![]() Now as for other Luka fics, ones that build out his characterization while still being recognizably him, I’d be remiss if I didn’t bring up this next fic, though it’s not Luka-centric by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly even if you’re normally put off by Lukanette, I’d still recommend this fic, just for the plot and characterization alone, it’s really solid and deserves FAR more attention than it’s gotten. We get to see a lot of his thoughts, feelings, concerns, and baggage, and while his feelings for Marinette are an important part of the fic, they’re not the driving force behind his entire character, he’s got a lot of other things going on. Luka’s a little different since he has a very different backstory in this fic than in canon, but he’s still recognizably himself. 19thSentry’s love for FeLuka shown through here quite a bit. He’s not exactly the greatest guy, and he’s not super well-liked for good reason, but he is intriguing and I found myself enjoying watching his machinations, as well as him very obviously getting a crush on Viperion that he resolutely tried to ignore. Felix received some of the most interesting characterization in fact. I adore how fair it was to all of the characters, From Luka to Adrien to Marinette to Felix, and even though it’s tagged as having slight Master Fu bashing, it’s fair to him as well. This one I decided to take a chance on, since I read one of 19thsentry’s more recent works ( See This Chance, a FeLuka fic where Luka’s a ghost, it’s under 4000 words so if you want something bite-sized it’s a good read), was impressed, and decided to give “In the Shadows” a shot since it had an interesting premise and the sequels sounded like they were nice to Adrien and Alya, with the second fic featuring Alya as Scarabella and the third fic going into Adrien adjusting to adult life post Hawkmoth-defeat. I don’t normally read those since I’ve had enough bad experiences during my early days in this fandom (particularly while season 3 was airing) with Adrien, Alya, the class, etc getting demonized in those sorts of fics, that it put me off of the pairing as a whole, even though the pairing itself is fine (I happily read poly fics that include Lukanette so long as Adrien’s in there too, since those have historically been pretty nice to all the characters). Sounds simple–until you throw in a rocky start, the Atlantic Ocean, Félix Graham de Vanily, and a whole host of secrets…and suddenly simple becomes complicated (story of Marinette’s life, right?). Each is looking to fulfill their promises to their now gone mentors to reunite the Kwamis and keep them safe. ![]() On one side is Luka, 140-year-old Snake Miraculous holder and keeper of the Guardian’s secrets, on the other is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, a relatively newly minted hero of Paris and Guardian of the Miracle Box. I just finished binging it today, and am looking forward to reading its sequels! ![]() In The Shadows by is the best Luka fic I’ve ever read. ![]() Sorry it took me nearly a week to answer this, but there was a fanfic one my radar I needed to read first, since I suspected it would be perfect for this list. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 2009, while on duty, Kira accidentally stumbled over Aisho Dainenjiyama in his rock form, discovering the existence of the Rock Humans. ![]() ![]() Josuke theorizes that Kira snuck into the Higashikata household for the "Steel Ball Run Race Complete Record", and removed the name of his sister, Nijimura, from the family tree that was conspicuously printed at the end of the book. He continuously bullied Sasame questioning him as to whether surfers are "people of the sea or people of the land", stating that he "dislikes passing through the borders of things", as well as the ambiguity in Sasame's profession, before somehow convincing him to bite off or eat all of his fingers.Īt some point, Kira is shown to have the bookseller's mark on his wrist, implied to be Kira who drew it. Kira then became a marine surgeon who was once acquainted with Ojiro Sasame. He stated that the crystal inside was a fake, but offered to pay for it before walking out. Following a brief exchange between her and Holy, Kira entered Yasuho's room and apologized for his mother's behavior, while also revealing that he had stepped on Yasuho's hair clip earlier. In the fall of 2005, Kira encountered a 13-year old Yasuho Hirose after she had been admitted to the hospital for attempting to commit suicide. Īt some point in his adolescence, Yoshikage helped save Josefumi Kujo from a blood clot using his Killer Queen's Sheer Heart Attack. When he was 4, Yoshikage met with the Flemish Giant Rabbit Cindy, but broke two of his ribs the same day and was treated by his mother. Yoshikage Kira was born at some point in 1982, the son of Yoshiteru Kira and Holy Joestar-Kira. Another milder instance of Kira brutalizing Ojiro happened when he inserted a small bomb in Ojiro's cheek to chase him away. Apparently, it went to the point that Ojiro ate his own fingers. He is shown in several instances speaking