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#comic#my art#art#appleradio#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel fanart#lucifer hazbin#lucifer morningstar#radioapple#alastor#hazbin alastor#im trying to post every two weeks#but sep and oct are busy months for me#ill do my best tho!
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You know what I am especially loving about the SKZ September and October birthday line up?
It's that, Seunglix dorm will have 2 cakes this month, MinSung dorm will have 1 this month, one in October, ChanIn dorm will have one next month, and HyunBin dorm had one last month.
So, no one is really missing out on the cake blast in Aug-Sep-Oct. 😂 The problem arises in Feb-March when our Aquarius-Pieces duo will gave their birthdays, and other two dorm will have to wait for another six months for their turn.😂😭
P.S. I know, no one is upset or they aren't definitely bothered by this arrangements. It's just a fun post. Please, do not attack me😭
Also, happy birthday, Lixie 🥺😍
And, I was too busy to login here yesterday (😭). So, happy belated birthday, my baby Hannie🥺🥺
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art summary for 2024! (template)
jan | feb | mar | apr may | jun | jul | aug sep | oct | nov | dec
i said this in my year-in-review post for fic, but 2024 was absolutely terrible to me and i'm surprised i managed anything at all. i did, though! in spite of so many things being really awful for a really long time, i still drew and wrote. i'm happy that i drew something for every month, and honestly, the only reason that december has just a sketch is that it was a very good-busy month for me.
this year was also interesting art-wise because i switched from a surface laptop to an ipad, and i'm still feeling the learning curve. to be completely honest, i really don't like procreate in general, but i've been doing my sketches and lines in procreate because the 6B pencil tool is just fantastic -- afterwards, i export to CSP for everything else (which i've been using for years and have a love/hate thing with). my current trial-and-error struggle is finding a canvas resolution that is like, functional, but doesn't make CSP -- the most poorly optimized program on the planet -- scream and die and explode on this hardware. (it had been screaming and dying and exploding on my surface, which i just... dealt with.)
some art goals for the coming year:
more dynamic colors: i feel like i got somewhere earlier in the year, and then later in the year that somewhere went nowhere. oh well. onwards. my art from the start of the year also feels "sharper" than later, but that might be this resolution/dpi thing i'm messing with.
more dynamic poses: the perennial goal.
more sketching: also a perennial goal.
go back to doing photo studies!
here's to a better 2025. boy i drew a lot of sanjis this year.
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The Mysterious Case of Sonic Movie 3 Marketing
An Op-Ed by Malzilla
Let me say this right off the bat, I am not an expert in marketing. I took Marketing classes in college for my business minor but most of it was pretty entry level but it gave me a solid foundation to understand most companies' marketing plans. Or at least try to see the method or goal behind the madness to get a scope of what they’re trying to do. But Paramount’s treatment of Sonic 3 is bizarre. We got toys, plushies etc out in stores before the first trailer.
Sonic Movie 3 has me utterly baffled. Because here we are exactly four months/120 days (122 days at the time of this writing) and do far zip zilch nada.
The last OFFICIAL news we got for the movie was back on Feb 2nd when the twitter released a little teaser showing the logo as well as some of the additional human cast members. Sure Jon Campea on his Podcast YT show announced that Keanu would play Shadow and was pretty much confirmed by official Hollywood outlets in April but no official word from Paramount has been given. They’ve been radio silent for months know, save for a few weeks in April to promote the Knuckles TV show
So why the wait? Some folks I have talked to may think there may be some internal stuff going on, but I doubt it. Yes Paramount is getting ready to merge with Skydance and some layoffs have happened but I don’t think that would affect much of the Sonic movie day to day.
So here we are at four months till release and we’re all wondering “It’s go time right? RIGHT?”
I would think so. And so has the rest of the Sonic Fandom. But alas we’re still waiting for the green light to go. So when is that green light coming?
Soon.
I hope.
Honestly, I don’t know. But looking at two other films marketing that run some parallels to S3 as well as some key dates in the next four months. I'm going to throw some ideas out there.
First off let's look at the marketing on Sonic 2. Movie was released April 8th 2022, and its first official trailer was released on Dec 9th at the 2021 VGAs (it also had a poster released the day prior on the 8th). So right at the four month mark. They followed up with some TV spots and a special Pre Super Bowl TV spot in February AND then the final Trailer March 14th. So a fairly dense four month marketing campaign.
The other film to look at is Spider-man No Way Home, which like Sonic 3 had a December release date. NWH after months of rumors and lack of promotion (sound familiar) debuted its first teaser trailer on August 23rd 2021; roughly four months prior to its Dec 17th release date. It also had another final trailer on Nov 16th; roughly one month prior.
So if we look at both of them we see a very similar four month marketing campaign. So what does that mean for Sonic 3? Let's work backward from the release date till now. The following are dates of significance, IMO to both Paramount, Pop/Nerd/Game culture etc:
Dec 20th - Release Date
The Long Wait will be over and we all bask in the Living and Learning of it all
Nov 28th - Thanksgiving - Possible 2nd Trailer.
Given that Paramount has put Sonic TV spots before Football games before, I would not be surprised if we got the 2nd Trailer during Half Time of the CBS game that airs in the morning of Thanksgiving. This also aligns with the roughly 1 month prior benchmark as seen with both S2 and NWH.
NYCC Oct 17th-20th - TV Spots/Behind the Scenes/Movie Clip
While this date kinda is little too soon for a second trailer, it would be a great time to bring out the whole cast and do some promotion with the masses and maybe some TV spots or a small clip.
Transformers One Release Sep 20th - PONR for First Trailer
I think I can safely say that the absolute LATEST we can expect a trailer for Sonic 3 would nex month with the release of Transformers One. Paramount would have to be utterly brainless NOT to have a trailer for Sonic playing in front of their other Family Nerd Oriented IP.
Gamescom 2024 Oct 20h - 25th - Trailer Release
Kinda funny how the Opening Night Ceremony for Gamescom just so happens to fall on both the four month till release mark AND a Tuesday (Paramount usually releases trailers on Tues/Thurs)? We KNOW SEGA will be there with more SonicXShadow Generations, but really the movies are more Paramount’s game than SEGAs so there is no guarantee it will be released. BUT Paramount has passed on both Summer Game Fest AND San Diego Comic Con. Everything seems aligned for a reveal on Tuesday. I guess we’ll know if we get a poster revealed tomorrow.
Now personally I would have started ramping up the marketing with SDCC. Because right now the two biggest competitors that Sonic 3 is going to have in Dec are Kraven and Mufassa. And both of these movies have had TWO trailers released for it. With Kraven it makes sense since it was originally supposed to be released back in 2023 but then got pushed back 3 times. So I guess Sony thinks it can rack up a solid week one before the family holiday push. Mufassa on the other hand is going to be the big one to beat as family’s will no doubt flock to the much anticipated origin of Mufasa! That last part was sarcasm but this part is not: they need to get the word out to the casuals. I’ve talked to a lot of Non Sonic who are genuinely excited to see Keanu play Shadow. And the time is right to get them hooked.
So in the end, I will say that I’m like Jon Snow and I “know nothing” but I do know we're getting to the point where it’s time for paramount to lace up its sneakers and get going. Whether it's this week or the next or maybe till the opening of Transformers One. But I would recommend Paramount not dilly dally. Sonic Fans are easily frustrated and can turn rabid quickly.
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10 PFPs of this year!!
In order are: Jan, Feb, Mar, April, May, June, July, Sep, Oct, and Nov
No August because I didn’t have any ideas
No December because I’ve been too tired or busy or just not interested in drawing
Originally around February I decided I wanted to make a pfp for each month this year. I obviously couldn’t keep my word but 10/12 is close enough for me.
I think my favorites from this year would be Augusts (img 8) and last months (10) but February’s (2) comes close.
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Weekly Pond Newsletter
Admin Michelle here, and I am once again (mostly) functional after my meltdown about Jensen at the DC con last weekend. I have occasional wibbles, still, when I see photos of him with that damn kazoo in his mouth, but otherwise I'm back to normal.
(Con recovery for me is a lot like that gif, actually! 🤣)
Old Business:
Fishing For Treasures weekend at the @fanficocean. This weekend is FFT weekend over at the Ocean, and this month's theme is AU fics! Head on over there to read some excellent AU fics from other fandoms. Here at the Pond, we will be celebrating on the 21st and 22nd. If you've got some AU fics you'd like to rec, submit a link to the blog here or drop a link in the #fishing-for-treasures channel in the Discord server! The deadline is Friday, the 20th, at midnight, Eastern US/Canada time.
#TweetFicTues prompts for Sep 26th:
#TweetFicTues prompts for Oct 3rd:
New Business:
Angel Fish Awards are late, but they are coming! Admin Michelle will be putting the post together soon, so keep an eye out! If you want to get a nomination submitted and earn another entry for the September raffle, you still have time. Click here for more info about the AFA's and how it all works.
Admin Marie will be hosting a rewatch of SPN! This was just announced a little while ago, but we've been excited about this idea since Marie first mentioned it. Everyone will watch on their own time, and then we'll get together to discuss the episodes and find inspiration for fanfics! The first chat is scheduled for next weekend! Click here to learn more about it and how to participate!
Competitive Writing Sprints with Manta Ray Dean! After the Rewatch chat with Marie, Dean will be hosting writing sprints in the Discord server. Rumor has it, these sprints might be centered around ideas that come up during the Rewatch chat! We can't wait to see what everyone writes!
Manta Rays in the Discord server. This week, we've got two Admins and Manta Rays spending time in the Discord server just to chat! Marie will be there on Friday night and Michelle will be there on Saturday after the Rewatch chat and writing sprints are done.
Paul Carella Sunday StageIt shows. As usual, Paul's got two shows scheduled for later today. Click here for more info and to buy tickets!
Jason Manns in Songwriter Circle at The Heist in Bowling Green, VA. On Thursday, Jason will be joined by three other fantastic singer songwriters at his music venue in his hometown. No StageIt show has been announced for this, yet, but we have our fingers crossed!!
(Divider by @glygriffe!)
That's all for this week! To see all Pond events, and also other SPN-related things like conventions and online concerts, check out our Google calendar! Click here for a static view in Eastern US/Canada time (desktop only, no mobile app access, sadly), and click here to add our calendar to your own Google calendar! We try to keep it as up to date as possible. If there's something you want to see on the calendar that's not there (maybe a convention we missed, or cast birthdays, or something similar), send us an ASK and let us know!
Hope you have a great week! - From your Admins and Manta Rays, @manawhaat, @mrswhozeewhatsis, @mariekoukie6661, @princessmisery666, @thoughtslikeaminefield, @katbratsupernaturalwhore and @heavenssexiestangel!
#weekly events post#michelle answers#pond admin#long post#spn fan fiction#spn fanfiction#spn fan fic#spn fanfic#supernatural fan fiction#supernatural fan fic#supernatural fanfiction#supernatural fanfic#dean winchester#sam winchester#castiel#the winchesters#spnwin#spn prequel#john winchester#mary winchester#carlos cervantes#latika desai
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tag someone you want to know and/or some of your besties.
I was tagged by @fourth-quartet 😊 Thank you!!
favourite colour: Gray but I'm currently in a brown phase
last song: I've got recently reacquainted with Beginner by AKB48 😄
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last series: The Kidnapping Day. It was a lot more wholesome than the name suggests.
last movie: Saw X (surprisingly also a lot more wholesome than you'd expect????)
sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet :3
currently watching:
Koisenu Futari
Chains of Heart
The Golden Girls (season 1)
Love in the Air (2nd rewatch)
other stuff I watched this year: Not listing all of it here (I've never watched so much stuff as I did in 2023), but I'll mention the ones that I enjoyed watching the most from each month so far (*not including rewatches):
JAN: Wednesday
FEB: GAP
MAR: Not Me
APR: Tick, Tick... Boom!
MAY: Utsukushii Kare
JUN: Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938
JUL: Takin' Over The Asylum
AUG: Marry My Dead Body
SEP: Utsukushii Kare: Eternal
OCT: The Sandman
shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: I barely remember the ones I watched till the very end 🤡 But ok, let me see...
Eve (dropped after one episode; Rich People and their Rich People Problems™, I think was the reason)
A few straight GMMTV shows that I didn't really catch the name (I. Well. I just. I just couldn't make myself give a fuck, ok 😔)
+ Currently deliberating whether or not I should drop Chains of Heart. All the subtitles I've found are lacking in terms of coherence, and the story itself is already not the most straightforward, so I can only hope I'm understanding what's going on at all? 😀 And I'm also not feeling the main couple from either the present nor the past (? I suspect they are the same (but I may never know))... HOWEVER, I like the acting of the main, and the Thai scenario that is not Bangkok for once. That's always refreshing. And sometimes the cinematography is pretty too... Decisions, decisions...
currently listening to: Back for More by TXT & Anitta (I went after the link for it and distractedly searched for "banger" instead of the title 😆)
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currently reading: Codename Villanelle (it's a small book but I'm. ..struggle)
current obsession: I'm not obsessing over anything at the moment 😟☹😫 Have been too busy with mundane adult life problems (therefore, as you can imagine, I'm just about going up the walls here :))
tagging: @eatprayworm @thisautistic @hyp-no-tic @visualtaehyun hi 👋
#tag game#it's one of those weeks when I feel like my old acquaintances might be sick of me already#SO I tagged some people I think might be really cool but haven't directly approached yet#you know. for maximum anxiety#I've lost many songs over the years (it's never safe to have only one copy of them; thankfully I can afford more now)#the first time I found Beginner (as a pre-teen) I just downloaded it randomly listened to it and liked it so much I decided to keep it??#oh to be young and not care about stuff like viruses or managing your time#at some point while writing this post I finished watching Ko¡senu Fut@ri#10/10 no notes#(lies. there are notes. dozens and dozens of reblogs just waiting for me to spread them all over your dashboards in the near future)#tick tick boom was quite nice... for a musical#(not a fan of musicals so to have one on my list is. wild)#already four months since the Lee brothers left me 😪#and I haven't heard a word about LDW's new drama in MONTHS. actively gnawing the bars of my cage rn#OH OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT#SPECIAL MENTION TO <SUMMER STRIKE> IN MAY#if my other option wasn't Utsukush¡i fricking K@re I wouldn't even hesitate. but. it was#and everyone knows I'm not normal about this one 😀🙂#if anyone wants to advocate in favor of Ch@ins of Heart. please. I'm all ears. is it worth it?#uhh. I'm not gonna disclose much but it's true I'm under a lot of stress lately. there is a lot going on right now.#I might not be able to watch new shows/be around tumblr while I (try to) sort my shit out#just a quick heads up 👍
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Extras & Headcanons 2023
That’s The Tea Logan Photo
Zapp Brannigan/Roman Meme
Twin Snakes/Janus Candy
Zodiac Meme Logan/Remus
Logince Meme
Double Trouble/Janus She-ra Comparison
Old Thomas Pics
Maybe New Janus & Remus Sketch Coming?
Never Ending List feat. Janus
One Ticket To Barbie feat. Logan
Turn Down Music feat. Virgil
I’m Sick feat. Roman
Thomas Channel Header July 2023
They Returned Me Logince Meme
Farmer Thomas Photos 🍆
Roman 🎧
Those Hero Shots (Redux)
Sound Off Sanders Sides
Patton and Janus Tropes I Love
How Logan Feels Love (Canon)
Patton Flips Off
Logan’ sLow down
Thomas Pic 2020
Logan Missing Poster
1000 followers!?!
