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akwardlyuncool · 5 years

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Akward Class Favorites Playlist 2019

Yay we made it to the end of Akward Class Favorites 2019. Apparently 85 songs is the new normal and yes that makes me scared cause it’s one thing to drag and drop songs into a Spotify Playlist, but it’s a whole other deal to come makes this post. That being said the actual number 87 songs because 2 of them were covers on YouTube. In reality though I love doing this and it’s truly one of my favorite posts to make each year. I tried to bring back a story flow to the 2019 playlist, but it’s probably just a mess, either way like I said, I tried.

Here’s to another year of listening to the same 20 songs over and again, but still managing to come up with 67 more songs to fill a playlist with. Let’s see what music does to and for us next year. Thanks for sticking around.

PS: I apologize for Tumblr messing up the numbers sequence the past few years, but just know that it looked fine before I posted it and I’m trying a different approach this year.

* = Songs that came out specifically in 2019.

^ = Songs only available on Spotify.

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1) Holy - King Princess

2) Juice - Lizzo

I’m sorry I forgot this video when it came to my favorite music videos of the year. I will try harder next year.

3) Truthfully - DNCE

4) * The Death Of Me - Marianas Trench

5) Sober (Acoustic) - Joy Oladokan

6) Two Doors Down - Dolly Parton

Thank you Dumplin’.

7) Good As Hell - Lizzo

Thank you Liza Koshy.

8) Tints - Anderson .Paak ft Kendrick Lamar

9) 7 Rings (Cover) - Mackenzie Johnson and Speaker X

Click the link cause it’s not on Spotify and because the cover is everything!

10) thank u, next - Ariana Grande

11) * homecoming queen? - Kelsea Ballerini

12) * Prom Queen - Catie Turner

Yes I did I did discover it from that documentary, sue me.

13) Hatsuyme - Speak Low If You Speak Love

TW/CW: The subject is of suicide.

14) How I Go - Yellow Card

15) ^ The Lion (Spotify Sessions) - Scott Helman

16) Hardwired - Hailey Knox

17) Sour Love - Drew Cole

18) Gaslight - Scott Helman

19) Someone Else - SayWeCanFly

20) Pray - Picturesque

21) * No Disrespect - Set It Off

22) Clarity In Kerosene - nothing,nowhere.

23) I Won’t Lie (Acoustic) - Go Radio

I’m really happy that they’re back.

24) Lucid Dreams - Juice WRLD

This is the song I listen to with my nephew, he goes kinda hard with the dance moves to it.

25) Be Alright - Dean Lewis

Thanks Instagram ads.

26) Looks Red, Tastes Blue - Mayday Parade

27) I Took A Pill In Ibiza - Mike Posner

Yes this version is superior. I know I’m a few years late and no I’m not mad at it for being my most played song on Spotify this year.

28) * Kornflakes - Pandaraps ft. Kid Wolf

29) ^ Dear Me (Less Is More Mix) - Eric Hutchinson

30) * Feelin’ Old - Stevie Ray and A-1

31) * Get Better - Scotty Sire ft. Bruce Wiegner

32) Hold Me Up - Tim Olstad

33) * better. - Super Whatevr

This video is also great and I’m sorry I forgot about it.

34) Dare You To Move/Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been/To Get To Me (Mashup) - Mass Anthem

35) Still Remembering (Cover) - NOAHFINNCE

Click the link cause it’s not on Spotify. (The song starts @ 1:37 in the video.)

36) Lifeguard - Scott Helman

This is the song I needed this year.

37) * Slip The Noose - The Maine

Almost became my summer anthem for 2019 cause I heard it live at Sad Summer Fest, but I thought better of it, it’s still a good song though. (The video link is live, but on Spotify, it’s the original.)

38) Please - Noah Kahan

39) Ripple Effect (Famba Remix) - Scott Helman

The dance version.

40) * 10,000 Hours - Dan + Shay ft. Justin Bieber

41) Tequila (The Vocals) - Dan + Shay

42) Speechless (The Vocals) - Dan + Shay

43) 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

44) Ripple Effect - Scott Helman

The original version. (I love all versions.)

45) Sassafras Roots - Green Day

My actual pick for my summer anthem of 2019 and another one for good measure, shout out to 25 years of Dookie.

46) Chinese Restaurant - Scott Helman

“I could be your boyfriend. Your confidant, your lover and your best friend. The hole in the fence at the dead end. Somebody you could get into debt with.” - Some favorite lyrics.

47) When You’re Ready - Shawn Mendes

48) Why - Shawn Mendes

49) 5am In Tennessee - Weatherman ft. Hollyn

“I keep all my feelings in my pocket, baby don't stress. We don't like to talk about us no more I guess.” - Some more favorite lyrics.

50) Sh*t Happens - Late Night Thoughts

51) Tequila - Dan + Shay

This the song that I thought was my most listened to song on Spotify, but it was actually a few songs down on the list. I was in the general vicinity though.

52) * Don’t Miss Me? - Marianas Trench

53) My Heart I Surrender - I Prevail

54) * Bad Habit - Better Off

Hella clever, highly recommend. (And the album came out in 2019, but the song came out in November of 2018, but for this playlist I’m saying 2019.)

55) * Promises (Green Eyes) - dying by designer x GOLDHOUSE

56) * Let It Be Me - Steve Aoki and The Backstreet Boys

Yes the Backstreet Boys are allowed to make a resurgence in my life.

57) Stay The Same - Mayday Parade

Good for late night listening.

58) Weak Days - Elder Brother

Good for listening to while you’re looking out a window or anytime really.

59) * Wish You Were Here - Marianas Trench

60) Used To Be - Matt Nathanson

61) Wish You Were Here - Elder Brother

62) Forget Me Not - Marianas Trench

63) Sunday Mornings - Elder Brother

64) * Everybody’s Pritty - Panda Raps

65) * Real World (Cover) - State Champs

66) Circle Spinning - Speak Low If You Speak Love

67) Cannot Have It All - Speak Low If You Speak Love

68) Gun Shy (Change) - Matt Wertz

69) Why (Remix) - Shawn Mendes ft. Leon Bridges

Does Leon Bridges makes everything better? At least with this song he does.

70) Miss You All The Time - O.A.R.

71) Your Love - PORTRAITS

72) Better With You - Jesse McCartney

73) Human Nature (Cover) - VACAY

Another one where the video is a live version, cause that was the best option, but the Spotify playlist will be the original version.

74) Losing Sleep - The Wildhood

75) Never Thought I’d Be In Love Again - Wax

76) * Uncomfortably Numb - American Football ft. Hayley Williams

Real Emo.

77) ILYBS (Stripped) - LANY

Thanks Zach and Mia. (Season 2 I believe.)

78) * For You Forever - Set It Off

79) Kings and Queens - Drew Cole

Spotify said you had a good year with me, so I added you. You’re still a good song though.

80) Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant

Problematic for sure, but hey “it was made in like 2009, so it doesn’t matter cause it was a different time.”

81) Broken (Acoustic) - lovelytheband

The superior version to the one played on the radio. (Yet another one where the video had to be “live.”

82) * Stitch Me Up - Set It Off

83) Gun Shy (Change) // (Acoustic) - Matt Wertz

84) The Good Parts - Andy Grammer

85) Coffee At Midnight - Stand Atlantic

86) * Full - Pandaraps

87) * Old Town Road (Remix) - Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus

Spotify Link

Once again, the Spotify playlist does not include the songs only availble on YouTube, so please in particular check those songs out.

