#30 a.C.

[1ntensifyingharmony]

you.

[ @memversemenace ]

[yaellaharpe-blog]

CUP OF THE PTOLEMIES

COPA DE LOS PTOLOMEOS

(English / Español)

The Ptolemaic cup is a two-handled cup made of onyx cameos. The cup, decorated with Dionysian vignettes and emblems, was carved at some point in classical antiquity, probably in Alexandria.

One researcher proposed the idea that the cup was carved during the time of the Ptolemies, a broad period extending from 305 BC to 30 BC. However, there is no particular evidence for this, and other scholars suggest that the cup was carved later, during the first or second century AD by the Romans.

Determining the exact date of the cup is problematic largely because similar pieces are rare, making any possible comparison difficult.

The cup is currently in the Cabinet des Médailles at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

*****

La Copa de los Ptolomeos es una copa de dos asas realizada con camafeos de ónice. La copa, decorada con viñetas y emblemas dionisíacos, fue tallada en algún momento de la antigüedad clásica, probablemente en Alejandría.

Un investigador propuso la idea de que la copa había sido tallada durante la epoca de los Ptolomeos, un amplio periodo que se extiende desde el 305 a.C. hasta el 30 a. C. Sin embargo, no hay evidencia particular de esto, y otros estudiosos, sugieren que la copa fue tallada más tarde, durante el primer o segundo siglo d. C por los romanos.

Determinar la fecha exacta de la copa es problemático en gran medida porque piezas similares son raras, lo que dificulta cualquier comparación posible.

La copa está actualmente en el Cabinet des Médailles en la Bibliothèque Nationale de Francia en París.

[beej-hunnicutt]

Love when it's just me awake and it's rlly late (or early I should say), it's always because I am not tired and I am just listening to music!

Like tonight; it's so much fun listening to music I wouldn't necessarily listen to, as I was trying to get some progress done with some characters' playlists!! So like it is kinda aligned (50s-60s) for some general popular songs, but also kinda not bc it's genres I'm not too familiar with! Very very fun!!!

Also a random mix of taking a break and listening to new wave aha.

Oh but characters wise I started a Lincoln Playlist!! I'm too shy to share, but I like how its coming along so far!! I do think he's a heavy rock 'n roll fan which is a genre I generally don't listen to much, so it's been fun poking around there! Then I have worked on Miss Frances! And she's closest to my music taste, but it was fun listening to a bunch of D*an Martin as I think? I would say he's her fave, or up there on the list, and I rlly like his music but I haven't heard too much! But I love his voice so I rlly enjoyed that. Still so much work to be done because I really want to find some French artists for her, and some older ones too, so it could be some songs she heard when she was growing up. But I haven't got there yet! And after the new wave break lol, I moved onto some 60s country for Andy!!! Another area I am not familiar with so its gonna be fun to listen to!!! And it is so far!!! I know people have mentioned how old school country is nice and I have to say I am enjoying the limited songs I have gotten to hear! It'll be nice to throw on the playlist in the background to let some songs stand out naturally not me randomly picking them!! Though didn't add too many for my characters, but that's okay!!

[i-am-hungry-24-7]

[We went on shopping (it didn’t go well)] - TF141*F!Reader

not a chapter actually just a rambling, it's kinda messy and not my style imo, pls feel free to skip this etc. might rewrite this shit when I have time since I’m busy with my job these days and I just accidentally sliced my thumb open making it difficult to type, hence not much to provide sorry :( and the weird stranger incident in the latter part did happen irl damn it’s creepy af, but I was the one telling them to fuck off tho (they harassing my cute friend RAGE)

Summary: You sigh when it's the fifth time someone fights in your poor tea shop this month. You just open it two months ago, in an area ruled by mafia called '141'. Maybe you should find their boss and give them money or what to stop the bullshit keeps happening in your shop. (well, here they come)

Mafia!TF141*F!Reader

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

After your car graduates from its car life in about a week, congratulations, the poor shelf accompanies you since your college life is finally undone, fragments spreading across the floor making you shout Mama and mourn for its graduation.

You don’t have a car right now, so when Gaz offers to drive you to buy a new shelf, you agree to his suggestion without a second thought. Yet when the day comes and you open the car door, only to be greeted by the wide smile of Soap and Gaz, you almost slam the door close in reflex.

“Okay, but why do all of you come together? this isn’t an elementary school field trip!” You gawk at them when you squeeze in the car.

“Sounds fun, how can ye not tell us?” 

“Gaz I thought you could seal your lips!��

“Sorry love, Ghost exchanged it with some goodies.”

Oh yeah, Ghost is sitting in the driver’s seat.

Wait, he’s sitting in the driver's seat?

“Goddamnit—“ Your scream dies out on your tongue when said man puts his foot down. 

Ghost does a good job at providing you the same experience as riding a rollercoaster, glad that you didn’t throw up in the car and arrived at the warehouse without dying. If he's your Uber driver, you will give him five stars and block the hell out of him. 

You hop out of the car and walk to the door. As the automatic door parts after sensing your presence, you feel much better when the cold air of the store. Nice a.c. is one of the important features of a nice store, and you already built a fondness for the warehouse with how refreshing the chilly air is inside.

The first area welcoming you is food. Not bad, 6 out of 10 if it needs to be precise. Gaz pushes the cart and follows you as you saunter to the aisle with cereals.

