#Ariel Friedman

[abellinthecupboard]

Happy Ending

Catch the story mid-stream and hear the pounding doubt between his temples. See the pivot, simple on the balls of his feet. Eurydice’s gasp of realization not unlike Lot’s wife who, upon turning, glimpses her flaming city one last time before she goes rigid. But these are endings, not beginnings, and the difference between stories and real life is that real life keeps going. I scroll the headlines— 1.5 degrees and climbing. Horizons like the walls of Hades. When you ask for a story, I know you mean one about cartoon trains. The chase and rescue. The close call. But in these stories you’ll find that nothing saves Sodom, that Eurydice is swallowed whole by the earth. I tidy the kitchen, read another email urging a call to my representatives. This isn’t the world I wanted to give you. Once you said women could not be rabbis and I wondered at that trope, three thousand years old and lodged already in your small bones. What other stories do you know that I haven’t told you? Do you know how long Orpheus walks to emerge from the underworld? How lonely he must feel, and helpless, how close he comes to the daylight? Do you know that our seas will rise, that the more stunning the sunset, the more toxins in the atmosphere? That, when snow falls, I ache to swallow the landscape? Maybe you know already that Orpheus finds his bride, fights to hold on, step after step through the earth’s intestines, ahead, the growing circle of light. Maybe you know already how it ends. Though, when I tell you, I’ll describe a finger of fresh air that finds its way to his cheek. The quickening of his pace as he approaches the threshold. This time, he won’t look back.

— Ariel Friedman, featured in Bodega Magazine (source)

[mounadiloun]

Le sionisme et l'apartheid

Le sionisme et l’apartheid

Comme moi, vous avez lu ou entendu les réactions suite au retour de Benjamin Netanyahou aux manettes du gang sioniste flanqué de complices au racisme décomplexé. Et vous avez eu l’impression que ce qui se tramait dans l’entité sioniste, c’était un changement radical. L’ambassadrice sioniste Yael German en compagnie de Ted Deutchn président de l’American Jewish Committee Les responsables…

[bottlecap-press]

From Ariel Friedman's chapbook, the universe digests her stars, available from Bottlecap Press!

[disneytva]

The Disney Afternoon: The Making of a Television Renaissance Hints Potential Section Dedicated To Current And Upcoming Disney TVA Productions

New details have merged from The Disney Afternoon: The Making of a Television Renaissance by Jake S. Friedman, Disney Publishing Worldwide And Disney Editions Deluxe slated to be part of Disney Television Animation’s 40th Anniversary and 100th Series debut on 2024 has given new updates in what to expect with the book.

Recently it was revealed that a new section on the book is named "THE NEWEST WAVE: Or Rewrite History", no idea what it is but based on the book's release i wouldn't bet that the section is a celebration to the current "Disney Afternoon" with the following lineup:

-Phineas And Ferb

-Big City Greens

-Monsters At Work

-Mickey Mouse Funhouse

-The Ghost And Molly McGee

-Rise Up,Sing Out

-Alice's Wonderland Bakery

-The Proud Family Louder And Prouder

-Chibiverse

-Hamster And Gretel

-Firebuds

-Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur

-Kiff

-Hailey's On It!

-Playdate With Winnie The Pooh

-Primos

-Robogobo

-StuGo

-Ariel

-Zombies The Re-Animated Series

-Tiny Trailblazers

-Cookies & Milk

-The Witchverse

-Rhona Who Lives By The River

-Dusty Dupree

-InterCats

-Fantasy Sports

-Royal Prep Academy

-Darkwing Duck Reboot

-TaleSpin Reboot

And upcoming shows on development for Disney Channel,Disney Junior and Disney+ at Disney TVA from the following creative members “Cheyenne Curtis, C.H Greenblatt, Thurop Van Orman, Nic Smal, Lucy Heavens, Amy Hudkins, Monica Ray, Latoya Raveneau, Daron Nefcy, Noah Z Jones, Ryan W Quincy, Molly Knox Ostertag, Raj Brueggemann, Dave Cooper, Jose Zelaya, J. G. Quintel, Pedro Eboli, Mark Satterthwaite and Patrick McHale” 

