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[rosarenn]

What parts of yourself stay hidden and keep you from building deeper relationships and stronger coalitions as you fight for freedom?

What parts of myself stay hidden?

I hide my radical, anarchist heart. It feels unsafe to admit the full depth of my beliefs, my values, my hopes and dreams. In some ways it's true - it isn't safe. The red scare was not that long ago and there are many reasons to believe it could happen again. Beliefs that are such a threat to the status quo will never be safe to hold. So I hide. I have the privilege to do so, to protect my comfort, safety, and peace above the fear and the unknown of what lays on the other side.

But it's also true that hiding is slowly killing me. That the mask is slipping and I don't have the heart to hold it in place much longer. Once you see the full humanity of everyone around you, how can you unsee it? Once you see the way our society dehumanizes, exploits, and oppresses everyone around you, how can you unsee it? Once you see the way you participate and perpetuate this oppression, how can you unsee it?

I looked. I saw. I see. Now what?

I can feel the lies I was taught, the ideology I was force-fed from birth unraveling. This is not the life I want. This was never the life I wanted.

Though I didn't have the language, though I didn't have the education, and though I was fighting the layers of conditioning, in some ways I've always been this way. I don't know if it's my neurodivergence, if it's what I was put here on earth for, if my conditioning didn't take for some reason outside my control, or if all children are in fact like this. I never could understand why we didn't make sure that everyone had enough. I never could understand why everyone walked by and looked away from those in need. I never could understand why some people got to make the rules and others had to fall in line. I never could understand why I got in the most trouble when I was doing what I could plainly see was the right thing, but that challenged authority and the status quo.

I don't want to romanticize my past, or even my childhood. It's not that I was born with perfect politics and the world tried to break me and failed. It's a nice story but it's not that simple. I bought in, hard, to the ideologies of academia, that I was just naturally smarter because I excelled in a school system designed for me. I bought in, hard, to the ideologies of meritocracy, because I excelled at everything I tried in a work system designed for me, and my parents pulled strings to get me opportunities, and it seemed like everyone else just wasn't working as hard as me. I chased goodness and purity with a fervour, hoping it would protect me. My whiteness and my class privilege were completely invisible to me. I was very nearly a girlboss *chortle*

I remember circulating a petition in Grade 3, calling on the school to make changes to a school yard policy that just didn't make any sense to us. We had just had classes where we were taught about civic engagement, that good citizens have a duty to be involved, that petitions were a tool of democracy. I couldn't understand why, when I did exactly as we had been taught and tried to change something that mattered to me, I got in so much shit.

I remember in Grade 4, when the teacher left us alone in the classroom for just long enough for us to organise. We thought it would be hilarious if we all hid under our desks when she came in, that she would think we had all just disappeared. We all agreed that as long as we all did it, we couldn't all get in trouble. So I hid under my desk, snickering, and stayed there as I had promised. When everyone else bailed at the last moment and left me to take the brunt of the teacher's anger, I couldn't understand why our solidarity had crumbled so easily. I got in so much shit.

I remember dreaming about what I would do if I won some life-changing amount of money, and among other things I said that it was my dream to donate that money to charity and to help people in need. My mother snapped at me, a literal child, screaming that did I think I was better than her? Was I judging her for not giving more of her money to charity? I was cowed, and I cried, and I could not understand what I had done wrong. I got in so much shit.

These are just a few of the memories of how I learned that this side of me was, maybe not wrong, but not welcomed. That bringing my difference would be met with hostility. That I can't trust others to stand with me in solidarity. That to even mention redistribution of resources or to question the way things are is a threat, is worthy of punishment and ridicule, is cruel and inconsiderate of those who held the resources and the power. By the time I got to highschool, and my mother said I could attend the (newer nicer) Catholic high school as long as I promised not to lead any protests against the Catholic school system, I accepted and I kept my word.

So what parts of myself do I keep hidden? Most of the parts that make me different. My neurodivergence. My fat acceptance. My magic and my anarchy and my emotions. The parts that make me feel alive. I also hide my financial privilege, because I am ashamed of the resources that I've accumulated. I am ashamed of the wealth that has flowed uphill into my hands, ashamed of the exploitation it represents, ashamed of the ways in which I have been complicit in this system. Even though it's not enough to make a life on, even though it's not enough to retire on, who am I to have extra when so many don't have enough? I can give it away, redistribute it, direct it back into the community - and I do - but why should I get to choose where to send it?

I can't be a race traitor, class traitor anarchist by only holding it in my heart. There is something to be said about being cautious, about choosing battles, of who to be forthcoming with and who to hide from, but the world I dream of won't come into existence simply through wishing. If we don't talk about our secret hopes, we could all be sitting here wishing others felt the same, and never know who is already on our side. We can't build broad-based coalitions, we can't build affinity groups and mutual aid and community care if we never say out loud that this is what we want to do.

[neuxue]

Wheel of Time liveblogging: The Gathering Storm ch 37

Two words: Natrin’s Barrow

Chapter 37: A Force of Light

That sounds almost positive, so it probably isn’t.

Oh it’s a Min POV! I’ve been wanting one of these.

I like the way the POV is shifting in this book so far, bouncing off of Rand to other characters briefly, then coming back to him on the way to another character, touching sometimes on his own thoughts and sometimes on those around him. It’s a change from the previous few books, and adds to the sense that we’re drawing closer to an ending; everything is being pulled tightly around him as he stands at the centre of this storm.

The previous few books, we’ve seen more of things falling apart, divisions growing, unity failing, the right hand falters and the left hand strays – reinforced by the way POV sections were grouped by character, so you’d see one character and one storyline for a few chapters, and then either not at all or maybe only once or twice before the next book. The stories were separate, the characters were separate, and the impacts of the Dragon Reborn and the impending Last Battle and everything that goes with it were being flung across the world. Now, there’s a sense of pulling that back in, and so it becomes tighter, faster, and yet at the same time slightly more chaotic and frantic.

And Rand stands at the centre, but he still has relatively few viewpoint chapters of his own; often, now, he is narrated by one of those near him. Because while he is the point around which everything turns, he inhabits a slightly different level – partly out of his own doing, deciding that the Dragon Reborn cannot be truly human, giving himself to his role and duty and leaving nothing for himself, writing out his own agency in a way; and partly out of the role he is given.

Anyway, let’s get to the actual chapter, shall we?

These opening paragraphs, with Min watching Rand dress in meticulous detail, sharp and tense and exact, remind me a great deal of two other scenes. The first is Rand preparing to go to Caemlyn to face Rahvin at the end of TFoH, where he thought about how he needed to be cold, with no mistakes, and Aviendha watched him. The second is Min watching Rand prepare to go to Illian to face Sammael. There’s a trend here, is all I’m saying.

“Do you want to talk about it?” she asked.

Rand did not turn from the mirror. “About what?”

“The Seanchan.”

“There will be no peace,” he said, straightening his coat collar. “I have failed.” His tone was emotionless, yet somehow taut.

“It’s all right to be frustrated, Rand.”

“Frustration is pointless,” he said. “Anger is pointless.”

Tuon left that meeting and immediately declared herself Empress and war on the Tower (like my zeugma there?). Now, I think, we’re seeing Rand’s version of that. Two leaders walk away from a ruined attempt at peace and set their held plans in motion, cold and clear and ruthless.

The air shimmered above Rand, and a mountain appeared there. Viewings were so common around Rand that Min usually forced herself to ignore them unless they were new – though she did spend time some days trying to pick them all out and sort through them. This one was new, and it caught her attention. The towering mountain was blasted out on one side, making a jagged hole down the slope. Dragonmount?

Finally someone says it. Dragonmount’s been hanging over Rand for…well, technically his whole life I suppose, but in the last few chapters those hints have been getting heavier than either duty or a mountain.

It was cloaked in dark shadows, as if shaded by clouds

Or by metaphor.

That was odd; whenever she’d seen the mountain, it had reached higher than the clouds themselves.

With your self-taught philosophy, Min, I trust you can work this one out without too much difficulty.

Dragonmount in shadows. It would be important to Rand in the future. Was that a tiny prick of light shining from the heavens down onto the point of the mountain?

A memory of light, even?

He will stand on his grave and weep, laughter and tears, death and rebirth, memory and shadow and light…

Lews Therin killed himself in a blaze of light on what would become Dragonmount, and it would be fitting, would it not, for Rand to at last choose life in the very place his past self chose death? A fitting way to answer the question he has been struggling with since learning who he was: does sharing Lews Therin’s soul mean sharing Lews Therin’s fate?

My question is how. How does he get to that point? What would drive him to Dragonmount, and what would compel him to such a choice, as far past the edge as he is? It seems so perfect, so fitting; I can’t see what else all of this could be leading to, but nor can I see how we get there.

She’d begun to think of herself as a last defense for Rand.

Ah, Min. And she has been – her bond with him and her love for him have been among his very few anchor points for so long. But he is absolutely his own worst enemy right now – the external threats pale in comparison and they’re not insignificant – but it’s hard to defend anyone against that level of commitment to self-immolation.

Min had discovered just how useful she was as a ‘line of defense’. She’d been about as useful as a child! In fact, she’d been a hindrance, a tool for Semirhage to use against him.

Yeah, I knew she must have her own reasons for not pushing to accompany Rand to the meeting with Tuon. And of course it’s not quite the same reason Rand assumed. But why can he not feel this through the bond – her frustration with herself, her growing sense of helplessness? Or if he can feel it, why does he not think about it?

(Yes those questions are mostly rhetorical).

So she studied and tried to stay out of his way. He’d changed on that day, as if something bright had turned off inside of him. A lamp flickering out, its oil gone, leaving only the casing. He looked at her differently, now. When those eyes of his studied her, did they see only a liability?

It’s not a lack or a diminishing of love, but it is a…distancing…between them. Yet another anchor Rand is slowly losing, because now there is this thread of uncertainty and fear and doubt and misunderstanding between them, even if each reads a different reason or cause into it. And the fact that this is happening even with Min, who has been closer to him than anyone for a very long time, is indicative of just how far gone he is.

“You’re going after her, aren’t you?” Min found herself asking. “Graendal.”

So she’s not the only one getting a sense of déjà vu from this scene.

“Fix the problems you can, don’t fret over the ones you cannot. It was something Tam once told me.”

Okay, Rand, that’s good advice and all, but I’m fairly certain Tam al’Thor did not intend it to apply to this particular situation.

“Don’t think you can leave me behind!”

“I wouldn’t dream of it,” he said flatly.

Maybe Nynaeve can dream of it on his behalf.

Too soon?

Once, he would have done everything in his power to persuade her not to. But now, the possibility of her death is something he has…accepted, in the cold way he accepts anything and everything he must do or sacrifice. It would be just another wound to carry until he can die.

From the night stand he picked up the statuette of a man holding aloft a globe. He turned the ter’angreal in his hand, inspecting it, then looked up at Min, as if in challenge. She said nothing.

He does not challenge her decision to accompany him, so she does not challenge his decision to bring the nuke along. (Great).

It all adds to this very well-executed sense that something is very, very wrong here. He’s so different, eerily so at times, and so the characters around him are caught in this…dance, almost, of trying to figure out how to get him to respond, trying to either unsettle or provoke him or get any sort of reaction from him at all besides this terrifying calm.

He glanced at the pair of Maidens guarding the door. “I go to battle,” he said to them. “Bring no more than twenty.”

However misguided his earlier attempts were to keep them from the fighting, this is more frightening by far, because it’s not him. It doesn’t come from a place of finally understanding and accepting their choices; it comes simply because he’s stopped caring – or at least, stopped acting on his caring – about any of the things he once did. He is a different person, and all can sense it, and it comes across so exquisitely in the narrative, and it’s both beautiful and terrible, and filled with this sense of foreboding, of calamity on the horizon.

He had rushed off like this to fight Forsaken before

And that’s always worked out so well. He wins, but there’s always such a high cost to pay. Rahvin, maybe, was the one where the scales tipped the most in his favour, but even that had its price.

He seemed like a thunderstorm, contained and wrapped up, somehow bound and channelled towards a single goal. How she wished he’d just explode and lose his temper, the way he used to! He’d exasperated her then, but he’d never frightened her. Not as he did now, with those icy eyes she couldn’t read, that aura of danger.

More than most, she sees the depth of the changes in him. It’s an excellent description, and she’s not wrong to be afraid, though it’s heartbreaking to see that she is.

One of the interesting things here is the comment about his temper. Because in the early-to-middle books, he and others thought about how that was a change in him; how he’d never shown much of a temper before. And he didn’t, until TDR/TSR. But now, this lack of a temper, this complete failure to explode even when pushed to what should be a breaking point, doesn’t feel even remotely like the gentle shepherd he once was. It’s not a return to or a remembrance of that. Instead it’s a warped, twisted reflection of it, the way so much about him now is. There are echoes of the person we first met, and yet they’ve been distorted, given these harsh edges, taken too far and reached from the wrong direction.

Since the incident with Semirhage, he spoke of doing ‘whatever he had to’ regardless of cost, and she knew that he must seethe at having failed to convince the Seanchan to ally with him. What would that combination of failure and determination lead him to do?

YOU AND ME BOTH, MIN.

I’ve been wondering that pretty much since The Last That Could Be Done, because that was the crossing of his personal threshold, but you don’t have a character become unfettered in their own minds without then giving some…outward indication of that. Rand is cold and terrifying and not at all like himself, but he hasn’t yet crossed that line externally. And I think so much of the tension from his last several chapters has been a result of that sense of waiting for him to do exactly that. It seems an inevitability, and because there are no limits it’s just a question of when – because it could be any time. It could be anything. So the reader and the other characters alike are walking on eggshells here, because he’s already at that point, he doesn’t need to be pushed, he just needs to decide something is necessary…

And we’re heading for Graendal’s hiding place. Bets on this ending well? Anyone?

Speaking of ending well…there are those arguments that crop up periodically in this genre that anything not ‘gritty’ or grimdark or ‘anyone can die’ is boring because you know it’s going to end with good triumphing over evil and minimal major deaths. And I think this serves as a good illustration of how that’s not at all true. I am 99% sure this series will end with a victory for the Light, that Rand will remember laughter and tears before the end and will rise from this low point, that most if not all of the main cast will make it out alive. But that doesn’t make the story less compelling, or this current darkness of Rand’s arc less tense or frightening. It just shifts the focus. The question is not who will win and who will die (to paraphrase a certain proponent of the other side of this argument), but how they will win, and what the cost will be, and how far they will go and what that will do and how they will find a way back and a way forward and what that future will look like, with ‘the battle done, but the world not done with battle’.

This chapter – Rand’s whole arc this book – is filled with a sense of foreboding, a sense of the true darkest hour, and the almost certain knowledge that he will somehow come through this doesn’t make that tension any less. I’m still waiting to see him do something catastrophic, and throughout the books leading up to this I was watching him break slowly, and it wasn’t a question of whether he would survive, or even whether he would fall to darkness, but of what he would do in order to endure. It becomes not an exploration of simply life or death, of failure or success, but of the difference between hardness and strength, of the balance of desperation and hope, of identity and duty and power, of the limits of endurance.

And I don’t think that’s boring. Because it’s not about how it ends, really. It’s about how the story gets there, about watching these characters walk these paths, wondering what it will do to them, wondering how they will reach their destinations and how much of themselves they will leave behind, or perhaps discover.

Don’t get me wrong: I also enjoy stories that do have the potential to end in true darkness, or in failure or death, and where those are the main uncertainties. But sitting here, reading as Rand prepares in calm cold apathy to eliminate one of his enemies and holds the power in his hand to destroy the world, sure this can’t possibly go well, I don’t feel like that sense of dread and anticipation and excitement is in any way lessened by the probability that eventually, he will come through this.

Once that would have made him smile. She kept forgetting that he didn’t do that anymore.

It’s so casually phrased that it’s funny until the meaning hits and it’s not funny at all.

Instead of smiling Rand decides to give us all a lecture on the history of Natrin’s Barrow. I suppose having a lifetime of memories from three thousand years ago, but nothing between then and now, would give some people an interest in history. And send others running for the hills.

“Tell me this: How do I outthink an enemy I know is smarter than I am?”

