#And now neither of us can re-acquire that dangerous level of power
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the-scungles-of-crungles · 10 months ago
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This is "The Doctor", a resident of the nightmare realm, who has been there long enough to have been almost completely corrupted. His face is normally just a pitch black void hole but sometimes you can see eyes and/or teeth in there
He wants to help people, but he's almost completely lost his mind, and can sometimes act a bit... Feral.
Surprisingly, the nightmare realm's usual effect of making people lose every memory of their life before they ended up here, hasn't managed to take away his medical knowledge. He's still very smart, despite everything.
Unfortunately he seems to scare off most people who he would otherwise have helped...
#my art#Ok okkkk so this guy is from the world in my mind I live in parallel to reality#But I wanna make some of the guys from there into ocs too because they're neat#Love this guy. He's kidnapped me several times (LMAO ok there's context but I'd have to write a damn novel to explain that)#Oh and the nightmare realm isn't the world in my mind. Well it's a dimension in a multiverse I travel in there#But uhhhhh I spend basically all my time in the nightmare realm now bcause I like the vibes#But before that... I just spent time with various video game characters#Asriel from undertale became a scientist that created dimensional portals. And we kinda found the nightmare realm on accident#We don't talk much anymore but y'know. Every once in a while I'll visit#Last time though he had been forced into working for an evil agency that was trying to harness my demi-god like powers#Because in the universe in my mind I'm a shape-shifting horror that cannot truly die (I respawn)#I actually nerfed my own powers in-universe because I hadn't been to responsible with them in the past#Well I gave the ability to regulate my powers to a sort of evil-ish counterpart of myself (void)#And then we made a deal to cut eachother's power down to a reasonable level#And now neither of us can re-acquire that dangerous level of power#Uhhh. Isn't that kinda how the things in harry potter work? A vessel with a chunk of your power in it? Idk#Anywayy_yyyys#Void decided to do some trickster shit and tried to absorb me for my power and become a god recently.#So I was like ''ok no more chances bitch'' and finally reduced her to a basically mortal form and banished her#To some random dimension I probably won't ever go to.#(She's been a problem for yeeeeaaaarrrrsss but we were occasionally chill so I didn't wanna do it but y'know.)#We even kinda accidentally had a magic-baby??? Sorta? There's no better way to explain that one but yeah idk where that chick ran off to#Y'know I refer to void as she mostly but she's kinda just whatever she wants to be in the moment. Fucking chaos incarcerate#Her original job was absorbing forgotten ideas. Characters or concepts or entire worlds fogotten by my mind#Woukd become part of her#UUhhhhhhhhhhhhhm.#Oh and void was in charge of the evil organization that wanted to harness my power.#She had possessed the leader of some government scientist lab thing.#And. Well. Yeah.#Congrats to anyone who reads all this and I'm sorry for the brief glimpse into complete derangement
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home-nursing-care · 4 years ago
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Home Nursing Care
1. The idea and development of domestic health nursing
1.1. The idea of home health nursing
home fitness nursing is the exercise of registered or certified nurses presenting expert take care of sufferers in the affected person's domestic. home fitness nursing is different from home nursing in that domestic fitness nurses are licensed professionals, while home nursing might also involve non-professional caregivers.
1.2. The development of domestic fitness nursing
home fitness nursing is broadly carried out in the take care of a variety of kinds of patients, along with aged patients with disabilities caused by diverse persistent illnesses, which include diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart ailment, osteoporosis, cognitive impairment and dementia, and hip or knee fracture surgical operation. Those sufferers normally require long-term, complete, meticulous care and also want interdisciplinary care to fulfill their desires. home fitness nursing is likewise applied to maternal and little one care, which include nursing and prevention of postpartum melancholy, and merchandising of ordinary improvement of toddlers. In California, types of home care include the In-home Supportive offerings, and lengthy-time period Care services and Supports1; in Korea, the kinds of domestic care vary, which includes sanatorium-based totally home nursing offerings, customized visiting health services and lengthy-time period care coverage-based traveling nursing services. the primary type is home fitness nursing, in which the collaborating nurses are experts with a grasp's degree, while the latter  are home nursing. those styles of domestic care have different target sufferers.2
numerous new issues have emerged from home care practices, including incapacity to meet completely the demand of the sufferers who have not best bodily care needs but additionally psychological and social care needs, which is mainly genuine among aged sufferers with continual sicknesses. Therefore, while perfecting the mechanism of this type of care, more comprehensive wishes and social supports need to be considered, such that the high-quality nursing services are supplied for sufferers. Additionally, this sort of care gadget should be diversified to fulfill the desires of sufferers with numerous illnesses and conditions.
