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thewrongblues · 1 month ago
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birmingham matched our score haha
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disappointingcabbage · 1 year ago
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Fellas, is it gay to live inside another man forever with Satan himself by my side?
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chirpsythismorning · 6 months ago
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Nick himself said that his knowledge is confined to the leaks prior to s4, the s4 scripts from his verified source (likely within a source) and basic knowledge most fans paying attention have been able to formulate about s5 based on what has been released officially/unofficially, trends from Netflix and common sense.
He is saying based on all that, he doesn’t think byler is happening. 
And if we think back to what the Duffers themselves shared in the 4x09 script, it literally implies Mike’s monologue worked, and that it was entirely genuine. This tells me that the script the Duffers released for Emmy consideration, is not that far off from what Nick saw for himself. 
I think it’s likely Nick got something that the average below the line worker might manage to get their hands on if they tried hard enough. A copy they know they have to water-down to prevent these very situations from happening.
Unfortunately for the Duffers, it just so happens that they didn’t scrub their watered down copy hard enough.
Unfortunately for Nick, he admitted that it’s possible and even likely that the production will release things that aren’t exactly accurate with the sole purpose to lead fans sleuthing astray, without realizing it may have ironically already happened to him. 
#byler#stranger things#8flix#it would take an eternity to cover everything about scriptgate properly#there are just so many aspects of it that are unknown or are known but just not thoroughly understood bc 8flix has existed for some time#even prior to that fateful dry summer back in 2022#and including scripts beyond just st which made 8flix seen as a reputable source for scripts across the board#personally i've found myself back and forth on it#was nick sus for telling fans a script was dropping hour by hour and then going radio silent for days only to not release a script at all?#yes (and all while using the loophole argument that technically people donated to 8flix and got a complementary script with that donation)#were the st writers fishy for saying they'd release a script for a scene but would then need at least 2 business days to post each one?#also yes#are we really doubting that they have secrets in their scripts that they have to remove/shift a bit for the generic all-access version?#if so.. why?#I think very few people see the version of the script that the duffers have#shawn likely has it plus his own notes with it bc he also contributes ideas and runs it by the bros for his episodes and more bc he's an EP#maybe other key-players with that sort of control over the production could have more honest scripts i.e. the writers room#outside of that you have the main cast who MIGHT get those scripts + additional notes on their characters as discussed separately one on on#but beyond that scripts are meant to be vague#it's supposed to be 1 minute of screentime = 1 page of script#quite frankly multiple versions of the scripts exist and we're getting the barest of them all... minus a few slips here and there...#I could go on forever but i wont for my sanity bc the reality is we don't know for sure what happened and we probably never will#i'm more interested in seeing how this all pans out#nick has come out for vindication at least once this summer and last summer since 2022#i'm getting hefty slap on the wrist vibes here which if anything just makes this all so much more insane bc i mean... the implications?...#is it giving bad blood? is it giving enemies to lovers?#maybe nick will give us more vague hints when the next dry summer rolls around
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foldingfittedsheets · 1 year ago
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I’ve got some friends and my betrothed doing a little book club. It started with one friend and we’d leave a comment in discord with the percent we were at and then our thought under a spoiler. When we read that far we’d go back to read the spoiler and respond. Then their hubby wanted an excuse to read more, and my betrothed heard about it and wanted in.
At which point I slid forward The Scholomance series, which I’d been pressuring my betrothed into starting and so everyone took it up. It’s been like crack. I have always loved this series and my betrothed was like, “This sounds like a horrifying depressing setting why do you like it?”
But now they’re all voraciously consuming it and I’m living my absolute best life. I try not to comment much as I don’t want to color their perception but these books are so fucking good and now I get to share thoughts with several other people who are having a wonderful time.
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sevenfactorial · 1 month ago
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I've lived here for six months now and finally got around to mounting my whiteboard.
Will hopefully get around to paintings and posters later this week! And other cleaning things.
