#Michael 5 Morphs

[amomentsescape]

Hey, in a school play thats coming up in a few months and just got back from practice. Feeling super exhausted and under pressure cause I might have to miss a dress rehearsal for an important field trip and I dont want the teacher to be disappointed be like "oh my God that upping bitch ditched the 2nd dress rehearsal to go on some stupid field trip" (leaving this is an almost unreadable color so if it gets made I dont have to see that part and feel anxious again) so can I request slashers with a significant other in that situation and they support them all through it, the anxiety, lines, and coming home super exhausted and feeling discouraged all leading up to the play? Cause its still somthing they're determined and wanna do? Thanks in advance if you decide to write this then ill be rereading it till the play is over and maybe after it. Its probably dumb my feelings about it all seem stupid but I'm nerodivergent and things are just extra for me then most people.

Slashers with Overwhelmed! Reader That's in a School Play

Includes: Freddy, Michael, Jason, Thomas, Bubba, Brahms, Norman, Billy, Stu, Vincent, Bo, & Lester

A/N: Hey, your feelings are very much valid no matter the situation! Thank you for sending in your request, and I hope you find some rest soon <3

Freddy Krueger

He's grown a bit concerned over the past couple of weeks

Seeing you show up in his world with that exhausted look on your face wasn't something he liked to see

Has listened to you rant about the situation while he just held you

But he's also been there to keep you going even when you thought about giving up

If you need help with lines and preparing, he's happy to be of assistance!

Can literally morph the world into a stage for you

Anything that makes you feel a little more at ease is worth it

And he'll happily keep you in his world for however long you desire

Something about being with him helps you get the rest you've so desperately needed recently

Michael Myers

He honestly doesn't understand what the big deal is at first

You're stressed from the busy schedule? Then quit the play

But once you express how important it is to you and why you want to stick with it, he takes a little pity on you

Doesn't really help with lines or anything

But whenever you need some alone time, Michael is happy to oblige

If you need to rant, Michael is willing to lend an ear

It might not look like he's listening, but he is

He has offered to "get rid" of your problem a few times

Which you quickly said no to

Overall, he may not be the most supportive person to go to, but he does his best to be there for you in his own way

Jason Voorhees

Jason has already gotten used to the routine now

In fact, whenever you come home, he already has a fluffy blanket laid out on the couch for you along with a warm beverage

Forces you to take at least 5 minutes to sit down and chill

Even if you protest, Jason refuses to let you jump straight into more work

If you're feeling particularly anxious, he's more than happy to hold you or just sit beside you and rub your back

He's happy to help you with anything you need too

He's not the best at giving lines since he's not much of a talker...

But he's very good at following along with your script and giving you a nod if you memorized something correctly

He cares a lot about your wellbeing, so whatever will help you out is what Jason wants to do

Thomas Hewitt

He's also become a bit worried about you recently

He just hates seeing you look so worn out all of the time

Happily makes you dinner and snacks when you get home since he knows you appreciate not having to do it all yourself

He'll also run you a warm bath on evenings when you are particularly stressed out

He admires your dedication for sure, he just doesn't want you to burn out

Will not let you stay up late either

The moment it's bedtime, he makes you go to bed

It doesn't matter if you protest or not

He knows rest is important, and he'll happily lie right on top of you to make sure you don't get up from the mattress

Bubba Sawyer

Every time you come home looking worried, Bubba is all over you

He's hugging you, holding your hand, and even following you around like a puppy the whole night

He hates seeing you as anything but happy

Will do crazy charades and dances to get you to smile

He's also been stalking up on a lot of your favorite snacks and candies so that you always have something for a little more energy

He also cares a lot about you getting enough rest too

If you ever try to pull an all-nighter or stay up late in order to practice your lines, Bubba is right there with you

And seeing him forcing himself to stay awake just ends up guilting you into finally going to bed

He may seem innocent, but Bubba knows how to persuade you when he deems necessary

Brahms Heelshire

Brahms also recommends just quitting the play at first

It seems to be stressing you out too much, and he hates spending so much time away from you

But when you tell him that this is all important to you, he gives in

He'll (begrudgingly) go through lines with you and help you memorize them

Reassures you that everything will be fine and work out

Is happy to give you as many cuddles and kisses as you want in order to help you feel better

He still expects you to follow the rules list

But he's willing to be fairly lenient if you really need it

Norman Bates

He's very sweet and understanding about the whole situation

Doesn't even question why you're still doing everything even with all the stress

Meets you at the door each night and grabs your things, putting them aside

Has dinner already prepared for you

And he's happy to help you with lines or anything else you need!

He's actually the one who offered

If he sees that you're feeling extra stressed, he urges you to tell him what you're thinking

He refuses to let you bottle up your worries

He always responds with reassurances or advice depending on what you want

Billy Loomis

Believe it or not but Billy has had a little experience in theatre back in his day

He's a heartthrob; he always got cast in good roles

He's actually good at acting too and makes learning your lines feel a lot more legit

Even helps you with the delivery of the lines as well

He waits for you to come to him if you need anything

Advice, cuddles, questions, you name it

If you need it, just ask, and he'll be happy to supply

If anyone gives you a particularly hard time, Billy will go have a "talk" with them

Don't worry, he won't kill anyone

Well, unless you ask

Stu Macher

Stu somehow always makes a stressful situation better

If you need help with lines, he'll go all out

Will throw on random clothes and grab just about anything to use as a prop

Delivers his lines with such charisma that you'd think he was Shakespeare

He pushes you to take frequent breaks when you can

A nice walk outside, a little TV sesh, or even going to get some ice cream real quick are all frequent suggestions made by Stu

He admires your passion for what you're doing, he just doesn't want you to push yourself too hard

Every night while in bed, he's there whispering reassurances to you and telling you how proud he is for what you're doing

Vincent Sinclair

Vincent really wants to help, he just doesn't know how

But the moment you ask anything of him, he'll jump on it immediately

Brings you water and food frequently while you're busy

And on overwhelming days, he already has your bags and meals prepped for you so you can just head right out the door

Makes sure you're asleep every night before he'll even let himself rest

He also offers a lot of physical reassurance too if you need it

His hand on top of yours, gentle back rubs, and long hugs are all done if you initiate them

He really focuses on taking care of you and making sure you're not exhausting yourself too much

Bo Sinclair

It honestly pisses him off

You coming home each night feeling anxious and looking so tired makes Bo angry at your school

Would really love to invite your teacher over to have a "talk" about everything

But he knows you'd never allow that

Will help you with lines if you insist

He's not very good at it, but the sentiment is there

His help is really focused on the practical

He makes sure you eat dinner, drink enough water, get enough sleep, etc.

He's not much of a cuddler, but that definitely changes when you're going through a tough time

He's very much looking forward to when the play is finally done

Lester Sinclair

He always gives you lots of compliments

"You're such a hard-worker" "I know you're gonna do great" "It'll be all worth it"

Will give you a ride to wherever you need to go whenever you need to get there

Will spoil you quite a bit during this time too

Multiple bags of snacks, new comfy clothes, late night drives around the town, etc.

Whatever he can do to make you feel better, he wants to do it

He worries a lot about you though

So there will be a few times when you're the one needing to reassure him that you're alright

[sinner-sunflower]

P.2 HH Lucifer-centric AU 7/?

STORY 1, PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5, PART 6, PART 8, PART 9, PART 10, PART 11, PART 12, PART 13, PART 14, PART 14.5, PART 15, PART 16, PART 17, PART 18, PART 19, PART 20, PART 21, PART 22, PART 23, PART 24, PART 25, PART 26

Thank you for everyone giving their thoughts in my dms as well as reblogging and liking each chapter!

Italics are flashbacks and I'm sure you can tell which ones haha

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Lucifer doesn't go back to the hotel right away. Instead, he opened a portal to the Palace. The place is as barren as the day his wife and daughter left, no servants, not a single soul except his.

He wondered why they even built something this big. He thinks it's probably because of Charlie and their need to give her a sanctuary that's untouched by Hell but him and Lilith weren't even planning a child when this was first proposed.

Lilith: You need a palace! Fit for a king!

Lucifer: I don't feel like a king, Lily. Besides, we're just two people. I feel like we won't even see each other with all this space.

Lilith: My love, it is only a matter of time before human souls arrive and we must establish our authority the moment they step foot in Hell. No king should mingle with the commoners. You are no human, you are an angel! A being so divine that you must stay untouchable.

Lucifer: But I don't want that, honey. I'm no angel, not anymore and this isn't my kingdom, it's my punishment.

Lilith: Then we make it one.

Right. It was Lilith.

He guesses it was fitting for her. All her life, she was told to basically be a servant for Adam. And when the opportunity of being something higher arose, she took it. Who was he to deny her of her newly found purpose?

Lucifer never wanted to be King but his wife was right, someone has to keep the sinner souls in check. That's his only reason and definitely not because of the guilt eating him alive every second of every day.

Keekee meows at his feet, demanding pets. He smiles at the cat, moving to bend down and giving in to her requests.

Lucifer: Sorry I had to cut the meeting short. I got pretty angry there didn't I? I don't even know why...

Keekee meows in response, head nuzzling his hands. If he didn't know any better, he'd say she's understanding but also berating him.

Lucifer: Yes yes. Your wish is my command.

Michael had done one thing right and that's gifting him Keekee. He may have been the angel of creation but back then, he wasn't powerful enough to magically summon the materials needed to build the Palace out of thin air.

Whether it was because his guilt or some other reason, Michael sent down the one-eyed cat their way. Not necessarily delivering it himself but there was a note that indicated it was from his brother.

Lilith was understandably apprehensive at first but grew to love the cat (Keekee! Cause she turns into a key, my love!) overtime.

He stands up and makes his way further inside his house. Not home. It hasn't felt like a home for a long, long time.

Stopping at the end of the hallway to a dead end, he addresses his companion once more.

Lucifer: Would you mind opening the garden, Keekee?

Without hesitation, the cat jumped morphed through the wall. Not a second later, the wall glowed with an almost Heaven-like pattern, runes moving to unlock a door that was never there.

Lucifer felt a breeze hit him as the door opened like an old friend greeting you with a kiss.

It's the one place in the Palace that he, Lilith, and young Charlie used to spend time on. A place that's made to be a total contrast of Hell's red and chaotic environment. A place where they can pretend to be okay, to feel like a normal family. A place that can rival the original made by his Father.

His own little Garden of Eden.

