onyx

originally here for the royals. Currently discovering the joys of Jane Austen. Antisemites will be blocked.

[onyx8484]

The Today Show's interview with Elle Kennedy gives me so many theories about what is going to happen in Bad Idea.

With the reveal that Ivy is being bullied, now it makes sense why she was avoiding people and skipping hockey games at the end of Love Song. This also clarifies the teaser Elle Kennedy posted of the beginning of the first chapter from Ivy's POV - no wonder Ivy wants this year (her sophomore year) to be better than the last (her freshman year).

My theory about why "the hockey program ... is in shambles from something else." From the wording, I don't think it has to do with the personal drama between AJ and Beau. What if it's because there's a new coach? What if Coach Jensen is forced to retire for health reasons or just sidelined for part of the season? Evidence supporting this theory. From Chapter 31 of Love Song: "His parents, Brenna and Jake, are spending the summer in Boston to help out Brenna’s dad who just had knee surgery." Also in a Q&A, Elle Kennedy mentioned that we'd see more of Mike Hollis in Bad Idea, who became one of the coaches in the Campus Diaries series. What if the reason we see more of him is because he's the new head coach when Jensen is forced to retire or take a medical leave of absence?

[onyx8484]

While ‘Off Campus’ Viewers Are Just Meeting Briar OGs, Author Elle Kennedy Is a Dozen Books Ahead — Writing About Their Children

The author of the hockey romance books that inspired the hit TV series tells TODAY.com about her next novel set in the Briar University univ

[fideidefenswhore]

Once reinstated to the court in 1536, Mary and her ladies sought her father’s approval for the colours she purchased and, more significantly, wore when in his presence. Mary’s requests for Henry’s opinion on her wardrobe choices suggest a strong desire on her part to appear conciliatory and interested in her father’s attention and approval. A letter dated from the spring of 1538 indicates that such overtures were not entirely welcome; despite an initial rebuff, Lady Kingston made a second attempt on Mary’s behalf to wring an opinion out of the king […]

Duncan, Sarah, and Valerie Schutte, eds. 2016. The Birth of a Queen : Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

[onyx8484]

Okay, sorry, but Off Campus is my new favorite thing. So after the trailer, I went and read the books and then after binging the entire first series, I got even more obsessed. Now prepare for theories and posts about the next book, Bad Idea, coming out in November.

[alicent-florent]

FIREBRAND (2023) dir. Karim Aïnouz

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 3 days 20 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 3 days 20 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 3 days 20 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[dindjarism]

STAR WARS: EPISODE V – THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)

[fideidefenswhore]

In September 1533 Bishop Fisher told Charles V, via his ambassador in England, 'the pope's weapons become very malleable when directed against the obdurate and the pertinacious and, therefore, it is incumbent upon Your Majesty to interfere in this affair and undertake a work which must be as pleasing in the eyes of God as war upon the Turks.' A few weeks later Catherine of Aragon was expressing her hopes 'of the defeat and death at the pope's hands of this second Turk,' the joint invocation of papal authority and the Turk indicating that Catherine was anticipating an anti-Henrician crusade. Chapuys [...] was a busy man in these years, conveying the treasonable thoughts of Englishmen to the Emperor. In September 1534 he reported to his master that Lord Darcy had promised northern support for any Habsburg invasion: 'With the assistance of Your Majesty Darcy would raise the banner of the Crucifix together with yours'. Cromwell had been right. Darcy was a traitor long before October 1536.

Tyerman, Christopher. 1988. England and the Crusades, 1095-1588. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[fideidefenswhore]

The Venetians could not hide their perplexity. Why, if Henry and Katherine were involved in a dispute that was rocking Christendom, did they still continue to attend functions together, to dine together in public and to behave, with their daughter present, as if nothing was going at all? In June 1530, the Signory in Venice were told [...] 'this most virtuous Queen maintains strenuously that all her king and lord does, is done by him for true and pure conscience' sake[...]' Maybe this is the line that Katharine took with Mary, absolving her husband of blame, emphasising that conscience was the key to the difficulties that Henry faced. It would certainly explain Mary's otherwise misguided confidence in her father, whose conscience was actually one of the most self-serving and self-pitying in history. At an impressionable age, Mary learned that conscience was the most important justification for behaviour that anyone could make. It became her guiding principle— a clear conscience was what you owed yourself and God—and the cause of much of her unhappiness.

The myth of "Bloody Mary" : a biography of Queen Mary I of England. by: Porter, Linda. Publication date: 2009

[organa-solo]

Just remembering when Anakin Solo met his cousin Ben Skywalker as a newborn and called him ugly.

I love him.

[fideidefenswhore]

The crusade theme was taken up by Princess Mary in October 1535, the year of More's death. Commenting to Chapuys on Charles V's recent conquest of Tunis, she remarked that the conquest of England 'itself will be highly acceptable in the eyes of God and no less glory will be gained by it than by the conquest of Tunis or even Africa.'

Tyerman, Christopher. 1988. England and the Crusades, 1095-1588. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[margaritiques]

But for María and the other Spanish women, Richmond must have felt like a gilded cage. Their household was kept in comparative isolation even from others living in the palace, and there was little to do but wait for the tides of fortune to turn. Not surprisingly, she was desperate to return home. She reminded her brother-in-law Ochoa repeatedly that she had no intention of remaining in England after her mistress’s marriage, and declared that ‘this is not a land to stop [in] unless necessary’. She was so unhappy that she could not bear to contemplate the glory of going home in case it did not come true: ‘I want my departure so much that I cannot receive it except as a mockery.’

On María de Salinas' desire to leave England and return to Spain once her mistress Katharine of Aragon remarried.

Excerpt from The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark, published 2024.

[mikesseleven]

Emilia Clarke still being irritated about the death of Daenerys Targaryen in the year 2026 is so relatable

Bonus +

[multifander-is-writing]

Honestly, go off, Khaleesi.

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

Shakespeare made the Wars of the Roses the basis of seven of his plays, delineating the ‘purple testament of bleeding war’, and summing up the significance of 1399, when it all began, as destined to shower the landscape ‘with faithful English blood’. This emphasis on the human cost of civil war should help underline one essential feature of Tudor England. Kings might be appointed by God (in both their own and their subjects’ minds) and they might possess authority and wealth; yet their power was contingent on the good opinion of their subjects no less than a modern democracy. If they lost that good opinion, they ran the risk of losing their crown – not swiftly, by decorous electoral process, but slowly and painfully, through resistance, rebellion, civil strife, and often culminating in violent death.

Lucy Wooding, Tudor England: A History

[onyx8484]

I glance at Uncle Dean across the table. "Where does Beau want to go to college?" "Ah, he'll go wherever AJ goes, and I think AJ will choose Briar if Jensen is still the coach in a couple of years. Jake's been trying to convince AJ to go to Harvard for ages, but Grandpa Chad is the kid's idol." Dean's son, Beau, and Connelly's son, AJ, have been inseparable since the day they were born, along with Gray Davenport, son of another hockey legend who played with my dad at Boston for a couple of seasons before he was traded to Tampa. The trio is going to break a lot of hearts someday, if they haven't already.

Apparently from an extended version of chapter 15 in The Graham Effect

[elizabethboleyn]

What do you think happened to Amy Dudley/Robsart regarding her death?

She fell down the stairs - accident

She fell down the stairs - suicide

She fell down the stairs - accident/cancer

Elizabeth ordered it independently

Cecil ordered it independently

Robert ordered it independently

Elizabeth and Cecil ordered it together

Elizabeth and Robert ordered it together

Something else

Voting ended onJun 2