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seblaine-rph · 4 years ago

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While you're looking into rps can we talk about Devereux Academy for a minute? A basic look at their main and rules reveals Kristin Stewart as an FC but she's asked repeatedly not to be used in rp, people getting originally tested for being Dom Switch or sub at 17, the rp wording is almost an exact replica of another rp that ran for a while, and they are allowing the Motta family to be whitewashed with a white Robert Pattinson FC. I'm sure theres more i was just too disgusted to keep looking.

This isn’t the first time I’ve been told to take a look at @devereuxacademy or heard about it being problematic. I can’t tell you about the dash and I’m not going to troll through everyone’s blogs, so if there is something on the dash that anyone would like to share with me (problematic plots, not tagging triggers, admin behavior,etc) then feel free to send another ask.

More than one person came to me when this rp first hit the tags, asking if I thought they had stolen parts of their rp. I reported this by answering multiple different asks about it and they never responded, which is very telling. Honestly, I think they did. Intentionally or not, they do have a lot of parts of other, existing roleplays in their plot and there are so many copy and pasted things that it looks to be done on purpose. You can say, “but it’s a D/s academy rp and there’s only so many ways to rp in a school, so of course it looks similar to other rps of the same genre” except for the part where even academy rps have their own unique plot points, including the history of the world, social economics, and the school as well as the history of the administration. And that wasn’t the last time it was brought to my attention, or the only reason. I do see it, if we’re looking for my opinion on the matter of stolen plot content. I can see at least three different roleplays that were already in the tags for a long time, weaved together to make this group. I don’t really see anything that is original in the plot or worldview info, aside from maybe the intense details on IVF as the reason for there being so many triplets. Don’t quote me on that, though, it may have been used before. I just haven’t seen it.

It weirds me out that they have all of their characters being thrust into nsfw situations before 18, with what should be an 18+ concept like BDSM, and at the same time they’re a discord rp as well as a tumblr rp. It says on their application that the characters are tested to find out which mark they are at 17. That’s a minor, being tested in a nsfw way because however you slice it BDSM and D/s are nsfw and nobody under the age of 18 can legally or morally be allowed to even dip a single toe in and that includes taking a test to find out what kinks they like and whether they’re going to want to be catching or receiving when it comes to sex. It just makes me wonder what’s being hidden in the discord. I’d also like to mention that they do have the option to play teachers as well as students, which is just weird and gross to me in this instance. The content is nsfw, clearly some students are going to get with teachers. It’s weird enough when it’s a sfw college rp and students do not smut with teachers, but being a teacher is a respectable character choice so I can see why you’d want to do it. If you were going to focus on talking to other teachers and developing plots with other teachers. In this instance though... the power dynamic between teachers and students are way different and there is a sexual overtone automatically because this is a kinky smut rp. You can also play a character as young as 21, which just makes me hope there are no relationships being written out by naive 21 year olds with their 30-40-50+, way more mature, could be their parent teacher. That might sound like I’m making up something that would never happen, but I have seen someone try to play a 62 year old lesbian that was predatory towards 19 year olds and even claimed one in a D/s rp like this. We all know how Glee rps work, we all know this line has already been crossed. We all also know why that’s gross- it’s an abuse of power and there is no way that a teacher/student dynamic could be cute because there will always be a sense of one person being way more mature than the other and being in a seat of power. Another reason to wonder what’s being hidden on this discord.

There are incorrectly casted families. In particular, I’m seeing POC families with fcs that should not belong because they do not match. I’d really like to know how it is that two Filipino girls and a black girl are twins. As a general note to the admins, you can’t erase half of someone’s ethnicity either. There are other families where one or more character is half right but also half wrong in an offensive way. And some families that are just wrong. I do give them props on some of this being right, but that doesn’t erase the other problems. You can’t whitewash people. Not all Asians are the same. Not all Latinx people are the same. Brown people aren’t interchangeable. Let me just list these so they’re easier to fix:

In the Adams family, Alex Newell is African-American but the fc has a sister that’s British, Polish and Caribbean. That might be picking at straws but I always find it offensive when people pick and choose how to group ethnicities- like deciding all Asians are the same so they can be related. Either way, she’s over half white which doesn’t match up.

Laura Harrier is Rachel Berry, she is half black and half white with Jewish background so that’s a really nice choice but then she’s twins with two Haliee Steinfeld fcs? Hailee who is Filipino... She’s also been accused of using the N word and being racist so she’s on a lot of people’s banned lists for the same reasons as Lea Michele.

Brianna Tju is in a Chinese family but she’s half Indonesian. She’s also a Disney Channel star, so some people find that problematic from the start, because most of her resources are from kid’s shows at an age that is too young to be roleplaying. She’s only 22 now, which is old enough to rp, however the only real resources she has are from something that aired in 2015 and was likely filmed in 2014 or earlier. When she was definitely a minor.

Kaya Scoldelario is Brazilian. She’s whitewashed by being placed in the Clarington family.

Zoe Deutch is Jewish. Her siblings are Matthew Daddario (Slovak, Italian, Irish, Hungarian, and English) and Haley Lu Richardson, who has a white background that doesn’t include Jewish. This is the Corcoran family as well, which should be Jewish, since they’re all related to Idina Menzel.

Victoria Pedretti is Jewish and she’s in the very white Evans family.

None of the older Fabrays are Jewish, and Ashley Johnson is Native American but also somehow a twin of the white Frannie Fabray.

Principal Figgins is played by someone that is Pakistani but the Figgins on the masterlist is played by Dev Patel, who is Gujarati Indian.

Tyler Hoechlin is also partially Native American, but he is placed in the Flangan (Irish, like straight out of Ireland) family that has Rory recast as Thomas Dogherty (Scottish) with an Ariana Grande (Italian) twin as well.

Kristen Stewart is on the masterlist but she has asked numerous times not to be used in roleplay because it makes her uncomfortable. I just covered this for another roleplay, and I’ve seen other people mention it, so it’s common knowledge at this point. She has been saying this for a long time. She’s also placed as the twin of Danielle Campbell, who is Mexican and Cajun French while Kristen is just white and the canon family member (Gilbert, so Adam Lambert) is Jewish.

Zendaya is also placed as a twin to Samantha Ware. Zendaya is mixed race, half black and half white, while Samantha is black.

Yvette Monreal is the twin to Demi Lovato. Yvette is Chilean. Demi is Mexican and Portuguese.

Avan Jogia is a Hart, but he is Gujarati Indian and white. He would be a better family relation to Dev Patel than anyone else on the masterlist and vice versa. As a refresher, Samuel Larsen (the canon fc for the Hart family) is Mexican, Danish, Spanish and Persian.