📚The Disney Afternoon: The Making of a Television Renaissance

Jake S Friedman

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Editions Deluxe

November 5, 2024

When the Disney Afternoon premiered in 1990, kids tossed their backpacks aside to watch their favorite Disney television characters. Unlike with feature films, these stars had a new adventure every weekday, and their audience journeyed with them on a daily basis. Throughout the '80s and '90s, Disney raised the bar with a lineup of innovative, high-quality television animation. The characters were endearing, the writing was clever, and the art was exceptional. Those who grew up with these characters have continued their love affairs for shows like Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, TaleSpin, and the irrepressibly beloved DuckTales, deep into adulthood. For the first time, learn the history of the Disney Afternoon shows, read interviews from the creative teams, and revel in rare, behind-the-scenes artwork, plus get the full making of story of the modern-day DuckTales series and the meta-driven Chip 'n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers film and its legacy connections to the past for a new generation of fans.

[casterhex]

drop a playlist pleeeeeaaase i need music to get into

just for you ill grab a few of songs ive enjoyed recently & share them right here

get up and go – teen idles

blackout – S.O.A.

liars beware – richard hell and the voidoids

leidenschaft – ZWE1HÄNDER

the ballad of you & me & pooneil – jefferson airplane

ariel – dean friedman

and pretty much the entire "dissent" album by christ vs warhol

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Israeli Holocaust historian Omer Bartov:

it is important to put the current events in the correct historical context and to diagnose as best we can their deeper causes. A misdiagnosis of such causes, or a denial of them altogether, will only make things worse. It would appear that precisely because of this misdiagnosis or denial, Israel is currently balanced over a precipice, as an increasing number of well-informed commentators are warning (see for instance Thomas Friedman’s op-ed in the NYT). The potential for a regional, if not world-wide conflict, is growing. Making things worse is Israel’s forced displacement of over a million civilians—the majority of whom are Palestinian refugees of the 1948 Nakba and their descendants—from their homes in the northern part of Gaza to the southern part, even as the IDF is now reducing much of that northern part to rubble. By most accounts it has already killed ten times as many Palestinians, including numerous children (who make up 50% of the overall population there), as those murdered by Hamas. Most recently, displaced Gazans in the eastern part of the southern Strip have been ordered to move to its western part, adding even more to the congestion. This military policy is creating an untenable humanitarian crisis, which will only worsen over time. The population of Gaza has nowhere to go, and its infrastructure is being demolished.

In justifying these actions, Israeli leaders and generals have made terrifying pronouncements. On October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Gazans would pay a “huge price” for the attack by Hamas, and that the IDF would turn parts of Gaza’s densely populated urban centers “into rubble.” On Oct. 28, he added, citing Deuteronomy, “You must remember what Amalek did to you.” As many Israelis know, in revenge for the attack by Amalek, the Bible calls to “kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings.” Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog condemned all Palestinians in Gaza: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true.” Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Israel Katz similarly stated: “No electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter, until the abductees return home.” Member of Knesset Ariel Kallner wrote on social media on October 7: “Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of ‘48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join!” No one in the government denounced that statement. Instead, on November 11, security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter reiterated: “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, stated on October 9, “we are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly,” a statement indicating a dehumanization of people that has genocidal echoes. He later announced that he had “removed every restriction” on Israeli forces, and that “Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything.” On October 10, the head of the Israeli army’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Major General Ghassan Alian, addressed the population of Gaza in Arabic, stating: “Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell.” The same day, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari announced that in the bombing campaign in Gaza, “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.” Also on October 10, Major General Giora Eiland wrote in the mass circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth: “The State of Israel has no choice but to turn Gaza into a place that is temporarily or permanently impossible to live in,” adding that “Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieving the goal,” and that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”

Omer Bartov :: Co-Chair, Genocide, Holocaust and Disaster Studies, CGC; Author “Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis”

[heavenlyyshecomes]

The reason behind Israel’s engagement with Lebanon was justified at the time as based on national security grounds, with other nations admiring the Jewish state’s actions and wanting to learn from them, but there was something more existential at work. In his 1998 book on the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem, the New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman gave an anecdote from 1982 about the real, less acknowledged mission of Israeli forces: “Two targets in particular seemed to interest [Ariel] Sharon’s army. One was the PLO Research Center. There were no guns at the PLO Research Center, no ammunition and no fighters. But there was something more dangerous—books about Palestine, old records and land deeds belonging to Palestinian families, photographs about Arab life in Palestine, historical archives about the Arab life in Palestine and, most important, maps—maps of pre-1948 Palestine with every Arab village on it before the state of Israel came into being and erased many of them. The Research Center was like an ark containing the Palestinians’ heritage—some of their credentials as a nation. In a certain sense, this is what Sharon most wanted to take home from Beirut. You could read it in the graffiti the Israeli boys left behind on the Research Center walls: Palestinians? What’s that? And Palestinians, fuck you, and Arafat, I will hump your mother. (The PLO later forced Israel to return the entire archive as part of a November 1983 prisoner exchange.)” It is not hard to see why this attitude was and remains so appealing to some governments. It is a desire to militarily destroy an opponent but also erase its history and ability to remember what has been lost. When surveillance technology is added to the mix, tested on unwilling subjects, it’s even harder to successfully resist.

—Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Daniel Greenfield

The primary victim of this policy will be Ariel University and researchers there.

The Biden boycott was only revealed when researchers at Ariel University were turned down. The State Department then declared that in a complete reversal of Trump administration policy, “participation in joint projects with Israel in the fields of science and technology in areas that came under its control after June 5, 1967” was  “not consistent with American policy.” That would potentially include not only Ariel University, but also parts of Jerusalem.

While the names of the researchers involved have not been made public, Ariel University has many talented people working on a wide variety of problems like Dr. Michal Hochhauser who is working to help autistic children integrate better into society and Konstantin Borodianskiy, PhD who is investigating how to coat titanium implants, like those used in hip replacement surgery, with natural materials so that they bond more securely with bones in surgical patients.

The U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) encompasses BARD research on agriculture and BIRD research on industrial R&D including homeland security applications to counter terrorists. The Biden administration’s boycott of Ariel University and other researchers and facilities located in those parts of Israel claimed by terrorists cuts them out of the program.

While the Trump administration was unwilling to finance bat virus research in China, but was willing to work with Ariel University on medical, agricultural and national security research, the Biden administration will fund research in China, but not Israeli work on helping autistic kids..

During a better time, Ambassador David Friedman had joined Prime Minister Netanyahu at Ariel University to announce that the “geographic restrictions”, as they had persisted during the Obama administration and past administrations, “no longer comport with our foreign policy” of viewing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, known to some as the West Bank as “inconsistent with international law.”

Deleting a single sentence, Ambassador Friedman revealed, was anything but simple and required “an inter-agency process with numerous branches of Government.”