With Lilith's help, they managed to copy Eden from the unique clouds to the flow of the stream. He remembers almost crying when they looked at it finished for the first time.

Lilith: It looks just like home, Lucifer.

Lucifer: Yeah. It does.

And when the exterminations started, it was where they take Charlie to keep her safe.

Didn't last long anyway. They were all taking a nap one day but then Charlie found a way out and saw her first demon killed by an exorcist blade.

'It all went downhill from there.'

Keekee must be irritated with him zoning out because she scratches his leg to get him back to reality. He laughs at her attempt to pull him inside.

Lucifer: Sorry, sorry! I'm coming, I'm coming.

The cat pulls him to his usual spot under the tree with the flower bed. He picks up Keekee as he sits.

Lucifer: Why don't you go and tell Charlie or Al that I'm back? Tell them I'm just exhausted and that I'll talk to them after resting.

Another meow.

Lucifer: Okay... but only Charlie can come here if she asks where I am.

After licking his face, Keekee bounced off out the door back to the hotel.

As Lucifer drifts off to sleepyland in the comfortable bed of grass, surrounded by flowers and peace, he pats his jacket for a specific pocket containing something that he never got rid off. When he finds what he's looking for, he holds is up to the sky, blocking the artificial sun of not-Eden. A piece of paper that, though he may never admit out loud, gave him just a little bit enough will to continue and live.

He holds the paper to his heart as his eyes flutter shut and dreams of ducks.

'Thrive, Samael.'

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the note and keekee are from Michael!

[jules-has-notes]

Aca Top 10: Hits of 2019 — VoicePlay music video

It had been a while since their last "Aca Top 10" countdown, and even longer since their previous celebration of recent hit songs, so VoicePlay decided to close out 2019 with a medley featuring the year's biggest bangers.

Details:

title: Aca Top 10 – Hits of 2019

original songs / performers: "Good As Hell" by Lizzo ; [0:29] "I Don't Care" by Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber; [0:48] "Me!" by Taylor Swift, feat. Brendon Urie; [1:08] "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande; [1:34] "Memories" by Maroon 5; [1:54] "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi; [2:16] "Sucker" by the Jonas Brothers; [2:30] "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish; [2:44] "Señorita" by Shawn Mendes & Camila Caballo; [3:17] "Circles" by Post Malone; [3:47] "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus

written by: "Good As Hell" by Melissa "Lizzo" Jefferson & Ricky Reed; "I Don't Care" by Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Max Martin, Karl "Shellback" Schuster, Fred Gibson, & Jason Boyd; "Me!" by Taylor Swift, Joel Little, & Brendon Urie; "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande, Victoria Monét, Tayla Parx, Tommy Brown, Charles Anderson, Michael Foster, Njomza Vitia, & Kimberly Krysiuk; "Memories" by Adam Levine, Jonathan Bellion, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Michael Pollack, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, & Vincent Ford; "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi, Samuel Romans, Thomas Barnes, Peter Kelleher, & Benjamin Kohn; "Sucker" by Ryan Tedder, Louis Bell, Mustafa Ahmed, Adam Feeney, Homer Steinweiss, & the Jonas Brothers; "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell; "Señorita" by Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, & Alexandra Tamposi; "Circles" by Austin Post, Louis Bell, Adam Feeney, Kaan Gunesberk, & Billy Walsh; "Old Town Road" by Montero "Lil Nas X" Hill, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, & Kiowa Roukema

arranged by: Geoff Castellucci

release date: 30 December 2019

My favorite bits:

the little slides Earl puts on the beginning of ♫ "Ooh, child!" ♫ and ♫ "Yeees, Lord!" ♫

Eli and J.None following the direction to ♫ "dust your shoulders off" ♫

Geoff's subharmonic drop at the end of ♫ ⇘ "out the dooo-ooo-OOOOR" ⇘ ♫

J's smooth tone for the melody in "I Don't Care"

the high fanfare Earl gives to the transition

Eli's clear timbre on the lead for "7 Rings"

Layne's coquettish expression and J.None's finger twiddle to illustrate ♫ "getting in trouble" ♫

making it rain drizzle, and Geoff's confused expression when one of the bills lands in his lap 💸

the lovely three-part harmony on ♫ "write my own checks like I write what I sing" ♫

Layne joining in on the harmonies for "Memories" and "Someone You Loved"

Earl getting softer as he looks at suddenly melodramatic Eli in confusion 🤔

J.None showing off his falsetto at the beginning of "Sucker"

the stacatto repetition of ♫ "you you you" ♫

all the vocal antics as they bounce through "Bad Guy"

the combination of bouncy descending bass line and woodblock sounds Geoff and Layne do in "Señorita"

J.None indugling in a little cha-cha groove during the chorus 🕺

Earl's incredible tremolo in "Circles" (How does he DO that?!)

Eli slipping in a quick Ennio Morricone western movie sting

putting a little extra twang into their "Old Town Road" vocals

that fabulous descending riff on the second half of ♫ "guitar" ♫

return of the animated carrot for horsey Layne 🥕 🐎

Trivia:

○ The guys had previously recorded other versions of several of these songs, one together, and the rest with different performers.

"Bad Guy" was included in VoicePlay's "Billie Eilish in 3 Minutes" medley that was part of their spooky season offerings for the year.

It was also covered by PattyCake's incarnation of Maleficent to coincide with the release of Disney's live-action film sequel.

J.None had filmed multiple edutainment parodies with his friend Nikita for her JamSchooled series that were released both before and after this one. "7 Rings" became a lesson about money; "Old Town Road" turned into a tutorial on skeletal anatomy; and "Señorita" morphed into a rundown of ecosystems.

○ Lizzo's video for "Good As Hell" celebrates her history as a flute player in the school marching band. The members of VoicePlay are talented insturmentalists in their own rights.

Layne has been playing violin since he was four years old, primarily studying the Suzuki method, and was a member of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra. He also learned a bit of piano from his mom, and knows enough drum kit technique to convincingly mime while he beatboxes.

Geoff has played piano since middle school, studying both classical and jazz techniques. He also knows a little guitar, and learned to play the harmonica for a stint in the Blues Brothers show at Universal Studios.

Earl played trumpet and french horn through middle school and high school band.

Eli plays a bit of both piano and guitar, some of which he honed during his days in various rock bands.

J.None plays a number of instruments "passably" but doesn't consider himself proficient in any of them. They include piano, violin, guitar, accordion, saxophone, and clarinet.

○ The main melody of "Memories" contains a very recognizable portion of Pachelbel's "Canon in D", which (surprisingly) hasn't yet been included in any of VoicePlay's classical pieces or mashups.

[lucem-stellarum]

So this is what, the 3rd time Porter has been decked by a character because of his attitude? At minimum?

Under the cut for long and rambling character and literary analysis

We have the initial fight 4-5 years ago between Porter and Vincent

We have Lovely getting him during their "Switzerland" talk before the Summit

Now we have Asher at the Summit (part II electric boogaloo)

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if we're even supposed to like him as a character. Sure, he's charismatic. Porter got Treasure wrapped around his finger in less than an hour. But Mr. Redacted is usually pretty clear about delineating between who is intended to be the characters we're supposed to be supporting (with enough moral grayness to make them complex and interesting). So many of his characters are a great example of the difference between the narrative 'protagonist' and the narrative 'hero'. Going back to the more technical literary term, a protagonist* is the character the story is about, but they're not necessarily the same as the hero of the story. Yandere!Ivan was a great protagonist, but he's very obviously the villain of that plotline. If you want a classic example, Michael Corleone (The Godfather) is a villain protagonist.

*I'll point out that depending on what exact definition you're using for "protagonist" that you can argue that the listener character is supposed to be the main character. I don't think that fits because in many of Redacted's cases the listener falls into the "sexy lamp" trope, where by design they have few if any character traits of their own so we as listeners can project on them. To me, they're the point of view character, which though usually is not always the same as the protagonist. IMO, a protagonist should play a more active role in the story. Overall it's a fascinating way of capitalizing on the limitations of Mr. Redacted's chosen medium, and I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this phenomenon.

Most characters fall into either the 'hero' or 'villain' category. Characters like David, Asher, Vincent, Elliott, Guy, Ollie, and Gavin are all clearly hero protagonists**. Their respective stories revolve around their interactions with the listener character, they're the good, upstanding citizens that we want to support. They've got flaws, sure, but for the most part they're meant to be appealing characters that we agree with. Characters like Marcus, Yandere!Ivan, and Regulus are clearly the villain protagonists; they're the "bad guys", we want them to fail in whatever terrible thing they're trying to do. (Which isn't to say you can't enjoy their particular brand of twisted. Dark characters and themes are important and have their place).

**with the caveat that different focal length of a particular story can change who is the technical 'protagonist' and 'antagonist'. Kody, in his Water Elemental videos, is a 'villain protagonist'; when you look at the DAMN series overall he's better classified an antagonist of season 1. The fact that there's so many perspective changes across Mr. Redacted's overall work means that a lot of these terms can get muddied depending on which specific set of videos you're referring to.

Which brings me to the 3rd type of protagonist, the anti-hero. The anti-hero is a protagonist that the reader/listener wants to succeed, but generally lacks the traditional/universal moral traits that usually define the classic hero protagonist. Examples of an anti-hero protagonist include: Deadpool, Walter White (Breaking Bad), Huckleberry Finn. In particular, the mark of a well-written antihero protagonist is the fact that it can be difficult to distinguish them from a villain protagonist. Vega is a good example of this; in the Sadism's Hold/DAMN S1 series he's an antagonist for Freelancer and Yandere!Ivan. He graduates to a villain protagonist in early Carpe Deus, and with his stated goal of preventing another Cacophony he's morphing into an anti-hero in the more recent videos. I'm sure you can get hyper-specific if you start going through all the TVTropes pages to find the perfect flavor for individual characters, but most major protagonists can be classified as one of those three groups (with eternal, ongoing debates on where specifically you draw those particular lines based on your particular morals).

Bringing it back to Porter, I'm not sure that he's meant to be an anti-hero. He's charming, intelligent, capable, and likeable (to those not biased by his history like Vincent and Sam). But I don't think we're supposed to support him as a character overall. We've had too many "hero" characters come to conflict with him; Vincent, Asher, and Lovely explicitly. Even without getting into the fine distinctions between a protagonist/supporting character/POV character that's an awful lot of animosity from some very well established people. We might not know all of his goals/motives yet because they haven't been revealed to us (Porter wants to support William, wants to gain 'power', but why? What history drives him? What is his specific end goal with that power?) but his manipulation of other people, ruthlessness, and his own acknowledged boot-licking to increase his own social power disqualify him from a traditional "hero protagonist" role. An anti-hero is one we still are intended by the author to want to support, a character we want to see succeed. But because Mr. Redacted keeps putting Porter into direct conflict with more traditional protagonists it sets him up to be an opposing force; by definition he is an antagonist to our established hero protagonists.

I've talked a lot about the different types of protagonists and some of the minute distinctions between the different types of protagonists. Antagonists can be even more variable; you have your classic Devil, Sauron, and Darth Vader trying to kill your protagonist heroes. Technically speaking, antagonists don't necessarily have to be characters, either, they can be forces or concepts. An antagonist is just someone or something that opposes the protagonist. I won't divert into the different types of conflict in a story, but I'll point out how much more variety there is for your villains than your heroes based on their particular blend of moral alignment and narrative framing. (It's a lot easier to make things go wrong than it is to make things go well). You can also have sympathetic antagonists, where the villain has acceptable motives even if their methods are objectionable and cement their status as villains. Think the Wicked Witch of the West; Dorothy killed her sister, revenge is an entirely reasonable motive even if we're not supposed to be on her side. Adam and Quinn are the clearest unsympathetic antagonist villain characters in Redacted-verse. Blake is a sympathetic antagonist, vacillating between a villain and an anti-hero depending on whether we're looking at him from Sunshine or Bestie's POV.

As far as my initial claim that we're not supposed to like Porter, we have to consider which lens we're looking at him through. From Vincent's perspective he's an unredeemable asshole. William, however, clearly sees something in him. Other characters we trust that don't have that skewed perspective because of baggage, like Asher, don't like him either. While Porter is the protagonist of his own videos (you are the main character inside your own head) he's not being cast as a classical hero. Morality wise, even in his own story he's an anti-hero at best (he wasn't honestly trying to warn Treasure off, he was luring them in to SkySide). He's got the potential to be sympathetic (at least, according to Sam and William) but he's outnumbered in the narrative of protagonists (at the very least, by Vincent, Lovely, Asher, and there's evidence for Milo and David because of what he put Sweetheart up to) who consider him an antagonist, causing them problems or otherwise being obstructive. Considering the weight of numbers and length of existence in the overall story Mr Redacted is telling, Porter so far is generally being portrayed as an antagonist to our hero protagonists but not necessarily as a villain (like Vincent wants him to be) of Close Knit's caliber. So, this leaves him in a very interesting position on the morality/perspective spectrum. Essentially:

[Photo ID: a graph running from Villain to Hero along the horizontal axis and Protagonist to Antagonist along the vertical axis. Gavin, Lasko, Guy, Ollie, Caelum, David, Asher, Milo, Vincent (post-Adam) are in the Hero-Protagonist Corner. Regulus, Yandere!Ivan, Kody, Vega (DAMN S1) are in the Villain-Antagonist Corner. Vega (early) is in the Villain Protagonist Corner. Vincent (early) and Vega (later) are in the Protagonist Antihero area. Porter is in the Antagonist Antihero area. /end ID]

Because of these mostly negative relationships to our established characters I don't think he's meant to be "supportable". There's too many reasons someone could write him off as unredeemable, based off of his history, his current actions, and his morals. Mr Redacted obviously intended us to be pitted against certain characters like Adam, Kody, and Yandere!Ivan in the same way the author intends us to like and support wholesome characters like David, Huxley, and Guy. I think Porter was written in such a way that we're supposed to disapprove of him despite his likeability in the same way we're "supposed to" disapprove of most of the Imperium characters or Alexis. There's a glimmer of "redemption" deep down for how good they could be if the universe was a little kinder towards them and they didn't have to resort to morally questionable (at best) actions and perspectives, but harsh circumstances left them protecting themselves with sharp edges designed to make anyone who gets too close bleed. Character complexity is attractive, but that's not the same thing as being sympathetic.

After all of this I have to say, death of the author is 100% valid as a concept. At least half of a story is determined by the reader themselves, and this in particular is just my interpretation of these particular facts and classifications. Depending on how you want to weight certain factors and perspectives you can come to a completely different conclusion. By trying to define a particular character the act of applying a definition means you have to be reductive; making a decision on which box to put them in flattens out their complexities. You don't have to APPROVE of a character to LIKE them. There's also a difference between a morally GOOD character and a COMPELLING character. Not every character has to be redeemed, it's not a prerequisite for finding them interesting. Just because Mr Redacted wants us to hate certain characters doesn't mean everyone is obligated to; you're entitled to your own opinion.

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

I want to expand a bit on my previous post on SHUT DOWN VOLUME 2 and WOODY WOODPECKER IN CRAZY CASTLE 5...

The CRAZY CASTLE game series, as noted in the post, has a history with WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT...

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT almost got a follow-up movie, multiple times. It's bizarre to think that one of the blockbusters of the 1980s, and a film that helped restore Disney's magic in a time where they needed some, didn't ever get a sequel and likely won't ever get one. (Probably for the better right now, for the Disney company as it is would likely blow it.)

The original WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT was released by Walt Disney Pictures through their more adult-oriented Touchstone label in 1988, at the behest of Roy E. Disney and Michael Eisner, who felt the film was a bit too "risque" to be a Disney-branded picture.

The film started out as a Walt Disney Productions endeavor in 1981 after the enterprise got the rights to the original book by Gary K. Wolf, with animation direction to be done then-relatively new animator on the block, Darrell Van Citters, who had previously worked on THE FOX AND THE HOUND. This early version of the movie took a much more stylized, Tex Avery approach, with a Roger who looked like he could've stepped in from one of the legendary director's many cartoons:

That version was put on ice after Disney executive Thomas Wilhite, who wanted to shake things up in the dormant Disney domain by greenlighting more ambitious projects (such as TRON, which he gave the go-head in his first year in that position), left the studio by the middle of 1983.

Upon Michael Eisner's arrival to the enterprise, there was renewed interest in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, and they got Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis on board. A huge freakin' deal for the Disney ship, who had previously passed on BACK ON THE FUTURE and an alien invasion movie Spielberg had pitched to them around 1979, that would later morph into E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL.

The thing was, Spielberg didn't feel that Walt Disney Feature Animation - as they were at the time, circa 1985 - were up to the task of creating the film's animation. Interestingly, the last time the animation wing had done any major hybrid live-action/animation work was PETE'S DRAGON, released in 1977... But this film needed to be unlike what had come before in the realm of hybrids, and Spielberg was far more impressed with what he saw of Richard Williams' resume... Thus, Richard Williams Animation Ltd. in London was assigned the film's animation, with some help from the Dale Baer studio on U.S. soil.

So, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT is not a Walt Disney Feature Animation picture, but it is a Disney movie under a different label with plenty of animation in it, including several Disney animated characters - from the Mickey Mouse gang to characters from feature films, like Dumbo - making cameo appearances. Many Disney animators worked on it, too, such as Eric Goldberg and Andreas Deja...

Disney Feature Animation took on the first short film made in the aftermath of the movie's runaway success, 1989's TUMMY TROUBLE. Richard Williams was not going to be back for more Roger Rabbit, he entered a deal with Warner Bros. to finish THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, which sadly did not happen... And by 1989, the studio was more than fit to make a Roger Rabbit follow-up, as TUMMY TROUBLE would prove.

May 1, 1989, over a month before TUMMY TROUBLE screened in theaters with HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS, Disney opened the Disney-MGM Studios theme park outside of Orlando, Florida. And nestled in that park was the defunct Florida unit of Disney Feature Animation. The folks there were the ones tasked to make this sure-to-happen movie event. They were primed for it, they were handed the second short film starring Roger, Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman, and Mrs. Herman, ROLLER COASTER RABBIT... As you could imagine, there were larger theme park plans for the characters as well, hence the new animated stuff being made within a literal theme park and the second short involving amusement rides!

But many things kept waylaying the prequel, which - after lots of development and changes - would've been titled WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT... Which meant that Disney Animation Florida had to find other things to work on, as the relationship between co-owner Spielberg and Disney was on shaky grounds, putting Roger Rabbit's future in limbo. Namely helping on the Burbank features, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE LION KING for example. They eventually got one more short, TRAIL MIX-UP, released in 1993.

Suppose we got WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT, or the scrapped live-action/CG hybrid film that was being planned around 1998, which Florida was also supposed to do... Let's go with the movie that was targeting a 1992-ish release, to make things easier.

WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT would've been a full-on Walt Disney Feature Animation movie, and would've been the first one - animation-wise - made entirely in Florida. MULAN ended up being WDFA-Florida's first in-house production, released in 1998. Rob Minkoff would've been the director for both the animation and the live-action on WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT, and in this timeline, I suppose THE LION KING still happens but it's with another director in place of Minkoff. That's a fun scenario to ponder, because Minkoff didn't direct LION KING alone, for he was paired with Roger Allers on that movie. In this alternate timeline, maybe LION KING is from Allers and someone else. Maybe former director George Scribner stays on the movie and works with Allers, who knows...

True, there would've been the live-action portions in this ROGER RABBIT prequel and it probably would've been an Amblin movie as well... But, would Disney have counted it as part of the "Disney Animated Features Canon"? Would this have been - had it debuted in mid-1992 - Feature #31 between BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and ALADDIN? A sequel to a movie WDFA had such little involvement with?

Hell, would this have been a Touchstone release? Or would Disney have eased up a little bit and made it a mainline Walt Disney Pictures release? Now that the characters were to have much more of a presence in the Disney theme parks? Complete with a Walt Disney Home Video clamshell VHS release as part of The Classics line? I think a Touchstone movie that's all animated by WDFA would've been unusual, to say the least!

It also would've been WDFA's first real hybrid, in a way. SONG OF THE SOUTH, SO DEAR TO MY HEART, MARY POPPINS, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, and PETE'S DRAGON are not really WDFA movies, but they have Disney animation in them, this would've been more of a half-and-half thing than those movies, but still not as all-animated as the 1940s package features that have a significant amount of live-action in them, like THE THREE CABALLEROS and FUN & FANCY FREE.

This makes it possible that the movie is not billed as a WDFA movie whatsoever, even if it all the animation in it would've been done by them. It'd probably be seen as a live-action movie, with lots of stuff provided by WDFA.

Definitely a bit of a conundrum if you think about it!

