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kristipetersenschoonover · 2 months ago
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34 ORCHARD ISSUE 10 IS HERE!
This issue plunges into the cavern of feeling forlorn, lost, and left behind; sasquatches, mermaids, street dwellers, siblings and jobseekers watch as the world chugs on without them. But although abandonment may feel like a death knell, we shouldn’t underestimate its positive power: a woman seeks justice, a grieving spouse turns grateful, and a mother finds strength. If you’re feeling forgotten…
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queer-ragnelle · 6 months ago
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Hi! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for some pre-Chrétien Kay appearances? From what I understand the versions differ a lot, and the guy intrigues me even more
Thank you in advance!
Hi anon!
There aren't a ton of pre-Chrétien Kay appearances, mostly Welsh stuff, plus Geoffrey of Monmouth. But I recommend them, they're fun!
The Black Book of Carmarthen
The Mabinogion translated by Lady Charlotte Guest
The Welsh Triads translated by Rachel Bromwich
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth translated by Aaron Thompson
The Quest for Olwen by Gwyn Thomas & Kevin Crossley-Holland
The last one is a picture book I scanned myself. It's beautifully illustrated by Margaret Jones. Cai and Bedwyr are even on the cover! Lastly, I'll give you a handful of "academic" or informational resources which will undoubtedly give you some more to chew on.
Warriors of Arthur by John Matthews, Bob Stewart, & illustrated by Richard Hook
Cei & The Arthurian Legend by Linda Gowens
Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court by Harold J. Herman
The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy & Geoffrey Ashe
The Arthurian Companion by Phyllis Ann Karr
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacy
You'll see several of these author names popping up repeatedly (just look at all the people Harold J. Herman cites!). These fellow Arthurian enthusiasts reference each other and collaborate frequently. All to provide us with this Kay content! Enjoy!
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acknowledge-reigns · 2 months ago
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Random thought this afternoon.
Reason 5,000 why the bloodline is so beautifully done and why what Roman, Jey etc have done over the last four years is simply a different level...
The connection of bloodline fans. Here me out. Yeah we each have our own faves. Example being Roman is my #1, but I still adore the twins and I think for a lot of us, they've made their characters so intricately connected that it's hard to love one without having some level of appreciation for the others.
Even post implosion with them going their seperate ways and beefing, all subsets of the bloodline fandom remained interlocked in that. Whereas a faction say for example like Imperium. Giovanni left and his subset of imperium fans sort've naturally broke off. TJD broke up and Rhea and Damian fans had a natural break off from Finn (not so much Dom? Idk) etc. When Edge left TJD, His fans split off in a natural break. Of course all of this is generalization to some extent because their are Edge fans who are also Rhea fans and Gio fans who are also Gunther fans etc, and this obviously isn't shade or hate to any wrestler/fandom/faction.
It's funny because bloodline fans almost recreate their family structure. Sure I'm a Roman Stan, but I love my Uso stan cousins. Sure you might be a Jey stan, but I know you love your Jimmy stan twins.
The bloodline has captured this magical nostalgia of cutting pictures out of a magazine and gossiping with your girlies about which Jonas Brother is hottest. Even though each and every one of them make you giggle and melt like a tween who just took a personality quiz in J-14/Tiger Beat that said Harry Styles is their soulmate.
Side note for my fellow JoBro girlies who grew up to be bloodline women - Roman is Joe (frontman, most popular, heartthrob), Jey is Nick (cutey, successful solo career, broke off from the others), Jimmy is Kevin (funny, cute and underrated), Solo is Frankie (that lil brother that tags along). I do not make the rules.
Either way I say all this to say I love that they each have their own individual careers, accomplishments and personalities and we love each of them individually and yet they've made their carrers so incredibly connected forever. The only similar faction in that way is the shield but this is even stronger.
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jules-has-notes · 27 days ago
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Warriors — VoicePlay music video
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When the guys started planning this project a few months earlier, they just wanted to record a cool song and make a visually interesting music video. Little did they know that it would be the last thing they filmed before events that felt like the end of the world happened in real life. The song's message of defiant resiliance was very needed, and they absolutely did it justice.
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title: Warriors
original performers: Imagine Dragons
written by: Alexander "Alex da Kid" Grant, Josh Mosser, Abbie McGowan, Daniel Platzman, Dan Reynolds, & Wayne Sermon
arranged by: Layne Stein
release date: 20 March 2020
My favorite bits:
the gentle opening harmonies under Layne's mournful violin
starting with just their two lowest voices, then gradually layering in each singer and instrument to fill out the sound
Eli starting in a lovely clear tone, then adding just a touch of grit as the song builds in emotion
J.None getting in on the instrumental action with a little pizzicato
the wavering half-step violin line that enhances the mounting tension of the lyrics
their repeated use of moments of silence to build anticipation
the stomping percussion that sounds like marching
Earl's high, laser precise proclamation of ♫ "Heeere we are" ♫
the matching descent in Layne's violin part and Geoff's bass line in the middle of the first chorus
Layne providing his own contrary motion with ascending violin and syncopated descending tom hits 🎻 🥁
J's soft falsetto ♫ "from dust" ♫ that allows the first ♫ "WHOA" ♫ to smack you in the face with a wall of sound
the isolated start of Geoff's deep note contrasted with the stacatto harmonies of ♫ "here. we. are. don't. turn. a-way." ♫
Geoff's drop at the end of ♫ ⇘ "diii-IIIES" ⇘ ♫ under the other voices rising and crescendoing
that plaintive ♫ "Dooon't turn awaaay" ♫ counterpoint from J.None
the wind-down effect at the end of ♫ "built this town" ♫
that quick patter of ♫ "we built this town so don't turn away" ♫ punctuated by Eli's belted ♫ "NOOOW" ♫
the lush final unison in their respective octaves
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Trivia:
This was the last video the guys recorded before Covid quarantine began, and their last location shoot for quite a while after.
The warehouse isn't an acutal abandoned building. It's a space owned by Best Shot Studios in nearby Sanford, FL specifically for such purposes.
They transported their gear to the location in a vehicle borrowed from Allen Arellano, father of Adriana who they'd featured in their "Frozen 2 medley" video a few months earlier.
Aesthetically, this is the first in a loose series of videos with a post-apocalyptic setting that has been continued in "Dream On" and "Seven Nation Army".
Although VoicePlay often make their vocal arrangements a little faster than the original compositions to maintain the listeners' interest, this one is slightly slowed down, which takes it from a frantic tempo to a more tempered determination. It also allowed them to show off their skills by adding more riffs and runs.
There is technically a B0 that can be heard in Geoff's vocals, but it was created artificially in post-production. He didn't actually record that note on his own until their "Halo theme" cover (also a Layne arrangement) a year and a half later.
Their seemingly scrounged costumes were once again created by stylist Tanya Buzu, who had previously dressed them for their "Beautiful Low" and "No Diggity / Shape of You" mashups in early 2017, as well as "Oogie Boogie's Song" the previous Halloween.
This video led to the coining of the nickname "VioLayne", an elusive and celebrated figure in VP lore who only appears when most needed. He's been playing since he was four years old.
The similarities of beatboxer-with-a-stringed-instrument led to many YouTube commenters suggesting a collaboration with Kevin Olusola from Pentatonix, who plays cello, and/or fellow violinist Lindsey Serling.
Other commenters were insistant that a single instrument in a single vocal arrangement made it "not real a cappella". 🙄 (I can be a pedant sometimes, but come on.)
The music video for the original song was used to promote the 2014 League of Legends World Championship. VoicePlay would cover another ID / LoL collaboration two years later with their version of the Arcane theme song "Enemy" featuring AleXa.
The guys got hyped up for filming by having a bit of a dance party during final rehearsals on location.
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Geoff enjoyed that he got to keep his usual jewelry on, even in the grunginess of their wasteland aesthetic.
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A couple of fans were inspired to capture the guys' post-apocalyptic looks in art.
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drawings by Leon King
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drawing by R. Mogiri (モギリ)
In a comment on VP's Instagram promo post, founding member Scott Porter asked why the guys are "always so dirty" in their more elaborate videos. (He got a chance to find out first hand a little over a year later.)
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awkwardchaosposts · 4 months ago
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Dilf Chishiya
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(Part 1)
Please note: this is not proofread and has a long introduction. All of this is fiction and does not reflect actual people or places
Trigger warning: mentions of absent mother and arranged marriage
/⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\/⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\/⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\/⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\/⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\/⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\
Shuntaro has always been picture perfect and ensured he was successful enough to deserve Chishiya as his last name. He had a stable job,he was well educated and mannered,he married young. He hadn't even met her before their engagement party.
They weren't rude to each other. Just ...disconnected and indifferent. His now ex wife felt caged in by their arranged marriage and expectations from their families. Thus she abruptly left him and their daughter when Etsuko was only four months old. He was angry at first but in some way he understood his ex wife's pain she must've felt
"You can't have tomato sauce for breakfast" He said firmly to which his daughter protested.
"Nuh uh"
"We are not having this discussion. You can either have cereal or pb and j. Take your pick"
"I want a tomato sauce sandwich!"
Despite his stern parenting style he had a soft spot. Besides it was already 7am and he had work soon. This wasn't a hill he was ready to die on "Fine but eat your fruit first"
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"What you looking at?" the sound of a fellow coworker made him look up from the pamphlets. His thirty minute lunch break was the only time he really got to look over these things.
"Schools"
"So soon? isn't she like 5?"
"She's six" He corrected Kevin and hummed in response when the rookie spoke about how "They grow up so fast" He knew that already. He doesn't need a reminder
"So..." Kevin awkwardly stood there and tried to revive this deadbeat conversation "Where were you thinking of sending her? I heard Ducky's Primary is such a sweet school"
He held back a scoff. Ducky's Primary? No,no. Chishiya wouldn't send his daughter to a mediocre school. She deserves the best education so she can succeed.
"I was thinking more of something like Sakura Primary"
He didn't like how Kevin laughed at his mention of the school. Chishiya despite being a single parent earned a stable income due to being a surgeon. So why the hell was this guy laughing?
"What's so funny?"
"Nah man I'm not laughing at you I just- Sakura Primary? I mean...that place is super hard to get into. I don't think they even allow single parents" it's unfortunate but a child with only one parent was still seen as a taboo where they lived.
The problem was he'd never even thought a that.
"You ok man?" Kevin leaned in "You look a little tense"
"I'm fine"
Well that was just a lie
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"You know you can always lie"
"And you don't think they'll get suspicious when my supposed 'wife' never shows up for the interview or school events?"
"Touché." Kuina acknowledged. Shuntaro had a big problem. She knew how badly he wanted Etsuko to get a good education "And you're absolutely sure that Akira wouldn't agree to attend?"
