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strawberry-milkbunny · 2 years ago

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Random Tokyo Rev thoughts featuring other shows (these r gonna be hella chaotic and I have adhd):

- HAIKYUU AND TOKYO REV R THE SAME ANIME BUT DIFF GENRES ‼️‼️‼️

- listen Baji playing volleyball/being with Karasuno…it suits him too well

- plus the Haitani brothers as the Miya twins 😳😳

- Mitsuya is literally Sugawara like come on

- idk y but I see Shion as Terushima

- Kazutora and Inui would be on Nekomata

- Senju and Takeomi r Daenerys and Viserys from Game of Thrones Oop- 🤷‍♀️

- would make it even spicier if Sanzu is Jon Snow but he’s very much Theon instead 🫣🫣

- tbh all of Brahman would suit Daenerys’ circle

- Kisaki is Littlefinger HOLY SHIT

- Shinchiro is so Robb Stark oh god

- Izana would lowkey be Margaery Tyrell

- Taiju and Hakkai r the Clegane brothers

- tbh I could also see Mikey and Senju as Jaime and Brienne like they very much have beauty and the beast vibes that if Wakui could write romance they would’ve been a good choice together (still a Sanzu and Mikey shipper LOL)

- Senju and Yuzuha as San and Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke (SOMEONE PLS DRAW THEM AS THIS 😭😭😭)

Kinda surprised there aren’t more Bnha and Tokyo Rev crossovers but here r some ideas:

- Himiko is one of my favs and she suits the TR universe wayyyy too well

- sis would totally be besties with Hanma and maybe Shion and would have a crush on Takemichy and Hina

- tbh I could see her joining Tenjiku and everyone seeing her as their little sister like imagine Mochi and Mucho doting on her

- I JUST NEED SANZU, HIMIKO AND TWICE IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER LIKE SJSKSK

- they would totally annoy the Haitanis, Shigaraki, Dabi and Spinner together maybe Hawks too if they’re in the right mood

- Baji and Dabi wouldn’t get along but would set cars and Endeavour toys on fire together

- None of the TR characters would ever enter UA but if they did it they (Tenjiku let’s be honest) would bully everyone ESPECIALLY ALL MIGHT

-They would totally be hero haters/menaces and everyone would be lik: “y tf r all of u here then???” and TR cast would be lik: “for future connections?? Duh”

- MITSUYA WOULD BE IN SUPPORT CLASS AND IN PAIN ROASTING EVERYONES UGLY ASS COSTUMES (✨Todoroki✨) ESPECIALLY BEST JEANIST LIK HE DEF HAS A SPECIAL HATRED FOR HIM

- Izana and Mikey in Gen Ed beating the shit out of everyone during the Sports Festival and laughing about it 😭😭

- Izana hanging out with Hawks simply bc Izana could instantly see thru his persona and Hawks genuinely being afraid of him but still wanting to hang out bc he feels like he could actually be himself for once

- Senju would be in the Hero course bc she actually wants to help, Ran would be in the Hero Course just for the fame and money. He would say it out loud too mans is shameless.

- Ironically enough: Ran would be the one to defeat Stain by throwing a BRICK at him while Rindou breaks his legs in the background LMAOOO

- Ran, Mt Lady and Midnight in the same room….that’s it.

- Rindou would be cool with Jirou, Denki and Shinso. OMG HE WOULD SO BE AN ERASERHEAD STAN TOO SJKSKSKKS

- tbh all of Bonten would totally be the MLA (or investors) and would just be staring tiredly at the League of Villains as they take over their army

- u cannot tell me Skeptic, Koko, and Re Destro wouldn’t get along (capitalists unite 😤😤)

- on the other hand I love the idea of Mikey being quirkless but still being the strongest person in the room like Mikey would totally body Re Destro and Geten for being annoying/quirkist

- Izuku would 100% be in Toman

- Draken and Mikey r Honey and Mori from Ouran High School Host Club

- Izana and Kakucho r Aki and Angel from Chainsaw Man ‼️‼️

- definition of out of touch, out of time energy (I cannot see snowball fights the same bc of these characters smhhhh)

- Bonten in a Chainsaw Man AU ✨chefs kiss✨ it’s fits the vibe and they already wear suits LOL

- OG Black Dragons would be the Cowboy Bebop crew idk everyone in that group lowkey has the same energy/nihilistic vibes as the Bebop crew (again someone pls draw this I’m not talented enough-)

- Shin is Spike, Faye is Takeomi, Benkei is Jett and Waka is Ed LOLLL

- Revy from Black Lagoon would BODY everyone in Bonten no ifs and/or buts (let’s not even start w/Roberta)

- Revy and Takeomi would have a one night stand and regret it instantly but still contact each other whenever they’re in the same area for drinks

- Balalaika would laugh at Bonten and bully Mikey (she would still lowkey respect him bc he built himself up but bully him bc he has depression and Mikey won’t do anything bc he’s lowkey afraid of her LOL 💀💀)

- Izana and Mikey r Sesshomaru and Inuyasha prove me wrong 😤😤😤

- Akatsuki would TERRORIZE Bonten simply bc their an anti-violence organization and they’re petty like that

- But Itachi and Mikey would get along purely bc Itachi looks like Shin and Mikey reminds Itachi of Sasuke (especially w/black hair). Idk I imagine Bonten!Mikey kidnapping Itachi bc he’s part of Akatsuki and looks like Shin but instead of fighting Itachi chooses to take over Bonten…..by being a good older brother to everyone. And the fic ends with Akatsuki and Bonten just fighting over Itachi LMAO

- Kakashi, Shisui and Wakasa would be friends like Wakasa would 100% be in Anbu

- Killer Bee, Benkei and South would be friends. Like Bee and South having sing offs in the middle of fights LOL

- Ino would force Draken, Mitsuya and Chifuyu to be her friends

- Sasuke would join Bonten for revenge and hate everyone except Kakucho and Mochi. This man will 100% leave once he’s reached his goal

- Someone pls write a fanfic w/Bonten entering Squid Game. Like Koko entering Bonten in Squid Game for money or Sanzu doing it for fun bc he didn’t think it was serious

- I’VE BEEN IMAGINING THE MARBLE GAME WITH RAN AND RINDOU THO AND AHHHHHHH PAIN LIK THAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT

- As much as I want this crossover: Realistically everyone in Assassination Classroom would HATE EVERYONE in TR. All the TR characters would just see AC cast as privileged rich kids and AC would see them as morons.

- Like Toman would DESPISE Karma Akabane (he’s my fav). I can’t even see any of the other gangs liking any of the AC cast past trying to recruit them

- MAYBE Kakucho, Rindou and Mitsuya would suit Class 3E but other than that….yeah no. I could see them getting along w/ Chiba, Kanzaki and Isogai tho simply bc they’re chill and play video games

- Koko would have an INTENSE crush on Yumeko Jabami from Kakeguri

#tokyo revengers #tenjiku #black dragons #mikey tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers izana #haitani brothers #brahman #bnha #bonten #senju kawaragi #tokyo revengers mitsuya #haikyuu #chainsaw man #naruto

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amothshunger · 3 months ago

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Finally putting my dislike of The Poppy War, Yellowface, and R. F. Kuang into words

This has been a long time coming, and I'm finally in a space where I'm able to articulate why I didn't like Yellowface or The Poppy War and why some of the hype and praise around R. F. Kuang felt a little mismatched or incomplete to me (also I could just be a bitter hater, idk).

In short, I found both books intellectually lazy. Kuang is clearly capable of bringing minimally explored topics to traditional publishing in a way that gets a lot of buzz, but I don't find them explored with the depth and consideration I personally would like. To me, they are incurious, didactic yet devoid of nuance or effort to follow-through; and I think there's some disconnect between what Kuang believes her role and responsibilities are as an artist, and what I believe.

cw: mention of rape, genocide

Being in bookish spaces, I was vaguely aware of R. F. Kuang and the buzz around The Poppy War trilogy. Military fantasy isn't really my thing, so I didn't read it, although my partner read and hated it (and I'll explain why in a bit). Then Yellowface came along, and there was even more hype and buzz for that. The New York Times had a whole profile on, so much press, so much excitement around a young woman of color with such a prestigious education background (this comes back around, remember this!) that made me suspicious - it felt like people were fetishizing her proximity to academia and success rather than praising the merits of her work.

Yes, she studied at elite universities, she's accomplished so much so young, but what is it about her art that uniquely speaks to you? I wasn't finding this answer in the conversation, which may have just been the bubble I was in.

(Also I completed my bachelor's degree at a world-renowned / elite university; so I may not be a PhD candidate, but I'm somewhat familiar with these spaces and have a lot of gripes about the pointed absence of class and elitism when discussing these credentials.)

The buzz around Yellowface was that it was radical, scathing, holding a mirror up to publishing in regards to how it deals with race and opportunity. What was it saying exactly by holding up this mirror? What questions did it ask? What were the takeaways? No one would say.

So I picked up Yellowface myself. As a queer Black person from a poor background in publishing, at first I found it entertaining, but ultimately I walked away disappointed. And annoyed. It felt very... one note.

And the more I thought about it, the more I hated it.

Yellowface is told from the perspective of June Hayward, a white fiction author in the United States (somewhere on the east coast, Boston, perhaps? or NYC? I don't remember). Her debut novel didn't flop exactly, but she keeps brushing paths with Chinese-American fiction author Athena Liu who had a different experience that spikes envy. When Athena dies suddenly, June steals Athena's manuscript and passes it off as her own (under a more racially ambiguous name) and finally finds success.

About a subtle as a brick to the face.

From the jump, Athena Liu is young, beautiful, well-educated, from a upper-middle class background, friendly, and talented. Everyone loves her, and her debut is super popular, best-selling, and critically-acclaimed. She gets big advances from her publisher and even has a profile piece in the New York Times. (Sound familiar?)

And June froths at the mouth, hating her for absolutely no reason. There wasn't very much depth to her character, or Athena's, for that matter, which was a little bit disappointing. It's possible to write a dislikeable character with some complexity, but I didn't find much of it in June. She was from a working class background and therefore she was envious of Athena's financial stability and success, easy peasy. Did we get much exploration into what it means to be working class in elite circles? Not really, just a statement that it exists. Does June ever engage with other working class white people? No. Does June ever point her criticism at monied white people? No. Do other working class white people ever try to befriend June or even exist in this book? No. (This is very funny if you look at the foundation of writing MFA programs in the United States - there is definitely a strong class element, but let's just move along here.)

