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I pay subscriptions to slide left so much I can’t keep my balance, yet I wouldn’t mind not being able to walk straight once in a while.

The follow-up book beginning is already padded with many other characters as they weave into the couple’s life with varying degrees of being in the loop. Will be interesting to see what treatment the script will get as much of the ambiguity related to two solid pairings is essentially in the rear view mirror. I imagine some additional weighting will be given to the Scott/Kip narrative as that represents at least one complete novel and Arnaud has alluded to signing on. Some articles refer to Bridgerton and its popularity arc, breaking out into additional couplings by follow-up seasons, with the running thread of a different type of secrecy, but at least those characters were mostly all introduced first season so the springboard was there.

Spoiler alert … Book: Jeep Cherokee not Range Rover. Dishwasher pods not phone charger lame excuse. No extended parent-child catharsis scene that I recall from finishing the book this week; that was written in to add emotional range even if thematically cliché, to the series’ credit.

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Most of the answers are not relatable to all because there are actually some among us not American. In Canada the sex worker possesses impunity. The client does not, but there is at least one case where the client was ordered by the courts to pay the worker after she formally complained that he had refused to follow through on agreed upon payment following sex. He was not charged under the legislation that prohibits hiring, for which penalties can be quite substantial, as context is everything, that is, what justice is appropriately served. The thrust of the law is protecting the vulnerable from exploitation, mainly related to coercion and trafficking, and that is the central thing that it addressed in this case … exploitation via withholding compensation. That money was not exchanged did not make it consensual sex or legal. That said, there is discretion to lay charges against a purchaser for something as basic as procuring sex from an advertising sex worker in exchange for goods in kind. But authorities generally turn a blind eye whether it’s more traditional hiring or private lap dances in clubs, as these are minor relative to the organized crime of trafficking in adults, or worse, minors. Authorities can, therefore, use the big stick against a bad actor engaged in basic purchase aimed at procurement of a vulnerable person for his own eventual financial gain. He might plead out to rescind some of the charges. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is ruling whether escorts’ appointment drivers are considered protectors not chargeable versus facilitators for pimps where organized procurement occurs, or even if only the escort and driver comprise the business arrangement. It’s complex because a pimp takes a cut and a driver of a private escort without a pimp takes a cut, yet roles overlap. Pimping is associated with a stereotype of abuse.

It tracks as they are hooking up gentlemanly about quarterly

The Russian monologue as spoken in the series is not in the book directly or modified as verbalized dialogue from the book but is cobbled together from Ilya’s thoughts about his discontent as if that would be the spoken content. The only line referenced is his key admission, which he muses afterwards about having verbalized, but the setup suggestion made that he best unburden in Russian is replicated. He also later processes in his mind what he had said and its implications. Some scenes’ dialogue is lifted from the book text but much of the books’ narrative is, as would be expected, characters’ interior content. There is a lot more emotional attachment thinking and associated mixture of elation and associated anxiety than can get realistically translated to film.

That’s one possible way to pro Bono I hadn’t thought of. Nothing else works.

On the one hand, light years, surely not to be confused with light in the loafers years.

… Montreal’s Village. Though I think it would be from the Crave network early streaming as the episodes otherwise appear Sunday evenings.

There is some Shayden tension of a sort in a bonus short story on Reid’s site. Otherwise, I think a significant plot line reveal will drop this week because it would bridge S2. Unless, again, the show’s future at time of initial production was too uncertain to add the content. Not naming it.

Only at times sporting a ‘pearl necklace’ after his family jewels are removed from a lily’s moist mouth.

As long as the cap is off and the fossil fuel hose is permitted to enter the tank.

As long as they only sing it or reference it in a letter, and not trade me in. ScreenRecording_12-21-2025 15-41-07_1.mov

It’s tomorrow, 12 more hours in my time zone to home free Monday. Not risking slipping and bashing my brains out on frigid Montreal ice. Thanks a lot. Had planned a rare Sunday evening strip club visit.

But is there a big enough plot for this chatroom, let alone all the dismantled washroom stalls bearing your scribbles?

If it’s viewed following burial they may be inclined to dig me up and transfer the remains to unholy ground. C’est la vie … alors tabernouche … la mort.

I’ve sprung for the two novels a bit spaced apart in Reid’s soapy publishing chronology that cover extended Shane and Ilya history span with other central characters in additional novels woven in here and there. Funny and filthy (series script smut comparatively very tame) thus far though I’m just at the point of forecasting some of the final episode content for this season. Tone gets more serious in the second novel sample.