"She hasn't been here for almost over six years. I don't even know where she is right now"
"I don't know. Hire an actor" she jokingly suggested
"Yeah cause that's normal"
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"Did you have fun today?" he asked while washing his daughter's hair for her. Her eyes were squeezed shut despite it being a no tears shampoo for small kids.
"Mhm! we made paper masway hats" the kindergardener talked about her day with such enthusiasm,he couldn't help but but smile in return
"Paper masway? You mean paper mache?"
"No it's paper masway!"
With a chuckle he shook his head but kept his opinions to himself "Alright,alright. Paper masway"
He rinsed out the shampoo twice just to be sure before helping her out of the tub "Time for bed"
"I want Green eggs and ham"
He was about to tell her no since he had work that he needed to get to but the man stopped himself. "Hmm fine but then it's lights out after that"
Chishiya's aware he can't be the perfect parent. No one can. They were only human. But he always swore to himself that he'd be better than his parents were. He'd make sure she'd never have to cry about missed recitals or feel ignored. He'd ensure she knows she's loved and cared for. Always
That night he stayed up late with paper work when " Hire an actor" Kuina's light-hearted words replayed in his head.
Maybe he was desperate or tired but the suggestion didn't sound as crazy right now.
He searched for over an hour when he finally found something 'Findyourfamily.tom'
The more he looked into this the more skeptical he was what kind of website it was. Would he really stoop so low as to hire him a wife for the day. How was he going to explain that to Etsuko?
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Being an actor hired to be people's wife, sister,mother,etc wasn't exactly your dream job but it pays well and sometimes it's kind of fun. You always get creeps with this kind of job though.
With an exhausted sigh you plopped down in bed while scrolling through your emails. Business was drying up recently so seeing a message from a new customer was a nice surprise. It was from this guy going by the email ChishiyaShuntaroCo with the subject heading reading 'I need your help'
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lenbryant · 2 months ago
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(Long post) Democrats rally behind first out transgender member of Congress, decry Republican attacks
By Kevin RectorStaff Writer 
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At a Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday, Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) watched as colleagues approached and offered their support to Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who will soon be sworn in as the first out transgender member of Congress.
“We have your back,” Balint recalled her fellow representatives telling McBride. “We stand with you.”
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Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) in 2022.
(Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / Associated Press)
According to Balint, co-chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, many Democratic members are excited to welcome and meet McBride — not just as a queer history-maker, but as a new colleague whose reputation as an effective state legislator in Delaware preceded her to Washington.
The support has been intentionally loud, Balint said, because Democrats also want to send an unequivocal message to House Republicans who have targeted McBride with comments and actions in recent days that Democrats “are not going to retreat” on transgender rights.
“We have to absolutely recommit ourselves to this fight, for protecting everyone’s inherent dignity,” Balint said.
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) leaves the speaker’s office at the Capitol in 2023.
(J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
Mace said her measures, which would require approval, are to protect women and girls, then launched a new line of merchandise to profit off her stance. She has previously espoused support for LGBTQ+ rights.
In issuing his bathroom rule, which falls under his purview as speaker, Johnson said, “Women deserve women’s-only spaces.” He also noted that all members have private bathrooms within their offices — though those can be far from the House floor.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks at an October campaign rally for Donald Trump.
(Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Access to bathrooms has long been an issue for women at the Capitol, which originally operated on the presumption that legislators were men. Only after more and more women won seats in Congress and called out the dearth of facilities for them did the issue get resolved.
With the latest measures targeting McBride, Democrats say they are struggling to combat fresh discrimination in the same sphere — a backsliding they view as particularly cruel for its targeting of a single incoming legislator, and extra alarming for its potential to harm other queer people who visit or work in the Capitol.
“This incredibly craven and cruel attack directed at [McBride] was certainly intended to dehumanize her before she has even been sworn in, but it actually doesn’t just affect our first trans member of Congress,” Balint said. “It impacts all of the people who work on Capitol Hill who identify as trans and nonbinary. It impacts the reporters who cover the Hill that identify as trans and nonbinary. And it also impacts every single one of our constituents who come into the halls of Congress to meet with us.”
Speaking out in opposition to the measures is about supporting McBride, who is “a serious legislator” and wants to get to work on a range of tough issues without having to worry about where she can get to a toilet, Balint said. But it is also about “showing the LGBTQ community across the country that we are standing up for them and pushing back.”
The debate follows an election cycle steeped in anti-transgender rhetoric, when many Republicans — including President-elect Donald Trump — took to ridiculing Democrats over their support for transgender equality as a central campaign message, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in collective ad spending.
“The Republican Party has laser-focused on transgender inclusion as something that it wants to roll back, and so the exciting addition of the first openly trans member of Congress has prompted a hideous response — which is [for them] to participate in an ad hominem attack that takes the form of exclusion,” said Kate Redburn, co-director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School.
Democrats have at times struggled to respond to the barrage of Republican attacks. However, in the last week, they seem to have landed on an approach out of McBride’s own playbook in Delaware — where she won a statewide congressional seat not by running away from her transgender identity and support for queer rights, but by contextualizing them alongside other important issues, such as the cost of living and access to healthcare.
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said she will be proud to serve alongside Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
(Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press)
“They should take a page out of Rep-Elect McBride’s book,” Pressley wrote, “and focus on actually governing.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) similarly questioned Republicans’ decision to start the next Congress by “bullying” McBride instead of focusing on real issues. “This is what we’re doing?” he said.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who has a transgender grandson and has been outspoken against past anti-LGBTQ+ measures, hit a similar note in an interview Thursday, in which she called the Republican measures attacking McBride “absolutely outrageous” and “completely out of line.”