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solar-halos · 6 months ago
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i’m coming for another one of yall this mood board monday. this one is for you and me on the rock by @the-sun-and-the-sea
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#now you’re just gonna have to hear me out on this#this fic had a lot of soft and romantic imagery but since im relying on the internet i picked a lot of pics based on vibes#for example for the first pic (top left corner) there’s obviously not an aesthetic for making wedding nets so i went w the wedding dance#so i could ref the convo they had about marriage#then the next pic is a ref to their lil dinner date… there’s no dinner (just flowers) cos i couldn’t fit it in all in the frame 😔#the next pic is also vibe based it’s just to capture how silly they get#cos there’s a scene where finnick puts on a capitol accent and annie is like whatever! (in a silly way)#next pic is to 1) emulate the sunset vibes 2) a nod to them running AROUND when finnicks prep team goes to 4#ik this pic is obviously not that sorta frantic vibe at all but remember it was me and pinterest against the world#next pic is a reference to annie being comfty and cozy w finnick and being in his bed reading her books#next pic: sunset imagery + them cuddling. next pic: reference to annie’s frizz. next pic: canon odesta wedding cos of the very last scene#next pic: ok i just think this one emulates odesta’s vibe in this story and other stories by miss mdr#like the way they’re wrapped around each other and looking at the ocean#next pic: all the sea glass jewelry options were UGLY so i just had to rely on beachy jewelry imagery to ref the lovers day scene. sorryy#next pic: annies stuff in finnicks room <3 like her books and mirror and stuff#ok i’m done going ham in the tags but again i needed to explain myself since SO many of these were just based on a vibe of a vibe#mood board monday#odesta#annie cresta
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iratusmus · 2 years ago
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this is fiona/scourge. to me. they get married and divorced all the time, both for funsies and also whenever they get into a fight/make up. (important note: they swap last names since in mobius the woman takes the man's last name and in moebius i choose to believe that the man takes the woman's last name). and also whenever theyre mad at each other theyll call each other their exwife/husband.
like. theyve been fighting over something stupid for the past few days and are on divorce round 3 and they run into sonic and tails and everybody starts beating the snot out of each other as is usual. something happens idk sonic takes like a potshot at scourge and fionas like “get away from my ex!!” and sonics like “.....ex-boyfriend????” and shes like “what? no. ex-husband.” and tails is like “YOU GUYS GOT MARRIED??????” and sonics like “YOU GUYS GOT DIVORCED??????” and fiona & scourge respond “yeah? and?”
so sonic pauses for a half second to digest this new information, and then says “wait. ok. so if you guys are divorced. why the heck are you still working together.” and fiona responds “um. because we're dating??? ??? youre so stupid omg” without missing a beat while scourge is obnoxiously scoffing/rolling his eyes in the background like this is incredibly obvious information and sonic just. stares for a good few moments. and then says “actually nevermind i dont care anymore i dont want to know anything more about your weirdass relationship”
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icewindandboringhorror · 2 days ago
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Recent random life images ~
#photo diary#1 - picture of flowers with a cool pattern on the petals. 2 - son baby boy son baby with his arm out in a way that almost looks like he's#taking a selfie or something lol. 3 - some tacos made like I think last summer but somehow I just refound the picture of it lol. 4&5 -#flower with a really cool structure! Like how it's made of these little tiers of smaller flowers going up in a cyllinder type shape but fro#afar just looks like one flower. 6 - the stem of a broccoli that I cut very thin and put small slices of green bean inside of?? I like#messing around with produce scraps sometimes. no idea why I took a picture of this like a year ago. I guess maybe it kind of looks like#a spine or something interesting? 7 - a frozen icy bush from last year. The ice was like an inch thick layered on everything#8 - I just like the term useage here 'Storage under shadow place' which sounds far more ominous than 'keep out of direct sunlight' or whate#ver it probably meant to say lol. 9 - sometimes I get these notifications and they always make me weirdly whimsical feeling like..