Maddison Jaizani is Iranian, but she’s listed as a Holliday which makes her related to Gwyneth Paltrow... a blonde, white woman.

Jacob Elordia is Basque and his sibling on the masterlist is Marie Avgeropoulos, a Greek actress.

Rafael Silva is Brazilian, but he is a Lopez triplet, related to a Mexican-Irish sister (Lindsay Morgan) and a Mexican-Jewish sister (Alexa Demie).

Sugar Motta is played by Vanessa Lengies on Glee, an Egyptian actress. Her family is whitewashed with two white fcs, Kelli Berglung and Robert Pattinson.

Kaylee Byrant is Japanese but she is twin to Madison Beer (Jewish) and Daisy Ridley (white).

The Puckerman family has lost its Jewish heritage. The only two on Noah’s side are Adelaide Kane (white) and Luke Pasqualino (Italian). Jake Puckerman has been recast as Justice Smith, who is half black and half white but is not Jewish. His sister is Samantha Logan who is half Trinidadian and half white and Pauline Singer, who is full Fijian.

Antonia Gentry is cast as a Weston. She is Jamaican, her listed twin is half white and half African-American. The newest acceptance for a Weston is for an African American fc.

Lili Reinhart is on the masterlist, but she’s problematic. She’s defended the abusive behavior of her cast mate, Cole Sprouse, who was very publicly accused of sexual assault and abuse. She’s also been accused of blackface annnnnnnd she’s used queer baiting to get people to watch the show. (She teased a girl on girl relationship publicly, telling people to watch the show because they might finally get to see something between Betty and Veronica, knowing that the fans wanted it, but then when she was asked about it in a later interview she scoffed and acted like it was absolutely impossible and would never happen, some would say she even sounded offended by the thought-- which is what everyone got mad at Melissa Benoist for doing with Supergirl.)

David Corenswet is Jewish, cast with Emily Browning as a sister, who is not.

I applaud the Brazilian change for Lauren Zizes, but Ashley Fink was a welcome representation of plus size actresses and the new fc is less than half her size. She’s still plus size technically, but she’s “model plus size,” which is not at all the same as Lauren’s body type. I ran this by someone that this change would affect and they were not pleased. They were the one that pointed this out to me, because it bothered them as a plus size person to see one of the few plus size characters recasted with a skinnier fc.

Dove Cameron is also on the masterlist, but she’s on a bunch of people’s banned lists. She replied to a fan that said they wanted her to notice them that they were stupid and had no life if that was one of their goals. She’s been rude to cast and crew on set. Dove has also been accused of throwing a fit and making the writers change the Descendants script to take the relationship that was written out for a black actress. She’s being accused of yellow fishing, which I believe is the term for trying to look Asian. She wore a Native American headdress in a cultural appropriation type of way. She’s been accused of being fatphobic and hiding behind photoshop on her social media while saying she doesn’t photoshop, so she’s giving off a false sense of reality to her fans. She’s been talking badly about someone that is trying to get their sexual assault story out there. The latest thing that’s come out about her is a rant about how mental health isn’t real and that people just need to logic their way out of depression? Which would be coming from a seat of high privilege. She wrote a series of tweets on the topic, calling negative mental health and the feelings they cause “a choice.” There’s a whole hashtag on Tumblr for her.

I’m not at all surprised to see that all of the diverse characters are open. No Artie, no Unique- who could definitely be recast as an actual trans woman, now that we’re living in the age of recasting for reasons of problematic natures- if we can have a new Puck, new Finn, new Rachel, and new Santana why not an appropriate Unique? She is literally the only canon trans woman, why not treat her with respect? They recasted Cooper to better fit the proper ethnicity, so...

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magicalgirlagency · 5 years ago

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hmmm i wonder, just how many other characters are in your magical girl story? it sounds cool!

The main team, the Red Star Agency, is a team of 16 (17, including Thor) Magis. I know it’s too much, but I went along with that number of members because I wanted to spite Magical Girl Raising Project for saying that 10+ Magical Girls in the world was a valid excuse to murder them all in battle royales.

Like fuck you, Asari Endo. Observe as my team is as big as a K-Pop group and no one dies and everyone lives happily ever after.

Honey Witch Vivi: The leader of the team, a B-Rank Magi. 22 years old, pansexual/genderfluid, brazilian, autistic. Passionate, smart, idealistic, and occasionally the Mom Friend™. Despite being a leader, she sees her teammates as equals and wants to see them succeed. Basically, my self-insert. Is in a polyamorous relationship with other two Magis. Transformation trinket is a heart-shaped locket, her powers are light-based, and her assigned gemstone is Citrine. Weapon of choice is a strawberry quartz wand that can transform into a parasol. Her mascot is a Squirtle named Bubbles (she’s the only one who can understand what her mascot says).

Cupid Harpy Sally: Was once Vivi’s first mascot and dearly beloved childhood toy but later graduates into a Magi herself, a A-Rank Magi. 20 years old (in human years), asexual, wondarian. She’s also Vivi’s adoptive sister. Spunky, sassy, energetic, and sometimes naughty. True to her Magi Title, she can shapeshift her arms into wings. Transformation trinket is a heart-shaped hairclip, her powers are fire-based, and her assigned gemstone is Cherry Quartz. Weapon of choice is a lance (which she calls “Lovely Lance”), and a infinite set of Cherry Bombs.

Star Navigator Amelia: Vivi’s girlfriend (and her childhood friend, as well), a B-Rank Magi. 22 years old, bisexual, brazilian. Loyal, adventurous, mature, and calm. Her design is basically Sayaka Miki (from PMMM) if she didn’t snapped. Was once as Magi dropout due her depression, but got back to magic business thanks to Vivi’s help. Transformation trinket is a golden star medallion, her powers are water-based, and her assigned gemstone is Larimar. Weapon of choice is a rapier/espada ropera.

Pink Soldier Kiki: Vivi’s other girlfriend, a S-Rank Magi. 20 years old, pansexual/gender-neutral, japanese/brazilian, autistic. Creative, brave, charismatic, and bright. Heavily inspired on Kirby (specially on Star Allies), and is able to transform into many disguises and personas. Transformation trinket is a pair of pink bead bracelets, her powers are love-based, and her assigned gemstone is Tourmaline. Weapon of choice is a twirling baton (which it also acts as a stimming toy for her). Her “mascot” is a broomstick named Glinda, that once belonged to Vivi.

