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what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark

In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson

The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood

The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon

'Bloom', John Langan

The Ruins, Scott Smith

The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell

'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson

The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley

The Ash-Tree, M.R. James

Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher

'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter

'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini

Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss

Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin

Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks

Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison

The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector

'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams

Apartment Building E, Malachi King

The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith

Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Nursery, Lewis Mallory

The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda

Semiosis, Sue Burke

The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly

Perennials, Bryce Gibson

Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary

The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson

Ordinary Horror, David Searcy

The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper

The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey

Seeders, A.J. Colucci

Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean

The Plant, Stephen King

Anthologies/collections :

The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry

Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward

Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher

Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller

'But fungi aren't plants' :

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight

Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay

The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley

'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling

Mungwort, James Noll

Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham

Notes :

all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;

list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;

if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;

not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).

[pluralthey]

is there a good place to start if we want to learn about idletry? im very interested in the story and all the bits and pieces revealed so far but i dont know if youve like, stated the basics both about the characters-in-story and how you’re releasing the comic

hi there. unfortunately, idletry became a passion project very abruptly and many details were added very quickly without regard for how long the project would take. once i did realize how large the project was, i decided that i would not even kid myself on the idea of holding in spoilers for the next 5 years, and those two factors combined make the information available very chaotic and slapdash -- somewhat intentionally.

i don't even have the comics tagged separately for easier access among the idletry content -- although, i could go back and give them a separate tag.

i can summarize the story and say that it's about a funny little talking honey badger/tasmanian devil named jessie gaylord who has for the last 10 years of her life been on heavy psychiatric medication in an attempt to mitigate a pervasive delusion that the world is a fictional story. she also has a notorious aggressive streak. these medications work primarily by leaving her so tired that she sleeps most of the time.

the story begins when her medical team has run out of typical medications to try, and they must order an older, more aggressive type of drug which is not commonly used anymore, and has a lengthier process to manufacturing and approving the drug. during this time, she is not on any medication, and she becomes more urgently fixated on convincing people that the delusion is true.

she ends up attempting to contact the writer, who is referred to as God, and she receives a response. she immediately attempts to write the story herself, and she's granted the ability to do anything within the story so long as she can write it out. (the intricacies and limitations of this power have been elaborated upon in a bunch of fragmentary posts, so i won't try to condense it here)

at the end of the first act, she kills the first writer and becomes the new God of her world. the rest of the story is about what she does after acquiring omnipotence, and it heavily features a character named fate -- or shiloh, as jessie calls her -- with whom she enters an intimate relationship.

she has a happy loving family composed of a father named adam, a mother named evelyn, and an older sister named emily. there is a later minor subplot about a cult following who worships her after she becomes God, and this cult is initially organized by an ant called samanthuel -- or samwich, as jessie calls them. these are usually the other characters i mention and i am too lazy to link them right now

the comic itself is currently being written. the script stands at around 51,000 words at the time of writing this as i work on the second act. after it's written, i will let it simmer for a few months and then write a second draft to start to relieve the story of its bloat. depending on its length at that point, i will either need to write a third draft, or i will start drawing the comic.

chances are, during the second draft, i will start to thumbnail or sketch scenes which receive little to no editing, as i know they will likely remain relatively unchanged even through multiple drafts.

the sketch strips are to tide me and an eager audience over in the meantime, but they've sort of dried up as i focus all of my attention on finishing the first draft and taking care of a puppy that was kind of just forced onto me.

i've made a couple of full-length comics before and they have taken years. it is, unfortunately, just the nature of the process. for idletry, i plan to self-publish the comic. i've never published something in print before, so that is the most daunting part for me.

the plan at the moment is to crowdfund this, but, to be frank with you, i no longer pay rent, and i care very much about having this comic as a printed book. i have no issue with paying the cost of printing out of my own pocket by the time it's done and am even anticipating that outcome ahead of time, despite having a pretty reliable audience by now.

i'm on the fence about releasing a digital book version, as i very much want to retain digital color versions of the pages that are more vibrant, but due to the explicit adult content of the story, i don't want it to be free-access.

tl;dr: it's about a lesbian incel with anger issues who's given omnipotence.

i'm still working on the story because i want it to be good.

i'm planning on printing it as a physical comic book once it's done.

