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Orrick boosts Singapore bench with first disputes partner

Elaine Wong Orrick has strengthened the firm’s Asia practice with the addition of the first dispute resolution and international arbitration partner Elaine Wong to its Singapore office, complementing the expanding energy and infrastructure team on the ground. Mark Beeley, the London-based head of Orrick’s global international arbitration practice, told Asia Business Law Journal that Singapore has…

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Partnering for Pride: Orrick Hosts 2025 “Pride in Wheeling Day”

Once again, Orrick team members and Wheeling volunteers are stepping into the community to show LBGTQIA+ allyship and to come together around community improvement. With the support of several local businesses and groups, Orrick is hosting its 9th annual “Pride in Wheeling Day” on Friday, June 6th from 8am – 5pm.Pride in Wheeling was established more than eight years ago by a group of Orrick associates and staff to enhance community engagement and to create a forum for celebrating and promoting conversations around inclusion and belonging. In prior years, volunteers have planted flowers, painted playgrounds, covered graffiti, painted community murals and contributed more than 150 service hours in one day on community service projects.Photo above features artist Amanda Carney’s 2024 mural along the Heritage Trail.]This year, the Committee is partnering with Crittenton Services; Dinsmore; The Friendlier City Project; NAMI Greater Wheeling; Sherwin-Williams Paint Store of Washington, PA; and WesBanco. On June 6th, volunteers will paint four murals designed by local artists Amanda Carney, Mindi Yarbrough and Vondel Bell. Murals include a West Virginia Quilt, the Suspension Bridge, and portraits of Wheeling locals Jimmy Pickett and Jay Adams to honor their significant contributions to our community. Event participants will also clean-up along Heritage Trail and other areas in Wheeling as well as help King’s Daughters Child Care Center set up classrooms.Nick Roxby, Co-Chair of the Orrick Pride in Wheeling Committee, notes, “We are excited to be hosting this year’s event and continuing support for our local LBGTQIA+ community. Now is an important time to build allyship and foster understanding within our community, and we are happy to host an event that brings people together.”Photo above are 2024 volunteers repainting the pool house at Warwood’s Garden Park.Since the event’s inception, the City of Wheeling Mayor (Denny Magruder) has proclaimed the date of the event as “Pride in Wheeling Day” citywide. The committee is thankful for the City’s continued support.“We remain grateful for the ways in which the City of Wheeling, all of our volunteers, artists and partner organizations continue to show up as allies and support Pride in Wheeling,” says Nick.Everyone is encouraged and welcome to participate as a volunteer. If you would like to participate or if you would like more information, please reach out to co-chairs Nick Roxby at [email protected] or Amy Riordan at [email protected]. Read the full article

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Partnering for Pride: Orrick Hosts 2025 “Pride in Wheeling Day”

Once again, Orrick team members and Wheeling volunteers are stepping into the community to show LBGTQIA+ allyship and to come together around community improvement. With the support of several local businesses and groups, Orrick is hosting its 9th annual “Pride in Wheeling Day” on Friday, June 6th from 8am – 5pm.Pride in Wheeling was established more than eight years ago by a group of Orrick associates and staff to enhance community engagement and to create a forum for celebrating and promoting conversations around inclusion and belonging. In prior years, volunteers have planted flowers, painted playgrounds, covered graffiti, painted community murals and contributed more than 150 service hours in one day on community service projects.Photo above features artist Amanda Carney’s 2024 mural along the Heritage Trail.]This year, the Committee is partnering with Crittenton Services; Dinsmore; The Friendlier City Project; NAMI Greater Wheeling; Sherwin-Williams Paint Store of Washington, PA; and WesBanco. On June 6th, volunteers will paint four murals designed by local artists Amanda Carney, Mindi Yarbrough and Vondel Bell. Murals include a West Virginia Quilt, the Suspension Bridge, and portraits of Wheeling locals Jimmy Pickett and Jay Adams to honor their significant contributions to our community. Event participants will also clean-up along Heritage Trail and other areas in Wheeling as well as help King’s Daughters Child Care Center set up classrooms.Nick Roxby, Co-Chair of the Orrick Pride in Wheeling Committee, notes, “We are excited to be hosting this year’s event and continuing support for our local LBGTQIA+ community. Now is an important time to build allyship and foster understanding within our community, and we are happy to host an event that brings people together.”Photo above are 2024 volunteers repainting the pool house at Warwood’s Garden Park.Since the event’s inception, the City of Wheeling Mayor (Denny Magruder) has proclaimed the date of the event as “Pride in Wheeling Day” citywide. The committee is thankful for the City’s continued support.“We remain grateful for the ways in which the City of Wheeling, all of our volunteers, artists and partner organizations continue to show up as allies and support Pride in Wheeling,” says Nick.Everyone is encouraged and welcome to participate as a volunteer. If you would like to participate or if you would like more information, please reach out to co-chairs Nick Roxby at [email protected] or Amy Riordan at [email protected]. Read the full article

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Meet the OCs - Borrowed Time and Space

A summary of original characters featured in my Doctor Who/Borrowers crossover multiverse, as well as visual artwork commissioned to bring them to life! I'll do what I can to keep it updated as relevant characters are introduced.

