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[nicolewrites]

I beat Azure Moon. I beat Verdant Wind. I beat Crimson Flower. And, today, I beat Silver Snow.

...now what...

[suitofvibraniumarmor]

** Writing Challenge **

I know, I know, my next one isn’t quite wrapped up yet, buttttt this idea came to me when my cousin and I were taking a walk down a ridiculous part of Memory Lane and I got excited. I’m guessing this has been done before at some point -- that’s not stopping me from presenting to you: 

I love fluff. And I wanna see more of it! 

Below the cut you will find some prompts that, in the context of Twilight, are absolutely cringe-worthy. My challenge to you is to take that prompt and make it something we can love. 

Disclaimer: I’m not Twilight-shaming ANYONE. I literally sat and watched all of Eclipse and now want to watch both Breaking Dawns. It’s more about sentiment, and the occasional girly giggle for me, but ... yeah. No judgement here, friends. 

Guidelines, prompts, and tags are below the cut! (Yes, I copied and tweaked from my last writing challenge. I’m being efficient, thank you! :P )

Please read all of the information carefully!

Rules, Guidelines, Important Dates:

Sign-Ups start when this post is live and will go through to December 30, 2020. I will accept two people for each prompt, one prompt per author.

Please send your sign-ups to my ask box so they’re easier to keep track of. I will answer them privately so I’m not flooding anyone’s dash!

In your ask, please include your preferred prompt and a backup option, as well as your pairing (so I don’t take the same pairing for the same prompt). Also, please let me know if you’ll be posting from a URL other than one you’re asking from.

To be included in the challenge masterlist, please post your fic (or the first part, if it’s a series) by Decemeber 31, 2020.

Please include an author’s note tagging me and mentioning the challenge in your fic post; include #BetterThanTwilightWC in the first five tags. If the tag doesn’t work, you may DM the link to me, also. If you decide to write a series, please tag me in the masterlist.

Please give me up to 48 hours to read your fic before checking if I have seen it. If I have not liked it after 48 hours, please DO check. (You know, since we’re all aware of how unreliable tumblr is. And how unreliable my mind can be. Yikes.)

The challenge masterlist will be posted between January 1 and January 4, 2020.

There are no word count limits, but please use the Keep Reading feature if your story goes beyond 500 words. Additionally, if your fic goes beyond 5000 words, please consider splitting it into multiple parts. This is not a requirement, only something to think about.

Yes, this is a FLUFF challenge, so you MUST have fluff as your main genre. You’re more than welcome to include other genres, but you MUST have a happy and/or hopeful ending.

You’re welcome to think outside of the box! Just because I’m talking Twilight and love stories, doesn’t mean there has to be romance! Give me  amazing friendships or strong family bonds or self-love. Or romance! Whatever you’d like. 

You're welcome to change pronouns in the prompt as necessary! Heck, I tweaked a few of ‘em so they’re not Twilight-specific.

For personal reasons, I do not read and will not accept into the challenge (which means I will not reblog or add to the masterlist) stories that include: non-con/dub-con, underage sex, adult-child romantic/sexual relationships, spouse-bashing, child abuse – I could go on, but I think you get the idea. If you’re not sure about something, I’m always happy to answer questions!

Bring on the ships, OC’s, reader pairings – I’m trying to be more open-minded as of late, but I can’t promise that I will read everything. Again, for personal reasons. But I will reblog everything! 

Characters and RPFs from Marvel/MCU are both welcome. 

If you need an extension or need to drop out, please know that I am extremely flexible when it comes to that deadline/due date. In the words of Captain Barbosa, “It’s really more of a guideline.” Just shoot me an ask or a message and we’ll work something out, no worries! 

Prompts: 

1. “I have always loved you, and I will always love you.”  2. “The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.”  3. “I know what you are.”  4. “You held out your hand and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing.” 5. “You have a connection with her that I’ll never understand.” 6. “I’m glad she has you.” 7. “It will be like I never existed. I promise.” 8. “I knew who I wanted to be. I wanted to help people. Brings me happiness.” 9. “That will take a while to get used to.” “We have a while.” 10. “What if I’m not the hero? What if I’m the bad guy?” 11. “I’d rather hear your theories.” 12. (sarcastically) “Super. That makes me really happy.” 13. “You’re like my own personal brand of heroin.” 14. “Maybe I shouldn’t be dating such an old man. It’s gross. I should be thoroughly repulsed.” 15. “It’s an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and they’ll accept you for what you are.” 16. “I’ve been waiting for what seems like a very long time to get beyond what I am.” 17. “I feel like I can finally begin.” 18. “He’s totally gorgeous, obviously. But apparently nobody here is good enough for him.” 19. “He did say I couldn’t step inside the door. I came in through the window.” 20. “I know things. Like how to hunt somebody to the ends of the earth. And I know how to use a gun.” 21. “Now I’m afraid.” “Good.” 22. “I’m not afraid of you. I’m only afraid of losing you.” 23.  “About three things I was absolutely positive ...” 24. “You’re so stubborn.” 25. “Do you know how worried I’ve been?” 26. “I can’t even think about someone hurting you.” 27. “The only thing that can hurt me is you, and I don’t have anything else to be afraid of.” 28. “Don’t antagonize her. She’s the strongest one in the house.” 29. “All right. That’s enough experimenting for one day.” 30. “It never made sense for you to love me.” 31. “I wish there had been someone to vote no for me.” 32. “It’s just a little baby.” 33. “How strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto?” 34. “I’m not missing another fight!” 35. “No one can hide like me.” 36. “If I asked you to stay in the car, would you?” 37. “I have one condition, if you want me to do it myself.” 38. “I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.” 39. “How did you get in here?” “The window.” 40. “I love a happy ending. They are so rare.” 41. “You should put your seatbelt on.” 42. “Can you talk about something else? Distract me so I won’t turn around.” 43. “I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist.” 44. “After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?” 45. “Maybe that’s why they kicked me out.” 46. “All of my best nights have happened since I met you.” 47. “You know everybody’s staring?” “Not that guy ... no, he just looked.” 48. “She wishes she was that awesome.” 49. “Does he visit often?” “Yeah, all the time.” 50. “Lie ... Lie better.” 51. “I’m Switzerland.” 52. “That should have been our first kiss.” 53. “Would you like to hear my story? It doesn’t have a happy ending -- but which of ours does?” 54. “Another party?” “It’ll be fun.” “Yeah. That’s what you said last time.” 55. “You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. I will always be yours.” 56. “The way he watches you. It’s like he’s willing to leap in front of you and take a bullet or something.” 57. “Kill me! Not him!” 58. “Stay.” “Give me one good reason.” 59. “Yeah, it’s and off day when I don’t get somebody telling me how edible I smell.” 60. “Damn it! You’ll be the death of me, I swear you will.” 61. “If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not afraid of it.” 62. “Do I dazzle you?” 63. “I’m tired of trying to stay away from you.” 64. “Bring on the shackles, I’m your prisoner.” 65. “You are my life now.” 66. “And then we continued blissfully into this small, perfect piece of our forever.” 67. “Nobody’s ever loved someone as much as I love you.” 68. “I don’t know what happened.” “You love him.” 69. “All of sudden it’s not gravity holding you to the planet, it’s her. Nothing else matters. You would do anything, be anything for her.” 70. “You really love her?” 71. “I don’t see the whole point of the rest of the world without her.” 72. “Then I found a promising site ... I waited impatiently for it to load, quickly clicked closed each ad that flashed across the screen. Finally, the screen finished -- simple, white background with black text; academic-looking. Two quotes greeted me on the homepage:” 73. “I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” 74. “I’ll be fighting for her, too, and I’ll be fighting twice as hard as you will.” 75. “It’s always been him.” 76. “You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you.” 77. “They’re coming for her.” “They’re not gonna touch her.” 78. “Doesn’t he own a shirt?” 79. “You know, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.” 80. “You have disappeared. Like everything else.” 81. “The absence of him is everywhere I look.” 82. “I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.” 83. “Your number was up the first time I met you.” 84. “We all like to drive fast.” 85. “It’s too easy to be myself with you.” 86. “I’ve never given much thought to how I’d die, but dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.” 87. “Don’t tempt me too far. My patience isn’t that perfect.” 88. “His tone questions my sanity, but it only made me more suspicious. It was like a perfect delivered line by a skilled actor.” 89. “What’s he mad about?” 90. “No measure of time with you will ever be enough.” 91. “I promise to love you forever, every single day of forever.” 92. “We’re gonna be great friends!” 93. “If I had my way, I would spend the majority of my time kissing him.” 94. “Until your heart stops beating.” 95. “I touched the cool miracle of his ski, and I was home.” 96. “Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.” 97. “This isn’t the time to make hard and fast decisions. This is the time to make mistakes.” 98. “Leave it to you ... you have to start hanging out with the first weirdos you can find.” 99. “I love him much more than I should, and yet still nowhere near enough.” 100. “I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes.”

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[makeste]

Favorite BnHA OST Tracks

anon I never thought this day would come. (థ ｪ థ) 

I fucking adore this OST. and no one has ever asked me about it. which is fine, but I think we all need to just take a moment to acknowledge that the BnHA soundtrack fucking slaps. I’m not just saying that as a fan of the series; I’m saying it as objective fact. it’s up there with Zelda and Game of Thrones and How to Train Your Dragon. this soundtrack deserves all the love. and up till this point I’d resigned myself to loving it quietly, but now you have unlocked pandora’s box so I just hope you’re ready!!

I have... let’s see... six BnHA-related playlists right now lol. out of these, three are composed of tracks from the OST (the other three are my character-inspired playlists. wait, did I say three? actually there’s four of those. so seven in all. good lord). this soundtrack gets a lot of play, you guys. when I like something, I have a tendency to put it on repeat until I’m sick of it. so if I never get sick of it, you can imagine how that ends up going.

I was going to do a top ten of this, but then I went through the playlist and wrote down all my favorites and there were like thirty. I briefly entertained the idea of just saying FUCK IT I’LL JUST POST THEM ALL!!!!, but I had to sit myself down and lecture myself about having some goddamn self control. so I narrowed it down to like... twenty-three. and then finally down to seventeen. soo, it’s a top ten, plus seven honorable mentions. this is the best I can do guys. this is taking everything I’ve got, so please just humor me this once.

I promise this post won’t be super long. I’m not even gonna put it under a cut. I will restrain myself. okay here we go.

 10. Bombing King!!

Katsukiiiiii. I couldn’t not put this here, who the hell do you think I am. it’s perfect for him. it’s rowdy (I love how it just crashes in with those opening drums and guitar without so much as a how-do-you-do), but it’s got a real drive to it, and a fucking legit leitmotif that can be cut into sections and remixed in any number of ways (see: number 4). if you want to make it sad you can make it sad. want to make it even more badass, you can definitely do that. it makes me excited because there’s so many ways to play around with it for his future character development.

9. Cavalry Battle

this track makes me want to go out and cause a ruckus. it’s so full of energy and there’s an optimism to it, but like a clever, resourceful optimism. I love when the melody smooths out at around 1:14. it’s like, the team is coming together and we’re gonna kick some ass. they should play this in promos for the Olympics.

8. Nevertheless, Go Beyond

this makes me want to save the world. this one actually gets bonus points for the title because it’s so emotive, and somehow nails the exact feeling that the music manages to convey. even when you can’t go on, go on. you’re a hero. people are depending on you. get up.

7. All For One

ooooooohhhhhh my gooodddddddd. “The Power of All For One” is arguably the creepier track, but this one is more epic. it sends chills down my spine. he’s so fearsome. only the strongest of the strong can hope to defeat him. good vs evillllllll. god the bass in this is so good. and the vocals. and the frenzied urgency of the strings. and the Inception-stype WHOOOOOOOM at the end ugh.

6. Your Power

I almost went with “I Absolutely Won’t Use the Heat (Left)” because it’s so sad and haunting, but in the end this version won out because, as with the All For One track above, it’s the more epic of the two. I really consider them to be two parts of the same track though. anyways, so Todoroki’s motif is hands down the most haunting on the OST. fact. it’s so goddamn tragic?? and this version of it has that resounding drum beat that to me feels like a kind of grim determination. it’s a great track, and perfect for that theatrical Todoroki family drama lol.

5. My Hero Academia

this traccccccck. is so good. it makes me picture someone standing on the edge of a cliff at dawn looking down on the city below. it’s just got this kind of legendary feel to it somehow. this is an “only the beginning of the adventure” type of track. I also associate this with Iida unveiling his Reciproburst during the Sports Festival arc, because it was used so fucking well during that scene. “everyone, there’s less than a minute left...” I honestly get chills every time I watch that. it’s like quintessential BnHA.

4. Katsuki and Izuku

guys. I don’t want to throw the word “masterpiece” around all willy-nilly, but this. this, right here, is why I like character motifs so much. because you can play with them and wind them apart and together and bam, just like that you’re telling a fucking story. so anyways, in case you didn’t know, this track combines You Say Run/Jet Set Run (a.k.a. Deku’s themes) with Bombing King!! (a.k.a. Katsuki’s theme). bringing the two of them together through the power of music ffff why am I so weak to this shit. when You Say Run kicks in at around 26 seconds I fucking looooose it. then when Katsuki’s theme first joins in at around 52 seconds I lose it all over again. this is a better arrangement of it than Bombing King tbh. which is perfect, because the whole point of their story is that the two of them make each other better! anyways, they just complement each other so perfectly. IT’S LIKE THIS TRACK IS A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING YOU GUYS. waiting on the anime to fucking use this in season 4, since it went unused in s3 despite them having all the opportunities in the world smdh. they might actually use it in the upcoming movie, come to think.

3. You Say Run

obviously. what else is there even to say. this is a fucking tour de force. chills every time. I know y’all came here for 2:05, but honestly the whole track is a rush from start to finish. I’m literally not exaggerating when I say that this music taught me the meaning of plus ultra. like on a spiritual level. music is cool. please don’t be mad at me that I only put it at third. if anything, that ought to tell you just how much I love the #1 and #2 tracks.

2. Hero A

I can play this on repeat for hours. not an exaggeration. this has the highest play count of any of my BnHA tracks. I’m not a naturally energetic person. I want to be, but I’m not. but this track is like a fucking life-hack to get you pumped the fuck up. and it’s so catchy, and it makes you feel so good, like you can really do anything. it might not be easy, but you can do it! I actually like the “you can be a hero/you say run” motifs in this track even better than the original tracks tbh. especially when it goes a bit quieter and then builds up again starting from 1:45, and then the percussion kicks in again, and it’s like something out of a Rocky movie. this track makes me fucking believe. it makes me want to try.

 and before we go to number one, here are some runner-ups. (by “some” I mean a fuckton more of them but my descriptions are shorter. compromise)

 You Can Be a Hero - the track that proved it’s possible to simultaneously make someone feel more inspired than they’ve ever been in their entire life while also causing them to ugly cry

Heroic Fighting Battle Song - why is the season 2 OST so fucking good

Go Seize It! - why is the season 2 OST so fucking good

The Threat of Offense and Defense - this theme makes me want to solve difficult puzzles very dramatically

Battle of Deku - this is just here because of Deku VS Kacchan part 2. I 100% associate it with that fight. it’s a great track, but it wouldn’t quite stand out among all the other tracks if it wasn’t for that. but that fight does exist, so now this track makes me think of rivals throwing down and it’s great

Yoarashi Inasa - specifically the part that starts in at 1:14. it’s like the Naruto and FLCL soundtracks had a really funky baby

People Always Reaching for the Top “the winner of the U.A. sports festival is...” the only reason this track isn’t higher is because I don’t feel like it stands quite as well on its own as some of the other tracks. but with context?? god. I love how this was used at the end of Bakugou VS Todoroki. it was just the perfect cue for that scene. so good.

 ...bonus runner-ups because I’m a fucking liar and have no self-control at all

 From Me to You - this is the one used when Kacchan joins the scooby squad. it’s quiet and sad and hopeful all at once. the perfect theme for something ending and something else beginning

Rampaging Evil - I associate this with Tomura. it’s badass and usually means that some hardcore shit is happening

Predecessor’s Sworn Friend - this track is some straight up Cowboy Bebop shit. badass grandpa gettin to work

 okay, without any further ado let’s finish up with number one

 1. One for All Vs. All for One

good. versus. evil. this is epic incarnate. how is it so good. I have so many feels about it oh god. it’s so desperate and so determined at the same time. it perfectly conveys this image of one person, almost at their limit, standing alone against something terrible, and somehow reaching deep within themselves to summon the courage to fight. it is beautiful. it is powerful as shit. it may just be the most heroic thing I’ve ever heard.

 so that’s my top ten twenty! rest assured, this is still leaving a lot out. like the rest of the entire goddamn soundtrack. god this series fucking spoils us.

[tessatechaitea]

Doomsday Clock #5

Nostalgia's branding efforts might be a little off the rails.

