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Mayuri broke out of hell and his sword is his parole officer??? I need elaboration immediately, I have such a morbid fascination with Mayuri he's my horrifying little torture meow meow

So some important things about Hell in AEIWAM:

I haven't read any of Kubo's newer work and I do not have plans to unless someone can vouch that it's really, really cool

They REALLY don't want anyone to stay there, because Hell is functionally Rehab.

See, the function of Hell in AEIWAM is to act as a sort of repair shop for damaged souls- souls that harm others don't produce as much energy when they move from one plane to another, and prevent other souls from completing their cycles and that's bad for The Life Machine, so it's in The Machine's interest that those harmful souls Stop That ASAP. So in hell, a Soul that has say, done a bunch of murder is meticulously taken apart and examined by Demons, who figure out Why He Did That, and then come up with a treatment program to Make Sure He Doesn't Do That Next Time. Sometimes it's therapy, sometimes it's hard labor to undo the spiritual pollution you caused, sometimes they have to uh. vivisect a soul and remove an unhelpful segment of soul. There's no BAD souls or soul fragments, according to the Demons of Hell- what's dangerous egotism in one person is a healthy level of self-esteem in another person and you just gotta... swap the spiritual organs, as it were. The demons really, really want you to get better!

3. They also don't want you to stick around because Hell has a bit of an overpopulation problem.

See, when the Four-to-Five Noble houses dismembered the Soul King and used parts of his body to black off the spirit world according to political preference rather than any kind of functionality, they tried to block off Hell entirely, perhaps to evade the fate that awaited them.

But they fucked up, and now the only part of Hell that's Blocked is THE EXIT, and it's blocked by God's Divine Ass :/. Now, there is, technically, An Exit built in, as it were, but it's very small compared to the original exit, and now there is a Queue To Get Out.

This has created MANY problems for Hell- The Demons have a running Metric for "Does this soul REALLY need to go to rehab?"*, and even with it stripped down to the most generous assumptions of "this was probably more circumstances than your fault" and most limited definitions of "Harm" and "Danger", there's still a steady stream of souls entering Hell, and it's larger than the stream escaping out. So now the majority population of Hell is Perfectly Fine people who completed their Rehab, but can't leave because the airport is closed.

*The reason soul society doesn't attempt to reunite people in the afterlife is that they actually cannot- who goes where after death is the provenance of Hell, and shinigami don't have any input on the process, save to occasionally herd someone back into the afterlife queue via Konsho.

It's getting. Crowded.

It's getting crowded to the point that Hell is actually starting to Burst at the seams- which is a solution and a problem- these crack represent the dimension literally unravelling, but it's also an opportunity for The Ruler Of Hell to stabilize those cracks and make new exits and move a bit more of that Queue along.

It's during one of these stabilization projects that Mayuri makes his escape.

(Continued under the cut)

The thing is. Mayuri wasn't even in that much trouble! He'd been the Medieval Japanese equivalent of a Fry Cook in life and uh. Poisoned a few people trying out new recpies, mostly involving novel culinary mushrooms. His fault, if you had to pick the main one, was an overabundance of curiousity relative to his sense of caution and a minor problem of not being able to imagine the interiority of others. None of those are EVIL. Dangerous, sure! But entirely fixable! and Mayuri had been quite young when he died because he had gotten a little too curious and tried his latest recipe out himself.

So Mayuri had been assigned to Jizo. In Real Life, Jizo is a pretty cool religious figure- he's the Bohdisattva who's whole thing is that absolutely no-one is incapable of becoming a better person, and refused to achieve Nirvana until all the hells are empty. He's the last guy out when the universe ends, and the particular patron of dead children and orphans. He is associated with caterpillar imagery because he wears a long cloak that all the lost souls of children can take shelter under, and when they all trail out behind him, it looks a bit like he's a centaur with a caterpillar body from all the little legs sticking out from under him.

...Which is why Mayuri's Zanpaktou looks like that.

Jizo seems like a WEIRD spirit to be hanging out with Mayuri imho, unless Jizo was originally Mayuri's Guardian/therapist/parole officer, and Mayuri did something shitty.

I think Mayuri HAD been making a lot of progress in terms of "the scientific process is a PROCESS for a reason" and "Other beings have feelings too" and "Harming others is Bad", and he's a clever lad who could be doing a lot of good if pointed in the right direction, so Jizo advocated for Mayuri to be put on one of the Hell-Crack stabilization teams to give him a good outlet for his restless mind.

Unfortunately for Jizo, he miscalculated how much progress mayuri had actually made vs his desire to not go to rehab, and Mayuri pulled some sort of stunt that bound Jizo to a sword like an Asauchi, and absconded with him to the Spirit world through the crack, promptly got arrested for More Science Crimes in spirit world, got sent to the Maggots Nest, and eventually caught the attention of Urahara, who saw the Chemistry Brilliance of Mayuri and exactly NONE of the Red Flags.

As it stands Mayuri is... Sort-of the captain of the 12th division.

Sure, on paper he's The Captain, he gets to wear the Haori and has to go to the meetings, but R&D is only a fraction of what the 12th actually does- rememer, Urahara is the guy that STARTED Research and Development. Before that, I think the 12th division was 100% devoted with being the gotei-13's SUPPLIER- food, uniforms, medicine manufacture, weapons repair, gigai, soul candy, maps, communicators- if you got it for work, it was made in the 12th division.

I think Mayuri is aware of maybe 12% of what his division actually does, because the people who are in charge of manufacture were around before Urahara, took one look at that man and went "...Nah" and started quietly Not Telling Him About Things. When Mayuri took over, they went "Absolutely Not" and have been engaged in a century-long farce to prevent the captain of the 12th from knowing what his division actually does. Fortunately for them, it's extremely easy to lie to Mayuri. He's a suspicious bastard, but he LOVES good news, especially the kind of news that is good because it means he doesn't have to go to another boring-ass meeting. So things are JUST FINE down in manufacture, your latest improvements were TOTALLY IMPLEMENTED and are going GREAT. Everyone remarks on how much better the MREs are since we started adding live beetles to them Sir. Your Genius is Much Praised- Whoops Is That The Time? Gotta Go- the science never stops!

He's going to run into a bit of a stumbling block in Las Noches though. Not Sayzel, though Sayzel doesn't help. He's going to run into the consequences of a Former Experiment that are REAL FUCKIN' MAD AT HIM. No, not Uryuu, though Uryuu is FAR FROM PLEASED. Mayuri is going to have to face the consequences of a much worse experiment- one based on the procedures of disassembling and reassembling souls he learned while he was in Hell. Mayuri will have to face The Wrath Of Kon

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This Week in Rust 502

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

Rustfmt support for let-else statements

Newsletters

This Month in Rust GameDev #46 - May 2023

Project/Tooling Updates

rust-analyzer changelog #188

Pavex DevLog #5: redesigning our runtime types

Bevy XPBD: A physics engine for the Bevy game engine

complgen: Generate {bash,fish,zsh} completions from a single EBNF-like grammar

projectable: a command line TUI file manager

Observations/Thoughts

How To Wrap Your Errors With Enums When Using Error-Stack

Exploring Graphs in Rust. Yikes

Writing a Linked List in Rust: A Walkthrough

Tree-Structured Concurrency

Rust Notes on Temporary values (usage of Mutex) - 4

Method Overloading (kinda), and Advanced Trait Usage

Unlocking Possibilities: 4 Reasons Why ESP32 and Rust Make a Winning Combination

The magic of dependency resolution

Writing E2E Tests for Axum & GraphQL

Detailed web-based 3D rendering of mining spatial data

[video] Choose the Right Option

[video] 4 levels of Rust error handling

Rust Walkthroughs

Build a Ray Tracer, pt. 4 - The Next Dimension

Nine Rules for Running Rust on the Web and on Embedded: Practical Lessons from Porting range-set-blaze to no_std and WASM

Full Stack Rust Workshop: Shuttle, Actix Web, SQLx & Diouxus

Intercepting Allocations with the Global Allocator

A compressed indexable bitset

A persistent task queue in Rust

How I finally understood async/await in Rust (part 2: how does a pending future get woken?)

Miscellaneous

Verify Rust code in VS Code with the Kani VS Code extension

Reduce memory footprint by about 600% for M.E.D. — Performance Matters

New MeetUp Group in Canada: Rust Halifax

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is rustypaste, a minimal file upload/pastebin service.

Thanks to orhun for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

diesel - Most wanted missing features in diesel 1

diesel - Most wanted missing guide topic 1

css-inline - C bindings

mfcc-rust - create npy files for testing the input and output of cacheable functions

mfcc-rust - make all functions generic over f32 and f64

mfcc-rust - migrate mfcc to depend on mel_spectrogram

ockam - Change argument for ockam credential issue command from Identity to IdentityIdentifier 2

ockam - Use a background node for ockam project enroll 1

ockam - ockam project ticket should return a proper error message 1

RustQuant - Logistic regression is too slow (specifically the matrix inversions).

RustQuant - Implement a user interface (TUI or GUI).

RustQuant - Implement a Postgres interface. 1

RustQuant - Pricing model calibration module.

RustQuant - Add/improve documentation (esp. math related docs).