Doctor Who belongs to the BBC, The Borrowers to Mary Norton, and these OCs belong to me!

General warning for story spoilers

Zepheera - The OG, My Beloved

art by the lovely @quackghost

Zepheera is a borrower, a diminutive humanoid race native to Earth. Shortly after she was born in 1927, an abstract creature from the stars latched onto her consciousness and granted her unique abilities. These diminished and faded as Zepheera and the creature by extension were put through incredible distress in her early life, causing it to pass away sometime after she turned 18. The only lasting impact from the creature remaining was an inability to age. Now, there seems to be no end to how long her lifespan has been extended so long as she survives. Which she's very good at as a borrower, raised with the skills needed to get by in a world much larger than her. In addition, she carries a mutated gene from her father's side that allows her to heal from injuries and wounds much more quickly than usual. The entirety of the Borrowed Time and Space multiverse centers on her as the Doctor's companion, no matter which Doctor.

She's been around for over a decade in my real life, and has grown so much from the daydream self-insert tiny companion of my youth. I have so enjoyed fleshing out her life story, expanding her universe and finding out how she responds to the different Situations™️ I keep putting her in.

Because Zepheera's Origins and the overall basis of her character stay the same throughout AU, the characters under the cut will have more in-depth summaries. Last warning for story spoilers, and TW for mentions of child abuse

Zepheera's Family

Most of the relevant OCs from this point on are more borrowers (shocker, I know) and relatives of Zepheera, a list that can and will only grow because I am insane. Most of them are featured in Zepheera's Origins, and some also appear or are mentioned in various BTaS stories.

Tack - Father; In life, he was kind and forward-thinking for his time. A man full of so much love in his heart for his wife and especially his infant daughter that it ultimately killed him. Though he carried the healing factor that he passed down to his daughter, he was fatally injured in an inadvertently devastating release of energy from the entity symbiotically linked to Zepheera.

Klerida - Mother; Devastated by the loss of her husband and without the tools to cope with any of it, she turned all that hurt onto her daughter. Blamed her for being the epicenter of the catastrophe that caused Tack's death. She spent Zepheera's childhood swinging between being cold and detached from her, and lashing out aggressively, leaving her child to feel at fault for Klerida's and her own hurt.

Author's Note: While I don't regret taking this angle with Zepheera's mother, I acknowledge that at the time of writing Episode 2: Memories, I didn't have the tools to write an abuser in a way that wasn't extreme and over the top. In what I now consider to be the proper canon, Klerida did put her hands on her child in anger, but never went so far as to break Zepheera in the way described in the Episode.

Boston - Uncle; Though he did not witness and wasn't aware of what Zepheera went through at home, Boston took it upon himself to take the girl under his wing since his brother couldn't. He taught Zepheera about borrowing, despite it being a traditionally a man's skill at the time, and kept her company when she needed a friendly presence. He loved her like his own, even if Klerida kept him at arm's length.

Baycliff - Stepfather; He and his family lived in an entirely different part of the house Zepheera's family occupied. Baycliff met Klerida in passing once or twice before Tack's death, and then properly go to know her years afterward. After their marriage, Klerida's more physically abusive tendencies toward Zepheera died down in favor of the cold detachment; Baycliff fussed more over his wife and...

Kernel - Half-Brother

art by the wonderful @mythical-cupcake (left) and @creatorofuniverses (right)

Kernel was born when Zepheera was 7 years old, and she fell in love instantly. He was a curious, high-spirited boy who looked up to his big sister, a bright light in the family that was snuffed out all too soon. While out borrowing with Zepheera, he met with a terrible fate outside of both of their control.

Klerida was none too happy about Zepheera once again being seemingly responsible for the loss of someone else she loved with all her heart, to put it kindly.

Orrick - Husband

art by quackghost

Orrick is a kind soul, a sweetheart through and through. He found Zepheera outside of his home after she ran away from hers. He and his family took her in, and their relationship blossomed over time. They made a life and a home for themselves and were happily committed to one another for over twenty years. Then Zepheera discovered she wasn't aging and, in a moment of panic, fled from the wonderful life they had. He was given no explanation, and could do nothing but despair in the wake of the disappearance of his wife.

