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sharry-arry-odd · 11 months

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The man behind the counter didn't seem to be afraid of the children. But he was afraid of Arthur. "How dare you?" Arthur said quietly, and Linus thought of a tiger hunting. "How dare you speak to them that way? They're children." "I don't care," the man said, taking a step back. "They're abominations. I know what their kind is capable of–" Arthur took a step forward. "You should be more worried about what I'm capable of." The room felt warmer than it'd been just moments before. Much warmer. "Arthur, no," Zoe said. "Not here. Not in front of the children. You need to think this through." Arthur ignored her. "All they wanted was ice cream. That's it. We would've paid and they would have been happy, and then we would have left. How dare you, sir!" Linus stepped forward in front of Arthur. He turned away from the man behind the counter to look up. He took Arthur's face in his hands. He felt like he was burning from the inside out. "This isn't the right way to go about this." Arthur tried to jerk his face away, but Linus held on. "He can't–" "He can," Linus said quietly. "And it's not fair. At all. But you need to remember your position. You need to remember who looks up to you. Who you care for. And what they'll think. Because what you do here, now, will stay with them forever." Arthur's eyes flashed again before he slumped. He tried for a smile, and mostly made it. "You're right, of course. It's not–" The bell above the door tinkled again. "What's going on here?" Linus dropped his hands and stepped back. "Helen!" the man behind the counter cried. "These–these things won't leave!" "Well. They don't appear to have gotten their ice cream yet, Norman, so I should expect not."

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

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islanddads · 2 years

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just remembered cerulean SEAquel (i literally just came up with that rn omg) is most likely definitely undeniably happening and the thought of actually getting more zoe and helen content… i’ll sob i’ll really truly sob

#I JUST LOVE THE WIVES SO MUCH #they are so special #i’m turning #cerulean seaquel #into a tag btw #no but pls the island sprite and her hardware store owning mayor wife #they r everything to me #the house in the cerulean sea #zoe chapelwhite #helen thitcs #island wives

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insidecroydon · 5 months

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Council hired 'Real' builders and dodged Grenfell grants ban

Abandoned: Beech Tree Place this month – they have not had any builders on site for four months, since Real went bust. Real has close associations with banned builders Rydon SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Figures associated with a company that is banned from getting government contracts and grants because of its part in works carried out to Grenfell Tower have emerged on the board of another firm working…

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#Beech Tree Place #Brick by Brick #Department for Levelling UP Housing and Communities #DLUHC #GLA #Greater London Authority #Helen Bailey #Liberal Democrats #London #Mark Unsworth #Mayor #Mayor Sadiq Khan #Paul Nicholls #Real LSE Ltd #Richard Simpson #Sadiq Khan #Sutton #Sutton Council #The Rydon Group

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johnbrace · 11 months

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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Barcelona bets on green to boost city’s mental health Plans to expand low-traffic, green zones are targeted at reclaiming streets for residents — and lifting their spirits in the process. https://www.politico.eu/article/barcelona-green-spaces-mental-health-superblocks-eixos-verds/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

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Go absolutely wild with your headcanons, I wanna hear what you've got!

- @starpirateee

sure thing! just putting a few of my favorites-

Dan and Donna's relationship in each of the universes varies a LOT. In Time Bastard, they're married. In TGWLDM, they're dating. In NMPD it's a case of the two of them mutually pining for each other but acting like total tsunderes about it

The Sweetly's have NO clue about the other's infidelity despite it being so obvious. It's never crossed their minds. Everyone other then Charlotte and Sam is completely aware and tries to give them the most OBVIOUS signals.

Transmasc Dan. That's it that's the headcanon.

He overheard Pete talking to Ted about Pete's transition, and then proceeded to give the most helpful advice ever, leaving the Spankoffskis completely and utterly confused as to what just happened and why the hell Dan knew that due to him not being out yet.

While Hatchetfield High is your stereotypical small town football school, Sycamore does basketball and has surprisingly won more tournaments than Hatchetfield High. They don't care less about that, though.

The kids who went to Sycamore are, in no particular order... Paul Matthews, Stanley Nolastname, Gary Goldstein, Jerry Matthews (Paul's older brother), Jeri Nolastname, Dan Reynolds (he went to Hatchetfield High pre transition but moved to Sycamore the year after), Douglas 'Duke' Keane and Melissa Nolastname.

All of them are now completely different people but are still united in the fact that they HATE Sycamore.

Sam and Charlotte were high school sweethearts (pun intended) and kinda rushed into marriage soon after graduating

Barry Swift is fully, completely, absolutely, 100% gay and in denial about it. He married Helen and later Sheila Young to fit into society's heteronormative standards

Gary, being everyone's laywer, has probably slept with half the town.

That includes Mayor Lauter. No, I will not elaborate.

The Starlight Theater put on a production of Spies are Forever one summer. Duke Keane played Agent Curt Mega

Similarly to the Jon Matteson family tree, most of Hatchetfield's Jeff Blim characters are also related. They differentiate each other at family reunions through the length and style of their hair.