All in all, this read like a wealthy person assuming they understand what it means to be marginalized by class, without the nuance. Again, I've been in elite spaces as a poor person, homeless and couch surfing and hungry while applying for grants and translating legal documents for my Capstone. This didn't match my experience, and it didn't reflect any working class whites I knew or crossed paths with.

Yes, June has a racism problem, but what else? This book is very critical of the unexamined racism that June embodies, believing herself to be good and just and moral, but what about class? What does this say about publishing and class, exactly? What are the cultural differences that poor and working class people experience and must learn to navigate when they enter publishing that puts them at a disadvantage, compared to counterparts of the same race?

Yellowface doesn't really care about class. It briefly acknowledges but doesn't explore it, which begs the question why Kuang even put it in there. Why not just make June also upper-middle class, like Athena, on equal footing except for race, since class isn't important to the story you want to tell?

The longer I thought about it, the more Yellowface, to me, felt pedantic and also disrespectful to readers. Who is the audience, and why do you expect so little of them that they can't handle multiple topics or themes at once? Racism is the focus, hammered over our heads over and over and over again, needing us to stay focused on the big picture here, don't get distracted by the intersections of class or elitism. Is it because we can't handle it or because the author doesn't want to do it? Because the author is incapable or because she doesn't find it important or relevant?

I frankly doesn't see how it isn't relevant, how a story like this doesn't warrant more discussion on classism and elitism, but that's just me. Maybe the audience isn't people of color at all, but white people, and that's why the ham-fisted June is rewarded for her racism kinda sorta (except I found that it loses this point some times in an effort to be funny) didn't work for me. Perhaps it was just the execution that led to this, because it's so locked into June's head that maybe June doesn't care about these interwoven threads, June is the one who's intellectual incurious, but well, the author chose to write from June's limited perspective. This was a craft choice.

But here's the other thing: as a chronically online hater, June sometimes liked to read critical reviews of Athena's work. Apparently, Athena was criticized by Asian readers of mining their tragedies and histories for her fictional work, for money and accolades.

And this made my ears perk up because this was the exact criticism both my partner and a Chinese friend had of The Poppy War.

After reading Yellowface, I actually went to GoodReads to look at reviews of The Poppy War and what do you know: There were quite a few Chinese and Taiwanese readers who found Kuang's handling of the Sino-Japanese War, particularly genocide in Nanjing, and depictions of Taiwan to be offensively shallow.

Whether consciously or not, Kuang took critics of her actual debut and depicted them targeting her self-insert as either racist or bitter haters trying to pull her down, crabs in a barrel-style. (For a better analysis of race, class, hierarchy in the Asian community, and elitism in publishing, I liked this video by Cindy, who actually got referenced in Yellowface as one of these bitter, jealous haters despite never talking about Kuang before.)

This made me finally pick up The Poppy War. It follows Rin, a dark-skinned orphan girl in a rural area who tests into an elite military school for a chance at upward mobility, right before a war breaks out.

I understood what it was going for immediately: Rin is fixated on pursuing power, because that is her gateway to autonomy and freedom, things rarely if ever afforded to girls of her station. She studies to get into the school, only to learn that she needs more power just to stay, only to learn that she needs even more power to survive the outbreak of war.

Unfortunately, the worldbuilding was a major problem for me. See, I studied some Chinese history, so the lack of effort felt a little appalling and, again, offensive. There were a lot of things about Nikan's history and the depiction of Mugen, that felt lifted straight from a history book. It wasn't 1:1, but the fantasy in this military fantasy was very light, to say the least. A lot of names of real historical and mythological figures sprinkled through. Rin becomes a shamaness, but many of the deities in the Pantheon are real local deities. Some of the military maneuvers of Nikan were actions of the real Chinese army against Japanese invasion. The war crimes of Mugen were the real war crimes of Japan, beat for beat. Literally, if you scroll the Wikipedia page of Japan's crimes against humanity in Nanjing, it feels like copy and paste - the same crimes in the same amount of detail. (Curiously, when my partner read The Poppy War in 2021, he noticed a section in the book that had been copy and pasted from an excerpt of a history book on Nanjing, and Kuang confirms in the author's note that she took from these books "without having to" change much.)

The thing is: there are still survivors of this genocide. This happened in living memory. And while the book doesn't glorify the Mugen Empire and its emperor (whose name looks very Japanese), it doesn't really center the victims either. (N. K. Jemisin gives a great talk in her Masterclass about the responsibility of an author when making fantasy of things that impact living communities, including ones that the author belongs to.) Rin is a witness to the brutality, but the narrative has also given her so much distance from them all that she isn't like them and doesn't see herself in them - the narrative makes her other. She witnesses the torture of others, but she herself isn't physically brutalized. Now, I don't think Rin needed to be tortured on page as motivation, but she eventually snaps and uses her power in a drastic way after a man dies; it wasn't the piles of dead bodies including of children that made her snap, nor the graphic recount of systematic rape of her female colleague. It was the death of a man she liked - so what was the narrative point of all the rest? Why did we read wholesale copies of these real, brutal things if only to use as decorative window dressing?

I'm not Chinese, so here is a review from a Chinese reader about the depiction of these crimes against humanity and the wholesale lifting of worldbuilding. Instead, I'm going to talk more about the responsibility of the artist and circle back to that intellectually incurious thing, the whole point of this long ass essay.

In the author's note, Kuang said that she wanted to raise awareness about the Japanese invasion of China during WWII which isn't well known. To the West (white people). Which means that this book wasn't written for Chinese people, whether in China or the diaspora. To this, I ask: if you were just going to take shortcuts on worldbuilding and copy real historical accounts, why didn't you just write a non-fiction book? If you wanted fiction as a vehicle for empathy with a Chinese witness of genocide, why not historical fiction?

Why fantasy?

If you want Westerners (white people) to empathize with victims of a genocide, if you want to educate them, then why would you make this a fantasy, thereby making readers absorb the contents of the book through a fantastical lens, when there were in fact real victims, some of whom are alive today?

And the other thing about fantastical depictions of real-world events is that Rin turns out to come from a tiny island south of fictional!China, that "belongs to" fictional!China. This island is depicted as inhabited by dark-skinned savages, barbarians, little more than violent beasts that can't hardly think for themselves, all addicted to drugs. Does this sound familiar to anybody else? Can you imagine why this depiction might be a little bit problematic, considering the rest of the book is already lifted wholesale from reality? Considering current, real life sentiments about the sovereignty of a little island south of China that is viewed as belonging to China, full of darker skinned people with their folk religions deserving of subjugation?

And I understand why fantasy races exist, but if you're going to depict a fantasy race based on real people, you need to be cognizant of stereotypes that impact those real people. Even if you yourself are a person of color, you are not immune from reproducing ethnic supremacist notions in your work.

Despite Rin learning that she is from this island, that those are her "people," she doesn't want to learn about them (thereby giving us readers a well-rounded view of these Racialized Others). She's not interested in connecting with them, culturally or linguistically. She doesn't contradict the dehumanizing way that others around her talk about them, either vocally or in her own thoughts. Rin exploits her proximity to them the same way that fictional!China exploited them and doesn't think twice about it. The narrative gives no room for the complexity or nuance of being a genocide survivor, or an internally colonized person, facing down another genocide. It's all action, all violence, all the time. Interiority and introspection? Never heard of her.

Rin has loyalty to Nikan that isn't explained or questioned; it is simply taken as fact that she will die for Nikan. No nuance or exploration to her patriotism at all. She is loyal to the nation complicit in the genocide of her people; she has faced racist/colorist abuse by her compatriots for years, so why isn't the emotional impact of this discovery in the context of patriotism explored more?! It's just "This happened. Oh. Moving on!" And while she is technically a genocide survivor facing another genocide, she doesn't have any memories of the first. She has no attachment to Speer other than her being otherized her entire life but not knowing why. I think this story could've been more impactful if Rin did know she was Speerlie from the beginning, and her search for empowerment through the Phoenix could've been an intentional reconnect with her heritage and lost people instead of a coincidence. Or have her not be Speerlie at all and explore appropriating indigenous myths for power!

Because the reality of reading this, even though I'm not Chinese, as an internally colonized person, I already understand dehumanization. I understand escalating violence of an occupying force. I understand reconnecting to the motherland as a diasporic person.

This really reads as Genocide for Dummies. Genocide for White People Who Don't Know History or What It Means to Be Colonized or Oppressed. It is talking at me, not in conversation with me.

Fiction, to me, is a tool for exploration, and I didn't find any topics deeply explored in The Poppy War. There was no question being asked of me in the narrative, so there was nothing for me as a reader to answer. The only thing expected of me as a reader was to empathize with the protagonist, but the narrative robbed her of so much complexity and nuance that she never felt like a fully realized person. Rin felt like a cardboard cut-out with identities taped onto her; she was one-note, just like June Hayward was one-note. A vehicle for whatever information the author wanted to dump onto the page, to be steered here and there as the narrative sees fit.

Also, describing the destruction of fantasy!Japan as "a cloud in the shape of a mushroom"? So fucking lazy. Readers deserve more effort and care and consideration than this.

I want more. Yes, you're young and formally educated, but what else? You can research, but what else? What are you trying to say? What are you trying to explore? It's giving... the bare minimum for a passing grade and expecting us to just be content because it exists, not because it has anything to add to the conversation. It's giving... I spend a lot of time with people outside of my community so that I can feel more educated/better about this topic than those around me, rather than engaging with my community to further our collective progress and richness.

I wanted richness, and I got surface-level, lacking interrogation and self-awareness, but if your metric and aspiration is to the class of Whiteness, girl I guess.

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marcmarcmomarc · 8 months ago

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Miraculous

Chapter 8: Marinette’s New Friends

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(Now, the sun shines pink on the morning sky. Our view sinks, showing Panera Bread in Waterford Lakes Town Center. A cab pulls up to its entrance and Marinette exits.)

MARINETTE: Thanks!

CAB DRIVER: No prob, Marinette!

