#Also that's a horrible picture wikipedia

[boobachu]

Still technically true, since Kai Cenat specifically coined the term, and he was born in 2001.

[nervousenby]

HI IM A SHOUTY MAN

[freakcliff]

Since I spent like an hour on friday going through my copy of iwtv (1977 first Ballantine Books Edition) so here's where every episode title is said in the book.

possible spoilers for the show; definitely spoilers for the nearly 50 year old book.

S1E1 "In throes of increasing wonder" page 13, Louis only every directly says the words "increasing wonder" ("From then on I experienced only increasing wonder") about his first meeting with Lestat

S1E2 "...after the phantoms of your former self" page 81-82, said by Lestat ("You are in love with your mortal nature! You chase after the phantoms of your former self!") when they're having one of their many arguments about Louis' feelings about killing, right before they turn Claudia

S1E3 "Is my very nature that of a devil?" page 73, after Louis and Lestat are driven off of Louis' plantation & are rejected by a mortal woman Louis likes & thought would protect them

S1E4 "...the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding" page 98, said by Louis about Claudia (in narration) ("She was simply unlike Lestat and me to such an extent I couldn't comprehend her; for little child she was, but also fierce killer now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding)

S1E5 "a vile hunger for your hammering heart' page 116, Louis to Claudia, telling her the story of how she was turned ("I felt for you again, a vile unsupportable hunger for your hammering heart, this cheek, this skin.") While S2E7 gives us more context on how Claudia was turned, in the book it was very different-- Louis just straight up saw her and couldn't resist nearly killing her, & a few days later Lestat decides to turn her to save their marriage

S1E6 "Like angels put in Hell by God" page 148-- Louis says this to a priest in confessional after Lestat 'dies'. ("I am not mortal, father, but immortal and damned, like angels put in hell by God.")

S1E7 "The thing lay still" page 138, Louis' description of Lestat's dead (ish) body

S2E1 "What can the damned really say to the damned?" page 168, Louis contemplating what he might find in Eastern Europe as he and Claudia sail to Europe.

S2E2 "Do you know what it means to be loved by death?" page 224, said by Santiago in basically the exact same context, although the play is different.

S2E3 "No pain" page 225, said by Armand, who is onstage & is the one who kills the woman in the first performance we see at Theatre des Vampires

S2E4 "I want you more than anything in the world" page 284, said by Armand to Louis when they're on a little date in this abandoned tower Armand likes to hang out in, notably after Louis turns Madeline without approaching Armand about it; I believe he also repeats it twice same as the show

S2E5 "Don't be afraid. just start the tape" page 3; said by Louis to Daniel basically the same way it happens in the show.

S2E6 "Like the light by which God made the world before He made light" page 142, something Louis says while contemplating his existence directly after Lestat 'dies'. ("I had now lived in two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient, possessing no illusions, living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void: the painted face, the delicately carved hands looked upon by no one, looking out at no one, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which God made the world before he Had made light.") (jesus, anne. i thought i wrote horribly long sentences)

S2E7 "I could not prevent it" page 307, said by Armand, also repeated twice like he does in the show, although this is said as he's saving Louis rather than in the present day interview

S2E8 "And that's the end of it. There's nothing else" page 341; idk if this is the actual episode title, but it's what wikipedia is telling me and it makes sense enough. The last thing Louis tells to Daniel before ending the story

under the cut-- other lines i remember from the show that i underlined while reading the book; please add on if you have any more or correct anything i got wrong

(also this is all just my memory while reading the book, so it's messy and imperfect) (all of the book quotes should be correct, but forgive me if i cannot remember the lines from the show exactly and don't bother to search for them)

interview begins with "You weren't always a vampire, were you?" and then "There's a simple answer to that. I don't believe I want to give simple answers. I think I want to tell the real story." page 4

Daniel says "ah, that's the accent" and notes that there's a "slight sharpness to the vowels" also page 4

the monologue louis has about becoming a vampire "A dull roar at first and then a pounding like the pounding of a drum" to "i realized that drum was my heart" page 19

various things louis says about lestat in the first interview. i can't remember the exact lines in the episode but i think i remember "I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher" from page 31 and "he appeared frail and stupid to me, a man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice" on page 34

"The blood poured out of him, down his shirt front, down his coat. It poured as it might never pour from a mortal man, all the blood which he had filled from before the child and from the child..." page 137, describing Lestat dying

After they first attempt to kill Lestat, Louis also says the words "beginning the great adventure of our lives" page 142

page 216, when Armand and Louis meet, Armand does say "I will not harm you", and the note on his buisness card says "Bring the petit beauty with you. You are most welcome, Armand."

page 244, parts of the shpiel about concious & unconcious death from the first theatre performance

page 339, Armand says "She never loved you, you know. Not in the way that I loved you, and the way that you loved us both." after which he leaves Louis, something he hasn't managed to do in the show yet, though, to be fair, in the show after he said this Louis immediately ran into the sun

page 343, "This... after all I've told you... is what you ask for? " and "You don't know what human life is like! You've forgotten. You don't even understand the meaning of your own story...", though in the show they change this line a bit to make it sound more natural for a high 20 year old in San Francisco in 1973

[catjest3r]

Hi hi I'm not on t but I do have to do intramuscular injections for other reasons, and I've got a few tips and tricks

By far the number one tip is to trace a grid pattern on your leg (9 parts). I can't sent pictures since anon so here's a Wikipedia file link hope it works: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Injection_Sites_Intramuscular_Thigh_Adult.png

Second tip, also very useful, listen to or watch something, keep your focus from the injection, I usually listen to whatever podcast captures my attention at that time.

Third tip, make sure the liquid is at least somewhat warm, room temperature, idk if T is stored in the fridge but my meds are and it is not pleasant to inject something cold, so give it five or so minutes, the weirdest way to do this is to keep it between your boobs for a bit, warms it up real quick.

Now one thing that I struggle with myself is the speed of which to do it, if you jab it in quickly, you basically can't feel it, but yknow that's scary, and I can't bring myself to do it either

Lastly, switch between legs each injection, so the muscles in your legs have some time to calm down and not get assaulted by needles constantly.

The best thing to remember is that it gets easier each time, before I got diagnosed I had a horrible fear of needles (screaming, crying, panic attacks, I've had to be held down by multiple people at once before just to get a vaccine), and to hear my only solution was frequent injections was basically hell, but these days that fear is completely gone, exposure is one hell of a thing to get you desensitized.

Thank you so much for this super detailed response!!! ;w; I'm so grateful!! 💖

I've done 2 doses so far, and even with help they went... Very poorly (I'm glad I'm not the only one crying over something that feels "simple", its very demoralizing to me x_x) My wife suggested I switch to gel but I really want to get over my fear, your last paragraph really meant a lot for me!! The only way out is... Yknow

Last time we tried putting a video on to distract me, but next week I'm gonna try listening to some happy music, which usually helps me deter bad thoughts and panic! And I'm gonna try to do it myself, even if I'm just sitting there with a needle next to my leg for an hour ^~^' wish me luck!! 🐱

[buggywiththefolkmagic]

Personal Do Not Read Witchy Author List

There will be a google doc with updates as I find more authors to avoid. These are all my own personal opinion and I do take the author's actions into account when judging their ability to write legitimate information.

TW: Slavery, serial killers, racism, TERFs, creeps, neonazis, asylums, and a slew of other super unsavory things. I tried to make this list as PG as possible while highlighting the issues with these individual people. 

