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Promised- Finale (Grigor Dymov x fem! Reader, Arranged Marriage AU series)

Series Summary: When Emperor Peter's behavior towards your family threatens the alliance between them and Russia, the only way to solve it from breaking is through an arranged marriage with his friend, the handsome but heartbroken Count Grigor Dymov. A man you barely know.

Previous Chapters: One//Two//Three//Four//Five//Six//Seven//Eight//Nine//Ten//Eleven

Chapter Summary: You and Grigor enjoy a long-denied honeymoon

Content Warnings: Some discussions of sex and cursing and mentions of pregnancy and babies- don't worry, Y/N isn't pregnant. But VERY fluffy!

Word Count: 1584

A/N: Thank you guys so much for supporting this series throughout! Now I thought was the best time to conclude it! When season 3 of The Great comes out and should I get inspired, there might be a season 2 of this fic like what @ladystrallan did with I Really Wish I Hated You (which, btw, highly recommend if you love The Great Fanfics). Who knows?! But I hope all of you loved reading it as much as I loved writing this series!

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You and Grigor were planning on returning to court. You both just wanted something denied to you when you were rushed to be married and when there was a coup- a honeymoon. Three whole months of a honeymoon.

The days were never more lovely- lovemaking at night, awakening when one felt like it, the most sumptuous meals, playing cards by the fireside, reading to each other, and you showing off the various songs you knew how to play. You were starting to teach Grigor chords and his clumsy practicing of scales with mutters of “fuck!” at a mistake could be heard. You still kept shooting practice, but you were relaxed, not caring if you missed the odd target.

It was quite warm for Russia the past two weeks. Flowers were deep in their bloom in the gardens, and it was green everywhere. The vineyards seemed to be a far brighter green than you expected. Perhaps springtime was arriving sooner than you expected or maybe it was a warm spot for a few days. You had to wear your lighter silks as opposed to the warm furs to keep one safe from your new home country’s notorious chill.

As you and your husband toured the grounds together that afternoon, there were fruits of light green and dark purple. You would both look at each other, pluck the small fruits, and try bites of them yourself, feeling the juicy sweetness burst on your tongues, as if only briefly. Grigor would wipe the juice off of his sleeve and give you a kiss and you would taste the grape in his breath as if combined with yours you made your own special wine. Grigor was in his favorite deep green. You had insisted he keep a few buttons down so you could see some of his chest hair. You insisted it was absolutely sexy of him when he wore shirts (especially white ones) with a few buttons undone and he took note. Yes, it was the wrong color today, but you didn’t care. Perhaps that could wait for later tonight when you would hop on him like a rabbit until you screamed each other’s names, not caring about disturbing the servants sleeping below. You were in a bright red dress with golden floral patterns all over it and you perfumed yourself with rose water.

You matched and complimented in your dress as had your souls on the inside- each perfect and making only the other look better when beside it.

You emerged from the kiss and wiped your hand on your skirt.

“Could you hold my hand, my dear?” you asked, presenting your hand out.

He raised his eyebrows.

“Oh abso-fucking-lutely,” he replied, eagerly taking yours.

It was warm and encompassing, the fingers intertwined within each other to feel the pulse of each other. As you both walked back home, the day was fading. The sky turned into a mix of orange and pink and the crispness of evening etched around you. Once you approached back to the manor, the housekeeper greeted you both and assured you that dinner would be ready in one or two hours. Olga, the little servant girl, handed you back your beloved dog and both of you cooed over her.

“Oh and Madame Dymova! Here! Messenger said it’s from Paris! And it’s for you and the master!” she added on, handing over a letter with a familiar wax seal.

Before you could comment on it, Sonya let out a bright bark for want of attention.

“Here Sonya- found this! Here- Good girl!” Grigor offered.

From his pocket, he pulled out a truffle and fed it to the eager and always hungry pup.

“Would you like some wine? There’s a new one they just made here and it’s fucking astounding,” he offered.

“Oh, yes! And ask the kitchen for a plate of bread and cheese and fruit, perhaps?” you asked.

“I don’t see why not!” he replied, giving you a peck on your forehead before going down to the kitchen.

You made your way to the back porch area outside on your white seats and white chairs. You found it had not grown so chilly that you would require heaps of blankets as you have in the past. Sonya lay happily on your lap panting away. Though grown, she still saw herself as a puppy who had to have every last of her needs attended to, or else her mistress would hear her barking and mischief. But you loved her more for it.

You pulled from your reticule an unopened letter from the dress of your pocket. It couldn’t be your family- you heard just yesterday that you were an aunt to a beautiful little niece. Both you and Grigor were already making plans to travel and visit your family and for you to be introduced and be acquainted with his own. So, who could it be? Was it Catherine about her baby or the new education laws? Orlo recommending a new philosophy book to you? Who? You saw the name on it and gasped.

“It’s George! George wrote to us!” you told Sonya, who only tilted her head.

You then ripped it open and smiled, your heart touched by the contents. From the corner, you saw Grigor come out to approach the table. He smiled, holding two glasses of wine, and giving one to you.

“Why thank you, darling!” you chirruped at him.

“No problem at all,” he answered.

A servant immediately arrived behind and held a platter of cheeses, slices of bread, and apples. His blue eyes went to the letter.

“What is that? Who is it?” he asked.

You smiled, handing him the papers.

“Why, it’s George!? Can’t you believe it? She’s in Paris of all places! Oh, that must be wonderful! And here…she said she met someone who she truly loves and who loves her! Oh, I’m so happy for her! We must write back and ask her more about this!” you squealed.

“Why- how good for her! I’m glad!” Grigor wished genuinely with a shrug and a relaxed smile.

Both of you held up your glasses of wine.

“Should we toast to her?” you asked.

Grigor shook his head.

“I have a better one. To what brought us together in the first place. Here, Y/N-to the alliance!”

“To the alliance!” you agreed, daintily clinking your glasses.

Both of you took a first sip.

“It won’t be too long before we return- so much will be different…” Grigor began.

“I’m just glad Marial is in prison…I’ve slept better at night since then…” you sighed.

He did frown briefly. He took a deep drink and set down his glass.

“Well…part of me is eager. Been worried sick over Peter.”

“But you always are, you silly shit!” you teased, setting your own glass down.

