#and vessel and save rock and roll in 2013

[locamotivednp]

Electra Heart and Born to Die both coming out in 2012 when I was 16 was specifically made to give me mental illnesses. Btw.

[creature-phases]

I found out about TOP, because they were opening up for Fall Out Boy on their Save Rock and Roll tour in 2013 or 2014. I believe Fall Out Boy were on BBC Radio 1 promoting the tour, and "Holding On To You" was played at some point during the interview. The song, and the fact that they were being vouched for by my favorite band, made me immediately need to check out more of their stuff, and I haven't turned back since!

I forgot they were on that! I bet that’s how a lot of Vessel era clikkies found out about them.

It’s like Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco and…Twenty One Pilots? Who the fuck are Twenty One Pilots

I don’t really check out opening acts prior to a show (trying to as of recent), but I know a lot of people do.

[simonrriley]

do you have any headcanons about what music/bands/artists each newsie would listen to?

ABSOLUTELY.

This is all me projecting my favorite bands onto them and you’re gonna have to deal with it, sorry.

They’re also mostly emo. Sorry.

JACK:

he listens to twenty one pilots

his favorite album is vessel

favorite song is guns for hands

seen them twice

thankfully doesn’t run a stan account

has successfully converted both davey and katherine into liking them

he listens to them a lot when painting and it gives him ideas

can also play a bit of their songs on piano

licked trees confetti

DAVEY:

also likes twenty one pilots

prefers blurryface

surprisingly, he can rap a lot of their songs

knows more of their songs on piano than jack does

likes goner and lane boy

doesn’t want to see emo or alternative but really likes their music and their message

hasn’t seen them live but is working on it with jack

CRUTCHIE:

panic! stan

loves their old albums

has dragged spot, race, davey and katherine to see them live

it was the best night of his life

got into them when he was in middle school

he had an emo phase (don’t kill me)

his favorite album is a fever you can’t sweat out but still loves all the other albums

has hit brendon’s high notes a few times

RACE:

stans lizzo

that’s just a fact

he loses it to every single one of her songs

his favorite is juice tho because

cmon

the VIBES man

one of the only non emo kids in the group

just always BOPS

that’s really it

would die for her

ALBERT:

likes fall out boy

got into them during 2013, when save rock and roll came out

has tried many times to sing in patrick’s voice but cannot

his favorite song is where did the party go

writes lyrics on his arm

SPOT:

also a panic! stan

but his main band is waterparks

favorite album is fandom

he did dye his hair green for it thank you for asking

has gone to one of their concerts and crowd surfed the entire time

his favorite songs are turbulent and watch what happens next

his room is decorated in posters and lyrics

he can play a lot of their songs on guitar

KATHERINE:

likes my chemical romance surprisingly

she keeps it a secret but likes it because it it’s so different from her father’s idea of her being the perfect, calm daughter

her favorite album is three cheers for sweet revenge but danger days is a close second

has cosplayed as a killjoy

her favorite song is you know what they do to guys like us in prison

cried when they announced the reunion

goes with crutchie to hot topic regularly to get merch

[beerecordings]

AND FOR MY SECOND TRICK: Desmond!Jackie has activated the Eye and saved the world. And then he wakes up again. (Immediately after, some years after, back-in-time after, you pick. Bonus points for figuring out how Jameson Jackson, soon-to-be-Mentor of the London Brotherhood and Marvin Kazmarek, Animus Subject 16 might play into this. :D)

They think they can catch him.

He hears the laugh bubble from his mouth, breathy and bright in the chill London air. He leaps forward like a stag over rivers, feeling the world give out and drop away beneath his feet before he tuck, rolls, leaps up again and keeps running. Someone screams behind him, shuddering to a stop before the edge of the building, forced to step back and gain speed again before they can leap over.

They think they can catch him. Ha! He laughs without noise and races, just as silent, across the cold pavement of the rooftops. No one can catch him. This is his home, London his kingdom! This is his fierce little body, with hands that have known the blood of tyrants and legs to carry him for miles, swift as a bird! This is Jameson Jackson, assassin, monster-slayer, the quickest and most blood-thirsty little messenger in all of England. Nothing stops him. Nothing catches him. He is the courier, the Assassin, and right now he has a message to carry.

“Stop!” someone is screaming behind him. “Stop, come back! Please, please!”

Come to think of it, he isn't exactly sure what message he is carrying.

Something important, wasn't it? It must have been. It always is, and he is the deliverer.

Where is he going?

This almost pauses him in his tracks, his sneakers skidding a little on the concrete.

Sneakers? He glances down again, hearing the air puff out of him. No, no, not sneakers, of course not. He doesn't even know what sneakers would be. He's wearing his boots. He's always wearing his boots. He doesn't remember them being red.

“You're going to get hurt!” shrieks his pursuer. “Please stop and listen to me!”

Despite their words, remembering that they're behind him only spurs him on to greater speed. Still, he can't recall where he's going. Or even... how he got here.

Or even where this is.

A shaky breath parts from his mouth. He turns sharply and races over the edge of another building. He's beginning to be afraid, but no matter. No one ever catches him. He'll run until he's gotten away, and then he'll gather his bearings, find his allies, deliver the message. Might be he has a head injury. He just needs to keep running.