#Class Favorites 2019 #AKWARD CLASS FAVORITES #Akward Mixes #Playlists

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✧･*ﾟscottish surnames

→ link to my scottish female name masterlist → link to my scottish male name masterlist

under the cut are 733 scottish surnames. this masterlist was created for all in one breath rp at the request of lovely el, but feel free to link on your own sites! names are listed in alphabetical order. ❝mac❞, ❝mc❞ and ❝m❞ are split into three sections because i mean... look at them. please like♡ or reblog if you found this useful.

abbot(son), abercrombie, abernethy, adam(son), agnew, aikenhead, aitken, akins, allan(nach/son), anderson, (mac)andie, (mac)andrew, angus, annand, archbold/archibald, ard, aris, (mac)arthur

(mac)bain/bayne, baird, baker, balfour, bannatyne, bannerman, barron, baxter, beaton, beith, bell, bethune, beveridge, birse, bisset, bishop, black(ie), blain/blane, blair, blue, blyth, borthwick, bowie, boyd, boyle, braden, bradley, braithnoch, (mac)bratney, breck, bretnoch, brewster, (mac)bridan/brydan/bryden, brodie, brolochan, broun/brown, bruce, buchanan, budge, buglass, buie, buist, burnie, butter/buttar

caie, (mac)caig, (mac)cail, caird, cairnie, (mac)callan(ach), calbraith, (mac)callum, calvin, cambridge, cameron, campbell, canch, (mac)candlish, carberry, carmichael, carrocher, carter, cassie, (mac)caskie, catach, catto, cattenach, causland, chambers, chandlish, charleson, charteris, chisholm, christie, (mac)chrystal, (mac)clanachan/clenachan, clark/clerk, (mac)clean, cleland, clerie, (mac)clinton, cloud, cochrane, cockburn, coles, colinson, colquhoun, comish, comiskey, comyn, conn(an), cook, corbett, corkhill, (mac)cormack, coull, coulthard, (mac)cowan, cowley, crabbie, craig, crane, cranna, crawford/crawfurd, crerar, cretney, crockett, crosby, cruikshank, (mac)crum, cubbin, cullen, cumming, cunningham, currie, cuthbertson

dallas, dalglish, dalziel, darach/darroch, davidson, davie, day, deason, de lundin, dewar, dickin, dickson, docherty, dockter, doig, dollar, (mac)donald(son), donelson, donn, douglas, dorward, (mac)dow(all), dowell, (macil)downie, drain, drummond, (mc)duff(ie)/duff(y), duguid, dunnet, dunbar, duncan, dunn, durward, duthie

E, F

eggo, elphinstone, erskine, faed, (mac)farquhar(son), fee, fergus(on), (mac)ferries, fettes, fiddes, findlay, finn, finlayson, fisher, fishwick, fitzgerald, flanagan, fleming, fletcher, forbes, forrest, foulis/fowlis, fraser, fullarton, fulton, furgeson

gall(ie), galbraith, gammie, gardyne, (mac)garvie, gatt, gault, geddes, gellion, gibb(son), gilbert, gilbride, (mac)gilchrist, gilfillan, (mac)gill(ivray/ony), gillanders, gillespie, gillies, gilliland, gilmartin, gilmichael, gilmore, gilroy, gilzean, (mac)glashan, glass, gloag, glover, godfrey, gollach, gordon, (mac)gorrie, gourlay, gow, graeme/graham, grant, grassick, grassie, gray, gregg, (mac)gregor(y), greer, greig, grierson, grieve, grimmond, (mac)gruer, gunn, guthrie

hall, hamill, (mac)hardie/hardy, harper, harvie, hassan, hatton, hay, henderson, hendry, henry, hepburn, herron, hood, hosier, howie, hugston, huie, hume, humphrey, hunter, (mac)hutcheon, hutcheson

I, J, K

(mac)innes, irving, iverach, ivory, jamieson, jarvie, jeffrey(s), johnson, johnston, jorie, (mac)kay, (mac)kean, keenan, keillor, keir, keith, kelly, kelso, keogh, kemp, kennedy, (mac)kerr(acher), kesson, king, kynoch

laing, laird, (mac)laine/lane, lamond, lamont, landsborough, landsburgh, lang/laing, larnach, laurie/lawrie, lees, lennie, lennox, leslie, lindsay, little(son), lithgow, livingston(e), lobban, logan, lorne, lothian, lovat, love, loynachan, luke, luther

MAC-

mac ruaidhrí, mac somhairle, mac suibhne, macadam, macadie, macaffer, macainsh, macalasdair, macallister, macalonie, macalpine, macanroy, macara, macarthy, macaskill, macaskin, macaughtrie, macaulay, macauslan, macbean, macbeath, macbeth(ock), macbey, macbriden, macbryde, maccabe, maccadie, maccaffer, maccaffey/maccaffie, maccalman, maccambridge, maccann, maccance, maccartney, maccavity, maccaw, macdowell, maccheyne, maccodrum, maccomb(ie), maccorkindale, maccormick, maccoll, macconie, macconnachie, macconnell, maccoshin, maccoskrie, maccorquodale, macclaren, maccleary, macclew, maccloy, macclumpha, macclung, macclure, macclurg, maccraig, maccrain, maccreadie, maccrimmon, maccrindle, maccririe, maccrone, maccrosson, maccuaig, maccuidh, maccuish, macculloch, maccurley, macdermid/macdiarmid, macdougall, macdui, macduthy, maceachainn, maceachen, macelfrish, macewan/macewen, macfadyen, macfadzean, macfall, macfarlane/macpharlane, macfater/macphater, macfeat, macfee, macfigan, macgarrie, macgarva, macgeachen/macgeechan, macgeorge, macghie, macgibbon, macgillonie, macgiven, macglip, macgriogair, macgruther, macguire, macgurk, machaffie, macheth, machugh, macichan, macinnally, macindeoir, macindoe, macinesker, macinlay, macinroy, macintosh, macintyre, macisaac, maciver/macivor, macilherran, macilroy, macjarrow, mackail, mackeegan, mackeggie, mackellar, mackelvie, mackendrick, mackenna, mackenzie, mackerlich, mackerral, mackerron, mackerrow, mackessock, mackettrick, mackichan, mackie, mackilligan, mackillop, mackim(mie), mackinven, mackirdy/mackirdie, mackrycul, maclafferty, maclagan, maclarty, maclatchie/letchie, maclaverty, maclearnan, macleay, maclehose, macleish, maclellan(d), macleman, macleod, macleòid, maclintock, macllwraith, maclucas, macluckie, maclugash, macmann(us), macmaster, macmeeken, macmichael, macmillan, macminn, macmorrow, macmurchie, macmurdo, macmurray, macnab, macnair, macnally, macnaught(on), macnee, macneish/macnish, macnicol, macninder, macnucator, macpartland, macphail, macphatrick, macphee, macphedran, macpherson, macquarrie, macqueen, macquien, macquilken, macrae/machray, macraild, macrob(bie/bert), macrory, macrostie, macshane, macsherry, macsorley, macsporran, macsween, mactavish, mactear, macturk, macusbaig, macvannan, macvarish, macvaxter, macvean, macveigh/macvey, macvicar, macvitie, macvurich, macwalter, macwattie, macwhannell, macwhillan, macwhinnie

MC-

mccabe, mccain, mcclelland, mcclintock, mcconell, mccracken, mccune, mccurdy, mcdiarmid, mcelshender, mceuen, mcewing, mcfadden, mcgeachie/mcgeachy, mcgowan, mcilroy, mcinnis, mcivor, mckechnie, mckeown, mclarty, mclennan, mcneill(age/ie), mcowen, mcphee, mcpherson, mcwhirter

maduthy, magruder, mahaffie, main(s), mair, major, malcolm(son), malloch, manson, marr, marno(ch), (mac)martin, marquis, massie, matheson, mathewson, maver/mavor, maxwell, may, mearns, meechan, meiklejohn, meldrum, mellis(h), menzies, mercer, micklewain, milfrederick, millar/miller, milligan, milliken, milne, milroy, milvain, milwain, moannach, moat, moffat, mollinson, moncrief, monk, montgomery, moore, moray, morgan, (mac)morran, morrison, morrow, morton, mossman, mucklehose, muir(head), mulloy, munn, munro, (mac)murchie/murchy, murchison, murdoch, murphy

N, O, P, Q

nairn, naughton, navin, neeve, neil, neish, nelson, ness, nevin, nicalasdair, niceachainn, (mac)nichol(son), nicleòid, (mac)niven, noble, ochiltree, ogg, ogilvy, o'kean, oliver, omay/omey, orchard(son), orr, osborne, park, paterson, patrick, patten, peacock, peat, peters, philp, polson, power, purcell, purser, qualtrough, quayle, quillan, quiller, quinn, quirk

R, S

(mac)ranald(son), randall, rankin, reid, reoch, revie, riach, (mac)ritchie, roberts(on), rose, ross, rothes, roy, ryrie, salmon(d), scott, selkirk, sellar, shannon, sharpe, shaw, sheen, shiach, sillars, sim(son/pson), sinclair, skene, skinner, sloan, smith, somerville, soutar/souter, stein, stenhouse, stewart/stuart, strachan, stronach, sutherland, (mac)swan(son/ston), swinton

T, U, V, W, Y

taggart, tallach, tawse, taylor, thom(son), todd, tolmie, tosh, tough, tulloch, turner, tyre, ulrick, urquhart, vass, wallace, walker, walsh, warnock, warren, ward, watt, watson, wayne, weir, welsh, whiston, whyte, wilkins(on), (mac)william(son), wilson, winning, wright, young

#names #masterlist #surnames #last names #name masterlist #rph #scottish surnames #scottish last names #roleplay help #roleplay #rp #mine #my stuff #surname masterlist #last name masterlist

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ollyarchive · 5 years

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Years and Years’ Olly Alexander, Lucy Spraggan and Sir Ian McKellen among Top 100 in 2019’s Pride Power List

The list celebrates all that is good and great in the LGBT+ community

This year’s Pride Power List has been released and it includes musicians Years and Years‘ Olly Alexander and Lucy Spraggan, and also actor Sir Ian McKellen.