#starkid #hatchetverse #team starkid #dan reynolds #donna daggit #sam sweetly #charlotte sweetly #hatchetfield universe #nerdy prudes must die #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday musical #hatchetfield headcanons #barry swift #gary goldstein #Trans Peter Spankoffski #duke keane

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beesforabrain · 5 months

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ok guys, hear me out. a npmd tma au. the roles dont align perfectly, but i think the original archive crew could be swapped, like martin for melanie. i think pete would be jon, ruth is sasha, richie is like a less successful version of tim, steph is melanie, max could take the place of jane and be slaughter or hunt instead of corruption?

i think that elias/jonah could be replaced with blinky and peter with pokotho (no i cant explain), nibbly gives strong flesh/corruption vibes so maybe hopworth??? webby seems quite obvious for annabelle, grace could take the place of basira or maybe daisy? since by yhe end of npmd she gives me strongg hunt vibes. tinky i think is pretty strong spiral, so micheal/helen and i could see mayor lauter as gertrude given his whole thing... guys i keep thinking about this and it wont stop

#npmd #starkid #nerdy prudes must die #tma #npmd au #tma au #grace chasity #max jagerman #pete spankoffski #ruth fleming #stephanie lauter #lords in black #starkid au

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creator-of-calm-queer-chaos · 4 months

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CERULEAN SEA HAS A SEQUEL

I REPEAT

THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA BY TJ KLUNE HAS A SEQUEL

It’s called ‘Somewhere Beyond the Sea’ and it’s Arthur’s perspective, life, and the events following Cerulean Sea. Here is the summary from Macmillian (Tor Book’s distributor):

“A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.

He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there’s the island’s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.”

Its publishing date is September 10th of this year, and you can preorder it from most everywhere you buy books!!

#the house in the cerulean sea #the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune #tj klune #somewhere beyond the sea #cerulean chronicles

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caffeinated-and-annoying-bard · 25 days

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i've been thinking of writing a stardew valley au of the magnus archives with martin as the farmer and jon as some misanthrope researcher living maybe on a flat above the library instead of gunther (perhaps he's researching the strange monsters that appear in the mines and you don't see nearly anywhere else in the world...)

if i were to write it, i think it would be fun to replace canon sdv characters with tma characters, wouldn't it? maybe sasha as maru, perhaps renting a room in the house in the mountains from robin (assuming i don't change her for, say, gertrude? eric and gerry could be there as well. perhaps the house is gertrude's but eric is her assistant– or her son and gerry her actual grandson– and has taken over some of the manual work with her aging, and gerry as sebastian?)

perhaps helen and michael could be there instead of emily and haley? trevor and daisy (julia is in a band now. good for her.) could run the adventurer's guild and daisy could be in shane's place (see: recovering from addiction/unhealthy habits as a parallel to the hunt) perhaps she'd be physically disabled in some way, that would be an explanation as to why the mines are not purged from monsters overnight (can you tell i love daisy)?? basira could be in marnie's place and helping daisy recover while she recovers herself? :)

tim and danny as sam and vincent, with danny as an older vincent but younger than canon danny, perhaps?? waiting for their father or mother or both to return from the war with the gotoro empire? (maybe he had always lived there, moved to a bigger city for a while and returned when the war started. maybe he, sasha and jon are working for the same long-term monster researching project. wouldn't it be nice if martin just came bumbling around one day and drastically started indirectly improving their research productivity with his sdv farmer endeavors?? the four of them engaging in shenanigans?? think about it.)

georgie could be kind of like sandy/visit from time to time from the city, make it a jon heart event first and then a melanie one. melanie could be an aggressive version of leah ("youtuber lives in charming yet spooky town in a cabin in the woods, has a successful channel and a podcast girlfriend. good for her.")

there would be different heart events suiting more the canon characters (maybe sasha's 8-heart could be her venting about how she moved to pelican town because someone tried to kill her and steal her identity, tim's about how a circus kidnapped his little brother as a kid like in that one statement, etc. and i'm vibrating like i'll break glass jusr by thinking of what to do with jon.)

at some point jon is sent by elias to the "my ex-husband took the furniture" quest and martin tags along for the fun of it.

i don't know what to do with harvey because he's my husband and i love him and i don't want him gone but i'll think about it. after all, i'm still missing caroline, pierre and abigail (although they could pretty well be mikaele salesa running the store with annabelle working and living there.) perhaps naomi herne should suit the harvey role?? she's peaceful enough to not make me angry for not getting to have my dearest harvey right there. she'd be a doctor, obviously, and perhaps michael could work with her as a part-time nurse? she's waiting for her husband to return from the war (evan herne was sent to the army by his family for abandoning the lukas jojamart family business and marrying naomi, but he'll come back, fear not.)

diego molina and agnes montague as pam and penny doesn't sound bad, and i'm seriously considering having elias be both lewis and the wizard. for the fun of it? perhaps everyone but jon (and later martin) wonders who the wizard is- he calls himself the wizard j. magnus because he's a pretentious bastard. (jon has been set in a position where if he reveals this he gets turned into a plant or something) and he's also the mayor of the town (his legal name is very much elias bouchard.) also, instead of the affair with marnie he has an affair with morris the jojamart guy (peter lukas.)

george, evelyn and alex could be replaced by julia and trevor– they could be softer, less hunt but still recovering from the same thing as daisy– and julia could have a petty feud with jon because, before she knew she was a lesbian, she fancied gerry and gerry used jon as an escape tactic. nothing came of it between gerry and jon but the incident stayed and it was very funny to everyone else.

jude perry could fit clint (and keep on her incel pining over agnes, have a petty feud with jon, because she burned his hand "accidentally" and also because jon is very good at creating petty feuds with people. martin and i both love that man), and krobus and the dwarf could stay like that, etc. and perhaps jas could be daisy's goddaughter that she's struggling to raise (it could be an event, her realising that she needs to pull herself together and stop letting basira raise her alone, just paying half the bills won't cut it– maybe they weren't even together before this and a year or two after her starting the path towards recovery they get together??)

