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An adversarial iMessage client for Android
Adversarial interoperability is one of the most reliable ways to protect tech users from predatory corporations: that's when a technologist reverse-engineers an existing product to reconfigure or mod it (interoperability) in ways its users like, but which its manufacturer objects to (adversarial):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
"Adversarial interop" is a mouthful, so at EFF, we coined the term "competitive compatibility," or comcom, which is a lot easier to say and to spell.
Scratch any tech success and you'll find a comcom story. After all, when a company turns its screws on its users, it's good business to offer an aftermarket mod that loosens them again. HP's $10,000/gallon inkjet ink is like a bat-signal for third-party ink companies. When Mercedes announces that it's going to sell you access to your car's accelerator pedal as a subscription service, that's like an engraved invitation to clever independent mechanics who'll charge you a single fee to permanently unlock that "feature":
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/05/carmakers-push-forward-with-plans-to-make-basic-features-subscription-services-despite-widespread-backlash/
Comcom saved giant tech companies like Apple. Microsoft tried to kill the Mac by rolling out a truly cursèd version of MS Office for MacOS. Mac users (5% of the market) who tried to send Word, Excel or Powerpoint files to Windows users (95% of the market) were stymied: their files wouldn't open, or they'd go corrupt. Tech managers like me started throwing the graphic designer's Mac and replacing it with a Windows box with a big graphics card and Windows versions of Adobe's tools.
Comcom saved Apple's bacon. Apple reverse-engineered MS's flagship software suite and made a comcom version, iWork, whose Pages, Numbers and Keynote could flawlessly read and write MS's Word, Excel and Powerpoint files:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
It's tempting to think of iWork as benefiting Apple users, and certainly the people who installed and used it benefited from it. But Windows users also benefited from iWork. The existence of iWork meant that Windows users could seamlessly collaborate on and share files with their Mac colleagues. IWork didn't just add a new feature to the Mac ("read and write files that originated with Windows users") – it also added a feature to Windows: "collaborate with Mac users."
Every pirate wants to be an admiral. Though comcom rescued Apple from a monopolist's sneaky attempt to drive it out of business, Apple – now a three trillion dollar company – has repeatedly attacked comcom when it was applied to Apple's products. When Apple did comcom, that was progress. When someone does comcom to Apple, that's piracy.
Apple has many tools at its disposal that Microsoft lacked in the early 2000s. Radical new interpretations of existing copyright, contract, patent and trademark law allows Apple – and other tech giants – to threaten rivals who engage in comcom with both criminal and civil penalties. That's right, you can go to prison for comcom these days. No wonder Jay Freeman calls this "felony contempt of business model":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain
Take iMessage, Apple's end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) instant messaging tool. Apple customers can use iMessage to send each other private messages that can't be read or altered by third parties – not cops, not crooks, not even Apple. That's important, because when private messaging systems get hacked, bad things happen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak
But Apple has steadfastly refused to offer an iMessage app for non-Apple systems. If you're an Apple customer holding a sensitive discussion with an Android user, Apple refuses to offer you a tool to maintain your privacy. Those messages are sent "in the clear," over the 38-year-old SMS protocol, which is trivial to spy on and disrupt.
Apple sacrifices its users' security and integrity in the hopes that they will put pressure on their friends to move into Apple's walled garden. As CEO Tim Cook told a reporter: if you want to have secure communications with your mother, buy her an iPhone:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-cook-says-buy-mom-210347694.html
Last September, a 16-year old high school student calling himself JJTech published a technical teardown of iMessage, showing how any device could send and receive encrypted messages with iMessage users, even without an Apple ID:
https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
JJTech even published code to do this, in an open source library called Pypush:
https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
In the weeks since, Beeper has been working to productize JJTech's code, and this week, they announced Beeper Mini, an Android-based iMessage client that is end-to-end encrypted:
https://beeper.notion.site/How-Beeper-Mini-Works-966cb11019f8444f90baa314d2f43a54
Beeper is known for a multiprotocol chat client built on Matrix, allowing you to manage several kinds of chat from a single app. These multiprotocol chats have been around forever. Indeed, iMessage started out as one – when it was called "iChat," it supported Google Talk and Jabber, another multiprotocol tool. Other tools like Pidgin have kept the flame alive for decades, and have millions of devoted users:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/tower-babel-how-public-interest-internet-trying-save-messaging-and-banish-big
But iMessage support has remained elusive. Last month, Nothing launched Sunchoice, a disastrous attempt to bring iMessage to Android, which used Macs in a data-center to intercept and forward messages to Android users, breaking E2EE and introducing massive surveillance risks:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23970740/sunbird-imessage-app-shut-down-privacy-nothing-chats-phone-2
Beeper Mini does not have these defects. The system encrypts and decrypts messages on the Android device itself, and directly communicates with Apple's servers. It gathers some telemetry for debugging, and this can be turned off in preferences. It sends a single SMS to Apple's servers during setup, which changes your device's bubble from green to blue, so that Apple users now correctly see your device as a secure endpoint for iMessage communications.
Beeper Mini is now available in Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima&hl=en_US
Now, this is a high-stakes business. Apple has a long history of threatening companies like Beeper over conduct like this. And Google has a long history deferring to those threats – as it did with OG App, a superior third-party Instagram app that it summarily yanked after Meta complained:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained
But while iMessage for Android is good for Android users, it's also very good for Apple customers, who can now get the privacy and security guarantees of iMessage for all their contacts, not just the ones who bought the same kind of phone as they did. The stakes for communications breaches have never been higher, and antitrust scrutiny on Big Tech companies has never been so intense.