Then again, look at Amblimation, to tie this to Spielberg once more. Amblimation's first feature was AN AMERICAN TAIL II: FIEVEL GOES WEST. Don Bluth and his studio, the originators of AN AMERICAN TAIL, had no involvement in FIEVEL GOES WEST. The only major link is Spielberg.

MGM/United Artists went ahead with a sequel to ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN, without Don Bluth and his studio being involved. ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN 2 was produced by the very short-lived MGM Animation, most of the actual animation work being outsourced at that.

You also have the Disney animated sequels that went direct-to-video, made by Disney MovieToons/Disneytoon Studios, and had little to no involvement from Walt Disney Feature Animation, but sometimes they involved people from the original movies, such as Roger Allers having some say on THE LION KING 1 1/2 (or THE LION KING 3: HAKUNA MATATA, if you don't live in the U.S.). Sometimes, most of the original casts, even. Almost everyone was back for LION KING II: SIMBA'S PRIDE.

Disney would also use DisneyToon to make TINKER BELL movies, adjacent to the classic PETER PAN, and also spin-offs of Pixar's CARS in the form of the PLANES movies, and they had big plans for this extended CARS-verse. Lots of scrapped movies that would've involved spacecraft, boats, metro trains, etc. Disneytoon Studios was shut down in mid-2018 following the exit of John Lasseter.

The list goes on, even into today, such as the upcoming ICE AGE 6, which is the first theatrical movie in the series to be distributed by Disney, and the first to not be a Blue Sky production... Since Disney shut that studio down after acquiring 20th Century Fox and them, and I keep thinking how unusual - and sad- it's going to be to see an all-new ICE AGE movie in theaters without the Blue Sky logo, because that places does not exist anymore. And top that off, ICE AGE began life as a Don Bluth/Gary Goldman-directed Fox Animation Studios film in the late '90s...

Sometimes these things are like nomads, going from one studio to the next, sometimes having completely different filmmakers involved...

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

Top 5 moments from my fics that you WISH happened in comics if Marvel wasn't so damn allergic to common sense and happiness

Avalanche getting to continue to keep his bar instead of getting kidnapped and mindcontrolled and basically murdered, and also Toad getting to work there.

Pretty much ANY scene where Toad is happy and gets to sass Magneto without being killed or threatened with violence.

That fic where it turns out Magneto reads Pyro's books, and also Pyro and Avalanche are dating.

Morph pushing Magneto into letting them throw a party (and also Morph/Logan actually being a thing, since we all know ).

Any of the happier or more sympathetic outcomes you've given to Madelyn Pryor.

Black Tom and Juggernaut being Michael's uncles, I just like the vibe.

Changeling being saved intstead of dying as Xavier.

Wait, that's more than 5, isn't it?

[shichidikai]

wip game: ah shit howl au or zs canon fic 2?

these ones are just lil sproutlings right now with no real snippets to share yet, so i'll put them both here~

howl au is pretty much what it says on the tin, except that i'll be creating a delightful mishmash of the book and ghibli versions and making it zosan (because it's me and of course i will). at its core there's nami (sophie) who ends up in the castle of wizard sanji (howl), his apprentice chopper (michael/markl, specialty medicinal magic), and his grumpy demon zoro (calcifer). i get to play around with both magic and (please act surprised) germa tech angst, rehash my hatred of judge yet again (i'm actually delighted), and do things like have kaya train as an apprentice witch under kureha, get creative with sanji's magical door wheel and what it represents, give shanks a kingdom maybe, include usopp, robin, and luffy, and a bunch more fun stuff! it has equal chances of either ending up my lightest-weight multi-chap fic yet or becoming an absolute behemoth, so we'll see how the dice lands when i really get into it lmao

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zs canon fic 2 (working title "these are our get-along tapes" 😂) is a 5+1 based off of the idea that nami is sick and tired of the collateral damage that happens when zoro and sanji fight and demands that they start keeping a video log of it via a cameko (which they've stolen, of course). very unserious and an idea i'm sure has been done a hundred times before, with no real plot to speak of other than tracking the progress that zosan make towards maybe liking each other and maybe some eventual recorded confessions (cough cough and it's not planned to be smut but... i can't ever promise anything in that area idk i look away), just intended to be a short little oneshot (i say this but watch it morph into like 5 chapters now that i've put that in writing kjhslkjhlskjhs)

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[wiiildflowerrr]

Dork: 'The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show is a phenomenal bow out at London's O2 Arena'

'The 5SOS Show arrives as a victory lap to cap off the last decade.'

'It’s been seven years since 5 Seconds Of Summer last played The O2. In 2016, they were a very different band and have undergone quite a transformation on the journey back to the top.

Tonight’s performance, dubbed The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show, honours every version of the group so far, flexing their outstanding versatility over the course of a two-hour spectacular. Amidst a disjointed touring schedule (last year’s album ‘5SOS5’ was toured before its release, in conjunction with a late tour of 2020’s ‘CALM’), The 5SOS Show arrives as a bit of a victory lap to cap off the last decade.

The boys have long been vocal about their want to be taken seriously as a band, but in 2023, the show speaks for itself. Worlds away from the touching album preview show at London’s Royal Albert Hall this time last year, the ability to morph tracks old and new from those sentimental orchestral moments to these wildly fun arena bangers is a testament to the band’s skill and creativity.

Opening with ‘Bad Omens’ – the track they closed that last London show with – it kicks off a run of their more mature tracks: the nostalgic ‘2011’, lovelorn ‘Caramel’ and huge sax-solo number ‘BLENDER’. Where previous tours have seen the boys settle into this flow, with setlists comprising mostly of recent material, this one throws that out of the window, instead enlisting endless fan favourites and tracks that haven’t had live outings for years.

Older album cuts like ‘Babylon’ and ‘Why Won’t You Love Me’ from 2018’s big switch-up ‘Youngblood’ earn a place, but it’s ‘Sounds Good Feels Good’ – the album they were touring on their last stop at The O2 – that really gets its dues, with ‘Vapor’ and ‘Waste The Night’ getting the biggest ‘if you know, you know’ reaction.

5SOS know exactly what the fans want to hear, doubling down by rolling out an inflatable dice with heavily requested tracks printed on it across the crowd to select one, eventually ending up on debut album cut ‘English Love Affair’. One fan also took matters into their own hands by lobbing a DIY dice plastered with ‘If You Don’t Know’ on every side towards the stage; guitarist Michael catches it but unfortunately doesn’t cave in to the request.

It’s just one of the moments in the show that sets 5SOS apart from their peers. The set is divided by occasional video interludes, including one where the boys dress up as surgeons and diagnose the audience as 5SOS fans. Another segment sees drummer Ashton do a bonkers solo in a battle against the crowd for who can be louder, which ends in the other three boys returning to the stage to set off ketchup and mustard bottle-shaped confetti cannons following a vocal cue of “GET SAUCED”.

The whole show is outrageous fun, whether it’s these moments that call back to the nonsense of their old live shows or purely just rattling through the bangers; 5 Seconds Of Summer prove their longstanding relevance throughout the mammoth set tonight. It’s not just a performance that sheds light on the boys’ own skills, but one that also demonstrates the ways in which 5SOS and the fandom have coexisted for over ten years, something shown rather literally during ‘Best Friends’, 5SOS’ ode to one another, that turns that camera on the audience and encourages them to have a cuddle.

As 5SOS prepare to take some time off, The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show is a phenomenal bow out until further notice. Much like their discography, it’s consistently surprising, equally ridiculous and emotional, their growth as a band more obviously laid out than ever before.' X

[transsexualhamlet]

🎶 - Are there any songs/lyrics you associate with a character or event in the podcast?

💔 - Which fear entity would produce the least catastrophically bad romantic partners?

🌑- Which statement did you find the most frightening?

my silley tma ask game

hehehe. oh boy do I

🎶 - Are there any songs/lyrics you associate with a character or event in the podcast?

I have whole playlists for Michael and Jane because those guys r my favorite but there's one song that I cannot stop thinking about in relation to Jon in seasons 4 and 5

This is Emerging by The Mountain Goats (there is a mountain goats song about literally everything, including "I am morphing into some sort of Fucked Up Beast that feeds on unsuspecting innocents and I feel really really bad about it"

I feel so insane for this but like do you see it

💔 - Which fear entity would produce the least catastrophically bad romantic partners?

This was something I was thinking about last night in ridiculous detail because you know there are the big obvious ones that would make terrible partners for obvious reasons. Lonely isolates you or ghosts you. Web controls and manipulates you. Corruption is literally and metaphorically toxic. Eye is horribly invasive and reads your mind. Spiral gaslights you. Stranger you can never get to know enough to form any sort of emotional bond with. The obvious big no's.

It sort of depends on your own personal fears a lot, I think someone who is thrill seeking and doesn't mind heights could have a hell of fun with a Vast avatar. And in a way I think that the buried is kind of romantic (or maybe that's just me). Most of the rest would be a lot too distressing or depressing.

🌑- Which statement did you find the most frightening?

What's so embarrassing is that the one which got me the most was Tucked In... because it's such a juvenile thing to get scared over but like. I think that's what's so brilliant about it, because knowing it's a stupid thing to be afraid of doesn't make it any less horrible. And it's so funny because it highlighted the exact way that I handle being paranoid at night and sort of made me lose multiple nights of sleep if im being honest

With protocol though there's been several that have already really unsettled me. Man. Making Adjustments made me so physically ill I had to lay down about it. I feel like I'm the only one that gets genuinely terrified by Ink5oul despite the fact that she's such a ridiculous influencer. I have nightmares about NORMAL tattoos.

[impactmj]

Michael Jackson: sus primeros pasos

En la actualidad la mayoría de las personas conoce a Michael Jackson, su música a perdurado generación tras generación, hasta la fecha no ha caducado y parece que nunca lo hará, el es muy conocido como "El rey del pop", y vaya que es verdad, en pleno 2023 no existe otro artista que lo haya superado, si nos ponemos a pensar muchos artistas fueron influenciados por MJ por ejemplo: Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Beyoncé, Selena Quintanilla, Zendaya, etc.

Me atrevería a decir que también fue una fuente de inspiración para el mundo del kpop, pues en 2020 BTS lanzó su primer canción en ingles titulada "Dynamite" y en el se pueden ver múltiples referencias hacia el gran artista.

Por esto y muchas otras cosas más conoceremos mas a profundidad a Michael Jackson sus primeros pasos en la industria musical.

