#Anette Era

[a-silent-symphony]

⫷ NIGHTWISH FLASHBACK FRIDAY ⫸ Anette on the release of ‘Imaginaerum’, Interview for RadioX3M 2011

[spookulele]

Anette is such a zany little critter

[thelunanaut]

Vi’s review of the Album ‘Yesterwynde’

Total album rating: 9/10

Disclaimer, I am utterly obsessed with this band, so I might be slightly biased with the ratings. This review is written whilst I listen to the album, in its entirety, for the first time!

~ Before listening, Really hoping for some for floorgasms and some heavier songs! ~

Songs:

-Yesterwynde:

rather beautiful, deffo toumas messing around with a orchestra and a choir! I love the addition of the children’s choir! Amazing start to this album! 7/10 (intro song)

-Ocean of strange islands:

early nightwish feeling, loved Emmpus solo! enjoyed immensely, not my favourite song in the album, but still absolutely amazing! 8/10 (released before album)

-The Antikythera Mechanism:

FLOORS VOICE?! I love how Troy has started becoming a main-ish singer! TEMPO CHANGE HALFWAY THOUGH! 7/10

-The day of..:

really enjoyed this song, took a few listens before it I loved it though! they received backlash for not being ‘nightwish enough’ 7/10 (released before album)

-Perfume of the timeless:

I LOVE this song! once again, they got backlash for this song? I adore it, not much more to say! 8/10 (released before album)

-Sway:

album name drop in the first few lyrics lol. Adoring the strings and acoustic guitar in this song! Reminds me of fawn, I love that?!

! MINI FLOORGASM ! 8/10

-The children of’Ata:

I absolutely ADORE floors voice? Heaviest song in the album so far! Early nightwish/new nightwish mixing together! Intro reminds me of creek Mary’s blood! Extremely catchy. Solid 9/10

-something Whispered Follow me:

HOLY SHIT?! Once again, floors voice is absolutely beautiful. ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS SONG! FLOORGASM DETECTED!! one of my favourite songs from this album! ANOTHER EMMPU SOLO!! HANG ON?!! MULTIPLE FLOORGASMS!! IM FLOATING HELP???? 10/10

-Spider Silk:

Oooo, piano solo to start out. vampire song?! Another heavy one! Early nightwish feel! Song name drop lol, I ADORE THIS SONG! I have lots of feelings about this song TwT 10/10

-Hiraeth:

Acoustic guitar! Song name drop again! Oooo, Troys and floors voice in this!! Really enjoying the tempo and lyrics on this one! It gets heavy! PIPES!! Once again, lots of feelings about this song! 8/10

-The weave:

The intro is already getting me exited! Another heavy one! Really reminding me of endless forms most beautiful AND Anette era NW! Enjoying the drums in this! FLOORGASM! ANOTHER FLOORGASM 9/10

-Lanternlight:

The lyrics TwT. Absolutely beautiful song, loving the use of Floors ‘clear’ voice! The strings and the piano in this one are just perfect! A really emotional song and I feel weak? It’s absolutely gorgeous! Floor really hits all the low and high notes perfectly in this! The use of the choir? Absolutely amazing! solid 9.5/10

ORCHESTRAL TRACKS

-Yesterwynde:

I feel like I’m floating? Not much else to say! 10/10

-Ocean of strange islands:

The strings!!! Absolutely loving the use of the choir in these orchestral versions! It feels like it’s supposed to be part of a movie score! 9/10

-The Antikythera Mechanism:

Once again, I’m enjoying the stings immensely! Feels like it should be part of a movie score! Really enjoying the inclusion of the harp! Absolutely love the tempo change! 7/10

-The day of..:

Totally different from the actual track in the best way! I don’t know how many times I can say this, but THE STRINGS?! Really, really enjoyed this one! 8/10

-Perfume of the timeless:

I love how the volume and intensity gradually increase in the beginning! The choir are one of my favourite parts in this version! 7/10

-Sway:

Oooooo the strings! Floor on an orchestral track?! Loving the harp inclusion! Lots of feelings about this, it’s sad but joyful at the same time?! 8/10

-The children of’Ata:

The choir!!!! The build up, absolutely beautiful! Belongs to a film score!! 9/10

-something Whispered Follow me:

FILM SCORE WORTHY!! LOTS OF FEELINGS! LOTS AND LOTS OF FEELINGS!! 9/10

-Spider Silk:

The inclusion of the Children’s is fantastic! The build up in intensity!! 9/10

-The weave:

Once again, this belongs to a film score! The build up in intensity is fantastic! Solid 8/10

-Lanternlight:

This has to be one of my favourite orchestral versions! It’s sad and joyful at the same time! Absolutely beautiful TwT solid 9.5/10

My Takeaway from the album!

Obviously not the best NW album, but it is up there! Really, REALLY enjoyed this! I should be getting my hands on my physical copies today! Can’t wait to shove the vinyl on!! I don’t understand how people dislike Troy’s addition to the band tbh, I think it was an amazing choice!

This album is amazing, and to be completely honest, may be one of my favourites!

Anyways! STREAM YESTERWYNDE!

[couragehopelovefaith]

Damn, even after all this time watching "The End Of An Era" gets me close to tears.. especially "Ever Dream" and "I Wish I Had An Angel.." holy shit. Yes, it's been years but it's still so bittersweet, especially knowing the context. Yes, things also had to change (even if the way it was handled was... not pretty - beautifully expressed). Floor is wonderful in her own way and I like some of the songs from Anette's era very much. But still.. the original Nightwish touches me the deepest and I return to their music the most. Maybe someday I will be able to listen to their newest albums. I hope so. But for now.. yeah.

[black-arcana]

The top 20 best Nightwish songs ranked

By Catherine Morris

From Nemo and Élan to Greatest Show On Earth and Ghost Love Score, these are the best songs by symphonic metal icons Nightwish - as chosen by you

It’s simply not possible to talk about symphonic metal, or indeed Finland, without hearing the name Nightwish. From their humble beginnings playing acoustic songs around the campfire in their hometown of Kitee, Northern Karelia, to the stages of arenas and stadiums around the world, Nightwish have become the most successful Finnish band globally and one of their country’s best-selling acts. 

It’s been an eventful and at times, turbulent journey: in their nearly thirty year career, the band have endured less-than-cordial splits with two out of three singers, and all the backlash that went with the controversial decisions. More recently, they’ve undergone more lineup changes within the fold, but they’ve always come back, seemingly stronger than ever – and in their current incarnation, fronted by the insanely talented Floor Jansen, they continue to dominate.

With nine studio albums, a feature film and around 117 total recorded songs in their back catalogue (some of which have never been played live, we put it to you, the fans, to definitively rank the best musical offerings from the band’s varied and illustrious career. Three distinctive voices have all made their mark on the Nightwish sound during her ‘era’, and each one has had her moment of glory, as evidenced by the below list.

Which one came out as the definitive fan favourite? Keep scrolling, and you’ll see… 

And if you want to read more about Nighwish, be sure to pick up this month's issue of Metal Hammerwhere Finland's finest symphonic export are once again gracing our cover. From getting Tuomas Holopainen to talk us through every Nightwish album to date, to an in-depth chat with Floor Jansen about her upcoming solo record and recent breast cancer diagnosis, there's plenty to get into for Nightwish fanatics and newcomers alike. 

20. Wishmaster (2000)

From the album of the same name, the lyrics of this Lord of the Rings-inspired track might initially be hard to decipher for some (some pretty spectacularly misheard versions exist online), but the punchiness of the chorus and Tarja Turunen’s haunting siren-call in the verses make Wishmaster a firm fan favourite.

19. I Want My Tears Back (2011)

This sweet uptempo jig from the band’s conceptual Imaginaerum album takes listeners into the Disney esque dreamscape of Tuomas Holopainen’s lost childhood, with its charmingly nostalgic lyrics and Troy Donockley’s uilleann pipe riff as the song’s focal point. It quickly became a staple on tour setlists and has remained so ever since.

18. The Islander (2007)

One of the few occasions former bassist Marko Hietala provided lead vocals, with then-singer Anette only a ghostly echo in the chorus, was on this folky acoustic ditty from Dark Passion Play, which provides a soothing respite from the overall heaviness of the record and was the first Nightwish to feature Troy prominently.

17. Bless the Child (2002)

The second single from Century Child is a sparkling, operatic mid-tempo lament that’s 2000s- Nightwish through and through: spoken word, lyrics lifted from Walter Raleigh’s poetry and plenty of navel-gazing. Century Child is the band’s first album to feature an orchestra, and they certainly got their money’s worth on Bless The Child.

16. Amaranth (2007)

After Dark Passion Play ballad Eva leaked online, the world’s first visual introduction to Anette Olzon came in the form of the album’s first music video for the catchy and upbeat Amaranth. Showcasing a dramatically different singing style to Tarja, her impressively high belting won over many sceptical fans.

15. Élan (2015)

Similarly, the band’s first single that introduced singer Floor Jansen made a spectacular impression – a tribute to Tuomas’ hero Walt Whitman, the Endless Forms Most Beautiful track is a rousing ode to the beauty and mystery of life that gently introduces the listener to the album’s themes of evolution and natural history.

14. Dead Boy's Poem (2000)

One of Tuomas’ most personal compositions, the penultimate track on Wishmaster has a slow, hymnlike pace and deeply melancholic lyrics; introducing the ‘Dead Boy’ motif to represent the songwriter and employing a child narrator, the song climaxes in a stunning vocal delivery by Tarja that never fails to induce goosebumps.

13. 7 Days to the Wolves (2007)

“The wolves, my love, will come,” purrs Anette at the beginning of this Dark Passion Play track that sits firmly at the heavier end of the Nightwish oeuvre. Ostensibly inspired by Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, the build into its middle 8 section is one of the most thrilling moments on the album.

12. Song of Myself (2011)

The last proper song on Imaginaerum is a thirteen-minute-long epic in four parts. Taking direct inspiration from the Whitman poem of the same name, it’s a grandiose, sprawling track that ties together all the themes of the record and ends in a lengthy spoken-word section narrated with Troy’s soothing Northern lilt.

11. Shoemaker (2020)

Human. :||: Nature’s only entry on this list is Shoemaker, the band’s tribute to Dr Eugene Shoemaker, a planetary scientist who became the first man to be buried on the Moon per his wishes after dying in an accident. The song’s repeated outro of “Ad Astra!” sees Floor go fully operatic and it is simply, heartbreakingly beautiful.

10. Last Ride Of The Day (2011)

A rollercoaster of a song, this is the track from Imaginaerum that flips the power switch at the abandoned theme park that forms the album’s richly-imagined backdrop, turning all the rides back on for one last hurrah. The dynamics in Anette’s voice from the whisper-soft verse to the dizzyingly high final note make it a thrilling sonic journey.

9. Wish I Had an Angel (2004)

The second single from the Once album is a back-and-forth duet between Tarja and Marko, with an intoxicating dance beat and lyrics positively oozing with lust. Consistently one of their most-performed songs with each of their three singers, it’s a perennial favourite that never fails to get the crowd moving – what’s more, it charted in ten countries including the UK and went gold in their home country of Finland. Kaching!

8. Dark Chest of Wonders (2004)

It comes as no surprise that multiple Once tracks made it into the top ten, as arguably the band’s most successful album to date in terms of sales, and the one that put them on the global map. Dark Chest of Wonders is a perfect album opener in many ways: the hushed tones of Tarja’s “Once, I had a dream…” straight into a guitar riff punctuated by dramatic orchestra hits and culminating in a triumphant final cadence.

7. Storytime (2011)

The chart-topping lead single from the Imaginaerum record is a song that perhaps best encapsulates the band’s sound of that era. A testament to the imagination of Tuomas Holopainen and his love for children’s fantasy tales, his lyrics reference literary icons such as Alice and Peter Pan, as well as the beloved titular character from The Snowman, and the track opens the gates to the album’s tumultuous carnival ride in signature Nightwish style.

6. Sleeping Sun (1999)

Being the only ballad to make the top ten just goes to show the impact of Sleeping Sun, from a standalone maxi single named 4 Ballads Of The Eclipse that was released to coincide with the total solar eclipse of August ’99. Introspective and reverential, this gorgeous ode to the beauty in darkness is powerfully evocative in a way only someone who has experienced Arctic polar nights could know. So good, they recorded it twice.