[that--unusual-person]

How do you feel knowing in the near future I'm going to be your #1 customer for buying gay crossdrift art? I'm going to print it out and hang it on my wall and whenever guests come over I can explain in great detail how Drift clearly has wood, heh, get it? Driftwood? Actually now that I think about it I think this joke has been made before about that Gaylord... Anyways hi von!

hello adam

[courtsees]

bro asked gaylord 5000 to teach adam rizz with the ladies

[sharonaparadox]

[Image: fanart of Adam from Hazbin Hotel drawn over a photograph of someone standing in front of an advertisement for the Amazon original series I Love Dick, the perspective tilted to show the sign for the Gaylord Hotel close behind. Adam is wearing a black jacket with golden spikes over a dark grey T-shirt, and he is unmasked to reveal half-lidded eyes and a smirk. End description.]

[zooterchet]

Spider-Man:

Online Arrests Filed, through "Glamour Girl":

1996: Andrew Wachowski, "nil".

1997: Carrie-Anne Moss, "Damn-Yankee".

1998: Brian Monaghan, "qwerty".

1999: Keanu Reeves, "Howie".

2000: Rich Kyanka, "Toggan".

2001: Anthony Weiner, "Betty".

2002: Larry Wachowski, "Apathy".

2003: Hugh Jackman, "Ghul".

2004: Sayed Adnan, "Petula".

Hannibal Rising:

Michael Charlebois: "Cain", a spy's accountant, out of "Chutzpah", a political artist.

Alice O'Neill: "Kilpatrick", a female spy, out of "U'Niall", a spy's slaver.

Kenny Winston: "Weinstein", a Gentile's banker, out of "Cromwell", a German fire fighter.

Ryan Taylor: "Gaylord", a Buddhist assassin, out of "Polk", an optometrist.

Katie Stevens: "Stevenson", a Jamaican drug runner, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Matthew Lennox: "Satan", a Jewish king, out of "Nigger", a Parisian actor's mother to Scipio Africanus.

John Remby: "Roosevelt", a poverty demanded leader, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Pasquale Acosta: "Ibn Rashid", a Medina Arab, out of "Princeps", a Central Powers mercenary.

William Morgan: "Davis", a Southern cotton obsessive, out of "Hamilton", a treasurer's informant's officer.

Mark Salib: "Harding", a munitions developer, out of "Gilgamesh", a sugar salesman.

Cassie-Leigh Stock: "Donalban", a Puerto Rican Aryan, out of "Gould", a fascist writer for Francisco Franco.

Alexandra Gaetano: "Crowley", an Irish priest, out of "Brian", the victim of Christ.

Jenna Williamson: "Bundy", a Canadian spy, out of "Booth", a Mossad hired assassin.

Zach Savell: "Morales", a firefighter's inventor, out of "Aragorn", the first cowboy.

Maureen Harrison: "Harrison", a poisoner artist Gadze, out of "Cornwallace", a disgraced general.

Jen McDade: "Aensley", a British banker, out of "Lemerise", a British cop family.

Jeremy Stevens: "Mosley", a Group Force Leader, out of "Oswald", a British undercover agent.

Raven Bush: "Desperado", a Comanche Sheriff, out of "Joseph", a defeated Greek.

David Cohen: "Adolph", a German Turkish spy, out of "Ataturk", a cigarettes salesman.

Nicholas Maynard: "Hayes", a patent swindler, out of "Bourbon", a female transgender.

Allison Haimes: "Chi Minh", a CIA undercover, out of "The Duke of York", a professional British knife fighter.

Greg Connolly: "Visser", an Afrikaans Irish, out of "Lan Ray", a Boer Holocaust victim.

