#and it was because of some few thousand ppl in a gaming community coming to treat me like shit bc 'haha u died look how funny'
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GW2 community might not always be the best but I feel like at least here I won't end up with a few thousand notes on a post and have literally all of them being making fun of me fuelled solely because I died while using a title that denoted I'd done something a small % of players had done.
The post was a meme I made abt getting lazered to death bc a boss targeted me when it shouldn't have. The community turned it into 'haha look at this stupid fucking idiot for dying when they have a prestigious title on isn't that so funny'.
I never made anyth for that community ever again and it's no surprise why I ended up basically quitting the whole thing several months later.
#text#that was a horrible horrible experience because ive always only ever had tiny accounts so of course the one time any post i made blew up#and it was because of some few thousand ppl in a gaming community coming to treat me like shit bc 'haha u died look how funny'#i had to lock my acct for a few weeks and it really fucked w my already poor mental health#and yeah for the 'you're too sensitive take a joke' crowd its really one thing when people are laughing with you versus when they are#directly laughing at you and treating you like garbage because of things out of your control
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Allright. Elliott thread that nobody asked for. Part 4
The words you read seem to be some alien gibberish? Try these first:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Don’t worry guys. It will be over soon, I promise.
Bevore we start: This happened yesterday.
And I basically turned into that iCarly gif, where she’s on the Computer, sippin’ her drink and goes: interesting.
Because look who we have here. Our future husband acting all self-aware? Right after I assumed in my last post that he never talks about the possibility of his failure...
Elliott, do you know that I talk shit about you on Tumblr?
Please stop breaking the 4th wall...
To safe at least some of my ‘credibility’, he followed this up with something along the lines of:
“No, no...I am not fishing for compliments. Which does not mean I don't appreciate them ;) “.
Sure. Whatever.
In comparison to that:
A few in-game days previously, I had a cut-scene with Leah, where the player can suggest that she should organise an art show. And there, Leah openly communicated her fears of ppl not liking her art. I was surprised about how open she was, given that it was probably her 2nd heart event or something (?). It's interesting, how Leah (who I perceived to be more reserved than Elliott), was so willing to let us know about her insecurities. Meanwhile, Elliot seems to brush these thoughts aside rather quickly and returns to his nonchalant, graceful self.
I always thought that from the two of them, it might be Elliott who is more vocal about his emotions. But now, Elliott doesn't seem to wear his heart on his sleeves as much as I thought he would. Which changed the way I think about him quite a bit. Maybe he is more likely to hide behind platitudes and a self-assuring smile, after all.
And what can we take from this, when we would want to write, let’s say a scene with Leah/Elliott friendship dynamic?
What do you guys think?
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Anyways, before I was so disgracefully exposed, I was roasting Elliott’s life choices. To which I now gladly return to.
You see, the "issue" I see with Elliott is, that he plays into a trope:
The brooding hermitic author, who turned his back onto society in favour of finding inspiration in nature.
While this might sound thrilling and "romantic", we know that Elliott is not the best candidate to conform to this lifestyle. Just compare, how we as the player, manage to form quite strong relationships with everyone in Pelikan Town just by talking to them regularly.
We see Elliott outside the beach-area quite often. But aside from Leah, he does not seem to interact with anyone much. I don't know if there are statements about Elliott made by other characters, to have some inkling on how they feel about him. But its quite remarkable, how all other friendships outside to his connection with Leah, are not explicitly known as canon (?).
After a whole year living in this town, previous to our arrival, I would suggest, that Elliott might still be very much an outsider. He even remarks how, with our arrival, it will be nice, to no longer be "the new guy" in town.
But the problem with that might have been Elliott's reservedness, to begin with. Polite, but yet, maybe, quite impersonal. All pleasantries and platitudes as mentioned above. It all plays into Elliott's refusal to experience the comforts of a normal lifestyle in favour of pursuing his art.
And I love how Elliott just brushes that aside as if its nothing. I'd really love to know: what would have been his plan b, if his debut failed?
Worst case cenario: What would he'd done, if he ended up stranded in Pelikan Town, penniless and unsuccessful?
Where would he go? Is there a place he can return to? A previous home, previous friends?
I don't think so.
But, dedicated, impuslive, sweet, dumb Elliott just thought to himself:
“I can do that. How bad can it be???, it will be fi~ne.It will be marvellous!
Authentic, truly!
It will be superb pictouresque and that is all I need to write my novel....”
Thanks Yoba. You’ll keep doing that please.
And then we also have interactions of the likes of:
“People have scaped a living off the sea for thousands of years....
I just go to the grocery store.”
A different thought I had on Elliott kind of plays into what I already said previously. But I will adress it as its own topic.
The downside of Elliott’s ego.
As much as we explored the rather whacky / chaotic elements of his character and how he does stupid shit for prestige itself, it is interesting to see what happens when the player challenges his self-dramatisation.
I keep re-thinking if and to what degree Elliott can laugh about himself.
He is not one for self-deprecating humour, I think.
I can imagine that to be more Shane’s thing.
We see different scenarios, in which Elliott reacts differently to things not going his way. One of the positives is the whole “A tiny crab made a home inside his coat pocket”- story. I have seen two interpretations of this scene. And both are dependent on the tone, in which you read his dialogue. One group thinks he is just complaining yet again.
On the other hand, you could read it more like:
“My, look what we have here. Can you believe that [y/name]?!“.
I think that Elliott does not appear to be angry or annoyed at all in that scenario, too. He could have vented to the player, how he needs a new coat, now. But he simply leaves it at that. And you know what?
But, there are other times, where Elliott reacts negatively to the player not doing what he wants you to do. Meaning: your reaction to him or your behaviour in a specific situation. Let's look at his 2nd (?) heart event at the Stardrop Saloon. He comes up to the bar, finds himself in the mood for company, and orders wine for you and ale for himself.
New Headcanon:
That little crab still lives there! It will probably live there long after you two get married. And he will feed it scraps from the dinner table even though you ask him not to.
Whatever...Sounds Cute.
My first reaction to that was: “aw, wHaT a GeNtLemAn!!!”. My second reaction was my inner feminist having a temper tantrum because: “how dare a man, to assume what I want to drink!”
New Headcanon on Elliott and gender roles, anyone? Or is it given, that with him being a good old fashioned lover boy, his expectation on any relationship dynamic might be more traditional?
As much as I find Elliott charming and all, this could be a great red flag and, again, beautiful material for character-conflict. Maybe Elliott needs to learn to not take everything at face value. Maybe he needs to learn, how to take a joke. Especially those made at his expense.
However, when the question arises, what the two of you should drink on, he will not laugh if you say “your doom”.
This is not something he sees as sarcasm or as a joke. In fact, you lose 50 friendship points! Like holy shit. That in itself is not much, but its a game-penalty. He is actively reacting negatively toward you. This is one of the few times, where your decision actively has an impact on the friendship-metre. Of course, that statement could be delivered in a non-joking matter. Which then justifies his reaction.... sure.
But even the fact that Elliott chooses, to not downplay or gloss-over your comment, leaves me with the following interpretation:
He hoped for a charming, flirtatious interaction. All you had to do, was to play along. But you ruined it.
Just imagine a situation with a little bit of miss-communication and a version of Elliott that is a little too proud for his own good and *chef's kiss* we have drama.
Me to Elliott and Farmer-OC: fight! fight! fight! fight! :D
All of you reading right now:
omg can't you just chill??? We are here for the fluff :(((
Also: depending on how it's written, that could be one of Elliott's major character flaws. The one that is not cute at all!
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I wanted to take some jabs at Elliott's likes and dislikes. But as it turned out: Yes, you can turn Duck feathers into quills. I had this funny headcanon that Elliott wanted to be extra special by choosing duck feathers as his preferred writing instrument. And I was all like: “use a pen!!”.
But then I found out about the Unobtainable Weapons-List and Elliott’s pen is one of them. Okay, whatever.
And then I asked google how to make quills. And while duck feathers are not the preferred or most popular option, there is also nothing that would speak against it, as long as the feather’s shaft is durable enough. So that theory has flown out of the window pretty quickly as well.
The only thing that comes to my mind instead is, how Elliott would still need a digital manuscript for publishing. But me screaming: “Where is your Laptop Elliott??? You need a computer! Its the 21 century!!!” is not half that funny anymore.
I guess I’ll end it here.
I hope you enjoyed this completely useless stream of consciousness.
I will now continue playing Stardew Valley and indulge in all my other quarantine-born obsessions.
I wish you a wonderful day and happy farming.
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Agh I read your recent post and realized: the entire Polycule absolutely commissions Magnus for gifts for birthdays/anniversaries/holidays. And he always insists they don’t pay bc it’s who he is but they all make it their personal
Lmao last ask sent too early. But the Polycule absolutely makes it their mission to pay Magnus by force if necessary. Simon literally hides money in the loft. Maia pays him back in free meals at Taki. Mel brings him Seelie weapons/charms/etc. Clary brings paintings as gifts, and maybe she ends up investing in a gallery and gifts a portion of the profits to Magnus. Izzy always pays for things on their shopping trips.
god yes hello how does it feel to be a genius? i absolutely adore this
truly tho this is so great. i particularly love the mental image of maia’s birthday since she’s dating everyone in the Polycule (love how we capitalize it that’s so hot girl summer of us) plus there’s also her pack and just generally she has a lot of friends and everyone loves her, as she deserves. so like 4 months before maia’s birthday magnus just starts sending ppl shit like “if you wish to commission a gift to maia roberts please come forward now so i have the time to properly work on all the requests. requests are open for the following month starting this date, and no later” because MAN the workload. one would think he’s the only warlock in this stupid town or something. seriously
but anyway they all want to get maia a little magical something to make it special, so he has to actually like, figure out a lot of spells. raphael’s first request of a gift to her is to make something that tastes exactly like chocolate, but isn’t, since she can’t eat it anymore after the lycantrophy and raphael is a softie who wants her to have all the food and sweets she wants. and raphael is obviously like “i know i’m asking a lot, which is why i came to you, because if anyone can pull it off, it’s you, but you can say no if you’re too busy-” and magnus is like “hush, my boy, you know i’d never say no to you. besides, i’d be happy to give maia this” so there magnus is, studying the chemical composition of chocolate and the werewolf digestive system like crazy. in the end he lowkey cheats - he creates these magical tablets that are actually tasteless, but look and have the texture of chocolate, and when eaten have an enchantment that activates all the same parts of the brain that chocolate does, so it “tricks” maia into tasting chocolate. but hey, it works, so, that’s a win! maia is so happy she just jumps in raphael’s arms and almost topples them over but raphael has the biggest smile on his face and kind of spuns her around a bit. she also gives magnus a kiss on the cheek, and it’s the sweetest thing aaa im so soft
then of course magnus refuses to take any payment because he’s not going to charge his son for a gift even if it was a real fucking bunch of work. so basically raphael comes to him on clan business and he’s like “you have to charge me because if you don’t charge the clan on official business this can create a diplomatic problem and all the other clans are going to come for you or us” and magnus is like “okay that’s fair what do you want” and raphael asks him for like one (1) bag of blood and pays him A Thousand Dollars (it’s his own money, not the clan’s, but like, it’s officially a clan transaction). i’m exaggerating but you get the spirit. and magnus is just like “that is not the price-” but raphael bolts
and just other little things. meliorn is a practical nonbinary entity so they get her a little necklace that basically protects her clothes when she transforms, then magics them back on her body once she goes back to human form (i know that meliorn has seelie magic but it doesn’t work the same way as warlock magic so maybe they can’t do that themself for some reason idk. like their magic seems to be more a “playing with nature” stuff). easier than having a bunch of clothes hideouts. simon gets her a kind of mirror that play whatever memory she’s thinking about when she touches it, so she can watch it like a video u kno. izzy gets her, like, A Real Lightsaber. clary draws a little comic book enchanted so the figurines actually move. etc. every year they get sweeter and more convoluted and obviously they don’t all always come to magnus (simon for example makes her a bunch of songs, izzy is lowkey an engineer so she can make her a bunch of stuff herself, rapha also takes pleasure in the mundane things and knows that maia feels the same way so he likes to get her special, mundane gifts sometimes, meliorn obviously has their own magic, etc), but it’s always something special when they do
and then there’s always the fun little cat and mouse game of Forcing Magnus To Take Payment. they aren’t afraid to play dirty. izzy gives the money to alec under strict instructions to only spend it on magnus, but magnus can’t pay it back because it’s technically alec’s money. meliorn gets magnus some seelie magic gifts so precious and rare it would be essentially disrespectful to give them back (both in the form of like, powerful charms and trinkets, and also like, priceless spellbooks that very few have access to, etc). maia tells him that if he doesn’t take her payment, she won’t take his tips, which leads to a battle of him tipping her exactly the amount of money she’s paid and maia finding new, stupid stuff to “pay” him for (sidenote: my dad and one of his friends do essentially this every time they go out, as does most of my mom’s family. his friend once literally stole my dad’s wallet when he wasn’t looking so he couldn’t pay for their meal and the friend could treat him. no joke). simon and raphael hide money in the loft and when magnus goes to them they’re like “what? no, this isn’t mine. i agreed to take it for free as a gift from you” with the absolute most innocent face you’ve ever seen in your life. and so on
raphael’s birthday is also convoluted because like, 4 partners, a clan, a thousand people he helps with taki’s and the soup kitchen, and he’s magnus’ son, so of course everyone goes to him for help. simon has a major freakout every year because he doesn’t know what to get him (look. raphael is very refined and simon. is not. plus he’s been known to fuck up with raphael so he’s always Nervous even if all the clary bullshit was decades ago), so he comes to magnus, like, begging for help so he can figure it out. which is just straight up stupid because he usually actually has extremely sweet, beautiful ideas (like the time he recorded rapha a CD with a bunch of songs he made for him in spanish and raphael teared up so hard) but he gets insecure and agitated so magnus’ job there is mainly getting him to chill. then it works out. he ends up not even needing magnus to do anything because again, raphael enjoys the simple things and everyday gestures and just... regular, mundane stuff. he misses it. you know?
