#camden 001

[eulcgizeme]

OPEN TO: @cxsmicwrites for camden lomax MUSE: jett wilder, artist. hometown burn out. logan lerman fc. PLOT: suburban legends, jett is still thinking about the way camden kissed him despite it the way its been days and they haven't said a word about it. any attempt to ask him what it meant falters quickly, but it's never happened again to matter how many times jett tries to use hope to will it. but he knows there's no use in trying to define it, so he'd rather not have him around at all so he doesn't suffer over every what if.

Even under the shadow of the darkened room, Jett could see the red ink that stained his hands. A hundred attempts to find the right words just as Camden always did had been torn and thrown away when only the wrong ones seemed to come out. He would have found it discouraging if he hadn't tried a hundred times before that to figure out what that kiss meant, and what it was worth. Maybe the wrong thing was what he needed, every damning quality he let Camden twist into something good seemed to have finally found its use in the man he'd become. Yet, there was a sliver of aureate hidden under the moon of his nail. It should have meant there was honor left to be his, but all Jett could think of was that he'd cut Camden too deep and the evidence stayed with him. The last painting he'd done at his side was a portrayal of his head after that kiss splayed across a canvas, and he hadn't noticed. It was better to end his suffering now that choke on every what if. "Listen, Camden, I don't have time for your hometown hero bullshit. You want to be some suburban legend, fine— matter to the same people who keep kicking you down so have to get up again and again," Jett interrupted his friend, the grin that had been faltering all night finally settling into a thin line upon his face. "But I'm done here."

[innocencexdesire]

“I do believe whale status has been achieved.” A very grumpy Logan to Camden, please

@thisvastmultiverse

He looked at her adoringly. Camden knew that Logan had no idea how he felt about her, and he was okay with that. She had enough on her plate, she didn't need him having a crush or anything on her. "Whales are beautiful majestic creatures, Logan. You're not beached from what I can see, so tell me what you need, lovely."

[rileyrp]

mia found herself hanging on his every word, as if she had a thousand questions and he held the perfect answer to each one. his confidence radiated as he spoke, his words flowing smoothly like honey. "you must be exceptionally old now, then," she teased, when he mentioned that the teasing from his family had started back when he was a child. older men were mia's weakness. guys her own age had never interested her, and sitting here with javier only solidified that.

when their drinks arrived, mia shot a quick, bright smile at the bartender in thanks before wrapping her hands around the cold glass. she was nervous, but she was determined to leave a good impression on the older man. she wanted him to like her, but she didn’t want to come off as desperate. her gaze drifted to his hands, watching the way his fingers curled around his glass, and her mind wandered to the thought of those same hands around her throat. she quickly looked away, forcing her attention back to his face, hoping the blush creeping up her cheeks wasn’t too obvious. "i suppose you’re right. i guess only time will tell," she agreed, her tone light, before bringing the glass to her lips and taking a slow sip of the clear liquid.

she beamed at his compliment, her smile stretching wide. "i’m glad to hear that, really. i know that sometimes talking on dating apps can either be incredibly tedious with all the mundane small talk, or… it just turns into a place for sexting." she didn’t mind sexting — not at all — but sometimes she craved more. she wanted real conversation, and dating apps often ended up being a disappointment in that regard. "you’d think it’d be a given that people on a dating app could hold a conversation," she continued, rolling her eyes dramatically. "but that’s not always the case, i’ve learned. though, you were… surprising. in a good way."

her nerves were palpable, as alive and tangible as any of the bar patrons that surrounded them. if javi hadn’t devoted as much time as he had to building up an iron-clad defense against the external world’s forces, then perhaps he too would’ve been able to fall into her pit of electric jitters and taste the them on his tongue. in a way, he wished he could’ve — first date jitters were in and of themselves charming to him. her demeanor as she peeked up at him was the picture of youth, of undisturbed innocence and perhaps even childlike-curiosity. but again, looks were horribly deceiving.

he found himself smiling at her order, lips maintaining their upturned position as she addressed his joke. “ sometimes it feels like i’ve already passed that milestone. maybe even a few more decades after it. my abuelo always told me i have the soul of an old man trapped in a kid’s body .” he paused for a second, head tilting with consideration of his own words. “ he started telling me that when i was about 10. hence the ‘kid’ part, ” he clarified, corners of his mouth twisting into the ghost of a smirk.

he voiced his appreciation to their quick-handed bartender once their respective drinks were set atop their black square napkins. his fingers came to rest around the thick glass, gaze drifting down to the elegant ice sphere nestled in it. “ let’s see if you’re still glad in a little bit. the thing with messaging is that a lot can get lost in the void through text… ”

his gaze parted ways with his glass then, instead focusing on the woman before him once more. “ i enjoyed talking to you, though…your responses were well-thought out — your questions, too. it felt like an actual conversation. ” he reasoned that she could appreciate why he was voicing his valuing of this basic expectation, what with both of them inhabiting the absolute virtual wild west that was the online dating space.

[lostoneshq]

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005: Avalon Briarwood e Renee Murray

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025: Elsie Bonavich e Coralie Wong

026: Madeline Bailey e Brianna Bourque

027: Killian Pierce e Bridget Odessa

[campagnecoast]

Previously

Asian fcs.

FearedStreet: Dian Sastro

ToBeBarbs: Roseanne Park

80seoulvibe: Roseanne Park

projectantinomy: Roseanne Park

CrackedCookies: Jennie Kim

BratzDarl: Jennie Kim

Heartunnel: Jennie Kim

MemoriesInStage: Jennie Kim

StartWithFriend: Jennie Kim

BooksofOurs: Jennie Kim

Theunnoticed: Jennie Kim

RetourBurner: Myoui Mina

catcafetaria: Chiquita

SevenInLoop: Lalisa Manoban

lettredeamour: Song Zia

J3_3llybish: Meenoi

OurPinkTape: Chaerin Lee

HopefulMessage: Bae Sumin

Western fcs.