#imagining a life where I'm a retired elerly person in a quaint little home and I just get up and read the newspaper and play solitaire#and garden and then sleep. no large aspirations. no war. no climate change. just some little alternate reality where all is well#and you have your little cards and your little routine and etc. But rather than evoking a negative like 'grr i'll never have that ToT' sort#of feeling it's more just like. 'ah. a nice glimpse of an alternate reality. perhaps one day microsoft solitaire. perhaps one day.#*calm sigh*' lol. 10 - solitaire board with a lasagna theme. 11 - stil... trying to write... aughh..................#11 - The 'mist' icon for the weather looks really cool? I've never seen it before as I guess I've never seen misty weather. I only ever se#'fog' listed. I like the mist being these little squiggles with dots between? lol. 12 - random boring image but I thought the way my hair#happened to be laying when I looked down seemed kind of artistic-y like the even swoopy little swirl bit at the end looks like#how people often Draw Hair in pictures and etc I guess. 13 - SKY picture.. sky.. clouds.. of course.. always#anyway.. grhgh.. have been very barely online recently due to stress and so on. There's just So Many Things always lol...#It's still very hard for me to balance the fact that I need to be focusing just on my projects. yet also I'msupposed to be posting about#my projects.. Those are just such two entirely seperate worlds to me? a Good And Successful Artist would be marketing and posting#always promoting everything they're doing. But I have such more of a sense of like.. when I am being productive I am in my Isolation Cave#. Goign out to contact the real world and talk about the goingson within my Isolation Cave then breaks my focus lol. It's like just SO hard#to do both at the same time so I never do. grggg... Anyway.. also still working on the friend quiz thing. and sculptures. and I had#done a few commissions for people recently. and dr appointments.. and Existence. and watching geese out the window
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corvidaedream · 10 months ago
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in my quest to maybe move back to providence after 20 years, im looking at jobs down there and damn i think i might be better off financially pivoting to carpentry/construction work for a while
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prismatica-the-strange · 9 months ago
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Nope, I'm still crying
#i wish literally anybody from school remembered me#literally only 2 people i was friends with hace talked to me in the past four years#i had the realization tonight that i was never given the choice to nurture most of my friendships#everytime i tried outside of school hours including trying to join clubs my mom would make me leave halfway through then lecture me#that she didn't have time to drive to town and get me#but as soon as my brother wanted to join junior air force she suddenly had all the time and energy in the world to devote to that#so what I'm getting here is that my friendships and interests weren't important enough or worth her time#i wasn't interested in Junior air force 1 cause it wasn't offered to me and 2 I'm not a boit licker#no#i was interested in the video game and board game clubs cause my friends were in them and they WANTED me to join#but after not getting to stay for more than one full session after a month i left the board game club cause it wasn't fair to the others#and i only went to the video game clu once and i don't remember much of it cause i was too anxious that she was gonna flip on me#i kept waiting for her text but instead she showed up at the classroom and made me leave#so when the same teacher that ran the board game club asked if i wanted to join the chess club cause he knew i liked chess#i told him i couldn't cause i was too busy because i didn't want to deal with begging my mom to let me join#she would have said yes but would have continued not letting me stay and being super passive aggressive#I'm not even in the year book for the year my friends graduated#the one thing she did let me do was drama and i hated every second of it. it was genuinely a bad experience for me#yeah i had friends in drama but it's not the same as hanging with my nerdy guy friends playing a star wars ttrpg#the worst part is she gets so defensive when i bring it up and won't give me a reason outside of 'I guess I'm just the worst parent'#it's in those moments i really remember she's