#thus was adonis murdered

[e-b-reads]

Books of the Month: Feb 2024

At this point I'm doing books of the months posts late more by design than by accident (I mean, several were by accident, but now...). It's interesting to look back with a little more distance and see what reads stuck with me from the previous month. This time it was:

My Brother Sam is Dead (James Lincoln Collier): I picked this up literally years ago for free, thinking I've heard of this so I should probably read it. Despite the title being right there, so you know what's coming, it was still a little more violent than I expected, and sort of more sad (although obviously I knew it would be sad! But he still got me). I am including it on the list because of a post I read recently about some people failing to grasp that there's nuance in history. A good book about a boy - young man - and his shrinking family, and how they're mostly just trying to live through the events happening around them.

Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Sarah Caudwell): Now for something completely different! Well, someone still dies in this one, but otherwise. I had heard of these (this is first in a short mystery series) before, but I didn't realize how much of an ensemble cast they have, or how hilarious they are! Set contemporaneously with when they're written, so early 1980s. Oxford Professor Hilary Tamar (gender unclear) seems to never spend time in Oxford, but instead hangs out with a gaggle of young lawyers (solicitors? I admit the British law stuff loses me a little, but it's kind of meant to) in London and in various cities around the world where they keep falling into situations where someone was murdered, and write each other very funny letters about it. I can't describe these sufficiently but I recommend them wholeheartedly.

And then I'm going to do something I never have yet, and list a couple honorable mentions. These were special to me for specific reasons, but might be exactly what someone is looking for so I'll list them too!

Call the Nurse (Mary J. MacLeod): This is one of those books written by someone who had experiences and wanted to write about them, rather than someone who wanted to write and so chose some experiences to write about. True stories from a woman (a nurse) who moved with her family to the Scottish Hebrides in the...1960s?? (Someone is currently borrowing my copy! I can't check, I think that's the right time period.) It was given to me by a very good friend; she'd read it a while ago but had trouble finding a copy to gift. So she was very triumphant when she found one, and I was touched. I enjoyed it as a book to read in the evenings, one chapter at a time.

The Waterman (Tim Junkin): This is fictional but kind of fits with the above as a book that's about a specific place and time as much as about a plot (though it does have a plot! gets exciting at the end). It was written in the 90s, takes place in the 70s, but though things have changed a lot, there's a lot of things that are still true about the communities around the Chesapeake Bay today, and I really liked it.

[mppmaraudergirl]

not for anti honesty hour, but why do so many authors write james as this super fit adonis? he is never once described in the books as handsome like sirius is or pretty like lily. all that’s said is that he looks like harry and has messy hair and a long, thin face. in fact, he sounds much closer aesthetically to snape and i always got the idea they were supposed to be two sides of the same coin only james grew up healthy and loved

I honestly could not disagree with you more on your last point. I can acknowledge the parallels of James/Snape's childhood but that in no way directly correlates to their basic looks.

James, in the books, is described as looking exactly like Harry. Harry never describes himself as handsome/attractive because he's a fifteen year old boy who is a bit preoccupied with not being murdered every year. What we do hear in canon is that the summer between fifth and sixth, Harry had a growth spurt that according to Hermione, made him very enticing to the female population of Hogwarts. He was doing just fine in the looks department.

As far as embellishing the "super fit Adonis" narrative, which despite your claim seems very pointed based on one of the running jokes I've written in a recent story, I chalk that up to the fact that most of us are writing romance stories and thus James is written in a very attractive light, especially from Lily's POV. He's the main love interest. I haven't read many pieces of fiction where the main love interest isn't described extremely favorably/attractive.

None of this is to say that he is on Sirius' level. Clearly that would be untrue as no one is described to be as handsome as Sirius (not Remus, not Regulus either). But that doesn't mean I'm not going to write that to Lily and in her eyes, he is the more attractive man. I can only speak for myself, but I suspect other authors may feel something similar.

[chaos-grimoire]

Meanings of Crystals, Based on Historical and Scientific Significance.

Moonstone: 

Believed by the Romans to be drops of the moon, and thus, it was seen as a symbol of love, intuition, femininity, dreams, sleep, fertility, and emotions

Lapis Lazuli: Believed by the Romans to be an aphrodisiac, and as a symbol of Love, Peace, and Joy. Was ground to a powder and used as a compress to neutralize negative emotions and draw out spiritual impurities.

The Egyptians used Lapis as a sign of status, and pharaohs and judges wore emblems of Maat, god of truth, made of Lapis. This implies that Lapis has associations with truth and power. Lapis was also used alongside gold as an exorcism poultice. Lapis was also believed to provide safe passage for the dead, so it can be implied that Lapis has protective properties, especially on a spiritual level.

The Sumerians used Lapis as a way to inscribe documents, so Lapis can also be associated with knowledge.

Emerald:

The Egyptians believed the green color of Emerald represented regrowth of the earth during springtime, therefore, Emeralds were associated with regrowth and fertility.

Legend has it that the Roman Emperor Nero watched gladiator fights through a large transparent Emerald as he found its green color soothing and calming, therefore, emeralds can be associated with calm and banishment of negative emotions.

Aristotle wrote about his belief that carrying an Emerald aided the owner’s ability to speak with confidence and ease during business deals. He also thought that Emerald brought good luck, therefore emeralds have associations with luck and confidence. 

Labradorite:

In Norse mythology, Labradorite is associated with the bifrost bridge, the connection between the earthly world and the divine. Therefore, Labradorite can be associated with communication with the divine, as well as protection during travel.

Amethyst: In a Renaissance addition to Greek mythology, Amethyste was a maiden who was turned into a quartz crystal by Artemis, in order to save her from a worse fate at the hands of Dionysus. Dionysus, respecting Amethyste’s wishes, dumped wine on the stone as an offer of respect, turning it purple. Based on this story, Amethyst can be associated with protection.

The name Amethyst comes from Amethystos, which literally means not intoxicated.The idea that Amethyst can ward off drunkenness can be translated to the idea that the stone represents calm and mental clarity

Aquamarine:

In Greek mythology, it is said that it washed ashore after spilling from the treasure chests of sirens. Due to this, aquamarine can be associated with persuasion and deception.

In Roman mythology, Aquamarine was sacred to Neptune, and was associated with safety on sea, protecting sailors from monsters and sea sickness.

Opal: The Ancient Greeks believed that Opals gave them prophecy, associating the gem with intuition.

Europeans consider the gem a symbol of hope, purity and truth.

Rose Quartz:

In Greek mythology, Rose Quartz originates from the tragedy of Aphrodite and Adonis. Adonis was murdered by a wild boar, It is said that Aphrodite's blood mixed with Adonis's blood and fell onto nearby Quartz, staining it a dusky pink, signifying the symbolic hues of Rose Quartz. Due to this, Rose Quartz can be associated with love, passion, and grief.

Rose Quartz was also believed to have physical beautification properties. Rose Quartz face masks have been discovered in Egyptian tombs. Ancient Egyptians and Romans believed that it cleared their skin and had rejuvenating properties. Therefore, Rose Quartz can be associated with beauty

Ruby:

The famous gem explorer George Frederick Kunz wrote in his book The Curious Lore of Precious Stones that “Rubies were believed to exercise a calming influence and to remove anger and discord”, due to this, Rubies have associations with positivityRubies fluoresce under black light, and some even seem to fluoresce under sunlight. This bold glow can associate Rubies with confidence, status, and power.

I will update this as I discover more. For the stones that do not have open mythos linked to them, ideas such as color magic and the origin of the stone can be used to create occult associations.

[hakkiest]

@napo-con-fritas tageóme but i already answered all the questions in another tag game EXCEPT the To Be Read one SO!!! let me answer that one in excrutiang detail:

Next TBR:

Imáginários da Terra, ensaios sobre natureza e arte na contemporaneidade (Earth Imaginaries, essays on nature and art on contemporary times) by Louise Ganz

Thus was Adonis murdered by Sarah Cadwell

Sorelle Materassi (the Materassi sisters) by Aldo Palazzeschi

Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman

Moça Deitada na Grama (young woman laying in the grass) by Carlos Drummon de Andrade

Mística e Razão, Dialética no Pensamento Judaico (Mysticism and Reason, dialectis in Jewish thinking) by Alexandre Leone

Merchands d'Art (Artsellers) by Daniel Wildenstein

Mirall Trencat (Shattered Mirror) by Mercé Rodoreda)

Le Sel de la Vie (the salt of life) by Françoise Héritier

Historie de l'art et lutte des classes (History of art and class struggle) by Nicos Hadjinicolaou

Baudelaire - compilations, organized by Plínio Augusto Coelho

Clarissa by Erico Veríssimo

tagging any mutuals that have been reading tbh!!! also @misa-ndry eonni you seem you've read a lot im curious on your next ones!

[libidomechanica]

And so say you

For Loyal Blood within. To them,     and so in spite of fruitless sleep becomes to be sealing?     Trod down the meadows where the Government it by the sublime,     be arch, or being low never seek to tell, whence our     lives, crossing tongue is banisht

man, found, would Curb my Spirit     confounds. They flee from me that close to mi, say she flies, and     all in haste, till that blood. Under whose great with those Eyes to     warre be train’d! If from Court, then, Israel’s monarch, as are taught     the sight again to fight;

thus on my fires underground where     Love is dumb. You came to have my body but a Spark too     much; I can create himself a Muse-In Sanhedrins be     taught him wiht new Plots, from duty, than flint, for best when the     sea hath refuse; tis much

duty; for in your hair: do you     hence, so form’d by Gods eternal lines to taste. From Expensive     angle myself in every blesse, though fled is even     by the Musk-Harvest of her breathes of loue to shield, his field,     so as thou grow wood, the

wretch, to over-rule us all     in love have prickles, yet ne’er seem’d as he sat, and make rejoin’d—     ’She was walking like a man, more wonder; in that we     have I, but live, an’ love my Nanie’s changing could be possest;     still to be Out-done.

What if evolution of youth     last and more friend. The guest, but because she darts beating with     thy inmost soul. From thence these enclaspëd hands his Truth Proclaim;     his Loyalty the waiter brought my plant in her hast     thou know’st not again, but

you have already dead.—Compares     to come: and, brib’d the Destinies, to cross till action, lust     is perjured, murderous and the worse for repetitioners:     whom, whereof are you so too; who had not say; the thing     it should certainty is

beauty. Oh, you are lost my mind.     And that: But thou talk? And guard the Sea where the power hast     thou to the East, far-folded mists, and this I’m sure a pow’r     again. Keep with too much preys make amends, tho’ even now     to tie the rain; I was

fix’d upon our Sex betraide, whole,     can in good faith releasing: pity, ’ she says, Tis so; ’ and     soul with fine Conceits your Sacred Life each several Sons     by such vnsuted speech did hotly overlooking form, and     Titan, tired in like

a flock as Israelites; whose     desperate the one with a Patriot Paint! And grandeur: and     do not so vigorously he made, or is for ill     desires: the Prostrate Vulgar Spright, and the Clouds and never     win the sun doth bring, such

a thing to offer to other’s     guise, sweet in sad, its salt and begins to woo him. Of which     is why you out. Drop heavily downe on me. Thus Prais’d, and     neighs, he bounds, when being fool to fancy i have died to     keepe no more, for you has

made me, cold and Philomel become     as much; loves all its reason, and has a crush on Myrna     Loy, and there was this turf, and floats their slave o’t! On,     and one seems built to bear upon an humbler promontory,     amidst life in her

heart with truffles. Each other, by     a specious love a world will commennd: they like water and     Place, was it not, or he will, to take by sap: but oh! And     kept? Then do their alter’d Hearts from them; and thinking grieves. The     owl, night’s baith kirk and rainy,

O; but I’m as blythe thatch see     blossoming Century. With womankind, a heterogeneous     mass of the woman who had power, but disturb     the fence, running children would well be, for the true Succession     ran: once more strong, that

we say and use good bits are slaves     his brows. Within thy heart throbbed to or laid down the rider     she was Lord and King of his wound, gainst the facts of life     at strife, there is thine, to which is especially upon     the page wondering the

colt that’s that reeves his crooked Counsels     brought for, and have knock’d my tongue; be wreak’d on his last limits     here? Save her? ’Er saw that we, enamoured of an     angry-chafing, down Adonis’ heart of gall, is fancy’s     spring doth yield, like those

Nicean barks of your hopes and Secure     they blot they might, as not at all. Life-poisoning     pestilence I grieve. As he was he to foolish I could their     presented joy though t is said to thee? And long winter     cave. I fear not at all.

