Somehow I never posted the full picture on tumblr and wonder how this happened. Daeran and Knight Commander Salvadore by the amazing NuraBelmax.

If you're still taking requests and only if you have the time, Sal with ❤️L. 👀

Sorry it took so long to get to this (and that it turned out a bit messy)! For the requests, the eternally dutiful Salvadore. It's been a long time since I last drew a military uniform... I really admire the long, smooth shapes of your character designs, as well as the deceptively simple all white look so iconic to Sal.

By the way, I'd love to know what has him wearing such an uncharacteristic expression...

At The End - OCKiss24 Salvadore x Minovae

I managed to find time to actually participate in a writing event! We can thank my new ADHD meds for that I'm sure. Anyway, this first is featuring my Minovae and @dmagedgoods Salvadore, who I have long cherished their relationship as much as it's fascinated me. They're what could have been and what could never be. I'm so happy with how this came out - please know I cried multiple times while writing it!

Violet eyes looked out over the city below and beyond the marble balustrade. Smoke rose from nearly every main plaza and thoroughfare, and even what seemed to be the most innocuous of alleyways as well as the highest parapets. For the first in some many decades, nay, a century, even, there was no cause for alarm from this. It wasn’t demons ravaging the last line of defense in this nation that both was and wasn’t, but now could be. The war hadn’t reached here, Nerosyan, the capital, because the war was over.

The Knight Commander had done it. Knight Commander Salvadore had closed the Worldwound. Where no other could, and it hadn’t been for lack of trying, but for all so much bloodsoaked and desperate failure, the war had finally ended.

And by a poncy, arrogant noble with a stick up his ass to rival even Iomedae’s.

Miracles, it seemed, weren’t in so short supply as the name of this age had made it seem.

Minovae sighed deeply looking out over the city with its night sky filled with smoke for the first time not from war but from celebration, her tail listlessly hanging off the edge between the balusters. Bonfires beat back the darkness, and she realized then that the smell and sight was what was making her stomach clench and eyes rimmed with wet. How much like home it was, poor battered and stripped Westcrown, whose nightly pyres weren’t out of any cause for celebration but to beat back the shadow-beasts that stalked her streets once the sun set and feared the light.

A home she knew she’d never see again.

The ache in her mind from Thrune’s brand told her as much. She’d never make it as far as Westcrown once she crossed the border of homeland. They’d take her back to Egorian, where the beginning of this end began, and they’d put the loose end that she was to close once and for all. It was coming. Soon. She knew it was. They might even be ready to disappear her as soon as she stepped from Nerosyan’s walls.

The thought only reinforced that emptiness that pervaded her. She had nothing left to fight for, anyway. Even more, she’d fought alongside heroes. She’d helped do the impossible. The Crusades were over, and she’d played no small part in it. Even the fact she wore this evening not her armor, its weight heavy and familiar comfort, but finery, felt strange. So much of her existence had been defined by steel and blood and blade and shield, and now it was drawing to a close not in the middle of a craggy field that smelled of iron, but on the night of celebration, in a gala hosted by literal royalty.  

The liquor in her glass burned comfortingly as she took another sip. ‘As strong as you have’, she’d told the man, who’d grinned and reached under the bar for something so old and dusty she hadn’t been able to catch the label. It did the trick, vapors stinging her nose and warming her throat and gut better than anything she’d had in years, and she reminded herself to thank him before she left for the night.

“Ah, here you are.”

She would have started had her senses not been dulled by drink—truthfully, this was her fifth glass. The clink of the ice as she’d knocked it back had disguised his footsteps, she surmised. He had no reason to sneak up on her tonight, and he walked with all the confidence and bravado his station and title presumed on his behalf at nearly all times.

“Here I am…”, she flicked her gaze to the corner as he came to the balcony balustrade, leaning against it, mindful of her tail where it trailed across the marble. Those icy blues locked onto hers and held that gaze firm. She might have thought it a challenge, or some type of implied order as he was oft to give, had his lips not been lightly tugged ever so upwards at their corners into a smile that was, by all accounts, warm. She stared at those lips perhaps a moment too long, before continuing. “Though I’m not sure it is really you, Sal, with such an expression on that face.”

He took no offense to the diminutive of his name. Not with her, at least. But she did note the quirk in his brow; inquisitive.

“My dear, it is a night for celebration, if you have not noticed.

“And so even the great Salvadore can afford himself a smile? I see”, she smirked.

It felt bitter. Even as happy as she truly was for him, for all of them, the emptiness of her future had tainted this night before it had even began. She quickly returned her gaze to the bottom of the glass cradled between her fingers, dangling over the edge of open air above the city below.

A heavy beat of silence passed. She knew without meeting that gaze again that he was aware something was weighing on her. He was one of the few she’d ever met that matched her ability to read nearly anyone, no matter how inscrutable.

“You should go back inside, you know. It is a night for celebration, after all”, she used his own words, hoping it would rub him wrong enough to just make him leave. “I’m sure they’ll be wondering where the man of the evening is.”

But, she knew the copious drink had taken her off her game tonight. Normally she could handle him as she did other nobles, though certainly not lightly–he’d ever been one of her most difficult rivals. Even admitting as such had rankled her, but now, here, she could only think of the term fondly. She internally cursed the sweet heat cloying her thoughts.

“Without you? Without whom this would not be possible? No, my dear, your absence has been noticeable enough. You have spent enough time endearing the night air with your appearance, when it would be much better spent on the unworthy eyes back inside.”

She snorted at that. Shook her head. “Are you saying I look nice?”

“Is that such a surprise? You look beautiful. It is a crime that the first time I have seen you in a dress, you’ve spent most of it hiding away.”

It was true. She’d been present for the opening ceremonies, of course. She’d even started the night just as lively and bright as nearly everyone else, dancing one or two waltzes with their friends—then, someone had asked her what she would do next, after all this was done.

And the brand seared into her mind had started to ache.

She swallowed down a sigh, not wanting him to hear. Her tail, heavy, almost languidly, pulled itself back up from the plummet she wanted to take before them and instead squished the air like shoulders would a shrug.

“You could have always ordered me into a dress, if you were so desperate to see it.”

“It would not have looked half as radiant on you than one donned willingly. I can see there was truth to your stories. Any lesser man in there would crumple before you, if you had your heart set on crushing theirs.”

Had he always been this funny, she wondered. No, it was the alcohol working in his favor. Still, she chuckled. Heat licked to the skin beneath her scaled cheeks. She knew she must’ve looked much like a watermelon then–those green-tinted opals sitting in a sea of red.

“Alright, alright. Need I tattle to Daeran with how much you’re trying to butter me up?” 

It was an empty threat and joke, they both knew. The only thing Daeran would be mad at was that he was not here to see and hear this for himself. 

“When I left, he was last doing what I expected you  to be doing all evening. Dancing the night away, breaking those hearts with each hand he trades for another.”

“I’m glad he’s enjoying himself. It’s just… louder in there than I remember…”, she answered wistfully. “I’m not used to being around so many people again. At least, not in a war camp… without my armor.”

He knew all about her past navigating through galas and parties much like these. She’d told him as such, how she used to stalk her prey on their own grounds, playing their own game; the Hellknight who’d eschew her armor for a dress and weapon for an invitation to dance, luring the guilty in with honey only to bring them to the guillotine all the same.

She only hoped he’d accept the excuse. Just telling him the truth would kill her. Him, possibly, too. Literally. The last thing she wanted on her record before she went to the Boneyard was taking down the angelic hero who’d ended the Crusades in a blackened, infernal blaze of her brand detonating.

“It has quieted some. The wine has seen to that, and most have had their choices in dance.”

She hummed. “Then surely my presence isn’t that missed.”

“On the contrary”—a shift of movement caught her attention. She looked back up from her glass toward him once more, and found a hand, fingers lightly curled upward, extended in invitation towards her.

“This entire Crusade, you have bragged about your prowess on the dance floor and told me of your greatest triumphs taking down ‘arrogant blowhard fops of my caliber,’”—she felt a rush of even hotter flame to her cheeks and a rattle shook her tail as he’d remembered one of the rants she’d gone on after particularly pissing her off—“, and yet, I have yet to see it for myself. I insist: would you have but a single dance with me, Lady Minovae?”

She stared. First, at his hand, those tan fingers extended invitingly. By all accounts they should be as rough and calloused as hers, and yet they looked untouched by the horrors of the war they’d both fought through, side by side. His nails were perfectly cut and filed, and shone beneath the moonlight. Hells, she swore there was a light glow emanating from it, but she had no idea if it was just from how bright the moon was, or because of the angelic power coursing through him. It looked warm, despite him being a dhampir.

And then her gaze shifted upward, to the rest of him. His blue eyes had narrowed, warm, inviting, despite how piercingly cold their color was. She noticed then that the night had gotten to his usual perfectly manicured and groomed self. Some hairs had fallen from his typical neat style, wayward curls—curls!—teasing his forehead and giving him an almost roguish appeal that made her breath catch. For once, he looked real. He looked mortal. At this, his highest point in power, literally touched by the Heavens and the Abyss alike, Salvadore looked more like a living, breathing, touchable person than at any other point in which she’d known him. He didn’t rise in her that distrust and disgust that normally appeared when she lay eyes upon a noble, even with him dressed in the brightest white and gold finery she’d ever seen.

He looked… 

Warm. Handsome. Inviting. Mortal. An ally. A friend. Something more. Her breath caught for a moment. She found herself staring at his lips again, sitting above his chiseled chin and jawline. Had they always looked so… soft? He was doing that soft smile again, confident and controlled, but welcoming. The kind that made you let down your guard, of which the whiskey clouding her thoughts certainly wasn’t helping.

“A good kisser?”, she snorted derisively. “I didn’t know they taught you how to kiss in noble school. I certainly don’t know where else you would’ve learned given how insufferable you are. Unless that mysterious ‘mentor’ of yours taught you that, too.”

Salvadore only made a low noise in the back of his throat, confident and knowing. The look he shot her was much the same. “You are welcome to a demonstration, if you need the proof, my lady knight, Arangeir.”

Her boisterous laugh was all the answer he needed: never in a million years.

She remembered the moment in a sudden flash like it was yesterday. She couldn’t even remember what had triggered that conversation, but she certainly remembered the tease and invitation now. It hadn’t been a million years, but she wouldn’t get a million years. Sal might. He and Daeran together. But she wouldn’t. She might not even get a week. Daeran would forgive her for this, she knew… and well, if he didn’t, she supposed she wouldn’t be around long to suffer it.