Wisp Rider Winona: A Kamen Rider afficionado, a A-Rank Magi. 21 years old, lesbian/non-binary, australian. Athletic, optimistic, clever and a bit of a joker. She has a strong connection with the Wisps (from Sonic Colors), and can emulate their hyper-go-on energy by shapeshifting into them. Transformation trinket is a star-shaped belt buckle, her powers are alien-based, and her assigned gemstone is Emerald. Weapon of choice is a golden hoop (which she calls “Power Ring”).

Cheerful Doll Delilah: A revolutionary doll, a B-Rank Magi. 19 years old, lesbian, wondarian. Elegant, sweet, sensitive, and a bit dramatic. Was a circus ballerina before she became a Magi, and rebelled against her manipulative boss. Has a crush on Winona, and looks up to her. Transformation trinket is a pair of poofy scrunchies (that she uses as bracelets), her powers are music-based, and her assigned gemstone is Rose Quartz.. Weapon of choice is a pair of cheerleader pompoms.

Tech Witch Donovan: A young techie and a ninja, a B-Rank Magi. 21 years old, asexual/biromantic, asian-american. Brainy, dexterous, wise, and introverted. Has a passion for everything that combines magic with technology and can tame demons. Is actually the reincarnation of 2k12!Donatello, after April killed him in the 100th episode. Transformation trinket is a turtle-shaped brooch, his powers are ninja/tech-based, and his assigned gemstone is Spirit Quartz. Weapon of choice is a metal bo staff. His mascots are the spirits of his brothers from another timeline (basically, they are Leo, Mike and Raph that all fell into a spiral of insanity and commited seppuku after Don and Splinter were murdered).

Frost Rabbot Nia: A magical android, a S-Rank Magi. 20 years old (in human years), asexual, wondarian. Logical, curious, intelligent, and a tactical genius. She’s a wondarian project designed to be the perfect Magi. Looks up to Donovan, and thinks of him as a older brother. She consumes Earth’s sci-fi media in order to study their mistakes, and fix them. Transformation trinket is a star-shaped core in her chest, her powers are ice-based, and her assigned gemstone is Sapphire. She has no weapon of choice, because her body is a weapon (not in a creepy and de-humanizing way, I promise!)

Quirky Rebel Nova: A energetic outsider, a A-Rank Magi (later to be promoted to S-Rank due to her awesome violent ways to exterminate Incubators). 21 years old, asexual/panromantic, currently wondarian. Impulsive, persistent, captivating, and a go-getter. She is in reality Star Butterfly, but she ran away from Mewni without leaving a trace, after learning her life was a lie (in the third season episode, The Butterfly Effect); she changes her name to Nova (as in Supernova), and has traveled throughout the Multiverse, training herself to learn magic without a wand. Can transform herself without a transformation trinket, her powers are chaos/wildcard-based, and her assigned gemstone is Fluorite. Weapon of choice is a pair of magic gloves/gauntlets (after giving up her wand). Her mascot is a Sableye named Glitter.

Devilish Clover Perci: A skillful archer, a S-Rank Magi. 22 years old, pansexual/trans, british. Stylish, outspoken, dauntless, and very friendly. One of the most popular Magis, specially due to her control over dark magic. She adopts Nova as her sister, and their personalities clash quite nicely. Transformation trinket is a peridot brooch, her powers are darkness-based, and her assigned gemstone is Sugilite. Weapon of choice is a magic bow (that was previously Nova’s wand).

Milky Angel Holly: A wild angel, a B-Rank Magi. 23 years old, pansexual, american. Unruly, rebellious, lively, and brutally honest at times. Was once one of the best Magis, but a certain happening in her life made her develop trust issues, and she became a delinquent. To get her attitude adjusted, she is assigned to the RSA. She’s designed after Panty Anarchy (from P&SwG), because I shamelessly liked her and I got salty about her sudden and out-of-the-blue “death”. Transformation trinket is a pair of golden hoop earrings, her powers are angel-based, and her assigned gemstone is Angel Aura Quartz. Weapon of choice is a light-molded musket and a halo that acts like a boomerang.

Pretty Punisher Aya: A recovering survivor, a C-Rank Magi. 19 years old, lesbian, japanese. Shy, gentle, soft-spoken, and always doing her best. She’s an alternative version of Asagiri Aya (from Mahou Shoujo Site) if she ever snapped at her bullies, abusive brother and neglective parents and actually have used her magic to kill them all. She becomes part of Wondaria’s rescuing and therapy program, that helps abused earthlings and offers them a chance in becoming Magis themselves. She is later assigned to the RSA to develop her powers better in a non-violent and zero percent toxic environment. She sees Holly as her upperclassman, and wishes to be as brave as her. Transformation trinket is not actually a trinket, but rather her heart tattoo on her left wrist, her powers are healing-based, and her assigned gemstone is Ruby. Weapon of choice is a heart-shaped pistol.

Demonic Witch Ace: A ruthless hero, a S-Rank Magi. 24 years old, pansexual, japanese. Strong, ill-tempered, fiery, but becomes a total dork once you know him better. Real name is Akira, Ace is just a nickname. He’s a half-Oni, cursed to be the successor of the Devilman name, and he has trust issues thanks to that. To everyone’s surprise, Vivi actually manages to break his shell and befriend him. Transformation trinket is a spiky bracelet, his powers are demon-based, and his assigned gemstone is Obsidian. Weapon of choice is a kanabo/iron mace. His mascot is a sizeshifting kitsune named Miki (while not a pokémon, he can understands what the little fox says).

Artsy Chameleon Enzo: A quirky street artist, a B-Rank Magi. 23 years old, pansexual/trans, italian. An artistic soul, always on the move, tricky, and unable to give fucks to anyone who dares to discriminate him. He was kicked out of his house after coming out to his parents, but later became a Magi so he could leave earth to live in Wondaria. He’s best friends with Perci, who’s also pan/trans. Transformation trinket is a leaf-shaped belt buckle, his powers are art/chameleon-based, and his assigned gemstone is Opal. Weapon of choice is a pink baseball bat.

Cursed Maestro Arthur: An anxious fortune-teller, a B-Rank Magi. 23 years old, asexual/polyromantic, filipino. Jittery, cautious, but hardworking and doing his best to become brave. He is the reincarnation of Arthur Kingsmen (from Mystery Skulls Animated), after Lewis killed him. He has the Hellbent Curse, where he becomes aware of how his past life came to an end. He has a crush on Ace, and wants to be as brave as him. Transfromation trinket is a orange bead bracelet, his powers are ghost/music-based, and his assigned gemstone is Japser. Weapon of choice is a conductor baton. His mascot is a Dedenne named Peanut and a scarf named Tempo.

