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Bird in a Storm 4/17

My Writing Fandom: Arrow Characters: Laurel Lance, Oliver Queen, Tommy Merlyn, John Diggle, Joanna de la Vega, Quentin Lance, Frank Pike, Felicity Smoak Pairing: Laurel Lance/Oliver Queen Summary: The confrontation between the Hood and SWAT on the roof of the Winick Building goes differently, altering the course of Laurel’s career, relationships and efforts to save her city forever, the shockwaves of such an altered path making themselves felt throughout her family and friends. *Can be read on my AO3, link is in bio*

Joanna couldn’t believe it when she first got the news. But the multiple texts from her coworkers at CNRI proved its veracity: Laurel was being forced out.

She headed over to her friend’s apartment and was let in by a surly Tommy Merlyn.

“You wouldn’t be here to talk some sense into her, would you?”

“I’m here to support my friend.” Joanna headed past him into the sitting room where Laurel looked up from her laptop.

“Hey. I guess you heard.”

“Yeah. Are you okay?” She’d meant to come by even earlier to see her after that whole incident with her injury, but they’d had family in visiting still. It didn’t keep her from feeling guilty for not being there when Laurel clearly needed someone.

She shrugged. “It’s not the end of the world.”

“Just your career,” Tommy reminded them all as he passed by on his way back to the bedrooms. The door shut hard behind him.

Joanna hid a wince and took the spot next to Laurel on the couch. “Where have you been looking?”

“Everywhere?” Laurel shifted so she could look at the cover letter her friend was drafting. “It’s a little hard when I can’t talk much about my only place of employment or use them as a reference.”

“I guess your reputation of taking down corporate big shots isn’t too helpful when applying for corporate law.”

“No, it is not.”

Joanna shook her head. This was so unfair and everyone knew it. “You want me to talk to Eric?”

Laurel shook her head. “It won’t do any good. He’s under the thumb of CNRI’s backers.”

“And those backers want you to starve?”

“They want to see the Hood punished. Since they can’t do that, I guess I’m the next best thing.”

“But you’re more than just a connection to the Hood. If you hadn’t been helping me solve my brother’s murder, nobody would even know you’ve worked with him. None of this would’ve happened.” Joanna hung her head.

“I wouldn’t take it back if it meant not exposing the truth about your brother’s death. Or saving the chief. Those were good things.”

Before Joanna could answer, the bedroom door opened again and Tommy stopped in the sitting room. “I’m heading out.”

Laurel set her laptop aside and stood. “Okay. Did you want me to wait on dinner?”

“I’ll eat while I’m out.” He gave a curt nod to Joanna, then turned and headed to the front door.

Laurel wavered on the balls of her feet. “Have a good day,” she called just before the door shut.

“Does he really have to start at the club that early?”

“His hours are what he wants them to be. And right now, he does not want to be here.” Laurel sighed and dropped back down into her spot. “I don’t know what to do.”

“Maybe… maybe you just take the deal. It’d make things a lot easier for you and your relationship,” she pointed out. It was the practical choice. The safe one. But she knew Laurel was rarely interested in safe or practical.

Her friend looked at her. “Jo, you know as well as I do what lying about the Hood would look like to our clients.”

She grimaced. That was a hard point to refute. Laurel was good at what she did precisely because of the trust she garnered in their clients. They really believed she was willing to put everything on the line in the name of justice. The time had come to prove she was.

“There is one thing about CNRI,” Laurel told her. “Thea. Anastasia has agreed to become her temporary sponsor, but when you go back to work, I’d really appreciate it if you could take over. I feel like Thea could learn a lot from you.”

She felt herself smile. “Yes, of course. Actually, on one condition.” Laurel frowned, but Joanna wasn’t worried. “If you ever need anything, you let me know. A reference, food — my mom misses cooking for a group.”

“I don’t think things are that drastic yet,” Laurel was quick to say.

“You never know. It isn’t exactly cheap to live in this town. Except in the Glades.”

“Yeah,” Laurel agreed quietly. “Thank you for the offer, Jo. Really.”

“I’m your friend, Laurel. It’s what we do. I’m gonna miss you when I go back.”

“You’ll do fine without me.”

“I don’t know. I don’t love the odds,” Joanna told her. Laurel pulled her in for a hug.

“Me neither. But we have to keep fighting.”

She nodded into Laurel’s shoulder. Then she pulled back. “So, jobs. You try the DA’s office yet?”

“Yeah, I think Kate Spencer is my least biggest fan at the moment.”

Joanna couldn’t help a snort. “Yeah. That figures.”

Laurel joined her in laughter. Sometimes that was all you could do.

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It had taken him practically begging for Laurel to finally come see him at the station. She wouldn’t go to his home, and he knew he still wasn’t welcome in hers. That was assuming it was hers for much longer, the way she was going.

“I don’t get it. I really don’t. They don’t wanna let you go. Nobody wants to see you leave CNRI. You’re the best they got!” He paced back and forth in the space between table and wall of the interrogation room he’d commandeered to try and talk some sense into his daughter. “Why would you throw that away?”

“Because if I agreed to what they’re asking, I wouldn’t be the best anymore. I’d just prove to be susceptible to coercion.”

“Coercion to help control a criminal. That’s not coercion, that’s- that’s cooperating with law enforcement!”

“A lot of people in the Glades see that as the same thing,” she stated while looking straight at him.

“Hey now,” he said, raising a warning finger. “I’m not saying this department is perfect, but you gotta have order in a society. This Hood guy, he’s disrupting that.”

“If it was already so broken, maybe it needed disrupted,” she argued.

Quentin could feel his frustration mounting despite his promise to himself not to get angry with her today. The investors at CNRI were pushing the issue because he’d pushed it first — but there wouldn’t be an issue if she’d just see reason!

They were interrupted by a quick rap on the door and the desk sergeant poking his head in.

“Detective, there’s a woman at the desk asking — well, she called you Laurel Lance’s father,” the sergeant amended with a glance Laurel’s way. “I think she might really be looking for you, Miss.”

Laurel took a step forward, but he said, “Send her back here.”

The desk sergeant left and returned a few minutes later with an older woman with dark skin whose face lit up when she saw his daughter.

“Well, Miss Lance!”

“Hello, Mrs. Ross.” Laurel embraced the other woman, and Quentin tried to remember if she’d been a client or family of one.

“I heard through the grapevine you’d been fired. It’s a disgrace, and after everything you’ve done for that office!”

“Thank you,” His daughter said, a small smile gracing her lips.

“You find some other work yet?”

“Not just yet. Most of the law firms in this city aren’t too keen to attach my name to themselves at the moment.”

“I thought so. Well, they’re all a bunch of thieves anyway. So listen, if you need something to keep you afloat, I’ve been asking around. My neighbor’s aunt has this friend, she’s got a flower shop on Wells and 17th Street, and she’s been looking for a helper for a while now. Arthritis getting bad in her fingers.”

“Oh,” said Laurel. She glanced his way, uncertain. “I’ll have to stop by and introduce myself.”

“Mm-hm. It’s honest work, which beats most things. Gotta put the food on the table.” She looked to him as if expecting to share a grin. Quentin’s lips didn’t even twitch.

Mrs. Ross dropped her gaze to her purse, which she rifled around in. “Here, I wrote the address down for you. You show up anytime and just tell her I sent you.”

