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isa-ko · 27 days
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Mortier and the diamond flower
Saragossa, cites in the following terms a trait of disinterestedness from Marshal Mortier at the end of the Te Deum chanté, on February 24, 1809, at Notre-Dame del Pilar, in order to offer thanksgiving to God for the end of the siege:
"The archbishop, the clergy, the alcades mayors, the corregidors and the new junta knew how to appreciate the generous feelings which led Monsieur Le Maréchal (Lannes) to treat them with respect and to respect religion and all sacred things. The good discipline he maintained in the army and the assiduous care he took to console the inhabitants of Saragossa for the long misfortunes they had just experienced, touched them deeply; and when they came, after the ceremony, to thank him for his benevolent dispositions, they offered him a bouquet of great value from the treasure of the Madonna. The junta also brought Marshal Mortier a diamond carnation worth one hundred thousand francs.
And then we have a classic Mortier reaction to this:
The Duke of Treviso stubbornly refused it; but finally, urged by these magistrates, in the strongest manner, not to distress the city by a refusal which could put it in the position of doubting his benevolence towards it, he accepted the flower as an act of possession, and immediately paid homage to Our Lady of the Pilar, whose treasure it still adorns.…
Spain also had before its eyes a touching spectacle of disinterestedness, the one presented to it by the Duke of Treviso returning to Our Lady of the Pilar the precious gift that Saragossa offered him as a token of his gratitude. At both times, the noble conduct of these generals bore the same fruits for their policy, and the esteem and love they deserved often easily disarmed the people they were given to subjugate.
So Mortier was given a diamond flower as a gift, accepts it to not disrespect the gifters, but later gives it back anyways.
(Btw these are still google translated bc of a lack of a better way, so if there’s a mistake feel free to correct me!)
Frignet-Despréaux (colonel). Le Maréchal Mortier: Duc de Trévise. Par son petit-neveu Frignet Despréaux, Vol. I, Berger-Levrault, 1914. pp. 6-7
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a-xo-lotl · 7 months
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happy (belated) valentine's day @leolingo !!!! i was your gifter for the @mcyt-valentines gift exchange. i hope i encapsulated the vibes of guapoduo (especially during the past few months) and that you like it !!
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bnuuywol · 9 months
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Hi there! Its your Secret Starlight gifter! I started going through all the info you've provided (which is much more concise than I could manage) and Firstly Silas concepts is super cool! and secondly!
Are there more specific moments in Elpis that effect Phoenyx more than others? and do you headcanon being there for a single day or longer?
Also please tell me you let him and Thanny have some nice calm times after Endwalker. Any places they go together or plans they had?
Thank you!
Hey there!! Thank you!
I headcanon him being in Elpis for maybe like 2-3 days. A moment that sticks out for me is when Meteion has him change the color of the flower for Hermes and how intensely negative a color he manages to make it. He has a lot of pain inside him and recalling it on purpose for Hermes was difficult for him. Another moment is when he's cornered into telling the truth by Venat. He has so much anxiety about changing the future, his present. Elidibus warned him to make sure he doesn't erase the future he came from and when they begin to see if they can prevent the Final Days from ever happening in their time, it makes his heart race with dread and anxiety. But one of the scenes I've had in my head about his time in Elpis for the longest time is, as he's returning to the present, he's struck with an Echo containing his unsundered self's memories, Prometheus's memories, of the Final Days. Feeling all of Azem's pain and anger and helplessness as if it were his own, then being left with those emotions on top of the terrible emptiness of knowing nothing else about his life before. It leaves him sobbing on the floor of the Ocular alone for a while before he can pull himself back together.
And yea, they do get a lot of softness and time together post-Endwalker! I haven't thought of much of anything specific they've done, but they make their way around the map, hunting stray blasphemies, lending a helping hand where needed, looking into ruins and other such places they've never been before. As well as going on dates, being very physically intimate with one another every night. There's definitely some time in Costa Del Sol at Thancred's behest to show Phoenyx the fireworks off the coast. There's a lot Phoenyx hasn't seen or done and Thancred wants to be there to show it to him :)
Sorry for the wall of text, I just love my boy 🥹❤️
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starshippingweek · 11 months
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seras-elessar · 2 years
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Dagens kaffe i Kaffekalendern från Nabo
1/12 - P(a)NG! (Papua Nya Guinea)
Bryggd i aeropress.
Mörk färg men väldigt lätt smak. Paketet utlovade smaker av apelsin och ananas i kaffet och förvånansvärt nog dyker dessa up. Citrus, bergamott och ananas gifter sig med rostade klassiska kaffetoner. För min del är det inte riktigt vad jag är ute efter i just kaffe, men det är väldigt intressant. Den fruktiga smaken ligger kvar länge i munnen.
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kanslomassigtstord · 3 months
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2024-06-22
Nä nu jävlar hörni, två posts på en dag efter två års uppehåll. Sjukt mycket har hänt men ibland svackar det ordentligt och då letar jag mig sakta tillbaka till min snuttefilt - så nu är jag här igen.
Jag har den mest fantastiska jävla sambo som jag aldrig ens kunnat drömma om. Han behandlar mig med respekt, han är snäll och lyhörd och allt jag någonsin vill ha. Jag kommer gifta mig med den mannen en dag.
Jag däremot, som dels fått diagnosen EIPS aka borderline (som jag borde förstått att jag haft för länge sedan), har så mycket problem som hela tiden blossar upp och jag har börjat gå i speciell terapi för psykisk misshandel efter mitt ex. Dessa två kombinationer gifter sig inte skitbra.
