#Batu Alien

[fallen---alien]

Aphelion

Since some readers of my original alien fic have been asking if there is any art for Varen and Natalie, I figure I'd post all of it here. All of my inspiration and art I've commissioned from the amazingly talented and forever awesome @spnfox

First of all, take a look at her beautiful art of Natalie and Varen.

And here is just a bunch of inspiration pics I've collected over the years I've been writing this fic. A lot of it is picrew makers and some doll makers from meiker.io. If you're interested in the individual makers to make your own, message me for the links :)

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. ONLY LOOK IF YOU'RE CAUGHT UP IN THE FIC**

(this is from one of Spnfox's drafts for Varen and when I officially fell in love with him)

(Varen in Faerun)

Ulla

(Another inspo of Ulla that I found on pinterest. I'm not sure the artist though.)

Batu (though, in the story his face is yellow with black splotches kind of like a Rorschach)

Aram

And these are about as close to Natalie as I can find on Pinterest.

oh, and here's a picrew I made for chapter 24:

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Hello, hello

Welcome to what is probably going to become a series of rants about the very unimportant details of books that live rent free in my head

Today I present to you:

The older brother of a least mentioned side character in a (unfortunately) very unapreciated sci-fi ya book

Now that that introduction is out of the way I have thoughts about Daniel Batu Wing from Warcross.

And I was not kidding about the character introduction. Warcross has a fandom with like 4 people in it in total, which is tragic in my opinion. Asher is a side character, the captain of the team and out of all of the friends Emika makes during the events of the book the one mentioned the least. So, now imagine how much his brother is mentioned.

I'll tell you - it's about 1.5 pages and 2 by-the-way mentions in around 600 pages of the duology.

So what are the things we know about Daniel:

He's Asher's older brother (if I had to guess maybe like 2-3 year age gap)

He's a famous actor and stuntman

He comes off arogant in Asher's memory when he is touched by Zero

He's Day's ancestor, so at some point he was married/had a girlfriend/one night stand - procreated so to say

And... that's about it really

So not much as you can see.

Now, what I have thought about reading the book and what led to this post is Asher (as a character I wish had more developement) and in turn his relationship with Daniel and that somehow led to a very badly done psycho analysis.

On to the bussiness.

The first time we see Daniel mentioned is when Emika meets Asher. She says that he is famous and that Asher was originally known as his younger brother and Ash gets a brief cold look at the mention of his brother.

The second time is when the dorm is blown up and Hamilton mentions that Asher's parents and brother are there to see him.

The third time is the memory in which we find out maybe the root of the problem between the brothers.

I would like to present to you my personal headcanons for the ages of Daniel and Asher. I like to think that Asher in the series is 22-23. Which would make Daniel somwhere around 25. I may explain my way of thinking this later, this is already long and I have told you nothing that you did not already know.

Why are the ages important, you may ask? The memory. Since Emika places the memory some 8-9 years, before the events of the series. The boys would be around 14 and 16.

From what we know their parents are getting a divorce and their house is a mess as well as the relationships in their family.

Daniel's way of dealing with this? Absolutely ignoring the situation around him. For what I understand to be a significant amount of time - a couple of years would do the trick.

So he sees what is happening and ignores his feelings and thoughts about the matter.

Why? Simple - he's neglected and feels alienated from his family so he alienates them back.

One another headcanon I would like to mention, that sort of makes Daniel's attitude and things he says make sense, is that Asher lost the use of his legs in an accident some time before their parents divorce.

This, understandably, makes the parents dote on Ash and in turn neglect Daniel.

And I say this because to me at least it seems that Ash does not understand that Daniel does not want him around and sees Ash as a problem. Most likely due to some change in dynamic Asher is not aware of. Which is perfectly understandable because why would his relationship with his brother change?

We see some evidence for this in:

Asher: Where are you going?

Daniel:...

Asher: You know what? You don't have to tell me? I don't have to know every single thing about your life, when you clearly don't care for me.

Daniel *sarcastically*: You only need me to care. Don't you have enough people giving you attention already?

Or something along those lines, I have the translated copy.

He sound so bitter and jelous there.

And Asher ( who is not good at dealing with people, like at all (also a post for another time)) calls out on Daniel's coping mechanism (ignoring the divorce). In which part I understand given the next part of the conversation where Daniel tells Ash that he isn't doing much better and Ash, not at all reading the situation or understanding that Daniel also means ignoring the divorce, says that Daniel is not doing much better, but at least his victories are the reason they have food on the table.

First of all, some A+ parenting, right there.

Second of all, Dany straight up goes for Asher's throat after this and that entire conversation causes a rift between them.

Very fun on all sides, as you can see.

What's fun to point out is that Daniel acts like a threatened animal. He was ready for jumping at his attacker the first available moment from the moment Asher refused to put the matter to rest.

We see this from Ash's POV, but how would it look like to Daniel?

He has a small career, that he's very proud of

He's starved for attention from the people he needs it from the most in his teenage years

The only attention he gets from family comes from the very reason he is neglected (not to say Asher is at fault here, because he is not. Daniel just seems to place the fault on him)

All of the family's finance and well being is put on the shoulders of the youngest member of the family who is disabled

Like, he, as most older siblings (it's a curse), feels the need to, in some capacity, provide something to the houshold when the parents clearly don't, but he only continues to ignore the situation at hand.

If their parents have not gotten a divorce, Dany would have probably ran away from home a mnd cut all contact.

And like all things that are ignored, the sitation at hand comes to bite him in the butt in the form of Asher (the aformentioned problem) who just keeps on pressing the sore spot until Daniel has to options - run away again and keep the cycle going or bit back and get rid of the problem. And bite he does.

To his credit, Daniel was most likely 16 at the time of this and none of us emotionally mature at that age, he delt with his emotion really badly, took it out on the wrong person and soured his relationship with his family.

They have most likely made up (I do not think that the cold look Ash had at the mention of Daniel was because the had bad blood, but rather that Emika put him again in the back of his brother's shadow when Ash worked hard to get out of it). Why do I think this? You don't fly half-way across the planet to check on someone you don't like/don't speak with/have bad blood with, when if he wanted to come across as caring he would have called or texted. Or ask third party who knows what happend and has seen Ash like Roshan, Hamilton or their parents.

So yeah, to sum up this way too long of a rant in which nothing was said, Dany was just a teenager in a horrible situation with which he delt badly.

And to those who have suffered through this, thank you :)

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Conoces un creador de contenido que hiciera algún objeto con forma de la estrella de la muerte, cruceros venator o destruyeron imperiales o At? Como puedo modificar las mascaras de alienígenas de batu y transformarlas en cabello? Y si sabes de alguien que creara el dizfras de c3 lo?