Young Wholesome Headshots
Sweeney Todd Casting (Aug 2023)
Theories In A Cafe (Ft. Deceit)
Anime Opening Logince Stuff
Talyn’s Coffee Order (from patreon livestream)
Over The Garden Wall Comic/Sides Detail
Logince Drabble (based on my quote)
Sanders Sides Stills w/Eye Colours
A Lil Logince Youtooz (Sep/23)
Crofters The Musical Appreciation Post
Accidental Renaissance Painting (DnD Slide Short)
SaSi Draw Your Squad of Accidental Renaissance
‘JUST Good Friends’ Stills
Getting Choked Up Over ‘JUST Good Friends’
2022 Calendar Art SaSi (& RWR Crack Theory)
Logince in SaSi Kids Cereal Mini Youtooz
Me As Quil Logince
Pre-Fanders Quil (Only SaSi Kids Cereal Mini Youtooz Plush)
Sweeney Todd Father/Daughter Selfie (Oct /23)
Green Screen BTS Shots from Anime Opening (Patreon Oct /23)
Daily Remus/Astrology Bot
Janus & Logan Created The Devils Plan (Netflix)
Patton Silly Meme
Nico’s 3rd Birthday (Oct 10/23)
Mini Plush Logince Moment
Sanders Sides + Text Posts Part 5
Logince Green Screen Junk
R&P Fan Cast
Sanders Sides + Text Posts Part 6
Sanders Sides + Text Posts Part 7
LNTAO 5th Anniversary
1st Anniversary Of Into The Unknown
Duality of Man Oct 2023
Equally Stupid Royality
Lee Calls BS
Roman Heels
Logan’s Birthday Message 2023
November Meme (Mean Months)
Inside Out 2 Anxiety
My Roommate Is Hades B99 Meme
Logan Pics Different Looks
Dreamy Thomas (floral shirt 2020)
Janus Shirt (Literally Don’t Care)
Fandom Ranking Tumblr 2023
Happy 4th Kill In The Blank/Detective Sanders
Scott Pilgrim Meme
When Logan Is Roman’s Secret Santa (Nov 23 Patreon Livestream)
Helios/Janus Lore Olympus Vol 5
Spamb0t Meme
Ncuti Sides
Sanders Sides All The Extras 4
What’s Going On In My Head Meme
Cool Dad Far Side Mug (Short)
The Smile The Reason Meme (Logince)
Mindpalace Lilly’s Birthday Dec 19
TS CHARACTER BIRTHDAY LIST 2023
The Smile/ The Reason (platonic anxceit)
I’m Featured Fander/Perfect Gift Reaction Video
Lego Fortnite Livestream Shoutout Dec 2023
Janus Hoodie (yellow skull flowers)
Incorrect Quotes Meme
New Banner 2024
Just Minding Your Own Business meme
Surrounded By Idiots (Logan Book)
Back To The Grind (WTIT Meme)
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“ she cost me $25,000 for hair school and didn’t finish “
YOU THREW ME IN THE PAYCHWARD OCT 9 th I DID 6 months AND SHOWED UP EVERYDAY AFTER A YR AND CHANGE OF UNNECESSARY REHAB ( NO EMOTIONAL BREAK)
- 2 weeks home working in Torrance ca and driving to Calabasas to be with Tristan AND GOING TO WORK FIRAT THING IN THE MORNING FROM THERE OR HOME TO YOU THE NIGHT BEFORE
- SAME GET DOWN WHEN SCHOOL STARTED FROM MOD CITY LA TO SHERMAN OAKS SCHOOL TO CALABASSES MAYBE LATE 3 times WHEN I HELPED TRISTAN MOVE TO RANCHO … SCHOOL EVERY FUCKING DAY
- YOU GOT LIA AND DAE POSING AS ME AND OTHER MEXICAN KIDS WHO ARE MY COUSINS DOING TERRORIST THREATS BASICALLY AND MAKING ME LOOK RACIAT TO THE WHITE KIDS YOU LEE HATE FOR FAMILIES SUING YOU.
- YOU YOURSELF POSING AS A TEACHER W MY STUDENT ID TO HARASS OTHER TEACHERS AND PAY FOR STUDENTS TUITION OR EARLY GRAD LICENSE .. speed up their grad date BY THEM SACRIFICING ME AGAIN. SEP .. when did YOU LEAVE FOR UR VACAY TO THE EAST COAST BEFORE ME GOING IN OCT 9th - INDIA LOVE BUT ITS ME ANS ZJ AND EMAN “clarity besties” PARTAKING W LAINEY AND LINDSAY AND EMMA. in the house YOU STARTED ON EMAN THEN TURNED to KILLING ME.
- UR OWN FUCKING DAUGHTER! - THANKS BAYLEE FOR KILLING ME ON THE HIKE - DRUGS IN MY FOOD “Baylee did her own thing w penny” YOU FUCKING DICK WADS.
And Yal just watched “she’s telepathic she just knows things” NO IM NUMB LIKE LEE WANTED TIMOTHY PELYKO SO GARRAT CUD KILL ME FOR GOOD HOMELESS - NIPSEY SHOOTING GRANNY FLORANCE AND LAWANDA HOSPITALS - ALEXIS DRUGGING BEFORE SHOOTING .. 🫤🖕
ANYWAYS SINCE IM A BAD DEGREELESS STUDENT BITCH I GOT 9-13 HAIR CERTIFICATE WHILE BEING HOMELESS .. TRIED GETTING A SALON JOB AT BASIC LEVEL TO MAKE MONEY WHILE HOMELESS AND YO BITCH ASS REALLY THREATENED TO KILL THE SALONS BUSINESS IF THEY HIRED ME .. and paid em extra to report me crazy for even going on a interview… BEFORE I GOT THERE BUT YAL TOLD ME TO GO THERE
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- YOU DONT WANT TO ACTUALLY HELP ME YOU JUST SAYING NICE THINGS TO MY FACE AND IN FRONT OF HOWARD LEE BUT MOSTLY THE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS “ my friend in New York makes hair wigs for cancer patients call him” - NO I DONT WANT TO MAKE WIGS FOR CANCWR PATIENTS RIGHT NOW AND I HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ROUTE IM GOING W WIG MAKING … ALSO ITS UR RECOMMENDATION THEY NEVER WORKED FOR ME
- “you should volunteer FREE hair cuts at ARC I’m on the board there I’ll talk to pat casino night is soon we’re planning it “ - OKAY COOL I CAN GET MY SCISSOR OVER COMB PRACTICE IN MEN CUTS - LEE NEVER PUT IN A WORD FOR ME .. JAN 2024. U care more about Ronnie n Nateana than me and Francis - WHY!? And Rachel GARLINGTON but it’s marry posing as Rachel. JOHN EVERYDAY I SEE WHY YOU HATE LIVING W LEE AS A KID // HER VISITING. - JULAN. MURDER.
“Cashay and Howard tell my mom we’ll take Amy just so she had a peaceful passing * fake cries* “ me and Howard “nigga what!?” - “it’s not real I just want gammy to pass peacefully without worry about Amy” Howard “Lee that doesn’t sound right” - Lee “Howard I just want my mom comfortable when dying and NOT stressed about Amy it’s not going to happen” - weird bc family dinner 3 days - week later “okay guys Amy’s moving in with us” - me and Howard “U SAID WE WERE JUST SAYING IT TO MAKE GAMMY COMFY” - Lee afraid to see her family she kilt and look John in the eyes - WHYD I SEE A WHITE HAIR SHORT BOB JANE WHEN I WAS WALKING W GARRET AND HE GOES “she looks familiar” HOW AND WHY TF HE KNOW JANE!? - fancy apartments by Ralph’s … 🙂🫤🖕
- Howard “try the pantages” - NO ITS A 9-5 COSTUME N HAIR YES ME LOVE BUT NOT IN A WORK AESTHETIC I WANT TO WORK FROM HOME WHERE IM COMFORTABLE TO DO MY FUCKING BEST - PAUL MITCHELL 4 IN ONE MENS CUT “cashay why are you always the first one done” - idk bro i found a short cut - I KNOW HOW TO CHALLENGE MYSELF WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE - QUICK LEARNER.
OOOOH MISSS LEE.. why IS GARRET NOT HIS REAL NAME … UR FUCKING COUSIN!? - JANE LIVES IN LA NOW BETWEEN THE LIB N RALPHS N HE ATAYS W HER!?? That’s weird .. what’s the ocean blue n white apartments ( Avalon Ava fancy BIG LOUNGE LOBBY) .. north side going east .. hay ralphs … she didn’t say hi to me but he did try n fuck you to confuse me “she look familiar “ .. really ass hore WHY WUD YOU KNOW LEE SISTER BUT I AINT NEVER SEEN YOU - KNOCK OFF BEN AND I KNOW THIS CUNT NEXT TO ME BOTHERING ME EVERY DAY IS NOT BEN BUT SSI WHOS THAT GARRET - BEN!?
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Jane nice wallet going to Ralph’s you cud have offered me food cunt as bitch - SHUT UP FOR NO REASON WHEN I WAS 11 “Lee control ur daughter she has a loose mouth” - AWKWARD JOHNS THOTS BOUT YOU COMING OUT MY MOUTH AND I ONLY MET YOU ONCE - GOOD LUCK IN HELLS PRISON DICK WDS.
