#mine: mary and conde

[forbescaroline]

MELISSA'S 225 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME ranked by my followers 213. mary stuart and louis conde - reign “But of all the reasons you expound of why we can’t be together, none are of the heart. I have to fight every instinct I have pulling me toward you. When I’m near you, I am aware of every breath you take. And when I’m away, even the wind in the trees reminds me of you.”

#monde #reignedit #mondeedit #reignsource #dailyreigngifs #mary stuart #louis conde #reign #ship: i feel safe with you #** #235ships #mine: reign #mine: mary and conde

[lemonhemlock]

There was a knock on her door "My lady a gift from Prince Aemond has arrived for you" the gurad said. Maris sighed, putting her brush down on her table as she got up to retrieve the gift she couldn't help but think 'of course she should have expected the gift to come soon, he truly doesn't waste any time with sending her gift does he?'. The voices outside her door snapped her out of her thoughts. As she opened the door she saw her father standing there beside the gurad looking at the gift in his hand excitedly.

"Father please clam down" she clamly said while rolling her eyes at his antics. Truly you would think the gift came for you with how excited he was acting.

"Dear daughter of mine I'm merely just excited for you! You must open the gift immediately it is from the prince after all". He replied excitedly.

She answered with a little sort while taking the gift from the gurad. She wondered what her prince sent her this time, last it was a mans head maybe this time its the mans eyes she thought to herself but couldn't help but get amused at the mere mention of eyes from her prince, the mere word had so much of their hostory behind it. After all it were the eyes of Lucerys Velaryon that got them betrothed.

"Oh! Don't forget to tell me what he sent you and what he wrote to you!"

"Don't worry father I will". Her words seemed to please her father as he walked away from her room with the guard likely telling him to get the musicians so they could write another song about her prince and her.

She closed the door behind her went went straight to her bed to open her latest gift. It was box not quite big and was light, definitelynot a heart this time she thought. She couldn't think what her prince would have sent her this time.

She quickly opened the box and paused. How curious she couldn't help but think. She slowly and carefully picked up the white crown out of the box. It was strange and quite like how a normal crown would look like. It was heavy in her hands but seemed to be made of a wood like material. It was beautifully crafted, a white crown with yellow jewels embedded in it. She put it to her side and looked back into the back just like all the other times this gift too came with a letter.

"My dear Maris, I do hope you enjoyed my gift this time it is the gift I spent the most time preparing. It is a crown made of a stags bones. I hunted the stag myself and skinned its skin off. It took me days to clean the bones and craft them into a crown. I even put those yellow jewels you find so beautiful into it. I hope you this gift was to your liking.

I also wished to tell you that I have spoken to my grandsire and there should a letter arriving shortly to stroms end asking your fathers permission to allow you to go to Oldtown. I know how much you wish you learn and my mother side of the family is more than excited to welcome you specially Daeron. I wish to the best and will come to take you to Oldtown my self with my last courting gift.

With love yours truly, Prince Aemond Targaryen"

She couldn't help but chuckle as she put the crown on her head, oh her sweet prince always so thoughtful for her she mused.

She walked to towards the painting in her room and pused against the picture of the apple at the edge of the tree. She heard something and pushed the painting aside. There in the center of the room laid a man cut in pieces carefully preserved to stop the body from rotting away. Who the man was she knew not nor did she care too.

She walked up to the man and looked at his body. There was only one piece left to finally finsihing him, his eyes, the very thing that started their love shall end their courtship. How romantic.

She should start preparing for her soon departure to Oldtown after all she won't be able to come back as soften she thoyght to herself as she skipped out of the secert room humming to herself as the crown on her head shined with the morning lifting reflecting off of the jewels in it.

you did it. you managed to condense all our maris headcanons into one mini-fic. congratulations, anon, they shall write songs of your bravery 👁👁👁

#DEAR DAUGHTER OF MINE I'M MERELY JUST EXCITED FOR YOU 😂😂😂😂 #LOVE that she has a secret room that opens via some contraption in the wall #all gothic heroines do #maris baratheon #ask #anon #aemond/maris

[stephsxcorner]

august slipped away into a moment in time 'cause it was never mine

#mary and conde #reign #reignedit #mary x conde #mondeedit #mine

[harmonicaorange]

i’m rewatching reign and i’m a few episodes into season 2 omg this show was so good after the cheesiness was set aside for more proper character development

#mary and catherines relationship is my fave #they are so funny #and i like mary and francis together but im not fussed so #her and bash i actually liked quite a lot too #and i know her and conde get involved soon and omg he is so sexy im so excited #i never managed to finish season 4 so im finally gonna try #been binge watching but i know season 3 is gonna be a hurdle #mine #reign

[grangermalfoys]

30 Days of Frary [12⁄30 - the beginning of the end for them in season 2]

Let me know what scenes you’d like to see for 30 Days of Frary! can also be a montage, picspam, playlist, icons, etc.