Ikväll har vi varit på midsommarfirande, helt otroligt var det. Men jag har också varit väldigt ledsen i stunder då min bror och hans tjej ska separera och det är barn inblandade och min bror är den tystlåtna, ensamma och otroligt instängda typen. Jag är så rädd att han ska försvinna från jordens yta och är så ledsen över att jag inte kan göra något, för vi har ingen nära relation och har aldrig haft. Så jag har varit ledsen över det stor del av kvällen.
Min sambos bästa vän är här från en annan stad och blev paniktrött under firandet. Och då menar jag verkligen PANIK. Problemet med honom är att om han somnar, så sover han. Det går inte att väcka människan utan han måste bäras. Så vi bestämde att ta en taxi hem, men min sambo var inte riktigt klar med kvällen utan kände sig besviken över att vi åkte hem allihopa.
Väl hemma dividerade han kring att åka tillbaka men att det inte kändes som jag tyckte det var okej att han gjorde det och uttryckte hela tiden hur besviken han var att kvällen var över. Han frågar mig vad jag vill att han gör, om jag behöver honom hemma. Och vad ska jag svara?
Klart jag vill att han åker och har roligt men varenda cell i mig skriker att jag behöver honom så nära som bara möjligt. Men jag vågar inte säga det, i rädsla för att han ska bestraffa mig för det sen. För det hade Hon gjort. Han säger att det är okej men jag insisterar på att han åker även fast tårarna är nära.
Så nu har han åkt. Jag ligger kvar och gråter, hans kompis snarkar på soffan och jag ligger och gråter åt något som är mitt eget fel. Han hade aldrig straffat mig, det vet jag. Men jag är livrädd och väljer därför att vara honom till lags. Och allt jag vill nu är att han kommer hem.
Varför är jag såhär?
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ilmondopositivo · 9 months
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Non amiamo condividere la nostra vita personale coi social network però oggi non pubblicheremo sul sito web il primo post positivo del 2024 perché abbiamo in programma di vedere "io, noi e Gaber" su rai 3.
Già dalla mattina cantiamo "la ballata del Cerutti" e "per fortuna che c'è Riccardo" fate voi!
Elettrona e Gifter, grandissimi ammiratori da sempre di Giorgio Gaber.
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Recipient: Akiko Natsuko
Writer’s Name: Del
Profile Links: Tumblr, AO3
Title: Snow Drop 3: After
Characters: Cho Hakkai, Genjo Sanzo, mentions of Son Goku, Sha Gojyo, and Yakumo
Pairing: Gen 383 (i.e., the piece involves notably more friendship/companionship/support than romance)
Genre: Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Part I: Sanzo
“…I’ll kill you.”
That was what he’d said, when the kid had almost asked.
He’d meant it, too. He’d turned the idea over and over in his head before the kid had even opened his mouth, and he’d concluded that he had no interest in seeing the kid suffer, or tear a town to shreds, or get himself irreparably damaged or eternally damned.
Sanzo frowns. He pulls in a shallow breath through his teeth, and fixes his weary eyes on the shortest of the three huddled forms trudging in front of him through the snow. For all he knows, the kid is hurtling headlong towards a fate worse than anything he could ever imagine - though, he acknowledges, that doesn’t exactly rule out a whole lot of possibilities. He’s prided himself on a few things throughout the years, but creativity has never been one of them.
A gloved fist shoots sideways out from under the kid’s cloak, and makes clumsy contact with the figure walking directly beside him. A shout shoots upwards, rising like a gunshot through the muffled quiet of the snowy landscape, and the next thing Sanzo knows, a flurry of blows joins the flurry of snowflakes. It’s as if Gojyo and Goku have taken it upon themselves to whip up a winter storm in miniature; their stupid, squabbling scuffle, much like a snowstorm, is completely expected, and it’s completely mundane, and it’s a completely natural phenomenon, and it’s the kind of thing that Sanzo takes an inordinate amount of grudging pleasure in complaining about - but it’s also the kind of thing that warms the heart, just a little bit.
Not, Sanzo thinks as the two dumbasses ahead of him start kicking each other with their heavy boots, that I’ll ever let them know that.
In his musings, Sanzo’s steps have slowed somewhat; abruptly, he realizes just how far behind the rest of his party he’s fallen. That’s what comes from getting all caught up in your head, dammit, he thinks, feeling his frown deepen on his chapped lips. He mutters a tight-jawed string of expletives, and he stifles a shiver, and he picks up his dragging feet, and he forces himself to surge forward with new force and vigor. Not for the first time, he curses his human stamina, and, not for the last time, he curses his travelling companions’ boundless energy. For good measure, he curses the cold and the snow, too. As he shuffles unenthusiastically forward, he squints up at the thick blanket of grey overhead. Maybe the sun will set soon, and maybe it won’t. In this ghastly, gods-damned weather, it’s impossible to tell.
“If it’s any consolation,” comes a gentle voice, rising thinly like stale smoke from one of the cloaked figures up ahead, “I’m of the belief that we should take shelter soon.”
Sanzo nods curtly. “Fine by me.”
“I thought it might be.” Hakkai turns to look over his shoulder, and he smiles. “Are you cold, Sanzo?”
As if in response, a fierce and violent gust of wind sweeps savagely through the mountain pass, knocking Sanzo’s hood off of his head and whipping at his grimy hair. Sanzo tugs his hood back on, hunches his shoulders, stuffs his hands underneath his armpits, and pins Hakkai with a flat and unfaltering stare. “That,” he says, unamused, “is a dumb question.”
