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buttonholedlife · 5 years ago

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'No Fiat five hundred techno!': why digital popular music in Cork is actually coming off|Songs|The Guardian

"Messy in the best feasible way," claims Stopper producer Doubt of the epiphanic expertise he had in 2015 at a storage facility rave in Estate House, north Greater london. "It was actually definitely rested atmospheres. Surveillance-- although I failed to observe a lot of-- were actually sound, and there were massive sausages all evening. I will certainly never actually skilled just about anything like that in Ireland."

He remained in Greater london since of English producer NKC, among the inventors of the club noise referred to as tough drum, then only a Soundcloud tag. Uncertainty (genuine title Ollie McMorrow) and fellow citizens Tension (Dylan O'Mahony) and also Syn (Reneé Griffin) put together their personal tag, Flood, a year after their tough drum rendezvous in Greater london. After discovering, trying out as well as moseying with close friends in Cork, all it took was NKC's raucous parties to dissolve their cumulative obstacle.

Flooding and also an internet of various other producers in their 20s from the tiny Irish south-coast urban area-- Numbertheory, Lighght, Ellll and also Superfície-- are right now creating titles for on their own in European club popular music circles, with syncopated mutations of percussion-driven electronic songs. Although they're not all quickly organized together, the popular denominator is a primal drum-laden noise where rhythms tumble at breakneck velocity. The songs provides a lot of these youthful musicians a feeling of reason and also identity-- even when much of all of them are leaving Ireland for a new beginning, amid the sanitising of young people lifestyle as developers set waste to alternate venues, and a roaring casing dilemma, with taking off homelessness and the development of Dublin as one of the world's very most costly areas to reside in.

Cork has actually cracked new ground in Irish music prior to. In the 1980s, it was actually the unexpected property to a vibrant reggae culture, the cello-brandishing post-punk outfit 5 Go Down to the Sea, and Microdisney, the county's response to Fleetwood Macintosh. It was actually the bar Sir Henry's, founded in the overdue 70s, that opened up many in the county to club songs, specifically house. "Mam Henry's was ground zero," states Cork house songs pioneer Shane Johnson, that co-founded a night there called Sweat that drew in worldwide celebrities like Kerri Chandler, Cajmere and also Derrick Might. "Certainly not only for the club setting, however, for the nearby rock scene just before it."

Building on its own legacy, Jimmy Horgan, that runs local area file retail store Plugd along with Albert Twomey, has been a cornerstone of nonconforming music in Stopper, regularly holding the new kind of developers upstairs in the store's live space, a site got in touch with the Roundy. "The guy takes a genuine passion in every kind of popular music that's made as well as played in the urban area," producer James O'Connell, 25, that tape-records as Numbertheory, distinguishes me. "He's really for the lifestyle."

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Originally coming from Dublin, Horgan is self-effacing in his appraisal of the city's dynamic percussive songs setting: to him, it is actually the musicians'unrelenting creativity that has actually made it all achievable."Most likely the first pointer I obtained of the noise was when Superfície-- then going under the name Sexworker-- decreased in a few demonstrations of his monitors, maybe back in 2013 or even 2014,"Horgan bears in mind.

"Me and my associate were actually astounded."Parishes of these young musicians, typically in residences or even apartments, are where component of this Stopper drum act were born. McMorrow, whose dad and also grandfather were actually each drummers, points out:"Percussion has regularly been a huge component of my life."As well as at 14, O'Mahony came to enjoy performers such as Burial and also labels like Warp and also Hyperdub, and determined he might perform it, also, pirating manufacturing software program, messing all around with the features, and also investing the final two years at institution seeking to create one thing"from another location nice". While joining the exact same college training program, O'Mahony met Lion, that had been actually recording as Syn, and would certainly put up at her place after course. She introduced all of them all, consisting of O'Connell, to a collection of brand-new, eardrum-bursting audios coming from tags including Her Records, Fade to Mind, as well as Celestial Aircraft. Superfície, a Brazilian-Irish developer now located in Berlin, showed them kuduro, baile rut and batucada, while tensions of percussive songs promoted by labels such as Príncipe and also Naafi, widened their horizons additionally. Lighght, AKA Eamon Ivri, simply learnt about Flood--

"a real inspiration "-- via Soundcloud, randomly and belatedly, prior to he ever satisfied them, in spite of their distance as well as identical interests. Flood's very first launch, a fun nine-track collection, showed up in 2017, a year after they formed. They chose that they required a center for "effectively talking over ideas and blaring monitors as loud as possible"as well as discovered a little, private stockroom space in an industrial sphere ignoring Stopper's docklands. The duality in their music, in between the organic and also the mechanical, may in part be mapped back to this aspect. "There was actually a raw comparison in between the commercial, gray and also decaying storehouses and also the beautiful scenery out on to Cork harbour,"mentions Question. Ellll, Berlin-based techno alchemist Ellen King, says the internet as well as local hubs may certainly not have been the