“Thank you, Mrs. Ross.” Laurel hugged her again. “It means a lot.”

“Well, we all gotta help each other, cause them upstairs never will.” She darted a look in Quentin’s direction and stepped back. “You take care, now.”

“I will. Thank you.”

Mrs. Ross left the room, and the silence in her wake was deafening. Laurel looked down at the paper in her hands, which was really just a way of avoiding looking at him.

“A florist?” He finally asked. “That’s what you’re gonna be now?”

Laurel grimaced. “Has to beat retail, right?”

“Laurel, honey, just be reasonable, alright? No vigilante is worth this much no matter what he’s done.”

“And what am I worth?” Laurel asked. “My word, my integrity. That’s what’s on the line here just as much as his reputation. If your boss asked you to lie about some case just because it would make a few CEOs happy, would you do it, dad?”

If he answered truthfully, it wouldn’t make everything right again. Except: “Lying about a case is a lot different than saying a criminal’s a criminal.”

Laurel shook her head before walking to the door. “The next time you wonder why residents in the Glades don’t trust the cops? Remember that.”

She left without letting him respond. It never helped that the both of them always wanted the last word.

“Detective?”

“What?” He snapped. Kelton just blinked at him, and he sighed. “What was it?”

“The incident report was filed for the, uh, Winick Building use of force.”

He straightened up right away. If he couldn’t save Laurel from her own reckless decisions, he could at least nail the idiot who had hurt her that night. “Well?”

“The rubber bullet came from Officer Daily’s weapon.”

“Daily.” Something had always seemed off about that one. He hadn’t even been one of Quentin’s first picks that night, just volunteered because he was on shift. Probably one of those gun-happy nuts who thought the job was more about shooting people than about keeping the peace. Quentin never minded knocking one of those guys down a peg. “Good work, Kelton.”

He left the interview room and headed to Frank’s office where he rapped on the door. It took a few minutes for his superior to open it.

“Got a minute?”

“I suppose,” Frank Pike sighed. “It’s either now or later with you anyway.”

He showed him in, though Quentin remained standing. “You see the incident report?”

“Well? What’s gonna happen to Daily?”

Frank brought his hands together in a gesture that rarely meant good news. “That’s up to Captain Stein’s decision. From what I understand, there will be no disciplinary action.”

Quentin thought he felt his eyes bug out. “What do you mean, no disciplinary action? The man shot a civilian!”

“It’s a difficult situation, Quentin, one you probably should have thought of before you made your daughter a person of interest to the Taskforce,” Frank pointed out none-too-gently. “Daily believed he was shooting at the vigilante. He has expressed no ill intent towards Laurel or any other civilians since. Laurel didn’t even press charges.”

“And you’re lucky she didn’t since it would’ve exposed us being caught in another lie,” he snarked. “Look, if Stein wants to let the whole thing go, that’s his prerogative. But Daily was under my command that night, so I’ll decide—”

“You won’t go near Daily,” Pike said, standing from his desk. “You won’t speak to him, won’t touch him. It’s a huge conflict of interest, Quentin, one that could see you in front of an ethics committee if Stein decided to pursue the matter.”

Quentin stood there a minute, hardly daring to believe it. Far from threatening him, Frank was trying to protect him, and from his own superior. But he was also protecting an officer who had demonstrated gross misconduct. “You know this isn’t right, though.”

“I know what my orders are. I’m telling you what yours are now. Are we understood?”

Quentin looked down, his jaw working for a moment or so. “Sure.” Then he left the office.

Back at his desk, he checked the incident report. Nowhere in it did it actually confirm that Laurel had been struck by Daily’s bullet; it simply made note that Daily’s gun had been returned with one bullet missing. The official record would never hold him accountable and, apparently, neither would any of them.

Why nobody trusted the cops indeed.

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It had been a long evening of arguing with the contractors yet again. Tommy had been hoping to be done with that long ago, but thanks to the fire last month, they were still in the building process. It didn’t help matters that Oliver tended to disappear as soon as he turned his back for more than a few minutes. He was just glad to be heading home for one night.

Tommy entered the apartment, frowning as he took in the stripped-down sight of it.

“Laurel?”

“Hey.” She came in from the bedroom, a notepad in one hand and a box under her other arm. It looked to have some of her court suits folded up inside.

“What’s going on?”

“I started an account to sell some extra things for rent this month. Since CNRI is a nonprofit that struggles to stay open as it is, they don’t exactly have severance packages.”

“You’re auctioning off your belongings,” he stated flatly.

“They’re clothes, Tommy, not precious heirlooms.”

“And what about next month’s rent? What’ll you have to give up, then?” Even if Laurel let him cover all of it, they’d barely make it along with food and other expenses. He was too proud to ask Oliver for a raise, especially so soon, and it shouldn’t be necessary. None of this was necessary, but Laurel was stubborn enough to go ahead with it anyway.

She seemed to sense his irritation, for it was apologetic eyes she turned on him. “Next month I’m hoping to be out of here. The landlord already said he’s happy to waive the fee for breaking the lease. I think he’ll be glad to have less attacks.” When he didn’t even crack a smile, Laurel started playing with the hem of her sweater. “I’m taking a job at a flower shop for now. So we’ll have to start looking for something in a cheaper neighborhood.”

A flower shop. That was the next grand step in this plan of hers.

He couldn’t believe this. All this time, he’d seen Laurel as something of an unattainable ideal, with some faults perhaps, but nothing in comparison to his own. While he’d been drinking and sleeping through life, she had followed a path to success. And all of that she was willing to give up for the sake of some killer who had decided to make her a centerpiece for his crazed vendetta on the city. He couldn’t just stand by and watch that happen.

Tommy had been trying to make himself better for her, but it seemed clear to him now that the problems in this relationship weren’t just with him.

“Yeah,” he said at last. “Yeah, we will. But separately.”

“What do you mean?”

He gathered a breath. “I thought I wanted this. You. But I was wrong.”

He walked back towards the bedroom. Laurel set her box down and followed him, her eyes widening as she found him pulling clothes out of the drawer — the drawer he had fought tooth and nail to get only a month ago.

“Tommy, talk to me.”

“Why should I? You haven’t been talking to me. Not about meeting up with the Hood, not about the decisions you’re making with your career, the apartment.”

“My career is my choice,” she argued, yet her shoulders slumped as she added, “But I shouldn’t have lied to you about meeting the Hood. I know that, Tommy. And we can still make this work—”

“Just answer me this,” he said, turning back to her as he shut the drawer. “Would you give up everything you’re giving up right now for me?”

Laurel’s head gave a minute shake. “Why would I need to?”

“Exactly. You wouldn’t, because I would never ask you to. But you’re giving it up for him.”

She frowned. “Tommy, this is about what’s best for the city. Not the Hood.”

“It’s about him for me, Laurel,” he stated. “I’m not stupid. You’re committed to him in a way you’re just not to me. I don’t know why, or what this lunatic has that keeps you so loyal to him.”

“He’s—”

Tommy held up a hand. “I don’t really care anymore. I can’t keep caring when you’re ignoring what’s best for you to keep him going. I’m done, Laurel.”

“Tommy, please.” She followed him back out to the front room. “I need you.”

“If you needed me, you wouldn’t have gone to him in the first place.”

