ᴀᴜɴᴛ (ʏ/ɴ) — ɢɪɴɴʏ ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴇᴏʀɢɪᴀ 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞

ᴀ/ɴ: ɪ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴄᴇɴᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜɴɢ ɢᴇᴏʀɢɪᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟɪᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ɢɪʀʟꜱ ᴅʀᴇꜱꜱ ᴄʜᴏɪᴄᴇꜱ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ’ʀᴇ ꜱʜᴏᴘᴘɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ᴘʀᴏᴍ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴀ ᴄᴜᴛᴇ ꜱᴄᴇɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ʜᴏᴡ ꜱʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴛ ᴀ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ. ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ꜱᴀᴅ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴋᴇᴇᴘꜱ ʀᴇᴡʀɪᴛɪɴɢ ɪᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇꜱᴏᴍᴇ. ᴜɴᴇᴅɪᴛᴇᴅ.

ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ: ᴏʜ ɢᴇᴏʀɢɪᴀ ᴍɪʟʟᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇʀ ᴍᴀɴʏ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀɪᴇꜱ. ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ɢᴏᴏᴅ, ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ʙᴀᴅ, ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ɪɴ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ.

ᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ: 716

ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ: ɴᴏɴᴇ

“How am I? Ginny and Georgia had a meltdown at your open mic. Suddenly neither of them are keeping me in the loop. I still haven’t told Georgia I slept with Zion. And your horrible acting like Paul and Georgia getting married doesn’t bother you is becoming rather boring,” Your head propped on your elbow you drum your fingers against your cheek, swaying your stool beneath you. Joe stands behind the bar in front of you. A grin playing on your lips as he chuckles pouring more wine to his own glass.

“So not only did Georgia leave me heartbroken but with her evil best friend. Really bringing in the holiday cheer,” Joe raises his glass, the giddy smile on his face warming your heart. He hasn’t smiled like that much these days. You cover the fond moment with a mischievous glint on your eye. The silent bar fills with a chorus of your own and his laughter. Wine fueling the dim glow of the dark room. Finishing your glass Joe raises the bottle to your cup tilting his head, “How did you and Georgia meet?”

“We were sixteen. I was shopping for a prom dress at my mom’s store. Caught her stealing clothes for her and Ginny,” You speak casually, the silence making your gaze whip up to Joe. He gapes at you as though you grow another head before his eyes.

“Your mom loves Georgia. When she visited she gushed about both of you. A complete stranger would think you were sisters the way she spoke. How did that happen?” You chuckle at the description of your mother. Her sweet laugh and airy energy creating warmth in every room she enters.

“I tried on dresses with Ginny to distract her from my Mom talking to Georgia. She gave Georgia a bunch of clothes for the both of them. Georgia asked why and my Mom called me, her Ginny. My mom was a single fifteen year old mother by the time I met Georgia she built a good life for us. She put a lot into helping Ginny and Georgia,” You stare off at nothing in particular wearing a large smile as you speak. Joe eyes you quietly, certain you are no longer explaining him the memory but reliving it. The far off adoration in your eyes giving you a nostalgic glow.

“You really love them,” Joe says, nodding your head as you lean forward, placing a hand on his own.

“So much. If it means anything while you’re technically not Georgia’s ex you were hands down her best one,” You beam up at his gentle smile. The ding of your phone pulling your attention from his gaze. “Oh no it’s Zion. I’ve been avoiding him. I just—how the hell would this work. Georgia’s going to kill us. Ginny and Austin are already going through so much. And what? Surprise the woman you call Aunt is screwing your Dad. Wait, pause.”

“So Ginny’s the poet of the family clearly,” Joe say. A dry chuckle leaves your lips as you playfully glare.

“Out of everything I expected of uprooting my life for my best friend, sleeping with the father of her daughter and befriending the man pining for her was not a single scenario I had in my head,” You say, raising your cup he meets you in the middle with a perfect clink. Both of you take slow sips of your glasses, your mind relapses into previous concerns. Ginny. Austin. Georgia. Zion. You perk up zoning back into the moment. A wide smile taking your lips as Joe furrows his eyebrows at you.

“You’re scheming,” He accuses, you tilt your head offering an are you serious look. A grin tugging at your lips.

“Thanks for being kind of cool,” You say. He sets his lips blinking at you. Holding his gaze you blink back. The warmth adding a new layer to your chats. A numbing intimacy blinding all your fears for a mere second. The vibrating of your phone makes you flinch, Zion. “Sorry I need to take this.”

“No worries,” Joe says, a warm smile covering the long thoughtful pauses. His eyebrows crease at how his eyes have not left you. Something’s different, and it’s made what was—a hell of a lot more difficult.

Once upon a dream

Warning: mentions of pregnancy, mentions of cheating, mention of death, hurt comfort

Pairing: Emily Prentiss x Fem!reader, Tess Servopoulos x Fem!reader, Tess Servopoulos x Joel Miller

The only thing Emily ever wished for was a family, to be the mother she never had to two sons and a beautiful daughter always three children specifically.

Emily always had dreams of becoming a mother one day but it was never in her stack of cards so she shortly gave up the idea. Her dreams would always be just dreams not until she met Y/n, she was everything Emily had ever dreamed of in a spouse.

Only Y/n wasn’t hers

They had met at a local cafe after Emily had accidentally bumped right into her forgetting her coffee as she left in embarrassment. Y/n went straight after her with the drinks in hand never guessing she would end up at her brother’s workplace the bau.

“Y/n? What are you doing here?” Hotch asked confused Emily froze before turning around to face the woman. “You know each other?” She asked so unlike herself Penelope would’ve laughed Derek too “Aaron’s my older brother, you forgot your coffee” Y/n smiled.

Fast forward six years later

Emily going from blind date to hookup after hookup to get her mind off the now married woman who she still imagined a life with. Two sons and a beautiful daughter she told herself or even just one child would suffice maybe a cat if children wasn’t an option. She loved Y/n so violently it made her sick and everyone could see from a mile away- everyone besides Y/n although she loved Emily just as fiercely.

When Emily had “died” the other woman was inconsolable it damaged Aaron knowing he had a hand in this by not telling his sister the truth. Instead watching as the woman got married quickly to the first person who showed her simple kindness and their marriage seemed was almost out of convenience. Having met the woman while away trying to escape the life she once knew in Virginia moving to Boston and back again.

Y/n Hotchner became Y/n Servopoulos

Aaron couldn’t watch as his sister saw Emily for the first time once more after apparently being dead, how her hands trembled and eyes watered. The echo of her heels as she quickly left, Emily broke down that day one thing was certain nothing would ever be the same.

Y/n soon revealed she was pregnant with a little boy that shattered Emily’s entire world but she was happy for the woman. Though she couldn’t help but laugh when the baby was born looking just like his Uncle, to Emily Y/n was glowing and Tess well she was there.

Her son was named after an old friend Alex.

Theresa and Emily never got along always classed as competition in the other’s eye but they remained civil around Y/n never wanting to upset her. When Y/n was pregnant a second time Tess was around a whole less always giving Emily a chance to be by the pregnant woman’s side.

It was tough at first trying to win over the woman but Emily had her ways she would beg for Y/n’s forgiveness

A second boy named after his Uncle Aaron, Benjamin

Emily stood beside the woman until Ben turned two, Y/n and Tess were getting a divorce so Emily had the boys whenever she could. Tess had met someone while she was working away from home, some man named Joel from Texas. Joel Miller the same man who did the renovations on their holiday home who even had a daughter of his own.

It wouldn’t be until another year when a move would be made there was a routine the children had made that included Emily. You both would cook dinner- well you would cook and after spending time together you both would get the boys ready for bed and tuck them in. This night however as Ben snuggled into his pillow his little hand reached for Emily’s “stay mama” he yawned as the woman went to stand.

Tears spread on her waterline as she gazed down at him “of course my sweet boy” she smiled and once the kids were asleep you both retreated to the living room. Cuddling on the sofa watching some shitty reality tv show you gazed up at Emily “thank you” was whispered against her jaw. “What for?” She glanced down at you “for everything, for staying” soon enough your lips had met before you were on top straddling her.

Dreams slowly stopped being dreams another two years later when you and Emily had gotten married with just the team a few friends and your two sons as guests. Emily was over the moon to have a family to call her own, to have a reason to go home just knowing she was needed filled her with pride. Emily had gotten a taste of motherhood and she wanted more as you both laid bed post bliss she brought it up she wanted another child.

Two sons and a beautiful daughter

Her dreams were now reality as you welcomed Olivia into the world, Olivia Benson the Senior having to be the one to drive you to the hospital while Emily was away. She held your hand until your wife burst through the doors with the team behind her, you would birth a daughter who was the perfect mix of you both.

A little girl with Emily’s nose and eyes while she had your hair and mouth, Emily couldn’t help but pepper your face in kisses. “You did so well baby, I’m so proud of you” it made her think if she would ever be in this position if she hadn’t bumped into you that day.

Yes you were the bosses little sister but you had lead a similar life in a different town what if ran through her mind until she felt your cold hand on her cheek. She smiled brightly down at you as she leaned down to kiss you softly ignoring everyone in the room “thank you” she whispered.

“What for?” You chuckled tiredly with a dopey grin “our family” Emily held onto your free hand “I love you Y/n Prentiss” ignoring Hotch rolling his eyes fondly.

“I love you most Emily Prentiss”

Dreams do come true to those who wait Emily found.

