
Spring Fling starts tomorrow!!
There’s some great stuff heading your way!

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.

Last Day! Make sure to Vote!
Click the links below and answer as many of them as you can.
If you can list ten that’s great! If you can only answer with a few that’s also great!
The more answers we get the better!
If you’ve answered these earlier great! If not – NOW is the TIME!!!
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.
If you’ve answered this and would like to adjust it, go ahead. We have the ability to track and change answers.
Question 2: What are your Top Ten favorite stories? Those go to stories you read over and over again?
Question 3: Top Ten Clans you would like to visit?
Question 4: Who are your Top Ten Favorite Pairings?
Question 5: Name your Top Ten Favorite Bad Guys!
Question 6: Top Ten favorite Quotes from any story.
Question 7: Top Ten favorite Assassins?
Question 8: Top Ten favorite Sire/Childe pairings?
Question 10: Top ten favorite characters that have died?
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!)
Question 12: Top Ten Favorite Pets?
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?
If you’re participating please make sure to send me the final materials!

Some of my favorite memories are tied to the theatre.
What is your favorite Play? Musical? Ballet?

Yesterday was read Tolkien Day.
I admit it’s been a while since read the series, I have it on my kindle to read them again, but just haven’t found time.
Do you read them yearly? Or just once? Or haven’t at all? Dude, I sat through 12 hours of movie what more do you want?

It’s been a while since we’ve had some Random Pretties!
Click on the ‘Read More’ link to see the slideshow!

They are so adorable! It’s how they get into the house!
Okay tell us all the great puppy stories!

Carter grew up in New York, and was always that person who was going to do something. She ended up joining the Army, where she met Paul. The two married and they had their son Taylor. She ended up back in Afghanistan for a year, then moved to Iran. She was a trained military interrogator, and had secured information that saved many lives.
Though she will tell you there are also regrets and lost lives she still deals with.
She returned to New York, and joined the NYPD. Paul returned soon after, but was dealing with PTSD but refused to get treatment. She refused to let him see their son, until he did. He disappeared.
She worked up the ranks until she became a Detective in the Major Crimes Squad.
Then she met John Reese. He had been attacked on the subway by known punk arms dealer. He had got the best of them, she had tried to get his prints but nothing seemed to stick. She searched for months, following the path of the ‘Man in the Suit’.
Her life changed when he saved her life, she began to lean towards helping him, instead of catching him. When the CIA used her to betray him, she added the moment to her long list of regrets, but this time she decided to do something about it.
She started to help him with the cases, always curious of how he was getting the information, but figured it had something to do with his partner Harold Finch.
Her life changed again when she discovered they were Vampires. After seeing John jump across a four lane highway to get to another building to save Finch, she couldn’t doubt the truth. She also learned about Mates, and Fusco owed her $50 since she called Finch and Reese were lovers.
When John sat her down to explain more about Mates, she was confused until Zoe Morgan sat down next to him. She was appreciative to Zoe for taking her time courting and answering her questions. She finally sat down with her son … who told her to go for it.

Question: Name at least five of the horses in the Sylum Manor stables?
Answer:
Gladiator
Ironhide II
Razi
Lord Croft
Kid
Honey
Spirit
Imhotep
Morgana
Gandalf the Pony
And if you also listed Maximus, that works also
Winner: Norma Ray
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