Soul Genie Inka: A rebellious alien, a C-Rank Magi. Older than any human, asexual/non-binary, wondarian. Curious, smart, cheeky, and always eager to learn more about Earth culture. was previously a defective Incubator, who grew tired of stealing souls and spreading despair. Kiki was the only one who believed in them, and later became a Magi when things got tough for her. Transformation trinket is a drop-shaped garnet stone on their chest, their magic is genie/chaos-based, and their assigned gemstone is Pearl. Weapon of choice is their long ponytail.

Mighty Berserker Thor: A broken god, a S-Rank Magi. 24 years old (in human years), bisexual, wondarian (previously asgardian, but Asgard is no more). Approachable, a friend to all, awkward at times, and a tad bit salty (it comes with the trauma). Has yeeted himself of his world with the power of the Infinity Stones because he grew tired of being ridiculed and dealing with a constant streak of despair and death in his life. He was taken in by the RSA, and is treated with such care (which it scared him at first after spending five years in depression), but he eventually warms up to the team and finds once again a motivation to fight and protect. Transformation trinket is his prosthetic arm, his powers are lightning/weather-based, and his assigned gemstone is Sunstone. He has no weapon of choice (as originally intended!); he’s basically a giant living taser. His mascot is a pocket-sized imp that’s actually his brother Loki (he was punished due his past transgressions, and he HATES it).

…phew…! Here it is, the entire team assembled! It was hard, but I’ve had loads of fun with it honestly! It flatters me that you were interested in my dream plot, Anon!

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septembersung · 7 years ago

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I can forgive Protestants and Protestantism for most things.

I can forgive Protestants for the Know-Nothing Party and their murderous Philadelphia Nativist Riot, the Intolerable Acts, Bloody Monday and the Orange Riots in New York City in 1871 and 1872. I forgive them for the “Blaine Amendments” which forbade tax money be used to fund Catholic parochial schools.

I can also forgive them for the KKK and for funding the Mexican atheist genocidal maniac Plutarco Ares Calles in his efforts to kill Catholics during the Cristero Wars. I can forgive them for calling any, and all, popes, the “Anti-Christ(s)” and “Whores(s) of Babylon.”

I also forgive them for supporting Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy by which the Church gained many of her modern martyrs. In addition, I forgive them for the Recusancy Acts and the fictitious, so-called “Popish Plot.” I forgive them also for the fact that as a Catholic, I shall never sit upon the British Throne though literally everyone else is allowed to do so.

I can forgive Protestants for The Troubles in Ireland and Oliver Cromwell and his engineered Potato Famine and the slaughter and military occupation of that country. I forgive them for the enslavement of 50,000 men, women and children who were forcibly removed from Ireland and sent to Bermuda and Barbados as indentured servants―America’s first slaves.

I forgive them for the Canadian Gavazzi Riots and the Orange Order and Ontario Regulation 17 that doomed Catholic schools in Quebec. I won’t even mention the American Protective Association and their Canadian counterparts, the Protestant Protective Association as I’ve chosen to forgive. I also forgive Protestants for forcibly converting Catholic convicts and political prisoners to Anglicanism in Australia something that Moslem terrorists have been doing for 1400 years.

I forgive Protestants for 500 years of venom and vitriol spouted by every street preacher and door-knocker―the seething anti-Catholic hatred that is at the core of primitive Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism and Jehovah’s Witnesses―but not them exclusively. Indeed, it makes up a great deal of traditional Anglicanism, Methodism and many other forms of “mainstream” Protestantism.

I forgive Protestants who refuse to refer to Catholics as “Christians.”

I also forgive them for intentionally ignoring the 1500 years that occurred prior to Martin Luther when everyone in Western Europe who was a Christian was, by necessity, a Catholic.

I forgive them for Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, the inspiration for the current assault upon religious liberty in America and Europe. Don’t worry, Jack Chick and your ignorant and poisonous “Chick Tracts” and for calling Catholics, “Mackerel Snappers”―all is forgiven.

I forgive Martin Luther for foisting a desecrated and greatly redacted Bible upon the world pretending that God “would have wanted it that way.” Luther removed seven books and parts of three others from the Old Testament―the fullness of which is called the Septuagint and was used by Christ himself when he walked among us.

And I also forgive Martin Luther for accepting funding from Suleiman the Magnificent, the Sultan of the Muslim Ottoman Empire as he “struggled” to succeed from the Catholic Church. Luther schemed to throw Christendom under the bus for fun and profit as he urged his fellow Protestants to side with the Muslim Turks in defeating the Catholic Church and, with it, Europe. Suleiman even extended his munificent kinship to any and all Protestants in Hungary and Romania now that they were no longer “Christian” (i.e., loyal to the pope). The sultan urged Luther and Protestants to unite under the Muslim banner to defeat both the emperor and the pope. Please recall that Suleiman the Terrorist wanted nothing less than to wipe Christianity from the planet―talk about politics and their strange bedfellows!

But all is forgiven … I swear it.

I forgive Protestants for the ridiculous 700 Club television show and their tiresome attacks on the One, True, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I also forgive Protestants for taking 500 years to realize that Sola Scriptura is a great deal of nonsense and that even Luther had a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary―the first Christian, the Mother of God and, indeed, the second most often quoted individual in the Gospels.

I also forgive Protestants for their cognitive dissonance in simultaneously insisting that: 1) everyone is allowed to interpret the Bible as they wish and they are all equally correct and 2) Catholics are wrong in the way they interpret the Bible no matter how they do it.

I forgive Protestants for their anti-Catholicism, which is what historian John Highham called “the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history,” and what historian Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. has called, “the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people.”

I also forgive Protestants for their support of the violence towards Catholics during the so-called “Enlightenment” and for the development of Freemasonry and the Brazilian “Religious Question” and the Columbian La Violencia and the Michelade Massacre of 1567. By the way, Freemasonry’s exotic magicalism greatly contributed to the development of Mormonism, Unitarianism, Seventh-Day Adventism, Christian Scientists and Jehovah’s Witness’ Arianistic perspectives.

For all of this, I have nothing but forgiveness for them.

I forgive Protestants for making Fr. Nicholas Copernicus put the brakes on his heliocentric theory and data until after his death even though his friend, Pope Paul III, urged him to publish while the scientist was still alive. Apparently, Fr. Copernicus hoped to avoid upsetting Luther and Melanchthon who were both contemptuous of the priest’s heliocentric paradigm and feared that his theories would further alienate Protestants against the Church from which they originally sprang.

This isn’t an empty Christian platitude―I truly forgive them for the Great Tragedy, that is, their sixteenth century split with Rome.

I also forgive them for John Calvin’s, Ian Paisley’s and the Westboro Baptist Church’s reductive, tiresome and poisonous bluster and posturing. I further forgive Protestants for their support and schadenfreude as they stood back and did nothing during Spain’s Red Terror and during Hitler’s repression of the Catholic Church especially for The Night of Long Knives. But my forgiveness isn’t limited to only this opprobrium. Indeed, I also forgive Dutch Protestants’ explicit support of the Tokugawa Shogunate when they slaughtered tens of thousands of Japanese Catholics in the sixteenth century.

I forgive them one and all for the 500 years of anti-Catholic stereotypes typical in their literature as in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum, Paul Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian.

I forgive them for their support/coddling of the rabidly fundamentalist atheist “Americans United for Separation of Church and State” which was originally an explicitly anti-Catholic organization called “Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State.”

I forgive all Protestants for crucifying European history with their insidious and indecorous “Black Legend” which poisoned the minds of hundreds of millions of people who would rather believe lies about the Inquisition rather than risk reading a book on the subject.

I even forgive Protestants for the countless false prophecies concerning the end of the world that have proved time and time again to be absolutely false. As an aside, I also forgive them for ignoring Scriptures that specifically explain how to distinguish between one of God’s real prophets and a false one:

You may wonder how you can tell when a prophet’s message does not come from the Lord. If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord and what he says does not come true, then it is not the Lord’s message. That prophet has spoken on his own authority, and you are not to fear him. (Deut. 18:21-22)

In addition, I forgive Protestants for ignoring Christ’s own words (the red-letter words) when he commissions St. Peter as the Church’s leader:

And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build My church, and not even death will ever be able to overcome it. (Matt. 16:18)

And like the previous passage, Protestants will ignore the salient fact that Christ’s One, True, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church will never fail. Not even the Gates of Hell will prevail against it. If follows that if an organization that claims to be inspired by the Holy Spirit actually fails miserably, that means the Holy Spirit wasn’t truly with them such as the Anabaptists, the Shakers and the Puritans. 11 Protestant churches close every day in America. It’s impossible to determine how many close every day around the world. There are 41,000 Protestant churches around the world currently and that means at least 40,999 are completely wrong. This doesn’t include the many tens of thousands of Protestant churches that have failed in the past 500 years. God clearlyisn’t dictating different messages to intentionally sow discord, confusion and lies … however, this does remind me of another lesser spirit who enjoys doing exactly this (John 8:44).

But what I can’t forgive them for, not yet at least, is their insipid restorationism―the idea that God somehow made a mistake 2000 years ago when he gave control of his, One, True Church to the Catholic Church and the papacy whose progenitor was St. Peter as testified by Christ not once but twice in the New Testament (Matt. 16:18-19, John 21:15-17).

Restorationism is the belief that Christianity should be restored to how it was during the Apostolic Era using nothing but Scriptures―a project doomed to failure. Their goal to re-establish Christianity in its original form has been a part of Christianity for 2000 years and, indeed, St. Francis of Assisi hoped to “get back to the basics” also but he didn’t make the mistake of believing that God had made a mistake in putting St. Peter and his successors in charge. Rather, he hoped to refocus the Church―not to change dogma and authority.

This is not something that can be generously glossed over as their previous genocide of Catholics on multiple continents or even the desecration of our holiest places over the past 500 years. The trillions of Protestant lies about Catholics are as naught in comparison to this blasphemy.

To suggest that God was somehow mistaken in anything he does is scurrilous impiety and profane heresy.

Luther’s “Ecce ego sto!” sounds more and more like Lucifer’s “Non servium!”

Restorationism is anathema. God makes no mistakes (Ps. 19:7-10). He doesn’t mumble or backpeddle like Allah (Ps. 12:6-7). He’s not confused or addlebrained (Neh. 9:6). He needs no assistance from anyone or anything (Col. 1:6). His decisions are final and perfect in their love and justice (Prov. 16:10). He doesn’t need to explain himself (Rom. 1:20). He accepts no counsel (Ps. 33:11).

When God bestowed stewardship upon Peter and his successors, God didn’t mean “well … you can be in charge until people in the sixteenth century come to know better.”

Restorationism is beyond comprehension. God isn’t imperfect and thus, anyone who worships an imperfect God isn’t worshiping the Trinity (Ps. 18:30).

Muslims also celebrate a restorationism of sorts in that they believe Islam is what Allah always had in mind but was simply not sure how to implement it successfully until the advent of Mohammad. They believe that both Jews and Christians have become corrupted along with their sacred scriptures, which are “untrustworthy” due to Allah’s machinations. And that only they have a perfect and complete understanding of God’s “true plan.”

Sound familiar?

But if this is true, as in the case of Protestantism, then how did God’s message get garbled in the first place? Wouldn’t God have known his message was going to get hinky? If he’s omniscient and omnicompetent he would. A lesser god would easily fall into this error.

How was he so foolish in trusting the wrong people initially? How could mere mortals come to realize something that he couldn’t (Job 38:1-41:34)?

But, more importantly, how can we ever trust this imperfect deity now that new messengers, none of whom are divine, have come along? Perhaps this deity is confused once again. It’s a slippery slope and one that is easily proven wrong.

I don’t see a difference in what these Christian restorationists believe and that which Islamic restorationists proffer. It’s not odd that Protestants had received Muslim financial, political and ideological support 500 years ago―birds of a feather, as it were.

But the main reason I condemn restorationism is that it’s a non-starter. If someone believes in evil grand conspiracy theories, they make themselves out to be the hero/champion that God has been looking for. It’s up to them and no one else! They are the thin holy line that separates Order and Chaos―between Heaven and Hell. And as they are assured of their sanctified state, anything and everything they think, say and do is acceptable. After all, this is what ��God wanted” all along…

#Protestantism ruins everything #500 reasons and counting #there are some inexplicable typos in here but what a magnificent compilation of anti-catholic history #anti catholic #catholic persecution #catholic history