2. The particular types of home fitness nursing and their implications
In Korea, domestic care includes several codecs: (1) clinic-based Home Nursing Care services. For this form of carrier, customers are selected by way of doctors in the course of hospitalization, and patients commonly have a selected circumstance, which includes postoperative patients or sufferers with persistent sickness who were discharged early from the hospital. Those patients are normally elderly or are new mothers and newborns. The nursing personnel engaged in this sort of care are specialists with a grasp's degree. (2) custom designed journeying health services. This sort of care calls for identification of humans in want and gives them nursing guidance, such as education, management services, and fitness selling through home visits. (3) lengthy-time period care insurance-based totally nursing provider. This sort of targeted patient identity is based totally at the daily lifestyles and health situations of the affected person. The latter  contain domestic nursing without unique necessities.2 Postpartum ladies and newborns are the main provider customers of domestic fitness nursing. Postpartum despair is a common problem that takes place a few months after delivery, and may affect the baby's improvement, conduct and psychological, physiological, and cognitive improvement. A randomized managed trial showed that domestic fitness nursing may want to enhance maternal-toddler interaction and mitigate postpartum despair through home visits, with the puerperal quick returning to regular and an all-spherical improvement within the improvement of infants.3
One randomized controlled trial showed that powerful postpartum home visits from nurses can efficaciously save you emergencies and sell fine parenting, that's value-powerful.four In nursing strategies, high-danger first-time mothers must be continuously evaluated and powerful nursing should be furnished in a timely fashion.five One take a look at identified that we should enhance nurses' expertise, skills and the overall stage of care for elderly patients with continual diseases. Nurses ought to provide full consideration to all aspects of needs and study the physiological, mental, and social supportive troubles to offer better care.6 A randomized controlled trial established that family visits blended with cellphone calls can reduce medical institution readmission charge as compared with telephone calls only.7
A randomized managed test showed a advantageous impact of domestic fitness care inside the control of diabetes.eight home fitness nursing changed into powerful in preventing pores and skin tears.nine additionally, for domestic fitness care nurses, the capacity to control popular medication and more than one medicine, as well as the ability to assess high-threat fall sufferers, are enormously important.10, 11, 12 moreover, in domestic health nursing, expert nursing group of workers must grasp various responsibilities, consisting of inner medicine and surgical nursing abilties.13 home fitness nursing additionally performs a essential role in hospice care sufferers, and providing spiritual care for terminal sufferers is treasured.14, 15 Venous leg ulcers also are a symptom that is essential for home fitness nurses to manage.16
3. problems in domestic health nursing
An American take a look at indicated that there may be insufficient care for patients with osteoporosis the use of home fitness nursing; handiest 34% of sufferers with a excessive threat of fracture received appropriate remedy, and those who had extra comorbidities acquired less remedy.17 In latest years, along with the getting old of the populace, the wide variety of patients with osteoporosis has multiplied. Consequently, the proper care and treatment of osteoporosis patients is an essential public health problem. A examine related to the network and home fitness nursing of patients with impaired cognitive function suggests that we regularly cannot parent the improvement of delirium and dementia in a timely manner. Cognitive impairment and dementia considerably influences physiological and mental health and satisfaction of existence. There are a few patients with cognitive impairment who've no longer yet advanced dementia, and effective nursing is an important issue to take care of those forms of sufferers. the home health nurses should conduct powerful and meticulous observations blended with the usage of a excessive sensitivity scale for easy size and early observation of feasible issues, for that reason permitting corresponding nursing interventions and provision of scientific steering.18 A qualitative take a look at carried out in Norway showed that from the angle of domestic fitness nursing managers, following the house health care version caused a dilemma: complete nursing care of patients with persistent sicknesses who need long-time period domestic care need to be each continuous and well-rounded; however, to offer a enough level of care, the nurses paintings are in all likelihood to experience fatigue. Therefore, it is essential to obtain a balance of the desires of each nurses and patients for home care. The Home Nursing Care operating model involves rotation of different fitness care groups every 3 months for each patient. Some nurses and sufferers are reluctant to change due to the fact they are acquainted with each different and have tailored to a particular nursing pattern. however, non-stop patient care with the same care group provides some problems. for instance, nurses who have emerge as distinctly acquainted with their patients that they'll be more likely to miss the identification of dormant health issues. The goal of normal substitute of the care group is to enable common standard re-evaluation of the patients, and for this reason provide better non-stop services.19
A qualitative have a look at approximately care of disabled elderly patients in California validated that provision of domestic support offerings for such patients and their families are vital. However, problems in the nursing version exist; for example, the obligations for caring for sufferers are vast and can include some simple care, consisting of dressing and cooking, and the needs of many low-income aged sufferers can't be absolutely satisfied. Additionally, the psychological and social health wishes of an affected person can be not noted at some stage in the process of care. every now and then, in addition to expert nurses, a patient's own family participants will also adopt certain care obligations. but, circle of relatives individuals have other obligations in their paintings and lives, causing this form of care structure now not to be strong and in many instances the care desires of the patients aren't fully met.1
four. overseas domestic health nursing model for home enlightenment
In our United States, many research has been conducted on domestic care for patients with various illnesses, which includes excessive blood strain, bronchial bronchial asthma in children, and vascular dementia. take care of the ones sufferers included unique care, general medication guidance and everyday follow-up.20, 21, 22 however, the improvement of home care in China is poor, a fantastically entire, widespread device has not but been fashioned. the maximum circle of relatives care nurses neither underwent professional schooling nor surpassed a strict examination. within the future, the improvement of residing requirements and refinement of specialised nursing will make contributions to pleasure of different care wishes of diverse sufferers. overseas home health nursing fashions have precise importance and extensive clinical application value. In future studies, techniques through which to better follow a domestic health nursing version to numerous forms of diseases is a query that ought to be addressed and is quintessential for the standardization of effective domestic health nursing structures.
Some issues exist amongst research of domestic care that ought to be averted when organising a standardized care device. exceptional patients with exceptional ages, sicknesses and sickness durations may have exceptional care desires, and nursing workforce need to acquire professional training and hold professional sensitivity to stumble on potential nursing issues. Concordantly, complete care need to be provided to meet the care needs of the patient, which includes physical, psychological and social fitness needs. whilst being concerned for patients, the caregivers of patients need to additionally be taken into consideration, thinking about continuity and balance of the care supplied with the aid of them and taking suitable countermeasures, whilst necessary. final however now not least, the bodily and mental fitness must additionally be taken into consideration within the management of caregivers, with corresponding strategies applied to make certain the long-time period and healthful development of the house care version.
accordingly, the realistic revelation is that a standardized, systematic, specialized domestic fitness nursing model should be installed, and medical management ought to be made to satisfy the overall care needs of sufferers. In contrast, unique evaluation and care for all varieties of sufferers requires greater professional care personnel, mainly caregivers with a grasp's degree. home health nursing is an extension of health facility care and performs an important function inside the normal care of sufferers. All nursing personnel in the clinic should explore better use of domestic health nursing for all kinds of diseases.
five. Conclusions
usual, home fitness Nursing is a quite expert, standardized nursing model. Organising this type of nursing model is an inevitable trend in destiny nursing development, and we ought to continuously enhance home fitness nursing systems, to higher promote the health of citizens.
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rwby-redux · 5 years ago
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Deconstruction
Worldbuilding: Semblances II
Last time in Part I, we analyzed the failings of Semblances from a meta perspective. Now we’re going to look at them within the context of the actual show. Before we begin, let’s revisit that list of basic traits that are universally shared by Semblances.
A Semblance draws upon Aura as its source of power. When this fuel is depleted, a person can no longer use their Semblance, and must wait for their Aura to regenerate before it can be used again.
The specific ability or nature of one’s Semblance is alleged to be an expression of the user’s personality/character/soul.