5. Nemo (2004)

Undeniably a breakthrough track for the band, earning them their first entry into the UK charts and hitting the top ten in multiple countries, the lead single from Once remains their most-performed live song to date. Accompanied by a big-budget music video set against a fittingly wintry backdrop, the sparse piano hook and infectiously catchy chorus melody set it apart as one of their more accessible songs that still packs a punch.

4. Ever Dream (2002)

Famously the song that got Anette Olzon the job of Nightwish lead singer when she chose to audition for the band with it, the band’s fourth studio album Century Child saw the inclusion of Marko Hietala on vocal duties alongside Tarja for the first time, adding a brand new dimension to the band’s evolving symphonic metal sound with his powerful power-metal screams. 

Ever Dream earned the band their first platinum record, and with good reason: full of light and shade, the dynamic contrasts between the verse, chorus and middle eight, as well as between Tarja and Marko’s voices, all serve to heighten the drama of the song.

3. The Poet and the Pendulum (2007)

Starting a record with an opening track just shy of the fourteen-minute mark was certainly a bold choice, and a fitting way to set the stage for Dark Passion Play. 

From the youthful voice of a boy treble in the introduction to Marko’s furious, blasphemous snarls and an astonishingly beautiful performance by Anette in the final movement, it’s a multi-part epic that encompasses seemingly every emotion that can be expressed with music, albeit at the darker end of the spectrum; all of the turbulence and personal strife experienced by its composer shrouds the song in a stormy cloak of angst.

2. The Greatest Show on Earth (2015)

Enter Floor – with eight years in the band already under her belt, it’s only fitting that one of the Dutch singer’s stunning contributions to the Nightwish canon should make it into the top ten; even more so that it’s the closing track from Endless Forms Most Beautiful. 

Another one of their signature multi-part compositions which, at twenty-four minutes long, is their longest, most ambitious and arguably most progressive to date, The Greatest Show On Earth is a celebration of life on our blue rock that draws inspiration heavily from Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species. A live favourite (in an abridged form) ever since Endless Forms… came out, the climactic chant of “We were here!” is its crowning moment.

1. Ghost Love Score (2004)

Of course, the number one spot on the list could only go to one song: Ghost Love Score. The ninth track on the double-platinum-selling Once unofficially sort of marks the beginning of an arc of ten-minute-plus songs composed of multiple distinct movements that have been present on every Nightwish album since. 

The Poet and the Pendulum, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Song of Myself all continued this pattern, but Ghost Love Score is still, for many, the blueprint, having taken on a life beyond its original form thanks to many now-legendary performances of the song by Floor Jansen, everywhere from Buenos Aires to Wacken Open Air. 

Compositionally perhaps their most accomplished song, it’s always played in its entirety, unlike the aforementioned tracks; it flows beautifully from one movement into another, changing time signatures from 4/4 to a waltz seamlessly for its cinematic “seafaring” middle string section and returning to its original themes at the end to bring it home. 

Add to that the hopelessly romantic lyrics (“You were the one to cut me, so I’ll bleed forever!”) and the fantastic backing of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and there you have it: Nightwish’s best song, as chosen by the fans.

[apinchofm]

Prompts, maybe headcanons?

Phoebe and Marcus are planning a wedding and Jack decides that he should give Marcus a stage night.

Edwina x Bagwell are debating about some academic mystery, a la Diana and Matthew.

Brimsley and Reynolds are off chilling while the whole court is in chaos.

Ariel and Eric both got those little novelty puzzles and were just engrossed in them.

Kate is an opera singer (Simone Ashley is trained as one) and Anthony now has to see all the shows.

Annette and Richter are at the water park. An hour later, they have been banned for life.

Mizrak and Olrox are locked in a room until they talk it out because everyone is so tired of them.

Richter tells Olrox that he will forgive and forget about him killing his mom if he can fix Terra up with one of his vampire pals.

Diana and Matthew go on a date night.

I love all of these!!!

Jack being an adorable awkward bean and probably calls in Gallowglass because he's never planned a stag do before! It would be a fun disaster though!

Ooh, that would be so cool if Edwina in the modern era stumbles upon the mysterious order of the Knights of Lazarus and she and her academia boyfriend debate them and their connections to numerous historical figures and events!

Do you think Brimsley could chill?? He has to help Charlotte in her shenanigans and Reynolds helps too when he can!

Those two nerds would love it all!

Listen, Anthony would have a box ready!!

Yes, they do get banned and surprisingly, it is Anette's fault. They do not speak of it!

This is all the same day - Richter and Terra lock Olrox and Mizrak in a room. They come out reunited and with a list for Terra!

Matthew would definitely have one of those nanny cams - Diana would be more chill on a date night.

[drcss4revenge]

[ 𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 ] alto, quem vem lá? oh, só podia ser VALERIE ELÉA LEFÈVRE, dama de companhia das selecionadas de vinte sete anos que veio de fontenay. você quase se atrasou hoje, hein? eu sei que você é normalmente engenhosa e refinada, mas também sei bem que é cínica e teimosa, então nem tente me enganar. ande, estão te esperando; entre pela porta de trás.

resumo:

sobrinha do conselheiro Jacques Lefevre, ela é uma mistura de Rhaenyra e Cinderela. Valerie perdeu o pai e sua mádrasta fez de tudo até destituí-la do título de duquesa, restando a ela apenas o trabalho serviu da criadagem. no entanto, coragem e gentileza nunca estiveram no vocabulário da garota, que sempre teve uma personalidade cruel e bastante mimada. era de se esperar que limpar toillets fosse mudar alguém, mas ela logo escapou do serviço servil e passou a ser dama de companhia de uma selecionada de sorte(ou azar)! agora ela só pensa em fazer sua selecionada vencer a seleção, fazer a cabeça da coitada e restituir seu título de nobreza e, é claro, como não poderia faltar: a cabeça de sua madrasta na guilhotina, afinal é como dizem “vingança é um prato que se come frio” e ninguém entende de culinára ou vingança como os franceses.

biografia:

Valerie foi a primeira e única filha de Fleur e Gaston, o duque de LeFrève, um homem influente na corte francesa cujo a influência apenas crescia devido a carreira eclesiastica do irmão, o que refletia bem em toda a família. A crescente popularidade dos LeFrève pareceu angariar ainda mais simpatia após Fleur falecer muito nova, deixando a filha aos cuidados do pai que em questão de segundos passou de um viúvo triste para um excelente partido. A preocupação do pai em arrumar uma nova esposa concedeu uma certa liberdade a Valerie, que apesar de ter criadas e tutores dos mais bem qualificados demonstrava inteligência e astúcia desde pequena. 