to Ojiro Sasame in a deliberately confusing and insulting manner, intimidating and threatening him away from the coast in order to rectify Kira's personal problem with him as a surfer being 'indecisive' about being either a man of the sea or of the land. As an adult, when a fellow crew member on his team is injured, sustaining heavy blood loss and the inability to breathe, as the surgeon of the crew, Kira applied little effort to helping him, nonchalantly putting his shoes on before getting out of bed and ordering the others to hold his hand and encourage him, without so much as looking in his direction, his lack of concern was mostly due to presumably knowing the seriousness of the injury and that the crew member was in no life-threatening danger. As a teenager, he immediately jumped to the conclusion that a drowned and unconscious Josefumi was fated to die, showing exasperation when his mother prompted him to manually save the boy's life, only wishing to see Titanic in theater later and leaving the hospital alone because of it. His interactions with others are mostly cold and apathetic, fitting and contrasting his occupation as a surgeon. He seems to have certain obsessive-compulsive tendencies, keeping an organized stock of entirely green foods, and shelves of containers of his fingernails in his bathroom, labeled by date. A copy of the Mona Lisa hangs from a wall in his living room, alluding to the Kira from Diamond is Unbreakable's obsession for beautiful hands although this version of Kira doesn't show the same fetish. 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Other times, it just came across as corny. SR: That “door” line is one of the few times I felt the writing was good. She wants to go, and all she says is, “do you want the door open or closed?” It’s a simple and effective allusion to the state of their friendship. MI: There was a moment at the end when she just looks so heartbroken and disappointed. She gave really good advice to Louise and actually cared about her! Who cares about her dead parents? Rob’s motto is to live life with no guilt.ĪS: I want to talk about Louise’s best friend! In the book she was portrayed as this narcissistic girl, who cheats on her husband, and gave no shits about Louise. I love everything about you.” Then that’s when you realise that he literally loved her everything – her face, her body, her life, her fiancé, her house. I say “kinda, maybe, sorta” because let’s be fair, all of it was batshit crazy.īS: I think one of the last lines that Rob said to Adele before they did the body switch thingamajig encapsulated his feelings for her best. ![]() It was compelling enough that you can kinda, maybe, sorta understand why he would go to such lengths to retain it in his life. I believed in Rob’s craving for love, for a better life, and for attention. It was hard to not compare Adele to Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl. She also has my heart for bat shit obsessed, crazy and calculated, character/actress. There has been no other reveal of a crazy ass scheme I can think of that has been so chillingly and casually scary. You know who pulled off evil long term scheming the best? Our queen, Rosamund Pike, in Gone Girl. Reading the book I was like, “WAIT! WHAT?” Then I had to go back and look for all the signs I might have missed. In fact, I think one of the only pros of the series was that you had time to understand Rob’s motives. SR: I didn’t have issue with the sexual orientation reveal. The fact that he was attracted to David was supposed to be a gut punch at the end. I hate to be that person but I have to say: the book was better!Īunty Shrimp: Rob’s sexual orientation was too big of a reveal too early. The evil, long-term scheming was not as prominent in the show as it was in the book. In the book, Adele was always nagging at Louise to get her to quit smoking, but in the show, it was just a quick throwaway line of Louise saying, “oh yeah, I quit smoking.” That was all. Also, they had six whole episodes and so much time to share the many ways Adele helped Louise in terms of her physical health, but they didn’t make it clear as to why she did that. Whether or not you’d read the book.īS: I would say they were about 85% faithful? 90%? The one thing they didn’t do in the book was reveal Rob’s sexual orientation so early. MI: It was something that was revealed at the end, so it’s clearly something they wanted you to notice. I wonder if we would have caught on to that as quickly had we not read the book.