And so, they walk on slowly, in soft, snow-stifled silence.
It’s not his fault, Sanzo decides as they soldier on together through the snow, that his thoughts keep sliding back to the kid’s unasked question. He couldn’t blame the kid, not really, for his inability to actually say the words - and, in truth, Sanzo admires the kid for having the balls to start asking the question at all. He remembers how loud the kid’s voice had been when he’d begun to speak, and he remembers how abruptly the kid had cut himself off, too. Did he shut himself up for my sake, Sanzo wonders vaguely, or for his own? Either way, Sanzo recognizes, it must have taken the kid a hell of a lot of effort to reel his question in like that. Self-control and restraint weren’t exactly the kid’s trademarks.
Self-control and restraint.
Sanzo starts.
Shit, he thinks.
Almost involuntarily, Sanzo feels for the familiar weight of his banishing gun at his hip. He’s seen what it’s like when the kid goes crazy, but he has no idea what to expect when the tightest-wound bastard he knows finally lets loose. Gojyo and Goku, he knows, have both witnessed it firsthand, but it’s not like they bring it up in idle conversation. And, really, it’s not like Sanzo can get upset with them for not wanting to talk about something like that. For one thing, Hakkai, limiters and all, would probably rip their freaking heads off if they dared to broach the subject. For another, Sanzo suspects that Gojyo and Goku don’t have an especially strong desire to revisit those memories, if they can help it. Sanzo can’t be sure, of course, but he has an inkling that Hakkai, unbound and unlimited, is scary as all hell.
When daylight begins to fade, Hakkai shepherds the party into a tiny, tidy, tucked-away cave, and he busies himself, bustling incessantly with crockery and clotheslines. (“Our cloaks are soaked through,” he’d said, with that cloying chuckle of his, “and unless there’s a dramatic change in the weather, I doubt we’ll be able to do without them tomorrow.”) Gojyo and Goku eat noisily by the fire and then lounge lazily on the floor, and before long, the sounds of their snores begin to rise and roll gently through the cave.
Sanzo huddles, solitary and silent, in a shadowy corner. He watches. He smokes one cigarette, and then he smokes another. He thinks. He sleeps, and he wakes, and he sleeps again, and he wakes again. He thinks some more. He lets his eyes wander to the edges of the cave, where Goku and Gojyo sprawl and snore side by side, looking deceptively carefree and serene. He lets his eyes wander to the center of the cave, where Hakkai perches, back straight as a rod and shoulders quivering, staring like his sorry life depends on it into the dying vestiges of their cookfire.
A quiet pop rises from the flames, and the light in the cave shifts, catching and glinting, for the briefest of moments, on the three small pieces of metal clipped almost inconspicuously to Hakkai’s ear.
And Sanzo, once again, frowns.
He heaves a sigh, and he rises. He shuffles, deliberately making more noise than is actually necessary, but Hakkai doesn’t turn around. Poor bastard, Sanzo thinks, something almost like sympathy twisting in his gut. He has no doubt that Hakkai is lost somewhere inside the darkest corners of his own head, and that, Sanzo imagines, probably isn’t an excessively fun place to be.
I owe it to him to let him know, Sanzo resolves, fingers brushing his gun once more. If nothing else, Sanzo needs the party’s only healer and best driver to be sharp and ready for when the snow finally lets up. Hakkai has yet to get so caught up in his own shit that he gets negligent, or stupid, or makes the rest of the group pay for his mistakes - but, truth be told, Sanzo wouldn’t put it past the guy. Maybe it would be an accident, and maybe it wouldn’t.
Either way, that’s not a risk that Sanzo is willing to take.
Part II: Hakkai
He’s not about to pretend that sleep will come to him easily. It would be pointless, because it would be a lie, and lies, he has learned, help no one.
Small untruths, he established some time ago through careful deduction and occasional practice, are another matter - but lies, he is certain, help no one.
The flames play tricks on his mismatched eyes tonight. He’s never found the act of staring into a fire excessively pleasant, but he knows that other people sometimes take comfort in it - Gojyo, for one, has expressed that on more than one occasion, and he cannot deny that he often sees a pale wash of relief cross Sanzo’s face when, at the end of a long and trying day of travel, Hakkai sets wood and kindling ablaze and stokes it to bright and bolstering life.
Hakkai, for his part, has not thought of fire that way for a long, long time. Fire can wreak deadly havoc, if it is not kept in check - and Hakkai, through long hours of consideration and contemplation, has concluded that no true comfort can be found in a thing that can kill.
Hakkai gazes deep and darkly into the flickering flames. If I wanted to, he muses, I could burn my own hand. I could burn away all of my flesh. It would be easy…
He fancies that the fire shows him familiar faces. He sees leering thugs with pointed ears and pointed sticks. He sees wide, wild eyes bulging from hollow sockets. He sees lovers, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, rent asunder and wrenched apart by madness and sadness in brutally equal measure. He sees children, hungry for blood and hoping for victory, too simple and too ignorant to guess at their inevitable fates. He sees a smiling father, a kindly spark of stray warmth amidst the cold.
All of them had been sane, once.
And, Hakkai notes numbly, all of them are dead, now.
The tips of his fingers, he is mildly shocked and more than a little bit angry to discover, are trembling. Why? Hakkai dares to ask of himself. Why is this happening? What have I done wrong? He stretches his fingers as far as they can go, and then curls them tight into a clamped-down, clenched-up fist. He has been rigorous and unforgiving in the training of his body, and even more so in the training of his mind. But still, he thinks, furious, still, I lack control! And if he cannot, by the force of his strong will, control something as small and as simple as the state of his ill-formed, ill-fated, ill-used, hands, then surely -
A faint click, followed by a sharp hiss and a satisfied sigh of contentment, sound softly through the cave.
