#bullets 20th

[apuff]

you want to talk about themes so bad

[aelinlaurel]

I've been listening to MCR again since yesterday. It feels like home to me tbh.

And I still feel so sorry for Bob, I think he was just a very lonely, lost person (Frank put it very well into words) and didn’t deserve the treatment he got from the so-called 'fans' of the band. That post of his from around a year ago (his last call for help it seems) says everything about y'all btw. Yes, maybe he made a few mistakes, but he openly said that he would like to start over. Don't act like you're any better, hypocrites. I'm so mad at y'all. MCR 'fans' killed him.

May he finally rest in peace.

[invad3r-st3vi3]

Frank Iero Revenge Era Costume

[movinginsects]

American Idiot 20th Anniversary Edition

my dream tracklist for the anniversary edition of American Idiot

Disc 1

American Idiot

Jesus of Suburbia

Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Are We the Waiting / St. Jimmy

Give Me Novacaine / She's A Rebel

Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Homecoming

Whatsername

Disc 2

Too Much Too Soon - Outtake

Shoplifter - Outtake

Favorite Son - Outtake

Governator - Outtake

Cigarettes and Valentines - Outtake

Lights Out - Outtake

When It's Time - Outtake

Disc 3

American Idiot - Demo

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Demo

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades - Demo

She's A Rebel - Demo

Letterbomb - Demo

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Demo

Whatsername - Demo

Disc 4

American Idiot - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Jesus of Suburbia - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Holiday - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Love at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Are We the Waiting - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

St. Jimmy - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Give Me Novacaine - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

She's a Rebel - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Extraordinary Girl - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Letterbomb - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Homecoming - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Whatsername - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Longview - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

2000 Light Years Away - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Basket Case - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

King For A Day - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Shout - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Minority - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

We Are The Champions - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo, London 2/7/05

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

[aria0fgold]

Was fully convince today was the 23rd but as it turns out I am at least a day or two safe from the 23rd.

[thxnks4themrms]

Me and my dumb black flared jeans

[aelinlaurel]

such a retarded take, don't talk about some tate that has nothing to do with this

can’t you give him peace even now that he’s gone? bringing your ideologies into a situation like this speaks volumes about you

Reminder that famous conservative figures are con artists. “Alpha male" influencers like Andrew Tate deliberately isolate you and exploit your loneliness for profit. They teach men ideals that make them repulsive to women, and then sell them "solutions" to make women like them, which obviously fail. Andrew Tate doesn't want you to become a "sigma male", he wants you lonely and miserable because that's when you're most dependent on him. Conservative influencers take advantage of ignorance and loneliness, and this is the end result.

[jonathanalexis]

So Cool 😱

[iinvu]

                         ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡ to. @gloomysummers

                    " if you want to pretend nothing happened, just say so. but you avoiding me and not even meeting my gaze is too much, don't you think? "

[ghostgw]

i don’t think i can ever have a public twitter again. so when i do see a taste of mcr twitter it’s funny seeing people complain about merch designs and one of the examples is the revenge album cover like baby they been using that forever

[animutate]

they should let me never go to school ever but still pass and get perfect grades because being in a school building is SO SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! btw.

[hunterrrs]

Bike rides, banana bread and being ‘a bullet’: How Sidney Crosby leads Penguins into a new era - SUCH A GOOD ARTICLE (also baby sid buying a car...)

Whether it was when Crosby baked banana bread for the Penguins two years ago or all the times he has recognized something was up with a teammate and checked in on them, everybody seems to have at least one Sid story to share.

Just as striking to these fledgling Penguins has been seeing how Crosby goes out of his way to make every one of them feel like part of the team.

“He’s so welcoming. It’s honestly crazy how he’s a better person than he is a player given how outstanding he is as a player,” prospect Jonathan Gruden said. “But he’s just an unbelievable person who makes you feel like you’ve been here 18, 20 years along with [Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang]. It’s incredible.”

For Broz, it was that ride on the exercise bikes or sticking around after an informal skate in the middle of July to share pointers with a prospect. For Gruden, it was Crosby texting a young pro who had just gotten called up to the NHL and inviting him over to his house to watch football with the guys.

And for Rutger McGroarty, it started with the text message that Crosby sends many players when they join the organization and quickly evolved from there.