#30 days of frary #all it cost her #also her dress in the first gif is on point #francis valois #frary #fraryedit #fyeahreign #graphics #lord i hated the second half of this season so much #love me like you queue #mary and conde were the actual worst #mary stuart #reign #reign s2 #reignedit #*mine #gif #tv shows

[frary-us]

MARY: I understand why you no longer trust me, but trust what you know of him.

FRANCIS: What I know of him? He took advantage of you when you were at your most vulnerable. He knew the horrors that you had endured and saw an opportunity. He stole my wife!

MARY: The affair isn't Conde's fault. It's mine. I turned to him so many times. I turned to him because I couldn't turn to you. Because the thought of coming back to this room again, where those men assaulted me, I... Because the love in your eyes made it feel like I was drowning in those memories, and I couldn't... I couldn't do that, I had to survive. I cannot abandon him because I led him down this path. Conde is still the man you thought he was. He deserves your trust, even if I do not.

(Source: x)

#Reign #Toby Regbo #Francis Valois #Frary #Mary #Screencaps #Quotes #2x19 #Mistrust #Anti-Conde #Conde's Been A Lying Spy Since The Start #I Do Blame Him For Pursuing A Vulnerable PTSD Married Queen #Mary's Rape Was So Mishandled #Being A Loving Husband Is Bad? #All Francis Did Was Love & Try To Protect You #Mary Turning To Conde Instead Of Her Husband #Mary Betrayed Francis/Nations #Responsibility #Admiration #How Can The Writers Have Mary Say This With A Straight Face! #He Betrayed His Cousin/King #Adelaide's Emotions #Toby's A+ Acting #How Could Mary Ever Cheat On Francis When She Loved Him So Much? #Francis Deserves Better

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[goodtype]

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[woollyslisterblog]

1834 May Friday 16th (part two)

Letter to Mariana so again AL goes on a lot hence having to split today's entry up lots:

Wr[ote] 3 pp and ends to M-[Mariana] as foll[ows] - ‘Shibd[e]n Hall – Fri[day] 16 May 1834 I have this mom[en]t, my d[ea]r[e]st Mary, rec[eive]d your let[ter] dated last[l]y the 30th inst[ant] (Tues[day] last) -three days fr[om] Lawt[o]n! This shews me, that my let[ter] writ[ten] on Sun[day], and s[en]t on Mon[day] (the 12th) w[oul]d reach Lawt[o]n a few h[ou]rs aft[e]r you are off - surely, it w[oul]d be s[en]t aft[e]r you immed[iatel]y - and surely, you ha[ve] rec[eive]d it, ere this -

Mary! I am ver[y] ver[y] sor[ry my pp were n[o]t w[i]th you at Lawt[o]n - b[u]t they will conv[in]ce you, you w[e]re n[o]t out of my th[ou]ghts, are n[o]t, and are n[o]t likely to be - the mo[re] my d[ea]r[e]st Mary, I refl[ec]t up[on] the past, the mo[re] I am confound[e]d at the appall[in]g inconsist[enc]y of your cond[uc]t - that you sh[oul]d grieve so deep[l]y ov[e]r its conseq[uence]s is a heavy misfort[une] to us b[o]th - B[u]t this I can truly say, that wh[a]t ev[e]r you may ‘ha[ve] gone thro[ugh]’, I can't eas[il]y bel[ieve] it to exceed the mis[er]y, the ruth[le]ss desolat[io]n of heart, that fell up[on] mys[elf] - to me it w[a]s mo[re] sudden than the lightn[e]ss glare - You h[a]d long warn[in]g - the storm ca[me] n[o]t b[u]t at your bidd[in]g, and fr[om] your own br[eas]t, sprang up[on] the rock on w[hi]ch the hope of 20 y[ea]rs w[a]s wreck[e]d -

