Women in mud

NHK Trophy

This is Japan’s second and final Olympic selection event, and it will be streamed free (although I do not know if a VPN is required). Links to each day’s streams and start times can be found here. Live scoring/results at Seiko (link goes to a calendar, you’ll select days from there). The competition begins on 16 May with the women. Check your time zone difference here.

MAG Asian Championships

This is being held in Tashkent, like the recent Asian rhythmic champs, so I do expect streaming and live scoring. I just don’t expect them to be posted until the day things start. Check back here for links.
I may not be able to link directly to the live scoring. At rhythmic champs that was on a Russian domain and those are not allowed on Reddit currently due to the geopolitical everything. I will try to break up the URL should it be the same as rhythmic.
This is MAG-only, something I have just realized while writing this. (WAG is next weekend.) An Olympic berth is at stake. This will go to the highest-ranked eligible AAer. The following countries/individuals have qualified already (or maxed out their individual qualification):

Countries	Individuals
CHN	KARIMI Milad (KAZ)
JPN	LEE Junho (KOR)
KOR†	YULO Carlos Edriel (PHI)
	RYU Sunghyun (KOR)
	ABU AL SOUD Ahmad (JOR)
	KURBANOV Nariman (KAZ)
	SHEK Wai Hung (HKG)
	OLFATI Mahdi (IRI)
	ABDURAKHIMOV Rasuljon (UZB)
	TANG Chia-Hung (TPE)

† KOR has maxed out its individual qualification.
(ERGASHEV Khabibullo (UZB) is already listed as being allocated the host country spot. My reading of the rules is that this shouldn’t be allocated until after the conclusion of continental qualifiers —meaning he should be eligible for the AA spot here — but this may be another case of the artistic rules being clear as mud.)

Event	Day	Time
Senior QF/AA/TF	Thurs, 16 May
Junior QF/AA/TF	Fri, 17 May
EF Day 1	Sat, 18 May
EF Day 2	Sun, 19 May

(Will update with times just as soon as the AGU announces some.)

Core Hydration Classic

This is the final qualifier to US Championships. Reminder that the minimum score to qualify as a senior is 51 AA (juniors need a 49.5). HOPES Championships will take place at this event as well.
All times are US Eastern.

Event	Day	Time	Broadcast
HOPES Championships	Fri, 17 May	2-4:30pm	FlipNow
Junior elite	Fri, 17 May	7-9:30pm	USAG YouTube
Senior 1	Sat, 18 May	2-4pm	USAG YouTube
Senior 2	Sat, 18 May	7-9pm	CNBC and Peacock

Podium training will be streamed for all sessions on FlipNow. Click the link above for times.
For international viewers, the evening senior session will have an international feed also on the USAG YouTube channel. (Thank you to u/redbluehedgehog and u/prettiestfairy for sending me the link! If you’re in the US you may not be able to see that listing on the USAG YouTube channel.) This will be un-geolocked for US viewers following the competition. Last year they also uploaded the NBC version, but it could take a day or two because they have to wait for NBC to give them the file.
ADDITIONALLY, a 1-hour special edition on Simone’s ankle tape cut of the competition will air on NBC and Peacock on Sunday, 19 May at 2pm.

Hi I just need to get my thoughts out, I am on season 2 episode 11. I originally watched this show when I was a kid, which explains why I absolutely live for drama and why I was so horny at age 9. I am sure I am not the first person on this sub to have these particular thoughts but I figured another post about why Allison sucks wouldn't hurt? Ok in no particular order:

1. Allison sucks. Her mouth is somehow the most annoying character in these early episodes. I feel like she knows she has this mouth thing and emphasizes it to act like offended at everything.
   
2. There is no way on god's green earth that a woman like Amanda would ever date, let alone be obsessed with, Billy. There is also no way that Amanda would ever think to or need to compete with Allison for a man. There is also no way that a man would choose Allison over Amanda.
   
3. Billy's mouth is on par in annoyingess with Allison's mouth. These two have such distracting mouths and are constantly working them as if they are aware that yes, I have a distracting mouth.
   
4. Which brings me to the next point, which is that Allison and Billy seem like siblings to me. They have the sexual chemistry of a brother and sister. They are also both incredibly annoying. And thus, seem related.
   
5. Sydney and Marcia Cross re-confirm that redheads can be some of the most gorgeous women.
   
6. Poor Jane, they made her out to be such a stick in the mud. She was there just to have bad shit happen to her.
   
7. They just don't make horny shows like this anymore. That electric guitar sound that plays during all the sexy scenes just takes the horniness to 11. This explains a lot of why I "matured early". I watched this shit when i was like 8? So many lingering questions have been answered that explain why I am like this.
   
8. I always thought Amanda was a bitch, but has she literally EVER been wrong? No.
   
9. Allison is somehow the only character who looks 90s in the wrong way. Everyone else is 90s cool, which is what everyone under 30 is trying and failing to do irl today. Allison has the hair and clothing of a middle aged woman and is somehow like 26 when this starts? She looks 40.
   
10. I used to think Jake was so hot. And he is just a fucking asshole. Which explains why I have always been attracted to quiet guys who all end up being just assholes. Much to think about.
    

His ex sent me this message. Sorry it’s so long! Has anybody else gotten a similar message in the past? How did you react?
Message below: “It’s been over a year of me wondering whether I should just come out and ask you or message you… but being afraid that if I do, and I’m wrong, it’ll be a the biggest mistake of my life. I have begged and begged him to tell me what you are to him, and he denies having anything more than a platonic friendship with you.
I want to preface this message with, I have no ill will towards you, I just want some answers… answers I don’t believe I’m going to get from Jared. I don’t know if he’s mentioned anything about me. So here goes…
November 2022, I sent Jared an email, telling him I loved him, missed him, and though I didn’t require a response back, I wanted him to know how sorry I was for everything that had happened and things had ended. He responded with a lengthy email telling me he still fervently loved me and how he too was sorry for how things had ended. That email lead to the last year and a half of events.
December 2022, I drove down to Roanoke and surprised him at the Carilion garage. He left the hospital as fast as he could that night, and we spent the rest of that evening together, catching up, and he left for Key West two days later. Two weeks later, he came up to DC and we had a late birthday celebration for him at Clyde’s in Georgetown and went to see A Christmas Carol at the Ford Theater. A few weeks later we drove to Jersey to see Matchbox20, by now it was the end of January 2023. Almost every week off, for the last year, he would come up and see me, if even for only two days, or I would drive down to Roanoke and spend the week with him. We spoke about our past, the hurt, and future, he told me numerous times that when he pictured marriage and children, it was only with me, but he needed time. This part is important, and I’ll come back to it later. We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant in Navy Yard, two weeks before you guys left for London. Chris video chatted with that night while we were at the restaurant eating Wagyu, and they discussed the new shipment of sunglasses Chris had gotten for Miggieswear.
The weekend of the Super Bowl, he had come seen me earlier that week, the day after he left I came to Roanoke and left the day of the Super Bowl. He told me his parents were having a viewing party and he had to go home and cook. I’m now assuming he left my Airbnb and came to your place.
That February he planned a trip to London, with Nicole, Ryan and Chris, and what he told me were, Nicole’s “friends.” Nicole happened to post a picture of you guys sitting on the plane and I was shocked, why would Nicole’s friend be sitting between him and Ryan. I sent him a message while you were on that 6 hour flight, telling him that if he had been seeing somebody, then why didn’t he tell me? There was no point in us spending time together if he had moved on. His response to me was “do you even know what you’re looking at? I’m surprised you don’t recognize her, that’s Nicole’s friend. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions right now and don’t know what you’re talking about.” Something in my gut didn’t believe it but I wanted to trust that, so I did. I put you out of sight, out of mind. When he got back, he told me how he wished I’d been there with him, we both love history and old buildings, it’s a place we would have found magical together. I don’t know who came up with the idea of going to London, but part of me always thinks I’m the one who put it there when I shared the pictures i had taken when I went there the year we had been no contact.
We went to a Kenny Chesney concert in Charlottesville that March when I got back from my family trip to India, and he got back from London. Between work, us both traveling with our families, we were excited to see one another. We were going to go to St Augustine, but because of the weather, we stayed in Roanoke and saw Kenny Chesney in Charlottesville. The original plan had been to spend the night in Charlottesville at a hotel, but we couldn’t get one last minute so we ended up driving back to Roanoke and sneaking into the basement at his parents house and sleeping in his bed at 3am.
A few months later, we went to Richmond, and stayed the weekend, exploring the city, and watched Hamilton at the Altria Theater. A few months after that, we went to Savannah and Atlanta, where he got a flat tire driving into the garage, and spent the rest of the weekend at a yoga retreat. July, he asked me to go to Boston with him and his brother, for 4th or July weekend, but I couldn’t because my siblings were in town. Every single week, he came down and either stayed with me, or made a quick trip to spend time with me…
This past September, I found out he took you to Justin’s wedding, and I broke. I needed more from him. I have known him, been intimate with him, shared my every fear, worry, I have brought him home cooked meals from DC and surprised him at work with dinner, I’ve made him care packages. I’ve made Ryan Easter baskets and sent him birthday presents and encouraged Jared to put him in academic classes, I’ve helped Jared look into private schools for Ryan, and weighed the pros and cons of the options. I had no expectations in return from him other than, at the very least, a mutual respect and HONESTY.
I’ve seen him quite a few times since September and I last saw him in Roanoke at the beginning of March 2024. We sat in front of each other, in his car before he went into work that Monday night, and he told me, again, that when he thinks of marriage and a future, I’m the only one he pictures a marriage and children with. I’m not saying this to hurt you, or to make a point, I’m saying it because i don’t know what to believe anymore.
I became suspicious of his relationship with you, when he mentioned going to Macchu Picchu and hiking through the mountains. As all women have the ability to find out details they might later regret, I did the same thing. Except I didn’t believe he had actually gone to Macchu Picchu. I knew his passport had been long expired since around or before COVID, and I knew he had renewed it before he went to London. But that was when I realized you were the girl in the photo that Nicole posted. When I confronted him about Macchu Picchu, he told me he had been joking and he had also already told me he’d been joking. He had NEVER told me it was a joke, he had actually refused to show me photos when I asked him for pictures from the trip… he had then proceeded to change the topic, which is what had even raised red flags in my head.
My point is, I have asked him point blank so many times whether you two have a relationship. You tell me you still love me, that you picture marriage and a family with me, but this girl is a part of your life, and you took her to a wedding with you, while I was on a trip with my siblings, you took her to London with you, and you continue to tell me she’s just a friend. I asked him again on Tuesday night/Wednesday Morning after he left work, if you two are dating, and he said no. He asked me why I’m so hyper-fixated on somebody who’s just a friend when he has a million other female friends.
In September, he told me he needed a month to clear his head, that he wanted to commit to me, but he was afraid and that he needed to get over the fear and roadblock of our past break up. I gave him grace and understood. So we took a 4 week break. Some time during that time period, he sent me a snap of doves, and said “doves, and swans mate for life.” He sent me Ed Sheeran songs telling me he wants to find his way back to me. “No Strings Attached… you are the one I love”
In November, he messaged me and told me he had a surprise for me and to look for something in the mail. He loves the Count of Monte Carlo, it’s one of his favorite movies, and he told me it was in reference to that. A few weeks later I got a candle, a silver 400 dollar Buddha candle from Thomson Ferrier. I didn’t understand the reference to the Count of Monte Carlo, but it was a beautiful gesture and present… especially because he knew how much little gestures from him mean to me.
Fast forward to January, I got another 350 dollar black skull candle from him, from Thomson Ferrier. At this point I was upset, angry and livid. I called my sister in tears that evening. I had come back to him because he told me he loved me, that he “has a fire that burns so deeply” when he thinks of me. If i had known that wasn’t true, i would have closed the chapter a year and a half ago. I don’t want $700 worth of gifts and candles, I want more. I want marriage, I want children, I want our lives to move forward, I want communication. Out of anger, I packed up the candle, his sweatshirts and clothes that he had left at my place this past year, and mailed them back to his house. I’m sure it’s sitting somewhere in his basement closet/ bedroom… along with his white Huq sweatshirt, a picture of us I had up in my house, and various articles of clothing.
What upsets me is that he didn’t just involve me this year, he involved my family. He sent my mom presents, my parents in return sent him gifts. My sister, parents and cousins messaged him asking him to come around more. There was no point in involving my family, if he was going to involve himself with you. There was no point in involving himself with me, if he was going to involve himself with you. Those leather Indian shoes sitting in his room, my dad bought those for him. That blue sweater, those green pants and that maroon shirt, my parents bought those for him just this last year.
I don’t know what he’s told you about me, but I will say this. I was your age when we started dating. I was 29 years old. He was single, that’s what everyone in our residency program thought. He would tell everyone how Shari left him one day, all of a sudden just got up and left. “I saw the look behind her eyes just change when she looked at me.” He would tell everyone his horrific dating stories. When i started dating him, there was no doubt in my mind he was single… but I was wrong. He wasn’t single, he was dating Devon, one of the nurses from Carilion, and he had been for the past 4 years prior to that. At one point when he moved to Norfolk, she had even moved in with him. Even Shari was visiting him in Norfolk during this time period. I would have never suspected it, nobody in our residency program did. It wasn’t until one day, when he told me his friends were visiting from home, and they were all going to a concert together, that I found out. Her profile picture was of the two of them together, and her Facebook relationship status said “in a relationship.” Out of my own naivety, i believed him when he told me she was crazy and obsessed with him. He told me, to him, they were just friends but she wanted more. Women do a lot of things, but no woman is dumb enough to think she’s your girlfriend when she’s not. When we moved back to our hometowns, Devon was there waiting for him. He disappeared one day for 24 hours, told me that he was helping his dad’s friend who was stranded in NC. A year and a half later, i would find out that was a lie and that he had been at a concert Florida Georgia Line concert with her. She had been visiting his grandmother with him, staying at his parents home. The irony is that a few weeks after he took her, he took me to the same concert in Scranton. Him and his family didn’t bat an eye when a month later, I showed up and was the “new girlfriend.”
Eventually Devon found out about his lies and left him, but again, stupid me thought she was a crazy girl who just wanted so badly to be with him, that she built their relationship up in her head.
Dignity, respect for humans, empathy, are the most important qualities in a human being.
What I don’t wish is for you to be in my spot in 5 years. He will paint you in his colors, make you fall in love with MB20, and take you to Augustana concerts, he’ll tell you that you understand him, and his heart in a way that nobody else does. He’ll bond with you over music, and send you songs that make you feel he’s talking about you. He is so good at making you feel seen, and involving you with his family. He’ll say he had a vision of a girl that looks like you, coming into his life, and here you are, his soul mate. And one day, the same way that Shari, Devon and I got lost in him, the reality of everything will come pouring down on you. Be careful, there are signs between the lines, and the smiles, and good times. Make sure you don’t miss those, whatever you decide.
My relationship with him, started off just like yours. Another girl on the periphery, and teetering the line of inappropriate. Everything you call him out on, will always have an excuse, and you will believe him because he’s the “good guy” who goes above and beyond for people.
I don’t wish for any woman to go through the pain I’ve gone through, the manipulation, the lies and the emotional abuse. I can’t tell you what to do, but I will say, be careful and don’t be blind to the small things that will one day become huge. The novelty will fade, and though Jared isn’t the devil, he has a lot of growing up to do at 40. It was not okay to toy with me and drag me through the mud this year. It wasn’t okay to minimize his relationship with you and lie to me about it. It’s not okay to, to this day claim to see a life with me and not commit to it. I deserve better, and you deserve better.
How men talk about their ex’s and other women is an indication about how they will one day talk about and treat you. That is the worst and best lesson i have learned. I’m 34, years of my life wasted, and he took another year of my life knowing full well, this is how it would end. He’s sat on the phone with me for hours talking about how stupid PA’s are and if you were going to not be a doctor, at least become an NP, who has better bedside knowledge. Why would he say that, because i suppose you’re a PA and it minimizes the significance of even having a relationship with somebody who isn’t as intelligent as he is. The lack of respect will always be there, you just have to look for it.
Dishonesty, and manipulation are a plague, and if that’s who you are at 40, it is who you will always be unless you recognize that something needs to change. Where there is no accountability, there can be no change. I’m not the exception, I’m the same as the two girls before me. He’ll show you text messages where he never responded to me, even though he replies on Snapchat where every thing is erased. I cannot believe i didn’t see the signs. He will make me look crazy and laugh at me, the same way he showed me messages from Jen, and Elisabeth, and Devon, and made them sound crazy to me. I guess that’s his MO. The same way he told me you were nothing to him.
I was going to send you this message, two months ago… i then decided not to because he convinced me he wasn’t dating you… I saw him less than a month ago in Roanoke, i begged him to tell me that he was in a relationship with you. He said he wasn’t, again, he told me he was going to a wedding alone with only Ryan and that he wasn’t taking you. I then begged him to tell me that we were done and that he didn’t love me anymore. His response was idk what’s going to happen a year from now, i know I’ll see you again. His response every time has been when im ready for a relationship, emotionally, do you want me to finally let you know? I don’t care to be with him anymore. I’m so over it but i really think you should know the type of person you’re dealing with.
He has put me through so much hell for a year and a half of my life, stringing me along acting like he’s doing me a favor while he works on his own mental health and claims to still love me when we are together.”
TLDR: my SO’s ex messaged me saying he’s been seeing both of us for the past year and a half. Has anybody experienced this before. She sent me pictures from the past year of them and their text exchanges

If I hadn’t drunk an entire gallon of tea back at the hotel, maybe none of this would’ve happened.
Well, maybe if we hadn’t gotten kicked out of the hotel, none of this would’ve happened.
It had been just the two of us in the small car, but with the animosity heavy on the air, it felt overcrowded. I don’t know what had been worse, the hour of arguing, the two hours of silence afterwards, or the burgeoning realization that maybe I didn’t know him as well as I thought I did.
I studied him out of the corner of my eye. We'd been together for several months, but the recent experience left me wondering if I had ever even met the real Brian – who he truly was on the inside.
It had been our very first trip together.
We'd saved up for one of those super fancy hotels and had been having a great time – until, of course, Brian decided to attempt a five-finger discount in the jewelry store in the lobby.
He'd told me when we first started dating that he'd had some run-ins with the law in the past – when he was young and that was the only way to put food on the table, and I'd understood.
But this wasn't the same. It wasn't for survival, it was just greed.
We’d both spent the rest of our vacation money and then some, paying for that $1,800 watch so no charges would be pressed.
They still kicked us out. I don’t blame them.
Asking him to stop at the next place we came across was the first thing I'd said to him in hours, and he nodded, solemnly.
My discomfort was escalating to the point where I was considering asking him to pull over on the side of the road – rain be damned – when we saw the dim sign flickering in the distance.
The small store was out of place on the quiet, tree lined mountain road. We’d been deep in a tunnel of trees and hadn’t seen so much of a hint of the lights in the distance – it seemed to just appear into view as we went around the bend. I didn't recall seeing it on the way to the hotel, so it was a pleasant surprise.
I felt a flood of relief wash over me.
It stuck out in the otherwise beautiful mountain landscape – windows so dirty that the light inside barely reached us through them – several letters on the sign lit up in such a way that the only word we could even see was a blood red '- MART' flickering.
Any relief I'd managed to feel was short-lived.
When we walked in, we both froze as we took in the interior.
I instantly wished we’d just stopped by the side of the road after all. I looked at Brian and could tell he felt it too – he was fiddling with his new watch and took off his glasses, cleaned them on his shirt, and put them back on, as if that would make what he was seeing make more sense.
There were no other customers, no employees visible, it was just the two of us.
Ceiling tiles hung askew, and the floor was filthy – we had to step over a drain in the floor with grimy stains circling it, to walk in.
If it weren’t for the lights, gentle hum of the AC, and grinding sounds floating from down the long hallway at the back, I’d have thought the place was abandoned.
It was humid inside, and the smell coming from the old coolers that lined the back walls hit me as soon as we walked in. It reminded me of the summer my dad had decided to dabble in taxidermy in our basement.
The slight hint of rot that lingered on the damp air indicated poorly done taxidermy, at that.
As I darted towards the back towards the restroom sign, a placard dangling off it caught my eye, informed me the restroom was for paying customers only.
I quickly perused the shelves for something to buy. The aisles were tall, nearly to the ceiling, and despite the store being somewhat small, I felt the panicked sense of being cornered and trapped in an endless maze – at risk of becoming lost in there forever. The food on the shelves resembled nothing like the usual chips and candy these types of stores carried – there were rows upon rows of soft looking mystery items in plastic wrap, some of them leaked a red-brown residue down the shelves – none of it looked remotely appealing.
I passed by a section with a stained placard that said ‘handcrafted from local artists’ that was filled with eclectic items, none of which seemed to go together.
There were torn shirts with random logos – nothing related to the town or area we were in, stained with mud, grass, and god knows what else. Dried ropy things formed small and delicate sculptures of animals unlike any I’d seen before. I reached for a bracelet with intricately carved white beads but nearly dropped it when I realized the band was made up of woven human hair. It left a residue on my hand, and I noticed then that the same sour-rot smell was coming from the collection of items, too.
I opted for a flat and lukewarm Dr. Pepper instead, and placed two $2 dollar coins on the glass counter in front of the hand scrawled ‘shoplifters will be processed’ sign near the register.
I figured I misread it, after all it, looked like it had been written by a hand unused to holding a pen.
Brian had grabbed an armful of those unnerving plastic-wrapped packages but hovered at the counter a bit too long. I could hear the scrape of him retrieving the coins on the glass, the sound of him dropping them into his pocket.
He gave me a pointed stare as he did so.
I sighed, so tired of arguing that I just walked away from him and down the hallway. I figured I’d pay (again) after he got back in the car.
No sooner had I closed the door to the women’s room behind me, than I could hear him talking to someone.
His voice rose until he was nearly yelling. Mortified and trying to delay being involved in another incident that day, I splashed water on my face while trying to drown out what appeared to be a one-sided argument.
I kept trying to wash the grimy feeling that had lingered on my hands after picking up the bracelet, but no matter how I scrubbed, I couldn’t get it off – it kept getting worse.
I felt nauseous when I realized the greasy residue was coming from the pale-yellow bar of soap. I decided I’d scrub my hands raw at our next stop, and stepped out into the hall and back to the store.
Brian wasn’t there.
I called out for him, but all I heard in answer was that same vague whirring and drilling sound coming from further down the long hallway.
I double-backed to the car, but found it empty.
I circled the store, my frustration turning to panic as I shouted his name and still got no response.
I called his phone, it just rang, and rang before going to voicemail.
The car was locked and he had the keys, I couldn’t help but feel nervous, standing out there in the rain. We were still in the middle of the deep woods and with clouds obscuring the light of the moon and stars, the area was blanketed in darkness. I reluctantly headed back inside.
Somehow, the smell had managed to become even worse – I gagged when the wet, disgusting air hit my nose again. It was so strong I could nearly taste it, putrid on my tongue.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was always someone just behind me as I walked quickly through the tall aisles, but whenever I looked over my shoulder, there was never anything there.
I called his phone, wondering how I’d managed to lose him in such a small store when I finally heard it ringing – it was echoing from down that long hallway.
As I headed towards it, I heard someone moving on the other side of the floor-to-ceiling aisle, placing something onto the shelf with a sickening wet thud, before weaving lithely through the aisles behind me.
“Brian?” I called out softly, trying to convince myself that everything was fine – trying to disguise my fear.
I knew it wasn’t him – I don’t know how, but I knew it. Have you ever had the feeling that if you look closely enough at something, if you truly see it, you’ll never be able to close your eyes again without it haunting you? That feeling of being in close proximity to something that your fragile mind was never meant to know existed?
I forced myself to turn around anyways.
Once again, whoever or whatever had been there was gone by the time I rounded the aisle, but I heard a gentle clinking sound, and saw a trail of red-pink droplets.
I followed it back to that section – handcrafted from local artists, there was something new hanging from a hook near the shelves – wet, glistening strips dangled from along what looked to be a curved bone with bits of gristle still attached. From one of them hung an expensive men’s wristwatch, another was tied around a shattered, thick glasses lens. Yet another sagged under the weight of car keys. They gently swayed with the motion of having been recently placed. Fluid continued to drip from the still wet viscera and mingled with the mud on my shoes.
Shoplifters will be processed
I didn’t need to see the items down the other aisles to figure out what I was looking at, what must have happened.
I could already tell that we’d never have another argument, ever again.
I heard a door open and close in the back, soft footsteps approaching from down that hallway.
I realized that in my distraction, I'd forgotten to put money back on the counter.
I choked up, but knew there was nothing I could do for him. So, I tossed the first bills I found in my purse onto the floor, frantically untangled the car keys, and in shock, I drove myself the remaining four-hour drive home.
Every so often, along the quiet country roads – those I could've sworn were empty on the drive up – I’d see that grimy building, the sign, '-MART' flashing in the distance.
I didn’t stop once.
I've been home for a week now.
A few nights ago, something triggered a motion alert on my video doorbell, but there was no one there when I checked the footage.
The next morning, I found a cardboard box on my porch – with no stamp or return address.
In it was a torn t-shirt, and several of those now-familiar wrapped packages, putrid fluid leaking out of them through the bottom of the soggy cardboard.
I've received a similar box every night, since.
I don't know if it's meant as a threat, or if due to some sort of twisted interpretation – I’m now a 'paying customer’ – he's slowly being returned to me.
Either way, it turns out that I've gotten to see who Brian was on the inside, after all.
JFR