(Marinette walks inside. Her first person view takes in the busy restaurant. Characters from the The Incredibles, The Loud House, Home, Coco, Angry Birds, Trolls, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Gravity Falls, How to Train Your Dragon, Monsters, Inc., Despicable Me, and Hotel Transylvania franchises eye her as she enters and murmur to each other.)

SULLEY: Guys, look.

SMIDGE: Oh, my gah.

LINCOLN: Is that…?

(Lynn Loud Jr. gasps.)

LUNA: Dudes, it’s her.

(As they continue murmuring, Marinette walks to the cashier, a brown woman with a bowl haircut.)

CROSSOVER CHARACTERS: (WALLA) In the flesh?…I don’t believe it…Crazy…We never get celebrities around here…Is this really happening?

CASHIER: Ah, Miss Marinette Dupain-Cheng, how’s your day?

MARINETTE: Oh, it’s fi-Wait. Since l got here, people have been looking only at me andreferring to me by name. What’s going on?

CASHIER: Well, it’s because everyone knows who you are. You star on a French kids’ show, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

MARINETTE: For real? Wow. So I’m guessing you know who Cat Noir is.

CASHIER: Yep. But his secret identity wouldn’t interest you. And I’m guessing Tikki is hanging out in your purse.

MARINETTE: Yep.

TIKKI: You guessed right.

(The others look on as Tikki leaves her bag.)

CASHIER: So, do the traitors bring you to the United States?

MARINETTE: Of course! Has anyone in here had a dream?

LUNA-TK: I once had a dream. I’m Luna-TK. Hey, Luna! Hit me with some music!

LUNA: You got it, dudette!

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(Luna Loud strums her guitar. Marinette looks at her, then back at Luna-TK, who sings.)

LUNA-TK: (SINGING) I’ve been told I’m behind on reactions, they wait my overreactions I try to tell them that I’m taking my time But despite my overwork, and every time I quirk I’ve secretly wanted to be a mime Can’t you see me on the street performing to the public? It is a way to blow off steam Yeah, I know I’d have to retire, but my acts are bound to expire

LUNA-TK: Don’t you think?

LUNA-TK: (SINGING) ‘Cause way down deep inside, I’ve got a dream

ALL: She’s got a dream, she’s got a dream

LUNA-TK: Each and every day, I like to daydream As the rest, I’m not the same, but no one else can take the blame But like everyone else, I’ve got a dream

MARINETTE: Wow. That’s pretty good.

LUNA-TK: Yeah. But if you think that’s something, then listen to my friend, JD Shadow. Sing it!

JD SHADOW: I’ve been told I’m such a dummy That I’m as thick as a gummy And that my mouth looks like an alligator’s But now the insults are gone, and people seem to fawn But I think it’s clear that there are still haters My dream is to decrease the criticism No, not as much as it may seem And I am reasonable fellow, I’m soft, and I’m mellow ‘Cause way down deep inside, I’ve got a dream

(A rope strapped to the collar of her top, Lucy Loud swings in circles over the customers.)

JD SHADOW: I’ve got a dream

ALL: He’s got a dream

JD SHADOW: I’ve got a dream

ALL: He’s got a dream

JD SHADOW: Everyone’s mood will very surely gleam Yes, I might not be very lucky, And the outcome could be yucky And every girl will be a queen But like everyone else, I’ve got a dream

(Bridget grooves with Poppy on her left palm.)

POPPY: The Bergens would like to party with us Trolls

(Chuck runs circles around a table.)

RED: Chuck would like to run a marathon

(Dash does the same with another table.)

BOB: Dash is always on

(Earl flexes.)

FLINT: Officer Earl is full of brawn

(Luan puppets her dummy, Mr. Coconuts. Luna continues strumming. Cloud Guy ripples his arms as he floats by.)

ALL: Luan jokes, Luna rocks Could Guy wears all the socks

LUNA-TK: And Terence is a bruiser with a soft center

(The hulking bird grins.)

LUNA-TK: So, how about you, Marinette?

MARINETTE: What?

RBNVIDS: What’s your dream?

MARINETTE: Alright. Beat, please?

(As Luna continues playing, Marinette gets onto a table and sings.)

MARINETTE: (SINGING) I’ve got a dream

ALL: She’s got a dream

MARINETTE: I’ve got a dream

ALL: She’s got a dream

MARINETTE: I just want to have some friends outside my dreams

TIKKI: We don’t care if they’re so hairy, we’re just so glad we left Paris

MARINETTE AND TIKKI: Like all you lovely folks, we’ve got a dream

(Lucy drops from the ceiling by a noose beside Marinette.)

ALL: They’ve got a dream, we’ve got a dream They’ve got a dream, we’ve got a dream

(Watching the welcoming crew dance, Marinette smies)

ALL: So our differences ain’t really that extreme We’re one big team

(Marinette gets picked up by Screech and carried across the restaurant.)

SULLEY: Call us brutal!

HICCUP: Sick!

GRU: Sadistic!

LYSS AND SIEBEE: And grotesquely optimistic!

(He drops her at the Loud girls, who toss her upward happily.)

ALL: ‘Cause way down deep inside We’ve got a dream

(We glimpse several of the Crossover Characters dancing.)

DON: I’ve got a dream

LUAN: I’ve got a dream

VIOLET: I’ve got a dream

EDITH: I’ve got a dream

DENNIS: I’ve got a dream

MARINETTE: I’ve got a dream

ALL: Yes, way down deep inside I’ve got a dream

(During the last line, Lyss and Siebee lift Marinette onto an arm throne. As Marinette spreads her arms wide, Tikki floats beside her head. Our view, like a drone, flies in circles around them, taking in all of Marinette’s new friends.)

ALL: Yeah!

(As Lyss and Siebee set Marinette down, the girl takes in her supporters.)

LUNA-TK: You’re welcome to join us.

MARINETTE: Thanks.

(She joins Luna-TK at her table.)

LUNA-TK: So, again, I’m Luna-TK. I’m engaged to a lovely man and I’m also the leader of this group.

LYSS: I’m Lyss.

SIEBEE: And I’m Siebee.

@shadydoorags-blog: Hey, hello, how do you do? I’m Shady Doorags. I’m a big superhero fan. And your show doesn’t exactly get superhero tropes right.

MARINETTE: Oh.

@luminara713: I’m Momo.

BETH: I’m Beth.

MIRANDA: I’m Miranda.

SHARKI: I’m Sharki.

SHADOW: I’m Shadow Tag.

RHILENTLESS: I’m Rhilentless.

GABI: I’m Gabi.

KATHY: I’m Kathy.

JAKE: I’m Jake.

JACK: I’m Jack.

EMI: I’m Emi.

MOMO: We make up The 86th Floor: Cosplay Revolutions.

MIRANDA: So your world isn’t set in the Sims universe? Alright, then.

@calxiyn: Good day, I’m Calxiyn.

ROBYN: What’s up? I’m Robyn.

HARMONY: I’m Hungary Harmony.

SOFIA: I’m Sofia LaVoice.

CAMRYN: I’m Camryn.

YACKACHOO: I’m Yackachoo.

JD: I’m JD Shadow.

BOB: I’m Bob Parr. Like you, I have a superhero identity. Mr. Incredible’s the name, strength is the game.

HELEN: I’m Helen Parr. My moniker is Elastigirl. Stretchiness is what I do.

VIOLET: I’m Violet Parr. I have two powers. I can turn invisible and make force fields.

DASH: I’m Dashiell Parr. Call me Dash. Super speed is my power.

BOB: My youngest son, Jack-Jack Parr, has seventeen powers.

LUCIUS: I’m Lucius Best, also known as Frozone. My specialty? Ice.

E: I’m Edna Mode. You can call me E, darling. I have designed suits for Supers across many years. Do not ask me to design a cape for you, darling.

WINSTON: I’m Winston Deavor. Call me Win. As owner of DEVTech, I have helped bring Supers back into the light and legality.

TONY: I’m Tony Rydinger, Vi’s boyfriend.

KARI: I’m Kari McKeen, her bestie, and a skilled babysitter.

VOYD: I’m Voyd. What I can do is make portals.

(Voyd drops a juice box from her table and drops it in Marinette’s hands with portals.)

MARINETTE: Ooh. Thanks.

MIRAGE: I’m Mirage. Used to work for a selfish evil-doer called Syndrome, I now work with the government and am dating Win.

DICKER: I’m Rick Dicker. Former agent of the Super Relocation Program, which has shut down.

KRUSHAUER: I’m Krushauer. Crusher of metal objects.

HE-LECTRIX: I’m He-lectrix. Zapping electrically is my power.

REFLUX: I’m Reflux. My magma barf, medical condition? Superpower? You decide.

BRICK: I’m Brick. As strong as Mr. Incredible.

SCREECH: I’m Screech. I contain the characteristics of an owl.

LINCOLN: I’m Lincoln Loud. Man with the plan and middle child between ten sisters.

CLYDE: I’m Clyde McBride. Lincoln’s best friend.

LINCOLN: And together, we’re…

LINCOLN AND CLYDE: …Clincoln McCloud.

LORI: I’m Lori Loud. Firstborn of the Loud kids, high school graduate, and freshman at Fairway University.

LENI: I’m Leni Loud. O-M-gosh, I am so into fashion.

LUNA: I’m Luna Loud. I’m a rockstar, dude.

LUAN: I’m Luan Loud, the family comedian. Say, Mr. Coconuts, how many cockroaches does it take to screw in a lightbulb? (AS MR. COCONUTS) “Who knows, toots? When the light comes on, they scatter.” (LAUGHS) Get it?

LYNN: I’m Lynn Loud Jr., name a sport, I play it. From football, to lacrosse, to ice hockey, to baseball, to basketball, to roller derby.

LUCY: I’m Lucy Loud.

(Marinette jumps.)

MARINETTE: Ah! Jeez.

LUCY: I know. That happens all the time. I like poetry and anything spooky, and I’m the president of the Royal Woods Elementary School Morticians Club.

LANA: I’m Lana Loud.

LOLA: And I’m Lola Loud.

LANA AND LOLA: (IN UNISON) We’re twins. Can you tell?

LANA: I’m a grease monkey, and love getting dirty.

LOLA: I’m a pageant princess. Over ten sashes in my inventory.

LISA: I’m Lisa Loud. I spend my days conducting empirical procedures arbitrating competing models or hypotheses, street name, scientific experiments, in my room.