but that’s not stopping simon from paying for the counseling because he’s sweet like that, and magnus deserves it
and then of course there’s magnus’ birthday which always comes with a bang and he has so many gifts he’s basically drowning, what with all his friends and kids and warlocks and just. people who love him. he’s a bit surprised every time, which makes everyone exasperated because he’s such an important member of their community, like wtf. but it’s always sweet when his birthday arrives and there’s a fuckton of magical gifts manifesting at his doorstep until he’s almost drowning in them lmao. i just aaa i love this they’re all SOFT
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My name is Artour Babaevsky. I grow up in smal farm to have make potatos. Father say "Artour, potato harvest is bad. Need you to have play professional Doto in Amerikanski for make money for head-scarf for babushka."I bring honor to komrade and babushka. Sorry for is not have English. Please no cyka pasta coperino pasterino liquidino throwerino.
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!!
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Hi, 4k player here who reported slahser. Slahser was our position 1 faceless void. He built a mek and had around 29 healing salves in his inventory. He would chrono both teams in the middle of a fight, salve his allies, pop mek, and proceeded to yell "SLAHSER'S WAY". We gave him position 1 farm so he could be a position 5.
Granted, his unorthodox build worked and carried us to victory but I still felt it deserved a report.
I owe my life to Arteezy. I got in a horrible car crash and i was in 6 month coma. The nurse switched to the Twitch channel to Arteezy's stream. I awoke from my coma and muted it.
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ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ RAISE YOUR DONGERS ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
(ง ͠ ͠° ل͜ °)ง ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴsᴇᴇɴ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅʟɪᴇsᴛ (ง ͠° ل͜ °)ง
▬▬ι═══════ﺤ As I ʜᴏʟᴅ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴜʀᴀɪ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴍʏ sᴛᴏᴍᴀᴄʜ ᴀs I ᴡᴀs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴍᴍɪᴛ sᴜᴅᴏᴋᴜ, I ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ Kʀɪᴘᴘ ᴘʟᴀʏ Cᴀsᴜᴀʟsᴛᴏɴᴇ... I ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ Kʀɪᴘ ᴡᴀs Nᴏʟɪғᴇ... ɴᴏᴡ I ᴀᴍ Nᴏʟɪғᴇ...ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʙʏᴇ ᴋʀɪᴘᴘ ▬▬ι═══════ﺤ
(ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴏᴜʀ ᴄʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴅs (ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง (ง •̀_•́)ง ʏᴇᴀʜ sᴘᴀᴍ ɪᴛ! (ง •̀_•́)ง
(╭ರ_•́)\ Mr. Fors we politely ask for the program 'Plug-Dj" to be used in this live broadcast for alas we will stir up a ruckus (╭ರ_•́)
(̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄ ɴᴀᴍᴇ's ᴅᴏɴɢ. ᴊᴀᴍᴇs ᴅᴏɴɢ (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄
(ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง I have been training since before I was born, and today is the day. Today is the day I spam. (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽YOU CAME TO THE WRONG DONGERHOOD༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽ YOU PASTARINO'D THE WRONG DONGERINO ༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༽ºل͟º ༽ YOU COPERINO FRAPPUCCIONO PASTARINO'D THE WRONG DONGERINO ༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༽ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽You either die a DONG, or live long enough to become the DONGER༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽
༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ YOU ARRIVED IN THE INCORRECT DONGERHOOD, SIR༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・゚ clickty clack clickty clack with this chant I summon spam to the chat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・゚
ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ. ʜᴀʀᴅᴇʀ, ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ, ғᴀsᴛᴇʀ, ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀ .ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ
ヽ(◉◡◔)ノ I'M LOL FAN AND I HAVE DOWN SYNDROME ヽ(◉◡◔)ノ
(ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀ, ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
(ง ͠° ل͜ °)ง LET ME DEMONSTRATE DONGER DIPLOMACY (ง ͠° ل͜ °)ง
(\ ( ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°) /) OUR DONGERS ARE RAZOR SHARP (\ ( ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°) /)
ヽ༼◥▶ل͜◀◤༽ノ RO RO RAISE YOUR DONGERS ヽ༼◥▶ل͜◀◤༽ノ
̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿[} ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿^ Stop right there criminal scum! no one RIOTs on my watch. I'm confiscating your goods. now pay your fine, or it's off to jail.
̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽ YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR BEING CASUAL. COME OUT WITH YOUR DONGERS RAISED ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽
(ง'̀-'́)ง DONG OR DIE (ง'̀-'́)ง
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ VOICE OF AN ANGEL ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ LETS GET DONGERATED ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ RAISE YOUR BARNO ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ "I have a dong" ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ - Martin Luther King Jr.
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ OJ poured and candle lit, with this chant i summon Kripp ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
☑ OJ poured ☑ Candle lit ☑ Summoning the Kripp ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜O༽ノ ʀᴀɪs ᴜʀ ᴅᴀɢᴇʀᴏ ヽ༼ຈل͜___ຈ༽ノ
(ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)งSuccubus release Kripp or taste our rage(ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง
ノ(ಠ_ಠノ ) ʟᴏᴡᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀs ノ(ಠ_ಠノ)
ヽ༼Ὸل͜ຈ༽ノ HOIST THY DONGERS ヽ༼Ὸل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ノ Kripp you are kinda like my dad, except you're always there for me. ヽ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ノ
█▄༼ຈل͜ຈ༽▄█ yeah i work out
༼ ºل͟º ༽ I AM A DONG ༼ ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º༽ I DIDN'T CHOOSE THE DONGLIFE, THE DONGLIFE CHOSE ME ༼ ºل͟º༽
༼ ºل͟º༽ NO ONE CARED WHO I WAS UNTIL I PUT ON THE DONG ༼ ºل͟º༽
༼ ºººººل͟ººººº ༽ I AM SUPER DONG ༼ ºººººل͟ººººº ༽
┌∩┐༼ ºل͟º ༽┌∩┐ SUCK MY DONGER ┌∩┐༼ ºل͟º ༽┌∩┐
ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ FINALLY A REAL DONG ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ
<ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀᴇᴅ>
ヽ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽ノIS THAT A DONGER IN YOUR POCKET?ヽ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽ノ
༼ ͡■ل͜ ͡■༽ OPPA DONGER STYLE ༼ ͡■ل͜ ͡■༽
( ° ͜ ʖ °) REGI OP ( ° ͜ ʖ °)
(̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄ IM DONG,JAMES DONG (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄
(ง⌐□ل͜□)ง WOULD YOU HIT A DONGER WITH GLASSES (ง⌐□ل͜□)ง
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ CUDDLE UR DONGERS ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ) let me hold your donger for a while ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ)
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ง MY RIGHT DONG IS ALOT STRONGER THAN MY LEFT ONE ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ง
(✌゚∀゚)☞ May the DONG be with you! ☚(゚ヮ゚☚)
(⌐■_■)=/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿̿̿ ̿ ̿̿ ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ Keep Your Dongers Where i Can See Them
̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\з=( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ DUDE̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\з=( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ PLEASE NO COPY PASTERONI MACORONI DONGERIN
( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°) Mom always said my donger was big for my age ( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)
(/゚Д゚)/ WE WANT SPELUNKY (/゚Д゚)/
─=≡Σ((( つ◕ل͜◕)つ sᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴅᴏɴɢ
(✌゚∀゚)☞ POINT ME TO THE DONGERS (✌゚∀゚)☞
ᕙ( ^ₒ^ c) 〇〇〇〇ᗩᗩᗩᗩᕼᕼ ᕙ( ^ₒ^ c)
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ ArcheAge or BEES ヽ̛͟͢༼͝ຈ͢͠لຈ҉̛༽̨҉҉ノ̨
୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨ MRGLRLRLR ୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノITS A HARD DONG LIFE ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノMOLLYヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
༼ つ ຈل͜ຈ ༽つ GIVE MOLLY ༼ つ ຈل͜ຈ ༽つ
†ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ† By the power of donger I summon MOLLY †ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ†
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノTAKING A DUMPヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ WHAT DOESNT KILL ME ONLY MAKES ME DONGER ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ FOREVER DONG ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] Mo' money, mo' Dongers [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
༼ᕗຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ Drop Bows on 'em ༼ᕗຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ
Ѱζ༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽ᶘѰ HIT IT WITH THE FORK Ѱζ༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽ᶘѰ
Ψ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽Ψ hit it with the fork Ψ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽Ψ
(∩ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⊃━☆゚. * ・ 。゚ Copypastus Totalus!!
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All about TOU’s
Hi Guys!
A friend of mine in our bloomingrosysims-Forum posted this today, and I want to share this with all of you! Because I think she is totally right! Thank you, Brigitte!
Here it is:
“I downloaded this cute little beach house. And the creator put all the links for the cc used underneath. So I went and clicked on every link.
Some worked, some did not. Some, you had to download the mesh somewhere else, sometimes I got lucky, sometimes I did not. I had a gazillion pages open on my screen, a lot flashing with advertisement, only to get to a mesh or an object. Some blogs had been removed, or moved somewhere else, or the links did not work.
I came across angry bloggers that took down all of their download links because of the "greed and disrespect" of people. Greed? What? Greed? I am downloading, I am not using a ton of advertisement links to get to my downloads. But flashing the blog at people "nananana....look what I have, but you can't have it, because you've been greedy and disrespectful". And people uuuhhhing and ahhhhing in the comments.
I have never been disrespectful, although my mother might disagree. I do want to say Thank You so many times. I love some of the cc I have collected so much, that I would take it out of my computer to hug it to pieces, if that were possible. But I am not going to register to a gazillion sites, tumblr and what not. On most pages you can not comment without registration.
TSR does not let me comment. I need to register. I do not want to register. I have a big screen. And my entire screen is full of advertisement if I download something for TSR. You are not getting my data. Period. Although they are probably collecting it anyways.
I don't even know what is being advertised, except on adfly when they sometimes show me naked women doing rumpy pumpy. That alone did not bother me, but they do not know who I am. I could be 14 years old. I could be seriously offended by seing such content.
I came across the following comment: " #im sry that im probably pissing some ppl off by putting all the cc in a folder #but im really so over all these sims 4 community rules #i love all of you creators tho you make the best job <333 "
And seriously: you can do this, but you can not do that. The next Creator: well you can do this, but you can not do that. The next one: do whatever you like. The next one: don't do anything.
Simsrocouted TOU: "Don't be a dick" Yes well......short and on point.
I do understand that creators want credit for their work. I am so happy when I come here and share a photo, just a simple photo, and I get such nice comments. And that must even be more true for creators that use their free time to create such beautiful things. Without them I would not love the game as much as I do.
I never change the file names. Most files contain the name of the creator. And I often go and search for their pages, by the name of the file. I avoid using my Patreon files. I haven been thinking about my garage appartment, because if I upload it, I need to take out the kitchen since it is a donation set from Simcredible.
If you wanted to honor every single TOU out there, it would take forever to sort out what can be uploaded and what can't. You would need separate mods folders. Or you would have to put links to all of the items. Or, if you do not want to go through all of that work, you can not upload houses. Or, while decorating, you would need to check if it is ok to use this one piece in a house intended for upload.
