#November 1 202

[kvchandru]

(via Apple M4 MacBook Pro Models, iPad Mini, and More to Launch Officially on November 1: What to Expect, Specs, and More Insights by Mark Gurman)

According to the latest insights from tech journalist Mark Gurman, Apple is all set to unveil its M4 MacBook Pro models, along with an updated iPad Mini, on November 1, 2024. This announcement has sent waves of excitement among Apple enthusiasts and tech lovers alike, as the upcoming products are expected to bring significant performance upgrades and feature enhancements.

https://trendingtoday2302.blogspot.com/2024/10/apple-m4-macbook-pro-models-ipad-mini.html

[achingly-shy]

part five of fundraisers that have reached out to me

(part four) (part three) (part two) (part one)

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[leclerc-s]

the honest series - formula one

─── ❝ i wish you could be honest with me ❞ ───

masterpost

click here to be added to the honest series taglist

THE PRELUDE

an honest timeline

meet the leading cast

THE ALBUMS

if this was a movie - m.verstappen - starts in early 2015

enchanted - d.ricciardo - starts in late 2015

i wanna be yours - c.leclerc - starts in 2018

bad idea right? - p.gasly - starts in late 2019

call it what you want - l.norris - starts in early 2021

different - a.leclerc - starts in late 2021

say yes to heaven - m.schumacher - starts in late 2021

la curiosidad - o.piastri - starts in late 2022

how you get the girl - l.sargeant - starts in early 2023

por el contrario - o'ward - starts in early 2023

THE EPS

he’s good for my heart but he’s bad for business

alternatively: a blurb series of the songs inspired by max verstappen (takes place from 2015-2022)

i want your midnights

alternatively: a blurb series of the songs inspired by daniel ricciardo (takes place from 2016-2022)

met you at the right time, this is what it feels like

alternatively: a blurb series of the songs inspired by lando norris (takes place from 2021-2023)

you, me, and your friend steve (the 1k special)

the paddock family couples and their third wheels as seen through the fans and themselves

THE BONUS TRACKS

seven

mae and daphne write a song together for max featuring charles leclerc (takes place september 2019)

the unhinged younger brother

the jones sisters have a little brother, he's more unhinged than anyone could imagine. (takes place from 2019-2023)

(daphne's version)

daphne finally gets to own her work (takes place from 2021-2023)

wait, there’s another one of you?

turns out older brothers, feelings, and spilling secrets, is not a healthy mix. who would've thought?! (takes place in early 2022)

nonsense

mae reveals the inspiration behind her most unhinged song ever while also traumatizing a few drivers (takes place may 2022)

a christmas nonsense

nonsense gets a merry sequel while mae and max continue to traumatize their friends and families (takes place november 2022)

the daphlonso scandal

the entire internet is convinced daphne is dating a driver but they’ve got the wrong one or where loose-lipped lando strikes (takes place march 2023)

who's daniel ricciardo anyways?

a star nfl player tries giving his number to daphne, chaos ensues between the f1 girls and the nfl fandom, several people lose their minds, mostly isabella and daniel. (takes place july 2023)

the trophy boyfriends

daphne and mae are everything while daniel and max are just ken (takes place september 2023)

karma is the guy on the track

daphne and daniel break the internet, again. (takes place november 2023)

most likely to...las vegas edition

grill the grid has it out for pierre and rowan (takes place november 2023)

what happens in vegas never stays in vegas

someone gets married in vegas…again (takes place november 2023)

fruitcake

the release of mae's christmas ep has a few people worried. (takes place from november 2023 - december 2023)

a paddock family christmas

christmas, paddock family style (takes place december 2023)

divorcegate 2024

alternatively: isabella and rhys loses their minds over lewis' unexpected move to ferrari. (takes place february 2024)

let him be a trophy husband!

the paddock family takes on the 66th annual grammys and a surprise album announcement by daphne (takes place february 2024)

the end of an era

isabella choses chaos. (takes place february 2024)

she's married you idiots!

relationship rumors strike again! only this time mae and max seem to be at the center of it all. (takes place february 2024)

struggling to survive netflix

the paddock family takes on a new season of drive to survive. (takes place february 2024)

thirsting on the main?

isabella thirsting over her boyfriend with a sprinkle of brocedes (takes place march 2024)

let the games begin

the start of the 2024 formula 1 season, occurs in the usual paddock family chaos (takes place march 2024)

so american

the internet learns just how much zoya torres loves logan sargeant. spoiler, it's more than they could imagine. (takes place march 2024)

of ice cream shops and puppies

think the barbie of formula 1, charles leclerc, starting his new business venture while suffering from dog-napping at the hands of his 'own children' (takes place april 2024)

espresso with a shot of depresso

the impending release of espresso and the tortured poets department has people cracking jokes (takes place april 2024)

the tortured poets department

the release of the tortured poets department by daphne jones-ricciardo. (takes place april 2024)

take me back to the city that i call my city, where everybody knows my name

charles leclerc finally wins his home grand prix. (takes place may 2024)

short n' sweet

it may be mae's 6th studio album, but it's her first as a married woman. (takes place august 2024)

UP NEXT!

por la familia

fast and furious but make it f1 (summary change pending)

[brokehorrorfan]

Mondo has launched a line of The Real Ghostbusters 1:12 scale action figures with Peter Venkman, Samhain, and Slimer. Priced at $202, the exclusive, timed edition set is available until November 26 and is expected to ship in May 2025.

Venkman stands 6.5" and comes with two heads (neutral and serious), four hands (gloved and ungloved), proton pack with particle thrower wand, attachable particle stream, and ghost trap, swappable trap cartridge with mini Samhain.

Samhain stands 8.5" and comes with three heads (standard, black eyes, evil smile) and four hands. Slimer stands 3.5". The PVC toys are designed and sculpted by Alex Brewer.

[choicesholidays]

Winter Holidays 2024

Welcome to the Choices Holidays Third Annual Winter Holidays Prompt Event!!

Here is a list of holiday prompts that will hopefully inspire some stories and/or artwork, mood boards, etc. Let your imagination run wild!

THE RULES:

This is open to all Choice’s fandoms. It’s open to fan artists as well as fanfic writers.

Use these less as word for word prompts and more as a general theme (of course, you are welcome to use them word for word if you like).

They do not have to be done in order or in the week they are assigned to. Pick and choose and submit anytime during the event. Stories and art will be reblogged as they come in and a master list will be posted when the event is over.

The event runs from November 24th, 2024 through January 4th, 2025.

The deadline is January 4th 202 11:59 CST.

To ensure you get reblogged and added to the master list, make sure to do the following:

Tag @choicesholidays

hashtag #choicesholidays and #winterholidays2024

Don't forget to tell us which prompt you're using!

The prompts are merely for inspiration, they are not required. Any winter holiday themed story or artwork may be submitted.

The Prompts:

Week 1 November 24th- November 30th: You did what with the pumpkin pie?

Week 2 December 1st – 7th Snowball Fight

Week 3 December 8th – 14th Under the Mistletoe

Week 4 December 15th – 21st Cuddling by the fireplace

Week 5 December 22nd – 28th New Traditions

Week 6 December 29th – January 4th Maybe we can have a new beginning

That's it! If you have any questions or suggestions please contact this blog or @angelasscribbles.

[lonestarflight]

Apollo Program: Block I Command and Service Modules

The Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) contract was award to North American Aviation on November 28, 1961. At the time, the plan was to land the entire CSM on the lunar surface via the direct ascent and the initial design did not include a means to dock with another spacecraft. Later on this was changed to the lunar orbit rendezvous and lunar landing would be preform via the Lunar Module. This required a major redesign of the CSM and in 1963, NASA decided the most efficient way to keep the program on track was to proceed with the development in two versions:

Block I: the preliminary version for early low Earth orbit test flights only.

Block II: the new lunar-capable version, which included a docking hatch, incorporating weight reduction and lessons learned from the Block I.

The CSM Block I was to be used for all uncrewed Saturn IB (AS-201 & AS-202) and Saturn V (AS-501 & AS-502) test flights, plus two manned missions. This was changed to only one in late 1966, being Apollo AS-204, aka Apollo 1. After the Apollo 1 fire all manned missions were to use the improved Block II versions.

Block I Command and Service Modules produced:

CSM-001: systems compatibility test vehicle, used on propulsion tests at White Sands Missile Range. Completed tests on September 7, 1968. CSM scrapped.

CSM-002: used for powered on tumble abort tests, flew on A-004 Little Joe II, January 20, 1966, at White Sands Missile Range. Modified to 002A.

CM-002A: used to in land drop tests. Modified to 002B

CM-002B: used on pogo tests at Downey, California. Modified to BP-23. On display

On display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, New York.