Apple recently announced that it would add RCS support to iOS devices (RCS is a secure successor to SMS):
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
Early word from developers suggests that this support will have all kinds of boobytraps. That's par for the course with Apple, who love to announce splashy reversals of their worst policies – like their opposition to right to repair – while finding sneaky ways to go on abusing its customers:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
The ball is in Apple's court, and, to a lesser extent, in Google's. As part of the mobile duopoly, Google has joined with Apple in facilitating the removal of comcom tools from its app store. But Google has also spent millions on an ad campaign shaming Apple for exposing its users to privacy risks when talking to Android users:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23883609/google-rcs-message-apple-iphone-ipager-ad
While we all wait for the other shoe to drop, Android users can get set up on Beeper Mini, and technologists can kick the tires on its code libraries and privacy guarantees.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/#never-underestimate-the-determination-of-a-kid-who-is-time-rich-and-cash-poor
#pluralistic#multiprotocol#interoperability#adversarial interop#beeper#reverse engineering#blue bubbles#green bubbles#e2ee#end to end encrypted#messaging#jjtech#pypushbeeper mini#matrix#competitive compatibility#comcom
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Detox just to Retox - The Dan and Phil Hiatus
Dan and Phil x Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes - Fall Out Boy
Image credits under cut:
Why I Quit Youtube - Daniel Howell (1, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21)
Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes - Fall Out Boy (2, 5, 8, 10, 16, 20)
DIL'S FAMILY WINTERFEST - Dan and Phil Play: Sims 4 #63 - DanAndPhilGAMES (3, 11)
Phil is not on fire 10 - AmazingPhil (4)
DAN AND PHIL MASSIVE PIZZA MUKBANG 2 - DanAndPhilGAMES (6)
Daniel Howell, Twitter 04/01/2019 (12)
Daniel Howell, Instagram 06/18/2021 (19)
WE'RE ALL DOOMED! - Daniel Howell (22)
#I am obsessed with this song and I've been cooking this up in my mind ever since I recently rewatched wdapteo 2 and thought#wow they're so “half doomed and semi-sweet”#anyways it spiraled from there#just generally a very fascinating period of time to me I hope this makes as much sense laid out as it did in my mind#sorry for the confusing way I sourced the images I was pulling from a lot of stuff multiple times which made it difficult to cite things#and I really wanted to cite them bc I was pulling so many out of context quotes#dan and phil#dnp#phan#dan howell#phil lester#daniel howell#web weave#fall out boy
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OVER THE YEARS — one shot.
pairing: oscar piastri x reader
MASTERLIST.
request: “omg hi i have a request for oscar piastri a social media au something showing their friendship over the years maybe through b'day posts/something else (you decide) basically like childhood friend to lovers social media au pls !”
NOTE: first oscar piece ever!! the format of this is a bit diff but that’s just bc it’s kind of only insta… thank you sm for requesting, i hope that this is what you wanted and enjoy! (this has no faceclaim btw)
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yourusername HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEST FRIEND WHO JUST TURNED 18!!!! cannot believe i’ve known you for 12 of those years…
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oscarpiastri Was the last picture really necessary…
⤷ yourusername yes, yes it was 😁
oscarpiastri I was a pretty cute kid actually
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yourusername 19 years old and he’s still acting like he’s 10!! oh also, happy birthday 🥳
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oscarpiastri Was the happy birthday an afterthought or…?
⤷ yourusername was i really that obvious?
⤷ oscarpiastri I see how it is then🙄
arthur_leclerc I’m gonna need more of these pictures
⤷ yourusername your wish is my command
⤷ oscarpiastri Y/N NO
APRIL 06, 2021
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yourusername selfie time for the birthday boy! 20 has looked better on others, but you’ll get there ❤️
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oscarpiastri Wow!
oscarpiastri I send you these pics in confidence and they end up on Instagram… Can’t trust anybody😔
⤷ yourusername not really private if they’re in a group chat🤷♀️
⤷ oscarpiastri Watch your back for your next birthday post… You never the content I might get
arthur_leclerc You two look really cozy in that second picture!!
⤷ yourusername shut up, frenchie
APRIL 06, 2022
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yourusername happy birthday to this guy 🫶
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oscarpiastri 🫶🫶🫶
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oscarpiastri Will I ever get some decent photos in these posts?
⤷ yourusername hm… no!
oscarfan1 who is she??
⤷ oscarfan2 she’s oscar’s childhood best friend i think
⤷ oscarfan3 i thought she was his gf, cause she’s always in the paddock with him
⤷ oscarfan2 nope, just friends from what i know
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yourusername happy birthday to my boy friend (my best friend who’s a boy but also my actual boyfriend)!!! you’ve done so much in all these years, you’re even in F1 now, and i’m happy to have been through it all 🤍 i included some good pics but just because the fans need them 😁
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oscarpiastri Aww… Is the beautiful girl single?
⤷ yourusername no… but you’re pretty cute so call me :)
⤷ oscarpiastri 🙃🙃🙃
oscarpiastri21 how i love them
oscarfan22 THE MCLAREN GLOW UP OMG
landonorris There are children on this app…
⤷ yourusername WE’RE YOUNGER THAN YOU???
⤷ landonorris And yet I have more decorum🙄
oscarpiastri23 they’re so cuteee
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yourusername P4! there is so much i could say, but all that matters is that i am incredibly proud of all that you achieved and will achieve
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landonorris If I speak…
⤷ yourusername don’t❤️
oscarfan31 the most unproblematic and cutest couple on the grid
oscarpiastri I love you 🫶
⤷ yourusername I love you 🫶🫶
⤷ oscarpiastri I love you 🫶🫶🫶
oscarfan32 I LOVE THEM SM
oscarfan33 y/n pls know that we love you
#*ੈ✩༄ my works !#oscar piastri#oscar piastri x reader#oscar piastri x you#oscar piastri x y/n#oscar piastri fluff#oscar piastri fanfic#oscar piastri f1#oscar piastri fic#oscar piastri imagine#oscar piastri one shot#f1#formula 1#formula one#f1 fanfic#f1 x reader#f1 social media au#f1 x y/n#f1 x you#british gp 2023#formula 1 fic#formula 1 oneshot#formula 1 x y/n#formula 1 fluff#formula 1 x reader#formula 1 x you#lando norris
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@spliffyfuckingmcjingles666
Did you know that Trump tried to ban transgender people from serving in the military? Because he did.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40729996
Did you know that Trump revoked protections for transgender students, allowing schools to force them to use bathrooms matching their sex assigned at birth? Because he did.
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/516290661/trump-administration-rolls-back-protections-for-transgender-students
Did you know that Trump’s administration argued that businesses should be allowed to fire LGBTQ employees simply for being LGBTQ? Because they did.
Source: 6https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/09/trump-administration-wants-legalize-lgbtq-discrimination-just-call-it-religious-freedom/
Did you know that Trump appointed anti-LGBTQ judges to the federal courts, many of whom have a history of opposing same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights? Because he did.
Source: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-on-trumps-dangerous-anti-lgbtq-judicial-appointments
Did you know that Trump’s administration eliminated LGBTQ health care protections, allowing discrimination in medical treatment? Because they did.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-administration-ends-lgbtq-health-care-protections-n1231018
Did you know that Trump refused to recognize Pride Month while in office, breaking a long-standing tradition set by previous presidents? Because he did.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730707866/president-trump-not-officially-recognizing-pride-month-advocates-say-that-speaks
Did you know that Trump supported “religious freedom” policies that allow businesses to deny services to LGBTQ people? Because he did.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/08/supreme-court-expands-religious-schools-hiring-rights/5395015002/
Did you know that Trump’s Department of Justice stopped advocating for LGBTQ rights in court cases? Because they did.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/us/politics/justice-department-gays-workplace.html
Did you know that Trump’s administration cut funding for HIV/AIDS prevention programs and dismissed an entire panel of HIV/AIDS advisors? Because they did.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/health/hiv-council-trump/index.html
Did you know that Trump stopped U.S. embassies from flying Pride flags during Pride Month? Because he did.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/state-department-tells-u-s-embassies-they-can-t-fly-n1014501
don't tell me that I don't have sources, or that trump loves LGBTQ people. You are being misled. If this doesn't change your view, regardless of everything else I have said, you are obviously too self righteous and dense to understand and recognise that there are possibly facts that are true and opinions that aren't yours that are also valid. Please see that trump is not running for you, he is tricking you into thinking he is for his own personal gain. I'm not saying I love Kamala either, because I don't and the 2 party system sucks and all politicians are garbage people. However, I would rather vote for someone who might not make good on a few good promises, rather than someone who has promised to make ny life hell on his next term.
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The Katie McGrath Archives (WIP)
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The Lost Tomb 2: Wrath of the Sea (2019) - 盗墓笔记2 - Whump List
List by StayDandy Synopsis : The group of heroes are pulled into another tomb-raiding expedition that takes them beneath the sea. In an ancient Ming Dynasty ship, they encounter monstrous creatures and puzzling traps. Wu Xie opens the box that he obtained from the Seven Star Coffins of Lu Wang's Palace to discover a snake-browed copper fish. Uncle Wu San Xing recounts the strange occurrences over ten years ago when they went on an archaeological expedition to Paracel Islands. Wu Xie leads a team down to the same place to explore a sunken ship where hidden dangers await. (MDL)
Whumpee : Wu Xie played by Neo Hou (center right) • Zhang Qi Ling played by Cheng Yi (center left) • Wang Pang Zi played by Zhang Bo Yu (2nd from right)
Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Action, Adventure, Mystery, Supernatural, Bromance
Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Adapted from books 2, 3 and some of 4 of "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" (Daomu Biji) by Kennedy Xu • Suggested watch order of series (not including movies & spin-offs) : -- 1. Mystic Nine (2016) -- 2. The Lost Tomb (2015) >> 3. The Lost Tomb 2: Wrath of the Sea (2019) -- 4. The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note (2021) -- 5. The Lost Tomb 3: Ultimate Note (2020) -- 6. Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (2024) -- 7. Tomb of the Sea (2018) -- 8. Reunion: Sound of the Providence (2020) -- 9. Reunion: Sound of the Providence 2 (2020)
Related Lists : The Lost Tomb (2015) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 2: Explore With the Note (2021) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 3: Ultimate Note (2020) - Full List • Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (2024) - Full List
Episodes on List : 25 Total Episodes : 40
*Spoilers below*
01 : Wu Xie shocked awake, sweating, from a layered nightmare (nightmare within a nightmare within a nightmare) … Wang Pang Zi knocked out
02 : [nightmare] Wu Xie choked
05 : Unsteady … entrapped in a trance, strangled, broken out of it … Pang Zi knocked over from an explosion … Wu Xie attacked, thrown to the ground, Pang Zi thrown into a wall, Zhang Qi Ling fights; choked & lifted off the ground
06 : [flashback] Passes out
07 : Wu Xie dizzy, entranced … [flashback] head pain, pushed into water … [present] Zhang Qi Ling head pain, recalling forgotten memories … Wu Xie, Zhang Qi Ling, & Pang Zi escaping a collapsing underwater building, stuck on the way out.. Wu Xie unconscious, receives chest compressions, spits up water, knocked to the ground
08 : Recovering from fever (not really shown) … [flashback] cut his own hand
09 : Shocked awake, sweating, from nightmare
11 : (near end) Wu Xie & Pang Zi captured, tied up
12 : … continued from previous ep. ...Wu Xie still captured, tied up … imprisoned.. dehydrated, breathing hard, unsteady.. passes out.. helped to walk
17 : Pang Zi attacked, Wu Xie attacked.. attacked again, knocked out, drowning.. spitting up water … Pang Zi bit by insect
18 : Wu Xie Hit with the butt of a gun, knocked out.. wakes tied up … Pang Zi having a reaction to bug bite; unsteady, arm in hives & paralyzed, passes out … Wu Xie falls, nightmare; wakes trapped in a casket, choked
19 : Drugged, unsteady, passes out, arm nicked & blood taken
21 : Falls, knocked out briefly … Pang Zi entranced into almost killing himself … rolls down a slope
23 : Wu Xie cuts his own hand … dizzy
24 : … continued from previous ep. ... Dizzy … unsteady, holding his head … attacked, choked
26 : Blown back by an explosion, briefly knocked out … falls, hits head, blurry vision, unsteady … cuts his own hand … blown back by an explosion, drowning … wakes in hospital (comedic: with a high-pitched voice from concussion)
28 : Pang Zi's arm in a cast (tho I'm confused as to why)
30 : (near end) Wu Xie knocked out from an explosion … falls into a pit
31 : Pang Zi found unconscious
32 : Found unconscious, head sore from being knocked out
35 : Wu Xie & Pang Zi in a fight; Wu Xie coughs up blood … head pain from noise
36 : Digs out from being buried in snow, head pain.. [flashback] buried in rubble from collapsed tomb, unconscious … [present] rolls down hill, arm hurt.. exhausted, passes out.. headache, collapses … headache … drugged asleep … caught in a trap, hung upside down
37 : Headache … captured … Pang Zi captured, tied up, mouth gagged … Zhang Qi Ling head pain, drugged unconscious
38 : Drugged unconscious … Zhang Qi Ling & Pang Zi trapped in a net, both tied up & hooded
39 : (near end) Wu Xie exhausted, collapses, hypoxia (not enough oxygen), slaps himself, passes out … hallucinating
More Whump Lists for this show: love-me-a-lotta-whump
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what if bridon arc but i pay attention to the times (ep 1) (at least the ones that i can notice since some look like they have something but then i cant make it out so shrug)
im really bad at dates so bear with me here. dates will be added to time when i can see it on that frame but unless stated otherwise just assume theyre following each other in order
23:10 - they hide in the darkroom
23:11 - he pauses before rushing to xiaoshi who is laying on the ground. xiaoshi takes his hand, apologies and tells him 'save them'
00:04 - lu guang is upstairs getting the photo (HE SPENT AN HOUR WITH XIAOSHIS DEAD BODY IM-)
00:05 (09-13) - he goes back in time
17:32 - he ends up back in the past (assumedly. his watch is missing but its the time on the photo)
05:29 (04-12) (it then ticks to 05:30) - bruhs sitting on his bed thinking. his eyes are still gold
05:31 - he puts his hands down
05:33 - he replies to xiaoshis text, see below (THATS AFTER TWELVE HOURS PASSED IM. i didnt think about this cause they didnt really do much time travel so i wasnt thinking of like seeing it in the present but that it happened in the past so i. om.)
