#hiram and waverly

[thaliatimsh]

Fully hate (dont hate) that in the year of our lord 2023 i am thinking abt treavor/waverly again... sick in tha HEAD

[handeaux]

Special Delivery! Here Are 17 Curious Facts About The Cincinnati Post Office

On The Barrelhead The Cincinnati Post Office was established in 1794 and received soon after its first mail delivery, consisting of sixteen letters, two newspapers and a snuff box. All mail then was “collect on delivery” or COD – recipients paid the postage. Postage for a simple letter was 25 cents. The postmaster displayed all mail on top of a barrel at his house. Anyone wanting to collect mail paid the postmaster.

Returned To Sender Cincinnati’s first postmaster was an attorney and Revolutionary War veteran named Abner Dunn, who ran the local post office out of his house at the corner of Second and Butler streets. Postmaster Dunn died in 1795 after only a year in office and was buried in the backyard of his house, which was also the backyard of the post office. The site is now a parking lot near Sawyer Point Park.

Everybody Knew Your Business From 1799 up until Cincinnati adopted free home delivery in the late 1860s, the Post Office regularly published a list of all letters awaiting collection, so everybody in town knew when you had mail. If you ignored the published list for three months, your mail was sent to the dead letter office. The lists were extensive, occupying, in small type, as much as half a page in the Cincinnati Commercial or Gazette.

Keep It Under Your Hat Cincinnati’s fifth postmaster was an eccentric Methodist minister named William Burke, who served a very long term from 1814 to 1841. Possessed of a deep, guttural voice attributed to his lifelong addiction to chewing tobacco, Burke is remembered for personally delivering mail around town while making social calls. He kept the items to be delivered in his hat. It is said that “Father Burke,” as he was known, also delivered wise counsel to his patrons along with the mail.

Penny For Your Thoughts During the 1840s, Cincinnati experimented with home delivery, but charged for the service. Two “penny postmen” divided the downtown area, with Joseph Haskell taking the route north of Fourth Street, and Hiram Frazer delivering south of Fourth. Recipients, in addition to the standard postage, coughed up a penny for each letter delivered to their front door.

Inaugural Air Mail? The first mail at least partially delivered by air left Cincinnati on Independence Day 1835. Obviously, no airplane was involved. The pilot was the “Prince of Aeronauts,” Richard Clayton, and the vehicle was his renowned balloon, the Star of the West. Clayton ascended from an amphitheater constructed in the middle of Court Street between Race and Elm with, among other cargo, a satchel of mail intended for eastern cities. He crashed 100 miles away in Pike County and had the post office in Waverly, Ohio, send the letters the rest of the way. A trial involving an airplane in 1912 was really a gimmick in which mailbags picked up at Coney Island were dropped at the California Post Office, just 8,000 feet away.

What The Dickens? By 1825, stagecoaches had replaced pack horses as the primary vehicle for transporting mail throughout the Ohio Valley and nascent Midwest. In addition to letters and newspapers, mail coaches carried passengers and were often the most reliable means of travel available outside the East Coast. When Charles Dickens visited Cincinnati in 1842, he arrived by mail coach.

Postmaster Is The ‘Last Man’ On 6 October 1855, Cincinnati Postmaster John L. Vattier sat down to a most unusual dinner. His table was set for seven, but every place setting, excepting one, was empty. Vattier was the last of seven young Cincinnatian men who survived the 1832 cholera epidemic, bought a pricey bottle of wine, and pledged to meet each year for dinner, saving the bottle for the last of them to survive. On that evening, following the funeral of his last colleague, Vattier dined alone and drank the bottle in memory of his friends.

Postal Currency – What A Riot! As the United States struggled to finance the Civil War, an unintended consequence was a shortage of coins. The Post Office stepped up to alleviate the shortage by issuing postal currency in the form of “shinplaster” paper bills in fractions of a dollar. Public demand was so great in Cincinnati that a riot broke out at the distribution center on 5 November 1862. Although no one was seriously injured, federal troops called in to disburse the 2,000 rioters drew swords and attached bayonets to their rifles until calm was restored.