CSM-003: cancelled before construction began

CSM-004: structural tests, CM modified to 004B.

CM-004A: Used for Thermal and dynamic tests, redesignated BP-27 on the Saturn I Block II (SA-5D). On display.

On display with the Saturn I Block II Dynamic Test Vehicle at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

CM-004B: Tested a new unified hatch design at Downey, California. CM offered to Smithson but declined, later scrapped by Rockwell at Downey, CA.

CSM-005: cancelled before construction began

CSM-006: CM used for systems capability tests and modified to Block II for ESC tests at AiResearch in Los Angeles, CA. Later used for demonstrating tumbling debris removal systems. CM offered to Smithsonian but declined, later scrapped. SM redesignated as SM-010, on display with BP-23A.

BP-23A and SM-010 on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

CSM-007: various tests including acoustic vibration and drop tests, and used as a ground test vehicle. CM modified to 007A. SM used for fitcheck of docked model facility, current location is unknown.

CM-007A: used by Astronauts for water egress training, water-survival training and extended recovery training in the Gulf of Mexico. CM was refitted with Block II improvements. Underwent testing for Skylab at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory, Eglin AFB, Florida, 1971–1973. On display.

CM-007A is on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.

CSM-008: complete systems spacecraft used in thermal vacuum tests. CM modified to 008A, SM offered to Smithsonian but declined (August 1973), later scrapped by Rockwell International at Downey, CA May 1977.

CSM-008 in Chamber A at JSC.

CM-008A: used in land tests at Downey, CA. CM scrapped by March 1971.

CSM-009: flew on AS-201 (later designated Apollo 2), CM modified to 009A.

CM-009A: modified with support structural tests for land impacts. CM offered to Smithsonian but declined, on display.

On display at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska

CSM-010: originally intended for a launch abort test, mission cancelled and CM was modified into 004A. SM cancelled.

CSM-011: flew on AS-202 (later designated Apollo 3), CM modified to 011A.

CM-011A: used on land impacts tests and extensively damaged. CM offered to Smithsonian and is on display.

On display at the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California.

CSM-012: intended for AS-204 (Apollo 1). CM is in storage at Langley Research Center. SM scrapped. Hatch on Display.

Apollo 1 hatch on display at the Kennedy Space Center.

CSM-013: cancelled before construction began

CSM-014: intended for AS-205 (Apollo 2). CM disassembled as part of Apollo 1 investigation and modified to 014A. SM used on AS-502 (Apollo 6).

CM-014A: ground testing. CM Scrapped May 1977.

CSM-015: CM cancelled before construction began. SM-015 was used with BP-30 and LES-014 for Swing Arm tests and backup spacecraft for Apollo 6. On display.

On display at the Kennedy Space Center.

CSM-016: CSM cancelled before construction began. Only the launch escape tower (LES) completed, on display with BP-27 the Saturn I Block II (SA-5D) at U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

CSM-017: flew on Apollo 4 (AS-501). CM on display. SM destroyed when the propellant tank explosion during ground testing. CM on display.

On display at the Stennis Space Center in St. Louis, Mississippi.

CSM-018: cancelled before construction began

CSM-019: cancelled before construction began

CSM-020: flew on Apollo 6 (SA-502). SM flew on Apollo 4. CM on display.

On display at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

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NASA ID: link, link, JSC-03600, S66-59204

[nekoannie-chan]

Week 46 Reblog Masterlist

Welcome to Week 46 2023 or Week 202, as always, fics would be listed in the order I read them.

I hope you enjoy it!

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♥ You can check my reading guidelines here.

♥ You can check my masterlist here.

♥ You can check my main reblog masterlist 2023 here.

♥ You can check my November reblog masterlist 2023 here.

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𝙺𝚎𝚢𝚜: 💛 ᵒʳᶤᵍᶤᶰᵃˡ ˢᵗᵒʳʸ

💜 ʰᵒʳʳᵒʳ

🖤 ᵈᵃʳᵏ

❤️ ˢᵐᵘᵗ

💚 ᶠˡᵘᶠᶠ

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This is the list of the fics I read and recommend in Week 46 2023:

Collaring (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @lillian-gallows ❤️

Food play (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @1-800-jjbarnes ❤️

Kinktober day 5 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @kidney9-9 ❤️

Always and forever part 6 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

Early morning showers (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @unadulteratedfandomtrash❤️

Always have (Agatha Harkness X OC) by @eddysocs 💙

Innocence (Stucky X Reader) by @stuckymonkey ❤️

Always and forever part 7 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

Trusting the Captain part 2 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @cevansbaby-dove 💚💙

Prettiest sight (Stucky X Reader) by @mysecretslittlelibrary❤️

New world order part 2 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @queen-of-the-avengers 💚💙

Always and forever part 8 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

Moral of the story part 3 (Steve Rogers X Reader, Logan Howlett X Reader) by @lemonsss💚💙❤️

Dating post-serum Steve would incluse… (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @ she-who-writes-for-multi-fandoms 💚

Apartment #3 chapter 5 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @levans44💚

Always and forever part 9 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

Forced orgasm (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @stuckymonkey ❤️

Shower sex (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @captainamericasmotercycle ❤️

Remote (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @clintbartonswife 💚💙

Always and forever part 10 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

May I have this dance (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @haravathot💚

Thigh riding (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @1-800-jjbarnes ❤️

Come here (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @notyetneedcoffee ❤️

Always and forever part 11 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

Stronger than steel (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @imagineanythings💚

Screaming in a haunted corn maze (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @witchywithwhiskey ❤️

Every word like smoke from a cigarette (Sergei Krávinov X Reader) by @darkficsyouneveraskedfor 🖤 ❤️

Always and forever part 12 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @zaraomarrogers💚💙❤️

[life-outside-the-box]

A zine written by a radical, disabled/ neurodivergent, queer of Portland Oregon, with contributions from other disabled, queer artists and advocates as possible

A note:

Thank you to Canva and their artists for creating accessible and beautiful zine templates and graphic elements! And thank you to everyone who continues to put in the effort to fight against oppression. This is for you, especially those of you in the Portland Oregon disability/neurodivergent, and queer communities. And, of course, this is in honor and memory and to rally increased support around our fellow Palestinian humans.

Please let me know if you or anyone you know falls into the communities in Oregon/Portland that this zine is published for and want to contribute! Feel free to share without credit, although I did post originally from my personal and professional accounts; it is more for social activism :) Please reach out if you have any interest in supplying art of any kind.

-Creator and editor

*Please note times for White House Call Line are in Pacific Standard Time”

Alt text:

First slide:

Picture of pink dried flower with stem with pink and green sequins on cream background, cover of “Radical Justice”: A zine written by a radical disabled/neurodivergent, queer of Portland; with contributions from other disabled, queer artists and advocates. Published

November 2023, Palestinian Aid Issue

Second slide: Text reads: “We acknowledge the First Nations people who are the custodians of the land on which this zine is published and contributed from:

Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla

Stl’pulmsh (Cowlitz)

Clackamas

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

We also thank our QTBIPOC members who have taken up disability and queer justice and care work before us and the groundwork they have laid and the rights they died for that we continue today as a community.” Text on cream background with three dried yellow and white varied flowers on too and three on bottom.

Third slide: Text reads: “To our Palestinian brothers,sisters, and gender diverse humans: we stand with you, always.” With a heart in the middle of the broken up words and surrounded by 6 varied dried flowers and leaves.

Fourth slide: A note on decolonization

We all benefit from enhancing and adding to the voices that call for decolonization and human rights.

Disabled/Neurodivergent and Queer communities especially, and ALL OF US benefit from doing what we can to fight oppression when we see it. Picture above on a swing with locks on it.

Fifth slide: Graphic reads “Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.” graphic by Poonam Whabi.

Below, an advertisement for a course called “Economics for Emancipation: A course on Capitalism, Solidarity, and How we get free”

Sixth slide:

Another picture of a Palestinian, masculine presenting child holding a sign with “Save Palestine” on it.

Google doc with resources on how to get more involved and resources for learning at https://bitly.ws/Y4ki.

