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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 19

1863 – Ogden Codman, Jr. was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-Arts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897).

Codman spent his youth from 1875 to 1884 at Dinard, an American resort colony in France, and on returning to America in 1884, studied at the MIT. Wharton became one of his first Newport clients for her home there, Land's End. Subsequently she introduced Codman to Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who hired him to design the second and third floor rooms of his Newport summer home, The Breakers.

In 1907, Codman built the Codman-Davis House in Washington, D.C. for his cousin Martha Codman, one of the few intact homes that he designed. This included a carriage house, now the Apex Night Club, ironically a gay club.

Although a noted homosexual, on 8 October, 1904, Codman married one of his commissioners, Leila Griswold Webb, widow of railroad magnate H. Walter Webb, who died unexpectedly in 1910.

In 1920, Codman left New York to return to France, where he spent the rest of his life at the Château de Grégy, wintering at Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer: it is his masterpiece, the fullest surviving expression of his esthetic.

1897 – The Missouri Supreme Court upholds a conviction for assault to commit sodomy of a St. Louis police officer who attempted sodomy with another male after threatening to arrest him unless he accompanied him to a lumber yard, where the attempt was made.

1900 – An Ohio newspaper reports that a man was arrested for sex with his 13-year-old male companion. Both claim that the younger partner's mother "gave" him to the other.

Ray Stevens & Pat Paterson (R)

1941 – Born: Pierre Clermont, better known by his ring name Pat Patterson, was a Canadian former professional wrestler (d.2020). Pat was 17 when he started wrestling. He soon became one of the biggest names in the sixties and seventies. He worked for WWE as a creative consultant. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996.

Outside of the wrestling ring, Pat was really timid and shy. He was soft-spoken, with a cute French accent. Surprisingly, Pat was a former altar boy and candidate for the priesthood. He was a deeply religious man.

Pat Patterson debuted in Montreal, Quebec in 1958 as "Pretty Boy" Pat Patterson, an effeminate wrestler who wore red lipstick and pink trunks and was accompanied by his pet Poodle.

A Young Pat Patterson

Patterson wrestled frequently for affiliates of the National Wrestling Alliance throughout the 1960s, and was a ten time tag team champion in San Francisco with a variety of partners. His most famous pairing was with Ray Stevens, the two of them forming the heel tag team, the Blond Bombers.

Patterson was openly gay, although he had never stated so. It is rumored that Pat and Gerald Brisco, another of his wrestling partners, were lovers. In 1992, Patterson was accused of sexual harassment by former ring announcer Murray Hodgson and released from the company until the charges were dropped, when he was promptly rehired. After dropping the charges, Hodgson's attorney referred to Hodgson as "a lifelong con man."

In August 2006, Patterson underwent emergency heart surgery. In October, Patterson recovered from his operation and was released from the hospital.

On June 12, 2014, Patterson officially "came out" on TV. The video link is below:

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Although Patterson was openly gay, having come out in the 1970s, his sexual orientation was never directly acknowledged on television until 2014 when he spoke about it on a WWE-produced reality TV show.

Louie Dondero, Patterson's longtime partner of 40 years, died of a heart attack in 1998. Patterson himself died in December 2020.

1950 – Randy Price is a television newscaster with WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, after being the lead anchor at WHDH-TV from 1998 to 2009. He is considered the U.S.'s first openly gay newscaster.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Price attended Louisiana State University, where he began his broadcasting career in college radio, which continued with a stint in the U.S. Air Force, with Price working for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

He worked in television in Bakersfield, California (KERO-TV) and Toledo, Ohio (WTVG), before moving to Boston's WBZ-TV in 1983 where he anchored for 12 years. He left WBZ in 1995 due to alcohol problems which included a drunk driving conviction.

Price joined WHDH-TV in 1996 as a freelance reporter, and in 1997 was made a full-time anchor. He moved into the morning anchor chair and then was promoted to anchor the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. On February 6, 2009, Price was let go from WHDH-TV. His last newscast was on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. On February 7, 2009 The Boston Globe quoted Price that station owner, Edmund Ansin, had told him "we need to move in different directions."

On June 2, 2009, Price was named morning anchor at WCVB-TV, Channel 5 in Boston.

Price is openly gay and on January 3, 2007 he married longtime partner Mark Steffen in a ceremony on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts. They live in Kittery, Maine.

The Johns Committee in session

1959 – On this date investigators summoned the University of Florida Geography professor Sigmund Diettrich to the Manor Motel in Gainesville, Florida for "interviewing". Soon after, he was fired from his job and lost the life he loved as a beloved teacher and dean. He attempted suicide the same day he was let go from U.F. Hundreds of other professors and students across the state were also terminated or expelled because of their sexuality. Many people are familiar with the McCarthy hearings but do not realize that Florida had its own committee designed to weed out communism and homosexual activity. State Senator Charley Johns started the investigations to "protect Florida's children."

The Johns Committee pursued people in academic institutions, courthouse bathrooms and bus stations. The committee's investigators went so far as tapping phones in motels, interrogating children as young as 10, and breaking up a teenage girl's slumber party looking for evidence of moral misconduct. In 1993 more than 30,000 pages of secret documents became public, including a University of Florida administrator's statement that there was no way to prevent Gay men from lingering in university bathrooms "unless you pour sulfuric acid on the floor to make people go fast."

1982 – Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. He is the first openly gay person to seek the Democratic nomination, and has built his campaign around the idea of generational change. He launched his campaign on April 14, 2019, after forming an exploratory committee in January. Initially considered a long shot, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town halls, forums, and debates. As of December 2019, several media outlets consider him one of four "top-tier candidates".

Buttigieg served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana from January 2012 to January 2020. Before running for office, he worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry. He was defeated in the 2010 election for Indiana State Treasurer before being elected mayor of South Bend, Indiana the following year, becoming the youngest mayor of a city with a population of over 100,000. In 2015, Buttigieg publicly came out as gay. Later that year, he was reelected with over 80% of the vote. In 2017, he ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee.

From 2009 to 2017, he served as a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. In 2014, he was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a consultant at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. He attended the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship.

In a June 2015 piece in the South Bend Tribune, Buttigieg came out as gay. By coming out, Buttigieg became Indiana's first openly gay elected executive. He was the first elected official in Indiana to come out while in office, and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out. Buttigieg is also the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, and the second overall, after Republican Fred Karger, who ran in 2012.

In December 2017, Buttigieg announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman, a junior high school teacher. They had been dating since August 2015 after meeting on the dating app Hinge. They were married on June 16, 2018, in a private ceremony at the Episcopalian Cathedral of St. James. As of April 2019 Chasten uses his husband's surname, Buttigieg.

Buttigieg announced that he and his husband had become parents on August 17, 2021. Buttigieg announced that they had adopted two newborn fraternal twins on September 4, 2021.

In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a watershed moment in the LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named him one of its "Pride50" people identified as "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people."

President-elect Biden named Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in December 2020. His nomination was confirmed on February 2, 2021, by a vote of 86–13, making him the first openly gay Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Nominated at age 38, he is also the youngest Cabinet member in the Biden administration and the youngest person ever to serve as Secretary of Transportation.

2004 – Ian Iqbal Rashid releases his movie Touch of Pink. Multi-talented Rashid is a poet, screenwriter and filmmaker known in particular for his volumes of poetry, for the BBC TV series This Life and the feature films Touch of Pink and How She Move.

Of Indian ancestry and Ismaili Muslim religion, Rashid's family lived in colonial East Africa for generations. Ian was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Different years of birth are given for Rashid in different sources, but academic work gives the year as 1968. In 1970, his family was forced to leave Tanzania. After failing to secure asylum in the UK and US, they settled in Toronto.

Rashid began his career as an arts journalist and critic and events programmer, particularly focussed on South Asian diasporic, Muslim and LGBTQ cultural work.

In the early 1990s, Rashid returned to London, Britain, where he lives today with his partner, the writer, curator, and academic Peter Ride.

In the late 1980s, Rashid was a regular contributor to the Canadian LGBT magazine Rites. Rashid published his first poetry collection, Black Markets, White Boyfriends and Other Acts of Elision, in 1991. Two more followed: the chapbook Song of Sabu in 1993 and The Heat Yesterday in 1995.

His poems "Another Country", "Could Have Danced All Night", "Hot Property" and "Early Dinner, Weekend Away" appear in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets, and others were included in the 2009 anthology Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets.

Self-taught as a film-maker, in 1991, Rashid made the short film Bolo Bolo! with Kaspar Saxena. The film, part of an HIV/AIDS cable access series called Toronto Living With AIDS, resulted in the series being pulled from Rogers Television after complaints about sexually suggestive content, though it had a long and healthy life at film festivals.

Rashid went on to write two award-winning short films, Surviving Sabu (1999), and Stag (2001).

Touch of Pink, Rashid's first feature film, spent 12 years in development. In 2003, he finally had the chance to direct the project as a Canada-UK co-production. It premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim, a bidding war, and eventually, a sale to Sony Picture Classics. The film has attracted extensive scholarly commentary.

How She Move received a similar reception at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Rashid in 2007, the film is set in the world of step dancing. It was nominated for a Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and purchased by Paramount Vantage. The film opened to positive reviews and strong box office.

Rashid began working as a writer in UK television in the late 1990s. His credits include the soap London Bridge (Carlton Television for ITV) and the cult hit BBC2 series This Life, for which he received the Writer's Guild of England award.

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scienceoftheidiot · 2 years

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OCs Masterlist

[this masterlist is under construction ^^]

Main story - novel "Dead Men Talk Way Too Much"

Camille "Desden" Dessaigne

Camille is a unisex name in French - he's a man. He's the main character of this story. Desden wants a simple life, loves to cook, his dog, his friends and family. He's a soft, funny guy, but can be very closed off and sarcastic, cynical even, if you get him the wrong way.

31 yo, 1,98m (6'5), brown short hair, blue eyes.

Distinctive signs : a big lock of white hair at the back of the head (left side), bumpy nose, freckles.

Disabilities : Desden is almost totally blind due to a head trauma. He can only see on the extreme right side of his field of vision, which means he mostly perceives light and shadows. He uses his guide dog Kalinka and a cane to get around.

Abilities : hereditary ability to sense the presence of ghosts, attract them - and more. He's also a very good cook.

Faceclaim : Matthew Macfadyen (as Tom Quinn or Paul Prior)

AES 1 - AES 2 - Picrew - drawing by me

Diane Scherrer

Diane is the second main character. She's a little timid, in a more fierce way, but it's not her real nature and it's mostly to protect herself. She's a little lost in her life and just wants a quiet time, but also feels very lonely.

29yo, 1,60m (5'2), dark brown/black long hair, brown eyes.

Distinctive signs : tattoo of a small bird on the right shoulder. Hair always in a long braid.

Disabilities : none.

Abilities : very good boxer. Good runner.

Faceclaim : Jenna Coleman

AES 1 - AES 2 - Picrew - drawing by me

"Jimmy"

Jimmy is not his name. He's also very dead.

? yo, 1,63m (5'3), dyed blonde hair, green eyes.

Distinctive signs : [spoilers!]

Disabilities : amnesia - long term and immediate memory loss

Abilities : none.

Faceclaim : young Billie Joe Armstrong

AES 1 - AES 2 - Picrew - drawing by me

Laurence El Amin (née Dessaigne)

Laurence is Desden's little sister. She's very busy being a bookshop owner and taking care of her 6yo twin girls. She's very protective, and big hearted, wants to help everyone, but she's very bossy and blunt about it, which isn't the best way.

28yo, 1,78m (5'8), reddish long brown hair, hazel eyes.

Distinctive signs : bumpy nose, freckles

Disabilities : none

Abilities : Herborist. Also mother of twins so she's a little ubiquitous.

Faceclaim : young Alex Kingston

Picrew - drawing by me

Farid El Amin

31yo, 1,82m (6'), short black hair, brown eyes.

Distinctive signs : green framed glasses, geometric tattoo on the left arm.

Disabilities : none

Abilities : handyman, he can repair absolutely anything. Also dad of twins so he's too, a little ubiquitous (and he's the one taking care of them most of the time)

Faceclaim : -not found-

Picrew - drawing by me

Leila & Myriam El Amin

Laurence and Farid identical twins. Leila is very extroverted, climbs everywhere, talks for Myriam who is way more introverted and calm. They love to bake with their uncle Desden.

6yo, long curly black hair, black eyes.

Disabilities : none

Abilities : hereditary ability to sense the presence of ghosts, attract them - and more.

Faceclaim : none, they're kids

Uriel Rousseau

Uriel is a police inspector. He's not that good at his work but he doesn't really care. He's very nosy, suave, speaks in an old-timey fashion and carries a faint smell of encaged wild beast.

?yo, 6'1, red hair, topaz eyes.

Disabilities : none

Abilities : [spoilers!]

Faceclaim : Benedict Cumberbatch (when ginger ^^)

AES - drawing by me

Antoine Dupré

Kévin Brunet

Sara Diallo

Arthur Diallo

WW1 AU - Life During Wartime

Camille Dessaigne

Alphonse Allibert

Diane Scherrer

James E. Arlen

Jeanne & Henriette

Hamish Murray

#wip page #oc masterlist #scienceoftheidiot oc masterlist #ocappreciation #ocs

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Honestly, the new Harvest Moon remake is really pretty good. It seems even more faithful than the gba fmot remake.

The designs aren't too bad so far, but as of now Murray is unforgivable./hj They put him through the uwu filter, but also he's so opposite his original character, I thought it was supposed to be his parent's favorite child. Every detail down to his panhandling can is opposite. The only thing that redeems it is that it's so opposite, it's almost intentionally ironic. Can't tell if it's because of cancel culture, Japan's borderline suffocating kawaii culture, or just trying to be a moral example by not encouraging the life style. Maybe it's all of the things, but I sure miss the grit.

Me: *turns down the saturation setting on monitor.*

There, now it's better.

On another hand, I also hope Flora is a date option, Darryl, Carter, etc. And, I hope they don't change them too much, but they probably will do as much as... I dunno, Marlin? Gustafa? So I'm bracing myself.

I dated Celia as a kid, and who knows if I would have dated Flora in DS, I just know that Elli was an option since I already had the gba to connect with, so I was very single mindedly pursuing Elli. Well, now that they've remade both games, I hope they keep the tradition of linking them somehow. They really should.

Also

PLEASE MAKE THE CAMERA WORK LIKE THE ORIGINAL OR ALSO WHILE IN NORMAL GAMEPLAY. PLEASE, THE LIMITED CAMERA ANGLES AND FUNCTION AS OF A LONG TIME IS MADDENING!!!

OH! Probably unlikely, but I hope they bring back Keira and Leila too. That'd be neat. I thought Keira was cute. I sleep a lot too.

#story of seasons #Harvest Moon #harvest moon a wonderful life #story of seasons a wonderful life #sos awl #hm awl #sos poot

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Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report

(Hello! This is a re-upload. The first version had a syncing error that snuck in at the very end of the editing process. We've re-exported it and this version sounds much better!)

This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year.

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

2022: Year of Book Two

Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

2023 Resolutions

Matthew:

Read more graphic novels

Take pictures of favourite reads

Jam:

Theme for the year: Intention

Return to tracking picture book reading

Media We Mentioned

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, narrated by Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer & Steve West

Illuminae Files (books 1-3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, narrated by Moira Quirk

Steven Erikson

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol 1 by Ryoko Kui, translated by Sébastien Ludmann

Links, Articles, and Things

Which Pokemon are the Most Goth?

Matthew reviews his manga reading from 2022 on Twitter

List of One Piece manga volumes - Wikipedia

25 Dystopian Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Leila by Prayaag Akbar

Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Caster by Elsie Chapman

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

Legend by Marie Lu

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher

Futureland by Walter Mosley

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Give us feedback!

Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!

Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

Join us again on Tuesday, February 7th. It'll be our annual Valentine’s Day episode, and we’ll be talking about the genre of Holiday Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 21st join us for What is a Book? (part 2)!

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newswireml · 1 year

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Pilots union at Southwest blames longstanding problems for flight disruptions#Pilots #union #Southwest #blames #longstanding #problems #flight #disruptions

NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, about the thousands of flight cancellations that have led to massive travel nightmares. #Pilots #union #Southwest #blames #longstanding #problems #flight #disruptions

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allthingsdarkanddirty · 2 years

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★✩★ NEW RELEASE TOUR ★✩★

Darkest Desires

A Dark Mafia Romance Collection for Charity

The New Romance Cafe Collection (#15)

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Goodreads: https://goodreads.com/book/show/60750724/

Hosted by DS Book Promotions

AMAZON

US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X51LCRR/

UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09X51LCRR/

CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09X51LCRR/

AU https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09X51LCRR/

Available on Kindle Unlimited

Blurb:

Darkness. Damaged. Ruin.

Wealth and power make excellent bedfellows…unless you aren’t carrying your own trump card. And power comes in many forms.

These damaged heroes like their brand of romance a little…different. A little darker.

Join The New Romance Cafe’s new and returning authors in a collection of steamy, dark mafia romances certain to up the spice of your weekend’s reads.

All proceeds go to Alliance for Hope International, one of the leading organizations focused on creating innovative, collaborative, trauma-informed, hope-centered approaches to meeting the needs of survivors of domestic violence, assault, abuse

Participating Authors:

A.N. Stauber Syd Ryan Arabella Black Lila Grey Wysteria Reed Remy Reigns Lindsay Murray J.F. Lowe Jen Stevens Sofia Aves Emma Bray Colla Triti Kimberly Halstead Kylie Kent Leila Coltyn Angela Breen Rachel Everly M Jameson Chele MacCabe Lola Clarke Maggie Alabaster & Jo Bradley Molly Lachaussee P.T. Macias RJ Gray Sophia Vincent Holland Reign Tanya Nellestein Tara Lee Selena Michaels Lola Webb Jazmine Skye Sabine Barclay

About The New Romance Cafe

The New Romance Café is the place to get your daily dose of romance books.

Hang out with like-minded readers and authors at different stages of their writing journey, in a diverse and inclusive group.

Find out about new releases, take part in fun discussions, and recommend your favourite reads in the safe space of the Café.

The New Romance Cafe Links

Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenewromancecafe

Website: https://thenewromancecafe.com/

Romance Cafe Publishing: https://romancecafepublishing.com/

#newrelease #darkestdesires #anthology #darkmafiaromance #darkromance #TheNewRomanceCafeCollection #availablenow #bookish #trinitywood #kyliekent #dsbookpromotions

@Trinity Wood @DS Book Promotions

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joyffree · 2 years

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★✩★ NEW RELEASE TOUR ★✩★

Darkest Desires

A Dark Mafia Romance Collection for Charity

The New Romance Cafe Collection (#15)

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Goodreads: https://goodreads.com/book/show/60750724/

Hosted by DS Book Promotions

AMAZON

US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X51LCRR/

UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09X51LCRR/

CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09X51LCRR/

AU https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09X51LCRR/

Available on Kindle Unlimited

Blurb:

Darkness. Damaged. Ruin.

Wealth and power make excellent bedfellows…unless you aren’t carrying your own trump card. And power comes in many forms.

These damaged heroes like their brand of romance a little…different. A little darker.

Join The New Romance Cafe’s new and returning authors in a collection of steamy, dark mafia romances certain to up the spice of your weekend’s reads.

Participating Authors:

About The New Romance Cafe

The New Romance Café is the place to get your daily dose of romance books.

Hang out with like-minded readers and authors at different stages of their writing journey, in a diverse and inclusive group.

Find out about new releases, take part in fun discussions, and recommend your favourite reads in the safe space of the Café.

The New Romance Cafe Links

Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenewromancecafe

Website: https://thenewromancecafe.com/

Romance Cafe Publishing: https://romancecafepublishing.com/

@Trinity Wood @DS Book Promotions

#newrelease #darkestdesires #anthology #darkmafiaromance #darkromance #TheNewRomanceCafeCollection #availablenow #bookish #trinitywood #kyliekent #dsbookpromotions

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cheerycherry3987 · 2 years

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So Much Spoilers Masterpost

Long time, no post! I have a tenancy when go through a series or story again where I will watch it through one character’s point of view. I had an idea to write about these characters or episodes, re-telling their stories, showing what we can learn from them and what (if anything) would I write differently about their character. MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING

NOTE: None of these are in order.

NOTE #2: As I finish each person’s post, I’ll include a link to the post under their name.

NOTE #3: This is not a final list

Upcoming posts:

The 39 Clues (Mostly Series 1, dipping a bit into Series 2)

Irina Spasky

Alistair Oh

Hamilton Holt

Eisenhower Holt

Jonah Wizard

Amy Cahill

Dan Cahill

Nellie Gomez

Sinead Starling

Madison Holt

Doctor Who

Donna Noble

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Midnight

Lets Get Lost

Leila

Hudson

Bree

Elliot

Sonia

Children of the Red King

Charlie Bone

Olivia Vertigo

Emilia Moon/Emma Tolly

Paton Yewbeam

Julia Ingledew

Gabriel Silk

Billy Raven

Stranger Things (Delayed until end of show)

No picture I could find because formatting sucks

Max Mayfield

Eddie Munson

Dustin Henderson

Steve Harrington

Mike Wheeler

Nancy Wheeler

Joyce Byers

Robin Buckley

Will Byers

Jim Hopper

Lucas Sinclair

Erica Sinclair

Murray Bauman

Bob Newby

Sam Owens

Martin Brenner

Vecna

NOTE: There will be no Billy Hargrove post before anyone asks.

MCU

Tony Stark

Steve Rodgers

Clint Barton

Thor Odinson

Natasha Romanoff

Bruce Banner

Shang-Chi

T’Challa

Gamora

Bucky

Carol Denvers

Drax

Peter Quill

Groot

Scott Lang

Rocket Raccoon

Yondu

Dr. Strange

Sam Wilson

Peter Parker (Tom Holland’s Peter)

Sersi

Sprite

Ikaris

Phastos

Druig

Makkari

Ajak

Thena

Gilgamesh

Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes

John Watson

Molly Hooper

Mrs. Hudson

Greg Lestrade

Eurus Holmes

Mycroft Holmes

James Moriaty

Mary Watson

Irene Adler

The Final Problem

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mainly the first three, dipping into Dead Man Tell No Tales)

Will Turner

Elizabeth Swann

Jack Sparrow

James Norrington

Cutler Beckett

Hector Barossa

RWBY (Waiting until show is over)

Ruby Rose

Weiss Schnee

Blake Belladonna

Yang Xiao Long

Jaune Arc

Pyrrha Nikos

Lie Ren

Nora Valkyrie

Cinder Fall

Salem

Ozpin

James Ironwood

Qrow Browyn

Raven Browyn

Camp Camp

David

Gwen

Max

Nikki

Neil

Cameron Campbell

The Lake Lilac Summer Social

#characters #fandom

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xmilenavsch · 4 years

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the only exception: a pat murray x fem!reader one shot

gif credit: @hollyjollyriphunter

pairing: pat murray x reader

word count: about 2,3k

warnings: none! maybe a little angst if you may see it like that & a lot of fluff!

a/n: my first fanfiction on here and my first one after literal years, haha! (bare with me for that matter) also, keep in mind that english isn't my first language, so i'm really sorry for any mistakes!

this is mainly written for & because of one of my best friends leila - leave her some love on her insta @ angelmazzello! <3

summary: y/n is a worker at the d-back's agency, as the woman for basically everything – mostly bringing the boys snacks or drinks or just for their entertainment, considering that all of them are mad obsessed with her & never fail to show her that. but for her, there's only one: the world's most angry but soft boy, patrick murray.

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It was a sunny and hot Saturday in August, when you, Y/N, got ready for work. The Californian sun shone into your bedroom as you were getting ready, excited for the game, and excited to see your favourite team in the world in action once again. They didn't always gain as much as they may have wanted to, but you knew that they gave their best every time and how much they lived for the game.

Leaving your appartment with fast steps, getting into your car and driving to the field, the only thing you could think about though was this one specific man, who you couldn't keep out of your mind since the minute you saw him for the first time. You never really knew if he was feeling equally, but the only thing you really always knew was that the things with him were different. For better understanding: The D-Backs team is a dysfuntional team of college allumni baseball players, who never manage to close their months and who can't go a day without insulting one another so much you might think they'd hold it against each other until the end of time. But when you see them on the next day, everything's back to normal and everyhing happens all over again. You love watching them being by themselves and also their dynamic on the field. They had some kind of magic within their group that amazed you every time. Well, maybe it was just the magic that your best friend, John „Mazz“ Mazzello always tried to point out, but you really didn't care. You loved these boys. And they loved you too.

About that: They didn't just love you, they were quite literally obsessed with you. There was never a time when they saw you where they didn't whistle after you, told you how good you looked with your tied up hair and in your jumpsuit and how well you smelled when you hugged every one of them. It didn't really bother you, you in fact found it extremely funny and always told them that – even when Vinnie sort of revealed to you that all of them had a list and a bet on the go who would get you in bed first – but you still didn't care, you also had a share on that one after all. But there was still just one of them who never really was into that whole thing – it could've been no other but Pat Murray. Mazz's childhood friend, the most enthusiastic screamer on the field, who deep down just was somebody who needed and wanted a lot of love. Which you never told him of course, because those were just thoughts in your head, and you would never dare letting those out. It was too risky for you. Because you definitely didn't want to lose him. Even though you weren't the closest friends, there was always something about your bond that was different to the ones you had with the other boys. But you never knew how you were supposed to tell him that. You just couldn't. Even though you felt his stares, his gazes, his secret attention he gave to you. The little smile he made when he heard you laugh. But he also couldn't admit to himself that there could be more between you guys. He just couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that someone so pure, beautiful, kindhearted, amazing, supportive and angelic like YOU would actually want him. HIM. The messiest person to exist. So you were stuck in your denial of wanting the other and living with it for as good as years now. And so far, this life has been really good. You were just too tired from it, which didn't make it any better. „But it is what it is! Y'know!“, something Zapata would say from time to time when they lost another game.

( OH RIGHT, Y/N is literally on her way to their next game! Back to that topic I guess. )

As you arrive on the parking lot next to the baseball field, you start your normal routine – getting out of your car and locking it, checking yourself in so you at least gain a little money from all of this, getting into the building of the D-Backs home place with their lockers and all, getting into its kitchen and getting everything they needed for the day. They had a home match, meaning they must all have been pretty nervous and maybe even scared to fail. Which is always a matter of the atmosphere within the team, which was different every time, which amazed you always. So you get their snacks and drinks, say Hi with a bright smile to everyone you cross paths with and head to your boys.

As they see you from afar, you can already just smell Palacco's grin towards you and Dells' whistles. „Well well well, look who it is! Our entertainment during our misery!“, the raven haired yelled at you. You scoff a little. „I'm also really happy to see you boys, Johnathan. And just for your reassurance: Go fuck yourself loser.“ All of them laugh at you, which just makes you roll your eyes. As you hand them their snacks, Mazz walks up to you last to get his own, giving you a kiss on your cheek. „Thanks for doing this every time Y/N, you know you're an angel“, he winks at you. You just nodd your head slightly, while looking over to the boys. After some time you just look confused at them, because one special one is missing. „Hey, has anyone seen Murray? He normally is the first one to get this snacks every time. Stress eating and all.“ Arthur just nodds at the field. „He's right there, just checking out the grass' new cut. Y'know, he likes to play specified.“ Another laugh leaves the boys' mouths. You just shake your head and walk up to him, his snacks in your one hand, the other one stuffed into the bag of your jumpsuit.

From afar you can already see his auburn hair glowing in the sun, how it matches with his red team uniform and how his light skin just looks purer than anything else you've seen in your life so far. This sight makes your heart jump into your stomach and you need some time to catch a breath, before you raise your voice a little. „Murray!“, you yell towards the man in front of you. He quickly turns around to see you and you could've sworn that there was a slight smile on his lips as he faced you. „Oh, Y/N, good afternoon. What's the matter?“ You just walk closer to him and hand him his food. „Here, you weren't with the others when I handed it out, so I just thought I'd bring it to you like this.“ He nodds his head and takes it on. „Yeah, I just wanted to check if all the lines are still on track after the grass was cut a couple of days ago. So we don't fail completely. But thanks.“ You scoff, following his eyes as they're sampling the ground. He then sighs, a sound he makes very frequently and which you were already used to hearing from him. „What's wrong Patty? You worried you guys are gonna lose today?“ He laughs a little at the nickname, but then faces you again. „Well, you know Y/N/N, I'm always worried we will. But with home matches-“ - „-it just hits different, I know“, you cut him off. „But y'know, I will be there cheering you guys on from the fence, right next to you. You guys will rock this“, you reassure him, patting his right arm a little bit with your left hand. You wouldn't be lying if you admitted that the both of you felt some type of electricity from that embrace.

He just nodds his head about what you said and actually smiles a little. „Yeah, I know that: It's always you cheering us up the most. And it's the sweetest thing ever.“ You smile hard at his words, probably harder than you should, and do you even blush a little from them or is that just the summer sun shining straight in your face? You don't really know, and maybe you don't even care. What you do care about though is when Mazz yells over to you guys so Pat comes back to the rest of the team to get ready for their game.

You know he does this every time you and Murray have a moment like this, because he doesn't want you to get hurt. Pat didn't have the best experiences when it comes to love so far in his life and because of his broken soul he sometimes makes decisions that don't only hurt him, but also his partner-at-the-time. His last relationship ended pretty bad, you were the one comforting him, already being head over heels crushing on him. But you didn't want to let your feelings in the way of him being hurt, because he was your friend and you wanted to be there for him. Now things are way different and he kind of got over the heartbreak he experienced, but you still couldn't find the guts to tell him. You just couldn't. And Mazz knew that. So every time you guys talked about it, he accepted your decision, even though he was basically the only one believing this thing between you and Murray could work. But he accepted your decision, and whatever decision Patrick would make, because you guys were his best friends and he didn't want anything bad happen to you, nor to lose either of you. So he was just there. Being the secret admirer of secret admirers.

As Murray and you get back to the rest of the team, you hug every single of them, wishing them the best of luck. Mazz comes last. You embrace each other the tightest, because you knew that'd give him strength. The only one you didn't hug was Pat, but you just never did that. It sort of never „fitted the vibe of your bond“, as David would say. So you just walk over behind the fence, watching the game elope.

From the beginning the match was an intense competition, not only between the two teams, but also between the teammembers within one. But with the D-Backs, that was normal. You were used to listen to them insulting one another in the worst ways possible, with words you didn't even think were a part of the English dictionary. But you just watched and enjoyed the whole thing.

After a lot of time has passed and a tie has been declared, somebody had to be chosen for the last pitch to win the whole thing – this time for the D-Backs. You nervously stand on your tip toes, waiting for a decision to be made. The referee had decided to select the performer at random. So they try to find someone, everybody in the crowd is extremely tense, just like you and the rest of your boys are, when they make a decision. „Patrick Murray, 7th, centerfield!“. You gasp loudly and a shiver runs down your spine. Oh god, this can't end well. But Pat walks up to his supposed spot with a kind of confidence you've never seen before on him, with his bat, his baby, his basical everything, standing there and waiting to hit it off. As he's waiting, he turns around a little to face the crowd, finding your face and looking you straight in the eye. You just nood at him, fingers intertwined next to your mouth, and somehow, this gives him all the strength he needs.

As the ball flies up to him, he stands on his position, waiting for the right moment.

Then he hits it.

And then he gets it.

The crowd and the rest of the team are cheering more than ever. They really did win! The disappointment on the faces of the opposite team were probably able to be seen in a country 10,000 miles away, but you didn't care. You just were so incredibly proud of your team and especially of your man, Murray, who practically wasn't your man yet officially, but that didn't stop him from owning your heart to the fullest. You push yourself through the cheery people, ignoring the rest of the D-Backs being all over each other, walking fastly towards Patrick. As he sees you, he drops his bat and also walks up to you, hugging you tighter then ever, which gives you more and more shivers and just lets all the adrenaline overflow you that you could ever be able to. Out of the sudden, he picks you up, making you squeak a little, spinning you around for a moment. He let's you down again, looking you straight in the eyes, you just smiling at him the brightest way possible. God, he freaking loved your smile. And from all the previous events, all the strength you had given him, he finally says the one thing you've desired to hear from him for such a long time now: „Go out with me Y/N. I mean it. As a Thank you for helping me today.“ You gasp a little, holding your breath, still having your arms around his waist. „Are you sure? You know that was only you being the talent you are just a few minutes ago.“ He scoffs. „Yeah, I know, but I'm also sure. And dead serious. Just go out with me, sweetie. You won't regret it.“

You just shake your head in agreement. You would most definitely finally go out with the man who owns your heart. And then you'll see what will happen from then on.

#joe mazzello #pat murray x reader #undrafted #pat murray #joe mazzello x reader

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whatwouldvalerydo · 1 year

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I know it’s a day late, but I was too tired to finish this yesterday, however I wanted to wish Happy Valentine’s day to the ships I have, be them permanent, happy or complicated, I love them all.

In no particular order:

Akira x Talia @cursebreakerfarrier

Reuben x Leila @that-scouse-wizard

Oliver x Victoria @kc-and-co

Cledwyn x Gareth @that-scouse-wizard

Laurent x Angela @slytherindisaster

Lachlan x Jonathan @kc-and-co

Phil x Scarlett @flareshogwarts

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papermoonloveslucy · 3 years

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BREAKFAST WITH VENORA

April 30, 1936

Lucille Ball with Lela Rogers, head of talent development at RKO, at the RKO Little Theater, later known as Desilu Playhouse.

The RKO RADIO DRAMA SCHOOL presents presents

BREAKFAST WITH VANORA by Fred Ballard

at the RKO LITTLE THEATRE

Directed and Produced by Leila E. Rogers

Lucille Ball (Vanora) at the time, Lucille Ball was filming her 31st film, Bunker Bean, to be released in June 1936.

Barbara Pepper (Chorus Girl) had done four films with Lucille Ball since 1933, and the two were about to also be cast in Winterset, which would be their last film together until 1950. Pepper and Ball had become friends, and Lucille often employed her in character roles on “I Love Lucy.”

Cleo Mandicos was the first cousin of Lucille Ball, but raised as her sister. Later, she became known as Cleo Morgan and Cleo Smith. She worked for Lucille Ball as producer of “Here’s Lucy.”

Edward Price (Husband) newspapers reported that Lela Rogers cast Price as a favor to him and that the next day he was cast in Swing Time, starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. However, no cast lists confirm that Price was in the picture, or any other RKO releases.

Walter Armitage (Prosecuting Attorney) was a South African actor who only appeared in one film for RKO in 1934: Where Sinners Meet.

Earl Eby (Trial Judge) acted in eleven films in 1936 alone, although none with Lucille Ball, before he turned to producing and directing for television.

Allan Curtis (Broadway Publicity Man) was also about to do Winterset with Lucille Ball and Barbara Pepper. In 1936, he also did the RKO comedy short One Live Ghost with Lucy, as well as RKO’s Don’t Tell The Wife (1937).

Vangie Beilby (Maiden Aunt) was a British character actress who did 50 Hollywood films (all in uncredited roles) between 1932 and 1950.

Anita Colby is sometimes credited as "America's first supermodel" - the first model to make more than $100 an hour. In 1936 she did three films for RKO, including Mary of Scotland, starring Katharine Hepburn.

Tommy Graham appeared in RKO’s 1936 film Don’t Turn ‘Em Loose. His only other credit was in RKO’s Too Many Girls, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

Marie Osborne was a child star in silent movies, but returned to acting in 1934. Her second talking film was RKO’s Roberta starring Ginger Rogers and Lucile Ball. With Lucy, she was also in Stage Door, and Having Wonderful Time.

Walter Murray was seen in RKO’s The Toast of New York (1937) and only did three more films.

Rollo Dix did only six films between 1930 and 1938.

Russ Dudley has only one credit: Painted Faces (1929).

Roy Brent made his screen debut in 1933 with RKO’s hit King Kong. He was also seen with Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers in RKO’s Top Hat (1935).

With Thomas Quinn, Joe Stansill, and Fred Parrish

"It was such a busy, happy time for me. Lela took the dungarees off us and put us into becoming dresses; she ripped off our hair bands and made us do our hair right. If we went to see a big producer in his office, she cautioned us to put on full makeup and look like somebody. She made us read good literature to improve our English and expand our understanding of character. She drummed into us how to treat agents and the bosses upstairs... " ~ Lucille Ball

Lela Rogers shows John Shelton how to hold the gun in one of her Little Theatre productions while Lucy Ball looks on.

“Breakfast with Vanora” was not Lucille Ball’s first appearance at the RKO Little Theatre, she also appeared in Fly Away Home in January 1936. The Theater was open to the public. Tickets cost 25 cents each.Lela Rogers was reportedly related to Ball on her mother's side, which made Lucy and Ginger distant cousins.

#RKO #Lucille Ball #Lela Rogers #Breakfast with Vanora #Barbara Pepper #Cleo Mendicos

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