#because of his position as A Creator and because of the bona fides he developed through his work of being a Good Guy

[chocolatepot]

Ugh, I feel so conflicted about Good Omens all the time now - like, every time you see a piece of fanart I've reblogged, just assume there's a solid minute of indecision about queuing it.

Part of me wants s3 to get canceled (and s2 of Sandman as well) and everyone to just forget about his cultural impact, because it would fucking serve him right. Part of me is like, well, these things don't just represent fame and money to him, they're jobs for hundreds of other people, and a big break for at least one or two - plus it's Terry Pratchett's legacy, supposedly the plot they'd worked out together. And then I get suspicious of myself and accuse myself of only wanting to see how GO was going to be wrapped up.

[kendrixtermina]

Thoughts and Feelings about“Change Your Mind”

I really wish I could rewatch this motherfucker somewhere but I have to sleep and go to work 

Well on the one hand the main story lines are pretty much done for, on the other, the fallout alone could fill another season, and I’m actually glad that they’re not relegating that to the epilogue but actually going to show it

I assume season 5 will be Steven working with the Diamonds to improve homeworld, explaining things to Jasper, integrating the former corrupted gems on earth, finding out the deal with pink pearl, further developing Steven’s new fusions etc. 

Other open questions involve gem origins and peridot’s renewable energy project, but I suppose that will come up as Steven tries to make the Empire less... imperialistic. 

I understand why they wanted to air this in one piece, you couldn’t leave the younger viewers hanging with some of these creepytastic scenes and no resolution

There’s various concepts I feel reminded of. 

There’s this idea of “tzimtsum” in kaballalistic thought, about how God created the world - In order to create a being apart from himself, he “hid” some aspects of the being, the ones that would seem - So every part of creation reflects one aspect of god, but none shows the complete pictures of it, and because everything has some aspects of god but not others, it is unique - so all humans are made in gods image, but still be different from each other.  

Maybe Pink Diamond would be something like Lucifer in this analogy, part of the creation but as far from the god as you can get while still existing, and somehow their antithesis (stretching the analogy here, of course Judaism has no counterpart to Lucifer let alone the positive-ish early modernity interpretions of him - but of course, White Diamond isn’t exactly a benevolent God either. )

First of course Star Trek, like the ep where Captain Kirk is split into what at first seems like his good and evil half but is more like his animal instincts and higher reasoning, or in Voyager, when B’Elana Torres is split into her human and Klingon halves. 

I guess Garnet wasn’t completely wrong in his being something in-between fusion and human reproduction, his gem half could be considered A Pink Diamond, but not the same one who created him - He must be fricking powerful to shrug off WD’s beams like that, like how Stevonnie still has “boosted” versions of Steven’s abilities despite Connie being human, Steven’s probably like Pink Diamond, but ‘boosted’.  

Steven’s victory certainly showcases how it comes from both sides of his heritage. It involves making WD laugh/embarassed like what Pink used to do, but unlike her, he has the communication skills from Greg - I don’t think Pink ever talked to Blue in that way, she didn’t seem aware of what the other Diamonds were thinking at all, any more than she really understood Pearl’s lingering knot of complexes. It’s just not a skill she could have picked up before Greg - when? From whom?  

His responsibility is all uniquely him and due to his upbringing with the CG’s and wanting to help him more, tho, both his parents where free spirit hippy bohemians, but it was Steven who decided “Nope, I WANT to fix it, because I can”, not because he owes it to anybody, even when no one could fault him for running. 

Also, Frankenstein (the Novel not the film) - The original Victor was a sympathetic, even admirable character, but somehow he just couldn’t bring himself to have empathy with the monster, though Adam was in many ways alike to him and initially didn’t wish to be his enemy.  Because while the gems relate to White Diamond as their goddess and the other Diamonds see her as their mother, she seems to regard them as extensions of herself. Maybe she would, as their creator. Gods are expected to smile benevolently upon their followers and solve their problems, Mothers, while they are flawed humans,  are supposed to love their kids as they are and realize that they become their own persons, but artists frequently tear up their own work if they’re dissatisfied with it, because it’s supposed to be a reflection of their existence, so they might hate it for not reflecting them well enough - 

i often regret tearing up half my teenage fanfics, but I’m able to view them different now that I’m - Back then, I felt like they reflectzed badly onto me - but if had kids and treated them like my fanfics or crumpled drawings, well, that would scar them for life. 