LEE WHY YOU GOT ME ON PAPER AT THESE APARTMENTS AND MY CAR REGISTERED TO IT - JANE GOT BLUE PRIUS TOO NEWER COLOR OLDER TR LIES ON PAPER - “cashay let’s do insurance fraud on the porch ON CAMERA N HOWARDS CREDIT CARD NAME OFF THE WHITE HOUSE .. so I can steal UR REGISTRATION AND PUT JANES ON FILE” - OOPS I DIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY WRONG HOPEFULLY THEY WONT CATCH ME THE WHITE LADY BUT INSTEAD YOU LR JANE FOR MAKING TAKING AMY FROM THE EAST COAST HARDER THAN IT NEEDED TO BE - CAITLIN NUGENT PAY OFF SHHH MONEY FOR WALKING IN WHILE PULLING THE PLUG 🙂🖕
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4th Oct, Hello October!
Hi Autumn!
So, it's been quite a while since I haven't posted here. I have been busy with lots of activities going on in my life right now. Right from the beginning of the year, I have struggled with this pain. Initially, I thought, its some infection or allergy. Later, I had to take off from my work and reach my hometown for proper treatment. Numerous tests, and CT Scans were held, but the root cause was still not discovered. Later, I got a bit of relief by consuming "Migraine medication", but guess what, I never had a Migraine really.
Well, just a few weekdays back like at the beginning of the month of Sep, I again felt a bit uneasy on the right side of my jaw. Some sort of discomfort and pain were occurring at regular intervals. I then visited a Dentist. He first checked me and then told me to have some tests and X-rays. As the report came, it stated that my premolar teeth eventually got fractured, damaging my pulp area. This was really shocking to me, as I had never heard of teeth fracturing. After a few visit, I decided to take advice from my Dentist uncle, and he recommended his friend.
Post visiting him, I realized there was no need for new teeth implantation as the previous doctor had told me. So, in a way, I wasted my two weeks there. Further, this doctor told me to have an RCT and then it would be okay, but this requires 4-5 sittings. Now, I am in immense pain, so much to the extent that I am not able to chew properly. My whole face is getting swelled up now and then affecting my neck areas as well. I had no idea, that it would pain so much. I have had one RCT before as well, but that wasn't this painful.
Now it has been more than a month that I have been on painkillers, and have difficulty eating normal food. Yesterday, I had another sitting with the Dentist. It was terrible, as they did dressing which involved numerous needles poking my pulp area to make it clean and infection free. I was so screaming that they had to give me anaesthesia, and post that it was paining a lot. They even gave me a strong painkiller, but after 2-3 hours, it started to pain to death. I couldn't even sleep properly. I went to sleep around 3 am, reached late in the office, not feeling that much pain but yeah it still exists.
All I want here is to say that you should not ignore your dental issues. Take precautions before it gets too serious. Look after your self, and get in touch with your doctor immediately if you face any dental problems.
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so... you wanna know the dream smp lore as of dec 19th, 2020
you have come to the correct place
the dream smp in a nutshell (somewhat)
ok so despite the server itself starting in april, the lore doesn’t start until wilbur joined in like june. the basics are that wilbur tommy and tubbo started a drug business and that didn’t sit well with dream sapnap or george bc it was their server, so tommy tubbo and wilbur (and eret came in at some point) decided to separate their land on the server and call it l’manberg. they built a wall, they had their own national anthem. this again upset the dream team. eret then gets revealed as a traitor and causes everyone in l’manberg to lose their first lives. (there’s a 3 live rule for almost every character in the smp, the only exception being philza - he only has 1) eret did this in order to become kind of the server. then dream bombed l’manberg after wilbur tried to negotiate with him. at that point, independence for l’manberg was no longer looking like an options
then came an agreement between tommy and dream, they’d duel for l’manbergs independence, but if dream won he’d take one of tommy’s music discs (why the discs are so important? i literally could not tell you). dream won, taking tommy’s second life. and somewhere in there fundy enters the server as part of l’manberg, and starts all the weird family dynamic stuff
here’s a little tangent on family dynamics in the smp:
philza is the father of techno and wilbur (twins), and it’s confirmed their mother is a samsung smart fridge. he also fathers tommy, who’s mother is unknown, and tubbo, who’s adopted - his bio parents unknown, but there’s a really popular theory going around that schlatt is his bio dad
wilbur is the father of fundy, and fundys mother is apparently a fish - sally the salmon. it’s complicated, at some point the idea of sally being a shapeshifter was brought up but never confirmed
back to the lore, tommy came back on his last life and then negotiated with dream for the independence of l’manberg and in exchange he would give dream both of his discs (again, i have no clue why they’re so important to him but they play a huge part in his character) so with that, the war between l’manberg and the dream team was over. l’manberg wrote a decree of independence, officially exiled eret, then started a government - tommy was assigned treasury of the state and later the vice president, tubbo was the secretary of state, and fundy was just wilbur little champion. wilbur took the title as president
jack manifold then joined the server and l’manberg, dream begged him to join the dream team but he stayed with l’manberg. then tommy, jack, and tubbo decided to cause chaos and get revenge against dream for the destruction of l’manberg and for tommy to get his discs
there were a few minor events in between the war and the election that i don’t really deem that important, the most notable thing is that quackity joined the server. but if you’d like to read about the events - they’re on the wiki! i’d also recommend keeping up with the wiki because the plot moves very fast, and the wiki is a good source that always keeps track of everything that happens and just the members individually! there’s also a channel on youtube that uploads the vods of every member but only their smp streams, it’s just called dream smp members vods (if you’re at all interested in watching this rather than reading it)
we now get into the election. a lot of people weren’t really happy with wilbur as president and they weren’t taking him seriously, so wilbur tried to fix this by holding an election that originally he thought only he could win. quackity then formed his own party to run against wilbur, thus leading to SWAG2020 (quackity and george) vs POG2020 (wilbur and tommy). later joining the election would be Coconut2020 (fundy and niki nihachu) as well as Schlatt2020 (it was just schlatt). this was a real poll left up to the viewers, and Schlatt2020 ended up winning as for some reason his results were supposed to be combined with SWAG2020s results - together they had 46%, just 1% above POG2020 - so Schlatt was now president of l’manberg. (despite only joining the server once the campaigns had started and almost ended). schlatts first decree was to exile wilbur and tommy from l’manberg - he then kept tubbo as secretary of state and demanded he hunt tommy and wilbur. it’s also worth noting that he ordered the walls of l’manberg to be destroyed. this ends the l’manberg independence arc as a whole (yes all of that was one single arc) as l’manberg was renamed manberg by schlatt. (one last thing worth noting is that wilbur lost a life during the election, so he only has 1 life left)
this then starts the manberg rebellion arc. this is actually the longest arc at the moment as it lasted for almost 2 months(sep 22nd-nov 16th), but the next arc is still ongoing so that could change. also it’s now important to note that important events always happened on the 16th, so if you plan on ever watching streams live, you should always try to catch any that happen on the 16th.
wilbur and tommy created yet another independent part of the smp called pogtopia. other members of pogtopia were technoblade (who had just joined the server) acting as a mercenary, and tubbo, the pogtopia spy. this then caused another split of the server, and dream became part of pogtopia but only in secret. there were also third parties, that being manifold land and the badlands.
a festival in manberg was announced, and tubbo was supposed to give a speech and organize the event. this then caused wilbur to question his morality, and this sparked the idea that wilbur should blow up manberg for good, tommy didn’t agree with this, and dream sided with wilbur simply because he wanted schlatt gone. tommy and tubbo then decided they could only trust each other (THATS IMPORTANT PLEASE REMEMBER THAT)
the festival happened on oct 16th, where tubbo was outed as the l’manberg spy, techno was then ordered to kill tubbo (which he did, causing tubbo to lose a life and bring him down to one life) but he then basically caused a massacre in manberg. niki then joined pogtopia in hopes to save manberg with tommy and tubbo while wilbur and techno planned to destroy it. wilbur originally had plans to blow up manberg at the festival, but was unsuccessful as he lost the button he was supposed to use in order to do so
quackity was removed from his spot as vice president, then joining pogtopia. then an ultimatum was established within pogtopia - deal with schlatt, or wilbur blows everything up. that did not stop wilbur from attempting to blow up manberg yet again at nikis birthday party but was stopped by quackity, karl jacobs, and niki. the ultimatum was then given a deadline, november 6th.