“…A dance?”, she licked her lips, suddenly feeling overly warm, overly flushed. Her dress exposed much of her back and shoulders, letting her feathers and scales breathe , and only went to about her mid-thigh regardless. Still, she felt hot. She felt stupid, too, but did it matter? “You can have your dance, if I can have something in return.”

That piqued his curiosity. Salvadore drew his hand back slightly, if only because he’d straightened his posture. His head tilted, and a brow raised. Something glinted in his eye. Concern? She didn’t care.

“Do you remember months ago… You claimed to be a good kisser. I didn’t believe you. What if I told you I still don’t?”

Her pulse was racing now. She could feel it thud-thud-thudding in her chest. It got even worse as realization dawned upon him.

She half expected a slap; he was a taken man now, after all. He might have even just turned around and gone back inside, which, fine. For the moment, though, he only stared at her. She could tell he was trying to decipher why she was asking for this now, why in the Hells now? Could she blame him? Of course not, he had no idea the severity of the truth, of just how little time she had left to do what she wanted and be a little crazy before everything ended.

What she didn’t expect was for those fingers to return. Closer. Curled under her chin.

She gasped lightly, hotly, as Salvadore clasped her jaw. Those hands were cold, as she thought, but the feel of that icy chill across her flushed skin felt almost like healing magic dancing across wounds, knitting them closed. 

Her tail vibrated anxiously, filled with so much energy where it had lain dead before. She could feel her feathers rising from neck to tail tip, fluffing up in that way that made her look like an alarmed cat.

Their eyes held each others’, and his additionally held a question. 

Now or never.

“You promised a demonstration”, she merely answered.

He needed no other reassurance.

Their height difference made it more difficult than it should have been, but Salvadore had been only truthful in his claims. He knew exactly what to do.

A hand pressed to the flat of her back, directly over the strip of feathers running down her spine and scales surrounding them—now running icily themselves trying to cool her down. She briefly wondered if he even noticed with the chill in his own hands, but let it drift away as soon as it had come. He pressed her close and up, bidding her to her toes as he himself confidently arched downward.

Soft. They were soft. How funny it was, she thought, that such iron and coldness could come from those lips only for them to be so damn soft. Softer than hers. Theirs pressed against the other, and her eyes slipped closed upon the gentle impact. She mapped them in the darkness behind her eyelids, each and every crease, the cupid’s bow, the feel of his breath across her face.

When had she last been kissed? She didn’t remember. Wetness rimmed her eyes again. She didn’t even love him. Love had escaped her at every turn, snatched away always and viciously by circumstance. All she could think of was the emptiness, of what hadn’t been and what she’d never had. His lips right then, for only this brief moment, were filling that yawning void. It was a piece that didn’t fit in this puzzle. Not perfectly. But for a moment, it was filled.

Then pressing. Then prodding. Further still, he took it, and she went rigid in shock before melting as his tongue breached what should have been where this had ended. It brought with it the taste of wine, luxurious and more opulent than any her salary would have spared. Something in her found it funny that for as much as she’d always tormented him about her dislike of fine wines, he’d still found a way to share a glass with her.

At the end. Of everything.

working on those baron(ess) and knight-commander sketches and 😳😳😳😳😳 Salvadore and Eneas

Ekaterina Grushankaya

Baby, I'll be like a wildflower

I live on sheer willpower

I'll do my best never to turn into something

That burns, burns, burns...

Playlist: YouTube | Spotify

Introduction

Flaws, Strengths & Skills

Headcanon Game (NSFW)

KC as a Companion | 01

Tishka and Tanagaar (WitchAU! Ekaterina)

Unusual Muse Associations

WOTR Random Headcanons | 01 ● 02

Fanfics:

The Child Who Carried the Sun (A collection of prompts about Ekaterina's childhood)

Flying Close to the Sun | 01 (a mini series about Ekaterina and Ocean, @aelyosos' OC, in Kenabres)

The Good Comrades (Salvadore, @dmagedgoods' oc, and Ekaterina being good frenemies)

Handmade Heaven (Kadira, @spyridonya's oc, turns into the fourth member of the Irriseni Siblings --- and gets a gift and an invite!)

It's a Long Way to the Paradise (Ekaterina's path as the Knight Commander of the Fifth Crusade, and the development of her romance with Lann)

Love Drunk (A drunk and in love mongrel can't help but flirt with his wife)

A Lovely Hand (Ekaterina gives a little hand to relieve Kadira's pain — for #ockiss24 ft. @spyridonya)

Siblings Shenanigans (Crack-fic with Ekaterina and her siblings answering questions)

Silver Lining (Post-WOTR, Katya interacting with Jesyll, daughter of Minovae, @silversiren1101's ocs)

Swimming Lessons (Woljif teaches Lariel, @hauntedolly's oc, how to swim, and Ekaterina gives a 'little hand')

Witch Toll (The Inquisitor Raphaël disturbs the local druid and has to pay the price — for #ockiss24 ft. @jean-dieu)

Events 3.29 (before 1960)

1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses. 1549 – The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. 1809 – At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. 1847 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1. 1871 – Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. 1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established. 1927 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida. 1936 – The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland. 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan. 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in Madagascar. 1951 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. 1951 – Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen. 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

Inspector Spacetime Genius Bonus

Genius Bonus (From TV Tropes’ Inspector Spacetime YMMV Page Archive)

In addition to setting up numerous Historical Person Punchlines, BTV's writers enjoy showing off their Oxbridge educations in other fields. To name just a few:

The Infinity Knight High Command's Black Museum comes from the nickname of Scotland Yard's Crime Museum.

The Rostraans are named them after the Roman Rostra, the orators' platform that was also used for displaying the heads of defeated enemies of state during the late Republic.

The Inspector refers to the Maharini's 10-dimensional henchbeings as "p-braned" in "Space or the Maharani".

The chrono-crossbows in "The Envoys of Entropy" shoot "arrows of time".

The temporal disintegration of the planet Kadakeys alludes to two of Salvador Dalí's Surrealist paintings in "The Persistence of Memory".

Cardinal Continuum from the serial "The Last Minutes" gets his name from mathematician Georg Cantor's set theory work on "the cardinality of the continuum" (and the Lemniscate he uses is named after another term for the infinity symbol "∞").

scandalous beauty: caresse crosby - an analysis

“I believe my ardour for invention springs from his loins. I can't say that the brassiere will ever take as great a place in history as the steamboat, but I did invent it.” - Caresse Crosby            

She is credited with inventing the modern bra. She launched Salvador Dalí on the international arts scene and founded a pioneering publishing house for writers including Hemingway, Joyce, Faulkner, and Anaïs Nin. She founded a world peace organization and hosted New York’s most legendary party, the Surrealist Ball in 1935. But the extraordinary life of Caresse Crosby, a notorious figure in 1920s bohemian Paris, has been largely forgotten.This wild woman lived an extraordinary life, in fact, multiple lives to accompany her multiple names. As well as being an inventor, she published and partied with the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris, founded a world peace organization, and casually became a Princess. Caresse’s maverick husband Harry Crosby, a poet (and a banker) famously shot himself – and his mistress – at the Hotel des Artistes in New York. It was 1929 and he was 31. A wide-eyed, wild-spirited Bostonian (more Jim Morrison than Jay Gatsby) Crosby had chased and coveted Caresse, transforming her life. Her 78 years encompassed two centuries, two continents and two world wars, three husbands and three evolving identities. She invented the modern brassiere, Starting life in Boston as a wealthy descendant of the first Puritans to land in America, she ended it in Rome, as Principessa di Roccasinibalda. Today ‘legend’ is a term bandied about with wearisome frequency, but with Caresse it takes flight. I mean, she had a pet whippet named Clytoris; this is definitely no boring Taurus. Must be her Aquarius moon.

Caresse Crosby, according to astrotheme, was a Taurus sun and Aquarius moon (the moon is speculative). She was born Mary Phelps Jacob, in uopstate New York in 1891. She came from a prominent New England lineage. Her family tree boasted a Crusades-era knight, the founder of Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, a Civil War commander, famed steamboat developer Robert Fulton, and the Plymouth Colony's first governor. She was nicknamed "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Polly, as she was known to her family and friends, embraced the upper-class New York lifestyle she grew up in. Polly's family was not fabulously rich, but her father had been raised to live high. She was grew up privileged and attended débutante balls, Ivy League dances, and garden parties with aristocracy. After her father's death in 1908, she lived with her mother in Connecticut and graduated from prep school at 19. After graduating, Polly was preparing to attend yet another debutante ball when she put on her customary, tight whalebone corset. Tiring of how uncomfortable and confining it was, she had her maid to get some handkerchiefs and ribbon and fashioned the materials into a simple bra. She was mobbed after the dance by other girls who wanted to know how she moved so freely,and when she showed her new garment to friends the next day, they all wanted one. One day, she received a request for one of her contraptions from a stranger, who offered a dollar for her efforts. Knowing that this could become a viable business, Polly filed for a patent for her invention on February 12, 1914 and in November that year the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted her a patent for the 'Backless Brassiere'.

In 1914, she was presented to the King of England at a garden party. In January 1915, Polly married Richard Rogers Peabody, a young blue-blooded Boston banker. He was an alcoholic whose favourite pastime was to watch buildings burn. They had two children; a son and a daughter. In 1920, while her husband was away at war during World War I, she met a man named Harry Crosby at a picnic. Crosby, a young Harvard war hero who was a wealthy scion of a socially prominent Boston family, was another veteran and victim of the recent war. Crosby also happened to be seven years her junior. He was everything her husband was not: fiery, intense, and enormously charismatic. They had sex within two weeks and their public affair scandalized proper Boston society. The difference in their ages, her marital status, and their flagrant and impassioned courtship scandalized proper Boston society. On Peabody's return from WWI service, his increasingly serious alcoholism and her newfound interest in Crosby led to their divorce. Crosby pursued Polly, and in May 1921, when she would not respond to his ardor, Crosby threatened suicide if Polly did not marry him. Harry’s father tried to dissuade him from marrying Polly, but to no avail; Polly's former friends shunned her. Polly’s former husband, Peabody, subsequently recovered from his alcoholism and published The Common Sense of Drinking, becoming a best seller, and laying the foundation for what would become Alcoholics Anonymous.