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Liverpool transfer news LIVE: First signing to undergo .. | live soccer transfers Here's a name that hasn't appeared on the alteration pages for absolutely some time: Tottenham and England midfielder Harry Winks.2 RelatedThe Athletic letters that Winks is a January ambition for Man United, accustomed he's adolescent and British, but rivals City additionally appetite the midfielder for the summer as he considers his approaching beneath new drillmaster Jose Mourinho.While United are accepting a midfield crisis at the moment, City are added afraid about their defence and the aforementioned address says that Pep Guardiola has up to bristles options to advance his backline with Inter Milan's Milan Skriniar and Shakhtar Donetsk's Mykola Matviyenko the top two.22.24 GMT: With Juventus able to move on from 24-year-old advanced Mark Pjaca, Corriere dello Sport writes that Cagliari, Parma, Atalanta, Chievo Verona and Lazio are all absorbed in the Croatian.21.37 GMT: Second-lowest scorers in the Premier League, Crystal Palace are in hunt of goals in the January market. According to the Evening Standard, the South London club are because a brace of accommodation moves for Chelsea advanced Michy Batshuayi (who spent the additional bisected of aftermost division at Selhurst Park) and Everton striker Cenk Tosun.20.50 GMT: The alternate absorption amidst Inter Milan and Olivier Giroud is able-bodied accurate by now, and the Telegraph writes that the Nerazzurri abide to advance the hunt for the France all-embracing advanced and the Italian club is still his adopted destination, but Aston Villa, Newcastle and Bordeaux all are additionally absorbed in bringing the 33-year-old on board.20.07 GMT: Major Alliance Soccer ancillary D.C. United accept met with the assembly of Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric, who is "excited by the idea" of affective to the American capital, and could do so as anon as this summer, the Athletic writes.19.20 GMT: New on Edinson Cavani's proposed move to Atletico Madrid has gone quiet, but French aperture Le 10 Sport has a clue that could animate that story. It letters that admitting Los Rojiblancos actuality in allegation of advice up front, the basic club are alone accommodating to booty on a new No. 9 in a accommodation deal, lending acceptance to antecedent advertisement that the Uruguayan has already agreed to move to Madrid on a chargeless alteration in the summer.18.33 GMT: Tottenham are because authoritative a accommodation move for Atletico Madrid's Thomas Lemar, according to the Independent. The accord would accommodate a €6m fee for the 24-year-old above Monaco man - who's additionally the accountable of absorption from Arsenal - and a €60m advantage to buy.17.46 GMT: The Mirror letters that while Inter Milan accept lodged a £20m for Tottenham playmaker Christian Eriksen, administrator Antonio Conte would adopt the Italian club prioritise Barcelona midfielder Arturo Vidal instead.16.59 GMT: Big words actuality appear actuality about Dortmund's Erling Haaland.1:25Stewart Robson says Dortmund's new signing Erling Haaland has the abeyant to become a apple chic striker.16.30 GMT: Bundesliga ancillary Fortuna Dusseldorf abide in talks with Manchester City over a accessible new accommodation accord for United States babysitter Zack Steffen in the 2020-21 season, sources accept told ESPN.The 24-year-old babysitter has put in a brace of absorbing performances afterward his alteration from Columbus Crew aftermost summer, although, abundant like Dusseldorf, he has lacked consistency. The German club are acquisitive to accommodation Steffen, who has played all 17 alliance matches, from the Premier Alliance ancillary for a additional term.15.55 GMT: Manchester City are set to assurance Kilmarnock's Liam Smith for £200,000 compensation.Smith, 17, is a Scotland Under-17 all-embracing accompaniment and City accept "beaten off antagonism for his signature" according to the BBC.15.41 GMT: France drillmaster Didier Deschamps has said Olivier Giroud should leave Chelsea in the January alteration window.Speaking with TF1's Telefoot about the achievability of Giroud alteration clubs this month, Deschamps was ablaze that six appearances and a absolute of 209 account beyond all competitions is bereft for France's third-highest ambition scorer of best advanced of the 2020 European Championships."I batten with Olivier during the aftermost all-embracing affected ," Deschamps said. "Even during the one before, he already knew what is best for him. Olivier is not blessed at this moment, based on the little arena time he is getting. It is not his fault; he is adversity through the situation.

Transfer deadline day LIVE: Lo Celso and Sessegnon join .. | live soccer transfers "It is up to him to adjudge in adjustment to accept the best antic altitude on a circadian base at club level."15.30 GMT: Tuttosport letters that Newcastle accept beatific a advance to watch AC Milan booty on Sampdoria. It's not to see Zlatan's acknowledgment though, it's for advanced Hakan Calhanoglu.Calhanoglu, 25, has a arrangement which runs until June 2021 and Milan are because a sale, which has Newcastle keen.15.03 GMT: Tottenham are set to lose Christian Eriksen on a chargeless alteration in the summer. One FC TV auger isn't abiding they are that bothered.0:35Stewart Robson says that bodies at Tottenham Hotspur aren't agitated if Christan Eriksen stays in January.14.29 GMT: Manuel Neuer has said the accession of new goalkeeper Alexander Nubel at Bayern Munich will not affection in his accommodation to assurance a new arrangement with the club and said he expects to accumulate his abode in the aggregation behindhand of a new rival.Under arrangement at Bayern until 2021, the Germany captain has not yet absitively whether he will abide his career at the Allianz Arena."Nubel is a top keeper, and the future, one day, will accord to him," Neuer told reporters in Bayern's winter training affected in Qatar. "But that alteration is bush for my arrangement extension."14.00 GMT: New York City FC accept appointed Valerenga and above Celtic bang-up Ronny Deila (nicknamed 'Norwegian Klopp') as their new manager, the aggregation appear on Monday.Deila replaces Domenec Torrent, who beggared agency with the club in November afterwards his aboriginal abounding division in charge, one in which NYCFC accomplished aloft the Eastern Conference, but fell in the playoffs to Toronto FC.NYCFC had been affiliated with above Feyenoord administrator Giovanni van Bronckhorst, but he took up the reins of Chinese Super Alliance ancillary Guangzhou R&F.13.46 GMT: Everyone has array of affected that PSG striker Edinson Cavani will move to Atletico Madrid on a chargeless alteration this summer.Gianluca Di Marzio claims that talks are beneath way but, according to L'Equipe, Manchester United and Chelsea could be set to accomplish battling offers for the 32-year-old.13.02 GMT: Manchester City accept not lodged a bid for Leicester City apostle Caglar Soyuncu and sources accept told ESPN that the club do not currently authority an absorption in the Turkey international.City are attractive for a new centre-back and are acceptable to assurance addition in the summer but Soyuncu is not on the account of abeyant targets.12.37 GMT: Gazzetta dello Sport letters that PSG accept been watching Brescia's Sandro Tonali, admitting the jailbait has been alluring affluence of absorption from about Europe too.One accord the French champions won't be accomplishing is swapping Leandro Paredes for Juventus' Emre Can this ages afterwards the Italian club absitively adjoin a sale, according to Corriere dello Sport.12.13 GMT: Ajax brilliant Hakim Ziyech could be set for a €35m January move, with Arsenal linked, according to Football.London.Manchester United and Roma accept been tracking the 26-year-old Morocco advanced but he's on almanac as adage that Arsenal and Barcelona are his top choices if he were to leave Holland."Hakim leaves aback a acceptable club presents itself," Ajax arch Marc Overmars told De Telegraaf. "That happens, I think, because he is abundant added in the spotlight because of his abundant bold in the Champions Alliance than aftermost year. Actual ample clubs are blind about him. By the way, we promised Hakim a nice alteration on his arrival."