You could certainly see this as a metaphor for narcissism, particularly in the way WD judged everything by how much it was like her, to the point that she would ‘overwrite`’ ppl’s personalities with her ideas of how it ought to be, while lacking a solid identity of her own apart from being “perfect/the best” by default, but that only goes so far because the gems literally are her creations who take their characteristics from various aspects of her being. 

She’d have a completely different conceptual framework to anyone else, though she’s certainly not “above it” in any way. 

I don’t think she was completely unaffected by Pink’s dissapearence either, if you want to complete the Stages of Grief analogy she would be Denial or Bargaining. Most likely,  she was growing increasingly frustrated with her ability to make her empire “perfect” like she ought to and that’s why she started keeping to herself more and assuming that Pink couldn’t be dead. 

She seemed like the knowing one when she was as much in denial as anyone else - you can tell they had a complicated relationship because of how White saw herself in her, that might be why she indulged and preferred her, but then again she didn’t always like what she saw and felt that Pink represented parts of her that she didn’t want to see. 

It’s not without reason that Steven tells her to “get out of her own head” and try to see the world for what it is rather than her preconceived notions of what it is or means. You could perhaps relate that to 

When she realizes that she’s actually dead - that’s when she has her breakdown. 

You could even draw a parallel to “Romeo And Juliet”, where the older generation only realizes how much its ways were fucked up when it gets their beloved children killed for just trying to live happy lives. 

Cal Gustav Jung would certainly remind us that what irritates us about others are often things that irritate us about ourselves, that we may be liable to “see the world as we are” and never is that more apparent than when we view everything through some skewed belief system, or when we hate - people hate people who blur boundaries because they don’t want to confront the ambiguity within themselves, or act as “superior” and merciless because they’ve rejected their own mortal fragile humanity.

Another observation is that when you set up anything as the “default” you create pressure not to deviate from the norm and prevent its members from experiencing their individuality. (see societal pressure on heterosexual men, or Euro-Americans saying they ‘have no culture to celebrate’ - maybe instead of becoming a devouring plague upon your fellow men, you could actually appreciate European culture? Like, read some books, eat some cheese, learn a language, listen to some classical music, vote for worker protection laws?)

It speaks for PD that she even tried to save other aliens at some point. steven stepped completely out of her shadow the moment he was able to feel sorry for her, like “Geez, she had to live like that? No wonder she turned out the way she did!” he pretty much calls the other Diamonds out at some point, like he gets a secure sense of the differences between them when he realizes how much better off he’s been in his own life. Like, UGH. 

For my part, I don’t believe the “best of the worst” thing was true, and more of an “evil cannot comprehend good” moment from White, if not outright projection. (after all, White seems to view all other Gems as imperfect copies of herself) If anything, Pink seemed upset that she got stuck being the leader even as “Rose Quartz” (see the Beach scene in “Greg the babysitter”) - but of course Steven, not being Pink, wouldn’t know whether or not White is right. 

Other Thoughts:

In the earlier scenes you could see a lot of parallels to less than ideal family situations, and how people might end up acting as proxies of the problematic person, almost sprouting their words, in the name of keeping the peace, and how people in such an environment may have no idea of how it’s not normal

You CAN talk down such a person (I know of multiple people who made a bona fide job out of talking sense into literal nazis and clansmen, person by person - their tactic was generally to find whatever problem their rage came from), but there’s a difference between “flawed” and “awful” and I do think it came through that White is a piece of work quite unlike, say, Connie’s mother, and that Steven’s dealing with her because he wants to for the good of society, because he’s the bigger person and secure in himself,  not because he owes it to her or anything

It seems like they went for “awesome” rather than “beautiful” with Steven’s fusions. The designs are kinda gaudy, but even so, once you getpast the gaudy design, it’s kind of touching how Steven’s and Garnet’s fusion is essentially a motivational speaker who sprouts encouraging advice nonstop. Garnet was always Steven’s Mentor and  as well as the main person (besides greg) to teach him morals, as well as generally encouraging & supportive, but Steven of course encourages and supports her too, and both like doing that for others

I love Peridot’s short shorts and that she and Bismuth repaired the ships/ went a-tinkering together. It took me a bit to notice that it’s supposed to be shorts and not just her old outfit with starts instead tho

Voice of Reason!Connieis a gift that keeps on giving

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Interesting read on the development of the original “Iron Man” film idea and script. I think we can all be thankful that destiny led it to turn out the way it did...