Hello everyone!! I have a few questions about family camp and would greatly appreciate any tips with going with a 1yr old. thanks in advance.
Skip to bottom for questions.
a little bit about my LIB camp experience:
I love EDM and just music festivals all together. Been to most of the hard summers, beyond, countdown. id say I'm some what of an experienced festival goer. Plus love camping so LIB is just perfect.
Went to LIB the last 3 years it was in Bradley CA, it was not my favorite location due to the terrain and the risk of twisting an ankle while basically hiking from camp to festival. Yes, the view of the festival from the top of the hill was beautiful and the lake was nice too but i love how Buena Vista is flat and closer to home. (Coming from LA.) lost my friends at the festival on the first night and had to walk by myself back to camp..... it was an adventure.
unforgettable experience none the less.
Went again 21 and camped with friends at HIGH NOON. We got there on thursday mid afternoon. Did not wait long to get in and park to set up. It was duuuustyyyyy and then it rained on us on Friday? we lost a canopy due to the wind and most of my decorations were ruined. I was not prepared for rain and was upset in my tent waiting for it to stop. My friends entire foot with his shoe on was in the mud at our camp site. Some acts and stages were canceled because it was wet and the entire festival was moody. The rain did help with the dust though until it dried up. For sure I did not decorate anymore and just packed everything as if I was ready to leave. Entering the festival from High Noon was the best because it was right next to us and the whole section was a good vibe.
I got in the water that year..... had COVID by the time i got home and had to miss work for another 10 days. (not saying I got it from getting in the water. I think i got it by accidentally drinking the water. I went in with an open can of beer, friend threw a football that splashed water in my can. none of my friends got sick like me and I was the only one drinking at the lake. anyway that's my theory don't come at me.
from that experience I learned...
-easy on the decorations
-prepare for random rain
-dont drink lake water
22 went again and camped with friends, got there on Thursday early afternoon but this time we were directed to drive all the way to SUNSET. We just kept going and gooooooing.... we were basically at the end of it all. At first we were ok with the spot because it was grassy and with trees. It was nice to be away from the dust and felt that it wouldn't be so bad if it rained again. we set u camp, pregamed and headed to the festival. We then realized how far we were from the entrance and had to plan accordingly. I usually pack what i need and extra junk like little trinkets or bubbles, facepaint kit, sketch book. When we were at high noon we were able to go back and forth to camp to get stuff or reload on drinks. Our camp at Sunset was so far away from the entrance that forgetting something meant leaving it for the day or missing a whole set. I didn't make it to any of the morning yoga sessions. The closest portapotties to our camp were far, the showers were almost close to the entrance. Ice too. I regreated not brining my bike to use for those errands. I know walking is a given at LIB but that walk from camp really changed it up for me. I missed HIGH NOON and my bike! Our side of the campground was very quiet at night, less renagaades and lots of space that was not used by the group camping or RVs. Our entires camp could fit in one of those empty spaces that were closer to the festival. We ended up using the portas that i think were meant for staff since they were at the outskirts of camp. They were the most cleaned portas I've ever used at a festival. On Saturday evening we packed up our drinks and headed to the festival. Of course we packed it all cause it was a one way trip. We get to the entrance and see police checking bags and not letting in people with alcohol. My husband had a brand new bag of wine in his backpack. We were all loaded up. Only option we had was to drink it on the spot, leave it or WALK IT BACK TO CAMP.... walk it back to camp?. Im telling you it was that far.. plus we were headed to woogie.
anyway, that's part of my experience. Overall it has been ok. I know I can spend days preparing and still forget something. and the unexpected is all part of the adventure.
Missed last year because my baby was only 2 month and I thought it would be insane to expose him to the dust and heat then. I know its not impossible, I've seen infants at LIB as well as pregnant women. it was not the right time for us yet.
This year we are going with baby E! and I cant wait to experience LIB with him. I'm also nervous about it. I had a hard time deciding between the Easy peasy RV and the family camp but decided to do family camp because I would love for him to interact with other kids.
my questions:
what does family camp look like? I'm worried about the dust, the heat.
showers? is there a designated shower station at family camp?
recharging stations only for cellphones??
What are some must have for a toddlers?.
We got a wagon, and I'm taking a bike this year. Altho the map shows family camp closer to the festival it would be helpful to travel faster and save energy.
I read that art cars can be used to travel across the festival. I've always seen them and admired them but never thought I could ride them too. is that true?

His ex sent me this message. Sorry it’s so long! Has anybody else gotten a similar message in the past? How did you react?
Message below: “It’s been over a year of me wondering whether I should just come out and ask you or message you… but being afraid that if I do, and I’m wrong, it’ll be a the biggest mistake of my life. I have begged and begged him to tell me what you are to him, and he denies having anything more than a platonic friendship with you.
I want to preface this message with, I have no ill will towards you, I just want some answers… answers I don’t believe I’m going to get from Jared. I don’t know if he’s mentioned anything about me. So here goes…
November 2022, I sent Jared an email, telling him I loved him, missed him, and though I didn’t require a response back, I wanted him to know how sorry I was for everything that had happened and things had ended. He responded with a lengthy email telling me he still fervently loved me and how he too was sorry for how things had ended. That email lead to the last year and a half of events.
December 2022, I drove down to Roanoke and surprised him at the Carilion garage. He left the hospital as fast as he could that night, and we spent the rest of that evening together, catching up, and he left for Key West two days later. Two weeks later, he came up to DC and we had a late birthday celebration for him at Clyde’s in Georgetown and went to see A Christmas Carol at the Ford Theater. A few weeks later we drove to Jersey to see Matchbox20, by now it was the end of January 2023. Almost every week off, for the last year, he would come up and see me, if even for only two days, or I would drive down to Roanoke and spend the week with him. We spoke about our past, the hurt, and future, he told me numerous times that when he pictured marriage and children, it was only with me, but he needed time. This part is important, and I’ll come back to it later. We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant in Navy Yard, two weeks before you guys left for London. Chris video chatted with that night while we were at the restaurant eating Wagyu, and they discussed the new shipment of sunglasses Chris had gotten for Miggieswear.
The weekend of the Super Bowl, he had come seen me earlier that week, the day after he left I came to Roanoke and left the day of the Super Bowl. He told me his parents were having a viewing party and he had to go home and cook. I’m now assuming he left my Airbnb and came to your place.
That February he planned a trip to London, with Nicole, Ryan and Chris, and what he told me were, Nicole’s “friends.” Nicole happened to post a picture of you guys sitting on the plane and I was shocked, why would Nicole’s friend be sitting between him and Ryan. I sent him a message while you were on that 6 hour flight, telling him that if he had been seeing somebody, then why didn’t he tell me? There was no point in us spending time together if he had moved on. His response to me was “do you even know what you’re looking at? I’m surprised you don’t recognize her, that’s Nicole’s friend. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions right now and don’t know what you’re talking about.” Something in my gut didn’t believe it but I wanted to trust that, so I did. I put you out of sight, out of mind. When he got back, he told me how he wished I’d been there with him, we both love history and old buildings, it’s a place we would have found magical together. I don’t know who came up with the idea of going to London, but part of me always thinks I’m the one who put it there when I shared the pictures i had taken when I went there the year we had been no contact.
We went to a Kenny Chesney concert in Charlottesville that March when I got back from my family trip to India, and he got back from London. Between work, us both traveling with our families, we were excited to see one another. We were going to go to St Augustine, but because of the weather, we stayed in Roanoke and saw Kenny Chesney in Charlottesville. The original plan had been to spend the night in Charlottesville at a hotel, but we couldn’t get one last minute so we ended up driving back to Roanoke and sneaking into the basement at his parents house and sleeping in his bed at 3am.
A few months later, we went to Richmond, and stayed the weekend, exploring the city, and watched Hamilton at the Altria Theater. A few months after that, we went to Savannah and Atlanta, where he got a flat tire driving into the garage, and spent the rest of the weekend at a yoga retreat. July, he asked me to go to Boston with him and his brother, for 4th or July weekend, but I couldn’t because my siblings were in town. Every single week, he came down and either stayed with me, or made a quick trip to spend time with me…
This past September, I found out he took you to Justin’s wedding, and I broke. I needed more from him. I have known him, been intimate with him, shared my every fear, worry, I have brought him home cooked meals from DC and surprised him at work with dinner, I’ve made him care packages. I’ve made Ryan Easter baskets and sent him birthday presents and encouraged Jared to put him in academic classes, I’ve helped Jared look into private schools for Ryan, and weighed the pros and cons of the options. I had no expectations in return from him other than, at the very least, a mutual respect and HONESTY.
I’ve seen him quite a few times since September and I last saw him in Roanoke at the beginning of March 2024. We sat in front of each other, in his car before he went into work that Monday night, and he told me, again, that when he thinks of marriage and a future, I’m the only one he pictures a marriage and children with. I’m not saying this to hurt you, or to make a point, I’m saying it because i don’t know what to believe anymore.
I became suspicious of his relationship with you, when he mentioned going to Macchu Picchu and hiking through the mountains. As all women have the ability to find out details they might later regret, I did the same thing. Except I didn’t believe he had actually gone to Macchu Picchu. I knew his passport had been long expired since around or before COVID, and I knew he had renewed it before he went to London. But that was when I realized you were the girl in the photo that Nicole posted. When I confronted him about Macchu Picchu, he told me he had been joking and he had also already told me he’d been joking. He had NEVER told me it was a joke, he had actually refused to show me photos when I asked him for pictures from the trip… he had then proceeded to change the topic, which is what had even raised red flags in my head.
My point is, I have asked him point blank so many times whether you two have a relationship. You tell me you still love me, that you picture marriage and a family with me, but this girl is a part of your life, and you took her to a wedding with you, while I was on a trip with my siblings, you took her to London with you, and you continue to tell me she’s just a friend. I asked him again on Tuesday night/Wednesday Morning after he left work, if you two are dating, and he said no. He asked me why I’m so hyper-fixated on somebody who’s just a friend when he has a million other female friends.
In September, he told me he needed a month to clear his head, that he wanted to commit to me, but he was afraid and that he needed to get over the fear and roadblock of our past break up. I gave him grace and understood. So we took a 4 week break. Some time during that time period, he sent me a snap of doves, and said “doves, and swans mate for life.” He sent me Ed Sheeran songs telling me he wants to find his way back to me. “No Strings Attached… you are the one I love”
In November, he messaged me and told me he had a surprise for me and to look for something in the mail. He loves the Count of Monte Carlo, it’s one of his favorite movies, and he told me it was in reference to that. A few weeks later I got a candle, a silver 400 dollar Buddha candle from Thomson Ferrier. I didn’t understand the reference to the Count of Monte Carlo, but it was a beautiful gesture and present… especially because he knew how much little gestures from him mean to me.
Fast forward to January, I got another 350 dollar black skull candle from him, from Thomson Ferrier. At this point I was upset, angry and livid. I called my sister in tears that evening. I had come back to him because he told me he loved me, that he “has a fire that burns so deeply” when he thinks of me. If i had known that wasn’t true, i would have closed the chapter a year and a half ago. I don’t want $700 worth of gifts and candles, I want more. I want marriage, I want children, I want our lives to move forward, I want communication. Out of anger, I packed up the candle, his sweatshirts and clothes that he had left at my place this past year, and mailed them back to his house. I’m sure it’s sitting somewhere in his basement closet/ bedroom… along with his white Huq sweatshirt, a picture of us I had up in my house, and various articles of clothing.
What upsets me is that he didn’t just involve me this year, he involved my family. He sent my mom presents, my parents in return sent him gifts. My sister, parents and cousins messaged him asking him to come around more. There was no point in involving my family, if he was going to involve himself with you. There was no point in involving himself with me, if he was going to involve himself with you. Those leather Indian shoes sitting in his room, my dad bought those for him. That blue sweater, those green pants and that maroon shirt, my parents bought those for him just this last year.
I don’t know what he’s told you about me, but I will say this. I was your age when we started dating. I was 29 years old. He was single, that’s what everyone in our residency program thought. He would tell everyone how Shari left him one day, all of a sudden just got up and left. “I saw the look behind her eyes just change when she looked at me.” He would tell everyone his horrific dating stories. When i started dating him, there was no doubt in my mind he was single… but I was wrong. He wasn’t single, he was dating Devon, one of the nurses from Carilion, and he had been for the past 4 years prior to that. At one point when he moved to Norfolk, she had even moved in with him. Even Shari was visiting him in Norfolk during this time period. I would have never suspected it, nobody in our residency program did. It wasn’t until one day, when he told me his friends were visiting from home, and they were all going to a concert together, that I found out. Her profile picture was of the two of them together, and her Facebook relationship status said “in a relationship.” Out of my own naivety, i believed him when he told me she was crazy and obsessed with him. He told me, to him, they were just friends but she wanted more. Women do a lot of things, but no woman is dumb enough to think she’s your girlfriend when she’s not. When we moved back to our hometowns, Devon was there waiting for him. He disappeared one day for 24 hours, told me that he was helping his dad’s friend who was stranded in NC. A year and a half later, i would find out that was a lie and that he had been at a concert Florida Georgia Line concert with her. She had been visiting his grandmother with him, staying at his parents home. The irony is that a few weeks after he took her, he took me to the same concert in Scranton. Him and his family didn’t bat an eye when a month later, I showed up and was the “new girlfriend.”
Eventually Devon found out about his lies and left him, but again, stupid me thought she was a crazy girl who just wanted so badly to be with him, that she built their relationship up in her head.
Dignity, respect for humans, empathy, are the most important qualities in a human being.
What I don’t wish is for you to be in my spot in 5 years. He will paint you in his colors, make you fall in love with MB20, and take you to Augustana concerts, he’ll tell you that you understand him, and his heart in a way that nobody else does. He’ll bond with you over music, and send you songs that make you feel he’s talking about you. He is so good at making you feel seen, and involving you with his family. He’ll say he had a vision of a girl that looks like you, coming into his life, and here you are, his soul mate. And one day, the same way that Shari, Devon and I got lost in him, the reality of everything will come pouring down on you. Be careful, there are signs between the lines, and the smiles, and good times. Make sure you don’t miss those, whatever you decide.
My relationship with him, started off just like yours. Another girl on the periphery, and teetering the line of inappropriate. Everything you call him out on, will always have an excuse, and you will believe him because he’s the “good guy” who goes above and beyond for people.
I don’t wish for any woman to go through the pain I’ve gone through, the manipulation, the lies and the emotional abuse. I can’t tell you what to do, but I will say, be careful and don’t be blind to the small things that will one day become huge. The novelty will fade, and though Jared isn’t the devil, he has a lot of growing up to do at 40. It was not okay to toy with me and drag me through the mud this year. It wasn’t okay to minimize his relationship with you and lie to me about it. It’s not okay to, to this day claim to see a life with me and not commit to it. I deserve better, and you deserve better.
How men talk about their ex’s and other women is an indication about how they will one day talk about and treat you. That is the worst and best lesson i have learned. I’m 34, years of my life wasted, and he took another year of my life knowing full well, this is how it would end. He’s sat on the phone with me for hours talking about how stupid PA’s are and if you were going to not be a doctor, at least become an NP, who has better bedside knowledge. Why would he say that, because i suppose you’re a PA and it minimizes the significance of even having a relationship with somebody who isn’t as intelligent as he is. The lack of respect will always be there, you just have to look for it.
Dishonesty, and manipulation are a plague, and if that’s who you are at 40, it is who you will always be unless you recognize that something needs to change. Where there is no accountability, there can be no change. I’m not the exception, I’m the same as the two girls before me. He’ll show you text messages where he never responded to me, even though he replies on Snapchat where every thing is erased. I cannot believe i didn’t see the signs. He will make me look crazy and laugh at me, the same way he showed me messages from Jen, and Elisabeth, and Devon, and made them sound crazy to me. I guess that’s his MO. The same way he told me you were nothing to him.
I was going to send you this message, two months ago… i then decided not to because he convinced me he wasn’t dating you… I saw him less than a month ago in Roanoke, i begged him to tell me that he was in a relationship with you. He said he wasn’t, again, he told me he was going to a wedding alone with only Ryan and that he wasn’t taking you. I then begged him to tell me that we were done and that he didn’t love me anymore. His response was idk what’s going to happen a year from now, i know I’ll see you again. His response every time has been when im ready for a relationship, emotionally, do you want me to finally let you know? I don’t care to be with him anymore. I’m so over it but i really think you should know the type of person you’re dealing with.
He has put me through so much hell for a year and a half of my life, stringing me along acting like he’s doing me a favor while he works on his own mental health and claims to still love me when we are together.”
TLDR: my SO’s ex messaged me saying he’s been seeing both of us for the past year and a half. Has anybody experienced this before. She sent me pictures from the past year of them and their text exchanges

His ex sent me this message, should I believe it? I don’t know what to do. Sorry the message is really long!
“It’s been over a year of me wondering whether I should just come out and ask you or message you… but being afraid that if I do, and I’m wrong, it’ll be a the biggest mistake of my life. I have begged and begged him to tell me what you are to him, and he denies having anything more than a platonic friendship with you.
I want to preface this message with, I have no ill will towards you, I just want some answers… answers I don’t believe I’m going to get from Jared. I don’t know if he’s mentioned anything about me. So here goes…
November 2022, I sent Jared an email, telling him I loved him, missed him, and though I didn’t require a response back, I wanted him to know how sorry I was for everything that had happened and things had ended. He responded with a lengthy email telling me he still fervently loved me and how he too was sorry for how things had ended. That email lead to the last year and a half of events.
December 2022, I drove down to Roanoke and surprised him at the Carilion garage. He left the hospital as fast as he could that night, and we spent the rest of that evening together, catching up, and he left for Key West two days later. Two weeks later, he came up to DC and we had a late birthday celebration for him at Clyde’s in Georgetown and went to see A Christmas Carol at the Ford Theater. A few weeks later we drove to Jersey to see Matchbox20, by now it was the end of January 2023. Almost every week off, for the last year, he would come up and see me, if even for only two days, or I would drive down to Roanoke and spend the week with him. We spoke about our past, the hurt, and future, he told me numerous times that when he pictured marriage and children, it was only with me, but he needed time. This part is important, and I’ll come back to it later. We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant in Navy Yard, two weeks before you guys left for London. Chris video chatted with that night while we were at the restaurant eating Wagyu, and they discussed the new shipment of sunglasses Chris had gotten for Miggieswear.
The weekend of the Super Bowl, he had come seen me earlier that week, the day after he left I came to Roanoke and left the day of the Super Bowl. He told me his parents were having a viewing party and he had to go home and cook. I’m now assuming he left my Airbnb and came to your place.
That February he planned a trip to London, with Nicole, Ryan and Chris, and what he told me were, Nicole’s “friends.” Nicole happened to post a picture of you guys sitting on the plane and I was shocked, why would Nicole’s friend be sitting between him and Ryan. I sent him a message while you were on that 6 hour flight, telling him that if he had been seeing somebody, then why didn’t he tell me? There was no point in us spending time together if he had moved on. His response to me was “do you even know what you’re looking at? I’m surprised you don’t recognize her, that’s Nicole’s friend. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions right now and don’t know what you’re talking about.” Something in my gut didn’t believe it but I wanted to trust that, so I did. I put you out of sight, out of mind. When he got back, he told me how he wished I’d been there with him, we both love history and old buildings, it’s a place we would have found magical together. I don’t know who came up with the idea of going to London, but part of me always thinks I’m the one who put it there when I shared the pictures i had taken when I went there the year we had been no contact.
We went to a Kenny Chesney concert in Charlottesville that March when I got back from my family trip to India, and he got back from London. Between work, us both traveling with our families, we were excited to see one another. We were going to go to St Augustine, but because of the weather, we stayed in Roanoke and saw Kenny Chesney in Charlottesville. The original plan had been to spend the night in Charlottesville at a hotel, but we couldn’t get one last minute so we ended up driving back to Roanoke and sneaking into the basement at his parents house and sleeping in his bed at 3am.
A few months later, we went to Richmond, and stayed the weekend, exploring the city, and watched Hamilton at the Altria Theater. A few months after that, we went to Savannah and Atlanta, where he got a flat tire driving into the garage, and spent the rest of the weekend at a yoga retreat. July, he asked me to go to Boston with him and his brother, for 4th or July weekend, but I couldn’t because my siblings were in town. Every single week, he came down and either stayed with me, or made a quick trip to spend time with me…
This past September, I found out he took you to Justin’s wedding, and I broke. I needed more from him. I have known him, been intimate with him, shared my every fear, worry, I have brought him home cooked meals from DC and surprised him at work with dinner, I’ve made him care packages. I’ve made Ryan Easter baskets and sent him birthday presents and encouraged Jared to put him in academic classes, I’ve helped Jared look into private schools for Ryan, and weighed the pros and cons of the options. I had no expectations in return from him other than, at the very least, a mutual respect and HONESTY.
I’ve seen him quite a few times since September and I last saw him in Roanoke at the beginning of March 2024. We sat in front of each other, in his car before he went into work that Monday night, and he told me, again, that when he thinks of marriage and a future, I’m the only one he pictures a marriage and children with. I’m not saying this to hurt you, or to make a point, I’m saying it because i don’t know what to believe anymore.
I became suspicious of his relationship with you, when he mentioned going to Macchu Picchu and hiking through the mountains. As all women have the ability to find out details they might later regret, I did the same thing. Except I didn’t believe he had actually gone to Macchu Picchu. I knew his passport had been long expired since around or before COVID, and I knew he had renewed it before he went to London. But that was when I realized you were the girl in the photo that Nicole posted. When I confronted him about Macchu Picchu, he told me he had been joking and he had also already told me he’d been joking. He had NEVER told me it was a joke, he had actually refused to show me photos when I asked him for pictures from the trip… he had then proceeded to change the topic, which is what had even raised red flags in my head.
My point is, I have asked him point blank so many times whether you two have a relationship. You tell me you still love me, that you picture marriage and a family with me, but this girl is a part of your life, and you took her to a wedding with you, while I was on a trip with my siblings, you took her to London with you, and you continue to tell me she’s just a friend. I asked him again on Tuesday night/Wednesday Morning after he left work, if you two are dating, and he said no. He asked me why I’m so hyper-fixated on somebody who’s just a friend when he has a million other female friends.
In September, he told me he needed a month to clear his head, that he wanted to commit to me, but he was afraid and that he needed to get over the fear and roadblock of our past break up. I gave him grace and understood. So we took a 4 week break. Some time during that time period, he sent me a snap of doves, and said “doves, and swans mate for life.” He sent me Ed Sheeran songs telling me he wants to find his way back to me. “No Strings Attached… you are the one I love”
In November, he messaged me and told me he had a surprise for me and to look for something in the mail. He loves the Count of Monte Carlo, it’s one of his favorite movies, and he told me it was in reference to that. A few weeks later I got a candle, a silver 400 dollar Buddha candle from Thomson Ferrier. I didn’t understand the reference to the Count of Monte Carlo, but it was a beautiful gesture and present… especially because he knew how much little gestures from him mean to me.
Fast forward to January, I got another 350 dollar black skull candle from him, from Thomson Ferrier. At this point I was upset, angry and livid. I called my sister in tears that evening. I had come back to him because he told me he loved me, that he “has a fire that burns so deeply” when he thinks of me. If i had known that wasn’t true, i would have closed the chapter a year and a half ago. I don’t want $700 worth of gifts and candles, I want more. I want marriage, I want children, I want our lives to move forward, I want communication. Out of anger, I packed up the candle, his sweatshirts and clothes that he had left at my place this past year, and mailed them back to his house. I’m sure it’s sitting somewhere in his basement closet/ bedroom… along with his white Huq sweatshirt, a picture of us I had up in my house, and various articles of clothing.
What upsets me is that he didn’t just involve me this year, he involved my family. He sent my mom presents, my parents in return sent him gifts. My sister, parents and cousins messaged him asking him to come around more. There was no point in involving my family, if he was going to involve himself with you. There was no point in involving himself with me, if he was going to involve himself with you. Those leather Indian shoes sitting in his room, my dad bought those for him. That blue sweater, those green pants and that maroon shirt, my parents bought those for him just this last year.
I don’t know what he’s told you about me, but I will say this. I was your age when we started dating. I was 29 years old. He was single, that’s what everyone in our residency program thought. He would tell everyone how Shari left him one day, all of a sudden just got up and left. “I saw the look behind her eyes just change when she looked at me.” He would tell everyone his horrific dating stories. When i started dating him, there was no doubt in my mind he was single… but I was wrong. He wasn’t single, he was dating Devon, one of the nurses from Carilion, and he had been for the past 4 years prior to that. At one point when he moved to Norfolk, she had even moved in with him. Even Shari was visiting him in Norfolk during this time period. I would have never suspected it, nobody in our residency program did. It wasn’t until one day, when he told me his friends were visiting from home, and they were all going to a concert together, that I found out. Her profile picture was of the two of them together, and her Facebook relationship status said “in a relationship.” Out of my own naivety, i believed him when he told me she was crazy and obsessed with him. He told me, to him, they were just friends but she wanted more. Women do a lot of things, but no woman is dumb enough to think she’s your girlfriend when she’s not. When we moved back to our hometowns, Devon was there waiting for him. He disappeared one day for 24 hours, told me that he was helping his dad’s friend who was stranded in NC. A year and a half later, i would find out that was a lie and that he had been at a concert Florida Georgia Line concert with her. She had been visiting his grandmother with him, staying at his parents home. The irony is that a few weeks after he took her, he took me to the same concert in Scranton. Him and his family didn’t bat an eye when a month later, I showed up and was the “new girlfriend.”
Eventually Devon found out about his lies and left him, but again, stupid me thought she was a crazy girl who just wanted so badly to be with him, that she built their relationship up in her head.
Dignity, respect for humans, empathy, are the most important qualities in a human being.
What I don’t wish is for you to be in my spot in 5 years. He will paint you in his colors, make you fall in love with MB20, and take you to Augustana concerts, he’ll tell you that you understand him, and his heart in a way that nobody else does. He’ll bond with you over music, and send you songs that make you feel he’s talking about you. He is so good at making you feel seen, and involving you with his family. He’ll say he had a vision of a girl that looks like you, coming into his life, and here you are, his soul mate. And one day, the same way that Shari, Devon and I got lost in him, the reality of everything will come pouring down on you. Be careful, there are signs between the lines, and the smiles, and good times. Make sure you don’t miss those, whatever you decide.
My relationship with him, started off just like yours. Another girl on the periphery, and teetering the line of inappropriate. Everything you call him out on, will always have an excuse, and you will believe him because he’s the “good guy” who goes above and beyond for people.
I don’t wish for any woman to go through the pain I’ve gone through, the manipulation, the lies and the emotional abuse. I can’t tell you what to do, but I will say, be careful and don’t be blind to the small things that will one day become huge. The novelty will fade, and though Jared isn’t the devil, he has a lot of growing up to do at 40. It was not okay to toy with me and drag me through the mud this year. It wasn’t okay to minimize his relationship with you and lie to me about it. It’s not okay to, to this day claim to see a life with me and not commit to it. I deserve better, and you deserve better.
How men talk about their ex’s and other women is an indication about how they will one day talk about and treat you. That is the worst and best lesson i have learned. I’m 34, years of my life wasted, and he took another year of my life knowing full well, this is how it would end. He’s sat on the phone with me for hours talking about how stupid PA’s are and if you were going to not be a doctor, at least become an NP, who has better bedside knowledge. Why would he say that, because i suppose you’re a PA and it minimizes the significance of even having a relationship with somebody who isn’t as intelligent as he is. The lack of respect will always be there, you just have to look for it.
Dishonesty, and manipulation are a plague, and if that’s who you are at 40, it is who you will always be unless you recognize that something needs to change. Where there is no accountability, there can be no change. I’m not the exception, I’m the same as the two girls before me. He’ll show you text messages where he never responded to me, even though he replies on Snapchat where every thing is erased. I cannot believe i didn’t see the signs. He will make me look crazy and laugh at me, the same way he showed me messages from Jen, and Elisabeth, and Devon, and made them sound crazy to me. I guess that’s his MO. The same way he told me you were nothing to him.
I was going to send you this message, two months ago… i then decided not to because he convinced me he wasn’t dating you… I saw him less than a month ago in Roanoke, i begged him to tell me that he was in a relationship with you. He said he wasn’t, again, he told me he was going to a wedding alone with only Ryan and that he wasn’t taking you. I then begged him to tell me that we were done and that he didn’t love me anymore. His response was idk what’s going to happen a year from now, i know I’ll see you again. His response every time has been when im ready for a relationship, emotionally, do you want me to finally let you know? I don’t care to be with him anymore. I’m so over it but i really think you should know the type of person you’re dealing with.
He has put me through so much hell for a year and a half of my life, stringing me along acting like he’s doing me a favor while he works on his own mental health and claims to still love me when we are together.”

"I played major league baseball for parts of 10 years, and I played in the magnificent city of New York, and as a child in St. Croix that was beyond dreams. Yes, I am a happy man." -- Horace Clarke
The worst stretch of Yankee baseball since the Highlander days, the mid 60s to the mid 70s, is remembered by those who lived through it as the Horace Clarke Era. Unfairly or not, the bespectacled switch-hitting middle infielder from the U.S. Virgin Islands came to symbolize all that was wrong with the Yankees in those sad years.
Horace Meredith Clarke grew up on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was just the fifth player from the U.S. Virgin Islands to play in the majors, and the first Yankee. His father had grown up playing cricket, and because there were no youth baseball leagues on the island, young Horace played softball. He said he didn't see his first baseball game until around age 13, when he saw some U.S. Navy sailors playing.

“We were poor kids in St. Croix. We played on a field which was right on the ocean and had no fences. We couldn’t afford baseballs. So the coach made the lefthanded batters hit righthanded and the righthanded batters hit lefthanded. This was so they couldn’t hit the ball so far. It saved us from losing the baseballs in the ocean.”

Clarke was spotted by a Yankee scout in the Caribbean and assigned to the lowest run of the Yankee farm system -- the Kearney Yankees in Class D ball. Imagine being an 18-year-old kid from St. Croix in the Caribbean, and arriving in Kearney, Nebraska in the spring of 1958. The culture shock must have been overwhelming. Maybe not surprisingly, Clarke hit a disappointing .225/.322/.283 in 187 at-bats. He said the biggest adjustment wasn't the cold weather, but night games played under the lights, something he'd never done before.
The following year Horace was in the Florida State League, and he thrived in the warmer weather, hitting .293/.375/.366 in 571 at-bats. He also stole 34 bases that year. The year after that, he was back up north, playing for Fargo in the Northern League, and hit .307/.389/.369 in 537 at-bats. The following year was Amarillo in the Texas League, where he hit .300/.364/.429.
Then the next three years in the International League, where he hit .281/.345/.352 in 1,494 at-bats while playing shortstop and second base.
But despite Clarke's promise, he was blocked by Bobby Richardson. By the time Clarke had reached Triple-A at age 24 in 1963, the 27-year-old Richardson had already been a four-time All-Star, a two-time Gold Glove winner, and had won three World Series rings... plus the MVP for the 1960 World Series, the only time in baseball history a player for the losing team won the award!
But the Yankees knew Richardson was planning on retiring, so they kept Clarke waiting in the wings. He opened the year with the Toledo Mud Hens, then the Yankees' Triple-A team, and then after a month he finally got the call to the show.
Fifty-nine years ago today, on May 13, 1965, Clarke was sent up to the plate in the 7th inning as a pinch hitter to make his major league debut in a game the Yankees were losing, 4-1, to the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park.
Clarke, facing Dave Morehead, beat out an infield single. It was a promising beginning. But, as if scripted to be symbolic of his career, Clarke's success was short-lived as the next batter bounced into a fielder's choice. Forced out at second base, Clarke watched the rest of the game from the dugout. The next day he'd get the start and go 0-for-4.
Hitting .250/.298/.269 at the end of June as a utility infielder, Clarke was sent back down to Toledo for two months to get more regular playing time. It helped. When he returned on September 3 -- coincidentally, also against the Red Sox -- he went 3-for-5 with an RBI. Overall that month, Clarke hit .273/.298/.327, and for the season, .262/.298/.299 in 115 plate appearances. But the Yankees, the reigning A.L. champions for the past five seasons, finished a shocking 77-85, all the way in sixth place.
That off-season, Phil Linz -- the harmonica playing utility infielder -- was traded to the Phillies, opening up a roster spot for Clarke. Richardson, though only 31, had told the Yankees he would retire at the end of the 1966 season, and the Yankees wanted him to mentor Clarke as his successor.
Clarke started just seven games over the first half, but a series of injuries forced him into regular service. Over the second half, he played almost every day, hitting .276/.334/.404 in 300 plate appearances. He was mostly used at shortstop, where his defense wasn't great, but in 16 games at second base he looked good enough that the Yankees were confident he could be a regular there. Yankee fans were no doubt a little sad when Richardson officially announced to the press on August 31 that it was his last season, but at least we knew who would be playing second base the following year.
Indeed, second base was the least of the Yankees' problems. New York finished dead last at 70-89 in 1966, the team's worst performance since 1925, as injuries fell Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Elston Howard, and Whitey Ford.
Entering 1967 as the starting second baseman, Clarke hit a solid .272/.321/.316 (94 OPS+) in 633 plate appearances while leading the league in fielding percentage, assists, and range factor as a second baseman. He also stole 21 bases in 25 tries, a second-best .840 SB%. His 3.7 bWAR that year was better than any season Richardson ever had -- his career high was 3.2 bWAR in 1962.
The following year, the Yankees finished 83-79 -- above .500 for the first time in four seasons -- but a whopping 34.5 games out. Clarke had one of the worst years of his career, hitting .230/.258/.254 (60 OPS+) as he played through injuries all year.
He rebounded in 1969 to .285/.339/.467 (101 OPS+), with 33 stolen bases. It was, statistically, the best season of his career (3.9 bWAR). But once again the Yankees were terrible -- 28.5 games out.
In 1970, Clarke again disappointed, hitting .251/.286/.309 (68 OPS+). The Yankees won 93 games that year, but it amounted to naught as the Orioles ran away with the pennant, going 108-54 to win it by 15 games. In fact, it was pretty much over by July, with the Yankees 7 games out at the All-Star break.
It was around this time that Yankee fans began focusing their frustration on Clarke. One New York sportswriter routinely referred to him as "Horrible Horace". Miscast as a leadoff man -- he had a career .308 OBP -- and criticized for "bailing out" on double plays, manager Ralph Houk years later offered a tepid defense of his second baseman:

“I know I got a lot of criticism for playing Horace Clarke as much as I did, but he was a lot better ballplayer than anyone gave him credit for. He did a lot of things good but nothing great, and that was his problem. Besides, I didn’t have anyone else.”

The lack of a replacement was certainly an issue. In 1971, there was talk in The Sporting News about a prospect named Fred Frazier being the heir apparent to Clarke at second base. That year, Frazier hit a disappointing .261/.316/.313 in Triple-A; the next year, .216/.302/.281. The year after that, he was in the Orioles organization. He never made it out of the minors.
In fact, Clarke was the only constant in the Yankee infield in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Yankees during the, ahem, Horace Clarke Era had holes everywhere, with a revolving door at first base, third base, and shortstop. For five years, from 1967 to 1971, Clarke was the Opening Day starter at second base; during that same stretch, there were five different third basemen, five different third basemen, and three different shortstops. Between 1967 and 1973, he started 1,017 games at second base, or 90% of all Yankee games.
But that, explained Yankees PR man Marty Appel, was kind of the problem. "Fans especially didn’t like the second baseman, the beleaguered Horace Clarke, whose major flaw seemed to be longevity. It wasn’t his fault that no one better came along, and he was a better player than the fans gave him credit for. But because he was out there, year after year, he came to stand for this disappointing run by the club."

"I always did my best. I always played as hard as I could. I never was concerned about how the fans reacted to me." -- Horace Clarke

The following year Clarke hit .250/.321/.318 in 696 plate appearances, but the Yankees again were out of it, finishing 82-80 in 1971.
Yankee fans had been miserable since 1965, but frustration with the team in general -- and Clarke in particular -- reached a boiling point in 1972. It had been seven years since the Yankees had been in the post-season, and 1972 was the first year the Yankees had the playoffs within our grasp since winning the pennant in 1964. (The "closest and latest" the Yankees had been since the 1965 season was 9 games out of 1st place on September 8, 1970.)
On September 12, 1972, the Yankees were a half-game out of 1st place at 74-64, with 17 games left to go in the season. The Red Sox were in 1st at 73-62, the Orioles tied with New York at 74-64, and the Tigers a half-game behind at 73-64. Over the rest of the season, the Yankees went a heartbreaking 5-12, while the Tigers won 13 out of 19 to win the A.L. East.
There was plenty of blame to go around for that collapse, but Yankee fans were particularly irate at Clarke, who hit .225/.267/.296 during those final 17 games.
To his credit, Clarke never complained about the boos from fans or the criticism in the press. As quoted by Dick Young in the New York Daily News in 1972:

"Sure, I would feel bad when I saw in the papers that, 'the Yankees can never win the pennant with that guy at second base.' But why get mad. I figure that's his opinion, and he's entitled to it. I must have been able to do something. Don't tell me a ballplayer can fool a manager for seven years."

Years later, Thurman Munson said his adversarial relationship with the media was based on how Horace Clarke was treated.
In 1973, the 34-year-old Clarke hit .263/.317/.308 (80 OPS+), his defense was no longer among the league leaders, and the Yankees were once again double-digit games behind by Labor Day.
It was finally time to move on. That off season, the Yankees acquired 23-year-old utility infielder Jim Mason from the Texas Rangers and installed him as the starting shortstop for the upcoming 1974 season; Gene Michael, the Yankees' on-again, off-again shortstop since 1968, was moved to second base; and Clarke to the bench. It wasn't exactly an earth-shattering move -- Mason was coming off a season in which he hit .206/.273/.290, and Michael .225/.270/.278. If anything, the two represented a substantial downgrade from Clarke's numbers. (By bWAR the previous season, Clarke was still the best option of the three, 0.6 compared to Mason's -0.7 and Michael's -0.9.)
After hitting .234/.294/.255 in 53 plate appearances as a pinch hitter and spot starter, on May 31, 1974, the Yankees finally ended the Horace Clarke Era by selling his contract to the San Diego Padres along with minor league pitcher Lowell Palmer for $25,000. At the time of the deal, Clarke was still the Yankees' best option at second base as Mason was hitting .214/.287/.307 and Michael a putrid .134/.224/.179!
Six weeks later, the Yankees tried to address their second base problem again by acquiring former All-Star Sandy Alomar from the Angels. Alomar, who fathered major leaguers Sandy Jr. and Roberto, played for the Yankees for the next two and a half seasons, hitting .248/.287/.302... again, worse than Horace's career average of .256/.308/.313.
And yet getting rid of Horace Clarke immediately turned around the Yankees' fortunes. With Horace, the Yankees were 23-27, the worst record in the American League; without him, a second-best 66-46. New York finished 89-73, just two games behind the Baltimore Orioles.
The Yankees finally found a solution to the second base problem on December 11, 1975, trading previously forgotten Yankee Doc Medich to the Pirates for Dock Ellis, Ken Brett, and a 20-year-old prospect named Willie Randolph.
Meanwhile, Clarke went to San Diego and hit .189/.255/.200 in 99 plate appearances. He was released at the end of the season and retired. He was a frequent attendee at Yankee Old Timers' Games, and promoted baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He died at age 81 on August 5, 2020, from complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
The Clarke Side

• Horace's nickname was "Hoss". Yankee play-by-play man Bill White loved to draw out the "s" sound.
  
• Clarke had a reputation of being timid on double plays -- the team's pitchers thought he was apt to hold onto the ball and hop aside rather than try to get off a throw if it meant getting barreled over by the runner. (And in those days, runners came in hard -- just ask Willie Randolph!) Yankee pitchers complained to the press about it, and fans started watching for such plays. Any time the 175-pound Clarke didn't complete a double play, the boo birds came out. To be fair, despite his reputation as being afraid of contact, Clarke led the league in double plays turned as a second baseman in 1969 and again in 1971, and finished in the top five every year he was a regular.
  
• Clarke was the last Yankee to live within walking distance of Yankee Stadium, at the Grand Concourse Hotel. His commute to work was a three-block walk... which could be a problem sometimes. Sportswriter Dick Young reported Clarke had an awkward moment when a fan, "this kid, maybe 11 or 12," walked up and asked: "Hey Hoss, how come you can't make the double play?" Clarke replied: "Well, we can't all be stars. I guess I'm just a lousy ballplayer."
  
• Clarke had an unusual batting stance, a throwback to the Deadball Era. He stood with his legs far apart and he choked up high on the bat. Not surprisingly, he had just 27 home runs in 5,243 career plate appearances... but apparently all of them were of the over-the-fence variety.
  
• The first of those 27 home runs was a grand slam! It was off Floyd Weaver of the Cleveland Indians on September 21, 1965. The two-out grand slam in the 4th inning helped power the Yankees to a 9-4 win.
  
• And Clarke's second career home run? Another grand slam! It came on July 16, 1966. Clarke came up with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the 10th of a 5-5 game. Clarke crushed Jack Aker's offering to deep right to clear the bases and give the Yankees a 9-5 lead; Pedro Ramos pitched a perfect 9th to preserve the victory. Whitey Ford, who had entered the game in the 9th inning in relief, got the win. Clarke's first and second home runs were the only grand slams of his career!
  
• Aker was later Clarke's teammate with the Yankees from 1969 to 1972, and the sinkerballing reliever was one of the pitchers who criticized Horace about bailing out on double plays.
  
• Long before John Olerud made it cool, Horace sometimes wore a batting helmet while playing the field. He never explained why; some speculated it was because he'd once been hit in the head by a thrown ball.
  
• Clarke said he grew up listening to Yankee games on the radio, and Phil Rizzuto -- a similarly undersized infielder -- was his favorite player. Horace was 11 years old when the Scooter won the A.L. MVP in 1950.
  
• Mickey Mantle, his knees shot, moved to first base for the final two years of his career. Clarke, the regular second baseman both of those seasons, said that Mantle told him to get every ball he could. Horace led the league in range factor as a second baseman both of those seasons.
  
• The Sporting News reported on March 14, 1970, that Clarke had a "novel twist" during salary negotiations for the upcoming 1970 season. He told the Yankees he'd take less money in salary if they helped him secure a $1 million loan for a construction project in the Virgin Islands. Sportswriter Dick Young speculated: "It's a very simple gimmick. First you get the Yankees to lend you $1 million for an investment. You bank it at seven percent. That brings in $70,000 a year. Then you negotiate your contract with the independent feeling that you don't have to play baseball for a living." Clarke and the Yankees eventually agreed on a more conventional contract at $32,000 -- and no loan.
  
• Check out Horace Clarke's leadoff single on Opening Day in 1970, called by Phil Rizzuto! #23 playing first base for the Yankees is not Don Mattingly, but previously forgotten Yankee John Ellis.
  
• Clarke set the major league career record -- since tied by Joe Mauer -- of most no-hitters broken up in the 9th inning. Both players did it three times in their career... but Clarke did it three times in the same season! He had 9th inning singles to break up no-no's by Kansas City's Jim Rooker on June 4, 1970, Boston's Sonny Siebert on June 19, 1970, and Detroit's Joe Niekro on July 2, 1970. No other hitter has broken up more than two no-hitters in the 9th inning in his career, according to the book Baseball's No-Hit Wonders by Dirk Lammers, but Clarke amazingly did it three times in 24 games spread over 28 days. Mauer's 9th inning heartbreakers came over a six-year stretch.
  
• Clarke went 5-for-6 with an RBI in the second game of a doubleheader on April 19, 1970 -- and had 11 other games where he had four hits. In terms of fantasy scoring, his best day was either May 21, 1969, when he went 4-for-6 with three runs scored and three stolen bases, or July 22, 1971, when he was 4-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs.
  
• Clarke was involved in one of the most surreal moments of baseball history on the final day of the 1971 season. The Yankees were playing the Washington Senators -- not the original Senators, who had moved to Minnesota to become the Twins in 1961, but the expansion team founded that same year to replace them. Rangers owner Bob Short, who had bought the team three years earlier, announced he was moving the team to Arlington, Texas, to become the Rangers. (Coincidentally, in 1957, Short had bought the Minneapolis Lakers and, three years later, moved them to Los Angeles.) The final home game of the Senators at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., was on September 30, 1971 against the Yankees. The game was tied, 5-5, but the soon-to-be Rangers scored a pair in the bottom of the 8th to take a 7-5 lead. In the top of the 9th, Felipe Alou and Bobby Murcer grounded out to bring up Horace Clarke. Before he could get to the plate, however, a fan ran onto the field and pulled up first base, prompting hundreds more fans to run onto the field in search of their own souvenirs. Clarke and the Senators ran off the field and the umpires called it a forfeit in favor of the Yankees.
  
• Horace wore #20 all 10 seasons he was with the Yankees. It was never a particularly popular number before him, as the only player who wore it more than a few seasons was Tiny Bonham (1940-1946). Bucky Dent wore #20 from 1977 to 1982, and previously forgotten Yankee Bobby Meacham from 1983 to 1988. Another previously forgotten Yankee, Mike Stanley, wore it from 1992 to 1995, then Jorge Posada had it until Stanley returned in 1997 and reclaimed it. After Stanley left the Yankees, he asked Posada to take it back, saying that number should belong to a catcher. And now it always will, as it was retired for Posada in 2015.
  
• His obituary in The New York Times noted that among major leaguers from the Virgin Islands -- "a relatively small roster" -- Clarke still holds the records for games played, hits, runs, RBIs, and stolen bases.
  
• After he retired, Clarke helped promote youth baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands. One of the players he mentored was Jerry Browne, who played 10 years in the majors between 1986 and 1995 with the Rangers, Indians, A's, and Marlins. In his SABR biography, Browne credits Clarke with teaching him baseball fundamentals.
  
• According to the book Where Have All Our Yankees Gone? by Brian Jensen, Clarke played a uniquely Caribbean instrument called "the vibes." "The vibes is like a xylophone, marimba-related type sound. It's a keyboard-type related instrument." Clarke said he played the instrument during his Yankee days, but -- unlike Bernie Williams, who frequently strummed on his guitar in the clubhouse -- only during the off-season. "When I was with the Yankees, ya know, the instrument that I had, the vibes, I was doing it, ya know, but never in the clubhouse, though. Once you are in the clubhouse, it is all work, ya know. That was never so much allowed. I had the instrument all the years that I was a Yankee but I was involved with baseball. That was my full time and I didn't have full time to play music but, ya know, in the off-season I would have a vibe and try to learn a song by hearing from a tape or a record and that's what it was." After retiring, Clarke played the instrument with a local band called Out of Nowhere.
  
• Of the 15 major leaguers to have been born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the only other Yankee was Elrod Hendricks, a backup catcher for the Bombers from 1976 to 1977. Jabari Blash, born in St. Thomas, gets an honorable mention for the three months he spent as a Yankee during the 2017-2018 off-season. Blash was acquired from the Padres for Chase Headley on December 12, then traded to the Angels for a PTBNL or cash considerations. I guess we got the cash, because apparently no player was ever named.
  
• There's a Horace Clarke High School in Jamaica, but it's not named after the Yankee. It's named after the Horace Clarke who was a member of parliament in Jamaica from 1972 to 2002.
  
• Also not him: Horace Clarke, a teenager shot and seriously wounded by a Blackfeet Indian named Owl Child on August 17, 1869. Clarke's father, Malcolm, was killed in the same attack, which was purportedly revenge for Malcolm Clarke having attacked him two years earlier... which Malcolm claimed he'd done because Owl Child had stolen horses from him... which Owl Child said he'd done in revenge for yet an earlier dispute. The pursuit of Owl Child resulted in a massacre of at least 170 people, mostly elderly men, women, and children. As for Owl Child, he escaped to Canada and was never seen again.
  

