#20th century dead sailors

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

Oh no... oh no!!

I started A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston (I KNOW I HAVE NOT FINISHED SHACKLES'S SOUTH AND MJ ROSS'S POLAR PIONEERS LEAVE ME ALONE I'M A POOR ADHD MESS and they're both rather dry authors)

And... oh no! I... I like this Captain Scott character! I've always had a recounting of the story through exposés about Shackleton or Amundsen (and he is not always painted in the kindest light) but... oh no! I'm gonna be so sad by the end of it :(

Diana Preston really paints an endearing boy in his youth, the sort of little pest I would have loved to have known but also the anecdote about how he would take care of the passengers on the Amphion shows him to be compassionate as well.

Preston has a wonderful pen! It's not easy for me to read (I am a page jumper) but my eyes are glued to her sentences. I've always wondered why Scott, who had made so many mistakes and ultimately lost everything in the race was acclaimed and remembered so heroically and only through her introduction, Preston absolutely made me curious to review my perception.

I'm not far in just yet but I feel this is going to change me.

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

May I offer the

Pourquoi Pas (Why Not), France, Barque, early 20th Century

Last ship of Jean-Baptiste Charcot, an Antarctic Explorer.

Unusual ship names

In the course of time, some quite funny names have emerged, such as HMS Pickle, HMS Beaver, HMS Black Joke or HMS Sandwich. But there are a few others that I don't want to withhold from you.

Falcon in the Fetterlock, English Warship mid 16th century

Three Ostrich Feathers, English Merchant, mid16th century

Bull, Bear and Horse, English Merchant, early 17th century

Mousenest, English Fireship, mid 17th century

Blade of Wheat, English Merchant, late 17th century

Who's afraid, English Privateer, late 18th century

Sturdy Beggar, Salem Privateer, late 18th century

Terrible, English Privateer, late 18th century

Mouse of the Mountain, Hudson River Steamer, early 19th century

Grumbler and Growler, Salem Privateer, early 19th century

Precious Ridicule, New Orleans schooner, early 19th century

Free Love, Mississippi Barque, early 19th century

Catch me who can, Baltimore Privateer, early 19th century

The Twenty - Sixth Day of October 1812, English Schooner, early 19th century

Go ask Her, Neufundland Schooner, early 19th century

Brown Smith Jones, Maryland Police Boat, late 19th century

Essence of Pepermint, Nova Scotia Schooner, late 19th century

[entwinedmoon]

This month is the 40th anniversary of John Torrington’s exhumation and autopsy. I’ve been doing real-time daily updates over on this post to show just how long and drawn out the process was. It took over a week, starting from when Beattie arrived on Beechey to when they first started digging to when they finally got the coffin open. Right now, those updates are in a bit of a lull because, after they dug down to the coffin, they had to wait for permits to move onto the next part, so there won’t be another Daily Torrington Dig update until August 17.

While we’re waiting for Beattie to get his permits to crack open a cold one (Torrington’s coffin) with the boys (his scientific research team), you can check out my Torrington blog posts to keep the spirit of the season going. The posts Sacred to the Memory of and A Star Is Born would be especially applicable right now as they explore Torrington’s death, exhumation, autopsy, and the media’s response to the photographs of his well-preserved body.

But there’s something else I wanted to share here, another type of media response that I’ve known about (and had a copy of) for a while. I shared it years ago on Twitter, thinking it would get a laugh there, but that was, er, not the reaction I received, so I’d held off on sharing it anywhere else because I thought most people would find it inappropriate. However, I was reminded recently by a friend (don’t know if they want to be tagged here or not, so I’ll go with not) about the existence of this particular piece, and I realized that this might be something that would be more appreciated here on Tumblr, where we like to photoshop Torrington’s corpse into memes, ship him with the guy he’s buried next to, and want to see what he would think of Takis and flavored vapes.

The article I’m referring to is the story about Torrington that appeared in the Weekly World News.

If you’re not familiar with the Weekly World News, it was a notorious tabloid that made up absurd stories and pretended it was real news. Some news stories were actually true—so it wasn’t completely like today’s The Onion—but there were also plenty of clearly fictional articles, featuring bizarre, often supernatural stories, such as Elvis sightings, a double-decker bus mysteriously found at the South Pole (“scientists” claimed aliens did it), or Bat Boy, a boy who was part bat, part boy.

Torrington’s level of fame within the cultural consciousness of the time meant that he, too, got to experience the tabloid treatment.

(CW: pictures of Torrington’s mummified body beneath the cut)

Published on March 3, 1992, was this front-page story:

Man buried in 1845 brought back to life!

Sailor’s coffin frozen in arctic ice 147 years!

Hush-hush new drug revives corpse, say doctors!

Yes, according to the Weekly World News, John Torrington was brought back to life in 1992. There’s even a full article all about how it happened.

MAN FROZEN SINCE 1845 BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE!

Scientists revive seaman trapped in ice 147 years!

Sailor back from the dead still thinks James K. Polk is President of the U.S.!

By Cal Sanders, Special Correspondent

The perfectly preserved corpse of a British sailor who was buried in an icy grave after he died on an Arctic expedition in 1845 has been revived by scientists—147 years later!

And while Petty Officer John Torrington’s health is fragile at best, the team of doctors who illegally plucked him from his grave and brought him back to life say he is aware of his surroundings, walking with help and might very well be able to lead a normal life “if this man has the psychological strength to adapt to the 20th century.”

“It’s hard to believe but this man thinks James K. Polk is President of the United States and insists that horses and sailing ships are the best and fastest ways to travel,” Dr. Hermann Richter said in his report on the experiment that brought Torrington back to life.

“Electric lights literally scare the hell out of him and to be perfectly frank about it, he hasn’t quite decided if he’s dead or alive. About the best we can do at this point is take his recovery one day at a time.

“If Torrington survives we will have produced a living piece of history. If he dies, at least we’ll be able to say that we tried to do something that might ultimately have benefited all mankind.”

The decision to steal Torrington’s corpse from its grave in northern Canada couldn’t have come easy for the Richter team, which issued its report to selected European newspapers “from an undisclosed clinic in Germany.”

For starters, the young man’s grave has stood as an unofficial monument to the courage and determination of 128 adventurers led by British explorer Sir John Franklin—adventurers who gave up their lives to chart the last 300-mile-leg of the treacherous Northwest Passage between 1845 and 1848. Torrington’s body was exhumed once before, in 1983, but it was carefully reburied after scientists took a small tissue sample to determine the cause of death. As it turned out, Torrington died from lead poisoning after eating provisions out of tins that were sealed with the dangerous and often lethal metal. Needless to say, news that Richter and his associates secretly exhumed the body a second time, smuggled it into Germany and succeeded in bringing it back to life have infuriated many experts, some of whom consider the theft of the body criminal. Richter himself insisted that Torrington is in good hands and will be free to go when he is strong enough.

The doctor went on the say that he understands why the experiment might sound extreme to some people but he believes that the revival of Torrington “furthered the best interests of medicine and science.” Richter’s report did not include any of the techniques that were used to revive Torrington but it did mention “an exciting new drug” that might one day make such revivals routine.

Because he died of lead poisoning, it is also believed that Richter and his team somehow cleansed Torrington’s tissue of the deadly metal before bringing him back to life. For the record, Torrington was a man of 20 when he died. Now he looks like a man of 80, photos supplied by Richter show.

“A century and a half of death is enough to age anyone,” said Richter.