the youngest in her family#OH!! it gets worse! she told me when i was younger that she had to be an honorary cheer leader cause HER MOM absolutely refused to#let her join cheer and she's alsways been bitter about it but then she turns around and did basically the same thing to me ffs#at least she was allowed to hang out with people after-school i wasn't allowed to do that either#no. instead i spent the hours after shcool alone most days and my weekends home alone in my room. and she wonders why my social skills are#maybe if I'd been allowed to work on my relationships outside of a classroom i wouldn't have felt so abandoned when everyone i knew#graduated without me. maybe if i didn't have to start back at square one socially again and had people to text and hang with after class#i wouldn't have dropped out. and i think only atlas knows i dropped out. idk how to text these people without spunding like I'm looking for#sympathy when they ask what I'm up to. like yeah I'm stuck at home with an anxiety disorder and unemployed trying to get on disability#prisma vents
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hauntingblue · 1 year ago
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EPISODE 900
#ran out of tags at one and a half episodes...... anyways we coninue with:#episode 898#the dog is right to just run from that shit lmao ajdhaks#btw the bead necklace on the straw doll of hawkins reminds me i still havent figured out why ace wears them.... like i get its spriritual#but past that point..... if someone reads this please do not tell me this is my media analysis homework for one piece#i need to figure this out myseld lmao#also i keep thinking about stand proud and like how to this moment no op opening has surpassed it for me....#maybe the we share the world one in the aspects of boppability but not bangerism for example... and the water 7 one is on par w the epicness#idk i will keep pondering#hawkins just going up and down with his sword ajdhskdj#i forgot about the gorillas akdhaksk#schachi!!!! and bepo and penguin!!!!#AND LAW!!!!!!!!#do we think zoro is just turned around sighing bc otama being sick so young reminds him of kuina......#i feel like he is in catastrophe mode.... we need to go quick cause she is going to die so i will fight and now that she is going to be#cured she is also going to die anyways so he can't even look#zoro saying kiku is big and luffy saying big mom was eveb bigger.... exactly... many such cases of women#otama just you wait till they get you to sanji girl.... also i want her on board.... it's only fair#what are we learning from one piece today: 1) children go hungry 2) famishes are man made#relevant today#this variation on zoro's theme..... banger#when i saw those tights i though okiku revealed herself as maroimo island foreigner and was about to fight lmao#just werid associations my brain makes lmao#episode 900#<- CHRIST#talking tag#watching one piece
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thinkingthingsthrough · 2 years ago
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she really is the bravest soldier bc i don’t know how someone could a. release something so vulnerable and then b. go sing in front of thousands that same evening
#oh this is about#taylor swift#to any non swifties on board#it's such a double edged sword bc at the same time it must feel so great to perform to a crowd of ppl who love you#so in a way its maybe great that this is all getting out there during tour where she has that outlet#but as much as i know once an artist releases a song it becomes kind of more about what ppl associate it with in their lives#instead of directly connected to them and the mindset/intention they wrote it#but it still feels like it has to be hard to separate the 2 on some level right? like esp when a breakup is fresh?#so u get the weird feeling about performing love songs about a dying/dead relationship#although luckily the setlist doesnt have any of the really deep Joe songs other than lover#but i think bc of its fame that one really probably has become more about other ppl than herself#anyways i am rambling to the max#also not to make someone elses breakup into social commentary but there is so much to be said for this general phenomenon#of men stringing women along in long-term serious but ultimately non-committal relationships#like obv situations change so im not saying that he like. intentionally did this from day 1 bc hes evil or something#but ive just seen it happen alot and its sad#im sure it kind of just slowly became that. but it feels like they probably both could have called it quits way sooner#new motto for women (who are interested in marriage) should be: he better lock it down or i won't stick around#and then actually do it