Overuse of a Semblance can adversely affect a person and cause physical side effects, such as fatigue, headaches, or fainting.
Semblances can interact with Dust in such a way that their skills are augmented, resulting in the temporary acquisition of new subskills or secondary characteristics.
Through training and regular usage, Semblances can gradually become stronger or more advanced.
The intensity of certain emotions, such as stress, panic, despair, or rage, can cause a person to subconsciously activate their Semblance.
This refresher will be important as we go more in-depth. At the very least, it��ll save you the hassle of having to jump back and forth between tabs.
Limitations of Semblances
Recall point one. If your first instinct is to say, surely having a limited amount of Aura is a good limitation for Semblances, then you’d be forgiven for thinking that. In theory, it makes sense: a power based on a finite energy source does seem like a pretty significant drawback. My main issue with this being a credible limitation for Semblances is that we, the audience, have no way to gauge Aura depletion over time. And by extension, neither do our characters. In the first three Volumes, students used specialized monitors (usually on their scrolls) to keep tabs on Aura over the course of a sparring match. Not only do I like this because it’s a clever visual aid for relaying information to the audience, but also because it conveys clear worldbuilding information: characters don’t seem to have a way of innately sensing when their Aura is low. This idea seems to be reinforced again in V7.E3 - “Ace Operatives.” In the opening scene, Clover reminds RWBY and JN_R that their scrolls have been upgraded with Atlas tech, and they shouldn’t forget to use them. That line of dialogue is accompanied by Blake consulting her scroll for her teammates’ Aura levels. To my knowledge, there’s nothing in the canon that suggests characters can sense or feel when their Aura level drops, or how far away it is from depletion.
Having to rely on scrolls to monitor their Aura would be an excellent limitation to impose on an otherwise limitless superpower. Not only would it require the characters to constantly monitor their Aura, but it could introduce realistic problems. Like what would happen if a character’s scroll was lost, or destroyed, or its batteries died? How would that affect the character’s behavior in regards to Aura-related tasks? Great idea, right?
Now here comes the kicker: we don’t see any evidence of this in the show. When Team RNJR was traveling through Anima, none of them discussed having to find a village to recharge their scrolls. It’s not as if the trees have outlets that they can conveniently plug their scrolls into. Similarly, none of the characters from Volume 3 onward consult their scroll during fights to see where their Aura levels are at. You don’t see characters changing fighting styles midway through a fight in order to conserve what little Aura they have left. You don’t see characters minimizing the use of their Semblance in favor of more efficient tactics.
That’s why limited Aura doesn’t seem like a believable limitation for Semblances—not for a lack of possibility, but for a lack of execution. If characters made more of a fuss about it on-screen, I could buy it. But apart from one or two throw-away lines, characters don’t seem to pay attention to how Aura depletion affects Semblance usage, and by extension, they don’t adjust or change their tactics during combat to compensate for it.
Bear in mind that this discussion has only touched upon general limitations. We haven’t even addressed Semblance-specific limitations yet. Can Marcus Black only steal one Semblance at a time? Can Sun only make a certain number of clones at once? If Yang doesn’t eventually release the energy that she’s stored up, does it backfire on her? Is Pyrrha limited to only one type of magnetism, like ferromagnetism, or can she use more than one type? If Robyn uses her Semblance on someone who’s stating an incorrect fact, but they believe that fact to be true, then does it indicate that the person is lying? Does Hazel’s Semblance allow him to bypass/negate his Aura’s healing factor in order to stab Dust into his body?
And on and on it goes. A combination of vague or poorly-established mechanics for Semblances, coupled with the wide variety of Semblances, makes it impossible to predict what could be a hindrance for our characters down the road. This in turn creates a lack of stakes—how can we, the audience, be invested in the dangers that the cast faces, when we don’t know if those dangers are credible in the first place?
Active versus Passive Semblances
Usually when a character reveals information, it’s meant to answer questions, not create more of them. Such was the case when Qrow revealed his Semblance to Team RNJR for the first time—he brings misfortune, or rather, causes people (and objects in the nearby vicinity) to be blighted by bad luck via the manipulation of probability. Qrow is our introduction to passive Semblances, a term which, if I’m being honest, I’m not even entirely sure is canon. Someone’ll need to correct me on that, but for now “passive Semblance” will do. Because we have precious little information on the topic, I’m going to be relying on direct quotes.
Qrow: My Semblance isn't like most—it's not exactly something I do. It's always there, whether I like it or not. I bring misfortune. [1]
This passage tells us two different things: (1) passive Semblances are always active, and (2) passive Semblances can’t be controlled.
You can already see the problems with introducing a new concept this late in the game, because this new information clashes with what (few) previously-established rules we already have: Do passive Semblances require Aura? If Qrow’s Aura is depleted, will his Semblance continue to run, or will it become unusable like everyone else’s?
This ambiguity becomes even more frustrating when we acquire more information a little over a year later:
“It's not necessarily constantly running, it's more that it randomly spikes to cause unfortunate situations. If he chooses to amplify it in a fight, then yes, it does cost him.” [2]
Now we’re being told that that his Semblance isn’t “always there,” that Qrow can control it to an extent, and that his Semblance only depletes his Aura when he chooses to amplify it. Here we have an example of the character in the show being directly contradicted by one of the show’s creators. This implies that either they didn’t do a good enough job explaining passive Semblances the first time around, or they changed things after the episode aired. It isn’t just a he said/she said issue, either—Semblances requiring Aura is one of RWBY’s core mechanics for its pseudo-magic system, and by having a character whose Semblance breaks that cardinal rule, it makes the writing more difficult to believe or trust in terms of what’s canon versus what’s a retcon; what’s a subplot versus what’s a plothole. It doesn’t help when we get even more contradictory information from later episodes:
Qrow: I wouldn’t thank me. My Semblance brings misfortune. Sometimes I can’t keep it under control. [3]
I’m sorry, I thought we just established that Qrow can only amplify his Semblance. Now you’re telling us that he can partially suppress it too? Either he can’t control it at all, he can amplify it, or he can sometimes suppress its effects. Make up your damn mind.
The effects of his Semblance can be as minor as a coffee spill or as dire as a collapsing building… [4]
No! Stop it! Knocking over a Starbucks latte is not the same thing as demolishing a fucking building.