only reasons that Cork surfaced as a breeding place for unusual club songs." Cork has been actually an incredibly house-focused area, and although I have actually never gotten in touch with that, percussive music coming out of the metropolitan area in the final couple of years experiences like a feedback to that attitude." Facebook Twitter Pinterest From the very first few seconds you mash participate in on a Flooding singular, or a hypnotic Ellll release, or even a stormlike go crazy loosie coming from Lighght, you listen to dispute and tumult. Percussion-wise, they take coming from audios from around the world. Pay attention to the drums and also you may think about Latin The United States or even Africa. Yet in some cases local designs sneak in: Numbertheory consisted of an example of sean nós, an Irish practice of haunting, melismatic singing; Syn's track Coy featured a sample of the bodhrán, an Irish drum produced along with goatskin; Lighght's outstanding 2019 cd, Gore-Tex in the Nightclub, Balenciaga Amongst the Hedges, utilizes the harp. Irishness is there certainly, even when it is actually merely sneaking. Stopper is actually known more popularly as"the rebel county", the end result of its own lengthy past of fierce protection and obstinate anxiety, primarily against English policy. A caricature of Cork individuals in Irish society-- perma-vexed and also precariously parochial, created well-known abroad by firebrand footballer Roy Keane as well as pop lifestyle phenomena like the TELEVISION series Youthful Criminals-- relatively includes some fact." It's a motto, however the entire rebel aesthetic that Cork has actually taken on definitely forms the urban area. You view landscapes of Che Guevara, recommendations to the Palestinian source,"states O'Connell, whose pummelling drums are actually typically gone along with through sludgy heavy-metal themes.

Many of these musicians don't understand Cork's medical self-mythologising, however. "I failed to delight in much of my young people, and also spent a bunch of my time as a teen in nearby drinking areas," claims Syn, 25, whose mama has worked as a nightclub DJ. "I remember begrudging Cork coming from a younger age due to the lack of tasks for young people in the area beyond acquiring fucked up."

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Twitter Pinterest DIY rushing was the only means ahead in a tourism-oriented nation where, every pair of months, an accommodation seems to substitute a critical nightlife hub. The eventual members of Flood threw much of their own events since, as they see it, commercialised places prioritise step and double-vodka invoices over the sensory knowledge. Today, Syn helps run a queer night phoned CXNT in the Roundy, where throbbing, untrendy designs like hardgroove, gabber and donk masquerade the norm. As O'Connell puts it: "The significant nightclubs simply would like to hear EDM as well as monotonous, Heineken-sponsored, white-bread, Fiat five hundred techno."

In spite of their own inspiration, as well as the assistance of Plugd and various other venues, like Kino as well as the Town Hall, developers are actually compelled to look somewhere else for chances. The sounds being actually developed in Cork have actually been promoted through performers as well as DJs in the resources, at Dublin Digital Radio-- a shelter for Ireland's weirdest noises, where McMorrow still holds a monthly show contacted Hush-- in addition to stimulating collectives including Club Convenience.

Several proficient producers and creatives have, at the very least semi-permanently, gone overseas. Certified math wizzard O'Connell left behind just recently for Beijing, while Master and also Superfïcie have both relocated to Berlin. As it happens, McMorrow is actually occupied preparing himself for a transfer to Glasgow when we communicate, a typical quest for Irish creatives in current years. Rental fees are lower there, disorders for nightlife lifestyle are much less suffocating, and younger individuals are actually, in his perspective, alleviated better in Scotland than in his home nation.

"Unless you're anticipating forking out over half your fundamental revenue each month, you possibly won't have the ability to locate a location to reside in Stopper," he regrets. "I will enjoy nothing at all greater than to become able to remain in Cork, as well as perform what I love right here, but today it is actually simply not practical."

Financial barricades have actually not stopped the momentum of these musicians. "Whether it is actually a storehouse event with 30 inebriated individuals reviewed in to a dark, dingy area paying attention to industrial remixes of Princess or queen Super star, or enjoying the Roundy get become a partially nude sweatbox," O'Mahony claims of his long-lasting minds of the community-based micro-scene, "it's the important things that were actually created for, and also by, people like us that stand up out."

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weirdnessxmagnet · 5 years ago

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"Strange and bizarre things happen to you with alarming frequency. You are the one with whom demons will stop and chat. Magic items with disturbing properties will find their way to you. The only talking dog on 20th-century Earth will come to you with his problems. Dimensional gates sealed for centuries will crack open just so that you can be bathed in the energies released...or perhaps the entities on the other side will invite you to tea. Nothing lethal will happen to you, at least not immediately, and occasionally some weirdness will be beneficial. But most of the time it will be terribly, terribly inconvenient."

— "Weirdness Magnet" disadvantage, GURPS

Antonia has always been something of a weirdness magnet. It was just that most instances were easy enough to rationalise away, right up until an overly vicious demon was staring her in the face, wearing another friends skin. This was at least partially her own fault. After that everything became far more obvious.

She learned a few important things that night;

Demons are real.

She’s got something of a natural skill for exorcisms.

Most of her college friendships (and indeed, her entire reputation) went downhill after this incident and she was left with barely a reason to stay and every reason to run, and so she did.

Of course, being that if anything unusual is within a five-mile radius it will inevitably either find her or she’ll find it, she didn't actually end up even remotely safer. It’s been several years at this point, and she has given up trying to make sense of any of it.

--- Tumblr Life Events; A Summary ---

Very briefly an active hunter of monster kind, Antonia found there were better ways to deal with her new circumstances from watching Lucida, her now sadly mostly dead best friend. With the Graveyard Queen to take inspiration from, Antonia worked herself into the good graces of all manner of supernatural beings, from the lowest pits of hell to the highest vaults of heaven. She has ended up on the wrong side of more than a few, too. Thankfully, her connections are often enough to save her from even the most terminal of consequences, though every misstep leaves its own hidden mark.