What If Robert Downey Jr. Were Never Iron Man?

The Hollywood Reporter, May 02, 2018 11:00am PT by Aaron Couch

Hollywood spent years trying to crack Tony Stark, and now David Hayter is looking back at his 2004 script for New Line — and the unusual way the studio tried to develop the film on the cheap with David S. Goyer.

Ten years ago, the Marvel Studios revolution began.

Jon Favreau's Iron Man hit theaters May 2, 2008, and become a surprise phenomenon. Robert Downey Jr.'s charm helped turn a B-list Marvel character into the most bankable superhero in Hollywood, paving the way for Marvel Studios to become a juggernaut. Now 19 films in (and counting), the Marvel Cinematic Universe has earned $15.5 billion globally and has made the Avengers and its innovative shared universe the envy of every studio in town.

But before Tony Stark launched the MCU, the movie rights for the billionaire, playboy philanthropist had spent years bouncing around from Universal to Fox to New Line. Filmmakers such as Iron Giant's Tim McCanlies, horror director Stuart Gordon and even Quentin Tarantino were linked to Iron Man movies.

Then, in the mid-2000s, New Line tried a rather unique approach. The studio assembled three screenwriters with superhero cred and paid them to sit in a room and simply talk on camera about Iron Man for a few days. David Hayter, who helped launch the modern era of superhero films with 2000's X-Men and the 2003 follow-up X2: X-Men United, was one of those writers, and he was joined by David S. Goyer and Mark Protosevich.

"It was very unusual, and it kind of felt like they were developing the screenplay for a lot less than it would cost them typically to develop a screenplay," says Hayter, who is sharing his memories on the 10th anniversary of Iron Man. "But they paid us and then they hired me at the end of it to write the script, so it was great. It was very cool."

Like Hayter, his colleagues Goyer and Protosevich already had serious superhero bona fides. Goyer was known as a creative force behind Wesley Snipes' Blade films and soon would be reshaping the superhero genre with Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy as well as Warner Bros.' Man of Steel. A few years before joining the Iron Man think tank, Protosevich had written a planned sequel to Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, and would later help bring Marvel's Thor to the big screen.

"Basically, it was the three of us just fanboying out about Iron Man and all the things that make Tony Stark interesting and how to conceptualize the movie," says Hayter, who recalls with a laugh that he and Goyer showed up on the first day wearing the same Diesel shirt. (They truly were kindred spirits).

In 2004, Hayter landed the job to bring Iron Man to life. He reworked a script from Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, which had included the classic villain the Mandarin. Hayter opted to remove the character, instead making Tony Stark's father Howard the focus.

Throughout the script, Tony rekindles his estranged friendship with Rhodey and grapples with the idea of Stark Industries developing weapons. He ultimately decides that it's an immoral business to be in and chooses to use his inventions (and his Iron Man suit) for good.

Howard Stark disagrees, and ultimately becomes a surprise villain in the form of War Machine, allying himself with Tony Stark nemesis Justin Hammer (who later arrived on the big screen courtesy Sam Rockwell in Favreau's Iron Man 2). Eventually, father and son duke it out wearing their competing armor in a way that's not unlike how 2008's Iron Man saw Tony fight his mentor Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges).

"There's been a lot more comic book films since then, and obviously things have changed to a certain extent. My feeling was always, you want to try to mirror your hero with your villain as much as possible," says Hayter of making Howard the villain. "If it's The Hulk, you want The Hulk fighting some huge, powerful monster."

As much as the internet loves alternate castings (Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise are the names that seem to pop up as alternates for Downey), Hayter says he wasn't writing Iron Man for anyone in particular. Hatyer, who is also an actor known for his voice work in the Metal Gear videogame series, instead tried to imagine himself in the role, though he was under no illusions that he'd be hired to play the hero.

Later, when Downey was cast, Hayter thought it was a brilliant move.

"One of the issues we discussed in the room between David Goyer and Mark Protosevich and myself was, 'How do you retain the fun of it and the audience sympathy when the lead character is an alcoholic?' Which we felt was a key aspect to his character. Robert Downey Jr. was so perfect for that, because he's had his own issues there and yet he remains so charming and so lovable and charismatic and it really was the ideal casting."

New Line gave Hayter positive feedback on his script, and the studio was working to land The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes to direct the project. But before a deal could be made, New Line's rights to Iron Man expired, and though the studio was interested in re-upping with Marvel, it wasn't meant to be. By this point, Marvel Studios had decided to make its own movies, and studio head Kevin Feige — along with Avi Arid and David Maisel — wanted Iron Man as its first leading man.

"It was very much the corporate reshuffling that kept the New Line version from being made, but I think New Line recognized as well as anybody the value of this character," says Hayter. "X-Men helped break open the door for heroes that weren't Superman or Batman. And Iron Man just seemed to be the next logical step. It's just so fun and action-packed. It perfectly fit where CG effects were at the time. And it just made a lot of sense."

Ironically, New Line is owned by Warner Bros., the studio behind DC's films. DC movies have struggled of late, with 2017's Justice League earning an underwhelming $657 million worldwide. To put that in perspective, less than a week after its release, Iron Man has helped lead Avengers: Infinity War to more than $800 million globally, with no signs of slowing down.

Hayter says he has no hard feelings about his script not making it to the big screen, and he has a great fondness for Favreau's movie, which earned $585 million worldwide — a huge win at the time that seems small by today's Marvel standards.

"I think the movie is amazing. Favreau is an incredible director and he really nailed it," says Hayter.

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[josephinegalbraith95]

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A online game famed for its realism and a spotlight to element misses the mark in its try to constitute homosexual footballers

(Norwich Town)

Lately I used to be speaking with a chum who’s recently at first phases of popping out as homosexual. She’s wrestling with the entire questions that everybody who’s had to do that confronted: How do I inform my folks? SHOULD I inform my folks? How will issues cross at paintings if I come available in the market? What prison protections would I’ve in the event that they fired me or if the paintings atmosphere was poisonous? Can I come up with the money for to be out all over the place, or will I’ve to stick closeted in sure portions of my lifestyles?

However she requested any other query that I hadn’t even regarded as:

Why do I even wish to pop out in any respect?

During which she intended: who am I actually serving through hanging myself thru all this? Is it actually for my receive advantages? Or is that this only a ritual efficiency I’m hanging on for my instantly buddies? A birthday celebration I’m throwing them so I will make a disclosure I’m unofficially required to me, and so they may be able to be ok with themselves for having no less than one homosexual good friend?

It’s a query I by no means actually regarded as once I got here out. (I’ve needed to do it two times, as soon as at 14 once I got here out as bi after which final yr once I got here out as trans.) I’m wondering now if perhaps I must’ve, and given it some actual idea. I targeted such a lot on logistics and timing that I by no means actually stopped to totally imagine who I used to be doing all this for.

I point out all this as a result of the preferred online game Soccer Supervisor 2018 now means that you can have homosexual football gamers to your workforce. Relying on which portions of the web you spend essentially the most time, that is both being hailed as a essential step at the trail to social development and towards without equal purpose of Sexual Orientation Now not Mattering To Any person; or derided as any other instance of id politics seeping into puts the place it merely has no industry, and but extra distinctive feature signalling at the a part of content material creators so as to become profitable and/or shove an time table down their target audience’s throat. And the entire whilst I will’t assist however suppose: who’s all this for, anyway?

(For the needs of this newsletter, I’m going to be referring essentially to males’s football during. The tradition of the ladies’s sport is such that a number of most sensible tier gamers, together with quite a few individuals of america squad that gained the 2015 International Cup, can really feel protected and supported sufficient to be out publicly. Homophobia and transphobia are found in girls’s football, to make certain, nevertheless it’s on a a lot more modest scale in comparison to the boys’s sport.)