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acebabecd · 9 months ago
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I need a minimum of 5 more episodes of slow burn before Dorym becomes canon
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methsaint · 2 months ago
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list of all lana unreleased, demos & covers
unreleased songs
1. You Can Be The Boss (leaked)
2. Kinda Outta Luck (leaked)
3. Oooh Baby (= “Are You Ready?”) (leaked)
4. Hundred Dollar Bill (leaked)
5. Driving in Cars With Boys (leaked)
7. Daddy Issues (= “I Was In A Bad Way”) (leaked)
8. Trash Magic (leaked)
9. Paris (= “Take Me To Paris”) (leaked)
10. Heavy Hitter (leaked)
11. Dum Dum (3 different versions) (leaked)
12. Match Made In Heaven (leaked)
13. She’s Not Me (= “Ride or Die”) (leaked)
14. Pin Up Galore (leaked)
15. Dangerous Girl (leaked)
16. Never Let Me Go (leaked)
17. Children Of The Bad Revolution (leaked)
19. Marilyn Monroe (= “Puppy Love”) (leaked)
20. Come When You Call Me America (2 different versions) (leaked)
21. 1949 (leaked)
22. You’re Gonna Love Me (leaked)
23. Put the Radio On (leaked)
24. Gangsta Boy (leaked)
25. Summer of Sam (leaked)
26. Serial Killer (leaked)
27. Go Go Dancer (leaked)
28. Delicious (leaked)
29. Big Bad Wolf (= “Hot Hot Hot”) (leaked)
30. Playing Dangerous (leaked)
31. Afraid (leaked)
32. Hollywood’s Dead (leaked)
33. Damn You (= “American Dream”) (leaked)
34. Lift Your Eyes (leaked)
35. Boarding School (leaked)
36. Butterflies (leaked)
37. Every Man Gets His Wish (leaked)
38. Fordham Road (leaked)
39. Motel 6 (leaked)
40. Paradise (leaked)
41. Velvet Crowbar (leaked)
42. Fake Diamond (2 versions) (leaked)
43. Backfire (leaked)
44. Moi Je Joue (leaked)
45. Last Girl On Earth (leaked)
46. Live or Die (leaked)
47. Push Me Down (leaked)
48. Teenage Wasteland (= “Prom Song” [Gone Wrong]) (leaked)
49. Tonight (= “I Don’t Wanna Go”) (leaked)
50. My Best Days (leaked)
51. Break My Fall (leaked)
52. Catch and Release (leaked)
53. Crooked Cop (leaked)
54. Is It Wrong? (leaked)
55. Jealous Girl (leaked)
56. Hawaiian Tropic (leaked)
57. Heartshaped Chevrolet (leaked)
58. Hit and Run (2 versions) (leaked)
59. Making Out (2 versions) (leaked)
60. Noir (leaked)
61. Scarface (leaked)
62. TV In Black & White (leaked)
63. Us Against The World (leaked)
64. Midnight Dancer Girlfriend (leaked)
65. Maha Maha (leaked)
66. Television Heaven (leaked)
67. Golden Grill (leaked)
68. Beautiful Player (leaked)
69. Dynamite (leaked)
70. Breaking My Heart (leaked)
71. Black Beauty (leaked)
72. Hollywood (leaked)
73. Angels Forever (Forever Angels) (leaked)
74. Starry Eyed (leaked)
75. JFK (leaked)
76. Butterflies Pt. 2 (leaked)
77. Daytona Meth (leaked)
78. Tired Of Singing The Blues (leaked)
79. St. Tropez (= “Party Girl”) (leaked)
80. Queen Of Disaster (leaked)
81. All Smiles (leaked)
82. Bentley
83. Betty Boop Boop (leaked)
84. Born Bad Bay
85. Caught You Boy
86. C U L8r Alligator (leaked)
87. Criminals Run The World (= “Hit And Run” alternate version) (leaked)
88. Cry Me A River
89. Girl That Got Away
90. I Was In A Bad Way (= “Daddy Issues” alternate version) (leaked)
91. I’m Fucked
92. Kindness of Strangers
93. Mermaid Hotel (leaked)
94. Put Your Lips Together (leaked)
95. Resistance
96. Roses
97. Ruby Tuesday
98. Slow Gin Fizz
99. So Legit (= “Against Gaga”) (leaked)
100. Smarty (leaked)
101. Playground (leaked)
102. Wrong
103. Strange Love (leaked)
104. Bollywood Hawaii (leaked)
105. Baby Blue Love (leaked)
106. I Want It All
107. Behind Closed Doors (leaked)
108. Jimmy Gnecco (leaked)
109. Break The Cycle
110. Epiphany
111. Jonah
112. Little Angel
113. Lullubye
114. True Love On The Side (leaked)
115. Living Without You (= “TV In Black & White” alternate version) (leaked)
116. True Love
117. Greenwich (leaked)
118. Shadow Of A Doubt (leaked)
119. Get Drunk (leaked)
120. BBM Baby
121. Be My Daddy
122. China Palace
123. Dance Money
124. Fine China
125. For Charlie
126. Living Legend
127. Morricone
128. Piano Theme
129. W
130. Yes To Heaven
131. Ridin’/My Bitch (feat. The Kickdrums & A$AP) (leaked)
132. Back To Tha Basics (leaked)
133. Because of You (leaked)
134. Coca Colla (= “Television Heaven” alternate version) (leaked)
135. Hangin’ Around (leaked)
136. In The Sun (leaked)
137. Joshy & I (leaked)
138. Let My Hair Down (leaked)
139. Live Forever (leaked)
140. Meet Me In The Pale Moonlight (leaked)
141. Methamphetamines (leaked)
142. On Our Way (leaked)
143. Stoplight De-lite (leaked)
144. Trash (leaked)
145. Wayamaya (leaked)
146. You & Me (leaked)
147. Your Band Is All The Rage (leaked)
148. The good life (leaked)
149. Zodiac (snippet leaked)