LILY: Lily Loud. Lily just started preschool.

LYNN SR.: I’m Lynn Loud Sr., father to these wild kiddos, and I own a restaurant. Stop by Lynn’s Table sometime.

RITA: I’m his wife, Rita Loud. I’m a writer.

HOWARD: I’m Howard McBride. He’s my husband, Harold.

HAROLD: We’re Clyde’s dads.

MR. GROUSE: I’m Bud Grouse, the Louds’ next-door neighbor. If you want to appease me, I take lasagna.

RONNIE ANNE: I’m Ronnie Anne Santiago. I used to pick on Lincoln when I lived in Royal Woods. My family moved to Great Lakes City.

SID: And she met me, Sid Chang.

BOBBY: I’m Bobby Santiago. Just like my abuelo, I hope to run a mercado.

ROSA: I’m Rosa Casagrande, the matriarch of the house, and family cook.

HECTOR: I’m Hector Casagrande, owner of the family bodega.

ROSA: And a gossiper.

HECTOR: I do not gossip, cariña.

MARIA: I’m Maria Casagrande-Santiago. I work a tiring job as a nurse.

ARTURO: I’m Arturo Santiago, a veterinarian.

CARLOS: I’m Carlos Casagrande, the brains of the family, and a college professor.

(A camera flash startles Marinette.)

MARINETTE: Ow.

FRIDA: I’m his wife, Frida Puga Casagrande.

MARINETTE: The family photographer?

FRIDA: Sí. (TEARING UP) You guessed right.

CARLOTA: I’m Carlota Casagrande. Also a fashionista.

CJ: I’m Carlos Jr. Casagrande. You can call me CJ. Any traitors that cross you will walk the plank!

CARL: I’m Carlino Casagrande. I get the ladies to come for me.

CARLOTA: In his self-proclaimed stud dreams.

FRIDA: This is Carlitos Casagrande. (COOING) Who’s a little copycat? Who’s a cute little copycat? Is it you? Yes, you are.

TIP: I’m Gratuity Tucci. You can call me Tip. I was the only escapee when an alien species called the Boov invaded.

OH: But then she did the meeting of me, Captain Oh, and everything did the changing.

MARINETTE: Oh?

OH: That comes from the way other Boovs did the responding to my presence.

LUCY: I’m Lucy Tucci, Tip’s mom.

KYLE: I am Officer Kyle.

MIGUEL: I’m Miguel Rivera. Back when my family thought music was a curse, I was sent to the Land of the Dead on Día de los Muertos, and figured out the truth as to why they had that thought. Held hard by my abuelita Elena.

ABUELITA ELENA: With my chancla to keep things in check.

MIGUEL: And my family of shoemakers. Mi papá…

ENRIQUE: Enrique.

MIGUEL: …mi mamá…

LUISA: Luisa.

MIGUEL: …Tío Berto…

BERTO: Buenos dias.

MIGUEL: …Tía Carmen…

CARMEN: Hola.

MIGUEL: …Tía Gloria…

GLORIA: Hey.

MIGUEL: …mi abuelito Franco.

FRANCO: Hola.

MIGUEL: …mis primos, Abel,…

ABEL: Hola, señorita.

MIGUEL: …Rosa,…

ROSA: Nice to meet you.

MIGUEL: …Benny, and Manny, and my little sister, Socorro, named after my great-grandmother, Mamá Coco.

RED: Hello. My name’s Red. I was an outcast as an adult for my anger issues, which stemmed from being bullied as a kid for my eyebrows. It took Bird Island’s eggs being stolen for me to step up as their leader. But now, we’ve called a truce between birds, pigs, and eagles, and we’re all heroes of all three islands.

CHUCK: I’m Chuck. I can move faster than the speed of sound.

BOMB: I’m Bomb. When I get upset, I’ve been known to blow up. Literally, hence the name. (IMITATES HISSING AND EXPLOSION)

LEONARD: I’m Leonard Mudbeard, the king of Piggy Island.

SILVER: I’m Chuck’s sister, Silver. While he moves fast, I think fast. I can think of every calculation at a moment’s notice.

GARRY: I’m Garry, the pigs’ master of gadgetry. Not all of my inventions are perfect…

RED: Like the Invisi-Spray? Or the Eagle Detector? “There’s an eagle nearby! There’s an eagle nearby!”

GARRY: I know they were flops, Red!

COURTNEY: I’m Courtney, Leonard’s right-hoof assistant.

MIGHTY EAGLE: Behold! Gaze upon… Mighty Eagle! I see all and know all.

MATILDA: I’m Matilda. I was the teacher of the Infinity Acceptance Group. And this is my husband, Terence.

(Terence grins down at Marinette.)

MARINETTE: Wow. You’re a lucky lady to have hit the jackpot with this guy.

THE BLUES: We’re the Blues.

JAY: I’m Jay.

JAKE: I’m Jake.

JIM: And I’m Jim.

ZETA: I’m Zeta, the leader of the eagles. I admit, I went crazy after Ethan left me at the altar, and tried to destroy the neighboring islands to make my own tropical paradise, since Eagle Island is basically a giant iceberg.

DEBBIE: I’m their daughter, Debbie.

GLENN: I’m Zeta’s head engineer, Glenn.

ROSS: I’m Ross. I used to be Leonard’s assistant.

(The mime bird performs around Marinette.)

RED: Yeah, he likes all of this.

STELLA: I’m Stella. I’m Bird Island’s main tour guide.

BUBBLES: I’m Bubbles. Need a lift?

(Bubbles inflates a bit.)

HAL: I’m Hal. I’m really good at doing the boomerang.

ZOE: I’m Matilda’s daughter, Zoe. These are my best friends.

VIVI: I’m Vivi.

SAM-SAM: And I’m Sam-Sam.

(Poppy leaps into Marinette’s hand.)

POPPY: Hi. I’m Poppy, the queen of Pop Village.

BRANCH: I’m Branch. I’m not like the other Pop Trolls. When I was a kid, I got my grandmother killed by singing and attracting a predator, and spent twenty years not wanting anything to do with fun.

BIGGIE: I’m Biggie. I’m a big softie, aren’t I, Mr. Dinkles?

MR. DINKLES: Mew.

COOPER: I’m Prince Cooper of Vibe City.

GUY DIAMOND: I’m Guy Diamond.

(Marinette shields her eyes.)

MARINETTE: Oh, you are naked!

GUY DIAMOND: Yeah, Glitter Trolls aren’t (AUTO-TUNED) fond of clothes.

TINY DIAMOND: Yo, what’s up? I’m his son, Tiny Diamond.

SMIDGE: I’m Smidge. I’m the smallest troll in Pop Village, but I’m also the toughest, and the strongest!

SATIN: I’m Satin.

CHENILLE: And I’m Chenille.

SATIN: We…

CHENILLE: Love…

SATIN AND CHENILLE: …fashion!

DJ: I’m DJ Suki. You can count on me to get a good party going.

BRIDGET: I’m Bridget. Queen of Bergen Town alongside my husband…

GRISTLE: King Gristle Jr.

VIVA: I’m Poppy’s sister, Viva.

PEPPY: I’m Poppy’s father, the retired king of Pop Village, Peppy.

JOHN DORY: We’re Branch’s brothers, Brozone. I’m John Dory.

CLAY: I’m Clay.

FLOYD: I’m Floyd.

SPRUCE: And I’m Spruce.

BARB: Hey. I’m Queen Barb of the Hard Rock Trolls.

PRINCE D: I’m Cooper’s brother, Prince Darnell.

KING QUINCY: I’m King Quincy.

QUEEN ESSENCE: And I’m Queen Essence.

HICKORY: Guten Tag. I am Hickory, a Yodeler Troll.

DICKORY: Und I am Dickory.

CREEK: I’m Creek. I always hate admitting this, but I regret selling out my friends to the Bergens.

RIFF: I’m Barb’s band drummer, Riff.

DELTA: I’m Delta Dawn, leader of the Country Trolls.

KING TROLLEX: I’m King Trollex of the Techno Trolls.

TROLLZART: I am Trollzart, conductor of the Classical Music Trolls.

ARCHER: I’m Archer Pastry. I left behind my gangster brother and his crew, the Party Crashers.

CLOUD GUY: Hey. How’s it going? I’m Cloud Guy. Up high?

(As Marinette goes to slap his hand with her finger, he pulls it back.)

CLOUD GUY: Whoop! Too slow!

VAL: I’m Val Thundershock, the Ambassador of the Rock Tribe.

DEMO: I’m Demo, the manager of Val’s band.

HOLLY: I’m Holly Darlin’, the Ambassador of the Country Tribe.

DANTE: I’m Dante Crescendo, the Ambassador of the Classical Tribe.

LOWNOTE JONES: I’m Lownote Jones, the Ambassador of the Funk Tribe.

SYNTH: I’m Synth, the Ambassador of the Techno Tribe.

LEGSLY: I’m Legsly. I can’t extend my hair, but I can extend my legs.

THRASH: (MUMBLING) So our differences ain’t really that extreme

BARB: Oh, that’s my dad, the retired king of the Rock Trolls, Thrash.

PENNYWHISTLE: I’m Trollzart’s favorite flute, Pennywhistle.

POPPY: And he’s Fuzzbert.

(Fuzzbert bows.)

FLINT: I’m Flint Lockwood. I’ve been an inventor since I was a kid. One of my first were my Spray-on Shoes. Unfortunately, they don’t come off.

SAM: I’m Sam Sparks. Chew and Swallow’s newscaster.

TIM: I’m Tim Lockwood. Flint’s father and owner of Tim’s Bait and Tackle.

EARL: I’m Earl Devereaux. Chew and Swallow’s local policeman. No one better think of startin’ trouble.

BRENT: I’m Brent McHale. I used to be Swallow Falls’ mascot for sardines called Baby Brent. Chicken Brent is my new moniker. Ba-gawk-oh!

MANNY: I am Manny. Part-time doctor, part-time comedian, part-time cameraman.

FLINT: This is my best friend and trusted colleague.

STEVE: Steve!

MARINETTE: A Thought Translator?

STEVE: Steve!

BARB: I’m Barb. I’m an orangutan with a human brain within my ape brain. Like a turducken.

DIPPER: I’m Dipper Pines. I spent the summer of 2012 discovering the mysteries of Gravity Falls, Oregon.

