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[littlebvtterfly]

I'm tired of always sitting back and letting people walk all over us. I get it, you want to be bigger than them. But it doesn't always work. Especially not this time. It's about time we fight back.

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Evermore (Marauder's Version)

@marsmarauders and I welcome you back to our Taylor Swift x Marauders series. We got carried away again but what's new about that huh? Anyways here you have every single song from Evermore related to the Marauders characters :D (I totally didn't forget about this series at all due to midterms, what r y'all talking about? Nope not me)

willow

"Wait for the signal and I'll meet you after dark, Show me the places where the others gave you scars"

Both of us wholeheartedly agree that this is for sure a wolfstar song. This particular lyric could go either way with scars Sirius has from his mother or the scars Remus has because of Greyback and his furry little problem and "Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in, as if you were a mythical thing" bcoz obviously they shared a dorm for 7 yrs and mythical thing aka a werewolf!

champagne problems

"How evergreen, our group of friends, Don't think we'll say that word again"

WOLFSTAR. I feel like this isn't even an argument every single person in the fandom who listens to Taylor can agree on this, this song screams wolfstar from Sirius' pov. "She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head," being said about Sirius ofc

And Tonks being the new real thing who will patch up the tapestry that Sirius shred

gold rush

"I don't like anticipating my face in a red flush, I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch"

Now this is about unrequited love and I was certain from the beginning is about jegulus specifically from Regulus' pov talking about James pining after Lily for years when he was right there

'tis the damn season

"We could call it even, You could call me babe for the weekend, 'Tis the damn season,"

Seeing as the song talks about a fleeting relationship we couldn't help but think of this as Remus and Grant

tolerate it

"While you were out building other worlds, where was I? Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?"

BLACK BROTHERS. Like no discussion required at all this song screams Black Brothers from Regulus' pov like try and tell me that isn't Regulus talking about Sirius building a separate life for himself with the Gryffindors leaving Reg behind when he always used to be his protector, and now he's all alone. "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" this is soo Regulus Black coded

no body, no crime

"I think he did it but I just can't prove it, No, no body, no crime, But I ain't letting up until the day I die"

Upon a lot of discussion and deliberation we have come to the conclusion that this song is Regulus Black about Peter coz he saw him at a meeting and knows he's the spy but by this time his relationship with his brother is basically non existent and he knows Sirius won't believe him so he needs proof

But at the ending the pov changes to Peter, convincing everyone that Sirius was the spy and the murderer

happiness

"Haunted by the look in my eyes, that would've loved you for a lifetime, Leave it all behind and there is happiness"

Now this song we think could go two ways either with jegulus or with nobleflower coz the lyrics "I hope she'll be a beautiful fool, Who takes my spot next to you" and the whole song overall has this tone of the singer wanting their ex lover to lead a happy life without them while also having a very spiteful undertone due to not being a part of it and that screams Black family to us

dorothea

"Hey Dorothea, Do you ever stop and think about me? When we were younger, down in the park honey, making a lark of the misery

Now we have two interpretations for this Marls was thinking more of Remus and Mary from Remus' pov since they are the only two members left of their friend group and Mary was the one who fled, I on the other hand could also see another version which could be Snape talking about Lily, "You got shiny friends since you left town, A tiny screen's the only place I see you now"

coney island

"I'm on a bench in Coney Island, Wondering, where did my baby go?"

For this song while Marls wasn't that sure but I could see Nobelflower all over since the song talks about this badly ended relationship bcoz one of them (Narcissa) had started distancing themselves and acting strange, so the other (Alice) starts questioning their own existence and wondering if they are all alone now that their partner no longer feels known. This being coz Cissa is bound to her house and her duties, one of them being getting married to a pure blood and Alice starts to resent her for it even tho she knows she doesn't have much of a choice

ivy

"My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand, Taking mine, but it's been promised to another"

Now ignoring the affair since we don't think any of them would do that, if we just look at the dying relationship and the beginning of a new one aspect of the song I can definitely see the end of bartylus and then Barty falling in love with Evan and thankfully Marls agrees with me on this

cowboy like me

"And the skeletons in both our closets, Plotted hard to fuck this up"

Both of us agree that is song is rosekiller all the way through bcoz it talks about two con artists who thought they never needed love but then they fall for each other?? Tell me that isn't sooo rosekiller coded

long story short

"And I fell from the pedestal, Right down the rabbit hole, Long story short, it was a bad time"

This is very obviously about Lily falling in love with James after Severus to the both of us, about how in hindsight that friendship wasn't really what she thought it was and now she is genuinely happy and it's all about James now

Tho Marls also suggested it about James and Lily getting together after he broke up with Regulus as well and while I do like it, I personally refuse to associate "Long story short, it was the wrong guy" with jegulus coz that just makes me sad :(

marjorie

"Should've kept every grocery store receipt, 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me"

This track again is Black Brothers coded but this time from Sirius' pov missing his brother after his death and regretting not mending their relationship bcoz there was still a part of him which hated his little brother for not running away with him

"What died didn't stay dead, You're alive, you're alive in my head"

closure

"It's been a long time, And seeing the shape of your name, Still spells out pain"

Evans sister. Yep that's it, it's Lily singing to Petunia about their broken relationship

evermore

"I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone, Trying to find the one where I went wrong"

In the words of our lovely Marls herself "REGULUS RIGHT BEFORE HE DIES LIKE RIGHT AS HE'S GOING DOWN TO THE CAVE, I TAKE NO CRITICISM"

And no criticism she had to take bcoz those were exactly my thoughts no discussion needed at all

right where you left me

"Help, I'm still at the restaurant, still sitting in a corner I haunt"

Now Marls sees this as Remus post war bcoz everyone other than him died (or fled in Mary's case) and left him alone and he couldn't move on from the fact for the longest time

And while I do love this interpretation I can also see jegulus after the break up from Regulus' pov, seeing James falling in love with Lily again and having a family "I'm sure that you got a wife out there, Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware" "If our love died young, I can't bear witness" while he's still stuck there reminiscing their time together bcoz that's genuinely the happiest he's ever been

it's time to go

"Sometimes, givin' up is the strong thing, Sometimes, to run is the brave thing, Sometimes, walkin' out is the one thing"

Sirius Black. That's it. We hear no criticism at all, try and fight us about it and we will strangle you in ur sleep :D I'm not kidding we hope yk that for ur own safety

AND THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY!! Thank you for sticking with us even tho I was very late for this post, the next post probably won't take this long coz Marls is the one who's gonna post that, not me, but I hope u liked our opinions and if not, we'd love to hear urs

Make sure to come back to see Folklore, coming soon! (To a theater near you)

[musicforants]

Autumn has certainly been leisurely in its arrival this year, at least in my central TX backdrop, but this week brought some slightly cooler temperatures and it’s starting to feel like like Fall is finally here. As usual, to go along with the colorful foliage, warm fashions and seasonal beverages, I have a new Autumn mixtape to help evoke the wistful, carefree feelings of the season. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Faye Webster - Thinking About You

Dipsea Flower - Burnouts

MJ Lenderman - You Don't Know the Shape I'm In

Clairo - Nomad

Mitch Rowland - Here Comes The Comeback

Haley Heynderickx - Foxglove

Gigi Perez - Sailor Song

Waxahatchee - Lone Star Lake

Babehoven - Birdseye

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alibi

Cassandra Jenkins - Devotion

Wild Pink - Disintegrate

Florist - This Was a Gift

Caoilfhionn Rose - Fall Into Place

Bon Iver - THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS

Medium Build & Julien Baker - Yoke

hemlock - Hyde Park

Zach Bryan - This World's A Giant

Adrianne Lenker - Sadness as a Gift

Slowdive - kisses (sky ii)

Beetlebug - equinox

Runner - Untitled October Song

Jensen McRae - Massachusetts

Laura Marling - Caroline

Kacey Musgraves - Too Good to be True

Hovvdy - Jean (Julie's Version)

Caroline Says - Palm Reader

James Vincent McMorrow - Meet me in the garden (alt. version)

Katie Gavin - As Good As It Gets (ft. Mitski)

Granddaddy - Cabin in My Mind

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A-T-4 046 Why'd you have to make a record about me, the R.O.X.A.N.N.E?

The Roxanne Wars began with a record called Roxanne Roxanne by UTFO

UTFO's Kangol Kid and Doctor Ice had been a breakdance duo who eventually became back-up dancers for Whodini. They formed UTFO with Educated Rapper and Mixmaster Ice and signed to Select Records as the labels first rap act. Select wasn't specifically a rap label but it would go on to release a number of notable hip hop/rap hits. For UTFO's second single they were paired up with Full Force. According to wikipedia "Full Force brought in New York's sound and sampling wizard, Gary Pozner [who recorded a few records for Select in the mid-1980s], to help create the sounds and the beats. This was one of the first instances of the new sampling machine, the E-mu Emulator, used on a commercially released record." One of the beats Roxanne Roxanne uses is Billy Squire's Big Beat which by 1984 was already a hip hop staple

Roxanne Roxanne was a big hit for UTFO and Select Records, then...

Legend has it Lolita Shanté Gooden is on her way to the laundrette in Queenbridge when Marley Marl calls her from his apartment window and asked her to drop what she's doing and rap over a beat he was currently scratching over. Marl worked at the factory that made Sergio Valente jeans and promised to get her a pair if she did this rap for him. Lolita Gooden was 13 at the time but already known as a local battle rapper. Battle rappers would rap against an opponent on the street and Gooden despite her young age was considered one of the best (there's an example below). When she got to Marley Marl's apartment she heard the beat he was playing was the instrumental version of UTFO's Roxanne Roxanne, as it was a hit and Gooden was familiar with the record. She records a freestyle in one take over the instrumental track putting herself in Roxanne role (and giving herself her stage name). With that done Lolita Gooden carries on with her laundry

It's often repeated Marley Marl was unknown at the time but he'd already been associated with a handful of records by artists like CD III, Glen Adams, Captain Rock/Aleem, and his own discovery Dimples D. He was also deejay for Mr. Magic on New York's first all rap radio show WBLS's Rap Attack. It was on Rap Attack that he played his recording of Lolita Gooden's freestyle over UTFO's Roxanne Roxanne instrumental now called Roxanne's Revenge by Roxanne Shanté

It was an instant success and got an unprecedented amount of requests from callers into the show, I think on that first show it was played a lot more than once. Roxanne's Revenge was put out on 12" by Pop Art, I think the version (known as the Street Version) released was recorded off the radio - who knows what the story is there!

Roxanne Shanté - Roxanne's Revenge

UTFO had had their egos kicked in by a 14-year-old girl. Roxanne Roxanne had been there first hit, they'd been riding high and now a 14-year-old girl was stealing their thunder by selling more records then them with their own tune. Shanté and Marley Marl really rubbed it in their faces. Select Records sued over the use of the instrumental and Roxanne's Revenge had to be re-recorded to a new backing track, they could still use the same beat patterns because they'd been sampled in the first place and the legal system didn't have a great deal to say about using recordings by other artists and sampling yet

Roxanne Shanté - Roxanne's Revenge re-record

Roxanne's Revenge is what we call an answer record, there had been plenty answer records before but they don't usually go on and on back and forth, in this case they did. UTFO decided to reply with their own Roxanne (Elease Jack) who they called the REAL Roxanne (Elease Jack was the first Real Roxanne and recorded only one record). If Roxanne was going to exist, be more than the two dimensional Roxanne of the original record, UTFO/Full Force were going to control her. It's a weird record written and produced by Full Force over the original Roxanne Roxanne instrumental, they diss themselves for money because the 14-year-old Roxanne Shanté was selling more records than them

Roxanne (with UTFO) - The Real Roxanne

Another feature of Roxanne's Revenge is Marley Marl's scratching so Full Force get Howie Tee in to make a scratch version Roxanne's Back Side (cute name huh!). Hitman Howie Tee would give Select a few hits like Just Buggin' by Whistle and Bang Zoom (Baby Let's Go-Go) by The Real Roxanne (performed by the second Real Roxanne, Adelaida Martinez)

Roxanne's Back Side it's actually really good

In 1985 Roxanne Shanté and Marley Marl release two more answer records aimed at UTFO, first Queen Of Rox (Shante' Rox On) which tells the story of how Roxanne's Revenge was made then, more importantly, Bite This

This was the beginning of the first rap BEEF

Here's an example of Shanté in a battle (albeit a formalised version infant of an audience), it's for the MC World Supremacy Belt at the New Music Seminar 1985 against 23-year-old Busy Bee (Shanté is 15). Shanté looses because of Kurtis Blow, she says it's the first time she cried in public. She later confronted Kurtis Blow over why he marked her down and he replied it was because she was a girl

“‘At that time, rappers had just started getting major deals, they had just started getting accepted into mainstream,’” she remembers him telling her. “‘For the sake of hip-hop, there was no way that a 15-year old girl could be the best. There was just no way that we could do that, Shante.’”

“And so that was that,” she said. “A lot of times, they don’t want the best to be a woman.” - vice

[faunastanza]

Appendix: I Guess I'll Talk About The Porn Comics

Okay so I originally wasn't going to write these up because I wanted to recreate the experience of a new Floraverse reader trying to understand what's going on just from what the main comic tells you. As this has gone on though I end up having to dig up more and more outside context to tie things together, so I might as well just do these anyway for reference. Glip has two sites, Floraverse and Forbiddenflora, with Forflor being where all the porn goes. Glip has gotten in trouble MULTIPLE times over the course of their artistic career for exposing minors to porn (they claim unintentionally), and I'm not sure if that was the impetus towards making a separate nsfw site or what. I don't know the exact timeline for when Forflor opened relative to the main comic. Forflor at this point is pretty dead though, Glip's said they only post their porn in locked discord channels now. Some of these porn comics caused a LOT of controversy and big headaches for Glip, which still bothers them to this day from some cohost posts they made about them (Mismatch and Something Greater mostly). Some frustration from that funnels down into the main comic, usually when a character gets accused of exposing a minor to something unappropriate. You can see most of it in the MSpaint era if you know where to look. Whenever minors come up in the comic it's almost always related to some of this in some way. I'll give a bit of background context for other porn comics Glip made before this. Just stuff to keep in mind I suppose, since some of these are recurring themes.

A long time ago, Glip submitted a short comic to Softpaw, an extremely controversial furry zine dedicated to cub porn, under Papaya Kitty. It was their avatar and Marl's having sex (both as cubs) if I recall.

Glip drew a ton of Pokemon porn for commission work and also just for fun on their own time. They drew a lot of porn for a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon RP group they ran on Deviantart abbreviated as PMD-E - I'll get more into that in a second. A lot of it centered on their adult self-insert Kecleon character (PK - PurpleKeckleon - PapayaKitty) having sex with a young boy Sneasel (Rhodes). I don't know if they got in hot water for this at the time they were drawing it but BOY it sure haunts them now.

At one point Glip either drew or hosted a bestiality comic on ForFlor with this leaf dragon Nimlus getting railed by a pack of dogs. Nimlus's creator commissioned the comic. They commissioned Glip for A LOT of porn of Nimlus getting railed by various huge things. After news of Marl trying to coerce minors into real life bestiality for money came out, Glip deleted it. I don't actually know if Nimlus still commissions Glip for porn or what.

Anyway, I'm not covering any of those. I'm just going to do the comics on ForFlor that have any background context for what happens in the main comic.

Well... except for this first one. There's just SO much drama attached to this comic and Glip took it down so you can't see what happens in it for yourself (you can find it on e-hentai.org though I guess if you really want to see it), so I might as well summarize it too as another thread in this insane tapestry.

Warning: As you can probably guess, a lot of the pictures are nsfw. I censored the penises, although you can see them in full in the dreamwidth entry. Mismatch is a non-con/dub-con comic that Glip insists to this day was actually consensual, so if you don't like those themes give this a pass.