*Alestier Crowley. *

   He's a literal piece of garbage. Misogynistic, thief of a toooon of closed practices, has entire cults still dedicated to him, called himself a voice of God (both Abrahamic and apparently like 5 Egyptian deities??? I mean excuse me sir how about no??) He also declared himself ‘above’ Gods back in 1922 calling himself Ipssissimus. I hate Crowley so much I have literally stuck a picture of him to a dartboard before. He can suck an egg in the afterlife. He also put his own wife in an asylum for 'alcoholism’ because she wanted a divorce. The only thing he ever did right was get kicked down a flight of stairs at a temple once by a poet.

*Anastasia Greywolf*

   Appropriates at least Jewish practices if not every Indigenous practice there is. Wholeheartedly encourages people to use magic instead of going to a doctor for things like oh I dunno EPILEPSY And claims she has spells for like Marvel-level super powers which uh no Ana. You don't. Lots of Christianity for a supposedly FULL pagan and wiccan author. Her spells are all controlled like...so wrong. So, so wrong. Don't ask please. I can't begin to describe it. Advocates for smudging and uses phrases like "Cherokee Rituals", and the Romani G-slur. 

*Gerald Gardner*

   Made his own branch of wicca, the first technically, and his own coven had to make rules just so he wouldn't spill everything to any reporter that asked. Used Crowley as a main resource.

*Jason Miller*

   Claims to do Hoodoo. A horrible formatter, and generally super dismissive of being a rootworker and other potentially closed practices, has not been initiated. Has claimed that anyone can petition/pray to Papa Legba without initiation because "Vodou is a congregational religion/practice". From the Vodou and Haitian Vodou practitioners I have talked to that is VERY incorrect, it may be congregational but you still have to be involved in the community to be trusted with those practices because so much of it has been bastardized for media and racism purposes. He is also a student of Catherine Yronwode, who is another SUPER problematic figure in the Hoodoo/Rootwork community.  

 A link of his own words on culture appropriation which includes mild inaccuracy towards Indiginous Peoples and that they don’t ‘own’ certain practices when it’s very clear the wording of those practices DOES in fact come from those peoples. He’s fine with people being Yogis, or Shamans, or calling satchel spells mojo bags, and other such phrases and won’t correct people if they use such words out of context because “language changes”. Also says if someone within a practice says it’s closed to go to ANOTHER AND ANOTHER until you find someone willing to teach you??? That’s not how it works sir.

Source: https://www.strategicsorcery.net/on-cultural-misappropriation/

*Lisa Chamberlain*

   Not an actual person. This is a ghost writer name for a bunch of garbage literally copy and pasted from wikipedia into books. I wish I was kidding. 

*Lisa Leister/Lester/whatever other spelling she's used.*

   Such a major TERF. Like JK Rowling level TERF. Claims magic comes from a womb so anybody that doesn't have one isn't a real witch. Like WTF lady.

*Raymond Buckland*

  Where to start...uses the G-slur often. (His grandfather was romani so it blurs the line of blood quantum.)  Very sexist and obsessed with the idea of a woman getting uh...undressed for rituals while men stay dressed and more things I cannot say ina PG space??? As magic?? VERY anti-minor and LGBTQA+. Toxic, just plain toxic. Can't do it. I have read his Blue Book and it's the least problematic thing he wrote. I'm alright with it.

*Silver Ravenwolf*   WhOOO boy. So super anti-christian, which is fine and dandy...if you didn't claim to be in a lineage of braucherei/hexerei. Wiccan, like the type of wiccan that says no other witchcraft exists and yet has written folk magic books??? She really needs to make up her mind. Claims Satanists don't actually exist. Claims most Jewish powers worshiped "the Goddess" (whoever that is)??? Very cult-like language about "not telling friends and family about your new life/reality/experience/whatever". Also SO MUCH APPROPRIATION. SO SO MUCH. She also gets her history wrong, on a lot of basic information that most non-witches know about like say the Salem Witch Trials.

*Catherine Yronwode* Ooh man. So Catherine Yronwode’s career started as a comic book artist. She’s worked on such things like the Elvira comic, DNAgents, and a gaggle of super controversial trading cards which included the Kennedy Assasination, a serial killer collection, and the AIDS epidemic. Of which she was sued for using one half of the Hillside Stranglers duo in said killer trading cards without his permission, the judge sadly threw the case out because and this is a quote, “ If Bianchi had been using his face as a trademark when he was killing women, he would not have tried to hide it from the police.” There were two more from her comic days, but those aren’t super relevant besides the one that pushed the envelope of what sort of trading cards should be sold to children. On the magical side of things, I will be blunt here: As one of the ‘big bads’ of the Rootwork/Folk/Hoodoo community? I really REALLY dislike her. She has made numerous false claims about New Orleans/Haitian Vodou and that it’s only a very recent practice, non-religious, and slaves never used it because it didn’t exist yet??? History books and entire generations will disagree. An example would be this link of an open letter to her written by a New Orleans Voodoo practitioner and someone she wrote a whole article about: https://conjureart.blogspot.com/2013/10/open-letter-to-cat-yronwode-and-lucky.html

She owns a few different websites namely https://www.luckymojo.com/, has written numerous Hoodoo based books, and actively has accused numerous people who have asked her for sources and or disagreed with her of plagiarism and has slung more mud that you can shake a stick at. 

She also praises a book on Marie Laveau and yet discredits herself by calling New Orleans Voodoo a new religion/neopractice??? She’s just confusing as all heck to me.

*Christian Day*   This guy’s just a creep. One stuck in the early 2000s mall goth phase even though he’s over 50. He also appropriates Hoodoo and owns two Hoodoo shops as well as multiple other witch shops in Salem and recently New Orleans on the French Quarter (Which is pure tourist fodder and not a reflection of true New Orleans Voodoo/Vodun/Rootwork). He has also harassed ex-employees so badly it’s landed him in court. His book The Witch’s Book of the Dead also reads very much like a list of accomplishments rather than anything useful. All about his television spots and experiences doing that. (Did I mention he was in an episode of Ghost Adventures? Yes, that one with Zac Bagans??? And it did not make us witches look too great, honestly speaking.)

Sources for Harassment Claims: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salem-witch-gets-protective-order-against-warlock/

https://www.wcvb.com/article/warlock-christian-day-ordered-to-stay-away-from-salem-witch/8228072

*Yvonne and Gavin Frost*   I dunno how else to say this, I really don’t. These two? Pedophiles. Multiple writings of theirs included not-safe-for-work-or-children rituals that must include minors. Avoid. AVOID AVOID. AVOID ANYONE WHO USES THEM AS A RESOURCE! This should NOT be okay in any circle. They are VERY used within the Wicca religion so please be careful!!

*Orion Foxwood* Some of his information is very sound! I can’t fault him there. He does have a tendency to blend different traditions without actively TELLING you he’s blending them though. He’s and this is a direct quote, “He is a witch and Elder in Romano Celtic-Traditional Craft, High Priest in Alexandrian Wicca and teacher of the Faery Seership tradition. He is also the founding Elder of Foxwood Temple and a primary founder of the Alliance of the Old Religion, a national network of covens in his line that have united to preserve the ways of his Elders. He was the co-director of Moonridge, a center for metaphysical, Craft and Faery studies in Maryland” That’s an awful lot of traditions to juggle and not only write on but actively teach. He also performs conjure, which in of itself might not be an issue but Conjure usually blends into Hoodoo really quickly if one isn’t careful! A lot of the traditions he talks about from his family sound quite familiar, he’s clearly from Appalachia but his books on the subject blend in his other practices instead of keeping them separate. 