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「 なぜこれほど多くの音楽会場が Ticketmaster を使用するのでしょうか? 「 寿司職人になるための修行ってどんな感じ？ 」 「 武道家はどうやってコンクリートブロックを壊すの？」 10 年前にそのような質問に対する答えを探していたとしたら、専門家による徹底的な回答を見つけるための最良のリソースは、おそらくインターネットの中で最も興味深く、最も長く続いているコーナーの 1 つである Quora だったでしょう。 ほとんどの人は、知っているかどうかに関係なく、何らかの形で Quora に遭遇したことがあります。Google 検索結果 サンプルの作成 、有名な著者による デジタル出版物での特定の Q&A の再版などです 、あるいはSlate などの 。 の 1 人である Slate-via-Quora の寄稿者 著者兼研究者の Erica Friedman 氏は のおかげで、「新しいトラフィックが少しずつ集まり始めた」時期でした 、2011 年にこのサイトに参加しました。当時、 Yahoo Answers の信頼性とアクティビティの低下 。 これにより、Quora は正確性を重視し、知識中心のテキスト プラットフォームとして際立った存在になることができたと彼女は言いました。 をしていた時代において、ユニークなサービスでした。 これは、Facebook と Twitter がソーシャル インターネットを支配しつつあり、 YouTube が 独自の活動 フリードマンは、風変わりな Q&A 一枚岩に夢中になり、彼女や他の多くの人々が無料で回答を提供しました。 「2010年代半ばの数年間、私たちの多くが特定の使命に真剣に取り組んでいた時期がありました」と彼女は語った。 「それは、『Quora を、ここではバカになってはいけないというインターネット上の場所にしましょう』というものでした。 これらの政策を実行に移し、人々が悪意を持ってここに来て悪意を持って行動することを不可能にしましょう。」 最も好奇心旺盛なネチズンが集まる、ポジティブで肯定的な空間を維持することに専念するスマートで情熱的なコミュニティ、これ以上に理想的に聞こえるものはあるでしょうか? Quora が 2010 年代にこれほどの急成長を 遂げたのも不思議ではありません。 Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement しかし、今日の Quora はそれらのユートピア的な目的とはほとんど一致しません。 かつて愛されていたフォーラムは今、意味のない反復的な汚泥の終わりのない雪崩の本拠地となっており、 奇妙で で、 ナンセンス 、 真っ向から憎悪に満ちた のスラリで満たされています。 すべて大文字の非質問 AI によって生成されたエントリと、「OMG」のような ！ チャールズ王、ハリー王子とメーガン・マークルに対する王室の出入り禁止令で世界に衝撃を与えた。 悲しい？" を集めたこの「質問」への答えは、 （約700 万回の閲覧 red-carpett.com という奇妙でほとんど機能しない王室観戦 Web サイトにリンクしています。）かつては時事問題に関する質問を Google で検索し、思慮深い記事へのリンクを見つけることができましたが、 Quoraは結果の上部近くで答えている、たとえば なのかどうかを尋ねる大勢の人々 2024年の主の年に、 一貫して人種差別主義者であるドナルド・トランプが実際に人種差別主義者 に出会う可能性が高くなった。 ことがわかるかもしれません。 卵が溶ける可能性がある あるいは、もしかしたら、注目の Google スニペットで、検索クローラーに引っかかったナンセンスな Quora の回答のおかげで、 Advertisement これは本当に面白いです。 Quora SEO はすべての検索結果のトップに自らを表示し、現在そのページに chatGPT の回答を提供しているため、それが Google が提供する回答に伝播しています。 インターネットは死につつある pic.twitter.com/gcV9b36vEA — タイラー・グレイエル (@TylerGlaiel) 2023 年 9 月 25 日 Advertisement Quora の依然として強力な SEO により、この問題への注目はさらに高まっています。 のコメント投稿者は さまざま なフォーラム おり 、 Quora の品質の低下を嘆いて 、Atlantic 紙は最近、「 愚かな質問がないとしたら、Quora についてどう説明しますか?」と 」をスクロールしてください。 「 Insane People Quora 質問しました。 この明らかな品質の低下の例をさらに知りたい場合は、サブレディット Advertisement Advertisement Quora のユーティリティの縮小は完全に AI のせいではありません。長年のライターは、ChatGPT の時代よりずっと前から始まっていたモデレーションと機能の問題を挙げています。 しかし、この新しいナレッジブローカーの台頭により、その衰退は加速しており、独特の愛着を持ち、今やほころびつつあるコミュニティにとっては非常に残念なことだ。 今月初め、AI 加速主義のベンチャー キャピタル ハブである Andreessen Horowitz が Quora に待望の 7,500 万ドルの投資を 祝福しましたが、 だけでした。 それはオンサイトの生成テキスト チャットボット Poe の開発のため 2000 年代後半に Quora が他の (多くの) Q&A サイトに対して持っていた初期の利点は、 設計されている ソーシャル ネットワーキングを念頭に置いて ことでした。 共同創設者のアダム・ディアンジェロとチャーリー・チーバーはどちらも初期のFacebook社員だったが、ウェブサイトを構築するために2009年に辞めた。 当時TechCrunchに語った ところによると、「私たちは人々の頭から情報を取り出そうとしているので、インターネット上でアクセスするのが難しいソースではなく、それを非常に有用な形式に変換して価値のあるデータベースを作成します。」 彼らの計画は、専門分野の専門家を説得して知識を求める人々と洞察を共有し、そこから本物の情報の自由な交換を中心に活気のあるコミュニティを構築することでした。 「自分の経験を共有したいだけの人からの質の高い回答がたくさんありました」とフリードマン氏は言います。これは「コミュニティを構築することのなかった」Yahoo Answers とはまったく対照的な機能でした。 Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement 1 人である Ariel Williams も Quora の最初の 500,000 人のメンバーの 同意しました。 「Yahoo Answers がありましたが、その質はひどいものでした。人々が質問を書いても、誰かが嫌なことを言うだけでした」と彼女は私に言いました。 「Quora は品質に重点を置いていて、質の高い回答、質の高い質問を探していました。積極的なモデレーションがあり、サイト全体が人々、ユーザーを中心に設定されていました。」 Advertisement はかかりませんでした スタン ハンクス として最もよく知られている 先駆的なネットワーク エンジニア 時間 最初の IP 仮想プライベート ネットワークを構築した のような専門家が現れるまでに 。 2012 年後半、彼は私に、Quora にログオンすると、「関係者を知っている個人的な経験があり、裏話があり、それが私の気持ちを明るくし、ただ単に書く。" Advertisement ボランティアの専門家を満足させるために、Quora は特典を用意しました。 同社は、Quora の最も優れた熱心な回答者を対象としたトップ ライター プログラムを確立し、思慮深い議論を奨励するシステムを構築し、さらにはこれら幸せな Quora たちに本社で開催されるサミットに参加する機会を招待しました。 「トップ ライター プログラムは 2012 年から 2018 年まで続きました」とウィリアムズさんは語ります。ウィリアムズさん自身も、わずか数百人のクオラン会員のエリート チームのトップ ライターです。 「フリーマン・ダイソンと一緒に研究した物理学者がいました。 NASAで働いていた人もいました。 博士号を持った人もいたよ。」 Advertisement これらすべてのライターに対しては、強力な人的バックアップもありました。 「モデレーションチーム、レビューチーム、サポートチームがありました」とハンクス氏は語った。 「フルタイムの有給モデレーターはQuoraの従業員であり、パートタイムのモデレーターはライターエンゲージメントなどの他の仕事をしていました。」 BNBR (「優しく、敬意を持って」) の基本基準を強制する有給のコミュニティ マネージャー、カスタマー サービス サポート スタッフ、特定の Q&A をフォーブスやハフポストなどの Web サイトに相互公開する部門がありました。 Advertisement このソーシャル ネットワークは数億のページ ビューを記録し、 現金に満足した投資家から数百万ドル を調達し、Wikipedia、Reddit、Facebook とは異なるインターネットの一角を切り開きました。 これらのサイトほどの知名度や知名度はなかったかもしれませんが、それでも問題ありませんでした。Quora に触れている人は誰でも、それが何を意味するのかを知っていました。 Advertisement しかし、それでもなお、Quora を悩ませている問題はあり、それは悪化し続けました。 まず、匿名の元クオランが私に語ったところによると、このサイトは「質問の長さを短縮」し始めたという。 公言された理由は、 Google での Quora の知名度を 高めるためでしたが、その簡潔さには代償が伴いました。また、専門家が対応できるような複雑な質問をユーザーが行うことも困難になりました。これには、非常に特殊な ビジネス関連の質問 も 含まれます。ハンクスなら答えるだろう。 (例: 「��タートアップをゼロから立ち上げるには、共同創業者としてどのくらいの株式を取得すべきですか? 私は、希薄化の対象となり、一般的な CTO の給与で 10% を提供されています。会社はまだ発足していません。 「プロトタイプを持っていません。CTO の 10% は非常に低いです。何が公平ですか?」)

