windsor house harbored a lab equipped with flasks, funnels and glass tubes, along with materials ranging from solvents to dry ice, nitrogen gas and - depending on what stage of the chemical process - ultraviolet or yellow bug lights.

There were vacuum pumps running to provide a steady puttering background sound. “The lab was next door to the kitchen where the glassware was scrupulously washed and cleaned,” Scully said.

“We would work until we dropped, sleep for a few hours and get up and at it again,” Sand recalled of the Windsor lab production in the 2015 documentary film “The Sunshine Makers.”

Turning on the world

Scully and Sand wanted people to have the same insight and intense experience of oneness and empathy they had while tripping. Scully “couldn't imagine how hatred, cruelty and destruction could continue to exist in the world, if everyone were to share this experience.”

“We agreed we couldn't just turn on the United States,” he said. “We had to turn on the whole world. Otherwise it would be like unilateral disarmament.”

Helped by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Orange Sunshine spread around the country, to Europe, India and even to American troops in Vietnam, and become part of the vernacular of the day.

While the crystalline LSD was made in Windsor, it was apportioned into tablets mostly in a house in Novato, using a triturate machine that stamped out several million doses.

Scully figured they needed to produce 440 pounds - about 720 million doses of LSD - roughly enough to provide a single dose for everyone in the world willing to try it.

But the law caught up with both men.

A recently minted pilot, Scully was arrested at the Napa Airport in May 1969 on charges stemming from the previous lab in Denver.

Sand, he said, immediately shut down the Windsor lab and remodeled and sanitized the room where it had been.

“Sand and Scully were apparently running this lab in Windsor and they did a good job of keeping it from us. We didn't find the lab,” retired narcotics officer Patrick Clark said in the 2015 documentary “The Sunshine Makers.”

But federal grand jury indictments and the testimony of Billy Hitchcock, the wealthy owner of Millbrook and a friend of theirs who had visited the Windsor lab, helped convict Scully, Sand and others.

In 1974, Scully was sentenced to 20 years in prison for LSD manufacturing and distribution, and Sand got 15 years. Both went to McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary in Washington state and were even cellmates.

Scully was released on an appeal bond partway through his prison term, and had his sentence cut in half, enabling him to be paroled after 3 ½ years.

He had earned his Ph.D. in psychology in prison and in 1979, was named Washington State Jaycees Outstanding Young Man of the Year. He was nominated based on his development of a computer device that enabled a person he knew with severe cerebral palsy to communicate using her knee movements that produced words on a TV screen.

While Scully said he knew by 1970 that he never wanted anything to do with manufacturing drugs, Sand was unrepentant.

While out on appeal, he bolted and spent the next 20 years evading authorities and living under various aliases. He spent time in India at Guru Rajneesh's ashram. When finally arrested in Canada in 1996, Sand had more than $500,000 in cash and gold and approximately 430,000 doses of LSD, according to newspaper accounts.

Sand went back to prison before being released in 2000. He died April 24 at his home in Lagunitas from apparent heart problems.

Busy in the woods

Scully, 72, now lives in Mendocino County in the backwoods community of Albion on a ridge near the Pacific Ocean. He said he long ago gave up any criminal activity.

Before his conviction and prison time, he founded his own electronics company and still repairs old instruments and computers in his one-bedroom house, cluttered with thousands of books, file cabinets, computer monitors and buckets of firewood for his wood stove.

His longtime partner, Alice Einhorn, lives on the 4-acre property, in a nearby house.

During a recent interview at his home, the gray-bearded Scully, wearing a slight smile, Panama hat, corduroy jeans and a blue hoodie sweatshirt, answered questions with the meticulous detail that hints at his slight Asperger's syndrome, a compulsive condition manifesting itself in inflexible routines, or pursuit of specific, narrow areas of interest.

In Scully's case, it was the way he ate the same type of spaghetti and butter dinner every night for decades, until health problems forced him to change.

For the past 20 years he's been gathering the history of underground LSD manufacturing and has a large database linking chronologies, court records and PDFs of people, labs and locations. He says it will be useful for historians and university libraries. He is also working on a memoir.