Shillito Becomes A Worthy Investment Cincinnati merchants, notably John Shillito of department store fame, devised creative ways to issue change when coins were scarce. During the coin-scarce Civil War, Shillito noted that his customers often used postage stamps as currency. Shillito crafted special circular cases to contain one-cent, three-cent or five-cent stamps and used them just like coins in providing change to customers. Today, an 1862 Shillito “encased postage” coin can bring as much as $1,250 at auction.

Hier wird Deutsch gesprochen You didn’t have to be German to manage the Cincinnati Post Office, but it didn’t hurt. Between the Civil War and the Twentieth Century, Cincinnati had 10 postmasters and fully half of them were born in Germany. Our Teutonic mail mavens were John C. Baum (1861 to 1864), Frederic John Mayer (1864 to 1866), Gustav Robert Wahle (1874 to 1878), John P. Loge (1878 to 1882) and John Zumstein (1891 to 1895).

Wayward Mail According to the Post [9 July 1891], Cincinnatians were lucky to receive any letters at all because of their incompetence at addressing envelopes. The Cincinnati Post Office reported that year 156,275 incorrectly addressed letters, 15,620 insufficiently addressed letters, 2,632 illegibly addressed letters, and 10,923 incorrectly stamped letters. In all, 279,385 pieces of wayward mail were returned to sender by exasperated Cincinnati postal clerks. The staff specifically assigned to decipher bad addresses were called “Nixie” clerks.

Babies By Mail The United States Post Office introduced parcel-post deliveries in 1913 and boasted that anything – anything at all – under 11 pounds was suitable for shipment. Taking the Post Office at its word, a Clermont County farming couple, Jesse and Matilda Beagle, made history on 25 January 1913 when they packed up their infant son, and shipped him off via parcel post to his grandparent’s house. The Associated Press claimed the Beagles were the first customers to utilize the new parcel post system in this manner.

Potatoes, Too! A Kentucky farmer did the math and determined that parcel post rates were cheaper than hiring a dray to get his potato crop to market. On 28 October 1916, the Cincinnati Post Office found 35 sacks of spuds, weighing 50 pounds each, waiting to be processed and delivered to a Court Street wholesaler. All 1,750 pounds of taters arrived at their appointed destination by mid-afternoon.

Photographic Memory Postal employees were legendary for their ability to accurately deliver mail bearing a minimal address. That skill was tested to an extreme in 1929 when an envelope arrived in Cincinnati bearing only a photograph of a building and the name of the city. A postal clerk recognized the building in the photograph. Sure enough, the letter was intended for Oliver F. Slimp, manager of the Edwards Building at 528 Walnut Street, the building pictured in the photograph pasted on the envelope.

The Porn Stops Here Federal investigators tracing the distribution of obscene materials throughout the Midwest found that most of the pornography was mailed from Cincinnati. On 28 November 1940, postal inspectors struck paydirt in a West Eighth Street warehouse, where they found 28 rolls of motion picture film, 2,000 photographs, 3,000 printed cartoons, a dozen cartons of obscene literature and related printing plates. Two Cincinnati men were arrested as a result of the raid.

End Of The Line Cincinnati’s art-deco styled Main Post Office on Dalton Street was originally constructed in 1933 as the Dalton Annex. The huge building was intentionally located adjacent to railroad lines and the new Union Terminal because so much mail was transported to Cincinnati by train. That advantage disappeared on 17 November 1974 when the iconic track-side facility received the last shipment of mail to arrive in Cincinnati by railroad.

[hiaennyddei]

Nonlethal

[thewastelandwriter]

Could you do another Hogwarts House sorting for the Dishonored characters? I love your other ones!

A/N: Thank you for the ask! I’m glad you liked my Fallout 4 & Apex Legends sortings!

Oh boy, this is a big one! I tried to include as many notable characters from the Dishonored series that I could! As stated many times before, this is up to interpretation! Many characters fit into two houses, so it was hard just choosing one. For example, Daud and Vera Moray could be in either Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Feel free to comment on how you would sort the characters.

Gryffindor: Blunt, practical, passionate, stubborn, loath to back down, impatient, wary of manipulators and liars and unafraid to seize opportunities. Emily Kaldwin, Billie Lurk/Meagan Foster, Farley Havelock, Geoff Curnow, Duke Luca Abele, Lydia Brooklaine, Slackjaw, Alexi Mayhew, and Edna Boyle.