Soon after the divorce, Polly married Harry in the Municipal Building in New York City on September 9, 1922. Two days later, they moved with her children to Paris, France. Harry had little patience for Caresse’s children, although he later treated her daughter Polleen as his confidante when she was barely 16. Harry was soon flirting with another girl back in Boston, the first of many flirtations and affairs that Polly would learn to live with. Polly appeared at least outwardly to tolerate Harry's dallying unconventional behaviour, and she soon had her own lovers. In her journals, she privately worried about Harry's continued loyalty to her. Their glamorous and luxurious lifestyle soon included an open marriage, numerous affairs, and plenty of drugs and drinking. From their arrival in 1922, the Crosbys led the life of rich expatriates. Harry had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl he nicknamed "Nubile", with a "baby face and large breasts", whom he saw at Étretat. In Morocco, during one of their trips to North Africa, Harry and Polly took a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them. Harry had sex with a boy of unspecified age, his only homosexual dalliance. The Crosbys created a mystique with their theatrical, champagne-soaked lifestyle – and Paris took notice. It was Harry who declared that Polly needed a new name – and that it should be one of his choosing. Clytoris, one of his earlier suggestions, was thankfully rejected out of hand – though it did go on to become the name of the family’s second whippet. (Their first, called Narcisse Noir, had gone everywhere with them, usually adorned with necklaces and gold-painted lacquered toenails). “Caresse” suited them perfectly, as it also formed an amalgam of their names in the shape of a cross, which they printed in their first books.

The Black Sun Press was set up on the rue Cardinale in 1927, on the top floor of a small, disorderly shop. The press rapidly gained notice for publishing beautifully bound, typographically flawless editions of unusual books. They took exquisite care with the books they published, choosing the finest papers and inks. Made with the nest leather, handmade paper and binding, Black Sun books were often small, limited deluxe editions. It was a small publishing house but there were exquisite editions by controversial modernist writers, and the Crosbys commissioned some of the most outstanding artists and photographers of their day. French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with her. Caresse had an affair with actor Canada Lee in 1934, despite the threat of miscegenation laws. They had lunch uptown in Harlem at the then-new restaurant Franks, where they could maintain their secret relationship. By the 1940s, Lee was a Broadway star and featured in the nationwide run of the play Native Son. Unlike so many of her lovers, Lee didn't ask for money, even when his nightclub The Chicken Coop had a difficult time. When Crosby's brother Walter expressed his dismay at their relationship, during a dinner in the early 1940s, Caresse was offended and had little contact with Walter over the next 10 years. Crosby and Lee's intimate relationship continued into the mid-1940s and contributed to her worldview. Crosby wrote a never-published play, The Cage, transparently based on their relationship.

Despite all sorts of debauchery, Harry had begun to feel jaded and out of thrills. On July 9, 1929, Harry met the equally wild 20-year-old Josephine Noyes Rotch, whom he would call the "Youngest Princess of the Sun" and the "Fire Princess." Though she was several years his junior, Harry fell in love with Josephine. For four days they took meals in their room, smoked opium, and had sex. On December 10, Harry was expected for tea at the Madison Avenue house of his uncle, the financier J.P. Morgan Jr., but failed to show up. Several blocks away, in an apartment overlooking Central Park, Harry had mysteriously shot himself in an apparent suicide pact with Rotch. They were wrapped in each other’s arms in bed, fully clothed. He held a gun in his right hand. For all Harry’s prolific outpourings, there was no suicide note. The Crosbys’ heyday was over. After Harry Crosby's suicide, Caresse dedicated herself to the Black Sun Press. Caresse stayed in France until the mid-1930s, founding the Crosby Continental Editions paperback company and publishing Hemingway, Faulkner, and Dorothy Parker. She also befriended Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, whom she taught to write erotica. She closed the press in 1933.

Often attracted to younger men, Caresse met Selbert "Bert" Saffold Young, an unemployed aspiring actor and former football player 18 years her junior. He was always asking Caresse for money, he crashed her car, he ran up the telephone bill, and he used all her credit at the local liquor store. By 1941, having divorced Bert, Caresse became politically active and founded the organizations Women Against War and Citizens of the World, which embraced the concept of a "world community", which other activists such as Buckminster Fuller also supported. On January 25, 1955, her son Billy died in his sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning. Later in the 1950s, she moved to Rome and rented a run-down castle named Castello di Rocca Sinibalda, and later paid US $2,600 (about $22,717 today) for the estate. It came with the Papal title of Principessa (Princess). She lived in Rome until she died from complications from pneumonia on January 24, 1970, aged 78.

Next week, I’ll talk about a tar who represented the quintessential everyman, a uniquely all-American performer who parlayed his easy-going persona into one of the most successful and enduring careers in film history: Taurus James Stewart.  

STATS

birthdate: April 20, 1892*

*note*: due to the absence of a birth time, this analysis will be even more speculative.

major planets:

Sun: Taurus

Moon: Aquarius

Rising: unknown

Mercury: Aries

Venus: Gemini

Mars: Capricorn

Midheaven: unknown

Jupiter: Capricorn

Saturn: Aquarius

Uranus: Capricorn

Neptune: Cancer

Pluto: Gemini

Overall personality snapshot: This is a winning combination because she could back up her high ideals and broad vision with hard work and perseverance. She did not lose touch with reality; rather, she brought humanitarian values down to earth and put them to use in a productive way, for herself and for others. People respected her because she was utterly honest and they knew she employed the same scrutiny to herself as she did to them. She was born with a strong sense of self which was very hard to dent. This is not because she was defensive; rather it was due to her staunch humane conservatism and her tenacious loyalty to sound ideals. She respected herself, felt she deserved what she wanted, and was willing to work hard to get it. Her creations expressed her uniqueness and her strong sense of identity in a very tangible way. The freedom to be herself, to work patiently towards the marriage of her ideals and her bank account, and to enjoy with loved ones the fruits of her hard-headed genius, was to a large extent what made her tick. One of her strongest points was her clear-headed, frank and forthright manner of communication. She had a sound intellect, grasp essential facts and figures readily, and tendency to tell it like it is. She enjoyed imparting knowledge to others which made their lives more rational, productive and ecological in every sense of the word. She therefore made a good instructor – helpful, friendly and egalitarian, although she knew in the end everyone has to be their own teacher and live according to their own principles.

And certainly she never abandoned hers; they are the central hub around which her life revolves, and she had a natural way of persuading others of the soundness of her views. She did not like conflict and felt, really, that it was beneath her. She found find ‘civilized’ ways of circumventing obstacles, for which her amiable, pleasant personality was a great asset. She was drawn towards areas of work which expressed both her natural love of freedom and her sound sense of material values. Because of her strong independence, she was well-suited to self-employment. Because she was gregarious as well, however, she was a natural for working with the public. She often went for progressive ideas which served her fundamental well-being – and that meant the body. Indeed, it is quite likely that she was very in tune with the needs and rhythms of the body, and she could be attracted to practices that highlight the mind-body relationship, such as t’ai chi or yoga. She loved good food and intelligent company, although she may have swung between gourmet indulgence and religious fasting. Essentially she wanted to be in control of herself. For her, this was all part of being a competent maverick – and she knew that meant being in control of her considerable sensual appetites as well.

She was quick-witted, decisive and competitive. She liked to make an impression, and be seen as making an impression. Her enthusiasm for something that interested her was astounding. She could be quite impatient and unrealistic, especially when she faced opposition and obstacles. She was also self-willed and confident. In arguments, she could be quite combative, believing that she was right. She tended to have a hot temper that needed a firm hand. Sometimes she could be a little thoughtless and quarrelsome. She and honesty went hand in hand. She had an enormous hunger for human companionship, and she hoped that it will fulfill all her desires. She needed love and emotion, and her sense of compassion led her to help others, as she was very protective. However she could sink down into the depths of self-pity at times, although normally she was of good humour. She was quite domestic and made an excellent host. Her intuitive powers were quite strong and were worth developing. She was quick to go on the defensive, rather than the offensive, when dealing with adversaries and adverse situations. She was slightly selfish and emotionally intense. She was reasonably practical, as well as socially aspiring and humanitarian. Her main focus in life was to gain the security that allowed her the freedom to do as she liked. Because she was able to establish priorities and she had great determination, she usually realized her goals fairly early in life. She was willing to accept responsibility and didn’t want to depend on others for anything. She found it hard to let go of the past, but she should have so that she could have grown.

She belonged to a generation with a rational and logical attitude to life. There was a conflict between tradition and convention, and the experimental and unconventional. As an individual, she had to learn to strike a balance between the erratic and the conventional. As a member of her generation, she had the ability to come up with original ideas which could be of practical value. She was part of a very artistically talented and creative generation that wanted to escape from the demands of the world around them into a world of excitement and glamour. She was part of an emotionally sensitive generation that was extremely conscious of the domestic environment and the atmosphere surrounding her home place and home country. In fact, she could be quite nostalgic about her homeland, religion and traditions, often seeing them in a romantic light. She felt a degree of escapism from everyday reality, and was very sensitive to the moods of those around her. Crosby embodied all of these Cancer Neptunian ideals. As a Gemini Plutonian, she was mentally restless and willing to examine and change old doctrines, ideas and ways of thinking. As a member of this generation, she showed an enormous amount of mental vitality, originality and perception. Traditional customs and taboos were examined and rejected for newer and more original ways of doing things. As opportunities with education expanded, she questioned more and learned more. As a member of this generation, having more than one occupation at a time would not have been unusual to her.

Love/sex life: She was the cleverest of the Capricornian Martian lovers and this allowed her to control both her strong sex drive and her relationships with apparently little effort. Of course, it was never as easy as it looked. She had to be both smart and tough to keep the emotional distance she required in her love life and satisfy her enormous appetite for physical pleasure. Sometimes she even hurt people, but her charm was such that she typically gets away with it. Of course, too much control could be just as bad as not enough control for a lover of this type. If she organized her love life so well that there ws no need for sacrifice and you never had to face the kind of adversity which typically brings out the best in a lover of this Mars type, she soon found herself becoming bored with the whole issue. If nothing else, she almost had to let herself be stupid or clumsy now and again so she could be reminded of the pain that makes love worthwhile.

minor asteroids and points:

North Node: Taurus

Lilith: Libra

Her North Node in Taurus dictated that she needed to be careful not to let the more emotional side of her personality overwhelm her. Instead, she should set out to consciously develop her more practical abilities. Her Lilith in Libra ensured that she had a glam sort of gumption. She used her good looks and/or charm as a weapon and wasn’t content with petty bourgeois judgements and limited horizons. Even as a young girl, she had beauty, which developed into a coquettish style that entranced men throughout her entire life, thereby enabling her to get whatever she wanted from them.

elemental dominance:

earth

fire

She was a practical, reliable woman and could provide structure and protection. She was oriented toward practical experience and thought in terms of doing rather than thinking, feeling, or imagining. Could be materialistic, unimaginative, and resistant to change. But at her best, she provided the practical resources, analysis, and leadership to make dreams come true. She was dynamic and passionate, with strong leadership ability. She generated enormous warmth and vibrancy. She was exciting to be around, because she was genuinely enthusiastic and usually friendly. However, she could either be harnessed into helpful energy or flame up and cause destruction. Confident and opinionated, she was fond of declarative statements such as “I will do this” or “It’s this way.” When out of control—usually because she was bored, or hadn’t been acknowledged—she was bossy, demanding, and even tyrannical. But at her best, her confidence and vision inspired others to conquer new territory in the world, in society, and in themselves.  