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) called the measures attacking McBride “absolutely outrageous” and “completely out of line.”
(Andrew Harnik / Associated Press)
In her own remarks, McBride has acknowledged what many view as the bigotry at the root of the Republican measures, but also tried to refocus the conversation on getting things done for her constituents. 
“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families,” she said in a statement Wednesday. She said Johnson’s rules were an “effort to distract from the real issues facing this country,” but that she wouldn’t let them distract her — even as she follows them.
On Thursday, she made clear that she will work to ensure Capitol Hill is safe for everyone, including her LGBTQ+ constituents, but doesn’t plan on allowing “a right wing culture war machine�� to turn her identity “into the issue.”
Lisa Goodman, a longtime LGBTQ+ activist in Delaware and friend of McBride’s, said the representative-elect’s family and friends back home “are disappointed that this is how people who are going to be her colleagues are greeting her.”
But they aren’t worried, Goodman said, because they know McBride is capable of navigating such waters.
“She can handle these attacks and keep focused on what is the big picture — what is important in the big picture — like no one I have ever met,” Goodman said.
Goodman said McBride has a rare talent for winning over people, which will serve her well in the coming months, as she gets to know her new colleagues — Democrats and Republicans alike.
“She’s just a deeply good person, and my hope is that, as her Republican colleagues in Congress get to know her, they will see her as a person and not as some unknown member of the trans community who they feel it’s OK to attack,” Goodman said.
Balint said several Republican House members have told her in private that they support the LGBTQ+ community and don’t support divisive policies. She said she hopes McBride’s kindness and humanity in the face of such attacks will bring those Republicans to her side — and maybe even inspire them to take a stand for her.
“It is their time to finally show some courage,” Balint said. “I’m asking them to stand up for the basic, inherent dignity of all of us here in this building.”
Times staff writer Andrea Castillo, in Washington, contributed to this report.
Rep. McBride's grace and political savvy are good signs for trans rights everywhere. If anyone can enlighten these conservative weirdos, she can. At least the ones that aren't there just to be culture warriors.
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winterchimez · 1 year ago
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describe your relationship with your moots using tbz ships!!
weeee i haven’t done a moot game in a while and i do miss it!! im gonna just tag the ones i talk to often so im sorry if you’re not on the list ><
@sungbeam (sangyeon & changmin)
im not saying this just cs ive assigned both of us to our biases, but yknow how sangkyu are always real sweet to each other thats us 🥺 but at the same time yall know how changmin is always hitting his hyung thats beam when she bites back 🤓 and the way how changmin always say “ah hyung!” when he gets annoyed thats beam to me when the *cough* horny thoughts are at its peak ✨ but i always imagine us as the sangkyu piggyback vid from the b-zone cs you’re my precious lil 妹妹 🥺💕
@juyeonszn (sangyeon & haknyeon)
remember when sunwoo said sanghak is the best ship in tbz, thats me and fawn periodt ✨ never in a million years would i have expected to get close to her (cs god i was admiring her works sm 🤧) but now we’re like long lost sisters 🥺 you’re the hakkie to my yeonnie, and i’ll protect you forever 🫂❤️
@from-izzy (jacob & kevin)
who would’ve thought i’d find my soulmate all the way in australia? its crazy how we went from just getting to know each other, and then finding out we have so much in common (i’d say almost 99.9999% of the things we do & enjoy) like its crazy how we’re not placed in the same continent 😤 we’re basically moonbae and nobody can tell me otherwise 💅 btw pack your bags bcs i might be able to visit you next year along with j either in mel or syd!!!
@daisyvisions (sangyeon & eric)
we all know how sangyeon basically cares for his lil baby eric 24/7 and thats daisy to me 🥺 but then we’re also super chaotic behind the scenes which also screams sangric to me LMAO trust me the day we meet irl the world would not be ready for it 😤🫂❤️
@aimeecarreros (sangyeon & hyunjae)
we just gotten close recently and omg i can’t believe i was able to click so quickly and well with elena like she’s so funny & chaotic and I LOVE IT 🤣 sangmil will forever be one of my fav ships and that’ll be me and you 🥰
@snowflakewhispers (sunwoo & eric)
my fellow SEA moot who lives so so close to where i am 🥹 its funny how we gradually got close after that sangyeon fic you dropped and the rest is history 😌 i think the way we relate to so many things is actually what made us become to close & chaotic (god i love our dms i love the mess and we singing gimme gimme more) we’re sunric fs 😘❤️
@flwoie @hanniluvi (sangyeon & jacob)
you two are literally the sweetest lil cuties ever 🥺 from supporting my work since the beginning of my journey like im floored im beyond grateful for you two always 🫂💕
@heemingyu (chanhee & changmin)
we literally have an ongoing series tgt + that way we just clicked from the start is insane. we’re newkyu. i said what i said. sana is WILD which makes me give her the side eye 24/7 but then its what made us close, and the way how newkyu are always tgt thats also me & sana 🤞🏻
@cloverdaisies (hyunjae & haknyeon)
omg where do i even begin!! we go wayyyy back during summer when i was still in EU and when i found out we live literally next to each other i was just????? im sad i didn’t get to know you earlier cs i would’ve come visit you when i was there!! but i promise i will do everything i can to come back UK one day fs (i said what i said so dont come for me again vajfbrnrhrjd) you’re literally hyunjae. sweet but also likes to tease & like seeing me lose my shit 🙄 but i love hyunjae so that also means i love you so i’ll let it pass 💚
@justalildumpling (jacob & sunwoo)
ahahahaha the chaotic parent and child duo is here 🤪 j is literally the sweetest to me when we first met, only later down the line when we got closer that i found out abt her chaotic ass (but i love it so keep it coming LMAO) my little dongsaeng ilysm, i’ll always be here whenever you need me (gurl for you i’ll stay on call with you for 24 hours again 😤😤😤) counting down the days i come visit you & izzy!! 💪
@zzoguri (sunwoo & changmin)
i was debating to put jacob but then i think sunkyu works slightly better for us? pls moni is so sweet but also REALLY FUNNY AND CHAOTIC shjendnrnd i love their reactions i love going through your stories all the time cs they make me laugh 😭 and you have such a good taste in music just like changmin 🥺 you can interchange between these two and you always have a special place in my heart my moni 💜
@itsbeeble (younghoon & hyunjae)
yknow how in tv shows they put this gold light or smth with the audio for the main charas/good looking ppl lmao bsjfbekrm thats bbangmil and that would be us so yall better make way for us 😤😤😤 we’re as chaotic as the two, esp with how reese is always getting me to sleep early BUT THEN I DONT 🤓 and we’re both swifties ugh love a fellow good woman who listens to good songs 💕💕💕
@kimsohn (younghoon & eric)
its only ever since coming back to asia that i got to spend more time talking to you in the gc!! (timezone sucks in EU 😭) and god you are so funny and chaotic too lmao bandndm you’re just like eric, but then yknow how younghoon is always the first one to support and care for the maknae thats me to you 🥺❤️
honorary mentions:
@daisyvisions @aimeecarreros (the lee bros)
make way for the 3 grand sangmil girlies ✨💅 our everyday dms are always loud, chaotic, fun, and a sprinkle of msg aka sexiness 🥰✨ the day the 3 of us meet it would make history in deobiland istg watch us get a ring on our finger by the lee bros themselves bcs delulu is free and it’s the solulu 😚
@cloverdaisies @heemingyu (the kyeopmuda line)
the OG trio ✨ it went from me being moots with clo, and then sana being clo’s biggest fan, made a gc and the rest is history 😌 the 3 of us could talk for hours and often times way past our bed times (esp clo im looking at you pls fix it) just like how close kyeopmuda line is, thats also the 3 of us, we’ve always got each other’s back, and always ready to text and vc anytime 🫂 looking forward to the holidays when the 3 of us are free and we’ll vc for hours fs 😤❤️
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sealovinq · 5 months ago
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hai its time for the kelcy lore dump 🎤 aside from jose, are there other fellow survivors you think kelcy would get along with and why 🥺🎤
ooohhh girl you got my brain racking for this 😩
ngl many of the survivors are fucked up in their own ways 😭 especially in jose's match, they seem to be extremely distrusting of each other. hell, two of them are even murderers. kelcy is just a Girl idk if she can handle them /j
however, if it has to be someone from the match, i think she'd at least get along with vera well. kelcy sympathizes with vera because she herself has a second identity and knows how it feels to want to forget traumatic memories. she just... doesn't approve of vera's way of coping, but she understands the perfumer nonetheless.
everyone else is just... eh. 😭 edgar is arrogant and will most likely see her as inferior, kevin does respect her but would berate and question her why she married jose, and patricia is a literal enchantress who puts curses on people. idk what else to tell you /lh
i don't know enough of the other survivors to determine how they would treat kelcy... she could be acquaintances with norton because she does portray herself as middle class and most likely won't tell him her true identity. if we somehow connect kelcy and irene in their lore, then that idea would be even more plausible. though idk how he'll react when he finds out kelcy is married to a noble, but i'm sure his future wife can convince him. :3
kelcy could also be potentially friends with demi, since the barmaid does go to the manor a little later after jose's match. plus, her brother is a drinking buddy of jose's, i'm pretty sure kelcy would be friends with the guy as well. as such, she would be fond of demi and spend time with her.
if it can be anyone, even if their canon time lines are far apart, kelcy would be friends with/mother figures to helena and naib.
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Welcome to my blog friends
As you guessed from my bio, I am a Steven Stoughton irl. My source media is the pokepasta Strangled Red (and the other parts Door’s Open and Strangled) and you may have heard of me from the FNF mods Hypno’s Lullaby or Pokepasta Perdition. Apart from irl/fictionkin, I am also otherkin.
Other irls include:
Grey (currently exclusive to FNF Hypno’s Lullaby mod) [weaker irl] 💿🪦
Alternate!Cesar Torres (Mandela Catalogue) ☎️🥀
Kevin (Spooky Month) 🍬💢
Adam Murray (Mandela Catalogue) 👁️‍🗨️🍎
Inosuke Hashibira (Demon Slayer) 🐗🗡️
John Doe (John Doe) 👁️🦷 (has a separate blog @lil-doedoe +18 ONLY)
Hank J. Wimbleton (Madness Combat) 💣🎱 (has yet another separate blog @bl00dysexpxrty but warning for weapons and violence)
Vincent Charbonneau (Dead Plate) 🔪🥩
I also kin (but not to an irl extent like Steven):
Astarion (Baldur’s Gate 3) 🦇
Kotoko Utsugi (Danganronpa) 🎀
Ruby (Pokespe) 🧵
Kuromi (Sanrio) 😈
Medic (Team Fortress 2) 🏥
Mukuro Ikusaba (Danganronpa) ⛓
Seiko Kimura (Danganronpa) 💊
Kirumi Tojo (Danganronpa) 🕸
Tavros Nitram (Homestuck) ♉️
Giyu Tomioka (Demon Slayer) 🌊
Nezuko Kamado (Demon Slayer) 🎋
Black Pearl Cookie (Cookie Run Kingdom) 🔱
Randall Purpura (Purple) ☔️
Astolfo (FGO) 💗
Rosaria (Genshin Impact) 🛐
Lisa (Genshin Impact) (we even share the same birthday!!) 📚
Tate Frost (Purple/Frost Bite) (except he’s super fucking cunty /hj) 🪓
Maison Talo (House Hunted) (MIGHT be irl but I’m not sure yet) 🏠
Pest (Roblox Regretevator) (questioning if irl) 🪲
Deimos (Madness Combat) ⌨️ [and maybe the rest of S.Q./Sanford and 2BDamned but I feel like that’s something else as a whole..]
And many more to come… (these lists are subjected to change)
(More below the cut):
My otherkin types (this list subjected to change):
Alternatekin (like the Mandela Catalogue)
Vampirekin
Dollkin
Eldritchkin
Cryptidkin (more specifically, Mothman)
⚠️ Warning!! ⚠️
This blog may possibly contain shocking, terrifying or suggestive content that may not be suitable for certain ages or people. Viewer discretion is advised.
If you choose to ignore this warning and enter this blog intentionally regardless of what I have said, then so be it. I’m not warning you again so don’t blame me for your negligence and inability to obey my rules.
Minors!! This also applies to you too. Don’t be looking at stuff you shouldn’t be looking at and go.
Also, don’t like what you see? Then move along or just block me. I don’t want to deal with you throwing a tantrum over my stuff.
Who is welcome:
Fans of FNF Hypno’s Lullaby or Pokepasta Perdition
Irl or fictionkin
Autistic/any form of neurodivergent
LGBTQ+
Vampire lovers
Weirdcore/dreamcore/nostalgiacore (tw for derealization?)
Creepypasta/pokepasta/general horror fans
Vintage/retro/silent film lovers
Goth, Emo, EGL, anyone alt
Roblox players
If you like male yandere/crazy boy dating sims
Fellow horror villain/slasher kinnies and irls (so I feel less lonely and learn to accept myself more)
General people who aren’t fucking assholes
DNI:
Basics (racist kkk nazi shit, homo/transphobe, allow cringe culture, pro harassment, ableist, always bringing some kind of discourse in normal spaces /s, etc)
Anti otherkin, fictionkin, irl, etc (why are you even here?)
Anti xenos/neopronouns (they’re not that hard to use but no pressure)
Minors (remember: some of the content here may not be suitable for anyone under 18)
If you judge others quickly/make fun of them based on their irl/kintypes or forbid someone from dating another because of their irls/kintypes (I love my partner dearly and I will make sure you understand that)
If you make fun of someone for their interests
General shitty people
I also tend to block freely, so if I see something that makes me feel uncomfortable in your blog then I apologize in advance
Interact with caution:
Steven simps: Some of you guys are.. interesting to say the least. But PLEASE do not be weird to me because I am a person with feelings too.
Astarion simps: While not as bad as the two above me, I humbly request that you don’t obsess over me.
Ruby haters: Yes people are allowed to have opinions but don’t let it be your whole personality. And this is not a place to express how much you hate me/Ruby.
Medic simps: I’ve only seen a few but Medic simps seem to be like Steven simps. Please please PLEASE don’t be weird to me because I won’t accept your feelings.
Alt!Cesar simps: I was once a Cesar simp denying his feelings until I found out I was an irl of him. And oh my god the simps are no different than Steven simps. And for that reason I really don’t want you to be weird to me please.
Adam simps/haters: It just gets better/worse. If you’re here to slobber over me or be pissy to me I’d rather you not because I am not providing you with anything.
Giyu or Inosuke simps: Why do I keep getting the baddies /j but as per usual don’t be a creep.
And that’s all I have to say. Please be civil and kind on this blog and do NOT spread negativity here. Nobody has time for such trivial stuff and I know I don’t so just be fucking nice and if you see something you don’t like then just leave. I have zero time for your tears.
Have a good day and sending kisses to you all, especially a certain person out there 💋💋💋
-Steven
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SKIDDAD. EXPLODES HIM WITH MY BRAIN
ALSO SO REAL!!! SUNNY X LILA!!! 🪼🪼🪼
I’m a very avid self shipper I will support you bro
HEHEHEHE YEAAHHHH FELLOW SELF SHIPPER TOO!!
I also kinda like Kevin in a romantic sense but I can't tell if that's because he's a fictional man and I just like him, or if that's because I also have daddy issues /j
CARMEN X CLOWNAZON IS ALSO VERY REALLLL!!!
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“The Texas Observer’s 2023 Must-Read Lone Star Books” by Senior Editor Lise Olsen, with help from Susan Post of Austin's Bookwoman:
Despite a disturbing rise in book bans, Texas is, against all odds, becoming more and more of a literary hub with authors winning accolades, indie bookstores popping up from Galveston Island to El Paso, and ban-busting librarians and other book-lovers throwing festivals. So as you ponder gifts this holiday season or consider what to read by the fire or by the pool (who can say in December?), pick some Lone Star lit. 
Here’s a list of #MustRead 2023 books by Texans or about Texas compiled by the Observer staff with help from Susan Post of Austin’s independent Bookwoman. (Several talented Texans also made best book lists in Slate magazine, The New Yorker, and NPR’s Books We Love.)
NONFICTION
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Dallas journalist Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a dramatic takedown of the Texas foster care and family court system. It’s both a compelling narrative and an investigative tour de force.
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Simon & Schuster) by Ricardo Nuila, a Houston physician and author, is an eye-opening and surprisingly optimistic read. Nuila delves deeply into what’s wrong with modern medicine by painting rich portraits of the patients he’s treated (and befriended) while working at Harris County’s Ben Taub Hospital, which offers free or low-cost—yet high-quality—care against all odds. Each of them had been forced into impossible positions and suffered additional trauma from obstacles and gaps in insurance, corporate medicine, and Big Pharma.
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and a Legacy of Rage (Simon & Schuster) by Fort Worth journalist Jeff Guinn is one of two books that mark the 30th anniversary of the standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents that ended with 86 deaths. (The other is Waco Rising by Kevin Cook.) Both authors recount how the 1993 tragedy shaped other extremist leaders in America—and still influences separatist movements today.
Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (University of Texas Press) by Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay has been described as the quintessential Steely Dan book. As part of the project, LeMay, a native Houstonian, created 109 whimsical portraits of characters that sprang from the musicians’ lyrics and legends. In a review, fellow artist Melissa Messer wrote: “Looking at Joan’s oeuvre makes me feel tipsy, or like I’ve drunk Wonka’s Fizzy Lifting Drink and I’m swimming through the air after her, searching for the same vision.”
Memoir
Black Cameleon: Memory, Womanhood and Myth(Macmillan) by Debra D.E.E.P. Mouton, the former Houston poet Laureate, shares lyrical memories of her own life mixed with ample asides on Black culture and family lore. Her storylines sink deeply into a dream world, and yet readers emerge without forgetting her deeper messages.
Leg: The Story of a Limb and a Boy Who Grew from It (Abrams Books) by Greg Marshall of Austin has been described as “a hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy.” NPR’s Scott Simon, who interviewed Marshall, described the memoir as “intimate, and I mean that in all ways—insightful and often laugh-out-loud funny.”
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Penguin Random House) by Ruth J. Simmonsis a powerful memoir from the Grapeland native who became the president of Brown University and thus, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons begins by sharing stories about her parents, who were sharecroppers, and about her life as one of 12 children growing up in a tiny Texas town during the Jim Crow era. For her, the classroom became “a place of brilliant light unlike any our homes afforded.” (Simmons’s other academic credentials include being the former president of Smith College; president of Prairie View A&M University, Texas’s oldest HBCU; and the former vice provost of Princeton.)
Novels and Short Stories
An Autobiography of Skin(Penguin Random House) by Lakiesha Carr weaves together three powerful narratives all featuring Black women from Texas. Carr, a journalist originally from East Texas, plumbs the depths of each character’s struggles, sharing tales of gambling, lost love, abuse, and the power of women to overcome. 
Holler, Child (Penguin Random House), a new short story collection from Latoya Watkins, was long-listed for the National Book Award. Her eleven tales press “at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance,” as the cover description promises, and introduce West Texas-inspired characters irrevocably shaped by place.
The Nursery (Pantheon Books) by Szilvia Molnar—a surprisingly honest, anatomically accurate (and unsettling) novel about new motherhood—begins: “I used to be a translator and now I am a milk bar.” It’s a riveting and original debut by Molnar, who is originally from Budapest, was raised in Sweden, and now lives in Austin.
Two legendary Austin writers weighed in with new novels on our tall stack of Texas goodreads: The Madstone (Little, Brown and Company) by Elizabeth Crook, the 2023 Texas Writer Award winner, and Mr. Texas, a fictional send-up of Texas politics by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright. 
Poetry
Bookwoman’s Susan Post, who contributed titles to our list, also recommends filling your holiday shelves with poetry by and about Texans:
Dream Apartment (Copper Canyon Press) by Lisa Olstein; 
Low (Gray Wolf Press) by Nick Flynn; 
Freedom House by KB Brookins (published by Dallas’ Deep Vellum Bookstore & Publishing Co.) 
Essays
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry (University of Texas Press) edited by George Getchow, contains essays from a who’s who list of Texas writers about Larry McMurtry’s influence on Texas culture and their lives. It includes an array of reflections on history and the writing process as well as anecdotes about McMurtry’s off-beat and innovative life. 
To Name the Bigger Lie (Simon & Schuster) by Sarah Viren, an ex-Texan who now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, (excerpted in Lithub) includes reflections on Viren’s experiences (and misadventures) as an “out” academic and writer in states like Florida, Texas, and Arizona. As she dryly notes, “Critiques of the personal essay, and by extension memoir, are often gendered—not to mention classist and racist and homophobic.” 
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Announcing 34 ORCHARD’s Autumn 2024 ToC!
The ToC for 34 Orchard Issue #10, Autumn 2024, has arrived! In our tenth issue, twenty-two artists appreciate the emotional state of post-abandonment. Sasquatches, mermaids, forgotten street dwellers, siblings and jobseekers all feel sadness, longing, and despair. But although abandonment may feel like a death knell, we shouldn’t underestimate its positive power: Sometimes, things are left behind…
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Start 2025 with a bold step into an unforgettable tale of hope, faith, courage, and destiny! Whether you’ve resolved to read more, support Black creatives, or seek inspiration for the new year, this is your moment to shine.
🌟 What happens when light battles the fiercest darkness?
When ordinary lives are transformed into something extraordinary? When love meets destiny, and two brave souls must choose between fear and faith?
🔥 Meet Kevin Edwards and Juanita Grayson—two ordinary people chosen for an extraordinary mission as Angelo and Angeline, legendary Soldiers of Light Against Darkness, destined to battle the Demon Master and his terrifying legions. Together, they’ll fight alongside fearless allies like Wiseman J, Jeff: Ward of Law, and the rebellion’s bravest warriors in an epic struggle that spans worlds. With hope fading and evil on the rise, they must face the ultimate question: Will they rise and lead the light… or be consumed by the darkness?
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ouat90 · 14 days ago
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Would anyone be willing to gift this Frozen boot? I don't have much to trade but I wanf it so bad.
Frozen
October 23rd 2019 | Broadway
​Charissa Hogeland (u/s Elsa), Patti Murin (Anna), Winter Donnelly (Young Elsa), Fiona Morgan Quinn (Young Anna), Ryann Redmond (Olaf), Noah J Ricketts (Kristoff), Andrew Pirozzi (Sven), Joe Carroll (Hans), Kevin Del Aguila (Oaken), Robert Creighton (Weselton), Donald Jones Jr (Pabbie), Tracee Beazer (Bulda), Nicholas Ward (King Agnarr), MaryAnn Hu (Queen Iduna), Robin Masella (u/s Head Handmaiden), Jacob Smith (Bishop), Kate Bailey (Ensemble), Joe Beauregard (Ensemble), Keely Beirne (Ensemble), Claire Camp (Ensemble), Lauren Nicole Chapman (Ensemble), Jeremy Davis (Ensemble), Nicholas Edwards (Ensemble), Cajai Fellows Johnson (Ensemble), Nina Lafarga (Ensemble), Austin Lesch (Ensemble), Anthony Sagaria (Ensemble), Adam Perry (Ensemble), Jake David Smith (Ensemble)
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dicknelson9988 · 3 months ago
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2024 ASC The China Problem
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2024 ASC The China Problem by Air & Space Forces Association Via Flickr: Air, Space & Cyber Conference.The China Problem — Dr. Brendan Mulvaney, Director, China Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University — Dr. Kevin Pollpeter, Director of Research, China Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University Moderator: J. Michael Dahm, Senior Resident Fellow for Aerospace and China Studies at AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies September 16, 2024. Photo by Mike Tsukamoto/ Air & Space Forces Magazine
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brookstonalmanac · 5 months ago
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Birthdays 8.17
Beer Birthdays
Joy Campbell (1948)
Jennifer Garris (1971)
Shawn Connelly (1972)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Robert De Niro; actor (1943)
Maria McKee; pop singer (1964)
Colin Moulding; English singer-songwriter and bassist (1955)
Maureen O'Hara; Irish-American actor (1920)
Boog Powell; Baltimore Orioles 1B (1941)
Eric Schlosser; writer (1959)
Famous Birthdays
Francesco Albani; Italian painter (1578)
Luther Allison; blues guitarist and singer (1939)
T. J. Anderson; composer (1928)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; English poet (1840)
Sam Butera; saxophonist and bandleader (1927)
Belinda Carlisle; pop musician, singer (1958)
Larry Clinton; trumpet player and bandleader (1909)
Evan S. Connell; novelist, poet, and short story writer (1924)
Davy Crockett; explorer, frontiersman (1786)
Mirella Csikis (porn star; 1994)
Mark Dinning; pop singer (1933)
Sue Draheim; fiddler and composer (1949)
Henry Drummond; Scottish writer (1851)
Larry Ellison; Oracle billionaire (1944)
Julian Fellowes; English actor (1949)
Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1607)
Jonathan Franzen; writer (1959)
Marcus Garvey; Jamaican organizer (1887)
Georgia Gibbs; singer (1919)
Samuel Goldwyn; film producer (1879)
Leslie Groves; general and engineer (1896)
Jon Gruden; football coach (1963)
Sib Hashian; rock drummer (1949)
Ted Hughes; English poet (1930)
Richard Hunt; Muppet performer (1951)
Colin James; pop singer, songwriter (1964)
David Koresh; cult leader (1959)
Oliver Waterman Larkin; historian (1896)
Julia Marlowe; English-American actress (1865)
Herta Müller; Romanian-German poet and author (1953)
V.S. Naipaul; Trinidadian-English writer (1932)
Laurence Overmire; poet (1957)
Duke Pearson; pianist and composer (1932)
Sean Penn; actor (1960)
Rachel Pollack; author (1945)
Francis Gary Powers; pilot (1929)
Dave "Snaker" Ray; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1943)
John Matthew Rispoli; Maltese philosopher (1582)
Larry Rivers; painter and sculptor (1923)
Kevin Rowland; English rock musician (1953)
Jean-Jacques Sempé; French cartoonist (1932)
Gene Stratton-Porter; author (1863)
Gary Talley; guitarist and singer-songwriter (1947)
Guillermo Vilas; tennis player (1952)
Donnie Wahlberg; pop singer (1969)
Mae West; actor (1893)
Monty Woolley; actor (1888)
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