*Starr Casas*   She’s in the same category as Orion, only she doesn’t necessarily give her credentials to be teaching Hoodoo, and even wrote a whole book filled with Hoodoo love spells. She also co-owns a French Quarter Conjure Shop, which if you ask any practitioners from New Orleans...is catered to pure tourists and not a true example of the crafts from the area. 

*Shawn Engel*   I’m gonna be blunt here. More appropriation of the Jewish practices, Hoodoo, and other information that is just plain UPG without saying it’s UPG and encourages throwing hexes at political party members solo. I read The Power of Hex and had to put it down numerous times just to gather myself and not throw it away, I don’t know if it was tone or sheer level of appropriation...likely both.

*Kate Freuler*   Of Blood and Bones is chock full of Hoodoo, full stop. Only acknowledges that something comes from Hoodoo once and also gets basic mythology information on the Deities she mentions wrong in some cases. Also a lot of the book seems to be UPG because the bibliography is super small for a 300 page book.

*Dorothy Morrison*   I picked up Utterly Wicked once. A very odd book full of Hoodoo and Vodun spellwork and misinformation, the author is also Garderian Wiccan so even the writing of a book full of hexes is slightly...concerning compared to the Wiccan traditions and redes. Odd is the best I have to describe how I personally feel. I will say this again: Voodoo Dolls are not used to cause pain, stop bastardizing that single aspect of the practice. Thank you.

*Helena Blavatsky*

 I dunno how else to say this either, her philosophy and occult knowledge, called Theosophy is a portion of what inspired Hitler. Pure unadulterated racism veiled in a ‘Atlantian Race Theory”. Horrible stuff, read for a class project once and felt disgusting.

*Christopher Penczak*Whoo boy. On the surface he seems alright, one of the first ‘male’ witches I had ever heard of except for Scott Cunningham. But the more you dig into his work the more inaccuracies and Christian bashing you see. For example: Christianty was the first patriarchal society. Uhm...I believe you’re kinda forgetting the men who ran Rome and Greece there sir. He also fully proposes the ‘burning times’ were like a ‘witch holocaust’. NO! NO IT WAS NOT. You can’t compare the hundreds of years and MAYBE a thousand-ish people dying to the millions that died in the short timespan the Holocaust was a thing. Fuck Christopher for that comparison and also for claiming it was a ‘burning time’ to begin with. (History says that most were hung...or tortured. Burning is a very small number of that list in general. 

He makes a lot of sweeping statements and sees witchcraft as a religion and NOT a practice. He whitewashes, fully harps on the Wicca = witchcraft = religion thing and THEN hones in on the difference between “white and black” magic and how cursing is evil and yet highlights certain practices that actively practice...cursing...as they have for generations??? He (atleast) doesn’t demonize Satanism but does still backhand the idea anyway, that they CAN’T be witches because witches only ‘heal’. Cultural appropriation and fetishization of ‘Native’ practices while calling them primitive all in the same breath, I just can’t with this guy. I really can’t. 

*Amy Blackthorn* 

Owns a tea brand called ‘Blackthorn Hoodoo Blends’ she is white. When questioned by BIPOC individuals she complains and blocks them instead of explaining why she chose the name Hoodoo for just teas. TEA. She is also the author of Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic, Sacred Smoke (A book on smudging yikes on trikes), and Blackthorn’s Protection Magic. 

Proof of blocking: https://thisblackwitch.com/2016/04/01/blackthorn-teas-whose-culture-is-it-anyways/

*Tarl Warwick *

Is more commonly known as Styxhexenhammer666 on youtube and other social media sites. Has written a pile and I mean a PILE of occult based books including ones on Hermetic magic, ritualistic magic, demons, solomon, folk plants and healing, Kabbalah, and many MANY more. 

He makes no claim to being Jewish, and given his political wishy washiness, and multitude of controversies which includes claiming the Holocaust wasn’t ‘that many dead’, Charles Manson deserved release because he was ‘extremely innocent and didn’t kill anyone’, and fairly recently also wrote and published a book on Critical Race Theory and why it’s ‘garbage’. I can’t support him no matter how accurate some of his information may be (if any at all). 

*Temperance Alden* This really pains me to say, Temperance in her Wheel of the Year book made a claim that birth control “stunted her magical abilities” because it affected her hormones…in OTHER words unless you are a perfectly hormone producing WOMAN you don’t have great magical power. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. That is a slippery slope to claiming medication will harm you, not to mention how TERF-y it is AND completely disregards that magic is for well…everyone. Such a stupid gatekeep-y concept. 

*Sarah Kate Istra/Dver*

Advocates for using ‘spirit animals’ regardless of Indigenous beliefs and concerns. Is also a known ally with the Piety Posse, a neo-nazi group of pagans who claim the term polytheist can only apply to them and if you aren’t a Hellenistic pagan…you aren’t pagan at all. They also advocate for animal sacrifices, blood tests to prove purity, and other horrible HORRIBLE stuff. 

*Sannion/H. Jeremiah Lewis*

Obvious Neo-nazi, keeps images of swastikas on his personal blog, and not the ones that the nazis stole from, the nazi one. And super SUPER transphobic.

*Edward P. Butler*

Major persecution complex, spends half his twitter complaining about how monotheists are destroying…I dunno…everything? Also defends Krasskova quite heavily. Antisemetic as well.

*Galina Krasskova*

Hellenic pagans watch out. Defends the AFA. A ringleader of the Piety Posse. There’s a lot more horrific stuff about her and I won’t go into extreme details. But TW: Romanticizes SA with deities, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice. Compares debating to the holocaust, lots of victim blaming, gatekeeping, and screams folkish. 

*Diana Cooper*

Racist. Hard stop. Also appropriates chakras. Has a weird belief that food controls skin color and that Africa will never be a good country because it’s the solar plexus of the universe…or something like that. I got 20 pages into the book and literally couldn’t go any farther. Did I mention this book was supposedly on dragons???

*Judika Iiles* So much appropriation, advocates for making altars and working with closed deities. Lots of incorrect information including dangerous spellwork like obsession spells. And one in particular that has roots in a racist stereotypes. Avoid please! 

[allwormdiet]

Interlude 3

The Wards and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Man I hate these vibes, holy shit

Faceless armed guards with military weaponry next to a gift shop is a fucking look alright

Hey Piggot. Dunno if I'm gonna like you or not but boy do people seem to have conflicting opinions on you

Aegis that's fucking nasty, don't do that

And yeah, of course they're all in a rotten mood, they got their asses kicked

Yeah, rich boy, of course he tries to foot the bill, that money's a drop in the bucket for him

I actually like that Piggot makes this come down on everybody's head. There isn't a lesson learned if it's all covered by the rich kid, they all fucked up which means they all eat this crow. Maybe she's a sadist, but I think more likely than that she's an adult who's been put in charge of a bunch of fucked up kids and fucked up adults who act a lot like kids, and she'll take whatever she can get when it comes to actually reining this people in.

Yeah, exactly. She's big-picture. Kid Win wanted to stop the bad guys from getting away, and so he shot a giant, untested laser into a building full of hostages, not thinking about what it was going to look like that a hero was shooting a giant, untested laser into a building full of hostages

Yeah, that's nuts actually, that's loading for bear when you're hunting pheasant, nothing in that fight would qualify as whatever a Class A is... yet.