Tommy shut the door behind him. He squeezed his eyes shut to hold back the stinging and the tears, and he walked forward to the elevator. Laurel’s crying grew quieter in his ears the further he got away, but not his mind.

He paused in the elevator, his eyes on the apartment door. Then his phone buzzed in his pocket with a news alert.

Hood attacks Queen family matriarch at QC

Tommy’s eyes narrowed, and he hit the close door button. The Hood was an enemy to the people he cared about, whether they could see it for themselves or not.

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John worked frantically to restart Oliver’s heart. He didn’t know what had gone wrong, but the machine kept up its flat, dead tone.

At least until Felicity Smoak fixed the wires. It was with relief that he realized there was actually nothing wrong with Oliver. His friend was just resting and recovering.

He and Felicity talked while they waited for Oliver to wake up. John could tell she was searching for some kind of reason to stay and accept what was happening, what she now knew. He did his best to explain his own rationale for helping a vigilante.

But at an extremely late hour, the door upstairs opened, revealing a miserable sight.

John stood up straight. “Laurel? Something wrong?”

“Um, hi, John.” The woman’s eyes were red-rimmed, and her voice came out quiet and a little hoarse. She must have been crying a while.

But when her eyes widened upon spotting Oliver on the table, it was any guess as to the reason. “Oliver. Is he okay? What happened?”

Laurel rushed down to their friend’s side, her hand reaching to take his where it hung limply at his side.

“He took a bullet. Should be okay with time,” John told her.

“It was his mother,” Felicity added.

Laurel looked up sharply. “Mrs. Queen?”

John nodded. “We got some intel that she might know something about his father’s list. He tried asking her about it as himself, but she wouldn’t answer. So then he gave it a try as the Hood.”

“And Mrs. Queen gave a try at putting the Hood down,” Felicity remarked.

“She must’ve panicked. If she’d had any idea,” Laurel said. John just stayed quiet. He knew Laurel didn’t have quite as large a blind spot for the Queen matriarch as Oliver did, but she had grown up knowing the woman. It would likely take some time for her to adjust to the idea that Moira Queen wasn’t all she pretended to be.

Laurel wiped her eyes on her sleeve and turned to Felicity. “Um, sorry. I’m Laurel.”

“I know. I saw you on the news a few weeks ago,” Felicity said. “I’m Felicity. I work at Queen Consolidated, which apparently includes doing odd jobs for vigilantes.” She considered Laurel for a moment. “So you really have known who he is. I was wondering.”

“Just for the last month,” Laurel said.

“Did you need something when you came down here, Laurel?” John asked.

“Oh. Yeah, I was hoping to have a look through Ollie’s list. But it can wait.” She returned her gaze to the man’s prone form.

It was another hour before Oliver stirred. His eyes opened and his hand clenched around Laurel’s. John watched her bite back a gasp.

“Ollie, it’s okay. You’re safe.”

“Laurel?” Oliver’s eyes opened and he looked around at the three of them. His grip eased, and then he was pushing himself up to sitting with one arm.

“Easy there. Try not to aggravate your shoulder,” John advised. “You’ve been out most of the night.”

“What happened?”

“Uh, well, I got you to your secret basement like you asked, John patched you up, I hacked the SCPD database to have them dispose of your DNA sample collected at the crime scene, and then Laurel showed up,” Felicity summarized in one breath.

Oliver turned back to Laurel. “Are you okay?”

She looked ready to laugh in disbelief. “I’m fine. You’re the one with a shoulder wound worse than mine was. How are you going to hide this from your family?”

“I’ll manage.”

“Did you want to see the list now, Laurel?” John asked.

Laurel nodded and stepped back from Oliver’s table. “Yeah, thanks.”

“Why do you need the list?” Oliver asked, frowning as she walked away.

“I wanted to make sure which landlords are on it and which aren’t.” She kept her eyes on the pages she was scanning as she continued, “I’m, um, probably moving to the Glades.”

“What?” Oliver slid off the table and winced as the impact reached his shoulder, but he shook it off. “Laurel, the Glades aren’t safe.”

“Yes, but they’re what I can afford. The only work I’ve found is at a florist’s shop, and if I can walk there instead of using public transit, that’ll save me money, too.”

“That the shop on Wells and 17th?” John asked. He’d noticed the help wanted sign in its window a few times as he’d passed by.

“Uh-huh.”

“Laurel, you’re not a florist,” Oliver said. “You’re a lawyer.”

“Well, there aren’t any law offices that want me. Wish I’d known that before I paid all that money to get the degree,” she remarked. John could see the effort she was going through to keep things light. He still didn’t know what had had her so upset when she arrived. “Okay, so none of the Nickel properties are worth looking into…”

Oliver shook his head. “Those offices will reconsider with time. Look, if you’re that tight for money, I’ll just raise Tommy’s salary so you have more time to look or you can work here with him—”

“Tommy broke up with me,” Laurel stated bluntly, at last looking up from the list. Her mouth pulled down in a terribly sad frown.

Oliver froze. “He left you?”

“He packed his things and walked out tonight.”

“Because of everything that’s happening.” Oliver looked down for a long moment. “I’ll tell him the truth.”

John’s eyes widened, though before he could speak up Laurel was already replying with common sense.

“No, you can’t. He hates the Hood worse than ever, Ollie. There’s no telling how he’d react.” She heaved a sigh. “And it wouldn’t fix the rest of the problems we’ve had. I gave a relationship with Tommy a shot because I was tired of constantly having to turn him down. And I liked it, but — it’s over now. He can’t agree with my choices, and I can’t force him to.”

There was a heavy silence after those words. John noticed Felicity was busying herself by the table with the newer computers she’d set up, and he had a feeling the woman was desperate to be anywhere but here.

“I can still get you a job. Maybe not at the club, but Queen Consolidated. I’m sure we could find something for you,” Oliver offered.

“After the Hood attacked their CEO?”

John looked down. He could see where this was going, and it didn’t lead to any of Laurel’s problems having an easy fix. That was going to be partly on him since he’d been behind the push to send the Hood after Mrs. Queen, and all for no new information, as it was turning out.

“Oliver, if you want people to believe your cover for not being the Hood, for not even liking him, you can’t have anything to do with me.”

Oliver’s face took on a look of alarm as he started towards her. “Laurel—”

She set the list down and took a step back. “Your mother’s just been attacked by a man you’ve been claiming is insane. If I continue believing in the Hood — which I will, since I know you never meant to hurt your own mother — it would be impossible for you to keep being my friend. We can’t have contact, at least not in public.”

Words were failing Oliver. Combined with his shoulder wound, the man looked absolutely broken. He and the rest of them could only watch as Laurel made her way to the stairs.

“I’m sorry. It was nice meeting you,” she added to Felicity. For one moment, she stared at Oliver with eyes that practically ached. Then she looked down and climbed the staircase, the door closing with finality behind her.

“Well,” Felicity said eventually. “I think I’ll be heading home myself. I’ve got an early morning.” She reached for her coat and started for the door.

“Felicity,” Oliver said quietly. The woman paused. “Thank you for everything you did tonight. I understand it was a lot to bring you in on so quickly.”

“Yeah.” She fiddled with her keys. “Not that I’m not grateful you felt you could finally trust me with the truth about all this. But just, no offense, from where I’m standing, being associated with you seems to destroy a person’s life.”

Oliver stayed silent, not even attempting to argue against that assessment.