I should have known, Hakkai thinks dimly. I should have known that he would be awake on a night like tonight. Rain and snow, he reasons, aren’t wholly dissimilar, when all is said and done.
Sure enough, a series of even footsteps soon falls upon the gravelly ground and echoes dully in Hakkai’s distracted ears. They approach, and they stop, and the next thing Hakkai knows, Sanzo has dropped down to sit beside him, a cigarette in his hand and a scowl on his face.
“Too cold to sleep, huh?” Sanzo asks.
“What,” Hakkai says, keeping his words low and slow and even, “gives you that idea?”
Sanzo takes a long drag on his cigarette as he considers the question. “You’re shaking.”
“Am I?” Hakkai runs a nervous hand through his hair. “That’s funny, Sanzo - I’d scarcely noticed.” Small untruths, he thinks again, glancing at his pale fingers and seeing the way they still tremble.
Sanzo shrugs. “Sure,” he says.
Hakkai can read the blunt disbelief in Sanzo’s expression. He licks his lips, and scrabbles desperately for a verbal defense of some kind. “I suppose,” he says, “that I shouldn’t be surprised, should I?” He turns a sickly smile on Sanzo, and he lets out a short, light laugh. “After all, that sort of thing is the human body’s natural response to subzero temperatures, isn’t it?”
Sanzo’s face is impassive. “The human body,” he repeats.
Hakkai internally curses his poor choice of words.
At a loss, Hakkai turns slowly away from the fire and towards his fellow sleepless companion. The flames have cast strange shadows on Sanzo’s sharp face, throwing its angles into strange and stark relief. The shadows make Sanzo look both oddly young and very old at the same time - and, curiously, Hakkai can’t help but think that they lend Sanzo’s sharp face an uncanny touch of softness, too.
Sanzo takes another pull on his cigarette. “Look,” he says, thickly.  He pauses, pursing his lips and sending a stream of smoke up towards the roof of the cave. “You don’t have to worry about that, Hakkai. All right?”
“Excuse me?” Anger flares, sudden and hot, in Hakkai’s chest. “Frankly, Sanzo, I don’t believe you’re qualified to say something like that.”
“Oh, no?”
“No.”
“And why might that be?”
“If you can’t figure that out for yourself, then I’m not sure this conversation is worth having.” Hakkai grits his teeth, and turns his gaze back to the fire. “Perhaps,” he says darkly, “I’ll speak with Goku about it. He’ll understand.”
For a moment, the only sounds in the cave are the crackling of the fire and the restless rumble of snores.
And then, Hakkai cringes, and he hangs his head.
“I’m sorry, Sanzo,” he says. “I was cruel, and I didn’t need to be. It’s just - ” He pauses, hesitating. What, he wonders, can I say to a man who has never known this fear? How can I express to him what it’s like to slip entirely away from your mind, and then return to it again? How can I show him what it means to witness your full potential from the outside in, and to see that that potential can only be realized through madness? He swallows, and he clenches his fists even tighter, and he does his damnedest to ignore the twisting shapes in the flames, but always, always, try though he might, they resurface before his penitent eyes.
It’s only when he feels a rough hand settle on top of his own that he finds he can pry his gaze away.
Hakkai stares, shocked, at Sanzo. Sanzo, in turn, levels Hakkai with a look that’s shot through with cool distance and disinterest. Hakkai opens his mouth to speak, but for the second time that night - and the third time this day, he thinks, remembering how he felt when Goku had almost expressed aloud what he himself was holding, locked up tight, inside his heart - he can find no words.
“I saved your life once,” Sanzo says. “Never doubt that I can end it just as easily.”
Despite himself, Hakkai feels a sardonic smile twist at his lips. “That fight,” he reminds Sanzo, “was hard-won.”
“I got what I wanted, didn’t I?”
Hakkai’s smile grows, just a little. “Yes,” he acknowledges. “You did.”
Sanzo’s hand tightens on top of Hakkai’s. “I need you to sleep,” he says. His voice low, and markedly unenthusiastic.  “You know how inconvenient it is for everyone when you run yourself ragged like this, right?”
“Yes,” Hakkai says softly. “Yes, I do.”
“It’s a real pain in the ass when you get sick, too - so, if you’re actually shaking because you’re cold, you better find yourself a blanket or a cup of tea or something. Got it?”
The smile upon Hakkai’s lips grows even more. “Yes,” he says. “Yes, I’ve got it.” He can’t help but be amused; it’s just like Sanzo, after all, to disguise his genuine concern as a matter of practicality.
With that, Sanzo stands. As he traipses back to his lonely corner of the cave, he stretches, working the kinks out of his spine and his neck. “I want to be on the road early tomorrow if the snow clears up,” he says. “Think you can make that happen?”
Hakkai nods. “Of course.”
“Good.” Sanzo plunks himself down against the wall of the cave. “Sleep well, you moron,” he says, closing his eyes, “or I’ll kill you.”
Hakkai opens his hands. To his great surprise, they’re not trembling anymore.
That, and that alone, gives him the strength to ask one more question.
“…Sanzo?”
Sanzo grumbles incoherently, before he lets one drooping eye slide open. “Yeah?”
 “That’s just it,” Hakkai says. “I’m not sure that’s what I want.”
Sanzo flashes Hakkai a tired smirk. “Better insane than dead, huh?”