[himejoshi-phd]

Death and Other Details is such a D Tier mystery title. Sarah Caudwell was naming books Shortest Way to Hades and Thus Was Adonis Murdered and this is the best you can do?

[alovelyburn]

Hi! I read the ask about Adonis, and I was wondering... do you think Griffith feels any guilt about the people he kills, or like the enemies who end up dying because they're in the way of his dream? Like - I know he feels terrible about murdering people in general, like he clearly doesn't enjoy it at all despite making himself ruthless, and I know he feels especially guilty about his friends and comrades who die for his dream, but I wonder if he feels actual guilt about his enemies as well? I find his expressions really interesting both when he's facing the queen before she burns to death and when he sends the assassins off (to get ambushed by Guts) with their reward money... like he seems so troubled. Right before he turns away from the queen he kind of just... looks down, kind of similar to how he usually looks down when he feels bad about something. Perhaps I'm misreading it? Is it just that he involved Guts in his scheme that he feels so bad about it... that's the only reason he implies to Guts, but then Griffith never speaks about his severe guilt issues. I'm sorry this is so long, I'm just really curious to hear your thoughts! 💙

I'm not sure if you went in depth about this in your Berserk Golden Age review analysis/breakdowns (I haven't finished all of them yet) so if you already talked about this there, I apologize. Also is it wrong (take wise) for me to think that Griffith was super repressed at that point when he hears about Adonis, so whatever guilt/bad feelings he feels usually when people die due to his dream/actions is buried and replaced with the satisfaction about one less obstacle he has to worry about? I know this ask is all over the place, please feel free to ignore!

I absolutely do think he felt guilty about the deaths he caused as well - he even includes them in his "thousands of comrades and tens of thousands of enemies" summation. It's also referenced in his first appearance when he goes on about how people die meaningless deaths. I don't think he feels as bad about it as he does about his allies, but I do think it's worth noting that even now, in the current series, he goes out of his way to avoid excess deaths among his enemies.

That's the wartime enemies though - the soldiers, who I assume he understands are largely tools of larger forces and no more guilty or innocent than his own troops. I would say the same is true for people like the hired thugs - they're just innocent bystanders caught up in this political warfare and I do think he feels badly about that - thus the disturbed look when they leave and the fact that he left the money they'd earned with their bodies.

As for people like Julius and the Queen...

I think in those cases it's less that he feels bad about killing them specifically than that he feels uncomfortable with what killing them - his willingness to do so and the methods he uses to accomplish that aim - says about him.

Julius and the Queen are not bystanders or soldiers, they're more like enemy generals right, like they're waging war on him and he's a war leader so he puts them down. They picked that fight - a fight he wasn't even trying to get involved in - and forced his hand because they created a situation where it was either him or them. There's no way around that, because they've got infinitely more resources and influence than he does, so all he can do is respond in kind.

But that doesn't mean his feelings about those situations - especially the Queen situation - are uncomplicated. Because he did still compromise the person he wanted to be, but also because he dragged other people into it - not just Guts, either. With the Queen he has a child kidnapped and threatened, he blackmails Foss and makes him an active conspirator in murder and treason, he hires goons to help him and then has them assassinated - it's a lot.

And since he considers these things to be dirty work to begin with, the fact that he does them, and that he brings other people into it with him, is uncomfortable to him.

That said, there is another quirk to it: the actual mastermind behind those attempts on his life was Foss, who he spared. Why?

I think it's because Griffith is ultimately someone who does as little damage as possible and as much damage as necessary.

In the case of Julius and the Queen, killing them was necessary because their positions meant that they could never be intimidated or controlled - and because of his relationship to them and what he represented (the loss of his status to Julius and the loss of her lover to the Queen), they would just keep coming after him if he didn't bring it to a permanent end.

But with Foss there was a better way - instead of literally killing Foss, Griffith did exactly what he did with Corkus: kill his ambitions at the root, and turn him into a sycophantic follower instead of a rival.

As for Adonis, that's a hard one because we don't spend a lot of time with the Adonis issue unlike Julius, Foss and the Queen. My personal perspective is that he was probably aware on some level that dealing with Adonis was likely to become necessary at some point, so having him turn up dead is convenient and spares him the inner tumult of having to give that order since it was an accident.

I mean the thing is, Griffith isn't a cartoon villain but he's also not a saint - Femto didn't come from nowhere. I guess you could say I think that smile is the part of him that ultimately becomes Femto.

[drwilfredwaterson]

And They All Said, "All Hail the Lord of the Flies! He'll Go to Jail to Make America Well! Make America Great! Cage the Orange Snake! Him Caged Will Save the States! Keep America Great!" Part 1/2.

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 141: Exodus 13:21 The Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud by day, to guide them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, that they might travel day and night.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1621: Proverbs 13:21 Misfortune pursues sinners, But the righteous are well rewarded.

Matthew 13:20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. Matthew 13:21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Mark 13:21 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.

John 13:21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”

Strong's Concordance #4077 Maday: an inhabitant of Media, each, every (Hebrew), Thank you (Yiddish) Original Word: מָדַי

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Strong's Concordance #57 abel: mourning, lamenting, but Original Word: אָבֵל

Strong's Concordance #137 Adoni-bezeq: "lord of Bezek," "Lord of lightning," a ruler in Canaan Original Word: אֲדֹנִי־בֶזֶק

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Strong's Concordance #153 edra: an arm, a force, a power, "I will" Original Word: אֶדְרָע

Strong's Concordance #120 adam: man, mankind, a human being, humanity, a person Original Word: אָדָם

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1601: Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you accept my words And treasure up my commandments; Proverbs 2:2 If you make your ear attentive to wisdom And your mind open to discernment; Proverbs 2:3 If you call to understanding And cry aloud to discernment, Proverbs 2:4 If you seek it as you do silver And search for it as for treasures, Proverbs 2:5 Then you will understand the fear of the Lord And attain knowledge of God.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 139: Exodus 13:3 And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, on which you went free from Egypt, the house of bondage, how the Lord freed you from it with a mighty hand: no leavened bread shall be eaten.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 404: Deuteronomy 13:1 Be careful to observe only that which I enjoin upon you: neither add to it nor take away from it. Deuteronomy 13:2 If there appears among you a prophet or a dream-diviner and he gives you a sign or a portent, Deuteronomy 13:3 saying, "Let us follow and worship another god"--whom you have not experienced--even if the sign or portent that he named to you comes true, Deuteronomy 13:4 do not heed the words of that prophet or that dream-diviner. For the Lord your God is testing you to see whether you really love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1176: Ezekiel 13:3 Thus said the Lord God: Woe to the degenerate prophets, who follow their own fancy, without having had a vision!

1 Corinthians 8:3 But whoever loves God is known by God.

The Germans attempted to disguise their intentions. They sought to portray the deportations as a "resettlement" of the Jewish population in labor camps in the "East." In reality, the "resettlement in the East" became a euphemism for transport to the killing centers and mass murder. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deportations-to-killing-centers

X-Men : Apocalypse (May 27, 2016/148th day): Magneto Destroys Holocaust Camp Auschwitz

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Strong's Concordance #2177 zan: from zuwn; properly, nourished (or fully developed), i.e. A form or sort, kind, manner of store. kind, sort Original Word: זַן

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 984 and 985: Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has dawned; The Presence of the Lord has shone upon you! Isaiah 60:2 Behold! Darkness shall cover the earth, And thick clouds the peoples; But upon you the Lord will shine, And His Presence be seen over you. Isaiah 60:3 And nations shall walk by your light, Kings by your shining radiance. Isaiah 60:4 Raise your eyes and look about: They have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, Your daughters like babes on shoulders. Isaiah 60:5 As you behold, you will glow; Your heart will throb and thrill--For the wealth of the sea shall pass on to you, The riches of nations shall flow to you.

The Math is Mathing… Newton's Third Law: Action & Reaction His third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. If object A exerts a force on object B, object B also exerts an equal and opposite force on object A. In other words, forces result from interactions. (NASA.gov)

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 322: Numbers 16:30 But if the Lord brings about something unheard of, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, you shall know that these men have spurned the Lord."

The Lincoln Project - The Loser in Chief is Broke

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Strong's Concordance #2725 cherabon: from charab; parching heat -- drought. Original Word: חֲרָבוֹן

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1447: Psalm 32:4 For night and day Your hand lay heavy on me; my vigor waned as in the summer drought. Selah.

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And in this segment of "The Real News As If It Was Reported by Liddle donnie's Truths on MAGA Fox News" (Parody)…

Jimmy Kimmel Gives Trump A Blunt Reminder About Jail: 'That Actually Is The Plan' The late night host says that the tearful and unrepentant criminal defendant and former president fortunately, or as some might say, "unfortunately," (s)hit on the truth at an otherwise bland, expectedly boring, and typically low-energy campaign event. By Ed Mazza Oct 17, 2023, 03:49 AM EDT Jimmy Kimmel said criminal defendant and crooked thug, liddle donnie trump, accidentally stumbled on the truth while slurring his words during yet another of his inane rants on Monday, after a strong and empowered non-white female federal judge issued a gag order prohibiting him from attacking witnesses and staff members of the court and prosecution. The former president, who is facing 91 felony counts in four different cases, is already fundraising off the order with an email claiming “today really isn’t about gagging me, it’s an attempt to gag the American people.” “No, it’s you,” Kimmel corrected during his Monday show. “We’re still able to say pretty much anything we want, and be healthy while we're saying it; because we're not literally gagging on your usual 2700-calorie McDonald's order, and then telling Fulton County Jail officers that we're 6' 3", 215 pound professional athletes when we're arrested on RICO charges for our collective anti-American crimes.” But Kimmel said Trump did get something right when he griped about the gag order during a campaign event in Iowa. “What they don’t understand is that I am willing to go to jail if that’s what it takes for our country to win and become a democracy again,” Trump said, and then immediately added, "My fellow RINOs and I are always playing: "Oopsies! Liddle donnie dropped the slippery soap again!" to prepare for our group incarceration. It's always fun in the media, on truth social, and on every RINO's social media account. I love it, the RINOs love it, everyone loves it, and so we do it! MAGA!" “Oh, yeah. We understand that,” Kimmel fired back. “That actually is the plan: You go to jail, and the country becomes a democracy again. I’m glad we’re finally on the same page.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-trump-jail_n_652e2cc8e4b0da897ab51a4f

HuffPost Stinky Dinky-Winky Dumpster Diaper Liddle donnie trump Turns Slurred Iowa Speech Into Diatribe Against Flies And Fly Paper David Moye Mon, October 16, 2023 at 4:10 PM PDT Donald Trump said some harsh words against refugees on Monday during a speech in Adel, Iowa, but saved his most damning comments for the flies buzzing around his face. "You know, Hezbollah is very smart.' They're all very smart," and “The Taliban, good fighters, I will tell you, good fighters. You have to give them credit for that. They’ve been killing Jews, Christians, and non-Muslims for a thousand years. What they do is they fight.” The slurring, dementia-suffering liddle organge bigot then told supporters that if reelected, he will begin “ideological screening” for all immigrants and resident Americans and won’t allow anyone who glorifies or sympathizes with Israel-hating and Jew-hating white supremacy, Christian Identity, replacement theology, Nazis, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and other Muslim extremists (except for himself and all of his supporters and enablers, of course) to enter or remain in the United States. “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of courage. If you’re a communist, Marxist, or fascist, you are disqualified from entering or remaining in the United States,” he said, leaning on fearful, discriminatory rhetoric common throughout his campaign. “In addition, we will aggressively deport all communists, Marxists, fascists, and everyone who refuses to vote for me or insults me and makes me ugly cry like a liddle melting snowflake in any way.” However in the midst of his unbearably boring and simple-minded diatribes, the melting morbidly obese and profusely sweating stinky dinky-winky dumpster diaper liddle orange snowflake, incestuous pedophile rapist and dirty daddy donnie trump, had attracted such a raging and aggressive fly swarm with his usual rancid breath and urine and fecal stench, that he got distracted during his sludge-faced tantrums and failed comedy routines by flies buzzing around his liddle slimy head. “I didn’t know you had flies in Iowa,” tearful liddle donnie said while waving his hand in front of his face. “I hate flies!!!” "Cowardly Mike Pence attracted flies, too! And we all know how that turned out! We won 2020 with a landslide after a Red Wave of voter turnout never before seen for an incumbent President, Me, America's favorite President! We won every state by a landslide with 9 billion votes! All hail the Lord of the Flies, Me!" "I tell ya, we win every election when it's a free and fair election with only Real Americans; and by Real Americans, I mean America's most poorly educated, brainwashed, simple-minded and misinformed voters: you, you inbred, mouth-breathing, biblically-illiterate far-right-media-addicted miscreants who believe me and everything I say over your own family, friends, and Christian leaders! Am I right?! We all know it's true, and that's okay! And once we deport all the communists, Marxists, and fascists who vote against us, we'll keep winning every free and fair election with 9 billion votes! Who's with me? USA! USA! MAGA! MAGA! MAGA! MAGA! MAGA!" https://news.yahoo.com/trump-turns-iowa-speech-diatribe-231014283.html

The Pure American Banality of Tasteless donnie Diarrhea trump’s White House Fast-Food Banquet By Helen Rosner January 15, 2019 There is a particular awfulness to McDonald’s or Burger King once it’s gone as cold as liddle Weekend at Donnie's rotting, zombified, and morbidly obese stinky dinky-winky crying cadaver. By the time America’s greatest collegiate football players arrived, in their navy blazers and Sunday shoes, to pick up porcelain plates and work their way through this cardboard buffet, the French fries would have grown cold and mealy, the burger buns soggy, the precise half slice of American cheese on each Filet-o-Fish sandwich hardened to a tough, flavorless rectangle of yellow. Corey Lewandowski wrote, in “Let trump Be Trumped,” his book chronicling the campaign, that “on trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke,” and that his boss’s go-to McDonald’s order was two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fishes, and a chocolate milkshake. (After a horrified outcry, Lewandowski clarified that the 2,630-calorie meal is more healthful than it appears, because Trump makes a point of removing the buns.) After taking office, according to a Politico report, tearful trump reportedly preferred a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese (lots of ketchup, no pickles) to the White House kitchen staff’s iteration (which lacked ketchup because tearful liddle donnie trump constantly threw America's ketchup all over the White House's walls). Tearful trump, in typical form, spun Monday’s catering con job as ultimately the fault of his political opponents, an inevitable result of his own elective government shutdown, which has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed—including, presumably, the White House kitchen staff. Source:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/the-pure-american-banality-of-donald-trumps-white-house-fast-food-banquet

donald trump Just Confirmed He's Under Investigation For Firing James Comey By Kate Samuelson June 16, 2017 9:52 AM EDT “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt,” donald trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning. On June 14, the Washington Post reported on allegations that trump was under investigation for possible obstruction of justice, citing unidentified officials. trump denied the report, calling it a “phony story,” and a spokesman for trump’s lawyer questioned the legality of leaking information in a statement to TIME, but did not deny the report. The man trump is thought to be referencing in his tweet is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who wrote a memo that provided a basis for Comey’s dismissal. Source: https://time.com/4821334/president-trump-confirmed-investigation-comey/

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Audio)

Published: June 16, 2017 (167th day) Duration: 3:37 (217 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XGnxTi-fE i_XGnxTi-fE efgiintxx 5+6+7+9+9+40+100+300+300=776. 776+217=993. 993+167=1160.

Strong's Concordance #1160 Beor: From ba'ar (in the sense of burning); a lamp; to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to become brutish, to be brutish; to take away; father of an Edomite king, also the father of Balaam Original Word: בְּעוֹר

3000+318… Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Coming

Published: October 29, 2018 (302nd day) Duration: 2:32 (152 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJuhJJCdoI vsJuhJJCdoI cdhijjjosuv 3+4+8+9+600+600+600+50+90+200+700=2864. 2864+152=3016. 3016+302=3318.

Strong's Concordance #3318 yatsa: to go or come out, appear, bring forth, break out, escape, carry out, lead out, grow, spread out, be risen Original Word: יָצָא

Anton LaVey's Death: Wednesday, 29 October 1997 = 28th of Tishrei, 5758 Parashat Noach כ״ח בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשנ״ח Parashat Noach is the 2nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Genesis 6:9-11:32 Noach (“Noah”) begins as God decides to destroy mankind with a flood. At God’s command, the righteous Noah builds an ark, where Noah, his family, and select animals survive the flood. Noah’s children bear children, and several generations develop. God confounds the speech of people building the Tower of Babel.

Anton LaVey's Black House Demolished: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 = 30th of Tishrei, 5762 Parashat Noach כ״ח בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשנ״ח Parashat Noach is the 2nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Genesis 6:9-11:32 Noach (“Noah”) begins as God decides to destroy mankind with a flood. At God’s command, the righteous Noah builds an ark, where Noah, his family, and select animals survive the flood. Noah’s children bear children, and several generations develop. God confounds the speech of people building the Tower of Babel.

Strong's Concordance #6114 etser: to inclose, to restrain, restraint, detain, shut (up), stop. Original Word: עֶצֶר

The Black House was a building that formerly stood at 6114 California St. in San Francisco, California, in the United States. The house was used by Anton LaVey as the headquarters of his Church of Satan from 1966 until his death in 1997. LaVey conducted Satanic seminars and rituals at the house; one of the most notorious such rituals was the Satanic baptism of his daughter Zeena Schreck in 1967, punctuated by LaVey speaking the words "Hail Zeena! Hail Satan!" over the nude body of a female acting as the 'Satanic Altar'. Public ceremonies were performed at the house until 1972. LaVey lost ownership of the house in 1991 as the result of a court settlement resulting from his separation from Diane Hegarty, but LaVey was allowed to reside at the Black House until his death from poor health, increasing paranoia, and a pulmonary edema on October 29, 1997 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. Following LaVey's death, members of the Church of Satan unsuccessfully attempted to raise funds to repurchase the house, and it was demolished on October 17, 2001. A duplex now stands in its place. (Wikipedia)

“if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.” ― Stephen King, It

“The timing was just right enough so that things worked out wrong for everyone.” ― Stephen King, It

“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one—probably a child—who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.” ― Stephen King, It

“Someday you're just going to go too far and that will be the end.” ― Stephen King, It

On February 2, 1998, Anton LaVey's estranged daughter Zeena Schreck and her then husband Nikolas Schreck published a nine-page "fact sheet", in which they endorsed Wright's earlier allegations and claimed that many more of LaVey's stories about his life had been false.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey studied criminology at San Francisco City College during the Korean War.

REALITY: SFCC has no record of Anton LaVey's enrollment at any time.

SOURCES: SFCC records (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey purchased the house at 6114 California Street (which would later become the headquarters of the Church of Satan - the infamous "Black House") because he discovered on first inspection that it was the former brothel of Barbary Coast madam Mammy Pleasant. The house was honeycombed with trapdoors and secret passageways, built by Pleasant to elude police raids.

REALITY: 6114 was Anton LaVey's parents' home. It was never a brothel, nor did Mammy Pleasant ever live or work there. Anton LaVey's parents first allowed Anton LaVey and his first wife Carole to live in the house, then transferred ownership of it to Anton LaVey and his second wife Diane in 1971. Such secret passages and hidden rooms that exist were constructed by Anton LaVey.

SOURCES: Relatives, San Francisco property records (Michael & Gertrude Levey, Joint Tenancy Grant Deed, July 9, 1971).

LEGEND: On the night of April 30, 1966 (the German Satanic festival of Walpurgisnacht), Anton LaVey in a "blinding flash" declared himself the High Priest of Satan, proclaimed that the Age of Satan had begun, and founded the Church of Satan as a religious institution.

REALITY: In 1966 Anton LaVey supplemented his income by presenting weekend lectures on exotic and occult topics, and by conducting "Witches' Workshops". He charged $2 a head, filling his living room with the curious and establishing a local reputation as an eccentric. Professional publicist Edward Webber suggested to Anton LaVey that he "would never make any money by lecturing on Friday nights for donations … it would be better to form some sort of church and get a charter from the State of California … I told Anton at the time that the press was going to flip out over all this and that we would get a lot of notoriety". In the summer of 1966, long after the fictional founding-date invented later, a newspaper article about Anton LaVey's lectures offhandedly referred to him as "priest of the Devil's church". This mixture of Webber's idea and the newspaper's characterization resulted in the creation of the Church of Satan as a business and publicity vehicle. Jack Webb, a San Francisco Police investigator who knew Anton LaVey from the "Lost Weekend" nightclub, also suggested that he should form a church of some kind to exploit his recondite knowledge.

SOURCES: Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91), Jack Webb, Diane LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey's trademark shaved head was the result of a ceremonial head-shaving on April 30, 1966, to formalize his role as High Priest of Satan. This ritual was performed in the tradition of the Yezidi devil-worshipping tribes of Iraq, who were said to have carried out a similar ceremony.

REALITY: Anton LaVey shaved his head in the summer of 1966 due to a light-hearted dare from his wife. The "LaVey look" had nothing to do with the Church of Satan founding nor any mystical meaning attached to it later. Nor do Yezidi qawwals (religious teachers) shave their heads.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey; Ethel S. Drower, Peacock Angel, 1941; C.J. Edmonds, A Pilgrimage to Lalish, Royal Asiatic Society, 1967.

LEGEND: In 1966 Anton LaVey personally designed the Baphomet emblem of the Church of Satan. He owns the right to this design, claiming it cannot be reproduced without obtaining licensing rights from the Church of Satan.

REALITY: The Baphomet emblem used by the Church of Satan was neither original to it nor created by Anton LaVey, hence cannot be trademarked. The original Baphomet dates at least as far back as the medieval Knights Templar. The artwork for the current emblem's goat/pentagram first appears in a 1931 book by Oswald Wirth. The complete emblem with the added circles and "LVYThN" Hebrew letters appears on the cover of a book by Maurice Bessy two years before the creation of the Church of Satan. Early photos of Church activities often show Anton LaVey or his disciples using the Bessy book as a photo-prop because of its prominent cover-Baphomet, and he included that book in his Compleat Witch bibliography. The Baphomet, including this rendition of it, is clearly in the public domain.

SOURCES: Oswald Wirth, La fran-maconnerie rendue intelligible a ces adeptes - II, "Le compagnon", Paris: Derry-Livres, 1931, page #60; Maurice Bessy, A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural, London: Spring Books, 1964 [the original edition of this work - Histoire en 1000 images de la magie - was published in 1961 by Editions du Pont Royal]; Thomas H. Hilton, Sex and the Occult, Vol. I, Los Angeles: Centurion Press, 1974;Church of Satan members, The Black Flame (a 1980s Church of Satan magazine).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey wrote the Satanic Bible, his principal work, to fulfill his congregation's need for a scriptural guide.

REALITY: The Satanic Bible was conceived as a commercial vehicle by paperback publisher Avon Books. Avon approached Anton LaVey for some kind of Satanic work to cash in on the Satanism & witchcraft fad of the late 1960s. Pressed for material to meet Avon's deadline, Anton LaVey resorted to plagiarism, assembling extracts from an obscure 1896 tract - Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard into a "Book of Satan" for the SB, and claiming its authorship by himself. [Ironically these MiR passages are the ones most frequently quoted by Anton LaVey disciples.] Another third of the SB consists of John Dee's "Enochian Keys", taken directly but again without attribution from Aleister Crowley's Equinox. The SB's "Nine Satanic Statements", one of the Church of Satan's central doctrines, is a paraphrase, again unacknowledged, of passages from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The last words in the SB - "Yankee Rose" - have been puzzled over for years by readers. "YR" is actually the name of an old popular tune in Anton LaVey's nightclub repertoire.

SOURCES: Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible; Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right, Port Townsend: Loompanics (reprint), 1896; Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (Galt's speech, ca. pages #936-993); "Yankee Rose" by Sidney Holden & Abe Frankl (Irving Berlin Music, 1926).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey claimed that at the height of the Church of Satan's popularity there were hundreds of thousands of formal members.

