#(part 3 xeroxes)

[paintingpuff]

Badly Summarised WIPs Poll Tag

Saw this tag game and considering my dozen WIPs thought it would be fun, not really sure who to tag tho

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible

[guppybibi]

part 2 to the johnny fic!

notes: this was pretty rushed,,,so it is fast paced..if u guys dont like this one i could always rewrite it! :3

taglist: @ennovi-9 @vvenus-child @msilwrites @tessakate @beatriceshadowmarvel2 @montenegroisr (for some reason i cant tag the others??) i'll try to do so in the comments

Grief was never an easy thing to heal from to begin with, so Simon has kept a close eye on you ever since. You refused to believe him at first, trying to pull out some sort of proof that you were with Johnny this past year but to your own shock, there was none. Not a singular one.

Luckily, Simon had a xerox copy of Johnny’s death certificate. The original copy was with you but it seems that it was burned to ashes based on the reaction you gave when Simon dangled it over your face.

But you really weren’t believing him, shielded in the denial you were holding tightly close to you. “Where’s the urn with half of his ashes then, eh?” Simon throws the question at you, his words unintentionally harsher than expected.

But he really doesn't get what you've been trying to convince him to believe, don't you remember spreading Soap’s ashes? He expected you to at least remember that part.

“The…what?” That was all you could manage to say right now, your voice failing you now of all times. “The urn with his ashes.” He repeats, crossing his arms in front of his chest as he intently watches your expression.

Simon starts to wonder how hard of a psychosis you went through, or if you ever took drugs after Johnny’s death. That would explain the hallucinations as well, there's no shame in it either. It's not unusual for someone to turn to substances during mourning, it's a common coping mechanism.

All Simon wants to focus on is you, for you to get better. Fuck Johnny for leaving you alone like this, the pitiful sight almost made Simon's face be a constant scowl.

Okay..maybe he was exaggerating but he’ll definitely throw a middle finger up to the sky later. Simon knows it'll probably make Johnny laugh his ass off…or worry. It really depends if he knew your current situation.

Either way, none of that stuff matters much. You have no choice but to be in Simon’s care.

He’s not quite sure what to do when you start crying into his chest the moment you two stepped into your house, no longer a home. He remains still, lightly patting you on the back as he guides you to the couch.

He’ll be here for a while, won't he?

~~~

It's been weeks since you've known about Johnny’s death, but the only thing Simon could notice was the lack of improvement.

You were rotting in bed, relying on Simon completely for you to do basic tasks. You spent most of the time crying and sleeping, an endless cycle that even made Simon feel like he was going crazy.

“C’mon, eat up, luv. I made you some soup. We're runnin’ out of groceries as well, wanna tag along later?” He offers, holding up the spoon full of soup to your mouth. Expectedly, with a disinterested look, you turn your back on him.

He sighs, putting the bowl aside. “Alright, I won't make you go but the offer is still up.” He says, pausing when he hears footsteps get closer and closer to the door.

It's…weirdly familiar. Simon could recognize people based off of their footsteps alone, but he simply couldn't place his finger on this one. As it got nearer, you seemed to notice it as well..

The two of you make questioning looks at each other. “Stay there, I’ll go check it out.” Simon stood up, making his way to the door until a certain someone pops out.

“Bonnie? Ye there? Git us some groceries.”

…Another shared look between you and Simon.

“Oh good, there yer are, lass. Simon? You're here too? Glad there's another set of hands then.”

Simon’s gaze moved to you, seeing your eyes water up with tears. But that wasn't what caught his attention, it was the hole through this…Johnny’s head.

[hms-no-fun]

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[itwasnotahamster]

- Letters from the Dead - (Part 1)

Langhus, 21 March 1990 | © The Old Nick | Source: Letters from the Dead

The brackets will indicate possible context or corrections (sometimes commentary). - 💜

"Only Black is true, only Death is real!!! Gore is trend! Hello Nick! It's Dead here again. Hey- you're really good at drawing, I use to do some drawing stuff myself. I enclose something of it in this letter. Maybe we together can work something out, maybe even in Metal Destruction…? You asked of releases, if we need some artworks for that... Well we rarely give out much and as for the next release we'll probably have some photograph instead. But if we would need something that you might feel for help us out with I'll tell of it. So what we can use drawings for is for stuff like flyers, ads and letter­pages. So far I have done the drawings for that... well the main reason of that is that we have a (old!) xerox mashine and I'm the one in the band that 'can' draw. It's not so often that I have time left to spend hours or sometimes days by making drawings and too many don't like that kind of drawings I make (but fuck them wimps!). But onto the Deathlike Silence Prod. now. The 2nd edition of the 1st release on DSP. - Merciless is out now, the one you get here as promo. We're looking for distributors everywhere and everybody who can sell 10 (or more) records will receive a copy for free + that 10 records will be cheaper. As soon as this the 2nd ed. has paid, Imperator will go in studio.

Imperators LP will contain 8-10 songs (depending on how many "old demo songs" they'll use - but it'll be new trax as well) and it'll be entitled "The time before time". After that it'll probably be the colombian Masacre as the next release. Masacre will be very soon release a 7- inches with 3 demo songs on the greek label Scene of Love. That's a new started label and I hope they can give out enough copies, not limited ed. of it. Of course we give the bands free hands and they're not bounded to use at all, but I'm thinking of the fact that Masacre is selling so much... Only in Colombia their 1st, and only demo sold 1000 copies ( which is more than our Deathcrush demo has sold worldwide...). We can only press up 1000 copies each time of every edition of DSP, and the first ed. Of Merciless sold out as fast as we could pack and post it. This second ed. we recieved [received] for not a so long time ago will depend on how much stamps we can get, of how soon it'll sell out. In Norway it's very hard to sell records - it's far away from USA or South America and I don't think any real scene exists here. Do you think you can take care of some distribution/selling of DSP releases, or you maybe know someone else who's interested? [True dedication]. I think Merciless will be very easy to sell in Italy. Many zines exists there and we recieve many letters from there also. We also sell other records (given out by various underground labels) but it can be so different of what records of others releases we sell 'cos we usually don't get so many of them, so they sell out so soon. But anyway - I can tell of what we presently have got (except of Merciless)

LP's (£10000 + postage)

Agressor/Loudblast (split LP, France) "Licenced to thrash"

Arakain (Czechoslovakia, speed metal - I do not like this one!) "Thrash the Trash"

Nomed (France)... very boring mainstream... "Like..."

Abomination (USA)

Disharmonic Orchestra/Pungent Stench (Austria, split LP)

Malicious Intent (Canada) "Shades of black"

7's (£5000 + postage)

Asphyx (Holland, Limited ed. 1000 copies) "Mutilating Process"

Atrocity (Germany) "Blue Blood"

Pungent Stench (Austria) "Extreme Deformity"

Disharmonic Orchestra (Austria) "Successive Substitution"

Do not print this in Metal Destruction, I will explain it to you, ok. If you want any of these records above, please tell of how many and of what records so I can see how much the postage will be. Now over to Mayhem. For the first time we've been in studio and recorded 2 songs (first time with this line-up I mean). It'll be released on Chicken Brain Records, a swedish kind of underground label some time in this autumn. It'll be 8-19 other (swedish) bands on it, among them Merciless. I don't know the title of this compilation LP/CD. Our songs that'll be on it are "The Freezing Moon" and "Carnage". The Freezing Moon is a new one and pretty different from our other songs, as example it's a long guitar solo on a very long Doom part on it and that's because we wanted to have a solo at only one track (of our new ones). Carnage was made in '85 (!) so it's really old. It was on the 1st demo/reh - Pure Fucking Armageddon (released in only 100 copies and not available) but with the thought of the very bad sound on it we feeled for playing it again and try to keep the original sound of it. I'll tape these trax for ya but I'm not so sure of if it'll be enclosed in this letter or if I'll put this letter togeather [together] with the Merciless record but anyhow you'll get this tape. You can record it to others if you like to but please don't trade it, and I'll record some else bands too for filling out the rest of the tape. Have you heard of the INCREADIBLY KILLING GREAT band Tormentor from Hungary? Their demo is about 4 years old but it sounds like the Death/Black metal bands of today. We try to find out if they want a deal on DSP. But unfortunately they hardly speak any English at all so it seems like neither them or us understood it... We think of releasing a full-lengtht LP of Mayhem but it seems to take a fucking longtime before we got material enough for it... The only we know about it is a title that MUST be used - De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas. That was about all future plans I can tell of I guess. I look forward to see Metal Destruction. There's a possibility that we can sell it also, but I can't say if for sure.

About Satanism... well, I'd like to join a very underground and Illful, Evil and Grim Coven. I think you know of the hassles by finding any or getting any contact with a such. I do NOT like what's created by Anton LaVey like 1st Church of Satan. I came in contact with a dude who's a degree in the American Satans Sons - Church of Satan and he explained of it has nothing to do with LaVey at all. I asked of if it does exist in Europe also and of what it is exactly... well he didn't reply. But I heard later thet Satans Sons shall exist in Europe but I still don't know in which countries it is. In Norway it's not much of this, but in Sweden (-I am swedish) that 1st Church shall be in Stockholm (the capital there) and it shall be about 5 churches built by satanic sects, used only by satanists, mostly it's under christian churches - like the one under "Mariakyrkan" (Mary's Church) in the South of Stockholm where the 1st Church of Satan use to hang around at. I know it exists really Dark covens that use human sacrifices and are eating human flesh - them are those I try to find. I do not know much about magic and I can't say I'm a practicer of it 'cos I havn't succed. What is depending on what one can do in magic (all of its kind) is of what books one can get...those are hidden in libraries and so hard to even see... 'cos of course they don't let anyone even see them. You must be a scientist or something like if you would see the microfilms of that kind of books. A great library of many various kinds of magical arts and the Blackest of Black Arts too is the British Museum in London. But it's so damned difficult to get ones claws on those books. One book I really wanna get is De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas, unfortunately it exists only in one copy... are you practicing any magic and do you know of any covens? Have you seen/heard/felt anything supernatural? I have but I didn't understand much of what that was and I think the most of it was only so-called echoes from the past or the future [I am curious about this]. Do you know anything about astral planes and out-of body travelling? You seem to be into it and I agree about stupid trendmakers so it is something that I feel I can tell you of. I had a weird experience once, I had inner bleedings and it couldn't be found at x-rays so when it continued to bleed and bleed I finally fainted and dropped down the floor 'cos I run out of blood. The heart had no blood left to beat and my veins/artairs were almost emptied of blood. "Tecnically" I was dead. At that moment I fell down (into a door I heard of later) I saw a strange blue colour everywhere, it was transparent so I could, for a short moment, see everything in blue, till something shining white and "hot" surrounded me. What happened later is out of interest, I woke up when some ambulance men came and drove me to a hospital and there the bastards of surgery started to cut me up at the wrong side so I got a huge scar for that. However, it's someone I know who's had many out of body experiences and is using magic of various kinds and knows much more than I do of "supernatural" experiences, that I asked of this 'cos it was so strange about those colours. She told me that the first 'plane' in the astral world has the colour blue. The "earthly" plane has the colour black, then comes a grey one that is very near the earthly one and is easy to come to. The next one further is blue, and then it gets brighter and brighter till it "stops" at a white-shining one that can't be entered by mortals. IF any mortal succee enter it, that one is no longer a mortal and can not come back to the other planes nor back to this earth. After the white plane or level or whatever it goes further with other colour I don't know of, there only spirits and great sorcerers can travel. I was told that the white plane I then entered, without I knew it, was the dead world and I died. But I also got thrown back after a short time which very rarely happens. So of what I've heard of I have some kind of purpose to achieve here."

Reached the limit for this one, I will add on!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Frank Vyan Walton at Dark Skies on the Horizon:

At last, Pete Hegseth has stepped forward to answer questions about the Secret Signal Chat which inadvertently included Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg. Each of the members of this controversy have come forward in the past to strongly criticize Hillary Clinton for her email scandal arguing that she clearly should be “Locked Up.”

[...] 1. Hegseth as head of an agency has the ability to declassify that agency’s information, as he has apparently done with the information from the chat. Hillary also had this ability, only she delegated it to her staff - which is allowed. They used it to downgrade the classification of notes they sent her from (C) "Confidential" - one of the lowest levels of classification to (U) "Unclassified." They left them as (C) to indicate that the source material had been Confidential, these markings would appear in paragraphs where these quotations from other documents were inserted. There were only 3 emails where this was the case. There were additional messages (110) which the FBI considerd “classified” at the time they were sent and (2,093) that were “retroactively” determined to contain classified information by the FOIA office, Hillary herself sent 104 of these messages — none of those were marked classified when created. This is not a small issue — decades ago I worked for 12 years in a classified environment and in that world every document had to have a classification mark of some type. Usually Confidention, Secret, Top Secret or Unclassified. The markings exist so that there is clarity as to how each document is to be treated and protected. For example, only Unclassified documents can go in the normal trash — everything else had to be disposed of in a “burn barrell.” All classified documents had to be stored in locked cabinets when not being read, used, or when unclassified personel were in the room. Xerox copies could not be made of classified documents. My job for the first 5 years included literally placing the classification markings on all computer printed documents. If a document was mis-marked when printed, it had to be destroyed. From what I can tell these message were not intended to contain classified info, but in the course of the back and forth discussions happening in those emails classified subjects were referenced. Again, having worked in a classified environment [albiet prior to the common use of email], the subject of the environment itself can come up in discussion. Specifically I worked as part of the B2 Stealth Bomber and other projects, and although the very existence of that bomber and project was technically “classified” — it was also common knowledge and theory that it existed and it was regularly referenced in the media. Just talking about the media reports as a part of doing their job could technically be considered a “classified” discussion, even if that wasn’t the intent. It really depends on exactly what was said and whether it revealed something sensitive that the media didn’t know.

Similarly, The fact that Hegseth’s messages weren’t “marked” classified doesn’t mean that they weren’t potentially damaging. The details of the attack were not known in the media. 2. Regardless of classification status, the legal statute relates to deliberate or negligent release of "National Defense" information which the Signal Chat certainly was so the fact that Hegseth has declassified them retroactively doesn't matter - either way, it should have been considered classified, and really, the fact that they claim that it isn’t is frankly a bigger scandal than a reporter being in the chat group. [...] Hillary's server was never breached or hacked although attempts were made and thwarted by her dedicated IT staff. This likely wouldn't have happened if she had used a service like yahoo.com or gmail.com, and she would have been hacked just as the State dept internal email system was previously hacked by GRU. If she had had an official State Dept email account — they would have already hacked her. GRU also accessed the White House email system as well as the DNC and Hillary's campaign chairman John Podesta fishing for the non-government emails from Hillary that had been deleted from her private server. [...] 5. Attacking Goldberg for the Atlantic correctly reporting on Russia's hacking and influence operations, or the Mueller investigation, cases and convictions is not "lying" about Trump. From what I’ve been able to find the Atlantic reported on the Mueller investigation and even criticized it at the time, but they didn’t engage in rank speculation and most of the stories weren’t written by Goldberg. So exactly why are they attacking Goldberg personally as a “partisan hack” when his name usually isn’t on the Byline? Well, except to generally discredit him. At the end of Mueller’s Russia investigation, 25 Russians were indicted for email hacking and using social media to influence the election, 8 Trumpers were convicted, 5 of them for lying under oath about their communications with Russians. If there was nothing to hide, exactly why were they lying under oath about Russia? Repeatedly, right from the beginning, Trump denied the involvement of the Russians in the hack.

Signalgate was a bigger breach of national security than Hillary Clinton’s emails ever were.

[greenhorn-art]

Quest Fulfilled by Invidia_Envy @alsheon

Fandom: 全职高手 | The King's Avatar

Rating: Not Rated

Category: Other

Words: 10,370

In a meet and greet event, Ye Xiu is forced to hang around despite not joining the event at all. Whilst loitering around, Ye Xiu met a fanboy and made an unlikely friendship with the kid. Accident happened and the boy can't join the meet and greet, Ye Xiu decided to take his place. The pros are all speechless, why is Ye Qiu lining up in Tyranny's booth?

ABOUT THE BOOK

FORMAT: Letter quarto (trimmed), flatback casebinding, french link stitch, no tapes

FONTS: Times New Roman, Permanent Marker [via Google Fonts], KaiTi, Roboto [via Google Fonts], Arty Signature [via Font Space]

MATERIALS: 24lb Xerox Bold Digital paper (8.5"x11"), 80pt binder's board (~2mm), 30/3 size waxed linen thread, 1.9mm cording, yellow cardstock, Verona bookcloth: Hot Toffee, DecoArt Crafter's Acrylic Yellow Gold, 20lb printer paper, paste wax

PROGRAMS USED: Affinity Publisher, Bookbinder-JS

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Quest Fulfilled! This was a sweet little fic, and it's been on the list in the back of my mind for a while. Now it's book 3 of 3 of my mini 'they didn't know he was Ye Qiu' collection.

[First, Second, Third]

Set in Times New Roman, with Permanent Marker on the AO3 info page, and with Chinese characters in KaiTi, to match with the other two books.

Because the main story is about Ye Xiu getting the pros' autographs for a sickly boy, I styled the author's name like a signature. Arty Signature is nice and messy, while still legible.

I chose a golden yellow bookcloth because yellow is a happy, optimistic colour, and gold is precious — Little Yan brings home stories and a trove of signed merch for his sick brothers, including exclusive autographs from the elusive God Ye Qiu! I was also thinking of autographs being done with a gold marker.

The endpapers are yellow cardstock, continuing with the bookcloth-endpaper colour coordination of the set.

I used my book plough to trim the textblock, then painted the edges with gold acrylic paint. The gold felt especially fitting for this book.

For all that I curse while doing it, sewing the endbands is actually one of my favourite parts of the book making process, so this collection was my first time making faux endbands. The books are so thin that sewing would be a pain.

The same paste wax applied to the paper label is the same that I used on my bind of Prince of Shadows, Lord of Thieves. Made from wax and turpentine and/or mineral spirits, but ratio and specifics unknown.

[7redmoon]

Wangxian children au headcanons:

1. Sizhui is wangxian's child in every universe they exist, so the child no 1 is Lan Sizhui ok.

2. Child no 2 happens because wangxian wants to see toddlers running around. So cue baby no 2. For baby no 2 wwx's genes strikes. The baby, a boy, looks exactly like lwj but he's got the personality of wwx. Yk, like wwx looks a lot like Wei Changze but he's got the personality of Cangse Sanren? The same. Golden eyes always scrunched up in a bright smile, pale skin that seems to blend into his father's when held in lwj's arms (For the first 7 months of his life, Lwj refuses to put him down. It reaches to the point that concerns of attachment issues are raised, yk, on Lan Wangji's part). He's loud. So loud, that no noise in cloud recess is a bygone memory. But he's an easy baby. No fuss most of the time, pretty independent (the number of times half of the cloud recess lost their wits because the baby decided to wander off on his own. Too independent, Wei wuxian would say.), eats pretty much everything.

Now they HAVE to try for another baby.

3. Child no 3 happens quickly too. The two babies have only 2 year of age difference. This time, the Lan gene strikes and baby 2 is a Xerox copy of baby no 1. Lan Xichen is beyond delighted by it. The unfortunate outcome of this deal is that baby no 2 inherited Lwj's personality. Quiet, most of the time, but when he gets fussy, Boyyyyy, does he get fussy. Wei wuxian and Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen, Lan Sizhui have a running list of who's had to console the little young master longest. Lan Xichen is leading much to Lan Wangji's dismay. It was for 9 hours in a row. Baby no 2 is a picky eater. Wei wuxian wonders if he should begin to make offerings to gods so that whatever the food he prepares will not be spit out. Lan Wangji silently defends his son's picky eating. Wei Wuxian knows this, so he makes sure he doesn't let the little tyrant get away with wasting food. Baby no 2 disagrees. Chaos ensues. This goes on for a while to the point that both wwx and lwj are on the verge of a burnout. Then Lan Qiren sweeps in with an explosive scowl and demands "give him here". Baby continues screaming for 5 seconds then quietens. He's perfectly content to nestle in Lan Qiren's rocking. Lan Xichen feels betrayed. Lan Wangji feels betrayed. Wei Wuxian feels relieved. From then on, Grand master Lan will magically appear when his grand nephew is throwing a fuss.

Baby no 3 is perfectly well behaved with his older brother. Anyone who sees them together makes starry eyes at them because Lord, aren't they identical. People start calling them the new Twins jades of Lan. Wei wuxian jokes that if they made another baby, the little ones can be called triplet jades of Lan. Lan Wangji takes no jokes so he pounces on Wei Wuxian. So baby no.4 happens.

4. At this point there's a bet about who the baby is going to look like. Everyone bets on "like their brothers". There are no counter bets. Wwx is dismayed that the Lans don't know how to make bets. Jiang Cheng silently hopes the new one will look like his brother. And finally the delivery happens.

The baby is handed to Wei Wuxian, washed up and swaddled in soft cotton. It's a girl, they say, but it falls on deaf ears. Wei Wuxian has stopped breathing, but his tears are flowing. Jiang Cheng squeezes his brother's shoulders. He doesn't know who the baby resembles, but he can guess. Wei Wuxian bows his head, touching his brows to the baby's soft chest, and thanks every deity that exists for the blessing that is his daughter. He hands the baby over to Lan Wangji, laying sweaty and exhausted on the bed. Lan Wangji takes the baby, and spares his husband a glance. Wei Wuxian quietly mutters "Mother", then Lan Wangji understands. It is later, when he is rocking the baby, that she opens her eyes for the first time. Blue eyes, deep blue. The fragrance of Gentians envelops Lan Wangji and he weeps where he stands. Both of them decide to name the baby after Lan Wangji's mother. When she grows up, her honourary name shall be Cangse. She will grow up, strong and bright, surrounded by family. She will grow up free and belonged in the cloud recess grounds. She shall not be bound by anything, but love. Ones who love her will ensure it.

[emwheezie]

You want some oc questions i'll give you some oc questions:

For those that dye their hair, do they have hair dying hangouts and if so, at whose house?

Do any of them have pets?

And do you have any other personality "identifiers" like zodiac or meyers briggs stuff for them? Oooh maybe like their animal crossing personality (if you've ever played that)

Thanks for your questions!!!

hmm I've never really considered this! Gia and Theo probably would, she has bright blue hair and at some point Theo gets pink hair. Also they're married so it makes the most sense hahaha... Dimitri and Oli might too, Dimitri's purple and Oli is blond but the back/underneath of his hair is black.

Oh and I'm just now remembering that Dimitri and Liv definitely do this together. I even drew them, this takes place at a way later part in the story.

It would make a cute non-canon illustration to draw them all doing their hair together though!

This is Dimitri's elderly beagle Fenway!! and also a TERRIBLE doodle of Lennon (very outdated design) with Alyssa's cats from January 2020. (I was a college animation major and trying to gear my art style closer to some cartoony stuff) One of Alyssa's cat's name is Plumbob. I thought for sure we had names for the other two but I can't find it in my notes at all! Eventually Lennon and Alyssa get two more cats together and Lennon names them Monopoly and Xerox. Alyssa's dream pet is a cow and she wants to name it Peanut Butter!!

Here is most of the character's birthdays and signs and some MBTI

Lennon McManus - June 21 1986. Cancer. ISFP.

Dimitri William Stanley Wretzky - October 3 1983. Libra. ENFP

Enzo Vincenzo - November 1 1986. Scorpio. ISTJ

Theodore (Theo) Stussy - February 20 1984. Pisces.

Olivier LaBlanc - April 2 1985. Aries.

Olivia (Liv) Godding - July 30 1985. Leo.

Rosalynn (Rosie) Langley - January 28 1986. Aquarius.

Parker (Park) Oakley  - December 3 1989. Sagittarius.

Alyssa (needs a last name ahhhh) - May 19 1989. Taurus.

I'd give them animal crossing personality types but the categories are too narrow? If that makes sense.

[kyanako5972]

SWAP originals! :D

From Day 3 until the end. I sadly lost Day 1 and Day 2 along with my zip-up planner long ago, though I do have the original scans for those.

Also not included are the pages that were drawn on 1/8 sheets and digitally edited together. A lot of those were given away as part of the deviantArt holiday card project back when those were still a thing.

But yeah, I did this whole series on mostly 1/2 sheets of yellow xerox paper. Hooray!

[ovcvlt]

"Searching, waiting for something to love again. 'Till then, I'll be wandering through the in-between"

Xerox, the Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Splixson, from the planet Hathor

This is no ordinary Splixson. It's an unique one, to put it at that. His eyes are pure white, looking as if they were scribbled on his face. He remains sporting the whiskers that regular Splixsons have, as well as the 3 horns, alongside the lines going down from the eyes. While still chunky, short and adorable, he's a bit more slim, with legs far less stubby unlike the regular species. Xerox also has long, soft, straight black hair with a fringe to the right, in an emo fashion, with parts of the fringe and a few streaks dyed with an electric pink colour.

Similar to his species, he remains at a rather small stature, no taller than a human child, if not just a very tiny bit taller, but a difference so small you basically cannot tell the difference in height between him, a child, and another of his species. He sports a mostly dark outfit, with a dark grey hoodie, and jeans of a darker shade. His shoes have an interesting palette: a really desaturated, almost grey-ish purple colour, alongside darker cerice soles & toes. Underneath the clothing, there are several sensory orbs/nubs all over his body.

One interesting note about this specific transformation, is that unlike the rest of his brethren at his home planet of Hathor, he appears to have stitches all over him; his face, neck, limbs, etc. and he seems to be more like a living, breathing plushy, given that when he's seen duplicating himself, he rips out his limbs, and there's red dyed toy stuffing within his body, albeit still having organs and such. He sports skin of varying hues of green, as it almost looks like if he's had several skin grafts, which are also connected to the body with the stitches aforementioned. Another peculiar thing to notice about this particular form, is that he doesn't look as vicious or monstrous or aggressive as the rest, nor does he look "mutated" or malformed.

Abilities:

Enhanced Speed

Enhanced Durability

Sharp Teeth

Self Duplication

Conjoined Cloning

Enhanced Reflexes

Enhanced Acrobatics

Enhanced Agility

Underwater Breathing

Clone Dissipation

Regeneration

Weaknesses:

Small Size (Vulnerable to bigger enemies)

Electricity Vulnerability

Immobilised By Ice

Forced Combination

Panuncian Predation

Poor Cold Resistance

Recharge Mode Inhibition (Cannot turn back to human if all clones aren't dissipated or if they're too far away to come back and combine as one)

[chronotsr]

Pre-G1 Modules, part 3 - Lost Caverns of Tsojconth

That's Tsojonth, with the O. Many early adventures debuted not in published form, but in home games and tournament modules, and Tsojconth is the most famous example. This will actually be a super brief post because we'll be talking about Tsojcanth later in more detail, when we're in the full press of the TSR module era. Tsojconth debuts as a module for the tournament at WinterCon V in 1976, and it's a Gary Gygax number. That's right, G1 isn't even the first Gary module to make it to public consumption! Anyway, WinterCon was set up by the Metroi Detroit Gamers. You *could* actually buy this module, although it wasn't "official" TSR fare.

Again, I kind of miss the hand-inked era of TTRPG art. A lot of people are fans of that pre-big money TSR look that is very evocative despite being not very proficient, and I feel like this hand-penned look is the prototypical example of this. This is literally just a road with some guys walking into a cave in the mountains past a graveyard, and yet the vibes are *immaculate*. Side note, I am personally very fond of Tasha (Iggwilv), so I'm always happy to see her earliest depiction is super early here, even if she is a contextless name.

In a nice little touch, all the parallel games of Tsojconth at WinterCon V were all canon to one another. That is, Tsojconth is a "nexus of probability", meaning that you can conceivably meet other players playing the same pre-generated characters in your session. It's cute!

If you are not somehow aware of the concept of a tournament module (especially if you're a 5e player), here's the quick rundown. The high lethality and unforgiving nature of early DND meant that "winning" DND was still considered a thing you could do. Remember, DND was born from the wargaming scene. Consequently, they would compete in tournaments at conventions to see which group of people could clear a dungeon, and among those who could clear it with the most treasure, least mistakes, and least casualties. This is part of where the "impartial judge" mindset comes from that you often see in graybeard gamers, its got its genetics in the competitiveness of wargaming. That's not to say your uncle Joe *only* believes this because he played tin soldiers in 1970, but that's part of it. Damage did average damage, wandering monsters were disabled (their game design utility doesn't really matter if the players are already trying to go as fast as possible and there's no campaign after this), healing was standardized, et c. Points would be tabulated at the end.

Interestingly for Tsojconth specifically (I don't know how generally true this is), at the halfway point survivors of the lower caves would be integrated into new groups for the next level, Survivor-style. Again, it's very cute.

Eck. I don't know if it's the old xerox job or what but this looks like shit! I'm not much of a paper map person, I usually use mapping software, but my few on-paper dungeons look....a little less slapdash than this. Maybe it was in a rush?

I get that they're trying to conserve paper because this is for a tornament but the font is killer on my eyes. Anyway! There is not much to report that will not be covered eventually in the S4 post, so I will instead leave you with a quick collage of illustrations, and finally a *vintage* character sheet. Cya later!

[taoistpenguin]

making music in the 1980s - then vs. now

I see a lot of young musicians on social media saying they’re considering quitting music because they haven’t gotten enough clicks or likes or follows. I’ve been writing, performing and getting paid from music since the early ‘80s so I thought I’d provide some context of what the game was like back then, in my case in New York City, in the pre-social media, pre-video universe:

Among my friends, deciding to play music wasn’t a career choice, it was driven by a need for creative self-expression. There weren’t schools or online courses promising shortcuts to glory like there are now. Sure, you wanted to be successful, but that wasn’t the primary motivation. You did it because you literally knew no other way to express yourself. It’s not an exaggeration to say music was life and death for a lot of people.

You got a day job that you didn’t care about, just to pay your rent and bills. You saved every extra penny to buy gear. You split the cost of a rehearsal space and spent every night of the week doing something musical. If you weren’t rehearsing, you were gigging, and if you weren’t gigging or rehearsing, you were on the scene, checking out bands, making connections, trying to become part of a community.

When the band was ready you paid maybe $350 to go to an 8-track studio and make a 3-song demo tape. Yes, there were cassette portastudios and reel to reel decks, but most people didn’t have the necessary space or outboard equipment to make a professional sounding home demo. Yes, you could do it in an empty loft or garage with your own gear, but it would sound like crap. After you made the demo you took a band photo. Good music videos were expensive, so that wasn’t really an option.

You copied your demo and photo and took them to every club you wanted to play. You got the booker’s phone number and would call every week on a landline – no cell phones, so no texting - to harass them about when they were gonna book you. When you did get a gig, you hoped it was a good time slot. Back then, nightlife didn’t start until around 10pm, so if you got an earlier slot you were bummed. Midnight was prime time, and it wasn’t unusual to see bands playing full rooms at 1 or 2 am.

To promote your show, you xeroxed your homemade flyers, went out in the middle of the night, and stuck them to every flat surface you could find in as many parts of town as you could cover. In the days before email, you also mailed flyers to the mailing list that you got by asking people to write their names and addresses on a clipboard at your shows.

When it was time for the gig, if you didn’t own a band van, you hired one to get you and your gear there and back. If you played well enough and brought enough people to your show, the club would book you again. If you were serious and didn’t let drugs and drink get in the way, your band would improve and eventually you’d start getting better time slots on better nights. As word of mouth spread, you’d get bookings in different neighborhoods and eventually out of town.

Throughout all of this you’d be sending tapes and photos to press and record labels, inviting them to your shows and trying to get signed. If you were lucky, the Village Voice or a local zine would write about you, and sometimes that led to more shows in new places. If you stayed in the game long enough and behaved professionally enough, you eventually met people who enjoyed what you were trying to do, and tried to help you. But mainly you said “yes” to every potential opportunity.

There were plenty of nights when there weren’t a lot of people in the room. I remember playing at CBGB once when the only person there was the bartender. What did we do? We rocked as hard as we ever did, and got him nodding his head and air drumming along with us. We figured this guy had seen a thousand bands at that job, so if we could get him to respond we took it as a victory,

All this to say that if you’re thinking of giving up because you’re not gaining a bunch of superficial followers on social media, you might not be in this for the right reasons. Likes and follows don’t require any real investment in your career. They’re fair weather friends. Don’t chase trends. Focus on making music that matters and hit it hard every single time.

[fernpapst]

Sara Deraedt dyson, 2014 Canon, Ricoh and Xerox prints 5 parts: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.92 × 20.96 cm) 14 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (36.20 × 26.67 cm) framed 1 part: 11 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (29.85 × 20.96 cm) 17 × 12 1/4 inches (43.18 × 31.12 cm) framed

[saltysideblog]

❁❁ Daisy ❁❁

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A self indulgent Nice Guys OC

Summary: Getting ready. Technically Part 3.

Part 1 Part 2 ❁ Part 4

A/N: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The bathroom was cramped and the mirror was dirty, but it was the only one available in the cheap rental. Daisy adjusted her earrings and caught a glimpse of someone watching her.

An older man leaned against the doorframe, brown hair falling in loose curls on his forehead. She smiled at him in the reflection,

“What?”

He shrugged and smirked, “Nothin’. You look pretty.”

She chuckled, resting her hands against the sink, “Yeah?”

He took two steps and his arms were around her waist, head resting on her shoulder,

“Yeah,” he pointed at her reflection in the mirror, “you’re gonna kill it today.”

She rolled her eyes, but made no effort to push him away, “It’s a conference, not a competition.”

“For sure. You’re still gonna kill it though.”

He kissed her neck to punctuate his sentence.

“I will?”, she leaned into his embrace.

“Oh yeah…”

He kissed her neck again,

“Aaaand you’ll take lots of notes?”

She dropped her playful tone, “I will?”

“Yeah, c’mon. It’s just a few notes…”

She spun around, his hands still resting on her waist as she did so.

“Y’know sometimes, I think you’re just with me for the stories.”

He pouted,

“That’s not true…”, his hands fell to her hips, tugging her forwards, “I’m with you for the sex too.”

She smacked his chest, chuckling, “Fred!”

The boyish grin that illuminated his face was enough to light up the Vegas strip. He wiggled his eyebrows as he slowly closed the gap between them. She giggled and squealed as he suddenly kissed all over her face.

“I’m gonna be late!”

“Better kiss me goodbye then!”

He was relentless in his attacks, she barely had time to retaliate.

“Here!”, she grabbed his face, gently squishing his cheeks, planting a firm kiss to his lips, “Goodbye!”

He pretended to melt, falling to the floor dramatically. She shook her head at him,

“Is that from the kiss or the LA heat?”

“Both”, he sighed.

She stepped over him. He didn’t budge.

“The floor’s gross.”

“Hey, at least the tiles are nice and cool, you should try it.”

“Dad!”

Holly shook her father’s shoulder.

“Dad! Get up!”

Holland groaned, shifting on the bathroom floor,

“Five more minutes…”

The young girl scoffed,

“You’re gonna be late.”

She watched as her father curled in on himself, clutching the fancy bottle of whiskey closer to his chest,

“Late for what?”

She kicked her father’s shoe,

“The conference.”

“Conference?”

He slowly peeled himself from the cold tile,

“What conference?”

Her eyes went wide, “You’re kidding, you promised to take it seriously.”

As Holland sat up, wiping the sleep from his eyes, his brain finally caught up,

“I am.”

Holly adjusted her backpack, “And you’re driving me to school.”

“I am?”

Before she coud even voice her disappointment, he held his hands up in surrender, “I am, I am!”

She sighed, “That couldn’t have been comfortable.”

Holland shrugged and shook his head, world spinning as he did so,

“Well, the tiles are really nice. It’s very refreshing. You should try it sometime.”

She managed a smile and a small chuckle,

“Maybe when we aren’t late.”

“Plus you get a free face tattoo.”

He gestured to the imprint left on his face. Holly laughed, exasperated, tugging on his sleeve,

“C’mon let’s goooo!”

Healy brushed his teeth and tore the first page off his word of the day calendar. He read aloud,

“Expeditiously.”

He spat in the sink, continuing, “Done with speed and efficiency.”

Wiping his mouth, he used it in a sentence,

“The investigation was carried out expeditiously.”

He thought of March and their last case. Sidetracked for hours, searching for his wallet. It made him chuckle.

He ran his mental checklist:

Fish

Keys

Jacket

Address

Address. He needed the address. After quickly glancing around, he found the flyer where he’d left it on the coffee table. A bright orange thing, Xeroxed to hell,

7th annual,

LA Private Dicks & Sleuthing Chicks,

networking event

If it was up to him, he wouldn’t go. Not a fan of the name, but he promised Holly.

He carefully folded the gawdy piece of paper and placed it in his pocket.

“Here we go…”

[biblioflyer]

The writer's strike and franchise fatigue: two heads of the same coin?

Context: I'm shamelessly reposting a comment on a popular webforum where someone posed the question "What's next for Star Wars?" that prompted a lot of discussion about the whats and whys of what's working, what isn't, and of course everyone's favorite hobby: performing yet another autopsy on the Sequel Trilogy. I declined to go there in favor of speculating on the production side.

Ultimately I think the future of Star Wars requires Disney to do what a lot of franchise owners have been resistant to doing for various reasons: allow their creative teams a wide latitude to fully develop their ideas without unnecessarily harsh deadlines tied to quarterly earnings reports. Now that isn't to say that projects can fail on their own merits.

I don't know for a fact that Book of Boba Fett was timid, awkward, and boring because the showrunners couldn't make a cut that worked with the time and resources allotted, but we were mostly all impressed with Rodrigues' work on Mando so we were cautiously optimistic that a Cool Gangster Drama with Boba Fett could be a thing. So what the hell happened? Solve that mystery and I think you ensure that Star Wars has a future.

Looking at another popular "Star" franchise, we see a lot of similar problems with uneven writing and what seems to be differing opinions both inside and outside the franchise as to what exactly it means for something to carry that name. What sort of stories can you tell? How do you tell them? Can you have a point of view character or does it always have to be ensemble? Can you deconstruct the setting only to reconstruct and reaffirm it in the finale without losing the fans?

What explains "bad" writing? Coercion by the studio? Writer inexperience? Showrunner inexperience? A failure to find the right balance between modernizing the storytelling of a franchise without it becoming illegible as part of that franchise or to cling so hard to fan service that it is afraid to experiment and becomes a less interesting and murkier Xerox of itself?

Something that I found fascinating in the discourse around the writer's strike is that the format of streaming TV with its short seasons has turned everyone involved in these productions into gig workers. Unless you're one of a half dozen showrunners who have helmed widely acclaimed franchises, modern tv has become severely siloed on the production side: writers have limited opportunities to learn directing, editing, and show running. They also have limited opportunities to see how their work translates to the screen when it lands in the hands of directors, actors, set decorators, and FX artists.

If you add up all of the live action Star Trek shows produced to date, you end up with 8 seasons of streaming that equal roughly 4 seasons of broadcast era TV. Which means that under the old paradigm, a traditional TV show would only now just be airing its second "good" season. Which, shockingly enough, maps very neatly to attitudes about Strange New Worlds and Picard Season 3, and to a lesser extent Discovery season 4.*

*To the extent it will ever be allowed to make a second impression, which is another seeming "problem" of the streaming era that needs addressing since any "failed" first season is very likely to result in a sub-franchise that is going to get cauterized and forgotten about given the era of a permissive financial environment for funding additional seasons and permitting a production to recover and learn from their mistakes is pretty much dead and gone.

Were I Disney, given these realities, I would probably fund 2 or 3 "stables" of Star Wars writers and production teams. One for light hearted action comedy, one for "serious drama," and a third for something more esoteric. Maybe a fourth for big budget tentpole films. Keep them employed and give them opportunities to develop their tradecraft.

Don't be so quick to slash and burn a dud, use failure as permission to experiment. If nobody cares about Book of Boba Fett anyway, why not take some risks and see if some writers who are claiming they can turn in a second season that can "fix" the first season by turning the stories that go nowhere or are halfhearted into the first chapters in more meaningful stories? People already tend to avoid series that have only one season anyway and become ever more likely to do so the more time passes without more seasons so you're just throwing away your investment by not trying to salvage it.

This is incidentally why I'm not antagonistic towards the prospect of trying to rehabilitate the Sequel Trilogy. The Prequels are poorly made but were rich in potential. That potential was not left on the table, it was exploited until we can no longer separate the Prequels as they originally stood from all of the tie in media that added depth and nuance to the setting and storybeats.

So were I Disney and I have all of these props and set pieces in storage doing me absolutely no good, then of course it will eventually be time to try to make the Sequel Trilogy good. Maybe do some Director's Cuts and then build out the universe to make it feel less claustrophobic and less overtly a bigger, louder, dumber rehash of the Original Trilogy.

[queermtl]

Queer MTL things to do: April 2025

Queer MTL things to do: April 2025  

April’s here, and when it comes to LGBTQ+ fun, Montréal ain’t fooling around. Like every month, Montréal is stuffed to the brim with events, parties and unique experiences painted in all the colours of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. From drag to community, circuit to underground, here’s some of our picks for the best LGBTQ+ things to do in the city. For further announcements, including those not announced at time of publication, follow QueerMTL on Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr! Got an event coming up? DM it our way!  

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🎥 Cinema   👑 Drag   🥳 Parties   🎶 Concert   ✊ Activism   🏳️‍⚧️ Trans   🏳️‍🌈 Community   😆 Comedy   🎭 Performance   💪 Sports   👯‍♀️ Dance   🎤 Karaoke   🎨 Arts   📚 Literary / Educational   👠 Ballroom / Vogue  

Tuesday, April 1, 2025   🎨 Pointe-à-Callière’s exhibition Witches—Out of the Shadows runs until April 6, 2025, Pointe-à-Callière   👑 Full Gisèle : Sex in the city with Gisèle Lullaby, Jessie Précieuse, Marla Deer, Clay Thorris and Bambi Dextrous, Cabaret Mado  🏳️‍🌈 Chambre de Commerce LGBT du Québec hosts a Cocktail de la diversité, Casino de Montréal  🎥 Sean Baker’s Anora, Cinema Moderne       Wednesday, April 2, 2025   🎨 @Hommehomo hosts Drink & Draw with live model, Bar Le Cocktail  🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles  🎶 Heart: Royal Flush Tour 2025 with Cheap Trick, Bell Centre     Thursday, April 3, 2025   🎶 Ninja Sex Party with TWRP, MTELUS  🎥 Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door, Cinema du Musée   🎥 Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, Cinema Moderne   👑 Sashalicious: Bad Girls Academy with Sasha Baga, Crystal Starz and Tracy Trash, Cabaret Mado  👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Friday, April 4, 2025   🏳️‍🌈 Button Making Workshop, Centre communautaire LGBTQ de Montréal  🎥 David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Cinema Moderne   🎥 David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Cinema du Parc   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Bobépine, Sasha Baga, Rawxy and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Saturday, April 5, 2025   🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec and Mes pants de queer host a Zine Workshop as part of the  queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec  🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra   🎭 Cult of AnarchKey presents QUEERCORE: Rock N Roll—Queer Cabaret of classic Rock + Metalwith Korra AnarchKey, Infernal Desires, Jaqq Strapp, Mx Honey Jack, Mortal Mess, Just Hxrny, Woody Fungi and Sir Vergon, Complex Sky  🥳 Club Palo presented by Palomosa and (Avec)Courage UBISOFT, with A. Deeplove (Andrew Vanwyngarden / MGMT), Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] 🥳 Esc and Trilфbeat presentMasters of Puppets Canada Teaser: Montréalwith Juanija, Sonik23, Judge Ming, Antonymous, Noein and Helox,ESC  🎥 David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Cinema Moderne   🎥 David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Cinema du Parc   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Bobépine, Sasha Baga, Rawxy and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Céline with Jimmy Moore, Cabaret Mado  👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, April 6, 2025   🎭 La ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado  👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado  👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 🎥 Sean Baker’s Anora, Cinema Public   🎥 David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Cinema du Parc        Tuesday, April 8, 2025 👑 Full Gisèle : Freaks with Gisèle Lullaby, Uma Gahd, Selma Gahd, Aizysse Baga and Lady Boom Boom, Cabaret Mado  👑 Eye of Horus presents Arcane—The Drag Show with Kleopatra Perfection, Prudence, Val The Freak, Sardonyx, Skyy and Areola Grande, Bar Le Cocktail      Wednesday, April 9, 2025 🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles  👑 Da-Lulu with Lulu Shade, Dolores Diamonds, Muz'Emma, Asmatix and Bonnie Slayed, Cabaret Mado       Thursday, April 10, 2025   🥳 QUARTZ Soirées Lesbiennes—Edition Spéciale Dating, Bar Confessional  🎭 The L Word LIVE—Season 3, with Sarah Laurendeau, Marie-Soleil Dion, Mathéo Pineault, Florence Blain Mbaye, Marie-Fanny Guay, Camille Léonard, Noémie Lira, Mélodie Noël Rousseau and Geneviève Labelle, Cabaret Mado  🎥 David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Cinema Moderne   🎭 Jean-François Quesnel productions presents BENT, Le Triangle Rose, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal   👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Friday, April 11, 2025   👠 Ballroom4Community and Montréal Kiki Ballroom Alliance presents KIKI MEETS THE MET, Montréal’s first ballroom awards ball with MCs MTL Father Broadway Mulan and Mags Old Navy, ESC  🎥 Queer Cinema Club of Montréal and Image+Nation hosts two screenings of Dee Ree's Pariah, Cinema Moderne  🥳 Cerise Noire goth night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles  🏳️‍🌈 BLUF Montréal leather men monthly gathering, Bar Le Stud  🎥 David Lynch’s The Straight Story, Cinema du Parc   🎭 Jean-François Quesnel productions presents BENT, Le Triangle Rose, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal  🥳 Club SAT with MightyKat, Duchesse, Lio and Mok-T, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Jimmy Moore, Océane Aqua-Black, Jessie Précieuse and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail  🥳 SHADE // Emotional Armor Eyewear Launch + After Party with Niabi and EyeOfPsi, SHADE       Saturday, April 12, 2025 👑 Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, Robin des Bois  📚 The Violet Hour Book Club reads Loghan Paylor’sThe Cure for Drowning, Mes pants de queer  👠 Ballroom4Community presents Ballroom Lab Series with Nekia Zulu Versace focusing on Performance, Espace 2015  🥳 Homopop present WEST END GAYS House & Disco Dance Party—3rd Anniversary, Cabaret Berlin  🎭 Jean-François Quesnel productions presents BENT, Le Triangle Rose, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal  🎥 David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Cinema Moderne   🎥 Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride, Cinema Public   🎥 Catherine Legault’s LARRY (iel) with director Catherine Legault and photographer Laurence Philomène in attendance, Cinema Public   🎥 David Lynch’s The Straight Story, Cinema du Parc   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Jimmy Moore, Océane Aqua-Black, Jessie Précieuse and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Céline with Jimmy Moore, Cabaret Mado  👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail  👑 Queens of 4 seasons with Sarah Winters, Lulu Shade, Esirena and Selma Gahd, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, April 13, 2025   🎭 Sapphic Open Mic Variety Show, The Wiggle Room  🎥 David Lynch’s The Straight Story, Cinema du Parc   🎶 Mogwai with Brainiac and Ye Gods, MTELUS  🎭 La ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado  👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado  👑 SugarBear co-presents the Sugar Drag Show with Michel Dorion, Sally-D and more, Bar Le Cocktail       Monday, April 14, 2025   🎥 Catherine Legault’s LARRY (iel), Cinema Public   🎶 Franz Ferdinand with Telescreens, MTELUS  👑 Full Plumé with Charli Morin and Lady Guidoune, Cabaret Mado       Tuesday, April 15, 2025   🎭 Burlesque & Drag Garage Sale, The Wiggle Room  🎶 Nelly: Where the Party At Tour with Ja Rule, Chingy and St. Lunatics, MTELUS  👑 Full Gisèle : Meurtres et mystères with Gisèle Lullaby, Kiara, Marla Deer, Ruby Doll and Victoire de Rockwell, Cabaret Mado    Wednesday, April 16, 2025  🎨 @Hommehomo hosts Drink & Draw with live model, Bar Le Cocktail  🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles  👑 Out of the Closet first timers with host Aizysse Baga, Cabaret Mado     Thursday, April 17, 2025   🥳 SANTO FRIKITON with Chika, Chloe Lallouz, Lu B b2b DJ Camm, Nana Zen and Santofuego, Ausgang Plaza  🎭 Les Folies Draglesque with Miami Minx, Cabaret Mado  👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Friday, April 18, 2025   🎶 Backxwash—Only Dust Remains Album Release Show with Magella and Fernie, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]   🎭 Lord of the G-Strings: A Lord of the Rings Burlesque Parody! with Yikes Macaroni, Eva Von Lips, Charli Deville, Enshantay and Jimmy Phule, The Wiggle Room  🎥 David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Cinema du Parc  👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Gisèle Lullaby, Marla Deer, Clay Thorris and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Saturday, April 19, 2025   🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra   🥳 Discoño with Teeno [Nino Brown b2b Young Teesh], Spinelli and mCherry, Newspeak  🥳 All Night with Judalareign and Justin Cudmore, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]   🎥 David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Cinema du Parc   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Gisèle Lullaby, Marla Deer, Clay Thorris and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Britney Spears, Cabaret Mado  👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail  👑 Gaga Mayhem with Démone LaStrange, DivaOnADime and Skyler Ray, Bar Le Cocktail       Sunday, April 20, 2025   🥳 Dad Bod—Tea Dance with Dr Love and Laura Ingalls, Robin des Bois  🎶 Olivier Perrault, Robin des Bois  🎥 Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride, Cinema Public   🎥 Catherine Legault’s LARRY (iel), Cinema Public   🎥 David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Cinema du Parc   👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Madonna: The Celebration Tour, Cabaret Mado  👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 👑 Star Queens with Lexi Love, The Virgo Queen, Makayla Couture and Uma Gahd (three shows, early and late), Cabaret Mado  👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail|  🥳 Drama Queen, “a daytime queer dance party to queen out,” Riverside St-Henri

Tuesday, April 22, 2025   😆 The Poly Mic Just For Laughs Showcase with Raquel Maestre, King Ray, Eve Parker Finley, Kě, Sadie Moland, Tony McIntyre, Anton May, Carima Berbari Daou, Adrienne Roy and Aloe Azimov, Théâtre Sainte-Catherine  🎶 Gang of Four, Théâtre Beanfield  👑 Full Gisèle : Chauds lapins with Gisèle Lullaby, Clay Thorris, Johnny Jones, Fabien L'Amour and Charli Deville, Cabaret Mado     Wednesday, April 23, 2025 🎶 Remi Wolf with Dana and Alden, MTELUS  🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles       Thursday, April 24, 2025   📚 Blue Met Festival presents Queer Dating Horror Stories with Johanne Pelletier, John Cotrocois, Lukas Rowland, Kadi Diop, Jennifer June Chapman, Thomas Mundinger, Christopher DiRaddo and Misty Waterfalls, Hôtel 10—Espace Godin  🎭 A HOLE IS A HOLE IS A HOLE IS with Sappho Ton Bogataj, Christopher Ramm and Marco Merenda, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) 🎶 The Linda Lindas, Fairmount Theatre  🥳. QUARTZ Soirées Lesbiennes—Follow the rabbit who carries the cherries with POPTRT, Myrai and Smookie, Bar Confessional  🎥 Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg, Cinema du Musée   👑 Le Rita Baga Supperclub with Rita Baga and special guests, Caf'Conc 👑 Haute Couture with Esirena, Rawbin and Peach, Cabaret Mado  👑 Starz Wars with Crystal Starz, Lady Boom Boom and Jessie Précieuse, Cabaret Mado  👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail  👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Friday, April 25, 2025   🎭 A HOLE IS A HOLE IS A HOLE IS with Sappho Ton Bogataj, Christopher Ramm and Marco Merenda, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) 🎥 Catherine Legault’s LARRY (iel), Cinema Public   🎥 David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Cinema du Parc   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Peggy Sue, Carmen Sutra, Peach and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail       Saturday, April 26, 2025   🎭 A HOLE IS A HOLE IS A HOLE IS with Sappho Ton Bogataj, Christopher Ramm and Marco Merenda, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) 🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra 🥳 Homopop and Super Taste MTL present TELEPHONE: Lady Gaga & Beyoncé Dance Party, Cabaret Berlin  📚 Blue Met Festival and The Violet Hour presents Remise du prix Violet à France Daigle with France Daigle and Christopher DiRaddo in conversation, Hôtel 10  🎥 Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, Cinema Public   🎥 Agnes Varda’s Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, Cinema du Parc   🎥 David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Cinema du Parc   👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Peggy Sue, Carmen Sutra, Peach and Nana, Cabaret Mado  👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail       Sunday, April 27, 2025   🥳 SAT Roller Dance with Skate with Marly and DJ KidCrayola, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]   👑 Scrambled Legs Drag Brunch with Uma Gahd, Bernard Cabaret Gourmand 🎥 David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Cinema du Parc   🎭 Ligue d‘impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado  👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and special guests, Cabaret Mado  👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail 

Monday, April 28, 2025   🎭 Queer Reading Series 2025 presents Three Halves Make a Whole by Camille Mankumah, Centaur Theatre 🎥 Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, Cinema Public   🎥 La Mandragore hosts a screening of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with Nan Goldin, La Mandragore       Tuesday, April 29, 2025   🎭 Queer Reading Series 2025 presents Queer Leadership Panel: "Queer Performance: from the underground to Centre Stage" with Kyng Rose, Richard Burnett, Alex Tigchelaar and Jesse Stong, Centaur Theatre 🎭 Queer Reading Series 2025 presents the apostles of falling off the bone by kurichka, Centaur Theatre 🎶 Twin Tribes with The Chameleons and Vandal Moon, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]   🎶 Beach Bunny: The Tunnel Vision Tour with Pool Kids, Théâtre Beanfield  🎶 FLO: Access All Areas North American Tour 2025 with Chxrry22, MTELUS  👑 Full Gisèle : Britney Spears vs Tate McRae with Gisèle Lullaby, Sasha Baga, Pétula Claque, Celes and Kelly Torrieli, Cabaret Mado  👑 Shade Channel with Lulu Shade, Natachatte, Kleopatra Perfection and Sir Vergon, Bar Le Cocktail      Wednesday, April 30, 2025  🎨 @Hommehomo hosts Drink & Draw with live model, Bar Le Cocktail  🎭 The Poly Mic queer open mic night, Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 

OTHERS / LES AUTRES  

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Project 10 hosts regularly scheduled drop-in events and workshops for queer youth. Follow them on Instagram for all the latest details.     🎨 Queer Bodies MTL / Tiohtiakë hosts monthly live model drawing sessions. Find schedule, model and location info on their Instagram.        👠 Montréal’s ballroom goings on can also be found at the Montréal Kiki Ballroom Alliance (Mtl-KBA) and Ballroom4Community pages on Facebook and Instagram.   

💅 Twice a month on every second Tuesday, Bring It! hosts an OTA night of ballroom and vogue with commentator and DJ. Follow their Instagram for dates and details.  

🎤 Queer Karaoke MTL hosts regular karaoke events. Follow their Instagram for dates and location.  

🛼 Montréal Roller Derby hosts regular matches and open boot camps throughout the year. Follow their Facebook page for additional info.         ⚽️ The Juke Lesbo-Queer and Trans inclusive soccer league collective offers weekly pick-up games.         ⚾️ The Balle Molle Queer Softball league holds regular games and events.   

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud.  

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact tango.queer@hotmail.com or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts.  

🏐 Les Ratons-Chasseurs (Montréal’s LGBTA dodgeball group) holds regular events. Keep an eye on their Facebook for upcoming opportunities to join in and play.   

🕹 Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gatherings including board game nights and gaming gatherings. Check their Facebook for what’s next!  

🏃🏾 Join the Out-Run run and workout club for people relating to the queer / sapphic experience. Details on their Instagram!  

🐦 Bird lovers should keep their eye on Queer Birders' regularly scheduled birdwatching events and excursions. Join the Facebook group and get those binoculars at the ready.  

🧗‍♀️ Queer Bloc’s monthly bouldering events bring together MTL’s queer climbing community with live DJs, after-drinks and even a tattoo artist on-site. Follow their Instagram for all of the details.