He smiled at the words. You thought there was never a more beautiful smile than that of Grigor Dymov when he was well and truly happy. Your heart would always burst with love for him at the sight.

His letters seem fine and happy though…he’s thrilled about the baby. Got a name picked out and everything!”

“What if we have a baby- will we be even ready for that?” you suggested.

So far, your courses were like clockwork and Grigor would spoil you with bedrest and vodka and embraces when the cramps tormented you. But that doesn’t mean the time would never come. In fact, with all the fucking you had been doing it was a pure miracle it hadn’t happened yet!

“I don’t know if we’ll ever be, Y/N…but what about life after the coup? Things will be so…so different. Peter’s not in charge as much. There’s a royal baby on the way. George is in France. Catherine’s changing all the laws to what she wants. Everything is upside down…” he muttered.

“But we can take it…” you assured him.

He clutched his hand onto yours in response and you used your other hand to rest it on his cheek. He relaxed into it, using a hand to touch yours.

“We can take anything as long as we’re together, darling,” he replied.

“Of course, we can, my dear husband…” you cooed.

"Oh, say that again!” he insisted.

You crawled on his lap, kissing his face- his freckles, his forehead, his cheekbones, his chin.

“Dear husband, dear husband, my Grigor, my darling…” you mumbled between the kisses.

“Fuck, you make me hard. Keep it up and I might have to have you on this table before dinner!” he confessed.

“Wait until after dinner!” you insisted with a joking slap on his arm.

“If Countess Dymova requests it, who am I to deny her that!” he gave in.

You giggled and paused. Both of you breathe deeply the warmth of each other and the closeness.

He kissed you with soft lips again, but there was a chasteness- a tenderness to how he cupped your cheek when it happened. You cuddled into his chest as the sun set and he placed an arm around you to draw circles on your back as the dog lay contentedly smiling on the floor with her pink tongue out.

You were happy. After such chaos you had been through- you were completely happy. Dinner was about to be served. You had a home in court and out. You had a precious pup. You had friends. And most of all, you had found a happy, faithful marriage. And a husband who you loved and who loved you.

And this time the wine did in fact not taste like shit.

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Look I know Myfanwy is a girl’s name but I just thought of Eilonwy calling Llwellyn that and screw this, it’s gender neutral now

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ＴＨＥ ＲＯＹＡＬ ＣＨＲＯＮＩＣＬＥＳ : The Royal Wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton .* :☆ﾟ｡ ･

HRH Prince William Arthur Philip Louis and Miss. Catherine Elizabeth Middleton married in a religious ceremony at Westminster Abbey on what is my favourite day ever aka 29 April, 2011.

For the day, William was in the red tunic of the Colonel of the Irish Guards uniform with a forage cap bearing the Irish Guards insignia. He wore the Order of the Garter Star and Blue Riband to which his RAF Wings & Golden Jubilee Medal were fastened.

Meanwhile Catherine was a fairytale disney princess in a dress by Surah Burton of Alexander McQueen with the Cartier Scroll Tiara and a pair of diamond acorn earrings from Robinson Pelham. Her bridal bouquet featured myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, sweet William, ivy, and hyacinth.

Catherine was walked down the aisle by her father, Michael with whom she had travelled from Goring Hotel. Her sister Pippa was the maid of honour.

Will & Cat vowed to love, honour and cherish each other during the ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Cantebury.

He gave Catalina a ring made from Welsh Gold keeping with the tradition within the Royal Family.

Following the ceremony in true fairytale fashion, the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled in a horse-drawn carriage procession to Buckingham Palace.

They appeared on the Palace Balcony and shared TWO KISSES to the delight of the crowd gathered below and to my Disney obsessed self who'd been glued to the TV the entire time.

A Reception was held by the Queen in their honour at Bucking Palace, after which William drove his babykins to Clarence House in an Aston Martin DB6 Volante. Another private dinner was hosted by The Prince of Wales for his son and new daughter-in-law.

This was quite literally THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY! Aaaahhh all those feels of the day, everything was just perfect. Honestly for me nothing is ever topping twenty-ninth of april of 2011. And I don't think there was anyone who wasn't enveloped by the happiness radiating off of these two that day.

Nobody can talk about the day without talking about the goddess that our homegirl looked like that day, KateEffect had always been a thing but THIS DRESS like >>>>

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AMC Picks Up Captain Nemo Origin Series ‘Nautilus’ From Disney, Plans to Air Show in 2024

The Captain Nemo origin story series “Nautilus” lives on, with AMC Networks licensing the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to the live-action series from Disney Entertainment.

The 10-episode show was originally slated to air on Disney+, but it was announced back in August that the show was not going forward at the streamer as part of a wide-ranging cost cutting initiative at the Mouse House.

AMC and AMC+ will now air the show as a special television event in 2024, with an exact premiere date to be announced later. Inspired by Jules Vernes’ “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” the show will explore the early life of Captain Nemo, who is played by Shazad Latif. The character is described as “an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.”

“’Nautilus’ is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like ‘Orphan Black: Echoes,’” said Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. “We are looking forward to bringing it to AMC+ and AMC as a special television event next year.”

Along with Latif, the cast of the show includes Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E. Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor.

The series was developed and produced by Moonriver TV’s Xavier Marchand and Seven Stories’ Anand Tucker. James Dormer serves as writer and executive producer. Johanna Devereaux, Chris Loveall, Colleen Woodcock, and Daisy Gilbert also executive produce. Cameron Welsh serves as producer. Michael Matthews was the lead director.

“I am hugely excited that the efforts of everyone involved in the making of the show will be seen on such a prestigious network,” said Dormer.

“We are so thrilled to present the epic adventures of Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine The Nautilus alongside the other incredible AMC universes,” said Marchand and Tucker. “The series will take viewers on a breathtaking journey with Nemo and his crew, battling terrifying creatures and the dark forces of the British Empire.”

“Nautilus” is distributed by Disney Entertainment and acknowledges the support from the Australian Government’s Location Incentive and from the Queensland Government via Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy.

Source: The Variety

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Welcome to our first bonus blog, the new post segment where we’ll be covering all the miscellaneous things about insert-media-here that didn’t make it into the episode! This week we’re sharing observations and fun facts about the 2021 release of The Green Knight starring Dev Patel as told by IER’s very own Shamila Karunakaran, who unfortunately had to bow out of recording due to losing her voice. 

This post touches on themes of racism and sexual harassment. And as always, beware of spoilers:

People in this movie really love to cradle Gawain’s face (it's understandable though, Dev Patel and his magnificent beard are extremely pretty here) and the lord and the lady are clearly trying to recruit him as their third.

Bi!Gawain is hardly a concept exclusive to the movie either. In the original story, he kisses both the lady and the lord eagerly without being prompted. He even kisses the lord three times! It’s not like in the film where Gawain is being harassed by the lady and the lord on separate occasions and is clearly frightened by their intimidation. It’s hardly necessary when there’s so much enthusiastic consent in the source material itself. 

Dev Patel continues to be adorable with animals as seen with Armani the horse. He’d never ridden a horse before so not only did Dev feed his animal co-star dandelions in between takes, he also tried to gain Armani’s favour by sneaking him apples he had pilfered from the hotel lobby. Petition for Dev to play a Disney prince in 2024! 

Gawain’s encounter with Erin Kellyman’s character is itself a retelling within a retelling! It’s only mentioned briefly in one line of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but St. Winifred was an seventh-century Welsh martyr who had wanted to become a nun. According to legend, a travelling prince became enamoured with her beauty and tried to force himself on her after she rejected him and when she fled to her uncle’s church, the prince decapitated her after the ensuing chase. A healing spring appeared where her head fell and she was brought back to life when her uncle returned her head to her body, but she would have a red mark around her neck where it had been sliced through for the rest of her life. 

Some of the details have been changed in the film with the suitor now being a lord who returned to kill her after she rejected his advances, but unsurprisingly, Winifred herself is the patron saint against unwanted advances. When you take into consideration that Winifred is played by a white and Jamaican actress and how her bodily autonomy has been violated by a white man for rejecting what he wanted from her, it’s understandable that Winifred gets upset and outright questions why Gawain would ever ask what she would give him in return for her head. 

She likely thought that she found an ally in a non-white Gawain, but even if he was going through the chivalry script, there’s still an expectation and entitlement to get something in return. Gawain still has a certain privilege over Winifred simply through being non-Black. 

I do love that they took this not even a footnote of a character from the original story and fleshed out a scene for her and I do love that Erin Kellyman got to play a traditionally white character. That being said, she shouldn’t have been the only Black character in the film and don’t try to argue for historical accuracy, more Black British actresses in period pieces, period! 

Fun fact: the places in Wales where St. Winifred was decapitated is traditionally considered to be a place Gawain passed through on his way to the Green Chapel. The original story references Gawain traveling past a place called "Holy Hede", which modern scholars generally agree is the Welsh town of Holywell, the site of St. Winifred’s Well. 

Very irrelevant detail, but the way that Sarita Choudhury is dressed in The Green Knight reminds me of Sophie Okonedo's wardrobe as Margaret of Anjou in The Hollow Crown. It’s an interesting throughline considering Sarita and Sophie both play complicated older female characters who were originally white in their respective old British source materials and have lost their sons by the end of their respective stories, depending on the interpretation you go with for the former. 

If I had a nickel... well, I’d have three since Gawain goes on to lose his own son in the vision of the bad future he has.

But let’s get further into Sarita’s casting or more specifically, who she plays in the movie. And to the trolls in the comments, Sarita is half white and her character is canonically Arthur's half-sister, both in the film and the source material, it's perfectly plausible for Sarita and Sean Harris to play siblings. 

While Sarita’s character is simply called Mother in the credits, she’s a composite of both Morgause and Morgan le Fay, both half-sisters of Arthur in legend. Morgause is mother to Gawain and his more infamous half-brother Mordred (Sacha Dhawan for the role anyone?) while Morgan le Fay is the sorceress orchestrating the events of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

And Gawain himself is also a composite with Mordred, especially the part where he is Arthur’s delfacto heir and is despised by his subjects. 

As David Lowery states, the relationship between Morgan le Fay and Gawain written for the film evokes Lowery's own experiences with his mother and needing to be pushed to stand on his own as an adult. Having mother and son both be brown in the film adds another layer to an already complicated relationship and reminds me WAY too much of what it was like growing up with a brown mother myself. 

When you think more on it, Gawain and Morgan being brown gives further insight into their motivations. It’s telling that even with all his flaws, Gawain as a brown man would still see himself as unfit to be heir to his legendary white uncle. He himself even says that “I have [no tales of myself] to tell”, which works on a metatextual level since there are very few popular portrayals of Arthurian Knights who look anything like Dev Patel.

With Morgan’s case, you could argue that her being brown would be another sign of her being “othered” in Camelot. Even though her half-brother is king, it’s already canon that he hasn’t been very involved in Morgan and Gawain’s lives and if he didn’t give them support, who else would? Especially since it’s already established that even the tavern patrons have no respect for Morgan, freely insulting her to Gawain’s face.

With that context in mind, it makes sense that Morgan would be more proactive in being a shaper of destiny for both herself and her son, even if that means bringing down the fall of a society she had no place in. 

And consider this: given who his mother is, the vision that Gawain has about the bad future near the end of the film: was it really the product of his imagination or did he inherit some form of magic from Morgan le Fay after all? You could argue that the Green Knight is responsible for causing the vision, but when you realize the extent of Morgan’s role in summoning him in the source material...

Finally, what sort of story would you come up with for the little girl playing with Arthur’s crown in the stinger? What would be her role in a potential sequel? Is she Gawain’s foil or would she be more like him than she’d like to admit? What sort of relationship does she have with Morgan le Fay? Is she the future heir of Camelot or does she spell trouble by inheriting her grandmother's magic? Or porque no los dos? If this is something you’d be interested in exploring, dear listeners, we bequeath this prompt to you.

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Top 10 Favourite Middle Grade Books

I say middle grade, but I am including young YA too and at least one that is categorized as for children. Either way, this is my current top favourite books for younger audiences (I would say before the age of 15). I have read some of these many years ago and I haven’t reread them since so this is according to my memory of the feelings I had at the time. It is bound to change as I read more books. I don’t read many books for younger audiences nowadays, but I think they are charming and I have a soft spot for those published before the 00s because it feels nostalgic to me somehow.