In her mid twenties, Antonia accidentally found herself the adoptive mother of two young nephilim (and in a still undefined relationship with their father, Ezekiel. It’s complicated doesn’t cut it.), and spent a few years holding off divine execution orders with the power of friendship and manipulation. Too soon after settling into this role, the children were lost to a vengeful massacre by a Marquis of hell, she lost her Lucy soon after, and for a while Antonia took a step back from the most complicated parts of her life to put herself in order before she crumbled under the emotional strain.

A few years later, a serendipitous friendship with a powerful demon and their overlapping personal interests lead to her being willingly possessed by The Whore of Babylon herself, in order to have a hand in killing the Marquis who’d caused so much trouble for demon and human alike. They succeeded, though not without great cost, and Antonia now finds herself plagued by nightmarish memories that are not her own, on top of the ones that are.

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Name: Antonia Maria Lyon Species: Human* Profession: Accidental CEO. Appearance: Blue eyes, dark hair, 5'2'', Caucasian.

Skills:

Knows Latin (practically as a second language with how often it comes up), and understands Attic Greek (to a normal historical language level, plus some weirdness). There are echos of thousands of other languages, modern and ancient both, fragmented in her mind like the half forgotten remnants of a million high school language classes you weren’t really paying attention to. Not all consequences of demonic possession are terrible, as it turns out.

She's not physically strong, but she's small and quick and uses this to her advantage if caught in a physical confrontation. She is however far better off in a battle of wits, and if things take a turn for the physical is far more likely to call something bigger to hide behind than face it herself with her very basic hand-to-hand skills. She’s a fair shot if handed a gun, though. Her extremely brief stint as a monster hunter taught her something.

Antonia is a telepath. For details on this, see here.

Other magical skills include a general knowledge of wards against and weaknesses of various supernatural creatures, most significantly demons, but also vampires, werewolves, and some fey. She is a skilled enough occultist to do further research as necessary.

*On ancestry: Toni has an extremely distant fey ancestor that connects her to Kelly and is responsible for her telepathy, along with some other minor eclectic weirdness. However, it is worth noting that this is not at all unusual for a human of my canon, as humanity has been mixing with supernatural beings since the dawn of man. It would in fact be more unusual to find a human who didn't have some sort of distant supernatural ancestry.

While the odd supernatural creature who looks close enough will occasionally bring it up if it takes their interest, she is a normal human for all functional purposes.

D&D Stat list for people who like to roll dice to decide things (or just find it easier to comprehend power levels this way):

Strength: -1

Dexterity: +1

Constitution:0

Intelligence:+2

Wisdom:+2

Charisma:+5

Proficiencies:

Arcana +5

History +5

Investigation +5

Religion +5

Insight +5

Perception +5

Deception +8

Persuasion +8

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philippmichelreichold · 6 years ago

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Jude the Obscure subtitled The Letter Killeth, is the story of a young man's struggle to balance the demands of his physical and spiritual natures. Paradoxically, this seeker of knowledge is only dimly aware of the real world obstacles that block the path to fulfillment of his dreams. He seems to lack the common sense necessary to succeed at what he undertakes. Within him, the spirit and the flesh are perpetually in conflict, and his beliefs constantly bring him into conflict with the conventional thinkers around him. If he were to wholeheartedly support one side or the other, that side would prevail. As he lacks the insight to do this, and lacks the stamina to sustain the spirit and the flesh , he "dies a virtuous victim . . . by marriage is his end brought about."(1) He curses the day he was born and he perishes.

Our first introduction to Jude takes place in the village of Marygreen. He is a kind- hearted boy of eleven, who has been orphaned through the deaths of his parents, and who now lives with a curmudgeon of an aunt. We learn of his kindheartedness and latent spirituality when he suggests that the teacher, who is leaving for Christminister, store his piano in the boy's aunt's fuel-house until he is ready to send for it. "'A proper good notion', said the blacksmith."(2) We learn of his physical strength when he brings water from the well, for "Slender as was Jude Folly's frame, he bore the two brimming house-buckets to the cottage without resting." (3)

We learn more from the aunt of Jude's scholarly potential and of his future affinity for Sue when his aunt says, "The boy is crazy for books, that he is. It runs in our family rather. His cousin Sue is just the same. . . ." 4 Though a child of the working class, Jude dreams of attending college at Christminister, Hardy's literary Oxford. He demonstrates his intellect by studying Greek and Latin on his own. As he grows older, he combines work with study. In his mid-teens, he reads Latin while driving a wagon to deliver his aunts baked goods. His inability to see practical matters is evident when he concentrates so hard on his reading that he runs other people off the road. Thus, even at this early age, this unconventionality puts him in conflict with those around him, "a private resident of an adjoining place informed the local policeman that the bakers boy should not be allowed to read while driving, . . . The policeman thereupon lay in wait for Jude, and want day accosted and cautioned him."(5) Growing older, to support himself and his studies, Jude apprentices as a stone mason. Stone Masonry requires a man who is strong physically and who as some artistic talent. (Perhaps the perfect occupation for a working class man with a bent for learning.) The robustness of his physical health and of the health of his ability to dream and imagine, are further illustrated by his later entry into Christminister--he "was now walking the remaining four miles rather from choice than necessity, having always fancied himself arriving thus."(6) The physical and spiritual aspects of Jude's life are also represented symbolically by the two main female characters of the story, his wife Arabella, and the woman he really loves, Sue Bridehead.

Sue and Arabella represent Jude's spirit and flesh. "Allegorically we can see Arabella as flesh and Sue as spirit, with Jude caught in between."(7) According to Alvarez, physical desire for Arabella leads Jude away from the things of the spirit (learning, Latin, the NewTestament): conversely, the spiritual side of Jude's relationship with Sue is threatened by her lack of sexual drive."(8) Because of his inability to balance the two aspects of his life, symbolized by the influence of these two woman, he is twice thrown off from pursuit of his proposed careers. Because of his disastrous marriage with Arabella, into which he was trapped under false circumstances, he sees his academic career derailed; and because of his enthrallment with Sue, he has his pursuit of a religious career brought to an end. Jude says, "Strange that his first aspiration--- towards academical proficiency- had been checked by a woman, and that his second aspiration--- towards apostleship--- had also been checked by a woman." 9

Sue and Arabella entwine Jude throughout his adult life. "Sue and Arabella are in fact like the white and black horses, the noble and base instincts, which drew Plato's chariot of the soul"10 The spiritual, represented by Sue, seems the dominant in Jude, or at least it is the part he tries to emphasize the most. The affinity between Jude and Sue is obvious to Sue's lawful husband, Phillotson, who says "' I have been struck," he said, "with . . . the extraordinary sympathy or, similarity, between the pair. . . . they seem to be one person split in two."(11)

Jude's love for the ephemeral , and its affect on practical matters, is foreshadowed in the scene from his childhood where he loses employment by a neighbor farmer. The neighbor has hired him to drive away the birds that come to eat the farmer's grain out of his fields. Rather than chasing them away, Jude sympathizes with them, seeing them as "gentle friends and pensioners". The farmer returns in time to hear him say, "Eat then my dear little birdies, and make good meal." After beating him, the farmer pays him off and dismisses him from service. This sets the pattern for his entire adult life. Sue herself is referred to as a little bird, and throughout the story, Jude sets aside practical concerns for the sake of his relationship with Sue.

Sensuous Arabella, first seen with the most self-indulgent of barn yard animals, the pig, wakens Jude to an awareness of sex and sexuality. Ever practical, she wants a strong man, a good provider, to look after her. She cares nothing for the ephemeral, she is only interested in meeting her needs. As a practical consideration , she traps Jude into marriage by claiming to be pregnant. She has absolutely no use for Jude's intellect or his sensitivities, and intends to dispose of his scholarly pursuits at the earliest convenience. After she wakens the earthly side of Jude's nature, Jude quickly finds his interest in higher pursuits giving way to the urgency of Arabella's sexual appeal, "Arabella soon reasserted her sway in his soul. He walked as if he felt himself to be quite another man from the Jude of yesterday. What were these books to him? what were his intentions? . . It was better to love a woman than to be a graduate, or a parson; ay, or a pope!"

Jude is unable to find a balance between his spiritual and physical needs. His sensitivities, as represented at his occasional efforts to return to his books leads him into conflict with the necessities of the flesh and practical considerations. This conflict is shown when the time comes for them to kill and butcher a pig they had raised. He kills the pig in a manner that allows it to die quickly and with less suffering; but which makes the meat worth less than it would have been had the pig bled to death slowly. The next day, he becomes livid with anger when she announces she was "mistaken' about her pregnancy, and their first marriage ends (unofficially at least) with her going to Australia with her parents. He has turned out to be less practical than she had thought. After she leaves, he acts as if he was never really in love with her at all, else he would have been more forgiving when he learned she "mistaken" about being pregnant. In the first weeks of their separation, he has many opportunities before she leaves the country to try to reconcile with her- but, he does not. Instead, he "strolled in the starlight along the too familiar road towards the upland whereon had been experienced the chief emotions of his life. It seemed to be his own again."(12)

Arabella returns again years later to wreak further havoc in Jude's life. At the time of her return, he has had a rarified, spiritual and intellectual union with Sue; but, no physical union. Sue from the first brought a different sort of rapture to Jude than that of Arabella; a knowledge of the mind, rather than of the flesh. His love for Sue begins in a purely intellectual manner. At first, he is in love with her picture, with the idea of her. Later, he goes to Christminister with dreams of what it will be like to meet her. After he finds her, he watches her and goes to the same church as she, but doesn't introduce himself until later. In the first church service he attends at the same time as she he feels the highest sense of ecstasy and oneness, just knowing they are listening to the same music.

The immediate affect of Arabella's return is that in order to hold onto Jude at all, Sue yields to him sexually. Thus the element of the flesh enters what has been an idealized relationship. Although she surrenders to his pleas for a physical union, she "isn't a woman at all, but a fey, a kind of sprite." Sue loves the idea of marriage, of the idea of her oneness with Jude. Before the return of Arabella, they have had a Platonic relationship; "she is the untouched part of him, all intellect, nerves and sensitivity, essentially bodiless."13 She is loathe to consummate this relationship physically or to solemnize it in any conventional way, and argues that a lawful wedding would be "destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness."(14)

Less immediate is the overall affect the return of Jude's fleshly aspect , in the person of the son of Jude and Arabella. Arabella had apparently left Jude and England not knowing that she really was pregnant. Her son, called "Father Time" because of his dour disposition, enters Jude and Sue's life together at its high point, and presides over the decline of their lives, ending with his suicide after killing the children of Sue and Jude "because we were too menny."(sic) (15) During the years Jude's son is with them, at Aldbrickham and afterward, they 'have returned to Greek joyousness, and have blinded ourselves to sickness and sorrow." (16) Before his son's arrival, Jude's livelihood has consisted mostly of stone work on the churches in the town. Father Time's appearance with Jude and Sue, and their failure to abide by convention, makes Jude and Sue's relationship notorious in the town of Aldbrickham. Their notoriety grows because they have never married in the eyes of English religious and governmental officialdom. Though they actually start down the aisle from time to time, Sue always backs out and Jude always agrees with her reasons. "The unnoticed lives that the pair had hitherto led began, from the day of the suspended wedding onwards, to be observed and discussed by persons other than Arabella." (17) Eventually, their unconventional union alienates the conventional people around them to the point where no decent person will have anything to do with them- or give Jude work. "From that week, Jude and Sue walked no more in the town of Aldbrickham."(18) They travel from town to town for years, until at Kennetbridge, Jude's health breaks down and he resorts to baking cakes shaped like landmark buildings of Christminister to earn enough to live on.

Even after so many years, "Christminister is a sort of fixed vision with him."(19) And he decides to return there. At last, with Father Time and their own two children in tow, Jude and Sue return to Christminister on its busiest day, Remembrance Day, or as Jude puts it, "humiliation day for me."(20) The pull of the old dreams, of the old colleges, proves irresistible to Jude. Rather than securing lodgings, he stands, with his wife and children in the rain, to watch the graduates march by, . He pauses to deliver a final harangue, or homily, or eulogy, describing for the gathered crowd how he has not met the goals he set for himself so long ago. He lingers outside after the graduates have passed into the church, to catch a snatch of Latin during the service. Postponing practical considerations in order to ruminate over lost opportunities proves to be a catastrophic mistake, because by the time they set out to find lodgings, it is too late too find a place that will accept the whole family, and Jude seeks lodgings apart from the family. This upsets Father Time to the deepest level of despondency. He believes he and the other children are to blame for Jude having to look else where for a place to stay; and, he is mortified to learn that Sue is going to have another child. The next morning, Sue leaves the children alone to have breakfast with Jude and make plans for the day. When Sue and Jude return to the children, they find them dead, Father Time having hung the smaller children and then himself. The deaths of the children cause the final collapse of Jude's world.

Jude's love for Sue remains undaunted by this tragedy, and he is able to go on despite their loss. The erstwhile logical and passionless Sue, on the other hand, seems devastated. Jude tells a friend, "bitter affliction came to us, and her intellect broke, and she veered round to darkness."(21) Despite all previous professions of the rightness of her relationship with Jude, she now claims to believe that the deaths of the children are some form of divine retribution for the life Jude and Sue have had together, instead of the lives they'd have had with their former spouses. She goes so far as to embrace the conventional view that she is still married to her divorced husband and that Jude is really still married to Arabella. This final abandonment of reason for hysteria in the name of convention is a blow from which Jude can not recover. Rejected by Sue, he is again deceived by Arabella into a drunken marriage, and suffers a further physical breakdown.

After his remarriage to Arabella, Jude remains in Christminister, surrounded by the city of his dreams. Despite severe physical illness and debilitation, Jude's love for Sue remains undaunted. He still loves her and believes that their marriage, the union of their spirits, remains a true marriage despite their legal remarriages to people they detest. He describes his remarriage to Arabella as, "immoral, degrading, unnatural."(22) For Jude, conventional marriage, by the letter of the law, is "acting by the letter, and ' the letter killeth'".23 He makes a final plea for Sue to leave with him, saying, "--you call yourself Phillotson's wife. . . . You are mine.. . . Let us shake off our mistakes and run away together."(24) In his heart, he believes a true marriage is one between the two participants inwhich they know with every fiber of their beings that they are one. He insists to Sue afterher return to Phillotson that whatever the marriage documents say, they are man and wife. He has gone to her through a pouring rain to plead his case before her, knowing that if she spurns him, the exertions of the trip through the rain, to and from Marygreen , will kill him. His final appeal to reason, goes unheeded. He returns through the rain and the cold to Arabella.

Throughout the novel, the characters views of marriage remain fairly constant. Sue sees marriage as a prison or punishment. She likens it to crucifixion and mutilation. Arabella sees marriage as a means to an end, a contract to ease one through the business of living. Arabella is "the Flesh . . . merciless calculation as to what will be profitable to herself" (25)

Jude held two contrary views of marriage at once- as his heart told him marriage should be and as he found it was with Arabella-- an inconvenience at best and a trap at worst. Though in Jude's hopes he views marriage as an exalted state, where spirit and flesh are met and two souls become one, he finds himself frustrated in seeking this union by his inability to balance spirit and flesh. Throughout the novel, he is "tossed like a puppet between the two women- one ready to gratify him whenever they meet, the other holding him on the tip toe of expectation."(26)

Jude is intoxicated before both of his marriages to Arabella. Before the first marriage, he is intoxicated by the urgency of his sexual longing for her; in the second marriage she has gotten him drunk on despair and alcohol, to cloud his reason and trick him again into a sham of a marriage. The only hint of legitimacy in either marriage is that they were presided over by duly appointed representatives of conventional society.

Because each of Jude's choices have led him to infamy, loss, and finally death, it would seem he is totally unaware of the practical aspects of life. His perception of marriage, that the letter killeth, is contrary to the conventional views of the people of the city of Aldbrickham and of the University city of Christminister, and call into question his ability to reason. Seemingly, only a fool would alienate everyone in every town he travels, knocking from pillar to post on a matter of principle. As a matter of principle he and Sue have gone years without marrying, having two children along the way. As a matter of principle, everyone who suspects their fornication refuses to give Judea work. However, Jude is not a fool. A fool could not exhibit his artistic talents, as indicated by his attempted profession and shown to be at full power at Kennetbridge, where he and Sue make a living selling their Christminister cakes. His intellect was and is still powerful.

Intellectually, he is not far removed from where he was when he and Arabella killed their pig, so many years before. After their remarriage, Arabella says to Jude, "you are as bad as when we were first married."(27) While he bungles killing the pig in a profitable manner, it was not for lack of dexterity or because of stupidity. He places the knife exactly where he wants it, so that the poor animal can die quickly and painlessly. Nor would a person of less than average sensitivity have looked on the pig's blood as "a dismal, sordid, ugly spectacle."(28) He would simply not have possessed the imagination to see such a spectacle or to see any other existence but to remain as a slave to Arabella's sexual allure.

A man of average intelligence would have appreciated Arabella's practical side. Everything she does is planned, from catching Jude, to keeping and leaving Jude to finally preparing for Jude's death by setting her sights on Vilbert. Such a man may have felt for the pig about to be butchered, but would not have let these feelings interfere with the business of killing the animal in a way that would bring the greatest profit, and without spilling the blood on the ground that could have been used to make blackpot. Nor would the average man have sacrificed a normal sexual relationship (or perhaps above normal) for a rarified existence with the spritely Sue. Yet Jude is patently impractical.

Only a genius could see life as Jude sees it and be so enthralled with principle and a highly intellectual existence, at the expense of everything he has, including, ultimately his life. His final thwarted, attempt at spiritual union wrecks his already precarious health and leads to his death. Intellectually, he is far beyond the conventional wisdom of Kennetbridge and Christminister and has no place in the social setting of his day. Jude predicts that their unconventional sort of marriage, though shockingly at the time the novel was written, would eventually be commonplace, saying, "Our ideas were fifty years too soon to be any good to us. …

And so the resistance they met with brought reaction in her, and recklessness and ruin on me!"(29) Jude sees that there is no place for him and his views in conventional England. He quotes Job, not only cursing the day he was born, but looking forward to the place where" ' the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. . . .The small and the great are there; and the servant is free from his master."(30) He then dies, seemingly to the cheers of the Christminister Remembrance Day crowds.

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1.Oliphant, Margaret. from Blackwood's Magazine. Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Norman Page. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. pg. 382

2. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure, Signet ClassicNew American Library. New York. pg. 14

3.IBID. pg.16.

4.IBID pg 17

5. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Signet Classic. pg.37.

6. IBID. pg. 80.

7. Butler, Lance St. John. Thomas Hardy. Cambridge University Press. 1978. New York. pg.121.

8. IBID

9.Hardy,Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Signet Classic. pg. 215.

10. Alvarez, A. The Poetic Power of Jude the Obscure. Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Norman Page. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. pg. 421.

11.IBID. pg. 416.

12.Jude the Obscure", Thomas Hardy, Signet Classics pg. 77

13. Alvarez, A. "The Poetic Power of Jude the Obscure". Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Norman Page. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. pg.417.

14. Hardy,Thomas. Jude the Obscure. signet classic. pg. 268.

15. IBID. 331. 16. IBID. 293

17. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. signet classics. pg. 293.

18. IBID. 364.

19. IBID. pg. 308

20. IBID. pg. 318

21.Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Signet Classics. pg. 394.

22.IBID. pg383.

23. IBID.

24. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Signet Classics. pp.384-385

25.Oliphant, Margaret. from Blackwood's Magazine. Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Norman Page. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. pg.383.

26. IBID, pg 382

27. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Signet classics. pg.394.

28. IBID. pg.69 29.Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Signet Classic pg. 395.

30. IBID. pg. 398.

Alvarez , A. "The Poetic Power of Jude the Obscure". Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Norman Page. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. pp.416, 417, 421,

Butler, Lance St. John. Thomas Hardy. Cambridge University Press. New York. 1978. pg.121

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure, Signet Classic. New American Library. New York. pp. 14, 16, 17, 37, 69, 77, 80, 215, 268, 293, 308, 318, 364, 383, 394-385, 394, 395, 398

Oliphant, Margaret. from Blackwood's Magazine. Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Norman Page. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. pp.382, 383

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the writing meme

so like most writers I have way too many projects on the go

hit j at any time to jump past this ramble of a post rip readers

original stuff not going into too much detail about these but I have Ideas. I’m going to describe these in some arbitrary number of descriptors (I choose... 3)

No Current Title Bc Entire Premise is Being Reevaluated (rip old title) this sucker’s premise is in its third re-write rip me and anything I had written for it before -genre is... a subset of fantasy, I guess. it involves people with magical powers so I’m calling it fantasy subset -involves chemistry bc I’m a nerd -basic summary is chemistry powers are ok when they aren’t being used to rebuild a “““better””” world. also violating the law of conservation of mass makes one reconsider their career starring -amelia: starts off realizing that 3 different groups of people have manipulated her and is reasonably angry about this. “all I wanted to do is camp for the summer but NOW I have to spend it training bc soMEONE didn’t tell me about this power until they had year-round (long story involving other manipulation) access to me to train me as their asset” (”I’ll do it. but I get to go back at the end of the summer” “there’s no way you’ll pass the proficiency tests at the end of the summer--” “WATCH ME. *hyPERFOCUS ACTIVATED* great #thanksautism let’s do this”) -emer: finds out that the people who trained them aren’t actually very nice folks and needs to get out of that situation. “so that’s why my older sister left welp things make sense now”. makes enemies who are not ok people. -vina: I was trying to come up with a description but I feel like the remember the name meme would work fine

