deep as a secret nobody knows Star Wars; Leia & Vader, ensemble; AU; pg; 6,375 words “If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you’re Padmé Amidala’s daughter.”
Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale, Beverley Brook/Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale, Beverley Brook/Peter Grant Characters: Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Thomas Nightingale, Beverley Brook, Mamusu “Rose” Grant, Sahra Guleed, Alexander Seawoll, Background & Cameo Characters, Background Relationships – Character Additional Tags: Returning Home, Trauma, OT3, Canon-Typical Violence, Panic Attacks, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 3 of Reichenbach Falls Summary:
Peter Grant returns from the dead, and starts the longer process of returning home.
Spooky season is upon us at last, and what better way to celebrate than by rewatching these ~scary~ episodes of the 90s Sailor Moon
anime? These 10 picks touch on horror clichés and parodies as well as
some genuine frights, and can be enjoyed individually without needing to
remember the plot of the season. Remember, though; Sailor Moon is a light-hearted romcom for kids, so don’t expect anything that will keep you awake at night. Although this is a “Top 10″ list, the
episodes are presented in chronological order, not by spoop factor.
For various reasons involving limited internet access and me forgetting my laptop charger and therefore only being able to use it for essential work, I read a lot on the boat and entertained myself by making notes on the new/new-to-me books. So have some brief book recs, and responses, and, for a couple, whatever the exact opposite of a rec is.
It’s raining here in North Carolina, and it will continue to rain for quite a while. So here are some fics for us all to sit down and read for a couple of hours. There are two more lists after this one, because there are a lot of fics to go through. Putting this together took longer than I wanted it to. But these authors right here most likely spent way longer than they wanted to writing these fics, because these fics are long…
“I haven’t seen you around here before,” says the man. Fuck off, thinks Ed, I bet you say that to all the strange, heavily armed sorcerers that come wandering past your doorway in the middle of the night.
Or, Ed is a travelling mage with a mysterious past, and Roy is the sorcerer that falls in love with him.
Roy has lucked into the all-expenses-paid vacation of his dreams – all he has to do is convince a bunch of happy couples that he’s head-over-heels in love with Ed Elric. What could possibly go wrong? [Modern!AU.]
Two years after retrieving his brother’s body from the Gate of Truth Edward Elric is still paying the price. Will his debt ever be repaid, or will it finally cost him everything?
Where the loss of ignorance is more valuable than the knowledge gained, and Edward figures out the source of alchemy a lot sooner than before.
“Edward has cockroaches under his skin and leeches in his veins. He’s vibrating and bursting and his body is too small, too big, doesn’t fit quite right. He needs Al to know – needs to tell someone, anyone, but he will cut out his own tongue before he burdens anyone else with this knowledge.”
Once Ed decides that he is categorically not going to rot on the Drachman tundra, dragging his ass out of the jaws of death is actually pretty easy. …except when it’s not. At all. Which is most of the time. (AU from end of Brotherhood.)
Ed could untie knots in the fifth and sixth dimensions – blindfolded. He could convince the military he fell through a rabbit-hole, and he could even shut down a Drachman invasion (with a little help), but he can’t seem to avoid dating Roy Mustang (and maybe is kind of okay with that). But here’s hoping they can collar a General trying to trigger a three-way war, and that they can stop him before he destroys the world.
Making himself walk instead of run took every ounce of composure he had, especially when he got far enough to see the city blanketed in a strange layer of dust and dark thunderclouds. The weather had been clear for miles around. Those clouds had the smack of weather alchemy about them.
“We’re chasing rumors of skilled alchemists,” Mustang said. “Your name came up, several times. Thirty-one-year-old alchemic genius Edward Elric, from Risembool, living with a family friend and his younger brother.”
“Check your sources, bastard,” Ed told him. “I’m twenty-six. Al’s twenty-five.”
Everyone is born with the ability to only see the colour of their soulmate’s eyes. Only upon touching their soulmate, can people see the rest of the world’s colours. Edward Elric will do whatever it takes to get his brother’s body back and ensure he can have his happily ever after with his soulmate, even if it means never finding his own soulmate.
Edward violently denies the existence of magic. Roy is a State recognized Mage. Alphonse is sick and all research into the cause–both mundane and alchemical–has turned up nothing.
Yet, despite Edward’s protests that magic is nothing more than a flashy form of alchemy (expletives excluded), it exists and it’s coming for him in a very real way.
After a single date, Roy Mustang is left with only funeral flowers and the memory of a guy who could have been The One. A few months later, he finds himself introduced to a friend of a friend who looks eerily familiar.
Second chances come from unexpected places, he knows, but—Ed’s cousin?
Conceptually, attending Emperor Ling’s coronation celebration is simple enough. In practice, it involves far too much trekking, yearning, bleeding, burning, hoping, running, and dodging of diplomatic catastrophes for Roy’s tastes.
There’s little more that Edward dreams of than freedom: freedom to travel to new places, to learn anything within reach, to explore and sail across the waves. But as an omega in a wealthy, high-class household, he’s expected to do one thing: marry well. He thinks his close friend, Roy Mustang, newly-appointed Commodore to the Amestrian Navy, understands his disdain at this prospect, but a surprise announcement by Ed’s father strikes a blow not just at Ed, but at his and Roy’s friendship.
Ed, of course, has never been one to conform to expectations, and he’ll fight against this one just like any other. Bigger trouble, however, is brewing on the horizon, and when Ed finds himself the sudden captive of a murderous crew of pirates, he must rely on all his skill and wit to survive.
Across the sea, Roy has been forbidden from sailing to Ed’s rescue. But he’s never been one to give up either, and a ragged pirate might just be his and Ed’s key to escape—and to earthshattering knowledge lost for centuries.
Prince Edward is a pain in his parents’ behinds, and they eventually resort to locking him up in a tower with a dragon in hopes that some enforced solitude will help him sort out his priorities. Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t quite work out the way they’d hoped.
When Drachma agrees to meet for peace talks at Briggs Fortress, General Roy Mustang is the one sent to represent Amestris. It just so happens that the Drachmans have their own Amestrisan, who is far too skilled at turning the most tedious of discussions into an exciting time.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN HIMSELF COMMENTED IN HIS LETTERS AND INTERVIEWS on the similarity his invented race of Dwarves had, in his view, with the Jews: “I do think of the ‘Dwarves’ like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations” and “[t]he Dwarves of course are quite obviously—couldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic […]” (Letters 229; Interview). In this article, I explore this similarity between Dwarves and Jews (or, more accurately, cultural assumptions about “Jewishness”) in Tolkien’s depiction of the Dwarves in his 1937 book The Hobbit, and how that portrayal shifts in his later work. I argue that “Dwarvishness” in The Hobbit involved several traits, recognizably drawn from antisemitic stereotypes, that, according to the narrator, exclude the Dwarves from the heroic ethos that is the hallmark of the book’s value system. Tolkien’s later recognition of this, perhaps, caused him to sharply alter his presentation of Dwarves in The Lord of the Rings, published in 1954-55, and to continue this revision in his later unpublished works.
Here is a really excellent essay that talks about Tolkien and antisemitism in the Hobbit as well as a few of his other earlier works about Middle Earth.
I’ve posted it before, but I’ll continue to post it every time the conversation gets brought up.
Also check the bibliography on this paper because it will lead you not to just to more essays on Tolkien and antisemitism but will also discuss issues of racism in his work as well.
You know you’re dying to check this out, ya nerds.
While your brain never truly shuts off, when you do fall asleep, your brain sends inhibitory neurons that help reduce conscious awareness to get to a point of deep sleep. Normal sleepers often feel like they’ve fallen asleep before their brain is in a scientifically defined state of sleep, but people with insomnia aren’t so lucky.
A recent study by BYU psychology professor Daniel Kay published in Sleep suggests a dysfunction in the inhibition process could be what causes those with insomnia to have a hard time fully falling asleep.
“Previous studies found that patients with insomnia appear to be asleep, their eyes are closed and their brain is in a characteristic sleep pattern, but you wake them up and guess what they are more likely to tell you? ‘I was awake,’” Kay said.
This problem has traditionally been characterized by sleep scientists as sleep misperception. Kay, however, argues that that term is based on the assumption that sleep is categorical, either being asleep or being awake, and that when you’re asleep you don’t have consciousness.
“I don’t think that’s necessarily true,” Kay said. “I think you can be consciously aware and your brain be in a sleep pattern. The question is: What role does conscious awareness have in our definition of sleep?”
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