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Animation Night 85: Mocap

Hello friends! If you are of the inclination to celebrate some sort of “WINTER HOLIDAY” i do hope you are having a pleasant time. And conversely you are currently stuck visiting a family you’d rather not see I hope you get to leave soon.

Tonight is a night ending in 5, which by recent tradition means I should gather some films unified by technique. In fact, this instance is something of a coming together of the last two, rotoscopy and early 3DCG... so, grab your tasty plasmas and let’s look in to the subject of performance capture!

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(Pedants will insist on a difference between ‘motion capture’ (captures only broad body movements) and ‘performance capture’ (also captures facial expressions) but honestly who cares. i’m going to be using the terms interchangeably.)

Nowadays, the line between a 3DCG animated film and a high budget ‘live action’ film is more of a continuum. On one end you have a movie like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, (not-Toku tuesday 21) which features live actors in mostly real sets with some additional CGI work to fill in missing parts of the sets in some shots. In the middle you might have something like Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, featuring mostly real actors in practical sets but with extensive matte painting composites and full-CG shots, and certain characters instead presented through mocap. At the more extreme end, you would have something like the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer or the Star Wars prequels which composite their actors into 3D renders in almost every shot.

And then, we have movies presented entirely through motion/performance capture, which seems to be the line where it becomes considered ‘animated film’.

So let’s talk about mocap! And heck, check out this gif, I don’t know the context but it’s funny how the computer insists on aligning the feet with the floor:

So let’s briefly describe the technique. 3D computer animation almost always uses a ‘rig’ to control the animated character: a hierarchical structure of ‘bones’ which are, internally, each a transformation matrix in 3D space. So for example the finger bone will have some translation, rotation and scale, and it may depend on the hand bone, which depends on the forearm bone, which depends on the upper arm bone, which depends on the shoulder bone, which depends on the upper spine bone, which depends on the ‘root’ bone of the rig.

To determine the full transformation of the finger bone, you compose all of these transformations: root, spine, shoulder, upper arm, forearm, hand and finger in order. This gives you a position and orientation in 3D space.

When we animate a 3D character, we move and rotate the bones in 3D space. Rigs can be very complex, with switching between forward and ‘inverse kinematics’ systems (you can place a hand and the other arm bones will be placed in the appropriate positions), facial expression blendshapes, and all sorts of derived components such as simulated muscles which stretch appropriately.

This gif I pulled out of the gif searcher demonstrates the principles. The upper torso bone is rotated, and all the arm bones rotate with it.

The model is ‘skinned’ by assigning each vertex a certain weight for every bone, and then using these weights we can displace a vertex from its original position to a new one that averages the transformations of various bones. Creating ‘good deformation’ is its own complicated subject: you want the model’s volume to stay consistent, and you don’t want noticeable stretching, or weird bumps and self-intersections created by bad topology. (The above gif shows a number of deformation problems which cause the model to fail to match the rig.) For more subtle rigs, tools exist to simulate muscles, support softbody simulation for fat deposits, and simulate cloth draping over the model.

The kind of animation you can do with a 3D model is heavily limited by the quality of the rig. Nowadays, there are many very sophisticated tools to automate the process of rigging, and well-designed rigs available for download, but this body of knowledge is something we’ve gradually built over the last few decades.

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So when did mocap begin? We might be inclined to imagine it would be around the start of the 2000s, as CG character animation started to become a presence in movies; it would be easy to speculate (and was my initial supposition) that artists started to recognise that they could use video of real actors to drive these rigs instead of keyframe animation. But motion capture is actually considerably older than this...

The earliest instance seems to lie with Lee Harrison III of the Computer Image Corporation in Denver. He’s best known for the Scanimate system used for analogue video motion graphics in the 60s and 70s (see documentary here). But around the same time, Harrison created a system called ANIMAC, which created computer animations using a physical rig.

There is unfortunately very limited information available on the internet that I’ve been able to find, but there is an article on it here. Rather than the video tracking approach used today, ANIMAC used a special harness of potentiometers which measured the angles of various joints; these angles could be used to drive a model - at first, just a stick figure. The animation system used a similar bone rig to what we discussed above, but more often with rigid models than soft, interpolated deformation.

And using it was incredibly #aesthetic:

The motion capture component of ANIMAC/Scanimate was only rarely used; the novelty was not enough to get over the lack of immediately appealing designs. One example that used it was the comedy variety show Turn-On (1969) discussed in this VICE article which was infamously cancelled almost immediately. Before too long the ANIMAC was destroyed to make space, and Scanimate was used largely for motion graphics.

It would take until 2000 for a full mocap movie in the form of Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists, with the mocap footage shot in Los Angeles (ft. some surprisingly high profile actors) then processed into animation at the Indian studio Pentamedia Graphics. You can watch Sinbad in full on Youtube, in a rather bizarre upload where the left channel is in English and the right channel is in Hindi, or a full Hindi version below. It had some surprisingly big names on the English cast, but made almost nothing, perhaps because the visual style is... offputting. Have a click through...

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It looks like a videogame cutscene... and what of games, anyway? Apparently the first game to make extensive use of true motion capture (as opposed to video sprites as in the 2D Prince of Persia games) was Virtua Fighter 2 (1994), a 3D fighting game, although the studio previously tested the technology for the pit crew in Virtua Racer. You can see the evolution of their techniques in this video (click through to the description for details):

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It seems to have spread first in the Japanese industry, and Square first picked up the tech for Final Fantasy VIII (1999), using it to drive pre-rendered CGI cutscenes. We’ll come back to them very shortly.

And now... we hit the Remington Scott Productions era.

The early 2000s were apparently deemed the time for mocap to debut. The year before, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace had demonstrated to the world that it was possible to put a minstrel character in a modern movie if you made him a mocap alien. This character, Jar-Jar Binks, was very poorly received, but the studios did not give up; the next major attempt was Andy Serkis’s performance as a tortured, dissociative Gollum in Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), which gathered extensive praise. The latter worked with a guy called Remington Scott, who had made his name on a certain Square project...

Over in Hawaii, Square had founded an animation studio called Square Pictures with the hope of creating photorealistic, mocap-driven CG animation. Their first project was a massively expensive animated film called Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Although directed by series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, the film had very little to do with the plot of any Final Fantasy game, or any of the recurring elements of the series; filmed in English, it took more of its cues from a general sci-fi milieu which we might see reflected in films like Sky Blue/Wonderful Days (Animation Night 20). The project, begun in 2008, demanded lot of time from animators to clean up the mocap footage and a hefty custom render farm; Producer Chris Lee argued the expense as justified because this was a grand, pioneering passion project similar to Disney’s Snow White (Animation Night 84).

The mocap data acquisition was led by that guy we just mentioned Remington Scott, who still proudly reports on the quality of mocap data he was able to acquire. Scott appears to have gotten his start in the late 80s, inserting FMV characters into boxing games. then further in games in the 90s at Acclaim Entertainment’s dedicated motion capture studio. By the time of Spirits Within, he was running the whole project.

Unfortunately, Spirits Within did not land to nearly such success as Snow White. The promise of being “the first to simulate human emotions and movements through computer graphics” was generally speaking considered a failure; reception focused on the idea of the ‘uncanny valley’, and critics judged the plot to be dry and cliched. With such a high-profile failure on their hands, Square Pictures did not have long left to live; they did, however, last long enough to create a segment on the Animatrix (Animation Night 6), titled Final Flight of the Osiris, notably using the tech to blend the performances of three different actresses in one 3D character to take advantage of their respective strengths (acting, gymnastics, etc.). Scott left to work on Lord of the Rings and became a recurring figure in the VFX industry.