MABEL: And thanks to the heroics of me and my family, we saved the town! I’m his twin sister, Mabel Pines.

STAN: Hello. I’m Stanley Pines. Ex-conman and retired owner of the Mystery Shack. These days, I’m traveling the world with my brother.

FORD: Stanford Pines. I spent 30 years trapped in a portal between dimensions. I also wrote three journals that I threw down a bottomless pit.

SOOS: I’m Soos Ramirez, the Mystery Shack’s handy mechanic, and new Mr. Mystery.

WENDY: I’m Wendy Courderoy. I was the Mystery Shack’s clerk, but still undeniably a fun time.

McGUCKET: I’m Fiddleford McGucket. Old, I may be, but Ford and I go way back.

GRENDA: We’re Mabel’s best friends. I’m Grenda Grendinator.

CANDY: And I’m Candy Chiu.

ROBBIE: I’m Robbie Valentino. Lead guitarist of Robbie V and the Tombstones.

PACIFICA: I’m Pacifica Northwest. My family used to be rich, until my father gave it all away to that Bill guy.

GIDEON: I’m Gideon Gleeful. I had a steady reputation despite my not-so pleasant actions.

MELODY: I’m Soos’ girlfriend, Melody, the Mystery Shack’s new clerk.

HICCUP: I’m Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. The first viking in 300 years to not kill a dragon, and the chief of New Berk after the unfortunate death of my father, Stoick the Vast.

ASTRID: I’m his wife, Astrid Haddock, the chieftess of New Berk. These are our kids.

ZEPHYR: I’m Zephyr.

NUFFINK: And I’m Nuffink.

FISHLEGS: I’m Fishlegs Ingerman. Name any dragon, I have their statistics.

SNOTLOUT: I’m Snotlout Jorgensen. I admit, I might be a bit much.

TUFFNUT: I’m Tuffnut Thorston.

RUFFNUT: And I’m Ruffnut Thorston.

TUFFNUT: My sister and I love getting into trouble.

VALKA: I’m Hiccup’s mother, Valka. I lived on my own for years.

GOBBER: I’m Gobber the Belch. I was Stoick’s right-hand man.

ERET: I’m Eret. I was part of Drago Bludvist’s dragon-capturing crew before I defected.

SULLEY: I’m James P. Sullivan. My friends call me Sulley. I’m the CEO of Monsters, Incorporated. It’s a company that used to be all about sneaking into human children’s rooms through their closet doors and scaring them into screaming to power our world.

MIKE: But recently, we’ve realized that human laughter is ten times more powerful than their screams. I’m Mike Wazowski, the best Jokester at the company.

SULLEY: This is Boo, a human girl we met during the power crisis.

CELIA: I’m Celia Mae, the company receptionist.

MIKE: I’m her Googly-Bear.

CELIA: Yes, he is.

(Celia dips Mike and smooches him. Her snakes keep kissing him.)

YETI: I’m the Adorable Snowman. Why do people call me the Abominable Snowman? Do I look abominable to you?

(He offers a tray of snow cones.)

YETI: Snow cone?

(Marinette eyes the yellow tops.)

MARINETTE: Uh…

YETI: Oh, no, don’t worry. It’s lemon.

MIKE: And these were our Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers back in Monsters University.

SQUISHY: I’m Scott Squibbles. My friends call me Squishy.

DON: I’m Don Carlton. Mature student. I spent 30 years in the textile industry, and then got downsized. I figured I could either throw myself a pity party, or go back to school and learn the computers.

TERRY: We’re Terry and Terri Perry. I’m Terry with a Y.

TERRI: And I’m Terri with an I. I’m a dance major.

TERRY: And I’m not.

ART: I’m Art. New age philosophy major.

TYLOR: I’m Tylor Tuskman. I graduated from Monsters University to work for Monsters, Inc. as a Scarer, only to end up working in the Monsters, Inc. Facilities Team, or “MIFT”, when I joined the company the day they transitioned from scream to laugh power.

VAL: I’m Val Little. I was Tylor’s one-time classmate from MU.

FRITZ: I’m Fritz, the leader of MIFT.

CUTTER: I’m Katherine Sterns. You can call me Cutter. I keep remnants of each MIFT member who died on the job.

DUNCAN: I’m Duncan, the assistant supervisor of MIFT.

GRU: I’m Felonious Gru. I used to a bad guy, and now I work as a secret agent for the Anti-Villain League.

DRU: I’m his twin brother, Dru Gru.

LUCY: I’m Agent Gru’s partner and wife, Lucy Wilde.

MARGO: We’re Gru’s adopted girls. I’m Margo.

EDITH: I’m Edith.

AGNES: I’m Agnes.

GRU: And our son, Gru Jr.

POPPY: I’m Poppy Prescott, student at Lycée Pas Bon to become a supervillain.

DR. NEFARIO: I’m Gru’s friend and scientist, Dr. Nefario.

KEVIN: Bello. (SPEAKING MINIONESE) …Kevin, (SPEAKING MINIONESE) …Stuart,…

STUART: Bello!

KEVIN: …(SPEAKING MINIONESE) …Bob.

BOB: Minions!

GRU: And there’s hundreds more where they came from.

DRACULA: I am…

MARINETTE: Count Dracula? The blood-sucking vampire?

DRACULA: So you’ve heard. I’m the retired owner of Hotel Transylvania. It used to be off-limits to humans and a place for monsters to get away from it all. And, no, I don’t drink human blood. It’s so fatty, and you never know where it’s been. I use a blood substitute. Either Near Blood or Blood Beaters. You can’t tell the difference.

JOHNNY: I’m Drac’s son-in-law, Jonathan Loughran, the new co-owner of the hotel.

MAVIS: Alongside me, Drac’s daughter, Mavis.

MARINETTE: And you’re Frankenstein’s monster? Fire bad?

FRANK: Yep. Not to mention, I’m quite the big eater.

MARINETTE: And you must be his bride.

EUNICE: Name’s Eunice.

WAYNE: I’m Wayne Werewolf, she’s my wife, Wanda.

WANDA: Our kids drive us nuts.

GRIFFIN: Hey, I’m Griffin.

MARINETTE: Ah!

GRIFFIN: Oh, sorry. I really need to start that throat clearing thing.

MARINETTE: The Invisible Man?

GRIFFIN: Uh-huh.

MURRAY: I’m Murray, and I bring the party anywhere!

DENNIS: I’m Papa Drac’s grandson, Dennis. I got my vampire fangs straight on my fifth birthday.

VLAD: I’m Drac’s father, Vlad.

ERICKA: And I’m Drac’s wife, Ericka.

VAN HELSING: I’m a retired monster hunter, and Ericka’s great-grandfather, Abraham Van Helsing.

MARINETTE: One of The Van Helsings?

VAN HELSING: Yes. I didn’t want to let the legacy die, and my searches lasted beyond my lifespan, so I replaced my failing organs with technology. I say, I am still quite a looker.

ERICKA: Um, sure.

CRYSTAL: I’m Griffin’s girlfriend, Crystal the Invisible Woman.

WINNIE: I’m Winnie Werewolf, the only obedient offspring to the Werewolves. Right, my Zing?

DENNIS: Yeesh.

DRACULA: And these are the Blobbies. He’s Blobby, that’s Blobby’s son, and this is their puppy.

MARINETTE: Well, I’m glad to call all of you my new friends.

LUNA-TK: We’re honored.

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Trivia

The restaurant where Marinette was going to meet the gang was originally T.G.I. Friday’s in the same shopping plaza, but I realized the amount of characters Marinette was going to meet weren’t going to fit in one area of the restaurant, so when thinking of a smaller restaurant, Panera Bread came to mind first, and I went with that. Miller’s Ale House also came to mind, but I ran into the same problem as Friday’s. California Pizza Kitchen also could have possibly worked, it’s just that that restaurant is one big room that’s also curved, so Panera it is.

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tienramadan · 10 months ago

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Watching the watchdogs: How US media weaponised campus protests coverage

A great, novel experiment in political physics is under way in the United States, as the unstoppable moral force of youth-led protests against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza runs into the immovable object of the American power elite’s support for it.

In this clash, two critical forces have been weaponised: the US mainstream media that heavily disseminates Israeli propaganda and shapes many local, state and national policies, and the scourge of anti-Semitism that has been unfairly used to demonise and silence Palestinians and shift attention away from the US-enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Since Israel launched its assault on Gaza, President Joe Biden’s steadfast support for it has galvanised young Americans and pushed them to mobilise.

They have formed decisive coalitions with Muslim and Arab Americans, Jewish, Black, Hispanic and Native communities, labour unions and churches. They have given notice that if the US continues to support the war, they will abandon Democratic candidates in the November elections, which would likely be fatal for the party.

The American power elite largely ignored the initial criticisms of the young and the marginalised, until student encampments started springing up at universities across the country three weeks ago. The students demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a halt to US government financial and military aid to Israel, and the divestment of university investments from military industries that enable the Israeli genocide.

The mainstream media’s coverage of the campus encampments and the violence against them has exposed it as a central actor in the power elite that sustains Israel’s war and simultaneously tries to silence Palestinians and criminalise anyone who supports them.

As I closely followed US media outlets in recent weeks, I was shocked to see reporters, commentators and hosts use the exact same words and phrases that Biden and US and Israeli officials have used to smear the protesters. The mainstream media gives the impression of circling the wagons with Israeli and American officialdom to prevent at all costs an open, honest, comprehensive and contextualised public discussion on Israel’s behaviour while trying instead to focus public attention on spurious accusations.

The mainstream media has widely condemned students and accused them of using “hate speech and hate symbols” (in the words of the US president), endorsing terrorism, advocating for Israel’s destruction, resorting to anti-Semitic slurs and threatening and frightening Jewish students. Everywhere they look in the student protest encampments, the media oracles have seen “terrorists” in training, “anti-Semites” at work, “Jew-haters” being groomed, universities collapsing, and “Nazi mobs” in the making.

Prominent TV hosts have unleashed passionate, vicious diatribes against the students who have camped out to demand an end to America’s role in Israel’s genocide against Gaza, and peace and justice for all in Palestine.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe show – reportedly a Biden favourite – is one glaring example of systematically biased TV programming that sometimes veers into incitement against the student protests and the university administrators. One of its hosts, Joe Scarborough, has claimed that students want “to wipe out all Jews”, “they are Hamas on college campuses”, and they are “not helping those of us who want to fight fascism in America”. His co-host Mika Brzezinski has said that the campus protests “look like January 6”, referring to the riot by Donald Trump supporters on Capitol Hill in January 2021.

Such unsubstantiated allegations against the protesters are common to varying degrees across all the major networks, including ABC, CNN and NBC.

Most of the “expert” analysts I have heard on mainstream TV in the last few weeks commenting on the protests have been former US government or security officials, or people close to the Israeli viewpoint, including former Israeli officials. They have also offered variations on the themes of terrorism, radicalisation and anti-Semitism.

Except for some interviews I have seen on MSNBC, networks have avoided inviting Palestinians and knowledgeable Americans who could explain the actual meaning of expressions that the media and officialdom find offensive or threatening, and could address the actual nature and extent of the fears of those Jews who sincerely worry about how the protests impact them.

Unsurprisingly, most media outlets have covered US officials’ statements against peaceful protesters on campuses without much scrutiny as well.

This was apparent, for example, when Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and heads of several key congressional committees gave a press conference on April 30 where they threatened universities for allegedly allowing anti-Semitism to thrive on campus.

“We will not allow anti-Semitism to thrive on campus, and we will hold these universities accountable for their failure to protect Jewish students on campus,” Johnson said.

By reporting the many accusations against the protesters without seriously questioning or verifying them, the mainstream media itself appears to adopt the conflation of anti-Semitism with valid criticism of Israeli policies, which many scholars have warned is a dangerous practice. Israeli policies that warrant criticism include patently illegal ones that contravene international law, like expanding settlements, laying siege to Palestinian territories, and carrying out the genocidal attack on Gaza.

While mainstream media has struggled with its biases in covering the campus protests, there have been reports and commentaries by serious and knowledgeable people who actually have spent time among the defiant students, understood their motivations and their cause, and have not been beholden to domestic or foreign lobbies. Everyone I encountered – in person at universities or in the more honest, independent and progressive media outlets that do not see their job as supporting the power elites’ war-making frenzies – has reported calm, harmonious, often joyous gatherings of many faiths, aiming for a common goal of equal justice for all.

The alignment of mainstream media with the American political elites’ stance and all the exaggeration, misinterpretation, hysteria, lies and hallucination is unprecedented. It begs the question, why American officials and media leaders who traditionally parroted the Israeli line and simply ignored Palestinian voices are all up in arms now? Why would a gentle old man like Biden knowingly transform the Arabic word “intifada” (uprising) into what he calls “tragic and dangerous hate speech”?

I suspect this fanatical rhetoric reflects the power elite’s fear of being challenged in the domestic political arena for the first time ever by an issue related to Palestinian rights that also exposes and opposes Israel’s military extremism and genocide. They fear the growing coalition of Americans who are not afraid to challenge the falsehoods and distortions of staunch Israel supporters or ignore biased media offerings. They should worry, as a CNN poll last week suggested that 81 percent of Americans aged 18-35 disapprove of the American-backed Israeli war policy in Gaza.

Many young protesters have spoken of the US-enabled genocide in Gaza as “the moral issue of our age”. They feel they cannot stay silent in the face of Israeli-made starvation and American-made bombs ravaging Gaza.

But when this principled stance is distorted by the US mainstream media into an “anti-Semitic” and “pro-terrorist” frenzy, then it becomes clear that the commitment to truth-telling in large swaths of the media is far weaker than their desire to be close to the imperial seats of war-making power in the US and the Middle East.

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shesalittlelost · 18 days ago

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Azriel unites inner circle lovers and haters somehow. Both sides of fandom love him for some reason.

Because he is blank enough for everyone to project their own self insert fantasies onto him. That's pretty much how the whole of acotar fandom works lol.

#anti Azriel #not really lol but I'm still gonna tag it approximately in case i piss of his fandom #just for the record #i DON'T hate him. it's just the discourse around him is so fucking annoying that #I'm just tired of his existence atp #asks!#hello stranger

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thisfanfeels · 1 year ago

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So. Is it real?

The short answer: Yes, in my heart of hearts *.

The long answer requires pages and pages of an essay (that will never get written, not by me anyway), and a developing one at that, with lots and lots of references, has many, many caveats and extrapolations. Even then, the conclusion is... it's complicated.

The funny thing is, the more convinced I am, the less I want to post about them as a unit. I will not be tagging this post, nor mentioning names. Shipping two actors because they had insane chemistry in a show, who seem to be good friends, feels harmless and really good fun. Writing some thoughts here is meant to help process my response to this phenomenon. The shipping should have stopped at Weilan, which in itself was very lovely to swoon over; with the end of the Guardian roadshow, everyone should have moved on.

But it didn't stop there. These two provided so much fodder off-screen in the early years (2017/2018) when they were more giddy, less showbiz savvy and less guarded, that their past interactions have become memorialized as endless fascination for fandom. What's even more astounding for this shipper (me) - their sweetness continued over the next 5 years up to present time (albeit never directly or conclusively, and never intentionally in the same frame).

I can think of a dozen reasons why certain familiar pieces of jewelry, or word plays, symbols, themes, objects, garments, songs, references, posts/photos would appear from either one of them occasionally. The worst reason would be: all along, it's a business arrangement between them i.e. keeping the myth alive keeps fandom shipping/buying/watching their shows. But I don't think so. The next worst reason would be: it's one-sided affection, with one of them publicly declaring his feelings by what he wears or sings, to the other one who is keeping distance personally and professionally. But I don't think so either.

The truth probably lies with private reasons that fans will never know, as is appropriate.

Obviously, for the romantic sucker in me, the best reason would be: they are indeed, committed exclusively. Happiness is meant to be shared and love shouted from the mountaintops, but certain kinds of joy are not legal in their country. Hence the indirect showing of, but not direct telling about, of their (hypothetical) friendship. Perhaps The Friendship is an open "secret" within the industry where powers-to-be close one eye so long as discretion is practiced, and that our boys continue to be upright citizens who serve their country with entertainment and charity and civic duties and patriotism. Which they do, all the time.

For certain, there are challenges. Long-distance, busy lives, intense pressure, privacy, uncharted territory, uncertainty of trust outside the inner circle, haters/anti's, general nastiness of a highly competitive industry, and a finite shelf-life if they don't seize every quality opportunity available.... Even for regular people like us, any one of these considerations would be detrimental to a relationship. Which is why this Friendship is so precious - despite the obstacles, it is still enduring, still evolving.

Across time, flying together.

One or perhaps both have said in separate interviews about making choices. The gist of it being, while there is stress in making a choice, once decided, then that choice should be pursued wholeheartedly and without regrets. Perhaps one or both might have said this also, separately always but in sync with the messaging, that to worry not about the future and its unknowns, but to enjoy the now - the happiness in the present.

Anyway, that aside, they are both amazing actors who keep growing. If I were to take away anything from interviews aired or printed over the last few years - there are 100's, of which I've only seen a fraction of - it would be their consistency and persistence with their values and professional goals. They want to do good work, they want to be recognized for their crafts. In support of them as individual artists, I am currently watching through all their work.

OK, enough rambling. If this is a very real, very intimate friendship, I ought to be mindful of shipping responsibly. Perhaps future posts will be reviews of their shows instead.

(*Based on my own suppositions from English-language media and other fans' postings, as well as google translations since I can't read Chinese social media sources. In other words, my very limited observations are my own, with absolutely no concrete basis for accuracy or truth).

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Bitcoin 2023 in Miami comes to grips with ‘shitcoins on Bitcoin’

Among the more memorable displays at Bitcoin 2023 is a real-life toilet with the logos of various non-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies. It’s an ad for a booth selling “buttwipes” that are “moistened with the tears of no-coiners.” The marketing message is clear: Bitcoin is the real thing — everything else is a shitcoin that belongs in the toilet. But only a few steps away is another booth selling trading solutions for BRC-20 tokens, which some have labeled shitcoins for Bitcoin. Across the walkway are more booths slinging NFT minting software — also on Bitcoin. The conference even hosts a Bitcoin NFT art gallery. As Miami hosts the largest Bitcoin conference for the third year in a row in May, the air feels markedly different. Though there are only 15,000 attendees compared to last year’s 35,000, the atmosphere has an energy and freshness that’s a world away from the gloom and bear-market blues that one might expect after the massive drops from the 2021 highs. Bitcoin is the real thing — everything else belongs in the toilet (Elias Ahonen) What’s changed this year is the ordinal renaissance, brought on by the recent reality of not only NFTs but tokens being issued on the Bitcoin blockchain. There are certainly haters — with some calling for a fork to undo the Taproot updates that made “spam” possible on the chain. But despite the Bitcoin community’s traditional hatred for NFTs, tokens and DeFi, however, things are surprisingly quiet. Despite the blowback online, almost no one Magazine encounters at Bitcoin 2023 has anything particularly bad to say about Ordinals — and some did not even realize they are related to Bitcoin. Among old-school Bitcoiners — in circles where the cryptocurrency that starts with “E” can barely be mentioned without drawing comments of derision regarding “monkey pictures” and scam coins — the Ordinal NFT phenomenon is decisively met with a quiet acceptance or shrug. Most old-timers aren’t interested but appear to accept that this is what the “young people” want today — that Bitcoin needs to change with the times. Are Bitcoiners quietly accepting a new era where the network takes on a radically new role in the Web3 ecosystem, or is this the calm before the Bitcoin purist storm? Bitcoin Ordinals: A new era With the exception of the Lightning Network, which made fast and cheap Bitcoin payments possible so as to make mass payment feasible, the Bitcoin ecosystem has been relatively unchanging over the years from an outside perspective. Mining, halvings every four years, the 21 million supply, hardware storage — beyond these core concepts, Bitcoin has lacked a certain dynamism that has placed it largely outside of the more colorful Web3 space of competing protocols, smart contracts, ICOs, NFTs, DAOs, stablecoins and myriad different tokens. Indeed, the Bitcoin community has so ardently held on to its core tenets — rejecting new iterations, interpretations and innovations — that it is unironically considered by some as a religion, and semi-ironically as such by multitudes more. But is a reformation — or even renaissance — in the works? Author Elias Ahonen at Bitcoin 2023 (Elias Ahonen) A stroll through Bitcoin 2023 — the world’s largest Bitcoin conference held in May in Miami — suggests so. This is because in addition to the yearly fare of booths related to mining, physical art, exchanges, wallet solutions and various hardware, a new entrant is out in force: NFTs. Well, no — not NFTs. Bitcoiners call them “Ordinals.” The word “ordinal” simply means a number used to put things in order: 5th, 6th, 7th, etc. Due to the November 2021 Taproot Bitcoin upgrade, individual satoshis, the smallest unit of Bitcoin, can now be individually numbered and thus made permanently identifiable. Uniquely numbered satoshis — Ordinals — are nonfungible, meaning that they can no longer be substituted for another. Being (1) nonfungible and (2) tokens, they are NFTs by definition. In Miami, perhaps the most visible landmark to this new phenomenon is Ordinal Alley, “the very first art gallery dedicated to Ordinal inscriptions” where various Bitcoin NFTs can be viewed. Subhan Syed, co-founder of YourFund Coin, tells Magazine that “Ordinal art — whether a JPEG or MP3 — may seem irrelevant today, but as time goes on, collectors will look towards unique pieces that have truly been immortalized on the blockchain.” The system is new and experimental, with Syed explaining that “the way inscription works today might be completely different a few years from now,” adding that it’s feasible that one day, there might not be enough satoshis to fill everyone’s inscribing needs. “We might need a more robust solution in the long term that does not carry a load on the blockchain timestamp.” Read also Features Escape from LA: Why Lockdown in Sri Lanka Works for MyEtherWallet Founder Features What it’s like when the banks collapse: Iceland 2008 firsthand NFTs and shitcoins — Now on BTC In March 2023, an anonymous developer named “domo” introduced the BRC-20 system, which uses Ordinals to enable users to mint and transfer tokens on Bitcoin, in a simplistic take on Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard. There were plenty of merchants at Bitcoin 2023 (Elias Ahonen) According to BRC-20.io, at one point, the market cap exceeded $1 billion, although after the initial hype died down, the 187 tracked tokens fell to half a billion, and in the midst of the SEC-derived bear market, they’re worth around $132 million with a daily volume around $47 million (although the site is offline at the time of writing). While the conference has several booths related to Ordinals — mainly services for minting or “inscribing” them — few openly promote BRC-20 tokens beyond offering functionality to hold or trade them. While Ordinal NFT images appear to have become accepted by the mainstream Bitcoin community, it appears that BRC-20 tokens — viewed by many as shitcoins on Bitcoin — have not yet received quite the same level of acceptance. It will be interesting to see how this changes next year when the conference moves to Nashville. Wizards vs. laser-eyes At a talk titled “The Great Ordinal Debate,” Bitcoin experts Udi Wertheimer and Eric Wall appeared in Taproot Wizard costumes as they made a dancing entrance. The Ordinals project celebrates the Magic Internet Money meme from the early Bitcoin days and welcomes the return of innovations being built on top of the protocol. The Magic Internet Money meme Certain Bitcoin maximalists hate them and the “spam” of Ordinals, believing it undermines the true purpose of Bitcoin. Wertheimer reported that “friends reached out and implored me to reconsider going to Bitcoin Miami, due to many public violent threats” from “laser eye podcasters” who believe NFTs have no place in the Bitcoin community. The rift that Ordinals has caused in the Bitcoin community may well be summed as a conflict between the wizards and the laser-eyes — the former representing the experimental and fun-loving early ethos of Bitcoin, while the latter conveys intensity, seriousness and an unyielding focus on their vision for the greatest form of money known to man. Eric Wall is a professional crypto investor (Twitter) After the conference, I connect with Logan Golema, who is firmly on the wizard side and has deployed a BRC-20 token for his project Galaxer, which is building a “space-based AR capture-the-flag” game to work on Apple’s Vision Pro artificial reality goggles. Believing that Bitcoin and its Ordinals will exist “for eons” into humanity’s future, he argues that “Ordinals — whether art or money — will be important much further into the future than the deployer today may intend.” If you could take the DeLorean back in time to buy cheap Bitcoin — or prevent the Taproot upgrade — would you? (Elias Ahonen) While some in the laser-eyes camp have raised the possibility of a fork to roll back the Taproot upgrade that enables Ordinals, Golema thinks it’s unlikely. Recalling the block-size wars that were a key driver in the Bitcoin Cash fork led by “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver, Golema explains that while disagreement certainly exists, “it would take a lot for a chain fork to happen” again. Although various ways to remove what some core developers consider “spam” have been discussed, Golema believes the innovations will be broadly accepted and integrated — even if only begrudgingly because doing away with them may bring even more trouble. But Ordinals come with benefits, too, says Golema, helping to ensure Bitcoin’s transaction fees can sustain the network after the block reward halves away to nothing in the future. “We’ve seen for one of the first times that the fee reward was bigger than the block reward — that’s very important for the future of Bitcoin’s security.” For Bitcoin miners, the new age means more BTC coming into their collective coffers because the minting, deploying and transfer of Ordinals and Bitcoin-based tokens all require paying miners fees. This could help solve the issue of what happens when there’s no more BTC left to mine. “Direct mining rewards will end in the year 2140, so fees will be all that’s left to incentivize miners,” Golema notes. Similar benefits may exist for BTC hodlers — the long-term Bitcoin faithful. It is easy to imagine that as Bitcoin gains Ethereum-like capabilities, it will gain market share in NFTs and tokens, which will translate to demand not only in absolute terms but relative to competitors. Perhaps by bringing NFTs and tokens to Bitcoin, the wizards can even prevent the flippening, the potential ascent of Etereum to the top market cap position, which until now has been theorized to happen one day as a result of Bitcoin falling behind technologically while Ethereum innovates. Major crypto assets by percentage of total market cap. (CMC) Bitcoin dominance is a metric that shows the relative values of various cryptocurrencies and is followed by many Bitcoiners. Starting the year at 40%, BTC has climbed to 48.1% of the market as of writing. Can JPEGs push Bitcoin back into the 60% range and herald a new bull market? The Ordinals wizards Some Bitcoiners are starting to rationalize Ordinals into their worldviews. According to Aravind Sathyanandham, chief strategy officer at Bitcoin DeFi platform Velar, the Ordinals community is markedly different from the primarily Ethereum “ape” community, which has a bad reputation among the Bitcoin crowd. “These are Bitcoin guys — these are people who had to figure out how to run an entire node to ‘inscribe’ stuff on Bitcoin, the mother chain.” He is referring to a kind of do-it-yourself hardiness — a rugged individualism emblematic of the money and tech conservatism of older stereotypical Bitcoiners as opposed to the also -stereotypical imagining of a more communal, liberal and younger Ethereum community. From this Bitcoiner perspective, Ethereum is viewed as little more than a sandbox for children, while Bitcoin is eternal. Ethereum, Sathyanandham says, is a “great experiment for NFTs and DeFi to take their first form,” and now it’s Bitcoin’s turn. “These Bitcoin wizards understood early on that the block space on Bitcoin is prime real estate — it’s forever immutable and censorship-resistant data,” he adds, not forgetting to add that Ethereum is “semi-centralized.” Elias was invited to sign the Bitcoin Car, first auctioned for 1,000 BTC in 2013 (Elias Ahonen) The phenomenon also appears to be growing the Bitcoin user base. “Ordinals have on-boarded so many individuals onto Bitcoin — new Bitcoin wallets like Hiro and Xverse that are akin to MetaMask have made it simple,” Sathyanandham explains, referring to the wider ecosystem being built entirely for Ordinals that mirrors Ethereum’s in many ways. He notes that “the Ethereum NFT community’s bleeding into the Bitcoin community is very evident on Crypto Twitter.” While Syed agrees with Ordinalist exceptionalism, he sees them more as technologists than strict Bitcoiners. “I’ve seen that BRC-20 and Ordinals early adopters are individuals who are slightly more tech-savvy digital collectible fans — it’s not like some virtual flood gates opened up to bring in loads of Bitcoin maxis,” he observes. Syed notes that “currently it’s the same people who collect ETH, Solana or BNB digital collectibles jumping in early. Early adopters always win and the bottom line is: We are all early.” “When the next bull run comes, perhaps correlated with the BTC halving, we might see everyone rush over the BRC-20 and Ordinal narrative.” It certainly feels like magic internet money once again. Subscribe The most engaging reads in blockchain. Delivered once a week. Elias Ahonen Elias Ahonen is a Finnish-Canadian author based in Dubai who has worked around the world operating a small blockchain consultancy after buying his first Bitcoins in 2013. His book ‘Blockland' (link below) tells the story of the industry. He holds an MA in International & Comparative Law whose thesis deals with NFT & metaverse regulation. Follow the author @eahonen Source link Read the full article

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Anyone who justifies this is a person roiling in bigotry. I will stand by my statements that they don't care about Palestinians and just have a nigh unto sexual need to see Jewish people maimed, tortured, raped, killed, and then desecrated after they die. They are so excited in a ruthlessly panting sort of way that ANYONE on Israeli soil is fair game, even Nepalese students on a trip. This level of obsessive hatred is diagnosable, and it's called being a sick racist, Jew hater. They use Palestinians as a shield for their hatred, and I have seen Palestinians posting that they see right through them. Not that those voices get amplified on a place like tumblr, where racially white Christian background voices are privileged over all other ones.

And yes, there are PLENTY of people living in Israel who aren't Jews. Also 60 percent of the Jewish population comes from Sephardic, Mizrahi, MENA, Beta Israel (Ethiopian) and the South Asian and Central Asian communities, so... not white at all. As for the Ashkenazi, the ONLY places in the entire world that they are considered white by a segment of the population (leftist, not liberal, leftist, circles) are the United States and the United Kingdom. And it's still primarily the US over the UK.