Aprendeu rapidamente a se mover discretamente pelos bastidores da corte, absorvendo conhecimento sobre intrigas políticas e segredos dos nobres. Ela era perspicaz e notava pequenos detalhes que passavam despercebidos pelos outros. Além de aprender linguas, música e artes, Valerie adquiriu conhecimento por meio da observação e da interação nos corredores do palácio. Seu desejo era ocupar um lugar de destaque na corte, um desejo nascido não só da necessidade de reconhecimento, mas também para provar seu valor aos olhos da sociedade que passaram a menospreza-la após que o herdeiro homem de seu pai havia nascido. A nova esposa de seu pai, Anette, era uma cobra peçonhenta que pretendia se ver livre de Valerie o mais rápido possível. 

Era dificil saber se Gaston havia morrido de causas naturais ou se havia algum tipo de maquinação por trás, mas o fato é que a nova duquesa arrumou uma forma de se livrar da enteada, declarando o filho recém nascido do casal como o próximo duque. A humilhação ainda não terminara por ai, quando a menina acostumada ao luxo da corte francesa teve de se relegar aos trabalhos servis de uma criada. 

Solidão, indignação, mas sobretudo raiva dominaram a ex-duquesa, que agora passava todo o seu tempo pensando em formas bastante francesas de se livrar da mulher que lhe roubara tudo enquanto espanava quadros e limpava latrinas. 

A notícia da seleção para servir uma das selecionadas na corte foi um turbilhão de emoções para Valerie. caso conseguisse que a selecionada em seus cuidados fosse coroada Rainha, ela poderia convencê-la a expulsar Anette e seu rebento para o quinto dos infernos e devolver sua posição na corte. 

Valerie é perspicaz e astuta, sempre atenta aos jogos políticos e intrincados da corte. Sua astúcia é acompanhada por um certo cinismo adquirido ao longo dos anos, tornando-a desconfiada das intenções alheias. Ela esconde suas verdadeiras emoções por trás de um véu de sarcasmo e ironia, desenvolvendo um humor afiado e um jeito mordaz de se comunicar. Ela espera, acima de tudo, encontrar uma maneira de usar essa oportunidade para retomar sua posição na nobreza.

[undertakers-convention]

Spookulele! pilot animatic scene - "Drunk Walk Through the Graveyard"

I did this scene a few months ago, and at the time I was sort of neglecting to post art on Tumblr as much as I used to. I'm trying to post more now, so better late than never. This scene comes near the end of the first act of my pilot, in which the two leads, Jonesy, voiced by myself, and Anette, Janet Klein (Langtree, OTGW) are drunkenly trapsing home after a wild party, and encounter a strange new character with a penchant for thievery. This is super rough and was actually a rewrite from a few months after recording took place, so that's why the voices aren't final (but re records will happen soon with any luck)

Spookulele! is a Halloween special set during the American prohibition era, which is also a jazz-ukulele throwback musical. It follows Anette, a peppy ukulele-playing flapper girl, who is brought to the magical world of Hallow's Hollow by a wise-crackin' skeleton called Jonesy. If that interests you, you may want to follow my progress!

[noellewrxtes]

9 people you would like to get to know better

tagged by @loving-that-officey-feel (thx for the tag! <3)

1) 3 ships: shisui/itachi from naruto, obvsly, then dimitri/felix from fire emblem: three houses is absolutely my second biggest obsession; after that either kakashi/itachi from naruto or felix/anette or dorothea/ingrid from fe3h or maybe sylvain/felix or-- (you asked for three and i listed six, i'm so sorry i just couldn't choose)

2) first ever ship: probably naruto/sasuke, but the first ship i remember ever being super into was kakashi/sasuke. i still think they have a fascinating dynamic, but i've cooled off on them a lot in terms of shipping. i do have one wip still floating around in my files from that era. maybe one day i'll dust it off and finish it.

3) last song: how to disappear, lana del rey

4) last movie: clue!

5) currently reading: i have no time to read lol. the last thing i read though was the alchemist by lovecraft.

6) currently watching: my husband's trying to get me to watch blue eyed samurai on netflix with him so maybe that. if not, i've been considering rewatching fullmetal alchemist or hello, my twenties! but currently i'm watching nothing.

7) currently consuming: hot chocolate! i was gifted these little cinnamon stirry stick thingies that melt into it and i am very excited about them.

8) currently craving: warmth. winter is not my season.

tagging: so honestly, literally anyone who wants to answer. if i have to tag someone specific though, @evaofkonoha, @chexennne, @tantou, and @stridddd, if any of you feel like it, please feel free <3

[greencruz]

(ophelia + anette) “I wish I could hate you, but every time I look at you, all I feel is love.”

ANGST-Y ROMANCE STARTERS : ACCEPTING !

Apesar da maldade intrínseca, Anette era um monstro que carregava todos os sentimentos do mundo. E, igualmente, sentia todos os sentimentos do mundo por Ophelia, razão pela qual jamais conseguiria viver sem ela, ou com ela. E Ophelia também sabia disso, porque ela irradiava o tipo de amor que nunca teria um final feliz, estava em seus olhos, e no lugar mais profundo do seu coração. Quando Anette chegava perto dela, conseguia sentir como suas emoções e as dela levavam sempre ao mesmo fim, porque estavam presas, destinadas. Anette sabia, também, como ela era poderosa, mas isso nunca a deixou com medo de se aproximar o suficiente para conseguir sentir o cheiro que tanto gostava (e que era seu favorito), na verdade, pelo contrário. Nunca sentiu medo de morrer, especialmente se fosse por amor, e especialmente, se fosse num impulso louco. Vai ver é por isso que ela sabia que Ophelia jamais a mataria: seria perder.

