#dci 2023

[spoonbendersanonymous]

DCI 2023 in a nutshell:

Blue Devils: Jojo's Depressing French Adventure

Blue Knights: both the uniform and show designers are into bondage

Blue Stars: no don't worry it's definitely a show about creativity and not about getting blasted on absinthe

Bluecoats: we've gone so far into psychedelia we're doing shows inside illuminated manuscripts now

Boston Crusaders: SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME-

Cadets: a Wheaties advertisement

Carolina Crown: single guard member steals the entire fucking show by dying flamboyantly

The Cavaliers: The Cavaliers

Colts: welcome to Indiana it's time to cry

Crossmen: literally edgy af

Genesis: assimilate to the entire band into the Borg

Mandarins: naughty soloists get put into the spinning hell toaster forever (fun fact: there are no arm or leg clamps. hold on or perish i guess)

Pacific Crest: sun goddess summons a bunch of sirens and teaches them to play trombone

Phantom Regiment: the aliens have arrived and they have OBELISKS

Troopers: the cowboy oil cult returns and this time they're going to capture the sun with the power of harmonica

Academy: onfield soap opera where the two main characters are celestial bodies

[cardioasscular]

ah, so the blue knights are into bondage.

[marvelousmiss-marvel]

You know it’s a good show when the entire drum corps makes a huge line and marches super slowly

[annapanman]

Carolina Crown, Mandarins, and Cadets were absolutely spectacular tonight I can't get over them

going to see my first dci event since pre-covid era in 24 hours... im so fucking excited

[reg1ment]

PHANTOM REGIMENT 2023 - EXOGENESIS // trombone solo + xtra fun brass time

[dciyaoi]

Crossmen 2023 — “Meetings at the Edge”

[onetimeinband]

I love Bluecoats GoPro videos (creds: Jacob Ellgass on YouTube)

[eurotowne]

Drum Corps International x Eurovision Song Contest : Pt 1?

yk, eurovision season is over and here in the US, DCI tour season is just starting to pick up and since i have literally no live outside of these two things and i feel the need to unite a very European and very American thing, i thought i’d compare 1 DCI show and 1 ESC performance until Carolina Crown hopefully wins the finals in Indy this year (🙏)

Because if there’s one thing these organizations have in common, it’s that they know how to pick a theme, throw in some good music, and make it as camp as possible.

So here’s my first pair of this weirdly niche special interest crossover

Carolina Crown 2023:

The Round Table: Echoes of Camelot

First of all I just need to establish that seeing this live way by far one of the greatest out-of-body experiences i’ve ever had. Seriously, I think everyone on earth needs to experience that hit at the end of the battle scene because I swear to god you could feel the sound shake the stadium. Best first love Crown show EVERRRR.

Anywho, very obviously a show about King Arthur which is an absolutely fantastic concept if I do say so myself and even if you don’t know the plot behind the actual story (all my context was from Monty Python and the Holy Grail lmao), the drill and choreography did a spectacular job of getting the point across a 100 yard field.

Musicality and band-geeky stuff aside, it was absolutely action packed with lots of sword-fighting and romantic, ballet-esque choreo from the guard to go around (obviously)

ALSO they somehow managed to put some bits of Björk songs in there which gave the ballad a dream-like vibe. I’m surprised they were able to incorporate that so well

and finally the guy playing King Arthur absolutely SLAYED!! The acting and storytelling just MADE the performance 👇👇👇

Georgia 2007:

Visionary Dream - Sopho

So obvious connection to Crown’s show with the swords and medieval-esque costuming.

The thing about Visionary Dream is that in my opinion, it’s a MASSIVELY underrated song/performance. Sopho’s voice is STRONG, and is really one of the most captivating points of an already interesting staging concept

Honestly, it’s hard to decipher wtf is going on because it’s a bit all over the place with lots to look at which tbh, was exactly like Crown’s show on a smaller stage.

the whole performance is trippy, mysterious, yet incredibly impactful and very well-executed. Definitely in my personal top 3 of 2007. I’d have much more to say about it but i’m still trying to wrap my head around the DCI show form yesterday lmaooo 😭

[quotesfromall]

The problem was that I liked poetry and fiction too much. They were frivolous to her and would be no help in the coming revolutionary upheaval that was necessary to change society for the better. I clung too much to the status quo. When it came right down to it, she said

Peter Robinson, Standing in the Shadows

[jackbatchelor3]

Kidnapped In Broad Daylight! 😲 EastEnders

[otomobilist]

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[sassysillysavvy]

this lil beauty is STILL relevant im cry ig n

even if the other bands produced a miracle from god on that field, blue devils would still win

[bobbie-robron]

What are your top 5 Robron fics?..