RustQuant - Increase test coverage (chore). 1

RustQuant - Compute returns from Yahoo finance data reader.

mirrord - mirrord shows loopcrashbackoff pods as possible targets 1

mirrord - Log problem in layer and exit when agent image is not found 1

Hyperswitch - Implement Code coverage for local system using Makefile

Hyperswitch - Add scoped error enum for customer error

Hyperswitch - move redis key creation to a common module

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from the Rust Project

410 pull requests were merged in the last week

support embedding LLVM bitcode on AIX

support for native WASM exceptions

fix(resolve): skip assertion judgment when NonModule is dummy

thir: Add Become expression kind

account for late-bound vars from parent arg-position impl trait

add -Zremark-dir unstable flag to write LLVM optimization remarks to YAML

add bidirectional where clauses on RPITIT synthesized GATs

add check for ConstKind::Value(_) to in_operand()

avoid calling queries during query stack printing

better messages for next on a iterator inside for loops

detect actual span for getting unexpected token from parsing macros

don't perform selection if inherent associated types are not enabled

don't suggest move for borrows that aren't closures

encode item bounds for DefKind::ImplTraitPlaceholder

error when RPITITs' hidden types capture more lifetimes than their trait definitions

export AnalysisResults trait in rustc_mir_dataflow

fix dropping_copy_types lint from linting in match-arm with side-effects

fix associated items effective visibility calculation for type privacy lints

fix type privacy lints error message

fix unset e_flags in ELF files generated for AVR targets

implement deep normalization via the new solver

implement most of MCP510

implement proposed API for proc_macro_span

implement selection via new trait solver

lint/ctypes: ext. abi fn-ptr in internal abi fn

make associated type bounds in supertrait position implied

make compiletest aware of targets without dynamic linking

make the Elaboratable trait take clauses

normalize opaques with late-bound vars again

normalize types when applying uninhabited predicate

privacy: type privacy lints fixes and cleanups

properly implement variances_of for RPITIT GAT

refactor metadata emission to avoid visiting HIR

resolve: remove artificial import ambiguity errors

simplify computation of killed borrows

suggest slice::swap for mem::swap(&mut x[0], &mut x[1]) borrowck error

add suggestion for bad block fragment error

use structured suggestion when telling user about for<'a>

mark wrapped intrinsics as inline(always)

make simd_shuffle_indices use valtrees

make UnwindAction::Continue explicit in MIR dump

mir opt + codegen: handle subtyping

miri: cargo-miri: better error message when RUSTC is not set

miri: make --quiet actually do something

miri: optional semantics for Unique

shrink error variants for layout and fn_abi

a mish-mash of micro-optimizations

codegen_gcc: add support for #[cold] attribute

allow comparing Boxes with different allocators

make rustc_on_unimplemented std-agnostic

stabilize const_cstr_methods

cargo: add READMEs for the credential helpers

cargo: don't try to compile cargo-credential-gnome-secret on non-Linux platforms

rustdoc: fix display of long items in search results

rustdoc: fix display of long inline cfg labels

rustdoc: allow whitespace as path separator like double colon

rustdoc: render generic params & where-clauses of cross-crate assoc tys in impls

rustfmt: don't skip semicolon if expressions follow

rustfmt: implement single_line_let_else_max_width

rustfmt: rewrite float literals ending in dots with parens in method calls

rustfmt: switch to tracing for logging

clippy: new lints: manual_try_fold, needless_raw_string_hashes, redundant_at_rest_pattern, tuple_array_conversions, manual_range_patterns, type_id_on_box, needless_pub_self, pub_with_shorthand and pub_without_shorthand

clippy: significant_drop_tightening: fix incorrect suggestion

clippy: arc_with_non_send_sync: don't lint if type has nested type parameters

clippy: let_and_return: lint 'static lifetimes, don't lint borrows in closures

clippy: missing_fields_in_debug: make sure self type is an adt

clippy: needless_raw_string_hashes: only reset hashes needed if not following quote

clippy: option_if_let_else: suggest .as_ref() if scrutinee is of type &Option<_>

clippy: question_mark: don't lint inside of try block

clippy: unused_async: don't lint if function is part of a trait

clippy: useless_vec: add more tests and don't lint inside of macros

clippy: useless_vec: use the source span for initializer

clippy: don't lint manual_let_else in cases where ? would work

clippy: don't lint code from external macros for 8 lints

clippy: make eq_op suggest .is_nan()

clippy: suggest is_some_and over map().unwrap

rust-analyzer: check Workspace Edit ResourceOps

rust-analyzer: disable mir interpreter for targets with different pointer size from host

rust-analyzer: editor/code: enable noImplicitOverride ts option

rust-analyzer: editor/code: use @tsconfig/strictest to define type checking rules

rust-analyzer: don't add panics to error jump list by default

rust-analyzer: fix self and super path resolution in block modules

rust-analyzer: fix data layout of reference to nested unsized structs

rust-analyzer: fix layout of simd types and respect align in mir interpreter

rust-analyzer: fix overflow checking in shift operator

rust-analyzer: fix panic in handle_code_action

rust-analyzer: fix realloc problem in allocating smaller amounts

rust-analyzer: fix runnable detection for #[tokio::test]

rust-analyzer: follow raw pointers in autoderef chain when resolving methods with custom receiver

rust-analyzer: map our diagnostics to rustc and clippy's ones

rust-analyzer: support #[derive_const(Trait)]

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A quiet week, with a mixed set of improvements and regressions. Overall slightly more improvements than regressions.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: b5e51db16..52d8c490

4 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 2 Mixed; 0 of them in rollups

51 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

[disposition: merge] RFC: Start working on a Rust specification

Tracking Issues & PRs

[disposition: merge] Enable coinduction support for Safe Transmute

[disposition: close] feat: split unsafe_code lint into lint group

[disposition: merge] Correct the Android stat struct definitions

New and Updated RFCs

[new] Create a Testing sub-team

[new] Add f16 and f128 float types

[new] RFC: Nested Cargo packages

[new] Additional float types

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

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2023-07-11 - 2023-07-13 | Virtual (Europe) | Mainmatter

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2023-07-13 | Virtual (Edinburgh, UK) | Rust Edinburgh

Reasoning about Rust: an introduction to Rustdoc’s JSON format

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2023-07-18 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group

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I'm not here to tell you that Rust is the best language....... you should have figured that out by now.

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The Astro Queue and Party Car!

           Kez… my beloved… You’re so wonderfully expressive and cartoonish, and unusually flirty with anything that exists. Yet so charming and delightful, yet beneath it all you’ve got insecurities and I feel so BAD for her… But you know what, she didn’t need Paco, and the uh… Okay I kind of forgot their names, besides Hive and Spice-something, I have a general idea, and it doesn’t matter! Oh yeah, there’s also a rock from the Hey Ho Whoa Car, I appreciate that kind of retroactive return for an old car, that’s fun.

           Weird tangent incoming, but… Going back to what I said about Kez kind of reminding me of Ryan’s lifestyle, she also seems to have the insecurity of Min, and how they both have this thing of… Being afraid of how they’re perceived and letting that really get to them! And Kez… she looked SO at ease and relieved on Min’s shoulder at the end, my heart is MELTING…! Maybe Kez has traits that can make her relate to both Min AND Ryan as a mediator, as an example of the one they become (also foreshadowing One who inversely becomes One-One), and I like that her lack of understand of social cues (or knowing disregard) allows her to comment as an impartial third, outside party…

           But also- LORE! So it seems that those boots are meant to root passengers in place so they can’t muck about whenever the Steward is operating in the same car; I think we finally, FINALLY have an answer to what it meant when it told Tulip to stay in her seat- It’s likely a default line for a passenger who somehow manages to move from their place whenever the Steward is operating… Which, given all of Amelia’s mess and hijinx with the Infinity Train’s normal functions, that’s kind of her fault! Seeing Kez glitch also lends credence to the interpretation of denizens being spawned by orbs in a sense… Which, for Tuba-is-Alive conspiracy theorists, hope is there? Because her orb might still exist?

           Regardless… The Steward seems to really live up to its name, and it’s cool to see how it usually is meant to function- Not necessarily for maintenance, but for giving passengers anything they need, should there be a necessity! Which, that makes me wonder if the Steward and One keep track of passengers to rescue them if things get dangerous, which again, is ANOTHER problem Amelia caused, and contributes further to Grace and Simon forming the Apex! Yikes… Still, it’s fascinating to see how the Steward’s role plays in interacting with passengers more, and intriguingly, Amelia’s own dialogue there… It kind of sounds like she suggested to One that he give Min and Ryan their things back?

           So, maybe this is what Amelia had in mind; Maybe she wanted a more hands-on approach to the Infinity Train? Perhaps One invited her specifically as an actual human, second opinion as a passenger, someone who can provide input on how the Infinity Train is working, a review and feedback, constructive criticism! Oh god… Imagine if Amelia actually got her number down, and THEN One asked for feedback, and she decided to stick back because it’s not like she has anything waiting- But then realizing the opportunity to bring back Alrick made her number go back up!

           Still, if Amelia IS trying to convince One to be more proactive, then it’s interesting that she becomes even MORE hands-off than neglectful when she takes the role of Conductor! Did she just, like… Give up at some point? She mentions that Ryan and Min have to ‘individuate’, is One keeping a human passenger as suggestions on how to handle passengers more, as they directly watch over them? Is Amelia suggesting that Min and Ryan be more individual and separate, perhaps having their own numbers even, because she disagrees with One’s experiment? I can only guess, but I’m glad that, as I’d hoped, Book 4 indirectly gives us a look and context to Amelia’s backstory on the Infinity Train, as setup for her eventual arc… Also, just considered Kez and Amelia parallels as people called in as a second, outsider’s opinion on an issue, especially if you consider how One becomes a duo himself, too!

           Poor Ryan, he really does seem to have an issue of… Feeling belittled, being made to feel like he’s dumb and his ideas aren’t good, perhaps? While Min, he can get frustrated and I feel more angry at Ryan openly as a result, VS Ryan at Min… And I think that of course plays into his obvious anxiety; How Min and Ryan both feed into but can also bring one another up… Min is nervous, he’s overtly cautious, but Ryan can encourage him to put himself out there more! But also, Min can be the patience that Ryan needs, they really complete one another… But on the other hand, Ryan’s outbursting behavior can make Min even MORE anxious and resentful, and Min constantly being a dampener on his AND Ryan’s ideas can make Ryan chafe, it’s fascinating!

           It kind of fits the crossroads theme; How these two could use their opposite traits to propel one another, or instead drive each other crazy… And that could’ve played into the Infinity Train’s decision to appear to them at that moment; Do Ryan and Min collaborate and let their differences make up for one another, or drive each other crazy? How Ryan taking the keys, it could’ve led to Min taking cues from him and growing, or it could’ve led to Min being understandably frustrated and even MORE resentful with Ryan… And Ryan could learn to take into account Min setting his own boundaries, or instead disregard them recklessly! They go hand in hand together, it is a FASCINATING synergy!

           Also, I have to wonder what happened to Morgan, where they are… And I like the neat subversion of like, everyone already being gone; But it doesn’t matter, the party is still a ‘hit’ because our trio had fun together! And how they don’t need to impress anyone, just themselves; That’s some incredibly clever symbolism there, I like it! Also appreciate the return of Mr. Green and the theming of the Green Car in some capacity, I wonder what’s the story THERE, if the Green Room actually has a secret portal to the Green Car, etc.! Who’d have thunk that Green Car short didn’t just allude to Book 2, but also Book 4 as well!

           Onto the next destination, passengers! I can’t wait to see what awaits us…!

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“Alright guys, you’ve been working hard lately so we’re going on a trip!” Coach Ukai announced, presenting a poster for the nearby amusement park.

Excited cries of the team echoed throughout the gym, Yuu was all but bouncing off the walls while Chikara was trying his best to get Ryuu to keep his shirt on.  Amidst all the excitement, Koushi could feel waves of uneasiness flow through his body.  At the root of his unease was his inexperience with coasters and fast moving objects.  However, the team's enthusiasm infected Koushi and he found himself cheering right along with the first and second years.  Diachi and Asahi, being considerably more mature than Koushi, expressed their excitement in a quieter manner.  

