#beverley brook

[corainne]

Reasons I love Beverley Brook, an incomplete list:

No respect for authority and no fucks given

Fucking nerd

Passive agressive about pollution

Brought a shotgun to a magic fight

Practically adopts her boyfriend's weird kid cousin

Shit at housework

Better friends with her boyfriend's boss than her boyfriend is

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#rivers of london #beverley brook

[multitudeofmuses]

RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES by Ben Aaronovitch

~~ FANCAST ~~

Beveley Brook | Genius Loci

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Beverley Brook is the current Genius loci of the London river with the same name. Genius loci are the gods/goddesses or spirits of the rivers themselves. Beverley brook is a Genii locorum of the River Thames and its tributaries. She is the child of Mama Thames, Goddess of the Thames River in London. It is unknown if she was conceived by the magic of Mama Thames like the river Chess, or through some other method.

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Like Peter Grant she is of West African descent. She enjoys extremely spicy food and often appears wearing fashionable clothing or t-shirts with assorted sayings printed on them. She has demonstrated an interest in cars, and and is a student at Queen Mary University reading Environmental Science. She is a confident, intelligent woman who appears as a physically attractive woman in her mid-twenties with dreadlocks.  She has an affinity for some types of people from the demi-monde, particularly Molly and Mellissa Oswald.

SUGGESTED CASTING:

ADWOA ABOAH ( 31 years old ) DEBORAH AYORINDE ( 35 years old ) NENDA NEURURER ( 28 years old ) SAVANNAH STEYN ( 27 years old ) TANYA FEAR ( 33 years old ) ADELAYO ADEDAYO ( 34 years old )

**all actresses are of african descent

#beverley brook #rivers of london #ben aaronovitch #fantasy #fc #fancast #adwoa aboah #deborah ayorinde #nenda neururer #savannah steyn #tanya fear #adelayo adedayo #british actress #british actresses #black british #black british actresses #poc fcs #poc #poc fc #rp #rpg

[sixth-light]

For the character bingo, what about Abigail or Beverly from RoL?

ABIGAIL:

I enjoyed early-book Abigail as a minor character but the thing is. The thing is, I really really really hate the 'child genius' trope IRL (I have seen it really fuck people up) and in fiction, when it intersects with adult stories (vs YA/children's stories where children are the protagonists). She hits all my Nope buttons on that and possibly my most controversial RoL opinion is that Nightingale agreeing to teach her magic - while in character because he started as a pre-teen and doesn't think it's a big deal - is irresponsible and not good for her. I think What Abigail Did That Summer did a reasonably good job of giving her an adventure to have which was congruent with the very realistic approach of the rest of the series, but...yeah. I don't want to read about precocious teenagers in adult series. Abigail HERSELF I like, her position in the story...not so much. Sorry Abigail! It's not your fault!

BEVERLEY:

RoL Beverley I could take or leave (I've gone on record that I think, Doylistically, she's a slightly different and more Abigail-esque character) but late-series Beverley I like a lot and always enjoy seeing. I love her environmental science degree so much. The Discourse that used to go around about how she was secretly evil and bad for Peter (?????) was absolutely fucking insane. Her comics appearances have honestly been pretty high-quality as the comics go.

The issue I do have is...she comes across more and more as a wish-fulfillment girlfriend for Peter (especially given their canonical age difference) and I really want her to have her OWN stuff going on in a way that she just. Doesn't, canonically speaking, outside of implication. I actually enjoy her relationship with Peter as depicted a lot, it's a lovely mix of affection and 'why does he/she do that?' which rings very true, but I want there to be more there THERE for Bev. I am willing to do the hard lifting there but I wish I didn't have to.

#rivers of london #abigail kamara #beverley brook

[fishelfe]

Running gag

Rivers of London

I do love that running gag that Beveley just doesn't get nerd!Peter's comments and references!

False Value

It's both fun and so real!

But now I'm squicked again and need to put that book down...