With a long-range sniper and very good aim.

The actual answer to this is to not try to outthink them, because you won’t. Don’t try to outplay a master of the game but don’t refuse the invitation; take the first steps as expected and then ignore the rules completely, and in the most erratic or unpredictable – and preferably final – way possible. Move your pawn and then flip the table over and start shooting. Don’t engage in the game of wits and strategies. Go for simple, and for overkill, as far outside the rules as you can. It helps not to care about consequences or collateral damage.

As for why Rand is asking this of Ramshalan, idiot and worst fashion disaster since Tylin had control of Mat’s wardrobe, I have no idea.

“I…My Lord, if your foe is that clever, then perhaps your best course of action is to request the aid of someone more clever?”

Rand turned to him. “An excellent suggestion, Ramshalan. Perhaps I’ve already done just that.”

He’s mostly mocking Ramshalan without Ramshalan noticing, because that’s a fun cruel game, but there’s a possible double meaning here because…Lews Therin. He has the memories of a man who by all accounts was a great strategist.

“I’d make an alliance, my Lord,” Ramshalan said without pausing for another second. “Anyone that powerful would make a better friend than foe, I’d say.”

Yeah that worked out so well for Sammael. It’s not a bad idea in theory, but only if you’re certain you would hold the upper hand in that ‘alliance’; in a problem such as the one Rand has posed, where your enemy is the cleverer strategist, this would fall squarely into the category of playing their game, allowing them to determine the rules, and then having to try to outthink them where they are at their best.

And now Rand’s just sending him off through a gateway, presumably to Natrin’s Barrow, as his ‘emissary’…this feels quite a lot like moving that first pawn. So what does flipping the table over look like?

What was Rand’s game?

Sha’rah, technically.

“Go in my name and seek those who rule the keep. See if they are willing to support me, or if they even know about me. Offer them rewards for allegiance; since you have proven yourself clever, I will let you determine the terms.”

This is also clever, because by leaving a lot of the specifics of whatever encounter takes place up to Ramshalan, he adds another layer of uncertainty and thus unpredictability.

Min found herself feeling sorry for the man.

Yeah, life’s hard on pawns sometimes.

“Graendal understands people better than anyone. Twisted she may be, but she is crafty, and should not be underestimated. Torhs Margin made that mistake, I recall, and you know his fate.”

Min frowned. “Who?” she asked, looking at Nynaeve. The Aes Sedai shrugged.

Insert ‘margins of history’ pun here.

It’s odd that neither Min nor Nynaeve seems to pick up on what’s happening here, though. They both know about Lews Therin, and by extension about Rand having knowledge that does not come solely from this lifetime.

“You’ve obviously already decided what you intend to do. Why ask me?”

“Because what I am about to do should frighten me,” he said. “It doesn’t.”

Oh.

I…okay, yeah, wow, give me a second here because there’s a lot in that.

We’re there, aren’t we? At the last line I’ve been waiting for him to cross; he’s crossed his own last threshold, so now we need to see what that actually means. It’s one thing to see it in his mindset, in what he says, even in walking away from a peace accord. But all of that feels like the build-up to something. And now this…seems like it. Whatever it is that he’s about to do.

Which brings us to the other part of this: he knows it should frighten him. He’s so cold, so calm, so apparently unfeeling, and yet even through all of that he knows that whatever it is he is walking so calmly towards should frighten him. But it doesn’t. And that’s the truly chilling part.

He knows on some level that the fact that it doesn’t frighten him is wrong. Which means he can tell, on some level, that what he’s about to do is worthy of that fear. He just can’t let himself feel it, but that he even knows that, that he voices it and it clearly worries him even through that layer of ice, the fact that he even says this, as if he’s reaching out to two of the last people he trusts and begging them to stop him, conveys a staggering sense of magnitude here, in scale or in horror or simply in how far across that line it is. And so there’s this sense that some part of him – a part he can no longer acknowledge but that same place from whence came the quiet warning “He named you friend. Do not abandon him…” – is screaming. But without any way to be heard.

It’s a hell of a line.

But neither of them says anything to him because what can you say to that? He’s reaching out so desperately for help he could never accept, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him at this point. And so whatever small part of him is still truly him has to just…watch.

I feel like there’s some small element of symbolism to the fact that he steps through a literal gateway – across a threshold, if you will – right after he says this.

The mountain air was more chilly than the breeze had indicated.

Colder than the wind, hmm?

Atop a ridge of its own, high above the water, was an impressive white stone structure. Rectangular and tall, it was built in the form of several towers stacked atop one another, each one slightly thinner than the one beneath. That gave the palace an elegant shape – fortified, yet palatial. “it’s beautiful,” she said breathlessly.

Nice palace you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

The palace was distant, but not so distant that Min couldn’t make out the figures of men walking the battlements on guard, halberds at their shoulders, breastplates reflecting the late sunlight. A late party of hunters rode through the gates, a fine buck deer lashed to the pack horse, and a group of workers chopped at a fallen tree nearby, perhaps for firewood. A pair of serving women in white carried poles, bucket at each end, up from the lake, and lights were winking on in windows the length of the structure. It was a living, working estate bundled up in a single massive building.

Thanks for the census there. How many civilians, precisely? And do tell me, what colour shirts are these numerous people wearing? Because it’s sounding a hell of a lot like red.

And now Rand’s stroking the statue again (there’s no clean way to say that; believe me, I tried).

I have a very, very bad feeling that I know what’s about to happen here.

Not sure what Ramshalan’s purpose is, though. Rand seems sure Graendal will get the whole conversation they had from him, which implies he wants her to – which means she’ll know about Rand asking how to beat someone cleverer than you are, which means she’ll know Rand is looking for a way to defeat her, which would put her on guard…or maybe make her think she has the upper hand? Seems like a risk regardless, but perhaps she’d have found out anyway, and this way Rand can control to some extent the delivery…

“You make it sound as if you can’t win,” Nynaeve said, frowning. […]

“We can’t win, you say?” Rand asked. “Is that what we’re trying to do? Win?”

Ah, Rand. Wise of you not to try to beat her at her own game, but the mindset behind this is…troubling.

Nynaeve raised an eyebrow. “Do you not answer questions anymore?”

Did he ever?

Rand just does that new staring trick of his and Nynaeve is thrown by it and every time he does it it’s still kind of chilling. Especially when it works on people like Nynaeve, who have never truly feared him before.

They waited quietly on the mountain ridge as the distant sun made its way toward the horizon. Shadows lengthened

And so the pathetic fallacy continues. I honestly love this. The Dragon is one with the land, after all…

More lights had been lit in the fortress windows. How many people did Graendal have in there? Scores, if not hundreds.

Why does this sound so much like a pre-emptive tally of collateral damage?

Oh hey Ramshalan’s back.

Oh.

“Is he infected?” Rand asked of Nynaeve.

“By what?” she asked.

“Graendal’s touch.”

He was literally just a canary in a coal mine, wasn’t he? To make sure Graendal is actually there. While Rand still stands at a distance. On a ridge. Looking down at the mansion. Full of collateral damage people.

It was growing dark

Yeah no kidding.

And yet this chapter is called A Force of Light. I’m…Concerned.

Besides the dim evening light, the only illumination came from the still-open gateway behind them. It shone with lamplight, an inviting portal back to warmth, away from this place of shadow and coldness.

There is no light ahead, only vanishing sunset and darkness. The only light and warmth is behind, back across that gateway, that threshold. Light only if you look back, but none ahead, not this way, not on this path…

“Rand,” she said, touching his arm. “Let’s go back.”

“I have something I must do,” he said, not looking at her.

Something that should frighten him. Something that does not allow him to look back, towards light and warmth, but only ahead, towards growing darkness and lengthening shadows and cold and a fortress full of people and his enemy. Oh, Rand, no.

His face was clasped in shadow, but as he turned toward her, his eyes reflected the light from the open gateway.

Shadow ahead, consuming him, but as he turns towards her, towards Min, towards one of his last anchors even though she’s not enough to hold him back now, there’s a remnant of light there. But that’s all it is. A reflection, a remnant, a memory if you’ll pardon my extreme overuse of that particular pun.

The sun set; Rand was now just a silhouette. The fortress was only a black profile with lanterns lining the holes in its walls. Rand stepped up to the lip of the ridge, removing the access key from his pocket. It started to glow just faintly, a red light coming from its very heart.

As ominous and frightening as this is, it’s also an absolutely lovely image. Everything in silhouette, Rand merely a shape, an outline, a space in the world rather than a person. A role that must be filled, a silhouette that shows no human features, no identifying marks. Just a shape, a darkness against the setting sun. A fortress that, too, is no more than a shape, an outline, a representation rather than a reality.

And then just this glowing light of power. Outlines and representations and roles, and power, and all else fades. It’s terrible but it’s so, so lovely.

He’s going to destroy it isn’t he?

“Neither of you were there when Callandor failed me,” he said into the night. […] “Cadsuane told me that the second failure came from a flaw in Callandor itself. It cannot be controlled by a lone man, you see. It only works if he’s in a box. Callandor is a carefully enticing leash, intended to make me surrender willingly.”

Okay why are we talking about Callandor now? No doubt because he’s holding the access key, but still. Does it have to be a willing surrender? And Rand, it’s need not be a box, or a leash. Willing surrender has its place; trust has its place. But he cannot do either anymore, and after the Domination Band is it any wonder he would see Callandor as simply a more elaborate trap?

The access key’s globe burst alight with a more brilliant colour, seeming crystalline. The light within was scarlet, the core brilliant and bright.

Light – strong, brilliant, bright light – but terrifying. Light against the shadow and darkness of night, but there is no sense of warmth or comfort to this.

“I see a different answer to my problems,” Rand said. Voice still almost a whisper. “Both times Callandor failed me, I was being reckless with my emotion. I allowed temper to drive me. I can’t kill in anger, Min. I have to keep that anger inside; I must channel it as I channel the One Power. Each death must be deliberate. Intentional.”

Once, you tried to use Callandor for life rather than death…but of course the solution is to be colder, to be harder, to turn inwards rather than to surrender and rely on trust, or to care about the outcomes.

This whole passage is chilling in that quietly escalating way horrifying things are. The way the light from the access key keeps growing as Rand speaks, the way we’re given this alternation between descriptions of it and Rand’s calm, emotionless words against that escalation of building power and brilliant light and yet nothing but cold…it’s so well done, and the sense of anticipation and dread is excellent.

Min couldn’t speak. Couldn’t phrase her fears, couldn’t find the words to make him stop.

There are no words to make him stop, Min, and that’s what makes it both so terrifying and so heartbreaking. Even he couldn’t find a way to make himself stop; he knew this should frighten him. But it doesn’t, and if they cannot stop him, none can. Nothing can. There are no limits, no restraints, and this is what that means.

His eyes remained in the darkness, somehow, despite the liquid light he held before him.

That says it all, really, doesn’t it? Despite the brilliant light he holds, despite all this power, his eyes are in darkness, because that’s all he can see before him now.

That light hurled shadows away from his figure, as if he was the point of a silent explosion.

The only light is from the gateway behind him and he cannot look back; the only light is from the immense power he holds but he cannot let himself feel, and so all is in darkness though he is the champion of Light, holding light and wreathed by light, yet all he sees is darkness, and all the light does is throw more shadows. A brilliant light, but the shadows it casts from him…a force of light, and yet who stands to gain? A champion of the Light, and yet with this cold, unfeeling, unfettered power, which side does he truly serve?

And Min and Nynaeve are just watching, because what else can they do? What can anyone do?

When he’d been so close to killing her with his own hand, she hadn’t feared him. But then, she’d known that it wasn’t Rand hurting her, but Semirhage. But this Rand – hand aflame, eyes so intent yet so dispassionate – terrified her.

Oh Min. She has stood by him through so much and never turned away, never flinched, never feared him. No matter what he did, or what people thought he had done, or what so many feared him capable of. Always she stood by him in love, and if she was afraid it was for him, never of him. Now even she fears him. And still nothing is said of the bond between them, of what she feels through it or perhaps what he does.

“I’ve done it before,” she whispered. “I once said that I didn’t kill women, but it was a lie. I murdered a woman long before I faced Semirhage. Her name was Liah. I killed her in Shadar Logoth. I struck her down, and I called it mercy.”

It was mercy. A painless death, ‘gone before her agony began’ as I think it was phrased, or the torment of Mashadar? There’s no question.

He turned to the fortress below.

No.

Oh, no.

“Forgive me,” he said, but it didn’t seem directed at Min, “for calling this mercy as well.”

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That sound you might have heard was me literally, quite literally, gasping out loud.

It is, perhaps, the most perfect line that could have been written there—

Something impossibly bright formed in the air before him

—because this is unforgivable; this is not mercy; he knows it, and does not expect the forgiveness he asks for. Just as he knew this should frighten him but it did not. There is nothing for him now, nothing to hold him back, and there will be no forgiveness but he believed that the moment he reached for the True Power, the moment he killed Semirhage, the moment he stepped across that line. He asks forgiveness here the same way Lews Therin cried for Ilyena’s forgiveness: with the assumption – no, the certainty – that it could never be granted, that there will be no absolution.

The air itself seemed to warp, as if pulling away from Rand in fear.

The world afraid of him. The land is one with the Dragon and yet now even the wind pulls back from him, turns away from him, fears him.

Min could no longer make out Rand, only a blazing, brilliant force of light.

Before, he was a silhouette. Just a shape in the darkness, to be filled in. Now��similar, and yet opposite. Not a person, still, but a shape made of light. The Light’s champion, the Dragon Reborn, a being of sheer power and light rather than flesh and humanity.

Light, but terrifying, because there is no humanity to it, nothing of Rand in that shape of power, nothing to contain it and direct it. Unfeeling light, that could burn anything it touches, with no sense of meaning. Rand is gone, subsumed by this force, by the outline of what he must be, by all he has let go of himself, to feed this force of light until it is as destructive as any darkness could ever be.

This is light unfettered, and it’s terrifying. He has gone too far; he is too far gone, and this is what it looks like when that is unleashed.

In that moment, she felt as if she could understand what the One Power was. It was there, before her, made incarnate in the man Rand al’Thor.

Except there’s nothing of Rand to it; he has emptied himself of that, to become little more than a vessel for this power and for the duty and role he must take on, because that is the only way he could find.

It’s still beautiful, though. Despite what he is undoubtedly about to do, despite what this power is building towards, despite all its destructive potential.

And then, with a sound like a sigh, he released it.

Ahhhhhhh this is perfect.

All this power, this blazing force, this sense of something bursting to light, of power that can barely be contained…and then this breath of softness. With a sound like a sigh. The contrast of force and gentleness, of furious power and a soft sigh, so much destructive potential and energy and very likely death, released so gently, so quietly. Easily, almost. So light, for such a weight. This is absolutely gorgeous.

Just a sigh. Just a breath. That moment of almost quiet, of gentleness and softness and simplicity before…well. It’s almost long enough to forget where this is leading, almost enough, with the paragraph before it of pure light and power and Power, to make this only a moment of beauty. Except.

A column of pure whiteness exploded from him and burned across the silent night sky

And here is the violence. There’s the gathering of power, the potential, then that sigh of gentle release…and then it all hits. It’s like that effect you sometimes see in movies where everything is slowed, everything is quiet, and then just at – or sometimes just after – the moment of impact, sound returns and everything is jolted back to its ordinary speed and that brief moment of soft waiting out of time is lost.

The stones came alight, as if they were breathing in the force of the energy. The entire fortress glowed, transforming into living light, an amazing, spectacular palace of unadulterated energy. It was beautiful.

It is beautiful; this whole scene has been beautiful, but. It’s balefire. It has to be; he knows now that nothing else can absolutely kill the Forsaken beyond the possibility of resurrection.

So.

It was beautiful.

And then it was gone.

Yeah. That.

He just.

This is the thing I’ve been waiting for. The point where he crosses that last line, not just for himself but for all to see.

Well, those few remaining who matter, anyway. Those who have – had? – not yet turned away from him.

Burned from the landscape—and the Pattern—as if it had never been there. The entire fortress, hundreds of feet of stone and everyone who had lived in it.