Yeah, Kid, you should be sweating a little bit, dude. You made a messy public mistake and now you gotta deal with whatever comes of that.

What do you figure the uptick is on reports of entomophobia and arachnophobia in Brockton Bay after Taylor debuts as a villain? Probably a fair bit

And so begins the rise of Skitter

It's neat to see the Wards breaking all of the information down that they learned from the fight, breaking down the capabilities of the Undersiders now that they've actually gotten to face them firsthand. Kind of a glimpse at the other side of things, opposite the planning for the heist. Their observations and debates are fun to see bounce back and forth.

Yeah I dunno if that's the authority figure you wanna rely on Taylor

Also nice enough that Amy decided to stick around and help

It's probably really easy to convince yourself you're invincible when you have powers, especially stuff that literally protects you from harm. It's gotta be really hard to deal when you're proven wrong.

And here we come around to a really solid chunk of What The Fuck Is Up With Amy Dallon

What a fucking nightmare it must be, to want to be normal, to be denied that, and to be so thoroughly denied that there are people around the world who would give everything they have just to have you touch them once. Every second you spend healing, you're giving up your life to save others'. Every second you aren't healing, people are dying. You will never have peace. You will never have privacy. You don't even have the luxury of a secret identity because the family motto means that you have to let everyone know who you are, such that even if you go out in public just to get a burger people will dog your every movement

and the resentment underneath it all, of course

I wonder if that's part of why she's so harsh to criminals. If she dreads becoming like them, if she feels like she's better than them because clearly she hasn't so fully surrendered to her resentment so clearly as they have

According to Wikipedia, "foreshadowing is a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, and it helps develop or subvert the audience's expectations about upcoming events."

I'm sure this would feel like a different conversation than what I know it is, but I got spoiled on this stuff like, years ago, so I know what's coming and frankly that does not make it feel any better

Current Thoughts

There's not a whole lot of meat on the Wards rn, but they've only been something approaching POV characters for one interlude between them and the only other time we've gotten with them was the brawl with the Undersiders, so they're not super fleshed out at this point and I don't think I'm gonna sweat over that much

Can't wait for Browbeat to never come up again

I'm still positive-leaning on Piggot, but who knows where that lands. However reasonable or unreasonable she manages to be over however long she's present as the Director.

Gallant seems nice enough but I'm not sure his empath powers actually make him empathetic? Otherwise he'd probably be having a different conversation with Amy

Speaking of which, oh boy Amy. You poor creature. Would rather you be pulled off the course you're on, but that's not happening in canon is it

Arc 3 thoughts in a bit

[daisychainsandbowties]

would lilith be much of a book reader? What kind of books would she read?

right so i think that Lilith has the adhd reader thing where YES she loves to read, NO she doesn’t read. actually she’s always reading twelve books at the same time; no she never finishes any of them.

like any really really intelligent person Lilith is hungry for knowledge, and like any child raised under the press of a thumb she’s willing to get that knowledge wherever she can. her brain is working against her a little but it’s also a beautiful creature because it wants knowledge, but all of it all the time all at once. 

i think she’s on wikipedia and in the NASA archives and on Project Gutenberg constantly. she will literally sit there on her phone for hours doing the fanfiction thing where she tricks her brain into thinking it’s not technically reading because there are no books involved.

she tab-hops like a madwoman but it’s a case of balancing her intense need for information with her brain’s unwillingness to tackle that information in a structured way. inside of ten minutes she’ll read a bit about the Riemann hypothesis, a couple paragraphs of a socratic dialogue, an archived forum page about siphoning gas with your mouth and what petroleum tastes like (keeps waking up with a weird sulfur taste in her mouth. keeps hoping to find some explanation other than ‘it tastes like devil in here’) but if you ask her what she reads she’ll scowl and say ‘nothing.’

but i mean this is the girl who used to sit with Beatrice for hours and just listen to her talk about Galileo and Langer's lines and how to debone a fish. who used to sit by the fire with her dad and listen to random bits of historical apocrypha and who requested Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time as her bedtime story when she was three years old.

she definitely sits on her phone watching 6 hour videos about Dark Souls lore and she reads all the books in Skyrim because they’re like 300 words long and somehow staring at the TV and reading off there is easier than reading a physical book made of paper or reading on the kindle (even when Cam downloads dyslexia-friendly reading aids).

her brain likes to bounce off the walls but it wants to know things. so badly. i think audiobooks are good for her but she plays them at 2x speed so her brain has to kind of do cartwheels to keep up and it gives her the same feeling as listening to heavy metal while she goes and picks up heavy objects and puts them back down again in the gym.

i wrote about this a little before but the sound and texture and the saying of words is very appealing to Lilith. she loves the music of language so i think the only way she can read actual novels for any length of time is to read them aloud (as opposed to subvocating) because choosing where to put emphasis and just feeling the words in her body is enough to keep her suitably entertained (plus lilith post-canon is not a huge fan of silence. she spent a lot of time wandering around in the weird high-pressure hellscape of The Other Side looking for Mary and then Ava. so she treats Bea’s noise-cancelling headphones like they’re going to eat her and she enjoys white noise playlists and having music just playing in the background).

Lilith adores the puzzles that language can make. she actually loved poetry as a kid because it felt to her like she could memorise the poem and work it over in the horrible ‘no talking’ hours that her mother imposed. at night when she couldn’t sleep after her dad died she’d repeat the poems over and over and over again and slowly wring more meaning out of them with each repetition.

she likes when stories are puzzles and, incidentally, one of her favourite things to do is listen to an audiobook on 2x speed while doing sudoku or crosswords.

and Lilith will read anything. she’s not super into fantasy or sci-fi because she has fucking wings and scales and it’s a bit like ‘i’m in this picture and i don’t like it’ but she enjoys classics. has a weird soft spot for Moby Dick and she really likes post-apocalyptic books like The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Parable of the Sower and i think she quite enjoys The Hunger Games and the Wool series. she definitely loves The Broken Earth Trilogy because it somehow gets a free pass with her ‘i’m in this picture and i don’t like it’ hang-up. it does make her cry though (the hand scene really gets to her because sometimes her mother would hold her hand like that, like she wanted to smash it and see if it came back together without the dysgraphia).

but she also rlly likes plays because performance and by god Lilith is a drama queen. she would totally have been a theatre kid if she’d been allowed & she loves performing little monologues and she likes how people sound when they’re angry but in the context of a play because the anger is always under the control of the narrative, and you can stop being angry whenever you want. 

she loves collecting information so when Cam introduces her to Stardew Valley she sits up in bed all night reading wiki after wiki and making little spreadsheets on her excel app for which gifts to give and when and how many of each crop to plant and which trees to grow and where and how many chickens and how much hay and all the different fish and how to organise the layout of the farm. so by the next day Cam wakes up and Lilith has basically a bachelor’s degree in Stardew Valley

and Cam is like ‘oh my god Lily i got you this game so you would relax!’ and Lilith frowning in genuine confusion like ‘i am relaxing??’

she does sometimes just teleport into Bea and Ava’s house & look quite forlorn until Beatrice sits down with her at the island in the kitchen and the pair of them peel oranges.

Beatrice talks about whatever she’s reading about that week, and eventually Ava comes in and explains all the different strategies for winning at Super Smash Bros and her opinions on the objective best tracks in Mario Kart while Beatrice cooks burgers on the grill outside in her baseball cap like somebody’s hot lesbian dad.

