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A few years ago I discovered a book titled Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen. That book chronicled “The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America.” I learned about this secret operation from researching First Signal in 2018. Jacobsen’s book, however, detailed the complexities and issues surrounding the program that ultimately led to Apollo 11’s manned landing on the…
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Nuklearni rat i posljednje 72 minute prije kraja svijeta
Sukob u Ukrajini i onaj između Izraela i Irana iznova je strah od nuklearnog oružja učinio centralnim. Danas ga posjeduje devet sila. Knjiga Annie Jacobsen govori o rizicima i strahu u vremenu nesigurnosti Piše: Elena Tebano (Corriere della Sera, 20.04. 20241) „Nuklearni rat je ludilo. Ako neki nuklearni projektil bude lansiran protiv Sjedinjenih Država, čak i od strane pokvarenjačke države koja…
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COMMUNITY ASK-BLOGS AS TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS PT3:
(songs chosen according to ask-blog lore. not including inactive/unresponsive askblogs.)
Part One , Part Two
@prayingshirleybennett // Sweet Nothing // Shirley Bennett
‘They said the end is coming, everyone’s up to something, I find myself running home to your sweet nothings’ // ‘Outside they’re push and shoving, you’re in the kitchen humming, all you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing.’
@leonardlikesthissite // Karma // Leonard Rodriguez
‘Karma’s a relaxing thought, aren’t you envious that for you it’s not? Sweet like honey. // ‘Ask me what I learnt from all those years, ask me what I earned from all those tears, ask me why so many fade but I’m still here.’ 
@ask-toddjacobson // This is Me Trying // Todd Jacobson
 ‘They told me all my cages were mental, so I got wasted like my potential, and my words are shoot to kill when I’m mad, I’ve got a lot of regrets about that.’ 
@ask-wilbur-whitton // Eyes Open // Wilbur Whitton (OC)
‘The tricky thing is yesterday we were just children’ // ‘So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard.’
@ask-annies-boobs , @the-other-monkey, AND I CANT REMEMBER THE THIRD MONKEY's @ // Never Grow Up // Annie's Boobs, Britta's Boobs, Troy's Boobs
'To you, everything's funny, you got nothing to regret,' // I won't let nobody hurt you, won't let no one break your heart, and no one will desert you, just try to never grow up,'
@askingjeffwinger // Anti-Hero // Jeff Winger
‘I have this thing where I get older, never wiser // It must be exhausting always rooting for the Anti-hero.’
BONUS SECOND WINGER SONG (they were both too good)
@askingjeffwinger // The Archer // Jeff Winger again
‘Who could ever leave me darling, but who could stay?’ // ‘All the king's horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put me back together again, because all of my enemies started out as friends. // ‘They see right through me, you see right through me, I see right through me.’
Last Part! Unless anyone else wants to request to be part of this. I really just did those who I interact with a lot/whose RP stories and characters I know well.
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2022 - 2023 Team USA International Selection Pool
The International Selection Pool (ISP) includes junior- and senior-level athletes and teams who meet criteria approved by the U.S. Figure Skating International Committee. These athletes and teams are eligible to be considered for assignment to international competitions.  