Despite this reception of their magnum opus, the animators and technologists were not deterred, and kept taking more money as they attempted to cross this so-called ‘uncanny valley’. More computing power was directed at ever more detailed models of human biology and the interaction of skin with light scattering, and by this point it is pretty much expected that a sufficiently high-budget scifi movie will feature mocap characters. Meanwhile, as computer games started to converge on a realtime version of the Hollywood realist paradigm, people started to get more comfortable looking at hyperreal CGI faces, and the ‘valley’ became shallower.

If you read more recent copy on Scott’s site, it starts to sound like something from a dystopian novel. For example, describing his work for Chinese film L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (2016) (which admittedly looks fascinating, and I hope I can find a source at some point), Scott declares:

GEMINI TECHNOLOGY, developed for production in high resolution IMAX 3D feature films, re-creates the exact likeness of the actor. Skin is de-aged and beautified, essentially turning back the clock to a more youthful age, yet retaining the essential details.

He also reports on animating the dead, e.g. recreating David Bowie on stage. Or maybe you want the closest thing yet to a nationalist VR snuff film, with ‘Seal Team Six Virtual Reality’? No doubt his next act will be the Torment Nexus VR (with blockchain technology!)

Not all motion capture goes for all out hyperrealism, though. Robert Zemeckis, known for Back to the Future and in animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Animation Night 40), got the mocap bug hard in the 2000s, starting with The Polar Express (2004). In this case the mocap was motivated by affordably recreating the visual style of the children’s book he was adapting, but the experience motivated him to make a whole string of other mocap movies: Monster House (2006), Beowulf (2007), A Christmas Carol (2009), and Welcome to Marwen (2018).

By this point we’re a few years on from LotR and Final Fantasy, and the tech is a little more developed. It was nevertheless still an experiment. At one point Zemeckis wanted lead actor Tom Hanks to play every character in the film, but this was too exhausting for Hanks, and others were brought on. Most of the animation seems to have been done at Zemeckis’s studio ImageMovers, involving Doug Chiang who later became head of LucasFilm as a ‘production designer’.

The film is framed around a theme adult nostalgia for being a child who could easily and uncritically accept narratives like ‘Santa Claus’ (c.f. America Observations 3 where I found myself compelled to note the origins of christmas symbols). It mixes the ‘Santa Claus’ story with a notion of the supposed infrastructure behind it; a child accepts an invitation to board a special train to Santa’s workshop in the north pole, goes through a variety of symbolic experiences with the train’s conductor, and then arrives in the elf workshop where the children are placed in competition to receive the ‘first gift’. The best thing about it is apparently, if you ask someone like Ebert who seems to just love this kind of mocap movie (all of the articles mention his high praise for them), is the somewhat creepy atmosphere.

The film landed to mixed reception, once again drawing comments of stiff acting and ‘uncanny valley’ creepiness - not to mention complaint that Zemeckis would serve such a ‘schmaltzy’ christmas movie. However, this did not prove as fatal to ImageMovers as Spirits Within did to Square Pictures. Their subsequent films take on a variety of tones - the only one I’ve seen is their adaptation of the famous Old English epic poem Beowulf, which is... strained lol and features the bizarre decision to make Grendel’s mother super fuckable (by normie standards). At some point I want to be there with @baeddel watching it lmao

Our final one in this hopefully representative triangulation will come from the end of the first decade of the 2000s, when some of the blockbuster directors got interested in using this now somewhat more mature tech. James Cameron finally had the opportunity to create his hardish sci-fi white saviour passion project Avatar, and it was for a brief period the highest grossing film ever, yet managed to leave next to no impact on popular culture. At some point I guess I will get around to watching it but I’m not especially in a hurry. The animation for this film was performed at Weta Digital, same as LotR.

And not long after, Steven Spielberg decided to get in on the action with an unusual adaptation of Hergé’s famous adventure-story bande dessinée (c.f. AN 71: Moebius), The Adventures of Tintin, about a reporter who alongside his friend Captain Haddock finds himself having Adventures in various countries; in this case, it’s a loose adaptation of the Tintin story The Secret of the Unicorn in which the pair seek the treasure of a pirate who fought Haddock’s ancestor.

A full account of the history of the Tintin comics, gradually evolving from extremely racist origins like Tintin in the Congo (bc the French and Belgians have almost unparalleled nostalgia for their African colonies, Belgium particularly infamous for the brutality of King Leopold’s rule of the Congo) to become a - for their time!! - fairly well-researched series of travel comics, will have to wait for another occasion. Hergé used an iconic style in a tradition known as ligne claire, with flat shading and carefully minimal linework on characters amidst detailed backgrounds, and up to that point, the various animated adaptations of Tintin have used similar hand-drawn character designs.

Spielberg had other ideas. He decided on a tack of almost-realism; the costume design and overall proportions tend to reflect the comic, but the characters’ skin would have realistic shading and tone variations, and faces would move in realistic ways driven by mocap, with various action sequences following the dominant conventions of Hollywood stunt filming (e.g. highly mobile camera, use of slow motion, improbable physics coincidences).

At this point, the VFX industry had become so split into Taylorist production houses that it’s hard to work out who actually did any particular thing. So while we can read about where principal photography was performed, and even watch Weta’s upload of VFX breakdowns for the film, it really starts to feel like it lacks any personal touch in terms of animation. Everything, the camera especially, is in constant, almost overwhelming motion, without any stillness for contrast. Like Disney’s ‘full animation’, this ideal functions - whatever the intentions of its creators - as a display of expensive excess.

I’m not necessarily against this. It worked great in for example Speed Racer, a natural fit to the themes and tone of that film. But as a dominant paradigm it’s exhausting! And the popular discussion seems to prefer to obscure the ‘how’, so that the images seem to magically manifest from the power of the mighty new computers and genius of the tech industry, instead of letting us be familiar with the exact painstaking way that the various images and elements are composed together which is actually very interesting.

Tintin at least presents its spectacles with a kind of clarity; motion blur is still heavily present, but the scenes are brightly lit and at least somewhat colourful, and the camera does not try to obscure it subjects. It will be interesting to see the full film, but I recall most peoples’ reaction at the time being a kind of ‘huh.’ and ‘why do that?’ and I kind of expect I’ll feel the same...

So, we’re starting horrendously late, but the plan is three movies from across the first decade of the mocap era: Spirits Within to open it, Polar Express as another early foray, and then Tintin to show where it went after. Full-mocap movies never really seem to have caught on over live action compositing, but filmmakers keep probing at the technology, so who knows if all big budget movies will end up working like this at some point.

Anyway we’re going to start almost immediately now (1am UK time, 5pm US time); apologies to UK viewers, I definitely want to get Animation Night back to the original time before too long. As much as it brings shame on me, I am showing a christmas movie next to christmas, so please feel free to mock and deride as far as you feel appropriate. See you soon at https://twitch.tv/canmom!