& then Lilith checks her phone & pecks Beatrice on the cheek and teleports home in time for Cam to get back from the airport. she tries to make out like she spent the whole weekend very sad and very by herself but Cam is like ‘gimmie your hands’ and then ‘yeah, Lil. i can smell the orange peel.’ 

so i think Lilith is a big reader but it’s not for the sake of stories especially or narratives or for characters or anything it’s for stimulation and knowledge and the words themselves. she’s that meme about the boyfriend who sits eating a sausage with the wikipedia page titled ‘sausage’ open on her computer. she ricochets between subjects and has the most incredible visual recall you’ve ever seen.

probably has a photographic memory but will forget what you asked her to go look for halfway up the stairs. Ava sees her sitting on her phone for literal hours while they’re all at the beach and asks Cam what the hell Lilith is doing because she’s not on social media & Cam is like ‘oh yeah she’s addicted to stack exchange and wikipedia’ and Ava takes a moment, licks melted ice-cream off her knuckle and says ‘wow that’s kind of hot’ and Cam waggles her eyebrows and goes ‘yeah, i know.’ 

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 11/7/2023

three days until my birthday problems. i have been very busy with 1) prepping my costume for ren faire and 2) onboarding a new henchwoman to the evil lair, a talented little tabby we're immediately extending full health benefits to with no trial period

listening

good morning afternoon by rebecca sugar. if i had not already known it was rebecca sugar by the voice and the understated guitar, i would have known it was her by the gorgeous synthy chimey chimes. spotify

on my release radar playlist

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reading

stop fucking using personally identifiable details in your passwords. also stop reusing your passwords and burner emails. especially if you're doing crime

A pivotal clue for validating the research into Apathyp/Fearlless came from the identity intelligence firm myNetWatchman, which found that gezze@mail.ru at one time used the passwords “геззи1991” (gezze1991) and “gezze18081991.” Care to place a wager on when Vkontakte says is Mr. Sherban’s birthday? Ten points if you answered August 18 (18081991). Mr. Sherban did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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watching

the 2006 anime BLACK LAGOON, we're going to yoink this from wikipedia bc it's serviceable enough

The series follows the Lagoon Company, a four-member team of pirate mercenaries smuggling goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia with their PT boat, the Black Lagoon. The group takes on various jobs, usually involving criminal organizations and resulting in violent gunfights.

unfortunately i am genetically inclined to boats and ex-military boats. it is extremely 2006 in sensibility and animation choices. there are remarkably sophisticated and fun battle sequences, and a lot of ass but little upskirting. revy (pictured below) is a dual-wielding gunslinger who is simply the worst. horrible woman that gets space to have a bit of a messy complex character arc and have a messy complex time of it. her writing and character are quite good period, not just quite good for 2006. i adore her.

the second episode has our pirates take out a helicopter with a torpedo boat (no deck guns! they just use the torpedo!) in a way that made me stand up, lift mackintosh above my head, and hoot like a tusken raider.

this is about as violent as your average spaghetti western, and much like spaghetti westerns i don't think the series is always successful in using its setting to make points about grey morality and not like. shock for shock's sake? certainly one to look up trigger warnings for.

the why: now i have a bootleg chromecast i have been watching more things on my actual television, remembered "hey this exists on hulu why didn't i finish it several years ago". still not sure why i didn't finish this several years ago. i am pirating the second season, but it's the sub which is a shame bc i quite like the dubbed voice actors, but it's a nightmare trying to find a dub with subtitles. i rarely have the patience to fuss with my own subtitle files.

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playing

turnip boy commits tax evasion, a 2021 game that was recently free on Epic. it is the studio Snoozy Kazoo's first game. i had a very strange time with this, bc the first fifteen minutes up to the first boss fight lulled me into a sense of complacency and then the minute i had to do something slightly complicated at the first boss fight (pay attention to my timing) i lost interest. i don't know if i will return to this, bc the humor didn't always hit for me (extremely online, but twitter online) and there's a major genshin update later this week.

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making

new evil lair employee, phil (short for philip marlowe)

recap of tragic backstory: i had seen her Around for about a week or so, realized on friday night when i scared her out of the dumpster that she had something stuck to her, and didn't see her again until sunday night, when she was too lethargic to skitter away from the dumpster. she has a VERY gnarly wound on her left flank and leg, the urgent care vet thinks she got dragged or caught in something. it is healing remarkably well, all things considered, and it's not infected bc the thing stuck to her was some vetwrap. so someone at some point patched her up?

she is SO full of milk. i have not found the kittens but there are a Lot of strays in this neighborhood, so my hope is that some other momma cat has engaged in some kidnapping.

i have a formal vet appt on the 17th for mackie that ive added phil to, so we'll see about her heart murmur, if she has a microchip (unlikely) and getting her spayed after she heals up a bit more.

mackintosh is Fucking Pissed!!! we will do incredibly slow introductions and phil will probably live in the office/guest suite for. several months. i had not originally planned on adding another henchwoman so soon, but i do have the spare bedroom, the shelter wasn't doing intakes or clinic appointments until friday, and the wound. really could not have waited until friday. it was free cat.

[hakusins]

Excuse me for asking, and don't think you have to answer this, but what is SCP?

Hello dear anon!! I'm more than happy to answer!! (visibly buzzing with excitement)

The explanation on Wikipedia is the best explanation for this as a whole, it states that The SCP Foundation (or rather the SCP series as a whole) is a fictional organization featuring independent stories from the SCP wiki, which you can just imagine as a wiki-based collaborative writing project.

In short: It is basically a fictional world that was created by random users on the Internet, where they will add little bits and pieces of lore as well as 'entries' which are the anomalies/characters in this situation, to flesh out the world as a whole. There's no definitive 'author' who started this project and it's treated as a really big writing project that anyone can partake in!

It's why I was so in love with the SCP project as a whole, and it's so so interesting because I don't think I've ever come across a series or a piece of work that came to life not by one singular author but multiple authors who are strangers. None of this is coordinated, there's overlaps and it's just so real and creative!!!

Anyways now that I've established where this came from and what it is, now its to at least explain a bit of the 'story' itself. In all honesty, I recommend you go to this youtube video to get a concrete understanding of the entire world as a whole:

It sometimes glosses over a few things, but it's a good introduction to the SCP series as whole, especially as someone who is a complete newbie.

Anyways if you don't have time for it, I will give the rundown that is relevant to the DOL x SCP AU, which I'm assuming is the reason why you're asking in the first place!

SCP stands for 'Safety Containment Procedures' and the SCP Foundation is a shadow organization dedicated to the containment or neutralization of anomalies. These anomalies are strange or dangerous entities, beings, people, organizations or even concepts, that threaten the fabric of our reality by existing. Thus, the SCP Foundation is dedicated to the containment of these anomalies to ensure the safety of the human race. Often times, the Foundation does things that are immoral or downright horrible, for the sake of containing these anomalies. But it is all for the greater good.

When you see SCP - XXXX (insert number here), this is the designation code for an anomaly. In official reports, anomalies are often referred to using this code. But when talking with other members of SCP personnel or fans, they call them by their nicknames. So for example;

'SCP-096 is known as 'the Shy Guy' in the SCP Foundation and it is an anomaly that is usually very docile in custody, but becomes extremely hostile when someone looks at its face or a picture of its face. The size or how clear the picture is irrelevant, because there have been reports that SCP-096 would go into his rage state even when someone views a singular pixel of his face in a photograph. Thus, SCP-096 has been classified as Euclid.'

SCPs is also the nickname that is often used to collective refer to these anomalies, even though SCP as an acronym stands for 'Safety Containment Procedure'.

SCPs are given a classification on top of a designation number, these range from Safe, Euclid and Keter or in some cases, Neutralized. KEEP IN MIND, a 'Safe' Classification does not mean an SCP is 'safe' to interact with or is a 'safe' SCP overall. These classifications refer to how easy it is for an anomaly to be contained. Most dangerous anomalies are in Keter yes, but some times the anomalies in Keter are also 'harmless' anomalies that are just hard to contain and have the greatest risk of interacting with civilian populations. Hence why they are designated as 'Keter.'

So just keep in mind = Safe (Easy to contain, don't worry abt it), Euclid (Can be contained under specific conditions, be wary), and Keter (Extremely difficult or impossible to contain). The SCP Foundation is not fond of neutralizing SCPs but they will do so if they're forced to. Neutralized (SCP is dead, does not exist anymore and thus do not pose a threat to the Foundation or anyone.)

I think that covers the basic stuff about the SCP Foundation!! If you have any further questions, anon. Please feel free to ask me again! I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have!!

[cuddlingdragons]

I love when a sense of horror or dread are created by something just being bizarre since something weird/strange could easily be whimsical or even calming with a different presentation.

Anyway for me, the album artwork for Muse's Absolution hits that vibe. I don't have the case on hand so I'm pretty sure the image I'm sharing from Wikipedia is the artwork sans text?

Nothing outright horrible is happening, we're not dealing with blood, gore, or "monsters"... but whatever is going on doesn't seem outright positive or reassuring either.

Art is a subjective experience, so I don't doubt that my perception of this image is heavily influenced by listening to the album before I ever saw it. You've got this lone brunette white man holding a gas mask in his right hand as he gazes upward at the sky. We see multiple shadows cast onto the ground, one from the man with the gas mask and then the rest are shaped like humans with their arms outstretched.

With no other bodies standing on the ground we can make the assumption that they may be flying, floating, or perhaps even falling. Why? Don't know! And something about the blueness of the shadows contrasting with the pale gray ground unnerves me. This whole thing feels unnerving.

And we haven't even looked at the back of the album yet.

We have... a small blonde white girl in a red dress without shoes, also staring at the sky. I'm not feeling better about this situation, whatever it is. Looking at the shadows here, some of these flying bodies are very high in the air! Have this little girl and the man been left behind by something, or perhaps something is coming toward them?

And lastly- just how big are these bodies that they can cast a shadow this detailed from a high distance?

I'm not trying to make you feel like you should be scared or admire these pictures, I'm more just trying to walk through the process of how the image informs my feelings about it. It's weird and it unnerves me, and I would love to find horror with this approach!

Anyway, this was a pretty influential album for me growing up and it was fun to practice talking about art and my feelings. Thanks for reading if you got this far!

(Obligatory note: this cover was photographed by Rupert Truman and designed by artist Storm Thorgerson- who also designed the cover for Muse's next album, Black Holes and Revelations! I think both are visually striking!)

[littlebit-png]

Alright you little shits open your ears it’s time for the pope

A couple things for clarification: 

This is about the 2007 Sweeney Todd movie. There are enough differences that I am going to be largely disregarding the musical. Also I have not seen the musical, only the film.

Under no circumstances is any of this reasonable. Get used to it. There are no gods here, only wikipedia pages and a probably neurodivergent teenager.

I cannot read roman numerals. Unfortunately, those are kind of essential for the pope. Spare me some patience here, I am but a fucking idiot.

I understand that Pirelli lied about literally everything. I do not care.

Okay get a warm drink and a cat because this is long

So in Sweeney Todd there is a scene where Mrs. Lovett takes her local emo(one Sweeney Todd) out for a nice walk. They run into a cart where a small child(Toby) starts yelling at the crowd about a magical elixir that made his hair grow and how he’s selling it with this dude named Pirelli(remember that name) now. He tosses a few bottles out into the crowd to check out and a bottle makes its way to our coveted cannibalistic couple. Sweeney smells it and realizes that it’s not, in fact, magical and is instead made out of piss and ink. He kindly lets the crowd know and then this fuckin man bursts through the curtain and starts screaming. 

Look at him. Look at him and tell me that god exists. 

Anyway his name is Adolfo Pirelli and he brags a bunch about being a really good barber(see the sign behind him that I didn’t actually realize existed before taking that screenshot for this). Sweeney calls him out and says that he could shave a face better than Pirelli could and you can’t really back down from a challenge like that (actually Sweeney put him in a really tough spot there where he couldn’t say yes or no without destroying his reputation, it’s neat) so Pirelli flips his cape because his hair has so much gel in it that it’s basically made of stone at this point and agrees. Thus, the Pirelli Shaving Contest. They get two random dudes to be shaved and this dude named Beadle agrees to be the judge. 

Pirelli does a shit job and loses but we don’t care about that right now because while he is singing about how good at shaving he is he says, and I quote(without writing out the horrible italian accent because I hold myself to a higher standard than that) 

“Signorini, signori, you look at a man who have had the glory to shave the Pope! ‘Mister Sweeney-Whoever’, I beg your pardon, you’ll probably say it was only a cardinal no nope! It was the pope!”

Now this was a mistake on Pirelli’s part because he didn’t know that I have had a long-time obsession with learning about popes. I don’t even know how this started but I decided I would find out if he did(spoiler alert: he didn’t but this rant devolves into time travel so hear me out)

Luckily for me, Pirelli shows a picture of the Pope that he supposedly shaved.

Now this further cements that no. his ass did not shave the Pope. Infuriatingly, the pope only signed his name as “The Pope” and did not disclose which pope he actually was, so I was not told exactly which pope this could have been. I started my research.

First step in my descent into madness: Find out when Sweeney Todd takes place. Sounds simple right? Wrong, nothing is ever simple. I will spare you the anguish of trying to figure out when the movie takes place and tell you that it takes place in 1846. The Pope at the time was Pope Pius IX. He looked like this.

This could reasonably be the dude that Pirelli shaved. But in 1846, a fascinating event happened. The Pope changed. Now this doesn’t happen a lot because it is custom that when somebody becomes pope, they’re pope until they die. Technically, popes can retire but only two ever did: Pope Benedict XVI who retired back in 2013, and Pope Celestine V(one of my personal favorite popes, which is a totally normal thing to have), who retired in 1294. 

Back to the topic at hand, the previous pope was Pope Gregory XVI. He looked like this:

Now, along with having all of the characteristics of one of God's least favorite creatures, he does not look like the pope that Pirelli claimed to have shaved. He died on June 1st, 1846 and Pope Pius IX promptly became pope afterward.

So Pope Pius IX became pope in June. Neat. That raises the horrible question: When in the year does Sweeney Todd take place?

Throughout the movie, it’s seems to be getting warmer, though true to london weather, it’s never actually sunny unless you’re in Mrs. Lovett's weird beach-dream-thing. As far as I know, it’s never stated what month(s) it is, though feel free to fact check me on that. I’m guessing it’s somewhere in March-May.

Now, time to put all of this together.

Pirelli claims to have shaved the Pope, showing a picture of future Pope Pius IX when the pope at the time would have been Pope Gregory XVI. Even if the Pirelli Shaving Contest happened after Pius became pope, he would not have had the credibility yet that shaving him would have meant much of anything. 

The conclusion I have reached? Pirelli is a time traveler from a future time, possibly even being an older version of Toby himself, who, when he looked up who the pope was in 1846, found a technically correct answer and was lazy enough to run with it. 

Alright I’m done. Technically there are a few more details to this that I found and a whole other story with the dates, but they aren’t actually as relevant as I would like and were removed for the sake of my sanity as I am writing this when I should be sleeping.

If anybody does want to hear my explanation of the plot of Sweeney Todd I would be happy to give it, it’s genuinely one of my favorite musicals. I’m sure my friends/boyfriend are getting sick of it at this point.

[whatyourusherthinks]

Bob Marley: One Love Review

Bob Marley: One Love has had a weird pre-watching history for me. When I heard the premise, I thought, dope. I'd totally watch a Bob Marley biopic. Then a manager at work told me it was supposed to come out last year and they had screenings that went down horribly. Egh. But the opening weekend sold a lot of tickets! And sales went significantly down shortly after...

Whatever happens this is going to be interesting.

What's The Movie About?

The biopic shows the attempted assassination of Bob and the aftermath of everyone's survival. Kinda.

What I Liked.

First, the music is really good. Obviously. There was a couple moments here and there I thought were pretty interesting, for example they showed Bob getting the inspiration of the album Exodus and that was cool. I liked Bob's charity work and how they showed his beliefs through his music career. And there was a pretty touching moment at the end when Bob confronts his would-be assassin, although I don't know if it actually happened or not.

What I Didn't Like.

The story is unfocused. It starts about Bob dealing with the aftermath of the shooting and having PTSD, but then he moves to London and it seems like the movie completely forgets about that plot point. There's three plot developments that seem like they should important but are brought up 40 minutes before the credits roll and resolve super quick, or is the outcome of the plot point is explained with text over actual pictures or video of the real Bob Marley. Speaking of which, this is a nitpick, but the actor who plays Bob Marley does not look like him, and it's really obvious with the ending. Also, there's a scene of the Bob singing 'Three Little Birds' and he stops and the crowd continues to sing in the trailer that is not in the final movie. Speaking if nitpicks, there's like a million flashbacks in the movie that aren't presented super well, but whenever the flashback to Bob and his wife when they are young adults (I think they're supposed to be like 18 or 20) the actors look 15. Also, I went to see this movie with my sister. And we couldn't understand half the dialogue. Is it because we're two white kids who've never been to or met anyone from Jamaica? Probably.

My final criticism is getting it's own section because I feel like I'll need to justify myself, but half this movie is a shitty religious movie. What I mean by that is half the movie is about Rastafari and how Bob Marley is a believer of that religion, but rather that having an explanation of the religion or focusing on debate between people of different faiths, it's just dogma. Either Bob says he's struggling emotionally and his wife or his priest says "Believe Rastafari!" and he's all better, or some white guy is questioning how he's promoting himself or making his music and he says "I'm doing it the way Rastafari wants!" and it completely shuts down the conversation. See, I've praised spirituality in other movies like The Color Purple, but that felt like I was being explained a unique perspective on an already existing belief. I like learning about theology because I'm gaining knowledge that can be pretty damn fascinating. The only thing I really learned from this movie is that Lions are an important symbol of Rastafarians, but I don't know why. It's just reiterating the movie's beliefs, refusing to accept criticism, and saying fuck you if you disagree.

Final Summation.

So the movie is not good. It's fine, but my big sticking point is that the only reason to see this movie is to hear the music, and to learn about Bob Marley. And you could literally get the same experience reading Bob's Wikipedia page while listening to a Bob Marley and the Wailers record. So save your money on a ticket.

[enter-the-performapals]

For my Original Characters 8th anniversary and Caelum's birthday this year, ive decided to redesign my main OCs as YGO characters!

When I watched Arc-V for the first time, I of course had to relate it to my OCs (becuae I do that with everything lol) but also because Ayumu's nickname is Literally Yuzu and Luciano's nickname is LuLu and my tiny little brain was like "omg! Jus like my babies!" For reference I created Caelum, Luciano and Ayumu (in that order) when I was 15, Fiore a little later at 17, and I watched Arc-V when I was 18 and I am 23 now.

Basically, these guy's stories would happen during the events of Arc-V. All the characters here are also a little older at 16. As I know very little about the card game itself I haven't given them decks but I may create archetypes when I've watched more than Arc-V and GX.

I will also note that I'll probably draw these guys again because I love them lol

Just a trigger warning as well: there's a bit of graphic violence in these descriptions, so just look at the pretty picture of them if that bothers you :)

Ayumu

An absolute goblin who loves to analyse duel monsters matches but doesn't actually play himself

Basically a hikikomori who spends his days on duel monsters Wikipedias and complains on forums about the current meta

When he learns about pendulum he's absolutely fascinated and avidly watches Yuya's matches in the Maiami cup

When the Battle Royale in Maiami city is announced and that there will be pendulum cards up for the participants he goes nuts

He actually ventures out of his house in months to pinch some pendulum cards from the restricted zones of Maiami

Mainly to say to forum shitposters that hes gonna break the game with his own pedulums

He has a really basic starter deck with him just in case he encounters one of the contestants but he'd eventually get a different deck

Finally sneaks into one of the zones while the Obelisk Force attack is happening and finds a couple of pedulum cards

Before accidentally running into Luciano, another character I'll mention later

After a scuffle between the two, Lucio panics and teleports out of Standard and Ayumu is also accidentally teleported-ending up in Synchro

Caelum

As you can probably tell, he is very much a commons

Has a very Fuck Cops Eat the Rich attitude and is very pro revolution

Also die hard Jack Atlas and Turbo Duel fan lol

Hobbies include: Stealing from the Tops, Invading their spaces, being a generally nuisance to anyone who doesn't live in the Satellite

Also always happy to help in any relief efforts as he can't go past anyone who's struggling

Met Ayumu after a mix up in a Tops only area when Security mistook him for a commons and he just had to rescue him

Immediately became fast friends with him and helped build a better deck

Mainly because they're both Duel Monsters geeks, but Cae has very little knowledge while Ayumu has very little experience

The both of them snuck into the stadium where the friendship cup was taking place and watched from the sidelines

And that's about it for what I'm developed for them lol

Luciano

Just very quickly: in the original cannon for my OCs, Lucio is Italian so his name is pronounced Lew-cho or Lew-cha-noe not Loo-see-oe

And from here on out I'll be calling him by his nickname, Lucio

Lucio is an Duel Academia student (quite obviously) who, before and during the genocide on Xyz was an Osiris/Slifer Red

While he was a good student, good enough to easily be Obelisk Blue, he was very disrespectful and horribly obstinate

Basically forced himself into being a soldier in the war effort no matter what anyone said

Was terribly violent with his duels, and eventually murdered someone

When this was found out, he was extradited back to Academia to stand on trial for basically robbing the Arc V of power

He was put on a probation of sorts and told if he made one more wrong move he'd be kicked from Duel Academia all together which sent him into a spiralling panic

After the trial, he was approached by Joeri who chastised him and smugly told him to get his act together

After restraining himself from attacking Joeri and calming down he was left absolutely despising the younger kid and desperate to upstage him

Through Espionage ™ he found out the very basics of the Revival Zero project and that Leo Akaba was seeking the components of Ray and decided that this was his chance

Also learned of Obelisk Force's plans to storm Standard and decided that that was his chance

Stole an Obelisk Force Uniform, teleported to Standard and went on the hunt for our fav citrus girl

Alecksi

Absolutely loved his life in Heartland City before the genocide

Had a practically identical twin sister, Alessia- also known as Fiorella (little flower in Italian)

Wasn't really big into Duel Monsters, but supported his sister, who wanted to be a pro duelist

When Academia hit them, they weren't expecting it

They survived a while, but never ended up running into the Resistance nor any relief efforts for the displaced people of Heartland, staying mostly on the outskirts of the distressed city

Eventually they were caught by Academia students and chased into the inner part of the city

Eventually cornered by Lucio who challenged Fiorella to a duel

Even though she fought as well as she could, the two of them were both half starved to death and practically on their last legs for spending such a long time out of the city in an active war zone

After defeating her, he went overboard and ended up brutally murdering her and gouging out Alecksi's eye instead of turning them into cards

After Alessia dies in his arms, she gave him her deck and her necklace to remember her by

He takes them and swears revenge

Practically bleeding to death, Alecksi faints and eventually wakes up in a shelter, saved by Sayaka and Allen

He takes a long time to recover (as best he can) from his injury and his malnutrition

While healing, he learns as much as he can about duel monsters from The Resistance

Keep what happened to himself, but sympathizes with Syun

After he's healed to the best he can be, he flees the shelter and goes on the hunt for Lucio

And that's all I've got for now. Ill definitely do a bit more art of Cae in this AU for a belated birthday present, but let me know if you'd like to see/read more of these guys, as they're really close to my heart :)

[meltingheaven27]

O Allah, hear my confession, forgive how bloody my bloodline

It's election week in Indonesia, it's my second election ever.

The election week is tense as ever, it is never calm enough since the rising of technology makes us easily use the platform to use our voice and criticize any part and thing. I used to not really care about politics, i don't know where to start, and i don't think my presence is relevant. But it is different now. Since i get into university, i do realize politics reacts to every life aspects and from that thoughts, i started to care about politics.

2024 election give us 3 candidates, with one familiar faces, Prabowo Subianto. Prabowo trying so hard to be elected as a president of Indonesia for 3 consistent years, he never really want to lose, everyone else too, right? But, he's... a bit too ambitious. He was on a military background and has been on Soeharto regime as a general. He participated a lot of massacre that is happened in Indonesia, one of the worst, such as Timor Timur and 1998.

His background on general and closeness with the regime of Soeharto is the starting point where i starting to learn that i, to be exact, my family is one of reason part of this mess.

My family have a strong bond with Soeharto regime and Prabowo/military. Where on my mom side, my grandpa is in a high position on Per***** or PT Ba***, where my mom's family fortune is benefited from the rule of Soeharto where most of his law leaning on the higher society, it makes them (my family) seemed glorified him in a scary way. Our familial ties has our own way to the vice president, i don't really know how. His name is Tri Sutrisno, a spouse of my far related family, Tuti Sutiawati.

I remembered how my mom brag about her tableware, and i remember when she showed me a souvenir for her Wedding ceremony from Try Sutrisno, it was a pink and white ceramic set with a floral print on it, also a nice printed letter to congratulate her wedding with my dad. That's when i know how i related to someone that is a big person, someone from higher society.

My family always told me how sweet and safe Soeharto regime is, they always told me how the prices are cheap (for them), safe when you walk home at night (i really need a verification on this), and any other things. It's always on the same narration between one member to another, i started to believe that.

Days are changing, i started to learn later in my life, that Indonesia's history is written or mostly told hiding the harsh truth. Where at that time, when Try was a vice president and general, is also part of the mess, just like Prabowo.

the picture's ahead is a prints that taking a part of the mess in Indonesia from Aksi Kamisan

Try Sutrisno is allegedly taking part of the tragedy of Tanjung Priuk, where lies a failed Indonesia democracy under Soeharto regime. As said in Wikipedia, the tragedy took 20 person's died, just because critique of the regime and one of man that moving the dead bodies was Try Sutrisno itself.

I learned those things from activists, mostly, articles and literature is also take part for finding all of his involvement and information. To think about it too, i started to realize when i exposed to 2 narration which leads me to use basic logic to think and looking for the red strings, which one is making it sense logically and objectively, most importantly, why does my family is stable when the horrible things happened?

It was my first Kamisan, the protest that runs for more than 700+ weeks that took place in front of the Presidential Palace Jakarta and Thursday, right after the election day. The quick count said that Prabowo is leading the electoral politics. The ambience was full of anger, if not, in between hopeless and mad over the chaos Indonesia's Politics in general. Where the leading candidates is a war criminal and unethical youngster that broke off the law with the help of his uncle (Constitutional Court) and dad (President). The frustation on people's eyes, the hurt they felt, is represented by emotional rain that couldn't wipe down their rage over the corrupt government. There is several agenda such as oration from several activists and professors, how their voice full of rage and sadness combined, that vibrating to my inner self, full realization that i am guilty. I am, my family, is the main cause of these people suffering. My eyes full of tears, wiped out by the rain in front of National Monument. I can't say anything, i honestly don't know what to do, i am blinded so far, but i want to do something at least, other than repent to God and the people.

I wanna pay back by voicing my voice and take part, even though i know it's too late. This is my sins, where my bloodline is full of blood.

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PENNY DREADFUL: GLORIOUS HORRORS SEASON 2 EPISODE 6

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Penny Dreadful is a horror drama 3 season television series created by John Logan.

Explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, American gunslinger Ethan Chandler, scientist Victor Frankenstein and medium Vanessa Ives unite to combat supernatural threats in Victorian London. Penny Dreadful (TV series) - Wikipedia

IMdB: 8'2 DRAMA / FANTASY / HORROR S1E06

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The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter.

Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny blood. The term typically referred to a story published in weekly parts of 8 to 16 pages, each costing one penny. The subject matter of these stories was typically sensational, focusing on the exploits of detectives, criminals, or supernatural entities. First published in the 1830s, penny dreadfuls featured characters such as Sweeney Todd, Dick Turpin, Varney the Vampire, and Spring-heeled Jack.

The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century Victorian Gothic fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, showing their origin stories as an explorer searches for his daughter. Justine from Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade also appears.

A spin-off series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, aired from April 26 to June 28, 2020.

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Not entirely on topic, but I would like to point out that you can see the oil paint sticking from the canvas. It throws a small shadow. This is not a simple art print! It either is the actual Chagall (which would not even surprise me) or a copy that replicates the paint structure as well. It is also cropped, the actual picture is bigger (so likely a copy, or something horrible happened to the real one).

As to the symbolism: A quick Wikipedia research revealed that Chagall often used the same symbols. The floating pair symbolizes love (here Adam and Eve). The rooster stands for male sexuality. Liberty is expressed through horses (see the yellow horse above the pair). He used the color blue for transcendence (which is very present in this painting). And paradise has one important rule: no sex.

I personally think that the angel looks a bit like the Enterprise (same color, the wings as the nacelles). You could also see the Enterprise as a superhuman character, much stronger than any of the other characters combined (like an angel). If you want to interpret this in a spirky way, you could cast Kirk and Spock as the lovers, leaving the Enterprise (paradise) but gaining the ability and liberty to be physically intimate. It is liberty at a price, namely losing the protection of paradise.

Spock basically put up a giant proposition for Kirk. All good things must come to an end, so that new things can begin.

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991) dir. Nicholas Meyer