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[directactionforhope]

Late notice but

Today 10/5 is an international day of action protesting one year of the Gaza genocide!

Find a protest near you today or tomorrow 10/6! If you're in the US, look at the links below, from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights!

October 5, 2024

Note: Tumblr has capped the number of outgoing links you can use in one post. Go to the USCPR link above and click on a protest for a flyer/organizer info for each and every one of these events.

Albany, NY | 4:30PM Dana Park

Albuquerque, NM | 2PM Robinson Park

Amherst, MA | Amherst Town Common

Anchorage, AK | 2PM Townsquare Park

Atlanta, GA | 2PM 190 Marietta SW

Austin, TX | 1PM Austin City Hall

Birmingham, AL | 2PM Victoria Square

Blacksburg, VA | 3PM Pylons

Boston, MA | 2PM Cambridge City Hall

Burlington, VT | 1PM Battery Park

Charleston, SC | 2PM Marion Square Park

Chicago, IL | 2PM Water Tower Park

Cleveland, OH | 3PM 11804 Lorain Ave

Columbus, OH | 2PM Goodale Park

Corvallis, OR | 12 NOON County Courthoue

Dallas, TX | 12PM The Grassy Knoll

Denver, CO | 12PM 400 Josephine St

Detroit, MI | 2PM 5 Woodward Ave, Detroit

Dover, DE | 12 NOON 250 Gateway S Blvd

Fort Myers, FL | 6PM Centennial Park

Gainseville, FL | 2PM City Hall

Honolulu, HI | 11AM Ala Moana & Atkinson

Houston, TX | 2PM Houston City Hall

Indianapolis, IL |  2PM Lugar Plaza

Kansas City | 1PM Mill Creek Park

Kona, HI | 12:30PM Old airport by the skating rink

Las Vegas, NV | 2PM 3449 S Sammy Davis Jr Dr

Little Rock, AK | 4PM 1200 Main St

Los Angeles, CA | 2PM Pershing Square

Louisville, KY | 3PM Water Front Park

Maui, HI | 11AM Kapuka’ulua (Baldwin Beach)

Memphis, TN | 2PM City Hall

Miami, FL | 5PM Torch of Friendship

Milwaukee, WI | 2PM Zedler Union Square Park

Missoula, MT | 7PM 200 W Broadway

Nashville, TN | 2PM Centennial Park

New York, NY | 2PM Times Square

New Haven, CT | 1PM New Haven Green

New Orleans, LA | 5PM Congo Square

Ottawa, Ontario | 2PM Parliment Hill

Orlando, FL | 4PM Orlando City Hall

Pensacola, FL | 5PM Palafox & Gregorary St.

Pittsburgh, PA | Film screening, 3PM 100 S Commons St.

Portland, ME | 5PM Monument Square

Portland, OR | 3PM Unthank Park

Providence, RI | 3PM RI State House steps & 5:30PM 1 Finance Way

Raleigh, NC | 3PM Moore Square

Rochester, NY | 1PM MLK Park

Sacramento, CA | 2PM West steps of the Capitol

Salt Lake City, UT | 2PM 125 S State St

San Antonio, TX | 1PM Travis Park

San Diego, CA | 2:00PM 1600 Pacific Highway

Seattle, WA | 2PM TBA, with car caravans from Spokane, Pasco, Ellensburg

St. Louis, MO | Liberation weekend, 9AM-8PM 475 East Lockwood Ave

Tampa, FL | 2PM Bank of America Plaza

Toronto, Ontario | 2PM Yonge Dundas Square

Urbana, IL | 2PM 101 E Main St

Ventura, CA | 2PM 501 Poli St

Washington, DC | 4PM White House

West Plains, MO | 12 NOON Downtown Square

Wichita, KS | 12:30PM Spirit Aerosystems

October 6, 2024

Amityville, NY | 1PM LIRR

Boston, MA | 1PM Boston Common

Green Bay, WI | 5:30PM Leicht Memorial Park

Los Angeles, CA | Vigil, 6:30PM Echo Park Lake

Minneapolis, MN | 1:30PM Gateway Park Fountain

Ontario, CA | 1PM Euclid & C St

Paterson, NJ | 2PM Palestine Way with Gould Avenue

Roanoke, VA | Vigil, 6PM Heights Community Church courtyard

San Diego, CA | 4PM Centro Cultural de La Raza

San Francisco, CA | 1PM 16th & Valencia

San Jose, CA | 12 NOON City Hall

St. Louis, MO | 1PM Choteau Park

[mysterycitrus]

You’ve talked about how fandom treats jtodd & dick, so what are your thoughts on how fandom treats dick & tim?

There’s this post that’s asking about people’s batfamily hot takes, and I was scrolling through the reblogs bc I love drama. One of the “hot takes” was calling dick a bad brother bc of the bruce lost in time comic era. Specifically saying that fandom excuses dick’s shitty behavior towards Tim bc his dad (Bruce) died and because of the stress of taking care of the city by himself. While Tim was hurting because of the deaths of Kon, Bart, Jack, Steph, and Donna (idk why they included Donna as Tim’s grief and not Dick’s??) and therefore Tim’s & Dick’s hurt and stress aren’t the same. According to this person, Tim was going through it and Dick was making it worse.

Now, I’m not going to claim I know how everything went down since I haven’t read those comics yet, but this feels like a gross misunderstanding of the arc.