Passando a mão pelos fios longos e escuros da moça, seu coração batia tão forte que seu desejo era arrancá-lo e colocá-lo nas mãos da outra. Não era como se já não fosse dela. Ophelia podia fazer qualquer coisa com ele: esmagá-lo, guardá-lo ou até comê-lo. ― Eu vou te amar pra sempre, Ophelia. E você também vai me amar pra sempre, não importa o quanto você me odeie e se odeie por isso. ― Não havia zombaria na voz dessa vez. Não queria rir de Ophelia. Na verdade, parecia o mais próximo de sã que qualquer pessoa já tinha visto, com ar orbes brilhando num tom cor de rosa intenso. ― Você quer me beijar? ― Questionou, baixo, e olhou para os lados antes de dar mais um passo em sua direção. A habilidade de viajar por entre os reinos através dos buracos de coelho era a maior utilidade que Alice poderia ter concedido indiretamente, ao roubar sua invocação de portais com um objeto trocado com a prole de Rumpel há algumas semanas. ―  Ninguém vai saber. Você pode voltar a ser boa depois que eu partir.

[schoje]

Estabelecer interconexões entre a tuberculose (TB) e a covid-19 é a tarefa que une 25 pesquisadores da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e do Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia (Coppe/UFRJ) com parceiros de três países do grupo Brics: Índia, Rússia e África do Sul. No Brasil, o projeto é liderado pela professora Anete Trajman, da Faculdade de Medicina da UFRJ e do Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj). Hoje (24), Dia Mundial de Combate à Tuberculose, a professora disse à Agência Brasil que a China também participa do edital, mas com outros estudos. O projeto foi aprovado nos quatro países do bloco, mas ainda não foi efetivado porque depende de liberação de recursos. Cada país tem seu órgão financiador – no Brasil, será o Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).. Segundo Anette, o edital foi uma demanda do Brics como um todo. O trabalho foi considerado “vital” pela revista médica inglesa Lancet, tendo em vista que a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) estima que até 1,5 milhão de pessoas a mais morram de tuberculose até 2025, devido à pandemia de covid-19. No momento, os pesquisadores se organizam para obter a aprovação ética do estudo e fazer coleta de dados. Um grupo de psicólogos da área social fará pesquisas de satisfação de usuários online sobre as diversas medidas de lockdown (confinamento) e as diferentes políticas assumidas pelos governos. Além da pesquisa quantitativa, haverá uma sondagem qualitativa com entrevistas com pessoas chave na sociedade civil, tomadores de decisão e formadores de opinião, para discutir o impacto existente entre tuberculose (TB) e covid-19. Serão analisados ainda bancos de dados de TB e covid para lincar as informações, o que necessita também de aprovação do comitê de ética. Execução “Neste momento, estamos nos organizando para fazer os documentos que são necessários para aprovação ética”, processo que ocorre também nos três países parceiros. A Rússia está mais adiantada porque o dinheiro para o primeiro ano de pesquisa já foi liberado. “Eles vão conduzir um estudo piloto, inclusive desse questionário, porque lá, para fazer esse tipo de trabalho, surpreendentemente, não precisa de aprovação ética”, disse a professora. O projeto total tem prazo de execução de 24 meses, após a assinatura do termo de compromisso, etapa aguardada por Anete. Ela disse acreditar que os resultados já poderão ser conhecidos em 2023, se os recursos forem liberados ainda em 2021. Anete destacou que existem indicativos de experiências passadas sobre um possível impacto da TB na covid e vice-versa. “O que se viu foi que as medidas de distanciamento social e as consequências econômicas que a covid teve refletiram no agravamento da epidemia de TB, até mais grave do que a OMS no início previu”. Com medo do contágio pela covid-19 e sem dinheiro para se deslocar até as unidades médicas, muitos pacientes com tuberculose deixaram de procurar ou de dar sequência ao tratamento. Já foram notadas interferências diretas e indiretas entre as duas doenças. Os sistemas de saúde tiveram que alocar seus recursos prioritariamente para o enfrentamento da covid. Em maio, houve redução de 40% na realização de testes moleculares rápidos para tuberculose. Em outubro, com a diminuição de casos de covid, a redução foi de 20%, relatou a professora. Mais mortes Desde 2014, a OMS declarou que a tuberculose era a doença infecciosa que mais matava no mundo, até o advento da covid, em 2020. “A covid teve um impacto negativo sobre a tuberculose”. Anete ressaltou, porém, a covid vai passar, não vai ficar sendo a doença que mais vai matar, na medida em que as populações se vacinem. “Ela vai continuar endêmica, como a gripe, vai continuar matando algumas pessoas, como a gripe também mata, mas não vai ser uma doença avassaladora como foi em 2020, e este ano começou em alguns países, entre os quais o Brasil, é o pior deles. Ela veio para ficar, mas não nessa proporção”.

