#Diabetic Ryder

[rpgwrites]

Another Galaxy - Chapter 5: Saying Goodbye

Story Summary:

Being a diabetic and going into cryo is a dangerous game. But even though it is dangerous Ana Ryder is still determined to do it. But what consequences is there? Is this the best option for her? Should she even go to Andromeda? This galaxy offers many opportunities she can only dream of, but is it worth it?

Chapter 5: Saying Goodbye

Aiden couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. How could he? Knowing what he knew now changed everything. 

His mind felt overworked, thoughts ran faster than it could be processed. But it wasn't just because he didn't sleep one day. 

His omni-tool went off. 

As he read his eyes got wider and wider. 

He didn't think it was possible but his sister was doing even worse. 

But with it he got mad. It was Harry's fault. If it wasn't for him… for his dad… Ana wouldn't be dying. 

It was their fault. 

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[runes-to-my-memory]

I don't know how much of a thing this is here on Tumblr, but uhh...

I don't have anything to pack for D&D lunch tomorrow. I'm diabetic will need to eat something at some point in the four hour session. If anyone could pitch in like $10-15 I would greatly appreciate it. <:3 Please ignore my deadname in a couple of the links.

https://venmo.com/u/Onua-Ryder

https://www.paypal.me/nevaronua

https://cash.app/$OnyxOnua

[byenycfm]

Event 04 - Immunity Part One: Testing

When: Dec 12, 2023 Where: The Wexley Penthouse Ballroom Who: All Residents

Zach Sanders and Ashton Ryder made a perilous trip to the Korean ship that brought the virus to New York City. There, they found tests and information that were then brough back to the building. After conferring with Mr. Wexley and his son, a meeting was called for all building residents in the Wexley's penthouse ballroom.

Upon arrival, Mr. Wexley, Tobias Jr, Valerie Chen, Zach Sanders and Ashton Ryder are all standing at the head of the ballroom, a table with bottles of water to one side just as it had been during The vote. Hands raising to calm the din of countless conversations once everyone had arrived, Mr. Wexley stepped forward to make his announcement.

"My fellow residents, there has been some new information brought to our attention, and it will affect each and every one of you. Mr. Sanders and Mr. Ryder here took it upon themselves to explore the ship that was towed into the harbor, and there they found some very interesting information. It seems that Korea had created tests for immunity to the disease that has destroyed our city. From what we understand in the papers also collected along with the test kits, they test for full immunity, delayed immunity, and no immunity at all."

Pausing to let the information to sink and initial reactions to play themselves out for a moment, he once more called for quiet. "It's a simple blood test, much like those used by diabetics, a small prick to the tip of a finger, and should not be painful at all. Participation in testing will be mandatory to retain residence here in our little community. This will be non-negotiable. I'm also requesting that any residents with any relevant medical or scientific backgrounds please volunteer for help with taking the samples and administering the tests. Results will be posted as soon as possible after all samples have been taken and processed."

As a few nurses in the crowd raised their hands and were brought forward, they were lead back into the ballroom kitchens to wash their hands in preparation to draw blood. While they were gone, folding tables were brought out and set up with the tests, the strips used with them, needles to puncture fingers, boxes of latex gloves and small bandages and cotton balls for afterward. "Please line up at the tables in two single file lines each, and we'll get through this as quickly as possible. Fell free to take your leaves once the tests are taken. Another meeting will be called with the results tomorrow."

_______________________________

Immunity will be decided by a random generator by admins and will be announced both on the main as well as in the Discord. These results will be added to the bios and new characters will be rolled upon acceptance. Threads reacting to the meeting can take place any time during December 12th IC, the meeting to announce results will be called IC on December 13th and will be announced as Part Two. If you'd like to have your character refuse or fake their results, feel free to message admins and we can work out a plot for that!

[oliviainjapann]

May 28- Himeji-jo

This day was genuinely one of the worst days of my life. It started off alright with me making eggs again and walking over the the morning lecture. It was raining but it wasn’t too too bad yet. We then travelled to Himeji which was a long trip but not too bad because we got seats on the subway and just got to relax. Upon getting to the station, we got lunch right away and then I got sauce all over my white long sleeve so we ran into H&M and I got a cheap top and sweater that did the trick. It was colder than I expected due to the rain and as soon as we walked outside it all went downhill from there. The rain was coming down on us so hard, and we had a 20 minute walk to the castle. The wind was blowing so hard and the puddles on the ground were not helping. My leather shoes were not keeping any water out and so my feet were quite literally swimming in my shoes by the time we got to the castle. My uniqlo bag was drenched and I was so concerned for my camera and passport but decided that ignorance was bliss so I didn’t even bother checking on them. My umbrella flipped inside out twice on the way. It felt like I was on a comedy show once we got there because we were all absolutely dying laughing at how unreal this experience was. Skyler’s umbrella got completely destroyed (pictures below) which sent me into orbit. We slowly made our way to the entrance of the castle and by this point my jeans were entirely soaked. It felt like both of my legs gained 20 pounds from how heavy my jeans became with water. We eventually made it inside of the castle after a long journey there, and taking off my soaking shoes was the worst experience as I then had to walk in wet socks inside. I couldn’t feel my feet because they were so cold. I just got over sickness too and today is the first day I felt 100%. Tomorrow I guarantee you I will wake up with another cold as will you the rest of us. After trudging up the steepest stairs on the planet we reached the top of the castle and then came right down. That was quite literally the whole experience, in addition to seeing the famous well where you can supposedly hear the woman counting plates. All I heard was pouring rain crashing down. That was the end of our day’s excursions. Then we trudged 20 minutes back to the station and got 7/11 snacks. We’ve all decided we’re coming back to Florida with diabetes but I want to enjoy the last few days here to the fullest and not diet myself and make myself miserable. So once I come home I will be going on a no-sugar diet. We’re now on the train home, drenched and cold. Ryder and I are watching funny Instagram reels to make ourselves feel better. The plan is to get massages later, or take long, hot baths to heat ourselves up. Today sucked, and none of us understand why we couldn’t have cancelled the day due to the awful weather. It felt like a day wasted. Never ever again. Ryder, Maddie, and I were supposed to go to Hiroshima after this but obviously we didn’t want to after we ended up in the state we are currently in. Hopefully it works out on our last free day!

Academic Reflection

Today’s readings focused on castles and Himeji-jo castle in particularly. In class, we discussed how important castle towns were to the development of Japan and how it significantly increased the population and led to economic growth in the 1600s. It was very interesting to see how different the old architecture and styler of the castle contrasted the surrounding city, or even train station as we didn’t really explore the city at all. I also learned how the daimyo systemically planned executed the castle towns for the sole purpose of expanding growth, and it was no accident. It’s cool to see how in different countries there are different methods for economic growth as in America castle towns is not the case. 

I also found it enlightening when I learned about the slanting of the castles walls inward in order to distribute weight more evenly. This resulted in the castle having a very distinct and almost pointy look to it. I was really trying my best to appreciate the castle while we were inside but it was just so hard to as we were all so miserable and cold. 

