#E-girls 11th anniversary

[notnowricky]

Happy one month anniversary to May 11th 2024 aka videogate day* and the reactions from the fandom.

People were upset but understanding, sad but supportive.

Me? Not supportive. Not understanding.

I was standing in the cleaning supplies aisle of my local drugstore scream-whispering to my bestie about his hair.

Fans hypothesized that Red Light marked a new era for him and maybe he didn’t identify with his older mv anymore. Maybe in the course of reinventing himself he needed to shed his past and we had to accept that.

Well, I’m here to tell you that I was not that girl. I was this girl ⬇️

Don’t take the stuff I love!! Please, I can’t take it.

My outburst also prompted one of the most hilarious text messages I have ever received.

I’m so glad that after all these years I can still surprise my bestie. It’s priceless.

And thanks for giving ’em back Omar. Don’t ever do that again.

💖

*In case you don’t know, several of Omar’s older music videos suddenly disappeared from his YouTube channel that day: Dum Acoustic Version, La mesa, Om om och om igen, På min telephone toda la noche, Jag e nån annan, Todo de ti… The fandom was flustered.

[phanfictioncatalogue]

“Numbered” Fic Titles (4) Masterlist

part one, part two, part three

1st December (ao3) - LadyGrey1996

Summary: Dan and Phil have a very important task.

3:1 (ao3) - thewordshatter (orphan_account)

Summary: The three times Dan wasn’t there for Phil and the one time he was.

4am (ao3) - bloodyscarab

Summary: i’m out late at 4 am  he says “how’s the weather baby, how you been?”

13-17 june 2015 (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Texts between Dan and Phil while Dan is filming in Sweden for an e-sports documentary.

19th of october (ao3) - starlight_kth

Summary: they fell in love in october, and 100 more

Back To 2009 - phansofotps

Summary: Durning a very important event in their life Phil has flash backs to when Dan first stayed with him.

Buying Chocolate At 3:00 AM (ao3) - shallowlives

Summary: It’s just another late night working at Walgreens, until Phil walks in asking for chocolate recommendations.

December 31, 2010 (ao3) - ReederJoe

Summary: New Year's Eve, 2010

December 2023 (ao3) - yikesola

Summary: December is filled with bonus podcasts he and Phil will be recording, amongst of course his regular podcasts due at their scheduled times, and then there’s all the holidays and all the while all the Everything. Dan’s tired just thinking about it. And before he can even open his mouth to complain he stops himself because he turns and sees Phil laying on the couch with his head in Dan’s lap, looking exhausted as well. He’s been run ragged at the print shop since the middle of November.

Friday The 13th of October (ao3) - Spring_Haze

Summary: Phil surprises Dan after reading his boyfriend's suggestive tweet with regard to a hockey mask and a surprise male visitor in the night on Friday the 13th. Based on Daniel Howell's tweet on October 13, 2017.

If we were two sunflowers, I would have faced you instead of the sun (ao3) - twinphantasy

Summary: It didn’t really matter where they were or what they were looking at because Dan would always be looking at Phil.

June 11th, 2020 (ao3) - sombernova

Summary: 2020 kinda sucks, but that isn't going to stop Phil from making Dan feel like the most important person in the world on his birthday.

March 26th (ao3) - sorasventus

Summary: A very short, sad, Phan Oneshot

nineteenth october (2020 remix) (ao3) - snsk

Summary: The morning dawned cool and inevitable.

October 19, 2009 (ao3) - krissyxlove

Summary: Two internet friends meet for the first time.

party for two (ao3) - SylvesterLester

Summary: Dan has only had five birthdays before this one. And he can't really remember the first three of them. But he knows this has to be the worst one yet.

Still The Same As 5 Years Ago - aleksandraesthetics

Summary: Punk!Dan and Phil were boyfriends back in their high school days. Dan eventually corrupted Phil (In a playful way of course). Phil even gave his virginity to Dan. Eventually they lost contact after high school though, but they ended things on a good note. Phil gets a job as a tattoo artist and Dan comes in one day to get a tattoo. Dan is just as flirty and attractive as Phil remembers him to be.

the fourteenth of february is always cold (ao3) - graylane

Summary: it's Dan's first Valentine's Day without Phil.

The Sixteenth of April (ao3) - thesassykels66

Summary: Why does the month of April always seem so significant to Dan and Phil? Simple, it is when they celebrate their anniversary.

You’re As Cute as 3.142 (ao3) - phanetixs

Summary: “Dan, sweet sweet Dan. All the girls in our class are mad about Phil Lester with his blue eyes and cheekbones and what is he doing about it? Dan, all he’s doing is staring at you,” Louise raises an eyebrow whilst saying this and Dan’s mind becomes increasingly fuzzy in connecting the dots.

or, the story of Dan & Phil, Math rivals, who are secretly into each other.

[drhoz]

Top 60 Doctor Who episodes, for the 60th Anniversary

Since it's the 60th Anniversary tomorrow, I thought I'd prune the 300+ televised stories down to a mere 60, with the Top Ten sorted as my especial favorites. Not too much from the First and Second Doctors, but then I haven't even SEEN all of the episodes that still exist. Quite a few early Tom Baker, but those got reshown on Australian TV over and over so they're a part of my childhood. The pruning got quite painful, I can assure you.

Heaven Sent/Hell Bent 12th Doctor ( First ep more so than second, but Direction, Acting, Performance, Script - *chef's kiss* )

Rosa 13th Doctor

Pyramids Of Mars 4th Doctor ( Show's top villain and his doesn't even MOVE until the last few minutes of episode 4 )

Horror Of Fang Rock 4th Doctor ( A claustrophobic horror story superbly done )

City Of Death 4th Doctor ( An utter delight in every respect )

Blink 10th Doctor  ( Beautifully realised new monsters, and a brilliant jigsaw plot )

The Aztecs 1st Doctor  ( GREAT script - EVERYBODY thinks they're doing the right thing )           

Vincent And The Doctor 11th Doctor

The Girl in the Fireplace 10th Doctor

The Husbands Of River Song 12th Doctor ( A fun romp right up until it isn't. Wonderful chemistry between Capaldi and Kingston )

An Unearthly Child 1st Doctor ( Anybody who says Dr Who never used to be political is a clown. The VERY FIRST story is about protohuman politics )

The Dalek Invasion Of Earth 1st Doctor

The Time Meddler 1st Doctor

The Tenth Planet 1st Doctor

The Power Of The Daleks 2nd Doctor ( Not many Dalek stories in this list, but in this one the Daleks are sly )

The Mind Robber 2nd Doctor ( The show's format is so flexible you can do a story about living fictional characters and it fits right in)

Inferno 3rd Doctor ( Possibly the Doctor's worst defeat in the entire series. Brilliant sound design too. )

Terror Of The Autons 3rd Doctor ( Introducing the Master and some actually cunning invasion plans )

The Claws Of Axos 3rd Doctor

Day Of The Daleks 3rd Doctor

Carnival Of Monsters 3rd Doctor

Robot 4th Doctor ( What an introduction for Tom Baker! )

The Ark In Space 4th Doctor

Genesis Of The Daleks 4th Doctor ( Davros was a great addition to the mythos )

Terror Of The Zygons 4th Doctor ( Who would ever have guessed the Loch Ness Monster is a cybernectically enhanced alien cow )

The Seeds Of Doom 4th Doctor

The Robots Of Death 4th Doctor ( Want an example of how costume and set design can elevate an episode from Very Good to All-time Classic? )

The Talons Of Weng-Chiang 4th Doctor ( Lots of problematic aspects, yes, but If you have the entire BBC Period Drama resources at your disposal, USE THEM )

The Key To Time: The Stones Of Blood 4th Doctor ( Fisher writes some of the wittiest scripts from Classic Who, and then throws in two of the most horrifying deaths in the series )

The Key To Time: The Androids Of Tara 4th Doctor ( A delightful little Ruritanian tale )

The Key To Time: The Power Of Kroll 4th Doctor ( You have to give them a standing ovation for attempting a Kaiju movie on a BBC budget )

The Creature From The Pit 4th Doctor ( Fisher again. Wonderfully witty dialogue, sparkling performances )

The Horns Of Nimon 4th Doctor ( Hilariously camp. A delight to watch and rewatch with friends )

The E-Space Trilogy: Warriors' Gate 4th Doctor ( Brilliant concept, a realistically nasty antagonist, and a countdown the characters don't even realise is there until almost too late )

Castrovalva 5th Doctor ( Certainly one of the better traps ever set for the Doctor )

Kinda 5th Doctor ( Very fond of this episode - you don't often get a Dr Who story with this much religion, sensitively written, AND a textbook example of a psychotic break )

The Black Guardian Trilogy: Enlightenment 5th Doctor ( Are there many SF series that could pull off the core concept of this? )

The Five Doctors 5th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Doctors ( Quite an acheivement getting this written at all )

The Caves Of Androzani 5th Doctor ( Masterpiece in most respects.)