How is Qrow’s Semblance able to do something as insanely energy-demanding as toppling infrastructure without expending any Aura? How does his Semblance locate or prioritize variables in the environment to exploit/sabotage? Like, if there’s a mouse hanging out near some sort of Dust-powered generator in the building, does his Semblance send out subliminal messaging that convinces the mouse to chew through an electrical wire and cause the generator to explode?
Look, I refuse to believe that spilling a cup of coffee is somehow equal to setting off a stick of TNT or taking a wrecking ball to the side of a skyscraper. It doesn’t make any sense, which means that you have to provide a proper explanation for how it works. Because otherwise you’re going to be left with an audience that assumes Qrow’s Semblance is powered by (a) plot convenience, or (b) rats.
This—all of this, right here—is my issue with passive Semblances. (And don’t even get me started on Clover’s.)
Semblance Discovery, Auratic Plasticity
Did you notice the fancy scientific-sounding term in the heading?
Ooh. Auratic plasticity. That sounds official. You’re probably wondering where that term came from. A scene from Volume 5 you haven’t re-watched in a while (not that I can blame you). A World of Remnant episode, perhaps? Maybe it’s from one of the comics, or the director’s commentary on a DVD, or even an AMA on Reddit?
To answer your question: it didn’t come from any of those. Auratic plasticity is a term I coined exclusively for the Redux. Specifically, for talking about what goes behind discovering a person’s Semblance, and what factors are at play when that Semblance takes on its unique form.
Before we can talk about Auratic plasticity, however, we need to talk about all the ways someone discovers their Semblance. It can vary wildly from person to person. For some, their Semblance unlocks randomly while doing everyday run-of-the-mill things. As alluded to by Taiyang in V4.E9 - “Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back,” Yang’s Semblance activated while she was getting a haircut. For others, it can be the byproduct of training, extreme stress, or an otherwise fatal encounter. [5] In rare instances, Semblances can be hereditary, thus removing any ambiguity of what that person’s Semblance will be when it first activates.
The reason why I bring any of this up is because RWBY’s official stance is that Semblances “generally reflect the wielder’s personality.” [6] If Semblances were generally tied to the personality of the wielder, then it would fail to account for the correlation between the circumstance that triggered the Semblance to manifest, and the resulting Semblance expression.
Let me give you a few examples.
Adaptive Semblance: Nora’s Semblance was unlocked when she was struck by lightning. Consider the fact that her Semblance allows her to absorb electricity without taking any damage from the electric current. Rather than her Semblance being tied to her personality, Nora’s is likely a case of an adaptive Semblance—as in, her circumstances required a very specific Semblance in order to survive the 10,000 amperes running through her body. Instead of her soul generating a Semblance tied to her personality, it prioritized generating a Semblance that would help her survive an immediate and life-threatening scenario.
Innate Semblance: Ruby’s Semblance was discovered one day while training. If we’re to assume that there weren’t any dangerous circumstances factoring into that training session, it’s likely that her soul generated a Semblance that was in fact tied to an aspect of her personality. In this case, her superspeed is a projection of her enthusiasm and hyperactive zeal, and her tendency to prioritize others’ wellbeing over her own, trying to figuratively (and in this case, literally) reach them before they’re harmed.
Hereditary Semblance: Weiss and Winter, and (presumably) Whitley, Willow, and Nicholas all share the glyph-based Semblance unique to the Schnee lineage. The confirmation of their Semblance being explicitly hereditary contradicts the idea that Semblances are an expression of one’s personality. If we go by that logic, it implies that—what, their personalities are all the same? They have no individuality? I’m sorry, but that’s just dumb.
This is why Semblance discovery is important, and why the canon should have paid more attention to developing it. There’s pretty compelling evidence for a person’s Semblance being tied to multiple factors apart from their “personality.” I know that I’m digressing here a bit, but the main reason why I bring up this correlation isn’t just because it clarifies inconsistencies with the canon. It also presents an opportunity to enrich the lore of the show.
In the Redux, Auratic plasticity is the ability of the soul to generate a Semblance based on either an immutable personality trait (innate), a scenario-specific survival method (adaptive), or a “genetic” trait that’s repeatedly selected for due to its inherent fitness (inherited). These three categories are determined by a value called hierarchical prioritization—basically, it’s the soul’s ability to decide what Semblance-trigger gets precedence. I’ll get into more detail when I start the Amendment, but it felt important to clarify my intentions early, so I could justify writing 700 words on why Semblance discovery is important.
Adverse Effects of Using Semblances
Unlike Limitations, which focuses on what a Semblance can or can’t do, Adverse Effects deals with the negative repercussions/consequences of using a Semblance.
Or in RWBY’s case, a lack thereof.
(For the moment, let’s set aside the magic/not magic discourse and acknowledge that yes, in the traditional sense, Aura, Semblances, and Dust are part of RWBY’s magic system, the same way bending is part of A:TLA’s.)
When designing a magic system, you’ve got to balance it. Otherwise, the system contains powers that are vaguely-defined, OP, and bereft of any costs.
One way to implement a system of checks and balances is by giving that system a cost for using it. In RWBY’s case, the only “cost” experienced by characters is physical fatigue whenever they overextend themselves. But in the grand scheme of things it’s not really a detrimental consequence, in part because of how infrequently exhaustion is viewed as a legitimate threat. Seriously. When was the last time you saw the main cast fail because they overdid it while using their Semblances? It just doesn’t happen.
One way you could implement a cost is by tying Semblance usage to a physical demand. According an article by Julia Belluz, Winter Olympic athletes consume anywhere between 1,300 - 2,500 and 4,000 - 7,000 calories on average per day.
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It wouldn’t be that much of a stretch to apply this to RWBY. Given the high-intensity acrobatics the characters perform on the regular, it would make sense that strenuous physical activity, coupled with Semblance usage, would create costs in the form of caloric needs. Maybe that’s an issue Team RNJR needs to deal with while backpacking across Anima. Is food a top priority for them? Do they have to restrict Semblance usage when running low on rations? Does the group ever have to hunt or forage for food to meet the energy demands of fighting Grimm?
Not only does this balance out Semblances, but it opens the door for potential worldbuilding. Is “Huntsman” ever used as a euphemism for “glutton”? Do all-you-can-eat buffets ban Huntsmen from their establishments? Do Huntsmen have a reputation for being less picky about food options? In places that use trade-and-barter systems, are Huntsmen willing to accept food as payment instead of lien?
