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“SUSPECTS ARRESTED,” Montreal Gazette. February 8, 1933. Page 18. --- Three "Seminarians" Charged With False Pretences ---- Wearing the regulation cassock of the seminarian, three men were arrested yesterday afternoon by Sergeant-Detectives Page and P. Gauthier on charges of false pretences arising out of the sale of tickets for entertainments, drawings and other events supposed to aid missionary work or the poor. 

Two of the three men were unfrocked by the detectives but one was forced to keep his cassock on as he wore little clothing beneath. 

Acting upon information the detectives learned that the men were selling tickets for a dance which was to take place at the Garneau School on February 23 next in aid of poor seminarists who had disappeared. There were also tickets for a playlet entitled "Hell Versus the Altar," which was to take place at the Monument National on October 1, at 2.30 o'clock, though the tickets did not reveal in what year this entertainment was to take place. There were tickets for drawings of boxes of chocolates. Three large bosses of tickets were found in the rooms of the accused. 

At headquarters they admitted to Inspector Foucault that they were no longer students at any seminary, though they had at one time been in such institutions. The prisoners, who were arrested in their rooms, gave their names and addresses as Joseph Hormisdas Corbeil, 34 years of age, rooming on Delanaudiere street; Simon Dumas, 39 years of age, and Mendoza Richard, 42 years of age, both rooming on Notre Dame street east.

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Modu by priest was truly such a good read. If you like romance? It has a sweeping romance, with a well done bisexual and gay lead (and straight best friend) all written in ways that manage to feel realistic, it's got features people likely found it for when looking for a danmei - rich manipulative younger man, older investigator who's got a hero streak, and yet those categories don't really do justice to them (and of course tao ran is the more grounded detective story lead who keeps his theories to himself and worries about dragging others into his mess).

They're so much more... Fei Du is a traumatized young man who's worried he's as monstrous as the people who scarred him, who is preparing to take the leap and cross the line to become an even more terrifying version of himself if it will destroy the corruption poisoning this city and harming so many, Luo Wenzhou is a cop that used to want to be a hero and learned he will fail people and be unable to save people and holds onto Fei Du as someone who reminds him he DOES fail but also reminds him why he wants so hard to keep Trying to help people even when it seems impossible... why trying and putting in effort to care and help Even when its too late to fix things is Worthwhile. Tao Ran is a contrast to them both, Fei Du living in a world where there's only monsters and victims and Luo Wenzhou desperately trying to force the world to be a place where justice CAN prevail and win even as he sees it fail over and over, trying so hard to believe all people have the capacity for everything and are worth trying to save. Even though Fei Du doesm't believe that, being around Luo Wenzhou makes him want to consider it. Tao Ran, their contrast? Believing the world can go either way, and its up to people like him to create any justice at all, any structure at all, or else everything is just meaningless suffering chaos. As characters, the three of them serve to explore how the world works and views on it in terms of a detective murder mystery encompassing the whole city, the small scale version of the world. Modu is a romance, but its also fully commited to being a murder mystery that wants to tackle the kind of themes that come up in the setting it's created. Its characters are so much more than Insert Character Ship types here. These characters were made this way to explore these ideas (just as the villains are all made to parallel and contrast Fei Du to explord these ideas in comparison to our point of view Fei Du moments, our impressions of Fei Du from Luo Wenzhou and Tao Rans varied perspectives, all of them are different lenses to view humanity and how it works, if the world is just or if we have to make it good, if we can be inherently good and if good people will reach out to us if we just keep treading water to survive, if its luck and chaos, and how much... and much more frankly).

Modu is like. If you want a story about a corrupt city and its victims, symbolizing a corrupt world and all of us at its mercy, and you want to see the heart of the people doing something about it. First the main trio, but also every victim Fei Du recruits to help, every murderer recruited to the corruption, all the people in the cases swayed to some side. Thats what Modu is about.

The romance is just one facet of exploring that, the personal debate about what these things mean about the world as told through two people who view this world incredibly differently. Yet find some way to exist in the same space, same mutual world, when together. It hooks you in and doesn't let you go and youre wondering right there with them, left to draw your own meaning in the end. Hopefully that its worth trying, that doing something is worth trying even when its just the trying you can do and not the succeeding, at least thats what I got from it (at least in regards to Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou meeting each other, unable to live up to the pillar they put each other on but trying anyway, is what I felt from them).

