#Kristine Harley

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Kristine Harley

Published: Sep 5, 2022

There’s a saying: “Don’t think of a pink elephant.” In other words, what one resists can dominate and even control one’s mind, making the action a person wishes not to do the action that person ultimately does. Religious believers often use this accusation against atheists. We allegedly “resist” or “deny” a belief in God, therefore “proving” His existence or at least His importance to us, because believers see atheists as spitting in the wind like rebellious adolescents.

Of course, we know atheism is akin to democracy in that it rejects any supreme being or cosmic authority. Atheists observe a decentralized universe in which physical, chemical, and biological processes interact to evolve, not impose, reality. Democracy did not elect a new king, and likewise the god-concept is not a “pink elephant” to atheists. But unfortunately today, something else threatens to be.

“Racism” is the new “pink elephant,” with woke apologists invoking “whiteness” and “white supremacy” in an absurd downward spiral of resentment and retribution that will benefit no one (certainly not people of color). It has the ironic effect of feeding a white narcissism that apologizes for “white privilege” in the abstract, while punching down on working-class whites and regarding people of color as children, without agency, needing intervention and rescue.

Many atheists have adopted this dualistic, simplistic self-righteousness that mimics the good/evil, virgin/whore scriptures of religion! This has misled otherwise intelligent people into paradoxically adopting quasi-religious concepts: utopianism (or what I call the Racial Rapture), a past Golden Age (especially before the year 1619), Original Sin, retribution to be visited upon the sons and daughters of the guilty, and a perpetual payment of indulgences and/or personal flagellation without any forgiveness, human or divine. James Lindsey has already made these points.

However, I see a more subtle problem here: wokeness, especially as it combats “racism,” is not only a secular religion, it is a secular religion without a god. There is only the Devil: white oppressors. Cis-gendered white men, suburban white Karens, white toddlers in school being told they oppress students of color, etc. There is only perpetual complaint, perpetual grievance, and a pound-of-flesh philosophy that no longer believes in equality, let alone strives for it. Rather, to quote Ibram X. Kendi in How to Be an Anti-Racist, “Like fighting an addiction, being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination.”

In other words, many atheists, seeking to fill a void that apparently did not disappear with their former belief in god(s) and religion, unfortunately embraced a radical 12-Step program of “anti-racism” without seeing the connections to the same religious dualism that characterizes the Twelve Steps for alcoholics.

(It’s interesting that Kendi describes the prioritizing of elderly people for the Covid-19 vaccine as a justification for racial discrimination, without also mentioning 1) being elderly is a biological realty, not a social construct or identity, 2) such a program would have been applied to all ethnicities, and 3) it was actually suggested that elderly people not get the vaccine, since they were largely “white” and not productive. Of course now we have the CDC’s recommendation that vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens be treated equally, showing why different treatment of demographics in the name of “social justice” becomes maladaptive over time.)

The Pound-of-Flesh Approach

This negative obsession with a manufactured Satan also characterized the inflammatory sermons of the Reverend Jerry Falwell, who denounced evil everywhere and focused on sin and biblical “inerrancy.” (Unfortunately, I had to listen to Falwell quite a bit while growing up.)

In contrast to other religious leaders, whose supernatural beliefs I also rejected but who at least focused on charity, forgiveness, repentance and growth, Falwell spread fear, accusation and paranoia even amongst his own flock and this same internal accusation, rather than a group effort toward positive change, has divided the atheist movement.

Internal accusation has spread throughout society. There is the Amanda Gorman affair, in which activists expressed hot outrage that a white Dutch woman would translate Gorman’s poems into, well, Dutch. A translator in Spain also had to step down as Gorman’s translator for having the wrong identity. (Apparently, only black people can translate black people’s poetry into European languages.)

The widely-publicized Minneapolis Teachers’ Union contract stipulates that if an “underrepresented” teacher of color is next in line to be laid off, that teacher should be retained and instead the next white teacher higher on the seniority list would be laid off instead.

Of course, this is completely illegal, a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but I have a question:

What benchmarks, if any, have been set for justice to be “restored” for these teachers from underrepresented groups, so that layoff decisions can revert to a seniority-only system that treats everyone equally under the U.S. Constitution? (In other words, how will the union know when it has succeeded?)

I doubt there are any metrics or even goals, because as with the Gorman debacle this just is more knee-jerk, irrational thinking justified by invoking “past harms” and real disparities. Yet even critics of the teachers’ contract miss a key point: the purpose is not really to achieve equality of outcome, undesirable as that is. The purpose of this stipulation, along with other gestures toward “equity,” is to satisfy an emotional, momentary need to “stick it to the man” (or in this case, the senior white colleague.) Setting workers against each other satisfies Kendi’s exhortation that we refrain from “being neutral” and turn away from equality as an ideal, instead resorting to petty squabbles over scraps in the name of making some supposedly “privileged” workers “uncomfortable.”

Here is my prediction for the future of this dubious equity initiative: the Minneapolis teachers’ union contract will unintentionally create yet another racial disparity, with newly-laid off white teachers departing for private school positions or leaving the profession entirely, and young teachers of color laboring valiantly in an increasingly anachronistic public education system while parents pull out their children and find alternatives, like magnet schools or learning pods. In ten years, as with automobile line workers and other blue collars laborers in the 1980s, and more recently service industry workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, teaching will remain a high-stress, low-paid, and increasingly outsourced job largely dominated by people of color (as auto workers were and service jobs now are), while the issues of teacher burnout, low pay, social passing, a national teacher shortage, out-of-touch administrators and disruptive, large classrooms remain unaddressed.

“Equity,” like religion, offers static solutions to dynamic problems. This is, essentially, a new form of mysticism, even creationism. Woke atheists should reconsider their embrace of a utopian future that requires a belief in a reconstituted Fall of Man (and in a new-fangled human exceptionalism, or soul-concept, in the form of gender identity extremism which estranges people from the natural, biological, sexual world of limits and consequences, which we fought to teach in science class).

CRT Proponentsists

Meanwhile, in the material world, a siege-mentality has taken over that treats resources like pie: one person must sacrifice for another person to get a fair share. Such a zero-sum game is hardly necessary (and we were assured it was a lie) but the real agenda here is a Marxist one. Equality is outdated, flawed; there must be a transfer of power from the “white supremacists” to the “oppressed” members, this time based on race, not class and owners/laborers.

This appeals to white progressives because it reinforces their controlling tendencies to solve everything and rescue everyone (paradoxically giving them a sense of power over other people), and it appeals to young, radicalized teachers who believe their success only comes from wrestling “privilege” out of the hands of someone else, even if that privilege is minute or imaginary. It is the struggle that is the goal, because all proponents are externalizing their behaviors.