Hi, thanks for your question :) There isn't a mod for using the Batuu alien heads as hair, but there's a great mod from Nielsimming here, that lets you use them as a skin detail instead, and makes the skin tone cover the entire body. You can choose the override or to still be able to have hats. I personally like having both so I can make my restaurants be staffed by different species.

It looks as though there's a C3P0 decor item here, and they linked to a second one, but I would be careful with old blogspot downloads. Make sure you're using an adblocker. It would be cool to do a conversion one day, but I have a lot of projects planned before possibly doing that. As for venators/death star/imperial or republic army facilities, I'm currently working on a build/buy interior set. Hopefully it will be finished sometime in July :) - Squid

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Ultraman Decker Finale : Journey to Blazar in Indonesia 11 Juni 2023 ( Bahasa Indonesia only )

Halo, semuanya saya akan menulis blog tentang Ultraman Decker finale : Journey to Blazar

Iya, kalian gak salah dengar karena ini adalah tur terakhir untuk Ultraman Decker, bahkan ini adalah tur kedua setelah Ultra Heros Tour South East Asia.

Tapi, sebelum itu saya menceritakan perjalananku ke La Piazza, Mall Gandaria City, Jakarta Selatan tempat event di Selenggarakan.

Mula-mula, saya bertanya arah menuju ke Gandaria City terlebih dahulu di sosmed ,yaitu twitter, akhirnya ada jawaban akun twitter resmi TJ ( @/PT_Transjakarta ).

Nah, saatnya jalan menuju ke Gandaria City

Saya berangkat dari Halte Rawa Selatan dengan naik bus koridor 2 ( Pulogadung-Monas ), setelah sampai di Halte Monas lanjut naik bus koridor 3 ( Kalideres-Monas via Veteran) untuk turun di Halte Indosiar setelah itu naik bus koridor 8 ( Lebak Bulus- Pasar Baru via Tomang ) untuk turun Halte Ps. Kebayoran Lama, awalan saya bingung pas sampai di tambah lagi pake acara salah naik bus, untung ada bus arah sebaliknya jadi saya beruntung, akhirnya naik bus koridor 8D ( Joglo-Blok M ) turun di Halte Gandaria City 1.

Setelah sampai di Gandaria City, awalnya sempat bingung di mana tempat event tersebut dan ketemulah gerbang ini.

Liat gerbangnya saja sudah sekeren ini.

Setelah memasuki area tersebut, saya langsung duduk lumayan capek juga

Yas, sebelum memasuki acara, biasanya ada kuis berhadiah merch dari RTV. saya sempat angkat tangan di pertanyaan kedua ( Untuk yang streaming Day 1 atau datang Day 1 pasti tau pertanyaannya, jadi saya ga kasih tau pertanyaannya kayak gimana hehehehe ), yah alhamdullah dapat merch Terima Kasih, RTV

Setelah beberapa menit sesudah adain kuis barulah Live Show di mulai yey ＼⁠(⁠◎⁠o⁠◎⁠)⁠／＼⁠(⁠◎⁠o⁠◎⁠)⁠／

Lumayan seru juga hehehehe

Mulai dari episode favorit dia ( Raiga Terasaka ) , kebetulan ada episode favoritku di sana yey ( Ultraman Trigger episode 19 )

NB : Ternyata ramah sekali ❤️❤️❤️, jangan kapok datang ke indonesia lagi ya.

Ada permainan juga kalau Day 1 Jankenpon ( Batu, Gunting, Kertas ) kalau Day 2 tebak nama-nama hewan

Sangki serunya, tiba-tiba......

Alien Magma muncul untuk serang pembawa acara serta Raiga ahhhh tidak

Ok, mari kita nonton stage show singkat ini di IG saya

Dan dari stage show singkat ini, kedatangan cahaya baru, Blazar yang akan di tayang bulan depan ( di jepang tanggal 8 juli sedangkan di sini tanggal 14 juli tentu saja di dubing pake bahasa kita )

( Mika : Blazar kok nonton tralier Blaz...

Rena : Diamlah dan tonton

Mika : Baiklah )

Maafkan OC saya ikut komen soal ini hehehe

Ok, lanjut di video tersebut ada pesan dari Kapten Gento dari Ultraman Blazar untuk sapa penggemar Ultraman di Indonesia.

Setelah itu, ada pose unik dari Ultraman Blazar

Dan sebelum akhirin acara dengan Karaokean bareng Raiga Terasaka ( di sinilah suara hampir mau habis untung beli minum sebelumnya jadi aman ) an pesan-pesan darinya sebelum bubar jalan.

Yah, akhirnya selesai sudah Live Show sesi 1, tapi saya sebenarnya pengen lanjut ke sesi 2 sayangnya saya untuk memilih pulang karena sudah lelah saya ini 😵😵

Begitulah cerita saya ke acara Ultraman Decker Finale : Journey to Blazar

( Mika : Padahal ini acara Decker , kok malah....

Michiko : Banyak komplan lu

Rena : Sudah tau cast mereka bentok karena 3 cast tersebut ke Taiwan gitu

Mika : Iya, maaf )

Sampai jumpa di lain kesempatan 👋👋

Tambahan :

Masih sempat-sempatnya foto ini juga

Doakan supaya Ultraman favorit kalian datang juga, amiin

( Gambar dan video akan di perbaharui)

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Alien Fruits adalah permainan puzzle yang biasanya menggabungkan elemen match-3 dengan tema luar angkasa yang penuh warna dan menarik. Dalam game ini, pemain akan mencocokkan buah-buahan alien dengan warna atau bentuk yang sama untuk mendapatkan poin dan maju ke level berikutnya. Tema luar angkasa dan desain grafis yang unik memberikan sentuhan segar pada genre permainan puzzle yang sudah sangat populer.

Cara Bermain Alien Fruits:

1. Pencocokan Buah Alien:

Seperti kebanyakan permainan match-3, tugas utama Anda adalah untuk mencocokkan tiga atau lebih buah alien yang memiliki warna atau bentuk yang sama.

Buah alien ini bisa berupa berbagai bentuk dan warna, dan setiap kali Anda berhasil mencocokkan setidaknya tiga buah yang serupa, mereka akan hilang dari papan dan memberi Anda poin.

2. Mencapai Tujuan Level:

Setiap level di Alien Fruits biasanya memiliki tujuan tertentu yang harus diselesaikan. Tujuan ini bisa beragam, seperti mencocokkan jumlah buah alien tertentu, mencapai skor tertentu, atau mengumpulkan item spesifik.

Anda akan diberikan batasan jumlah gerakan atau waktu untuk menyelesaikan level, sehingga penting untuk merencanakan langkah-langkah Anda dengan hati-hati.

3. Penggunaan Power-ups:

Seiring Anda maju ke level yang lebih tinggi, permainan ini akan memberi Anda akses ke berbagai power-ups atau item khusus untuk membantu Anda mengatasi level yang lebih sulit.