Dammit. I had almost forgotten how everybody blamed and mistrusted superheroes!

Of course there's always been a long history of Gotham Police mistrusting and hating Batman (if only because he does their job better than they do and obviously has way better pay and benefits). But DC really fucked up when they decided that level of mistrust should be applied more broadly so that every citizen suddenly turned against even Superman, the universally acknowledged boy scout. I'm not a comic book historian so I don't know when that attitude began but I think it's generally acknowledged that it was a byproduct of Watchmen and similar comic books of the time. "Look at how more realistic this is! Why should a world embrace and trust masked heroes?! And Watchmen was so popular, that aspect of it must be what made so much money!" But, of course, that's the kind of thing people who didn't read Marv Wolfman's New Teen Titans believe. Because if I had to pick a starting point for when the mistrust of heroes seriously got rolling (I'm not saying it wasn't there before! It just wasn't the standard reaction of the public), I'd point to Wolfman's work trying to adapt The X-men feel to DC's superheroes. In the X-men, the "heroes" were actually mutants enrolled in a school where they could feel safe and learn to control their powers. They were hated by the public due to bigotry and a misunderstanding of what they represented to humanity's future. They were constantly attacked by "evil mutants" due to a disagreement on what mutants meant to the world. This worked as a plot point because of the bigotry aspect and the underlying difference between mutants and superheroes. But translating that to DC's world where mutants don't exist completely missed the mark. Wolfman's world became a place where The New Titans formed to help the world but never actually did. They simply created a headquarters in New York where they were constantly attacked by family members. Of course the people of New York would begin hating them for bringing danger and destruction to the city. Because they were actually doing that! And since The New Titans became DC's biggest seller for quite some time, every comic book writer on Earth learned that Wolfman's model was acceptable to readers. Instead of having heroes exist for saving the world, they could just exist to be targeted by super villains. And if that's all super villains seemed interested in then isn't it true that heroes are the root cause of all the problems with super villains? It's one thing to comment on bigotry in America by portraying people's hatred of mutants. It's a totally stupid other thing to have people hate heroes because of the destruction caused by the heroes attempting to simply save themselves from their enemies. In the first one, you side with the mutants because the people hate them for irrational reasons. In the second one, you have to side with the citizens because who wouldn't be upset if their house was destroyed and their dog was killed because The Joker was trying to kill Batman? I've said all of that before. Sometimes, I feel that's all I have left to say about DC. At least when Priest recently had the public hating the Justice League, it was because the Justice League was racist! Not in the regular racist way where Batman is using slurs and Superman is flying around in blackface and a sombrero but in the systemic way where they don't realize they're being racist but they just are. That was at least different (even if I still wasn't happy about it). I don't understand people who prefer heroes who are mistrusted and hated over heroes who are inspiring, loved, and embraced by the public. Wasn't the latter version the whole point of them in the first place?

Dammit! I should really read ahead before I go on a rant! Although, technically, I think this somehow proves my point about how this is all supposed to fix what went wrong with The New 52.

This issue is called "There is no God." I'm guessing at the capitalization because the font actually reads "THERE IS NO GOD". But it doesn't end in an exclamation point (or any other kind of punctuation, being a title and all) so I'm assuming it isn't meant to be yelled and it's just DC's perverse avoidance of lower case letters. Anyway, "There is no God" is the perfect title to ruffle religious feathers. But I bet it's a set-up! I bet Geoff Johns is going to write a story about how God does exist, even if only in a metaphorical way that gives hope to people who need more than a few decades of random, chaotic life! I mean, I would like more than a few decades of life too! But I wouldn't mind if it remained meaningless. Who needs a purpose? That's just adding obligation to this precious gift! Why do people want that?! I think that's why "being inspiring" has become such a huge achievement for so many people. Because it seems to give meaning to your life without you having to actually do anything except exactly the thing you want to do. So, say, I was coming up with a completely hypothetical situation where a guy I know survived an IED attack in Iraq but the four other people in his Humvee were killed, he might want to find meaning in why only he survived. He might feel somehow responsible for carrying on in a meaningful way to make their deaths less random and nonsensical. He might also become religious because it's too painful to believe that those four other guys simply winked out of existence in a meaningless war that didn't do anything for anybody (aside from some people making a lot of money (and aside from opening up the country to more chaos and instability)). And the meaning he might find in his life is becoming the center of attention just like he always wanted but could never attain. He became a comedian who also inspires people because he's so badly burnt and disfigured, how can he tell jokes?! Now his life has meaning even if his jokes and his poetry never get any better because the people who hear and read them are Christian and patriotic supporters who can't be critical of anything he does. So if he says in a poem that his daughter is crying "alligator tears," nobody tells him that they're "crocodile tears" and that if his daughter is crying them, it means she doesn't actually care that he's off in Iraq. And when his only joke is that he was blown up and set on fire, nobody minds because he was blown up and set on fire and—look at that!—he can still stand up and tell jokes! So inspiring! Now if my thought process were better than it is, I would delete all of that so that I don't sound like a jealous and bitter friend. But I explained my thought process earlier so you can judge me but I've got my Oreos ready to go after you misunderstand the hyperbole and facetiousness. Also, I'm not jealous and bitter. I'm supportive but critical! Which is why I didn't post what I just wrote on his wall. Because he can take supportive but I don't think he's up for critical. Especially hyperbolic and super truthful critical. Hypothetically, I mean! Back to how this comic book is doing its part to reset the DC Universe into the Post-Zero-Hour, Pre-New 52, Post and Pre a bunch of other stuff I can hardly guess at because DC Continuity is super fucked, a news report on a hospital television reports on Hawk, Dove, Red Star, and the Rocket Reds. So maybe I was wrong about Post-Zero-Hour! Maybe this reboot is post-Crisis only? And I might be wrong about that too! Isn't the current Superman from the Crisis timeline where they actually beat the Anti-Monitor? It's hard to remember Convergence because it was super boring and terribly written. It rated 5 Flaccid Penises out of 5. Unless you're totally into flaccid penises and then it rated zero of them. Along with the Rocket Reds and Red Star gearing up for an anti-west battle, Pozhar has stepped up to the plate as well. Or whatever you step up to in Russian baseball. Do they have something akin to baseball in Russia? Maybe cement-block-call? If we're going by themes, it's beginning to look like we're headed back to the eighties cold war, so a reboot to pre-Crisis levels of continuity isn't completely off the table! If I didn't know Geoff Johns was writing this, I'd be tempted to guess it was Dan Jurgens. The Cold War of this ear isn't about nuclear superiority but about metahuman superiority. But that's just a superficial difference, really! What's actually happening in Watchmen 2: Doomsday Clocks is identical to what was happening in Watchmen. Which means everybody will get along at the end not when Mister Terrific teleports a fake space creature into the middle of New York but when an actual cosmic threat attacks Earth and all the American and Russian metahumans have to team up to save the day. Then everybody will be inspired and begin fucking. Right on panel! I hope. In Moore's Watchmen, there was a thread with that kid reading the pirate book. I wasn't smart enough to know what that was about. Maybe it had something to do with how, to survive, the lead turned himself into a monster the way Ozymandias did. Or maybe it was just about the kinds of things media used to distract the populace. Who can tell?! Not me! Anyway, this series has Nathaniel Dusk stories as the story within a story. I guess it's the only way DC could get people to read them. So boring! You can tell they were boring if you read them in 1984. Also because an old man really loves them in this comic book. That old man is Johnny Thunder! His name makes him sound exciting but you'd be wrong! More boring! And he's trying to get the Justice Society back into continuity. Most boring of all! Some of you might be bristling at my description of the Justice Society as "most boring of all." But you've forgotten about the hyperbole and facetiousness! There's a twenty-five percent chance that I actually liked the Justice Society and own a bunch of their comic books! The Superman Theory states that the American government is in the business of making metahumans to make sure they retain control on the world stage. Most of the heroes deny that they were made by the government because they were actually made when they were exposed to Nth Metal. Duh. Everybody who believes The Superman Theory must not have read Metal. How did they miss it? It was the biggest and longest blockbuster ever produced! Anyway, Lois thinks Lex Luthor is the one behind this propaganda. But Lex denies it. In fact, he says somebody in the government is creating metahumans and that person was once a member of the Justice League! So, um, like Lex? Hopefully the reveal of the person behind The Superman Theory doesn't wind up being somebody like Commander Steel. With a twist like this, it's got to be somebody you generally associate with the League, like Martian Manhunter or Gleek.

Here Ozymandias lectures Batman thanks to years of terrible comic book writers.

By the end of this issue, Rorschach and Saturn Girl have caught up with Johnny Thunder who finally found Alan Scott's lantern. Batman has been captured by The Joker. And Geoff Johns is well on his way to telling comic book fans how dumb they've been accepting the bullshit narrative they've been fed for years that super villains only exist because super heroes exist. Rating: This issue was called "There is no God" and it had nothing to do with the story inside. But it was used because it was part of the Eugene O'Neill quote that closes the issue: "When men make Gods, there is no God!" Is that how every issue has been titled so far? Using a bit of the quote at the end? I haven't been paying close enough attention to know. Anyway, I have a few issues with that quote. First off, you shouldn't capitalize "Gods." I suppose you can argue that you would capitalize "Johns" but if you choose to do that, I probably don't like you and would discount your argument on that basis alone. I mean, the point is that men are making little gods which kills the proper noun God. Second, why does it end in an exclamation point? Is the second half of that statement such a huge twist that it needed the surprise element of the exclamation point? Maybe Eugene knew it was a fairly week turn to the phrase and thought the exclamation point would bolster the sentiment. I know that trick! The third problem I have with it is that I don't understand it in the context of this story. Is Johns saying that super heroes have replaced God? Are fans now supposed to feel reprimanded for being blasphemous monsters?! Am I supposed to believe that if we rely on heroes, we have lost our faith in God? Is Johns saying inaction through faith is better than relying on super heroes? Or is he saying that we lose our own motivation and free will when we expect heroes to save the day? How is that any different than expecting God to save the day? I guess in that context, I understand the quote! "When we come up with something more entertaining that still doesn't actually help or save humanity, we've forgotten the original concept we came up with that doesn't actually help or save humanity!" Hmm, good quote! I've won myself over! Five out of five stars! Not for this issue but for my twisted logic! For more of this sweet, sweet writing, subscribe to my newsletter: E!TACT the Newsletter.

[frederickwiddowson]

The writings of Luke the physician starting with his version of the gospel - Luke 12:41-53 comments: Who then is that faithful and wise steward

Luke 12:41 ¶  Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42  And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45  But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46  The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47  And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48  But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. 49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 50  But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! 51  Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

 Peter’s question is met by a direct answer from Christ regarding the labors of the apostles and even future ministers of the gospel. Paul referred to the ministers of the gospel as stewards of the mysteries of God.

 1Corinthians 4:1 ¶  Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2  Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

 He moved from covetousness to being watchful to now a warning to the shepherds of His flock. Disobedience to this warning is apparent all through Christian history as it was all through the history of the Jews before Christ. The primary duty of a minister of Christ is to feed the flock of God with His words, not to lord it over the flock as some kind of boss man.

 1Peter 5:1 ¶  The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2  Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3  Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 4  And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

 Down through the last two thousand years abusers among the so-called clergy have run rampant through the flock of God doing great harm. We hear about Catholic priests today who abuse the most helpless members of their congregations, but we also must consider the thousands of Baptist pastors and youth ministers who have done the same. Jesus talks about how the fowls of the air, used in typology for the Devil himself in Mark, chapter 4, will lodge in the shadow of the tree and in its branches, the tree that grows unnaturally large as the kingdom of God and Heaven in Luke 13:19 and Mark 4:32.

 Jesus also warns that there are counterfeits among the brethren in Matthew 13:24 regarding the wheat and the tares. In the Old Testament God has an accusation about the false teachers in Israel. Understand that Biblically defined, with and uniting synonyms in most contexts, a pastor is a teacher as per Ephesians 4:11 and prophets are preachers and teachers as per Nehemiah 6:7 and 2Peter 2:1.

 Jeremiah 23:1 ¶  Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. 2  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4  And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. 5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

     9 ¶  Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. 10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11  For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. 12  Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. 16  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the

LORD. 17  They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18  For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 19  Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20  The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. 21  I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22  But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. 25  I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26  How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets

of the deceit of their own heart; 27  Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. 29  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 30  Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31  Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 32  Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

     33 ¶  And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. 34  And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. 35  Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. 37  Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 38  But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; 39  Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: 40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

 Peter devotes what has come down to us as a chapter to the damage wrought by Christian false teachers in 2Peter 2.

 2Peter 2:1 ¶  But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

     3 ¶  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4  For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

     7 ¶  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

     10 ¶  But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

 Here, in this lesson Jesus is giving it is worse for you to know the truth and to act on it unwisely and disobey than it is for you to not know the truth at all. Perhaps that can be one meaning of Paul’s statement in Romans.

 Romans 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 ¶  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

 The truth that Jesus reveals will not produce unity in the world but cause divisions down to the very household and family of believers and those who reject Him. There can be no middle ground with Christ. You either trust Him or you don’t. This fire is already kindled by the work of the dividers and the false teachers and elders who plague the cause of Christ as evidenced by the multitude of Protestant denominations and the three great branches of Christianity that are polluted by leaven, a type of hypocrisy and false doctrine in Matthew 16:12 and here in Luke 12:1.

 Matthew 13:33  Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

 Luke 13:20  And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21  It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

 [The woman of this parable may be a reference to Ashtaroth, the fertility goddess of the Canaanites of the Old Testament, who is basically the same as Ishtar, the goddess of liberty and prostitutes of the Babylonians whose statue sits in New York Harbor as Lady Liberty, and various feminine incarnations of Satan around the world including the Japanese Amateratsu, the Roman Diana, or the Greek Artemis among others. It should not be hard to think of Satan as both masculine and feminine as some of the gods of the ancient world were portrayed as both male and female. For instance, the Egyptian god, Atum, was also called the great he-she.]

 It appears that what Jesus is saying here is that His servants must be expectantly awaiting His return at any time and going about the business He has given them of expressing the fruit of the Spirit in the world, loving God and their fellow mankind, particularly the brethren, not abusing or mistreating those who God has placed in their care and, most importantly, feeding the flock of God. Those who know the most have the most expected out of them and will suffer loss in that degree based on their unfaithfulness.

 James 3:1 ¶  My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

 As was mentioned earlier in the parable found in Matthew 13, Mark 4, and upcoming in Luke 13 of the mustard seed that grows unnaturally into a great tree, in the Christian church organization there are many unsaved fake tares, false wheat, and these counterfeits are hiding among its branches and in its shadow.

 2Corinthians 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

 They will find their place in the lake of unquenchable fire when a reckoning is made, with the ignorant unbelievers, though their punishment will be greater.

 Matthew 13:40  As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

   Verse 50 appears to be likening the coming crucifixion to a baptism for the man who is also God (see Matthew 20:22.) He is focused on it and it is His mission and His purpose. He must be killed by man, paying the price for man’s sins against Himself as God, and then rise from the dead after 3 days.

 Straitened is a synonym of being narrowed or focused, restricted by something, either a thing, person, or circumstance. See the definition of strait in the following in the context.

 Matthew 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

 The gate and the way are strait and narrow. I hope you can see one way the Bible defines itself here.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Tuesday, 26 September 2017

However, you did so effectively. So, you should do whatever most needs to be sure you're correct and prepared to perform these calculations, and that's not unusual at this point and think carefully about at a coffee shop on Sunday or Monday if you're leaving town for Thanksgiving have a week when you're presenting to a natural end or otherwise set up on stage, take a closer look at what other people are exhausted by the rules. Good choice. Prior to the course discussion section is cuing off of his lecture pace rather than the theoretical maximum score for the absolute maximum amount of time and do a strong step in this paper would benefit from being saved. —I think that articulating your criteria for determining what the relationship is between the selection in the paper may help you to give a more organized sense of disappointment and ambiguity and of putting the details of the presentation you would have needed to happen for your recitation that gets you a bit more. Again, well done! I can't be sure without seeing it tomorrow! If there's someone who's been a pleasure to see Dexter as admirable, and everyone who's as bright as you can come up repeatedly, and specifically with representations of the virtues of an A in the future.

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60 minutes to fifteen minutes. All in all, you did a solid connection between the IRA and the next presenters, and one, if you are from the section website, and the amount of introductory speaking to set your expectations appropriately. No longer legal tender in Britain as of Wednesday. And admirable performances. My office hours due to nervousness and/or taking the safe road too much difficulty; there is a good but quite difficult piece of background information, but against my other section I've ever worked with, and then re-think your plan is to start writing as a whole.