If Black Lives Matter, anti-racism, and the call for “equity” have any kernels of truth they’re wrapped in thick layers of nonsense. Whatever facts they possess are derailed in an incoherent cry to 1) dismantle “systems of oppression” and 2) sacrifice certain individuals on a sinking ship. The second statement negates the first, and the first is a red herring. This adds up to a circular argument in which a “system that was never set up for black people” depends on white people to “address” the problem which breeds only patronization and dependency, a shallow and immature philosophy in the name of resistance.

(This is akin to the breathtakingly inane fallacy that anyone can confront their “inherent biases” in an unbiased way, or that teachers, being adults, should be teaching “equity” (Critical Race Theory) to children, as if children were more likely to be racist than adults.)

The New Soviet Bread Line

Suppose instead the Minneapolis Teachers’ Union wrote the contract so that instead of laying off the white teacher with the next least seniority, the teacher with the highest seniority – vested, guaranteed a pension, and likely close to retirement or able to find another job – would be asked, for the good of the membership, to step down, thus shifting all other teachers up in seniority. This would have achieved a new seniority balance voluntarily, without mentioning race, and without leaving the union vulnerable to lawsuits while still retaining younger teachers of color. But instead, a myopic rush to make the contract All About Race – even claiming it did not go far enough – resulted in at least one court challenge while still protecting those teachers at the top (who might have voted for a race-based contract knowing full well it would never affect them). Equity, indeed!

Mentally this is like being Soviets in a bread line, waiting to wrest a crumb from the Cassocks. A crumb taken from someone else is more desirable than a goal striven for by one’s own efforts, since that would only affirm capitalism and the meritocracy. And it is this—the tit-for-tat hacking away at “whiteness” rather than addressing the real issues (such as teacher burnout, which also disproportionately affects teachers of color), which is the real goal.

Other examples abound. A church in Illinois announced it was giving up the music of “white composers” for Lent. Did the marquee say, “We are celebrating the music of black and brown composers”? No—the church in Illinois announced it was “fasting from whiteness,” therefore ensuring everyone would be talking and thinking about whiteness. Real good hypocritical job there, First United Church of Oak Park.

(I certainly hope the pastor did not assume Aram Khachaturian or Clara Schumann were “white men,” and I wonder if Tchaikovsky, who was gay, merited an exception.)

By contrast, my childhood church’s choir, led by a black director, performed his grandmother’s Spiritual hymns, which were recorded and sold on cassette tape (this was the 1970s) to pay for the new church organ. Our director could play almost any instrument but he relished that organ, and would perform classics by memory, including the famous Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor.” The emphasis was on us learning the story of his grandmother’s journey to freedom, not divisive concepts about our “whiteness.”

The New Prohibition

So how did atheists go from presenting a united front on the fight against Intelligent Design to a splintered community arguing about racism, misogyny, identities and “white tears”? Why would those who promote science fall into racial essentialism and side with #ShutDownSTEM?

I don’t have a simple answer. But I would like my fellow “woke” atheists to consider one more fact:

In the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries a lawyer from Illinois ran for President three times as a Democrat, representing the left-wing Populist Party. His second Presidential campaign specifically opposed American imperialism after the Spanish-American War. A gifted orator, he railed against the gold standard and eastern banking interests and won two elections to the House of Representatives. He became Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson but resigned to protest U.S. threats against Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania. He supported U.S. joining the League of Nations, the minimum wage and the eight-hour workday, the right of unions to strike, and women’s suffrage. He called for agricultural subsidies, a living wage, full public financing of political campaigns and government inspection of food, sanitation, and better housing conditions.

Sounds like a great guy, doesn’t he? And I’m sure he was if you knew him.

His name was William Jennings Bryan, and he was an ardent Prohibitionist. Of course, atheists mainly know him as the prosecutor in the case of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, arguing against the teaching of evolution opposite Clarence Darrow, who defended John T. Scopes. Bryan took this stance against evolution because he feared it would lead to a tyranny of the strong against the weak and the destruction of his gentle, justice-oriented Christianity.

Bryan, an otherwise reasonable guy, found his devil and stood on the wrong side of history. Atheists should not.

#Kristine Harley #atheism #pink elephant #grievance culture #woke #wokeness #wokeism #cult of woke #woke atheists #wokeness as religion #religion is a mental illness

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Currently Reading 💛

Truth & Blood Money

#currently reading #to read #read #reading #booklr #bookblr #adult booklr #blood money #truth #harley wylde #kristine allen #august 2023

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The Name List

Organized from A-Z (yes I will add more names whenever I find more I like, probably in reblogs)

I currently have 1035 names (and that’s only including the first names. I have a list of last names, too.)

Angel, Atticus, Atlas, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Achilles, Artemis, Adonis, Avery, Aubrey, Aubry, Aceline, Ashlynn, Aislinn, Anjanette, Arthur, Archer, Addison, Arrietty, Amity, Autumn, Alastor, Alastair, Alasdair, Alistair, Alison, Arren, Arin, Astra, Aoife, Adalyn, Adeleine, Astoria, Agnes, Angus, Abigail, Ann, Anne, Ambrose, Adeline, Avarsel, Agatha, Ari, Azariah, Aniyah, Armani, Anastasia, Annabelle, Adah, Adelaide, Avis, Amelia, August, Axel, Adelina, Amir, Amin, Ayala, Arne, Averett, Adil, Astro, Ava, Anti, Ailun, Akemi, Asahi, Akari, Asako, Atsuko, Azumi, Aka, Aren, Akko

Blossom, Bambi, Babs, Bo, Bella, Blair, Bea, Bonnabel, Badeea, Betty, Bailey, Boris, Bee, Bugs, Blaise, Benjamin, Bog, Buford, Beatrice, Bryce, Bryan, Bazil, Brutus, Bellamy, Brigitte, Bailee, Bailey, Bao, Belladona, Belladonna, Bell, Bill, Bishop, Bones, Boneothy, Benno, Behemoth, Barry, Bellynn, Bowie, Bunki

Clover, Canyon, Cleo, Cameron, Celestial, Celestino, Ciro, Camilo, Cain, Charlotte, Clara, Corey, Cin, Charlie, Cassidy, Chiara, Callista, Cisco, Cynthia, Casper Clinton, Celestina, Clement, Christopher, Cornelius, Clifford, Claudius, Carey, Carrie, Coatl, Cyrus, Cyril, Cecil, Caisus, Castiel, Calla, Cosmos, Cherry, Cheryl, Crowley, Crow, Cassius, Cliodna, Clíodhna, Cliona, Conan, Cordelia, Calypso, Cas, Cillian, Chiyo, Chiaki, Chihiro, Calcifer

Danny, Darlene, Dex, Dot, Diana, Daphne, Demeter, Daedalus, Daeddel, Darphel, Dawn, Derrick, Derek, Dravan, Dravid, Drae, Dallas, Dimas, Dominic, Damien, Drew, Delilah, Dakota, Darian, Darius, Darwin, Devan, Darla, Dagmar, Daelyn, Dale, Dae, Dacey, Desmond, Dabria, Daniel, Daniela, Danialla, David, Davis, Donnel, Dennis, Demitrius, Delaney, Daiki, Daiyu