Hiya, thank you for the ask. My favorites change all the time but here are a couple I truly enjoy in no specific order.

You used to be my world (2019-2020) 101.9K words, orphan_account, Reunion 3.0

Pull Me Under (2020) 50.2K words, sweetly_disposed, Bodyguard AU

The Blue Verse series (2021-2023), 199.7K words, raelee514, Feel good AU

Amongst The Quiet series (2018-2021), 119.7K words, some_mad_lunge, DCI Sugden/PI Dingle

Both sides of the moon (2020), 241.3K words, softlyspoken, Reverse Robron

Bonus (just because):

It’s the first fic read on the lads and have come back to it often:

Sweet dreams (are made of these) (2018), 24.7K words, KayCeeCruz, AU where Robert falls not Katie

This second one has the lads get away from the village of the damned after reuniting, build a home, careers, have MANY friends and long-lost family on the Sugden side.

Land of Our Own (2023), 100.8K words, Adam_Bede, Reunion AU

[sayitaintskibidi]

FNaF lore but my brainrot made it tally hall

Bora Karaca and Casey Shea opened a restaurant around the early 70s, named Fredbear's Family Diner, which quickly evolved into a chain of restaurants known as "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza," started in 1983, under the company of Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. At some point, both of them left the company, with an unknown individual taking over as CEO.

Bora was secretly a serial killer, using mascot costumes to lure, abduct, and murder kids. His motives aren't known, though widely speculated to be him trying to achieve immortality through researching the paranormal, haunted metal (known as remnant), which he created through the murders.

His first target was Charlotte Shea, the daughter of Casey. She became the Marionette, a ghost who took care of and helped awaken the other lost souls.

In 1983, Bora’s younger son also died in an incident, at the fault of his eldest — Michael. The younger son (name unknown, BV for short) 's fate is still unknown, though often speculated to be connected to either Golden Freddy (an enigmatic spirit taking the form of a yellow bear) or helping Charlie with saving other souls. "I will put you back together" was the last thing said to BV by a debatable party, most commonly believed to be either Bora, Charlie, or Golden Freddy.

In 1985, Bora  killed 2 kids, and 3 others were later connected to that incident (The Missing Children Incident, or MCI). He was arrested but released due to a lack of evidence. 4 of these kids were Joe, Rob, Zubin, and Andrew, going on to haunt Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, respectively, with Joe implied to have been the first to die. The 5th is commonly believed to be named Ross, becoming Golden Freddy, though some think it's someone else.

In 1987, Bora pretended to be a security guard at a new Pizzeria and killed 5 more kids (DCI for short), who went on to be the Toy animatronics. This caused the unimportant Bite of '87.

In 1993, Mike worked a shift at the haunted original Freddy's. Later that year, the location was closed, and the company went bankrupt. He later had some sort of nightmares about it and his brother's death, likely paranormal in nature.

At some point, Bora went to that original Freddy's to destroy the 4 haunted robots, but ghosts manifested, and fearing for his life, he put on the costume he used to kill them. It was actually a part costume part robot hybrid, though, and due to the leaking roof, the machine snapped on him, killing him. He went on to haunt it and/or his corpse inside.

While Freddy's existed, a Sister Location called "Circus Baby's Pizza World" opened. It was a front for Bora to kill more kids, with the robots there made to kidnap them. It backfired when his daughter sneaked in to see Baby, and it killed her. She then haunted it. Bora, distraught, locked her and the other robots from there in an underground warehouse where they were rented out for parties. The other robots also got haunted somehow, likely with melted down remnant from some other kids, most likely MCI. Years later, Bora sent Mike there to find Elizabeth. Thinking he was Bora, she tricked him, and the Funtime Robots combined into one amalgam of wires, killed Mike, and used his corpse as a skin suit to escape. He quickly rotted, and they had to escape to the sewers. He repossessed his corpse thanks to remnant, though.

Around 30 years after his death (presumably 2023, though that may be debunked now), Bora was found by Mary kate, who stole him and put him into her cheap horror attraction based on the Freddy's urban legends, not knowing Bora was inside the robot. After a few nights, the building burned down, and Bora escaped. There's also a good ending in that game where Charlie released the other spirits, but its canonicity is "complicated" according to Scott (FNaF creator).