“Oh, they have my favorite brand.” You murmur to him as your eyes travel across the price tag.

Wait, you must still be dizzy because no way it’s 30% cheaper than the same one you just bought from the supermarket.

“Kyle, it says it’s 3 pounds, right?!” pointing at the tag, your voice raises a whole eight-tone with excitement.

“Yes?”

“Good.”

5 boxes of cereal are added to the cart. 

Actually, 9.9 out of 10 for this place, you fix the evaluation as you watch Gaz putting some of those ten bags of chocolate Ghost and Soap dump into the cart back on the shelf, and as a little revenge to Gaz for letting the other two men join the trip without you knowing, you choose to turn a blind eye when you spot Ghost sneaking all of them back in the cart.

Not forgetting the primary goal for today, you go straight to the furniture area after letting Soap throw five packs of gummy bears in the cart and convincing Ghost not to get a cup of tea from the random tea shop. You’ll make a much better one for him when you get home — you coo when he stares at you with unhappy eyes not covered by the mask, glad that he seems to accept the idea, so he huffs and lets you drag him and Soap out of the food area.

“You should buy this.” 

“Ghost I don’t need a green shelf in my shop thank you.”

“Then ye should buy this bonnie!”

“That’s not even a goddamn shelf, Soap.”

“How about this?” 

Your eyes brighten up when Gaz shows you a wooden shelf, it’s stripped-back, with not many decorations, but it surely will fit wonderfully into your store with its aesthetic vibes and high functionality, thus you pick up your phone to type down the product number immediately.

“Oh my, Kyle, you’re the best.”

and you’re too busy typing the numbers down that you don’t notice him shooting the others a taunt of victory.

The last area before the cashier’s counter sets a bookshop. You don’t plan on buying books, but you indeed need to go to the bathroom, so you dismiss yourself and tell them to look around before you’re done.

Why are the bathrooms always hidden in a bloody long hallway? What if someone can’t hold back during their way? Your footsteps echo through the corridor as your mind starts hitting you with a fresh and unnecessary question, glad that you aren’t that urgent though, so you’re able to get to the destination without wetting your pants.

Washing your hands, you step back to the hallway again, but you yelp in surprise when you bump into someone.

“Sorry!” You nod at the man and start heading back to the bookstore.

but it’s weird, the man you just bump into walks so close to you, that you suddenly realize he’s just a step behind you.

Hey, don’t panic, might just coincidence, you try to tell yourself as you make another step.

“Hey, lovely.” Okay, it’s not a coincidence, fucking hell. You curse when his hand touches your shoulder and stops you.

“Sorry for bumping into you, Sir. Anything that I can help?”

“No, I’m waiting for you to separate from the blokes for a while can’t ask for your phone number when they surround you like dogs.”

“I don’t give strangers my number, sorry.” You try to leave, but the man’s hand grabs your shoulder forcefully preventing you from moving.

“Hey, give us a chance yeah? I’m sure we will have some nice time together.”

“I don’t fucking know you!”

Prying off his hand, you turn and start walking fast, almost running when you hear the stranger’s footsteps coming towards you.

Fuck fuck fuck, you haven’t run with such desperation in years, last time must be high school.

“Who the fok are ye arsehole?”

The tears prickling in your eyes when you hear Soap’s voice ringing in your ears before you feel a pair of warm hands drag you behind him.

“Ghost and Soap will deal with him, let’s go.”

Adrenaline pumping through your body finally subsides when Soap and Ghost reappear from the hallway, you don’t want to know what happened to the stranger, maybe hope they’re still alive and in one piece so you won’t involve yourself in another chaos, 

“I think it’s time to go home, Kyle. Is it okay?”

“Of course, wanna grab some food before we leave?”

“I guess Ghost already bought sufficient chocolate for us.”

A burst of laughter catches your attention whilst Gaz looking at the cart with bags of chocolate stuffing under your cereals with disbelief, and a smile crawls back to your lips as you look at Ghost slamming his forehead against a lower door frame and Soap laughing over him.

They aren’t that bad, maybe, or they reserve the remnants of tenderness for you, you’re not sure whether is correct, but at least they have your back when you need them, and that’s enough for you to stop exploring the answer for now.

“Oh.” A book gets knocked off when you shift to stand up. Turning around to pick it up, you have a good look at the shelf behind your seat.

Your eyes dart from ‘Today’s recommendation’ to the book within your grasp.

‘Surrounded by idiots — by Thomas.’

You will rate this recommendation 10 out of 10 for sure.

After insisting on paying yourself and shooing the men off, you take out your card and place it on the scanner.

‘Insufficient balance :( please try again’

You frown when the machine shoves you a nuh-uh, and you open the bank app to check your balance.

So you overspent 10 pounds huh? What a shame to your title for being a successfully financially broken adult. Which link loses and makes you make a wrong shopping decision? 

you scan the list of items with sharp vision until you land your eyes on a product.

Surrounded by idiots - £ 10.61

Ah.

a/n: thx for reading :D sorry it's messy and unlike my previous writings :( hope I can have time to write again btw Price went on business trip so he's missing everything

tag list :D - @blackhawkfanatic @nexthyperfix @danielle143 @goodbyegh0st @reaperxxxxzz @kaoyamamegami @imyprice @cod-z @poppingaround @live-for-fluff @masterstr0ke @mall0ww @ghostysloot @hxnneydew @cutiecusp @beigechristmastree @rejectedbytheempty @lupikekee @hotvinimon @whitetiger846

[bangchansgirlsblog]

Broken headsets

- Chan

Warning: A lot of Angst, slight violence?