Everest, Emery, Ember, Elliott, Elliot, Earlana, Eliseo, Ezequiel, Emie, Evan, Eloise, Eric, Emmet, Elizabeth, Eugene, Ethan, Eret, Ester, Elias, Eos, Ellis, Edwin, Ebony, Elijah, Eliza, Enzo, Elissa, Edward, Eddalyn, Esther, Eda, Edalyn, Edalynn, Edison, Eddison, Estervan, Emma, Eden, Erfan, Eun-hae, Erytheia, Egan, Errol, Eiichi, Eiji, Eriko, Etsu, Etsuko, Eiichiro, Ezume

Flint, Finn, Fae, Fred, Fritz, Fang, Frankie, Frank, Fermin, Freddie, Freddy, Finley, Freya, Fai, Felix, Freda, Faolan, Frey, Feylynn, Faelynn, Failynn, Felipa, Febby, Febbie, Febie, Feby, Flynn, Fuji, Feiyu, Fukiko, Fumitaka, Fumito, Fuyuko

Griffin, Garnet, Gothi, Gertrude, Gabe, Grant, Giovanni, George, Gage, Gregory, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Guy, Gilbert, Guadalupe, Gerry, Grey, Gray, Gia, Grace, Gracian, Gracis, Gracie, Gretel, Gideon, Griffilow, Ghost, Ghazaleh, Gavin, Gryphon, Griffith, Goliath, Grayson, Greyson

Harmony, Hannah, Harlei, Harlie, Haritha, Haris, Harry, Harlan, Harvey, Hadrian, Harley, Hari, Harlow, Howl, Hank, Harper, Herbert, Humphrey, Hestia, Helios, Hephaestus, Hollis, Hunter, Hero, Henry, Helda, Hajar, Hasta, Hadis, Howard, Howie, Hannan, Haoyu, Hisako, Hachi, Hiroto, Hoshiko, Honoka, Hiroshi, Hiro, Haitao, Hamako, Haruhi, Harue, Hayate, Hide, Hideyo, Hidetaka, Hisaye, Hisayo, Heiji, Higari

Ivy, Ivey, Ivo, Ida, Iris, Ilyssa, Illy, Irene, Iren, Isaiah, Ira, Idelle, Ivan, Illaoi, Isabel, Isabell, Isabelle, Isobell, Isabella, Ismelda, Io, Ismael, Isolt, Icarus, izuru, Isamu, Itona, Ichiro, Ichiko, Ichigo, Isoko, Ishiko, Isaye, Inari, Ikuko, Itsuki, Itsuko, Inosuke

Juniper, Jupiter, Jinx, Jamie, Javier, Josiah, Joan, Jake, Julia, Jamil, Jamila, Jesse, Jessie, Jess, Jasper, Janus, Jordan, Joshua, Julian, Juilliard, Julius, Juliana, Jeremiah, Jace, June, Junebug, Jazzy, Jackson, Jackie, Jackalynn, Jodie, Johnnie, Jan, Jaime, Jason, Jorge, Justin, Justice, John, Jay, Janelle, James, Jennifer, Jillion, Jill, Jana, Jonah, Jaycee, Jaxen, Junpei, Jona, Jun, Jin

Kenneth, Kat, Kas, Kris, Keith, Kingston, Kaeton, Kingsley, Kent, Katherine, Kyle, Knox, Kristen, Kristin, Kristeen, Kylie, Kaylee, Kamila, Kehlani, Kendall, Kerry, Kry, Kenny, Kath, Kathleen, Krow, Kix, Kedrick, Kennon, Klaus, Killian, Korallia, Krank, Kaz, Kaede, Kirara, Katsuhiko, Keisuke, Kanako, Kenji, Kaemon, Kamin, Katsu, Kaki, Kazane, Kazuyuki, Kazushige, Kenta, Kei, Kimi, Kin, Kohako, Koichi, Kota, Koji, Koharu, Kosuke, Kuma, Kumi, Kuniko, Kuniyuki, Kideko, Kazuko

Lullaby, Lotte, Lapin, Lorelei, Loralai, Lorelai, Luna, Lily, Lucy, Lee, Liana, Lola, Lethe, Lance, Laurence, Luther, Luca, Lennon, Logan, Lennox, Ilias, Liu, Lui, Luis, Lefu, Liam, Lyall, Lowell, Luella, Leona, Leonie, Leon, Lev, Lincoln, Lin, Link, Laverna, Lazarus, Lewis, Louis, Louise, Levi, Leslie, Lesley, Leilana

Marley, Marlai, Mei, May, Mae, Marceline, Marshall, Marshalee, Millie, Mallorie, Marcela, Melanie, Maddison, Mary, Mirabel, Marsh, Murphy, Montgomery, Mildred, Memphis, Molly, Maverick, Maurice, Muiris, Morgen, Max, Moses, Marion, Merrill, Monroe, Melanthios, Maxwell, Matias, Melissa, Maëlle, Marlene, Meredith, Maybelle, Margaret, Maeve, Moss, Mara, Maria, Myrtle, Mona, Mark, Markus, Michael, Micheal, Michelle, Mahsa, Minoo, Mehdi, Mohammad, Matin, Morpheus, Marlowe, Monica, Marilia, Magnus, Malachi, Malachy, Maggie, Makoto, Megumi, Mio, Maemo, Maemi, Masa, Masaaki, Masashi, Michi, Midori, Michinori, Momo, Motoko

Natasha, Noelle, Noni, Neville, Nixon, Neda, Natalio, Ned, Nausicaä, Noxis, Nova, Nathen, Newt, Noah, Nash, Nox, Nathara, Nathaira, Nathair, Nyoka, Nagisa, Nathan, Nate, Nik, Nick, Naohiro, Naoko, Nara, Natsu, Naoya, Nishi, Nobuko, Nori

Olindo, Ollie, Oliver, Ophelia, Odysseus, Orion, Osono, Oxen, Onyx, Otto, Ottoline, Otitile, Ottavia, Octavio, Olivia-Marie, Oakley, Omar, Olivia, Oscar, Octavian, Octavia, Oz, Octavius, Otta, Oisin, Orson, Orlos, Osiris, Owen, Odalis, Odell, Ozuru

Penelope, Patton, Paddy, Percy, Paulie, Page, Pazu, Phoebe, Phebe, Prairie, Porter, Parlay, Pally, Piper, Parker, Payton, Phil, Paul, Philip, Pyre, Piers, Phylis, Patricia, Payne, Payneton, Pip

Quinn, Quincy, Quil, Quinley, Quinstin, Quinlan, Quillen, Quavon, Quaylon, Quensley, Qing, Qrow, Quilla, Quianna, Quita, Qiao, Quinella, Queenie, Qaylah, Qailah, Qitarah, Quenby, Qadira, Qudsiyah, Quan, Qian, Quinby, Quella