Music in Mind -all about musicians (like orchestral instruments) -genre would be contemporary I guess -mini playlist (pieces and songs that characters either play or just like listening to): the bach double, partita no 3, read all about it, air on a g string, mendelssohn's octet, either mission impossible or bond music haven’t decided yet, danse bacchanale, piano man, adeste fidelis (yes the latin version listen this character is a bit extra), ashokan farewell starring: -katherine: parents are dead, is moving back to her hometown, and has an abusive violin teacher now. “look life it’s been like 2 years can you not--” knock knock it’s depression but this time there’s no comfort in violin/new bff to help. spent her 4 years away being remade as a violinist and no one in her hometown is quite ready for it (including her) "who tf made me section leader listen I am Not Ready and I’m p sure my stand partner is going to kill me” -felix: as of this year has have to teach himself and practice in secret. on top of that, he’s at the critical point where a lack of proper technical base is becoming a downfall. “listen katherine I know I asked you for help but is it seriously possible for me to have been doing so many things wrong for years” (”yes. bc i was the same”) -natalie: been coasting on the fact that all the top music prizes are hers but now there’s some real competition

A Book (behold my beautiful placeholder why are titles so hard) -a fantasy world based loosely on the great race (the chinese legend) -people have animal companions -Something Happened to the dragons (barely any human/dragon matches are left) and a girl makes it her mission to (a) find out wtf is going on and (b) find her dragon counterpart (spoiler alert: she finds a dragon but then... knock knock it’s Consequences You Never Considered Before aka time for a huge survival challenge/race)

Something About Dragons (yet another placeholder bc none of these things have titles ugh) (also have you noticed that I like dragons?) this one’s under wraps bc it’s still wayyyy in Development Phase -chinese dragons--they’re so lit ok (tho not literally bc no fire power) -adopted kids -a main conflict I literally haven’t even thought about lmao this is the reason it’s fourth on my original works list, but I’m still excited about it bc DRAGONS ARE LIT

oh shit I literally forgot one why do I have so many projects

For the Record (finally another actual title) -basically about a big fam at their cottage -feat a kid trying to swim a few k across a lake, faster than her relatives who have already done it. at 15. (for some background, she’s a swimmer/distance swimmer lmao this isn’t random) -another list: tree climbing, rock and beach glass collecting, snake and frog finding, ice cream, chess playing, card tricks

yoi fics bc @therealpigfarts23 convinced me to start writing fanfiction. it all started with this first one

#icegiraffeofrussia that’s its working and probs final title bc now I don’t think of it as anything else -yuri has a growth spurt, cue viktor nicknaming him the ice giraffe of russia -the internet runs with it -rip yuri growth spurts are mean and rinkmates are shits (like friendly shits tho)

pjo au that series was half my childhood (hp was the other half) -based in part on this post (fml took a while to find it wHY didn’t I put the url somewhere earlier) -currently trying to grow a plot heLP (would bc condensed pjo-ified canon- parallel plot listen I've already thought of how viktor can introduce himself to yuuri naked in this verse there is no turning back) -gonna jam a bunch of things in this point. literal knife shoes. hamsters at camp (shhhhh). capture the flag. possible Phone Defense Squad (long story). starring: viktor: son of nike, yuuri: son of aphrodite, phichit: son of hermes, yuri: son of idk yet, mila and sara: hunters of artemis, otabek: son of hephaestus, leo: son of apollo, jj: son of zeus (I had to, sorry not sorry), etc

Possibly Something about the Making of Yuri’s ex skate -idk yet

The Ongoing Summer Work AU may as well add this too -in my chat with autumn, may or may not write up as short pieces later -literally based on my life/my job atm not even claiming to be completely fictional lmao -everyone embarrasses yuuri (he makes it so easy lmao)

AND THAT’S IT FOR NOW WHO KNOWS WTF MY BRAIN WILL DO NEXT

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((Art by me)) Name: Jai Kyuroah-Ippmososi (Kyuroah is pronounced Ewe-rah) Age & Date of Birth: Unknown. He looks 14, but he is actually their equivalent of being 25. Species: He is an A'maranian android that is known as an Aidomlejho Gender: Male Orientation: N/A Fandom/Original: He’s an original and one of my first Villains.

Warnings: Religion, Zealots, Abandonment, Injury.

Biography: In the early years, when Akrinko was in its scientific age, A select group of doctors decided that they would introduce AI’s to the population of the planet. It took them 30 years, but they managed to create AI’s that functioned and looked like actual A'maranians.

Sadly, this program was short lived because of the religious concerns for their planet. The program was abandoned and eventually forgotten.

Jai has no real memory of being activated. For a short while, he did live with an old man who helped him to learn the A'maranian language and their ways of life. Due to the old mans health, he was left at the door of the Nenigoolian temple where he was taken in by Iitä Rowess. She eventually learned about him being an Aidomlejho and despite the fact that she wanted him gone because he went against what their planet stood for, she took him in and trained him.