It had been a whirlwind week for McGroarty when the Penguins finalized a trade to acquire him in August. His phone would not stop buzzing as the congratulatory messages poured in. As McGroarty scrolled through them, he froze.

“Oh, it’s Sidney Crosby! Not a normal text you’d get on your average day,” he said. “I was actually sitting next to a couple of my buddies and I showed them.”

A month later, McGroarty was cracking up on the bench at a joke Crosby made.

“He’s a really funny guy,” the 20-year-old said. “It feels like there’s no age gap.”

Crosby sat back at his locker stall at the practice rink the other day, flecks of gray peeking through his black hair and sweat dripping off his chin, as he thoughtfully discussed his leadership style and getting through to Generation Z. For example, McGroarty was literally in diapers when Crosby made his debut.

“I try to put myself in their shoes, but obviously things change. They evolve,” Crosby said. “I think the biggest thing as a rookie is just all the unknowns. You’re in a new league, new team, new teammates, new city. Everything is new. The faster you feel comfortable, that’s a huge part of being able to be at your best.”

Crosby knows his first taste of the league was different, right down to living with Lemieux. He laughed while joking that all these kids won’t crash on his couch.

For the 20th straight season, Crosby is trying to get the Penguins on the same page. They will ice a veteran-heavy team in Wednesday’s season opener. But eventually, the kids are coming — sooner should the team struggle again this fall.

Crosby’s little gestures will help these prospects feel more at home when they arrive. They still may be a bit starstruck. But they will know they belong here.

“It may not seem like it,” Gruden said. “But to a young guy, it means a lot.”

[a-forger-and-a-point-man]

So Barbs and Jeff Bezos are fighting

James Bond has dodged more than 4,000 bullets. He has jumped from an airplane, skied off a cliff and escaped castration by laser beam.

Now, 007 is in a new kind of peril.

Nearly three years after Amazon acquired the right to release Bond movies through its $6.5 billion purchase of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, the relationship between the family that oversees the franchise and the e-commerce giant has all but collapsed. The decaying partnership has scuttled any near-term hope of a new Bond film—a black eye for Amazon’s ambitions in Hollywood, since at the time of the MGM sale, the Bond franchise represented a significant share of the $6.5 billion the company paid for the studio. 

When it comes to Bond’s future, the power lies in the hands of Barbara Broccoli, who inherited the control from her father, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, and who for 30 years has decided when a new Bond movie can go into production. She has told friends she doesn’t trust algorithm-centric Amazon with a character she helped to mythologize through big-screen storytelling and gut instinct. This fall, she characterized the status of a new movie in dire terms—no script, no story and no new Bond.

To friends, Broccoli has characterized her thoughts on Amazon this way: “These people are f— idiots.”

A representative for Eon, the production firm behind the Bond films, said Broccoli and other members of the family had no comment. 

The two sides are at an impasse: Amazon needs Broccoli to furnish them with ideas for a new Bond movie, but Broccoli doesn’t want to make a new Bond movie with Amazon. The standoff, say people on both sides of the divide, boils down to a clash between the 20th-century Hollywood of big screens and big swings and a new entertainment industry ruled by Silicon Valley firms that prize data, algorithms and streaming subscriptions. 

This story is based on interviews with more than 20 people familiar with the Broccoli-Amazon feud, including executives, business partners and friends. 

READ MORE

[maniculum]

Perlesvaus (Evans translation)

So I'm taking another stab at reading the Sebastian Evans translation of Perlesvaus, for... reasons. Or the High History of the Holy Graal, as he titles it -- funnily enough, the people who put out this reprint apparently looked at the title, said "we're not doing that", and spelt it Grail on the cover.

Despite the bizarre choices in diction, it's still pretty fun, and I want to share some particularly entertaining bits of this text with y'all. (For those of you who aren't up on the two different translations of Perlesvaus and don't know what I mean by "bizarre choices", the Evans translation is from 1898 but pretending to be from, like, 1498.)

N.B.: Marginal notes in red are from the last time I tried this -- they stop showing up roughly a quarter of the way through the book, because that's when I decided to buy the Bryant translation instead.

I just find this funny because "who cares?" strikes me as such a modern thing to say. To me it is a phrase that seems most natural coming from a teenage character in late-20th-century media. But nope. "Who careth?"