quackity tried to meet with schlatt, who had tried to blow manberg up yet again only for schlatt to reveal that he moved the tnt wilbur put in manberg to pogtopia. fundy then revealed he’d been spying for pogtopia in secret - and wilbur began to realize that under schlatts leadership, NO ONE was on manbergs side. except dream who then revealed he actually was going to protect manberg for some reason idk dreams motivation and just dream in general is really confusing, but regardless he negotiated war with pogtopia, and the decided date was nov 16th
schlatt ended up dying of a heart attack in front of everyone in pogtopia, leaving the presidency to tommy, who then handed it to wilbur, who then handed it to tubbo. wilbur took this as his chance to blow up l’manberg, as in his eyes it would never be the same. philza then joined the server and tried to stop him, but he was unsuccessful. wilbur then convinced phil - his own father in canon - to kill him, and he did, causing him to die in all actuality this time as that was his last life.
techno then caused another massacre right after wilbur literally blew up l’manberg because he was angry that l’manberg was just replacing one dictator with another, and set two withers. he swore that he would destroy any government that rose in the dream smp. (i actually recommend watching wilburs video on this event, it’s his most recent dream smp video and probably his final as his character is dead now. techno also tells the story of theseus and he explains it much better than i can, and the role of theseus does play in later in the lore)(it’s also just a fucking cinematic masterpiece but maybe that’s just me)
that ends the manberg rebellion arc, and so starts the l’manberg retribution arc (which is still ongoing) and although the last arc currently stands as the longest arc, there’s much more lore in this arc at the moment. like i’ve said, the lore just moves very fast
the remaining citizens of l’manberg start to rebuild with the help of ghostbur, which is just as he sounds - the ghost of wilbur. he only remembers happy memories from his life and generally just likes to follow people around a lot, he’s not on anyone’s specific side. also somewhere during all of this, eret decided to adopt fundy, so eret is now in this complicated family dynamic mix
quackity was angry with technos actions and started ‘the butcher army’ so he could take techno down, despite tubbos wishes to not start any more wars and to keep l’manberg peaceful, and also the factor of technoblade now having nothing.
dream along with captain puffy started defacing and destroying the sever as a whole and placed all of the blame on tommy. most notably he targeted skeppy and badboyhalo in the badlands (who for some reason have one of tommy’s discs). dream left a fake note about the disc, which is what let to the belief that tommy actually did commit these crimes.
on nov 19th, a funeral was held for schlatt, to which the crowd who attended made fun of him and celebrated his death, and trying to cause trouble (basically quackity made a piss portrait of schlatt and ate his heart) the rest also took pieces of schlatts body. he was put to rest in the side of a mountain outside of l’manberg
badboyhalo actually encountered the grieving of him and skeppys houses done bg dream, promising to burn tommy’s discs. everyone else was finding out about “tommy” greeting bad, meanwhile quackity was replacing schlatts remains with fucking glass, trying to resurrect him - he then gave this task to awesamedude, but whether or not he’s going to do it is still up in the air
ranboo then joined the server and became close with tommy, and they both george’s george’s house. this caused dream to build and obsidian wall around l’manberg, and then everyone found out tommy grief led george (which is not a good look for the vice president (tommy is the vice president btw)) and this is when the idea of exiling tommy came up. tommy was then brought to court simply because dreamed wished to see tommy get exiled for things that he didn’t even do
a lot of stuff happened but i’m really trying my best to keep this brief, again you can read the wiki if you’d like more detail! it’s a great source of information! but in the end the decision to exile tommy was left to a twitter poll, it was close but the winning option was to exile tommy
before tommy got exiled, there was the introduction of mexican l’manberg also known as el rapids. in el rapids, a lot of conflict happened with dream, and at this point it really seems that no one is really on dramas side (which like rightfully so dsmp!dream is fucking horrible)
still before he was exiled, tommy brought up the idea of waging war on dream because it seemed that really everyone in l’manberg was against him. there was even the idea of getting people outside of l’manberg involved (like techno, sapnap, bad, etc). tubbo then had dream escort tommy out of l’manberg to his exile. he’d just betrayed his best friend, the person who he agreed was the only one he could trust, which confused a lot of people because it was almost a last moment decision - but apparently it was the only logical thing to do (bs imo) but then tubbo agreed to work with quackity in killing technoblade
dream stayed with tommy often while in exile, and they stayed together for about 11 days with occasional visits from ghostbur. dream was very violent towards tommy during all of this, threatening to kill him if he didn’t do as he said, blowing up an old house tommy and tubbo built, and saying that he could /never/ go back to l’manberg. tommy actually began hiding important items from dream so that he wouldn’t destroy them, as that was a common thing as well - he’d make tommy drop all of his items to dispose of them for good. there was one item he’d never drop, though, and that was a gift from ghostbur - it was a compass that pointed to the whitehouse in l’manberg called ‘your tubbo.’ similarly, tubbo also has a compass called ‘your tommy’ that pointed to logstedshire (the place where exiled tommy and dream would stay)(‘your tommy’ was destroyed, most likely by dream, and even though tubbo got a second one - tommy doesn’t stay in logstedshire for long)
dream unfortunately found out about this as well, and the. disposing of all of his hidden items. and after 11 days of experiencing all of this with dream, tommy left to find somewhere much safer, ultimately deciding to make a burrow under technoblade and philzas house, as no one in the smp except them had known its location.
he thought he could stay hidden but techno found him literally the next day after being hunted by the butcher army that quackity had built, and being ordered for execution in l’manberg only to be saved by a totem of undying and escaping l’manberg through the sewers with the help of dream. (it’s worth noting that philza was also captured, is now on house arrest, AND was almost forced to watch another one of his sons die right in front of him) and guess when all of that happened???? DEC 16th. also everyone in l’manberg now thinks tommy is dead and they’re planning a funeral for him because they saw some sort of explosion debris that somehow links to tommy(i think it was blown up logstedshire)
techno and tommy then formed an alliance in order to get back technos stolen items (the butchers from l’manberg took everything) as well as rescue phil, and to get tommy’s disc back. i’m doing this, techno revealed a secret room that no one but himself knew about prior, revealing to tommy a room full of wither skulls and a full set of netherite armor, uttering the fucking ICONIC line ‘welcome home, theseus’ and therefore referencing the last big event, showing that tommy has made progress since then (at least in the eyes of technoblade)
so tommy stays with techno with more visits from ghostbur, and visits from dream - although tommy has hidden during both of his visits with invis potions. techno is set on protecting tommy now, and tommy is still struggling with trying to separate himself from dream. the first time dream visits it’s with techno, and techno convinces him that tommy isn’t at his house. dream also points out that techno owes him a favor bc he saved him in l’manberg. the second visit is when ghostbur was there, and ghostbur slips up quite a lot when interacting with dream. dream reveals he knows tommy isn’t dead and that he’s with techno somehow, and i think that’s just about it
one last thing worth noting is that this story is almost always looking at the fans for inspiration and has included a lot of fan theories into the canon (techno and wilbur being twins, and most notably the ‘welcome home, theseus’ line) so i’d highly recommend in participating in fan stuff as much as you can! there’s also just a lot of creative people in the fandom if you stay out of the weird side lol. but with that, i think that’s about all of the lore as of now
(i wrote all of this from midnight to 3 am so i am so sorry if i forgot things and i’m sorry about spelling mistakes)
#dream team#dream smp#sbi#sleepy boys inc#dream#georgenotfound#sapnap#wilbur soot#tommyinnit#technoblade#philza#quackity#karl jacobs#nihachu#l’manberg#pogtopia#manberg#badboyhalo#skeppy#tubbo#minecraft#mcyt#dream smp in a nutshell#i’m so tired i’ve spent the last 3 hours writing all of this
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About Kathy renting a house near Camp Toccoa and how disconnected people state-side from people at war
Source: Biggest Brother; Conversations with Major Dick Winters; Social notes in Pinehurst North Carolina newspaper “The Charlotte Observer” 1943-1945
Biggest Brother: “Winters knew her somewhat. She had taken a house near Camp Toccoa while the 506th was in training, and Nixon had often invited Winters to the house for meals or conversation.”
Conversations with Major Dick Winters: “Nixon had been married, but he had no love at home. I went to his house many times. He would invite, not just me, but he would invite a group of officers and company to his home on weekends.“
This house was actually near Camp Mackall & Fort Bragg in North Carolina (or, it’s possible that Kathy rented houses in both Toccoa and NC)----but the place discussed here is the one in North Carolina.