One glaring conceivable solution to the query of who that is occupied with: tabloids. In October, the Day by day Celebrity ran a entrance web page headline alleging that there are two homosexual footballers recently taking part in within the Premier League who’re out to their teammates. The headline and connected tale used to be closely sensationalized, with a breathless tone extra becoming rumors of individuals of the royal circle of relatives dishonest on their spouses. The consequences had been glaring: if that is true—they usually by no means again up their reporting and normally admit someplace within the textual content that it’s simply hypothesis—then this can be a bona fide scandal, and readers must be stunned and appalled.

Individuals who care about this type of factor condemned the paper.

Discussing homophobia in game and the way to take on it? Nice. Speculating in regards to the sexuality of gamers at the entrance web page? In reality no longer nice. http://pic.twitter.com/Wryuvt9NUU

— Stonewall (@stonewalluk) October 24, 2017

Numerous other folks wrote it off as scummy tabloid fodder.

To counter your argument, it’s the Day by day Celebrity…..it’s normally filled with crap.

— Mark George (@mpgeorge84) October 24, 2017

The veracity and respectability of British tabloids apart, you don’t wish to challenge very a ways to look why a homosexual footballer would possibly no longer need to pop out of the closet. For the entire communicate amongst some in soccer fandom about how sexual orientation doesn’t subject, the truth that tabloids can nonetheless promote papers and advert area through framing all these tales as scandals obviously illustrates that it issues so much.

The builders of Soccer Supervisor attempt to simulate the worldwide soccer ecosystem as faithfully as conceivable. The sport even accounts for the results of Brexit now.  However no simulation can ever be an excellent mirrored image of truth. Designers must make alternatives as to what variables to account for and which to go away out. Once we’re speaking a couple of simulation as advanced as Soccer Supervisor, there aren’t many variables which can be lost sight of thru negligence or deficient making plans.

So when the brand new function to have a participant—and it most effective applies to computer-generated characters, so no person that exists in the actual international—to your squad pop out as homosexual ends up in a brief information tale and a products bump for the participant and membership, we must be transparent in this level: that’s no longer an twist of fate. The designers made a option to depict this sort of match this fashion. That the sport doesn’t account for a scandal within the tabloids when this occurs can imply most effective certainly one of two issues; both the sheer ubiquity of British tabloids wasn’t sufficient to clue the builders in that this would possibly occur, or they purposefully determined not to come with it of their simulation.

Nor is in particular encouraging. Nor does it recommend that they actually idea thru this selection once they began designing and enforcing it. The tabloid scandal is simply the obvious end result of what would occur if a Premier League participant got here out as homosexual. There’s no accounting for the temper within the dressing room. Or how the enthusiasts would react. If the participant is a capped global, there doesn’t appear to be any attention for a way it might impact their probabilities of taking part in within the International Cup. (Indubitably this could range from nation to nation.)

The builders wouldn’t have needed to cross very a ways to discover related subject matter for his or her analysis within the design procedure for this selection. There’s the tabloids, as discussed. There’s additionally boards for enthusiasts of the sport itself. Like this Reddit thread, the place gamers accused the builders of “distinctive feature signalling” and “seeking to push an acceptance of homosexuality” on their gamers. Final yr the BBC polled soccer enthusiasts to look how an out homosexual participant could be gained in English soccer; 18% would have an issue with it, and eight% of enthusiasts would forestall staring at/following their workforce certainly one of their gamers got here out. Even reasonably harmless consciousness efforts just like the Rainbow Laces marketing campaign has a tendency to solicit a backlash that may be lovely sobering. In designing this selection, the builders made some core assumptions in regards to the present state of soccer tradition that isn’t even mirrored within the attitudes of their very own consumers.

They didn’t even trouble to seem into fresh English soccer historical past. In the event that they did, they might’ve examine Justin Fashanu, and what took place to him after he got here out as homosexual in 1990 whilst nonetheless an energetic participant. They may’ve learn in regards to the abuse and threats he gained over the following few years, and the way it affected his taking part in occupation. They may’ve examine how he in the end buckled underneath the tension and killed himself 8 years after his public disclosure.

And, positive, this isn’t the 1990s anymore. Issues have modified. The tradition has shifted. Possibly it’d be k now.

