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areyougonnabe · 8 months

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I know nothing about polar exploration! Or Shackleton! But you seem excited about it!

Have a favourite fact you'd like to share?!?

well my two favorite facts have already been shared which are the cautionary tale of the toxic polar polycule and the story of the antarctic lovebirds !!!

but here is a contender for #3... the tale of jessamine.

let's start with our homies Deb (left) and Griff (right), aka Frank Debenham and T. Griffith Taylor, the geologists of terra nova's cape evans shore party:

they would both later go onto impressive careers in academia, start families, basically be well-liked hard-working guys (also participants in 20th century imperialism but let's take that as given based on our starting point of this expedition lol)

BUT we are meeting them here, in antarctica, aged 27 and 30, "Early Career Researchers" as we might call them now. trying to keep busy with SCIENCE during the long antarctic winter night of 1911!!!!!

these guys go way back btw. Deb was born and raised in Australia and and Griff moved to Australia when he was a kid, and they both attended the fancy-schmancy King's School near Sydney, the Australian equivalent of british public school (e.g. Eton). according to griff they were family friends at that time although they would have been a few years apart at school.

later around 1908 they both studied at the University of Sydney under leading geologist Sir Edgeworth David, who had been on Shackleton's Nimrod expedition and reached the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson. They both ended up being hired onto Scott's expedition through university connections, Deb via Professor David and Griff through a scholarship to Cambridge where he met Wilson.

okay. backstory established. now one thing you need to know about Griff is that he was a total freak. like Racovitza, he was a Poster before there were online platforms to Post on. if you had that kind of brain back then, and no access to adderall, you had to just sit around inventing new kinds of science instead of deep-frying spongebob screencaps. he was a consummate edwardian memelord who would read a novel per day and still have time to write 20 pages of diary in which he would floridly record the silliest things that happened since the morning, the various quirks and quotes of expedition members, and then complain about captain scott in shorthand.

to say nothing of his passion for CREATIVE WRITING! vitally, Griff was one of the main contributors to the Cape Evans hut magazine, the South Polar Times edited by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. there were 3 issues of this during the winter of 1911 and 1 issue during the winter of 1912, the latter of which included much material written/submitted during 1911 before the polar party met with tragedy.

Griff was a versatile writer, and his pieces (which would sometimes cumulatively make up nearly half an issue of the SPT by page count) ran the gamut from expository nonfiction to speculative poetry to comedic epistolary to magazine pastiche. he had certain motifs that he frequently returned to—none as compelling, in my opinion, as that of Jessamine. or Jasmine, or Jessie, or Jessica, as the case may be...

it all began, according to Griff's diary, early in the austral winter of 1911, when Deb was "christened Jasmine by Titus [Oates]."

where this nickname came from is unclear—many of the men had picked up female nicknames on the voyage down (see "Jane" Atkinson, "Marie" Nelson, "Penelope" Pennell) but Deb had not been on the voyage down because he had gotten picked up in Australia, so this may have been a belated attempt to correct that omission. Griff wrote in his book about the expedition, "We were short of female society—which lack also accounts for Jessie Debenham as an alternative to Deb."

in any case, the name clearly caught on: on midwinter day, a little under two months after the nickname's debut, Griff recorded that during the gift exchange after dinner "Every second present or so was a necklace or earrings for Miss Jessie Debenham."