I think that’s more or less everything I wanted to say about Semblances. I have a few unrelated nitpicks, but I can save those for another time. This post is already longer than I intended it to be.
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[1] Volume 4, Episode 8: “A Much Needed Talk.”
[2] Shawcross, Kerry. “CRWBY AMA.” Reddit interview. February 12, 2018. [https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/7x3w4s/crwby_ama_w_miles_luna_kerry_shawcross_and_paula/du5bpdm/?context=3]
[3] Volume 7, Episode 3: “Ace Operatives.”
[4] Wallace, Daniel. The World of RWBY: The Official Companion. VIZ Media LLC, 2019, page 94.
[5] Volume 5, Episode 4: “Lighting the Fire.”
[6] Wallace, Daniel. The World of RWBY: The Official Companion. VIZ Media LLC, 2019, page 39.
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marjorieevans92 · 4 years ago
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blastron01 · 7 years ago
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I’m A Spider, So What? – 120
Administrator
[Scaling compleeeete!] Good job. {Praise-worthy.} <Passing marks, I guess.> [What's with those self-important attitudes?!]
Commander Body has finally finished descaling the Fire Dragon. Now, at long last, I can taste its deliciousness. Now, then, just how does a Fire Dragon taste, I wonder?
My Spatial Sense tingles. Some kind of spatial distortion? It's my first time feeling this, but I somehow know what it is. This is a transportation. Something is in the process of being teleported here.
I can't interrupt it. The level of my Spatial Magic skill is absolutely insufficient to interfere with the workings of an opponent able to manipulate space to such an advanced degree. All that I see of the person teleporting in is the distortion they're making in space, and all I can tell from that is that they're amazing at using Spatial Magic. If we're talking solely about Spatial Magic, they're far more powerful than I am.
The biggest problem here is that this guy is using magic. In other words, this guy is intelligent enough to be able to use magic.
Until now, there haven't been any monsters who used magic against me. That fire dragon was the first I've seen that even had a magic skill at all and, in the end, it never actually used it.
It's only natural. Using magic requires the difficult, painstaking construction of a spell formula. You need intelligence in order to be able to handle that easily. In the case of the Fire Dragon, it's far more effective for it to use its skills to hurl a fireball at me than it is for it to construct a spell formula for it. There probably are monsters out there who use magic, but there are plenty of skills out there that are far simpler and more powerful than magic.
However, whoever is in the process of teleporting in right now is constructing an extremely complicated spell formula. They have a powerful will, and they are focusing it to come here. Why, though? The only thing here is me. Since that's the case, I can't think of any other reason besides me. I mean, they could just be showing up down here coincidentally, but there's no way I could actually believe it.
Thanks to Accelerated Thought, I come to this conclusion in the pause between two sentences. I put myself on guard.
Space shatters, and a single man appears.
He is black. There's no other adjective to describe him but black.
Black armor, so slender as to seem to be merged with his body itself. Black skin, on the one part of his face that can actually be seen. Black hair, as well. Only his eyes are different, and they glow a strange shade of red.
The instant I see this man, I understand. I cannot beat him. He's on an entirely different playing field. And then, there's this:
Impossible to appraise.
Those words.
However, for some reason I'm not getting any real sense of danger from him. On the contrary, I feel a sort of sense of familiarity from him. Plus, at the same time, I feel a strange kind of irritation towards him.
Why?
This is the first time I'm meeting this black man. If a bizarre person such as this were to suddenly appear in front of me, I'd think that I, for one, wouldn't have these kinds of feelings. So what is with these emotions?
"****************?"
The man says something. However, I don't understand the language he's speaking in. Without thinking about it, I tilt my head to the side in doubt.
"++++++++++++++++?"
He says something again. Um, speak Japanese, please. I can't understand you otherwise. No comprende alternate-universe-ese.
The man scowls.
Hmmmm. Well, to start with, it looks like this man has no hostile intent towards me. But, what do I do now? I don't understand a single word of what he's saying, and even if I could I have no way to talk back at him. I could maybe try communicating in writing, but I can't write in anything but Japanese. Neither of us can understand each other, no matter what I do.
This is a problem. It looks like that man's somewhat bewildered, to.
As an awkward silence stretches out, something clatters to the ground between the two of us.
A smartphone.
Huh? Wait, wait. I have absolutely no idea why there's a smartphone there now, but how did it get there in the first place? It didn't even tickle my Detection at all when it suddenly appeared, right?
"Hello. This is Administrator D."
A voice suddenly comes out of the smartphone. Double-layered, on top of that. One layer's Japanese, and the other's in some language I haven't heard before. Ah, wait, is this the language that man was speaking earlier?
"*******!?"
Ah, that man looked pretty startled when he said whatever he said. So, it seems that the other language is that man's language or, in other words, the language of this world.
"That's correct. I am D. Miss Spider, please wait one moment."
Ah, yes. I've been asked to wait, so I'll wait. The smartphone voice and the man talk about something in alternate-universe-ese for a moment.
The voice from the phone is a woman's voice. It's a very pretty voice, but hearing it puts me on edge. It's that kind of voice. Her tone and cadence are very flat, and the utter lack of emotion in her words is terrifying. What's with her?
As the conversation continues, the man's expression changes. It's not a huge change, but his brow furrows and his eyes open a little wider.
Then, perhaps the conversation reached a stopping point, because the man suddenly lets out an enormous sigh and turns around abruptly. Then he uses Spatial Magic to teleport away.
Leaving just me and the smartphone.
"Thank you for waiting. After my conversation with him, he should not personally interfere with you any more."
Ah, is that so? Rather, who might you be?
"D."
Ah, right. ...Uh?! Wait a minute?! Did... you just read my mind?!
"Yes, I did."
That's a violation of my privacy!
"As you are unable to speak, this is only a temporary measure. I do not ordinarily go as far as to read your thoughts."
'Go as far', so, does that mean you've been observing me?
"I would rather not call what I've been doing 'observation'. It's more like spectating."
Whatever. You're stalking me.
"It seems I am. I never get tired of watching you, after all."
D... I remember now. I heard that name when I acquired Wisdom.
