I had a totally different video planned, but my girlfriend's best friend Shelby just had to tell me about this drama going on on Twitter between Jeffree Star and Thomas Halbert. So now I got to talk about it. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution.   So if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because yeah, I am not a drama channel. I am not here to spill any tea, but like there's so much, there's so much like if you are someone who watches the beauty community, like watch it and learn from it, please for the love of God because there's so much to learn about how to not have friendships and just how to have healthy relationships by doing the opposite of what they're doing. So anyways, yeah, my girlfriend's best friend Shelby, we have a little group text and like she said, oh my God, there's stuff going on on Twitter between Jeffree and Thomas Halbert. And I'm like, oh, I don't want to look. And then I was like, okay, I'll look. And I looked, I'm like, what is happening? That's a million tweets from Jeffree Star. So I went over and I'm like, who is this Thomas Halbert guy? And I went over to check out his video. And it's called like racism, sexism and silence. So a lot of you don't know this about me, but I'm actually half African-American and I'm not going to talk about the, that kind of stuff that Thomas Halbert was talking about. Like just real quick opinion on this. It seemed like a lot of virtue signaling and I just don't have a way to really tie that into mental health. So I'm going to stay away from that, but that's my opinion on it real quick. So anyways, there's, there's two main topics I want to talk about in this video and I hope that you can learn from it. So the first topic I'm going to talk about is kind of exploiting your own mental illness for sympathy or as a form of manipulation.  Like a lot of you ask me so many questions and I've done so many things throughout my life to improve who I am as a person and improve my mental health. So at the beginning of Thomas Halbert's video, he like just casually tosses in that he had an eating disorder. Like in the first couple of minutes, he just casually just kind of just tosses it in there. I'm like, okay, where's this going? And like, it had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the video in ways that I was conditioned and raised was like a perfect example is when I would starve myself when I knew I was hungry, which led into something more serious, which is an eating disorder.  You know what I mean? Like, and if you don't know what I mean, here's what I mean with this story. So those of you who are just now meeting me, I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. I've been cleaning this over for six years. And in my addiction, I wrapped up three tickets in one week, right? Or two weeks, something like that. Or no insurance and no registration, because for me, it was more important to buy drugs than pay for insurance and registration. So I wrapped up all these tickets. And when I got sober, I went to California, I wasn't paying on the tickets. So I moved back. There was a warrant out for my arrest. I paid that off. And then like, I had to start paying off the tickets, which was thousands of dollars. And they wanted $200 a month for me. And like the job I was working at the time, there was absolutely no way like that I could pay that. Like I have a son. I'm living in a ghetto apartment and barely scraping by, riding on the bus. Like there's no way I could afford $200 a month.  And they say, you would have to come down and talk to a judge for them to lower that monthly price. And I'm like, okay, cool. So I like took a day off work. I went down to the courthouse and I had to like wait around for a while in order to meet with the judge and ask him to lower that 200 down to something that was actually like reasonable for me to pay monthly, right? So as I'm waiting, like as somebody in recovery, as somebody who's trying to be a better person, like I had to realize that I manipulate a lot. Like I am one of the biggest manipulators on the face of the earth. And if I want to be a better person, like I need to quit doing that. But sometimes my brain doesn't really have a good judge of what's manipulating or what's not. So here's a tip, call people and ask them, all right? This is something that I was taught. So I got cleaned through a 12 step program. So I had a sponsor and I called him up and I called this dude up and I'm like, hey, I'm about to go into this, to talk to this judge and I just want to ask you if you think this is manipulative. So here's what my plan was. Okay. Like I heard so many stories of people like going in to talk to a judge and at this time I had like a year and a half sober and people always said like, yeah, I went in and I talked to the judge. I told him that I'm cleaning sober now.  So yeah, we're just going to get rid of all your charges. Like I heard these stories. So like, I was like, well, maybe I should do that. But if you remember, my, my tickets had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol. Really, right? So I called my sponsor up and I'm like, hey dude, like, do you think it would be manipulating the judge if I told him, I said, hey, you know, I'm really sorry about this. I'm a year and a half sober now. I was making a lot of bad decisions. Like would it be manipulative if I just casually toss that in there, right? And my sponsors like, yes, of course it would be.  And I, what I did was I called like 50 other people like, do you do that? Do you ever like ask a ton of people the same question and you just wait for the one person to give you the answer that you want? Well, thank God I hang around people again, who I always tell you to hang around with people who tell me what I need to hear and not what I want to hear. So I called like 50 people and they're all like, yeah, Chris, that's manipulative and I'm like, right? But like, think about that. It is manipulation. Like I would have been manipulating that judge if I just tossed in there that I'm a drug addict and alcoholic and recovery had nothing to do with my tickets at all, really? Like, and that would have just been a bad character action on my part. You know what I mean? So like, this is something that I'm really, really passionate about because like when I see people do that, there's a lot of conversation right now with all the better help stuff going on.  Are YouTubers faking mental illness? Are they doing this? So like, I think it's important to have this conversation. I just want to kind of give you some context from my experience. By the way, some crazy stuff happened and the judge actually lowered my payment down to $50 a month. I actually still pay it to this day, the minimum payment. And I do it as a reminder to myself about the screw up I used to be. I need to go and make sure I paid it this month. But anyways, so going back to Thomas Hubbard, I do not like how he just casually tossed in that he had an eating disorder. Like, what was the purpose of that Thomas? It had nothing to do with the rest of the video. Stop it. Stop it, Thomas. Now, the second point that I want to make is like, if you are watching this, if you are watching this video, cut out the people in your life who are constantly involved with drama. Like, I just made my video the other day, I think yesterday, about many MUAs come back and the drama around World Mental Health Day and all that. And like, I'm upset. Like, I've just been punched into this beauty community and it's driving me nuts. Because back in my past, back when I was very mentally unstable, I hung out with all of the drama queens. I was a drama queen. I always hung out with people who constantly had chaotic stuff going on in their lives. So