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justallihere · 1 month
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I can’t believe you’ve read Nightworld!!!! I have never met someone else who has 😭 I’m so upset the author never finished the series and we never found out what happened with the wild power storyline. Have you read her other series, the vampire diaries? I was obsessed with the show and the originals spin off but the books are soooo different from the show.
I love, love, love sitq!! My week isn’t complete without it
I love the Night World series 😭 it defined my pre-teen/teenage years. If LJ Smith wrote it, I read it. I don’t have my Vampire Diaries or Secret Circle books anymore but I do still have Night World, Dark Visions, and The Forbidden Game. VD was SO different from the show—I actually read the books first and I was appalled when the show came out 😂😂
Thank you so much!! 🩵🩵
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zaxal · 10 months
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something i think is interesting about mahiru is that she's the only one so far who hasn't really commented on her judgement in song
haruka asks if he's still innocent
yuno scolds us for finding her innocent and all the condescending reasons why
futa asks if we want him dead and if he should give it to us
mu is like "look at me, im innocent, I did nothing wrong, you all agree!"
shidou talks explicitly about how he wanted to be found guilty, but now that he's been found innocent and was able to use that to protect people from kotoko, he asks to be found innocent again
mahiru makes a comment about how she's been forbidden from love (lining up with her T1 VD) but none of her lyrics question it or ask for reassurance from us or es. most of her song is spent addressing her dead boyfriend, unsure of how to cope in a world without him in it, a world where she's unquestionably at fault (according to our judgement).
it makes sense that mahiru would still be coming to terms with her murder, out of the T2 songs we've seen so far. but also like. she's grieving. him, the relationship she thought they had, the image of him and her separately in her head.
the fact that she alone has made no case for herself in T2 so far is something i keep coming back to pick at, but i don't have anything really coherent to say about it. she has no fight. she has a very weak concept of herself, where she accepts es's judgement without question even after they reveal their theories in the T2 VD, revealing they DON'T know everything, but she still feels they must know her better than she does.
i don't know that she ever learned how to be mahiru, independent of anyone else, just herself, and im sad for her.
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thinkin-bout-milgram · 9 months
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WHAT DID U GUYS THINK ABT THE LATEST MV IM GOING INSANE
tw for suicide, mention of alcohol
Admin Saturn: I now have a crush on kazui! The other admins have been trying to convince me that because his whole arc is showing why he's not a good husband to his wife but like bro... open marriage and a guy that buys me flowers and holds my hand and takes me on drives? Sounds pretty swaggy to me! Also he ate a bird! Thats kinda wack!
Overall based on the info we have and everything he's said in his VD (assuming its to be trusted cause he does have that whole lying thing going on), I would personally go with inno. Like unless his sin was suicide baiting her, I don't entirely see how this could turn into a guilty situation. Definitely not on the same level as a lot of the other prisoners. (looking at how guilty mahiru should be but isn't getting)
Admin Venus: I'll summarize what I talked about in my theory, but honestly, I feel like Kazui didn't do all that much wrong. He seems like he just kinda let life go the way other people wanted it to go for him, and somewhere along the way he realized he really didn't enjoy it. At some point he got "greedy" and took steps to try to change that, but his wife probably committed suicide or possibly got into some kind of accident or something. Either way, that's what resulted in her death.
Between that and him being useful on defense from a meta standpoint, I'm not sure why I would vote him guilty. I wish we knew more though, I feel like both half and Cat were pretty sparse on details relating to the actual death of his wife. Like, I understand your situation, Kazui, tell me what actually happened!
Side note though, it's really interesting to me in the audio drama that he says he wants Es to find out his sin. In the first trial, I'd thought his MV was giving nothing because he was purposefully burying details to hide them from us. After hearing that line in the audio drama and seeing this MV, I feel more like Kazui's repressing his feelings on whatever his sin is so hard that even the MVs can't quite get at them.
(Also, the fact that we still haven't seen anyone who he's romantically involved with (other than his wife) adds to the theory that he's gay for me. A lot of other people (Shidou's wife, Mahiru's lover, etc.) have gotten relevant characters' faces revealed this time, and while we did get that for Kazui's wife, I feel like who he was with would've been revealed to us unless there was a specific reason to hide it (ex. he was with a man).)
Admin Mercury here. Uhhh I really got nothing on my mind but shitposts tbh. When listening to his VD, I really got the impression he was still lying or at least being overly dramatic like the theater kid he is. Especially in this part:
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(translation thanks to @/onigiriico) The way he delivers these lines seems so fake to me, but I realize this might just be personal bias talking. Idk yall, lemme know what you think ab his delivery in the comments below (PFFFT sorry)
Admin Neptune: I'm definitely team innocent. Although it seems like Kazui hurt his wife by not wanting to be married anymore, he tried to be a better person and stop lying to her. Unfortunately, according to him, this resulted in her death. It doesn't really seem like he did much wrong, especially compared with many of the other prisoners, and he helps keep the prisoners safe.
The part where his wife's image transforms into what is seemingly a man with an apple for a head (along with other parts such as the "I can't stop, I can't be normal") leads me to believe that he's gay. Assuming that the apple is supposed to represent something he feels is forbidden, this part could represent his desire to date/marry a man instead. I find it interesting that he sees this image through an alcoholic drink, and I feel like it represents something but I'm not completely clear on what.
Since Kazui says "I can't live unless I lie" as mentioned above in the VD, I wouldn't be surprised if he was still lying, but I do believe that he never actually cheated on his wife. I do wonder if he would consider "emotional cheating" infidelity, and it seems like the temptation might have been there when he says "it didn't even turn into infidelity."
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siroofington · 2 years
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About
2024 edit: this needs to be updated since I wrote this over a year ago (mostly the interests list lol) but feel free to read through anyway
I'm Alan! he/him, 21. I mostly just post about whatever I'm into at the moment. It's typically a mix of funny posts, tv/game/movie related content, art, and anything else I like that shows up on my dash. I write IDs for stuff sometimes; if you appreciate the description, I'd love it if you edited them into your original post, no credit required! (here's a quick description of how IDs are useful.) feel free to edit them how you like as well if there are any mistakes. If you want to chat, feel free to ask for my discord :) I don't use tumblr DMs more than necessary because they work really poorly on my phone. Also, I have a sideblog, @siroofingtonreplies, for replying to things sometimes since tumblr just won't let me comment for some reason. Posts on there are not described.
Interests! (This is not an exhaustive list by any means)
Mob Psycho 100 Disco Elysium Jerma985 (I shouldn't have to say this but NO RPF FOR GODS SAKE) Twin Peaks Psych Leverage The Disastrous Life of Saiki K Megamind The Lego Batman Movie Outer Wilds Apex Legends Kirby Lemon Demon Star Wars (it's complicated </3) Hades (game) Bill and Ted Legends of Tomorrow adblock! download firefox and ublock origin right now The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Doctor Who Spider-Man Shazam! Our Flag Means Death The Legend of Zelda (mainly BotW) What We Do In The Shadows Venom Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West Peacemaker
Tagging
I don't have a very organized system, but I generally use these tags with consistency; #undescribed- for posts that have photos, video, or audio that are not described #id in alt - for posts where the ID is only in alt text #audio - audio posts with no transcript #image description - for IDs I've written #video description - VDs I've written #long post - for posts that are long, lol. I don't have a specific cutoff length or anything so this one isn't quite as consistent. Media-related original posts will usually be tagged with the series name, characters, and ships (if there are any) - descriptions I write for fandom stuff will be tagged with the fandom (if I care enough to make a tag for it) If you'd like me to add CWs for something, please let me know! I can either tag the thing directly or make a personal tag for you (eg #[name] don't look), within reason.
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If you're a bigot, exclusionist, support incest or pedophillic ships, engage in RPF, or are otherwise generally an asshole I'll block you. i'll also just block you if i don't care to see your posts/comments.
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infiniteiram · 3 years
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@vdsweek
vds week day day four: forbidden
but maybe in some other life, they are standing side by side and laughing that in another life, they are apart.
song: berenstein - the band camino
concept explained: the “forbidden” part focuses on the different universes jens and lucas are apart of (wtfock + skam nl), so it is interpreted their worlds may never cross
[ at another place in time//you were infinitely mine//relatively alright//when berenstein was fine//at another place in time//only parallel to mine//the universe was alright//when berenstein was fine ]
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VD: An ad for an interactive story game. All the characters are semi-realistic drawings. It shows two women, one with medium-light skin and long wavy light brown hair named Sansa, and another with very pale skin and auburn hair, unnamed. They are in dirty, tattered clothes, and they look sad. They both sigh as a sad piano song plays. Sansa's speech bubble says, "Let us join the gang please, we're homeless". They sigh sadly again
It then cuts to the mafia boss, a light-skinned man in a tux who's holding a cat in his lap, sitting at a huge desk, and the song changes to a dramatic song with many violins. He also sighs as he closes his eyes and touches his forehead, then makes an "auugh" sound as his speech bubble says, "Okay, but love is forbidden in the gang". He then turns to the other side and makes a "hmm" sound as his speech bubble says, "Doug, prepare a room for them". It then cuts to Doug, a light skinned man in sunglasses and a bomber jacket, who also makes a "hmm" sound as he bows and his speech bubble says "Yes, Don Corleone".
There is then a transition screen with round letters that says, "later that night". It cuts to the two girls, now clean and in bikinis, making kissing noises and pouting in each other's direction inside a tub in a luxurious bathroom. There is an upbeat song playing. Doug suddenly enters the bathroom, holding a plate of tacos. His glasses fall slightly to show his widened eyes and he opens his mouth, making a surprised sound that resembles an old man's pained moans. His speech bubble says "Wow! You're actually a couple!". The two girls look shocked, and gasp. The song changes to a goofy piano theme. Sansa looks sad and her speech bubble says, "please help us keep it a secret"
Doug smirks at the viewer, making a satisfied "hm" noise, as his speech bubble says, "Let's enjoy a threesome, or else..." he gives a high pitched short laugh. Then suddenly a gun appears by his head, and he opens his mouth dramatically, gasping. The person with a gun hits him upside the head, and he drops down
The two girls again gasp as the gun holder zooms into the center of the frame. It's the mafia boss, with a newly-acquired black cowboy hat. He holds it up to show his face and smirks, speech bubble saying, "Long live LGBTQ!". He makes an "ah" sound
The girls look absolutely flabbergasted and gasp, then look at each other. Sansa has a raised eyebrow and the other girl is biting her lip. Two options appear on the screen, one that says, "Ask him to join threesome", and another that says, "call 911 then replace the boss". They both make "hmmm" sounds as the two options glow. End VD
I know this is an ad but this is the single funniest most entertaining piece of media I've ever consumed
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vdsweek · 3 years
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Captain’s orders! It took me a little time to settle on a date and some new prompts (and I have to thank @azozzoni for help with those!) but now I want to get them out to give everyone time to create. It will be held from 2-8 August. Please tag all your works #vdsweek2021 or tag this account so I can see and reblog them! The layout for the week is just below and there are some notes under the cut :)
Monday, 02/08 - Fics / Headcanons
Tuesday, 03/08 - Enemies/Friends to Lovers / Meet-Cute
Wednesday, 04/08 - GIFs / Edits
Thursday, 05/08 - Secret / Forbidden
Friday, 06/08 - Vacation / Firsts/Lasts
Saturday, 07/08 - Art / Playlist
Sunday, 08/08 - AU (eg. magic AU, historical AU, movie/TV/book AU [i.e. Pride and Prejudice AU], etc.)
Notes:
(These are all the same as last year!)
As with the previous VDS Week, you do not have to take part in every day! I have included two prompts in most days to give a broader choice while still giving everyone something to work with. You can do something for one prompt or the other, or separate things for both, or one work combining the prompts — it’s all up to your interpretation! If you feel like making multiple works for one prompt, that’s okay too!
For ‘AU’ day — this is basically a free day, since everything VDS is AU, but this is an opportunity to pick your favourite ‘out there’ idea and create it. I have given only some examples up above, but you can do absolutely whatever you like! This can again be manifested in any form - fics, gifs, moodboards, playlists, etc. It may be a good opportunity to collaborate!
On days with fics/gifs/art - please feel free to take this as a literal prompt. Fic day does not mean you have to write a fic. You can create anything inspired by this prompt. GIFs or art based on a fic, a social media edit in which Jens/Lucas is a fic writer, etc etc, anything you like! Same for GIF/art day - if your comfort zone is fics, write something based on a gif set or a piece of art!
Going off the previous point, please feel free to collaborate. Contact another content creator and suggest a fic edit you have that they could make gifs of, or vice versa! Many responses I got when I asked what the best aspect of the first VDS week was simply said the fandom. Talk to each other, support each other, create with each other! If you don’t want to reach out to a particular person, send an ask to this page with your idea, or even contact me personally and I will try to help! (Here or on @peaceoutofthepieces.)
If you have any questions, please don’t be afraid to ask! Anonymously, directly, however you feel most comfortable. If there is anything else that comes to mind or I discover I’ve left out, I’ll update you. Have fun!
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moonlightreal · 3 years
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Strange Fate linkdump: Questing, Empathy and Endgames
Huge long post!  Linkdump and many many thoughts that wandered through my mind while going through these links.
Last Lullaby stuff:
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hachette-signs-new-l-j-smith
About the international licensing of The Last Lullaby in 2013.  Strange Fate is the big obvious lost book but it’s not the only one.
https://booknode.com/the_last_lullaby_0705503
French bookseller page about The Last Lullaby, with back cover blurb in English but no cover picture.  So whatever happened happened before an artist could be commissioned. The book seems to follow unscarred teen Brionwy rather than scarred child Crispy who we met in the Strange Fate chapter
https://spotlightreport.net/featured/burn-bright-presents-l-j-smith-interview
2013 interview about The Last Lullaby.  In this interview Crispy and Brionwy are two different characters, though I’d always had the impression that they were the same person and Brionwy was Crispy’s real name.  Maybe just because Brionwy is the name in the title and then it’s Crispy’s story, back in whatever first incarnation I read of it whatever incarnation that was.  And it’s poetic nfor the scarred child to have a beautiful name.  