Pairing: BangChan x reader.

Summary: where he snaps at you while working.

!Not proofread!

(This is just a trail story, I lost my first story that was actually good ☠️I’m probably going to delete this)

**

“Channie?” I call for him. My hands gently rubbing his back while playing with his hair. So soft and messy.

“Mhm” he replies softly. The sound of his fingers typing against the keyboard as his headsets sat around his neck. His brown curls fluffy and everywhere.

His silver hoops sitting perfectly on both his ears and his black shirt tight around his muscle making him look delicious.

“Baby you need to eat something. You’ve been on that computer ever since you got home.” I plead with him.

He needed to eat, he hadn’t eaten all day due to the busy schedule and lack of time on his plate. The mangers were on him 24/7 due to their comeback in a few weeks.

Comeback season meant no time for anything, no time for dates, no time for sitting around, no time for spending time with one another and I hated it. I hate it so much. It made me angry.

“Baby this is really important, I’ll be there in a second.” He quickly says not even bothering to look up.

“Chan you’ve been at it for the past 2 hours, you haven’t even looked at me.” I complain. Yes I wanted attention, shoot me!

“I’ll give you all the attention you want my love, just please let me finish this.”

Sadness fills my heart as I silently put the clothes inside the closet.

A ringing sound in my ear and a tight feeling in my throat.

I was trying not to cry. I refused to cry.

Chan was a workaholic, no doubt in that. His days consisted of waking up early in the morning to head to the JYP building and coming home very late only to do more work. Some nights he wouldn’t come home at all and he knew I didn’t like it so to make my happy, he sometimes would bring me with him to the studio but that was when he thought he wouldn’t be coming home.

Our conversations in the studio normally contained:

“Just 30 more minutes my love”

Or

“I’m almost done”

Or

“I promise this is the last thing.”

He loves his job and he puts 110% in it but that makes him lack in other areas. His health.

Some nights he doesn’t sleep, some days he forgets meals and other days his mental health is the worst but still he doesn’t care because he loves his Job. He loves the boys. He loves Stay.

“Fine.” I sigh. One minute meant 1 hours at this point. I quietly leave the room closing the door behind me. Leaving him in his little world.

The cold tiles sending a shiver up my spine as I walked down the corridor.

“What am I going to do with you Channie?” I whisper to myself while packing up the food.

The dishes in the sink waiting for me to touch them while the laundry basket sat in the living room waiting for me to fold the messy clothes in them.

The house was quiet. The A.C hitting my skin with cold air as I sit on the floor and start folding the clothes one by one.

Berry by my side watching me.

Our apartment wasn’t big but it was huge for two people.

Some days it was a real big hustle to keep everything clean especially when they boys stay over but other days it wasn’t hard to maintain with the help of Chan.

“What am I going to do with your dad Berry?” I sigh again looking at the dog who seemed to be care free.

I grabbed the last set of clothes and walked over to the room. Chan’s back facing me. Not even noticing me in the room.

“Baby..” I call for him as I set down the clothes and start to load them into the closet.

“What Y/n?” He says a little harsh. I roll my eyes, frustration starting to build in my chest but I decide to be the bigger person and ignore his little attitude.

“Baby do you know what we’ll be doing for our 2 year anniversary?” I asked him trying to atleast have a conversation with him.

“I don’t know Y/n. You deal with it I don’t have time. Just tell me how much it is and when it is.”

“When it is?” I ask him obviously taken back.

“Ugh I didn’t mean when it is, I mean when you wanna do it.” He quickly corrects himself and rubs his temples with his fingers.

“Atleast act like you care Chan.” I tell him honestly.

“I’m not starting an argument with you right now so please can I get back to my work?”

“Chan why are you being like this?” Ignoring his request I decide to push because honestly I was tired of it.

“I’m not acting like anything I just want to finish my work in peace.”

“Chan you’re acting so selfish right now!” I say now slightly raising my voice.

“Y/n” he says firm and glaring over at me. What’s the worse he could possibly do?

“Just listen-“ I beg before I’m cut off.

“Y/n i said leave me alone!” His voice booms and the sound of breaking glass fills the room. My body freezes. Hands shaking.

The now broken headsets and mirror laying on the ground.

“Did you just throw that at me?” I ask him in disbelief.

“Babe-“ his body was stood up now and he was reaching out for me. His face filled with panic and guilt.

“Don’t.” I say getting away from his touch. The clothes that were once folded no scattered on the ground. Words refusing to come out of my mouth until I force myself to get up from the floor.

“I-I’m going to leave…” I say softly. My heart hurt and I hope he knew that. I felt the tears that were all built up from frustration, anger and hurt all start to flow down my cheeks.

When would he realize that being with him was starting to slowly ruin me?

**

Pt 2 ⬇️

[aitan]

Non mi avrebbe rassicurato nemmeno la vittoria di quell'altra là, ma... benvenuti nella realtà più delirante.

MASS DEPORTATION NOW!

PEACE THROUGH STRENGHT!

È un mondo meraviglioso.

Mi sembra di essere nei favolosi anni '30 del secolo scorso.