1 - Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

This is one of my favourite books in general. It would be in my top 10 favourite books of all time because I love the Howl, Sophie and the humour so much. I’ve watched the studio ghibli adaptation first and even though I thought it was beautiful visually I ended up thinking the story just ok and I found it weird that the second half was so much different from the first half of the movie. A few years later, a friend that loves Realm of the Elderlings made me attempt the book and since we have many media tastes in common I did. It was the best decision ever because I completely loved it. The characters have so much more personality and the story makes much more sense.

The book is about Sophie’s character growth, but Howl feels as equally important. It is very funny and I love the banter between the two main characters, but it’s also very creative and a little bit mysterious. It’s such an incredibly well plotted story about making your own destiny and finding your own power and it’s also about family and caring for others. It’s just a very charming book that I read 3 times already even though I read it for the first time only 3 years ago or so. It’s also really short so that helps.

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”  

2 - The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

I read this series of 5 books last year and this year I finished the short story collection. This series feels very nostalgic to me because it has many classic fantasy tropes. It’s a coming of age story about a boy named Taran that wants to go on adventures, but when he finds himself in the middle of that he just longs to go home and it’s also a story about magic leaving the world and the pain of those who left and those who stay. A very classic tale with some similarities to Lord of the Rings, beautifully told and it feels very cosy. It’s also inspired by Welsh mythology and it has morals woven into it for children, but done in a clever way.

I know I watched the Disney adaptation titled the Black Cauldron once as a kid, but I don’t remember anything about it because I didn’t care for the movie. From what I’ve heard they made a mess of trying to combine the first two books and it lost the charm of the source material.

“There is much to be known… and above all much to be loved, be in the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”

3 - The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip

This is the only McKillip book I read that I think is suited  for younger audiences. The other ones feel like older YA to me. A friend made me see the similarities this book has with Howl’s Moving Castle in terms of plot, but this book is not as funny. It is sad and sometimes melodramatic. It follows a young girl that lost her father to the sea as she gets involved in the mystery surrounding a prince. The girl works at an inn near the sea and I found the setting very cosy. The story is magical and tackles the subjects of greed, identity and family.

A lot of McKillip’s books feel like original fairy tales and are told in a lyrical prose. This is one of the most straight forward and easy to follow out of all her books.

“I don’t know what to do. What must I do? I belong to the sea and it will not let me in, and I cannot bear this land and it will not let me go.”

4 - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

I enjoy the movie (which I once again watched many years before I read this), but I like the book more. The writing style is beautiful and the story, much like McKillip’s books, feels like an original fairy tale. It follows a unicorn that overhears that she is the last of her kind so she goes on an adventure to see if that’s true. She finds some companions along the way and there is an evil guy. On the surface, it’s a traditional fantasy story, but it has some little changes that make it more interesting. Once again, it’s a story about identity (I really like those) and can be a bit melodramatic.

“Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.”  

5 - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

This book could be higher if it wasn’t for Mr. Toad. I really didn’t like him or the plot around him, but I love everything else so much that it is still currently in 5th place. The writing in this is really pretty and charming and the animal characters are adorable for the most part. I don’t even tend to like books about anthropormorphic animals, but since this one worked so well for me that I want to try more of those.

This is a story about the lives of four wood creatures. That’s it. It doesn’t seem like much, but I always enjoyed slice of life and scenes where the characters just talk and reveal bits of themselves so this was great. There is a lot of thinking about having a home and if it would be more fullfilling to stay in one place or to go on an adventure.

This book is put in all the cottagecore recommendation lists and for a good reason. It’s really nice and comfortable like a warm blanket (if you forget Mr. Toad exists, that is).

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”  

6 - His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

So, this could be higher if the two books that followed the first one were as good. The first one is still my favourite, but I still enjoyed the other two (especially one particular scene in the last book). The first one was the only book in this trilogy to make me tear up though and books that make me cry usually get on the top of my lists. It’s just the way it is. I don’t think this one needs an introduction. The themes about religion are cool and I love Lyra and her mother.

Once again, I watched the movie first and I didn’t hate it (which seems to be an unpopular opinion). A few years after I decided to try the books because someone reminded me of their existence and they were pretty good. This placement in the top is mostly due to that first one though.

“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.”  

7 - The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

This is probably the book I read the longest time ago on this list, except from the one in 10th place. All I remember about it is that the Velveteen Rabbit wanted so much to be a real rabbit and that it made me cry. I definitely need to reread it, but I remember really really liking it at the time.

“You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”  

8 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

I only read the first one and I am unsure if I will ever continue. If I do I will have to reread it. I remember really liking it, but it had heavy religious messages here and there.  The tv show improved upon it. Still, it had a pretty writing style and the characters were really charming. I loved Anne and her adoptive “parents”, Diana and Gilbert. This is also another book that would fit in cottagecore lists. It has a similar atmosphere to The Wind in the Willows.

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”  

9 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

I remember the movie more than I remember the book, to be honest. I know that there were differences between the original and the adaptation but I only remember a few things. This was an interesting creepy tale and I liked it a bit more than The Graveyard Book so here it is. I need to reread this one soon.

“Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”

10 - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I haven’t read this one since primary school. I remember really liking it though and there was a fox in it, which was enough for child me. It had some really cute messages about connecting with others and I remember vaguely that every planet the little prince talked about had his own moral message, but I only remember the greed one. This is another book I want to reread soon.

“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.”  

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#one time i asked my ig friends what disney prince i’d be and someone said john smith i don’t think i’ve ever been so fucking insulted in my

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

desmond is crazy he’s got syrian native american welsh english AND italian heritage this mf is

251 notes - Posted October 30, 2022

#4

it’s so funny that like altaïr used to sleep around with women (mentioned in the secret crusades), ezio was a womaniser, the kenways were naturally a hit with the ladies and des? does he even KNOW he has a son?

316 notes - Posted August 9, 2022

#3

if i was ezio i simply would have killed the pope

330 notes - Posted August 11, 2022

#2

and no one saw?

467 notes - Posted July 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

if i saw someone jump off a building into a haystack i would simply turn around that is between them and God

479 notes - Posted June 28, 2022

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[redeyedroid]

CW: War.