There’s a lot to unpack here—the morally dubious German doctor with a mysterious, Frankenstein-esque resurrection method; the burial and exhumation dates both being off by one year for some reason; the short, skinny guy in the obvious bald cap that they thought would pass as Torrington; and so much more. Interestingly, a lot of the article seems to focus more on how scandalous it is that Dr. Richter stole Torrington’s body, as if the writer thought that the revival of a long-dead corpse wasn’t enough of a scoop. Also, I’m not sure if Torrington would even have been aware that Polk was president in 1845—was he the sort of guy who paid attention to international politics? Wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to think Victoria was still queen?

Many people might be offended by such an article, but the Weekly World News never cared about who they offended. Unsurprisingly, one of those who did take umbrage with the story was Dr. Owen Beattie.

In a short article in the Times-Colonist Metro about a week after the Weekly World News story ran, we got to hear Owen Beattie’s reaction.

HEE-(T)HAW . . . It was standard checkout rag fare. “Man Buried in 1845 brought back to life” shouted a recent front page of Weekly World News. “Hush-Hush New Drug Revives Corpse,” it continued.

These startling revelations bore some significance for both the wax museum’s Ken Lane and University of Alberta anthropologist Owen Beattie. The man purportedly thawed like last night’s dinner was John Torrington, one of three sailors from the Franklin expedition buried on Beechy [sic] Island. The Franklin expedition—and John Torrington—feature large in the wax museum’s arresting Frozen in Time expedition. Torrington’s body was exhumed from its Arctic grave in ’84 by Dr. Beattie, who determined death was from lead poisoning.

Neither Ken nor the anthropologist felt their respective professional worlds crumbled with the News article. (It ran with a photo of an emaciated looking chap being assisted by doctors and reports that Torrington is terrified of electric lights, still believes Polk is the U.S. president, and horses are the only way to go.) Ken shrugged it off with a what-can-you-expect-from-a-checkout-rag laugh. The anthropologist wasn’t quite so forgiving.

He refused to comment on it at all, insisting that his research speaks for itself. Apparently John Torrington was quite dead when he was exhumed and equally so when buried after the autopsy. But then that’s not the sort of stuff that sells check-out rags.

While it’s perfectly understandable that Beattie would not appreciate something like the Weekly World News’ fake story, what I find most interesting about this snippet is that there was a wax museum with a Franklin Expedition exhibit that included Torrington??? Does that mean there was a Torrington wax figure???? Where is it now????? Can I buy it?????????

These very important questions aside, it’s fascinating to see that Torrington was well known enough to make it into a “checkout rag.” Maybe it’s not the legacy he would have wanted, but at least it’s worth a good laugh.

[diioonysus]

creepy/messed-up history facts

the man in the booth across from lincoln was named major henry rathbone, and after booth fired the shot, rathbone tried to tackle him to the ground, but booth sliced rathbone in the arm with a dagger. after that night, rathbone was never free of guilt. he suffered from stomach ailments to heart palpitations, and on december 23rd 1883, he attacked and killed his wife clara, and attempted to kill himself. he spent the rest of his life in a mental institution.

in 1494, sailors returning from the new world brought with them massive outbreak of syphilis, which spread through an entire french army, and with no antibiotics to counteract it, the disease spread unchecked. the skin on victims' faces would essentially rot away from the grisly ulcers. in some cases, the noses, lips and other body parts of the affected people were essentially gone.

in 1890, thomas edison, using wax cylinder, produced a line of baby dolls. they had wooden bodies, procelain heads, and miniature phonographs in their chests. the phonographs would play back recordings of young women reciting nursery rhymes like "hictory dickory dock," and "now i lay me down to sleep." (here's the audio of them x)

dentures used to be made from the teeth of dead soldiers. they were ivory base plates with real human teeth attached, a lot of these were sold to dentists by scavengers looting corpses from the battle of waterloo. the dentists would boil the them down, cut off the roots, attach them to ivory plates, and sell them.

in 1929, a pair of scientists at princeton university wanted to test and understand how the auditory nerve percieves sound, and their test subject was an alive cat. they cut out part of its brain and attached one end of a telephone wire to its auditory nerve and the other end to a reciever. weirdly enough, many researchers think this helped lead to the development of cochlear implants. but the cat was killed after the scientists wanted to see if it worked on a dead cat.

in 1726, mary toft told doctors that she gave birth to rabbits, and doctors were fully convinced until they found pieces of corn inside the stomach of one of the rabbits, proving that it hadn't developed inside her womb. she instead was manually inserting the rabbits to make the delivery look as realistic as possible.

it was believed that babies under the age of 15 months couldn't feel pain, so doctors would instead use muscle relaxers that had a paralytic effect to stop the baby from moving. this essentially meant they couldn't move or cry but they could still hear, see, and feel everything that was done to them. this was accepted up until 1980s

there was a tiger in india named man-eater of champawat who became dependent on human flesh, which at the turn of the 20th century inflicted a seven-year reign, killing 436 men, women, and children. she was eventually killed in 1907.

there was a book called "how the mail steamer went down in mid atlantic, by a survivor," which tells the story of an unnamed ocean liner that sinks in the atlantic. the protagonist is a sailor named thompson, who grows concerned over the lifeboat shortage, and sure enough the liners collides with a small sailing ship in a fog. as the ship sinks, only 200 of the 700 people on board survive. the second novella "the wreck of the titan: or, futility" by morgan robertson, follows the fictional ocean liner titan, which hits an iceberg in the north atlantic and sinks. like the titanic, the titan was described as the largest ship afloat at the time, both ships had a shortage of lifeboats, and the titan was dubbed "unsinkable." when the accident occurred, roberston simply said he was knowledgabe about maritime operations, saying "i know what i'm writing about, that's all."

some books created in the 18th and 19th century were bound in real human skin which was called anthropodermic bibliopegy. most of these books that were bound with human skin instead of animal skin were mostly based on anatomy or erotica.

during the battle of ramree island, which was fought between january and february 1945, japanese soldiers were cornered by english troops seeking to conquer burmese island of ramree, forcing japanese troops to cross 10 miles of swamp. the japanese soon began to suffer the effects of tropical diseases, but the presence of large numbers of scorpions, tropical mosquitoes and thousands of saltwater crocodiles, the world's largest reptiles, was even worse. In its genre. very aggressive beasts that can reach 8 meters in length and weigh more than a ton. according to some survivors, during the night, they were hunted one by one, in which the crocodiles would ambush them from underneath. and the survivors said the worst part was hearing the screams and the breaking of bones in the dark.

there is a cocodile named gustave (or was if you believe he's dead), a large nile crocodile in burundi who has been rumored to have killed 200-300 people. he's never been captured, but it has been stated that he could be "easily more than 20 feet, and weigh more than 2,000 pounds." he was/is estimated to be over 100 years old, and was/is described as having bullet wounds over his body, and his right shoulder blade was found to be deeply wounded, but they don't know what could have caused it. it's been rumored that he would leave the corpses he killed behind. in 2019, an article revealed he was killed, but there's no photographic evidence which leaves people doubting it's true.

[syntia13treeman]

Case files 11.01

what I think happened in:

Case 11.01, the case of "Ink in the Water" or "Dead men tell no tales."

Today we visit the old Padstow cemetery in Cornwell. Sat at the very edge of the cliffs, just a kilometre or two away from town of Padstow, the place offers breathtaking view of the Atlantic Ocean, surely appreciated by the many sailors of old interred here. Unlike its less scenic sister cemetery located off Newquay Road, this old burial ground hasn't seen any burials since beginning of 20th century, but until recently remained a local landmark.