This is here just for the bizarre scene. We have three women coming into the throne room (riding mules directly into the building, by the way). One is carrying a severed head decorated with silver and gold. Another has "a pack trussed behind her with a brachet thereupon" -- you can see from the notes that I had to look up "brachet", found out it was an old word meaning roughly "female scent-hound", and then had the mental image of this woman carrying around a beagle in a baby-bjorn.

Again something I find funny. Gawain just leaping through the air to interpose himself between the horses and this hermit, like he's trying to take a bullet for them. This is entirely because he is 100% certain the hermit will handle the saddles incorrectly, and when the hermit assures him he actually does know how this stuff works, Gawain calms down & lets him do it.

This is, for my money, one of the funniest things in all of Perlesvaus, which is saying something because it is a bonkers text. This lady rolls up and provides that description, and the hermit recognizes who she's talking about. Like, "oh yes I did see a knight with a heart of steel and the navel of a virgin". I want to give this description to a sketch artist. (I kind of want to throw it at an AI just to see what it comes up with, but you know. I don't want to encourage the machines.)

This time I'm nit-picking the translation, because that strikes me as a misplaced modifier. Obviously it's meant that Gawain is unaware of events, but the sentence is constructed to make it sound like it's referring to the building itself, which is of course unaware because it's a building and isn't aware of anything. (Also, side note, I like the phrase "as methinketh!")

One more, and I'm leaving this for now...

Here is a case where I was going to complain, but on further examination, I must hand it to Evans. I assumed that he was just randomly archaizing, but I looked it up after uploading this photo, and according to the OED, this was a valid alternate spelling of sovereign from the 17th to the 19th century. (Interestingly, the latest attested example on the OED is from 11 years before this translation was published, meaning this is evidence it was in use slightly longer than the OED entry would suggest -- does anyone know if there's still a way to submit instances of a word to the OED?)

[isa-ghost]

HEY YOU!!

Fuck it, I'll share this with the class.

Do YOU want to rewatch all of Phil's QSMP Hardcore Deity Lore in one big binge like a total fucking masochist? LOOK NO FURTHER!

In order to drag my friends into Bird Man Brainrot Hell with me, I made a bullet list of all the major lore vods with dates and timestamps included for a streamlined list of what and where to watch!

All you have to do is use this [QPhil Lore Playlist] I made from our beloved Crow Mercy's Phil vods channel and refer to the bullet list below!

Tallulah & Chayanne would've loved this day (Sept 15th 2023, 8:00:15)

What Happened to Me? (Sept 24th 2023, 1:09:11-1:15:00)

Finding the Line (Oct 27th 2023, 2:50:00-3:03:00)

A discovery… (Dec 6th 2023, 2:19:47 to 3:15:26)

Another discovery (Dec 15th 2023, 2:42:07, 2:57:18, 5:37:39)

Healing (Dec 18th 2023, 3:07:10, 6:10:59)

Xmas Event & A New Threat (Dec 20th 2023, 3:11:25, 3:36:33 to 3:42:46, 6:19:06)

A message or a warning? (Jan 12th 2024, 7:53 to 19:04)

The date is fast approaching (Jan 17th 2024, 2:21:31, 6:08:28)

oh boy oh gosh it's island time (Feb 21st 2024, 6:21:12)

A Strange Gift (Feb 23rd 2024, 2:15:11 to 2:20:11) (OPTIONAL: WATCH WHOLE VOD)

Greed comes with a price (Feb 26th 2024) (WATCH WHOLE VOD)

Break past the void (March 1st, 2024) (WATCH WHOLE VOD)

ALTERNATIVELY!!

If YouTube is giving you trouble for one reason or another, YOU'RE IN LUCK!!

Kristin uploads all of Phil's vods to an archive on his Twitch, so you can actually find ALL these vods on Phil's Twitch channel too! I did this myself just a few days before posting this, they're all uploaded and relatively easy to find!

In order to do it this way, all you have to do is go to here on Phil's Twitch, then refer to the dates in the above bullet list in the vod titles. Once you find the right vod, just refer to the timestamps above and go nuts!

Happy binging and reliving Bird Man Trauma! :D

And as a bonus note: The vods in my playlist that AREN'T major Hardcore Deity Lore moments are other significant QSMP Lore moments Phil was involved in or present for, so you could actually binge the entire playlist chronologically if you want to relive it all! :)