His story is tied to Zepheera's Origins, mentioned in a few others in which Zepheera opens up about her past, and he has recently resurfaced in the Donna Trilogy story, If I Could Turn Back Time.

Day - Daughter; Shortly after Zepheera left Orrick, she discovered she was pregnant. By then, it was too late for her to be able to find her way back to him, and the notion of outliving her child was twice as painful as it was for her spouse. So she found a lovely couple to raise her daughter: Ceillo and Toffer. The two men couldn't have children of their own, and she grew up with incredibly loving parents.

(left to right) Toffer, Day, and Ceillo by the fantastic @guaxinimraccoon

Marcue - Grandson

Art by quackghost

When Day was still quite young, she met and married Brine, and the two of them had a son. He was a quiet, thoughtful boy growing up, especially with his parents' relationship growing more and more contentious over the years. He met a young girl named Laitina who lived in another part of the house, the same age as him, and the two of them hit it off. First as friends, then as something more than that. But one day, after a particularly bad fight, Brine took his son and left for another house. There he remarried and had another child, a daughter. Marcue quickly became protective of the girl, and though he longed to reunite with his mother and Laitina, he stayed to make sure his half sister would be okay.

Marcue first appeared in Episode 3: Lost Things Being Found, which is now non-canon but Marcue's side of the story remains canon.

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GT July Day 8 Bonus:

Slightly related to today's short story, my very dear and good friend @neonthebright shared a song with me recently that wasn't even on my radar. The second I heard it, my entire heart sank into Zepheera/Orrick feels. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out their love story in Zepheera's Origins, chapters 4 onwards specifically.

I'm a music lover first and foremost, and I've already associated certain songs with my star-crossed lovers. This one is less diegetic than ones I've put into the stories, but it still gave me big ol feelings. I figured I'd share if anyone else cares and is as masochistic as me.

The song was the re-imagining of "Just A Dream" by Nelly. Specifically, the recent re-recording.

Emotional flailing under the cut. Tl;dr:

From the get-go, it's an emotional song because this video is spliced with old footage of the original cover made almost 13 years ago. Footage of the late Christina Grimmie. The male singer Sam Tsui and the instrumentalist Kurt Hugo Schneider returned for the re-recording. The original cover is also outstanding, but the vibe from them both in this new version is much more somber and heavy with the loss of Christina. So that's already crying points.

Then there's the added dynamic of the male and female singers that immediately invoked in me the feeling of lovers who adore each other so much but cannot be together, which hits so much different than the single perspective of the original. Made it very easy for me to insert my most tragic M/F couple into their roles.

I want to preface my next statement by saying that I was not aware of Christina Grimmie or her death before this song was shown to me, and it is the farthest thing from my intention to disrespect her memory or her admirers with my words. That being said, the age difference between her 12-year-old footage and the others' re-recordings brings to my mind the entire reason Zepheera left Orrick to begin with. She was stuck in time, fated to be forever youthful, and was terrified by the notion of watching the person she loved age away while she stayed the same and had to deal with being left without him.

And don't even get me started on the lyrics! They're not always exact, but some of them just Hit Me in the Heart, guys. First there's the chorus, which they always sing together.

I was thinking about you Thinking about me Thinking about us What we gonna be Open my eyes It was only just a dream Travel back, down that road Will you come back? No one knows I realize It was only just a dream

Changing the gendered pronouns throughout (most) of the song to "you" adds a more personal touch in my opinion, not just relating this story to someone else but wishing that the subject themselves could hear them. Adds an emotional urgency to it for me.

Lots of Orrick feels in the first verse (skimming through the less relevant lyrics):

I was at the top and now it's like I'm in a basement Number one spot, now you find you a replacement I swear now that I can't take it (...) Now you ain't around, baby, I can't think (...) 'Cause I can still feel it in the air See your pretty face, run my fingers through your hair My lover, my life My baby, my wife You left me, I'm tied 'Cause I know that it just ain't right

I can vividly imagine things like this running through Orrick's mind, reeling after being left high and dry.

The second verse related to Zepheera less than Orrick's, mostly because it was initially written from the perspective of a man who pushed a woman away. Even so, there are a few lines that really stuck out to me and stabbed me right in the heart:

Another riding, I swear see your face at every turn (...) And I just hope you know that you're the only one I yearn for No wonder I'll be missing when I learn (...) Hey, you were so easy to love But wait I guess our love wasn't enough Going through it every time that I'm alone (...) 'Cause I was wrong

She knows that leaving Orrick behind was a horrible thing. She knows that, and she did it anyway because she couldn't face losing him the long way around. Not when she couldn't carry the burden of aging alongside him like normal people and partners do.