Today, celebrations are taking place in the nation’s capital to commemorate Pride in London – honouring the lives, achievements, history and future of the LGBT+ community.

To coincide with the occasion, the Pride Power List 2019 has been released, revealing the members of the LGBT+ community in the UK who have made a significant impact in the fight for the equality and inclusion of LGBT+ individuals.

“The list celebrates all that is good and great in the LGBT+ community and has a unique mix of celebrity, community, celebrity and business leaders,” said Linda Riley, founder of the Pride Power List.

Individuals included in this year’s list include musicians Years and Years‘ Olly Alexander, Lucy Spraggan and Westlife’s Mark Feehily, and actor Sir Ian McKellen.

The Pride Power 2019 List Top 100 LGBT+ individuals:

Ruth Hunt – chief executive of Stonewall.

Sir Ian McKellen CH CBE – actor and LGBT+ rights advocate.

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah – co-founder of UK Black Pride.

Owen Jones – columnist, author, commentator and political activist.

Peter Tatchell – LGBT+ campaigner and activist.

Sandi Toksvig OBE – writer, actor, comedian, presenter and producer.

Michael Cashman CBE – Labour peer, actor, former MEP and LGBT+ campaigner.

Munroe Bergdorf – DJ, activist and feminist.

Edward Enninful OBE – editor-in-chief of British Vogue.

Liz Carr – actor, comedian and disability rights campaigner.

Clare Balding OBE – broadcaster, journalist and author.

Graham Norton – television and radio presenter, comedian and actor.

Gok Wan – fashion consultant, author and television presenter.

Saara Aalto – singer and musician.

Mhairi Black MP – Scottish politician.

Heather Peace – actor, musician and LGBT+ rights activist.

Nicola Adams OBE – professional boxer.

Liv Little – founder of gal-dem magazine.

Stephen Fry – actor, presenter, writer, comedian and activist.

Anthony Watson – founder and CEO of TBOL.

Lord Waheed Alli – media entrepreneur and politician.

Dawn Airey – Getty Images board and NYT chair.

Alan Carr – comedian, television personality and author.

Cressida Dick – commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Paris Lees – journalist, presenter, feminist and transgender rights activist.

Hannah Bardell MP – SNP MP of Livingston Constituency.

Lucy Spraggan – singer and songwriter.

Adele Roberts – radio presenter and DJ.

Sara Geater – chief operating officer of All3Media.

Alison Camps – partner and deputy chairman of Quadrangle.

Claire Harvey – diversity and inclusion consultant.

Charlie Condou – actor and columnist.

Ruth Davidson – Scottish politician and leader of the Scottish Conservative Party.

Mark Feehily – musician and one of the lead singers of Westlife.

Dr Ranj Singh – TV presenter, author, columnist and doctor.

Jane Hill – BBC journalist and broadcaster.

Olly Alexander – songwriter, actor and lead singer of Years and Years.

Chardine Taylor-Stone – cultural producer, writer and activist.

Tim Jarman – assistant director for diversity and inclusiveness at EY.

Amy Lamé – writer, performer, presenter and London’s night Czar.

Evan Davis – presenter, economist and author.

Annie Wallace – actor.

Kiki Archer – author.

Bobby Cole Norris – TV personality and presenter.

Horse McDonald – singer and songwriter.

Susan Calman – comedian, television presenter and writer.

Dr Elly Barnes MBE – CEO and founder of Educate and Celebrate.

Ollie Locke – television personality, presenter and writer.

Angela Eagle MP – Labour MP for Wallasey.

Brian Ashmead-Siers – partner at PwC.

Reeta Loi – writer, musician and activist.

Sophie Anna Ward – actor and author.

Vincent Francois – regional chief auditor executive at Societe Generale.

Jack Monroe – best-selling author and activist.

Baroness Liz Barker – House of Lords, Liberal Democrats.

Benjamin Butterworth – journalist for i newspaper.

Dr Liam Hackett – founder and CEO of Ditch The Label.

Pema Radha – chief of staff to Global Head of Managed Services at EY.

Mark McLane – head of diversity and inclusion, M&G Prudential.

Bisi Alimi – gay rights activist, public speaker and blogger.

Julie Wilson – CEO of Optimus Cards.

Mary Portas – broadcaster and TV personality.

Val McDermid, FRSE, FRSL – author.

Michael Salter-Church MBE – co-chair of Pride in London.

Ryan Atkin – professional referee.

Kelly Simmons MBE – FA director, Women’s Professional Game.

Wes Streeting MP – Labour politician.

Ryan John Butcher – journalist.

Andy Woodfield – partner at PwC.

Charlie Craggs – trans activist and author.

Dan Hughes – PR specialist.

Dolly-Rose Campbell – actor.

Suki Sandhu OBE – founder and CEO of Involve and Audeliss.

Charlie King – celebrity personal trainer and columnist.

David Ames – actor.

Emma Woollcott – partner at Mishcon de Reya.

Polly Shute – partnership director of Parallel Lifestyle. ‏

Kezia Dugdale – director of John Smith Centre.

Cliff Joannou – editor-in-chief of Attitude magazine.

Jacqui Gavin – Diversity and Inclusion Centre of Excellence manager at Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion.

Jodie Taylor – professional footballer.

Mark Anderson – executive vice president of Customer Experience at Virgin Atlantic.

Professor Sue Sanders – professor and chair of Schools Out. UK.

Daniel Lismore – artist, designer and writer.

Simon Jones – PR specialist.

Ian Massa-Harris-McFeely – events producer, voice coach and makeup artist.

Justine Greening – Conservative Party politician.

Darren Styles OBE – publisher of Attitude magazine.

Rikki Beadle-Blair – actor, director, screenwriter, singer, choreographer and songwriter.

Lord Collins – Labour peer and LGBT+ rights advocate.

Jen Brister – comedian, writer and actor.

Russell T Davies – screenwriter.

Amrou Al-Kadhi – writer, performer and filmmaker.

Pav Akhtar – co-founder and director of strategy of UK Black Pride.

Tag Warner – CEO of Gay Times.

Dr Catherine Lee – deputy dean of Anglia Ruskin University.

Suzi Ruffell – comedian.

Scott McGlynn – presenter, blogger and author.

Mridul Wadhwa – transgender rights campaigner.

Dotty – rapper and radio presenter.

Read more at https://www.nme.com/news/lucy-spraggan-years-and-years-olly-alexander-and-sir-ian-mckellen-among-top-100-in-2019s-pride-power-list-2525081#w1Fgr9ZqxIuiStF7.99

#olly alexander #years & years #yearsandyears #pride #articles #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+#power list #list #lists

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#ch. cole scott #ref: cole's aesthetic #ref: cole's background #(( daddy? sorry... daddy? ))

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content1 · 3 years

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Dabet đưa tin: Abramovich - ông chủ trong mơ của thế giới bóng đá

Nhờ sự hào phóng của tỷ phú người Nga Roman Abramovich, Chelsea vươn mình trở thành một thế lực và chưa từng trải qua thời kỳ nào trắng tay quá một năm.

Trong trận thắng ngược Luton Town 3-2 ở vòng 5 Cup FA tối 2/3, các CĐV đội khách Chelsea không ngừng hát: "Roman Abramovich. Roman Abramovich. Chúng ta đã thắng tất cả".