At first the other children were afraid of him because although he was much older than them, he acted like a child. It was also scary to see someone who was that old and they had no control over their powers. His emotions were new, so when he was upset, he enraged. In order to help him, she asked that he be placed into the priesthood because their training programs were the most structured, but they constantly turned her down because of what he was. Having no choice, she eventually trained him herself and although she was from the North, she helped him with controlling his powers. She eventually asked for him to be inducted into the Priesthood again, and much to the councils decision, he was allowed to go through the training.

Because A'maranian priests are the only ones who can use weapons, Jai decided to train himself so that he could be proficient in the use of Sähiek spears. This was a rather daunting feat because these weapons were infamous for being difficult to use, but after 15 years of training he could use four at the same time. He took these skills and he started to work as a hunter for the Ata'til Guards, and he turned out to be a valuable asset. The fact that he could go on missions for days on end without needing to stop helped them to find criminals who decided to leave the solar system or those who traveled to deep space. He was seen as a valuable member of their team, but soon some people were jealous of the fact that a robot was getting all of these missions instead of them.

One of the groups told him that there were a few prisoners located on the formerly hostile planet of Akoa, which was the home of the Shershen’ warriors. Because he was overconfident, he traveled there with no hesitation. Seeing as he had not been trained in the correct way of fighting one of these warriors, he was nearly destroyed by them. He was damaged beyond repair, and he had no way of seeking the help that he needed. In an effort to save his own life, he hid in a cave and went into a low power state.

In 15 years, the war between the Shershen’ and the A'maranians was stopped and they had become great allies. In an effort to make reparations for what they did, Some of the Shershen’ went on missions to return the bodies of the A'maranians to their planet. A group of warriors discovered Jai’s body in the cave, and they made an effort to repair him so that he could go back home. Sadly enough, the damage had been done to his memory center, and he could not remember the last 25 years of his life. The Shershen’ knew that he was a priest of some sorts because of his outfit, but that was all that they knew about him. He went back home and was rewarded for his service, but he had no memory of it. With that, he respectfully declined the award, and he went back to his duties as a Priest.

After a few years, he slowly started to regain some of his memories. He couldn’t remember why, but he knew that he had a mission to do, and that he was the only one who could do it. Iitä Rowess warned him against hunting these criminals because it was so dangerous for him, but she did not discourage him. She knew that if this was his fate, then he should do as he pleased, as long as it was within the rights of Nenigool. Appearance: Jai is a very handsome young man. He looks just like Mihajlo Raznatovic, even though he has never met this man before. Jai has superhero-like facial features. He has auburn hair, a square jaw and eyes that seem to have permanent eyeliner on them. He has a slight cleft in his chin, and full lips. Like all A'maranians, his canines are longer than a humans, he has a tail with a slight auburn tuft at the end, and his eyes identify what part of the planet he is from. They are white and his eyes have been described as “Paralyzing beautiful” by the people who meet him. He has a slight tan from traveling to other planets, but other than that he has a pale complexion. He is always seen in his Uniform, which consists of a black duster coat that is reinforced on some areas but it has the Symbol of Nenigol on the back, a green sash, and some customized gauntlets that almost give him the appearance of having long and sharp claws. These gauntlets also allow him to pick up his spears after they heat up from him throwing them.

Personality: Jai is described as being extremely focused. When he sets his mind on a goal, it is impossible for him to be deterred. He is also an AI that has independent thought, so although he does follow the doctrine of his shrine, he deviates from it sometimes.

He acts older than he looks and he is quick to correct anyone’s behavior if they treat him like a child.

When it comes to his religion, he is devout and he follows it strictly. He is tolerant of other factions of religion, but he is quick to question someone else’s devotion. The only reason as to why he does this is because his own religion tells him to question and ask in order to understand something better.

Favourite & Least Favourite things: He loves his job, and his outfit. He takes meticulous care of his uniform. When he’s not working, he does like helping people out, learning more about his religion, and finding criminals.

His least Favorites include people who are insubordinate, tasks like writing and praying because it gets tedious after a while and he has things to do.

Strengths and Weaknesses: Physical Strengths: He has telekenisis and that’s about it, but he is proficient with his skills. Like all A'Maranians he can fly, live in the space vacuum, and his strength is enhanced.

Strengths: This guy does not give up. He will do everything in his power to complete his job, and of it takes him weeks then so be it. He’s also very serious

Weaknesses: He is really self conscious about how he looks. Nobody believes that he’s 25 and many people talk to him like he’s a child, which does make him upset. He’s also sensitive about how his first name is pronounced because it’s the name of one of their saints. He can also shut off if he receives too much bodily damage.

Additional notes: 6 Facts about Jai! 1. He has the strangest accent out there. He was raised in a temple where he learned an archaic version of their language. It’s the equivalent of someone learning Ancient Latin their whole life and then they speak English.

2. He is very particular of how his name is pronounced. It’s “Zchai Ewe-Rah”.

3. He sees Viggo as a failed priest, But Viggo actually completed his trials and he’s ordained, unlike him, who is a priest in training.

4. He doesn’t like Luka because he sees him as some sort of abomination, he doesn’t like Shershen’ because they have no set religion.

5. He has a deactivation code that Viggo knows for some unknown reason.

6. Smiling is not something he does frequently.

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