"That's right. That is your reward for trying so hard. I am glad that it seems to be useful to you."
What's your goal with all this?
"Simple amusement."
Huh?
"Just simple amusement. There's no further meaning behind my actions."
Are you serious?
"Indeed, for I am the worst, most evil god in this world."
...This gal's bad news. Seriously bad news. It wasn't just my imagination that made my whole body shiver, just from hearing her voice. This woman is a real, live, evil god. The kind that could snuff out my existence with a thought, should it amuse her.
"You're being awfully mean, but you're not wrong."
Did you create this world for your own amusement?
"No. From this world's perspective, I'm an outsider."
What do you mean by that?
"I can't tell you any more. If I did, things would get boring."
People's lives are just your playthings.
"Correct. So, from now on, please continue struggling your way forward so that I can watch and laugh. But, first, I think you have the answer you sought, don't you?"
You're just saying whatever you want, now.
"Goodbye... for now."
The smartphone disappears, without the faintest ripple in space.
This was the first time I met Administrator D and the Administrator who is known as "Black".
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staybendy · 5 years ago
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Lack of vitamin D connected to premature death, study says
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<div> <div> <p><IMG ALT="a nurse to the sick woman" height="150" SRC="https://www.naturalhealth365.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/nurse-with-sick-woman-150x150.jpg" width="150" />(NaturalHealth365) depending on how old you are young, you may remember when vitamin D started gaining popularity in Western medicine for bone-protective properties.  But in recent years, conventionally trained medical professionals are beginning to realize the great danger of a lack of vitamin D can have on immune function and overall health.
for example, schools of Harvard University T. H. Chan health said that &so-called; vitamin D deficiency is a global problem.&  But it– <em>not only Harvard, many researchers have reported that the optimum level of vitamin D3 that effectively helps in preventing premature death for any reason.&For example, recently the annual meeting of the European Association for the study of diabetes (easd) in Barcelona, Spain, showed that & ldquo;vitamin D deficiency is closely associated with increased mortality, especially in young and middle-aged people.products; <H2>to avoid lack of vitamin D in the body will drastically reduce health care costs <P>Dr. Frank garland along with his brother Cedric, pioneering vitamin D research and they observed that:
<ul> <Li>more than 600,000 cases of colorectal cancer and breast cancer could be prevented each year if vitamin D levels (worldwide) were increased. <Li> that while excessive sun exposure is certainly harmful, neoexpressionist beneficial UVB light can significantly cause the lack of vitamin D in the body. <p>like most pioneers, research from the garland brothers believed intriguing, but met with significant skepticism, given &so-called; anti-sun', a heavy sunscreen propaganda's 1980;s.  the garland once joked, new York times, that man can not make a single gram of vitamin D, Even if standing completely naked on the street from November to March in downtown Boston. <P>brothers garland opened a crucial emphasis I place on vitamin D to all my patients from new York in the cold season (winter) months. You see in such cities as Boston, new York, Cleveland and Chicago have higher mortality rates from cancer and disease in General, than such cities as San Diego, Honolulu and Miami – mainly because of this Association between extremely low vitamin D levels and chronic diseases throughout the region. <H3>not available & rsquo;T lie: to acquire knowledge and take the test <p>According to William B. Grant, Ph. D., Director, sunlight, nutrition and health research center Says, & ldquo;currently, there are about 100 diseases associated with low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration.&product; <p>Michael F. Holick, Ph. D., Professor of medicine, physiology and Biophysics at the Medical school at Boston University and a leading expert on vitamin D, and says:
  <P>and “it is now documented that in the absence of any sun exposure 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 per day is necessary to maintain normal levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the circulation. The analysis of data from NHANES III, it was shown that neither children nor adults do not get enough vitamin D from food or from dietary supplements&.products;
therefore, no matter where you live, if you have not been tested or your children have never been tested, it's time. <P>ask your doctor for a simple & ldquo;25(Oh)D blood” Of order to effectively assess its current state. As mentioned above, if you're below 30 ng/ml, be sure to focus on achieving an optimal level of about 50 ng/ml, according to the the vitamin D Council website plus many other natural health organizations.
and the best way to achieve optimal vitamin D levels in the blood <p>no, it's not a diet.  actually, the most effective way to get enough vitamin D when exposed to sunlight.
in fact, a relatively short excerpt from skin &so-called; ultraviolet B& rays – especially in the summer – that's all you need. Contrary to popular belief, you do a not need to tan or burn your skin to get enough vitamin D from the sun. <P>the amount of vitamin D you produce from sun, will depend on the time of day and the season or the angle of the sun&.nbsp; it was obvious that to ensure sufficient vitamin D levels, those with darker skin need more time in the sun against a lighter skinned people.
for example, a swimsuit in about 15-20 minutes on Cape cod in June or July at noon time is about 20 000 IU of vitamin D orally.  of course, age and nutrition/health status of the person will also play a role in the ability to generate vitamin D from sun exposure.
in reality, optimizing your vitamin D levels, sun exposure, will help prevent, not cause skin cancer. When you expose your skin vitamin D, your skin synthesizes vitamin D3 sulfate. But remember, if you use sunscreen, you will not be able to produce vitamin D from the sun.
and do I have to take vitamin D supplementation or not?
you may be thinking, & ldquo;but I live in the largely residential area of the cloud, how do I change my lack of vitamin D?&product; <p>what&myth – not you can still generate vitamin D on a cloudy day.  But your holistically-trained physician should be able to help you choose the bioavailability of vitamin D3 from a personal dosage, which reflects the most recent test results. <P>Generally speaking, most people with low vitamin D levels usually Supplement with 5,000 to 10,000 IU / day, and then, of course, are re-testing for several months&.nbsp; with other nutrients that help in the process of absorption of vitamin K2, magnesium, zinc and boron.  of course, & ldquo;anti-inflammatory” from your diet is helpful as well. <p><b>final word about the health benefits of vitamin D. Dr. Frank garland, mark, epidemiologist and vitamin D pioneer helped catapult the study of vitamin D in a conservative course of research, bringing to light that his absence was a problem, causing widespread vitamin D deficiency in certain parts of the country. <P>his work helped establish a link between certain cancers and vitamin D, such as colon and breast cancer.
Now, thanks to brothers garland, many of their colleagues continue to study the powerful health-preserving and strengthening effects of vitamin D. the result, don't ignore this powerful substance for optimal health. <P><strong>editor–that  the NaturalHealth365 store offers the highest quality vitamin D/K2 Supplement on the market.  this easy-to-absorb liquid nutritional Supplement helps to maintain the cardiovascular system and immune function.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Click here to order today. <p><I>about the author <P>the sources for this article include:
<P>Harvard.edu in SciTechDaily.com in AJPH.org in NIH.gov in NIH.gov in NIH.gov
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topbeautifulwomens · 6 years ago
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#Darren #Hayes #Biography #Photos #Wallpapers #aichannel #fashionmodels #friends #girls #happyquote #ig #rapper #song #wedding #womensfashion
There are a few basic facts that you probably ought to know about Darren Hayes.
Darren was the singer in Australian pop duo Savage Garden. He was the writer and singer of the kind of evergreen worldwide smash hits that will be played as long as AC has a spot on the radioâ€s dial. They were neither fashionable nor critically feted, but Savage Garden was an enormously popular operation. From the four albums that he has crafted so far – two with Savage Garden, two solo – Darren Hayes has sold more than 25 million lists. He broke the record he himself set with Truly, Madly Deeply as most played record on adult contemporary US radio with the further release of 1999â€s ‘I knew I loved youâ€. There is not a country in the world that enjoys English speaking pop music that he has not had a hit in. Darren Hayes has dined with Madonna and duetted with Pavarotti. He is the third most popular Australian musical export of all time. Only INXS and Kylie trump the pop Midas touch that few give him proper credit for.
These are just a few of the basic facts you probably ought to know about Darren Hayes. The basic fact that may surprise you in all this is the motivational key that unlocks his astronomical, globe-straddling success. Before his last set, 2004â€s The Tension and The Spark, Darren had a major life realisation.
“My whole career as a big commercial pop artist was fed through self-hatred, basically. It was all about escapism in a fraudulent way. I became a pop star because I knew I had to become something extraordinary to escape”.
If you trace a line through the work of both Savage Garden and Darren Hayes solo, there is a recurring theme of being unloved and unlovable. It is part of what connects him at his most popular to a mass audience. If Darren is a master at articulating the basic sentiment of what it feels like to be rejected, it does not come without its own poignant back-story.
Darren grew up in the working class suburbs of Australiaâ€s Brisbane. In the early 80s, on the run from his Fatherâ€s violence and alcoholism he was just 10 when his Mother took him and his siblings to live in a caravan to escape regular scenes of violence. His relationship with his father has been both the making and undoing of Darren Hayes. His father having long since recpreviously mentioneded and redeemed himself (sober for 25 years) – the childhood clearly left an indelible mark on Hayes. It was his need to please that propelled him to invent a life as a pop star. The fame came but could not fill an emotional hole
This particular pop cloud has a silver lining, though. It arrives neatly at a point when he is ready for success on his own terms and in his own time. He is also, handily, at complete creative throttle. Darren has just completed his third solo record, This Delicate Thing Weâ€ve Made. This daring, theatrical, wise, wounded and incredible epiphany represents his true maturation as an artist. At 35 years old, Darren Hayes has turned into just the pop star he always wanted to be. Himself. Who knew that that would sound like the lost younger brother of Kate Bush, the one who eschewed his sisterâ€s whimsical folksiness in favour of a chrome-plated, 80s driven pop edge? Who further knew heâ€d start to look like the hottest gay in the village?
A little pop cultural context prior to the making of This Delicate Thing Weâ€ve Made.
Every proper pop artist has a period that you might like to now call ‘doing a Rudeboxâ€. It is the moment a pop star sheds their generic skin and develops some idiosyncratic corners of their own. Kylie did it on her Impossible Princess years back in the mid 90s. U2 did it with Pop. Robbie is the new president of it. Generally, ‘doing a Rudebox†will go down like a commercial lead balloon.
Darrenâ€s Rudebox was The Tension and The Spark. In the advent of it being his first record not to reap multiple commercial rewards, it was suggested at record company boardroom level that he should be farmed out to hit-makers to collaborate on the follow-up. He worked with The ‘Complicated†Matrix and Rob ‘Canâ€t Get You Out Of My Head†Davis. “All the usual suspects,” he says now, wryly, “and they were fantastic!”
The sessions were swiftly abandoned. Darrenâ€s own inner journey was taking him in a less corporate direction. This was all part of another big life decision. “Iâ€m not Justin Timberlake. I think there was a part of me that thought three years ago that I was a contender for that role, whatever it is. Maybe Enrique is about to become it again. Whatever that machine is that conspires to make a big, mainstream, male superstar, I thought I wanted it. Letting go of that was essential to this record. What I realised with this record was that I didnâ€t really want it at all.”
As an alternative course of action, Darren went through a sanguine split from his record label, Sony. “This record was born from a stand off with my record company. They didnâ€t understand me? Thatâ€s OK.” He began hatching plans for This Delicate Thing Weâ€ve Made by himself, with the aid only of a programmer, in Phoenix, Arizona. It will be released on Darrenâ€s own record label, Powdered Sugar, and will come as a double set, defying all pop logic and reason. The funny thing is? Itâ€s worth it.
This Delicate Thing Weâ€ve Made sits at the very precipices of a pop culture that has taught itself to embrace genre over any sense of personal artistry. Yet while its brace of potential hit singles will sit perfectly happily next to Natasha Beddingfield and Maroon 5 on the radio, they come replete with their own dangerous factor for a genre-led pop field. They are built from truthful sentiment and a sense of their own individuality.
Darren Hayes got married last year, for the second time in his life. The only difference this time round was the gender of his partner. It is no coincidence that This Delicate Thing Weâ€ve Made is the first record that Darren has made as an openly gay man, enjoying his first stabilising partnership. He came out to a quiet fanfare on his website last year, again coinciding with no commercial decisions. It is furthermore no accident that the record is his first to embrace the redemptive power of love and comes with such a real upbeat edge. He has never sounded as on fighting form as he does on the I Feel Love indebted Step Into The Light, the brilliant, cerebral white funk strut Me Myself and I and particularly first single, On The Verge Of Something Wonderful (it should come as no surprise that all three double up as accidental yet potential ecstasy anthems).
Elsewhere the kaleidoscopic pop triumph ventures into more abstract arenas, whilst still retaining the pure, joyous release of what a great pop hook can and should do. The central crux of the record – How To Build a Time Machine, A Hundred Challenging Things A Boy Could Do, The Future Holds A Lionâ€s Heart and Waking The Monster – were first fashioned at the Phoenix sessions. Darren didnâ€t know that what he was going was lunacy or bravery.
“I phoned [his partner] Richard up and said ‘Iâ€ve either completely lost my mind or Iâ€ve made possibly the most exciting thing that Iâ€ve ever been involved in.â€â€ť
The rest was completed at his new home in Notting Hill, West London. It was made utilizing a temperamental Fairlight synthesiser that the singer had acquired off eBay. Unsurprisingly, the standout tracks, Time Machine, Verge, Casey, Me, Myself and I, The Only One, have a warmth and beauty to their pre-digital age sonic construction. There is meaning to the loosely conceptual time travel theme at the heart of the record, as the hero travels back to the 80s with respectful, modern sincerity.
“My attachment to the 80s and its music has got a lot to do with my life and childhood at that time being quite horrific and so my imagination was automatically vibrant. Music and fashion all chimed together for me to become this release. Sociologically, 80s pop stars were so ideas driven. The 90s was cold and beige and white and minimalist. It was the last time that pop music was synonymous with escape. The truth is that until Richard, and it makes me sad to admit this, honestly the 80s were the last time I was really happy.”
If you can listen to this audacious and brilliant, epic and widescreen album without feeling a wealth of pathos towards its protagonist, youâ€re made of sterner stuff than I.
Written by Paul Flynn “This Delicate Thing We’ve Made”
Darren Hayes could never be accused of doing anything by convention. In a music industry terrified by ever decreasing sales, where budgets are being slashed and the dumbing down of artistry is commonplace – Hayes has pulled out all the stops and recorded an epic and theatrical double album.
He has defiantly said no to the seductive invitation of the majors and is instead gearing up to release his latest album on his very own independent label ‘Powdered Sugar’. Darren Hayes is doing things his own way. And he wants everyone to know about it.
His upcoming album ‘This Delicate Thing We’ve Made’ is an ambitious and cinematic opus. Featuring 25 bold and wildly extravagant pop songs that are already being compared in scope to the work of heroes Kate Bush and David Bowie. And perhaps most fascinatingly, was recorded with a strict commitment to a particular piece of technology as muse and inspiration ñ a vintage 1983 Fairlight CMI Synthesizer, a clunky synth relic that he scored off EBay. The same model that was at the heart of Kate Bush’s pivotal recording ‘The Hounds of Love’
It’s been 5 years of changes for Australian born and London based Hayes. His independent streak has been ramping up for some years now ñ but reached the pinnacle last year when he simultaneously announced the parting of ways with Columbia records and his marriage to British boyfriend Richard Cullen in a Civil Partnership ceremony at their home in London.
Out. Personally, professionally and creatively.
And for the first time in 10 years, in control of his publishing and recording future.
Most know the bullet points of Hayes’ pop career. They begin with two words: Savage Garden. As the voice and co-songwriter of those two enormous Billboard Number One singles ‘Truly Madly Deeply’ and ‘I Knew I Loved You’ he enjoyed global sales of over 25 million records.
After just two multi platinum hit albums, his band Savage Garden parted ways and Darren decided to do his own thing. This included two solo albums, the first being 2002’s poptastic 2 million selling UK and Australian top 5 album ‘Spin’. His 2nd solo album, a deep, dark and broodingly electronic confessional ‘The Tension and the Spark’ featured collaborations with experimental programmers Robert Conley, the renowned Marius De Vries (Rufus Wainwright, Bjork) and mixes by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Madonna, Mirwais, Massive Attack). This record seemed to signal a turning point in Hayes’ artistry. It brought forth stunning reviews from the likes of the UK’s prestigious NME (describing Hayes as a ‘genius’). The irony of releasing the best reviewed album of his career was that in the US it was in the hands of a record company who, in Hayes’ words, “Just didn’t get it”. Rather than lose sleep over it, Hayes decided to focus on what he does best: performance.
He spent 2 years touring the U.K, Australia and Asia with variations of a stage show produced with long time U2 show designer Willie Williams (U2, Rolling Stones, We Will Rock You). In fact last summer he played to over 30 thousand Brits and triumphantly filmed two sold out and stunningly reviewed shows at Australia’s prestigious Sydney Opera House.
Building up an arsenal of songs over what Hayes now describes as his ‘gap years’ he entered London’s Mayfair Studios in October 2006 with producer Justin Shave to record his double album ‘This Delicate Thing We’ve Made’. Like his mentors Peter Gabriel and Annie Lennox, Hayes had been driven by his demons as much as his ambitions. The effect of those teenage years of burying the shameful secrets of both his violent upbringing and emerging homosexuality would fuel a sadness and a sense of longing that would continue to inform his songwriting.
Some of the songs on the record would not sound out of place in a musical about Jules Verne or H.G Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’. But they’re just a metaphor says Hayes of his ‘Victorian Science Fiction’ dress code. “With this record I was fascinated with the idea of Time Travel as storytelling device to address regret and the possibility for change. I kept obsessing over the notion that if I could travel back in time to the source of my sadness as a child, I would not decide on to bring back the violence or the tears. Instead I’d drag some joy back”. In doing so Hayes has managed to craft an album of complex narratives and personal confessions that simultaneously document his arrival at peace within himself and the question that we could all ask ourselves. What would you change, if you could?
“It’s not a concept record, but there is definitely the idea that it begins with a loss of consciousness and a giving over to the notion that we are going to go deep into the psyche,” he explains. Songs like ‘Neverland’ are as dark as any Tim Burton fairytale or Del Toro’s ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’. In stark contrast ‘Who Would Have Thought’ is a gorgeous soaring and moody pop vehicle for tenor Hayes to exclaim “Who would have thought the tiny courageous? Who would have thought that love so belated could save me?” As if to say that all the pain and suffering was worth it in the end.
Name Darren Hayes Height 5' 10 Naionality Australia Date of Birth 8 May 1972 Place of Birth Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Famous for
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