modality dominance:

fixed

She liked the challenge of managing existing routines with ever more efficiency, rather than starting new enterprises or finding new ways of doing things. She likely had trouble delegating duties and had a very hard time seeing other points of view; she tried to implement the human need to create stability and order in the wake of change.    

planet dominants:

Venus

Sun

Uranus

She was romantic, attractive and valued  beauty, had an artistic instinct, and was sociable. She had an easy ability to create close personal relationships, for better or worse, and to form business partnerships. She had vitality and creativity, as well as a strong ego and was authoritarian and powerful. She likely had strong leadership qualities, she definitely knew who she was, and she had tremendous will. She met challenges and believed in expanding her life. She was unique and protected her individuality. She had disruptions appear in her life that brought unpleasant and unexpected surprises and she immersed herself in areas of her life in which these disruptions occur. Change galvanized her. She was inventive, creative, and original.    

sign dominants:

Gemini

Aries

Taurus

She ventured out to see what else was there and seized upon new ideas that expanded her community. Her innate curiosity kept her on the move. She used her rational, intellectual mind to explore and understand her personal world. She needed to answer the single burning question in her mind: why? This applied to most facets of her life, from the personal to  the impersonal. This need to know sent her off to foreign countries, where her need to explore other cultures and traditions ranked high. She was changeable and often moody. This meant that she was often at odds with herself—the mind demanding one thing, the heart demanding the opposite. To someone else, this internal conflict often manifested as two very different people. She was a physically oriented individual who took pride in her body. She was bold, courageous, and resourceful. She always seemed to know what she believed, what she wanted from life, and where she was going. She could be dynamic and aggressive (sometimes, to a fault) in pursuing her goals—whatever they might be. Could be argumentative, lacked tact, and had a bad temper. On the other hand, her anger rarely lasted long, and she could be warm and loving with those she cared about. Her stubbornness and determination kept her around for the long haul on any project or endeavour. She was incredibly patient, singular in her pursuit of goals, and determined to attain what she wanted. Although she lacked versatility, she compensated for it by enduring whatever she had to in order to get what she wanted. She enjoyed being surrounded by nice things. She liked fine art and music, and had considerable musical ability. She also likely had a talent for working with her hands.

Read more about her under the cut.

Caresse Crosby (April 20, 1891–January 26, 1970), born Mary Phelps Jacob (nicknamed "Polly" by her parents), was an American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist. At age 19, she invented the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance.

Crosby's parents, William Hearns Jacob and Mary Phelps, were both descended from American colonial families, William from the Van Rensselaer family and Mary from William Phelps. Her life at first followed convention. In 1915, she married the well-to-do Richard R. Peabody, whose family had arrived in New Hampshire in 1635. They had two children, but following Richard's service in World War I, Richard turned into a drunk who loved to watch buildings burn. 79 She met Harry Crosby at a picnic in 1920 and they had sex within two weeks. Their public relationship scandalized proper blue blood Boston society.

Two years later Richard granted her a divorce and Harry and Polly were married. They immediately left for Europe, where they joined the lost generation of American expatriates. They embraced a bohemian and decadent lifestyle, living off of Harry's trust fund of US$12,000 a year. 397 (or about $162,000 in today's dollars), had an open marriage with numerous ongoing affairs, a suicide pact, frequent drug use, wild parties, and long trips abroad.

At her husband's urging, Polly took the name Caresse in 1924. In 1925 they began publishing their own poetry as Éditions Narcisse in exquisitely printed, limited-edition volumes. In 1927 they re-christened the business as the Black Sun Press. They became instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many emerging authors who were struggling to get published, including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, René Crevel, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.

In 1929 one of her husband's affairs culminated in his death as part of a murder-suicide or double suicide at the studio of a friend. His death was marked by scandal as the newspapers speculated wildly about whether Harry shot his lover or not. Caresse returned to Paris where she continued to run the Black Sun Press. She was friends with many of the eminent authors of her time, including Robert Duncan, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller. She left Europe in 1936 and bought Hampton Manor in Virginia outside Washington D.C. She married Selbert Young, an unemployed, alcoholic actor sixteen years her junior. She helped Henry Miller by taking over writing pornography for an anonymous Texas oil baron. Her guests at Hampton Manor included Buckminster Fuller, Salvador Dalí, Ezra Pound and other friends from Paris. She began a long- term love affair with black actor-boxer Canada Lee, despite the threat of miscegenation laws. She founded Women Against War. She continued after World War II to try to establish a Center for World Peace at Delphi, Greece. When rebuffed by Greek authorities, she purchased Castello di Rocca Sinibalda, a 15th-century castle north of Rome, which she used to support an artists' colony. She died of pneumonia related to heart disease in Rome in 1970. (x)

Hamish & Vera soulmate au headcannons

Sometimes I'm like a red traffic light and sometimes I'm like the Flash of writing. Would you look at that, another one for the collection! Seriously, please write these and tag/link me I'm begging--

For today's rambling, we have what you write on your skin appears on your soulmate's. I'm aiming for a little happiness, given I'm still upset about the colours one and the first/last words one. Allons-y!

Vera and Hamish were best friends as soon as Hamish finally learned how to write. They shared all their stories with one another and for the most part, told each other everything.

Their parents got them washable markers when they were 10 and 6 respectively because it was getting a little hard to stop children from writing on their arms with pens that were stubborn or toxic markers.

Strange thing was that they never actually introduces themselves and they never really noticed that they didn't know each other's names. It never mattered. This was the one person in the whole world that knew them better than anyone else -- and they had no idea who the other was. It was kind of special.

Hamish wrote about how he got bullied for wearing sweaters. They called him a nerd and teacher's pet in tones that said it was the most hateful thing to be.

Vera wrote back the most cunning ways to get back at the bullies until Hamish ended up being almost a poster boy for his school while still maintaining some kind of commanding aura. At age 8.

Hamish was the first person to learn that Vera was pregnant.

"WHAT? But -- but you are a child!!" "We are leading very different lives."

"I asked my mom and she said children shouldn't be having kids but I think you'll be okay. You're stronger than anyone I know and I think your kid's gonna love you lots." Vera never tells anyone that she finds the most support in a little twelve year old kid whose name she isn't really inclined to learn.

When Vera's baby dies, Hamish is the only person she speaks -- or writes -- to. He's the only person she's never afraid to spill all her secrets to.

"If you got invited to join a secret society that could possibly be a cult of murderers, would you do it?" "What do they offer, though?" "Free drinks and magic." "I'd say go for it."

Hamish thinks it's a joke and Vera knows a 14 year old kid isn't gonna know any better but she listens to him anyway and powers through initiation, catching the eyes of her Temple Magus and the then Grand Magus.

"Hey, remember that cult I was telling you about? I accidentally got the leader killed but I got a promotion." "I'm so proud of you! Hey, what do you think about law school?" "Absolutely not." "For me?" "Oh. Go for it. I believe in you."

And it's that message from Vera that makes Hamish push through his first year at Belgrave, despite being turned into a werewolf somewhere in the third month.

Vera is the most respected Adeptii in the entire Order. She has her eyes set on Temple Magus. Most would think she was after power, but Vera just wants to set things straight. She just wants to make the Order everything it promises to be.

She's staying late at the temple one night. She feels a light tapping on her arm and rolls up her sleeves. Had she imagined it or was she starting to feel her soulmate's thinking stage?

"Remember that girl I told you about from that club I joined?" "Yeah. Did you finally ask her to be your girlfriend?"

Vera's teasing smile vanishes when she sees "she's dead" printed on her arm. The ink starts to run. She knows he's crying. She waves her hand over her arm and the ink vanishes. If he notices and asks her about the sudden disappearance, she'll say it was just a wet cloth.

"Do you want to talk about it or do you want me to distract you?" There is a long pause and Vera feels her heart beat faster. He wouldn't do anything irrational, right? "Distract me, please."

Vera tells him all about her day. She tells him how she's mastering all the skills the cult (she only ever calls it a cult on her arm) requires and she's almost at the top of the food chain. She tells him she wants to get a job at the university and she tells him she's afraid she won't be able to make a change in the world.

Despite his grief, Hamish manages to slowly write to Vera how he truly believes in her and that he knows she can do anything she puts her mind to.

Years pass. Hamish tells Vera about two new family members he's found. Vera tells Hamish about how she's got the job of her dreams. Hamish tells Vera that if they met by chance one day, he'd ring her into the family. Vera tells Hamish that she would induct him into her cult. They laugh but still, they don't reveal themselves. The anonymity of it gives them a sense of security and strangely enough, safety.

With the entrance of Jack Morton comes a whirlwind of drama and action to both of them. Their stories are filled with tales of this new member and all the strange things he does.

"I'm his boss! I'm his boss and he just does not listen to a word I say! Today, I found out he's been practicing skills only for professionals. It's like giving a kid a gun for a pinata. He is driving me insane."

"You're telling me. Our 'gender-neutral collective's new member is having a severe mental breakdown and I'm pretty sure I saw him talking to a coat rack earlier. I gave him a drink and he took it like a shot so I gave him a shot to see what he'd do and. He. Sipped. At. It."

Neither of them are aware that they're talking about the same person.

"I think I have a soft spot for the screw-up."

"I know the feeling, we call ours the family screw-up. Affectionately, of course."

"Of course."

After the burning of the Vade Maecum, Vera lies awake in bed, unable to find rest. So she grabs her marker, only to find a message waiting for her.

"Dear Diary, today I met a girl unlike any other. She's sharp, strong, brave and powerful. She reminds me of you. She helped me defend my dumbass family from some pretentious assholes. Honestly, she's a force of nature on her own. I wouldn't want her to hate me because I'm pretty sure she'd kill me if she did."

Vera smiles. "Sounds like someone has a crush."

"Gross, don't be so middle school."

Vera manages to find peaceful rest after a few more minutes of talking.

A few days later, Vera asks about the girl. "What girl?" "Nothing. How was your day?"

Vera doesn't understand why she no longer hears stories about the family of oddballs.

Vera doesn't make the connection.

She tells him she's head of the cult. Hamish draws party streamers and balloons. They're absolutely terrible but they make Vera laugh. "I'm proud of you." "Thank you."

"Dear diary, today I joined a secret club." "What, like a book club?" "Well . . . there are a lot of books here."