"I remember the first game I played in Yankee Stadium in 1965. There were more than 40,000 people in the stands. I had just come from my country where there are 30,000 people in the entire country. That was some adjustment." -- Horace Clarke

Overall, Horace Clarke hit .257/.309/.315 in 5,144 plate appearances as a Yankee. His numbers aren't quite as bad as they appear, as he played during one of the lowest offense eras since deadball... an 84 OPS+. That ranks him ahead of fondly-remembered Yankees like Shelley Duncan (81 OPS+), Rick Cerone (80 OPS+), Miguel Cairo (80 OPS+), Bucky Dent (72 OPS+), and... Bobby Richardson (77 OPS+). And while many complained about his defense, his defensive metrics -- such as we have for his era -- indicate he was at least an average defender. He led the league in range factor three times, in fielding percentage once, in assists six times, and in double plays twice.
People tend to think about Clarke -- if they think about him at all -- as either a terrible player, representative of the teams he played on, or a good player who was wasted on bad teams. The truth is somewhere in the middle. As sportswriter Maury Allen said, he was "an average big-leaguer on below-average Yankee teams."
And in fact, Clarke's 16.0 career bWAR as a Yankee is twice as much value as the player he replaced, Bobby Richardson (8.0 bWAR). But Richardson was a fan favorite, while Clarke was scorned. But of course... Richardson won three rings. And Yankee fans love a winner!

"New York is New York. You don’t win, you’re going to hear about it. I was in the middle." -- Horace Clarke

Had Clarke come along a few years earlier and been part of the early 1960s dynasty, he might be remembered fondly as a scrappy infielder, a Tony Kubek or a Bucky Dent or a Scott Brosius -- a good but not great player who had some memorable moments.
Instead, Horace Clarke defines an era of futility.

Sorry this took so long, kinda got caught up.
Don't have too much to say, other than Maple Whiskey is rapidly becoming one of my favorite drinks, and I'm sorry this took so long to come out. Real life kinda got in the way for a bit (I have one of those?), and I had to put stuff on the backburner. Sorry.
That about covers it.
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Fries limped his way down the ship’s hallways, using the wall to his right to support himself. Twisted metal and debris littered the hallways, but it had clearly not come from this sector. He was in the center of the ship, far enough away that nothing was dangerously damaged yet, but they were obviously putting stuff in the wide, CEVA-rated hallways for the time being. He gritted his teeth from the pain and was forced to take short, shallow breaths as he walked. He clutched his side as he shuffled along, almost wishing that he was in one of the suits to help support him.
“Fuck me.” He muttered, pausing for a moment outside of his room to breathe. He was about to type in his code to unlock the door when he realized that it was already unlocked. Not sure why and fearing the worst, he drew his personal pistol from the back of his suit’s waistband, keeping it close in to himself to make sure that it couldn’t get pulled away from him. Exhaling sharply as he brought his arm away from his chest to hit the button that opened the door.
It quickly slid open with a sharp hiss and allowed him into the room. The lights were on, and the room didn’t seem to be different, but he distinctly remembered having locked the room prior. He slowly walked in, trying to clear as much as possible while coming in. He took note of the new bag in the room, but couldn’t see anything else new in the room.
His attention was rapidly divided by a shipwide alert that the admiral had left the vessel, causing him to turn around suddenly.
“You alright?” a voice behind him asked, causing him to rapidly turn around to aim the gun, but wound up hurting him more and causing him to drop to one knee.
“What in the fuck are you doing in my room?” the ODST whispered, barely able to speak from pain.
“Got moved down here for safety, you can ask Donahue.” she stated, helping him up and taking the gun from him.
“Got it… he just left the ship?” he asked, immediately attempting to lay himself down on the bed.
“Yeah, he’s heading to see the Tikaqick.” Firdaus stated with a slight bit of disdain in her voice.
“You got a problem with them?” the ODST muttered, barely looking at her.
“Not as many as with my own people, but certainly a fair number of problems with them.” she hissed, helping the man move towards the bathroom.
“You’re going to need to explain, but in a bit. I have like six different bandages to switch.” Fries grunted, closing the door behind him.
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“Sir?” the lieutenant Marine beside him asked, racking a round into her rifle’s chamber, “You alright?”
“Hmm?” The man asked, his head quickly snapping up to look at her, “Oh, yes. I’m fine.”
“You’re sure?” she asked again, watching as the man sealed on his helmet.
“Yes.” He nodded, shooting a glance back at the ship they left from, “Yes… it’s not my first time doing this…”
The crew continued on in relative silence. The Marines and ODSTs were a mix of the two crews, one of each being from the old crew and one of each being the replacement crew. The Marine Lieutenant was one of the new crew, along with the ODST Sergeant. The Marine Sergeant and ODST Captain, however, were both well experienced in combat.
“We’re approaching the landing bay.” The pilot called out over radio, “Thirty seconds.”
“Copy that.” Donahue nodded, standing up and bracing himself against the roof to avoid floating around, “Well… Guess it’s that time again.”
“There’s no CIA on board and the ship isn’t a USS.” The Marine sergeant stated, unbuckling himself but not standing up, “It’ll be different this time.”
“Let’s hope not. Flu’ron’s still on board.” James Orwell, the xenobiologist muttered, attempting to raise his reflective visor, to little avail.
The Marine floated over and helped the man with his visor before floating towards the pilots’ cabin door and letting himself in, floating between the two so he could see out the front window.
“Siddown, Sergeant.” One of the pilots muttered, not looking back as he did minute adjustments to the ship’s trajectory as they approached.
“This whole damn thing could be made of gold…” The Marine muttered, magnetically locking himself to the floor and kneeling down as they approached.
“Crossing threshold, standby for turbulence.” One of the pilots radioed out, a hydraulic whine reverberating through the ship’s hull as they lowered the landing gear.
“Back and seal the hatch, Sergeant.” The other pilot snapped, barely looking back at the Marine, instead focusing on the windows and displays ahead of them.
“Copy that.” The Marine nodded, taking the time to check the two pilots’ weapons stowed behind their chairs before floating himself back into the crew compartment and sealing the hatch behind him.
“Ten seconds to landing. Artificial Gravity is off in the bay, disarming OMS.” A pilot called out, still keeping a smooth voice about him, “Threshold crossed, stand by.”
The ship seemed to do nothing for a moment before a very light shudder echoed through the hull, followed by a sharp, metallic ‘thud’.
“We have contact, maglocks engaged.” The first pilot informed.
“Gravity systems and harmonics coming online. Disengaging RCS.” the second pilot called out, likely talking to his partner over the crew in the back. After a few seconds of silence, the ship seemed to spool down and orange lights came on in the back of the crew compartment, showing up just over the CEVA-sized, round airlock doors at the sides of the craft and above the regularly-sized hexagonal door at the back of the craft. After a moment, a female robotic voice called out ‘Pressure stable’ and the lights switched to green.
“We’re down. Thank you for flying Air Peregrine, please take your bags from the overhead compartments and leave in an orderly fashion.” one of the pilots called out, putting on an extremely good and smooth ‘airline’ voice.
“You are aware that you’re talking to an Admiral, right.?” the Marine Lieutenant asked, seemingly disappointed at the pilot.
“Oh, I imagine he does.” Donahue smiled, motioning for the ODSTs to head out the door first.
The two armored figures were already moving towards the door, letting the ladder come out first before checking pressure one last time and opening the rear door. To their shock and horror, the void of space lay just outside the door, though nothing was losing pressure.
“Plasma barrier?” a Marine asked, his voice faltering slightly when he saw the smoking form of the Dracula in the distance.
“Something like that…” James muttered, waiting for the Admiral to head down the ladder after the ODSTs before following him down.
There were no aliens directly off their ship, which surprised them slightly, but gave the crew time to prepare themselves. They were supposed to form a ‘triangle’ with Donahue at the front, the two ODSTs behind him, and the two Marines on either side of James, behind the ODSTs. However, they had more than enough time to prepare, to the point of it becoming awkward. The team moved to the left side of the Ranger, and sat in waiting. The Marine Sergeant began to get skeptical and checked the chamber of his rifle while his reflective visor dropped into place, subtly preparing for a conflict.
However, before their thoughts could fester any further, a door off the left-side nose of the Ranger opened to reveal the creatures that owned the ship. They were around the same height as a Human, albeit seeming a little taller on average. They were obviously Avian-esque, with short, stubby, owl-like faces, in opposition to the long beaks of Afi’end. They had two large eyes just behind their beak, with what appeared to be two sets of closed eyelids underneath them. Their feathers were gray and black, with a small amount of crow-like iridescence in them. They had long wings which wrapped around their bodies, making a ‘cloak’ around them. Their legs were similar to that of an Afi’end’s, but seemed slightly thinner.
They wore thick, heavily stylized armor. It had gold plating with ivory and blue-diamond accents, glassy pauldrons, and other, seemingly glowing, lines and accents in it.
The rest of the ship looked similar; with gold, ivory, and blue-diamond glass seeming to come from all parts of the ship. The ship looked incredibly clean, with no smudging seeming to come from anything except the Humans. The flight deck they were on was made of some kind of ivory-esque compound as well, with the only scuffs on it being from the RCS thrusters the Ranger had used earlier. Against the gold, whites, and blues of the alien vessel, the greens, grays, and oranges of the Human suits contrasted hard;
Donahue’s suit was nothing special, nor was it too dirty, but it was not perfectly hermetic, like the rest of the ship seemed to be. James’ suit did seem to fit their criteria of cleanliness everywhere except his boots, where it was obvious that he hadn’t put hours of work into cleaning the dirt out of the fabric on the last surface mission he had done. The Marines’s suits were the most well-loved; boasting patches of stained mud, foliage, and other assorted junk all over the suit. The ODSTs were clearly battle-damaged, however: Cuts and scrapes into the plating could be seen around the arms and chest, with plasma burns etched into the metal of the helmet on the more experienced man.
Donahue almost wished he had been able to wash his suit now, but he hoped they would understand.
“Hey, we’re not the only ones to bring armed guards.” The ODST to his right stated.
“Oh thank Christ.” Donahue muttered, shifting his reflective faceplate up, “I would have felt awful if they trusted us that much.”
“Feel better, they don’t.” The ODST muttered back, standing up straighter as the aliens approached.
“Admiral Donahue?” the creature at the front of the group asked, looking at the admiral in the front of his own group.
“Captain Kinlykc?” Donahue asked, stepping towards the aliens. The creature seemed mildly amused at the Admiral’s suit, but went back to looking him in the eyes shortly after.
There was an awkward silence for a moment before the alien decided that it was likely in everyone’s best interests if something was said.
“Apologies for my awkwardness in this situation; it has been a long time since I’ve had the pleasure of doing a proper first-contact scenario.” it stated, clearly motioning for his own guards behind him to be less on-guard. The Humans were taken aback a bit, as the creature didn’t move his mouth to speak, but more seemed to emanate the words from itself.
Donahue nodded, but didn’t have to motion to his own men, as they had already come to stand down themselves.
“Entertainingly enough, I was still captaining that ship out there for our true first contact.” Donahue nodded, making sure that both his hands were visible in front of him.
“Really?” the avian asked, motioning for the admiral to follow him deeper into the ship, “Is your ship the only one in your fleet?”
Donahue paused for a moment before following the alien Captain, motioning for his team to follow shortly behind him.
“Negative, we’re just lucky.” The Admiral smiled, attempting to hide his trepidation through humor. The ODSTs were just as slow to follow behind, but eventually caught back up, seemingly worried about leaving the pilots alone. They were brought into a wide hallway. It had the same stylings as the docking bay had, but seemed to have ‘tiling’ instead of the solid piece that the other room had. James slowly pushed his way through the column of armored personnel and wound up beside the Admiral.
“Umm, excuse me, Captain Kinlykc?” He asked, fiddling with his suit to attempt to make sure the external speakers were working.
“Yes?” the avian asked, looking back at the scientist.
“How… are you talking?” He asked, not sure whether the question was to be considered rude or not, “As in, your mouth isn’t moving, how are you talking to us?”
After the scientist clarified himself, the avian seemed to understand the question.
“We do not breathe through our mouth, I’m assuming like you do then.” It nodded, tapping on its beak and unfolding its wings. It raised its arms and pointed at a set of openings under the creature’s armpits, “We breathe and vocalize through these.”
James was speechless for a moment, but the Admiral was relatively sure that was because he was deciding whether or not it was entirely wrong to lean in closer for a better look.
“If you do not mind me asking a question of my own, what are the clothes you’re wearing?” The avian asked, motioning to everybody except the ODSTs, “Are they your uniforms?”
“These?” James repeated, pulling at his suit, “These are pressure suits. To keep our own atmosphere in.”
“But why?” The bird asked, continuing down the path, “We scanned your vessel as the door opened to analyze what your atmosphere was to accommodate, and they were almost identical.”
"We pressurized our vessel to the bay’s atmosphere.” Donahue stated, nodding at the two, “Our atmospheres are similar, and very breathable, but not the same.”
“Why the pressurized suits then? We can breathe the same atmosphere, no?”
“Our people are not nearly as advanced as some others, who can do bacterial scans of atmospheres before they even land to make sure that neither side will infect the other. We cannot do that, so we hermetically seal off from everybody else to avoid infecting them.” James stated, finishing Donahue’s explanation.
That was an answer that seemed to sit well with the avian, who nodded at them and continued down the hallways.
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Kinsey practically dive-rolled out of her vessel’s docking port and into the Dracula’s gravity field, her helmetless RHEV suit’s bulk causing her to roll erratically to the side. She quickly got back up and started jogging her way to the other side of the ship, her quickly-moving, armored figure moving everybody out of her way. She wasn’t in any actual hurry, but the message did have to be delivered relatively quickly.
She quickly dog-legged down a side hallway and towards flight bay 3, near the primary medical bay. As soon as she was at the area, she started heading back towards the outer hull of the ship again, turning only when she was directly on a course with the med bay. After a few moments of running, she turned into the medbay, where Flu’ron was inspecting a rifle another Marine had given him.
“Feathers!” she called out, skidding to a halt outside the door.
“Oh Hells.” Flu’ron muttered as he looked up at her. He handed the rifle back to the Marine and walked towards her, “What do you need, Doctor?”
“Only us Marines can call him ‘Feathers’.” the Marine muttered, putting on a fake pout for her.
“Look!” She exclaimed, ignoring the Marine’s protest and shoving a datapad into the avian’s face.
After pulling back a bit, he took the pad from her and started reading the text on it. After a moment, during which the Marine came over to see what the commotion was, Flu’ron looked up from the pad and nodded at her.
“Well… Goddamn!” He smiled, handing the pad back and pulling out his own tablet, “One-hundred. Going your way.”
“Woah, hold on, I think I missed something. What’s going on?” the Marine asked, confused as to why the Afi’end was sending the scientist money.
“Her brother, who was listed KIA a month and a half ago, is not dead.” Flu’ron explained calmly, watching as the scientist practically bounced off the walls with excitement. He wasn’t sure whether it was because of the money or that Frost was still alive.
“And the fucker made it onto Xalantun before me!” Kinsey stated, calming down enough to get the words out.
“You saw the ‘sent’ date, right?” Flu’ron stated, making sure she knew how recently she had received it.
“Three hours, forty-five minutes ago!” she stated, nodding enthusiastically.
“If the round-trip time isn’t that long, why’d it take him nearly a month to respond?” Flu’ron asked, just sitting down to enjoy the show.
“I’ve got two theories; either he’s been too busy to respond, or this is the first time he’s gotten a data dump in months.” She stated, “Where’s Firdaus, she owes me money!”
Flu’ron shrugged, but the Marine perked up, “To my knowledge, she’s down in Deck 5, section 6, subsection 3, room 156. She’s keeping hidden from the alien ships around us.”
Kinsey perked up at that knowledge, suddenly looking concerned, “Hold on, what?”
“Yeah, she’s residing in an ODST’s room, to my knowledge. Not sure why she’s hiding though. I’m not saying anything to anybody who isn’t a crewmember on board this ship though, aside from you, doc; she wants to stay hidden, we’ll keep her that way.”
“In an ODST’s room?” Kinsey asked, looking immediately at Flu’ron.
“He’s got four broken ribs, you need to go stop her.” the avian stated, rolling his eyes, “I’ll prep the machines, just in case.”
“Ok, I gotta check on two things with her then.” Kinsey stated, nodding at the two before running out of the room and yelling “Carry on!” at the pair.
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“Peregrine, we’re going deeper into the vessel, think you can handle yourselves?” The Marine Sergeant asked, slinging his rifle onto his back.
“Hey! Keep that thing out!” the Lieutenant snapped, motioning to his gun again.
The man rolled his eyes, but unlimbered his rifle again.
“Copy that, Praetor. We’re good for the time being.”
“Understood. Keep us apprised, yeah?” the Marine radioed back, shifting his suit around to relieve a pinch he had created in his armpit.
“Copy that, Praetor. Out.” one of the pilots responded back, killing the communications network afterwards. The Marines and ODSTs walked alongside the Admiral and xenobiologist in silence, taking intrigued glances down hallways as they passed them, and receiving intrigued glances back from aliens as they passed them in the hallways. They weren’t entirely privy to the conversation that was happening ahead of them, but they weren’t looking to be part of it either. The two veterans were far more interested in getting a good look at the ship than having to talk to anybody, and the two newer members were still too paranoid to pay attention to anything other than their duties.
They were brought into an unoccupied room with a large window that looked out into the deep space just beyond, though the Dracula and other alien vessel blocked the view. The guards from both species gave a quick visual sweep of the room as they came in. Upon watching the Tikaqick guards sit down or generally relax, the veteran ODST and Marine slung their weapons and moved towards the back of the room, motioning for the other two to do so as well. Despite obvious hesitation to do so, they eventually moved to the back with the other two soldiers.
“So what, if you are able to tell me, are your people doing out here?” Captain Kinlykc asked, glancing back at the soldiers momentarily before returning his gaze to the Human ship.
“Sadly, I am not able to give you our reasoning for being out here. That’s not exactly something I can give away freely.” Donahue sighed, not even sure why he’d actually have to explain that, “What I can tell you is that we weren’t planning to be out this far.”
“Really?” the avian asked, looking at the man with surprise, “Scans have indicated that your vessel is prepared for long-range assignments, based on compartmentalization and areas theorized to be for food.”
Donahue raised an eyebrow at the statement, realizing that they likely had a near-perfect model of the interior of the ship if they could theorize about the ship’s rooms, even if they couldn’t entirely see the contents of the rooms. He was relatively concerned at the revelation, but didn’t let it show.
“Well, that ship is a modification of our first attempt at a long-range exploration ship, but the project was canceled five years before first contact.” Donahue explained, watching as a few suited figures climbed around the hull of his vessel, “There were only ever three of the ships created, all of which got converted to combat duty."
“Really? I know they got converted, but what became of the other vessels?” the avian asked, seemingly entranced by the same men on the hull.
“Well, the Armstrong-Class exploration vessels, named the AC-00 J.T.K., AC-01 J. Harker, and AC-02 M. Reynolds, were all brought back to our home planet as soon as possible, be that from assignment or construction, for retrofit.” Donahue explained, turning away from the window so he could better look at the avian, who saw the gesture and did the same, “The J.T.K. was a prototype, and was axed shortly thereafter. The Reynolds was renamed to Serenity and moved to be part of the United States Space Force, but was destroyed on assignment after the newly-fitted reactors went on runaway and melted half the ship off.”
“And the J. Harker?” it asked, indicating towards the window, clearly already knowing the answer.
Donahue nodded and motioned out the window, “Refused the new reactors, renamed to Dracula, joined the USSF, made first contact, made first contact negotiations, made first Human-to-alien combat, limped back to our space, received the first official ship-systems AI, became the first ship in the UNITF a year later, and still remains in combat as the oldest space combat ship in our service. As a species.”
The bird looked at the vessel with a new form of respect in its eyes, though whether for the crew or the vessel was unknown. It gave a shallow nod to the vessel before turning back to the man in front of him, “How old is it?”
Donahue had to pause to think for a moment, trying to remember everything he could about his ship.
“Well… the program to make them started nearly seventy years ago, and she was the first ‘production’ model. After decades of systems upgrades and additions, she’s the embodiment of Theseus’s ship, but her original christening would have been… forty-eight years ago.” He muttered, ignoring the confused look on the alien’s head when he mentioned Theseus, “I remember her first launch. I would have been around seven at the time.”
“How… Do you keep something like that running for that long? Especially if it’s a combat device.”
“Same way we keep the grandfather clock and jukebox in the primary lounge running; good care from a good crew.” Donahue nodded, watching as the blue sparks from a plasma cutter lit up a section of hull that was surrounded by CEVAs.
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“Watch it! Merde!” The Marine snapped out as Kinsey sprinted past him, intent on quickly making it to the room.
“Sorry! A life is at stake!” she called back, hearing another string of words in French that she didn’t care to translate yelled back at her.
The scientist slid to a halt in front of room 156, trying the door, then knocking on it rapidly. When nobody came to the door, she looked up and down the halls, locking eyes with the Marine, who was still watching her.
While still looking at him, she grabbed a tool out of her belt and started to plug it into a receptacle below the keypad.
“Code is two-five-four-eight.” The Marine called out, shaking his head and just walking away.
“Oh.” was all she could manage, pausing for a second to put the tool away before waving back at the Marine, “Thanks, Frenchie.”
“Je m'appelle Mauvieux…” he mumbled from down the hall, turning down another hall, seemingly to get away from her and the scene of the crime.
She ignored him entirely as she punched in the code and hit the button to open the door. The door had barely slid open entirely before she slipped inside and looked around for the snake.
“Firdaus, don’t! His ribs are-” She started, pausing when she realized that the snake was not doing anything other than sitting curled up in a corner of the room, a book in her hands. She looked surprised when she saw the suited Kinsey enter the room.
A door slid open to the scientist’s right, revealing the ODST she was looking for. Unfortunately, he was covered only by a towel around his waist, was clutching at his floating ribs with one arm, and had a pistol in his other hand, pointed directly at her head. As soon he recognized who he was looking at, he lowered the sidearm and leaned against the doorframe.
“Jesus Christ, Ev. What th’ fuck yeh doin’ in here?” He hissed, letting her take the gun from his hand and put it on a nearby desk, “And who th’ fuck gave you the emergency code to my door?”
“Someone who I forgot the name of.” Kinsey shrugged, stopping the man from bending over to pick up his clothes, which had been unceremoniously dumped onto the floor. She handed them to the ODST, who nodded at her and headed back into the bathroom, leaving the door open and hoping, or simply not caring, that the two women didn’t look into the room while he was dressing.
“Ok then, better question; and one I already asked you: Why the fuck are ya barging in here?” he wheezed out from the bathroom, obviously struggling a bit as he tried to dress himself.
“Making sure the thirty-odd foot long constrictor isn’t doing anything to the poor man with the four broken ribs.” She shrugged, shooting a shit-eating grin back at the snake, who flipped off the woman as she smiled back.
“Hey, don’t worry, I drew a gun on her as well.” Fries chuckled, grunting immediately afterwards. After a moment, he came out of the bathroom far more clothed than previous. He immediately went towards the scientist and gave her a quick, one-armed hug that leaned a fair deal of his weight on her, something that took her off-guard.
“Hey… you alright?” She asked, clearly realizing that something was wrong. She knew how the ODST usually acted, and he wasn’t generally the kind to hug without a stiff drink or three in him, let alone put weight on somebody else.
“Yeah, just… didn’t like what happened out there.” He sighed, pulling his weight off of her and going to lean against a wall.
“Didn’t hear what happened. You mind filling me in?” She muttered, moving to sit in a nearby chair. It creaked in protest to the woman’s suited 6’2” frame sitting down, but didn’t break.
“Thought I was going to die stranded out in the middle of fuck-off=nowhere space.” Fries wheezed, knocking his head on the wall behind him, “Kinda… put into perspective what I was told from day one was still a possibility.”
“Well, now I’m more interested in who told you what from the start.” She chuckled, clearly attempting to lighten the mood.
“Me mum always told me that I’d die alone in space, a billion and a half miles away from home.” He muttered somberly. He thought for a moment before his face twisted into a sad grin, “First time she’d shown concern for me in years.”
“Jesus, man. I’m sorry.” the woman muttered, feeling bad about her previous attempt at humor.
“Seriously; my condolences.” Firdaus piped up, simply sitting in her coils and watching the ODST sadly.
“Ehh… Whatever. That cunt never wanted to have me to begin with.” the man shrugged, grunting slightly as he sat down, “I did her a favor when I joined the forces.”
“That’s… not how you should look at that…” Kinsey muttered, standing up slightly when the man sat down, but sat back down when he waved her down.
“Ehh. Don’t care anymore. She’s six feet under an’ can’t bitch at me anymore.” He stated callously, rolling his eyes.
Kinsey quickly snapped to look at him, an expression of horror and sadness on her face. Firdaus seemed to share the same reaction as her, but was far less expressive in her movements.
“What the hell, dude?! Your mother died?! When! How?!” she exclaimed, getting out of her chair and motioning her arms out.
“Three years ago, MDMA overdose.” he muttered, clearly wanting the subject to change.
“Fuck…” the scientist muttered, picking up on the man’s clear reluctance to continue the conversation, “You could have said something.”
Fries paused for a moment, before simply shaking his head, “Nope.”
Kinsey paused for a heartbeat before nodding and stepping back towards the door, “Well, I’m sorry that there’s no better place to leave this at, but I’m going to head out.”
“Alright. Have a good time doc.” the ODST muttered, looking down at the floor for a moment before looking back up at her and nodding again, “Check in again sometime soon, yeah?”
“Yeah. Can do.” She nodded, opening his door and stepping out.

If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced writer and reformer Julia Ward Howe that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage. Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society.
The Civil War years taught naïve Americans what mass death meant in the modern era. Soldiers who had marched off to war with fantasies of heroism discovered that newly invented long-range weapons turned death into tortured anonymity. Men were trampled into blood-soaked mud, piled like cordwood in ditches, or withered into emaciated corpses after dysentery drained their lives away.
The women who had watched their hale and healthy men march off to war were haunted by its results. They lost fathers, husbands, sons, and brothers. The men who did come home were scarred in both body and mind.
Modern war, it seemed, was not a game.
But out of the war also came a new sense of empowerment. Women had bought bonds, paid taxes, raised money for the war effort, managed farms, harvested fields, worked in war industries, reared children, and nursed soldiers. When the war ended, they had every expectation that they would continue to be considered valuable participants in national affairs, and had every intention of continuing to take part in them.
But the Fourteenth Amendment, which established that Black men were citizens, did not explicitly include women in that right. Worse, it introduced the word “male” into the Constitution when it warned states against preventing “male inhabitants” from voting. In 1869, the year after the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution, women organized two organizations—the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association—to promote women’s right to have a say in American government.
From her home in Boston, Julia Ward Howe was a key figure in the American Woman Suffrage Association. She was an enormously talented writer who in the early years of the Civil War had penned “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a hymn whose lyrics made it a point to note that Christ was “born of woman.”
Howe was drawn to women’s rights because the laws of her time meant that her children belonged to her abusive husband. If she broke free of him, she would lose any right to see her children, a fact he threw at her whenever she threatened to leave him. She was not at first a radical in the mold of reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed that women had a human right to equality with men. Rather, she believed strongly that women, as mothers, had a special role to perform in the world.
For Howe, the Civil War had been traumatic, but that it led to emancipation might justify its terrible bloodshed. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 was another story. She remembered:
“I was visited by a sudden feeling of the cruel and unnecessary character of the contest. It seemed to me a return to barbarism, the issue having been one which might easily have been settled without bloodshed. The question forced itself upon me, ‘Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone know and bear the cost?’”
Howe had a new vision, she said, of “the august dignity of motherhood and its terrible responsibilities.” She sat down immediately and wrote an “Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World.” Men always had and always would decide questions by resorting to “mutual murder,” she wrote, but women did not have to accept “proceedings which fill the globe with grief and horror.” Mothers could command their sons, “who owe their life to her suffering,” to stop the madness.
"Arise, women!” Howe commanded. “Say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country, to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.’”
Howe had her document translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Swedish and distributed it as widely as her extensive contacts made possible. She believed that her Women’s Peace Movement would be the next great development in human history, ending war just as the antislavery movement had ended human bondage. She called for a “festival which should be observed as mothers’ day, and which should be devoted to the advocacy of peace doctrines” to be held around the world on June 2 of every year, a date that would permit open-air meetings.
Howe organized international peace conferences, and American states developed their own Mothers’ Day festivals. But Howe quickly realized that there was much to be done before women could come together on a global scale. She turned her attention to women’s clubs “to constitute a working and united womanhood.”
As Howe worked to unite women, she came to realize that a woman did not have to center her life around a man, but rather should be “a free agent, fully sharing with man every human right and every human responsibility.” “This discovery was like the addition of a new continent to the map of the world,” she later recalled, “or of a new testament to the old ordinances.” She threw herself into the struggle for women’s suffrage, understanding that in order to create a more just and peaceful society, women must take up their rightful place as equal participants in American politics.
While we celebrate the modern version of Mother’s Day on May 12, in this momentous year of 2024 it’s worth remembering the original Mothers’ Day and Julia Ward Howe’s conviction that women must have the same rights as men, and that they must make their voices heard.
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Notes:
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbpe/rbpe07/rbpe074/07400300/07400300.pdf
Julia Ward Howe, Reminiscences, 1819-1899 (Boston: 1900).
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-11-2024

I'm afraid to post this for (irrational?)fear that someone involved will recognize the exact sinario and that could lead to drama. I will keep it to the facts , and I hope I get some answers! Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I can't tell if I'm being a stick in the mud or what's normal parenting because i don't have kids ; - 2 of My best friends are getting married , after 7 years together ups and downs so happy for them, second marriage for him , first for her, she also has a child from another relationship that just turned 14. - they are definitely party people , enjoyed lots of concerts, music fests together with them , they have a bit of a freak side they like to show case which is all great and fun. - they decided to do a 3 day combined bachelobachelorette on 2 house boats with about 25 ppl , going to be a huge debauchery of fun, shannigans all that jazz you can imagine for an extreem bachelor party. It's costing everyone $$$ for my husband and I it's something we never have done , its a famous house boating lake for parties. We are very excited. - I am really reiterating that it's gonna be the type of party with a ton of drinking , I'm sure lots of other stuff as well, hand stand bikini tweerking , and I think one night is even a wet tshirt contest. - ok so just found out she's planning to bring her son, the 14 year old. - everyone else will be from ages of 30- 45 - a few ppl coming to the boat party expressed to me that they are surprised and unhappy with that considering the nature of the party and my husband and I are as well, because its not going to be the party it's being pitched at if this minor is there, it's going to make a lot of ppl uncomfortable to be acting in a crazy bachelor party way in front of a kid. Especially for the women. - he's 14 he's still a child to me , he looks much older and in my observation as her friend , she has always had him at age inappropriate events and never with friends his own age. - he's a really nice and smart young man but is at the age where I think he constantly thinks about sex and girls and has recently had some trouble at school due to that. - I'm afraid to bring it up to her for getting a harsh reaction but I am paying lots of money to go as well. - there is a group chat about it and I don't think everyone knows he's going to be there , I feel like putting it there but I know some ppl will back out and I don't know what to do. - am I being a prude? Is it normal for a kid that age to be at something like that ? - 3 day boat party ! - child care is not an issue because her dad lives with them and he will be home that weekend they are away.
How do I tell my friend nicely that bringing her kid is not ok with some of us without offending her ?? Please tell me if I'm being too stuck up or something?
Would you bring your son/daughte just turned 14 last week child to something like that ?

This took place back in the 90’s, I was part of the wedding party of a good friend, having the role of an usher for the groom’s side. I was in my mid 20’s and had been very good friends with the groom since we met at sixth form college aged 16.

The Groom was from a small town of just over 3,000 people, in a very rural area in the south of England, the kind of place where everyone knows each other, and it is rare for them to mix with any outsiders. He had been a hard partying wild man, whose main interests were Football, music, and beer. When I was away at university, he saw the light, put his old ways behind him and became born again. Gave up his job and became a missionary. Whilst away doing missionary work, joined by the youngest son of his Baptist minister, the groom met the bride. I nice young girl from the north of England who was also very religious.

After six months of dating, they got engaged, he had moved up to be close to her, got a job and they got a house, although she stayed living with her parents until the wedding.

The stag do was uneventful, the Groom came back down for a weekend for it, and the best man follow the instructions he had been given. A round of golf, the out for a meal then to the Grooms old local pub for the evening. The best man and me where the only ones who where not religious, when I noticed that the where 13 of us for the meal my last supper joke did not go down well. Even the Grooms mother joined us in the pub after the meal. Not the wild night of decadence I would have through his stag do would have been only a few years before.

That’s the boring bit over, now to the Wedding…….

The day before the Wedding my job was to pick up the youngest son of the local Baptist minister first thing in the morning, he was the other usher on the groom’s side, and drive him the length of England to the North of England near the Scottish boarder. The groom had been stressing out as we are both nice easy-going blokes, but we do both have a well and truly earned reputation for being a bit flaky. I’m due to pick him up at 9am, I wake up at 9:40am. Panic, get showered and dressed and run to my car. I get five minutes down the road and then turn around and return to my home to get my wedding suit. I get to the Baptist ministers’ home at 10:40am, I am knocking and ringing the doorbell until I wake the other usher at 11am. He showers and gets dressed whilst I wait in the kitchen for him, his father the minister comes home and me and him chat, he says that he would have loved to have gone to the wedding, but unfortunately, he is performing a wedding ceremony the next day for another couple we all know. Other usher comes down and says that he will make sandwiches for the journey, so we don’t have to stop. We finally get on the road at mid-day three hours late. We drive past my home soon after and I realise that I could have picked up my suit on the way.

The journey was uneventful apart from multiple texts from the best man asking when we would arrive, as the groom has an important job for us to do when we get there. Me and other usher had known each other for years and get on well so we chat and have a good laugh, this is when I found out the news that the wedding his father is doing the next day for the lad and his girlfriend, we all know, it had the same guest list as the groom’s side of the wedding we are going to. The guests had the choice of going to a wedding that most of them could walk to, and the rest would have a five-to-ten-minute drive, or one which would need them to take a day off work and a whole weekend to go to. The groom’s side for this wedding was just, his family, us two ushers, and five people the bride and groom had been missionaries with. When we start to get hungry the other usher looks for the sandwiches he made, only to discover that he has left them on the kitchen counter back at his parents’ house. This is the last time we screw up.

We get to the bride and grooms’ home at 8pm, as we walk to the door it swings open and we are nearly knocked over as the mother of the groom, his two twin sisters, and two brothers storm out of the house. The best man then greets us with the hunted look of a Vietnam veteran with a 1,000-yard stare. The other usher asks where the other missionaries are, the best man says that they are upstairs and other usher quickly disappears to see them. I walk in, the groom is hugging the bride, I say hello, they do not acknowledge me. The best man hands me a cup of tea and we go to the living room and close the door. We can hear the bride howling in tears just the other side of the door as the groom tries to claim her. Me and the best man are both British males, we know full well what to do in this kind of situation, our grand parents lived through the blitz, we drew down into our guts and invoked the Dunkirk spirt, we kept our stiff upper lips like any true Englishman, completely ignored the situation and made small talk about football, sipping our tea. The bride took about 45 minutes to stop crying.

After the wedding I found out , what had gone on, this was the first time the bride was meeting the grooms family, first the groom had asked his two 19 year old sisters to bring their dresses for the wedding along so he could approve them, now I do not know much about women, but one of the few things I do know this that you do not tell your sisters what they can and can not wear, as they will openly and honestly tell you what you can do with that request. Then the mother of the groom gave the couple a lucky horseshoe for there wedding, they refused to accept the gift as they are strict Christians, and the lucky horseshoe is a pagan symbol. Then the father of the groom, who was divorce for the mother of the groom decided to spring a surprise on everyone, he announced that he was bringing his new girlfriend and her toddler to the wedding. This is when the excrement well and truly hit the fan. The new girlfriend the groom also knew well, during his wild times he had known her in the biblical sense on more than one occasion. She was a very friendly and giving young women, in fact most of our friend group had known her biblically as well, some of them knew her in the biblical way two at a time. Thankfully looking at the time line unless it was a two-and-a-half-year pregnancy the toddler was not the grooms. The groom’s mother had openly called the grooms fathers new girlfriend a wh**e, which I feel is unfair, she didn’t ever charge, she was not a professional, she was just a very keen amateur. Over the next few minutes of shouting, it was made clear to the groom’s father that his girlfriend would not be invited to the wedding and there would be trouble if her brought her.

After everything had calmed down, we then drove over to the brides’ parents’ home. Where we had been given the task of blowing up ballons to decorate village hall the reception was taking place in, I was confused at why the groom was so stressed at us being on time so we could do this job. Then when no one else was about the groom gave us our real roles and responsibilities for the next day. Basically, we had the job to be his fathers’ minders during the reception, his father, was a violent, aggressive, alcoholic, and our role was to try and keep him away from other guests, try to stop him from insulting anyone, and if he starts a fight then to get in the middle of it and break it up. Now, I grew up playing Rugby, the sport which American football evolved from, except the only protection we wore was a gumshield and a cup (Known as a cricket box in the UK). I may not be the tallest but at the time I had spent a year working as a builder’s labour (construction worker for the Americans) and had the body I still think in my mind I still have, until I see myself in the mirror when I get out of the shower and realise that I currently have a body that resembles a dropped lasagne. Other usher was sporty, but stick thin, and I doubt that he had ever taken a punch in his life, I knew which of the two of us would be getting in the middle to break up any fight.

The Wedding Day……….

We had stayed in the same budget hotel chain as the groom’s family, except his father. My first responsibility of the day is to drive the mother of the groom to the wedding, along with the youngest brother and other usher. Oldest brother and twin sisters are being driven by oldest brothers’ best mate who was not invited to the wedding but came anyway.

In the morning of the wedding, I am in the hotel’s carpark decorating my car with the traditional white ribbons for wedding cars. The mother of the groom leans out of her ground floor room window and calls me over to the window. I walk over and just as I get there I see over her shoulder and freeze in shock. Both the grooms twin sisters and in the background getting ready for the wedding, one has just a towel wrapped around her, the other is only wearing a thong. They both see me, freeze, then scream and run into the room’s bathroom. I am extremely embarrassed, the groom’s mother, who is very east London just shouts at them,
‘Don’t be so stupid girls, you ain't got nothing he ain't seen before’.
We then go over what time we should leave for the wedding.
Knowing both the groom, and his father are very protective over the twins, even though it was a total accent, this incident could have landed me trouble with them both.

I am so paranoid about being late to the church that we arrive so early that the church is still locked, over the next few hours people arrive. For some strange reason they had decided to go with the traditional bride’s side sitting on one side of the isle, and grooms side sitting on the other. This led to a few issues, on the groom’s side, there were on the first pew, six members of his family, on the second pew, the five missionaries plus me and other usher, and brother of the grooms best mate. On the brides’ side, there where all her friends and family, plus every member of her parents’ church. I suggested that we just filled the empty pews on the groom’s side with guests, but the two ushers on the brides’ side, the bride’s brothers wouldn’t even consider it. Me and other usher had no-one to usher to their seats, as it had started raining, we decided to grab a couple of umbrellas and meet and greet guests as they parked and shield them from the rain. We also started to set out extra seats for the bride’s side as all the pews on that side of the church had been filled, there was over 150 on her side, even though on the groom’s side only two pews had anyone sitting in them and only 14 people.

Then the final guests arrive, they are very elderly, from the church the parents of the bride belong to, they decided to park right in front of the door to the church, I asked them if they could move, they explained that they were not going to the reception and were leaving for a holiday right after the ceremony, so they wanted to leave quickly. I pointed out that they had parked in such a way that the bride would be forced to squeeze down a foot and a half gap between their mud-covered car and a brick wall whilst it was raining to get into her own wedding. They did not see anything wrong with that. There was some back and forth between us, but finally I found a parking spot which they could easily leave early from and was out of the way, they reluctantly moved their car to that spot. Just as the car carrying the bride and her father drove into the carpark.

The ceremony went off without any drama. After the ceremony it is the photos, as each set of photos are done the people leave to go to the reception. The last set to be done are the newly married couple and the groom’s mother. We get to my car, and we realise that no-one has told us where the reception is. There is one last car with wedding guests in leaving at the same time as us, the only other car is the best man’s car, and he is taking the bride and groom. I quickly follow the car that is leaving hoping that they are going to the reception. This is the 90’s, the only two people who have mobile phones are the best man, and me, him as his work supplied him with one, and I had got one as I did not want to be talking to my, at the time recently ex-girlfriend (I broke it off with her a week before and that is why other Usher got to share my hotel room with me as I had already booked and paid for two people for two nights, I had just changed the booking to a twin room) whilst in the same room as my parents on their landline. The best man calls my phone, asking if we know where the reception is, we don’t but we are following a car that might be going there. Groom and Bride do not drive and do not know the way to the reception. Other usher has my phone, he is describing landmarks to best man who is about two minutes behind us, so he can find his way. After 20 minutes of driving thankfully the car I am following is going to the reception and two minutes after we arrive the bride and groom arrive.

We go to our assigned tables for the meal, I am sitting next to the friend of the oldest brother of the groom, opposite him is the oldest brother of the groom, directly opposite me is the only wearing a towel sister of the groom, next to her is the other twin who I saw too much of earlier that day. And next to me is the boyfriend of the maid of honour. I try to make small talk with the boyfriend of the maid of honour, but he is staring daggers at the best man, who is sitting at the head table talking to and looking, like he is really hitting it off with the maid of honour. Boyfriend of maid of honour is not happy, he is in silence for most of the meal but at some points during the meal sounds like he is growling. I later found out that best man and maid of honour both had the same job and just talked shop the whole meal, the only other person best man had to talk to as he was on the head table was youngest brother of groom who was six years old, and as she was at the end of the head table there was no-one on the other side of her, the boyfriend of maid of honour made me feel about as welcome as a ginger haired step son.

The best man speech was interesting, as he had been given strict instructions on what he could say and what he could not say. The stories about the groom stopped at the age of 12, and then jumped to when he became born again. More than half his life had to be skipped over.

Due to the father of the groom, the decision was made to have a dry wedding, apart from a glass of sparkling wine each to toast the bride and groom. Somehow towel sister of the groom managed to get a few glasses of sparkling wine and started to get very flirty with me, as she was rubbing her foot up and down my leg under the table, I moved my leg away, I looked her in the eye and gave a firm shake of the head, thankfully she got the message. The other twin sister, who is very shy and studious, couldn’t even look me in the eye due to embarrassment from the morning.

On the lighter side, the bride who had been starving herself for months before the wedding, ate so much that she burst the zip at the back of her dress, she saw the funny side of it and her mother and sisters all used safety pins to pin it back up so she could then eat some more.

It then comes time for the first dance, this wedding was on a tiny budget, this was before we could burn CD’s at home, so the groom had made a mix tape for the dances, as they were half way into the first dance, the tape player ate the tape. No more music.

Me and other usher spent the rest of the time basically standing in front of father of the groom, who had brought his own bottle of whiskey. We knew that a guaranteed why to provoke violence was to try and take the bottle off him. We became the absorbers of his bile, we bit our tongues as we listened to his racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic, sexist ranting, saying about how the world is against him and none of his problems are his fault. Each time one of his children or his ex-wife came within earshot her would try to provoke them, but they remained stoic.

It then came time for the bride and groom to leave for their honeymoon, I had supplied the oldest brother of the groom and his friend with a can of shaving foam to decorate the wedding car in the traditional manner, they did not disappoint.

Once the bride and groom had left, the rest of the guest all left, no music, no booze, no food there was nothing to stay around for, so the wedding was over by 7:30pm.

I drove the mother of the groom, Youngest brother of the groom and other usher back to the budget chain hotel we were staying in. after dropping them off I went and brough myself a lot of beer, went to oldest brother of the grooms room, as the England football team had been playing a world cup qualifier game that day and had set up a video recorder to record it and we watched the game. Half way through the best man turned up, again with a 1,000 yards stare.

Later I found out what had happened next. The best man had driven the newly married couple to the hotel where they were having their honeymoon. As he was driving back, he got a phone call on his mobile phone, asking hm if he had the keys to the married couples’ home, as the five missionaries are all staying there for the weekend. He does not have the keys, the only person who has the keys is the groom. The best man turns around and drives back to the hotel. There is no way that he is going to disturb the married couple on their wedding night, the very religious couple on their wedding night, the groom might not have saved himself for marriage during his wild years, but it had been made very clear to everyone that the bride had saved herself for marriage. The best man gets the front desk to ring up for him, no answer. In the end a manager goes up and knocks on their room and gets the keys.

The next day we all drive back south and try to get over the experience.

Over 25 years later:

The groom and bride and still together, and still very happy together, they have four children.

Towel sister of the groom is happily married with three children.

Embarrassed sister of the groom, went to University, became a teacher and is no longer extremely shy, she came back from Uni full of confidence. I bumped into her last year in our local supermarket when she introduced me to her two teenage daughters as the first guy who to got to enjoy her boobs. I was just as embarrassed as her daughters.

Oldest brother of the groom spent so much time in the job centre that he ended up getting a job there.

Youngest brother of the groom is a lovely lad with a great girlfriend, their wedding is next year.

Mother of the groom is still hoping that oldest brother of the groom will meet someone nice sometime and move out, no-one else thinks that is going to happen.

Father of the groom is currently living in a hostel for the homeless. None of his three sons will have anything to do with him, his two daughters take it in turns to do his washing and give him enough food for the week. They do not give him any money.

Me and best man are still very close. We helped each other move into our first homes and decorate them. He was my best man at my wedding, and I was best man at his. I am godfather to his son, he is the named trustee in my will. We supported each other through our divorces. We support each other with our elderly parents and their mad erratic decisions. The only reason we are not meeting up this weekend for a beer and a catch up, is because he is currently dealing with the family drama around his mother in her late 70’s deciding to elope with someone she has only known for two weeks.
I have been to many weddings over the years, this is still the only one I can remeber all of the details of.