“I… truly don’t know…”
Sanzo’s hand strays to his hip, and his smirk melts, becoming sad, and sorry, and empty. “I wish things were different, Hakkai,” he says quietly. “I really do.” His eyes gleam, bright and fierce, from where he reclines in his corner. “But the truth is, that isn’t your choice to make.”
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2) A 5-word (maximum) prompt for your Gifter
2a.) Optional: a song you would like referenced in some way in your gift
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4) If a participant falls through, are you willing and able to adopt an additional prompt?
Please remember that if you are joining this event, you are agreeing to make an original, finished gift for someone else.
If you have any questions, feel free to check the participation page linked below. If there’s anything not covered by that page, send me an ask and I’ll be happy to answer.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
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Barefoot Waltz
Beauty Pop
Dramacon
The Garden of Words
Hana-Kimi
I.O.N
Last Hope
Lover's->Flat
Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin
Re-Gifters
Runaways
Scott Pilgrim
Ai Yori Aoshi
Animeta!
Astra Lost in Space
Azumanga Daioh
Bakuman
Barakamon
BattleAngel Alita
Beet The Vandel Buster
Behind Story
Behind The Scenes
Black Cat
Citrus 1
Cowboy Bebop
DeathNote
Disappearance of Yuki-Chan
Dojin Work
Drifting Dragons
Eden's Zero
Eromanga Sensei
FairyTail
Fruits Basket
FullMetal Alchemist
Gunsmith Cats
Gunsmith Cats Burst
Gurren Lagann
Kare Kano
K-On
Komi Can't Communicate
Love Hina
Manga Dogs
Mär
Marmalade Boy
Maison Ikkoku
MegaTokyo
Mobile Suit Gundam 00F
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 1
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2
Mobile Suit Gundam The Last Outpost
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
Mobile Suit Gundam Endless Waltz Glory of Losers
NTR Netsuzou Trap
Ouran Highschool Host Club
Our Wonderful Days
Pastel
Ringworld
Shortcake Cake
Skip•Beat
Steel Fist Riku
Suzuka
Syrup
Takane & Hana
Tiger and Bunny
Very Very Sweet
Voice of Love
Voice Over
Wanted
Wild Ones
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Another Castle: Grimoré
Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers
Check Please
Citizen of The Galaxy
Concrete
Dead Boy Detectives
Death Jr.
Dishonored
Doctor Star
Electric Girl
Frontlines: Requiem
The Fountain
Galaxy Quest
Hellgate London
Highlander The American Dream
High Level
The Jetsons
Kin: Descent of Man
Klaus: How Santa Claus Began
Klaus: The New Adventures of Claus
Klaus: The Life and Times of Santa Claus
The Legend Of Drizzt 1-7
Mirror's Edge: Exordium
Neverending
Newbury and Hobbes: The Undying
Orbiter
Ravine 1-2
R.I.P.D City of The Damned
Rust
Secret Identities
Starlight
Star Mage
The Star Wars (based on the original script)
Superior
Swordquest
Ultra
WildFire
Alex + Ada (I own volume one but won't be continuing the series myself. But it is finished.)
Anne Bonnie
Atomic Robo
Birthright
The Books of Magic (original 90's run, no idea about the new series)
Calvin and Hobbes
Crux: Atlantis Rising
Danger Girl
East of West
Fanboys Vs. Zombies
Invincible
The Losers
Kingsman
Jupiter Jet
Miracle Man
Saga
Splinter Cell Echoes
Spyboy
Starborn
ARTEMIS FOWL
ASSASSIN'S CREED
ASTRO CITY
CRITICAL ROLE
CTRL+ALT+DEL
DCU
All Star Superman
Batman Arkham Knight
Batman War Games
Batman War Drums
Batman War Crimes
Batman Year 100
Batman White Knight
Batman Curse of The White Knight
DC Comics Bombshells
Gotham Academy
Earth One Batman
Earth One Green Lantern
Earth One Superman
Earth One Teen Titans
Earth One Wonder Woman
Green Lantern 80th Anniversary
Harleen
Harley Quinn White Knight
Justice League of America Riddle of the Beast
Justice League: The New Frontier
Kingdom Come
Superman Red Son
Superman Secret Identity
Superman Smashes The Klan
Watchmen
DC ElseWorlds
Green Lantern 1001 Emerald Nights
Green Lantern: Evil's Might 1-3
Superman: Kal
Superman/Batman Alternate History
Stan Lee Green Lantern, JLA, Wonder Woman, The Flash
FABLES
Fables
Fables: Werewolves Of The Heartland
Fables: The Wolf Among Us
Fairest
Fairest: In All The Land
Jack of Fables
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love
Cinderella Fables Are Forever
Everafter
1001 Nights of Snowfall
Complete Covers
IRREDEEMABLE
Incorruptible
Irredeemable
JUPITER'S LEGACY
Jupiter's Legacy
Jupiter's Circle
LADY MECHANIKA
Lady Mechanika
THE LIBRARIANS
Librarians
LOLA XOXO
Lola
Lola Wasteland Madame
LUMBERJANES
LumberJanes
MCU
House of M
Ms. Marvel
Wolverine The End
Wolverine Origins
X-Men The End
MERCY THOMPSON
Mercy Thompson Moon Called 1
POWERS
Powers: Bureau
Powers
PROJECT BLACK SKY
Barb Wire
Blackout
Brain Boy
Captain Midnight
Ghost
King Tiger
The Occultist
Secret Files
Sky Man
X
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS
SEJIC-VERSE
BloodStain - SFW
SunStone - NSFW
SunStone Mercy - NSFW
Swing - NSFW
TOMB RAIDER
Tomb Raider 1-3 (Between Tomb Raider and Rise)
Tomb Raider 1-4 (Between Rise and Shadow)
TRIPPING OVER YOU
Tripping Over You
Extra Mini - NSFW
UNWRITTEN
The Unwritten
The Unwritten: The Ship That Sank Twice
RECS RECS RECS RECS RECS RECS!!! 
I have heard of quite a few of these and seen most of the manga come thru my register at work lol. I can second the Check Please rec (it’s also a webcomic!) and I’ve been reading the newer Books of Magic in the past year or so ironically enough and thought it was fun, was considering fishing some of the 90s out of the dollar bin at a local comic shop but the condition wasn’t good. Calvin and Hobbes is a CLASSIC and I’ve been meaning to get around to Kingsmen cause I enjoyed the movies. DC Bombshells is a GIFT. A Gift. And I adore the Earth One Teen Titans, kinda wished they’d continued it. Kingdom Come is another classic and something I was leant in high school, I was very lucky in high school lol. Lumberjanes is adorable as well! I know you said you weren’t looking to start new stuff but Fence is a good one and has Check Please vibes. The Umbrella Academy is also great when it comes to just weird superhero flavored nonsense. And Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman is a classic for a very good reason. 
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SoIF03: ”Avgrunden” [Kapitel 08–10].
En läsecirkel tillsammans med @kulturdasset, delmål 4:6.
Författare: Margit Sandemo. Serie: Sagan om Isfolket, Bok 3.
Publicerad: 1982. Medium: eBok/eLib (2019).
¡Oi! Spoilers, stavfel och alternativa fakta kan förekomma rakt föröver!
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Det här delmålet handlar framför allt om Sols och Dags hemkomst, och hur Sol därigenom kan göra något som övriga familjen inte gjort: titta in till Liv utan att först utannonsera att hon kommer. Som väntat tänker inte Sol inte sitta still i båten, hon är inte sen med att tala om för Dag vad som pågår heller:
Medan de lämnade hamnen, fick Dag hela historien serverad av en eldsprutande Sol.
Det finns en viss logik i att Sol vill göra sig av med svärmodern först, och innan de lämnar Oslo för Gråstensholm/Lindallén. Det ger nämligen Laurents en tid av smärta och sorg att förlora modern. Innan Sol för slut på pinan så att säga. Sols giftmord (som jag antar att det är) ligger helt i fas med Sols diaboliska sida. Men jag skall erkänna att jag är överraskad över hur handgripligt som hon tar itu med Laurents när nöden kräver det.
Säcken hade varit tung. Tyngre än hon väntat. Det var inte mycket som var helt av Laurents Berenius, då den nådde marken.
Kapitlet har också en del underliga formuleringar, som den här inför Sols besök hos Tyghandlaren:
Så smusslade hon litegrann i sitt hemliga förråd och stoppade ned något i sin ficka.
Kanske är det jag som är gnällig – men jag ser inte poängen i hemlighetsmakeriet i meningen. Vi vet ju vad Sol håller på med, och vi vet exakt vem det är som skall få smaka på Sols medicin. Så varför en sådan slapp formulering som om det är en anteckning i ett filmmanus?
Och sedan referensen till Norska flaggan, som i verkligheten tillkom 1821.
— Förresten var det en mycket vacker bukett, Meta. Viol och nyponros och mandelblom. Rena norska flaggan. Bättre kunde den inte vara komponerad.
Jag har svårt att se att Sol skulle referera till ”norska flaggan” när Norge i realiteten var Danskt och använde Dannebrogen. Den norska flaggan är ju i realiteten den danska, med ett blått kors tillagt för den dåvarande unionen med Sverige.
De här kapitlen cementerar också idén om att titeln ”Avgrunden” är Sols balansakt med de mörka krafterna.
Och hon visste, att för varje gång splittrades hennes sinne alltmer. Avgrunden blev för henne gränslandet, rågången mellan hennes två världar — och det stod allt klarare för henne var hennes hjärta hörde hemma, vart hennes längtan stod.
Sol får sin blåkulla ritt (eller rättare sagt flera) och jag misstänker att hennes beskrivning av ”Satan” är den ene av figurerna på bokomslaget:
Satan såg på henne och log. Och eftersom hans utseende bildades i varje människas egen fantasi, var han för Sol den vackraste, den mest åtråvärde och suggestive man hon någonsin sett. Gula ögon hade han — som hon själv — långsmala springor av eld, en satyriskt formad mun med vita, spetsiga tänder. Håret var kolsvart, lockigt och svallande, och den mörka kroppen…
Sol talar planerar dock att avstå från fler blåkullaritter och försöka få tillbaka balansen i sitt liv. Jag hade kanske gärna fått lite mer inblick i hennes kamp mellan vad som lockar och vad hon vet att hon måste göra. Istället ställs den saken bakom delmålets andra stora intrig: Dag 💘Liv. Det har ju hintats en del om att det komma skulle, redan under förra boken tror jag, och här slår det ut med full kraft.
Som jag nämnde redan i förra delmålet så talade ju Hanna redan i Trollbunden om att Isfolkets storhet skall komma via Silje/Liv:
– Han är inte den ende, invände hon. – Sol finns också. – Sol är ett blindspår. Det är du, flicka, som ska föra den förste, den store Tengels arv vidare. Du är den enda som kan omvända hans ättlings styvsinta ideer. Du, bara du! (SoIF1, Trollbunden, Kapitel 12).