List as of 7/1/2022
Men
William Annis
Lucas Broussard
Jason Brown
Nathan Chen*
Goku Endo
Kirk Haugeto
Jonathan Hildebrandt
Tomoki Hiwatashi
Liam Kapekis
Lucius Kazanecki
Joseph Klein
Kai Kovar
Lake Liao
Jimmy Ma
Ilia Malinin
Samuel Mindra
Antonio Monaco
Maxim Naumov
Nhat-Viet Nguyen
Matthew Nielsen
Yaroslav Paniot
Camden Pulkinen
Jacob Sanchez
Taira Shinohara
Eric Sjoberg
Beck Strommer
Dinh Tran
Michael Xie
Robert Yampolsky
Maxim Zharkov
Vincent Zhou*
Women
Starr Andrews
Sonia Baram
Mia Barghout
Mariah Bell
Gwen Bloesch
Alena Budko
Karen Chen
Elsa Cheng
Hazel Collier
Sarah Everhardt
Amber Glenn
Gracie Gold
Giselle Graves
Hanna Harrell
Finley Hawk
Jill Heiner
Hannah Harrera
Tia Hilbelink
Rena Ikenishi
Gabriella Izzo
Mia Kalin
Ellie Kam
Katie Krafchik
Josephine Lee
Isabeau Levito
Elyce Lin-Gracey
Hannah Lofton
Maryn Pierce
Abigail Ross
Paige Rydberg
Clare Seo
Katie Shen
Audrey Shin
Phoebe Stubbenfield
Bradie Tennell
Linsday Thorngren
Kate Wang
Wren Waren-Jacobson
Sherry Zhang
Adele Zheng
Ava Ziegler
Pairs
Sonia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev
Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc~
Emily Chan / Spencer Howe
Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier
Katie McBeath / Nathan Bartholomay
Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siiantsyia
Cayla Smith / Andy Deng
Ice Dance
Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville
Oona Brown / Gage Brown
Helene Carhart / Volodmyr Horovyi
Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov
Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-luc Baker
Angela Ling / Caleb Wein
Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spirdonov
Caroline Mullen / Brendan Mullen
Leah Neset / Artem Markelov
Eva Pate / Logan Bye
Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal
Vanessa Pham / Jonathan Rogers
Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen
* - indicates the skater has indicated they will not compete next season
~ - indicates the team has retired
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Mystery on Mistletoe Lane
Mystery on Mistletoe Lane (2023) #AllanHarmon #VictorWebster #EricaCerra #FredHenderson #MaryBethManning #JulietteHawk Mehr auf:
Jahr: 2023 (November) Genre: Mystery Regie: Allan Harmon Hauptrollen: Victor Webster, Erica Cerra, Fred Henderson, Mary-Beth Manning, Juliette Hawk, Logan Pierce, Gardiner Millar, Benjamin Jacobson, Diana Smendra, Jeanie Cloutier … Filmbeschreibung: Neu in der Stadt entdecken Heidi Wicks (Erica Cerra) und ihre Kinder Annie und Garrett (Juliette Hawk und Logan Pierce) ein Weihnachtsgeheimnis…
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Two Segment Episode(s) on Religious, Spiritual, and Fascist Psychological Operations
The Liminalist # 219: Fake Blueprints for Revolution (The Shadow Ideology of the Elite, with Recluse)
https://auticulture.com/the-liminalist-219-recluse/
Return conversation with Recluse of VISUP about extreme right-wing shadow politics on east & west coasts, the hidden ideological template peaking through UFO narratives, occultism, & supposed liberal-progressive values, & the many lies of Peter Levenda & Aleister Crowley.
F I R S T   S E G M E N T 
Part One: Spooky Social Network (0 – 31 mins)
Suspicions about Peter Levenda, disagreements over alien abductions and Crowley, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, To the Stars Academy, David Atley Phillips or Maurice Bishop, the coup d’état in Chile, Operation Condor, Richard Dody, John Alexander & non-lethal weapons, Stillwell & JSOC, Michael Aquino, the Typhonian tradition, demonic space gods, Chris Knowles on Cracker, intelligence social network, plausible deniability, Levenda’s early years, Knights of Malta & the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Charles Willoughby’s G2 & the OSS, Philip Corso & Gladio, The Secret Life of Plants, Stanley & David Ferrie & child abuse, Christian Identity Theology domestic terrorism network.
Part Two: The Evolutionary Drive of Madness (31 mins – end)
Levenda’s game, the rehabilitation of the CIA, a religious end game, Jacques Vallee, Kenneth Grant cosmology, In the Mouth of Madness, Pasulka’s American Cosmic, the transformation of society, Strieber, Castaneda, transhumanism, disembodiment, Jeffrey Epstein & the scientific community, the coming of the Beetles, Nick Land, accelerationism, Puharich & Spectre, genetic tampering, the ideology of sexual abuse, the evolutionary drive of madness, Manson the outsider, dreams of the zombie apocalypse, the pluses of cannibalism, The Necronomicon & The Satanic Bible, Sinister Forces, Levenda’s orientation, MKULTRA & the American Security Council, the right & wrong way of approaching knowledge.
S E C O N D   S E G M E N T .Part Three: Spy Games (0 – 20 mins)
Sinister Forces, the metaphysical & the parapolitical, synchromysticism, the tools of occultism, the perils of Necronomicon, Levenda’s changing position with occultism, propaganda & truth, what the books deliver, the Tom de Longe project, anticipating a Hilary presidency, Annie Jacobson’s Area 51, the UFO red herring, abolishing the line between reality & fantasy, spy games, Russian fake news about psi, targeting the American public.
Part Four: We Need to Talk About Crowley (20 mins – 48 mins)
Let’s talk about Crowley, Cecil family & royal intelligence, hidden power positions, the Society for Psychical Research, the Round Table, Crowley’s high-level endorsement, General Fuller, UK Nazi groups, Scottish League for European Freedom, Neal Billy MacLean, World Anti-Communist League’s occult groups  & Yakuza ties, the Moonies & drug money, the Iron Guard & Julius Evola, Las Tecos, strange ideologies, The Star in the West, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, Crowley researchers ignoring of Fuller & far-right allegiances, Crowley as a fascist progressive pioneer of liberal values, the enigma of Crowley’s promotion.
Part Five: The Hollywood Connection (48 mins – end)
Rebranding Crowley, the Hollywood connection, Crowley’s dark side, the Moonies & Christian fundamentalism, Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein & Hubbard, Charles Manson, drugs, and pedophilia, the Family as a prototype for militia group, ground zero for Christian Identity Theology, Manson’s parole officer, Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic, Son of Sam, Roy Kohn, New York sex parties, Mindhunter, behavioral science BS, high-level propaganda, reasserting the fiction, Fight Club & solider of the apocalypse archetype, fake blueprints for revolution.
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Crypto Currency News In One Minute
BINANCE LAUNCHES BICASSO TO TURN USERS CREATIVITY INTO NFTS
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FRANCE IS READY FOR REGULATION OF THE CRYPTO WORLD,
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INVESTORS PULL AROUND $6 BILLION OUT OF BINANCE'S STABLECOIN
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FRANCE IS SET TO IMPOSE TOUGHER REGISTRATION RULES ON CRYPTOCURRENCY FIRMS AS OF JANUARY 2024
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ANNIE JACOBSON HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) WOULD BE INTERESTED IN CRYPTOCURRENCY BECAUSE
FATHER OF CELLPHONE CALLS HIS INVENTION A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
AFRICANS LOSE LEAST IN U.S.$5.9 BILLION GLOBAL CRYPTO SCAMS
MODERNOMY BY HASHEMIZADEGAN
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jaydencantfly · 1 year
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Living life of quiet desperation - Pink Floyd quote mentioned on Annie Jacobson JRE podcast
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End-of-year book asks!
How many books did you read this year? 500. No, that's not a typo
Did you reread anything? What? I reread a lot of things/ I reread RW&RB, The House in the Cerulean Sea, A Christmas Carol, Vinegar Girl, Written in the Stars, Romeo and Juliet, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Giver, The Handmaid's Tale, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, The Count of Monte Christo, Les Mis, Taking Flight: From War Orpha to Star Ballerina, Hamlet, the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Windsnap books 1 and 2, Ballet Shoes, The Testamants, Annie On My Mind, The Mark of Athena, Alexander Hamilton, I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You, Fun Home, Orange is the New Black, Simon vs the Homo Sapiens, and Rhinoceros. I read Les Mis and Rhinoceros at least once a year because they're so relevant.