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chateautae · 3 years ago

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girlll, it is crazyy to date a formula driver. It is both awesome and sometimes it suuuccks! I once drove his GT4 car with him on an empty track, gurrlllll the ADRENALINE levels are ASTRONOMICAL! (watch a race to see 🤯)He also fricking drives at full speed AS IF IT IS NOTHING!! He has a very strict workout schedule and diet. I dunno if you have ever seen a driver workout. They tie a workout gear around his head and pull on it so hard (his trainer is like 85-90kg dude and he pulls on it) He also trains his wrists and forearms to control the wheel better. I think it works better in my favour because AN HOUR LONG FINGERING SESSION without breaking a sweat 🤭🤭🤭 He is a muscle monster (sparing Jungkook aside) = strength kink

HOWEVER, I hate car noises, speeding, and am not really interested in racing at all. I can only tell difference if cars are in different colours. But he loves it all. He becomes a 5-year-old boy when we talk about cars. He was recently sponsored by BMW and drove one of their cars. He was happy like a little boy and seeing him like this makes me so warm and happy. He gets recognised in public and many men tell him that it was their dream as a kid. A few weeks ago, the owner of a coffee shop we went to recognised him and they chatted for half an hour. The man was around his 50s and adored my boyfriend. (He gave us free cheesecake too 😂)

But racing is difficult to make a career out of. He needs a lot of sponsors and it is not really easy to find especially during the pandemic. Also, it is dangerous. Even though his team takes millions of precautions, accidents happen. He didn't have one, thank god.

He also travels a lot too 🙄 Staying apart hasn't affected our relationship YET :( He can't take me with him. So I miss him a lot during race season.

As much as I love fucking him in his race suit, I get crazy anxious when it is his race day. Now that he is negotiating for Formula 1 races, my anxiety is through the roof. I really want him to get the deal, but I also don't :( HOWEVER, I can't be selfish. I love him too much to be selfish with him. I will support him forever.

So yeah, it is so much fun to see him be successful, have steamy sex in his car, but there are many difficulties that we face as a couple :(

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I WAS GONNA SAY THE FINGERING SESSIONS ARE PROBABLY BOMB AF IF HE'S DOING THEM WRIST AND FOREARM EXERCISES!! Going to hint at my man to start putting in the work too 👀 YESSSS THE ADRENALINE IS INSANE my bf recently went to a track with my cousin who owns this fast ass GTI to race against a BMW and HE SAID IT WAS SO COOL.

OH GOD YOU JUST DESCRIBED THE DREAM his stamina must be out of this world (so does my man, it's literally aLWAYS me tapping out) SO I GET YOU THAT WORKS IN OUR FAVOURS DNEONDO. And damn the sex must be steamy for sure idk what it is about guys driving fast and cool cars but I would give anything to fuck in a nice Merc or something DNQWODNOWEI. THINKING ABOUT MID!TAE'S MERCEDES AT THE MOMENT.

THATS ACC SO COOL YOUR MAN'S ALL FAMOUS AND STUFF and I totally get it, my bf is super into cars as well and while I do enjoy the common luxury car myself, I'm not a fan of speeding or racing because I get really scared something may happen :( AWHH MY LOVE i really do understand your anxieties, formula 1 is no joke and you're right, accidents do happen. It would make your man super happy but I see the worries that come with it too. I wish you guys the best of luck with your relationship and really hope your man stays safe out there on the track!! 💓💓💓

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Frigid Bitch 2019 Results

Frigid Bitch - back for year 6!

Continuing tradition as probably the biggest ladies/non-binary bike race in the universe with over 100 riders, this year’s Frigid Bitch expanded with first-time-ever-offered pre-registration and MORE PODIUMS. Held at Threadbare Cider in Spring Garden, at 10am on Saturday, February 16th, 2019, racers started flooding in to stock up on gear, check out the competition, and pick up their maps & manifests.

As always, there is a one hour window for racers to frantically plan their routes, forge alliances, and make friends. A few local ladies’ racing teams showed up in force, and some veteran Frigid Bitch ride-or-die gangs side-eyed up their matching kits and focused efficiency with determined fuck-it, let’s-do-this attitudes. New racers met riding partners on-site, and a handful of volunteers showed up to take in the crowd before heading out to their no-longer-secret positions.

A quarter to go-time, everyone was hustled outside to unlock their steeds and gear up for the start line.

THE CHECKPOINTS

Grandview Overlook Every year, for the out-of-towners, suburb queens, commuters who never stray from the beaten track - there’s always one checkpoint that everybody knows how to get to. Not that we’d make it easy! Pittsburgh’s famous overlook is a slag up Mt Washington, and with the main thru way closed, racers had to either bump it up via shattered sidewalks, or find away around. Volunteers were ready with a toast at the top!

Fineview Overlook In a city of hills and bridges you’re gonna have a lot of overlooks … Grandview’s much lesser known cousin on the Northside had racers figuring out how to find their way above the ballfield. Anyone who actually followed the map to this checkpoint found themselves climbing one of the toughest Dirty Dozen Hills….oh, did we do that? Whoops!

Herr’s Island Keep following the map in the other direction, and it’d take you down Rialto St (another Dirty Dozen Hill! Who drew this?!) and across the 30th St Bridge to Herr’s Island, haven of local crew teams and isolated Pgh elite. Everyone knows it’s there; most cyclists have zero reason to ever trek over. On the far end of the island, through some woods & down some steps to a gravel lot in a crumbling wall, volunteers were waiting with a camp fire to check off numbers of the racers who hiked-a-bike or threw down and hustled on foot.

5 Points Speaking of hike-a-biking, the furthest checkpoint from the start was tucked away in Pgh’s mountain biking mecca, Frick Park. There’s only one spot in the woods where 5 trails spike together in a star formations, colloquially known as…. FIVE POINTS!!! Entering the trail from Beechwood Blvd in Squirrel Hill, anyone who made it this far had to off-road their ride down dirt paths and over exposed roots. But hey, there was hot chocolate at the bottom!

Murray Hill Not far from 5 points, Murray Hill Ave gave everyone the opportunity to experience off- roading on a one of the most quintessential Pgh urban this-is-actually-still-a-road terrains (second only to massive potholes): brutally steep cobbles!

Iron Eden Metal Works Oh, but there were potholes. Snaking the back way up & down bombed-out Sassafras St, nestled in the shadows of the Bloomfield Bridge, lies a two-tiered & strange-looking structure. ~By night!~ a times-past underground venue in the woods, ~by day!~ a rustbelt relic: Iron Eden!

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The Hot Metal Bridge It’s a classic. Need we say more?

The Boob Mausoleum Probably the most infamous tomb in the Allegheny Cemetery, the WHITE mausoleum features a bafflingly intense commitment to full-blown Egyptian theme&decor. Stationed just outside the crypt’s brass-cast pillar-flanked doors, 2 ~prominent~ sphinxes stand guard over the venerable (?) White family portal. Stationed just outside the sphinxes….Frigid Bitch BEACH PARTY!!

Mohawk St Finally, last in line but top of the list as far as checkpoint shenanigans go; bomb down Fifth Ave from Pitt campus and right before you hit the Birmingham Bridge, there’s a set of city steps that ascend into the woods of West Oakland. They spit out at Landslide Community Farms and a pink jersey barrier where volunteers waited with a camp fire* and a case of PBR. They’d set up a beer chute along the top of the stairs and stood in suspense while racers ran up the steps, not taking the bait. Finally, the vet bitch gang of Alex K, Katherine J and Frankie M threw their bikes over their shoulders, rushed the chute, grabbed a beer, cracked it with their teeth and chugged on the way up.

*if you missed the campfire, it’s because the fire dept showed up to put it out. See? Shenanigans!

Once the clock struck 2, everyone had 1 hour to race back to Threadbare. Bikes were slammed into the temp parking, road shoes clacked across the parking lot, the doors were thrown over and spoke card numbers hollered at the waiting table-side officials.