After LSD, Scully became interested in making brain wave biofeedback instruments. In a two-page spread in 1970, Life magazine referenced his company, Aquarius Electronics, in an articled entitled “turning on with Alpha waves.”

When it was apparent his drug record would prevent him from teaching, he started working as a consultant to a software computer corporation, joining a techie world where LSD use is not necessarily seen as an automatic disqualifier. Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, for example, admitted using it.

Scully was hired as a full-time software developer for Marin-based Autodesk Inc. before retiring a dozen years ago and now relies on income from some long-term tenants on his property.

Looking back, Scully has a more balanced view than he once did of both the good and the bad that LSD unleashed.

For some it offered an intensely spiritual experience and especially influenced music and art. But it also induces paranoia, and can trigger, or worsen underlying psychiatric disorders. At its height of popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of freaked-out kids on “bad trips” were picked up annually by police.

“The majority of the people who took LSD had pretty good experiences,” Scully said. “Certainly a few had serious trouble and quite a few ended up in emergency rooms, because they were frightened. Most were fine the next day, but some had long-term issues.”

Although LSD carried a message of peace and love for him and many others, Scully came to realize over the years that it was “more of an amplifier than a message carrier.” Looking back, he says it was a mistake to make it widely available, “to scatter it to the four winds, so young people who were too young to have fully formed personalities were getting it.

“I have some regret,” he said. “We didn't succeed in saving the world, obviously. Look at who's in the White House now.”

But there is that quirky historic link to Windsor, a town that went from a dusty farm crossroads dubbed “Poor Man's Flat” to a family-friendly bedroom community.

The History Society's Lehmann first found about the LSD connection reading a passing reference on page 266 of an obscure book entitled “Hippie.”

He said the museum has to tread a fine line to avoid sounding like it's promoting a drug, especially considering that fourth-graders visit the museum on school trips.

Lehmann finds the characters involved with the Windsor lab fascinating, “but not everyone smiles when you talk about LSD.”

Still, he noted, the museum doesn't shy away from talking about the area's illegal booze production during Prohibition.

“We're joking about putting up a plaque at the park, across the street from where the farmhouse was,” he said. “I'm wondering if Windsor is ready for such a plaque.”

Editor's note: The article has been updated with the correct name of Owsley “Bear” Stanley and to reflect that Scully studied physics at UC Berkeley but did not obtain a degree there. The location of the LSD lab inside the Windsor home as well as the tableting process in Novato has also been clarified.

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Defenders & TP S1 timeline

The Defenders were filmed from Nov 2016 till mid-March 2017. The Punisher S1 was filmed 3 Oct 2016 - 9 Apr 2017.

In the beginning of TP S01 we see that Frank finishes his vendetta against the Kitchen Irish by killing that last guy in airport bathroom  stall on 19 Apr 2017, judging from the props boarding pass, but that seems to be a mistake, so let’s say it’s 19 Apr 2016. And then it’s “six months later” when Pete Castiglione is working construction.

From what I understand, it’s sort of official that the events of The Defenders and The Punisher S1 take place more or less at the same time in the end of 2016. Since Karen is in both, I tried to figure out that “more or less” part, and I think The Defenders take place some 2-4 weeks after TP S1, but it’s a bit of a mess, so whatever, I’m comfortable with this as a headcanon, not necessarily proven truth.

Some sources say Defenders take place “a few months after Daredevil Season 2 and Luke Cage Season 1 as these two overlap”, and I haven’t seen Luke Cage series, but DD S2 ends at Christmas and The Defenders starts in autumn, so that’s definitely more than “a few months”. Reddit people also figure that Luke must have spent some 6 months in prison, placing Defenders some 6m after Luke Cage S1. Karen seems to have settled in comfortably in her reporter’s job at the Bulletin and when they catch up, it feels like she and Matt haven’t seen each other for quite some time. Matt seems to have settled in his pro bono lawyer career. When Matt and Foggy meet up at Josie’s, Foggy says “It’s been a long time, Josie, can’t tell you how much I miss this place,” so that also makes me think it’s been more than “a few months”.

(Doesn’t quite explain why boxes with N&M files are still living in the middle of Matt’s living room, not piled up by a wall and out of the way.)