[nityarawal]

9/22/23

Jessie's Boys

Morning Songs

Militia Says

She Was A Romanian

Gypsy

X-Boyfriend

Prison Shower Guard

Dorian

Thought She Was Ukrainian

Pete- Her Last Boyfriend

Trying To Plan A

Getaway

Make A Baby

Said She Was

Actually

American Romanian

Not A Gypsy

At All

LA

Golden Skinned

Blond

Just A Young 2nd Generation

34 Year Old

#FreeBritney

Trying To Be A Mom

Barred From Insulin

By Jealous exes

Like "Killing Of Mr. Green"

By Louis Duncan

Horrors

Crime "Ya"

Teen Mystery

Hell

"Lord Of The Rings"

Conspiracies

American Romanian

From LA

Discriminated Against

At Airbnb 

And Idyllwild "Gay" Realty

By Jessie's Sothby's 

Property Manager

Mary Schmitz

Who Couldn't Triangle

My Kids

After She Wrongfully Evicted

Me

And Scott

Couldn't Get

Me Jessie's Treehouse

Or Rescue Her

On His Motorcycle

Just Another Lady

Almost A

Mom

Smeared In Her Pretty

Prime

Like Marilyn

On Lies

Discriminated 

Against By

Klu Klux Klan

Militia

Triangulated

Skinheads

Jealous Exes

Another Nazi "Mistake"

In A Long Line

Of Killings

Domino Effect

Addicts

Triangulating 

Michael Thompson

Her "X" Boyfriend

Was There

When She Was Found

Gripping Keys- Stressed

Trying To Escape

Him

Taught Knuckles

Dead

Hands Clenched

Naked

In Bed

Was She "Barred"

From

Her Diabetic

Medicine

Insulin

Tortured To Death

Or Did She Die

On Fentanyl

Like Militia

Mitch

An Old Neighbor

Vanessa's Old Man

And Scott Clarke

Locals

Wanted You To Believe

Sheriff Jeremy Parson's

Proud Boys- Pine Cove

Enablers 

Or Was It Staged By Gay 

Trans-Moderators

From Florida

On Meta Facebook

Crime Watch

Social Media

Gossip

Post Apocalypse 

Data Theft

A Play

Book

They

Want You To Believe

Collin

A Roomate

Was There

Reporting 

Lies

Who Was He

Another Of Shane Stewart's

Impotent Latino Gay Lovers'

Addicts

Spying

Triangulating 

Nazis

Jessie

Only

34 Years Old

Innocent

Before She Could

Bare 

Her Babies

No obituary

Or Legacy

Pictures

To

Propagate Her 

Soulmates

Prodigy 

Just Pete

Possibly 

Selling Her

Life

Who Was Collin

He Was There

Tabloid Columnists

Say Triangulated

In Affair

A Gay

Perhaps

Speculating

Who Was Collin

Did He Know Our

"Token" Black

Rastafarians

Blamed

Scapegoats

Sick

With Lymes

Who Was Collin

A Roommate

Planted

Did He Make Up

The One Liners

When He Got

Michael Thompson

Put Under

Forever

3 Months Later

Dead

Supposedly

Murdered

The Tree House 

Pinecove Owners

Are Dead

But "Hurrah"

His Sons'

Might Have Said

Sarcastically

Dennis Glorified

Nymph-Happy-Endings

Prostrate Orgasms

Gluttony 

All Forgotten

In "Pride"

Who Inherited

Homestead

Like When 

Emily Pearson Died

A Property Manager

To Over 400 People

And Her Forgotten

Husband

Idy Folk

Wrongfully Evicted

In Covid

Rejected On

United Way 211

Silenced

Forgotten

Like When

Emily And Her

Husband Died

8 Hours Apart

No One Could Testify

What Really Happened

No Autopsy

Swept Under The Rug

Like So Many

Idyllwild Real Estate

Gay

Murders

For Shane Stewart's

Gangs

Swept Under The Rug

A "Hasbeen"

"Midnight In The"

Woods

Some Say 

Scientologists

Took El Salvadorian

Wives

Daughters

Missing Persons

Victims

Alibis

For Megan's Law

Scares

At Lumber Mill

6 Other Restaurants

In Idy

Wanted To Write

About the "Garden

Of Good And Evil"

Like Savannah

Georgia

Writers

Eyes

We Got

Transvestites

Blooming

A Restaurant 

Owner With

8 Pedophile

Charges

Louise Expected "Life"

Now Running Free

Yet Cops Come Running

For His Chef's

Humble

Car

Compounding

#CampCalifornia

Pimping Radar Out

And Golden Pitbull

Ryder

Pigs

Rape His Widow Friend

Liz

Charity Project

On Petty Crimes

For Addicts

Silencing Lies

Big "Stories" About

Shane Stewart's Lovers

Facts Omitted

8 Pedophile Crimes

Never Syndicated 

News Stories

Butterfield's Brokers 

12 Teachers At The Art Academy

Countless Students

Teachers Fired

Children Incarcerated

Silenced

Caged

Peace,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

[servin-up-surveys]

survey #170

Give us a lyric from a song you’ve recently listend to: I'm listening to "Slum Planet" by 3TEETH right now and the lyric just said was "no one wins in this human race."

Why did you cry the last time you did? I learned about diabetic comas and started fearing that one day it'll happen to Mom while she's asleep with how violently her blood sugar plummets. My anxiety was so fucking bad that night, I had so much trouble falling asleep.

Have you donated blood in the last 2 years? No, but I actually plan on doing it with Girt this Sunday, it completely depends on what my blood pressure is at the time of the appointment; it's almost always alarmingly low EVERY time I get it checked, like it's just normal for me (partially because of a med), so there is a very real chance of me being turned down. But I'm still going with him regardless though, he loves when he gets the chance to do it (drives are coincidentally almost always on work days for him lol) and I fucking love that.

What is your relationship with the last person to comment you? Like, on a social media? Facebook is telling me Ashley, my boyfriend's sister.

Who was the last person to sit on your bed? Me, I still do certain physical therapy exercises lying and sitting on it.

Do you have a favorite flower? Orchids, pink tulips (I don't really care about non-pink ones that much), dahlias, hydrangeas, roses, etc. I just adore flowers.

Would you rather be stuck on a desert island with your ex or a python? HA give me the fucking python, at least the snake won't make me feel like literal trash. Besides, a python is not going to be able to eat me and with that fact it'd have no interest in bothering me, and I'd leave it alone too. Don't villainize snakes.

Name three objects within your reach? My water bottle, planner, and Girt's work schedule for like an entire year lmao. He gave it to me for the convenience of planning hanging out days and I think he also knows I just like knowing where he is, especially if my anxiety is high and I can't immediately reach him.

Would you get a shamrock tattooed to your forehead for $5,000? Gah, that money is FUCKING TEMPTING, but I just couldn't.

Where was the last place you went that was more than an hour away? Why were you going there? A city two hours away that is where Girt's grandmother is at a nursing home. We were celebrating her birthday; that day wasn't her actual birthday, but it's a day that worked for the family to get together. It meant a lot to be there, because odds are it was her last.

Who was the last person to tell you you looked nice? Girt, I think?

Do you know a schizophrenic person? Girt's mother, and I know of my schizophrenic half-sister.

Name the last 3 people you kissed and list one nice thing about each one. Girt is very polite, Sara was very creative, and Tyler, uh... he was sweet?

Are you friends with a Conner? No, I don't even know one.

What is the last thing you spoke to your father about? He sent me a picture of his cat Louie chilling with a deer in he and his wife's backyard. I'm against letting your cat free-roam outdoors, but regardless it was very cute and I said so. He was just sitting chilling while the deer grazed.

Ever suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? I literally have it, yeah.

During which year of your life were you the most unhappy? I genuinely don't think any hell a god could make could be worse than what 2016 was for me. Every waking moment I wanted to be dead, and when I slept my dreams were always the same: extremely painful and focused on Jason and how we'd never be what we were again.

Have you ever seen a bluejay in person? Yes, I love them. I used to collect bluejay feathers while I dated Jason actually, because his nickname from his dad was always "J Bird," and I called him that sometimes too.

Who is the most energetic and happy person you know of? My nephew Ryder.

Who makes you smile the most often? Girt.

Do you remember the first person you felt sexually attracted to? In a completely serious context, Jason.

Of all of your friends’ significant others, who do you get along with best? And least? I don't really know my friends' s/os, at least not on a personal level.

Have you ever had a platonic friend that everyone insisted you should be in a relationship with? YUP, GIRT. Finally happened lmao, bomb-ass decision.

Who do you think is the most attractive actor? Probably Jason Momoa lmao, or Johnny Depp.

Have you ever been caught doing something REAL embarrassing by your parents? LOL SURE HAVE AND I WANTED TO PASS AWAY

Do you have any of your neighbors as friends on Facebook? No.

You can only listen to 1 band for the rest of your life, who do you pick? so like...... Rammstein, surprise lmfao

When was the last time you felt like your heart was actually breaking? Many months ago when I was pretty convinced Girt was going to leave and I was going to relive the Jason breakup, just with him. I was fucking hysterical, this guy had to hold me as I probably broke his eardrums scream-crying for like, 15 full minutes. The feeling I had in my chest was more awful than I could ever put into words.

Who was the last person you cried in front of? Probably Mom?

Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? Girt.

Have you ever said anything to the last person you kissed that you regret? Yes, in a couple instances where I was mad.

Do you know anyone who has fought in a war? Jason's dad was in the Navy, but idk if he was ever in a combat situation. I know Girt's dad fought in Operation Desert Storm.

Name ONE good memory about your last ex? I very much felt like I could be 200% myself around her.

Do you live near any large rivers or lakes? Yeah, the Tar River is really long, and I live in an area where you regularly cross smaller bridges over it.

Would it annoy you if a stranger called you "sweetie?" This very much depends. I'd say generally no, I tend to like terms of endearment, but if it's some creepy guy that seems very suspect, I'd be uncomfortable.

What's the worst thing you've gone through in the past year? Letting go of and healing from an extremely rotten friendship. Deciding enough was enough with Sara was so fucking not an easy decision, it was fucking excruciating and involved so much hurt, and I regularly questioned if I was a horrible person.

What's the next friend or family birthday coming up? Will you buy them a present? Literally tomorrow is my sister Ashley's 30th, and no, but only because I don't have a source of income. I can't get anything for family and it fucking sucks.

How many beds are in your home? Two in the traditional sense, however we do have a couch that can fold out into a bed. Not a very comfortable one, but it's a bed.

Do you wear face masks in public? I no longer do, not because I don't believe in the effectiveness of masks (because they fucking are effective), but because I think like most people, I've just given up on the concept of us ever getting Covid under control; it's going to be in the human population for probably as long as we live now. A new type of flu, basically. I would wear a mask though if I was sick with Covid-esque symptoms, that's just basic consideration for other humans.

Have you ever gotten back together with an ex? Only Girt; the first time we dated briefly at the end of 2017 I just wasn't ready to be with a man again. I had walls that weren't coming down.

What month of the year was your mother born? August.

Who do you feel most beautiful around? My mom.

Have you ever had a friend that got a bf/gf, and then completely ignored you? Yes, what a coincidence, I was thinking of her last night. We were online friends with a long, very tight friendship, but one day her accounts that I knew of were just gone, and this was very near the time she started dating some guy.

Who is the smartest person you know? Girt.

If your friend asked you to hold their drugs, would you? Hell no.

The last two people you kissed, are they virgins? Girt's not, Sara was when I knew her, no clue about now.

How did you and your significant other celebrate your last anniversary? We just hung out at my house.

Do you know anyone who owns their own business? Yes, more than one person.

What was the last thing that changed your life completely? Going to physical therapy. I am so fucking happy with all the progress that is still happening, standing is by now generally only uncomfortable versus actually painful. I'm standing more in real-life situations that prove to me how much better my legs have gotten.

What do you normally drink when eating at a fast food restaurant? Usually either Mountain Dew or Coke.

What was the last thing you saw that made you smile? A really cute picture of two of my nieces; Aubree was being an adorable big sister.

Who was the last person you took a photograph with? My niece and sisters.

Did you like the show Invader Zim? Surprisingly I never really watched it, I just thought Gir was cute.

What’s the scariest book you’ve ever read? I've never been scared by a book.

What does your best friend love that you hate? Extremely hard games that generally require hours and hours of failing regularly to get good at it, nameably FromSoft games; I'm quite sure Girt's platinumed/100%ed all of them lmao, meanwhile I couldn't even get to the FIRST BOSS of Bloodborne myself haha, I suck at those games SOOOOOOOOOOO bad. My head nearly exploded when I tried Dark Souls, like I quit pretty damn fast because once a game reaches a certain level of difficulty for me, shit's not fun anymore. Meanwhile Girt's hardheaded as HELL and really gets satisfaction out of figuring out challenges, so FromSoft makes some stuff he really enjoys. What sucks is I LOVE watching the games be played, like Elden Ring is one of the greatest video games ever made in all of history imo, I just don't have the patience for those of its sort as a player. Video games are Girt's "thing" though that he's just super fucking good at.

How well do you know the people you live with? I know my mom very well, and we've been closer than ever lately. I feel our already-strong bond has strengthened quite a bit just from sitting out in the living room with her during dinner more often. She confides in me with a lot of things and has told me how much she appreciates me just listening.

When was the last time you had a conversation with an ex? A few weeks ago with Juan, if you even wanna count him as an ex when we dated for less than a day.

Ever cried while you were on the phone with the last person you kissed? No, we basically never call each other. He's mentioned wanting to but knows I hate phone calls and I'm like you're obviously an exception dude but yeah we don't really talk-talk via the phone.

Have you ever bought a YouTuber’s merch? I have two Cloak shirts, a brand owned by Markiplier and jacksepticeye, and one features the Randler and cockatrice used as symbols for Good Mythical Morning/Rhett & Link.

Do either of your parents have tattoos? No, but my mom wants one based around her kids and grandkids.

For your birthday do people buy you a cake or bake you one? Usually buy.

If your boy/girlfriend wanted to have a sex change, would you support them? Sure would, I'm pansexual anyway so it wouldn't remove my sexual feelings for that person. Like sure it'd obviously be a massive change, requiring adjustments like getting pronouns right, but he/she would have my full support if they felt a sex change would improve their happiness.

What do you think of cannibals? It's gross. I think eating your own species, at least for such developed animals like humans who have consciences that allow us to put meaning into BEING a human, is morally questionable.

[rjdavies]

Chinese New Year Animal - The Pig

Year of the Pig … is this your animal? The Pig is a Water branch, and is yin.

