vox nihili

Here she was, trying to figure out what was right—or the least wrong. If there was one lesson Mabel’s parents had drilled, it was this: Never stoop to violence. But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn’t you have to break the rules to win against the Devil? Mabel’s head was spinning. They were trying to keep Jake Marlowe from hurting the workers. That was good, wasn’t it? They were destroying property. That was bad. Wasn’t it? If you did the wrong things for the right reasons, did that make the wrong things right? Or did that just mean you had turned your back on finding a more right way? And once you justified violence, did that make it easier the next time and the next, until you’d become the villain of your own story?

In which Madge interacts with all the side characters you never knew you wanted to read about and Mejhiren alludes to all her favorite side-pairings while A Christmas Carol nods sneak in every now and again…

“I’m going to be Gale’s new hunting partner,” I answer at last. Not eagerly, nor with embarrassment or uncertainty, but I feel a great weight drop from my chest as the words leave my lips.

After all, this is the only person whose approval truly matters.

It’s belatedly occurred to me that I should have sought Prim’s permission before speaking to Gale, taking over Katniss’s role as I am, or maybe I should apologize for not having done so – but she only smiles at me once more, unbothered and utterly unsurprised. “Of course you are,” she says. “You’ve had the woods in your eyes for a while now. If Katniss hadn’t left with Peeta, she could have taken you out herself,” she observes. “The pair of you could have hunted and foraged together, and never mind Gale Hawthorne.“

“There’s a lovely thought,” I chuckle dryly. “And really, I may not even pass muster. I’m going out with him on Sunday – on trial, I think. It may not last any longer than that.”

Prim gives a short, strange laugh. “He’ll never give you up,” she assures me.

“Is he that desperate?” I wonder, nonplussed.

She hesitates a moment. “Not in the way you think,” she replies. “But yes, I think he is. Just…maybe you should tell him,” she suggests, “before things get too far along.”

I shake my head, now thoroughly confused. “Tell him what?” I ask.

“That you’re in love with him,” she says plainly. “It would be nice to have someone be open about it for a change.”

The first look at Netflix’s new Black Mirror episodes, arriving on October 21st after a TIFF premiere.

The City of Vancouver is adding 400 affordable new homes worth $50 million to its rental stock over the next two years.

They will be the first affordable housing units to be built under the city of Vancouver’s Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA).

Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson made the announcement today at 2221 Main Street — a site that’s currently a parking lot but is one of the proposed properties on which it wants to build 130 rental units for families.

“We’re making sure these four sites address a number of different people and demographics who are struggling to find housing in the Vancouver market,” said Roberston.

The move comes as the city’s vacancy rate hovers at 0.6 per cent — one of the lowest in the country.

Chief housing officer Mukhtar Latif says rents will range from as low as $375 in the Downtown Eastside, to as high as $2,000 in one of the family-oriented units

The first poster for the NASA drama Hidden Figures starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe.