"The way you weave desire, intellect, and sensory experience is mesmerizing every line vibrates with tension and intimacy. I could feel the pulse of the words in my own body! Which moment of the body-language and poetic resonance between the characters resonated most with you, and why?" Jeesica Jaames on wattpad

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Your characters felt so real. They sparked a concept I can't stop thinking about. ember_fall909 on wattpad

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"For my most loyal followers - Today I'm wearing a simple black dress with long sleeves, Falke stockings, a 1450 Euro-Dolce & Gabbana silk and lace undershirt given to me by an fabulously rich admirer, and a simple but expensive gold chain with a real jewel. The arrangement falls ever so slightly outside the picture of what's in fashion right now, and makes me all the more tempting for the AI ​​panel I'm about to attend." Christine Zarrath

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“How ... can justice be established without denying pleasure?” Katharine Angel

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Leading Vikings who had established themselves in Western Europe before the year one thousand, having become Christians and counts, were not allowed to dispense with their obligation to polygyny for a long time. According to Danish custom (more danico), sons from dynasties were equal to the sons of the most important woman for the continuation of the dynasty. - And then again not. See the big game changer William the Conqueror, infamously known as ‘Guillaume le Bâtard’.

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“You cannot shoot books.” Amos Oz

Knight and Robber - an example of the power of narratives. On Okinawa, a kata was endowed with the legend that it originated with a shipwrecked man who was stranded in Tomari in the mid-19th century. He is said to have taken up residence in a cemetery and slipped onto the crooked path of nocturnal raids. To put an end to this activity, the eminent lawman Matsumura Sōkon was allegedly dispatched by the king himself. Yet the knight was unable to overcome the robber in single combat. Don’t ask me why the police operation was conducted with such formality. It certainly did not correspond to standard practice to grant criminals the honor of a duel.

Subsequently, the defeated man is said to have uncovered the secret of superiority by becoming a student of the delinquent. Supposedly, the Chinese expert was named Chintō. At any rate, that is the name of the kata. Among those who transmitted it, in the historical present, are Gusukuma Shiroma, Matsumora Kōsaku, Oyadomari Kōkan—and indeed the premium enforcer himself, allegedly bested by a mere hedge thief.

Today one wonders why such a highly placed official and renowned martial artist as Matsumura Sōkon would have received such a lowly assignment directly from the king. It seems plausible that Matsumura Sōkon learned the Chintō from Matsumora Kōsaku of Tomari, but—by virtue of his office—attributed a different origin to it. The politics of that society are no longer transparent to us. The entry captures the essence of the matter quite well: interpretive authority once again lies with the author who tells the best story. Matsumura Sōkon knew how to harvest credibility. Brazenly, he presents himself as the loser, upgrading his position by siphoning off the body of knowledge of a stranded swashbuckler. In the further course of events, Chintō’s gong-fu chisellings circulate through the Okinawan press and undergo the oft-discussed dō-ki transition, in the spirit of a logic of hardening.