A professora não duvida que a tuberculose voltará a ser a doença infecciosa que mais vai matar no mundo, talvez a partir deste ano ou do ano que vem. Com os resultados que forem alcançados, os pesquisadores vão fazer modelagens para ver que medidas poderiam ter impacto positivo e com que magnitude. Atualmente, cerca de um quarto da população mundial tem tuberculose latente, isto é, desenvolve a doença, mas só 10% dos infectadas vão adoecer, explicou a professora da UFRJ. Inteligência computacional Há 20 anos, o Programa de Engenharia Elétrica da Coppe, sob a coordenação do professor José Manoel de Seixas, começou a trabalhar com tuberculose. O Brasil está entre os 22 países que concentram a maior carga de TB, da ordem de 80% dos casos, ocupando a décima sexta posição no ranking global da doença. As cidades do Rio de Janeiro e de Manaus são as que apresentam o pior cenário no país. No Rio, Seixas lembrou que a comunidade da Rocinha está próxima da incidência de TB na África e na África do Sul. “Nós temos um cenário bastante dramático”, disse o professor. Seixas confirmou que a TB é uma doença curável, que matou 1,4 milhão de pessoas no mundo em 2019. “Agora, estamos na dúvida até que ponto uma pessoa com tuberculose, se pegar a covid, produz um cenário pior de evolução do paciente.”Ao mesmo tempo, sabe-se que, com o isolamento e com o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) voltado para a covid, o tratamento da TB e sua detecção ficam inibidos.” Ele ressaltou ainda que pessoas mais vulneráveis à TB, que não dispõem de saneamento básico e moram em locais de grande concentração populacional, são também as mais vulneráveis à covid. O professor destacou que o desenvolvimento de novos métodos de apoio à triagem e ao diagnóstico, usando inteligência computacional e modelos da natureza, pode ajudar na tomada de decisão. “São modelos matemáticos que tentam implementar uma ideia da natureza”. São modelos de redes neurais aplicados à triagem de pacientes e considerados eficientes por pesquisadores de medicina tropical do Reino Unido. Além de ter bom resultado de triagem, ele custa pouco. “E é eficiente nos dois caminhos”, destacou Seixas. Com a chegada da covid, no ano passado, a Coppe disparou vários processos com ações em nível instrumental e de software (programas de computador) que visavam atacar a pandemia do novo coronavírus. Hoje, a proposta aprovada pelo CNPq, no âmbito do Brics, busca as interações entre TB e covid. A parte de inteligência computacional é liderada por Seixas, e a meta é descobrir se quem tem TB tem mais chances de evoluir mal na doença quando pega covid, ou o contrário. A inteligência computacional, vendo essas interações, pode identificar pacientes que estejam com covid na população com TB e vice-versa, além de ajudar na triagem a estabelecer grupos de risco de má evolução em ambos os casos: de pessoas que tèm covid e pegam TB e das que têm TB e pegam covid. De acordo com Seixas, não há impacto direto na redução da infecção por TB, mas, quando se consegue identificar melhor essa interação, pode-se descobrir mais depressa quem precisa de mais atenção”. Quando se consegue responder à pergunta sobre a interação entre as duas doenças, que é a principal questão do projeto, agregando a isso a capacidade de prever que um dado paciente, em uma determinada situação, vai evoluir mal, isso ajuda a rastrear de onde está vindo a coinfecção de um lado ou de outro. “São respostas importantes para uma ação combinada”, afirmou o professor.

[digitaltariq]

Wealth hole between millennials spurs a brand new class warfare

Klaus Vedfelt | Digitalvision | Getty PhotosA model of this text first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth publication with Robert Frank, a weekly information to the high-net-worth investor and shopper. Join to obtain future editions, straight to your inbox.The wealth hole between wealthy millennials and the remainder of their age group is the biggest of any era, creating a brand new wave of sophistication rigidity and resentment, based on a recent study.Even because the overwhelming majority of millennials wrestle with pupil debt, low-wage service-jobs, unaffordable housing and low financial savings, the millennial elite are surpassing earlier generations. In accordance with the research, the typical millennial has 30% much less wealth on the age of 35 than child boomers did on the identical age. But the highest 10% of millennials have 20% extra wealth than the highest child boomers on the identical age."Millennials are so totally different from each other that it's not notably significant to speak concerning the 'common' Millennial expertise," wrote the research's authors, Rob Gruijters, Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Eva Fasang. "There are some Millennials who're doing extraordinarily nicely—suppose Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman—whereas others are struggling."The research finds that millennials — sometimes outlined as these between the age of 28 and 43 in the present day — have confronted repeated monetary headwinds. Coming of age throughout the monetary disaster, they've decrease ranges of homeownership, bigger money owed outweighing belongings, low-wage and unstable jobs, and decrease charges of dual-income household formation.On the identical time, the authors say the highest 10% of millennials have benefited from better rewards for expert jobs. As they put it, "The returns to high-status work trajectories have elevated, whereas the returns to low-status trajectories have stagnated or declined."The millennials who "went to varsity, discovered graduate stage jobs, and began households comparatively late," ended up with "larger ranges of wealth than Child Boomers with related life trajectories," based on the report.

The nice wealth switch

There could also be one other issue creating a lot wealth amongst millennials: inheritances. In what's referred to as "the good wealth switch," child boomers are anticipated to move down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the following 20 years. A lot of that's anticipated to go to their millennial youngsters. Excessive-net-worth people price $5 million or extra will account for practically half of that complete, based on Cerulli Associates.Wealth administration corporations say a few of that wealth has already beginning trickling all the way down to the following era."The nice wealth switch, which we have all been speaking about for the final 10 years, is underway," stated John Mathews, head of UBS' Private Wealth Management division. "The common age of the world's billionaires is sort of 69 proper now. So this entire transition or wealth handover will begin to speed up."Tensions between millennial courses are more likely to escalate as extra wealth is transferred within the coming years. Wealth shows on social media by millennial "nepo infants" may add to the intra-generational class warfare and drive nonwealthy millennials to overspend or create the looks of lavish life to maintain up.A survey by Wells Fargo discovered that 29% of prosperous millennials (outlined as having belongings of $250,000 to over $1 million of investible belongings) admit they "typically purchase objects they can not afford to impress others." In accordance with the survey, 41% of prosperous millennials admit to funding their life with bank cards or loans, versus 28% of Gen Xers and 6% of child boomers.The battle between wealthy millennials and the remaining may additionally form their attitudes towards wealth. For over 4 many years, the overwhelming majority of millionaires and billionaires created in America have been self-made, principally entrepreneurs. A research by Constancy Investments discovered that 88% of American millionaires are self-made.But inherited wealth may change into extra frequent. A research by UBS discovered that amongst newly minted billionaires final 12 months, heirs who inherited their fortunes racked up extra wealth than self-made billionaires for the primary time in not less than 9 years. And, all of the billionaires below the age of 30 on the most recent Forbes billionaires checklist inherited their wealth, for the primary time in 15 years.

'Excessive' wealth

The surge in wealth amongst millennial heirs can be making a profitable new marketplace for wealth-management corporations, luxurious firms, journey corporations and actual property brokers.Clayton Orrigo, one of many prime luxurious actual property brokers in Manhattan, has constructed a thriving enterprise on moneyed millennials. The founding father of the Hudson Advisory Workforce at Compass has bought over $4 billion in actual property and recurrently brokers offers over $10 million. He says the "overwhelming majority" of his enterprise these days is from patrons of their 20s and 30s with inherited wealth."I simply bought a $16 million condo to somebody of their mid-20s, and the customer accessed the household belief," he stated. "The wealth that's behind these youngsters is excessive."Inherited wealth has change into Orrigo's specialty. He says he works on forging shut relationships with household workplaces, trusts and younger cash elite mingling at New York membership golf equipment like Casa Cipriani.The sample is acquainted: A rich household calls wanting a rental for his or her son or daughter; just a few years later, they need a $5 million or $10 million two-bedroom condominium to purchase in a brand new, high-security constructing downtown."My gig is working very quietly and really discreetly with the wealthiest households on the earth," Orrigo stated.Signal as much as obtain future editions of CNBC's Inside Wealth publication with Robert Frank. Read the full article

[peridhot]

My Sister's Happy Ending by Hanseol Myeong

Yoon Bom-bit loves one thing above all else – dating simulation games. Her most recent obsession? A feudal-era game called “The Lonely Hawk Sings in the Absinthe-Colored Cage” starring Anette De Valois. Bom-bit would do anything to give Anette the happy ending she deserves…but her plans are consistently ruined by Mariette: Anette’s twisted stepsister who leads Bom-bit to getting a bad ending over and over again.

