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The Best of Friday T&A 2024

by | Jan 3, 2025 | Das Beste Aus | 1 comment

We have successfully killed off another year, and what a bonkers year it was. While poasting for this most beloved series of the site was rather more constrained than I would have liked – due in part to considerable amounts of travel and work that I had in 2024, and due mostly to sheer laziness on my part – we did still have some outstanding and phenomenal candidates for Lovely Lady of the Week throughout the period.

Normally, it is a tradition around here for me to do a big series of poasts right on December 1st and January 1st – compilations, best-ofs, the Party Poast, and a podcast. At the end of 2024, though, I was in a foreign country and was well and truly out of pocket, and did not get a chance to do much of anything other than walking, eating, and shopping. (That last was not entirely my choice, let’s just put it that way.)

Therefore, this compilation is, by necessity as well as design, a bit late, but we will press on regardless.

Building on the successes of the 2023, this year, you will again find the lady’s name beneath the header, and if you click on the header itself, you will go straight to the page of the lady (or ladies, given the number of 2-for-1 deals in 2024). There should also be a poll (I think) that allows you to submit your choice for the very best lady of the year.

Power to the People, and all that jazz, after all.

For the record, my personal vote for the very best of the year goes to Ms Yuliya Polyachikhina (#25 down below), but that is just my opinion, of course, and she had CONSIDERABLE competition – not just from Russian and Belorussian ladies, either.

Happy 2025, everyone – may it be a year of victory over our enemies, and a year of rejuvenation for our nations.

1. Tail Risk

Denise Alex

2. Sea of Madness

Viktoriya Shaschuk (Виктория Шащук)

3. Fracture Points

Serina Morizio

4. Fort Sumter

Valeria Kovalenko (Валерия Коваленко)

5. Suono E Furia

Martina Ceretti

6. Heterochomia

Natalia Gryglewska

7. Defender

Valeriya Alekseevna Ganzha (Валерия Алексеевна Ганжа)

8. A Hint of Spring

Helen Grube

9. International Flower Cartel Day

Anna Rybalko (Анна Рыбалко)

10. The Ides of March

Heloise Hut

11. Escalation

Kimberly Lynn Weiler

12. Underworked and Overpaid

Polina Ritz

Lisiane Witt

13. Rubik’s Cubics

Ekaterina Sokolova (Екатерина Соколова)

14. Nibelungen

Celia Wagner

15. Amor Fati

Anastasiya Nagornaya (Анастасия Нагорная)

16. Starship Bloopers

Linda Marie

17. Confabulation

Violet Letto

18. Quiet Moments

Poiina Tsarenkova (Полина Царенкова)

19. Cabbage Patch

Nicola Cavanis

20. Bolognese

Eleonora Bertoli

21. Treason Day

Vanessa Christine

22. Strategery

Margarita Golubyeva (Маргарита Голубева)

23. Los Santos

Leidy Amelia

25. Codecog

Yuliya Polyachikhina (Юлия Полячкихина)

26. Moving Day

Veronika Kuznetsova

27. Twofer

Emily Tanner

Irina Dreyt

28. Camp Crystal Lake

Emma Woe

Yaroslava Belinska (Ярослава Белинска)

29. Deficit Spending

Nicole Artemis Sunde

Isabella Kozlov

30. Snakebit

Alicia Van Schoonhoven

Karina Kozyreva (Карина Козырева)

31. Unknown Unknowns

Maia Gabriele

Nastasia Still

32. Peer-to-Peer

June Peers

33. Multipolarity

Arina Morgunova (Арина Моргунова)

34. Skater Girl

Charliee Nash

35. Victorious March

Anastasiya Shvaidyuk (Анастасия Швайдюк)

36. All the President’s Men

Alicia Faubel

37. Hazel Grove

Yuliya Vlasova (Юлия Власова)

38. Shopaholic

Jami Knight

39. Foreign Affairs

Elena Vasil’yevna Pioliya (Елена Васильевна Пиолия)

40. Black Friday

Jenna Lynn Meowri

41. Marking Time

Jelena Markovic

42. Final Flight

Mariya Lyubimova (Мария Любимова)


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1 Comment

  1. Bardelys the Magnificent

    I have to admit, the thots were quite excellent this year.

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