#derek beres

[blackspiritshake]

September Book Pile

In It’s Always Been Ours eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson challenges us to rethink what having a "good" body means in contemporary society. By centering the bodies of Black women in her cultural discussions of body image, food, health, and wellness, Wilson argues that we can interrogate white supremacy’s hold on us and reimagine the ways we think about, discuss, and tend to our bodies.

A narrative that spans the year of racial reckoning (that wasn't), It’s Always Been Ours is an incisive blend of historical documents, contemporary writing, and narratives of clients, friends, and celebrities that examines the politics of body liberation. Wilson argues that our culture’s fixation on thin, white women reinscribes racist ideas about Black women's bodies and ways of being in the world as "too much." For Wilson, this white supremacist, capitalist undergirding in wellness movements perpetuates a culture of respectability and restriction that force Black women to perform unhealthy forms of resilience and strength at the expense of their physical and psychological needs.

With just the right mix of wit, levity, and wisdom, Wilson shows us how a radical reimagining of body narratives is a prerequisite to well-being. It’s Always Been Ours is a love letter that celebrates Black women’s bodies and shows us a radical and essential path forward to rediscovering their vulnerability and joy.

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia—peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disturbing social media trend emerged: a large number of yoga instructors and alt-health influencers were posting stories about a secretive global cabal bent on controlling the world’s population with a genocidal vaccine. Instagram feeds that had been serving up green smoothie recipes and Mary Oliver poems became firehoses of Fox News links, memes from 4chan, and prophecies of global transformation.

Since May 2020, Derek Beres, Matthew Remski and Julian Walker have used their Conspirituality podcast to expose countless facets of the intersection of alt-health practitioners with far-right conspiracy trolls. Now this expansive and revelatory book unpacks the follies, frauds, cons and cults that dominate the New Age and wellness spheres and betray the trust of people who seek genuine relief in this uncertain age.

With analytical rigor and irreverent humor, Conspirituality offers an antidote to our times, helping readers recognize wellness grifts, engage with loved ones who've fallen under the influence, and counter lies and distortions with insight and empathy.

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond.

In the morning, I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes, because my clothes had been packed for me. A car arrived to pick me up.

A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn’t recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone recognizes him, a man who calls him brother—setting him on a quest to find his real brother, who is dying.

In Hangman, Maya Binyam tells the story of that search, and of the phantoms, guides, tricksters, bureaucrats, debtors, taxi drivers, relatives, and riddles that will lead to the truth.

This is an uncommonly assured debut: an existential journey; a tragic farce; a slapstick tragedy; and a strange, and strangely honest, story of one man’s stubborn quest to find refuge—in this world and in the world that lies beyond it.

[joncronshawauthor]

Jon's author diary - January 26, 2024 #amwriting

Welcome to this week’s Author Diary! After the whirlwind launch of “The Fall of Wolfsbane,” I took a well-deserved break to recharge. Now, I’m back with some exciting updates on my ongoing projects and recent reads! 🌿 Post-Launch Rest: Taking a few days off post-launch was essential. It gave me the much-needed time to relax and rejuvenate after the intense period leading up to the release of…

[barbaragenova]

The incomparable Derek Beres.

(Read the whole thing, come on.)

[adrianistrying]

I once told my therapist a few fictional characters I relate to and she responded with "oh wow okay" followed by a 10 minute lesson on codependency and repressed anger. fair play Laura.

[sheyfox]

La Afton Family de Fnaf New (Au)

Esto incluye los diseños de todos los que son o fueron parte de la familia!

Sin contar a los que ya no forman parte,la familia Afton está compuesta de 12 integrantes

[irregularincidents]

A surprisingly consistent thing in history is people coming up with plans involving enormous construction projects that are intended to have a short-term positive impact, which when looked at from both a modern perspective, would have enormously bad environmental impacts globally.

One such proposed plan came from the Soviet Union, where Derek Mead recounts how they at one point wished to melt the Arctic.

In an article for Motherboard, they wrote:

You might laugh, but while Soviet Russia was blessed with the largest land mass of any nation on Earth, much of it resource rich, putting that land to use was stunningly difficult. …Russia was already spending an enormous amount of money combating the ice. Exploiting the vast petroleum reserves of the Arctic and Siberia was crucial to the growth of the Soviet economy, but every well pitted far-flung men against frozen earth and wind.

This meant that in order to exploit the resources they felt they required to properly compete with the USA, they needed to thaw Siberia. This is where a Soviet scientist named Petr Mikhailovich Borisov comes into the picture.

Borisov proposed building a 55-mile long dam that stretched from Russia to Alaska across the Bering Strait, potentially one of the largest, most expensive projects in history, with the intention of blocking the flow of cold water into the Arctic from the Pacific so the warm water from the Atlantic would over time cause the temperature in the Arctic to rise, thus melting the ice cap.

As bananas as this plan is, Mead contends that it nearly had America's support in the project, much the same way that the surprisingly similar plan to do the same in the 1800s did (albeit, that being an American plan to raise the temperature in America and Canada while freezing Europe).

Borisov dreamed of enlisting the US, Canada, Japan, and Northern Europe in the plan, as all would theoretically benefit from a warmer climate. Surprisingly, the US was intrigued by the idea. In fact, in a response to a series of questions sent in 1960 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, Senator Kennedy noted, as part of a larger point about the value of innovation in fostering cooperation, that the Siberia-Alaska dam was “certainly worth exploring.”