A huge gap separates the buildings in front of him. He can't jumps it and land on his feet, but his arms are strong too, and his aim is perfect. He leaps, his arm reaching out –

His arm.

Oh, oh.

His right arm is completely gone.

For a second, the Bleeding Effect is gone with it, and London disappears. He doesn't know what this city is – doesn't know where he is or why – but it isn't London, and it isn't 1868.

And he's not... he's not...

“Jackie!” someone howls behind him.

The empty space where his right arm should be threatens his life. He chokes on a gasp and lets out a small scream – what? I can't scream! My voicebox is torn through! – and scrabbles out with his left arm, barely catching the ledge of the building, wrenching his shoulder hard.

Someone crashes into the side of the wall beside him and pulls themselves up on two strong arms, hurrying to grab his wrist and the stump of his right arm, dragging him up. Maybe they aren't an enemy after all. He's too shaken to protest, anyway, letting himself be hauled up over the ledge.

Cool wind rushes past his hair – hair longer than he remembers it. He grabs at what remains of his arm, whimpering.

Burn scars coat his puckered flesh, ugly and red against white. Tears well in his eyes. His arm... this... this isn't right... what's happened to him?

“It's you, it's you,” the stranger is sobbing behind him, clutching him by the shoulders and burying his face against his back. “I thought you were going to fucking fall, Jackie, Jackie...”

His vision flickers. On the streets below, horses and petticoats, top hats and the stink of iron – and then, a moment later, cars and passers-by in leather jackets or puffy coats, phones in their hands, the world racing on around him, surviving, alive...

“What's happening?” he signs desperately, feeling warm hands rubbing at his shoulders as the stranger cries. “I'm dreaming! I'm dead!”

“You're not Jameson, Jackie,” the stranger whispers, voice broken and tired. “Jackie, it's you. It's me, it's Marv. We're in America. It's 2013. You saved the world, Jackie. You saved us. It's you.”

“This isn't real,” he signs, frantic, lost. “My friends! My family! I have to go home! I have to go back to London!”

“You can talk, Jackie, you can talk,” begs Marv, clinging to him. “Please, darling, find yourself again. Here, look at me. Look at me.”

Long brown hair curls around a round face with huge blue eyes. A soft mouth is down-turned in fear, thick eyebrows drawn back in despair. Earrings and a cloak around his shoulders.

He doesn't even remember him, not really, but the sight of him is like a balm to him.

“Say something for me,” murmurs Marv. “You have to start coming back to me. This was a bad one, Jackie... when you got away, I thought maybe... I'm so glad I caught up with you, fuck...”

He stares at him, reaching tentatively out to touch his hair.

“Marvin?”

Marvin's face melts with relief. He hides his face between Jackie's shoulderblades once again and rocks them together on the roof of the building.

“Jackie, my Jackie, my friend... you're not him. You're you. You're here. You're alive.”

“Oh, no,” he whispers, beginning to grasp the situation. “I'm Bleeding again... enough that I forgot who I was... forgot about...”

He grabs his own amputated arm, breathing through his teeth. Shaken. Exhausted.

“It's okay. All that matters is that you're here. That you remember now. That you survived. She couldn't kill you.”

“Couldn't she?” croaks Jackie, beginning to feel his whole body tremble. He stares down at his one remaining hand.

That's the thing he remembers more often than anything. Jameson's hands.

Waking up from the machine, he would see his palms flex the way Jameson's flexed. Reaching out for help, he would see the long and graceful fingers they both share. Lifting a hand to shield his eyes from the great, bright sun of the world reborn, he sees Jameson's hand upraised before him.

The ghost of him seems to reside within Jackie's skin. Ancestral.

You are in the curves of my jaw, he thinks to the image of himself. The cut of my chin, the flash of my eyes. You are in my bones and flesh.

Dividing the image of himself from Jameson? Impossible.

But it doesn't matter, because he died on the 21st of December.

It happened. He remembers. He was there. And his flesh burnt away and his heart overloaded and electricity and power and light filled him up like a vessel meant for nothing else, and in a second the stress severed parts of his brain and killed him.

Dead.

But they came back for him in time, his friends. Don't ask him how Schneep saved him. He doesn't understand it, and, secondly, he doesn't like to think about his friend sawing his arm off in the back of a van on the way to the hospital.

And since then?

Recovery has been – fuck, if not for the healing in what remains of his arm, he wouldn't call it recovery at all.

Jameson Bleeds through every moment of consciousness. London rises up like a ghost from the city around him. Technology becomes incomprehensible at random moments, the people JJ loved make his heart ache with longing and grief, and most of the time, everything is terrifying and large, and he wakes up from nightmares believing he's Jameson, and comes so close to death he thinks maybe he'll have the chance to truly meet his great-great-great-grandfather after all.

Tears are slipping down his cheeks.

“She did kill me,” he sobs. “It's just still happening.”

“No, Jackie, no,” pleads Marvin, gripping his shoulders. “No. You're here with me. You came back to me. That's all that matters.”