However simply because issues are higher, doesn’t imply they’re totally higher. Whilst the builders of Soccer Supervisor didn’t know the dangers homosexual footballers would possibly face within the present local weather, and whilst some enthusiasts of a extra liberal persuasion would possibly need to imagine they’d be embraced and authorised, there are sufficient individuals who know higher. Together with, it should be mentioned, queer footballers. Which is most definitely why homosexual males in English soccer are afraid to head public. Or why simply popping out to their teammates is a Large Deal. Or why they gained’t even divulge to the Soccer Affiliation, after receiving a call for participation to take action in a protected and confidential atmosphere. (That FA chairman Greg Clarke appeared so mystified that nobody took him up at the be offering could also be illustrative of the broader institutional blind spots surrounding the problems.) Make no mistake: there are homosexual males within the Premier League, they usually’re no longer going public. As a result of they know what would occur.

Even with a beneficiant studying, the builders of FM18 come throughout as painfully naive with the rollout of this selection. It’s no longer simply that failing to account for some essential variables makes for a deficient simulation. Soccer Supervisor is an indelible a part of the broader football tradition. Golf equipment use it as a scouting software. Imposing this selection within the sport used to be going to make information. If Soccer Supervisor is a devoted simulation of the football international, then it’s additionally a devoted simulation of the tradition surrounding this. By means of depicting a homosexual participant going public as slightly a blip at the radar, it constitutes a point of oversight this is naive at perfect and perilous at worst. It shall we other folks conceal within the fiction that bigotry is melting clear of society, like an getting older Polaroid digital camera. That is an assumption made in large part through individuals who don’t have first-hand revel in with that more or less bigotry, and who won’t ever actually face any penalties for his or her fallacious assumption. The backlash is for people.

There may be, after all, the chance that the builders purposefully made the effects of a participant popping out so small and benign. Believe what the sport would appear to be with this selection if the possible affects had been fleshed out. What if dressing room morale tanked? What if it was unimaginable to promote the participant as a result of nobody else sought after him on their workforce? What if he used to be bought to a membership in Saudi Arabia? What if he retired early? What if the participant dedicated suicide? Those are the forms of chances that may wish to be regarded as if this selection had been the mirror the level of complexity that Soccer Supervisor is understood for. It’s no longer unreasonable to imagine that the builders merely selected no longer account for all this as a result of how it might be gained through their consumers, who hang to a belief of well-liked social equality that doesn’t fit the lived truth of maximum LGBT other folks. Lovers of the sport adore it exactly as a result of its complexity, however it can be the case that there are limits. Possibly they only don’t need to be faced with the truth of being queer in a global— and in a occupation— this is actively antagonistic to queer other folks. And so the one more or less popping out that works within the simulated international of Soccer Supervisor is a frictionless abstraction.

The brand new function in FM18 and the discourse surrounding it’s in large part lacking a an important standpoint: homosexual other folks. Now not simply gamers, however enthusiasts and media commentators and membership staff and someone else hooked up with the game. For the entire need to reside on this planet of FM18, the place gamers popping out of the closet is actually no longer a large deal in any respect, there’s by no means any dialogue in regards to the prices queer gamers undergo once they do. If we, as a group of people that love soccer, can’t be to prevent and take into consideration how a participant who got here out publicly could be affected, then we’re no longer as able for it to occur as we’d love to suppose we’re.

And if we simply don’t care how it might impact them, then we wish to reckon with ourselves and admit that our need to have a participant pop out has not anything to do with them and the whole thing with our overwhelming wish to know. That we’re essentially motivated through a need for spectacle, in the similar manner that we crave the spectacle of North London Derbies and switch rumors and Jose Mourinho press meetings. As anyone who’s been outed to others towards my needs, believe me once I say that it’s a frightening and tough revel in. The one that did that rationalized what they did through announcing that the individual they instructed had a proper to grasp. You’d be stunned how not unusual this sentiment is.

Soccer shall be a significantly better position when queer gamers are ready to reside overtly and when they’re unequivocally supported through teammates, golf equipment, establishments, and enthusiasts. However is that the sector we’re seeking to construct once we inspire gamers to return out? Or will we simply need to gawk at anyone else’s non-public lifestyles? Until and till we will be able to meaningfully, truthfully grapple with that query, no participant of their proper thoughts will pop out publicly. And stunts like the brand new function in Soccer Supervisor will learn much less like an enchantment to our higher angels and extra like a merciless funny story.

Apply James on Twitter @thaumatropia. 

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