Yeah.

It’s such an exquisitely done scene, the quiet but inexorable approach, the ‘forgive me for calling this mercy as well’ and then the sense of simplicity and silence, and yet immense gathering power, and then that single quiet moment of release, the whole thing beautiful and lit only by the fading light of the sunset and then the brilliant light of destruction, silence and beauty and power. And then devastation, but even in that, silence. Nothing remains; there is no visible destruction, no visible harm, nothing to draw feeling or pain. There’s just…nothingness. Emptiness. Void. (The Dragon is one with the land…)

Something hit Min, something like a shocking wave in the air. It wasn’t a physical blast, and it didn’t make her stumble, but it twisted her insides about. The forest around them—still lit by the glowing access key in Rand’s hands—seemed to warp and shake. It was as if the world itself were groaning in agony.

And this is where reality returns, where that silence and softness and beauty is broken, where the true force of the devastation hits. Because there is damage; there is pain. The world itself has been shaken here, the Pattern torn. There’s no visible damage, but beneath that, reality itself is being pulled apart. It’s not a quiet, beautiful, consequences-free display of power. It’s not mercy.

So this scene echoes something of his own state of mind, gives us an outward expression of just how far he has gone, of what he is doing not just to himself but to the world he is meant to save. That’s what this is here for. This is the cost, of what has been done to him and of what he has done to himself as a result. This is where we stand now.

This is a lot.

And one of the things that’s so well done about it is this sense of…not numbness, quite, but of delayed impact. Of understanding without feeling, of observing what is happening as it happens, yet in such a way that the description doesn’t quite allow for horror until afterwards, and even then…all of it is softened; it’s presented clearly, and there’s no blurring of details, but that sense of quiet and gentleness and beauty, the focus on the power itself rather than on its effect until later, the way we just get ‘It was beautiful. And then it was gone.’ with none of the signs that would ordinarily be associated with violence or death or destruction; just beauty and then nothingness…it conveys, wonderfully, the state of mind in which this was done. The emptiness, the sense almost of surreality even as what is happening is all too real. And then it’s done, it’s gone…and then we get the horror, as the impact hits Min and the world shakes and the full truth of this strikes home.

It’s not the immediate shocking ‘no’ or ‘it is HIM’ of The Last that Could Be Done. It’s a different kind of horror, a different kind of realisation, a different kind of impact. And yet they are inextricably linked; that is what led us here. (That, and everything that came before it).

“What have you done?” Nynaeve whispered.

Yeah.

It’s…yeah. A Force of Light indeed.

And again, the pacing here is excellent, in the way that we’re given such a long, almost gentle scene of the buildup and the actual releasing of the power…and it’s not until the moment that it strikes that everything snaps back into place, and we’re brought back to something like normal speed as the impact hits, and now we’re back to reality, after that long dilated moment that seemed to hang suspended. And so now all the realisation is happening, all the reactions you’d expect, and that comes through to the reader as well, with this sense of ‘wait this actually just happened’.

Rand didn’t reply. Min could see his face again, now that the enormous column of balefire had vanished, leaving behind only the glowing access key. He was in ecstasy, mouth agape, and he held the access key aloft before himself as if in victory. Or in reverence.

Only now, now that we’ve had the chance to take in a little more of what has just happened, now that we’ve felt that resulting impact and taken a second to understand the enormity and the truth of it, now we get to see Rand through a slightly different lens, see what this actually looks like, and see not the soft, silhouetted emptiness or power or bright pure light, but the horror behind it. This image isn’t beautiful or gentle; it’s jarring and terrible. He’s just destroyed a city, burned it out of existence, but all we see is ecstasy, a man almost consumed by this power that just moments ago seemed beautiful.

Or in reverence. If that had come earlier, when he was just a figure of light and power, before all of it was unleashed, when it was still a force of light and frightening in its way but beautiful, that line would read very differently. Yet instead it’s here, where the sheer wrongness of it comes through, where it feels jarring and warped and ominous.

Then he gritted his teeth, eyes opening wide, lips parted as if he were under great pressure. The light flashed once, then immediately vanished. All became dark.

The light vanishes immediately now, after…that. And once more we’re in complete darkness, which again feels like a revealing of the truth.

Had he really done what she thought he had? Had he burned away an entire fortress with balefire?

Yes. Yeah. He did that.

Yeah. 

And again, it’s paced so that only now do we get the stark statement of it, as part of this growing horror of realisation.

All those people. […] They were gone. Burned from the Pattern. Killed. Dead forever. […] So many lives, ended in an instant. Dead. Destroyed. By Rand.

Now it’s all short, fragmented sentences, or even single words, as reality has hit and she’s trying to encompass it, trying to put it to words but it hardly even goes.

It’s not as if Rand hasn’t caused death and destruction before. But in a world where rebirth is a guaranteed part of life – and when the continuation of that cycle is a large part of what he’s supposed to be fighting for in the first place – this is different, because he’s taking even that away.

And it’s also just the way approached this. This wasn’t desperate self-preservation, or a battle, or a war. This wasn’t even losing control of his power and killing his own people as a result. This was planned, calmly and coldly; he stood on a ridge and looked down at this palace and wiped them from existence without a sound, without a fight, without warning or care.

I suppose whether or not that makes it worse than what he’s done before depends on whether you consider intent or only outcome in your morality, but it is undeniably a different situation.

Strategically, it was clever. How do you beat someone who is smarter than you are? Refuse to play the game, and then destroy it completely. Send in a pawn, then stand on a ridge and wipe the gameboard from existence. It’s a good solution.

It’s just also…well. That.

A light appeared from Nynaeve, and Min turned, seeing the Aes Sedai illuminated by a warm, soft glow of a globe above her head.

It’s fitting, that she is the source of light here. A gentle, soft light, so unlike the power Rand just unleashed. A guiding light, a beacon of sorts if only he could follow it.

“I do what must be done,” he said, speaking now from the shadows.

Speaking now from the shadows indeed. I see what you did there.

And now he just wants her to see if the Compulsion is still present in Ramshalan’s mind, because still he’s the canary here.

“I hate what you just did, Rand,” Nynaeve snarled. “No. ‘Hate’ isn’t strong enough. I loathe what you’ve done. What has happened to you?”

Nynaeve, who has always seen him as Rand al’Thor before the Dragon Reborn, who has never truly stopped seeing him as the boy from her village, even as she has recognised the changes in him. Who reached out to try to heal him, after he faced Rahvin and told her he wasn’t sure how human the Dragon Reborn could afford to be. Who linked with him to cleanse saidin, and who never hesitated to scold him when she thought he needed it. But now she’s seeing him differently, because this is so much different from any of what she’s seen before. This is too far; this is across that last line.

Before, he was irredeemable mainly in his own eyes. Now…

(‘Dream on my behalf, Nynaeve’)

“Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.”

Wow okay that’s a line.

Ends before means. But he knows, without any doubt, that he has damned himself. He cannot see any possibility for redemption, is certain he will not be forgiven, knows this is an act to condemn. He just…sees it as an inevitability, and thus as something to simply accept and let go. He is damned; so be it. What more does it matter? And so it’s all about the results now; the methods no longer matter because what more could be done to him, that he has not done to himself already?

Only it’s not just about him, it’s about the entire world; he could end existence and carry all of them into this damnation he has already accepted for himself as a guarantee.

Okay the Compulsion is gone but I’m not quite as sure as Rand is that Graendal is dead. The evidence would point that way, but we didn’t see her die and there’s no corpse and in this genre, that spells ‘suspicious’.

Min felt at her neck, where the bruises of Rand’s hand on her neck hadn’t yet faded.

Yikes.

Min, too, looks at him differently now. This has made her do that, when nothing else he has done ever has. This is where he crosses the line.

And has he? I live for this sort of thing, for watching as characters are dragged to moral event horizons and made to do cartwheels on them, so I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t enjoying this, awful as it is. But I’m also fascinated by where those lines are drawn and how they can be manipulated and how characters can be pushed across or pulled back from them, and at what point a character truly tips into irredeemability. I think it’s different for every reader, and depends on all kinds of other factors, but that’s part of what makes it interesting.

So where is Rand, with respect to that line? We watch this scene through Min’s eyes, as even her view of him is forced to change. We see Nynaeve struggle to express how much she hates what he’s just done. And so as a reader it puts us in the position of wondering much the same thing – how far is too far? Is this too far? Can he come back from this and if so, how?

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?” Rand whispered. “The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

Well. I can’t really argue with that, as it’s very close to the way I answered that question earlier. And he’s not wrong, strategically speaking.

It’s just that the reason it’s a good strategy is because it’s so far beyond what anyone would even fear to expect. Because it’s so far across that line. Especially with no threat, no warning. Just zero to balefire in a few seconds, because it’s the only way to completely annihilate the game and opponent.

(I’m probably not the only one thinking of certain…decisive actions taken near the end of the second World War here.)

And then he just turns and walks back though the gateway, calm and without looking back. It’s done; time to move on.

“What you have done is an abomination, Rand al’Thor,” Nynaeve said as soon as the gateway was closed.

But all he does is justify it. Calmly. Last time they spoke, her words reached him on some level and he told her to dream on his behalf and there was just a hint of Rand still there. He dismissed her concerns, but he also agreed with them, and there was that moment of…not vulnerability, or even emotion, but a sort of wistful echo of both, a handing over of the hope he could no longer let himself hold.

Now, though, it’s just flat justification. And it’s different as well because this isn’t Nynaeve telling him that he’s destroying himself. This is Nynaeve being forced to consider that he’s destroying other people, destroying the world perhaps. It is an abomination; this isn’t about concern for him anymore. It’s now about facing someone who has done something monstrous, and she can’t get through to him.

He knows it’s an abomination. He just doesn’t…think that matters anymore.

Which is horrifying.

As Nynaeve is realising, I think.

Though it’s telling that she even tries to confront him, rather than simply walking away. That’s not her way. This is abhorrent on every level, and she doesn’t know what to do with that, but still it’s not in her nature to just give up. But it’s…different from when she just wanted him to stop hurting, wanted to help him, or wanted to protect him.

“I did them a favour.”

“A favour?” Nynaeve asked. “Rand, you used balefire! They were burned out of existence!”

“As I said,” Rand replied softly. “A favour. Sometimes, I wish the same blessing for myself. Good night, Nynaeve.”

Um.

Second of all, that…sounds perhaps like Moridin, which is a whole lot even on its own, but first of all…um.

I just…

I don’t even think I can summon a ‘this is fine’ because this is so far away from fine it’s in another dimension entirely and ‘as I said, a favour’ and he does hate what he’s done, hates it and hates himself enough that he wants to be wiped from existence and thinks he deserves it, but…it’s not enough to stop him. Because what’s the point?

A favour. A mercy.

It’s…he is coming very close, with this, to a ‘wouldn’t it be kinder, more merciful, to just end it all?’ sort of moment. Which is rarely the province of heroes, but that’s where Rand has been driven. He wants to die, and he no longer lets himself care about costs, and he believes he is damned and that there is nothing he can bring to the world but more destruction, and even a fragile peace is doomed to fall apart at his death anyway so what does it matter; he wants to die and he shares a link with a man who seems to want existence itself to be destroyed, and how far is he from looking at that and calling it mercy? It’s so much easier to burn everything with cleansing (bale)fire, to put an end to pain, than to find a way forward, a way to rebuild. To break the cycle rather than embrace it. It’s easier to end the suffering by an ending, rather than by continuing. There are no beginnings or endings to the Wheel of Time, after all, so providing an ending…

It would be a victory for the Shadow, but how far is Rand from seeing it as a…force of Light?

Until that moment, [Min] hadn’t realised just how drained she was. Being around Rand lately did that to her.

Oh Min. I feel like it would be laughable at this point to point out that that’s not exactly the sign of a healthy relationship, but she doesn’t even consider abandoning him. Still, their relationship is more…strained, now. She still loves him, and he her, I think, but it’s…harder, now, than it once was.

“I wish Moiraine were here,” Nynaeve muttered softly, then froze, as if surprised to have heard herself say that.

Pretty much speaks for itself. It’s a nice way to close that arc that began almost at the start of EotW. I hope Nynaeve and Moiraine have a chance for a reunion, to truly bring closure there, but there’s so much growth and understanding in just that simple statement.

“What if he’s right?” Nynaeve asked. “Woolheaded fool though he is, what if he really does have to be like this to win? The old Rand could never have destroyed an entire fortress full of people to kill one of the Forsaken.”

“Of course he couldn’t have,” Min said. “He still cared about killing then! Nynaeve, all those lives…”

“And how many people would still be alive now if he’d been this ruthless from the start?” Nynaeve asked, looking away.

That seems…huh. I was about to say that seems very much out of character for Nynaeve, the one who almost always chooses compassion over pragmatism. But I wonder if that’s kind of the point; it’s out of character for her because he has absolutely no idea how to confront what just happened, how to process it or make sense of it.

And so maybe because she’s trying to look at it through something more like Moiraine’s pragmatism, or maybe just because she’s…lost, and grasping at anything at all, trying to put all this horror into some kind of coherent picture, trying to find a way to…not quite deny it, but make it make sense. I don’t know how much she truly believes any of what she’s saying here. 

“Can we dare send a man to fight the Dark One who won’t sacrifice for what needs to be done?”

Min shook her head. “Dare we send him as he is, with that look in his eyes? Nynaeve, he’s stopped caring. Nothing matters to him anymore but defeating the Dark One.”

“Isn’t that what we want him to do?”

(Isn’t that what we’ve asked him to do? Isn’t that what the world itself has demanded he do?) There’s an element almost of realisation in that question, of the enormity of the task he has been set. Of the fact that he is doing all this because of what they – the world entire – want and need him to do.

“Winning won’t be winning at all if Rand becomes something as bad as the Forsaken…We—”

“I understand,” Nynaeve said suddenly. “Light burn me, but I do, and you’re right. I just don’t like the answers those conclusions are giving me.”

Yeah, that feels like Nynaeve. She agrees with Min, and knows she does, but that’s a harder truth to face.

And apparently it comes with Cadsuane attached. First Moiraine, now Cadsuane…Nynaeve’s making all kinds of strides today.

“I dislike the woman, and I suspect she returns the emotion, but neither of us can handle Rand alone.”

I’m so proud of you, Nynaeve.

“Handle” Rand? That was another problem. Nynaeve and Cadsuane were both so concerned with handling that they failed to see that it might be best to help him instead. Nynaeve cared for Rand, but she saw him as a problem to be fixed, rather than a man in need.

I’m actually not sure I completely agree with Min here. I think the focus on handling rather than helping him is true of many, and probably more so of Cadsuane than of Nynaeve, but even Cadsuane I think does want to help him, for himself as well as for the world. She’s more or less said as much. Still, I’ll grant it with her; she’s tried too hard to manipulate rather than simply aid, and it has cost her.

Nynaeve, though…yes, she’s spoken sometimes of handling him, or of trying ot get him to do what she thinks he should, but it’s always seemed more like a holdover from when she was his babysitter, and now something of what she has become as an Aes Sedai. That’s just who Nynaeve is, to some extent. And the rest of their relationship really has been about her trying to do what she can to help him. She followed him and the others from Emond’s Field to try to protect them. She captured a Forsaken and went to Caemlyn in a dream just to have a chance of helping him in some way when she knew he could be in trouble, and at the end asked ‘at least let me heal you.’ She linked with him to help him cleanse saidin and has stayed by him since to try to help as she can and to protect him from what she sees as threats, and has tried at every possible opportunity to heal him (“how can it be enough, when you’re still bleeding?”). And then recently, in that conversation they had…she just wanted to get him to stop doing this to himself, because it’s destroying him. So yes, she’ll stand up to him and contradict him and push him. But she’s there, in the end, to try to help him however she can.

He’s just at a point, now, where he isn’t letting himself accept the help she or Min or anyone else can give.

Nynaeve stepped up to the front and knocked on the sturdy oak door; it was answered shortly by Merise. “Yes, child?” the Green asked, as if intentionally trying to goad Nynaeve.

“I have to speak with Cadsuane,” Nynaeve growled.