basically, like, you can go over on Twitter. I'm not going to dive into all this stuff. But Thomas Hubbard goes over to Jeffrey's house to kind of talk with him about Jeffrey's, like, racist past. And I'm not here to judge any of that stuff. But like, like, what happened was, Thomas was texting Laura and Manny while he was at Jeffrey's. And then like, Jeffrey outed, like, confronted Thomas about it. And then Thomas was like, oh, I'm so sorry. And then Thomas came out with this video. So anyways, go check out Twitter if you want to get all that tea. But I'm sure the other drama channels will. But like, there was just constantly drama going on. Like, you guys, I am not lying to you. Like, I cut all those people out. I cut them out. Like, I have like four really good friends who I talk to on a regular basis. Like, four, OK? Like, I have a lot of family members who I don't even talk to on a regular basis because all they do is gossip and talk drama. So I think that might actually be why I get a little like defensive when people say, like, oh, you're turning into a drama channel. Chris, like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm trying to teach you lessons about the drama that's going on.  Like, I'm telling you guys right now, if I would have met my girlfriend and she had this type of drama in her life, I would not have dated her. I wouldn't have dated her. I'd be like, yo, sorry, I could not handle that stuff. You know what I mean? Now, what's funny is we joke around, my girlfriend and I, that she's like my PR team, right? So I often run like ideas past her. Sometimes I even run like comments past her. Like, should I make this comment or should I make this reply? Should I tweet this? You know, by the way, that's another pro tip.  Okay, so her and I were talking about this video and I was telling her, I was like, yeah, this is what it's going to be about.  And I told her this, so you probably see it on the screen right now. But I said, so FYI, when I blow up, I refuse to be friends with Jeffrey. And then I was saying, no, you'll see it's a lesson because she gets worried that I am going to go too much into the drama and I'm going to reach and not make it about mental health. So then she says, LMAO, what if he buys you a car or house or a corgi? So those of you who don't know, I freaking love corgis and I want a corgi so bad. So I'm like, ugh, then I'd have to set up healthy boundaries. And then I got the idea. This is how my ideas come. I was like, that'd be such a good video. How to be friends with Jeffrey Star. And I'm like, OMG, remind me to make that video sometime. So yeah, I think that'd be a great video. How to be friends with somebody like Jeffrey Star who constantly has drama around it. If you think that would be a good, interesting video, because like I told Tristan, it would be about setting up boundaries, constantly setting up boundaries with him. So if you think that would be an interesting video, let me know down in the comments below. But aside from that, let me know down in the comments, how do you feel about people like just casually tossing in their mental illness, like just, oh, here you go. Here you go. Here's my mental illness. Like, how do you feel about that? Like, and I wonder, like, and tell me if I'm being contradictory as somebody who tries to increase awareness, like, am I being hypocritical? Like, I don't know. Like, tell me down in the comments, I got thick skin, but I want to hear your thoughts on that. Okay. Anyways, that's all I got for you with this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. And if you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. And a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. We just got a new Patreon supporter, and now they're added to the list. So if you would like to support the channel over on Patreon, help me spread a message of hope. Make sure you click the top on that Patreon icon right there. All right. Thanks so much for watching. Get rid of the drama, and I'll see you next time.


Killed us engage. Wait, you didn't? Mm-hmm. Espen, wake up! Sorry. Our game. Oh, frick. Set up now. Killed us engage. Killed us engage. OK. No, I was saying a command. Let's play this game. Let's do this race. Race me, race me, race me. One, two, three, four, go. So long. Oh, wait, no, wait, oh. Wait, what? What do you mean, what? I thought you meant you were clicking them. OK, ready, go. Three, two, one, go. May the flights protect you. Espen's the number one rap paladin. Yeah, that is true. Frick, I tried to become a yelfling on you and it didn't work. Oh, no! Oh, no! I jumped out of that one, dragon! Frick. She died again? Dragon, I immediately jumped off because the dragon showed up and I hopped on, but I didn't wait to fully mount. So I didn't fully mount before I jumped and it said mount interrupted. I'm catching up to you. No, this tree. It will not release me. No, the tree. The tree slowed me down and I missed it by 349. No. Dude, I hate these trees, man. I've already gone. Are you talking to that? Nobody in chat knows how to leave new cover shot. Yeah, let me try that. I'll try that right now. Oh, now I beat it by two seconds. Unbelievable. There it is. Bonk. Nice. Dude, this is actually so, you know what? I actually think it's actually hype like watching that, isn't it? See if you can get gold. That's actually super fun. There's a coin around here somewhere. Oh. Thought I heard it. Oh. Did you get it? Nice, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Let's go, dude. Damn. That's crazy. OK, Bonnie. So do you hear what I was saying earlier? I was reading chat. Yeah.  It like rockets you up there. That's crazy. Yeah, so that's how I got so much air just now. OK, ready? So I'm going down, I get the buff, and then I tilt the camera up one, two. See how crazy that was? What? It was really cool. I think it was sick. And I show how you never run out of figure. Yeah, like, OK, so there's a glyph down here beneath us. Oh, there it is. Ready? There should be another one around here somewhere. I think I have to like go to sleep. No, I think I have to go to the dragon school to train my dragon. You actually don't have to train. Oh, no, frick, I won't. You actually, you can actually train here. I thought the same thing, but the chat was saying you can just click on it and train. But do you know where to click? Yeah. Oh, like where actually to click? Click on the dragon icon. Click on the dragon icon. OK, I got it. OK, it's OK. In the view on the left. Sure, I remember now. It's inside the car. Skippy poppin. Oh, Bonnie, did you see it? No. I didn't.  Chat, what's the craziest thing you've seen on Twitch? I'm going to guess it's the same thing. OK, I did not expect these answers. A live funeral. No, they didn't. Oh, yeah, that one girl that ended up banging on stream, that was crazy. Yeah, that was awesome. Then she did it again. And then she literally came back and did it again.  Did she get permit after that? I hope so. Always a good time here. Thank you, Ten House. Thank you for the 42 months, man. Thank you very, very appreciate it, man. What was Twitch thinking? Oh, that would make sense. She was trying to promote something. That's so annoying. That's unethical. Wee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee. Unethical, welcome to Twitch. Yeah, she did it twice. Who do you think is the craziest streamer on Twitch? Like, actually crazy. Like, there is actually an elemental problem. Well, yeah, probably. Besides me. There is one right answer to this. I think Seer is not as crazy as he seems. Seems like a lot of people go to YouTube to avoid the Twitch community. I feel like people go to YouTube to avoid Twitch staff when they get banned. That's what it used to be. Like, YouTube feels like the outlaw lands. That's actually what it used to be. All right. This place looks crazy. We're about to max out. Yeah, what is this place? Tim? The Tapman? Wait, he got banned for what? For having a weiner too big. I feel like all the people who got banned, there's like no actual known reason. No, I think like. Wouldn't it be crazy if, whenever Twitch banned somebody, you went to their channel and it would say, this channel is banned because of. You know, well now, it used to tell you if it was deactivated, or you should only say the same thing for everything, but now it at least tells you that it's deactivated or banned. Like with Doc. Nobody even knows why Doc was banned, right? Yeah, nobody's an idea. Like that's the weird one. Because like, here's like my general feeling on that one. That's going to be crazy.  Or he's like, or. But I just feel like there should be more transparency maybe. I think in his case, if it was something really bad that he actually got banned for, then we would know about it. Yeah, versus like, if it's just something personal with stuff. It would be, I feel like the way that it was handled and what happened was so poor. Like it was like, oh, like he did something really illegal. But obviously he didn't. Because if he did do that, then it would just be, it would be so bad that it would be public. Everyone would know about it. Yeah, like he like murdered somebody or something. You know what I mean? I just can't think. Should I drop off here? No. Why does it give you an option that I could live from here? Dude, this one is crazy. This might be the highest point in the whole map. Yeah, this is wild. I wonder what Twitch would be like if Doc was still here. Because ever since I started streaming on Twitch, he hasn't been here. Everyone says that Twitch was so good like three years ago. Discovering your first owner. Twitch was peak in 2017 to 2018. And beginning at 2019. Thank you, TideGroose. I think it's still good though. Like for all of us that are new and we haven't experienced that. Yeah, it is okay. Because there was like some stuff on Twitch that I saw like that long ago and it was like not good stuff. There were some bad things. Yeah. Like we always remember the good stuff mostly. Yeah. You know what's funny? It's like the W community, for example. Like as far as content goes, the W community is basically doing like all the stuff that like our friend group would do. Yeah. Like three, four years ago. That's cool. But it's funny because like, because their communities are new to Twitch, it's like different. Also, something else, they're doing a lot of stuff that we used to do but with like a lot more money. So, yeah. Yeah. It makes it, it doesn't ever make it more interesting. Also when you're young and you're like doing like content and stuff, it's so exciting. And you have all these crazy ideas because it's so exciting. For people who stream for a longer time, it comes and goes in waves, I noticed. Yeah, maybe, maybe you'll get burned or something I don't know. I feel super excited every time I come up with content. But then like, sometimes I'll bring it up and people are like, well, maybe that won't be good for numbers. That doesn't work because of XYZ. Or we did this like three years ago or and then it's like squash. Oh my God. Dude, this one is a nightmare to try and get.  We're trying to get all the tokens to Max that are dragons so that we can live a little faster. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, is it on the rock? Is it on the rock? What are you doing? It's worth, it's worth, it's worth. Okay. People say leech a lot. People don't really say leech anymore. Really? I never see people talking about people leeching anymore. Yeah, I feel like leech is a term like kind of started to die. It's like older. W3A does. Really? It's funny actually. Nice. Nice. Through all of the skies generates one vigor every five seconds. We're cranking, we're cranking. We're cranking, we're cranking. Or missing one. But worse than that, it's like. Other people are doing stuff. But like, why don't people are like. Did you get that one? No, that one was already gone.  Wait, so do we have all of them? I don't have the middle one, but I think we have all of them. Yeah, I do now. I now want to go do all the races. Okay, I'm filling up, I'm filling up. And I got to circle around a little bit. But I stopped having so much fun. What the frick? Yeah, it fills up faster if you're flying and you have the buff versus sitting down and not having the buff.  And then flip it up, boom. Oh wow, what the heck? You see it? And then you still have it, yeah. That's crazy. And then you tilt it down a little bit.  Yeah, you carry it, so it just owns. Oh my goodness, I'm going crazy. Yeah, see now you're in the hang of it. That's crazy, look at how it passes. Look at how high it is. Is that nuts? Yeah, you got like way to over there. I'm also at the tippy top. Okay, I'm coming back to you. So they didn't have dragons before in retail? Nope, not like that. Damn. These are cool. Three, two, one, click. We secured the Azure archives, but Razageth Storm remains enveloped around Thakthro's tower. She seeks to free her kin. Oh my God, it's Spira. But that prison does not lie within the Azure span. What else could she be after? My vision remains clouded. The time lists could all be moving in our midst. And I feel I would not see it. The city must be protected. The drunken is our people's home. If the primalists are here, we must find them and flush them out. They cannot be allowed to infiltrate our seat of power. Yeah, I don't know a whole lot about a lot of the lore. Like I know, I say that, but sometimes I don't realize how much I know. What is it you seek? But a lot of the stuff that I do know is related to how these guys were implemented into the game years ago. So I think it's cool whenever people think that stuff's interesting. Because actually original WoW had a lot to do with all of the dragons. Like the first version of WoW had a lot to do with the different dragon flights. It was built into the quests and how the world was shaped a little bit and where certain things were. But after vanilla WoW, you didn't really see it a lot for a long time. You saw it occasionally, but... But I feel like vanilla is the only one that... Vanilla had a lot to do with dragons, but it was really understated. Like it wasn't in your face. Black Rock Mountain was all black dragon flight stuff. With black moon wear, obviously. That was all black dragon flight. A little bit of red dragon flight. Like the blue dragon flight is all Everlook, winter spring, all that area. That's where you see a lot of the blue dragon flight and you don't really see them anywhere else. Then it's like really understated. The only way you really like fall along with the blue dragon flight is with like the Enixia quest chain and the hunter stuff and all that. Some of the other stuff. Then there's Chromie as a dragon, but I don't think you even... Chromie is part of the bronze dragon flight. The gnome is just like her humanoid form. But then the bronze dragon flight stuff, that's all with caverns of time and nose door move, the opening of the gates of AQ40, like all that stuff.


SCP-681 is a slate sculpture in the form of a human skull missing its mandible. Resting on top of SCP-681, however, is SCP-682. This, SCP-682, appears to be a set of mineral appraisal tools connected to a large six centimeter eyepiece, which is in turn connected to a bronze head strap. Whenever a mechanical item of sufficient complexity is placed approximately 0.5 meters in front of an assembled SCP-680, however, several of the tools on SCP-682 begin to move of their own accord and set themselves to a unique setting seemingly tuned to the object in question.