Charities:

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Medical Aid Pal

Podcast episodes:

Palestine Parts 1 & 2 with Sumatra Awad (author of “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction” by Upstream Podcast

Seventh slide: Picture of a pink flower with yellow inner seeds, under which the text reads: “A list of companies you should boycott that are funding Israel from BDS Movement.net

https://BDSmovement.net (more info about the differences here)”

Please see list from graphic below at this site as well. Text on top of graphic reads: “Act now against these companies profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People “

Eighth slide: Picture of a white flower in bottom right. Text reads: “Phone and Email Your Oregon US Representatives

House

1st district: Suzanne Bonamici

503-469-6010

2nd district: Cliff Bentz

541-249-4085​

3rd district: Earl Blumenauer

503-231-2300

4th district: Val Hoyle

202-225-6416

5th district: Lori Chavez-DeRemer

503-557-1324

6th district: Andrea Salinas

503-385-0906”

Text continued in the right side with, “Senate

Ron Wyden

503-326-7525

Jeff Merkley

503-326-3386

White House Call Line

(T-TH 8AM- 12PM)

202-456-1111

OR

202-456-1414”

Bottom reads, “Send auto Populated Emails Below:

http://tinyurl.com/defundisrael”

Ninth slide: Poem reads: ““Genocide is not a Jewish value”

Harsh comment,don’t you think?

“No”, says the slaughtered Palestinian family

that is, if they could speak

So we continue to be their voice until they get the justice that they seek

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

H it ‘em where it hurts

for “their” priorities lie in wealth and power, not a dead child’s hearse

Genocide Joe and those in power, please take a stance that prioritizes life over power

When history looks back , your human rights violations will surely be looked to as weakness and dour.”

Picture of a sunflower in bottom left

Tenth slide: Picture of life-like leaves taped to a photo peg board with sequins.

Text reads, “Tools for Re-centering:

Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Body Scan/Somatic Grounding

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Feeling Wheel Reflection

Timed Processing

Yoga or Qui Gong

Box or 4-7-8 Breathing

Centering Meditations

Binaural Beats/8D Audio”

[therealbeachfox]

Myths of Gotham: Batman & The Two Cities

Ever wondered what the DCU looks like for all those people who aren't privy to the what's and why's of the multiverse shattering events they live through? I sure do. That's melded with my "The Completely Normal Adventures of a Crime Alley Kid" series into this: An exploration of the stories the kids of Gotham would create to explain the world around them. Featuring a foul-mouthed homeless Crime Alley kid vending an education to the younger set, and one Bernard Dowd adding his historical and cultural commentary on the side.

Also available on Ao3, but I'm posting it here because I think it works just fine as a standalone without the 160k+ words of Henchman-In-Denial shenanigans on the side.

Or ignore that link and read it below the cut!

Myths of Gotham

Supplemental Document 3

Harris (Age-12, Male, Irish/African) [[1]]. “The Origin of Batman and the Robins” Interview by Bernard Dowd. 14th August 202X. BDOH #009, Myths of Gotham Project, https://BerDProductions.net/MythsofGothamProject/bdoh-009.html. Accessed 21st November 202(X+2)

[[1. No further information given, even after being told it’d be for proper attribution. "Harris" is also most likely to be pseudonym. Sorry, researchers of the future.]]

Transcript has been mildly edited for clarity and to remove vocal disfluencies. It is otherwise presented in its entirety without any attempts to correct grammar and other verbal slips. Additional notes by the transcriber may be found in the footnotes.

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     Alright, everybody needs to settle their shit down, it’s education time. If you don’t wanna sit here and listen to me explain shit, this place has got like twenty other rooms you can go hang out in, k? This aint school, no one’s keeping you here. ‘Xcept you, Carlos. Yeah, well you tried to go chasing after one of the Exquisite Birds the other day, so you obviously need to learn why you shouldn’t be doing that shit.

     Okay, so. We’ll be talking about the Bat Man, but there’s a lotta other stuff we gotta talk about too, first. He didn’t just show up outta fucking nowhere, you know. Now settle down, thank our slumming Posh Boy over there for tonight’s food, and watch what your tongues wag cuz he’s recording all this shit.

     Alright. The Bat Man. Where the fuck did he come from? Why the hell is he here? Why do other cities get flying muscle-men in bright colors and we got a living shadow that breaks bones? Why the hell is our shithole of a city like this? Well sit back and listen a learning, cuz unfortunately it all ties together.

     Alright, so. The first thing we gotta make clear is that we don’t live in the first Gotham. We’re the second Gotham, the johnny-come-lately Gotham, the weird mirror shadow of the first Gotham. Not saying the other Gotham’s the “real” one and we’re some sort of fake, just that there are two Gotham’s and the one we live in aint the original.

     And an important side-note cuz I can see some of you squirming to ask and someone always asks here, I’m not talking about the False Gothams you sometimes see from between buildings or in the reflections of broken windows or stuff. [[2]] Those things aren’t real; they’re just illusions and traps, spun up by something that wants to lure you in with the promise of there being a version of the world where everything didn’t go to shit. It’s all lies. Most kids who go hunting after False Gothams never come back, but there’ve been a few who have, and they’ve got wild as shit stories to tell. But we’re not getting into all that tonight. Basic point is, you don’t get to The Other Gotham by going down weird alleyways. Nah, you just gotta go down.

[[2. Harris appears to be referring to Gotham’s ‘Mirage City’ phenomenon where heated air trapped in narrow gaps between skyscrapers can sometimes warp the light enough to appear to show an altered city skyline between them. The implications of the fact that this phenomenon is most often reported near sites of Justice League confirmed inter-dimensional fracture points is beyond the scope of this project and will just be noted as a point of further study for the reader.]]

     So the way it was told to me by the kids who knew shit back when I was among you all listening was like this: Gotham, that is to say, our Gotham, is The Black City, The Gotham Above. The Other Gotham, the original Gotham, is The White City, the Gotham Below, and it was here first. [[3]] The way it’s told, it’s not just the first Gotham, it’s the first city ever, built (or carved) out of the rock way back before people had figured out things like writing shit down instead of remembering it all, math, or how to build something more than two stories high.

[[3. There have been urban legends of an underground city that exists as a mirror of Gotham since the late 1600s, barely a decade or two after the city’s founding. The two main versions either say that it was some ancient city that sank beneath the swamp and bogs before the arrival of the Europeans, or that it’s an inverse mirror of Gotham that’s formed from all our wickedness and corruption. No evidence of either version of such a city has ever been officially recorded. It’s usually assumed that people who wrote of such things, especially in the earlier centuries, had stumbled upon some of the vast cave networks that extend beneath the breadth of greater Gotham and their stories of giant chambers with rock formations that rivaled the tallest buildings in size were misinterpreted.]]

     So you know those whacked out monsters and aliens and weird-dicked demon things you have the Justice League out there beating the ass of every other week? They had all that shit way back in pre-history times too, but they didn’t have any cavemen in capes and spandex to punch them in the face. And they were everywhere. Big creepy monsters, fucked up demons that crawled out of the earth or shadows or fires and might not actually be from Hell, but acted like such murderous shits you could see how humanity got the idea of Hell in the first place. You had twisting shadows that would infect people’s own shadows and turn them into evil twisted things like them. You had monsters that only existed as silent whispers that’d get in a guy’s brain and tell them all sorts of shit till they honestly believed that wearing other people’s skin and dancing under the moon was a totally normal and not at all fucked up thing to do. You look back at the earliest stories humans ever wrote down and you can see they were remembering all sorts of fucked up shit we don’t got around anymore. Or at least, didn’t have around anymore until recently. [[4]] And it’s because of The Other Gotham.

[[4. Like with many aspects of Gotham’s unhoused youth culture’s mythic cycle, the timeline of this all doesn’t line up with actual history except in the vaguest of sense. It is interesting to note however that Princess Diana of Themyscira’s speech about ‘The Return of the Mythic’ (end note (i)) has somehow gotten incorporated here, and in a way that almost perfectly aligns with with current historical consensus.]]

     So, the way we figure it must’ve happened was like this: Just because they didn’t have superheroes back then, it doesn’t mean they didn’t have magic. Like, we don’t got a lot of it now, but you can’t argue it doesn’t exist, and pretty much everyone agrees that there used to be a lot more of it way back when, whenever that when was. And that when was here. This is the Way Back When. So a bunch of the smartest most powerful magicals [[sic]] got together to try and figure out a way to get humanity on more of an even standing against all these fucking monsters and evil spirit shits everywhere, and what they came up with was the idea for a great big fuck-off prison for the lot of them.

     So they went and found the one place on the planet that had the most Fucked Up energy possible - guess where - and set to work carving it out deep underground. At the bottom of the biggest cavern there was under the three islands and surrounding swamps, they dug out a pit. Not a giant wide pit, but a long deep one. As deep down as they could dig with whatever magic and tools they had back then. And down there at the bottom, they carved out a great chamber in the rock and covered it with all the runes and magic writing and iron and silver and whatever the fuck else you need to keep giant millipedes that eat souls in check. Then, somehow - and if anyone knows how, it sure as shit aint gonna be us - they managed to lure or suck in or capture just about every evil nasty messed up thing on the planet and locked them down in it.

     You can tell when this happened if you know enough history cuz it would’ve taken place right before humanity got its collective shit together and started doing things like building cities and writing stuff down and everything else that they count as ‘civilization’ these days. [[5]] But like I said, none of the cities everyone topside were building was the first. The first city was built right here, under our feet. They started out by carving out the insides of the biggest stalag-whatevers hanging down from the cavern roofs to live in while they did the original work. Then, once they figured out how that sort of thing worked, they started building their own towers, hanging down from above where they could keep an eye on their monster prison. All spires and guardian statues and skyways and at the center of it all, a giant hole drilled straight to the middle of the whole fucking planet.

[[5. ‘The Great Binding’ and it’s coinciding with the beginnings of known civilization (end note (ii)) is one of the newest theories out of the field of metahistory. Notably, UC Berkley’s article on the subject referenced in the end notes came out seven weeks after this interview took place. And as a side note to the footnote, even proponents of The Great Binding have no concrete theory on where such a prison might’ve been placed. A giant pit right on the Eastern Seaboard seems incredibly unlikely, however.]]

     So yeah, the Gotham Below. Sure, it wasn’t being called Gotham way back then. Not sure they even would’ve given the place a name to begin with. If you’ve never had a city before, would you even think it was something that needed a name? Anyways, Gotham Below. And they didn’t have shit to burn down there, but they did have magic. So, as the story goes, they kept the place lit with magic instead of fire. And all that rock remained as white and untouched by soot and ash as they day it’d gotten carved out. So Gotham Below, the White City. And even with all their magic, those people still eventually got old and died, so it was their kids left watching over the great pit prison. Then they grew old and died, and it was their grandkids left watching. And so it went for centuries and centuries and centuries, for however long it took for humanity to start building cities, then for Europeans to develop to the point where the felt like being assholes, and then for them to decide to go fuck up the rest of the world, and then landing on these same islands and decide that this abandoned remote hellhole was the perfect place to build a brand new city cuz there weren’t enough of those yet or whatever.

     Now, this should be obvious, but you can’t keep a thousand million monsters and demons and evil alien ghosts all trapped in one spot and not have shit kinda bleed out over time. When those pilgrims showed up to start building shit here, shit got weird. Now, I haven’t read any of this myself, but the kid who told me all this did, and according to him, if you go back and read through the journals and writings of those guys responsible for building up Gotham originally, you can see that they were fucked in the head. They kept writing about dreams they’d be having, silent streets of gleaming white they’d walk through while they slept and how the visions of great towering spires and skyways and a billion fucking gargoyles filled their pages whenever they tried to draw up designs. [[6]] So that’s what they all wound up making, one bridge and building and road at a time. A perfect mirror of the City Below, but reaching up in the sky instead of down into the earth. Each stalagamitite tower hanging down in one had a tower reaching up in the other. And smack in the middle of original Old Gotham stood the tallest building of all, right over where the pit was drilled far far below. [[7]] The Clocktower aint the tallest building in Gotham anymore, but it used to be. And while the Gotham Below remained pure and gleaming white, up here they hadn’t even finished putting up the first medieval porta-potties before shit was stained with soot and ash and coal smoke and whale oil residue.

[[6. Harris overstates things, but the base assertion is correct here. The writings of Cyrus Pinkney are infamous for their frequent reference to ‘dark and shadowy dreams’ (end note (iii)) and his open acknowledgment of how much those dreams influenced his designs. Not to the extent described here, though.]]

[[7. The Great Gotham Tower. Known better these days as The Gotham Clocktower or just The Clocktower. It was placed at the center of Gotham as it existed in it’s original state, with the rest of Old Gotham laid out around it in expanding circles connected by thoroughfares at each of the eight cardinal directions.]]

     And that’s how we got to where we are: With the White City, Gotham Below, and the Black City, Gotham Above.

Now, you can’t go building an entire fucking city without the downstairs neighbors hearing the noise and poking their heads out to see what it’s all about. This is another case where you can find references across all that early writing stuff they keep in the libraries. People started seeing ghosts. I mean, they were calling them ghosts, but they really obvious weren’t. People up high, watching people below. They’d wear big white robes that looked like wings when they moved. They wore strange masks with big smoke-glass eyes. They moved through shadows like they were part of them, they could climb a building as easy as walking, and anyone who tried to climb up to one would either find them gone, or would next be seen falling off the tallest building in the neighborhood.

     As the history goes, the masks they wore looked vaguely birdlike. A specific type of bird. But it quickly became obvious that whoever these people were, they really didn’t like it when people called them… that specific bird species. So we don’t. Adults still do sometimes, but that’s because they’re fucking idiots. [[8]] If you need to talk about them, call them the White Birds. Or, even better- They’re vain, these White Birds. If you flatter them, they’re less likely to decide to kill you for talking about them at all. The term that tends to get used a lot these days is Exquisite. [[9]] Not sure who came up with it, but we’ve barely had any kids go missing since we started. Still, it’s best to wait until the middle of the day, and talk about them someplace out in the open where you can be sure no one’s lurking in any shadows.

[[8. Beware the eyes of owls

Who watch us all the time

From lofty perches up on high

To the deepest pits of grime.

They watch us as we work and play

They watch us in our bed

Speak not a whispered word of them

Least talons strike you dead.]]

[[9. “Exquisite” is recorded as being Gotham street-kid slang for ‘untrustworthy john/rich person/official’ in the early 1980s (end note (iv)). An article in The Gotham Gazette from 1954 quotes a homeless kid as saying “We all always knew you couldn’t trust him. He was a full Exquisite Bird type through’n’through. None of us is surprised they found all those bodies up’n’in his place.” (end note (v)), and a stylized EXQU was used as hobo code for a place that seemed nice but must be avoided at all costs along the mid-Atlantic coast during the 1930s. (end note (vi)).]]

     So throughout all of Gotham’s history, they’re just… there. Watching from up high in the shadows, the Exquisite Birds. If you see one, no you didn’t. If someone asks you about them, you don’t know what they’re talking about. They don’t like it when people admit they see them, and they’re as quick to slice open witnesses as any other two-bit gang.

     So that’s where shit stood for a few centuries. Then something happened. We really don’t know what, and no one who would is the sort who’d tell us, either. We just know what resulted. Grownups call it the Cataclysm, or the Big One. [[10]] One day, the earth just turned over in a giant earthquake, split open, and half of Gotham fell down. Then, suddenly, there were monsters. Monsters everywhere. Gotham had always been shit, but now you had people dressing up like insects and murdering people with giant roach traps, or gangsters turning from murdering assholes to mass-murdering assholes who’d torture you for five hours then pull out your eyeballs for their collection, or giant piles of toxic mud coming to life and eating people.

[[10. It goes without saying, but at this point, Harris’ version of events deviates radically from the known timeline. The first recorded footage of Batman was taken eight years before the Great Gotham Quake, with the first rumors of his existence being almost twelve years earlier. This condensing down of timelines and assuming all events from more than five years ago took place at around the same time is a known phenomenon with children-created mythic cycles. (end note (vii))]]

     It was chaos. Everything broke down, no one knew what was going on. The rest of the country looked at what was happening in Gotham and flipped out and shut it all down. They blew up the bridges, put mines in the rivers and blockaded the entire city to try and contain whatever the hell this all was. [[11]]

[[11. No Man’s Land did take place, but if it was because elements of the US government were concerned about an outbreak of mythical monsters in the city, that fact remains undocumented.]]

     Now, like I said, we don’t know how everything kicked off, but we know how it ended. Somehow, whether on accident or on purpose, someone broke open the prison buried deep under out feet. Not all the way; none of the truly giant world-ending shit has gotten out. But all those twisted shadows and invisible whispers and nasty spirt ghost fuckers? They slid out just fine. We don’t know if the earthquake cracked it, or if the cracking of it caused the earthquake. We don’t know if the Exquisite Birds did it on purpose, or why if they did. We don’t know if they didn’t stop it because they didn’t care, or they just couldn’t.

     End result, though? Chaos in Gotham and monsters killing and corrupting and twisting everyone they could get their semi-visible claws into. And the Exquisite Birds just sitting there up high, watching and doing jack shit about it.

     These days, we know what to do when shit like that goes down. We know how to feed wishes to the gargoyles and how to call out for the Bats and the Robins, but people back then, they didn’t know any of that. Hell, there wasn’t anything to pray to or to collect those wishes yet. So you had a whole city of people hoping and praying for something to come save them, and nothing for all that power and energy to ground itself in. And there was a whole lotta power in the air. That ancient magic prison had just busted open after all, so along with all the evil smoke demons and monsters and shit, you also had all that raw protective magic leaking out at the same time. And it got mixed up with all those unanswered wishes and pleads as it coiled up through the spires of a city that was the mirror of its own. And there, at the top of everything, it all found it’s lightning rod and grounded itself and WHAM! Just like that, everything changed.