perhaps for willy we could put oliver banks and mike crew there?? local lightning-scarred man is entranced by the vastness of the sea (+his goth not-yet-partner). local hot goth fisherman is so done with everything and just wants peace with the dead quiet of the sea (he rants about death to martin as a heart event, fight me). they should also be a little bit older, to balance the age range of people in town and also because yes.

also jojamart. i think it shoudl stay jojamart because i need someone to make a jmart pun somewhere.

if i should set elias as the wizard/lewis, peter lukas as morris jojamart, who could simon fairchild be?gus, maybe? god knows he's funny enough to be the owner of a saloon. it's funny to imagine his banter with helen while working busy nights there (helen i love you why does the fandom only care about michael.)

i don't know who else i could switch off but if anyone has any ideas both the comment section and my ask box are open :)

#val ramblings #the magnus archives #stardew valley #the town would be full of young-ish adults oh god #there's still peter (before he gets banished by the power of martin hating capitalism) and mikaele and gertrude and elias and oliver???also #basira and daisy should be a bit older i think. let them age together. also mike. mike could be a little younger than oliver but still!!!!!#and well. helen.#michael could be her younger brother and that's that #also simon #and uhhhhhh diego molina #and everyone thinks jon is like 10 years older than he is so #martin will be DELIGHTED once he discovers the truth #ah i'd forgotten eric #now that i think about it it'd be pretty well-balanced if i play my cards right #ah!! trevor as well

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“Dios no es un ser entre otros seres, sino el fundamento del mismo ser”

Paul Tillich

Paul Johan Tillich fue un existencialista cristiano germano-estadounidense nacido en Starzeddel Brandemburgo en la actual Polonia en agosto de 1886, ampliamente considerado como uno de los teólogos más influyentes del siglo XX.

Paul era el hijo mayor de tres hijos con dos hermanas, y su padre era un pastor luterano conservador de las provincias mas antiguas de la Iglesia estatal evangélica de Prusia y su madre una vital pero inflexible ama de casa calvinista.

A la edad de 14 años fue enviado Konigsberg in Der Neumark (actualmente Polonia) a estudiar y alojado en una pensión en donde para superar su soledad solía leer la Biblia mientras se encontraba con ideas humanistas en la escuela. Su madre muere cuando Tillich contaba con 17 años.

En 1900 su familia se traslada a Berlin, en donde su padre había aceptado un puesto en el Consistorio Real, y entre 1904 y 1909, Paul cursa estudios de teología en las universidades de Berlín, Tubinga y Halle.

Entre 1908 y 1918 desarrolla su labor como pastor en el entorno de Berlín, enseñando entre 1919 y 1924 en la Facultad de Teología berlinesa y encabeza durante esos años un grupo de trabajo de orientación socialista en la que trata temas concernientes a la situación religiosa de la época.

Durante 1924 a 1933 desarrolla su docencia en teología, y filosofía en la región de Marburgo, Dresde y Francfort del Meno, hasta la llegada del nacional socialismo a Alemania, trasladándose con su familia a Nueva York en donde realizará una intensa labor publicística e intelectual, abandonando el socialismo religioso y orientándose hacia la antropología y la filosofía de la existencia.

Sus logros mas anunciados fueron los escritos y publicados en 1951 denominado “Teología sistemática” y en 1952 la publicación titulada “El coraje de ser”.

En el primer libro, Tillich examina las tensiones internas en la estructura de la razón y el ser, fundamentado en un estudio de ontología, y en su publicación titulada “El coraje de ser”, examina las ansiedades ónticas (del ser), morales y espirituales a lo largo de la historia y en la modernidad.

Ambos trabajos le concedieron el reconocimiento internacional, lo que lo llevó a impartir pláticas en la universidad de Aberdeen y a un nombramiento en la Harvard Divinity School en 1955, en donde fue profesor universitario, y uno de los 5 mas prestigiados profesores en Harvard.

Tillich utilizó un concepto del Ser a lo largo de su obra filosófica y teológica, y parte de su trabajo tiene relación con la ontología fundamental de Martin Heidegger.

Para Tillich, el Ser sigue siendo el contenido, el misterio y la eterna “aporía” del pensar, en donde ninguna teología puede suprimir la noción del ser como potencia del ser. Uno no puede separarlos. En el momento en el que Dios ES o tiene que SER, surge la pregunta de como se entiende su relación con el ser, y la única respuesta posible parece ser que Dios es el ser mismo, en el sentido de poder ser o el poder de conquistar el no ser.

A lo largo de la mayor parte de su trabajo, Tillich proporciona una vision ontológica De Dios como el ser en si mismo, la base del ser y el poder del ser, uno en el que Dios está mas allá de la esencia y la existencia.

A diferencia de figuras medievales como San Anselmo, Duns Scoto y Guillermo de Ockham en donde al ser Dios el ser existente mas alto, se le podían atribuir predicados tales como omnipotencia, omnipresencia, bondad, justicia, santidad etc. Tillich critica este modo de discurso al que denomina “teoísmo antológico”, y argumenta que si Dios es un ser, incluso si se trata del ser más alto, Dios no puede llamarse propiamente la fuente de todo ser.