īook Snob: I asked my fiancé if he had noticed it and he said, “no.” So I guess that’s something we caught only because we read the book? It’s either that, or he just isn’t all that observant. Slow Reader: Yes! That camera angle trick was great. I loved that they did with that subtle “view from over the shoulder” technique. One of the things I was looking forward to was how they’d portray the whole astral projection thing. Right down to the details of how things happened. Miss Ice: I would say the series was largely quite faithful to the book. ![]() This review was brought to you by Slow Reader, Book Snob, Miss Ice, and Aunty Shrimp. They requested that they be referred to using pseudonyms. Here's everything we can say for certain about a possible encore.We reached out to four of our readers, all of whom were fans of the novel, for their opinion on how the Netflix series fares in comparison to the book. If Behind Her Eyes does get a second season, it would look drastically different from the first. Louise develops this ability herself, and it totally flips the series on its head. The Behind Her Eyes season 1 finale did take a weird turn, when (stay with us here), Louise learns that "Adele" is actually Adele's old friend Rob, who can project his consciousness into Adele's body. Against her better judgment, Louise strikes up a friendship with David's wife, Adele (Eve Hewson), and things get more complicated when Louise and David start a full-blown affair. The show kicks off when single mother Louise (Simona Brown) shares a drunken kiss with a man who later turns out to be her new boss, David ( Tom Bateman). The series, based on the book of the same name by Sarah Pinbrough, took advantage of a near-Valentine's Day release to become Netflix's most popular show by serving up a classic psychological thriller with all the necessary ingredients. ![]() ![]() Her babies are all a good size for their age. Miss L is now a healthy sized adult and her growth wasn’t seriously interrupted by being pregnant very young. To be honest, it wasn’t very scientific, but it worked out well. We also included some carbs with easy to access calories such as cooked rice and pasta. Once she had given birth, we increased the amount of food, and fed a protein-based wet meal every day (I scrambled a lot of eggs during that time) alongside her dry mix, lab blocks and vegetables. Instead, I fed her on her normal food (a grain based dry mix, some lab blocks, and daily fresh veg) supplemented a moderate amount of protein (mostly egg and chicken), and with access to sources of calcium (chicken bones and cuttlefish bones). However, I was advised against this, as it can lead to the babies growing too big to comfortably birth. Some people recommend feeding pregnant rats a lot of extra food and especially protein. FeedingĪ pregnant and nursing mum is eating for several, so she needs special attention paid to her diet. After the first week as they started to get furry, I spent longer cuddling them until at between 2-3 weeks old they had their eyes open and were all for having playtime themselves. To start with, I just held each one for a few seconds to check them over, as I didn’t want them to spend long outside their nice warm nest. So, from day 2, while she was out the cage playing, I briefly handled the babies every day. Although she was an excellent mum in terms of keeping babies clean and fed, she really wanted to come out and play (the poor thing was only a 3-4 month baby herself). Miss L didn’t particularly mind me being round the babies. If she had, then that would have needed the vet. I also took the opportunity to check mum and make sure she didn’t have any infected discharge or continued bleeding. If that happens then get advice from an experienced breeder or a vet immediately. Their mum may either not be feeding them or may not have milk. If the babies don’t have milk bands then it is a sign something is wrong. I didn’t handle them, but when Miss L came out the nest for food, I put her out the way, and opened up the nest just enough to be able to check that the babies were alive and had milk bands in their bellies.īaby rat skin is translucent, so if they are feeding ok, you can see little milky colored blobs where their tummies are. Advised by friends with a lot of breeding experience, I opted to check on the babies on day one when they were a few hours old. There are conflicting opinions on when an owner should check on and handle newborn babies. Miss L took to it immediately, and it made life much easier. Then I buried that back under some of her bigger sheets of newspaper. So on day 3, I transferred the babies, and the core of the nest into a cardboard box with a removable lid and two mummy sized holes cut in the side. ![]() However, actually finding the babies to check on them required dismantling and then reconstructing most of the nest. I didn’t to start with as Miss L had made an enormous volcano shaped nest that took up most of the cage base, and I didn’t want to disturb it. Some people provide nest boxes for pregnant rats, and I think this is a good idea. I opted for an enormous amount of torn up newspaper and paper kitchen towel. Suitable material in this case means non-toxic bedding that won’t get tangled round the babies. All I needed to do was give her suitable materials and let her get on with it. Mums-to-be will usually make their own nest, and Miss L was no different. I put her cage in our bedroom so she wasn’t disturbed by household comings and goings, or the other rats. I took out all shelves, hammocks and baskets so mum couldn’t move her nest off the base, but I included some rope perches for her to play on in her down time, and a corner litter tray for her to toilet in. It is smaller than I’d keep a rat in full-time but ideal for a nursing mum. So the nursing cage should ideally have a deep plastic base to keep everyone in and sheltered. Female rats will potentially make nests in very silly places, and babies wriggle about a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon catching up to him, he finds that Omar is dead, while Rahim has been wounded. After an argument over the radio, he gives chase to a fleeing Rahim. While doing an errand, Rahim tells Crane that he and Omar were planning to bomb an infected nest. The situation in the tower worsens, and a whole floor is sealed off when an outbreak occurs. He later breaks off business with the GRE when they halt the supply drops and refuse to help the Tower. Crane is unable to locate the file, and is later betrayed by Rais, who only gives him five vials of Antizin. He carries out a series of unethical tasks for Rais under the assumption that he will be rewarded with two crates of Antizin. Upon meeting Rais, Crane is able to confirm that he is indeed Suleiman. Upset, Brecken tasks Crane with the job of making a deal with Rais. ![]() Crane reluctantly complies and informs the Tower that the supplies have been looted. Crane volunteers and manages to reach an airdrop containing Antizin, but despite the dire need of the vaccine by the survivors, Crane is instructed by the GRE to destroy the airdrop, instructing him to reach out to Rais in order to buy the vaccine in order to confirm his identity. After Harris Brecken, leader of the tower is nearly killed by a rival runner in a mission to retrieve an Antizin drop, need for the drug becomes immense. Crane learns that the Tower, which seeks to help other survivors, is being harassed by a gang of bandits led by a warlord named Rais who steals and hoards the supplies from the GRE airdrops, including Antizin a vaccine that suppresses symptoms of infection and keeps bitten people from turning into the infected. Rahim then teaches Crane parkour and sends him to Spike, who gives him his first task as a resident of the tower. Crane wakes up and is introduced to Rahim Aldemir, Jade's brother. Amir sacrifices himself to buy Jade and Crane time, and Jade takes him to a survivor sanctuary called the Tower. As the infected attack, Crane is bitten and infected, but rescued by Jade Aldemir and Amir Ghoreyshi. Crane is airdropped into Harran, where he is ambushed by a gang of hostile bandits. The GRE hires Kyle Crane to infiltrate Harran in order to retrieve a sensitive file stolen from them by Kadir Suleiman, which he is using as leverage to blackmail them, with the threat of publicizing it if anything were to happen to him. The Global Relief Effort (GRE) assists survivors still trapped in the city by regularly airdropping supplies. In the city of Harran, a mysterious viral outbreak has turned most of the population into hyper-aggressive zombie-like creatures, forcing Harran's Defense Ministry to quarantine the entire city. Players must use everything in their power to survive until the morning’s first light. Most frightening are the predators which only appear after sundown. At night, the hunter becomes the hunted, as the infected become aggressive and more dangerous. During the day, players traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend against the growing infected population. ![]() ![]() ![]() This method for forming pasta is via extrusion. The third method of forming pasta shapes is by extrusion. While shapes like ravioli, lasagna and wider pasta noodles can be cut by-hand, shapes like spaghetti and linguine are typically run through die cutters. This method is used to make shapes such as ravioli, lasagna noodles, tagliatelle and spaghetti. From there, the dough is formed into shapes like orecchiette and gnocchi.Īnother method of forming pasta shapes is by rolling out the dough and cutting it into sheets. Pasta shapes formed by-hand are made by rolling pasta dough into a long rope and then cutting the rope into equal sized dough pieces. Pasta shapes can be categorized based on how they are formed: by-hand, rolled into sheets or extruded. Our Ultimate Guide to All Pasta Shapes includes a little history and some inspiration for best-loved pasta cuts-some you may already know and love, while some you may want to try for yourself! While every pasta has its place, that doesn’t mean you can’t get inventive with your creations. Some pasta shapes, like the tiny pastina Orzo, have transcended their original use as a soup cut by appearing in everything from cold picnic pasta salads to cheesy side dishes. Baked pasta dishes, like macaroni and cheese, are often made with Elbows or Shells for gathering gooey cheeses in their sturdy bends and hollows. Where thick sturdy noodles with wide hollows, like Rigatoni, were made to take on hearty sauces and meat ragùs, concave noodles like Orecchiette were made to scoop up small ingredients. ![]() ![]() In Italy, the many shapes and styles of pasta were created with a dish or application in mind. While some reach for the classics-Spaghetti, Penne, Pasta Shells-some pasta shapes are just too fun to pass up. Even at the grocery store, it may be hard to choose. If you love pasta, then you know just how many pasta shapes there are. ![]() ![]() ![]() I won’t go into our attempt to raise chicks in an incubator – you have to get the temperature just right, and we didn’t, and Frankenchicks is what came out – nor the sad tale of the male peacock, who was deprived of his peahen by a blood-drinking weasel and went mad and became a mass murderer of the hens. They added unearthly screams to the ambience, which by now was quite Gothic. We had chickens, for which Graeme built a henhouse and an enclosed yard an old horse, which the poet Paulette Jiles had persuaded us to rescue some ducks because we had a pond and what was a pond without ducks? Another horse, to keep the first one company and some jumping cows whose escapes were the marvel of the neighbourhood and a couple of geese that got stepped on by the cows and then eaten and then – why? – some sheep, which had a habit of dying of gid or almost drowning in the pond and, to round off this Noah’s Ark, a pair of peacocks. Then, after a pause: “If you’re gonna have livestock, you’re gonna have dead stock.” And so it was, and so it would be. “What kind of animals should we have?” Graeme had asked an old farmer at the outset. We also accumulated an assortment of non-human beings. Graeme later said that farming was driving around until something broke, then driving around to find the part to fix it, then driving around. What we grew on our rolling acres was alfalfa. At auctions he acquired a second-hand baler and a harrow to go with the old tractor that had come with the property. Needless to say, neither of us had ever spent time on a farm before. He didn’t want to be a city person lolling about idly in the country he wanted the immersive experience. He decided that since we had a hundred acres of weedy farmland, it was our duty to farm it. Graeme was a person not only of enthusiasms but also of moral imperatives. During this period, several proto-novels came and went they would be started in a fire of optimism, then shelved when they failed to engage Graeme fully. ![]() Now he was casting around for his next focal point. His first novel, Five Legs (1969), had done surprisingly well for such an experimental work his second, Communion (1971), was a succès d’estime, but at the end of it he’d killed off Felix, the young man who’d first appeared in Five Legs. In the midst of this intermittent chaos, Graeme wrote on, somewhat more than I did at the time, in fact. I won’t go into the matter of the sauerkraut, except to say that we should have made it outdoors. Various of our preserved foods exploded in the root cellar. We had a washing machine of sorts but no dryer. ![]() We had two stoves: a wood-burner, on which a cauldron of something was eternally simmering and an electric one, with an oven suitable for reviving half-dead lambs. Graeme was at the same time organizing the Writers’ Union of Canada and taking various literary odd jobs to make a semblance of an income, and on weekends and holidays we usually had a houseful of hungry people: his teenage sons, their friends and friends of ours on restful outings from the city, all of them joined midway through the 1970s by our newborn daughter. Having raised the sagging floor and discovered a big pile of well-rotted manure in the barn suitable for a vegetable garden, we settled down to write, more or less. We didn’t have much money, but we finally found something we could afford: an 1835 farmhouse, uninhabited, uninsulated and, unknown to us at the time of purchase, haunted. The man who owned the Beeton farmhouse wanted us to buy it, but someone had cut a piece out of the main beam of the old barn and stuck it over the fireplace – meaning that the barn would soon collapse – so we looked elsewhere. When we weren’t busying ourselves with such publishing tasks, we were trying to arrange a life together. It was my job to hack a pathway through the transcripts: They’d been typed up by a woman who turned out to be somewhat deaf, so I had to guess what the writers might actually have said. I was editing Graeme’s book Eleven Canadian Novelists – radio interviews with writers that he’d done for Robert Weaver’s CBC show Anthology. We were both working with the newly founded small publisher House of Anansi Press – I say “working” loosely because it was a young writers’ press and nobody got paid very much. I visited off and on, and then off, and then on. ![]() It’s all one.” And so it was, and so it would be.įleeing the city and the complexities of a crumbled marriage, Graeme moved to a rented farm near Beeton, Ont., that year. “Your intellectual and creative selves are continuous with your lifeline and your fate line. “Everything is connected to everything else,” I said sagely. The first time I sat down to talk with Graeme Gibson, in 1970, I read his hand, as I was in the habit of doing for strangers in those reckless days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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