I wish there was more fantasy books with mroe feminine female main character

All the main characters who are female "don't like drsses" or "acts more like a boy" and the author tries to make them more reliable this way but I can't relate. Because I like pretty dresses and "acting" like a girl. Also theres nothing wrong with that either. A female main character can be girly while also being interesting.

Another note I wish to see more female character in fantasy books who don't fight. They can still be a strong character without needing to wield a sword. I want to relate to characters who are girly and can't fight because if I was in a fantasy world I would absolutely suck a wielding weopons lol.

There's nothing wrong with female main characters being traditionally girly and not being a fighter. Im tired of authors using the "not like other girls" trope for their female characters.

YES YES YES

The strong female character(tm) is rooted in misogyny. There's nothing wrong with female characters who present masc or pick up swords or engage in traditionally masculine activities, but it becomes a problem when it becomes a trend that in order for a woman to be strong, she must pick up a sword, fight, be outspoken/loud/brash/assertive etc. etc. etc. It becomes a problem when we pit these characters against other female characters with more traditionally feminine traits. (Favorite personal example is the way the fandom -- not necessarily GRRM but the fandom -- treats Sansa Stark vs Arya Stark and Danaerys Targaryen, and Alicent Hightower vs Rhaenyra Targaryen)

IDK you didn't ask for these but here are some recs of books & other fiction who present actually well-rounded and and awesome strong female MCs not all of these are fantasy novels but they're just personal favorites of mine.

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine

Fairest - Gail Carson Levine

The entire everything ever that Brandon Sanderson has written. My personal favs include Navani and Shallan from Stormlight Archive.

Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (and just in general anything by Jane Austen ever)

Orlando - Virginia Woolf (and in general anything by Virginia ever)

Stardust - @neil-gaiman

A Discovery of Witches - the show, not the book. The book is kind of terrible.

Room - Emma Donoghue - both the book and the film are excellent!

Antigone - Sophocles

She Stoops to Conquer - short play by Oliver Goldsmith

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

A Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Macbeth - " (strong female characters are allowed to be antagonists)

Emily's Runaway Imagination - Beverly Clearly

Ramona series of books - Beverly Clearly

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Uglies | Pretties | Specials - Scott Westerfield

Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George

The myth of Inanna

Naya Nuki, shoshone girl who ran - Kenneth Thomasma

A Little Princess - Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Secret Garden - Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery. I'm personally fond of both the old version & the new netflix show as well as the books.

Myst: Book of Ti'ana - Rand Miller

Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

Coraline - also @neil-gaiman

dishonorable mention on the topic of feminist fiction: Handmaid's Tale. Fuck that.

potential authors that may appear in bsd

Arthur Conan Doyle- wrote sherlock holmes, definitely getting into the DETECTIVE manga (maybe apart of the clocktower?, he was also famously gullible in contrast to his work, was friends with harry houdini and genuinely believed he was a wizard even though houdini repeatedly showed how his tricks worked, was also tricked by the first case of photo-editing by two little girls, prime joke material), THEORY TIME: he's going to have the actual 'super deduction' ability and will make ranpo face once and for that he's a normal person but ranpo will be able to out deduce him thus disproving that normal people can't defeat ability users

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- carmilla (the lesbian vampire story that predated bram stoker's dracula by 26 YEARS CARMILLA SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST, he could show up with a possible cure to the vampire curse in the current arc?, maybe he or carmilla was even the one to bite and turn stoker)

Lewis Carrol- wrote alice's adventures in wonderland

jrr tolkien- wrote the hobbit and lord of the rings

Hans Christian Andersen- wrote the little mermaid and the snow queen

The Grimm brothers- wrote most famous fairytales

Johnston McCulley- wrote zorro (may appear as part of a phantom theives guild in a more lighthearted arc after this one before jumping back into the main story?)

Marice Leblanc- wrote arsene lupine (had a crossover with edogawa ranpo's kogoro akechi lmao ty p5 knowledge AND sherlock holmes, a near guaranteed shoe-in, also part of that phantom theives guild with a potential past involving both doyle and ranpo)

Prosper Mérimée (?)- in the same vein of p5 references, the thief woman in prison may have actually been carmen from the opera carmen by prosper mérimée (soon to be thieves guild member?)

Robert Louis Stevenson- wrote the strange case of dr jerkyll and mr hyde and treasure island (thieves guild member, possible split personality a la jerkyll/hyde, blackbeard and william kid references incoming)

Alexandre Dumas- the three musketeers, the count of monte cristo (also thieves guild member)

Gaston Leroux- phantom of the opera (possible thieves guild member off work only)

toni morrison- we are in DESPARATE NEED of black writers, although maybe not since she only recently passed, wrote beloved and the bluest eye

zora neale hurston- their eyes were watching god

hughs langston- famous poet

richard wright- black boy, native son

Harriet Beecher Stowe- uncle tom's cabin

harper lee- to kill a mockingbird

robert frost- famous poet, wrote the road not taken

emiliy dickinson- famous poet

ernest hemmingway- famous poet (if his ability is for whom the bell tolls we're fucked)

jane austen- pride and prejudice (would probably get along with margaret and Nathaniel)

the brontë sisters- jane eyre, wuthering heights (would get along with jane, margaret, and Nathaniel)

george orwell- 1984 and animal farm

william golding- the lord of the flies

Joseph hellar- catch-22 (his power would be hell, a literal catch-22)

ralph ellison- the invisible man (ability is obvious, thieves guild member, maybe a conflict with tanizaki considering the similar abilities?)

oscar wilde- the picture of dorian gray (this man was a great big bisexual SLUT in life i want him to be the same in bsd)

virginia woolf- to the lighthouse (maybe will reference who's afraid of virginia woolf?)

c. s. lewis- the chronicles of narnia (personally knew jrr tolkien, famously at odds over Christmas, prime joke material)

charles dickens- a Christmas carol, oliver twist, a tale of two cities, and great expectations

arthur miller- the crucible (maybe his ability makes people distrust others?)

Johnathan swift- Gulliver's travels (teleporting ability definitely, new fast travel plot device although maybe not as it could conflict with Gogol's ability)

Vladimir Nabokov- lolita, pale fire (on second thought i don't want him in here i can only IMAGINE how that would turn out, if he shows up he and mori would either get along or HATE each other)

Leo Tolstoy- war and peace (we already know fyodor is surviving this we still don't know what crime and punishment does CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM AND FYODOR TOGETHER HELLWORLDHELLWORLDHELLWORLD) THEORY TIME AGAIN: his power is one that specifically targets only ability users and makes them slowly start acting in either anger or complete affability until everyone is at war or peace, he would be the perfect compliment to fyodor if crime and punishment kills people who believe they're guilty literally the perfect storm of abilities, the absolute worst case scenario powers we're looking at a dark soukoku here

franz kafka- metamorphosis (he's gonna turn into a bug, isn't he)

Harlan Ellison- i have no mouth and i must scream (the horror related ability to replace lovecraft without being horrifically broken)

authors that i desparately want to show up but probably won't bc they didn't write in the 1800-1900s range that asagiri likes, are still alive, or are not globally recognizable enough

homer- the illiad and oddessy (i hope he starts his ability by making an invocation to the muses)

sappho (LESBIANS RISE UP)

virgil- the aeniad

dante- the divine comedy (virgil is a character in divine comedy like how bsd includes authors of other works, prime joke material)

john milton- paradise lost

Gilgamesh or Enkidu- we don't know who wrote the epic of Gilgamesh so the characters themselves could appear

margret atwood- oryx and crake, cat's eye (potentially another animal shapeshifting power, atsushi's gonna have a little cat colony gang at this rate)

neil gaiman- american gods, the sandman ('american gods sounds like a broken ability)

ursula k. guin- earthsea series

stan lee- i know he wrote comics not long form literature but i think the father of american comics and the superhero genre deserves to be recognized in the superhero/mafia/detective noir manga; plus japanese manga was heavily influenced by american comics after wwii, we would literally not be reading bsd in the same state today without stan lee

stephen king- no explanation needed, PLEASE LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT KING IS A GIANT FAN OF LOVECRAFT I THINK HE SHOULD GET TO MEET HIS IDOL

r. l. stein- goosebumps, if literally NONE of these authors make it in PLEASE AT LEAST LET RL STEIN GET IN AND LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT PLEASE GOOSEBUMPS DESERVES SO MUCH LOVE AND PLEASE GOD LET HIS POWER BE THAT FUCKING PUPPET I WANT TO SLAPPY TO BE ABSOLUTELY USELESS AND JUST EXIST TO TORMENT STEIN

chuck tingle- pounded in the butt series guy, he should be the god of the bsd universe this is not a joke

Novel Syllabus 2024

This coming year I think I'm going to be on here more often than I am on twitter or elsewhere, and as part of that, I'm going to start documenting the process of writing my novel more actively. I want to return to/resurrect the momentum and energy I had while writing the first draft and be more intentional about setting aside time to work, even when it's difficult. Below are my writing goals for the coming year as well as my reading list of texts for inspiration, genre/background research, comps, etc. Would welcome any suggestions of texts (any genre/discipline) pertaining to Antigone, death & resurrection, Welsh and Cornish myth and folklore, ecology & environmental crisis, and the Gothic.