Mismatch by PK

trustworthy face

This is the original cover for it - on ForFlor now there's a version that has angel scribbles all over it and a note from Glip explaining why they took it down. They say that that their "novice/inexperienced writing" made the consent in the comic more ambiguous than they intended. They insist they aren't interested in debating what the comic is (rape/dubcon), although they still are furious about how people interpreted it to this day from their cohost posts. They mention that this was their second serious foray into adult comics, and the first one with Alice which is not on ForFlor also featured "implied consent" which is... very generous for what happens in that one. They say that the stories were "too ambitious" for their skills at the time, and that's why they come off as non-con, and if they could do it again they'd do a better job.

This was in their initial response to someone who contacted them about the rapey vibes of Mismatch, and then a few days later they came back much more defensive and angry about people telling them whether or not characters they wrote consented or not, and they don't care and are over it, and since they aren't the same person they were when they wrote it talking about it is pointless, so they aren't going to talk or argue about it anymore, stop bringing it up. They blame all the other porn comics they were reading at the time, which they say were mostly non-con, so they just didn't know any better about how to write porn.

To this day, Glip insists that the elephant there 100% consented to what happened and came into the encounter knowing and agreeing to everything that happens, and that's just... not what's actually in the comic at all. And to be clear if you want to write a non-con porn comic then fine, it's a common kink, but at least admit that it's non-con or even dub-con. Own it! At least do that! But Glip will die on the hill that this is all 100% consensual.

AND YET THERE IS STILL SOME MORE BACKGROUND CONTEXT ON THIS ONE I told you, this comic has so much baggage it could fill its own train car.

I mentioned PMD-E above there - Glip's Pokemon Devart RP. There were a bunch of characters but one particularly notable one was Shroomsworth, a Breloom, who I think was quite popular. I don't know what his deal was but Glip drew PK and Shroomsworth having sex at one point (probably at more than one point). On Devart they posted the first sfw part of a story with them and then linked to the nsfw part on their tumblr without saying it was nsfw, causing a fair amount of children to reply with disgust and confusion in the Devart comments when they wanted to see the rest of the story and saw porn. Glip claims either this wasn't intentional, it was an accident, they did say it was nsfw, or they don't remember doing it, I forget which.

I'm not sure if it was when they were promo-ing ForFlor or what, but sometime later when they first finished Mismatch, they advertised it on tumblr as saying the elephant guy there was very similar to Shroomsworth. So... poaching a bit off their old PMD-E fans. Back in the PMD-E days, they also did a comic of Shroomsworth being raped by a Lugia (this was not on Devart). All pieces of the greater puzzle that is Mismatch...

We open with Alice sneaking up on Jackie with a weird wiggly thing that looks more like an abstract vase than a dildo. Jackie tells her that she already told her no and to leave her alone. Alice whines like a baby about it and Jackie calls her out on it.

i found this big pink slug in the yard, i think it's dying

Keep this moment in mind. Alice protests that she does listen when people say no, making Jackie retort that she was JUST bothering her even thought she'd told her no. Alice has a brief moment of self-awareness where she almost seems to feel bad about pushing her boundaries but she gets over it. Jackie tells her to just go to a brothel and Alice is angry at the suggestion. She says that the last time she went was the worst time she'd ever gone, and she got matched up with someone and she still can't believe what happens.

We cut to the elephant, Quillion, at the brothel. Quillion isn't Glip's character btw, they're very insistent that they and Quillion's creator both worked on and approved this story, and now I wonder if maybe they RP'd it out with each other. It seems like that's the only way Glip interacts with anyone. Anyway, Quillion filled out an "interests" application, and the rabbit lady at the desk assures him that they've matched him with the perfect partner.

someone jabbed flowers in my ears and then i couldn't hear which way they ran :(

You can't make out the clear details on the sheets, but you can see some important points - mostly that Alice is up for literally anything at any time, and Quillion is just into anal, but has some other things he is definitely not into, although you can't read what they are. Rabbit says the other applicant is already waiting, to Quillion's surprise. He asks if it was someone with the same interests, and the rabbit reassures him that it was and that he's lucky, the other person didn't want to wait. They give him the key to the room and send him on his way.

Alice of course is in the room and jumps him immediately, saying that his accent is super hot (Quillion speaks in slightly fractured English, vaguely Russian). Quillion is confused that she's so small and also doesn't seem to know what it is he wants to do.

how responsible is the receptionist for this come to think of it, this place doesn't run a very tight ship

Anyway she starts sucking him off and his penis looks weird, a bit like a pool noodle (more on pool noodles later). Maybe real elephant penises look like that but I'm not going to check. That's information I can live my life happily not knowing. He enjoys it for a bit then says they should move to the main attraction. Alice asks what that is and again Quillion says she should know. He pushes her down and flips her over, and she's into it. She expresses doubt that his huge penis will fit in her but he says he'll make it and does, which she also thinks is super hot. They go at it for a while until Alice starts telling him to go faster and harder. Quillion is wary, since she is way, WAY smaller than him, and he's worried he'll break her.

Quillion tells her he doesn't think she can take it, which just makes her angry. She insists she knows her own body, and Quillion says then that it's a shame she can't really do anything about it in the position she's in and that they'll go at his pace, not hers. Alice pulls out a wand from under the bed and says she doesn't think so.

He says to struggle all she likes, she's not going to- but then gets cut off as Alice holds up the wand. She jumps off him and summons up some vines to tie him down, much to his dismay. Once down, Alice presents him with an array of art school pottery projects, asking which one he prefers.

how did those fit in that drawer

Quillion doesn't respond fast enough, so Alice just picks one for him, a big lumpy spiky one that she says is big and "looks ridiculous" but is still hot (it's not, it's just ridiculous). We then get our first bit of world-building lore.

all the mass in my hands went into my fur spikes

Hanged men showed up briefly in the main comic where Cayenne thought they were scam artists, which they were. They can essentially detach their heads to take over new bodies...? Something like that...? I'm not sure, I don't remember, but hanged men DO show up in the main comic. I dunno if anyone out there cares about them but if you do there you go I guess.

Quillion states clearly that this is not what he came here for, and Alice shouts at him to be quiet since he gave up his chance to pick a dildo. Quillion feebly protests before Alice forcibly gags him, saying she's tired of hearing him talk already. She says how red he is is cute, then tells him if she's going too far, he can wave his trunk around and she'll stop, since she can't get wet if he isn't enjoying it too. This is inversely similar to something she says in the first porn comic with Alice that is not on ForFlor, where she tells Jackie that her resistance only makes her wetter. Flipflopped on that I suppose. The penis in this panel looks ridiculous.

trustworthy face

It looks like one of those water snake toys springing out of a jack-in-the-box. It's also apparently semi-transparent??? What is happening there

She thrusts into him and Quillion makes some noises, although they aren't intelligible. Alice asks if they're requests to go harder or faster while Quillion squirms. "Hee hee!" she says. "Squirm away! Pretend you're not super turned on! Your dick says otherwise..." which is more in line with the Alice we saw at the beginning of the story. She tells him not to even think of getting away until she's wrecked him, since he's not the first and he won't be the last. In the back there's some kind of dragon in bondage while she sits on his dong and it really looks more like she's the figurehead of a pirate ship.

yarr harr

Anyway they both come. Back in the present, Jackie asks how this was a bad experience. Alice says she and Quillion lied around for a while, with Alice telling Quillion she wants to go again but she's waiting for somebody and has to go. Quillion, with his face red, says nothing. She says she does want to meet up with him again since she thinks big flustered guys are cute, prompting Quillion to go "a-ah..." with his eyes still closed. She says they should exchange addresses and they do. They say goodbye, with Alice saying he should visit her or else. Quillion still has the same -_- face and says nothing.

the tiniest trashcan

Outside, Quillion looks at the note and seems troubled. He holds it over the trash to throw it away, then pulls it back at the last minute.

Back with Jackie, Alice says she went to the address Quillion gave her, and she ended up in an alleyway. Alice says she's never been so humiliated, and not in the sexy way either. She went back to talk to the front desk to find out he gave her a fake address and checked the trash to find her card.

Jackie asks if Alice has thought about it from his perspective and Alice cuts her off to say no. Jackie is unsurprised by this. She asks how she knew what was on his application and it turns out Alice had sex with the front desk people to get a look. At this point you might be thinking, well, maybe Quillion put role-reversal or dom or something like that on his application, and this was actually exactly what he wanted.

my chest fur constantly gets in my mouth

So here's Jackie to say that he explicitly did NOT say any of those things. This is supposed to be a silly porn comic, so Jackie's argument comes mostly from him being overcome with new sexy feelings, but the idea of Quillion being afraid to tell Alice to stop never comes up. That possibility definitely got brought up when other people criticized this comic though. Glip's latest post about this comic insists that Quillion asked to be put into an "uncomfortable situation" where he'd experience powerful feelings on purpose against his will, even though he clearly didn't. The thing is, he COULD have! One line on his application about being into power play could have fixed this entire thing! One line!!!

Jackie asks Alice if she's ever found out she's really into something and been really embarrassed by it, and Alice of course immediately says no. Jackie explains that she probably embarrassed Quillion in a way he couldn't have predicted, and at the brothel she worked at (Jackie worked at a brothel! Lore!) they only ever did things the customers asked for. Jackie says that if Quillion did like it, he's probably too ashamed to look for her again, causing Alice to lament that that makes it even hotter.

that's one theory

Alice shoves some more weird vasesdildos into a bag and says she's going boy hunting. Jackie goes back to her book and says this whole thing is a such a stupid problem. END.

And that's Mismatch! You make up your own mind about what to think about it. I'm sure Glip will angrily post about people misinterpreting it again at some point.

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[hawon-ee]

絵本『おばけのマールとすてきなことば』に登場するアイヌ語｜Ainu words in the Picture Book 'Marl and the Ghost and Some Beautiful Words'

国立アイヌ民族博物館　第６回テーマ展示「ミナ ミナ　おばけのマールとすてきなことば」展｜2024年3月16日（土）から2024年5月12日（日）まで・国立アイヌ民族博物館 ２階 特別展示室

To note: This sheet of paper seems to be guided towards the foreign tourists, as the chart's translations goes in this order: (After Ainu) English, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese.

For the Ainu language, it is categorised as アイヌイタㇰ (Ainu language). The categorisation of each language is done in their own respective language.

I will be only translating to the languages that I know. Unfortunately this means I will not archive the Simplified Chinese translations here. I apologise (I don't know how to write them).

For my own convenience, I will change the order of translation to: Japanese, English, Korean.

Lastly, I will also flip the order of which alphabet of the Ainu language writing system appears, with the Roman letters coming first. This is just because I wrote it down in these letters first, and has no other meaning behind the switch-up. Both are presented in the chart.

apkas ・ アㇷ゚カㇱ・歩く・to walk・걷다

mik mik ・ ミㇰ ミㇰ・ワンワン・woof woof・멍멍

irankarapte ・ イランカラㇷ゚テ・こんにちは・hello (greetings)・안녕하세요

rekte ・ レㇰテ・〜を鳴らす（ムックリなど）・to play (a mukkuri, etc.)・~을 울리다, 소리를 내다 (묵쿠리 등)

poronno ・ ポロンノ・たくさん・many・많이

ku=ewen na ・ クウェン ナ・ごめんなさい・I'm sorry・미안해요

mina ・ ミナ・わらう・to laugh, to smile・웃다

ku=iperusuy ・ クイペルスイ・おなかがすいた・I'm hungry・배고프다

issorore ・ イッソロレ・こんにちは・hello (greetings)・안녕하세요

ikatay ・ イカタイ・こんにちは・hello (greetings)・안녕하세요

inankarapte ・ イナンカラㇷ゚テ・こんにちは・hello (greetings)・안녕하세요

isiorore ・イシオロレ・こんにちは・hello (greetings)・안녕하세요

irankarahte ・ イランカラㇷ゚テ・こんにちは・hello (greetings)・안녕하세요

keraan ・ ケラアン・おいしい・tasty・맛있다

horippa ・ ホリッパ・踊る、踊り・to dance, a dance・춤추다, 춤

rimse ・リㇺセ・踊る、踊り・to dance, a dance・춤추다, 춤

upopo ・ ウポポ・座り歌、歌う、踊る、踊り・a seated song, to sing, to dance, a dance・앉아서 부르는 노래, 노래 하다, 춤추다, 춤

pirka ・ ピㇼカ・よい・to be good, beautiful・훌륭하다, 아름답다

iyayraykere ・ イヤイライケレ・ありがとう・thank you・고마워요

opke ・ オㇷ゚ケ・おならをする・to break wind, fart・방귀를 뀌다

aynu ・アイヌ・人間・human・인간

kotan ・ コタン・むら・village・마을

nupuri ・ ヌプリ・やま・mountain・산

poro ・ ポロ・大きい・big・크다

pet ・ ペッ・かわ・river・강

upas ・ ウパㇱ・ゆき・snow・눈

amam ・アマㇺ・こくもつ・grain・곡물

This was from a sheet of paper given by the Upopoy Museum when visiting in 2024 from march to may for their special event. Every once in a while, they have a specific new theme for their ever-changing spare exhibition room.

If you want the book for Marl the Ghost, it should be available on Amazon as a pdf or as a physical copy. There is a Japanese version and an English version.

Thank you for your attention.

[neon-dynasty]

The End

We've made it! This card represents one of the main endings of Chrono Trigger. The party celebrates at the last night of the Millennial Fair and says their goodbyes.

Since this is the main ending, you'll need to have explored all the time periods and have all the characters (if you don't recruit Magus, we can't be friends). If you cast this and don't have the required lands and party, that's ok. Try again when you regroup and figure it out. I even managed to get the boss mechanic on here! I really like this design, especially considering it's one I made recently, to fill out the story.

We've also got a gorgeous piece from Shiroya depicting the iconic moment when Crono and Marle fly away with balloons. I've always preferred the other version of the ending, but this one makes for a much nicer piece of artwork.

So we've come to the end, but one of the most mind-blowing things about Chrono Trigger was the New Game + feature, so we're not quite done yet.

[rabbitechoes]

very abridged version of this final Singles & Songs post of the month because i was without power for a week due to the horrible storm that came through the southeast!! still, these are the songs i rlly wanted to talk about :3 click here for "last week's" post!!

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"Funny Man" - Chat Pile

◇ released: Sept. 24, 2024 ◇ featured on Cool World (not yet released) ◇ genres: noise rock, sludge metal

This album is gonna be so fucking awesome. All of these singles leading up to Cool World have been some of my favorite Chat Pile songs to date and "Funny Man" is no different. Everything sounds so nasty and dirty. It captures this super American feeling so well - not in a patriotic way, but the bleak infrastructure of a lot of southern states in particular. Roads and roads and roads littered with a dozen chain restaurants and gas stations within arms-length of each other. That's what Chat Pile's music makes me feel, but uhhhh in a good way.

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"Child of Mine" - Laura Marling

◇ released: Sept. 24, 2024 ◇ featured on Patterns in Repeat (not yet released) ◇ genres: chamber folk, singer-songwriter

This new single from Laura Marling is the opening track to her upcoming album Patterns in Repeat. Like all of the singles thus far, this is gorgeous. Marling sings songs dedicated to her daughter as well as for herself. She chronicles this new phase of her life so beautifully in these songs and "Child of Mine" is another great example of that. Just pretty folk music that feels like a warm blanket wrapped around you. I can't wait for this record.

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"Alone" - The Cure

🥇 BEST SONG OF THE MONTH

◇ released: Sept. 26, 2024 ◇ featured on Songs of a Lost World (not yet released) ◇ genres: gothic rock, dream pop, ethereal wave

So, I felt pretty skeptical about The Cure’s long-awaited Songs of a Lost World album. The gothic rock icons last few records have been subpar to say the least, some of the lowest points of their discography, so I wondered if perhaps Robert Smith and crew lost the sauce. Then I heard “Alone,” what is perhaps the band’s best song in over 30 years. It harkens back to their old hallmarks, but not in a cheap way. It doesn’t feel like a retreading of those ideas, it feels like a revitalization. The looming synths, the punchy percussion, Smith's voice is as gripping as ever ... it's all here. All the pieces that make an amazing Cure song, "Alone" has them and it's wonderful. There’s just something magical about this sprawling, cold, and dreamy lead single. The Cure is back and they're good, no, GREAT again. One of my favorite bands of all time is BACK.