When I search for something I sometimes keep only one or two items out of sets. I rarely keep entire sets. I download things, I take my mods out of my game, put in the new ones, and I look at every piece and decide what I want to keep. I delete the rest.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
I admire each and every creator. I don't mind wading through their thousand windows and advertisement if I want something. I don't mind paying for something if I really want it. They have my highest respect. They give me something, that makes me love my game.
That being said, I am going to work on the credits for the houses I've uploade. I need to stay in the middle somewhere, sind neiter i.e. Simcredible nor Severinka want their cc to be reuploaded. Not sure what to do with all of these little pieces that I have no idea where I got them from.
I just typed down my thoughts, as they went through my head while downloading stuff for this little house. Now I am going to wade through a ton of cc :-D which is actually something I love doing.”
End of her posting!
I agree with her. Thats one of the reasons I don’t build houses for download. I would going crazy with all of this. Maybe...just maybe she can reach a few people with her posting!
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Hi, 4k player here who reported slahser. Slahser was our position 1 faceless void. He built a mek and had around 29 healing salves in his inventory. He would chrono both teams in the middle of a fight, salve his allies, pop mek, and proceeded to yell "SLAHSER'S WAY". We gave him position 1 farm so he could be a position 5.
Granted, his unorthodox build worked and carried us to victory but I still felt it deserved a report.
I owe my life to Arteezy. I got in a horrible car crash and i was in 6 month coma. The nurse switched to the Twitch channel to Arteezy's stream. I awoke from my coma and muted it.
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ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ RAISE YOUR DONGERS ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
(ง ͠ ͠° ل͜ °)ง ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴsᴇᴇɴ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅʟɪᴇsᴛ (ง ͠° ل͜ °)ง
▬▬ι═══════ﺤ As I ʜᴏʟᴅ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴜʀᴀɪ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴍʏ sᴛᴏᴍᴀᴄʜ ᴀs I ᴡᴀs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴍᴍɪᴛ sᴜᴅᴏᴋᴜ, I ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ Kʀɪᴘᴘ ᴘʟᴀʏ Cᴀsᴜᴀʟsᴛᴏɴᴇ... I ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ Kʀɪᴘ ᴡᴀs Nᴏʟɪғᴇ... ɴᴏᴡ I ᴀᴍ Nᴏʟɪғᴇ...ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʙʏᴇ ᴋʀɪᴘᴘ ▬▬ι═══════ﺤ
(ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴏᴜʀ ᴄʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴅs (ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง (ง •̀_•́)ง ʏᴇᴀʜ sᴘᴀᴍ ɪᴛ! (ง •̀_•́)ง
(╭ರ_•́)\ Mr. Fors we politely ask for the program 'Plug-Dj" to be used in this live broadcast for alas we will stir up a ruckus (╭ರ_•́)
(̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄ ɴᴀᴍᴇ's ᴅᴏɴɢ. ᴊᴀᴍᴇs ᴅᴏɴɢ (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄
(ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง I have been training since before I was born, and today is the day. Today is the day I spam. (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽YOU CAME TO THE WRONG DONGERHOOD༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽ YOU PASTARINO'D THE WRONG DONGERINO ༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༼ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽ ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༽ºل͟º ༽ YOU COPERINO FRAPPUCCIONO PASTARINO'D THE WRONG DONGERINO ༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༽ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽You either die a DONG, or live long enough to become the DONGER༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽ºل͟º ༽
༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ YOU ARRIVED IN THE INCORRECT DONGERHOOD, SIR༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ༼ ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽ಠل͟ರೃ ༽
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・゚ clickty clack clickty clack with this chant I summon spam to the chat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・゚
ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ. ʜᴀʀᴅᴇʀ, ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ, ғᴀsᴛᴇʀ, ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀ .ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ
ヽ(◉◡◔)ノ I'M LOL FAN AND I HAVE DOWN SYNDROME ヽ(◉◡◔)ノ
(ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀ, ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
(ง ͠° ل͜ °)ง LET ME DEMONSTRATE DONGER DIPLOMACY (ง ͠° ل͜ °)ง
(\ ( ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°) /) OUR DONGERS ARE RAZOR SHARP (\ ( ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°) /)
ヽ༼◥▶ل͜◀◤༽ノ RO RO RAISE YOUR DONGERS ヽ༼◥▶ل͜◀◤༽ノ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿[} ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿^ Stop right there criminal scum! no one RIOTs on my watch. I'm confiscating your goods. now pay your fine, or it's off to jail. ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽ YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR BEING CASUAL. COME OUT WITH YOUR DONGERS RAISED ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽
(ง'̀-'́)ง DONG OR DIE (ง'̀-'́)ง
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ VOICE OF AN ANGEL ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ LETS GET DONGERATED ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ RAISE YOUR BARNO ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ "I have a dong" ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ - Martin Luther King Jr.
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ OJ poured and candle lit, with this chant i summon Kripp ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
☑ OJ poured ☑ Candle lit ☑ Summoning the Kripp ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ༼ຈل͜O༽ノ ʀᴀɪs ᴜʀ ᴅᴀɢᴇʀᴏ ヽ༼ຈل͜___ຈ༽ノ
(ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)งSuccubus release Kripp or taste our rage(ง ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)ง
ノ(ಠ_ಠノ ) ʟᴏᴡᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀs ノ(ಠ_ಠノ)
ヽ༼Ὸل͜ຈ༽ノ HOIST THY DONGERS ヽ༼Ὸل͜ຈ༽ノ
ヽ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ノ Kripp you are kinda like my dad, except you're always there for me. ヽ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ノ
█▄༼ຈل͜ຈ༽▄█ yeah i work out
༼ ºل͟º ༽ I AM A DONG ༼ ºل͟º ༽
༼ ºل͟º༽ I DIDN'T CHOOSE THE DONGLIFE, THE DONGLIFE CHOSE ME ༼ ºل͟º༽
༼ ºل͟º༽ NO ONE CARED WHO I WAS UNTIL I PUT ON THE DONG ༼ ºل͟º༽
༼ ºººººل͟ººººº ༽ I AM SUPER DONG ༼ ºººººل͟ººººº ༽
┌∩┐༼ ºل͟º ༽┌∩┐ SUCK MY DONGER ┌∩┐༼ ºل͟º ༽┌∩┐
ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ FINALLY A REAL DONG ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ
<ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴅᴏɴɢᴇʀᴇᴅ>
ヽ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽ノIS THAT A DONGER IN YOUR POCKET?ヽ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽ノ
༼ ͡■ل͜ ͡■༽ OPPA DONGER STYLE ༼ ͡■ل͜ ͡■༽
( ° ͜ ʖ °) REGI OP ( ° ͜ ʖ °)
(̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄ IM DONG,JAMES DONG (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄
(ง⌐□ل͜□)ง WOULD YOU HIT A DONGER WITH GLASSES (ง⌐□ل͜□)ง
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ CUDDLE UR DONGERS ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ) let me hold your donger for a while ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ)
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ง MY RIGHT DONG IS ALOT STRONGER THAN MY LEFT ONE ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ง
(✌゚∀゚)☞ May the DONG be with you! ☚(゚ヮ゚☚)
(⌐■_■)=/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿̿̿ ̿ ̿̿ ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ Keep Your Dongers Where i Can See Them ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\з=( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ DUDE̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\з=( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ PLEASE NO COPY PASTERONI MACORONI DONGERIN
( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°) Mom always said my donger was big for my age ( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)
Thats so cool! You should write a book or do a screen play
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to the walnut people’s garden.
Blog,
Im starting my post in the way my friend Joshua does, as a letter to a digital realm of writing / reading / whatever u want to say about the cybernetic makeup on the tumblrverse. Mostly, I didn’t know how to start. Insert the meme format, every day I open Microsoft word and write absolutely nothing. Its paralyzing – to have some aspect of my identity wrapped up in “writing,” to be a “writer,” but to really exist as such in bursts. Every few months I’ll write something and lay it to rest in my hard drive, go back to living as a sentient being trying to scrape by eleven dollars an hour.
Its getting colder – the wind knocked over some plants outside, I opened the window and immediately closed it. Im worried about the lettuce dying from the frost. Im doing some reflection because there’s nothing else to do. Im googling depression lamps and silly tips to quit smoking and “psychiatric evaluations for cheap.”
My sister is in town and was asking me about my move, the semi-chaotic summer I lived when plans A and B fell through and my ass tumbled back to my hometown. Its depressing if I read too far into it, coming back to a place I swore I never would, being proof that “you always come back home” (because home is a vapid suburb). She had come to the garden last night, to see the space that picked me up and saved the move, to meet the people that have made this city feel like something new and worth appreciating, and not an exemplar of postgraduate failures. I think the garden might be the only thing that kept me in my hometown, feeling ashamed that I hadnt made it anywhere but here.
Let me explain myself. Im a little sick of the ‘2020 was a bad year [insert sad face]’ discourse, but it was a fucking bad year. So was 2019 and every year dating back to industrialization and colonial exploration, but im getting sidetracked. The year started with a silly (actually devastating and heartbreaking) breakup and months of depression. Of going to aa and spilling my sorrows to a group of gay 50-somethings who hugged me like I wasn’t a lost case. Of later fearing my loved ones, as if they were virus-carrying rascals, or worse, that I was and would infect and kill them all. Of having my visa cancelled but still needing to leave Chicago – fueling myself with the potentially false and certainly romantic idea that running away from ur friends and problems will fix it all. Im lamenting.
What im saying is im as surprised as you are at the success of kc. At the community and love ive found here, all cooked up in the garden squat. The day I met syd and cass and felt really shocked at the ease of meeting the anarchist poets, as if they were just waiting for me. when syd invited me to the garden one night and it all made sense – to take back the land and grow sunflowers. I wont go too far into my gaden-becoming (lol). As it will potentially be ripped away from us by landlord bastards in this next month, I need to solidify some reflections. To poorly paraphrase Audre lorde, you gotta write it down so you don’t forget how you felt. How you thought. Maybe in five years the garden will be flourishing. Or we will be sitting at the track tagging ‘fuck fascism’ as we approach our thirties. Or both.
The endless garden bonfires. Indistinguishable from the next. All the bonfires and cookouts melding into each other. The 200 Hams that showed up one night, maybe 180? The joy of collective drunkenness, peeing behind the shed, grabbing another beer on your way back. We began having movie nights. Thank god cadence brought all of the anime, secretly hoping nobody could possibly want to watch Edward Scissorhands. geeking with syd about poets. Spreading mulch at our first work day, gossiping about sean bonney and wendy Trevino with amalia, the excitement that someone else gave a shit about obscure poets. Later making a book club for just that. picking up two trunkloads of bricks from a gentrifying couple in the northeast, how they wanted to rid their property of the old chimney and practically begged me to take more. Making a path later with neve, I think, and being nervous about becoming friends with everyone. Having met so many people in such a short time. Planning to camp at the garden together, and instead, going to an impromptu occupation. The absolute failure of it all, when the occupiers began to police each other. ‘A world without police’ my ass. The walnut people’s garden tent we squeezed into. Playing ‘never have I ever’ with other twenty-somethings, realizing that the game is only spicy when nefarious activities are taboo—and they’re not taboo to us. Almost winning several games of chess in several different tents, though I think I always lost. That time when Syd’s birthday, when their literal hoard of friends came and went and I watched them from one of the garden beds. That art students look like art students everywhere I’ve been. I think I was talking to cass, about something, poetry maybe, at the garden bed. we were avoiding the group dynamic, that specific stomach feeling that arises when you don’t know anybody. The outdoor space fostering some normalcy, people being able to come and go and celebrate years around the sun. afterwards we went to jail support, a reminder that nothing is normal. “the new normal.” I had just dug up my own garden bed, which if I made decisions financially, was a huge money drain. But it taught me how to grow lettuces and how not to grow cauliflowers. I kept a journal with garden notes, which vegetables liked each other. I left it at the garden one night and it was rained on, completely disintegrated. A sweet first kiss on the garden bench, later, the garden bench showing up in a flash sheet that we’ll all choose tattoos from. the subsequent meme. the continual talk of memes fueled by @dante. A massive group tattoo session. The slew of items always left at the garden after a night of drinking. My debit card, my jacket, somehow always sydney’s backpack. Cullen always finding the objects since he was up earlier than us all. Later, dante’s birthday when I walked from the garden to sade’s apartment, which had a living room—quite literally—filled with only couches. Feeling warm and included, invited to something. Discovering sade is best friends with sue, who lives with Vivian. Facetiming Vivian from the garden, facetiming Vivian from the backyard. Feeling so lonely for so long, and then, suddenly pulled into this weird collective embrace. Pulling up to the the garden and freddy howling. Laying with freddy on the couch. The celebration of life erin and Cullen threw for freddy, when miranda made him this foul-looking peanut butter cake and someone took a bite of it. stealing a thousand cigarettes from bobby or kim or anyone who pulled out a pack near me. meeting syd dante and sade at the garden to break into an apartment complex’s pool. But residents were having a pool party with a vague america theme and we felt out-of-place. When we were driving home from the pool and dante spotted a note on the garden sign, our formal eviction notice. How hard it is to meet common ground with landowners, as a group of ppl who don’t believe in that shit. My dad telling me to just ‘buy the land.’ Are you interested in paying rent? The neighborhood association meeting, the landlords pushing for increased value moving into the neighborhood. Us leaving when the meeting proved too boring, typical leftists unable to sit through bureaucratic garbage. Send someone in our place. The giant saw that looked like an oil rig. How I was disappointed in my own passivity in the situation, letting them reverse screwdrive our land! How sometimes you make concessions for the big picture, but then you feel like a fraud in the moment. How maybe that is just an excuse. Cullen eating a grasshopper, suddenly everyone eating grasshoppers. A grasshopper loose in quicktrip, we considered asking to take it home with us. When we painted the sign and we didn’t like the proposed name, so we made up another one, which was admittedly not very anarchist of us. No collective decision making. The sign was later repainted after a meeting and it looked so much better. The meeting showing that we could fight and come to collective decisions and maybe we’d make it through the eviction. The eviction coming in two weeks, the plans for occupation. A slumber party with demands. A giant slingshot to launch discarded objects at construction trucks. A trebuchet. Maybe we’ll make it through the eviction.