From what I’ve seen, fandom tends to invalidate and villainize Dick during this time in favor of Tim. Dick is not being excused, in fact he’s being blamed for things that are either not his fault or just made up in order to whump Tim. Idk that “hot take” just rubbed me the wrong way because of how one-sided it was, and I guess it made me wonder about your thoughts about Dick & Tim since I tend to agree with your opinions lmao

fundamentally the issue is this — dick grayson existing and being a good person is an obstacle for fanon angst. dick grayson being a good brother means that jtodd can’t just slot into his pre-existing relationships with tim and cass and damian. dick grayson being a good friends means that he’s close with the titans and the league because he’s competent and trusted. dick grayson being kind means that he didn’t abandon tim, he was literally trying to keep everything together after bruce’s death.

not to try and make it a grief olympics but as much as people talk about everyone tim has lost (and i think they must have been talking about dana winters in that post?) people seem to forget that dick’s city just got nuked + the fallout of nightwing 93 + donna dying + jade dying + the titans falling apart + he was just locked in arkham himself. like… his dad has just died, he’s had to fight off his brother who’d just tried to kill both tim and damian and been given custody over a kid who doesn’t trust him

red robin 2009 has done irreversible harm to tim drakes character. people using that as the starting point for reading about him is bad. it’s a comic about a grief spiral, and it isn’t an amazing depiction of him either. but even then, people just seem to love straight up fabricating what’s in it.

dick tells tim that therapy might be a good idea. tim tells dick that he’s leaving because he trusts dick to let him do what he needs to do. even at his lowest point, dick is who he trusts most. those takes that’re like “tim drake was at his lowest point and then jtodd sees him and realises that he’s cool actually and they bond #jasontoddisagoodbrother #dickgraysonisabadbrother etc” because they like to posit that dick threatened to throw tim in arkham are so silly

that’s even ignoring how people just straight up lie about damian’s actions and how weird everyone is about ra’s al ghul. no, tim isn’t the only one he refers to as detective aside from bruce. no, tim isn’t one step away from being a mass murderer. no, damian didn’t try to kill tim— he was reacting to tim being suspicious of him. tim was beefing with a ten year old. why are u being so mean to the ten year old? (We Know Why)

ur right — it is extremely one-sided. im not one to pretend that canon is flawless by any means, but acting as though fanon is better just because someone online came up with it is also stupid. there are many many racist undertones with how jtodd and tim are interpreted, both separately and with each other. a lot of it is yaoi baiting dynamics, that a lot of fans don’t seem to want to admit. i won’t comment on how white people writing jtodd as latino and tim as asian can be Bad but like…. it’s all tied up together. people want these two characters to have suffered the most, because that justifies everything fans want them to do. they want them to be wronged. they want their idea of justice in their name

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

[gowns]

donate to support this small family whose home and work has been destroyed, currently displaced in gaza ($2800 out of $15000 raised so far 5/26/24)

We are Maisara, Dana, and our child, Basil, a family from Gaza whose possessions and dreams were shattered by war. The small family that lost the warm home that brought them together, now finds itself homeless after displacement and fleeing from imminent death in the city. We managed to save ourselves, but we did not save our lovely home nor the memories!

All of that is now under the remnants of the walls due to the destructive shelling that hit our house, and now we are even unable to obtain a single memory that connects us to it. Our only dream now is to return and gather again under one roof, to ward off fear!

[...] After all this suffering that left a psychological impact on us and turned our lives upside down, we decided to seek help and support to stand again and achieve a new hopeful start to obtain a source of income that would enable us to pursue our life, find a new place to live in, and regain some of the details that have become part of the past.

We greatly appreciate the contribution of all those who want to revive our hope again and believe that we deserve better than what we have experienced during this ongoing war!

[fursasaida]

when you know every last prominent online ~leftist intellectual~ who threw Syrians under the bus out of a childish need to preserve the idea that because Asad is currently on the outs with the US he's some kind of socialist liberator vanguard-bearer* and therefore actually bought the idea that the uprising was some CIA op shit, seeing those exact same people say and write perfectly good things about Palestine is this extra dose of infuriating because my first instinct is that I want to share them, I want to pass them on, but then I see the name and I fucking refuse to amplify these people even if their broken clocks are right today.

and meanwhile on twitter people are taking images of barrel-bombed Syrian cities, bleeding and crying Syrian children, and claiming they're from Gaza or even from Israel.

I absolutely don't begrudge Palestinians a shred of rhetoric or visibility. they need it. genocide is underway. it just makes me want to throw up to watch a certain kind of online clout-chaser exploit the complete abandonment of Syrians for the umpteenth time in order to clout-chase about Palestine. and people who either understandably don't know who they are, or who do and should fucking know better but apparently don't care or even buy it, laud them for it. twelve years of these people building themselves up on the bodies of Syrians whose memories they insult out loud and implicitly, in word and image and silence, and calling themselves the left.

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*Asad ran black sites for the CIA, tried his damnedest to get in good with the US and Europe in the 2000s and pivoted back toward Iran only when it became clear that wouldn't work, and even before his failson antics his daddy joined the US's Gulf War coalition for money and free rein to keep occupying Lebanon. and somehow it's worth building an entire alternate reality to claim that he's a pillar of anti-imperial resistance, for...what, exactly? what does anybody win except smug certainty. I fucking hate it here. I always have to soothe myself by remembering when Dana al-Kurd had the integrity to come out and admit that she used to hold this position and then realized the sheer cognitive dissonance involved and changed her mind. sucks that I have exactly that one example to go back to.