I'm just enamored with this song. It also kept me company during the multi-day power outage that followed Hurricane Helene, so that gives it the edge for being my song of the month - although Mount Eerie and FKA twigs were VERY close behind with "I Walk" and "Eusexua" respectively. All of my doubts have washed away, I am convinced this will be a late-career highlight for the band. Firmly one of my most anticipated records of the year.

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"Before Machinery" - This Is the Glasshouse

◇ released: Sept. 29, 2024 ◇ featured on 867 (not yet released) ◇ genres: post-rock, noise rock, post-hardcore

I've been greatly anticipating this new single from This Is the Glasshouse. All of the teasers leading up to it made it sound like something totally different from their last record, As Small As Ants. That record was already a great showcase of their knack for interesting instrumentation, as was their covers EP from last month, but "Before Machinery" is something different entirely. It's weird and noisy, sprawling in even the most subtle ways. They take their sound in an entirely new direction and it just works. The songwriting has improved as has their musicianship. I'm really loving this, I can't wait to hear how much wilder 867 can get. Please don't let this slip under your radar!

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[chewbokachoi]

For both Cassan and Ryu!!

8. What are some internal obstacles that your character has to overcome?

18. Who/what comforts your character?

36. What are the things that make your character enter a full rage/cold mode? (Depends on their character.)

:O

CASSAN:

8. What are some internal obstacles that your character has to overcome?

Ohohoho--so many.

Her "thing" is quantum immortality gone awry. Rather than "waking up" in the 'what if you narrowly avoided getting hit by the bus' universe after getting hit by a bus, she'll wake up with a version of her that led a totally different life. She doesn't know why, but sometimes when a version of her in another world dies, it wakes up in her. Hence her awareness of the multiverse as well as her fear of it--she's terrified of what she could wake up with next. It's totally random--she can go for months without a 'fragment' (as she calls them) showing up. Other times weeks--but never a full year.

She's terrified of what she could become given what she's woken up with at times, and she always absorbs something from a fragment. Which she also can't choose or predict. This has resulted in her developing mod-severe OCD where she "has" to do a number of things to keep herself in check.

18. Who/what comforts your character?

Who: Avery, Max, and Ryu are the most reliable people for her. Avery's the one she goes to for a hug--he's huge and can pick her up like she's nothing. She goes to both Avery and Max when she wants to fangirl about something (or bitch about something). Ryu is her adopted father, so he's the one she goes to when scared about her fragments.

What: Reading or jigsaw puzzles with something on. She loves movies. And fanfiction. So much fanfic.

36. What are the things that make your character enter a full rage/cold mode? (Depends on their character)

Oh boy. When she was much younger and not good at understanding her mind reading, she had a tendency to bide her time and go after those who hurt the people she cared about. But that made her "the weird" kid and so very few friends stuck around. But ultimately, threatening her found family is a good way to think you have spiders crawling on your face for the rest of your life.

RYU

8. What are some internal obstacles that your character has to overcome?

Did he end up creating a new family on accident via taking in a bunch of wayward misfits and addicts trying to recover and did he really make their lives better? OR did he take advantage of equally broken and devastated people and is using them to avoid the pain of losing his own family?

The world will never know!

Hint: it's the former, Ryu.

18. Who/what comforts your character?

Who: Those who he has deemed to be part of his new family. Avery and Cassan are more or less his kids (there's a couple others, I think). So, they make him feel better by just being around and not dead--bonus points if they're having a light saber fight in the staff room with taped-together paper towel tubes. Max is like an obnoxious younger sister that keeps him on his toes. Marle, as Ryu describes their dynamic: "One of us is the left arm and the other's the right arm." To what, Ryu won't say.

What: Drinking barley tea at the base of his eldritch tree. Or sitting in the sun and photosynthesizing. It's unknown if he's serious or not when he says he goes outside to photosynthesize.

36. What are the things that make your character enter a full rage/cold mode? (Depends on their character)

A shocking amount of things. Ryu may or may not be living off of spite, love/hate, and barley tea. The top No-No list

-Threatening his new family, those in his community, his bookstore... -Telling him to forgive Liu Kang -Standing by and insisting nothing's your fault

Doing any of the threatening things (and we're talking actual threat--like Frost walking in and deciding she owns the place, not some idiot blowing hot air) and he won't regret taking a life in the slightest. Telling him to forgive Liu Kang will result in him kindly asking you to leave. If you don't, then he kicks you out--literally. Standing by and insisting there was nothing wrong with that results in him deciding that person is worthless of his time--and that's a big deal. Ryu thinks everyone should be forgiven.

Except Liu Kang, apparently.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

What do you think it might mean to have Eddie wearing Buck's blue henley (or a copy of it at least) from 2x01 in the upcoming episode?

Hey Nonnie

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about seeing Eddie in that blue Henley!! For starters it is definitely the same blue Henley Buck wears in 2x01! Eddie just doesn't wear blue all that often (18 times out of 140+ non uniform costumes!) so the fact that we have him wearing blue and not only blue but a blue Henley we've seen before on Buck is an interesting choice and hints at a couple of things. We of course need to remember we have no idea which scene/scenes this Henley is appearing in and who those scenes will be with and that may have an impact on why this particular Henley was chosen.

Firstly we have the scene we saw Buck wearing this blue Henley - in season 2 - he gets home to find Maddie in his shower having mistaken her for Abby, we have Buck cooking for Maddie and having a conversation about lying low/ hiding out before Buck shows her a picture of Abby.

The most interesting and probably important part of the conversation is the 'Eat, Pray, Love'  section. The idea that Abby is out exploring the world, but actually exploring herself and getting in touch with herself on a sexual level. Its especially interesting when we think about Buck comparing himself to Ana in season 5 because; Abby had a serious relationship which didn't end on her terms, she then dated Buck (having been pushed into it by Carla) to get herself back out there before leaving to escape and find herself. its implied that Abby slept around a bit before meeting Sam and finding her happily ever after with him.

Its interesting how that concept kind of ties in pretty well with Eddie's own dating trajectory - his relationship with Shannon didn't end on his terms, he dates Ana to get himself back out there (having been pushed into it by Bobby) and now we've got him going on a few dates as he figures himself and what he wants out, before in theory finding his version of Sam (cough Buck cough) and getting his own happily ever after.

Eddie dating around and actually discovering himself in a romantic and possibly sexual sense - something we've been give enough clues in canon to know hasn't really happened before now. Whatever his dating life is going to look like in the next couple of episodes (cough Marisol cough) its going to be about him exploring rather than settling down in a serious relationship - the settling down comes after the exploring in the same way it did for Abby.

The other side of the coin is the Eddie wearing blue. Like I said, its not a colour we see him in often, In fact we only see him wearing blue (other than his uniform obviously) a few ties - I'm including denim shirts in this 

2x04 - dark denim shirt -Eddie is with Abeula in hospital - Carla comes in with Chris 2x07 - Navy blue suit - touring Durrand School - light blue denim shirt - Shannon comes round to discuss Christophers new school 2x10 - light blue marl tee - Eddie and Shannon have sex and Chris comes home 3x03 - light blue denim shirt - Eddie drops Chris back off at Bucks post tsunami 'Theres no one I trust more with my son than you' scene 3x04 - (more teal than blue but I'm including it) Chris wakes from a nightmare 3x09 - navy blue tee - Therapy with Frank - post fight club 3x12 - dark blue waffle sweater -Eddie gets called to Christophers school - meets Ana 3x18 - light blue button up shirt - Mays graduation party 4x08 - mid blue denim shirt - Eddie introduces Ana to Chris as his girlfriend 4x14 - navy blue tee - Hospital - the Will scene 5x10 - navy blue shirt with dot pattern - Chris wakes from a nightmare 5x14 - light blue/lavender long sleeve tee - dream sequence in kitchen with Chris 5x17 - white henley with a blue shirt over the top - Christophers bedroom - conversation with Buck and then in Texas seeing family 5x18 - navy blue shirt with dot pattern, blue blazer -HenRen vow renewal 6x08 - dark blue distressed tee - Eddie helping Chris get ready for his school dance 6x09 - dark blue shirt - Eddie asleep on his couch 6x13 - Blue check suit for the Poker game

The thing I hope you're picking up from these occurrences is how much they are tied to family. every single one of the scenes when Eddie is wearing blue represents a key moment in Eddie and Christophers family life and how it is developing. Central to it all is Chris as all of the scenes are connected to him in some way even when he isn't present (perhaps especially when he is not present) even the scene in Franks office in season 3 is about Eddie not wanting Chris to end up like him, while the shirt and blazer worn to HenRens vow renewal is very much focused on strong family dynamics - especially his dynamic with Chris as we see in the flash forward/back scene.