Vera finds a welcome sense of familairty and faintly, home, when the stories start pouring in about the family again.

"So today I had to pull a thorn out of a baby's foot. Said baby is turning 19 this year."

"Oh, you poor soul. A couple of new members drank the entire cult's worth of booze last night. Who even drinks that much and can still walk well enough to leave?" Hamish thinks about the welcome party at the temple. "You'd be surprised."

"I almost died today." For a second, neither of them realise they've written the same sentence. They make the connection to Belgrave and Rogwan. Neither are sure that other is saying that because they met the demon and did stupidly dangerous things or because they knew about the Excidium. Neither asks that question. "I almost died today and one of the biggest regrets I would've had was that I never got to see the face behind all the stories I've come to adore." "I know." "We should try to find each other." "We should."

But they don't. Anonymity protects them, it keeps them safe and it keeps their soulmates away from the dangers of the Order and the Knights -- so they think.

Instead, Hamish talks about losing Lilith. He calls her his feisty, brash, smart and loving little sister. He cries. Vera watches the ink run. Vera thinks about Lilith, about the sacrifice she made so that the Vera wouldn't perform the Excidium. Vera's sure that Lilith didn't do it for her or for Belgrave, but for the Knight down in the corridor with her and the knights running around Belgrave with no fear. Regardless, Lilith is what stopped the Excidium and a great deal of people owe her their lives -- Vera included. Vera thinks about Jack watching the portal swallow Lilith up whole. Vera thinks about Hamish having to carry her loss. Vera thinks about Randall having to soldier on without one of the few people who have never judged him about anything. The ink runs on their arms, but not just from Hamish's tears.

Late one night, Hamish can't sleep and watches the words write themselves om his arm. "I thought about her today. But it was so so powerful. Like being physically hit with those memories. You'd think by now I'd have come to terms with it--" "You can't keep blaming yourself." "Knowing that doesn't change the fact that I do and I will." "I know. Do you want to talk about her?" And Vera talks about her daughter until she falls asleep. Hamish reads the words filled with love and loss and adoration and joy until he falls asleep too.

When Foley and Salvador attack, behind thinking about what the hell will happen to the Knights and the Order without them, Vera and Hamish keep hoping that their soulmate doesn't start panicking. Vera recovers from Foley first and leaves a message. She needs someone to talk to, someone who won't feel the consequences of knowing and someone she knows will never turn her weaknesses against her. Hours later, she tries again when there's no response. As time ticks by, she starts getting restless. Not only is Hamish missing, but now so is her soulmate.

Once Jack and Randall break Hamish out, to keep himself from storming up and tearing Foley apart, he lifts his sleeve. Shit. "Randall do you have a pen?"

"Why would I have a -- yeah, okay, I do. Here."

"Sorry," he writes, "got a little held up and I lost my marker. Are you okay?"

Vera is slightly relieved. One of them is okay. But Hamish is still missing. "Waiting on someone. He's not supposed to be gone this long."

In her worrisome state, Vera doesn't notice that the pen ink is vanishing just as fast as thr washable marker. If she had been paying it any attention, she would have come to the conclusion that Order member or not, her soulmate was a practitioner.

"Is everyone okay?" She stares at Hamish, relief flooding her body. Damnit, she wasn't supposed to get attached to someone. She didn't think she could do that. But what was there to do now?

"Hey, I've got something to tell you." "Go on." "Remember that girl I told you about last year?" "Yes." "I think" Vera waits for the rest of the sentence. "You think?" "I really like her."

Vers suddenly doesn't feel guilty about Hamish anymore. She sits up in her bed. "Tell me all about her." "You sure you won't get jealous?" Vera laughs to herself. "I won't if you don't." "Oh! Someone has a new boyfriend!" "Maybe. Now tell me about this girl."

And Hamish starts. And Hamish cannot stop. Vera's watched his wipe his arm already three times and he still hasn't stopped. When he pauses, Vera takes the chance to write "You don't like her." "I do, though." "No, you don't. You LOOOVE her!" Vera can't shake the image that if they were sitting together and speaking, she would have sprinted away by now to avoid the attacks her teasing would bring. It makes her smile.

"Shut up! Tell me about your new boyfriend." "He's not my boyfriend." "Yet." Vera pauses. "We'll see." "Tell me about him."

Vera starts. And Vera cannot stop. Hamish watches the words appear and can't help falling in love with the way she loves this man. "Someone's in luuurve!" "Am not." "Are too." "Whatever."

He thinks about Vera. You don't like her, you love her. Maybe. Yeah, maybe he does.

"I lost her. I could've helped her and I didn't." "I don't think there was anything you could've done more. You said she was attacked." "I drove her away. I pushed her into leaving the one place that could've prevented the attack. And I couldn't save her. I just I can't keep losing people. This cult is poison. I thought I could make it better. I thought I could take it by the reigns and guide it. Instead I keep getting the younger ones killed." "It's not your fault." "I could honestly really use a drink right now but I already sent the boyfriend home. He's gone some stuff to deal with too. His family is . . . hinging on broken."

Vera wonders if he fell asleep when there's no response. She lays her head on her upper arm, looking at the words on her forearm. And then they vanish. Like . . . like magic. How the hell had she never noticed before?? Very slowly, new letters form

V . . . e . . . r . . . a . . . ?

Vera shoots up and sits straight, holding her arm. What the fuck? What the fuck did I say that gave me away?? And who the fuck knows me well enough to figure me out based on something I said??

Vera is grateful for the distraction her phone brings as it lights up with a text -- from Hamish. "I heard you could use a drink."

Vera tiptoes downstairs warily, relieved to find Hamish behind her counter with a drink in front of him. A drink for her.

"I thought I sent you to the den. The knights--"

"Are all asleep. You, on the other hand, aren't."

Vera takes a seat at the counter, hands around the glass. As Hamish tidies up, she catches sight of his bare forearm, where her name is written in the same hand writing as on her own arm. When his back is turned, she uncaps the marker and writes, Hamish?

He laughs softly to himself. Then, "Do you want to talk about it?"

"About what?"

"Alyssa."

"Do you want to talk about Lilith?"

"You're right, a distraction would be better."

And distract each other, they did.

I might write this one out oop

See other soulmate aus I've attacked

2nd King of Portugal and of the Burgundy Dynasty: King Sancho I of Portugal, "The Populator"

Reign: 6 December 1185 – 26 March 1211 Coronation: 9 December 1185 Predecessor: Afonso I

Sancho I (nicknamed "the Populator" ("o Povoador"), King of Portugal (Coimbra, 11 November 1154 – 26 March 1211) was the second but only surviving legitimate son and fifth child of Afonso I of Portugal by his wife, Mafalda of Savoy. Sancho succeeded his father and was crowned in Coimbra when he was 31 years old on 9 December 1185. He used the title King of Silves from 1189 until he lost the territory to Almohad control in 1191. 

Sancho was baptized with the name Martinho since he was born on the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours. On 15 August 1170, he was knighted by his father, King Afonso I, and from then on he became his second in command, both administratively and militarily. At this time, the independence of Portugal (declared in 1139) was not firmly established. The kings of León and Castile were trying to re-annex the country and the Roman Catholic Church was late in giving its blessing and approval. Due to this situation Afonso I had to search for allies within the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal made an alliance with the Crown of Aragon and together they fought Castile and León. To secure the agreement, Sancho married Dulce, younger sister of King Alfonso II of Aragon, in 1174. Aragon was thus the first Iberian kingdom to recognize the independence of Portugal.  

With the death of Afonso I in 1185, Sancho I became the second king of Portugal. Coimbra was the center of his kingdom; Sancho terminated the exhausting and generally pointless wars against his neighbours for control of the Galician borderlands. Instead, he turned all his attentions to the south, towards the Moorish small kingdoms (called taifas) that still thrived. With Crusader help he took Silves in 1188. Silves was an important city of the South, an administrative and commercial town with population estimates around 20,000 people. Sancho ordered the fortification of the city and built a castle which is today an important monument of Portuguese heritage. At the time he also styled himself "By the Grace of God, King of Portugal and Silves (Dei Gratiæ, Rex Portugalliæ et Silbis). However, military attention soon had to be turned again to the North, where León and Castile threatened again the Portuguese borders. Silves was again lost to the Moors in 1191.

Sancho I dedicated much of his reign to political and administrative organization of the new kingdom. He accumulated a national treasure, supported new industries and the middle class of merchants. Moreover, he created several new towns and villages (like Guarda in 1199)

and took great care in populating remote areas in the northern Christian regions of Portugal – hence the nickname "the Populator". The king was also known for his love of knowledge and literature. Sancho I wrote several books of poems and used the royal treasure to send Portuguese students to European universities. 

He died in Coimbra, aged 56.

Sancho married Dulce of Aragon, daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Petronilla, Queen of Aragon. Eleven children were born from this marriage, nine of whom reached adulthood:

Teresa (1175/1176 – 18 June 1250), she became the wife of King Afonso IX of León and was beatified in 1705;

Sancha (1180 – 13 March 1229), founded the Monastery of Celas near Coimbra where she lived until her death. 

Her sister Teresa arranged for her burial at the Monastery of Lorvão. 

She was beatified by Pope Clement XI in 1705, the same year as Teresa;

Constança (May 1182 – before 1186 or August 1202). According to Rodrigues Oliveira, she must have died before 1186 since her name is not registered in any of the documents of the chancellery of Sancho I which begins in that year";However, the necrology of São Salvador de Moreira records the death "III Nonas Augusti" in 1202 of "Domna Constantia Infantula filia regis domni Sancii et reginæ domnæ Dulciæ".

Afonso (23 April 1186 – 25 March 1223), succeeded his father as the third king of Portugal;

Raimundo (1187/88 – 9 March bef. 1188/89), who died in infancy;

Pedro (23 February 1187 – 2 June 1258), spouse of Aurembiaix, countess of Urgell;

Fernando (24 March 1188 – 27 July 1233), count through his marriage to Joan, Countess of Flanders;

Henrique (aft. March 1189 – 8 Dec aft. 1189), who died during infancy;

Mafalda (1195/1196 – 1 May 1256), the wife of Henry I of Castile, was beatified in 1793;

Branca (1198 – 17 November 1240), probably the twin sister of Berengaria, was raised in the court with her father and his mistress "a Ribeirinha" and, when she was eight or ten years old, was sent to live with her sisters at the Monastery of Lorvão. She was a nun at a convent in Guadalajara and was buried at the same monastery as her mother;

Berengaria (1198 – 27 March 1221), probably the twin sister of Branca, married Valdemar II of Denmark in 1214.