08:00 - xiaoshi is in his bed looking at his phone, at lu guang's contact (google translate tells me xiaoshi tells him that they should play basketball together tomorrow)
when he stops by at the time where he probably helps them paint the building his eyes are normal colored
13:30 (06-09) - xiaoshi is there to take pictures of the main coser (lu guang) of the anime club
12:30 probably..? (next day) - they arrive at the convention
13:34 - they get the kung fu master package (the bag) and qiao ling leaves to get it
14:35 (06-10) - qiao ling exits the line after getting the collector's edition of kung fu master 7
DONT BE SHY SHOW ME THE TIME
15:54 - lu guang gets the display book and opens it
15:55 - hes flipping through it
i cant read this. google translate says it says '13:30 start shooting' so i assume when they start taking pictures at the con
'13:35 separate actions' when qiao ling left to get the game?
'14:45 lost items' assumedly around when qiao ling and miaomiao switch bags (or maybe when she realized they had switched bags?)
'15:55 found the photo' the photo in the display book of her?
15:56 - lu guang says he knows how to find her through divination
15:57 - he tells them to close their eyes, xiaoshi protests but qiao ling says to give it a try
15:59 - hes about to look through the photo
16:00 - he looks (that is 16 right?)
(looking through photo) 14:35 - qiao ling and miaomiao say goodbye and switch bags
22:52 - miaomiao flashback (how do i describe this)
(past) signing event of RanXi Chronicles at 15:00 next saturday?
16:59 (06-10 2019) - xiaoshi talks about adding his divination (if it was real) as a side gig to the studio
17:00 - lu guang says he has to leave, qiao ling tells them to hurry up. he turns back but xiaoshi grabs his wrist and brings him inside
(flashback) 14:50 - vivian getting zhou xun into investing (also same time when he gives her 100k seemingly? or he was thinking it)
7:20 (pm?) - they beg lu guang to do his magic thing (I think? the seconds hand keeps confusing me). lu guang tells them to get out as his condition
next day at 7:20-ish pm - lu guang has their phones on call and puts one in xiaoshi's breast pocket
8 pm - xiaoshi meets vivian who thinks he is zhou xun
21:46 - vivian seemingly texted the bad guy (idk name) that xiaoshi (who she thinks is zhou xun) took the bait (again im using google translate so idk)
??? - vivian says that lu guang could get hurt (as an example, if he wanted to run away if he joined them?)
whatever this time is - vivian pretends to hurt him and has him fake his death
the guys enter the room
revealed vivian betrayed the bad guys, and xiaoshi n lu guang run away
11:30 - zhou xun sees the news of vivian being a suspect (his text to her is about meeting again since he missed it yesterday)
7:20 am (probably, its bright outside) - xiaoshi tells him that he worries about lu guang disappearing. lu guang tells him he can stay in the photo studio. they do the clap that means theyre partners for life
that.. should be it?
#link click#link click bridon arc#bridon arc#qiao ling#shiguang#shiguang dailiren#lu guang#cheng xiaoshi
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I made another little timeline, of the games when they played against each other, initially only before they met with the national team, and then also the games after, to conclude on some interesting stat. Hopefully I didn't miss any.
12/07/2019 : WNBA @Chicago : SKY 99 - 83 NYL https://youtu.be/8LArSiEV3EM?feature=shared&t=1007
07/08/2019 : WNBA @Chicago : SKY 101- 92 NYL https://youtu.be/VT6E17azVlg?feature=shared&t=1163
12/10/2019 : LFB @Montpellier BLMA 72 - 58 ASVEL https://www.midilibre.fr/2019/10/12/basket-ball-blma-asvel-suivez-le-match-en-direct,8475711.php
27/11/2019 : Euroleague @Montpellier : BLMA 80 - 73 ASVEL https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/19-20/game/2711/BLMA-Lyon-ASVEL
28/01/2020 : Euroleague @Lyon : ASVEL 78 - 77 BLMA https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/19-20/game/2801/Lyon-ASVEL-BLMA
16/02/2020 : Coupe de France @Vannes ASVEL 86 - 74 BLMA https://ancien.ffbb.com/coupe-de-france/le-blma-resiste-et-passe
23/02/2020 : LFB @Lyon ASVEL 94 - 73 BLMA https://www.blma.fr/actualites-les-gazelles/lfb-j14-une-deuxieme-mi-temps-compliquee-les-gazelles-gardent-neanmoins-leur-place-sur-le-podium/
17/03/2021 : Euroleague Quarter finals Game 1 @Lyon : ASVEL 66 - 94 Sopron https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/20-21/game/1703/LDLC-ASVEL-Feminin--Sopron-Basket
19/03/2021 : Euroleague Quarter finals Game 2 @Sopron Sopron 62 - 75 ASVEL https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/20-21/videos/LIVE-Sopron-Basket-v-LDLC-ASVEL-Feminin-EuroLeague-Women-2020
19/06/2022 : WNBA @Seattle SEA 81 - 72 NYL https://stats.wnba.com/game/1022200092/ (both on 🔥 during that game, 23 pts each)
27/07/2023 : WNBA @NY NYL 86 - 82 SEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDj5JomtsY
So quick stat that I'm sure they have in mind : Gabby won 6 times out of these 11 games, and one of the times Marine won, it was for nothing as Gabby's team qualified for the semis.
NB : that WNBA stats website is magnificent, they provide the links to videos to illustrate most of the individuals stats actions
You're incredible, thank you so much💜
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Zutara SlowBurn FanFiction: Personal Favs, part I
· I AM STILL HERE by owedbetter Published: 2017-10-09 | 77K words | 7 Chapters
After the Last Agni Kai K heals Z with the help of bloodbending. Very sweet.
· THE SUMMIT by AJLenoire
Chronicles post-war years, as Gaang and other characters gather for annual summits to keep peace and build relationships between the Four Nations. Katara yearns for a bigger purpose than the Avatar’s companion and slowly grows into a shrewd diplomat. Very sweet slow burn ZK story. Has mature scenes.