Updated: 05/11/2024
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• Ender's Game HD FN/iTune/GP
• Enemies Closer HD FN
• Enough Said HD MA
• Epic (iTune) SD MA
• Epic HD MA
• Escape Plan HD FN*
• ET (iTune) SD MA (from bluray)
• ET SDHD MA
• the Equalizer SDHD MA
• the Equalizer 2 SD MA
• Ex Machina HD FN
• Exodus: Gods And Kings HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Expendables 2 HD FN/iTune/GP
• the Expendables 3 4K FN
• the Expendables 3 [unrated] HD
• the Expendables 3 HD FN Or iTune (split)
• Extraction HD FN
• Fantastic Four [2015] HD (4k iTune Redeem) MA
• Fast & Furious 1 (iTune) HD MA
• Fast & Furious 1 HD MA
• Fast & Furious 2 (4K iTune) MA
• Fast & Furious 3 HD MA
• Fast & Furious 4 HD MA
• Fast & Furious 4 (iTune) SD MA
• Fast & Furious 5 Extended (iTune) HD MA
• Fast & Furious 5 Extended HD MA
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• Fast & Furious 6 Extended HD MA
• Fast & Furious 7 Extended HD MA
• Fast & Furious 7 Extended (4K iTune) MA
• Fast Furious 8 Extended 4K MA
• Fast Furious 8 Extended HD MA
• Fast Furious 8 Theatrical 4K MA
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• Father And Daughters SD FN
• the Fault In Our Stars HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Fault In Our Stars HD MA (no Upgrade)
• Fences HD FN or iTune 4K (split)
• Ferdinand HD MA
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (FN Only) HD
• Fifty Shades Darker [unrated] (iTune) HD MA
• Fifty Shades Darker [unrated] HD MA
• Fifty Shades Of Grey [unrated] HD MA
• Fifty Shades Of Grey [standard] 4K (iTune) MA
• the Fighter HD (FN / iTune) Split
• Finding Dory (GP) HD MA
• Finding Dory HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Finding Nemo (GP) HD MA
• Five Feet Apart HD (FN / GP / iTune)
• the Five Year Engagement (iTune) HD MA
• Flight HD (FN / iTune ) Split
• Footloose (2011) SD (FN Or iTune)
• Forest Gump HD FN only
• Fox and the Hound HD MA
• Fox and the Hound 2 HD MA
• Free Guy HD MA
• Free Guy (GP) HD MA
• Fright Night 2 UR HD MA
• the Front Runner SD +MA
• Frozen HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Frozen (GP) HD MA
• Frozen -Sing Along Edition HD MA
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• Frozen Ground HD FN
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• G.I. Joe Retaliation HD FN Or iTune 4K (split)
• the Gambler HD (FN / iTune Split)
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• Get The Gringo (iTune) SD MA
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• Ghost Rider Spirit Of Vengeance SD MA
• Ghost Team One HD FN or iTune (split)
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife SD MA
• Ghostbusters: Answer The Call & Extended SD MA
• the Gift HD MA (iTune)
• Gifted HD MA
• the Girl In The Spidersweb SD MA
• the Girl On The Train MA 4K (iTune)
• the Girl On The Train MA HD
• the Giver HD FN
• Glass HD MA
• Glee The Concert (iTune) SD MA
• God's Not Dead 3: A Light In Darkness HD MA
• the Godfather HD FN or 4k iTune
• Gods Of Egypt HD FN (and iTune 4K split)
• Gods Of Egypt SD FN
• A Good Day To Die Hard HD MA
• A Good Day To Die Hard (iTune) SD MA
• the Good Dinosaur HD [4K iTune Redeemed] MA
• the Good Dinosaur (GP) HD MA
• A Good Man SD FN
• Goosebumps 2 SD MA
• Grace Unplugged HD FN
• Gran Turismo SD MA
• the Great Wall (iTune Portion) 4K MA
• the Great Wall HD MA
• the Greatest Showman HD MA
• Green Room HD FN
• the Grey (iTune) HD MA
• Grown Ups 2 SD MA
• Guardians Of The Galaxy HD MA (4k if redeemed in iTune)
• Guardians Of The Galaxy HD MA (no 4K Upgrade)
• Guardians Of The Galaxy (GP) HD MA
• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.0 HD MA
• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.0 (GP) HD MA
• the Gunman HD MA
• the Gunman (iTune) HD MA
• Guns Akimbo HD (FN/iTune/GP)
• Gutshot SD FN
• Hacksaw Ridge 4K FN/GP
• Hacksaw Ridge HD FN Or GP (Or iTune 4K)
• Hail, Caesar! HD MA
• Hail, Caesar! (iTune) HD MA
• Hammer Of The Gods SDHD FN
• Hansel & Gretel [unrated] HD FN / HD iTune (split)
• Hands of Stone HD FN
• the Hangover (iTune) SD MA
• Hardcore Henry HD MA (iTune)
• the Hateful Eight HD FN Or GP
• Haunted House 2 (iTune) HD MA
• the Haunting In Connecticut 2 Ghosts Of Georgia HD FN
• the Haves and the Have Nots SD FN
• the Heat HD MA
• the Heat (iTune) SD MA (will Send First)
• Heaven Is For Real SDHD MA
• Hell Or High Water SD FN
• Hercules HD FN / 4k iTune (split)
• Here Comes The Boom SD MA
• the Hero of Big City (FN Promo) SD
• Hidden Figures HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Hillsong: Let Hope Rise HD MA
• Hitman [unrated] SD MA
• fast & furious: Hobbs & Shaw HD MA
• Hocus Pocus HD MA
• Hocus Pocus (GP) HD MA
• Hologram For A King SD FN
• Home HD MA
• Home Again HD MA
• Home Alone 4KHD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Home Alone 2: Lost In New York HD MA
• Homefront (iTune) HD MA
• Homefront HD MA
• the Homesman HD FN
• Honey 2 (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Honey 2 HD MA
• Honey: Rise Up and Dance HD MA
• Hop (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Hop HD MA
• Hope Springs SDHD MA
• Horton Hears A Who (iTune) SD MA
• the Host (iTune) HD MA
• Hostiles 4K FN/iTune/(GP HD)
• Hotel Transylvania SD MA
• Hotel Transylvania 2 SD MA
• Hotel Transylvania 3 SD MA
• Hottub Time Machine 2 HD FN or iTune (split)
• Hours SD FN
• House With A Clock In Its Walls HD MA
• Dr. Suess: How the Ginch Stole Christmas HD MA
• How To Train A Dragon 2 HD MA
• Hugo SD (FN Or iTune)
• the Hunger Games HD FN
• the Hunger Games: Catching Fire HD FN
• the Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1 HD FN
• the Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2 HD FN
• the Hunt (2020) HD MA
• I Can Only Imagine HD FN/iTune/GP
• I See You HD FN (no iTune)
• I, Frankenstein HD FN/iTune/GP
• Ice Age HD MA
• Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas HD MA
• Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (iTune) SD MA
• Ice Age: Collision Course HD [4K if iTune Redeemed] MA
• Ice Age: Dawn Of Dinosaurs (iTune) SD MA
• Ice Age: the Great Egg-Scapade HD MA
• the Ides Of March HD MA
• if There Be Thorns SD FN
• the Imitation Game HD FN
• In Time (iTune) SD MA
• Incarnate (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Independence Day Resurgence HD MA (no Upgrade)
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• Inferno HD MA
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• Inside Man HD MA
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• Inside Out (google Redeem) HD MA
• Insidious Chapter 2 SD MA
• Insidious Chapter 3 SD MA
• Insidious: the last key SDHD MA
• Instructions Not Included HD FN
• Internship HD MA
• Internship (iTune) SD MA
• Interstellar HD (FN Or 4K iTune) Split
• the Interview SDHD MA
• Into The Spider-verse SD MA
• Iron Man 3 (GP) HD MA
• Iron Man 3 HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Jack & Jill HD MA
• Jack Reacher SD FN
• Jack Reacher HD FN /4K iTune (split)
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back HD FN /4K iTune (split)
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit HD FN Or iTune
• Jackass 3 HD FN
• Jarhead 2 [unrated] HD MA
• Jarhead 2 [unrated] HD MA (iTune portion)
• Jarhead Law Of Return HD MA
• Jason Bourne HD MA
• Jason Bourne 4K MA (iTune portion)
• Jaws HD MA
• Jobs HD MA
• Joe SD FN
• John Wick SD4K (FN, iTune Or SDHD-GP)
• John Wick 2 (Chapter 2) HD (FN, iTune Or HD-GP)
• John Wick 3 4K (FN, iTune Or HD-GP)
• John Wick 4 4K (FN Or iTune)
• Joy HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Joy HD MA
• Jumanji: the Next Level SD MA
• Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle SD MA
• Jumper (iTune) SD MA
• the Jungle Book [2016] (preorder) HD MA
• Jungle Book [animated] HD MA
• Jungle Cruise (GP) HD MA
• Juno (iTune) SD MA
• Jurassic Park (4K iTune) MA
• Jurassic Park HD MA
• Jurassic Park 2: Lost World (4K iTune) MA
• Jurassic Park 2: Lost World HD MA
• Jurassic Park 3 (4K iTune) MA
• Jurassic World (4K iTune) MA
• Jurassic World HD MA
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom HD MA
• Just Wright (iTune) SD MA
• Justin Bieber: Never Say Never HD FN / iTune (split)
• Katy Perry: Part of Me SDHD FN / SDHD iTune (Split)
• Keeping Up with the Jones (4K iTune Redeem) +MA
• Kevin Heart: Let Me Explain HD
• Kickass HD FN
• Kickass 2 HD MA
• Kidnap HD MA
• Kidnap (iTune) HD MA
• Killer Elite (iTune) HD MA
• Killing Them Softly HD FN
• Kin HD FN/iTune/GP
• the Kingsman: The Golden Circle HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Kingsman: The Secret Service HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Kingsman: The Secret Service SD (FN) MA
• Knight And Day (iTune) SD MA
• Knives Out 4K (FN, iTune or GP)
• Kung Fu Panda 3 HD MA
• La La Land HD FN or GP or 4k iTune
• Labor Day HD FN Only
• the Last Exorcism Past2 (unrated) SD MA
• Last Knights HD FN
• the Last Stand HD
• Last Vegas SD MA
• the Last Witch Hunter SD FN
• the Legend Of Hercules HD FN
• Legends of OZ: Dorothy's Return HD MA
• Les Miserables [2012] (iTune redeem) 4K MA
• Les Miserables [2012] HD MA
• Let's Be Cops HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Life HD MA
• Life As We Know It (iTune) SD MA
• Life Of Pi HD (4K iTune Through Foxredeem) MA
• the Lion King [animated] HD MA
• the Lion King [animated] (GP) HD MA
• the Lion King 1 1/2 HD MA
• the Lion King 1 1/2 (GP) HD MA
• the Lion King 2 Simba's Pride HD MA
• the Little Mermaid HD MA
• the Little Mermaid (GP) HD MA
• Little Women (2019) SDHD MA
• Lockout (unrated) SD MA
• Logan HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Logan Lucky 4K (iTune) MA
• the Lone Ranger (GP) HD MA
• the Lone Ranger HD MA
• Lone Survivor HD MA
• Lone Survivor 4K (iTune) MA
• the Longest Ride HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Longest Week HD FN
• Looper SD MA
• the Lorax (iTune) HD MA
• the Lorax HD MA
• the Lords Of Salem HD FN
• Love Actually (iTune) SD MA
• Love Actually SD MA
• Love & Mercy HD FN
• Love & Other Drugs (iTune) SD MA
• Love the Coopers HD FN
• Lucy HD MA
• Lucy 4k MA (iTune redeem)
• Machete (iTune) SD MA
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted HD MA
• A Madea Christmas HD FN
• A Madea Family Funeral HD (FN / iTune OR GP)
• Madea's Neighbors From Hell The Play SD FN
• Madea's Witness Protection HD FN Or iTune
• Madea's Witness Protection SD FN
• the Magnificent Seven [2016] SDHD FN
• Maggie HD FN Only
• Maleficent (GP) HD MA
• Maleficent HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Maleficent: mistress of evil (GP) HD MA
• Mall Cop 2 SD MA
• Mallrats HD MA
• Mamma Mia! (iTune) SD MA
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again HD MA
• the Man With The Iron Fists (iTune) HD MA
• Mandela Long Walk To Freedom HD FN
• Marauders HD FN
• the Marine 4 HD FN
• the Marine 6: close quarters SD MA
• Marley & Me (iTune) SD MA
• the Martian SD MA
• the Martian HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Marry Me HD MA
• Mary Poppins HD MA
• Mary Poppins (GP) HD MA
• Mary Poppins: Returns HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Mary Poppins: Returns (GP) HD MA
• Max Payne SD (iTune) MA
• Max Steel (iTune) HD MA
• the Maze Runner HD (no Upgrade)
• McFarland USA HD MA
• the Mechanic: Resurrection HD (FN or GP, iTune)
• the Mechanic: Resurrection SD FN
• Megan Leavey (iTune) HD MA
• Megan Leavey HD MA
• Men In Black 3 SDHD MA
• Men In Black: International HD MA
• Midway 4K FN/iTune or GP
• Mike & Dave Need A Wedding Date HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Minions (4K iTune) MA
• Minions HD MA
• Miss Bala SD MA
• Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children HD (4K iTune redeem) MA
• Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children HD MA (FN Redeem)
• Mission Impossible: Fallout HD (FN or iTune)
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal HD FN / 4K iTune (Split)
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal Dvd (FN)
• Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (HD FN Or iTune 4K)
• Moana HD (GP) MA
• Mom's Night Out SD MA
• Moneyball HD MA
• Monster High: Electrified HD MA
• Monster Hunter HD MA
• Monte Carlo (iTune) SD MA
• the Monuments Men SDHD MA
• Moonlight HD FN
• Monster High: Freaky Fusion HD MA
• Monster High: Freaky Fusion [iTune redeem] HD MA
• Monster Trucks HD FN or 4k iTune (split)
• A Monster's Call HD MA
• A Monster's Call (iTune) HD MA
• Mortal Instruments SD MA
• A Most Wanted Man HD FN
• the Mountain Between Us HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Mr. Holmes HD FN
• Mr. Popper's Penguins (iTune) SD MA
• Mud HD FN
• the Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (iTune) SD MA
• Mummy [2017] HD MA
• Mummy [2017] (iTune portion) 4K MA
• Murder on the Oriental Express HD MA
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (iTune redeem) HD MA
• My Life As A Zucchini (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Nebraska HD FN
• Neighbors (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Neighbors 2 (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Nerve SD FN
• News of the World HD MA
• Night At The Museum HD MA
• Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian HD MA
• Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian (iTune) SD MA
• Night At The Museum 3: Secret Of The Tomb HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Nightmare Before Christmas (GP) HD MA
• No Country For Old Men HD FN Or GP
• No Escape HD FN
• No Good Deed SDHD MA
• No Hard Feelings SDHD MA
• No Strings Attached HD FN Or iTune (split)
• Noah HD FN Or iTune (split)
• Non-stop (iTune) HD MA
• Non-stop HD MA
• Norm Of The North HD FN Only
• Now You See Me 4K FN/iTune/GP
• Now You See Me HD FN
• Now You See Me HD FN/iTune/GP
• Now You See Me 2 SD FN
• the Nut Job 2 HD MA
• the Nut Job 2 (iTune) HD MA
• Oblivion (iTune portion) 4K MA
• Oblivion HD MA
• Office Party HD FN or iTune (split)
• Olaf's Frozen Adventure HD MA
• Olaf's Frozen Adventure (GP) HD MA
• Olympus Has Fallen SD MA
• the Oranges (iTune) SD MA
• the Other Woman HD MA
• Our Family Wedding (iTune) SD MA
• Overcomer SD MA
• Overlord HD (FN or 4K iTune) Split
• Oz The Great And Powerful (GP) HD MA
• Oz The Great And Powerful HD MA
• Pacific Rim: Uprising 4KHD MA
• Paddington HD FN
• Pain & Gain HD FN Only
• Paranormal Activity 2 HD (FN Or iTune)
• Paranormal Activity 3 SD FN (try iTune at your own risk)
• Paranormal Activity 4 HD (FN Or iTune)
• Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimension HD (FN or iTune)
• Parental Guidance HD MA
• Parental Guidance (iTune) SD MA
• Parker SD MA
• Passengers HD MA
• Patriots Day HD FN (or 4K iTune)
• Paul [unrated] HD (iTune) MA
• Paul: Apostle of Christ SD +MA
• Peanuts Movies HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• we the 'Peeples' SDHD FN
• Penguins Of Madagascar HD MA
• Percy Jackson: Lightning Thief (iTune) SD MA
• Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters HD MA
• the Perfect Guy HD MA
• Perks Of Being A Wallflower HD FN Or iTune SD (split)
• Pete's Dragon [2016] HD MA
• Pete's Dragon [2016] (GP) HD MA
• Peter Rabbit SDHD MA
• Philomena HD FN
• Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (GP) HD MA
• Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales HD MA (iTune kills code)
• Pirates! Band Of Misfits SD MA
• Pitch Black [unrated] (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Pitch Perfect HD MA
• Pitch Perfect [iTune redeem 4K] MA
• Pitch Perfect 2 HD MA
• Pitch Perfect 2 HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Pixels SD MA
• the Place Beyond the Pines (iTune) HD MA
• Planes (GP) HD MA
• Planes HD MA
• Planes Fire And Rescue HD MA
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles HD (FN or iTune)
• Playing For Keeps SD MA
• Pocahontas HD MA
• Pocahontas 2: Journey to the New World HD MA
• Pocahontas 2: Journey to the New World (GP) HD MA
• Pompeii SDHD MA
• Possession HD FN (SD iTune)
• the Possession of Hannah Grace SD MA
• Precious Cargo SD FN
• Predators (iTune) SD MA
• Premium Rush SD MA
• the Prince HD FN
• Prometheus HD MA
• Prometheus [iTune redeem] [?] MA
• the Protector 2 SD FN
• Public Enemies (iTune) SD MA
• the Purge (2013) 4K (iTune portion) MA
• the Purge (2013) HD MA
• the Purge: Election Year (2016) HD MA
• the purge: the Forever Purge (2021) HD MA
• Queen Of Katwe (GP) HD MA
• Queen Of Katwe HD MA
• a Quiet Place HD FN (Or iTune 4K)
• R.I.P.D. (iTune redeem) 4K MA
• R.I.P.D. HD MA
• Ralph Breaks The Internet (GP) HD MA
• Rambo HD FN Or GP (Or iTune 4K)
• Rambo: Last Blood 4K (FN,iTune Or HD-GP)
• Ramona And Beezus (iTune) SD MA
• Rango HD FN Or 4K iTune (split)
• Ray HD MA
• Rear Window HD MA
• Reasonable Doubt HD MA
• Red 2 HD FN
• Red Sparrow HD MA
• Redemption HD FN
• Reprisal HD FN
• Return To Never Land HD MA
• Return To Never Land (GP) HD MA
• Resident Evil: Final Chapter SD MA
• Resident Evil: Retribution SDHD MA
• the Revenant HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Rhythm Section HD FN or 4K iTune
• Ricki And The Flash SD MA
• Riddick [unrated] HD MA
• Riddick [unrated] (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Ride Along (iTune) HD MA
• Ride Along HD MA
• Ride Along 2 (iTune) HD MA
• Rio HD MA
• Rio (iTune) SD MA
• Rio 2 HD MA
• Rise Of The Guardians HD MA
• Rise Of The Planet Of Apes HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Rise Of The Planet Of Apes (iTune) SD MA
• Risen SDHD MA
• Robin Hood (1973) [Disney] (GP) HD MA
• Robin Hood (2010) [unrated] (iTune) SD MA
• Robin Hood (2018) FN/GP HD or iTune 4K
• Robocop 2014 HD FN Or GP
• the Rocker (iTune) SD MA
• the Rocky Horror Picture Show HD MA
• Rogue Warefare: the hunt HD FN or iTune
• Room HD FN
• Runner Runner HD MA
• Rush (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Russell Madness HD MA
• Saban's: Power Rangers HD FN Or iTune (split)
• Safe HD FN Only
• Safe House (iTune) HD MA
• Safe House HD MA
• Samson HD MA
• the Santa Clause HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• the Santa Clause HD (GP) MA
• Santa's Little Helper HD MA
• Sausage Party SD MA
• Savages (iTune) HD MA (theatrical)
• Saving Mr. Banks HD MA
• Saving Mr. Banks (GP) HD MA
• Scarface 4K (iTune) MA
• Scarface HD MA
• Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark 4K (FN/iTune or GP)
• Schindler's List SD MA
• Schindler's List [iTune redeem] [?] MA
• the Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (iTune) HD MA
• the Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption HD MA
• the Scorpion King 4: Quest For Power (iTune) HD MA
• the Scorpion King 4: Quest For Power HD MA
• Seal Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines HD (FN Or GP)
• the Secret Life Of Pets HD MA
• the Secret Life Of Pets (4K iTune) MA
• the Secret Life Of Walter Mitty HD MA
• See No Evil 2 HD FN
• Seeds of Yesterday SD FN
• Selma HD (iTune redeem) HD MA
• Serena SD FN
• Seventh Son (iTune) HD MA
• Seventh Son HD MA (iTune Portion)
• Sex Tape SD MA
• the Shack HD FN/GP Or iTune (split)
• Shang-Chi: and the Legend of the Ten Rings HD MA
• Shang-Chi: and the Legend of the Ten Rings (GP) HD MA
• Shrek the Third HD MA
• Shutter Island 4K FN or Itune
• Sicario 4K FN or iTune
• Silver Linings Playbook HD (FN Or GP)
• A Simple Favor HD FN/iTune/GP
• Single Mom's Club HD
• Sin City: a Dame to Kill For HD FN
• Sinister HD FN or (SD iTune)
• Sinister 2 (iTune) HD MA
• Sisters [unrated] (iTune) HD MA
• Sisters [unrated] HD MA
• the Skeleton Twins HD FN
• Skin Trade HD FN Redeem
• Skiptrace SD FN
• Skyfall HD (FN Or GP)
• Skyscraper HD MA
• Sleepless (iTune) HD MA
• Slumdog Millionaire (iTune) SD MA
• the Smurfs 2 SDHD MA
• **Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins HD FN or 4k iTune (split)
• Snatched HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Snitch HD FN only
• Snow White & The Huntsman (4K iTune) MA
• Snow White & The Huntsman HD MA
• Snowden HD MA
• Snowden (iTune) HD MA
• Solo: A Star Wars Story HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Son Of God HD MA
• Sonic The Hedge hog 2 4K (FN or iTune)
• Southpaw HD FN
• Sparkle SD MA
• the Spectacular Now SD FN
• Spectre 007 HD FN/GP/iTune
• Spider-man: Far From Home SDHD MA
• Spider-man: Homecoming HD MA
• Spider-man: No-way Home SDHD MA
• Split HD MA
• Split [iTune redeem] 4K MA
• the Sponge Bob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water HD FN / iTune (split)
• Spring Breakers HD FN
• Spy [unrated] HD MA
• the Spy Who Dumped Me HD V/I/GP
• Stand Up Guys HD FN
• the Star SD MA
• Starship Troopers: Invasion SD MA
• Star Trek [1] HD FN (Or 4K iTune) Split
• Star Trek [2] Into Darkness HD FN (Or 4K iTune) Split
• Star Trek [3] Beyond HD FN (Or 4K iTune) Split
• Star Trek: the motion picture HD FN or 4K iTune
• Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan HD FN or 4K iTune
• Star Trek: First Contact HD FN or iTune
• Star Trek: Insurrection HD FN or iTune
• Star Trek: Nemesis HD FN or iTune
• Star Wars: Force Awakens HD MA (No Upgrade)
• Star Wars: Force Awakens HD MA (4K iTune Redeem)
• Star Wars: Force Awakens (GP) HD MA
• Star Wars: the Last Jedi HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Star Wars: the Last Jedi (GP) HD MA
• Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker 4K MA
• Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker (GP) HD MA
• Step Up: All In HD FN
• Step Up: Revolution HD FN Or (iTune Quality Unknown)
• Still Alice SD MA
• Straight Out Of Compton (iTune) 4K MA
• Straight Out Of Compton [unrated] HD MA
• Street Kings (iTune) SD MA
• Sucker Punch (iTune) SD MA
• Sundown: the Vampire in Retreat HD FN or GP
• Super 8 HD FN only
• Super Buddies HD MA
• Super Buddies (GP) HD MA
• Super Troopers (iTune) SD MA
• Super Troopers HD MA
• Super Troopers 2 HD MA
• Tad: the Lost Explorer - and the secret of king midas HD FN / iTune (split)
• Taken (theatrical) SD MA
• Taken (Extended) SD MA
• Taken 2 HD MA
• Taken 3 (extended) HD MA
• Tarzan HD FN
• Ted (iTune) HD MA
• Ted [unrated] HD MA
• Ted [unrated] (iTune) HD MA
• Ted 2 (iTune) HD MA
• Ted 2 [unrated] HD MA
• Ted 2 [unrated] (iTune) HD MA
• Teen Spirit HD MA
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles HD FN/iTune split
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows HD FN/iTune split
• Temptation HD FN
• Texas Chainsaw HD (FN/iTune/GP) iTune Split
• Thanks For Sharing HD FN
• That Awkward Moment SD MA
• That's My Boy SDHD MA
• the Theory Of Everything (iTune) HD MA
• Think Like A Man SD MA
• Think Like A Man Too SDHD MA
• This Is 40 (iTune Portion) HD MA
• This Is 40 HD MA
• This Is The End SDHD MA
• Thor Love And Thunder 4K\HD MA
• Thor Love And Thunder (GP) HD MA
• Thor Ragnarok (GP) HD MA
• Thor Ragnarok HD MA
• A Thousand Words SD FN
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri HD MA
• the Three Stooges [the movie] (iTune) SD MA
• tinker tailor soldier (iTune) hd ma
• Tinkerbell And The Legend Of The NeverBeast HD MA
• Titanic HD FN (SD4K iTune)
• Tooth Fairy (itune) SD MA
• Top Gun HD FN & iTune (split)
• Top Gun Maverick 4K FN or iTune
• Total Recall (1990) HD FN
• Total Recall (2012) [theater & Extended] HD MA
• Total Recall (2012) SD MA
• Tower Heist (iTune) HD MA
• Toy Story 4 (GP) HD MA
• Trainwreck (iTune) HD MA
• Transformers: Age Of Extinction SDHD FN
• Transformers: Dark Of The Moon SDHD FN
• Transformers: The Last Knight (digital Cut) HD FN Or iTune 4K Split
• the Transporter HD MA
• the Transporter (iTune) SD MA
• Tremors 5: Bloodlines HD MA
• Tremors 5: Bloodlines (iTune) HD MA
• Tremors 6: A Cold Day In Hell HD MA
• Trolls HD MA
• True Grit HD FN (iTune Split)
• the Trust SD FN
• Turbo (iTune) SD MA
• Turbo HD MA
• Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt 1 HD FN (SD iTune) split
• Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt 2 HD FN (SD iTune) split
• Unbroken (iTune) HD MA
• Unbroken HD MA
• Under The Skin HD FN
• Underworld: Awakening SDHD MA
• Underworld: Bloodwars HD MA
• Unknown (iTune) SD MA
• Unstoppable (iTune) SD MA
• Vampires Suck (iTune) SD MA
• Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets HD FN
• the Vatican Tapes HD FN
• Vendetta (wwe) SD FN
• Venom SDHD MA
• Vertigo HD MA
• Vice (lionsgate) HD FN
• the Vow SDHD MA
• A Walk Among Tombstones (iTune) HD MA
• Walking With Dinosaurs HD MA
• Wall-E HD MA
• Wallstreet 2: Never Sleeps (iTune) SD MA
• Wanted (iTune) SD MA
• War Of The Planet Of The Apes HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• War Room SDHD MA
• Warcraft (4K iTune) MA
• Warcraft HD MA
• Warm Bodies HD FN
• Warm Bodies HD FN/GP/ iTune (4K iTune Split)
• the Watch HD MA
• Water For Elephants (iTune) SD MA
• We Bought A Zoo (iTune) SD MA
• the Wedding Ringer SD MA
• Werewolf: the Beast Among Us UR HD MA
• Werewolf: the Beast Among Us UR (iTune Portion) HD MA
• What Happens In Vegas (iTune) SD MA
• What To Expect When You're Expecting HD FN
• What's Your Number (iTune) SD MA
• When the Bough Breaks SD MA
• When The Game Stands Tall SDHD MA
• Where Hope Grows HD FN
• Whiplash HD MA
• White House Down SD MA
• Wild Card HD FN
• Winchester HD FN/GP/iTune
• the Witch SD FN
• the Wolf Of Wall Street HD FN (and 4K iTune Split)
• the Wolfman (iTune) SD MA
• the Wolverine (iTune) [SD?] MA
• the Wolverine [unrated] HD MA (must redeem on MA)
• the Wolverine [theatrical] (GP) HD MA
• the Woman In Black SD MA
• Woman In Gold HD FN
• Won't Back Down HD MA
• Wonder HD (iTune, FN Or GP)
• Wonder Park (FN HD or iTune 4k)
• Woodlawn HD MA
• Woodlawn (iTune) HD MA
• the Words (+ extended) hd ma
• Words and Pictures HD FN
• World War Z HD (FN Or iTune)
• the X-files: I Want To Believe (iTune) SD MA
• X2: X Men United SD (iTune) SD MA
• X Men Apocalypse HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• X Men Days Of Future Past HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• X Men Days Of Future Past HD MA
• X Men First Class (iTune) SD MA
• X Men Last Stand (iTune) SD MA
• X Men Origins Wolverine (iTune) SD MA
• XXX: Return Of Xander Cage HD FN (or iTune Split)
• Yesterday HD MA
• You're Next HD FN
• the Young Messiah (iTune) HD MA
• Zero Dark Thirty SDHD MA
• Zootopia HD (4K iTune Redeem) MA
• Zootopia (GP) HD MA