The day of the trip drew near, and as it did, Koushi managed to find ways to excuse the concern nagging at the back of his mind.  He was not about to allow the negative emotion overpower the joy of having a team outing.  Members of Karasuno who were attending the trip were told to meet in the school's lot at 8 in the morning.  Koushi and Daichi were among the first to arrive at 7:50, slowly the rest of the team began to trickle in. Shōyō and Tobio were the last to arrive at one past eight.  Overflowing with noise and excitement, the bus left the lot at ten past eight.  Koushi turned around in his seat to make conversation with Chikara and Hisashi.  

After what seemed to be hours, the bus came to a grinding stop outside of the park. Karasuno formed a small group outside of the bus, awaiting instruction from the two adults.  

“Okay guys!  I have a couple of rules to go over before you can go into the park.  Firstly, stay in groups of three or more.  Secondly, be respectful!”  Takeda and Ukai both looked at Yuu and Ryuu as this rule was spoken, “And finally, stay hydrated and have fun!” Takeda clapped his hands together and motioned for the team to go towards the park.  Daichi, Koushi and Kiyoko banded together for their group, Asahi had been dragged off by Yuu and Ryuu, and by the look on the Ace’s face, he was not happy about it.

“So what do you guys wanna do first?” Koushi asked, excitement evident in his tone, “That coaster looks fun!” He added, pointing towards a large metal coaster with more than one loop.

“We should start off small, then do those rides,” Daichi inputted, “How about the teacups?”

Kiyoko nodded to Daichi’s idea, and so the three made their way towards the spinning ride.  Once the three third years had waited in the queue for around 10 minutes, they were finally allowed onto the ride. 

It started off slow, however the large plate in the center of the cup was beckoning Koushi to spin, so he did.  Giving a smirk to Daichi, the setter began putting all his strength into spinning the disk, taking his hint, Daichi placed both hands on the plate as well and began spinning.  Kiyoko yelled out in joy as her hair whipped around her face.  The moment was picturesque, all three with large smiles plastered on their faces.  However, as the ride went on, Koushi began feeling something other than joy.  The feeling was rooted in the same area as excitement, yet the feeling was harsher, and definitely not pleasurable.  Koushi’s smile faltered a bit, and he put less strength into spinning the cup.  Daichi flashed him a look of concern, but Koushi dismissed him by widening his smile.  Finally, the ride screeched to a stop, Kiyoko was still laughing, her hair a wild mess from the extreme wind, Daichi also had a smile playing on his lips, however a drop of concern was flavoring his brown eyes.

“You guys hungry?  I sure am!  We should get food then ride more rides,” Koushi was hoping the uncomfortable feeling in his gut was a result of hunger.  His two companions nodded to his idea, and so they went on the hunt for suitable food.

Fried foods and sweet foods danced in the air, both fighting to win over the attention of any wandering guests.  The smells sank to the bottom of Koushi’s stomach and seemed to have a fight of their own down there, much to Koushi’s appreciation, the feeling wasn’t as strong as it had been on the ride.  Allowing him to once more chalk up the pangs as hunger. A stand selling hot dogs is what ended up attracting the small group.

By the time the food was in his hands, Koushi felt fine. He happily gulped down the hot dog, smiling at the warmth of the food.  Kiyoko and Daichi were about half way done when Koushi stood up to toss his food wrapper.  Once more, excitement flourished throughout his body, as well as anticipation to ride one of the bigger rides.  

“So,” Koushi dragged out, glancing between his friends and the rollercoaster which towered over the park.

“You sure that’s a good idea?  We just ate,” Daichi replied, once again understanding Koushi’s not-so-subtle hint.

“What if we go on a small ride while our food digests and then go on the big ride?” The setter offered, his heart set on riding the large coaster.

Defeated from Koushi’s puppy eyes, Daichi looked over to Kiyoko as if asking for her input, she shrugged, but didn’t make any move against the proposition.  With a sigh, Daichi looked back at Koushi and agreed to his plan.

The small ride which they ended up choosing was the ferris wheel, which was technically not small as it towered high into the air, but it wasn’t an extreme attraction like the rollercoaster.  In fact, the ride proved to be very pleasant.  The third years talked about what’s been going on as well as their plans for the future.  A faint aura of sadness surrounded the three as realization struck about their graduation.  Eventually, the ride came to a graceful stop onto the ground, and the three walked off the ride  Koushi happily led the way to the queue entrance for the towering coaster.  Doubt began pooling deep in Koushi’s gut, but it was drowned out by the overflowing amounts of excitement he felt.

The queue was significantly longer than the one for the spinning cups, and by the time the three got clicked onto the ride, all doubt was erased from Koushi.  A ride attendee began listing off safety requirements for the ride before signing off with a deadpanned ‘Have fun’ Koushi looked to his sides and smiled at his friends as the ride took off with a blast.  Cries of joy filled the air as the track winded and dropped.  The first loop came and went, with Koushi smiling the whole time.  Then after a few more meters of track, the second loop came.  Koushi’s smile faded a bit as heavy nausea began nesting in his gut.  Another few meters of track came and went and finally the final loop was here.  Koushi’s smile was completely faded now, replaced with a tight line.  His body flew forward a bit as the cart came to a screeching halt.  The ragdoll treatment did nothing to help his current situation.

As the mechanical restraints flew up, Koushi’s shaking hands struggled to unclick his belt as fast as possible.  Much to his dismay, his friends on either side of him were taking their time.  As soon as Daichi stepped away from the ride, Koushi hurried out and ran out of the exit doors.

Once he walked onto the main path for the park, his eyes quickly looked left and right, scanning for a trash bin.  Finally he spotted one and hurried towards it.  He used his hand to push open the flab and stuck his head in.  A foul smell of rotting food drifted up into Koushi’s nose punching him in the gut.  He let his mouth lul open, allowing warm metallic saliva to dribble out and land with a disgusting splat on top of the preexisting waste in the bin.  A heavy weight pushed against his abdomen as the first gag ripped through his slender body.  Hot liquid began rising into his throat.  Only now did he realize the situation he was in.  Red hot embarrassment exploded through every limb in his body as another heave racked him.  This one was productive in bringing up a mouthful of undigested hotdog.  The awful taste only forced Koushi into another harsh gag which brought up a far thicker wave.  Tears began streaming down his face, a result of the pain in his stomach as well as the pain of embarrassment.  Suddenly, he felt large hands begin to rub calming circles onto his back.  The touch only encouraged Koushi’s stomach to continue emptying itself, his back arching into the hands.  After a couple seconds of  being free from illness, Koushi pulled his head out of the bin.  He sheepishly looked up to his friends, Kiyoko shoved a cool bottle of water into Koushi’s hand.  

“So, uhh maybe that wasn’t such a good idea, huh,” Koushi admitted after swishing water in his mouth and spitting it onto the ground.  The other third years didn’t find his comment funny.

“Are you okay now?” Kiyoko asked, worry etched deeply onto her face, “I called for the coaches and they should be here soon.

As if on cue, Takeda rushed over, near tears from worry, Ukai walked up, any trace of concern masked by extreme annoyance.

“Are you okay?  We should sit down,” Takeda worried, wrapping a supporting arm around Koushi and leading him to a nearby park bench.

Ukai said nothing, which said everything to Koushi.  The setter scratched the back of his neck sheepishly, “I’m good now.  I guess this isn’t a good time to say that I’ve never ridden a roller coaster, huh.”

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Road To The Aisles

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Back to the usual weekend schedule... Thanks to you all for reading, liking, reblogging and commenting. It’s so encouraging to me. Im not sure exactly how many chapters this story will have but I think we’re about at the halfway point now. Hope you enjoy

Thanks to @mo-nighean-rouge @happytoobserve @wickedgoodbooks for all their support.

Chapter 11: An Ocular Advertisment

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

When Claire arrived, the hospital coffee shop was already full. Visitors patiently (and some impatiently) awaiting the official ward visiting times were queueing at the counter as the baristas hurriedly prepared lattes and paninis.

Claire sighed as she looked around. Frantic waving from Geillis at a tucked away table caught her eye. She returned the wave and pointed to the queue. Geillis pointed at the table and beckoned Claire over. Relieved, Claire made her way to Geillis, negotiating the tables, people and bags in her way.

"I got ye a ham sandwich and a black coffee. Oh, and a chocolate brownie. Keep yer energy levels up.”

Claire settled in a chair and gave her friend a grateful smile. “Thanks, G, you’re a lifesaver. Are you not eating?”

Geillis sipped her cup of tea. “Och, I canna eat. Ma belly’s like a washing machine. I’m having the talk wi’ Dougal tonight. I canna put it off any longer. And I’m that nervous.”

Claire gave Geillis’s hand a comforting pat. “You know what you need to say. Be honest with him, G.”

“Aye, I ken. I’ve thought it through so many times in ma head. I have tae tell him. I dinna want a bairn, at least no’ at this moment and I canna promise that I will ever want one. If he sticks wi’ me thinking I’ll change ma mind, he may be verra disappointed. So the choice is wi' him.”

Geillis's eyes filled with tears as she fumbled in her bag looking for a tissue. Claire passed her a paper napkin and she roughly wiped her eyes before take a couple of deep breaths to control herself.

"Look at me, greetin' like a bairn. Tell me something funny, Claire, tae take ma mind off it. What devilish scheme is Geneva cooking up? Has her mother threatened tae have Jamie's bollocks in a bap?"

“Well, no schemes as far as I know and Jamie’s testicles remain attached to the rest of him but…”

Claire assumed an elaborate pseudo model pose, her chin resting lightly on her fingers, lips in an exaggerated pout and her eyelashes fluttering.

“...I have been asked to do some modelling.”

"Modelling?" Geillis snorted. "Oh, I'm sorry Claire. I dinna mean tae be rude but I dinna think the catwalks of Milan would be yer cup of tea. Unless, ye havena been asked tae do some… er… nude modelling have ye?"

"Ew, no, of course not."

"I could totally see that."

Claire gave her friend a hard stare.

"What I mean is…" Geillis tried to explain. "Ye are gorgeous, ye ken. There's many a man… or woman… who'd pay good money tae see photos like that. Anyway if it's no' that, what is it?"

"Jamie has asked if they can use my photo in a marketing campaign in Japan. Well, not all of me, just my eyes, the rest of my face would be hidden by a glass of whisky or a bottle. He's discussed it with the board. Now just waiting for my decision."

Geillis looked closely at Claire's eyes. “They are incredible, really like whisky. And I should ken, I've drunk enough. So, ye're going tae do it, are ye no'?"

“I’m not sure. Do you think I should? What if someone recognises me? And I usually look uncomfortable having my photo taken.”

“What if they do recognise ye? Besides, how many people do ye ken in Japan? Why not do it, Claire? Nothing to lose, except some inhibitions. Go fer it… and report back tae me.”

*************

Patient medical notes lay unopened on Claire’s desk awaiting her review. She sat quietly, thinking about what Geillis had said before reaching for her phone.

She quickly typed a message:

G, remember I’m here for you no matter what

And then a second:

Tell Ian and Jenny I’ll do it

She put her phone down and turned her attention to her patients.

*************

The photographer’s studio was in a converted Victorian warehouse. The interior was an urban architect’s dream -- all exposed brick and iron with clear glass walls partitioning the cavernous space.

The photographer and one of his assistants met the ‘whisky delegation’ (as Claire privately called them) of Jamie, Claire, Ian and Jenny in the foyer of the studio. Through the glass walls, Claire could see the bustle of assistants preparing for the shoot. Her stomach flipped over. She was sure Geneva would be perfectly at home in this environment, but to her it was totally alien.

Jamie glanced at Claire’s glass face and discreetly took her hand, lacing his fingers with hers and gently squeezing for reassurance. She felt herself relax a little bit. Jenny looked across and smiled at her. A bit more tension seeped away.

After an initial exchange of introductions, Ian explained. “We have tae have a quick meeting wi’ the agency, Claire, so mebbe they could start getting ye ready and then we can join ye soon enough.”

The photographer, Simon, explained. “Yes, so Debbie here will take you through and start with the makeup.”

Jamie gave Claire’s hand a final squeeze as she was led away into the main studio area.

As she sat and waited for the make up artist, Claire looked around, watching the activity in the studio. Everybody seemed to know exactly what to do… unlike her. She twisted her chair and stared into the large, brightly lit mirror in front of her. A totally unmodel like reflection greeted her. The instruction had been to wear no make up and have freshly washed hair. A typical day for her then. She peered more closely at her reflection. Was that a spot on her chin? She breathed a sigh. Eyes only for the photo was definitely a good decision, she thought to herself.

The image of Geneva crossed her mind again. She would, no doubt, have been sitting here, giving orders, chatting freely with the assistants, as if in her own living room. Claire tried to suppress a smile. How jealous would Geneva be if… or when... she found out about this? Claire decided that she would make sure she did… petty, yes… satisfying, definitely.

Through the mirror, Claire could see Jamie, Ian and Jenny in the glass-walled meeting room. She spun her chair around for a better look. Jamie had his back to her and had taken his jacket off. His white shirt was stretched tight across his back and shoulders accentuating his well defined muscles, his curls rested against his collar. Even after more than a year, the sight of him could still take her breath away. Would the wanting him ever stop…

“So, hi there. I’m Ceri and I’ll be doing your makeup today.”

Claire was abruptly pulled out of her reverie by a young woman brandishing an enormous toolbox, which she placed on a trolley next to her. Whirling the seat around to face the mirror, Ceri stared at the reflection before consulting a sheet of paper.

“Right, then. Let’s get started.” Claire closed her eyes and tried to relax as Ceri clipped her hair back and began to stroke various wipes, potions and creams across her face. She actually found it no problem to relax with the murmur of activity in the background and Ceri keeping up a monologue that required no input from Claire.

Suddenly Ceri’s monologue came to an abrupt halt. Claire opened her eyes to find Ceri staring across the studio. She swivelled a little to try, and failed, to see what had fixated the makeup artist.

“Fuck me,” Ceri started then immediately stopped and reddened slightly. “Sorry, didn’t mean to offend you with my language. But there’s a guy over there just my type… talking to Simon. Wow… tall… broad… bet he could throw a girl over his shoulder without even breaking into a sweat. The things I’d like to do to him.”

Claire smiled at Ceri’s reaction to this unknown man. She had her suspicions about his identity, but kept them to herself. She didn’t want to embarrass the poor girl and Ceri’s reactions were, after all, perfectly understandable. In fact they were exactly the same thoughts as she herself frequently had… fuck me… please...

“Wow,” Ceri repeated as she returned Claire’s chair to its original position and continued applying makeup. “Guys like him don’t come along very often. Hope he sticks around for a bit. I think I’d like to get to know him better.”

With just the odd exception when Ceri tidied up Claire’s eyebrows, making her wince as the tweezers pulled at tiny stray hairs, she easily found herself drifting back into a state of relaxation.

“Och no, I’m sorry, that willna do.”

Jenny’s disapproving tone made Claire quickly open her eyes.

With her hands on her hips, Jenny continued. “That makeup, around Claire’s eyes, it’s too much.”

Claire peered in the mirror in dismay. A palette of shimmering gold, brown and vivid orange was spread across each eyelid beneath darkened brows.

“And what is it wi’ the stripes on her forehead and nose?” Jenny placed a hand on Claire’s shoulder.

“It’s contouring.” Ceri spoke nervously, the rising inflection making each sentence sound like a question seeking approval. “It’ll blend in. And the notes I was given just said focus on the eyes.”

“Ah, well, it’s no’ your fault.” Jenny reassured her. “We jes’ need tae wipe it off and try fer something subtle, ye ken?”

Ceri nodded and reached for the wipes as Jenny disappeared to talk with the photographer.

“Oh god, that gorgeous chap, he’s headed over here.” Ceri stood upright, pushed her chest out and watched, smiling broadly as Jamie approached.

Jamie smiled politely in return before giving Claire his full attention and kissing her fondly on the top of her head.

"Ye ken I've never seen ye wi' sae much slap on yer face. It doesna suit ye. "

"I'm sorry. I’m taking it off… I thought that was… " Ceri spoke nervously.

"Dinna fash. It'll wash off," Jamie said. "It's no' the look we are going fer."

"And," he continued, pointing at the hair straighteners. "What are these fer? We're no' havin' straight hair. We want the beauty and wildness of the highlands, the heather in the background, the untamed curls and the natural beauty of these eyes reflecting the amber of the whisky in the foreground. Ye ken?"

Ceri nodded as Jamie kissed Claire once more before heading to talk to the photographer again.

"Are you two an item then?" Ceri asked as she applied makeup remover to Claire's eyes. "Sorry for going on about him before. It's just, well, he is a bit gorgeous. You are lucky."

"Yes," Claire answered laughing. "We're getting married in a few months. And don't worry,  I know that feeling well."

Jamie watched from the side as Simon positioned Claire for the shoot. His assistants bustled around her, adjusting lights and moving light reflectors at the photographer’s instruction. He knew this was totally outside her comfort zone, but no one would ever have guessed as she moved and posed under Simon’s guidance. Even though only her eyes would be featured in the advertisement, it was clear that Simon was photographing her entire face. Jamie reminded himself to ask for copies of all the prints for his own personal use.

Suddenly, Claire turned and caught sight of Jamie. Imperceptible to other people, her face changed, the warmth in her eyes increased, their amber depths flashing a message to Jamie.

He grinned. He knew what was going through her mind. Exactly the same was going through his.

************

The curtains were slightly open allowing some light from the street to filter into the bedroom and illuminate the curves of Claire's body. A warm summer night, she had gone to bed naked and now the thin sheet lay wrinkled around her waist, exposing her chest and legs to Jamie's gaze.

She sighed contentedly and stretched her arms above her head. Her breasts rose with the sudden movement.

"That was lovely. You knew that was what I was thinking about this afternoon, didn't you?" She commented.

Jamie turned onto his side, leaning on one elbow. His free hand idly traced a pattern around her breasts.

"Aye, it was plain as day, Sassenach, written all over yer face." He smiled. "It was grand tae watch ye being photographed. Ye were like a real model."

Claire laughed. "Geillis found it so funny when I told her. She seemed to think I'd been asked to do some nude modelling."

"Now there's a thought…"

Jamie's hand ceased its motion. He swallowed hard. When he spoke, his voice was quiet, almost secretive.

"Would ye do that, then?" He paused before hurriedly continuing. "I dinna mean fer other people, jes' fer me. Ye ken what I mean?"

Claire was quiet for a minute.

"I havena offended ye, have I? I'm sorry if I have."

"I'm not offended. I just… er… don’t think of myself that way… as sexy.”

“Christ, Sassenach, do ye no’ realise ye’re the most beautiful woman in the world. And as fer sexy, well…”

His hand resumed its meandering path around Claire’s breasts, running his fingers lightly around her nipples. His breath was hot against her ear as he carried on talking.

“And tae have these photos of ye and ken that they’re jes’ fer me, only me… a secret treasure that only ye and I share. It makes me hard just thinking about it.”

Claire felt the truth of that statement pressing against her thigh.

Jamie had clearly given this idea some thought. “And tae see ye touch yerself --“

“Eh? And what about sauce for the gander?” Claire asked playfully.

“What? Ye mean in front of ye. I’m no’ sure I can do that, Sassenach.”

“Mmm, interesting. So it’s ok for me but not for you to return the favour. Well, if you’d rather we didn’t play that little game…” Claire let the sentence hang in the air.

“Alright, Sassenach, fair’s fair. I’ll buy a camera this week.”

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[theme-park-concepts]

Welcome to the Taste Lab!

The Imagination Institute has been doing pioneering research at Epcot since 1994

If you’ve gone on a tour of the Institute, you might have passed by the Taste Lab. And visiting today you’re in luck. The Taste Lab staff have undertaken a new initiative to discover the most imaginative and delicious food combinations out there! And you can be a part!

A project like this is no small task. A claim like the most imaginative combination ever requires data. And a large sample size is the first key to great data! In fact, they need a sample so large, the taste lab has had to hastily relocate outside the institute to accommodate all the tasters. And they need your help by volunteering to be one!

On Today’s Tasting Agenda: Chicken Nuggets and Soda.

To the side of the imagination pavilion, nestled into the hillside, we see a boxy concrete and aluminum structure with a cluster of antennas on the hastily built truss above it. All point directly towards the Imagination Institute, radioing their data back. A large mystery vat sticks out on one end, a tangle of pipes flowing to it. Attached to it, a long array of clear tubes bubble, each with a different gem-colored liquid inside flowing through industrial pipes back into the building. We approach a sign that reads “Taste Subjects Needed” and enter a queue that wraps around the building past a preview of the food experiments being run today.

A lab assistant directs us to an “experiment registration” kiosk where we can input our name and customize our experimentation combinations (place our order). On the touchscreen we see a one page grid where we can choose our texture and flavor variables for each order and how many drinks we want to sample. Once finished the kiosk prints a “record card” and we move to a waiting area. The record card contains handy fun facts about the science behind each of the options we’ve chosen. A large LED matrix covers the front wall of the Taste Lab directly above a series of small corrugated sliding doors. When our order is ready our name and order number appear on the matrix directly above our door. We scan our order card (or magic band) and the door automagically whispers open revealing an experiment prepared just for us.