Tillich aborda cuestiones tanto ontológicas como personalistas con Dios, y la relación de la humanidad con Dios, refiriéndose a otro tipo de teísmo como el encuentro “divino-humano”, un encuentro con el “Totalmente otro”, compartiendo similitudes con las concepciones helenísticas y patrísticas de Dios como “la fuente no originaria de todo ser”, señalando que Dios es “la respuesta a la pregunta implícita en la finitud del hombre…el nombre de lo que concierne al hombre en última instancia”. Esto se manifiesta notablemente en su comprensión de la fe como preocupación última.

La clave para entender la teología de Tillich es lo que él llama el “método de correlación”, un enfoque que correlaciona las ideas de la revelación cristiana con las cuestiones planteadas por el existencialismo , los análisis filosóficos y los psicológicos.

Además del trabajo de Tillich en teología, también fue autor de muchos trabajos en ética, filosofía de la historia y religión comparada. El trabajo de Tillich continúa siendo estudiado y discutido en todo el mundo.

Tillich murió en octubre de 1965, 10 días después de haber sufrido un infarto, en la ciudad de Chicago en donde era profesor John Nuveen de Teología en ésta Universidad.

Fuentes: Wikipedia, herder.com.mx, Pedro Castelar (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)

#citas de reflexion #citas de la vida #filosofos #teologos #citas de escritores #frases de escritores #frases de reflexion

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islanddads · 7 months

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when tj klune casually drops my most anticipated book announcement ever then dips

[BY THE WAY. ZOE CHAPELWHITE AND HER GIRLFRIEND MAYOR HELEN WEBB? HE DID THAT FOR ME!!! IT’S ALL I HAVE EVER WANTED. THE ISLAND WIVES ARE COMING BACK TO ME CONFIRMED 😭😭😭]

#HEY IS ANYONE ELSE FINE?? IM FINE #CERULEAN SEAQUEL LETS GOOOOO #i’m having a gay breakdown #the house in the cerulean sea

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Housing service job cuts 'could cost lives' warns GMB union

Officials at one of the largest trades unions at Croydon Council accuse the authority of putting people’s lives at risk with a “restructuring” – meaning job cuts – in their housing and homelessness department. ‘Chaotic’: GMB members remain in Croydon’s housing service remain in dispute over job cuts The GMB says that job cuts being pushed through could leave Croydon with too few staff to be able…

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une-sanz-pluis · 28 days

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How is the relationship between Margaret of Anjou and Jacqueta of Luxembourg? (Jacquetta was one of the three people who convinced her not to enter London, which made me fantasize about their relationship.)

We simply don't know a lot about their relationship. Jacquetta does seem to be prominent at court during Margaret's time as queen consort but we don't know if this indicates - or led to - any personal closeness between the women. We know the Woodvilles had a close affiliation with the House of Lancaster and Jacquetta was the widow of Henry VI's uncle, John, Duke of Bedford and the dowager Duchess of Bedford so that may well have been the reason for her prominence. Jacquetta could also claim a familial connection with Margaret herself: her sister, Isabel, had married Margaret's uncle, Charles of Anjou, Count of Maine. The idea that Jacquetta and Margaret were especially close seems to have been popularised by Philippa Gregory in her novel, The Lady of the Rivers, and her biography of Jacquetta in The Women of the Cousins' War but historians are more cautious.

Jacquetta and her husband were part of Margaret's escort to England in 1445. According to B. M. Cron, Jacquetta attended Margaret's coronation banquet and was seated on Margaret's right - this is far more likely to be due to her being the first lady in the land after Margaret than an indication of their closeness; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was seated on Margaret's left and the idea of Gloucester being a close friend of Margaret is not credible. Cron also claims that Richard Woodville was Margaret's champion in the jousting festivities that followed. Lynda J. Pidgeon claims it is "significant" that Richard Woodville was not created a baron until after Henry VI's marriage to Margaret, but credits it more to Henry's desire to "create a royal family around him" than to any relationship between Margaret and her escort.

Jacquetta's servants were regularly given gifts by Margaret in the New Years celebrations. In 1446, her servants received 53s. 4d. and in 1447, 1449 and 1452, Jacquetta's servants received 66s. 8d. This is on a par with other gifts to ducal servants - in 1446, this was the same amount given to the servants of the Duke of York and Duchesses of Buckingham and Exeter, while in 1447, the same amount was given to the servants of the Duke of Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duchess of Buckingham. Jacquetta herself was only given gifts by Margaret in 1447 and 1452 according to Pidgeon but I'm not sure what the source is for that and neither Helen Maurer nor A. R. Myers mention it when discussing Margaret's accounts. Not all of Margaret's accounts survive so we don't have the full picture.

Jacquetta attended Margaret's churching after the birth of Edward of Lancaster in 1453. Jacquetta and her husband were part of Margaret's court during her extended stay in the midlands beginning in 1456, though, according to Pidgeon, they are only rarely mentioned as being present. This is may have been due to the frequency of Jacquetta's pregnancies keeping her away from court.

And yes, Jacquetta was one of three women (the others being Lady Scales and Anne, the dowager Duchess of Buckingham) who accompanied a delegation of London aldermen who convinced Margaret to send her army away. As Helen Maurer says:

Both Jacquetta, the dowager duchess of Bedford, and Ismania, Lady Scales, had been among the women who had escorted Margaret from France, and Lady Scales had remained in her household as a personal attendant. All three ladies had been recipients of New Year's gifts at various times, and Anne, duchess of Buckingham had stood godmother to Prince Edward. Though the personal relationships that existed between Margaret and these women are difficult to assess, it is apparent that the mayor and aldermen believed that they would be received with trust and favor.