So we have the short story Brionwy’s Lullaby about Brionwy in the harem and the Strange Fate chapter about Crispy in the ruins.  Two pieces.  Less than we have of Strange Fate, but there is a looooot of worldbuilding in Brionwy’s Lullaby.  Lots of worldbuilding but no hint of where the story goes next.  Do Brionwy and Crispy meet?  Is there some connection between them?  How does the story end?  In the Strange Fate incarnation of the story this future is traded for a happier timeline when characters in our time avert the apocalypse but as a separate story how would it conclude?
Honestly I’m sadder about this book than I am about Strange Fate; I loves me some YA dystopias and the whole dragons and vampires thing is just neat.  But this book’s as lost as lost can be.
Recent Stuff:
https://www.reddit.com/r/YAlit/comments/krlvr1/lj_smiths_night_world/
Reddit thread from two months ago.  The rabbit hole is real and nobody else seems to have found the bottom.
https://deadline.com/2020/05/greg-berlanti-productions-adapt-the-forbidden-game-novels-lj-smith-as-tv-series-the-vampire-diaries-author-1202944224/
Article about the upcoming Forbidden Game TV series.  Forbidden Game is a Simon & Schuster series, not Alloy, so while I’m sure Ms. Smith has no say in how the show will go she will at least get royalties!  However much royalties book authors get from TV shows, no idea how much that is.  
https://micky.com.au/the-vampire-diaries-writer-reveals-new-fantasy-horror-series-the-forbidden-game/
“LJ Smith has just revealed that its horror trilogy novels...”  Um.  Not quite.
I looked through half a dozen articles about the Forbidden Game TV series and none of them had anything from Ms. Smith.  I knew the chance that this would draw comment from her was only a tiny chance, but it seemed worth looking.  
Interviews and Stuff:
https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/qa-the-vampire-diaries-creator-l-j-smith-on-writing-and-losing-the-series/
2012 interview about Vampire Diaries
https://peoplepill.com/people/l-j-smith-1
Just a biography page.  
http://theliteraryconnoisseur.blogspot.com/2014/05/an-interview-with-new-york-times.html
2014 interview with a blogger.  Ms. Smith does seem to be an absolutely lovely person.
https://areiterowski.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/author-profile-l-j-smith/
2013 Blog post about Ms. Smith, ending with a quite long list of “things she’s currently working on.’ the medical stuff didn’t happen until 2015 though with six projects in progress it’s believeable that she didn’t finish any of them before being felled by illness in 2015.
http://luanatormesdemattos.blogspot.com/2013/11/interview-with-one-and-only-l-j-smith.html
2013 interview with a blogger.
Into the meta: Aubrey Clark and the ghostwritten books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5760167.Aubrey_Clark
Books by Aubrey Clark.  Secret Circle and Vampire Diaries.  I assumed Aubrey Clark is a woman and the other book listed is by a man with the same name, but Aubrey is traditionally a male name and modernly a female name so who knows. Hardly the first time a dude wrote a series aimed at girls under a female name.
https://www.romance.io/authors/54558f9b87eac323ffb2cc31/aubrey-clark
Bio listing Ms. Clark as a she, and classifying her books as romances.  Says she’s been writing for eight years.  Just on the VD/SC stuff or did she write before?  Alloy hiring an existing writer to ghostwrite and that existing writer using a pen name so her new work wouldn’t be connected with her old work is perfectly possible.  I swear I read somewhere that Ms. Clark was Ms. Smith’s editor, or her “person” with Alloy, making her signing on as ghostwriter a bit of a betrayal… but I can’t find my source.
And how much of a betrayal is it really, if Ms. Smith got fired it’s not Ms. Clark’s fault if the series got offered to her, and who could say no to getting to write for a series you know?  It’s a job and a chance to be a published author and nobody should be judged for grabbing that candy if offered it.  
I wish we could hear what happened from Aubrey Clark’s side, just because the story of What Happened to Strange Fate is a mystery I to figure out… it’s easy for me to forget this mystery isn’t a Nancy Drew video game, it’s people’s real lives.  Ms. Clark is not the villain, she’s a writer in a situation we don’t fully understand but she’s just a writer like any writer.
http://debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-review-secret-circlethe-divide-by.html
Review of Secret Circle: The Divide
http://bookandbroadway.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-temptation-tsc-6-by-aubrey-clark.html
Review of Secret Circle: The Temptation.  The reviewer was not impressed.
http://yepireadbooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-32-temptation.html
Another review of The Temptation.  This reviewer was a bit more impressed than the last one.  I admit I ragequit the ghostwritten books after Ms. Clark started killing off characters, I don’t remember if I even hit book two…  
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Vampire_Diaries_(novel_series)
Publishing history of Vampire Diaries
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304058204579495491652398358
2014 “Vampire Diaries Writer Bites Back.” we’ve all read this one...
https://uniquelygeekygirl.com/2013/05/20/1223/
2013 “LJ Smith vs ghostwriter” from a blog called uniquely geeky girl.  The next article on the blog is more about Alloy and its practice of hiring ghostwriters.
The Rise and Fall of Kindle Worlds:
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/15/amazon-to-shut-down-kindle-worlds/
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Kindle_Worlds
https://www.thebookloft.com/fanfiction-and-kindle-worlds
https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/amazon-closes-kindle-worlds/
https://gigaom.com/2014/08/17/amazons-fan-fiction-portal-kindle-worlds-is-a-bust-for-fans-and-for-writers-too/
https://www.wired.com/2013/05/kindle-worlds-fanfic-copyright/
http://www.roxannestclaire.com/barefoot-bay-world-kindle/kindle-worlds-faq/
https://www.bustle.com/articles/36237-amazons-fan-fiction-site-kindle-worlds-is-flopping-but-why
It rose, and it fell.  As far as I can tell Alloy is the only publisher to put its works out on Kindle Worlds, I guess because that’s what they were already doing with their hired authors!  Other authors seem to have opened their worlds individually and I guess not many of them signed on.  
LJ Smith and Kindle Worlds
https://www.theawl.com/2014/02/the-writer-who-beat-the-system-how-one-woman-resurrected-her-sexy-vampire-brothers/
https://www.mhpbooks.com/fired-vampire-diaries-writer-takes-to-kindle-worlds-for-revenge/
http://floor-to-ceiling-books.blogspot.com/2011/02/l-j-smith-fired-from-writing-vampire.html
A blog post with some comments so you can read the state of the fandom at the time.