The “two months” claim seems to stem from how Elektra was apparently resurrected two months before the start of The Defenders, but the only reference I noticed actually just says “months ago”?

Also, considering how Matt destroyed the Hand’s blood harvesting operation in DD S2, I’m willing to assume they resurrected Elektra soon after her funeral, before the blood hit its expiration date, and apparently Elektra either recovered more slowly than implied in the show, or she’s been busy for months, not just some weeks (in line with how Danny and others recognise having fought her in different locations all over the world).

Judging from the bill of lading Jessica stole in E2, the architect received his box of explosives on 15 October.

People have even managed to decipher the date in Jessica’s computer in E1, which is apparently some day in November? 1st? 3rd? Single-digit something. I can’t make it out, but it sounds reasonable and kinda in line with the weather we see in The Defenders (although the first episodes feature some rather golden, leafy trees, so who knows).

However, Karen has no forehead injury from the hotel bomb in TP S1, and if this was mere weeks after TP S1, she would still have it, considering how it took a while for her Schoonover car crash injury to heal in DD S2. She does seem okay though, the way she might be if she knew Frank survived the carousel shooting and is in the wind, but alive and okay.

If The Defenders took place first, I think Karen in TP would have been much more raw and emotional over Matt’s recent death. But it would explain why Frank didn’t even consider finding Matt too, when he was going through his “short list” of people who knew he’s alive. But maybe he finds Matt too annoying and decided that getting Karen’s help would be more constructive than knowing what Matt might or might not have said.

(However, if TP happened first, would Matt have managed to stay away and not try and stop Lewis blowing up innocent people and threatening Karen?)

People have noticed that in TP the Empire State Building is lit up in red “in honour of Daredevil’s sacrifice”, but we see it lit up red already in The Defenders E6 when Elektra just kidnapped Danny:

And this is the same Empire State Building at the end of The Defenders:

(and in real world, apparently it was lit up red during the filming period on 14 Feb 2017 for the Valentine’s day, so it’s some kind of filming schedule thing; also, it doesn’t make sense for a corporate Manhattan building to commemorate a Hell’s Kitchen vigilante?)

So, to sum up, it’s a mess, but I’m willing to go with a headcanon that TP S1 happens a 2-4 weeks before The Defenders, when Karen and Matt are still estranged, with Matt trying his best to keep on the straight and narrow as only a pro bono lawyer and with Karen feeling lonely but not exactly devastated like she would be after Matt’s death in Midland Circle.

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April 5: Evaluating WIP Big Bang Choices

Sign-ups for WIP Big Bang have started but I've been too distracted with Troped Madness to really think about it. I'm leaning toward signing up but not pairing with an artist, mostly because I doubt there will be anyone else from T100 doing this, and I just don't want to have to worry about it or feel like anyone is obligated to make anything for me, etc. It's also not really that important to me that I'm paired with an artist for this. I just want, like, some kinda structure for finishing these things. I like signing up for events. I liked watching people brag at the end of the last round. I continue to be of the naive mistake that THIS event or THIS particular structure will fix me. So. I want to sign up for those reasons, but if I don't finish--eh, it won't put anyone else out to drop out.

So I think there's no downside to signing up.

As to with what... I looked through my fics and didn't find that many that fit the requirements, surprisingly: 500+ words written and at least 7,500 to finish. This is probably because I call something a "WIP" even if I only have a few vague notes for it lol.

In my poll-experiment, the Southern Gothic AU won, which is not surprising to me, since it's the one I talk about the most often and have talked about the most recently. Sleeping Beauty came in second, and my other 2 options, Troped Horror 2022and Troped Madness Horror Round, were last. Probably how I would rank them as a reader, myself, especially with how vague I've been about them.

Here are my thoughts on each, and their respective pros/cons.

Southern Gothic: The pros are that I'm very invested in this story, I think it is/could be one of the best thing I've ever written, and I could definitely use a kick to actually finish it. At this point, I've moved from putting off writing to putting off planning to putting off thinking about planning and I always have so many excuses about it. I'm pretty overwhelmed both by the expectations I've set for it and the still-semi-scattered notes etc. on it. Never mind the sheer number of words still left. In particular, I'm scared that I lost my chance to finish this, that it was of a certain time and now it's just... too late.