The cliff erosion that had been slowly eating up the space over the years has finally reached the stage where integrity of the cemetery was threatened*, and Cornwall Council decided to relocate all dearly departed to a more secure quarters at Newquay. The job was appointed to a crew of local lads led by Gordon Alan Johnson, under supervision of David [last name unknown], a medical examiner. They regularly reported by email to Alison Leshi of the Cornwall Council.

The works started in the first days of 2020 (yikes) and progressed with little delay. It was determined that they could use heavy machinery everywhere except the patch nearest to the cliff edge, but Gordie was confident that they'd manage those last few graves just fine with shovels.

All was well for about a week, until January 12, when a suspiciously well preserved body was uncovered. An artful rendition of a sailing ship covered the dead man's back, and the fact that it remained intact and pristine raised concerns that it was, possibly, a modern-day murder victim buried on the sly.

While the controversial cadaver was carted off for closer scrutiny, Gordie and his crew were left to care for unconfirmed crime scene. ($)

The news must have spread, because within a day or two a curious individual came by. They didn't give their name, but we know them as Ink5oul. They apparently had somehow** identified the dead man's tattoo as work of Oscar Jarrett, (connected to Sutherland Macdonald)***, and wanted to take a look. They visited cemetery first, then started hanging around the examiner's office. Let's leave them there for now and go back to two local man who already did have a peek at the inked masterpiece

Around the time when the tatted body was uncovered, Gordie started noticing the sound of the waves getting… louder. Or maybe closer. So close he could even hear them in his dreams. He started re-examining photographs of the tattoo left by David and at some point his interpretation of the scene changed. At first glance it seemed hopeful, but now he saw that the sun was setting on the voyage, and there was something sinister lurking beneath the waves, giving chase. The waves kept getting louder, and Gordie so desperately wanted to know, what was hiding in the water?

Dr. David, meanwhile, had not just pictures, but the og tattooed body all to himself, and was in no hurry to let anyone else have it. We don't know what he heard or saw or dreamt when examining the ink, but we know how it ended. On January 15th David walked out to the cliffs and threw himself into the ocean below. His body hasn't been recovered. It's all right, though. The deep will care for his bones.

Few days later, on January 19/20, there was what appeared to be a break in at the examiner's office, and the contentious body disappeared****. Good ol' Gordie swore up and down that it wasn't him, and his frequent presence at the scene was just due to his fervent wish to see the corpse he was responsible for. He pointed fingers at Ink5oul and vowed to recover the body from them or die and kill trying.

Shortly thereafter his email account was deactivated/deleted. Gordie's final fate remains unknown*****.

Final thoughts:

*A case could be made that the cemetery was at risk of toppling into the sea, because the sea was actively trying to get to The Body. This man belonged to the sea, not the earth, and was clearly marked as such. The sea was not having any of this ‘burial’ nonsense.

** I wonder how Ink5oul knew to come here. Did local news run the story of halted exhumations, and showed pictures of the tattooed body? Or did Ink5oul feel a great disturbance in the ink when the body was dug up?

*** What is the 'thing' with OJ and SM? Since Sutherland Macdonald (1860–1942) was a known tattoo artist irl, I think that Oscar Jarrett was either his competitor, student, or both. Also an og tattoo magic man.

**** Was there really a break in, or was it actually a break out? While it is believable that Ink5oul or other fan of OJ spirited the body away for worship or study, it is equally possible the 'body', freed from the confines of the grave, heard the call of the sea, woke up and walked out all on its own. Who knows, maybe we'll meet it somewhere down the line.

*****That only leaves the question, what happened to our friend Gordie? We know from Daria's case that Ink5oul was still operating in 2022, so presumably they didn't get killed or arrested in 2020. If Gordie indeed tried to confront them, it didn’t go in his favour. Maybe he died right there, in a small motel room, at the hands of a tattoo artist who was more than they seemed. Or maybe, cursing and desperate, he found himself walking toward the cliffs, irresistibly drawn by the call of the waves. Maybe he got to find out what was waiting in the water.

[whatthecrowtold]

#unhallowedarts - The Flying Dutchman

“You certainly know the fable of the Flying Dutchman. It is the story of an enchanted ship which can never arrive in port, and which since time immemorial has been sailing about at sea. When it meets a vessel, some of the unearthly sailors come in a boat and beg the others to take a packet of letters home for them. These letters must be nailed to the mast, else some misfortune will happen to the ship—above all if no Bible be on board, and no horse-shoe nailed to the foremast. The letters are always addressed to people whom no one knows, and who have long been dead, so that some late descendant gets a letter addressed to a far away great-great-grandmother, who has slept for centuries in her grave. That timber spectre, that grim grey ship, is so called from the captain, a Hollander, who once swore by all the devils that he would get round a certain mountain, whose name has escaped me, in spite of a fearful storm, though he should sail till the Day of Judgement. The devil took him at his word, therefore he must sail for ever, until set free by a woman's truth. The devil in his stupidity has no faith in female truth, and allowed the enchanted captain to land once in seven years and get married, and so find opportunities to save his soul. Poor Dutchman! He is often only too glad to be saved from his marriage and his wife-saviour, and get again on board.“ (Heinrich Heine)

Ferdinand Leeke "The Flying Dutchman" (c 1905)

Naturally, Washington Irving naturalised him, quitting the Good Hope and sailing tof New Amsterdam to find redemption, the Flying Dutchman, Captain Vanderdecken, Tyn van Straten, van Diemen, van Evert, van Halen or Bernard Fokke of the VOC, the 17th century Dutch East India Company. Legend has it that he struck a with the devil to make the Java run in half the usual time. That he used iron yardarms, allowing him to have as much canvas aloft as possible, even when the feared Southeaster whipped the waters around the Cape that broke wooden spars on a regular basis – mere trivialities. He was, however, cursed to sail until Judgement Day, after he swore into the storm he would do exactly that until he rounded the Good Hope on his last voyage. The one he never returned from.

Ever since, his fluyt is seen in the Southern hemispheres, East of the Cape, with red sails flying in the sunset or bathed in a eerie red light, a portent of doom for those whose bows she crosses. Rich tales that not only inspired imaginative mariners, but professional storytellers as well, from Coleridge and Walter Scott to Hauff and Wagner and cohorts of 20th century journalists and pulp fiction writers. Ever since the 18th century. With the one from 1881 being the most prominent sighting, when HM frigate “Inconstant” encountered the Flying Dutchman with H future M George V on board, no less, who recorded in his log:

“July 11th. At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her, as did the quarterdeck midshipman, who was sent forward at once to the forecastle; but on arriving there was no vestige nor any sign whatever of any material ship was to be seen either near or right away to the horizon, the night being clear and the sea calm. Thirteen persons altogether saw her ... At 10.45 a.m. the ordinary seaman who had this morning reported the Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms. “ 

There is, however, a later variant of the damned Dutch skipper’s tale, as told by Heine quoted above, the one that allows him to come ashore once every seven, ten or even hundred years, Brigadoon-like, and find a girl willing to love him, die with him and thus redeem the Flying Dutchman. Wagner famously elaborated on this version in the early 1840 after a rough but rather inspiring sea voyage, after reading Heine and being on the run from his creditors. Wagner made port in Norway twice. Where his Dutchman finds Senta who loves and dies for him and both finally ascend from the seas to heaven. Redemption. Since the last confirmed sighting of the “Flying Dutchman” was recorded in 1959 off Table Mountain, one must assume this is an operatic fable, though.

Contemporary Newspapers Clipping Reporting the Sighting of the "Flying Dutchman"

Heinrich Heine's Wagner- and yours-truly-inspiring aperçus from"The Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski" can be read in full below:

[maguro13-2]

[cues Kronos Island Mvt 1 by Tomoya Ohtani]

Usagi : I truly miss them. It's so sad that we must let things go.

Goku : Hey, guys. What you're mourning to? Woah. Is this everybody in there graves, have they been mulched on the moon's surface?

Usagi : Hey Goku.

Makoto : We're just mourning for the loss of your creator and the many people died on the moon.

Minako : We've lost so many people and so many talented mangakas each year, it sucks that this always happened.

Rei : We had plenty of time to solve this one out. It's for the best.

Ami : And we have no choice but to mourn the losses of everyone who were aboard the shuttle.

Usagi : I see how things made it in the 20th century since the shuttle crashed onto the moon.

Ami : No wonder why that anyone had to make it an official statement about this situation. I heard that the last girl, Chibiusa died at the sanctuary on the Moon, was it that girl's birthplace, the next door neighbor Maka Albarn.

Ami : The truth is...We're mourning over the loss of Prince Darien.

Goku : Really? Well I haven't seen skip leg day. Let me see the guy's grave.

Usagi : Sure.

Goku : That's funny, why does it says "Mamoru" on a tombstone in the grave...(gasps)

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 4]

"TOMBSTONE : HERE LIES MAMORU aka Tuxedo Mask"

Krillin : Here lies Mamoru aka Tuxedo Mask?

Goku : Wait, hold on! Did this Tuxedo Mask guy really died?

Usagi : Yep. He's dead. And the one in the space suit is him, which turns out to be nothing more than an android.

Goku : An android?! No way!

Ami : And you should know something that after the happily ever after thing, Mamoru and Usagi died during that crash course to the Moon Castle Grounds. But Mamoru survived and allow himself to died with the powers of the Red Stone.

"TOMBSTONE : HERE LIES SAILOR MOON aka SERENITY"

Krillin : Welp, guess we all know how they died before Sailor Moon reached of the tale with a happily ever after. Oh wait, the Happily Ever After incident took place year before Luffy's debut.

Goku : Oh really? That's a weird suggestion.

Bulma : And to top off with that, I just got one simple question for ya. Did this Prince Darien guy died using the powers of that Red Stone?

Usagi : Yep.

Bulma : And did you say that your really died in that crash after the happily ever after?

Usagi : Indeed, we knew what the power of that stone creating a crash course to the Moon Castle.

Krillin : [To Goku] Uhh, Goku. You might wanna look at them, there's something wrong with this picture.

Goku : Oh come on, Krillin. What's wrong with them. It's only Usagi and her friends doing fine--[notices that they are not barefooted]

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 14]

Goku : Hey, wait a sec. They're not even wearing shoes!

Krillin : What can I say? That Crash on the moon was literally the costs of their lives after the happily ever after thing.

Yamcha : In case you haven't noticed, there are names who were aboard the shuttle on their graves.

Bulma : And you're telling me that to have a major suggestion that...[in horror] You wouldn't tell me that Sailor Moon is dead, would that be a horrendous idea?

Piccolo : No offense, but I think you might wanna check this.

Bulma : Oh my...

Goku : Unbelievable. It's the tombstone of each of the Superheroes. They're dead right before Luffy came to Toei!

Bulma : I wouldn't be so sure about that. You might wanna check the rest of this funeral.

Vegeta : What the...?

"TOMBSTONES : VENUS, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE, PLUTO, And of course Chibiusa"

Chibiusa : Hey! I wasn't on the Guest List!

Vegeta : You mean, they've been reborn as earthlings?

Goku : You really mean it Bulma!? Sailor Moon and friends were dead on the crash, the crash that the shuttle crashed on to the moon!? Oh man! That is messed up! In fact, are you even a copy?

Usagi : Sorry that you head hear that, Mr. Goku. It's true we are reborn as copies to the original. I'm a civilian to earth now.

Ami : It's true, the original Sailor Moon guys died after that happily ever after marriage and on a bon voyage on the moon.

Rei : We died because of the Red Stone.

Minako : And to think of that, it's all because of one wish.

Makoto : To make them like fools, Goku.

Ami : Yeah, fools.

Michiru : In case you haven't notice, we are the ones who were on that shuttle and became victims to the crash.

Goku : You mean...You guys all died without telling me or anyone about this?

Usagi : Yep.

Goku : But how are you alive, when you're not even wearing shoes? okay...you may wear shoes in the middle of the cold? Doctors told about you not wearing shoes is not our hot cup of tea. I only take off my shoes when I was in tournaments and even facing battles against the saiyans.

Vegeta : Sure you do. But it turns out that only one thing happened in 1997, and I finally figured what killed Sailor Moon during that happily ever after incident during that crash.

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 2]

Vegeta : Alright...This might sound weird, but this how we do things that happened on the moon. Everyone died, and you girls were eventually reborn as civilians of earth.

Krillin : We all know that anyone is possible that you guys are copies who were boarding that shuttle or reborn as earthling to make you look like you superheroes, but with superpowers that can control freely with your...foot?

Yamcha : Yeah! You guys did died on that shuttle and we didn't know that you were eventually reborn after that fatal crash! That is seriously mess up.

Tien : How can anyone be so stupid to be on the shuttle that crashed onto the moon? And that man who died using the powers of the red stone...

Usagi : It's Tuxedo mask.

Tien : Oh my God. He died during that incident by killing himself with the red stone.

Vegeta : Are we going to prove that this is gonna really suck after having an episode here?

Krillin : Okay...Everyone say the name. on the count of 3 and figured where did they get this idea from somewhere and how on earth did they become victims of a stinkin' crash on the moon's surface or even the Moon Castle that Sailor Moon came from.

Goku : Okay, we're ready to finally know what happened to Sailor Moon during that crash.

Usagi : You really mean it, Mr. Goku? You finally knew what that crash was about?

King Yenma : Well, since they were the ones who boarded on that shuttle during the incident, there is only one explanation that where did anyone get an idea of having someone being dead on the moon. Is everyone with me?

Krillin : Actually, it's me sir. But I do like you're idea.

Dende : And I found out that the ones who were on that moon, were the girls and some idiot has been using the Red stone to kill himself. No offense, that was Tuxedo who died using the powers of the red stone.

Krillin : Okay...On the count of three to say the name.

Usagi : Alright.

King Yenma : Alright. 1...2...3...

All : Echo Night!

Goku and Usagi : Jinx!

King Yenma : Echo Night? For real? What is that?

Goku : Sailor Moon died during a horrible crash on the moon, this would idea of a game called Echo Night.

Vegeta : How should I know, and what the hell is Echo Night?

Goku : It's the name of that game by the guys who made Elden Ring. It's game about Ghosts.

Vegeta : Yeah, yeah, Echo Night it is.

Yamcha : Huh? Well, yeah it is Echo Night.

Tien : You're telling us that you all died in that crash because of a game by the ones who made Elden Ring, From Software was it?

Yamcha : [holds out a copy of Echo Night : Beyond] Yeah! And I like playing this game on the PlayStation 2 that explains the deaths of Sailor Moon and everyone aboard the shuttle, it had the mixed reviews in it.

Tien : You're not the only video game nerd who knows about Ghost being on a ship, a haunted house, or even on the moon like you died during the crash.

Goku : So that's why you all died in that crash during a happily ever after incident. Well, I guess our history of the PlayStation titles explains a lot.

Usagi : Yeah, that explains a lot. Nobody plays Echo Night anymore, it's just us being earthlings living in a community where we lead.

Goku : Hmmm...I wonder if any of those Rebirth beings as Angel or Devil back at San Francisco? Wonder how they are doing?

Vegeta : Says the guy who knows about the Chaos Emeralds.

Krillin : Wait, we forgot about those guys from that one shared universe that got destroyed. But who else can we forget that they are life forms from the garden.

Goku : What Garden are they talking about?

"Meanwhile at Chao World"

[cues Chao Garden Theme by Fumie Kumatani, Tomoya Ohtani]

Shinra the Devil Chaos : Ad that is why we lost our bodies and became officially stuck into this crap sandwich.

Maka the Angel Chaos : And that's how we lost our bodies after the Ohkuboverse was destroyed. This is all our fault.

Shinra the Devil Chaos : Yep. We sure did made fools out of ourselves.

Maka the Angel Chaos : I miss being a human.

Shinra the Devil Chaos : This totally sucks, I wish Arthur was here to see this.

Shinra the Devil Chaos : Also, when did I grew up to look like the God of Destruction.

Maka the Angel Chaos : Ask anyone from Dragon Ball, they'll tell me that we became like this after our comrades abandoned us.

Shinra the Devil Chaos : This is why we were never paid that easily. Good riddance to ourselves as heroes.

Maka the Angel Chaos : Just shut it and think about it. We're never going to get our bodies back after The Time Eater killed us and that girl too.

Shinra the Devil Chaos : I agree. But did anyone know about the usage of the Red Stone?

Maka the Angel Chaos : What?

Shinra the Devil Chaos : Never mind.

[cues Course Clear (NSMB ver.)]

~ AND NOW YOU KNOW ~

Mario : That's-a so nice! (stabbed by the Red Stone) Ow!

Mario : (dying) ...Wowie Zowie. (falls and collapses)

Luigi : M-Mario?

Mario now a Boo : You owe me a lot for this, man!

[drmaqazi]

JEWISH TERRORISM AND GENOCIDE

IN THE HOLY LAND SINCE 1948 …… 

October 14-15, 1953, Qibya. Ariel Sharon commands attack on Qibya, 42 homes destroyed, 60 civilians killed

Holy Week 1954, Haifa. Israelis desecrate  Christian cemeteries in Haifa

July 14, 1954, Egypt. Israeli Army intelligence, Modin, firebombs civilian post office in Egypt After 50 years, President Katsav presents three surviving members with certificates of appreciation for the false flag operation.

October 29, 1956, terrorist atrocity in Kafr Qasim, 47 cold-blooded murders

November 13, 1966, village of Sammu attacked, 18 dead, 100 wounded

In a false flag to blame Egypt, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, even machine-gunning drowning US sailors

June 8, 1967, USS Liberty attacked 34 sailors dead, 170 wounded -- not civilians, but non-participants.

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More on Jewish false flag attacks here.

June 5, 1967, “In danger of being attacked” Israel launches war, 759 Israelis and 15,000 Arabs dead

Netanyahu’s False Narrative of Self-Defense

Marjorie Cohn - CounterPunch

Historical Myth Justifies Israel’s Golan Heights Occupation

Institute for Historical Review

For decades Israel has cited vital security concerns to justify its seizure of the Golan Heights. Israelis have claimed that from 1948 to June 1967, Syrian military forces repeatedly used the Heights to shell Jewish settlements and installations below. These artillery bombardments, in the widely accepted Israeli and American view, justified Israel’s conquest of the Heights in 1967, and its occupation ever since. Actually, Israel’s seizure and occupation of this territory is based on a historical lie. 

This was frankly acknowledged by IDF General and Israeli cabinet minister Moshe Dayan in an interview given in 1976, but which was not made public until April 1997.

On March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an impassioned plea to Congress to protect Israel by opposing diplomacy with Iran ... He reiterated the claim that Israel acted in the 1967 Six-Day War “to defend itself.” ... Israel relies on that narrative to continue occupying those Palestinian lands ... But declassified high-level documents from Britain, France, Russia and the United States reveal that Egypt, Syria, and Jordan were not going to attack Israel and Israel knew it. In fact, they did not attack Israel. Instead, Israel mounted the first attack in order to decimate the Egyptian army and take the West Bank.

December 28, 1968, Beirut. Operation Gift, Israeli commandos attack Beirut International Airport, destroyed 12 passenger planes and a cargo aircraft

1969, Israeli bombing of school Bahdr al Baker, 75 children dead, 100 wounded

March 1, 1970, Israel invades Lebanon, civilian death toll unknown

Sept 8, 1972, Israeli bombing of Syrian and Lebanese civilians, “hundreds dead.”

1974, Israeli terrorists attack civilian aircraft; desecrate Christian shrines including Church of the Holy Sepulcher, stealing the diamond crown of the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary

March 31, 1975, Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons by Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 5/24/2010

Declassified: Israeli Government Offered to Sell Nuclear Weapons to South Africa

Zionist nuclear hypocrites are seeking sanctions and war against Iran, a nation that complies with the nuclear regulation.

1975-1980, numerous Mossad assassinations of Palestinian scientists, journalists, and others

1978, Operation Litani, Israeli invasion of Lebanon, approximately 2,000 Lebanese civilians killed, approximately 250,000 displaced

June 1982, Israel invades Lebanon again on the pretext of an Israeli false flag claim that Yasser Arafat attempted assassination of Israeli UK Ambassador Shlomo Argov, Robert Fisk called the invasion resulting in the death of 18,000 Palestinians “one of the most shocking war crimes of the 20th century.”

August 1982, 20,000 civilians dead from Israeli bombing of Beirut on the orders of Ariel Sharon

September 1982, massacres of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, 800 women, children, and elderly killed, victims were axed, shot, and raped, many bodies were found mutilated

Some of the 800 innocents killed by the Israelis at Sabra & Shatila,

September 16-18, 1982

October 1982, Israeli terrorists bombed houses, cars, and offices of three elected mayors of the West Bank cities, Nablus, Ramallah, and Al Beireh

1984, kidnapping of Palestinians on the high seas off merchant vessels

1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist trasmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.

1986, Palestinian cartoonist, Naj Al Ali, assassinated

April 1988, Israeli commandos invade the home of Khalil Al Wazir, a Palestinian leader, and shoot him in bed

February-March 1989, Israeli jets bomb Beka Valley, 15 children killed, more adults

April 14, 1989, Israeli police and armed Jewish settlers attack disarmed Palestinian village, Nahalin, 8 killed, 50 wounded

October 8, 1990, 17 Palestinians gunned down on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by Israeli Border Police

February 25, 1994, Kach Party terrorist Baruch Goldstein uses assault rifle to murder 39 Palestinians worshipping at Cave of the Patriarchs mosque in Hebron.

“A pamphlet named Baruch Hagever was published in 1994 and a book called Baruch Hagever: Sefer Zikaron la-Kadosh Baruch Goldstein in 1995, in which various rabbis praised Goldstein’s action as a pre-emptive strike in response to Hamas threats of a pogrom, and wrote that it is possible to view his act as following five Halachic principles.”

Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank DOv Lior celebrated the massacre as an act carried out “to sanctify the holy name of God.” He then extolled Goldstein as “a righteous man.”

… and then Prime Minister Yitshak Rabin gave permission for a memorial to honor Goldstein (photo at right)

Responding to the massacre, Rabbi Yitzhak Levinger stated, “I am sorry not only about dead Arabs but also about dead flies.”

The Hebrew inscription on Goldstein’s grave monument reads, in part:

“The revered Dr. Baruch Kapel Goldstein… Son of Israel.  He gave his soul for the sake of the people of Israel, The Torah, and the Land.  His hands are clean and his heart good… He was assassinated for the Sanctity of God”

On Feb. 27, 1994 Rabbi Yaacov Perrin eulogized Goldstein and stated,

”One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” [N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

Murderpedia’s entry on Dr. Goldstein: http://murderpedia.org/male.G//g/goldstein-baruch-photos.htm

Epitaph on the mass murderer’s government-approved monument: ”Here lies the saint, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man, may The Lord avenge his blood, who devoted his soul to The Jews, Jewish religion and Jewish land. His hands are innocent and his heart is pure. He was killed as a martyr of God on the 14th of Adar, Purim, in the year 5754.”

February 27, 1994, Israeli Mossad bombs Our Lady of Deliverance Maronite Catholic Church at Jounieh, Lebanon, 11 killed.

Aftermath of the 1994 Israeli bombing of Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Lebanon

April 18, 1996, Israeli massacre of civilians at Qana, Lebanon

April 14, 2000, homes of civilians bulldozed (actions admitted by Ha’aretz and praised by the canonized “Holocaust survivor” Elie Wiesel)

September 30, 2000, 12 year old Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durah, shot dead in front of his father.

October 3, 2000, Israeli army spokesperson admits that Israeli snipers killed him.

http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/sniper.html ,

November 2000, …then the Israeli investigation says the Israelis are not responsible.

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[bobmccullochny]

History

November 22, 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama, leading a fleet of four ships, became the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope, while searching for a sea route to India.

November 22, 1718 - Blackbeard the pirate (Edward Teach) was killed off the coast of North Carolina after a long and prosperous career. Lt. Govenor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia had sent two sloops to put an end to him. The sailors encountered Blackbeard and Lt. Robert Maynard killed him in the fight that followed.

November 22, 1935 - Trans-Pacific airmail service began as the China Clipper, a Pan American flying boat, took off from San Francisco, reaching the Philippines 59 hours later. The following year, commercial passenger service began.

November 22, 1943 - The Cairo Conference occurred as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, met to discuss the war in the Pacific against Japan.

November 22, 1963 - At 12:30 p.m., on Elm Street in downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy's motorcade slowly approached a triple underpass. Shots rang out. The President was struck in the back, then in the head. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where fifteen doctors tried to save him. At 1 p.m., John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was pronounced dead. On board Air Force One, at 2:38 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President.

November 22, 1975 - Juan Carlos was sworn in as King of Spain, following the death of General Franscisco Franco who had ruled as dictator since 1939.

November 22, 1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign after 11 years in office, the longest term of any British Prime Minister in the 20th century.

Birthday - Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970) was born in Lille, France. He led the Free French against the Nazis during World War II and later became President of France, serving from 1958-69.

Birthday - Barnstorming aviator Wiley Post (1898-1935) was born in Grand Plain, Texas. He was a self-taught pilot who became an international celebrity in the 1930s and co-authored Around the World in Eight Days. In 1935, Post and his friend Will Rogers began a flight to the Orient, however, the plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska, killing both of them.

Birthday - British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Best known for his operas including Peter Grimes and his choral works A Ceremony of Carols and War Requiem.

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

The dogs are named! Highlighted, my favorites:

No mentions of Mrs. Chippy :(

[ltwilliammowett]

Old naval slang

A small collection of terms from the 18th - early 20th century that were and probably still are known among sailors.

Admiralty Ham - Royal Navy canned fish Batten your hatch - shut up Beachcomber - a good-for-nothing Cape Horn Fever - feigned illness Cheeseparer - a cheat Claw off - to avoid an embarrassing question or argument Cockbilled - drunk Cumshaw - small craft - Chinese version of scrimshaw Dead Marine - empty liquor bottle Donkey's Breakfast - mattress filled with straw Dunnage - personal equipment of a sailor Flying Fish sailor - sailor stationed in Asian waters Galley yarn - rumour, story Hog yoke- sextant Holy Joe - ship's chaplain Irish hurricane- dead calm Irish pennant - frayed line or piece of clothing Jamaican discipline - unruly behaviour Knock galley west - to knock a person out Leatherneck - a marine Limey - a British sailor Liverpool pennant - a piece of string used to replace a lost button Loaded to the guards - drunk Old Man - captain of the ship One and only - the sailor's best girl On the beach - ashore without a berth Pale Ale - drinking water Quarterdeck voice - the voice of authority Railroad Pants - uniform trousers with braid on the outer leg seam Railway tracks - badge of a first lieutenant Round bottomed chest - sea bag Schooner on the rocks - roast beef and roast potatoes Show a leg - rise and shine Sling it over - pass it to me Slip his cable - die Sundowner - unreasonable tough officer Swallow the anchor - retire Sweat the glass - shake the hour glass to make the time on watch pass quickly - strictly forbidden ! Tops'l buster - strong gale Trim the dish - balance the ship so that it sails on an even keel Turnpike sailor - beggar ashore, a landlubber claiming to be an old sailor in distress Water bewitched - weak tea White rat - sailor who curries favor with the officers

Sailors' Language, by W. Clark Russell, 1883 Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Edward Fraser and John Gibbons, 1925 Sea Slang, by Frank C. Bowen, 1929 Royal Navalese, by Commander John Irving, 1946 Sea Slang of the 20th century, by Wilfried Granville, 1949 The Sailor's Word Book, by Admiral W.H. Smyth, 1967

[sailorspica]

okay i’m rewatching sailor moon and just finished crystal s1-3 for the first time and these are my thoughts

90s

how did chibiusa know usagi would have the maborishi no ginzuishou in the 20th century but she’s surprised she’s sailor moon

why isn’t rei’s school obviously catholic

does rei have any opinion of messiah/antichrist imagery in s3, what if any eschatology exists in shinto

does setsuna have any kind of life in the 20th century

just rly struggling with COLLEGE STUDENT MAMORU

shouldn’t air traffic control address the dead moon circus tent

crystal

tuxedo la smoking bomber

is there any better way to store the crystal / secure the brooch, why can anyone pop it out of there

setsuna’s hair should be darker, too similar to michiru’s

how did everyone learn to fly

[thinkingimages]

João Cândido. Amôr [Love], c. 1910. Coleção [collection]: Museu Municipal Tomé Portes del Rei, São João del Rei, MG

In 1888, with the proclamation of the Lei Áurea [Golden Law], Brazil became one of the last countries to legally abolish slavery. Even so, segregation and violence continued, rooted in the structural racism that has characterized Brazilian society until today. In the Brazilian Navy – which in the first decade of the 20th century had begun a process of technological modernization with the purchase of two battleships – white officers commanded crews made up almost entirely of black and mixed-race sailors often enlisted by force, and they had the right to use corporal punishment. After some frustrated attempts to improve working conditions through negotiations, the crew members revolted in November 1910, demanding an end to this practice. In the insurrection, they assumed control of the new battleships and two smaller vessels and pointed the big guns toward Rio de Janeiro. In a letter addressed to the president of the Republic and signed by a leader of the revolt – João Cândido, nicknamed Almirante Negro [Black Admiral] – the sailors stated that they could no longer “stand the slavery in the Brazilian Navy.”

The revolt was successful: the government had to capitulate, to grant amnesty to the mutinied sailors, and to prohibit corporal punishment aboard ships. In a short time, however, practically all the leaders of the revolt were arrested, punished or dead. In the dungeon of the penitentiary on Cobras Island, on Christmas Eve 1910, João Cândido watched sixteen of his seventeen cellmates die by suffocation from the fumes of the quicklime used to disinfect the cell. In the nearly two years that he was imprisoned, Cândido spent much of his time embroidering, producing many works, including the two embroideries that are presented here. In one of them, the word “amôr” [love] spreads outside the banner held aloft by two birds above a pierced heart; in the other, the hands of two arms clothed in different uniforms – one an admiral’s and the other a sailor’s – are clasping each other or raising an anchor together, between the words ordem [order] and liberdade [freedom].

The lyricism of the compositions contrasts with the image projected on this man, the son of enslaved people, and a revolutionary hero. In the solitude of the dungeon, haunted by the death of his shipmates and betrayed by his government, Cândido showed that he was a much more complex man than the narratives about his biography would suggest. Despite being seen as a sort of historical footnote, these embroideries possess an inestimable value, insofar as they condense the need and possibility of expressing our truths and desires even at moments when it seems that there is no escape. They evidence, beyond any doubt, that singing in the dark is possible and is, perhaps, the most courageous demonstration of strength. They vouch for the conviction that for as long as there is life there will be struggle and poetry – as these both, in combination, are inalienable parts of existence.

Bienalde São Paulo 

[jakowskis]

i know we're all frustrated with the limited lore we have regarding the four lords but i wanted to put some questions out there in hopes someone has the answers. if not ig we can just speculate, & maybe the answers will crop up via word of the writers eventually or smth

first off, heisenberg's wiki page currently states smth about him being kidnapped as a child. i know there's a lot of talk about "forced to be her children", but is anything canonically mentioned regarding miranda kidnapping the lords, especially with them as minors? either from the village or from elsewhere, considering their diverse last names?

even if something along those lines happened with heisenberg, that just brings up a dozen more questions. like, we know alcina was 44 yrs old when miranda got a hold of her. i don't quite understand how the whole eva-reincarnation thing was intended to work, but apparently the potential "vessels" didn't need to be young girls. lady d's wiki makes it sound like she inherited her family's castle in her 40s (in the 1950s) where she met miranda, was enchanted by her, and willingly allowed herself to be altered by the cadou.

i know there's some (undated) documents you find in the game where someone discusses how miranda took donna in, & i think she's described as a young woman, so that means she was an teen or adult when she was infected, too. presumably an adult, if her aging stopped when she made contact with the cadou like alcina & miranda. i'd consider a theory that she's actually just younger than the others, but everything in her home indicates shes from the 20th century, too. all the lords have an old-fashionedness to them, but alcina's the only one who's time period is confirmed. donna kinda reminds me of the 1920s, actually.

moreau... everything about his dialogue implies childishness. it'd be a solid bet that, if the child kidnapping concept is true, he was a fellow victim. the thing that's throwing me off... he has a tattoo. a sailor tattoo. maybe, before things went crazy, even under miranda's influence and with the mutation, he was able to be semi-normal and even travel and go somewhere modern enough to give tattoos, but i'm inclined to think it's a relic of a past life. also worth mentioning he seems to be somewhat older, as he has gray hair... did he not stop aging as the women have, or was he, again, influenced by miranda as an adult?

karl's in a similar boat with his age, but there's that damn wiki sentence that's throwing me off - kidnapped as a child. was the cadou introduced to his body when he was a boy? did miranda really try her often-lethal experiments on children? has he aged normally, then? we'll guess he's late 40s - was he born in the early 70s, and he really is alcina's little brother? and was he the only one of the lords subjected to that specific hell? taken and experimented on as a child, whereas the other three were willing adults?

despite my confusion over the origin of the kidnapped child concept, this theory does make sense. it especially explains his hatred towards her.

but it also opens up another can of worms. now im thinkin... how awfully convenient that there were four notable families in the area who's most recent descendants happened to be able to semi-successfully bond with the cadou. it makes me wonder.. aside from alcina, and maybe donna as well (namely bc of the gravestone by her home), did the lords actually hail from the families they represent? is it possible miranda gifted moreau and heisenberg the last names of long-gone families who'd once been prevalent in their region, along with the reservoir and factory, respectively, both families had once presided over?

either way, whether descended from locals or outsiders brought in - where are their families? donna's parents are dead, okay... how about the rest of them? surely all four of them don't have absolutely no family at all. which, in line with what i just talked about... is it possible heisenberg was taken from his family as a kid? i doubt miranda would have the decency to exclusively seek out orphans.

then there's his line about "she took me. took us." (which also lends to the concept of him being a child when he got dragged into things, as adults are less often "taken".) i get the feeling 'us' doesn't mean the other lords, whom he disdains. maybe, karl was abducted with one or more biological family members, and the cadou experiments proved fatal with them? it could further explain why he hates miranda so damn much, and the way he's the only one who understands that she doesn't truly care for them. the others only saw what she had "gifted" them - whereas, perhaps very early on, karl lost something precious to him at the hands of miranda. maybe he was the first to see her monstrous side.

and if miranda did sort of raise him, where'd he learn the engineering? donna's an amateur botanist, alcina paints & had enough knowledge of science to successfully make her daughters, and moreau's an amateur (and unsuccessful) scientist as well... did heisenberg teach himself, like the others seemingly taught themselves about their hobbies? or maybe did miranda, brilliant in her own right, teach him in an attempt to bond? would she care enough to? doubtful, but maybe she felt compelled to, in an attempt to win him back, after killing off that hypothetical family member (or members?).

there's so many loose ends... it's both frustrating, and incredibly stimulating. i love puzzles lol

[samatedeansbroccoli]

hello. please do this. that is all.

OOOOHHHH okay!!! Thank you Ren!

The post being referred about music fading out at the end

A couple disclaimers, this story is mainly based around western music. I will add a bit about eastern music at the end, but rock music started out of western influence, hence why the focus. This is also written with the assumption you or anyone who sees it has no technical music background. I don’t want it to seem like I’m talking down to you in the slightest, I just want to share my interest to as many people of different musical backgrounds. ALSO this is very long, hence the break.

The short answer is it has to do with technology. At the start of the 20th century, technology became a vital part of music. It was how you spread music to the general public rather than requiring them to attend concerts or have street performances/bar performances, you get the idea. The radio stations were probably the biggest influencers of spreading music, although you could argue the microphone was more important.

Now as for music itself: up until the 20th century, music had various forms. These forms were meant to help create a world, tell a story, basically build up to a climax. For sonata form (one of the many forms), you would have three parts to it. The exposition, which set the stage and all the themes for the piece. The development, which took a spin on the exposition, and ran around with it. And the recapitulation, which was the exposition, but with everything the development had created.

If you don’t know much about sonatas, it’s like the hero’s journey in music. The exposition is your character and their normal world, the development is the mess they get into and have to fix, and the recapitulation is them returning to their normal world but with new changes to their life thanks to their adventure. Also, here’s Clementi’s Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No. 1, Allegeo for a listening example. It’s 2 minutes long (sonatina means mini sonata) and you can hear where it starts happy, becomes dark/kinda scary, then returns to happy but sounds different.

Western pop music doesn’t work like that. In the 1930s (1935-1946 more specifically), there was the Swing Era; the Dance Crazy. What was better than dancing? Having music to dance to. What was better than dancing to music? Having music to dance to until you dropped dead.

The Swing Era was also filled with jazz music. The cool thing about jazz is that it relies on improvisation. In other words, here’s the basic structure you follow, now make up the rest! It’s like if everyone got the same box of Legos to build with. No two builds will be the same.

The difference between the Legos and jazz is that the structure is “looping.” That way people know “okay we have our opening theme, then our next theme, then go back to our opening theme.” These were denoted by letters: the most popular structures at the time was an AAB blues structure, and an AABA Tin Pan Alley structure. Take a look at Bessie Smith’s St. Louis Blues’ lyrics:

I hate's to see that evenin' sun go down

Hate's to see that evenin' sun go down

Cause my baby, she done left this town.

If I feel tomorrow like I feel today

Feel tomorrow like I feel today

I'll pack up my trunk, and make my get away.

I colored the lines for easier viewing, but it should be obvious there’s the AAB blues form. So for musicians, you expect chords for the A theme, and chords for the B theme, and then you go around and around and around and around and—[fade out].

Lyrically, sea shanties do something like this too. Drunken Sailor has an AAAB form, which allows for people unfamiliar with the song enough time to learn the lyrics and sing along (“What do we do with a drunken sailor” 3x followed by “Early in the morning”).

These looping forms were super useful during the swing era because when people got really dancing, you would dance until you dropped dead. The musicians could change up the music all they wanted to keep from getting bored, or encourage people to do different dance moves, or both. Basically, music structure was built to loop so you had endless good times.

But we’re still off 40-50 years from the rock era. So here’s a brief summary of that: WWII happened, basically no music was produced during WWII due to a musician strike for being underpaid by records, the Swing Era died during WWII, new music started popping up after WWII, new technology to make recording easier, insert the Beatles, and now we’re at the rock era, aka the 70s.

Actually let’s back up for a second, Rock & Roll started in the 50s when the new “teenager” began (after WWII, children were no longer required to work) as a way for teens to have their own genre of music. During this time, R&R star Elvis Presley popularized the 8 bar blues structure (it’s 8 chords: I I I I V V IV IV (which may or may not mean anything to you, but it’s a chord progression and it’s good at looping)). That formed into an AA structure (just 8 bar blues followed by 8 bar blues), which is now the common baseline for today’s Rock.

Time jump forward to the late 60s/early 70s. Rock & Roll is now just called Rock to be taken more seriously by “adult”/“non-teenager” groups. BUT!! Rock is still pop music (stands for popular music; we kinda lost that meaning with today’s music thanks a lot Arianna Grande ). And like I said before, pop music is build to repeat. While there is more directed structure in terms of lyrics, the music is still that looping style. Meaning that bands could go on and on for as long as the crowd was screaming (think the end of Hotel California). Great for parties!

Not so great for the record companies! The vinyl could only handle so much music. But with a song that doesn’t have an end, how do you end it?

[Fade out]

And that’s why rock music especially in the 60s-70s-80s fades out. It doesn’t have an official end. What is heard at concerts is whatever the musicians decide. They really just improv the ending.

Today’s pop music and rock music still follow similar things as the past. think Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles:

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound

Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way through the crowd

And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder…

Hey look! It’s out AAB! The piano instrumental does the same thing too!

I said at the start I wanted to touch on Asian music, so here’s that. They’ve been doing this looping style forever. It’s in all their ancient music. The most well-known is probably the Javanese gamelon (Indonesian orchestra). The gamelon is constructed of gongs which played in cyclical form called “gong cycles.” The musicians all knew what to do, because the fun part about eastern music is “how fast can you play it?” And when you know what you’re doing, it’s easy to play faster and faster. Classical Indian music (iirc Hindi more specifically) likes to add a layer onto this where the audience keeps time along with the music with hand gestures (music is regarded as an “everyone participates in it!” sort of thing). And if someone could keep up with the musicians, then they were heralded as a musically adept audience member.

SO TLDR: Pop songs are meant to never have an end, and technology limits lead to fade outs.

Wow. I wrote way too much for a simple concept.

I hope it was a fun read anyway! Thanks for asking! I finally get to use my music degree for something!

[elegantillusions]

Setsuna Meiou / Sailor Pluto

Represents: Time, Revolution

Colours: Black and dark red

Eye colour: Garnet red

Hair: Very long, straight, dark green. Fastened into a bun at the top-back portion of her head.

Role: Guardian of the Door of Space-Time (ensuring no one travels through time without her knowledge). Keeper of the Time Keys which allows safe passage through the Door in exceptional circumstances. Holder of the Garnet Orb.

Personality: Patient, mysterious, respectable, mature, intelligent, distant with strangers but warm and caring to her loved ones, wise, lonely, extremely dutiful/dedicated. A solitary guardian. She’s also very good with kids and consoles Chibiusa when she feels sad, and is close to Hotaru.

Likes: Physics, children, fashion apparently (is skilled at sewing, dreams to be a designer, wears designer clothes… although we don’t really see her interest in fashion design in the series).

Dream: To be a designer (presumably fashion?)… But she is doing a degree in Theoretical Physics and also works at an observatory, monitoring anomalies in space. She also works as a school nurse, so who knows what her ultimate dream is?

Family: Chronos, God of Time (father, never seen in the series).

Love interests: King Endymion (unrequited crush). She’s had no time to seek out a proper relationship though.

Sailor Pluto is probably the most mysterious Sailor Guardian. She was stationed at the Door to Space-Time at a young age by Queen Serenity eons ago. She dutifully accepted her role to protect the Solar System from external threats via Space-Time routes and other dimensions. She is the daughter of the God of Time, Chronos, and has the power to stop time. This makes her one of the most powerful Sailor Guardians. However, stopping time is a huge taboo and comes with the penalty of death.

When she guards the Door of Space-Time, she technically exists outside of time, so this separates her from others, making her a solitary guardian who very few know about. Once she was able to lead a normal life on 20th century Earth, Sailor Pluto took on her civilian form: Setsuna Meiou.

Setsuna is still fairly mysterious but she is regularly admired by those who meet her (fellow Sailor Guardians, the royal Moon family members, her college peers, work colleagues, children, etc). She cuts quite the sophisticated and graceful young lady and offers her insight into situations that require it. She is very smart and hardworking, studying physics at university, working as a scientist at an observatory, working as a nurse, and offering invaluable advice to the very intelligent Sailor Mercury. Setsuna seems to enjoy her civilian life but always fight proudly as Sailor Pluto. She is very dedicated to the royal Moon family, even if it means she leads a life of loneliness.

Element / Powers

Sailor Pluto’s powers are based on time and the underworld. Her most powerful ability (stopping time) comes with the penalty of death, so is forbidden.

Notable Attacks

Dead Scream - Pluto directs her Garnet Rod and releases energy that hits the enemy for damage.

Dark Dome Close - a powerful technique that can close doors/gateways to other dimensions/worlds. Can seal away powerful foes within and completely cut off their access to Earth.

Chronos Typhoon - a powerful dark cyclone hits the enemy for damage.

Time Stop - Stops time temporarily for foes. She starts dying rapidly from the moment the technique is initiated, giving very limited time for her allies to turn the tide of battle while foes are frozen in their act. Once she dies, time resumes. A forbidden ability.