Amusingly this wasn't the only plan in this period to melt the Arctic as British scientist Julian Huxley, a cofounder of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), spoke at a conference in Madison Square Garden in 1945 about using nuclear bombs as “atomic dynamite [for] landscaping the Earth” (melting the polar ice cap).

Some have commented that considering the then recent bombings of Japan by the US this was in bad taste, but considering there were people who worked in the US government who repeatedly argued for "tactical" nuclear weapons usage (Henry Kissinger being one of them), I think that if there was enough public support behind it someone might have actually considered it.

[veliseraptor]

January Reading Recap

Thousand Autumns: vol. 3 by Meng Xi Shi. This book is - I don't want to say growing on me because it was never not one I was enjoying, but it certainly got interesting in a new way in this volume. The shift in the relationship between Yan Wushi and Shen Qiao feels like an important one, even if it doesn't last, and the glimpses at a background for Yan Wushi not elaborated upon certainly have me intrigued.

I have the whole epub of the fan translation for this one and might end up just reading it through to the end without waiting for the official translation volumes to come out (though I'll probably read those too, because I like reading more than one translation where I can).

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthrew Remski, and Julian Walker. Sometimes you read a book on a really interesting subject and it just kind of makes you want to read a better book on that subject. Based on a podcast of the same name, this book was...fine? But it remained relatively shallow, and heavy on the examples rather than the analysis. It was more of a survey of instances where health and wellness/conspiracy thinking intersect than it felt like it was taking a deep look at where and why those intersections happen. It was interesting, and I learned some things, certainly, but it didn't quite dig as deep as I wanted to go.

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. What a fascinating piece of work. I don't have a whole lot of coherent things to say, except that I don't read a lot of memoir and I'm glad I read this one. I think I liked it better than I liked Machado's short story collection - certainly it was doing very interesting things with form and style in a narrative built loosely on the skeleton of a memoir. It's funny, because I could see myself finding the conceit here irritating or pretentious, but for whatever reason I think the vulnerability of the project undercut that aspect for me.

Dead Country by Max Gladstone. Mostly this book reminded me that I really want to reread the Craft Sequence, so I started doing that. Calling this an intro to that world feels weird - it doesn't really feel like an entry-point to me, despite the fact that it's being marketed that way - but perhaps that's me with the benefit of having read the other books but slightly too long ago to clearly remember them. (Hence the reread.)

Based on my vague recollections I remember liking his other books better than this one, but that's me comparing some books I really liked to one that I enjoyed but wasn't blown away by. But I'm still coming back to read the next one in this series, so I can't speak too harshly of it.

Faraway Wanderers by Priest. I really enjoyed this one! I love the way that Priest writes banter/interplay between two characters, and she definitely has a thing for people who are equally fucked up being fucked up together that I appreciate. Another thing to appreciate about this one is how (relatively speaking) tight it is - there's not a whole lot of wandering, despite the title, and the plot keeps moving in a pretty linear direction from start to finish. I love my longass cnovels with multiple arcs, but it was a little refreshing to read one this contained. It's not in my upper echelons of danmei I've read so far, because it doesn't hit my favorite tropes quite as hard, but I'm glad I finally got around to reading it.

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. Probably wins my favorite book I read last month challenge. The ending got a little deus ex machina for my taste, strictly speaking, but not so much that it ruined my experience - and I genuinely enjoyed the refreshing experience of reading a book that was digging into some messy shit in a way that I found satisfying. I felt like some of the character development could've used more breathing room/space, but maybe I'm just picky about that, and the propulsive pace did keep me reading this one so fast I think I finished it in two days.

This is really petty but I also appreciated the author's willingness to have the protagonist/narrator be not the picture of good progressive politics. It allowed room for the, you know, development, and in the current genre climate I don't take it for granted.

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman. I don't quite know what I feel about this one. The basic argument Guriev and Treisman are making is that dictators have changed strategies in the 21st century from what they call "dictatorships of fear" to "dictatorships of spin." I think the main critique I came out of it with has to do with the authors drawing too stark a line between their dictatorship "types" and not necessarily acknowledging that a leader can move between them, or use elements of more than one "type" in different places. Like any binary, it obscures fuzziness of categories and potential overlap in favor of trying to make clear distinctions. This is particularly visible in the way that their writing about Putin feels dated just from the initial 2022 publication date.

There were a couple other things that struck me as weird (I suspect the authors might be a bit to the right of me, and there's at least a whiff of classism about their characterization of "the informed" as a class of people); on the whole it felt worth reading but also like a book I want to talk to someone else about to help process my thoughts.

Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I love Tchaikovsky's work, and this conclusion to the Final Architecture series is no exception to that. And that's all, she wrote.

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi. I wanted to like this book more than I did - not that I didn't like it, but there's so much interesting stuff going on that it felt like didn't quite add up to a greater whole. A solid three star read, though, in the sense of "I'm glad I read it, and if someone else mentioned they were reading it I would probably provide my favorable impression, but I'm not going to go out of my way to recommend it to others."

There's definitely sequel bait at the end, though, and I probably will read the sequel if/when it appears. I'm intrigued enough, and the setting/worldbuilding is different enough - to get me that far.