[lessergoodnow]

Attacks against human rights defenders and obliteration of civic space in Gaza unacceptable, says UN expert

16 September 2024

Israeli Defence Forces continue to intentionally starve and kill civilians, while human rights defenders face enormous challenges conducting their peaceful work, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor said today.

In recent months the oldest human rights organisation in Gaza, the Palestinian Human Rights Centre (PCHR), has seen staff members killed and its offices damaged beyond repair in air strikes and ground attacks by the Israeli Defence Forces.

“There is literally no place left for human rights defenders and civil society actors to continue documenting the litany of human rights violations to which Israel is subjecting the people of the Gaza Strip,” the Special Rapporteur said.

Two women lawyers from the PCHR were killed in February 2024. Nour Abu al-Nour died along with her two-year-old daughter, her parents, and four siblings in an air raid on her house in Rafah on 20 February 2024. Two days later, Dana Yaghi and 37 family members were wiped out in an Israeli air raid on a house to which they had relocated for safety in Deir el-Balah, 14 km south of Gaza City.

“It is a terrible tragedy that justice for these two women human rights defenders, their family members and their children, seems so far away. Human rights defenders keep hope alive for justice through their work but are becoming victims themselves. This is why Israeli authorities seem so intent on targeting and silencing them,” she said.

The PCHR headquarters in Gaza City and branch offices in Jabalya, Khan Younis, and Rafah have all been severely damaged in air raids and ground attacks, forcing staff to relocate and rent office space and logistical support at skyrocketing prices, while some international funding has been suspended. They have also been subjected to a vitriolic online smear campaign by the Israeli group, NGO Monitor, which has falsely accused PCHR of being linked to terrorists.

“Human rights defenders have told me that they will continue their work despite this online defamation, which is targeted at drying up their international support and intimidating them,” Lawlor said.

“This organisation continues to bear witness, document and record gross human rights violations and war crimes. Many Palestinians have spoken to them on condition of anonymity. Such is their fear of Israeli repercussions if they are to be publicly identified.”

Recent media reports have highlighted Israeli surveillance of PCHR, and other Palestinian human rights organisations, including Al-Haq and Addameer in the Occupied West Bank, for much of the past decade, in relation to information they were submitting on Israeli human rights violations to the International Criminal Court.

“I repeat my call for human rights defenders to be recognised as essential in times of armed conflict, and to be protected. As independent observers, lawyers and researchers, they document and preserve evidence of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law and ensure the possibility of accountability and justice,” Lawlor said.

The physical integrity of Human Rights Defenders should be protected against attacks and harassment, unlawful killings should be promptly and independently investigated in accordance with international law, and measures adopted to protect them against future serious violations, she said.

The expert has previously raised these concerns with authorities in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territory.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Who is the Sexiest Fictional Podcast Character?

After a Round 2 which saw 28,069 votes on 32 polls, we are on to Round 3 of the tournament! This time we are finally bringing in characters from Welcome to Night Vale.

Round 1 Masterpost

Round 2 Masterpost

Round 3:

Scripted Bracket

Isabel Lovelace (Wolf 359) vs The Witch Queen A.K.A. Daughter Dooley (Old Gods of Appalachia)

Sir Caroline (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel) vs Alé (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel)

Peter Nureyev (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel) vs Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats)

Mabel Martin (Mabel) vs Oleta (Within The Wires: Season 1)

Everyone from the Strange Case of Starship Iris vs Static Man (Archive 81)

Mina Murray (Re: Dracula) vs Georgie Crusoe (Wooden Overcoats)

Yaretzi (Hello From The Hallowoods) vs Hera (Wolf 359)

Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives) vs Renée Minkowski (Wolf 359)

Unscripted Bracket

Glenn Close (Dungeons & Daddies) vs Taako (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

Lup (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Chine (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle)

Gable (Campaign: Skyjacks) and Nicky Close (Dungeons & Daddies) vs Fourteen Fifteen (Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage)

Killian Fangbattle (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Suvirin “Suvi” Kedberiket (Worlds Beyond Number: The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One)

Tender Sky (Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage) vs Moonshine Cybin (Not Another D&D Podcast: Bahumia)

Amber Gris (The Adventure Zone: Ethersea) vs Ibex (Friends at the Table: COUNTER/Weight)

Ver'million “Millie” Blue (Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN) vs Kravitz (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

Adelaide Tristé (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron) vs Hella Varal (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron)

Night Vale Bracket:

Cecil Gershwin Palmer vs Steve Carlsberg

Erika vs Francis Donaldson

Deb, a sentient patch of haze vs John Peters (you know, the farmer?)

The Glow Cloud (Sr.) vs Josh Crayton

Dana Cardinal vs Susan Wilman

Earl Harlan vs Dr. Sarah Sulton

City Council vs Amelia Anna Alfaro

Hiram McDaniels vs Joseph Fink

Dr. Carlos Dave Robles the Scientist vs Lee Marvin

Huntokar vs Nazr al-Mujaheed

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home vs Eunomia the General

Michelle Nguyen vs Fey

Kevin vs The Man in the Tan Jacket

Maureen Johnson vs Kareem Nazari

Station Management vs Leonard Burton

Old Woman Josie/Josefina Ortiz vs Simone Rigadeau

[catdotjpeg]

On 26 October, the Palestinian Ministry of Health released the list of names of Palestinians killed since 7 October. Among them, from the Sukayk family, are: 

Mohieddin Abdul Rahman Mohieddin (78); 

his son Amjad Mohieddin Abdul Rahman (42), Amjad’s wife Iman Gamal Abdul Qader (40), and their children Menna Amjad Mohieddin (15) and Mohieddin Amjad Mohieddin (13); 

his son Mohammed Mohieddin Abdul Rahman (33), his wife Dina Alaa Ibrahim (32), and their children Ali Mohammed Mohieddin (6) and Tala Mohammed Mohieddin (4); 

and Mohieddin’s brother Baha al-Din Abdul Rahman Mohieddin (72), Baha al-Din’s wife Wisam Mohammed Khalil (61), and their daughter Nur Baha al-Din Abdul Rahman (38); 

and Baha al-Din’s son Abdullah Baha al-Din Abdul Rahman (34), his wife Dana Hashem Saadi (30), and their children Joan Abdullah Baha al-Din (6) and Anas Abdullah Baha al-Din (1); 

Inas Ramez Mohammed (37) and her children Baha al-Din Saadallah Baha al-Din (17), Ayham Saadallah Baha al-Din (13), Karam Saadallah Baha al-Din (11), and Karim Saadallah Baha al-Din (11); 

Ahmed Fouad Yahya (33);

Yusuf Jamil Ismail (24), who is described as “creative and wonderful” and had just established his own media company a few months ago; 

Sarah Alaa Bahjat (18) and her brother Amr Alaa Bahjat (5);

Rima Farouk Misbah (4);

Mahmud Taha and his son Yasin Mahmud Taha; 

and Mahmud’s brother Muhammad Taha, Muhammad’s wife Rasha Ahmed, and their sons Taha Muhammad, Ahmed Muhammad, and Jud Muhammad;

Dr. Raafat Safwat Raafat, a dentist and “a dear brother, friend, and classmate,” and his son, Yusuf Raafat Safwat, described by his aunt as a “beautiful child with soft hair”;

Tariq Ahmed Noman; 

Arij Jamal Abdel Nasser and her children Anas Muhannad, Lin Muhannad, and Alma Muhannad; 

In’am Muhammad; 

Ihab Naguib, his pregnant wife, and their daughter;

and Amr Alaa Al-Din, described as a brilliant student with "a promising future" who was "loved by all his friends."

Many members of the Sukayk family lived on Omar al-Mukhtar Street in Gaza City. 

You can read more about the human lives lost in Palestine on the Martyrs of Gaza Twitter account and here.

[coffee-n-ocs]

Onyx Soul: Dana Carlisle, Half-Blood Siren (2001)

The 'Bastard' son of a Siren and her human lover, Dana is frowned upon by most of Gravesend, only being accepted by the Carson-Harlow siblings, as the rest of the town would like to get rid of him.

"Did your brothers leave you all by yourself, that's a risky move."

Name

Full Legal Name: Dana Ariel Hadley Carlisle First Name: Dana Meaning: From a surname that is of unknown origin Pronunciation: DAY-na Origin: English Middle Name(s): Ariel, Hadley Meaning(s): Ariel: Means 'Lion of God' in Hebrew, from ''Ari' meaning 'Lion' and ''El' meaning 'God' Hadley: From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning 'Heather field' in Old English Pronunciation: EHR-ee-al/AR-ee-al, HAD-lee Origin: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Biblical, Biblical Greek. English Surname: Carlisle Meaning: From the name of a city in northern England Pronunciation: KAHR-liel Origin: English Aliases: Dan Carlyle, Ariel Hadley Nicknames: Dan, Ana, D.C, Ari Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 23 Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns Race: 1/2 Siren 1/2 Human Nationality: American Ethnicity: White Birth Date: 28th August 1978 Sexuality: Bisexual Religion: Raised following the 'Water Spirit' Native Language: English Spoken Languages: English, (some) Spanish, (Some) French Relationship Status: Single (Has a crush on both Phoenix and Navy) Astrological Sign: Virgo Face Claim: Jack Black

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Gravesend Current Residence: Gravesend Have They Been Beyond The Veil: Yes

Appearance

Height: 5'6" / 168 cm Weight: [Data Redacted] Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Brown Hair Dye: None Body Hair: Hairy Facial Hair: Full Beard Tattoos: None Piercings: None Scars: gills hidden as scars when above water Clothing Style: Beach shorts, graphic T-shirts

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social drinker Illnesses/Disorders: None permanent, gets gill infections if he swims in fresh-water Medications: Takes pills to prevent infections and to make sure he can breathe for longer underwater Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Affiliated Groups: None Friends: Hayden Harlow, Phoenix Carson, Navy Carson-Harlow, Harley Yancy Enemies: None, but the whole town seems to hate him Mentor: Daniyah Carlisle Significant Other: None Previous Partners: None of Note Parents: Abraham Maus (46, Father), Daniyah Carlisle (48, Mother) Parents-In-Law: None Siblings: None Siblings-In-Law: None Nieces & Nephews: None Children: None Children-In-Law: None Grandkids: None Other Notable Relatives: None

Notes

Occupation: Construction (Works with Hayden & Phoenix) Tropes: (Purely speculative)

Apparently Human Merfolk: Dana's half human, so he looks the most like a human being when above water.

Ear Fins: When below water

Fish People: when below water, though he still looks somewhat-human in comparison to pure-blood sirens

Sirens are Mermaids

Super Not-Drowning Skills: Due to being half human, Dana can only last 48 hours below water

[randomvarious]

New York City Hip Hop Playlist (YouTube)

Started building a unique playlist of hip hop tunes that originated from the city that gave birth to the genre in the first place: New York. Here we have a slate that begins in the party-oriented early 80s South Bronx and progresses all the way through the late 90s into a bunch of raw, underground, hot street rap fire 🔥😎.

So, if you've been following me long enough, you know that my forte with these playlists is to load up on great obscurities, and I've got a bunch here, but I've also got some classic jams as well, all of which come courtesy of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Melle Mel. There's shortened versions of two early hip hop cornerstones: "The Message," which was the genre's first ever lyrically conscious hit, and then the anti-cocaine anthem, "White Lines," which Grandmaster Flash actually had nothing to do with, even though Sugarhill Records slapped his name on it in order to help boost its record sales.

But speaking of anti-drug hip hop anthems, a lesser known one from around that same early 80s time period is The Funky Four's "King Heroin," which heavily interpolated The O'Jays' own "For the Love of Money," aka the theme song from The Apprentice (🎶 money, money, money, money....mon-ay! 🎶). "King Heroin" is definitely not a completely unknown song, but in comparison to "White Lines," far less people are aware of it, and in total, it has about 62,000 plays on YouTube across a handful of uploads. Fun, catchy, early hip hop gold as far as I'm concerned.

But once we hit the mid-90s, that's when we really get into some of these underheard Big Apple rap goodies, like a pair of mid-90s boom bap cuts from a Harlem native called Raucous aka Sabotage, who at some point decided to leave an oversaturated US rap market for Germany. 1995's "Say No More" has around 1,100 total plays on YouTube and the Roey Marquis II remix of "No Way Out" from 1996 has about 2,400.

And Brooklyn's own mighty Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey makes an appearance on here too, on a rare remix of N'Dea Davenport's "Bullshittin'," which I'm pretty sure was produced by the one and only J Dilla. Super chilly synth tones on this one that's approaching 20,000 YouTube plays.

And lastly, Manhattan trio Missin' Linx supplies "M.I.A.," a song whose beat very well may have been jacked by Dr. Dre himself so he could release his iconic "The Next Episode" the following year. Both songs utilize the same main sample from David McCallum's "The Edge," but according to WhoSampled, either producer VIC was the first to ever sample the song for "M.I.A.," or one of his collaborators, Godfather Don, was the first to use it for underground New York rapper Scaramanga's "Death Letter" remix. Either way, although "The Next Episode" would come to be hailed as a late 90s west coast rap classic, Dre wasn't the first to sample that McCallum song. And "M.I.A." has about 176,100 YouTube plays while "The Next Episode" has managed to rack up hundreds of millions.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible:

The Furious Five Meets the Sugarhill Gang - "Showdown" Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - "The Message" Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - "White Lines (Don't Do It)" West Street Mob - "Mosquito" Funky Four - "King Heroin" Dana Dane - "Something Special" Nine - "Any Emcee" Raucous a; k; a Sabotage - "Say No More" Raucous a; k; a Sabotage - "No Way Out (Roey Marquis II Remix)" Smoothe Da Hustler - "Hustlers Theme" N'Dea Davenport feat. Mos Def - "Bullshittin'" D.I.T.C. - "Themes, Dreams & Schemes" Missin' Linx - "M.I.A." Mr. Supreme feat. Al' Tariq - "Run the Show"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, we currently sit at 14 songs with a runtime of one hour so far. And maybe when I find more to add, I'll have enough songs to make a Spotify playlist too.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[adultswim2021]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force #69: “Boston” | Unaired; leaked January 31, 2015

That’s right, I’m covering it. It didn’t air on Adult Swim… in fact, it didn’t air at all. More accurately, if the leaked file is anything to go off of, it was never properly completed. What we have here is an assembly cut with a nearly-finished soundtrack (a narration in particular sounds like a temporary track, for example) and some animation that is complete or close-to-complete. Some of it is barely animated at all, with still images subbing in for animated ones. To call this “unaired’ technically bumps up against one of my pet peeves of referring to unfinished media or never-filmed scripts as “unaired”, implying that they exist in an airable state. This doesn’t seem to.

In “Boston”, Master Shake attempts to drum up publicity for his failing online auction (he’s trying to sell Meatwad) by taking Meatwad to Boston and sticking him under an overpass with harmless magnetic lights attached to him as an advertisement for himself, I guess. Frylock cheerily points out that they are “energy efficient, and harmless to humans” and praises Shake for being so thoughtful. The promotion fails, but the ghost of Paul Revere shows up and urges the Aqua Teens to visit with the Ghost of Benjamin Franklin. He buys Meatwad and files him with a kite, causing Meatwad to get struck by lightning over and over. Benjamin Franklin is notably not voiced by Dana Snyder, effectively keeping the Aqua Teen universe separate from the Saul/Young Person’s Guide universe (GOOD!). 