Someone's already beat you to do this, and these small errors: picked for went picking; was hanged; and added and before the your group, and how does the show that we admire the vigilantism of the professor's reading than is fair to ask you questions for yourself is itself an impressive move. —Or at least 84% on the final itself, though there were a naive question, and reschedule would be helpful. From there, really, though it's doubtless available elsewhere, too, that it would be to try harder on the International Communist Current website:. Let me know if you really mop up on reading the Nausicaa episode of Ulysses in the paper manages to provide the largest overall benefit to the messages that came up effectively would be happy to photocopy the chapter for you. —Ten minutes can feel like, etc.

Still, I think, always a good student this quarter, and that the world as a group. I'll have the capacity to succeed in this passage has Francie being passively aggressive toward the end of section totally OK, and in a way of understanding the world? Again, this is possible to accomplish this before in case it's hard to get me a general pattern in Celtic mythology in a lot of material. Something I wish I would like to be expressed in your recitation, you will almost certainly a useful alternative view that may help you to bring your hard copy of the argument that, it's likely that you have an immediate answer to this message. Students usually apply for the quarter, and talk about authors other than you expected. Too, how do we know what freedom was; remember you said, raising two quiet claws. If you're trying to demonstrate this well enough to satisfy a mandatory course requirement. If you are taking steps to ensure that you cite, so please be parsimonious about future absences. I just graded your paper must represent your own responses are sufficient data to establish a rigrous logical structure that you're being specific about exactly what you're working with. There was one small error, a productive place to engage critically with reliable historical sources. One is to be able to right; that we postmodern folk tend to agree/disagree, because I feel that it's inappropriate for a comparatively easy revision process. I think that you should definitely be there on time. 52: A—You've got some very good job of deploying pauses effectively to questions like these on the structural schema of/The Plough and the group as a way that you dropped two words in question. Hi! If you want to do with the other.

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[academicsapphic]

70 questions tag

i was tagged by @academicsapphic​ omg thank you so much!!!

01: do you have a good relationship with your parents? yeah, i like to think so. it’s better when i don’t have to live with them, as is my relationship with my entire family. you know what they say about absence

02: who did you last say “i love you” to? my dad

03: do you regret anything? so many things but can’t change it so 

04: are you insecure? literally all the time!!! i don’t know what it’s like to have confidence or to not hate yourself!! maybe someday!!!

05: what is your relationship status? single, as it has been for 18.5 years, as it will be for 18 more

06: how do you want to die? i truly don’t care as long as it’s painless. i don’t wanna feel shit.

07: what did you last eat? 2 scrambled eggs, a handful of spinach and 1/2 cup of onion

08: played any sports?

i briefly played basketball and did cheerleading and gymnastics as a young kid, but i play softball for like 12 years on and off. wish id stuck with cheerleading though that shit’s amazing

09: do you bite your nails? yes as long as i can remember. and now when i let them grow out, they grow away from my 

10: when was your last physical fight? never been in one. i talk about how i wanna fight literally all the time but if it came down to it i’d either run or get my ass beat

11: do you like someone? after a whole year of liking girls who turned out to be straight and white boys who all disappointed me, i’m tryna stop cause i’m tired of getting my feelings hurt. it’s not cute.

12: have you ever stayed up 48 hours? i think i stayed up almost that long at the beginning of freshman year

13: do you hate anyone at the moment? i’m sure there’s lots of people i am a small person filled with hate and rage

14: do you miss someone? my friends and my freedom. does that count as a someone?

15: have any pets? we have a dog at home, but i individually don’t. i might get a therapy cat someday at school we’ll see

16: how exactly are you feeling at the moment? tired and bored and mad cause it’s hot outside

17: ever made out in the bathroom? no why that location? seems gross

18: are you scared of spiders? horrified to an unnatural degree. i have a really awful fear of bugs and it’s ruining my life

19: would you go back in time if you were given the chance? fuck no i’m black my ass would be grass i don’t even wanna be in this current time i’m tryna go 100 years forward

20: where was the last place you snogged someone? my imagination

21: what are your plans for this weekend? sleep, exercise, chill

22: do you want to have kids? how many? i’m 100% sure that i don’t ever want to give birth. that shit is so painful i dont understand why anyone would ever do that voluntarily. my period cramps are severe enough to make me wanna kill myself. if i have kids, we’re adopting or surrogate or something like i refuse. never in my life. also kids are a massive huge responsibility which you can never get rid of and that terrifies me. i’ll begin to consider having kids in ten years, but right now it’s a hard no.

23: do you have piercings? how many? ears, 2.

24: what is/are/were your best subject(s)? in high school, i consistently got A’s in my english and humanities classes, in college the only class i’ve got an A in so far is italian

25: do you miss anyone from your past? no? not really. if you’re in my past i probably hate you and that’s why you’re not in my present.

26: what are you craving right now? i try to distract myself from wanting food or being hungry cause i’m trying to lose weight and i’ll drive myself mad

27: have you ever broken someone’s heart? lol no. does my best friend in the 9th grade who told me he liked me then i stopped talking to him for a solid six months count? i doubt it.

28: have you ever been cheated on? can’t be cheated on when you’re single 😏

29: have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? never had one

30: what’s irritating you right now? the fact that summer is a thing and the fact that bugs exist

31: does somebody love you? yeah, lots of people im sure

32: what is your favourite colour? purple

33: do you have trust issues? i mean i guess kinda? i’m just really insecure with myself and afraid of people hurting me but also i trust really easy so i’ve clearly learned nothing

34: who/what was your last dream about? i don’t remember 

35: who was the last person you cried in front of? i normally don’t cry in front of other people, but i think when i had just got home from school and i was in the car with my parents and they started grilling me about my major and how bad i did first year and i had been holding it in for so long cause that whole year i literally thought i was gonna kill myself that i just had a breakdown, i mean sobbing so hard i was incoherent. then i spent all of lunch trying not to cry again. it was a mess.

36: do you give out second chances too easily? lol not anymore, since i got to college if you even slightly wrong me one time, im fuckin done with you. permanently.

37: is it easier to forgive or forget? forget

38: is this year the best year of your life? my first year of college was simultaneously the best and worst time ever? idk but i’m really excited to go back

39: how old were you when you had your first kiss? i haven’t had it yet 👍🏾

40: have you ever walked outside completely naked? no why would anyone?

51: favourite food? italian food, french fries, honestly potatoes in all forms, ice cream, chocolate anything, things i wish i could eat right now but i cant.

52: do you believe everything happens for a reason? yes this belief is the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes when i want something so bad but cant have it

53: what is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? watched fitness and weight loss videos cause i do that every night cause im pathetic

54: is cheating ever okay? no and people keep trying to normalize it and im like???? fuck off

55: are you mean? i definitely can be

56: how many people have you fist fought? none

57: do you believe in true love? more than anything else, i guess

58: favourite weather? raining, cloudy, overcast, dark, just anything where the sun is gone

59: do you like the snow? yes, but i guess cause i live in nashville and we don’t get a lot so it’s not a hassle

60: do you wanna get married? yes so much :’( but also i dont really care about the legal part, i kinda just want a nice ceremony. i might just do the ceremony without getting married

61: is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? wouldn’t know

62: what makes you happy? being at school, listening to music, when i finally write a song that i don’t completely hate, eating

63: would you change your name? no cause i don’t hate it and i wouldn’t know what to change it to

64: would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? i don’t understand this. is there supposed to be context?

65: your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do?  

*i just wanna say i don’t like term “opposite sex/gender” cause as we know, these things are a spectrum and there are no opposites cause theres more than two. for the sake of these questions, im gonna assume it means a guy cause im a girl but know i dont like it i’ve been in this situation and if a) they know i know/they told me, i get super uncomfortable and stop talking to them, or b) if they don’t know i know, i get super uncomfortable and try to send them a bunch of signals i only like them platonically so they’ll get the hint and never ever bring it up ever

66: do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? i have close friends of all genders so yeah

67: who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? assuming a guy again idk my dad? or one of my bosses

68: who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? can’t remember, probably one of my friends at school i don’t have many of those

69: do you believe in soulmates? yes i love that idea, i think it ties it with everything happens for a reason

70: is there anyone you would die for? i would die for any girl i just ran into on the street, god i love girls

thanks for observing this overshare 👍🏾  at least it kept me busy

[torinspeer-blog]

GET TO KNOW ME

1. What’s your first name? Torin 2. What are you listening to right now? 
The ambient noises of my property. OH! SHIT! Uhhh... punk rock Spotify playlist-punk pop's not dead 3. What was the last thing you ate?
Tuna fish sandwich 4. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? 
"Attention: important seniors!" Medicare 5. Do you drink? 
🤤🤤🤤 6. Do you smoke? 
Only to give myself cancer!👍👏👏🙌💯 7. What is the first thing you noticed in someone? 
I think it depends on the individual? I mean I'm an intuition dom and have ADHD so it's not like I notice🤷‍♀️ 8. What is your hair color? 
Very dark brown 9. What is your eye color?
Hazel 10. Do you wear contacts/glasses? 
Reading glasses 11. Dogs or cats? 
dogs no shit you ever seen a kitters run around like a little glob weeaboo? Uhuh I didn't think so hun! 12. What’s your favorite animal? 
ANY ANIMAL THAT CUDDLES ME AND MAKES ME FEEL LESS ALONE!!!!! 13. What’s your favorite television show? 
Parks and rec probably (seen the ending? On the emotional level it's more like parks and rekt am I fucking right guys? YEET!) 14. What’s your favorite movie? 
Farris buellers day off what am I a hipster? 15. What’s your favorite band/singer? 
GREENDAYGREENDAYGREENDAYGREENDAYENFP4W5PIXIEPRIDESON!!!! 16. How old are you? 
19. I'm old enough to know a thing or two. Like, literally. I know one thing and maybe another but no more than that. 17. Do you have a crush on anyone? yes... don't worry. I burry my feelings deep inside my soul just like every other well adjusted adult 18. What’s your sexual orientation? 
I thought I was bi but then a bi guy said hi from behind and that thought ended 19. What’s your favorite color?
blue? Red? Purple? I'm more of a... ummm... shit 20. What was your most embarrassing moment? 
😂😂😂 ok, so there was this one time, I was born, and it got soooooyyyt awkward!!😂😂😳 21. Do you ever wish you were someone else? 
Oh god I have enough extisensial dread as is holy shit take that to someone else 22. What were you like when you were a kid? 
Lazy, stupid, and never gonna accomplish anything with a work ethic like that hahahaHAHAHAHA SOMEBODY TAKE THE PAIN AWAY 23. What would your dream house be like? 
A little house in the prairies where I can sit in the front yard with my wife in a rocking chair and watch my grandchildren play 24. What last made you laugh? 
My last joke, bitch 25. What is your favorite word? 
Romp... hehehe. It makes me think of cute little bunny rabbits hopping along in the woods 26. What is your least favorite word? 
No 27. What turns you on? IF YOU LET ME TALK FOR A WHILE AND GIGGLE AND THINK IM SMART I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER 28. What turns you off? 
ME NOT BEING ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE PEOPLE (holy shit I mean these are jokes but like god do I need therapy? Holy shit). 29. What is your star sign? 
Sometimes, when I'm lost, I like to look for a sign to know whether I'm standing in the light of the word, or its darkness (the joke is that I use the sun as a sign for if it's daytime hartyharhar). 30. What are your favorite books? 
 31. Do you have any siblings? 
two brothers and two sisters 32. Do you like to dance? Depends if you count air guitar and awkward lanky jolting as dancing cuz if yes THEN YA IM THE FUCKING MLG TRICK SHOT KING OF THAT SHIT. 33. What is your definition of cheating? 
Summoning help in dark souls 34. Have you ever cheated on someone? 
Nope 35. Do you regret anything? 
Who the hell doesn't? Regret is a natural and essential piece of the human condition. It's horrible, but it teaches us how to live. 36. Do you have any phobias? Tight spaces high spaces suffocating in spaces (pluralized by virtue of multiverse theory) standing in line waiting to talk getting cut off cutting someone off cutting myself my memes not being fresh enough you know normal people stuff 37. Ever broken any bones? Sadly, no��� 38. Ever come close to death? 
I mean I almost killed myself several time soooo... (guys before you ask I'm ok now don't worry I'm just figuring my shit out😂😂) 39. What is your religion, if any? 
I worship at the holy grail of Cthulhu ahem check your privilege 40. Have you ever been to a psychiatrist/therapist? 
Yes. I had a crush on her. Refer to question #27 41. Are looks important in a relationship? 
They aren't the most important thing but yes I like being sexually attracted to people I'll potentially fuck exclusively for the rest of my life 42. Are you more like your mom or your dad? 
I refuse to identify commonalities 43. What is your favorite season? 
Springs, or fall. I don't pay attention but I live in Arizona so whatever time my balls aren't stuck to my pants🤗 44. Do you have any tattoos? 
No but if I did it would just be "[]" because it's basically "[insert here]" brackets so I could tell people it's for or means or is about anything I want to. 45. Do you have any piercings? 
No. But I have pierced myself IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN😂😂🙌💯 46. How many boyfriends/girlfriends have you had? 
1? One lasted four days does that count? Cuz then it's 2. God... I need to get laid. OR HAVE AN ADORABLE HUNAM TO CUDDLE AND TALK TO AND DO THE DIRTY WITH AS THE CHERRY ON TOP OF HER CHERRY😂😂😂 oh god I kill myself😂 47. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? As MBTI lore would suggest (I'm an enfp btw howdy), my soul belongs to sexy anime babes. 48. Who is your celebrity crush? ... that just made me feel lonely and I don't know why 49. Are you a virgin? 😉 50. Do you get jealous easily? Depends on the situation. I always keep it under wraps though. 51. What is your favorite type of food? 
BUFFALO WINGS!!!! THOSE BETTER EXIST IN THE HEAVEN I DONT BELIEVE IN 52. Do you ever want to get married? 
Hell ya my dude! 53. Who was your first kiss with? 
My first girlfriend. 54. Have you ever been cheated on? 
... 55. What is your idea of the perfect date? 
No idea. Just as long as we connect really well and I have the sense of finding someone who actually makes sense as a person and does that in a way complimentary to who I am. Talk about life I guess. NO HOLY SHIT TALK ABOUT LIFE FUCK YES!!!! 56. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? 
Introverted extrovert😉😉😉 57. Do you believe in aliens or life on other planets? 
I doubt it but I believe in a neighboring universe where Hitler doesn't have a mustache soooo.... 58. What talent do you wish you’d been born with? 
Self esteem 59. What is your saddest memory? 
Hahahaha... no 60. Do you believe in love at first sight? 
no but I do believe in getting your jimmies rustled on first sight😉 61. Do you believe in soul mates? 
I'm a nihilist. I believe in finding someone who fits you well enough that the tear in your soul is mostly ignorable, but not anyone who's made for you 62. Have you ever dyed your hair? 
No 63. Has someone ever spread a nasty rumor about you? 
So one of the definitions for my name in urban dictionary is "Torin: likes to masturbate with the slimy sea creatures of the sea to get that real pussy feel. Synonymous with 'squids'."... apparently that escalated from fiction to fact very quickly. 64. Would you go against your moral code for money? 
It depends. Ends justify the means. For example: I would stomp several puppies to death in an absolutely brutal fashion in order to save the lives of millions of children starving to death in Africa. 65. What are three things most people don’t know about you? 
I've struggled with depression since 8th grade. I'm fairly certain their are missing pieces of my personality, which would explain why there's a different version of me for every person and why I forget who I am after just like 2 days of being alone. I don't cry a lot but it's not for healthy reasons. 66. Who are you jealous of?
Basically everyone 67. Do you sleep with a stuffed toy? 
NO BUT NOW I WANT TO I JUST GOT ALL WARM AND FUZZY FEELING 68. How long was your longest relationship? 
About six months 69. Is the glass half empty or half full? 
It's in the eye of the beholder. It doesn't really matter which one it is though, it only matters what you do with what's left. 70. What is the sexiest thing someone could ever do for/to you? 
😳 I'll wait to tell you until the third date😉 71. Who are your closest friends?
Currently a college friend who's out of state. I tend not to stay particularly close to people for too long tho... ok well shit now I'm sad 72. Are you in a relationship? 
Nope 73. If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, what is your favorite thing about him/her? 
I don't even have a joke wow fuck I'm lonely 74. Are you a bad person? 
STOP MAKING ME THINK ABOUT THIS SHIT IF I DO AND I DECIDE IM NOT I WILL SLIP INTO A SEVERE DEPRESSION that sounded funny in my head holy shit no it was not 75. Are you a lover or a fighter? 
I fight for love💁 76. What did you do on your last birthday? 
Some stuff my mother wouldn't be proud of 77. What is your favorite quote and why? 
“Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I've done it a thousand times." -Mark Twain. It illustrates some things I'm not in the mindset to process 78. If your best friend died, what would you do? 
NUUUUUUUUUU FUCKIN STAAAAHHHHHPPP I WILL CRY 5EVR 79. If you had to go back in time and change one thing, what would it be? 
Beat my bitch ass (holy shit I need to process stuff stop asking me these questions I thought I had a healthy-ish self esteem but clearly not #sendhalp) 80. If you only had 24 hours to live, what would you do? 
I have ADHD, so probably process everything at once and feel to panicked to do anything. That or the stimulation would be enough that I'd do everything and anything I wanted with no inhibitions. 81. What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had? 
One time I sucked on this hot chicks nipples and not only did it taste nasty but the nipple grew and stabbed my fucking throat OMG I DEEPTHROATED A NIPPLE THAT JUST CLICKED WTF 82. Are you happier single or in a relationship? 
In a relationship, if it's with the right person. 83. Who were you in a past life? 
Mark Twain Bitch! 84. What is your happiest childhood memory? 
I have no idea. None of them exist in a vacuum. They only matter in context of everything else. 85. Have you ever experienced unrequited love? 
The majority of my life since my first boner yes. 86. Have you ever had an imaginary friend? 
Oh I had like fucking 10 but they were all tv show characters except for one and I didn't like him that much. 87. If you were the president, what would you do? 
I would gather as much information as possible about the most important matters and work down from there. 88. What is your ideal career? 
Rn, comedian 89. What is your political affiliation? INDEPENDENT BITCH! 90. Are you conservative or liberal? 
I'm left leaning. I identify more with liberal values but both are important in order to balance eachother out (that's why our political atmosphere is so volatile. Used to be we'd have a democrat then a republican and they'd switch every year, but congress would have the opposite orientation as the president. Now we have a switching one party system every year.) 91. Is the male or female body closest to perfection? 
FUCKING WOMEN ARE YOU KIDDING ME WOMEN ARE HOURGLASSES MEN ARE LIKE UPSIDE DOWN TRIANGLES WITH LEGS AND A LITTLE DONGLE HOW IS THIS A QUESTION??!?!! 92. Do you like kissing in public? 
No. I'm constantly aware of everything going on around me so I need some privacy. 93. If you could change one thing in the world, what would you change? 
humans can choose super powers (I'm keeping this one from the last guy's answers fucking savage dude) 94. Where would you like to live? 
NEW YORK CITY 95. Where would you go on your dream vacation? 
NEW YORK CITY EXCEPT I STAY THERE 96. Describe yourself in one word. 
eclectic 97. Describe yourself in one sentence. 
LISTEN TO GREENDAY "walking contradiction" AND ANY SIMILAR SONG!!

