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Yes people who post AI "written" fanfics are diabolical, but so are the people who comment shit like "wow this is pretty good" or leave kudos or even open an AI fic. Some fanfic writers bust their asses off, write 3-4k words daily to provide y'all content and y'all would rather give your attention to an AI generated bullshit that was done in 5 mins and the ideas in it were probably stolen from someone's hard work? Yeah, y'all are just as bad.

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I don't read Chinese manga and I had no interest in them, but here, as with Given, I noticed a screenshot with charming boys. I doubted that this was a shounen ai, since the manga is Chinese, and there... It's not much😅 As far as I can tell. But I was interested in the plot, since I like post-apocalyptic, about the future or something with a space theme))

In the future, the Earth's magnetic field disappeared and many people died from cosmic radiation, solar wind, drought and cancer. But this is not the worst thing that happened. For a hundred years, living beings began to mutate and kill each other, while the remaining people created remote bases and devices to artificially create a magnetic field of the Earth.

In the Abyss, the home of mutants, lived an intelligent little mushroom, which, having fed on the blood and flesh of the dead man An Ze, not only took his human form, but also his name.

A little mushroom wants to go to a human base and find its spore, which was collected by humans. However, there is a local authority - Judges. Their duty is to check and destroy those who pretend to be humans. Of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most insightful and ruthless - as soon as he determines that someone is a mutant, he will execute that person on the spot. No questions asked.

But An Ze's mutation goes unnoticed by Lu Feng, and so the story begins...

The description is longer than my impression, but I have only read half of the chapters and there is also a novella, but they say there is more fantasy than romance, and... I don't know, I don't want to spoil it＾◡＾ In the manhua, I definitely liked the drawing and those emerald green eyes *___*... And the chibis are very cute! ˶^▾^˶

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I'm celebrating my 3rd year of Tumblr blog!🥳

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Part 1

There are a lot of songs in Given and each of them will find its own response in the soul. For example, I like Marutsuke, Bokura dake no Shudaika, Yoru ga akeru, Stage kara kimi ni sasagu, Uragawa no sonzai and... Perhaps I can’t remember the rest right away, but Fuyu No Hanashi will always take first place in the hall of fame. No matter how sad, tearful, painful it is and no matter how it hits the heart from the realization of what is hidden in it, it's undoubtedly beautiful. Centimillimental did a good job with it, coming up with heart-rending lyric, and Mafuyu - that is, Shogo Yano - performed it well, so that it became clear that this is a “screaming” song, as if a piece of flesh or heart is being torn from you (sorry, I'm exaggerating). It's a painful process, but it hurts all of us when we are forced to part with the past. Or a loved one. It hurts even more when this happens because of our recklessness and irascibility.

-- Spoilers are possible next --

This is the song I couldn't listen to calmly when I remembered how Mafuyu shared that he saw Yuki everywhere, but he wasn't there and how painful it was from the desire to give and receive forgiveness... I couldn't listen, but at the same time, I constantly put it on repeat for two weeks, so I almost learned the lyrics.

The song exists in two versions: the studio version and the anime version, where Mafuyu first goes on stage, singing with an echo. And you know? I like this version much more. It seems to me... It is more expressive, although there seems to be no particular difference between it and the studio version, but in the anime I was really touched by those "screaming" moments when you felt the tension with every cell of your body along with Mafuyu. How difficult it was for him to perform this song, admit his guilt... And let go. One of the strongest moments in the anime... Those who have seen it will understand what I mean.

A few days ago, I found a video of Shogo Yano and Centimilimental performing this song live. The only thing I couldn't believe was how this 30-year-old boy with a red guitar could realistically voice a 16-year-old teenager with a red guitar, as if Yano-san was 16!xD:”D Well, I should have gotten used to it by now, but... I'm still surprised.

In one of the comments under this video, someone wrote "Evil geniuses who make us cry." And it's true.

Someone also mentioned that the line "Then will you die for me?" said by Mafuyu in a fit of anger completely breaks you and makes you shed tears again, even if you know everything in advance.

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Keep your friends close...

When Vladimir Lem first bought the nightclub RagnaRock to raise his restaurant from the ashes, he threw a party, and no party would've been complete without the man who scorched that same earth in the first place.

Relationship: Vladimir Lem/Max Payne ♦ Words: 1540 ♦ Notes: Inspired by this drabble collection

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 Blending with the darkest shadows of the former nightclub, Max Payne sat at Vodka far from the presumed Russian mobsters and the prostitutes. Other cops might have done the same out of principle, or out of hypocrisy, but Max knew whatever tainted that bunch tainted him as well.

 No, Max was out of the picture because he didn't fit in the celebration itself. Like a painting with a burned edge, Max's presence on the acquisition party brought a sour taste to his lips. At every corner he saw men bleeding on the floor, dismembered by his own grenades, the stench of death too strong to be painted over so easily.

 So, he wondered once again as he swirled the last of his whiskey, what the hell was he even doing there?

 A deep laugh made his table vibrate a little, and he raised his eyes. Vladimir Lem, the new owner of this particular part of Hell refused to sit down in the many tables he prepared for the event, instead jumping from isle to isle, clapping men and women in the back as he drank and chatted candidly. The man of the hour. The laughable reason why Max was there on the first place.

 Vladimir invited him. Said the alcohol was free, among other things. Max might've wanted to think in some comatosely optimistic part of his brain that he was getting his act straight, that he could get better, now that he got his sweet revenge, but he wouldn't say no to free alcohol no matter how supposedly reformed he was. And Vlad, well...

 Maybe Max could use a friend. Someone as dirty as himself. Someone he didn't fear would get dragged into something they didn't deserve.

 Downing the last of his whiskey Max stared at him through the glass, preferring his joyful demeanor than to simmer with his own misery, for a change. But what welcomed him was the warped reflection of his arm wrapped around a woman's waist, warm smile whispering secrets on her ear as she giggled.

 Max recognized the all too familiar feeling of being kicked in the gut, but couldn't wrap his head around the reason.

 Pretty lady reminded him of Michelle, perhaps. Or even Mona. All he knew was that the sight of them together made him feel sick. Too much alcohol on his veins, too many regretful deaths on his conscience. Run away, pretty girl, he thought through the warped glass, to be next to a dangerous sinner was not place for the innocent.

 Although nobody on that party was innocent, not really. Max Payne knew that intimately.

 Suddenly, he felt a couple blue eyes staring at him from across the room. As if summoned by his fatalistic thoughts, Vlad was now looking at him with curiosity, his previous flashy smile now dulled by a thoughtful look before flashing bright again. He said something to his companion before kissing her temple, hand tracing from her waist to her back, giving her a couple farewell claps as they parted ways. The woman got lost in the crowd as Vlad made a beeline for his dark, secluded corner.

 "Max! My dearest of friends! So glad you could come." He sat next to him on the small booth with a hand on his shoulder, both facing his new rising empire. "The party wouldn't be the same without you, you know?"

 Max laughed, humorless.

 "Why? Do you need an exterminator?"

 Vlad laughed, and Max felt it reverberate on his own cold bones.

 "Maybe someday, friend. You would be a great addition to my arsenal." He chuckled, self indulgent, before shaking his head. "But no, no. You, my dear Max, are the main reason Vodka will even exist at all! As much as I would like to take all the credit, we both know I couldn't have gotten this place without you. You are my guest of honor tonight."

 All the lesser demons from Hell took a vacation, threw him a party. Max didn't know how to feel. All things considered, it wasn't the worst thing that’d happened, didn't even occupy the top ten.

 "Thanks, Vlad." He said, impossibly drier.

 Vlad grinned, cheeks flushed by the alcohol, probably, before he turned to a waiter walking by and talked to him in Russian.

 "Is no problem. Now," he started, casually slipping further into the booth to wrap his arm around Max's shoulders, "could I ask for one little, tiny favor?"

 Another one? He wanted to ask, the smell of the riverside mixed with gunpowder still fresh on his nostrils. The cold, and clean smell of the aftershave that was suddenly thrust upon his personal bubble replaced it not a second after. His arm, harder than it looked like behind his layers of cloth, distracted him as well.

 "What is it?" He asked instead, the sudden warmth at his side and the drink he took without anything on his stomach making him feel dizzy. Funny, Max thought he would be used to it by now.

 Vlad looked around them conspiratorially before getting closer, his voice a whisper.

 "I heard all about how your crusade ended last year, and the reason behind it.” Max tensed, his personal demons crawling on his back once again for a second, before Vlad grasped his arm, gently. “Now that you made peace with the past, can you try to enjoy yourself a little tonight?” His words felt like a knife in the gut, and if it had been anyone else Max would’ve grabbed his gun and opened a window on his smile, but something about the seemingly genuine feeling behind it stopped him. His icy blue eyes melting and dripping down Max's spine, making him shiver. In cold anger, in old longing. "There are multitude of women here, Max, or... anything that picks your attention."

The last insinuation was so absurd, however, that the insult looped back into being ridiculous. A tasteless joke. And the adrenaline that had been Max’s main fuel for the last couple years had long since ran out to care. If Vlad really was implying Max batted for the other team, he should look at himself in the mirror.

“In this job is never a good idea to associate with criminals.” He parroted back instead, bathing in the glaring hypocrisy as he let his anger diffuse. “You never know when you'll need to kill each other at the end."

It hadn’t been a joke, but Vlad snorted nonetheless, caught by surprise. His smile maybe a little less bright than before.

 "Unfortunately true. Well," he turned to face him on that small space, fingers spread on his shoulder like a net, warm breath against his lips, "we better enjoy the time we have left, then, no?"

 "...Right."

 Would Vlad stab him in the back, eventually? Max wondered. At this point it should be almost expected, but for the first time since he met Mona, he hoped he wouldn't.

 As a waiter came into picture Vlad pulled away from his shoulders with renewed excitement.

 "Spasiba." The man left a bottle of vodka, one Vlad mentioned in passing to be his favorite, and a big beefy burger with fries. A mix of cultures, he guessed, was the joke behind it. "Max, people keep coming and I need to play host, I hope you don't mind that I can't join you."

 "Don't let me stop you."

 Slipping away from the booth as smoothly as he sat down originally, Max expected him to lose himself in the crowd of coming people, but instead he leaned on him one last time, hand laid firmly on the junction between his neck and shoulder to help him balance himself.

 "Goodbye, my friend." He said, before stealing a kiss on his cheek. The warmth glowed, annoyingly, for a few more seconds as he dusted his clothes. "And please think about my offer. I would love to see you enjoying yourself tonight."

 Max abstained from replying. What could he even say? The best possible way this night could end would be if nobody looked his way and nobody else got into a fight that he would most likely join, despite the restless part of his being thirsting for violence, the only thing he knew he could do right.

 He picked up the fries like an alien object, smelling them just in case, and taking a peek inside the burger. Both looked normal, and his neglected stomach growled.

 (A third, quiet voice wouldn't mind if Vlad came back to sit with him. Max wouldn't mind a friend. A companion. To say that it had been a while would be an understatement)

 "Oh, and Max, one last thing!" He heard him shout from across the room, stealing a couple looks and also making people turn to him, maybe in curiosity, maybe in recognition. Probably in fear. Vlad, on the contrary, only wore a teasing smile. “Try not to destroy my future restaurant while you're here, okay?”

The irony of it mixed with the fumes of the alcohol, the sound of his gunshots echoing through the former nightclub, former cathedral, and Max Payne couldn’t help but bark a dark laugh as he raised his glass.

“Can’t make promises I know I won't keep.”

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🎶 On January 26, 2012, Poets pleased us with the release of a single of one of the romantic songs in their track record. This time it is the well-known Cradled in Love.

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So, I promised to share one anime that captured all my attention and is definitely worth talking about? Let's go!

Four months ago, on the channel of one girl who makes anime covers, I saw a post with screenshots like these.

I found out what the anime was called(Given), what genre it was (shounen-ai, but believe me, there are plenty of intimate moments there), because I liked the boys, the draw style and the genre itself. However, I was warned that there... Adult themes are developed and there is angst. It didn't scare me, but it scared me😅

And so, in early January, I finally got around to this anime. In short and without spoilers, the plot is as follows:

High school student Ritsuka Uenoyama finds his classmate from a parallel class, Sato Mafuyu, in his own favorite sleeping place on the school stairs. An unsociable and strange guy with an obvious problem of self-expression, he always carries an expensive guitar with him, which he doesn't know what to do with, how to play and at the moment the viewer doesn't understand where it came from. It so happened that Uenoyama replaced the strings on someone else's guitar and played the first chord on it, after that, Mafuyu became interested in being taught to play the guitar.

Actually, this is where it all begins. Later it turns out that Mafuyu has a natural talent for music, as well as a very bad secret that weighs on his heart and soul...

