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neathnights · 2 years

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The Neath's Mysteries

They say the Neath's destiny is bound with these deeper secrets. Are your eyes on these futures?

They say only six letters of it should ever be written together. The seventh will doom all. Four jewels are lost. Hold tight to the fifth!

→ A singular phrase They say that history is seven jewels on a necklace, but two have never been seen. Doesn't one of your friends have a book on the subject?

A long evening You pace your lodgings, wearing a trail into the carpet. Let's hope your friend comes soon with the book.

→ A strange sort of prank You keep seeing something. A flash of vivid green in shop windows and the reflections of gaslamps in puddles. Perhaps you know someone reliable who can help you catch the joker.

Why would anyone do this? There it is again, the briefest green flash, reflected in your own pocket-watch. This is maddening!

The light comes from the jungle behind the glass. Where isn't is.

→ Going to the theatre The show is cancelled, the poster claims. Mahogany Hall – London's most notorious Music Hall and Theatre – is closed tonight. You know better. You have two tickets to a secret performance of the forbidden Seventh Letter. Find a friend – you don't want to see that alone.

Going the back way The urchin eyes you suspiciously as you wait in the cold fog behind Mahogany Hall. Where is your friend? The performance starts soon.

→ Sharing a dream The same dream again. The lush, bright garden. The half-eaten fruit. The mirror and the panther. And you're not the only one. Who else has had this dream?

#chance cards #the neath's mysteries #seeing through the eyes of icarus #touched by fingerwork #walking the falling cities

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hedgehog-moss · 1 year

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In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

#frpol #i bought a couple of books from la fabrique this morning... win-win i actually meant to read them and didn't know they were #published by them #in slightly better news @french people if you haven't seen some video excerpts of macron meeting alsatians today it's worth checking out #people telling him how corrupt his gov is; someone saying ''you're going to fall; mark my words'' and someone else #''we don't want your reform you arsehole'' and people chanting 'macron resign' as he walks away looking a bit pissed...#and naturally protests were banned in the cities he visited today and cops had cleared the area of actual protesters #before macron arrived so the people he met were actually the less angry people

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bruhstation · 11 months

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1938 --> 1999 --> 2023

#this is tugs #thomas the tank engine #theodore tugboat #tugs ten cents #ttte thomas #theotug theodore #fortezza bigg city #casa tidmouth #stanza halifax #senjart #I'm too tired to color them.... probably for another day. since I have a few ideas for them as well #here they are. the joestars of cstmverse #running to halting to walking slowly. the changing expressions. do you get it. do you get it.#and the. the feathers. do you get it. bird feathers. bird motif on captain star. on ten cents. do you (piano falls on me)#I know ten cents mad as hell watching thomas from the pearly gates fumble everything and plague sodor with cosmic horrors 😂😂😂#theodore is much better though. He is literally just some guy. a sweet guy. everyone's pal buddy etcetera teddy

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woof-squiggles · 3 months

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fun fact: sunflowers are incredibly resilient to radiation, and can actually absorb radioactive elements

no flowers under cut:

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faaun · 2 months

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we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

#27% circle line with a lovely friend of mine rail tracks screeching etc etc u know the usual. im just gonna write down memories #a few weeks ago my friend read thus spoke zarathustra by the fire to the music she was dancing it was her silhouette #against the flashlight lit up gold and royal blues and tiger's silk i tried not to fall in love with her. in bordeaux we searched #for pomegranates he sent her 300 quid by the beach she cut it open with a knife her hand covered in red we each had a taste of her work #sweet red wet the sweetest grit. too barely clothed to go into the cliffside church they painted my eyes we painted hers #8 shots of gin she screamed joyfully IT'S ALIVE! at the book she said become the child i said i feel like a monster she said i was insane #i tried to believe her. fortified wine and later a red pen crossword defiled by humidity her hair in my hands two king sized beds #pushed next to each other she took her top off she told us to watch her arms raised up the musculature on her back was precise cut from #marble we saw oceans we saw the birds take cold baths the midnight sun over a wasp-infested pool our chemicals in their bodies #gold flakes dark skin gold cross shoulders against mine drawing some form of each other on the train i didn't hesitate #to say her eyes were beautiful over and over monks at the soapshop with titanium credit cards i loved you like i loved no other #he tied his hair up and walked us into the river he held a bullet between his lips i never held his hand he said what an honour #you own too much capital your mother thinks i'm a natural i realised i haven't told my mother i loved her in years she's always been mother #never mom i'll watch you watch seaweeds this is terminal akrasia i'll feel your fingers smear perfume on my lips your girlfriend grins #bite into the straw take the shot hold my hand get it all wrong draw in the sand kiss him right stab through leather shower in chlorine #you're the determinable vicissitude is all yours we won the Game AND the Battle AND the War i'm proud of you like crazy we feed each other #saffron cliffside lovers well-fallen brothers fat cats blue windows southwest sun ALife SynBio design aXAA grow us a city in silico #we've grown to the ends of glee fire-jumper ocean-eater sure-footed lists on lists hands on eyelids не устану искать тебя #...anyway ive put my face on this blog b4 but hiii again #feel free to rb btw the rants r not personal

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kafkasapartment · 11 months

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Tree and Dog Walk, October 29, 1967. André Kertész. Gelatin silver print.

#black and white #photography #photographie #andre kertesz #autumn #fall #foto #fotografia #fotographie #1960s #dogs #walk #park #city scape

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moominpopzz · 5 months

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My like favorite headcanon pairing is Southern William Wisp and Semi-city boy Dakota btw

#ESPECIALLY if it’s Dakota being confused ab something southern Wills doing #Dakota laughing at Will for his southern tendencies #Dakota trying some sort of southern food Will keeps having and either falling inlove with it or nearly throwing up ovr it #Dakota being in Deadwood and seeing the Wisps home and all their land and FREAKING out #Dakota giggling at Williams pronunciation #Dakota helping Will out in social and public situations cause he’s not used to so much happening #Dakota talking about walking to stores vs Will talking ab how the only big store nearby was like a 15 min drive #Dakota talking ab running from roof to roof and Will being like ‘jfc I mean I could death dive to one if I tried I guess’#sighs #I love them #platonic ghostkicks when they’re literally country boy x city boy #to me. they will always be that to ME #moomins yapping<3 #prime defenders #jrwi pd #jrwi #jrwi prime defenders #william wisp #dakota cole #platonic ghostkicks #southern William wisp

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yuliia-ozen · 11 months

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#ukraine #kyivphoto #kyiv ukraine #kyiv #urban #urban landscape #urban photography #urban aesthetic #autumn #fall #city photography #city walk #sunset #my photography #my photos #original content #original photography on tumblr #український tumblr #український тамблер

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 9 months

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shoutout to Asteroid City for making me pace and cry for a solid ten minutes after watching it

#adding it to the list of movies that make me Insane-#wes anderson. man. what a fuckin director yk #he gets it... he knows whats up...#i love how on surface level his movies - those of them that ive seen this far #they seem kind of absurd and slightly nonsensical. until you Listen to & Think about whats being said in matter-of-fact tones #and then its like oh. Oh. ok. i need to walk into the woods and howl and eat my own heart #not mention just. his artistic view #the staging the framing the shots the acting style the colors the set design the AUGH #IT'S SO UNIQUE AND DISTINCT!!!#i do believe that wes anderson is my favorite director #i want... to try and create something that sort of emulates his style...#absolutely unprompted #i really need to make a list of my fav movies. asteroid city will definitely be on it #you cant wake up if you dont fall asleep....

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da-janela-lateral · 6 months

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For some reason I really want to write a fanfic in which Reigen, Serizawa and Dimple go to Rio de Janeiro out of all places to solve a weirdly complicated case (maybe the Black Opala urban legend). The client paid for all trip expenses so why not have some fun while they're there?? There is so much comedy potential in there with linguistic differences and cultural clashes. Spirits and Such's international travel...

#either they're surviving on basic english skills or on shitty google translate. maybe serizawa knows a bit of portuguese cos claw stuff #wait dimple is the funniest option for "understands portuguese”. but he only knows the 1800s imperial era version #serizawa almost falls for the false perfume scam because it depends on the victim's social awkwardness #they'd be HORRIFIED at brazillian “japanese cuisine”. why do the restaurants do that.#serizawa and reigen quickly realizing there is no way they can walk around in suits because the city is hot as hell #reigen accidentally joins a samba circle with pure charisma #they discover about the CHAOS of public transportation #I wanted to make the setting be any capital that isn't Rio or São Paulo but unfortunately these are the most known cities #spirits and such in Belo Horizonte when #anyways I have SO MANY IDEAS this sounds so fun #mp100 #mob psycho 100

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esteemed-excellency · 5 months

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I don't talk much about Hiram and the Commissioner but since I played motr I picture them as old friends who fell out of touch after a while. They still have a common goal, and even though he's helping her with the railway as she helped him find a home back in the day, their personalities are just too different now. But they both went through a lot.

Maybe they should meet more often again and have a nice talk.

#i'm thinking about hiram's story through the commissioner's pov and it's both funny and tragic #you help this guy who lost everything during the fall but he decides to go on a corruption arc #you have no idea if the problem was the fall or if he's always been like this. whatever his problem was he decides to get WorseTM #and you can't do anything about it #flashforward to 1899 he now owns the city and you still have no idea about his goals #but you’re pretty sure he's postponing a reckoning too #he's a walking red flag but he's always kind to you and he helped with your nightmares so maybe you're still friends?#you're both just two senior citizens trying to cope with The Horrors. he might have embraced them with too much enthusiasm #hiram hargrave

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raurquiz · 5 months

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#happybirthday @JDMorgan #JeffreyDeanMorgan #actor #xindi #startrek #enterprise #negan #thewalkingdead #deadcity #theboys #supernatural #greysanatomy #extant #watchmen #rampage #thelosers #TheGoodWife #ThePostcardKillings #WalkawayJoe #fall #TheUnholy #TheIntegrityofJosephChambers