Power-ups ini bisa berupa bom untuk menghancurkan banyak buah sekaligus, pengubah warna untuk mencocokkan lebih banyak buah, atau kemampuan untuk memutar papan permainan dan membuka lebih banyak kombinasi.

4. Level yang Semakin Sulit:

Seiring kemajuan permainan, tantangannya akan meningkat. Papan permainan akan semakin penuh dengan berbagai buah alien, dan mungkin akan ada hambatan tertentu, seperti batu penghalang atau rintangan lainnya yang harus diatasi.

Beberapa level juga bisa memiliki elemen waktu, di mana Anda harus menyelesaikan level dalam waktu terbatas.

5. Pencapaian dan Hadiah:

Anda akan menerima hadiah berupa koin atau item khusus ketika berhasil menyelesaikan level atau pencapaian tertentu.

Hadiah ini bisa digunakan untuk membeli power-ups atau untuk membuka level yang lebih menantang.

Tips Bermain Alien Fruits:

Rencanakan Gerakan Anda:

Cobalah untuk merencanakan beberapa langkah ke depan agar Anda dapat mencocokkan lebih banyak buah dalam satu gerakan dan mendapatkan lebih banyak poin.

Ini akan memungkinkan Anda untuk memaksimalkan skor dan menghemat gerakan yang terbatas.

Gunakan Power-ups dengan Bijak:

Jangan terburu-buru menggunakan power-ups. Simpanlah untuk situasi yang benar-benar membutuhkan bantuan, seperti level yang sangat sulit atau ketika Anda hampir kehabisan gerakan.

Perhatikan Pola di Papan:

Beberapa level mungkin memiliki pola atau bentuk tertentu yang bisa Anda manfaatkan. Cobalah untuk mencari kombinasi yang lebih besar, seperti mencocokkan lebih dari tiga buah sekaligus, untuk mendapatkan efek khusus.

Bersiap untuk Hambatan:

Beberapa level mungkin memiliki batu atau penghalang yang menghalangi jalur Anda untuk mencocokkan buah. Gunakan power-ups atau rencanakan langkah-langkah yang dapat membantu membersihkan hambatan-hambatan ini.

Fokus pada Tujuan Level:

Setiap level biasanya memiliki tujuan tertentu. Pastikan Anda tidak hanya mencocokkan buah-buahan secara acak, tetapi fokus pada pencapaian tujuan level tersebut agar bisa melanjutkan ke level berikutnya.

Ikuti Tantangan Khusus:

Beberapa permainan seperti Alien Fruits menawarkan tantangan harian atau mingguan yang memberi hadiah khusus. Pastikan untuk menyelesaikan tantangan ini jika Anda ingin mendapatkan lebih banyak koin atau power-ups.

Fitur Utama dalam Alien Fruits:

Grafik yang Menarik dan Warna-Warni: Tema luar angkasa dan desain buah alien yang kreatif memberikan pengalaman visual yang menyenangkan.

Level Beragam dan Menantang: Dengan lebih banyak level yang semakin sulit, permainan ini tetap menghibur dan memberikan tantangan baru.

Power-ups dan Item Khusus: Berbagai item yang bisa membantu Anda menyelesaikan level dengan lebih mudah.

Pencapaian dan Hadiah: Sistem hadiah yang menarik memberikan insentif untuk terus bermain dan mencapai target tertentu.

Alien Fruits adalah permainan yang menyenangkan dan adiktif yang cocok untuk pemain yang menyukai teka-teki santai namun tetap menantang. Dengan grafis yang cerah, gameplay yang mudah dipahami, dan tantangan yang semakin sulit, game ini bisa menjadi hiburan yang sangat mengasyikkan untuk mengisi waktu luang Anda.

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Abrakadabra

Saya tahu saya akan bersenang-senang mengeja nama slot ini dengan benar sepanjang ulasan ini! Abrakadabra dari Peter & Sons bukan sekadar slot kecil dengan nama yang tidak biasa – ini juga merupakan permainan yang unik dalam banyak hal lain, seperti yang akan segera Anda temukan segera setelah memainkannya untuk pertama kali. 'Gulungan' dibuat menggunakan kombinasi batu nisan dan makhluk seperti alien yang disusun dalam konfigurasi 5x3 dengan 243 cara untuk menang. Permainan ini menawarkan RTP rata-rata 96,07%, tetapi hadiah jackpot teratasnya sebesar 10.000x total taruhan sedikit lebih baik daripada yang akan Anda temukan di sebagian besar permainan lain di pasaran saat ini.

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[fic][HiroPut] : Surat Cinta (2012)

661 words. Bahasa Indonesia. Publish Nov 29, 2012.

[Kamu boleh menganggap ini surat cinta. Terserah. Kutulis sementara aku menunggu antrean di rumah sakit. Aku sakit apa? Terimakasih sudah berbasa-basi, tapi aku tidak sakit. Bukan aku yang sakit. Ah, kamu tidak perlu tahu keperluanku, tidak terlalu penting kok. : )]

Aku membubuhkan emoticon dan merasa bahwa yang barusan itu bukan gayaku. Jempol segera mengarah ke tombol delete, tapi kursor masih berkedip-kedip. Simbol yang ingin kuhapus masih terpampang di layar. Ya, aku ragu. Kalau kuhilangkan emoticon itu, tidakkah pesanku terlalu garang?

Aku menghela nafas. Lantai linoleum putih, bau antiseptik dan dinding serba putih ini membuatku gelisah. Lorong tempatku duduk menunggu memang sepi, tapi pikiranku ribut. Aku tidak suka keadaan begini, aku jadi memikirkan hal-hal yang biasanya tidak kuacuhkan. Aku jadi bukan aku.

Misalnya, aku jadi memikirkan orang itu. Orang yang sempat menarik perhatianku, menggelitik rasa penasaranku, yang sempat menjadi prioritasku untuk beberapa lama. Kemudian kutinggalkan.

Dan rasa bersalah yang rapat aku timbun di dasar bumi mulai mengetuk-ngetuk permukaan.

Aku tidak ingin mengingatnya karena dengan memikirkannya, aku jadi harus menghitung kesalahanku, ketidakdewasaanku. Hal yang tidak ingin kuingat-ingat karena--harga diriku langsung bocel karenanya.

Kata Arashi reputasi dibangun seumur hidup tapi hanya butuh sekedip untuk dihancurkan. Dan kurasa pamanku ini benar.

Lama aku tidak ingin mengakui bahwa aku bermain-main dengan perasaan orang itu, jadi apa bedanya aku dengan laki-laki brengsek lainnya?

Imaji Kiva mendadak ikut merangsek masuk, "Bukankah hal yang sama pernah terjadi pada Ayu?"

Aku menatap dinding kosong dimana hantu Kiva terproyeksi dengan jelas disana. Aku baru mau menyanggah, tapi hantu-Kiva cepat memotong. "Jangan pura-pura bodoh. Kamu memang selalu pura-pura bodoh. How cunning!