(deb and titus at midwinter dinner)

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in the second SPT issue of 1911, Griff's 17-page narrative "The Bipes" describes the inhabitants of the Cape Evans hut from the perspective of a rabbit who lives in the stables. you can read the whole thing here and please do!!! (you'll need a VPN outside the US) BUT here is the relevant bit dealing with Deb:

U. PULCHERRIMA. This Bipe inhabits a strongly defended Bungkh in the Ubdug burrow. It is supported by mighty baulks of timber and can only be reached by means of a dangerous ladder. The Bungkh is supplied with heavy hammers, piles of stones and other offensive weapons. These precautions are, I believe, necessary in the Bipe courtship, for she is often called upon to repel members of other burrows who approach her balcony with blandishments. Her time is chiefly occupied with a primitive quern or handmill, and at this she grinds for long hours every day. I judge that this merely satisfies some primitive habit, for no flour seems to be produced. But it is pleasant to see how strong is the feminine instinct.

the species name "Pulcherrima" is also the species name of the pointsetta flower, and can be translated to "beautiful woman" (i think??)

here's the illustration produced by Bill Wilson (based on Griff's sketch) to accompany the above - yes that's a portrait of Griff in her bunk and Birdie below attempting to woo her:

it must be noted that Meares, nicknamed "Mother," also gets cast in a female role in the Bipes piece, but does not receive the privilege of being drawn in a skirt, rip.

anyway, the next issue of the SPT, vol 3 issue III, is the last one to be produced before the end of winter. Griff decided to one-up himself and write a piece in which Jessamine takes center stage. The Ladies Letter is a pitch-perfect parody of the "Ladies Column" sections that appeared in many periodicals of the era—full of french fashion terms and simpering style suggestions. Griff brilliantly adapts the format for a pastiche on the subject of Antarctic fashion; not free, naturally, from general whiffs of period-typical misogyny, but as those being mocked in specific are fellow expedition members and not any actual women i forgive him.

written in the form of a letter from Jessamine to her absent friend Cynthia (whose identity i'm unsure of BUT i'm tempted to say is supposed to be Priestley, away at Cape Adare), the piece again features multiple expedition members in female roles, including Silas as "American" Sally Wright, Cherry as "Madame Chérie - that dear delightful person - who builds her beautiful creations on strictly scientific principles of hygiene and aesthetics" and Birdie as Madame Berdé, who "finds that for well developed figures it is most distinctive to use a cross-gartering well above the ankle. She herself is naturally a consistent exponent of this latter fashion."

and then of course there is Jessamine's star turn. she is wearing the newest fashion, "a modification of last year's 'tube skirt' [which] even more closely swathes the lower limbs, and it is necessary that the wearer should be rolled along by her maid."

Jessamine reveals that she is planning to induce Titus Oates to bring her a proposal of marriage through the clever use of themed charms on her chatelaine.

All the smartest girls have wreathed chains of mascots around the skirt, and a pretty idea, which I commend to you, is to have silver model made of those articles which interest THE ONLY MAN WHO COUNTS. Breathe this to no one! But Mappin & Webb are making me such a choice set. The cutest little pony; a horse snowshoe (this is very lucky); a dead rabbit; a popgun; and a silver blazon PER MARE PER TERRAM PRO TITO; this will be attached to my 'tube', and then I really do expect to bring him to a proposal.

this scenario was illustrated hilariously by Bill, complete with Jessamine being rolled along, and Titus ignoring her as could be expected, in favor of a pony (Christopher?):

now, Deb is on record saying that Titus was his best friend on the expedition, but it may well be a classic case of "you are not your best friend's best friend," because per other accounts Oates was much closer to Meares and Atch than he was to Deb. that's just an observation to add a little flavor to Jessamine's desperate pursuit as portrayed here...

and not to look a gift horse (ha) in the mouth, but i do feel that Bill's illustrations don't quiiiiiite do the genderfuckery of Griff's text justice—Jessamine describes herself as wearing a frock inspired by the aurora, but Bill instead draws Deb in normal sledging gear plus some non-dress-shaped colorful streamers. a missed opportunity...

also, lest you think that Griff was the only one partaking in the Jessamine joke in the SPT, there is also a sneaky reference in the anonymous feature "My Favorite Book":

(J-SS-- [JESSIE]: "Not like other girls")

BUT WAIT. THERE'S EVEN MORE.

viewing the handwritten drafts of the SPT held at the SPRI (because all of this is going to be an actual academic paper someday hopefully lol), i learned that there were a fair handful of references omitted from the final version, presumably thanks to Cherry's editorial oversight.

one "answer to correspondents" written by "Marie" Nelson went as follows:

Jessica: A single lady cannot be too careful about the respectability of her lodgings or the character of her companions.

(referencing Deb bunking with Griff and Gran, two of the more annoying/messy people in the hut)

and an unused entry in "Songs And Their Singers" by Teddy Evans was:

Oh What’s Womans Duty - Jasmin

lastly, and most importantly, the drafts contained the one instance i could find of deb firing back about this whole thing.

vol IV of the SPT consisted of one issue released during winter 1912, when a lot of people had gone home (including Griff), and everyone left behind knew the polar party was dead and they'd have to go look for their bodies in the spring. it was not a fun time. vol IV contained a lot of material written the previous year but not included, since for obvious reasons folks weren't really up to being silly. one of those pieces was "A Day's Doings, Told By Our Diarist," written during winter 1911 by Deb as a parody of Griff. it's pretty funny in published form (p. 72 of this pdf)—Deb is on-point mocking Griff's dislike of eating ("Breakfast is an unintellectual meal, so gave it a miss. Better a bit more bunk than a bite more breakfast.") and his never-ending theorizing ("Thought out a new theory as to the origin of debris cones: yesterday’s wasn’t good enough").

however, the draft is exponentially more hilarious. Cherry, damn him, cut the absolute BEST BIT:

Made a genre sketch of Jasmine brushing her (his) hair – it’s a fool nickname anyways, mixes up the genders.

knowing Deb—quiet, patient, chronically non-confrontational—that's about as explicit as he was willing to get, as far as revealing how he felt about the nickname. writing Griff realizing that it's a bit silly, he reveals to some degree his own discomfort. now, was it a "protest too much" situation or had he genuinely gotten fed up with being the Designated Girl Of The Hut? we shall never know!!!!!!!!

however the draft of the piece ends thusly: "[I] got paralysed at chess by the wily Jasmine, it’s a mud game, if ever there was one. Hinc illae lacrimae!"

so despite all the aspersions cast on her honor, and the failure of Titus Oates to accept her proposal, Jessie still triumphs in the end :)))

#polar exploration #now with more gender

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gothhabiba · 4 months

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Supervalu removes Israeli carrots from stores

(6 August, 2014)

Leading supermarket chain SuperValu has confirmed it ordered all stores to remove Israeli carrots from their shelves.

Despite insisting it has not enforced a boycott of goods from the country, an email instruction was sent to all 232 stores last Friday saying the Chantenay variety must not be sold.

The supermarket chain is one of more than 20 retailers written to by trade union Mandate seeking a boycott of Israeli goods and produce.

[...] Others retailers written to by the Mandate trade union over a proposed boycott include Marks & Spencer, Shaws, Tesco Ireland, Dunnes Stores, Penneys, Heatons, Debenhams, Boots, Brown Thomas, Arnotts, Arcadia Group, Aldi, Lidl, TK Maxx, BWG Foods, Smyths Toys, Londis Group, PC World and Lloyds Pharmacy.

The union famously stood by a group of Dunnes Stores workers in 1984 after they went on strike in support of Mary Manning, who was sacked after refusing to handle produce from apartheid South Africa.

[...] Mandate is also promoting a petition on change.org urging people to show support for a campaign for retailers to boycott Israeli goods.

As of midday today 7,456 people have put their names to the petition, which calls on local shops not to trade with the country and accuses it of continuing to “flagrantly breach international law and commit war crimes against the Palestinian people”.

#I was looking around for anything about workers unions refusing to put Israeli produce on the shelves #has anyone heard of anything like that being organized lately?