Writing Goals

Reach 50k words in draft 2 overall

Finish a draft of Anna's timeline

Finish a draft of Jo's timeline

Polish & submit an excerpt for the Center for Fiction Prize

Reading

* = reread

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & The Apocalyptic

The Memory Theater (Karin Tidbeck)

Who Fears Death (Nnedi Okorafor)

Urth of The New Sun (Gene Wolfe)

Slow River (Nicola Griffith)

Dream Snake (Vonda McIntyre)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)

Notes from the Burning Age (Claire North)

Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)*

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*

The Last Man (Mary Shelley)

The Drowned World (J.G. Ballard)

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. by Jeremy Tiang)

City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff VanderMeer)

Freshwater (Akweke Emezi)

The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)

Pattern Master (Octavia Butler)

Sleep Donation (Karen Russell)

How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)

The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)*

The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)*

The Green Witch (Susan Cooper)

The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Lives of the Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis)

Brian Evenson

Sofia Samatar

Connie Willis

Samuel Delaney

Jo Walton

Tanith Lee

Retellings

A Wild Swan (Michael Cunningham)

Til We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)

Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)

Circe (Madeline Miller)

The Owl Service (Alan Garner)

Literary Myth-Making, Mystery, and the Gothic

Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)

Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)*

The Game (A.S. Byatt)*

The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

The Secret History (Donna Tartt)*

The Wild Hunt (Emma Seckel)

King Nyx (Kirsten Bakis)

The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)

Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*

Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)*

Night Side of the River (Jeanette Winterson)

Bad Heroines (Emily Danforth)

All the Murmuring Bones (A.G. Slatter)

The Path of Thorns (A.G. Slatter)

Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)

Prose Work, Perspective, and Stream of Consciousness

The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector)

The Waves (Virginia Woolf)*

The Years (Virginia Woolf)

The Intimate Historical Epic / Court Intrigues

Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)*

Menewood (Nicola Griffith)

Dark Earth (Rebecca Stott)

A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)

Research

The Mabinogion (trans. Sioned Davies)

Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)

The Collected Brothers Grimm (Phillip Pullman)

Angela Carter's Collected Fairytales

Mythology (Edith Hamilton)

Underland (Robert Macfarlane)

The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)

Wildwood (Roger Deakin)

Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne Du Maurier)

Lonely Planet: Guide to Devon & Cornwall

A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (David Gessner)

The Lost Boys of Montauk (Amanda M. Fairbanks)

A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna J. Harraway)

A Treasury of British Folklore (Dee Dee Chainey)*

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Eileen M. Hunt)

Antigone's Claim (Judith Butler)

Theories of Desire: Antigone Again (Judith Butler)

Ecology of Fear (Mike Davis)

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Hellen Keller

Republican Congresswoman Carol Miller has a quintessentially American political biography. As the owner of a bison farm in Huntington, West Virginia, Miller first became active in state politics, gaining election to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 2006. During her 12 years of service at the state level, Miller rose to the position of majority whip. In 2018, she ran for Congress, decisively winning West Virginia’s 3rd district seat on a pledge to “cut the bull” in Washington. She currently sits on the powerful Committee on Ways and Means.

Separately, The Hill is one of the leading politically focused news organizations in the US. Founded in 1994 to cover the inner workings of Congress and the intersection of politics and business, The Hill is known for its non-partisan style, a rare distinction in today’s hyper-politicized media environment. With more than 100 journalists and tens of millions of monthly readers, The Hill is considered an essential resource for those in the Beltway. In 2021, the company was sold to Nexstar Media for $130 million.

When someone of Miller’s stature takes to the editorial page of The Hill to address the topic of energy, we pay close attention. Imagine our dismay when we read this last week (emphasis added throughout):

“Hydrogen is often described as the future of clean and affordable energy. There are multiple ways it can be developed, but the most effective way is through a process called carbon capture utilization and storage. This process takes coal and natural gas emissions and converts them into hydrogen. At the beginning of 2022, hydrogen was supplied almost entirely from fossil fuels. More than 70 percent was generated from natural gas and 27 percent generated from coal. In the last year, my home state of West Virginia’s coal and natural gas production rose 5.7 percent and 6 percent, respectively. Using natural gas and coal emissions to create hydrogen energy is the perfect example of a comprehensive energy solution.”

We are not sure which version of ChatGPT was used to create this gibberish, but Miller’s language model needs a new training set. There is so much wrong with what she wrote that it is difficult to know where to begin—we are stunned that The Hill would publish it.

Hydrogen is typically made by reforming natural gas or by using an electrolyzer to split water, not by “a process called carbon capture utilization and storage.” When people refer to “natural gas and coal emissions,” they almost universally understand this to mean carbon dioxide (CO2). There is no “H” in CO2, of course, which makes Miller’s prose indistinguishable from alchemy.

After having read the entire opinion piece a half-dozen times, our best guess is that Miller must have been referring to the prospect of turning coal bed methane into hydrogen via steam reforming, burning the hydrogen thus produced as a fuel source, executing a water-gas shift reaction to convert the byproduct carbon monoxide into CO2, capturing the resulting CO2 emissions for storage, and having the federal government pay handsomely to have all this done. But honestly, who knows?

Whatever Miller was advocating for, the issue that provoked her to take to the pages of The Hill is a high-stakes one: an upcoming and highly anticipated rule-making announcement by the US Department of Treasury that will decide who qualifies for some of the most lucrative (and scientifically dubious) tax credits codified into law by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The race is on to pilfer scores of billions from the US taxpayer in the name of chasing green energy unicorns, and there is a full-blown administrative brawl underway between the various factions trying to get theirs while the getting is good. It is a story of cronyism, a failure to learn from Europe’s energy madness, and a familiar scheme guaranteed to incinerate heaps of the public’s money. Let’s head to the swamp and expose some of the disturbing details.

9 Favourite Books

Thank you @daisymae-12 for the tag. Compiling this list made me realize I have read a grand total of 2 books this whole year, which is depressing for someone who calls herself a bookworm. I also realized that this list is very classics heavy but i guess you can blame by Eng Lit degree for that lmao.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas: This is my current favourite book. It's a mammoth (at 1243 pages) but i wasn't bored for a minute. The story is so intricate and dense but its also fun to read it all culminate and make sense at the end. I cannot recommend this book enough.

Orlando by Virginia Woolf: This book is bizarre, convoluted and just plain wierd. It's also incredibly well-written , personal and is packed with wit and humor.

Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness: Don't let the horrendous Tom Holland movie sway you, this trilogy is genuinely amazing. Im very rarely moved to tears by any piece of literature but this series made me bawl my eyes out. Its a YA series unlike any ive read.

The Lord of the Ring Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien: The book and movie series are very close to my heart. As i child i was completely awestruck by the world Tolkien had created. The series has become a big source of comfort for me over the years.

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie: This book is not everyone's cup of tea (my college roommate loathed it lol) but it's one of my all time favs. I think this is one of the most intelligent, complex and evocative pieces of work I've ever read.

Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo: I cannot possibly leave this duology out of this list. I rarely reread books but ive read both SoC and CK atleast 3 times and I never get bored of revisiting the Grisha world. Some of my all time fav characters belong to this series.

Know My Name by Chanel Miller: Should be a must read for everyone. That's all.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: Reader, this is an excellent piece of literature and the one of the firsts which fueled by love for classics.

Maus by Art Spiegelman: Im a big fan of non-fiction graphic novels and Maus stands out in this (unfortunately small) genre. I loved the ingenuity of Spiegelman telling his father's experience of the Holocaust while imagining the characters as various animals.

Tagging anyone who wants to take up the challenge. I have no idea how many of my mutuals like reading sorry.

a tentative 2023 reading list (bolded = books i already own and therefore should start with) (crossing them off as i finish them)

fiction:

babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution – r.f. kuang

the best liars in riverview – lin thompson

bitter – akwaeke emezi

devil house – john darnielle

luda – grant morrison

a memory called empire – arkady martine

orlando – virginia woolf

piranesi – susanna clarke

the return of the king – j.r.r. tolkein

the summer book – tove jansson

a tale for the time being – ruth ozeki

an unkindness of ghosts – rivers solomon

the vanishing half – brit bennett

a wrinkle in time – madeleine l'engle

when the angels left the old country – sacha lamb

nonfiction:

all boys aren't blue – george m. johnson

art as experience – john dewey

crits: a student manual – terry barrett

cruising utopia: the then and there of queer futurity – josé esteban muñoz

faux queen: a life in drag – monique jenkinson

major labels: a history of popular music in seven genres – kelefa sanneh

neo-burlesque: striptease as transformation – lynn sally

please kill me: the uncensored oral history of punk – legs mcneil & gillian mccain

queercore: how to punk a revolution – liam warfield

raising free people: unschooling as liberation and healing work – akilah s. richards

releasing the imagination: essays on education, the arts, and social change – maxine greene

side affects: on being trans and feeling bad – hil malatino

they can't kill us until they kill us – hanif abdurraqib

ties that bind: familial homophobia and its consequences – sarah schulman

why fish don't exist – lulu miller

comics:

ducks – kate beaton

nausicaa of the valley of the wind – hayao miyazaki

nimona – nd stevenson

on a sunbeam – tillie walden

the prince and the dressmaker – jen wang

poetry:

deaf republic – ilya kaminsky

don't call us dead – danez smith

home is not a country – safia elhillo

postcolonial love poem – natalie díaz

salmon song and other wet poems – walt curtis

picture books:

the nightlife of jacuzzi gaskett – brontez purnell

we are water protectors – carole lindstrom

when we were alone – david a. robertson

the cot in the living room – hilda eunice burgos

x: a fabulous child's story – lois gould

WELCOME TO NIGHTSHADE HOLLOW

Greetings, all, and welcome to the small Southern town of Nightshade Hollow, Virginia, where witches, shapeshifters, and half-demons roam the streets as regular citizens - working, falling in love, and even occasionally making their town’s less savory citizens disappear. But beware - something stranger and much more dangerous than our witches lurks beyond the town boundaries, just waiting to slither in and wreak havoc…

Some notes:

— Author is Dolly/Fae/Daisy, nineteen, panromantic, asexual, and genderqueer (any pronouns, because ✨ gender is a construct ✨). My main blog is @faerieroyal, and I’ll be liking or following back from there.