#rivers of london #peter grant #beverley brook #books I'll never finish #nerdtime #delightful #wholesome #rivers of london quote

[insidecroydon]

Rivers Week keeps water pressure high for climate change

Rewilding: the focus of this year’s London Rivers Week is to help nature cope with the impacts of the global climate crisis Policymakers, water companies, businesses, industry and the public in London will all need to work together help to protect London’s rivers in order for them to be better prepared to tackle the impacts of droughts and floods brought on by the climate crisis, the organisers…

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#Beverley Brook #Debbie Leach #London Rivers Week #Morden Hall Park #River Thames #Thames 21

[crossedwithblue]

headcanon that Bev, knowing what a massive fucking nerd Peter is about London, takes him up the Shard as a treat and he just spends hours geeking out over everything you can see from up there, not just the obvious landmark buildings but really obscure history stuff, and also pointing out all the roads he's chased someone down

#this post brought to you by my family surprising me with a birthday trip up the shard :) #and i was like Oh Yes my blorbo would love this wouldn't he #bev probably doesn't love being that high up but she can see her mama's river and Peter's enthusiasm is very endearign to her #rivers of london #peter grant #beverley brook thames #via shitposts

[lilybarthes]

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#delighted to report that the total number of of erections in The Rivers of London is 7 #however! there's also a Mention of an erection AND a scene of peter losing his wits while ogling beverley brook #which i'm counting as 0.5 each #bringing the total tally to *drumroll* 8 (slovima: eight) #or 0.6 per chapter/1 each audio track

[ponytailcoby]

That Twitter thread about this being the funniest NBA season ever has had me crying lmao

#of course patrick beverley had the only bulls moment being mentioned lol #but #jimmy's dreads #mo bamba/austin rivers random beef #grant williams 'i'ma make em both' #andre iguodala's hand gesture after draymond was giggling with lebron #lebron's temper tantrum during the lakers/celtics game #pat bev 'FOUL!' #dillon brooks' whole existence #it was a top tier comedic season imo

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

#book releases #queer fiction #queer books #queer romance #queer community #queer #sapphic #sapphic books #sapphic romance #wlw romance #wlw fiction #gay romance #gay pride #lesbian romance #lesbian pride #lesbian books #lesbian fiction #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #books #book list

[agardenandlibrary]

Nobody's doing it like her (Beverley Brook riding roughshod over fairyland with a steam train and a shotgun to get her boyfriend back)

#cara reads rol #rivers of london #foxglove summer

[corainne]

Six Sentence Sunday

The first time Beverley really understood that she and her family were truly different from everyone else, was the first time she layed eyes on her niece Olivia and realised that she was utterly ordinary. When Stephen had been born, just two years before, she had been too young, in Tyburn's opinion, to be trusted with him and she’d only caught glimpses of him as he’d been passed back and forth between her older sisters. And even if she had been able to get close to him, at that age it would have been more extraordinary to her if he had been in any way special, having only heard in passing of Father Thames and his sons. Now, at five, stood on her tiptoes and peering inside Olivia’s crib, she wondered why she couldn’t feel the same thing that every other woman in her family radiated coming from the small, wrinkly infant in front of her. Later, much later, she would realise that this difference meant that while she, her mother and her sisters wouldn’t age beyond their own desires, everyone around them still did. But that would come later.

#and it's actually six sentences! #I counted them myself! #rivers of london #beverley brook #anyone shitting on Beverley is getting blocked

[immediatebreakfast]

The disonance between the cantos of "In which Judgement is passed" and "In Which We Stop at an Inn" is truly fucked when we compare the situation between Constance de Beverley, and lord Marmion side by side.

Judgement is finally given to Constance, and her cellmate like it's a herald from god itself.

Till thus the Abbot’s doom was given, Raising his sightless balls to heaven:— “Sister, let thy sorrows cease; Sinful brother, part in peace!” From that dire dungeon, place of doom, Of execution too, and tomb, Paced forth the judges three,

Part in peace... there is something so dark about telling the people that you are condemning to a possible death to go in peace, or that their sorrows will cease.

Although, I have to ask if in this canto is where Constance gets... put into a wall because of the metaphors used to convey the sheer terror that comes to the unsuspecting people that are not aware of the judgement.

That conclave to the upper day; But, ere they breathed the fresher air, They heard the shriekings of despair, And many a stifled groan: With speed their upward way they take, Such speed as age and fear can make, And crossed themselves for terror’s sake,

Are these shrieks of despair Constance's doing? Because as the canto goes to describe the overall ambiance that surrounded this unsettling moment, the shrieks got duller, and quieter.

Meanwhile this fucked up idea of justice is happening, or happened depending on the timeline, we start the third canto in an inn where lord Marmion and his army are staying for the time being.

No summons calls them to the tower, To spend the hospitable hour. To Scotland’s camp the lord was gone; His cautious dame, in bower alone, Dreaded her castle to unclose, So late, to unknown friends or foes, On through the hamlet as they paced, Before a porch, whose front was graced With bush and flagon trimly placed, Lord Marmion drew his rein: The village inn seemed large, though rude:

Yeah Constance is going to get trapped inside a fucking wall, but look! Lord Marmion found a problem! The poor lord, and his army didn't get the hospitality they wanted because the Dame rightfully didn't want to open her home to a bunch of men she didn't know while her husband was gone.

And now we are in a inn. There is laughter, food, and a very warm reading in what we now as modern readers can associated with what a medieval inn constitutes. And yet, the dread didn't left because the Palmer, once again a theme figure in contrast to Marmion, and his army, acts in a ominous manner.

Resting upon his pilgrim staff, Right opposite the Palmer stood; His thin dark visage seen but half, Half hidden by his hood. Still fixed on Marmion was his look, Which he, who ill such gaze could brook, Strove by a frown to quell; But not for that, though more than once Full met their stern encountering glance, The Palmer’s visage fell.

Even if Constance's revenge is slowly building towards victory, she is still going to end up dead while Marmion enjoys (for now I hope) all of the privilegues of being an emisary to the king. It's literally a methaporical situation of the people serving the elite, Constance escaped with Marmion and dedicated a good chunk of her life to him, and he repaids her with abandoning her to force Clare to marry him.

The power imbalance is unreal, and it will feel so good when Marmion does a single misstep that brings all of his good fortune crashing down. Well, I hope it happens.

#Poor Constance tho #She still tried to kill Clare for “stealing” Marmion from her but being imprisoned inside a wall sounds like a nightmare #marmion daily #marmion #poetry

[boiyjoey]

Hi my name is jo or joe/Joey but I am new to writing to if you like have any requests I can write that will be so amazing ‼️ I mostly write malex reader stuff and g/n x reader stuff but I am also somewhat up for fem! X reader also here are the fandoms I write for

IT richie tozier(male reader only)

Eddie kaspbrak

Ben hanscom

Bill Denbrough

Stan uris

Beverley marsh

Mike hanlon

Henry bowers

Patrick hockstetter(only male/gn readers)

Reggie(belch) Huggins

Victor criss

Greta bowie

Fnaf

William Afton(only male/gn readers)

Michael Afton(any game)

C.C afton(no nsfw)

Elizabeth afton(no nsfw🤬)

Henry Emily

Charlie Emily(no nsfw)

Sammy Emily(no nsfw)

Cassidy(no nsfw)

Gabriel(no nsfw)

Jeramy(no nsfw)

Susie(no nsfw)

Fritz(no nsfw)

Michael brooks(no nsfw🙁)

Vanny

Mrs.afton

Fnaf 4 chica bully

Fnaf 4 bonnie bully

Fnaf 4 Freddy Bully

Ianowt(I am not okay with this)

Sydney Novak(only fem! Readers)

Stanley barber

Dina Bryant

Tbp(the black phone)

Robin Arellano

Finney blake

Vance hopper

Griffin stagg(no nsfw)

Billy shawalter

Max shaw(mostly gn/m! Reader)

The grabber/Albert shaw(only male reader)

Gwen blake(no Nsfw)

Donna

Buzz

Matty

Matt

Lovely bones

Susie salmon(no damn nsfw)

Jack salmon

Abigail salmon

Lindsey salmon(no nsfw)

Ray Singh(no nsfw)

IT 2

Adult Richie tozier(only male readers)

Adult Eddie kaspbrak

Adult bill Denbrough

Adult mike hanlon

Adult Ben hanscom

Adult Stan Uris

Adult Beverly marsh

Adult Henry bowers

That’s all rly 😔 pls give requests I wanna write( I ain’t that good tho but still)

#theblackphone #IT2017 #IT2019 #FNAF #Ianowt #iamnotokaywiththis #lovleybones #pls request #male reader #gn reader #fem!reader #x reader

[birdylion]

on the metaphysics of current and old genii locorum of rivers (in Rivers of London)

With Yuletide reveals I can finally talk about the worldbuilding behind the story I wrote for my assignment. It's an E-rated smut fic about Peter, Beverley, and Old Beverley Brook. (Here's the link to my post about the story itself, so you can check it out and decide for yourself if it's something you'd want to read.)

In order to do smutty worldbuilding with these characters, I had to build a headcanon about how the connection between Beverley and Old Beverley works in general. So here are my thoughts about that.

There is some kind of connection between the current Rivers and their dead counterparts. Old Sir Tyburn has opinions about Lady Ty and vice versa, and Old Beverley Brook clearly knows (about) Peter in some capacity – after all, his first act after meeting him is to full on kiss him on the mouth. So what is this connection? The animosity between Ty and Old Tyburn suggests that they definitely aren’t the same entity. The kiss suggests that they can share information and possibly even experiences.

