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flowering-darkness · 19 days

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I FIGURED OUT HOW NOT TO BREAK REBORN'S TIMELINES (MUCH)

TLDR: in my version of events, my self-insert (Adriana) now appears in all three timelines, not just the last two. The first is used for my selfship with Elena, and is reset as normal with nothing bad happening to Adriana; the second is used for my selfship with Luna, and is reset with an extra sacrifice needed due to Adriana’s fate there; the third is also used for my selfship with Luna, and ends in success thanks to the player being an additional presence. Adriana has a different outfit or appearance in each timeline, to help with differentiating them all.

Further explanation can be found under the readmore, if you'd like to know more! ..There will be some spoilers mentioned for the game, but I hope that the things I talk about are helpful for assisting your understanding if you aren’t as familiar with Reborn itself. I'm also more than happy to answer questions if anyone has any!! ^-^

The first timeline (pre-gameplay)

We don't know as much about the first timeline compared to the other two, and it also doesn't get to the same point that the other two do, but it's the one where everything technically kicks off from, so it's still important. In this timeline, Adriana is a Pokémon Trainer of some sort who travels to visit the Reborn region from her home in Kalos, and eventually ends up getting into a relationship with Elena of the Elite Four after bonding over a shared fondness for Ghost-types, gaining a greater appreciation for them in the process. (I have yet to figure out how Corey factors into this; for now, I am saying Elena has two hands.) More details will hopefully come with time.

The first timeline is eventually reset after the continued distortions and earthquakes afflicting Reborn, caused by Solaris wielding the power of Giratina, force Zina to have to fix things, sealing Giratina away in Byxbysion in the process and sacrificing her existence to facilitate the change and reset. Adriana was not a particularly prevalent character for many of the actual ongoing events here.. but this ends up changing after the timeline starts over again.

Anything I make within this timeline - so, anything to do with my selfship with Elena - can be identified by Adriana having a different outfit, and possibly also hairstyle. My first pass for this outfit, made within Pokémon Y, is this:

The second timeline (Episode 18)

This is the timeline seen by Miss Fortune, as well as being the one that has more direct relevance to in-game events, particularly in the postgame. Here, Adriana once again comes to Reborn, but at a slightly different time in her life - specifically, she decides to pick the region’s league as her first league challenge after finding some slightly misleading (in that it’s ten years out of date) marketing for it. From the moment she arrives rather explosively at Grandview Station, her journey goes completely differently to how she was expecting it to, as she ends up entangled in trying to stop Team Meteor while also collecting Gym Badges, eventually succeeding in obtaining all 18 (even if she did have to get two Poison- and Fighting-type ones due to.. extraneous circumstances). She ends up in a romantic relationship with Luna along the way as well, and even successfully rescues her from the Void.

This timeline follows the game’s events as they existed in Episode 18, with two key exceptions - Euphie still exists as Euphie, and Fern either does not join or eventually breaks away from Team Meteor. This is to fit what Miss Fortune sees. It also extends past the gym battle against Hardy, despite the game only being finished up to that point when this episode was the most recently-released one.

In this timeline, Adriana fully takes on the player character’s position as the protagonist, and experiences everything in the story as it existed in E18. The story then continues until she reaches the final battle with Lin, who drags her into the New World and removes its oxygen; Anna summons everyone’s hopes to make a wish to help her, but it turns out to not be strong enough, and she ends up unable to be saved, leaving Anna and others distraught. Fern then steps up to be the hero, working alongside Cal, Euphie, Arclight, and others to try and counter Lin and the havoc she is playing in the region - but he also doesn’t succeed. As a result, Anna ends up following in her mother’s footsteps by resetting the timeline again to fix the problems caused by Lin, with Nostra (her Jirachi) as the sacrifice; however, a second sacrifice is also deemed to be required to bring Adriana back, and this ends up being Euphie’s body, allowing Shade to exist as he is seen in-game in the next timeline.

Anything to do with my selfship with Luna that is set in the second timeline can be identified in two ways. The first is that Adriana uses a wide variety of Pokémon here, with no clear type specialty; examples include Delphox, Roserade, Ampharos, Silvally, Honchkrow, and Aegislash. The second is that Adri’s freckles are an ordinary dark brown colour; while she does become void-kissed in this timeline, I don’t know if I will say that this has any physical consequences on her here.

The third/current timeline (Episode 19)

This is the timeline that you actually are in when you play the game itself, so it arguably has the most prevalence. Here, Adriana’s first journey as a Pokémon Trainer is around her home region of Kalos, before she then decides to go and challenge the Reborn League. On the train there, she is sat next to another person (the player character), and is therefore able to be saved alongside them by Amethyst at the beginning. From there, Adriana travels across the Reborn region in a way that largely mirrors the path of the player; she appears many times throughout the story and experiences many of the same events that they do, so would arguably be counted as their rival if not for how she doesn’t actually push the dynamic in that direction. She once again ends up in a relationship with Luna, whom she is able to spend more time with here due to not having to experience every single story event, and her presence is indeed able to help make Anna’s wish succeed and save the player from suffering the same fate that she did. (I am only familiar with the Anna Route of postgame, so I tend to treat that as the default when Adri is present.)

Before the postgame begins, Adriana becomes the second person to make it through Charous Hall after the player, so she becomes their reserve (or, Shadow) Champion, having not been able to actually battle them for their title because she achieved this while they were temporarily missing. In the postgame itself, she does a small number of the in-game legendary quests, and eventually fully realises her status as the previous timeline’s hero when reunited with the original Giratina. This property turns out to be key to letting the player reach the grand finale.

My portrayals of Adriana, and/or my selfship with Luna, that are set within this timeline can be identified in two ways. The first is that Adri uses almost entirely Ghost-type Pokémon here; the only exceptions are her Shiny Silvally, her Gothitelle (whom she later gifts to Luna), and possibly some of the legendaries and mythicals she catches in the postgame (like Cresselia and Darkrai). The second way to identify third timeline events is that her freckles are white from the beginning, which was a physical consequence of having to bring her back to life and mess with the timeline to make sure she made it back (since.. Nostra ended up choosing another person, the player, to be the protagonist for this timeline - but it was vital that Adriana also came to Reborn as well as them, despite not having their role this time, because otherwise there might not be enough people to power Anna’s wish again if she needed to make it one more time. However, because Adriana is not from Reborn, it wasn’t guaranteed that she would return there after the timeline got reset. So, more meddling than usual had to happen to bring her back, mostly carried out by Shade, but this ended up having effects on Adri herself - this is how I bring in the whole anamnesis aspect). These consequences also get worse after she becomes void-kissed again, as a white star-like pattern forms all across her face and hair, and culminate in the full visibility of a pair of spectral wings on Adriana’s back, resembling the wings of a Reborn-Shiny Giratina.

Bonus: Another Time

This is the name given to the alternate/hypothetical future that you visit during the postgame while doing the Celebi quest, as the player ends up travelling ten years into the future with Celebi during this quest before returning to the present day. Due to the player disappearing from the present in this version of events, Adriana once again fills the role of Champion in their absence, just as she did before the postgame started. However, she is eventually defeated for the first time by Shelly, some time after the cast are able to figure out that the player travelled through time. She continues to hold her role as Shadow Champion when Shelly first becomes the Champion, but eventually steps down to allow her to select a new reserve. By the time of the player's return, ten years later, Adriana has taken over Shade's role as the Ghost-type Gym Leader of the Reborn League; she takes her battles in Iolia Valley, just as Luna did.

Since Another Time is explored after a ten-year timeskip, Adriana's appearance will definitely have changed in it like how everyone else's does, but I haven't quite decided how yet. However, since it is an alternate version of events within the third timeline, her physical appearance will stay the same as it does there (white freckles, etc.)

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!! Please don’t hesitate to ask me if you have any questions, no matter how big or small!

#heart of the void #selfshipping #..sort of #info posts #this post is okay to reblog if anyone wants to #creations from the void #why not #self‑inserts #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana)#of a city reborn (pokémon reborn)#and I did kind of mention both of the girls so #love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#love: dark dreamer (luna)#selfship: void‑kissed (luna/adriana)#first timeline adriana #second timeline adriana #I may not actually use those differentiation tags but if I at least put them here then it means they exist #crumbs I love this game

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tiny-cloud-of-flowers · 9 months

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Also! I have been trying to finally update the info posts that aren’t properly formatted yet, and of all the ones I got stuck on/distracted by, it was of course the one for my selfship with Elena. This is partially due to the nature of this selfship as being set in an AU that changes some story details, but also just generally because Elena is amazing and I love her a lot, even if her relative lack of presence in the story (she’s talked about a fair bit but she only shows up as herself in the postgame for one part of one quest..) means it can be tricky to talk about her unprompted.

There will never be an end to the Reborn focus. I really really need to play that game more again

#heart of the void #selfshipping #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#or you can also call it nightskyshipping to fit the format that canon x canon pokémon ships sometimes use for naming #like how my selfship with Luna can be called voidkissedshipping #and my selfship with N can also be called trueidealshipping (yes I did some research no that one isn’t taken to my knowledge)#love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#of a city reborn (pokémon reborn)#early arrival AU

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void-kissed · 1 year

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Echo's romantic selfships: Birds in the Night Sky (Elena/Adriana)

"the view from up here is even nicer when we're sharing it"

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romantic F/O: Elena Molinar (Pokémon Reborn)

character tag: love: soaring skyspectre (elena)

selfship tag: selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)

associated self-insert: Adriana Laverre (when not selfshipped with Luna)

self-insert tag: self-insert: soul-touched (adriana)

selfship start date: 31st May 2022

comfort sharing romantically: okay with sharing!

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Skyspectre Elena is one of the Elite Four of the Reborn Pokémon League, specialising in Flying- and Ghost-types. Adriana Laverre is a Pokémon Trainer from Kalos who also specialises in Ghost-types, having previously successfully completed a journey around her home region using them.

This selfship takes place in an AU called the early arrival AU, where Adriana travels to Reborn City from Kalos at the same age but approximately fifteen years before the start of Pokémon Reborn as a game. She ends up quickly forming a bond with Elena due to their shared type specialty, and the two of them end up talking a lot and eventually falling in love. Adri eventually becomes the region's Ghost-type Gym Leader, retaining this position when later fought by the playable protagonist.

I am still ironing out some of the details of this selfship to make it fit into the pre-existing story of the game more.

#a call from the void #echo's info posts #something to keep track of #heart of the void #love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana)#early arrival AU #delayed echoes #the main details I need to iron out are ''how does heather end up existing'' and ''what do we do about corey''#since I would really like it if elena was *not* killed off in this AU. perhaps for obvious reasons (those being that I love her)#but it's currently two in the morning as i'm writing this so this is not the plan for the current moment #selfshipping

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moved-to-void-kissed · 2 years

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Hello Aria!😄👋🏼

Just saw your first post involving Elena and I'm happy to see that. She's one of my favorite minor character, but she grew on me for long time and she and her family deserved better. So here's my first Elena ask:

✉How would you include her in your story? Like being revived or going back to the past to prevent her death at Sirius hands? How will it play out?

Evi, hello!! Precisely who I was hoping to see when I made that post, hehe. Thank you very much for your ask - I'm really glad you like her as a character! ^-^

At the moment, the way I'm handling my story with Elena is using an AU, which I'm currently calling the "early arrival AU". The main thing that's different in this AU is that my self-insert Adriana arrives in the Reborn region about fifteen years earlier than the normal version of events (where she arrives at the very start of the game on the train). However, she's still the same age as in normal circumstances - it's just that she arrives way earlier in Reborn's own timeline of events.

After Adriana arrives in Reborn, she meets Elena, who is of course still alive at this point, and quickly grows to admire her a lot because of her status as a Ghost-type specialist (especially since Adri's home region of Kalos doesn't have one, but it's the type that she herself specialises in), as well as generally for being such a powerful Pokémon Trainer. The details still need work of course, but the two end up becoming very close as time passes, eventually becoming a romantic couple. Elena does not get killed off in this AU, but I'm considering having Borealis target her somehow (I'll elaborate on that later in this post), so she can't continue in her Elite Four position, and that's why Heather takes it over instead.

In terms of how this would affect the game itself.. this post is getting long, so let me put it the rest under a readmore.

Regarding how the game itself plays out, Adriana would be the Ghost-type Gym Leader in this AU instead of Shade, so she is the one the player (who still gets to Reborn at the same time as normal) battles, although they might still have to go talk to Shade to get the door open. She would have the Gym in the Beryl Ward (since.. it's right by the graveyard and also the one that's highest-up, both of which are references to Elena), and be battled on the Dark Crystal Cavern Field. I don't really know how to tie Adriana into a story role here, but this is what I have for the moment. She does also become the Ghost-type Gym Leader in normal events (i.e. in the version of events where I use her to selfship with Luna), but that happens after the postgame instead there.

Regarding Corey in this AU, I think I might make his character revolve more around being Borealis and possibly leave his love for Elena as unrequited and he gets jealous because of that? And this is why he becomes recruited into Team Meteor as an underling of Sirius, to get the Ruby Ring back off of Elena, which I thought would keep his actions and personality similar to how they are in the game normally (though maybe he does actually just get arrested instead of his normal in-game fate). He still has the interest in poison, but maybe this time it's because of Sirius teaching him about it, and he turns it on Elena instead in this AU (ironic, I know) which is why she's then out of commission as an Elite Four member by the time the player gets there. However, she doesn't die.

Heather still exists in this AU, although I guess she's also my daughter now, and she can still retain the same kind of "wanting to defeat evil and make her own way in the world" I think, though this time it's not out of a "my dad is too overprotective I want to get away from him" thought process, but maybe more of a "I want to get back at the people who keep targeting my mum and get strong like she is" thought process.

I hope that all of that makes sense! Thank you very much again for your question - I suppose to give it more of a concise answer, it's that she doesn't get revived or brought forwards in time but instead just is never killed off in the first place in my AU ^-^

#a call from the void #selfship #selfshipping #heart of the void #love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana)#early arrival AU #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn)#out of the inbox #selfship asks #evi tag!#long post #death mention #ask to tag #I really wanted to still use adriana to selfship with elena since her already-existing character seemed like a natural fit #but what she does in the game in normal circumstances (i.e. when I use her to selfship with luna) doesn't really make things as easy for me #so I just made a separate AU to change her role in things a lot and therefore make it easier to be with elena ^-^#thank you so much again for this ask!!!#and sorry it took me so long to actually write out my answer for ;w;

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mostly-marvel-musings · 2 days

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hi, song anon here... so, I made a list lol. all these songs were written and are sung by brazilian musicians, and it might be difficult to find the lyrics in english (but I can translate them for you if you'd like that). these are the first fics that came to my mind when you asked, but fics that weren't mentioned but are somewhat similar to the ones mentioned here would probably fit well with these same songs. most of the songs here are sung by Maria Bethânia, cause she's like my favorite musician. I hope you like these songs :)

Love me back to life 1 - As canções que você fez pra mim (Maria Bethânia), Aparências (Belchior), Gota d'água (Chico Buarque), Eu e você sempre (Jorge Aragão), Você (Maria Bethânia), Gostoso demais (Maria Bethânia), Eu preciso de você (Maria Bethânia)

Love me back to life 2 - Espumas ao vento (Flávio José or Fagner), Pra que dividir (Flávio José), Uma prova de amor (Zeca Pagodinho), Feitio de paixão (Jorge Aragão), Eu e você sempre (Jorge Aragão), Minta meu sonho (Jorge Aragão), Pede a ela (Tim Maia), Dia Branco (Geraldo Azevedo)

Typical Stark - Olha (Maria Bethânia), Quero você (Maria Bethânia), Sem fantasia (Maria Bethânia and Chico Buarque), Dia branco (Geraldo Azevedo), Fica (Chico Buarque), Seu balancê (Zeca Pagodinho), Se (Djavan), A proposta (Liah Soares and Zeca Baleiro), Depois de ter você (Maria Bethânia and Adriana Calcanhoto), Estado de poesia (Chico César or Maria Bethânia)

Escape - Detalhes (Maria Bethânia), Ligia (João Gilberto), Gota d'água (Chico Buarque), Eu e você sempre (Jorge Aragão), Minta meu sonho (Jorge Aragão), Devolva-me (Adriana Calcanhoto), Eu preciso de você (Maria Bethânia)

Just friends - Quero você (Maria Bethânia), Dona da minha cabeça (Geraldo Azevedo), Eu te amo (Chico Buarque), Seu balancê (Zeca Pagodinho), A proposta (Liah Soares and Zeca Baleiro)

Taken captive - Negue (Maria Bethânia), Detalhes (Maria Bethânia), Seu olhar não mente (Flávio José), Pra que dividir (Flávio José), Ligia (João Gilberto), Gota d'água (Chico Buarque), Eu te amo (Chico Buarque), Devolva-me (Adriana Calcanhoto), Eu preciso de você (Maria Bethânia)

Rather convenient - Quero você (Maria Bethânia), Depois de ter você (Maria Bethânia and Adriana Calcanhoto), Seu balancê (Zeca Pagodinho), Infinito desejo (Maria Bethânia)

Where do we go from here - Costumes (Maria Bethânia), As canções que você fez pra mim (Maria Bethânia), Olha (Maria Bethânia), Sem ferrolho e sem tramela (Flávio José), Fera ferida (Maria Bethânia), Dignidade de um otário (Benito di Paula)

Annoying Neighbour - Sem ferrolho e sem tramela (Flávio José), Eu te amo (Chico Buarque), Se (Djavan), Eu e você sempre (Jorge Aragão), Pede a ela (Tim Maia), Gostoso demais (Maria Bethânia)

Obsessed - Mel (Maria Bethânia), Infinito Desejo (Maria Bethânia)

Young!Tony fics - Coração selvagem (Belchior), Fica (Chico Buarque), Seu balancê (Zeca Pagodinho), Me faz um dengo (Roberta de Sá and Martinho da Vila), Loucuras de uma paixão (Jorge Aragão), A proposta (Liah Soares and Zeca Baleiro), Proposta (Gilsons), Estado de poesia (Chico César or Maria Bethânia), Infinito desejo (Maria Bethânia)

they're all available on spotify and I can make you a playlist if you want :) and I can't wait to see what songs will fit well with the next part of Where do we go from here

Oh bless you, sweet nonnie!!!

I’ve got a four hour journey ahead of me now, I know what I’ll be doing :) This makes me very happy. And that music and songs transcend languages 🥹🤍

Thank you so much for sharing this with the Stark Squad! Hope you have an amazing day 🌼

#anon asks #the stark squad

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maaarine · 1 year

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Bibliography: articles posted on this blog in 2023

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To grasp how serotonin works on the brain, look to the gut (James M Shine, Psyche, Jan 03 2023)

Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe (Ian Livingston, The Washington Post, Jan 02 2023)

“Il faut que tu sois belle maintenant” : en Égypte, des femmes libérées du voile restent prisonnières des diktats (Aliaa Talaat, Al-Manassa via Courrier International, 20 nov 2022)

Mystery of why Roman buildings have survived so long has been unraveled, scientists say (Katie Hunt, CNN, Jan 06 2023)

Colombia’s surrogacy market: Buying a baby for $4,000 (Lucía Franco, El País, Jan 04 2023)

How to spot an eating disorder (Phillip Aouad & Sarah Maguire, Psyche, Jan 11 2023)

UAE sparks furious backlash by appointing Abu Dhabi oil chief as president of COP28 climate summit (Sam Meredith, CNBC, Jan 12 2023)

Don’t tell me that David Carrick’s crimes were ‘unbelievable’. The problem is victims aren’t believed (Marina Hyde, The Guardian, Jan 17 2023)

Baromètre Sexisme 2023 : "La situation est alarmante", estime le Haut Conseil à l'Égalité (Juliette Geay, Radio France, 23 janvier 2023)

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Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws (NPR, Feb 16 2023)

Are Men the Overlooked Reason for the Fertility Decline? (Jessica Grose, The New York Times, Feb 15 2023)

American teenage girls are experiencing high levels of emotional distress. Why? (Moira Donegan, The Guardian, Feb 16 2023)

Figures that lay bare the shocking scale of toxic influencer Andrew Tate’s reach among young men (Maya Oppenheim, The Independent, Feb 17 2023)

Why psychological research on child sex offenders is important (Meetali Devgun, Psyche, Feb 22 2023)

Derrière les chiffres des féminicides, des visages et un continuum de violences contre les femmes (Fanny Declercq, Le Soir, 27 fév 2023)

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English is not normal (John McWhorter, Aeon, Nov 13 2015)

Are Iranian schoolgirls being poisoned by toxic gas? (BBC News, March 03 2023)

‘Why do we need a supermodel?’: Backlash after Fifa makes Adriana Lima Women’s World Cup ambassador (Henry Belot, The Guardian, March 02 2023)

New Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories (Herman Pontzer, Scientific American, Jan 01 2023)

Polish woman found guilty of aiding an abortion in landmark trial (Harriet Barber, The Telegraph, March 14 2023)

How Diet Builds Better Bones: Surprising Findings on Vitamin D, Coffee, and More (Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, Jan 01 2023)

Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic (Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, March 21 2023)

Chinese Dating App Does the Swiping for Singles to Find Love (Nikki Main, Gizmodo, March 21 2023)

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Uganda’s failure to jail child rapists as teen pregnancies soar (Tamasin Ford, BBC News, April 17 2023)

Italy risks ‘ethnic replacement’ because of low birth rate and high immigration, says minister (Nick Squires, The Telegraph, April 19 2023)

Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times (Robert P Baird, The Guardian, March 30 2023)

India overtakes China to become world’s most populous country (Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian, April 24 2023)

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People in comas showed ‘conscious-like’ brain activity as they died, study says (Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, May 01 2023)

Chinese woman appeals in battle for right to freeze her eggs (The Guardian, May 09 2023)

Women CEOs: Why companies in crisis hire minorities - and then fire them (The Guardian, DG McCullough, Aug 08 2014)

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Support Of Amber Heard Alongside French Feminists & Cinema Figures (Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, June 05 2023)

Why is Japan redefining rape? (Tessa Wong & Sakiko Shiraishi, BBC News, June 07 2023)

Catching the men who sell subway groping videos (Zhaoyin Feng & Aliaume Leroy & Shanshan Chen, BBC News, June 08 2023)

Netherlands to provide free sun cream to tackle record skin cancer levels (Kate Connolly, The Guardian, June 12 2023)

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think (Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, Jan 26 2023)

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‘Farsighted impulsivity’ and the new psychology of self-control (Adam Bulley, Psyche, Feb 03 2021)

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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain (Marta Zaraska, Quanta Magazine, Feb 28 2023)

Why religious belief provides a real buffer against suicide risk (David H Rosmarin, Psyche, Aug 07 2023)

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Rape Cases Seize Italy’s Attention and Expose Cultural Rifts (Gaia Pianigiani, The New York Times, Sep 03 2023)

Councils in England in crisis as Birmingham ‘declares itself bankrupt’ (Heather Stewart and Jessica Murray, The Guardian, Sep 05 2023)

Nearly one in three female NHS surgeons have been sexually assaulted, survey suggests (Jamie Grierson, The Guardian, Sep 12 2023)

Domination and Objectification: Men’s Motivation for Dominance Over Women Affects Their Tendency to Sexually Objectify Women (Orly Bareket and Nurit Shnabel, Sep 09 2019)

In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (Manuel Viejo, El País, Sep 18 2023)

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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases (Sarah C.P. Williams, The University of Chicago, Sep 11 2023)

Poland election: exit polls point to Law and Justice defeat as Tusk hails ‘rebirth’ (Shaun Walker, The Guardian, Oct 16 2023)

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Far-right party set to win most seats in Dutch elections, exit polls show (Jon Henley and Pjotr Sauer and Senay Boztas, The Guardian, Nov 22 2023)

Climate change: Rise in Google searches around ‘anxiety’ (Lucy Gilder, BBC, Nov 22 2023)

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The sexual assault of sleeping women: the hidden, horrifying rape crisis in our bedrooms (Anna Moore, The Guardian, June 15 2021)

Afghanistan: Taliban sends abused women to prison - UN (Nicholas Yong, BBC News, Dec 15 2023)

Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Child Big Five Personality Traits (University of California Press, Nov 18 2021)

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Severe Morning Sickness (Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times, Dec 13 2023)

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 2 years

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Fate of Amazon rests on Brazil election, say experts

Further destruction under Bolsonaro could push vital rainforest past irreversible tipping point

The fate of the Amazon rests on Brazil’s national election on Sunday, according to experts, who say a continuation of the rampant destruction under President Jair Bolsonaro could push the world’s biggest rainforest past an irreversible tipping point.

In contrast, a victory for the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who oversaw a sharp decline in deforestation when in power, could lead to the razing of forests falling by 90%, scientists estimate.

The Amazon rainforest plays a vital role in the global climate as a vast store of carbon dioxide, but recent research showed that fires and tree felling have left the region emitting more CO2 than it absorbs. Researchers showed in March that the Amazon was approaching a tipping point, after which the forest would be lost, with profound implications for the global climate and biodiversity.

Bolsonaro became president at the start of 2019 and has slashed environmental protections and promoted colonisation of the forest. research shows that CO2 emissions doubled in 2019 and 2020 compared with the average over the previous decade, driven by soaring deforestation and fires as law enforcement collapsed.

The latest data shows that almost a million hectares of rainforest have been burned in the past year. In the month to 26 September, fires soared to their highest levels in a decade. Brazil’s national space research agency, INPE, reported 36,850 fire alerts in the region, more than double than in the whole month in 2021.

The increase may be because of those illegally destroying the forest taking a final opportunity to grab land before the election, according to Amazon researchers.

“Bolsonaro has dragged Brazil back to the wild west days we thought we’d left behind,” said Adriana Ramos, at Brazil’s Instituto Socioambiental, which works to protect Indigenous peoples and their forest homes. “It’s no exaggeration, then, to say that the Amazon’s fate rests on the outcome of our election on 2 October. If Bolsonaro wins another term in office, the world’s biggest rainforest could pass its tipping point. If he loses, we have the chance to bring it – and Brazil – back from the brink.”

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #environmentalism #brazilian elections #environmental justice #climate change #amazon rainforest #brazilian elections 2022 #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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Okay I could NEVER be as good as the OG calendar anon but I thought I’d make one since they’ve gone missing. Hopefully y’all like it! <3

January: Happy New Year! Dirty Dominik Mysterio is looking forward to another year of criminal acts and peggings from Mami, he’s so excited at the Judgement Day New Years party that he’s stripped out of all his clothes and has two bottles of champagne going, he pours one dramatically into his open mouth, letting some of it drip out the sides of his lips and down his slender body, the other is held just in front of his dick and balls. He’s holding the bottle there deliberately, not letting us get a look at his junk; only Mami gets to see the goods.

February: Picture the scene: Valentines Day, fancy Italian restaurant, candles everywhere, rose petals surrounding the table. Sitting opposite each other is Tony D and Stacks. Adriana Rizzo is in the background serving cunt (& meatballs!). The two men are sitting so close together, their faces only an inch or two apart, looking lovingly into each other’s eyes. The tablecloth obscures the view for everyone but us, and we can see that under the table Stacks is secretly rubbing his foot against the hardening bulge of The Don.

March: Class is back in session for the Spring Semester at Chase U, but Riley Osborne was late for one of Andre Chase’s lectures. Everyone knows bad behaviour has to be punished! Riley is seen bent over Andre’s desk at the front of the class, his pants dropped to his ankles, with Mr Chase winding his palm back around ready to spank the bare ass of his student. The MVP of Chase U, Duke Hudson is also there, sitting at his desk but with a flushed red face, using a textbook to cover the boner he’s got from watching his twunky tag team parter getting spanked.

April: There’s an Easter egg hunt happening at the PC but Carmelo Hayes (dressed in his slutty crop top and a pair of tiny gym shorts) has been distracted by a trail of candy on the floor leading him into the locker room. His eyes are locked into the candy until they appear on the locker room bench in front of him and stop abruptly in between two powerful oiled up thighs belonging to Trick Williams. Trick is completely naked with a seductive look on his face and is holding an Easter egg in front of his beautiful dick, almost teasing Melo to dig in.

May: The Cinco de Mayo celebrations are underway for Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo in some kind of dance club. You can tell they they were initially dressed in traditional clothes but they have been thrown to the side and they’re now moving their nearly naked and sweaty bodies along to the music. The men are in tiny thongs that leave VERY little to the imagination. They’re dancing on small tables while everyone gazes lustfully at them and their sensual moves, drawn to the cousins curvy and juicy asses. The camera catches Angel mid twerk, while a horny tío slips a few dollars into Humberto’s bulging thong. The Lotharios can’t help it, they love to show off!

June: Summer is the perfect time for volleyball! It’s a Raw vs Smackdown volleyball game for brand supremacy. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller vs The Creeds. Both teams are wearing speedos that are colour coordinated with their brand. We all know Austin’s is not stranger to a blue speedo 😉 Both teams are shining; is it the sun? sweat? baby oil? who cares, they look like gods! Austin is stood to the left of the picture, his shapely ass spilling out of the tiny blue speedo, watching his glistening partner soaring through the air to slap the ball. On the other side of the image, Julius is jumping through the air hoping to block Grayson’s shot, his heavy shlong protruding obscenely from his speedo. Brutus is still face-down on the sand after initially saving the point, his thick ass pointing to the sky.

July: CAAAAW 🦅MURICA 🇺🇸 happy 4th of July y’all! Cody Rhodes loves America so much that he even sleeps in a bed with an American flag duvet! This candid picture was taken of him just after waking up, one half of his body still tangled in the bedsheet, the other above it, with him laying on his stomach. Silly Cody was very tired the night before and went to bed completely naked, so here he is presenting his smooth All American bubble butt to the camera. A sliver of morning sunlight peeking through the window is perfectly illuminating the curves of his body and ass. Gawd bless the U S A.

August: Bash in Berlin is the first WWE PPV to ever happen in Germany, so what better way to celebrate the occasion that with some German delicacies. WWE has superstars doing promotional work across the country. Oh no, looks like someone forgot their lederhosen 🫢 Ludwig Kaiser will have to be naked instead I guess? He’s in a German tavern, holding a massive overflowing plate of thick German sausages in front of his lean muscular body. Luckily for him, one of the thickest sausages is dangling off the plate in the perfect position to cover his own huge meat.

September: Harvesting season has begun for Brooks Jensen and he’s busy trying to fix this goshdarn tractor. Farming is sweaty work so he’s thrown his plaid shirt to the side. He’s stretching himself across the giant tractor wheel to fix the problem, forgetting that he’s wearing a jockstrap under his denim bootyshorts, and his stretching has given us all an eyeful of his fat country ass framed by a few flimsy bits of fabric. Typical himbo!

October: It’s not such a happy Halloween for Dragon Lee since he’s being chased down backstage by cock-hungry zombies! 😨 he was preparing for a match when the outbreak happened so was caught off guard by the attack, they clawed at his glistening body and tore some of his tiny trunks leaving parts of his ass exposed for all to see.

November: It’s Thanksgiving for the WWE roster and many of them are sitting around a long table, ready to feast. But wait, that’s not a turkey in the middle of the table… that’s Jey Uso’s giant ass! He’s completely naked On a large serving platter and surrounded by seasonal vegetables while his humongous cheeks are being used as the table centrepiece and they look as shiny and delicious as a well-basted turkey!

December: Some people need to just stop fighting and kiss-and-make-up, none moreso than CM Punk and Seth Rollins, and what better way to do that than meeting underneath the mistletoe. They’re both wearing adorable Christmas jumpers but the kiss they’re giving each other is far from adorable. It’s nasty, passionate, sloppy, tongues deep inside each others mouths. Punk’s hand has slipped under Rollins’ pants and has a vice grip on his asscheek, while Seth has one of his wrapped around Punk’s throat. Don’t you just love Christmas?!

WELL HELLO CALENDAR ANON (thats what im gonna name u now)... THIS WAS A FUCKING SHOCK! and also so funny cuz costume contest anon sent theirs in just before dfsjsadjadsf

I LOVE IT THO LIKE?? DOUBLE THE SLUTTY CALENDAR FUN?? THANK U BOTH

these are legit so hot like:// gonna need u to do more too pls....

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seth and punk

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angel and humberto

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jey uso

how about yall? double the fun today!!

#calendar anon #ask

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dissonantia-goddess-of-chaos · 1 year

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Rimilda, Bastard Daughter of all Great Ones: [ageless]

"All sounds range in tone, yet silence rings the loudest... Child of many, yet child of none... Bastardized child of a wedlock marriage, born into the world by empty womb... Birth by the blood of the limitless mother of all and her harem of souls... Parasite of the eggs of a whore, a holy nun, and an undead queen who lost her young to creatures untold... Fed by the blood of all cursed creatures of the night... Bonded to the blood of all Great Ones... Wrapped in the silver silk of arachnids... Fall, fall, fall into the arms of your mother, young Guardian of Yharham... Bare the face only They could love, with three pairs of wings to soar and quadruple the arms to wield your blades... And forever protect your name, O' Great One Rimilda."

Dissonantia— disguised as a hunter with a sickle + chain whip as her merge weapon, wearing a victorian era metal alicorn mask (like how Elise the Crow wears a bird mask) that has a curved horn, empty eye sockets and nostrils, and it's mouth is agape so Dissonantia can breathe out fire— created an "embryo" made out of her blood and the DNA of all of her spouses, the ovums of a whore (Adriana), a nun (Adelle), and a queen (Yharham), the blood of the drunken (almost every "normal" enemy in the game), a drop of blood from every Great One, and protected by the spiders' silk to form an artificial womb.

Rimilda was born similar to a butterfly, crawling up the side of the cocoon and slowly stretching and spreading out her feathered wings after ripping out of the spider webbing at the bottom, the fluids from her artificial womb pouring out.

Her face similar to Twisted Alice Angel from BATIM and BATDR, with the deformed side of her face covered with eyes and blemishes. Her right eye is a pale blue with a visible pupil, while her left eye is slightly swollen and completely black.

She has a forked tongue that acts similar to reptilian tongues.

Her body shape is slim and petite, half as tall as the Orphan of Kos. She has the same skin tone as him.

She thinks of him as an older brother figure.

She is mute most of the time, only talking to those who are worth her time.

She has six wings similar to Mergo's Wet Nurse, but with many shiny black eyes on them.

She has four arms, with the upper ones stretched out adorned with larger hands.

She has a serpent tail similar to the Godskins from Elden Ring.

Slimy purple snakes and black leech-like tendrils can come out of her mouth during a five-second grapple attack, biting the player and taking their health by 10 points.

She can be heard humming the Winter Lanterns' song from time to time.

She can form a blood whip by using her old umbilical cord that's attached to a bloody spiked morningstar. (Link)

She was given an unbreakable lanternflail. (Link)

She is constantly hungry, and often snacks on dead corpses to avoid eating the living if there isn't actual food nearby.

Her hair is made out of Kos's hair tentacles that slowly turn into black snakes at the tips. (Link)

She can become a giant hydra dragon (search up "false hydra") when "defeated" for the first round of a battle. (Link)

#oc #original character #cyan #open to rp #tw gore #bloodborne #blood bending #blood bending dnd #orphan of kos #great ones #eldritch gods #eldritch horror #eldritch #tw snakes #tw eyes #Bloodborne oc

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winningthesweepstakes · 3 months

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More Than You Imagine by Thelia Hutchinson, illustrated by Adriana Predoi

More Than You Imagine by Thelia Hutchinson, illustrated by Adriana Predoi. Soaring Kite, 2024. 9781958372364 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 Format: Hardcover picture book What did you like about the book? Rhyming couplets describe the love that many diverse families feel toward their children. Vibrantly colored digital illustrations show a mom and a grandmother with…

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OH!!! IT'S HERE AS WELL

HELLO FRIEND THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!!!

The little drawing of Elena at the side.. Adri's little hat.. it feels so weird seeing her without a necklace wow. Maybe I will give her the rose quartz pendant I have IRL.

I truly am so grateful that you took the time to draw this, so seriously, thank you so much!!!!! I really do truly appreciate it!!!!!

#I saw the post #melted about it and reblogged it and then shut my laptop to melt about it more #and then now checking back on my phone have realised it is Also In Here!#heart of the void #selfshipping #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana)#first timeline adriana #love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#of a city reborn (pokémon reborn)#out of the inbox #selfshipping asks #clara tag!#a gift for the void #absolute favourites

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tiny-cloud-of-flowers · 10 months

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birds in the night sky (Elena/Adriana)

setting: Pokémon Reborn romantic F/O: Elena Molinar self-insert: Adriana Laverre names for the selfship: birds in the night sky, elenadri, nightskyshipping, early arrival AU selfship start date: 31st May 2022

Content for this selfship: on this blog | on previous blogs

Some more things you might like to know about this selfship are under the readmore!

As this post demonstrates, Elena's character tag is "love: soaring skyspectre (elena)", while Adriana's tag is "self-insert: soul-touched (adriana)". The tag for the selfship as a whole is "selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)", but you can also find content for it under the tag "early arrival AU"!

This selfship takes place in a separate version of events to my selfship with Luna, called the early arrival AU. In this AU, Adriana travels to the Reborn region about 15 or so years before the game normally starts, and she and Elena meet and quickly bond over a shared fondness for Ghost-type Pokémon. After spending a lot of time together, they end up developing feelings for each other.

The details of the AU are still somewhat under construction, but Adriana is the Ghost-type Gym Leader of the Reborn League as faced by the player, and she awards the Spectre Badge upon successful defeat. Content of her in this AU can be identified by her having dark brown freckles that are only on her face, as opposed to my selfship with Luna where she has white star-like freckles all over her body and hair.

#heart of the void #selfshipping #info posts #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana)#early arrival AU #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn)#posts to keep track of #unfinished posts

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Unidos do Cabuçu apresentou as fantasias do carnaval 2024

A Unidos do Cabuçu apresentou no último domingo, dia 3 de dezembro, as fantasias para o Carnaval 2024, preparadas pela dupla de carnavalescos: Paulo Henrique Germano e Leonardo Soares.

Antes da Festa de Protótipos, com o desfile dos 16 figurinos para o próximo desfile, o presidente Laerte Gulini apresentou a nova musa da agremiação: a influencer Flávia Abreu, que recebeu a faixa e agora faz parte da Unidos do Cabuçu.

Ao som da bateria Emoção, na regência de mestre Nandin, e da voz do intérprete oficial, Sandro Mota, os segmentos se apresentaram ao som do hino oficial do enredo “Será que sempre deu camelo na cabeça?”.

A Unidos do Cabuçu será a décima segunda a desfilar no Sábado das Campeãs, dia 17 de fevereiro de 2024, na Intendente Magalhães, pela Série Bronze da Superliga Carnavalesca.

Adriana Vieira

Assessora de Imprensa

Seres Unidos do Cabuçu

Fotos: Divulgação

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moved-to-void-kissed · 2 years

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..Okay, I still need to work some things out, but, I'm doing this.

From now on, there is another character I romantically selfship with! This is Elena Molinar, another character from Pokémon Reborn. She may only appear directly in one postgame quest, but she is very cool and pretty and I love her.

Here she is, along with some dialogue from the game to show you what she's like:

The developers described her as "chaos incarnate", and she's brilliant. Elias is fully deserving of the roasts.

My tag for her as a character is "love: soaring skyspectre (elena)", based on her extremely neat Trainer title, while the tag for my selfship with her is "selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)". As you can see from that, I'm using my pre-existing self-insert Adriana to selfship with her, but this selfship is in a very different version of events to the "default" circumstances where Adriana is with Luna. At the moment, I have it where Adri arrives in Reborn about 15-20 years earlier than she does normally, though at the same age, so she has a different role in the story by the time the player arrives; this is called the early arrival AU. However, I might change this, I don't know yet.

I still have a lot of details I need to work out to make this selfship fit into the story, especially considering the fact that Elena's in-game marriage and murder are both kind of important plot points, but.. I still want to do this, so I thought I'd make a post about it. The carrds are already updated to the necessary extent!

#a call from the void #selfship #selfshipping #heart of the void #love: soaring skyspectre (elena)#selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)#early arrival AU #logistics #I think I use that tag for any kind of update stuff so #the elite four theme came on while I was writing this so i am taking that as a good sign hehe #as far as i'm aware it's not stated whether she took corey's surname or vice versa when they got married #but since both ''elena'' and ''molinar'' are listed on wikipedia as italian or of italian origin i'm just going to say it was already hers #it makes things easier on me #i've put the start date for this selfship as the 31st of may because that's when I was like ''okay yes I want to do this''#I just didn't get around to making a post about it until now

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Evento organizado pela Associação dos Cabeleireiros do Estado do Ceará (ACEC) ocorre até amanhã (17) com novidades do mercado de cosméticos O Centro de Eventos do Estado do Ceará recebeu, na tarde de domingo (15), milhares de visitantes de todo o Brasil na abertura oficial da *“31ª Feira Regional da Beleza”.* Organizada pela Associação dos Cabeleireiros do Estado do Ceará (ACEC), a feira está sendo prestigiada por 72 caravanas, profissionais locais e pelo público em geral. Reunindo 550 marcas no Pavilhão Leste, a programação com lançamentos, cursos, palestras, workshops e demonstração ao vivo segue até amanhã, terça-feira (17), das 13 às 21 horas. Antes do corte da fita pelo presidente da ACEC, Gurgel do Amaral, ato que marca mais uma edição da Feira Regional da Beleza, a cantora natalense Thábata Medeiros animou o público que aguardava ansioso para entrar e conferir todas as novidades. Um dos pontos altos no primeiro dia foi a entrega de uma cesta de rosas vermelhas para a empresária do ramo da beleza, Nayara Bezerra. A profissional foi uma das estrelas do palco do Mega Show no primeiro dia, demonstrando como fazer mechas no cabelo em apenas 20 minutos. Do lado de fora do Centro de Eventos, no estacionamento, ônibus trazendo as caravanas de estados como Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Maranhão, Piauí, Pará e Bahia não paravam de chegar. A cabeleireira e terapeuta capilar Adriana de Oliveira é natural de Caxias, no Maranhão, e veio para Fortaleza em uma caravana do Piauí com cerca de 40 visitantes. Em sua segunda participação na feira, a profissional está em busca de novidades. “Gosto muito da feira, pois ela traz muitas novidades dentro do mercado da beleza. Vim aqui atrás de químicas capilares e produtos zero formol, que são coisas da minha área profissional”, explica Adriana. Já Mauriceia Muniz, pernambucana com 16 anos de atuação no setor, tem como foco a atualização profissional. “Vim aqui muito em busca de conhecimento das oficinas e palestras, além dos produtos com preços mais em conta”, destaca Mauriceia. Outras oportunidades de negócios podem ser encontradas no Pavilhão Leste. Vários estandes de artesanato e moda localizados próximo ao palco principal contam com trabalhos de 20 profissionais. Uma das expositoras é Tânia Maria, psicóloga mineira e artesã dona da Grisalha Arte. Em sua primeira participação na Feira Regional da Beleza, ela só tem elogios a respeito da estrutura oferecida ao público e aos expositores. “Achei a feira fantástica, muito bem elaborada e organizada, com muita gente circulando também. Minha expectativa é que mais pessoas nos visitem nos próximos dias”, comemora. Serviço: 31ª Feira Regional da Beleza e 23º Congresso Regional da Beleza Local: Centro de Eventos do Ceará – Pavilhão Leste Endereço: Avenida Washington Soares, 999, Edson Queiroz, Fortaleza/CE Data: 15, 16 e 17/10/2023 (domingo, segunda e terça-feira) Entrada: R$ 10,00 / dia Mais informações: www.acec-ce.com.br e www.feiraregionaldabeleza.com.br Perfil no Instagram: @associacao_dos_cabeleireiros

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