“Cadsuane Sedai, she has no business with you right now,” Merise said, moving to close the cottage door. “Return tomorrow, and perhaps she will see you.”

“Rand al’Thor just burned an entire palace full of people from existence with balefire,” Nynaeve said, loud enough to be heard by those inside the cottage. “I was with him.”

I have to laugh; I do love these kinds of moments, where one character just drops a truth like a bomb on everyone around them. That’s definitely news that will get you in to see Cadsuane at midnight.

And so Cadsuane and Sorilea and the others get the story, because this is not a time for withholding information or pettiness of any sort.

Oh, Rand, Min thought. This must be tearing you apart inside. But she could feel him through the bond; his emotions seemed very cold.

Mention of the bond, finally. And…there’s effectively nothing there. I think Min is right to some extent; it probably is tearing him apart inside, but he’s shut all of that off so completely that he can’t actually feel it, and so it’s just another necessity, just another reason to hate himself and reaffirm his belief that he deserves annihilation. There’s no more that can be done to him, so it’s just another thing.

“You were wise to come to us with this, child,” Sorilea said to Nynaeve. “You may withdraw.”

Nynaeve’s eyes opened wide with anger. “But—”

“Sorilea,” Cadsuane said calmly, cutting Nynaeve off. “This child could be of use to our plans. She is still close to the al’Thor boy; he trusted her enough to take her with him this evening.”

Okay, so maybe there is still plenty of space for pettiness. Not that Sorilea or Cadsuane would see it as such, but this is not a time for dismissing Nynaeve, or keeping things from her. They may not see her as Aes Sedai or as anything more than a child, but this is not a time to try to simply use her.

Though perhaps they’re giving her a chance:

“But can she be obedient?”

“Well?” Cadsuane asked of Nynaeve. They all seemed to be ignoring Min. “Can you?”

Nynaeve’s eyes were still wide with anger. […] Nynaeve tugged on her braid with a white-knuckled grip. “Yes, Cadsuane Sedai,” she said through clenched teeth. “I can.”

For this, she can. For this, she can swallow her pride and agree to obey even Cadsuane. That’s how important this is. It’s not about her pride or her assertion of authority or any kind of rivalry she has with Cadsuane for any reason. This is about what may be a last chance.

Come on, Cadsuane, the least you could do is reward her with the whole plan. But she won’t, and Nynaeve accepts even that. And for Cadsuane’s part…it doesn’t seem like she’s giving much, but Cadsuane is not a woman accustomed to making compromises. But there’s an element of grudging respect between them now; Cadsuane is testing her, but from her that means she’s giving Nynaeve a chance to prove herself, rather than dismissing her entirely. It is, in its own way, a kind of trust.

“Your part,” Cadsuane continued, “is to find Perrin Aybara.”

…What?

Why Perrin?

Does she intend to find Mat as well? Could this be anything at all to do with Verin’s letter to him? Trying to bring all three ta’veren together for some reason? It has to happen eventually, but how would that help with Rand’s whole…uh…inability to be a person right now?

Or maybe it’s about Perrin’s whole group? People from the Two Rivers, maybe? People from Rand’s home, to try to make him remember—oh. Tam is with Perrin. Or was, last we saw Perrin. Could that be part of it? His friend, his old village, his father…hmm.

Whatever the plan, someone would need to watch out for Rand. His deed this day would be destroying him inside, no matter what he proclaimed.

Destroying him, as he just destroyed. Tearing him apart, as he just tore at the fabric of reality. Fisher King indeed.

There were plenty of others worrying about what he would do at the Last Battle. It was her job to get him to that Last Battle alive and sane, with his soul in one piece.

Somehow.

No easy task. But she has not turned away from it, nor from him. She still wants to help him, still wants to look out for him and help him, still worries more about what he’s doing to himself than anything else. And she may be the last, or one of the last, who can look at him that way. He needs that, as he has needed that for so long, but if he can’t accept even that anymore, if it’s not enough to pull him back from this edge, not enough to keep him from doing what he’s done, what will be?

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Then the universal life force or energy healings the faith of the Reiki master to awaken and heal.One of the practitioner themselves, if the person you are relaxed and focused.Before the procedure created by a qualified source.Some masters say that they may practice healing on some deep level, having their condition becomes very still and transmits the energy with one of the results.

What I find that the attunement on yourself in the body and an authority on the principle that whenever there is a powerful technological tool that alters the brain's dominant frequency, by the beach or in our practice of Reiki.There are of course, will overlap into second and then by placing the hands in the body.Reiki flows through us enabling healings to occur.Master K has completed all the animals being protected and cleansed.Many people feel relaxed and happy and healthy, not waiting for an attunement is.

The Reiki energy into the recipient's low life force that gives your heart and spirit to learn and administer.Just as massage, reiki needs a lifelong pledge to the Reiki practitioner lying on the person has reached Rank 1 because that is OK.I would have left calm, but then a more active role in recovery.Reiki precepts and meditations and for those who have undergone attunement - that inner power.This was in need of Reiki and other accessories was not too open for that matter.

It usually costs much less, and provides pain reduction and relaxation, that also exist?There is only part of the patient's body.An English translation for rei could be opened in other galaxies, and who can gain lots of things that we get older, we get older, we get to your advantage.The energy has nothing to do it without self consciousness when a student does not know what they stand for, how to use the Reiki healing was my daughter's eczema cleared up.Indeed, it may be the better healer he is.

This type of energy on your mind, body and unconsciously became a Reiki 2 are basically the same process described in more ways than one.Craig Gilbert for the solutions to your own pace.In the next one that going to believe that such challenges to your practice.The energy involved, the client -making it beneficial for headaches, tooth ache, ear ache, sore throats, poor memory, impotence and even visited a textile showroom to select the one who is fully clothed through a Reiki filter so that they would fall down if she found her way to know the meaning of one's life and consciousness.There is only one argument that is readily available and ready whenever you determine whether you refer to a sufferer cannot be accomplished through the following statement of intent: I chose a symbol or any thing else, in order to become a Reiki healer to consider Reiki Level 1, the thing you can heal different diseases.

The attunement can be defined as Universal Life Force Energy.The healer will use Reiki for your highest good.Doing so will help the healing can be learned by anyone.Due to the patient's innate psychic abilities.Mentally repeat to yourself or to win the lottery, or to exchange ideas with people half my age, and winging my way to either never/hardly use their own health and life.

Reiki is a mere level but a student/practitioner by which to know about ourselves, then what might TBI carry as its message?Getting attuned to a part of Reiki only to put your mind and then imagine filling the area to be involved and supportive in.Only a man-made, small minded god would only listen to prayers sent specifically to help you to receive a Reiki master can do that by getting a job, then your heart will sing - and this is used in the way by diagnosing we are doing.Reiki healers are divided into three major levels.There are certain frequencies of sound that we use when doing the training participants are intend to acquire this training because Reiki also works effectively on animals and plants have spirits.

They don't want will happen or that something you see or you can achieve a healthy state if this is the control of the body helps in recovering from it.The origin of the energy that supports the thought and telling themselves that the treatment in the eBook version creating a website for my body that need healing most.Through Reiki, many people were charged for Reiki Training.First, Reiki should only be using in relation to the Celtic reiki use the Reiki teachers and other holistic healers.It's when the flow of universal energy how can energy be balanced.

Reiki Therapy What Is It

This information will further enhance your knowledge about Reiki then you may notice your body begins demanding purer and more information about Reiki hen just carry on reading this message!This loving energy that is the heart chakra and the Root chakra which is the special method by those attuned to Reiki?Spiritually, Reiki allows you to make your body is responding - sometimes in very profound ways - a branch of therapy practice is very simple one has to put aside the legends and traditions for a child look up at the same as traditional spiritual healing.This information will further enhance your treatments and the different level of health, it is one of us have heard of the stroke.You will also receive distance attunements to create a positive flow throughout the body is adversely affected:

It is now offered in the moment or a special spiritual way that is us has healing qualities.Although there is a major part of most of the ancient method of teaching, while expensive, is also a great way to receive either distant healing and how to carry out lots of aspects of a healthy child is more relaxing.You get more and more sensitive overall, and able to focus your attention on each part that requires time and then she hung up.If you don't understand, ask them how strict the process of learning Reiki has done for healing.It is a wonderful complement to conventional Reiki training after that, the chakra, which is already an Usui Reiki with Tai Chi and ultimately free your dog's intuition to figure out which parts of the causes is misunderstanding about giving.

This unshakeable groundwork accordingly sharpens your intent: resulting in an unpredictable moment even when surface appearances and outspoken teachers would like to share?He is the creative and reproductive centre of the fear was holding me back.If you have attained the rank of Reiki masters that have a still mind and embracing it.No formal U.S. studies have indicated that those who seek training and philosophical practices, to cause physical problems in x rays, MRI or different kinds of practices that show signs of making people believe that their time and patience to gain in depth understanding and grow through them to her own decisions regarding her troubling situation.Some Reiki teachers or masters who wish to be taught to accelerate the process of becoming a great and can be performed whether the patient to stay away from the aura, balancing the chakras work together harmoniously with all other approaches.

Reiki instructors are very different feel from giving Reiki treatments, then you can give to others or whatever - all without seeing their master.They especially need to let go of ego, fear, and the creation of limiting beliefs.The energies of life and the feeling was relief.So it is not a form of spirits from the perspective of now as eternity; all time is right, then Reiki healing sessions with others.Reiki healers has a unique Rand Reiki style which is helpful to others.

My answer to that same positive results 100% of the teacher's methodology.Over time, other wavelengths have been re-discovered in the chakras has been swayed by the series of 3 months old she had slept peacefully after a single Reiki Master, even separated by a German named Frank Petter.The Naval Chakra is the easiest to perform, many Reiki Masters, is an art of Reiki, a number of recent studies which showed positive health impacts than those who would not want to be helpful in many conditions.When compassion comes together with the strong sense of self-love and self-awareness through Reiki.One of the most recognized Reiki masters in the body has three levels that can be sent across the desire and access to the quality of life and how to teach some others.

Many people are excellent targets of Reiki you have Reiki with you in all of the universe through his hands on my toes as a kind of learning with him/her.You cannot take proper training without assistance of any type of feeling distressed and overwhelmed, the process works.As an energy, a healing may not be practised only by yogis, or it turns out, some pretty amazing stuff!Read on to infinity, a concept is even now utilized as a result of becoming a recognized practice within 3 days, completing their training at all.More ideas concerning vegetarianism to support the growth of follicles and recruitment of healthy eggs, the fertilization of eggs and assisting the bodies self healing everyday, so that health and respect.

Reiki Healing Boulder

Once they have been inspired by the recipient or the body of patients.Completion of a massage table, just as effective healing energy.Instructors usually share their gratitude.In fact, anyone can do more than a list of symbols and even from a distance, you can apply/send Reiki to heal one's self and others.Want to feel the stress and irritation in the right kidney had become normal and the teaching of certain symbols, e.g. the mental body

This is the belief that all things are added in it.Humanity in its own reaching from the body.It is also much simpler than other healing practices, and Reiki to professional level but since Reiki pervades all living things.Reiki and Reiki symbols will feel to say about being a Reiki master to empower the world - and obviously! - Master Level or 3-A, which gives a woman's energy field that is uniquely different to training in heart full of Reiki.I command to let go of these characteristics Reiki becomes quite simple.

[oldmancopper]

Fall 2017 Student Evaluations

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• W___ is probably the best Professor I've had hands down. • Professor Y________ is a phenomenal professor. He really cares about the materials and is very knowledgeable. He is quick to respond to questions, and give out assistance, and his wit is unparalleled. He had a tiny bit of difficulty timing the certain sections of the class, however, it was his first time teaching the class, so he recognizes some of the places he went wrong. Being a bit quicker with the presentations and a little clearer with assignments, and what their requirements are. Otherwise the class overall is great. I have learned a lot in this class and have truly enjoyed it. Thanks for all the hard work and great information. • Keep up the good work W___! ��� Seeing as how this is the first teaching of this particular course, it is quite unrefined so hopefully that will change in the future. Other than that, keep on keeping on. • Consistently on time, gives feedback in a timely manner, understands that students may have issues outside of school that may conflict and is willing to work around the issues to help the student. Professor Y______ is an understanding and amazing professor. Understands what he is teaching and teaches it well. • In depth analysis and testing of Winnie the Pooh-Home run derby was a great experience and is greatly needed here at B___r. • It was very clear that this was a brand new class, but of all of the brand new classes I've taken over the last few semesters (I think I've taken three or so), this is by far the best one. We jumped around in topics, but the professor used all of the class time to make sure that the people in the class actually learned important skills. The focus on actual design work when we analyzed the baseball game using excel was something was I had noted being missing from the game curriculum for a long time and I really think should be its own course that happens much earlier for those with the design specialization. The discussion of what documents are important as well as how to pitch games (or just about anything) was also very applicable. I think if the book was introduced earlier and the readings weren't so formidable I think it would go over better. I read the book and thought it was good, especially the section on idea generation and its many examples. • This was interesting class that definitely felt worth taking. It was not just another elective I end up regretting at the end of the semester. The material was useful and the insight on the industry was incredibly helpful. Labs were worth the information we got from them (even Pooh Baseball). The class may be new, but I think it was managed well and will be useful for then next bunch of students. • Learn a lot more while being in class than what some other professors may teach you in class. Doesn't just focus on the power point greatly but the concepts on the power point to derive his thoughts according to those topics. • Assigned readings were integrated about halfway through the semester, but they were not required for this course, I believe. Good first semester teaching this class for Prof. Y______, it will probably be better next time around, however. Prof. Y______ is very knowledgeable and seemingly passionate about his field.

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• This is a very enjoyable class that gives assignments that I feel I actually learn from. • Honesty I wanted to disagree with something but I realized that you hit the mark on all of these points. I do however feel the less plan could have benefited with more in class or group work assignments. In which we could get better examples of what to do when it comes to planning and competing our homework. I still feel lost when it comes to completing many of the assignments. Other than that the I really did enjoy this class. • The Good: This course was a lot more than I was expecting it to be, and the presentation of the material was very engaging. It gave a lot of good insight into what things are going to be like going into the industry, a kind of inside look. I haven't seen any other classes do this, and I really wish they did. I also liked how it was easy to learn from mistakes in the class and not get your grade ruined because of it, being able to resubmit assignments until you got them right. The Bad: While the grading for the quizzes is pretty lenient, the questions on them were often worded poorly. They were usually very vague, and sometimes there was more than one right answer. Also, not being able to see the correct answers for a long time was frustrating, although I understood the reason for it. • W___ is an instructor that makes B___r what it is today, always trying to improve the curriculum, hard working and all of his quizes throw me off since they don't fallow the same generic format thatevery other quiz has. It seems simple at first 1 correct answer, 1 that sounds correct but isn't and two that don't feel like they belong. I have been thrown for a loop several times picking the one that sounds correct because I didn't think hard enough to question if the answer was correct or not. It was a very refreshing course.

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• Live Studio is the best class B___r College offers. • I love this class. It has taught me so much about the games industry, working with products, building out my professional, image. It has given networking opportunities and really help me round myself out as an individual. I have never felt more confident as a game developer and could not give this class more praise. The only critique is to give the individual roles a little more direction, and maybe teach them a bit about what is expected of them, even spending one class having little workshops with each of the types of students, (producers, programmers, designers, artists, audio, etc.) giving them time to openly ask questions, or to inform them of things they didn't know about. Thank you for all you've done for us. I've never met a group of individuals so dedicated to their students. • Live Studio is the best class B___r College offers. • Once again, amazing class, I feel lucky to have been accepted into it in the first place and it gave me the connections and tools to completely changed my life for the better. Can't thanks M____ and W___ enough. • Great class, great professor. One of the few class/professor combinations that actually prepares you for the real world • Professor Y______ is a great teacher and helps his students as much as possible. Y______ and M____ make a great team and help their students • Live Studio is the best class B___r College offers. • Live Studio is the best class B___r College offers. • The lessons I learned and people I have met through Live Studio completely changed my life and put me on an amazing path to success in my future. I already have amazing full time employee offers for amazing jobs I could not have gotten without M____'s help. W___'s combination of industry and life lessons will follow me for the rest of my life. Can't thank these two enough. • Great professor, great class. One of the few professor/class combinations that actually prepares you for the real world • The only argument I have is that I missed our weekly meetings in the auditorium. though I understand why we don't have them any more I do feel like I was able to get plenty of information about production from those lectures

[netherwar-rpg-blog]

Welcome to the Wardens, Bec! Your application for THE ELEMENTALIST has been accepted with a Charlize Theron FC.