— I’m not going to make this blog 18+ only, because none of my other blogs are, but please know that in addition to the dark content that usually comes with slasher stories, while I will not be writing smut (there may be some fade-to-black scenes at most, but that’s it), some of the content that will be reblogged from other slasher OC blogs on here will have it. I will put tags on those reblogs so you guys have a fair warning, but I’m saying right now: you are responsible for your own consumption. Don’t interact with this blog if you don’t think you can handle dark content, there won’t be any judgement from me and I have other writing blogs you might enjoy.

— I do not consent at all to have any of my writing or other content to be copied, translated, or reposted to any other sites. Period, end of.

— This is an OC + reader blog, and while all readers are written as gender-neutral (and generally imagined by me as genderqueer, as that’s what I am myself), there may be times when I describe the reader’s body as being that of a certain sex or when characters refer to the reader using more gendered pet names or compliments. I will try and keep these instances few and far between so as not to potentially trigger anyone’s dysphoria, but you have fair warning now that it may happen.

— And lastly, because I just know people are going to get up in arms about this, here is my one and only disclaimer: I do not support or condone any of the dark or morally dubious content in my fics, this is all just fiction and I am very aware that these things are wrong in real life. So if any one of you wants to come at me about “condoning” murder or any of the other things my OCs and the reader are going to get up to in these stories, kindly do yourself a favor and just don’t interact with me at all.

All that said, I really do hope y’all enjoy the stories I’m going to tell on this blog. This universe and these characters are all very near and dear to my heart, and I’m so excited to share their lives with all of you. On behalf of myself and all of the Hollow gang, enjoy yourself!!

WRITING MASTERLIST

ATTICUS “ADDY” HAWTHORNE:

“The Bloody Price of Magic” (The Main Arc): Coming soon!

LAYLA HAWTHORNE:

Coming soon!

DANTE HAWTHORNE:

Coming soon!

OLIVER “OLLY” PRINCE:

Coming soon!

SKY MOORLAND:

Coming soon!

CHARLIE MOORLAND:

Coming soon!

GREER SHERIDAN:

Coming soon!

JONATHAN MILLER:

Coming soon!

MULTIPLE CHARACTERS:

Coming soon!

GENERAL STORIES:

Coming soon!

Per that last poll, I Googled a list of fictional characters called Arthur and found this genuinely awful list (several characters were listed multiple times and there were a lot of random real people mixed in there--the playwright Arthur Miller appeared no fewer than three times), and imagine my surprise when some guy, whose accompanying picture was a black and white photo of him in an old time-y military uniform, was listed under the name Arthur Holland*.

I went to Wikipedia to make sure he wasn't exceptionally awful in case people might think I intentionally named myself after him, and there were a few different Arthur Hollands with Wikipedia articles:

Arthur Holland may refer to:

Arthur Holland (British Army officer) (1862–1927), British Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for Northampton

Arthur John Holland (1918–1989), mayor of Trenton, New Jersey

Bud Holland (Arthur A. Holland, died 1994), American aviator and B-52 pilot from Suffolk, Virginia

Arthur Holland (referee) (1916–1987), English football referee of the 1950s and '60s

Of these options, I would prefer people think I named myself after the aviator if any, but oof. A Tory in the British army 💀

Disney Adventures AOL Auditorium

November 1993

Here’s an interesting piece of DA history I recently rediscovered in my “archives”. It’s a transcript for a moderated group chat room with Disney Imagineers, apparently on the day (or the day after) Disney’s America was announced for Virginia. This was still on Disney’s website when I printed it out around 1997.

It’s interesting to read what topics fans were obsessing over, and the sometimes candid responses from Imagineers, at a time when people were still new to chat rooms and virtual reality seemed to encapsulate the future of entertainment.

They mention several upcoming attractions like Tower of Terror, Alien Encounter, WESTCOT, Blizzard Beach, Discovery Mountain, Animal Kingdom and others. To save you from the headache of trying to decipher eight pages of unformatted text, I’ve scanned it in and fixed mistimed comments and stuff. Enjoy!

OnlineHost Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Auditorium and this special Disney Adventures conference. Today we're going to talk with some of the dreamers and doers from Walt Disney Imagineering and learn about some of their exciting new projects. OnlineHost The Imagineering team of more than 1,500 people includes such talents as: artists, writers, engineers, architects, filmmakers, audio and visual specialists, animators, manufacturing groups, computer programmers, land planners, and ride system designers. OnlineHost The sun never sets on Disney Imagineering. These folks are making magic around the world with parks in Southern California, Florida, Japan, and France. OnlineHost Today, on central stage, in fact, all in one room in Glendale, California — are a number of Imagineers who would love to answer questions about the Disney Theme Parks they know so well. CHIEFofDA Hi everyone..Thanks for coming to Disney Adventures first auditorium CHIEFofDA My name is Tommi Lewis and I'm the eidotr in Chief CHIEFofDA For those of you not familiar with us, we're the kids magazine aimed at kids CHIEFofDA we cover everything from entertainment to sports to adventure CHIEFofDA We just celebrated our 3rd Anniversary and have been the fastest growinb magazine in America CHIEFOfDA the past two years. RWWeis Kids, theres a lot of kids older than 14 CHIEFofDA One of our features is a column called COOL JOBS...we think Walt Disney Imagineers have the CHIEFofDA coolest jobs of them all! They are the people who create the Disney magic CHIEFofDA So Disney Adventures is proud to welcome Walt Disney Imagineers. RWWeis We're proud to be here too, Julia Here is some brief biographical info on the Imagineers: OnlineHost Yoshi Akiyamall Executive Producer/Designer Tokyo Disneyland OnlineHost Tony Baxter Senior Vice President Euro Disneyland, Disneyland & WESTCOT Center OnlineHost Barry Braverman Executive Producer EPCOT Center at the Walt Disney World Resort OnlineHost Don Carson Senior Show Designer Creative direction of Disney Theme Park attractions from concept to installation OnlineHost Chris Brown Concept Engineer Technical direction of shows and rides during conceptual development OnlineHost Chris Brown Concept Engineer Technical direction of shows and rides during conceptual development OnlineHost George Gerball Senior Concept Designer Conceptual development OnlineHost Tony Hatch Director of Communications Internal and external communications for Imagineering OnlineHost Eric Jacobson Executive Designer Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, Magic Kingdom, River Country, Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island and Blizzard Beach at the Walt Disney World Resort OnlineHost Joe Kilanowski Principle Concept Architect Architectual design and production OnlineHost Steve Kirko Concept Design Director Conceptual development OnlineHost Nancy Martin Concept Designer Conceptual development OnlineHost Steve Miller Project Director, Creative Development Creative Administration OnlineHost Katie Poole Senior Analyst, Creative Computing Center Interactive technology department OnlineHost Chick Russell Show Writer Script and story development for Disney Theme Park Attractions OnlineHost Michael Sprout Show Writer Script and story development for Disney Theme Park Attractions OnlineHost Bob Weis Senior Vice President Magic Kingdom and Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at the Walt Disney World Resort and proposed new Theme Parks in the U.S. and Japan RWWeis and smart aleck OnlineHost Doris Woodward Senior Show Producer WESTCOT Center — a proposed Disney Theme Park for Anaheim, California. Eugene Koh We have with us at our headquarters in Vienna, VA Bob Weis, who would now Eugene Koh like to say a few words… RWWeis Welcome—we’re a little punchy from spending the day announcing Disney’s America RWWeis But we’re really glad everyone logged on! Welcome! Eugene Koh Thanks, Bob! We welcome everyone in the audience to send in their questions and comments to the extraordinary group we have assembled tonight. Eugene Koh Simply use your “Interact with Host” button! One caveat, however (the following) comes to us from legal-types but need to be heard, at least once, anyway :) OnlineHost The following interactive forum is intended for informational purposes only. Theme park plans, designs and concepts or other business suggestions will not be reviewed or considered. Eugene Koh That said, let’s begin! Eugene Koh Our first question comes to us from MarcF7747: Question How will the new theme park be oriented to public? Eugene Koh Would one of the Imagineers in Glendale, CA like to address this? RWWeis I’m having trouble understanding the question, we hope like our others they will come, buy a ticket and enjoy the day RWWeis It will be considerably more cognitive than the others Eugene Koh Thanks, Bob! Our next question has to do with theme park rides, I believe… Eugene Koh …and comes to us from Acid Funk: Question When are you going to make something with a loop in it. Eugene Koh A very practical question :) ImagineerB From Bruce, Indiana Jones, Temple of Peril, looping coaster is open at Euro Disneyland. RWWeis Industrial Revolution at Disney’s America will too Eugene Koh Our next question comes to us from Brisco CJ: Question Will Disney be doing anything with Virtual Reality Simulations? ImagineerB Yes. RWWeis Yes, lots of work on this, but pretty secret now Eugene Koh A question about designs at the new Disney park comes to us from Max 100: Question Are you doing the designs for Disney’s America theme park? I live right next to it. :) RWWeis We are, it will be exciting, and we plan to be good neighbors. Where’s your house? Eugene Koh LOL, Bob…what town will the new park be in? RWWeis The park will be insulated by a lot of green space. Its at route 66 and 15, in Prince William county, near Haymarket. Eugene Koh Keep sending those questions in, folks! Our next question comes to us from Geographer: Question How does one become an imagineer? RWWeis Lots of ways, artist, designer, architect, writer, engineer, a good imagination and a love for lots of hard work ImagineerB Tenacity. RWWeis it helps if you don’t care about making money Eugene Koh Our next question has to do with one of the Imagineers: Eugene Koh Gunstar asks, Question Is Bob Baranick still working on the Indy Adventure for Disneyland? ImagineerB No, Skip Lange and Susan Bonds are running that show. Eugene Koh Tigger01 asks: Question What is going to happen to Tomorrowland at Disneyland in California. RWWeis Tomorrowland in Fla is under construction. There will be a new show in Mission to Mars, Circlevision, and all new architecture. RWWeis Opens in FLA in 1994. Sorry everyone will miss Mission to Mars, but Alien Encounter will be a winner Eugene Koh A question from Nickle736: Question Are there any animators here? Imagineer B No. Eugene Koh BrianJosh asks a pertinent question: Question Can I ask a Imagineer a question? RWWeis sure Eugene Koh Yes, you can…if you have any questions directed specifically toward an Imagineer, ask away.. we have over a dozen of ‘em here, live! RWWeis come on Brian Eugene Koh Our next question comes from PDC Marku: Question What is the Twilight Zone attraction ride going to be like? RWWeis Mike Sprout is the concept designer and writer for the show ImagineerB From Michael Sprout, It is a high speed thrill ride that will drop you through the 5th dimension. Eugene Koh A question about roller coasters from Drrobotni: Question I read about the Temple of Doom ride at Euro disney i.e. coaster with loops . Any chance of that ride or similar coming to America for that matter, any new rollercoaster type rides at Disneyland or disney world? ImagineerB From Bruce, yes WESTCOT Center in Anaheim, California. RWWeis There will be two roller coasters in Disney’s America Eugene Koh Our next question has to do with animal theme parks: from CongoCrai, Question I’d like to ask about the upcoming animal theme park Disney is planning for FL. RWWeis OK RWWeis Do you have a question about it, or just want some info RWWeis It’s huge, will have lots of great animal interactive attractions. It will really be one of our best parks yet. Lots of thrills, and lots of unique environments. RWWeis There will be an Asia and an Africa safari, as well as lots of rides. Eugene Koh A question about Epcot from Owings: Question What are the new communications plans for Epcot? RWWeis Barry Braverman is in charge of EPCOT ImagineerB From Barry, In December of ’94, we’ll be opening a renovated Spaceship Earth Ride and new interactive communications post show. Eugene Koh A question from GaryR1207 Question In the Disneyland Haunted house, how do you get the statues to talk ? And the doors to breath ? ImagineerB From Tony, it’s not done with holograms. ImagineerB We use traditional magic and film special techniques. Eugene Koh A question about hotels from Stephen63: Question what kind of new hotels at wdw RWWeis Everything from luxury, to budget, heavy theme like Grand Floridian, to contemporary theme ImagineerB From Tony, Wilderness Lodge will be the highlight next to Fort Wilderness Campground in November. RWWeis Fort Wilderness has small trailers if you like a camping experience. Eugene Koh A question about the Muppets from DolphinTa: Question What are the plans involving the Muppets? ImagineerB No current plans. Eugene Koh A question from Lennarz: Question Is a “virtual on-line” Disney in the plans!? RWWeis wow, did you read our minds? Eugene Koh A comment from Red Rose: Comment Thanks for making your parks handicapped accessible!! RWWeis It’s pretty important—essential in fact ImagineerB We try very hard to make our parks accessible to everyone. Eugene Koh A question from IHS Greg: Question I was also wondering how the plans for Celebration are coming along. I’m a dentist and I would love to be a “Disney Dentist”. When will Celebration become a reality? ImagineerB That’s being designed by Disney Development, which is a different division of the company. Eugene Koh A question for Tony Baxter: Question This question is for Tony Baxter. Who is currently heading up the Indiana Jones Adventure for Disneyland? ImagineerB I am. Eugene Koh A question from EnigamLin: Question So What’s the first new ride to be opening at Disneyland (CA) and when? ImagineerB From Tony, Roger Rabbit’s Spin-Around, in January ’94. Followed by Indiana Jones in ’95. Eugene Koh A question from Atlanta99: Question What are some of the jobs available at WDI and what type of schooling is needed? ImagineerB Engineering, architecture, design, art, writing, illustration… Eugene Koh Our next question is from Rio Niki: Question OK so how many theme parks are there around teh world and where are they? Wich one is the biggest? ImagineerB Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, Paris and soon Virginia. ImagineerB EPCOT Center is the largest. But Disneyland has the most rides. Eugene Koh Seems that a lot of you are asking for more info about Disney’s America. Any comments, Imagineers? Eugene Koh For example, MikkyMous asks: Question Tell us all you can about Disney America! RWWeis It’s a new idea. RWWeis It will be fun, but also educational, and tied to your visit to Washington, There is a folder you can download that has today’s press release RWWeis After you go to museums in Washington, you come to Disney’s America to live history, to play roles in government etc. RWWeis It will open in 1998 Eugene Koh Bongo7690 asks: Question what is going on with westcot? ImagineerB From Tony, WESTCOT is currently being designed for opening near the end of the decade. Eugene Koh A question from R Raymond: Question What’s the story on a Russia pavilion at EPCOT? ImagineerB From Barry, we’ve done some preliminary designs, but the project is on the back burner at the moment…as is Russia at the moment. Eugene Koh An interesting question from Tix36: Question Do you think that these new expansions will prove to be more profitable than the EuroDisney? ImagineerB We hope so. Eugene Koh A question about Typhoon Lagoon from TTSschorr: Question Mr. Jacobson, in Typhoon Lagoon you enter the wave pool from the beach, how do you manage to keep the water from being full of sand? Imagineer B Big filters. ImagineerB The wave doesn’t terminate on loose sand. It terminates on concrete. Eugene Koh A question about the environment from IHS Greg: Question Are there plans to preserve some of the unspoiled land around WDW for wildlife & native Florida flora, or will most of the land be developed? RWWeis We hope not—we need green spaced and forest too. ImagineerB There is an 8,000 acre preserve. ImagineerB It is being managed by the Nature Conservancy. Eugene Koh A question from Roys Teet about Disney’s America: Question Do you think that the virginian park will wipe out nearby colonial Williamsburg? RWWeis I think it will help them, we hope to cooperate with them and bring more people to the area ImagineerB We feel the two will complement each other. Eugene Koh A question from RachelF69: Question Any new rides in disney world? ImagineerB Tower of Terror opens at the Disney-MGM Studios in summer of ’94. RWWeis Tower of Terror (a thrill ride) 1994 Eugene Koh A question about international Disney parks from BGH LA878: Question When you move an attraction to a foreign country, What modifications are the most difficult? ImagineerB Keeping the jokes funny. ImagineerB There’s also different building codes, food service, languages and fire protection. Eugene Koh A question from Mnotaur: Question My 5 year old daughter would like to know when WestCot will be opening… ImagineerB The end of the decade. When she is 13. Eugene Koh A question from Waltopia: Question Tony Baxter- Can you tell us what is being built in Discoveryland? ImagineerB Discovery Mountain, the biggest and fastest Disney roller coaster of all time with three loops and the guest are fired out of a cannon. Eugene Koh A question from JaneEyre2: Question I heard that all the presidents in the hall of Pres. are robots—except Reagan, who actually plays himself, and enjoys the work—that so? RWWeis true ImagineerB Yes, that’s correct. RWWeis He likes the food at WDW ImagineerB Bill Clinton has recorded a speech that will open November 18. ImagineerB In Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom. Eugene Koh A question from Bushwackr: Question How did you all get involved with Disney? ImagineerB We love the product. RWWeis I came after college, and worked on Tokyo Eugene Koh A question from JBMahoney: Question Is Disney planning on using any type of virtual reality in their present or future parks? ImagineerB Yes, in New Tomorrowland at Disneyland. RWWeis Yes, lots of projects under consideration Eugene Koh A lot of you have been asking about opportunities for work. Bergland asks: Question Where would someone interested in working in a creative capacity for Disney write to call to inquire about job ImagineerB Contact our personnel department. (818) 544-6543 Eugene Koh A question about Disney Adventures: Eugene Koh CharlesW9 asks: Question Can we get the magazine online? ImagineerB Yes CHIEFofDA Sure can! CHIEFofDA We put each month issue on line before it hits the newsstands just look up the section you want to read in our main menu Eugene Koh Explore the Disney Adventures area online for more info. Next, A question from JohnC4142: Question I’d like to hear more about Blizzard Beach ImagineerB Third waterpark at Walt Disney World featuring a blizzard in Florida ImagineerB It will feature the highest speed slide. ImagineerB Opens early 1995. RWWeis About the size of Typhoon Lagoon Eugene Koh A question about statues at the parks from Tigger01: Question The hub in Disneyland now has a few statues…What will be put on the pad in the very center of the flower bed…if anything? ImagineerB From Tony, Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse on Mickey’s 65th birthday, November 18. Eugene Koh Another question about Disney’s America: Question Is there going to be a new group of Imagineers for Disney’s America in Virginia, or is everything going to be designed from existing locations? ImagineerB No, that’s why we’re currently developing WESTCOT to focus attention in California ImagineerB Also, Roger Rabbit, Indiana Jones, and a whole new Tomorrowland. Eugene Koh A question about EuroDisney from JDavid94: Question with the losses at EuroDisney, what is Disney going to do to shore up this venture, and did you not consider the cultural setting in France, i.e. jingoistic? ImagineerB From Tony, yes we considered the culture. More people have visited Euro Disney in its first year than any other theme park in Disney’s history. RWWeis Europe is in the worst recession since WWII RWWeis And that is hurting Euro Disney Eugene Koh A question from Shelli: Question I heard that Star Tours at MGM is Supposed to be changing, Is this ture? I love this ride and I hope it only gets better! ImagineerB We are considering a new show for the 20th anniversary of the Star Wars films in 1997. Eugene Koh A more specific question about virtual reality from REarly: Question I heard they will have VR type stuff. Will it be large simulators like Body Wars, or will it be Head Mount Displays, or what…..? RWWeis Both, but we have some great head mounted displays ImagineerB We can’t disclose the details of this highly confidential project. RWWeis But its great Eugene Koh A question about the historical perspective at America from Roys Teet: Question With the civil war theme, how will the issue of slavery be adressed: from a northern or southern perspective? RWWeis The nature of the park is that it will present history accurately, good and bad Eugene Koh A question about America from Seg: Question Will the new Theme Park be anything like Epcot? RWWeis Smaller, more American in the sense that it deals with American issues not international. Will have more thrill rides, and a little less emphasis on the future Eugene Koh A question about Euro from MikeS2361: Question What types of P/R activities are you undertaking in Europe to help boost park attendance ? ImagineerB We opened 10 new attractions and more emphasis on the activities in the park and not so much on Mickey Eugene Koh A question about the work of Imagineers… I think LindsayE is looking for look at day-to-day life: Question What does an Imagineer do? It is the most beautiful job title I’ve ever heard. ImagineerB We make the dreams come true … Eugene Koh A question from Eric310: Question What is the progress on the new Disneyland Resort plan? What hurdles still need to be cleared? What are some of the ideas for that park? ImagineerB All of the governmental issues are resolved, the question is whether it makes sense economically. ImagineerB Similar to EPCOT, it has Four Corners of the World instead of the World Showcase ImagineerB and you can live in the park. Eugene Koh A question from Geographer:
 Question When will “Cartoon Spin” in Toon Town open and are there any “Sneak previews” planned prior to its opening? ImagineerB It was sneak previewed to people who attended the Disneyana convention last month and opens for everyone in January. Eugene Koh A question about the types of computers used from The Lazer: Question Do you use Macintosh or IbM computers in helping to run, Or Build the rids ImagineerB Both. Eugene Koh What sorts of computers do the Imagineers use? ImagineerB Creative uses lots of Macintoshes. Silicon Graphics work stations ImagineerB The engineering groups use IBMs. ImagineerB And four people use Newtons. Eugene Koh A question fro Kealii: Question Please tell us about the amazing “skin” used on animatronic figure - material, how long it lasts, how applied, and so on ImagineerB It’s a flexible latex alloy called hot melt. ImagineerB It’s injection molded and wrapped around an inner supporting form. ImagineerB Don’t try this at home. Eugene Koh Our final question comes from FlatCat. We have received hundreds of questions over the past hour, and unfortunately weren’t able to address all of them here. However, if your question hasn’t been answered tonight, you can send e-mail directly to Bob Weis, a senior executive at Disney who spoke tonight, at screenname RWWeis. RWWeis I’ll do my best, it was great having everyone here tonight Eugene Koh FlatCat asks: Question Eric Jacobsen - you seem to have the longest title - out of all the projects you are working on, which is the most fun? ImagineerB Blizzard Beach. Eugene Koh Perhaps you all can address this, not just Eric. ImagineerB Whatever’s funded. RWWeis Tower of Terror! AaaaaAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ImagineeerB Thanks to everyone for all their questions. Eugene Koh Great! Well we want to thank all of the Imagineers for coming tonight, and again, if any of your questions haven’t been answered, explore the Disney Adventures area online for the latest info direct from Disney! CHIEFofDA Thanks for coming to D.A.’s first auditorium…look for future events in the Disney Adventures area. CHIEFofDA You can even chat with us live every M-W-F at 7 pm EST RWWeis Thanks Eugene, thanks AOL, and all our guests. CHIEFofDA Thanks to the folks at Disney Imagineering for being here tonight Eugene Koh Thanks to everyone in the audience for your great participation! Your questions and comments make our live conferences fly. Thanks again to our Disney Imagineers! ImagineerB we really had fun CHIEFofDA and, as always…..ADVENTURE ON!

The World As They Wanted It To Be

Deacon Miller was returning home from the lab.  The other Deacons would be leaving soon as well.  Sunset was coming.  The 4 planets in front of theirs in the solar system were in their proper place as tiny dots in front of the large, orange blaze of their sun. 

The New Pilgrims had left Earth a good 700 years ago.  Earth had never served them well, and when the long-awaited End hadn’t ever managed to happen, they all felt something was fundamentally wrong.  They felt cheated out of seeing their enemies fall. Ultimately, a bunch of the Faithful from Earth had become scientists, geneticists, and trained to manage spacecraft. They had made their way to this system, to New Virginia, and established a place to live, to thrive. Ephraim Miller, being a council member, had heard all the recordings.  Digital voices and their plans.  What had to happen.  What must happen to mold life and religion into the one they desired. The one that should have happened from the start. 

He recalled the anger on the recordings.  The anger in the voices.  The absolute anger at life for not being as they thought it should be.   That is why he worked in the lab every day.  To ensure that life was becoming their vision.  Earth had refused to give it them, but they could MAKE it true, given enough science and enough social control. In the end, they had made it even better than true.  They had made all of it an undeniable fact. 

Now they didn’t even consider Earth anymore.  The women didn’t know it even existed, and, of the men, only the Deacons’ council knew it was their origin.   

New Virginia had become Virginia, lest anyone ask what Old Virginia might be. 

Ephraim was the current chief geneticist.  The Deacons all worked in a large private building, painted blue. No other men had come through the door.  Women were taught from birth to avoid blue buildings.  For a woman to enter a blue building was unseemly.  Unwomanly.  Sinful.  

Telling them this just made it so much easier.  Explaining at this point would have been too hard anyway.  At any rate, only about half the women could even read. 

He was getting older.  His mind mixed and churned more often of late.  Perhaps he was simply experiencing the doubts of old age.  Youth always seems so certain and direct.  Age makes one wonder.   He had seen his wife’s hair turn from auburn to white.  His surviving sons were grown and lived in Concord and Charleston.  

He was going to need to finish training his replacement in the council.  He was 112.  No spring chicken.  His ancestors had been well-off, and had invested in heritable genetic advances as soon as they had been available.    The age advancement mutation had been developed on Earth, but the genetic advancements made in Virginia had been for far loftier goals.  Genetic advancements in Virginia were created to make humans as they should have been made in the first place in order for them to behave in a more holy and wholesome fashion.  The council didn’t blame the creator on this.  Of course not.  However, Earth had been a stew of bad genes and even worse behavior.  Some correction was necessary, and additional improvements had simply been made to enhance people to help them make better choices.

Earth had made a hubbub about it when they had heard, and that contributed to the decline in communication.  Earth.  Stupid Earth with its stupid freedoms.  

If life isn’t as men imagine it to be, if women and children aren’t as men imagine them to be, then why not make them so?  Everything is simply a matter of nature and nurture after all, and men could control both. 

Still, there had been arguments on the council all along the way.  Only the council knew of education beyond basic trades, the genetic manipulation that was done to create a more holy world, and the creation of history that the archeologists had spent their lives perfecting.  Some of the members, as they had aged, started to doubt the goals of the council, to imagine regrets where perhaps there should be none.  Ephraim thought the same might be happening to him.  Age was causing a softening of the mind, instead of prodding one to the harder line of righteousness. 

He was so lost in his thoughts that he almost forgot to nod toward the statue of the five founding fathers:  Clay Jenkins, Rob McAlway, Austin Connor, Trent Davis and Matt Andrews. The high council, the council within the council, had bickered over this at the last meeting.  Should the founding fathers be held in such high reverence? Should their behaviors and beliefs be simply unexamined? Ephraim couldn’t imagine a world otherwise.  Examining the founders too harshly would result in too much questioning, and their society simply couldn’t bear it. 

He did shake his head, though, at the old-fashioned Earth names.  How does anyone name a person “Trent”?  What Biblical respect did a name like that confer?  No wonder they had hopped on ships and left. 

He wondered what was for dinner. 

His home was just past the other side of the square.  

The statue made him briefly consider the nearly -forgotten memory of Luke. His second son had been too soft.  Too artistic.  While he secretly felt it could be so from the boy’s childhood, it was impossible to tell. Boys had their genes manipulated to come to sexual adulthood later here than on Earth. Discouraging sexual impulses from appearing too soon had be a core goal of the council from the start. The geneticists had also tried to manipulate incorrect sexual variants out, and hoped that social pressure would do the rest.  The work that had gone into changing genes had been so immense, but still, even in the best families, undesirable traits managed to appear.  

Rebekah greeted him at the door of his large (but not too large) house.  He could have built a bigger house, but a house that was too large was unseemly. Even houses that were larger were built to give the illusion of looking more common, as much as could be. The scent of pot roast was in the air and he was glad, suddenly realizing how hungry he was.  

They ate well.  He was grateful for that.  But, also, he deserved to eat well.  Those who did not, he reminded himself, should have had better ancestors and could only blame themselves.  Rebekah’s pot roast and a seat by the fire settled most of his internal arguments. 

There had been a letter from Rebekah’s youngest brother, Hosea. Ephraim didn’t know him well.  The letter read with desperation in the man’s hand about one of his daughters.  The girl, Sarah, had been normal.  After her marriage, she said her vows,  and then her sex organs started to appear, just as they were genetically designed to do.  But now the girl, all of 16, and married for one month, had been found in the barn, touching the arms of a farm hand with a flush on her cheek and bright, undeniable eyes gazing at him.  Hosea and Mary were baffled.  They had kept all references to sex away from the girl, Mary only taking her aside and explaining it the day before her wedding.  There was no way that our society would have allowed for a girl like that to be exposed to the idea, certainly not the idea that such a thing could exist beyond marriage.  And here she was nearly… what was the old earth word?  Oh, yes… “Flirting” with a man that was not her husband.  

Such a debased word.  “Flirting.” It made Ephraim’s skin crawl.  He had 8 children, and not once did he ever do such a thing as, ugh,  “Flirt.”  Vulgar. He shuddered. 

Poor boy’s ancestors had probably been janitors on the spaceship back when, and his line still hadn’t managed to come up to pay the debt of coming here in the first place.  Maybe something in his line was the cause of the issue and had drawn her astray somehow.  Ephraim would write so much back to Hosea, recommending the girl and her husband be removed.  He doubted such behaviors were fully on the shoulders of the girl.   It wasn’t a woman’s place to have such desires.  It was unnatural.  Ephraim offered Hosea the idea of sending the newlyweds away and offered the use of an old family cabin near the Green Lake at Nantucket.   There was only a middle-aged couple there to oversee maintenance.  The young woman and her husband could develop a more natural bond there perhaps, away from other influences.  It was all easily arranged. 

Ephraim briefly wondered how old the girl’s husband was.  Well, it shouldn’t matter.  Such behavior was inexcusable and should be nipped in the bud.  

The social structure worked, after all.  One must respect the many years of success.  When he had internal conflict, he reminded himself that the outcome had been exactly what the founders had desired from the start:  clear roles for all, exact and clear rules, clear hierarchy.  

The genetic tinkering combined with the removal of incorrect choices ensured that correct, God-honoring choices were nearly always made.  Let Earth bicker with each other over concepts like “what free will really means.”  It was so clear here.  Free will was the will to make the correct choice, nothing more, nothing less.  The council’s job was to ensure that science and society lined up so that the correct choices would, in fact, be made. 

He reminded himself that tomorrow, the archaeologists would announce they had found Noah’s ark.  They had put a large boat in the ground 500 years ago, and now that would have finally paid off.  They had proof of their belief system to point out to the children, even if they had to design it themselves.  It was comforting knowing the impact on future generations.  It was as Earth always should have been for believers.  

The following year, they would "find" another lost bit of history. And then another, and another, until the past had a historic record in their society that lined up with their beliefs exactly. It was good for the children to see, after all.

He opened up the drawer in the table beside his chair.  He kept a secret photograph of Luke there. Luke had designed stained glass windows for the church.  It was all proper and decent, although, in reflection, perhaps some of the disciples had been too beautiful to truly be decent men.  Luke had also been quite beautiful, but his beard covered his face enough to conceal it.  Until that smile broke out- that brilliant and stunning smile that seemed to somehow radiate something… something different.  Something vague, out-of-reach, but definitely different.  It was when they found his drawings of fully nude men that… they fully realized it wasn’t an issue that could be fixed.  

Ephraim didn’t shed any tears.  It was long, long ago at this point.  

Nudity was pornography, and pornography of the same sex required expulsion.  The rules were clear and made to be so without any other interpretation. Earth had allowed for "art" that included the nude form, but the founders had realized what folly that had been. Greatness in art should, after all, be irrelevant if you are creating naked people from paint and stone. Luke had been left on the other side of the planet, in the desert.  God would judge him by allowing him to live or not.  It was out of their hands. Ephraim knew in his heart that his son had likely been dead a long time.  Men had to help God dole out justice by stacking the deck correctly, after all.  Could not God make an oasis appear from nothing if he wanted to save someone?

Rebekah came in with some milk to soothe Ephraim to sleep, and took the letter to Hosea and sealed it in an envelope for the messenger to take back tomorrow.  There was another small envelope to the couple that maintained the cabin, asking them to prepare for guests. 

He had been fortunate in his choice of wife.  She had been bright, yet obedient.  Smart enough to do that which was required, but not smart enough to ask any real questions.  She simply accepted that he didn’t speak about his work, and she went to the pink building every week for the Women’s Instructional Lecture.  As long as they kept most women on a hamster wheel seeking some kind of holy perfection that would ensure the social approval of the other women, most of them stayed occupied enough.

Ephraim realized he should have asked about his niece’s intelligence level.  The smart ones were often where issues managed to show up.  Minds that questioned were fine, but minds that questioned the core of it all a bit too much were how chaos managed to erupt in a society.  He asked for the letter again, and added a P.S.  If the cabin failed to solidify the girl to her husband, they would have to consider the alternative of sending her to a women’s home.  There were still a couple of them active, even now.  He paused for a moment, then wrote down the address of one.  It was a guarded truth among the high council, only shared with other men if the need arose.  

The impulse of women to behave in ways that were unbecoming had been just as impossible to fully stomp out as the occasional inversion of desires.  Despite their best efforts, it somehow was never fully quite gone. 

Ephraim sat thinking again of his life’s efforts.  Successes outweighed the futilities.  Sleep crept in around the corners and he fell into it with a satisfied smile.  He was anticipating the story of the “discovery” of the ark tomorrow.  The elated talk that would be happening in the streets.  People would be so happy and fulfilled at the confirmation of the rightness of their faith. 

Rebekah found him in the morning, with the photo of Luke still beside him on the table.  She wondered if his last thoughts were of Luke, or something else. She nearly automatically put the photo back in the drawer, underneath the other clutter.  But the thought of her son dissipated not too long after it occurred.  She was never one for holding onto a thought for very long.  Ephraim was smiling as he met God after his life of righteousness, and she was glad of it.

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

Feeling a little groggy this morning. I basically passed out sitting on the couch watching TV at around 7PM last night. I woke up a few minutes later and don’t remember closing my eyes. 🤣

Please, send all the coffee.

It looks like I’ll get an opportunity to work on Stream for Mac today, which is very exciting!

Anywho, enough of that, I hope you enjoy the links.

Kate Wagner • Internet Archive

Most of us have the distinct pleasure of going throughout our lives bereft of the physical presence of those who rule over us. Were we peasants instead of spreadsheet jockeys, warehouse workers, and baristas, we would toil in our fields in the shadow of some overbearing castle from which the lord or his steward would ride down on his thunderous charger demanding our fealty and our tithes. Now, though, the real high end of the income inequality curve—the 0.01 percenters—remains elusive. To their great advantage, they can buy their way out of public life. However, if you want to catch a glimpse of them, all you need to do is attend a single day of Formula 1 racing.

This piece by Kate Wagner originally appeared in Car and Driver last week but was taken down the same day it went up. Luckily we have The Internet Archive.

This is a really scathing look at F1. It is most certainly a sport for the rich and famous. A playboys paradise. 🏎️

The Iconfactory

What an amazing ride this past month has been! We appreciate the support of everyone who backed our Project Tapestry Kickstarter as well as those who helped us spread the word far and wide. We couldn’t have reached our goals without your help and we’re so very excited to have an opportunity to bring Project Tapestry to life.

I’m really excited to see what our awesome friends create for us! It’s also gonna be fun to see what others create to extend it! 😍

Ian Millhiser • Vox

The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump

Trump got exactly what he needed to avoid a trial that could possibly convict him. Sure, it may start before the election but will it have time to complete?

We all know he did it. We all know his strategy is to run out the clock, get elected, and make it all magically go away. Justice is supposed to be blind, but not in this way.

Yet another way the rich and powerful have an advantage over the rest of us. Would you or I have been given the chance to take our argument to the highest court in the land? Probably not.

The man is a criminal and deserves to do a little jail time. It would be fine with me if he was confined to his “club” in the third-world shit hole of Florida. They deserve him. ⚖️

RevK

Unix, and many other systems from that, use a type for time that is seconds since the start of 1970. It is a simple system. Those seconds were stored in a signed 32 bit number, which allows -2147483648 to +2147483647 and hence dates from Fri 13 Dec 19:45:52 GMT 1901 to Tue 19 Jan 02:14:07 GMT 2038. This seemed a pretty good range. especially for adult engineers living in the early 70s. But 2038 is getting closer and closer. I may (hopefully) live to see it.

Time is hard. When I was at Pelco we had to deal with time issues around the world. A really bad choice was made in our UI products to use local time within the app and not just for display purposes. That was fun to fix.

Check out the post for some history and what we’ll need to keep an eye out for if you write date code at a lower level. I’d imagine most modern languages have really great support for dates built in. Question is how about old school services that remain online because they just work and nobody wants to work on them? 😃

Chance Miller, Ben Lovejoy, Zac Hall, and Filipe Espósito • 9to5Mac

Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account, clearing path for Epic Games Store on iPhone

It’s time to get out your popcorn. Apple and Epic are having a little pissing contest. The EU isn’t having it. It looks like Apple is being forced to play nice and they definitely don’t like it.

I haven’t really kept up with the nuanced bits but Apple really doesn’t want to open the platform up any more than they have to. 🍿

Alex Castro • The Verge

Apple hit with first ever EU fine following Spotify complaint

And a nice little follow on to the Epic post above. Spotify is also in the pissing contest with Apple and they’re not backing down.

Shuttering the App Store is not an option because Apple makes a ton of money off of developers. They certainly don’t host us out of the kindness of their hearts. It’s a business after all with shareholders — ALL HAIL THE SHAREHOLDERS!

I can see arguments from both sides. Apple built the platform and should be able to administer it as they see fit. It’s not the only mobile platform on the planet. If you’re a developer and really hate the 15-30% fee you can go elsewhere.

If you’re Spotify or Epic you’re also a business that needs to make a profit and, in Spotify’s case, the margins on music are so thin they can’t afford to give Apple that much money. Heck, I don’t understand how any company could make their own App Store work in the EU given the rules Apple setup to create and maintain one.

Susannah Cullinane, Sara Smart, Cindy Von Quednow and Mary Gilbert • CNN

California’s mountain towns and ski resorts are digging out after a blockbuster blizzard buried them and major roads under several feet of snow.

The last 10 or so years we lived in California’s San Joaquin Valley we were always in some kind of drought situation. Fast forward a few years and it’s been flooded the last two years with tremendous snowpack, which is very much needed.

I’ll bet the Sierra Nevada looks spectacular from the valley floor right now. Folks who live there will understand what I’m saying. Looking up from the great valley to see the Sierra Nevada is awe inspiring on a beautiful clear day. Especially when it’s covered in snow. 🏔️

Thor Benson • Common Dreams

Climate experts are warning that the Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas panhandle—now the largest in the state’s history with over over 1 million acres burned and counting—provides a horrifying look into a future of runaway temperatures that result in extreme destruction.

And Texas is in the complete opposite situation of California. It’s on fire and not just a tiny fire. It’s a monster eating everything in its path. 🔥

Auto-portrait

All I want to do is eat. I want to turn eggs into a hill of flour slowly until they become one solid object. A ball of dough smooth and elastic as skin. In Boulder, Colorado I stirred the eggs into a pile of semolina flour on the counter of a friend’s friend’s father’s kitchen. We spent three days making the Bolognese. I had just come back from Italy and thought I knew a secret. In Italy, I was falling in love. This is important to me and embarrassing to say. I got too drunk at the dinner party to remember what the Bolognese tasted like and missed my flight in the morning. I want Rae to ferment pizza dough for three days. I want to watch Nathan stretch it into a perfect circle and slide it off cornmeal into the oven. I imagine young Nathan in his father’s pizza shop pilfering chicken fingers with the perfect breading. How can you know anyone if you don’t know how they came of age? I loved my home in South Deerfield so much I got it tattooed on my thigh. I wish I could visit that ghost of myself for dinner. They were such a good host. I want to own a farm large enough to have peacocks roaming the gardens, just to own something beautiful and lively. Everyone I’ve ever loved flew to Blacksburg, Virginia this summer, and James stole us 6 whole chickens from Kroger and cut them into 8 parts and he spent the night frying them so we could all eat after we had swam in the river. And now James might go back to jail because of a DUI but he just got his passport back 7 years after his felony charges and I am not worried about James going to jail or not coming back to Blacksburg because of parole. I am scared of him dying because he is an addict and he works in a kitchen so he started using again and my friends are all alcoholics and I am so afraid of them dying, one after another. I want James to live on my farm with Bessie and I and our two peacocks and my best friend Teagan who is dating James, what luck, what absolute luck. I am afraid of not being able to fall asleep. My mom believes it is because she would try to rock me to sleep as an infant while having panic attacks. She says it was because my father was a terrible father. I believe her. I want the kitchen from The Haunting of Bly Manor where I will carry in tomatoes, peppers, a slaughtered chicken. Teagan will help me make dinner. I want to grow my own food because I am cheap and I think it tastes better, and because I am impulsive and I never want to have to pay for it. This is also how I learned to steal. I am afraid of ghosts. I am obsessed with death. I think I can make peace with death and thus make peace with grief. It is why I cook so much meat. If I can love a rabbit well enough after death, I can let Ben be dead. Often after I cook the animal, I won’t eat it. Having the friends I have has made me obsessed with Pete Davidson and Mac Miller. I am in love with tomatoes. I worry there is not enough love in the world to satiate me. I think of myself as a cormorant. My anxiety has begun to bubble up in new horrible ways. Contamination fears, conspiratorial thinking, fear of leaving the house; I need to shake the bed sheets out every night before I get in. This week it manifested as a rash. I am carrying so much shame. I don’t get catcalled anymore. In first grade when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said “scuba diver.” I still think that is true, but I have asthma. Instead, I take my snorkel to the New River and I chase fish around the river bed and hope I don’t see too many bones. I always see bones but I always say “that is just a deer.” I studied to be an herbalist at an apothecary. I once lived with a conspiracy theorist in southern France and dug her a pool. I spent almost a month riding horses through the Rocky Mountains. I believe grief makes clear the cyclical ever happening nature of time. I think the 4th dimension holds the secrets of ghosts. I am in love with the Greek myth of Aristaeus. I would love to tell it to you. I value play above all else. I thought I would have more tattoos by this age.

Sizer definition

It allows time for serious work to be accomplished. It reinforces the modern habit of using in combination a variety of forms of expression to give power to meaning. It allows the student to display his ability to unearth examples from a variety of sources, his skills of description and communication, his mastery of a range of information, and his ingenuity and imagination. It provokes the student to think about the use of her definition by means of “speaking the same message” through different media and searching out arresting examples from others’ expressions. It requires persistence and organization. The student must inform himself and be precise in transmitting what he means. It gives the student a reasonable choice of topic-the specific emotion selected-thus allowing him to plumb an area of particular interest. While all students are expected to master clear written English, beyond that each can present herself in the ways she finds most persuasive. It asks each student to speak in several voices, through several media. Further, it puts matters raised independently in a variety of subjects into a sensible context, powerfully affirming the work in each discipline. It cuts across traditional scholarly disciplines in a respectful way while it demonstrates practice in the use of knowledge in a palpably “real” sense. We hope that people will act in principled ways on the basis of their considered, practical definitions. Thoughtful people from all walks and conditions of life ponder not only their own practical definitions but those of others, in the present and from the past. While there is no one crisp, all-purpose definition of, say, anger, every one of us, without exception, employs one, consciously or unconsciously. It raises issues that are at once highly personal and universal. The ability to recognize emotions is a requisite for such understanding. People who are known to understand the emotions of others, and the actions that may follow on them, are universally admired. Being reflective and self-conscious about fundamental human characteristics is a mark of a thoughtful and civil individual. We ourselves are creatures of our emotions and we make judgments about others’ emotions every day. It is seen that a homogenous Poisson process. "The SiZer technique is used to study the homogeneity of a point process of Internet Lehmann Symposium: Optimality by Javier Rojo, Víctor Pérez-Abreu (2004) South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922) The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)Ħ. "Situation of a sizer.-Tyranny of Wilder, the tutor.-Pecuniary straits.-Streetīallads.-College riot.-Gallows Walsh.-College prize.- A dance interrupted."ĥ. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1851) Huhn, the same course was attempted as in the case at bar,Īnd it was hold that the execution of the undertaking and redelivery of the. Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska by Nebraska Supreme Court (1904) The sum of $1000, to be applied in part payment and satisfaction of the. that purpose, and sizer should accept of the title to the premises for Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court, at Special Term by Nathan Howard, New York (State), Supreme Court (1871) Subsequent to the original making of the note if they were lost to sizer. " sizer should take the dividends at his own risk, except as to the acts of Miller Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court, at Special Term by Nathan Howard, New York (State), Supreme Court (1845) Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizer size stickīelow you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:ġ. An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size. An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.

afterschool comforting - v.m

pairing: virginia miller x gn!reader

warnings: hurt/comfort, crying mention, bold text format, no caps, reader refers to ginny as ‘babe’

fandom: ginny and georgia

summary: ginny needed a place to stay for the night after another argument with georgia

word count: 205 (she's a shortie)

tense: past (were, followed, ect.)

perspective: 2nd person (you, yours, you’re)

a/n: it is implied that you’re taller than ginny, the name ‘y/n’ is never mentioned, nor is your race. please don’t steal my work, i worked hard on this piece

prompts from this:

16. “Can you just please hold me?”

27. “Can I stay here tonight?”

masterlist

taglist

you were lying on your sofa scrolling through your social media feed. it was a normal tuesday afternoon, school had finished 3 hours ago, your parents were out visiting your sick aunt, so you being an antisocial, hormonal teenager who had finished their homework had made the easy decision to be lazy.

You jerked up when you heard the doorbell ring. putting down your phone, you approached the tall door. looking through the fisheye you saw a familiar mess of curls.

‘why is ginny here?’ you questioned mentally.

Stepping back you opened the heavy door, revealing your short girlfriend.

‘babe, what’re you doing here?’ you questioned, inviting her inside with a simple hand gesture.

‘can you just please hold me?’ she replied, taking off her adidas.

‘c'mere babe'

ginny walked into your open arms and wrapped hers around your waist. you could feel the tear on your beatles band tee.

you and your lover stayed there for probably another 15 seconds before ginny pulled away, wiped her tears and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear.

‘Um, can I stay here tonight?’ she asked, shifting her weight back and forth on her feet.

‘ ‘course you can babe, come on’

taglist: no one yet