P A R T Y T I M E

Pizza was eaten, cider was drunk, war stories were exchanged! Multi-year Bitch Queen Elise R regaled audiences with a story that started as a complaint that she couldn’t run any red lights on the North Side because there were too many cops around, then perked up with details about bombing down towards an intersection from Mohawk, where a white SUV veered into the corner of the intersection, blocking traffic for Elise & her crew to blast their way through, waved them past and yelled “YEAH FRIGID BITCH!!!”

Podiums

For the first time, the Frigid Bitch podium split into multiple categories. Singlespeed, Mountain Bike, Masters, and Out-Of-Town were added in addition to the all-encompassing Women & Nonbinary Open Field. Check back next year; more are comin!

Fixed/Singlespeed 1. Alexandra Korshin 2. Rachel Thompson

Masters 1. Louanna Bailey 2. Frankie Montenegro 3. Kelly Haderly 4. Monica VanDieran 5. Jen Damon 6. Suz Falvey

7. Christa Ross 8. Stacie Truszkowski 9. Barbara Jensen 10. Sarah Crawford 11. Simone Riddle 12. Suzanne Kinsky 13. Athena Marsh 14. Cynthia Billisits 15. Suzie Silver 16. Heather Mccracken 17. Jolynn Gibson 18. Kelli Jones 19. Dorothy Voelker

Mountain Bike 1. Suz Falvey 2. Vincent Zeng 3. Nikki Turner

Out Of Town 1. Jane Hodge 2. Caitlin Woodson 3. Sara Khalil Open Field Results! 1. Elise Rowe #10 2. Shaena Ulissi #18 3. Caryn Willis #73 4. Anna Bieberdorf #114 5. Katie Webber-Plank #93 6. Julie Grove #91

7. Louanna Baily #15 8. Lydia Yoder #50 9. Lindsay Dill #28 10. Alyssa Crawford #62

11. Jessie Appleman #87 12. Ania Jaroszewicz #6 13. Amy Wincek #111 14. Emily Palmer #54 15. LaurynStalter #79 16. Mary-Wren Ritchie #86 17. Alexandra Korshin #69 18. Frankie Montenegro #44 19. Katharine Jordan #78 20. Lan Tran #89 21. Naomi Anderson #107 22. Alexandria Shewczyk #29 23. Jaime Martina #26

24. Megan Andrews #43 25. Cansu Ozen #39 26. Sara Horsey #75 27. Shequaya Bailey #7 28. Kelly Haderly #84 29. Megan Sybeldon #46 30. Allison Glick #104 31. Acadia Klain #37 32. Robyn Brewer #34 33. Anna Barensfeld #52 34. Kelsey Kradel #83 35. Monica VanDieren #4

36. Jen Damon #80 37. Suz Falvey #88 38. Christa Ross #82 39. StacieTruszkowski #102 40. Greta Daniels #60 41. Elizabeth Salesky #33 42. Barbara Jensen #41 43. Sara Madden #92 44. Vanessa Jameson #110 45. Jane Hodge #112 46. Sarah Crawford #90 47. Rachel Dingfelder #59

48. Mary Kate Minnick #27 49. Caitlin Woodson #13 50. Simone Riddle #64 51. Sara Khalil #94 52. Suzanne Kinsky #71 53. Taylor Wescott #35 54. Kathleen Blackburn #49 55. Athena Marsh #57 56. Riesa Lirette #14 57. Vincent Zeng #32 58. Anna Faber #47 59. Erin Potts #51 60. Molly Orzechowski #666 61. Jenna DeVivo #23 62. Laura Watson #99 63. Ngani Ndimbie #108 64. Rachel Thompson #113 65. Alexandra Falk #81 66. Cynthia Billisits #48

67. Sarah Martin #97 68. Laura Everhart #53 69. Bonnie Weibel #61 70. Mary Jackson #65 71. Leah Nicolich #103 72. Charlie Eddington #106 73. Catherine Armbruster #42 74. Paula Zamora #16 75. Ramona Stanley #38 76. Morgan Sulik #21 77. Anusha Simha #119 78. Yvette Aban #58 79. Hwa Han #63 80. Sarah Scherk #101 81. Hayes Indigo #1

82. Milo Spiders #100 83. Jenna Geiman #22 84. Hannah Berg #31 85. Suzie Silver #56 86. Julie Mallis #36 87. Morgan Tunstall #30 88. Heather McCracken #45 89. Shannon Frishkorn #115 90. Jamie Parke #66 91. Kate Bechak #105 92. Jaclyn Sternick #74 93. Jolynn Gibson #40 94. Maureen Duncan #9 95. Kelli Jones #12 96. Sarah Pearman #96 97. Lauren McKenna #17 98. Jennifer Ross #20 99. Kimberly Garrett #98 100. Chen Li #55 101. Rachel Shockey #25 102. NickyTurner #95 103. HEather McClain #109 104. Emily Voelker #24 105. Nicole Toney #68 106. Jenny Bender #67 107. Shelby Schmidt #72 108. Dorothy Voelker #19 109. Elizabeth LeDonne #77

Prizes

Were there enough prizes to go around? Were people bugging the f out over how awesome they were? We’ll let these photos speak for themselves.

The Best Part

The Frigid Bitch has always been a race to promote empowerment in the cycling community, to show that underrepresented groups of people can kick just as much ass as the status quo, and to support organizations that in turn provide for others in need. To that end, funds raised via registration fees and anonymous pledges have always been given to the Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Center & Shelter. Over the past year, another organization has provided immeasurable support for the founders of the Frigid Bitch in their hour of need. This year’s race raised $730 for the Women’s Shelter and $400 for the Women’s Law Project. It couldn’t be done without the support of our racers & our community.

THANK YOU for another great year! To all of our sponsors, who are solely responsible for the joy fest you just witnessed above! To all my lovely volunteers, without whom this race would never get off the ground, and who pull out all the stops to make this the funnest goddamn alleycat in the whole universe. Thank you to my photographers, without you no one would ever know how fucking awesome this event is! Thank you to my little brother, who always finds the time to churn out another amazing race flyer! THANK YOU TO MY TEAM OF LADIES who helped me throw this race! Without you, Frigid Bitch #5 would have been the last of its kind! Thank you Di-ay, Elise #1 & Elise #2, Kat, Mattie, & Kaylin! Thank you Pittsburgh for being the only city I’d ever wish to be from! I’LL BE BACK!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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My Top 100 Love Songs of All Time

Last year for Valentine’s Day I made an Anti-Valentine’s day playlist and this year I decided I would try to do the reverse and be more positive! Below is my attempt at my top 100 love songs of all time. It was hard!