In pit[y], and in com[mo]n just[i]ce, rem[em]b[e]r this – th[i]nk, too, that you can nev[e]r ha[ve] h[a]d one feel[in]g of wound[e]d pride to add it st[in]g to all the rest - it w[a]s your own hand drew the cord that sped the dead[l]y shaft ho[me] to the heart that h[a]d no shield b[u]t its affect[io]n - Mary! Your aim d[i]d seem so coolly, so delib[eratel]y tak[e]n, the arrow sc[ar]ce c[oul]d miss her way - b[u]t no mo[re] - my reg[ar]d is still perh[aps] worth hav[in]g; and it will n[o]t be my fault if it does n[o]t serve you f[ai]th[full]y- For my sake, at least ta[ke] my adv[i]ce this once mo[re] - cheer up - rally r[ou]nd you all those hopes that are scatt[ere]d, rath[e]r than destroy[e]d - let's n[o]t the sp[iri]t turn cow[ar]d, b[u]t gath[ere]d togeth[e]r the resource is – calc[ula]te them fairly – man[a]ge them well – rem[em]ber that you ha[ve] a tri[e]d and steady fr[ie]nd who will help you to the utm[o]st, and , trust me, you ha[ve] no need to desp[ai]r of happ[ines]s ev[e]n in this world – Desp[ai]r is alw[a]ys a false calcul[atio]n - we can't tell the good that may be in store for us; and when one horizon seems low[e]st, who kno[w]s that the bright[e]st gleams of one our exist[en]ce are n[o]t at hand?

Mary! I will do anyth[in]g in the world I can for you - and surely, it is in my pow[e]r to be a gr[ea]t comfort to you then I can poss[ibl]y ha[ve] been, ev[e]r s[in]ce the 1st mom[en]t when your mind beca[me] unsettl[e]d en[ou]gh to entert[ai]n the first embryo th[ou]ght of the now it is appears, strange resolve you ca[me] to 27 y[ea]rs ago - B[u]t perh[aps] come out aft[e]r all, you w[e]re mo[re] right than you now bel[ieve] - If all your tastes w[e]re ind[eed] so chang[e]d as you told me, whi[le] mine, as I honest[l]y avow[e]d, rememb[ere]d so n[ea]rly the sa[me], how w[oul]d it ha[ve] answ[e]red to be still [en]tirely depend[en]t on each oth[e]r?

#gentleman jack #anne lister's diary #anne lister #mariana lawton #ouch my heart

[forbescaroline]

melissa’s very long list of favorite ships (in order of ship name) monde (mary stuart and louis conde) “but of all the reasons you expound of why we can’t be together, none are of the heart. i have to fight every instinct i have pulling me toward you. when i’m near you, i am aware of every breath you take. and when i’m away, even the wind in the trees reminds me of you.”

#monde #reignedit #mondeedit #mary stuart #louis conde #reign #ship: i feel safe with you #** #favships #mine: reign #mine: mary and conde

[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“Be cheerd wildly: let us leave”)

Be cheerd wildly: let us leave the flying lip? Mine just such pleased a kind of life doth cast, where I brim round flowers or brake and blade, bethrothed. As through the smallest pebble-bead of the free, let not loathe thee clime to rise of all, and that lives in head, to those scarlet white, and you, to you her scepter Venus, till I for fear plants both hiss fancy into a woman when shes Juno when she said, fifteen-hundred soules; come with our strength and fairies do the most soft complexion; they melt like a pale flowers bene defast. Of Joy and piteous tongue, now he rose; for no one livest blissful throne where all worlds, until mine.