In the US and UK, that is extremely provisional whiteness. Ashkenazi have that status till they don't, and they are never in charge of when that will happen. The situation is very similar to light skinned biracial people. To note: In both the US and the UK, Ashkenazis are NEVER white to the right wing.

bananas how words have simply lost their meanings in the fight to determine which civilians are and aren’t murderable. I don’t think the 25-year old Chinese-jewish paramedic who was violently taken by Hamas is a white woman and I don’t think that the Nepalese students or the Thai agricultural workers who were killed are Israeli Jews or Americans and I don’t think that the members of the Bedouin community killed in attacks on their ancestral homelands are western settler colonialists

#israel #israel/hamas war #jumblr #jewish

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is your cty hate about working or attending??? I worked there last summer and the kids were nice and cool but the program itself was an unmitigated disaster

sort of neither?? i just met cty alums in college who were insufferable about it in a Former Gifted Child way so i think of it as Their Annoying Thing

#i am not an understander of people who are so obsessed with their summer camp that they go back to work there as adults #i'm also just like a bit of a gifted n talented programming skeptic particularly when it's so tied to test scores #it's also kind of interesting but weird to me there there's such a robust ecosystem of programs and instituions that #feed (mostly wealthy) children directly into brand name universities #i was sort of blissfully unaware of it until college and then i was like wait u mean to tell me this is a billion dollar industry #looked it up and apparently JUST tutoring and test prep franchises JUST in the united states were worth $1.7 billion in 2022 #which doesn't even get into summer camps and math circles and the quizzing industry and extracurricular coaching and private schools #it's just this whole weird mostly-cloistered world #that turns out a hell of a lot of people who are blissfully unaware that they've been cultivated to thrive #because it's sold to them as participation in meritocracy #which is not to say it's not ALSO a pressure cooker for all sorts of other things such as mental illness #and it's also not to say that no marginalized students have ever gotten benefits from these programs #i feel like i overcomplicated this a little the long and short answer is that i had a roommate once who was a cty alum and employee #and he was and is the most annoying man i have ever met so i am a hater of things i associate with him on principle #but also all of the other stuff idk #anonymous #ask and receive

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https://twitter.com/itsxelf_/status/1618525502251368453?s=46&t=eyHTSML5hV873lU8c2RwnA

Was quite surprised after watching this and replies below about Henry. SM in a way has always wanted this expanding group concept huh but they only figured it out with nct. Though it’s not a perfect system it works way better than suju as they prepare the fans and idols a lot for this concept. Hates for new members is still there but at least they can still work within the group. Heck even the current smrookies has got some haters albeit very few. Now that i see this im not surprised if nct keeps adding more members. They had a vision years before

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The concept was tried with EXO as well. Even with NCT there are problems and complains at every step. There are 23 neos currently and a few new units are on their way, and there are plenty of fans who are against adding new members. Despite "NCT is limitless" being the proclaimed concept from day one. People are blaming SM for using first units (particulary 127) to give an easy debut and fame to newer units. As if the first SM artists didn't provide the money and the platform for the younger SM artists.

Doyoung was a representative of NCT on Circle awards, he received two awards for NCT (NCT2021), the separate units didn't win anything.

Fans are fickle and change the narrative the way it suits them. One day everyone argue with froth on the mouth that they want their group to forever be with the original number of members. The next day they erase a member with a scandal from all group pictures.

The NCT system both has pros and cons.

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I follow many creators and I know that you are from russia (fuck you russia!). Unfortunately, many of the cool creators that I follow are also from this country. No offense, but you look cut off among them. It would be great if they started interacting with you, and maybe then you can shut up these nasty haters. Haters, by the way, look much more united than you creators, lol. P.S. I would love to support you, but my account with 5 followers is hardly going to help the situation.

Yes, I'm from Russia and the ru community has its own jokes. Things are not going smoothly here and it used to be much worse. So someone (I suspect who), spread rumors about me and people began to stay away. There was a certain group of people humiliating not only the creators, but also ordinary creative people. Everyone was afraid of them. Later, this group was disbanded, but the people who were in it remained and continue to pretend that nothing happened. So without their leader, they just started ignoring me because my reputation was so damaged and slandered that it still bears a trace.

You don't know, but popular creators (I won't name names) supported this and still remain of their opinion. If you don't adjust to them, you become against them. The situation has reached the point where my girlfriend is trying to raise a conversation about it in our circles, but people are afraid to even discuss it, because their reputation will also be tarnished. This is disgusting shit that many people support and "cancel" me both in their community and here.

Thanks for the support. Despite the fact that you are an unknown, as you say, absolutely anyone could contribute to this.

#ask #ask-mb

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Since I’m officially done with the main guides to Stray Kids, I figured I’d do a couple fun guides, just for, well, fun. I’m done with the dynamics, but I didn’t want to stop making these, lmao. So, I thought it would be interesting to kind of explain the boys music, kind of like a summary of all the music they’ve put out. Not each song individually, that may be too much. But maybe the albums/mini albums/ EPs, etc.

This post is going to skip around just a bit, it’s why I made sure to put the exact dates in the descriptions, as I wouldn’t be going in exact order. This post contains their 2 full length albums, Go Live and Noeasy, as well as their reissue In Life.

(Most of the info was taken from Wikipedia, or from my own listen of the album. I’ve gotten bits and pieces from other areas, but yea. If I got something wrong, or missed something important, please let me know!)

Go Live (2020)

released in June 2020.

the group’s first official full length studio album

contains 14 songs: Go Live; God’s Menu; Easy; Pacemaker; Airplane; Another Day; Phobia; Blueprint; Ta; Haven; Top; Slump; Mixtape: Gone Days; and Mixtape: On Track.

has 5 official music videos, along with a special video.

ta doesn’t have an official music video, but it does have a dance practice, so i linked that. i highly recommend it, as they look like they’re having so much fun doing it.

top is interesting, as that song, along with slump, were made for an anime, and they were both recorded in korean, japanese, and english. the korean version of top doesn’t have an official music video, it has an unveil, however, it’s basically the whole song? so more of a performance video.

mixtape: on track is part of a trilogy, kind of. at least, from what i’ve seen from other stays. it starts with on track, goes into b me (the unveil, since there was never a music video for that one), and that goes into mixtape: oh.

the themes on this one are a little more all over the place, just because it is a full length album and there is variety here. there is also the first major incidence of them starting to push back on their haters and harsh critics (a major theme in Noeasy). they’ve touched on it before, but now, they’re being way more up front about it.

go live is just another starter song. it’s also just a shorter version of the tortoise and the hare, a song that appears in full in the reissue.

my personal favorite: definitely a tough one, this album has so many fantastic songs on it. overall favorite for me is probably ‘easy’. a song that i think stands out the most is probably ‘God’s Menu’. and a song that has the most emotional punch, again in my opinion, is ‘Another Day’. I actually cried the first time I heard it.

Wins - No music show wins, but they did win something call the ‘Main Award’ at the Seoul Music Awards

Peak position - 1 on the Circle Album Chart (previously the Goan Album Chart)

In Life (2020)

released in September of 2020.

is a reissue of Go Live, but minus a handful of songs and with 8 new ones.

includes the following songs from Go Live: God’s Menu; Easy; Pacemaker; Airplane; Another Day; Phobia; Blueprint; Ta; Haven

The new tracks are: The Tortoise and the Hare; Back Door; B Me; Any; Ex; We Go; Wow; and My Universe

has 3 new music videos, but there was an unveil for B Me.

the tortoise and the hare doesn’t have a music video, however, go live had an unveil track, and since thats just a shorter version of this one, i linked that.

the new songs includes a variety of themes again. this one also contains three unit tracks, each one sung by a different ‘racha.

my personal favorite: yet another difficult choice. all 8 new tracks are standouts in their own right. I genuinely don’t think I could pick a favorite. I will say out of the unit tracks; Wow is my personal favorite. But honestly, every single one of these songs is A+

Wins - 2 music shows wins for back door, one on Show Champion and one on M Countdown.

Peak position - 1 on the Circle Album Charts (Goan Album Charts)

*i’m a newer stay, i only became a fan this year. but based on what wikipedia is saying, and based on bits and pieces i’ve seen since becoming a fan, it seems like their go live/in life eras were when stray kids really started to get big. it’s not that they didn’t have a loyal fanbase before this, but i think this album and this reissue seemed to have brought in so many more fans, and i’m glad that it did. it’s led to them being with some of the top idols in the industry and they deserve it.

Noeasy (2021)

released on August 23rd, 2021.

includes the following songs: Cheese; Thunderous; Domino; Ssick; The View; Sorry I Love You; Silent Cry; Secret Secret; Star Lost; Red Lights; Surfin’; Gone Away; Wolfgang; and Mixtape: Oh

has 9 music videos. however, they performed wolfgang on kingdom. HOWEVER. i won’t be linking that performance, as there is no hyunjin. instead, i linked the other time they performed it, as 8 instead of 7. as wonderful as the original performance is (and i do recommend checking it out), this song and performance work so much better with all 8.

domino is another one that was given an unveil, but no music video, which a lot of fans hate, because the song and the unveil are so damn good. so i linked it.

mixtape: oh is a bit unique, as it was actually released in june of 2021, along with the music video. from what i can tell, it’s release was a bit of a surprise, coming right after kingdom ended, and featured hyunjin back with the group after his hiatus. stays have a great love and fondness for this one, because of the return of hyunjin and how much so many of them were happy to have him back. (in fact, the most replayed part in the video is hyunjin’s appearance)

once again, because it’s a full album, there’s a lot of themes at play, but the main one was clearly showing up their haters and harsh critics who call their music ‘noisy’, hence the title ‘Noeasy’ which is a play on the word noisy.

this one has 3 unit songs again, however the units are more random. red lights is by hyunjin and bang chan, surfin’ is by lee know, changbin, and felix, and gone away is by han, seungmin, and i.n. each one of these is very different from the other, they all give off completely different vibes.

my personal favorite from this album is another tough one, lmao. there’s so many good songs here. for overall look and feel and sound, i’ll go with thunderous, because it’s my favorite music video from them. also domino just hits so good. and the unit songs are stand outs for sure. each one has a different feel and mood and i highly recommend them.

This album was nominated for a few different awards, but the only win was for Best Album (Bonsang) at the Golden Disc Awards.

For music show awards, Thunderous took home 6 awards: 2 on Show Champion, 2 on M Countdown, 1 on Inkigayo, and 1 on Music Bank.

Peak postion - 1 on the Circle Album Charts (Goan Album Charts)

#Stray Kids #skz guide #Go Live #In Life #Noeasy #skz thoughts #as always #if there are any mistakes or major omissions #let me know #i'll fix it #also i haven't abandoned this #i'll finish it i swear #lmao

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