Years: 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031, 2043

Chinese: 猪年 (Zhū nián ‘Pig year’)

Year/Date/Element:

2043 - Feb. 10, 2043 - Jan. 29, 2043 - Water Pig

2031 - Jan. 22, 2031 - Feb. 10, 2032 - Metal (Gold) Pig

2019 - Feb. 4, 2019 - Jan. 24, 2020 - Earth Pig

2007 - Feb. 17, 2007 - Feb. 6, 2008 - Fire Pig

1995 - Jan. 30, 1995 - Feb. 18, 1996 - Wood Pig

1983 - Feb. 13, 1983 - Feb. 1, 1984 - Water Pig

1971 - Jan. 27, 1971 - Feb. 14, 1972 - Metal (Gold) Pig

1959 - Feb. 8, 1959 - Jan. 27, 1960 - Earth Pig

1947 - Jan. 22, 1947 - Feb. 9, 1948 - Fire Pig

1935 - Feb. 4, 1935 - Jan. 23, 1936 - Wood Pig

Personality:

Pigs are diligent, compassionate, and generous. They have great concentration: once they set a goal, they will devote all their energy to achieving it. Though Pigs rarely seek help from others, they will not refuse to give others a hand. Pigs never suspect trickery, so they are easily fooled. Generally speaking, Pigs are relatively calm when facing trouble. No matter how difficult the problems are Pigs encounter, they can handle things properly and carefully. They have a great sense of responsibility to finish what they are engaged in. Pigs might not stand out in a crowd. But they are very realistic. Others may be all talk and no action. Pigs are the opposite. They are energetic and are always enthusiastic, even for boring jobs. 

Personality in relation to their element:

Wood Pig: Good-natured, lovely, easy-going, generous, brave, irritable

Fire Pig: Ambitious, persevering

Earth Pig: Communicative, popular among friends, strong sense of timekeeping

Metal (Gold) Pig: Broad-minded, amicable, willing to help others

Water Pig: Gentle, modest, earnest, responsible, subjective in life

Compatible Zodiac Signs with a Pig:

Goat, Tiger, Rabbit

Least Compatible Zodiac Signs with a Pig:

Snake

Lucky things for Pigs:

Lucky numbers: 2, 5, 8, and numbers containing them (like 25 and 58)

Lucky colors: yellow, gray, brown, gold      

Lucky flowers: hydrangea and daisy    

Lucky direction: east and southwest    

Unlucky things for Pigs:

Unlucky colors: red, blue, green  

Unlucky numbers: 1, 7, and numbers containing them (like 17 and 71)  

Unlucky direction: southeast  

Unlucky months: the 4th, 9th, and 12th Chinese lunar months

Best Careers for Pigs:

Careers related to education, transport, art, music, beauty, fashion, and catering are best suited to Pigs

Health for Pigs:

Pigs mostly have a great build and a resilient body. They are always spirited, as if they will never run out of energy. Their natural health is something Pigs are proud of. But sometimes they can be overconfident and overlook some minor symptoms. If neglected for too long, even the smallest things can become grave. In addition, Pigs lead very busy lives. Even if they don’t feel tired, they should still remember to take breaks. Seasonal changes have an effect on Pigs’ health too. They may be at risk for respiratory diseases. Unhealthy diets can lead to diabetes, high cholesterol and heart problems too. Pigs are never one to give in to difficulties. This is a positive trait in the workplace, but might not be here. For good health, Pigs must learn to take small illnesses seriously and get regular checkups.

Famous Pig People:

Lucille Ball: born on August 6, 1911, Metal (Gold) Pig

Arnold Schwarzenegger: born on October 26, 1947, Fire Pig

Stephen King: born on September 21, 1947, Fire Pig

Winona Ryder: born on October 29, 1971, Metal (Gold) Pig

Christina Applegate: born on November 25, 1971, Metal (Gold) Pig

Found all this info on  Chinese Zodiac: 12 Animal Signs, Compatibility, Horoscopes (chinesenewyear.net)

Xīn nián kuài lè

R. J. Davies

A Riveting Jacked-In Dreamy Mind-Bender

RJ Davies - Science Fiction Author, Maddox Files, Novels

[ohstardustgirl]

Giving up after an hour.

1. Winona Ryder is not a good enough actress to have saved this movie.

2. Fat Tony will always be Fat Tony to me.

3. “It’s his diabetes!” How did you know?!

4. These cousins are going to have sex and I’m not down with that.

20 minutes in and I see why Godfather III didn’t win any awards.

Yes I am incredibly late to the party, only watching the trilogy now. The first movie surprisingly lives up to the hype.

Young Al Pacino was very pretty.

[rpgwrites]

Finding Myself Again - Chapter 9: Sanrelia Adaa Xariaf Part 2

Story Summary:

Ryder thought she was waking up on Andromeda the first time, but this wasn't the case. People speak of a Ryder, of things she did in Andromeda that she doesn't remember. She feels uncomfortable in her own skin, and then there is an alien that says he loves her and wants to be there for her but she doesn't know him. And it's her job to find herself again. But can she do it?

Chapter 9: Sanrelia Adaa Xariaf Part 2

Sanrelia was still very unhappy in her situation. Even though the thought of being charged with treason scared her a lot in the back of her mind she was still considering it. 

She wasn’t the only medical personnel that felt the way she did.  

Not everyone in the facility knew that Amber Ryder was there but everyone on her floor did. And like she, many were unhappy about it. 

After a couple of days Sanrelia hanged out with some at lunch. Unlike she, all the others vented about the Pathfinder. Sanrelia just kept to herself. She thought that might be best. 

Read it on AO3

[yourfavisdiabetic]

Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice is type one diabetic

LYDIA DEETZ from BEETLEJUICE is type 1 diabetic!

[jxpper]

Me: * sees Joyce Byers smile *

Me: *shouting and grabbing my chest* ARRYTHMIA

[type1diabetesinfandom]

I’m so excited about this!!!

When I first started looking for fanfiction with type 1 diabetes in it, I was pretty disheartened to find several hundred fics—each and every one having a high chance of being tagged incorrectly by people trying to be funny instead of accurate.

I knew I would eventually wade through every one to find what I could, and I made the T1D in Fandom AO3 collection to easily mark the ones that actually had diabetes.

I’m nowhere near done 😰 but I’ve managed to find one hundred and one fics so far that really do have t1d in them, or a very select few without that show low/high blood glucose well enough to respect.

The statistics of what we’ve got to offer readers so far:

The collection’s works:

25 stories with a type 1 diabetic main/POV character

It says 27 fandoms, but that’s because if you tag Batman (All Media Types) AND Batman (Comics), it counts those as individual fandoms. It’s really more like 18. Which is still a pretty impressive number.

Those 18 fandoms range from popular ones like Marvel, DC, and Star Wars to more niche ones like Grimm, the Baby-Sitters Club, and Lazytown.

Ratings include Teen and Up (13), General (10), Unrated (1), and Mature (1)

Warnings include None Apply (17) and None Chosen (9)

Categories include Gen (9), M/M (9), F/M (2), and Other (1)

The fandoms with the most fics are Supernatural (3) and Spiderman (Tom Holland Movies) (3) tied for first place

The Collection’s bookmarks:

76 works that have something to offer for a diabetic

No idea how many fandoms. A lot?