150. Ave Maria
151. Pink Champagne (leaked)
152. Fine china (leaked)
153. Dragonslayer (leaked)
154. Poetry in motion (leaked)
155. There’s nothing to be sorry about
156. All for you
157. Unidentified flying bill
158. Smile
159. California
160. In wendy
161. More mountains
162. When i’m with you
163. French restaurant (leaked)
164. Coconut & key lime pie
165. Sweetheart
166. Roses bloom for you (leaked)
167. I must be stupid for being so happy
168. Earthquakes
169. Star lux
170. Eat for free
171. Wait
172. Crazy for you
173. Blizzard
albums
Lana Del Ray (Steven Mertens recordings)
Tracklist: unknown
Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena (leaked)
Tracklist:
1. Disco
2. For K Part 2 (Demo)
Sparkle Jump Rope Queen (leaked)
Tracklist:
1. Axl Rose Husband
2. Elvis
3. Blue Ribbon (= “Gramma”)
The Money Hunny Recordings (leaked)
Tracklist:
1. Money Hunny
2. A Star For Nick
3. Rehab (“For K Part 2″ Demo)
4. Pawn Shop Blues (Demo)
May Jailer – Sirens (leaked)
Tracklist:
1. Sirens (Titled as “For K”)
2. Next to Me
3. A Star for Nick
4. My Momma
5. Bad Disease
6. Out with a Bang
7. Westbound
8. Try Tonight
9. All You Need
10. I’m Indebited to You
11. Pretty Baby (Or “For K”)
12. Aviation
13. Find My Own Way
14. Pride
15. Birds of A Feather
Lana del Ray AKA Lizzy Grant
Tracklist:
1. Kill Kill
2. Queen of the gas station
3. Oh say can you see
4. Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)
5. For K Pt. 2
6. Jump
7. Mermaid Motel
8. Raise me up (Mississippi south)
9. Pawn shop blues
10. Brite lites
11. Put me in a movie
12. Smarty
13. Yayo
demos
1. Born To Die (2 different versions) (leaked)
2. Blue Jeans (leaked)
3. Video Games (leaked)
4. Diet Mountain Dew (3 different versions, also known as Diet Mnt Dew) (leaked)
5. National Anthem (2 different versions) (leaked)
6. Dark Paradise (2 different versions, one with other lyrics) (leaked)
7. Radio (leaked)
8. Carmen (2 different versions, one of them is acapella with other lyrics) (leaked)
9. Million Dollar Man (leaked)
10. This Is What Makes Us Girls (2 different versions) (leaked)
11. Without You (2 different versions, one with other lyrics) (leaked)
12. Lolita (4 different versions, also known as Hey Lolita Hey or Lolyta) (leaked)
13. Lucky Ones (leaked)
14. Driving in Cars with Boys (leaked)
15. Hundred Dollar Bill (leaked)
16. Heavy Hitter (leaked)
17. Yayo (leaked)
18. Trash Magic (leaked)
19. Ghetto Baby (Demo for Cheryl Cole) (leaked)
20. White Pontiac Heaven (= “Axl Rose Husband” alternate version) (leaked)
21. Summertime Sadness (leaked)
22. Young & Beautiful (leaked)
23. Jump (leaked)
24. Put Me In A Movie (leaked)
25. Brite Lites (leaked)
26. Unfixable (Demo for Shades of cool) (leaked)
27. Miss America (demo 1 and 2)
28. Beautiful people beautiful problems (leaked)
29. Freak (leaked)
30. Thunder (leaked)
other songs – live/covers/collaborations
1. The End of the World (Skeeter Davies Cover)
2. Iron (with Woodkid) released
3. Chet Baker (with Mando Diao) released
4. Gloria (with Mando Diao) released
5. The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A. (Donna Fargo Cover)
6. Ten Dollar Ring (with Bryan Dunn)
7. Goodbye Kiss (Kasabian Cover)
8. Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana Cover)
9. Blue Velvet (Bobby Vinton Cover – for H&M) released
10. Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (Leonard Cohen Cover)
11. Summer Wine (Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra Cover)
12. Spender (feat. Smiler) released
13. Dayglo Reflection (feat. Bobby Womack) released
14. Cry Me A River (Various)
15. I Love Paris (Ella Fitzgerald Cover)
16. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan Cover)
17. Roadhouse Blues (The Doors Cover)
18. Why Don’t You Do Right? (Peggy Lee Cover)
19. Wonderwall (Oasis Cover)
20. Some Things Last A Long Time (Daniel Johnston Cover) released
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eriecanal · 1 year ago
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guy on my team is like actively insufferable to be around and just sucks the life out of everything and also is just like. weird and kinda misogynistic. and everyone kinda just politely ignores the issue bc we can't do anything about it. but he has a huge victim complex and thinks everyone on the team hates him bc they suck. bro they dont even hate you and if they did it would be because YOU suck
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neurotypical-karen · 1 year ago
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This is the poster we have hanging up in our office. Some of the history facts are very US nationalistic, but it really is a good visual for just how important it is to prevent erosion.