Revelation Of The Daleks 6th Doctor ( Davros is having an absolute ball in this one, right up until the last few minutes )

The Happiness Patrol 7th Doctor ( An incredibly angry satire of Thatcher's Britain, under the glitter )

Dalek 9th Doctor

Father's Day 9th Doctor

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances 9th Doctor

School Reunion 10th Doctor

Partners in Crime 10th Doctor ( Tate and Tennant are a hoot )

Midnight 10th Doctor ( Outstanding bottle episode )

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead 10th Doctor

A Christmas Carol 11th Doctor

The Doctor's Wife 11th Doctor

Hide 11th Doctor ( Actually scary - well done )

The Night Of The Doctor 8th Doctor & War Doctor ( Can you encapsulate an incarnation of the Doctor in a few minutes? Yes )

The Day Of The Doctor 11th Doctor, War Doctor & 10th Doctor

Mummy On The Orient Express 12th Doctor ( Another menace well realised and wonderful performances )

Flatline 12th Doctor ( A weird menace that gets full marks for Style Kill over and over )

Oxygen 12th Doctor

World Enough And Time/The Doctor Falls 12th Doctor

Demons Of The Punjab 13th Doctor

The Haunting Of Villa Diodati 13th Doctor ( Haunted House brilliantly used )

Eve of the Daleks 13th Doctor

And because people might want to know, my top story for each Doctor.

The Aztecs 1st Doctor The Power Of The Daleks 2nd Doctor Inferno 3rd Doctor Pyramids of Mars 4th Doctor The Caves Of Androzani 5th Doctor Revelation Of The Daleks 6th Doctor The Happiness Patrol 7th Doctor The Night Of The Doctor 8th Doctor & War Doctor The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances 9th Doctor Blink 10th Doctor The Day of the Doctor 10th, 11th, and War Doctor Vincent And The Doctor 11th Doctor Heaven Sent/Hell Bent 12th Doctor Rosa 13th Doctor

[shuubah]

11 Reasons Why I Came to Love E-girls — 11th Anniversary Special

E-girls reached their 11th debut anniversary a few days ago on 28th December 2022. In commemoration of the occasion, I've written up a feature on all about their wonderful qualities that made me come to love them. 💗

[fyjjong]

shinee day - 11th anniversary exhibition ♡ 190522 (source)

[itisannak]

Chronological Masterlist

Every story I have written, in chronological order, starting from the most recent.

2023

July: 1st: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 10: Moving In (C.H)

June 18th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 9: Meet the Family (C.H)

March 5th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 8: First Fight to First Anniversary (C.H)

February 27th: Rose-Colored Glasses Epilogue; Hawaii (H.S) 19th: Rose-Colored Glasses, Vol.2, Part 6: New York, Zurich, London (H.S)

2022

December 27th: Rose-Colored Glasses Vol.2, Part 5: Harry’s Apartment, Upper East Side, New York City, Winter Wonderland (H.S) 18th: Rose-Colored Glasses Vol. 2, Part 4: Upper East Side, New York City & Low Manhattan, New York City (H.S)

June  19th: Sugar, oh honey, honey Part 3 (A.I) 5th: Wicked Game (C.H)

May 22nd: Rose-Colored Glasses Vol.2, Part 3: Harry’s Apartment, Upper East Side, New York City (H.S) 14th: Fuck the Friendship (Ruin the Friendship Part 2) (C.H)

February 5th: Rose-Colored Glasses Vol.2, Part 2: New York (H.S)

January 25th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 7: Birthday Boy (C.H)

2021

October 23rd: High School Crush (L.H)

September 4th: Snowstorm (The Storm Series Part 2) (C.H)

August 14th: Car Sex (L.H)

July  17th: Ruin the friendship (C.H) 10th: Parenthood Rehearsal (A.I) 3rd: Lover of Mine (M.C)

June 27th: Meant To (C.H) 19th: Nap (A.I) 12th: Best Years (A.I)

May 16th: Rose Colored Glasses Vol 2, Part 1: New York (H.S)

April 11th: Dr. Angel Face Face Prequel Part 6: Being away to New Year’s Day (C.H) 4th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 5: Visiting on tour to Leaving for Europe (C.H)

March  28th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 4: Wedding Invitation to Midnight Visit (C.H) 21st: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 3: Boards to Wedding Invitation (C.H)  14th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 2: House Date to Board Prep (C.H) 6th: Dr. Angel Face Prequel Part 1: Meet Cute to 2nd Date (C.H)

February  5th:  V-A-L-N-T-Y-N-E (C.H) 

January 2nd: Rose Colored Glasses: Epilogue (H.S)

2020

December 26th: Rose Colored Glasses Part 3: New York City & Amalfi Coast & Rome (H.S)

November 1st: Rose Colored Glasses Part 2: New York City & Aspen (H.S)

October  24th: Rose Colored Glassed Part 1: New York City (H.S) 17th: Luke x Crazy Rich Asian!(Y/N) (L.H)

September 26th: Highest of Highs (M.C) 19th: Cold Tea (C.H) 5th: High Speed (M.C)

August 29th: Rainstorm (The Storm Series / Part 1) (C.H) 26th: Good Girls are Bad Girls that Haven’t Been Caught (A.I) 8th: Play Pretend (C.H)

July 31st: Could you be home (A.I) 25th: Dr. Angel Face Alternative (C.H) 18th: CEO!Michael x President’s Daughter!(Y/N) (M.C) 11th: Backstage (A.I) 4th: Homesick (C.H)

June 28th: Secrets I have held in my heart (A.I) 13th: Calm after the storm (M.C) 13th: NSFW Acronym (5sos) 6th: Heat Extended (C.H)

May 30th: Let the sunshine in (C.H) 23rd: Clothes Stealer (C.H) 16th: Luke x Firefighter!(Y/N) (L.H) 12th: Tease (A.I) 9th: She looks so perfect (A.I) 2nd: (Un)Holy Thoughts Part 2 (C.H)

April 25th: Love of my Life (A.I) 10th: Single Dad!Calum x Preschool Teacher (Y/N) Part 2 (C.H) 3rd: Vibe Part 2 (C.H)

March 22nd: In between the bed sheets (A.I) 14th: Royalty (C.H) 10th: Put a ring on it (A.I) 8th: Vanilla (L.H) 1st: Home (A.I)

February 29th: Happy Campers (A.I) 15th: Family Cuddles (A.I) 8th: Dr. Angel Face (C.H)

January 23rd: Have your cake and eat it too (M.C)

2019

December  23rd: Christmas Lights (C.H)

November  30th: Coachella (A.I) 30th: ‘Lover is a day’ by Cuco (5sos) 30th: Missing Out (C.H) 3rd: ‘Sweater Weather’ by The Neighborhood (M.C)

October 19th: Birthday Twins (C.H) 19th: Make me (M.C) 19th: Unexpected (A.I) 6th: Calum leaving for tour would include (C.H) 6th: Close (A.I) 6th: Life while Michael is touring would include (M.C)

September 28th: Shiny Diamond Ring (A.I) 21st: Sugar, oh honey, honey Part 2 (A.I)

August 21st: Losing You (H.S) 13th: Single Dad!Calum x Preschool Teacher! (Y/N) (C.H) 1st: ‘Cool’ by Jonas Brothers (C.H)

July 27th: Don’t die on me (A.I) 27th: Irwin Family Vacation (A.I) 21st: Heat (C.H) 20th: Baby Mama (C.H) 15th: True Positive (A.I)

June 28th: Cheirophilia (A.I) 28th: ‘Robbers’ by The 1975 (5sos) 13th: ‘Do I wanna know’ by Arctic Monkeys (M.C) 7th: Dancing in the streets (C.H) 7th: ‘Easier’ by 5sos as Kinks (5sos) 7th: Sugar, oh honey honey (A.I)

April 15th: Fighter (C.H) 10th: Gotta Get Out (5sos) 10th: Loud (C.H)

March 29th: Instagram Post (C.H) 28th: Vibe (C.H) 23rd: Heartbreak Girl (A.I) 16th: Puppy Love (C.H) 11th: Honeymoon (A.I) 8th: I wanna be yours (A.I) 5th: Possessive (A.I) 1st: I love you and all... (C.H)

February 26th: Unholy Thoughts (C.H) 25th: Award Night (C.H) 16th: Lazy Day 12th: Bunk Sex (C.H) 8th: Baby’s first christmas (5sos)  8th: Beach Day (5sos)  8th:Birthday gift he gets you (5sos) 8th: Cheesy Couple Stuff (5sos)  8th: Chilling day (5sos)  8th: Christmas Morning (5sos) 8th: Christmas Together (5sos) 8th: Cute necklace he gets you (5sos) 8th: Gift he gets you (5sos) 8th: He reads to you (5sos) 8th: Outfit that turns him on (5sos) 8th: You adopt a puppy (5sos) 8th: ’Valentine’ by 5sos (5sos) 7th: Ashton’s Pregnancy Series (A.I)  7th: Calum’s Pregnancy Series (C.H) 7th: Cuddling (5sos) 7th: Gift you get him (5sos)  7th: Halloween Couple Costume (5sos)  7th: He surprises you (5sos)  7th: Kissing (5sos) 7th: Picture of you he posts (5sos) 7th: Winter Wonderland (C.H) 5th: Pornstar!Calum (C.H) 4th: Empty Wallets (M.C) 4th: Your house with Ashton (A.I)  4th: Your house with Calum (C.H)   4th: Your house with Luke (L.H)  4th: Your house with Michael (M.C) 3rd: Babylon (C.H)   3rd: Why won’t you love me (C.H) 3rd: Moving Along (C.H) 3rd: Youngblood (C.H) 3rd: Call me when you get home (C.H) 3rd: Can I have this dance? (C.H) 3rd: 90 Days (C.H) 3rd: 280 Days (C.H) 3rd: One day (C.H) 3rd: Christmas Getaway (L.H) 3rd: Daddy’s little fuck doll (C.H) 3rd: Dancing Lessons (M.C) 3rd: Don’t cry (L.H) 3rd: You are important too (L.H) 3rd: Fetish (C.H) 3rd: First time (C.H) 3rd: It can wait until tomorrow (C.H) 3rd: Stay Over (C.H) 3rd: Just a little more (C.H) 3rd: Let me drive for a while (C.H) 3rd: Lie to me (L.H)  3rd: Ghost of you (L.H)  3rd: If walls could talk (L.H) 3rd: Better Man (L.H) 3rd: Neighbors (C.H) 3rd: Recreate (C.H) 3rd: Spanked (L.H) 3rd: Til death do us part (L.H) 3rd: Valentine (A.I) 3rd: Talk Fast (A.I)  3rd: More (A.I) 3rd: Meet you there (A.I) 3rd: Sex with Calum would include (C.H) 3rd: Woke up in Japan (M.C)  3rd: Want you back (M.C)  3rd: Monster among men (M.C)  3rd: Your Christmas with Michael (M.C) 2nd: Boring Lecture (C.H) 2nd: College Classmates (C.H) 2nd: Exes (C.H) 2nd: Expecting (C.H) 2nd: Friends or More (A.I)  2nd: Couple or More (A.I)   2nd: He asks you out (C.H) 2nd: Kidding (C.H) 2nd: Lingerie Shopping (C.H) 2nd: Mile High Club (C.H) 2nd: Miracle Baby (A.I)  2nd: Pool Party (C.H) 2nd: Send Nudes (C.H) 2nd: Tease (C.H) 2nd: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? (C.H) 1st: Ashton’s Smut Alphabet (A.I)  1st: Can I kiss you? (A.I) 1st: Christmas Fairytale (A.I) 1st: Concert Behavior (A.I) 1st: Calum’s Smut Alphabet (C.H)  1st: Daddy (A.I) 1st: Dirty Pictures (A.I) 1st:  His (A.I) 1st: Luke’s Smut Alphabet (L.H)  1st: Michael’s Smut Alphabet (M.C) 1st: Mrs. Irwin (A.I) 1st: Naughty (A.I) 1st: Naughty Santa (A.I) 1st: Speak your mind (A.I)  1st: Tour Surprise (A.I) 1st: You are warm (A.I)

2018

July 27th: Our first kiss (A.I)

2017

October 27th: Moving In (A.I) 24th: Santa Baby Part 2 (C.H)

September 27th: What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas (C.H) 26th: Meet the parents (C.H) 25th: Staying in Paris (C.H)

August 21st: Everyday (C.H)

July 20th: Mama Hood (C.H) 18th: Dating Ashton (A.I) 18th: Dating Michael (M.C) 11th: Drunk In Love (C.H)

June 30th: Wounded (A.I) 8th: No matter what, always and forever (C.H) 7th: Grind Part 2 (C.H)

April 8th: Grind (C.H) 8th: Well, do you wanna marry me? (C.H) 3rd: Halloween Night Part 4 (C.H)

March 17th: Halloween Night Part 3 (C.H) 10th: Halloween Night Part 2 (C.H)

February 21st: Halloween Night (C.H) 15th: Dating Luke (L.H) 5th: Dating Calum (C.H)

2016

December 11th: Santa Baby (C.H)

February 21st: Shower (C.E)

January 10th: Fight (C.E)

[ultkpopnetwork]

2019 K-Releases ~ week 46

November 11th

I LUV - Open The Door ~ Ultkpop Recommended

ONE - Hard to Love

Punchnello feat. Baek Yerin - doodle

A.TRAIN - Cork

12th

Elris - Miss U

U-Hee (Chic Angel) - Mystery

Daru (former Bloomy) feat. Aiden (AWEEK) - Macaron ~ Debut

HYNN - Bad Love

HYNN - Last Train

Nature - Oopsie (My Bad)

Seven O’clock - Midnight Sun

Bambee - Urban Radius

13th

GFRIEND - Fallin’ Light ~ Japanese

Hara - Midnight Queen ~ Japanese

N.Flying - Doll ~ Japanese

N.Flying - Kick Ass ~ Japanese

Ravi (VIXX) feat. Kim Hyo Eun - Drug

Vibe - Call Me Back

YoonDo - Another Spring

Kwon Soon Il with Kwon Jin Ah - Change

14th

IN2IT - ULlala: Poisoning

Eric Nam feat. Marc E Bassy - Congratulations ~ English

Mamamoo - Hip

Stray Kids - Astronaut

Kim Yonja - Mother

Lee JinJae - In a year

Rainbow - Aurora ~ 10th Anniversary

gong - Seoul Boutique 

Owen - run ~ 19+

15th

Woosung (The Rose) feat. Peniel (BTOB) - Beautiful Girl

Kino & Hui (Pentagon) -  똑딱 ~ Soundcloud

Jay Park - Call You Bae

Jungmo - 그게 나였으면...

Gikwang (Highlight) - I’m Down ~ Soundcloud

Luri - Blah Blah ~ Debut

South Club - twice

Van Gwang Ok - Draw

Gemstone - Stay

Jjangyou - 115

16th

Changjo (Teen Top) - Never Anything ~ Debut

Cha Ga Eul - We were once beautiful together

17th

ORLY - Crush on You

Daybreak - kickkick

IU - above the time

Youtube Playlist

[kpopmultifan]

Scheduled New Releases: November 2019 - Week 3

This list will continually be updated when MVs, iTunes/Apple Music & Spotify links, & additional new release information become available.

Park Kyung (of Block B) - To Love Only Once (feat. J.Rabbit)  (Single Album) [MV] Release Date: November 10th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

Leo (of VIXX) - All of Me (Digital Single) Release Date: November 10th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

Yoon Sanha (of ASTRO) x Chanmi (of AOA) - One More Chance (OST Digital Single) [MV] “Love Formula 11M” OST Release Date: November 11th [iTunes/Apple Music]

NATURE - NATURE WORLD: Code A (2nd Mini-Album) Title Track: Oopsie (My Bad) [MV] [highlight medley] Release Date: November 12th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

Seven O’Clock - White Night (3rd Mini-Album) Title Track: Midnight Sun [MV] [highlight medley] Release Date: November 12th

ELRIS - Miss U (Digital Single) [MV] Release Date: November 12th [iTunes/Apple Music]

N.Flying - Doll/Kick Ass (Japanese Single) Title Track: Doll [MV] Title Track: Kick Ass [MV] Release Date: November 13th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify] 

GFRIEND - Fallin’ Light (1st Japanese Album) Title Track: Fallin’ Light [MV] Release Date: November 13th

Ravi (of VIXX) - Drug (feat. Keem Hyo Eun) (Album Pre-Release Digital Single) Release Date: November 13th [iTunes/Apple Music]

Heize - Destiny Tells Me (OST Digital Single) “When the Camellia Blooms” OST Pt.9 Release Date: November 13th [iTunes/Apple Music]

Jeong Sewoon - 너를 그린다 (OST Digital Single) “Extraordinary You” OST Pt.8 Release Date: November 13th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

IN2IT - Puzzle (3rd Single Album) Title Track: ULlala: Poisoning [MV] [highlight medley] Release Date: November 14th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

Eric Nam - Before We Begin (1st Album) Title Track: Congratulations (feat. Marc E. Bassy) [MV] [highlight medley] Release Date: November 14th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

MAMAMOO - Reality in BLACK (2nd Album) Title Track: Hip [MV] [highlight medley] Release Date: November 14th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

RAINBOW - Over the Rainbow (Special 10th Anniversary Album) Title Track: Aurora [MV] Release Date: November 14th [iTunes/Apple Music] 

Super Junior - Come a Little Closer (sung by Leeteuk, Shindong, Eunhyuk, & Donghae) (OST Digital Single) “Analog Trip” OST Release Date: November 15th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

Luri - Blah Blah (feat. Bryn) (Solo Debut Single) [MV] Release Date: November 15th [iTunes/Apple Music] [Spotify]

South Club - Twice (4th Single) [MV] Release Date: November 16th [iTunes/Apple Music]

Woosung (of The Rose) - Beautiful Girl (feat. Peniel of BTOB) (Digital Single) [MV] Release Date: November 16th [iTunes/Apple Music]

Changjo (of TEEN TOP) - Never Anything (Solo Debut Single) [MV] Release Date: November 16th [iTunes/Apple Music]

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[Qsc_asuw] Week 6 Newsletter

Welcome to Week Six! <3 We hope you have stayed safe and warm these past few days and continue to enjoy the days to come. REMINDER THAT THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW DUE TO CONTINUED DANGEROUS CONDITIONS, PLEASE STAY SAFE, take care of yourselves and each other. We hope you might find time to spend warmly with friends and community this week and engage in some necessary self-care. QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week: Amir Khadar Amir Khadar is a Non-binary West African multidisciplinary artist, whose main mediums are poetry, fibers, and digital art. For them, art is a space to rationalize their feelings as a marginalized individual, resist oppressive structures, and ultimately facilitate healing. Afrofuturism, black beauty, bitterness, hair, and spirituality are running themes in their work. Currently, Amir is a Sophomore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where they are pursuing a B.F.A in Fibers and Humanistic studies.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday (Location TBD!)

REMINDER: Disability is an Asset: An Evening with Haben Girma this Wednesday, February 13th has been canceled and will be rescheduled.

Liberated Love: Growing a Healing Practice:

(Thursday, February 14) 6 PM - 8 PM @ The Rainier Arts Center

3515 S Alaska St, Seattle, WA 98118-1633

Experiencing hate is nothing new for us as LGBTQ+ people, particularly those of us LGBTQ folks that are also people of color. While national and local numbers of hate violence incidents’ are rising, we have known this hate to be true long before the numbers began to catch up. One of the most powerful ways we continue to resist hate and survive throughout the violence is by coming together; growing and sustaining deep, celebratory, and liberated communities rooted in love. Existing in community can be difficult though if we forget to tend to ourselves as well. Join the Northwest Network to learn and practice self-healing techniques. We hope for these techniques to serve as groundwork to engage and be fully present in communities, relationships, and families, of liberated love.

* More information about workshops and facilitators will be posted soon! Thank you for your patience.

This event is open to LGBTQ+ folks and their loved ones who have been affected by hate and hate violence.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Getting Here: The Rainier Arts Center is a 5-minute walk from the Columbia City Light Rail Station. Bus routes 7, 50, and 9 also stop within a block of the Rainier Arts Center.

The event space is the lower level of the Rainier Arts Building. The entrance for the space is on the northeast corner of the building. At the main entrance, there are both stairs and a ramp which lead into the basement of the building. The space has both ADA accessible and all gender restrooms. *Feel free to reach out with any other accessibility questions.

Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series

(Wednesday, February 13, 2019) 6:30 PM

The Kelly ECC is back with another social justice film series for winter quarter!

Each Wednesday evening at 6:30, we'll be screening a film in the main lobby! We hope to see you there!

February's Focus: Black History Month

March's Focus: Women's History Month

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FILM LINE-UP:

• February 13: American Promise

• February 20: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

• February 27: Dark Girls

• March 6: Ladies First

• March 13: Neerja

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

The ECC is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here:

metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

A Certain Type of Brilliance

(Thursday, February 14, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @

Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center

517 E Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98122

Femmes possess an alchemy that can’t be quantified, but which draws us together and enables us to be bold, ingenious, and capable of a magic that fortifies our own hearts and the soul of the community around us. A Certain Type of Brilliance is a celebration of femmes’ ability to pull amazing things out of thin air, to create on a dime, to use our vulnerability and creativity as our greatest assets in resistance to oppression.

The production features a unique cast each night; performers will create a new piece of work in the 24 hours prior to the show in response to one of a series of prompts, drawing on themes of resistance, resilience, femme identity & power.

Other Dates Offered:

FRIDAY FEB. 15 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

SATURDAY FEB. 16 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

SUNDAY FEB. 17 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

https://www.gaycity.org/accessibility/  

All restrooms are gender-neutral.

Smoking & Fragrances are prohibited on Gay City premises. Do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

All spaces, doors, and corridors are at least 32 inches wide and ADA compliant.

All doors in the building open manually.

There are two steps from the auditorium/library hallway to Kaladi Bros Coffee and to go to the restrooms. In order to go between the coffee shop/restrooms and the auditorium/library without using any steps, you will need to go outside and enter through the other external door.

Playfulness as Resistance! 25th Anniversary Party

(Saturday, February 16, 2019) 7 PM - 11 PM @ Jacob Lawrence Gallery

University of Washington Art Building 1915 Chelan Lane Seattle, WA 98195

Tickets: $15 General admission/$5 students

With DJ sets by:

SassyBlack

Felisha Ledesma (S1 Portland)

dos leches + Eve Defy (TUF Collective, Seattle)

Dive into a ball pit by Colleen Louise Barry, sip a cocktail crafted by our celebrity bartender Timothy Rysdyke, get a copy of the brand new MONDAY (Vol. 3), dance under an installation by Disco Nap, snack on a donut from General Porpoise, and leave wearing a temporary tattoo by Claire Cowie!

FOOD + DRINK + FUN!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The gallery is wheelchair accessible.

The Gallery is smoking-free but not kept scent-free, we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

There are no dogs allowed in the gallery.

Generifus • Flying Fish Cove • Izumi

(Wednesday, February 20, 2019) 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM @

Timbre Room

1809 Minor Avenue #10, Seattle, Washington 98101

$8 • Doors at 7:30 • Music begins at 8pm sharp

Generifus •

Intricate and magnificent legendary rock pop from Olympia, WA

https://generifus.bandcamp.com

Flying Fish Cove •

Mythical melodies and dreamy moods, and they bop

Izumi •

Modern folk that is pure heart and magic spun into song

https://izumi.bandcamp.com

How The Body Hold's It's Stories

(Thursday, February 28, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM

Hugo House

1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

How do our bodies hold onto experiences? How do generations of people of color, queer and trans people, and others who have experienced marginalization carry those stories over generations? Join writers Jordan Alam and Tessa Zeng for a reading and conversation on feeling a story in your bones and translating it to the page. Musician Lex Gavin will also perform. ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: Jordan Alam is a queer Bangladeshi-American writer, performer, and social change educator based out of Seattle. Her work engages with moments of rupture and transformation in the lives of people on the margins. Jordan’s work is heavily engaged in community, and she is a current Kundiman Pacific Northwest co-chair and 4Culture Artist Grant recipient. Her short stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, CultureStrike Magazine, The Rumpus, and AAWW’s The Margins; she has spoken at events including the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Eyes on Bangladesh exhibition. She is also the founder of the Asian American social justice publication, Project As [I] Am (http://www.project-as-i-am.com). Most recently, she has completed a fellowship with Town Hall Seattle to create collaborative performance pieces about stories of the body and been editing a draft of her debut novel. Lex Gavin is a multidisciplinary artist living in Seattle. Their brain (and thus their work) grapples with paradox, perception, nuance, and the failures of identity. They are interested in magic, neuroscience/somatics/epigenetics, and human systems. When they are not neglecting their creative pursuits, they work in the youth development field and play in the kitchen. Tessa Zeng is a writer, systems change advocate, and co-creative maker. She has been published in various poetry anthologies and journals, and received an Individualized BA from Goddard College for her work on social misrecognition. With their work, they hope to create beautiful experiences of interconnection and recognition that can heal traumas caused by oppressive structures.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The new Hugo House is fully ADA-compliant. If you require specific accommodations, please contact us so that we may assist you.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms.

Public transportation: The new Hugo House is a short walk from the Capitol Hill light rail station and the First Hill streetcar (Broadway & Pike-Pine stop) and within a half-mile of many buses, including routes 8, 10, 11, 43, 49, and 60.

Parking: A pay parking lot is available nearby at the Greek Orthodox Church at 13th and Howell, or at Seattle Central College’s Harvard Garage at 1609 Harvard Avenue. Street parking is also available but not guaranteed. The garage beneath Hugo House is for tenants only.

Free, rapid HIV Testing and PrEP counseling provided by Lifelong.

First come, first serve, walk-in appointments available on the last Monday of every month during Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters!

Other Times Offered (All times at Q-Center from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM) :

Monday, February 25th

Monday, March 25

Monday, April 29

Monday, May 27

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: http://www.washington.edu/maps/.The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The HUB IS not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the Q Center in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edupreferably 10 days in advance.

Let’s Talk is a free program that connects UW students with support from experienced counselors from the Counseling Center and Hall Health Center without an appointment. Counselors hold drop-in hours at four sites on campus:

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Let’s Talk offers informal consultation – it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling, or psychiatric care. To learn more, visit

letstalk.washington.edu.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The HUB IS not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the Q Center in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

The ECC has single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms on each floor, near the gender-binary bathrooms to which signs are indicated.

Odegaard Library is not ADA accessible nor scent free.  

All rooms in Mary Gates Hall are wheelchair accessible. Please contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 or dso@uw.edu. MGH is not scent free.

Thank you for being a part of our community <3 We are so glad that you are here, and we are so glad to get to know you! Have questions about the QSC? Just want to get involved? Find our office hours online at hours.asuw.org. To hear more from the QSC be sure to like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter & instagram to stay up to date with all queer and trans related happenings on campus and in Seattle! With love, Mehria Ibrahimi, Outreach & Engagement Intern.

[yes-calliope]

Slow Couture and the Realm of History.

For the text in Italian translation, please click on the link.

For history enthusiasts fragments of historical legacy may survive through various extant portrayals and through the reinterpretation of its protagonists in the field of literature and visual arts. William Shakespeare wrote a number of plays that dramatized the lives of historical figures, but he combined reality and fantasy, by introducing fictional characters as well, like Sir John Falstaff. In the present time historical figures are also used as an instrument of sensibilization in order to give a greater impact to educative information. Art projects can bring history to life again if the topics do not a simply collect monographs but respect the social and political intertextuality, temporal and spatial continuity the historical figures are embedded in and the heritage they built.

Giving a practical example on the Italian territory, Design of the Universe has been producing a remarkable number of projects dedicated to historical facts and figures since 2012, with the objective to integrate the lessons of history into the present time and to take advantage of previous challenges. It does not mean the celebration of the past but a creative leap into the future by promoting events that focus on history and on its cultural and scientific evolution. Mostly generated in Italy, these projects frequently analyse women’s position in science, humanities, and arts, women who were marginalised and overshadowed by men through the centuries. 

Three astronomers as the protagonists of three art&science projects produced by Design of the Universe on the occasion of their anniversaries: Henrietta Swan Leavitt (2021); Lucretia Caroline Herschel and Maria Mitchell (2018/19).

In the last ten years Elisabeth Vermeer, founder of the Atelier Design of the Universe, set up and accomplished numerous case-studies in the shape of pioneering interdisciplinary projects regarding women in the field of science and their difficult career path from the remote past to modern times. Up to now she has created a collection of female stories drawing inspiration from history, from different points of view and from different disciplines. Interdisciplinarity is the main feature of Design of the Universe, the way of creating something by thinking across boundaries. Thanks to accurate research it becomes quite clear that many scientists, both women and men, in the past and in the present, are very sensible to cultural issues, to art and architecture, music and poetry.

Gloria Pastore, Skies denied. Women scientists in different times. Site specific installation in plaster, obsidian stone and photos under plexiglass; Foundation Scienza e Tecnica, Florence; 2018. Laura V.D.B.Facchini, Clouds. Site specific installation in Avantgarde materials and techniques at the Fortress of Montepulciano for the project “Late in the dream. A crossing of visions between astronomy and art”; 2018.

So it is not surprising at all that at a certain point Design of the Universe decides to set up a big project concentrated on women scientists on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science which takes place every year on February 11th. The exhibition should have been presented last year but the waves of the pandemic rendered this mission impossible. The project entitled “Women in science, women of flowers” is now in program for next February 2023 in the Brera District of Milan. One of the personalities in the group of female scientists is an ingenious English lady, Ada Lovelace Byron, the only daughter of poet George Gordon Lord Byron and mathematician Anne Isabella Milbanke. 

                                      Little Ada with her parents.

Visionary and attracted by extremely complicated challenges like the mechanical and fanciful planning of flying steam machines, Ada Lovelace Byron represents first of all her belonging to different scientific and cultural universes, given her devotion to music, her predilection of the harp. In 1833, Mary Somerville, gifted British mathematician and Ada’s mentor, presented her to Charles Babbage,professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge who, by that time, had already reached a remarkable reputation for his visionary and uncompleted projects on the behalf of giant calculators. Ada Lovelace Byron was one of the few persons to fully understand the ideas of Babbage and together they succeeded in creating a program for the analytical engine, anticipating the first computer, thanks to the imaginative force of the artist hidden in the systematical mind of the scientis

Charles Babbage, the Analytical Machine and Ada Lovelace Byron in a Daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet (1843), one of the two existent photos.

Connecting with the data of Ada’s life and work, however, an interesting question opens up which concerns the phenomenon of historicity oscillating between reality and fiction, facts and fancy. How did artists and poets approach the representation of Ada Lovelace Byron in her epoch and does this happen today? Let us have a look on the portraits made during her lifetime. Several artists tried to bring out the living likeness of Ada many times, and some of the most famous attempts, though good in and of themselves, always seem to adjust her features and to match certain epochal standards of beauty. There are numerous testimonies illustrating Ada Lovelace in different moments of her life.

Ada as a child, at the age of seventeen and at the age of twenty (Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection at the New York Public Library)

The earliest witnesses are drawings and paintings when she was a child like the artwork by Comte Alfred d’Orsay, dated 1822 and actually held in the library of Somerville College, Oxford. Ten years later she was portrayed at the age of seventeen in a drawing by an unknown author. British painter Margaret Sarah Carpenter immortalized Ada on canvas in 1836, in a beautiful ivory dress with a gigot sleeve balanced by a tightly cinched waist, corresponding to the fashion dictate of the Twenties and Thirties. In London’s mundane high society she attracted attention for the extravagance of her mise and the elegance of her royal posture. In 1852, the year of her death, although in great pain, she agreed with Henry Phillips to sit for a painting seated at the piano, as her father, Lord Byron, had been painted by Phillips' father, Thomas Phillips.

On the background of her biographical notes a colorful prism of interpretations opens up in front of our eyes, deriving from different creative disciplines, not only to render the memory of such an impressive and unconventional personality like Ada more lively, but also to illustrate her social entourage in the Victorian epoch, culture and the difficult position of women in general, above all in the domain of science. All these contributions are available in the video-triptych on the You Tube Channel of Design of the Universe. A note regarding posthumous fame: Ada received an official appreciation only hundred fifty years later, when in 1979 the Ministry of Defense of the United States paid a tribute to her memory and to her work, assigning the name “Ada”, in a poetical spirit, to a programming language.

Without taking into consideration nowadays Avantgarde techniques which recreate historical personalities aided by software simulation and 3D interactive technology, Elisabeth Vermeer intuitively entrusts qualities like tradition, excellence, exclusive manual manufacture and eco-responsibility. These are the fundamental requisites in the field of Slow Couture. According to these premises, Ada Lovelace Byron was planned to come to life as a hybrid installation in mixed media, half painted, half sown by hand and completed with vegetal elements. This decision gave birth to an innovative concept design of how to represent historical figures in the context of their connection with nature, later on featured by Elisabeth Vermeer with the brand name Fleurestunefleur,  which aims at bridging the gap between culture and nature, between diverse worlds, intellectual, digital, virtual and vegetal, physical ones.

Logo of Elisabeth Vermeer’s brand Fleurestunefleur designed by Austrian artist Andreas Mares

This is the precise moment when Silvia Zambarbieri reentered the stage, in a very delicate and restrictive moment of pandemic, by proving her marvelous inventive force and productive velocity. While the curator had to cope with the lost chance of creating a scenography with a live-audience during the pandemic, Zambarbieri, the artisan-designer from Milan, imagined Ada Lovelace Byron in new clothes. Insisting on this collaboration, Elisabeth Vermeer made the right choice, as she knew perfectly well  that Silvia Zambarbieri was really gifted with a dab hand at tailoring, though she also creates more fluid pieces celebrating the female forms for her everyday clients. Meanwhile the project had been necessarily reduced and transformed into a video triptych on line, artists, poets, musicians invited by Elisabeth Vermeer generated a kaleidoscopic mosaic consisting in fragments, photos, artworks, notes and digital compositions, thoughts and drawings. 

Uri De Beer and Carlo Accerboni, digital compositions and photo collage, 2020.

Their contributions meet altogether in a perspectival game, like mirrors which exist only in the reflection of one and another. The single parts constitute a strong value when these interact, like in the phantasmagoric world of quants, our meta-world. 

Claire Jeanine Satin, Mario Pepe, Gian Luigi Suman: vintage computer installation and digital compositions, 2020.

Gian Luigi Suman, Antonio Di Pace: digital composition and photography, 2020.

Dania Marchesi, Silvia Bibbo: digital compositions and painting in mixed media

As with most historical reconstructions, Silvia Zambarbieri (her brand name in fashion is D’Iside) did a lot of research but of course there is some percentage of imbued hypothetical data – especially when it comes to the color of Ada’s eyes and hair that determine the shape and structure of the face. Studying the variety of Ada’s portraits which are available in Museum archives and British libraries, Zambarbieri desired to bring forth reveries of beauty and elegance, with a touch of sophisticated extravagance. In the end, in a common agreement between friends, the choice fell on the revisitation of a portrait showing Ada with a romantic look in front of light cloudy skies à la John Constable, the painter of  tempestuous firmaments. Zambarbieri likes to listen to to the historical narrations of Italian historian Alessandro Barbero on the radio, mostly about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. So she frequently draws inspiration from female archetypes in her making fashion. For Ada’s recreation she was oriented towards 18thcentury fashion in London from the Twenties to the Fifties, according to Ada’s timeline. 

Fashionable dresses in London between 1830 and 1850.

Zambarbieri’s creative practice is based on a number of methodical steps which facilitate the genesis of an artwork that interprets a historical character. The most important one, after the selection of the most suitable photo, is the magnification in a suitable human scale. The artist took the chance of leaving Ada’s features entirely as they are, only replacing the bust with a three dimensional dress. Another determining factor is the choice of the textile fabrics for the creation. Zambarbieri’s paramount is her ecological conscience, the “eco bona fides” she proudly wears and manifests by her research of vintage clothing and deadstock fabrics. She is absolutely convinced of the timeless value of handcraft, blending artisan craft with patchwork and woven, crocheted, hand-printed, and embroidered looks. Naturally she stays for the unexpected detail like trompe l’oeil pocket embroideries and original drawing and painting on her latest brand of Japan inspired bags.

In Ada Lovelace Byron’s case Zambarbieri revisited a photography in black and white color, showcasing the mathematician in a romantic dress made of ivory and black colored satin and silk, embellished by lace and embroideries. Lace was a very common fabric in Ada’s epoch, later bypassed by chiffon. 

Ada’s coiffure, according to traditional hairdressing in London in the first part of the 18th century.

For the accessories Zambarbieri usually wanders through the narrow streets of Florence, like a “flaneuse” escaping from Walter Benjamin’s masterpiece “Arcades Project/Das Passagenwerk”, looking for artisans and small vintage shops, markets of antiquities and notions stores which seem to be cabinets of curiosities. In these mostly unknown and unexplored places the artist searches for precious buttons in different materials, covered by fabrics or pressed cloth, antique and contemporary lace and tulle, threads and ribbons, decorative ornaments of various periods. 

Instinctively she acted like this to create a tailored garment for Ada. The result was absolutely stunning. Zambarbieri’s creature is a new kind of Ada gifted with youth and beauty, which is not in contradiction with her brilliant mind, often overshadowed by Charles Babbage. Ada’s outfit is enriched by an ample handmade gown that hides the layers of petticoats, following the fashion guide of the initial years of the Victorian rule. 

To conclude we can say that the project emanates a feeling of freshness and a sense that originality and even provocation are not only alive in the contemporary design of clothing, but also in the connection with the values of history. Ada revisited offers an invitation for women to dream, a respite to gaze at and appreciate intelligence paired with beauty and grace, and, most awesomely, an opportunity to think.

All this happened in the magic month of December 2020, only a short time before another fragment of “Women in Science” got lanced by Elisabeth Vermeer to be presented on February 11th 2021. American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt is the pioneering protagonist of the next chapter of History and Slow Couture.

Stay with us.

[ricmlm]

This is a rare opportunity to see a young girl washing a child's feet up close, a drawing that was probably made between 1480 and 1483 by Leonardo da Vinci. The work was first presented to the public in 1962, at the Superior School of Fine Arts in Porto, under the name of another author: Raffaellino da Reggio. Three years later, British art historian Philip Pouncey established the true authorship of the design. The work had its last presentation in Porto in May 2019, on the occasion of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, having visited some of the most important museums in the world, including the Louvre, in Paris. The program parallel to the exhibition will include conferences, activities of the education service and guided tours on October 28 (17.30), November 11 and 25 (17.30), November 13 and 27 (11.00), December 9 (17.30 ), December 11th and 18th (11.00). Visits have limited spaces and require registration via email divulgacao@mnsr.dgpc.pt. The MNSR is open from Tuesday to Sunday, including holidays, from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. The ticket (5€) also gives access to the exhibition Azul e Ouro - Nail Polishes in Portugal from the Medieval Period to the Modern Period. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVBCBstj8a5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[crazy4tank]

IED Madrid celebrates 150th anniversary of Spanish artist and fashion designer Mariano Fortuny

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IED Madrid celebrates 150th anniversary of Spanish artist and fashion designer Mariano Fortuny

Sandra Bódalo Munuera

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Wednesday, ten February 2021

There are numerous examples of artists or even scientists whose work or even inventions have played an important part in history, but in whose names have been forgotten or even whose names are actually unfamiliar by the vast majority of people. This really is also the case for Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish designer for whom the brand “multidisciplinary” falls rather brief. Painter, fashion designer, set developer, sculptor, and photographer, are just a few of his many vocations. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth- he was born into a category of artists in Granada within 1871-, the Istituto Europeo di Design Madrid (IED Madrid) and the FortunyM Tradition Foundation (a group of specialists from the Arts and social sector in Spain) are usually hosting “Universo Fortuny”, a good initiative that seeks to tell the public and introduce this to this great Spanish ethnic and artistic reference, who might be an eternal stranger simultaneously.

During the days of the event, Thursday night February 4th and Thurs February 11th, four digital lectures take place, open to all the public, to promote and share the Spanish designer’s beauty but also to highlight their entrepreneurial spirit as an global reference of art plus beauty. “It’s the first time we now have collaborated together but the concept to host an educational initiative about such a flexible mastermind as Mariano Fortuny, matched the IED soul perfectly. Our school is not really solely focused on fashion, but additionally on graphic design plus product design”, explains Moisés Nieto, the Scientific Movie director of the Fashion Design College at IED Madrid.

”Universo Fortuny” iis a remarkable opportunity to get to know the most personal part of one of the most influential geniuses of the second of the twentieth century and to reflect on the particular timeless nature of their legacy. For Pilar Torrecillas, the President and person in the FortunyM Culture Basis, “the beautiful part of these kinds of projects is the way all of us perceive them with anticipation plus excitement”. For her and many others, Fortuny was and continues to be great inspiration. “Great Spanish style designers such as Cristóbal Balenciaga or Manuel Pertegaz verified it and considered your pet an example. And although it is definitely contradictory, he is also a large stranger. An authentic raw diamond”, adds Pilar. And what could be the main reason for this? Certainly this really is thanks to the fact that after their death, despite giving portion of his heritage to The country, which rejected it, their wife Henriette Negrin, given it to Venice, in which the wonderful Fortuny Museum continues to be created. Ultimately, his heritage belongs to Italy, states Pilar Torrecillas. For this reason, “the Foundation was established 4 years ago with the goal in order to reclaim Mariano Fortuny great connection to the city of Granada, the artist’s birthplace”, describes Torrecillas.

A global legacy that is completely classic

“Everything that fashion provides claimed nowadays such as technologies, craftsmanship and innovation, produced a part of his creative activity”, says designer Torrecillas. A good influence that she their self has incorporated when it comes to her very own collections on behalf of her style label Pilar Dalbat. A subject she will talk about in the girl lecture “Fashion’s Techniques plus Discoveries”.

At the IED This town, this influence culminates within an exposition in the Gran Capitán Center in Granada, that will take place in the month associated with June. Students of IED’s Fashion School will reinterpret Fortuny’s iconic styles plus prints from a modern viewpoint. In the exposition, the site visitors will be able to view a combination of advanced techniques, such as block publishing and silkscreen printing, along with pleating and other methods that will characterize the artist. Additionally , pieces with a continuous printing spread out over different components will be on display, which reimagine the patterns most utilized by the artist.

The series of classes by the name of “Universo Fortuny”, promoted by The spanish language fashion designer Moisés Nieto for the IED Madrid as well as the FortunyM Culture Foundation will be held at Thursday February 4th plus Thursday February 11th and it is open to the public. Those who desire to attend the virtual occasion can register on the institute’s official website.

Images: Courtesy of the FortunyM Culture Foundation

This article was previously published upon FashionUnited. ES and converted to English by Veerle Versteeg.

[scandalmania]

Happy New Year from SCANDAL☆MANIA!

In Japan is midnight already, so happy 2018 everybody! Whenever this was a band or a good year, let’s keep on walking and do our best for this new year too! Let’s recap what happened to SCANDAL this year!

Released a photo album of their european tour, SCANDAL TOUR 2016 IN EUROPE

Released their third best album, “SCANDAL”, to celebrate their 10th anniversary. For commemorating this release, the girls had a special Tsutaya’s collaboration and three different release events: Commemorative Live Photo Panel, “Store managers for one day only” project, TSUTAYA RECORDS presents SCANDAL Special Talk Event.

Went on their longest domestic tour ever, reaching all 47 prefectures with their “SCANDAL TOUR 2017 『SCANDAL's 47 Prefecture Tour』“

Collaboration with Groud-y, E Hyphen world, and rockin’ star.

Celebrated their 11th anniversary with a special live at Billboard Osaka

Released their first digital single, “Koisuru Universe”. The song was used for a Bourbon‘s CM.

You can now find SCANDAL on Spotify! The quantity of releases your country region has to offer, might not be full or as complete as others countries.

The band also went to Hamburg, Germany to attend Nena’s 40th anniversary special.

They took part in NHK portal site’s『 2020 Portrait Messages Connected By Leslie Kee』

Along with BLUE ENCOUNT, UNISON SQUARE GARDER and 04 LIMITED SAZABYS, the band set up a joint band tour.

SCANDAL x Fender new signature models

A BEST☆XMAS was held on once again!

Along the year, SCANDAL played on many festivals and events: ROCK IN JAPAN, RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL, MONSTER BaSH, Akita CARAVAN MUSIC FES, SUPER BEAVER「Mannaka no Koto」Release Tour〜Rakuda no, Chuushin〜, Kishidan Banpaku, Magurock, Televi’s night 017, BK Wonderland, SUPER SHIBUYA EXPO LIVE, Koyabu Sonic, Mainichi ga Christmas 10TH ANNIVERSARY, Merry Rock Parade, RADIO CRAZY ROCK FESTIVAL, Countdown Japan.

As for personal activity: Rina went to Paris alone in January and opened a Sarahah’s account, Tomomi got a dog, Mami wrote a song for the idol group Yumemiru Adolescence, and Haruna bought a car! Haruna and Mami also run the Osaka marathon.

And we already know 2018 will be no less! The band as already announced a new album, “HONEY”, and a new tour in support of the release along with a festival, JAPAN JAM 2018.

So, are you ready for another scandalous year?

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shinee day - 11th anniversary exhibition ♡ 190522 (source: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)

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Thank You Veterans, from New Smyrna Beach Florida

Thank you Veterans, from New Smyrna Beach

This Monday, November 11 is Veterans Day . It’s the one day set aside each November to honor those who have served and continue to serve our nation. The holiday also offers a great opportunity to teach civilians about the sacrifice service members and their families make year-round.

What is Veterans Day?

Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans, that is, persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

List of Ideas to Celebrate Veterans Day

Communities all over the US hold special activities each Veterans Day. Parades, military ceremonies, free dinners at local restaurants, special school events, and of course - Veterans Day sales. How do you plan to celebrate this year? Here are some ideas for activities to try at home, school and work.

At Home Wear a red poppy or yellow ribbon to show support for veteran and active duty service members. Organize a care-package packing party. If you don’t know someone currently stationed overseas, contact a nearby base or an organization like Blue Star Moms to identify troops in need. Visit a veterans’ hospital. Chatting with elderly or injured veterans is a great way to brighten their day, plus you’re likely to hear some highly fascinating stories about their time in the service. Get creative. For young children, a fun project is a great way to start teaching about the holiday and its importance.

At School Encourage your child’s teacher to develop a Veterans Day lesson plan. A timeline or short writing project is a great way for students to learn about the holiday’s history. Invite a veteran—a parent, grandparent or faculty member, perhaps—to speak to students about what it’s like to be in the military. Don’t know any veterans to invite? Contact your local VFW or VA; their Public Affairs Officer will likely be able to identify a good guest speaker. There are many veterans who work at VA facilities and would be happy to be to speak to students.

At Work Take time out of the day to acknowledge veterans in your workplace. Consider an office-wide coffee break featuring treats such as remembrance poppy cookies or a yellow ribbon cake. During the event, make sure to recognize each veteran employee. (Plan ahead to make sure you don’t miss anyone.)

Retired Army 1st Sgt. William Staude, of Elliott, Pa., salutes soldiers from the 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, stationed in Coraopolis, Pa., as they march past him during the Veterans Day parade in downtown Pittsburgh, Nov. 11.

Find an Event in Your Community Want to find a local Veterans Day event? Many communities hold parades and vigils. Contact your local VA for more information. Links to 3 webpages with lists of local Veterans Day events: http://www.volusia.com/veterans-day-events-information-volusia-county/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/riverside-park-new-smyrna-revised-new-smyrna-beach-florida/veterans-day-ceremony/309097516239404/ , and https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20171109/veterans-day-events

Honor Veterans Year-Round Celebrate with service. Show service members your gratitude throughout the year with a home-cooked meal, thank you note, or day of volunteering. Take your gently-read books to your local VA Hospital or VFW. Contact your local VFW or American Legion to volunteer with their projects.

Support a veteran-owned business. A number of websites can help you identify such businesses in your area - such as buyveteran.com, Veteran Owned Businesses by State, 6 Veteran-Owned Businesses to Hit This Holiday Season, and Top 25 Veteran-Founded Startups in America.

Express thanks Whenever you see someone in uniform, extend a simple word of gratitude or small act of kindness to show how much their service means to you. Source: veteransunited.com, Elisa Essner

Merchants Thank Veterans with discounts and freebies

Free meals, free desserts, free admission tickets. Click for a list of nationwide free meals, deals, and discounts. I have been to Golden Corral on Veterans Day with my father and husband, both vets. The atmosphere is very special in a restaurant crowded with vets - young, old and inbetween. Everyone stands if they can, for singing of the Star Spangled Banner.

Local NSB and Volusia County Specials for Veterans include:

Coleman Condo, our 2BR 2BA beachfront condo in New Smyrna Beach, offers a free one week stay for a veteran and his/her family (one week per year total). In addition, we offer a 10% discount for veterans all year long.

Free admission to state and national parks.

iOutdoor Fishing Adventures. Daytona Beach, FL

Veterans save $25 off any listed fishing charter tour with the code DYTAVB19 during the month of November.

Warbird Air Museum. Titusville, FL

11/9 to 11/10 all veterans get free admission

Kennedy Space Center. Merritt, FL

Admission tickets are free from Nov. 9-11, 2019 for themselves and up to three guests. Admission includes other activities like Space Shuttle Atlantis, Kennedy Space Bus Tour, and IMAX Theater 3D films. Veterans, active-duty, retirees, and reservists are eligible at the ticket proof with military ID or proper military status documentation such as DD214.

Read more: https://militarybenefits.info/local-area-veterans-day-deals-for-veterans/#ixzz64YA6yxPP

New Smyrna Beach Veterans Day Celebrations

There are many events around NSB and Volusia County to commemorate Veterans Day. VETERANS DAY CEREMONY. The City of New Smyrna Beach along with the VFW Post #4250, American Legion Post #17, and American Veterans Post #2 will recognize Veterans at an annual ceremony at 11:00 a.m at the Brannon Center, 105 S. Riverside Dr, New Smyrna Beach.