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fandom/vampire-diaries-lj-smith-kindle-fanfiction/
http://leegoldberg.com/tag/alloy-entertainment/
“Read the contract.’  This one is interesting because it’s the only one that isn’t in defense of Ms. Smith.  She should indeed read her contracts unless she wants to just be a fanfic writer, which… I don’t think I’ve ever heard of an author going from published to fanfic, but why not?  
Also, good question, where was Ms. Smith’s agent?  And where is Ms. Smith’s agent these days when someone should maybe be being the Strange Fate Police?  
Unrelated: I swear I read an article from Alloy’s perspective about what happened.  Maybe it was this one and I thought it was from Alloy when it wasn’t.  It is the only article not in support of Ms. Smith that I could find.
https://editingeverything.com/blog/2014/04/25/fanfiction-is-letting-lj-smith-tell-her-vampire-diaries-story/
https://www.tvovermind.com/vampire-diaries-lj-smith-fired-book-series/
https://thegameofnerds.com/2018/03/03/originals-10-facts-about-the-woman-behind-the-vamps/
https://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1952&context=etd
https://www.cbr.com/the-secret-circle-why-the-vampire-diaries-author-l-j-smiths-other-cw-series-failed/
I watched one episode of the Secret Circle series because I loved the books so much, but the CW style is not my jam.  But it is interesting to read the pitch for a fewer-character second season.
https://anovelbookblog.com/2014/06/12/leeching-off-the-talent-writing-for-hire-the-dark-side-of-publishing/
About the Secret Circle sequel novels and Alloy
https://www.jeanienefrost.com/2019/02/ghosts-in-the-machine/
Ghostwriting and plagiarism and ethics.
https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/stefan-and-elena/articles/94267/title/lj-smith-fired-from-writing-own-novels
This is the full letter from Ms. Smith about getting fired.
https://teleread.com/thanks-to-kindle-worlds-fired-vampire-diaries-writer-continues-her-own-series-as-fanfic/index.html
http://iswimforoceans.blogspot.com/2011/02/help-lj-smith-vampire-diaries.html
2011 blog post
https://indecisiveturtle.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/assignment-4-ghostwriting-in-the-vampire-diaries-by-l-j-smith/
A long blog post that goes into detail about the writing of some of the books, how to tell Ms. Smith’s style from the ghostwriter’s, sentence length and similes and stuff, all very academic!  I’ve retyped a couple pieces of Ms. Smith’s writing and I noticed she handles punctuation-with-quotes differently than I do, making it very weird to retype.  This is an interesting one.  Someone dived way deep!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/19/the-gossip-mill
New Yorker article about Alloy
https://www.publishingcrawl.com/2012/05/29/the-not-so-secret-backdoor-to-publishing/
Article about Alloy and package writing
https://www.vogue.com/article/the-secret-circle-young-adult-witch-fiction
Just an article about the Secret Circle books and how they’re kinda bad but actually good.  Which they are.
That’ll keep y’all busy for a while!
Quest wishlist: I wish we could ask someone in the publishing industry about rights to series and rights to “publication canceled” books and how all that stuff works.  And I wish we could hear Aubrey Clark’s side of the story, but it just seems unkind to reach out to her to ask about this.
But the problem is… I call it “the quest for Strange Fate” because I’m melodramatic and like calling things quests, but what it the victory condition for this one?   The obvious: we win if we find and read Strange Fate, but I don’t think that will ever happen.  No matter how much we learn about what happened that won’t make Strange Fate appear.  
I do wish we could tell LJ Smith that plenty of authors these days have a Patreon.  If the people who still care about the lost books and the story of Ms. Smith could turn that caring into actual useful help for the people and maybe the books too that would be the best outcome.  That would be a successful quest.    
A darker timeline possibility: maybe S&S read Strange Fate and it wasn’t any good. Ms. Smith is a good writer.  But take a good writer and give her 20 years off from writing, and make those the 20 years where the teen experience of life changed radically, her genres of choice became big and popular and evolved and built up tropes, and language itself did… things…
I stan language but it’s a little sus how new lettery bois go brr everywhere I look.  I love it, but it’s humbling having to ask my niece what all the new words mean, and why so many of them seem to begin with S!
And Ms. Smith is sixty and has twenty years of rewriting Strange Fate, pulling it apart and tinkering until it probably doesn’t much resemble the book she started in 1998. Stir up all this in a pot and we’ve got a recipe for making a talented author drop a mediocre book.  Maybe S&S read it, said “it’s a dud, the fandom is 20 years old, let’s just not” and Ms. Smith retired from public life in defeat.  
This makes an unhappy sort of sense, but it doesn’t answer the question of why The Last Lullaby never appeared either.
Anyway. This has been a long post, lots of links and some thoughts on the philosophy of questing.
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spacegaywritings · 4 years
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Big Hearts and thicc Thighs
Happy VD! We all need some mandatory Virgil content and some love, so I made a bitch of both! Summary: Remy is proud as chubby man and he owns every bit of curve and loves his own butt to bits. Emile and Virgil can't help but love him for every bit of space Remy fills up with the greatness of his existence. (polyamorous fluff) Tags: sweat?? fitness? body positivity for chubby people ?? idk what could trigger you in here but if anything does, please let me know so I can tag it right away and fix up my knowledge on tags ! Words: 967
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All they could see was pearls of hot sweat, a curved body accompanied by the audible sounds of a last grunt and finally, a deep sigh. Remy was done exercising for today. Weekends were the time he did stretching at home since the gym was so close to were he worked that it made sense to visit it before or after work for a quick session of lifting some weights or doing a bit of cardio. Weekends were for his yoga tapes and the resistance bands he had purchased for himself. He had gotten up from his yoga mat and flexed his muscles to ease the tension in his body. The muscles in his back danced under his skin and the man hummed. Satisfied. Virgil swallowed. Remy was too gorgeous to handle. He was glad to be born slim and just be rather bulky due to his rather physical job. He barely needed any more exercise to keep in shape. But Remy? Remy was utterly blessed with his great curves, his thick thighs and gracious booty. It was not just his backside. He had a small bit of chub around his tummy area and his hips were wider due to his extra layers of fat. It was unusual to see a man rocking his chub in confidence and sweat like Remy. It was wild to see the tight leggings around his legs hug these extra rolls of fat. Virgil had to force his eyes away just to notice his boyfriend next to him. Well, their boyfriend. Emile was next to him, ridiculously small compared to his own height. Virgil was about as high above everyone as doors were while Emile was utterly tiny and of normal build. However much difference their bodies held within them, their souls were the same. “Handsome...”, Emile mused. Virgil swallowed and let his eyes steal yet another glance on the beauty that was Remy shaking his shoulder-long black hair as he opened his strands and let the sweaty tips run freely over his shoulder, his neck. His dark skin was gleaming in the early light of the Saturday sun and Emile was lucky to have joined just in time for their boyfriend to bend over and let out a self-satisfied huff when he rolled and picked up his yoga mat in fluid motions. “Y-yeah.” Virgil felt his heart beat faster, faster and even faster. The rapid and violent contractions made his chest visibly shake as if he had just finished a sweat-provoking work-out session but he did not. He was just watching their boyfriend pack up and wipe a little towel through his face. It was one of these oddly slim yet soak-strong towels. It was orange and suited his face so well as it ate away all the big drops of liquid exhaustion from his skin. Emile shifted a bit and rubbed his arms together.