Fandoms range from Harry Potter, Marvel, and SPN to Mass Effect, My Hero Acadamia, and the Walking Dead.

Ratings include Teen and Up (40), General (24), Not Rated (9), Mature (3), and Explicit (1)

Warnings include None Apply (46), None Chosen (14), Graphic Violence (3), Major Character Death (1), Rape/Non-con (1), and Underage (1)

Categories include Gen (39), F/M (21), M/M (16), F/F (4), Other (2), and Multi (1)

The Fandoms with the most fics are Harry Potter (7), The Avengers (6), and Mass Effect (4)

Let’s take a closer look at the bookmarker’s tags:

56 bookmarks have the main/POV character with diabetes

18 do NOT have a POV Character with diabetes

8 have only a secondary character with diabetes

54 explicitly feature Type 1 Diabetes 🥳

12 have Unspecified Diabetes Mellitus. Some are more obvious than others because they’ll show an insulin pump or similar, but I decided to leave them in the Unspecified tag for whatever reason at the time.

3 involve non-diabetic hypoglycemia

1 explicitly features Type 2 Diabetes

14 have an external source (hosted off the Archive, mostly FFN but maybe a few from Wattpad or Quotev)

7 have been tagged with Medical Inaccuracies

20 bookmarks have been rec’d (recommended) (which I try to save for the best)

Most popular Diabetic Characters are:

•Original Diabetic Characters (10+)

•Diabetic Reader (4)

•and Diabetic Female Ryder | Sara (4) (thanks @rpgwrites)

Top 5 most prolific writers by number of diabetic fics:

Carbon65 @radioactivepigeons

kxteflxming

RPGwrites @rpgwrites

witchry9 @ijustreallylovedaredevil

drekkerie @tragedyboycentral

I am so so happy to have managed to find over 100 fics for this collection. I couldn’t believe it. I know there aren’t a lot of t1d people reading and writing fanfiction, but we are out there.

If anyone sees this who’s written a character with type 1 in a fic, I want to thank you SO much for doing so, whether or not you yourself are diabetic. Know that your time and effort are much appreciated. ❤️ You are wonderful ❤️

To any fic readers out there; if you know of a fic (or any fan content, actually) with t1d rep, please tag me on it! I’d be thrilled to keep adding fics and get that number even higher.

(Can we reach 150? 🤔 🤞)

[heroes-of-olympus-next-gen]

omg bestie you should write like what nico and will do when like one of their kids (you could pick which one) has to get their appendix out or if they got a concussion or smth like that

Hi bestie :))) Thanks for the ask <3 Here's a one-shot in which Ryder has appendicitis.

It was a peaceful Saturday morning. Bianca and Jasmine were sitting on the couch eating blueberry pancakes drowned in maple syrup or diabetes breakfast as Nico called it before eating some himself.

“He still isn’t up?” Jasmine asked as she noticed that there were no signs that her brother was awake.

“Not everyone is an early bird, Jaz. Some people sleep until 11.” Bianca explained.

“Thank Gods, we’re the good kind.”

“I’m here, stop complaining,” Ryder said and planted himself on the couch.

Will noticed that his son was looking a bit too tired for someone who woke up from 12 hours of sleep. “Are you all right?”

“Yes, I’m fine. I have practice in 30 minutes.” He added.

Will was sure that Ryder was lying and that he was actually sick but didn’t want to miss his practice. “So you aren’t feeling dizzy or anything?”

Ryder thought his answer twice before replying. “No?”

“Yeah, no.” Bianca put her hand on his forehead. Then she turned to her parents. “He’s burning up.”

“Oh come on, couldn’t you be nice for once?”

“If you’re sick and I get whatever you have and then destroy my perfect attendance I’ll be anything but nice.” She warned him.

“Are you feeling anything else? You might have something else.” Will getting closer to him while thinking other two thousand things that he could have.

“I may feel a tiny bit of pain here.” He said cautiously and put his hand on his right abdomen, without touching his skin.

“How tiny bit of pain? If I touch you there how bad is the pain?”

Ryder closed his eyes from the pain. “Okay, it’s very bad. Like a 10 or something.”

“You have appendicitis,” Will said with confidence and left the room. “We need to go to the hospital.”

“That’s going to be awesome,” Bianca told.

“Bee, come on.”

“I’m still going to Lizzie, right?” Jasmine asked as she was going to spend the whole day with her best friend.

“Yes, sure. Are you going to Zoe’s?” Nico asked Bianca.

“No way I’m missing my brother’s appendix’s removal.”

Ryder rolled his eyes as Bianca was full of it.

-

Within the next 10 minutes, they managed to get to the hospital.

“You know that you’re going to die, right?” Bianca said dead serious while she was texting from the corner of the room.

“What?” Ryder tried to sit up, but he winced in pain and lays back down.

“She’s kidding. It’s a routine surgery even I know it.” Nico comforted him and glanced over to his eldest daughter.

“Oh please, you’re married to dad. You know more stuff than some actual doctors.” Bianca replied still not even lifting her head from the phone. Ryder threw a pillow at her. “Hey!”

“I’m supposedly dying, and you are sitting over there like nothing is happening? Your thoughtfulness blinds me.” Ryder said.

“Nobody is dying,” Will exclaimed. He knew that it was just another dramatic shenanigans of his kids, but it wasn’t hurting anyone saying it out loud.

“It’s actually the appendix that is blinding you,” Bianca added. Nico stared at her with a seriously now look. “What? It’s actually one of the symptoms. Dizziness and Nausea. Dizziness causes limited blindness as everything is spinning, am I wrong?”

“You actually have a point,” Will said.

“It was better when you weren’t talking.” Ryder glared at her.

-

Bianca got bored so Nico drove her back home. Someone handed Will a coffee. “How is he doing?”

“They’re almost finished.”

“You know that he got that from you?” Nico confessed to his husband.

“What? The appendix?” Will joked.

“Very funny. Trying to work through the pain and the sickness.”

“I never get sick.”

Nico raised his eyebrow. “That’s what I’m talking about. You pretend that you don’t get sick so that I don’t worry about you.”

[cinema-tv-etc]

Why The Godfather Part III has been unfairly demonized

By Caryn James1st December 2020

he mafia trilogy ended with a closing chapter that has long been vilified. But as a new recut is released, 30 years on, Caryn James says it deserves to be re-evaluated. T

The final part of the Godfather trilogy is considered such an artistic disaster that you'd think Francis Ford Coppola had forgotten how to make a film in the 16 years that followed The Godfather Part II (1974). Part III's most famous dialogue – Al Pacino as the aging Mafia don Michael Corleone snarls, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" – has become an easy laugh line.

But 30 years after its release, it is time to rescue Godfather III from its terrible reputation. Pacino's eloquent, fiery, knowing central performance is supported by several bravura set pieces that are mini-masterpieces in themselves. With deliberate echoes of the earlier Godfather films, there is singing and dancing at a family party, a bold murder during the San Gennaro street festival, a tragedy on the steps of an opera house in Sicily.

In the film’s confusing main plot, Michael gets tangled up in dealing with the Vatican  

Hindsight alone would tell us how seriously the film has been undervalued, even without Coppola's newly restored, re-edited and renamed version. It now has the title Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Calling it a coda emphasises its connection to the earlier instalments, and even hints at its lesser stature. And the word 'death' signals its dark inevitability, although the meaning of that word is slipperier than it first appears.