· CLOTHE ME IN SEASONS, DRESS ME IN SNOW by sadladybug Published: 2015-01-05 | 62K words | 7 Chapters
Follows old Zuko as he reflects on his life and what would have been if he kept Katara closer. Absolutely beautiful, but also a devastatingly heart-breaking story about loss and pain.
· SILENT DECLARATIONS by Megara Pike (Megara_Pike) Published: 2021-01-20 | 2,6K words
A short story based on animation by Hayley Wong. Z finds K asleep in her study and carries her to bed. Very sweet, gentle story.
· COVERED IN YOU by evergreenonthehorizon Published: 2021-04-02 | 55K words | 14 Chapters
Eight years after the war Z convinces K to take on a role of a Southern Water Tribe ambassador in the Caldera city. Both are completely clueless about each other’s feelings. Features political talks, big gestures, and a ball. Very cute, sweet slow-burn story. Has mature scenes.
· TEN STRIDES IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION by evergreenonthehorizon Published: 2021-04-03 | 29K Words | 12 Chapters
A collection of short stories filling in the gaps between some of the events of ATLAS3 and up to the Last Agni Kai. Features accidental cuddling, embracing in the rain, sharing a bed for warmth, post-Ember Island Theater discussions, being discovered, waiting to be kissed, Suki & Katara being good friends, battle plans, Zuko & Sokka getting drunk, slow burn & angst. Very sweet.
· THE SWAY OF THE SUN by TheBlackBriarSparrow Published: Published: 2019-10-14 | 102K Words | 27 Chapters
Two years post-war Gaang reunites in Caldera city for a secret party in honor of the overworked Fire Lord’s birthday. Rebels attack the palace setting a thrilling consequence of events in motion. Adventures, investigations, and fights ensue. Z & K work together and enlist old friends to help find missing people. Beautiful slow-burn story with an exciting plot.
· A WARM EMBRACE by ewinkie Published: 2020-10-06 | 19K Words | 7 Chapters
An ATLAS3 rewrite from Southern Riders to the Last Agni Kai. Katara and Zuko have to hide in a cave following their encounter with Yon Rha. Comforting turns to cuddling, which turns to waking up on Appa's tail in each other's arms. Katara is shocked at how comfortable she is. Zuko is shocked that Katara doesn't hate him for it. Features sharing a bed, being discovered, slowburn, and lots of teenage silliness.
· FOLLOWING BLUE by Boogum Published: 2018-11-07 | 39K Words | 10 Chapters
ATLA S2 rewrite. After Katara falls from Appa’s saddle during a pursuit, the Blue Spirit becomes her reluctant companion and helps her reunite with her friends. Ba Sing Se scenes are completely rewritten, and Z ends up joining the Gaang much earlier. Thrilling beginning, sweet middle, average ending.
· ANOTHER WORD FOR ALCHEMY by FanPanda13 Published: 2014-08-19 | 108K words | 24 Chapters
Five years post-war Aang summons old friends for a summit and invites them on a trip to investigate mysterious locations where he experiences loss of bending. Features Gaang setting Z & K up, travelling on Appa like in the olden days, lots of sparring, royal courting, magnificent navy ships & war ballons. Thrilling story with fun banter between old friends. Slowburn, mature content.
· CONSUME ME WITH FIRE, FLOOD ME WITH DESIRE by Dacamia Published: 2020-08-14 | 86K words | 24 Chapters
Steamy ATLAS2 and ATLA S3 rewrite. Z & K accidentally meetup on their way to Ba Sing Se and decide to travel together. Features aged-up characters, lots of intimate scenes, staying in a beautiful cave, helping villagers, betrayal in Ba Sing Se, reunion, forgiveness, etc. Explicit mature content.
· ROOTS AND WINGS by zukoscomet Published: 2020-08-14 | 250K words | 25 Chapters
A series of short stories of Z & K as they grow closer, confess their love for one another and start a family.
· THOSE WHO FAVOR FIRE by hiwasseelane Published: 2021-05-02 |29K Words | 13 Chapters
An ATLAS3 rewrite. Sweet, teen-appopriate.
Here’s a link to Part II of my personal favs.
Here’s a link to Wholesome Zutara Short Stories.
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01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12 Pieces from ArtFight (July and August) were made for @covecaller & @ausp-ice
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Dirty words are politically potent
On OCTOBER 23 at 7PM, I'll be in DECATUR, presenting my novel THE BEZZLE at EAGLE EYE BOOKS.
Making up words is a perfectly cromulent passtime, and while most of the words we coin disappear as soon as they fall from our lips, every now and again, you find a word that fits so nice and kentucky in the public discourse that it acquires a life of its own:
http://meaningofliff.free.fr/definition.php3?word=Kentucky
I've been trying to increase the salience of digital human rights in the public imagination for a quarter of a century, starting with the campaign to get people to appreciate that the internet matters, and that tech policy isn't just the delusion that the governance of spaces where sad nerds argue about Star Trek is somehow relevant to human thriving:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell
Now, eventually people figured out that a) the internet mattered and, b) it was going dreadfully wrong. So my job changed again, from "how the internet is governed matters" to "you can't fix the internet with wishful thinking," for example, when people said we could solve its problems by banning general purpose computers:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/
Or by banning working cryptography:
https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/04/oh-for-fucks-sake-not-this-fucking-bullshit-again-cryptography-edition/
Or by redesigning web browsers to treat their owners as threats:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership
Or by using bots to filter every public utterance to ensure that they don't infringe copyright:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-internet-now-we-fight-back
Or by forcing platforms to surveil and police their users' speech (aka "getting rid of Section 230"):
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/
Along the way, many of us have coined words in a bid to encapsulate the abstract, technical ideas at the core of these arguments. This isn't a vanity project! Creating a common vocabulary is a necessary precondition for having the substantive, vital debates we'll need to tackle the real, thorny issues raised by digital systems. So there's "free software," "open source," "filternet," "chat control," "back doors," and my own contributions, like "adversarial interoperability":
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
Or "Competitive Compatibility" ("comcom"), a less-intimidatingly technical term for the same thing:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/competitive-compatibility-year-review
These have all found their own niches, but nearly all of them are just that: niche. Some don't even rise to "niche": they're shibboleths, insider terms that confuse and intimidate normies and distract from the real fights with semantic ones, like whether it's "FOSS" or "FLOSS" or something else entirely:
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/262/what-is-the-difference-between-foss-and-floss
But every now and again, you get a word that just kills. That brings me to "enshittification," a word I coined in 2022:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/#relentless-payola
"Enshittification" took root in my hindbrain, rolling around and around, agglomerating lots of different thoughts and critiques I'd been making for years, crystallizing them into a coherent thesis:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
This kind of spontaneous crystallization is the dividend of doing lots of work in public, trying to take every half-formed thought and pin it down in public writing, something I've been doing for decades:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
After those first couple articles, "enshittification" raced around the internet. There's two reasons for this: first, "enshittification" is a naughty word that's fun to say. Journalists love getting to put "shit" in their copy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/crosswords/linguistics-word-of-the-year.html
Radio journalists love to tweak the FCC with cheekily bleeped syllables in slightly dirty compound words:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/enshitification
And nothing enlivens an academic's day like getting to use a word like "enshittification" in a journal article (doubtless this also amuses the editors, peer-reviewers, copyeditors, typesetters, etc):
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=enshittification&btnG=&oq=ensh
That was where I started, too! The first time I used "enshittification" was in a throwaway bad-tempered rant about the decay of Tripadvisor into utter uselessness, which drew a small chorus of appreciative chuckles about the word:
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1550457808222552065
The word rattled around my mind for five months before attaching itself to my detailed theory of platform decay. But it was that detailed critique, coupled with a minor license to swear, that gave "enshittification" a life of its own. How do I know that the theory was as important as the swearing? Because the small wave of amusement that followed my first use of "enshittification" petered out in less than a day. It was only when I added the theory that the word took hold.