CĐV Chelsea không sai chút nào. Sau 19 năm dưới triều đại của Abramovich, Chelsea đã giành 21 danh hiệu, chiếm 75% thành tích trong lịch sử 117 năm của đội bóng thành London này. Chức vô địch FIFA Club World Cup ở Abu Dhabi tối 12/2 giúp Chelsea đoạt mọi danh hiệu có thể đối với một đội bóng chuyên nghiệp đỉnh cao, gồm năm Ngoại hạng Anh, năm Cup FA, ba Cup Liên đoàn, hai Siêu cup Anh, hai Champions League, hai Europa League, một Siêu Cup châu Âu và một FIFA Club World Cup. Không đội nào khác ở Anh đoạt đủ bộ sưu tập này trong giai đoạn Abramovich sở hữu Chelsea. Cùng kỳ, không CLB nào vô địch Ngoại hạng Anh nhiều hơn Chelsea, trong khi ở Champions League, chỉ có Liverpool và Chelsea là hai đội Anh hiếm hoi hai lần đăng quang.

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Thời điểm Abramovich mua Chelsea hè 2003, đội bóng này mới hai lần được dự Champions League, tiền thân là Cup C1. Họ cũng trải qua chuỗi 58 năm không vô địch Anh. Thậm chí ngoài mùa giải vô địch 1954-1955 đó, Chelsea chưa từng vào top 2 ở giải VĐQG. Lúc đó, Chelsea chỉ thuộc mức trung bình khá, nhưng có nhiều tiềm năng phát triển do ở gần trung tâm London. Sau gần hai thập niên về tay Abramovich, Chelsea vươn lên thành gã khổng lồ ở châu Âu, với nền tảng vững chắc từ học viện, đội trẻ đến đội nữ.

Abramovich xuất thân trong gia đình tầm trung, lại mồ côi cha mẹ từ bé. Mẹ mất khi cậu mới 18 tháng tuổi, từ một vụ phá thai trái phép. Bố cậu cũng qua đời sau đó 18 tháng. Abramovich phải sống cùng họ hàng, và rèn được tính tự lập từ nhỏ. Cậu không phải một học sinh giỏi đặc biệt, nhưng sớm bộc lộ năng khiếu và đam mê kinh doanh. Khi còn đi học, Abramovich đã bán những chú vịt cao su kiếm tiền. Sau khi lấy vợ, cậu chuyển sang bán những thứ đắt tiền hơn như nước hoa. Kể từ khi Nga cho phép tư nhân hóa các doanh nghiệp nhà nước cuối những năm 80, Abramovich giàu lên nhanh chóng nhờ đầu tư vào nhiều ngành khác nhau - đặc biệt là dầu mỏ.

Năng khiếu kinh doanh của Abramovich phần nào được thể hiện trong những năm đầu thâu tóm Chelsea. Hè 2003, thị trường chuyển nhượng châu Âu nhộn nhịp khi tỷ phú Nga chi tới 163 triệu USD để chiêu mộ cầu thủ, trong đó có những danh thủ như Adrian Mutu, Hernan Crespo, Claude Makelele hay Juan Sebastian Veron. Những cầu thủ còn lại đều thuộc dạng tiềm năng, dưới 25 tuổi như Glen Johnson, Joe Cole, Damien Duff, Scott Parker hay Wayne Bridge.

Không phải hợp đồng nào của Abramovich cũng thành công, nhưng ông giúp Chelsea lần đầu vào top 2 Ngoại hạng Anh, đồng thời đi tới bán kết Champions League. Đội vô địch Champions League năm đó là Porto, dưới tài lãnh đạo của Jose Mourinho. Ngay lập tức, Abramovich đưa Mourinho về Stamford Bridge, và quyết định này đem lại thành quả tức thì. Chelsea vô địch Ngoại hạng Anh trong hai năm liên tiếp, trong đó mùa 2004-2005 của họ được coi là hay bậc nhất lịch sử giải đấu. Những thương vụ của Chelsea sau đó đều đem lại thành quả tốt hơn, với Didier Drogba, Ricardo Carvalho, Arjen Robben, Petr Cech hay Paulo Ferreira.

Abramovich (phải) và HLV Jose Mourinho năm 2005. Ảnh: Reuters Abramovich (phải) và HLV Jose Mourinho năm 2005. Ảnh: Reuters

Kể từ khi Abramovich thâu tóm Chelsea, đội bóng này đã chi 2,12 tỷ USD để mua cầu thủ, theo thống kê của Transfer League. Số tiền này vẫn ít hơn những gì Man City đã bỏ ra cùng giai đoạn. Nhưng nếu xét về khoản thu từ việc bán cầu thủ, Chelsea không có đối thủ với 1,17 tỷ USD, trong khi đội đứng thứ hai Liverpool kiếm 1,04 tỷ USD từ khoản này. Thương vụ đắt giá nhất của Abramovich là Eden Hazard sang Real Madrid hè 2019 với giá 128 triệu USD.

Dưới thời Abramovich, Chelsea luôn khao khát chiến thắng. Mùa 2007-2008 là lần đầu ông trắng tay, khi đội bóng về nhì ở Ngoại hạng Anh, Champions League, Cup Liên đoàn lẫn Siêu cup Anh. Chỉ ở mùa sau đó, HLV Guus Hiddink đã đem về Cup FA. Chelsea tiếp tục trắng tay mùa 2010-2011, 2013-2014 rồi 2019-2020, nhưng họ luôn đáp lại bằng chức vô địch Ngoại hạng Anh hoặc Champions League ở mùa tiếp theo. Dù có thay HLV với những triết lý khác nhau như Carlo Ancelotti, Antonio Conte, Jose Mourinho, Maurizio Sarri, Frank Lampard hay Antonio Conte, họ vẫn đảm bảo được vinh quang.

Những thành tựu của Chelsea là kết quả của một nền tảng vững chắc mà Abramovich đã xây dựng ngay từ những ngày đầu. "Roman muốn học viện tốt nhất và nhóm trinh sát giỏi nhất thế giới ở Chelsea", cựu giám đốc thể thao Frank Arnesen nói với BBC. "Chúng tôi tạo ra một chương trình chung để huấn luyện cầu thủ từ khi họ mới 9 tuổi. Ông ấy yêu cầu tôi chi nhiều tiền cho học viện, vừa tiết kiệm hàng triệu USD, vừa tạo danh tiếng đội bóng".

Ở chung kết Champions League 2012, hậu vệ Ryan Bertrand đi vào lịch sử khi là cầu thủ đầu tiên chơi trận ra mắt giải đấu ở chung kết. Bertrand khi đó 22 tuổi, cũng là cầu thủ duy nhất trưởng thành từ lò đào tạo Chelsea trận này. Đến chung kết Champions League 2021, Chelsea đã có năm cầu thủ "cây nhà lá vườn" gồm Reece James, Mason Mount, Andreas Christensen, Billy Gilmour và Callum Hudson-Odoi.

Kể từ mùa 2009-2010, Chelsea đã bảy lần đoạt Cup Trẻ FA - giải đấu lớn nhất nước Anh ở cấp độ này. Trong đó, họ năm lần liền vô địch giai đoạn 2014-2018. Những cầu thủ trẻ ở Cobham giỏi đến nỗi Chelsea thường cho mượn hàng chục người ở các CLB khác thuộc những giải VĐQG. Nhiều cầu thủ đang chơi nổi bật ở Ngoại hạng Anh như Conor Gallagher (Crystal Palace) hay Tino Livramento, Armando Broja (Southampton). Sự cạnh tranh ở Chelsea khắc nghiệt khiến những cầu thủ ưu tú mới có thể chen lên đội một như James, Mount hay Hudson-Odoi.

Abramovich cũng thành lập đội nữ năm 2010, muộn hơn 20 năm so với nhiều đối thủ khác. Nhưng kể từ năm 2015, Nữ Chelsea đã đoạt năm Cup FA và ba Ngoại hạng Anh. Họ là đội giàu thành tích nhất ở Anh giai đoạn này. Những gì Abramovich đầu tư ở Chelsea đều đem lại thành quả cao nhất. Tỷ phú 55 tuổi mua Chelsea với giá 190 triệu USD, nay Forbes định giá đội bóng 3,2 tỷ USD - tăng gần 17 lần. Thị giá của đội bóng có thể còn lớn hơn nữa.