Edinburgh, my home town, has been around for a long, long time. There's traces of Mesolithic, Bronze and Iron Age settlements and a Roman Fort in the area.  The Votadini of Roman times became the Gododdin of the early medieval and gave their name to an epic poem in old Welsh of an army journeying from here to do battle with the Angles at a place called Catraeth. In the manner of such tales, they were resoundingly defeated and much of the poem reads as sad epitaphs memorialising the martial prowess of their slain warriors.

The castle sits on a plug of rock millions of years old, the only part left of an extinct volcano whose slopes long ago eroded to nothing, while the part of the city known as The New Town dates from the late 18th century and was planned before the 13 colonies declared independence from the crown.

Which is to say that there's a lot of history bound up in the buildings and places here. A lot of it should remind us of the worst parts of our story - street names and statues of people and places associated with the triangle trade abound. Two slave owners have lived in Bute House, now the official residence of the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Oddly, there's a plaque in memorium to a man from Edinburgh killed with Custer at Greasy Grass in a church at the west end of Princes Street.

At the other end of Princes Street, there is a graveyard which has the only US Civil War memorial outside the USA. Built to honour abolitionists from the city who fought for the Union, it was also the first statue of a US president erected outside the USA. Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, sits above a shoeless black man who gazes up at him in supplication. Very much Of It's Time, it is nonetheless interesting, and is sited near a monument to radicals transported to Australia at the end of the 18th century for sedition, being found to be in favour of the French Revolution a little too much.

There are lots of memorials to war dead in the city, for we have fought too many wars. One isn't even to men killed in war, but to soldiers from the city who died in the worst rail disaster in British history at Gretna in 1915. That one has the name of a distant relative of mine on it.

The most famous statue in the city is of Greyfriers Bobby, a dog mythologised many times, notably in a syrupy movie by Disney, as guarding the grave of it's owner for over a decade in the 19th century. No one knows the truth of the dog's story, but the legend has become fact and there are almost always tourists taking pictures at the bronze statue of the terrier, it's nose polished by countless hands.

One of the most recent - only having been in place since 2017 - is of a bear. It too is made of bronze, it's friendly nose and ears now as shiny as Bobby's. Children climb on it. It sits in the public gardens below the castle, on a plinth of Polish granite, because Wojtek the Bear was Polish, by way of Iran and this is a memorial, not just to him, but to the Poles who served and settled in Scotland.

The beginning of the Second World War in Europe is well known. Germany invaded Poland on the 1st September 1939 and Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The Soviet invasion of Poland two weeks later, a cynicism born of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, gets less attention.

Neither tyranny had any desire to see a flourishing Poland and did their best to eliminate Polish leadership and intelligensia. SS Einsatzgruppen murdered people en masse, and the Soviet NKVD did similar - 30,000 Polish officers were murdered at Katyn on Stalin's orders. Many more Poles were deported into the vast spaces of the USSR to labour in camps or farms or factories until they became politically inconvenient after Germany invaded in June 1941 and the Soviets found themselves on the same side as the Poles.

Stalin eventually ceded to pressure from London and allowed the deported Poles to leave the USSR to British controlled Persia. Many failed to make it before he closed the border again. Many died on the way. Of those that made it, lots would join the army and be organised into the Polish II Corps under General Władysław Anders, and it was some of these men who would encounter a bear cub for sale. They traded for it and took it back to their unit, an artillery supply company, where they tried to keep it's existence secret - unsuccessfully of course, because how do you keep a bear secret? Bears are not famous for being inconspicuous.

A Syrian brown bear, the cub was weak and malnourished, the men fed it milk from empty vodka bottles, because Poles are nothing if not cliched that way, and it quickly became something more than a mascot for them. They named it Wojtek - Joyful Warrior - and there are stories of him using up all the water when he figured out how showers work; of foiling a robbery when an Arab snuck into an armoury to steal guns, only to find a bear looking for a cool place to nap; and of falling deathly sick for 3 days after being stung by a scorpion. They played with him and wrestled with him and fed him beer and cigarettes and did their best to look after him until the unit was scheduled to deploy to Italy and they hit a problem.

No pets or mascots were allowed to travel.

So they enlisted him.

He became Private Wojtek (later promoted to lance-corporal) and made his way to Italy with the rest of the unit.

Polish II Corps was heavily involved in the Italian campaign, most notably around Cassino, where they took the ruined monastery and cracked the Gustav Line. Wojtek was part of the long logistical tail of the Allied forces, his unit taking supplies up to artillery batteries near the front. He would help unload the trucks, a 300lb bear being of great use in carrying cases of 25lb shells and such; and he would look for food and attention by wandering into areas occupied by other units where he would make friends with soldiers there.

After the war, the Poles came to Scotland to demob. Poland had fallen under Stalin's control and they had no home to return to. The USSR annexed the part of Poland it conquered in 1939. Very few of the men who served under Anders went back. The unit disbanded and some of the men stayed in Scotland, as did Wojtek. The communist regime in Poland wanted him, but he was given a home instead in Edinburgh Zoo, and this is how I know the story. My dad, a wee boy at the time, saw him during visits to the zoo and told me about him. Wojtek spent the rest of his life delighting in the attention he received, never more so than when exiled Poles came and spoke to him in Polish, the language he knew best.

There are awkward parts to the story. It raises questions about animal welfare. Wojtek was a wild animal, conditioned to human contact, taken into a war zone. Not brilliant when considered today. But what was the alternative? The men looked after him as best they could and - by their own account - saw similarities in the bear orphaned by hunters and themselves, made stateless by war. They considered him more than a mascot and much more than a pet. Wojtek lived into his twenties and died in 1963. He was cared for. In captivity, yes, but cared for nonetheless. That wouldn't have happened if that small group of Poles hadn't bought him from a from a shepherd boy in Persia who had been keeping him in a sack.

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday!

Romance novelist Barbara Cartland broke off her first engagement after she learned about sex and was horrified at the prospect.

One of the names originally proposed for Neanderthals was Homo Stupidus.

In 2006, actor Bill Murray accepted an invitation to a college party in the Scottish town of St. Andrews after a round of golf. He went to the students’ house, drank vodka from a coffee cup (since they didn’t have clean glasses), then washed their dishes before leaving.

In 1995, NASA astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble telescope at the darkest part of the sky for 100 hours. Critics said it would be a waste of valuable time and he'd have to resign if he found nothing. Instead, he discovered more than 3,000 galaxies.

To prevent eye strain, you should look away from your computer every 20 minutes and gaze at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. It's called the 20-20-20 Rule.

In 2016, a tired Uber driver asked his passenger to take over while on a 300-mile trip so he could take a nap. The driver woke up in the middle of a police chase.

The average person deletes four selfies for every one they're happy with.

In 2015, a Canadian man named Christopher Hiscock broke into a stranger's home. He did their laundry, cooked a meal, and wrote in the homeowner's diary. He was found sitting by a stoked fire, sipping a cup of tea before being arrested.

Prince Andrew and his ex-wife will take on The Queen's beloved corgis following the monarch's death. Is it because he's good at grooming?

After Disney released 'The Princess And The Frog', more than 50 children were hospitalised with salmonella after trying to kiss frogs.

“Smells fishy” is a metaphor for distrust in more than 20 languages.

The first pornographic film came out in 1895, just a few months after the first regular movie.

Sir Isaac Newton was just 22 years old when he discovered the universal law of gravity.

Ancient Egyptian tablets explain why people missed work 3,200 years ago. Common excuses for absence include “brewing beer” and “his wife was bleeding”.

People spend about 46.9% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they're doing.

In 1990, the high school dropout rate in Sevierville (Dolly Parton's hometown) was above 30%. In 1991, she started The Buddy Program, offering 'buddies' in the 7th and 8th grades $500 if they graduated high school. The dropout rate for those classes dropped to 6%.

Drinking water can help you lose weight by increasing fullness and boosting your metabolic rate.

In 2013, a man in China was ordered to pay a fine to the equivalent of $1600 for a minor offence. In response, he paid up in coins. It took a total of 18 employees, each working a full day, to count it.

It's faster to say "World Wide Web" than it is to say "WWW".

Loud sounds can interfere with visual processing, which is why you might have to turn the music down while looking for an address or parallel parking.

If your parents are happily married, your risk of divorce decreases by 14%.

Under medieval Welsh law, women could divorce their husbands if they had bad breath.

When I was young, I was scared of the dark. Now, when I see my electricity bill, I am scared of the light.

Obdormition is when your arm falls asleep from lying on it.

Never forget that it was Tyler Perry who behaved like a father when Harry needed a father the most.

North Korea's entire internet has only 28 websites.

"I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script, I whip it out immediately." (Kenneth Williams)

Ben & Jerry’s, the first major US company to take a powerful stand in support of Palestinian freedom, is taking Unilever to court for selling its ice cream on land “Israel stole from Palestinians.”

More people work for the Chinese government monitoring the internet than serve in its armed forces.

There are 4 million songs on Spotify that have never been played.

In North Korea, the sentence for getting caught watching porn is death.

In 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle caught fire during a cricket match at Lord's. The ball hit a box of matches in his pocket.

Without bats, we wouldn't have tequila. Tequila comes from the agave plant, which they pollinate.

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

[deepestphotoshopwonderwomanpaper]

My Disney fanfics fairy with a twist name meaning

Mirabelle Charming - mc meaning- Derived from the Latin word mirabilis, meaning "wonderous beauty," Mirabelle has been immortalized in the French language as a name meaning "wonderful."

Charming a member of the Charming family not related to Daring or Dexter

Jack - Jack is a masculine British name meaning “God is gracious.” This name came about in medieval England as a variation of John and Jacob.

Some believe the name to mean "war hall", as evidenced by the castle in a field of blood on its family crest and the Visigothic cultural origins of the nation of Spain. González is also taken to mean "son of Gonzalo", "noble warrior", "soldier" or "castle guard".

Finn - full name Griffin Griffin is a baby boy name of Welsh origin. Meaning “lord” or “prince,” Griffin is an Anglicized name that derives from the Latin title Griffinus.

Nickname Finn is a boy's name of Irish origin, meaning “fair.”

Kaimbe - In Europe, Kai is largely considered to have Frisian. origin as a diminutive of the name Kaimbe, meaning. “warrior”, or as a short form of Gerard "brave spear".

Thatch - her father’s Milo last name dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗, ten pecks, one hundred liters, rock, stone, stone

[likesomekindofcheese]

Prayer Circle

🕯🕯🕯

🕯 Grigor/Marial is 🕯

🕯 retconned in S3 🕯

🕯 of The Great 🕯

🕯 And he goes back 🕯

🕯 To his wife 🕯

🕯 🕯

🕯 🕯 🕯

[brookston]

Holidays 3.4

Holidays

Benjamin Harrison Day (Indiana)

Brain Injury Awareness Day

Casmir’s Day (Lithuania, Poland)

Catherine O’Hara Day

Charter Day (Pennsylvania)

Courageous Followers Day

Dance the Waltz Day

Do Something Day

Festival of Pirate Utopias

Game Master’s Day

Global Day of the Engineer

Healing From the Inside Out Day

Hot Springs National Park Day

Holy Experiment Day

Hug A G.I. Day (a.k.a. Hug a Member of the Military Day)

International GM Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Game Master’s Day)

International HPV Awareness Day

International Scrapbooking Industry Day

March Forth — Do Something Day

Marching Music Day (a.k.a. Marching Band Day)

National Backcountry Ski Day

National Grammar Day

National Ida Day

National Marching Arts Day

National Quinton Day

National Ray Day

National Safety Day (India)

National Sons Day

National Waltz Day

Old Inauguration Day (US)

Racial Healing and Reconciliation Day

Sultan’s Coronation Day (Malaysia)

This Way To the Egress Day

Toy Soldier Day

U.S. Congress Day

World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development

World Evanescence Day

World Information Architecture Day

World Obesity Day

Zhonghe Festival (China)

Food & Drink Celebrations

American Tavern Day

Cadbury Chocolate Day

National Pound Cake Day

National Snack Day

1st Saturday in March

Georgia Beer Day (Georgia) [1st Saturday]

Iditarod Dogsled Race begins [Saturday of 1st Full Weekend]

International Open Data Day [1st Saturday]

National American Paddlefish Day

National Platypus Day [1st Saturday]

National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]

National R&B Music Day [1st Saturday]

Running of the Reindeer (Alaska) [1st Saturday]

Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Sock Monkey Day [1st Saturday]

World Telemark Day [1st Saturday]

Independence Days

Vermont Statehood Day (#14; 1791)

Feast Days

Adrian of Nicomedia (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

The Anestheria (Festival of Flowers; Ancient Greece)

Bulwar-Lytton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Casimir, Prince of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)

Feast of Rhiannon (Celtic/Welsh Mother Goddess)

Feast of Tou Tei (Earth God; Macau) [2nd Day of 2nd Lunar Month]

Felix of Rhuys (Christian; Saint)

Giovanni Antonio Farina (Catholic Church)

Humbert III, Count of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church)

Lucius, Pope and Martyr (Christian; Saint)

Maha Shivaratri (Great Night of Shiva, Vigil & Feast for Transendence; Hinduism)

March Forth and Demand Something Day (Pastafarian)

Media Hiems II (Pagan)

Paul Cuffee (Episcopal Church)

Peter of Pappacarbone (Christian; Saint)

Random Day (Pastafarian)

Rowlf the Dog (Muppetism)

Smerdley (Muppetism)

Thales (Positivist; Saint)

Zoltán Meszlényi (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [6 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [12 of 37]

Premieres

The Adjustment Bureau (Film; 2011)

Babette’s Feast (Film; 1988)

The Batman (Film; 2022)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Be Cool (Film; 2005)

The Chase (Film; 1994)

Chocolat, by Joanne Harris (Novel; 1999)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Film; 1950)

Fallen, by Evanescence (Album; 2003)

Here’s Little Richard, by Little Richard (Album; 1957)

London Has Fallen (Film; 2016)

No, by Meghan Trainor (Song; 2016)

Nosferatu (Silent Film; 1922)

Pluto’s Surprise Package (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

Police Squad! (TV Series; 1982)

Rango (Animated Film; 2011)

’Round About Midnight, by Miles Davis (Album; 1957)

Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet” (Novel; 1881)

The SpongeBob Movie on the Run (Animated Film; 2021)

Surfing’ U.S.A., by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

Swan Lake, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1877)

Symphony No. 2, a.k.a. Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1895)

Tender Mercies (Film; 1983)

Up Periscope (Film; 1959)

The Voice of Frank Sinatra, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1946)

Waterloo, by Abba (Song; 1974)

We're Only in It for the Money, by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (Album; 1968)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Film; 2016)

Zootopia (Animated Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Austria)

Bozhidar, Bozhidara, Dora, Gerasim, Teodor, Teodora, Todor (Bulgaria)

Eugen, Kazimir, Miro, Natko (Croatia)

Stela (Czech Republic)

Adrianus (Denmark)

Almar, Eimar, Elmar, Elmer, Elmet, Elmo (Estonia)

Ari, Arsi, Atro (Finland)

Casimir (France)

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Germany)

Gerasimos, Theodoros (Greece)

Kázmér (Hungary)

Casimiro, Lucio, Nestore, Umberto, Urbano (Italy)

Alise, Auce (Latvia)

Daina, Daugvydas, Kazimieras, Vaclava (Lithuania)

Ada, Adrian (Norway)

Adrian, Adrianna, Arkadiusz, Arkady, Eugeniusz, Kazimierz, Lew, Lucja, Łucja, Lucjusz, Wacław, Wacława (Poland)

Gherasim, Teodor (Romania)

Kazimír (Slovakia)

Casimiro (Spain)

Adrian, Adriana (Sweden)

Julianna, Julianna (Ukraine)

Casimir, Humbert, Humberto, Kasimir, Kasimira, Placida, Placidia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 63 of 2023; 302 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 9 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Adar 5783

Islamic: 11 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 2 Ver; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 19 February 2023

Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 67 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thales]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 74 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 13 of 29)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.4

Holidays

Benjamin Harrison Day (Indiana)

Brain Injury Awareness Day

Casmir’s Day (Lithuania, Poland)

Catherine O’Hara Day

Charter Day (Pennsylvania)

Courageous Followers Day

Dance the Waltz Day

Do Something Day

Festival of Pirate Utopias

Game Master’s Day

Global Day of the Engineer

Healing From the Inside Out Day

Hot Springs National Park Day

Holy Experiment Day

Hug A G.I. Day (a.k.a. Hug a Member of the Military Day)

International GM Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Game Master’s Day)

International HPV Awareness Day

International Scrapbooking Industry Day

March Forth — Do Something Day

Marching Music Day (a.k.a. Marching Band Day)

National Backcountry Ski Day

National Grammar Day

National Ida Day

National Marching Arts Day

National Quinton Day

National Ray Day

National Safety Day (India)

National Sons Day

National Waltz Day

Old Inauguration Day (US)

Racial Healing and Reconciliation Day

Sultan’s Coronation Day (Malaysia)

This Way To the Egress Day

Toy Soldier Day

U.S. Congress Day

World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development

World Evanescence Day

World Information Architecture Day

World Obesity Day

Zhonghe Festival (China)

Food & Drink Celebrations

American Tavern Day

Cadbury Chocolate Day

National Pound Cake Day

National Snack Day

1st Saturday in March

Georgia Beer Day (Georgia) [1st Saturday]

Iditarod Dogsled Race begins [Saturday of 1st Full Weekend]

International Open Data Day [1st Saturday]

National American Paddlefish Day

National Platypus Day [1st Saturday]

National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]

National R&B Music Day [1st Saturday]

Running of the Reindeer (Alaska) [1st Saturday]

Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Sock Monkey Day [1st Saturday]

World Telemark Day [1st Saturday]

Independence Days

Vermont Statehood Day (#14; 1791)

Feast Days

Adrian of Nicomedia (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

The Anestheria (Festival of Flowers; Ancient Greece)

Bulwar-Lytton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Casimir, Prince of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)

Feast of Rhiannon (Celtic/Welsh Mother Goddess)

Feast of Tou Tei (Earth God; Macau) [2nd Day of 2nd Lunar Month]

Felix of Rhuys (Christian; Saint)

Giovanni Antonio Farina (Catholic Church)

Humbert III, Count of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church)

Lucius, Pope and Martyr (Christian; Saint)

Maha Shivaratri (Great Night of Shiva, Vigil & Feast for Transendence; Hinduism)

March Forth and Demand Something Day (Pastafarian)

Media Hiems II (Pagan)

Paul Cuffee (Episcopal Church)

Peter of Pappacarbone (Christian; Saint)

Random Day (Pastafarian)

Rowlf the Dog (Muppetism)

Smerdley (Muppetism)

Thales (Positivist; Saint)

Zoltán Meszlényi (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [6 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [12 of 37]

Premieres

The Adjustment Bureau (Film; 2011)

Babette’s Feast (Film; 1988)

The Batman (Film; 2022)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Be Cool (Film; 2005)

The Chase (Film; 1994)

Chocolat, by Joanne Harris (Novel; 1999)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Film; 1950)

Fallen, by Evanescence (Album; 2003)

Here’s Little Richard, by Little Richard (Album; 1957)

London Has Fallen (Film; 2016)

No, by Meghan Trainor (Song; 2016)

Nosferatu (Silent Film; 1922)

Pluto’s Surprise Package (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

Police Squad! (TV Series; 1982)

Rango (Animated Film; 2011)

’Round About Midnight, by Miles Davis (Album; 1957)

Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet” (Novel; 1881)

The SpongeBob Movie on the Run (Animated Film; 2021)

Surfing’ U.S.A., by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

Swan Lake, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1877)

Symphony No. 2, a.k.a. Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1895)

Tender Mercies (Film; 1983)

Up Periscope (Film; 1959)

The Voice of Frank Sinatra, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1946)

Waterloo, by Abba (Song; 1974)

We're Only in It for the Money, by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (Album; 1968)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Film; 2016)

Zootopia (Animated Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Austria)

Bozhidar, Bozhidara, Dora, Gerasim, Teodor, Teodora, Todor (Bulgaria)

Eugen, Kazimir, Miro, Natko (Croatia)

Stela (Czech Republic)

Adrianus (Denmark)

Almar, Eimar, Elmar, Elmer, Elmet, Elmo (Estonia)

Ari, Arsi, Atro (Finland)

Casimir (France)

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Germany)

Gerasimos, Theodoros (Greece)

Kázmér (Hungary)

Casimiro, Lucio, Nestore, Umberto, Urbano (Italy)

Alise, Auce (Latvia)

Daina, Daugvydas, Kazimieras, Vaclava (Lithuania)

Ada, Adrian (Norway)

Adrian, Adrianna, Arkadiusz, Arkady, Eugeniusz, Kazimierz, Lew, Lucja, Łucja, Lucjusz, Wacław, Wacława (Poland)

Gherasim, Teodor (Romania)

Kazimír (Slovakia)

Casimiro (Spain)

Adrian, Adriana (Sweden)

Julianna, Julianna (Ukraine)

Casimir, Humbert, Humberto, Kasimir, Kasimira, Placida, Placidia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 63 of 2023; 302 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 9 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Adar 5783

Islamic: 11 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 2 Ver; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 19 February 2023

Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 67 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thales]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 74 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 13 of 29)

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

Richard E. Grant joins Disney+ Nautilus

Richard E. Grant has joined the cast of its new live-action drama series “Nautilus”, from Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, underway shooting at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland, Australia.

Grant guest stars in the series, playing the charismatic leader of the port town of Karajaan, who Captain Nemo and the crew encounter on their adventures.

“Nautilus” tells Jules Verne’s epic story from Captain Nemo’s point of view: an Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him. But once Nemo sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, but discovers a wondrous underwater world, learns to take his place as leader of the crew, and goes on an unforgettable adventure beneath the sea.

Also announced as joining the cast are Muki Zubis (“This Is Going To Hurt”) as Casimir, an unflappable sailor who quickly secures her position as First Mate after boarding the Nautilus; Benedict Hardie (“The Luminaries”), who plays Cuff, a soldier working for The Company who stows away during Nemo’s coup of the Nautilus; Jacob Collins Levy (“Young Wallander”) as Captain Youngblood, who is sent to track down the commandeered Nautilus; and Luke Arnold (“Black Sails”), as Captain Billy Millais, a man on a mission to hunt down Nemo, with whom he shares a past.

They join previously announced cast Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”, “The Pursuit of Love”), who will play the iconic role of Captain Nemo, Georgia Flood (“Anzac Girls”), Thierry Frémont (“Allied”), Céline Menville (“Emily in Paris”), Pacharo Mzembe (“La Brea”), Ling Cooper Tang (“The Secrets She Keeps”), Damien Garvey (“Jack Irish”) and newcomers Tyrone Ngatai and Kayden Price.

Developed and co-produced by Moonriver TV’s Xavier Marchand and Seven Stories’ Anand Tucker, Nautilus is written and executive produced by James Dormer (Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands) and is executive produced by Johanna Devereaux and Chris Loveall for Disney+. Cameron Welsh (“Foundation”) is producing the series, and Michael Matthews (“Love and Monsters”, “Five Fingers From Marseilles”) will direct the Disney+ adventure series.

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Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies has blasted Netflix and Disney+ and accused the streaming services of ignoring LGBTQ+ groups. 

The writer behind hits such as Queer As Folk and It's A Sin, 58, from Swansea, said the Disney streaming service had made just one 'feeble gesture' towards recognising gender and sexuality minority groups in its show Loki - and insisted the American streaming giant then expected praise for their token effort.

Earlier this summer, Loki became the first openly bisexual character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Tom Hiddleston revealing the Asgardian troublemaker likes 'a bit of both.'

However taking part in an online webinar Q&A, Davies slammed the scene, saying: 'Pathetic, it's a ridiculous feeble gesture towards the vital politics of the stories that should be told.'

During the discussion, Davies said Disney+ and Netflix had failed to move with the times like other TV broadcasters.

He said: 'There's a lot of stuff out there. Nonetheless I think huge clanging warning bells are ringing as the giants rise up, with Netflix and Disney+ especially.'

He said Disney+ had not done enough just by showing Loki, the first major bisexual character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where the God of Mischief and the Prince of Asgard Loki discusses whether there could be a princess or a prince waiting for him.

Welsh Davies told an online webinar Q&A: 'I think that's a very great worry.

'Loki made one reference to being bisexual once, and everyone's "ooh my god, it's like a pansexual show".

'It's like one word! He said the word prince. And we're meant to go "thank you Disney, aren't you marvellous".

He added: 'So they will damn us with their condescension in the end. So that's my worry now.'