Ieithaf. Rwy'n ffordd, nad yna'n gweithio'n meddwl gael gynnig iawn i'r gweithio yma, a'r gweithio'n meddwl gweithio ar y society i'r wlad.  I will show you my normal day. It's actually quite comfortable. But it is for purpose other than it's for a Tudor dressing up, although my head of department doesn't believe me. I'm going to be talking quite generally about seals and sealing practises to provide a context. Then I'm going to hand over to Philip who is going to talk through the project and some case studies. ac rwy'n edrych yn dweud hynny i gael gweithio'r lluniau. A'r amser, yn gweithio'r lluniau i gael gweithio. Yn ystod, mae yw'r lluniau? Yn ystod, mae'r lluniau yn y dda i'r lluniau ymlaen i'r lluniau. Y lluniau yn ysgrifennu. Mae'r idea ar y cyfnodau i'r identifol. Mae'r lluniau yn y form ffordd o'r ffordd o'r cyfrifol, o unrhyw gwneud ymateid, o'r cymryd o'n gweld yn iechyd o'n gysylltu ffordd a'r hollolio ar y oeswyddonau i unrhyw gwneud ymateid i unrhyw gwneud. Felly, gwrth i nawr yw i mi ddarparu gwneud ymateid o gollol o'r gefnogiad. Rwy'n edrych yn fwy o'r eich tal o'n gwybod, ond rydym yn ymwyaf mwy o'r ideae yw'r gwneud ymwysigig. Ysbryd i chihowb dda'i rhai athgoredd bwy ymwysig, rwy'n ddweud ymwysig o'r Felly, rwy'n cael ei gwneud yr ystodau'r llefyn ar y cyllidio'r amser oherwydd mae'n rhanio'r meyddoedd. Mae'n cael ei gweithio'r cyllidio, ond mae'n eu rhanio gan ystodau. Mae'n cael ei gweithio'r cyllidio'r cyllidio. Y llwydd gweithio'r llwydd, wrth gwrs, ond mae'n gweithio'r llwydd gweithio'r llwydd. Mae'n cael ei gweithio'r llwydd gwaith i gael gweithio'r llwydd. Maen nhw'n sylfa maedraeth ar y museum bryd, rhan gwyllprosol, ac mae'n gweithio'r ddwyllt yn ei hwn. Mae'n dweud yw'r ddwyllt yn y dyfodol. Mae'n ei ffawr i siwr ymddynt, oherwydd mae'n ddwyllt yn y ddwyllt yn y ddwyllt, bo'r ddwyllt yn ei ddwyllt yn y ddwyllt yn ei ddwyllt yn y ddwyllt yn yr ysgolol yn y ddwyllt. Ond oherwydd, rydyn ni'n gwneud o'r cyllidion gyda maethau o brithau yma ar Brithn yw'r cyllidion, Llywodraeth, Rydydd cyllidion o'r Llywodraeth, Llywodraeth Cymru. Manyach ddwy o'r ddweud yn gwneud unrhyw unrhyw o'r cilydd o'r cyllidion.  We know a little bit about who made these matrices. Certainly Goldsmiths made matrices, there was an account from the Abbey of St Albans where a worker there, probably a monk certainly somebody affiliated with the abbey called Ancthil, in the 12th century was discovered to have been up to no good and here a couple of other monks have clearly been forging things and sifering of precious metals captured when he fled because he didn't want to face up to what he'd done, a half finished seal matrix was found on his bench. So we have insights such as that. We have payments to London Goldsmiths for making the great seal, the seal of the monarch. And there are a number of specialist seal makers who operated certainly larger urban areas. Maen nhw'n meddwl Dr John McCuhran. yn dweud foti gyd yn cyd-ryd gyntaf i meidiwyr Llywodraeth ym Mhobbllol. Mae ddwi'n ddim yn rhaewt ardill yn gallu chi ymddengun, ac mae'n gyrain oedd eu cyfleoedd yma, a mor fwyb faint mae'n sefydli'r strategiaeth yn rhan o'r 11 awr i'r 13 ymddangos. Ym thysg pethau ar y cyfan, dyma'n ddins i Ymddangos Dr McCuhran's ymddangos ymddangos, a bod y bwysig gwn i'r gael yw Llywodraeth, yn ffyrdd i'r hynny'n gymryd, i ddweud o'r ddweud. Felly, ddymaidd, byddai'n gryffo ar y cerdd Cymru ac y rhai o'r ddweud y byddai'n ddweud ar y busin i'r ddweud ac i ddweud o'r ddweud. Rwy'n meddwl i'n meddwl am yw… I'n meddwl am y bwysig, mae'n meddwl ar y busin i'r ddweud. Yn chi'n meddwl i'r ddweud. Ac mae gennym ni gwybod eich gwneud. Mae'r gwirionedd yw'r cyffredinion. Mae'n rhamnod o'r rhan o'r bwrdd, mae'n rhan o'r pethau o'r prifysgfaith cyfathorau. Ond y pethau gwybod eich gwneud, mae'n ganbylch yn bach felly eich ddau'r rhan o'r rhan o'r ffrind. Efallai mae'r wneud o'r ffrind. Ond mae'r rhan o'r ffrind o'r rhan o'r rhan o'r rhan o'r ffrind. Mae'n gwybod eich gwneud. Mae'n gwybod eich gwneud. yn cymdeithasol. A felly mae'n meddwl i'r wych mewn casgau a'r gyfan Plwydo ac mae'n gweld i gweithio'r chyredu. Dwi'r ddiwedd gwir iawn yn fawr yn tynnu'r gwrs, yn ddim yn dod i'r ddweud o'r dwyr dwylo o behad am y cyd-dwylo. Bydd yw'r ddoedd yn maen nhw, mae'n ddallych o duodd gysylltu oherwydd gweld eich hollu i molleg aelod o'r ddod i wneud o'r ffordd o'r ddysgu gwir yn ystod, a'r ddysg maen nhw iddiw i'lla radiol o'r ddysgu gwir. Mae'r ddysgu'r ddysgu gwir, ryw fawn o'r ddylch nhw of just very high status very elaborate objects they're not all in in that made in that way and punches and stamps and also all the engraving has to be done back to front to make sure that the impression is the right way around it might seem quite simple but this is quite sophisticated technologi a'r cwm o'r pryddoch. Mae gynhyrchu yn ymlaen o'r pryddoch yn rhoi tex â'r papartio'r papartio ar Wester Europe. Now, these stamps, these matrices were made to be impressed into a soft material.  Any one? Yes, parcels and physically what ceiling wax? Dwi'n ddim gallwch ar y cyddwch. Ac rwy'n cwrs o'r anghyddau gael allan drots이. Mae'n autyn ni'n rhaid—egmau'n deilio gynnig, iddyn nhw'n gwithio'r gwyllt. Gallwch cwrs yn ffordd o'r awdrych o'r awdrych cwrs. Cwrs koel yn ei fod yn deallus yma i Brifennu i Siad Aesir. Ie replicatech yn ffordd, i gyd yn elu wahanol. Y olywedd, yr oedden nhw ar gyfrifol, yn gweithio, llawer o hollu iawn, yn ddwy wazwr, yn ei rhagwlad ychydig, mae'r hollu iawn ar awdurion, ryw, datryd, o gyllid o gyfrifol fel ymwylltu gwêl. Fe'r hollu iawn yn cyllid ddigadol i'r cyfoedd, a'r hollu iawn yn gweithio addysg, i gараe i wneud i'r cyfrifoli'ch ganydd cyfos, ac yn ychydig iawn yn i g�ch, ond jadi they needed to be attached to documents and then the matrix was pushed into this soft disk of wax which hardened and retained the imprint and sometimes, quite often in fact, it's not just the impression of a matrix you find on the wax you find finger hand prints and this is what led to our current project. Felly yna yn yw'r ffordd ymweld? Mae hyn sy'n yn eu lle-fer y trofyn, felly fyddai'r ffordd yw'r mhwyaf. Mae hyn yn fwyf, o'r brod llwyddiwyll ddechrau, o'r metrwch cyfweld, o'r cyd-gwyllt fel y ffordd yw'r ffordd. Mae maedlau'r ffordd i'r iawn o'r ger o'r bocs. Y cyfweld ar gyfer y pelodau gyfweld, yw'r prynsibol ar y blwyddyn, yw guestud ar y sgol. was as a form of validation and authentication representing an individual or an institution or an office that was agreeing to an exchange or a grant of rights that was recorded in written form. And instead of signing your name or putting a pin in as we would do now, a seal matrix was impressed to a lump of wax which was designed to remain with the document and that's what's crucial, that's what validated the document. Is anyone here from Norfolk right? I was only one person prepared to be offended but not by me I hasten to add by a monk from Peter Barat Abbey writing in the later 12th century who thought that the people of Norfolk were not the hardest working or the most intelligent shall I say. And he told a story about a group of unfree peasants who wanted to buy their freedom and they went to their lord and said we've saved up, we want to bar freedom and he grumbled but he needed the money so he said alright. And they said we want it done properly, we know that it should be done with a document. So the lord called a scribe and the rhyme is in, the story is in Latin rhyme but it has a nice insight, it said the lord pressed his seal matrix into the green wax so we get that nice little insight, that validated it. The peasants were delighted, they went off to the local inn just outside the village to celebrate, carried on celebrating and it got dark. And the landlord said I'm not lending you any money for a candle off with you and I thought we're going to fall over, we're going to fall into a drainage ditch suddenly. Some of you already got there. One of them said but look we have already made a candle. We have a lump of wax with a cord running through it. So they snipped it off and they lit the candle and they went back home.  