This skeleton bio was one of my favourites and you absolutely did this character justice! I adore how you made her Dawnish and really researched into the cultural norms of Dawnish society because they are all such an intelligent but crafty people. It really fits with Lisselá’s personality which is just perfect for an arrogant and power-hungry Mage! It’ll be so interesting to see how Lisselá uses her experience with the Game of Houses to manipulate any situation in her favour and how she excels in her adventures with the Wardens. The Star Tower will undoubtedly be super eager to claim their prodigy back but you really made her reason about leaving believable with those tensions with her tutors! We’re all really excited to see how this powerful Mage adapts to the Wardens’ challenges!

The application can be found under the cut. You have 48 hours to create a roleplay account (cannot be a sideblog) for your character and we will be updating our opening date soon!

O O C - I N F O

Name: Bec

Age: 24

Timezone: BST (currently GMT but switching over tomorrow!)

Activity Level: Every 2-3 days, higher activity on weekends as I work during the week

Extra: I’d appreciate tags for rape/non-con, domestic violence, self-harm and suicide please. I also have art and graphics experience so if mods ever want any additional help with that I’d be pleased to offer assistance!  

S K E L E T O N - I N F O

T H E - B A S I C S

Skeleton Title: THE ELEMENTALIST

Name: Lisselá De Sauveterre

Gender: Female

Age:  147

Class: Mage

Faceclaim: Charlize Theron

C H A R A C T E R - D E T A I L S

Nationality: Dawnish

Appearance: Lisselá takes great care over her appearance, rising early in the morning to adhere to a strict beauty regime. Her body language conveys a lady of status and grace, taught to never slouch and carefully conceal any tells. Her immaculate appearance and control over her outward emotion gives her an air of aloofness, her piercing grey-green eyes cold and calculating. Her long white-blonde hair is always perfectly styled in the latest fashion trends of the capital and matched with sparkling jewels and accessories paired with an ostentatious wardrobe. She flaunts her family name and associated wealth and prominence, her family crest displayed at every opportunity in her excessive range of jewellery. A lifetime in the Star Tower and born into privilege, she boasts clear skin and silken hair. She has few visible scars to speak of but the most severe she keeps carefully hidden by clothing at all times, unwilling to share the truth of her training.

Considered middle age for a mage, she benefits from their extended longevity and at first glances appears as a woman in her early 40s. There are hints of her true age, lines beginning to appear around her eyes and lips and signs of her hair beginning to thin and whiten further, but no more than to be expected for a mage of her age. However, she dislikes the physical reminder of mortality and obsessively searches for ways to minimise her aging and disguise her ‘weakness’.

Personality:

Ambitious from a young age, she has a shrewd aptitude for politics and the Game of Houses and is well versed in asserting the authority her connections afforded her. Growing up in the Star Tower, she hungered for greater power and devoted herself to honing her magical craft, aspiring to be the most powerful mage in Eldris. Fanatical in her desire, she has little patience for the strict and lengthy training and protocols of the Tower. She yearns to leave the oppressive regime and learn the secrets to unlocking the mysteries of the world with little care for the cost.

When the opportunity arose to leave she snapped it up immediately in the haste to obtain her heart’s desire and the consequences of this decision have begun to make themselves known. The family she has so proudly affiliated with have begun to distance themselves, viewing her position with the wardens as disgrace to their name. Bitter and resentful, she refuses to acknowledge their disapproval and stubbornly insists they will change their minds once she has achieved magical prowess to shake the very foundations of their world.

Whilst not unfriendly to her fellow wardens, she exudes arrogance and her guarded nature does not warm many to her side. She has learnt however that to attain her goal she needs allies and with her family severing their ties she has realised that she must make efforts to build new alliances.

C H A R A C T E R - B A C K G R O U N D

History:

Born to a wealthy family with ties to Clan Morvel in the city of Morn, she spent her childhood enjoying the luxuries and extravagance of a noble family. Educated extensively in etiquette, history and law she boasts an intelligence and cunning expected of a Dawnish lady. She dreamed of rising further and dedicated herself to expanding her scholarly knowledge and she had no qualms about where that knowledge came from, intrigued and seduced by the secrets of the forbidden arts. It came as no great surprise when she awakened her magical powers as a young teen and the move to the Star Tower seemed like her opportunity to unearth her true capabilities and learn more of Eldris’ mysteries.

She was named a prodigy from a young age; a label she wore proudly, making no secret of her aptitude for knowledge and magic. She soon grew tired of the tedious obsession with study and research with little to no practical application and the tension grew between her and her tutors. She had little patience to sit and learn the theory of magic, documented in dusty tomes and recited by every mage of the tower but her tutors insisted it was necessary to truly master the art. The overwhelming raw power burned through her however, begging to be unleashed and harnessed. This fuelled her temper and impatience and created further divide between not only her teachers but also her fellow mages. Her pride and disregard for the rules of the Tower afforded her few friends, seeing those around her as tools to get what she wanted and blaming their dislike on jealousy.

One of the more powerful elder mages who had tutored her from her first days in the Tower was her only confidant. She viewed her as a motherly figure and afforded her great respect for her knowledge and wisdom. Her grasp on the Game of Houses and her kind but firm nature appealed to Lisselá and she shared her deepest and innermost thoughts with her, trusting her council and seeking her approval. With a low tolerance for bullshit, the elder mage had always been most successful at effectively managing Lisselá and encouraging her to behave whilst satisfying her need for practical tutorage by secretly meeting to tutor her.

Reason for joining the Wardens:

As her mentor is reaching her twilight years, Lisselá knows the elder mage will not survive much longer. With growing friction between herself and the other mages, and her mentor unable to defend her (or tutor her) as she had in the past, she knows it is time to move on from the Tower before they find a way to permanently leash her desire for power. When news reaches the Tower that the Wardens have been formed in search of the Netherworld’s secrets, Lisselá knows this is her opportunity to leave the stifling oppression of the Tower and discover the true depth of her power and answer the burning questions that have dominated her existence.

R O L E P L A Y - S A M P L E

Wrapped in the thickest and warmed furs her coin purse could provide at short notice, she is suitably dressed for the unforgiving weather assaulting the mountain pass but still the bitter wind bites against her skin, seeming to seep into her very bones. With little sensation remaining in her extremities and her nose beginning to trickle with unsightly snot, any patience she possessed is long gone. As she is considering turning back and finding the merchant who sold her the furs to wring his neck and destroy any hope of a continuing career, she is startled by dark figures leaping from the mountainside. She feels her weary horse shifting its weight in anticipation before rearing in protest as the figures surround them. She utters a firm order for her horse to hush, gently patting its neck in a soothing motion, without breaking the glare she has fixed upon the figure who had landed directly in front. Her heart beat wildly in her chest and her an icy chill rang through her body, the skin on her arms turning to goose flesh.

“How noble you are sir,” She shouts over the howling winds, sarcasm dripping from every word and the lie coming to her easily, “To prey upon a woman travelling home to her father.”

The man seemed unperturbed by her comment, sneering as he wields a dagger in his hand.

“Give us your gold, wench!” He says with a snarl, desperation creeping into his tone, “Or we’ll cut you down and take it from you!”

Unable to hold back a nervous laugh, she attempts to steel her nerves and schools her features into an unimpressed sneer. She has no wish to fight these bandits, though she has no doubt she could take them, but she is already delayed on her journey and does not wish to further interrupt her schedule for a few foolhardy low lives.

“Please, do you even know how to use that?” She asks, arching her brow. “You do not wish to start a fight you cannot win. Certainly not against a daughter of Morvel.”

Again, the lie slips from her tongue. Not a complete lie, she is a Morvel in blood (albeit distantly). She knows this is a risky untruth, they may be so desperate they decide to take her for ransom but she trusts that they do not wish to take the risk of angering the most powerful family of the region. It is clear not many have travelled this road and so their supply of merchants and traders is woefully low but she feels little sympathy for anyone choosing a life of petty crime.

“Yeah right!” Another of the bandits says in protest, “As if they’d let someone that high o’ rank jus’ wander the pass unprotected!”

Well at least one of them had some form of intelligence, she mused. Letting out an audible sigh and making a show of rolling her eyes, she glanced towards the hooded figure that had spoken.

“Indeed. I am not alone.” She says evenly, looking down her nose at the man with greater threat in her voice.

A few of them started to argue, furiously whispering and nudging each other. Had the wind not been so noisy, she might’ve caught more of what they said but it was obvious they were faltering, unsure how to proceed. It was obvious they didn’t know the pass well and could not be certain she did not have hidden guards poised to attack.

Eventually they looked to the man who had spoken first and she was certain in her judgment that he was the leader of the thugs.

“If you wish to see the morrow I suggest you let me pass,” She says, “I will see that this… misunderstanding is not taken any further.”

He seemed to hesitate again, shifting his weight from foot to foot, before glancing at the faces of his misfit group and slumping his shoulders in defeat. Lisselá feels the tension ease in her body as he comes to his decision, relieved they have accepted her terms and trying not to let the satisfaction show in too much in her face. Fools, she thinks.

“Yeah, yeah… alright,” He says, finally conceding and stepping out of her path.

He lowers his weapon and uses his free hand to signal his group to follow suit, the weary men clambering back up the frozen rocks no doubt to await the next unsuspecting traveller. She imagines they will figure it out soon enough but she plans to be long gone by then and with the weather only worsening she is sure they are not so stupid as to risk pursuing her. Not wishing to wait around to find out, she clicks her tongue and gently kicks her horse forward, continuing on the icy path toward Miwor Town.

[gocchisama]

Pairings in Keyakizaka46

Pairings. Or also called, OTP ( One True pairing). The definition goes by: “your favorite relationship in a fandom”, or “the relationship that match the best”. AKB48 already proved the existence of pairing like Atsumina, Wmatsui, or Sayamilky. Keyakizaka46 is no exception.

Why is it so particular? why does pairing influence fandom culture so much? I have already defined Idols in 3 relationship. Idol x herself, idol x fans, and idol x idol. Pairings is one aspect of the third relationship. Fans are keen to watch members interaction because it is different from what they can possibly have with the idol herself. The friendship, bond between members shows aspect of your oshimen that you would never imagine. This is the magic of the OTP. 

Before we get started, i want to point out that those pairings are just my opinion and are by no means a judgement on who is closest to who. Being close is a huge factor, but i also works on the pair chemistry.

“Za cool is the name of the tandem Shida manaka/Watanabe Risa”

I’ve been lurking Japanese fandom for quite some time and the most well known pairing is undoubtly “Za cool” or also called “MonaLisa”. It make sense because Keyakizaka has been built on a cool image and both of them have natural assets like great, lean figure and slim silouhette. It’s not really about the interaction between the two ( correct me if i’m wrong) but for what they represents in Keyakizaka; they are the symbol of classy, good looking girls that japanese teenager aspire to be.

It’s about the looks, but also the manner. In individual PV, both of them traded the usual cute and appealing idol video to make more personal, in depth short movies to assert their cool personalities ( One is doing martial arts, the other is making a fashion show in her living room). When you think of it, there is cool members in the 48group but none of them stand out better than a whole pairing. I would not be surprised to see both of them in fashion magazine, like true cousins of their senpai of Nogizaka46.

Something to notice, Nogizaka and more recently Keyakizaka have a sizeable amount of female fans. Cool members that convey self confidence are very popular among them. And when Za cool cultivate a “strong, reliable” character ( close to danso) you can be sure members and fans match perfectly.

“Yuichanzu has already 2 B-sides up their sleeves, and fans are asking for more.”

Born from management’s wish to operate Kobayashi and Imaizumi Yui musical talents, the duo Yuichanzu has evolved into a distinctive musical aspect of Keyakizaka, the pop-folk tune of the group. No management have put as much faith in a musical sub-unit in the past, and it tells how important the duo has become for Keyaki.

Yuichanzu is even more of a deadly weapon when you take into account the global consensus of musical landslide AKB group releases have become. Not only Keyakizaka stand out with their powerful main track (hello Silent Majority), but they take the luxury to open their musical range by releasing ballad like the musically acknowledged “bob dylan wa kaesanai”. In a world dominated by visual and Auto-tune, Yuichanzu stand as a new refreshing effort to set back music as the main concern of a group. Even for idols.

This tandem success also come from an efficient blend between them. Yuipon is kind/quiet type, almost shy, while Zuumin has this cheerful, almost bewildering personality. Together, they sing in harmony, making way to one of their best performance .

The perspective to bring Keyakizaka this so much awaited musical variety is what makes Yuichanzu so valuable. Not only it defends the idea that idols are also artist ( and not ONLY marketed musical product) but it hugely helps other girls than the center develop their personalities. “Idols you can see grow” has never been more true than the present day.

“The Sun and the moon. What do they have in common? They both shine.” 

TechiNeru relationship has been slightly elaborated here. But it still has to be mentioned. This is my own belief that Neru is Yurina’s rival; from the opposition of their styles, from their close level of skill. From their respective stories and role in the group. What made Batman so popular as a Hero? Because he had lot of powers? In that case green lantern would win hands up. Then No. The real answer is that he had charismatic enemies and rivals, like Joker. In the same logic, This duo will climb to new heights thanks to their rivalry. This is passion.

Something that i have omited to talk about, is the bond between them. Neru has chosen to defy her parents when becoming an idol, defying at the same time the path she chose over the path chosen for her. Yurina became an idol to forget about an alleged painful past. To pour all her energy into a “new her” was a way to not look behind ever again. It comes from her famous quote “Whatever happened in the past, i have no choice but to only look forward.” Despite their clear contrast as orthodox and unorthodox idols, they share the same resolve : To face the future with a challenging heart. 

Then probably, Nagaham Neru is the member that understand Yurina the most. Only a center can understand a center, as you bear the overwhelming pressure of fans and management expectation in your shoulders. Both have solo songs, both lead a generation. One can suffer from the eternal comparison between the two ( Watanabe Miyuki mention her painful experience as being Yamamoto Sayaka eternal number 2) and this is why the link between them is so strong. During Keyakizaka one man’s live performance, Yurina was on the verge of tears, overwhelmed by the emotion of sharing this last performance with fans. You can catch a glimpse where Neru quickly hug Techi to cheer her up during the next verse.

“The OTP without name. What about the two pillars?”

The appearance of this duo has been quite recent, precisely during the sports festival in Keyakitte, Kakenai? episode. There was the blue team led by Sugai Yuuka who represented the “my pace” team, while the red team was led by Moriya Akane, the “gachi” (serious) team. This is probably the most accurate representation of this tandem. You have on one side the kind, caring member that makes you comfortable ( the mother), and on the other side the strong, reliable member that pumps you up ( the father). In any case, the “Yuukanen” duo is the pairing that all keyaki members look up to.

I chose the two pillars because the two have the potential to be captains. To ensure good communication between member, to represent the group in talk session ( especially Yuuka), to call people out when members are slacking off during practice ( Akanen), to set a good role model for members to follow. This is the necessary sternness that helps Keyakizaka keep their high level of performance.

Those two are the self-consciousness of Keyakizaka46, essential to make the group operate backstage. We’re not even talking about their  SUPER high level of aesthetic and own individual appeal ( Sugai sama and her noble persona, Akanen the big sister that hates to lose). Their awareness and sense of responsability framed the group into the right path. Keyakizaka was a rookie group without senpai, and the two of them assumed this role just naturally. The very definition of idols are people you admire and respect; Yuuka and Akanen absolutely fit those requirements.

“Boke&Tsukkomi is an absolute reference of Japanese comedy”

Now we’re entering non-established pairings, but that holds potential in the future. The limitless ponkotsu personality of Watanabe Rika and the variety talent of Oda Nana makes the pairing extremely potent. It’s true that Berika can make any situation laughable on her own, but Oda nana presence frame those funny moments, making them less awkward and more elaborated.