Tanti fratelli stanno salendo sul carro vincente anche dalla minuscola Italia.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Ma forse siamo solo in un film di un regista sudafricano con cittadinanza canadese naturalizzato statunitense.

Va be', mi ritiro nella mia inutilità e nel silenzio che mi confà...

"Se ora soffrite per la vostra pochezza,

non datene la colpa agli dei: proprio voi

avete fatto grandi questi uomini,

dandogli potere, e adesso ne subite la schiavitù. […]

Siete sedotti dalla lingua e dalle parole di un uomo astuto

e non vi rendete conto di quello che succede."

Solone (Atene, 638 a.C. – 558 a.C.), Frammento 11

[k4marina]

something that’s always irked me is the way the writers decided to change one of the main plot points in dance of the dragons to gain sympathy points for alicent.

i love the show, don’t get me wrong. but holy fuck do i feel like drowning myself every time i see ppl go “omg alicent is such a misunderstood character 🥺”, “she’s has every right to protect herself and her kids 🥺” literally shut the fuck up.

the real alicent is not a victim, far from it actually.

and viserys especially didn’t prey on her.

the real alicent is a cunning and power hungry women just like her father. everything she does is for power (keeping up with the hightower traditions).

in the books, she’s 18-19 when she marries viserys who’s 29 at the time and rhaenyra is 9 years old.

she is literally the textbook definition of evil stepmother. she spread rumors of rhaenyra (in 111 a.c) and daemon and criston when rhae was 14 and daemon and criston were 30 and alicent was around 24.

they could have taken her character in so many different ways but instead chose the worst way possible. i get that for the show they had to make some changes, but how fucking hard is it for you to follow the source material?

she was turned into this flimsy character when in reality she’s one of the biggest characters in fire and blood. it’s all bc of her and her greed that the dance happens and in hindsight is the beginning of house targaryens fall.

if i’m being honest, i kinda like book alicent more than show alicent. she was the perfect villain, but in the shows she just there imo.

i had zero sympathy for her when i was reading the books and i’ll continue to have zero sympathy for her in the show.

cant wait for her to lose everything bc of her own actions.

[snalsupremacy]

Died 30 A.C. Born 2024 Welcome Back Judas Iscariot

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

Sean bienvenidos japonistasarqueologicos a una nueva entrega de arqueología nipona. En esta ocasión nos volvemos al periodo Jomon(1600/300 a.c), nos vamos a la prefectura de Kanagawa, a la ciudad de Hadano en la cual se ha encontrado una tumba del periodo Jomon¿Cuándo surgen las tumbas en Japón? Ya responderemos esta pregunta para una próxima publicación. - ¿De cuándo data el asentamiento? data de finales del periodo Jomon(3500-4000) que es un periodo que duró más de 10.000 años, hay unas 40 viviendas en un futuro, se estima que pueda haber más de las encontradas actualmente, dicho asentamiento se localiza al lado del río Mizunashi cerca de la montaña Tanzawa. - El yacimiento arqueológico se localiza a 2,5 km de la estación de tren Shibusawa, el conjunto arqueológico tiene una dimensiones de 28.000 metros cuadrados y 20 viviendas son de tipo Ekagami. Se han encontrado una hilera de piedras de 10 a 20 metros que desempeñó la función para separar las ruinas de la vivienda, es similar a un muro de piedra, en su interior se ha hallado material ritual con forma de maniquí, también hay una hilera de piedras de 50 metros posiblemente sea una conexión con la aldea. - ¿Qué otros restos se han encontrado? 30 hogueras más huesos de bestias triturados, figuras de arcilla con forma de mujeres y 554 cajas de almacenamiento, posiblemente para algún tipo de ritual y cuto. Se han encontrado equipos de pesca. - Espero que os haya gustado y nos vemos en otra noticia de arqueología nipona ¿Qué opinan ustedes? - 考古学のジャポニスタは、日本の考古学の新作へようこそ。 この機会に縄文時代（紀元前1600/300年）に戻り、縄文時代の墓が発見された秦野市の神奈川県に行きます。日本ではいつ墓が出現しますか？今後の出版のためにこの質問に答えます。 - 決済日はいつですか？ 10、000年以上続いた縄文時代（3500-4000）の終わりからの日付で、将来的には約40戸の家があり、現在見つかっている家よりも多いと推定されています。丹沢山近くの水梨川の隣。 - 遺跡は渋沢駅から2.5kmに位置し、28,000平方メートルの広さで、20戸の家屋がエカガミタイプです。廃墟と家を隔てる10〜20メートルの石列が発見されました。石垣に似ており、内部にはマネキンの形をした儀式用の材料が発見されています。 50メートルの石はおそらく村への接続です。 - 他にどのような遺物が見つかりましたか？ 30の炉床に加えて、砕いた獣の骨、女性の形をした粘土の人形、554の収納ボックス、おそらく何らかの儀式や求愛のために。釣り道具が見つかりました。 - あなたがそれを気に入って、別の日本の考古学ニュースであなたに会えることを願っています。あなたはどう思いますか？ - Japanese archaeologists are welcome to a new installment of Japanese archaeology. This time we return to the Jomon period (1600/300 BC), we go to the Kanagawa prefecture, to the city of Hadano where a tomb from the Jomon period has been found. When do graves appear in Japan? We will answer this question for a future post. - When does the settlement date? dates from the end of the Jomon period (3500-4000) which is a period that lasted more than 10,000 years, there are about 40 houses in the future, it is estimated that there may be more than those currently found, said settlement is located next to the Mizunashi river near Tanzawa Mountain. - The archaeological site is located 2.5 km from the Shibusawa train station, the archaeological complex has a size of 28,000 square meters and 20 houses are of the Ekagami type. A row of stones of 10 to 20 meters has been found that served to separate the ruins from the house, it is similar to a stone wall, inside it has been found ritual material in the shape of a mannequin, there is also a row of 50-meter stones possibly a connection to the village. - What other remains have been found? 30 hearths plus crushed beast bones, clay figures in the shape of women and 554 storage boxes, possibly for some kind of ritual and courtship. Fishing equipment has been found. - I hope you liked it and see you in another Japanese archeology news. What do you think?

[ancientcharm]

Isabelle Connolly as Antonina in 'Domina', Season 2.

Antonia the Younger, or Antonina (Little Antonia) one of the most respected and beloved women in Rome, was the youngest daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia; niece of Caesar Augustus, daughter-in-law of Empress Livia, sister-in-law of Emperor Tiberius, mother of Emperor Claudius, grandmother of Emperor 'Caligula' and Empress Agrippina the Younger, great-grandmother of Emperor Nero and Empress Octavia, and great-aunt of Empress Valeria Messalina.

Her grandson Caligula wanted to grant her the title of AUGUSTA and she refused, but her son Claudius, upon ascending the throne in 41, named her Augusta as a post-mortem title. The day of Antonia's birthday, January 31, was decreed by Claudius as public holiday.

Antonina had many tragic losses in her life: She was widowed very young with her three very young children, Germanicus, Livilla and Claudius, in 9 a.C, and never wanted to remarry. She really loved her husband Drusus.

She lost her son Germanicus, heir to the throne, who died at the age of 33 under mysterious circumstances (perhaps poisoned) in the year 19 AD. She also lost her daughter Livilla, accused of poisoning her husband, son of Emperor Tiberius (something that could never really be proven) in the year 31.

Lost three of her grandchildren in horrible way: Claudius's first-born son, died at the age of 14 after accidentally choking on a piece of pear; Later the two the eldest sons of Germanicus, falsely accused of conspiracy, died in jail between the years 30 and 33.

She passed away at age 72 during her grandson's reign, luckily for her died months before the horrible death of her grandson Gemellus.

Strange fact: Her grandson Gemellus, Livilla's only son, forced to commit suicide at age 18 on late year 37, was born on the same day that her son Germanicus died (October 10, 19 AD).

Note: The story of Antonia the Younger locking up her own daughter and letting her starve is so credible as the story of "Caligula" giving the position of consul to his horse, or Nero singing and playing the lyre while Rome burned.

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[1ntensifyingharmony]

. . .

they stare.

they stare directly at your hiding spot.

they know where you are.

one slow step forward, and then another, the ink sloshing at their feet. they can hear banging in the elevator behind them - eight and marina.

but the elevator is locked.

small one.

what have you done to us?

[ @memversemenace ]

[horizon-verizon]

Aside from the Targaryens that we know of from the Blacks v Greens during the war, were there other Targaryens alive who weren’t apart of the war?

There's possibly two Targs who could have lived into the Dance but weren't a part of it or took a side: Saera and Vaegon.

Saera was alive during the Great Council of 101 A.C., and so was Vaegon. Saera was born in 64 A.C., Vaegon in 63; so Saera would have been 36-37 by the time of the GC and Vaegon 38-39. The Dance began in 129 and ended in 131 so we're dealing with 30 years. If either were still alive, both of them would have been close to their 70s, which is a feat in of itself. But we have no confirmation in canon that they made it to that point in time.

Rhaena technically was never a part of the war because she didn't fight nor was one of the central leaders in the war; she was sent to the Vale for protection.

[booksbluegurl]

Day 4/100 days of Productivity

5th April, 2024

Academia

I did 157 questions of Biological Classification. Out of which were 112 correct and 45 were incorrect. There were 229 questions in total, but I couldn't finish them all.

Finished 2 lectures, 2 hours each of Mechanical Properties of Solids. I also read the notes after every 30 minutes of content to remember all of the formulas and relations.

I did an NCERT based flashcards study of Biodiversity and Conservation. There were around 93 flashcards but I did it twice so that it atleast feels to me that I learnt something.

I made a revision sheet of the points I couldn't remember in Biodiversity and Conservation.

Revised biology revision sheets.

Read short notes module of zoology for my test on Sunday.

I'm planning on making short notes of my chemistry content and just revise it everyday. The biggest struggle isn't solving questions, it's remembering the houseful of information.

I'm unable to bring myself to study Organic Chemistry. It's just sooo lengthy and I'd also need as much time to stamp it on my mind as it does to have and understand the material.

I'll also start doing previous year questions, so that I can just be prepared. I realized that what I need for my exam is an extensive revision of all the content matter in the week before my exam.

[I need to share this: I was doing questions about bacteria and had a question on mycoplasma,if the statement's true or false, and I read "mycoplasma is the smallest and way less living organism" instead of wall less. And its so funny to me🤣🤣]

Non Academia

Watched another Mina Le video about how fashion is often discriminatory towards older women. I think that the more we entertain the idea of being scared of aging, the more we're pushing ourselves into a prison we might not be able to get out of. I mean, is aging scary because you have wrinkles and saggy skin or is aging scary because you're body isn't functioning well enough? Or both? I'm just tired of our looks gaining more attention in the battle against aging.

Watched first half of this video, it's a documentry on Ankor Wat.

We need to realise, especially when we're entangling ourselves into this web of pursuit of success and academic validation, that our everyday live, our fun, our happiness, our rest, are all important. We need to stop ourselves from almost being on the brink of our limits, from falling down out of hopelessness. We do that by attaching ourselves to the present.

Look at the sun, look at the trees. Feel the cool air of your A.C. or your fan. Sit still, eat with patience. Don't try to run when you're doing something which is non productive enough. To give your best at something, you'd need good rest to have enough energy to do your best.

- Tanishka.

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Pictures from pinterest. Credit to the owners.

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Happy birthday to the late Rowland Stuart Howard (24 October 1959 – 30 December 2009) was an Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the post-punk group The Birthday Party and his subsequent solo career.

Rowland Stuart Howard was born on 24 October 1959 in Melbourne, to John Stanton Howard and Lorraine (née Stuart), the second of three children. His siblings were sister Angela Howard and brother Harry Howard, both also musicians. In a 2016 interview, his brother Harry Howard stated the family is of paternal English descent from Bolton, Lancashire and maternal Scottish descent.

Rowland Stuart Howard wrote "Shivers" at the age of 16 while in the band Young Charlatans. Howard gained acclaim after joining Melbourne-based band The Boys Next Door, when the song was released as a single. The band changed their name to The Birthday Party and Howard's discordant guitar remained a major factor in their sound. The Birthday Party relocated from Australia to London in 1980 and subsequently to West Berlin.

The Birthday Party's early records were released by Missing Link Records in Australia and 4AD Records in the UK. They later became associated with Mute Records in Europe. Howard was also a member of the short-lived project, Tuff Monks with Birthday Party bandmates, Nick Cave and Mick Harvey. However, Howard and singer Nick Cave suffered 'creative differences', and Howard left the Birthday Party as they transformed into The Bad Seeds. He soon became a member of Crime & the City Solution, a band led by Simon Bonney. Howard, with Crime & the City Solution, appeared in the 1987 movie Wings of Desire by German filmmaker Wim Wenders playing the song "Six Bells Chime" in a Berlin Club. Later he formed These Immortal Souls with girlfriend Genevieve McGuckin, brother, Harry Howard, and Epic Soundtracks.

Howard also collaborated with Lydia Lunch, Nikki Sudden, ex-Barracudas singer Jeremy Gluck, guitarist Gavin Poolman, French electro group KaS Product, Barry Adamson, Einstürzende Neubauten, guitarist Chris Haskett, The Gun Club singer and songwriter Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Fad Gadget, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Henry Rollins, and A.C. Marias.

After the release of These Immortal Souls' second album, I'm Never Gonna Die Again, (1992) and another Howard/Lunch collaboration Shotgun Wedding, Howard, Lunch and members of The Beasts Of Bourbon performed live on tour in Australia and Europe with guitarist Link Benka. Shotgun Wedding was re-released with a second compact disc of live recordings. Shotgun Wedding featured cover versions of "In My Time of Dying" and Alice Cooper's "Black Juju". Recorded in Memphis with Link Benka (rhythm guitar), Joseph -Joe- Drake (bass) and Brent Newman (aka Glyn Styler) (drums).

Howard sang backing vocals on the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album Let Love In (1994). In 1995 These Immortal Souls contributed their version of "You Can't Unring a Bell" to a Tom Waits tribute album Step Right Up.

In September 2007, Howard joined with Magic Dirt and Beasts of Bourbon for a tour of the east coast of Australia. Howard appeared at the All Tomorrows Parties rock festival in Australia in January 2009, curated by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He was backed by Mick Harvey on drums, and JP Shilo on bass. Howard's second solo album, Pop Crimes, was released in October 2009 to acclaim from the musician Robert Forster. He appeared on the Magic Dirt EP White Boy playing guitar and supplying vocals on the track "Summer High".🎂

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Void Relationship Headcanons!

(art is obviously not mine, credits to original artist!)

(slight mentions of sex but nothing too explicit. yet ;D)

- never misses an opportunity to show you off and brag about you, he may be up his own ass everyday and arrogant as all hell but you unintentionally humbled him bad.

- buys you so many gifts to express his love for you, and you end up feeling both happy he got you said gifts but also very guilty because you can never do the same for him. he doesn’t ask for much in return, aside from maybe a few kisses <3

- being void’s significant other also means that you get along with the accretions because they’re essentially your bodyguards too. they both know that you mean a lot to void, and he himself knows this too, and void always insists that the accretions go out with you whenever you need to run errands or even when you just go out. if this annoys you, he’ll stop this, but he wants you to let him know if you’re ok.

- he’s both very jealous and possessive but also very confident and secure in your relationship? it’s weird and it all just depends on his mood.

- he’s such a flirty bastard, he’s always trying to seduce you in some way, whether it be through his (actually pretty effective) pickup lines, or just picking you up, carrying you on his shoulder and taking you away so you guys can make out.

- making out usually leads to you guys having sex, and unfortunately, the accretions have caught you guys banging multiple times. they’re both traumatized, they already don’t get paid enough and now this??

- when you guys first met, he thought you were attractive, but he thought nothing else of it. when he really got to know you, he started realizing that he wanted to spend more time with you, and he wanted to hold you, comfort you, kiss you, he didn’t know he was falling in love with you, but when he did, he sat there stunned for about 30 minutes.

- void loves sweet, tender cuddles with you. hell, he likes any sort of physical affection with you, but hand-holding easily makes him the most flustered.

- he loves messing with you and annoying you, but in a way where he knows you’ll laugh, even when you hear him say some of the random, out of nowhere shit ever.

- he’s not afraid to call anybody out on their bullshit, if they insult you, he’s ready to absolutely humiliate them and even hurt them if necessary.

- he purrs?? nobody knows about this besides you but he purrs whenever you stroke his hair, it’s actually pretty cute..

- he won’t admit it out loud, and neither will anybody else, but this man is WHIPPED for you. you managed to make THE A.C. Void a whole mess for you without even trying. all in all, a very smug and cocky boyfriend, as expected, but hot damn, there’s never a moment in the day where he’s not thinking of you anymore. he’s like putty in your arms, just don’t tell anybody about that, ok?

[shannendoherty-fans]

September 6, 1991 - Jeffrey Thurnher for Entertainment Weekly.

90210

ADVICE TO the makers of Guess? jeans, the hawkers of Clearasil acne balms, the scholars of A.C. Nielsen ratings-to anyone, in short, who urgently needs to know what teenagers are watching on TV these days: Forget about the dweeby viewer diaries. Skip the fusty focus groups. Just follow the shrieking fans.

Note that Fox's Beverly Hills, 90210, now in its second season, makes young women scream and young men whoop. Study the mail sacks that arrive at Fox daily, bulging with the letters of thousands of teen viewers who urgently need to know what's going to happen next to their favorite 90210 characters ─ characters called Brenda and Dylan, Brandon and Andrea, Kelly and Steve, and David and Donna.

Observe the contagious hysteria brought on by thousands of consumers squished together in shopping malls for hours awaiting the appearance of their favorite 90210 actors ─ actors called Luke Perry and Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty and Ian Ziering.

Listen to the household silence that reverberates for an hour each Thursday night ─ no phones ring, no Guns N' Roses bloom ─ as millions of sets fix on Fox.

Measure the decibel levels and get with the program: The shriekingest show on the air today is a soapy drama about the lives of eight students at Southern California's fictional West Beverly Hills High, class of Right Now.

The plots of Beverly Hills, 90210 revolve around the lives of teenage twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh (Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty) ─ recent transplants, along with their down-to-earth parents, from the heartland of Minneapolis. In past weeks, boosted by a savvy programming decision to run all-new episodes in July and August while other shows lounged in repeats, 90210 has become Fox's most popular series, bigger this summer than The Simpsons and Married... With Children. First in the hearts of teen viewers on any network, any month (with a solid 58 percent of the adolescent audience), the show gives NBC ratings buster Cheers a run for its money in the 9 p.m. time slot. When teen viewers go back to school this week, so do the students at West Beverly; the new semester starts on Thursday, Sept. 12. That Priestley is teen-angel hunky and Doherty is pouty-pretty doesn't hurt; these twins are zit-free dreamboats. But 90210 zings heartstrings for deeper reasons, too. To fans, the show is, well, like life. Only cuter. Neater. Cooler. The kids at West Beverly mess up and move on in ways that never made the storyboards for Head of the Class. They drive nice cars and wear great jeans (a 90210 clothing line is on the drawing board; so are authorized and unauthorized books about the cast, and a quarterly magazine). But they also know about sex and AIDS. They know about drunken driving and alcoholic parents. Many are children of divorce. They know about drug abuse and date rape. They struggle with questions about sex: how far, how fast, how scary, how safe? Life is photogenic in this affluent zip code, but that doesn't make things any easier. To the 90210 audience, this is a great relief.

To veteran producer Aaron Spelling, whose company makes Beverly Hills, 90210, this is also a great gig: In July, Spelling took a Fox order for 30 new episodes-seven more than the usual invoice.

"The core audience was always aware of it," says executive producer Charles Rosin. "It's just that in calendar year '91, the network really promoted the show." Which is more than it did when the series debuted last fall. Muffled by its original name, Class of Beverly Hills, and hidden in a flurry of other teen-oriented programs including Fox's Parker Lewis Can't Lose and NBC's Hull High and Ferris Bueller (the latter two now canceled), the series was barely hyped, mildly received. Many saw it as just one more shallow show from the same Spelling glitz factory that gave us Dynasty and The Love Boat ─ a trendy soap starring a bunch of little-knowns (including Spelling's 18-year-old daughter, Tori).

“I like playing Brenda because they always give me challenging things to do and throw heavy drama at me. For some reason, I’m able to cry easily” ─ Shannen Doherty.

But teens were watching, and talking about it in school the next day. Besides, the show was getting better: The characters were becoming less stereotypical. The story lines (many by Steve Wasserman and Jessica Klein, who have also written for CBS' Northern Exposure) got tougher. The acting became more self-assured.

After the third episode, the producers knew the show was working. "But no one knew about it," recalls Rosin, who was most recently Northern Exposure's supervising producer. "So we developed a scenario to promote it."

The strategy paid off big, especially after Fox featured the series in July to launch the network's new "52-week" program plan, which intersperses reruns with a continuing stream of new stories.

"I knew the fans were there," swears creator and coproducer Darren Star. "Teenagers really respond to what they like. And they like to see something that says, 'I'm not alone.' Look, on our show, the dysfunctional family is the norm."

Star inevitably calls his baby "teensomething." And he inevitably says he was probably most like Brandon in high school ─ but wished he were more like broody, sensitive Dylan McKay, played by Luke Perry. Dylan is Brenda's some-time boyfriend. Brenda and Dylan had sex once, at the end of this year's school season. Brenda thought she might be pregnant but wasn't. She decided she wasn't ready for sex. She decided she wasn't ready for Dylan. They're now in romance limbo, pining and unsure. While network types wrestle with just how much controversial sex is enough ─ but not too much ─ in the season to come (now that more advertiser eyes than ever are watching), eight trillion teenagers understand Brenda and Dylan. Totally.

"ONCE DYLAN'S HAD a woman, she stays had." That's Luke Perry talking about the Brenda-Dylan Thing. Perry, a onetime soap actor (Loving, Another World), is in his makeshift dressing room in the anonymous Van Nuys warehouse that serves as the 90210 stage set (suburban Torrance High School substitutes as West Beverly for exterior shots). Perry's probably pushing 30, although, like almost everyone else in the cast, he coys up about his age ─ the better, they each avow, to preserve teenish illusions. He's bare-chested. He's bouncing a basketball. And he's being cool ─ charmingly, full-of-it cool. "We're the show that almost was on the network that isn't yet, and here we are, kickin' a little ass, if I do say so myself," he says himself in his smoky Dylan voice. Bounce. Bounce.

Two days earlier, on Aug. 10, Perry had made headlines when an estimated 10,000 shrieking fans at a Plantation, Fla., mall stampeded at the sight of him. Twenty-one people were injured, and the actor was hustled away by police ─ a promo stunt he says he won't be repeating. Was he upset?

"Feel my pulse," he dares, holding out a cool, bare wrist. "Pretty normal, huh?"

Yes, but what's normal in an industry where little-known young actors become wealthy heartthrobs overnight? Many in the cast smoke, with nervous, grown-up gestures. Some have just bought houses. Big, grown-up houses. All are feeling pretty excited, pretty jazzed, pretty dazed. They goof around a lot, and cut up with the crew. The guys in the cast slap and hug and talk about going skeet shooting together. And to a man they claim to have no girlfriends, that they're free agents. (The message: Female fans, there's hope!) The 90210 girls give and receive back rubs. To a woman, they've got boyfriends. (Hint: Guys, back off!)

They claim no tensions, these fragile egos with soft faces, no competition ─ nothing but comradely exhaustion.

"But I think we're all ready for a break!" That's Shannen Doherty sighing with an edgy giggle. Doherty, a screen veteran (one of the Heathers in the 1989 movie of that name and a graduate of NBC's Our House), is defensive, cautious, upset by recent reports that she is difficult on the set. "That's stupid stuff!" she says. There's a sleep-de-prived pallor beneath her Brenda makeup. She giggles again.

During one break, while director Charles Braverman and his crew of 90210-like techies hug and slap each other and set lights, 18-year-old Brian Austin Green blasts his boom box with friends ─ teen colleagues in a rap-rock band he has just formed. "David Silver," he says of the character he plays, "is the annoying guy nobody wants around, but they can't get rid of him." Jennie Garth, who plays Kelly, the "fast" girl, plops down with Gabrielle Carteris, who plays Andrea Zuckerman, the brain. "I think Andrea's really going through a budding time now," says Carteris.

Tori Spelling hunkers in her dressing room with her teddy bear, Stanley. "My character, Donna Martin, is kind of ditzy," she says in a tiny voice. "Into money. She puts down people who aren't popular. I think she's more sensitive than that, though. I think she's really funny." Ian (that's EYE-An, like it says on his license plate) Ziering wanders out to hug and slap his buddy Luke. "Steve Sanders [his role] thinks he can get away with flashing a smile and buying his way out of trouble." Ziering flashes his own smile; he's in actor heaven. "I feel the writers are so capable and I'm not just blowing sunshine up anybody's tush!"

And then there's Jason Priestley. "Jay-Man, Jay-Bob, Jay-Bird!" raps Luke Perry. "Let me show you my Jason pose!" Perry stands in a hustler's slouch, thumbs hooked into waistband. Priestley hugs and "Hey, man!"s with the best of them. He's hot. He's cool.

"Brandon's going to get into a little bit of trouble this season, which I'm looking forward to," Priestley hints. He drags on a cig.

Trouble?

"Well, I could tell you ─ but then I'd have to kill you. Top secret around here, I'm telling ya." Priestley smiles a Priestley smile. A makeup girl comes over for a hug, or maybe it's a kiss. "This is not a high-pressure show to work on," director Braverman says, dryly. Of course not; he's in the middle of receiving a back rub. High school was never like this.

No, wait, maybe it was: a lot of excitement, a lot of requirements, and tons of pressure to be popular.

"All shows have their peak," sums up Tori Spelling, who probably heard a thing or two about the subject growing up. "Right now we're in our peak. I don't want to think about the future. I just want to enjoy it. After we did the pilot, everybody was, like, 'What show are you on? 902-what?' Nobody heard of us. And now-now our goal is to beat Cheers one day, beat them in the share points. Or something."

The students and fans of Beverly Hills, 90210 are cheering: Go, Team, Go