To the walnut people’s garden.
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oh my GOD that idea that you just mentioned about the fan response??? would literally die for that wtf and tbh i just want to see a lot of jason and whizzer interacting because i Always live for that
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the media finds out about them before they’re even like officially dating. Somehow one lucky paparazzi person that is on like stealth mode gets a picture of a tender moment when Marvin and Whizzer are out together somewhere. In the picture, Marvin is like brushing an eyelash off of Whizzer’s cheek or holding his hand or doing something really sappy (basically trying to communicate to an emotionally-stunted Whizzer that hey sleeping together is cool and all, but I want to actually date you, you know). Well, the news BLOWS UP with headlines like ‘Whizzer Brown’s Mystery Man’ and ‘Playboy baseball player settling down?’ and everyone scrambles to find out just who Marvin is. Once they find out that Marvin is a divorced dad, news outlets like TMZ are flooded with headlines like (thanks to @a-lesbian-from-next-door-too for this GEM of a headline) WHIZZER BROWN WITH DILF???
Whizzer Brown secret boyfriend is the most searched thing on Google that day.
All production in the tabloid industries stops as editors bark for their reporters to dig up more on this story. Journalists scramble for any bit of info they can get on Marvin.
And here comes disastrously incorrect articles like:
Marvin was actually still married when he and Whizzer started “dating.” Whizzer was the cause of his divorce.
Marvin is like 15 years older than Whizzer and is basically using Whizzer for his money.
Marvin has been Whizzer’s secret boyfriend (HUSBAND???) for over ten years now and it’s been kept well hushed hushed secret bc Whizzer has built a brand out of Gay Baseball Player/Playboy.
Jason is Marvin and Whizzer’s adopted child.
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Marvin and Whizzer are not actually together at all. Marvin is not even gay! Whizzer just wanted to rebrand himself from “player on and off the field” and so hired Marvin to be his fake boyfriend (pretending to be “settling down”). (this prompts a startled Marvin to exclaim, “How could anyone think I was straight???” to which Whizzer dead-panned responded, “Honey, no self-respecting gay man dresses like that.”
Also consider the TMZ panel (also credit to @a-lesbian-from-next-door-too for this exchange, too)
“Marvin? What kinda name is Marvin?”
“I know. It’s such an old man’s name!”
“It’s like he was born a middle-aged dad, you know?”
“Uh, guys, Whizzer is a pretty stupid name, too. When you think about it. I mean, who names their kid Whizzer?”
“No one asked you, Brent.”
“Yeah, Brent. Shut the fuck up.”
Marvin finds out about the news bc he goes to work the next morning and some asshole coworker has taped all the headlines around his desk (the DILF headline is blown up and taped over his entire desk).
Marvin is obv pissed and lowkey anxious bc he doesn’t want this sort of attention to negatively affect him or (GOD FORBID) Jason. Whizzer himself is just a little annoyed and sees that Marvin is upset, so he tries to like make the issue go away by tweeting out: “tfw ur out with one of ur booty calls and ppl think that just bc he held ur hand u two are getting married’. And uhh, this makes the media die down but Marvin gets more upset bc hey asshole I think I’m falling in love with you but apparently I’m still just one of your booty calls, huh? And Whizzer gets mad bc Marvin is mad and he just tried to make Marvin less mad, and angst angst angst.
When they do get together, Whizzer posts a picture on Instagram of the two of them with the caption 'tfw you fall in love with one of your booty calls’. And the Internet just kinda explodes.
Fans are a little mixed. On one hand, they’re happy that Whizzer seems to be happy. On another, they’re terrified that a relationship will somehow hurt Whizzer’s playing. They then shut the fuck up when Whizzer plays the most vicious game of his entire career and just throws the best pitches and just basically almost single-handedly eviscerates the other team. At the press conference, people ask what’s up with Whizzer’s playing, and one of Whizzer’s team members just sorta smirks and answers for him, “He has a lot of pent up tension and aggression. He hasn’t seen his boyfriend in like a month [bc it’s the peak of the season and they’ve had to move around a lot to different cities and such]."
Guys guys guys guys, I cannot begin to describe just how i c o n i c Marvin becomes so quickly.
Because once they’re like “official,” Whizzer spams his instagram account with Marvin - Marvin in a new gifted Red Sox jersey while Jason (in his decked out Yankees uniform) glares mockingly at him; at the park during a crisp fall afternoon, Marvin breathless and red-faced and caught mid-laugh; Marvin comically but dead-seriously holding a baseball bat with a stance and grip that makes Whizzer and all baseball fans around the world weep; Marvin Jason and Whizzer, in a cheesy selfie after a really tough game; a picture of Marvin’s back as the man is hunched over an oven (this one has the caption “I love when a man puts the steak in ;) ” ); a particularly artsy one with a black and white filter, with Marvin (asleep, hair mussed, naked but only his bare arms, shoulders, and upper back is not obscured by the white sheets) asleep in their bed. The fans lose their minds over these pictures, along with the little tibits of info/stories that Whizzer shares when prompted about what a dorky/lame/baseball-hating/he-writes-me-poetry-literally-what-a-fucking-nerd that his new boyfriend is.
When tweets and questions about Marvin keep buzzing Whizzer, Whizzer kindly asks (not forces, Jeez, Marv, don’t make it sound like I held a gun to your back) that Marvin get his own instagram/twitter accounts so they can just fawn over Marvin directly and leave Whizzer the hell alone to answer questions about baseball and photography and not about his relationship every fucking five minutes
This turns out to be a mistake. Marvin amasses ten thousand followers in six months. The guy barely even posts about Whizzer himself. He posts about broadway reviews and retweets funny cat pictures and every once in awhile, he posts partiuclarly needling things like how chess is better than baseball and he tags and @’s Whizzer in all of them. And everyone??? Loves it??? Whizzer is a little jealous at how people fawn over Marvin?? Like where’s some Whizzer love??? Whizzer is still the twunk that everyone loves, right???
Marvin is slowly accepted by the baseball wives. They’re catty and cliquish and they make Marvin’s life a living hell those first few months, but when Marvin does not take their shit and keeps pushing back, they grow to a mutual understanding that soon turns into begrudged respect that eventually turns into tentative friendship that eventually much much later turns into “if you dare utter one mean word or look at Marvin the wrong way, I will slit your throat with my sharpened, manicured, pastel pink-painted nails.” Whizzer shares one picture on his insta of Marvin with the baseball wives, with a glass of champagne in his hand and looking like he’s talking shit and the other baseball wives are laughing and eating this shit up, and he captions it: I think my boyfriend joined a cult.
The media as a whole leaves the two alone after they turn out to be just a regular couple and not that interesting?? EXCEPT EXCEPT EXCEPT (see next bullet point)
Okay, so Marvin hates baseball, right? This is established. This is well known. This is Fact. Well, after they become like “official” and the media now knows who Marvin is, news outlets start to attack him/make fun of him/crucify him for looking bored at Whizzer’s baseball games. Like he’ll have his phone out or he’ll have his chin propped up with his hand as if trying to combat sleepiness and sometimes he brings like a magazine to read and he always has that bored, vaguely pained “I do not want to be here right now” look on his face. And any time that the Red Sox makes a good play or gets a homerun, it’s clear that he’s been spacing out bc whenever the people around him start cheering, he likes jumps and does that weak, wide-eyed “Idk what just happened and i kinda want death right now but I am being supportive” clap (one time, he zoned out and Whizzer’s opposing team got a homerun, and Marvin just started meekly clapping bc he heard the crowd doing it and ESPN and TMZ and all the news outlets had a field day of making fun of him).
And the media??? is like “why are you not supporting your partner? You embarrass him by looking so bored. Can’t you learn to love the sport if you love him??” and being really bitchy about it. And Whizzer gets pissed and so goes on air during a press conference - when some smart-ass reporter tries to make a barb about Marvin looking bored and in pain - and says really bitchily, “Guys, Marvin just doesn’t like baseball, okay? Yeah, that makes him an idiot - because baseball is incredible - but it doesn’t make him a bad partner. I don’t expect him to love the things that I love. I like that we’re different, you know? That makes him less boring. Like, he goes to my games even though he hates baseball. That is being supportive. Like fucking hell, guys, I’m with him because he makes me laugh and has a great ass - not because he’s some super baseball fan.” CUE MIC DROP.
And yeah, there are homophobic reactions to the relationship. Facebook groups dedicated to it. Marvin gets hate mail and one time got like yelled at on the street. Some of the media’s stories are overtly homophobic and overly crass. It’s 2017, sure, but there are still idiots out there.
Marvin and Whizzer don’t let the attention - good or bad - get to them. They just keep being in love and posting overly sappy instagram posts about their anniversaries and poking fun at each other on twitter and the attention never breaks them.
I will posts Jason specific headcanons later but like dang, this took a lot out of me bc I have a lot of FEELINGS and if you have more headcanons about this topic, reblog and add your own bc I’m curious how you feel the media/fans would take this.
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What You Should Know About Craig Wright
Recently, it was revealed that Craig Steven Wright, one of the most controversial figures in the crypto community, had filed 114 blockchain patents since 2017. He also quit Twitter, where he would often publish his opinions on anonymity (bad), Bitcoin SV (the real Bitcoin) and other cryptocurrencies (also bad).
He is also known for arguing that he is actually Satoshi Nakamoto, the original creator of Bitcoin. Here’s the complete list of things you should know about Wright.
Wright’s bio is really rich, but hardly verifiable
He was born in October 1970 in Australia, according to registration papers of one of his many companies. As per a Business Insider article citing his now-edited LinkedIn profile, Wright graduated from Brisbane’s Padua Catholic College in 1987. In the early 1990s, he worked as a sauce cook, “having trained in French cuisine,” and spent three years working with a catering company.
Wright was reportedly studying at the University of Queensland while working as a chef. He initially attended engineering classes, but switched to computer science in his fourth year.
In 1996, as per his earlier LinkedIn bio, he began working at Ozemail, where he was “managing a bunch of engineers,” thus starting his eventful career in tech. However, according to a 2007 Computerworld article, he began working in IT when he joined K-Mart in 1985 — which would have been even before he finished high school.
In April 1997, Wright says he joined the Australian Stock Exchange, maintaining security and firewalls. In November the same year, he launched a company called DeMorgan, described as “a pre-IPO Australian listed company focused on alternative currency, next generation banking and reputational and educational products with a focus on security and creating a simple user experience.”
In fact, up until July 2015, Morgan was the CEO of about 15 companies. As the Guardian points out, in the space of a week, he resigned as director from Cloudcroft Pty Ltd, Coin-Exch Pty Ltd, Daso Pty Ltd, Demorgan Holdings Pty Ltd, Demorgan Ltd, Denariuz, Ezas Pty Ltd, Integyrz Pty Ltd, Misfit Games Pty Ltd, Interconnected Research Pty Ltd, Zuhl Pty Ltd and Pholus Pty Ltd, and remained the director of just three companies: Hotwire Preemptive Intelligence Pty Ltd, Panopticrypt Pty Ltd and Hotwire PE Employee Share Plan Pty Ltd. Currently, his LinkedIn only features a startup called nChain, where he has allegedly been working as a “chief scientist” since June 2015.
Wright seems to be a man of libertarian views. According to the Cypherpunk mailing list archive, in September 1996, Wright wrote that he had developed cancer during his years at university and took a loan to pay for medical treatment because the health insurance didn’t cover it. He then mentioned that he served in the military and worked at a gas station “even though I am an engineer,” adding:
“So why and for what reason should I have to pay several 10’s of thousands each year to support others. I have never taken help from the government, I do not feel I should have to pay as well. And what am I paying for…to protect the status quo. I believe that there is more than enough help for ppl available. They just need to get off their butts and work.”
In sum, Wright’s biography seems to be considerably replete and busy — or, at least, he portrays it that way. On top of having two PhDs, Wright wields numerous certifications in computer forensics and information technology (IT). In February, he published two Medium articles in which he claimed to have worked as an “agent of influence” in Venezuela and Colombia. Picturing himself as a James Bond-esque character fighting terrorism and evil, Wright says he was “shot twice” during the operation. Also, at some point, he claims that he “was a pastor once.”
According to his story, the Australian entrepreneur came back from South America to witness Bitcoin — which he created (more about that below) — being used on the darknet.
“I discovered the creation I had given birth to, something I designed to bring light was being used for all the worst reasons. Not only drugs, but people. Anonymity is a curse. Nothing good comes of it.”
Wright has several times claimed that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, and refused to provide sufficient proof
Wright become a known figure in crypto community after media reports linking his identity to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, surfaced in late 2015. Previously, in 2014, one of his few reported links to cryptocurrencies was that he tried launching the world’s first Bitcoin bank.
Thus, in December 2015, Wired and Gizmodo reported within hours of each other that the Australian computer scientist and entrepreneur might be the creator of the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
The Wired story claimed that Wright “either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did.” It was based on documents and emails that were purportedly leaked by “an anonymous source close to Wright” to an independent security researcher Gwern Branwen, who co-wrote the article with Wired author Andy Greenberg.
Similarly, Gizmodo ran a story that featured documents allegedly obtained by a hacker who accessed Wright’s email accounts, claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto was a joint pseudonym for Craig Steven Wright and his friend, computer forensics analyst and cybersecurity specialist David Kleiman, who died in 2013.
Moreover, on the same day the articles were published, Australian Federal Police (AFP) raided Wright’s house in the Sydney suburb of Gordon. However, the AFP clarified that the operation was not related to the Bitcoin claims.
A substantial part of the evidence presented in the reports — along with Wright’s previous claims — was soon proved false. First, Wright’s company Cloudcroft had declared to have two supercomputers, one of which allegedly produced by computer manufacturer SGI. However, SGI soon clarified that “Cloudcroft has never been an SGI customer and SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft CEO Craig Steven Wright.”
Further, Wright had listed two PhDs on his LinkedIn page, including one from Charles Sturt University. Eventually, Forbes contacted the university and found out that it hadn’t granted Wright any PhDs, although it gave him three master’s degrees in networking and systems administration, management (IT), and information systems security. Wright was, however, awarded with a doctorate degree by Charles Sturt University later in 2017.
Also, a technical analysis of two PGP public keys attributed to Wright, but also linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, showed that they were created more recently than the documents in which they were featured.
Finally, a number of posts in Wright’s now-deleted blog that seemed to portray him as a person who was directly involved in Bitcoin’s creation had been backdated or edited; the archived versions of the posts from 2013 show none of those breadcrumbs that Wright could have planted to mislead the media into thinking he is Satoshi.
After the aforementioned stories went live, Wright promptly took down his social media accounts and disappeared for several months. On May 2, 2016, he came back (he now lives in London, United Kingdom, according to his LinkedIn profile) and publicly declared that he is the creator of Bitcoin. Later on in the same month, Wright published a sentimental apology piece where he refused to publish the proof of access to one of the earliest Bitcoin keys, saying he doesn’t have the “courage” do it.
However, Wright still claims to be the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator. Just last month, the entrepreneur filed two near-identical comment letters to the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in which he again declared that he is Satoshi. The documents were submitted in response to the agency’s request for industry input and feedback on Ethereum’s (ETH) mechanics and market.
Specifically, Wright wrote that he worked “under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto,” and “completed a project […] started in 1997 that was filed with the Australian government in part under an AusIndustry project registered with the Dept. of Innovation as BlackNet.”
BlackNet — an alleged precursor to Bitcoin — was submitted to the Australian government in 2001, according to one of Wright’s tweets (he deleted his Twitter profile earlier this month).
On Reddit, user Skoopitup argued that the BlackNet paper that Wright supposedly submitted in 2001 largely copied the official Bitcoin white paper (published October 2008), which notably contained significant corrections to an earlier draft that had been shared by Satoshi earlier in August 2008.
In his remaining comments to the CFTC, Wright wrote:
“The amount of misunderstanding and fallacious information that has been propagated concerning bitcoin […] has resulted in my choice to start to become more public. The system I created was designed in part to end fraud as best as that can be done with any technology. The lack of understanding […] has resulted in […] a dissemination of old scams.”
The Australian entrepreneur still hasn’t signed a message with the key associated with Bitcoin’s genesis block, which could be seen as strong evidence of him actually being Satoshi Nakamoto.
Wright played a key role in the BCH hash wars — and now claims that Bitcoin SV is the original Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency that emerged on Aug. 1, 2017 after departing from Bitcoin’s original blockchain via a hard fork in an attempt to manage its scalability issue.
The BCH network performs hard forks as part of scheduled protocol upgrades. The fork scheduled for Nov. 15, 2018, however, was disrupted by a competing proposal that was not compatible with the original roadmap. As a result, the BCH community was split into three fractions: Bitcoin ABC, Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin SV.
Craig Wright lead the Bitcoin SV team, whose goal was to restore “the original Satoshi protocol” by changing the current BCH structure. Specifically, that involved entirely overwriting the network scripts of Bitcoin ABC and increasing the block size of BCH from 32MB to a maximum of 128MB in order to increase network capacity and scale. Bitcoin SV’s cryptocurrency design was made by Wright’s nChain company.
At some point, after Jihan Wu, co-founder of major crypto miner and manufacturer Bitmain, who supported the Bitcoin ABC team, accused Wright of being a Blockstream spy and a “fake Satoshi.” In response, the computer scientist entered a verbal fight. Specifically, Wright tagged Roger Ver — another ABC proponent — and Bitmain with bankruptcy threats and accusations of being engaged in Silk Road machinations and child pornography.
Even though Bitcoin ABC essentially won the so-called “hash wars” and secured the original BCH ticker, Bitcoin SV lives on. In late February, Bitcoin SV’s value rose 20 percent, driving it into the top-10 largest cryptocurrencies by market cap. As of press time, Bitcoin SV is the 12th-largest token, with a market cap of $1.5 million, according to CoinMarketCap.
Craigh Wright has a lot of blockchain patents
According to the publication Hard Fork, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published 155 patents applications filed by Wright — all of which were submitted through his company nChain. Thirty-five of those were published this year. The earliest document date relates to Aug. 31, 2017.
The majority of those applications mention blockchain. Specifically, Hard Fork writes, the term “blockchain” was used 114 times in patent titles. “Cryptocurrency,” in turn, is only featured six times, while “Bitcoin” is not mentioned at all.
Wright has written about his patents quest via Twitter (which has been deleted). According to the screenshots cited by Hard Fork, Wright decided to file his patents in Europe because it was “harder”:
“Once we have the EU, we have the PCT [Patent Cooperation Treaty] in the USA. The US is simpler.”
The Patent Cooperation Treaty has been signed by 152 countries. After filing one international patent application under the PCT, applicants can get simultaneously protection for their inventions in many countries.
As per Bloomberg, business-wise blockchain patents “are an essential ingredient for companies looking to reshape the financial services industry or spawn profitable cryptocurrency-related businesses.” Basically, such patents help companies attract investment, protect property rights and collect monopoly profits from other companies using their inventions.
It’s been argued that Wright is filing patents without the intent of actually using them, but instead to demand large payouts from companies which happen to use similar technologies in their line of work. As Marc Kaufman, an attorney who co-chairs the Blockchain Intellectual Property Council at the U.S. Chamber of Digital Commerce, told Fortune:
“His tactics and activities have all the marks of being a patent assertion entity or what’s pejoratively known as a troll. I’m not aware of his companies having any products.”
Craig Wright is being sued for at least $1 billion
In February 2018, the estate of David Kleiman — Wright’s associate and computer forensics expert who died in April 2013 seemingly of natural causes related to complications from a MRSA infection — brought the suit against Wright to the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida. The estate is represented by Ira Kleiman, David’s brother.
According to court documents that surfaced on Reddit, the plaintiff claims that Wright stole hundreds of thousands of BTC, worth over $5 billion dollars at the time, from David Kleiman’s estate. The statement by the plaintiff alleges that Wright recognized that Kleiman’s friends and family were initially unaware of the wealth he accumulated.
Specifically, the statement reads, Wright “forged a series of contracts that purported to transfer Dave’s assets to Craig and/or companies controlled by him. Craig backdated these contracts and forged Dave’s signature on them.”
Wright contacted Kleiman’s estate after his associate’s death and disclosed that he and David had worked together to develop blockchain and Bitcoin, according to the plaintiff.
In December 2018, new documents were published online, indicating that the court had rejected repeated requests from the nChain chief scientist to dismiss the lawsuit.
In an amended lawsuit supported by Judge Beth Bloom, a figure of 300,000 BTC ($1.5 billion as of press time) was now circulating.
“The Court finds that Plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged a claim for conversion,” the court document confirms, continuing:
“The Amended Complaint alleges that Defendant converted at least 300,000 bitcoins upon Dave’s death and transferred them to various international trusts, which was an unauthorized act that deprived the Plaintiffs of the bitcoins therein. Accordingly, Plaintiffs’ claim for conversion […] survives Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss.”
In March 2019, Jeff Garzik, one of the earliest contributors to the Bitcoin codebase, was reportedly subpoenaed by the court for documents relating to the Kleiman vs. Wright complaint.
Specifically, the court demanded “all documents, communications, and agreements that support his [Jeff’s] personal theory that Dave Kleiman is Satoshi Nakamoto.” In a 2018 interview with Bloomberg, Garzik suggested that Dave Kleiman was the original creator of Bitcoin.
Wright doesn’t have a particularly good relationship with crypto community
After some of the aforementioned inconsistencies related to Wright’s claim that he is Satoshi surfaced, the crypto community became increasingly skeptical about the Australian computer scientist. However, some of his claims in regard to other cryptocurrencies certainly didn’t help.
In January 2019, for instance, he called Andreas Antonopoulos, author of the book “Mastering Bitcoin,” a “shitcoin expert.” In February this year, Wright told CNBC Africa’s Ran Neuner in a rather rude form that he knows how to deanonymize and destroy privacy coins Zcash and Monero, which he apparently is going to do “sometime this year”:
“If you have a privacy coin, I will show you that it is basically as private as running through Times Square with your pants around your ankles.”
In October 2017, in a now-deleted tweet, Wright argued that the Lightning Network was “oversold.”
At the 2018 Deconomy conference in Seoul, South Korea, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly questioned Wright’s competence, calling him a fraud.
“Given he makes so many non-sequiturs and mistakes, why is this fraud allowed to speak at this conference?”
In response, Wright tweeted: “Oh well…. looks like I broke Vitalek… He is a twig.. must remember to be gentle next time ….”
Last week, the Australian entrepreneur deleted his Twitter page after removing over 10,000 tweets.
On March 17, not long before erasing his presence on the social media outlet, Wright tweeted that he will be “taking action aggressively to remove any site that is in error or makes false claims,” referring to people calling him a fraud, among other things.
“You do not have a right to lies under ‘free speech’ nor harassment, nor libel and slander,” he wrote. “If an error is reported in a malicious context concerning me, expect to be living in a barrel when we finish with you.”
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the Clipper Race’s Seattle visit
Offshore racing is easily one of sailing’s most seductive sirens, but learning to be a safe and responsible offshore sailor isn’t something that one can learn in a casual afternoon of instruction, nor something that one can pick up on a couple milk-run deliveries from Port A to Port B.
Instead, it’s something that requires thousands of miles of real-world experience, ideally under the watchful gaze of a mentor who is vested in seeing his or her student excel. If you were to ask Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and Bar, as well as the winner of the 1968-1969 Golden Globe Race and the first singlehanded sailor to successfully circumnavigate the globe non-stop, about how an offshore-sailing neophyte is best advised to beat the learning curve, Sir Robin might tell you that facilitating a hands-on learning environment was one of his main impetuses for co-founding the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 1995 with William Ward, who continues to serve as the race’s CEO.
Some backstory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race operates on a model where a professional (and race-selected) skipper guides a team of paying, non-professional sailors around the world, via a series of planned stopovers, aboard one of twelve identical, 70-foot offshore steeds, whist simultaneously fostering an onboard environment that’s geared towards learning the ropes of offshore sailing. Each team decides how seriously they take the competition, with some teams aiming to top the podium steps at each stopover city, and other teams opting to focus more on learning different skillsets.
Visit Seattle – 2015 -16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race © Clipper Round The World Yacht Race www.clipperroundtheworld.com
Irrespective of each team’s small-group objectives, all sailors also rotate through different non-sailing jobs-for example food preparation or vessel housekeeping-that are equally as critical as proper sail trim and navigation when it comes to the event’s big-picture goal of team-building, educating and crossing oceans.
While some sailors elect to do the entire circumnavigation, others opt to instead sail one (or several) individual legs, depending on their budget, free time and job/family commitments back ashore. Irrespective of passage length, however, all Clipper Race sailors that I have met over the years have all been really focused on learning to become solid bluewater sailors. Additionally, all sailors who are participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race must also complete a comprehensive training program, prior to setting sail with the event.
On June 25, 2015, the Clipper Race announced that they would visit my hometown of Seattle, Washington, situated in the northwest corner of the US of A. Just under a year later the fleet arrived in the Emerald City, bruised and battered from a storm-blown passage from Qingdao, China that involved some significant weather (not to mention vessel breakage, including snapped bowsprits and even an entire steering station that got destroyed by an off-kilter wave), but all were significantly more experienced sailors upon their Seattle landfall than they were just a few weeks prior, when the leg’s starting guns fired off of Qingdao.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race recently announced that the 2017/2018 edition of the race will again visit Seattle (April of 2018), and I caught up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who continues to actively serve as the race’s chairman, via email, to learn more about this exciting news.
Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili at the finish of the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race © Bill Rowntree – PPL www.pplmedia.com
From the race’s perspective, what were the best aspects of the event’s 2016 visit to Seattle? The visit to Seattle was simply wonderful and there were many highlights. From the warm reception we received from everyone we came into contact with, to the events that were organized, which impressed everyone that visited, from crew to supporters and race partners, it really showcased the city as a place to visit and do business with. That said, I’m sure skipper Huw Fernie’s first pitch at the Mariners game would go down as one of the most special moments for him and the team! [Editor’s Note: Fernie was skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle during the event’s 2015/2016 edition.]
Can you give me an idea as to the kind of community reception you and the race received in Seattle? Did it seem as though the local community was really interested in the race? The people of Seattle were incredibly welcoming, from the boating community to local businesses and people who had heard we were coming and wanted to find out more, the city opened its arms wide and it was greatly received.
Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race and you could really sense that with the interest and support we experienced, not just in Seattle itself but as the fleet was racing around the world. It was fantastic.
I know that the Clipper Race was offering rides to prospective future sailors during the Seattle stopover—has the Seattle visit lead to an uptick in the number of American and Canadian sailors who are participating in the race this time? The response has been great, like our race crew the city and people have a great sense of adventure and we currently have 15 people from the area have signed up to take part in the 2017-18 edition. To give you some perspective, we had two crew [members] from the region in the last race so that is a huge uptake. Some are seasoned sailors around Washington [State] and others complete novices, that’s the great thing about the race, it brings people from all experiences together to work as a team and learn new skills whilst taking on Mother Nature.
The number-one aim of the Clipper Race is to encourage more people around the world to take up ocean racing, so Seattle has really proved itself worthy of the challenge.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – telling tales at the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Fitting Out Supper. © Paul Hankey
From a logistical perspective, how did it work to end racing at the western edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then motor sail in and out of Seattle? Obviously our winds are fickle (I’m being kind…), but could you see the teams racing in and out of the city this time? If not, is it because of all of the commercial shipping, or is it because you guys are worried about Puget Sound’s notoriously light airs? The Race Start and Finish worked well and after nearly four weeks racing at sea in the North Pacific Ocean, allowed the crews some much needed rest on the approach to the Port of Seattle. We are always reviewing our course instructions for each race based on feedback and experience learned.
Given the numerous nationalities that are involved in the race as sailors, plus the Trump Administration’s new ‘border-security initiatives”, are you at all concerned that U.S. Border Patrol might cause problems for the race when the sailors make landfall in the USA? The Clipper Race is an inclusive event with more than 40 different nationalities represented. Our crew have not had any issue with U.S. boarder – security initiatives to date, and we have always had a great relationship with U.S. Border Patrol when the race has visited the U.S. in previous editions. The race and its crew received one of the warmest welcomes and support from the residents of Seattle when it visited in 2016 and we know that the city will open its arms wide to us once again and we are very much looking forward to returning.
Aesthetically, is it fair to say that Seattle’s optics of snow-and glacier-covered peaks offer a big visual departure from the other cities that you visit? What about culturally? Seattle is a beautiful city and certainly has its finger on the pulse, pushing the boundaries in business and culture. Home to many independent micro-businesses and some of the world’s biggest corporations, it has global reach as a place to do business, live and visit.
Also its incredible natural surroundings of forests, mountain landscape and water make it a particularly impressive sight for the crew and a great way to be welcomed back to land after a month battling the North Pacific. Leaving again is hard but I expect many crew will return after such a positive experience.
Anything else about the Clipper Race’s relationship with Seattle and/or the USA that you’d like to add, for there record? We very much look forward to returning and building our relationship with the city of Seattle and its people. It has got off to a fantastic start and will be a highly anticipated port in our race calendar.
by David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the Clipper Race’s Seattle visit
Offshore racing is easily one of sailing’s most seductive sirens, but learning to be a safe and responsible offshore sailor isn’t something that one can learn in a casual afternoon of instruction, nor something that one can pick up on a couple milk-run deliveries from Port A to Port B.
Instead, it’s something that requires thousands of miles of real-world experience, ideally under the watchful gaze of a mentor who is vested in seeing his or her student excel. If you were to ask Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and Bar, as well as the winner of the 1968-1969 Golden Globe Race and the first singlehanded sailor to successfully circumnavigate the globe non-stop, about how an offshore-sailing neophyte is best advised to beat the learning curve, Sir Robin might tell you that facilitating a hands-on learning environment was one of his main impetuses for co-founding the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 1995 with William Ward, who continues to serve as the race’s CEO.
Some backstory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race operates on a model where a professional (and race-selected) skipper guides a team of paying, non-professional sailors around the world, via a series of planned stopovers, aboard one of twelve identical, 70-foot offshore steeds, whist simultaneously fostering an onboard environment that’s geared towards learning the ropes of offshore sailing. Each team decides how seriously they take the competition, with some teams aiming to top the podium steps at each stopover city, and other teams opting to focus more on learning different skillsets.
Visit Seattle – 2015 -16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race © Clipper Round The World Yacht Race www.clipperroundtheworld.com
Irrespective of each team’s small-group objectives, all sailors also rotate through different non-sailing jobs-for example food preparation or vessel housekeeping-that are equally as critical as proper sail trim and navigation when it comes to the event’s big-picture goal of team-building, educating and crossing oceans.
While some sailors elect to do the entire circumnavigation, others opt to instead sail one (or several) individual legs, depending on their budget, free time and job/family commitments back ashore. Irrespective of passage length, however, all Clipper Race sailors that I have met over the years have all been really focused on learning to become solid bluewater sailors. Additionally, all sailors who are participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race must also complete a comprehensive training program, prior to setting sail with the event.
On June 25, 2015, the Clipper Race announced that they would visit my hometown of Seattle, Washington, situated in the northwest corner of the US of A. Just under a year later the fleet arrived in the Emerald City, bruised and battered from a storm-blown passage from Qingdao, China that involved some significant weather (not to mention vessel breakage, including snapped bowsprits and even an entire steering station that got destroyed by an off-kilter wave), but all were significantly more experienced sailors upon their Seattle landfall than they were just a few weeks prior, when the leg’s starting guns fired off of Qingdao.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race recently announced that the 2017/2018 edition of the race will again visit Seattle (April of 2018), and I caught up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who continues to actively serve as the race’s chairman, via email, to learn more about this exciting news.
Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili at the finish of the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race © Bill Rowntree – PPL www.pplmedia.com
From the race’s perspective, what were the best aspects of the event’s 2016 visit to Seattle? The visit to Seattle was simply wonderful and there were many highlights. From the warm reception we received from everyone we came into contact with, to the events that were organized, which impressed everyone that visited, from crew to supporters and race partners, it really showcased the city as a place to visit and do business with. That said, I’m sure skipper Huw Fernie’s first pitch at the Mariners game would go down as one of the most special moments for him and the team! [Editor’s Note: Fernie was skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle during the event’s 2015/2016 edition.]
Can you give me an idea as to the kind of community reception you and the race received in Seattle? Did it seem as though the local community was really interested in the race? The people of Seattle were incredibly welcoming, from the boating community to local businesses and people who had heard we were coming and wanted to find out more, the city opened its arms wide and it was greatly received.
Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race and you could really sense that with the interest and support we experienced, not just in Seattle itself but as the fleet was racing around the world. It was fantastic.
I know that the Clipper Race was offering rides to prospective future sailors during the Seattle stopover—has the Seattle visit lead to an uptick in the number of American and Canadian sailors who are participating in the race this time? The response has been great, like our race crew the city and people have a great sense of adventure and we currently have 15 people from the area have signed up to take part in the 2017-18 edition. To give you some perspective, we had two crew [members] from the region in the last race so that is a huge uptake. Some are seasoned sailors around Washington [State] and others complete novices, that’s the great thing about the race, it brings people from all experiences together to work as a team and learn new skills whilst taking on Mother Nature.
The number-one aim of the Clipper Race is to encourage more people around the world to take up ocean racing, so Seattle has really proved itself worthy of the challenge.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – telling tales at the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Fitting Out Supper. © Paul Hankey
From a logistical perspective, how did it work to end racing at the western edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then motor sail in and out of Seattle? Obviously our winds are fickle (I’m being kind…), but could you see the teams racing in and out of the city this time? If not, is it because of all of the commercial shipping, or is it because you guys are worried about Puget Sound’s notoriously light airs? The Race Start and Finish worked well and after nearly four weeks racing at sea in the North Pacific Ocean, allowed the crews some much needed rest on the approach to the Port of Seattle. We are always reviewing our course instructions for each race based on feedback and experience learned.
Given the numerous nationalities that are involved in the race as sailors, plus the Trump Administration’s new ‘border-security initiatives”, are you at all concerned that U.S. Border Patrol might cause problems for the race when the sailors make landfall in the USA? The Clipper Race is an inclusive event with more than 40 different nationalities represented. Our crew have not had any issue with U.S. boarder – security initiatives to date, and we have always had a great relationship with U.S. Border Patrol when the race has visited the U.S. in previous editions. The race and its crew received one of the warmest welcomes and support from the residents of Seattle when it visited in 2016 and we know that the city will open its arms wide to us once again and we are very much looking forward to returning.
Aesthetically, is it fair to say that Seattle’s optics of snow-and glacier-covered peaks offer a big visual departure from the other cities that you visit? What about culturally? Seattle is a beautiful city and certainly has its finger on the pulse, pushing the boundaries in business and culture. Home to many independent micro-businesses and some of the world’s biggest corporations, it has global reach as a place to do business, live and visit.
Also its incredible natural surroundings of forests, mountain landscape and water make it a particularly impressive sight for the crew and a great way to be welcomed back to land after a month battling the North Pacific. Leaving again is hard but I expect many crew will return after such a positive experience.
Anything else about the Clipper Race’s relationship with Seattle and/or the USA that you’d like to add, for there record? We very much look forward to returning and building our relationship with the city of Seattle and its people. It has got off to a fantastic start and will be a highly anticipated port in our race calendar.
by David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the Clipper Race’s Seattle visit
Offshore racing is easily one of sailing’s most seductive sirens, but learning to be a safe and responsible offshore sailor isn’t something that one can learn in a casual afternoon of instruction, nor something that one can pick up on a couple milk-run deliveries from Port A to Port B.
Instead, it’s something that requires thousands of miles of real-world experience, ideally under the watchful gaze of a mentor who is vested in seeing his or her student excel. If you were to ask Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and Bar, as well as the winner of the 1968-1969 Golden Globe Race and the first singlehanded sailor to successfully circumnavigate the globe non-stop, about how an offshore-sailing neophyte is best advised to beat the learning curve, Sir Robin might tell you that facilitating a hands-on learning environment was one of his main impetuses for co-founding the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 1995 with William Ward, who continues to serve as the race’s CEO.
Some backstory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race operates on a model where a professional (and race-selected) skipper guides a team of paying, non-professional sailors around the world, via a series of planned stopovers, aboard one of twelve identical, 70-foot offshore steeds, whist simultaneously fostering an onboard environment that’s geared towards learning the ropes of offshore sailing. Each team decides how seriously they take the competition, with some teams aiming to top the podium steps at each stopover city, and other teams opting to focus more on learning different skillsets.
Visit Seattle – 2015 -16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race © Clipper Round The World Yacht Race ift.tt/NmCPcB
Irrespective of each team’s small-group objectives, all sailors also rotate through different non-sailing jobs-for example food preparation or vessel housekeeping-that are equally as critical as proper sail trim and navigation when it comes to the event’s big-picture goal of team-building, educating and crossing oceans.
While some sailors elect to do the entire circumnavigation, others opt to instead sail one (or several) individual legs, depending on their budget, free time and job/family commitments back ashore. Irrespective of passage length, however, all Clipper Race sailors that I have met over the years have all been really focused on learning to become solid bluewater sailors. Additionally, all sailors who are participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race must also complete a comprehensive training program, prior to setting sail with the event.
On June 25, 2015, the Clipper Race announced that they would visit my hometown of Seattle, Washington, situated in the northwest corner of the US of A. Just under a year later the fleet arrived in the Emerald City, bruised and battered from a storm-blown passage from Qingdao, China that involved some significant weather (not to mention vessel breakage, including snapped bowsprits and even an entire steering station that got destroyed by an off-kilter wave), but all were significantly more experienced sailors upon their Seattle landfall than they were just a few weeks prior, when the leg’s starting guns fired off of Qingdao.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race recently announced that the 2017/2018 edition of the race will again visit Seattle (April of 2018), and I caught up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who continues to actively serve as the race’s chairman, via email, to learn more about this exciting news.
Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili at the finish of the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race © Bill Rowntree – PPL www.pplmedia.com
From the race’s perspective, what were the best aspects of the event’s 2016 visit to Seattle? The visit to Seattle was simply wonderful and there were many highlights. From the warm reception we received from everyone we came into contact with, to the events that were organized, which impressed everyone that visited, from crew to supporters and race partners, it really showcased the city as a place to visit and do business with. That said, I’m sure skipper Huw Fernie’s first pitch at the Mariners game would go down as one of the most special moments for him and the team! [Editor’s Note: Fernie was skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle during the event’s 2015/2016 edition.]
Can you give me an idea as to the kind of community reception you and the race received in Seattle? Did it seem as though the local community was really interested in the race? The people of Seattle were incredibly welcoming, from the boating community to local businesses and people who had heard we were coming and wanted to find out more, the city opened its arms wide and it was greatly received.
Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race and you could really sense that with the interest and support we experienced, not just in Seattle itself but as the fleet was racing around the world. It was fantastic.
I know that the Clipper Race was offering rides to prospective future sailors during the Seattle stopover—has the Seattle visit lead to an uptick in the number of American and Canadian sailors who are participating in the race this time? The response has been great, like our race crew the city and people have a great sense of adventure and we currently have 15 people from the area have signed up to take part in the 2017-18 edition. To give you some perspective, we had two crew [members] from the region in the last race so that is a huge uptake. Some are seasoned sailors around Washington [State] and others complete novices, that’s the great thing about the race, it brings people from all experiences together to work as a team and learn new skills whilst taking on Mother Nature.
The number-one aim of the Clipper Race is to encourage more people around the world to take up ocean racing, so Seattle has really proved itself worthy of the challenge.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – telling tales at the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Fitting Out Supper. © Paul Hankey
From a logistical perspective, how did it work to end racing at the western edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then motor sail in and out of Seattle? Obviously our winds are fickle (I’m being kind…), but could you see the teams racing in and out of the city this time? If not, is it because of all of the commercial shipping, or is it because you guys are worried about Puget Sound’s notoriously light airs? The Race Start and Finish worked well and after nearly four weeks racing at sea in the North Pacific Ocean, allowed the crews some much needed rest on the approach to the Port of Seattle. We are always reviewing our course instructions for each race based on feedback and experience learned.
Given the numerous nationalities that are involved in the race as sailors, plus the Trump Administration’s new ‘border-security initiatives”, are you at all concerned that U.S. Border Patrol might cause problems for the race when the sailors make landfall in the USA? The Clipper Race is an inclusive event with more than 40 different nationalities represented. Our crew have not had any issue with U.S. boarder – security initiatives to date, and we have always had a great relationship with U.S. Border Patrol when the race has visited the U.S. in previous editions. The race and its crew received one of the warmest welcomes and support from the residents of Seattle when it visited in 2016 and we know that the city will open its arms wide to us once again and we are very much looking forward to returning.
Aesthetically, is it fair to say that Seattle’s optics of snow-and glacier-covered peaks offer a big visual departure from the other cities that you visit? What about culturally? Seattle is a beautiful city and certainly has its finger on the pulse, pushing the boundaries in business and culture. Home to many independent micro-businesses and some of the world’s biggest corporations, it has global reach as a place to do business, live and visit.
Also its incredible natural surroundings of forests, mountain landscape and water make it a particularly impressive sight for the crew and a great way to be welcomed back to land after a month battling the North Pacific. Leaving again is hard but I expect many crew will return after such a positive experience.
Anything else about the Clipper Race’s relationship with Seattle and/or the USA that you’d like to add, for there record? We very much look forward to returning and building our relationship with the city of Seattle and its people. It has got off to a fantastic start and will be a highly anticipated port in our race calendar.
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the Clipper Race’s Seattle visit
Offshore racing is easily one of sailing’s most seductive sirens, but learning to be a safe and responsible offshore sailor isn’t something that one can learn in a casual afternoon of instruction, nor something that one can pick up on a couple milk-run deliveries from Port A to Port B.
Instead, it’s something that requires thousands of miles of real-world experience, ideally under the watchful gaze of a mentor who is vested in seeing his or her student excel. If you were to ask Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and Bar, as well as the winner of the 1968-1969 Golden Globe Race and the first singlehanded sailor to successfully circumnavigate the globe non-stop, about how an offshore-sailing neophyte is best advised to beat the learning curve, Sir Robin might tell you that facilitating a hands-on learning environment was one of his main impetuses for co-founding the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 1995 with William Ward, who continues to serve as the race’s CEO.
Some backstory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race operates on a model where a professional (and race-selected) skipper guides a team of paying, non-professional sailors around the world, via a series of planned stopovers, aboard one of twelve identical, 70-foot offshore steeds, whist simultaneously fostering an onboard environment that’s geared towards learning the ropes of offshore sailing. Each team decides how seriously they take the competition, with some teams aiming to top the podium steps at each stopover city, and other teams opting to focus more on learning different skillsets.
Visit Seattle – 2015 -16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race © Clipper Round The World Yacht Race www.clipperroundtheworld.com
Irrespective of each team’s small-group objectives, all sailors also rotate through different non-sailing jobs-for example food preparation or vessel housekeeping-that are equally as critical as proper sail trim and navigation when it comes to the event’s big-picture goal of team-building, educating and crossing oceans.
While some sailors elect to do the entire circumnavigation, others opt to instead sail one (or several) individual legs, depending on their budget, free time and job/family commitments back ashore. Irrespective of passage length, however, all Clipper Race sailors that I have met over the years have all been really focused on learning to become solid bluewater sailors. Additionally, all sailors who are participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race must also complete a comprehensive training program, prior to setting sail with the event.
On June 25, 2015, the Clipper Race announced that they would visit my hometown of Seattle, Washington, situated in the northwest corner of the US of A. Just under a year later the fleet arrived in the Emerald City, bruised and battered from a storm-blown passage from Qingdao, China that involved some significant weather (not to mention vessel breakage, including snapped bowsprits and even an entire steering station that got destroyed by an off-kilter wave), but all were significantly more experienced sailors upon their Seattle landfall than they were just a few weeks prior, when the leg’s starting guns fired off of Qingdao.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race recently announced that the 2017/2018 edition of the race will again visit Seattle (April of 2018), and I caught up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who continues to actively serve as the race’s chairman, via email, to learn more about this exciting news.
Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili at the finish of the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race © Bill Rowntree – PPL www.pplmedia.com
From the race’s perspective, what were the best aspects of the event’s 2016 visit to Seattle? The visit to Seattle was simply wonderful and there were many highlights. From the warm reception we received from everyone we came into contact with, to the events that were organized, which impressed everyone that visited, from crew to supporters and race partners, it really showcased the city as a place to visit and do business with. That said, I’m sure skipper Huw Fernie’s first pitch at the Mariners game would go down as one of the most special moments for him and the team! [Editor’s Note: Fernie was skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle during the event’s 2015/2016 edition.]
Can you give me an idea as to the kind of community reception you and the race received in Seattle? Did it seem as though the local community was really interested in the race? The people of Seattle were incredibly welcoming, from the boating community to local businesses and people who had heard we were coming and wanted to find out more, the city opened its arms wide and it was greatly received.
Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race and you could really sense that with the interest and support we experienced, not just in Seattle itself but as the fleet was racing around the world. It was fantastic.
I know that the Clipper Race was offering rides to prospective future sailors during the Seattle stopover—has the Seattle visit lead to an uptick in the number of American and Canadian sailors who are participating in the race this time? The response has been great, like our race crew the city and people have a great sense of adventure and we currently have 15 people from the area have signed up to take part in the 2017-18 edition. To give you some perspective, we had two crew [members] from the region in the last race so that is a huge uptake. Some are seasoned sailors around Washington [State] and others complete novices, that’s the great thing about the race, it brings people from all experiences together to work as a team and learn new skills whilst taking on Mother Nature.
The number-one aim of the Clipper Race is to encourage more people around the world to take up ocean racing, so Seattle has really proved itself worthy of the challenge.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – telling tales at the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Fitting Out Supper. © Paul Hankey
From a logistical perspective, how did it work to end racing at the western edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then motor sail in and out of Seattle? Obviously our winds are fickle (I’m being kind…), but could you see the teams racing in and out of the city this time? If not, is it because of all of the commercial shipping, or is it because you guys are worried about Puget Sound’s notoriously light airs? The Race Start and Finish worked well and after nearly four weeks racing at sea in the North Pacific Ocean, allowed the crews some much needed rest on the approach to the Port of Seattle. We are always reviewing our course instructions for each race based on feedback and experience learned.
Given the numerous nationalities that are involved in the race as sailors, plus the Trump Administration’s new ‘border-security initiatives”, are you at all concerned that U.S. Border Patrol might cause problems for the race when the sailors make landfall in the USA? The Clipper Race is an inclusive event with more than 40 different nationalities represented. Our crew have not had any issue with U.S. boarder – security initiatives to date, and we have always had a great relationship with U.S. Border Patrol when the race has visited the U.S. in previous editions. The race and its crew received one of the warmest welcomes and support from the residents of Seattle when it visited in 2016 and we know that the city will open its arms wide to us once again and we are very much looking forward to returning.
Aesthetically, is it fair to say that Seattle’s optics of snow-and glacier-covered peaks offer a big visual departure from the other cities that you visit? What about culturally? Seattle is a beautiful city and certainly has its finger on the pulse, pushing the boundaries in business and culture. Home to many independent micro-businesses and some of the world’s biggest corporations, it has global reach as a place to do business, live and visit.
Also its incredible natural surroundings of forests, mountain landscape and water make it a particularly impressive sight for the crew and a great way to be welcomed back to land after a month battling the North Pacific. Leaving again is hard but I expect many crew will return after such a positive experience.
Anything else about the Clipper Race’s relationship with Seattle and/or the USA that you’d like to add, for there record? We very much look forward to returning and building our relationship with the city of Seattle and its people. It has got off to a fantastic start and will be a highly anticipated port in our race calendar.
by David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor
Read Full Content Here
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the Clipper Race’s Seattle visit
Offshore racing is easily one of sailing’s most seductive sirens, but learning to be a safe and responsible offshore sailor isn’t something that one can learn in a casual afternoon of instruction, nor something that one can pick up on a couple milk-run deliveries from Port A to Port B.
Instead, it’s something that requires thousands of miles of real-world experience, ideally under the watchful gaze of a mentor who is vested in seeing his or her student excel. If you were to ask Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and Bar, as well as the winner of the 1968-1969 Golden Globe Race and the first singlehanded sailor to successfully circumnavigate the globe non-stop, about how an offshore-sailing neophyte is best advised to beat the learning curve, Sir Robin might tell you that facilitating a hands-on learning environment was one of his main impetuses for co-founding the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 1995 with William Ward, who continues to serve as the race’s CEO.
Some backstory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race operates on a model where a professional (and race-selected) skipper guides a team of paying, non-professional sailors around the world, via a series of planned stopovers, aboard one of twelve identical, 70-foot offshore steeds, whist simultaneously fostering an onboard environment that’s geared towards learning the ropes of offshore sailing. Each team decides how seriously they take the competition, with some teams aiming to top the podium steps at each stopover city, and other teams opting to focus more on learning different skillsets.
Visit Seattle – 2015 -16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race © Clipper Round The World Yacht Race ift.tt/NmCPcB
Irrespective of each team’s small-group objectives, all sailors also rotate through different non-sailing jobs-for example food preparation or vessel housekeeping-that are equally as critical as proper sail trim and navigation when it comes to the event’s big-picture goal of team-building, educating and crossing oceans.
While some sailors elect to do the entire circumnavigation, others opt to instead sail one (or several) individual legs, depending on their budget, free time and job/family commitments back ashore. Irrespective of passage length, however, all Clipper Race sailors that I have met over the years have all been really focused on learning to become solid bluewater sailors. Additionally, all sailors who are participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race must also complete a comprehensive training program, prior to setting sail with the event.
On June 25, 2015, the Clipper Race announced that they would visit my hometown of Seattle, Washington, situated in the northwest corner of the US of A. Just under a year later the fleet arrived in the Emerald City, bruised and battered from a storm-blown passage from Qingdao, China that involved some significant weather (not to mention vessel breakage, including snapped bowsprits and even an entire steering station that got destroyed by an off-kilter wave), but all were significantly more experienced sailors upon their Seattle landfall than they were just a few weeks prior, when the leg’s starting guns fired off of Qingdao.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race recently announced that the 2017/2018 edition of the race will again visit Seattle (April of 2018), and I caught up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who continues to actively serve as the race’s chairman, via email, to learn more about this exciting news.
Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili at the finish of the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race © Bill Rowntree – PPL www.pplmedia.com
From the race’s perspective, what were the best aspects of the event’s 2016 visit to Seattle? The visit to Seattle was simply wonderful and there were many highlights. From the warm reception we received from everyone we came into contact with, to the events that were organized, which impressed everyone that visited, from crew to supporters and race partners, it really showcased the city as a place to visit and do business with. That said, I’m sure skipper Huw Fernie’s first pitch at the Mariners game would go down as one of the most special moments for him and the team! [Editor’s Note: Fernie was skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle during the event’s 2015/2016 edition.]
Can you give me an idea as to the kind of community reception you and the race received in Seattle? Did it seem as though the local community was really interested in the race? The people of Seattle were incredibly welcoming, from the boating community to local businesses and people who had heard we were coming and wanted to find out more, the city opened its arms wide and it was greatly received.
Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race and you could really sense that with the interest and support we experienced, not just in Seattle itself but as the fleet was racing around the world. It was fantastic.
I know that the Clipper Race was offering rides to prospective future sailors during the Seattle stopover—has the Seattle visit lead to an uptick in the number of American and Canadian sailors who are participating in the race this time? The response has been great, like our race crew the city and people have a great sense of adventure and we currently have 15 people from the area have signed up to take part in the 2017-18 edition. To give you some perspective, we had two crew [members] from the region in the last race so that is a huge uptake. Some are seasoned sailors around Washington [State] and others complete novices, that’s the great thing about the race, it brings people from all experiences together to work as a team and learn new skills whilst taking on Mother Nature.
The number-one aim of the Clipper Race is to encourage more people around the world to take up ocean racing, so Seattle has really proved itself worthy of the challenge.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – telling tales at the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Fitting Out Supper. © Paul Hankey
From a logistical perspective, how did it work to end racing at the western edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then motor sail in and out of Seattle? Obviously our winds are fickle (I’m being kind…), but could you see the teams racing in and out of the city this time? If not, is it because of all of the commercial shipping, or is it because you guys are worried about Puget Sound’s notoriously light airs? The Race Start and Finish worked well and after nearly four weeks racing at sea in the North Pacific Ocean, allowed the crews some much needed rest on the approach to the Port of Seattle. We are always reviewing our course instructions for each race based on feedback and experience learned.
Given the numerous nationalities that are involved in the race as sailors, plus the Trump Administration’s new ‘border-security initiatives”, are you at all concerned that U.S. Border Patrol might cause problems for the race when the sailors make landfall in the USA? The Clipper Race is an inclusive event with more than 40 different nationalities represented. Our crew have not had any issue with U.S. boarder – security initiatives to date, and we have always had a great relationship with U.S. Border Patrol when the race has visited the U.S. in previous editions. The race and its crew received one of the warmest welcomes and support from the residents of Seattle when it visited in 2016 and we know that the city will open its arms wide to us once again and we are very much looking forward to returning.
Aesthetically, is it fair to say that Seattle’s optics of snow-and glacier-covered peaks offer a big visual departure from the other cities that you visit? What about culturally? Seattle is a beautiful city and certainly has its finger on the pulse, pushing the boundaries in business and culture. Home to many independent micro-businesses and some of the world’s biggest corporations, it has global reach as a place to do business, live and visit.
Also its incredible natural surroundings of forests, mountain landscape and water make it a particularly impressive sight for the crew and a great way to be welcomed back to land after a month battling the North Pacific. Leaving again is hard but I expect many crew will return after such a positive experience.
Anything else about the Clipper Race’s relationship with Seattle and/or the USA that you’d like to add, for there record? We very much look forward to returning and building our relationship with the city of Seattle and its people. It has got off to a fantastic start and will be a highly anticipated port in our race calendar.
by David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the Clipper Race’s Seattle visit
Offshore racing is easily one of sailing’s most seductive sirens, but learning to be a safe and responsible offshore sailor isn’t something that one can learn in a casual afternoon of instruction, nor something that one can pick up on a couple milk-run deliveries from Port A to Port B.
Instead, it’s something that requires thousands of miles of real-world experience, ideally under the watchful gaze of a mentor who is vested in seeing his or her student excel. If you were to ask Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and Bar, as well as the winner of the 1968-1969 Golden Globe Race and the first singlehanded sailor to successfully circumnavigate the globe non-stop, about how an offshore-sailing neophyte is best advised to beat the learning curve, Sir Robin might tell you that facilitating a hands-on learning environment was one of his main impetuses for co-founding the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 1995 with William Ward, who continues to serve as the race’s CEO.
Some backstory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race operates on a model where a professional (and race-selected) skipper guides a team of paying, non-professional sailors around the world, via a series of planned stopovers, aboard one of twelve identical, 70-foot offshore steeds, whist simultaneously fostering an onboard environment that’s geared towards learning the ropes of offshore sailing. Each team decides how seriously they take the competition, with some teams aiming to top the podium steps at each stopover city, and other teams opting to focus more on learning different skillsets.
Visit Seattle – 2015 -16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race © Clipper Round The World Yacht Race ift.tt/NmCPcB
Irrespective of each team’s small-group objectives, all sailors also rotate through different non-sailing jobs-for example food preparation or vessel housekeeping-that are equally as critical as proper sail trim and navigation when it comes to the event’s big-picture goal of team-building, educating and crossing oceans.
While some sailors elect to do the entire circumnavigation, others opt to instead sail one (or several) individual legs, depending on their budget, free time and job/family commitments back ashore. Irrespective of passage length, however, all Clipper Race sailors that I have met over the years have all been really focused on learning to become solid bluewater sailors. Additionally, all sailors who are participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race must also complete a comprehensive training program, prior to setting sail with the event.
On June 25, 2015, the Clipper Race announced that they would visit my hometown of Seattle, Washington, situated in the northwest corner of the US of A. Just under a year later the fleet arrived in the Emerald City, bruised and battered from a storm-blown passage from Qingdao, China that involved some significant weather (not to mention vessel breakage, including snapped bowsprits and even an entire steering station that got destroyed by an off-kilter wave), but all were significantly more experienced sailors upon their Seattle landfall than they were just a few weeks prior, when the leg’s starting guns fired off of Qingdao.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race recently announced that the 2017/2018 edition of the race will again visit Seattle (April of 2018), and I caught up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who continues to actively serve as the race’s chairman, via email, to learn more about this exciting news.
Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili at the finish of the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race © Bill Rowntree – PPL www.pplmedia.com
From the race’s perspective, what were the best aspects of the event’s 2016 visit to Seattle? The visit to Seattle was simply wonderful and there were many highlights. From the warm reception we received from everyone we came into contact with, to the events that were organized, which impressed everyone that visited, from crew to supporters and race partners, it really showcased the city as a place to visit and do business with. That said, I’m sure skipper Huw Fernie’s first pitch at the Mariners game would go down as one of the most special moments for him and the team! [Editor’s Note: Fernie was skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle during the event’s 2015/2016 edition.]
Can you give me an idea as to the kind of community reception you and the race received in Seattle? Did it seem as though the local community was really interested in the race? The people of Seattle were incredibly welcoming, from the boating community to local businesses and people who had heard we were coming and wanted to find out more, the city opened its arms wide and it was greatly received.
Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race and you could really sense that with the interest and support we experienced, not just in Seattle itself but as the fleet was racing around the world. It was fantastic.
I know that the Clipper Race was offering rides to prospective future sailors during the Seattle stopover—has the Seattle visit lead to an uptick in the number of American and Canadian sailors who are participating in the race this time? The response has been great, like our race crew the city and people have a great sense of adventure and we currently have 15 people from the area have signed up to take part in the 2017-18 edition. To give you some perspective, we had two crew [members] from the region in the last race so that is a huge uptake. Some are seasoned sailors around Washington [State] and others complete novices, that’s the great thing about the race, it brings people from all experiences together to work as a team and learn new skills whilst taking on Mother Nature.
The number-one aim of the Clipper Race is to encourage more people around the world to take up ocean racing, so Seattle has really proved itself worthy of the challenge.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – telling tales at the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Fitting Out Supper. © Paul Hankey
From a logistical perspective, how did it work to end racing at the western edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then motor sail in and out of Seattle? Obviously our winds are fickle (I’m being kind…), but could you see the teams racing in and out of the city this time? If not, is it because of all of the commercial shipping, or is it because you guys are worried about Puget Sound’s notoriously light airs? The Race Start and Finish worked well and after nearly four weeks racing at sea in the North Pacific Ocean, allowed the crews some much needed rest on the approach to the Port of Seattle. We are always reviewing our course instructions for each race based on feedback and experience learned.
Given the numerous nationalities that are involved in the race as sailors, plus the Trump Administration’s new ‘border-security initiatives”, are you at all concerned that U.S. Border Patrol might cause problems for the race when the sailors make landfall in the USA? The Clipper Race is an inclusive event with more than 40 different nationalities represented. Our crew have not had any issue with U.S. boarder – security initiatives to date, and we have always had a great relationship with U.S. Border Patrol when the race has visited the U.S. in previous editions. The race and its crew received one of the warmest welcomes and support from the residents of Seattle when it visited in 2016 and we know that the city will open its arms wide to us once again and we are very much looking forward to returning.
Aesthetically, is it fair to say that Seattle’s optics of snow-and glacier-covered peaks offer a big visual departure from the other cities that you visit? What about culturally? Seattle is a beautiful city and certainly has its finger on the pulse, pushing the boundaries in business and culture. Home to many independent micro-businesses and some of the world’s biggest corporations, it has global reach as a place to do business, live and visit.
Also its incredible natural surroundings of forests, mountain landscape and water make it a particularly impressive sight for the crew and a great way to be welcomed back to land after a month battling the North Pacific. Leaving again is hard but I expect many crew will return after such a positive experience.
Anything else about the Clipper Race’s relationship with Seattle and/or the USA that you’d like to add, for there record? We very much look forward to returning and building our relationship with the city of Seattle and its people. It has got off to a fantastic start and will be a highly anticipated port in our race calendar.
by David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor
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