There are at least two ways to interpret the interaction between Peter and Old Beverley in Lies Sleeping: 1. (present-day) Beverley is acting through Old Beverley. His words („babes“, which is supposedly how Bev would call Peter) and the kiss itself seem to suggest that. 2. He is his own entity who acts on his own, which is what his knowledge about the other ghosts on that plane of existence seems to suggest.

The doylist explanation is probably „whatever Ben Aaronovitch needs to make the scene work“, and honestly, that was my approach too for making the sex scene work. But in-universe, I assume it works like this:

The ghosts of the old genii locorum are separate entities from the present day genii locorum. On a very basic level, the only connection they share is towards their river. The ghosts of the old rivers are images of the persons they used to be, and as such don’t have necessarily much in common with today’s Rivers. Sometimes they are lucky and have enough in common to have an amicable relationship (like I decided for Beverley), and sometimes they are unlucky and don’t really like each other (like Tyburn). That’s not to say they are enemies – they still have that connection through their river, and either Sir Tyburn was willing, or Lady Ty compelled him, to put his sword through the would-be assassin in The Hanging Tree. Luckily I didn’t need to make a decision on that, because I focused on Beverley.

I decided that there has to be a lot of fluidity in how such a connection can work. My initial idea of describing it was like looking through a window. At first the shutters are closed and you (as a modern day River spirit) perhaps don’t even realise that there’s a window. Than you realise that there is a window, and you can look through it into the other world. That’s how I imagine the connection in daily life – a window you can ignore, or look through, or even close, and depending on how much focus you put on it, it’s clear glass, or milky glass, or the window is … I don’t know, in a different place of your house depending on how much attention you pay it? The metaphor doesn’t work really well at this point, which is why I abandoned it, but my point is, I imagine there are a lot of ways the connection can work, depending on the individual character and relationship of the genii locorum involved. And, to get back to that heavy metaphor one last time, in rare cases such as Sir Tyburn’s sword and the assassin, you don’t just have a window, but can open a door and let the other one through. Or, in the case of Peter’s sacrifice to Lady Ty in her underground river, she can push him through. The same way of pushing someone else into that world is what I imagine Beverley did with Peter in my story. And how much energy it takes would depend on how well the connection usually is, so it would have a noticeable cost for Tyburn, but be easy as breathing for Beverley.

I decided that there could be some overlap in experiences and sensations, but again, not set in stone. So I decided that usually, Old Beverley doesn’t play much of a role in Beverley’s life. She has a busy life after all. Usually, the connection is more like the background radiation of everything that connects her to her river. Definitely present, but not like she talks to him or constantly feels his presence. Only when she focuses on him she would be actively in contact with him, and when she focuses on him even more and gets more into his world, she could herself immerse in it, and I stretched that so far that she can feel what it is to be in his place. But at the same time, she is in control of that, being the currently alive and powerful genius loci of her River.

For the mechanics of Peter being in that world:

There are several instances in the books when that happened. First in Whispers Underground, when he’s buried underneath the platform at Oxford station, near where the river Tyburn flows. He’s slowly running out of air, that is, he’s in the process of dying in the ‚real‘ world and Sir Tyburn draws him into his ghost world – to make it easier on him, because the sensations there are different. To distract him, give him (metaphorical) air to breathe, and perhaps out of curiosity; he says he’s been lonely there for a long time. He knows about Peter, at least his name and where he’s from. Meanwhile, Lady Ty learned about Peter’s whereabouts by, as she says, smelling him in her water. It’s unclear how much time passes in each place. (On a side note: it’s this meeting in which Sir Tyburn makes Peter aware of Punch’s wailing as he’s pinned to the bridge, and says that sooner or later Peter has to let Punch loose. Props to that bit of foreshadowing.)

I don’t quite remember any other times in between that Peter is in this world, but at the time in Lies Sleeping when Peter has his Game of Thrones episode, he’s falling from St. Paul’s bell tower towards what could well be his death, and time definitely passes differently in this other world, because in under 2 seconds, there’s a whole two chapters of stuff happening; a race through ancient London and a fight and a conversation, so there’s some time weirdness happening.

Then there’s the time when Peter makes his sacrifice to Lady Ty because he wants to ask her to send him into this world. While he’s in the world doing his things, his body is in Lady Ty’s river, I assume unconscious, and he doesn’t get out on his own but has to be saved by others. I think the implication is that being in this ghost world means that his body is unconscious or sleeping – suddenly as it comes, I imagine it’s closer to unconsciousness, but it’s not like we have any data. Peter would really have to get hooked up to an EEG to record his brain waves during sleep and during this.

Admittedly, it is a stretch to go from there to „being in this world means that Peter is slowly suffocating in our world“ which I used for dramatic purposes in my fanfic, so that’s definitely not worldbuilding I would extrapolate from what we know in canon. It’s an extension though, one that I don’t think contradicts canon.

Anyway, all of that was very interesting to think about, but I didn’t dare to openly talk about it lest someone connected the secret story to me xD Perhaps I was taking it too far, but I thought it would be suspicious if I was going from my usually near zero meta discussion posts to talking about this topic right when the Yuletide assignments went out.

This whole thing is very much not a meta analysis, but a meta interpretation, since I mainly thought it through in terms of „how can I write the story I want to write and I think my recipient is going to like“, so there are many arguments to be made that it can (or should) work differently if you’re following the canon closely, or want to just extrapolate instead of interpret.

#rivers of london #birdypersonal

[homensbrancosnaosabemblogar]

Uma péssima noite pra quem não gosta de basquete! Que perfomances memoráveis de Jimmy Butler e LeBron James!

Butler, por um lado, novamente mostrando que não está nem aí pra temporada regular e que o que importa são os playoffs. Os 56 pontos dele ontem são recorde histórico da franquia do Heat. Também são seu recorde pessoal. Imagine a situação: você está perdendo por 12 pontos na metade do último quarto de uma partida em que você não esteve a frente por nem sequer um segundo. Até esse momento, Butler tinha 37 pontos. O que aconteceu em seguida foi o domínio completo da partida: com uma defesa fortíssima, o Miami engatou 13 pontos seguidos e virou o jogo. Jimmy Buckets fez 19 pontos em cinco minutos.

O Heat abriu 3 a 1 na série e se colocou em posição de se tornar a sexta equipe classificada em oitavo a eliminar o primeiro colocado. A última vez que isso ocorreu foi em 2012, quando o 76ers eliminou o Bulls depois da triste e famosa lesão de Derrick Rose. Nenhum time classificado em oitavo até hoje foi campeão da NBA, apesar de já ter chegado às finais em uma oportunidade, quando o Knicks se classificou em oitavo e chegou nas finais de 1999.

Pela conferência oeste, Lakers e Memphis se enfrentaram em mais um jogão, nessa que tem sido uma das séries mais comentadas do primeiro round. Temos muito o que agradecer à Dillon Brooks, que chamou LeBron James de decadente e incendiou a equipe do Lakers. A fala de Brooks se soma a uma fala mais antiga de Ja Morant, dada ainda durante a temporada regular, quando ele disse que “no oeste, o Memphis está tranquilo”. Agora, encaram a possibilidade de uma eliminação na primeira rodada para o sétimo colocado. Fica a lição para os novinhos. Ja Morant acha que basta tentar saltar por cima dos outros que tudo dá certo. Dillon Brooks acha que quanto mais ele fala, mais mídia ele tem e que, quanto mais mídia, mais chances ele tem de assinar um novo contrato na NBA. É uma mistura de Patrick Beverley com LaVar Ball. Ali não falta ousadia, só qualidade e noção. Nesse contexto, quem tem se destacado é Desmond Bane, um dos poucos da equipe que joga mais e fala menos. Anotou 36 pontos na derrota.

Se as grandes estrelas da liga seguirem a tendência de se importar cada vez menos com a temporada regular, esse tipo de situação pode se tornar comum: times cheios de veteranos classificados mais pra trás da tabela surpreendendo times jovens classificados mais a frente.

A NBA já criou a nova regra de no mínimo 65 partidas para que os atletas se tornem aptos a concorrer aos prêmios individuais, resta saber se os veteranos de fato se importam com eles. Enquanto isso, sigo curtindo o basquete do “decadente”.

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#lebron james #jimmy butler #nba

[ruinconstellation]

Rec: four and twenty lovebirds (baked in a pie) by stardust_rain

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, The Great British Bake Off RPF Relationships: Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale, past David Mellenby/Thomas Nightingale Characters: Peter Grant, Thomas Nightingale, Lesley May, Beverley Brook, Cecelia Tyburn, Abigail Kamara, Varvara Sidorovna, Alexander Seawoll, Sahra Guleed, Miriam Stephanopoulos, Harold Postmartin, Abdul Haqq Walid, Dominic Croft, Jaget Kumar, Kimberley Reynolds, Molly (Rivers of London) Additional Tags: media fic, Epistolary, Social Media, Tabloid Drama, competitive baking, Pining, Celebrity profiles as narrative device, The Culture of Celebrity, the Discourse (tm), Found Family, Journalism Ethics, News Media

#fic rec #op #stardust_rain on ao3 #rivers of london #baking shows #epistolary #queue