Likewise: how do I know that the theory needed to be blended with swearing to break out of the esoteric realm of tech policy debates (which the public had roundly ignored for more than two decades)? Well, because I spent two decades writing about this stuff without making anything like the dents that appeared once I added an Anglo-Saxon monosyllable to that critique.
Adding "enshittification" to the critique got me more column inches, a longer hearing, a more vibrant debate, than anything else I'd tried. First, Wired availed itself of the Creative Commons license on my second long-form article on the subject and reprinted it as a 4,200-word feature. I've been writing for Wired for more than thirty years and this is by far the longest thing I've published with them – a big, roomy, discursive piece that was run verbatim, with every one of my cherished darlings unmurdered.
That gave the word – and the whole critique, with all its spiky corners – a global airing, leading to more pickup and discussion. Eventually, the American Dialect Society named it their "Word of the Year" (and their "Tech Word of the Year"):
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
"Enshittification" turns out to be catnip for language nerds:
https://becauselanguage.com/90-enpoopification/#transcript-60
I've been dragged into (good natured) fights over the German, Spanish, French and Italian translations for the term. When I taped an NPR show before a live audience with ASL interpretation, I got to watch a Deaf fan politely inform the interpreter that she didn't need to finger-spell "enshittification," because it had already been given an ASL sign by the US Deaf community:
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/go-fact-yourself/ep-158-aida-rodriguez-cory-doctorow/
I gave a speech about enshittification in Berlin and published the transcript:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel
Which prompted the rock-ribbed Financial Times to get in touch with me and publish the speech – again, nearly verbatim – as a whopping 6,400 word feature in their weekend magazine:
https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5
Though they could have had it for free (just as Wired had), they insisted on paying me (very well, as it happens!), as did De Zeit:
https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2024-03/plattformen-facebook-google-internet-cory-doctorow
This was the start of the rise of enshittification. The word is spreading farther than ever, in ways that I have nothing to do with, along with the critique I hung on it. In other words, the bit of string that tech policy wonks have been pushing on for a quarter of a century is actually starting to move, and it's actually accelerating.
Despite this (or more likely because of it), there's a growing chorus of "concerned" people who say they like the critique but fret that it is being held back because you can't use it "at church or when talking to K-12 students" (my favorite variant: "I couldn't say this at a NATO conference"). I leave it up to you whether you use the word with your K-12 students, NATO generals, or fellow parishoners (though I assure you that all three groups are conversant with the dirty little word at the root of my coinage). If you don't want to use "enshittification," you can coin your own word – or just use one of the dozens of words that failed to gain public attention over the past 25 years (might I suggest "platform decay?").
What's so funny about all this pearl-clutching is that it comes from people who universally profess to have the intestinal fortitude to hear the word "enshittification" without experiencing psychological trauma, but worry that other people might not be so strong-minded. They continue to say this even as the most conservative officials in the most staid of exalted forums use the word without a hint of embarrassment, much less apology:
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/chairman-of-irish-social-media-regulator-says-europe-should-not-be-seduced-by-mario-draghis-claims/a526530600.html
I mean, I'm giving a speech on enshittification next month at a conference where I'm opening for the Secretary General of the United Nations:
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
After spending half my life trying to get stuff like this into the discourse, I've developed some hard-won, informed views on how ideas succeed:
First: the minor obscenity is a feature, not a bug. The marriage of something long and serious to something short and funny is a happy one that makes both the word and the ideas better off than they'd be on their own. As Lenny Bruce wrote in his canonical work in the subject, the aptly named How to Talk Dirty and Influence People:
I want to help you if you have a dirty-word problem. There are none, and I'll spell it out logically to you.
Here is a toilet. Specifically-that's all we're concerned with, specifics-if I can tell you a dirty toilet joke, we must have a dirty toilet. That's what we're all talking about, a toilet. If we take this toilet and boil it and it's clean, I can never tell you specifically a dirty toilet joke about this toilet. I can tell you a dirty toilet joke in the Milner Hotel, or something like that, but this toilet is a clean toilet now. Obscenity is a human manifestation. This toilet has no central nervous system, no level of consciousness. It is not aware; it is a dumb toilet; it cannot be obscene; it's impossible. If it could be obscene, it could be cranky, it could be a Communist toilet, a traitorous toilet. It can do none of these things. This is a dirty toilet here.
Nobody can offend you by telling a dirty toilet story. They can offend you because it's trite; you've heard it many, many times.
https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/lenny-bruce/how-to-talk-dirty-and-influence-people/9780306825309/
Second: the fact that a neologism is sometimes decoupled from its theoretical underpinnings and is used colloquially is a feature, not a bug. Many people apply the term "enshittification" very loosely indeed, to mean "something that is bad," without bothering to learn – or apply – the theoretical framework. This is good. This is what it means for a term to enter the lexicon: it takes on a life of its own. If 10,000,000 people use "enshittification" loosely and inspire 10% of their number to look up the longer, more theoretical work I've done on it, that is one million normies who have been sucked into a discourse that used to live exclusively in the world of the most wonkish and obscure practitioners. The only way to maintain a precise, theoretically grounded use of a term is to confine its usage to a small group of largely irrelevant insiders. Policing the use of "enshittification" is worse than a self-limiting move – it would be a self-inflicted wound. As I said in that Berlin speech:
Enshittification names the problem and proposes a solution. It's not just a way to say 'things are getting worse' (though of course, it's fine with me if you want to use it that way. It's an English word. We don't have der Rat für englische Rechtschreibung. English is a free for all. Go nuts, meine Kerle).