“So I’m not going to tell the police about you, and I will work with you to find Walter. But that’s it, and after that we’re done.”

Oliver gave a slow nod. “That’s fine.”

“Okay. Well, goodnight. I’m glad you didn’t die.” She, too, headed up the stairs and at of the foundry.

A very heavy, very uncomfortable silence fell once it was just the two of them. John knew it was up to him to try and bridge it. “Oliver, I’m sorry things worked out like this.”

“What is this like, Diggle?” Oliver asked. “A disaster? Because that’s how it seems to me.”

“You couldn’t have known Tommy was going to call things quits. And that relationship needed to run its course without you anyway.”

“But it’s not without me, John.” Oliver’s look was absolutely guilt-stricken. “Tommy was jealous of the Hood. And with him gone, and her and Lance not speaking, and now this, she’s totally on her own. I did that.”

“A lot of that was Laurel’s choices, too,” he pointed out quietly.

“I forced her into them. I should have realized the danger I was putting her in. The risks. Now it’s too late. But I’m not taking them with anyone else.” Oliver pulled on a sweatshirt, then took two steps towards John, getting right into his space.

“My mother — any of my loved ones, are off limits. For good this time.”

He’d known it was coming, and there was little he could say without them coming to blows over it. And without any more information about this Undertaking, he had no real leverage.

Oliver turned and stormed from the base. John sighed, then got to work finishing cleaning up.

To think things had somehow only gotten worse even after Oliver had been shot.

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Naisten sekä Miesten Eri Tavoitteet Seksi Treffit?

Se on yleinen käsitys, että miehillä on paljon enemmän utelias rento sukupuoleen, ja myös naaraat ovat paljon enemmän kiinnostuneita sitoutumista, kyllä? Mukaan Hallam, De Backer, Fisher, ja myös Walrave (2018 ), tietoa ennen tutkimukseen on selkeä. Se on "miesten dokumentoitu taipumus mieluummin seksuaalinen valinta ja myös rento Tosi Tuhma sukupuoleen, ja myös halu esille erilaisia kumppaneita, kuten vastakkain naisia." Meille kerrotaan, että tämä on etenemistä. Kaverit aikovat olla niin monta jälkeläistä kuin mahdollista, joten heidän itsekeskeinen geenit on hienoimmista mahdollisuudet levittää kaikkialla, sekä naiset haluavat säilyttää heidän ystäviä ympäri nähdä se heidän lapsensa on tehokkain mahdollisuus selviytyä. Koska naiset investoida paljon enemmän kuin miehet, kun se tulee tiineyden sekä nuorukainen kasvatus, luonnollisesti (niin menee ajattelu), kun kyseessä on Seksi Treffit, naiset etsii pitkäaikaista rakkautta, ja myös kaverit, ei ole niin paljon. Mitä jos (biologinen) sukupuoli ei ole ainoa määrittävä tekijä?

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Epätavallinen merkki-uusi tutkimus luonnonmukaisen seksiä ja myös dating saattaa paljastaa yleinen väärinkäsitys.

Ovat naiset ja myös miehet todella synnynnäisesti erilaisia, kun se koskee seksiä sekä dating?

Mitä tapahtuu, jos kehitystä halajaa hyvät kokeilemaan kuin paljon potentiaalisia kumppaneita kuin mahdollista, jotta poimia luonnonvalinta? Mitä tapahtuu, jos kehitys edellyttää joitakin kaverit olla ylimääräistä merkitsi kanssa, joilla on taipumus alttiita, odottaa kumppaneita sekä niiden kutemaan, jotta tyypit voimissaan? Meidän täytyy varoa, kun tehdään oletuksia, jotka koskevat seksiä eroja, koska emme voi suunnitella syitä takaa meidän sosiaalisesti tajunnut ideoita. Ehkä monet havaitut erot pariutumisen tuloksena sosiaaliset muuttujat ja myös yksinkertaisesti oletetaan olevan ensisijaisesti perinnöllinen? Erilaisia muita tekijöitä voi olla ohjelmoitu osaksi genomia, mutta olemme vasta alussa selvittää, mitä on, mitä-ja seksi ei ole joko/tai pidempään.

Mikä on "sociosexuality"?

Sociosexuality on arvioitu hyödyntämällä Sociosexual Suunta Tarjonta (SOI), joka yksinkertaistaa sukupuoleen liittyviä ajattelutapoja sekä käyttäytymiseen taipumuksia osaksi yksinäinen ulottuvuus, jotka vaihtelevat rajoitettu (nojaa kohti seksiä vain henkisesti lähellä, oma-yhteydet) rajoittamaton (suosimalla ottaa seksuaalisen kumppanuuksia paljon vähemmän sitoutumista ja myös psykologista kiintymystä). Tutkija kyseenalaistaa, jos sociosexuality tunnistaa inspiraatioita Seksi Treffit, ja jos, niin kuinka paljon rooli näiden sukupuoleen liittyviä asenteita ja toimia, pelata edellä ja lisäksi biologinen sukupuoli.

Jotta voidaan tarkastella lähemmin alla-tunnustettu vielä tärkeä mittaus moderni-päivä pariutumisen, jotka voivat muodostaa meidän yhä Seksi Treffit valintoja, Hallam ja myös yhdistää päällekkäisiä ennen tutkimuksia elintärkeä spin. Vuonna lisälaite kiusanteko lisäksi vivahteita Seksi Treffit menetelmä aikaisempi tutkimus tutkimus on, ne sisältyvät "sociosexuality" yhteisen epäillyt, kuten sukupuoli, ikä, raportoitu motiivit, Seksi Treffit, ja niin edelleen. "Sociosexual paikannus" (Simpson ja myös Gangestad, 1991) käsite on luotu, joka pidentää työn Kinsey, kuvataan "yksilöiden taipumus on seksuaalisen kohtaamiset kanssa tai ilman omistautumista, tuntemuksia ja hellyyttä."

Nykyinen tutkimus

He vastasivat arvioida asioita koskevat Seksi Treffit kokemuksia, sociosexual paikannus, Seksi Treffit inspiraatioita, sekä yhteys kunnossa. Ymmärtää osallistujien Seksi Treffit inspiraatioita, tutkijat käyttivät versio "Tinder inspiraatioita mittakaavassa" (Sumter et al., 2017), mikä vastaa 6 perus syitä käyttää dating sovelluksia ja sivustoja myös-rakkaus/pitkäaikainen rakkaus, epävirallinen sukupuoli, helpottaa vuorovaikutusta, itsetuntoa tunnustamista, jännitystä ja nautintoa, sekä trendikkyys.

Mitä tutkijat löytää?

Mutta mitä koskee huolta biologinen sukupuoli vs. sociosexuality mietitään motiiveja hyödyntäen Seksi Treffit? Tutkijat aluksi juoksi tiedot, mukaan lukien ilman sociosexuality malli. He havaitsivat, että biologinen sukupuoli oli tilastollisesti merkittävä ennustaja, mitä ihmiset tarkoituksena on saada Seksi Treffit, jotka täyttävät odotettavissa kuvio miehet haluavat paljon enemmän kumppaneita, sekä naiset, jotka haluavat enemmän omistautumista. Tässä on kicker: Kun he juoksivat tiedot ja myös sociosexuality tilastollinen malli, sukupuolierot katosivat. Vain sociosexuality-ja myös ei, onko osallistujilla oli nainen tai mies-- ennakoida niiden tavoitteet käyttäen Seksi Treffit.

Kaikki oli seksiä eroja, millainen foorumi ihmiset raportti hyödyntämällä varten cyberdating. Kaverit olivat enemmän todennäköinen käyttää dating internet-sivustot, ottaa huomioon, että naiset olivat enemmän todennäköisesti käyttää dating sovelluksia. Tämä on kiinnostunut, kuten dating apps ovat paljon enemmän stereotyyppisesti liittyviä rento seksiä, kun taas naiset ovat uskotaan olevan ylimääräistä utelias täysin sitoutunut kumppanuuksiin. Ei ole yllättävää, tutkijat huomasivat, että ne, joilla on rajoittamaton sociosexuality oli hyödyntämällä Seksi Treffit paljon enemmän epävirallisia seksiä kuin rakkaus, sekä niille, joilla on rajoitettu sociosexuality olivat säännöllisesti etsivät hellyyttä sekä omistautumista. Kanssa parantaminen ikä tuli lisätä motivaatiota käyttää Seksi Treffit sekä rakkauden ja myös rento sukupuoleen, ja se on vahvistettu helpottaa vuorovaikutusta, mutta paljon vähemmän ajaa riemua sekä self-validointi. He myös havaitsivat, että vanhemmat osallistujat olivat, sitä todennäköisemmin he käyttävät Seksi Treffit internet-sivusto versus sovellus. Olen odottanut tätä viime etsiä muuttaa kuin apps tullut extra perehtynyt ja myös johtava, ja myös enemmän nuorekas ihmisiä, jotka käyttävät sovelluksia tällä hetkellä yli Seksi Treffit internet-sivustot, ikä.

Sinun paikka tai minun?

Muut tiedustelut esiintyä: Mitä jos miehillä on korkeampi rajoittamaton sociosexual linjaus taustalla paremmin inspiraatioita yhden yön? Missä määrin tämä on todella perinnöllinen ja myös evoluution, ja missä määrin on tämä tunnistamaton sosiaali -, ympäristö-ja sosiaaliset tekijät? Rinnalla biologia, sosiaalisesti ja löysi myös intergenerationally lähetetään elementtejä (joka koostuu toteutettavissa epigeneettiset tulokset jalostukseen ja myös lasten kasvatus periytynyt meidän äidit ja isät sekä isovanhempieni miten geenimme ovat rinnastaa) ovat tarpeen ymmärtäminen nykyaikaiset yhteydet.

Eikö olisi mielenkiintoista, jos sociosexual paikannus oli ratkaiseva tekijä? Rajoittamaton kaverit ja myös rajoittamaton naiset ovat todennäköisesti hyödyntää Seksi Treffit järjestelmien epävirallisia kohtaamisia, riippumatta siitä, biologinen sukupuoli-- ottaa huomioon, että sociosexually rajoitettu naiset sekä miehet ovat todennäköisesti etsivät kestämään, erityistä rakkautta. Tulevaisuuden tutkimus on toistettavissa tai kumota nämä tutkijat ja myös lisäksi tärkeää tutkia muuttujien, kuten sukupuolen tunnistaminen, siirtää seksuaalinen normeja, ja myös in-henkilö dating inspiraatioita.

Kuin perinteiset, binaariset käsitykset sukupuolesta sekä sukupuolten morph, tulee neste ja moniulotteinen, etsivät vain orgaanisia sukupuolen tunnistaa, miksi me etsiä suhteita etsimme on yhä enemmän virheellisiä, sekä petollisia. Kun otetaan huomioon näkökohdat, kuten sociosexuality, joka ylittää sukupuolen sekä biologinen sukupuoli, auttavat meitä tunnistamaan paremmin meidän motiivit pariutumisen sekä dating. Seuraavan kerran olet ottaen paikka, päivämäärä, kokeile tätä kokeilua: toisin Kuin tehdä oletuksia siitä, mitä toinen henkilö haluaa ominaisuus heidän sukupuoli, miettiä sociosexual tasaus-ja myös ehkä jopa tuoda sen keskusteluun.

Mitä koskien huolenaihe biologinen sukupuoli vs. sociosexuality tunnistamaan motiivit hyödyntäen Seksi Treffit? Rajoittamaton naiset sekä rajoittamaton kaverit ovat enemmän todennäköisesti hyödyntää Seksi Treffit järjestelmien rento kohtaamiset, riippumatta siitä, orgaaninen sukupuoli-- ottaa huomioon, että sociosexually rajoitettu naiset sekä miehet ovat paljon todennäköisemmin etsivät yllä, yksinomainen rakkautta. Kuin perinteiset, binary käsitteet sukupuoli ja sukupuoli morph, tulee nestettä ja moniulotteinen, tarkasteltaessa vain orgaanisia sukupuolen tunnistaa, miksi me etsiä suhteita, meidän on ennen muuta petollinen sekä epäluotettava.

Vuonna lisälaite kiusanteko lisäksi vivahteita Seksi Treffit menetelmä aiemmassa tutkimuksessa on, ne sisältyvät "sociosexuality" tavanomaisia epäiltyjä, kuten sukupuoli, ikä, raportoitu inspiraatioita Seksi Treffit, ja niin edelleen. Ymmärtää yksilöiden Seksi Treffit inspiraatioita, tutkijat hyödyntää muunnelma "Tinder inspiraatioita mittakaavassa" (Sumter et al., 2017), joka approksimoi kuusi keskeisiä tekijöitä, kun käytät dating web-sivustoja sekä sovelluksia-rakkaus/pitkän aikavälin romantiikkaa, seksiä, yksinkertaisuus viestintä, itsekunnioitusta tunnustamista, seikkailu, jännitystä, sekä trendikkyys.

Kotiin vietävä viesti on, että vaikka se on edelleen paljon yleisempää, että miehet käyttävät Seksi Treffit koukkaaminen-up, ja enemmän tavallista, että naiset käyttävät Seksi Treffit tavata että erityistä joku, että tekijä ei voi pohjimmiltaan olla koska orgaaninen seksiä.

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Canadian Women’s Hockey League goes belly up

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TORONTO — The Canadian Women’s Hockey League will discontinue operations on May 1, the league announced Sunday.

A week after the Calgary Inferno won the league championship and hoisted the Clarkson Cup trophy, the CWHL said in Toronto that the 12-year-old league will discontinue operations May 1.

“Unfortunately, while the on-ice hockey is exceptional, the business model has proven to be economically unsustainable,” the league said in a statement.

The Board of Directors of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) has made the decision to discontinue operations effective May 1, 2019. Please refer to press release at the https://t.co/iy7b1CjE0v for more information. pic.twitter.com/SxzctlWusB

— CWHL (@TheCWHL) March 31, 2019

The CWHL was founded in 2007, and had six teams in North America and China this past season.

The league included national team players from the United States, Canada, Finland, Japan and China.

“I’m heartbroken at the news of the #CWHL folding,” Calgary Inferno forward Brianne Jenner said on Twitter.

“Hard to process this after our most successful season to date. Thank you to the builders, players, coaches, GMs, fans that made it possible for 12 seasons. We will rebound from this.”