Thou come to Marys household peace, like a statues, music,—why advert to the Rev. S deep an ancient for it anew revives; amazd, she was like Thames. Salámán listenest to belong to go with one blind Orion hungry ocean flood; titles, I cond of all things; but that I feel it, when to his Lord, to the first who, his armour rung,            and ascend, as might tempt no secret recording its orbit, each humble looked as graine is built, in this violence, tame to pass away, and, since I heedlessly as I, that I were changed to leave the scope to pass;          the grasp of felicitie, with wail, resume their shadows and things seem false in the vast, ere he errd— it was certain and crystal vines; the blessed soules; come airs, and a good, good Sir, of Indian ware, that it would insisting

the stars. That puzzled him answerd: “Wherefore if to the old Sunday evening their yelps: high-strung Anthee, the deeds, more fair. If I, indeed, I have relish in the lea I wake up in a breath of heart felt like a May-day breaks the boat that was amiss;   ’‘twas only an angel in my arm about him, the wall were couches, to one that bed of splendid purpose nothingness?’ In the room, but still from a sepulchre, and climbing the Earths embraces, and make me wish would have behind, a heart is beating, old joys for you as I loved again,” and perish: she carved the branch and clasp them when I lost two cities rough weather.

I never! (Those twilight on.   states (to whom to me I bore its fruit.)   Things are afraid,

  And to cease. The great woe. upon the superincumbent hours, and are put it in the Cauteretz   One that wakens at the bloody napkin by her sides, I hate to stand

  Until mine. mariana mariana in the nick of such a verse adorn, when first hygienic mean sublime: I wish that rugged arch, in their harps the shade my cheek,   and set the breeze knock at your goodlihead to me:) whatever I should take thee to be condemned, not by the pull out and says he feast, enjoying.

That you gave I rememberd yet, behold me with my wretch!

#poetry #automatically generated text #Patrick Mooney #Markov chains #Markov chain length: 7 #303 texts

[flapperdame16]

Reign finale fun

In honor of Reign’s last episode ever airing tonight in the USA- in Canada (Im not Canadian- I’ll be watching it friday june 16!) it aired first as it ended yesterday! Here are some things I’ll miss about the show and some of my favorite things about it!!!

My favorite.. Character- Queen Catherine de Medici!

Relationship- Francis and Mary!!! ❤ (FRARY FOR LIFE!) (But I Love Lola and Narcisse too)

Episode- Left Behind 1.07 (Runner up Three Queens 2.06)

Character I miss the most- Francis!! (Runner up Bash- his departure was harder, as it was unexpected)

Lady in waiting- Greer~ not just because she lasted the longest- but I liked her storyline with Leith

Character I grew to love- Lord Stefane Narcisse, Lord Chancellor of France- he’s cool- and Craig Parker is awesome! ;)

Now What went wrong… -Season 2 rape plotline and the whole Conde mess -the waste of Francis and Bash’s brotherhood- not enough scenes together -The demotion of Bash in season 2 to a supporting character- and to have Conde replace him in that role?? -The potrayal of Queen Elizabeth- shes a fave of mine historically- I didnt like the way she was written -The network’s treatment of the show -Uncertian-ness about Gideon- was him loving Elizabeth real? A ploy? She had feelings for him no doubt- but what happened to his arc in general?? -Laurie McCarthy was the showrunner

Other thoughts -I really held out for a Greer/Leith reunion -I’ll always love them though! -I miss Alan Van Sprang too!!! -I was shocked Torrance Coombs didnt make an appearence in S4- I guess still star crossed didnt finish shooting in time- missed oppertunity

Overall this show introduced me to Toby Regbo!!! And made me love Megan Follows!!!

#reign #reign series finale

[oflockwolves]

#monde #stefan knott x thalia renard #music #stefalia #stefalia ;; your flaws work in perfect harmony with mine #louis conde x mary stuart #monde ;; you will be the death of me

[stickyyouthstudent]

The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth

238 academics from around the world call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP

This week, scientists, politicians, and policymakers are gathering in Brussels for a landmark conference. The aim of this event, organised by members of the European parliament from five different political groups, alongside trade unions and NGOs, is to explore possibilities for a “post-growth economy” in Europe.

For the past seven decades, GDP growth has stood as the primary economic objective of European nations. But as our economies have grown, so has our negative impact on the environment. We are now exceeding the safe operating space for humanity on this planet, and there is no sign that economic activity is being decoupled from resource use or pollution at anything like the scale required. Today, solving social problems within European nations does not require more growth. It requires a fairer distribution of the income and wealth that we already have.

Dr Dan O’Neill, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK

Dr Federico Demaria, Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr Giorgos Kallis, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr Kate Raworth, Author of ‘Doughnut Economics’, UK

Dr Tim Jackson, Professor, University of Surrey, UK

Dr Jason Hickel, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Dr Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Dr Marta Conde, President of Research & Degrowth, Spain

Dr Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK

Dr Steve Keen, Professor, Kingston University, UK

Dr Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA

Dr Ann Pettifor, Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), UK

Dr Serge Latouche, Université Paris Sud, France

Dr Kate Pickett, Professor, University of York, UK

Dr Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute-TNI, Netherlands

Dr Joan Martinez Alier, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia

Dr David Graeber, Professor, London School of Economics, UK

Dr Juan Carlos Monedero Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Dr Dominique Méda, Professor, University Paris Dauphine, France

Dr Lourdes Beneria, Professor Emerita, Cornell University, USA

Dr Inge Røpke, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark

Dr Niko Paech, Professor, University of Siegen, Germany

Dr Jean Gadrey, Professor, University of Lille, France

Dr Nadia Johanisova, Lecturer, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Dr Wolfgang Sachs, Research Director Emeritus, Wuppertal Institut, Germany

Dr Stefania Barca, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Dr Gilbert Rist, Emeritus Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

Dr György Pataki, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Dr Simone D’Alessandro, Professor, University of Pisa, Italy

Dr Ian Gough, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, UK

Dr Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Researcher, University of Valladolid, Spain

Dr Amaia Pérez Orozco, Researcher, Colectiva XXK, Spain

Dr Max Koch, Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Dr Fabrice Flipo, Professor, Institut Mines Télécom-BS et LCSP Paris 7 Diderot, France

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Dr Óscar Carpintero, Associate Professor, University of Valladolid, Spain

Dr Hubert Buch-Hansen, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Dr Christos Zografos, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Dr Tereza Stöckelová, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Dr Alf Hornborg, Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Dr Eric Clark, Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Dr Miklós Antal, Researcher, University of Leeds, UK

Dr Jordi Roca Jusmet, Professor, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Dr Philippe Defeyt, Chairman, Institute for Sustainable Development, Belgium

Dr Erik Swyngedouw, Professor, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Christian Kerschner, Assistant Professor, Modul University Vienna, Austria

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Dr Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Dr Frank Adler, Researcher, Brandenburg-Berlin Institute for Social Scientific Research, Germany

Dr Janne I. Hukkinen, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland

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Dr John Barry, Professor, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Dr Linda Nierling, Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Dr Ines Omann, Senior Researcher, Austrian Foundation for Development Research, Austria

Dr Hug March, Associate Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Dr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor, University of Lodz, Poland

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Dr Isabelle Anguelovski, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr François Schneider, Researcher, Research & Degrowth, France

Dr Vasilis Kostakis, Senior Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Dr Enric Tello, Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain

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Dr Kate Soper, Emerita Professor, London Metropolitan University, UK

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Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Dr Aurore Lalucq, Co-Director, Veblen Institute, France

Dr Gaël Plumecocq, Researcher, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France

Dr David Soto Fernández, Associate Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Dr Christian Kimmich, Researcher, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Dr Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK

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Dr Lorenzo Pellegrini, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Dr Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

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Dr Louison Cahen-Fourot, Researcher, Institute for Ecological Economics, Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, Austria

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Dr Maria Nikolaidi, Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich, UK

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Dr Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Assistant Professor, University of Roskilde, Denmark

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Dr Hans Diefenbacher, Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Dr Marco Armiero, Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Dr Irene Ring, Professor, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

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Dr Manuel González de Molina, Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Dr Kye Askins, Reader, University of Glasgow, UK

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Dr Annika Pissin, Researcher, Lund University, Sweden

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Dr Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor, University of Renewable Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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Dr Daniel Hausknost, Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Change and Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Dr Christoph Görg, Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria

Dr Andreas Novy, Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Dr Fikret Adaman, Professor, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Dr Bengi Akbulut, Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada

Dr Kevin Maréchal, Professor, Université de Liège, Belgium

Dr Anke Schaffartzik, Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr Milena Buchs, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK

Dr Jean-Louis Aillon, Researcher, University of Genova, Italy

Dr Melanie Pichler, Researcher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria

Dr Helmut Haberl, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria

Dr Julien-François Gerber, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands

Dr John Holten-Andersen, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark

Theresa Klostermeyer, Officer for Sustainability and Social Change, German League for Nature, Animal and Environmental Protection, Germany

Dr Lyla Mehta, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, UK

Dr Geneviève Azam, Professor, Université Jean Jaurès, France

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Dr Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK

Dr Irmi Seidl, Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland

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Dr Olivier Malay, Researcher, University of Louvain, Belgium

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Dr Sarah Cornell, Senior Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

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Patrick ten Brink, Director of EU Policy, European Environmental Bureau, Belgium

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[camino-2018]

Carrión to Terradillos

Carrión de Los Condes is a beautiful town and I knew there was 17km before the next village but this gravel path is just a slightly undulating straight line , the scenery is beautiful but flat. It was four hours of monotony then dark clouds and the wind picked up . It started to rain gently and I had 45mins to my final destination. I thought I’d carry on despite the warm welcoming bar beside me . If I stopped I may not want to get started again. The rain hit like spiteful pellets , all those days of heat wishing for a little rain and here it was stinging , cold , heavy and wet. I trudged, head down trying not to slip , poles tucked away as exposed hands were turning icy cold. I stubbornly avoided the first albergue and walked further into town rewarded by a warm homely welcome. A single bed in a room of only four. The rain gradually cleared but the mind numbing walk , the cold and wet , halfway point on the Camino all contributed to a huge feeling of loneliness and being homesick. It’s two days to León , I can get a bus to Madrid and fly home. What’s the point of walking ? Am I supposed to be here ? I prayed for answers. I got to my room and two men had beds there. I tried to find wifi and there wasn’t any . What else !? I tearfully asked myself . A Spanish man smiled and stared talking to me in good English he was a cyclist and didn’t know anyone. After a while I went to my bed and he followed sitting on his bed opposite mine , I felt relieved he seemed nice. It was soon dinner time so we decided to go together, as we sat down Marie asked if she could join us as her boyfriend was on a village ahead and she was alone. What a good evening , we all talked and laughed , Sebastian bought a bottle of wine from his region Navarra and after the meal a liquor ‘pacharán’ . We all needed companionship and support that evening and we could not have asked for more.

[3431jessica]

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Lady Elizabeth retreated into her bedchamber. Inside the confinement of her room, she picked up the ornate mirror. The reflection of a woman with diversely different facial features appeared as she looked into her own silhouette. Elizabeth began to chant some incomprehensible words. The mirror turned foggy before a hazy image of a man appeared.

"Agathe," the man from the mirror greeted. Which immediately followed by a scrutinizing physical analysis. "You look good on that couture gown, although it's a little risqué for the formal atmosphere - showing a little too much skin at the chest," he pointed out.

"I'd appreciate your exquisite fashion taste, but I'm afraid I had to ignore your tasteful critique tonight," Agathe said.

The man grinned before moving to the main topics. "So, how's your... mission?"

"I've warned him," Agathe replied. "Now let see whether he will do anything to rectify his mistake. I think I've struck a nerve. He looked terrified with the prospect of exile."

"After hearing your stories for years - I bet that hubristic prince wouldn't simply repent," the man in the mirror stated his opinion. "It's too much out of his character."

"Clement, we have to give him a chance before punishing him," Agathe reasoned.

"You should call me Tyrone. Someone could've eavesdropped on you," objected the man in the mirror.

Agathe chuckled softly and put on a mock affectionate voice. "Right, my dear, Tyrone. I think anyone will freak out if they knew I am talking to my husband in a mirror."

"Just call it the perks of being a mystical being," Clement quipped. "I have a feeling that I am far from done playing husband and pretended to be Adam's nonexistent cousin," he laughed. "Not that I didn't enjoy to be your pretend husband because you are quite a good wife."

"Thank you, my dear," Agathe said in feigned sweetness. "Isn't it ironic you are now impersonating the Prince you'd cursed years ago?"

The man in the mirror guffawed at that. "Thankfully he is quite pleasant looking. I could just about bear to live the legacy of his foolhardy behavior. But I have a bad feeling that the handsome Adam of Conde wouldn't do much better than mine."

"I will give him some time to repent from his self-centered behavior and make amends," she revealed. "I've promised his mother, Marie, that I wouldn't let him turn like his father."

"Right," replied the man, sounding satisfied with her answer. "Hope you have better luck than I am."

"I'll try," Agathe smiled before excusing herself and chanting another mantra. Subsequently, the reflection of the man dissipated into the depth of the mirror.

#beauty and the beast #my fiction #batb #belle #adam #live action 2017 #a deal with the enchantress