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mimirox6 · 11 days

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10 characters from 10 fandoms

tagged by the one and only @gusbuses B-)

Robbie Fontaine - TJ Klune's Green Creek series

Amelia Pond - Doctor Who (sorry i'm not immune to this show)

Calum Hood - 5 Seconds of Summer (not a "character" per say but i love this man so much it's actually concerning :D)

Jude Duarte - Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series

Violet Debenham - Freya Marske's The Last Binding series (ough)

MacKayla Lane - Karen Marie Moning's Fever series

Patroclus - Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (don't look at me i'm so fragile)

Krobus - Stardew Valley (u know i had to)

Maximum motherfucking Ride - J*mes P*tterson's Maximum Ride series

Brock Faber (sorry i had to)

tagging: once again please do not feel any obligation to do this and also apologies if you've already been tagged but i am a nosy mf <3 @harryforvogue @alltheprettyplaces @cecishockeyblogging @dream-leaf @sidestickblog @annepan1203 @yes-perwallstedt @faberism @babygirlspurgeon @burkysmirky @square-opossums @neonfretra @h-isforhome @tetrapod7 and anyone else who wants to !! i love seeing what people like !!!!!

#the amount of book series on this list is actually insane #maybe i have a crush on the main characters. so what.#ANYWAYS.#enough about me.#tag game #also if u were tagged and don't recognize the username - it is i @brocksfaber

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silveragelovechild · 3 months

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I just rewatched the 1974 version of “Murder on the Orient Express”. While the 2017 version directed by Kenneth Branagh was entertaining, the earlier version directed by Sidney Lumet is both superior and terrific.

Even 50 years later, the all star cast shines bright: Lauren Bacall as Mrs Hubbard, Sean Connery as Colonel Arbuthnott, Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Debenham, Jacqueline Bisset as Countess Andrenyi and Michael York as the Count; Ingrid Bergman (who won an Oscar) as the Swedish nurse. And of course Albert Finney starring performance as Hercule Poirot.

Aside from Agatha Christie’s wonderful murder mystery plot, one of my favorite elements of the film is the music by Richard Bennett - absolutely terrific. He won a BAFTA award and was nominated for an Oscar.

“Murder on the Orient Express” is available on Netflix until January 31.

#murder mystery #murder on the orient express #agatha christie #hercule poirot #albert finney #lauren bacall #Michael York #ingrid bergman #Jacqueline Bisset #sean connery

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mrs-johansson · 2 years

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Y/n Cole Biography

Y/N Cole

04.16.1992 Boston, Massachusetts

Major Movie roles/appearances:

The house bunny (2008) as Harmony

The Great Gatsby (2013) as Daisy Buchanan

Divergent (2014) as Tris Prior

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) as Rita Vrataski

Insurgent (2015) as Tris Prior

Joy (2015) as Joy Mangano (Nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards)

How to be single as Alice (2016) Also Executive Producer

Allegiant (2016) as Tris Prior

Murder on the Orient Express (2017) as Mary Debenham

Battle of the sexes (2017) as Gladys Heldman

Lady Bird (2017) as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson (Nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards)

Red sparrow (2018) as Dominika Egorova

Tattoos:

Best Friends:

• Florence Pugh, parents met through work and become best friends around high school years

• Timothée Chalamet, went to the same high school. Y/N's Mom and his dad were classmates in school way back, so they friends since Timothée was born.

• Chris Evans, the Coles and the Evans' are great family friends. Lisa(Chris' mom) and Jane(Y/N's mom) have been best friends since teenage years. Chris and Y/N's sister Léa were born in the same year and the families are great friends. Chris is like a brother figure to Y/N.

• Emma Stone, met on the set of The house bunny. They clicked right away, best friends ever since.

• Jennifer Lawrence, met through Emma, the three of them got drunk together at an event and they are the iconic three. (Sooooo lame)

Public relationships:

• Kristen Stewart, June 2017 - September 2017

• Joe Jonas, March 2013 - February 2017

Family background:

Y/N grew up with her parents and older sister in Boston. Then when she was 11, her parents got divorced and Y/n and her dad moved to New York, where Y/N went to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. After high school, Y/n went to Columbia University, attending the Film MFA program. Her parents got back together and re-married in her first year of university, although she's been living in New York ever since, but moved to The Hamptons by now. Both of her parents are lawyers. The family traveled a lot while she was a child.