Then like? Modu gives you THAT story, which in its own right is enough to make you contemplate.

And if you're like me and care about people, about characters? Well it gives you, like I said, those big themes and a city's nightmares symbolizing the world, and brings them down to an individual level. You read from the mind of the little girl who grew up in this (one of my favorite scenes and when I felt this novel was going to not shy away from dark psychological moments and bringing them to you). You read from the mind of Fei Du when he knows himself, when he doesn't. You read from the minds of all kinds of people, and the heart of much of the investigation is peoples motives and things they'd gone through and how that shaped what they'd do next. Why they'd do it. Leaving you to wonder who's right. Jaded idealist Luo Wenzhou who wants to believe in the goodness of the people he loves, but also is willing to risk that strangers may have good intent? Fei Du who thinks theres only victims and perpetrators and everyone is going to fall into one in the right circumstance? Tao Ran, who feels the world is too messy to dare declare predictable, who thinks even your closest can betray you and even you can accidentally hurt them, nevermind strangers, and the only thing you can control and rely on is your own choices? Some mix? None of them? The side characters as they come up, grow and evolve, do they understand the world better or worse, and is the world they experience different than anothers and justify why their worldview is likewise different? Modu gives you that up close and personal, over and over. Im still thinking about it. And the way its done, they all get to feel like lived in people. Not structures to tell the themes only. But on their own, there's a personal struggle between Fei Du feeling like a monster who'll destroy Lup Wenzhou if he loves him, like his dad destroyed his mom, and Luo Wenzhou carrying the guilt he could never save Fei Du and desperate to believe in Fei Du (and keep trying to save him in that way if only that way) as person who can do good despite not being saved and despite Fei Du's fears. You could cut the entire city's plot away, all of the crimes and make the city calm, and still that core of their plot would be carrying a Lot of weight. Theyre playing a game of "enemies" to lovers sure, or whatever romance story structures they fit into. But they're also made to be deeply rooted into each other, their personal beliefs tied into the outcome of what they hope or fear happens if they are close together. Modu made me care about that. Its like the fears many people might have, abiut theur own flaws, about getting close to others, about trusting and being unsure if that trust is safe to give. Its that and magnified into bigger form, in this landscape of a fucked up city and the tragedy of Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou's meeting and former lives.

Its like. Id love to to read another danmei (Ive got a lot on my to read list). But what's going to give me roo

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me in triple h’s office bargaining with him to make finndamian kiss 🤬

gojos death is sad and all but it is still SO funny knowing that gojos ‘geto stayed with me <3’ fantasy still included geto in those fucking cult leader robes. whats wrong with him

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ADRIAN REFERRING TO MC AS "HIS LOVE" IS INSANE...

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also adrian: my love.... sigh

YOU SAW NOTHING. No mind readers allowed up in here!

“Do not stand in the way of God’s Miracle, Father Ward”

PRIEST FIGHT!! I love how we all just collectively agreed these two would be canon worsties <3

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"Trial in Alleged Bond Conspiracy Delayed,” Montreal Star. November 10, 1932. Page 3. ---- George Bellefleur is Refused Plea For Bail --- The trial of George Bellefleur, alleged to have conspired with James Carson, alias ‘Father James Calahan,’ to steal $41,000 worth of bonds from a Toronto bond company was opened this morning and after the hearing of evidence and one witness, adjourned until November 17.

George Nightingale, attached to the Toronto office of the company, told the court that Bellefleur had approached him on October 30 with a request to be appointed an agent, claiming that he had a client ready to buy $40,000 worth nf bonds. An agreement was reached. Later he was advised by telegram to have the bonds ready for delivery to the Montreal office to “Rev. Father James Calahan, 251 Dalhousie street, Ottawa." When Canon appeared to take the bonds, he was arrested and Bellefleur was taken into custody shortly afterward.

An application for bail was refused.

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Noah/Jonas 1899 AU

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the genocidal plant does not sleep

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