Finally: "coinage" is both more – and less – than thinking of the word. After the American Dialect Society gave honors to "enshittification," a few people slid into my mentions with citations to "enshittification" that preceded my usage. I find this completely unsurprising, because English is such a slippery and playful tongue, because English speakers love to swear, and because infixing is such a fun way to swear (e.g. "unfuckingbelievable"). But of course, I hadn't encountered any of those other usages before I came up with the word independently, nor had any of those other usages spread appreciably beyond the speaker (it appears that each of the handful of predecessors to my usage represents an act of independent coinage).
If "coinage" was just a matter of thinking up the word, you could write a small python script that infixed the word "shit" into every syllable of every word in the OED, publish the resulting text file, and declare priority over all subsequent inventive swearers.
On the one hand, coinage takes place when the coiner a) independently invents a word; and b) creates the context for that word that causes it to escape from the coiner's immediate milieu and into the wider world.
But on the other hand – and far more importantly – the fact that a successful coinage requires popular uptake by people unknown to the coiner means that the coiner only ever plays a small role in the coinage. Yes, there would be no popularization without the coinage – but there would also be no coinage without the popularization. Words belong to groups of speakers, not individuals. Language is a cultural phenomenon, not an individual one.
Which is rather the point, isn't it? After a quarter of a century of being part of a community that fought tirelessly to get a serious and widespread consideration of tech policy underway, we're closer than ever, thanks, in part, to "enshittification." If someone else independently used that word before me, if some people use the word loosely, if the word makes some people uncomfortable, that's fine, provided that the word is doing what I want it to do, what I've devoted my life to doing.
The point of coining words isn't the pilkunnussija's obsession with precise usage, nor the petty glory of being known as a coiner, nor ensuring that NATO generals' virgin ears are protected from the word "shit" – a word that, incidentally, is also the root of "science":
https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2019/01/24/science-and-shit/
Isn't language fun?
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toilet-has-no-central-nervous-system
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23. https://www.patreon.com/posts/pedro-by-44485564
24. https://www.patreon.com/posts/70428613
25. https://www.patreon.com/posts/58551246
26. https://liliili-sims4.tumblr.com/post/691837200658219008/bruno-hair-bgc-hat-compatible-24
27. https://qrqr19.tumblr.com/post/673612023225073664/hair-24-fluorite-hair-25-peridot-hair-26
28. https://qr19sims.blogspot.com/2022/03/hair-27-28-29.html
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⇢ beard/barba ||
01. https://greenllamas.tumblr.com/post/646204704634929152/beard
02. https://greenllamas.tumblr.com/post/646204704634929152/beard
03. https://greenllamas.tumblr.com/post/646204704634929152/beard
04. https://www.veigasims.com/2018/07/beard-facial-hair-style-12.html
05. https://www.veigasims.com/2020/11/beard-facial-hair-style-15.html
06. https://www.veigasims.com/2022/08/facial-hair-style-33.html
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⇢ acc/acessórios ||
01. https://ceeproductions.tumblr.com/post/655362683425751040/calm-fit-collection-a-mostly-male-cc-collection
02. https://ceeproductions.tumblr.com/post/696230540558385152/equinox-collection-its-the-start-of-my-favorite
03. https://www.patreon.com/adrienpastel
04. https://www.patreon.com/posts/warm-5-item-set-60918114
05. https://www.patreon.com/posts/round-square-38706995
06. https://maxismatchccworld.tumblr.com/post/190436912960/liliili-sims-scarf-collection-scarf-no1-45
07. https://ceeproductions.tumblr.com/post/655362683425751040/calm-fit-collection-a-mostly-male-cc-collection
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ART DUMP: FlutterDash (MLP:FiM:EG)
Love the girls so much!!
Timeline for the pieces:
1+2. 21/06/2020
3. 21/01/2021
4. 09/07/2019
5. 21/12/2019
6+7+8. 24/01/2021
#original art#digital art#digital illustration#digital drawing#artwork#my little pony#mlp fim#mlp g4#mlp art#mlp eqg#mlp equestria girls#fluttershy#rainbow dash#mlp fluttershy#mlp rainbow dash#twillight sparkle#mlp twilight sparkle#zephyr breeze#mrs shy#sombraverse#comics#flutterdash#rainbowshy#fluttershy x rainbow dash#rainbow dash x fluttershy#mlp shipping#mlp ship art#my little pony fanart#my little pony art#mlp sombraverse
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Mozart l'Opéra Rock (+cast) timeline An overview of my MOR gifs Please note: This is a WIP, not a complete list Reblog if you want, but I will update this a lot This timeline is also linked in my Info box Questions or notes? Ask me! 2008 11-14: 'Tatoue-moi' Making-of Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 12-15: 'Tatoue-moi' Music Video (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 2009 03-16: 'Vivre à en crever' Music Video (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 04-24: 'Starmania' Music Video (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 04-24: Interview with France Gall (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 06-22: 'L'assasymphonie' Music Video (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 11-04: 'Le bien qui fait mal' Music Video (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 11-29: 'Chabada' S01E10 (watch) Cast: OG Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 2010 12-26: 'Chabada' S02E13 (watch) Cast: 3D without Melissa Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 2011 07-09: Performance in Bercy/Paris (watch) Cast: Mikele, Florent & Diane Gifs: Part 1 2014 01-//: 'Arrête' Music Video (watch) Cast: Florent Gifs: Part 1 2019 02-28: 'Express Culture' Interview (read & watch) Cast: Mikele & Laurent Gifs: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 2024 04-03: 'Starmusical' L'assasymphonie tableau M6 (watch) Cast: Florent Gifs: Part 1 09-09: MOR China Tour Clip (watch) Cast: Mikele & Laurent Gifs: Part 1 11-27: 'Starmusical' Teaser 2025 (watch) Cast: Florent Gifs: Part 1 12-04: 'Tout le monde contre le cancer' backstage Cast: Florent Gifs: Part 1 Special Just men kissing other men in musicals (Mikele) Favourite characters in 'Le petit prince' (Laurent)