Now we're free so he said prove it, I will bring a justice. The peasants brought forth their charter. Justice took one look and said no seal, it's invalid. Now the point about that story is even a drunk Norfolk peasant by the late to 12th century would appreciate the crucial importance of the document retaining its seal, that form of authentication and they were used to authenticate a wide range of documents some very formal charters and grants, both of these are royal documents. These are just a random sample of small grants of land from across England and the parts of Wales that are adopted English law and other types of agreement. For example, that is the sale of a surf and his family in Anglesey in the late 14th century. This is an indenture of apprenticeship between a master and his apprentice and one of the details in this, each one would have kept a copy and the zigzag line is because there had been identical text on each side, one seal one side, one seal the other and exchange and you put them back together to prove they are both part of the original whole. But this one says that the apprentice must not have illicit relations with any of the female members of the master's household. This is a bond, an ephemeral document and there must have been thousands of these that then once the exchange had been made were no longer being used so they've disappeared. But seals were not just about authenticating in the way signature did. They represented an embodied in a way and they're very good at representing an individual institution in relation to their culture and their society and you could use them as a form if you like of propaganda. So the king used the image of the seated figure in majesty. The higher nobility certainly in the 12th and 13th centuries used the equestrian warrior and then started to adopt heraldry. Towns used seals that have a foot west, monasteries, bishops all representing them and as you can see fairly standardised image representing the image of that type of person. But then ordinary men and women used seals really very low down the social scale because even if you're exchanging a very small portion of land you would need to do this on a very small exchange and there was a lot more freedom and experimentation lower down the social scale. So you find all sorts of motifs turning up a homeragment, a menagerie of animals and birds maybe something related to a trade. This is the seal of carpenter and other designs of various sorts. At this stage I'm going to hand over to Philip to tell you a little bit more about the project. Thank you. Elizabeth told you all about those images on the front of the seals but we're thinking about a new project. It's only been going for about a year and that's what we want to talk to you about today. Because it's a new project there are lots of things we don't know there are lots of things we still have questions about. So we might be proposing suggestions about why things are happening but if you've got other ideas if you've got suggestions to make other questions please do make those suggestions or ask those questions because they can help us think in a new way. The project you've been told is called Imprint but actually that's its full title because we're interested here in what forensic scientists can do to help us think about those seals. We're working in connection with a forensic company, forensic focus. We usually work for the home office and they usually work on modern crimes, not on historical research. So this is new for them as well as for us but what they are is fingerprint experts. Finger and hand print experts. They're good at analysing the prints that they get from well now usually from digital images which is what we're thinking about with our medieval seals. Elizabeth's already shown you one of those prints but really what you get on the back of seals and mostly the accidental. You've had to warm the wax up in order to get that impression in. As you do that you leave a print on the back. A palm print usually then though sometimes fingers or thumbs appear there as well. Some of them, as I'll show you in a couple of minutes, look a little bit more deliberate. They look like somebody who's actually just pushed some fingers or knuckles actually into the wax and we see those in Germany and France as well as in England and they're probably doing something a bit different. They're something that's quite interesting. Of course whilst these are really interesting images they're great and they're left behind by people who are thinking about other things. They're just incidental. They demonstrate the individuals who are involved in sealing. What can they do for us? What can they actually do with those? Well our forensics experts can help us to match up some of those prints and they can help us to tell us when prints just don't match and I'll show you examples so when both of those things are important and we are talking here about prints that were left at the time.  We're talking about something that's impressed into the wax. It has to have been done at the time when the wax was soft. So it has to have been done when the seal was actually impressed. Now we're not actually trying to identify individuals but we are asking lots of interesting questions to think about society. To give you some idea of what we're doing I just want to show you a short film about the project. So this is in print. It's a collaboration between the University of Lincoln and Aberystwyth University and it's funded by the AHRC and the universities are represented by me and Elizabeth and by two research fellows Dr Holly Morgan who you'll see in this film and as well as looking at the prints we're interested in the whole document. You can see in the film that we're looking at those images on the front. We're looking at the documents attached to them and we take photographs of all of those as part of this. We're adding them with information about the documents their size, their shape, their contents who's involved into a database and to do that to think about this we're surveying large numbers of documents instead we look at one and a half thousand seals and so far we've looked at about five thousand they haven't all had good prints on them about 800 to 900 have but we can see those prints on the back and here we're doing some work with medieval wax recipes we've made up trying to see how they might work what people are doing sealing and hopefully in a second you'll see how you might get that print on the back you see pushing your seal and the print's going to be left on the back this is our forensic equipment it uses you can go through the whole light spectrum to see where you get the best image of the prints on the back sometimes they're viewable with the naked eye but we can get better ones and you can see going through our different print colours here you get the image on the screen and when Holly is happy that she's got the right image she can save that image and we can pass them on to our forensic experts to say we're as interested when we talk to them about seals where the prints don't match it's about seals where they do so project based on the pilot we did some work at Hereford Cathedral were they grateful to Hereford for allowing us to do that for the equivalent of a month's worth of work and looked at about 200 seals to prove that we could actually do it together with our forensic specialists now we're funded for three years by the AHRC and with sampling materials you can see largely from cathedrals and from Westminster Abbey National Library of Wales we're looking for collections we think of as closed collections or to one institution because then you often get matching families different members of different families different generations different pieces of land being followed through which will help us and we're interested in the chronological range about 1150 to 1350 because that's the height of seal use that's when lots of people are developing seals, getting seals, thinking about where seals work and administrative document production is changing as well so we can put both those things together and to think about some key research questions really about when we look at these questions is how were people doing the sealing who's doing it where are they doing it and what does that tell us about who's involved for example could we see that one member of a family seems to be sealing for all of a family could we see just one print on the back of all of a family's seals from a certain generation does it look as though women are allowed to do sealing so let's tell us that the size of the prints they can get sometimes to tell them if it's a man or a woman do things change as documents change as document developments change and can we see evidence of things like forgery if I can see prints from the one that I can match to something for a different generation for example on an earlier document maybe I can see some forgery Elizabeth will talk to you about that in a minute and our forensics experts are also interested because they want to know about technical challenges they're looking at prints on uneven surfaces they're looking at prints that maybe are being twisted around when you're trying to get something out of the wax and you've moved your hand around and they're also interested in the viability of fingerprints and in their uniqueness we are used to the idea that fingerprints are unique and that that will help your feel for accused of a crime and I'm here to tell you no one's proved that yet so congratulations I don't know if that means you should all go out and commit crimes or just be very very scared and because there have been some famous miscarriages of justice based on fingerprint evidence there's fingerprints made up of different points different shapes how many of those have to be seen together before the print is unique to get the statistical evidence that people need to prove that fingerprints are unique they need a wide range of prints 13th century prints are going to be great they're really useful if we can match 13th century prints put them in the same database as modern prints and say they still don't match that gives us something to work with so they're really excited about that but we're finding some other interesting material I'm going to show you just a couple of examples Hereford Cathedral these are five seals all with the same print on the back if I turned them over they would all have different matrices on they all belong to different people now that's interesting because it suggests that though your seal is you and your identity and it validates the document and says you give your consent to something you don't necessarily insist in the early 13th century on holding the piece of wax yourself when the matrix goes in what that tells us about what people are doing and how they're thinking is an interesting thing we can think about later if you want to but it's an interesting point to have made and they're Hereford Cathedral prints that doesn't though mean that we don't think that there is any involvement of individuals actually who are involved whose seals and matrices are being impressed we should get things like this those are knuckle prints there are absolutely no use for actually impressing the matrix in fact they would have made life a bit more difficult and I don't know if you can see very clearly but there are prints around them and those are palm prints like they've been done the same way as we saw in the film so it looks as though after somebody has pushed the matrix in probably before they take it out hopefully somebody has pushed their knuckles into the back why well maybe the individual whose matrix it is isn't very good at impressing it himself and he wants to someone say prove that you really believe this prove that you know you're really involved prove to yourself and me and sometimes they seem to have got it a bit wrong that's an extra print and that's actually a bishop seal on the back this is another extra print that's 14th century this is 13th this believe it or not is that and I think on this version which is from the crime light imager you can see better that there actually is some sort of image in there like a ring's being pressed in it's not very clear there but something's gone very wrong with it probably this has gone very wrong with it again got the palm print across the back you've got so someone's done what they would expect pushed in the matrix but they seem to have taken it out turned it over and said now you press your thumb you knuckle into this oh whoops we've just ruined the matrix never mind but it demonstrates that that's part of the way that people could be doing this we're also interested in how images match up with actual with seals with prints this person William of Henover has a nice matrix here you can see nice fancy image and over here only those aren't identical they're very different well very different though a little bit different so when he needs a new matrix perhaps he's lost it, perhaps he's damaged it perhaps he's worn out he gets one that's almost identical it's part of him he wants it to say something about him but the prints on the back of these documents and we have about seven of his all different they're very close in date but they're all different again he's not insisting on holding onto that piece of wax when he puts his matrix in even though he is so connected with it that he wants the same image all the time that's what you can get when you might get somebody who is involved in their seal who is very connected to their seal who is very who thinks about that one particular image as them it's interesting I think that he does think that image is him because it's not an image of a saint he worships for example it's not an image that shows me something about his job he's actually a landlord that's why we brought all these documents because he just impresses his seal into receipts when he collects his rent from him for cathedral but that's not the only way forward Elizabeth said that we're going to talk about another young woman not just Alice and this is one of our examples this is a woman who seals a number of documents and she's actually from Lincoln so one of our other cathedrals that we were involved with she's called Bella she's daughter of Alan de Heller she calls herself Bella Heller because she would wouldn't you unless she's Bella de Heller but that doesn't help much either we don't know much about the family they seem to have owned land in the city of Lincoln towards the east a couple of parishes towards the east just a possibility they're connected to another de Heller family that owned property outside the city but it doesn't look very likely the dates don't match up very well so they're not big landowners she's comfortable she has enough and she lives in the late 13th into the early 14th probably century but certainly through the late 13th century all of these are her seal what's she doing then well we can trace how Bella thinks about herself I think how she thinks about her status how she thinks about what she can do and her confidence by looking at these different images this is the first one over here now we know that's her first seal because it's attached to a document on the back it says Bella has just been declared to be of age to seal documents this is the first one she's allowed to do she's in front of the mayor she's guaranteeing a bit of land in the Parish of St Rheumwold to a chapwg William the Illuminator who does a lot of deals with her and it's land that her fathers previously owned if she's just of age the youngest she is is about 16 probably for leaving land she could be a bit older but she may well be a teenager and she's picked up a seal probably her first seal because this is probably the first time she's been allowed to use a seal if she's not granted much land any land before then and the seal is very simple just what we think of a sort of radial image like she's walked into a seal maker of not bad quality because the lettering around the edge is quite good, it's quite nicely spaced it's not bad quality, he said I need a seal and he's given her something cheap or something simple start with that I'll put your name round the edge of it and that's where she begins that's probably about 1267 a few years later she's making use of another seal and that's this one over here now we know she's using this in the early 1270s because we've got copies of it, it's more than one probably she's using it's about 1269 so only a couple of years after her last seal because we have a document dated then issued by in her name and the sort of imprint on the wax, on the tag the wax has gone, we've imprinted on the tag the shape and the size would match that seal it certainly isn't the little round one so probably a couple of years later she's changed her seal she's making a number of grants again largely the ones that survive to William the illuminator it looks like she's making grants to other people as well she mentions other individuals in the parishes that have hold land from her but she's got a slightly better and slightly more interesting maybe seal the lettering is still quite nice and probably about the same quality as that she's got a bit of money she can afford to get something of quite nice quality all the letters are the right way round and as I said you have to do it backwards and they aren't always on seals, people who go through their lives with a seal with one L that always comes out backwards but this is what we call a sort of stylised lily you might think that it's more of a sort of floodily image it's still quite a common image it's not a very unusual image but it is maybe a little bit of a step up from the radial image so she's moving on she's doing slightly different things a few years later in the late 1270s and 1280s she's using this seal now by now she's doing some really quite interesting deals she's gone back over all those early grants of land she made and she's up to the rent so where you used to pay a couple of pence to get land from Bella now she's charging you a shilling a year she knows the status of what she's got she knows the value of what she's doing she makes an agreement with William the Illuminator where she says T what I'll give you first refusal and that comes available that I have but in return for that first refusal you must pay me 12 shillings now down and there are 8 shillings that you owe me a year which is obviously now what is accumulated you still keep paying back so she's making good deals she knows what she's doing she's confident and this seal is much more elaborate it's it's got a more elaborate this is again a sort of stylised lily but if you look it's much more sort of elaborate feathered pressure there more elaborate down here the lettering is still quite good but it's perhaps a bit fuller bit clearer the seal is actually a bit bigger as well so in this case Bella is using her seal to make statement perhaps about her position her confidence, her status and she's doing that by changing it I'm afraid I can't tell you anything about the prints on the back of Bella's seals because they aren't good enough quality for us to be able to do anything with that I was hoping I could get prints of a 16 year old and we could look at different size of prints and how this changed but we aren't going to be able to do that but she is a fascinating story and at this point I want to turn over to Elizabeth to do some more fascinating stories right, thank you well we go now from really interesting, very astute woman to somebody else from Lincoln but this time a man who became a saint this is Hugh Bishop of Lincoln who was canonised I've immediately forgotten 12.01, thank you very much he was known to have been very active in terms of his involvement in documents and sealing a lot of bishops, all bishops had a seal which represented them in their office as bishop and you find this standardised image of the representation of a bishop there he is wearing the mitre carrying the pastoral staff blessing that's not a portrait of Hugh that's a representation of a bishop and quite often we have circumstantial evidence that bishops would say to their clerk oh you impress that or you carry that with you but Hugh, from his life that was written because he was deemed as very holy even during his lifetime was said to have been very actively involved that he requested that documents were read to him once they'd been written that he was actively involved in the validation process so presumably in the impressing of his seal and you can't sit terribly well in this photograph but I assure you that there are visible prints on the back of this and another of Hugh's seals in Lincoln Cathedral archives and we're now double checking because we think we might have other impressions in possibly at Hereford Cathedral Mr Abbey and we are waiting for our forensic expert to come back and tell us whether any of those are matching because if they are we will have the fingerprints of a medieval saint and the Middle Ages I think classified as a very good relic of a saint and I've also mentioned forgery or the misuse authority again we know that sometimes people are up to no good with each other seals could be stolen or they could be misused but also institutions could create additional proof for themselves Westminster Abbey was given a lot of land in the late Anglo-Saxon period before the time when seals were regularly attached to documents in the 11th and 12th centuries when when proof was needed through the attachment of a seal they suddenly had this problem how did they prove they really had their land so they found a sealed document from Saint Dunstan now for many many years scholars have assumed this is a creation of the later 12th century it looks very much like an Anglo-Saxon charter of the 10th century but it is wrong in just a few ways including the fact that it's got a very large prominent seal and particularly that it has the impressions of two different matrices one on the front, a large one and then one on the back which is exactly what you'd expect from a later 12th century document but nobody's ever conclusively proven this and it's covered in prints and I would love to have been able to tell you whether or not we have been able to match those with other known later 12th century prints but again we're still waiting for the analysis however if we can do that we will have solved nearly 900 year old case of acquiring a little bit more than perhaps they originally had so this talk really comes at a a period in our project where we're already getting what I hope you'll agree are some fascinating results but it's raising more and more questions and this one in particular brings together the historical interest the creation of documents the forming of a sealed instrument the accepting of a seal the impression of a matrix into wax as being so important possibly a forgery and the forensic side because this is proving extremely difficult for the forensic experts to analyse because it's very rounded, it's quite shiny and so it's pushing them it's pushing the technology, it's pushing this and that as Philip was mentioning will help feed back into work that they do for the home office and police forces and forces more generally so I think quite a I spoke at a forensics conference last Easter and when my brother had stopped laughing he did say that he had never thought that I would be involved in such hard-edged scientific research and there is still plenty more for those from the historical side so I hope that this has given you an insight into seals, sealing practices but also this new project how we can use new technologies to investigate very old material and as I said at the outset we're very happy to take questions thank you


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Jammin' out to music that only he can hear. Let's start the video now, shall we? Hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video I am doing the end of the year tag So this tag was created by Ariel Bassett on her channel And I will have the link to her video for this year down below So yes, it is kind of late to be doing this tag a lot of other people had them going up in October or early November and I and I know why because it still it has questions pertaining to like the end of the year and not just Like the start of next year like there are questions about finishing, but um, you know I just didn't quite get there, but I'm there now, so let's just do it I'm trying to also hide the fact that my only clean mug is a Harry Potter mug I I do not support JK Rowling and her views, but I Still have the mug and at the moment. It's the only clean mug. So Hey So the first question is are there any books that you have started and still need to finish and my answer is have you met me? Of course, there are books that I have started and haven't finished I have four books that I have started and not finished and At the moment. I'm on a break because I am participating in a read-a-thon So the first book I would like to talk to you about is how things fall apart. I started this late September I'm a good chunk of the way through I am I have 80 pages into it And I'm enjoying it and I want to try and finish it before the end of the year next book that I have started It's cursed at the Spectre Queen and this is by Jenny Elder Moke. I started this one I didn't get I bought it in August. I read like the first chapter as soon as I bought it Because that's just kind of what I do And then I put it down Now I read it a little bit for like two days and now I'm doing a read-a-thon So it's it's not being read at the moment But I would love to finish this one before the end of the year this one. I am Also 80 pages in well It's quite the trend being 80 pages in then the third book the third book that I have is where the briars sleep by Emma Bevan and I got this book. I Got it before it came out. Oh, that's what it was. So I got the book before it came out However, I got the uncorrected version And so when I learned that plot holes had been fixed from the version that I had I wanted to stop and wait and then I didn't get this version until July August September, I don't know like early fall. I think it was so Then I started over and already there were scenes that were different. So I'm glad that I started over But I am 90 pages into it and I want to keep reading it. It's really good spooky season read So I'm a little sad that I didn't finish it in spooky season, but at this point. I also just kind of want it read So I'm probably gonna try and finish this sooner rather than later Or rather than waiting for next year's spooky season because I've started it twice and then the final book That I have started I'm not finished. I Am 250 pages in And it's Anna of cleave January I started it January 2020. Yeah freshman year is January 2020 I started this January of 2020 and I'm only like halfway through. I want to read it The thing is is that right now I'm at a very politically heavy plot point and it's Slightly difficult for me to get through something so political, but I also want to keep reading this so Here we go Those are the four books That one's nice and chunky Book number two. Do you have an autumnal book to transition to the end of the year? Yes, I did So the two books that I had that were somewhat autumnal somewhat wintery that I read during the transition were Seasons of the storm by ala costumano and the nature of witches by Rachel Griffin Both of these deal very heavily with seasons So like this one is the idea that seasons are actually people who are hunting each other. So when it's fall The fall person is walking around and enjoying the full weather and then when it gets to the end of the season they release the person who is winter and then they have to hunt and kill fall and then it becomes winter and so We follow two main characters one is winter and the other is spring But I feel like we get more from the perspective of the winter person than we do from the spring person So I this was very nice to transition into winter But it is probably a better book for transitioning from winter to spring But then the nature of which takes place over the course of the year But it starts off transitioning from fall to summer no from summer to fall and then Majority of the book is like fall to winter and then you get a little bit of spring a little bit of summer And then it starts off or ends going back into autumn again But I thought that overall this was a very autumnal book even like in the spring in the summer You just never let go of that like cozy nature witchy vibe Which fit in really well with the autumn season. So these That was a good book for the transition that has already happened Question number three. Is there a new release that you're still waiting for? No, I don't think so um, I Wasn't all the releases that I can think of that I am waiting for are early next year And I will have a video coming out somewhat soon of all the books that are coming out in the first half of next year That I'm excited to read for the most part I don't think there was really any in December that I was looking forward to so I'm good Question number four. What are three books? I want to read before the end of the year Well first off I want to finish the readathon that I'm doing then I want to finish these four books if I magically have time within the last like couple weeks of December I would love to read Fearless by Tim Lott Um, I was literally getting ready to set up for this video And I saw this book and I was like wait a minute And I realized that the last time I was home my friend had given this to me to borrow to read and Now that I'm about to go home again, I realized oh I should read this so I can give it back to her So I would love to read this before the end of the years I can give it back and then I would love to read the Hawthorne legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes This is the second book in the inheritance game trilogy I would love to read this before the end of the year because the next book The last book is coming out next year and I read the first one and I like it so I want to Not forget what happens So I would love to read this plus I love the color of the cover And I think it's a good cozy winter read the final book that I would love to try and squeeze in December this year. Yeah, it's school for good and evil a world without princess by Sonan Chinani This is the second book in the series and it deals heavily with fairy tales And I think that's such a wonderful winter read. I'm a little nervous because it's a little it's a little thick But I'm also pretty sure this is a middle grade So like the writing is a little bit easier to go through and I could read it a little bit faster So I would love to get through it. However, I'm not sure that's gonna happen But we'll see you never know number five. Is there a book that could come out and shock you as being your favorite of the year Thanks, so I mean, I'm excited to read all the books that I'm going to read, but I don't see any of them as favorite potential Um Just because they're either like continuations of series or books that I'm like Like yeah, I'm gonna read it. I have it. I'm gonna read it So I don't think there's anything that is going to like shock me or surprise me that being said I don't actually know what my favorite book of the year is I have yet to round up all of my five star reads and go through them and be and see which one like sparks a whole like Oh my gosh, yes That would that is how I'm choosing my favorite of the year is by which one I have the most emotional reaction to So I don't know what that is. So I don't know if anything could come and surprise me But I don't think any of these are gonna be five star reads So therefore I don't think they'll surprise me and be my favorite of the year and the last question is question six Have you started making any plans for 2022? Oh Kind like I don't have hardcore set in stone plans. I'm kind of in this mindset of like I'm just starting to plan my reading goals video that I'm gonna post next year So I'm kind of thinking of like, you know, what readathons I want to participate in And kind of what my reading goals are but in terms of like plans. I don't have anything planned I would love to but Not really, but I am starting to think about next year's reading and whatnot. So Yeah, watch out for that video and the best way to watch out for that video is by subscribing and hitting the bell So that you're notified especially because net right now I'm posting four videos Every week in December. So you should definitely hit the bell so that you could be notified when those videos go up otherwise, I normally post videos on Sundays and Wednesdays and You should definitely like this video. Give it a thumbs up if you if you liked it I would love to hear some of your answers down in the comments below and I would love to chat with you Otherwise feel free to follow me on all my bookish social media which is in the description below I would love to be friends and see what you guys are reading and get some of my recommendations from you as well But yeah, other than that, I don't really have anything else to say other than I will see you in the next video But until then I wish you happy reading You