Jacquetta's prominence at the Lancastrian court may explain the tradition that her daughter, Elizabeth Woodville, was a lady-in-waiting to Margaret. There is, however, no evidence of that Elizabeth served Margaret and historians have generally poured doubt on the idea. One exception is Susan Higginbotham who suggested that it is still possible that Elizabeth was one of Margaret's damsels, saying if that Elizabeth did serve Margaret , it's "more likely that she did so in the late 1450s, a period for which Margaret's household records do not survive".

There is no evidence to tell us what Margaret thought of the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV or the Woodvilles' defection to the House of York. There is no evidence Jacquetta and Elizabeth feared Margaret especially during the Readeption - it would be very, very surprising if they feared her more than Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (after all, it was in Warwick's attempt to depose Edward IV in favour of George, Duke of Clarence that had seen Jacquetta's husband and son executed, presumably without trial).

Nor do we know if, in the aftermath of the Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Tewkesbury and Margaret's capture by Yorkist forces, whether Jacquetta met with or attempted to advocate for Margaret before her own death in 1472. We do not know if anyone advocated for Margaret's imprisonment to made more bearable, who decided her jailer would be Alice Chaucer, dowager Duchess of Suffolk and an old friend. If anyone did, I suspect it would be Jacquetta or Elizabeth Woodville (possibly in memory of her mother's friendship). It is tempting to speculate that Margaret's entry into the London Skinners’ Fraternity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in c. 1475 came about due to Elizabeth's influence (Elizabeth had entered the fraternity in c. 1472) but there's simply no evidence of it. It makes for a nice story, though.

In contrast to Maurer, Pidgeon is fairly doubtful of the idea that Jacquetta and Margaret were friendly, citing first the lack of mention of their attendance on Margaret and the lack of New Year's years gifts given to Jacquetta, saying:

Margaret’s apparent lack of friendship for Jacquetta might also be explained by Jacquetta’s Burgundian connections. Jacquetta’s father had been responsible for the capture of Margaret’s father at the Battle of Bulgnéville in 1431, following which René had been held prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy for some years until his ransom was paid. Margaret was also concerned to promote French interests to Henry and any reminder of a previous Burgundian policy might have been frowned upon. It was widely believed that it was through Margaret’s prompting that Henry had agreed to surrender Maine to René of Anjou in 1445.

However, Pidgeon bases some of this on the claim that Margaret "probably detested" the English, which we don't know and seems to be drawn from Yorkist and Tudor stereotypes of Margaret. As for the claim that Margaret pushed for Henry VI to surrender Maine to her father, it is true that she was blamed for it but what role, if any, she actually played is unknown. It is more likely that the surrender of both Maine and Anjou was an unofficial promise made by the English delegation in the negotiations that resulted in the Treaty of Tours (1444). Given Margaret was a 14-year-old girl at the time, it is incredibly unlikely she was responsible for that promise. She was urged to intercede with Henry to ensure the fulfilment of that promise but we simply don't know if she did or even what she thought about it. As I say here, she was still in her teens when the handover occurred and we must be wary of the misogyny embedded in the narrative that a teenage girl was responsible for the actions of an adult man - who, after all, was surrounded by experienced and mature advisors.

In short, the answer is that we don't know what the relationship between Margaret and Jacquetta was like. We see Jacquetta given favour in keeping with her status as a duchess and in keeping with her family connections to both Margaret and Henry. If any special relationship grew up between Jacquetta and Margaret, if they became close friends, there is little evidence to show it.

The Woodvilles were loyal to the Lancastrians throughout the resumption of the Hundred Years War until the Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Towton. How much of that can be credited to the Woodvilles' traditional loyalties or Jacquetta's personal ties to Henry VI (who, after all, was her nephew by marriage) versus a (hypothetical) close relationship between Margaret and Jacquetta is unknown.

Philippa Gregory made much of this limited evidence, while Maurer more cautiously suggests that Margaret looked on Jacquetta as someone she could trust. Pidgeon, on the other hand, argues that there was no friendship between the women. I have my suspicions about why Pidgeon argues that (I haven't read her whole book so I can't say for sure).

Personally, I've tended to imagine a connection that dimmed over time due to diverging lives - Jacquetta's frequent pregnancies kept her away from court, Margaret's life became absorbed by the political struggles of the Lancastrian court. The simple fact is that we don't know - there isn't anywhere enough evidence to judge - and you're free to imagine what you like.

Sources

B. M. Cron, Margaret of Anjou and the Men Around Her (History and Heritage Publishing 2021)

Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin and Michael Jones, The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother (Atria Books 2011)

Susan Higginbotham, The Woodvilles (The History Press 2013)

Helen Maurer, Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England (Boydell Press 2003)

A. R. Myers, "The Jewels of Queen Margaret of Anjou", Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 42, no. 1 (1959)

Lynda J. Pigdeon, Brought Up Of Nought: A History of the Woodville Family (Fonthill 2019)

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OUTDATED POST

Last updated 8/18/23, please check the bracket posts for the most up-to-date competitor list.

Sorted alphabetically by game for easy searching.

These are (almost) all of the bracket participants! There are a few who are still up in the air. Please do not get upset with me if your blorbo did not qualify; I did my best to research each game I was unfamiliar with. The most common reason for a character to be disqualified was being from a game without any romance at all.

Note that some of these may be removed, as my attempts at research may not have been sufficient.

Madoka Aoyagi from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue

Reiko Satou from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue

Nahara from The Arcana

Nazali from The Arcana

Nasmira from The Arcana

Natiqa from The Arcana

Brasidas from Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Soma Jarlskona from Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Alfira from Baldur's Gate 3

Volo from Baldur's Gate 3

Mallory from Black Closet

oniontheif from Blooming Panic: Full Bloom Edition

Mossie from Cattails

Guinevere from Code: Realize

Kotoho Sakuragawa from collar x malice

Antonio from Coral Island

Helene Leventis from Crown and the Flame - Choices (mobile app)

Owen Herriot from Cupid Parasite

Viktor Vector from Cyberpunk 2077

Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077

Goro Takemura from Cyberpunk 2077

Mayor Mingus from Dialtown

Jerry from Dialtown

Pierre from Dialtown

Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club

The Arishok from Dragon Age 2

Varric Tethras from Dragon Age 2

Avaline Vallen from Dragon Age 2

Vivienne de Fer from Dragon Age Inquisition

Cole from Dragon Age Inquisiton

Scout Lace Harding from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Sten from Dragon Age: Origins

Quizzmaster Quinn from Dream Daddy

Morgott the Grace-Given from Elden Ring

Matthew Gursky from Emily is Away

Magnolia from Fallout 4

Nick Valentine from Fallout 4

Phila from Fire Emblem Awakening

The Gatekeeper from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Hypnos from Hades

Orpheus and Eurydice from Hades

Chaos from Hades

Charon from Hades

Sisyphus from Hades

Alecto from Hades

Azami Koshiba from Hatoful Boyfriend

Blanc Lapin from Ikemen Revolution

Lyla Park from Life is Strange 2

Kyousuke Natsume from Little Busters!

Javik from Mass Effect

Urdnot Wrex from Mass Effect

Zaeed Massani from Mass Effect

Mordin Solus from Mass Effect 2 & 3

The Illusive Man from Mass Effect 2 + 3

Samara from Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3

Evfra de Tershaav from Mass Effect Andromeda

Zevin Raeka from Mass Effect Andromeda

Jeff "Joker" Moreau from Mass Effect trilogy

Moss Mann from Monster camp

Gerard from Monster Camp and Monster Roadtrip

Tate from Monster Prom

Sadie from Monster Prom 3: Road Trip and Monster Prom 2: Camp

Jerry the Murderer from Monster Prom series

Mali from My Time at Portia

Jaehee Kang from Mystic Messenger

Vanderwood from Mystic Messenger

Shinbi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)

Soi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)

Thirteen from Obey Me! One Master to Rule Them All

Aurora Emery from Open Heart - Choices

Jeremy King from Our Life: Beginning & Always

Miranda from Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Terry from Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Rio Iwasaki from Persona 3 Portable

Junpei Iori from Persona 3 Portable

Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4

Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4

Goro Akechi from Persona 5

Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5

Ryūji Sakamoto from Persona 5

Eothas from Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Grim from Romancelvania

Gaius from Rune Factory 3

Illuminata from Rune Factory 4

Porcoline Tulle De Saint-Coquille from rune factory 4

Ventuswill from Rune Factory 4

Lin Fa from Rune Factory 4

Volkanon from Rune Factory 4

Terry from Rune Factory 5

Malix from Seduce Me the Otome

Halek Prince from Shepherds of Haven

Bao-Dur from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Clint from Stardew ValleyGus from Stardew Valley

Jodi from Stardew Valley

Kent from Stardew Valley

Krobus from Stardew Valley

Linus from Stardew Valley

Marnie from Stardew Valley

Mayor Lewis from Stardew Valley

Sandy from Stardew Valley

Robin from Stardew Valley

The Wizard (aka. M. Rasmodius) from Stardew Valley

Clemens from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Jacopo from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Karina from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Flora from Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

Lars from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Brynjolf from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Cicero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Erandur from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Faendal from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Hadvar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

J'zargo from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Miraak from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Seranna from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Teldryn Sero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Ondolemar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Olivia Vanderwall Nevrakis from The Royal Romance - Choices

Iorveth from The Witcher 2

Vernon Roche from The Witcher 2

Julian Alfred Pankratz (Dandelion/Jaskier) from The Witcher 3

Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy from The Witcher 3

Karen Hanatsubaki from Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3

Arihiko Inui from Tsukihime

Yumizuka Satsuki from Tsukihime

Alicia Rosales from XOXO Droplets

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October 2023 Programming Highlights

Sunday, Oct. 1 Original Special – Premiere on Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD “Mickey and Friends Trick or Treats” (7:00-7:30 p.m. EDT) Additional Airings All Month Long! Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy are trick-or-treating when Donald spies the spookiest mansion he’s ever seen and assumes it has the best treats. After he convinces his friends to risk a visit, the owner, Witch Hazel, casts a spell that turns them into their costumes. TV-Y7

Friday, Oct. 6 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney Junior Mickey Mouse Funhouse “Stink, Stank, Stunk!/Dia de los Muertos” (2-15) (10:00-10:30 a.m. EDT on Disney Channel/12:05-12:25 p.m. EDT on Disney Junior) “Stink, Stank, Stunk!” – When Mickey and the gang try to rid Majestica of a mysterious smell, they discover the Grand Pumpkin must be returned to Halloweenville before it rots away.

“Dia de los Muertos” – The gang celebrates Día de los Muertos in Mexico City. TV-Y

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney Junior SuperKitties “Cheesenado/Talented Troublemaker” (1-26) (10:30-11:00 a.m. EDT on Disney Channel/1:25-1:55 p.m. EDT on Disney Junior) “Cheesenado” – Bitsy learns to say goodbye to Renata and her robin babies when they have to fly away.

“Talented Troublemaker” – The SuperKitties stop Mr. Puppypaws from cheating in the talent contest. TV-Y

Saturday, Oct. 7 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Big City Greens “Bad Dad/Junk Junkie” (4-03) (8:00-8:30 a.m. EDT) “Bad Dad” – Cricket and Tilly get to know their grandpa while Nancy scrambles to find him a job.

“Junk Junkie” – Desperate to ensure his family’s future security, Bill becomes a hoarder. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Kiff “I Like To Move It!/Hive Got An Idea” (1-21) (9:00-9:30 a.m. EDT) “I Like To Move It! – Kiff and Barry agree to move a piano for Helen in exchange for a wish, but can’t agree on the wish.

“Hive Got An Idea” – Kiff shows a new kid around school but can’t stop his family from interfering. TV-Y7

Friday, Oct. 13 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney Junior Pupstruction “The Mayor Mover/Bobby’s Balloon Blunder” (1-16) (8:00-8:30 a.m. EDT on Disney Channel/11:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m. EDT on Disney Junior) “The Mayor Mover” – When Lloyd goes out of town, Pupstruction builds a cart with wheels to help move the mayor around.

“Bobby’s Balloon Blunder” – Lickety Split builds a hot air balloon but gets stuck and asks the crew for help. TV-Y

Saturday, Oct. 14 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Big City Greens “Handshaken/Coffee Mates” (4-04) (8:00-8:30 a.m. EDT) “Handshaken” – After being mocked for his handshake, Cricket trains for a Western-style handshake duel.

“Coffee Mates” – Gloria combines her work life and social life by hiring her friends as employees. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Kiff “You Can’t Handle the Tooth!/Blooper Quest” (1-22) (9:00-9:30 a.m. EDT) “You Can’t Handle the Tooth” – Kiff has a lot to do today, but brushing her tooth is not on the list.

“Blooper Quest” – Kiff, Barry and the crew set out to make a movie so they can have a fun blooper reel, but blooping is hard. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel Hamster & Gretel “Nano a Nano/The Ultimate History of Dr. MedusaSaurus” (1-24) (10:00-11:00 a.m. EDT) “Nano a Nano” – On a school trip to a robot factory, Gretel encounters a nanobot.

“The Ultimate History of Dr. MedusaSaurus” – Gretel and Bailey meet a strange paleontologist at a museum. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Hailey’s On It! “I Know What You Did Last Slumber/Lady and the Trampoline” (1-17) (11:00-11:30 a.m. EDT) “I Know What You Did Last Slumber” – When Hailey’s innocent sleepover prank goes awry, she must choose to live with the guilt or come clean.

“Lady and the Trampoline” – When Hailey must face her fear of trampolining, she learns not to let worries about her appearance get in the way of fun. TV-Y7

Saturday, Oct. 21 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Big City Greens “Iced/Chipped Off” (4-05) (8:00-8:30 a.m. EDT) “Iced” – Gramma butts heads with Nick when he crashes her special family hockey outing.

“Chipped Off” – Chip Whistler recounts what happened to him since “Chipocalypse Now.” TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Kiff “When You Mow You Mow/Harry’s Maturity Crisis” (1-23) (9:00-9:30 a.m. EDT) “When You Mow You Mow” – Reggie is the first kid in Table Town to mow his own lawn, and Kiff wants to be the second.

“Harry’s Maturity Crisis” – When Harry runs away, Barry and Kiff do anything they can to bring him back. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel Hamster & Gretel “No Sprain, No Gain/Finding Professor Ex” (1-25) (10:00-11:00 a.m. EDT) “No Sprain, No Gain” – Kevin is stuck at home with a sprained ankle as the rest of the gang tries to stop a strange jewel thief.

“Finding Professor Ex” – When Professor Exclamation goes missing, Gretel and Nordle try to find him. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Hailey’s On It! “Scott’s on a Roll/Bye Bye Birdies” (1-18) (11:00-11:30 a.m. EDT) “Scott’s on a Roll” – In a competition where the winner has a sandwich named after them, Hailey is pitted against Scott.

“Bye Bye Birdies” – When Hailey must be truthful for a day, she ends up delivering a comedy roast. TV-Y7

Saturday, Oct. 28 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD The Ghost and Molly McGee “Welcome to NecroComic-Con / Fit to Print” (2-16) (8:00-8:30 a.m. EDT) “Welcome to NecroComic-Con” – Ollie struggles to have the difficult conversation with his parents and reveal that he is friends with a ghost.

“Fit to Print” – When the school newspaper is in danger of shutting down, Molly goes on a mission to save it. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Kiff “Silly Moods/Chatterley vs Chatterley” (1-24) (9:00-9:30 a.m. EDT) “Silly Moods” – A trip to Table Town Museum is threatened when Kiff and Barry get into a silly mood.

“Chatterley vs Chatterley” – When a leftover slice of pizza goes missing in the Chatterley home, they must settle the matter in family court. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel Hamster & Gretel “Bayou Barb/The Great Pillow War” (1-26) (10:00-11:00 a.m. EDT) “Bayou Barb” – The Grant Gomez family goes on a bayou vacation where they encounter a local legend.