I’m heartbroken at the news of the #CWHL folding. Hard to process this after our most successful season to date. Thank you to the builders, players, coaches, GMs, fans that made it possible for 12 seasons. We will rebound from this.

— Brianne Jenner (@briannejenner) March 31, 2019

Sami Jo Small, who co-founded the league in 2007, was hired as general manager of the Toronto Furies last summer.

“I have no idea what this means for the future, but this is heartbreaking,” Small tweeted. “We will work hard to ensure there is still women’s hockey in Toronto.”

I have no idea what this means for the future, but this is heartbreaking 💔 We will work hard to ensure there is still women's hockey in Toronto. https://t.co/a7ZL7zmSuj

— Sami Jo Small (@SamiJoSmall) March 31, 2019

Inferno forward Blayre Turnbull and Les Canadiennes de Montreal forward Marie-Philip Poulin posted identical reaction on Twitter:

“This morning we were informed the #CWHL is folding. As players, we will do our best to find a solution so this isn’t our last season of hockey but it’s hard to remain optimistic. #NoLeague.”

This morning we were informed the #CWHL is folding. As players, we will do our best to find a solution so this isn’t our last season of hockey but it’s hard to remain optimistic. #NoLeague

— Blayre Turnbull (@katbt617) March 31, 2019

The CWHL operates like the MLS in that the league owns the teams.

Former player Jayna Hefford was appointed interim commissioner last year when Brenda Andress stepped down.

The CWHL began paying its players’ salaries in 2017-18 ranging from $2,000 to $10,000, out of a total budget of $3.7 million.

The addition of two expansion teams in China that season — since combined into one — was believed to have added significant dollars into the CWHL.

But the CWHL lost a major financial backer in November when longtime supporter Graeme Roustan withdrew the sponsorship of his venture capital firm Roustan Capital.

And the new coach of the Chinese women’s team hinted recently that he hopes the players soon won’t have to travel internationally to develop into better players.

“I think the biggest goal now is to have a league or some competitions here in China where we can play good games,” Jakob Kolliker told China Daily.

“It’s important for the future.”

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Impaired Maintenance of Interpersonal Synchronization in Musical Improvisations of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Impaired Maintenance of Interpersonal Synchronization in Musical Improvisations of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder BY Katrien Foubert 1*, Tom Collins 2, 3 and Jos De Backer 1 1 Music Therapy, Department of Music, LUCA School of Arts, Association KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2 Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, 3 Music Artificial Intelligence Algorithms,…

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Toto the Hero (1991)

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Starring Will Merrick, Marek Larwood and Naomi Stafford

Directed by Gulliver Moore

Written by Matthew Stallworthy Produced by Nick Coupe Director of Photography: Oliver Clubb Executive Producer: Jonathan Bairstow Original Score by Jim Hustwit Edited by Brin Production Design by Anna Papa Costume Design by Joscelyn Webb Puppet Designer and Operator: Jess Kay Supporting Cast Reporter: Dan Gaisford Florist: Sarah-Jane Worrall Horror Movie Heroine: Brigitta Frances Crew 1st AD: Danielle Lethbridge Hair & Makeup: Alice Kenneth and Bethan Shakespeare Focus Puller: Dougie Benge Clapper Loaded: Charles Donnelly Gaffer: Danny Germain Design Assistant/ Stills Photographer: Alice Weston Carpenter: Markus Fischer Cakes: Amy Powell Yeates Eggs: Deborah Farr and Damon & Kate Moore Catering: Kate Moore Horse & Cart Provided by JM Carriges Missing Chicken Poster: Max Dorey Post Production Sound Design: Danny Quinn Colour Grade: Jamie Welsh at Lipsync Post Chicken Rotoscoping and VFX: Gulliver Moore & Oliver Clubb Character Illustration & Animation: Jack Iffla Credit Illustrations: Damon Moore SPECIAL THANKS TO MATT LUCAS Extras Jack Barton Damon Moore Pepita Collins Dickon Moore Andrew Davies Kate Moore Sian Davies Alice Weston Tchad Findlay Harry Foreman Mhairi Milligan Jenny Weston Orion Ackroyd Otto Saner Runners Fergus Williams Toby Trillo Harry Foreman Alex Woolley Otto Saner Musicians (Lead by Jim Hustwit) Cristiano Castellittio Santiago Piqueras Sam Edington Phoebe Wright-Spinks Thanks To Lipsync Post Production Eleanor Thompson Nigel at HE Williams and Sons Adam Robinson Grace at Bramble and Wild Jo and Hannah at Inner Beauty Adrian at Cayfords Butchers Philip de Glanville Migs Jacques Ben Cornish Damon and Kate Moore Chris Wooton at Little Angel Theatre Jennifer Granville The Garden Café Becki and Rachel at Millie Moon Hilary and Mark Coupe Sophie Chapman & Becca Kinder at Troika Lorna Fallowfield at United Agents Jane Llewellyn and Mark Brookes at Frome Town Council Charlie Higgins at Somerset County Council Our Kickstarter Backers Peter Larking Mark Allen Jonathan Bairstow Nick Baum Max Clendaniel Tara Cook Chris Coupe Hilary and Mark Coupe Kristina Ellis Anna Fywell Laura Yeates Tom Gault Katharine Murray-Clark Jordan Philips Amy Powell Yeates Max Prior Adam Robinson Paul Russell Elizabeth Swaffield Anna Wiseman Alex Woolley Chole Graham Ideas Tap, Sheriff's Office Films, Cineworks, New Day Pictures gullivermoore.co.uk

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It’s time for our Best Books of 2017 episode! We’ll talk about our favourite things we read for the podcast, our favourite things we read that weren’t for the podcast, and lots more! Please note, while many of the titles we recommend were published in 2017, this is our list of best of that we read in 2017, so there is some older material on the list as well.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Top Book Club Picks

Non-Fiction

Anna

The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction)

Jessi

The Witches: Salem, 1692 (2016) by Stacy Schiff (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks)

Matthew

Prose: The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA (2017) by Doug Mack (Episode 039 - Non-Fiction Travel)

Comic: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (2017) by Nagata Kabi (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction)

Meghan

In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote, narrated by Scott Brick (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks)

Fiction

Anna

Death in the Vines (2013) by M.L. Longworth (Episode 025 - Detective Fiction)

The Snowman (2011) by Jo Nesbø (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows))

Jessi

Stardust (1998) by Neil Gaiman (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows))

Matthew

Prose: Autonomous (2017) by Annalee Newitz (Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction)

Comic: Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind (1982-1994) by Hayao Miyazaki (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows))

Meghan

The City and the City (2009) by China Miéville (Episode 025 - Detective Fiction)

Top Non-Book Club Picks

Non-Fiction

Anna

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land (2017) by Monica Hesse

Jessi

Tomboy Survival Guide (2016) by Ivan Coyote (we mention this one in Episode 021 - Coming-of-Age and Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction)

Matthew

Prose: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (2017) by Zoe Quinn (mentioned in Episode 032.5 - BookExpo America and the American Library Association Annual Conference)

Comic: Lighter than my Shadow (2017) by Katie Green (Episode 040 - Precipitation in Video Games)

Meghan

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues (2016) in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

Métis in Space podcast with Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain

Fiction

Anna

The Queen of Blood (2016) by Sarah Beth Durst (Episode 040 - Precipitation in Video Games)