The house was called “Primrose Cottage” in a neighbourhood named “Cottage Colony” (somewhere near Cherokee Rd, Pinehurst, North Carolina)----20min by car to Camp Mackall; 40min by car to Fort Bragg.
Miss Paola de Janze (who later became the Countess de Rougemount) was living at Primrose Cottage with Kathy and Lewis Nixon. She was a grandniece of Simeon Brooks Chapin (a famous financier and philanthropist who founded the Pinehurst Soldiers’ Lounge). She was an ethusiast of equestrian and Polo match. She was also a socialite and quite acitive in high society, and that’s why we can find Lewis Nixon’s name in the social notes of North Carolina.
Kathy was living in Pinehurst from March 1943 to March 1945 (Lewis Nixon was shipped to England in Sep 1943 but she was 8-month pregnant back then so she can’t travel back to Arizona. Michael was born in Pinehurt NC in Oct 1943. She lived in Pinehurst until March 1945, then she moved to CA to live with Mrs Stanhope Nixon (only for a brief time before the divorce).
I was thinking the cottage was like a modest 2-bedroom townhouse, but now I think I might be very WRONG. and prob it’s not only Kathy that Dick didn’t like. It’s probable that Dick didn’t like the whole neighborhood. Here is why:
Dick mentioned that he was invited to Nixon’s place along with other officers. I was thinking it’s Harry and Hester and other officers from 101. But probably not only them. Here in the social notes showed whom Mrs Lewis Nixon dined with: 12 Dec 1943 "Following cocktails in the Pine Room at The Carolina, Miss Paola de Jonze gave a dinner in honor of her sister...Her other guests were Mrs Lewis Nixon, Lt. Nicholas Biddle......” This Lt. Nicholas Biddle was the son of renowned Anthony Drexel Biddle, who was a US ambassador, from the famous Biddle family of Philadelphia (Norman Dike’s mother pretended to be from this Biddle family but she was actually not).
Also living in the “Cottage Colony” neighborhood was Liet Col. J. Stillman Rockefeller (James Stillman Rockefeller) from the Rockefeller family.
On 17th December 1944, German invaded Bastogne, and on the same day these activities were going on in Pinehurst: "Christmas is in every Pinehurst plan. The hotels and cottages alike look to a gala holiday, with many servicemen on leave...For Christmas Day an equestrian afternoon is schedules, with a horse show in the Carolina ring...The Golf club's annual turkey shoot will be held on Saturday...Miss Paola de Janze, who lives at Primrose cottage with Capt. and Mrs Lewis Nixon, shot the goal which made the difference between win and tie when she played at the Pinehurst polo match."
In summary, at the Pinehurst Soldiers' lounge and Country Club there was endless bridge games, dinner parties, golf tournaments, polo matches, horseback ridings (all the prominent horse owners are “wintering their horses” here) There were equestrian matches and polo games between Camp Mackall and Fort Bragg, in 1944! On 1st Jan 1944 “a soldier escaped prison in Camp Mackall on a thoroughbred mare”, and on 16 Jan 1944: "Pinehusrt's servicemen's lounge seemed "a bit o' Heaven" last week to the airborne troops completing their maneuvers in this vicinity and coming in from the "battle" area after a bout with sleet and snow, as well as a four-day fight with an imaginary enemy. All day Saturday and during part of Sunday, busy hostesses served sandwiches, cookies, cakes and hot coffee to the boys.”
I mean, when I read Dick’s book about Fort Bragg “You would think that after two months of not sleeping on a bed, dirty clothes, and trudging up and down the Tennessee hills, one would relish the peaceful surroundings of Fort Bragg.”----I was like “OK, so Fort Bragg has clean beds and hot shower” but then when I read about social activities at Pinehusrt's servicemen's lounge in old newspapers I was like “IS THERE A WAR???OR IT’S IN A PARALLELE WORLD???” From the social notes of Pinehurst locals, the life in Camp Mackall was like a holiday resort! No suprise Kathy thought her husband abandoned her to have all the fun in war games
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i accidentally wrote “with regards to my deposit” instead of “with regard to my deposit” in an email to my evil ex-landlord and now i’m irrationally worried that he will think my grammatical error means i don't mean business
if you live abroad and are moving to the uk DO NOT say yes to a place you have not had a virtual viewing of. british landlords cannot and should not be trusted apparently
there was mould and dirt in my room and when i wrote to him in a polite email that i wanted to withdraw from the tenancy agreement (which btw i had not as yet signed) and i wanted my deposit back asap, he wrote me a fuming email in which he lied about me having viewed the room on a whatsapp video call, that i had “agreed to sign the contract upon arrival” (which apparently in his mind is the same as actually signing the contract????? is this a uk thing????). he also wrote that “what you expect is irrelevant. maybe you were expecting a 5 star hotel?” lmao. and then when i wrote back insisting that he clarify whether or not he is going to return my deposit, he responded that “the financial accounting cannot be determined until a new tenant has taken over the room”........ this seems illegal? i have not damaged anything in the room as i was only in there for about 10 minutes in total, i paid a months rent on sep 1st before seeing the room, i have not cost him any money, he has to return my deposit
then read up on it, and in the uk the deposit must be held in a government-approved tenancy deposit scheme. i e-mailed him yesterday asking him if my deposit was held in such a scheme, and he hasn’t gotten back yet, so i assume that’s a no. if i don’t have my deposit back before oct 10 i will have to take him to small claims court. which i can’t afford. this wouldn’t be an issue if he could just guarantee that he will pay me my money back. why is he so shitty
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Greta Thunberg - Her Privilege Makes Her Blind To Her Own Manufacturing
This is what privilege looks like - 'Only people like me dare ask tough questions on climate’. Only the affluent upper middle classes could possible engineer a quote quite this stupid.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/11/greta-thunberg-people-like-me-ask-difficult-climate-questions
She’s not the only type of person to do this. She’s not the only person with a disability, autism or Asperger’s to speak up. She’s playing on the fact that she’s on the spectrum. Many people have spoken up before she did. Some of them from working class and ethnic backgrounds. She literally can’t see that her privilege, affluence and her parents connections have made this happen for her. As Cory Morningstar has pointed out, Greta Thunberg’s mum was a WWF Hero of the Year in 2017; she does adverts for Greenpeace and moves in those circles. When the 15 year old created her Twitter account in 2018, after her mother, the next accounts she followed were Greenpeace Sweden, Greenpeace International, Greenpeace UK, Friends of the Earth International and Friends of the Earth USA. A little further down the list we find Bill McKibben, 350.org, fellow speakers who would join her at XR’s Declaration of Rebellion (months later on October 31st): George Monbiot and Rupert Read and soon after that We Don’t Have Time, an NGO that would play a crucial role, as well as This Is Zero Hour, their founder, Jamie Margolin and the main account for Extinction Rebellion. Morningstar also cites Callum Grieve, a former Communications Director at The Climate Group and We Mean Business, who now works for Mission 2020, as a key architect of her manufacturing. Grieve also assisted Thunberg; on the first day of her protest he was the third person to respond on that platform. He’s not a huge Twitter influencer though, as he doesn’t have so many followers there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCgKEjgCng
https://soundcloud.com/lastborninthewilderness/cory-morningstar
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
This 17 year old is still being used; but nows seem to enjoy the limelight so much, that they’ve made a film. Her mum is an opera singer, her dad an actor, she was propelled from her first protest to global superstar within weeks. On the day of her first protest, on August 20th, 2018, she was approached by We Don’t Have Time’s Ingmar Rentzhog who ‘discovered’ her and she was soon a major story, appearing on the front page of Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet the same day. Rentzhog had met Greta Thunberg’s mother at a climate event in May 2018, shortly before Greta’s Twitter account was set up. On September 1st, Greta Thunberg was featured in her first Guardian column. It’s worth noting that the Aftonbladet account was followed after those mentioned in the previous paragraph, which suggests she was looking to the global stage before the Swedish national stage.
https://medium.com/@frackfree_eu/green-capitalism-is-using-greta-thunberg-66768db6c0e1
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/01/swedish-15-year-old-cutting-class-to-fight-the-climate-crisis
The sequence of events which led to Greta’s sudden rise to prominence and the role of Ingmar Rentzhog is explained in more detail here:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/the-pr-guru-behind-the-rise-of-greta-thunberg/news-story/fae7bd1704d58e8ff0dd4d93ec0b3560
Talk of her “'zero-carbon yacht” in this article is nonsense. There is no such thing. Manufacture of it has embodied energy, besides which, how many of us can afford a transatlantic yacht for those times when we want to sail to the USA to lobby the climate capitalists in that country? The same narrative was peddled when she made her way from Sweden to London by electric car for XR’s Declaration of Rebellion on October 31st, 2018 (I was there that day). What was wrong with using public transport? Surely that would have conveyed a much more sustainable message?
Climate change isn’t the only crisis we face; people have been trying to defend nature from the onslaught of extractive capitalism for a long time; again many of them were poor or Indigenous people, so their narratives were airbrushed away and they weren’t given a number of Guardian articles to platform themselves so that the middle classes could be softened up.
Since those early days, the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos used Thunberg and the global media to manufacture consent for what’s coming - the new fake ‘Net Zero’ world, the '4th industrial revolution’ and next year’s 'New Deal for Nature’.
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/10/19/perfect-distractions-and-fantastical-mitigation-plans/
Thunberg herself happily plays along signing the letter about 'Natural Climate Solutions’ that appeared in the Guardian alongside fake green George Monbiot, who also wrote an abysmal column to go with it, which seemed to be more about geoengineering and terraforming than habitat restoration, particularly when the academic references to support his narrative are analysed. This climate-washing of the narrative has got to stop.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/natural-world-climate-catastrophe-rewilding
The Climate Emergency Fund (USA), set up by Trevor Neilson and funded by Aileen Getty and Rory Kennedy are just one of the big money foundations who now fund the movement she helped create, Youth Strike. I was at the first big Youth Strike protest in London; it was organic and spontaneous. Children took the roads and risked arrest; the cops brought out mounted patrols, some children were arrested, later de-arrested. I noticed that several people within the UK, who’ve positioned themselves at the heart of the climate movement, people from 350, UK Youth Climate Coalition, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth etc. were already there on the sidelines, coordinating and framing the media message.
At the second big Youth Strike protest in London, the children were pushed aside, the speakers on the big red bus that positioned itself on Victoria Embankment were now mostly adults. The Trade Unions were now also in attendance, alongside other NGOs like Global Justice Now, War on Want and MPs like Jeremy Corbyn (he gave a great speech that day) and Caroline Lucas (she did not and seemed very irritable afterwards when I tried to speak to her, a first). The SWP were eagerly recruiting youngsters and filling their heads full of propaganda. It was painful to observe.
By the third big protest, the children were told to march aimlessly around the streets of London, whilst 'activists’ from Greenpeace, FoE and 350 who had coordinated the event looked on. Something so energetic faded so quickly. Very little has happened since that day in Autumn last year, although #Covid19 perhaps has also been responsible for muting any efforts to mobilise.
Her marketing team now seems to think a film about her, to go with the numerous books (yes, I’ve read one of them, the speeches have aged very badly) is now what’s required. Roger Hallam recently made a film, called 'The Troublemaker’, it was largely a work of propaganda. I wonder what Greta’s film will say?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/16/i-am-greta-review-slick-yet-shallow-thunberg-documentary
“Intriguingly, even bafflingly, Grossman’s film begins by showing Thunberg’s pre-famous self as a high-schooler with her homemade climate strike placard, enduring a lonely vigil outside the Stockholm parliament every Friday with a few grumpy older shoppers coming up and telling her off for not being in school. Here she is: the non-famous nobody, and these scenes lead seamlessly to later moments showing her campaign taking off. So … does this mean Grossman has been prophetically following her career from the very beginning?“
This journalist has clearly not been following the story. That all these early protests were filmed shows they had much larger plans.
Do people think any of this is normal? This post is likely to grate with people. If it does, may I suggest you’re emotionally invested in this story and you can’t see what’s really happening. Step back and get some perspective. I invite discussion but nobody is fooling me with what’s happened over the last two years.
https://starecat.com/greta-thunberg-theyve-stolen-my-childhood-hardworking-kid-cool-story-bro/
Many people seem to be of the opinion that Greta can’t be criticised. There’s a confirmation bias in wanting to believe her story, from a one person protest to meeting world leaders, the UN and the Davos set at the World Economic Forum, where she platformed herself alongside David Attenborough and Jane Goodall. These people won’t engage with the narrative that indicates she’s been manufactured. This is compounded by her support from those in XR, who also can’t seem to see their own movement is also constructed and coupled to her story. A lot of the themes in her speeches, that of the planet being 'on fire’ or that we’re running ‘out of time’ are common to XR and Youth Strike and then later authors like Naomi Klein, and are based on mobilising people based on urgency. We’ve seen this go very badly wrong many times, notably in Afghanistan (See Adam Curtis - The Power of Nightmares)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvSQ56HYg8&list=PL46FkcYcj-72IK9xFcWVRwoIu9Lfsi1S9&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvSQ56HYg8&list=PL46FkcYcj-72IK9xFcWVRwoIu9Lfsi1S9&index=2
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB8m6nNWpMA&list=PL46FkcYcj-72IK9xFcWVRwoIu9Lfsi1S9&index=3
In her film trailer, we see the time theme being repeated once again. Her father also continues to perpetuate the myth that she did this on her own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwk10YGPFiM
“My name is Greta Thunberg and I want you to panic!” - but this repeated doomerism has had a paralysing effect on many people. Other flanks of people have been mobilised to take action, notably within the UK as XR, which is a larger movement than Youth Strike. However, much of the mobilisation has been about virtue signalling, their virtuous non-violence and colourful boats has meant their movement has failed to really diversify beyond it’s white, middle class base. The movement appears to have now peaked and largely run out of money.
There is also the common theme of expecting governments to act to resolve this. When are people going to realise that’s not going to happen. Parliaments are not going to end capitalism. Who was the last parliamentary candidate who ran on a #degrowth platform? As such, both movements are self defeating and tend to reinforce hierarchy and statism. In the worst case scenario what they are asking for is EcoFascism. If people are struggling to deal with Covid19 restrictions on movement which have only brought about around a 6-7% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, then how would they cope when they are told the truth about what ‘Net Zero’ would really mean: private cars would be banned, consumption would be drastically reduced along with an end to pointless bullshit jobs, international flights would be rationed and restricted and people in the Global North would have to eat a lot less meat.
Some of us have begun to make these sorts of changes to our lifestyles, but it will be a tough task to prepare for the post 2050 world where the following scenarios are looming:
Oil depletion - more wars will be started to fight over the remaining oil resources and the ongoing trend will drive economic collapse and further inequality
Nuclear war is an increased risk as tensions between USA, Russia and China continue to escalate
Critical metal/mineral depletion - this will puncture the myth of the electric car
Overfishing - less food for humanity but also the unravelling of marine food webs, with knock on effects for adjacent ecosystems
Ecological collapse and climate change - biodiversity loss; soil erosion; freshwater depletion; nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon cycle disruption will intertwine to create complex problems for the biosphere.
Those are 4 or 5 of the biggest evolving threats
Free Range Collective (2020) WEIRD 02 - Welcome to the Extinction (authored by Paul Mobbs)
http://www.fraw.org.uk/frn/weird/002/index.shtml
Net Zero within 5 years is a fallacy. Anyone who’s looked at the data knows this.
The IPCC have based their climate models on a doubling of energy consumption between now and 2050. The pretence is maintained by claiming there are ‘Negative Emissions Technologies’ that will magically sequester away our historical and future carbon debt. The primary technology that they envision will do this, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is not yet technically viable and never will be. It’s neither safe, nor ethical and it won’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Delaying the urgent mitigation required now leaves a larger problem for future generations. BECCS would also require huge amounts of land, freshwater and fertiliser and would destroy biodiversity, threaten food security and trample on Indigenous land rights. The IPCC ‘science’ that Greta Thunberg claims is her version of the truth, is merely only one part of the picture. There are good scientists and bad scientists. Which ones is she backing?