But that unique and rare McNUGGETS & dipping sauce chemistry that soars and sings …

Spoiler alert: based on name confusion inquiry Cliff Marlow in the books is Rozanov’s Boston Bears teammate (Raiders in series). They lost the eastern division to New York Admirals, that went on to defeat San Francisco for the cup, so he wouldn’t have landed on the Admirals following the ice mishap with Montreal’s Shane that season merely a few weeks earlier. The announcer referencing a Marlow/ Marleau for NY as they run out the clock and win would likely be a screenplay oversight yielding continuity error unless intended to be a different player same or similar name.

If emtricitabine (FTC) is the component possibly responsible for anemia then TDF vs TAF is a moot distinction for tenofovir type and your switch simply carried over and maintained the adverse event … which tracks with your pre-Descovy trend. So I suppose you need to drill down into the literature on individual components to seek evidence of associations. A ‘washout’ may alleviate the anemia signals and help discern the association, but renders you unprotected. If FTC is indeed the problem your PrEP playbook may require a different switching up consideration to cabotegravir or lenocapavir after screening for their relations with red blood cell alterations. I cannot find a current study that would spare you getting inadvertently randomized to the Truvada arm and you cannot pre-select assignment to new PrEP candidates in development unless it’s an earlier phase trial for tolerance and drug levels; even then you would not get subsequent access to it in a sustained fashion until it hit the market following successful Phase3 results deeming the different drug class product noninferior to Truvada in effectiveness.

Episodes drop Thursday at midnight in Montreal. Arnaud’s featured cast billing status. Easy. More prominent and notable filmography, and productions’ award entries/noms/wins status. He is also a central dyad character in Reid’s first novel. I think Williams gets billing prior to Storrie because he is a book main character whose perspective in written order is first out of the gate, like Kip’s in the Scott/Kip story, but second and third series casting order less relevant. I have now read all the novel samples and there are several storylines with characters unrelated to the TV production. Potential for milking? How do you follow Shane/Ilya for screen chemistry? Not sure if Episode 6 will wrap up their storyline from the second novel The Long Game based on them and published 3 years following Heated Rivalry but we are getting to the end of their decade span from the books. Stop reading here to avoid Ep5 plot spoiler alert potential re: final paragraph written following avert-eyes gap below ... —— —— —— . . . . I don’t think series renewal had been strongly anticipated and perhaps Tierney would have slowed down the timelines prior to burgeoning domesticity diluting the dramatic tension.

Delusional is you arriving at a busy sports bar with your escort for a quick brewski break before private play, the crowd spontaneously cheers at that instant at a game score on the telly that you hadn’t noticed, and you think it’s a surprise party setup for your first anniversary. It may be similar to a daydream component you had already experienced. The mix of elated and melancholic feelings of unrequited love is not delusional. Fantasies are not delusional and your recognition at junctures where you snap out of them for a minute that they are without valuable yield is very much grounded in reality. This type of psychodynamic phenomenon may be one way to satisfy that you don’t really want a boyfriend. Your limbic brain tossed a coin and chose between a binary of narcissistic rage that enables moving on (he’s just not into me and I don’t give a fig) versus heightened limerence that aims valiantly to suppress the anger at unreciprocated obsession (up all night tending the acres of a fig tree farm). That’s the differentiation and one can comprehend it more than control it. Yet why this him and not another him is complicated to figure out. It may range from all boxes ticked off to few boxes ticked off. When I find myself slipping into one or the other path I view it as a tantrum, regression potential embedded in the brain that mirrors the developmental aspects of hunger in infancy. Albeit a mature meltdown. Feed me but get lost upon satiation but don’t get lost for the next iteration. Why else is this feature among adults characterized by one singular fixation at a time, in contrast to the pathology that emerges for some when feeling alienated from broader society? I want what I want when I want it; be on call on my terms whether it’s simulated via a circumscribed date or monopolizes my thoughts in a bridging mode. What class of intimates falls the most neatly into this formula? [rhetorical] The offshoot of a human connection evolutionary imperative turns on itself because humans have logistical limits. Only enduring couples get a little close to everything everywhere all at once. Tantrums need to play out at their self-selected setting while not crossing the line into behavioural choices that exceed what might be considered conventionally socially embarrassing. Extended tantrums can feel crazy and call into question sanity due to their contrast with short and relatively painless ones. What they have in common is that they have all uniformly fizzled out for me while lacking susceptibility to the degree of intellectual intentionality and self-directed control one would prefer to have in order to optimally regulate unpleasant affect.