”How do we have such a great boyfriend?”
The tall man sighed audibly, strongly. It was a force in his lungs to push out all of the pent up air in his body.
Remy had a stronger effect on them than the chubby man’s every day morning cup of coffee. The man in question turned around, towel in his neck like an open scarf. His coffee ground eyes focused on Emile and Virgil. “You done drooling over me, you lazy asses?” Virgil’s cheeks got hot and he turned around, sloppy fingers flailing and trying to grip something. He grabbed ahold of his sleeves and ended up clinging to his elbows. “No fucking idea what you are talking about”, he hissed in return. Emile on the other hand averted his gaze for a moment, rose colour puffing up on his cheeks. His light green eyes looked back up at Remy and he nodded eagerly, wonder and heart in his gaze as he stretched his hands over the kitchen counter. “You are lovely, how could we not?” Remy returned the favour of blushing as Virgil stubbornly kept his eyes fixed on the fridge, shoulders up to his ears and cherry lips between his eager teeth. “You know, I don’t mind but.. I am sweaty, I think I will take a shower.” His words hung in the air, heavier than the smell of his hard-earned sweat. The sweet temptation slid around them like a hungry snake. Ready to take the first victim to fall for it down into the pits of sins and impulsiveness. No melody was sweeter than the suggestive hum of Remy’s playful teasing, no perfume was more alluring than the smell of Remy owning up to the pride he had in his body and every bit that came with it. Virgil visibly flinched as if hit by a lightning whilst Emile let out a sound akin to choking on his own spit. He coughed, covering his mouth with the nook of his elbow. Remy smirked, shifting the weight from one foot to another. His hips wobbled a bit and he twirled on the spot before taking off to the direction of the bathroom. “Hold up-” The tall boyfriend tugged Emile’s arm and followed suit. “Got some space for two more next to those illegal hips of yours?” Remy stopped for a moment just to turn to them, halfway. His barely covered back was facing the two but his forbidden eyes blinked at the two. “Nothing wrong with an extra pair of weights, is there?” The sweating man laughed out loud and disappeared into the bathroom, two loving boyfriend hot on his tail and following the sound of his humming along to these thick cheeks clapping. Nothing was sexier than confidence and Remy was clearly made of pure sass and a whole lot of self-esteem to make his boyfriends swoon at the very blink of his eye.
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Contagious Vacations: Sarah Vowell on Hawaii’s History
Rewind from KCActive.com by Dan Lybarger
In her books, audio essays (for public radio’s This American Life ) and speeches, Sarah Vowell may be the only person on earth who can describe her vacations or recall historical events without making listeners sleepy.
That’s probably because not many vacationers frame their tales as entertainingly as she can. Vowell uses her journeys to explain how our country has developed, and she resurrects the fears, excitement and intrigue that our ancestors faced.
In her latest book, Unfamiliar Fishes, she explains how the past and present meet in Hawaii. When she comes to Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri at 7 p.m. on Sun., April 3 (tickets are available at Rainy Day Books), don’t be surprised if she makes you want to visit the same places she’s been or dig through the same musty documents she’s read.
Contacted by phone in San Francisco before her Kansas City appearance, Vowell explains, “Doing a reading is different from writing a book. You have to be cognizant that people are sitting there wanting to go home. That’s what most audiences are, people who want to go home. They have laundry to do, dinner reservations, whatever.
“Because I’m an audience member, I want to go home myself. There are certain sections of the book that are better out loud, things that are perhaps a little funnier that merely informational.”
A Nephew’s Help
It probably doesn’t hurt that she often joins her fraternal twin sister Amy and her outspoken young nephew Owen on her trips. The lad often says things during the journeys that wind up in his aunt’s books and essays.
She recalls, “It wasn’t really an intentional thing. I don’t know how to drive, so his mother has always been kind enough to come with me on some of my reporting trips to drive me around to places that have less than adequate public transportation. When Owen was born, you know how kids need their mothers, so he would just come along.
“When he first started talking, he would say a lot of quotable things. Some of it was the joy of childhood malapropisms. I needed his mom to drive me to Ohio when I was writing about assassinated presidents (in Assassination Vacation) and going to the cemetery where President Garfield is buried. After he got home from that trip, he told his mother he wanted to go to the cemetery. He called it, ‘a Halloween Park.’ He captures the weird appeal of cemeteries because they are sort of park-like.”
Even as he matures, Owen remains a valuable collaborator. “Sometimes he brings me down to earth because I get so sucked into what I’m researching.”
When she recalled to him how whaling ships frequently stopped by Honolulu harbor, the youngster was horrified by the slaughter of the animals and didn’t share his aunt’s obsession with Moby Dick. “He couldn’t stop being offended by the entire thing. So when I told him to lighten up because pretty soon that petroleum would be discovered in Pennsylvania and then the whole world would go ape for fossil fuel, he just said, ‘Good.’
“He didn’t know anything about whaling, which means to me that he didn’t really read the Moby Dick popup book I game him,” she adds.
No Dry Text
In all of her work, Vowell attempts to make recalling the past in a more visceral manner than history teachers did in school. Vowell is a huge fan of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, and her own tales have much of the same intrigue.
In The Wordy Shipmates, she expertly recalls how Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, left Massachusetts in order to escape deportation for his radical beliefs (he felt church and state should be separated because the latter would corrupt the former). He wound up receiving an urgent but secret warning.
“He was (Williams’) friend. When the official militia wants to stick him on a boat and send him back to England, (Williams) wasn’t at home because someone had warned him. It was later revealed that that someone was (John) Winthrop (the Massachusetts governor and the leader of that militia). I would do that for a friend, even one I disagreed with. It made them seem less far away or a Puritan cartoon. That made them seem like they were two guys who were buddies.”
Similarly, in recounting how June Carter Cash came to co-write her husband Johnny Cash’s hit song “Ring of Fire,” she makes listeners feel both their forbidden desire (both were married to others at the time) and their very real fear of facing fire and brimstone. Reese Witherspoon may have won an Oscar for playing June in the movie Walk the Line, but Vowell’s account of their relationship is far more powerful than the film. In case you doubt me on this, got to the This American Life site to hear for yourself at the 47:30 mark.
Vowell can also make seemingly staid subject matter hysterically funny. Her high-pitched nasal voice and her droll, deadpan delivery make anything she says sound more amusing. Even in print, she’s a riot. In Assassination Vacation, she attends the musical 1776 in the same theater where Abraham Lincoln was shot. While liking the performance, laments, “Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.”