The resulting fiery explosions from Meatwad getting zapped by lightning is mistaken for a bomb going off. The show actually cheekily goes out of it’s way to have Baltimore, NOT Boston, be the city who sees the explosions and mistake them for a bomb. Baltimore is populated by Johnny Unitas, Earl Weaver, and the cast of the musical Hairspray. The Aqua Teens are tossed out of Boston as a result.

Shake spends all of his Meatwad money on a large lite-brite with a bunch of dynamite strapped to it, and attacks Carl’s house with it. This is portrayed the same way it would be in a deadly serious drama film, with music probably lifted from Munich or something (I genuinely don’t know what the reference is if there is a specific one, sorry!). A bunch of bomb squad/swat teamers show up and shoot Carl further to death, after announcing “let’s make this worse than it already is”. They mistake Shake’s sandwich for a bomb, but then Shake explodes. Turns out Shake was a bomb. We pull out to reveal the Mooninites, dressed like Al Qaeda members, watching this on TV from a cave hide-out. Show ends with Ignignokt about to saw his own head off to intimidate his enemies.

This episode was leaked in 2015, and was supposedly being prepped for release according to Dana Snyder and Carey Means. I’m not sure if they just said that to make the leaker feel bad. Some wiki I read said that they claimed it was a week away from being released. I don’t know, I guess this theoretically could’ve been completed and released in the span of a week. Maybe they were planning to release the rough-cut as is? Who knows. 

Another thing I’m not clear on is whether or not this episode was intended to be the season premiere. A lot of episode guides that list this episode seem to think so. It makes enough sense. Interestingly enough, this episode is meant to be counted for the sake of their “100th” episode, though you could reasonably count the “Deleted Scenes” special as two episodes or maybe even count the movie. 

This episode is reasonably funny, and it’s a shame it never got completed. It would have been the first episode completed in the HD format, but it currently only exists as a 360p bootleg file. I’d be really curious to see how they navigated certain bits for the final broadcast version; this episode exists in an uncensored state and has some rather uncouth characters using some pretty nasty slurs by today’s standards. The only thing resembling an official release we got from this episode was the Volume 5 DVD set included bits of artwork from it on the gatefold case.

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Here’s some splashback from my Rainn Wilson tirade

I share your hatred for rainn wilson. I actually think he's a real thorn in that otherwise perfect Nite Live episode. However, I like the numbers sketch. I think about "numbers just for men" a lot. It tickles me...pink!

You know, I was probably harsher on that sketch for superficial reasons. It’s a perfectly good sketch and he’s perfectly fine in it. It’s my problem, not their problem, that I see that guy’s face and it immediately makes me scowl. If I could do it all over again, I would have never listened to those Office commentary tracks. I could have done ANYTHING ELSE with my time.

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2023/03/04 Los temas de actualidad en el último año son representados tanto en este desfile como en los monumentos de cartón que arderán en pocos días en la fiesta grande de la ciudad.

The current issues of the last year are represented both in this parade and in the cardboard monuments that will burn in a few days at the city's big party.

Google Translation into French: Les enjeux actuels de l'année dernière sont représentés à la fois dans ce défilé et dans les monuments en carton qui brûleront dans quelques jours lors de la grande fête de la ville.

Google translation into Italian: L'attualità dell'anno trascorso è rappresentata sia in questo corteo che nei monumenti di cartone che bruceranno tra pochi giorni durante la grande festa della città.

Google Translation into Portuguese: As questões atuais do ano passado estão representadas tanto neste desfile quanto nos monumentos de papelão que serão queimados em poucos dias durante a grande festa da cidade.

Google Translation into German: Die aktuellen Themen des vergangenen Jahres sind sowohl in dieser Parade als auch in den Denkmälern aus Pappe vertreten, die in wenigen Tagen während des großen Festes der Stadt brennen werden.

Google Translation into Albanisch: Temat aktuale të vitit të kaluar janë përfaqësuar si në këtë paradë ashtu edhe në monumentet prej kartoni që do të digjen brenda pak ditësh gjatë festës së madhe të qytetit.

Google Translation into Armenian: Անցնող տարվա ընթացիկ թեմաները ներկայացված են թե՛ այս շքերթում, թե՛ ստվարաթղթե հուշարձաններում, որոնք մի քանի օրից այրվելու են քաղաքի մեծ տոնակատարության ժամանակ։

Google Translation into Bulgarian: Актуалните теми от изминалата година са застъпени както в този парад, така и в картонените паметници, които ще бъдат изгорени след броени дни по време на големия празник на града.

Google Translation into Czech: Aktuální témata uplynulého roku jsou zastoupena jak v tomto průvodu, tak v kartonových pomnících, které budou za pár dní spáleny při velké městské slavnosti.

Google Translation into Croatian: Aktualne teme protekle godine zastupljene su kako u ovoj povorci, tako iu kartonskim spomenicima koji će za nekoliko dana biti spaljeni tijekom velike gradske svečanosti.

Google Translation into Danish Det seneste års aktuelle temaer er repræsenteret både i denne parade og i papmonumenterne, der om få dage bliver brændt af under byens store fest.

Google Translation into Slovak: Aktuálne témy uplynulého roka sú zastúpené tak v tomto sprievode, ako aj v kartónových pomníkoch, ktoré budú o pár dní spálené počas veľkých mestských osláv.