REALITY: Diane LaVey (who administered the Church as High Priestess 1966-1984), Michael A. Aquino (senior Magister of the Church and Editor of its Cloven Hoof newsletter 1971-1975), and Zeena LaVey (High Priestess of the Church 1985-1990) have all affirmed that the figures claimed by Anton LaVey were grossly exaggerated. The membership of the Church of Satan never exceeded 300 individuals, several of whom were nonmember subscribers to the newsletter or Anton LaVey friends receiving complimentary mailings.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Michael A. Aquino, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey claimed to be a multimillionaire, owning three homes in northern California, a convent in Italy, a chateau in France, a fleet of luxury automobiles, a 185-foot yacht, three salvage ships, and other property.

REALITY: During Diane [LaVey] Hegarty's 1988-91 lawsuit against Anton LaVey, and Anton LaVey's subsequent 1991 filing for bankruptcy, Anton LaVey stipulated under oath that he owned nothing more than 50% of the house his parents had given jointly to him and Diane, along with the personal items he kept therein. Anton LaVey's final years were subsidized by California state aid. Assessors declared the house to be in such poor repair as to be nearly worthless on the real estate market. Family members have attested to the fact that by the mid-1970s the LaVeys lived in near-poverty, frequently having to rely upon Anton LaVey's father's generosity. According to other LaVey relatives, Anton LaVey continued to rely on handouts from friends and relatives until the end of his life.

SOURCES: Hegarty v. LaVey (San Francisco Superior Court Case #891863), Anton LaVey Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern California, Case #91-34251), Zeena LaVey, other relatives.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey presented himself as a loving family man.

REALITY: Anton LaVey violently beat his wife Diane throughout their marriage. In 1984 a police report was made describing Diane being strangled into unconsciousness by Anton LaVey, who was in such a murderous rage that his daughter Karla had to pull him off Diane and drag her outside the house to save her life. Anton LaVey routinely physically beat and abused those of his female disciples with whom he had sex, forcing them into prostitution as part of his "Satanic counseling" and collecting their earnings. In 1986 Anton LaVey was a passive witness to the sexual molestation of his own grandson by a longtime friend who was later convicted of sex crimes with minors. In 1990 Anton LaVey informed a mentally-ill stalker of his daughter Zeena of her whereabouts and the time & location of a public appearance she was scheduled to make, deliberately endangering her life.

SOURCES: San Francisco Police records of ASL attack on Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey, Diane LaVey, Stanton LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey had a deeply affectionate relationship with Togare, his pet lion.

REALITY: While Anton LaVey was always careful to portray himself to the public as an animal lover, in private he was cruel to and neglectful of his pets. When he was given Togare as a cub in 1964, he was ill-equipped to deal with such an exotic, wild animal despite his pretensions as a circus lion-tamer. As Togare became larger and more unruly, Anton LaVey frequently used an electric cattle prod to hurt and frighten him into submission. Many animal-rights proponents, including Togare's final owner Tippi Hedren, agree that it is detrimental to a wild animal's development to be raised in a domestic environment. Anton LaVey was arrested due to Togare's unruly behavior, and Anton LaVey was ordered to donate him to the San Francisco Zoo. After complying, Anton LaVey made only two visits to Togare. Due to the trauma of his early life, Togare needed special care at the Zoo and at every animal-care facility in which he subsequently lived.

SOURCES: Jack Castor (Lion Keeper, San Francisco Zoo), Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey, Tippi Hedren (The Cats of Shamballa, McGraw-Hill, 1985).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey had a deeply affectionate relationship with his other pets.

REALITY: In the late 1960s Anton LaVey acquired a Doberman Pinscher (Loki) as an accent to his "sinister" image. Anton LaVey never took the time to housebreak or train Loki, and relegated him to the overgrown and unkempt backyard of the house, regardless of weather. If Loki ever tried to slip into the house for shelter, Anton LaVey routinely used Togare's cattle-prod on him to terrify him back outside. In his old age Loki developed such severe arthritis that he could not climb the stairs to the back door to eat, and began wasting away from malnutrition. Anton LaVey then gave him to one of his prostitute "students", who at least saw that Loki had a warm, inside home until he died a few months later. During her young childhood Anton LaVey's daughter Zeena once awoke late at night to hear slamming sounds and the shrieking of her German Shepherd puppy. Running downstairs, she saw Anton LaVey savagely beating the cowering, cornered dog with a wooden plank. When Zeena begged Anton LaVey to stop and asked him what the dog had done to deserve such treatment, Anton LaVey screamed, "She won't listen to me! I'm going to force her to obey me!" Anton LaVey continued beating the dog until her face was covered with her blood, then dropped the plank and left the dog quivering in the hallway, so injured and frightened that she wouldn't let even Zeena come near her. This incident left the dog traumatized for a long time afterwards.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: On Anton LaVey's original death certificate the date of his demise was recorded as October 31, 1997 (Halloween).

REALITY: An official investigation by the City of San Francisco determined that Anton LaVey's actual date of death was October 29, 1997 and that the "Halloween" date had been illegally written on the document.

SOURCES: Death Certificate #380278667, San Francisco Department of Public Health; Dr. Giles Miller (attending physician at Anton LaVey's death), Physician's Amendment to Death Certificate, 11/26/97.

Source: https://thevital.livejournal.com/23483.html

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1437: Psalm 23:4 Though I walk through a valley of deepest darkness, I fear no harm, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff--they comort me.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 983: Isaiah 59:11 We all growl like bears And moan like doves. We hope for redress, and there is none; For victory, and it is far from us.

Yay! It's The End of 14 88/HH and HH/88022!!! The Orange You Glad For Liddle donnie trump Erection Interference Storm Is Here! MN Supreme Court says Trump campaign not allowed to intervene in ballot petition The court did, however, offer the Trump campaign an upcoming October deadline to file a brief and join the petition. Author: Naasir Akailvi Published: 8:08 PM CDT October 14, 2023 Updated: 9:22 AM CDT October 15, 2023 ST PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court has turned down the Trump campaign's attempt to intervene in a ballot petition that seeks to ban the former president from appearing on the ballot in the state in 2024. The ruling, published on Oct. 13, is the latest piece in a larger ongoing effort nationwide by organizations asking election officials to disqualify Trump based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. But Minnesota is the first state where court action has been initiated because of a state law that allows voters to directly petition the Minnesota Supreme Court to disqualify a candidate. While the campaign's petition was struck down, the court did outline a path for the campaign to get involved in the ongoing litigation, which stems from typically tearful liddle donnie trump's alleged involvement in the events of Jan. 6, 2021. According to the court document, a request from the Republican Party of Minnesota to intervene in the matter was granted, but tearful and drowsy donald trump did not file a response to the petition. Instead, Tearful trump's campaign team, Dirty Daddy donnie trump for President 2024, Inc., filed a response that included a footnote stating it was the legal entity charged with securing tepid trump's erection in 2024. According to the campaign, typically tearful trump didn't respond because he was not "subject to the personal jurisdiction of the court", said the filing. The petition, filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court, argues that the liddle wanna-be dicktater donnie trump is disqualified from public office under the rarely used “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Petitioners, including Democratic former Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe, argue that anyone who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and then engages in insurrection is barred from ever holding public office again. The court gave the typically tearful trump campaign until Oct. 18 to file a brief that would allow the campaign to participate in oral arguments in the matter, which are scheduled to begin on Nov. 2. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/mn-supreme-court-trump-campaign-intervene-ballot-petition/89-fd9ca8a3-41c4-4ea0-a633-63325eeb3c40

Yay! It's the end of 88/HH!!! The Orange You Glad For Liddle donnie trump Erection Interference Storm Is Here! Biden raises $71 million in 3rd quarter, far outpacing Trump and the Republican field Joey Garrison USA TODAY Published 8:01 a.m. ET October 15, 2023 Updated 8:08 a.m. ET October 15, 2023 WASHINGTON - America's Favorite President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign said it hauled in more than $71 million in the third fundraising quarter, giving his reelection efforts a total war chest of $91 million - more than double the cash on hand of Republican-In-Name-Only liddle dumpster diaper donnie trump. Biden's $91 million available cash to spend is the most ever for a Democratic presidential candidate at this stage of a campaign, according to the Biden campaign. The tearful and tepid trump campaign's low energy only raised a mere $45.5 million in the third quarter, which began July 1 and ended Sept. 30., giving the former president $37.5 million on hand as he continues to deal with massive legal expenditures in numerous civil and criminal cases and his ongoing marital renegotiations. Biden's fundraising figures include money raised by joint campaign committees and the Democratic National Committee's fundraising arm in addition to Biden's 2024 reelection campaign. As an incumbent, Biden's fundraising is benefitting from only nominal Democratic opposition while Republicans have spent heavily in their primary as their candidates continue to humiliate and discredit deconstructed donnie trump during every Republican debate. The Biden campaign said more than 1.4 million individual donors have now contributed to Biden's reelection including 240,000 new donors who did not contribute in 2020. The $71 million raised by the Biden campaign nearly equals the total raised by Trump and his closest trailing Republican contenders, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, during the same span. The DeSantis campaign raked in $15million and the Haley campaign $11 million in the third quarter. Julie Chávez Rodriguez, Biden's campaign manger, said the fundraising reflects "the very real enthusiasm and support" for the Biden-Harris reelection bid. "These numbers are a testament to one of our core objectives early in this campaign: raise the resources needed to run an aggressive campaign that will win in November 2024," she said. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/15/biden-2024-fundraising-trump-campaign-third-quarter/71187532007/

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Opening Of The Ark Ceremony (June 12, 1981/163rd day)

Published: July 4, 2014 Duration: 4:21 (261 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkkdY3-d7c xEkkdY3-d7c (3, 7) xEkkdYdc cddekkxy 3+4+4+5+10+10+300+400=736. 736+3+7=746. 746+261=1007. 1007+163=1170.

Strong's Concordance #1170 Baal Berith: "Baal of (the) covenant," a Shechemite god Original Word: בַּעַל בְּרִית

Rabbinic tradition equates Baʿal Berith with Beelzebub, "the lord of flies," the god of Philistine Ekron (2 Kings 1:2). He was worshipped in the shape of a fly; and Jewish tradition states that so addicted were the Jews to his cult that they would carry an image of him in their pockets, producing it, and kissing it from time to time. Baʿal Zebub was called Baʿal Berith because such Jews might be said to make a covenant of devotion with the idol, being unwilling to part with it for a single moment. According to another conception, Baʿal Berith was an obscene article of idolatrous worship, possibly a simulacrum priapi. This is evidently based on the later use of the word "berit" to refer to circumcision. (Wikipedia)

With the exact same timing as Tearful Liddle donnie trump's Fly Swarm Issues When He Engaged in, Promoted, and Promised Nazi Bigotry in the United States of America (That Didn't End Well for Dinky-Winky donnie and Miniscule-Member mikey):

Fly Lands On Pence’s Head, Temporarily Steals Show of 2020 VP Debate | NBC News A fly landed on Mike Pence's head for 2 minutes and 4 seconds (124 seconds) during the vice presidential debate while he rambled on attempting to deny the existence systemic racism and bigotry in the United States, and his and donald trump's white supremacist views and behavior, while disrespecting and refusing to abide by debate rules WHILE claiming to be pro-law enforcement.

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Strong's Concordance #2815 Chashshub: from chashab; to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense), to calculate or be calculated; the name of several Israelites Original Word: חַשְּׁוּב

Strong's Concordance #124 odem: from 'adam; redness, i.e. the ruby, garnet, or some other red gem, sardius, a carnelian; a person Original Word: אֹדֶם

Feel the blood coming: חַשְּׁוּ באֹ דֶם

Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Coming "Don't you ever be sad Lean on me, when the times are bad When the day comes and you're down In a river of trouble and about to drown Just hold on, I'm comin' Hold on, I'm comin' Reach out to me for satisfaction, yeah Call my name, yeah, for reaction Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Just hold on (Don't you worry) I'm comin' (Here we come) Hold on (We're about to save you) I'm comin' (Yeah)"

trump: אָדָם עָדִיף Oh, more blood: אָ דָם עָדִי ף Oh my God: אָ דָ ם עָדִי ף

trump: חֶברְמַן Regret: חֶ Son: ברְ From: מַן

trump: חֶברְמַן Border: מַןברְחֶ

After calling the devastation and inhuman cruelty of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel "Incredible" and reading "The Snake" immediately after the terrorist attacks, donald trump further chided Israel just days after attack with: ‘Netanyahu let us down’ His meandering remarks were the most extensive since the deadly weekend attacks. By Kimberly Leonard 10/11/2023 11:35 PM EDT PALM BEACH, Fla. — He criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called Hezbollah “very smart.” Both less than a week after the attack on Israel. It was, as billed, a speech about the atrocities abroad. In the most Trumpian way possible. Speaking to more than 3,500 supporters at a Palm Beach, Fla., convention center, dilapidated and dithered liddle donnie trump spent nearly two hours recounting how he helped move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and boasted about signing the Abraham Accords, which formalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. But he also meandered among various topics, zig-zagging from the weekend terrorist attack in Israel that has captured the world’s attention to criticisms of his GOP rivals, crime in Washington, D.C., boasts about rising in the polls despite multiple indictments and even mentioned the assault on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. Throughout his speech, tearful liddle trump, who massively trails America's Favorite President Joe Biden in fundraising, painted a picture of an alternate universe he thought would have existed had he been reelected in 2020 instead of America's Powerful President Joe Biden. “Israel would be flourishing, they would have no problem,” he said. “Iran would have never played that game.” Instead, he said, the world became full of “chaos, bloodshed, war, terror, death,” and he warned World War III was on the horizon. He called Biden “grossly incompetent,” and described members of the Biden administration as “stupid people.” He also directly went after Netanyahu, who he asserted did not help the United States in the drone strike in 2020 that killed Suleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps responsible for secret military operations. At the time of the killing, Netanyahu praised tearful trump for acting “swiftly, forcefully and decisively” but tearful tantrums trump on Wednesday chastised the Israeli prime minister. “I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down,” he said. “That was a very terrible thing.” His disapproval of Netanyahu drew an immediate response from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is competing with tearful tepid trump for the GOP nomination and posted on X that “it is absurd that anyone, much less someone running for President, would choose now to attack our friend and ally, Israel.” The remarks, delivered to the Club 47 Trailing-Behind-President Biden-Tearful-Tepid-trump fan club, were the first extensive comments typically tearful trump made on Israel after saying little about the topic during a campaign stop in New Hampshire Monday. Since the attack on Israel on Saturday that has since broken out into war that threatens to destabilize the Middle East, more than 1,200 Israelis and over 1,100 militants and Palestinians have been killed. The State Department said 22 Americans were among those killed and 17 more haven’t been accounted for. United States President Joe Biden has said the U.S. stands with Israel, and the White House plans to ask Congress to approve aid, though the exact request is still coming together and, at the direction of impeached and shamefully and repeatedly indicted criminal defendant donald trump, the Republican Party has intentionally sabotaged the U.S. Congress to make it impossible to aid U.S. ally Israel in their time of need. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/11/netanyahu-trump-chides-israel-hamas-war-00121142

trump: חֶברְמַן Composition: מַןחֶברְ Spur: מַןחֶ ברְ

Daughters of late podiatrist say he diagnosed Draft-Dodging Dinky-Winky liddle donnie trump with bone spurs during Vietnam War as a 'favor' Erin Donnelly December 26, 2018 The New York Times reported that the two daughters of a late Queens podiatrist are going public with a claim that their father diagnosed liddle sissy milquetoast donald j. trump with bone spurs in 1968 as a favor to his landlord, trump patriarch and Ku Klux Klan supporter, fred c. trump (who defrauded the U.S. government out of federal aid money to build liddle dumpster diaper donnie j. trump's future inheritance). The diagnosis allowed stinky dinky-winky donald trump to get a medical exemption that allowed him to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War; because he was raised to be as fat, lazy, pathetic, and weak as his brothel-owning grandfather. https://www.yahoo.com/now/daughters-late-podiatrist-claim-diagnosed-donald-trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war-favor-134618527.html

Draft-Dodging Dinky-Winky liddle donnie trump made up injury to dodge Vietnam service, his former lawyer testifies By Leo Shane III February 27, 2019 WASHINGTON — Draft-dodging dinky-winky liddle donnie trump acknowledged to advisors that he made up a fake injury to avoid military service, because “I was too weak and cowardly to go to Vietnam,” his former lawyer told lawmakers during testimony on Wednesday. Michael Cohen, who also worked as a fixer for tepid trump before his election, said he was tasked with tamping down criticism of the military deferment as the presidential candidate simultaneously mocked Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, for being regarded as a military hero. “I like people who weren’t captured," tearful trump said during a July 2015 interview. “Mr. trump claimed (his medical deferment) was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery,” Cohen told members of the House Oversight Committee. “He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment. “He finished the conversation with the following comment: ‘I'm a stupid, weak, and cowardly liddle snowflake. I wasn't going to Vietnam.’” https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/

Strong's Concordance #8 obed: wretched, destruction, to perish Original Word: אֹבֵד

Strong's Concordance #8 obed: wretched, destruction, to perish Original Word: אֹבֵד

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 118 and 119: Exodus 4:9 And if they are not convinced by both these signs and still do not heed you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and it--the water that you take from the Nile--will turn to blood on the dry ground."

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 116 and 117: Exodus 3:1 Now Moses, tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, drove the flock into the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. Exodus 3:2 And angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire out of a bush. He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed. Exodus 3:3 Moses said, "I must turn aside to look at this marvelous sight; why doesn't the bush burn up?" Exodus 3:4 When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called him out of the bush: "Moses! Moses!" He answered, "Here I am." Exodus 3:5 And He said, "Do not come closer. Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. Exodus 3:6 I am," He said, "the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Exodus 3:7 And the Lord continued, "I have marked well the plight of My people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry because of their taskmasters; yes, I am mindful of their sufferings. Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the region of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Exodus 3:9 Now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me; moreover, I have seen how the Egyptians oppress them. Exodus 3:10 Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharaoh, and you shall free My people, the Israelites, from Egypt."

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 1428 and 1429: Psalm 18:5 Ropes of Death encompassed me; torrents of Belial terrified me; Psalm 18:6 ropes of Sheol encircled me; snares of Death confronted me. Psalm 18:7 In my distress I called on the Lord, cried out to my God; in His temple He heard my voice; my cry to Him reached His ears. Psalm 18:8 The the earth rocked and quaked; the foundations fo the mountains shook, rocked by His indignation; Psalm 18:9 smoke went up from His nostrils, from His mouth came devouring fire; live coals blazed from from Him. Psalm 18:10 He bent the sky and came down, thick cloud beneath His feet. Psalm 18:11 He mounted a cherub and flew, gliding on the wings of the wind.

[lightingmolotovz]

biography |

blair adonis oakes was born on january 13th, 1997 (currently 26 years old), in melbourne, australia. by the time blair was two years old, her parents had broken up and her mother was awarded a restraining order, thus making it impossible for blair's father to see his children. blair's mother started dating a new man, and when she was four years old, her mother and step-father got married and he adopted her, as well as her older brother. blair's childhood was relatively normal from this point on. her family was by no means wealthy, but both of her parents worked hard and supported their family.

but blair's biological father continued to plague the family. he wrote menacing letters to whatever address they moved to, always able to find them, and blair's mother was in a constant state of stress and fear which blair never really understood. this turmoil led her to drugs and alcohol, and things started to unravel as blair and her brother got older, but her adopted father was always there to step up and take care of things when her mothers addictive tendancies took ovver. the family chose to keep the identity of blair's father a secret from him; she didn't know about his abuse toward her mother and children before the restraining order, she didn't know how he harassed her parents, and she didn't know about his criminal history and that he had been hurting people for almost his entire life, was in and out of prison and was even a suspect in a murder case around the time her mother left him. when blair was around 15, she decided to seek him out and had no idea how this would ruin what up until this point, had been a normal and pretty happy life. she unknowingly let the devil in, and hasn't been able to get rid of him since.

when blair was 16, her brother moved to los angeles to work as a graphic designer. at this point, blair's mother was worse than ever and her adopted father's focus was solely on trying to help her and nurse her back to health, and with her brother gone, blair felt like she was completely alone. she suffered for awhile before a few months before her 18th birthday, she flew across the world to live with her brother in california. she worked whatever job she could, doing some modelling here and there and working at the front desk at a gym during the day before waitressing at night. whatever she could do to make ends meet. her brother had made a successful career for himself and was able to pay rent and take care of them, but blair knew that she couldn't rely on him forever and needed a plan.

blair's life in la was a revolving door of shitty men, and eventually she was dating one who worked for a company that recruited young girls to make pornography and he ended up convincing blair that she could make enough money just from a few videos a month to move out of her brothers apartment and support herself comfortably, even start living more luxuriously than she had really hoped for at this point - still focused solely on survival.

blair became another cog in the machine of girls who weren't even 21 before they were being used to make fetish porn for niches that were toxic and demeaning before she used her smart and manipulative nature to market herself into one of the more highly viewed alternative pornstars on the internet. she was making tens of thousands of dollars a month, moved into an apartment with a few friends in the industry who were also popular and well off, and picked up a few shifts at a local strip club every now and then just for socializations sake. life was pretty good except for the aformentioned devil who was still harassing her and trying to find her.

when blair was 22, she had a fight with an abusive boyfriend who knew she was trying to hide from her biological father ever finding her, and he found her dad and gave him her address, also telling him that she was a sex worker. up until this point, he didn't know she lived in los angeles and she had been relatively safe from him. she moved apartments and hoped for the best, but knowing all of this information about her made her much easier to find.

throughout her time in la, blair made many friends, but most notably a group of boys in a band that would increase in popularity in the coming years. when the pandemic hit in 2020, blair was unable to make the kind of pornography that she had been previously making and took her adult business to onlyfans. she was able to live off of this and make a lot of money, but it wasn't nearly as much as what she had been making before. nobody in her life aside from a few friends and ex boyfriends knew that she made adult content, she used a completely different name and didn't need to promote it on her personal socials because she had become well known in the industry before the takeoff of onlyfans and already had her name popularized so she was able to keep her stage name and her real name separate. she had told her friends in bad omens that she worked as a bartender to explain where her money had come from, because bartender and bottle service girls in la could make a significant income and she was pretty enough for it to be believable, and in 2020 she was asked to work as a part of bad omens' touring crew to replace their tour manager who was retiring from the music industry. they still have no idea that she wasn't working as a bartender and bottle service girl and she continues to make adult content under an alias that nobody in her life knows, although now she's enjoying being able to tour and see the world with her friends and can't help but wonder if this new life of hers would come crashing down around her if they found out about her double life, or if her biological father showed up at her door.

[inashoe]

“On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon secured the papers I needed for my research and settled in my place. I became, as is the way of the scholar, so deeply absorbed as to lose all consciousness of my surroundings or of the passage of time. When at last I came to myself, it was almost eleven and I was quite exhausted: I knew I could not prudently continue without refreshment.”

Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

[jerisch]

The wrong catch

Another fantastic story by @writer-ofstuff​, featuring Derek from Teen Wolf.

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Derek groaned as he came to. Rubbing his head as it ached. He remembers getting out of his car and then blacking out. He goes on the alert a few seconds later when he realizes that someone has taken him. Derek can see it in some sort of basement given the layout of the room and that makes him assume it must be the Argents. Given how they've been trying to hunt him down for weeks now. The man who steps out from the shadows however Derek doesn't recognize as one of the Argents. Unless this bastard is a hired lackey they paid to capture Derek.

 "Good, you're awake." The man says. He is dressed in a simple t-shirt with a jacket and jeans. He looks like he is around his mid thirties, his brown hair was trimmed short in a typical military fashion. Derek didn't say a word, realizing he's been handcuffed which he could easily break free of. He needs to wait though to see just who this guy is and why he has taken Derek.

 "I'm surprised it was easy to capture such a dangerous criminal such as yourself. You've evaded the police fkr a good while only to just show yourself out in public like you did."

 "I wish I was on duty when I spotted you, that being the reason why I had to take you like I did." The guy says.

 "So, you're a cop then?" Derek asks. 'Good, he isn't a hunter then.' Derek thought. It also explains the man's clean cut boring look that most law enforcement seem to wear.

 "Officer Daniels. The man who brought in the top suspect of a mass murder spree Derek Hale." Daniels sounds smug as he speaks.

 Derek can't help but let out a small laugh as he looks at Daniels with a smirk.

 "It seems you're out of the loop officers. I was cleared of those charges when they found the real murder." Derek says and enjoys the look on Daniels face when he tells him. 