Det antyder ju att Sol kanske aldrig får barn själv, kanske kommer hon till slut få sota för sin oförsiktighet? Men kanske är det också för att Dag (som skulle visa sig vara adlig) gifter sig med Liv? Hon är ju trots allt Tengels förstfödda. Hon kanske inte har gåvor själv, men kanske kan hon ändå föra dem vidare? Eller också är de inte viktiga alls för att bryta den förbannelse som vilar över familjen efter Tengel den Ondes pakt med djävulen.
Hur som haver så blir det lite spretigt med familjen som förfäras av Livs belägenhet och Sol som rider åstad och avpolletterar plågoandarna en efter en. Det blir liksom lite allt på en och samma gång. Och Dag som snabbt blir kärlekskrank. Det lär ju bli dem till slut, men vi lär få oss en del vånda innan det är över.
Personligen hoppas jag på viss insikt i Sol och hennes kamp för att hålla balansen mellan ljus och mörker i kommande kapitel.
(Ovanligt många citat denna vecka, men det kunde inte hjälpas).
Källor:
Boken @ Goodreads.
Boken @ libris.kb.se.
eBibliotek @ Axiell Media.
Biblio @ Axiell Media.
Norges flagga @ sv.wikipedia.org
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Testo Support Plus Tabletter Sverige, Pris, Bluff & Recensioner
Testo Support Plus Sverige recensioner - Du kommer säkert att kunna förbättra din allmänna hälsa. Det kommer inte att finnas några ytterligare sexuella problem kvar i ditt liv när du hanterar den här lösningen. Gör köpet idag för att njuta av ett hälsosamt sexliv. Testo Support Plus  detta händer genom upprättat av skapandet av salpeter sal som är förödande i kroppen. Detta Testo Support Plus ramar in testosteronnivån i din kropp som höjer dina sexuella avstängnings punkter. Det hjälper till att förbättra konsolidering av spermier i kroppen. Det är en gammal zing som förbättrar drivkraften och växer en enorm belastning av vitalitet. Det är den andra fixeringen som är avgörande för att förbättra blodets framsteg. Det släpper ut skadliga ämnen och frigör entusiaster från kroppen. Om du verkligen behöver köpa den här förbättringen kan du reda ut den från kraftplatser. Du behöver bara några finesser som namn, kontakt finesser och utveckling adress för att introducera en försäljning.
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Testo Support Plus Testosteron Rörelsen förbättras genom det. Blodströmmen till erektil vävnader uppdateras på grund av diskret sågpalmetto. Det hjälper till att fixa trasiga erektil vävnader. Detta kommer att åstadkomma återställandet av frågan om erektil brott. Detta kommer att ge din beständighet hjälp. Det visar en lägre nivå i din brist vilket ger dig utvidgad längd erektioner. 
Testo Support Plus Sverige recensioner det är en gammal zing som förbättrar körningen och växer en enorm vitalitet. Det är den andra fixeringen som är viktig för att förbättra blodets framsteg. Det släpper ut gifter och frigör reformister från kroppen. Om du verkligen behöver köpa denna förbättring kan du organisera den från kraftplatser. Detta händer med tanke på utvecklingen av salpetersyra som är ruinous i kroppen. Detta Testo Support Plus vidgar testosteronnivån i din kropp som lyfter dina sexuella avstängnings punkter. 
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Testo Support Plus Sverige recensioner  uppfriskande i persona är den andra föredragna positionen som resulterar i en förbättring av sexuellt behov. Det hjälper också till att behandla kvinnliga sexuella problem. Kom ihop Föreningen har intygar att du får den mest galna kvaliteten genom att använda denna 100% vanliga förbättring. Testo Support Plus precis när jag börjar ta denna förbättring kan jag placera extra energi i rummet. På samma sätt utvecklar penisens storlek. Jag kan tillfredsställa min partners sexuella behov. Testo Support Plus verkligen ger mig massor av stadighet och centralitet. Om du inte gör relationen med din partner på rätt sätt, genom tecknet måste du åstadkomma något för förtydligandet. Vi hanterar att uthållighet genom din sexuella brist kan orsaka sorg och kan skada din försäkran. Två eller tre män försummar att ge de svårigheter som pågår med dem.  För mer information besök här: http://www.sverigetillskott.se/testo-support-sverige/
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hi ! it's your descendants gift exchange gifter!! do you have any songs that you associate with descendants characters? if so what are they 👀 i hope you're having a good day ❤️❤️
hiiii, this is so exciting!
i have a playlist for this giant au i can’t bring myself to write, which includes songs that i kinda associate with all of them:
https://music.apple.com/kz/playlist/trwnbt/pl.u-8aAVZ5ycmV8vJ0
as for individual songs, i’m too tired to actually remember all rn, so these are just from looking through my own playlists
Mal: Animal - Sir Chloe // Ripstick - 99 Neighbors // I bet on losing dogs - Mitski
Evie: Oh Ana - Mother mother // Michelle - Sir Chloe // Venice bitch - Lana del Ray
Jay: Father - The Front Bottoms // Mean - Snot and Flo Milli // Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
Carlos: Choke - IDKHOW // Scrawny - Wallows // Nobody - Mitski
Uma: Venom - Little Simz // Fuck the World - 2Pac // Vixen - Destroy Boys
Audrey: Just the entire Electra Heart Album
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danielkamarainen · 2 years
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Den mest populära online-kursen någonsin
"The Science of Well-Being" är den mest populära online-kursen någonsin från Yale University. Och via portalen Coursera är den också helt gratis. En stor fördel är också att man väljer sin studietakt själv och enkelt kan ta del av bara de delar som intresserar en. Kursen gav mig många insikter och jag rekommenderar den till alla. Här är de största lärdomarna jag tog med mig.