And if that wasn't enough, they hit us with this bridge:

If you ever loved somebody, put your hands up If you ever loved somebody, put your hands up And now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything

The second time this repeats, and I say this without judgement on Christina's crystal clear talent, the way her diction comes across made me think the lyric was "If you ever lost somebody" and just made Everything Hurt.

I have no good way to end this other than to reiterate:

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I’ve loved reading the July prompts! It’s been great to find out more about Orrick and the role he plays in Zepheera’s life. I don’t know why, but I always assumed he and Zepheera’s relationship was after her time with the Doctor. Finding out he was part of her origin story is so cool! Love your stuff! <3

Thank you! I fully realize it's been almost a year since you sent this in, sorry about that! <3 <3

Poor Zepheera and Orrick. Sad as their story is, I did have fun fleshing out more of their relationship. Showing how they met and the aftermath of their separation felt like they were a long time coming.

It's an interesting thought that they would have met after Zepheera met the Doctor! I do wonder how their relationship might have changed if they had. Maybe she wouldn't have panicked the way she did. Perhaps she would have stayed, or at least had a proper discussion with him about her living conditions and what he could expect going forward.

The world may never know...

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Reckless, Abandoned

15. Redraw

From this list of gt prompts.

AU: Zepheera's Origins

Note: So... I'm not a visual artist. I have drawn like one g/t thing in my life and there's no way I'm redoing it lol. So we get this. More feels. Yay?

I promise next prompt won't be totally depressing <3

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Demessa wasn't one to venture out into the garden, but her brother wasn't in his room or anywhere else in the house. It was the only place left to look.

Being out-of-doors always felt too open to her, as it would to any sensible borrower. It felt like anything could jump out at her from any direction. The faster she could find her brother, the faster she could be back in the comfortable, confined safety of the walls and floorboards. Luckily for Demessa, he only had so many usual haunts.

She found him before too long, sitting atop a decorative rock embedded in the soil between plants. Drawing her dressing gown tighter against herself to stave off the morning chill, she circled round to the bottom of the rock's gentle slope.

"Aren't we getting a bit old for this?" she bemoaned. Indeed, she was aged in her early fifties, and her brother in the middle of his forties. Such things as sneaking out of the house without telling anyone were beyond childish for them. No response came from her brother, who sat hunched over his book.

"Orrick, please. It's been hours, you're lucky the beans haven't--"

"And so what if they did?" Orrick snapped.

That took Demessa aback. Not once could she recall him ever being short with her or their younger sisters. Never had she seen the daggers in Orrick's eyes as he glanced up at her before returning to his sketchbook.

With a deep, steadying breath, she continued her approach. "What are you working on?"

Orrick stiffened at the question, his hand freezing in the middle of his sketch. As she got closer, Demessa realized that he'd started several sketches only to abandon them halfway through and start another. They lay around Orrick, torn out of his sketchbook and weighed down with things he had on hand.

All oft hem sketches of his recently vanished wife.

"Orrick..."

"She took them," he said falteringly. "Some of the pictures I'd made. They're gone. She wanted to keep them." He reached out a shaking hand to point at all the images of Zepheera, drawn from memory. "She was happy, see? I saw it, or else I wouldn't be able to draw it!"

"My goodness, keep quiet!" Demessa hissed, sliding to sit alongside Orrick and wrap her arms around him. She knew he'd been devastated by Zepheera's sudden departure, enough to make his way back to his old house on his own. The house where they'd met. He was obviously taking it harder than he'd let on.

"I'm sorry, Orrick. But she's gone, and you cannot keep doing this to yourself. Please, come home."

At her touch and her words, all the tension bled from Orrick. Demessa suddenly found herself supporting her brother's weight as he all but collapsed into her.

"What'll I do without her?" he breathed, and she realized he was sobbing. She tightened her embrace around him, holding him close like they were kids again.

"I'm sure you'll find something. Someone new. There's bound to be another woman for you," she tried to insist, knowing it was too much to ask for that to be enough to give him hope.

To confirm her worry, she felt his head shake no against the crook of her neck. "Not like her."

Demessa felt her heart break as she understood that he was right. That Zepheera had been a unique individual, one who got on with Orrick almost perfectly. Why she would leave such a loving husband behind, Demessa would never comprehend. Nor could she easily forgive the heartache burdened upon her brother.

"Come on," she urged. "Let's clean this up, and go inside. Things will get better, one day." She promised this with a confidence that did not match how she felt, seeing her brother in this state. Orrick had a long journey ahead of him before he would feel better. If he ever did at all.