However, in season 6 we have started to see the blue break away from being quite so tied to Chris and family dynamics and be a bit more focused on Eddie from 6x09 - its interesting that we see this split happen when Bobbys voiceover is talking about the Santa Anas coming to an end and the city resting before the cycle starts again. Eddies arc in that episode is about Eddie 'separating' himself from Chris - becoming more than just a father (and firefighter) and because the editing ties that scene to Buck and the blue check suit worn to the poker date connecting so heavily to Buck seeing where this next blue shirt is worn is going to be interesting.

Its because of this use of blue on Eddie that I'm inclined to think that the reuse of this Henley is more to do with it being blue and therefore about some key moment in the Diaz family dynamic/ the Buck and Eddie dynamic than it being connected to potential eat pray love experiences, although its entirely possible that both concepts are valid and correct in this case as we do have Eddie wearing Blue in connection with Ana (and with Shannon although she was less of an eat pray love thing!).

Until we know more about which episode its is definitely for and who else is in the scene its impossible for me to parse out meaning as I haven't seen the script and so much of what I glean from the costumes the wardrobe team put the cast in is derived from the text - which is the same way the Costume designer would make the decisions they have about the costumes we see on screen. Without that text for context, I really am only guessing as to the meaning of a costume and I'll always lean more into colour theory than I would anything else which is why if pressed I'm more inclined to think that they are reusing the Henley for the simple reason that its a Henley in blue. Eddie wears a lot of Henley's - its a key part of his wardrobe - and if they needed a blue one, why spend more money when you already have one in stock (I would have different feelings if it was Buck rewearing it rather than Eddie being seen in it for the first time, then it would definitely be about connecting the scenes) especially when Buck doesn't wear Henleys any more, so I am more inclined to lean towards it being worn in a key moment for the Diaz family/ Eddie and Buck's dynamic in some way over the eat pray love connection because of the Eddie in blue of it all.

Sorry I can't really give you a more focused answer than that, I just really have so little context to go on because even the bts gives us no vague context to work with!!!

[airadam]

Episode 173 : ...after all this rain.

"...kick rocks or kick rhymes..."

- Jean Grae

The seasons are most definitely changing on this side, and the heavens have been pretty open the last couple of weeks while I've been putting the show together. Unfortunately during that time, we lost a couple of respected DJs and producers, DJ Mark the 45 King and Groove Damoast, both of whom are included in this month's mix. May they rest well.  The selections for this month span a time period of almost fifty years, from a 1975 funk classic to a brand new release from one of Manchester's finest, making stops in the 80s and the independent Hip-Hop wax era of the 90s - something for all the heads!

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Playlist/Notes

DJ Muggs, Roc Marciano, Meyhem Lauren, and Rome Streetz : 67 Keys

Two MCs I've seen live recently with another (Rome Streetz) I would have seen if it wasn't for work's on-call schedule, talking pure drug business over some thriller film-type production courtesy of DJ Muggs, who has constructed an amazing second act post the Cypress Hill classics that everyone knows him for. Everyone gets busy on the mic on this new single, with Meyhem killing that last verse.

David Cutter Music : Upstart

UK beat action here with this London beatmaker cooking up a quintessential boom-bap type of beat with a little of that DJ Premier flavour and heaviness - I might need to blend this with some M.O.P! Get this on the recently-released "Follow Dreams" LP.

MF DOOM : Lickupon

I went back to the "Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain" LP after being gifted an amazing alternate cover for display recently, and this was a standout on my first listen in a while. The producers (Heat Sensor) work the same sample as Biggie's "Warning" but with all sorts of other stuff going on, and DOOM just goes nuts from beginning to end. Bars upon bars with no hook, purely the sounds of someone who loved to flip words every which way.

Doo Wop ft. Raekwon : Castle To Castle

You've got to be brave to hop on a track with the crime-rhyming slang master Raekwon if MCing isn't your full-time gig, but Doo Wop (one of Biggie's favourite DJs) gives a good account of himself here as well as holding down the production! A classic jazz sample is the basis for this track from "The State vs Doo Wop" which is also available on a 12" if you need the clean version and instrumental.

Little Brother ft. Rhymefest and Supastition : Do It To Death

A personal headphone favourite I could have sworn I'd already played on the podcast, but which somehow missed the selection for the last fourteen-plus years! All four MCs kill it, but my favourite is absolutely Phonte on the opening verse, with his "American Pie" reference never failing to make me smile! Focus... is on production and those drums are absolutely smacking here, making this track a highlight of "...And Justus For All".

Marley Marl : Hip-Hop History #4

Short and sweet, with a chunky and bouncing beat from the godfather of sampling as we know it today, and no rhymes - just a few words about his own history in Hip-Hop. Find this one on the 2000 "Hip Hop Dictionary" release, which I thought might be a big hard to find but is actually available digitally.

Kev Brown & Dre King : Black Champions

Tough, tough instrumental that I've had on repeat this month, taken from the seven-track "King Kev" project from these two musical masters. Dre King is, amongst other things, a sample pack producer who provides top-shelf instrumental pieces for producers to sample, and his work is used to great effect once Kev Brown gets it into his MPC. No hi-hits on this, just the kick and snare smashing through the whole beat, giving you little spaces where just the bass and keys play before the drums kick you in the head again!

Pharoahe Monch ft. Jean Grae and Royce Da 5' 9" : Assassins

An appropriately named track from the "W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)" album, with all three MCs fitting perfectly into the roles of Hip-Hop assassins (check the full version to get the intro), since none of them have ever encountered a beat they couldn't kill. M-Phazes is on the beat, and it's appropriately loud and dramatic - not something that blends into a mix naturally, because so many things don't sound quite like this.

[DJ Premier] Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, and Benny The Butcher : Headlines (Instrumental)

I was surprised to find I hadn't played the vocal version of this Griselda track before, but DJ Premier's instrumental provides a nice bridge here between a track with no outro and one with too little drum intro - coming in hard with the aggressive stabs before transitioning into string-led production.

Redman : Bricks Standup

A short freestyle-ish expedition from Redman's "Ill At Will Mixtape Vol.1", which sees one of the all-time greats killing it over the instrumental for Jay-Z's "What More Can I Say?". That instrumental was produced by Brooklyn duo The Buchanans, who somehow cooked this up as one of their first creations and got it placed on "The Black Album" - talk about coming in hot!

Peanut Butter Wolf ft. Rasco and DJ Q-Bert : Run The Line

Taking it back to some late 90s underground Hip-Hop that brings back memories of the tail end of my time at university in Manchester, and especially the time when turntablism was starting to break out of the preserve of only the absolutely most in-the-know to the wider Hip-Hop world and beyond. Q-Bert obliterates it on the scratch as he does literally every single time, with all kinds of flaring action that might as well have come from outer space to many of us! Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf is on production of course on this track from his debut solo LP release "My Vinyl Weighs A Ton", and the all-California lineup is completed by Rasco on the mic. Cleveland-born, but as one of the Cali Agents...he counts.

Tyler Daley : These Cards

One half of Children of Zeus and a certified triple threat, Tyler shows off his singing, rhyming (in case you forgot), and production skills on this bumping new single. And he's 100% correct...he's done alright, to say the least.

The 45 King : Meganizm

While The 45 King is best known for his 80s productions, he was also the producer of tracks like Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life" and "Stan" for Eminem as well as a number of far more underground collections of beats, like 2006's "Grooves For A Quiet Storm" from which this track is drawn. A chilled head-nodder with a straightforward and clean drum track on top of some summery keys and bass, this fits just as well at a BBQ as on a mixtape!

SoulChef, Steph Pockets, and DJ Groove Damoast : When It Comes To This

RIP Groove Damoast, who passed away this month. I didn't know the full extent  of his work, only knowing his name as a DJ on Twitch, but he was a well-regarded DJ and producer out of Philadelphia who is deeply missed by many. Having heard this 2021 single on one of the many tribute shows, I decided I wanted to share it here. New Zealand's SoulChef is on production, Groove Damoast is the man on the turntables cutting it up with precision, and his Philadelphia compatriot Steph Pockets controls the mic from start to end. Quality Hip-Hop.

Dynamic Syncopation ft. Mass Influence : 2 Tha Left

Early 2000s pick here that I encountered on the Ninja Tune "Xen Cuts" compilation, but was also on the 2002 "In The Red" LP by the combo of producers Loop Professor and Jonny Cuba. As much as this breezy, acoustic guitar-laced track could have been a great instrumental, they stepped it up by drafting in Mass Influence, an underground crew of MCs out of Atlanta who sound very different to what would come to most people's mind when they think of Atlanta Hip-Hop! Apparently some people know this from an advert for Adult Swim segment of Cartoon Network, so it's interesting to know that stuff like Ninja Tune had that kind of reach within the generation who are not making the decisions :) 

Fred & The New JB's : (It's Not The Express) It's the J.B.'s Monaurail, Pt. 1

(Not my apostrophe placement, by the way!) I had a bit of a play with the cue points feature on Serato to extend this live-drummed intro a little bit, just because those hi-hats are so fire. A classic funk workout from Fred Wesley and the rest of James Brown's famous band of that era (from the "James Brown's Funky People" LP), and one that has been sampled on at least three tracks I can think of - I don't know if the sample was cleared on my favourite usage, so I won't mention it here even though you might have heard me play it in the past...

EPMD : Let The Funk Flow

I'll be real - this is far from my favourite of the tracks on EPMD's classic debut "Strictly Business", but I couldn't pass up the chance to blend into it off the back of the original sample! Listening to the cuts on this makes me smile, performed by the group's original DJ K La Boss (who is still working today under the name Dj4our5ive) in his early years.

[Rashad Smith and Sean "Puffy" Combs] The Notorious B.I.G. : One More Chance (Hip-Hop Instrumental)

In a then-contemporary example of the new school calling back to their Hip-Hop inspirations, Rashad Smith and Puffy essentially lifted the monster Marley Marl beat for Craig G's "Droppin' Science (Remix)" for this drastic remix of a track that was already a remix...ok, stay with me on this. The original "One More Chance" was on "Ready To Die" and was pretty raw on the X-rated rhymes, and was then essentially re-recorded with Faith Evans on the hook with a bit of a bow tie on the production, sampling DeBarge's "Stay With Me" for radio appeal. However, the winner for many of us was taking the lyrics from this version and putting them alongside the undeniable break that Marley used seven years before!

Latee : This Cut's Got Flavor

Closing with a DJ Mark the 45 King production, a real classic for heads of a certain age that you don't hear often enough nowadays! This 1987 single has an absolutely monster drum track highlighted by those heavy kicks, and the slowed-down guitar riff is a perfect era-appropriate backing. Latee only had a few releases under his own banner, along with a decent number of guest appearances, but these to me will always be the rhymes that come to mind whenever this Flavor Unit MC is mentioned. This track just makes me want to put on a Dapper Dan suit and drive an AMG Benz somewhere. To my desk job, I suppose 😁

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Midnights (Marauder's Version)

Welcome back to the new series by @marsmarauders and I. Obviously we got carried away again but here you have every single song from Midnights related to the Marauders characters :D

So we present to you... Midnights (Marauder's Version)

Lavender Haze

“The 1950s shit they want from me, I just wanna stay in that Lavender haze"

Like this song is very obviously Jily falling hopelessly in love with each other I don’t think it needs to be further elaborated

Maroon

“When the silence came, we were shaking, blind and hazy, How the hell did we lose sight of us again?"

Wolfstar, but specifically like… November 1981. The vinyl reference, "the lips I used to call home," "laughing with my feet in your lap," and "the rust that grew between telephones" signifying how they weren’t communicating well and hiding things from each other "I see you everyday now" cause Remus sees the sky and what just so happens to be in the sky? Stars. Sirius also sees the sky from his prison cell and what does he see? Oh that’s right the moon!

Anti-Hero

“When my depression works the graveyard shift, All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room”

We had two theories for this one first being Regulus bcoz of the self deprecating vibe and “I'll stare directly at the sun (James) but never in the mirror”

But we could also see it as Mary post-war? It's hard to describe why, but everyone sees her as the Anti-Hero cause she saved herself even tho she had full right to do that

Snow on the Beach

For this one I was utterly confused and absolutely useless and Marls came up with this interpretation herself

"Can this be a real thing? Can it? Are we falling like snow at the beach?"

This song is Sirius's perspective specifically during the wolfstar forgiveness phase after the prank. "You wanting me tonight feels impossible".

You're On Your Own, Kid

"You're on your own, kid, You always have been"

Both of us agree that this song screams all the Black children because none of them chose this town (family) and dreamt of getting out, I mean the whole song recounts a young person who longs for love but eventually understands that they are on their own and always have been afterall whatever you do you can never escape the black family curse can you?

Midnight Rain

“He was sunshine, I was midnight rain”

I mean do I even need to say anything? Its jegulus bcoz they r the literal definition of opposites attract even tho they loved each other they were born on two different sides of a war which inevitably became the reason of their end.

Question…?

"Can I ask you a question? Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room"

Dorlene. That’s it, like we have no explanation, just vibes.

Vigilante Shit

"I don't start it but I can tell you how it ends, Don't get sad, get even"

Both of us agree it could be both Regulus or Dorcas because canonically Regulus knew about the horcruxes, and died while deceiving the dark lord and on the way to kill him (also bonus bcoz the final blow which made him take this decision was bcoz Voldemort exploited Kreature so Reg decided to get even) Dorcas on the other hand canonically had to be killed by Voldemort himself because she was posing as too big a threat to his empire

Bejeweled

"Baby love, I think I've been a little too kind, Didn't notice you walking all over my peace of mind"

Lily about Severus and how even tho she  mourns and misses her friendship with him, it will never be worth more than her self respect and how she won’t let him walk all over her, a diamond’s gotta shine afterall ;)

Labyrinth

"Uh oh, I'm falling in love, Oh no, I'm falling in love again, Oh, I'm falling in love"

To me this song is sooo obviously jegulus coz of the chorus alone, its James realizing that he’s falling in love again, this time with Regulus after pining after Lily for years. Just how when he thought he was ��unlovable” and it was all doomed this sickly, victorian looking, snarky slytherin boy swoops in and steals his heart right out of his chest

Marls has her own hc for Emmary tho where basically Mary was in love with Lily but it was unrequited and then she had a situationship with Emmaline but ended up catching feelings which is so perfect for this song

Karma

"And I keep my side of the street clean, You wouldn't know what I mean"

Again I had no opinion on this song coz it felt like too happy and too upbeat a song for any of these miserable sods (I still love them ) but Marls swooped in with a brilliant interpretation which was that its from Dorcas’ pov to the slytherin trio basically throwing shade at them for choosing to stay and join the death eaters instead of leaving and fighting for the “right” side like her

Sweet Nothing

"They said the end is comin', everyone's up to somethin' I find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings"

Now for this song we had differing views with me being a jegulus girlie while Marls being a jily girlie (we still love both the ships tho, we just have a preference)

To me the song is jegulus coz I see it as them expecting the inevitable end of their relationship and doom due to the impending war and their family’s differing views and them just trying to tune everything out to spend their limited time together and in love.