100. Anything For You by Chelsea Cutler

99. Psycho by Amy Shark ft. Mark Hoppus 98. Next Time by Sawyer 97. Mine by Taylor Swift 96. Would You Be So Kind by Dodie 95. The Reason by Chelsea Cutler 94. Show You Off by Dan + Shay 93. Say You Do by Dierks Bentley 92. If I’m Lucky by State Champs 91. Criminal by State Champs 90. Two Is Better Than One by Boys Like Girls ft. Taylor Swift 89. Hey Stephen by Taylor Swift 88. Tonight Looks Good on You by Jason Aldean 87. I’d Rather Be With You by Joshua Radin 86. Lullaby by The Spill Canvas 85. Gorgeous by Taylor Swift 84. Finger’s Crossed by Handguns 83. With You Around by Yellowcard 82. And I by Box Car Racer 81. Skyway Avenue by We The Kings 80. We Found Love by Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris 79. Last First Kiss by One Direction 78. Josie by Blink-182 77. Good to You by Mariana’s Trench 76. All The Small Things by Blink-182 75. Delicate by Taylor Swift 74. Only One by Yellowcard 73. Into You by Ariana Grande 72. All We Ever Needed by The Early November 71. Roller Coaster by Blink-182 70. Rhythm of Love by Plain White T’s 69. Temperature by Sean Paul 68. So (Acoustic) by Ed Sheeran 67. Tee Shirt by Birdy 66. Hey Pretty Girl by Kip Moore 65. Falling Fast by Avril Lavigne 64. The Blower’s Daughter by Damien Rice 63. Gum by Moose Blood 62. Give Me Love by Ed Sheeran 61. Smile by Avril Lavigne 60. Better With You by This Wild Life 59. Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol 58. You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift 57. A Little More Love by Lee Brice and Jerrod Niemann 56. Die a Happy Man by Thomas Rhett 55. Accidentally In Love by The Counting Crows 54. Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran 53. Love Like Rockets by Angels and Airwaves 52. Seventeen Forever by Metro Station 51. Kelsey by Metro Station 50. She’s Got It All by Kenny Chesney 49. Mean to Me by Brett Eldredge 48. Swim Down by Moose Blood 47. You And Me by You+Me 46. My Love by Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. 45. Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez 44. Dear Jamie… Sincerely Me by Hellogoodbye 43. Knuckles by Moose Blood 42. Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran 41. Love Story by Taylor Swift 40. With You by Chris Brown 39. Do It For Me Now by Angels and Airwaves 38. Treacherous by Taylor Swift 37. State of Grace by Taylor Swift 36. Is There Somewhere? by Halsey 35. Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran 34. Going Away to College by Blink-182 33. Like I Love You by Justin Timberlake ft. Clipse 32. I Miss You by Blink-182 31. Violence by Blink-182 30. Begin Again by Taylor Swift 29. Bubbly by Colbie Calliat 28. The Rock Show by Blink-182 27. Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran 26. The Girl (Acoustic) by City and Colour 25. Robbers by The 1975 24. Holy Ground by Taylor Swift 23. I’m Lost Without You by Blink-182 22. Make You Smile by +44 21. Down by Blink-182 20. Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars 19. Always by Blink-182 18. First Date by Blink-182 17. It Hurts by Angels and Airwaves 16. Sex by The 1975 15. How Do I Tell a Girl I Want to Kiss Her? by BTFL 14. Evening Coffee by Moose Blood 13. Bukowski by Moose Blood 12. This Love by Taylor Swift 11. With Me by Sum 41 10. Candles by Daughter 9. Even If She Falls by Blink-182 8. From the Ground Up by Dan + Shay 7. You Are In Love by Taylor Swift 6. Feeling This by Blink-182 5. New Year’s Day by Taylor Swift 4. I Don’t Dance by Lee Brice 3. There Is by Box Car Racer 2. Kissing In Cars by Pierce the Veil 1. You Had Me At Hello by A Day to Remember

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/6bfcNO6OborVCW5DG1pbYT?si=YY1OBCR7RS-ORWKXzbv9fg (#15 is not on Spotify)

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prigarin · 6 years ago

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Tune of the Day - vibe.digital - Episode 036 - Best Of 2018

Tracklist: 01. Late Since - Requiem 02. Othos x Defussion - Luna 03. Djedi, MRKRYL, Memphis - Third Wind [vibe.digital] 04. Guilt Chip - Bushido Blade [vibe.digital] 05. Klasey Jones - Tokyo Lifestyle [Terrorhythm] 06. Sibewest - Ghost 07. Plastician - Brexit Beats [Terrorhythm] 08. Kavern - Flamberge [Liquid Ritual] 09. lostageless - Sonder 10. Skit - West London Empath [Yusoul] 11. Ytho - It's Not You, It's Me [SYNES] 12. Skeler - Tetsuo [Liquid Ritual] 13. Barnacle Boi - Forever. 14. Skeler x Juche - Proxima 15. Misogi - Have You Seen feat. AJ Tracey [Keyworld] 16. Kareful - I Loved A Witch Once [Liquid Ritual] 17. goldy 47 - Thieves 18. BOKKEN - INSOMNIA 不眠症 [NØIR] 19. Spaceouters - Isolated [WAVEVISION] 20. FATE - Darkness 21. Spoze x Kareful - DayByDay 22. Plastician - Windwalker [Terrorhythm] 23. Noah B - Silk Transmission 24. Five Suns - Lunar Orbit [vibe.digital] 25. Pacifix - Waiting [vibe.digital] 26. Noah B - Subtraction feat. Jessaudrey 27. Five Suns - Jupiter 28. Giant Ibis - Say It Right 29. i - (featuring The Four Tops) - Thank You Michael 30. Mazen - Hollywood Dreaming 31. SBU - Am I Becoming Me? 32. Semetary Kid - Cyberia 33. Guilt Chip - Brainsigh 34. OM Unit - The Corridor (Sorsari Remix) [Terrorhythm] 35. Naru x Desolate Verity - Take Me Away 36. Klimeks - Sine [Wavemob] 37. Boy Racers - Cartel [Terrorhythm] 38. rednog - Drowning [vibe.digital] 39. Guilt Chip x M!NGO - Turbo [vibe.digital] 40. Kareful - As She Cried (Fyoomz Remix) 41. Cardio - Why? [Yusoul] 42. Nights - License To Kill 43. Guilt Chip - Ocean [vibe.digital] 44. Shxde - Numb [YUME] 45. Juche - Code 46. M!NGO - Cool Like Felix [vibe.digital] 47. Skeler - Arcadia 48. Deadcrow - Subsonic 49. Sondra - Amethyst Falls [SYNES] 50. Glacci - Fuck It Up (Instrumental) [Plasma Abuse] 51. Changa - You [vibe.digital] 52. Sorsari - Will We Ever [vibe.digital] 53. Noah B x Just Connor - Infinity Edge [vibe.digital] 54. Sorsari - The Threads [YUME] 55. OutsidR - Pale Fire [YUME] 56. Sweeep x Stahl - Velvet 57. ØfDream - Antagonist feat. Rare0000 58. Sorsari - Monster [vibe.digital] 59. Skeler - NRG [vibe.digital] 60. M!NGO - 26 Grand [vibe.digital] 61. Sorsari - Patterns [vibe.digital] 62. Boy Racers - Pink Slip Valley [Terrorhythm] 63. Noah B - Overdrive Protocol 64. Skeler - Tel Aviv 65. Barnacle Boi - Have Hope. 66. Boy Racers - Hot Pursuit [Terrorhythm] 67. Skeler x Ytho - Limit [Liquid Ritual] 68. ØfDream - Perception [Liquid Ritual] 69. OutsidR - Cells [Liquid Ritual] 70. Noah B x Just Connor - Veilance [vibe.digital] 71. Klasey Jones - Romanova 72. Kavern - Photons 73. Nastya Kazantseva - Nice Dream 74. Pholo - B0y [Liquid Ritual] 75. Yedgar - When Demons Cry 76. Guilt Chip x M!NGO - Faith [vibe.digital] 77. Yedgar - Trust [vibe.digital] 78. UNNHOLY - Lightbringer [YUME] 79. LTHL - Solum [Signalfire] 80. M!NGO - Medi [vibe.digital] 81. brothel. - alliwanted. 82. M!NGO x Pinknokia - Missed Call [vibe.digital] 83. Sorsari - The Great Construct (Deadcrow Remix) [vibe.digital] 84. Sace x Loneliness - Suicide Motives 85. Guilt Chip - Supernothing [vibe.digital] 86. JATO - Hypersport [SYNES] 87. 3ASiC x LJC - 泳 (Yong) [vibe.digital]

#tune of the day #tuneoftheday #wave #vibe.digital #best #2018 #bassdriver #electronic #MOST POPULAR #music

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p-h03n1-x · 10 months ago

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Wang Yibo for Audi 6.5.2024

#wang yibo #Wang Yibo Audi #yibo so handsome #racer 85 I miss you

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rupeecoloredhair-archive · 7 years ago

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tagged by @justmaghookit Ty for the distraction

Objective: Answer these 85 statements about yourself then tag others

LAST

drink - arizona tea phone call - my mom text message - my mom song you listened to - Lip & Hip time you cried - five minutes ago

EVER

dated someone twice - yeah kissed someone & regretted - yeah been cheated on - technically yes been depressed - YEP gotten drunk and thrown up - not that often which is surprising

FAV COLOURS

Black and metallics

IN THE LAST YEAR, YOU…

made new friends - yep yep fallen out of love - no laughed until you cried - ye found out someone was talking about you - yyyyyep met someone who changed you - definitely found out who your friends are - mmhhhmmm kissed someone on your facebook friends list - no

GENERAL

how many of your facebook friends do you know irl - all of them do you have any pets - My keeker cat, Troy do you want to change your name - My last name, yes what did you do for your last birthday - i got my switch what time did you wake up today - 8am what were you doing at midnight last night - sleeping what is something you can’t wait for - seeing @ciraeus in less than a month what are you listening to right now - Mind Brand (lyrics are graphic and can be triggering) have you ever talked to a person named tom - yeah something that’s getting on your nerves - i can’t SLEEP most visited website - either tumblr or google drive hair colour - dark brown at the roots and a reddish purple long or short hair - short, still growing do you have a crush on someone - is it a crush if im dating her? what do you like about yourself - my writing has improved want any piercings - yep yep blood type - idk nicknames - Heroic, Rupee, MISSILE relationship status - Taken zodiac - taurus

pronouns - they/them

fav TV shows - idfk. TF:A and TF:P continue to be good. House. Firefly. Mad Men (early seasons). Speed Racer, BNHA....others...

tattoos - someday

right or left handed - right ever had surgery - nah sports - nope piercings - ear piercings, the usual ones vacation - i miss the beach sneakers: idk what this means

MORE GENERAL

eating - i have some chips drinking - tea about to watch - youtube vids waiting for - the move back to Cali want - Chopsticks get married - maybe career - creator

WHICH IS BETTER

hugs or kisses - bugs lips or eyes - eyes shorter or taller - idc older or younger - idc nice arms or stomach - idc???? hookup or relationship - relationship troublemaker or hesitant - both are ok i guess

HAVE YOU EVER

kissed a stranger - yeah drank hard liquor - yep lost glasses - no turned someone down - yeah sex on first date - i wouldn’t call it a date broken someone’s heart - i’ve been told i have had your heart broken - mhm been arrested - nope cried when someone died - yep fallen for a friend - yeah

DO YOU BELIEVE IN

yourself - no miracles - ye love at first sight - fuck no santa claus - nah kiss on a first date - whaddya mean believe, go for the kiss life is short angels - yeah

OTHER

best friend’s name - Cat eye colour - Dark brown fav movie - The Wind Rises

fav book - Bloody Jack or The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

fav actor - sHRUGS

i feel odd about tagging im sry

#tagging games #long post

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niladmirai · 7 years ago

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Do all the numbers. Do them all. I want every answer.

Geez, thats a tall order

1: NameDavid

2: AgeTurning 23 in March

3: 3 FearsHeightsRejection from family/friendsFailure

4: 3 things I loveMy loved onesVideo GamesArt

5: 4 turns onIntelligenceCommon interestsGenuine joy and happinessGreat listener

6: 4 turns offSmokingAsshole attitudeIgnoranceDisrespect

7: My best friendAt this point in time, it’s hard to say…

8: Sexual orientationStraight

9: My best first dateNever went out on a date ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

10: How tall am I5'6"

11: What do I missNot being tied down by the pressure of being an adult

12: What time were I bornExact time, 9:11AM; The date, March 12th

13: Favorite colorBlue

14: Do I have a crushLmao not at the moment

15: Favorite quote“Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda

16: Favorite placeMy hometown of NYC

17: Favorite foodFrench Fries

18: Do I use sarcasmWhen do I not?

19: What am I listening to right nowNothing. Its 8:30AM as I type this lol

20: First thing I notice in new personTheir face and hair

21: Shoe size11

22: Eye colorBrown

23: Hair colorBlack

24: Favorite style of clothingJacket, hoodie and jeans

25: Ever done a prank call?Once

27: Meaning behind my URLBased on the phrase ‘nil admirari’ but i missed the last ‘r’ lmao

28: Favorite movieBetween Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and Speed Racer

29: Favorite songTo Zanarkand

30: Favorite bandNone in particular. But favorite musician would be Bruno Mars

31: How I feel right nowTo be honest, mostly indifferent about a lot of things

32: Someone I loveMy older cousin for being an awesome guy to hang around with

33: My current relationship statusSingle

34: My relationship with my parentsLove them to death!

35: Favorite holidayChristmas mostly for Christmas music

36: Tattoos and piercing i haveNada. If i did, my dad would flip and rip em

37: Tattoos and piercing i wantIf i was allowed to, a pink star on my neck like the Joestars or the Zanarkand Abes logo on my arm

38: The reason I joined TumblrFriend mentioned it when I was at a retreat and was curious to what it is.

39: Do I and my last ex hate each other?Nah, we ended on good terms

40: Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?Nope lol

41: Have I ever kissed the last person you texted?No lmao

42: When did I last hold hands?Yesterday during Mass

43: How long does it take me to get ready in the morning?Thirty Minutes tops

44: Have I shaved your legs in the past three days?How bout my whole life

45: Where am I right now?In my room on my bed

46: If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me?My cousin and brother

47: Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?Resonable so its actually audible

48: Do I live with my Mom and Dad?Yea

49: Am I excited for anything?My said cousin before is coming to visit!

50: Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?Yes

51: How often do I wear a fake smile?Usually half the time

52: When was the last time I hugged someone?Yesterday

53: What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?I could care less at this point in time

54: Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?Nope

55: What is something I disliked about today?It’s 8:30am. I didnt sleep yet.

56: If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?My japanese cousins whom ive never seen or met

57: What do I think about most?Fire Emblem Heroes

58: What’s my strangest talent?My thumb is double jointed

59: Do I have any strange phobias?Nah all are kind normal

60: Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?Both

61: What was the last lie I told?'I’m going to the car to get something’

62: Do I prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?Talking on the phone

63: Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?Both

64: Do I believe in magic?Nope

65: Do I believe in luck?Yea

66: What’s the weather like right now?Clear

67: What was the last book I’ve read?Something in my college class 3 years ago

68: Do I like the smell of gasoline?Hell no

69: Do I have any nicknames?Dabid or bid

70: What was the worst injury I’ve ever had?My right index finger nail came off

71: Do I spend money or save it?Spend sadly. Its a bad habit.

72: Can I touch my nose with a tongue?Nope

73: Is there anything pink in 10 feet from me?My RWBY Vol. 5 poster

74: Favorite animal?Birda

75: What was I doing last night at 12 AM?Playing Fire Emblem Heroes

76: What do I think is Satan’s last name is?Hercule’s last name is Satan

77: What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?Right now, the Finesse with Cardi B

78: How can you win my heart?If we share some interests, maybe thats hos

79: What would I want to be written on my tombstone?A beloved by many, and loved to play games

80: What is my favorite word?Free

81: My top 5 blogs on tumblrLmao never cared about favorite blogs

82: If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?The world will be ruined if we continue the path we follow. We need to change.