In Unfamiliar Fishes, Vowell recalls how 19th century Hawaii went from being an isolated kingdom to part of the United States. She recalls how both whalers and New England missionaries fought over the destiny of the islands. Naturally, she finds an engaging way to retell the feud. In describing how a French voyage to the islands included collecting data on social diseases spread by previous European sailors, she muses, “Typical — the only thing more European than spreading VD is documenting it.”
Toward the end of the monarchy, one almost begins to side with the colonists because King Kalakaua was paying for his massive gambling debts with the public treasury. It’s no wonder the kingdom fell two years after he died in 1891.
Before you start to celebrate his demise, Vowell cautions that Kalahaua also preserved important aspects of Hawaiian culture like hula dancing which could have been lost because missionaries disapproved of them. She adds, “Yes, he was corrupt and inept. But his contemporary over here, President Grant, happened to be presiding over one of the most corrupt administrations in our history. It was ‘The Gilded Age.’ There’s this golden sheen over an ugly face.”
Forced Diversity
Our current president, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii, and his multi-ethnic ancestry is actually typical of the region. With the 19th century rise of sugar plantations, the owners recruited from around the globe to find the multitudes needed to grow the labor-intensive crop. According to Vowell, it wasn’t political correctness that made them recruit workers from Japan, the Philippines and other remote locales.
“The reasons the plantation owners wanted all these different kinds of people were that they intentionally built their own little Towers of Babel in the Pacific because they didn’t want their workers to be able to talk to one another because they didn’t want their workers to organize against their overlords.”
A Woman of Many Faces
If you’ve never heard of Vowell or her books, there’s still a good chance you’ve either heard or seen her. She’s been on dozens of talk shows and has appeared on the TV show Bored to Death and in the movie Please Give. In that film, Catherine Keener can be spotted reading The Wordy Shipmates, and then Vowell can be spotted as an indifferent customer in Keener’s shop.
Most people, however, know her as the voice of the invisible Violet Parr in the Pixar classic The Incredibles. Vowell says that she prefers to be typing her books instead of appearing on camera, but says her readings and acting career help her find new readers for her unusual but rewarding texts.
“Being a salesman enables me to keep writing the little books I do. Part of the reason I can write these books that sound like ones that nobody would want to read,” says Vowell. “I went to graduate school and wrote a graduate thesis, and I think one guy, the one who was grading it, read it. I couldn’t contain my rage that this was something only one person would read. It seemed like such a waste to me. Before I’m a writer, I’m a reader. A book doesn’t exist unless someone’s reading it.”
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779- DAMAGED GOODS (aka FORBIDDEN DESIRE, 1937) Roadhouse movie, not part of studio system. Exploitation movie under the guise of education often smuggled in and out of town. This one's about VD. It takes three or four years to be cured of syphilis if it all.
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The Law of Sequential Aspirates
The Law of Sequential Aspirates is a phonotactic restriction active in Modern Ivetsian that prohibits aspirated stops in sequential syllables (or in the onset and coda of the same syllable).  Thus, for example, a sequence such as tata [tʰætʰæ] is forbidden.
When such sequences occur in compounding, it is usually the second stop which is voiced to resolve this restriction (historically this was also the usual way such sequences were treated when the rule first developed, with some exceptions where the first stop changed instead), thus tata → tada.  This also generally applies to loan words.
This rule has a grammatical effect in certain verb forms.  The indirect knowledge stem, for example, is typically formed by adding -Vd to the basic stem (frequently with only semi-predictable alternations).  The nonhuman plural form is formed by adding -ei plus replacing the final -d with -t.  If this would create a violation of this rule, the first stop is voiced.  Thus, for example, the indirect knowledge stem for “to do habitually” (an auxiliary) is pod- [pʰod].  The 3rd person plural is botei [botʰei], with the p changing to b by this rule.
Some dialects instead opt for preserving the stem as much as possible, so that in those dialects you find podei.  The d → t rule still exists in these dialects, it’s just blocked where it would create a violation of this rule.  Thus, forms like džardatei from stem džardad- still occur, since there’s no violation of the law of sequential aspirates.
Pç and bř (/pç/ and /bɹ/) often function as if unitary stops for this purpose and thus can have the same alternation, as many instances of pç and bř descend from /pʰʲ/ and /bʲ/.  Some instances of tš and dž derive historically from stops /cʰ/ and /ɟ/, and thus dž → tš is also sometimes seen in this same environment.
This is not a word-level restriction.  Multiple aspirates can exist within a word if separated by other syllables, thus, a sequence such as tabata is permitted.
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I NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT  MY LITTLE PLANT
lots of gushing over how cute my plant is and how much i love it below
So my mom and dad went away on an anniversary trip recently (cuz this Valentine’s Day was their 20th year anniversary), and they left on Friday and came back on Wednesday the 14th. Now, it used to be that my dad would send roses in a vase or chocolates or a teddy bear on VD to my sister and I (probs cuz he knew neither of us would get anything otherwise), but he’s stopped since then, so i hadn’t gotten anything for VD for quite a many years now (which doesn’t really bother me btw). So I was super surprised when my parents came home with a VD gift for me! My dad came home with this little bitty pink living plant in a cute little bird pot!! I’ve never really mentioned this to anyone before, because I’ve never deemed it important, but I absolutely adore small potted plants and I’ve always wanted one!!! So my dad coming home with a VD gift for the first time in like 10 years and it’s a tiny potter flower was literally the best thing
and tbh, I gush over her when I’m alone. I baby talk to it like it’s a pupper cuz it’s just so dang cute and I love it so much, and I give it smooches. I even open the forbidden area. my blinds. I hate having my blinds open but i always leave them open when I go to school so my little pant has sunlight while I’m away. And looking at them now I’m gushing over how cute it is!! the buds are closing cuz it’s getting sleepy!!. Time for beddy bye little plant im love you so much!!! AND ALSO IT”S GROWING UP IVE NOTICED ALLOT OF IT’S BUDS ARE STARTING TO OPENUP. WHEN I FISRT GOT IT ONLY 2 BUDS HAD BLOOMED AND NOW WE’RE GETTING CLOSE TO 5!!! oh its just so precious!!! i got a tiny squirt bottle for her so i can water her cuz its the kind that likes mist v. watering and i mist it and she always looks so pretty and so shiny. just took a bath and is at her best. I call her my little LadyBird because her little bird pot is red with black hearts all over it, so she was initially confused with a ladybug but she is a bird so she’s my little ladybird and I love her more than most things in life. Like, I’m not materialistic whatsoever (which is why i find it hard to bye things i dont need) but id honestly cry if something ever happened to my little plant. ok im done. i go smooch my plant now.
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Nader Rabie | Nhan Nguyen | Important Travel and also General Details For Individuals Going To China
Individuals's Republic of China (PRC), well-known simply as "China," is located in East Asia and also prides itself in its ancient world. With its unique locations, society value, as well as very useful antiques, along with a center for business and commerce, China is not just a visitor's heaven, however it is also a perfect center for company to succeed. Right here are a few ideas on travelling to this faraway land.
  Arrival and also Departure
  Arrival: The minute you get here in China, you require to comply with certain procedures, as you would carry out in any other nation. Forms like Wellness Card, Entry Enrollment Card and Customized Luggage Declaration Kind requirement to be filled out.
  - Health Check: This is the first check that you will need to go through. The Quarantine Inspect requires you reveal your key along with the Wellness Card Kind, which was filled in while on board. Those found to be suffering with illness like leprosy, VD, cholera, transmittable lung tuberculosis, AIDS, or yellow high temperature will certainly be either restricted from going into the nation, or they will certainly need to go to the facility at the flight terminal for further monitoring. Those that have travelled from areas that are pestered demand to state an official certification of shot of that particular disease. If you have signs of throwing up, high temperature or diarrhea, you will need to state this info as well. If your visit in China is for an extended period, a quarantine certification provided to you by a licensed health and wellness department abroad needs to be submitted.
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- Border Entry: This is the 2nd stage that you will need to pass through. You will require to reveal your ticket, with a legitimate visa, along with Access Registration Card that was formerly completed. Visas are not provided at the boundary.
  - Custom-mades Examine: The last stage involves the custom-mades inspect. As soon as gathering your luggage, you will require to go through either of both channels: eco-friendly (if there is nothing that requires to be declared) or red. Products like computer systems, video cameras, digital video cameras, silver, gold, taped or published materials, for instance, which you will require or that which you will certainly not take with you when you leave the nation, require to be included in the Traditions Baggage Declaration Form. When the type is completed, you require to go through the red network. Right here you might have to spend for responsibilities. Sometimes, items will certainly require to be deposited at Customs, but you can take them out when you leave the country. The stamped type must be maintained safely with you, as you will need to send it to the Traditions Police officer on your departure from the nation.
  Departure: Upon your separation, reveal the products that you had actually declared on your arrival and as stated in the Traditions Baggage Statement Form. In the case of any kind of missing product, a certificate provided by the appropriate division needs to be submitted, or else you will require to pay import responsibility. The Departure Card will need to be submitted, followed by the safety and security check.
  There are a number of write-ups that you will certainly be forbidden from importing into the country, namely:
  - Arms and ammo
  - Counterfeit currency
  - Kinds of media like photographs, movies, sound as well as video CDs, gramophone records, published material, storage device for computer systems, for example.
  - Poisons, marihuana, heroin, opium, morphine, as well as other medications that create hallucinations or that are habit forming
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- Plants as well as pets transmitting deadly diseases, in addition to dangerous organisms.
  - Food items, medications, and other things that are coming from plague-stricken areas, as well as which are damaging to residential animals and human beings.
  The write-ups that are forbidden exports consist of all of the imports, in addition to cultural relics which are of tremendous worth, rare as well as decreasing in numbers animals, as well as sampling plants and also seeds.
  Important Travel Documents To Take
  - Your key and legitimate visa before your entering the country; a single-entry visa is typically legitimate for 3 months from the date of issue. You will certainly be allowed to stay for 30 days, at one of the most.
  - If you have any medical record, you are suggested to take it, which additionally includes your physician's name and call details, an emergency situation get in touch with and your insurance company's get in touch with details.
  Insurance coverage
  Tourists are suggested to purchase traveling insurance policy from a trustworthy insurance policy service provider before their separation from their hometown.
  Wellness Demands
  The complying with inoculations are needed to be taken 4 to 6 weeks prior to your travel:
  - Liver disease A & B or immune globulin (IG).
  - Typhoid.
  - Rabies.
  Packing.
  Before your departure, make a check list of the essential things that you must lug. Several of them consist of:.
  - Your key as well as required visas.
  - International airline tickets.
  - Authorized clinical certifications, medicines, first-aid kit, insect repellant.
  - Garments as well as devices, depending on your area as well as time of see, as well as the event (official wear is compulsory is some eating areas).
  - Wallet, charge card, vacationer's checks.
  - Contact details of your travel bureau (if you have actually made plans with one), close friends as well as loved ones back home, the hotel at which you will certainly be remaining.
  Ensure that your check-in travel luggage is lightweight. For those taking a trip via excellent, a weight of 88 pounds (40 kg) each is enabled. Those taking a trip in company class are permitted 66 extra pounds (30 kg) each, while those holding economic climate tickets are allowed to carry up to 44 pounds (20 kg).
  Regarding hand travel luggage or "carry on" baggage is concerned, excellent ticket owners are allowed two pieces of luggage, while the business and economy ticket holders are allowed only one piece, the dimensions of which should not be greater than 20 x 40 x 55 cm. The overall weight needs to not surpass (11 pounds) 5 kg. If the luggage does not satisfy these requirements, it will be taken into consideration as check-in luggage.
  Baggage.
  To make certain that your luggage is safe and also protected, it is suggested that tags presenting your name and also get in touch with information be affixed to as well as inside your baggage. Hardcover travel suitcases having built-in locks are perfect for travel.
  When traveling by residential trips, the very same guidelines use as discussed in the area on "Packaging.".
  Right here's an idea for those traveling in a group: The baggage allowance can be shared while checking-in. For example, if 2 people are traveling economy class, one can carry 35 kg and also the other 5 kg. This rule relates to those traveling in groups of 3, 4, 5 and even more, as long as they are checking in at the same time.
  You should know the items that you will be permitted to carry with you on your journey.
  - Things that are not to be taken: products that are toxic, combustible, corrosive, contaminated, allured, eruptive and polymerizable; weapons, blades, ammunition as well as sharp items.
  - Products that should not be packed in your check-in luggage due to the fact that the airline company provider does not take responsibility for them: all crucial records, currencies, prized possessions and also other crucial items that are needed to be secured by a person.
  - Things that can be packed in your check-in luggage: scissors, blade and a glass of wine or alcohol.
  - The luggage that you sign in need to be properly locked and able to endure pressure. If it does not consult with the specifications of the carrier, they may reject to take it on board.
  - If luggage is shed, you will obtain payment to not surpass RMB 50 yuan for each kg. If the worth of the luggage is less than that, then settlement will equate to the real expense of the loss.
  - If the value of the checked-in luggage is more than RMB 50 yuan per kg, a guest can state the cost of his luggage, the value of which can not exceed RMB 8,000 yuan. Nevertheless, in the case of lost luggage, the amount that was stated before take a trip can not be greater than the current baggage.
  Safety As Well As Safety.
  To have a hassle-free check out to China, here are a couple of pointers for risk-free traveling:.
  - Pre-travel: Prior to separation from your country, make sure that a number of duplicates of your passport, charge card, airline company tickets, tourist's checks, plan as well as various other traveling documents are made, and that one copy of each thing is entrusted a relative back residence.
  Ensure that your driver's certificate, passport as well as various other IDs are current and valid, and that pictures on them are up to date. These kinds of recognition need to not end prior to you return from your trip.
  - Resort security: Once in your resort room, make certain that the door and also windows of your room are secured whatsoever times. Respond to the door just after confirming that it is. It is always far better to carry bottled water, as the faucet water available in resort spaces is not drinkable.
  - Cash Issues:.
  1. Tourist's Checks: The safest method to carry money for your journey is by tourist's checks. Make sure that you take a note of the denominations, serial numbers, day and also the agency that has issued them. The checks need to not be authorized up until they are utilized.
  2. Credit Rating Cards: Carrying way too many bank card is unsafe. Besides taking just what is called for, take the charge card company's contact information in case the card obtains shed or is taken. A loss ought to constantly be reported simultaneously.
  3. Exchanging Money: Money ought to be traded in the hotel counter or Bank of China. Trading money in the black market is unlawful as well as opportunities are that you might obtain cheated.
  4. Small Money: Always keep modification on you as it will certainly work when buying from street vendors. Check the adjustment that you come back meticulously.
  - Travel And Transport: When traveling from one city to one more, it is more secure to leave your chauffeur's certificate, ticket and other IDs in the hotel space's security box or at the function workdesk. If, however, you require to lug them with you, guarantee that they are kept securely. When traveling by train, do not depend on any individual who is not in uniform to maintain your travel luggage safely. The train stations in China are crowded, so always ensure that your luggage is with you. If you are passing by taxi, it is better to have the resort call for one. Make certain that call info of the hotel, in addition to the area that you desire to go to, is written in Chinese and in English. When in the taxi, take a note of the motorist's name as well as enrollment number. This will guarantee you return your items, if you have actually left any kind of in it.
  - Outfit: You do not intend to attract the wrong kind of attention, so prevent dressing up. Pricey fashion jewelry and also watches should be left back house.
  - Interaction: Bring an expression book that equates English to Chinese is essential as most Chinese people do not speak English, neither do they recognize it. This will help navigating by yourself simpler. An overview publication to know Chinese society is likewise helpful.
  - Healthcare: Hotels generally give a medical professional when it comes to small ailments. Lugging a first-aid package for migraines as well as a cold is always a good idea. Drug stores, which are generally shown by a Green Cross, are found in lots of stores. There are several Environment-friendly Cross drug stores open 1 day. However, if the problem is serious, it is suggested that you go to a health center. To ask for a rescue, you require to call 120.
  - Remaining Fit: In some cases conducted excursions can become hectic and be the begin of some health problem, extra so with the modification of climatic problems in China. So, to stay clear of falling ill, make sure that you get sufficient remainder, wear garments depending on the weather condition as well as beverage a lot of mineral water. If your trip is during the summer season, see to it to wear sunglasses as well as a hat, put on sunscreen lotion, often change your clothing, and beverage much more water. The moment you feel an ailment coming on, look for treatment.
  - Photography: Taking pictures is allowed in the majority of locations. Nonetheless, in some it is either prohibited (as in certain museums and also archeological websites) or a cost is charged. It is constantly suggested you obtain permission prior to recording images of the locals.
  - Commodes: Public toilets are generally not spick-and-span, so bring a roll of toilet paper in your bag is a great concept. Public toilets bill a quantity of RMB 5 for use.
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Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns
Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns Get Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns right now!
VD #1 “Stop Them Cold, Banned Patterns” There are over 9 different types of patterns to cause massive sexual obedience, in bed and on the street. How to condition her mind with dep pleasure only you can give her. How she’ll begin to crave your pleasure and you will be put high on a pedestal for her to come to you, and please you, every which way you can imagine.
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DVD #4 Banned Patterns: “Secrets on How To Give Sexual Commands That Will Always Be Obeyed!” A two hour seminar on how-to-use internal power to enhance your commands.There is a lot of talk about “deep understanding,” meaning you are supposed to be nice guy yet never demand what you want blatantly otherwise you look too aggressive or needy. That is all bullshit. When you get obeyed it sets in her mind a leader, be the leader.
DVD #5 Banned Patterns: “Secrets of How-To-Do Deceptive Sexual Hypnosis” More real “hard core” practical secrets integrating hypnosis during the art of seduction and sex. The thing is, you don’t have to be into domination to want a person to submit to your interests. It’s just a natural human desire. The thing is you can’t just go up to someone and hypnotize them for sex. It doesn’t work that way. Other hypnotists have done that and gone to jail. We want to keep your butt out of jail.
DVD #6 Banned Patterns: “The Secrets of Sexual Rapport” How to use street effective rapport to get her comfortable, so you can easily slip in your patterns and have her think it’s all her own idea when she starts unzipping your pants…
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Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns
Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns Get Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns right now!
VD #1 “Stop Them Cold, Banned Patterns” There are over 9 different types of patterns to cause massive sexual obedience, in bed and on the street. How to condition her mind with dep pleasure only you can give her. How she’ll begin to crave your pleasure and you will be put high on a pedestal for her to come to you, and please you, every which way you can imagine.
DVD #2 Banned Patterns: “The REAL Secrets On How To Sexually Master Total Strangers Immediately” In over 90% of instantly meeting someone, you are judged within 5 seconds if they will sleep with your or not… but less than 8% of hypnotist know how teach you how to work with this small time frame…and NONE teach how to use that time frame to your advantage to totally control their responses.
DVD #3 Banned Patterns: “Secrets of Speed Hypnosis for “Sexual Trance Enhancement” How-to-trance-out your lover in ways that make them quiver from head to toe. The type of sexual enhancement trances that make them beg you for more because you elicited their raw ultimate fantasy. Even if they are standing 4 feet from you.
DVD #4 Banned Patterns: “Secrets on How To Give Sexual Commands That Will Always Be Obeyed!” A two hour seminar on how-to-use internal power to enhance your commands.There is a lot of talk about “deep understanding,” meaning you are supposed to be nice guy yet never demand what you want blatantly otherwise you look too aggressive or needy. That is all bullshit. When you get obeyed it sets in her mind a leader, be the leader.
DVD #5 Banned Patterns: “Secrets of How-To-Do Deceptive Sexual Hypnosis” More real “hard core” practical secrets integrating hypnosis during the art of seduction and sex. The thing is, you don’t have to be into domination to want a person to submit to your interests. It’s just a natural human desire. The thing is you can’t just go up to someone and hypnotize them for sex. It doesn’t work that way. Other hypnotists have done that and gone to jail. We want to keep your butt out of jail.
DVD #6 Banned Patterns: “The Secrets of Sexual Rapport” How to use street effective rapport to get her comfortable, so you can easily slip in your patterns and have her think it’s all her own idea when she starts unzipping your pants…
Get Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns right now!
Kali Dubois – Forbidden (Banned) Patterns Free Download, Forbidden (Banned) Pattern Download, Forbidden (Banned) Pattern Groupbuy, Forbidden (Banned) Pattern Free, Forbidden (Banned) Pattern Torrent, Forbidden (Banned) Pattern Course Free, Forbidden (Banned) Pattern Course Download
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