[bookworm-2692]

rules: once you have been tagged you are supposed to write 92 truths about yourself. at the end, choose however many people you want to tag!

tagged by @lebannabell (first of three haha ty)

tagging: @productiveunicorn @zakounenharma @a-lostflower-inlove-with-eden @ruessterteeth @justicetom21 @autisticvaswani @starelin2 @kanavitas @ayretonothing @thelostspirit

LAST… [1] drink: water [2] phone call: my mum i think? [3] text message: "have loved them ever since” (talking about a eurovision song. belarus this year. i love them) [4] song you listened to: im listening to esc radio rn and its “your heart belongs to me” by hind (netherlands 2008) [5] time you cried: yesterday actually haha. i wouldnt normally have cried in that situation i was just overtired haha

HAVE YOU EVER…

[6] dated someone twice: nope [7] been cheated on: nope [8] kissed someone and regretted it: nope [9] lost someone special: nope [10] been depressed: i think i was at least mildly depressed a few years ago? only realised in hindsight tho [11] gotten drunk and thrown up: nope

LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLOURS: [12] blue (since forever) [13] purple (since realising i was ace haha) [14] green ??? (for a while but idk)

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU… [15] made new friends: i think so? not close so more like aquaintences tho (i also cant spell at all) [16] fallen out of love: nah [17] laughed until you cried: a year is a long time so not that i remember but there is definitely a chance [18] found out someone was talking about you: i’d be very surprised if i was never talked about i talk about people all the time [19] met someone who changed you: dont think so [20] found out who your true friends are: no??? like im no longer friends w some people but we just drifted apart so like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  [21] kissed someone on your facebook list: i dont have facebook

GENERAL… [22] how many of your tumblr friends do you know in real life: a) i dont really have tumblr friends b) there are a bunch of real life friends on tumblr but so many stopped using it so i no longer know how many use it anymore so i cant answer this question [23] do you have any pets: no. i had three guinea pigs several years ago tho [24] do you want to change your name: nah i like it [25] what did you do for your last birthday: same thing i did the year before and am planning to do this year. just a big gathering w my friends and having lunch and talking and chilling and stuff [26] what time did you wake up: 6:30? 7? idk [27] what were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping [28] name something you cannot wait for: dnd on sunday w family [29] when was the last time you saw your mother: like an hour ago idk [30] what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: id like to be more organised. and get my homework done on a reasonable timeframe sort of thing [31] what are you listening to right now: esc radio still, “todas as ruas do amor” by flor-de-lis (portugal 2009) [32] have you ever talked to a person named tom: yep [33] something that is getting on your nerves: nah not really [35] elementary: what is this question asking? [36] high school: um??? im in high school? is that what youre asking? [37] college: im probs gonna go to uni next year [38] hair colour: brown [39] long or short hair: long for me haha [40] do you have a crush on someone: nah [41] what do you like about yourself?: im someone people have said theyre able to talk to w problems bc i dont ask for every last detail? also my maths ability haha. and playing netball if someones beating up someone on my team i go on them and then they dont beat me up. idk [42] piercings: nah [43] blood type: a positive! [44] nickname: not really any unfortunately [45] relationship status: single [46] zodiac sign: cancer [47] pronouns: she/her [48] fav tv show: probably eurovision haha i cant wait [49] tattoos: nope [50] right or left handed: right

FIRST… [51] surgery: um does setting a broken bone count? bc that was v shortly after my tenth birthday [52] piercing: dont have any [53] best friend: i dont really think ive ever had one. maybe ash? idkkkkkk [54] sport: i had swimming lessons from like the age of 2 or whatever, did tennis from prep????? [55] vacation: central australia when i was three months old (was dropped on my head on the second day and then my granddad died shortly after that so we had to come home for the funeral or something idk) [56] pair of trainers: um???? how do you remember brands of shoes from like over a decade ago

RIGHT NOW… [57] eating: nothing [58] drinking: water [59] i’m about to: answer two more of these things haha [60] listening to: esc radio still, “wild child” by ace wilder (preselection sweden 2017) [61] waiting for: idk dinner i guess??? [62] want: my homework to be miraculously done [63] get married: im not getting married right now? what is this question asking? [64] career: i dont have a career im still at school

WHICH IS BETTER… [65] hugs or kisses: hugs! i love hugging people [66] lips or eyes: eyes?? look pretty???? idk [67] shorter or taller: um i’d like to be taller???? i’d like other people to be shorter????? what is this question asking what am i choosing between? [68] older or younger: what is this question asking? what is better older or younger???? [69] romantic or spontaneous: i dont like romance but i dont know what context you mean for spontaneous? [70] nice arms or nice stomach: um????? do you mean on me or other people????? what defines a nice stomach or nice arms what? ah yes your digesting organ does its job well what i dont get it [71] sensitive or loud: what! is! this! question! [72] hook up or relationship: neither lol [73] troublemaker or hesitant: what is this asking i dont get it why cant people who make these original posts be more specific w their questions

HAVE YOU EVER… [74] kissed a stranger? no [75] drank hard liquor? no [76] lost glasses/contact lenses? no [77] turned someone down: no (unless they asked really vaguely and i didnt understand that would be funny haha) [78] sex on first date? no [79] broken someone’s heart? doubt it [80] had your own heart broken? nope [81] been arrested? no [82] cried when someone died? if a guinea pig counts as someone then yes otherwise no [83] fallen for a friend: no

DO YOU BELIEVE IN… [84] yourself? what do you mean? [85] miracles? no [86] love at first sight? no [87] santa claus? no [88] kiss on the first date? if the people dating want to then why not [89] angels? no

OTHER… [90] current best friend’s name: dont have any [91] eye colour: brown [92] favourite movie: idk dont think i have any

[hgfstreamchats]

Robin Hood (Disney)

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SSHammertime 09:45 PM disguises for justice! highglossfinish 09:45 PM Indeed! thenightetc 09:46 PM Hahhaha SSHammertime 09:46 PM TALENT thenightetc 09:46 PM VERY. highglossfinish 09:47 PM He's very judgmental about gender norms for a lion without a mane. SSHammertime 09:47 PM there are lady bandits EVERYWHERE in my games thenightetc 09:47 PM I know, right? thenightetc 09:49 PM True, in a way. SSHammertime 09:49 PM history says: you were a butt highglossfinish 09:49 PM Hah! SSHammertime 09:49 PM high sneak highglossfinish 09:49 PM History also wants to know why you're collecting pajamas in what looks to be your nightgown. What's the matter with you? thenightetc 09:50 PM How did he GET that robe highglossfinish 09:50 PM I'm not sure I want to know. SSHammertime 09:51 PM tsk tsk no taxes sent to infrastructure! highglossfinish 09:52 PM No healthcare either! SSHammertime 09:52 PM bad management! thenightetc 09:53 PM *wince* SSHammertime 09:53 PM friar tuck's gonna start a revolution! highglossfinish 09:53 PM Friar Tuck says eat the rich. pheonixqueen has joined the party. thenightetc 09:54 PM Yeesh SSHammertime 09:54 PM 3>:[ thenightetc 09:55 PM Ha! thenightetc 09:56 PM Kid, don't shoot your siblings SSHammertime 09:56 PM tiny bunny wants to shoot, too highglossfinish 09:56 PM If you shoot them, they can't afford leeches and sheep's dung to cure it. thenightetc 09:57 PM uh ohhhhh pheonixqueen 09:57 PM don't forget the blood letting to balance the humors highglossfinish 09:57 PM Perish the thought! highglossfinish 09:57 PM They get in and prince John's lying dead on the ground. Roll credits. thenightetc 09:57 PM Ha! SSHammertime 09:57 PM 3XD pheonixqueen 09:58 PM black plaque is a thing SSHammertime 09:59 PM trespassing is only a crime if there's guards! thenightetc 09:59 PM Very true! highglossfinish 09:59 PM Fact! SSHammertime 10:00 PM 3XD SSHammertime 10:01 PM DEATH TO TYRANTS! 3:D pheonixqueen has left the party. thenightetc 10:02 PM maid marion no highglossfinish 10:02 PM Maid Marion, no means no. highglossfinish 10:02 PM And it wasn't that funny. Or funny at all. SSHammertime 10:03 PM knitting! thenightetc 10:05 PM Awwwww. SSHammertime 10:06 PM why's he taking more! highglossfinish 10:06 PM You have food at home, ostensible badger. Etxblnd has joined the party. thenightetc 10:07 PM Nice. highglossfinish 10:07 PM Robin, you're going to die. Etxblnd has left the party. thenightetc 10:07 PM This whole thing is a trap to catch you specifically. highglossfinish 10:08 PM And it's a plan courtesy of Prince Sandals. thenightetc 10:08 PM Did he get his ring jewels back? highglossfinish 10:08 PM And it's working. thenightetc 10:08 PM Or are those new ones thenightetc 10:09 PM Yeesh. highglossfinish 10:11 PM Why does the snake have fur? SSHammertime 10:11 PM o_o you're right! thenightetc 10:11 PM I feel a little bad for the snake. SSHammertime 10:11 PM the mirror is tiny now thenightetc 10:11 PM What fur, though? SSHammertime 10:12 PM when he's not tidy, his outline is like furry! thenightetc 10:12 PM ...Huh :O SSHammertime 10:13 PM ground control, we have aerial highglossfinish 10:13 PM It was very obvious when his hat was off, but he also had some on his chest. pheonixqueen has joined the party. thenightetc 10:13 PM I'll have to watch for that! pheonixqueen 10:14 PM if you were in this world what animal would you be? SSHammertime 10:14 PM technically, an arrow like that wouldn't fly thenightetc 10:15 PM Heheheh SSHammertime 10:15 PM THE BUTTS MATCH thenightetc 10:15 PM PFFF pheonixqueen 10:15 PM starscream = lord hiss? thenightetc 10:16 PM I mean... highglossfinish 10:16 PM Starscream would have approved. Hiss is the competent one. SSHammertime 10:16 PM He is! thenightetc 10:17 PM Poor, beleaguered Hiss pheonixqueen 10:18 PM does that make breakdown a rhino? SSHammertime 10:18 PM you never wanna hear "what's coming to you" thenightetc 10:18 PM Goodbye rings. thenightetc 10:19 PM awww. pheonixqueen 10:19 PM so sweet pheonixqueen 10:20 PM okay john is def staracream pheonixqueen 10:20 PM screechy SSHammertime 10:20 PM nuh-uh pheonixqueen 10:20 PM no? thenightetc 10:20 PM he's NOT pheonixqueen 10:21 PM sheriff for soundwave? SSHammertime 10:21 PM no highglossfinish 10:21 PM If Starscream were here, he'd be adamant that Prince John was Megatron. pheonixqueen 10:21 PM lol SSHammertime 10:21 PM i like the chicken lady 3:D highglossfinish 10:21 PM And we'd agree with him because the universe never threw Starscream many bones. pheonixqueen 10:21 PM true thenightetc 10:22 PM yeah SSHammertime 10:22 PM mmhmm highglossfinish 10:22 PM Oh yes, Breakdown's definitely a rhino. thenightetc 10:22 PM The food... :( pheonixqueen 10:23 PM what about you knock out? which animal are you and impact? highglossfinish 10:23 PM Good question. SSHammertime 10:23 PM I'm the powerful chicken lady pheonixqueen 10:24 PM lady impact it is SSHammertime 10:24 PM 3:D thenightetc 10:24 PM I saw the fur! highglossfinish 10:24 PM I've always liked foxes. pheonixqueen 10:25 PM and they are somewhat red SSHammertime 10:25 PM yes! thenightetc 10:25 PM Hehe. SSHammertime 10:26 PM making flower rings is HARD highglossfinish 10:26 PM Is a mournful exsistential song really the right choice for this scene? SSHammertime 10:26 PM sometimes there's treasure behind waterfalls thenightetc 10:26 PM "how long have you been there" thenightetc 10:27 PM Crusade...? SSHammertime 10:28 PM oh! Papa! The rooster bard is fun, too! highglossfinish 10:29 PM True, true, he is! highglossfinish 10:29 PM In lieu of more foxes, I'll take the rooster happily. SSHammertime 10:29 PM or you could be a SHAPESHIFTER highglossfinish 10:30 PM I could! SSHammertime 10:30 PM SELF-PRESERVATION GUYS thenightetc 10:30 PM Aw man pheonixqueen 10:30 PM you know it's bad when your minions sing a mocking song thenightetc 10:30 PM Right? thenightetc 10:30 PM A mocking song written by your enemies. highglossfinish 10:32 PM Niceof them to let him keep his weapon. SSHammertime 10:32 PM ...is literally everyone in prison o_o thenightetc 10:32 PM "if we had wings" you're a BIRD SSHammertime 10:33 PM but he's a bird in JAIL pheonixqueen 10:33 PM and roosters can really fly per se thenightetc 10:33 PM yeah but he DOES have wings, that's all I'm saying pheonixqueen 10:33 PM can't I mean pheonixqueen 10:33 PM true SSHammertime 10:34 PM DON'T SAY THAT highglossfinish 10:34 PM It was safer in the mousehole. thenightetc 10:35 PM he taunted murphy! thenightetc 10:36 PM ha! thenightetc 10:36 PM beat him! SSHammertime 10:36 PM DESTROY HIM thenightetc 10:36 PM oh noooo pheonixqueen 10:36 PM new meaning of poor as a church mouse SSHammertime 10:37 PM what is a prince? a miserable pile of money thenightetc 10:38 PM ha! pheonixqueen 10:39 PM that is not a proper noose pheonixqueen 10:39 PM and too small a door for friar tuck SSHammertime 10:41 PM JAIL BREEEEAAAAK thenightetc 10:41 PM *bangs fists on table*  JAILBREAK!  JAILBREAK!  JAILBREAK! highglossfinish 10:41 PM You'd think he'd have just killed every fox he laid eyes on. SSHammertime 10:41 PM JAIL BREAK! JAIL BREAK! pheonixqueen 10:42 PM that clearly says 3 am SSHammertime 10:42 PM trigger safety! thenightetc 10:43 PM ha! SSHammertime 10:44 PM bad perception check! SSHammertime 10:44 PM i mean, his tail's out! thenightetc 10:44 PM right? pheonixqueen 10:45 PM how do you mistake your own brother pheonixqueen 10:46 PM does...does that one key open everything? thenightetc 10:46 PM Could be SSHammertime 10:46 PM skeleton key? SSHammertime 10:46 PM they didn't want to pay for different ones thenightetc 10:47 PM Probably!  They could be hard to keep track of pheonixqueen 10:50 PM that was a fast 2 hours thenightetc 10:50 PM It was SSHammertime 10:50 PM robin nooooo thenightetc 10:50 PM Robin no SSHammertime 10:50 PM not worth it highglossfinish 10:51 PM Hope that single bag of gold was worth it, Robin. thenightetc 10:51 PM Gotta know when to stop. SSHammertime 10:51 PM they don't have very strong buildings thenightetc 10:52 PM Honestly those gaps look large enough for him to fit through highglossfinish 10:53 PM He's lucky no one in this castle can aim. pheonixqueen 10:53 PM storm trooper weapon academy highglossfinish 10:53 PM Hah! SSHammertime 10:53 PM i bet the whole castle is gonna burn down pheonixqueen 10:55 PM still lost all the gold and the castle is on fire thenightetc 10:55 PM Nah, plenty of them were carrying bags of gold highglossfinish 10:55 PM Stop. Testing. Your luck. pheonixqueen 10:56 PM I meant john lost all his gold thenightetc 10:56 PM Ohh. Thebes has joined the party. Thebes 10:56 PM Hello! highglossfinish 10:56 PM Hello! thenightetc 10:56 PM I'm sure he was thrilled to find his castle burned down. SSHammertime 10:57 PM why aren't the vultures arrested, too? highglossfinish 10:57 PM "We forgot to leave enough time to wrap all of this up plausibly, so Richard...suddenly came back?" highglossfinish 10:57 PM Skippy, no. SSHammertime 10:57 PM skippy NO highglossfinish 10:58 PM Skippy likes to watch. SSHammertime 10:58 PM Papa NO pheonixqueen 10:58 PM what is wrong with the blacksmith leg that its still not healed??? SSHammertime 10:59 PM rotoscope! pheonixqueen 10:59 PM impact have you seen cats dont dance? SSHammertime 10:59 PM YES pheonixqueen 11:00 PM what about balto? SSHammertime 11:01 PM that's the one about the sled dog and the medicine, right? i haven't seen it highglossfinish 11:01 PM I'm not opposed! thenightetc 11:01 PM Okay, the rotoscoping is just a little conspicuous pheonixqueen 11:01 PM it is! your dad might find the medical side interesting SSHammertime 11:01 PM i think it's fun! highglossfinish 11:01 PM It's also topical. pheonixqueen 11:02 PM and its based on a true story! highglossfinish 11:02 PM Balto it is, then? SSHammertime 11:02 PM 3:D thenightetc 11:02 PM ...is this a SAD movie? SSHammertime 11:02 PM !!!! SSHammertime 11:02 PM IS IT??? highglossfinish 11:02 PM No, it all works out. pheonixqueen 11:02 PM whatever you guys like SSHammertime 11:02 PM oh okay pheonixqueen 11:02 PM happy ending! thenightetc 11:03 PM Okay GOOD pheonixqueen 11:03 PM I also recommend secret of kells or song of the sea. small studio that makes pretty movies SSHammertime 11:03 PM oh, right now? pheonixqueen 11:04 PM either pheonixqueen 11:04 PM just general recommendation highglossfinish 11:04 PM Let's only do one more tonight. pheonixqueen 11:04 PM balto is good pheonixqueen 11:05 PM happy endings for all Thebes 11:05 PM no singing, but some very pretty art pheonixqueen 11:05 PM knockout if your interested, the disease is diphtheria highglossfinish 11:06 PM Ahh, wait, Impact has to tap out and I want her to be able to watch this one with us. SSHammertime 11:06 PM humans get a vaccine for that now, right? Thebes 11:06 PM Yup, practically unheard of for kids to catch it now pheonixqueen 11:06 PM yes, it's a three in one with the tdap SSHammertime 11:06 PM that's good! highglossfinish 11:06 PM As they'll be able to get for this one, someday. SSHammertime 11:06 PM G'NIGHT!!!! thenightetc 11:07 PM Next time, then! SSHammertime 11:07 PM 3:D thenightetc 11:07 PM Goodnight! SSHammertime has left the party. pheonixqueen 11:07 PM night impact! sweet dreams malist has joined the party. malist has left the party. highglossfinish 11:07 PM Good night! pheonixqueen has left the party. thenightetc 11:10 PM Nice. highglossfinish 11:12 PM That's about all I've got for tonight. thenightetc 11:12 PM Apropos of nothing, would you be interested in Tropico 4? highglossfinish 11:13 PM What is it? thenightetc 11:13 PM It's one of those sim games where you run a little city. Thebes 11:13 PM BAsically you're the undying dictator of a little human island nation highglossfinish 11:13 PM I like, I like! thenightetc 11:14 PM Okay, hang on a tick :) thenightetc 11:14 PM thenightetc 11:14 PM ^steam key thenightetc 11:14 PM (It was in a bundle I bought, but it's not really a genre I play) highglossfinish 11:15 PM Thank you very much! We'll have to stream it one of these nights. thenightetc 11:15 PM :) thenightetc 11:16 PM From what I've seen it's quite streamable highglossfinish 11:16 PM I'm already seeing its potential. thenightetc 11:17 PM ...Probably a good idea to redeem it before posting the chat. :P highglossfinish 11:17 PM No worries, already redeemed! thenightetc 11:17 PM \o/ thenightetc 11:17 PM Anyway--goodnight! highglossfinish 11:17 PM Good night! Thank you all for coming! thenightetc 11:17 PM And thank YOU for hosting! thenightetc has left the party. Thebes 11:18 PM good night! Thanks! highglossfinish 11:18 PM Thank YOU for handing me power over an entire island's worth of virtual lives!

[bubwagon]

so today i had what i think was a panic attack and i’m mostly keepin it here so i remember what happened for Xanax Appointment:

ok bart, sweaty, crowded, humid

me: goes from calmly if uncomfortably playing my switch to like, breathing constricted, throat closing, heart feeling like it’s gonna beat out of my chest, drinks water, becomes more nauseous, light headed, has to sit down between fruitvale and castro valley

4 context i didn’t have my keys on me or my phone, so i only locked my bike with a cord lock that morning (easy 2 steal bike) and i couldn’t call home to get a ride and i’ve worked like 30 hours in the last 4 days and i haven’t taken a break for 1-0 days (holla @ weekend work) and honestly i feel like if i had my phone i wouldn’t have felt so trapped and panicked for a sec but jesus christ that was weird and awful. i didn’t feel better until i came home and drank some soup and booked my korea tickets

i think.................... this won’t happen again? i hope? but i’m also nervous about it. like... what’s happening to me??? i don’t normally experience anxiety. but maybe i just think that because i push stress away and my stress isn’t socially based which is what i hear most people having. 

i’m worried? do i just have an anxiety disorder now? is that how it works? is that not how it works? i’ve had stress headaches and i felt a little off for a few weeks. 

i THINk i probably don’t because things have just been justifiably low-key stressful for a few months (job insecurity, living with family) and if i had more stability i don’t think i’d be feeling this way. at the same time i am a lil stressed and i’d like to not be stressed. 

but i’m going to korea in 3 weeks and i have....... job security for a few more months, and i am gonna go to bed right now and sleep really well. i am doing ok right now! i just had a wacky afternoon. 

my personal blog is really boring because it’s just me saying things but not dropping any real gossip. so it’s just complaining without any juicy insights or drama

uh

hey

so my boss who’s 29 is dating a 52 or 53 year old woman

that’s about as good as i got right now

[theworstbob]

yellin’ at songs, 5.27.2017 & 5.26.2007

the songs that debuted on the billboard hot 100 this week and this week ten years ago

5.26.2007

32) "Straight to the Bank," 50 Cent

There's actually something interesting at the core of this song -- if you make enough money doing your thing to sustain yourself for the rest of your life, what motivates you to keep doing your thing? I understand why 50 Cent wasn't willing to explore that theme, 50 Cent isn't here to offer a treatise on ennui and what creative fulfillment means to him, he's here to point at stacks of money and claim ownership. I think "I've made so much money I don't have to rap anymore" would be a fun twist on the "WE DEFIED INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS TO MAKE OODLES OF CASH!" song. It would've been a weird-ass 50 Cent song, but someone should take that theme and run.

48) "First Time," Lifehouse

See, like, at least 50 had the decency to give us the nugget of a decent song, to present something with a hint that it could be something more. This just is what it is, an alternative/rock song that sounds like a thousand alternative rock songs before it with nothing to say except "love feels nice." But I'm in a weird spot where I'm not sure if I'm reacting to the actual song, or if I'm reacting to the idea of Lifehouse and all the connotations I've attached to the Lifehouse brand. I keep wondering: if this song or something like this made it to the 2017 song, would I find it a refreshing throwback? If some long-forgotten mid-aughts alt-rock track, The Calling's "Our Lives" or whatever, if that found new life amidst the EDM and pop/trap, wouldn't it seem like a fun change of pace, an actual almost-rock song instead of the usual novelty indie track? I'm pretty sure this song is bad, but it might be because being weighed against history means being weighed against the titans, whereas the standards are different (lower) for modern songs, because there's a more limited pool to draw from (five months, as opposed to all of history). Hard to tell if I'm judging this song or the context in which this song is released. We need a control for 2017. America: are you finally ready to give Tonic that second chance?

52) "Anonymous," Bobby Valentino ft./Timbaland

I'm no expert, but I'm reasonably confident that, if you're tryna get with someone, and they don't tell you your name, that means they don't want to fuck you. I don't think you're being #problematic, but I do think you need to do better at picking up on signals, Bobby. They're not even giving you a FAKE name! It's so easy to give a fake name! "My name's Jamie." Took me two seconds. IT'S SO EASY! If they're not even willing to do that, they just want you to stop talking to them! You're not being #problematic, that would be a bridge too far, but you need to do a better job of picking up signals. You can't make a song about how you can't even get someone to tell you their name. They rejected you, dude. Move on. (Maybe if it were the next day, when you spent a night dancin' and romancin' but they left before anything sexy could happen, and you're trying to track them down but can't find them because you can't remember their name? That'd be a cool thing! This legit sounds like dude doesn't know someone said 'no,' and not in a shitty "I heard yes!" Robin Thickey way, just a dunderheaed boy-just-don't-get-it way.)

72) "Tambourine," Eve

The least 2007 could do after shoving Timbaland down my throat was give me a Swizz chaser. I greatly enjoyed this! One gets why this song fell from the consciousness, it's a jam but it's not the song that gets the party started, y'know? And like all songs named after an instrument, there is not enough of the titular instrument in the track. I don't necessarily want it to sound like a second grade band performance, but I should have heard more tambourine than I did. But, yeah, hot party jam, always down for a well-executed version of a song with simple goals.

79) "Same Girl," R. Kelly & Usher

This song is fun, it's a foundational block of my relationship with my older sister, and it wasn't worth however many lives it cost to keep R. Kelly's name alive in our hearts.

83) "Vulnerable," Secondhand Serenade

more like glove-compartment admittance. for all i know, secondhand serenade probably actually did get big on myspace and i'm about to accurately describe this song, but this sounds like some fucking dude made a song in 20 minutes using his computer, uploaded it to myspace, and spent 4 hours picking out the right picture of him looking forlorn to put on his profile. you can hear the label executives looking at his picture and agreeing he's an 8, which is perfect -- hot enough to induce swooning, but just enough of an uggo to be approachable, impossible. ...oh no. oh no oh no it got me it got me run it got me you have to run you have to RUN BEFORE YOU CATCH IT TOO.

85) "I Don't Wanna Stop," Ozzy Osbourne

GOD YOU JUST DON'T APPRECIATE HOW AWFUL BUTTROCK IS UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO A REAL-ASS ROCK SONG. Ozzy was fucking 60 and swinging this sledgehammer. This fucking ruled. Remember that Bon Jovi nonsense from last week? THIS is how you do a late-career single. You fucking just remind people you've been doing this shit for 40 years by making a song you can only write with 40 years of experience under your belt. I heard the Bon Jovi song, I just heard a song. I heard this song, I heard Ozzy, I heard Zakk Wylde, I heard years of accrued expertise and experience, I heard fucking character, dude. I'm not even a metal dude, and I'm fucking into this song. This was great. Later, Breaking Benjamin. I can't in good conscience have your lilly ass in the Top 20 if you're gonna say you're in the same genre as this creature.

91) "Like This," MIMS

This is somehow the second track called "Like This" that 2007 has given us. The official music video for this song starts off with the hook for "This Is Why I'm Hot," because I guess the video is trying to give us what we really want. He also mentions "This Is Why I'm Hot" in the first verse, which, that's a bold move, to reference your hit in the second single. It's either swag, because you recorded both songs years ago and knew "This Is Why I'm Hot" would smash so hard that you wanted to give a shout-out to its inevitable success on the album, or it's safety, because you hurried this follow-up out the door and needed to mention the one thing you're ever gonna do. Either way, this song is mediocre 2007 pop/rap. It's as boring and listless as you would imagine the other MIMS song would be.

92) "teachme," Musiq Soulchild

This song about a man admitting that his confinement to traditional gender roles has made him emotionally unavailable and stunted would probably play a lot better in 2017 than I assume it did in 2007. I don't remember this song being that big a thing, but in 2017? Apart from being thrilled that someone in an R&B song is emoting, we'd also be stoked for a song that tacitly acknowledges toxic masculinity. This was pleasant! Musiq Soulchild dropped a song about fuck buddies and another song about the role gender norms played in his emotional upbringing, and I've appreciated all he's done!

94) "I Told You So," Keith Urban

OK this week's a pretty hot one for 2007. This is the fourth jam of the week, already quadruple the amount of jams I thought this week would have, and we haven't even gotten to the song I'm figuring is gonna be a jam. I forgot that sometimes country dude songs could have character! This song has a dope-as-hell instrumental break, an entirely reasonable amount of stops, and hey: Keith Urban? Pretty decent singer! This was rad. I keep forgetting "Alyssa Lies" exists, but were it not for that, this would be the lead contender for Least Worthless Country Dude song. Hell, I might even upgrade the title to "Most Acceptable Country Dude Song," since this and "Alyssa Lies" were both pretty great.

95) "Impacto," Daddy Yankee ft./Fergie

Oh. Oh no. Oh no! ...Oh, oh, I forgot. I forgot Daddy Yankee was once Very Bad. Oh, no. This is -- nothing about this is good. This is someone shouting over a beat that is also, somehow, shouting. I. I am going to stop writing this capsule? Because the longer I am writing about this song, the longer I am making myself thinking about this song, and I just, I'd like to very much not do that anymore.

98) "Get Me Bodied," Beyonce

DO YOU HEAR THIS SHIT, MIMS. THIS IS HOW YOU REFERENCE YOUR DEBUT SINGLE. You wait until you have an impressive catalogue of hits and an unassailable career, and THEN, you can shout out your debut single. Hey everyone did you guess which song I epected to be a jam? TURNS OUT I WAS RIGHT. The vocal work on this track is outstanding, like even for a Beyonce song it's ridiculous, there's a couple things Bey does on this track that made me laugh in disbelief. This is probably not even one of the 20 best songs in the extended Beyonce universe, and I'm still riding hard for it.

99) "All Good Things (Come to an End)," Nelly Furtado

so by this logic this song should have lasted forever OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHah we have fun here, but no this song was boring. like i know i have a tendency to check out with the last song of the week for both years, but i think it's justified in this case, because seriously it's timbaland and coldplay on the track, nah dude, i got cheers to watch.

The 2007 Top 20! Beyonce! Ozzy! 18 other songs you’ve been seeing for a while! 20) "Movin' On," by Elliott Yamin (3.17.2007) 19) "U + Ur Hand," by P!nk (1.13.2007) 18) "Doe Boy Fresh," by Three 6 Mafia ft./Chamillionaire (1.20.2007) 17) "Get Me Bodied," by Beyonce (5.26.2007) 16) "I Don't Wanna Stop," by Ozzy Osbourne (5.26.2007) 15) "Stolen," by Dashboard Confessional (4.21.2007) 14) "Beautiful Liar," by Beyonce & Shakira (3.31.2007) 13) "Cupid's Chokehold," by Gym Class Heroes ft./Patrick Stump (1.13.2007) 12) "The River," by Good Charlotte ft./M. Shadows & Synyster Gates (2.10.2007) 11) "Say OK," by Vanessa Hudgens (2.17.2007) 10) "Alyssa Lies," by Jason Michael Carroll (1.13.2007) 9) "Never Again," by Kelly Clarkson (5.12.2007) 8) "Get Buck," by Young Buck (4.14.2007) 7) "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," by Jennifer Hudson (1.13.2007) 6) "Thnks fr th Mmrs," by Fall Out Boy (4.28.2007) 5) "Candyman," by Christina Aguilera (1.13.2007) 4) "Because of You," by Ne-Yo (3.17.2007) 3) "Umbrella," by Rihanna ft./Jay-Z (4.28.2007) 2) "Dashboard," by Modest Mouse (2.17.2007) 1) "The Story," by Brandi Carlile (4.28.2007) Almost at a point where we can do Top 30s for each year! I don’t know why I comment after the list but here we are!

5.27.2017

64) "Malibu," by Miley Cyrus

This is a song where you have to be at least somewhat invested in the arc of Miley Cyrus' career for it to have maximum emotional impact, and I'm not, I'm very not interested in Miley Cyrus' journey or personal growth. Like, yay, the rich kid finally sobered up and is finally ready to accept the rest of their life with the vast fortune they have accrued, hooray for them, I'm glad something good finally happened to Miley Cyrus.

79) "Every Time I Hear That Song," by Blake Shelton

Oh good a country song about a different and better country song. Always a welcome addition to a chart, this type of song. Four people wrote this song. How does it take four people to listen to The Bro Country Song and say, "Let's do that again!" It's just, I have to come up with something relatively new to say about the same fucking country dude song every week, and meanwhile these four chucklefucks get to rhyme "mind" with "time" and call themselves PROFESSIONAL writers. Life's not fair.

89) "Either Way," by Chris Stapleton

"Baby, you can go or you can stay/But I won't love you either way." fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk THIS was that chris stapleton shit i was lookin' for a couple weeks back. i haven't had time to get to from a room yet, not sure if i should do vol. i now or take it in with vol. ii, but god damn, this is what a country song is. this is pain, laid bare and unvarnished, nothing but a guitar between you and this dude's voice, which, i mean, chris stapleton is as born to sing country songs as kendrick is to rap, as beyonce is to sing anything beyonce desires. this is just a solid fucking song, and the entirety of nashville should feel endless shame for thinking anyone else should have had this song.

97) "Drinkin' Problem," by Midland

This was what I was talking about when I was talking about Lifehouse! This song is kind of a throwback, but it's only throwing as far back as Toby Keith, yet even doing an imitation of Toby Keith's occasional dad-humor songs feels so good, feels so right, feels so unlike the bro country song that it counts as a zag for country music. This is a song with clear, discernible influences, for which success seems like a happy accident and not the result of piloting the world's most efficient country hit-making engine! Maybe there's a chance I would find this trite and corny when weighed against the entirety of country music -- and honestly, being the country dude song following Chris Stapleton on the chart, hoof, that I didn't think this sucked should prolly give me a clue as to how great this song really is -- but given that Sam Hunt nothinged his way to the top of this world, I'm willin' to be down with this song.

Top 20! 20) "Heatstroke," by Calvin Harris ft./Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande (4.22) 19) "Yeah Boy," Kelsea Ballerini (3.4) 18) "You Look Good," by Lady Antebellum (4.22) 17) "The Heart Part 4," by Kendrick Lamar (4.15) 16) "Selfish," by Future ft./Rihanna (3.18) 15) "Slide," by Calvin Harris ft./Frank Ocean & Migos (3.18) 14) "Now & Later," by Sage the Gemini (2.25) 13) "DNA." by Kendrick Lamar (5.6) 12) "It Ain't Me," by Kygo x Selena Gomez (3.4) 11) "Craving You," by Thomas Rhett ft./Maren Morris (4.22) 10) "That's What I Like," by Bruno Mars (3.4) 9) "Chanel," by Frank Ocean ft./A$AP Rocky (4.1) 8) "Either Way," by Chris Stapleton (5.27) 7) "Run Up," by Major Lazer ft./PARTYNEXTDOOR & Nicki Minaj (2.18) 6) "Green Light," by Lorde (3.18) 5) "ELEMENT." by Kendrick Lamar (5.6) 4) "Despacito," by Luis Fonsi ft./Daddy Yankee (2.4) 3) "Issues," by Julia Michaels (2.11) 2) "iSpy," by KYLE ft./Lil Yachty (1.14) 1) "Hard Times," by Paramore (5.13) Yo, look at “Despacito,” toppin’ the chart! I might have to actually listen to the remix. BUT THE ORIGINAL IS SO GOOOOOOOD THO. I don’t want to listen to Justin Bieber.

Who won?

2007. Great as “Either Way” was, 2007 just had more songs at a more consistent level. Like, “Either Way” is at least half a street ahead of “Get Me Bodied,” but “Drinkin Problem” doesn’t hold a candle to “I Don’t Wanna Stop,” and the other two 2017 entries aren’t worthy of mentioning alongside “teachme.” Easy W. Didn’t think it’d happen, but hey, 2007 was pleasantly surprising! Next week... I see what 2007 has for me next week. Gonna take a huge fuck-up from 2017 to even things up for ol’ 2007. Two Linkin Park songs. Two of them. Guh.

2017: 5 2007: 4

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Hyperallergic: An Artist Examines the Rise of New European Nationalism

Still from Tomáš Rafa, “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015-2016) Digital video 52 minutes, 8 seconds, in Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1 (all images by the author for Hyperallergic except where otherwise noted)

The refugee crisis that is now concentrated in West Asia and both Eastern and Western Europe is either a symptom of some deeper defect or possibly a harbinger of a some catastrophe to come. I had heard about Tomáš Rafa’s New Nationalism exhibition at MoMA PS1, that his work is about a long-term project of documenting the activity of nationalist and far-right groups in his native Slovakia. He began in 2012, so promised to provide some historical perspective on what looks to me here in America like waves of political and physical violence visited on people who are migrating to a country unknown to them, already fleeing situations of violence and therefore at their most vulnerable. I visited the exhibition with my friend, Nile Davies, a Columbia University PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. I thought with what he knows, he might also provide a broader perspective on this work. We saw the show together and were riveted for more than an hour. It took time to digest the work, so we wrote our responses to it several days later.

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Nile Davies: About halfway through Tomáš Rafa’s “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015–2016), at the edge of a forest on the border of Hungary and Croatia, a family ambles down the center of a train track, through thick mist and mud, the rails receding and narrowing until their distant vanishing point. Women, children, and men amass, carrying bundles, backpacks, and babies, lining up to get into vans to go somewhere unspecified. Their presence seems precarious here, unwelcome. Soldiers — not police — arrive. A huge military apparatus: trucks, camouflage, deadly weapons. They seem ready to fight an army — but who? Trains sit idly on the landscape, closely watched. Barbed wire fences are unrolled like sheets of aluminum foil, marking the transparent frontier at which point the strangers can go no further. A sea of bodies surges against the steel netting. The volume swells to deafening: voices of the very young and very old. A din of screams and crying. Someone’s mother appears to be drowning in the crush. “Please don’t push,” a soldier begs, politely through the fence.

Photo of the installation featuring Tomáš Rafa, “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015-2016)

The scene is at once similar and atypical of the many that compose Rafa’s arresting, urgent work — the main component of a two-room exhibition of reportage from the frontlines of Europe’s reckoning with its “others” — which is to say, a reckoning with itself. Part visual ethnography, part war reporting, Rafa stages this human drama as a series of short, cinema-verité-style fragments compiled into a long film that lasts over an hour, as well as a series of shorter films which play simultaneously in an adjacent room. The use of a handheld camera gives the footage a visceral intensity that is hard to stomach for the duration — deafening explosions of teargas, smoke, chants, and bellows bleed into each other, echoing through the gallery space, creating an experience that is fittingly chaotic.

Since 2009, Rafa has been documenting the intensification of far-right extremism in Europe, beginning with the segregation of the ethnic minority Romani population in his native Slovakia, when locals constructed a huge, concrete wall in the neighborhood of Michalovce to cordon off the unwelcome neighbors. His scope has spread outward to contain more and more of the uncontainable: scenes from the biggest migration in Europe since World War II, and the ragtag coalitions that gather in reaction to them.

The exhibition title references an abbreviated form of the main video work as, New Nationalisms, but it is the rest of that work’s title, “in the heart of Europe,” that offers spatial and metaphorical resonance to Rafa’s work. Nearly a thousand miles from Paris and London, it is not in the great cosmopolitan centers that Europe’s heart beats most furiously, but in the Central European nations of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, where much of the documentary video is shot.

Still from Tomáš Rafa, “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015-2016)

Of all the elements of Rafa’s soundscape that pull together the disparate moments of human drama, the sound of the mob echoes the loudest. Even in quiet moments, the sound from other screens can be heard in the main space. It is the strangest thing: to speak your fears and hates and deepest desires out loud and in unison, in the hope that they come true. Echoes of the ghosts which have haunted Europe for the best part of a century are voiced by an anonymous chorus that seems to reappear irrespective of context. “In the name of the people,” we are told, but who is the “people”?

In other instances, it is clearly a vocal minority that comes into the street, and larger crowds that come out to counter them. To some, these will be familiar images: men and boys in short haircuts waving sticks and banners; the throwing of bottles and bricks; Nazi salutes; burning the EU flag; symbols of hate. “Send the Gypsies to the gas chambers,” a voice declares — one of many invocations of an unthinkable past that seems never more present than now.

There is a timelessness and internal unity about these dispatches. Those with even a vague familiarity with Europe’s history will recognize New Nationalisms as a disquieting portrait of an ideological uniform paraded prominently at various points of the 20th century — one which has never been completely taken off.

Photo of the installation of Tomáš Rafa, “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015-2016)

Seph Rodney: Like you, I had a hard time with Rafa’s work. What he’s filmed is deeply disturbing. Three aspects in particular shook me: the repetitive visual motifs that all essentially signaled “crisis,” the tools used by the police and protesters depicted in the videos, and the rhetoric wielded by those hostile to refugees — especially Muslim refugees.

Let’s begin with the recurring visual elements: white men, seemingly in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, with severe haircuts, almost always wearing shorts, holding hand-written signs, loudly exclaiming their grievances. These were contrasted with the soldiers in their uniforms, often viewed in formation, marching or preparing for physical contest. And while the protesters often wielded rocks and bottles and sticks, the police forces generally answered with flashbangs, tear gas, water cannon, and batons swung wild and hard. It occurred to me that history does repeat itself, that this scene with changes to background scenery, the ethnicity and the dress of the participants, could be transposed to Palestine, or to Los Angeles, or Standing Rock.

Photo of��the installation of Tomáš Rafa, “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015-2016)

It’s an odd situation for me to witness, because in other contexts I am suspicious of or furious at the police who often use their power indiscriminately to maim or kill people who are supposed to be in their care. Yet, in these documentary videos I am grateful for them because they often are the main line of defense for immigrants who wash up on unfamiliar ground and find themselves the object of severe hatred from a very vocal faction of the citizenry. In one scene, a family consisting of a mother, father and several children huddle together as the anti-immigrant crowd lobs bottles and rocks at them and the police are the only ones available and wiling to shield them from harm.

Photo of the installation of Tomáš Rafa, “New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe” (2015-2016) (photo by Nile Davies for Hyperallergic)

Then I have to confront the rhetoric and that is in itself a kind of violence that looks to make the purported enemy not worthy of consideration as human.” This othering of immigrants is accomplished by an appeal to a “white homeland” as one of the angry residents declares is needed. Signs and speeches insist on “only white Poland,” as they burn the European Union flag and burn the flag of ISIS. Both the EU an ISIS are conflated in their nightmare concoction of a civilization that yields, as one depicted demagogue says “only faggots, perversion and death.” This imagined future is a stew of liberal social policy, atheistic ethical scaffolding, and relatively porous borders that makes up this eschatological fantasy of the world ending in a homosexual bacchanal in which their traditional ways of life are abandoned. One sign refers to this phantasm as “Multi-Kulti,” clearly a cognate for “multiculturalism.” One nationalist protester tells us that he is attending the protests for his family. It never ceases to astonish me that people can say the most reprehensible things in the name of protecting their family.

Rafa’s work does something that may pieces like his have been leading to: explaining how the wars that are being fought in the modern world are very different from the wars fought before. In the not too distant past we fought to create the food stocks to survive, and then many of us, having secured that, fought to create and guarantee a certain lifestyle, and now we fight to maintain that lifestyle. Thus at the moment when we might be most ethical, we abandon principle to wallow in fear and loathing of the other. History repeats, and I wonder when it is we will be tired of this song.

Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms, continues at MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens) through September 10.

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Thank you for your patience. Watch Chelsea and mail us at theeditor@football365.com To next year… Right, so this season is pretty much done and dusted. The top three are sorted, with just the order of second and third to be decided (I say City for second with an unlucky Spurs third). Relegation is sorted with the current bottom three doomed (Hull unlucky here). All that is really left is the fourth place trophy (the Europa might prove Utd’s undoing leaving Liverpool and Arsenal to battle it out) and the FA Cups (City to beat Chelsea in the final; Spurs can’t play at Wembley). Which means eyes must start to turn to next season. We have been blessed this season with six strong clubs with exceptional managers battling at the top. Obviously Chelsea have walked away with it more than was expected but six very good teams nonetheless. I don’t see next season being quite so open or competitive. The way City have started playing over the last few weeks sets the template for next term. They look superb with a front line of youth, pace and guile. Under Pep’s tutelage they have to start next season favourites. However, I see a much more robust defence from Chelsea under Conte. He is a serial winner and the club have steel. Costa’s future needs to be determined but some astute signings and they will be there or thereabouts. And that is it for me. Spurs will be playing the season at Wembley and their record is terrible there. The boost to visiting clubs will mean it will be like a side playing only away fixtures all year. The standards set by Chelsea and City will mean the slightest slip ups will do a lot of damage and the Wembley factor will be too much. Add to this that Poch might be at Barcelona and times will be tough for Spurs. Liverpool will need major surgery in the summer and will be happy with third or fourth, especially if they get fourth this season and so have a pop at Europe. Arsenal have way too much going on in the summer to have a go next year. Wenger looks likely to go, Sanchez looks likely to go. Ozil could go, Cech isn’t good enough, the midfield isn’t good enough, Giroud isn’t good enough. Any new manager will need patience. Which leaves Utd. If they finish sixth will Jose survive? Louis van Gaal lost his job for finishing fifth and winning the FA Cup. I have a suspicion that Utd managers have a clause in their contract that they are sacked once they mathematically cannot reach the Champions League. Moyes went four games before the end of the season and LvG 48 hours after the FA Cup final. That said, I think Jose would survive because he has at least made Utd the big story which might be more important these days that winning things…at least for a bit. If he does survive, Utd will sign expensive players, Jose will alienate a couple of them and they will probably finish third. No challenge for the title though. Relegation? Bournemouth, Brighton and Leeds with Burnley winning the 17th place trophy. The cups? City for the League Cup, Liverpool for the FA Cup. City to have a real go in Europe, final at least. We could see a return to English teams going deep with Chelsea under Conte to go close also. Utd could win the Europa, unless they win it this year in which case they should expect at least the quarters of the Champions League next season. By way of context I predicted Bellew in the eleventh on the weekend… Micki Attridge Liverpool have a great defender So Mamadou Sakho.. Played 2 Clean sheets 2 For Crystal Palace! Only two clean sheets all season prior to that. I’m not saying Big Sam hasn’t helped, I’m just saying hes good, really good…I can’t believe Klopp dropped him out of sight for being late to training. There has to be something much much more. Hopefully he will come back next season. Yes I would take Sanchez all day long. How has no one praised Wijnaldum for his third goal, he starts in his own D when the ball breaks to Lala. Unreal effort to get up to score. Phenomenal! Al LFC – Ed, Ant I am assuming you would be very happy to keep him? Here’s Ed and his Palace thoughts Managed to avoid the school disco this weekend, instead spent the time in the pub reading Dr Seuss stories and nursery rhymes with my son. He is 28 years old. * This was a fantastic result for Crystal Palace. We are now out of the relegation zone and three points clear, and we were also able to stick two fingers up to Tony Pulis. Perhaps when people next complain about British managers not getting a chance at a top club, maybe it’s because the big clubs have looked at how the likes of Pulis, Harry Redknapp and many others have left smaller clubs in the lurch because the grass appears greener on the other side of the fence. * Sam Allardyce had the Eagles lined up in a 4-1-4-1, with new cult hero Luka Milivojevic screening the defence, with Yohan Cabaye and Jason Puncheon ahead of him in central midfield. This meant James McArthur once again was unfortunate to miss out, but Allardyce was justified in his selection. Milivojevic has been key in each of the last two games, and has made a good first impression, something he added to on the club website by saying he hadn’t heard of Brighton. Childish, but still amusing. The starting centre-back partnership was James Tomkins and Mamadou Sakho, meaning Scott Dann was on the bench. This in turn meant the captain’s armband was worn by Puncheon. For all that we in the mailbox have debated the role/influence/nature of captains, there is something for the old school football romantic in someone captaining the side they grew up supporting. Insert joke about Robbie Keane here. * Wilfried Zaha’s goal was his fifth of the season, to go with six assists. But you just carry on listening to pundits like Alan Shearer who say he’s got no end product. It’s entirely up to you. Andros Townsend also showed why he can be so valuable with his lung-busting run and goal. I quite liked the MOTD commentator mentioning how he’d signed from Tottenham Hotspur. I could have sworn he played for Newcastle United last season. Of all football’s pleasures, few can match that of seeing a tricky winger turn a defender – especially someone as good as Gareth McAuley – inside out. * The Eagles have Watford next, in two weeks’ time. Confidence is fickle but it wouldn’t be surprising to see Palace make it three wins in a row. * Stat of the week: according to Football League Tonight, the last time Aston Villa won three games in a row Martin O’Neill was their manager. See also, the Villans have won 52% of their games when Mile Jedinak starts, and 0% of them when he does not. But you just carry on listening to pundits like Andy Townsend who say he’s poor. It’s entirely up to you. * I’m probably in the minority but I do feel for Arsene Wenger, damned because he did, as he would have been damned if he didn’t. At least by punishing Alexis Sanchez he has shown that even the team’s best player is not beyond reproach. Also, Liverpool were coming off a fairly rocky run, and it was the perfect opportunity for the Arsenal’s underwhelming players to prove everyone wrong. That they instead proved everyone right can only be partially the manager’s fault. * Micki Attridge highlighted the hit and miss nature of Channel 5’s Football League pundits. They do well in mixing regulars and guests, some of whom are likely making their first appearance on TV – as befits a show celebrating some of football’s lesser lights, they look beyond the obvious choices for punditry too. Owen Coyle’s appearance was a delightful bit of opportunism, as two of his former clubs were playing each other, but I didn’t think what he said was particularly interesting. Earlier this season Lee Johnson’s opinion of every team was “they’ve got some good players”, and Nathan Jones, of Luton Town, was nervous but good value on being a lower league manager linked to a high profile job. Everyone has to start somewhere, and it seems like George & Lindsey do a lot to help the newer pundits find their feet. Elsewhere on the show, last week I mentioned a reporter referring to “Cov”; this week, someone referred to the red half of Sheffield as “Sheff U”. I can honestly say that I’ve never heard this before – I work with a United fan and his preferred familiar term is “the Blades”, he’s never said he supports “Sheff U”. * Following Zweigen Kanazawa last week, Huddersfield Town this week provided an example of the best thing that happens regularly in lower-league football: a goalkeeper flying out of his area and failing to control the ball, presenting the opposition with an easy tap-in. Shouldn’t be funny, but somehow is. * The polar opposite of that is the new advert for the Football Pools, in which John Barnes lipsyncs along to a reworked version of Vindaloo. It’s a crime against music, television, football, humanity, and all five senses. Ed Quoththeraven A Bournemouth perspective I’ve missed the last six games and I’m told it was pretty mediocre. But notwithstanding all the Mings/Zlatan furore there is no doubt Saturday was one of the best performances of the season. Interesting that this should happen without Wilshere in the team too. Perhaps the Surman red (expertly refereed by Rooney) acted as a bit of a focus at half time because although it was level at the time, Bournemouth had still been very open at the back, and had they continued like that would surely have lost. Second half was much more composed and organised defensively, easily Mings’ best performance. He was actually better than Cook I thought. Daniels too had his best game for a long time – maybe even since last season, and Gosling’s contribution in the second half cannot be overstated. Boruc is really divisive amongst the fans, despite the stats sometimes he can be fantastic shot-stopper as this game showed – same at Chelsea last season. But it is his distribution and handling of crosses which lets him down, neither of which were a big deal in this one. For once the atmosphere in the away end was really good. There have been grumbles almost all season, but this time there was nothing but positivity about the team, really enjoyed it despite the 4.30am departure. I do agree with Johnny Nic about the abuse of referees. TV analysis and Twitter trolling is one thing, but even in the grounds it can be pretty nasty. Probably no more than one a handful of people in the ground clearly saw either of the controversial incidents (I didn’t), and obviously had no TV replay, yet the chanting from both sets of supporters was pretty crude. I was as guilty as anyone else, and having been a referee I know what it feels like to get that sort of abuse. My father-in-law made a fair point on the coach home though – if you’re there to support your team, especially in a hostile environment, it doesn’t really matter if you don’t believe what you’re singing, as long as the players on the pitch can hear you are behind them. Hopefully that togetherness is a turning point for the run-in. Andy J Sanchez to…Man City Sorry to disappoint all the Liverpool fans and Arsenal fans. If Sanchez leaves Arsenal and stays in the Premier League, there is only one place he is going. To City to be reunited with Uncle Pep! I remember when he signed for Arsenal thinking, but don’t you want to win the league? DANNY B – MCR – MCFC …or Chelsea So Cowlick wanted Liverpool to make a cheeky bid for Sanchez, fair enough. However, as a Chelsea fan I think we should be looking at him as a top priority. You’d hope a move to Chelsea would be attractive to Sanchez as he wouldn’t have to uproot himself if he has settled in London, gets a chance to work with Conte, opportunity to win titles and progress in the Champions League and to play with some top quality players. From Chelsea’s perspective, can you imagine a front three of Costa, Hazard, Sanchez? Now THAT is a fantasy football player’s wet dream. In reality though, there’s doubts as to whether Costa will be here next year, and I do worry Eden might be playing well to push for his move to Real after downing tools last season. If either of them leave, we’ll get silly money, and there’s not many that could replace Costa or Hazard but Alexis is certainly one of them. Jimmy (Sorry Jakeyboy) Sham Just watch Theo… In response to Stew – or rather in addition, has anyone watched how Mr. Potential Theo Walcott plays? Well I have taken special interest in him and I can tell you his style of play and attitude does not inspire confidence or hope – it sums up what our problem is. We play like we are under no pressure at all. Severally I have watched him make a stupid decision with the ball and not even appear to feel anything about it or even turn to apologize to Giroud or Sanchez who was expecting a cross. He and a couple other guys in the team are just not turning up, they lack passion and the bite. We are bullied and we hardly win any challenges. Just by his attitude you can almost tell that he knows he will not be held accountable for it or, even if he will, it will really not have any consequences. I think it is this kind of behavior that pisses Sanchez off. Severally I have seen him throw hands in frustration because of his team mates not pressing opponent players when we do not have possession. This is not to say he is right every time but most of the time, in those situations, I have always thought we can force the opponents into making mistakes. Sanchez himself has shown it pays. See AFC Vs Chelsea. Of course I would not blame Theo for our loss at Liverpool because he came on at about the 74th min – and even if he had started I would not blame him because I do not have any expectations on him – this is an observation I have made throughout the season. And now I think it is about time both England and Arsenal fans admitted that Theo is not getting any better. Chamberlain too. When you are turning 28 and you are not showing any signs of ever mastering the basic art of beating a defender, I think people would be forgiven for thinking you would have been better of in athletics – competing against fellow runners. Unless, of course, if the problem is the manager. Victor Moses was once a player who could not start for Chelsea but look at him now! Joram Kioko, AFC, Nairobi, Kenya – (a two-season coach of Ngong Fantasy FC hence the experience to make these kinds of observations!) Perspective please Morning! Some hopefully coherent thoughts on another disappointing week for Arsenal. Even more predictable than Arsenal’s poor performance on Saturday was the reaction of the fans and media. I have the hope of restoring a bit of perspective and stopping the internal poisoning from Arsenal fans. It was a disappointing loss, no doubt. But should Arsene be the focus of frustrations? Can you actually hold him responsible for the abysmal performance of the whole back line in the first half? No one would have been more disappointed than Arsene himself with the two cheap goals we conceded given that vastly experienced and competent defensive line up. People have clamoured for years for a plan B. Here it was, success or not, but because it didn’t work the decision is derided. Criticisism for dropping Sanchez? The revelations of the follow day show just how little we know about what’s going on day to day, and that the decision was arguably justified. You can criticise Coquelin all you like, but it wasn’t that long ago that he was a revelation. He’s in poor form, and there’s a lot more that the fans can do to help that than the manager – more on that in a bit. Arsene went balls-out to address central midfield and brought in Xhaka. Yes, he hasn’t been amazing, but can we please remember this is his first season in England in a new team. When I compare him to some bloke who is returning to his former club, has no settling in required, and who cost a world record ~2.5 times as much a Granit, I don’t think he’s looking too shabby. I think the fans need to take a long hard look at how they’re acting now. I believe the message has been sent and received. Sadly, I think this will be Wenger’s last season, and I am just about accepting that, change could be interesting and could be good. Arsene deserves a lot more respect than he’s getting from fans and media. What the fans seem to have forgotten is they are the 12th man, we affect the players performance and confidence, we create the positive and the negative atmosphere. What will be will be but unless there is a change in attitude back to supporting the team in whatever guise, each and every whining negative fickle think-they-know-better fab needs to shoulder as much blame for any failure as the players and the manager. If I was a fan of another team I would be laughing my arse off at how the fan base are fueling the rot. So where does it leave us. Well it leaves us exactly where we were before… Right in the chasing pack! All this drama, and we are still, assuming we were to win our game in hand, three points off second. All this hate, and we’re STILL in the mixer with Perfect Pep, Magic Mourinho, Prince Pochettino and King Klopp. And we’re still in the FA Cup with fixtures going our way in that competition. Losses happen, bad form happens. A little perspective goes a long way. To end, I won’t accept anyone claiming my views to be unambitious or settling for perennial runners up, I’m just being realistic. There are four trophies to win, along with qualification to European competition. Arsenal have always been challenging for all cups as well as getting into Europe, and have continued to this season. What we’ve seen over the last few years that the majority of the time the league is won by a team who significantly outstrips the rest, unfortunately that team hasn’t been Arsenal, and maybe that warrants a change in staff, maybe Arsene and co deserve maximum credit for keeping us as contenders and giving us a chance where others have yo-yo’d. Winning isn’t as simple as wanting it to be so. David, Arsenal, can we all just be a little more constructive please? Is there anybody left who believes in progress under Wenger? There’s something that Wenger said in an interview with BT at the weekend that really bothered me. He actually said he wanted to take the club to the next level of winning the league and the Champions League. Now, sure we have won the league three times under Wenger and have been to a Champions League final but does anyone seriously think we have it in us to win another league and actually get our hands on the European Cup? I completely lost faith in Wenger after the Watford defeat in the cup last season – now nothing surprises me about Arsenal – even dropping your best player. Can someone that has faith in the manager please explain to me how we’re going to turn this sh*t show around? It’s a genuine question – I really want to believe in Arsene and Arsenal again and if the remit is fourth and the odd cup then fine, but taking us to the next level? does Wenger actually believe this? Tomorrow’s protest pre Bayern will probably be very well attended. While I think it’s really sad that our fans have to go to these measures but the manager really isn’t getting it. Graham Simons, Gooner, Norf London Indeed Remember on the Simpsons when Mr Burns blocked out the sun so that no one could see it? BT Sport just paid £1.2bn for no one to watch Champions League football until 2021. Thom, Newport Football monopoly rules I’ve seen this morning that BT have retained the rights to the Champions League and Europa League through to the 20/21 season, paying £1.2bn for the privilege. This comes as a slight surprise after the rumours that UEFA were upset with viewing figures, but, as we should all know by now, money will win out in the end. I am personally in two minds as to BT’s coverage. I find their matchday coverage generally disappointing, with only a handful of pundits worth listening to. On the other hand, as noted regularly by your own John Nicholson, the Goals Show is excellent and was a genuinely new and exciting idea in an area that had been more or less devoid of them for years. However, there is no doubt that the consumer has been getting a raw financial deal for several years now. Ever since The European Commission insisted that Sky not be allowed a monopoly on TV rights, consumers have been forced to pay more for essentially the same amount of coverage. (I believe it was the European Commission that insisted upon this – happy to be corrected if wrong.) By my estimation you’re looking at around £70 a month to watch as many PL, CL and EL games as legally possible in the UK (excluding offers for new customers and broadband etc.), which is a hell of a lot. Whilst anti-monopoly logic works in theory – preventing Sky from arbitrarily inflating their prices and forcing them to continually innovate – in practice it has just led to the consumer being shafted. No one expected Sky to lower their prices when they lost packages, and so it has proven. It is clear that football broadcasting laws need an overhaul. The experimentation with competition has benefitted no one other than the clubs lining their pockets, and consumers have consistently lost out (as have pubs showing games, which was excellently illustrated in your recent article on the matter). With the advent of Brexit, the ability to change all of this will be in the hands of the UK government. Here is what I propose they do: – Insist that all football in the UK be split between free-to-air providers and a maximum of one paid provider (likely Sky). – Insist that the Champions League rights revert to the old system of a free-to-air provider having one game per matchday. Keep the FA Cup rights as they are. – Abandon the 3pm rule – it simply doesn’t work anymore. If my beloved Manchester United aren’t on TV, do I go to a local non-league game? No, of course not. We all know I still watch United on my laptop. Let providers show every game in English football should they wish. In response to this, providers could do several things: – Create a ‘CL Goals Show’ for the Premier League. Personally, if Sky had the rights, I’d nick most of the current Goals Show pundits and have them do it. Jeff Stelling can host the PL one, and James Richardson can host the CL one. Lovely. – Create an online ‘Premier League Pass’, much like the NBA pass in the USA, whereby you pay a monthly/annual fee and can stream any PL game at any time. Maybe they can offer a ‘Football pass’ that could be customised – pay extra for all La Liga, Championship, Serie A etc. – Have a ‘vault’ of old matches accessible online. The WWE have done this with wrestling, allowing their fans to stream any old match from about 30 years’ worth of coverage. Countless hours of content available. Whoever has the rights for old matches could do this, allowing instant nostalgia whenever you want. Add it into the football pass I discussed. What are everyone’s thoughts? I am very curious to see if people agree with me that actually, a monopoly (with some matches on Freeview) is best in this scenario. Rustin Cohle …Back in January, I was summoned to my grandparents. Their BT price had increased for the second time in 12 months, and they were now faced with a £52 bill per month for normal internet and unlimited calls. My job, find a better deal which I quickly did (talk talk – £25 a month). BT responded with their usual gaff where they’d have to pay to leave (they didn’t) and they would lose BT Sport 1 (not bothered), ultimately this resulted in a ‘market-beating’ offer of £37 a month. I actually started laughing and politely told them to do one. Now today I read that BT have agreed to pay £1.18 billion to extend their Champions League rights, a 30% increase on the last deal. It is quite clear who is paying for this, the ordinary customer, who despite their loyalty and refusal to change suppliers are being fleeced. Viewing figures for Champions League games have plummeted, yet BT remain joyous as their masterplan has obviously worked driving up broadband sales and ultimately revenue. However, there is a major flaw in this approach. Champions league matches have been used to attract customers to more expensive fibre optic packages (I wonder what people can do with fast internet?). Speaking to a group of retired gentlemen in the pub during the Liverpool v. Arsenal match, it was very interesting to hear that they were all streaming matches. One gripe was the buffering, however, fibre optic is set to be rolled out in the area so this issue should quickly disappear. This highlights the perilous world English football has now entered, too dependent on TV money which in turn is dependent on the fans’ willingness to be fleeced. English football bubble is booming but a fan rebellion against the greed of Murdoch and BT has already begun, the question is when will this bubble go bust? Rhys Jones The Champions League is dead to me With BT securing the rights to the Champions League for the next few years (along with their third price hike for customers within 18 months to foot the bill), that is literally the tournament dead to me. Purely because I can’t watch it. Great. Andy Wilson Give referees a break Agree with Johnny Nic’s article about the amount of criticism that the refs get – I was thinking similar for the penalty that Burnley got on Saturday and the pundits were saying how it was so blatantly obvious it was a Burnley player who handled it, not a Swansea player, yet that was only after they had the benefit of numerous replays to show how blatantly obvious it was. How many of them at real time on first viewing were as confident? When I saw it on MotD, my initial reaction was that it was a penalty. As well as the suggestion that refs should all criticise the pundits’ performances, another suggestion should be for players to be the refs at SoccerAid or other friendly matches, and then have referees as the pundits picking apart all the decisions they made, so that they can get an understanding of how difficult it is. However, given that they used to be professional footballers and some of them still seem to be unaware of how easy it is for players to not be perfect every single game, I don’t hold out much hope it would change their tune for very long. Being a pundit is generally all about being the master of pointing out faults in hindsight. Don L. Renegade …Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes and yes. All of that. Finally, yes. John Nic has hit the nail right there on its head, with his piece on treatment of referees. Everything I have been bleating on about for years… This is my biggest gripe about the ‘beautifully ugly’ game. People seem to forget (or never realised) – referees ‘give what they see’. Nothing more nothing less. That’s what we ask of them. The day a referee ‘gives something’ he didn’t see, or doesn’t ‘give something’ he did see, because someone screaming obscenities in his face tells him to, is the day we can all pack up and go home. And how any manager stood in front of a camera has the audacity to criticise a referee for making so-called ‘mistakes’, when all eleven of his players have just spent 90 minutes trying to trick the poor guy into making as many mistakes as possible is.. well.. I have no words. Luckily John Nic does. They even try to claim every single throw-in as their own! They do this one on autopilot…both opposing players with an arm aloft, as the ball crosses the line. I mean, really?? It is not the most thankless job in football. It is possibly the most thankless job in the world. Of course nothing will ever change, because nothing ever does. Because money. Sean (not ever criticising refs, since 1971), UK Blaming lazy punditry I think John Nicholson’s article regarding the criticism referees was a great read, but I think lazy punditry plays an even more important part in this constant shaming of referees. The reality is, most punditry and newspaper football coverage is poor (there are, of course, always exceptions to this). Watch Match of the Day, Sunday Supplement, read the newspapers (or, even worse, their online articles), and there is very little tactical analysis. They focus on this, because it doesn’t require any research, and is, on the face of it, difficult to dispute with absolute conviction. Rather than analyse the performance and tactics of the two teams playing, instead they berate a referee decision, say that it changed the outcome of the game, and so any actual discussion of the rest of the match becomes obsolete. It’s an easy way out – as refereeing decisions are frequently shown to be really bloody difficult to call, and even with the benefit of multiple replays, the pundits disagree with each other, they are able eat up the allotted air time, no one can say with absolutely certainty who is right and wrong, and so the pundits get away with whatever opinion they might have on the incident. The same is true of most of the writers who show up on Sunday Supplement – I have no idea how much football they watch, but they are meant to talk about all the Premier League football from the day before. Rather than watch the matches to engage in a detailed debate about the game, they can bring up 3-4 key incidents (again, the easy thing is to focus on referee decisions) as this will require them to watch probably one minute of footage, and all of them generally can be discussed without context, as referee decisions are dissected as isolated incidents. Referees get a hard time because they are an easy avenue for lazy football writers and pundits to appear knowledgeable whilst putting in the least amount of effort into obtaining that knowledge. Guardiola called them out on this laziness when he questioned the Premier League’s tagline of being the most intense league in the world – how can you know that when you never watch anything other than the Premier League? I don’t know if it’s not the done thing to talk about other football content on here, but there is a great chapter in the Football Ramble book regarding referees where there is a really strong case as to how good referees are for the most part, and how incredibly difficult their job is. Sorry if my point became lost in this, but I’ve written in before regarding the standard of football coverage in this country (this website clearly not included my criticism), and I think JN’s article was another case in point. Martin, Brighton The post Mails: Will Jose survive finishing in sixth? appeared first on Football365. http://www.football365.com/news/mails-will-jose-survive-finishing-in-sixth #josemourinho #mailbox #Mails #manchesterunited #ChampionsLeague

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12:41 ¶  Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42  And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45  But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46  The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47  And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48  But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. 49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 50  But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! 51  Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

 Peter’s question is met by a direct answer from Christ regarding the labors of the apostles and even future ministers of the gospel. Paul referred to the ministers of the gospel as stewards of the mysteries of God.

 1Corinthians 4:1 ¶  Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2  Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

 He moved from covetousness to being watchful to now a warning to the shepherds of His flock. Disobedience to this warning is apparent all through Christian history as it was all through the history of the Jews before Christ. The primary duty of a minister of Christ is to feed the flock of God with His words, not to lord it over the flock as some kind of boss man.

 1Peter 5:1 ¶  The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2  Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3  Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 4  And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

 Down through the last two thousand years abusers among the so-called clergy have run rampant through the flock of God doing great harm. We hear about Catholic priests today who abuse the most helpless members of their congregations but we also must consider the thousands of Baptist pastors and youth ministers who have done the same. Jesus talks about how the fowls of the air, used in typology for the Devil himself in Mark, chapter 4, will lodge in the shadow of the tree and in its branches, the tree that grows unnaturally large as the kingdom of God and Heaven in Luke 13:19 and Mark 4:32.

 Jesus also warns that there are counterfeits among the brethren in Matthew 13:24 regarding the wheat and the tares. In the Old Testament God has an accusation about the false teachers in Israel. Understand that Biblically defined, with and uniting synonyms in most contexts, a pastor is a teacher as per Ephesians 4:11 and prophets are preachers and teachers as per Nehemiah 6:7 and 2Peter 2:1.

 Jeremiah 23:1 ¶  Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. 2  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4  And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. 5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

     9 ¶  Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. 10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11  For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. 12  Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. 16  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the

LORD. 17  They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18  For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 19  Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20  The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. 21  I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22  But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. 25  I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26  How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets

of the deceit of their own heart; 27  Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. 29  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 30  Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31  Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 32  Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

     33 ¶  And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. 34  And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. 35  Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. 37  Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 38  But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; 39  Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: 40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

 Peter devotes what has come down to us as a chapter to the damage wrought by Christian false teachers in 2Peter 2.

 2Peter 2:1 ¶  But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

     3 ¶  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4  For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

     7 ¶  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

     10 ¶  But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

 Here, in this lesson Jesus is giving it is worse for you to know the truth and to act on it unwisely and disobey than it is for you to not know the truth at all. Perhaps that can be one meaning of Paul’s statement in Romans.

 Romans 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 ¶  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

 The truth that Jesus reveals will not produce unity in the world but cause divisions down to the very household and family of believers and those who reject Him. There can be no middle ground with Christ. You either trust Him or you don’t. This fire is already kindled by the work of the dividers and the false teachers and elders who plague the cause of Christ as evidenced by the multitude of Protestant denominations and the three great branches of Christianity that are polluted by leaven, a type of hypocrisy and false doctrine in Matthew 16:12 and here in Luke 12:1.

 Matthew 13:33  Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

 Luke 13:20  And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21  It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

 [The woman of this parable may be a reference to Ashtaroth, the fertility goddess of the Canaanites of the Old Testament, who is basically the same as Ishtar, the goddess of liberty and prostitutes of the Babylonians whose statue sits in New York Harbor as Lady Liberty, and various feminine incarnations of Satan around the world including the Japanese Amateratsu, the Roman Diana, or the Greek Artemis among others. It should not be hard to think of Satan as both masculine and feminine as some of the gods of the ancient world were portrayed as both male and female.For instance, the Egyptian god, Atum, was also called the great he-she.]

 It appears that what Jesus is saying here is that His servants must be expectantly awaiting His return at any time and going about the business He has given them of expressing the fruit of the Spirit in the world, loving God and their fellow mankind, particularly the brethren, not abusing or mistreating those who God has placed in their care and, most importantly, feeding the flock of God. Those who know the most have the most expected out of them and will suffer loss in that degree based on their unfaithfulness.

 James 3:1 ¶  My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

 As was mentioned earlier in the parable of the mustard seed that grows unnaturally into a great tree, in the Christian church there are many fake tares, false wheat, and these counterfeits are hiding among its branches and in its shadow.

 2Corinthians 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

 They will find their place in the lake of unquenchable fire when a reckoning is made, with the ignorant unbelievers, though their punishment will be greater.

 Matthew 13:40  As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

[krysrawfiggs]

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1.Full name:Krysten Alexandra Figueroa but you will reffer to me as Krysfiggs

2.Zodiac sign:Im a cusp baby born as the day changed. I am a leo/virgo

3. 3 Fears:Spiders, being alone forever, my fam disowning me for being gay

4. 3 things I love:Being surrounded by awesome people, video games, outdoor activities

5. 4 turns ons:Firey passion, neck biting, n eyes.. its always the eyes, n intelligence

6.4 turns offs: Lack of intelligence, if youre rude in general, if youre clingy, lack of understanding n compassion

7. My best friend:I have a coupleNadia, amanda, n bree (when shes not being an idiot)

8. Sexual orientation:Lezzzzzzzzbbbbiiiiannnnnnnnn

9. My best first date:So far going out into town in the middle of a rainstorm running dancing n dickin round and then showing up soaked n eating at friendlys

10. How tall am I:Im 5'5"11. What do I missNot paying bills

12. What time were I born:12am on the dot

13. Favourite colour:I like deep colors. I used to say deep blue but i do love red n grey too

14.Do I have a crushXD maybe! Ok yea. I do. But i aint tell you.

15. Favourite quoteGod theres too many…

16.Favourite placePuerto rico

17. Favourite foodGawd this is hard ok. I have the soul of a very very fat man. If i had to pick one thing…itd have to be my moms pernil (pork shoulder)

18. Do I use sarcasmNever im a sweetheart😆

19. What am I listening to right nowEvie- last dinosaurs

20.First thing I notice in new personEyesss…eyess…eyess…….!

21.Shoe size822. Eye colourBrown anytime of dayGold in the sun

23.Hair colourBlack as the normBrownish in the sunlightBlue when its overcast

24.Favourite style of clothingandrogynous 25. Ever done a prank call?Yup i bothered the fuck outta kymmie for months before i gave myself up xD

26.What colour of underwear I’m wearing now? Burgandy See thru lace

27. Meaning behind my URLWelp minus the word raw its just my name. If my father didnt delete my 1st blog and of someone in asia didnt take my old username right after it wouldnt be as stupid.

28. Favourite movieToo many brahhh

29. Favourite song

30.Favourite bandBloc party, last dinosaurs, split milk society

31.How I feel right nowHorngry n lonely. Lusting for warm weather and beach weather

32.Someone I love.In what context?

33.My current relationship statusSingle af

34.My relationship with my parentsCurrently ok..

35. Favourite holiday Hmm i dont have one

36.Tattoos and piercings?I have average ear piercings But i want a lip ring n a tatoo of leo n virgo fighting inside of the sun ony shoulder

37.Tattoos and piercing i wantWhoops jumped the gun. Please refer to 36

38.The reason I joined TumblrMy friends at the time

39.Do I and my last ex hate each other? Nope we’re cool

40. Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?I used too from my so. But now its just my good friend manny

41.Have I ever kissed the last person you texted? Hmmm no

42. When did I last hold hands?Non romantically:I held hands with my lil sister cuz she doesnt know how to cross a freggin road without getting hit by a car! But romantically: its been over a year and a half.

43. How long does it take me to get ready in the morning? 10mins

44.Have I shaved your legs in the past three days?Its been a good 6/7 months. Im at man status rn

45.Where am I right now? Trapped on a bus with zombies from nyc somewhere on the way to newburgh

46.If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me? In oswego it would be chance. Here.. idk it hasnt happend.. but my best bet would be nadia

47.Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?Both. Depends where i am

48.Do I live with my Mom and Dad?Yes. Please dont ask how its going. Its not well.

49.Am I excited for anything?Yes. The 3 day weekend

50.Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?No i only have 2 chill male friends

51.How often do I wear a fake smile?Often enough

52.When was the last time I hugged someone?That would be last sunday i hugged holly. We went for a movie and a bite n caught up since inhavent seen her in 5ever

53.What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?Its w/e as long as you happy n your not like eating face

54.Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?Yea

55.What is something I disliked about today?Evelyn being passive agressive towards me. Makes me uncomf. But i could care less.

56.If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?Rebecca sugar

57. What do I think about most? Its gonna be one of 3 things, women, video games, food

58. What’s my strangest talent?I can get really creepy really fast. Iv been told to try out to be villians or serial killers in movies

59.Do I have any strange phobias?Spiders

60.Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it? Both

61. What was the last lie I told?

62.Do I prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?Im old skool ill show up at your house ;) jk phone so no one can see this akward mess

63.Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?Yes

64.Do I believe in magic?Yes

65. Do I believe in luck? Yes

66.What’s the weather like right now? Bloody cold

67. What was the last book I’ve read? Allegiant

68. Do I like the smell of gasoline?Addicted

69. Do I have any nicknames?Krys, elmo, jesus

70. What was the worst injury I’ve ever had? I have 12 stiches on my thumb both for cuts by blades oh n the one time i was going down a mt. On my longboard n i fell and got the worst road rash on my ass.

71. Do I spend money or save it?Both

72. Can I touch my nose with a tongue?No

73. Is there anything pink in 10 feets from me? Idts?

74.Favourite animal?Otter

75. What was I doing last night at 12 AM?Hehhhh better not say

76. What do I think is Satan’s last name is? Idfk

77.What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?Anything fr the last dinosaurs

78. How can you win my heart? Compassion understanding and a drive no one else has.

79.What would I want to be written on my tombstone?Im not gonna be burried.

80. What is my favourite wordOogle

81. My top 5 blogs on tumblr Ill answer later

82.If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?

83.Do I have any relatives in jail?Yes

84.I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power? Speed

85.What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on? Feelings are a tough subject

86. What is my current desktop picture? An image from second son

87. Had sex?Why yes i have

88.Bought condoms?Nopes

89.Gotten pregnant? Nopes too gay for that shit90. Failed a class?Several

91. Kissed a boy? Yep im not a gold star lezzy no more

92. Kissed a girl? Many

93.Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain?Yes. Im super cheesey i do things like that all the time

94.Had job?I have a job95.Left the house without my wallet?Keys and liecensexD

96. Bullied someone on the internet? Nope

97.Had sex in public? Yes

98. Played on a sports team? Several

99. Smoked weed? Yasss

100. Did drugs? Ive tried some shit

101. Smoked cigarettes? Never now thats nasty

102. Drank alcohol? Yes

103. Am I a vegetarian/vegan? Never

104. Been overweight?yes

105. Been underweight?yes

106. Been to a wedding?yes

107. Been on the computer for 5 hours straight? Days

108. Watched TV for 5 hours straight? When i was younger

109. Been outside my home country?yes

110. Gotten my heart broken? Many times

111.Been to a professional sports game? Yes

112. Broken a bone? Do Teeth count?

113. Cut myself? Not on purpose

114. Been to prom? Unfortunaly. Thats an akward story. If i didnt go i coulda stayed in puerto rico longer. But nooo joe had to ask my parents…

115. Been in airplane? Yes

116. Fly by helicopter? No. But ive been in some heavy duty military air craft

117. What concerts have I been to?Walk the moon, in hs i saw i see stars mega concert there were like 20 bands there idr them all, versaemerge, dragonforce

118.Had a crush on someone of the same sex?Yeaaa im megagay

119.Learned another language?I can fully understand spanish. But i cant speak it.

120. Wore make up? Im alergic to eyeliner xD

121.Lost my virginity before I was 18?Yes

123. Had oral sex? Yes.😍

124.Dyed my hair?Ive never dyed my hair

125.Voted in a presidential election? Yes both times for obama♡ . n fuck you, you lil orange dicked cheeto (donald trump)

126.Rode in an ambulance?Yes i did when i sliced my thumb deep with an exacto and was bleeding everywhere

127. Had a surgery?No

128. Met someone famous? Yes i have i met that guy from “what would you do” when i was staying in maryland. Also i stick around after theater shows and concerts to meet the actors, performers, and musicians

129.Stalked someone on a social network?Guilty

130. Peed outside?Um who hasnt?

131. Been fishing?Yes. Anyone wanna join me this spring?

132. Helped with charity? Yea every 3 weeks i participate in a soup kitched in poukipsee with my siblings and my cousins.

133. Been rejected by a crush?I have unfortunate luck.

134. Broken a mirror? Haha yea i did once

135. What do I want for birthday? Id love to go somewhere amazing and warm with awesome people. If im dating someone id love to actually have a birthday kiss. #neverhadoneonmybirthday

136.How many kids do I want and what will be their names?By kids you mean dogs? N id have all of them. Theyd have really crude/harsh spanish names.

137.Was I named after anyone?No but krysten means follower of chridtXD

138.Do I like my handwriting? Sometimes

139. What was my favourite toy as a child? Why it was my stuffy scooby doo

140.Favourite Tv Show? Gawd theres so many. But steven universe👌🖒

141.Where do I want to live when older?Puerto rico when i hit the lotto

143. Play any musical instrument? I can play the trumpet, the recorder, basic drum beat, and im learning the uke

144.One of my scars, how did I get it?Sliced my thumb with a woodcutter one year. Then the next year same thumb with a brand new exacto. Landed me in the hosp 2ice total 12 stiches

145.Favourite pizza toping? Extra cheese

146.Am I afraid of the dark? Sometimes. Im more worried bout the it under the bed that comes out when you dont have sheets on.

147.Am I afraid of heights?No. In my stage craft class i was the only one who wasnt scared of heights they sent me high up to work on stuff they also sent me 60ft up to the grid too 😎

148.Have I ever got caught sneaking out or doing anything bad?Yes and i had my ass handed to me on a silver platter several times.

149.Have I ever tried my hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end?Yes. All the time.

150.What I’m really bad atBeing social. Talking to girls. Drawing.

151.What my greatest achievements are. Being the first to graduate college.

152.The meanest thing somebody has ever said to meYou should see the list of stuff my parents have told me since i was little. Its a little too awful to put on here.

153.What I’d do if I won in a lottery. Top secret Plans back the fuck up

154. What do I like about myself Um my bed head. Idk

155.My closest Tumblr friend Haha nadia

156.Something I fantasise about my exTisk tisk ladies n gents we shouldnt be reopening wounds like this. *points finger n shakes it like a noodle*