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I'm currently rereading Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (Dead Country made me do it) but have We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker proximately on my list for a book club; I'm on a bit of a fiction kick looking at The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan, The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang, and Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer as possible next-ups as well. I'll get back to my long, long nonfiction to-read list eventually. (in the meantime I've got my long, long, long fiction to-read list.)

[mariacallous]

In his continued quest to become either the president of the United States or else a very interesting footnote to someone else’s reelection, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has enlisted a number of celebrities and influencers. On Tuesday, he expanded those ranks, confirming to The New York Times that he is “considering” NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura for his vice presidential pick; Politico reported that he’ has also “approached” Senator Rand Paul, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

But it was Rodgers and Ventura who drew the most attention from the press, and it’s their roles in the information ecosystem who most signal what Kennedy is doing. Outside of their careers in the NFL and WWE, Rodgers and Ventura are known for, respectively, promoting anti-vaccine views in conversations with sports podcasters and Joe Rogan, and promoting politically contrarian, occasionally conspiratorial views on cable TV and Substack. By publicizing his interest in them, Kennedy is making overtures to a very specific potential voter: the highly online and politically disaffected young man.

Kennedy, an environmental activist turned anti-vaccine superstar, is already running an extremely online campaign; as WIRED noted recently, the candidate is omnipresent on Instagram, podcasts, and Substack and has used influencers as proxies who will deliver his message to his niche bases. Over the past few months, Kennedy has been seen hanging out with snowboarder Travis Rice, naming a young and persistently bleached-blonde TikToker and aspiring musician named Link Lauren as a “senior adviser” on his campaign, and appearing at a Bitcoin conference.

Online is a comfortable environment for Kennedy, a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy theorist who has promoted anti-vaccine views since 2005. Beyond his many and virulent anti-vaccine campaigns, he’s been especially willing to engage in conspiracy theories that are likely to go viral, most notably suggesting that the CIA may have assassinated his uncle, John F. Kennedy, and promoted long-debunked and extremely dangerous junk science about AIDS not being caused by HIV. He has also tried awkwardly to engage with the conspiracy theories about dead pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, on whose private plane he rode at least twice. In December he said that Epstein’s flight logs should be released, and tweeted, “I’m not hiding anything, but they are!”

His efforts to appeal to both a conspiratorial base and a more mainstream voting bloc have been occasionally clumsy, but persistent—and by shoring up his base among young men, who will be increasingly important this election year, he appears to be figuring out how to bridge that gap. One enormous help was, of course, his own appearance on Rogan’s podcast, where the two engaged in three hours of long-winded conspiracy theories about vaccines, 5G technology, and ivermectin, among Kennedy’s other greatest-hits talking points.

Kennedy’s interest in speaking to very online, purportedly “anti-establishment” spaces also means, necessarily, that the people he’s speaking to have a demonstrable overlap with the so-called manosphere, the broad group of bloggers, podcasters, influencers, and grievance-peddlers speaking to young men. Choosing to align himself with figures like Aaron Rodgers—a mainstream football star who has promoted increasingly fringe beliefs, and declared himself to be very brave for doing so—is an excellent way to appeal to the Venn diagram of young men and the conspiracy-curious, says Derek Beres. “It completely makes sense for what he’s doing.”

Beres is an author, speaker, and podcaster who’s one of the cohosts of Conspirituality, which looks at the overlap between New Age and far-right movements. In that role, Beres has observed Kennedy at close range for years and says, “One of the things that I don’t think is talked about enough but is really smart on RFK’s part is he’s been mobilizing fringe communities since he announced his presidential run.”

Neither Rodgers nor Ventura are what you would call politically serious choices; Rodgers has never held elected office, while Ventura hasn’t in 20 years. Neither man speaks to a base that Kennedy hasn’t already hit; in that role, Paul and Gabbard would make more political sense.

Instead, Kennedy is front-loading two men who the young male voter might find in a late-night TikTok or Instagram scroll and who are known for their own fondness for indulging in conspiracy theories and misinformation. Rodgers is best known lately for making misleading claims about being "immunized for Covid,” later revealing that he was taking fake homeopathic “vaccines,” and for appearing to suggest that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel might appear on a list of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates, for which Kimmel instantly threatened to sue him. He has also become a repeat guest on Rogan’s podcast; in his most recent appearance in February, he nodded along as Rogan claimed that Covid was created in a lab. On Wednesday, it was also reported by CNN that he’d shared Sandy Hook conspiracy theories privately, including in 2013, to Pamela Brown, one of the journalists bylined on the story.

For his part, after Ventura was governor, he had a show called Conspiracy Theory on the outlet TruTV. Clips from the show still occasionally go viral, especially ones purporting to show that the pandemic was “planned.” He then had a show on Russian state-backed news outlet RT America, which focused on purported American hypocrisy wherever he could find it. In a slightly awkward fit for Kennedy, Ventura also decried people who refused to wear masks early in the pandemic. (Kennedy spent a lot of time incorrectly but predictably claiming that mask-wearing was useless and in fact harmful.) Now, Ventura has a Substack with his son, where he delivers political commentary and wrestling stories, a move he claims he made after RT America unceremoniously dumped him for decrying the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And most importantly, both Ventura and Rodgers—as outsize and slightly eccentric sports figures—are heroes largely to young men.

Kennedy, Beres says, “is playing culture war politics,” where someone like Aaron Rodgers would make sense; it’s part of his appeal, Beres says, to the mostly male-dominated online body-optimization space. In addition to doing shirtless pushups (in jeans, for some reason), Kennedy has also made numerous appearances with Aubrey Marcus, a fitness influencer and motivational speaker who has been one of his most enthusiastic proxies. The two men are appearing together this weekend at the grandiosely named American Wellness Summit, a Kennedy campaign event just outside Austin, Texas, where the cheapest tickets are a $1,500 campaign donation.

“We’re in a cultural space where you have Donald Trump, who in the past said that exercise depletes your body,” Beres explains. “Then you have a big conversation around Biden’s age, which the right has been pushing and which has been effective in terms of their propaganda. And then you have RFK, who works out at Gold’s Gym and has been spotted there hanging out with Andrew Huberman,” an astonishingly popular neuroscience podcaster. “The optics alone are going to appeal to a young male crowd.”

For his part, Donald Trump has made his own bid for the young male vote’s affections, showing up at Sneaker Con to hawk $400 Trump-branded shoes, signaling his support for Bitcoin, getting (somewhat) into football, and showing up at a UFC match, where he mainly made headlines for appearing to ignore his own grandson. Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, meanwhile, recently got a coveted endorsement from a coalition of 15 Gen Z and millennial voting groups. But as an MSNBC opinion column noted last month, opinion polls seem to show Kennedy with a slim lead among voters 18–34. And as Gallup noted in January, Biden’s favorability ratings among young and non-white adults has fallen since he became president, while Kennedy has “majority-level favorable rating” across all major gender, race, and age groups. Gallup’s Lydia Saad noted that Kennedy could “appeal to that segment of voters who are resistant to Biden but are also not sold on Trump.”

Kennedy has enjoyed, however, some base of support among women for quite some time. The anti-vaccine movement is powered in large part at the grassroots level by mothers who wrongly believe that their choice to vaccinate their children led to them having conditions like autism; women can often be seen crying, cheering, and frankly swooning when Kennedy speaks in front of those audiences. One of his other prominent campaign proxies is an enormously popular celebrity and lifestyle blogger named Jessica Reed Kraus, better known by her online handle Houseinhabit, who is stumping somewhat equally for Kennedy and Trump. (Kraus, too, went viral for involving herself in two high-profile trials, once claiming that Johnny Depp had confided in her during his defamation trial against Amber Heard, as well as“covering” human trafficker and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial in a fairly sympathetic way.)

Despite that preexisting base of support, Kennedy has done very little to speak further to women, especially young women. After speaking at a recent libertarian forum, he declined to tell The Washington Post whether he would protect abortion access and said initially that he hadn’t read a controversial Alabama IVF ruling. (He later said he had reviewed it and “wholeheartedly” rejected the ruling.) He has said he would support a 15-week abortion ban and later said he wouldn’t, and he has called abortion “a tragedy.” Amidst all this waffling over a core issue affecting young women, he found time to meet with an anti-child-support advocate who presents it as a “war on men,” which was then released as part of a Blacks for Kennedy promotional video. (In his attempt to court Black voters, Kennedy did speak with a panel of women in Atlanta. Politico reported that the meeting was coordinated by Angela Stanton King, a former Blacks for Trump proxy who was pardoned by the former president in 2020 for a previous felony conviction.)

In a way, Beres says, Kennedy is campaigning more as an influencer than as a politician, displaying his lifestyle and his connections in a way that would also appeal to an isolated, online male crowd looking for models of how—and who—to be: “He nails an image,” Beres says, “that a lot of people don’t understand they need a lot of money and connections to acquire.” In the end, promoting a controversial athlete and an ex-governor turned blogger as vice-presidential picks may not signal a coherent political vision. But it does show an enormous hunger to engage with online spaces where the young and disaffected men gather, and wait to be shown the way.

[worstqueerbaittournament]

Submission list

organised by @kindalikerackham (THANK YOU)

This is a list of all of the submissions. It will be updated continuously. Italics are still being decided in the polls, crossed out have been decided on “no”, bold have been decided on “yes”

By character name (or ship name if given)

Akira Kurusu and Goro Akechi from Persona 5 Royal

Alix from Miraculous Ladybug

Allison and Patti from Kevin Can F**k himself

Anna and Marnie from When Marnie was There

baron draxum and master splinter   rise of the tmnt 2018

Batman and Joker/ Bruce and John Doe from Batman Telltale

Beca and Chloe from Pitch Perfect

Beca from Pitch Perfect

Betty and Veronica from Riverdale

Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiaolong, aka Bumbleby from RWBY

Blitzen and Hearthstone from Magnus Chase

Buck and Eddie from 9-1-1

Chad/Ryan from High School Musical

Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (aka Professor X and Magneto) from anything X-Men

Cory and Naveed from Ackley Bridge

Dani Ramos and Grace from Terminator Dark Fate

Darling Charming and Apple White from Ever After High

Dean Winchester

Destiel

Drs House & Wilson from House MD

emma woods/emily dyer from identity v

Faberry from glee!(Rachel Berry + Quinn Fabray)

Fuffy, faith and buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Finn and Poe from Star Wars

Firestar and Greystripe from Warriors

foot clan lieutenant and brute  rise of the tmnt 2018 

Ginji Amano & Ban Midou from GetBackers

goro majima and kazuma kiryu -  Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku

Grif and Simmons from Red vs. Blue

Hannibal and will from Hannibal tv show

H.G. Wells and Myka Bering from Warehouse 13

Hikaru Sulu from Star Trek Beyond

hypnopotamus and warren stone  rise of the tmnt 2018  

Ineffable Husbands from Good Omens

Jade and Bella from Rainbow High

Jade and Tori (Victorious)

Jake Peralta (Brooklyn 99)

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles from Rizzoli&Isles TV series

Janis from Mean Girls

Jeremy and Michael from Be More Chill

Jess/Jules from Bend It Like Beckham

Johnathan Harker and Dracula from Dracula (Netflix)

Johnathan Harker and Dracula from Dracula (1897)

Juleka and Rose from Miraculous Ladybug

Julian Bashir and Elim Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Jun and Tatsuya from Persona 2

Kaoru Nishimi and Sentarou Kawabuchi from Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon)

kanji/naoto from persona 4

keith and lance from voltron

Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint

klavier and apollo from ace attorney

L and Light from Death Note

legolas and gimli from lotr

Legoshi and Louis from Beastars

leo and adam from tatort saarbrücken

lightcannon, Jinx and Lux from league of legends

Loki from The Loki show

Luca & Alberto from Luca

Luigi and Bowser from the Mario movie

marc and nathaniel from miraculous

Masumi Itachi from blue flag

Matsuoka rin and haru from Free!

Max from Miraculous Ladybug

Mel and Naomi from Vermonia

merthur (merlin and Arthur from the BBC show merlin

Milo and Bisco from Sabikui Bisco

Mobius and Loki from the Loki show

nana komatsu/nana osaki from nana

narumitsu - Ace Attorney

Naruto and Sasuke

Newt and Hermann from Pacific Rim

Nina and Lily from the movie Black Swan

Peggy Carter & Angie Martinelli from Agent Carter

Quentin and Eliot - The Magicians

Ravenpaw and Barely from warrior cats

Raya & Namaari from Raya and the Last Dragon

rei and nagisa   from Free!

Sam and Max

Sam and Bucky from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Sherlock and John Watson from BBC Sherlock

Sherlock and Moriarty from BBC Sherlock

Shiro and Adam from voltron

shiro and keith from voltron

sophie and agatha from The School of Good and Evil

Spirk (Spock and Kirk) from Star Trek  The Original Series

Spirk (Spock and Kirk) from Star Trek  the reboot movies

Sterek  (Stiles and Derek from Teen Wolf)

Steve and Bucky from Captain America

Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams from Hawaii 5-0 (the 2010 version)

stiles stilinski from teen wolf

Supercorp! Lena and Kara from Supergirl!

Superman and Batman from the DCEU

SwanQueen (Regina Mills/Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time)

Sylvie from Loki

Thiel and Boerne from Tatort Münster

Thomas & Newt from the maze runner

troy barnes and abed nadir from community

wednesday and enid from wednesday

Yumihisu (Ymir x Historia Reiss) from Attack on Titan

yu/yosuke from persona 4

Zari and Charlie from Legends of Tomorrow

Zoro and sanji - one piece

By Property:

9-1-1 - Buck and Eddie

ace attorney - klavier and apollo

Ace Attorney - narumitsu

Ackley Bridge - Cory and Naveed  

Agent Carter - Peggy Carter & Angie Martinelli

Attack on Titan - Yumihisu (Ymir x Historia Reiss)  

Batman Telltale - Batman and Joker/ Bruce and John Doe

Beastars - Legoshi and Louis

Be More Chill - Jeremy and Michael

Bend It Like Beckham - Jess/Jules

Black Swan - Nina and Lily

blue flag - Masumi Itachi

Brooklyn 99 - Jake Peralta

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fuffy (faith and buffy)

Captain America - Steve and Bucky

community - troy barnes and abed nadir

DCEU - Superman and Batman

Dracula (1897) - Johnathan Harker and Dracula

Dracula (Netflix) - Johnathan Harker and Dracula

Ever After High - Darling Charming and Apple White  

Free! - Matsuoka rin and haru

Free!-  rei and nagisa 

GetBackers - Ginji Amano & Ban Midou

Glee - Faberry (Rachel Berry + Quinn Fabray)

Good Omens - Ineffable Husbands

Hannibal (tv) - Hannibal and will

Hawaii 5-0 (2010) - Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams

High School Musical - Chad/Ryan 

House MD - Drs House & Wilson

identity v - emma woods/emily dyer

Kevin Can F**k himself - Allison and Patti

Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon) - Kaoru Nishimi and Sentarou Kawabuchi

league of legends - Jinx and Lux

Legends of Tomorrow - Zari and Charlie

Loki show - Mobius and Loki

Loki show - Loki

Loki show - Sylvie

lotr - legolas and gimli

Luca - Luca & Alberto

Magnus Chase  - Blitzen and Hearthstone

Mario Movie - Luigi and Bowser

Mean Girls  - Janis

Merlin (BBC) - merthur (merlin and Arthur)

Miraculous Ladybug - Alix

Miraculous Ladybug - Juleka and Rose

Miraculous ladybug - marc and nathaniel

Miraculous ladybug - Max

nana - nana komatsu/nana osaki from

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk

Once Upon a Time - SwanQueen (Regina Mills/Emma Swan )

one piece - Zoro and sanji

Pacific Rim - Newt and Hermann

Persona 2 - Jun and Tatsuya

persona 4 - yu/yosuke

persona 4 - kanji/naoto

Persona 5 Royal - Akira Kurusu and Goro Akechi

Pitch Perfect - Beca

Pitch Perfect - Beca and Chloe

Quentin and Eliot - the Magicians

Rainbow High - Jade and Bella

Raya and the Last Dragon - Raya & Namaari

Red vs Blue - Grif and Simmons

Rise of the TMNT 2018 - baron draxum and master splinter

Rise of the TMNT 2018 - foot clan lieutenant and brute

Rise of the TMNT 2018 - hypnopotamus and warren stone

Riverdale - Betty and Veronica

Rizzoli&Isles TV series - Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles

RWBY - Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiaolong, aka Bumbleby

Sabikui Bisco - Milo and Bisco

Sam and Max - Sam and Max

Sherlock (BBC) - Sherlock and John Watson

Sherlock (BBC) - Sherlock and Moriarty

Star Trek AOS - Spirk (Spock and Kirk)

Star Trek Beyond - Hikaru Sulu

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Julian Bashir and Elim Garak

Star Trek TOS - Spirk (Spock and Kirk)

Star Wars - Finn and Poe

Supergirl - Supercorp! Lena and Kara

Supernatural - Dean Winchester

Supernatural - Destiel

Tatort Münster - Thiel and Boerne

tatort saarbrücken - leo and adam

Teen Wolf - Sterek  (Stiles and Derek)

teen wolf - stiles stilinski

Terminator Dark Fate - Dani Ramos and Grace

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Sam and Bucky

The Magicians -  Quentin and Eliot

the maze runner - Thomas & Newt

The School of Good and Evil -  sophie and agatha

Vermonia - Mel and Naomi

Victorious - Jade and Tori

Voltron - keith and lance

Voltron - Shiro and Adam

Voltron - shiro and keith

Warehouse 13 - H.G. Wells and Myka Bering

warrior cats -  Ravenpaw and Barely

Warriors - Firestar and Greystripe

wednesday - wednesday and enid

When Marnie Was There - Anna and Marnie

X-Men (any) - Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (aka Professor X and Magneto)

Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku - goro majima and kazuma kiryu

[performativezippers]

sneak peak into the editing process for a single sentence in an 80k book:

draft 1: "Alice, unlike Derek Zoolander, can turn left." thoughts: hmm, not everyone will get that reference. let's run a poll on social media to see if people get it the poll: people do not get it decision: gotta change it

draft 2: "Alice, unlike that lady she used to work with, is comfortable turning both directions." thoughts: this is based on a real lady I used to work with who would not make left turns in her car. second thoughts: this reference is even more illegible than the first one. decision: gotta change it.

draft 3: "Alice, as a certified bisexual, is comfortable turning both directions." thoughts: this is cute! i did it! second thoughts: this is fucking meaningless. decision: gotta change it

draft 4: "Okay. Alice can go right. Righty-ho, then." thoughts: BERING AND WELLS SECRET REFERENCE but otherwise simply comedic and voicey? decision: LET'S KEEP IT (at least until draft 5)

[namelessalessandra]

Three times I invaded his space and the one he invaded mine

Spencer Reid x reader

Trama: tre volte in cui invadi lo spazio di Spencer Reid e la volta in cui lui invade il tuo

Warnings: uso di alcohol

La prima volta che ho capito che Spencer Reid sarebbe stato per me un grosso problema è stata esattamente durante il primo caso a cui ho lavorato col gruppo. Hotch aveva deciso che io e il genio saremmo stati un duo adeguato al compito da svolgere, ovvero aggirarci per l'università a parlare con gli studenti e studiare i loro comportamenti. Forse aveva ragione, o forse no dato ciò che è accaduto quel giorno. Io sono sempre stata una che non ha idea di cosa sia lo spazio personale, questo è ciò che le mie amiche e la mia famiglia mi hanno sempre detto. Amo abbracciare tutti, se mi fido di qualcuno voglio starci il più vicino possibile e non mi rendo conto di quanto il mio comportamento possa infastidire. Soprattutto se mi piace un ragazzo. E Spencer Reid mi è piaciuto dal primo momento che l'ho visto. Così quando ci siamo ritrovati chiusi all'interno di uno sgabuzzino a causa dello studente che poi si è dimostrato essere il colpevole, non ho esitato a gettarmi tra le sue braccia. In mia discolpa ho paura del buio e potrei anche essere un po' claustrofobica, ma non sono riuscita a resistere e nel momento in cui la serratura è scattata dietro di noi e il mio collega ha annunciato che eravamo chiusi dentro, io ho gettato le braccia intorno al suo bacino, tremando. Esattamente l'opposto di ciò che si chiederebbe ad un agente dell'FBI. Spencer, però, non me lo ha fatto pesare. Anzi gli sarò immensamente grata per la sua gentilezza in quel momento: ha iniziato ad accarezzarmi i capelli sussurrandomi che dovevo stare calma e che mi avrebbe portata fuori di lì. E lo ha fatto davvero. In poco più di mezz'ora eravamo fuori dallo stanzino e abbiamo avvisato il gruppo il più in fretta possibile.

L'imbarazzo ha regnato per qualche giorno tra me e Spencer, credo che lui ne abbia parlato con Derek perché l'ho visto più volte lanciarmi occhiatine e sorrisetti maliziosi, prima di tornare a guardare il suo amico e collega. Noi non abbiamo mai preso il discorso, comunque, limitandoci a fingere che non fosse mai accaduto, e non posso assolutamente lamentarmi.

Solo che poi c'è stata la seconda volta, e poi una terza.

La seconda volta festeggiavamo il compleanno di Derek. Lui aveva organizzato una bellissima festa in un locale, c'era musica, alcol, e il giorno dopo non dovevamo lavorare. Ho deciso, quindi, di darmi alla pazza gioia con i drink ed è stato esattamente quello il mio errore. Non ricordo molto perché ovviamente l'alcol ha fatto bene il suo lavoro, ma alcuni dettagli sono impressi nella mia mente e prego ogni giorno che la sua li abbia del tutto rimossi. Ricordo le luci stroboscopiche, le persone che ballavano intorno a noi, Spencer era a disagio, ma i drink che l'ho costretto a bere sembravano averlo rilassato un po'. Abbiamo, quindi, iniziato a ballare, ed io non riuscivo a smettere di ridere. Lui rideva con me e le sue mani sui miei fianchi erano così grandi, calde e rassicuranti, che gli ho circondato il collo con le braccia e ho iniziato a dargli tanti baci sul viso fino a scendere sul petto che poco prima Derek gli aveva scoperto aprendo dei bottoni della camicia. Il mio rossetto rosso ha lasciato i segni sulla sua pelle. Quando ho provato a baciarlo sulle labbra lui si è tirato indietro, irrigidito, ma per fortuna Penelope è venuta a salvarmi dall'imbarazzo, chiedendomi di accompagnarla a casa perché era esausta. Il giorno dopo ho ignorato qualsiasi messaggio dai membri del gruppo, e quando sono ritornata a lavoro ho finto di non ricordare nulla della serata, dando la colpa a tutto ciò che avevo bevuto. Dagli sguardi che avevano gli altri credo mi abbiano creduto, ma di nuovo io e Spencer non ci siamo parlati per un po', al di fuori del lavoro. Questa volta la persona a confessare tutto sono stata io. Mi sono rifugiata nell'ufficio di Penelope, dando libero sfogo ai miei ricordi e al mio imbarazzo. Solo tempo dopo avrei scoperto che Derek era in chiamata con lei e che ha sentito tutto.

La terza e ultima volta, invece, è stata ieri sera. Siamo stati fuori città per quasi due settimane, abbiamo lavorato come dei pazzi e dormito pochissimo, nonostante sia nel gruppo da anni ancora faccio fatica ad abituarmi ai loro orari, così quando sono salita sul jet ero esausta. Avevo freddo e le luci soffuse mi hanno fatto venire ancora più sonno. Ero l'ultima in fila a salire, Derek mi ha sorretta ridendo per il mio stato ed io ho riso insieme a lui prima di sbadigliare. Appena entrata il calore mi ha fatto sospirare di sollievo, Derek mi ha accompagnata verso i sedili e non so se avesse fatto caso al nostro collega seduto proprio lì oppure no. Fatto sta che mi sono lasciata andare, accasciandomi proprio sul corpo di Spencer, che si è irrigidito per un solo attimo. Come la vera stramba che sono ho inspirato il suo profumo e gli ho mormorato all'orecchio che era buonissimo, al che lui ha ridacchiato accarezzandomi la schiena, e mi ha sistemata meglio contro il suo corpo prima di sussurrarmi di riposare. E io l'ho fatto. Mi sono addormentata come un sasso, con la testa sulla sua spalla e rannicchiata sul suo grembo.

Quando siamo arrivati mi ha svegliata con delicatezza, e una volta sveglia ho notato gli sguardi di tutto il gruppo fissi su di noi. Quel momento è impresso nella mia memoria e fa sicuramente parte della top 10 dei momenti più imbarazzanti che abbia mai vissuto. Ho abbassato la testa, con le guance rosse, e mormorato un saluto prima di dileguarmi.

Tutto questo ci porta esattamente a questa mattina, quando mi sono ritrovata nell'ascensore proprio insieme a Spencer. Ho fatto appello a tutto il mio coraggio e mi sono decisa a parlare, per rompere l'imbarazzo che si era creato.

-Per quanto riguarda ieri, mi dispiace, io...- ho balbettato come una scema, per poi zittirmi quando i suoi occhi si sono fissati nei miei.

-(Y/N), va tutto bene. Non hai fatto nulla di male. Semplicemente hai dei problemi con lo spazio personale, se ti va posso aiutarti a lavorarci su così da non infastidire le altre persone- se i cuori potessero rompersi, giuro che alle sue parole il mio sarebbe caduto a terra, tra i miei piedi, distrutto in mille pezzettini.

-Non ho nulla su cui lavorare, e se ti ho infastidito mi dispiace, non accadrà più. Ma ti posso assicurare che nessuno prima d'ora si è mai lamentato delle mie attenzioni- ho esclamato indispettita, le guance probabilmente rosse dall'imbarazzo. Per fortuna le porte si sono aperte in quel preciso momento e sono riuscita a sfrecciare via senza dargli modo di rispondermi. La giornata di lavoro è passata, il caso è stato risolto in fretta e ora mi infilo il cappotto addosso facendo attenzione a coprirmi perché l'ufficio è caldo ma fuori si muore dal freddo.

-(Y/N) ti andrebbe di venire con noi? Solo una birra per distrarci dalla giornata di lavoro- la voce di JJ mi distrae dai miei pensieri, mi giro per guardarla dato che è alle mie spalle. Insieme a lei c'è tutta la squadra tranne Rossi, e se stavo per accettare, cambio idea nel momento in cui vedo Spencer guardarmi con i suoi occhioni castani. Per tutto il giorno ha provato a parlarmi ma mi sono tenuta alla larga chiedendo a Derek di fare coppia con lui. Non ha fatto domande ma ha capito subito che qualcosa non andava.

-Scusa JJ ma sono molto stanca. Credo che andrò a dormire- rispondo tornando a guardare la bionda e fingo uno sbadiglio. Lei aggrotta le sopracciglia

-sicura? Di solito insisti tanto per andare tutti insieme! Sicura di stare bene? Vuoi che qualcuno di noi ti accompagni?- domanda preoccupata per me, mentre si gira verso Derek che fa un passo avanti verso di me ma io scuoto la testa.

-No! Davvero, sto bene. Ho solo sonno, me ne torno a casa a dormire. La prossima volta sono dei vostri e vi pentirete di aver insistito per portarmi- provo a scherzare, la giornalista sorride non convinta delle mie parole. Mi lasciano andare e, senza pensarci su, mi dirigo svelta verso l'ascensore.

-(Y/N)- mi sento richiamare quando premo il pulsate, sospiro esausta quando riconosco la voce e mi giro verso Spencer. Si ferma al mio fianco e aspetta con me che le porte si aprano.

-Io... volevo scusarmi per questa mattina. Ho sbagliato ad usare le parole, non volevo dire che mi infastidisci, solo che non sono molto bravo col contatto fisico e non so come reagire. Tu mi piaci molto, (Y/N), e avevo paura di rovinare tutto. Forse l'ho già fatto, ma vorrei comunque scusarmi con te- parla in fretta, tanto che fatico a capire cosa dice. Le porte si aprono ed entrambi entriamo in ascensore. Il silenzio regna per qualche attimo, perché io ho paura a parlare. Poi finalmente mi decido.

-Anche tu mi piaci- mormoro prima di schiarirmi la voce. Spencer fa uno scatto col viso verso di me, gli occhi sgranati e l'aria speranzosa. Mi giro anche io a guardarlo e gli sorrido imbarazzata.

-Ammetto di avere qualche problema con gli spazi personali, ma solo con le persone di cui mi fido profondamente. E tu mi hai ispirato fiducia sin dal primo momento. Poi pian piano ho capito che mi piacevi e quella della fiducia era solo una scusa e- vengo zittita dalle sue labbra che si appoggiano sulle mie ed entrambi chiudiamo gli occhi perdendoci nel bacio.

Quando ci allontaniamo le porte si spalancano e Spencer mi accarezza il viso

-ti va di venire con noi stasera?- prova a chiedermi di nuovo, mi bacia la fronte con delicatezza e io decido di annuire. Gli sorrido e mi lascio prendere la mano.

Quando gli altri ci raggiungono, il primo a vederci mentre ci teniamo per mano e tengo la testa sulla spalla di Spencer, è proprio Derek, che sorride soddisfatto.

-finalmente ce l'hai fatta ragazzino- parla a Spencer che sorride imbarazzato, anche io sorrido e mi lascio allontanare da JJ, Penelope ed Emily per raccontare cosa è successo, poi tutti insieme raggiungiamo il bar più vicino per goderci la serata.

E questa è la storia delle tre volte in cui ho invaso gli spazi di Spencer Reid e quella in cui lui ha invaso il mio dando inizio alla nostra relazione.

[towingkulonprogo]

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[rebeleden]

MAGA misogyny - by Derek Beres - re:frame

STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS

[barbaragenova]

Derek Beres might be familiar to you as the co-host of Conspirituality, the podcast about “dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis”, and the co-author of the just released Conspirituality book (Public Affairs / Penguin Random House Canada).

The essays Derek publishes on Substack - under the title Trickle-Down Wellness - can be seen as an evolving blueprint for his next book, Ripped: Body Dysmorphia & Male Fragility.

This conversation happened because of his generosity. Enjoy.

[biglisbonnews]

Trump advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle hawks gold and silver at CPAC As Derek Beres of the Conspirituality podcast always says, "Watch what they say, and then watch what they sell." There's no shortage of grifters in the New Age, QAnon, wellness, conspirituality, and MAGA communities—in fact, grifting seems to be one of the main points of most of those groups. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/03/06/grifters-gonna-grift.html

[neanderthal-pessimist]

remember that Wh13 episode where myka and pete wake up naked in the same bed not remembering what happened the previous night? i think a morcia version would go like that,

Derek: babygirl why am i naked in your bed?

Penelope: what time is it chocolate thunder?

Derek: 6am

Penelope: you’re gonna have to give me way more hours of sleep my fine furry friend

*puts her head back on dereks torso*

*warps his arm around garcia again*