Cruel Intentions And Last Acts
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Cruel Intentions, the 1999 teen movie inspired by Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. It WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this movie with romantic elements but NO ROMANCE ENDING, you might wish to skip this post.
I love the Dangerous Liaisons storyline and I very much enjoyed rewatching this teen-marketed modern (in 1999) retelling of it. It holds up to viewing over a quarter of a decade later and the cast is amazing. We see Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair when they were babies. (smiles)
I also enjoyed it because of the redemption arc.
Sebastian and his stepsister Kathryn are two of a kind. They’re awful, mean people, and seem to have no redeeming personality traits.
And for much of the movie, they remain awful. They do terrible things.
Until Sebastian falls in love and has a change of heart.
His last act in the movie is sacrificing himself for another person.
This is the only true good thing he is shown to have ever done.
But it redeems himself in the eyes of the other characters and in the eyes of many viewers.
He becomes the hero.
While his stepsister, the person matching him for evil for most of his life, ends the movie as the villain.
This is the power of one selfless act. It can completely shift others’ views of us and of characters.
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Throwback Thursday – The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a nod to the original real life secret baby stories – the stories of couples who conceived in the last moments before one (or both) of them go off to war.
They were separated by time and distance and crappy communications and there was no way to inform the father that he HAD become a father.
When he finally could contact his love, he found out they had a baby.
Stealth, the cyborg hero of The Cyborg’s Secret Baby, and Zebrina, the human heroine, are also separated by time and distance and too-dangerous-to-communicate situations.
She fears he has died. He doesn’t know he has an additional reason to live.
And cyborgs fully mature in less than a solar cycle (a year).
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
Buy Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborgs-Secret-Baby-Stars-ebook/dp/B07F2NK6D4
Apple : https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-cyborgs-secret-baby/id1404800721
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Aerogarden – First Impressions
A much loved one gave us an Aerogarden as a present.
This is a VERY small mini-grow station. It is so small we have set it up on our kitchen table (and we LOVE that this is possible).
It supposedly supports SIX herbs. I am doubtful it will do that but we plan to harvest regularly so, hopefully, it will be okay.
It was super simple to set up. Take it out of package and plug it in, turning the lights on. Then just pop in the seed pods, fill the reservoir with water, drop in a couple caplets of liquid fertilizer, and it is good to go.
The buttons will tell you when it is time to refill the reservoir with water. Fertilize every two weeks. The lights are on a timer. They should turn themselves on and off.
Those lights throw off heat also, which I like because our house is normally too cool for herbs like basil.
And it is fairly quiet.
I also like that it is portable. When the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are away from home, we can easily bundle the herb-filled aerogarden up and take it to Awesome Mom-In-Law’s house (i.e. Grandma’s House – grins).
And I like that she won’t have to water the plants often. Just fill up the reservoir every week or so.
Aerogarden suggests, aggressively, that we buy pricey replacement seed pods, which I do NOT like. But, thanks to the interwebs, I think I have figured out a less costly solution to that issue.
IF the Aerogarden works for us.
It is too early to know that.
But I am hopeful.
(smiles)
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