On the other hand Marls interpreted is as to when the Potters were in hiding with only each other and Harry for company. How they could see that the war was on full ride and they were at the centre of it while still trying to create some sweet and happy memories with their son

Mastermind

"I laid the groundwork, and then, Just like clockwork, The dominos cascaded in a line, What if I told you I'm a mastermind?"

(Try and tell me the whole bridge doesn’t scream Regulus Arcturus Black.) To me the song is about Regulus because the man literally was a mastermind, while being a death eater he planned to betray Voldemort by destroying a horcrux and he was actually successful in retrieving it tho maybe I’m a little biased due to his characterization in the fic only the brave (Marls also thinks the song could be about James bcoz of the bridge "To make them love me and make it seem effortless")

The Great War       

"I vowed I would always be yours, 'Cause we survived the Great War"

Marls didn’t really have an opinion on this one but for me it was very clearly wolfstar. First reason obviously being the fact that they are pretty much the only couple who actually survived the war (the first one that is, we all remember how the second one went). "Somewhere in the haze, got a sense I'd been betrayed" being how they both thought the other was the spy and the prank

Bigger Than The Whole Sky

"Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness, 'Cause it's all over now, all out to sea"

Now this could go two ways one being the black brothers,

"Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, You were bigger than the whole sky"

Basically how Sirius feels when Regulus gets the dark mark. Because his brother is too far gone

Bonus since Regulus dies literally all out at sea

The other being marylily bcoz of

"What could've been, would've been, What should've been you"

"And I've got a lot to pine about, I've got a lot to live without"

Obviously from Mary’s pov since Lily is dead

Paris

Now Marls had no idea about and I suggested rosekiller just coz of vibes and coz

"I wanna brainwash you, Into loving me forever"

This seems like something Barty would definitely say

High Infidelity

"You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love, The slowest way is never loving them enough"

To me this song is bartylus coded (don’t worry they then get together with Evan and James and have a happy relationship) especially coz of this one specific rosekiller microfic I’d seen if I find it I’ll reblog it with this post

Glitch

"In search of glorious happenings of happenstance on someone else's playground, But it's been two thousand one hundred and 90 days of our love blackout"

We agreed this song gives off wolfstar vibes tho we are open to suggestions

Also 2190 days is six years which is around the same amount of time wolfstar dated if we hc that they got together around their 5th year :D

Would've, Could've, Should've

"If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?, Years of tearing down our banners, you and I, Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts, Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first"

Now this track could be taken in many contexts I like the interpretation of it being from the Black children’s perspective to their parents

And another one being from Remus to Greyback

"And if I was a child, did it matter, If you got to wash your hands?"

Marls also suggested it being from Narcissa’s pov to Lucius or Bellatrix, regretting not going with Andromeda which also fits wonderfully

(Since it in itself is talking about the person suffering due to a relationship when they were young and it even now haunts them I feel like this song could be interpreted many many ways bcoz all of the marauders era characters dealt with a lot of trauma at a young age)

Well obviously since most of them didn’t even reach their twenties

Dear Reader

"Dear Reader, if it feels like a trap, You're already in one"

 Peter Pettigrew. Need I see anything more?

Hits Different

"In the good in the world, you once believed in me, And I felt you and I held you for a while"

Lily without Snape in her life especially when she starts falling for James

You're Losing Me

"How can you say that you love someone you can't tell is dyin'?, I sent you signals and bit my nails down to the quick, My face was gray, but you wouldn't admit that we were sick"

For this one there wasn’t even a discussion needed it is wolfstar during the first war and we won’t hear otherwise. How even tho Sirius and Remus loved each other, the pressure of the war itself was too much on them especially coz they were so young and also coz of how Peter was manipulating them against the other ("Was it because I'm a werewolf?" "Was it because I'm a Black?" I’m sorry). They could see their relationship was straining, they kept waiting for the other to take a risk, a step to fix it and how even through their suspicions, they loved each other regardless

AAAAND THAT'S A WRAP!! THANK YOU FOR READING THIS!!

Make sure to come back to see Evermore, coming soon! (To a theater near you.)

[project-aphelion]

07.23.2023

I feel like every excerpt I share from Rian’s chapters are like, dark and gruelling, so here’s a bit from his flashback instead.

Onto Chapter 4! Total word count of this new version is ~11k.

An exciting thing about this new version of the story is that we’ll get to see more of Marl, Rian’s bodyguard! He’s still a minor character by all means, but an important one, so him having almost nothing to do in the original version made little sense. I love having all this room to explore more stuff.

[cleverhottubmiracle]

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A-T-5 063 Rap Rock Funk Metal

Funk rock had emerged in the late 1960s and flourished throughout the 1970s. It was played by musicians of every colour and provided hits for many acts including the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sly & The Family Stone, Chicago Transit Authority, Average White Band, Wild Cherry, and of course Parliament-Funkadelic

Rock breaks had been part of the DJs arsenal since the early days of hip-hop. Babe Ruth's 'The Mexican', Edgar Winters' 'Frankenstein', Billy Squires' Big Beat, AC/DC's 'Back In Black', and Led Zeppelin's 'When the Levee Breaks'

Rock breaks were popular in the drum machine era, mostly because they were sparse and heavy. Sampling drum breaks hadn't arrived in hip-hop yet, Marley Marl claims that title. The Art Of Noise's 'Beat Box' - in all its versions - was a major influence on electrofunk and drum machine era hip-hop. As AON had a Fairlight 'Beat Box' was built around sampling a performance by Yes drummer Alan White for the album 90125, which the AON team produced

It's not controversial to say Rick Rubin had a vision for mixing hip-hop and rock. Rick Ruben's new business partner Russell Simmons saw dollar signs. Luckily for Simmons he managed his brothers group Run-DMC and they were the biggest rap act on the planet. Run-DMC's second studio album King Of Rock mixed rap with machine rock drums and guitar riffs. Darryl "DMC" McDaniels was a rock fan. The album's title track and lead single featured guest guitarist Eddie Martinez, and the track has more cowbell than BOC. The video for the single 'King Of Rock' is all about Run-DMC taking their place in the halls of rock history (which is made out to look, not unfairly, very white)

Run-DMC - Your Blind features guitars performed by Rick Rubin (formerly of the punk rock band HOSE), Jam Master Jay, and their producer Larry Smith. Smith's group Orange Kush are the backing band on Run-DMC's self-titled debut album and King Of Rock. They were Kurtis Blows live band, another act Russell Simmons handled, Joseph "Run" Simmons had been Blows' DJ

Run-DMC - Rock The House using an appropriation of the percussion from Bob James' 'Take Me To The Mardi Gras'. It's essentially a remix of 'King Of Rock' mixed by The Latin Rascals

Faith No More - We Care A Lot

At the same time on the other side of America the San Franciscan group Faith No More were coming to the same conclusion, mixing rap with rock, but they were punk metallers and they had a singer who could rap. Their style was also stripped back and funky, they would have been listening to AC/DC's 'Back In Black' and Billy Squire's "Big Beat.' In 1985 Faith No More release the album We Care A Lot. The album features the original recording of the title track and helped put 'alternative metal' on the map. In 1987 with the backing of major label Slash/Warner Bros. they rerecord 'We Care A Lot' and it was released to promote their second studio album Introduce Yourself

Also in California the Red Hot Chilli Peppers record their second studio album Freaky Styley under the influence of their hero George Clinton. The following year more funk metal bands release albums El Grupo Sexo, Beefeater, the year after that Royal Crescent Mob

Run-DMC have a huge hit with rock group Aerosmith in 1986. Later Public Enemy have a minor one with Anthrax. Rap and rock peaks with soundtrack made for the movie Judgment Night

After the demise of grunge Red Hot Chilli Peppers would become one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. At the turn of the millennium there was a new wave of funk metal with singer rappers. It's awful! despite these bands outselling most earlier efforts to combine rap and rock I can't name one of these stadium filling bands

Public Enemy are touring with G’n’R this summer

[norajworld]

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