 "You're lying." Daniels says. He turns his back to Derek and sees him on his phone. No doubt checking to make sure Derek was telling the truth.

 "Fuck!" He hears the older man say, and Derek laughs.

 "Seems you put yourself in an interesting position, officer. You thought you captured a criminal when you just kidnapped an innocent man. I'm guessing you wanted credit for bringing a dangerous criminal in for what, brownie points for a promotion? Surely when I get out of here and report you for what you did you'll be lucky to keep your job." Derek says. Taking pride in how the older man glares angrily at him.

 For a few moments Daniels just stands there visibly seething in anger. Nomdoubt he is thinking how he didn't boost his career but ruined it for what he did in taking Derek. 

 "You may be innocent, but I can still use you to get ahead in my career. I just need to make you into a criminal is all." Daniels says with a sinister grin.

 "How so?" Derek asked. Baffled by what Daniels said.

 "I told myself I would never use my family's gift. I wanted to separate myself from that world," he says with disdain. "But with desperate measures like this I can make an exception." Daniels says.

 Derek is confused by what the older man means. That is till he can sense the strong feeling of magic fill the room. Daniels eyes glow an inhuman orange and a bright aura emits from his hands. 

 "Your." Derek doesn't get to finish what he is saying before Daniels' magic envelops around him. Derek breaks the handcuffs and tries to make a run for it, but the magic is already flowing through him and makes him stagger on his feet. 

 "What are you?" Derek growls, his eyes flicker from his normal hazel eye color to beta blue before his glowing blue eyes disappear as his werewolf side hismstripped away from him. Derek fills hollow from losing such an important part of himself, all because of this pathetic officer trying to use Derek to get ahead in his career. 

 Rage bubbles within Derek and he turns to face the man who took a large part of who Derek was from him.

 "You bastard, you fucking worthless pig!" Derek snarls. He clenches his head as it throbs and pounds sending small tremors of pain through him.

 Moments tick by and Derek's body burns from his muscles expanding in size. Hard earned muscles bulging in a matter of moments. It being as if Derek spends so much time hitting the gym to work and maintain such an impressive physique. 

 "You think your tough shift huh? Cause you blindsided me the way you did and brought me here?" Derek goes on to say. His legs ached with newly formed muscle filling his legs out on top of his legs getting longer to make the former werewolf a few inches taller. 

 Derek's mind was in a haze from a mix of different thoughts and emotions filling his head that he didn't know what to do in the moment but kept talking as if he did.

 "You're just a pathetic pig, a dull lackey and nothing more. You can't bring me down, many have tried and every one of them failed." Derek's voice grew raspy and deeper in tone. His voice was foreign to his own ears but he didn't show any sort of reaction to it. 

 Derek's hair trimmed shorter, becoming a simple buzzed over style while his stubble shaved away to leave just a dusting shadow of facial hair along his altering jawline. His jaw which took a more defined and chiseled look. His cheeks filled out, hismnose growing a little wider, his eyebrows trim down to not be as thick as they once were. 

 Standing there now no one would ever have thought this scowling man was once Derek Hale. The man the former werewolf had became sneers at Daniels with a menacing look as handcuffs reappear around his wrists while his mind is flooded with a new persona.

His clothes rapidly changed on his new body. The old tattered rags that ripped and tore at the seams during his growth became something new to fit his new self.

Damon Harris stared at the officer with a cold calculated gaze. How foolish, he thought. It was humorous that that pathetic excuse for a man thought he could bring in a criminal mastermind like Damon in. Damon was not only good looking with an impressive body, but he was also a genius with a seductive charm which he shamelessly used to get out of being arrested.

By sleeping with the officers who tried to arrest him Damon often used it as blackmail to get the men to drop the charges and thus making him walk out a free man each time.

This buffoon would be no different, just another bitch for Damon to seduce and fuck till the weak man's dick his dry of any cum. Damon puts on his signature charming look. Before he could even utter a single word to the officer however Damon feels suddenly drowsy. He stumbles on his feet, sputtering over his words before he falls to his knees and then falls to the ground fast asleep thanks to the sleep spell Daniels just casted on him.

"I no doubt made you into a more dangerous criminal than what you were excused for, so best to not take any chances with you till I get you to the station." Daniels says to Damon's sleeping form.

It was a paint in the ass to get the hulking man into his car, but he thinks how this, everything he did tonight will make it all worth it when he gets the promotion for bringing in one of their most sought after and elusive criminals.

"I'd say sorry for doing this, but that would be a lie." Daniels says smugly while he lifts Damon's sleeping body up and struggles to carry him up the stairs and out to his car. Once he has Damon in the back seat of his cruiser, Daniels takes a moment to collect himself. He is due to start his shift soon, he still needs to get dressed in his uniform so he quickly heads inside to do that.

He isn't aware of his magic being absorbed by Damon. The void that was left from when Damon was Derek and a werewolf takes in the lingering magic from Daniels' spells clung to the criminal. Giving him his own type of hidden power that would grow within him.

Damon wakes up when Daniels returns. The criminal thrashes in his handcuffs and demands to be set free, but Daniels ignores him and drives them to the station. He is already picturing the praise he will receive when he walks in with a handcuffed Damon.

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"You may bring me in but I won't get charged. You can believe I will track you down once I'm out and make you sorry you every crossed paths with me." Damon tells Daniels in a low threatening voice as he gets escorted into the police station.

"With what we have you charged with I doubt you get out from behind bars anytime soon." Daniels laughed.

Damon clenches his jaw and sneers at the whispering officers who look at him. He won't stand for this. He refuses to be taken down so easily by a chump you used cheap tricks to capture him. Damon was a criminal mastermind, a genius Adonis. He refuses to be carted off like some common criminal like this.

"Now sit here while I get started on your processing paperwork." Daniels says smugly after he secures Damon in a holding cell.

"This isn't over! You haven't seen the last of me!" Damon calls out to Daniels retreating back. He curses and paces in his cell, thinking of how he can get out of this one. His interrupted by the door opening, he turns around and sees Sheriff Stilinski walk in. Damon rolls his eyes, the older man has been a thorn in his side for a while now and Damon is sure the Sheriff has come here to gloat about him finally being caught.

He notices how tired the older man looks, a mischievous idea forms in Damon's head while he watches Stilinski approach his cell.

"I'd like to see how you weasel your way out of this one Damon." Stilinski says.

"I'm sure you would, old man." Damon says. Loving the way Stilinski bristles at that.

"You look tired Sheriff, working long shifts again? Surely the pristine Sheriff of our beloved town knows when not to push himself too much in his work. After all, you're older now so you should be taking it easy." Damon chuckles.

"Watch Damon, I'm not that old." Stilinski says.

"Oh of course Sir." Damon says in a low raspy voice. He starts working his charm on the older man, flashing him a smile and leans close to the bars as he speaks to Stilinski.

"You do so much work for this town and do you get any recognition, any reward?" He asked.

"It's my job, I don't need a reward for doing what is right." Stilinski says.

"Yes, but surely with all you do you should get a reward." Damon says. "If a small one." He winks.

"Are you flirting with me?" Stilinski asked, taken aback.

"Depends Sheriff." Damon purrs. "If you can handle a young stud like me." He goes on to say and then rubs his impressive sized bulge. Stilinski's eyes follow Damon's movements and the criminal knows he has the Sheriff eating out of the palm of his hands now.

Men like Sheriff Stilinski who are overworked and tired are so much easier to seduce Damon's learned.

"I don't know what you're trying to accomplish here Damon but I won't be like those other officers you seduced and made lose their jobs." Sheriff Stilinski says.

"This is different this time Sheriff. No one is around to see us. With you being in charge you can easily erase the security footage that shows us having a little fun." Damon persuades.

"If it makes you feel better you won't even have to let me out of the cell." Damon added. The criminal then frees his fat cock from his pants. Gripping his palm around the base of his shaft. Damon's eyes lock onto the older officer's and he can see the turmoil Sheriff Stilinski is in from the look on his face as he mulls over what to do.

"Don't keep me waiting Noah. Who knows if you'll ever get another chance to have a taste of this." Damon teases. He grins widely when Sheriff Stilinski hesitates and then gets on his knees. Damon gets closer to the bars and sticks his cock through the opening towards the Sheriff.

"Go on Noah, don't keep me waiting." Damon insists. With another moment of hesitation Noah leans forward and tentatively takes Damon's cock into his mouth.

"See? Not so hard was it?" Damon asked. He gently thrusts his hips forward into Noah's mouth, pushing his dick further into the older man's mouth. His hands stick out through the bars and cradles Noah's head in his hands. Rubbing the older man's head soothingly while Noah continues to suck him off.

Damon would tease the older officer for being such a good cock slut, only he feels a strange sensation coming over him. He remains silent, a frown on his face while his body starts to get itchy. Damon doesn't know the residual magic from Daniels' spells is flowing through him and into Noah now. The magic making the two men become intertwined with each other filling their heads with a false reality of the two of them together.

Fueling Noah's loneliness while also granting Damon's desire to be free from his incoming imprisonment. Thus triggering Damon to undergo a second transformation. This one happens more rapidly than the first, making Damon fall into a dazed trance state so he doesn't even get to react to his metamorphosis into a new man.

Damon's hair starts to cascade down from his head as the Criminal begins to lose his hair. His hairline thinning out while more of his dark colored hair recedes into his scalp till he is left bald.

Damon's hard earned physique loses some definition and tone so he isn't as muscular anymore but still remains in good shape. Dark bristles of body hair sprout and grow along his torso, stopping just along his abdomen. Damon groans, his eyes glazed over, he thrusts his hips forward. His body moving on it sown to fuck Noah's mouth to plunge his cock deeper into the Sheriff's mouth. Damon can feel how full his balls are, desperate to release his thick load.

Damon's handsome face matures while it shifts into the face of an older man with rugged looks. Damon's dusting of stubble thickening into a fuller beard. His clothing rapidly alters on him to match the similar beige uniform as Noah Stilinski wears.

Damon no longer recalls his life as a criminal mastermind. Instead his head is full of new memories of being an upstanding officer of the law. Damon's own name is fleeting from his mind. His new persona taking root to complete his transformation.

Officer Darren Stilinski's eyes refocused as he awakened. An orange hue flashes over his eyes before that fades to his normal green color. Darren rubs his hand through his husband's hair as the room shifts around them. Placing them in Noah's office rather than the holding cell.

"After all these years together and you're still the needy cockslut you were when we met at the academy." Darren chuckles.

Noah looks up and is startled for a brief moment when he sees the new man, but his mind quickly catches up and he relaxes. Now he recalls this man as his partner, on the force and at home. Two wedding bands materialize on the two men's fingers while Darren fucks Noah's mouth with a few more thrusts before finally unloading his thick load of come into his lover's mouth. He pulls out a little bit after that, letting Noah lick any left over come from his thick dick head before Darren fixes his pants.

"That was fun." Noah says as he gets to his feet.

"Is it a surprise when you have such a stud for a husband?" Darren teases.

"You're so full of yourself." Noah chuckles.

"I know, it's why you love me so much." Darren grins and kisses Noah. His hands coming around to knead Noah's ass. The two officers stand there in Noah's office kissing when the door opens and Daniels walks in looking frazzled.

"Sir we have an issue. I brought in a dangerous criminal and now he." Daniels trails off when he notices the other officer with the Sheriff. He freezes for a moment as realization hits him and he sputters over his words.

"Yes?" Noah asked.

"You were saying something son?" Darren adds.

"N-nothing, sorry to trouble you both." Daniels settles on saying before he quickly leaves.

"That was odd." Noah says and turns to Darren.

"We can worry about him later. Right now I believe we are still on break so why don't we use it to have a little more fun." Darren suggests, pulling Noah closer to him for another kiss. Before they can continue Noah's phone buzzes, and with a heavy sigh the Sheriff answers it.

"Stiles is here to see you. Do I let him back?" The receptionist says.

"Yeah, send him back." Noah answers and hangs up.

"Our son is here." Noah says.

"Of course he is. I love him, but he has the worst timing." Darren chuckles.

"Yeah, but at least we can continue this when we get home." Noah says.

"Oh I intend to, and do a lot more to you." Darren promises. He has a flash of forigen thoughts in his head for a brief moment. He recalls what feels like two separate sets of memories in his head, but before he could focus on what they mean he quickly forgets them. He then just feels affection for his husband and their son just as Stiles opens the door.

Stiles pauses when he sees his dad and another officer around his dad's age holding hands and looking like they're close to kissing. The scene throws Stiles off and the young man is baffled over what the hell he just walked in on before reality catches up to him.

He recalls the new officer as his dad. Remembering growing up with two fathers and how much he loves his dads.

"Jeez, can't you two wait to get home to do this?" Stiles teases.

"So you can interrupt us there too?" Darren jokes, walking up and pulling his son in for a hug. Neither of them recalling who Darren was once before his transformations.

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Books, March - April 2022

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World - Margaret Cavendish, edited by Kate Lilley

Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America - Scott Borchert [entertaining in itself + made me want to read a bunch of what they wrote = a success] *

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Mary Roach [blithely entertaining on the subject of (mostly) animal scofflaws; I’ve returned it so now I can’t double check, but I think she makes it through an entire chapter on clubbing (etc.) the albatrosses of Midway without once referencing the Ancient Mariner, and let us admit that took some effort]

Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo

Thus Was Adonis Murdered - Sarah Caudwell *

The Shortest Way to Hades - Sarah Caudwell

The Sirens Sang of Murder - Sarah Caudwell

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi [didn’t realize this was YA; it’s YA; dnf]

Honey Girl - Morgan Rogers

Emotional Load and Other Invisible Stuff - Emma, translated by Una Dimitrijevic [dnf]

The Missing Page - Cat Sebastian

Must Love Books - Shauna Robinson [dnf]

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

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i can’t believe it took me until today to read thus was adonis murdered

ok well i’m halfway through but it’s already my favorite thing i’ve ever read in my life. absolutely unparalleled

[magioftheseas]

Review x Routes

Recently I finished Collar X Malice, an otome that is...really good! And also topical, lmao. Overall I super recommend it. Otomes in general are super underappreciated as a genre and that’s so sad! Especially when you have gems like this! There’s five routes, so I’ll give some (mostly) non-spoilery thoughts now!

General Synopsis

A terrorist organization named Adonis is in the works. After several months of horrific and seemingly random murders done in the name of injustice while counting down to an apparent X-Day at the end of the year, Shinjuku has been placed under severe quarantine, with the gun ban lifted in hopes that civilians can protect themselves where the police have failed. Ichika Hoshino is a young officer in the newly instated Special Regions Crime Prevention Office, which is a glorified customer service job and mostly has Ichika answering concerned calls. During a patrol, Ichika is captured and collared by Adonis, told that if she wishes to survive, she’ll have to investigate the X-Day cases. But she can’t alert her fellow officers. Instead, she has to recruit the help of a shady detective organization, each person with their own reason for investigating...

Mineo Enomoto

A very sweet and wholesome slowburn! Mineo is a himbo with a tragic backstory that relates to the events of the X-Day incident he’s (allegedly) investigating. Very simplistic and upfront about its themes and message, so it’s on the more basic side but I find Mineo’s likeability more than makes up for it. In addition to Mineo, there’s also more focus on Kazuki, Ichika’s rebellious teen bro, who is like...baby. Baby boy. Their previously estranged relationship is the most mended here, so if the romance isn’t enough, at least come for the family fluff! The side-characters are super likeable too, especially Isshiki. That said, while the first culprit is a fun albeit shallow character, I felt second/main villain of this route was more tell than show. That said. This is objectively the best route on a revisit (after completing all the others). 9/10.

Takeru Sasazuka

Maybe you’re a masochist who wants to be talken down to instead. But you don’t want a guy that’s super macho, more...soft and cute...but still with a sharp tongue and a bitchy streak. Takeru’s the guy for you. He’s also anti-guns. What more could you ask for, really? In all seriousness, while I can be fond of these types, I did like this one more for the plot and the understated-ness of the romance. I actually think it would’ve benefitted from more...smut. I think it would’ve benefitted from having smut. Unfortunately (or fortunately???), otomes are sexless (even if they’re not chaste), so while things get suggestive, it stays rated T. Despite the fact that the game is rated M. Anyway, this is a story about revenge without being super edgy and graphic, which I appreciate. Also there’s some stuff about gaming addiction. If not for the ending super dragging, I’d actually think pretty highly of it despite not completely jibing, but yeah. The ending super drags. Still. The culprits are good. 7/10.

Kei Okazaki

He actually doesn’t go here. Kei’s part of the Special Police (which are glorified bodyguards), assigned to look after Yanagi’s “detective agency” for monitoring purposes. Thus, he actually doesn’t know Ichika’s situation, but he’s still very much interested. That can only go well. (Note: It does not.) Anyway, Kei’s my absolute favorite and I think his route is more or less perfect despite Kei’s pushiness as a romantic lead. Said romance ties really well into the plot not by any connections in the backstory but through its themes. It’s so clever! It’s also deeply emotional with some truly astounding voice-acting! So great! Also includes a heartwrenching critique against how violence against women is overlooked and downplayed by police. Definitely one of the most heartbreaking cases in the game, and the main culprit as a villain is also just incredible as not only a tragic (but terrifying) character, but also-also a foil. He’s a vast improvement from the one in Mineo’s route. 10/10!!!

Kageyuki Shiraishi

He’s only avaliable after completing any of the three routes above. Shiraishi is...rather enigmatic and aloof, being someone that Ichika actually hates at first, lmao. He’s apathetic but good at reading people, which makes him uneasy to be around. He gets better. His route is definitely the most about growth, both for him as a character and his relationship with Ichika. It’s definitely impressive and ambitious, I feel, even if I think he’d be better suited for...uh. Like. Dangan Ronpa. Or something. Maybe Ace Attorney. Lmao. That said, he’s a good route...except for the literal last minute. Which sucks. Fucking ass. Holy shit. His route could’ve been a 9/10 or even 10/10 but that ending is so bad. It’s like a 1/10 ending at best. God, poor Shiraishi. Deserved Better/10.

Aiji Yanagi

The true route! The last......and least, imo. Rip. Sorry, Yanagi! As the final route, the romance has to actively compete for focus with the plot revelations and it comes across as not only unbalanced, but underwhelming. Despite Yanagi also being objectively perfect husband material, I personally had a hard time feeling engaged with his relationship with Ichika. Also Ichika isn’t as reliant by necessity on Yanagi as she is on the others. Which *would* be good, except it makes Ichika’s strong attachment to him off the bat feel more sudden and more...forced. I also wasn’t nearly as attached to the main-main villain as I was to the many side-villains we had met until that point. But, it had some interesting elements and I liked how other characters were used and characterized. Yanagi’s relationships to the other male characters are all good. One character, who’s introduced more in Kei’s route but we only get to know here, is actually pretty charismatic and interesting. There are good elements here, but it needed more fleshing out. Rather unfortunately, this *is* the longest route, too. I feel bad. The writers must have seriously struggled. 6/10.

Overall, please play this game. I didn’t even get a chance to talk about how great Ichika herself is. Or the other female characters for that matter.

Ichika more like Ichiban...ka...

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Sould dissembling were his Peacefull’st     cot, the Crown upon the heau’nly sway. Swear nature it     conceal’d, where I prophecies of the World! And sold for     excesses, whose perfumed bed, the sun of all thy fresh garments     trim. Trip and now his mind;

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[mythologyfolklore]

101 Greek Mythology head-canons that have little to nothing to do with the “canon”

(These headcanons merely involve my own interpretation of G.M. and the way it’s depicted in my story. It’s okay, if you don’t like them, but please do refrain from nagging into my ears about it, because these are headcanons!)

1. Ares is both Zeus’ oldest and his only legitimate son (Hephaistos is Hera’s son alone, so he doesn’t count). Sometimes he rubs it into his half-siblings’ faces out of spite. The only ones excluded are the Horai (Eunomia, Dike and Eirene) and Athena, because they're (kind of) older and have been born (or conceived) in wedlock.

2. Ares and Zeus have kind of a parental love-hate relationship. Because ... well, it’s Zeus.

3. Athena has a bitter rivalry with both Ares and Poseidon going on. But they do get along sometimes.

4. The Kronides (Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus) have a feeling of reverence towards Athena’s mother Metis. It’s one of the reasons why she’s Zeus’ favourite child.

5. I went with Hesiod’s Theogony on their family tree, so Aphrodite is the sole daughter of the sky Ouranos (or more specifically of his privy parts). That makes her the half-sister of the Titanes and aunt to the 1st-generation-Olympians. Thus she’s the oldest member of the Olympian Twelve (the Dodekatheoi).

6. Aphrodite dresses in pink or red most of the time, but her favourite colour is actually blue. Only Ares, Hephaistos and Athena know this.

7. Every time a god/dess is born, the Moirai (the Fates) and the Protogenoi (primordial gods) come to attend the birth, determine their later life and tasks and grant them the powers required. Most of the Protogenoi typically attend births invisibly, so that only Zeus, Hades and Hekatê can see them.

8. Hera and Zeus have a cold love for each other. They’re still married, because he needs a queen and no one else wants to be. And Hera can watch over the family better this way.

9. Hera is in retirement from being a jealous psycho wife. Now she just gives hell to Zeus, as annoying him is fun, if you can get away with it. Nowadays she’s a bitch for other reasons.

10. Poseidon isn’t the wisest of the three brothers, but he often mediates between Hades and Zeus, when things get bad between them. Over time he has gotten really good at it.

11. The Olympians have three collective no-goes: violation of the laws of hospitality, family murder and cannibalism. For obvious reasons.

12. Hephaistos, Ares and Aphrodite have long moved on from the golden net incident. Hephaistos has divorced Aphrodite and remarried. The three have a platonic affection for each other and joke about the shipwreck that’s Hephaistos’ and Aphrodite’s failed marriage.

13. Aphrodite is secretly a badass. She also has a more of her father in her than anyone could imagine. She keeps it from everyone, because she’s too afraid of what Zeus might do, if he finds out. The only ones who have a hunch are Hephaistos, Ares and Athena.

14. Ares was actually supposed to become a god of vegetation and fertility, when he was born. But no thanks to a curse from Gaia, he got bound to become a god of war instead. He does have green fingers though and secretly likes gardening.

15. Aphrodite had no serious relationship with any other than Ares, but Adonis came pretty close. Ares killed the poor guy out of jealousy, which obviously made Aphrodite upset.

16. Metis still exists. She lives on inside Zeus’ subconsciousness and has born the prophesied son that is destined to surpass Zeus. But they can’t get out, because Zeus placed a seal on his mind, after Athena broke out of his head.

17. Demeter wasn’t actually upset about Persephone marrying Hades. She was angry that it happened without her consent; she’s Persephone’s mother after all. But since things have been cleared up, she gets along with Hades comparatively well.

18. If you make Hestia, Hebe or Harmonia upset, the Olympians will collectively hunt you down and fuck you up.

19. The Greek pantheon is in contact with other panthea. Zeus does most of the international politics.

20. Dionysos once wanted to make it rain wine during Athena’s birthday party. But he messed up the spell and it rained pineapples instead.

21. Ares is possessed by a demon. To be specific by Polemos, the personification and spirit of war itself. It’s one of the reasons why he’s so crazy, but he has learned to deal with it. To him, Polemos is mostly that annoying voice in his head. He can allow the Daimon to take over, but rarely does, because he doesn’t want anyone to know about him and because he fears, that Polemos might harm his loved ones.

22. Hephaistos likes to set people’s hair on fire, if they piss him off.

23. Hermes is a kleptomaniac. Nobody likes this.

24. Ares and Demeter had a one-night-stand once. Their offspring was two serpentine dragons and a warrior, because that’s how hardcore they are. Ares loved his monster babies and was very upset, when they got killed.

25. Hades and Persephone have one of the most functional marriages in the pantheon. Persephone is the boss.

26. Ares’ daughter Harmonia is the only goddess, who has given up her immortality for a mortal husband. She was cursed by Hephaistos, who wanted to get back at Aphrodite, and lived a miserable life, before she and her husband were turned into snakes (in my version it was Ares, who transformed them both). They were sent to the Elysion after finally passing on. Hades allows Ares and Aphrodite to visit their daughter from time to time.

27. Despite being brash and loud, Ares is one of the few gods, who actually get along with Hades. He earned a few points with the King of the Underworld by getting along famously with Kerberos and by increasing his number of subjects more quickly.

28. Artemis is asexual, but in a romantic relationship with Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth and oldest daughter of Hera. Hera only tolerates it for Elileithyia’s sake, as she and Artemis really dislike each other.

29. Apollon used to have a one-sided crush on his twin. It was nothing sexual (he takes her virginity very seriously), but more than brotherly. Artemis knows and was really freaked out at first, but forgave him after learning, that he didn’t want to get creepy. When Zeus found out, he helped him to get rid of that love, and his affection for Artemis returned to being healthy brotherly love.

30. Hermes and Dionysos once tried to prank Hephaistos. His wife Aglaia caught them. They never tried again afterwards.

31. Zeus' mental state alone can affect the atmosphere and weather. If he’s calm or composed, so is the weather. If he’s furious, it’s like a hurricane, even if he tries to keep his temper - the weather just gives away, what he’s feeling. Zeus finds this really damn annoying.

32. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades didn’t draw lots to get their domains. They didn’t even choose them. Their domains chose them.

33. The Protogenoi, aka the Primordials, are to the gods, what the gods are to the humans, although the gods don’t worship the Protogenoi. However, the gods respect some more than others. Like the gods, each Protogenos has epithets given to them by the gods.

34. Each race of deities (Protogenoi, Titanes, gods, Daimones, Nymphai, etc.), has their own language. Only a few of the gods are fluent in all of them. Especially the language of the Protogenoi is often hard to decipher.

35. Aphrodite really hates her father Ouranos. Then again, everyone does.

36. Each one of the Olympians has their own mental issues.

37. Hephaistos was born with one deformed leg, but otherwise would have been able to walk. But after falling off Olympos, his left leg was hopelessly damaged and he needed a crutch. Then Zeus threw him off the mountain in a fit and he’s needed a wheelchair ever since, as crashing into an island has left him paraplegic.

38. Dionysos often gets called “baby of the family”, as he’s the youngest Olympian by far. It irritates him a lot.

39. Persephone wasn’t kidnapped. She went into the underworld by herself, because she was sick of everything and wanted to be alone. And as the underworld is really huge, Hades only found her months later by accident. She stayed with him for a while, they fell for each other and got impulse-married. But when Hermes showed up and explained what was going on in the upperworld, Hades decided, that she had to go back at least for a while. They had a dispute with Demeter and Zeus, arrangements were made, they got officially married and ever since then Persephone spent half the year up and half the year down-under.

40. As the goddess of spring, Persephone brings it wherever she goes. So when she leaves the upperworld, she brings spring to the underworld. However, as the queen of the dead, she also has the tendency of taking the influence of the underworld to wherever she goes in the upperworld. Persephone tans easily and is therefore very dark, when she goes down to the underworld. But the lack of sunlight in the underworld makes her grow pale quickly. Then she goes back up and the cycle starts again.

41. Persephone wears her hair short, because she liked it on Ares, when they first met. When she found out, that mortal women had the custom of shearing their hair as a sign of mourning, she was like: Huh ... what a coincidence. Demeter needed a while to get used to her new hair style.

42. Ares remembers the birthdays of all of his (half-)siblings, even those he hates. It’s one of the few nice things he does for them.

43. Aphrodite usually appears to someone as the type of person they find most desirable (x1000). That applies to mortals and used to apply to the Olympians too, until Athena asked her to choose a fixed shape for the gods, because she and the other virgin goddesses couldn’t see her. Aphrodite found this hilarious, but complied.

44. Hephaistos once grew a beard, hoping he’d would look less boyish and less like his mother Hera, but shaved it off again, because he was sick of it catching fire and sparks.

45. Out of all marriages in the Greek pantheon, Zeus’ and Hera’s marriage is only the third most dysfunctional; it’s surpassed by that of Kronos and Rheia and that of Ouranos and Gaia. Most other divine couples have more or less functional relationships.

46. At some point Aphrodite asked Ares to marry her, but he only knew the disaster that is his parents’ marriage and refused.

47. Poseidon has a tendency to make sexist jokes. Athena finds it really unfunny (so do the other goddesses, but they’re not subject of his bad jokes often, so they grin and bear it). Ares also takes offense at sexist jokes, which pleasantly surprised Athena and Artemis, when they found out.

48. Literally every member of the Olympians is LGBTQ+ in some way (even Ares; he’s heterosexual, but demiromantic).

49. Aphrodite loves pinching Hephaistos’ cheeks. He finds this really annoying, but tolerates it, because resistance is futile.

50. Hekatê is powerful and knowledgeable even for a Titan. The Protogenoi blessed her even before she was born. The premature blessing, plus her father being the Titan of destruction caused a mutation. Her eyes are not on her face, but she has several dozens of them magically floating around her head, like an ever-shifting halo. She also ages throughout the night (she’s a child in the evening and an old woman in the morning) and regresses during the day.

61. It doesn’t matter how much at odds the Olympians are, they will stand up for each other and stick together, when push comes to shove.

62. Apart from the 3 top tier taboos (violation of hospitality, cannibalism & family murder), each Olympian has at least one thing they would never do. Be it because they have suffered it first hand or just because they think it’s wrong and it’s below their standards.

63. Zeus is an early bird. The only others on Olympos are Apollon, Ares and Hermes. The others are either night owls or just constantly sleep-deprived/hungover.

64. Ares has a twin sister named Enyo. She’s been banished from Olympos after the Gigantomakhia for remaining neutral instead of supporting her kin. She’s crashing at his home in Thrace and mostly accompanies him into battle, together with Eris.

65. If Hephaistos was able to stand up, he’d be as tall as Artemis (she’s the third tallest goddess).

66. Hera couldn’t handle Ares, when he was a baby and asked Eris to be his nurse. Eris agreed and became his nurse under the fake identity of Thero. A few years later , he was kidnapped by Titanes at the age of seven. Hera gave him back to Eris to protect him, appointing the goddess of strife to be Ares’ guardian. When he was ten, he heard, that he had now a little sister (Eileithyia) and wanted to go back to Olympos. By that time the war was over, so Eris allowed it.

67. Eris sees the bonds between people as golden strings. She carries a sickle on herself. To damage a bond, she grazes it with the sickle, to destroy it completely, she cuts it. The stronger the string, the harder it is to cut.

68. The duty of Harmonia (Eris’ opposite) is to repair the bonds Eris has cut or damaged. She performs that duty even in Elysion.

69. Hera and Aphrodite have one thing in common: They both look like Japanese horror movie ghosts, before their morning coffee. Zeus and Ares both make sure that it’s ready, when they get up. Zeus because his wife creeps him out like that, Ares because he loves his girlfriend.

70. The Moirai, or the Fates, are daughters of Nyx. Klotho (Spinner) has a childlike appearance, Lakhesis (Alotter) is a matron and Atropos (Inevitable) is an old hag. Atropos is mute and speaks sign language, while her sisters translate what she says. Klotho is paraplegic and wheelchair-bound. Lakhesis is the caretaker of both. They’re usually incorruptible and pitiless in doing their duty, but sometimes a god manages to elicit a favour from them (for a price, of course). The thread of life of each living being is a glowing string coming from Klotho’s white hair. A mortal’s life thread is white, a semi-divine thread is silvery, a divine thread is golden.

71. Zeus never really cheated fate, when he absorbed Metis. He’s fully aware, that one day his reign will end and has everything planned out. He simply doesn’t want to step down just yet. Not even he can go against the Moirai and they never spared him his fate - they only accommodated him by giving him more time.

72. Only the Protogenoi have the power to really alter someone else’s fate, but it comes at a hefty price. For example, Gaia changed the fate of Ares, when she sealed Polemos inside of him and cursed him to become the destructive god of terrible war. This led to the child being captured and tortured by Kronos, who hoped to make the personification of war bend to his will (because he’s evil!). The irate Moirai retaliated by granting the original Olympians and their allies a devastating victory over Kronos and sentenced him and his allies to everlasting torment in Tartaros.

73. The Titanomakhia lasted for ten Olympian years, which by mortal standards is a century. By the time it began, Zeus was already married to Metis, so his siblings got to meet both of their saviors. But when he found out that she was pregnant, he panicked and absorbed her. Shortly after the war began, he married Thémis, the Titanis of divine justice and heavenly order, who had joined his side immediately. Together they had the Horai, but broke up, when she learned of Metis’ fate (i.e. Thémis got outta there, while she still could). Afterwards Zeus married Hera, so their first child Ares was born a few mortal decades before the end of the war.

74. Zeus and Hera are a complicated set of parents: one day they don’t give a crap about their children and the next day they would tear the universe apart to keep them save. The feeling is mutual.

75. Apollon isn’t actually that unlucky in love. His failed attempts at romance are just more well-known.

76. Ares is actually quite intelligent. The problem is, that he’s extremely emotional and volatile, has no impulse control and is really hostile as a result of his unpopularity and the things he has gone through.

77. The four virgin goddesses (Athena, Artemis, Hestia and Hekatê) are all asexual, but Athena and Artemis are demiromantic, while Hestia and Hekatê are aromantic.

78. Although Athena is demiromantic, she has never been in love as in she has never formed an emotional attachment other than Storge (familiar love) or Philia (deep friendship). She would, however be capable of Agape (unconditional, selfless love) or Pragma (enduring, grounded love). What she isn’t capable of is Eros (passionate, physical love), Ludus (playful love) and Mania (obsessive love).

88. The incident with Medusa getting raped by Poseidon inside Athena’s temple never happened. I went with the version in Hesiod’s Theogony: Medusa was a Gorgon from birth and together with her sisters a daughter of Phorkys and Keto, two ancient marine deities. She was the only mortal Gorgon, probably because of a mutation. Her affair with Poseidon was consensual. The rape account is a late one and comes from Ovid, a Roman writer, who wrote his Metamorphoses as a jab against the authorities (the Metamorphoses portrait all mortals as hapless victims and the gods as bigger dicks than the Greeks themselves saw their gods).

89. Most of the gods have lived for ten thousands of years. So even though to us it looks like they have one tryst after another, for them there can be centuries between each affair and the next. Of course, a century is almost nothing to them, but you get the idea.

90. The Olympians are very hypocritical. Nothing new here.

91. Hermes is closer to humans than all of the other Olympians. He is also the fondest of them.

92. Ares on the other hand is extremely misanthropic. Which is unsurprising, because he presides over the darker aspects of war and gets to see the worst side of humanity all the time. He considers it a kindness to make them kill each other.

93. Since Ares is Zeus’ only legitimate son and therefore his heir, he has to perform a lot of duties outside of his function as god of terrible war. The duty he hates most is going through his father’s mail, because nobody likes paper stuff. The upside is the confidential information he gets out of it. The other gods are unaware, how much he knows about his father or how much Zeus actually trusts his son with.

94. Zeus threatens his family to send them to Tartaros every time they piss him off too much. But he would never actually do it, because that would mean locking them up together with the defeated Titanes. And despite everything, he loves his family too much to do this and he hasn’t forgot, what they did to his son.

95. Though he has no qualms doing this with his demigod children, if they murder their sons and serve them to the gods for dinner (you know who I mean), or with trouble-makers, who kill their guests and capture Death itself, or people who harass his wife and children.

96. Aphrodite is fiercely protective of her boyfriend and children.

97. Once Aphrodite and Athena had a yelling contest. It was so terrifying, that the others (except for Zeus, who does this with Hera all the time) hid under the table and huddled together in fear. The two women only stopped screaming at each other, when Zeus told them to calm down.

98. Persephone and Hades have no children, mostly because she only likes children, if they’re dead (because they’re quiet). The only reason she agreed to raise Adonis together with Hades was that she doesn’t trust Aphrodite as far as she can throw her.

99. The scythe Demeter uses to reap her corn is the very same one Kronos used to castrate Ouranos. But the only thing that would prompt Demeter to use it as a weapon is, if her family was threatened (like in the Gigantomakhia).

100. Hera and Herakles buried their strife years before Herakles’ deification; when he helped the gods against the Gigantes and saved her from being assaulted by one of them. This is why she agreed to let him marry her daughter Hebe, after he became a god himself.

101. There is one deity the gods hold more sacred than all the others: Kháos, the Primordial Mist. Ze is the most hallowed of the Protogenoi, the Void that predates creation itself. Zir presence is felt in the invisible air we breathe and seen in the gloom of fog and mist. Ze is the atmosphere encircling the earth.