What were your top five books of the year? In no particular order, Sailing By Orion's Star by Katie Crabb, The Hate You Give (Angie Thomas), Macbeth (Jo Nesbo), The Language of Fire (Stephanie Hemphill), The Hacienda (Isabel Canas)
Did you discover any new authors that you love this year? Dhonielle Clayton, Jo Nesbo, Hafsah Faizal, Jess Rothenberg, Stephanie Hemphill, Julia Ember, Alice Oseman, Katie Zhao, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Canas, Sarah Penner, Samantha Cohoe, Ashley Herring-Blake, Maya Prasad, Amanda Bestor-Siegal, Grace Li, Vaishnavi Patel, Farrah Rochon, Courtney Kay, Darcy Coates, and Celeste Ng
What genre did you read the most of? Fantasy
Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to? Babel, The Ballad of Never After, Foul Lady Fortune, Bloodmarked, and The Shattered City
What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate? 3.7. I'd say it's accurate/
Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones? My goal for the year was a 50 states plus DC challenge, and I managed to do it!
Did you get into any new genres? Underwater horror! Yes, that's a thing.
What was your favorite new release of the year? Sailing By Orion's Star by Katie Crabb
What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read? The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Any books that disappointed you? This Is Not the Real World by Anna Carey. It was unnecessary.
What were your least favorite books of the year? Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson, Hotel Magnifique by Emily Taylor, Husband Material by Alexis Hall, and Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
What books do you want to finish before the year is over? I'm done reading for 2022. All current reads are going to be counted towards 2023.
Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them? I don't keep track of that sort of thing.
What is the most over-hyped book you read this year? Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Did any books surprise you with how good they were? Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
How many books did you buy? At least 20
Did you use your library? Every single week
What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations? Foul Lady Fortune, and idk, I haven't read it yet
Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama? I keep out of drama
What’s the longest book you read? Les Mis at 1,463 pages (my travel edition)
What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book? 30 minutes
Did you DNF anything? Why? Plenty. For even petty little things. There are too may good books out there to continue reading bad ones.
What reading goals do you have for next year? I'm doing an A-Z challenge!
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**Shots of the Episode**
Peacemaker (2022)
Season 1, Episode 2: “Best Friends, For Never” (2022) Director: James Gunn Cinematographer: Michael Bonvillain
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Skate Into My Heart
Chapter Three; Uh oh
BESTIES
I'M ALIVE AND I DID THE WRITING THING
@ciaraloves (or @perseusjackson-jasongrace ig) LOOK AT ME DOING THE THING
As soon as Nico left the locker room, Piper pounced on him. Literally.
He was forced to take a step back and caught her by the shoulders, “What’s up?”
She was practically vibrating with excitement, “Annabeth’s back!”
“Really?”
“Yeah! Come on!” She grabbed his hand and yanked him through the hallways and into the main rink where a crowd of people had formed next to the bleachers.
It was the rest of the team and in the center was Annabeth, a duffle bag slung over one shoulder, looking exhausted as all hell but she was grinning as the team peppered her with questions and play-by-plays of the practices she’d missed.
Piper shouldered them into the center so Nico was directly in front of Annabeth, Piper on one side and Calypso on the other.
“Hey, Nico,” Annabeth said, still grinning. She stepped forward for a hug and he let her, burying his face into her neck and breathing, already feeling the responsibility leaking from his tight shoulders. Annabeth was like a big sister to him, not that he’d ever admit that, but still.
“You want to get out?” Nico whispered into her neck.
“Yes,” She whispered back emphatically. Nico could barely stop himself from laughing but as they pulled apart he saw the genuine relief in her eyes and felt himself worrying. He needed to talk to her, about the team and skating, about Will and of course, if she needed to talk about why she’d been gone for so long, he’d do that too.
Apparently, Calypso recognized that too and, bless her heart, muttered something to Leo, and together they captured the team’s attention, allowing Nico to tug Annabeth away from the crowd and out of the rink. She sighed as soon as they were ejected onto the city streets. Nico stuck an arm out and she smiled and linked their arms.
“Where are you headed?” Nico asked as they walked the short distance to the car garage.
“Oh, probably just my apartment.”
Nico nodded, “I wasn’t sure if you’d be staying with your dad or not.”