Michael Joseph Jackson nace un 29 de agosto de 1958 en Indiana, a pesar de que es un cantante perteneciente a los años 80 se le sigue considerando como el mejor artista ¡por supuesto! por algo lo llaman el rey del pop, el es muy conocido por sus increíbles pasos de baile y por tener una peculiar voz. Además de ser cantante y bailarín, era un excelente compositor y actor.

Nació en una familia afrodescendiente, el era el octavo de los 9 hermanos junto con sus hermanas La Toya, Janeth y Rebbie Jackson, y tan solo a sus 11 años formó parte del grupo The Jackson 5 a cargo de Motown, siendo líder y vocalista principal. La banda fue muy exitosa, pero para el pequeño niño no le fue tan bien, Michael llego a contar que sufría maltratos físicos y psicológicos por su padre.

Al mismo tiempo que estaba en la banda, consideró ser solista llegando a grabar canciones como "Go to be there", "Ben", "Music and me" y "Forever Michael". Por el año de 1975 la banda firma con Epic Records, ahora con el nombre The Jacksons hasta 1985.

Por otro lado, Michael continuo ejerciendo su carrera en solitario en la música y en la actuación, lo que lo llevó al siguiente nivel fue "El mago", su papel era el de un espantapájaros, al verlo Quincy Jones director del filme lo respaldo en su carrera, y así es como obtuvieron Off the Wall álbum de 1979, aquí podemos destacar canciones como "She is out of my life", " Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" y "Rock with you", en este álbum se pude sentir las vibras y la energía que caracterizaron los años 80s.

Después de esto llega su mayor hit, el disco que marco un antes y después en la industria musical y en la manera de hacer videoclips, por supuesto, me refiero a Thriller, vendió 50 millones de copias en todo el mundo,

En tan solo una noche aquel chico de tan solo 24 años rompió el récord de llevarse 8 Grammys. Esta canción no puede faltar en la época de Halloween, aquí se destacan temas como "Billie Jean", "Pretty You Thing" y "Wanna Be Starting' Somethin'. Haciendo dueto a lado de Paul McCartney para "The girl is mine" & "Say say say".

Después realizó proyectos como la canción "We are the world" a lado de grandes artistas. La fama tiene un precio alto, las personas y los medios lograron manchar su imagen a base de graves acusaciones.

Ya para el año de 1987 (en lo personal es mi era favorita) llega BAD un álbum con un concepto rudo. No puedo creer que no haya ganado Grammys. Y como curiosidad para la canción "I just can`t stop loving you", existen otras dos versiones en francés (Je ne veux pas la fin de nous) y en español (Todo mi amor eres tu). La dicción del cantante fue muy buena para ambos idiomas.

En 1991 lanza Dangerous, el cual incluían "Remember the time", "Black or white", "Dangerous", "Jam", etc. Lo sorprendente de esta etapa del cantante fue el video clip para Black or white, los cambios de rostro que aparecen de varias personas parecía imposible por aquellos años. Para eso utilizaron la técnica de Morphing

«El morphing es una de las características de la post-imagen, una sola de un conjunto más amplio de significaciones de transformación tecnológica que están ocurriendo en la cibercultura contemporánea, como por ejemplo el mashup. Tecnológicamente suele definirse el morphing como la gradual transformación de una imagen en otra, se trata del paso de una imagen a otra, no como simple sustitución sino como creolización. Este fenómeno no es único de la imagen, suele aparecer ya en audio y video » (Sánchez Martínez, 2010).

Luego en 1995 colaboró con su hermana Janeth Jackson para la canción "Scream". Por allá del 2001 sale Invincible. Después de varios años comunicaría en una rueda de prensa su ultima gira "This is itª, gracias al documental que publicaron en 2009, sabemos que serían una serie de increíbles conciertos y estupendos vestuarios.

Para el mismo año el mundo se paralizó, la muerte del Legendario Rey del pop fue una gran pérdida para los Moonwalkers (fans del cantante), y es así como nos deja con un gran legado lleno de historia que siempre recordaremos y no dejaremos morir.

Solo nos queda esperar la película biográfica que están grabando sobre Michael Jackson, del director Antoine Fuqua y de la productora Lionsgate , se preguntarán ¿Quién interpretará Michael Jackson? la respuesta es su sobrino Jafaar Jackson.

Sigue a Jafaar en Instagram

¿Lo sabías?

Los videos musicales "Thriller" y "Beat it" ya se encuentran en calidad 4K disponibles en la plataforma de YouTube, esto debido al 40 aniversario de "Thriller".

Imagina un mundo paralelo y que en lugar de "Thriller" se llamará "Starlight" aquí puedes encontrar el demo ¡Es totalmente diferente!

Escucha "Todo mi amor eres tu".

Pero... ¡Esperen! esto es solo el comienzo aún falta más por saber! descúbrelo en el próximo blog:)

[l-1-z-a]

Leo Hourvitz's notes from SIGGRAPH 2003 which relates to The Sims

The highlight of this SIGGRAPH was the technical program -- in particular papers and sketches. The transition of SIGGRAPH from batch-rendering oriented work towards real-time interactive rendering continued -- by far the majority of the papers I went to were research on interactive techniques. The most exciting stuff was in new-model lighting techniques (see Radiance Transfer Papers), but there were also some other great real-time ideas like the real-time soft shadows and the billboard clouds. Below are some links to the things I saw this year.

Paper: Skinning by Example

Alex Mohr and Michael Gleicher (from UWisconsin) wrote a paper about another technique for automatically computing weights for use in a skinning system given a set of example meshes. Like the Multi-Weight Enveloping technique from last year's Symposium on Computer Animation, this system takes a set of example poses for a skin, which can either be sculpted or simply created using a skinning technique that's not suitable for real-time (such as Maya's influence objects, a complex muscle-and-skin dynamics model, etc.), a set of skeleton poses that correspond to those skins, and then calculates a set of rigid bones and skin weights which express that as well as possible.

However, the particular trick this paper uses to get higher-quality results is that the authors automatically add extra joints to every joint in the input skeleton. In particular, they add up to seven extra joints per input joint -- one which splits the rotations on the input joint and six which represent scale transforms in various places around the input joint in order to express muscle bulges. Because it wouldn't be acceptable to have seven times the joints in the output skeleton, the authors manually specify which input joints to add these extra joints to.

The advantage of this paper over the Multi-Weight Enveloping technique from last year is that although they do add joints, their added joints are implemented in exactly the same fashion as any other real-time skinning system, and so can be hardware-accelerated much more easily. Unfortunately, because their system results in a skeleton with a lot of joints, it's not clear that it would actually be hardware-acceleratable on current-generation hardware.

I was initially very excited about this paper, since I think that skinning by example is fundamentally a more efficient technique. However, what this paper really does is allow approximation of other skinning techniques (twists, bends, morphs, influence objects) by extra joints. Therefore, it's only the change of tool that this technique saves you -- you would have to skin your muscle bulge via some other means (e.g., a morph), and this technique would then approximate that morph with 3-5 extra bones. While that could certainly be useful (for instance, in converting a face rigged with morphs to one rigged with bones), I'm not sure the savings in a typical Sims-style body-rigging case would be worth the extra step.

The full title of this paper was "Building Efficient, Accurate Character Skins from Examples", by Alex Mohr and Michael Gleicher from the University of Wisconsin.

[nightguide]

Here are some major boobage DnD team names to 🌶️spice up🌶️ your summer

atom bomb at the right time

kanye's lgbtqia+

ruswole

allahkanyekanyicanon camera

elvis brushlee

shush hour

pam di pon de replay

rick swayze

gonolololololololalalalalalalalalalala

snaptwat

biggee's narstie

hoh hoh hoaaawaaiiiiii

gomez cameron

swop being me

michael scott's drew barrymore

vincieeze

hanna (as)

georgia (nicholson with a jack)

quaid (ass in pashto)

hughie!

butchich

rachess

allauntie

ncuti juice

wangamama

bills boo ting

stretch 32 jeans

ina's tss

nicki's rack S.O.S

greys cant'ony

yroff sauce

amina's degree

collide (swift's version)

seabra's mouseketeer's

descartyes

watermalone

post no stamp

korean bromwich

ranch r us

plastique less

virgograssitch

kim wrong ass fuck

disney biryani

iggaf pop

megan whamion

adam crankstaff

E.T. wrong hope

eminirep (emirates: UAE)

wocka wiki nicki leaks

cardi factory

big wham! theory

slim parsons

tenneminem

matt's violet

smithi minaj

trickle reddd

cordur'an duran

gossip heh?

b. dick hollis

frunk ouat

machine gun gubler

maxxxi kelly

kelly clarkson's food receipt

capp swole D

j cartney's rupaul

colicki e-coli

salmonella gomez

hick fuck you John Carter

A+

east-17 scott

east-17 seabra

east-17 niggas

maren jamaican's

red sex no virhope

freeesh afuckado

rhohoem8's viner

mcgann's KFC

eleventh doctor

ruby sunwae

sobby no chance elemelons

gradchaseshunned

chase banksdebtitcard

steven's even bush demi

igtalentraped in the USA (tourist)

ducked mendler virus

seaballs allahpena popper

marvel's mother can austalia

antshundeck

dean lewis by dean lewis

anndeal or no deal

mr blobby rukhkhanshaadi

illushaitaani

surah al buckaroo (buckley's MTV)

julian's sausage wasser

19 2p

tassalaam mubarak

eide come home

king fink you

batty boii: LA

lgcommunist okock komputer: fuhrer (taylor's version)

nilessho: chinese doctorate

kimvorce: a star wars saga

clitvorce: grey's panda cheese

jj hey hams

karkrashQ

viva la heshe

trans-play stiles

queer forgot domino

rainbow scowl

eletter and park tank

essehoh

19weightmeshell4

elle musk.

kellogg's bran hicks

diabetinem

abba jagger

mamma james pizza hut

lily christ's superstar

lith (as)

linkedin deep lootloot belle beastly

sanjay duttqur'an monopoly

profit layquana

demi jcoleslaw-to

skillhex

smithex-duck duck goose

whit'you tornado

ball chibby chinny yujames frank

bitch-it swifties

jew jackman

profit click her mother

allah's cookies

click michael caine

isa-fp

ebay gomorrah's jehovah's complex

shieet (ra)

jackpot elton's suicidal gameplay

hoe my god muhamother hubbard's sky tv network

slipindex

dew it yourself help advice selena gomez

epoxy justin bieber

soft-west core engineer

did not lie anymore, fuck this now.

shut 4 5 8 9 10 up X

8----8muhamother

mithisasshole

mt. blame2

eastsoftwhoreia

e i e i A

quack

Morphe 325K-jenner's cut

live it yourself

i am jealous of you (x infinity)

cartoon nazar infinity

dawah's of a neuro-divergent's neuro-divergent

House squared

MASHITYOUBITCH: 13 days in hell

boggle boogie lewis dean community

arthur's pen

anchorage dean lewis titanic

pacman mango netto

vietwasabi

DJ supernintendo mecca wasjig

wasjig the boys: mary tyler moore show arabia

wakes and shaddap

mogropoly

reptilian onomattophobia

jinx sphinx hijinkies

nose stud professionals

elton john lghighiqia+

mensatruation high (ohio)

LRBTQIA+ fat camp

cotton bastard buddy club

ono-itty-bitty-boobage leverage

dying blond/e best friend in pakistan

smythe father

polee king of sahaba

dua

frackccident

ckccdc

buns no roses

movember peda-gigolo

actually the cast of benchwarmers

bitch warmers (sweetpea)

phoebe's wall of bitch bridges (Pakistan)

green eye cameo

cold starters

africa is america

jlo-gement day

truth angel

the discipliner

wiktok

saturn's maharaja

jimmy's tax-haven

wap-man

jeffrey is going to love this

island 51 no nim

madhatter's seabra complex (you took my job)

selling homelander (allah estate)

starlight swift

tree-man jackland

quinn-gland

dentists of arabia

labia libra

robbie robin robs robes reba rubbing ruby reputation (swift's version)

ruby robbing allah (guetta)

sunny sunday sonny (walker)

jamiroquakeia

UKassholesalaam

princess die

adele’s slut

witch chester (no dean)

kansas (true capital of USA)

anson (as) (hello salami)

you said it in his accent

triscassettenohopePIA airlines

eddie stobart (kansas PIA)

travel man ecephalopod

yeast is east

Simple

sara kays p*rn hut

romaine-ia lettuce sink in

britt lower chinese republic

rachel gangrene

phoebe buffunion

matty gangrene groundbreaking experience in criminal minds: swift’s version

harry swother

angus erotomanic diaries: letters for robbie at last

somatic type: succession (delulu)

persecutory type: lovatic

purgatory type: lovatic

purgatory pokemon

mulhern

grandiose type: leo di

miley mixed type mix tape: delulu

gifted: unspecified type evans ever after

bizarre content: rodrigo heart stool cesspool (deluphoria delphinus)

saggy tits partial remission (tiktok delulu)

subtypes: garcia’s pick me

whistler’s DJ catatonia

catatonia cataract’s israeli slow down shahada

rare DJ

post-pneumonia autism: selenator

cormorhummad (saw) -mormon edition-

phencycladine chadolla afghanistan

wokeaine

allahcockhollywillhouby

mutism morphe: Kylie’s side

echolalia terabithia (france)

france mega-plane mannerismenistan

hypomania: elvis’s version

major depressive episode: fleabag

rapid (prisonbreak S.O.S)

preGnancy Nancy peri-meri tere mere party post-partum G fran nancy drescher nando’s pre-G easy party

rachel betty enchiridion

freeworm

shahada shade shady vegas whippy 99’ (no flake)

breast-end (walk away) -broadchurch-

flake just the libras

bluey racist band-dom bad dog

mood-incongruent: animator’s falcon punch

secretary y2k wwe

mecca maccies pakistan

mecca bingo

frackantifa

jackricka

i nicky

miranda wozgrove

miranda (saw)

touchpad

index shahada

meitner 4 u (saw)

oxalaam

ibuprofen

iphone 3heehee s

aled allah jones fanclub

the one show (arabia)

philalaland - lovato

my own phillip schofield idaho (gus van sant's vision)

th13teen

i never found my father: duff's version

son of a letting go

trainor's adam's apple

hi-sha

jimmy jones cost-co

rock

kylie macdonald's fluttercry eyelashes (copyrighted)

tailor's love story

chupa chupshutup

allakannawinnerwinnerchickendinner diagnosed

allahcomeandgetit died gnome (conquest)

ellacommunism cinderella

ella enchiridion

princess west end dreams conquistador

princess more fuck up

rachel berry zionism

PALS stine (goosebumps because you're pretty)

IS rock

britt lower's britt reid's spears britney's hot chelle rae

china's prof. communism

jappy meal

nickfeet back (no spears)

oppenheimer 2: 2 oppen 2 heimer

tenet's pakistan

marry cure me

maria canals curie joe cure me slow down

mt. allah

swedish 2

top hanks

pick me pie: american fleabag

eisenhour

panda perry allah super duper gomez bastards: gen x + z

inglorious........

M.Night Pakistan

zong

dirty assholes (bum hole neverland)

teletubby custard mcdonalds nostradamus

iggle biggle wriggle wriggle wriggle (derulo's cut)

Aisha Derulo

Jimmy Carr (brum brum)

git owt mi cahhrrrrrr (narrated by susie dent)

sues dentist (bethlehem)

schue investor

henry hoover noo noo confession (lohan's verse)

makka mecca pacman

upsy ditzy dick bitch ass quo

haa hoo hee hee (israeli cops hate you)

glad i hate her (russell chasing crows)

jo quinn yusuf

eisenheimer's adventure time: more rocks

marshall mathers mathis maths

ENGlish EIllish ELeven ELLIE ELLA ELLE EH-OH ENGravement ECHITSCHITTS CREEK ENGREEK (funeral service) -swift's schuh-

billie English (england)

momtaz mother wendy ricki gold star (at last)

pompom gomez wyatt campbell DEAN (doctorate)

pompom plimpton rare beauty

pompom plump rare batshit (K's version)

hit me hilton's muhammad complex

chewits day

555 day (screw you, Bowie)

gay men's hell

oman

i (saw) that

QUEwhen

ronald donald plimpton sharia twain

rodrigo keidis (freud's atlas)

amy wineheimer

britbrat (10 years younger)

blubber belly (UAE)

big phones, not bones

Thinking.Independently, not T.I.

tu-hock

huckuck (as)

life of aled jones (ra)

gingy's ghetto (off my ass)

ice wobba wobba (phat family: USA)

angel berry derelict

rumple torn - natalie imbruglia's version

bedding field (no words. dis THEE: E-Z) wheat

Sheikh gumhummad (y u mad?)

imam khan (kha-q) no iran (bukhari: cares)

obwham!a (huh?)

greater than

01 olympics

FREeszse

Frack-ese (stardust commercial)

AFRIshaitaan (shahidi)

blump blonde (dead)

will smith (1984)

call homemad(not that)

dumb y? (not z) nazia

x fix dumb as fuck (saad asfaq)

anderlondonson (the kid)

Yveh (is) fox said (saad)

lilly jamaica

captain palestine (pals)

swedish london (hollystein)

nor

sensingstar (8)

taylor's WAP (cardi's edit)

elf makeup (taylor's version)

allah (miss americana)

sunset blvd (47 ronin)

blanco franc (bring it back)

back-wheat boys (wheatabc)

Swederek

blades of gay

no glory

blades of spain (gays glory)

LGBlades of Tupac's netto

allah aldi i'm cheap

i baalived (c aygo)

cher's jimmy saville

northwood p*rn hub pizzafest (bridge me)

bridge dick princess bride men for her (homme)

dior buscemi lovato (battle angel)

mozzarella star mozzy kitchen types

hally lemon ryder

hallylallychupachups

k l m n o p qt pop

chinkseezystreet (quality)

john's green

bishop butch bitch the main character

dynasty spectrum: booktok edition

edidit (edition pun lords)

winner winner wintour didn't (rango)

depp deep dippo espreh-oh

rap no

eminem's bulimia milchick shek kamikaze

magadascar bastards (inglorious)

house thirst (why?)

salah allah gummy hummy bear (i want that)

Julian imaan

wikiamina leaks

Mclean assamina dawah salaam

marked fardharafat (mo’s kingdom)

wes andrews

mary hummingbird (as)

the sacred tech: amina dualingo

fuckedthat (forgot it)

assange allahuakbar

allah tore me: world wide web (gays gaze (ra)

Superfactural: QI

satans fun facts: eggheads

3D poppins daisies

4Dajjal: LA

criminal contribution: karrankhaill

creepy country: residents see will

nikon niggers

nigeria’s canon motion picture

canon canberra: Lovato

charlie’s corona carbone

craig elias wyatt boyd

adhaan jolene jolie

adhaan y2k

adhaanamina

adhaafrica world cup 2025

adhaa hee hee

we adhaan lady parts khushi

kingswomen

kingswang

shruk

scorpio

pan hub

oschue's eleven

ex-fan (hurt class)

ex-man (worst class)

hex-fan (taylor's sass)

sex-fan (her class)

jex-man (abu lahab)

spacex-wang (huh?)

tailor's tibet (wrong man)

torchic politics dept.

torch polls debit internet

osue's twelve

i-land carpenter's (shiro)

veggy mama

lana's ludo

mirror maren

mercy gonzalez

mitchies cocaine9

allahterry lut (as) muhamillions (brewster's pyre)

starrs pan hub (no looky)

starrs panda (no lut (as) selly)

antshanquandubec (quebec)

pyrorbreak (halal)

rich moron sister mormon (no dick)

finndia huda (mubarak)

dimu domo corp. china

meitner's millions (bill+ted)

vaughn's cox

matt cox

vaughn's that

cox this

charlie's that

x-vaine

ristan's walking dead (T) -16 personalities-

tristn's walking dead (A) -16 personalities-

x-vaine first that

take that nazar

rule the world re:tadpoles

sheikh charlie (take that)

henry cavill's starman

yeah you me monopoly

matthew vaughn

vaughn's men

x-play no vaine, why?

x-that

x-this

XP: pepper's chilli (that)

MANA: charlie

MANA: charlie swift (cloud apple (x-files)

charlie's apple: that

elvaine pressplay: gomez edition

thanlor tayllah (at last) swift (saw)

demitria goonie's (as)

fidel's casdepol (tayllah's edition)

chappli iran

charlie iran

taylor aviv (dunya)

swift arabia (aakhirah)

alicia keidis (minaj (seen) -whatsapp begun-

jeffrey's pak supermarket

scohne's a dell (phd)

x-this pit (KISS)

swift come and get it (take that)

5 seconds to kid a man

leto go

passenger over murs (lawrence)

pratt that this to me

whatsthis (asap)

snapthat (first class)

futurelee story (selena arabia)

same wham! time (scott of arabia: law assed)

ignored and order: belieber

word no order: selena of arabia (jeddin bieber)

linna riyadh word economy

echwhore (hit me baby one more time)

addtocart: ebible (howard's island)

criminicart minds: tiktok

hit me baby one more eye

prisonconservatorship: under girl (ageplay)

age pay

tenndr

delulu wallah

wine SS ass

tenntanic

jailus

words case tomorrow

spasticca

star trigga

star hoarders: pawn hub

lie rack whine (buckley's edit)

edgit allah po (tubby)

mooby uber boobs (strangest)

olly olo god attack: saiyan

goku wan

mooper duper hoover uber boobs (pushing)

broad hub

groffkhaill

dido west-end manual

my rack hoe (allah says)

simon (as) says. this that -take- s.o.s

s.o.s cowell: gomez (as) -snatched-

selling allah (mehr king)

tiger king (greek phobia)

greek probia

tiger mehr (king)

eurythmehr kingdom allahcandoit (savillian)

buying mo’ warmers (mehr)

ice-car crash (syme’s rhymes)

busta symes

F.I.T (busta)

aggressive develalacooper sadie j

comic sans homelander

A-land paris

century gothic font losers

arial racists (microshot: paris)

papyrus FiNeding NeMo’ (greek debt)

A-A syme’s europe

Hum digital (capita Qur’an: stocks the wall (street never)

symesmythe: Matte black

symesmith: brilliant white

symesmut: magenta

symeshouse: dani

symesnail: harrisisterstanlee

symesmenieres: premiering disease

hopinghomes: landed her

plasymessticks: mattelian (mark) racists

auld lang syme: kr hum europe

sandalwood no syme: House M.D.

mcafee spastic coffee campaign: republican

norton gomorrah winner winner chinese dinner Qur’an: tories

tories stories

powerproint gods: pronto yeezy wannabees (dubai)

LAX cardigain (again)

fresh since syme may (air bells are ring-a-dinging)

syme’ssmiths: king

syme’smyths: liar

meincraft word

mysymecronesoft: powerpoint

gomallah hubby bubblegum

sistreep of a down: syme moore complex

john frubeshan (heart food that you wish you (saw)

suns not a chance (middle east)

sunny in dubai (dead date)

khalas dylan swooner (sunny date)

medjool in the building: south africa

cheaper’s dozen (khaab last): america

pushina daily: kingdom garten

sank b4: friday

shipstake: butthopes (hole-y adventure)

nick cake: pushy daisy

jeremy clarks gun

mop gear

moo gear

little dykes

suns and roses

oppouganda: aleppo

tinky parker winky weekly

dipimpsy

corona leone: home alone

albanana’s allah

shrukira leone

bunda buddy buoddy body benchwarmers PIA

franchester united

gluster

crapistan verde: arabia

mononiggalollypollypocket: KKK

bryan dancer

will bri-anne dean lewis shahada (cox)

jew F O CNN

focnn

micky trees house

unohollywillhoubynetwork

wokenafrica

diddydydley: potter parkistan

parkistan’s mecca: no michael

lady haa hoo: S.O.S

lady bee gees

man hoo dung flung

360p haa hoo

poor monitor (omg you did not (pi)

alligeneral genitals: hilary duffonit

amy’s living bouffant: highlairious

jewonamy

milly jesus network

jewellery for carpenters

shit sheikh

sagi-magi-watermelons (zade)

hippy campus cops

hippo-vegas regulars

hippo-crimp fantastic

hippo-bellamy elevels

gods are witches too

shite

leo-dicapricorn monument valley: city weller

demo-god: africa

shell-enã homes end

ding dong battery bastards inc.

nokia lollypop OG’s (2010)

shat africa: o.k. computer

wires (T) ben

lundis

week-stend

coppolobby terrorists: eh-oh

enji bengermans

ford fokopolis

fuckassho: guernica

one ear

last year millenials

last date goodbye

2022

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won man

adick ducks dick-stra engine: ferrari can afford

cars superstars

tightening mcqueen (mah kween)

city chitty bang wang

want winter wang nowhere

my own private ghetto

gold crash crash bandit: peshawar

sassprisun

viraped

arien

gorillas: airaped pod hunt

duluxex: duran out

touchpad genies (r us)

lettipole lettuce breadwinners

let that canq in

canq-c

sink-c

anchor-age heavymetal

heavy mentallists: what?

patrick bateman stans

pandastanzas

harpy crash jewpolyindia

zac reference (f-rom)

adiducks adidasisad crash bandiscooter

adidad german fresco

monet’s macroni (pasta)

jack riddiford’s england

roman

rominihominijewishvegas

cramp twins

amina-da show

mcclean: vaginal floorists (united kingdom)

wake sun posh

pratt spice

brb telly gomez

john loki-bare

villionamillion: vermillions

dubby no n

wennes day

demi emmy wemmi when

curan

lohandipol

cist control

pesswhen allah

shien t

fok-trolls splice s

piles girls (spice out)

halt thatcher fire

maggi spice

we men (jls?)

kung fun wangda

shahadi hindu raja turkmenistan

turkmeni menstruation mensa

mensee-saw (as)

men-see see (jedi fat-camp)

kaus australis (years and years)

die-bolic medicine

phat harmer

kran wendigo

thur-hursday (benhaj)

mister maga whore gulf fines

raefence high school musical

dave’s camera pork belly

symesith: incorporated

mister babestation (kitty maker)

coryhoax: british telecom masterbaiters

finnland QIA

grandmalee: pacemakers

pace marketers markers: DIGBIC

bicbic digdig: billented

notorious B.I.C (robin)

diluted die-lite africa

smash camp: LA

wompinama

panamipizzahut

cheque-in toes

madre panda complex surplus cushion delaware

marble: qiyamat smashout

zina seesaw zeen8tor

slamzilla: god komplex

borwe

gralla kramp

phoenix WWE

river tireland

quackn phoenix: zunubba stone

wicca: bingo

bengo bingimins

wingy woopoop: pink thursday

thoramous

smishit

allacannot

kanut

wug

gombat

bitch bingo

wennus tennus venus weenis penis

just pranks: gona forget boot it

wat wamp

lecca wecca

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extract from 'William Burroughs and the Algebra of Need'

Part 5: The Wild Boys of Rock Music

First a little astro-geography to be followed by some astro-synastry. This way the connections and cross-threads of Burroughs life to his work and his enormous influence on rock music can be highlighted.

Mexico in the early 1950s must have seemed the perfect place to write too as his Mercury/Ascendant line that runs right through Mexico city where he wrote ‘Queer’. His Pluto line runs through Ecuador where he went in search of Yagé (ayahuasca) in the jungle. Pluto is about transformation and intense experiences. The Sun/Venus line crosses Mexico too so he may have found it very comfortable there.

But he upped and moved on.  In the mid-1950s Burroughs travelled to North Africa and spent years living in a male brothel in Tangier. This was in the international area which he named ‘Interzone’ which he positioned in his most famous book, ‘Naked Lunch’. Most of 'Lunch' was written there. He was on a roll and Ginsberg and Kerouac helped him hone the typescript and get it to a publisher in France. The astrocartography lines for Morocco show that his Mercury/MC and Moon/Ascendant lines cross just off the coast of Morroco. He would eat well here at his regular restaurant even though he was addicted to Eukadol pain killers and obtained the moniker ‘the invisible man’ for his capactiy to blend into the background.

Naked Lunch (1959) was mired in controversy and classed as ‘obscene’. It was the last book in the US to be taken to the supreme court for alleged pornographic material – like Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the UK. It’s a picareseque phantasmagoric kind of disjointed novel. And one of those books that is still very much ‘out there’ beyond the pale. It’s love it or hate it. Most people find it shocking as he depicts the hanging of young men with all the spasms of erections caused by rigor mortis.

He said these scenes were a satire against capital punishment in the same manner of Jonathan Swift with his ‘Modest Proposal’ (1729) where Swift advised people to cook and eat babies as a solution to the population problem. It is satire at its darkest and grotesque as in the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch; and that’s the way to read Burroughs with that twist in mind. Shock tactics can have a moral value and it is so absurd it can make you laugh out loud. The sense of disgust includes strange creatures like mugwumps, centipedes and cockroach-beings that morph in and out of reality and this is reminiscent of the cosmic horror of H.P.Lovecraft.

The language is electric and pops off the page like brutal poetry. Phrases coined by William Burroughs are scattered across the whole rock/pop scene. Through him we get: ‘Steely Dan’, ‘Heavy Metal’ and ‘Soft Machine.’ Anyone’s face that appeared on the Sergeant Pepper’s album cover achieved iconic status as inspirations of the sixties counterculture. But Burroughs is there along with the others.  He influenced Paul McCartney of the Beatles Revolution Number 9 has a very Burroughs-like flavour with tapes spliced and played backwards.

Burroughs’cultural influence has seeped like an all-pervasive ink blot on rock music – so it cannot easily be erased. He pops up everywhere. Specifically, he influenced the likes of Frank Zappa,  Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Psychic T.V/Throbbing Gristle, Patti Smith, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Tom Waits, Hüsker Dü, Richard Hell, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Debbie Harry, Sonic Youth, Ministry, Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Add to this his influence on authors such as J.G.Ballard, Kathy Acker and Will Self.

David Bowie started using the ‘cut up’ lyrics technique for Moonage Daydream as early as 1972 before he met Burroughs.  And he continued on Diamond Dogs. Upon meeting apparently Burroughs trusted Bowie more than most other rock stars who tended to roll up and idolise him. Burroughs thought that Bowie expressed some of Burroughs' ideas from 'Nova Express' but Bowie was eager to please the master and made up fantastic storylines for 'Ziggy Stardust' that had not been heard before. The two visionaries were in tune, as far as it went and they had a rollicking conversation when Burroughs was not always talkative. Burroughs said that "when you cut up the present, the future leaks in" and that's what they both did. Aquarian Sun sign and Aquarius Ascendant- they had their fingers on pulse somehow.

Though Bowie was a Capricorn, he had an Aquarius Ascendant and, like Burroughs, people saw him as one who could see the future. Bowie's Ascendant lands on Burroughs' Jupiter at the beginning of the stellium in Aquarius and Bowie's North Node lands on Burroughs' Moon in Gemini. Theirs was a world of avant-garde ideas and Bowie in some ways helped make Burroughs more accessible to a wider audience.

Iggy Pop  - possibly the wildest of all the wild boys of rock- even wrote a song called Gimme Some Skin (2014) which is a hats off to William Burroughs. It contains the Burroughs’ style lyrics:

“Typhoid Mary She got soul Sucks all night and blows my soul She shoots speed right up her ass She shoots speed and she smokes grass”

In Pop's Lust for Life  (1977) he sings:

Here comes Johnny Yen again With the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine He's gonna do another strip tease.

It's pure Burroughs: Johnny Yen first appeared as a Nova Mob character 'hypnotising chickens' in The Ticket That Exploded (1962).  Iggy Pop and Burroughs were both ex-junkies so they both knew first hand about that 'algebra of need' but there are a few oppositions and squares in their synastry and they probably would not have become friends. But Pop's Ascendant is approaching towards Burroughs' Moon in Gemini and Pop's Ascendant is on Burrough's Neptune in late Cancer.

Burroughs' influence is so all over the place in rock music that the question is what in his chart that hints that Burroughs is grandaddy of them all?

Regarding the music- he has Euterpe the muse of Music conjunct his Venus at the midpoint of the stellium in Aquarius which says a lot even though he preferred jazz to rock music. His Saturn in Gemini maybe, is the master of words , structured and restrucutred, with that Saturn trine to Uranus and Venus in the 12th? The Neptune in Cancer with its undercurrent of deep feelings suggest powerful levels of empathy? Rock music styles over the years have always evolved in tandem with specific drugs and their availability. Each sub culture has its preferences. There is even a 2003 book on Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination by Oliver Harris; and 'fascination' is often associated with Neptune which can cast a hypnotic spell for good or ill.

Patti Smith, a Capricorn, adored Burroughs. She not only regarded him as a good teacher, she even fancied him, which is strange as she has no planets conjunct any of his many placements in Aquarius. They even have Mars in opposition to the other’s Mars and his Pluto is square to her Moon- all increasing the likelihood for conflicts. But perhaps the rapport they felt is that his asteroid ‘Psyche’ lands on her Sun and her asteroid Psyche lands on his South Node/Vertex. Plus, her North Node lands on his Moon in Gemini. That is a pivotal relationship in anyone’s life.

Plus the fact that their work is better read aloud for best effect, both were devoted to the spoken word and the powerul effect of that sound. But with that hidden Venus in Scorpio and androgynous appearance, Smith is not easy to read. But it does seem had a penchant for deep relationships with gay men including in her early days with Robert Mapplethorpe. She is even incredibly loyal to ther memories. It was Burroughs who encouraged her to sing before her first album Horses was released. And at CBGB’s and the Bowery where he lived among all the junkies they were fellow New Yorkers.

It has to be said that this quintessental Aquarian Bill Burroughs was lucky as a writer. He was enabled by his background from a rich family, so he was cushioned financially from poverty- at least in the early days. That would have hit others very hard.  Plus, he was helped by friends and acolytes in ways that robbed him of personal agency as a writer and made his writing more of a join event. The 'allies and accomplices' did most of the typing and admin for him.

The writing would be preceded by what he called his ‘routines’: letters, talks, conversational gambits, jokes, skits, acted out behaviours that stimulated the spark to write and ended up in his novels. He was odd for several conflicting reasons: he was humble, seemingly without ego, a bit of a chamelon able to blend into any city he was living in. He was a real loner, a hermit, yet fully able to make friends quickly wherever he lived, and usually influential friends. He had a Burroughs' style 'network'.

And all this was in spite of immense steeliness and physical resilience to endure the decades of hammering from drink and drugs. He outlasted many of his contemporaries against all expectations. He still comes across as highly complex and intelligent and the soft southern accent belied the fact that his  books are as provocative as any in history. They are part of an attitude that ‘questioned everything’ – likely the Uranian impulse -but this has ensured that his legacy as a writer up there with Joyce, Woolf, Kerouac and Beckett as a true innovator of the 20th Century. He was the original chaos magician of words. He died of a coughing fit that triggered a heart attack on August 2nd 1997 in Lawrence, Kansas. The Sun and Moon in Leo opposed his Jupiter/Venus/Sun in Aquarius. But true to his Uranian signature, it also landed right on his Uranus return. 

© Kieron Devlin, Proteus Astrology, February 4th,  2025, All Rights Reserved.

Harris, O. (2003) William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.

Miles, B. (2002) William Burroughs: Un Hombre Invisible, a Portrait. London: Virgin Books.

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Reads from October 2024

Only four reads to start October. But most quality!

The Measure by Nikki Erlick - The reader meets eight characters in this speculative fiction novel. One morning, the entire world wakes up to a box. This box contains a string. The string reveals how long you will live. Some open the box immediately. Some wait. Some never open it at all. What are the pros and cons of doing so? The reader finds out through this cast of characters. I sped through this one in two nights. I was afraid the ending might be disappointing, but it was quite satisfying indeed! 4 stars. 

King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner - This is the second book I’ve read set in Carville: the only home for those diagnosed with leprosy in the US. I didn’t love the amount of prose in this book. It felt much longer than it was. It’s the story of teen Victor Chin who is sent from his home in Brooklyn to Carville when he’s diagnosed with Hansen’s Disease (leprosy). Born in China, he’s lived in the US most of his life with his father and brother. His mother remains in China, and she does not know he’s been shipped off to Louisiana for treatment.This eats away at Victor who does get to speak with his brother in small doses over the phone during his time at Carville. Overall, just average for me. 3 stars. 

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly - Kelly is one of my favorite middle grade authors. And she did not disappoint with this one! I’m not going to try to do justice to a summary or divulge too much, so here’s what the official jacket summary is:

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.

It turns out that Ridge is carefree, confident, and bold, things Michael wishes he could be. Unlike Michael, however, Ridge isn’t where he belongs. When Ridge reveals that he’s the world’s first time traveler, Michael and Gibby are stunned but curious. As Ridge immerses himself in 1999—fascinated by microwaves, basketballs, and malls—Michael discovers that his new friend has a book that outlines the events of the next twenty years, and his curiosity morphs into something else: focused determination. Michael wants—no, needs—to get his hands on that book. How else can he prepare for the future? But how far is he willing to go to get it?

5 stars. Cannot recommend enough!

The Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung - This one was heavy. Even for me. You know you’re not getting the feel-good book of the year when you’re picking up a novel set in Community China. The daughters in the title are those of the Ang family who has only daughters so no male heir. When the Communist army closes in, the father ups and leaves his family. And due to having no male heir to punish, the Communists beat the oldest daughter to within an inch of her life. Her mother decides to take her girls and escape in hopes of finding their freedom and the husband that abandoned them. Endurance. Resilience.  You name it, this mother and her daughters have it all as they live through some of the most cruel situations full of danger, sorrow, and all the negative descriptions you can think of. Not for the faint of heart, but an eye-opening, important read. 4 stars.

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Maligayang Pask-OH SHIP! Mixtape 2, Listening Guide 2

Section 15: Happy Golden Days of Yore

The Mexican barrio morphs into a rural, snowy English town in the early 18th century. The Gesualdo Six’s Guy James, Joseph Wicks, Josh Cooter, Michael Craddock, Samuel Mitchell, and Owain Park stand outside a church, singing Michael Praetorius’s “Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen.” The listener stops by the pub, and Heather Dale serenades one with “This Endris Night.” Sara Stowe stops by to serve the listener a cup of “The Gloucestershire Wassail.”

Refreshed, the listener enters the said church, in which one finds peasant clothing-clad James Bowman and Michael Chance pray Francois Couperin’s setting of the Magnificat. Dame Emma Kirkby appears also in peasant clothing, her singing the final movement of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Non so qual più m'ingombra – “Nacque, col Gran Messia” – with the London Baroque under Charles Medlam.

Section 16: Nochebuena Spread

Festive scents inundate a dining room as Sophie Retaux’s charming organ transcription of the Dance of the Mirlitons from The Nutcracker wafts.

Collin Paul welcomes the listener in the kitchen, declaring that “It’s a Marshmallow World.” Jody Dee and the Starliters cook up a storm with “The Peppermint Twist.” Lesley Gore helps one whip up Christmas “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows.” The listener helps Chance mix mulled wine, brew the nonalcoholic hot cocoa, and heat up toddies as he sings Purcell’s “If Music Be the Food of Love.”

All the dancing and cooking makes the listener hungry, and the cast of Promises, Promises help one set the tables to ensure that everyone has a “Turkey Lurkey Time.” The guests are in fact the King’s Singers, who join you in a “Banquet Fugue.” One of the Kidsongs Kids tells the listener at the jovial table, “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.”

Section 17: The 1740s Menorah Lighting Hour

The listener once again heads to the 18th century, this time in a Jewish neighborhood. Matthias Maute’s Ensemble Caprice’s “Fa Nye Mama” fill the air, and so do the scent of laktes frying in oil.

As Sydney Fixman lights the candle on a silver menorah, the Pro Cantione Antiqua sing Salamone Rossi’s Elohim Hashivenu. The Maulbronn Chamber Choir, accompanied by Musica Florita and conducted by Jurgen Budday, sing “See the Conquering Hero Comes” from Handel’s seasonal oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus. Il Gardellino – under Marcel Ponseele – signifies another Hanukkah night illuminated with the 3rd movement of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935.

Ensemble Il Continuo lends a festive air with the opening chorus of Benedetto Marcello’s I cieli immensi narrano, S.618. Helmut Lotti leads everyone in a rousing hora to his cover of “Shalom Alechem.”

Section 18: Give Love on Christmas Day

Seasonal romance intertwines with the festive atmosphere as the segment starts with Jose Mari Chan’s “A Perfect Christmas.” The listener waltzes with a friend (or significant other) as Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack sing “As Long as There’s Christmas.” The Cambridge Singers and Farnham Youth Choir croon, “I Wish You Christmas.” The Jackson 5, aptly, advises the listener, “Give Love on Christmas Day.”

The Carpenters reminisce about “Those Good Old Dreams” while Susan Ashton and Collin Raye share “The Gift” with each other. Chan tells the listener, “Give Me Your Heart for Christmas.” Sandi Patty and the kids remind one, “The Gift Goes On.” Mariah Carey affirms that the listener’s love is the best gift of all, as evidenced by her greatest seasonal banger, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” And Barry Manilow says, “I’ve Got My Love to Keep You Warm.”

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