“One day I'll die like this!” He grips his friend's arms in return, pulling them to his chest, and squeezes his eyes tightly shut against flowing water. “I can't even remember who I am! Even if I am alive, I'm dead!”

“Jackie – ”

He tears out of Marvin's arms, leaping to his feet, hanging halfway over the edge of that precipice.

“I'm dead!” he repeats, shrieking, tearing at his hair. “I'm dead, I'm dead! I'm gone! Jackie's gone! There's just memory and loss left! I don't know why Henrik brought me back! I let myself die in that fucking machine and now – !”

“Jackie!”

Marvin tears him back from the edge and they crash to the ground together, panting.

Cold stars overhead. Cold wind through his hair. Cold people moving far below.

Alive because of him.

And this... this was the cost.

His shoulder aches. His body strains from the exercise, weak after weeks in hospital, excruciating and endless. He wants to go back to London. Back to people who never even knew his name. He wants to go home to JJ's daughter and sweep her into his arms. She should be his. She is his. Why isn't she his?

He slumps back against Marvin's body, trembling. Aching. Lost.

He's crying into Marvin's shoulder.

Marvin holds him closer and doesn't move.

“Jackie,” he says, again and again, soft, in his ear. “Jackie. Jackie. Jackie.”

An anchor for this ship, rocking on a hateful sea.

He clutches to Marvin and doesn't let go.

.

In his dreams, he is Jameson, and the world is right around him. The sun gleams. He throws his daughter into the air and catches her in two arms.

Jackie opens his eyes.

“Hey,” murmurs Chase, shifting from his guard duty, reaching out to touch Jackie’s wrist.

Jackie stares back at him, feeling like a dead thing. He doesn’t want to think today. He doesn’t think he can.

“I’m sorry, buddy,” says Chase. “I’m sorry. I know this is hard. But you have to keep fighting. We’re going to make this right again. Okay?”

Going to make the world right again. Going to make this right.

He hears the laugh bubble from his mouth. Chase sits back, surprised.

Nah. No way. He doesn’t buy that shit. Yeah, he saved the world. For everybody but him.

“Can’t fix shit for dead men,” he mutters, and rolls over, and goes back to his dreams.

[nickmillerscaulk]

MUSIC!!! fall out boy! flora cash! twenty one pilots ;)! andddd billie eilish

I saved the best for last and... well, this is *extremely* late hahaha (sorry for keeping you waiting, @medievalraven, but ty for this!!)

If I know them: Fall Out Boy 

Favourite Song: Dance, Dance (honorable mentions: Saturday, Chicago Is So Two Years Ago, Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying, I’ve Got a Dark Alley, Thnks Fr Th Mmrs, The (After) Life Of The Party, What A Catch Donnie, Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown, Jet Pack Blues, Heaven’s Gate, etc.)

Least Favourite Song: N/A—I just don’t think it’s possible to choose 

Favourite Album: Infinity On High (From Under The Cork Tree is a close second, followed by a three-way-tie that constantly shifts between Folie a Deux, Save Rock & Roll, AB/AP... and of course, honorable mention to Take This To Your Grave)

Least Favourite Album: I mean, as much as I enjoy it (and I do, I love it)... M A  N   I    A  is probably my least favorite

Song that got me into them: Grand Theft Autumn (hmm actually it was probably the entire Take This To Your Grave album that my sister had a burned copy of—I don’t think I really got *into* them until From Under The Cork Tree though. That’s when I went DEEP and starting digging for b-sides and unreleased songs and demos and remixes. You should see my itunes library hahaha)

Seen Live?: Yes! So many times. I even saw them live in sydney, australia two years ago. Totally underestimated how bizarre (and exciting!) it’d be to see my hometown heroes playing in my aussie bff’s hometown across the globe.

Rate: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | *10*

If I know them: twenty one pilots (the sweet, sweet torture of trying to choose my favorites from my absolute most top fave band??? UNBELIEVABLE.)

Favourite Song: Trees (honorable mentions: Migraine, Car Radio, Heavydirtysoul, Hometown, Lane Boy, Heathens, Nico and the Niners, Pet Cheetah, Neon Gravestones, Kitchen Sink)

Least Favourite Song: N/A—I just refuse to choose hahaha

Favourite Album: Blurryface (BUT Vessel and Trench are locked in together for second-fave because they both got me through some of the roughest mental health seasons I’ve had in recent years—Vessel was like this safety blanket for bad anxiety days when I HAD to be out and about. And then TOP emerged from their hiatus while I was living abroad and struggling with depression and a few months later, Trench was released. I was desperately searching for a therapist at that point. So like, they’re very much a part of me.)

Least Favourite Album: Ok so... ugh, this feels unfair bc I know them the least, but... TOP’s pre-Vessel albums are my least favorite. I *love* a handful of songs from their early days (Kitchen Sink, Forest, March to the Sea, Taxi Cab, etc.), but those albums are my least fave overall.

Song that got me into them: Fairly Local (I remember hearing Holding Onto You and House Of Gold on the radio a LOT throughout the summer of 2013—but I didn’t actively get into them until the music video for Fairly Local dropped in early 2015. I went from zero to a thousand on twenty one pilots between the intro and the first chorus of Fairly Local—like it took thirty seconds. Totally captivated.)

Seen Live?: GOD YES. and it’s always, ALWAYS a full-body, emotional experience. twenty one pilots concerts are my church.

Rate: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | *100000000*

and because i’ve over-answered these first two, the other two are under the cut!

(oops who else wants to fire up my music opinions)

If I know them: Billie Eilish

Favourite Song: you should see me in a crown (but tbh bad guy and bury a friend are close second/third)

Least Favourite Song: N/A

Favourite Album: WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Least Favourite Album: N/A

Song that got me into them: you should see me in a crown (BUT her album came out when we were well into good girls s2 and the whole ~vibe~ of it reminded me of beth/rio and that’s about the time i really got hooked)

Seen Live?: no, but I would LOVE to.

Rate: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | *8* | 9 | 10

If I don’t know them: flora cash (lmao i know a grand total of *ONE* of their songs, but i’ve claimed to love them—so much so that i included them in a music ask to @mego42—and yet.)

First song spotify took me to: Missing Home (had to skip over ‘you’re somebody else’ bc it’s the one song i know)

First Impression: a mellow bop, whispery vocals that make me feel things

Do I like it?: love it

Would I listen to more from them?: oh for sure! i didn’t realize they had any albums bc i’m a silly goose who didn’t look beyond ‘you’re somebody else,’ so i’m actually v excited to listen to more from them!

Rate (from what I heard): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | *8.5* | 9 | 10

[highlyspecificsigns]

the signs as bad sex in fiction award nominees

from the annual contest run by the Literary Review -- technically 2018′s nominees came (fine, pun intended) yesterday, but that’s a Friday and for obvious reasons this is NSFW.

ARIES: Giles Coren, Winkler, 2005: “And he came hard in her mouth and his dick jumped around and rattled on her teeth and he blacked out and she took his dick out of her mouth and lifted herself from his face and whipped the pillow away and he gasped and glugged at the air, and he came again so hard that his dick wrenched out of her hand and a shot of it hit him straight in the eye and stung like nothing he’d ever had in there, and he yelled with the pain, but the yell could have been anything, and as she grabbed at his dick, which was leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath, she scratched his back deeply with the nails of both hands and he shot three more times, in thick stripes on her chest. Like Zorro.”

TAURUS: Jonathan Grimwood, The Last Banquet, 2013: “Reaching behind me, I found the Brie and broke off a fragment, sucking her nipple through it. She tasted almost as she had the day I took the drop of milk on my finger. 

Manon smiled when she realised what I was doing. 

You know the peasant saying? If you can't imagine how neighbouring vineyards can produce such different wines put one finger in your woman's quim and another up her arse, then taste both and stop asking stupid questions… My fingers found both vineyards. At the front, she tasted salt as anchovy and as delicious. At the rear, bitter like chocolate and smelling strangely of tobacco.”

GEMINI: Tarun J Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire, 2005: “We began to climb peaks and fall off them. We did old things in new ways. And new things in old ways. At times like these we were the work of surrealist masters. Any body part could be joined to any body part. And it would result in a masterpiece. Toe and tongue. Nipple and penis. Finger and the bud. Armpit and mouth. Nose and clitoris. Clavicle and gluteus maximus. Mons venera and phallus indica.

The Last Tango of Labia Minora. Circa 1987.”

CANCER: Christopher Rush, Will, 2007: “O glorious pubes! The ultimate triangle, whose angles delve to hell but point to paradise. Let me sing the black banner, the blackbird's wing, the chink, the cleft, the keyhole in the door. The fig, the fanny, the cranny, the quim - I'd come close to it now, this sudden blush, this ancient avenue, the end of all odysseys and epic aim of life, pulling at my prick now, pulling like a lodestone. ...

All around us nature joined in ... Streamers of heat lashed my back and shoulders and far beneath me now the body of Anne Hathaway began to rage and founder in the rising foam as I clung like a mariner to her heaving haunches, the deep keel of her backbone dipping and lifting through July, through the green surge of growth, till at last the moment came when some colossal wave flung her up high, and I held on for my life, and she screamed loud and long Then O! then O! then O! my true love said and I felt death go through her. Our vessel ran shuddering onto the rocks, a wave of wetness ran through us, the air was rent with screams and I became aware that the bank on which we lay drenched and grounded was journey's end, love's end, the very sea-mark of our utmost sail..”

LEO: James Frey, Katerina, 2018: “Cum inside me. Cum inside me. Cum inside me. Blinding breathless shaking overwhelming exploding white God I cum inside her my cock throbbing we’re both moaning eyes hearts souls bodies one. 

One.

White. 

God. 

Cum. 

Cum. 

Cum.”

VIRGO: Matthew Reynolds, The World Was All Before Them, 2013: “In the dappled shadows the bodies cling and thrust and arc and stretch. Toes splay. Arms prop shoulders from which a torso slopes. Two legs spring into the air. A head flaps from side to side. Fingers tense, hips grip and ankles twine. Forehead bows to forehead and hair touches in the air as eyes look longingly into eyes, thighs vie, lip lips lip and… But, damn, dammit! – what was this? Anxiously he began to get the impression that his vas deferens was initiating its rhythmic squeezing too soon, too soon … But phew she too seemed to be surfing the waves of neuromuscular euphoria, so that as, sweating, panting, he bowed his forehead to her chest, she gripped him tight, her sharp nails stabbing; and then they were grinning and kissing each other's noses, cheeks; and then they lay entangled for a moment, breathing; and then they rose, one after another, went for a piss, came back and settled into bed again.“

LIBRA: Joshua Cohen, Numbers, 2015: “Her mouth was intensely ovoid, an almond mouth, of citrus crescents. And under that sling, her breasts were like young fawns, sheep frolicking in hyssop – Psalms were about to pour out of me. 

“Vous?” 

“Josh,” I said. 

“Vous habillé.” 

“Je vais me undressed, clothes off, unhabillé, déshab.”

SCORPIO: Major Victor Cornwall and Major Arthur St John Trevelyan, Scoundrels: The Hunt for Hansclapp, 2018: “Empty my tanks,” I’d begged breathlessly, as once more she began drawing me deep inside her pleasure cave. Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey. Soon I was locked in, balls deep, ready to be ground down by the enamelled pepper mill within her.”

SAGITTARIUS: David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, 2006: “Now her grubby soles met like they were praying. Now his skin was glazed in roast pork sweat. Now she made a noise like a tortured Moomintroll. Now Tom Yew's body jerkjerked judderily jackknifed and a noise like a ripping cable tore out of him. Once more, like he'd been booted in the balls. Her fingernails'd sunk salmony welts into his arse. Debby Crombie's mouth made a perfect O.”

CAPRICORN: David Guterson, Ed King, 2011: “In the shower, Ed stood with his hands at the back of his head, like someone just arrested, while she abused him with a bar of soap. After a while he shut his eyes, and Diane, wielding her fingernails now and starting at his face, helped him out with two practiced hands, one squeezing the family jewels, the other vigorous with the soap-and-warm-water treatment. It didn’t take long for the beautiful and perfect Ed King to ejaculate for the fifth time in twelve hours, while looking like Roman public-bath statuary. Then they rinsed, dried, dressed, and went to an expensive restaurant for lunch .”

AQUARIUS: Morrissey, List of the Lost, 2015: “At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”

PISCES: Sam Mills, The Quiddity of Will Self, 2012: “ … oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, Will, oh, yes, oh, semen-bedizened blood-pusillanimous bed onanistic quiddity fulcrating pelvic thrusts smoke thick typewriter’s click-clack-click Will Our Cock is Spent screaming loving Will is pleased Will is Saved I have done it I have done I am the Chosen One I am his Chosen One oh Will for ever I am yours for ever I am yours for ever I am.”

[indifoodbev]

Research on 3D Wagyu beef featured in Nature Communications

A research paper on the the production of Wagayu beef using 3D modeling by a Japanese collaborative team is featured in Nature Communications, the scientific journal from Springer Nature, published on 24 August 2021. Osaka University, Toppan, Hirosaki University, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, and Osaka Institute of Technology have successfully produced cultured Wagyu beef consisting of muscle, fat, and blood vessel tissue by using an original tissue modeling technology based on 3D printing that enables the controlled replication of complex tissue structures for cultured meat. The paper also shows that the marbling of Wagyu beef can be replicated using 3D printing.

Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes research in biology, physics, chemistry, Earth sciences, and all related areas and garners attention from specialists in each field of the natural sciences.

Background to the research

The global population is forecast to exceed 9.7 billion by 2050. It is believed that due to the accompanying increase in food demand as well as the impact of factors such as global climate change, it may not be possible to provide a sufficient supply of food, and the world could be faced with a so-called ‘protein crisis.’ This is prompting heightened anticipation for plant-based protein and cultured meat as alternative protein sources.

Cultured meat uses techniques for producing meat by in vitro cell cultures. Full-scale research has been underway since around 2013. Today the field has moved beyond fundamental research at universities and has seen venture companies entering the business around the world. However, the majority of previously reported cultured meats have had a mince structure consisting only of muscle fiber, and it has been difficult to replicate the complex tissue structures of meat, such as the marbling seen in Wagyu beef.

Social impact of the research results

As the results of this research mean that tailored production of cultured meat in line with the desired structure will be possible, it is believed that it could play a role as a countermeasure to a protein crisis in the future by providing cultured meat that is closer to meat consumed by humans thus far.

Environmental destruction resulting from deforestation for the production of cereal grains needed for livestock farming and ozone depletion caused by cattle’s belching are also cited as issues that need to be addressed. This research can not only contribute to their mitigation, but can also be anticipated to have an energy-saving effect because cultured meat can be produced much faster than the time it takes cattle to grow. Going forward, the development of automated equipment for elements other than 3D printing, including the cultivation process, will make it possible to produce cultured meat in any location and potentially contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by, for example, helping to preserve the environment and resolve food crises.

Overview of the research

Technology was developed to replicate complex Wagyu beef structures by constructing muscle, fat, and blood vessel tissue using 3D printing based on designs of the tissue structure of Wagyu beef.

Almost all previously reported cultured meat has had a mince structure consisting only of muscle fiber, and it has been difficult to replicate the complex tissue structures of meat. In this research, an original tissue modeling technology was developed using 3D printing to produce different types of tissue—muscle, fat, and blood vessel—and integrate them in a way similar to the manufacture of Kintaro-ame (a kind of Japanese candy in which sheets of different color candy are arranged so that when rolled, stretched and sliced, the face of Kintaro, a hero in Japanese folklore, appears on the candy, similar to the technique for ‘rock’ candy in the UK). This has made it possible to create the complex tissue structures of meat in a form aligned to individual characteristics.

Further improvement of the technology will not only make it possible to create complex meat structures, such as the beautiful marbling of Wagyu beef, but also to control the fat and muscle content of cultured meat. If automated equipment can be developed for elements other than 3D printing, including the cultivation process, it will also become possible to produce cultured meat in any location. The results of the research were published on August 24 in Nature Communications.

About the research paper

Title: Engineered Whole Cut Meat-like Tissue by the Assembly of Cell Fibers using Tendon-Gel Integrated Bioprinting

Authors: Dong-hee Kang, Fiona Louis, Hao Liu, Hiroshi Shimoda, Yasutaka Nishiyama, Hajime Nozawa, Makoto Kakitani, Daisuke Takagi, Daijiro Kasa, Eiji Nagamori, Shinji Irie, Shiro Kitano and Michiya Matsusaki. This research was conducted as part of research under the JST-Mirai Program. URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25236-9      Website http://www.chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~matsusaki-lab/

Comment from professor Michiya Matsusaki

“The technology from this research was developed to replicate the complex and beautiful marble structure seen in Japan’s world-renowned Wagyu beef. To enable us to use 3D printing technology to stably produce muscle, fat, and blood vessel tissue, it was important to suppress the contraction that occurs during differentiation induction. Focusing on the fact that tendons support muscles in the body, we therefore produced ‘artificial tendon tissue’ using type I collagen, the main constituent of tendons. By then attaching each fibrous tissue to the artificial tendon tissue, it has become possible to stably create the fibrous tissues for production. We hope that cultured Wagyu steak meat becomes a new industry for Japan.”

1. The Joint Research Laboratory (TOPPAN) for Advanced Cell Regulatory Chemistry was established in 2017 at Osaka University by Toppan (Representative: Shiro Kitano, Guest Associate Professor). Fundamental research on 3D cell culture technology is conducted in collaboration with Professor Michiya Matsusaki of Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering. Visit https://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en.

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Albums that have influenced me deeply as a person.

The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Nirvana - In Utero (1993)

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged (1994)

Nirvana - self titled (2002)

Avril Lavigne - Let go (2002)

Blink-182 - Greatest Hits (2003)

Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)

Avril Lavigne - Under my skin (2004)

Brand New - the devil & god are raging inside me (2006)

Twenty One Pilots - self titled (2009)

Grouplove - self titled ep (2010)

Pierce the Veil - Selfish Machines (2010)

Bring me the Horizon - There is a Hell Believe me I've Seen it (2010)

The Front Bottoms - self titled (2011)

La Dispute - Wildlife (2011)

Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lullaby (2011)

Christina Perri - lovestrong. (2011)

Imagine Dragons - Night Visions (2012)

Pierce the Veil - Collide with the sky (2012)

Flatsound - Sleep (2012)

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist (2012)

Ellie Goulding - Halcyon (2012)

Sky Ferreira - Ghost ep (2012)

The Front Bottoms - The Talon of the Hawk (2013)

Twenty One Pilots - Vessel (2013)

Sleeping with Sirens - Feel (2013)

Fall out Boy - Save Rock & Roll (2013)

Bring me the Horizon - Sempiternal (2013)

Lorde - Pure Heroine (2013)

Pvris - acoustic ep (2014)

Pvris - White Noise (2014, 2016 deluxe vers.)

Nicole Dollanganger - Observatory Mansion (2014)

Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface (2015)

Bring me the Horizon - That's the Spirit (2015)

Teen Suicide - dc snuff film / waste yrself (2015)

Teen Suicide - i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body (2015)

Tyler the Creator - Cherry Bomb (2015)

Eden - End Credits (2015)

Melanie Martinez - Cry Baby (2015)

Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers (2015)

Halsey - Room 93 ep (2015)

Halsey - Badlands (2015)

Heirsound - Merge ep (2016)

Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor (2016)

Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)

Brockhampton - All-American Trash (2016)

Eden - i think i think too much of you (2016)

Pvris - All we Know of Heaven, All we Need of Hell (2017)

Brand New - Science Fiction (2017)

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18 Questions about Music

i was tagged by @slampoety !!

1. Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by? physical albums? infinite i think lmao bc it was like Cool to get the physcial kpop albums bc they came with like?? cards with the members on them? and posters? but i dont know if thats still cool to do im assuming so. nobody really does album packages like korean bands tho lemme tell u 2. What was the last song you listened to? rn i’m listening to the rab version of holding on to you which is like....the fourth time ever in my life hearing it probably like i know this is the og but this is wrong. good but still wrong 3. What’s in your CD/Record player right now? well my copy of electra heart by marina and the diamonds is sitting right on top of it so im assuming it was that. from like. 4 years ago. 4. What was the last show you attended? twenty one pilots in north little rock just this month!!! my mom and my sister drove up there with me and @sweaterdun and it was so fun i’ve never traveled to see a band OR seen a band twice on the same tour like that before it was such a great opportunity this band has been so good to me i love them 5. What was the greatest show you’ve been to? TWENTY ONE PILOTS ERS2016 ST LOUIS 8/2 god. God it was so good i cried twice and i went with my best friend it was the best night of my life so far? like? i cried in the middle of guns for hands because i just couldnt believe i was there and it was so good and i barely stopped crying enough to enjoy tyler flopping around in the hamster ball. and i cried during goner and planned crying through trees but then tyler started talking about waffle crisp 6. What was the worst show you’ve ever been to? gosh idk like? probably some bands i had to go see for my sister like. i remember at blink 182 they were just so piss drunk they didn’t even know the words to their own songs? but like i saw fall out boy right before that so it was still amazing and i didnt mind? like i had to really think about this 7. What is the most musically involved you have ever been? not 100% sure what this is asking but like. i used to play piano and bell instruments like the xylophone and like aux percussion and Some drums....but never a drum set. uh. but like idk i’ve never met a band if this is like about bands? so probably just recently when i skipped school to go see twenty one pilots like 6 hrs away. and like i’m hoping to see them in ohio and i Probably plan on uhhhhhhhhhhgettingoneormoretattoosdedicatedtothem which is a new thing for me i’ve never been this in love with a band in my whole life 8. What show are you looking forward to? i have two shows that i’m forsure going to soonish! in a couple weeks im going to see state champs with my friends and my sister and her friend which will be fun even tho i barely listen to them! and in early june im gonna prob go see bad suns! also idr when but HALL AND OATES omg. and im not gonna jinx myself so i wont go on about prospective shows. this has been an amazing show year ugh 9. What is your favorite band shirt ? the shirt i got at the last foo fighters show i got is sooooo cute its got like ufos and stuff on it and its primary colors on black i love it!! and my ers tank thats like the tank top w the skull that says clique is like the cutest thing top has put out in a Long time 10. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day? ........................twenty one pilots 11. Who is one musician or group you wish would make a comeback? HOZIER! HO!ZI!ER! H O Z I E R 12. Who is one band/ artist you’ve never seen live but always wanted to? florence + the machine ohhhhhhhhhhh my goooooddd i want to see her so bad shes got like.....an orchestra.....or at LEAST a woman playing the harp on stage like i would DIE to see her live i love her its just been so long since shes come to st louis and i didnt know the last time!!! 13. Name four or more flawless albums some really throghout solid albums? vessel - twenty one pilots * ceremonials - florence + the machine * wiped out! - the neighbourhood * hozier - hozier * infinity on high - fall out boy * pure heroine - lorde

14. How many concerts have you been to, total? GOD you see like. u know how every family that can afford to has that one thing that they always make room in their budgets for? like some families go out to eat a lot or go to the movie theater or travel or have tons of pets? i’ve always gone to concerts since i was like rly little

i had to write it all down but i came up with 18 so far not including the 3 im going to soon 15. Who have you seen the most live? fall out boy for sure! once in like fourth grade w a brendon urie acoustic set because panic just like. broke up. the second time was that time with blink 182. the third time was the save rock and roll tour (BEFORE THEY ADDED TOP AND PANIC) where i nearly passed out and got sick from the heat. and then the most recent was the boyz of zummer with wiz khalifa where i officially learned to associate the smell of weed with like. weed. but since 2 of those were for my sister TECHNICALLY? the neighbourhood. i saw them 3x at the same venue they’re sooooo good live 16. What is your favorite movie soundtrack? the great gatsby (2013) holy shit dude

17. What was your last musical ‘phase’ before you wisened up? kpop was my Thing from ages 12 to like 15 then i got depressed and lost interest completely and not to be corny but 21p pulled me out of that :/ 18. What is your ‘guilty pleasure’ that you hate to admit liking? my entire music library is an embarrassment but i really hate getting caught listening to stuff i used to listen to in late elementary school and the beginning of middle school like....the really hard but still corny rock and metal. like. fun fact i know Every single word to bring me to life by evanescence bc that was straight up my fave band. so any time im listening to 2000s rock music or japanese vk in the hallway i make sure i dont let ppl see my screen

hhhmmhmhm so i guess i’ll tag @sweaterdun @chalupacabras @friedlettuce (enlighten me on what people who Aren’t emo fuckers listen to) and ik he just got tagged but @wdbwotv bc if u havent already....i wanna see it. if all y’all want to. sorry u had to read all this WOW

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My favorite song from each album by my favorite bands. Bands include: Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Twenty One Pilots, Skillet, Set It Off, Imagine Dragons

Take This To Your Grave (2003): Calm Before The Storm

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004): Hang 'Em High

From Under The Cork Tree (2005): Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005): The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage

The Black Parade (2006): Teenagers

Infinity On High (2007): Bang The Doldrums

Pretty.Odd (2008): The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know

Folie a Deux (2008): Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet

Awake (2009): Believe

Twenty One Pilots (2009): Friend, Please

Danger Days: (2010): S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W/

Vices And Virtues (2011): Let's Kill Tonight

Regional At Best (2011): Be Concerned

Horrible Kids (2011): Breathe In, Breathe Out

Cinematics (2012): I'd Rather Drown

Night Visions (2012): On Top Of The World

Vessel (2013): Fake You Out

Save Rock And Roll (2013): Where Did The Party Go

Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die (2013): Casual Affair

Duality (2014): N.M.E.

American Beauty/American Psycho (2015): Jet Pack Blues

Smokes + Mirrors (2015): Shots

Blurryface (2015): Fairly Local

Death Of A Bachelor (2016) Crazy=Genius

Upside Down (2016): Want

Evolve (2017): Whatever It Takes

M A N I A (2018): Sunshine Riptide

Pray For The Wicked (2018): One Of The Drunks

Trench (so far) (2018): My Blood

[cornerofmusic123]

Twenty One Pilots es un dúo musical estadounidense originario de Columbus, Ohio. Integrado por Tyler Joseph y Josh Dun. Alcanzaron éxito al presentarse en grandes festivales como Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Boston Calling y Firefly. Sus canciones mezclan los sonidos del sintetizador, piano y batería. Sus composiciones están basadas en poesías (escritas por Tyler), y cuando la poesía es demasiado larga necesita empezar a rapear para hacer encajar las letras. Aunque algunas de sus canciones tienen alusiones al cristianismo y mensajes sobre Dios, no es considerada una banda cristiana. Antes de firmar un contrato con Fueled by Ramen en 2012, sacaron dos álbumes de forma independiente, Twenty One Pilots en 2009 y Regional at Best en 2011. En 2013, lanzaron su primer álbum de estudio, Vessel.

nicios de Twenty One Pilots Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas y Chris Salih, amigos de la universidad, formaron la banda en 2009. A Joseph se le ocurrió el nombre del grupo mientras estudiaba All My Sons de Arthur Miller, una obra sobre un padre de familia que vendía piezas para aviones durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El 29 de diciembre de 2009, lanzaron su álbum debut-independiente y comenzaron un tour en Ohio. En 2010, la banda lanzó dos canciones inéditas oficialmente a su cuenta en SoundCloud. La primera, una canción original, titulada "Time to Say Goodbye", y un cover de "Jar of Hearts" de Christina Perri. A mediados del 2011, Thomas y Salih abandonaron la banda debido a su apretada agenda y Joseph se unió con Josh Dun. Trayectoria de Twenty One Pilots Su segundo álbum independiente, Regional at Best, fue lanzado el 8 de julio de 2011 por Joseph y Dun. El álbum fue acompañado por un show libre en la secundaria New Albany. En noviembre del 2011, dieron un concierto en Columbus' Newport Music Hall que atrajo la atención de docenas de compañías discográficas. Aunque muchas de esas compañías se peleaban por la banda, decidieron firmar con el sello Fueled by Ramen, perteneciente a Atlantic Records. Durante ese mismo año, el dúo dio a sus fanáticos dos canciones inéditas a través de su boletín de correo electrónico: la versión original de "House of Gold" y una canción titulada "Two". El 11 de febrero de 2012, la banda lanzó un vídeo musical en YouTube de una canción llamada "Goner". En agosto del 2012, se embarcó una pequeña gira con Neon Trees y Walk the Moon. Trabajaron con Greg Wells, productor de Adele y Katy Perry, en su primer LP, Vessel, lanzado el 8 de enero de 2013 y obtuvo el puesto 58 en Billboard 200, el 42 en la tabla de álbumes digitales, 17 en la tabla de álbumes de internet, 15 en la tabla de álbumes Rock y 10 en la tabla de álbumes Alternativos. El grupo tuvo su primer éxito en las radios estadounidenses con "Holding on to You", que alcanzó el puesto 11 en la tabla Billboard Alternative Songs; adicionalmente, los sencillos "Guns for Hands" y "Lovely" alcanzaron el puesto 21 y 67, respectivamente" en el Japan Hot 100. En mayo del 2013, Fall Out Boy anunció que Twenty One Pilots serían los teloneros de los conciertos de su gira Save Rock and Roll el otoño siguiente. El 30 de noviembre de 2013, Tyler Joseph dijo a la revista Rolling Stone en una entrevista antes del concierto que habían empezado a trabajar con su nuevo álbum, y añadió que el álbum tendría un estilo "chill out y misterioso". El 15 de mayo de 2015 publicaron el álbum Blurryface, vendió más de 134 mil copias en la primera semana. Este álbum fue su primer álbum número 1 en el Billboard 200. La banda inició el Blurryface World Tour el 11 de mayo de ese año en Glasgow, Escocia. La parte estadounidense de su gira comenzó el 8 de septiembre en Washington, DC, también visitaron Australia, el sudeste de Asia, Japón y Europa