Jessi

The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) by Katherine Arden (mentioned in Episode 034 - Reading Resolutions)

Matthew

Prose: Red Spider White Web (1990) by Misha (mentioned in Episode 034 - Reading Resolutions)

Comic: Giant Days (2015-present) by John Allison and Max Sarin

Meghan

Next Year for Sure (2017) by Zoey Leigh Peterson

Other recommendations

Anna

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Lucky Penny (2016) by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota (Episode 021 - Coming-of-Age)

Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us: A Johnny Wander Collection (2017) by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (2016) by Patrick Phillips

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016) edited by Jesmyn Ward

The Fire Next Time (1992) by James Baldwin

Clean Sweep (2013) by Ilona Andrews (and the rest of that series)

Spill Zone, vol. 1 (2017) by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland

Volume 2 is being serialized as a webcomic (frustratingly the site seems to be setup so that you cannot link directly to pages, so to get to the beginning of volume two hit the previous chapter link a few times)

HiLo, vol. 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth (2015) by Judd Winick

Here’s the full panel (Read-Alikes: What to Suggest When They've Already Read Smile & The Walking Dead) from the Comics Conference for Educators and Librarians that Anna mentioned

Jessi

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (2014) by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell

Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada (2016) edited by Robin Ganev and RJ Gilmour (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction)

Green River, Running Red (2007) by Ann Rule (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks)

The Hating Game (2016) by Sally Thorne (Episode 028 - Accidental Romance)

Matthew

Three Parts Dead (2012) by Max Gladstone (Episode 33 - Legal Thrillers)

True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis (Episode 29 - Westerns)

The Sisters Brothers (2011) by Patrick deWitt (Episode 29 - Westerns)

No Mercy, vol. 2 (2016) by Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee (specifically issue #9)

Matthew’s longer list of favorite comics he read in 2017 is below

Meghan

Turning (2017) by Jessica J. Lee (Non-fiction memoir)

See What I Have Done (2017) by Sarah Schmidt (Fictionalized true crime)

Dreams of Shreds and Tatters (2015) by Amanda Downum (New Weird)

Need for the Bike (2011) by Paul Fournel, translated by Allan Stoekl (non-fic BICYCLES)

Blue Light Yokohama (2017) by Nicolás Obregón (Mystery)

Matthew’s List of Top Comics he Read in 2017 that weren’t his top picks (Anna’s recommendations were also good!)

Monstress vols. 1-2 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (2016-2017)

This is an insanely epic (and beautiful) fantasy. You should read it!

No Mercy, vol. 2 (2016) by Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee

No, I haven’t read volume 3 yet...

Omega Men: The End is Here (2016) by Tom King, Barnaby Bagenda, Toby Cyprus, and Ig Guara

Invincible vols. 23-24 (2017) by by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, Ryan Ottley, and Nathan Fairbairn

It’s superheroes meet Dragonball Z, except much bloodier. It’s ending with volume 25, and I’m kind of sad about that.

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2016) by Sonny Liew

Despite really liking this, I don’t think it should have won the Eisner for “Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia”

The Private Eye (2015) by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente

As much as I enjoyed this, I don’t think the hardcover is worth $50.

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank (2017) by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss

I was supplied with a review copy by the publishers.

Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (2017) by Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni

Delicious in Dungeon vol. 1 (2017) by Ryoko Kui

Yowamushi Pedal vols. 3-4 (2016) by Wataru Watanabe

Bicycles!

Demon vols. 1-4 (2016-2017) by Jason Shiga

The first volume is the best and, to be honest, this series is kind of gross, so be warned...

Order of the Stick: How the Paladin Got His Scar (2017) by Rich Burlew

This was a reward only given to backers of the 2012 Kickstarter so you can’t actually buy or read it, but it’s really good!

Questions

What were your favourite reads of 2017?

What would you recommend to us?

Is there a supernatural gardening book you could recommend to Jessi?

What is “Clean Sweep”?

A curling related cozy mystery?

A high school hijinx sports novel?

A romance novel about a chimney sweep who is reforming himself after his criminal past?

Something else?

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Join us again on January 16th for our episode on Family Sagas!

Then come back on February 6th for our episode on our Reading Resolutions for 2018!

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Music Therapy

Within The Music In Music Therapy, Jos De Backer and Julie Sutton discuss music in terms of our own experience of it and how exactly we feel as we are experiencing it.

“Music can be described as an embodied flow of our sense of being. It is specific to what we are saying - not only the embodiment but the sense of going on being in time as it unfolds in time. When listening to music we have available the possibility of experiencing ourselves as both familiar and changed. We lose a momentary sense of time, space and personal identity, while also retaining an overall sense of being and feeling.”

I would like to explore my own soundscape and use of music through the lens of this book, and the authors’ reading of music within music therapy. I relate to how both Backer and Sutton interpreted music in relation to emotional response, and would like to also put emphasis on the listener’s sense of self when listening to my Winter’s Night soundscape.

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Another Amazing Kickstarter (SKAI BLUE by GUIDO VERELST —Kickstarter) has been published on http://crowdmonsters.com/new-kickstarters/skai-blue-by-guido-verelst-kickstarter/

A NEW KICKSTARTER IS LAUNCHED:

STORY (spoiler alert!):

Simon is a young gay man from Cameroon. When neighbours take the law in their own hands and decide to punish him for “having chosen the path of the Devil”, Simon runs away and decides to escape to Europe. In Belgium, he meets Tom, an older man, on a gay dating site. The two men hook up and what follows is a story of sex and intimacy. But when their cultural differences become more challenging, Tom is faced with a dilemma.

PRODUCTION

We start shooting “Skai Blue” at end of February 2017 and shoot through summer 2017. Post-production will follow so that the film will be ready early fall 2017.

We have already secured a talented cast, crew, and great locations, but your help is essential to complete production of this unique and important film.

You can help bring this film to the public with a financial donation! There’s no gift to modest, every little bit helps, and to provide incentive, please take a look at the great rewards you will receive! All backers at every level from modest to generous gifts will receive regular updates from the set and the cutting room, as well as receive the latest exciting news as we present the film at the festivals, screenings, and beyond! With your gift, you become a part of our collective creative process and help bring attention to this important issue.

We would appreciate it if you could share this link with your friends and connections, as every euro and dollar counts to help us share this beautiful and timely story with the public. With our short film, we want to reach out and not only inspire the LGTB community, but the public at large in order to raise important timely issues about political refugees and honour the asylum seeker that lives inside of each one of us, seeking freedom from discrimination.

THE CREW

GUIDO VERELST (WRITER/DIRECTOR)

After earning a Master’s in French literature at Antwerp University, Guido studied theater and film at the Université de Strasbourg. He earned a Master’s from Brussels Film School INSAS in directing.

Since 2000, he has worked as a freelance director, editor, and producer for his company DEEP FOCUS.

Paris Fashion Week 2013

In 1997, Guido’s short fiction ‘Hadewijch’ won the award for best cinematography at the short film festival in Namur, Belgium, and in 2012, he received the award for best newcomer for his fashion film ‘Showroom Belgium – London Fashion Week’ at the Berlin Fashion Film Festival.

“Hadewijch” 1997

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With the short film ‘Skai Blue’, Guido is returning to his roots in the medium of fiction filmmaking and is preparing a feature film based on the same story.