1. Kunskap kommer inte förändra dig.
Bara för att jag har kunskap om ett ämne kommer det inte göra att jag ändrar mitt beteende. Till exempel vet jag att det är dåligt för miljön att äta kött, men det krävs mer än kunskapen om det för att jag ska sluta. Det som krävs är att jag förändrar mina vanor, så kommer beteendet också följa med.
2. Oändligt med pengar gör en inte lyckligare.
En amerikansk undersökning har visat att glädjen ökar ju mer man tjänar - men bara upp till en viss nivå. Brytpunkten verkar ligga runt ungefär 500 000 kronor om året. Efter det ökar inte ens välmående oavsett hur mycket mer man tjänar.
3. Ens lycka är inte förutbestämd.
Forskning har visat att våra gener påverkar ungefär 50 procent av vårt välmående. Det som alltså lägger grunden till om man är en person som tänker att glaset är halvtomt eller halvfullt. Däremot står yttre omständigheter, när något bra eller dåligt händer, bara för omkring 10 procent. De resterande 40 procenten styr vi själva över.
4. Man är som lyckligast på sin bröllopsdag.
Det har visat sig att lycka inte håller i sig speciellt länge. Säg att man i normala fall är en 6:a på en skala från 1 till 10. Då är det normalt att ens välmående ökar till en 8:a när man gifter sig. Tyvärr håller det oftast bara i sig det första året. Sedan går man tillbaka till den där 6:an man var innan man gifte sig.
5. Vi är dåliga på att förutspå hur händelser kommer påverka oss.
Vår intuition om hur mycket, och hur länge, en framgång eller ett misslyckande kommer påverka oss är ofta fel. Som exempel tror vi att ett misslyckat prov, eller ett bättre jobb kommer vara väldigt avgörande, och att känslan kommer sitta i länge. Men studier har visat att dessa händelser knappt påverkar vårt allmänna välmående alls, delvis för att vi vänjer oss så snabbt.
6. Människor hatar att känna sig underlägsna.
Vi jämför oss ständigt med andra. En undersökning lät personer välja mellan att hypotetiskt tjäna 30 000 kronor/mån medan alla andra på jobbet tjänar 20. Eller att istället tjäna 50 000 kronor/mån men då tjänar de andra 80. Det visade sig att de allra flesta valde det första alternativet, trots att det skulle ge mindre pengar i plånboken.
Klicka här för att komma till kursen.
Referenser till de olika undersökningarna:
Laurie Santos and Tamar Gendler - The G.I. Joe Fallacy.
Danny Kahneman and Angus Deaton - High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being.
Sonja Lyubomirsky - The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want.
Richard Lucas mfl. - Reexamining Adaptation and the Set Point Model of Happiness: Reactions to Changes in Marital Status.
Peter Ayton - Affective forecasting: Why can't people predict their emotions?
Sara Solnick and David Hemenway - Is More Always Better?: A Survey on Positional Concerns.
#xs
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ilmondopositivo · 1 year
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Complevirus: atto finale
Complevirus... cos'è stato?
Cosa ti indirizza nella vita? Approfitto della domanda giornaliera WordPress per concludere (finalmente!) la storia del mio decimo complevirus. Alla domanda “cosa ti indirizza nella vita” quindi ho una risposta soltanto: l’orgoglio e la dignità. Anche se a volte l’orgoglio mi porta a sbagliare. DISCLAIMER: sono sempre Gifter. Ma Elettrona, impegnata su altro progetto, mi ha autorizzato a…
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Hur ofta äter du vegetariskt? Här blir det ett antal dagar i veckan och just idag vegetarisk pasta 👍 En härlig kombo av grönsaker och hetta som gifter sig underbart i höstmörkret 🍂 Pasta 1 burk Skalade tomater 🍅 1 vitlök solo 🧄 1/2 kruka basilika 🌿 1 burk stark med vitlök salsa 🌶 1 aubergine 🍆 1 burk ricotta 🧀 En skvätt sjöpungsfond 🦪 🔪 Tärna auberginen och rosta den i ugn eller stek med olivolja till den släppt vatten och blivit torr ⏲ Finhacka vitlöken och skär tomaterna i tärningar ⏲ Stek på vitlöken något i olivolja innan du går i med tomaterna och salsan ⏲ Koka i ~20 minuter och lägg i grovhackad basilika och låt puttra lite medan pastan kokar ⏲ Blanda ner aubergine i tomatsåsen och vänd ner ricotten precis innan servering 🍽🍴 Om du uppskattar detta inlägget skulle jag bli superglad om du; Följer 👉 @the.real.cg.lagar.mat 👈 på Instagram ✨ Gillar 👍 Sparar recept 🍝 Kommenterar 💬 Delar inlägg 🤩 #mat #hemlagat #amatörkock #hemmakock #matinspo #matinspiration #globaleats #foodiesinternationalcollab #khmerpepper @khmer_pepper #tastebyglobe_sweden @tastebyglobe_sweden #lagamat #foodiesinternationalchat #weareglobecommunity #vegetariskt #abergssalsa @abergssalsa #recept #pasta #thefoodieinitiative #tasteadventure #kockyoga #audgeirrknives @audgeirrknives #vargenthor @vargenthor #matglädje #matpassion #sjöpung @marinetaste (at Casa Del Kville) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVawqDysv2G/?utm_medium=tumblr
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