Từ một đội bóng bị coi là chỉ biết vung tiền mua cầu thủ, Chelsea đã tạo được sự ổn định và không còn phụ thuộc nhiều vào chuyển nhượng. Nếu coi chuyển nhượng ròng là số tiền mua cầu thủ trừ đi số tiền bán, Chelsea đứng thứ năm Ngoại hạng Anh trong năm năm gần nhất. Họ chi 241 triệu USD giai đoạn này, ít hơn nhiều so với Man City 658 triệu USD, Man Utd 596 triệu USD hay Arsenal 452 triệu USD.

Abramovich phải rao bán Chelsea phần lớn vì xung đột ở Ukraine, nhưng có lẽ ông cũng không có gì phải hối tiếc khi đã chinh phục được giới túc cầu. Chelsea không chỉ hoàn thành trọn bộ sưu tập danh hiệu, mà còn đoạt những chiếc cup lớn ít nhất hai lần.

"Cảm ơn Roman, ông chủ tốt nhất thế giới", cựu đội trưởng Chelsea John Terry viết ngắn gọn như vậy trên Twitter sau khi biết tin. Ở chặng cuối sự nghiệp làm chủ đội bóng, ông đem về cho Chelsea mọi vinh quang, và xóa đi khoản nợ 2 tỷ USD của đội bóng với chính ông.

Không CĐV nào mong chờ hơn thế từ một ông chủ đội bóng.

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WWE: Out of Business ch.6

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The superstars met up at the usual warehouse where Shane McMahon was standing at the podium.

“We’ve hit a major milestone. As of today, we’ve made a million dollars,” said Shane.

The superstars cheered and began hugging each other.

“Before we end this meeting does anyone have any questions?” asked Shane.

Kevin Owens raised his hand.

“Does anybody know where Vince is?” asked Kevin.

Triple H, Shane, and Stephanie all shook their heads. Another superstar raised their hand.

“If you say anything about my dad doing porn I swear your contract won’t be renewed,” Stephanie said angrily.

The superstar quietly put his hand down. Seth Rollins walked into the warehouse. His shirt was torn and he was covered with bandages.

“Damn, what happened to you?” asked Kevin.

“I got mauled by a demon dog at work!” yelled Seth.

He sat down and took off his hat.

“I hate working at PetSmart, and I’m not even making any money,” said Seth.

Xavier Woods sat next to Seth.

“You should start a YouTube channel and make money off that like me,” said Xavier.

Bayley became interested and scooted forward.

“Can you really make money from YouTube?” asked Bayley

“If you hit a certain number of subscribers. Then you can become a full time YouTuber and start getting paid for your videos,” Xavier explained.

There was chatter amongst the superstars with ideas on how they can use social media for profit. Some of the women discussed using their Instagram for sponsors and others talked about using their twitter accounts. The Revival came up with an idea.

“Maybe we should start a YouTube channel,” said Dash Wilder.

“That might be a good idea considering neither of us found jobs yet,” said Scott Dawson.

“Let’s look at some videos to get some inspiration,” said Dash.

They took their laptop and went to the corner. They spent hours looking at videos of different of wrestlers and non-wrestlers.

“Hey, the Bella Twins have a channel,” said Scott. “Let’s see what they got”.

They clicked on a video with a thumbnail of Brie.

“I’m going to change Birdie’s diaper,” said Brie in the video.

“Never mind, I don’t wanna see that,” said Scott before turning the video off.

They continued to scroll down the page.

“Hey, look there’s a video with Cody Rhodes in it,” Dash pointed out. “Let’s see what he has to talk about”.

They clicked on the video.

“Fuck The Revival!” yelled Cody in the video.

The Revival blankly stared at the screen.

“Oh, hell no” said Scott and Dash.

Finn Balor and Sami Zayn were on their way to the warehouse to train. Since there were no meetings they figured the warehouse would be empty. When they got inside they saw The Revival with The Uso’s and Elias Samson with recording equipment.

“What’s going on here?” asked Sami.

“Cody Rhodes made a video about us so we’re going to make a disrespectful song about him,” explained Dash.

Finn and Sami looked confused.

“What?” asked Finn.

“He means a diss track,” Jey Uso clarified.

“Just warning you, this is not going to end well,” said Jimmy Uso.

“I know what I’m doing,” said Dash. “Now turn me up in the headphones”.

Meanwhile, The Young Bucks were in their hotel room watching YouTube videos. Cody Rhodes came and sat with them.

“What are you guys watching?” asked Cody Rhodes.

Matt and Nick Jackson turned the laptop over to him.

“You definitely need to see this,” said Nick.

Cody looked confused at the screen.

“Cody Rhodes diss track?” he read.

Cody clicked on the video. The video showed Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson in an empty warehouse with headphones rapping into a mic. Elias Samson was behind them strumming a guitar.

“You went and dissed us on your video. Now you gotta pay” Said Scott Dawson before the beat came on. He rapped to the beat of “Charlie Sheen” by Lil B.

“Mr. Gingivitis (needs a new crest) Your breath kicks, smells stank like Roto Rooter Pose in pink panties like a hoe (in your pictures) You ain’t got no teeth (eat Gerber) Breath stank like a sink in a small shack You need teeth, to eat a big mac You go both ways (like Trey Songz) You like a Hostess (with a ding dong)”

Matt and Nick Jackson laughed while Cody watched in horror. The song continued.

“Pour ketchup, on your salty fries Sesame seed on a bun for the pregnant guys Tell your friends Matt and Nick to move over You ain’t got no teeth (eat Gerber) You go both waaaays like Trey Songz You like a hostess (with a ding dong) Tell your friends Matt and Nick to move over You ain’t got no teeth (eat Gerber) Fuck Cody Rhodes”.

The beat finally went off. Cody was enraged while the Young Bucks were laughing.

“Can you believe this bullshit?! We have to do something about this!” yelled Cody.

“What do you mean ‘we’ have to do something?” asked Nick.

“He dissed you, not us,” said Matt.

The video still had a few seconds left.

“And Fuck the Young Bucks too” said Dash.

Now Matt and Nick were upset.

“Oh no, we’re gonna get them,” said Nick.

Back at the warehouse, Triple H gathered the superstars together for a meeting.

“We have a serious issue to talk about,” said Triple H.

Triple H pulled out a laptop and went to YouTube. He played a video and turned it towards the superstars. The video had Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks in a recording studio.

“So The Revival thought it was cool to diss us?” said Cody. We’re gonna show them a real diss”.

Cody rapped to the beat of “Black Friday” by Lil Kim.

“Who the fuck want war? Fed-Ex beef straight to your front door It'll be a murder scene, I'm turning your payday to Friday the 13th. Aight you Revival clowns, All this buffoonery shit stops now Time for you to lay down, I'm sick of the fraud, I put hands on these bitches like a spa massage We all know your look is what got you your job, You's a put together gimmick, somethin’ like a collage. Since you're putting on a show you gon’ get the applause - Clap clap with your frame like a fucking garage (Yeaaaah) This rap shit, Scott and Dash ain't built for -- This the shit the other bitch almost got killed for I'm still counting what Hard Core generated Bet my shit keep spendin’ like a syndicated Corny broads, I leave you bloody like you menstruated You hot air ass bitchs shoulda BEEN deflated. This ain't a championship fight, I BEEN the greatest Fuck the Revival”.

The video finished and Triple H closed his laptop.

“This video has already gone viral. Something like this could make the company look bad. How the hell are we supposed to fix this?” Triple H asked glaring at The Revival.

“We could diss them back,” answered Scott.

“That’s what got us here in the first place,” said Stephanie McMahon.

“We told them this was a bad idea,” said Jimmy Uso.

“I say we just ignore it,” suggested Stephanie. “We don’t want to risk starting a rivalry with another company”.

“Maybe a rivalry isn’t a such a bad thing,” said Shane McMahon. Everyone in the room looked at him with confusion.

“Remember how popular our company got during the Monday Night Wars? The competition brought ratings to both companies, until WCW went under. This rap beef might help us,” Shane explained.

Triple H took a moment to think about it.

“You know, it’s so crazy it just might work” said Triple H. “We’re gonna diss them back”.

Scott and Dash’s eyes lit up.

“Not you guys though. Your diss sucked,” said Triple H. “Finn, AJ, you guys are gonna do the diss”.

Finn looked confused.

“Why us?” asked Finn

“You guys used to be in the Bullet Club, so it makes sense,” answered Triple H.

“Can they even rap?” asked Stephanie.

“It doesn’t matter, we’ll just hire ghostwriters” answered Triple H.

A few days later some of the superstars were at the warehouse writing the next diss track.

“Check out this line right here. This bar is dope” said Finn. He showed the paper to AJ. Sasha Banks rolled her eyes.

“How did we get roped into this?” asked Sasha.

“Shane promised screen time to anyone who helped write the song or showed up in the video. And you actually agreed to it,” answered Bayley. Bayley turned to the Uso’s.

“Thanks for helping us write most of the song,” said Bayley.

“We’re just doing it for more screen time when the company starts back up” said Jimmy.

“But I’m letting you guys know, this is a terrible idea” said Jey.

Finn Balor and AJ Styles response was posted on YouTube. Finn mostly rapped while Sasha and Bayley posed in the background. Finn rapped to the beat of Stupid Hoe.

“I get it cracking like a bad back Cody talkin he the king when she looking like a lab rat We Angelina, ya’ll Jennifer Come on bitch, you see where Brad at?

Ice my wrist-es then I piss on bitches You could suck my diznick, if you take these jizzes You don’t like them disses, give my ass some kisses Yeah they know what this is, give bitches the business

Cause I pull up and I’m stuntin but I ain't a stuntman Yes I’m rockin Jordans but I ain't a jumpman Bitches play the back cuz they know I’m the frontman Put me on a dollar cause I’m who they trust in Ayo AJ, what the fuck’s good? We stay winnin gold, them bitches winnin wood Them nappy headed hoes, but my kitchen good I wish I wish I wish I wish a bitch would

You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe”

Cody and the Young Bucks watched in horror as AJ Styles went up for his verse.

“Look Cody, go back to ya habitat Adam Cole gone and I ain't havin that How you gonna be the stunt double to somebody monkey?? Top of that I’m in the Phantom lookin hella chonky

Ice my wrist-es then I piss on bitches You could suck my diznick, if you take these jizzes You don’t like them disses, give my ass some kisses Yeah they know what this is, give bitches the business

'Cause I pull up in the Porsche but it ain't de Rossi Pretty bitches only could get in my posse Hey, yo Young Bucks, fuck you and your EP Who’s gassing these hoes? BP? Hmm.. thinks 1, 2, 3, do the AJ Styles blink 'Cause these hoes so busted, hoes is so crusty These bitches is my sons and I don't want custody Hoes so busted, hoes is so crusty these bitches is my sons and I don't want custody……”

Cody Rhodes slammed the laptop shut.

“Ok that tears it!” yelled Cody while clenching his fist. “This isn’t a rap beef anymore. Now this is personal”.

Cody Rhodes and the rest of the Bullet Club stormed the WWE headquarters. They were carrying weapons intending to destroy anyone and anything inside. When they got to the entrance they noticed all the lights were out.

“What the hell? Is nobody here right now?” asked Cody.

Bad Luck Fale found a note on the front entrance.

“Out of business until further notice,” read Bad Luck Fale.

Cody looked confused.

“Out of business? What?” asked Cody.

“This must why explain why none of their shows have been airing lately,” said Nick.

Cody looked disappointed.

“How are we supposed to find them now?” asked Cody.

“Finn posted a picture of himself recording on his Instagram,” said Matt. “He tagged his location in it”.

Matt showed his phone to Cody.

“Change of plans. We’re now going to wherever this place is!” said Cody.

The men took their weapons and went back to their van.

Back at the warehouse the superstars were having a meeting. Triple H stood at the front of the podium.

“So, we have a serious topic to discuss. What are we having for lunch?” asked Triple H.

Moments later the Bullet Club busted into the room.

“Where’s The Revival?!” yelled Cody.

Everyone in the room pointed out Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder. Many scooted away from them to avoid any trouble.

“Ya’ll ain’t shit” said Dash.

Cody and some of the Bullet Club members ran up on The Revival. Cody was about to hit one of them until Sasha stepped in the way.

“Wait hold on! You guys shouldn’t be fighting over a stupid rap video,” said Sasha.

“Weren’t you in the video?” asked Cody.

“Huh?”

Cody pushed Sasha out the way and pulled up Scott by his collar. Shane stepped in and separated the two.

“Sasha’s right. This beef was just intended to get views on YouTube and now it’s getting out of hand” said Shane. Cody began to calm down.

“We shouldn’t be fighting and dissing each other,” Shane went on.

“I guess your right,” said Cody as he tossed his weapon.

“We should be dissing the guys in Lucha Underground!” said Shane.

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

“I actually like that idea,” said Nick. “That could bring ratings to all of our companies”.

“Let’s start writing a diss track now!” said Cody.

He and many of the other superstars left to help film the video.

A while later Triple H and Stephanie were the only ones left in the warehouse.

“How much longer do they have this recording equipment for?” asked Stephanie.

“I think they have it rented for another week. Why?” asked Triple H.

“I just wanted to record something for you?” said Stephanie while winking. Triple H turned the equipment on.

“There’s no need to wait” said Triple H.

Stephanie put on the headphones and started rapping in the mic. The beat for “My Neck My Back” was playing in the background.

“All you ladies pop your pussy like this Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss All you ladies pop your pussy like this Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss Just do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now Lick it good suck this pussy, just like you should Right now, Lick it good suck this pussy just like you should My Neck, my back Lick my pussy and my crack”.

Triple H bobbed his head while Stephanie kept rapping.

“She sounds great doesn’t she?” asked Seth Rollins as he bobbed his head to the music. Triple H glared at him until he quietly walked away. When Seth left, Triple H turned the music up.

“My Neck, my back Lick my pussy and my crack My Neck, my back Lick my pussy and my crack My Neck, my back Lick my pussy and my crack My Neck, my back Lick my pussy and my crack”.

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Duel Visions

Tomorrow, Duel Visions, a weird fiction / horror collaboration by two veterans of those genres, Louise Sorrensen and Misha Burnett will be released. For the title think dueling banjos. The authors went into this collaboration thinking it would be one of contrasting styles but found the end effect was one of synchronicity .

Reading Misha’s and Louise’s alternate stories (10 total), involves some shifting of mental gears as the reader moves from one to the next. I’m really not a horror fan so Misha caught me out, as his first story, We Pass From View is a thoughtful piece on life after death but his next offering, The Silk Of Yesterday’s Gown, turns the Clive Barker dial past ten with a story concerning control, and masochistic sexual fetishes gone wrong. For those into that sort of story, Misha assures me the Duel Visions version is toned down and you can read the original in All These Shiny Worlds II. Silk is definitely not my cup of tea so I was glad that his next story, The Summer of Love, turned out to be Misha’s version of Bring the Jubilee. Misha has never read Ward Moore’s book he uses the same concept to good effect.

Louise’s Ragged Angels was influenced by a trip she took to Vancouver in May 2017 and her shock at seeing the drug problem there first hand. She quickly thought of the story’s concept but couldn’t start on it until 3 months later. Immediately after she found time to start writing, she was called away to help on the farm and bring the hay in. Unable to write, she “started to write it in my head” and put herself to sleep at night figuring out what happened next. Three days later, the haying was finished, she had the story down and only needed to put it on paper. A few days after finishing typing, she walked past the barn and the title, Ragged Angels “just popped into my head”. I mention all that as she may have come across an extremely effective method for idea generation. Who knows what the combination was? Hard work which by its nature allowed her to think about the story, pondering the story as she went to sleep and deep sleep brought on by hard work combined in her subconscious to make the idea generation and development process easier. Something must have been at work in her subconsciousness as the reminder provided by walking past the barn a few days later delivered the perfect title. We didn’t explore this in the Q&A as it was the first and so far, only time she wrote a story in this way. I hope she lets us know if she tries that again next harvest.

And, by the way, Ragged Angels is a good vampire story. Sinker, Sailor will be enjoyed by Lovecraft fans and The Green Truck is definitely weird fiction and a good take on the aftermath of suicide, complimenting Misha’s Black Dog.

Q&A on the next page is not to be missed. One of the reasons I jumped at the chance to review this book is I enjoyed interviewing Misha the first time around and the thoughts behind his answers do not disappoint, while Louise proves she is one to keep on eye on going forward. We discuss the merits of short fiction, their writing styles and preferences and how their collaboration on Duel Visions came about.

Interview

Scott Cole: Louise, please let the CH blog readers know about your new anthology, ‘Duel Visions’ with Misha Burnett.