Hufflepuff: Hard-working, determined, honest, accepting, practical, dependable, and just. Loyalty that is not free but must be earned. Corvo Attano, Jessamine Kaldwin, Breanna Ashworth, Callista Cornow, Wallace Higgins, Aramis Stilton, Samuel Beechworth, and Cecelia.

Ravenclaw: Intelligent, artistic, curious, witty, observant, creative, inquisitive, fond of learning and intellectual conversations. Not necessarily unemotional, but can be cynical at times. The Outsider, Treavor Pendleton, Kirin Jindosh, Piero Joplin, Anton Sokolov, Alexandria Hypatia, Mindy Blanchard, and Lydia Boyle.

Slytherin: Ambitious, determined, adaptable, charming, realistic, self-reliant, assertive, and focused. Big on goals, as well as cost/benefit analysis. Daud, Delilah Copperspoon, Teague Martin, Vera Moray/Granny Rags, Hiram Burrows, Overseer Liam Byrne, Paolo, and Waverly Boyle.

[annoyed-galaxy]

Reading The Corroded Man and I've learned that pure low chaos Corvo was not the route taken. SPOILERS just in case you wanna read TCM yourself.

Waverly Boyle was the Boyle sister that Corvo gave to Brisby.

Corvo actually kills Hiram Burrow. He doesn't do the low chaos option. The book talks about Burrows reign that only ended after Corvo killed him. I find that interesting because I originally assumed pure low chaos was the official story but this kinda shows that Corvo actually didn't keep to a 100% pacifist route. Just a small detail that I like and even if TCM isn't canon, it's still nice to see that Corvo did kill and wasn't 100% clean hands. Just because it's interesting to see that difference yknow? Like there was definitely some gray areas.

[lordcustythependletwat]

A Boyle lady of your choice! 😘

Oooh Boyle wamen!!! My go-to is usually Waverly so I’ll do her

First impression: Damn fucking bad bitch, waaa

Impression now: Still a bad bitch but also now a bad bitch that lives in my head rent free

Favorite moment: One funny thing you can do is enter the bathroom while the Boyles are in there and it’s just so funny what they have to say and also just so ridiculous? Idk every moment is a good Boyle moment

Idea for a story: Umm head empty no thoughts, I really got nothing. I mean I do but also I don’t.

Unpopular opinion: Maybe...? But I think relatively to the rest of the targets the Boyles weren’t really at fault? Not like hanging around with Hiram and being oblivious to the whole city falling apart was good of them to do, but like damn especially considering the nonlethal I feel like they deserved better.

Favorite relationship: I think about her rivalry/animosity/whatever with Custis a lot, like what the hell happened? From dialogue coupled with the fact that Treavor mentions Waverly a lot in his childhood, I get the assumption that they definitely knew each other for a while. Were they former friends that had a falling out? Were they simply rivals from the start? Idk but it’s something to think about.

Favorite headcanon: Waverly likes birds!!! Her favorites are doves bc they look pretty but she likes almost all birds and loves going birdwatching. I think that it’s the freedom that birds have that she sort of envies, considering how she’s sort of trapped in this system of gossip and toxic aristocracy that she’s forced to participate

[wahbegan]

Tea on the Boyle Sisters

As per The Heart, my main source of scalding hot Dunwall tea

Waverly is manic-depressive, likes to introduce naive girls to high society just to see them publicly humiliated and laugh, and once had an Iris-excuse me, “Morlish” servant who she felt such insanely strong Feelings(TM) for, that the only reasonable response was to have him killed. Which she did.

Lydia is possibly the finest musician in Dunwall and also may or may not be a serial killer of her servants. Oop.

Esma drinks heavily and sleeps around to cope with a traumatic...some unspecified kind of childbirth complication (i’m assuming resulting in the child’s death) and subsequent infertility. This along with the fact that when she’s flirting with Corvo she talks about how she’s only fucking Hiram as a status thing and doesn’t really like him and Corvo’s more her type makes her by far the most valid of the 3 btw

[hell-yeahfilm]

HOUSE STANDOFF

Speaker of the House John Fitzpatrick Mahoney wants his unofficial bagman and fixer to track down the person who leaked news to CNN about Mahoney’s secret meeting with two telecom CEOs looking for a merger. But DeMarco, overwhelmed by the news of Shannon Doyle’s fatal shooting, travels to the town of Waverly, Wyoming, instead. There, he learns that everybody just loved Shannon, who was on an extended visit to gather material for her second novel, but that a few people might have had it in for her anyway. Shannon’s discovery, duly recorded in the copious journal DeMarco gets access to by his usual roundabout ways, of the romance between FBI–defying rancher Hiram Bunt’s much younger wife, Lisa, and Jim Turner, the Sweetwater County deputy heading the investigation into Bunt, might have put her in the sights of Turner; his wife, Carly; or Lisa Bunt, who can’t afford to throw away the 10 years she’s invested in her cash cow of a marriage. And motel manager Sam Clarke’s daughter, Lola, a drug-addicted cleaner who almost certainly stole Shannon’s diamond earrings, might have killed her just to swipe her missing laptop as well. Despite DeMarco’s continuing disdain for the niceties of the law, he’s a lot less interesting as a sleuth than as a fixer, and the solution, which he doesn’t even uncover, will have many fans of this entertaining series demanding their money back.

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[blve0]

Meet the Writer Tag Game!

So, @necros-writings​ tagged me in this post forever ago, here goes!

Your main character is designing their own Dream House. What does it look like? I mean...tiny house. Green. Got gardens. Hopefully, Waverly lives with Brana, Milo, Luka, etc. and they have cats. The house I just mentioned is basically the Elisson’s house, but that’s the first place Waverly has really felt she earned her acceptance to and felt included as a part in it, so it makes sense that she would model a dream house after it.

2. What is the weirdest thing that has ever inspired a WIP? I fell out of tree once and wrote a duology and some short stories about it. It was years ago, but the surrunding plot that grew out of it is not too shoddy.

3. Which character in your current WIP is the most fun to write, and why? Waverly, I mean, the whole book is written through her perspective. She’s got an end goal, and will find a way to achieve it--she really is the culmination of the phrase “whatever it takes.”

4. Choose an 80s song for your main character(s) theme song! Waverly: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)

Milo: Jump (Van Halen)

Brana: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney Houston)

Luka: Modern Love (David Bowie)

Soheila: Come on Eileen (Dexys Midnight Runners)

5. The characters in your current WIP are in high school. Who gets voted “Most Popular/Most Likely to End up In Jail/Friendliest” etc? Brana is voted “most popular,” and “friendliest,” Luka “most likely to become president,” Milo “most likely to get arrested for petty theft,” and Waverly something around “least impressed with all of you,” assuming something like that exists.

6. Tell us a place in the world that you desperately want to visit, and why.

Give! Me! The! Cities! I’d love to go to Dubai or London; I’ve gone to Toronto once and it was the absolute best.

7. What is the absolute trashiest TV show that you’ve ever watched? I know everybody says this, but. My friend recommended Riverdale to me, and so I started watching. By the time they were going back and forth between the Gargoyal King and that guy Hiram got shot (again? I cant remember.) I had to stop watching because the writing was just that badly.

8. Hollywood comes knocking, wanting to put your life story on the big screen. Who’s cast to play you? What about your nemesis/love interest? Maya Hawke plays me, but I don’t know about anyone else, mainly because in my real life I don’t have a nemesis or love interest.

9. Favorite flower(s) and why? Roses!! They’re so pretty and there’s so many different kinds!

10. Is there a genre that you’d love to break into in the future? Horror? Contemporary fiction mixed with horror? That’s my favorite to read, and I would love to be able to write it well.

Here are the next ten questions:

1. Steampunk, dieselpunk, or cyberpunk?

2. Do you drink coffee?

3. Your WIP is turned into a Netflix show. Who plays your characters, and are there any adjustments made to the plot?

4. Out of your cast of characters, who is your favorite?

5. What is your favorite genre to read versus write?

6. Who is an author that you aspire to write like?

7. What is your favorite writing snack?

8. What is the first sentence of your current WIP?

9. Do you outline?

10. What’s your favorite thing about your WIP?

Thank you!! Tagging: @tiredbard​ @writerofscribbles​ @bootsandcleats82​ @evawritessometimes​ @chavawrites​ @bogbodybitch​ @cecelearose​ @lostwithintheclouds​ @surlyhobbit17​ @khrysantemvm​