Lethalrebels: Taylor Swift

WRNOTSTRANGERS 003: Taylor Swift

SweetNeighbours: Taylor Swift

WashiMachi: Taylor Swift

AtLoveSickest: Taylor Swift

SocietyofPapers: Sadie Sink

Queenslads: Lola Tung

LifeInPieces: Robert Downey Jr

AtMaranello 001: Charlotte Sine

KSilhoutte: Charlotte Sine

TheNoirLens: Natalia Dyer

NYC99TH: Kiernan Shipka

TheNormalFolk: Lucas Bravo

Herzstopper: Sydney weeney

LondonAthleti: Lily Muni He

TheLottoChateau: Alex Albon

Cinepoeme: Kennedy Walsh

Principeople: Kennedy Walsh

e_the_realm: Jessie Mei Li

AtMaranello 002: Susie Wolff

Amourestivo: Josephine Langford

Aerumnoisy: Joanna Kuchta

Lol1nFive5: Alexandra Saint Mleux

Cinemalgia: Emma Stone

Giggleties: Victoria de Angelis

PrestigePass: Bill Skarsgard

Fortitudence: Theo James

SweetzFlash: PinkPantheress

HeartIandHaven: Kali Uchis

711Michigan: AnneAtMCGN

@Aaaancur2an: Max Verstappen

Duniacupang: Max Verstappen

Fortitudence: Rudy Grazziani

Lovelessvals: Chappell Roan

Fictional fcs.

soulensade: Léa Seydoux

DrivesToStrive: Victoria Pedretti

Coloratoera: Ryomen Sukuna

taleofdisney: BOOOtales

MCUNlVERSE 001: PepperMVU

Valdelobos: ResidentJims

SeaOfVoyage: PiratieElena

THEIAMFORCE: Amy Dunne

ReviverRealm: Regina George

SerafinaTales: Benjamin Wallace

FlameOfValyria: Cersei Lannister

Caretakers.

StereoMidnights: James (Jake Gyllenhaal)

LegallyStarring: Elle Woods (Reese W)

Lakesbox: Augustine (Gracie Abrams)

Aboveoridinary: Atlas (Minsik)

Starthelude: Ego (Bella Hadid)

Loversoulse: Miss Americana (Taylor Swift)

5FirstLetters: Lara Jean (Lana Condor)

PageofDiaries: Dorothea Rosewood (Ryujin)

StarringLand: Mia Dolan (Emma Stone)

HatredSummer: Isabel Conklin (Lola Tung)

BrickableYork: Betty (Sabrina)

Loveratrope: Liz Buxbaum (Kennedy)

AtMaranello: Coach Lissie (Lissie)

Filesof500: Smith (faceless)

DistrictsRevolt: Lucy Gray & Katniss Everdeen

Goofygroves: Jack (Hozier)

505ROMCOMS: Jenna Rink (Jennifer G)

fedmisery: Camden (G-Eazy)

ErasToure: Augustine (Gracie)

Scrooddles: Dominique (Bella Swan)

Dr3am_0ut_l0ud: Cara (Emma D'Arcy)

MidwestPunkClub: Thorn (Chappell)

trumanscript: Miranda (Olivia Cooke)

DressToRebels: Roxanne (Gabbriette)

[dammitadolfnomorecake]

Rage Fire Institution Stats

Updated Stats by Tatsumi & Maki:

Sato Maki - black hair, grey eyes - 22 - alpha - 183cm

Hikaru Tatsuma - brown eyes, brown hair - 28 - alpha… really an omega but Maki never got the hint

Adam Skylark - greying purple hair - 53 - alpha - ex piloting teacher and dorm father in the alpha wing

Andes - alpha - 48 - current trainee pilot teacher - whipped over his wife and family

Guduis Lant- blond hair, hazel yellow eyes - 22 - alpha

Kang Li - changes hair colour at a whim, naturally mousy brown - 21 - Sunshine child

Tarva Hold - red eyes, red hair - 22 - alpha

Fleur - blond - 21 - omega

Silva - black short cropped hair - 20 - alpha

Sato Mina, Maki sometimes calls her Ao to tease her about her blue eyes - Black hair, blue grey eyes - 10

Peony Walters - 39 - Brown hair, brown eyes - omega - bio-engineering teacher

MakingGood: Maki’s school forum name.

A/N: Mecha are more Full Metal Panic than the evangelion or metal gear.

TC-08 - standard pilot training mech.

Erebus and Goliath models are exclusively military or high high level personal security with government permission.

Terranas Pangaea of the Kor-001 belt, also better known to everyone as Terra. Although almost an exact replica of Earth, the seasons have been adjusted to match the Empire’s capital planet.

Saphiris Hibiki - Current emperor

As of Movement Stats:

Samara Black - alpha.

Doctor Favril Poaw - Beta - researcher primarily in brain wavelength transmission and textile development

Tatsuma - Tatsumi. Returned Pilot. Arsehole. According to Make.

Research Student Group - Flo, Camden, Sara, Lucian, Anla, Amy, Dan and Alex.

Alex - Arsehole.

Flo Powers - Her hippy parents named her Flower.

Hallod - Research professor. Skittish around students and doesn’t like to rock the boat.

Suzu Kim - Tatsumi’s doctor. Poaw’s partner. Intersex. Not that that really matters.

Donny Hadre - Alpha. Greying black brown hair worn in dreadlocks - brown eyes.

Cherry - ex mma and grandmother to all who visit her bar. Not married to Donny, never felt the need to have children.

Alma Tan - Capitol city where mech tournament will take place

Tatsumi owns two mechs privately. His Erebus and his Goliath. When working on them he can work for days without releasing how much time has passed.

Erik, Hurlok, Tyrl, Garrod - work for Donny

Lukay - entertainment city

Darlingburst - suburb where Donny’s club is located

Hurlok - Alpha. Black hair, black eyes. Slim build

Erik - Alpha. Brown hair, blue eyes, scarred face. Perpetual 5 o’clock shadow.

Kaji- Tatsumi’s best friends from 18 to 26. They came from the same high school where they were more semi acquaintance through their friend group. Alpha. The pair were practically platonic soulmates until Kaji’s death. Kaji also left sperm banked solely for Tatsumi’s use should Tatsumi never find someone he wants to call his mate. Though they were never intimate that way, Tatsumi was more open to the idea then he’d cared to admit.

Mina - Maki’s younger sister. Unpresented. Suffered a stroke in the womb in month 8 of pregnancy, which was undiagnosed at the time. Maki’s family is poor and his parents are complicated. She gets bullied sometimes because the family hadn’t the money for nano treatment. Brown eyes, other than that she’s practically a copy of Maki.

Dubas - semi rich area about an hour from Rage Fire.

Dubas Aquarium - Recreation of an Earth Aquarium with both live animals and virtual experiences.

Stella Wells - Fourth year student. Her mech is a modified TC-157. Beta with all the spunk of an alpha so it’s often forgotten she isn’t- Yellow-Blonde hair - yellow eyes - 24.

Anthony Abrams - Fourth year student. Pilots an older model Heartrender he calls “The Frog”. Alpha - Black hair - black eyes - 22 .

Heartrender - Precursor to the Goliath.

Solast - home to a semi legal/ semi illegal mecha mega warehouse.

Jordan Longe - alpha - naturally blue hair - silver grey eyes. Maki’s seating partner in military history.

ThatLoneTree: Tatsumi’s student forum name

Halcial the Glacial was their military history teacher.

Mizune Akashi long suffering mate of Samara.

Kaji, Thomas, Dan, Rei, Garth, Lee, Everit, Matthew - Tatsumi’s teammates that died in front of him.

Alma Tan mentioned schools -

Quad Empire School of Excellence - based in the Empire’s capital city of the country- Sichael Hashra’s college - School Colours - Purple, white, black.

Ghant Prep - Private military college with a focus on mech production. School colours - Red, white, green, and black.

Rage Fire Institution - School colours - Orange (fruit orange), white, black.

Nova College of Development- School colours - check Pink, white, navy.

All Mast College - School colours - Green, white, grey.

Brightlast Engineering College - School colours - Yellow, red, black.

Hullans Military College - School colours - Tan, blue, white, black.

Penultimate Piloting and Design College - Purple, red, white.

Guardian School of Architecture and Design - Orange, Blue, white.

Tellagas Institute - private alpha only college - School colours - black, white, silver.

Starcaller. Much like a meteorite it’s a lump. Can take a lot of damage but not so good for attack combat.

[temptedfates]

❝ hey , you never know. a cut on your eye sounds crazy now but you’ve gotta watch out for the cuts you never see coming. ❞ head shook , silent laughter leaving her lips at the general absurdity of the comment. ❝ i know we haven’t been hanging out for very long but i didn’t realize you were so . . . scrappy. how many fights would you say you average per week ? if it’s more than five , i might be worried for your general safety. ❞ couldn’t help the way her eyeszrolled when he said he was irreplaceable. ❝ so if it was just an average day in the life of sir camden , why come to my place ? miss me already ? ❞

"a cut on my eye? think that i'm safe from that, just a bit of swelling. nothing an icepack can't fix." laughing at how she called him a dick, but she had no reason to worry if he wasn't. "it's not as bad as previous fights i've been in," voice comes as he settles in his seat, moving the icepack towards his abdomen. shrugging his shoulders, he lets out a sigh. "owners fully were informed about what happened, they're siding with me.. guess you can say i'm pretty irreplaceable." teasing smirk appears against his cup lips. "all in all, just another average day at work.. no biggy emmy."

[liabilitytm]

@vampeace | liked.

“i don’t know about you, but i’m not a fan of the idea of, like, drinking someone’s blood.” not to mention that your fiancee is already freaked by this, actually eating people may cross the line of things he’s willing to accept. “i like to go to, like, butchers and stuff to buy cows blood.”

[hevolves]

@casualtyloss

AT THIS POINT IN THEIR TRAVELS, he’s starting to wonder if his hair will grow back as fast as he heals because he’s been considering tearing it all out. He might actually start to test the theory if Camden keeps pushing him. But at least the other serves as a reminder of why he likes to be alone. ( Cements the lie that goes against his better nature, that he doesn’t need a pack. Not anymore. ) His eye actually twitches before he’s standing up, radiating barely concealed frustration.

         “ What are you going to do when we even find him? “ He’s also been wondering the exact same thing.

[ozanxbulut]

Despite being annoyed at the amount of people in the establishment and the lack of pistachio croissant in his hands, Ozan couldn't complain about the company. It wasn't often that he and Camden ran into each other, or that they talked. He was one of those people that he considered close but also not at the same time. You know one of those friends that probably knows more about you than your close friends, but you only talk to them even few months to wish them a happy birthday or to get drinks. He was familiar, but not at all at the same time.

"All I'm going to say is they better not run out of croissants or my entire day will be ruined." Ozan replied playfully, though deep down he meant it. This was serious for him. "Been a while, Cam. What are you trying to get?" The man asked, gesturing towards the menu just ahead of them.

Camden usually skipped breakfast most days, instead chasing down a few cups of coffee. He ate lunch later in the day and even on an off day where he didn't have to work - grabbing a snack usually tied him over. Which brought him to the familiar shop that he had grown accustomed to. Their blueberry muffins were to die for and he would be tempted to fight over who gets the last one, should there ever be a shortage. There was one day where he grabbed the whole batch that had just been made. Did he eat all of them? Absolutely. Camden was simple. If something was good, one should never stray from eating that particular category of food. So it was a ritual most definitely and he was always loyal to coming here for it. Broken out of his own thoughts with regards to the line by a familiar face. Hues looked over at who had just spoken up. He wasn't wrong. One would think the crowd would have settled. "Must be some kind of special they have running or all of Covington had the same idea all at once." It was a good thing he wasn't on borrowed time.

[cardest]

London playlist

London - since 43 AD it has to be one of the more fascinating cities on Earth. Such a rich history. From Shakespeare Theatre to the music from there today. I just had to put a London playlist together. From Soho to Brixton, from Highgate to Clapham  what a collection of songs! It’s over 350 songs and it could easily expand to 400. **I have a separate England & Wales playlist coming, so, stay tuned for that**.

To play the songs, hit the link right here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_ntP663JhZl-hvn9EwFp9L

ENGLAND & WALES playlist is coming soon! What songs have I left out? Let me know! Add your own songs! Cheers. Pip pip, tally ho!

LONDON 001 Generation X -  Day By Day 002 The Clash - London Calling 003 Austin Powers  - theme song (Soul Bossa? Nova ) 004 The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 005 Killing Joke - Empire Song 006 Black Sabbath - Wicked World 007 The Who - Welcome 008 The Damned - Neat, neat, neat 009 GIRLSCHOOL - LONDON 010 007 theme song 011 Motorhead - Motorhead 012 Wire - Ex Lion Tamer 013 David Bowie - Maid of Bond Street 014 The Misfits - London Dungeon 015 Rolling Stones - 016 The Adverts - Bored Teenagers 017 Siouxsie & The Banshees -  Spellbound 018 Penny Dreadful - Soundtrack - Main Theme 019 Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger 020 The Cure - Subway Song 021 Adam And The Ants -  Puss 'n' Boots 022 Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue 023 COIL - Fire of the mind 024 Public Image Ltd - One Drop. 025 LUSH - Breeze 026 Bliss Signal - Surge 027 The Pogues - Misty Morning, Albert Bridge 028 PhD - Won't Let You Down 029 Birthday Party - Hats On Wrong 030 Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue 031 Help Yourself - Reaffirmation 032 Grave Miasma - Gnosis of the summon 033 Roy Ayers - We Live In London Baby 034 Led Zeppelin - The Rover 035 Gang of Four - What we all want 036 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girl                 037 Sleaford Mods - 6 Horsemen (The Brixtons) 038 Paul Young - Love of the Common People 039 The Saint (original) - Theme 040 The Human League - Dont You Want Me 041 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen 042 The Beatles - A Day In The Life 043 Def Leppard -  Love bites 044 The Stranglers - Another Camden Afternoon 045 The Kinks  - See My Friends 046 Elton John - Bennie and the Jets 047 Suede - Moving 048 Queen - Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy 049 Cliff Richard & the Shadows - She's Gone 050 The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up 051 Loop - Fade Out 052 Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart - A13 053 The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London 054 Wendy Carlos - Title Music From A Clockwork Orange (From Purcell's Music For The Funeral Of Queen Mary) 055 The Police - Every Little Thing she does it Magic 056 Cockney Rejects - The Greatest Cockney Rip Off 057 Spandau Ballet - Spandau Ballet Chant No.1 058 The Pretenders - Middle of the Road 059 The Who - Dogs 060 The Jam - London Girl 061 Cradle of Filth - Hurt and Virtue 062 Joy Division - Isolation 063 Nick Drake - At the Chime of a City Clock 064 Sham 69 - Cockney Kids Are Innocent 065 Deep Purple - Mandrake Root 066 Throbbing Gristle - Hit by a rock 067 David Bowie - Rubber Band 068 Roxy Music  - Do The Strand 069 Slaves - Cheer Up London 070 T. Rex - London Boys 071 Kirsty MacColl - Autumngirlsoup 072 New Model Army - Archway Towers 073 Scorpions - Lovedrive 074 Isaac Hayes - Doesnt Rain In London 075 Peter Tosh - Buk-In-Hamm Palace 076 The Slits - Typical Girls 077 Pharaoh Sanders - Midnight In Berkeley Square (Instrumental) 078 Blue Cheer - Girl From London 079 Sex Pistols - Satellite 080 Judas Priest - (The Hellion ) Electric Eye 081 UFO -  Lights Out 082 Joy Division - Digital 083 Muse - Uprising 084 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 085 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love 086 Fine Young Cannibals - Blue 087 New Order - Blue Monday 088 Würzel - Midnight In London 089 Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley 090 The Wildhearts - Down On London 091 Supertramp - Nothing To Show 092 Motörhead - Metropolis 093 Current 93 - Lucifer Over London 094 The Pogues - Dark Streets of London 095 The Cult - All Souls Avenue 096 The Jam - In The City 097 The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 098 Iggy Pop -  Play It Safe 099 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jack the Ripper 100 The Cure  - Lets Go To Bed 101 Suede - Animal Nitrate 102 Wire - field day for the sundays 103 Black Books  TV Show - Opening Theme 104 Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town 105 Madness - Primrose Hill 106 The Troggs  - No. 10 Downing Street 107 Iron Maiden -  Gangland 108 PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose 109 The Rollers - Soho 110 Electric Wizard - Lucifer's Slaves 111 The Buzzcocks -  Just Lust 112 Doctor Who Theme Tune 1980 113 Cathedral - Fountain Of Innocence 114 Pretenders - Swinging London 115 Hanoi Rocks - Tooting Bec Wreck 116 Es - 'Chemical 117 Bee Gees  - Trafalgar 118 The Peddlers    - Under London Lights 119 Cliff Richard - The Young Ones 120 Big Audio Dynamite - Sightsee M.C   121 ABC - Tower of London 122 Accept - London Leatherboys 123 Pitchshifter - Please Sir 124 Portishead -  We Carry On 125 John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night 126 The Lurkers - Ain't Got a Clue 127 Iron Maiden - Die with your boots on 128 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me 129 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity 130 The Jam - London Traffic 131 The Cranberries - Waiting In Walthamstow 132 The Kinks - Victoria 133 Heads Hands & Feet - Pete Might Spook The Horses 134 Whitesnake -  Long Way From Home 135 Queensryche - London 136 Concrete Blonde - Walking in London 137 Deep Purple - Fireball 138 The Ruts - dope for guns 139 Wham! - Bad Boys 140 Generation X - One Hundred Punks 141 Joe Jackson - Down To London 142 Anti-Nowhere League - Streets of London 143 The Wildhearts - Shandy Bang 144 David Bowie - The London Boys 145 The Human League - Human 146 Cockney Rejects - East end 147 Dire Straits - Eastbound Train 148 Ian Drury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 149 Sepultura -  Filthy rot 150 The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight 151 Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 152 Purson -  Electric Landlady 153 Black Sabbath -  Tomorrow's Dream 154 The Clash - Guns of Brixton 155 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 156 Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life - Penis Song 157 Gentlemans Pistols -  Hustler's Row 158 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 159 Jethro Tull - Cross Eyed Mary 160 The Yobs - The Ballad of the Warrington 161 Cradle of Filth - Principle Of Evil Made Flesh 162 Bruce Hornsby - The Black Rats Of London 163 Inspiral Carpets - How It Should Be 164 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxy Lady 165 PETULA CLARK - WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 166 Lush - Olympia 167 Hunters & Collectors - Blind Eye 168 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 169 David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World 170 UK Subs - C.I.D. 171 Queen - Dont Stop Me Now 172 Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth 173 the clash - capital radio one 174 UB40 - Here I Am (Come And Take Me) 175 The Meads Of Asphodel - Guts For Sale 176 Horrible Histories: Savage Songs - Boudicca 177 Swallow the Sun - Labyrinth Of London (Horror Pt. IV) 178 Mad Professor  - Ben Gone Wrong 179 Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better 180 Genesis - The Battle Of Epping Forest 181 The Damned -  problem child 182 Squeeze  - Cool For Cats 183 Manfred Mann - Belgravia 184 The Bee Gees - Walking Back to Waterloo 185 Pink Floyd - Waiting For The Worms 186 Madness - Victoria Gardens 187 Paradise Lost - Soul Courageons 188 YES  - Roundabout 189 PJ Harvey - This Is Love 190 The Horrors - Jack The Ripper 191 King Crimson - Red 192 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now 193 Level 42 - Heathrow 194 Intaferon - Get Out Of London 195 Burt Bacharach - Bond street 196 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust 197 The Clash - Londons Burning 198 Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders 199 Saxon - The Court of the Crimson King 200 Buzzcocks - Harmony in My Head 201 Fairport Convention - Fiddlesticks (Peel Session) 202 Napalm Death - Errors In The Signals 203 Empire  - Hot Seat 204 Anathema - Shroud of Frost 205 Pitchshifter - Condescension 206 The Beatles - Hey Jude 207 Affinity - Highgate 208 KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Pure Trance) 209 Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London 210 David Axelrod - London 211 The Wombles - Wellington Goes To Waterloo 212 EastEnders Theme 213 Cathedral - Hypnos 164 214 Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual 215 Alan Moore with Tim Perkins - The Highbury Working A Beat Seance 216 Transvision Vamp - Sex Kick 217 Elton John - Tell Me When The Whistle Blows 218 Firebird - Bow bells 219 The Jam - A' Bomb In Wardour Street 220 Caravan  - Waterloo Lily 221 Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends - Flashing Lights 222 David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things 223 Hot Chocolate - West End of Park Lane 224 Thames television ident 1984 225 Newtown Neurotics - Living With Unemployment 226 Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up 227 Suede - Metal Mickey 228 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 229 Killing Joke - The Gathering 230 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want 231 Kate Bush - Babooshka 232 Iron Maiden - The Prophecy 233 The Cure - Disintegration 234 The Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today 235 WIRE - Silk Skin Paws 236 Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets 237 Souixee & the Banshees - Cascade 238 Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square 239 AC/DC -  Rising Power 240 Alternative TV - Life After Life 241 Napalm Death - Deceiver (Peel Sessions) 242 Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train To London 243 Bucks Fizz - London Town 244 The Sweet - Blockbuster! 245 999 - Bent Cross 246 The Groundhogs - Split, Pt. 1 247 Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild in the Country 248 Blood Ceremony -  Half Moon Street 249 Ming Tea feat. Austin Powers - BBC One 250 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song 251 Big Audio Dynamite - EMC2 252 Crass - Banned from the Roxy 253 Sleaford Mods - Chaos Down In SoHo 254 Big Ben Chimes of Westminster, London 255 PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home 256 The Ruts - Staring at the rude boys 257 The Times - Whatever Happened To Thames Beat 258 Quincy Jones - London Derriere 259 Lush - Hypocrite 260 PIL - Reggie Song 261 The Style Council - You're The Best Thing 262 UK Subs - Dirty Girls 263 COIL - Slur 264 Frank Zappa - Dead girls of London 265 Iron Maiden - Prowler 266 The Slits - Difficult Fun 267 Killing Joke -  Kings and Queens 268 Simple Minds - Chelsea Girl 269 Motorhead - Bomber 270 XTC - Towers Of London 271 Blitzkrieg  - Hell to pay 272 Gryphon - Opening Move 273 The Challengers - The Streets of London 274 Peggy March - In Der Carnaby Street 275 The Damned - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 276 The Pogues - London You're a Lady 277 The Lords Of The New Church - Portobello 278 Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff 279 Joe Jackson - The Evil Eye 280 The Deviants - Garbage 281 Benny Hill Show  - Wild Women 282 Suzi Quatro - Crash 283 Madness - day on the town 284 SHAKESPEAR'S SISTER -  I Don't Care 285 Whitesnake - Wine Women An Song 286 Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine 287 Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody 288 Bauhaus - In the flat field 289 Dead Can Dance - In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated 290 Paul McCartney -  Old Siam, Sir 291 Lush - De-Luxe 292 AC/DC - let's get it up 293 Sophia Loren & Peter Sellers - Bangers and mash 294 Black Sabbath - Childfren of the grave 295 Psychic TV - The orchids 296 Miracle - The Strife Of Love In A Dream 297 Carter USM - Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over 298 Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack the Ripper 299 WIRE - the 15th 300 Mott the Hoople - Honaloochie Boogie 301 Soft Machine - The Camden Tandem 302 Are You Being Served Theme 303 CATHEDRAL - Serpent Eve 304 Booker T. & The MG's - Carnaby Street 305 Culture Club - It's A Miracle 306 Motorhead - Nothing Up My Sleeve 307 Killing Joke - Money is not our God 308 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 309 WIRE - Please take 310 Bananarama - Hey young London 311 The Jam - Carnaby Street 312 Catapilla - Charing Cross   313 The Shadows - Chelsea Boot 314 Ride - Chelsea Girl 315 The Damned  - Grimly Fiendish 316 Marillion - Chelsea Monday 317 Slowdive - Celia's Dream 318 The Clash - Gates of the west 319 Thin Lizzy - Half Caste 320 David Bowie -  I dig everything 321  VUUR - Days Go By - London 322 Elvis Costello - [I Don't Want To Go To] Chelsea 323 Uriah Heep - Walking in your shadow 324 Genesis - Invisible Touch 325 Amy Winehouse - Me & Mr Jones 326 Curve - Fait Accompli   327 Silverfish ‎- Crazy 328 Iron Maiden - Killers 329 Killing Joke -  Ghost Of Ladbroke Grove 330 Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK 331 Paradise lost - remembrance 332 The Fall - Leave the Capitol 333 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset 334 WIRE - Keep exhaling 335 The Peddlers - raining in London 336 Motorhead - damage case 337 10cc - Shock On The Tube (Don't Want Love) 338 Swervedriver - Rave Down 339 Spike Milligan - Tower Bridge 340 Phil Lynott - Solo In Soho 341 Adam and the Ants - Plastic Surgery 342 The Who - Pinball wizard 343 Pulp - Mile end 344 Generation X - Running with the Boss Sound 345 OMD - If You Leave 346 PiL - Public Image 347 Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show - theme song 348 Hall & Oates - London, Luck & Love 349 The Horrors - Three decades 350 Cathedral - Midnight Mountain 351 Killing Joke - glitch 352 Judas Priest - The Ripper 353 Air Raid Siren London Blitz 354 Dragonforce - Fury and the storm 355 Elastica - Connection 356 the Psychedelic Furs - Dumb waiters 357 Samantha Fox - Touch me 358 Wang Chung - Dance hall days 359 Kim Wilde - Water on glass 360 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Overground 361 Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow night 362 Fleetwood Mac - My Heart Beat Like a Hammer 363 Rainbow - Self Portrait 364 Billy Ocean - Love really hurts without you 365 Art of Noise - Beat box (division one) 366 Eurythmics - Never Gonna Cry Again 367 Samson - Grime Crime 368 Go West - we close our eyes 369 Ultravox - Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead 370 King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man 371 Visage - Visage 372 Sandy Denny - Let's Jump The Broomstick 373 Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More 374 Fields Of The Nephilim - Blue water 375 Leftfield - Open Up 376 Blancmange - I've Seen The Word 377 Thomas Dolby - Flying north 378 Sisters of Mercy - Temple of love 379 Royal Orchestra - Royal Entrance Queen Elizabeth II 380 Pink Floyd - Goodbye blue sky 666 David Bowie -  London Bye Ta - Ta 

Play the songs here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_ntP663JhZl-hvn9EwFp9L

[timac-extraversal]

Graph of Redundant Inexpensive Departments

(TIMAC #001, ~2,900 words, ~11.5 minutes)

Summary: To create mild competition without privatization, large government departments can be split geographically with adjacent territories allowed to choose their service provider.

Epistemic Status: Speculative government design.

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Could it be desirable to ax an entire government department or agency?

From a conservative perspective, if a bureaucrat's job is to write rules, then he will write rules. Faced with the alternatives of either writing more rules or finding a new job, the bureaucrat will either keep writing rules or be replaced by someone who will. His boss, whose power and prestige depend on the number of personnel needed to enforce the rules, is unlikely to object. In the absence of someone whose job it is to destroy rules, rules will gradually accumulate, and with them the burden of compliance - a problem for everyone except the organization making and enforcing the rules.

From a more liberal or left-wing perspective, abusive organizations with power often protect their own. An organization found to have engaged in wrongdoing will take a hit to its prestige, its power, and its budget, and thus the leaders who get to wield that power have an incentive to cover it up. From the other side, lower-level employees may feel a sort of comraderie (or mutual fear of prosecution) and refuse to provide the necessary information to properly investigate the wrongdoing. If these views are pervasive in the organization to the point of influencing its hiring, then the organization may prove very resistant to reform.

The Problem of Police

Police departments must always work with incomplete information. This applies both to who they arrest - at least some suspects will later be found innocent and released - and to how they arrest - a man being arrested might have a weapon on him or might start behaving erratically at any moment. Physically capturing people without harming them is difficult due to the forces involved, which is part of why weapons like tasers, pepper spray, and plastic bullets are now described by some as "less than lethal" rather than "non-lethal."

Given a large enough number of encounters, even a department composed of entirely-dispassionate military robots armed with tranquilizer darts are going to seriously harm someone, and most police departments are much worse than this. Police violence is a notorious problem, and reports of police corruption or covering for bad behavior aren't far behind. Communities must choose between the risk of getting harassed and murdered by the police, and the risk of getting harassed and murdered by criminals, with better departments doing better at both metrics, but perhaps at a cost to some other factor we care about.1

Mapping Out the Problem

I'm not a criminologist. I don't know exactly what makes a good police department - but I bet there are a lot of experts who do, who for reasons of incentives aren't being listened to right now. (Though with recent events, perhaps people are paying more attention.) What I am about to propose is a more general technique which would require further testing.

We could try gathering metrics, but metrics can be gamed. How do we even quantify traits like 'friendly' and their associated trade-offs?2 We could try electing the police chief and top-tier officers, but people already seem to be paying more attention to national politics than to local politics; adding even more local elected officials to memorize won't help that, even before we account for whatever bizarre distortions political party affiliation would have on the cops. (In fact, it's long been said that 'tough on crime' stats for elected officials are driving wastefully unmerciful prosecutions and other bad policing.)

If the department culture itself is corrupt or has networks of corruption, we're even worse off. Technically, we could ax the entire department and replace it with a new one - Camden, New Jersey, replaced their city department with a county one - but this is likely to result in some disruption and to require a lot of political energy.

Dividing the Array of Cops

...but what if it were easier to just get rid of an underperforming department? What would that require?

First, to prevent service disruption, we would need a backup department that is ready to work within weeks or months. Second, whatever structural factors corrupted the first department might corrupt the second department, so we'll need a stream of replacements.

For raw numbers, let's use New York City. (I don't have anything personally against New York or the NYPD. New York is just really big.) The city of New York has over 38,000 police officers for its population of about 8.3 million residents (a ratio of about 216:1). It would be difficult to replace an entire force the size of a town in one year and ensure quality, and it would take several years to rebuild institutional competence.

However, the challenge of replacing the NYPD doesn't come from the 38,000 personnel overall; a force that large might need to replace 1,000 personnel a year from retirements alone. What makes us unable to replace the NYPD is that all 38,000 cops are in one department. If we had a larger number of smalller departments, then the number of personnel we'd need to recruit in one year to replace one department would be much more manageable.

Charter Justice

At this point, a more libertarian writer might suggest that if we're replacing the NYPD with smaller departments, then we should replace it with competing private security services companies ('PSCs') and issue security services vouchers. I'm skeptical of this approach for a variety of reasons.

In the voucher scenario, only living friends and relatives of a homicide victim are still customers, as the homicide victim himself cannot be a future source of revenue for the PSC.

Regular police departments are already under political pressure to ignore crimes by the wealthy and politically well-connected. If people can pay more than the voucher amount, the department has further incentive to do so.

Regular people are already tasked to capacity on obtaining, verifying, and processing information, to the point that our society is under epistemic stress. Searching through and verifying the records and reputations of a dozen PSC firms is unpaid work that we can expect will be done poorly.

The ideal coverage zone for PSC firm competition is the individual or the building. Neighborhood-level coverage organizations would create principle-agent problems and start coming up with their own de facto ordinances to save money - but without neighborhood-level coverage organizations, it would be difficult to gain fast responses and economies of scale.

Under a non-profit department model, it is more difficult to siphon off resources that would have gone to policing as cash for personal use and the return on investment for doing so is lower (due to costs of evasion/laundering). A for-profit department is incentivized to drop the least-profitable cases and to minimize expenses while externalizing the costs even more than a conventional department.

It is not that the impulse for private firms is wrong in the general case, but rather it's a matter of the incentives in the specific case. Private firms do fairly well at producing ordinary goods and services with repeat buyers where customers are easily able to assess the quality of the good or service. Policework doesn't fit the characteristics as well, in part because it's about enforcing (and thus influencing) the rules themselves.

For these reasons, I think competing public departments would be a better choice than a private security model.

Departments

How many departments should the city have? When a department is larger, it can gain economies of scale on paperwork, storage, and so on. When a department is smaller, it's easier to replace and there's more variation, but the more departments there are, the more departments there are to keep track of. We must manage the flow of information.

For many cities adopting this multi-department framework, five (5) might be the optimal number of police departments. In New York, each would have around 7,600 officers. (A meta-department could be placed in charge of procuring city-wide police software and standard equipment.) Three departments would be too few - each department would only have to be better than two others, and a department closure would raise the other departments' workloads by 50%. Seven or even nine departments might work for New York (with around a million residents per department), but every jurisdictional boundary that needs to be cooperated over for an investigation of a cross-jurisdiction crime adds more friction and makes the investigation less likely to succeed. Smaller and more temporary task forces could be created between departments for city-wide crimes.

Once we have five departments, it becomes easier for the City to remove one should an entire department be implicated in a Nepalese tiger smuggling ring, or some much more ordinary kind of malfeasance.3

But how often do we actually want or need to remove the entire department at once? We might want to decrease a department's power and reach without totally removing it, for less disruption.

Territories

Instead of dividing the City of New York into 5 territories, let us divide the city into 100. To start, each department gets 20 territories, all contiguous. Funding is on a per-territory basis, based on demographic factors such as population and level of poverty.

Who knows whether a police department is doing a good job? How do we solve the question of what metrics are appropriate and what the right balance of risk is? We don't. We punt that question to voters. Every two years or so, all police territories that are either on the border of a department's controlled territories, or are adjacent to a border territory, vote on whether to switch to neighboring police departments.

The voters don't need to keep track of much. Most years, the main question they need to answer is: "is my neighborhood's police department doing a better job than the police department across the street?" They don't need to know who the police chief is, or what the department's exact policies are, although of course informed voters can do research on the departments to find out.

City elected officials manage the map requirements. Only 5 territories may be transferred away from a department in one round. The area controlled by a police department must be contiguous. A transfer may be refused by city officials if it violates one of these two conditions. The actual process of switching will occur over a period of 6-12 months.

Departments that are well-regarded will gradually grow, while departments that are hated by the citizens will shrink. If they are unwilling or unable to reform, a department will be dissolved when it falls below 5 controlled territories.

For more immediate results, the Mayor can put a referendum to dissolve a department to the voters for the following election.

New Departments

To stay at a total of 5 departments, a new department must be added whenever an old department is dissolved. Where do new departments come from? To create a new department, the largest (and thus presumably most well-regarded) department is split into two departments over a four-year period. Alternatively, a vote may be held to find a critical mass of territories that want a new department, and a new department can be formed there. The decision on which of these two processes to use will be left to city elected officials.

Departments can also be allowed to move beyond municipal boundaries, allowing the movement of departments from the suburbs into the city, or between suburbs.

It's quite possible that the new department procedure will never be used. The threat of losing control of territory, and thus losing jobs for officers, and losing prestige for the department, may be sufficient to get about as much performance out of the police departments as they are realistically able to provide with the budgets they have.

With both a source of new departments and a loss of old and underperforming departments, and the movement of departments along a graph of connected territories, we can call this overall approach GRID - Graph of Redundant Inexpensive Departments4 - until a more suitable name is devised. "Departments" are of course a bureaucratic construct. Officers may end up working for different departments throughout their careers.

The marginal employee typically needs a company more than the company, which is much larger, needs the marginal employee. Unions allow a balance where 'employee' bargaining organization size is in the same class as firm size. Under GRID, there should be one union for each department, to prevent the police unions from overriding city policy, while ensuring they have firm-size negotiating leverage.

Risks

How much discretion in setting internal policy will the departments have? This will be set by the city elected officials, who may allow more or less discretion as they deem appropriate. The degenerate state is similar to having one city police department, but with higher overhead.

How much will the departments campaign, and how much will the policing become politicized? It's likely that the neighboring territories will be relatively similar to each other, so police policies probably won't wildly diverge. As for campaigning, it isn't just important to do a good job, but also to ensure that others know that you did a good job. The best campaign for a department is probably to have good relations with the community.

Will departments still attempt to cover up failures? The organization is smaller and thus less able to endure the consequences of a major failure. However, I expect that most major failures start out as a minor failure that is then compounded. With the tighter feedback between actions and consequences, and with fewer people to monitor, the intent is that minor problems will be found and addressed earlier, before they have a chance to become major problems.

Risks: Will the Gain Be Sufficient?

The GRID approach only makes sense if police departments aren't performing near their maximum potential given their available resources (such as equipment, talent pool, conditions of the areas they're patrolling, etc), and the reasons for this are within the potential control of the department. (For instance, if a city's tax base evaporates and the police department is used to gain revenue for the city government through fines, it will be very difficult for the department to have any kind of good relationship with the community.)

Creating multiple departments means having more department chiefs, more buildings, and periodic moves between buildings. The total number of cops is unlikely to change, but the total cost of the program might rise by 3-10% (to blindly guess). GRID should only be enacted if we expect that there is a double-digit gain that we cannot achieve through smaller, simpler policy interventions, or other alternative classes of policy interventions.

General Applications

The use of police departments is only a specific example of what is intended as a general technique. If institutions are essential to the maintenance of advanced civilization, but there are risks of long-term institutional decline, then it may be worth breaking them up into smaller units so that one institutional failure doesn't wipe out society's full institutional capabilities in that institution's class. (Further, the rate of institutional decline is likely to vary, allowing us to maintain a higher average institutional performance for longer through replacing the worst-performing institutions.) While the failure of small institutions may be more pro-cyclical on the small scale, an early small institution failure may be more recoverable than a late large institution failure, as it may occur while more resources are still available, and re-capitalization cost to create a replacement will be lower.

On the other hand, large institutions can better survive shorter and smaller disruptions. GRID should be conceived as part of a general discourse on institution size as part of society's ecosystem of institutions.

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[1] - For instance, many colleges use 'Affirmative Action' policies to alter the demographic distribution of their incoming student body, generally justified as either increasing the diversity students are exposed to, or making up for disparities earlier in the educational pipeline. Increasing the training standards for police to match that of a 4-year degree might improve officer performance, but will likely require an affirmative action program due to whatever disparities are present in the pipeline for a conventional 4-year college degree, and will likely also increase individual debt and expectations of officer pay. Cities may find they can't lower the pay even if they want to, as they compete for the same pool of otherwise college-bound prospects as many industries do. This may further hinder the ability of impoverished cities to hire an adequate number of officers relative to the number of calls, or drain municipal budgets that could have been directed towards prevention or other programs.

[2] - "We must measure some proxy for officer friendliness. Officer smiles per pedestrian-minute is such a proxy, therefore we must measure it," and absurdities of similar magnitude might follow.

[3] - A tiger smuggling ring is less realistic and used as an example because it's less depressing than a more realistic one like ties to organized crime. On the other hand, in this absurd year of 2020, a department might be found guilty of something equally outlandish.

[4] - A little joke on my part. GRID does not directly share its design with RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks), but is designed to make replacement of a department easier.

[grandprogression]

Prince Driving 2 Midnight Mess

31st August 1988 (AM) ° Große Freiheit '36, Hamburg

26th July 1988 (AM) ° Camden Palace, London

31st December 1987 ° Paisley Park, Chanhassen

Sabotage (001-002)

[fashion-show]

A four-piece Superhero outfit made for Helen Slater in the title role of the 1984 film Supergirl, comprising of:

A leotard of blue 'silk' stretch fabric, the front appliquéd with a red and yellow S logo, labelled inside Bermans and Nathans, 40 Camden St., London NW1 with typescript details Helen Slater 001, Set 7 (Phantom Zone set) This costume was slightly darker than the other costumes and is the rarest.

Supergirl. scarlet fabric cape with padded shoulders, decorated with a yellow and black S logo.

A mini-skirt of scarlet 'silk' stretch fabric with yellow v-shaped waistband and matching lining, Bermans and Nathans label also attached to lining.

A pair of red and yellow patent leather boots.

[shoemengi]

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[preciiousmetals]

"no, never," stella confirms with a small, bashful laugh and a shake of her head. bright, curious eyes follow the joint in his hand, bottom lip caught between her teeth as she considers the offer in front of her. she's not really the type to do any sort of, well, anything; she hardly even drinks unless there's some peer pressure involved. despite that, even she's not immune to curiosity. it's written all over her face, even as she nervously deflects. "oh...i'm not sure. you know all those-" she waves a hand as her gaze flicks back to his face. "-psas and stuff. pretty sure it kills all your braincells or something."

open to f/nb Plot connection: stepsister, friend, fwb, friend's gf, etc.

"Wait, really? You've never smoked before?" Camden's fingers slowly twirl the joint, other hand fiddling with his lighter as he glanced over at her. Maybe that admission wasn't entirely difficult to believe. Most people didn't partake in such a 'hobby', but he did tend to exclusively hang out with those who did. Thumb flicked against the flint wheel of the lighter, creating the spark, but not holding down long enough to start the flame. He licked his lips as he looked the other up and down, bringing the filter tip to his lips. "Do you wanna try it? I can help you." He offered, flicking the lighter once more.