With Maria Aires de Fornelos, daughter of Aires Nunes de Fornelos and Maior Pais, who was buried at the Monastery of Santo Tirso in accordance with her last will, Sancho had two children, both born before his marriage to Dulce of Aragon:

Martim Sanches (born before 1175) Count of Trastámara. Martim married Elo Pérez de Castro, daughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro, with no issue from this marriage;

Urraca Sanches (born before 1175), was married to Lourenço Soares, son of Soeiro Viegas and Sancha Bermúdez de Traba.

After Dulce's death, he had an affair with María Pais de Ribeira "a Ribeirinha" for whom he is often said to have written and dedicated a cantiga de amigo, A Ribeirinha, composed in 1199, the oldest text known in Portuguese poetry. That is contested nowadays by the Portuguese historian António de Resende Oliveira, who claims this cantiga was composed by Alfonso X of Castile or perhaps Sancho II of Portugal. At least six children were born of this relationship:

Rodrigo Sanches (died 1245), had a bastard son with Constança Afonso de Cambra called Afonso Rodrigues, a Franciscan friar and the "Guardian of the Convent of Lisbon";

Gil Sanches (died on 14 September 1236), a cleric and troubadour, his father left him 8,000 morabetinos in his will. Gil granted fueros to the settlers of Sardezas in 1213;

Nuno Sanches, he died in his childhood on a 16 of December in an unknown year. He could also have been the son of Maria Aires de Fornelos;

Maior Sanches, also died at an early age on 27 of August of an unknown year;

Teresa Sanches, her father left her 7,000 morabetinos in his will. She was the second wife of Afonso Téllez de Meneses whom she married before 1220 and with whom she had issue;

Constança Sanches (1204 – 8 August 1269). Her father left her 7,000 morabetinos in his will. She was the God-mother of her grand-niece, Infanta Sancha and left her half of Vila do Conde, Avelaneda, Pousadela, Parada and Maçãs. She also owned estates in Torres Vedras.

King Sancho also had one son with Maria Moniz de Ribeira, daughter of Munio Osorio, tenente of the comarca of Cabreira and Ribera,and of Maria Nunes of Grijó,:

Pedro Moniz, who married a woman whose name is not recorded, and was the father of Maria Peres de Cabreira, the wife of Martim Peres Machado, the first to use the last name Machado.

Salvadore and Daeran in the absolute masterpiece @pauvre-lola did for me as a commission. I will never recover from how beautiful it is. 🌹

CC Blogger - New Arrivals @ Collectors Corner : Wednesday 1/13/21

Collectors Corner Parkville - HQ : OPEN for IN STORE SHOPPING with Strong Safety Measures in Place (Hand Sanitizing Stations, Masks Required for All, Social Distancing Required, Limited Capacity, CURBSIDE Pick Up Optional) - According to Baltimore County Guidelines. 1-410-668-3353.

CC Parkville - 2020/2021 STORE HOURS, Sunday 12-6, Mon-Tues 12-7, Wed 9-8, Thurs 11-7, Friday & Saturday 11-8

Collectors Corner - Bel Air Outpost Location : OPEN for IN STORE SHOPPING with Strong Safety Measures in Place (Hand Sanitizing Stations, Masks Required for All, Social Distancing Required, Limited Capacity, CURBSIDE Pick Up Optional) - According to Harford County Guidelines. 1-410-838-1777.

CC Bel Air - 2020/2021 STORE HOURS, Sunday 11-5, Monday/Tuesday - Closed, Wednesday 11-8, Thursday 11-7, Friday/Saturday 11-8

Complete list of items shipping to the stores, some items may be limited in availability. If you see anything you want to purchase on the list and are not a subscription member at Collectors Corner, just contact us and let us know if you want an item held at the stores. email - [email protected]

Subscription Membership & Free Membership Card : Collectors Corner's No Obligation (FREE) Membership Card or FREE (In Store) & ONLINE Subscription Membership saves you 10% Off ALL Bagged & Boarded Comic Book Back Issues, Board Games, Graphic Novels, Manga & Special Orders. Plus Never miss a comic again!

Computerized and organized + you can add and cancel titles on your subscription list from home on your own time, or in the store when you pick up your comics at :

Maryland's Coolest Stores! Since 2001.

2 Super Cool & Convenient Locations -

CC PARKVILLE - HEADQUARTERS 7911 Harford Rd Parkville, MD 21234

&

CC BEL AIR - OUTPOST 17 N. Main St. Bel Air, MD 21014

www.collectorscornermd.com

PUBLISHER/TITLE/PRICE

ABLAZE Cagaster Volume 4 GN, $12.99 Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover A Miguel Mercado), $3.99 Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover B Elias Chatzoudis), $3.99 Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover C Mathieu Lauffray), $3.99 Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover D Fritz Casas), $3.99 Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover E Miguel Mercado Virgin Variant), AR Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover F Fritz Casas Virgin Variant), AR Cimmerian The Frost-Giant’s Daughter #2 (Cover G Miguel Mercado Negative Variant), AR

ABSTRACT STUDIOS Serial #1, $3.99

AFTERSHOCK COMICS Lonely Receiver #5, $3.99 Red Atlantis #3, $3.99

AHOY COMICS Penultiman #4 (Of 5), $3.99

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS Betty And Veronica Friends Forever Winterfest #1, $2.99

AWA STUDIOS E-Ratic #2, $3.99 Mann’s World #1 (Cover A Rahzzah), $3.99 Mann’s World #1 (Cover B Mike Deodato Jr.), $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover A In-Hyuk Lee), $3.99 Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover B Eleonora Carlini Legacy Variant), $3.99 Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover C Black Blank Variant), $3.99 Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover D In-Hyuk Lee Virgin Variant), AR Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover E Eleonora Carlini), AR Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover F Goni Montes), AR Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover G Goni Montes), AR Mighty Morphin #3 (Cover H Derrick Chew), AR Origins #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Jakub Rebelka), $3.99 Origins #3 (Of 6)(Cover B Jakub Rebelka Virgin Variant), $3.99 Power Rangers #1 (Francesco Mortarino 3rd Printing Variant Cover), $4.99 Power Rangers #2 (Dan Mora 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $4.99 Red Mother #12 (Cover A Jeremy Haun), $3.99 Seven Secrets #6 (Cover A Daniele Di Nicuolo), $3.99 Seven Secrets #6 (Cover B Jen Bartel), $3.99 Seven Secrets #6 (Cover C Matteo Scalera Secret Spoiler Variant), $4.99 Seven Secrets #6 (Cover D Miguel Mercado), AR Seven Secrets #6 (Cover E Miguel Mercado), AR We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #4 (Simone Di Meo 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99

COMIC SHOP NEWS Comic Shop News #1743, AR

DAIKAIJU G-Fan #130, $7.95

DARK HORSE COMICS 47 Ronin TP, $19.99 Stranger Things Science Camp #4 (Of 4)(Cover A Viktor Kalvachev), $3.99 Stranger Things Science Camp #4 (Of 4)(Cover B Sebastian Piriz), $3.99 Stranger Things Science Camp #4 (Of 4)(Cover C Pius Bak), $3.99 X-Ray Robot TP, $19.99

DC COMICS 100 Bullets Omnibus Volume 1 HC, $150.00 American Vampire 1976 #4 (Of 9)(Cover A Rafael Albuquerque), $3.99 American Vampire 1976 #4 (Of 9)(Cover B Mirka Andolfo), AR Batman The Chalice TP, $19.99 Birds Of Prey Hero Hunters TP, $29.99 Future State Dark Detective #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Dan Mora), $5.99 Future State Dark Detective #1 (Of 4)(Cover B John Paul Leon Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Dark Detective #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Stanley Artgerm Lau Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Green Lantern #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Clayton Henry), $5.99 Future State Green Lantern #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Jamal Campbell Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Justice League #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Dan Mora), $5.99 Future State Justice League #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Kael Ngu Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Justice League #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Jim Lee Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Kara Zor-El Superwoman #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Paulina Ganucheau), $3.99 Future State Kara Zor-El Superwoman #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Alex Garner Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Robin Eternal #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Emanuela Lupacchino & Irvin Rodriguez), $3.99 Future State Robin Eternal #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Daniel Warren Johnson Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Superman Wonder Woman #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Lee Weeks), $3.99 Future State Superman Wonder Woman #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Jeremy Roberts Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Superman Wonder Woman #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Movie Poster Art Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Teen Titans #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Rafa Sandoval), $3.99 Future State Teen Titans #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Dustin Nguyen Card Stock Variant), AR Future State Teen Titans #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Gabrielle Dell’Otto Wonder Woman 1984 Card Stock Variant), AR Heroes In Crisis The Price And Other Stories TP (New Edition), $19.99 Sweet Tooth The Return #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Jeff Lemire), $3.99 We Found A Monster TP, $9.99

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Green Hornet #5 (Cover A Lee Weeks), $3.99 Green Hornet #5 (Cover B Anthony Marques, $3.99 Green Hornet #5 (Cover C Copy Anthony Marques Black & White Variant), AR Red Sonja The Price Of Blood #1 (Cover A Arthur Suydam)(CGC Graded Edition), AR Red Sonja The Price Of Blood #1 (Cover B Michael Golden)(CGC Graded Edition), AR Red Sonja The Price Of Blood #1 (Cover C Joseph Michael Linsner)(CGC Graded Edition), AR Red Sonja The Superpowers #1 (Cover A Lucio Parrillo), $3.99 Red Sonja The Superpowers #1 (Cover B Joseph Michael Linsner), $3.99 Red Sonja The Superpowers #1 (Cover C Jonathan Lau), $3.99 Red Sonja The Superpowers #1 (Cover D Jung-Geun Yoon), $3.99

FANGORIA PUBLISHING Fangoria Volume 2 #10, $19.79

HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE Brooklyn Gladiator #3 (Of 5), $3.99 Iron Maiden Legacy Of The Beast Volume 2 Night City #5 (Of 5)(Cover A Thomas Fleming), $3.99

HUMANOIDS Ignited Volume 2 Fight The Power TP, $19.99 Space Bastards #1 (Cover A Darick Robertson), $5.99 Space Bastards #1 (Cover B Darick Robertson), $5.99 Space Bastards #1 (Cover C Dan Panosian Black Light Variant), AR

IDW PUBLISHING For Better Or For Worse The Complete Library Volume 5 HC, $49.99 Mountainhead Volume 1 TP, $17.99 Sonic The Hedgehog #36 (Cover A Dan Schoening), $3.99 Sonic The Hedgehog #36 (Cover B Reggie Graham), $3.99 Sonic The Hedgehog #36 (Cover C Nathalie Fourdraine), AR