Quora が役に立たなくなった理由: AI はインターネット上で最高のサイトを目指して登場しました。

[corvarrow]

2023 Wrap up and 2024 Goals

So I have been keeping track of what books I've read and what games I've played each year, for many years now. It's actually been really fun and interesting to look back and see what I ended up with, and it helps when I have to reference when I last looked at something :D So! I'm gonna put my Book/Games list year and combine it with any goals for 2024

Things I've read since Jan 2023

The Written by Ben Galley

Ariel by Steven R Boyette (read most)

STNG: Grounded by David Bischoff

Ascendant by Michael R Miller

STNG: A Call to Darkness by Michael Jan Friedman

STNG: Metamorphosis by Jean Lorrah

Denver Moon: The Minds of Mars by Warren Hammond and Joshua Viola

Masters of Doom by David Kushner

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

The Tiger and the Wolf by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne

Witch Hat Atelier 1-11 and Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen

All That Glitters by Loren K Jones

Comments: This is an example of like...I don't even remember reading some of these items. The STNG books (picked up from a library sale) were unexpectedly decent, I believe those were ones actually written by the show's screenwriters, so they read almost exactly like regular episodes. Also, I include manga (and some visual novels) on these lists because of the large quantities of reading ~ as such, WHA was probably my favorite read this year. The art is so gorgeous and the artistic struggles really resonates with me. My favorite non-manga waaas :Ta hmm, probably This Gilded Abyss, though I did not like the ending that much. Its fine if a book is going to be a series but I think that books should be able to be read as a one-off. I guess what I'm saying is make sure the ending is reasonably satisfying for THAT book, even if you want to set up for the next one. For example I'm well aware that ADSOM is a series however it's written with a satisfying ending that I can treat as Just One Book. Which I'm going to do. (Hopefully this all makes sense)

Currently Reading: Well my first book of the 2024 list is Heaven Official's Blessing 1, since its been on my shelf for a while ~ I'm already halfway through and just couldn't finish it before the new year. I see there's a ton in this series so IDK if I'll get through it all, but I do like it more (so far) over the other series by the same author

2024 Book Goals: I have a lot of unread ebooks so I'd like to start getting through those this year, as well as a couple paperback books on my shelf that have been there for years.

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2023 Video Games:

Baba is You

Cats Organized Neatly

Resident Evil: Village

Ghost Song

Salamander County Public Television

Cassette Beasts

The Mortuary Assistant

Vampire Survivors

Cult of the Lamb

Milo and the Magpies

Pizza Tower

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (DNF)

Celeste (again)

Super Mario RPG remake

The Darkside Detective

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

Comments: Honorable mention is MyHouse.wad ~ I haven't played classic DOOM in so long and didn't want to learn how to mod it to play this, but I watched videos obsessively for several weeks when it came out. Its super cool. The Mortuary Assistant I found....strangely relaxing, I'm pretty sure this was not the common experience LOL. TGAAC made me kinda mad, I love AA but I COULD NOT with this one. I got 3 cases in, the pace was absolutely glacial and I did not like any of the side characters so I wasn't enjoying it. Oh well. My favorite game was probably either RE:V or collectively the two Darkside Detective games I just played.

Currently Playing: I just started Super Mario Wonder yesterday after getting it for Christmas. It's cute! I haven't played any mainline Mario games in like 10 years. Seriously the last ones were like Super Luigi Bros and Mario Maker 1 (and even then I think these are spinoffs 🤣)

2024 Game Goals: I have several games in my backlog that I would consider "Large RPGs", such as BG3, and I'd like to get through at least one of them. They're really daunting because of the time commitment required to finish. I'm currently working on some stupid grindy stuff in FFXIV so hopefully (lol) I will just take a break afterwards and can work on one of them.

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Other 2024 Goals/Art Goals

Yeah I don't like to go too wild with goals anymore. 2023 was just a hot mess year in terms of my day job, for the entire year, and my brain got pretty scrambled. I couldn't think of any silly goal this year (I did "all Ghibli Movies" in a past year for example), so I'm gonna say:

Finish at least 1 sketchbook

Do/Post more finished pieces

Finish a piece of art I've had sitting on my desk since June 2022

I did a big consolidation of art supplies at the end of the year so hopefully I won't be so daunted by what to use in general. The ink challenge I did was very helpful getting a little bit of motivation back. I also have this piece of art that's been sitting unfinished on my desk for a year and a half and I really need to finish it, LOL. I think what happened is the lineart is pretty complicated - once I finished transferring it to a nice sheet of paper I got overwhelmed with the idea of 'ruining' it and put it aside. I really need to get it done though, however it turns out, and move on, as I think the lingering thought is blocking all other pieces.

[grimalkintoes]

sorry not sorry, hitting you with 3 for the song asks: 3, 11, 22!

triple whammy right out the gate!!!!

#3: a song you loved when you were a teenager or kid

west coast smoker by fall out boy (folie á deux was the soundtrack to my teenaged years basically)

#11: a song that brings back good memories

ariel by dean friedman (remembering an attic apartment with vanilla milkshakes, psychedelics, & a healthy dose of self-reflection with my best friend)

#22: a song for dancing

bennie & the jets by elton john (i used to dance around my one bedroom apartment singing this to my pet rabbit, penny lane ♡)

[repurposedmeatlocker]

6, 16, and 21 :))

6. A song that makes you want to dance

16. One of your favorite classical songs

This is so basic by classical music standards, but yeah. I have a preference for the really intense and dramatic classical music works just because it invigorates me. And also reminds me of a bunch of nostalgic media like The Lone Ranger and that Micky Mouse short.

21. A favorite song with a person's name in the title

[leonardcohenofficial]

3, 42, 61, 85!!

3: lying together by FKJ

42 is asked and answered!!

61: gimme danger - iggy pop mix by the stooges

85: ariel by dean friedman

[tijuanabiblestudies]

🌻

i have come to quite like the song "Ariel" by Dean Friedman because it is so much more specific than your basic love song. it's a little slice of 1970s life preserved as if in amber

[piratebay]

1, 3, 21 :-)

music asks

1: a song you like with a color in the title

black magic woman - santana

3: a song that reminds you of summertime

i love hot nights - jonathan richman/the modern lovers

...plugs my own little summertime playlist i add to every once in a while B)

21: a favorite song with a person’s name in the title

heard this song on a beloved mutual's playlist and idk why but! i like it!

ariel - dean friedman

[ulkaralakbarova]

Follow Ariel’s adventures before she gave up her fins for true love. When Ariel wasn’t singing with her sisters, she spent time with her mother, Queen Athena. Ariel is devastated when Athena is killed by pirates, and after King Triton outlaws all singing. Along with pals Flounder and Sebastian, Ariel sets off in hopes of changing her father’s decision to ban music from the kingdom. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Ariel (voice): Jodi Benson Sebastian (voice): Samuel E. Wright King Triton / Shelbow / Additional Voices (voice): Jim Cummings Marina Del Ray (voice): Sally Field Adella / Andrina / Additional Voices (voice): Tara Strong Alana (voice): Jennifer Hale Aquata / Arista (voice): Grey DeLisle Attina (voice): Kari Wahlgren Flounder (voice): Parker Goris Benjamin / Additional Voices (voice): Jeff Bennett Cheeks / Ray Ray (voice): Kevin Michael Richardson Ink Spot / Swifty / Additional Voices (voice): Rob Paulsen Queen Athena (voice): Lorelei Hill Butters Film Crew: Original Film Writer: Ron Clements Original Film Writer: John Musker Additional Writing: Steve Bencich Additional Writing: Ron J. Friedman Additional Writing: Rich Burns Music: Jim Dooley Additional Writing: Tom Rogers Additional Writing: Peggy Holmes Author: Robert Reece Author: Evan Spiliotopoulos Production Manager: Bill Bloom Associate Producer: Mary Ellen Bauder Additional Writing: Thania St. John Foley Artist: John T. Cucci Visual Effects: David ‘Joey’ Mildenberger Art Department Manager: Peter J. Deluca Visual Effects Design Consultant: Dan Lund Art Direction: Tony Pulham Animation: Scott T. Petersen Visual Effects: Noe Garcia Foley Mixer: James Ashwill Production Supervisor: Kip B. Lewis Additional Editor: Richard L. McCullough Production Supervisor: Brian J. Carey Movie Reviews: