#Erica Klein

[eucanthos]

Klein Collective

Choreography: Erica Klein

Music: Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion by Oliver Tank

Klein Collective, Dance for Life Festival, July 2024

Dancers:

Davyd Treasure, Braylon Browner, Trey Barrett, Dawson Jackson, Easton Mags, Hylee Whitley, Miabella Gonzalez, Coco Joelle, Jamie Meyer, Mikaela Meyer, Cienna Hintz, Sydney Latimer, Kaya McAfee, Megan Thomas, Erica Klein

[zindoesart]

the beginnings of the yuri between erica (left) and emily (forehead) are insane, and iris (right) knows it.

[inherentlyindecent]

She watched as he stepped closer, heart fluttering oddly in her chest and feeling a heat just underneath her skin. It was all a new experience for her, sensations that she hadn't ever experienced and couldn't begin to explain. She blinked slowly and looked up at the larger man. He was tall. And handsome. So very handsome. It took a second for the words to filter through her brain and manage a proper response. Want and need. The words shouldn't have been as tempting as they were. Tempting for what? She didn't know, but she felt the pull to listen to the man and give in to what it was he was saying. Confusion knitted her brow, a little pout on her lips as she tried to figure out what he was saying and why it had created this feeling deep within. Erica had always been a good girl. Listened to the rules, acted accordingly, and had never been truly tempted. So, she was unable to recognize it when it came rushing over her like it was now. "Like what?" An innocent enough question and meant. Erica was oblivious to the fact that it gave an opening for the man to show rather than tell.

"It's nothin', sweetheart." He enjoyed the naivety, the innocence. But he had a feeling that this girl didn't know just how much she was capable of. How much she was truly missing out on. And the idea of showing her the things she'd been deprived of was too tantalizing to let pass him by. "Well either way, I can't wait to hear ya. Somethin' tells me I'll be a fan." Shane moved closer to her, his tools forgotten. His gaze remained focused on her. He was studying her, memorizing every detail, and it was difficult to look away. "You sure? Maybe there's somethin' that you can't see. But you can still feel it, ya know. Somethin' deep down inside of you. A want. A need." Shane licked his lips. The words left him feeling heated and suddenly, the room was too warm. "You're too young to think that you have all you'll ever want. There's plenty you can be learnin' and seein'." He smirked, his mind wandering. "And feelin'. But we'll save that conversation for another day."

[jgthirlwell]

06.30.24 20th annual performance in Terry Riley's In C, performed by NYC In C.

Brian Chase - drums, Billy Martin - drums, Aba Diopsabar -percussion, Zach Layton - 17-string bass (electric), Luke Stewart - upright bass, Henry Fraser -electric bass, Ava Mendoza - guitar, Elliott Sharp - guitar, David Grubbs - guitar, Bobby Previte -percussion, Nava Dunkelman - vibraphone, Shayna Dunkelman - vibraphone, Levy Lorenzo -marimba, Matt Evans - marimba, Ursula Oppens - Steinway piano L, Adam Tendler - Steinway piano R, Qasim Naqvi - synth, Ben Vida - synth, Miya Masaoka - koto, Zeena Parkins - harp. Neel Murgai- sitar, Erica Dicker - violin. gabby fluke mogul - violin, Laura Ortman - violin, Joanna Mattrey - viola, Jessica Pavone - viola. Cleek Schrey - viola. Alex Waterman - cello. Andrew Yee - cello. Lester St. Louis - cello. Kaoru Watanabe - shinobue flute, Laura Cocks - flute, Katie Porter - clarinet, Peter Hess - bass clarinet Matana Roberts - soprano saxophone, Lea Bertucci - alto saxophone, James Fei - alto saxophone, Zoh Ambatenor - saxophone, Peter Gordon - bari saxophone, Katherine Young - bassoon, Kyra Sims - french horn, Nate Wooley - trumpet, Ben Neill - trumpet, Chris Williams - trumpet, Peter Zummo - trombone, Chris McIntyre - trombone, Marcus Rojas- tuba, Joan La Barbara - voice. Gelsey Bell - voice, Nick Hallett - voice, Tariq El Sabir - voice, Raquel Acevdeo Klein - voice, Isabel Crespo Pardo - voice, Angelica Negron -accordion

[borisbundleoflightlamp]

First four books for summer of only reading women are (in order I plan to read them)

- Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

- Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein

- The Vegetarian by Han Kang

- Wolfish by Erica Berry

Pls leave suggestions for more books By Women…….