I grew up on stories of the Dust Bowl.
My dad’s parents were Okies–environmental refugees, before anyone had a word for it. They left their families, the land they were renting, their animals, took their 1-year-old daughter, and drove to California. My grandpa worked in a peach packing plant. My grandma cleaned houses.
They were so lonely that after a couple years they went back to Oklahoma, with their total savings of $20. Later, they bought land. Built a house. Survived.
My mom’s dad was a kid then, and his family stayed in western Kansas. Stayed because my great-grandpa was too damn stubborn to leave, stayed when their neighbors had all left, stayed because they didn’t have enough money to leave. They slept with wet rags over their faces. My great-grandpa tied a string around his waist, tied the other end to the house, and went to check on the cows, while my great-grandma tried to make soup from a little milk and a little flour. There was so much dust swirling in the air, the soup turned to mud. She cried, begged her husband once more to let them leave, and they went to bed hungry.
My grandpa’s oldest brother was the first one in the county to leave his wheat stubble in the field instead of plowing it under after the harvest. His neighbors made fun of him. His parents scolded him for having messy fields. 70 years later, at his funeral, someone told how people from Japan came to visit the farm, to see what he was doing differently.
More than 80 years after the Dust Bowl, I stood on a mountain in Ecuador watching, horrified, as a man with a tractor plowed a steep field. He would back up the hill, set the disk in the ground at the top of the field, and drive down, breaking up the soil, dragging it downhill. Dust billowed around him.
The man next to me, a rich-for-the-area farmer, sighed happily. “Look at all that dust. Isn’t that great?”
“What? No!” I was shocked.
“Why not? That’s what a modern farm looks like.”
I thought of the old black-and-white photos, dust clouds like black walls rolling in across the prairie. That’s what a modern farm looked like, too.
The next field down, four people and four oxen–well, dairy cows used as oxen–were planting. They used plows, too, but instead of a disk pulverizing the soil, their plow was a straight piece of wood, metal from an old leaf spring bolted to the end. One team of oxen used that plow to open a furrow, the women walking behind dropped maize seeds into the soil, and the second team of oxen dragged the same kind of plow just above the first, closing the furrow and burying the seeds. They walked along the hill–side to side, furrows running along the contour of the hill. If they were raising any dust, it wasn’t enough for me to see from across the valley.
The man with the tractor probably finished in an hour or two. The whole group, people and oxen and all, probably spent the whole day planting the same size field.
As the maize grew tall, you could see the difference: In the tractored field, the top rows were yellow, spindly, trying to root in the yellow-brown clay the topsoil had once covered. Down below, in dark, rich earth, the maize was tall, green, strong.
In Mali, years later, a farmer explained to a group of visiting scientists why, despite having made erosion control bunds, his rows of maize still went up and down the slope, instead of along the contour, parallel with the bunds. “Because of the wind,” he said, like it was obvious–because it was. In the rainy season, the wind comes from the south, and when storms come it blows hard enough to send dust and dishes and clothes left on the line flying and tumbling with it.
The rows of maize have to be parallel to that wind, or they’ll blow over. So sure, you can put the scientists’ earthen ridges in to block the downhill flow of water, but your rows can’t follow that meandering contour. Your rows have to face into the wind. 
For thousands of years we’ve been coaxing, wrestling, dragging our food from the soil. If we’re careful, and lucky, we can make our peace with it. If we charge into places unknown–the high plains of Kansas and Oklahoma, the steep slopes of the Andes, the storm-swept fields of West Africa–if we plow, and plant, and harvest without thinking? Without learning from the place? Dust clouds blackening the horizon, stunted maize on worn-out soil, crops blown down in  thunderstorms–the earth is forgiving, but only so far. We have time to learn, to make mistakes, to do what is easy even when it does harm, but only so much. Beyond that, we destroy the very literal foundations of our lives.
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