A PATRIOTIC SALUTE TO VETERANS will be held on Friday, November 8, from 6-9PM at the Hub on Canal Street . Join us for an evening dedicated to our veterans! Shannon Rae will join The Hub's Veterans Band for a delightful program of songs that bring back memories and evoke patriotism. Along with the evening’s musical entertainment, you’ll learn about The Hub's Veterans In Art (VIA) program, including our involvement with Guitars for Vets. AMVETS VETERANS SERVICE: Amvets Post No. 13, DeLand, will sponsor a ceremony starting at 11 a.m. in Bill Dreggors Park, 230 N. Stone St., honoring area veterans for their service and remembering those who died in combat. MONTFORD MARINES HONORED: Three Daytona Beach residents who were members of the Montford Point Marines — James Huger, Eli Graham and James Steele — will be honored during a service at 1045 a.m. at the Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 539 George Engram Blvd., Daytona Beach. All veterans are invited to attend a free breakfast starting at 8 a.m. PONCE INLET VETERANS MEMORIAL: The Ponce Inlet Veterans Memorial Association will sponsor an appearance by Col. Herb Fix, who is retired from the Marine Corps. His 11 a.m. appearance will include a missing man ceremony, “Taps,” a flyover by the Spruce Creek Gaggle and a dedication and wreath laying at Davies Lighthouse Park. VETERANS DAY CEREMONY: Retired Col. Irving Davidoff will be the speaker at an 11 a.m. event in Riverside Park, New Smyrna Beach, sponosfored by VFW Post No. 4250, New Smyrna Beach. VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE: entertainment, speakers, light refreshments, 1 p.m., Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens, 78 E. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach. FREE. 386-676-3347. VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3282, 5810 S. Williamson Blvd., Port Orange, will host a tribute starting at 2 p.m. in Barden Hall at the post. VETERANS DAY CONCERT: with Crashrocket, Back From the Ashes and Epidemic, 2-7 p.m., Sunshine Bowling Center, 595 E. International Speedway Blvd., DeLand. $5 to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. 386-738-5566. KOREAN WAR VETERANS CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION PRESENTATION: 2 p.m., Port Orange Amphitheater, 2001 City Center Circle, Port Orange. A total of 150 Volusia County residents who are vets will be honored with certificates of appreciation. 386-760-7163. A TRIBUTE TO THE USO: presented by Halifax Health, featuring the Beu Sisters, Peter Alden as “Elvis,” Lauren Chapin from TV’s “Father Knows Best,” 3 p.m., Peabody Auditorium, 600 Auditorium Blvd., Daytona Beach. $15, $5 U.S. Veterans to benefit Halifax Health Hospice’s Veterans programs. 386-322-4747. VETERANS DAY PROGRAM: presented by the African American Museum of the Arts, honoring Charles P. Bailey and all veterans, includes guest speakers, refreshments, 10 a.m., Noble “Thin Man” Watts Amphitheater, 322 S. Clara Ave., DeLand. FREE. 386-736-4004. FLAG BURNING CEREMONY: The Girl Scout Troop Daisy/Brownies No. 825, in conjunction with Sandalwood Nursing Center, will honor veterans, including 11 residents of the center, with a flag-burning ceremony at 6:30 p.m. The flag will be cut into 13 stripes, representing the 13 original colonies, then burned according to U.S. Flag Code. The ceremony at 1001 S. Beach St. is open to the public. VETERANS DAY CELEBRATION: includes commemoration at The Landing, Nunamann Hall; Veterans Center ribbon-cutting, dedication, open house, light refreshments, Lenholt Student Center; talks, full color guard, patriotic music, noon-1 p.m., Daytona State College, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach. 386-506-3000. HONORING OUR VETERANS PERFORMANCE, NOV. 13: music, dance, art and presentation, 6 p.m., Ivy Hawn Charter School of the Arts, 565 S. Lakeview Drive, Unit 110, Lake Helen. 386-228-3900.

Thank you Veterans, from New Smyrna Beach Florida

Thank you Veterans, every day.

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unrelated but important (?) prsnl post interrupting the queue

gonna keep this short prior to the read more thingymajig but i’m going through some stuff personally and I need to write it down and it’s ofc nothing to do with sims but a whole lot to do with me and I feel like I’ll feel better if I write this down. feel free to skip over this and ignore any form of feelings outside of my pixelated people. 

[trigger warning: death/suicide/self-harm]

today and tomorrow (may 10th/11th) marks the four year anniversary since I tried (and almost succeeded) to commit suicide. it is a very surreal week for me to go through the past couple of years, and the distance of time from said event does not change the fact that it happened.

I apologise for the detail i’m about to go into but I feel it is needed for context of how bad my situation had got. (I know I do not need to justify my feelings and my mental health but I am going to explain anyway).

I was in my first year of university, 250 miles away from home, and I felt like absolute hell. I’d made a few friends in my hall, but obviously, this is May, I hadn’t known anyone for more than a handful of months, and talking about my mental health was a difficult thing for me to process. I’d only really mentioned I had a diagnosis of depression to a couple of the girls and they’d been as helpful as they could, given that sort of social situation. I’d let university life get the better of me during my first year. I went out drinking until I could barely walk 4 or 5 times a week, and I’d sleep with pretty much any guy that paid me attention. One guy I met during my first week was a very on-off friends-with-benefits kinda situation, except I wanted more and he wanted less. I spent the whole time at university trying to get away from the toxicity of this relationship and consistently getting drawn back in, to the point it ruined friendships I will never regain. 

By May I was in a state of sort-of seeing someone else, but it was quite casual. I’d told him I wanted us to be a “thing” but he was quite happy to keep sleeping with other people as well (story of my life) and one night when he saw I’d texted previous week-one twat that I never stopped going back to drunkenly, he got mad and we fought and whatever chance we had of becoming something solid shattered in a matter of minutes. It felt so unfair. He was allowed to hurt me and go off with other girls, so why wasn’t the openness he wanted allowed to be the same case on my side?

I never planned to do anything with week-one guy, I think all I’d done was ask if he’d got home safe (forever the mother hen). Who knows. All I know is that this argument sent me over the edge.

I’ve felt like shit about myself pretty much constantly since the age of 14 when I found my mum screaming about wanting to kill herself and then having a go at me for not being there for her when I’d run off terrified to call my best friend for advice.

Needless to say my mum doesn’t recall this period of our lives. (She’s in a much better place now - and she has been for a while. I can’t remember what was going on but I think she had just hit a low. She never did hurt herself nor really intended to, and she’s doing fine now.)

I’ve always been shy and less-than-confident of my own abilities, but this was the start of Literal Hell. I spent my last couple of years at school wasting away to the point that about 7 different people in one day asked if I was alright because I had begun to look rather grey-coloured. I was sleeping about 3 hours a night and eating one meal a day. 

Things got steadily worse and then better and then worse and slightly better then worse then even worser after that (is worser a word? idk).

I know this is all over the place but I need to write this down. Props to you if you’ve got this far.

BACK TO THE STORY. After argument with said sorta-seeing-but-not guy, I took myself back to my room. (key point here: I was pretty hammered. The clubs around my uni sold very cheap drinks (the north of england is great for that), and I was still in my first year phase of drinking so much I couldn’t see). 

All I can kind of remember in that moment was that I felt like such a waste of space; that all I did was hurt the people I cared about, that I didn’t matter, that everyone would be better off without me.

I’d somehow become mildly addicted to painkillers over the year, without really realising, and in my darkest moment, I took a huge overdose. 51 painkillers to be exact. (Who knows why I had that many anyway). All I could think was I didn’t want to be alive any more. I didn’t want to wake up the next morning. I didn’t want to ever have to wake up again.

I spent the next day vomiting my guts up as my body desperately tried to get rid of the damage I’d already done to myself.

It was around 4pm when I had finally not vomited for about an hour and decided that maybe I should go take myself to hospital and see someone.

I will never be more grateful for something I’ve done for myself than this in my entire life.

When I got to A&E and awkwardly explained I’d had an overdose and needed to speak to someone, I got seen pretty quickly. Turns out 51 tablets that all contained paracetemol and half of them also with codeine, I was a pretty high priority case. 

I spent the next five days hooked up to an IV having medication to stop my liver from failing, and blood taken every hour. I vomited for six hours straight that first night. But I knew that deep down, no matter how awful I felt, I’d made the right decision to go there.

Nothing will ever be as hard as finding the strength to call my parents in the middle of the night to tell them what I’d done and where I was. Nothing will ever prepare you for how broken that makes you feel. Or when your mum arrives the next day, hotel and travel booked as soon as she could and time taken off work and tears streaming down her face. I will never forget the look on her face when she saw me in that hospital bed that day.

The nurses told me if I’d come to the hospital a few hours later that my liver wouldn’t have made it. I would’ve succeeded. My whole body would’ve shut down soon after. I would’ve died.

I had to find the strength to talk to crisis team therapists and tell my flatmates what I’d done and why I wouldn’t be around for a few days, and then trying to tell university why I needed mitigating circumstances to take an exam at a later date because sorry but I’m in a hospital bed in pyjamas that smell like vomit that I haven’t changed out of in a week. 

I’ve gone on a really long-winded way of telling this story, but the point is: today and tomorrow mark the four year anniversary of this happening. It’s painful to think that I still feel like this sometimes, but it’s also encouraging to know I haven’t stooped that low since. I’ve been close, many times. But I haven’t fallen back down that road again. 

I may not feel stronger, but I know I am. I’ve found the strength to talk about my mental health, instead of covering it up. I barely drink any more, and I will only take painkillers if I’m suffering from a migraine. I haven’t cut myself in two years.

I’m proud of how far I’ve come but also of how far I am also willing to let myself go. I know I will fight this, even if I spend the rest of my life doing so.

thank you for reading if you read this whole way and please, someone be crying too because I sure as hell am