The con is that I would want to post it closer to Halloween and posting for the Big Bang ends on October 31, with non-extension posting ending in mid-October. I guess if I picked one of the last dates, it would be still decidedly spooky season? Idk if this is a really lame excuse to put this off again.

Sleeping Beauty: The pros are, again, I need the stupid push because I wanted to resurrect and finish this in, like, late 2020 and STILL have not. I did some significant work in May 2021 and then it fizzled again. I don't have that much to write--almost certainly more than 7.5k, but not a lot compared to the total word count and I just... refuse to consider this functionally abandoned fic to be abandoned because that would mean trashing so much work that I haven't even shared with anyone. But again, it's just never more important than other stuff.

The con is that I don't like this fic as much as SGAU and if I had to pick one to see completed, it would be SGAU.

Troped Madness Horror Round: The pros of this is that, even though I do think I have more than 7.5k left, this fic is much shorter and simpler than the first two. It's not even multi-chap. So it feels like maybe a more do-able goal? On the other hand, still a worthwhile one, because I am really overwhelmed by it and what I want it to be so, again, having a structured event to help force me to make it a priority might be helpful.

The con is that I have a better chance of working on/finishing this without the Big Bang so perhaps I should put that effort somewhere else.

Troped Horror 2022: This is, appropriately given the poll, the exact same situation. This fic is easier than Madness Horror in that it's much more... plot-y and less concerned with trying to explore a theme and actually say something meaningful. The main twist/difficulty with it is that I think it is the rare fic where I need to scrap huge chunks, possibly everything, that I have already written and re-plot, re-write. I realized at some point while I was frantically scribbling that it didn't make sense or feel right and I should have made a different choice way earlier. And at that point, I didn't have the time to re-write it for the event so I just put it aside to think on some more.

This one is probably the weakest contender for the Big Bang because the work is really more in the planning and outlining, and I think when I get to writing, it won't be as hard. Writing the first version was easy and fun. It was just WHAT I was writing that I didn't like. I do need a certain amount of set time and energy to get back into this but when I do, I don't know that I'll need an event structure to help me, and I'm also... not in as much of a hurry about it as I am with the other three.

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Development Notes #2 | First Layer Release!

Note: This development notes entry was originally posted to act-novel.itch.io on February 14th, 2023. It has been carried over to this blog for posterity.

Hello, again. This is Garrett Thompson, sole member of Act-Novel.

As promised in the previous Development Notes entry, I've been hard at work finishing the first major "chunk" of content for this project-- the first "layer", or "act", as I called it in said entry.

As anticipated, audio production took up the bulk of development time between October and December, as well as a bit of time in January. During this period, I wrote and produced 17 musical tracks (not including adaptive variants) as well as 173(!!) distinct sound effects. This was difficult, and I never want to do it ever again. But... I almost certainly will. Sigh...

Starting in mid-January, I conducted a small closed beta test of the game, partly to iron out its (many, many) performance and stability issues prior to releasing at a wider scale, and partly to gather general feedback from friends and acquaintances about its creative direction. Apart from a few especially tricky-to-diagnose bottlenecks,  the technical deficiencies of the project were simple to resolve, and the state of the code is much more solid than it was two months ago.

"More solid" doesn't necessarily mean "solid", of course. There is an understandable limit to how many different hardware configurations I can test the game on using this methodology. Thus, how these improvements will translate to the game's release into the wider world is anyone's guess. I can only pledge that I will do my utmost to continue supporting the game in the weeks following release as bug reports continue to roll in, as they almost certainly will. 

Did I mention that Act-Novel has an official support email, support@realitylayerzero.com? I hear it's a good place to send bug reports and other technical issues...

Fortunately as far as "my pride" is concerned, the creative side of the project was not the subject of any significant grievances during this test. How this will translate to the wider release, much like the technical side of things, is also anyone's guess. However, also fortunately for "my pride", grievances tend to manifest as apathy rather than outrage for a project of this size and level of visibility, meaning I won't be able to tell if people hate it or not. That means there's basically no pressure. Whew!

More to the point, as I'm sure you can infer from the paragraphs above (as well as the header image), the first "layer" of Reality Layer Zero is, at this time, finished! It's sitting on my hard drive (and in other places as well, in case of arson or unexpected volcanic activity), fully playable and feature-complete. Wow! So what's the hold-up? Why not release it right now??

Well, several reasons. Here they are in bulleted-list form:

It seems like a good idea to me to let the small following I have know about the release date in advance. More chances for people to hear about it, and fewer chances for people to miss it-- I'm generally amenable to both of those effects. 

I still want to run through the "release candidate" build of the game once or twice, myself, to see if there's anything in there that 1). would drive me crazy if I left it in there for the release, and 2). might not have been noticed by a playtester. This encompasses silly or esoteric bugs, subtle mistakes in the script or artwork, audio issues, and the like. At the moment, I'm quite exhausted from having just recently finished developing all of the content, though, so I don't want to dive back into testing just yet. A two-week buffer guarantees I have a comfortable amount of time to do this and, subsequently, fix the problems that I find.

It's good to wait before releasing something, just as a general rule. Not only does it grant you the ability to make last-minute corrections, waiting also allows you to acquire some level of emotional distance from the outcome of the release. That is to say, the distance makes the unpleasant emotions one tends to feel during this immediately-post-release period (both external and internal in origin) somewhat easier to cope with. I find the release of a project, in many regards, the most disagreeable part of its lifecycle, so this waiting period is necessary just for my own sake.

I (probably) need to update the store pages to better reflect the Visual Novel-y aspects of the game more, which have a greater emphasis than I had previously stated. I also need to take screenshots from moments in the game that didn't exist at the time I created the store pages.

That's broadly the reasoning. As you can tell from the header image, the current planned release date is February 28th, 2023 (the last day of the month, in fact). This is not likely to change... but there's nothing specifically holding me to that date, so, you know, maybe it will. 

... Probably not, though.

As mentioned in the header image, the release of the first layer will be temporarily restricted to itch.io. I do, of course, plan on eventually releasing the first layer onto Steam. For now, though, this will be the place for it. My reasoning here is pretty simple: I expect the volume of players on Itch to be orders of magnitude lower than on Steam. Itch is a smaller platform, after all. I hope that this will make the process of addressing issues discovered post-launch far less hectic for me. I hope. 

Once I feel that the itch.io release is solid, the very same version will be made downloadable through the Steam client as a public demo.  If you'd prefer to download the game through Steam, you will not likely have to wait for very long following the Itch release to do that. As to specifically how long you'll have to wait, I'm not quite sure yet, but I think less than one month is probably a reasonable estimate.

In summary: Game done, short wait. First Itch, then Steam. Please play! I'm tired.

Thank you for reading. As always, thoughts or questions are welcome. 

I hope you come back on February 28th (or, you know, whenever) to play through the first layer!

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The pieces of the next bull market are starting to come together: Morning Brief

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, likely raising concerns that the bear market won't come to an end anytime soon. But certain sectors have out-performed the broader market and caught investors' eyes. Check out the performance of the S&P 500 sectors since the broader market bottomed in mid-October. S&P 500 Sector Performance Cyclical and value sectors dominate the top spots, as industrials and materials surge higher — both sectors up about 14%. Financials and energy — the only sector up year-to-date — follow close behind. Each are up more than 10%. Peering inside the top sectors, the stronger names bottomed over the summer. As the broader market was making new recent lows, many of these stocks held their ground and even rallied. Industrial and Materials Stocks Materials stock Freeport (FCX) leads this group, having managed to easily surpass recent highs and climb into June price territory. Caterpillar (CAT) — up 30% over the last month — is knocking on its all-time high from mid-2021. Even beleaguered Boeing (BA) surpassed its August high over the last few days. The remaining sector out-performers — tech, real estate, and utilities — all are up over 9% in the last month. Much of the tech gains can be found in semiconductors, and to a lesser degree, software. Semiconductor Industry Stocks - 1 Month Returns Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) just dipped its toe into chips, buying Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) in the third quarter. When a big value investor decides it's time to load up on a highly cyclical growth name in the semiconductor sector, investors take notice. Nobody knows what the next few weeks will bring, but the pieces of the next bull market are starting to align — and it's time for investors to pay attention. Original Article Here: Read the full article