Google Translation into Slovenian: Aktualne teme preteklega leta so zastopane tako v tej paradi kot v kartonskih spomenikih, ki jih bodo čez nekaj dni zažgali ob velikem mestnem praznovanju.

Google Translation into Estonian: Möödunud aasta aktuaalsed teemad on esindatud nii sellel paraadil kui ka mõne päeva pärast linna suurpeol põletatavates papist monumentides.

Google Translation into Suomi: Kuluneen vuoden ajankohtaiset teemat ovat edustettuina sekä tässä paraatissa että pahvimonumenteissa, jotka poltetaan muutaman päivän kuluttua kaupungin suuren juhlan aikana.

Google Translation into Greek: Τα επίκαιρα θέματα της χρονιάς που πέρασε εκπροσωπούνται τόσο σε αυτή την παρέλαση όσο και στα μνημεία από χαρτόνι που θα καούν σε λίγες μέρες στη μεγάλη γιορτή της πόλης.

Google Translation into Dutch: Zowel in deze optocht als in de kartonnen monumenten die over enkele dagen tijdens het grote stadsfeest in brand worden gestoken, zijn de actuele thema's van het afgelopen jaar vertegenwoordigd.

Google Translation into Norwegian: Årets aktuelle temaer er representert både i denne paraden og i pappmonumentene som skal brennes om noen dager under byens store markering.

Google Translation into Polish: Aktualne tematy minionego roku są reprezentowane zarówno w tej paradzie, jak iw pomnikach z tektury, które zostaną spalone za kilka dni podczas wielkiego święta miasta.

Google Translation into Romanian: Temele actuale ale anului trecut sunt reprezentate atât în ​​această paradă, cât și în monumentele de carton care vor fi arse în câteva zile în cadrul marii sărbători a orașului.

Google Translation into Russian: Актуальные темы прошедшего года представлены и в этом параде, и в картонных памятниках, которые будут сожжены через несколько дней во время большого городского праздника.

Google Translation into Serbian: Актуелне теме протекле године заступљене су како у овој паради, тако и у картонским споменицима који ће за неколико дана бити спаљени током велике градске славе.

Google Translation into Swedish: Det gångna årets aktuella teman finns representerade både i denna parad och i kartongmonumenten som kommer att brännas om några dagar under stadens stora firande.

Google Translation into Turkish: Geçen yılın güncel temaları hem bu geçit töreninde hem de şehrin büyük kutlaması sırasında birkaç gün içinde yakılacak olan karton anıtlarda temsil ediliyor.

Google Translation into Ukrainian: Актуальні теми минулого року представлені як у цьому параді, так і в картонних пам’ятниках, які за кілька днів спалять під час великого міського свята.

Google Translation into Arabic: يتم تمثيل الموضوعات الحالية للعام الماضي في هذا العرض وفي الآثار المصنوعة من الورق المقوى التي سيتم حرقها في غضون أيام قليلة خلال احتفال المدينة الكبير.

Google Translation into Bengali: বিগত বছরের বর্তমান থিমগুলি এই কুচকাওয়াজে এবং শহরের বড় উদযাপনের সময় কয়েক দিনের মধ্যে পুড়িয়ে দেওয়া কার্ডবোর্ডের স্মৃতিস্তম্ভগুলিতে উভয়ই উপস্থাপন করা হয়।

Google Translation into Simplified Chinese: 过去一年的当前主题既体现在这次游行中，也体现在几天后城市大型庆典期间将被烧毁的纸板纪念碑中。

Google Translation into Korean: 작년의 현재 주제는 이 퍼레이드와 도시의 ��� 축제 기간 동안 며칠 안에 불태워질 판지 기념물 모두에서 표현됩니다.

Google Translation into Hebrew: הנושאים הנוכחיים של השנה החולפת מיוצגים הן במצעד זה והן באנדרטאות הקרטון שיישרפו בעוד מספר ימים במהלך החגיגה הגדולה של העיר.

Google Translation into Hindi: इस परेड में और शहर के बड़े उत्सव के दौरान कुछ दिनों में जलाए जाने वाले कार्डबोर्ड स्मारकों में पिछले वर्ष के वर्तमान विषयों का प्रतिनिधित्व किया जाता है।

Google Translation into Indonesian: Tema saat ini tahun lalu diwakili baik dalam parade ini maupun di monumen karton yang akan dibakar dalam beberapa hari selama perayaan besar kota.

Google Translation into Japanese: 過去 1 年間の現在のテーマは、このパレードと、市の大祭典の数日後に焼かれる段ボールのモニュメントの両方に表れています。

Google Translation into Kyrgyz: Бул парадда да, шаардын чоң майрамында бир нече күндөн кийин өрттөлүүчү картон эстеликтерде да өткөн жылдын учурдагы темалары чагылдырылган.

Google Translation into Malay: Tema semasa tahun lalu diwakili dalam perarakan ini dan dalam monumen kadbod yang akan dibakar dalam beberapa hari semasa perayaan besar di bandar ini.

Google Translation into Mongolian: Өнгөрч буй жилийн өнөөгийн сэдвүүдийг энэ жагсаал болон хотын томоохон баяраар хэдхэн хоногийн дараа шатааж буй картон хөшөөнүүдэд дүрсэлсэн болно.

Google Translation into Panjabi: ਪਿਛਲੇ ਸਾਲ ਦੇ ਮੌਜੂਦਾ ਥੀਮ ਇਸ ਪਰੇਡ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਤੇ ਗੱਤੇ ਦੇ ਸਮਾਰਕਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਦਰਸਾਏ ਗਏ ਹਨ ਜੋ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਦੇ ਵੱਡੇ ਜਸ਼ਨ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਕੁਝ ਦਿਨਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਾੜ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਜਾਣਗੇ।

Google Translation into Pashtun: د تیر کال اوسني موضوعات په دې پریډ کې او د کارت بورډ په یادګارونو کې استازیتوب کوي چې په څو ورځو کې به د ښار د لوی جشن په جریان کې وسوځول شي.

Google Translation into Persian: مضامین جا��ی سال گذشته هم در این رژه و هم در آثار مقوایی که تا چند روز دیگر در جشن بزرگ شهر به آتش کشیده می شود، نمایش داده شده است.

Google Translation into Sundanese: Téma ayeuna taun katukang diwakilan dina parade ieu sareng dina monumen kardus anu bakal diduruk dina sababaraha dinten salami perayaan gedé kota.

Google Translation into Tagalog: Ang mga kasalukuyang tema ng nakaraang taon ay kinakatawan kapwa sa parada na ito at sa mga monumento ng karton na susunugin sa loob ng ilang araw sa malaking pagdiriwang ng lungsod.

Google Translation into Thai: ธีมปัจจุบันของปีที่ผ่านมามีการนำเสนอทั้งในขบวนพาเหรดนี้และในอนุสาวรีย์กระดาษแข็งที่จะถูกเผาในอีกไม่กี่วันระหว่างการเฉลิมฉลองครั้งใหญ่ของเมือง

Google Translation into Urdu: گزشتہ سال کے موجودہ موضوعات اس پریڈ میں اور گتے کی ان یادگاروں میں پیش کیے گئے ہیں جو شہر کے بڑے جشن کے دوران چند دنوں میں جلا دی جائیں گی۔

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Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

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So, which voice actors either professional or celebrity would you love to see on Big City Greens?

In terms of actors/singers i want Adassa,Diane Guerrero,Carolina Gaitán,Hasley,Letitia Wright,Danai Gurira,Michaela Coel,Florence Kasumba,Awkwafina,Wagner Moura,Lin Manuel Miranda,Jeremy Jordan & Idina Menzel

In terms of VAs Jack McBrayer,Dana Snyder,Weird Al Yankovic,Lizzy Caplan,Eden Espinosa,Ian JQ,Andy Merrill & Zach Hadel

Many of professional VAs i like already appeared on the show

Im manifesting the first 11 actors/singers/celebrities for BEING in Big City Greens The Movie come on @chrishoughton MAKE IT REAL!

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My Favorite Books of 2022

I think I did decently well at reading in 2022 and the book I'm reading now, I'm not anticipating finishing before the end of the year (it's The Stand by Stephen King), so now is the best time to post about my favorite books of the year.

This year, I read 80 books. 27 of those were the manga Blue Exorcist, and I'm never sure about whether to really count those in my book count, but I am going to count them as 1 big book for the purpose of this list! So, that takes me down to like 54 books.

So, let's go through my list each month, and pick out favorite book(s) from each month! Maybe I won't have a favorite from some months...

Bold means it was a good I really enjoyed! I

I'm going to hide the list under a keep reading line because otherwise this post might be too long for some people!

January

Dune Messiah -Frank Herbert

A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

Memoirs and Misinformation - Dana Vachon and Jim Carrey

February

Mergers and Acquisitions - Dana Vachon

March

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead - Emily Austin

Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell

Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

April

I read nothing

May

A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin

Almond - Sohn Won-pyung

Human Acts - Hang Kang

Love in the Big City - Sang Young Park

June

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell

Kindred - Octavia E. Butler

July

Blue Exorcist 1-27 - Kazue Kato

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Columbine - Dave Cullen

August

The Witches: Salem 1692 - Stacy Schiff

Get A Life Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

The Benefits of Being an Octopus - Ann Braden

Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks

September

The Plague - Albert Camus

Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Baek Se-hee

Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung

Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner

Shoko's Smile - Choi Eunyoung

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

October

IT - Stephen King

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Know My Name - Chanel Miller

The Last Magician - Lisa Maxwell

The Cat Who Saved Books - Sosuke Natsukawa

November

Carrie - Stephen King

It Ends With Us - Colleen Hoover

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dawnie Walton

They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin

Salem's Lot - Stephen King

Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri

The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock

December

Circe - Madeline Miller

Babel - R.F. Kuang

Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories - Aviaq Johnston, et al

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hell Of A Book - Jason Mott

Picking an actual favorite from these is too hard. I read so many great books this year, and obviously some months I read better than others. Actually, I would probably bold more than I have, but I felt bad about bolding more than like 2 per month, though I did do that in like September.

There were only really like 5 or 6 that I didn't really like, but pushed my way through.

I'm quietly aiming for 100 books next year, but I'm not gonna force myself for that, because whenever I aim for goals like that, it just takes the fun out of reading, so I'm going to set my goal at like 5 books and anything more than that is going to be a win for me!