“The Great Pillow War” – Kevin and Gretel battle it out in a huge pillow fight. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Hailey’s On It! “Frankly Fabulous/The Pin is Mightier Than the Swole” (1-19) (11:00-11:30 a.m. EDT) “Frankly Fabulous” – Hailey enters Frank the Flamingo into a bird show and they run into his former mean trainer.

“The Pin is Mightier Than the Swole” – Expert bowler Hailey struggles with a list item that requires her to lose to her dad at bowling. TV-Y7

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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

Stranded and The Sonomancer tied. These are the 10 stories that were closest to making it through and so have been given a second chance

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Stranded

Synopsis

The TARDIS is gone. Stranded in one time and place, the Doctor, Liv and Helen seek refuge in Baker Street. But the house has changed: they now have neighbours – not all of them welcoming. And someone has a dire warning for the future.

The Doctor and friends face their greatest challenge yet: living one day after another, in 2020 London.

Propaganda

The Doctor stranded on earth done right! First time I cried about a Big Finish story. Stellar Cast! Liv and Tania, Lovestory for the ages! (anonymous)

The Sonomancer

Synopsis

On the other side of the galaxy a mining company is exploiting the already unstable planet of Syra for every precious mineral it contains. River Song is attempting to save the native people. She needs the Doctor's help, but she also knows he mustn't yet discover her true identity. The final confrontation sees the Doctor once again face his enemy the Eleven in an attempt to prevent the destruction of Syra and the genocide of its inhabitants.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Inside Every Warrior

Synopsis

The Great Detective, Madame Vastra, aided by her resourceful spouse, Jenny Flint, and loyal valet, Strax, is looking into a series of mysterious break-ins.

An eccentric scientist and his put-upon assistant are the latest victims. Evidence mounts, with animal footprints and a trail of destruction.

Propaganda

The first audio adventure for the Paternoster Gang that involves SO, SO much lesbian flirting??? And werewolves! First of all Jenny makes Vastra fluster at least twice in this thing, they fight werewolves together after Strax got kidnapped and try to get him back. A maid struggles with her rich employer's abusive behaviour and seeks revenge, and she wrongly assumes Jenny must be in a similar situation. In the final showdown, Vastra uses what she fears to be her last breaths on telling Jenny that she loves her. Also, Vastra actually gets to kill in this audio! Always fun! Overall jumps between the inherent humour that comes with Jenny, Vastra, and Strax, so much fluffy gay flirting, and intense, emotional action-packed scenes. 10000% recommend, I swear to god. (@jennyandvastraflint )

Blood of the Daleks

Synopsis

"People of Red Rocket Rising, my fellow citizens. Our long night is over. I've been contacted by a benevolent people. They too have known great trials, but they have overcome them and made it their mission to help others do the same. They have offered us refuge, and passage to the nearest human worlds. They have the resources, and the patience and compassion, to evacuate every one of us. My fellow citizens, my friends, rescue is at hand!"

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Side of the Angels

Synopsis

Cardinal Ollistra has plans for New York, plans which involve the Deputy Mayor and her sponsor, one 'Reverend Mortimer' – better known to the Doctor as the Meddling Monk. The Eleven arrives to stamp out the resistance, but that isn't the only danger the Doctor finds lurking in the shadows – for New York is a city of Weeping Angels.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Phobos

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands on Phobos, moon of Mars — where extreme sports nuts of the future indulge their passion for gravity-boarding and wormhole-jumping. But there's something lurking in the shadows, something infinitely old and infinitely dangerous. It's not for nothing that "Phobos" is the ancient word for "fear"...

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Love Vampires

Synopsis

Regret can follow people everywhere - even out into deep space, in the shadow of a dying star.

When the Doctor, Liv and Helen meet the terrified crew of a space station, all are haunted by faces from the past. But these lost loves are more than mere memories - and they want to feed...

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Widow’s Assassin

Synopsis

Once, long ago, in a land of monsters and corridors, a fair maiden was captured, and placed in a deep sleep.

She was used to being captured, and she had a hero who rescued her on just such occasions. But this time the hero never came.

And the fair maiden slept on.

Eventually, a King rescued the maiden, and made her his bride, which many wise old women might tell you is just another way of capturing fair maidens.

And still the fair maiden slept on.

Then, the hero had another stab at rescuing the maiden from her prison, but he was too late. And, more importantly, he had forgotten the rules of fairy tales.

He didn't slay the dragon.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Companion Piece

Synopsis

When the evil Time Lord known as the Nine comes across a rare and valuable item floating in the space-time vortex, his acquisitive nature means he can't resist the urge to complete the set.

Soon a wicked scheme is underway. Only the Doctor's friends – past, present and future – will be able to stop him.

But without the Doctor around will even the combined skills of Liv, Helen, River Song, Bliss and Charley be enough to save the day?

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Doomsday Chronometer

Synopsis

While River Song takes Helen on an archaeological expedition like no other, the Doctor finds himself enlisted by an alien Queen to save her people.

Trapped and alone, Liv stares death in the face as she meets the enemy who's been dogging the TARDIS travellers' footsteps throughout Earth's history.

The Doomsday Chronometer has been protected for five centuries: secret cults and societies jealously guarding its mystery. But what is their real purpose? The Doctor is about to discover the truth...

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

#round 2 #tiebreak

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