"Kamu selalu jadi yang paling depan, maju duluan, penyerang paling agresif. Dengan lihai membangun imej petarung, berandalan yang patut diperhitungkan, tapi sebenarnya itu cuma kedok saja kan?" mantan sainganku di dojo taekwondo meneruskan dengan nada sinis. "Kamu yang asli adalah sepecundangnya pecundang. Manusia licik, kamu melukai duluan sebelum dilukai orang."

Tidak ada yang bisa kubantah dari omongan Kiva. Tidak ada gunanya membantah omongan orang mati, kan. Tapi seandainya masih hidup, mungkin Kiva memang akan bicara begitu. Memaksaku mencium tanah secara kiasan maupun harfiah. Kepergiannya merupakan salah satu kehilangan terbesarku.

"Oh, jangan bilang kamu lupa Ayu itu siapa. Jangan juga mengelak bahwa kamu tidak dengar rumor tentang kondisi fisiknya yang bermasalah. Permintaannya adalah wasiat terakhir orang sekarat, berani-beraninya kamu abaikan?"

"Karena kamu tidak ingin menangggung beban pacar sakit-sakitan?"

Meski imaji hantu-Kiva berangsur hilang, perkataannya tetap bergaung di relung kepala.

Sama seperti perlakuanku pada Ayu, aku juga pura-pura abai dengan perasaan orang itu. Memanfaatkan kondisi fisiknya yang tidak terlalu seperti laki-laki, aku bermain-main dengannya. Tapi aku takut dengan konsekuensi setelahnya. Birahi dan cinta itu susah dibedakan, menurutku. Rasa penasaran dan kebodohan itu susah dipisahkan, menurutku. Pada masa itu terlalu berat rasanya mengakui bahwa aku bagian dari mereka, kaum pariah--yang sayangnya salah satu dari mereka adalah anggota keluargaku.

Dan orang itu bukan satu-satunya mainanku.

Tapi aku ingin berubah. Aku harus berubah. Setelah semua yang kupercaya hancur menyerpih, aku tidak punya apa-apa lagi untuk jadi tameng. Tidak ada apa-apa yang terlalu berharga untuk kupertaruhkan sekarang. Tidak akan ada yang hilang lebih dari ini jika kamu berada di titik nadir.

Dan saat itu, kenapa aku memperlakukanmu seperti kerakap tumbuh di batu--karena aku tidak bisa memilih. Perasaan itu sesuatu yang sangat membebani bagiku, sangat asing, sangat alien. Dan aku tidak siap menerima stigma yang pasti kudapat jika aku bergabung bersama mereka, kaum pariah.

Tapi sekarang sudah lain keadaannya.

Aku menghela nafas, dan baru tersadar ternyata sedari tadi aku begitu tegang. Aku yang sekarang beda dengan yang dulu. AKu yang sekarang lebih kompromis dengan kelemahanku. Aku yang sekarang ingin tahu keadaanmu dan minta maaf atas kesalahanku di masa lalu. Itupun kalau orang ini rela memaafkan.

Kuhapus semua tulisanku tanpa ragu-ragu lagi, kuganti dengan,

[Apa kabar? Mudah-mudahan sehat selalu.]

Aku ingin orang ini tahu kalau aku sudah bisa menentukan pilihan sekarang. Dan pilihan ini tidak akan ada kalau orang ini tidak ikut kuperhitungkan.

Hei. Aku ingin me-reset semuanya dari awal lagi.

[myindustrialspecialist]

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[pangpingpong]

Bitter

Latte itu menurutku harus pahit, karena hanya dibuat dari susu dan espresso. Ngerasa kaya alien pas nemu abang - abang barista bikin latte pakai sweetener. Hatiku kaya remuk berserakan (Lebay? I know)

padahal udah gue konfirm "Bang cuma susu sama espresso aja kan ya?" Terus doi kayanya kedistrek. Baiklah... besok-besok aku akan cari kopisyop lain yang bisa menyajikan latte sesuai standar resep yang kutahu (wkwkwk).

Secara umum, I like bitter coffee way too much than sweet coffee. Dan seharusnya kopi itu ya Pahit. Cuma, kan sebagai manusia uncommon di tengah manusia lain yang suka sama gula - sweetener - SKM, gue itu unpopular opinion jadinya. Padahal yang paham standarnya harusnya bisa ngejelasin, tiap ada yang pesen latte kalau it doesnt contain sweetener at all. And you can kindly ask the costumer, whether they prefer to add some syrup or sweetener in it or not.

Sempet mikir, apakah harus beli coffee machine, tapi sudahlah. Gue tidak punya waktu buat ngurusin maintenance coffee machine tsb. Gue prefer kopi instan yang tetep black dan tidak berampas (iykyk). Iya tahu, dia merk yg dukung isriwil. But, it is the best option for me and mba Nten. Order for food delivery often took much time and also money. Jadi kami berkesimpulan, gimana kalau kita pesen saja frother to make foam milk. Sudah. Ternyata solusinya sederhana.

Kalau ditanya, kenapa suka bitter, jawabannya adalah I dont know. I just know that coffee should be bitter, with another flavor such as floral, nutty, sweet or fresh. Selain, milk based, actually kalau lambungku fine - fine saja dan I have time, I prefer v60.

Aroma kopi dan rasanya bakalan beda, meskipun beans nya sama. Tergantung abang baristanya mau nyeduh tekniknya kekmana. Kadang ada yang keluar aroma dan flavornya, ada yang gak. Ada yang terlalu watery, ada yang terlalu bitter dan macam - macam. Ini semacam tes organoleptik, jadi ga ada beban. Just for fun, sekalian melatih sensori biar lebih sensitif.

Kalau sudah terbiasa dengan rasa asli makanan dan minuman, jadinya kita bakalan tahu kualitas bahan pangan yang dipakai. Dan, consnya kadang - kadang I expect too much when reading a menu wkwkwk.

Contohnya semalam gue baca menu strawberry tea. Ekspektasi gue itu adalah segelas fruit tea tapi ada stroberi fresh yang dicrunch setengah kasar or mereka pakai selai stroberi, dikasih es batu dan black tea atau oolong tea. Pas di konfirm ternyata mereka pakai yang udah serbuk. Bhaiquelah....

Maybe I expect too much dari sebuah menu seharga 20k. Padahal ya gue pikir dengan ekspektasi gue itu gak akan semahal itu. Emang bakalan time consuming sih, cuma secara quality bakalan top markotop sih wkwkwk. Again, unfulfilled expectation is bitter. Always~

[xtruss]

From ‘Genghis Khan with Rockets’ to a ‘Gas Station with Nukes’: How the EU’s Top Diplomat Updated a Lazy Russophobic Slur

Josep Borrell used a modern variation of a jaded trope to abuse Russians: here’s where the lazy stereotype comes from

— RT | August 20, 2023 | By Konstantin Dushenko

Josep Borrell Fontelles (Western Catalan: [ʒoˈzɛb boˈreʎ fonˈteʎes]; born 24 April 1947) is a Spanish Politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 1 December 2019.

Unlike Beijing, Moscow isn’t a “real geopolitical player,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell claimed in an interview with the El Pais news outlet published on Saturday. According to Borrell, Russia is economically weak due to a dependency on energy exports. Nevertheless, the diplomat alleged that Moscow poses a threat to EU security, pointing to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“Russia is an Economic Dwarf, It is Like a Gas Station Whose Owner Has an Atomic Bomb,” Braindead, Boak Bollocks and an Idiot to His Core Borrell Stated.

The metaphor he used is rooted in deep cultural layers. Although the EU’s top diplomat may not realize it, similar expressions have been used against Russia for many decades.

An insult defining the USSR as “Upper Volta with missiles” has been widely used since the 1980s. It has now morphed into the idea that Moscow runs a “gas station with nuclear weapons,” which appears to have its origins in comments from the late US Senator John McCain, who rarely, if ever, saw a Western-backed war he didn’t like.

In the 21st century, the origin of this type of phrase has been repeatedly debated. It will be shown below that it goes back to statements from the 19th century thinker Alexander Herzen and has more than a century and a half of history behind it.

Here are Four Successive Variations of the Metaphor:

Genghis Khan with the Telegraph and Congreve Rockets

Genghis Khan with the Atomic Bomb

Congo with Missiles

Upper Volta with Missiles

In all these formulas, the first part symbolises some force seen as uncivilised, and alien to Western values, and the second part symbolises the achievements of Western civilisation, primarily in the military field.

Genghis Khan with the Telegraph

In early 1857, the librarian Baron Modest Korf’s book about Nicholas I’s accession to the throne was published in St. Petersburg. It was written at the behest of the monarch and published for the general public on an order from Alexander II. The purpose of the publication was to belittle the achievements of the Decembrists (unsuccessful revolutionaries in the 1820s) and discredit their motives.

In October 1857, an open letter from Herzen to Alexander II about Korf's book appeared. In order to prove the historical justification of the Decembrist movement, Herzen essentially challenged the poet Alexander Pushkin’s (then unknown) formula: “The government is the only European in Russia.” He wrote: “If we had made all our progress only in government, we should have given the world an unprecedented example of autocracy, armed with all that freedom has developed; slavery and violence, supported by all that science has found. It would be like Genghis Khan with telegraphs, steamships, railways, with Carnot and Monge at headquarters, with Minier guns and Congreve rockets under Batu's command.”

The “Congreve rocket” – a gunpowder projectile with a range of up to three kilometres – was invented by the British general William Congreve and laid the foundation for European rocketry. They were successfully used by the British army in the Napoleonic Wars: in the bombardment of Boulogne (1806), Copenhagen (1807) – the city was burned to the ground – and in the Battle of Leipzig (1813). However, from the second half of the 19th century, rockets lost their role as an important military weapon – for a century.

The metaphor of “Genghis Khan with the telegraphs” entered the public consciousness much later, at the end of the 19th century, and the great writer Leo Tolstoy played a decisive role in this. On 31 July 1890, he wrote to the lawyer and philosopher Boris Chicherin: “It was not without reason that Herzen spoke of how terrible Genghis Khan would have been with telegraphs, with railways, with journalism. This is exactly what has happened in our country.”

Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. © Sputnik

Tolstoy developed this idea in “The Kingdom of God Within You” (Paris, 1893; in Russian: Berlin, 1894): “Governments in our time – all governments, the most despotic as well as the most liberal – have become what Herzen so aptly called Genghis Khan with telegraphs, i.e. organisations of violence, having nothing as their basis but the most crude arbitrariness, and at the same time using all those means which science has developed for the aggregate social peaceful activity of free and equal people, and which they use for the enslavement and oppression of people.”

“Genghis Khan with the telegraph” is one of the working titles of Tolstoy's article “It is Time to Understand” (published in 1910). “The Russian Government,” it says, “is now the very Genghis Khan with the telegraph, the possibility of which so terrified him [Herzen]. And Genghis Khan not only with the telegraph, but with a constitution, with two chambers, a press, political parties et tout le tremblement… The difference between Genghis Khan with the telegraph and the old one will be only that the new Genghis Khan will be even more powerful than the old one.” The article was translated into the main European languages and, together with the treatise “The Kingdom of God Within You,” introduced Herzen’s metaphor to Western readers.

Thus, Tolstoy’s “Genghis Khan with the telegraph” is a definition not only of the Russian government, but of the modern state in general. In the revolutionary press, and then in the post-revolutionary Soviet press, this metaphor was usually applied to autocratic Russia. The extent to which it was associated with Tolstoy is illustrated by a remark by the eminent historian Mikhail Pokrovsky: “Leo Tolstoy called this [tsarist] state ‘Genghis Khan with the telegraph’.”

In the post-revolutionary emigré press, Herzen's words were applied to Bolshevik Russia. However, the ideologist of National Bolshevism, Nikolay Ustryalov, makes an important qualification: “It cannot be said that the old culture collapsed at once and completely. Nor can it be said that the new element – this ‘chauffeur’ or ‘Genghis Khan with the telegraph’ – is something absolutely primitive and homogeneous.”

In 1941, the same metaphor was applied in the Soviet press to the Nazi state: “Herzen once speculated with horror about the possible appearance of ‘Genghis Khan with the telegraph,’ about the coming barbarians equipped with advanced technology. But no one, not even the darkest imagination of the advanced people of the 19th century, could imagine what would happen in the 20th century, when fascist thugs began to realize their plans for the enslavement of mankind and the eradication of its culture”.

Genghis Khan with an Atomic Bomb

After the Second World War, the émigré philosopher Semyon Frank modernised the metaphor in its technical part, including the atomic bomb: “One hundred years ago, the astute Russian thinker Alexander Herzen predicted the invasion of ‘Genghis Khan with the telegraph’. This paradoxical prediction has come true on a scale that Herzen could not have foreseen. The new Genghis Khan, born from the bowels of Europe itself, has descended upon it with aerial bombardments destroying entire cities, gas chambers for the mass extermination of people, and now threatens to sweep mankind off the face of the earth with atomic bombs.” Frank uses the metaphor in the spirit of Tolstoy – as a universal characteristic of the modern state, free from the norms of human morality.

A reproduction of a portrait of Alexander Herzen, painted by Sergei Skulsky, from the collection of the Leningrad State Literature Museum. © Sputnik

Five years later, the émigré Socialist Herald published an article by publicist Pavel Berlin entitled “Genghis Khan with a hydrogen bomb.” The author traced the historical lineage of Russian communism back to the era of Tatar-Mongol rule, without stopping to assert that “Genghis Khan introduced a communism that went further than the Soviet one… Both systems were built on the complete detachment of the successful mastery of the latest technology, including, first and foremost, the technology of extermination, from the cultural soil that gave birth to it and developed it.”

“Leo Tolstoy,” writes Berlin, sharing a common misconception at the time, “put into circulation the expression ‘Genghis Khan with the telegraph’... reality brought us in the person of [Joseph] Stalin. Genghis Khan no longer with a peaceful and innocent telegraph, but with an all-destroying atomic bomb.” Now “we see… [Prime Minister Georgy] Malenkov with a hydrogen bomb.”

That same year, the July issue of the conservative magazine The American Mercury published an article by J. Anthony Marcus entitled “Will Malenkov Succeed?” The author wrote: “I recall those years when the manufacturing industry was extremely poor. Russia did not have a single tractor, tank, submarine, bomber or fighter of its own manufacture, let alone modern means of producing and distributing food and clothing and other necessities.”

“This is not the Russia that Malenkov inherited. Today he is Genghis Khan with atomic-hydrogen bombs, determined to use them to establish world domination – a course from which neither he nor his successor will ever be able to deviate for long.”

The similarity of this passage with the corresponding fragment of Berlin's article is obvious. Marcus, a staunch anti-Communist, was born in Russia, knew Russian well, had visited the USSR many times before the war on Amtorg business, and had the closest ties with the Russian political emigrants in America. Later one of the emigrant authors attributed this formula to Leon Trotsky: “Trotsky overestimated Stalin, calling him Genghis Khan with an atomic bomb”. Of course, Trotsky, who was assassinated in 1940, could not have said any such thing.

From the late 1960s, Herzen's metaphor was applied in the Soviet press to the USSR's Western adversaries: “Genghis Khan, armed with a hydrogen bomb and rockets, is no longer a fantasy, no longer a novelist's fiction, but a reality that must be reckoned with, lest one day we find ourselves in the position of humanity being forced to recognise the advantages of salamanders.”

In a 1971 article on the arms race in space, Herzen's warnings were redirected in accordance with the needs of Soviet propaganda: “Herzen was tormented by the thought of the fate of humanity and the fate of science, which had fallen into the power of lovers of colonial robbery and military adventures. It would be, wrote Herzen, ‘something like Genghis Khan with telegraphs, steamships, railways, with Minier guns, with Congreve rockets under Batu's command’.”

“Genghis Khan with telegraphs! Yes, then, in the middle of the XIX century, telegraph wire and Congreve rockets flying at two hundred fathoms were the ceiling of technical power, and the Russian Tsar and the French Emperor were the embodiment of tyranny and the trampling of human rights. Today it all seems like child's play. Rockets fly nowadays to Venus and Mars, and modern Genghis Khans own not only telegraphs, but also television installations, lasers, computers and many other things. The Genghis Khans of our days are also swinging into space.”

Genghis Khan monument outside Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. © Getty Images/Mike Sheridan

Another Soviet author applies the metaphor to Maoist China: “Herzen saw this danger in the image of Genghis Khan with a telegraph. Leo Tolstoy wrote of Genghis Khan with a parliament. We now know that Genghis Khan with the atomic bomb and even Genghis Khan with a revolution, like Mao Zedong's 'cultural revolution', are also possible.”

Such comparisons were also made in the Western press, facilitated by the fact that Genghis Khan had long been synonymous with the 'yellow peril'. In 1968, a book by an American author on Yugoslavia quoted (without source) a “remarkable prophecy” by US Supreme Court Justice William Douglas (1898-1980), which the author of the book dated to 1955[19]. He was referring to the threat from Communist China: “The Russia of the next generation may indeed soften to the level of today's Communist Yugoslavia. If Asia industrialises and produces a Genghis Khan with a hydrogen bomb, Russia and America may become indispensable to each other if both are to survive.”

Congo with thermonuclear Missiles

After the creation of ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, the mention of "Congreve rockets" gained unexpected relevance. As shown above, the theme of “Genghis Khan with missiles” emerges in the Soviet press as early as in the 1960s. The next transformation of the metaphor took place in France: instead of the name of Genghis Khan as a symbol of barbarism, the name of an African country appears.

In 1973, the book ‘What I Know about Solzhenitsyn’ was published in Paris. Its author, the art historian Pierre De (1922-2014), a member of the French Communist Party (CPF) since 1939, had written laudatory books about the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1968, however, he greeted the Prague Spring with enthusiasm. In his new book, De recalled conversations with the writer Elsa Triole in 1968 (Elsa was then writing an article about Academician Andrey Sakharov's manifesto Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom):

“I had just published an article about the long time span of history, about profound movements on the scale of whole centuries, imperceptible to traditional analyses. She replied: There is a long Russian time, Pierre. And I would like to know where it leads... It was you who told me that Courtade, shortly before his death … told you that this country is the Congo with thermonuclear rockets (le Congo avec des fusées thermonucléaires).”

The credibility of this report remains questionable: Pierre Courtade, a member of the CPF Central Committee since 1954, as far as is known, remained an orthodox communist and apologist for the USSR until the end of his life.

The appearance of Congo in this formula is hardly accidental: in the 1970s, the Congo had a military dictatorship trying to build socialism on the Soviet model. In September 1973, the formula “Russia is the Congo with rockets” appeared in the headline of the German newspaper Die Zeit. The author of the article, François Bondy, cited the book by Pierre De. A year later, Bondy linked this formula to Herzen's metaphor.

Bondy, a Swiss journalist, writer and translator (including from Polish), a close friend of Romain Gary, a French writer of Russian origin, was, it must be assumed, well acquainted with Russian literature. Speaking to US state-run CIA mouthpiece Radio Free Europe about the prospects for détente, he said:

“You could say that by accelerating the process of complicating the system in Russia, you are accelerating its decline, because highly qualified Russians (allegedly) will not tolerate totalitarianism. I am not at all convinced. The simple and sobering fact is that our relations with Russia are different from those with any other country, and this is due to the historical, cultural and political ‘otherness’ of the Soviet Union. Pierre Courtade, former editor of the French Communist newspaper L'Humanité, described the Soviet Union after a recent trip there as ‘Congo with rockets’, echoing Alexander Herzen's fears of ‘Genghis Khan with the telegraph’. The truth is that we have no answer to this question. The best we can hope for is to encourage the keepers of the missiles to keep their missiles at a distance and to pay more attention to any move that this system might make to break out of its Congo.”

In the printed English version of the radio broadcast, the French term “des fusées” is rendered by the word “rockets.” However, the French "fusée" and the Russian “rocket” correspond to two terms in English – “rocket” and “missile.” The first usually means a space rocket, the second a military guided missile, including one with a nuclear warhead. The fact that the form “...with rockets,” which is still common today, appeared first is probably due to the genealogy of the expression, which goes back to the Russian-language metaphor. Since the 1990s, the form “Upper Volta with missiles” has also been used.

Upper Volta with Missiles

The replacement of Congo with Upper Volta, a small and impoverished African country almost invisible on the world map, emphasized the paradoxical nature of the metaphor. The first known reference to “Upper Volta with missiles” dates from the autumn of 1983. It is important to note that one of the central issues in the press at the time was the conflict over a South Korean civilian Boeing shot down by a Soviet air-to-air missile off Sakhalin Island on 1 September 1983.

On 28 October 1983, the left-wing British weekly New Statesman reviewed two new books on the USSR, including Andrew Cockburn's The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machin. Cockburn, the Irish-raised son of the British communist Claude Cockburn, has lived in the United States since 1979. The main thesis of his book is that Western politicians exaggerate the power of the Soviet war machine to justify their own arms programs. Soviet technology is decades behind Western technology. At parades, the missile forces (to quote a reviewer of the book) “display carefully lathed wooden missiles; the units marching on Red Square never learn how to fight; the new jets can stay in the air for only a few minutes.”

According to the reviewer, much of the book is true, but Cockburn is not free of the biases characteristic of the New Cold War, namely “anti-Russian racism, which tends to portray the Soviet Union as both weak and barbaric. Every counterrevolutionary, from Sidney Reilly to General John Hackett, has used this motive to incite hatred and aggression against the USSR. Those who accidentally shoot down Korean airliners are outside civilization. Those who bomb mental institutions in Grenada are simply ill-informed. The Russians are portrayed with a racist tinge: a bunch of dirty men pretending to be a great power – ‘Upper Volta with missiles’, as diplomats in Moscow joke.” Later evidence confirms that the expression originated in Moscow among foreign diplomats (and probably journalists).

A little earlier, in the spring of 1983, Ronald Reagan had described the USSR as an “evil empire.” This definition contrasts stylistically with the definition of “Upper Volta with missiles.” If the “evil empire” image demonized the USSR, the “Upper Volta with missiles” image challenged the notion of the USSR as a superpower.

US President Ronald Reagan. © Bob Daugherty/AP

A year later (1984), the Republic of the Upper Volta was renamed the Republic of Burkina Faso, but this name did not replace “Upper Volta” in our metaphor.

According to one popular version, the phrase “Upper Volta with rockets” was coined by the British journalist David Buchan. He was referring to his article “Moscow can do it too: Soviet technology exports,” published in the Financial Times in September 1984.

It was widely circulated during the years of perestroika. The Irish journalist Patrick Cockburn recalled: “'Upper Volta with missiles', a journalist said to me in my first days in Moscow. A week later, at dinner, a diplomat repeated the remark. Over the next three years, I heard the same annoying joke repeated many times, with mockery and contempt.”

Since the late 1980s, the phrase "Upper Volta with missiles" has been quoted in the German press, usually in reference to Helmut Schmidt (Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1974-1982). The German version is "Obervolta mit Raketen" and also "Obervolta mit Atomwaffen" ("Upper Volta with atomic weapons").

In the Russian press of the 2000s, the same metaphor was often attributed to Margaret Thatcher. In 1999, British journalist Xan Smiley published a letter on the pages of the online resource POGO. Centre for Defence Information: “Henry Kissinger, Helmut Schmidt and even Mikhail Gorbachev have been cited as authors of this phrase. I'm sorry, but it was I who first put it into circulation. I think it was in the summer of 1987, when I was a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph (London) and The Sunday Telegraph in Moscow (1986-1989). At the time, the phrase was a source of amusing insults, and I was denounced in the Soviet press for being ‘rabidly anti-Soviet’ and the like.”

“In fact, I had previously heard the idea expressed in a similar way by a woman (not a journalist) who happened to be Zimbabwean, and I probably twisted the expression. Unfortunately, the people of Upper Volta have long referred to their country as Burkina Faso. Poor Upper Volta, though... it sounded both more hopeless and more amusing. In any case, it is not clear to me why the credit should go to the aforementioned bigwigs (if it is any credit at all).”

As shown above, Smiley was deluded in attributing credit to himself.

The Washington Post on 8 February 1991 quoted Russian politician Viktor Alksnis as saying, “The West used to think of the Soviet Union as Upper Volta with missiles. Today, we are considered just an Upper Volta. Nobody is afraid of us.” On 25 January 1992, Boris Yeltsin said in an interview with ABC television that Russian nuclear missiles would no longer be aimed at American cities as of 27 January. Komsomolskaya Pravda columnist Maxim Chikin noted in an article on 30 January: “The task is simple. Upper Volta with missiles minus missiles. What is left? Exactly.”

Let us also note an example of the use of Herzen's metaphor (in Leo Tolstoy's version) in the 2000s: “As the angry but not entirely witty revolutionary Herzen once put it, ‘Genghis Khan with a telegraph is even worse than Genghis Khan without a telegraph'. George Bush Jr. is precisely 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph’.”

The endurance of this metaphor, created more than a century and a half ago, is proof of the existence of the “long time span" of Russian history, to use French historian Fernand Braudel's term.

This piece was originally published by Russia in Global Affairs, translated and edited by the RT team

— By Konstantin Dushenko, a Russian Translator, Culturologist and Historian

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Beyonce ‘Alien Superstar’ / ‘Cuff It’

Bjork ‘Ovule’ / ‘Atopos’ / ’Ancestress’

Black Country, New Road ‘Chaos Space Marine’ / ‘Bread Song’ / ‘Basketball Shoes’

Black Midi ‘Still’ / ‘The Defence’

Blanck Mass ‘Italia ‘90’

Bolis Pupul ‘Neon Buddha’

Alan Braxe + DJ Falcon feat. Panda Bear ‘Step By Step’

Brockhampton ‘Big Pussy’

Caroline ‘Dark Blue’ / ‘Good Morning (Red)’

Caroline Polachek ‘Sunset’ / ‘Welcome To My Island’

Cate Le Bon ‘Moderation’ / ‘Harbour’ / ‘Running Away’

CHAI ‘Whole’ / ‘Hero Journey (feat. Superorganism)’

Charli XCX ‘Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama)’

Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘HAHA’ / ‘Mantra’

Crack Cloud ‘Costly Engineered Illusion’

Cryalot ‘Hell Is Here’ / ‘Hurt Me’

Dagger Brothers ‘That’s Magic’

Dean Blunt, Skepta, Novelist, A$AP Rocky ‘London Tonight Freestyle’

Delifinger ‘I Don’t Even Want To Know’

Denzel Curry ‘Walkin’

Dick Dent ‘Fun Times’

Divorce ‘Checking Out’

Dorian Electra ‘My Agenda (Anamanaguchi Remix)’

Dry Cleaning ‘Kwenchy Kups’ / ‘Gary Ashby’

Eartheater ‘Mitosis’

EASYFUN ‘Audio’

El Michels Affair & Piya Malik ‘Kabhi’

Ernold Same ‘The Reader’

Felicita & Kero Kero Bonito ‘Cluck’

Fences & Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Sympathy For The Devil’

The Financial Year ‘Serpenti’ 

FKA Twigs ‘Meta Angel’ / ‘Oh My Love’ / ‘Honda (feat. Pa Salieu)’

FLO ‘Cardboard Box’

FLOHIO ‘SPF’ 

Gabriels ‘One And Only’

Group Listening ‘Hollywood Dream Trip’ / ‘All Of A Sudden’

Gruff Rhys ‘People Are Pissed’

Hannah Diamond ‘Staring At The Ceiling’

Hercules & Love Affair feat. ANOHNI ‘Poisonous Storytelling’ (Giant Swan remix)’

Hot Chip ‘Eleanor’ / ‘Broken’

Hudson Mohawke ‘Intentions’ / ‘Bicstan’

John Cale & Weyes Blood ‘Story Of Blood’

JPEGMAFIA ‘Hazard Duty Pay!’

KAINA ‘Apple’

Kate NV ‘Early Bird’ / ‘Oni (They)’

Katy J Pearson ‘Talk Over Town’ / ‘Howl’ / ‘Float’

Kelela ‘Happy Ending’ / ‘On The Run’

Kelli Blanchett ‘Peaceful When You Sleep’

Kendrick Lamar ‘N95’ / ‘The Heart Part 5’

Kinlaw & Franco Franco ‘Crocs On The Plough’

Let’s Eat Grandma ‘Happy New Year’

Little Simz ‘Gorilla’ / ‘Broken’

Lizzo ‘About Damn Time’

Max Tundra ‘MBGATE (Kero Kero Bonito remix)’ / ‘Lights (A.G. Cook remix)’

Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, PainkPantheress & Shygirl ‘Bbycakes’

NANORAY ‘Endless Higanbana’

Nilufer Yanya ‘Shameless’ / ‘Stabilise’

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ‘Gettin’ To The Point’ / ‘Go On’

Pet Simmers ‘Sonder’ / ‘Edge Lord’ / ‘Stream Friendly Play Shifter’

Phoenix (feat. Ezra Koenig) ‘Tonight’

Pictish Trail ‘Natural Successor’

PinkPantheress ‘Do You Miss Me?’

Planet 1999 ‘Crush’

Pozi ‘Slightly Shaking Cells’

Pusha T ‘Diet Coke’

Richard Dawson ‘Thicker Than Water’

Robbie & Mona ‘Clapback’ / ‘Sherry Prada’

Rosalia ‘Saoko’ / ‘Delirio De Grandeza’

Rozi Plain ‘Agreeing For Two’ / ‘Help’

SAULT ‘Time Is Precious’

Savage Mansion ‘The Crucible’ / ‘Football Weather’

SCALPING (feat. DÆMON) ‘Tether’

Self Esteem ‘The Process’

Seraphina Simone ‘Milk Teeth’ / ‘Lovesick’

Shygirl ‘Nike’ / ‘Coochie (A Bedtime Story)’

The Smile ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’

Snoop Dogg ‘Crip Ya Enthusiasm’

Sobs ‘Air Guita’

Soccer Mommy ‘Bones’ / ‘Shotgun’

Soft Lad ‘2 Know U Betta’

Sorry ‘There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved’

Special Interest ‘Midnight Legend’ / ‘(Herman’s) House’

Spiritualized ‘The Mainline Song / The Lockdown Song’

Steve Lacy ‘Helmet’ / ‘Bad Habit’

Sudan Archives ‘Ciara’

Sweet Baboo ‘Hopeless’

Syd (feat. Lucky Daye) ‘CYBAH’

SZA ‘Shirt’ / ‘Kill Bill’

Tim Heidecker ‘Buddy’

Tirzah ‘Ribs’

Warmduscher ‘Fatso’

The Weeknd ‘Gasoline’ / ‘How Do I Make You Love Me?’ / ‘Take My Breath’

Wesley Gonzalez ‘A Taste Of Something New’ / ‘Greater Expectations (feat. Rose Elinor Dougall)’

Weston Allen ‘Girls From The Parking Lot’

Wet Leg ‘Being In Love’ / ‘Angelica’

Weyes Blood ‘Children Of The Empire’

Yama Warashi ‘Makkuroi Mizu’

Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Perfume Genius ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’

Yeule ‘Bites On My Neck’

Young Fathers ‘Geronimo’

Zoee ‘Microwave (Voka Gentle rework)’

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THE TOP 25 SONGS OF 2022

25. Tim Heidecker ‘Sirens Of Titan’

24. Panoram ‘Wandering Frames’

23. HAIM ‘Lost Track’

22. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ‘Edge Of The Edge’

21. Charli XCX ‘Baby’

20. Animal Collective ‘Strung With Everything’

19. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘It Hit Me’

18. Pictish Trail ‘Remote Control’

17. Sudan Archives ‘Selfish Soul’

16. Dry Cleaning ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’

15. Steve Mason & Javed Bashir ‘No More’

14. Young Fathers ‘I Saw’

13. Alex G ‘Runner’

12. Weyes Blood ‘Grapevine’

11. Self Esteem ‘The 345 (acoustic version)’

10. Richard Dawson ‘The Fool’

9. Death’s Dynamic Shroud ‘Judgment Bolt’

8. Arctic Monkeys ‘They’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ / ‘Body Paint’

7. Black Midi ‘Welcome To Hell’

6. Weyes Blood ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’

5. Jockstrap ‘Greatest Hits’

4. Caroline Polachek ‘Billions’

3. Jockstrap ‘Glasgow’

2. Richard Dawson ‘The Hermit’

1. Jockstrap ‘Concrete Over Water’

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the  cervid prince smiled , and he thought all hope was lost for him. then again he was already starting to loose said hope.  “ i never thought you would come back. my hope was already gone by the time you left.” he says.

regulus was hurt, yes he was. he stood up and he reverts back to his regular centaurian shape. regulus fell silent as his human mouth is no longer present. the green eyed alien wondered what should he do? what should he do? his golden ears flopped in a sad manner. he felt terrible too.

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“ you came back for me? w-why?”

"Because it's the right thing ta do. Especially since ya didn't mean ta get caught in the first place." Jackson slowly rolled the kinks from his neck, a tired sigh slipping past his lips. A job had taken him to Batu and it was rather simple at first— until he spotted some bounty hunters lurking around for him.

The other was unintentionally caught in the crossfire, their proximity to one another led the bounty hunters to assume an association between the two.

"— Aaand also because I feel bad. I don't know why those banta fodder thought ya were with me... Real sorry about that, by the way."

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