As we turn the corner we approach an odd assortment of pipes flowing with gem-colored liquids - each a new libation dreamed up by the mad scientists at the taste lab. Having received empty cups, we walk towards it: where tantalizingly novel refreshment awaits.

If we like, after enjoying our meal we can approach an experiment survey station, scan our card, input what we thought and suggest new flavors to try! Of course, if we’re using magic bands, there’s a (Play Disney Parks) app for that! It automatically pulls up our order for us.

[writingfortoomanyfandoms]

Days of Our Lives - Part One

Pairing: Dad!Gwilym Lee x Reader, Lily Lee, Jess Lee, Sam Lee

Requested: No

Summary: A series of shapshots going through the kids’ lives (can be read separately or as a series)

Warnings: Swearing

A/N: okay so this is the first look at my new series Days Of Our Lives starring Gwilym Lee as a dad and the three kids who I have ADORED writing for so much after all these blurbs!! Please remember to tell me what you thought of this - like, reblog, comment or send asks so I know what you think! If there’s something you want to see get into the series then let me know and my askbox is ALWAYS open for concepts for the kids!!

“Hey!” Gwilym’s voice was rushed and he was clearly out of breath but Y/N could hear her husbands smile through the phone.

“Hey! We’re outside!” Y/N informed him, crouching down with great effort to be face to face with her toddler. Lily giggled at Y/N and reached out a chubby fist to pull on a strand of her mother’s hair. Y/N chuckled at her daughter, shaking her head adoringly.

“Okay! Brian’s going to go get you - I’ve got to finish up in make up, sorry Cariad,” Gwilym said regretfully. Y/N waved him off, despite knowing he couldn’t see her actions over the phone.

“It’s alright, love, Lily’s been dying to see her Granda Bri again, haven’t you sweetheart?” Y/N asked her three year old and Lily giggled joyfully, clapping in delight. “You hear that?” Y/N asked. Gwilym’s low rumble of a laugh gave her confirmation that he had, indeed, heard his daughter’s joy.

“I’ll see you soon then,” Gwilym said.

“See you soon,” Y/N agreed and, just as she was about to hang up she heard Gwilym calling through the phone again:

“I love you!” Y/N was laughing as she brought the phone back up to her ear.

“I love you too,” she hung up the call and swooped Lily up into her arms, bringing the toddler to rest gently against her swollen stomach. Lily’s arms wrapped eagerly around her mother’s neck, her head coming to rest on her shoulder. “Your daddy’s silly, isn’t he?” Y/N cooed, gently bouncing the child. Lily perked up straight away.

“Daddy?” Y/N chuckled, nuzzling her face into her daughter’s hair.

“No, not yet, sweetheart, we’ll see Daddy soon,” Y/N promised. Lily sighed and settled back into Y/N’s arms.

“Y/N! You look wonderful!” Y/N beamed at Brian’s voice, turning around to greet him. Lily’s arms immediately went to grab for Brian and Brian chuckled, taking her from Y/N’s arms. “Hello, Lily, you look lovely!” 

“Granda Bri!” Lily giggled, pulling at Brian’s curly grey hair. Brian pressed a kiss to the top of Lily’s head, chuckling before moving his gaze to Y/N. 

“It’s so nice to see you again,” Brian said, moving to Y/N and pressing a kiss to her cheek.

“You too, Bri - you look great!” 

“Not as wonderful as you,” Brian promised. “Come on, I know your dad,” he booped Lily’s nose playfully, tempting a joyful giggle to fall past her lips. “Is eagerly awaiting your arrival,” Lily’s little hands closed around Brian’s shirt and she snuggled down into his body.

“Want Daddy,” she agreed, the words muffled by Brian’s body.

“Come on, sweetheart, lets get you to Daddy,” Y/N murmured, running her hand gently up and down Lily’s back.

Brian and Y/N made smalltalk as the aging guitarist carried her daughter and walked them to the entrance to the set. She opened the door, allowing Brian with Lily to move through into the building first.

As they approached the room at the end of the hallway, voices could be heard. Gwilym’s distinct laughter followed and Lily instantly perked up in Brian’s arm upon hearing it, straining desperately to get out and be let to the floor. Brian looked at Y/N, his eyebrows raised in a silent question. Y/N rolled her eyes and nodded, queueing Brian to gently place Lily on the floor.

Without so much as looking back the three year old rushed as quickly as she could on her little legs towards the sound of her father’s laughter. She reached the door and glared as it, as though her harsh three-year old stare could open the door on its own.

Brian chuckled at her unimpressed look and opened the door but Y/N placed her hand on it before Lily could enter and crouched down to be eye-level with her daughter again.

“Remember what I said, Lil, Daddy might be filming so you need to be quiet when you go in, okay Sweetheart?” Lily let out a grumpy sigh and nodded in agreement.

“Okay Mummy,” Lily said and Y/N brought her forwards to kiss her nose, delighting in the giggle her daughter let out.

As Y/N struggled back up to her feet, Brian pushed the door open for Lily and placed his hands on Y/N’s arm to help her back up.

“Daddy!” Y/N looked at Brian, eyebrows raised in amusement and mild exhaustion. Brian laughed and led her into the big room.

“So much for being quiet,” Y/N chuckled as she watched her daughter run into her father’s legs, a complete disregard for the other people on set watching or the cameras set up. Y/N gave the director a bashful smile, clearly embarrassed by her daughters actions.

Not that Gwilym appeared to care at all. His entire face lit up as Lily charged into the room and towards him, pushing his friend who he had been talking to out of the way in order to meet his daughter half way and sweep her up into his arms, laughing.

“Hello, Princess! I’ve missed you!”

“Missed you Daddy!” Lily giggled, her arms wrapping tightly around Gwilym’s neck and pulling her face as close to his as she could manage.

“I missed you too, Princess,” Gwilym said, nuzzling his face into her neck and Y/N could see his eyes crinkling into the adoring grin that he always wore when in the presence of his daughter.

“I did ask her to come in quietly.” Y/N promised as she approached her little family. Gwilym looked up at her and, if possible, it seemed as though his smile grew.

“You made it!” Gwilym grinned. Y/N nodded.

“I promised, and once Lily caught hold of the idea you know that she wouldn’t let it go,” Gwilym laughed at Y/N’s faux exasperated tone and then his excited face dropped to one of concern.

“Come on, you should sit down,” Gwilym ushered his wife one-handed towards a chair at the edge of the room. Y/N rolled her eyes slightly but complied with his wishes with an affectionate smile on her face.

“Gwil, you know it’s fine for me to stand up, it won’t hurt the bean.” Y/N pointed out as Gwilym helped her lower herself down into the chair.

“You should relax, though.” Brian inputted.

“I just wanted to make sure,” Gwilym said, the smile on his face unabashedly wied and his cheeks tinted a light pink.

“Who’s this then, are you going to introduce us?” An arm sling over Gwilym’s shoulder, pulling playfully at the crown curls that fell from his wig. Gwilym rolled his eyes, making Y/N giggle.

Gwilym turned, Lily still in his arms, to look at his castmates.

“This is my daughter, Lily,” he looked down at his child. “You going to say hello, Princess?” He asked, gently kissing the top of her head. Lily had never been a particularly shy baby, as she put on her broadest smile and waved her chubby fists at the people who had crowded around her.

“Hi!”

“God, Gwil, she’s adorable!” The only woman in the mix cooed, landing herself in Lily’s good books straight away as the young girl puffed up her chest proudly and reached for her. The woman looked at Gwilym for permission and Y/N watched with a smile a her husband gave it, gently passing his tiny toddler into the woman’s arms. “Hello, beautiful, I’m Lucy.”

“Aunt Lucy?” Lily inquired, pulling on Lucy’s hair. Lucy looked at Gwilym, a questioning smile on her face and Gwilym passed the expression onto Y/N who shrugged - Gwilym knew his castmates better than she did, it was his decision to make. Gwilym bit his lip, eyebrows raised.

“Do you want me to be?” Lucy asked, her voice soft as she posed the question. Lily shrugged.

“You’re pretty.” she sighed, as though that was enough of an answer. Lucy laughed, hugging Lily a little tighter to her.

“Thank you, lovely.”

A blond man gently stroked his finger down Lily’s brown hair.

“You can hold her, Ben,” Gwilym laughed. His friend looked at him, face a little red and a bashful smile in place. “If she lets you.”

“Ben!” Lily shrieked in delight, pointing to the blond man who looked at her with mild shock on his face. “Drums!” Ben seemed to snap out of his trance-like state he was in and laughed, nodding and taking Lily carefully from Lucy.

“Yeah, that’s me.” Ben agreed.

“Sorry,” Y/N said apologetically. “She wanted to see who her dad worked with so we showed her photos,” she explained but Ben shook his head with a beaming grin still in place.

“She’s so sweet!” Gwilym chuckled as his friends cooing over his daughter and turned his adoring expression to his wife.

“Yeah, we like to think so,” Y/N latched onto his hand and brought it to her lips, pressing a quick kiss to his skin.

“She looks just like you,” the auburn-haired man said, staring in wonder over Ben’s arms at Lily. Lily gave a delighted giggle and reached out her hands to rest them on his cheeks.

“Joe!” Joe laughed and nodded, taking one of her little hands from his face and shaking it good-naturedly.

“It’s so nice to finally meet you,” Y/N looked away from her daughter as she realised the voice was addressing her. She smiled up at the man.

“You guys too! Gwil has not stopped talking about all of you,” she laughed, taking his outstretched hand. “I’m Y/N, by the way.”

“Rami,” the actor hesitated. “I don’t want to be rude, just… how far along are you?” He gestured to Y/N’s growing stomach. Her hand settled on it subconsciously before she replied.

“Five months now,” Y/N answered.

“And she still looks amazing,” Gwilym cut in. Y/N snorted with laughter, shaking her head lovingly at her husband and kissing his hand again.

“You have to say that - I’m carrying your child,” she pointed out. Gwilym gasped out in offence, shaking his head.

“When have I ever lied to you?” Y/N raised her eyebrows at him.

“You sure you want me to answer that in front of your friends?” Rami and Lucy, who had joined the conversation, burst out laughing at her question and Gwilym pouted at her.

“So do you know the gender yet?”

“We’re finding out at the next appointment,” Gwilym said, placing his hand on her shoulder and grinning down at her. Y/N smiled up, feelings of love flooding all her senses.

“What are you hoping for?” Rami asked.

“Lily wants a brother,” Y/N laughed and Gwilym nodded.

“Oh God, yeah, I think she’ll throw a fit if it’s a girl,” he confirmed. “I would love another girl though,” Gwilym said and Y/N nodded, leaning easily into his arm.

“Definitely,” she agreed.

“Allen!” Y/N and Gwilym’s heads both turned immediately to face their daughter at her joyous cry. They exchanged mildly amused looks as she launched herself into the unsuspecting man’s arms.

“Guess she’s got a favourite.”

[subashbridge2020-blog]

What Software Do You Need to Set Up an Efficient Call Center?

Customer assistance is an essential part of the consumer experience as it assists services quickly resolve customers’ troubles. But below’s the concern: What approach of client support should you utilize, Email,  Live chat, Chatbot, Another thing.

Although we remain in the digital age, a study by international consultancy Deloitte exposes that the majority of people still prefer being assisted by phone. Setting up a telephone call center, consequently, offers you a competitive advantage and assists you deliver an excellent customer experience. But what type of software program do you need for a phone call center? There are great deals of solutions on the marketplace, so making the appropriate choice is testing. Continue reading to learn more about phone call facility software application and what functionality it provides.

Types call facility software

Prior to selecting software application for your call center, choose what sort of phone call center you require: incoming, outbound, or mixed. Consumer support agents typically deal with inbound phone calls, though they may require to call customers too (to follow up on instances, for example). Generally, call facility software sustains both incoming and also outgoing calls.

Next off, you should pick the type of call center software you need. Without going too deep right into information, call facility software application is broken down right into 2 classifications based on where it’s hosted: on-site or in the cloud. According to a survey by the Call Facility Network Group, 77.5% of phone call centers still use locally installed software, although cloud-based services are coming to be significantly prominent.

Allow’s quickly discuss these 2 kinds of call center software.

On-site:

On-site (likewise called on-premise) telephone call facility software application is released in your own data facility. Your workers are accountable for setting up, preserving, and also updating both software and hardware. As necessary, this needs considerable ahead of time financial investment.

Cloud-based:

Cloud-based call software application is hosted in the cloud, which means that a third-party service provider supervises of all hardware and software. As the client, you simply visit and also utilize this software application using an internet browser. Customarily for online software, cloud-based call facility software is given as Software program as a Service (you can learn more about cloud solutions in this short article).

Take a look at the advantages these two kinds of telephone call facility software offer:

Credit to RubyGarage

Contact center for domestic calling:

You better understand the principle of residential phone call facilities and then exactly how it aids you enhance your consumer support high quality as well as boost sales. It essentially describes a call center infrastructure which frequently beings in your country to manage your office works like consumer support, financing, personnels and so forth.

cloud call center for  International calling:

Nowadays, when setting up a cloud phone call center is simple like never previously, do not allow your places prevent your course of progression & success. We function efficiently with cloud telephone call facilities for ultimate adaptability to improve your organisation. These cloud call facilities can be accessed essentially from anywhere, so attach your service globally and also offer best-in-class client assistance services to globally clients with our budget-friendly cloud call centers for worldwide calls.

Essential functionality for call center software application

As soon as you’ve decided on the kind of software program for your telephone call center, you ought to meticulously determine the performance you need. Modern call center software application (specifically cloud-based software application) offers a lot of various functions that help businesses construct client assistance facilities.

There are some significant attributes, however, that any kind of call center software ought to have in order to be reliable and also convenient in day to day use.

Handling Calls

Software application for telephone call facilities have to give adequate telephone call handling capabilities. To start with, it should be versatile in its assistance for telephone number. A lot of cloud-based call facility software program providers enable you to either incorporate your existing telephone number or select one or several virtual telephone number. Second, even if you need a telephone call facility mainly for taking care of incoming phone calls, you must still be able to make outbound calls, so the software you select must also sustain this.

Let’s highlight some other important features that your telephone call facility software program must offer:

Call control so that your call center agents can hold, mute, ahead, and end phone calls

Call recording to guarantee the top quality of your representatives’ job

Blacklisting to obstruct spam as well as crawlers

Call line monitoring so you can establish a line while customers await a representative

Automatic ticket production to make certain all concerns raised by customers are resolved by your call center group.

Routing:

Having representatives operating at your phone call facility is excellent, but it’s vital to guide callers to the right agents that can resolve their troubles. Therefore, make sure that your telephone call center software application gives directing abilities that will boost the consumer experience and streamline your phone call facility’s workflow. Below’s a checklist of attributes you should pay attention to:

Interactive voice response (IVR), which immediately transmits customers to the right representative or division; normally an IVR system resolves voice input or keypad choices

Forward-to-phone, which enables your telephone call center representatives to respond to phone calls even when they aren’t in the workplace

Queue callback, which allows callers to request a callback as opposed to waiting in a queue

Service hrs management to notify callers about the availability of your telephone call facility team

Contact management

We’ve already pointed out that organisations require telephone call centers to give assistance to their customers. That’s why software for phone call facilities need to come with powerful call monitoring functionality. Representatives should have the ability to access comprehensive information regarding clients and also their interactions with your business in order to give top-quality customer service.

What minimum set of get in touch with management features does any type of call facility software application need? Right here are the most essential:

CRM integration so you can integrate your CRM with your phone call facility software application

Interaction background so you can keep an eye on all cases when customers call your telephone call center to better understand your clients as well as resolve their problems promptly

Customer ID so your agents can see in-depth info concerning each caller as well as supply customized assistance

Surveillance as well as efficiency

No company can be successful without reporting and analytics. Call facility software application ought to give you with detailed performance-related info so that you can check whether your phone call center is working appropriately and also your agents are doing their work well. Without tracking as well as reporting, consumer support can become totally inefficient. What features should your telephone call facility software program have to maintain you educated about the facility’s performance:

Call monitoring enables you to quietly listen to both inbound and also outgoing telephone calls. This aids you inspect exactly how well your call center agents are doing.

Performance checking supplies you with general efficiency analytics such as call tons and also variety of missed calls.

Agent ranking allows you evaluate the efficiency of each call facility representative. As an example, it’s important to understand the speed of answering calls in addition to the average duration of discussions with clients.

Feedback surveillance assists you easily receive responses on the efficiency of your telephone call center so that you know whether callers are satisfied.

[cosmomoore]

My workplace is nuts!! Like it is getting seriously crazy...

I am sorry to be posting about work again, so I am going to put this under a cut. I just don’t have a lot of places to vent in the real world and I feel bad talking to my partner about it because he hates his job just as much. So please bear with me and feel free to scroll on past if this does not interest you.

I feel like I should start by saying, I know I don't want to work there anymore, and I know I should find a new job, but I am honestly unsure if I even want to be in this field anymore. Like I think the complacency is better than potentially sliding into the same situation elsewhere.

I actually reached out to my former GM because his current company is hiring, but that went no where. So there’s that...

Honestly, the three places I have worked in this industry have all went this direction before leaving them. It always starts with management not listening to the employees, then they push sales to make more money trying to reach an unattainable goal, and then the design department is left in a constant state of stress-inducing, accuracy depleting, lack of information, rush. There is no better way to put it. We were off Monday, but nearly every single order I and my fellow designers have worked on this week has been due within 24-48 hours.

It is has just gotten frustrating on so many levels. Like the person running the company doesn’t even know how to input orders correctly, much less read the reports that the order software produces. They pulled me in today to question why more jobs weren’t in production - and, like, we have a status for orders in progress (some of which are approved orders and some of which need designs - it depends on the customer) and it fluctuates between 20 - 50 (on average) on any given day. If something can be pushed to production, I always prioritize it to be completed and sent out mainly to ensure that production has as much time as possible to get the job done. Not to mention this queue is entirely separate from the queue that is for designs only, stuff that we only get money for if it is approved.

Now pairing the issue of ready for production vs design only, the company now has a weekly sales goal that we aim to meet (and since it was introduced, I honestly don't know if we have ever met it, it is honestly unrealistic for a company of our size). And, now, for whatever reason, responsibility is partially placed on my shoulders to meet said goal even though I am not a member of the sales team.

I literally prioritize the design work placing emphasis on production first so orders can be physically made, shipped and billed. That is part of my job requirement. I have zero effect on bringing in new orders/clients, so I do not know why there is emphasis being placed on me for bringing in money. Literally during the moments that the GM spent with me basically telling me to do better, there 20 orders in the to be produced queue - about 6-8 of those had been entered within the past 24 hours. And of the 20 about 6 were approved for production (these were recently approved orders/new orders), 12 were awaiting further instruction/needing proofs - which were actively being worked on, and 2 were not available to designers. Now, that being said, the other queue was actively being worked on as well and there were about 80 orders in there. Since these take a while for payment to come through (and only if approval is eventually given by the client), they receive a lower priority, but because sales cannot follow the guidelines that are in place and management refuses to enforce said guidelines, there are orders that appeared “past due” - which bothers the owners of the company, but not so much the GM.

Anyways though, the previous two Mondays, I was told to let people leave early if things slow down and they slowed down enough last Friday that the whole department left early (by only two hours). Meanwhile another department was on overtime for the entirety of that day. (Just think about that - one department got 8 hours of overtime per employee, but the other departments were being pushed to leave early. I am not saying this because I am envious or jealous, I am saying this because of budgeting.) But when we got back Tuesday we were wide open again because as soon as we returned, rush orders were being shoved through and new design work was being short-scheduled (instead of 2-3 days for designing, they were being input with less than 1 day of design time; larger orders that should be given 4-5 days to design were being input with 2 days of design time, etc - this being despite me literally going over design due date expectations with sales last week). Anyways, because we were now “behind” of course it was mentioned that we probably shouldn’t have left early last Friday. And of course this has me thinking - Please stop with this. Do not tell me you want us to leave early if we can if I will only be reprimanded for it. If you only understood how the software the company runs on worked, you would understand that last Friday there was not enough work to stay those last two hours. Sales entered orders over the weekend with short dates and continued to enter them into the week, making us appear “behind” when if they could just follow protocol we would be fine.

BUT the unattainable goal that was set isn’t being worked on in a logical way. Instead of working a week out, we work week of which honestly doesn’t give anything adequate time to be done. As the week winds down, more and more rush jobs are shoved through and when you have a short week and do not modify the goal to accommodate for that, of course it will not be met.

Anyways, I know this is long and dumb and I honestly do not expect anyone to read this far. If you are, thank you and I am sorry if you are bored, I just have to get this out.

Now, moving on, because the GM plays favorites, they are basically trying to gaslight me into believing I am mean/something’s wrong with me/I need to improve my attitude, but any time I try to speak up and say “Hey, we need more time on these sorts of orders” or “Hey, there is a better way to do this” the people who should be listening aren’t even trying to - so of course I get frustrated and I may come across as “mean” when I say things like “this can’t go today,” or “two days turnaround time isn’t enough,” and “is the client being charged a rush fee”.