• Y/N's mom is going to be referred as Jane Cole / Mrs. Cole / Mom (1963)

• Y/N's dad is going to be referred as Matthew Cole / Mr. Cole / Dad (1961)

• Y/N's sister is going to be referred as Léa Cole(1985)

Acting career:

Y/N started as a child actor. She had her first movie when she was 13, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl as Lavagirl. Ever since then she's been an actor. Had her Executive Producer debut in 2016 with How to be single. Her latest projects is Lady Bird.

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deepinthelight · 1 year

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Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express

#daisy ridley #mary debenham

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quiteunlikely-screencaps · 1 year

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Daisy Ridley as Mary in Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

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#daisy ridley #mary debenham #murder on the orient express #screencaps

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dead-p0ets · 1 year

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Very random, but since you’re a theatre kid, did you act in a lot of plays? (you seem awesome btw, I’m an infj as well, so it’s always fun to see a tumblr account of someone who shares the same mbti type haha!)

yes!!

i do plays all the time!! i’m currently in 2 at the moment :) mary debenham in murder on the orient express and i’m stage managing a production of rent <3

also thank you so much my fellow infj friend<333

#i love getting sweet questions in my inbox #this made me smile :)

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thebeautifulbook · 2 years

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WHISPERING WINDS, AND THE TALES THEY TOLD by Mary H. Debenham. (London: Blackie, 1895) Cover design by Talwin Morris.

#beautiful books #books books books #book blog #books #book cover #victorian era

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desafiodeescritadiario · 2 years

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DIA 17 - Desafio de escrita #3 - Foreshadowing #desafiodeescritadiario #100diasdeprodutividade2022

Olá, como vão todos? Hoje é dia de desafio! Sei que estou atrasada uns quatro meses? Cinco? Agora que estou de volta vamos retomar nossos desafios mensais! Para esse mês pensei em algo diferente, focado em uma técnica de escrita literária, o Foreshadowing! Vocês conhecem o termo?

Temos um texto sobre o assunto bem aqui >>> TUMBLR/WORDPRESS

Para resumir, Foreshadowing em essência é deixar pistas pelo texto a fim de serem reutilizadas no futuro ou são uma indicação de que algo acontecerá mais adiante. É dar um contexto para o aspecto que você quer desenvolver para que nos próximos capítulos esse aspecto não pareça ter surgido como magica no seu texto, como o tão temido “Deus Ex-Maquina”.

Alguns exemplos podem ser: (x)

Menção em um diálogo, um elemento do cenário ou uma frase do próprio narrador. E pode ser dada tanto de maneira direta: — Ah, vai chover hoje à tarde!, quanto indireta: as nuvens estão carregadas.

Muitas vezes o foreshadowing só é percebido quando volta a ser citado, criando aquele momento de revelação. Em “A Câmara Secreta” há uma aula de herbologia sobre mandrágoras, mais tarde elas são usadas para curar os petrificados pelo basilisco.

Pode ser usados para criar expectativa antes de uma revelação. A intenção é sinalizar algum ponto-chave em que o leitor deveria ficar atento; um elemento aparece, mas não é explicado por inteiro ou uma conversa em que duas personagens frisam um nome desconhecido? Isso deixa o leitor curioso para saber quem é essa pessoa e por que ela é importante.

Apresentar as pistas em um mistério. Em “Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente”, há a conversa entre Mary Debenham e o Coronel Arbuthnot logo no início; o aviso de Ratchett de que vai ser assassinado e as doze facadas no corpo, algumas feitas com a mão esquerda e outras com a direita. Essas e outras pistas conduzem a atenção do leitor ao longo de toda a trama.

Criar suspense. Em “O Iluminado”, Dick diz que nenhuma das visões de Danny poderá machucá-lo, mas ele deve ficar longe do quarto 217. Mais tarde, quando Danny entra no quarto e vê a mulher na banheira, a tensão sobe vários pontos adicionais graças à menção anterior.

Criar humor. “O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias” começa com Arthur tentando impedir que sua casa seja demolida para a construção de uma rodovia. Pouco depois, os Vogons anunciam a destruição da Terra para construção de uma rodovia hiperespacial.

Uma profecia é um tipo de foreshadowing. Ela faz um prenúncio ao leitor e deixa ele supor como as coisas vão se encaixar para trazer aquele resultado. E ela não precisa ser o pronunciamento de um vidente, Deus, profeta ou algo do tipo; viajantes do tempo que tentam mudar/garantir o futuro também sabem o que deve acontecer.

Pode ser usado através de um simbolismo. Por exemplo, há a descrição de uma tempestade se formando no horizonte e depois as personagens passam por momentos difíceis. Em “Adeus às Armas”, Hemmingway diz que “as folhas caíram cedo naquele ano”; um prenúncio de uma morte prematura.

DESAFIO DE ESCRITA #3: Foreshadowing

O desafio dessa vez é mais complexo, escrava uma série de cenas onde duas cenas tenham ligação direta, a primeira deve prever ou avisar algo que se concretizará nessa outra cena. O texto deverá ser em prosa, a classificação você escolhe, o importante para o tema de hoje é essa ligação de acontecimento entre as cenas. As regras gerais são:

Os textos têm que ter no mínimo quinhentas palavras e não fugir do tema. (Seu texto pode ter quantas palavras você quiser, porém, analisarei até duas mil palavras, então capriche nesse começo);

Vocês podem usar a premissa que quiserem, podendo ter mais de um conceito;

Não há limites para capítulos ou histórias;

Não há classificação etária para esse desafio;

A data final será daqui a um mês, no dia 21 de julho.

Usar a hashtag #desafiodeescritadiario

Tirando isso a escrita é livre. Se lembrem, esse projeto é para ser divertido e não se tornar uma obrigação. Quem quiser participar use a hashtag #desafiodeescritadiario (se você escreveu sobre algum tema anterior ou usou algum prompt do blog, também aceitamos a qualquer momento), você apenas precisa colocar no seu post as seguintes informações:

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Classificação:

Escolha entre:

Livre: Qualquer pessoa poderá ler sua fanfic; +10: Voltado para crianças alfabetizadas. Conteúdo sem violência, sem conter insinuações de linguagem grosseira e ausência de temas adultos;

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+14: Não recomendável para menores de quatorze anos por conter alguma violência, linguagem levemente grosseira, e sugestão de temas adultos;

+16: Apenas maiores de 16 anos, geralmente fanfics classificadas assim possuem conteúdo um pouco mais puxado para o adulto, cenas de luta, ou insinuação de sexo (Ecchi);

+18: Histórias voltada ao público maior de idade, possuem conteúdo adulto, podem conter violência, pornografia ou sensualidade extrema.

Sinopse: Dê um pequeno resumo ou diga do que sua história ou conto se trata. E não se esqueça de uma capa. Como no desafio anterior as mesmas condições se mantêm:

Recompensa para o melhor texto: uma análise de texto mais aprofundada.

É claro que se você não quiser, você não precisa participar da recompensa. Meu objetivo seria escolher um ou dois textos e fazer a análise aqui no blog. Quem quiser participar é só usar o hashtag que por ela eu encontro o post de vocês e claro, postar até a data limite. Assim, anunciarei em um post os todas as histórias participantes e o vencedor. Seria legal preencher o formulário com suas informações básicas para que eu possa falar com vocês sobre as recompensas.

Logo saí a análise do desafio anterior! Até a próxima!

#100diasdeprodutividade2022 #desafiodeescritadiario

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