     Now, I’ve seen the old photographs, from back when you got pictures of city skylines from giant blimps and stuff. And the resolution on them is never great, but you can see it all the same. Back when The Clocktower was the tallest building in the city, it had a big fuck-off gargoyle on top of it. Big swept back wings and these curved back horns, and hunched all over looking out towards the ocean for anything that might be sailing in to do harm.

     It’s not there anymore. Supposedly, it fell off during the Cataclysm, but I’ve never heard of no reports of it getting dug outta the rubble. [[12]] We know what really happened to it, though. All those wards on the monster prison had failed, all the watching guardians of Gotham Below had failed, and Gotham Above was filled with unanswered prayers. It all came together at the highest point of Old Gotham, and the Bat Man statue sitting there was imbued with both the power and the motive to protect us. All of us. Bam! Batman!

[[12. The Sentinel of Gotham was an actual statue that stood on top of Gotham Tower for over 150 years. It was an angel-winged figure standing ten feet tall with a sword at its side and a shield held facing out to the bay. It fell off the top of the Clocktower in 1967 along with a significant portion of the north-western corner. The damage would remain until the revitalization of Gotham at the end of No Man’s Land. What happened to the statue is unknown. It was recovered for restoration and assumed display in one of Gotham’s museums, but I can find no further word about it after 1968.]]

     I mean, we all know about the next parts, yeah? Lots of punching, lots of asskicking. Big giant monster with glowing eyes descending from above to kick the teeth in of anyone who’d given in to the whispering shadows, to the monsters wearing human skin, to the demons and their shadows and all the rest. And it was awesome.

     But the kids at the time, the kids like us, they had it rougher. I mean, the way it’s like today isn’t like it was back then. Batman’s been alive for a lot longer now; he’s had time to learn how to be a person and not just some sort of monster-fighting gargoyle. But you can still see it. He talks like most of his throat’s still rock, and he moves like it too. He’s got a punch that sends people through walls, and bullets only make him bleed when he remembers they should and they never keep him down for long. And he still doesn’t really get what it means to be a person, or how to deal with humans. Like, you can tell he tries, but he’s an ancient protective guardian powered by even more ancient vengeance magic and there’s only so much that can do. To the kids of those early days, he was even worse. He didn’t understand that they’d be hungry or lost or alone. He didn’t understand why something like him would be terrifying, and he didn’t get why sometimes you had to steal to eat and survive.

     So some of the smart kids of back then got together and worked out a plan. There was still a lot of that protection magic in the air from the prison getting busted wide open and they got the idea to try and channel it all, but on purpose this time.

((The wishes!!))

     Right, the wishes. This is when that started. They spread the word. When you needed something, when you’d lost something, when you needed someone to help, you would write down your wish and what and who you needed to fix it, and you’d feed it to a gargoyle. Wish by wish, paper scrap by paper scrap, we taught the gargoyles what sort of protector the city’s children needed. There were attempts to get kids to feed them all to one specific gargoyle or another, but it didn’t really work out, everyone just wound up stuffing them into whatever gargoyle they liked best, or was easiest to reach, or was safe to get to. Turns out, you don’t need to feed the wishes to any specific gargoyle, they all talk to each other. What you wish to one gets picked up by all the others. [[13]]

[[13. This tradition appears to have started a year or two after Robin first premiered. It’s unclear exactly how it originated, but it’s now city-wide knowledge, especially among the kids, that you can feed wishes to gargoyles if you want them to come true. Previous writers have compared this to wishing on a star and have suggested that it’s how Gotham’s youth have adjusted for the fact you can rarely see any stars to wish upon in the city. (end note (viii, ix)). ‘Wishes for Gargoyles’/’Wishing on a Gargoyle/Gargoyle Wishes’ is often used by older Gothamites – particularly parents, teachers, and other caregivers – to refer to young foolish wishes, but with a positive connotation (similar to the phrase ‘puppy love’ meaning young foolish love, but with a positive connotation). (end note (x)). And despite what some city officials have worried, there’s never been a need to invest in going around and clearing years of paper pulp out of gargoyles across the city. What exactly is happening to the wishes instead is unknown.]]

     And it worked, is the thing! It barely took a year before there was a second shape following behind the Bat at night. And it wasn’t like the Bat at all. It wasn’t a soot and ash-stained version of the Exquisite Birds, carved out of stone and one with the shadows. It was small, and bright, with the colors of Christmas, Halloween, and the circus all in one. He laughed and told jokes and understood the difference between kids who were crying because they were scared, or tired, or lost, or had just too much happen to them too soon. He knew how to talk to kids and how to help us. He stood between kids who just needed money to eat and the Bat Man’s strict ethics. We’d done it, we’d made a protector of our own. Warmer, more real, more human.

     Kind a little too human, it turns out. Robins aren’t eternal like the Bat is. Robins grow up and grow old. Robins can die. Turns out, Robins aren’t made by a gargoyle coming to life like the Bat Man did. It’s more like, the gargoyles sort of push out the essence of all those stored wishes into a form that’s shaped after themselves, but made of our wishes and hopes and needs instead of just stone and rock. We don’t even know exactly which statues most of them came from.

     We know the Second Robin’s gargoyle. But we’re Crime Alley kids, so of course we know. He went back to it whenever he needed to rest and heal. There are kids who still climb up there to tend to it and feed it offerings. We’re never gonna get Our Robin back, but it doesn’t feel right to let his gargoyle sit abandoned. And there are some kids who think, or hope, that if we can feed it enough wishes and offerings and positive vibes, maybe someday Crime Alley’s Robin will be able to reform to protect us again.

     Until that happens, though, we keep feeding wishes to all the others. The first Robin evolved into Nightwing and became the protector guardian of Bludhaven. Kids who were smarter than me figure it’s because that protective magic is still leaking out of the broken prison and spreading out like a fog. It’s spread far enough out that it can feed them the next city over. Which means they also have those invisible whispers and corruptive shadows and all the rest, which, if you’ve ever talked to a kid from there, you know they absolutely do.

     The Uptown Robin dyed himself Red and moved in closer to us here in the Alley. Personally, I figure it’s because he’s been getting all those wishes and offerings we’ve been giving to Second Robin’s gargoyle. It’s sort of merging the two of them a little. Hell, if it wasn’t for that Red Hood guy showing up, he probably would’ve become the Crime Alley guardian fully by now. I always kinda wondered if the Uptown kids have a gargoyle they keep up like we do ours, they just don’t tell anyone about it. I mean, we scarcely do. We sure as hell don’t tell anyone who doesn’t need to know where it is, that’s for damn sure. [[14]]

[[14. I only asked after the second Robin’s gargoyle’s location once. When I told that information wasn’t shared, I didn’t peruse it any further. All the extra glaring here was just really unnecessary.]]

     Oh shit, good question, yeah, no, the Bat Girls totally come from the same place. Why some go by one and others go by the other is beyond me. There’ve been girl Robins, and it wouldn’t surprise me if there’ve been guy Batgirls. I think it’s because Gotham’s kids feed so many wishes into the system? There’s a lot of need out here, and so Gotham keeps birthing out new protectors for us. For awhile, I thought it was just a case of there were usually two ‘new’ ones at any given time, so one would get called Robin and the other would get called Bat Girl, but then we had two Bat Girls for awhile, and then Red Robin went back to being Robin while the other Robin was also Robin, but then they kept changing names, and…

     Look, I’m sure there are kids out there who have a better grasp on this stuff than I do. I just know where they come from, not what sort of weird rooftop pack/hive dynamics they got going on these days, you know?

     So, couple of other points before we close this all up. First, on the nature of wishes. I know it’s real cathar- ceth-. Fuck. Real good feeling to wish death by a thousand cuts on those fuckers who beat you up and stole all your food, or wish that the dad who beat you has his arms chopped off and whatever, but we’re all, all of us kids, city-wide, we’re really pushing that everyone cut down on the violence level of the wishes. The latest Robin we got came out with a sword. He’s straight up merc’ed a few guys too, and it didn’t work out as well as it feels like it should. We don’t want the next one to be even worse. Robin is supposed to be our protector, not our vengeance.

     If you want someone to wind up stabbed, you learn how to use a knife and take care of that shit yourself.

     We’re pretty sure the one extra invisible Bat Girl was formed out of the Bat’s shadow. She doesn’t talk much because they have to share the same voice, and she’s usually happy to let him use it, but this way the Bat’s able to properly Bat at two different places in the city at once. So she’s like the born wish of a born wish. It’s no wonder she’s so slippery and invisible half the time. Unless she’s actively punching something, she barely physically exists at all.

     And no, no one’s exactly sure what’s up with Signal. I mean, yeah, obviously he was formed out of the Bat Signal. Skin’s the same color as the metal, outfit’s the same color as the light, and he actually shines and glows and all the rest. And he says he’s The Signal. This is like obvious base level shit.

     We just don’t know who’s wishes he was born from. I mean, it’s possible that somehow the Bat Signal’s gotten tied into the gargoyle network, but that seems kinda implausible to me. Some have said maybe he was born out of the wishes of the police for Batman to show up and help out during the day for fucking once, but he’s way less violent and murdery than you’d expect from something born out of cop wishes.

     Buddy of mine who’s pretty damn smart and is usually better at these things than me thinks Signal might’ve been born from the police commissioner’s wishes specifically. Which kinda makes sense. He’s like the one cop who actually gets upset when someone gets shot twenty times in the back for no reason, and he’s always the one turning on the Bat-Signal and talking to the Bat under it for years and years and years.

     Kid I knew a year back actually managed to ask Signal who’s wishes he was born out of, but Signal just laughed and said something along the lines of “Doesn’t really matter who wished for me. What matters is they wished for everyone to be safe, so that’s what we’re here to do.” Then he blasted apart these giant shadow-bat things with bat-light beams and it was awesome.

     So yeah. That’s where Batman and the Robins and the Bat Girls and all the rest came from, and why they do what they do. Give thanks to Poshkid for the food, remember to put out your fires before you sleep, and if anyone wants to talk about the EBs, track me down tomorrow and we’ll go hang out in Leeds’ Park around noon so we can be sure nothing’s listening in.

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 202 Trivia (Part 1)

I missed the food-focused chapters… 🤤

The brand parody here is Coosur, which is made in the Jaén province of southern Spain (=nowhere near Barcelona). The brand is quite popular, and is also international.

Additionally, Spain produces around half of the world's olive oil, the most of any country!

If you've forgotten the Age of Exploration arc, "desire is noble" is both the name of Francois' debut chapter and their motto!

The tagline for this chapter is "olive in floriography means wisdom (知恵) and victory (勝利)", however all the sources I found said that olive meant peace rather than victory.

Ryusui's holding a dirty martini, a drink known for the unique garnish of an olive. To make it, you need gin, vermouth, and a splash of olive brine.

The brooch he's wearing seems to be a dragon's wing and a flower that I can't identify (it's not related to Spain or olives).

Barcelona is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea and 5th most populated city in the EU. It has two rivers running through it that have survived the 3700+ years, and a mountain range to the west.

The stone world seems to have given it new islands though!

Most Spanish olives are harvested from the south, but Catalonia still accounts for ~5% of all olives produced in Spain. It is a bit of a trek to get to the olive growing regions from Barcelona though!

The olive harvest is normally from November to March, across the winter.

The modern way to harvest olives is by shaking the tree so that all of the olives fall into a net. Ryusui is shown using the traditional way where you knock the fruit off with a pole (Hyoga would have been great for this).

The olives are then cleaned, crushed into a paste, and spun in a horizontal centrifuge like the one Kaseki made to separate the oil from the solids. Do this a few times to make sure everything is properly separated and you get olive oil!

There's couple joke sound effects this chapter, first is Kohaku's "grrlla" (it literally says "gōrira", so "gorilla" with a slightly longer 'o' sound), then Suika's "mlllk" (literally "gyunyu", the word "milk" in Japanese is pronounced "gyūnyū").

Ajillo is an olive-oil-based sauce that is flavoured by frying garlic ("ajo") and guajillos chillis in it. Other things can be added as well, such as salt, pepper, lime juice or wine.

Ajillo dishes are simply things that have been cooked in this sauce.

Since Francois stayed on Isla Martin Garcia rather than at Araxá, they had the opportunity to learn Spanish.

As usual, Francois' foresight of what will be needed is incredible.

Chelsea has also expanded her language repertoire by learning Japanese. Hers is more slang-filled, as she takes Chrome's "baaad", Gen's pig latin and Ryusui's usage of "desire".

Ukyo must have taught Chrome to use a bow and arrow at some point, possibly during the Age of Exploration?

That, or Chrome is just pretending to know how to use it.

(Next part)

[agentchimendez]

Sorry it took four months! Here’s the results for Bittersweet Candy Poll 2022: Can’t Fight The Mike! AKA the BCB popularity poll that ran from November 2022 to early December!

Click here to see last year’s results and the way each category was calculated. Click read more to see the entire results of this year’s poll. No predictions this time because I didn’t feel like sorting through them, sorry!

Favorite/Most Beloved

Paulo - 584

Lucy - 573

Augustus - 481

Daisy - 469

Rachel - 463

Amaya - 420!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

James - 397

Matt - 378

Lucy’s Mom, Janet - 348

Sue - 343

Mike - 340

Paulo’s Dad - 319

David - 314

Tess - 286

Molly - 284

Daisy’s Dad - 265

Jessica - 259

Jasmine - 251

Abbey - 237

McCain - 233

Lucas - 226

Felix, Zachary - 224

Charlotte - 223

Lily - 220

Kevin - 214

Chris - 207

Finn - 202

Daisy’s Mom - 200

Jordan - 197

Haley, Catherine - 192

Madison - 189

Mike’s Mom - 186

Mr. Noodles - 173

Stacy, Sam - 166

Chirpy, Darwin - 163

Principal - 161

Lucy’s Dad - 159

Lani - 145

Max - 143

Justin - 138

Blur - 134

Yashy - 121

Mina - 113

Sandy - 111

Melanie - 103

Gym Teacher - 101

Sex-Ed Teacher - 92

Cassidy - 85

Katie - 63

Tiff - 57

Alejandro - 33

Toby - 23

Abraham - 17

Most Disliked/Beloathed

Alejandro - 744

Abraham - 576

Sandy - 270

Toby - 235

Yashy - 219

Tiff - 166

Mike - 163

Lucy - 145

Katie - 142

Madison - 117

David, Abbey - 110

Lily - 102

Melanie - 84

Sex-Ed Teacher - 73

Sam - 62

Stacy - 55

Chirpy - 51

Gym Teacher - 50

Blur - 49

Paulo - 44

Jasmine, McCain - 42

Daisy - 40

Augustus - 38

Tess - 34

Zachary - 31

Jordan, Justin - 25

Matt - 22

James, Mr. Noodles - 17

Haley - 16

Jessica, Lucy’s Mom, Principal - 12

Lani - 11

Lucy’s Dad - 10

Rachel, Mina, Finn, Catherine - 9

Molly - 8

Sue, Darwin - 7

Chris, Cassidy - 6

Mike’s Mom, Paulo’s Dad - 5

Charlotte - 4

Felix, Daisy’s Dad - 3

Amaya, Max, Daisy’s Mom - 1

Janet, Kevin, Lucas - 0

Most Controversial

Melanie - 884

Sex-Ed Teacher - 768

Madison - 325

Yashy - 247

Gym Teacher - 196

Mike - 184

Abbey, Lily - 173

Katie - 159

Sandy - 140

Sam - 119

Blur - 115

David - 108

Tiff - 105

Stacy - 99

Chirpy - 91

Lucy - 68

McCain, Justin - 44

Jasmine - 40

Zachary - 32

Jordan - 29

Tess - 27

Mr. Noodles, Toby - 22

Daisy - 19

Haley - 18

Augustus, Mina - 17

Paulo, Lani, Principal - 16

Cassidy - 15

Lucy’s Dad - 13

Matt - 12

Jessica, Catherine - 10

James, Alejandro, Finn, Darwin - 9

Lucy’s Mom - 7

Molly, Chris, Mike’s Mom, Abraham - 6

Sue, Rachel, Charlotte - 4

Paulo’s Dad, Felix - 3

Max, Daisy’s Mom, Daisy’s Dad - 1

Amaya, Janet, Kevin, Lucas - 0

Least Impactful

Cassidy - 139

Mina - 118

Max - 114

Darwin - 112

Gym Teacher - 107

Sex-Ed Teacher - 103

Justin - 97

Lani - 95

Blur - 94

Chris, Lucy’s Dad - 93

Principal, Finn - 87

Mike’s Mom, Mr. Noodles, Toby, Melanie - 84

Daisy’s Mom - 80

Kevin - 79

Chirpy - 78

Felix - 76

Charlotte - 75

Catherine - 72

Tiff - 70

Lucas - 67

Haley, Daisy’s Dad - 64

McCain - 62

Sam - 59

Katie - 58

Zachary - 54

Jessica - 49

Jordan - 48

Molly - 44

Tess, Yashy, Lily - 42

David, Stacy - 41

Abbey, Madison - 40

Jasmine - 39

Sue - 35

Janet - 33

Amaya - 31

Paulo’s Dad - 30

Sandy - 27

Rachel - 25

Lucy’s Mom - 24

Abraham - 22

Mike - 21

Augustus - 20

Alejandro - 18

Matt, James - 16

Daisy - 12

Lucy - 10

Paulo - 9

[mokutone]

I posted 1,214 times in 2022

That's 529 more posts than 2021!

627 posts created (52%)

587 posts reblogged (48%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@kakashihasibs

@gaiboobs

@mokutone

@everyyamato

@keepyourpantsongohan

I tagged 1,201 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#yamswers - 320 posts

#my art - 258 posts

#naruto - 241 posts

#yamato - 202 posts

#tenzō - 165 posts

#yamato tenzo - 163 posts

#i hope you photosynthesize - 152 posts

#scarecrow in a field of dogs - 107 posts

#kakashi - 91 posts

#blog birthday anon answering - 62 posts

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

2,194 notes - Posted April 11, 2022

#4

i am trying to find a image of the outside of kakashi's window to see what textures i should use for jōnin housing, and i am not finding it but i did find this. look. look

i have so much to say. firstly, everyone wears their shoes in kakashi's apartment, kakashi wears his shoes in kakashi's apartment. i think there is an absolutely and entirely unused shoe rack. there, that blue vertical cubby thing next to the door. it has at least seven slots and there's not a single set of shoes in there!

there have probably NEVER been a set of shoes in there. no respect for Kakashi's living space allowed.

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2,699 notes - Posted April 14, 2022

#3

dipping my toes in the digital waters once more

2,939 notes - Posted February 5, 2022

#2

3,162 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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5,107 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

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[harechasing]

Pinning to track how many pounds/kg I lose each month.

I am pro-recovery!! This is for me.

My weight as it is now (7/25) is only 12 lbs down from 1/1, because I have gained stuff back and lost stuff throughout the year Dx But my hope is to have lost at least 20 or 30 lbs this year, I need to reach my goal weight by August of next year :c

January: 5 / 2.2

February: 7 / 3.1

March: ??? (This month was a wash I had too much going on lmao rip)

April: 3 / 1.1

May: ???

June: This month was also fucked I'll get back to ya August 1.

July: 15.7 / 7.1 (Thanks Ozempic!)

August: 5.5 / 2.4

September: 6.4 / 2.9

October: 4.1 / 1.8 (But I finally got under 200lbs!!!!)

November: (Gained, I was about 202 at the start of this month) 9/4

December:

Total: 55.7lbs / 24.6kg

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Kevin Llewellyn

The Cyhyraeth Duke of C.R.C Kevin Llewellyn (2020)

The eldest son of Deirdre, and grandson of Naoise, Kevin. An Irish-Catholic living in Wales and a perceptive and compassionate father. Kevin is also one Kirby's first cousins once removed.

"What's the difference between a scream and a roar?"

Name

Full Legal Name: Kevin Haul Dylan Caspian Llewellyn

First Name: Kevin

Meaning: Anglicized form of the Irish name 'Caoimhín', meaning 'Beloved birth', derived from Old Irish 'Cóemgein', cmposed of 'Cóem' 'Dear, Beloved, Gentle' and 'Gein' 'Birth'.

Pronunciation: KEHV-in

Origin: English, Irish, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

Middle Name(s): Haul, Dylan, Caspian

Meaning(s): Haul: Means 'Sun' in Welsh. Dylan: From the Welsh predix 'Dy' meaning 'To, Toward' and 'Llanw' meaning 'Tide, Flow'. Caspian: Used by author C.S.Lewis for a character in his 'Chronicles of Narnia' series, first appearing in 1950.

Pronunciation(s): HIEL. DUL-an. KAS-pee-an

Origin(s): Welsh. Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology. Literature.

Surname: Llewellyn

Meaning: Derived from the Welsh given name 'Llywelyn’, which is probably a Welsh form of unattested Old Celtic name 'Lugubelinos’, a combination of the names of the gods 'Lugus’ and 'Belenus’, or a compound of 'Lugus’ and a Celtic root meaning 'Strong’.

Pronunciation: loo-EHL-in

Origin: Welsh

Alias: Cyhyraeth Duke, Kevin Llewellyn

Reason: This is Kevin's ring name

Nicknames: Kev

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 24

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: November 8th 1996

Symbols: Banshees, Cyhyraeths, Ghosts, Crowns

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Scorpio

Theme Song: 'Loyal To No One' - Dropkick Murphys (2014-)

Voice Actor: Chris Corcoran

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 6'4" / 193 cm

Weight: 202 lbs / 91 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Brown

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Hairy

Facial Hair: Clean Shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 10

Piercings: Ear Lobe (Both), Tragus (Both), Double Eyebrow (Both), Anti-Eyebrow (Both)

Scars: Facial Scars

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Yaroslav Volkov, Eadburg Rhydderch, Eachann Mulrennan, Padrig Llewellyn, Aaron Llewellyn, Bada Llewellyn

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Mavourneen Llewellyn

Mentor: Ivan Llewellyn

Significant Other: Mavourneen Llewellyn (25, Wife, Née McEachern)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Ivan Llewellyn (48, Father), Deirdre Llewellyn (47, Mother, Née Rhydderch)

Parents-In-Law: Eoin McEachern (55, Father-In-Law), Majella McEachern (56, Mother-In-Law, Née Cadwaller)

Siblings: Ida McDougall (27, Sister, Née Llewellyn), Padrig Llewellyn (21, Brother), Wanda Llewellyn (18, Sister), Vale Llewellyn (15, Sister), Aaron Llewellyn (12, Brother), Bada Llewellyn (9, Brother), Cadence Llewellyn (6, Sister), Dacre Llewellyn (3, Sister)

Siblings-In-Law: Desmond McDougall (28, Ida's Husband), Rathnait Llewellyn (22, Padrig's Wife, Née McTaggart), Veselin McEachern (22, Mavourneen's Brother), Athena McEachern (23, Veselin's Wife, Née Morris), Astrape McEachern (19, Mavourneen's Sister), Climent McEachern (16, Mavourneen's Brother), Cytherea McEachern (13, Mavourneen's Sister), Gabriel McEachern (10, Mavourneen's Brother), Dike McEachern (7, Mavourneen's Sister), Llue McEachern (4, Mavourneen's Brother), Elara McEachern (1, Mavourneen's Sister)

Nieces & Nephews: Keelin McDougall (7, Niece), Caomh McDougall (4, Nephew), Cathal McDougall (1, Nephew), Ceallach Llewellyn (1, Nephew), Atropos McEachern (2, Niece)

Children: Muadhnait Llewellyn (4, Daughter), Muire Llewellyn (1, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling Style

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Naoise Rhydderch, Ivan Llewellyn

Managers: Mavourneen Llewellyn

Wrestlers Managed: Mavourneen Llewellyn

Debut: 2014

Debut Match: Kevin Llewellyn VS Ivan Llewellyn. Kevin won via pinfall

Retired: M/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Brawler / Hardcore

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (2014-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Belly To Back Suplex, Bulldog, Figure-Four Leglock, Inverted Atomic Drop, Low Blow, Multiple Jabs, Poking / Raking Opponent’s Eyes, Running High Knee Strike, Big Boot, Atomic Drop, Backbreaker Rack, Diving Overhead Chop, High Knee, One-Armed Body Slam, Piledriver, Running Big Boot, Running Leg Drop, Vertical Suplex Slam

Finishers: Sleeper Hold, Jumping Knee Drop, Top Rope Jumping Knee Drop

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Kevin Llewellyn of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) owning Rhydderch family. When Deirdre dies Kevin will have a 1/504th ownership of the promotion. Kevin is a 'Cyhyraeth Style’ (Brawler / Hardcore) trainer. He’s mostly Welsh.

Trivia: Nothing of Note

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, November 7

KENNEDY: OK, and that's magic crazy talk for what? AMY: I put a hex on her. KENNEDY: I got that part. But why Warren? And why did it happen after we kissed? AMY: Oh, (chuckles) that's rich. That must've been some kiss. You must be good. KENNEDY: Answer me. AMY: The hex I cast lets the victim's subconscious pick the form of their punishment. It's always better than anything I can come up with. Elegant, you know? KENNEDY: Undo it. Let her out. AMY: OK. Oh, wait, I forgot - no. KENNEDY: Why would you do this to her? You really hate her that much? AMY: (sighs) This is not about hate. It's about power. Willow always had all the power, long before she even knew what to do with it. Just came so easy for her. The rest of us - we had to work twice as hard to be half as good. But no one cares about how hard you work. They just care about cute, sweet Willow. They don't know how weak she is. She gave in to evil - stuff worse than I can even imagine - She almost destroyed the world! And yet everyone keeps on loving her? So what's wrong with having a little fun, huh? Taking her down a peg or two?

~~Buffy Season 7 Episode #135: "The Killer In Me"~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

To Make Amends (Xander, T, Devil May Cry xover) by madimpossibledreamer

The Jenny Factor (Jenny/Giles, T) by playfulgirl

new directions (Buffy/Spike, E) by trevino

Unexpected Help (Buffy/Spike, Willow/Spike, T) by Anonymous

the one that got away (Jenny/Giles, M) by The_Eclectic_Bookworm

I may never get to Heaven (but I once came mighty close) (Buffy/Angel, T) by angelus2hot

I Know Places (Buffy/Spike, E) by scratchmeout

[Chaptered Fiction]

Vamp for Rent 8/18 (Spike/Xander, M) by forsaken2003

Heart Don't Lie Ch. 18 (Buffy/Spike, E) by NautiBitz

With You Ch. 4 (Jenny/Giles, M) by Bobbie23

1632 Revello Drive Ch. 6 (Buffy/Faith, T) by A_Most_Sovereign_Lady

New York Ch. 9 (Giles/Xander, M) by drsquidlove

A Reincarnation in Sunnydale Ch. 20 (Buffy/Angel, M) by DracoRim98

Knock, knock! Ch. 10 (Buffy/Spike, unrated) by Popsy

Goodbye to Everything That I Knew Ch. 6 (Buffy/Spike, M) by My_Barbaric_Yawp

Blood and Chaos Ch. 34 (Ensemble, M) by Aetheron, quote_Amy_unquote (Sannah_banana)

Who We Are, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, M) by EllieRose101

Surviving Together, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, E) by ionlylikebadboys

Destiny or Choices Made?, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, T) by charmed4lifekaren

Between the Shadow and the Soul, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Lmrln

Fates Intertwined: A Second Chance, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Spikelover4ever

Early One Morning , Chapter 1-2 (Buffy/Spike, E) by all_choseny

Use It or Lose It, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Dynamite

Fangs Out: Severe Blue, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Dynamite

What the Drabble?, Chapter 38 (Buffy/Spike, M) by VeroNyxK84

More Found Family Ties, Chapter 17 (Buffy/Spike, G) by Julikobold

Giles - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, T) by flow

Part of the Family, Chapter 18-20 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Harlow Turner

Binding, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Harlow Turner

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork:Buffy () by Suspicious-Olive2412

Artwork:Buffy Summers (in progress) () by nicknamekittyname

Manip:Touched By Your Presence (Buffy/Spike) by honeygirl51885

[Reviews & Recaps]

PODCAST: ATS 202 - Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been by Another Buffy Podcast

PODCAST: Episode 2 - DELiver the Rain of Toads (The Harvest) by The Sunnydale Diaries

[Fandom Discussions]

I hadn’t given this moment in “Crush” the attention it deserves by raisedbythetv89, lulu-honey

i do love tho how lovers’ walk serves as a really bizarro look into the future for everyone!!! by jennycalendar

The Great Buffy Rewatch by Joan the Vampire Slayer

The ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Storyline That Ruined a Great Season by Joan the Vampire Slayer

Warren shouldn't be hated as much as he is by Multiple Authors

Does anyone have little sympathy for Willow this season? by NoShip

Did Spuffy help Buffy's Depression? by Miss Muffet

Why We Fight by The Whirlwind

That Strange Line From Some Assembly Required by Holden Norgorov

Where can I get the complete series on DVD? by TheOtherMinistr

Could Buffy be able to handle the pain that comes from Cordelia's visions? by jdpm1991

Dawn and Xander by RachelisRach

Potentially Unpopular Opinion: Buffy Season 5, 6, and 7 are just not that fun by MoreGull

Sunday by Virtual_Row_8445

Post Chosen... by UnquantifiableLife

Is Your Favorite Buffy Episode an Uncommon/Unusual One? by somehow_we_missed_it

People... like Dawn? by meltmyheadaches

Did Wolfram & Hart view Buffy as a threat? by Consistent_Stand79

Spike is simply hilarious by RachelisRach

Why was Spike the best? by Strange-Silver3911

body episode now hits different by wheel_smith

Another Buffy/ Rocky connection. by MrsCaseyCarson

Just finished SLAYERS and I'm screaming! by SorchasGarden

Pylea by splodge14

Which spells, rituals, or abilities from the show do you find to be overpowered? by InfiniteMehdiLove

Is he evil? by Hellmouthgaurdian

Fear Itself and Willow should be a werewolf by depthlikeshallowness

Joyce's Jeep and S7 paying homage to S1-3 by sw1200

Are those Knights of Byzantium human or immortals? by aeryn1227

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

PUBLICATION: After 26 Years, Buffy Has Finally Explained Why Giles Was Sunnydale's Watcher by Screen Rant

PUBLICATION: How Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Writers Used Faith To Explore Buffy's 'Bloodlust' by Slash Film

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Meghans mytherious mythcarriage by u/Mickleborough

Meghan’s mytherious mythcarriage* * Emphasising the myth of the claim, not making fun of speech impediments.YT channel Scandalous Media did a piece about 10 lies that Meghan and Harry told on Netflix, which came out recently, on 4 November 2023. The title’s self-explanatory. What I found particularly intriguing was Lie No. 1: Meghan’s alleged miscarriage (runs from approximately 1:47 to 3:31). It seems that there were not 1, not 2, but 3 versions.The world first learnt of Meghan’s alleged miscarriage when her opinion for The New York Times, entitled ‘The Losses We Share’, was published on 25 November 2020.Note that this came hot on the heels of the revelation by model Chrissy Teigen, wife of singer / songwriter / actor John Legend, in September 2020 on social media, that she’d had a miscarriage (later corrected to be an abortion required by medical exigencies). Teigen received much praise, sympathy, and support for, amongst other things, breaking the stigma of talking about miscarriage.Version 1 - The New York Times, 25 November 2020In her opinion piece, Meghan wrote:The New York Times archived / unarchived (parts of this are very nauseating).There are views that Meghan plagiarised the writing of Vancouver-based (Canadian!) author Stefanie Tong, who wrote about her miscarriage in Chasing Light: Finding Hope Through the Loss:Is it sufficiently similar? You be the judge.Version 2 - the fauxcumentary: 15 December 2022Meghan was outside Olive Garden Montecito waiting for Abigail Spencer to visit. As Abigail got out, Meghan said: ‘I’m having a lot of pain.’ Then she fell to the ground, holding her child. No child, no heartbreaking imagery. Meghan was just showing Abigail the house.Caveat: I haven’t seen the fauxcumentary, and am relying on Scandalous Media’s version.Version 3 - Spare: 10 January 2023Harry / the ghostwriter / Meghan wrote:‘They’ refers to the Daily Mail, in the context of the lawsuit that Meghan took against them for publishing her letter - written in fauxligraphy - to her father. This would be July 2020, and might explain why Mr Justice Warby - rather unexpectedly, some felt, given the inconsistencies in her testimony - gave a summary judgment in her favour, without going to trial: namely, the sympathy card.No child, no heartbreaking imagery. Meghan was just in the house.Spare has a few interesting additional, questionable details:(1) Harry described the night before the alleged miscarriage: ‘That first night we had a quiet drink in celebration, roasted a chicken, went to bed early.’ Setting aside:- no mention of an excited child in a new house; nor - buying the ingredients for, preparing, and roasting a chicken [what is this thing they have with roast chicken?] on the first night as opposed to the convenience of ordering in,why was pregnant Meghan drinking?- They left the hospital with their ‘unborn child…a tiny package… We went to a place, a secret place only we knew. Under a spreading banyan tree, while Meg wept, I dug a hole with my hands and set the tiny package softly in the ground.’Setting aside:- they’d just moved to Montecito - where did they find time to look for secret places?- if they knew they were going to bury the unborn child, wouldn’t they have brought a trowel, at least?- where’d there be room under a banyan tree, as the roots surround the base?it’s against the law, in California, to bury a body outside a cemetery unless permission’s been granted.But isn’t it a moving picture, a father digging a grave, under a spreading, leafy tree, for his unborn child with his bare hands, his grief numbing him to pain, whilst the beautiful (cough) young mother gently weeps over the ever-so-tiny bundle. It’s almost like in a film. post link: https://ift.tt/U7wh03n author: Mickleborough submitted: November 08, 2023 at 12:07AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit