Video: To Race Through Dark Places Teaser Trailer
Vidmaker: Bj Jones
Note: As we’ve updated Clan War, added in Hell Week & Hurricane Season, and as we update Family – To Race Through Dark Places also needed updating, which will include a lot more history, and some surprises.
Disclaimer: As with all the updates and the insanity this past year has been, I can’t say when this will be finished.
Born in Wales in the year 506AD, Gwenhwyfar is the daughter of King Leodegrance.
At the young age of 13 she ran away in defiance against her father. She was rescued by John Rhys, who saved her from her pursuers and escorted her back to her father, where he became the head of her guard.
Her betrothal to Arthur Pendragon was meant purely as a political match but upon their first meeting when Arthur came to the rescue of Wales and banished the rebel King Rience from his enemy’s lands, they fell in love. Their Courtship was conducted in much secrecy and amidst great danger as there were many on either side of the English/Welsh border who were opposed to all that such a match would entail, both politically and in terms of social change.
Her Wedding Train was raided as she crossed the border into England, five days before the wedding was due to take place in Cornwall, and her abduction forced Arthur, Lancelot and Galahad to ride forth to avenge her honor and rescue her and her entourage. The resulting massacre is now the stuff of legend.
Arthur knew he had found his Mate in Gwenhwyfar but did not tell her of his true nature until the eve of their nuptials. Her resulting outrage from his suggestion that she remain human in order to bear the children he could not give her, and thereby supply an heir to the throne for Camelot’s future, resulted in one of her maidservants misunderstanding what was said and spreading the rumor that she had, in fact, slept with Lancelot.
Gwenhwyfar has a strong belief in employing only the most scrupulously honest of servants as a result of this notorious incident.
There’s some great stuff heading your way!
It’s April! Wait. How is it April? No really.
Check in time. How’s everyone doing?
I admit I’m a bit tired. A lot is going on, yet not all at the same time. The bunnies have started to stack up, but getting writing time has been difficult. *pokes bunnies*
So remember a while back it was Global Movie Day, and I asked if anyone could guess how many movies were represented in Sylum.
The answer: 240 … now this is likely +/- at least 10. I also counted Franchise’s as 1, it was an interesting project!
The person who came closest was Paula. You’ll get an email for a pairing to add my very growing list.
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Question 1: Name your top ten favorite characters. (Originally this was top ten new characters from the past 5 years, but as this led to some confusion of who was considered new characters – we’ve changed it.) So yes – Name your Top Ten Favorite Characters! The only thing I would ask … please don’t list out the Fab 6 – we all know everyone loves Nico, Warrick, Speed, Horatio, Tony and Jethro.
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Question 11: Top Ten Non-Vampires? (This could be Chosen Ones, those not of this world, not yet Vampires, side characters … basically anyone who doesn’t have fangs!)
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Question 13: Top Ten favorite ‘Yet To Come’ Characters (Those characters we’ve teased about but aren’t in the wiki yet)
Question 14: Top Ten favorite Odd Friendships (Those characters who you would never think to be friends … Dean/Charlie or Paul/Hannibal – those type of friendships)
Question 15: Top Ten Snippets that were posted would you like to see more of? (There was a few added over Advent!)
Bonus Question: Top Ten Questions you want to ask me?
Jack Reacher was born on a military base in Berlin, on 29 October 1960. Jack’s mother Josephine Moutier Reacher (née Moutier) was a French national, making Jack fluent in French from an early age.
After being shunted around the world, growing up on U.S. military bases as his father Stan was deployed, he gained an education in basic survival as well as an education that allowed him to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point. Graduating from West Point, Reacher worked to achieve the ranks of 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, Captain, and Major including an intervening demotion from Major to Captain in 1990 during his tenure in the Military Police. During his 13 years of service, his achievements were recognised in the form of citations and awards including the Silver Star, the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Soldier’s Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Bronze Star, and a second Silver Star and Purple Heart for wounds sustained in the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Among his formal qualifications Reacher is fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat, Reacher describing himself as a brawler, his fighting is akin to a thrown chainsaw with the motor running.
He left the service, only to be pulled back into it, after 9/11. Reacher continues to work as an Investigator, despite now starting to reach retirement age. He’s mostly a loner, no wife or family, and doesn’t have an online footprint. Even for the Military there are times he’s hard to track.
While following a suspected killer, he ended up in Chicago working with Detective Vecchio to bring in the suspect. In the process of saving Vecchio he was wounded, it would seem his age was starting to show. Vecchio approached him in the hospital about another option.
When did the end of March get here?
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Some of my favorite memories are tied to the theatre.
What is your favorite Play? Musical? Ballet?