Brian Monaghan: "Myers", a KGB Ireland, out of "Carnegie", a Scottish Knight.

Ivan Tomasic: "Dahmer", a professional first strike mutually assured destruction pilot, out of "Ljudovich", an Austrian Black Shirt.

Christopher Sweeney: "Sween", a Black Baron Schultzstaffel, out of "Washington", a Romalian Boelyn.

Joshua Moen: "Van Zant", a professional raconteur assassin, out of "Chaucer", a Knight's Guard.

Bernice Lamb: "De Salvo", a Nietzschean Ubermensch, out of "Panzram", a sculptor author.

Joshua Golden: "Eshkol", an intelligence programs founder, out of "Mosaic", a Hittite Prince.

Uma Thurman: "Magnusdotter", a bodybuilder assassin, out of "Catherine", a surmised monarch.

Joseph Biden: "Capone", a police officer criminal, out of "James of Scotland", a legal reformer.

Lloyd Ahlquist: "Agnew", a Rabbinical entomologist, out of "Bin Laden", a prison convicts manager.

Will Ferrell: "Adams", a carnival's lover, out of "Pedro II", a harbormaster.

Joseph Kennedy III: "Kenway", a pork meats distributor, out of "Kennedy", a Tepes, a cannibal.

Star Wars Episode 1-3:

Leadership:

"Duo": Shaun Wilcox, Hawaiian Coastal Engineer, US Navy Japan.

"Libra": James Holmes, DC Comics Development, Mossad Counter-Bay Station.

"Leo": Jeffrey Lange, Cleveland Rotary Association, Finance and Debitures Apartment.

Duo:

"Blueberry": Police code on APB scanner, to catch "ranger patrols", off cented Mounted and Royal Mounted sections (Canadian-German, Protestant Universalist).

"WTC Location Grab": Profiling of Osama Bin Laden, three days after 9/11, to DC Comics Location and Transition Wards, Mossad Afghanistan; Tora Bora Prison Complex.

"San Andreas": Capture of Toris Nelby, British Co Anchor Author, "Crack Underground"; while in live transit of threat of CIA agent Peter Tsapatsaris, "Nails", posing as "Peebo" on internet as fraud of Russian-Jewry infiltrating CIA Annex Three; Winchester Frauds, IDF Biotech Experiments. Toris Nelby, "Peebo", detained and "destroyed", by fired rounds, from Eric Frein.

Libra:

"British Exemplar": Takeover of Japan by Warerra Party, masquerading Clone Wars film, recently released, by "Lucas Arts", as actual factual plan of attack; Pearl Harbor, as represented by "Kleinmen", Rohypnol dealers for Mossad.

"Gutwill Five": Seizure of criminal resources and allies of Framingham Narcotics, rogue Israeli Defense Forces section of Massachusetts cops, out of Jewish gangsters in Ohio; biker gangs, Canadian Freemasons.

Leo:

"Assassin's Creed": Creation of Assassin's Creed concept, as alternative to parents pamphlets to place children in Mossad underground as "Moslems" or "Mussulman".

"Guantanamo Live Range Agent": Use of third degree interrogator's training from mother's Marine NCO doctor, "Glen", to hunt his killers inside INTERPOL's top ranks; Gwenn Pratt, John Washburne, Steven Charlebois, Brian Monaghan, Alexandra Gaetano, and John Kerry.

"Philips Freemasons of Boston": Stage point of removal of Ted Bundy catchem code, to take over Boston Triads for FBI and State Police, through Cyber Command aegis helix on Los Angeles Police Department server scans; return of Chinese to American policing, as FBI informants and cover agents, against rising tide of Taiwanese nationalism; unions and Russian-Jewish consortiums of film and media logic.

"Pinkville": The strike on the Hell's Angels as a capture turn of the Canadian Freemasons for operating criminal ventures in factories, sports leagues, and boarding schools, to turn children into slaves and writers and prison convicts; the French and British Freemasonic attempt to undo Bill Clinton's peace for labor, athletics, and prison inmates.