83: Do I have any relatives in jail?Thankfully no

84: I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power?The power of luck manipulation

85: What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on?How’s the job search going?

86: What is my current desktop picture?The intro screen of Xenoblade Chronicles

87: Had sex?Never haha

88: Bought condoms?From my brother LOL

89: Gotten pregnant?Im a guy

90: Failed a class?Yes

91: Kissed a boy?On the cheek

92: Kissed a girl?Yes

93: Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain?Lmao no

94: Had job?Nope

95: Left the house without my wallet?Yes…

96: Bullied someone on the internet?No

97: Had sex in public?Still no

98: Played on a sports team?Yeah, bowling back in elementary school

99: Smoked weed?Nope

100: Did drugs?Perscription drugs

101: Smoked cigarettes?Nope

102: Drank alcohol?Hella

103: Am I a vegetarian/vegan?No

104: Been overweight?I currently am lol

105: Been underweight?No

106: Been to a wedding?Loads of times

107: Been on the computer for 5 hours straight?Five is an understatement

108: Watched TV for 5 hours straight?F I V E I S A N U N D E R S T A T E M E N T

109: Been outside my home country?Yea

110: Gotten my heart broken?Of course

111: Been to a professional sports game?Yeah!

112: Broken a bone?No

113: Cut myself?Papercuts

114: Been to prom?Yep. Loved it.

115: Been in airplane?Yeah

116: Fly by helicopter?Not yet

117: What concerts have I been to?The Eagles, Air Supply, my high school’s band

118: Had a crush on someone of the same sex?Admired, not crush

119: Learned another language?Java

120: Wore make up?Just nail polish

121: Lost my virginity before I was 18?No lmaooo

122: Had oral sex?No

123: Dyed my hair?Nah

124: Voted in a presidential election?Yes. Still upset about the end result.

125: Rode in an ambulance?No

126: Had a surgery?On my tonsils

127: Met someone famous?Yeah! I met Julius Erving as a kid and recently Pewdiepie a few years back.

128: Stalked someone on a social network?Who hasnt lol

129: Peed outside?Had no choice

130: Been fishing?Yep! I wanna do it again!

131: Helped with charity?Yeah

132: Been rejected by a crush?All thd time

133: Broken a mirror?Naw

134: What do I want for birthday?Money, a Switch, games to play on the Switch, games to play on my PS4, and most importantly, happiness

Whew that took awhile!

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thanksforthedinosaur · 4 years ago

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august 2021

1. chloe moriondo - take your time - acoustic 2. julia wolf - resting b*tch face: part 2 3. claire rosinkranz - hotel 4. billie eilish - nda 5. lolo zouaï - galipette 6. upsahl - time of my life 7. american teeth - sick 8. anthony ramos - blessings 9. greta isaac - like me 10. faye meana - giving it in 11. ralph - tommy 12. nina nesbitt - summer fling 13. alina baraz - alone with you 14. maye - versos de placer 15. mieke miami - the ambassador of love 16. amiyelle - summertime valentine 17. tkay maidza - onto me 18. snoh aalegra - on my mind 19. tinashe - bouncin 20. femme it forward - who new 21. little simz - i love you, i hate you 22. enny - under 25 23. logic - theme for the people 24. vince staples - are you with that? 25. planet giza - out of touch 26. rico nasty - magic 27. senses - pure 28. aldn - precious 29. omaure - sun valley 30. wun two - don't trust 31. oatmello - honey 32. yutaka hirasaka - tunnel 33. pinoko - no balance 34. perfume - ポリゴンウェイヴ 35. daoko - fighting pose 36. yaeji - pac-tive 37. mameyudoufu - purple skies - extended mix 38. nanobii - meant 2 b 39. 4s4ki - star player 40. neko hacker - i remember you 41. consciousthoughts - little bit of your love sensation 42. マドロスmercury - special girl 43. nakamuraemi - ご飯はかために炊く 44. the night of seokyo - just a friend 45. yeye - 祈り 46. fhána - love supreme! 47. twice - i love you more than anyone 48. taeyeon - weekend 49. twice - four-leaf clover 50. tashaki miyaki - wasting time 51. shishamo - ドライブ 52. genie high - 夏嵐 53. yuragi - that blue, i’ll be coming 54. plastic girl in closet - perfect fakers 55. spinn - the things she says to me 56. samia - elephant 57. cafuné - everyone knows 58. slow pulp - at it again (again) 59. hovvdy - true love 60. mija - get lost 61. kississippi - moonover 62. soccer mommy - rom com 2004 63. rosemary fairweather - strawberry milkshake 64. steady holiday - love me 2 65. penelope scott - 7 o'clock 66. a great big pile of leaves - beat up shoes 67. delta sleep - view to a fill 68. thrice - scavengers 69. willow - ¡breakout! feat. cherry glazer 70. descendents - tired of being tired 71. new found glory - backseat 72. tramp stamps - b.f.f. 73. colleen green - it's nice to be nice 74. bad bad hats - detroit basketball 75. half waif - sodium & cigarettes 76. clairo - zinnias 77. molly burch - back in time 78. boy scouts - that's life honey 79. eliza shaddad - fine & peachy 80. grouper - unclean mind 81. ghostly kisses - don't know why 82. common holly - preoccupy 83. sufjan stevens - reach out 84. big red machine - renegade 85. yola - dancing away in tears 86. the go! team - let the seasons work 87. katz - forward 88. tommy genesis - a woman is a god 89. mega bog - obsidian lizard 90. instupendo - clay me 91. tatiana hazel - work hard 92. gavin turek - hero 93. wave racer - look up to yourself 94. yorke - window shopping 95. aether - held within 96. tycho - only love 97. brothertiger - birds of paradise 98. porches - i miss that 99. lany - up to me https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rTwUoJmEdT46H8orYt0AV?si=7de657ba1cc44e96

#mae makes playlists

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sorayahigashikata · 6 years ago

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Chapter 93: "Such pure and cute girls... But not particularly smart ones."

#Paula reads SBR #Chapter 93 #Johnny and Diego must have just felt the world get lighter #they lost two morons!#WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?#the immolation did not work #will Johnny be impaled?#probably not but I'm almost done reading either way #Steel Ball Run spoilers #Part 7 spoilers

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winterolympicssports2018-blog · 7 years ago

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Bob Beattie, who helped launch World Cup skiing circuit, dies at 85

Click here for More Olympics Updates https://www.winterolympian.com/bob-beattie-who-helped-launch-world-cup-skiing-circuit-dies-at-85/

Bob Beattie, who helped launch World Cup skiing circuit, dies at 85

Associated Press Published 5:18 p.m. ET April 2, 2018 | Updated 7:27 p.m. ET April 2, 2018

In this Feb. 8, 1964, file photo, coach Bob Beattie, center, hugs skiers Billy Kidd, left, and Jimmy Huega after Kidd finished second and Huega, third, in the men’s slalom competition at the Winter Olympics in Lizum, Austria. Beattie, a ski racing pioneer who helped launch the Alpine World Cup circuit more than 50 years ago, has died.(Photo: AP)

DENVER – The plaque that rested for years on ski icon Bob Beattie’s desk was inscribed with a matter-of-fact motto: It can be done.

