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[davidgilson]

« Une Histoire de Magie » de Chris Colfer, la prequel de son roman « Le Pays des Contes », dont j’ai illustré la couverture, sort aujourd’hui aux éditions Michel Lafon.

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[sunset-wishes-upon-hill]

What do you have planned for liars and soothsayers in regards to Ciel's revealed twin? Are you not going to follow the storyline that far and diverge with your own plot or keep the canon twin?

I’ve always written AKTMP with twin theory in mind before it was confirmed, so yes I’m leaning toward twin theory for TLAS although I try to avoid dragging out for long with chapters. In my recent TLAS chapter, Yuri had a dream and she would continuously have some sort of precognition that will lead her to suspect that Ciel is not who he says he is and it’s likely that the twin will make his appearance quite early on. At this point, we are still learning more about the twin and yet-to-be-fully-revealed past so I’m still studying as to how I’m going to portray the real Ciel and his role in the story. But I’ll share my views on this later on :) 

[moooosetracks]

FYI

Photos from our trip to New Orleans have moosteriously mysteriously disappeared.  An investigation is underway.  I suspect Moooose didn’t want images of his drunken shenanigans in the Big Easy getting out, even if he *is* a responsible moose and always calls a cab when drinking too much.  If they don’t turn up soon, we’ll move directly on to the next trip.  Which I think technically we already did, but details.

[sunset-wishes-upon-hill]

The Liars and The Soothsayer chapter 8 preview

A/N: Unstable internet in my area due to a storm (you can’t even call it a storm, more like windy than usual) but apparently tree has fallen onto one of electric pole so they’re fixing that at the moment. While I still have connection, here’s the preview to the next chapter :) Will be updated tomorrow. (Total word count for chapter 4 is 4k) But don’t worry, I’m writing chapter 9 right now.

She preferred the file room in the police department then the next place Ciel decided to stop by.

Undertaker.

It was the first time she had seen him and he tilted his head with gleeful curiousness, ignoring Soma or Sebastian or Ciel and ventured closer until she could feel his breath on her skin.

“And who is this young lady?” Undertaker hummed with an ear-to-ear grin then threw a sly, “A lover perhaps?”

Yuri inwardly flinched at the title. Why was it that everyone seemed to think that way? Those answers could be farther from the truth.

“Enough with trivial talk. She’s someone who is working for me now.” Ciel snapped. His patience ran shorter than usual with this man, “I need to know if there have been any children corpses that came through your door in the past few months. The surface world has not yet found the missing corpses, it seems.”

Undertaker leaned back and she finally let out a breath she had been holding, watching him as he took a bone shaped cookie from one of the many jars and snapped it in two with his teeth.

“In the underworld, children’s corpses are an everyday occurrence,” Undertaker shrugged, “We only get the poor ones.”

“It's the poorest children I'm interested in.” Ciel said, handing him the file of missing children with clipped photos.

Undertaker grabbed the first paper with his long, black fingernails, fluttering it playfully, “I wonder..were they there ~? If I saw something interesting, I think I’d remember.” Even though his eyes were hidden by the unruly, long bangs of his, she could feel his eyes shift toward her.

“A first rate laugh…if you do that, I’ll tell you anything you want ~”

It was the first time she ever saw Ciel unnerved, hues of his face bleached to grim paleness as though he was becoming physically ill, flinching back from his teasing, wiggling fingers, “Sebastian.”

The ever so devoted butler stepped forward, tugging his gloves and sharpened eyes.

“You’re going to rely on him again? Tsk, tsk,” He jerked a finger back and forth, “How about something new today? How about a new face, hm?”

[payaltest-blog]

The Tlass Family And Their Historical Links To The French Far Right

Yesterday I blogged about the links between Manaf Tlass and the French far right, and it now appears that the links between the Tlass family and French far right go back much further than a 5 day visit to Syria.  The French language contresubversion blog has been keeping an eye on the Tlass family over the past year and has come across some very interesting links between the Tlass family and members of the far right in France.  Frédéric Chatillon, who I've previously mentioned as recently founding the InfoSyrie site, leader and long term associate of the far right Groupe Union Défense, and close friends with Jean-Marie Le Pen, has a communication agency called Riwal. Riwal was created in March 1995 and it is primarily engaged in communication consulting, direct marketing, book publishing and magazines and mail order, mostly of the far right variety. After a raid on the GUD pro-Hamas posters were discovered that were linked to Damascus, and allegedly paid for by the Syrian Ministry of Defence, which as the time was led by Manaf Tlass's father, General Moustafa Tlass.  The Tlass family themselves have links to publishing, as they own the publishing house Dar Tlass, which published anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial literature.  In addition to the previously mentioned posters produced by Riwal Damascus also funded the production of anti-Semitic revisionist texts that were translated into Arabic. According to the conresubversion blog the links between the Tlass family and French far right go back nearly two decades, if not more

The first contacts between Chatillon and Tlass dating from October 1994: Frédéric Chatillon, during a visit to Damascus, had met to discuss general assistance that it could bring to his movement.

What this shows is that the 5 day visit to Syria I reported on yesterday wasn't just a one off event between the far right and Tlass family, but part of an ongoing relationship between the Tlass family and major figures in the French far right.  These links need to be exposed at a time when it's rumoured that Tlass will be promoted by the French to be part of any Syrian transitional government. Many thanks to Stephanie Lamy for all her help. You can contact the author on Twitter @brown_moses or by email at [email protected]

[payaltest-blog]

UPDATED - Manaf Tlass And His French Far Right, Voltaire Network, Pro-Assad Friends

It's been widely reported today that Manaf Tlass, son of former Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, part of Assad's inner circle, and commander of an elite unit in the Syrian army has fled Syria to Turkey.  Joshua Landis noted in his blog that he was a close confidant of Bashar al-Assad, and offered this possible reason for his defection

The word is that Manaf had been told to solve the Harasta and Duma problems (the growing uprising on the outskirts of Damascus). He did a good job by negotiating with the opposition leaders in both suburbs, agreeing that both government forces and opposition would pull back. The Alawi leadership said "no, that is not how we are going to do this." They pushed him aside and came down like a ton of bricks on the opposition in both neighborhoods, in an effort to assert state authority and crush the uprising through military means. Manaf supported a policy of negotiation, flexibility and compromise. He was overruled by the military leadership and has since looked for a way out.

Hama Echo pointed me in a direction of a couple of picture of Manaf Tlass which may indicate that this defection is more about saving his own skin than any ideological differences with the Assad regime. In August 2011 the French anti-fascist website Reflex posted an article about members of the far right in France, including Frédéric Chatillon, founding a new website, InfoSyrie, to correct what they stated was the gross misrepresentation of facts by the Western media in the pay of the US and Israel. The article goes on to describe links between the far right in France and the Alawite and Assad regime members in Syria, and describes a visit arranged by Chatillon for his associates, that include Thierry Meyssan, chairman of the  Voltaire Network; Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a anti-Semitic political activist; essayist Alain Soral; Ahmed Moualek, president of La Banlieue S'exprime (LBS); and Marc George to Lebanon in 2006, via a 5 day stop over in Syria, where it's alleged Chatillon initiated links with some “second level” regime personals. A future visit to Syria in 2008 with the same group, reportedly largely financed by the Tlass family, included hotels, sightseeing and drivers for their far right friends, including this meeting with Manaf Tlass (and other family members) pictured second from the left

Other individuals in this picture include Thierry Meyssan on the far right at the end of the table, and Dieudonné M'bala M'bala with his arm around Manaf Tlass.  Here's another picture from the same evening, showing, from left to far right, Frédéric Chatillon, Manaf Tlass, and Dieudonné M'bala M'bala

No doubt now Manaf Tlass has turned his back on the Assad regime his French pro-Assad friends might not be returning his phone calls anymore. Read more on the Tlass family connections to the French far right here. The Syrian website has an Arabic language article on the same subject here, and there's an English translation on the way that I will post once it's ready. Updated July 9th The Damascus Tribune has translated the above article into English, which you can read here.  Here's the main points: - The Tlass family was responsible for funding the Voltaire Network International, and a number of other sites, at the behest of the Syrian government. - Damascus gave Thierry Meyssan the money to relaunch the collapsed Voltaire Network in August 2005. - The funding of Meyssan and The Voltaire Network International was assigned to Munaf and Firas Tanaf from 2006. - During the 2008 visit to Damascus Thierry Meyssan recommended Frédéric Chatillon for a pro-Syrian PR campaign, that was also funded by the Tlass family, and led to the founding of RiwalSyria. - In 2011 Riwal registered and launched infosyrie.net for the benefit of the Syrian regime. Update July 9th The Syrian has now posted their own English translation. Related Posts The Tlass Family And Their Historical Links To The French Far Right You can contact the author on Twitter @brown_moses or by email at [email protected]

[ehhmeeyahh-blog]

I like a boy. Its been a long time since ive felt like this. Me liking him makes me smile. He has a beautiful heart. And gorgeous eyes lol. I can tell he loves Jesus and honestly thats what first attracted me to him. If the Lord lets anything come from this, i’ll update lol

[heartonsleeve93]

If you ever by chance happen to fall in love with me, I'd like you to know that I'm sorry.  

I'm the walking definition of contradiction. I'm the living, breathing meaning of a paradox. So if ever you feel like I'm hard to love, then wrong is what you're not.

My walls are higher than you'd ever care to know, and I'm fighting for you to stay free, but I'm begging you to knock down the ruins left by another soul who gave up on trying to save me.