Like the whole reason I was spoken to today about me “hurting someone’s feelings” was because an order for a new customer with 15 Parts, one of which is a massive 1,000+ foot multi-part print was entered with a proof due date two days out. And I said to my team, “Look, I bet the customer expects this to be installed within two weeks.” That is what hurt their feelings. I was not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings, I was just exasperated and frustrated for not being listened to time and time again.

I didn’t mean for this to turn into a magnum opus, but I think I am just fully realizing my frustrations with the place as a whole and how being treated this way over the past eight months or so has affected me. It just sucks being asked time and time again for how people can help, only to be ignored, and told I am being mean and need to have a better attitude.

Needless to say, I am ready for a career change, but I don’t think I want to go into the same field. Like I am so fed up with sales people treating customers like deities and not even giving my department the time to day to get stuff done. All I ask for is a little more time and a little more information so we can produce better results - I don’t think that is being unreasonable.

Having reflected on everything I have typed out here, I think I am just tired of being put through the wringer by other people. Looking back, I honestly wish I hadn’t closed my Etsy business and instead of being pushed into the position I am in now, I wish I had pursued my independent income by moving it from Etsy to a different plaform. I can’t really go back to that now, mainly because I have no interest in that field of products anymore, but I really have the urge to create, and draw, and design stuff for myself again.

If I do end up getting a new job elsewhere, I honestly want to take some time to myself before I even try to attempt that. At 30 years old, the last thing I want to do is work at another place like the one I am at now. I want to take some time to myself to be healthier*, creative, and free.

I have recently started a new venture, something I really want to pursue. The main things that have been holding me back are time - so many days after work I am literally so mentally exhausted and the last thing I want to do is stare at a computer screen some more, taxes, and health insurance. Self-employment tax is pretty steep in the current climate, and while my current health insurance is far from good, it does help some...

I have some money saved up that can cover expenses while I take some time to myself, I just honestly worry about getting a job and making money if my new ideas don’t pan out. I am nearly so ready to take a chance, but there are lots of things that scare me, especially with talks of another recession possibly happening again.

Each and every day my list grows longer with reasons why I want to leave the company I am currently with and each and every day I am inspired to pursue something new. I just get so worried about the long term - not having a steady source of income while I work on my new venture, having a lapse of time on my resume, etc - that it impedes my own progress...

If you have stuck with me through this entire rant, thank you. I know it was long and rambly and probably error-ridden, but I just really needed to get this off of my chest and get these thoughts out into the open. Currently, I am contemplating quitting my job the middle of next month, but as with all things, that may change. I just guess I will have to see where I go from here. I am going to try hard to continue working on my new personal go, so hopefully it will go well from here.

*I have gained about... 70 lbs since I took over the position I am in now. I know that isn’t a direct cause at all, but it is definitely an influence. When you are like me and have body image issues, a bad relationship with food, and you get stressed out all the time at work, it makes it feel so much better and so much easier to say, sure, I had a hard day, I deserve fill in the blank. And pairing that with not having the time or willpower to work out on a daily basis makes weight gain that much easier.

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Final Fantasy VII with Soup? - Nov 1997

As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs I have many video gaming related memories from my childhood but there are particular ones which standout more than others. One of these standout memories was purchasing Final Fantasy VII back in the November of 1997.

Since first playing Final Fantasy 2 on my Super Nintendo back in 1993 I had fallen in love with the series. The epic storyline, the fascinating character developments and the addictive gameplay all added to the charm of this title. Then once again during the Christmas of 1994 I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Final Fantasy 3 which took the franchise to the next level incorporating amazing graphics and an orchestral musical score which still sounds fantastic today. Unfortunately with both titles my game progress was mysteriously deleted so I was never able to see either game through to completion.

A few years later after learning Square were going to part ways with Nintendo thus no more Final Fantasy titles I purchased my PlayStation solely on the promise of a new game. Finally in the November of 1997 this game was released in the UK and I was at the front of the queue.

That day in question I was working on a student film at my university. Studying theatre my class was often asked to take part in short films which the Media students would create as part of their coursework. Giving up a whole morning to go do a bit of acting wasn’t everyone’s idea of fun but the £40 payment which they were offering defiantly made the experience worthwhile. After filming a coupe of scenes I was finished for the day so jumping on a bus I headed to Derby city centre with my payment in hand.

This would be my first PlayStation purchase in months due to the fact I was a poor student living off my grant so any extra cash would normally go on food or beer. This time however it was different. I’d been waiting for this game for ages so armed with my £40 I headed to the local Game Station store.

This game had been hyped to death and received rave reviews across the board. Being the first Final Fantasy title to break into the mainstream in the West advertising was rife. Television adverts, posters plastered on the sides of buses and billboards featuring a massive Cloud Strife holding his mighty Buster Sword could be found everywhere. This game was defiantly a big deal and any PlayStation owner at the time seemed to want to own a copy. Interesting fact, it was also one of the biggest returned games ever due to the fact many people who purchased Final Fantasy VII didn’t realise it was a JRPG and were disappointed when they learnt it wasn’t an action adventure similar to Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Having purchased my game I headed to the local super market to grab some lunch before I settled in for the day to play video games. Money was tight so I remember buying a tin of pea and ham soup, a pack of crumpets and a four pack of cheap larger, this was going to be an epic afternoon. Turns out the crumpet and soup combo would become somewhat of a tradition for me. Whenever a new Final Fantasy title goes on sale I always make sure I stock up on these essential items for the release day. The last time I ate this meal was for the long awaited release of Final Fantasy XV on the PS4.

Once back at my student dorm I heated up the soup, buttered a couple of crumpets and cracked open a beer before sitting down in front of my PlayStation and watching the opening cinematic. To say my mind was blown was an understatement. With no access to the internet back in 97 this was the first time I had watched these full motion visuals in action and they were beautiful. From the second Aerith stepped out onto the busy street of Midgar and the camera panned back through the hustle and bustle of the city to reveal the Final Fantasy logo I was in ore. In one continuous motion the camera then followed a freewheeling train on its journey before pulling into a station as the main protagonist, Cloud appeared. Unlike previous Final Fantasy adventures there was no time to wander around a small village learning the games basic mechanics, this time you were thrust straight into the action given the mission to destroy the Shinra Mako reactor before escaping with your life.

This was by far the most cinematic experience within a video game I had encountered up until this point. The pace of the action was electric, the music moved you along with a sense of urgency causing my heart rate to increase. I was soon given the chance to create my charters name, as usual Daz was inputted. Next I was introduced to Barrett (one of my favourite FF characters) and as is tradition with any RPG I play his name was soon changed to Ben.

For the rest of that day I sat on my dorm room floor drinking beer and playing Final Fantasy VII and it was awesome. Over the coming weeks any free time I had was spent progressing the story, levelling up my charters and collecting Materia. I remember finally escaping Midgar after many hours and venturing to the world above only to be met with a vast landscape to explore, this game truly was huge! Spread over three disks the first disk alone took me over five hours of solid play to beat. It was whilst playing disk two that I ran into trouble and would become stuck. I remember traveling to the next location on the map. To get there I had to use a submarine to explore the waters. Here I ran into a boss battle which I could not beat. I tried over and over for a week but still no luck. Admitting defeat I decided to put the game down and returned to it a few weeks later but once agin I could not for the life of me beat him.

This boss was of course Emerald Weapon, a large and very difficult robot boss which uses a timer forcing the player to beat him within twenty minutes. I remember pulling my hair out trying to defeat this boss, every time getting my arse handed to me on a plate or simply running out of time. In the end I simply gave up and retired the game back to my gaming shelf. The annoying thing is years later I would discover the Emerald Weapon was actually an optional boss placed in the game to challenge more experienced players and could be completely avoided, SON OFF A B#@CH!

Unfortunately as with both FF2 and 3 I would never see the ending of this amazing game due to my copy along with my PS1 being stolen, but that’s a story for a future blog. Final Fantasy VII is certainly one of the standout titles from my gaming past and having now added it back to my retro gaming collection and with the new PS4 reboot hopefully on the horizon I hope to finally beat this masterpiece and end my Final Fantasy curse once and for all.

NOTE

As of 21/08/19 I finally beat Final Fantasy 7 after 22 long years. What an amazing experience to see this quest through to the end and finally put this game to rest (well, until the remake gets released on the PS4 that is!)

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AsyncIO for the working PyGame programmer (part III) - Pitfalls

Table of Contents

Race Conditions

Resource Conflicts

Architecture and Composability

Future-Proofing

Best Practices

Race Conditions

Here is a simple multithreaded python program to demonstrate race conditions. One thread sequentially increments my_numbers["b"], while two more threads increment my_numbers["a"] in parallel. Can you guess what this program will print out?

import threading my_numbers=dict(a=0, b=0) def incrementer(key, times): for i in range(times): my_numbers[key]+=1 thread_1=threading.Thread(target=incrementer, args=("a", 5_000_000)) thread_2=threading.Thread(target=incrementer, args=("a", 5_000_000)) thread_3=threading.Thread(target=incrementer, args=("b", 10_000_000)) thread_1.start() thread_2.start() thread_3.start() thread_1.join() thread_2.join() thread_3.join() print(my_numbers)

Even a simple line of code like my_numbers[key]+=1 is made up of multiple operations in the python interpreter. Getting the value of my_numbers, resolving the __getitem__ method, getting the value, incrementing, et cetera. CPython's GIL guarantees that all this will never lead to segmentation faults, premature garbage collection, or corrupted memory. It does not guarantee that everything executes in a sensible order. Too often, both threads read my_numbers[key], increment the value at the same time, and write my_numbers[key]+1 back, so one incrementing operation was superfluous. Even worse, there could be a situation where one thread wants to write my_numbers[key]+1 back, but it gets pre-empted. The other thread runs on, incrementing the value hundreds of times, until it itself gets pre-empted, and the first thread finally writes my_numbers[key]+1 back, even though at this time the number is much less that what the other thread had already computed.

It's not as easy to make the same mistake with asyncio, but if you try hard enough, you can also shoot yourself in the foot. At least, you can spot the bug in this version of the code right away: There is an await in between reading a value and writing back the result.

import asyncio import random my_numbers=dict(a=0, b=0) async def bad_async_incrementer(key, times): await asyncio.sleep(random.random()) for i in range(times): x=my_numbers[key] await asyncio.sleep(0.01) my_numbers[key]=x+1 coro1=bad_async_incrementer("a", 50) coro2=bad_async_incrementer("a", 50) coro3=bad_async_incrementer("b", 100) loop=asyncio.get_event_loop() loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(coro1,coro2,coro3)) print(my_numbers)

I had to add random sleep times to overcome the somewhat deterministic nature of the event loop scheduling to make this example work, but in a real-world application, the timing of network input won't be deterministic either, and you can have multiple await statements in one coroutine.

It's probably best not to read and write global state in threads or async tasks. You should rather use local or thread-local variables. If you really have to modify global state, wrap all your critical sections in locks!