Twelve minutes shorter, it rearranges some key episodes, eliminates a few minor scenes and trims a line here or there. But until its altered ending, it is fundamentally the same film, better in parts than as a whole. It is too flawed to come close to the accomplishments of The Godfather (1972) or its sequel, both among the most towering and influential films of the 20th Century. They have penetrated the culture, from their language ("I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse") to their quintessentially American story of immigration and upward mobility. But the new version clarifies Coppola's epic vision, revealing how much the Corleone story was always Michael's, a deeply moral saga of guilt and redemption. He just happened to be a mob boss.

For me the tragedy of The Godfather, which is the tragedy of America, is about Michael Corleone – Francis Ford Coppola

Coppola was always lucid about the trilogy's vision, even when others were confused. "For me the tragedy of The Godfather, which is the tragedy of America, is about Michael Corleone," he says in the extras on a DVD set of the three films released in 2001. He wanted The Death of Michael Corleone to be the title back in 1990, but Paramount, the studio releasing it, did not. The film's initial reception was measured disappointment, not dismissal or horror as we now assume. Roger Ebert actually loved it. Pauline Kael did not love or hate it, but offered the withering, condescending assessment. "I don't think it's going to be a public humiliation." Expectations were high because of the legacy of the earlier films, yet low because Part III came with a whiff of desperation and of selling out. Coppola had resisted making another Godfather for years, then wrote the screenplay (with Mario Puzo) and edited it in a rush to meet its Christmas Day release. It even got seven Oscar nominations, including best picture and director. It is an odd example of a movie whose reputation has declined over the decades.

Why the film is misunderstood

Then and now, the series has largely been misunderstood. Crime movies like Coppola's and Martin Scorsese's are so seductive that audiences have embraced them for apparently glamorising the love of raw power and the concept of honour among thieves. Beneath the Mafia-friendly surface, though, they are built on ethical themes their more hot-headed characters don't grasp. The Godfather Coda tells us that crime really doesn't pay when you're ready to search your soul. The young Michael struggles with the idea of killing and crime in the first Godfather. The consequences of his decision are central to Part III, which takes place in 1979, 20 years after the events of Godfather II. Michael, a billionaire living in New York, has made his businesses legitimate and is left to grapple with his guilt for so many crimes, especially ordering the murder of his  brother Fredo, who betrayed him.

The film still has problems that no amount of editing can change. In a needlessly confusing main plot, Michael tries to take over a European conglomerate called International Immobiliare. By buying the Vatican's shares, he'll be bailing out the corrupt Vatican bank. The family part of the story revolves around Michael's nephew, Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of his brother Sonny. Andy Garcia is as good a Vincent as you could hope for, handsome, swaggering, rough around the edges, dynamic on screen. But his character never makes much sense. Vincent has his father's explosive temper and appetite for violence, but somehow goes from a not-so-bright thug to a shrewd, controlled crime strategist in a matter of months. His change is far from the engrossing, methodical character trajectory that takes the young Michael from idealist to murderer in the first Godfather.

And the film's most severely criticised element is no better than anyone remembers. Winona Ryder, who had been set to play Michael's daughter, Mary, dropped out weeks before filming started and was replaced with unabashed nepotism by Coppola's teenaged daughter, Sofia. Today, we know Sofia Coppola as a brilliant director, but it's easy to see why her amateurish performance made her another target of Godfather III jokes, particularly for the unintentionally awkward and passionless romance between Mary and her cousin Vincent. Coppola actually snipped a couple of Sofia's lines in the new version.

He makes a major change at the start of the re-edited film, eliminating the lovely original beginning. It set an elegiac tone by showing images of the abandoned family house in Lake Tahoe from Part II, and includes a flashback to Fredo's death, while Nino Rota's familiar soundtrack music evokes the past. The new version begins with a duplicitous archbishop soliciting Michael's help for the Vatican, a scene originally placed later in the film. The change highlights the finance plot without making it any clearer.  

The exhilarating start

But the film soon picks up with its true, exhilarating beginning. Several generations of Corleones, along with friends and business associates, gather at a party celebrating Michael. His sister, Connie, sings an Italian song, while shady-looking visitors pay homage to Michael in his office. He now has bristly grey hair and a lined face, and controls his family and business with authoritarian power. The extravagant 30-minute sequence echoes Connie's wedding at the start of The Godfather, and the First Communion party in Lake Tahoe that began Godfather II. Michael's office even has the same light slanting through the blinds that we saw in his father's office in the first Godfather, when Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone received visitors. Throughout, these call backs to the previous films add resonance while trenchantly revealing how things have changed.  Michael is burdened by conscience in a way Vito never was. "I don't apologise," Vito tells Michael near the end of The Godfather, justifying his brutality because he was trying to save his family. Godfather III is all about Michael's need to atone.  

Al Pacino's performance may have become an object of derision, but he knows what he's doing.

The party scene flows easily as it brings every character up to date. Diane Keaton is as deft as ever as Michael's ex-wife Kay, who pleads with him to allow their son, Tony, to pursue a career as an opera singer. Kay can be chilling. "Tony knows that you killed Fredo," she warns Michael. Yet she has never got over him, as we see in a later scene when they have a tearful tête-à-tête in Sicily, a scene Pacino and Keaton make painfully real.

Connie, played with glorious sharpness and wit by Talia Shire, has morphed into Lady Macbeth. Mafia princesses can never run things, but they can pull the strings. It's Connie who ruthlessly tells Vincent, "You're the only one in this family with my father's strength. If anything happens to Michael I want you to strike back." She has asked the right person.

Vincent is central to many of the set pieces. During a meeting of Mafia heads in Atlantic City, when Michael announces he is out of the crime business, a helicopter approaches the window and shoots most of them dead. Vincent rushes Michael, the main target, to safety. The intrigue and rapid-fire violence in the perfectly orchestrated scene might obscure the real point: Michael can't escape his past. That attack causes his cry: "Just when I thought I was out..." Pacino's performance may have become an object of derision, but he knows what he's doing. He is raw and angrily over-the-top in some scenes, but modulates those outbursts with quieter moments. When a stress-induced diabetic attack sends him to the hospital, in his delusional state he calls out Fredo's name. Pacino shows us a conflicted Michael, weakened yet clinging to power.

The power of the re-edited finale

The tone becomes more ominous and the themes more spiritual when the entire family goes to Sicily for Tony's opera debut. (There are spoilers here, but the time limit on spoilers has expired after 30 years.) Michael grapples with the Sicilian Mafia, for reasons linked to the Immobiliare deal, but that is less important than his inner crisis. He makes a confession to a cardinal, breaking down in tears as he says, "I'm beyond redemption." When his protector, Don Tommasino, becomes another victim of Michael's power struggle, he sits by the coffin and says to God, "I swear on the lives of my children, give me a chance to redeem myself and I will sin no more." In this version, Coppola eliminates lines in which Michael asks why he is feared and not loved, removing that plea for the audience's sympathy. Michael gives Vincent control of the family, but does he really have a clear conscience when he knows too well the vengeance Vincent will plan?

The Trump era has been full of Godfather references; Trump himself regularly attacks CNN's Chris Cuomo by calling him Fredo.

That revenge plays out in the elaborate, gripping final sequence at the opera, a counterpart to one of the most famous episodes from The Godfather, when a baptism is intercut with a series of murders. That first sequence was about Michael's rise to power; now he suffers the consequences. While the family watches Tony on stage, Coppola weaves in scenes of Vincent's crew settling scores. One shoots an enemy who plummets off a beautiful spiral staircase. Another murders a rival by stabbing the man's own eyeglasses into his neck. At the opera, hitmen are after Michael, which leads to the shooting on the steps, and a bullet meant for him that kills Mary. For him there is no coming back from that, no possible way to forgive himself.  

As the film ends, Coppola makes a brilliant editing choice. The original ending flashed ahead years to the elderly Michael, sitting alone in a gravelly yard as the camera closes in on a face still full of desolation and sadness. He falls to the ground, obviously dead.  With a tiny cut, Coppola transforms the meaning of the scene. It now ends with the close-up of Michael's face, still alive. Living with his guilt is his true death, a death of the soul and of hope. Coppola adds text at the end, which says: “When the Sicilians wish you ‘Cent'anni’... it means ‘for long life’... and a Sicilian never forgets.” Michael is doomed to a long life of remembering.

Godfather, Coda restores Coppola's original darker vision, but one element creates a jolt even he couldn't have seen coming. The locations listed in the end credits include Trump Castle Casino Resort in Atlantic City, where the exterior of the helicopter attack was shot. The Trump era has been full of Godfather references. Some are from mainsteam media, including a 2018 Atlantic Magazine article with the headline Donald Trump Goes Full Fredo, comparing a Trump tweet saying that he is “like, really smart” to Fredo famously insisting in Godfather II, “I'm smart! Not like everybody says, like dumb, I'm smart!”  Similarly, Twitter trolls routinely mock the president's circle and his grown children as Fredos, portraying them as weak and bumbling like the character,  including pasting Donald Trump Jr’s head on a photo of Fredo's body.  Donald Trump himself regularly attacks CNN's Chris Cuomo by calling him Fredo. Godfather II even turned up in court documents charging Trump's advisor Roger Stone with obstructing justice, citing an email in which Stone asked someone to protect him the way Frankie Pentangeli covered up for the Corleones. Today the location credit lands like a coda to the end of the Trump presidency, and offers a reminder of how influential the Godfather films have been, even when they were embraced for all the wrong reasons.

Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone is available on BluRay and streaming from 8 December.

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[surveys-at-your-service]

Survey #403

“ashes to ashes, watch me disappear”

If given the opportunity, would you like to star in a musical? Definitely not. I don't like musicals. Name one person you’d take a bullet for: There's honestly a lot, but Mom immediately came to mind. Any posters of a band on your bedroom wall? Yeah: Metallica and Marilyn Manson currently. I want lots more, especially an Ozzy one. Do you think you’ve already met your soulmate? I don't believe in soulmates. Do you share your bedroom with anyone? No, unless you include my cat and snake. Is your favorite color yellow? No, it's actually one of my least favorites. Were you born in a hospital? I was. Do you know the name of the person that delivered you? No, but Mom does. I think he delivered me and my two sisters, and I know Mom has seen him since for other reasons. Was your birth recorded? God no. Good call, Mom. Did you eat a peach this week? Would you believe me if I told you I had a small bit of peach pie for my sister's birthday? For some reason, I just really wanted to try some. It was okay, but the aftertaste sucked. Are you leaving the house tomorrow? Yes, for TMS therapy. Every weekday. Do you enjoy romantic movies, even when they’re cliche? I honestly do. If you could get free vocal lessons would you take them? Probably not. I don't like singing in front of anyone, and it's not like I wanna get anywhere with my singing, so. Is your mother diabetic? She is. Are you? No. Ever sang someone to sleep? No. Who do you stalk the most through Facebook? Nobody. Have you ever deleted your Facebook, then brought it back? No. What is your main responsibility each day? Be sure to take my medications. Do you feel like you fulfill those responsibilities? Yeah. There are rare mornings where I forget, but I almost always remember. I don't fw skipping out on meds that keep my mental health stable. When was the last time you used spray paint? Good question. Do you know the middle name of the last person you kissed? Yep. Who is the friendliest person you know? My mom, probably. Something that annoys you about summer: THE HEAT. THE HUMIDITY. UGH. Something that annoys you about winter: Hm. That's hard to say, given I love winter. I guess the fact it doesn't snow enough here. Are the doors of your fridge side by side or on top of one another? Side-by-side. If you’ve moved out of the house you were born in, do you know the people who live in that house now? Nope. Have you ever cried in a movie theater? Not sobbed or anything, but I've definitely teared up and gotten the sniffles because of multiple movies. Do you read comic books? No. Do you force your way into conversations in which you are not involved? No. Have you ever seriously pretended to be clinically insane? I didn't need to pretend; I'm pretty damn sure I was for a while. Might I add that it's EXTREMELY inconsiderate to pretend you're insane, btw. Insanity is not "cool." It's not "funny." It's not "edgy." It's a serious, confusing, heart-wrenching issue that can ruin lives. Do you know anyone with a stutter? Yes, myself included when I'm even mildly nervous. And sometimes just randomly. With a lisp? I don't believe so. What was the last board game you played? The Disney version of "Pretty Pretty Princess" w/ my niece and even my nephew, even though his sexist-ass dad didn't want him to. Like let your kid have some fun with his sister and aunt, goddamn. They had a blast. It was Aubree's birthday present from me, so I am SO glad she loved it. Did you win? Ha ha, no, I always let Aubree or Ryder win. I came super close once, but I let the kids bend the rules a bit. They don't like losing, and even though they definitely need to understand that just happens and is totally fine for it to, I wasn't about to be the one to make them sad about it. When was the last time you tried to speak with an accent? OH MY LAAAAAWWWWWWD. Also at Aubree's b-day party, at one point, I spoke in a snobbish British accent while I was winning at the aforementioned game. Ryder asked, "Why are you speaking Spanish?", and I fuckin DIED. Have you ever made up a word before? Yeah, I know at least a few instances for fantasy animals in writing. When was the last time you went to a museum? A couple summers ago when my brother and his son visited, we went to a science museum. My nephew was sooooo into it. Do you have a nice yard? If so, do you spend a lot of time outside in it? If not, where do you go when you want to relax outdoors on nice days? Our front and back yards are both small and honestly very boring. The grass is a pretty green, but that's the only nice thing about it. I don't go to sit outside here on any day. Do your parents enjoy any of the things that you enjoy? Do you bond over these things? My parents and I have very similar music tastes, so there's that. I also didn't know for the longest time that Mom likes to write, which I sure as hell do, too! She doesn't really write anymore though, and she's self-conscious of it anyway, like I am. She and I also love a lot of the same shows. What is the movie that you have waited the longest for/which film do you remember anticipating the most/are still anticipating? I think The Incredibles 2. I aaaalways wanted to know what happened after the end of the first film. Do you have any ideas for a story or movie you’re planning to write or you’d write if you had the time/had the talent? Please share a synopsis! I genuinely think some RP I've written is series-worthy, but I don't feel like re-writing the YEARS of RP into a book format, and I sincerely worry that the ridiculously dark parts could inspire people like serial killers and cause A LOT of controversy, crime-blaming, and just general hate. I don't want to be involved in that. What is something that an interested guy/girl could comment about you, that would make you instantly open to them (e.g., “That book you’re reading is from my favorite author”)? Compliment my Markiplier tattoo, obviously knowing it's a tribute to him, and we're essentially besties. Is there a person in your life (maybe barely) that you feel in constant competition with (even just in your imagination)? Maybe you feel they are consistently outshining you? Ugh... there's a local photographer that's much more successful than I am that I admittedly am very envious of. I swear to whatever god you may believe in that I mean it from a modest perspective, I really, really do, but I genuinely think my skills surpasses hers, and she's only more prevalent because photography REALLY is about who you know. She's talented, yes, but like... come on. If you are single, even if you are normally happily single, are there certain specific things you witness that make you wish you were in a relationship (e.g., people getting engaged)? I mean yeah. I miss cuddling, holding hands, kissing, just being cute together, and especially people getting engaged or having kids. It's such a trigger to me. Once upon a time, that's all I wanted with Jason. I wanted to be that beautiful couple that got married and had two or three loved-beyond-words children, but then he left so abruptly, and I feel like it was so brutally robbed from me. I don't want kids anymore like at all, but the point still stands that I felt like my dreams were just ripped away. Out of all your usernames for websites, which one is your favorite? Do you use it for more than one site? I use "Ozzkat" just about everywhere. Have you ever spent the whole day (or multiple days) just looking up one thing on the internet (e.g., videos of your favorite band, how-to videos, quizzes, etc.)? OHHHHHHHHHH YEAH. There have been a couple days or so where I was totally glued to looking up various tattoo designs, bingeing let's plays or conspiracy theory videos, etc. etc. If you ever think about getting married, what are some aspects of the wedding that you would like to see in a non-traditional manner (e.g., a different color dress or “partners” over “husband” and “wife”)? I WILL NOT get married in a church, first of all. I'm also not having the traditional vows, and I probably won't wear a white dress, but instead black. Salt & vinegar, barbecue, sour cream & onion, or cheddar? Ohhhh, I like all those options but barbecue. I think I've gotta go with sour cream & onion, though. Bow ties on guys, dorky or adorable? A D O R A B L E ! ! ! I think they're ordinarily geeky, but I mean, geeky is cute in my world. :^) Do you believe in demonic possession? How about ghosts? Angels? Angels, no. Spirits/ghosts, 100%. I don't exactly believe in demons, per se, but I do question if evil spirits can possess someone. What is one romantic movie that you enjoy enough to watch more than once? I've seen The Notebook numerous times. Name three countries you want to visit; why those three? South Africa to interact with meerkats at the KMP, somewhere up in Canada to see the Northern Lights, and Germany just because, really. I took German for four semesters, and the culture and all just interests me. Do you have a good luck charm? No, considering I don't believe they do jack. Do you use Skype to talk to your friends? Only Sara. Now that I have Discord semi-figured out now though, we'll probably use that for voice chatting. Are you allergic to any animals? I might be allergic to dogs. Do you usually spend your weekends out, or at home? I'm like... always at home. Do you think it’s wrong for people to say "retard/retarded" as an insult? Absofuckinglutely. Don't pull that shit when I'm around. Have you ever had to go to the police department? No. Have you ever lived through a hurricane? Plenty. Have you ever had a home-grown tomato? Yes, from my old friend's garden. We'd have delicious tomato, mayo, and bacon sandwiches. The only instance where I've enjoyed tomatoes. Have you ever held a real gun? The former friend I mentioned just before, her husband always carried a gun, and he just needed me to hold it for a sec for some reason I don't recall. I hated the feeling. Would you rather wear Converse or Vans? I like both, but I think I prefer Converse. Have you ever been called bipolar? Yes, because I clinically am. Have you ever made fun of a handicapped person? FUCK no. And like the "retarded" thing, don't you fucking DARE to do this in front of me. I WILL deck the shit out of you. Do you think it’s okay to have sex before marriage? Sure, as long as you're being safe and are very thorough in communication. Do you like to watch old sitcoms? I don't really watch TV as I say in like every survey it seems, but I do enjoy some old sitcoms I grew up watching with my mom, like The Nanny, The Golden Girls, The Munsters, etc. If asked, could you run a mile nonstop right now? Being completely serious, I don't even know if I CAN physically run right now. My legs are so incredibly weak, and I'm humiliatingly close to what my heaviest weight was back in 2016, so I can almost guarantee my knees would crumple if I tried. Do you wear those rubber wristbands? I used to. I don't really like bracelets nowadays. If a necklace/ring gives you green marks, do you still wear it? Nope. Have you ever driven an electric car? No. When was the last time you saw someone you went to high school with? Uhhhh idk. What breed was the last dog you saw? A fucking GOLIATH of a lab. I shit you not when I say my sister's roommate's dog Hudson is the size of a goddamn bear. How long have your parents been together (or how long were they together, if they no longer are): I wanna say they were together at the very least 20 years. What has been your most epic cooking failure? I once accidentally put something (I don't remember what) in the microwave for around 45 minutes I believe, and I walked away and completely forgot about it. I remembered a long while later, and safe to say, it wasn't edible, whatever it was, lmao. Have you ever been to Mexico? No. Have you ever had a parrot sit on your shoulder? No, but that'd be cool. Has anyone in your life ever treated you abusively? No. How long has it been since your last breakup? Somewhere around two years ago? My memory is so garbage nowadays. Can you concentrate well while listening to music, or do you find it distracting? It's distracting, usually. What’s something you’ve been struggling with lately? I've been pretty bad about drinking too much soda lately. :/

[damonalbarn]

Yes, yes, yes, finally!!!!

Press release:

Gorillaz today announce a brand new feature documentary film titled GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS, directed by Denholm Hewlett and available in cinemas worldwide for one night only on December 16th.

Released in partnership with Gorillaz Productions, Eleven, Trafalgar Releasing and Warner Music Entertainment, GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS documents life in the studio with Gorillaz co-founders Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett; producers The Twilite Tone of D /\ P, Remi Kabaka and James Ford; as well as stellar roll call of featured artists including Vince Staples, Jean-Michel Jarre, De La Soul, DRAM, Pusha T, Peven Everett, Little Simz, Jamie Principle, Yasiin Bey, Bootie Brown, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Graham Coxon, Pauline Black, Zebra Katz, Danny Brown, Ben Mendelson, Kelela, Jehnny Beth, Hypnotic Brass, Junior Dan, Shaun Ryder, Mavis Staples, Sidiki Diabete and Noel Gallagher.

In his debut feature, director Denholm Hewlett followed the band’s every move for three years, covering the making of two critically acclaimed albums, ‘Humanz’ and ‘The Now Now’, as well as the band’s most ambitious world tour to date encompassing dates across Europe, North America, South America and Mexico, bookended by its own Demon Dayz Festivals in the UK and US. The result is the first ever all-access immersive journey into the world of Gorillaz and its extended family – featuring never-seen footage, where the virtual meets the real – to capture the wondrous chaos of life under the watchful eye of Murdoc Niccals (bass), Noodle (guitar), Russel Hobbs (drums) and 2D (vocals).