She shook her head, “He doesn’t even know I landed yet. I’ll head over in the morning.”
Her voice was stiff and Nico took that as his cue to change the subject. “So I have something to confide in you.”
She perked up almost immediately and he swallowed hard. But she just looked at him with those gray eyes and he reminded himself that this was Annabeth. That she wasn’t going to get angry with him.
At least, he hoped not.
“I’m talking to one of the hockey players,” He said casually.
Her grip on his arm stiffened and he braced himself but she was still just looking at him.
Finally, she grinned, “So when you say ‘talking to’...”
He groaned and felt himself flush, “Oh, shut up! Just friends.”
She hummed and released his arm to dig for her keys in her jacket pocket. “Is he nice?”
“No, he’s a dick,” Nico said sarcastically.
Annabeth rolled her eyes, but she was still smiling. “I don’t know why I even bother.”
“He’s blonde,” Nico offered.
“Oooh,” Annabeth drawled.
He rolled his eyes and she burst out laughing, her voice echoing off the stone walls of the parking garage.
“Is he gay?” Annabeth asked.
Nico nearly flinched and passed it off with another eye roll, “I don’t know, Annie, that’s not something that’s come up in casual conversation.”
She glared at him and Nico, being the mature adult he is, stuck his tongue out at her. She did it back then shook her head. “Too much time with Percy,” She muttered and Nico snorted. She grinned at him.
“So he’s okay?”
That sobered her immediately. “Yeah. Well, as okay as he can be. I’m only here for like two weeks because he insisted I come back, but I’m leaving as soon as possible,” She glanced sideways at him, “Not to leave you alone again, though.”
He shrugged off the flash of selfish hurt he’d felt, “I’m good, Beth.” But he wasn’t good. He’d just told her about Will, and not even the start of the way his stomach would twist when he saw a new text from the hockey player and not the same twist when he panicked. And that also meant his chances of performing solo again were climbing. He didn’t know how to feel about that part.
“Stop that!” She exclaimed, halting once they’d reached her car.
“Get some sleep, Annabeth,” He said genuinely then smirked a little, “It looks like you need it.”
She threw a balled-up receipt she’d found in her bag at him, “Dick!”
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“Hey, Nico.”
Nico nearly leaped out of his skin, spinning to see Persephone in the living room.
She snorted, “Didn’t mean to scare you, sorry. Did practice go well?”
His phone buzzed in his pocket, “Yeah. Annabeth’s back.”
Persephone hummed, reaching up to untwist her hair, sending it cascading down her shoulders, “That’s good. I know you’ve missed her,” She said with a knowing look in her eyes that made him shift uncomfortably.
“Yeah, definitely, um, I’m tired we learned some new moves for Regionals today, so,”
“Yeah of course.” She was still smiling.
“‘Night Persephone,”
~~~
Nico flopped face-down onto his bed with a groan. He knew Persephone though he had a crush on Annabeth; he didn’t blame her, he’d never really made it a point that he didn’t. He wished he could come out to her and his dad, he didn’t really have a reason why he hadn’t besides the weight of anxiety on his lungs.
His phone buzzed again, and he wriggled upright to yank it out of his pocket.
Will: Distract me
Will: My mom is driving me insane
Nico grinned to himself, both of them were dealing with mommy issues at the moment.
Nico: idk how you expect me to distract you
Will: Just tell me about snakes or smth
Nico: you think i just have fun facts about snakes on hand?
Will: Yeah?
Nico: good
Nico: cause i do
Will: :)
Nico: snakes can slither 12.5 mph
Will: Good lord
Nico: snakes have internal ears but not external ones
Will: ??
Nico: they can’t create their own body heat which is why theyre in the sun all the time
Will: Hmmmm
Nico: they smell w/their tongues
Will: I thought they had nostrils??
Nico: they do
Will: what
Nico: it’s their Jacobson’s organ my dude it works in mysterious ways
Nico: not really but yk
Nico: sCieNcE
Will: ok….
Nico: if you get bored of snakes i’ve also got a bunch of random cheetah facts
Nico: i love cheetahs
Nico: very cool
Nico: fast cats
Will: Lmao go ahead
Nico: but first
Nico: why’s your mom driving you insane
Nico: if you want to tell me ofc
Nico: not trying to be weird
Will: Nah you’re fine
Will: She wants me to focus entirely on med school and not hockey
Will: She’s trying to get me out of it, actually
Will: Do something ‘respectable’
Will: Not turn out like my dad
Will: Even though dad has literally NOTHING to do with hockey
Will: And in my opinion he’s not bad. Not great. Not awful yk
Will: But hockey’s what’s putting me through med school so
Will: Gods, I really just burdened you with that I’m so sorry
Nico: med school huh
Nico: now i can say i know a doctor
Will: In training
Nico: close enough
Nico: you’re a great hockey player and you're going to be a great doctor
Nico: and you can always talk to me, will
Nico: you’re not burdening me with shit
Will: thanks <3
Nico didn’t understand why he blushed. It was a goddamn emoji. Calm down, Di Angelo.
Will: So we’ve been talking for a few weeks now. Can I call you my friend yet?
Nico snorted, feeling like he was fifteen again, sprawled on his bed, in the dark (because for some reason he didn’t turn his lights on) late at night, texting his- well, anyway.
Nico: yea dumbass
Nico: we’re friends
Will: Nice
Will: Now give me cheetah facts you adorable nerd
~~~
WILL
“Will? You good?”
Will blinked, Jason coming in to focus in front of him. “Uh, yeah.”
“That was believable,” Clarisse said sarcastically from behind Jason.
Will attempted to shake the fog from his head, “Yes,” He repeated.
Jason just blinked at him and Will was formulating an excuse for why he was so tired besides the fact that he’d spent all night talking to a cute figure skater with a ridiculous amount of animal facts stored in his small body when Coach Hedge’s voice boomed from his seat on the bleachers, “Solace! You alive?”
“Yes, coach!” Will shot back.
“Then why are you just standing there? Get back to the game! You too, La Rue and Grace!”
“Yes, sir!” They all barked back.
Clarisse gave him a once over before skating back to her goal and Jason went over to Will’s spot with him, “You sure you’re alright?”
“Yeah, just tired.”
Jason opened his mouth, probably to question why the mom friend of their group was tired enough he nearly tripped over his stick but Will just said, “It’s fine, Jase. It’s not a big deal.”
“Grace!” Coach Hedge screeched.
Jason gave up on trying to interrogate Will and skated back over to his spot.
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“Mama, please,” Will tried, but his mother cut him off.
“Willaim. Hush. How’s that girl you said you were dating?”
What?
He was silent for a beat too long.
“Oh, baby,” His mother’s thick southern accent drenched her words. “You broke up? I’m so sorry.”
Oh gods, Lou Ellen Blackstone.
Will and Lou Ellen had dated for two months a long time ago, and when they were still dating he’d told his mother about her to get her to back off of his personal life a little. Their break up hadn’t had a huge fallout, Lou Ellen had told him through tears in his living room that she was aromantic. They were still friends, had been even before they dated, actually, and talked to each other pretty regularly.
But the problem was, that had been three months ago, and he hadn’t told his mother about their breakup. He knew she’d ask why, and he didn’t want to out Lou Ellen or make her a devil in his mother’s eyes. So he’d procrastinated coming up with a reason until he’d forgotten about it entirely.
And now it had come back to bite him in the ass.
“Yeah we broke up a little while ago,” He forced himself to sound choked up, which wasn’t hard, giving the way his panicked brain was now sprinting in circles on his lungs. “I just didn’t disappoint you.” Probably the most honest thing he’d said in weeks, but that’ll be unpacked later.
“Honey,” She sighed sadly and Will didn’t know whether or not that was on his behalf or hers.
“Well, it’s okay, because I’m dating someone new.”
“Oh?” He could hear her spine straighten. “Is it someone I know?”
No, mom, it’s not one of the country girls I grew up with.
“No,” He winced at how southern he sounded. He’d been talking to his mother for five minutes. “You don’t know him.”
HIM. Good Gods, Will. Yeah, you came out as bi to your mom, but still, you haven’t actually mentioned a guy to her yet.
She was silent for so long his heart joined his brain in the track meet happening on top of his lungs. “What’s his name?”
He was so she’d spoken that he blurted, “Nico.”
What. The. Fuck. Willaim.
Apparently, his heart had won that damn track race.
“Well, what I was leading up to before you told me about what happened,”
Will hummed non-committally, trying not to sound like he was taking relieved breaths as she spoke.
“The family’s come for a reunion and you should bring that boy!” Will choked on his spit.
“Mom, I don’t know about-”
“No, William. There isn’t a set date yet so we can work around your schedule,” Fuck. “I insist, Will. I need to meet this boy you clearly like very much, even though all you’ve said is his name, a mother knows.”
Umm, what.
“Sure,” Will said, sounding a little strangled. “But we have a game this weekend.”
“Alright, William.” She sounded the way she always did when he brought up hockey. “But as I said, we can work around your schedule and his. Talk to him about it, and let me know.”
“Yeah. Yeah,” Will repeated. “I’ll do that.”
She hung up and he was left staring at the wilting daisies at his kitchen table.
What had he just done?
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2021 - 2022 USA International Selection Pool
The International Selection Pool (ISP) includes junior- and senior-level athletes and teams who meet criteria approved by the U.S. Figure Skating International Committee. These athletes and teams are eligible to be considered for assignment to international competitions.
List is as of 04/11/2022
Men
William Annis
Lucas Broussard
Jason Brown
Nathan Chen
Goku Endo
Jonathan Hildebrandt
Tomoki Hiwatashi
Liam Kapeikis
Joseph Klein
Kai Kovar
Lake Liao
Jimmy Ma
Ilia Malinin
Samuel Mindra
Maxim Naumov
Nhat-Viet Nguyen
Matthew Nielsen
Yaroslav Paniot
Camden Pulkinen
Jacob Sanchez
Tiara Shinohara
Eric Sjoberg
Beck Strommer
Dinh Tran
Michael Xie
Robert Yampolsky
Maxim Zharkov
Vincent Zhou
Ladies
Starr Andrews
Sonia Baram
Mariah Bell
Gwen Bloesch
Alena Budko
Karen Chen
Elsa Cheng
Hazel Collier
Sarah Everhardt
Amber Glenn
Gracie Gold
Giselle Graves
Hanna Harrell
Finley Hawk
Jill Heiner
Hannah Harrera
Tia Hilbelink
Rena Ikenishi
Gabriella Izzo
Mia Kalin
Ellie Kam
Katie Krafchik
Josephine Lee
Isabeau Levito
Elyce Lin-Gracey
Hannah Lofton
Maryn Pierce
Abigail Ross
Paige Rydberg
Clare Seo
Katie Shen
Audrey Shin
Phoebe Stubblefield
Bradie Tennell
Lindsay Thorngren
Kate Wang
Wren-Warne Jacobson
Sherry Zhang
Adele Zheng
Ava Ziegler
Pairs
Sonia Baram and Daniel Tioumentsev
Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc
Emily Chan and Spencer Howe
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier
Katie McBeath and Nathan Bartholomay
Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia
Cayla Smith and Andy Deng
Ice Dance
Emily Bratti and Ian Sommerville
Oona Brown and Gage Brown
Helena Carhart and Volodmyr Horovyi
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko
Molly Cesanek and Yehor Yehorov
Madison Chock and Evan Bates
Caroline Green and Michael Parsons
Jenna Hauer and Benjamin Starr
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker
Angela Ling and Caleb Wein
Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spiridonov
Caroline Mullen and Brendan Mullen
Leah Neset and Artem Markelov
Eva Pate and Logan Bye
Elliana Peal and Ethan Peal
Vanessa Pham and Jonathan Rogers
Katarina Wolfkostin and Jeffrey Chen
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