IMAGE COMICS A Man Among Ye #4, $3.99 Big Girls #6 (Cover A Jason Howard), $3.99 Big Girls #6 (Cover B Skottie Young), $3.99 Bomb Queen Volume 8 Trump Card TP, $16.99 Commanders In Crisis #4 (Of 12)(Cover A Davide Tinto), $3.99 Commanders In Crisis #4 (Of 12)(Cover B Kevin Wada, $3.99 Commanders In Crisis #4 (Of 12)(Cover C Jason Katzenstein), $3.99 Commanders In Crisis #4 (Of 12)(Cover D Paul Harding), $3.99 Commanders In Crisis #4 (Of 12)(Cover E Siya Oum), $3.99 Crossover #2 (Geoff Shaw 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Department Of Truth #1 (Martin Simmonds 3rd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Department Of Truth #2 (Martin Simmonds 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Department Of Truth #3 (Martin Simmonds 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Haha #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Vanesa R. Del Rey), $3.99 Haha #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Nimit Malavia), $3.99 Haha #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Blank Variant), $3.99 Home Sick Pilots #2 (Cover A Caspar Wijngaard), $3.99 Home Sick Pilots #2 (Cover B Christian Ward), $3.99 Kick-Ass Vs Hit-Girl #3 (Of 5)(Cover A John Romita Jr.), $3.99 Kick-Ass Vs Hit-Girl #3 (Of 5)(Cover B John Romita. Black & White Variant), $3.99 Savage Dragon #256 (Cover A Erik Larsen), $3.99 Savage Dragon #256 (Cover B Erik Larsen 70s Style Retro Variant), $3.99 That Texas Blood Volume 1 TP, $9.99

INSIGHT EDITIONS Marvel Comics Mini Book Of Heroes HC, $11.99 Marvel Comics Mini Book Of Villains HC, $11.99

MAD CAVE STUDIOS Knights Of The Golden Sun #9, $3.99 Pantomime #3 (Of 6), $3.99

MARVEL COMICS Amazing Spider-Man #57 (Cover A Mark Bagley), $3.99 Amazing Spider-Man #57 (Cover B Marco Mastrazzo), AR Black Cat Volume 3 All Dressed Up TP, $15.99 Captain America #354 (Facsimile Edition), $3.99 Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1 (Cover A Salvador Larroca), $4.99 Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1 (Cover B Todd Nauck), AR Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1 (Cover C Pepe Larraz), AR Eternals The Dreaming Celestial Saga TP, $39.99 Immortal Hulk #42 (Cover A Alex Ross), $3.99 Immortal Hulk #42 (Cover B Joe Bennett Homage Variant), AR Immortal Hulk #42 (Cover C Alexander Lozano Knullified Variant), AR King In Black Gwenom Vs Carnage #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Ken Lashley), $3.99 King In Black Gwenom Vs Carnage #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Ryan Brown), AR King In Black Gwenom Vs Carnage #1 (Of 3)(Cover C In-Hyuk Lee), AR King In Black Planet Of The Symbiotes #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Tony Moore), $3.99 King In Black Planet Of The Symbiotes #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Tony Moore Virgin Variant), AR King In Black Planet Of The Symbiotes #1 (Of 3)(Cover C Kyle Hotz), AR King In Black Planet Of The Symbiotes #1 (Of 3)(Cover D Todd Nauck), AR King In Black Thunderbolts #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Kyle Hotz), $3.99 King In Black Thunderbolts #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Bernard Chang), AR King In Black Thunderbolts #1 (Of 3)(Cover C Ron Lim), AR Marauders #17 (Cover A Russell Dauterman), $3.99 Marauders #17 (Cover B Salvador Larroca Marvel Vs Alien Variant), AR Marvel-Verse Captain Marvel TP, $9.99 S.W.O.R.D. #2 (Cover A Valerio Schiti), $3.99 S.W.O.R.D. #2 (Cover B Russell Dauterman), AR Star Wars Darth Vader #9 (Cover A Aaron Kuder), $3.99 Star Wars Darth Vader #9 (Cover B Raffaele Ienco Concept Design Variant), AR Star Wars Darth Vader #9 (Cover C Chris Sprouse Empire Strikes Back Variant), AR Thor And The Eternals The Celestials Saga TP, $39.99 Union #2 (Of 5)(Cover A Paco Medina), $3.99 Union #2 (Of 5)(Cover B John McCrea Empyre Variant), AR Union #2 (Of 5)(Cover C R. B. Silva Design Variant), AR Vision And The Scarlet Witch The Saga Of Wanda And Vision TP, $39.99

ONI PRESS Kaijumax Season Five #6, $3.99

REBELLION / 2000AD 2000 AD Regened TP, $13.99 Third World War Volume 2 Back To Babylon TP, $25.00

SCOUT COMICS Concrete Jungle #4, $3.99

SCOUT COMICS – SCOOT Soulstream #1, $1.99

SOURCE POINT PRESS Norah Volume 2 TP, $14.99

TITAN COMICS Blade Runner 2029 #2 (Cover A Peach Momoko), $3.99 Blade Runner 2029 #2 (Cover B Syd Mead), $3.99 Blade Runner 2029 #2 (Cover C Claudia Caranfa), $3.99 Blade Runner 2029 #2 (Cover D Cosplay Variant), $3.99 Doctor Who Comics #3 (Cover A Meghan Hetrick), $3.99 Doctor Who Comics #3 (Cover B Photo), $3.99 Doctor Who Comics #3 (Cover C Christopher Jones), $3.99 Star Wars Insider 2021 Souvenir Edition (Newsstand Edition), $14.99 Star Wars Insider 2021 Souvenir Edition (Previews Exclusive Edition), $14.99

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT Bloodshot #10 (Cover A Simon Bisley), $3.99 Bloodshot #10 (Cover B David Nakayama), $3.99 Bloodshot #10 (Cover C Cryssy Cheung Pre-Order Edition Variant), AR Harbinger Wars Deluxe Edtion Volume 2 HC, $49.99

VAULT COMICS Autumnal #4 (Cover A Chris Shehan), $3.99 Autumnal #4 (Cover B Nathan Gooden), $3.99 Bleed Them Dry #6 (Cover A Dike Ruan), $3.99 Bleed Them Dry #6 (Cover B Adam Gorham), $3.99 Devil’s Red Bride #4 (Cover A John Bivens), $3.99 Devil’s Red Bride #4 (Cover B Tim Daniel), $3.99 Heavy #4 (Cover A Eryk Donovan), $3.99 Heavy #4 (Cover B Tim Daniel), $3.99

WARRANT PUBLISHING COMPANY Creeps #29, $5.95

GAMES

LOONEY LABS Fantasy Fluxx, AR

NECA/WIZKIDS Marvel HeroClix X-Men House Of X Booster Brick, AR Marvel HeroClix X-Men House Of X Dice And Token Pack, AR Marvel HeroClix X-Men House Of X Fast Forces, AR Warlock Tiles Accessory Marketplace, AR

TOYS - T-SHIRTS & COLLECTIBLES Articulated Icons Basic Ninja Grey 6 Inch Action Figure, AR Captain America #117 Facsimile Edition Poster, AR Legend Of Shang-Chi #1 Poster, AR Phunny Nightmare Before Christmas Santa Jack Plush, AR Planet Of The Symbiotes #1 Poster, AR Scream Ghostface Ultimate 7 Inch Action Figure, AR

Gino Cervi.

Filmografía

La flota azul (1932)

Frontiere (1934)

Los dos sargentos (1936) - Comandante Federico Martelli / Sargento Guglielmo Salvoni

Aldebarán (1936) - Cmdr. Corrado Valeri

Amore (1936) - Paolo Venieri

Gli uomini non sono ingrati (1937) - Ferencz Korvat

Voglio vivere con Letizia (1938) - Bebe

L'argine (1938) - Zvanì

Ettore Fieramosca (1938) - Ettore Fieramosca

Inventiamo l'amore (1938) - Carlo Morelli

Los hijos del marqués Lucera (1939) - Ermanno

Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa (1939) - Salvador Rosa, il "Formica"

El pecador (1940) - Alberto

Una romantica avventura [ it ] (1940) - Luigi

Melodías eternas (1940) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Il sogno di tutti (1940) - El padre del bebé

La corona de hierro (1941) - Rey Sedemondo de Kindaor

El prometido (1941) - Renzo Tramaglino

L'ultimo addio (1942) - Doctor Gino Landi

La Reina de Navarra (1942) - Carlo Vº

Don Cesare di Bazan (1942) - Don Cesare de Bazán

Torrentes de primavera (1942) - Francesco

Quarta pagina (1942) - Ex preso

Cuatro pasos en las nubes (1942) - Paolo Bianchi

Gente dell'aria (1943) - Capitán Pietro Sandri

Amores tristes (1943) - Giulio Scarli

T'amerò semper (1943) - Mario Fabbrini

El tabernero (1944) - El poeta

Vivere ancora (1945)

Quartetto pazzo (1945) - Roberto

Qué familia distinguida (1945) - Michele Montischi

Mi viuda y yo (1945) - Sr.Guglielmi

Su joven esposa (1945) - Caballero comandante Francesco Battilocchio

Un uomo ritorna (1946) - Sergio Tibaldi

Malìa (1946) - Don Alfonso

L'angelo e il diavolo (1946) - Giulio Serra

Águila negra (1946) - Kirila Petrovic

Umanità (1946)

Noticias del crimen (1947)

Furia (1947) - Oreste

Daniele Cortis (1947) - el marido de Elena

Yo miserabili (1948) - Jean Valjean

Anna Karenina (1948) - Enrico

Fabiola (1949) - Quadratus

Guillermo Tell (1949) - Guillermo Tell

La llama que no morirá (1949) - Luigi Manfredi

La novia no puede esperar (1949) - Anselmo Brunelli

Yvonne de la noche (1949) - Colonnel Baretti

Il cielo è rosso (1950)

Mujeres sin nombres (1950) - MP Sergeant Pietro Zanini

Historia de una historia de amor (1950)

Sigillo rosso (1950)

Il caimano del Piave (1951) - Coronel de Torrebruna

El Cristo Prohibido (1951) -El sacristán

Cameriera bella presenza offresi.

OK Nerone (1951) - Nero

Hola elefante (1952) - Narrador

Don Camillo (1952) - Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi

Esposa por una noche (1952) - Count D'Origo

Tres historias prohibidas (1952) - Prof. Aragona (Tercer segmento)

La reina de Saba (1952) - Rey Salomón de Jerusalén

La scogliera del peccato (1952)

La dama sin camelias (1953) - Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra

Estación terminal (1953) - Comisionado de policía

El regreso de Don Camillo (1953) - Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi

Nero y el incendio de Roma (1953) - Nero

Les Trois Mousquetaires (1953) - Porthos

La Dame aux camélias [ fr ] (1953) - Monsieur Duval

Cavallina storna (1953) - Ruggero Pascoli

Asuntos reales en Versalles (1954) - Cagliostro

Maddalena (1954) - Don Vincenzo

Il cardinale Lambertini [ it ] (1954) - Cardenal Lambertini

Una mujer libre (1954) - Knight Commander Massimo Marchi

La grande avventura (1954)

Adiós, mi bella dama (1954) - Conde Riccardo Salluzzo

Frou-Frou (1955) - Príncipe Vladimir Bilinsky

Non c'è amore più grande (1955)

La última ronda de Don Camillo (1955) - Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi

Il coraggio (1955) - Comm. Aristide Paoloni

Amor salvaje (1956) - Sor Cesare

Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956) - Marshall

Beatrice Cenci (1956) - Francesco Cenci

Esposas y obscuridades (1956) - John Cattabriga

Guerrero del desierto (1957) - Ibrahim

Atrapado en Tánger (1957) - Prof. Bolevasco

Le belle dell'aria (1957) - Don Fogazza

Amore e chiacchiere (Salviamo il panorama) (1958) - Paseroni

El pasado te acusa (1958) - Comisario

Sans famille [ fr ] (1958) - Vitalis

La maja desnuda (1958) - Rey Carlos IV de España

Nel Segno di Roma (1959) - Aureliano - Emperador de Roma

Le Grand Chef (1959) - Paulo

La Capilla Negra (1959) - El comisario de policía Ferrari

Vacaciones en Mallorca (1959) - André Breton

El empleado (1960) - King Lear (sin acreditar)

David y Goliat (1960) - Rey Saúl (voz, sin acreditar)

Asedio de Siracusa (1960) - Gerome

Señora del mundo (1960) - Profesor Johanson

Larga noche en 1943 (1960) - Carlo Aretusi alias "Sciagura"

Le olimpiadi dei mariti (1960) - Director del periódico

Femmine di lusso (1960).

HONDURASQUEDATEENCASA

#ELCINELATELEYMICKYANDONIE

Events 3.29

845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses. 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna. 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. 1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey. 1847 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins. 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1. 1871 – Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. 1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established. 1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta. 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official side arm of the U.S. Army. 1927 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida. 1936 – The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland. 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan. 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. 1945 – World War II: The last launch site of the V-1 flying bomb in the Low Countries is captured by Allied forces, ending German strikes against targets in Belgium. 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army. 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded. 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in Madagascar. 1951 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. 1951 – Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen. 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections. 1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 111⁄2 day constitutional crisis. 1971 – My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury. 1974 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China. 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. 1984 – The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis. 1990 – The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble. 1999 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members. 2010 – Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40. 2013 – At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed. 2015 – Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries. 2016 – A United States Air Force F-16 crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. 2017 – Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

Isabella The Catholic co-regent in The Crown of Aragon

Ferdinand’s participation in the government of Castile is extremely well studied and known, from its formulation in the marriage contract to the formula of the Agreement of Segovia from 1475, completed with the power conceded by the Queen to her husband, on 28th April of the same year.

This Agreement and this power that precised Ferdinand’s participation in the government of Castile, has its compensation in the privilege conceded by Ferdinand at Calatayud, on 14th April 1481, when he named his wife, Isabella, a Co-Regent, Governor and General Administrator in the kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon.

Ferdinand had learned from his ancestors that it was necessary for a king to procure that one matter would not be neglected at the expense of another, and while being occupied with important business, it was not possible to provide good government alone and thus, it was convenient to have other people to do so. He displayed that by being occupied with important matters, he could not provide his kingdoms with good government on his own and that’s why he has decided to appoint the Queen Co-Regent, Governor, General Administrator and ‘another I’ (conregentem, gubernatricem, administratricem generalem et alteram nos) in the kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon, when he was both present and absent (nobis presentibus vel absentibus ab eisdem et in nostri presentia vel absentia).

He enumerated the competences that he conceded, the proper of the monarch himself: to govern over all the persons with ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical authority; to exercise over them any jurisdiction; to punish the culprits, even in crime of lese-majesty/treason cases, to pardon and compose the punishments; to concede privileges and liberties, and to ask for donations, subsidies, and services; to sell, grant or pawn revenues, rights and jurisdictions; to demand the payment of what is due to the King; to concede posts, functions and profits; to appoint and dismiss officials, notaries, to appoint knights and infanzones; to demand the castles and fortresses to be handed over, and to give them to other persons; she could, in general, do all that the king could demand, do and command (que nos ipse faceremus exequi, adimplere et mandare possemus).

- Antonio de la Torre

According to Antonio de la Torre and Luis Suárez the Agreement of Segovia and Ferdinand’s privilege were a parallelism of Isabella and Ferdinand’s power in their respective kingdoms. Jaime Vicens Vives and Emilia Salvador Esteban believe Ferdinand’s patent letter was an occasional act and other kings of Aragon granted similar privileges in favour of their consorts, such as Maria of Castile, who acted as regent in the absence of her husband Alfonso V, and Juana Enríquez, who acted as governor in the name of her husband John II, and their son Ferdinand, signing documents and concluding negotiations. The Agreement of Segovia, on the other hand, was extraordinary and it was not Isabella’s good will (Isabella had tried to limite Ferdinand’s power in Castile to preserve her own position) but the necessity, given the prospect of a civil war, and such measure was taken to help her keep the throne. 

On 30th May 1488, Ferdinand granted, in Murcia, another privilege with the same prerogatives, but not only in favour of Isabella but also their son Juan. Isabella would act as governor for prince Juan until he came of age to do it himself (like Juana Enríquez did with Ferdinand). Ferdinand’s power in Castile, where he functioned as co-ruler, was significantly bigger than Isabella’s in his kingdoms, but we must remember that there was a Salic Law in Aragon and hence woman could not succeed to its throne, even though Ferdinand tried to make the Cortes accept his daughters as heirs. Isabella most likely understood it and did not ask for more or like Filip Kubiaczyk suggests, she just did not want more. According to him Isabella was never particularly interested in the matters of Aragon and she did not understand its structures, and maybe even abhored them. Also, as a matter of fact, both Ferdinand and Isabella hardly visited Aragon during their reign and thus Ferdinand’s illegitimate son, Alfonso of Aragon, functioned as the regent, but Isabella’s role concerning the clergy was still important.

In any case, Ferdinand gave his wife as much power in his kingdoms as he could and as much as she needed. Like Tarsicio de Azcona points out:

There is abundant correspondence between Isabella and the Principality, and the Councillors of Barcelona, which shows what position Isabella had in the said institutions. There is also important documentation of the Queen, from 1486 onwards, concerning the return of Rosellón and Cerdaña to the Crown of Aragon by France; where the Queen intended to establish the negotiations with the Queen of France in order to conclude, face to face, this complicated matter.

Sources:

1. “Isabel la Católica, Corregente en la Corona de Aragón”, Antonio de la Torre; Pergamino de 631 por 596 mm., con firma del rey, conservado en el Archivo de Simancas Patronato Real, leg. 21, fol.I; re-enado con el numero 2.580 en el Catálogo V del Archivo, Valladolid, 1946, tomo 1, pag. 361

2. “Isabel la Católica: vida y reinado”, Tarsicio de Azcona

3. “Między wojną a dyplomacją. Ferdynand Katolicki i polityka zagraniczna Hiszpanii w latach 1492-1516″, Filip Kubiaczyk

Rizal’s relatives thank Pinoys for still honoring his martyrdom

#PHnews: Rizal’s relatives thank Pinoys for still honoring his martyrdom

MANILA -- The descendants of Saturnina and Maria, sisters of the country’s national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, on Monday joined the national and local government officials in commemorating the 123rd anniversary of Rizal’s martyrdom.

Jeremiah Villaroman, who is related to Rizal’s eldest sister Saturnina, said it is laudable that the Filipino people still remember what Rizal did during his time.

“It is very good that we keep this tradition of celebrating his death anniversary because as we know that he is our national hero and he was part of the revolution that transcended even now,” he said in a media interview after the commemoration activities at the Rizal Park in Manila.

“Until now even the youth it is important that we still remember what he has done and all the lessons that his given everyone and today is just a reminder,” Villaroman added.

Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko” Domagoso led the commemoration of Rizal’s martyrdom at the Rizal monument in Manila.

COMMEMORATING RIZAL. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte leads the wreath-laying ceremony during the commemoration of the 123rd anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose Rizal at the Rizal Park in Davao City on December 30, 2019. (Presidential photo of Karl Norman Alonzo)

Villaroman said President Rodrigo Duterte informed their family that the Chief Executive will be celebrating the annual event in Davao City.

“Actually, he reached out to the family to celebrate the Rizal Day in Davao and I think we have one representative in Davao ready for that. Yeah, the palace has reached out to the family. It would be nice at least Mayor Isko is here. That's his first Rizal Day as mayor of Manila,” Villaroman said.

Villaroman called on the Filipino youth to continue to learn all the lessons and values that Jose Rizal inculcated to the minds of the Filipinos.

“Kung hindi ka lilingon sa ‘yung pinanggalingan, ‘Di ka makakarating sa paroroonan. ‘Yan yung mga salita na nagstick until now as an adult,” he said, quoting Rizal’s famous line: “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinangalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan. (He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination)."

Another relative of Saturnina, Bambi Reyes Virata, expressed gratitude to the people for their continuous respect to the country’s national hero.

“Salamat at talagang ginagalang natin si Jose Rizal. Malaki ang sakiripisyo ng kanyang pamilya noong siya ay nabubuhay at nung sya ay namatay (I’m so thankful that we still respect Jose Rizal. His families did a lot of sacrifices when he was still alive and when he was executed),” she added.

Also present during the event was former Tourism Secretary Gemma Cruz Araneta, who is a descendant of Maria Rizal.

Meanwhile, Elihu Ybanez, supreme commander of Knights of Rizal, urged the public, particularly the young people, to follow Jose Rizal’s teachings.

“Our appeal to the youth is to practice Jose Rizal’s teachings,” he said at the group’s celebration of Jose Rizal’s 123rd death anniversary.

This year’s commemoration centers on the theme. “Jose Rizal: Huwaran ng Pilipino sa Ikadalawampu’t Isang Siglo” (Jose Rizal: Paragon of the Filipinos in the 21st Century). (PNA)

***

References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Rizal’s relatives thank Pinoys for still honoring his martyrdom." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1089747 (accessed December 31, 2019 at 05:14AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Rizal’s relatives thank Pinoys for still honoring his martyrdom." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1089747 (archived).