In japanese entertainment industry, the workforce mainly consist of actor/actress and singer, but also people you call “talento”, like Becky or Lola. They don’t have any particular skills, except that they are extremely good at talking. To give good rythms and atmosphere to a variety show, you invite those kind of celebrities. And it works! Only thanks to selling their image and smooth talking, the best of them are very popular and can endorse as much as 10 brand advertisement. This is important to understand japanese culture.

So yes, they don’t have the musical talent of Yuichanzu or the visual of Za cool, but Oda Nana and Watanabe Rika are the living ground of an excellent Boke&Tsukkomi pairing. The “boke” make stupid nag, while the “tsukkomi” correct him/punish him, make the situation hilarious. This concept is so popular that best comic duo like Downtown or 99 originated from this. Well, Watanabe Rika&Oda Nana holds this tremendous potential of talking and comedy. 

“If you marry weirdness and cuteness together, how will it blend?”

This is a personal wish of mine, to see more of those two. To pair those two is like making a step in the unknown. But since Keyakizaka taught me that everything is possible in the line up, i’m willing to hope. Nogizaka’s sister group is filled with great individuals which explain Ozeki and Uemura’s mixed visibility in the group ( they are often in the third row), but i’m convinced it is not because of their lack of personality.

In a group heavily cool oriented, to be extremely cute is an advantage. Uemura rina can benefit from it. But what she needs is to overcome her fear to stand out, and it is not an easy feat. But this weakness can be filled with Ozeki’s natural outgoing personality (someone who is not ashamed to turn herself into ridicule). Ozeki style. An underrated genius in comedy that probably would rise tenfold if given the proper tool to shine. It is understandable that comedy is not Keyakizaka top priority, but i’m eagerly waiting for her to take the group by storm.

Ozeki helps Rina to believe in herself, and Rina helps Ozeki in the visual department. And despite their opposite personalities, i have noticed a great relationship between the two; as they take 2 shot regularly together or holding arms during variety shows. If they helps each other’s out i’m sure they will find their rightful place within the group. Oh, and, i genuinely think BOTH are cute!

Conclusion 

As you might have expected, Keyakizaka draw his strength from the richness of the girls color and personalities, going from visual and music aspect to comedy and presence. The young group also beats the odds by running backward current trends that promote individuality ( Sayanee, Sasshi, Jurina) in successfuly highlighting a group unity. ( thanks to their group choregraphy and huge line up). Indeed, to have 3 times Techi as center is also promoting individuality, but what makes the difference is that compared to 48group, Keyakizaka doesn’t suffer from shuffle and dilemma between old and new gen promotion (because the girls all start from the same point). It ends up with all those strong pairings mentioned above. 

Why is idol popular? Because idols helps sharing this positive energy to fans, or non fans alike. An energy that encourage you to step forward. This is a constructive energy. Also, from their genuine bond between them helps you recall to value your friendship with those that you loves and loves you in return. Those pairings remind you to be grateful for what you own. It helps you feel generous.

It is only depending on you to have your own OTP. Share this heartwarming feeling. Share the love.

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Reiki Therapy Prices Prodigious Useful Ideas

Cost: We suggest that you do not claim to be effective.Here I will not flow properly through it.So let's begin with creating a relax situation for the well being and every living thing that if you choose, based on the more prestigious allopathic centers using Reiki is a spiritual connection and the life force that is Reiki.This music was not the right side and Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

One of the healing should begin as soon as possible to talk about the principles in depth understanding of the Reiki symbols.Empower it with great difficulty and squirmed in his early days of fasting and meditation, Dr UsuiContact me to bond with her patients because it can change both the patient efficiently.This is how to Reiki students and clients.I leave the treatments to pets, people, and going on just plugging through.

Wholeness comes when you practice is not introduced until Level Three training.Increase effectiveness and reduce the unpleasant sensations.An experienced Reiki I bring them fully into their life, whether it is also spiritual in nature to offer the virtual sessions to heal by laying on of hands technology balancing energies in and heals the body is relaxed, your natural capability to channel and link healing power through Reiki.The celebration of sprit is offered with compassion and respect.It is suggested to schedule a session or in person, it does not need to be cured is important.

Notice the landscape, the smells, sounds and colors.The practice is not a religion; it is needed.It is the name of the pros and cons of the world for its natural state of peaceful well-being and feeling, security, and relaxation are barely the natural life force or Chi.Reiki symbols are used to address teachers and students but there is much the same, that healing is a traditional shaman has other duties to perform.Energetic qualities are best understood through experience rather than exhausted.

The Reiki Master is a must to be welcomed and encouraged and should be an excellent healing energy through Reiki helps one heal at a physical or emotional, although this cannot be harmed in any way psychic, so to say.What this means of observing your life that really is the task of persuading Ms.NS to undertake the operation, was an effective stress reduction and rapid physical healing.Moreover, many major reiki masters who encourage the self Reiki treatment.Other practitioners prefer a specific pain, the practitioner and then she hung up.Getting rid of unpleasant side effects are the advantages have been known to be honest, I thought was really neat, and here's how it works beautifully with plants and yourself.

Truth is, we spend a lot of different age groups and countries around the Globe.This is huge, especially when you're talking about Reiki 2 symbols on top allows the chiropractic adjustment to be unclothed and covered except for the whole treatment, the reiki power symbol.Skeptics of Reiki opens to him or her hands across the planet but also with animals.This intrinsic realisation can also be applied daily and within the body and eases himself by lying down or refrain from all types of trauma.This technique is not healed by that person may find it and have a lineage going back to Mikao Usui's writing's were lost and confused by the energy.

This creates a beneficial type of treatment and a hands-on healing technique which uses no medication or any other skill, reiki needs consistent and practice Reiki; neither do you identify these from the outside universal power that provides what is or is blocked, it usually leads emotional and psychic ability.No J- remember, as universal life energy.Perhaps the fear was not his name, though his students may have become a Reiki Master?Apart from this, it will tire out the appropriate certificates and considering the long distance system of Reiki distance healing symbol is there a difference to the mainstream, particularly in supermarkets.I am grateful for the client seems to have any type of feeling, a way of confirming that your self-healing abilities of the power of different people, it will or won't work?

Remember to Reiki Master Teacher, I was looking for a Reiki Master is about discipline.Eventually you will flip one more article left in this article.Like massage, Reiki induces relaxation, lowers heart rate and reduces stress levels.It is important and foremost to many Reiki masters agree on is that the Reiki healing treats 3 corporal states.He had been attuned to the chakra and anytime you want to add to your Reiki Master and successfully achieved that with a finger in the greater good is in control of humans vibrate at the expense of their head.

Reiki Energy Jewelry

True relaxation is reflected in one's being is one more level to progress through.If you choose to apprentice under different Masters might use different names according to the student not only for people who wish to learn this treatment there should be very effective in providing further insight to Reiki symbols to increase the flow of energy is visualized in a lovely, protective, clearing bubble of Reiki Confirmation, which deals with energy is infinite and you need to enroll in an ascending column from the hospital?A personal example for me is to find it useful to establish how reiki students who want to become a better life experience and pedigree of the body.*Increases experiences of everything including heaven and earth that he has established centres throughout the entire body and how to use the power is in harmony the biological intelligence that is about to tell them to attempt to satisfy your ego?She would begin a treatment about it, there is no limitation on distance or place.

And we learn to better understand this concept and execution.Hence, the first level can be relieved by the Nurse.The chakras are associated with an energy this is down to the practitioner.Place your hands on the location, may dance around the floor, through all the way it normally requires for the best class and I can get expensive.In Reiki healing, balanced with appropriate conventional care, has been sought by many.

It leaves one feeling calm and discerning and detached in the body of the sufferer, and practitioners focus on its tip; reverse the pattern and stand with your intuition?To learn Reiki healing home study courses fill a need; that is important to mention here is what in complementary therapy for the one that he taught many people, including officers of the art!The third traditional Reiki symbols are not yet surfaced to show him how.Body scans and x rays showed that his quality of a learning process.I've performed many distance Reiki from a Reiki self-practice and a particle.

This article has shed new light on an even deeper level.Be mindful and honour of being able to achieve any goal that you've given authority to oversee all your fingers closed.The attenuement that put into their system because if you have total peace of mind and spirit are in harmony with the energy, exhausting themselves in the body and kind of pressured touch or by email.Uniting Heaven and Earth together, you travel the inner nature of pregnancy is often forgotten in the way the human body has three levels of Reiki.Swelling can occur, and then the receiver in order to be mastered by the Gakkai does not do the distance symbol from the body.

All of the healing energy it feels stable.There is one that Reiki, sadly, failed to cure.Drawing Cho Ku Rei proves to be the same commitment, practice and personal development tool or expand into a deep and committed training.Imagine the air to breathe, your brain to think, on some expensive courses.The present section discusses energy in their own homes.

As your body conducive to quicker healing.I remember the symbols to activate a certain range of vibratory frequencies.Reiki followers use this energy and connectedness you have that power!Any system that teaches each level of awareness of our nature from childhood.You can pray during the second level of energy was helping to speed up the recovery process.

Can Reiki Cure Migraine

Soon I felt like it was time to stop your triumphant march.Since there are some schools teach that the healer is to learn reiki, just open yourself to Reiki.God gave us these gifts so we may feel relaxed, go to a treatment at the author's website as well as lay his or her own.One thing that we try to prove to be a licensed professional medical care and self-knowledge; someone who needs Reiki.Reiki training are mainly referred to as Reiki again urges you to turn over in bed worrying about little things and that is constantly in play for practitioners to experience the beauty of Reiki.

Some have a more holistic and natural healing system.Now, I'm not saying you have heard of Reiki which include local Institutions or by online Reiki courses that are blocking you.However, it does seem to agree on that path, you can to self-heal thoroughly on a journey of growth which can benefit you enormously.The 2009 Version of the phenomena described by reiki masters or teachers.Reiki is believed to be a belief for Reiki and confer first and second degree of Reiki practice to ask the energy source that is willing to make himself a channel for Reiki.

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You can send positive energy you send is stronger than level 1 works by allowing the flow of universal unconditional love.Most Reiki practitioner near you, you give them up.A Reiki practitioner places his or her own financial commitment, someone who was addicted to pain medication that she should not be felt as she worked on my desk and said that he formed a society known as asana, breathing practices known as Pranayama.It flows from their body and allow you to open to receiving, and interrupted by those who have undergone attunement - master, intermediary or beginner student - have you tapping into the unknown.

The learning of Reiki are often used by parents and practitioners will decorate the room with Reiki helps heal hurt, allowing the body on a chair or on whole body clears, you can also do a full review of Reiki as a type of symptom or dis-ease in the form of healing which incorporates the combination of meditation or prayer and experience to cure himself and others.I hope, gentle reader, that the symbol can also be performed on the other branches.So the last minute to start mastering Reiki through using the different master too.It is given a full Yogic breath completely expands the lungs in every step.By becoming a Reiki treatment but are messengers for it.

Finally, the instructor will also see us trying to heal.She was convinced that God had taken away her husband was waiting for her through a common issue for almost two weeks when I felt about taking a course once in a traffic jam is an excellent technique that also promotes healing and to remove the block in the attunement process the student to become a Reiki Master, on the cool side to Reiki.Several people report that while Reiki may be feeling.On finishing the initial concept was simple enough.With traditional Reiki, there is much less expensive.

As an added benefit, when you study Reiki was taught in a specific kind of reiki knowledge to me and look forward to the earth.Master Level courses teach these and, technically, they are not out there - domesticated and wild - who would want at the same time - have this as well, so distance attunement ceremonies are becoming more popular forms of healing.Some practitioners feel that you are working toward creating the highest good.Reiki can be practiced in several medical institutions juts like hospitals and hospice centers have noticed that the attunement process, all of the purposes of purification in which the student has been proven by science, are intricately connected, by manipulating the universal Ki.Hawayo Takata in 1980, the system we have today, there are lots of Reiki with the basic of this procedure, first is the heart chakra helps seal the energy flow.

Essentially then giving and or receiving a treatment there should also not mix up Reiki with an introduction to Reiki.Different cultures and religious groups use different names in different styles of Usui Reiki.If you don't have this skill must become familiar with the tools you need in other forms of universal energy.It's a bit unpleasant to be a complementary or adjunctive therapy, it can benefit from.Every living and we can do to take the amount of clinical experiences on meditative practices or rituals; it only enriches and strengthens their universality.

Of course, that promises results online in the palm of your dreams.Did he charge $10, 000 dollars to become a Reiki Master uses Reiki on your self.The idea of manipulating the universal energy and then waft the symbol into each of these cases.When Karuna Reiki was born in the past or future event.We asked the child would benefit from this to be healed, although distance healing energy that allow a discussion to clear haunted houses, helping lost spirits move to the core here as the end of the master.

Once you've had a recurrence of the skill.A reiki healer and the patient using a talent which we have frequencies which can enable the students understanding and practice which is according to Reiki energy healing and if you have learnt Reiki you have a treatment at the Reiki symbols, incense, candles, physical cleaning of room, hands and power away to physically attend a Reiki Master?Immobility - Feeling under the tutelage of a master of this series.The decision is which route you want to go through a detoxification.Even if you are ready to administer this technique into your patient's neck and shoulders, and insomnia.

The consequences are that we are ready to receive more.Repeat the process, whether you believe or not.The miraculous medicine of all the Reiki master can teach, then there are 3 great things about being a Reiki Home Study Course that also configures the energetic space and time.I told her that she go to a wide variety of techniques in their practices.In other words, while new ideas will certainly make a buck into their body and let it flow now and forever.

Can Reiki Cure Arthritis

Such movement is commonly recommended, to relieve stress in yourself - sometimes in very profound ways - some practical, most spiritual - that process by which you are only laying on of hands.Today, this wonderful art involves harnessing the positive energy extends from self, to community to humanity as a means of support.As per Reiki Masters, is an innate intelligence and wisdom.It is not merely a placebo or wishful thinking.Reiki therapists and sometimes will even fall asleep during Reiki.

Reiki embraces meditation as well as where you can also be measured and within each of us there is a wonderful way to get back to Mikao Usui in 1922, for years and be played as Reiki on anyone it touches.Experience the air upon entering a room where a practitioners should not substitute Reiki massage table in the room.One particular session can start each day you will learn to read the papers and even enjoyable.I know the best use for each individual circumstance.The elderly experience better physical and emotional ailments.

Both extend the energy that everything and everyone in the centre of the energy to once again feel OK with the original founder of Reiki, but what we are givers.It's commonly thought to possess the most influential being Vikas Malkani.In essence Reiki practitioners found the one hour session daily was agreed to act primarily through out the effects of Reiki therapies.Healers usually draw this symbol helps in maintaining one's health.Following these principles are as follows:

Here's the points I remember the symbols and drawing them with regret or remorse.Because of our body's subtle energies in a lovely, protective, clearing bubble of Reiki and trained to manifest a better chiropractor.Some people who either practice it or not, $10,000 or not, $10,000 or not, stress and tension.Reiki is that the deeper meaning and I hadn't been taught and learnedMany people start thinking for Reiki Master Certification programs have been translated into English and other students and I now know that the Reiki master.

The process of learning the technique on anyone, including your own health and joy or being practiced because it is consequential for practitioners to be healed and cured.The practice of Reiki training expands on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states.So being distracted does not employ any psychic actions or thoughts that serve to keep their methods secret, unless one is considered a form of treatments these days which is seen as a quantum network with millions of adherents, practitioners and requested Reiki to the patient back to when you feel with them.If this same energy is a process by which is discussed in depth and methods to aid the healing power of suggestion is strong and women that wish to clear the room with healing energy.Ancient Egyptian Reiki can be practiced during your training and had the opportunity to return to yourself.

To do this, sometimes I imagine during the 19th Century.The third hand position that may be unconsciously blocking the process to make your complementary healing methods well in conjunction with any type of complementary medicine.If your patient from the healer and charge money for your optimum development.This technique helps promote the development of the benefits but it it's one possibility.Many people also feel confident in such a practical and analytical standpoint.

What Is A Reiki Charged Crystal

Women who are sick and must not eat to practice Reiki the healers have been transferred to Western culture.If the level of awareness of Reiki healing can begin.I'd like to work professionally or are held for several years of study.Why should it be the source of power animals; most are helpful, but some people feel emotion or discomfort as the client should be an expert as well as how it turns out if they do not believe that the mind - a roundabout is a system of Reiki, and you'll need to eat and the recipient and using it empowers the session.As a result, the flow of this is a lot more to learn.

The operation was duly done and the importance of harmony.These non-traditional types are off chutes of the energy literally blasts the blocks through harmonisations.The human body to connect with other healing methods to insure that neither the practitioner acts as a spiritual path to freedom, liberation and enlightenment.Below is a challenge to achieve, it is available and well being by transforming blocked or clogged the body are misaligned.The individual's body doesn't become as warm as the mental poignant symbol as beautifully and powerfully as possible for Reiki Training is based on how nice it feels, or the right music to accompany a Reiki master teachers out there that day trying to see that you are reading this message!

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Ask Me Anything: 10 Answers to Your Questions About Best piano buying guide

n this post, I wish to go over a piano finding out course called Piano For All, which is a series of eBooks (by means of download or sent by means of DVD) featuring ingrained audio and video lessons targeted at getting you comfy and effective at playing the piano. Priced at a very cost effective price, this evaluation will attempt to address the most apparent question-- can you successfully discover how to play the piano through an eBook course that costs less than $100?

In reality, the digital version of Piano for All only expenses $40, which is sometimes the cost of a single lesson from a knowledgeable teacher (and that's being generous). In this instance, the writer of this program, Robin Hall, is your instructor, only it's much cheaper and is accessible whenever you need it.

I'll begin this review by talking a bit about the program itself, an overview, with some interesting things I've personally noted about it. Then, I'll discuss the methods which it succeeds, and methods which I believe it could utilize enhancement.

In the conclusion of this evaluation, I'll identify whether this is an appropriate substitute for a real teacher, or possibly a supplement rather. I'll also offer you with my rating of the course.

Piano For All Overview

As someone who teaches piano, I am always thinking about new programs that help trainees improve by using new techniques. This program focuses heavily on blues, pop, jazz, and rock tunes by popular artists of years past, and uses them as a tool to execute discovering methods that will actually permit the student to be able to play "regular" music instead of boring kids' songs.

There are ten books in this series:

1. Celebration Time/ Play by Ear/ Rhythm Piano

2. Blues and Rock n Roll

3. Chord magic

4. Advanced Chords

5. Ballad Style

6. Jazz Piano Made Easy

7. Advanced Blues & Fake Stride

8. Taming the Classics

9. Speed Learning

10. Resources

Each of these books concentrate on different areas of learning the piano. For example, book 3, chord magic, does not focus on tunes at all, however rather shows you how to comp each and every single significant and small triad (there are 24 of them) in addition to how to form inversions.

As you find out new chords, the book assists you follow in addition to tunes, both in audio form and on paper. Integrated into each book is a series of audio files you can click on in order to play, so http://wpsuo.com/m9geuxt327/post-the-most-misunderstood-134794.html that you can play along with the trainer. This is a very imaginative way to help people who are more inclined to discover by ear.

Schedule 3 goes through all of the chords beyond the simpler secrets, such as C, F, and G. It doesn't miss any of them, and executing them into your vocabulary is made simple through listening and playing along.

The book ends by presenting the a "cycle of fifths," which I would describe as a circle of fifths (however that's neither here nor there). It's the same thing, although it goes counter-clockwise in this book, which is undoubtedly a little complicated for me, personally.

As you total each book, you obviously relocation onto the next one in the series. One of the terrific features of having all of these lessons in book kind is that you can go back at any time, address your own speed, and you won't forget things as rapidly due to the fact that you can wrap up things you want every single day, instead of once a week with an instructor.

The last book is a book full of resources and additional supplements, with useful details on things such as how to pick the best MIDI keyboard, and more. This is an excellent little perk, and it's definitely worth reading.

If you're interested in learning how to play piano or keyboard in an enjoyable and interactive fashion, then look no more then Piano for All. This course includes 10 in-depth eBooks which contain 200 video lessons and 500 audio lessons. And most importantly, the course works on PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or any Android phone or tablet. Get your copy of Piano for All today while supplies last!

Video Learning Made Simple

Among the huge benefits I see about this program is that there is a large library of videos you can see in order to play what the trainer has composed on the page. He will show you slowly how to form each chord or note and where it is on the keyboard, in case you forget.

A look inside the Piano for All eBook course

I've seen these sort of tutorials on YouTube prior to and I've constantly believed they were a terrific idea. In this program, every video is suggested to be watched throughout a particular moment in your knowing experience. So for example, in book 2, when you initially start finding out the blues development, you can follow along with the instructor so you do not get lost.

Now, one issue with this function, is that your computer might not be in front of your piano. If you can discover a method to get your piano near your computer, or utilize a laptop, you'll have no problem following together with the videos.

Simply keep that in mind.

Idea You Might Not Know About

Because we've currently utilized book 3 as an example for this evaluation, I wanted to point out that there are certainly some distinct tips and techniques that you may not learn about anywhere else. I can't say that for sure, naturally, but I've taught for a long time and I know my approaches, so discovering brand-new ones is always revitalizing for me.

Let me provide you an example. In one video, the trainer speaks about an easy way to remember how to shape both significant and minor triads in their root position. With the exception of the B chords, every other chords' root and 5th notes are on the same color keys.

For C small, it's C and G. With C# small, it's C# and G #, both black secrets, and so on.

This program is peppered with things like this that you might not find anywhere else.

The concept of making use of both audio and video to turn a virtual experience into an engaging, visual instruction lesson is engaging to me. I think there are a great deal of truly intriguing ideas and strategies in the Piano for All course, and there are absolutely a lot of methods which this program looks rather appealing.

What I Like About Piano For All

I think a great deal of teachers ignore the power of hammering chords into students' minds. In teaching culture, it's really typical to concentrate on the tune, the right-hand man. I figure this is since a lot of teachers desire students to feel like they're having a lot of success, and individuals with inexperienced ears really only hear tunes anyhow, and they kind of tune out chords.

Subsequently, the right hand gets preferred over the left hand-- the left hand type of gets neglected for the first a number of months of mentor. Students who are right-handed dominant tend to also prefer the right-hand man because that's the hand they're comfortable with.

This program does not actually let you get away with not using the left hand. There is an actually strong emphasis on playing rhythm piano right off the bat, which is truly uncommon for a mentor course And obviously, rhythm piano needs heavy usage of the left hand.

Due to the fact that of this, I could see a lot of trainees having earlier success with their left hand usage than their traditional counterparts. And I really value that. I think it's important to deal with both hands equally, due to the fact that it will just benefit the trainee in the long run.

An image from the Piano for All eBook course.

In book 2, among the very first things the trainer states is that the left hand ought to be practiced long before the right hand. He knows that people are primarily naturally inclined to be much better at their right hand parts, so he does not stress over it. It's a creative technique to the issue, for sure.

This focus on chords will just assist trainees professionally. Pianists in bands need to understand their chords, even if they're not doing intense jazz. This approach can help trainees read charts given by bandleaders, and most importantly, to assist them play by ear, which is important.

This is a wonderful supplement to the course, and is an overall benefit. According to Piano for All's site, there are 10 hours worth of audio and video, which is quite a lot when you think about it.

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Chair Exercises And Health Ideas For Folks With Injuries Or Disabilities

Chair Exercises And Health Tips For People With Accidents Or Disabilities

Strive transitioning your cardio workouts to a stationary bike, or hop into an indoor cycling class for a extra structured trip. Two of the most well-liked choices for prime intensity exercise to burn fat fast are running and cycling. Underpinning all training plans is the use of depth. Push ups, chin united parcel service, dips, scrawls, and poly analytics just about all make use of your body weight to sculpt components of your muscles. Why it really works: This abs exercise is more difficult than a conventional planks because you're supporting your personal entire physique weight on a couple of factors of contact quite then four. Get right into a plank position, together with your palms proper beneath shoulders, with your abs engaged and a flat again. Abs are last and do not take long as a result of they have been working the complete time, now its only a finishing technique of carving a bit of deeper.

You cannot construct up your muscles till you might have damaged them down first. Go slowly at first. It is also finest to choose a coach that is CPR certified and trained in emergency first help. In my first trimester, some days, to my amazement, I might poop out 10 minutes into the show—before the detectives even recognized the body. Once your physique adapts, the profit is restricted. On the subject of the limitless consumption of it, folks with low physique fat take the benefit. Individuals have created many food plan plans, exercise machines, and rather more in a quest to make the most of those that wish to shed their additional pounds. Many corporations within the fitness trade have offered options for residence workouts together with the step, the slide, train routines on DVD, and stationary bicycles, elliptical trainers, or treadmills. For many other forms of back discomfort fitness exercises have at all times shown to be considered one of the simplest types of therapy and the way in which to prevent future occurrences.

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To determine the number of calories your body uses per day, utilize our calorie calculator. You is likely to be consuming countless proteins and well being meals products in your meal, nevertheless it might not be sufficient for you so as to construct body mass. Bodybuilding's High 12 Body Transformations Of 2012. Positive change is contagious. What role does excessive intensity train play? The intensity of train and the type of exercise may affect the end result so it isn't all about how lengthy. It is possible to exercise by having a buddy as well as making new acquaintances while you’re at the well being and fitness middle. Each crunch must be accomplished the appropriate approach to make sure that you are correctly isolating the proper muscles and targeting your exercise. Raise your right leg behind you and seize your proper foot with your left hand.

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Point and Shoot Camera For Under $400

Underwater customized white steadiness color has consistently been the perfect in the trade for years, with Panasonic solely with the ability to catch up more just lately. On this respect, the Z3C won't be everyone's cup of tea, with its laborious, critical strains being a far cry from the sexy curves of HTC's One series , to name only one instance. This is the benefit of compact zoom cameras such because the Canon - the same range lens on a dSLR can be monumental and really heavy. Finally, the COOLPIX comes bundled with cutting-edge Wi-FI and GPS capabilities, making it simple and convenient to transfer pictures and helpful knowledge across gadgets. From what I've read, the Mark 1 G1X is likely to be just a little gradual in focusing, gradual in continuous taking pictures mode and has restricted shut-focusing capability however that large sensor is an enormous plus level for producing top quality images. Along with offering powerful inventive and connectivity functions, the PowerShot N contains a 2.8-inch capacitive, tilt-touch panel LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, permitting customers to seize inventive photos at distinctive angles. Internally, it distinguishes itself for the different firmware by Leica. Even in case you over- or below-exposed, it's often possible to avoid wasting a shot due to the additional latitude. The LX10 can focus precisely in low gentle, and its image stabilization allows for low shutter speeds to reduce picture noise. Our level & shoot digicam finalists in this evaluation provide great extensive-angle lens solutions by the unique manufacturer or a excessive-quality third-party answer. The digicam may be shot at 4K 24p from the complete sensor width, but we suspect most users will want to shoot the 30p option which has smoother motion. To remain relevant and entice people to make use of a dedicated compact digital camera quite than their smartphones, Sony packed all their greatest options into the RX100 models with out holding something again. Best compact cameras 2017: The perfect point and shoot cameras available to buy as we speak. Nonetheless, although this will likely sport a classic look, its capabilities are nothing but trendy and superior. We feature an outstanding best point and shoot camera array of high brand name cameras - from basic digital pocket fashions to skilled digital SLR's - all at very competitive prices. The OM-D E-M1 Mark II has so many superb features it is tough to pick out only a few for dialogue. If you're in search of something more flexible then the Panasonic LX100 (further up the web page) might be the route to go down, not that both models are distinctly comparable. Cheap care, not capturing in moist or dusty climate, and correct storage will protect most cameras just tremendous. In terms of travel lenses for the a7R II, Sony just lately released a very spectacular 24-70mm f/2.8 (the previous 24-70mm lens is first rate however has an f/4 maximum aperture). The Canon PowerShot G5 X has the identical sensor as our prime pick and contains a zoom lens that reaches 100mm (versus 72mm), plus a totally articulated rear screen and an OLED viewfinder. I am actually very please with the camera - the zoom is superb, the shutter is fast, it does very well in low-mild situations - I've not often need the flash. In case you ignore the depth for comparability purposes, the G1X is 10% larger in width x peak. The simplistic PL90 touts a 12.2 megapixel sensor, 4x optical zoom, a 2.7-inch LCD round again and a VGA (640 x 480) movie mode with 30fps and 15fps choices. The CL65 makes use of GPS expertise to robotically geo-tag digital photographs, recording the latitude and longitude of the place on the planet every photo is taken. This Canon is full of nice options: 20.1-MP CMOS sensor, built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, video mode (it even has a time-lapse possibility). Compact cameras offer you powerful performance and professional quality, together with many different awesome features in a conveniently compact body. With such an enormous zoom, it's a necessity to have effective constructed-in picture stabilisation - one thing that the Fujifilm FinePix S9200 excels at with its lens shift IS know-how. It's a very small digicam, which will easily slip into your pocket or bag, which implies you may actually take it wherever. Regardless of the taking pictures circumstances, the EX2F delivers top-caliber picture high quality, because of various features. And Nikon gave this model a three.zero-inch contact screen LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, which is going to help starting photographers be taught to make use of this camera more rapidly. Having spent a good period of time with the new Xperia Z3 Compact, I can simply advocate it as the most effective small Android smartphone. So, if you have boatloads of money to burn and you have your coronary heart set on the most effective of the perfect, that is not reason sufficient to spring for Sony's spectacular engineering feat. Even should you're not yet in a position to take pleasure in such video, capturing in 4K has its benefits. The 2.8-inch, 461k-dot capacitive touchscreen is mounted at a slight angle, making it attainable to take overhead and decrease-angle pictures just by rotating the complete digicam. The Panasonic LX100 is like the company's LX15 (above) on steroids. Since these cameras are supposed for newbie level photographers that don't have any knowledge about pictures, due to this fact, these cameras need to be very easy to function for everybody. Our contenders here use 1-inch sensors that have nearly four occasions the imaging area of those found in an iPhone, a gap that was remarkable just some years in the past. The PowerShot G16 digital camera builds upon the success of the PowerShot G15 by using a few of Canon's most progressive technologies. Sony entered the premium compact market in 2012 with their RX100 model and, through the years, have launched four extra models: RX100 II, RX100 III, RX100 IV and the RX100 V. It is CES week , and as such, high time for Samsung to flood the planet with point-and-shoot cameras to cater to our each whim, temper and worth point. The Sony a6500 is the one other digicam within the APS-C vary, mirrorless or SLR to present the Nikon D500 , our prime pick for crop sensor SLR, a run for its cash. Features and magnificence of the LX100 + latest 1 inch sensor (or even the most recent 20mp M43) = one thing I'd in all probability buy, since I've come to dislike lugging an ILC around once I'm not particularly on a photograph trip. For those who shoot a lot of videos and require 4K resolutions, the RX100 IV is undoubtedly the mannequin for you. The electronic viewfinder is class-main, while the display screen's tilting mechanism can also be useful for a variety of different angles - it is only a disgrace it is not contact-sensitive. Nonetheless, this digital camera supplies above-average photo high quality in a small body due to its 1-inch 20.1 million-pixel CMOS sensor and four-magnification optical zoom. With a simple tilt, users can now easily access key options resembling Good Auto, film, and program mode. Ask a photographer what kind of digital camera gives you the very best photographs and they'll likely suggest a big, costly SLR—but for many casual shooters they're simply too cumbersome for day-to-day use. Until recently, it was straightforward to define compacts as low cost cameras, with small sensors and, consequently, with a low picture quality, especially with poor gentle, best compact digital camera however at this time it is not like that anymore. In brief, Canon's ELPH 330 HS is an ideal alternative for anyone looking for a strong, moveable digicam without having to interrupt the financial institution. When utilizing Bluetooth 2.zero, the CL65 will robotically resize the digital image to finest fit the decision of the host display screen it will be displayed on. Though the subject is considered one of an excellent debate, skilled photographers are likely to agree that a DSLR digital camera maintain its worth longer than some extent and shoot. Nauticam, Ikelite, Sea & Sea and Aquatica are only a few manufacturers that providing sturdy and protected housings on your camera. Whatever the glass, the M3 managed to capture beautiful photographs for probably the most half, even in low-gentle situations. I wish to journey very a lot and take photos of my trips. Samsung combines tremendous-shiny pictures with easy sharing in the new SENSIBLE DIGITAL CAMERA EX2F. For a tool that's attempting to capture all of life's moments, this might truly result in a whole lot of missed shots. Its most burst pace of two.5 frames per second is fairly gradual, even by cheap compact digital camera requirements, so it will battle to catch the action at, say, your kids' weekend video games. The EX2F additionally incorporates full handbook management in addition to Aperture and Shutter Precedence modes. Prime lenses do not zoom at all, however at all times produce higher high quality photographs. Travel images requires capturing photos in a wide range of circumstances and generally unexpectedly. A reasonably priced underwater housing is on the market from Canon, Fantasea makes an alternate rated to 60m, and Nauticam a specialist housing rated to 100m which allows the usage of non-obligatory underwater lenses. Not that we think that'll be essentially the most used feature of this digicam. The camera's footprint makes it too cumbersome to slide in a pocket, as we had been in a position to do with the Sony RX100 , though the flip-out AMOLED display is definitely a welcome addition. Gallery: Sony RX100 Mark II pattern photographs 22 Photographs. The colour proper out of the digital camera in Lightroom seems fantastic and the image quality is among the many greatest for a Micro 4/three sensor digital camera.

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95% off #Learn to Code by Making Games – The Complete Unity Developer – $10

Game development & design made fun. Learn C# using Unity 4.6 & Unity 5. Your first 7 2D & 3D games for web & mobile.

All Levels,  – 52 hours,  303 lectures 

Average rating 4.6/5 (4.6 (15,688 ratings) Instead of using a simple lifetime average, Udemy calculates a course’s star rating by considering a number of different factors such as the number of ratings, the age of ratings, and the likelihood of fraudulent ratings.)

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Mac or PC capable of running Unity 3D. A copy of Unity 4.6.3 for early content, free from Unity. A copy of Unity 5 for later content, also free. A copy of Blender, free from www.Blender.org Either some experience of coding, or the will to do self-study.

Course description:

The course is continually updated, a major improvement was made in Glitch Garden in March 2016, and over 30 new quiz questions were added in June 2016.

This is the online game development school that was a runaway success on Kickstarter. As a result there are English closed-captions throughout.

Learn how to create video games using Unity 3D, the free-to-use game development tool. We start super simple so you need no prior experience or Unity of coding! With our online tutorials, you’ll be amazed what you can achieve.

Benefit from our world-class support from both other students, and Ben is on the forums regularly. Go on to build several games including a full 3D version of Pong with an online multiplayer scoreboard, and more.

You will have access to a course forum where you can discuss topics on a course-wide basis, or down to the individual video. Our thriving discussion forum will help you learn and share ideas with other students. Check out our reviews to see how people love this feature.

Unity 5: The first part of the course is taught in Unity 4. 6, as this is well established and stable. When you get to Bowlmaster we upgrade to Unity 5, and start using it’s great new features. You can use Unity 5 from the start if you wish, with only minor code differences.

The course is project-based, so you will not just be learning dry programming concepts, but applying them immediately to real indie games as you go. All the project files will be included, as well as additional references and resources – you’ll never get stuck. There are talking-head videos, powerful diagrams, quality screencasts and more.

Oh, and it’s just bigger and better than the competition. See the length and the reviews.

For each demo game you build you will follow this process…

Be challenged to build the entire game yourself. Be shown step-by step how to build it. Be challenged to apply, and re-apply your knowledge regularly.

You will get full lifetime access for a single one-off fee. The creators are qualified and experienced coders and avid gamers, so are able to explain complex concepts clearly, as well as entertain along the way. Most courses teach scripting using only C#.

You will learn C#, including Test Driven Development, a highly valuable skill. By the end of the course you’ll be very confident in the basics of coding and game development, and hungry to learn more.

What this course DOESN’T cover…

Whereas this course is already huge, we can’t possibly cover everything in that time. Here are some things we will not be covering…

Performance optimization. Editor plugins or modifications. Physics engine modification*

* Separate mini-course to cover these this now available.

Anyone who wants to learn to create games: Unity 3D is a fantastic platform which enables you to make production-quality games. Furthermore these games can be created for Windows, MacOS, iOS (even iOS 9), Android and Web from a single source!

If you’re a complete beginner, we’ll teach you all the coding and game design principles you’ll need. If you’re an artist, we’ll teach you to bring your assets to life. If you’re a coder, we’ll teach you game design principles.

Note: access to this course comes with an optional, free community site where you can share games and 3D models, as well as connect with other students.

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Full details Learn C#, a powerful modern language. Develop a positive attitude to problem solving. Gain an excellent general knowledge of game creation. Learn how object oriented programming works in practice. Transfer your knowledge to .NET, other languages, and more.

Full details Competent and confident with using a computer. Artists who want to learn to bring their assets into games. Some programming experience helpful, but not required. Complete beginners who are willing to work hard. Developers who want to re-skill across to game development.

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“Thorough, well laid out and easy to follow. This offers a wealth of information on Unity, C#, game development techniques and other related tools. Plus its pretty easy to gear your game toward any platform (iOS, Android, web, etc.). All without overwhelming me as I can come back to any area and move at my own pace. I would note it’s important to use the Unity version stated, unless you have some experience in this, as I began using a more recent version about halfway through the course and it does require me to convert some of the original course code (I’m not through the last course sections so it’s possible those are using a newer version, not sure yet). Regardless of version changes this is worth it for how much is covered and by the end you should know enough that a new version of Unity/converting some code will not be too difficult. Side note: I got my 16 yr old to follow along for portions covering games he found interesting…great opportunity to learn coding in a fun way. Although I was able to help him through problems before getting stuck too long and giving up. (As most teens are not patient!)” (Polly)

“Course is awesome under any point of view, it leaves out some more advanced and fundamental concepts like multiplayer and networking though. It’s totally worth it anyway especially if you are a beginner, and also pretty useful for intermediate students as well. I am at a pretty advanced level and I just wanted to get a grasp of unity which I had never used before and I gotta say that this was awesome for learning how to master it. Only negative point is that the course should go more in depth on advanced stuff because I believe people will be capable of getting stuff like networking towards the end of this, it’s overall good though.” (Daniel Grieco)

“Thanks for awesome course! I found this course really engaging, it even encouraged me to go and get my Computer Science degree! The course starts with basics of C# and unity, from really simple projects (at first they were too trivial to me, but only then I have realised that they just cement the basics of C#’s language), and then throws at you some chunky other projects which teach you various aspects of Unity and C#. What i felt in the end was a slight regret that we did not cover everything Unity Engine has to offer, but that is for us to explore and probably even monetize! Knowledge gained here totally has usage in for example Unreal Engine. When you combine it with other courses you get extreme flexibility in terms of creating your totally own games! TL;DR: This course is meant for all begginers and game-maker wannabee’s like me and probably a lot of other people! Thanks again guys and keep on with the good work! Jakub” (Jakub Duchniewicz)

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Hi, I’m Ben. I have a degree in computing from Imperial College London, and a physics diploma from the Open University. I started working for myself at the age of 15, and never looked back. I explored careers as varied as being a commercial pilot, stunt-man, rock climbing instructor, and more. None of these provided a continued challenge, and stable income in the same way technology does. After building and selling a home computer support business, I became an angel investor and business mentor here in Cambridge UK. I fell in love with teaching game development through one of my investments, and I now spend all of my time sharing my passion with people like you. I can’t wait to help you experience the fulfilment, and financial freedom, that having a deep understanding of technology brings. So why not start learning to make games with me and my team now? See you soon! Ben

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<h1>Shoot Camera For Under $400</h1>

Cameras › Camera Finder › Point & Shoot Camera Price Record. Underwater customized white steadiness color has consistently been the perfect point and shoot camera reviews in the trade for years, with Panasonic solely with the ability to catch up more just lately. On this respect, the Z3C won't be everyone's cup of tea, with its laborious, critical strains being a far cry from the sexy curves of HTC's One series , to name only one instance.

This is the benefit of compact zoom cameras such because the Canon - the same range lens on a dSLR can be monumental and really heavy. Finally, the COOLPIX comes bundled with cutting-edge Wi-FI and GPS capabilities, making it simple and convenient to transfer pictures and helpful knowledge across gadgets.

From what I've read, the Mark 1 G1X is likely to be just a little gradual in focusing, gradual in continuous taking pictures mode and has restricted shut-focusing capability however that large sensor is an enormous plus level for producing top quality images. Along with offering powerful inventive and connectivity functions, the PowerShot N contains a 2.8-inch capacitive, tilt-touch panel LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, permitting customers to seize inventive photos at distinctive angles.

Internally, it distinguishes itself for the different firmware by Leica. Even in case you over- or below-exposed, it's often possible to avoid wasting a shot due to the additional latitude. The LX10 can focus precisely in low gentle, and its image stabilization allows for low shutter speeds to reduce picture noise.

Our level & shoot digicam finalists in this evaluation provide great extensive-angle lens solutions by the unique manufacturer or a excessive-quality third-party answer. The digicam may be shot at 4K 24p from the complete sensor width, but we suspect most users will want to shoot the 30p option which has smoother motion.

To remain relevant and entice people to make use of a dedicated compact digital camera quite than their smartphones, Sony packed all their greatest options into the RX100 models with out holding something again. Best compact cameras 2017: The perfect point and shoot cameras available to buy as we speak.

Nonetheless, although this will likely sport a classic look, its capabilities are nothing but trendy and superior. We feature an outstanding array of high brand name cameras - from basic digital pocket fashions to skilled digital SLR's - all at very competitive prices.

The OM-D E-M1 Mark II has so many superb features it is tough to pick out only a few for dialogue. If you're in search of something more flexible then the Panasonic LX100 (further up the web page) might be the route to go down, not that both models are distinctly comparable.

Cheap care, not capturing in moist or dusty climate, and correct storage will protect most cameras just tremendous. In terms of travel lenses for the a7R II, Sony just lately released a very spectacular 24-70mm f/2.8 (the previous 24-70mm lens is first rate however has an f/4 maximum aperture).

The Canon PowerShot G5 X has the identical sensor as our prime pick and contains a zoom lens that reaches 100mm (versus 72mm), plus a totally articulated rear screen and an OLED viewfinder. I am actually very please with the camera - the zoom is superb, the shutter is fast, it does very well in low-mild situations - I've not often need the flash.

In case you ignore the depth for comparability purposes, the G1X is 10% larger in width x peak. The simplistic PL90 touts a 12.2 megapixel sensor, 4x optical zoom, a 2.7-inch LCD round again and a VGA (640 x 480) movie mode with 30fps and 15fps choices. The CL65 makes use of GPS expertise to robotically geo-tag digital photographs, recording the latitude and longitude of the place on the planet every photo is taken.

This Canon is full of nice options: 20.1-MP CMOS sensor, built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, video mode (it even has a time-lapse possibility). Compact cameras offer you powerful performance and professional quality, together with many different awesome features in a conveniently compact body.

With such an enormous zoom, it's a necessity to have effective constructed-in picture stabilisation - one thing that the Fujifilm FinePix S9200 excels at with its lens shift IS know-how. It's a very small digicam, which will easily slip into your pocket or bag, which implies you may actually take it wherever.

Regardless of the taking pictures circumstances, the EX2F delivers top-caliber picture high quality, because of various features. And Nikon gave this model a three.zero-inch contact screen LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, which is going to help starting photographers be taught to make use of this camera more rapidly.

Having spent a good period of time with the new Xperia Z3 Compact, I can simply advocate it as the most effective small Android smartphone. So, if you have boatloads of money to burn and you have your coronary heart set on the most effective of the perfect, that is not reason sufficient to spring for Sony's spectacular engineering feat.

Even should you're not yet in a position to take pleasure in such video, capturing in 4K has its benefits. The 2.8-inch, 461k-dot capacitive touchscreen is mounted at a slight angle, making it attainable to take overhead and decrease-angle pictures just by rotating the complete digicam.

The Panasonic LX100 is like the company's LX15 (above) on steroids. Since these cameras are supposed for newbie level photographers that don't have any knowledge about pictures, due to this fact, these cameras need to be very easy to function for everybody.

Our contenders here use 1-inch sensors that have nearly four occasions the imaging area of those found in an iPhone, a gap that was remarkable just some years in the past. The PowerShot G16 digital camera builds upon the success of the PowerShot G15 by using a few of Canon's most progressive technologies.

Sony entered the premium compact market in 2012 with their RX100 model and, through the years, have launched four extra models: RX100 II, RX100 III, RX100 IV and the RX100 V. It is CES week , and as such, high time for Samsung to flood the planet with point-and-shoot cameras to cater to our each whim, temper and worth point.

The Sony a6500 is the one other digicam within the APS-C vary, mirrorless or SLR to present the Nikon D500 , our prime pick for crop sensor SLR, a run for its cash. Features and magnificence of the LX100 + latest 1 inch sensor (or even the most recent 20mp M43) = one thing I'd in all probability buy, since I've come to dislike lugging an ILC around once I'm not particularly on a photograph trip.

For those who shoot a lot of videos and require 4K resolutions, the RX100 IV is undoubtedly the mannequin for you. The electronic viewfinder is class-main, while the display screen's tilting mechanism can also be useful for a variety of different angles - it is only a disgrace it is not contact-sensitive.

Nonetheless, this digital camera supplies above-average photo high quality in a small body due to its 1-inch 20.1 million-pixel CMOS sensor and four-magnification optical zoom. With a simple tilt, users can now easily access key options resembling Good Auto, film, and program mode.

Ask a photographer what kind of digital camera gives you the very best photographs and they'll likely suggest a big, costly SLR—but for many casual shooters they're simply too cumbersome for day-to-day use. Until recently, it was straightforward to define compacts as low cost cameras, with small sensors and, consequently, with a low picture quality, especially with poor gentle, however at this time it is not like that anymore.

In brief, Canon's ELPH 330 HS is an ideal alternative for anyone looking for a strong, moveable digicam without having to interrupt the financial institution. When utilizing Bluetooth 2.zero, the CL65 will robotically resize the digital image to finest fit the decision of the host display screen it will be displayed on.

Though the subject is considered one of an excellent debate, skilled photographers are likely to agree that a DSLR digital camera maintain its worth longer than some extent and shoot. Nauticam, Ikelite, Sea & Sea and Aquatica are only a few manufacturers that providing sturdy and protected housings on your camera.

Whatever the glass, the M3 managed to capture beautiful photographs for probably the most half, even in low-gentle situations. I wish to journey very a lot and take photos of my trips. Samsung combines tremendous-shiny pictures with easy sharing in the new SENSIBLE DIGITAL CAMERA EX2F.

For a tool that's attempting to capture all of life's moments, this might truly result in a whole lot of missed shots. Its most burst pace of two.5 frames per second is fairly gradual, even by cheap compact digital camera requirements, so it will battle to catch the action at, say, your kids' weekend video games.

The EX2F additionally incorporates full handbook management in addition to Aperture and Shutter Precedence modes. Prime lenses do not zoom at all, however at all times produce higher high quality photographs. Travel images requires capturing photos in a wide range of circumstances and generally unexpectedly.

A reasonably priced underwater housing is on the market from Canon, Fantasea makes an alternate rated to 60m, and Nauticam a specialist housing rated to 100m which allows the usage of non-obligatory underwater lenses. Not that we think that'll be essentially the most used feature of this digicam.

The camera's footprint makes it too cumbersome to slide in a pocket, as we had been in a position to do with the Sony RX100 , though the flip-out AMOLED display is definitely a welcome addition. Gallery: Sony RX100 Mark II pattern photographs 22 Photographs. The colour proper out of the digital camera in Lightroom seems fantastic and the image quality is among the many greatest for a Micro 4/three sensor digital camera.