"Hideous Karl": Use of Jack Unterweger's serial killer profile, tying a necktie for a business meeting, taught by Scoutmasters in male and female scout troops, for any career or American act, to pen research work for Christopher Nolan, MGM, and FOX.

"The Steroids Scandal": Outing American-Japanese pharmaceuticals, and MI-6 doctors, for selling performance enhancing steroids, Suboxone, for decades, under different brands and claim of brands; the public lawsuit against Dr. Joshua Golden, of United Health Associates, by the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey.

"The Kennedy Campaign": Legalized marijuana, certified safe and non-sprayed by tree surgeons elected by towns, free from media myth presented on Holland and British telecasts, or by journalist work by High Times magazines authors. Held under tax stamps, through the State Police.

"Spiral": The culmination of three decades of work, as an NSA, from kindergarten to the mid-thirties, in the takedowns of INTERPOL, On Leong Tong, the Unitarian Church, and MI-6. The culmination of years of experience, placed in two blog reformatories, "Lex Luthor and the Sudbury Boys", and "Spiral - The Batman Killer", the prior academic references, the latter actual career references. The shutdown of the "United Nations Security Council", by planting a forged work on American Marxism from 2003, from an economics business professor at UMass-Amherst, Gerald Friedman, through the actual United Nations; published independently overseas, by those dependent on the United Nations as an American CIA entity; falsely framed as MI-6. The same NSA trick, used on Stephen Glass, a Vatican affiliated lawyer out of the Italian government's Nortel structure.

Spiral:

Joshua Moen: Keep the President's secret about Raven Bush getting stoned, or Cam Hollopeter marries your wife. But you don't have a wife, you're in love with Superman. Not Batman.

Method: Men's writing and literature styles, conflict terms of endearment in imago transformation.

Keanu Reeves: Clear Ben Brown of raping Raven Bush, or place yourself in perpetuity of your film, "The Matrix 1", being owned by the Crown Government.

Method: RTS counselor first sight response, however on public Majesty's review in Court.

Jenna Williamson: Place wired testimony through VFW, and accept your draft into the United States photographic corps unit for an upcoming military conflict.

Method: Coverage of the USS Cole bombing, being varied into a "K", the "Kierney" Amish mark on Marlboro cigarettes.

Ben Brown: Admit into economics program despite not earning a valedictorian's GPA through gymnastic and academic marks in highschool, or a military tour on apprenticeship to warrant officer status.

Method: US Presidential merits and statuses of badge, passed, during freshman year orientation.

Matthew Lennox: Separation from Raven Bush, under her alias, "Silver Laventi", at UMass-Amherst; attempting to engage for Elks Club, the Drake family, to remove from David's vicinity and allow him to take a law career for the Winchester CIA undercover in Israeli biotech medical testing on "Goyim", humans that have done DXM.

Method: Interjection through a Coen, the "Chutzpah" family, and placement of Raven inside the German underground as a medical advisor.

Peter Tsapatsaris: Outing that the name and alias used, is false, linking instead to a black drug dealer murdered on the MUSH.

Method: Interpreting with the actual alias, as the individual being extorted by the claimed name, out of Brian Monaghan's connection to NEWS Harvard, the studio print for the Boston Herald.

Brett Norman: Moving between ExSec operations controller, Andre Berube, after being recruited for role, and a permanent incarceration in Pembroke, watched by Steven "The Rifle" Flemmi.

Method: Placement in Pembroke military ward facility, to remove Rhode Island judge in league with Israeli Medical Authority.

The Matrix:

British Commonwealth (UK) Positions:

Boris Yeltsin: Claim, working through America for economic reestablishment.

Elie Wiesel: Claim, working to prevent anti-Semitism in United States.

Stan Lee: Claim, working in an MI-6 brand to teach police morals.

Queen Elizabeth II: Claim, defending British Isles against Adolf Hitler's traditions.

George W. Bush Jr.: Claim, Shriner's Freemasonic Lodge of England.

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) Roles:

Boris Yeltsin: National Rifle Association.

Elie Wiesel: Romalian Federation.

Stan Lee: Hitler Youth.

Queen Elizabeth II: Catholic-Sepulchre Jewish Orthodoxy.

George W. Bush Jr.: Kaiser's Lodge.

[ulkaralakbarova]

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life’s pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being “renewed” in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Logan: Michael York Francis: Richard Jordan Jessica: Jenny Agutter Box: Roscoe Lee Browne Holly: Farrah Fawcett Doc: Michael Anderson Jr. Old Man: Peter Ustinov 2nd Sanctuary Man: Randolph Roberts The Woman Runner: Lara Lindsay Billy: Gary Morgan Mary 2: Michelle Stacy Woman Customer: Laura Hippe Sandman: David Westberg Sanctuary Woman: Camilla Carr Cub: Greg Lewis Timid Girl: Ashley Cox Sandman: Bill Couch Runner: Glenn R. Wilder Last Day Character (uncredited): Joe L. Blevins Sandman Daniel (uncredited): Roger Borden Sand Man (uncredited): Greg Bransom City Dweller (uncredited): Paula Crist The City Computer (uncredited): Virginia Ann Ford Cub (uncredited): Chuck Gaylord Cub (uncredited): Mitch Gaylord (uncredited): Johnny Haymer Confused City Dweller (uncredited): Jessie Kirby 3rd Sanctuary Man / Ambush Man (uncredited): Greg Michaels 1st Sanctuary Man (uncredited): Bob Neill Love Shop Woman with Toy (uncredited): Renie Radich 1st Screamer in Logan’s Apartment (uncredited): Candice Rialson Screamer Party Woman (uncredited): Cheryl Smith Runner Great Hall (uncredited): Ron D. Thornton Film Crew: Director: Michael Anderson Novel: William F. Nolan Novel: George Clayton Johnson Screenplay: David Zelag Goodman Producer: Saul David Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo Editor: Bob Wyman Production Design: Dale Hennesy Costume Design: Bill Thomas Associate Producer: Hugh Benson Makeup Artist: William Tuttle Hairstylist: Judith A. Cory Unit Production Manager: Byron Roberts Stunt Coordinator: Glenn R. Wilder Casting: Jack Baur Set Decoration: Robert De Vestel Property Master: Jack M. Marino Sound Editor: John Riordan Visual Effects Designer: L.B. Abbott Music Supervisor: Harry V. Lojewski Music Editor: William Saracino Dialect Coach: Leon Charles Script Supervisor: Ray Quiroz Choreographer: Stefan Wenta Second Assistant Director: Alan Brimfeld Second Assistant Director: Win Phelps Assistant Director: David Silver Stunt Coordinator: Bill Couch Key Grip: Martin Kashuk Electrician: Don Stott Associate Editor: Freeman A. Davies Assistant Editor: Chuck Ellison Unit Publicist: Don Morgan Stunts: Dick Ziker Stunts: Jeannie Epper Stunts: Loren Janes Stunts: Beth Nufer Stunts: Alex Plasschaert Stunts: Regina Parton Stunts: Lori Thomas Stunts: Mike Washlake Stunts: Russell Saunders Stunts: Barbara Graham Stunts: Tommy J. Huff Stunts: Sunny Woods Stunts: Paula Dell Stunts: Chuck Gaylord Stunts: Mitch Gaylord Stunts: Rosemary Johnston Stunts: Whitey Hughes Stunts: ‘Wild’ Bill Mock Stunts: Gary Morgan Stunts: Dar Robinson Stunts: Walter Robles Stunts: Angelo De Meo Stunts: Paula Crist Stunts: Dottie Catching Stunts: Bill Couch Jr. Stunts: Gregory J. Barnett Stunts: Craig R. Baxley Stunts: Phil Adams Stunts: Denny Arnold Stunts: May Boss Special Effects: Glen Robinson Movie Reviews: Richard: It’s a ‘Future Vision’ type of movie, plus a bit of an adventure into the unknown. At least for the two “Runners’ who have escaped out of their bubble world. It is fraught with twists and turns in a post Peak-Oil world, where society has finally found a solution to the resources of the planet. The ‘chosen’ few, however have one little catch, their lives have a unique way of ending, until these two discover a new way, and a Lie that was being told to all of the citizens. (Warning for younger viewers,there are scenes where (At the time,) it was considered risque to show people jumping into a freshwater pond and going skinny dipping).

[ledenews]

OCS Hosting Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee Feb. 15th

For nearly 100 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has appealed to lovers of language of all ages, particularly young students through 8th grade who have the chance of claiming victory in the prestigious event!  Ohio County Schools is honored to host its annual county bee, scheduled for Feb. 15th, at 10:00 a.m.  Students from multiple schools will gather in Wheeling Park High School’s Performing Arts Center, better known as the PAC, to vie for a chance to move forward to the regional spelling bee.  “The sequence of events is a classroom bee followed by a school bee.  After school bee winners are declared, they move onto the county bee,” states Steenrod Principal and Bee Organizer Michelle Dietrich.   The winner of the county bee will proceed to the regional bee, and that winner will ultimately qualify for the move to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.  Over 200 qualifying spellers will meet at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, at the end of May.  Adam Connors, now an 8th grader at Triadelphia Middle School, represented Ohio County Schools as only a 3rd grader after winning the regional bee and attending the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year brings 12 participating schools, including private, parochial, and public schools.  We wish all students a fun, successful spelling experience!  Read the full article

[mitjalovse]

Matchbox Twenty feel random. I mean, their career doesn't make much sense. They're not terrible, mind you, though you keep asking yourself – how did they become so big? Well, Live In Australia might provide you with a possible answer here. When you will check the video, you shall noticed they're quite great in the setting of their tours, they even do some fine covers. Maybe that might be the reason for their success, which remains another thing of theirs some don't completely get. While the group does sound better n the halls, the band does veer a bit towards a certain generic adult contemporary mode favoured by the elder statesmen. Yes, they did achieve the status recently, yet they always felt for me like a collective that calcified their tones way too soon.

[regardingjenmish]

Umm…What’s going on over there in Nashville? [X]

[arinewman7]

Adam & Eve II

Gaylord Soli

Multi Media on Canvas

[gynandromorph]

Hi more Jessie questions,

So these are all questions I have based on the statement, 'If Jessie looks at a project lacking screws, and goes 'Those screws' the power will know the correct screws to get'.

Adam catches the DIY bug and wants to regrout the bathroom. Just before he starts, he realizes he doesn't have anything to remove the grout with, so he asks Jessie to get him a grout saw. You can get a non-powered or powered grout saw, or an attachment for a number of tools that will remove grout. For sake of scenario, let's say when Adam is asking for a grout saw, he means a non-powered one. Would the power know what Adam wants if Jessie simply asks 'grout saw', or would the power go with what it thinks is best for the project (tool and attachment method, it costs more upfront but your body will thank you later, and now you have a tool you can use for more than one project.)?

The Gaylords are having a bit of a BBQ, so Em and Jessie go to the store. On the way back, they both realize they bought everything but burgers, so Jessie just writes 'burgers' and snaps. Jessie and Adam both wanted beef burgers, but Em and Evelyn both wanted chicken burgers. Would the power just default to what Jessie wants, or would the power know the additional context of the rest of the family?

Jessie orders fries somewhere and realizes she didn't want them as salty as she ordered them. She writes down the words 'barely salted fries' and snaps before realizing she spelled 'barely' as 'barley'. Would the power understand that Jessie made a spelling mistake, or would it attempt to come up with whatever the fuck barley salt is?

Shiloh wants to hang a mirror in their apartment, but by the time they get home with it, they realize they forgot a hanging kit, and how much the mirror weighed. They ask Jessie to get a 25KG mirror kit, but the mirror is actually 50KG. Would the power know that Shiloh made a mistake and correct for it, or would it honour the request as written?

grout saw would default to the most common definition of a grout saw, and if there isn't a clear winner, the least specific. in this case it would probably default to a non-powered grout saw because an electric one is more specific. mainly, you want to assume whatever a regular reader would assume based on a sentence.

this would default to beef burgers because the most common definition of burgers is beef by default. if jessie said "burgers" and SPECIFICALLY wanted chicken burgers, i think she would still have to specify unless the canon was feeling "nice."

typos automatically nullify written commandments. like how gibberish isn't translated by canon, sentences that don't make sense because there is misspelling also aren't translated.

if it wasn't ever acknowledged to be 50kg later, all of those mirror kits would retroactively become 25kg, as the canon prioritizes the most recent assertions during a conflict.

[breath-of-void]

An Explanation for Adam

First, let me say, I do not think Adam is a good guy and I will not and connpt vindicate his actions, but I see a disproportionate amount of hate directed to him and very little in depth character analysis going deeper than “He’s a shit person.” So I want to rush to his character’s defense to say that, yeah he’s bad but he’s nowhere near as one dimensional as he is made to seem.

To start, the hate for Adam comes about not because he’s a full blown terrorist but because he’s an abusive ex. I mean, come one guys, being abusive is bad but… He’s a terrorist. Priorities. But that’s not my point.

My point is that he didn’t just wake up one morning and lace up his douche shoes and start cutting off arms. How about we analyze his circumstances.

Adam, being older than Blake, can be assumed to have joined the White Fang at an earlier age. This can also be gathered from his position as a leader that may equal parts be due to his strength, intelligence and/or seniority. One can also assume that, being a faunus in the time of the early White Fang, Adam was bullied for nothing more than his race and this would have driven him to become a passionate protestor among their ranks. Cut to an image. Imagine for a second that you are sitting at home reading or something and a bunch of cats started yowling outside your window. I’m guessing your response would be to throw a boot at them and tell them to shut up. This was the response humans gave the White Fang. They were ridiculous and annoying. But then Adam learned something: aggression got results. Like Malcolm X, civil disobedience went to straight up assault and vandalism. Now imagine those cats sneaked into your house and murdered your family then handed you a list of demands. You have two options at tha. point: comply or fight back. Either way, they’re a threat now and can’t be ignored. I’m asking that you sympathize with Adam on this point. He’s an abused minority who has watched his people suffer and the most he could do was yell ineffectively at those who were oppressing them. (This is just me trying to tug at your heartstrings with a completely false headcanon but what if he had a younger sister or a little young friend who was thrown in a lake as a joke by humans who didn’t and didn’t have to think about the consequences of their actions and she drowned. Think about how doing anything to make them listen would seem like a good idea especially at a young and emotional age). And it worked. The White Fang couldn’t just be ignored anymore.

Now I’d like to bring up a comparison between Adam and Nurf from Camp Camp. Nurf is just as much of a bully as Adam, worse in fact, but he’s very aware of it. Even at ten, Nurf is aware of his own patterns of violence and even when being an abusive “parent” he would constant explain his own thought process rather than make excuses. The thing is, Nurf is constantly surrounded by people who are against his violent ways. They show fear and voice their displeasure and his being at the camp was actually a move by his mother to help curb his violent ways. He is always trying to better himself and in the season 2 finale, we could see that while he has grown enough to know that violence isn’t the best course of action, he still uses aggression to get the response he wants. Contrast this with Adam who is surrounded by people who praise his violent behavior. Adam’s aggression means that less faunus are treated poorly for fear that the White Fang’s swordwielding Batman will deliver an asskicking to their doorstep. If aggression works in one area of his life, why wouldn’t it work in others? If he demands a coffee instead of asks for it, he gets it much faster and done to his liking. Now where does Blake fit into this? I don’t know at what age Blake and Adam started dating but I’m going to shoot blindly and say that they’ve known each other since she was 10, maybe younger. Blake’s main tactic for dealing with dissent is to run from it. Let the other person win. Aggressive and submissive fit together like a glove on a large hand. If Blake ever voiced her concerns about the White Fang, all Adam would have to do is tell her to quiet down because he knows best and she just would. Can you see how this would lead Adam to think that the aggressive approach still works? He is constantly surrounded by people who flat out tell him that he’s doing a great job and the one person who might have anything to say against him could be silenced with a word or two. Clearly, he’s in the right! At this point I would like to reiterate, I am not justifying Adam’s actions nor am I victim blaming Blake. I am simply saying that her approach to handling situations fed into Adam’s worldview that problems were fixed by attacking them. Now think of this from Adam’s point of view: he’s doing the best he can to ensure that faunus never have to slave to humans again and his girlfriend who may have muttered once or twice about helping humans full on deserted him after showing support for humans (in his eyes) guilty of slavery and the next time he sees her, she is surrounded by humans in place that thrives on products (again, in his eyes) made through faunus slavery. And remember, all this time, he has never once been called out as being wrong or misguided. How would you not see Blake as the antagonist in this situation? Another thing I would like to say. The reason I like Adam for all his faults is that he isn’t selfish. He’s not in it for money or power or lolz, he’s genuinely trying to make a better place for faunus. When Cinder approached him, notice that he didn’t care that she wanted to attack Beacon. Of course, he hates everyone there but it was dangerous to do so and many faunus would have died unnecessarily. Even worse that it was a human cause. But then Cinder came back with bribes AND threats. If he helped, he got lots of dust for his army and a chance to weaken human resistance, if he refused, himself and his army would be killed. It was a no brainier. Plus this solidified two things in his mind: humans were garbage and aggression was the only way to get what you wanted.

So that’s that. I’m not saying that you should be all “Oh my, I didn’t know, he is forgiven.” No, no. If his behavior still disgusts you then that’s fine. The purpose of all this was to give an explanation as to why he was like that not to absolve him of wrongdoing. In fact, as I brought up Nurf earlier, if a ten year old can recognize the destructive patterns of his aggression and attempt to cure it then Adam should be able to as well. The only difference I see is that Adam still doesn’t believe that he’s wrong.

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Okay basically my setup for Ashley and Charlie being siblings despite clear physical differences is that they have the same dad but different moms. This became a whole thing of me trying to figure out how a president would have two different children to two different women (and like, not be hated for it) and I kind of figured something out. My timeline for Charlie and Ashley is below

(Btw I refuse to give President Graham a first name because that war criminal sucks <3)

A timeline half of made up shit and half canon shit

1978-Olivia Greenberg starts dating a guy

1981-Charlie is born to Dani Bakshi

1982-Mr. and Mrs. Graham get married

1984-Ashley is born to Olivia Graham and her husband

1988-Mr. Graham becomes a politician

1998-Olivia Graham is killed in Racoon City

2000-President Graham wins the presidential election

2001-Charlie Bakshi joins the Marine Corps

2003-Charlie Bakshi graduates college while serving in the marines

2004-Ashley Graham is kidnapped by Los Illuminados and saved by Leon S Kennedy

2006-Patrick Gaylord becomes a U.S. agent and befriends Ashley Graham

2007-Charlie Bakshi becomes a member of the BSAA

2008-Ashley Graham graduates college

2009-President Graham’s terms are up and he is replaced by the new president (the predecessor to Adam Benford)

2009-The Yuesmont incident

2010-Graham marries Dani

2011-DSO is founded. Ashley Graham becomes a member along with Patrick and Leon

2012-Charlie Graham goes on his first mission with Chris Redfield

2014-The Mojave Desert incident

2016-The Glennallen Alaska incident

2017-Charlie Graham joins BSAA’s Hound Wolf Squad

2018-Hound Wolf Squad goes rogue

2021-The Romania incident