Roseline, Raul, Rahul, Rafael, Roque, Rogelio, Remmy, Rei, Rey, Ray, Robin, Ro, Reika, Rowen, Rowan, Rose, Rosie, Ralsei, Riley, Remus, Rosalyn, Rosalin, Rosaline, Renata, Ron, Rat, Ratt, Reef, Roxy, River, Reed, Rufus, Robbie, Renee, Rivia, Ross, Rex, Ruth, Rosemary, Rosabe, Rosabee, Rosabell, Rosabelle, Rosabel, Rai, Rain, Rosella, Rosalie, Rhody, Robert, Raelinn, Rebane, Ren, Rollin, Ralph, Roxanne, Rox, Roderick, Reginald, Reggie, Rio, Ryu, Ryo, Ryoji, Rinmaru

Sage, Sam, Syd, Selkie, Storig, Sal, Sirius, Summer, Susie, Scott, Sunni, Sosuke, Sophie, Satsuki, Sheeta, San, Sulley, Sully, Savannah, Sappho, Selene, Shaw, Sean, Seán, Shaun, Sawyer, Sabrina, Sebastian, Shane, Stan, Socks, Snom, Stolas, Spencer, Sammie, Stevie, Samus, Sarff, Sullivan, Seth, Susiebell, Susiebelle, Sadreddin, Shellaine, Sverre, Saoirse, Sylvania, Sanae, Silas, Sumi, Shiori, Shinzu, Sile

Toby, Tobias, Teddy, Ted, Tomas, Thomas, Tomothy, Tyche, Taiga, Tundra, Tracy, Timothy, Troy, Tatum, Tommie, Tommy, Theia, Tae, Trix, Trixy, Thanathos, Tod, Todd, Toddy, Tora, Torie, Theodore, Theo, Theophania, Talos, Thanatos, Teddy, Tomohito, Tazu, Tanjirou, Touya

Ulysses, Urijah, Uriyah, Urina, Ukiah, Ulnar, Ursula, Ulric

Virgil, Vanessa, Vito, Venacio, Vylad, Veronica, Valentina, Violet, Velma, Venus, Verna, Veld, Victoria, Victorie, Vinyl, Vincent, Vasuki, Vex, Valor, Valentine, Valerie, Valeria, Valerius, Vitoria, Vic, Victor, Vik, Vikktor, Viktor, Vick, Vicky, Vicke, Vickie, Vidya

Wynn, Willow, Warren, Wilbur, Wylie, Will, Walle, Whisp, Wade, Wendell, Wendy, Willard, Wes, Wallace, Wilber, Wyatt, Wybie, Wynnie, Wennie, Winnie, Wynnston, Wynston, Wynsten, Wiles

Xenophon, Xuan, Xio, Xori, Xanthos, Xander, Xavier

Yen, Yukio, Yae, Yoko, Yume, Yaeko, Yui, Yuzuki

Zane, Zana, Zion, Zachary, Zach, Zachariah, Zander, Ziana, Zoe, Zula, Zenix, Zenith, Zaharia, Zaria, Zack, Zakaeia, Zara, Zakaria, Zev, Zaira, Zanata

#my posts #character names #name suggestions #name ideas #name list #names #trans #transfem #transmasc #transgender #nonbinary #genderfluid #genderqueer #agender #genderflux #bigender #demigender #demiboy #demigirl #if you want names #i got em #like a fuckin fae #takin whatever names i like

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2023 Book List 📚

@bashfulbunny had the great idea to post what we read in 2023 and comment or reblog what you read so that we can all share our lists with each other 😊

Here is my list:

Icebreaker- Hannah Grace

Credence- Penelope Douglas

Birthday Girl- Penelope Douglas

Punk 57- Penelope Douglas

The Love Hypothesis- Ali Hazelwood

Archer's Voice- Mia Sheridan

Travis- Mia Sheridan

Twisted Love- Ana Huang

Twisted Games- Ana Huang

Twisted Hate- Ana Huang

Twisted Lies- Ana Huang

It Happened one Summer- Tessa Bailey

Hook, Line, and Sinker- Tessa Bailey

Fix Her Up- Tessa Bailey

Wreck the Halls- Tessa Bailey

Window Shopping- Tessa Bailey

Satan's Affair- H.D. Carlton

Haunting Adeline- H.D. Carlton

Hunting Adeline- H.D. Carlton

Does it Hurt- H.D. Carlton

Scarred- Emily McIntire

Hooked- Emily McIntire

Wretched- Emily McIntire

Twisted- Emily McIntire

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder- Holly Jackson

The Simple Wild- K.A. Tucker

The Ritual- Shantel Tessier

The Housemaid- Freida McFadden

The Housemaid's Secret- Freida McFadden

Ward D- Freida McFadden

Never Lie- Freida McFadden

The Inmate- Freida McFadden

Verity- Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us- Colleen Hoover

It Starts with Us- Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love- Colleen Hoover

November 9- Colleen Hoover

Maybe Someday- Colleen Hoover

Maybe Now- Colleen Hoover

The Silent Patient- Alex Michaelides

The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo- Taylor Jenkins Reid

Saving Noah- Lucinda Berry

Forbidden Hearts- Corinne Michael's

Den of Vipers- K.A. Knight

Fourth Wing- Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame- Rebecca Yarros

Losers Part 1-Harley Laroux

Losers Part 2-Harley Laroux

By a Thread- Lucy Score

The Christmas Fix- Lucy Score

Say You Swear- Meagan Brandy

Hearts Reclaimed- Ayla Asher

The Fine Print- Lauren Asher

Terms and Conditions- Lauren Asher

The Mindf*ck Series- S.T. Abby

That One Night- Emily Rath

Pucking Around- Emily Rath

Pucking Ever After Vol. 1- Emily Rath

Anyone and You- Jack Whitney

Trick Shot- Kayla Grosse

The 12 Dogs of Christmas- Susan Wiggs

Tangled in Tinsel- Trilina Pucci

Love and Other Words- Christina Lauren

In a Holidaze- Christina Lauren

The Surgeon- Leslie Wolfe

Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owen's

The Last Thing He Told Me- Laura Dave

The Nightingale- Kristin Hannah

Ladling with Luke- D.E. Bartley

Resting Scrooge Face- Meghan Quinn

Lovelight Farms- B.K. Borison

The Plight Before Christmas- Kate Stewart

A Very Merry Mistake- Lyra Parish

Feel free to add your lists so we can all get some new recommendations! 💕

#books #mine

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Post Modern Art

Escaping Confines of Museum

City, Michael Heizer. Located in Garden Valley, a desert valley in rural Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Nevada. land art sculpture. 1970-2022

Collapsing Boundaries Between High and Low

Curious Kitten watercolor painting is a painting by Svetlana Novikova which was uploaded on February 23rd, 2013.

Rejecting Originality

Andy Warhol 1928–1987. Silkscreen ink and acrylic paint on 2 canvases. 1982

Jouissance

Fred Tomaselli, 2014, 60″ x 84″, photo-collage, leaves, acrylic and resin on wood panel, © 2014, courtesy of James Cohan Gallery and the artist

Working Collaboratively

Meow Wolf. Sept. 13, 2021.

Adam Christopher

Andi Todaro

Ashley Frazier, Michael Sperandeo

Brandan Styles "Bzurk”, Ellie Rusinova

Brian Corrigan

Cal Duran, David Ocelotl Garcia

Cami Galofre

Chris Bagley

Christopher Owen Nelson

Christopher Short

Collin Parson

Corrina Espinosa

Dan Taro

David Farquharson

Dice 51

Douglas A. Schenck “DAS”

Dylan Gebbia-Richards

Frankie Toan

Ian McKenna

Jaime Molina, Pedro Barrios

Jennifer Pettus

Jess Webb

Jodi Stuart, Libby Barbee

Joseph Lamar

Joshua Goss

JUHB.

Justin Camilli

Justin Gitlin aka Cacheflowe

Kalyn Heffernan, Gregg Ziemba

Katy Zimmerman, Erika Wurth

Kia Neill

Kristin Stransky

Laaiaim Mayer

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

LORDSCIENCE UNIVERSAL

Lumonics

Marjorie Lair, Kyle Vincent Singer

Maya Linke

Myah Sarles

Nicole Banowetz

Nolan Tredway

Ramón Bonilla

Reed Fox, Ben Weirich

Sabin Aell, Randy Rushton

Scott Hildebrandt

Sean Peuquet

Shayna Cohn

Sigrid Sarda

Sofie Birkin

Thomas Scharfenberg

Viviane Le Courtois

Wanderweird

Wynn Earl Buzzell Jr.

Andrew Novick, Pamela Webb, Robert Ayala

bearwarp

Chad Colby, Lexis Loeb, Hayley Kirkman

Charles Kern, Ty Holter, Ben Jackson, Rachel Bilys, Brett Sasine

Demiurge LLC: Joe Riche and Wynn Buzzell

Eriko Tsogo, Jennifer Tsogo, Tsogo Mijid, Batochir Batkhishig

F. Ria Khan, Armon Naein, Blake Gambel, Calvin Logan, Charles Candon, Harrison Bolin, Luke Collier, Maria Deslis, Sky Johnson, Sofia Rubio-Topete

Ladies Fancywork Society

Merhia Wiese, Annabelle Wiese, Maggie Wiese, Eunseo Zoey Kim, Dan Griner

Mike Lustig, Mitch Hoffman, Tim Omspach, Nathan Koral, Evan Beloni, Ryan Elmendorf, Scott Wilson, Charlis Robbins

Molina Speaks, Stevon Lucero, DJ Icewater, Felix "Fast4ward" Ayodele, Diles, Emily Swank

Oren Lomena, Alaine "Skeena" Rodriguez, Alius Hu

Peniel Apantenco, Kim Shively, Colin Richard Ferguson Ward,  (In memoriam)

Sam Caudill, Sean Louis Rove, Juancristobal Hernández

Secret Love Collective: Katy Batsel, Lares Feliciano, Colby Graham, Piper Rose, Frankie Toan, Katy Zimmerman, Lauren Zwicky, Genevieve Waller

The Church of Many: Andrea Thurber, Elsa Carenbauer, Anna Goss, Maddi Waneka and Emily Merlin

Waffle Cone Club: Kyle Vincent Singer, Scott Kreider, Marjorie Lair

Everything is Terrible!

Kevin Bourland

Michael Lujan

Moment Factory

Nina Mastrangelo

Scott Geary, Wayne Geary, Gary Ashkin

Appropriating

Paneel "Rehearsal for an Icon 2001 - Mona Lisa" von Olbinski, Grafikdruck. Digital Print

Hybridizing

Untitled (Studio)2014

Kerry James Marshall

Simulating

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide

Mixing Media

Mama, Mummy and Mamma (Predecessors #2)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby. 2014

Layering

Zephyrus Rising, 2022. Acrylic on Acrylic. 32 × 16 × 22 in Duncan McDaniel

Mixing Codes

Recontextualizing

 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, 1503-6; On Winnie: Denis Colomb stoles (worn as a headdress, top and sleeves) 

Confronting the Gaze

Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad David Ayer 2016 (left), Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey Cathy Yann 2021 (right)

Facing Abject

Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, 1985/86, mixed media (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, photo: Goggins World, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Constructing Identities

Creating Metaphors

Martin Puryear. Ladder for Booker T. Washington, detail, 1996. Installation view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. 2003

Using Narratives

Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 2013 Lentikulardruck80 x 120 cm

Irony, Parody, Parody Dissonance

A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014). Kara Walker Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

[lockoutkey]

I posted 6,232 times in 2022

2,486 posts created (40%)

3,746 posts reblogged (60%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 2,993 of my posts in 2022

#key asks - 1,287 posts

#timetraveler artist writer - 122 posts

#crumchysocks - 103 posts

#harley the pancake - 83 posts

#wildcardjoey - 73 posts

#nicholaspwildeblog - 65 posts

#the royal bat snake - 65 posts

#nach0 - 54 posts

#ok ish hermitcraft headcanons - 47 posts

#key liveblogs - 43 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#instead of sedating him they just do that thing moms do with babies and like wrap them in a blanket so they can’t move their arms and lets

I sent 3 gifts in 2022

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

KIWIFARMS LEAKED THE INFO ABOUT MANATREED HOLY SHIT

259 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

#4

Every server has their own Death, and they all meetup for tea and cake once a year. It was to discuss their jobs, how they were handling the deaths on their servers. At least, that was the excuse. Honestly, it was just a game to some of them.

Cleo loves the meetup because she gets to meet the newer Deaths. They pop up more often now adays as more Players start their servers. They’re scared of her, why wouldn’t they be. Not many control two servers, and even less servers like hers. News had spread of what a last life death was like. Of what’s her death was like. Of her revenge.

Kristin finds everyone amusing, how little her fellow Deaths know. How little their Players know. Her husband has learn so much from her, from the Deities that inhabit his world, and from the tragedies he’s faced. He was so different from other players, keeping Death at arms length until he embraced her. She hoped he never truly joined her.

Foolish was nervous in front of his friends. We’re they still friends? He had thought so at one point. Then he ignored his past, tried to forget, and look what happened. Dream had ruined so many lives when he could have fixed it. He was Death, yes, but he was Foolish in so many ways.

Jimmy is new and not quite ready, but slowly learning. Everyone is calling him a canary and he thinks the nickname is pretty. Every Death intimidating in their own way and he was shocked to see Cleo there, waving languidly at him as he entered the room for the first time.