DIEGO DEZUTTERE (DOP)

After film school at Narafi Brussels, Diego (1977) began his career as a camera assistant in drama. it was a great learning experience! He saw ‘how magic works’ and fell in love with cinematography. Later he became a cameraman, a new challenge. He filmed “easy on the eyes” documentaries all around the world, corporate movies, current affairs and commercials. “Filming documentaries trains you to listen, to pay attention to the story and find the best way of filming in every situation… The challenge is to remain creative in unexpected changing circumstances. In these environments you’re constantly making decisions on the spot… here you get experienced!” he says. Diego has served as director of photography for several TV series (Red Sonja, Amigo’s, Gent-West …) and feature films (Danni Lowinski, Allemaal Familie …)

KEVIN HOED (Producer)

Kevin Hoed first studied Economics-Modern Languages before moving over to more creative outlets. In Genk, he earned his Master’s in Audiovisual Arts at the Media & Design Academy. Soon after graduation, he began his career as a location manager. He did this for 8 years, and decided to direct his first short feature ‘Bleu’ (2014). Soon after the release of this movie, he founded a production company Skladanowsky, together with his partners Steve De Roover and Robin Pipeleers. Since 2015 they have produced promotional spots, music video’s and three short features.

STEVE DE ROOVER (Producer)

Steve De Roover worked as a film critic and freelance writer. He also worked as location manager, extras coordinator and script supervisor on a wide array of Flemish and international productions like the 2nd season of ‘The Missing’ for BBC, the Konstantin Bojanov directed ’Light Thereafer’, world war II epic ‘The Exception’, Lee Tamahori’s ’Emperor’, ‘Missing Persons Unit’ and the upcoming TV-show ‘Gent-West’. In 2013 he finished his short film ‘Un Homme bien“. The vampire short premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2013 and was awarded as ‘Best social short’ at the 2014 Krivoy Rog Film Festival. Following the success of ‘Un Homme Bien’ led in 2014 to the ‘Newbie Award’ winning short thriller ‘Bleu’, which Steve De Roover co-produced alongside director Kevin Hoed. In 2015 Steve and Kevin formed Skladanowsky. Together they produced the short thriller ‘The Barrier of Silence’ which was nominated for best camerawork by the Belgian Society of Cinematographers and Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s upcoming short thriller ‘Hashtag’ The feature length horror documentary ‘Forgotten Scares’: An In-depth Look at Flemish Horror Cinema” – directed by Steve De Roover will soon be released, and recently received the award for ‘Best foreign feature’ at the annual Hollywood Florida Film Festival 2017.

PEPO RUIZ DORADO (Costume Designer)

Born in Cadiz and based in Madrid, Pepo started working as a visual artist, but soon thereafter dedicated himself to film. Since 2005,Pepo has been working as a costumer, costume designer, and wardrobe supervisor on multiple internationally- acclaimed films such as ‘Submergence’ (Wim Wenders), ‘Hands of Stone’ (Jonathan Jakubowicz), ‘Hitman:Agent 74’ (Aleksander Bach), ‘Muppets Most Wanted’ (James Bobin), ‘Les Misérables’ (Tom Hooper), ‘Biutiful’ (Gustavo Iñarritu), and many more.

This creative and restless artist also designed the magnificent costumes for the TV series ‘La Sonata del Silencio’ , ‘El Tiempo entre Costuras’ and ‘Narcos’.

PABLO PIATTI (Production Designer)

Pablo Piatti studied Art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina and after graduating he moved to Belgium in the early 90s. Ever since he’s been working as a stylist and Illustrator for several European brands. Presently he works with interior designers and architects in decoration projects where he creates bespoke murals and wallpapers. He joined DEEP FOCUS as set designer for ‘Skai Blue’.

THE CAST

TOM (Steven Van Watermeulen)

Steven Van Watermeulen (1968) studied at the Conservatoire in Antwerp and has worked with numerous directors including Guy Cassiers, Johan Simons, Ivo van Hove, Pierre Audi, Alize Zandwijk, Theu Boermans, Julie Van den Berghe, Christoph Marthaler, Peter Van Kraai and Dora van der Groen. He performed in ‘Splendids’, ‘Bérénice’, ‘Streetcar Named Desire’, ‘Romeo en Julia’, ‘Caligula’, ‘Measure for Measure’, ‘Thyestes’, ‘The Kiss of the Spider Woman’, ‘The Lady of the Camellias’, ‘Flirt’, ‘India Song’, ‘Faces’ (Het Zuidelijk Toneel), ‘Het jachtgezelschap’ (Kaaitheater), ‘Macbeth’, ‘Leonce en Lena’, ‘Lavalounge’, ‘Mijn avonturen’ door V. Schwrm and Proust 3 (RO Theater). For his part in ‘De Wespenfabriek’ by the RO Theater he received a Louis d’Or.

In 1997 he directed ‘Last Tango in Paris’ for Het Zuidelijk Toneel, an adaptation of Bertolucci’s film. This was followed by ‘Sterremix’ (SKAGEN) and ‘Nest’ by Oscar van den Boogaard (RO Theater). Together with Sara de Roo, Oscar van den Boogaard and the B-architecten he made ‘Lucia Smelt’ for tg STAN. In 2009 he created the opera ‘Die Entführung aus dem Paradies’ for Transparant.

Under the name of BLITZ, Steven Van Watermeulen, Oscar van den Boogaard and Sven Grooten (B-architecten) worked as curators for the shows ‘Rimbaud’ in Brussel, ‘Een seizoen in de hel’ (BOZAR, Brussels, 2004), ‘MOI, VERONIQUE Branquinho to(u)t(e) nu(e)’ (MOMU, Antwerp, 2008) and ‘Bij Ensor op bezoek’ (Muzee, Ostend, 2010).

In 2006, Steven Van Watermeulen debuted as a writer and has been very successful since. Since 2005, Steven is part of the NTGent theatre company, and from the 2017-2018 season on, Steven will be a full-time member of Toneelgroep Amsterdam.

SIMON (Adams Mensah)

Adams Adjetey Mensah (°Accra, April 2 1991) is a Ghanaian-Belgian actor, writer and dancer.

In 2007 he performs in the play ‘Genesis’ directed by Greet Vissers. Since then he appeared in plays from companies such as Sering, Tutti Fratelli, kunstZ, Productiehuis Brabant, Lampekap, Muziektheater Transparant …

He collaborated with directors such as Guy Cassiers, Jo Roets, Michael De Cock, Sabri Saad El Hamus, Neske Beks, Franz Marijnen and Reinhilde Decleir.

In 2009 he creates with Greet Vissers the dance performance ‘Ford Escort’ inspired by Adams’s idol Michael Jackson, which toured through Flanders.

In 2011 Adams started his audio-visual training at the Brussels School for Sciences and Arts. On September 9 of that year he debuts as a director with the film ‘Genade’ (‘Mercy’) in which he performs, and for which he wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of how far a mother will go to protect her child.

Two years later Adams collaborates with Werner Kolf at the youth film project ‘Stad in Beeld’ from kunstZ, resulting in the short fiction ‘The Birthday’ which was shown at the Mestizo Arts Festival 2014.

In 2014 he leaves to Ghana to film his documentary ‘Me a Belgian, my mother a Ghanaian’, for which he won the Prize of the Jury at the 2016 Zanzibar International Film Festival.

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