[marcmarcmomarc]

RWBY Spanish dub

Team RWBY

Ruby Rose: Valentina Souza

Weiss Schnee: Romina Marroquín Payró

Blake Belladonna: Alondra Hidalgo

Yang Xiao Long: Mireya Mendoza

Team JNPR

Jaune Arc: Óscar Flores

Nora Valkyrie: Analiz Sánchez, Regina Carrillo (young)

Pyrrha Nikos: Berenice Vega

Lie Ren: Alan Fernando Velázquez, Zoe Mora (young)

Team STRQ

Summer Rose: Ale Pilar

Taiyang Xiao Long: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Raven Branwen: Fernanda Robles

Qrow Branwen: Germán Fabregat

Beacon Academy

Professor Ozpin: Mario Arvizu

Glynda Goodwitch: Maru Guzmán

Peter Port: Francisco Colmenero

Bartholomew Oobleck: Beto Castillo

Salem’s Inner Circle

Salem: Irasema Terrazas

Cinder Fall: Dulce Guerrero

Roman Torchwick: Sergio Gutiérrez Coto

Emerald Sustrai: Alicia Vélez

Mercury Black: Erick Salinas

Neopolitan: Agustina Cirulnik

Dr. Arthur Watts: Armando Réndiz

Tyrian Callows: Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Hazel Rainart: Octavio Rojas

The Hound: Mario Castañeda

Leonardo Lionheart: Humberto Solórzano

Vernal: Rebeca Patiño

Tock: Simone Brook

Atlas Military

James Ironwood: Dafnis Fernández

Winter Schnee: Xóchitl Ugarte

Penny Polendina: Cristina Hernández

Caroline Cordovin: Magda Giner

Ruby’s Group

Oscar Pine: Luis Leonardo Suárez

Maria Calavera: Ángela Villanueva

Dr. Pietro Polendina: Gerardo Reyero

Team SSSNN

Sun Wukong: Alexis Ortega

Scarlet David: Alberto Bernal

Sage Ayana: Abraham Vega

Neptune Vasilias: Enzo Fortuny

Nolan Porfirio: Pepe Vilchis

Team CFVY

Coco Adel: Liliana Barba

Fox Alistair: Geezuz González

Velvet Scarlatina: Carla Castañeda

Yatsuhashi Daichi: Óscar Garibay

Ace-Ops

Clover Ebi: Raúl Anaya

Vine Zeki: Eduardo Giaccardi

Elm Ederne: Gabriela Guzmán

Harriet Bree: Karla Falcón

Marrow Amin: Ricardo Tejedo

Happy Huntresses

Robyn Hill: Erica Edwards

May Marigold: Ruth Toscano

Joanna Greenleaf: Yvette García

Fiona Thyme: Lupita Leal

The White Fang

Ghira Belladonna: Emilio Guerrero

Kali Belladonna: Rebeca Manríquez

Adam Taurus: Alejandro Orozco

Corsac Albain: Emmanuel Bernal

Fennec Albain: Eduardo Garza

Ilia Amitola: Monserrat Mendoza

Schnee Manor

Jacques Schnee: Arturo Mercado

Whitley Schnee: Moisés Iván Mora

Willow Schnee: Yolanda Vidal

Klein Sieben: Jesse Conde

Ancient Times

Ozma: Roberto Salguero/Ricardo Bautista

God of Light: José Luis Orozco

God of Darkness: Salvador Reyes

Jinn: Danann Huicochea

Ambrosius: Rubén Cerda

Xiong Family

Hei “Junior” Xiong: Eduardo Fonseca

Lil’ Miss Malachite: Leyla Rangel

Miltia and Melanie Malachite: Lourdes Arruti

Team CRDL

Cardin Winchester: Raúl Anaya

Russel Thrush: Yamil Atala

Team FNKI

Flynt Coal: José Ángel Torres

Neon Katt: Meli G

Arc Family

Saphron Cotta-Arc: Erika Ugalde

Terra Cotta-Arc: Carla Medina

The Ever After

Little/Somewhat: Angélica Villa

Curious Cat: Ángel Balam

Blacksmith: Carmen Sarahí

Jabberwalker: Víctor Hugo Aguilar

Jinxy: Jaime López

Red Prince: Pascual Meza

Herbalist: César Bono

Alyx: Julia Bilous

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

Dr. Merlot: Sebastián Llapur

RWBY: Arrowfell

Amoncio Glass: Alfonso Grau

Hanlon Fifestone: Óscar Gómez

Bram Thornmane: Trujo

Olive Harper: Leslie Gil

Bianca Prisma: Cecilia Gómez

Roane Ashwood: Alicia Barragán

Ivy Thickety: Edurne Keel

Ruda Tilleroot: Jessica Ángeles

Minor characters introduced in Volume 1

Shopkeep: Eduardo Tejedo

Xiong Goons: Ricardo Mendoza “El Coyote, Carlo Vázquez

Cyril Ian: Víctor Ugarte

Lisa Lavender: Alondra Hidalgo

Police Officers: Daniel Lacy, Patricio Lago

Sailors: Marc Winslow, Noé Velázquez

White Fang Goon: David Bueno

Penny’s Driver: José Luis Miranda

Minor characters introduced in Volume 2

Tukson: Octavio Rojas

White Fang Lieutenant: Roberto Gutiérrez

“Deery”: Alicia Barragán

Perry: Arturo Castañeda

Councilman: Kevin Adrián

Minor characters introduced in Volume 3

Bolin Hori: José Antonio Macías

Nadir Shiko: Edson Matus

Brawnz Ni: Abraham Vega

Bartender: Carlos del Campo

Nebula Violette: Karla Falcón

Dew Gayl: Jessica Ángeles

Ciel Soleil: Camila Díaz Fraga

Amber: Ximena de Anda

Atlas Ship Captain: Víctor Hugo Aguilar

Minor characters introduced in Volume 4

Mayor: Alfredo Gabriel Basurto

Blacksmith: Jesús Ochoa

Dying Huntsman: Nando Estevané

Captain: Víctor Trujillo

News Reporters: Eduardo Fonseca, Sonia Casillas, César Costa

First Mate: Paulina García Casillas

Oscar’s Aunt: Kerygma Flores

Higanbana Waitress: Claudia Garzón

Businessman: José Luis Orozco

Businesswoman: Karina Altamirano

Henry Marigold: Emilio Treviño

Angry Businessman: Héctor Estrada

Trophy Wife: Ximena de Anda

Husband: Arturo Cataño

An Ren: Kerygma Flores

Kuroyuri Blacksmith: Alan Bravo

Boys: Luistio Comunica, Regina Blandón, Ana Layevska

Li Ren: Idzi Dutkiewicz

Mistral Pilot: Manuel Campuzano

Atlas Pilot: Hernán Bravo

Minor characters introduced in Volume 5

Mistral Pilot: Irene Jiménez

Menagerie Guards: Tatul Bernodat, Mark Pokora, Andrea Coto

Bartender: Víctor Covarrubias

Shay D. Mann: Esteban Desco

Sienna Khan: Lileana Chacón

Saber Rodentia: Ricardo Brust

Mata’s Mother: Gloria Obregón

Mata: Luis Fernando Orozco

Yuma: Bruno Coronel

Ramen Shop Owner: Ángel Mujica

Small Girl: Ivanna Corona

Trifa: Miriam Aceves

Mistral Police Captain: Rommy Mendoza

Minor characters introduced in Volume 6

Dee: Dan Osorio

Dudley: Alejandro Orozco

Mistral Woman: María Álcazar

Nubuck Guards: Raúl Solo

Red-Haired Woman: Rossy Aguirre

Terminal Soldier: Miguel Ángel Leal

Minor characters introduced in Volume 7

Drunk Mann: Raúl Aldana

Drinking Buddy: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez

Forest: Moisés Palacios

Fria: Isabel Martiñón

Councilman Sleet: Daniel del Roble

Councilwoman Camilla: Graciela Gámez

Minor characters introduced in Volume 8

Atlas Commander: Itatí Cantoral

Shovel Mom: Denisse Aragón

Disgruntled Grandmother: Diana Santos

Fiona’s Uncle: Gabriel Pingarrón

Crimson: José Luis Rivera

Madame: Rona Fletcher

Step-Sisters: Annie Rojas

Rhodes: Idzi Dutkiewicz

CCT Voice: Sonia Casillas

Minor characters introduced in Volume 9

Mouse Leader: Betzabé Jara

Townsperson: Kate del Castillo

Toy Soldiers: Ricardo Mendoza “El Coyote”, José Arenas, Ramón Bazet, Diego Becerril, Óscar Gómez

White Pawns: Cecilia Gómez, David Bueno, Enrique Cervantes, Ramón Bazet

Toy Guard: Roberto Carrillo

Hawker: Erick Selim

Teapot Lady: Maythe Guedes

Paper Pleasers: Iván Bastidas, Luis Carreño, Irwin Daayán, Gaby Cárdenas, Denisse Aragón

[maximiliano-aedo]

What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

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My Ideal Eurovision 2024

Well, we've had all of the competing songs for a while now. We've ranked them, we've pit them against the 2023 songs, we've even commiserated over the Semi-Final Running Orders.

But...there is one question that I've noticed is in most Eurovision fan's head, myself included: What if MY National Final Winners Won? And that's what I'm here to share. Below, as you can see from the title, is the Eurovision 2024 had all my National Final winners were selected.

DISCLAIMER: This is not a ranking. I'll have conclusions toward the end of the post. Countries are listed in alphabetical order. I won't change internal selections because that takes up way too much time that I really don't have. And, since this is FOR FUN, if a country has 2 songs that I liked equally, I include both. LET'S GO!

Albania: "Jetën N'skaj" by Erina & The Elementals (unknown placement) Armenia: "Jako" by Ladavina (Internally Selected) Australia: "One Milkali (One Blood)" by Electric Fields (Internally Selected) Austria: "We Will Rave" by Kaleen (Internally Selected) Belgium: "Before The Party's Over" by Mustii (Internally Selected) Croatia: "Rim Tim Tagi Dim' by Baby Lasagna (1st in NF)/"Voljena ženo" by Damir Kedžo (4th in NF) Cyprus: "Liar" by Silia Kapsis (Internally Selected) Czechia: "Red Flag Parade" by MYDY (3rd in NF) Denmark: "Sand" by Saba (1st in NF) Estonia: "My Friend" by Ollie (2nd in NF) Finland: "Dancing With Demons" by Cyan Kicks (4th in NF) France: "Mon Amour" by Slimane (Internally Selected) Georgia: "Firefighter" by Nusta (Internally Selected) Germany: "Naiv" by Marie Reim (6th in NF) Greece: "Zari" by Marina Satti (Internally Selected) Iceland: "Scared Of Heights" by Hera Björk (1st in NF)/"Wild West" by Bashar Murad (2nd in NF) Ireland: "Love Me Like I Do" by Erica-Cody (4th in NF) Italy: "Tu No" by Irama (5th in NF) Latvia: "Heaven's Raining Down On Me" by Patrīcija Spale (NQ in NF Semi) Lithuania: "Luktelk" by Silvester Belt (1st in NF) Luxembourg: "Drowning In The Rain" by Krick (2nd in NF) Malta: "Wild Card" by Gail (11th in NF) Moldova: "In The Middle" by Natalia Barbu (1st in NF) Netherlands: "Europapa" by Joost Klein (Internally Selected) Norway: "Heart On Fire" by Myra (NQ in NF Semi) Poland: "The Tower" by Luna (Internally Selected*) *I know some songs were released, but it was an internal selection* Portugal: "You Can't Hide" by Filipa (10th in NF Semi, NQ) San Marino: "11:11" by Megara (1st in NF*) *I didn't rank the NF songs since UVPSM happened in a literal blink* Serbia: "Ramonda" by Teya Dora (1st in NF)/"Duga je noć" by Filip Baloš (10th in NF Semi, NQ) Slovenia: "Veronika" by Raiven (Internally Selected) Spain: "Sé quién soy" by Angy Fernández (3rd in NF)/"Here To Stay" by Sofia Coll (7th in NF) Sweden: "Awful Liar" by Lisa Ajax (11th in NF) Switzerland: "The Code" by Nemo (Internally Selected) Ukraine: "Teresa & Maria" by alyona alyona/Jerry Heil (1st in NF)/"Dreamer" by Mélovin (3rd in NF) United Kingdom: "Dizzy" by Olly Alexander (Internally Selected)

Conclusions: Even with my NF winners, it still would have been a stacked year (bad bias joke, you can laugh now). But being honest, I think out of all of these, Belgium still would have been my winner. Serbia still would have scored well. The only threat I see to Belgium would be if Luxembourg had chosen Krick.

[filmabend]

Nichts als die Wahrheit – Film (2008)

Originaltitel: Nothing but the Truth

Nichts als die Wahrheit ist ein Kriminalfilm, ein Drama und ein Thriller

Inspiriert durch wahre Begebenheiten

In Nichts als die Wahrheit verrät eine Reporterin die Identität einer CIA-Agentin und wird darauf hin verhaftet, weil sie ihre Quelle nicht preisgeben will.

Inhalt von Nichts als die Wahrheit

Der Film beginnt mit einem versuchten Attentat auf den Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten. Als Reaktion darauf wird Venezuela angegriffen, wo die US-amerikanische Regierung die Hintermänner der Tat vermutet.

Der Sohn der Journalistin Rachel Armstrong besucht dieselbe Schule wie die kleine Tochter von Erica Van Doren. Armstrong, die für die Zeitung Capitol Sun-Times arbeitet, erfährt von einem Informanten, dass Van Doren eine CIA-Agentin ist.

Sie veröffentlicht einen Artikel, der brisante Informationen über die Hintergründe des Anschlags publik macht...

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Billie Eilish - Bellyache (Marian Hill Remix) - Erica Klein & Aidan Carb...

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Jeffrey Banks (November 3, 1955) is a fashion designer and author who has been described as a major African American fashion maker.

He worked as a design assistant to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. He has claimed credit for Klein’s logo garments, stating that he had the logo from a press folder silkscreened onto the sleeve of a brown T-shirt as a present for Klein. The gift was assumed by Barry K. Schwartz to be part of the upcoming line, and similar shirts formed the uniform for the front-of-house staff at Klein’s next catwalk show, leading to the buyers asking to purchase them.

He launched his name label in New York City in 1977, according to his official website, although some sources state 1978. By 1996, suits, shirts, eyewear, and accessories from Jeffrey Banks Ltd. and Jeffrey Banks International were being sold worldwide with sales of about $20 million.

As an author, he has co-authored three fashion books with Doria de la Chapelle for Rizzoli, including a 2007 book on tartan, and a 2011 book on the preppy style. The second book led to Banks and de la Chapelle collaborating with Erica Lennard on Perry Ellis: an American original, the first in-depth monograph on his former friend and colleague, the designer Perry Ellis, published in 2013. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Something is Killing the Children

Precies op tijd voor Halloween komt Dark Dragon Books met een knappe vertaling van 'Something is Killing the Children', de relatief recente horror hitreeks van James Tynion IV bij Boom! Studios. De reeks scoorde de afgelopen jaren de ene Eisner Award na de andere. Is al die lof terecht? 👉

Something is Killing the Children opent met een mysterieuze en duistere energie. Het verhaal volgt Erica Slaughter, een jonge vrouw met een missie: kinderen beschermen tegen monsters die zich schuilhouden in schaduwen. De titel liegt niet – in het kleine stadje Archer’s Peak verdwijnen kinderen of worden ze dood teruggevonden, vermoord door iets dat volwassenen niet kunnen zien. Erica is een buitenstaander, geen typische held, maar een rauwe en dappere jager met een intens mysterieus verleden.

Rauw en onvoorspelbaar

De eerste verhaallijn legt direct de toon: rauw, onvoorspelbaar en gevuld met spanning. De schrijfstijl van Tynion is scherp en to-the-point, net zoals het karakter van Erica. Dell'Edera's illustraties voegen perfect toe aan de sfeer; de ruwe, schetsmatige stijl maakt de horror nog tastbaarder. Zijn tekeningen van de monsters zijn uniek en verontrustend, een must voor elke horror-liefhebber. De kleuren van Miquel Muerto versterken dit met schaduwen en contrasten die je constant op het puntje van je stoel houden.

Onderliggende mythologie

Het verhaal introduceert niet alleen monsters, maar werpt ook vragen op over de organisatie waarvoor Erica werkt. Ze is niet zomaar een jager, maar lid van de mysterieuze House of Slaughter, wat extra diepgang en een gevoel van onderliggende mythologie aan het verhaal toevoegt. Deze organisatie lijkt regels te hebben die de zaak nog complexer maken, en Erica's ongehoorzame houding zorgt voor spanningen die je nieuwsgierig maken naar de volgende delen. (en goed nieuws, die staan ook echt op de planning voor vertaling bij Dark Dragon Books)

Verdict

De eerste verhaallijn van Something is Killing the Children is intens en perfect voor wie houdt van horror gecombineerd met een intrigerend mysterie. Geen wonder dat deze comic al snel de aandacht trok van Netflix voor een verfilming. Alle lof ook voor Dark Dragon Books om de eerste 2 delen als prachtige hardcovers uit te brengen. Dat geeft toch altijd iets extra. Lees je liever een 'gewoon' softcover album? Die versie verschijnt ook nog in januari.

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Reading this Week 2023 #46

Finished:

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Started and Finished:

excerpts of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated and edited by Wayne A Rebhorn (I think technically read last week I just forgot to record it)

Preface Day 1: Introduction Day 1: Story 1

"Sex After the Black Normal" by Erica R. Edwards

"Undrowned: Black feminist lessons from marine mammals: Why we need to learn to listen, breathe, and remember, across species, across extinctions and across harm" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

sections of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media

Introduction: Algorithmic Analysis Chapter 4: The Experience of Shifting

3 fic for the marathon

"Relaxing the Avant-Garde: Tan Lin and the Language-Oriented Tradition" by Mathies G. Aarhus

"English Before Engrish: Asian American Poetry's Unruly Tongue" by Tara Finkle

"RealFeel: Banality, Fatality, and Meaning in Kenneth Goldsmith's The Weather" by Jeffery T. Nealon

"Guillaume de Mauchaut and the Consolation of Poetry" by Sylavia Huot

"Love as a Source of Illness in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden -- Exemples from the Life Description of Pehr Stenberg" by Ina Lindblom

"'Your Love is Like Bad Medicine': The Medical Tradition of Lovesickness in the Legends of Hippocrates and Erasistratus of Ceos" by L.F.C. Ribeiro

"Christian Lovesickness: Richard of St. Victor's The Four Degrees of Violent Love" by Travis Stevens

"Metaphor as Experimental Medicine" from Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry by Julie Singer

"Sans Merci: Affect, Resistance, and Sociality in Courtly Lyric" by Sara V. Torres

sections of Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love by Douglas Kelly

sections of The Arrow of Love: Optics, Gender, and Subjectivity in Medieval Love Poetry by Dana E. Stewart

"'Pite Renneth Soone in Gentil Herte': Ugly Feelings and Gendered Conduct in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women" by Glenn Burger

"Love as Illness: Poets and Philosophers on Romantic Love" by Ruth Rothaus Caston

"Four Medico-Philosophical Traditions of the Origins of Lovesickness" from Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature by Lesel Dawson

"Lovers: The Rise and Apparent Fall of Lovesickness" from Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History by Jacalyn Duffin

sections of Eros & Anteros: The Medical Traditions of Love in the Renaissance edited by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella

"Ethical Problems of the Lie that Heals in Renaissance Literature” by Winfried Schleiner "Eros and Misogyny from Giovan Battista Marino to Ferrante Pallavicino" by Francesco Guardiani

sections of Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries by Mary Frances Wack

Ongoing:

Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo

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I'm looking at building yet another module — this one based on the VCA Moritz Klein and Erica Synths put out as an educational kit — so I just spent a couple of hours doing one of the most tedious parts of this whole hobby, matching resistors.

To explain, resistors (and some other parts) come in varying grades of tolerance — how close they're guaranteed to be to the value printed on them. Back in the '50s and '60s, what hobbyists could get were usually 10% tolerance, or within ±10% of the stated value; if you had a 1000 ohm resistor at that tolerance, it could actually be anywhere from 900 to 1100 ohms. As processes improved, you could more easily get 5% parts, then 1% parts, at cheap prices and easy availability.

(You'd always been able to pay more for higher precision, and that's partially due to fancier processes and partially due to binning. See, the factory would make up a batch, and then test them. The ones that were within 1%, they'd put in the 1% bin, and the ones that were within 5%, they'd put in that bin. When the processes were sloppier, you'd have a lot more of the parts fall into the looser tolerances, so you'd sell the rarer ones at a premium.)

At any rate, certain circuits need two or more resistors to be as close to the exact same resistance as possible. As a random example, think of something that's supposed to produce stereo sound, and so needs each ear's channel of sound to go through the same resistance, or you'll hear an obvious difference in volume between the two sides, like everything is suddenly off to the left somewhere. This particular circuit uses a similar mechanism in a differential amplifier — trying to make "louder" the difference between two signals — and therefore if the signals aren't treated the same beforehand, you'll get skewed results.

So I was going through a large subset of my 10kΩ, 20kΩ, and 100kΩ resistors — I need a pair of each of those for each copy of the circuit — to find resistors that are close enough together that my instruments can't tell the difference. They're all 1% parts, and at 10k I only have two decimal places to check, but it still took a long time to go enough of each value to find a few pairs of matching resistors.

When Erica Synths packaged this as a kit, they decided to forego this process and instead spring for 0.1% tolerance on those particular parts. If I've got the math right, with my ohmmeter's precision, my hand-matched parts are within 0.05% of each other. And if you're not ordering them in batches of 20,000 at a time, high precision resistors get really pricey. So time well spent, I guess?

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I highly recommend the mki x es.EDU series of kits from Erica Synths.

There are a few rough edges: the official case has holes that are a very tight fit for standard M3 screws; the envelope generators swing through a higher CV range than "standard" eurorack EGs (and the max voltage in looping mode is different to single trigger mode)*; the sample & hold module is picky about external clocks and can take two or three clock periods to converge to the input voltage if the clock peaks aren't high enough and/or the clock pulses aren't high enough; using modern rosin-core lead-free solder I've had much cleaner builds with the iron at 400°C rather than the lower temperature suggested in the manuals.

But the manuals are absolutely awesome, and walk you through exactly how all the building blocks of each design function. Even if you do screw up, the debugging and fixing process is just all the more reason to dig deeper into the designs, and git gud at soldering. By the end you'll have a monosynth with filter, noise generator, wave folder, five step sequencer with reset, two loopable EGs, two VCAs, a mixer, sample & hold with slew limiter, and maybe other things I'm forgetting.

Oh, and you can now buy the whole thing, both preassembled (but that rather defeats the point!) or as a complete bundle of all kits in the series.

* That can be fixed by adding a bunch of extra resistors - my first ever synth mod, and something I would never have known how to to beforehand. https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3810745#p3810745

I've ordered a soldering iron.

I'm pretty excited to start learning how to solder and learn about electronics. Im anxious about my modular synth end goal and im Definitely not taking steps to becoming a protogen, I just wanna learn how to solder stuff. Normal stuff. Regular human stuff like synthesizers no need to read into this at all