iTune Only MOVIES - No Port - Marked

• Abduction SD (iTune)
• the Act Of Valor SD (iTune)
• the Adventures of Tin Tin HD (iTune)
• Alex Cross SD (iTune)
• All Eyez On Me HD (iTune)
• Allied HD (iTune)
• Annihilation 4KHD (iTune)
• Arrival 4K (iTune)
• Bankok Dangerous SD (iTune)
• the Bank Job SD (iTune)
• the Big Wedding HD (iTune)
• Book Club 4K (iTune)
• Brooklyn's Finest SD (iTune)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars SD (iTune)
• Crank 2 SD (iTune)
• Criminal 4K (iTune)
• Danger Close HD (iTune)
• Daybreakers SD (iTune)
• the Dictator HD (iTune)
• Divergent 4K (iTune)
• Divergent Series: Allegiant 4K (iTune)
• Divergent Series: Insurgent 4K (iTune)
• Don Jon SD (iTune)
• Draft Day HD (iTune)
• the Expendables [first movie] SD (iTune)
• the Expendables 3 [unrated] HD (iTune)
• the Eye SD (iTune)
• the Family SD (iTune)
• Family Guy Its A Trap (iTune)
• Forbidden Kingdom (iTune)
• G.I. Joe the Rise of the Cobra SD (iTune)
• Gamer iTune SD (iTune)
• Gemini Man 4k (iTune)
• Ghost In The Shell 4K (iTune)
• Gods Of Egypt 4K (iTune)
• Hansel & Gretel [unrated] HD (iTune)
• the Happytime Murders (apple Tv)
• the Haunting In Connecticut (iTune)
• House At The End Of The Street SD (iTune)
• Hercules 4K (iTune)
• Hugo (4k iTune)
• the Hunger Games [4k iTune] or [GP-HD]
• the Hunger Games: Catching Fire [4k iTune] or [HD GP]
• the Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1 [4k iTune] or [HD GP]
• Hustler's (apple Tv)
• I Feel Pretty (apple Tv)
• Immortals (iTune)
• Instant Family 4K (iTune)
• Jack Reacher 4K (iTune)
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 4K (iTune)
• Jackass 3 [from unrated] (iTune)
• Jake and the Neverland Pirates: Jake saves Bucky SD (iTune)
• John Wick 4K (iTune)
• Katy Perry: Part of Me HD (iTune)
• Immortals (iTune)
• Interstellar 4K (iTune)
• La La Land 4K (iTune)
• Labor Day HD (iTune)
• the Last Witch Hunter 4K (iTune)
• Limitless SD (iTune)
• the Lincoln Lawyer (iTune)
• Machine Gun Preacher SD (iTune)
• Middle School: the Worse Years of My Life HD (iTune)
• Mirror Mirror SD (iTune)
• Mission Impossible: Fallout HD (iTune)
• Monster Trucks HD (iTune)
• Noah HD (iTune)
• Office Christmas Party 4K (iTune)
• One For The Money [Bluray] (iTune)
• Pain & Gain HD (iTune)
• Paranoia SD (iTune)
• Paranormal Activity 2 HD (iTune)
• Paranormal Activity 3 HD (iTune)
• Paranormal Activity 4 HD (iTune)
• Paranormal Activity 5: The Marked Ones HD (iTune)
• Pet Sematary 2019 4K (iTune)
• Pink Panther 2 SD (iTune)
• the Raven SD (iTune)
• Red Dawn SD (iTune)
• Rock Dog HD (iTune)
• Rogue Warfare HD (iTune)
• Safehaven (iTune)
• Same Kind Of Different As Me HD (iTune)
• the Shack HD (iTune)
• Skyfall SD (iTune)
• the Spirit SD (iTune)
• SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water HD (iTune)
• Star Trek SD (iTune)
• Step Up Revolution (iTune)
• Take Me Home Tonight XML (iTune)
• Tad: the Lost Explorer - and the secret of king midas HD (iTune)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (tmnt1) 4K (iTune)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out Of The Shadows 4K (iTune)
• Terminator: Dark Fate 4K (iTune)
• Texas Chainsaw [2013] (iTune)
• Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie SD (iTune)
• Titanic (iTune)
• Transformers: Age Of Extinction 4K (iTune)
• Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 4K (iTune)
• Transformers: the Last Knight 4K (iTune)
• Transporter 3 SD (iTune)
• the Vanishing on 7th Street SD (iTune)
• Warm Bodies SD (iTune)
• Warrior (iTune)
• What to Expect While Expecting SD (iTune)
• Wonder 4K (iTune)
• Xxx Return Of Xander Cage 4K (iTune)

GooglePlay Rare portions - NOT MA - Mention you want the slip with GP

• the Choice - iTune HD (or) GP HD
• Divergent - iTune[4K] (or) GP HD
• the Duff - iTune HD (or) GP HD
• Mud - iTune HD (or) GP HD
• Norm Of The North - iTune HD (or) GP HD
• Now You See Me - iTune HD (or) GP HD
• Sicario 4K w/ GP portion
• Snitch - iTune[4K] (or) GP HD
• Temptation - (GP) HD
• What To Expect When You're Expecting - (GP) HD

TV Series Marked
FN Only

• Grace & Frankie SD FN
• Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas SD FN
• Nurse Jackie Season 6 HD FN
• Orange Is The New Black Season 1 SD FN
• Texas Rising SD FN

iTune Only

• Game Of Thrones Season 2 HD iTune
• Game Of Thrones Season 3 HD iTune
• the Young Pope HD iTune

In Search Of LIST

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=== PPV FA PLAYER PACK ===
PPV FA PLAYER 01 Manchester City vs Leeds United // UK Fri 10 May 7:00pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:00pm
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== PPV FLO RUGBY PACK ===
PPV FLO RUGBY 00 : 2024 Moana Pasifika vs Chiefs start:2024-05-10 08:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 12:00:00
PPV FLO RUGBY 00 : 2024 Edinburgh vs Zebre Parma start:2024-05-10 19:35:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:35:00
PPV FLO RUGBY 00 : 2024 Blues vs Hurricanes start:2024-05-11 05:30:00 stop:2024-05-11 09:30:00
PPV FLO RUGBY 01 : 2024 Queensland Reds vs Melbourne Rebels start:2024-05-10 10:30:00 stop:2024-05-10 14:30:00
PPV FLO RUGBY 01 : 2024 Dragons vs DHL Stormers start:2024-05-10 19:35:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:35:00
PPV FLO RUGBY 01 : 2024 Australia Wallaroos vs Canada - Womens start:2024-05-11 07:30:00 stop:2024-05-11 11:30:00
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== PPV SETANTA PACK ===
PPV SETANTA EVENT 01 Pfl mena 1 - riyadh, saudi arabia // UK Fri 10 May 4:30pm // ET Fri 10 May 11:30am
PPV SETANTA EVENT 01 Augsburg - stuttgart // UK Fri 10 May 7:30pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:30pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 01 Boston bruins - florida panthers // UK Sat 11 May 12:00am // ET Fri 10 May 7:00pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 02 Al ittihad - al ettifaq // UK Fri 10 May 7:00pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:00pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 02 Indiana pacers - new york knicks // UK Sat 11 May 12:00am // ET Fri 10 May 7:00pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 03 Frosinone - inter // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 04 Brest - reims // UK Fri 10 May 8:00pm // ET Fri 10 May 3:00pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 05 Nice - le havre // UK Fri 10 May 8:00pm // ET Fri 10 May 3:00pm
PPV SETANTA EVENT 06 Alaves - girona // UK Fri 10 May 8:00pm // ET Fri 10 May 3:00pm
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== PPV MOLA PACK ===
PPV MOLA EVENT 01 : PFL Mena 1 start:2024-05-10 16:20:00 stop:2024-05-11 02:40:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 01 : 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs - Round 2 Game 2 : Edmonton Oilers at Vancouver Canucks start:2024-05-11 02:50:00 stop:2024-05-11 08:10:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 02 : PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS - Regions Tradition - Round 2 start:2024-05-10 16:30:00 stop:2024-05-10 21:40:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 03 : PGA TOUR - Wells Fargo Championship - Round 2 start:2024-05-10 18:50:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:10:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 04 : Como vs Cosenza start:2024-05-10 19:05:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:25:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 05 : Bari vs Brescia start:2024-05-10 19:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 06 : Catanzaro vs Sampdoria start:2024-05-10 19:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 07 : Sudtirol vs Palermo start:2024-05-10 19:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV MOLA EVENT 08 : LPGA - Cognizant Founders Cup - Round 2 start:2024-05-10 19:50:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:10:00
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== PPV FLO SPORTS PACK ===
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 00 : FloWrestling Radio Live start:2024-05-13 17:00:00 stop:2024-05-13 21:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 01 : 2024 Giro dItalia start:2024-05-10 12:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 16:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 01 : 2024 Purdue Northwest vs Saginaw Valley St. start:2024-05-10 21:00:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 02 : FloRacing 24/7 start:2024-05-05 10:00:00 stop:2024-11-03 05:59:59
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 03 : 2024 Tour de Hongrie start:2024-05-10 14:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 03 : 2024 GHSA Outdoor Championships 5A/7A start:2024-05-10 19:30:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:30:00
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 04 : 2024 World Olympic Qualifier start:2024-05-10 09:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 13:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 04 : 2024 GHSA Outdoor Championships 1A-DI/6A start:2024-05-10 19:30:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:30:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 05 : 2024 Davenport vs Wayne State (MI) start:2024-05-10 17:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 21:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 05 : 2024 AMG Grey vs SSK Green start:2024-05-10 21:20:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 06 : 2024 GHSA Outdoor Championships 1A-2/2A start:2024-05-10 18:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 07 : 2024 Moana Pasifika vs Chiefs start:2024-05-10 09:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 13:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 07 : 2024 Aces Hockey vs CWE White start:2024-05-10 13:10:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:10:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 07 : 2024 US Express Elite vs CWE Red start:2024-05-10 18:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 08 : 2024 UCI BMX Freestyle WCUP - FISE World Series France start:2024-05-10 11:15:00 stop:2024-05-10 15:15:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 08 : 2024 BIG EAST Outdoor Track & Field Championships start:2024-05-10 16:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 08 : 2024 Dragons vs DHL Stormers start:2024-05-10 20:35:00 stop:2024-05-11 00:35:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 09 : 2024 Queensland Reds vs Melbourne Rebels start:2024-05-10 11:30:00 stop:2024-05-10 15:30:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 09 : 2024 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional Champs start:2024-05-10 16:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 09 : 2024 Edinburgh Rugby vs Zebre Parma start:2024-05-10 20:35:00 stop:2024-05-11 00:35:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 10 : 2024 Hitmen Navy vs SSK Green start:2024-05-10 13:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 10 : 2024 93 Hockey White vs NS Green start:2024-05-10 18:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 11 : 2024 Power Play 2 vs NS Green start:2024-05-10 13:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 11 : 2024 Carolina vs Rangers Red start:2024-05-10 18:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 12 : 2024 Hampton vs SHC start:2024-05-10 13:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 12 : 2024 SCP Grey vs Nomadic start:2024-05-10 18:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 13 : 2024 GH White vs 93 Hockey White start:2024-05-10 13:10:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:10:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 13 : 2024 Edinger vs Knights Gold start:2024-05-10 18:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 14 : 2024 US Express vs Worcester start:2024-05-10 13:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 14 : 2024 US Express vs CWE White start:2024-05-10 18:10:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:10:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 15 : 2024 Eels Green vs Btwn Bucket start:2024-05-10 13:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 17:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 15 : 2024 PAL Blue vs JRC 2 start:2024-05-10 18:10:00 stop:2024-05-10 22:10:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 16 : 2024 HD 360 vs CWE Red start:2024-05-10 14:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:40:00
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 16 : 2024 Lycoming vs Moravian start:2024-05-10 19:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 17 : 2024 Seacoast Black vs NS Black start:2024-05-10 14:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 17 : 2024 Lander vs Anderson (SC) start:2024-05-10 19:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 18 : 2024 Swan Hockey vs Carolina start:2024-05-10 14:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 18 : 2024 South Team Black vs North Team Blue start:2024-05-10 19:30:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:30:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 19 : 2024 BGP vs Mass Attack start:2024-05-10 14:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 19 : 2024 AMG Black vs Universel start:2024-05-10 19:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 20 : 2024 Edinger vs CWE Black start:2024-05-10 14:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 20 : 2024 GH White vs Power Play 2 start:2024-05-10 19:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 21 : 2024 Future Pros vs CWE Storm start:2024-05-10 14:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 21 : 2024 Bridgewater vs Rangers White start:2024-05-10 19:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 22 : 2024 GH Black vs 93 Hockey Red start:2024-05-10 14:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 22 : 2024 SCP Black vs BGP start:2024-05-10 19:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 23 : 2024 Coastal Elite vs Ground Zero start:2024-05-10 14:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 18:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 23 : 2024 Ground Zero vs Edinger start:2024-05-10 19:40:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:40:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 24 : 2024 The D2 Summit start:2024-05-10 15:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 19:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 24 : 2024 Hitmen Blue vs CEM start:2024-05-10 19:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 25 : 2024 AMG Grey vs Mole HC start:2024-05-10 15:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 19:00:00
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 25 : 2024 NS Black vs PAL Green start:2024-05-10 19:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 26 : 2024 Eeels Grey vs Prestige Green start:2024-05-10 15:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 19:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 26 : 2024 5B Selects vs Prestige Black start:2024-05-10 19:50:00 stop:2024-05-10 23:50:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 27 : 2024 Delaware vs UNC Wilmington start:2024-05-10 16:00:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 27 : 2024 Campbell vs Monmouth start:2024-05-10 21:00:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 28 : 2024 Team NA White vs SSK Gold start:2024-05-10 16:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 28 : 2024 Butler vs Villanova start:2024-05-10 21:00:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 29 : 2024 Power Play vs JRC 1 start:2024-05-10 16:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 29 : 2024 Juniata vs Catholic start:2024-05-10 21:00:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 30 : 2024 Btwn Bucket vs SHC start:2024-05-10 16:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 30 : 2024 GLIAC Baseball Championship - Day 2 start:2024-05-10 21:00:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:00:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 31 : 2024 Rapid BJT vs Edge start:2024-05-10 16:20:00 stop:2024-05-10 20:20:00
PPV FLO SPORTS TV 31 : 2024 CAA Softball Championship - Game 9* start:2024-05-10 21:00:00 stop:2024-05-11 01:00:00
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== IRELAND CLUBBER PACK ===
IE CLUBBER TV 01 Kildare vs Kilkenny // UK Fri 10 May 7:30pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:30pm
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== IRELAND LOI PACK ===
IE LOI TV 01 : Waterford FC vs Dundalk FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 02 : Shelbourne FC vs Drogheda United FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 03 : Galway United FC vs Sligo Rovers FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 04 : Derry City FC vs Bohemian FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 05 : Shamrock Rovers FC vs St. Patricks Athletic FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 06 : Athlone Town AFC vs Bray Wanderers FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 07 : Cobh Ramblers FC vs Cork City FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 08 : Finn Harps FC vs Longford Town FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 09 : Kerry FC vs UCD AFC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
IE LOI TV 10: Treaty United FC vs Wexford FC // UK Fri 10 May 7:45pm // ET Fri 10 May 2:45pm
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
=== AUSTRALIA STAN PACK ===
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 01 Moana Pasifika V Chiefs Super Rugby Pacific Round 12 2024 // UK Fri 10 May 7:30am // ET Fri 10 May 2:30am
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 01 Qualifying 6 Hours Of Spafrancorchamps Wec 2024 // UK Fri 10 May 1:35pm // ET Fri 10 May 8:35am
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 01 Practice 2 Grand Prix Of Indy Indycar 2024 // UK Fri 10 May 6:10pm // ET Fri 10 May 1:10pm
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 01 New Zealand V Usa Womens Pacific Four 2024 // UK Sat 11 May 2:54am // ET Fri 10 May 9:54pm
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 01 Free Practice 2 Berlin Eprix 2024 // UK Sat 11 May 6:55am // ET Sat 11 May 1:55am
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 02 Free Practice 6 Hours Of Spafrancorchamps Wec 2024 // UK Fri 10 May 9:50am // ET Fri 10 May 4:50am
AU STAN SPORT AU EVENT 02 Practice 1 Grand Prix Of Indy Indycar 2024 // UK Fri 10 May 2:30pm // ET Fri 10 May 9:30am
Screwdatt, [5/10/2024 12:17 PM]
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~THE WAR DOGS: 1.~
~2551. Meridian has been lost to the UNSC.~
The final parts of the Meridian Defence Fleet left in so much of a hurry that they neglected how many men and women they had actually left on the ground. Orbital Drop Shock Troopers looked up from the dry docks to witness the final Paris class frigate exit the atmosphere. Army troopers watched the same frigate from the various checkpoints and defensive positions locked in around the drydock and surrounding area. Marines sat in defensive positions – dug into the carcasses of once proud warships and cargo vessels. Molten ground stretched for miles beyond the ridgeline. Gas clouds loomed overhead as phantoms and seraphs dominated the night skies, sunset masked behind the swirls and grey, green, and orange. Colonel Theodore Haskins, who had been in charge of the drydock’s defensive strategy, called all UNSC forces back in to regroup.
Long lines of pale faces trudged single file across dirt roads and open ground. Sullied expressions and tear-stricken cheeks were now the norm as they gathered in one of the many warehouses. Haskins let out a gentle sigh as he greeted them all at the main gate, helping to hand out fresh MREs, watching them all strip down their body armour, keeping to the cloth uniforms with grit, mud and blood matted into the fabric. A few vomited at the gates. A few collapsed from exhaustion after the long trek. The odd group even fell down into a state of sobbing, eyes puffed up as grime and dirt became grime, dirt, and streaks across grazed and scraped cheeks.
Haskins grimaced as he watched each person walk through. What a fucking mess, honestly. If command was incompetent enough to leave nearly three regiments behind on this molten rock, then God forbid they effectively defend Earth. Hell, he worried if they’d even be able to defend Reach. Theodore rubbed the dirt from his face as he watched the final marine limp through, helping the trooper to take his body armour off and tossing it into the pile of helmets and armour plating. The Colonel then proceeded to help him to the aid station, where medics and other essential personnel had stockpiled what little medical supplies they had left over.
The rest of the drydock garrison sat in the warehouse waiting patiently, a brutal silence dragging throughout the room only to be broken by the occasional screech of a folding chair shuffling forwards or backwards. Nobody there was in any mood to talk – nor was anyone in any real place to. They had just been abandoned by their higher-ups. The UNSC was their home and they had been practically shoved out of the way by the upper echelons of it.
“What a fuckin’ mess”, mumbled a marine in the front row, only for his buddy next to him to smack him across the back of the head. Haskins walked in shortly after, strolling to the front of the large crowd. He pulled out a crumpled packet of cigarettes and slid his final smoke out through a tear in the packet, perching it gently between dry lips and stuffing the flattened carton into his back pocket before removing a lighter from the front zipper on his tactical vest and flicking the top of it open. After a long-drawn-out moment of him igniting the cigarette and placing the lighter back into the front zipper, he inhaled – filling his lungs with smoke, taking the small roll from his mouth, and exhaling the cancerous cloud.
“Well,” he began, tucking the lit instrument into the right most corner of his mouth. “From what I can see, we’re fucked.”
Silence continued to echo amongst the troops, unsurprised faces staring back at the colonel.
“I know, no shit, but we are well and truly fucked.”
~WAR DOGS: 2.~
~Somewhere out in the Open Wastes.~
For the most part, the planet was uninhabitable. The lands were now either molten glass, or the ground had been charred by the heat for such a prolonged period of time that dirt had been replaced with blackened sands and ash. Corporal Donavan “Crash” Krasinski didn’t mind a bit. Crash had been trained for desert combat in the marine corps after all. His unit specialised in traversing environments such as these in their stripped-down warthogs and their refitted Kodiaks that were now redesignated as tank hunters, their 1,152mm guns repurposed for anti-tank efforts. Each Kodiak – more affectionately known as House Cats – was capable of ripping a wraith in half, the powerful gun firing 90mm rounds that not only stood to be explosive, but also jettisoned magnesium upon penetrating armour. When Meridian finally fell, Crash’s battalion had been caught up a few hundred miles East of the New Meridian Corporation Drydocks, mopping up a Covenant armoured column. Although three of the seven House Cats had been lost in the exchange, the enemy column had been burned to cinders, left just as blackened as the sands beneath them. Now, Donovan and his men had to make the trek across to the docks.
Understandably, they were for the most part hesitant about the idea. It would be a hell of a shame to miss out on mopping up the other Covenant armoured units in the area. However, when news of the defence fleet abandoning all UNSC troops in the sector arrived, they had no other choice. Either the Desert Rats ran out of ammunition lollygagging in the strait, or they traversed the hellscape in favour of finding fresh faces.
Crash sat aboard his ‘hog at the front of the convoy, picking at the grub stuck to the corner of his nails. They’d been on the move for days – no drydock in sight. Crash thought it better to bring the House Cats along in case they’d ever need it, but now they were more of a burden. It was like dragging cattle fr hundreds of miles. They were useful, but unbelievably slow. Donovan rolled his eyes and looked across to the marine next to him, noting how filthy the both of them looked in the front two seats of the transport, dust and soot sticking to their skin, hiding skin complexion and the like.

“Hey, Boomer.”
“Yeah?”, the driver responded, turning to look at Crash. Boomer looked like shit, in all honesty. Not only had he not showered in days, but his goggles were now hanging around his neck, leaving an oddly clean perimeter around his eyes, big circles of clean skin wrapping around. Donovan couldn’t help but laugh, licking his finger to smudge the much on Boomer’s upper lip in an attempt to make a Mustache. Boomer, understandably, scoffed, and smacked Crash across the face, leaving a clean handprint on his right cheek.
“Cocky bastard!”, he exclaimed, followed by a second scoff. Crash adjusted his helmet and laughed, tucking the broken straps away behind his ears underneath the helm.
“Yeah, yeah – not MY fault that you look like a fuckin’ cartoon character…”, Crash remarked. “Plus, look around! The hell else am I supposed to do here? Twirl my non-existent facial hair?”
“Maybe if you had just ditched the big guns back there, we’d be there already!”
Shit – he had him there. Crash huffed and crossed his arms, sitting sideways on the seat and looking out to the open desert surrounding them. It was a blackened wasteland covered in dust storms and melted concrete. The convoy now was traversing over where one of the major cities used to stand – fuck knows which city, however.
“Crash, you think they’ll have good grub, or just more cheese paste and stale crackers?”
Donovan paused for a moment, twisting his neck around to look at his driver before shrugging.
“Anything’s gotta be better than those nutrient blocks we’ve been grinding our molars down for..”
The Corporal proceeded to shield his face, a sudden pothole on their path kicking up a cloud of black as the warthog dipped down and shot back up, the suspension covering most of the impact as the vehicle touched back down, thought it sure as hell hurt his ass more than he liked to admit. Twisting around once more, Crash grabbed the radio mic built into the stereo system and clicked the button on the side.
“Potholes, potholes, be advised.”
Each vehicle in the long line suddenly switched on their headlights, twisting around in an attempt to avoid them, some even drifting across the sands. Crash gave a shit-eating grin as he watched a transport hog Tokyo drift around to the front of the column, taking over as lead vehicle.
“Much obliged, 3-1!”
Donovan clipped the mic back down onto the stereo as Boomer mockingly twirled his finger above his lip, getting a firm knock on the head from him.
“Dust storm, dust storm!”, called the transport hog at the front. “Hatches down, ladies!”
Each warthog suddenly pulled across a set a reinforced covers which seemed to bolt themselves down through industrial clamps to the front of the vehicle, the massive glass window flicking its shutters closed. Crews on the House Cats soon returned to sitting inside their vehicles, locking down hatches and doorways as rocks and pebbles peppered the exterior of the vehicles. Crash cursed as one of these pebbles smacked into the cover of his warthog, leaving a massive dent. He picked up the speaker once more.
“Standby, shit’s about to get rough!”
Not much longer. Soon, they’d be at the docks. Soon, they’d get decent grub.
“Nearly home free”, said Crash. “Nearly home free, Boomer.”