An all-too-fitting mantra for the ski racing pioneer who helped launch the World Cup circuit more than 50 years ago and was part of the commentary crew that called one of the most thrilling Alpine races at the 1976 Winter Games.

Beattie died Sunday in Fruita, Colorado, after dealing with various health issues. He was 85.

“Once he made up his mind something needed to happen, he would keep pounding away until he got it done,” his son, Zeno, said in a phone interview. “He had a lot of friends and they always came up to him and said, ‘If it wasn’t for you, I never would’ve accomplished whatever.’

“He never really thought about that too much. His whole world was about working really hard. And if you worked really hard at something and you did it as a team and not as an individual you can pretty much do anything you ever wanted to do.”

Known as “Beats” or “Coach” to his friends, Beattie’s career included stints as coach of the U.S. ski team and at the University of Colorado, where he led the Buffaloes to a pair of national titles.

In addition, Beattie was paired with Frank Gifford to call one of the Winter Olympics’ most famous ski races for ABC – Austrian great Franz Klammer’s electric downhill run to capture gold in ‘76.

“They realized Bob Beattie and I had a peculiar way of calling it,” the late Gifford once said in an interview with EmmyTVLegends.org. “Bob loved ski racing. … He would get so excited at the race. My job was almost like ‘Monday Night Football,’ identify the players and let him go. He brought an unbelievable excitement to it.”

Beattie attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he lettered in tennis, skiing, football and cross-country running. He became the ski coach following his graduation, where the team finished third at the NCAA championships in 1956.

Soon after, he went to Boulder, Colorado, to be an assistant football coach before taking over the ski program and turning it into a national power. The Buffaloes won the title in 1959 and again in ‘60.

That gained him even more recognition and he oversaw the U.S. ski team at the 1964 Olympic Games, where Billy Kidd and Jimmie Heuga finished 2-3 in the slalom. It marked the first two Alpine medals captured by the American men at the Winter Olympics.

“The pressure was severe. We had promised everything – rightfully or wrongfully – we had promised everyone the world,” Beattie told U.S. ski team historian Tom Kelly last summer. “We loved each other. We were a team.”

In the mid-1960s, Beattie partnered with journalist Serge Lang and French coach Honore Bonnet to create the World Cup, with racers traveling the globe to compete. It’s still going strong with stars such as Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin and Marcel Hirscher leading the way.

On Twitter, the racers showed their appreciation:

– “So grateful I had the chance to meet this innovator, icon, and legend! Rest in peace Bob Beattie,” Shiffrin posted .

– “R.I.P. Bob … such an amazing and charismatic man who did so much for ski racing. We will miss you!” Vonn wrote .

Over his career, Beattie worked four Winter Games, along with calling volleyball at the ‘84 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He also was involved with ABC’s Wide World of Sports and hosted a ski show for ESPN. In 1984, he was inducted into the U.S. ski and snowboard hall of fame .

Beattie also found time to author several books on skiing and started a kids program in the Aspen Valley that flourishes today. The family is planning a celebration with the ski club this fall.

“He influenced a lot of people,” his son said.

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How to watch Alpine skiing downhill at the Winter Olympics: A guide to understanding and appreciating the sport

What time is the Alpine skiing downhill on at the Olympics? Plus all the rules, streaming information, listings and more you need.

There is no sport that captures the speed, danger, and excitement of the downhill Alpine skiing event at the Winter Olympics. On Saturday, Feb. 10, the top skiers in the world will help kick off the Olympics with one of the games’ most breathtaking events.

Downhill skiing is the purest distillation of the sport — a race that drops more than half a mile in elevation where men and women compete against the mountain, the stopwatch, and themselves. The fastest competitor takes home the gold in one of Pyeongchang’s simplest competitions.

The men’s race has been one of the games’ most competitive events in the past eight years. In both 2010 and 2014, the top three racers were all separated by one-tenth of a second or less. No one has ever won gold in the event more than once.

But the women’s side provides much more intrigue. Lindsey Vonn is back for America after missing the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, due to injury. She’ll look to reclaim her 2010 title in the event after winning three straight downhill races on the World Cup circuit leading up to the women’s race on Feb. 20.

What time and how can I watch?

Men’s final

Date: Feb. 10, 2018

Time: 9 p.m. ET

Location: Jeongseon Alpine Centre, Jeongseon, South Korea

TV: NBC

Streaming: NBC Sports

Women’s final

Date: Feb. 20, 2018

Time: 9 p.m. ET

Location: Jeongseon Alpine Centre, Jeongseon, South Korea

TV: NBC

Streaming: NBC Sports

You can also live stream NBC, NBCSN, and the Olympic Channel coverage via Fubo.TV on your computer or mobile devices.

Why should I quit my job and become a lifelong devotee of downhill Alpine skiing?

Downhill is pure excitement and little bureaucracy. Here’s a path down a mountain -- get to the bottom as quickly as possible.

Are there jumps? Hell yes there are jumps. Crazy turns? Well, not as crazy as in the slalom events, but yes. Are people going to crash and send chunks of broken skis into low-earth orbit at 85 miles an hour? MAYBE.

And with just one shot at climbing the podium, every racer on the mountain is going to bust their ass to get there, taking every risk to achieve the sport’s ultimate goal. There is no event that combines risk and urgency quite like the downhill.

What are the rules of downhill Alpine skiing? Follow up: What is the weirdest rule of downhill Alpine skiing?

It’s the simplest race on the mountain. While events like the slalom and giant slalom take the combined time from two races to declare a champion, downhill skiers get one official shot at the mountain — though they have three days of practice runs leading up to the event and have to log at least one official timed training run before the big day. Racers have to stay on a preplanned course and pass through staged gates on their way down the mountain — missing one means disqualification.

The weirdest rule? The mountain has to be extremely scary. For men, the course must drop between 800 and 1,100 meters for World Cup events — more than half a mile. The expectation is less for women — from 450 to 800 meters.

What can I talk about to impress the downhill Alpine skiing enthusiast in my life?

As cool as the jumps on the course are, racers want to keep their skis on the snow as much as possible to gain speed and increase control. Efficient speed is gained by carving through snow, not skidding. Gravity is the thing that makes you go fast.

Whose jersey should I buy?

Vonn’s combination of speed and strength made her one of America’s most popular Olympians in 2010. She’s got plenty to prove coming in to this year’s event and tremendous momentum after winning her last three World Cup events. With 2014 co-winners Tina Maze and Dominique Gisin retired, the safe money is on a Vonn victory. Maybe get on that bandwagon early.

On the men’s side, the event is impressively unpredictable. In the last four Olympics, 12 different skiers have taken the medal stand — proving the volatility of a sport where the world’s best athletes are separated by a fraction of a second. In 2014, Austrian Matthias Mayer took the gold. He’s still only 27 years old, and he’ll be bigger and stronger as he attempts to become the first male skier to ever repeat atop the podium in the downhill event.

What is the sport’s AMERICA RATING?

Well, it’s skiing, which is a time-honored pastime for upper middle-class families in the northeast and across the Rocky Mountains. But it’s also like hockey or lacrosse, where you need a lot of money, time, and equipment to participate. So it’s kind of self-segregating, which makes it pretty damn American despite its European roots.

Two of America’s most well-known athletes will compete in the event. Ted Ligety has won a pair of Olympic gold medals, but is better known for his slalom mastery than his straightaway speed. Vonn won gold in the downhill event in Vancouver, and 2018 may be her last chance to prove she ha overcome the torn ACL that prevented her from competing in Sochi.

America rating: Four bald eagles (out of five)

What’s the best GIF I can watch from downhill Alpine skiing?

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