I watched this anime and in each episode I was afraid of some kind of moment that I was warned about. When it came, the first time I couldn't listen to a certain song calmly, because it was so saturated with emotions... But I'll also write about it later. Having watched the season, a couple of full-length films and OVA, I still have the feeling that all the bitterness is ahead. Firstly, because I didn't read the manga. But I want to. Very soon.

Why did I like Given? This is one of the first, if not the only, anime where I liked absolutely all the characters. It was as interesting to follow the secondary characters as the main characters.

I admire how laughter and tears are mixed here, when one smoothly flows into the other.

And the most important thing is the music. And I'm not talking about the OST's, but about the fact that the entire plot is built on it. Moreover, I love guitars. I have an acoustic one, however, I don't have such a talent as Mafuyu, and I'm still a beginner in this business😅

The music for the anime was written by the band Centimilimental. And believe me, there is a lot of it, and it's all very good◉‿◉ Not a single one will leave you indifferent. They performed some tracks themselves, like the ending and opening, but most of them were performed by Mafuyu Sato as part of the Uenoyama’s band, or rather Shogo Yano - Mafuyu's seiyu. This is... 100% hit in the voice, in the image, where I once again admire the skill of the seiyuu. It feels like Yano-san really experienced all those feelings, emotions, anger, helplessness, loneliness, fear, constraint that Mafuyu experienced, reliably conveying all this with his voice in Mafuyu’s image.

And yes, now wait for posts with Given, because I have waited a long time to start sharing them!😜😆

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🎥On January 15, 2020, the Poets of the Fall YouTube channel released an acoustic version of King of Fools, which marked the beginning of a year-long adventure and an equally emotional album, Alexander Theatre Sessions. Let's congratulate it on your first anniversary (was it really that long ago?👀)

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A year ago, our Old Gods of Asgard set sail to another shore!🌊⛵ A lyric video for the sea shanti and at the same time beautiful medieval Scandinavian fairy tale The Sea of Night appeared on their YouTube channel.

Listen and remember ☺️ But I hoped that it would sound in one of the additions to Alan Wake 2... It's also sad that very few AMVs were made for it, which is why it seems that the song is underrated.

Like music we'll hear your waves once more

And sail to another shore

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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

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like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

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Since New Year is exactly a week away, New Year's holidays will start on the weekend, and yesterday (and today) - Christmas, this video is very timely.

The clip is short and there is nothing special here, except for a few photos of the Poets with a Christmas song, which, by the way, they also performed. However, I didn't add it to the video, since the background noise interfered, but I found a cleaner, no less cool cover👌🎄

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

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For a month, Olli collected questions from fans to answer them personally in a video format, which he posted on his YouTube channel)

The video is half an hour long, there are a ton of questions! Among them are interesting, informative, even funny ones on various topics - and of course - no less interesting answers! ☺️

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We want to thank you for 2024 and wish you Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year!🎄🎁☃️🥳

What’s next for us? For a while now, we have been drafting and collecting ideas for the next Poets album, and can’t wait to get started with the production! We plan to spend the year 2025 in the studio, working on the new album and singles + music videos.

As always, thank you for your endless support and love, and hope to see you again soon! ❤️

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🎥 Olli T's video for the blues single The Blue One was released today🌟

I must admit, I liked this video more than the previous one👀

Tell me, was it only me who, when listening to the melody, imagined a woman in red with a large, brimmed black hat, who gracefully holds a mouthpiece between her fingers and exhales a blue haze?) ala mid-20th century)

Olli's album Lost Within the Fire was also released today. Visit Poets of the Fall: PAQ to hear it, as well as see many interesting things related to our any Poets of the Fall😃☺️ Join us!

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Apparently, I need to split the blog into two, because here I'm putting together topics that are completely different in genre and meaning, but both are my favorites😆😍

But for advertising one of the topics, this is not very good^^"...

UPD: My new, personal, anime-blog. I'm happy!^^

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A year ago, a truly historic event took place. At The Game Awards 2023 in Los Angeles, Poets of the Fall performed in front of several hundred thousand (and online) viewers as the Old Gods of Asgard, where they performed the famous Herald of Darkness together with Ilka Willi, David Harewood, Matthew Porretta, and of course, the inimitable Sam Lake and his infinitely happy smile, which was remembered by so many!☺️

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