Read through Chapter 12.

So far... not impressed with the art. Also, it feels... busy. Mariette's body was overtaken by Yoon, which is a pretty common isekai trope I have no problem with. However, we mostly see the story from the POV of Anette, who seems to be playing mental chess with her family and any potential matches, while still apparently caring for Mariette despite the abuse she's suffered from her before. I don't know... it feels like they need to choose a main character because both Mariette and Anette seem to be vying for that spot, Mariette/Yoon by way of her otome isekai, and Anette by way of her having the main character spotlight. It's also annoying how Mariette continually treats Anette like she can't handle herself. I know this is because Mariette wants to save her after seeing her die in-game so many times, but it comes across like she doesn't trust Anette at all. This would be fine, if only it weren't for the fact that we can see things from Anette's point of view and we know that she's quite competent and can handle herself, at least mentally. Also, it's annoying how Mariette has no sense of decorum and doesn't even attempt to fit into the world of a noble.

[wynsbackagain]

"A few year ago, when Nightwish released Endless Forms Most Beautiful, it came with an increased outspokenness, from the band members, particularly Tuomas Holopainen and Troy Donockley, on the topic of atheism. The album itself was a a tribute to science, and could be taken as a long-winded love letter to Richard Dawkins, who they even got to make an appearance on the album. This new religious philosophy (or lack there of) also came with a continuation of Nightwish’s long road trip away from their original sound. And these changes had some people in the Nightwish fandom expressing confusion and disappointment. Confusion over Holopainen’s supposedly sudden atheism and disappointment with the sound direction.

You see, Nightwish had started out basically as a combination of operatic vocals and power-metal, and sometimes featured religious themes in the lyrics. For a while as well, Holopainen himself wore a Rosary. All of this, a, established them as a novelty sound-wise and more or less is what made them unique and popular, and b, established Tuomas Holopainen as someone who could at least be mistaken for religious.

Starting around their 5th album, Once, Holopainen had developed an immense admiration for orchestral film scores (is this sounding familiar yet, AM fans?) and he ended up incorporating that into Nightwish’s sound. Combine this with some huge interpersonal drama between the band members leading to the firing of Tarja Turunen-(the classically trained soprano largely responsible for the gimmick that made them famous-)and you have a massive shift away from what they’d established themselves as.

They replaced Tarja with not one, but eventually TWO singers of vastly lesser training in that type of singing. It was so huge a difference, that their second singer, Anette Olson, had basically made Nightwish into a different genre, almost single-handedly. And this fact was not lost on the fan base, many of whom then proceeded to be absolutely awful to post-Tarja Nightwish, especially Anette. It was this backlash from the fandom, along with Anette being selfish and the guys in the band apparently not knowing how to treat their singers decently, that eventually lead to HER being fired and replaced with the Floor Jansen, who is their current singer as we speak. But in the irony to end all ironies, if I’m not mistaken, the two albums they released with Anette are actually their highest sellers.

Floor is in a way the best of both worlds. She is a whole lot more capable than Anette, of the operatic quality that put Nightwish on the map, but she also is very versatile, being able to do more poppy and metal-appropriate singing as well. However, her entry into Nightwish came along side that shift in sound direction that lead to me talking about them in this post, in the first place.

During the Anette-era, a musical jack-of-all-trades named Troy Donockley joined the band, at the time kind of as a guest performer. He toured with them on their last tour with Anette, became a huge force in the early Floor-era and was made an official band member around the time she was. To my understanding, Troy had left his previous band that he’d been in forever, because he, having lost religion, no longer meshed well with that band’s philosophy. And during the early Floor-era, he and Tuomas Holopainen apparently bonded over a shared belief system and interest in science. They both have been seen wearing tshirts demonstrating admiration of various atheist and intellectual thought leaders, such as Dawkins and Hawking. In fact, I believe Troy was part of the effort to get Richard Dawkins involved with the first Floor-era album ,which was Endless Forms.

Nightwish had some minor blips on their controversy-meter when members of the band made statements implying that people who believed in God were crazy. They pontificated about people (from the most atheistic region in the world) still believing the Bible’s account of creation. And Troy and Tuomas did a preachy PSA type thing, in which Troy strangely did all the talking, making remarks to effect of “Free thinkers are oppressed in the modern first world”. Whether you agree with that sentiment or not is not the point. I’m not here to argue religion. The point is that Nightwish was never a preachy band, and some people were left scratching their heads. Old-school Nightwish fans were feeling disappointed in the new sound direction as well, and looking for something or someone to blame. It seemed to some people that Holopainen had been lead astray by some nefarious new influence.This lead to a handful of people giving Nightwish the nickname of “Troywish”. Implying that Tory Donockly was was changed Nightwish. But this isn’t really true.

When he was forming Nightwish, Tuomas Holopainen wasn’t originally looking to make the operatic-power-metal he ended up creating. He wanted to do “campfire music”. It was only when he heard Tarja’s singing he changed course. The evolution of Nightwishs’s sound started in the Tarja-era, before he even met Troy, and Holopainen has pretty much always been…religiously rebellious, let’s put it that way. His first job was as session keyboardist in an openly satanic black metal band and when asked why he worse a Roasry, he said it was NOT for religious reasons. Worked a substitute teacher and studied to become a marine biologist before dropping out of school to pursue music full time. Troy didn’t help matters, but these changes in Nightwish’s sound and philosophy had their origins in Holopainen’s mind. It wasn’t a new thing."

How does this all tie in with Arctic Monkeys? I’ll tell you.

Alex Turner, much like Tuomas Holopainen, is the main creative force behind the band. Like Holopainen, due to the things he does very well, he is highly regarded by most, and treated as a bit of a living legend within his genre. Like Holopainen, there’s a mystique surrounding him, almost a cult of personality; something that almost serves to shield him from criticism. Like Holopainen, with HIM being the center of his band’s universe, naturally HIS life, his age, the art he consumes, ends up embedded into his own art. Like Holopainen, he made it big for one type of music and has spent most of his career evolving away from where he started.

He is thought to have been influenced by Josh Homme, particularly during the making of Humbug, on which Homme did some production. His other heroes-people that influenced his artistry- are well known. The Strokes, etc. Arctic Monkeys’s new sound direction, as demonstrated in their last two albums, is being blamed on his new found admiration for pretentious and overrated “greats” such as Serge Gainsbourg who was a disgusting individual. Josh Homme isn’t much better and may even be worse than Gainsbourg in some ways, as he has a trail of horrid behind him, including accusations of trying to kill his ex-wife’s boyfriend. (Honestly, listening to Humbug and Knee Socks makes me a tad uneasy now, knowing what kind of person that guy seems to be.)

Some people say that Alex Turner’s success has gone to his head and that he’s surrounded by yes-people, both personally and in his fan base, that won’t tell him about himself when he’s doing something wrong. They seem to believe that he’s getting away with something when he shifts artistic vision the way he does (pay no attention to how bizarre and nonsensical that mindset is). They seem to think that he’s gotten too big for his britches, and being given a pass by sycophants, to make things like The Car. He’s had too much success already and that success is the ONLY reason the new album album will have any success. In their minds this is also a new thing.

But really… as early as Suck It An See, such gross influences can be seen. In the videos for Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I Moved Your Chair and R U Mine? Matt Helders can be seen wearing a jacket promoting a film in which lucifer is a good guy. A film that was made by a follower of Crowley, who “joked” that he was “right of the KKK” in how felt about black people, with music composed, from prison, by a member of the Manson Family, who was ( and I think still is) serving a sentence for murder. Now I realize that Matt Helders isn’t Alex Turner and that Alex can’t control what clothes his bandmates wear or what pretentious hippy schlock they consume. But that jacket ended up in the videos of two songs, one of which was on their most popular album outside the UK. Surely Alex had a say. And once again, the change in sound direction wasn’t new. It has been happening since their first couple albums.

Matt’s jacket: https://site.laboca.co.uk/Lucifer

(I wrote a thing.)

[demoura]

DIA 21 DE ABRIL DE 2023 : DIA INTENSO COM IDA E VOLTA A ÉVORA SOB CHUVA TORRENCIAL PARA A ESTREIA DE “ANTERO Q “ DE ANA ROCHA NO TEATRO GARCIA DE RESENDE: ontem foi um dia invulgar e intenso . Com os nossos grandes amigos Ferreira Rocha fui a Évora . O objectivo era assistir à estreia absoluta da peça “ Antero Q “ de Ana Rocha produzida pelo Teatro da Garagem . Partimos às 18.30 debaixo de chuva e com muito trânsito na saída da cidade . Mal entrou na autoestrada o Quim “ voou baixo” mas a minha confiança no condutor e no seu Porsche Cayenne de 521 cavalos e travões com discos de cerâmica é total . Foi uma média de 115 km/h e chegamos a hora da reserva no Piparoza para um jantar com as imprescindíveis migas e um vinho interessante Quinta do Paral Branco 2019 . Depois era a estreia absoluta de “Antero Q” no Teatro Garcia de Resende uma jóia dos teatros à italiana perdida no Alentejo !.0 texto dramático de Ana Rocha centra-se na figura do poeta Antero de Quental, personalidade da Geração de 70, incidindo no lado pessoal da sua biografia. A peça parte de uma inconfidência de Batalha Reis referindo o romance malogrado do poeta com uma titular francesa durante o ano de 1877 quando Antero tinha 35 anos. 0 protagonista desdobra-se em diálogos com as restantes três personagens da peça o médico Charcot, fundador da neurologia moderna, a Baronesa Nelly, mulher independente e lúcida por quem Antero se apaixona e Blanqui, o revolucionário anti monárquico e anticlerical. Estes diálogos permitem o confronto de ideários e posições perante a vida

. “Antero Q representa angustias que se expressam nos dias de hoje, com uma ressonância evidente: seja na fetichizacao da ciencia como panaceia para todos os males; na anomia de um tempo politico, fornecendo pasto a todas as derivas incendiarias; seja, por fim, no colapso da vida íntima; na impossibilidade de amar par desagregação de referencias que possam situar a personagem numa perspectiva positiva. Boas interpretações de André Pardal, Anette Naiman, Guilherme Gomes e Rafaela Jacinto. A encenação e dramaturgia desta co-produção do Teatro da Garagem e Teatro Garagem (São Paulo) são de Carlos J. Pessoa. Depois de felicitarmos a autora os actores e a restante equipe técnica foi o regresso a Lisboa onde chegamos pela 1 da manhã .

[ninthwav]

okay another thing about the nightwish clone allegations. i think what nightwish specifically suffers from is good singer complacency in its songwriting-- so beyond the symphonic bloat, you've also got this very like style over substance thing going on with the latter albums w/ tarja and frankly everything they've done with floor. nightwish has had the luxury of having the 2 best vocalists in the biz, and it's interesting to compare that to like, the anette era albums which are very experimental for them and really musically interesting (i do not think they are good. many people believe imaginaerum is nightwish's best album which is astounding to me), and that's when they had to scramble to figure out their sound after kicking tarja out and trying to ruin her life. with floor, it feels like they were sort of like oh cool now we have a vocalist we don't need to work around (not that anette is a bad vocalist, she's just not genre-typical), and then it was back 2 pablum babey! i'm very glad live albums are such a nightwish staple otherwise i would have to deal with the deep and abject misery of one of my fave vocalists in the genre being on albums i have literally zero desire to listen to.

anyway the other thing is that like, both floor and tarja are capable of single-handedly carrying an album vocally. and the 'nightwish knockoff' bands never quite manage that. ig