Mike also had a security logbook at some point, where two ghosts, BV and presumably Ross (given it's not him), talked about something.

Finally, after like 50 years, Casey re-emerged and made a fake pizzeria, where he called the Funtime robots, now separated from Elizabeth, herself, and Bora. He also made a robot that captured Charlie. After a bunch of managers failed to collect all 4 robots, Mike came and succeeded. Casey burned them all and himself, with high temperatures now revealed to work on ghosts, apparently. Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. was supposedly closed for good.

But one ghost, very highly implied to be Golden Freddy, though argued as a random never-before-seen 6th MCI kid by some, wasn't ready to let Bora go, so he kept him from being released and tortured him in super nightmares.

There's a book series called Fazbear Frights which has debatable canonicity too that'd take place after this, but if canon it's basically just filler that nullifies the Vengeful Spirit nightmares thing.

After all this, Fazbear Entertainment was revived as Fazbear Entertainment, LLC. They kidnapped a guy and gaslighted him into living in a secluded fake house they made for him, where he made FNAF games, in the FNaF universe, as to make it seem like it was all just fake stories.

A VR game was later made, that was a remake of these, but some suspecious circuit boards were sent to be scanned into it, creating a paranormal, digital entity known as Glitchtrap. It appears as a man in Spring Bonnie (Bora’s suit), acts exactly like Bora, knows stuff only Bora  knows and even claims to be back, with Bora’s catchphrase of sorts being "I always come back". After a bit of shenanigans, it manages to possess a beta tester and makes her his minion. We call her Vanny.

Vanessa, most likely Vanny, then got a desk job at Fazbear Entertainment. Fazbear Funtime Service, a program where animatronics were mass produced and sent for parties, etc. got hijacked by Glitchtrap who made them hostile. He made Vanessa infiltrate the service as a fake FazEnt representative, supposedly fix his infection, but actually just cut off anyone's access to the system other than him, and send a data packet with him to the current Pizzeria — Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex.

In the current book series, most likely canon, there's this AI called Mimic1, which copies stuff. Many think that's actually what Glitchtrap is, just AI copying Bora. It's an ongoing debate. An Endoskeleton with it installed was sent to the last simulated Freddy's Casey built to burn, where it got out of control, started killing people and in the ongoing story is hunting down a group of teens. As the Pizzaplex was built on top of the simulated Freddy's, the Mimic got control over it too, but was quickly taken down. There's also this boy Gregory who ended up possessed by Glitchtrap and hacking the Pizzaplex for reasons unknown.

Now in Security Breach (possibly 2035), Gregory, out of Glitchtrap's control, had to escape being trapped in the Pizzaplex, as all the robots controlled by Glitchtrap and Vanny wanted to kill him. With the help of Glamrock Freddy, most likely haunted by someone, though it's unknown who, Greg ended up finding a newly built Springtrap in the simulated Freddy's and somehow defeating it. There's also a giant abomination of wires that resambles the Funtime amalgam down there, it took this Bora away.

This is pretty much where we are now, in gross oversimplification.

edit: i didnt change most of the names because idk

[dciyaoi]

Cavaliers 2023 — Where You’ll Find Me

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Defense for Children International-Palestine writes:

Rafat Omar Ahmad Khamayseh, 15, was shot by Israeli special forces while leaving his grandfather’s house in Jenin refugee camp around 7:30 p.m. on September 19, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. As he left the house, Rafat saw Israeli special forces exiting three Palestinian licensed cars and surround the home of the father of a Palestinian man wanted for arrest. Rafat fled, yelling, “Special forces! Special forces!” One Israeli soldier chased Rafat and shot him in the abdomen from a distance of 10 meters (33 feet).    

While nearly all of the reports on the Jenin incident identify Khamayseh as being 22 years old, photos indicate that he probably really was 15.

And that he was not exactly an innocent child.

Yet even if we take DCI-P at their word that all he was doing was warning terrorists that the IDF was there, that makes him legally a militant and a legitimate military target.

The US Department of Defense Law of War Manual (revised July 2023) says that a civilian is considered to be taking a direct part in hostilities when he or she is "acting as a guide or lookout for combatants conducting military operations." 

The ICRC agrees. In its document "Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities Under International Humanitarian Law" it says,  "a person serving as one of several lookouts during an ambush would certainly be taking a direct part in hostilities although his contribution may not be indispensable to the causation of harm."

This is exactly what DCI-P is admitting that Khamayseh was doing. His warning endangered the Israeli forces and therefore he became a combatant and legitimate target, no matter what his age.