#mozart l'opera rock#mozart l'opéra rock#mor#mlor#timeline#mikelangelo loconte#florent mothe#laurent ban#claire pérot#solal#maeva méline#diane dassigny#melissa mars#starmania#le petit prince musical#starmusical#gif#erdenstuff
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mcr shows on youtube pt. 4 (2011 - 2023) last one :]
-> pt. 1 (2002 - 2005)
-> pt. 2 (2005 - 2007)
-> pt. 3 (2007 - 2011)
08/05/2011 pnc bank arts center holmdel nj - the academy is my beautiful romance
08/13/2011 hersheypark stadium hershey pa - the academy is my beautiful romance
08/20/2011 first midwest bank amphitheater tinley park il - the academy is my beautiful romance
08/26/2011 little john's farm reading england - em
08/31/2011 rogers arena vancouver canada - catie cunningham
09/03/2011 usana amphitheater west valley city utah - delaney nye
09/04/2011 comfort dental amphitheater greenwood village co - the academy is my beautiful romance
09/09/2011 capitol federal park at sandstone amphitheater bonner springs ks - the academy is my beautiful romance
09/11/2011 dte energy music theater clarkston mi - justanotherkilljoy
09/18/2011 farm bureau live at virginia beach va - the academy is my beautiful romance
09/20/2011 verizon wireless amphitheater charlotte nc - the academy is my beautiful romance
1/22/2012 gold coast parklands gold coast australia - the academy is my beautiful romance
02/03/2012 adelaide showground adelaide australia - the academy is my beautiful romance
02/05/2012 mccallum park perth australia - myxinfinitexromance
05/19/2012 north beach asbury park asbury park nj - ryan hanratty
12/20/2019 the shrine expo hall los angeles ca - gabe havel photo
05/16/2022 the eden project day one st austell england - the academy is my beautiful romance
05/17/2022 the eden project day two st austell england - the academy is my beautiful romance
05/21/2022 stadium mk milton keynes england - TheChickenGiraffe
05/24/2022 royal hospital kilmainham dublin ireland - the academy is my beautiful romance
05/28/2022 sofia gardens cricket ground cardiff wales - the academy is my beautiful romance
06/04/2022 bologna sonic park arena parco north italy - the academy is my beautiful romance
06/06/2022 olympiahalle munich germany - the academy is my beautiful romance
06/07/2022 budapest park budapest hungary - the academy is my beautiful romance
06/09/2022 progresja warsaw poland - the academy is my beautiful romance
06/11/2022 o2 arena prague czech republic - the academy is my beautiful romance
06/13/2022 stora scenen gröna lund stockholm sweden - live from stockholm
08/19/2022 paycom center oklahoma city ok - tony
08/23/2022 bridgestone arena nashville tn - the academy is my beautiful romance
08/24/2022 heritage bank center cincinnati oh - the academy is my beautiful romance
08/29/2022 wells fargo philadelphia pa - ronaldb2985
08/30/2022 mvp arena albany ny - the academy is my beautiful romance
09/05/2022 scotia bank toronto ca - the academy is my beautiful romance
09/16/2022 riot fest douglass park chicago il - geoffrey gardner
09/20/2022 prudential center newark nj - deadhoarse
09/24/2022 fla live arena sunrise fl - the academy is my beautiful romance
10/03/2022 tacoma dome tacoma wa - seattle concerts
10/05/2022 oakland arena oakland ca - HisoKu
10/07/2022 t-mobile arena las vegas nv - wormspeddler (smeagles)
10/08/2022 aftershock discovery park sacramento ca - the academy is my beautiful romance
10/09/2022 barclays center brooklyn ny - the academy is my beautiful romance
10/15/2022 kia forum inglewood ca - the academy is my beautiful romance
10/23/2022 when we were young day day two las vegas - the academy is my beautiful romance
10/29/2022 when we were young fest las vegas nv - PichyJr
11/18/2022 autódromo hermanos rodríguez mexico city mexico - leashalia
03/11/2023 the outer fields at western springs auckland new zealand (soundcheck) - the academy is my beautiful romance
03/23/2023 qudos bank arena sydney australia - the academy is my beautiful romance
-> pt. 1 (2002 - 2005)
-> pt. 2 (2005 - 2007)
-> pt. 3 (2007 - 2011)
#my chemical romance#mcr#frank iero#gerard way#mikey way#ray toro#swarm tour#swarm era#return era#danger days era
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Joy of Life Season 2 (2024) - 庆余年 第二季 - Whump List
List by StayDandy Synopsis : Fan Xian was forced to fake his death to escape certain doom. Now, he has decided to return to learn the truth behind a dastardly conspiracy. Can he break through the web of lies and deceit to expose the plotters - and live happily ever after with his beloved? (MDL) AKA : Qings Remaining Years | Thankful for the Remaining Years Season 2
Whumpee : Fan Xian played by Zhang Ruo Yun
Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Comedy, Wuxia, Fantasy, Romance
Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Joy of Life is another series I would happily rewatch for the story! Hurry up with season 3!!
Related List : Joy of Life (2019) - Full List
Episodes on List : 10 Total Episodes : 36
*Spoilers below*
01 : (continued from end of Season 1) (replay) Fan Xian stabbed, collapses, passes out (changed the actor of Yan Bing Yun, have to admit, even in these few seconds he does seem to fit better)
02 : Tied up (semi-comedic)
04 : Unsteady, collapses, hands shaking.. spits up blood.. unsteady, supported
06 : Helped to walk after being flogged (not shown), pain
11 : (near end) (comedic) In a wheelchair, weak, passes out-ish (so comedic I almost didn't want to add it) … still in wheelchair (not so comedic now)
12 : Still in wheelchair, coughing up blood
13 : (@ 8:58 Chen Pingping got game 😆)
24 : (@ 11:05 😂😂😂)
29 : Unsteady … fight
30 : Fight; cut several times, stabbed, spits up blood, dizzy, passes out … carried, unconscious, revealed to be poisoned, given a shock of energy … awake, extremely weak … pain, directs his own surgery, without local anesthetic.. high on chloroform, hallucinating (semi-comedic) … wakes, sore
31 : (past halfway point) While bedridden, 2 failed assassination attempts on him (poisoning, stabbing)
32 : Distraught, breathing hard
#whump#whump list#full whump list#Asian whump#China#Joy of Life Season 2#庆余年 第二季#Qings Remaining Years#Thankful for the Remaining Years Season 2#Fan Xian#Zhang Ruo Yun
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