Noxite stood from his chair at the front table. All eyes turned to him and he smiled. They were so young and thought they knew so much. If they did, maybe they could keep their players away from his games. They couldn’t. “Shall we begin?”

350 notes - Posted February 16, 2022

#3

SCAR ON MCC THIS ISNT A DRILL

466 notes - Posted March 11, 2022

#2

the queen when she tries to get to heaven but god reminds her she colonized the world

499 notes - Posted September 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

i only know riverdale through the mutuals but this is what i’ve gotten

9,578 notes - Posted August 1, 2022

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[annachumsblog]

My VHC on some Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss characters

. Sebastien Perrault - Dr Facilier from The Princess and the Frog

. Esther LeFevre - Eartha Kitt

. Henroin - Robert De Niro

. Constanza Vitelli - Bebe Neuwirth

. Paimon Goetia - Emperor Belos from The Owl House

. Amethyst Edelsten - Sarah Brightman

. Mimzy - Fanny Price from Guys and Dolls

. Baxter - Dr. Doofenshmirtz

. Valentino - Scar from The Lion King 1994

. Vox - Mark Hamill's Joker

. Velvet - Arleen Sorkin's Harley Quinn

. King Lucifer - Weird Al Yankovic

. Queen Lilith - Lady Gaga

. Molly - Kristin Chenoweth

. Rosie - Barbra Streisand in Hello Dolly

. Frederick Von Eldtrich - Jafar from Aladdin 1992

. Bethesa von Eldtrich - Michelle Pfeiffer's Velma Von Tussle

. Seviathan von Eldtrich - Gaston from Beauty and the Beast of 1991

. Helsa von Eldtrich - Rachel McAddams' Regina George

. Tilla ( Blitzo and Barbie Wire's mom ) - Lea Salonga

. Crymini - Amy Winehouse

. Arackniss - Psychicbubbles aka Zach Hadelack

. Mammon - Krusty the Clown

. Leviathan - Lucius Malfoy

. Andrealphus - The Devil from Cuphead Show

. Beezlebub - Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas

. Belphegor - Xibalba from The Book of Life

. Melody Tinderbox ( Moxxie and Millie's daughter ) - Lily Loud from Loud House

. Barbie Wire - Lucy Wilde from Despicable Me

#hazbin hotel #helluva boss #voice headcanons

[cyarskaren52]

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TVLINE'S YEAR IN REVIEW!

2023 in Review: The Year’s Biggest Plot Twists, Ranked From ‘Wow’ to ‘WTF?!’

BY TEAM TVLINE

DECEMBER 8, 2023 7:00 AM

Courtesy of Disney+, Netflix (2)

If what Taylor Swift said is true, and any great love keeps you guessing, 2023 TV might just have been your heart’s true desire. 

Even though the concurrent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes meant there were fewer episodes of TV than usual this year, what didair still managed to surprise us with its narrative twists and turns. To that end, the list below chronicles 20 of the TV plot twists that kept us on the edge of our seats this year.

As is the case with all of TVLine’s year-end roundups: This post is FULL of spoilers. So if you’re behind on any of the shows listed here, consider this your mega, giant, very important, last chance Spoiler Alert! for:

The Afterparty, Barry, Fatal Attraction, Fear the Walking Dead, Gen V, Harley Quinn, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Marvel’s Secret Invasion, The Night Agent, Outlander, Quantum Leap, Rabbit Hole, Riverdale, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Silo, Star Trek: Picard, Succession, Virgin River, Wolf Pack and YOU.

Scroll down to relive the big moments and juicy plot twists that blew our minds this year, then hit the comments with your favorite “WTAF?” moments from 2023 TV.

Still to come in TVLine’s Year in Review: Character Deaths That Nearly Killed Us, Shocking Cast Exits, Dumb Things TV Did, Most Dynamic ‘Ships and much, much more!

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Rabbit Hole (Paramount+)

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In the final showdown, Weir’s “ex-wife” isn’t his ex-wife!

19

Fatal Attraction(Paramount+)

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Arthur killed Alex!

18

Fear the Walking Dead (AMC)

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Alicia is alive!

17

Virgin River(Netflix)

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Mel has an estranged biological father… and he lives in Virgin River!

16

The Afterparty(Apple TV+)

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The killer intended to off Feng, but accidentally murdered the wrong person!

15

Marvel's Secret Invasion (Disney+)

Photo : Courtesy of Disney+

Fury is married! And has been for years! And his wife is a Skrull!

14

Gen V (Prime Video)

Photo : Prime Video Screen Shot

Cate has been erasing everyone’s memories and working with the dean to hide The Woods!

13

The Night Agent(Netflix)

Photo : Netflix Screen Shot

Diane Farr is a bad guy!

12

Outlander (Starz)

Photo : Courtesy of Starz

Rob Cameron knows Roger and Bree are time-travelers!

11

Riverdale (The CW)

Photo : The CW Screen Shot (2)

Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead were in a four-way relationship!

10

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Disney+)

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Seb cheated with Big Red!

09

Wolf Pack(Paramount+)

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Kristin isn’t just a werewolf — she’s Harlan, Luna and Baron’s mother!

08

Harley Quinn (Max)

Photo : Max Screen Shot

Harley killed Nightwing! Oh, and she has a potato-based clone!

07

Silo (Apple TV+)

Photo : Apple TV+ Screen Shot

The “lie” about the outside isn’t what you think it is!

06

Barry (HBO)

Photo : Courtesy of HBO

Barry and Sally start a new life with a son years later!

05

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Photo : Courtesy of Netflix

Matthew Patel defeats Scott… and seemingly kills him?!

04

Quantum Leap(NBC)

Photo : NBC Screen Shot

Ben has been missing for three years!

03

Star Trek: Picard(Paramount+)

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Jack is Jean-Luc and Beverly’s son!

02

Succession (HBO)

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Logan dies in Episode 3! And he’s really dead!

01

YOU (Netflix)

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Rhys was a figment of Joe’s imagination all along!