Louise Sorensen: Collaborating on an anthology was a new experience for me. I did a lot of the editing and proofreading, and there was a lot of back and forth on the cover until we decided on the final one. As the deadlines were pretty close, it was intense. We finished about a month ago. Winter socked in, and I went back to editing other pieces, and revising two fantasy and one scifi short story I’d been working on. I’m looking forward to the publication.

Scott Cole: Misha, has Duel Visions taken up most your time or have you been busy with other projects?

Misha Burnett: Honestly, aside from writing the stories themselves, I probably did the least amount of work in putting the book together. Louise is a very skilled editor and did proofs on all of our stories. She and Alex put the book together, I just said, “Oh, yes, that looks fine” a lot.

So I did a lot of writing. I published eight stories last year; “mDNA” in Superversive’s Planetary Mercury, “Black Dog” (which will also be in Duel Visions) in Sins Of The Gods, “The Happiest Place On Earth” in Superversive’s Planetary Venus, “Dead Man’s Chest” in Millhaven’s Tales Of Terror, “Nox Invictus” in Millhaven’s Fierce Tales: Savage Lands, “An Interrupted Scandal” in Cirsova #10, “Endless Summer” in Utopia Pending, and “Grand Theft: Nightmare” in Lagrange Books’ Ye Olde Magick Shoppe.

I also completed Bad Dreams & Broken Hearts, which I posted on Steemit. I am not entirely happy with that project, nor with the publishing platform. It was a learning experience. I have used the setting that I created for that novel for other stories (“An Interrupted Scandal” and “Grand Theft: Nightmare”.)

If I had to sum up my career since we last spoke, I’d say that I have come to terms with being a short fiction author. It’s taken me a long time to get past my own internal prejudice against short fiction and really embrace that identity.

SC: Louise, how do you feel about short fiction?

LS: I’ve read anthologies since I could pick up a book, so I love short stories. I wasn’t a born writer, I was a visual artist. A painter. A severe ice storm in January 1998 and nine days without electricity left me with a mental block against painting. So I started writing with poetry courses, and then creative writing courses. I followed Chuck Wendig on Twitter, did his flash fiction prompts for two years, and wrote about forty stories. Many of those had a thousand word limit. Along with Twitter’s 140 character limit and a love affair with Elmore Leonard’s books, I learned to be succinct. I had no thought of being published until about five years ago, when I realized that my stories were as good as many that were published. And as a writer, you start to edit everything you read. It takes away some of the enjoyment, but there’s also satisfaction in that improving the clarity of the writing, makes the story better.

I wrote two novels. One I finished and got professionally edited, the other I didn’t finish but could. After that, I had a short story published in an ASMSG Romance anthology. My story was a satirical SciFi romantic parody called Fizzlesnitch. It didn’t really fit the genre, but the editor liked it, and got the humor. So I started submitting stories and had a few published over the last three years. And I discovered that I like writing short stories and I don’t like writing novels.

A short story has to create a convincing world, story line, and believable characters, in few words. It must be polished to a lesser extent than a poem, but a greater extent than a novel. Each word must have a purpose. To me, poems are the jewels of the writing kingdom, novels are the gold bars, and short stories are the pearls.

I realize that some people think short stories aren’t real writing, but they were the foundation for episodes of the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and more recently the TV series Electric Dreams, based on Phillip K. Dick’s short stories.

And Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer, won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

You can’t get more legitimate than that.

SC: Misha, what was your internal prejudice against short fiction?

MB: The idea that short fiction is just practice for writing novels. That it’s not serious writing. I think that attitude is very prevalent in the publishing world today. It’s certainly true that it is much harder to make money writing short fiction. Writers today have a lot of pressure to produce novels, particularly long novels that are part of multi-volume epics.

And I think that’s a shame. There are writers today who are capable of producing phenomenal short fiction who are writing novels instead. William Gibson, for example–as much I enjoyed Neuromancer, I think it lacks the punch of “The Winter Market” or “Fragments Of A Hologram Rose” or “New Rose Hotel”. He himself said as much in the introduction to his collection Burning Chrome. Clive Barker is another author who I felt took a step backwards in switching from short stories to novels. I love Imagica and Weaveworld, but they don’t have the rawness and vitality of, say, “The Body Politic” or “In The Hills, The Cities” or “The Last Illusion”.

And then you have Orson Scott Card, who has essentially made a career out of expanding great short stories into mediocre novels. I always tell people who like the novel of Ender’s Game that they should read the original short story–in fact, get a copy of his first collection, Unaccompanied Sonata, if you can find it.

SC: Misha, do you have basic rules of thumb as to what makes good long or short fiction?

MB: I’d paraphrase Fight Club’s rule #7–stories go on as long as they have to. The second hardest part of writing fiction is saying what you need to say. The hardest part of writing fiction is knowing when you’ve said it and then shutting up. We’re writers because we love prose, we love the sound of our voice. It’s a necessary part of being a writer, but it’s also a critical weakness and the good writers see it as a weakness. Everyone likes to talk about writer’s block, and, sure, it’s tough when you can’t find the right words, but a bigger problem is filling the page with wrong words because you think that producing verbiage is the same thing as producing story.

A good novel is a good story that takes a novel to tell. Sadly, a lot of authors have a short story idea, but think that if they want to be a “real writer” they have to pad it out to novel length.

SC: Louise, what are your personal guidelines to writing a good story?

LS: The story is as long as it has to be until it’s over. Then you’ve reached the end. I don’t worry about word count, unless there’s a limit in submission requirements. And that’s also the reason I haven’t published as much as I might, because if your story doesn’t fit an arbitrary submission word count, and you have to pad it to extend it, or carve it to reduce it, it won’t be as good as it should have. I write and edit mercilessly. That is, I aim to be honest and write the story, the whole story, and nothing but the story. So help me Heinlein.

Unlike Misha and many other writers, I don’t love prose, or the written word. I don’t like long descriptions. The story is what stirs me. When I read, I’m analyzing the writing as I go along, but with the best stories, I’m drawn so deeply in that I don’t notice the writing. Misha’s stories are pithy and succinct. He doesn’t let the prose get in his way.

For me, the story is the thing. Every word in the piece must be the foundation for and support the story.

SC: Misha, you mention authors that were excellent short fiction writers but had less than stellar results when transitioning to long fiction. Do you think there are stylistic or even temperamental differences that make an author excel in one or other length of stories?

MB: Yes.

Do I know what those differences are? Not so much. For my own part, if I just write the story until it is done, without worrying about word count, I tend to end up around 7500 words. I find it very difficult to keep a story–any story–under 5000 words (which is a pity, because there are markets that have an upper limit of 5k for submissions) and over 10,000 words I start losing focus and am just rambling.

Why this is, I’m not sure. Maybe I just have a short attention span compared to novelists.

SC: Louise, how do you feel about that?

LS: Stylistic or temperamental differences in writers who transition from short stories to novels … I think there must be. I definitely like to get in, tell the story, and get out. One of the authors I can think of who does both lengths well is Stephen King. Another is Heinlein.

But I’ve read many novels that were extremely padded. One novel that stands out in memory, spent the first six hundred pages describing the architecture of Atlanta, Georgia. Although the writing was beautiful and well edited, I kept waiting for something to happen. As I did in those days, I kept reading to find out the merit of the book. The writer finally got around to the action of the story in about the final hundred pages. It was basically a short story tacked onto the end of a long historical travelogue. I wondered how it ever got published. It was even made into a movie. Although I’ve never seen it, I suspect it was based on the short story, and not the architecture.

So I believe that not every can author do it.

SC: Misha. Do you know any authors that mastered both formats?

MB: The first name that comes to mind is Larry Niven. He seems to be able to operate at two different speeds. His short fiction has a different voice than his novels–they have a minimum of description and are usually based around one single, easy to formulate, premise. A lot of them are also very funny. For novels, Niven seems to be able to drop into a lower gear and spend more time fleshing out the world and the characters.

Roger Zelazny is another one. You can see that clearly in My Name Is Legion. The first two sections were written as short stories, while the third, “Home Is The Hangman”, is clearly written as the last half of a novel. It works, the stories hang together and the narrator is consistent, but there is a definite shift in voice.

But then, Zelazny was an experimental formalist and enjoyed playing with the structure of prose for its own sake. (cf Doorways In The Sand, which has the unique (so far as I know) structure of beginning each chapter with a cliffhanger and then going back to explain how the character got into that position. It’s done so skillfully that it takes several chapters for the reader to catch on to the game.) I expect he understood the nuts and bolts of fiction better than anyone else working in the English language. I still mourn his loss.

SC: Misha, when we last spoke, we discussed New Wave fiction (focused character psychology with an emphasis of poetic language over scientific accuracy). Has your writing continued along that path?

MB: I call my work New Wave. I’m not sure what other people would call it. From my perspective my work follows a clear trajectory. I’m getting better at doing the stuff that I like and learning how to cut out the parts that I don’t like.

But I would say that my understanding of what “New Wave” means–at least in terms of my own work–has undergone some changes since last we discussed it. Recently I watched The Departed by Martin Scorsese and was struck all over again by what a brilliant visual storyteller the man is. His films are a series of shots that flow from one to the next and you almost don’t need the dialogue–it’s the images that drive the story.

Directors who really understand the art of film–and I’d add John Carpenter, John Sayles, Hitchcock (of course), Brian DePalma, just to name a few–know how to operate the visual grammar of the medium. Picture, picture, picture, (now everybody’s dead) final picture, closing credits.

Filmmaking is telling a story with pictures. So what is fiction, telling a story with words? Not at all. The word is not the unit of narration in the sense that the shot is the unit of narration in a film. Individual words are like individual frames in a film–if you notice they are there something’s wrong with the mechanism.

Fiction is telling a story with concepts. Ideas. Images, not in the visual sense, but in the emotional sense. It’s a unique art form because what matters is what you can’t see or hear or touch.

The hero of Dune is the ideal of ecology as an existential science–you can only understand an ecology by becoming part of the ecology. The death of Liet-Kynes in the desert is the culmination of his life’s work–he has become the desert.

The hero of Starship Troopers is the ideal of courage. Johnny Rico is the conduit by which courage, as an abstract, becomes concrete, the voice with which it speaks. The paragraph that opens the novel (“I always get the shakes before a drop…”) is courage coming up and introducing itself to the reader.

I could speak in terms of “conceit” or “theme”, but I think I mean hero. Fiction is the arena in which ideas battle it out. This can be done badly (Ayn Rand, I’m looking at you now) and fiction becomes polemic. But I think it’s always there, just by virtue of the medium of language and the human animal’s multivalent use of it.

If I say, for example, “Sherlock Holmes vs. James Bond” the phrase suggests a clash of methodologies, of philosophical approaches to a problem. The difference in the biographical details of the characters is irrelevant. You could set that story in a milieu alien to both of them, say, 13th Century Rome, and give them both new names. Make Bond a soldier of Frederick II and Holmes a priest of Gregory IX, and make them be forced to work together to find the poisoner of a bishop.

One could write that story with no reference to the original characters, but readers would still think, “Oh, this is Sherlock Holmes vs James Bond” (if one did her or his work well). Because those characters are ideals, not individuals.

I’ve gotten rather far afield from your original question, which was I am still working in New Wave. Yes. However, I also find myself drawn to a simplification of story, a paring down to the essentials. What does the reader absolutely need to know in order for the story to work?

And that streamlining of fiction is antithetical to the spirit of some of the classics of New Wave. Books like VALIS, Dhalgren, Gravity’s Rainbow, Infinite Jest, are ox-stunning bricks of words. Beautiful words, no doubt about it, but they are like driving across New Mexico. The scenery is magnificent, but basically there is nothing there.

I want my stories to be more like running down to Home Depot to get a replacement faucet before your bathtub overflows and floods the basement. In, out, this is what I need to get the job done, and get your ass back home. Scenery is reduced to things you need to drive around and stuff you can ram right through.

SC: Louise, what’s your take on this?

LS: Hmm. Scott, you define New Wave as ‘Focused character psychology with an emphasis of poetic language over scientific accuracy.’ I googled it, and found it was a literary movement in the 1960s and 1970s, that rejected the simplistic action-adventure of the earlier ’Golden Age’ of SciFi and Fantasy, in favour of more literary and experimental forms, with more emphasis on writing and creativity, and less on hard science and plot. Misha’s comment that some of the stories are ‘ox-stunning bricks of words’ is a good description of some of the experimental works. I never liked Silverberg’s writing. Too much experimental, too little story.

I don’t know that my writing is New Wave. I’d call it Weird. Surreal. I like to think I write like Heinlein, in that I always tell a story. I don’t experiment, unless it’s to follow the rabbit down the rabbit hole. In my SciFi, I stick to hard science. I always have a logical rational backstory for whatever happens, but I don’t always explain it. In my Fantasy, I allow the fantastic, but there must be some logical explanation behind it; another dimension, a parallel universe, different laws of physics.

Like a filmmaker, because my storytelling is visually based, not word based, I tell the story in pictures. I go in knowing the bones of the story, picture the scene in my mind, and write it down to the best of my ability. I don’t try to be poetic. But sometimes I am. As I started out writing poetry, sometimes a line of poetry will pop into my head as I’m writing a scene, and I’ll include that.

SC: Misha. Please tell readers what to expect with Duel Visions.

MB: It’s a collaborative anthology, with five stories each from myself and five from Louise. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any examples of similar anthologies. Generally you either have every story by a different author, or all of them by one author.

So the feel of this book is a bit unusual. We also alternate stories, one from me, one from Louise, which involves some shifting of mental gears as you move from one to the next. That’s a risk, but I think it pays off.

We have different styles and I think (I hope) the cumulative effect is like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups–two great tastes that taste great together.

As for the stories themselves, I think Weird Fiction is probably the best description. There are some Science Fiction elements–genetic engineering in Louise’s “Sinker, Sailor”, time travel and alternate history in my “The Summer Of Love”. Other stories have traditional fantasy elements–sidhe, magic statues, and figures from different classical mythologies.

I explore one of my favorite urban legends in “We Pass From View” and Louise has a modern take on the vampire legend.

So in terms of genre we’re all over the board. My favorite story in the book, Louise’s “The Green Truck” simply resists classification altogether. I don’t know how to describe it, you just have to read it for yourself.

Despite all this–or perhaps because of it–there is an overall theme to the collection that I suppose could be summed with J. B. S. Haldane’s remark, “Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

SC: Louise?

LS: I love Misha’s quote of Haldane!

What can readers expect with Duel Visions?

I was very surprised when I noticed on the second proofreading of the whole work that Misha and I had written stories with similar themes. What was most surprising was that I had been over all the stories many many times with editing and never noticed the similarities before. So although our stories are very different, his anchored in dirt and dust and reality, mine in weird and what? and unbelievable, we are both curious about the same things. It’s almost as though we explore these ideas in different mediums.

I found out yesterday the Misha is working on a story about alien invasion. I am too! Synchronicity? Quantum Entanglement? You can be sure that my take will be much different than Misha’s.

So readers can expect thoughtful, interesting stories crafted mercilessly with love and blood.

SC: Misha. How did the collaborative concept with Louise come about?

MB: Impatience, mostly.

About a year ago I started considering publishing a collection of short fiction. I had a few stories that I had previously published that I wanted to present for a wider audience, and a couple that I’d written for anthologies that hadn’t panned out.

The problem was that I didn’t have enough stories for a full book. So I wanted to find another author to do a collection with.

I had worked with Louise on my 21st Century Pulp anthology (one of the ones that didn’t pan out–our publisher backed out) and I was very impressed with her story “Ragged Angels”. So I asked her if she had any more like that one, and it turned out she did.

Once we started passing stories back and forth the collection kind of took off. It kind of surprised me how the stories and our voices played off each other. And even though we didn’t plan it that way, there are some strong parallels between some of the stories. We each have one that deals with the transformation of a human into an animal, for example, and we each have one in which Death is personified in animal form.

Louise came up with the title Duel Visions, and I thought it was perfect. It’s kind of like Dueling Banjos, but with stories. Not so much fighting as presenting different variations on a theme.

SC: Louise? What did you think when Misha approached you about the collaboration?

LS: I was delighted!

I’ve admired Misha’s talent since I read his series ‘The Book of Doors.’ I looked him up on Twitter and followed him, then followed him on Facebook, and read every story of his I could find. They’re brilliant. One of my favourite stories of his is, ‘The Happiest Place on Earth.’ Another is ‘In the Gloaming O My Darling.’ He’s one of my favourite writers, along with Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, and Elmore Leonard. Never disappointed.

I hope that readers see this too and are happy with ‘Duel Visions.’

Duel Visions published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames

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