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1318216965639503873
She seems blind to the modelling work going on which assumes that #BECCS is viable and cost effective, a trick of economic models within which subsidies and discounting correct for impossibilities. BECCS will never happen at scale as citizens will mobilise against it. Thus Thunberg’s attempt to lecture Joe Biden, who is well aware of what carbon capture is and has opened the door to it, merely show how little she understands the bigger picture. In the following article, Steve Horn explains how Biden has embraced carbon capture under pressure from oil industry lobbying, which will lead to enhanced oil recovery and won’t reduce emissions.
https://www.drillednews.com/post/biden-climate-change-platform-fossil-fuel-carbon-capture
In reality, what we now have is this pretend world of ‘Net Zero’ False Solutions, where corporations have taken centre stage. Yet, XR, Youth Strike and Greta Thunberg are largely silent on this and are still screaming for governments to take action. In the UK, they did take action as XR suggested and set up a citizen’s assembly, which was then rigged to provide the wrong outcome as these resources clearly show. Under the guidance of the Committee on Climate Change, the process has been captured by false technofix solutions and corporate thinking.
https://www.climateassembly.uk/resources/
The conversation is so far from where it needs to be. Greta now has a film about her life, which will make the middle classes feel like they can change the world if they just shout loudly enough. The trouble is their dominance of the debate and misdirection has wasted two years. Only Covid19 has really reduced emissions, as its forced a much needed reduction in hypermobility and a reduction in oil use.
I hope people can start to see what’s happened over the last two years now. Some folks are waking up to the reality of what needs to be done. No one else is going to fix this mess but us. The only way we can do that is by collectively disengaging from the system, but in more constructive ways, where we can come together, build community and connection. I’ll be writing more about how we do this another time. The solutions need to be centred on mutual aid, land rights, citizen-led journalism, agroecology and permaculture. Food security for communities is of critical importance to our future cohesion and survival.
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Heart Breathings ‘Create Your 2021 Writing Schedule’ Workshop
Youtube’s Heart Breathings made a wonderful workshop that I’m working through (Create Your 2021 Writing Schedule, check it out here https://youtu.be/qUySuFGnla4)
Her 1st point is about planning for the days in the year that I’m not going to write- family days, birthdays, sick days, overtime etc. so being realistic/ overcautious I’ve blocked off 15 days across the year for family/ friends, a day a week for work days from hell (I don’t expect to use all of these) and 2 days a month for headaches/ migraines/ whatever leaving me we an expected 274 writing days left in the year. This would leave me with an adjusted target of 1217 words per session, instead of my current 914.
I’m going to carry usused days off over (for example in a pre- covid world Nov & Dec are crazy busy at work, so I’m hoping next year we regain a semblence of normal and I’ll need extra then)
As for writting speed, the only data I have on mine is an old HP House Cup Challenge spreadsheet from NaNo a couple of years back which has me averaging 1653 words per hour across the challenges, but I think this is my best case scenario not my average speed, so I think I’m gonna start with an estimate of 1000 words per hour, which leaves me needing about 75 minutes a day to hit my target. Which is crazy ‘cause most days I can easily spare 3-4 hours, so theoretically a full MilWordy is possible, but if I plan to do that I’ll only keep it up for a week (NaNo is a great example- I don’t think I’ve ever hit week 2 without getting overwhelmed and walking away).
Plotting all this out across a calender leaves me with targets of (every day*914)
Dec- (4+ sessions) (4,868 words) (<5 days off) 8,226
Jan- (24+ sessions) (29,208 words) (<7 days off) 28,334
Feb- (21+ sessions) (25,557 words) (<7 days off) 25,592
Mar- (23+ sessions) (27,991 words) (<8 days off) 28,334
Apr- (23+ sessions) (27,991 words) (<7 days off) 27,420
May- (23+ sessions) (27,991 words) (<8 days off) 28,334
Jun- (22+ sessions) (26,774 words) (<8 days off) 27,420
Jul- (23+ sessions) (27,991 words) (<8 days off) 28,334
Aug- (23+ sessions) (27,991 words) (<8 days off) 28,334
Sep- (22+ sessions) (26,774 words) (<8 days off) 27,420
Oct- (25+ sessions) (30,425 words) (<6 days off) 28,334
Nov- (24+ sessions) (29,208 words) (<6 days off) 27,420
Dec- (17+ sessions) (20,689 words) (<5 days off) 20,108
The sessions are less important as I’d like to write something every day, but it’s nice to break it down expecting time off and having bonus time to write.
#heart breathings#writing plan#milThirdy for 30#an autumn writer#2021 Writing Schedule#I'm definitely overcomplicating it now
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I don't want to be insensitive because my country is doing very bad with corona right now too but are people in the Netherlands surprised that they have a bad like this? I have dutch friends and I saw them on instagram going to night clubs, not wearing masks, eating out with people without protection (other than sanitizer).Do you think that your government should have taken measures before? I was always curious why they acted basically oblivius to everything seeing how other countries were
Oh no! Don’t hesitate to ask me anything! I can understand Europe (or the rest of the world?) is watching our numbers and go: ?????
I think our government did good during the first wave. We never had a lockdown like a lot of the other European countries had. We had something our Prime Minister called an ‘Intellegent lockdown’. So all shops/restaurants/bars etc were closed and public transport was for those that had vital jobs (hospital/bus driver the stuff that was still going). We were allowed to walk (in our own town) do groceries etc. And the numbers (just like the rest of europe) went down. Our ICU patients went down. So the measurements were less strict after a period of time. So during the summer everything was open again (expect theatre and stadium they had stricter measurements like the rest of Europe as well). My job stopped and I sat home for a month and a half like a lot of Dutch people/people around the world.
But with the winter coming slowly our number went up and up. The on September 18 our prime minister came with new measurements in 6 big cities that had a lot of cases per day. Then 10 days (sep 28) later (with 3k cases per day now) they announced national measurements, but bars and cafes could still stay open until 22.00 then. For big cities (like amsterdam, the hague etc) was the advise to wear mouth mask inside shops. ‘it isn’t mandatory, but shops can decline you from entering if they want too’...
Then on October 13 Rutte announced way stricter measurements; also calling it a partial lockdown. But by then the numbers were around 7300 A DAY!!! So Rutte closed the restaurants, bars, no more football fans, theatre, museums open etc. By then it was still advised to wear a mouth mask in public places. Rutte did announce he is busy with changing the law, because that’s why it isn’t mandatory for now in Holland. Because they have to change the law to do that.
Okkkkkkk. So now that you have a quick summary of what happened: lets answer your question (if you havent fallen asleep already HAHAH). i’m always way too long with questions like this I’m sorry haha.
I do think we did good during the first wave, but the second wave we were way too loose with the measurements. Also the measurements on Sep 28 with cafes and restaurants staying open until 22 hour was a bad one. I think what they did on Oct 13 should have been announced then (sep 28).
And I hope what I said above also helped in answering your questions about mouth masks. It hasnt been mandatory here ever. When Corona virus began the government questioned the safety of it since people don’t know how to use it (touch their mask and then face etc), but now they want to make it mandatory here as well. So in Germany and countries surrounding us it was mandatory for a long time; while here we walked in shops/restaurants etc without one. Only on public transport it was mandatory.
Now after the pressconference of Sep 28 (and even more Oct 13) you see people wear it a lot more in the supermarket and in shops etc. Shops have labels out front that say: ‘Mask mandatory’. But realize that has been happening for only less than a month. So that’s why you saw everyone on Insta without one. I also wasn’t wearing one in restaurants because it wasn’t necassary/a rule. Now when I go to the supermarket etc I wear one.
That’s also one thing I think they did wrong. Like also because research didn’t prove the use of mask (they said in March) blabla. It wasn’t mandatory the first time and now the make a U-turn and want to do that. So I can understand for people that’s confusing. Also fueling the group that doensn’t believe in Corona or thinks it’s all the fault of the government etc. While my opinion about it is: if the Germans do it (and they’ve done very well in both waves so far) FOLLOW THEM FFS!!! One research says this and the other that, but if a lot of countries make it mandatory why not be save instead of gamble and say nope only on public transport because you can’t keep the social distance in there...
Besides that I also think the Dutch have a problem with authority. Some countries listen very good to what the government say and here we clearly don’t. Even now it’s still busy on the street. I got a photo today from a big city (where a friend lives) and it’s busy AFFFFFF. People will only take it serious when the ICU is full again or idunno what it takes for them to take it serious again. I feel like with our numbers and if they don’t change in 5 days we will have a REAL lockdown for the first time...
I CAN understand however for the government (all of them actually) these are tough decisions... Because you know with closing so many shops again many also won’t survive this second wave... The financial hits people are getting because of this are also insane... So sad also for people that they have to go through that....
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