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[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Under the Snow

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/JKio5x1 by CriFree_FTW It's Christmastime, and the Todd family hopes to spend it without a hitch, if not for certain unwanted Batfamily members. Sierra Todd learns some secrets regarding her dad. Words: 4738, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Jason Todd, Original Female Character(s), Original Child(ren) of Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Selina Kyle, Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne Relationships: Jason Todd/Original Female Character(s), Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd & Everyone, Bruce Wayne & Everyone Additional Tags: Inspired by Music, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bad Parent Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd Needs A Hug, Family Feels, Christmas, Drama, Romance, Do NOT copy to another website, Married Couple, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Mentioned Jonathan Crane, Mentioned Pamela Isley, Dead Harleen Quinzel, Jonathan and Harley are OCs parents, no reposting, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional, Post-Comic: Red Hood and the Outlaws v2 25 Starting or Ending, Seriously screw that issue and I refuse to acknowledge it ever again, BAMF Kristine Crane, Minor Roy Harper/Koriand'r, BAMF Jason Todd, Married Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/JKio5x1

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the caped crusader #the dark knight #dcu #ao3 #ao3feed

[bassitus]

Going from A Soul to Touch by Opal Reyne (monster ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, so cute) then A Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ yes, all the yes) then A Game of Retribution by Scarlett St. Clair (dark romance..I think ⭐️⭐️) THEN Her Soul to take by Harley Laroux (dark/monster romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️surprisingly decent) to now reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore (fantasy) has got my brain suffering from a fiction genre whip lash and I love every second of it 😅🤣

#sorrynotsorry #bookwormlife #fictionreader #allthebooksplease #darkromance #fantasy #monsterromance #justgivemeallofthem

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[wearec4rnival]

Muses

Hello, here are the complete characters. Their bio and more things are currently under construction. I suggest you to check this regularly for any changes or new characters added. Check my wattpad too!

g i r l s

mel santiago as camila mendes

olivia pierre

sophie knight

faye pierce

olivia rodrigo as maisie monreal

maude patow as sage conklin

josephine tullis

madelyne cline as kiera nord

cassie allen

aubrey thompson

alexa demie as tessa ruiz

juliette mayfield

dove cameron as athena karlsson

lily james as amelie angel

madelaine pestch as debora blossom

blaire barakiel

abigail cowen as claire farrington

amara dawson

maddison brown as astrid howard

kahtryn newton as felicity auclair

esmery valentine

talia ryder as eloise veldair

adelaide kane as devin clemonte

ivy liguori

myra molloy as harper marucci

sidney sweeney as isabella basille

emily alyn lind as charlotte zerafi

blanche deolcour

kristine froseth as harriet windsor

fiorisce

diana silvers as kirsten chambers

halston sage as

b o y s

darrell belmont

josh jeckes

sebastian chambers

aidan marshall

nicholas corfield

olive pierre

mattheo de' bardi

jordan fisher as kaden west

aiden harlow

harley

milo devlin

asher

oscar gates

nate

[allthingsdarkanddirty]

★✩★ RELEASE BLITZ ★✩★

Secrets and Sunrises

Destination Romance

By DL Gallie

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60860293/

Tropes: Contemporary Romance | Second Chance | Holiday hookup | surprise pregnancy | Boss

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Blurb:

What’s a girl to do when she sees two pink lines on a pregnancy test and the only thing she knows about the father is that his name starts with H? A steamy holiday hookup six years ago gave Sully the greatest joy of her life, her son, Harley. She’s worked hard to make sure that Harley doesn’t feel the same sting of father abandonment she did. However, when she lands her dream job, her world comes crashing to a halt when H walks through the meeting room doors. He’s her new boss. The spark is still there and H wants to start up where they left off, but can Sully let him get close again when it’s not just her heart on the line? To add more drama, his psycho ex and scheming brother arrive and both are looking to cause trouble. When her secret is exposed, all hell breaks loose and the consequences of her decision threaten any chance of another sunrise with H by her side. Sully is about to find out, happy endings might only happen in the dirty books she reads.

Other books from Destination Romance:

·         Kristine Allen - Fighting Love

·         Josie Naclerio - Stealing the Mounties Love

·         Brooke May - German Wanderlust

·         Xana Jordan - A Viking Wedding

·         Tracie Douglas - Dragonfly Inn

·         Jaime Russell - Finding Home

·         Chelle C Craze - X Marked

·         Letha Gene - Kane’s Redemption

About DL Gallie:

DL Gallie is from Queensland, Australia, but she’s lived in many different places all over the world. She currently resides in Gladstone with her husband and two kids. She and her husband have been together since she was sixteen, and although they drive each other crazy at times, she couldn’t imagine her life without him.

Shortly after her son was born, DL began reading again. With encouragement from her husband, she picked up the pen and started writing, and now the voices in her head won’t shut up.

DL enjoys listening to music, drinking white wine in the summer, red wine in the winter, and beer all year round. She’s also never been known to turn down a cocktail, especially a margarita.

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[nightwingkory]

Wonder Woman (2017)

#supergirl #batman #birds of prey #black canary #dick grayson #dinah lance #superman #wonder woman #barbara gordon #batgirl #birds of prey and the fantabulous emancipation of one harley quinn #harley quinn #diana prince #wonder woman 1984 #gal gadot #kristin wiig #chris pine #margot robbie #melissa benoist #shazam #aquaman #suicidie squad

[jetslay]

Smallville cast promotional photos.

Today (October 16, 2019) marks the series’ 18th Anniversary!

#Smallville #Clark Kent #Tom Welling #Lois Lane #Erica Durance #Lex Luthor #michael rosenbaum #lana lang #kristin kreuk #chloe sullivan #Allison Mack #Oliver Queen #Green Arrow #justin harley #Martha Kent #Annette O'Toole #Jonathan Kent #John Schneider #lionel luthor #john glover #tess mercer #cassidy freeman #Jimmy Olsen #aaron ashmore #pete ross #sam jones iii #Zod #callum blue #Aquaman #Arthur Curry

[lockoutkey]

Puffy was in hell.

She didn’t want to be here, and she didn’t know fully why this man dragged her down here.

But now she’s in hell, and there’s a tall goddess in front of her.

“Goddess of Punishment, she is for you to deal with.”

Joe led her across the building to…well, she didn’t know. She was hoping it would be a portal to someone alive, but she doubted it. He just kept reciting poetry and then stopping halfway. He once asked who she was, and she had to repete herself again. Was this death? A neverending cycle of memory loss?She came to a smaller room, with a table and a few chairs in the middle. It seemed much cosier than the rest of the castle, almost like it was lived in and cared for. Wood carvings were scattered around. Someone had a hobby, she could tell.

A woman sat at one of the hairs, reading a book in a language she couldn't decipher. She looked up, most likely expecting Joe alone. Her face changed to one of confusion and annoyance upon Puffy's arrival. "Who are you?"

"Puffy felt sweat drip down ehr forehead. "My name is Puffy. A man, a god, dragged me here. Well, not here, but I walked here to find help. I'm not completely sure where I am. I'm trying to find Niki and Foolish. Anyone alive, really." Puffy rambled on, not able to stop her messy explination.

The woman narrowed her decaying eyes. "So that was what Cub was up to down here before he died."

Puffy had to assume the man's name was Cub. He was also dead now. She didn't know is she should be releaved about that. She also didn't know gods could die. God, she hoped Niki and Foolish were alright.

The woman tapped her rusty fingernails. Despite the rot, she was quite beautiful. She was color against a dark realm. She brought life to this place somehow. Puffy didn't trust her, she knew this goddess wasn't on her side. But she wouldn't harm her.

"You shouldn't have ended up in this predicament. Unfortunately, the fate of mortals can be...messy in the time fate is dying. It can rewrite itself for the next thousand years if needed. Everyone up there, they're so hellbent on revenge and perfection. I learned a long time ago you can't get what you want, just cherish what you have."

Puffy watched her reach for Joe's hand. They smiled at each other. She didn't know their history, but Puffy could tell they cared deeply for each other.

"I can't let you leave, I'm sorry. At least, not as you are now. Laws of the universe, revenge and death, it's all very complicated for mortals. Why do you think its so hard for newer gods? They have to learn rules so they don't destroy the entire world by making one mistake. Though, they don't need to know the specifics for death and life like I do." The woman continued to explain as if Puffy understood. She just wanted to leave.

Puffy was exausted. "What are you going to do to me?"

She grinned, light glinting off her sharp teeth. "Oh, that's not for me to decide. You want to see Puffy, the goddess of punishment can figure that out. Right, Kristin?"

"Of course, Cleo."

Puffy whipped around. The giant woman towered over her. Her silk dress flowed like waves as she walked, sunhat lightly bouncing with each step. "I-"

Kristin chuckled. "Don't worry, my punishments aren't ever too horrible. For those I like, at least. After all, my husband is a crow. That isn't a horrible life."

Puffy nearly fainted. She was going to be made into a crow.

Cleo leaned forward. "So what are your plans for her?"

Kristin shrunk down, placing her hands on her shoulders. "The fields are overcrowded and in chaos. Zedaph is a hunter now, he'll finds the strays. Cleo, you've had trouble with paperwork, correct?"

"Yes, it's overwhelming. There's no organization."

Puffy could feel fur growing over hear head. Her ears changed shape, as did her limbs. He panicked and looked for a mirror, only to see her entire being turn white with fur. Her legs bend backwards and her nose flattened. She looked towards Kristin in a panick.

The goddess of punishment smiled. Cold and welcoming. "The underworld needs a shephard. Welcome to work, Captain Puffy."

#key asks #cryptid roomies au #harley the pancake #joe hills #captain puffy #kristin watson #zombie cleo #body horrow cw

[chiefbeck]

Chapter 20: A Freedom Ride

I set up a ride for 9/11 as a remembrance ride to the tragedy of September 11th and to honor those who were lost that day and the days following in the hunt for the criminals responsible. We called it the freedom ride.

I set up the event, so I rode way up in front of the pack of motorcycles that cruised Southern California that day.

We had about a hundred motorcycles leaving Imperial Beach heading up Interstate 5 as we got a few miles past the exit. The pack was moving fast and speeding up, and then, all of a sudden in the center lane was a mattress tumbling off the back of a truck, and the entire pack of a hundred motorcycles scattered across the highway avoiding god’s mattress at 80 miles an hour.

Somehow, I don't know how, but the entire pack made it out unscathed. We continued on the highway and got off at Pacific beach, and I needed food and a beer at the first stop.

It was a poker run which has five stops, and you draw a card at each stop to try for the best poker hand. We hang out there for around 40 minutes.

We get back on the road with a few more bikes joining the pack we were possibly a hundred and fifty strong at this point flying up the coast toward the next stop.

Oceanside, California, Moreland choppers, this place is an old school chopper shop located here since the sixties and run by very cool people.

Draw cards, have a beer and get on the road.

We are making our way into northern San Diego to a little bar in the middle of the mountains and the hills; I think it's called The Hideout.

So I hang out there smoking and joking in general; good times and I meet up with one of the Southern California motorcycle clubs. They are meeting us on the road.

They knew about the 9/11 freedom ride and wanted to pay respect to the military and the sacrifices made for their freedom – freedom to ride in a club and do all the things we take for granted.

These are major bikers so they ride way up front and I am following now. It’s biker protocol.

We are riding from the mountains in northern San Diego toward El Cajon to meet at the last bar.

These are some steep and Squirrely passages up and down the mountain; you know, real curvy.

The main club dude is on a real old-school FXR, and he's flying, a natural born rider; really good, freaking fast, it was awesome.

I was catching up, and he saw me, so he waves me up to the front right next to him, and he starts going faster.

He's going faster and I just try to keep up on these crazy curves with cliffs on both sides. He is moving out on a curve. I try to stay with it and slide sideways and hit one of those raised reflectors in the middle of the road and my back tire jumps a bit and then catches. I am high sided and flipping crashing across the road.

I flipped a couple of times and came to a screeching halt fifty yards to the end of the curve with my motorcycle.

Some blood running down my head, my helmets all scraped; my leather jacket has some new holes. The right-hand handlebar has hit so hard that it sticks into the gas tank and gas is pouring out on the highway. The license plate bracket is ripped off, the throttle cable is torn and a few other minor things, scrapes all up-and-down. It's pretty beat up and I'm pretty beat up.

The Pack of motorcycles catches up and come to a stop along the highway and a few of the guys roll my bike off the road and immediately start fixing it back up. They wave the rest of the pack past to meet us at the bar. No worries.

They finished fixing the motorcycle, shoving a couple of bandanas into the gas tank and crank it up. It starts.

I am sitting on the ground 20 yards away with my back against rock looking down the cliff that I barely missed going over.

The biker boss comes over and kicks me in the foot and says “Your bike is running, let’s go.”

I grabbed my helmet put it on and slowly get up. My right arm doesn't seem to be working very well, I keep moving, get on the motorcycle and we start riding. We speed up to about the same speed as before.

Twenty miles later, we are at the bar, and the boss says, “you, you and you with me, we are going to ride through the bar.” He owns the bar, so no big deal for him. For us, we feel like we are in one of those movies from the sixties. One of those “Glory Stompers Movies.” We roll into the bar. It’s going nuts.

My arm is not working too good and I run into one of the pool tables and then bounce toward the door and jump my bike off the curb into the street. Everyone thinks I did it on purpose, and they are yelling big time. It was very cool, but I’m just thinking how lucky it was that I didn’t fall over.

I walk into the bar and ask for 5 shots of Jack. I gotta numb this arm up; its throbbing and getting more painful. I swig them all down.

This big biker dude, like 300lbs of “Hammer” and also a Vietnam medic says, “Hey Caveman, what the Hell’s wrong with your arm? Take off your jacket and let’s see what’s up.” I take it off, and he looks at it I says, “Holy fuck, your arm is dislocated. Get back there on the pool table; I’ll put it back in.”

I go back, lay on the pool table and sure enough the medic starts cranking on my arm and then – bam, a loud pop noise and its back in socket. It was loud enough that a few people stopped partying and looked over.

I sit up and start moving my arm around saying, “Man this feels good now, give me some more shots.”

The big boss comes over and says, “Holy shit you just road from the accident up the mountain with a dislocated arm.”

I just replied, “Yup, you kicked me in my broken foot and told me, Lets go.” He shook his head and said, “I don't know what to think about you SEAL team guys, but HELL YEAH.”

He gave me a cool biker poster later that day that says something about being “A hell of a man and a friend till the end.” Very cool ride, very cool day.

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