I've been working as a teacher's aide at this elementary special ed mod to severe classroom since December. I was working as a sub teacher off and on the past ten years including sped. So in a way I demoted myself by taking this position. It's not through a school district but a third party agency contracted with the school district.
Anyhow I think that may be factoring in how I feel, especially since the teacher is a young guy only 26 w a one year old daughter and I feel like he has it all ahead and I have it all behind. I'm a 40 yo woman and my daughter and only child is almost 16. The last time I was an aide was in 2013. So I admit I envy him and from the moment I started I began to think maybe the stepping down to be a para was a mistake.
Anyways the moment I started I didn't get a welcoming vibe at all the teacher didn't introduce me to anyone nobody even asked who I was I kind of felt like an invisible ghost there. I ended up introducing myself but people the other staff the Aides were in there weren't that warm or friendly to me one of them was a sub who was there on his first day so that was probably why he wasn't but yet he was friendly to the other two that were their permanently. One woman in particular was not very friendly to me at all she was very tall and kind of intimidating I'm 5 ft 2 if it matters. Anyways somehow her age came up and I said oh you look young for 34 and I told her how I was 40 and couldn't believe it and she said something like there's always botox. Another day they were reminiscing over the lady that I replaced and I have kind of thinning hair and I'm struggling with some hair loss issues and she said about that aid that she had such beautiful hair. Maybe it had nothing to do with me but it sort of felt like a dick at me like she has beautiful hair and I don't? And I sense that they didn't like me because later the teacher told me what they said about me and I'm not sure why he told me that but somehow it came up I think I expressed to him my feelings and not feeling welcome there. And I guess they thought that I wasn't the right fit because a boy passed gas very bad and I guess I had expressed disgust at it I probably shouldn't have but it just sort of came out of me. A lot of these special needs kids have very foul smells.
The other lady who was who was still there was always on her phone ignoring me barely spoke to me when I asked her her name she just said yes I wanted to make sure I was calling her the right name. I found out her brother was on a ventilator due to fentanyl overdose and he subsequently died at only 20 something so I thought okay she's grieving she's morning that's why she doesn't really talk to me she didn't really take any bereavement leave for some reason but she would miss a couple of days or come to work crying. I told her I was sorry for her loss but because I didn't know her very well I didn't think I should keep talking to her about it. Anyways the tall lady ended up leaving to go somewhere else and we had just started to get on good terms. another aide came in and so did another aid. That's another thing about this job is it just feels like there's too many adults in this room there's more adults than kids! And I think that is part of the problem and the majority of us are women and I hate to say but I think that is part of the problem too. I feel that I do better in more gender diverse environments as women can be very catty and mean to each other. I hate to generalize but it's honestly true.
There's been a lot of mean girl energy. The only one that I really feel is on my side is another aid who is an older lady from the Philippines and she's really sweet and I've never had a problem with her. But the lady whose brother died of fentanyl she's never been warm or friendly to me but I noticed with the new staff she's been friendly to them and it's like a totally different person it's like night and day. I thought to myself ,"oh it's because her brother died" but that's not it then I thought "oh maybe it's because I'm older than her she's only 29" but she's warm and friendly to this new aide who is much older than me. It's been like a revolving door there with aideS coming and going from various agencies.
Anyways there's a lady there that was really nice to me at first and nobody actually liked her at first they thought she was too domineering and I actually took her side and defended her and during a meeting where we all got together the co-worker that I do like and her sort of got into it and I had said let's just be calm and she said the new aide pulled me aside and said she felt like I was the only one who was not against her. I ended up giving her a ride to Target one day when she needed it because she doesn't have a car and walks to work she lives nearby.
anyways that day after I gave her the ride maybe she felt we were getting too close and wanted to squash it I don't know? She began acting oddly passive aggressive towards me. For example that following morning she randomly came up to me and grabbed my back and straightened it. In front of everyone! She said I have bad posture I need to fix it and then she said it was the first thing she noticed about me when she first started. Like really? Not my light blue eyes which is what most people notice right away? Or my soft voice or wavy hair like you really just noticed a flaw? She said she tried to back pedal how insulting it was and said you have such a cute figure but you would look so much better if you fix your posture I don't know I just really didn't like that and then later that day she yelled at me about one of the students across the yard when there are other adults near him too
And yesterday she did it again she was sitting on the bench with the coworker whose brother died and the teacher they were all just sitting there talking looking like high schoolers hanging out. This coworker by the way is the same age as me just a few months younger. Anyways the other staff member who's relatively new but is really made a name for self and fits in and she's in her 60s everyone calls her mama Lori and she acts one towards everyone but me I think it's because it's the herd mentality where she realizes I'm not the liked one and I'm the persona non grata and the weakest link so she's not as warm and friendly towards me. She'll buy everyone else beer for the weekend but not me I don't like beer anyway but she doesn't know that.
Anyways one of the students was getting into the mud puddle behind us and I could sense he was there but I had been helping the student the whole time and frankly I was tired of seeing them sitting on their butts just watching everyone do the work including the teacher when he's paid way more than me! So she yelled at me from across the yard and I said kind of rudely "what?" And she told me to go get him and I spoke up and said " I'm not the only adult standing here "which is true... The lady who they call Mama Lori was actually right near me too but was talking to another staff member about small talk. I just don't understand why she always asks me instead of other people who are nearby? And also why don't you get up off your rear end and go get them if you're that concerned? I just feel like people expect me to pull my weight more than they pull theirs and then when I don't do that they act like I'm a slacker or that I don't care about these kids or I'm not doing my job.
She's also constantly making little digs about my parenting that I've nothing to do with the job in my opinion and is really none of her business. She knows I have a teenage daughter and my mistake was I confided in her that sometimes I have trouble getting my daughter to listen or cooperate with me on going to school in the morning and I was just making a comparison between myself and one mother of a girl in the classroom who acts up she had brought it up that the girl is going to have behavioral issues later in life if the mother doesn't get her under control and I was just adding to what she was saying. This was a while back when I thought she was trustworthy and I confide in her. Now I feel like she constantly uses it as ammunition against me. For example I was helping one of the boys clean up the blocks. He's nonverbal and autistic as a lot of them in the classroom are so it's hard to really get him to comply or do stuff so I began just putting the blocks in the box for him because it was circle time in the teacher wanted us to clean up. She goes up to us and says I know that you do this with your daughter and help her clean up but you can't do that here you need to have him clean it up I wanted to tell her off right then and there but I bit my tongue and just smiled and walked off I really don't appreciate her making comments about my parenting style or about my daughter and she doesn't really know anything about us or the context of our lives or anything she only knows a snippet based on what I've told her and now she uses it against me and makes it all comments about it. Which I feel is very inappropriate and uncalled for. I want to keep my personal life separate from my work life.
And yesterday was finally the straw that broke the camel's back. I was on my lunch break and clocked out. Normally I eat in my car or in the staff lounge. But it was too hot to eat in my car in my AC doesn't work so great plus I needed access to a microwave to heat up my food normally I'll bring portable food like a salad or leftover cold pasta. Anyways, I was going to eat in the staff lounge but the microwave for some reason was being all wonky and wouldn't work. So I had to walk all the way back to use the microwave in the pod the lobby of the classrooms that we work in. It's called the special ed pod. So I use that microwave to heat up my food but I didn't feel like walking all the way back down across campus to the staff lounge I only get a half hour lunch. so I was eating my hot noodles and my strawberries and just drinking my soda and reading an article on my phone. Keep in mind this is an UNPAID OFF DUTY lunch. I clocked out on my phone to go to it.
Anyways her and the boy that she normally works with we're running by me. I didn't think much of it it didn't look like anything Dyer was happening and to be honest I wasn't really paying attention as I was on my lunch break and in my own world. And she said to me sort of tongue in cheek" I don't have him" and she was holding a urine-filled diaper in her hand while the boy was jogging slowly ahead of her. I didn't really fully perceive what she meant because like I said I was kind of in my own world on my lunch and not really paying attention to them. I thought that she just meant itsort of figuratively and I'm not sure what she expected me to do and I didn't read her cues correctly. I also have a diagnosed anxiety disorder and I have OCD and I have social anxiety and sometimes I'm not really able to read social cues very well people have to be very specific and direct with me. My daughter was diagnosed with autism spectrum and I'm pretty sure that I might be too just undiagnosed. Anyways I said" oh let me call the teacher " and she muttered something under her breath and I don't know what it was and then he ran off and she threw the diaper on the floor and then I saw the teacher while I was calling him he happened to be walking by and I told him that she needed help with him and then by that point she said ultra sweetly to him "oh I've got it now." then she made a comment to me I didn't know "off-duty meant off duty completely, wow if you see a child running by you're really just off duty huh" and I got kind of angry at that moment and I said "what do you mean by that?" I said "i am on my lunch break and I didn't know you needed my help and I'm not paid on my lunch break," and she said "if I said I don't have him what does that mean to you " and I said "well I didn't understand the danger of the situation he was just walking quickly in front of you" and I said "what did you expect me to do , drop my food and pick up a dirty diaper what did you expect me to do? And then I said this is exactly why I don't normally eat in this pod what would you have done if I were eating in my car or eating in the staff lounge? I'm just a convenient person for you to scapegoat". My blood was boiling and I could feel myself going too far. Then I said "I'm tired of you bossing me around I'm tired of you always telling me what to do and acting like you're in charge of me" because it's true she does this quite often.
I was extremely upset after and she walked away and I called my boss about it and told her the whole thing including my part and she thankfully took my side and said " all I'm hearing is that you were off duty and on an unpaid lunch she should not have asked you anything".
Another co-worker who is an aide in the class next door had observed the whole thing and she said to me quietly " they would never do that to me in my room we respect each other's lunches".
The teacher is nice, and I know it's his first year of teaching and I try to be patient and compassionate with him cuz I know what it's like to be new at teaching but I think that's also what frustrates me so much too like I said I do have some envy for him and I also feel like people go easier on him than they ever did on me when I was a new teacher like I said I was a special ed long-term teacher before well long-term sub but couldn't keep up with the greeting and the IEPs and all that it was a lot of pressure for me. But I feel like people are more merciful towards him than they were towards me honestly if something happens to that kid the liability is on him and not on me because he's the teacher it's ultimately his responsibility and I get frustrated because he's paid at least 2,000 more per month than I am so I feel like if anyone should be heavily Hands-On and heavily involved it should be him but a lot of times I feel like he's very nonchalant and doesn't step in and yet people instead of going to him they go to me for some odd reason when I'm just a para like they are! I got out of sub teaching so I wouldn't be the go-to person all the time I was actually trying to get away from this very thing and it's even worse stepping into this career for even less pay!
I have decided next year I'm just going to return to sub teaching I've already told the job that I do not want to return to that classroom or that school year next year and they didn't really care to ask why but I did let them know just too much drama and it is not been a healthy work environment for me and I think they have an idea but they don't want to address it or face it. A lot of these employers don't really care or want to hear about these problems
there's only three more weeks left of school and then I'll be doing summer school until July 9th and then I'm going to actively look for something else and if I find something before then I'm going to jump and take it but in the meantime this is the only job and income that I have right now I could go back to sub teaching but it may not be the best financial decision now because there will be no summer work at all for me and I cannot go 3 months without any sort of income. So my question is am I being bullied or am I the jerk here? Am I just overreacting in too sensitive or are people actually being settling mean to me?

A bonfire roared in the center of a winter-brown field encircled by dozens of canvas tents and a lone blacksmith’s forge.
Men and women and their children filtered in and out of the various shops and food tents, or huddled close to the fire, their souvenir horns of steaming mulled cider clutched close in both hands. For though spring had nearly come to Sagebrook, and despite the budding trees, the breeze held a bitter chill that threatened snow.
“Back again?”
Eldric blinked and gave a start, glancing around at the inside of the blacksmith’s tent. Hadn’t he just been…
“Best steel you’ll ever hold, lad.” The burly, coarse-bearded blacksmith handed Eldric a sheathed sword across a table display of new-forged knives. “Made that meself for just such an occasion. Here, take it. Get used to the feel of it in your hand.”
Eldric took the sword and puzzled over the man’s words as the eerie feeling he’d done this all before passed over him and settled into his gut. Get used to it? Why had the blacksmith said it like that? And what did he mean, just such an occasion? The fair? That seemed the right answer, yet he couldn’t shake the unsettling feeling in his stomach that the man meant something else. “You mean here, at Medieval Times?”
“Eh?” The smith stepped over to his portable forge and worked its bellows. A bed of red coals flared bright orange in the furnace. “What’s a medieval?” The man furrowed his brow, fumbling over the word. “City to the north? Not much for traveling these days, no. What with those Things plaguing the roads and every stick of the wilds, or so I’m told. Wicked times, these.”
Eldric started to frown, then realized the man was in character and covered it with a smile, turning away and slowly drawing the sword. The soft metallic rasp it made was a pleasure to his ears and the splendor of its mirrored shine stole his breath. A marvelous weapon, it was, master crafted, sharp on one side and delicately curved at the end. The hilt was a hand and a half of polished black bone wrapped with gold braided rope to enhance the wielder’s grip. Far finer than anything Eldric had ever held or seen. Finer even than the rare swords in Master Keple’s prized collection.
“Interesting,” he said, studying his reflection in the blade. “This is the same style I train with.”
The blacksmith grunted a response and offered a mysterious smile. The same eerie feeling from before tickled over Eldric, but he shook it off, gently tracing a fingertip down to the sword’s guard. He could never afford something so fine, but he could hold it a little longer and dream. There was nothing wrong with dreaming.
A few years ago, Eldric had taken up fencing and medieval swordsmanship to impress someone he fancied with a unique and roguish skill and quickly discovered a love for the art. Master Keple said he was a natural, a prodigy gifted for the knack of steel who was born a few centuries too late. As the years passed, Eldric’s love for swordplay grew with his mastery of the blade. Funny, he thought, watching the forge light play along the gleaming steel. Of all the bizarre talents to have, this should be his.
The blacksmith took up a heavy hammer and began to speak. “Castles and Holds in the North have been overrun, if a man can believe the tales. Queen’s sending her armies but people’s hope goes the way of the fires consuming their villages. Dark days ahead of us all, I fear.”
“Ah yes,” Eldric said, playing along with the blacksmith’s act. “Dangerous days for anyone. What are we to do?”
“Aye,” the blacksmith said, bringing the hammer down upon a piece of glowing metal fresh from the forge. Sparks leaped off the little anvil in a shower of fiery droplets and died in the dimness of the tent. “Curse on those vile creatures. Not human, I say.”
“And where are the gods, in these dark times?” Eldric asked, absently picking up an oilcloth and running it the length of the blade. “Have they abandoned us?”
The hammer stopped and the blacksmith looked Eldric straight in the eye. There it was again, that mischievous smile, as though he knew a secret Eldric did not. “Perhaps they are watching, eh traveler? Perhaps they have yet to choose a champion?”
A faint rumble issued from the west as the blacksmith smiled, out beyond the thicket of barren trees rising above the fair’s tents, but Eldric did not notice.
“Maybe so,” Eldric said. “But that’s nothing to do with the likes of us simple men, yes?” He was really getting into it now, playing his part. “A wonderful weapon,” he said, slowly sliding the sword back into its sheath and moving to return it to the smith. He wanted to stay a bit longer and play this out, but there was so much more to see and the days were still short this time of year. “Truly a work of art. But I’m afraid a simple man like me can’t afford something so fine, good blacksmith. And I must take my leave.”
“Arevan,” the blacksmith said, glancing up from his work and fixing Eldric with one striking eye. Strange that he’d not noticed the color before, bright blue to match a deep summer sky, so blue it appeared luminous with an inner light. “Names Arevan,” he said, poking a soot stained thumb into his chest. “And yer gonna need that blade for the coming trials, lad. You can be sure of that.”
Another rumble issued from the west, louder this time, enough that Eldric felt it in the ground under his boots. He heard it but was too caught up in the blacksmith’s act to wonder. “Trials? What trials?” Perhaps the man meant the mock battles to be acted out in the center of the green later that day?
Arevan straightened and lifted a thick arm to point his hammer at the tent’s opening.
“Out there, lad. It begins.”
Eldric loved live acting and, more so, an intriguing and compelling story. The fact he was playing a part made it that much better, and held him there though his feet itched to explore more of the fair. “What…” he said, turning to look over his shoulder and blinked. The crowd was gone.
The bonfire, too.
Eldric took an instinctive step forward, and a wave of vertigo swept over him.
He went to one knee.
Sudden snow covered the ground halfway up to his calves, and a fierce wind tugged at the fur-trimmed cloak he now wore over a silver embroidered black velvet vest. But these were distant concerns as he fought his stomach for possession of its contents.
Slowly, ever so slowly, the nausea receded and he wobbled to his feet. The world still swam around him and wind-driven snow whipped his hair but the spell was passing.
“Arevan, something’s wrong…” Eldric started to say and turned back to face the blacksmith.
Snow-swept trees met his gaze.
The tent was gone. Arevan was gone. Eldric felt a stab of panic kindle in the pit of his stomach. What the hell? He turned a slow circle.
It wasn’t just the blacksmith’s tent that had vanished, or the people; it was all gone. The field. The people. The children chasing and playing, the actors in their period dress, every tent and trace of civilization was gone.
He stood in a narrow clearing surrounded by a thick winter forest. Snow fell hard around him, and the only sound to disturb the hush was the low moan of the wind.
“What the hell? Hello?” Steam puffed from his mouth with each word. “What is this?” Am I hallucinating? Dreaming? I was just at the fair…
Across the snow-covered clearing, a figure emerged from the trees, obscured by the falling flakes. It seemed to lurch on unsteady legs, arms held out as if stumbling through a pitch-black maze, and even at this distance and through the storm, Eldric knew it was a man.
“Hello?” he called again, stepping toward the approaching figure. This was all wrong; he wasn’t supposed to be here. What had happened? This can’t be real!
Eldric lifted a hand to his throbbing temple and realized he was still holding the sword. It felt right, like an extension of his arm, light as a feather and strong as a steel girder. How did I get here? What is this place? Where did everyone go?
The falling snow thickened and intensified, whipping around him in dense swirls that stung his face. The wind rose from a low moan to a howl, and his toes felt frozen. The cold crept up his legs, into his limbs, clawing toward his heart. He had to start moving, or he would surely perish.
Eldric trudged through the deepening snow toward the approaching figure. Now he saw there were multiple people moving toward him. Joy blossomed in his heart. Where there were people, there was hope and salvation.
“Hey!” He shouted so his voice carried over the wind and picked up his pace, sludging through the knee-high dunes. “Over here! I’m lost and need help!”
The figures jerked to a stop and turned slightly to face the direction of his voice. There were at least half a dozen, perhaps more. Suddenly, they surged forward as they caught his scent, arms flailing wildly, and an otherworldly keening rose over the wind.
He slowed his pace. Something was wrong here. These people had something wrong with them. He stopped; he listened; he watched, straining his eyes into the storm. A sudden break in the wind as the blizzard held its breath, showed Eldric what approached and he gasped, falling back a step.
They were pale as the snow was pale, gaunt and withered, some showing hints of bone through tattered clothing. Their eyes were clouded and sightless, their jaws working in nerveless hunger.
“My god!” He heard himself say and realized he’d drawn the sword. “Stay back, god damn you!”
They boiled toward him in a rush and he circled left to keep them from surrounding him. Sensing their prey within reach, they came on with sudden fury, nearly taking him by surprise with their speed.
Eldric moved without thought. The blade and his body were one.
His sword flashed, and a headless corpse toppled at his feet. Footwork was one of the key fundamentals of any fighting art, but knee-deep in the snow, it was all he could do to keep the clawing fingers from his flesh. He whirled and ducked, bobbed and weaved a desperate dance of death and all the while his blade was a shard of silver whirring in a blur around him.
The sword flashed again, and another body fell. Again it struck, and again. The years of training were paying dividends and bodies fell around him like the snow.
He spun low under the clawing fingers of what remained of a woman, and his blade bit into her eye, drove through her brain and burst out of the back of her skull. She twitched once and fell boneless at his feet.
And just like that, it was over.
Eldric stood victorious and panting in the snow, surrounded by the storm and a ring of corpses. He was sweating, the cold from a moment ago forgotten in the heat of battle. If this was a hallucination, it was as real as it gets. But somehow Eldric knew, it wasn’t and he was far from home. How do I get back? Can I get back? Christ, I don’t even know how I got here!
A scream ripped through the shriek of the storm, jarring him from his dark thoughts. Eldric’s head jerked up from where he stood with his hands on his knees, panting. Again, the awful cry came—a blood curdling sound that echoed off the winter trees—a woman in trouble in the woods! My god!
Eldric was sprinting before he realized what he was doing, knees flashing like pistons driving him through the snow. Trees streaked past, snow-frosted and cloaked by the deepening twilight. He adjusted course several times to match the direction of the screams and the distant sound of steel on steel, crashing through the underbrush and bouncing off oaks and maples in his desperate scramble through the forest.
Finally he burst out of the wood onto a mud-churned, snowy road and what he saw froze the sweat trickling down his chest—a sight from the devil’s dreams.
The same hideous creatures who’d attacked him swarmed over a long line of wagons, some toppled on their sides and aflame. Eerie shadows danced and flickered over the scene. Men in steel armor battled the horde, but they were outnumbered a hundred to one and falling fast. Blood soaked the sparkling white mantle blanketing the area and where people had fallen, they were torn apart to the screams of the living who bore witness to the fate that awaited them.
A tall man in shining armor and a red cloak with crimson-and-gold plumes sprouting from his helmet, wheeled toward Eldric. Fear burned wild in his eyes, but he somehow held his composure as he and his men battled back the living dead. Abruptly, he screamed in a language Eldric did not understand and pointed his sword.
To late.
A clawed hand seized Eldric by the hair, violently jerking his head back and down.
Pain tore into his neck. Blood spurted crimson in the falling snow. He screamed and flailed wildly, slashing and laying about with his sword, but too many bodies and too many hands piled on top of him. Teeth and nails tore at his flesh. He felt the warmth of his blood flowing into the snow, saw ragged sinews of his flesh torn up in skeletal mouths. Black spots swirled in his vision and he heard the tortured screams of a dying animal; dimly, he realized that it was him.
He felt suddenly detached, weightless, the world falling away like he was drifting down through clouds.
Darkness took him.
“Back again?”
Eldric blinked and stumbled forward, flailing his arms.
“You alright, lad?” Arevan the blacksmith regarded him from behind the wooden table, his heavy smithing hammer paused halfway through a swing.
“I…I don’t know...” Eldric trailed off, his hands rapidly patting his body down then shooting to his neck. But there was only his clothing and healthy flesh—no gruesome wounds. “I don’t understand…”
He ducked his head outside, glancing around with the intensity of a hunted animal. The fair and all its tents and people met his gaze. The bonfire crackled and spit. Actors played at a battle. Downtown Sagebrook rose hazy in the distance.
“I don’t understand,” he said again, backing away from the tent’s flap as though it were the entrance to Hades. Relief flooded him. Had it been some wild daydream? A waking nightmare? The mutton he’d eaten earlier had tasted odd. Perhaps that was the cause? He’d heard of such things. “I'm alive,” he said and threw back his head, laughing. “I’m alive!”
“Aye,” the blacksmith said.
Metal clanged on metal. The sound drew his attention back to Arevan as the man pointed at the sword in Eldric’s hand. He hadn’t realized he was holding it.
“Yer gonna need that blade for the coming trials, lad. You can be sure of that.”
Eldric’s blood ran cold.
“W-What did you say?”
Arevan pointed outside.
“Out there lad. It begins.”