Resource Conflicts

I don't know what happens when two threads are trying to read from or write to the same socket in a multi-threaded python program. Maybe the input gets duplicated, maybe the output is interleaved, maybe there is some low-level locking. Even if the underlying OS operations are atomic, I have no clue if the Python standard library maybe splits the data up and processes it via multiple system calls. If you write code on top of well-behaved libraries (which correctly lock a socket before while reading or writing) your code could still invoke multiple of these "atomic" function calls in a row from different threads, leading to interleaved input or output.

When two coroutine tasks inside the same event loop await input from the same source at the same time, the result is usually this: The event loop does not know which one task to wake up next, and raises an exception.

If you have multiple tasks that want to send requests or do back-and-forth handshakes over the same connection, they each need to acquire a lock on the connection before they can communicate, and release it afterwards. Otherwise, your scheduler might raise an exception if you are lucky, or as above, the data coming from different threads could be interleaved or switched around! You must avoid resource conflicts by correctly using locks, and incorrect use of locks can cause deadlocks.

This might not look like a common occurrence in client software, but every time you have a bi-directional request-response protocol, like JSON-RPC, or a chat service where multiple users can send messages, the protocol is already more complicated than the simple, deterministic lock-step of HTTP.

Even though asyncio is completely single-threaded, it still provides concurrency. You will fave to deal with the familiar problems you know and hate from multi-threaded concurrency: Race conditions and deadlocks. The asyncio module does not help you with timing and correctness, is not a way to sidestep the GIL for CPU-heavy multi-core parallel computation, and will not make your programs easier to read. It is just a standardised API for concurrent, single-threaded, asynchronous I/O.

Architecture and Composability

Broadly speaking, you can't call asynchronous code, as in code marked with async def from regular synchronous code. That is also true in other asynchronous, event-based architectures like node.js, and shown with a table like this:

  in synch code in async code can call synch code yes yes can call async code NO yes

This is technically correct, but at the same time somewhat misleading. While you can call synchronous code from async code, and you cannot use await outside of an async function, in practice you cannot just invoke any old bit of synchronous code from async code running inside an event loop. Any blocking I/O inside a coroutine will cause the whole event loop to block. That won't be a problem if you debug your application with a single client, or a single task in your event loop, but it will come back to haunt you in production. Python doesn't track which functions are pure functions, which functions have side effects, and whether they cause I/O or other system calls.

If your "synchronous" code is actually creating threads, you have to be extra careful, as Pythons thread synchronisation mechanisms and data structures in Python are different from those in asyncio. If your async code calls synchronous code that invokes callbacks, you might need to make sure that these callbacks are scheduled as tasks in your event loop again. Probably that means using as callbacks synchronous stubs that create coroutines and submit them to your event loop to be executed as tasks. It gets hairy fast.

Similarly, you can just evaluate a coroutine inside synchronous code if you really want to, by creating a new event loop and using loop.run_until_complete(coroutine). But you probably shouldn't. If you are inside async code, you should just use await instead of messing with the loop. The worst-case scenario here is creating new loop from synchronous code that was called from async code, causing the outer event loop to hang until the inner event loop has been completed. This way, as long as any task in the inner loop is waiting, no task in the outer loop can do anything, even if there is input available.

As a general rule, your asyncio programs should use one thread and one event loop. If you absolutely have to use multiple threads, you should still only use one loop, and have that run in its own thread, and use thread-safe methods to submit tasks to it. Don't have multiple loops in multiple threads, and don't call loop.run_until_complete(coroutine) or loop.run_forever() from different threads.

If you are using a GUI toolkit with asyncio, you will probably have to spawn one GUI thread, and one "worker" thread with the event loop. You could also try handling UI events inside the event loop, or writing your own GUI mainloop that periodically calls the event loop (like my own approach to using asyncio with pygame at 30/60 FPS).

You get the most out of asyncio if you run a single-threaded server with only one event loop that handles all concurrency for you, and any long-running computations are either done by a fancy message queue middleware, or with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.

Further Reading

What Color Is Your Function? - Explanation of what can call what in node.js

I Don't Understand asyncio - Outsider view of the asyncio ecosystem from 2016

Controlling Python Async Creep - Critical view of the asyncio architecture and ecosystem in 2018

Future-Proofing

It gets worse. Application code might do weird things like calling your async library from a thread, or calling your threaded code from a coroutine, but application code might also use something like gevent, twisted or tornado - async frameworks from the Python 2 era. Gevent adds green threads to the Python interpreter, and monkey-patches common i/o operations to allow task switching while waiting on blocking input. Twisted implemented its own event loop, but can now be used on top of a Python 3.6 SelectorEventLoop. The same goes for Tornado.

If your library monkey-patches i/o operations, that could create problems when you use more than one of them. If your library uses its own event loop, or even worse, implements its own event-based scheduling, then two different event-based libraries will block each other.

If you use a non-standard event loop/scheduler, it better be compatible with asyncio coroutines, and you better make sure to schedule all tasks in the same loop. If one library uses the default asyncio loop via get_event_loop(), and another creates a new one with Twisted or Tornado, you have a problem, and the tasks from these two libraries will not be interleaved.

In the future, we might get API improvements for=asyncio, but for backward compatibility, everybody has to support the old API. Somebody might write a nice, stable, thread-like interface on top of asyncio, like thredo (https://github.com/dabeaz/thredo), but if such an interface will need to have a way to call async code that uses the low-level asyncio module. Otherwise, you will get the same problems again, with the event loop and coroutines inaccessible and hidden behind a swanky interface.

Best Practices

If you are doing request-response-request-response things, wrap every request-response cycle in a lock to make sure another task doesn't accidentally get the response to your request.

If you read multiple times from a socket, for instance a first you read a length field, and then you read until you have read that many bytes, then wrap the whole thing in a lock.

If you read and write global or shared data structures, then make sure to either use locks, or to not await in between reading and writing.

If you are writing a library, don't hide away the async behind a synchronous API. Just write coroutines, and let the use create the event loop and schedule tasks.

If you provide a synchronous API, at least allow the user to pass in an event loop.

Do not create more than one event loop per program. You can have one per thread, but even that defeats the purpose of the event loop.

If you write your own high-level asyncio wrapper, please make it interoperable with plain asyncio.

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Developing with Node Js is a complicated process that calls for experience, skill, and understanding. If you want to build anything using Node Js, outsourcing is the way to go. However, outsourcing is also a complex task. Hence, this article will be helping you understand all about outsourcing node js development to a node js development company or nodejs experts.

Know about Node Js

The Node Js project developed a free and open-source server and client platform for running JavaScript code. Google Chrome's main engine, V8 JavaScript, may be used in standalone mode. In this way, programmers may create, test, and run cross-platform programmes in a setting other than a web browser.

Applications written with Node Js are single-process programmes. This eliminates the need to start a new thread for each request. In contrast to other server-side backend technologies, such as PHP, this is a major departure. To illustrate, consider this. In response to a user's file request on a PHP web server, PHP will dispatch the job to the file system. After that, PHP will hold off till the file system opens and reads it. PHP will then send the data back to the user. After that is done, PHP will be all set to take care of the next request.

However, Node Js takes a different approach. The number of simultaneous queries is not a concern. Node Js's asynchronous model eliminates the long delays common to other web server languages. In this setup, each request is handled independently of the others in the queue. More remarkably, it achieves this without necessitating excessive computational resources, making it a widely available and cheap option for node js programmers as well as businesses.

Benefits of using Node Js

Because of Node.js's horizontal and vertical scaling capabilities, developers can boost an app's speed and keep it from crashing.

 A specialised Node JS development  company may create a wide variety of chat servers, web servers, and other network applications using Node js's built-in APIs. Among the many types of servers that may be created are DNS Servers, TCP Servers, Jigsaw Servers, HTTPS Servers, and many more.

Thanks to Node.js's non-blocking capabilities, applications may continue functioning normally while awaiting data inputs. Information is sent while other operations are carried out simultaneously. As soon as it receives data from the server, it may immediately retrieve it.

For understanding the benefits in detail, you can contact Node js experts from a reputable node js development company.

Outsourcing vs In-House team of Node js programmers

For cost reasons, some businesses opt to undertake their own Node.Js development instead of hiring an outside nodejs development to handle it for them. A business that is creating its own product will need to establish its own information technology team. In-house team building and task immersion demands not only financial resources but also time, often at least three months.

Costs associated with outsourcing IT services, such as Node.Js development, are often lower than those associated with establishing an in-house IT department. The outsorcerer's familiarity with the processes involved in bringing products to market in a wide range of industries allows it to advise the client on the most adaptable technical approaches and aid in the timely delivery of the finished product. Thus, it is better to hire node js developers for outsourcing tasks.

Stepwise procedure to outsource Node Js Development

Focus on the most pressing issues and objectives and Create a strategy and allocate funds.

To begin, you should identify the primary issues you hope the new product will address for your company. You must create a strategy and set aside a specific amount of money for your project. With this information at hand, you and your potential future team of node js experts will have an easier time managing the creation of a new product.

Lay down your wants and needs.

The following step is to compile a list of your wants and needs. Specify what it is you hope to accomplish by working with the team of node js programmers. To get the desired results, it's crucial to provide as much specific information as possible about your project requirements. Workflow efficiency will increase as a result of this.

Find people that meet your most important criterion

The next thing to do is to decide on the most important criteria to use when evaluating potential prospects. Create a list of the necessary hard and soft talents for your team. We also suggest you create a candidate ideal to use in judging the quality of any future development teams or individual node js programmers.

Screen the node js experts

The next step is the screening, interviewing, and ultimately choosing of a candidate. Prepare thoroughly in advance of the interview. Identify critical issues by creating a list of questions. Keep in mind that the more information you gather from potential hires, the more equipped they will be to complete your job.

Execute the contract

When you've found the right developer or Node Js Development Company, it's time to start to work on a contract. In the end, that is all there is. One does not need to be a genius to hire a third-party Node js developer. The path to success is laid out in these elementary procedures.

Key Benefits of Outsourcing Node Js Development

You may save expenses considerably by hiring a third party to handle the development of your Node.Js applications. For the most part, this is because you won't have to set aside money to pay for your own in-house development staff. Budgets for the project's infrastructure, workforce, software, and hardware can all be reduced if outsourcing is used.

The availability of qualified local workers may be inadequate in some cases. Especially in the highly competitive field of Node.Js development, where it might take several months to locate a candidate with the required expertise.

When you outsource, the intermediate business handles the search for qualified professionals who meet your requirements. Potential recruits might even be located in other parts of the world.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we have discussed all the important aspects of outsourcing Node js development. Keep in mind the above information and outsource your node js development wisely. 

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