Arsenal news and transfers live: Nicolas Pepe move 'complete .. | live soccer transfers 11.34 GMT: Inter Milan striker Gabriel Barbosa has become the top January ambition for Chelsea, says the Barbosa has starred on accommodation at Brazilian ancillary Flamengo but his approaching at Inter is actual abundant up in the air and Chelsea are attractive for a reliable advancement to Tammy Abraham.11.02 GMT: Could Liverpool let midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum leave on a chargeless transfer?Wijnaldum, 29, has afflicted at Anfield but the Athletic letters that the club won't attending to extend his arrangement already it runs out in the summer of 2021. And they may alike absorb offers over £25m in the advancing windows.10.25 GMT: AC Milan comedy their aboriginal able bout aback signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic afresh -- alive on ESPN at 2 p.m. GMT (8 a.m. ET). But will he start?10.09 GMT: Barcelona are continuing close on their admiration to accumulate authority of Arturo Vidal this month, sources accept told ESPN.The Chilean, who is complex in a acknowledged altercation with the club over an declared contributed bonus, is accessible to abutting Inter Milan. He is not a approved amateur at Affected Nou and has appear of his admiration to "feel important."Barca drillmaster Ernesto Valverde doesn't appetite him to leave, though. Speaking afterwards Vidal denticulate in Saturday's draw with Espanyol, he batten about how capital the midfielder is due to the actuality he offers article altered to the added players in the squad.With a arrangement until 2021, -- additional the actuality Carles Alena has already abutting Betis on accommodation -- sources as Barca abide to assert they will boycott Inter's advances unless the Italians were to appear up with an alluring offer.09.41 GMT: Chelsea appetite a left-back so it's alone applicable that they go afterwards the world's best. Bayern Munich's David Alaba has 18 months larboard on his arrangement and could be agog on a new challenge, says the Mirror.The amount quoted is £60m which seems a bit baby for a amateur of the Austrian's affection but it's absolutely account a try.09.16 GMT: Flamengo midfielder Reinier is arena the cat-and-mouse bold amidst letters that he is about to be transferred to Real Madrid.The player, who turns 18 on Jan. 19, is training with Brazil's U23 band but Marca claims his move to Madrid is a done accord with Real Madrid advantageous his €30m absolution clause.When asked about his abeyant move to Real Madrid, Reinier told reporters: "Let's delay and see."Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain were additionally absorbed in the Brazilian and his absolution article was bargain from €70m to €30m aback the amateur active a new arrangement in November.According to GloboEsporte, Reinier will not abide at Flamengo for addition six months and will instead accompany Real Madrid already the pre-Olympic clash ends in February.08.33 GMT: Rennes achievement to accumulate authority of boyish awareness Eduardo Camavinga admitting absorption from abounding of Europe's top clubs.The midfielder, 17, has accustomed himself as a approved in the Rennes aggregation aback authoritative his admission as a 16-year-old in April 2019. Camavinga, who has fabricated 23 appaearances in all competitions this term, has admiring absorption from clubs including Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham.Rennes admiral Olivier Letang told TF1's Telefoot: "I would like to accumulate him for 10 years. The ambition is to abide in his company. Today, we appetite to accumulate him.When asked accurately about approaches from clubs in Ligue 1 and abroad, Letang added: Yes , but that catechism has not yet presented itself. Yes, some accept approached us."08.00 GMT: Liverpool's adolescent FA cup hero Curtis Jones has a ablaze approaching at the club, according to administrator Jurgen Klopp, amidst letters that the jailbait is capital on accommodation by several clubs.

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GAY MUSIC CHART – 2017 week 42

As a new additionnal rule for making this chart, we also use now the ranking of the number of views in our previous weekly playlist.

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OUT : Superfruit - Hurry Up (LW: - / WO: 3 / PEAK: 17)

OUT : Superfruit - Worth it (LW: - / WO: 13 / PEAK: 02)

OUT : Paris Bang Bang - Poseída (LW: 29 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 13)

OUT : Kele Okereke - Streets Been Talkin' (LW: 31 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 24)

OUT : PRIMME - Skinny Jeans (Official Lyric Video) (LW: 32 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 32)

OUT : Kyle Motsinger - Nothing Stays the Same (LW: 33 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 33)

OUT : Justin Gerhard (The Gay Men Channel) - I’m Every Gay Man (LW: 36 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 35)

OUT : Beth Ditto - We Could Run (LW: 37 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 10)

OUT : Chester Lockhart - Save Me from Myself (LW: 39 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 32)

OUT : MUNA - I Know A Place (LW: 40 / WO: 34 / PEAK: 01 (x2))

OUT : Johnny Robinson - Flames Of Love (Matt Pop Mix) (LW: 42 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 42)

OUT : Michael Perry - Perfect Love (LW: 45 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 45)

OUT : A JAY - Asammatha Pemak (Rathu Thol) රතු තොල් (LW: 47 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 22)

OUT : Harel Skaat - אהבה זו אהבה / Love is Love (LW: 48 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 26)

OUT : Nakhane - Clairvoyant (LW: 49 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 18)

OUT : Osvaldo Supino - Fire (LW: 50 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 37)

01 (=) : P!nk - What About Us (LW: 01 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 01 (x3))

The music video includes audio contents from the tragic events in Charlottesville for denouncing the hate speeches from the supremacist movements, and shows several people dancing under the intimidating eye of the authorities, including two men together.

02 (+ 4) : Zayn feat. Sia - Dusk Till Dawn (LW: 06 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 02)

This is the new collab of Sia.

03 (- 1) : Alfie Arcuri - If They Only Knew (LW: 02 / WO: 15 / PEAK: 02)

This is the new music video of the winner of The Voice Australia 2016. What must do a gay man when he's in love with his best male friend, who's dating his best female friend?

04 (- 1) : Kevin Chomat - Sens Interdit (LW: 03 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 01 (x1))

This new single of the French singer reached the top 10 YouTube trending in France.

05 (+ 6) : Harel Skaat - Radio (LW: 11 / WO: 24 / PEAK: 01 (x3))

The Israeli singer has uploaded on his channel a full concert. Go check it!

06 (+ 8) : Alvin Point - Il a dit (LW: 14 / WO: 55 / PEAK: 01 (x4))

The first single of the 24 years old singer is talking about a romantic gay love story. The title means "he said".

07 (+ 3) : Myckael SG - Strong or Best (alternate version) (LW: 10 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 04)

08 (- 1) : Wrabel - The Village (LW: 07 / WO: 11 / PEAK: 04)

This engaging song was written the day after US President Trump removed new federal protections for trans students in public schools last February. Trans actor August Aiden plays the role of a young transgender who tries to be himself despite the hostility of his father in the music video.

09 (- 4) : Kevin Chomat - Un homme à terre (LW: 05 / WO: 36 / PEAK: 01 (x3))

For his third single, the French singer is talking about infidelity, with his boyfriend who cheated on him.

10 (- 6) : Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes (LW: 04 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 04)

The British singer is back with a new upcoming album.

11 (+ 2) : Michele Bravi - Diamanti (LW: 13 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 11)

This is the third single from the Italian singer taken from the album “Anime Di Carta”.

12 (- 3) : Leon Else - What I Won't Do (Lyric Video) (LW: 09 / WO: 18 / PEAK: 02)

The British singer has recently came out on Facebook.

13 (- 5) : Logic feat. Alessia Cara, Khalid - 1-800-273-8255 (LW: 08 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 01 (x1))

This powerful music video, which is also a promotion for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, follows a gay teen couple and is the incarnation of the "It Gets Better" slogan.

14 (+ 23) : Sam Tsui - Cameo (LW: 27 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 14)

Finally, a new original song!

15 (NEW) : Alfie Arcuri - Love is Love (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 15)

The Australian singer takes position with this song for the YES in same-sex marriage survey to legiferate about marriage equality in Australia.

16 (=) : Neon Trees - Feel Good (LW: 16 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 10)

After a break for his first solo album "Excommunication", Tyler Glenn goes back with his band for a new song.

17 (+ 4) : Mr John - Neon (LW: 21 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 17)

Instead of covers, this time, the Brazilian singer delivers an original song.

18 (- 3) : Сергей Лазарев / Sergey Lazarev - Так красиво / So Beautiful (LW: 15 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 15)

The new music video about love of the famous Russian singer represents several couples, including a lesbian couple. Some politicians wants to censor it in Russia.

19 (+ 11) : Cassandre - Paris la nuit (LW: 30 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 19)

The French duo sings a love declaration to the city of love. It's perhaps a little cliché, but, as Parisians, we are probably not really objective. Sorry not sorry :)

20 (NEW) : Trey Pearson - Love Is Love [Official Lyric Video] (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 20)

After "Silver Horizon", this is the new single of the American singer as an anthem for equality and diversity.

21 (+ 25) : Martin Garrix & Troye Sivan - There For You (LW: 46 / WO: 20 / PEAK: 01 (x1))

22 (- 4) : La Prohibida - Baloncesto (LW: 18 / WO: 13 / PEAK: 03)

23 (+ 11) : Sean Smith - Turn Me On (LW: 34 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 23)

24 (+ 19) : LP - No Witness (LW: 43 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 18)

This is the sixth single taken from the album "Lost on You".

25 (NEW) : Sam Smith - Pray (Live on SNL) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 25)

This track was inspired by a trip to Iraq.

26 (NEW) : Les Funambules - Lui et toi (Live au Studio Hébertot) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 26)

This emotional song is about two parents who have difficulties to accept the homosexuality of their son and his relationship with another man.

27 (+ 1) : Antonio Navarro - Estaré Bien (LW: 28 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 27)

This is another track taken from the album "Punto Zero" from the Spanish singer.

28 (NEW) : Miss Caffeina - Detroit (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 28)

This is the new exciting single of the Spanish band, taken from their self-titled album.

29 (- 10) : Christophe Willem - Rio (LW: 19 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 19)

It's the first time that the French singer, former winner of the local version of Idol in 2005, suggests his sexual orientation in a music video, even if there's still an ambiguity to know from who he's attracted in this Brazilian couple.

30 (NEW) : Jamal Lyon’s When Cookie Met Lucious (ft. Jussie Smollet) | Visual Album | EMPIRE (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 30)

31 (NEW) : Ria Mae - My Love (Audio) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 31)

A new love song from the Canadian singer.

32 (- 9) : Eli Lieb - Shangri La (LW: 23 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 03)

Eli Lieb is completely bare in his new music video.

33 (NEW) : Eli Lieb - Kissing Your Tattoos (Lyric video) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 33)

34 (NEW) : ILY - Your Love (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 34)

Two new brides are kissing in this Swedish music video.

35 (+ 6) : Cub Sport - O Lord (LW: 41 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 17)

This is the debut single of the Australian band from Brisbane, taken from their album "Bats".

36 (- 14) : NU3L - Eu Não Sei / I Don´t Know (LW: 22 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 22)

37 (NEW) : Bec Sandridge - I'll Never Want A BF (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 37)

The Australian band is on tour.

38 (=) : Páll Óskar - Einn Dans (360° VR music video) (LW: 38 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 38)

39 (- 19) : Superfruit - Deny U (LW: 20 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 20)

You can't deny that we can see an attraction between Mitch and Scott in their new music video, taken from the album "Future Friends".

40 (NEW) : Supremme de Luxe - Fiebre 2017 (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 40)

The new track of the Spanish drag queen from Madrid.

41 (- 17) : Lizzo - Good As Hell (LW: 24 / WO: 44 / PEAK: 02)

This is taken from the EP "Coconut Oil".

42 (- 6) : Benny - Boys Will Be Boys (LW: 36 / WO: 40 / PEAK: 02)

It took two years for the 17 years old YouTuber Ben J. Pierce to release a new music video after "Little Game", but the wait was worth it, because it's really good. It talks about toxic masculinity and the effects it can have on a person.

43 (+ 1) : Smashby - Birthday Suit (LW: 44 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 43)

This is the first original song of the British singer.

44 (NEW) : Eddy de Pretto - Kid (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 44)

The French singer talks about toxic masculinity and abusive virility.

45 (NEW) : Pansy Boys - Empty Pools (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 45)

This is the first music video of the Canadian twins Joel and Kyle Curry.

46 (RE-ENTRY) : GAREK - Stray (LW: - / WO: 52 / PEAK: 01 (x2))

The single taken from the album "Take the King" is a conversation with his 8-year-old self about accepting who he is, the talk he wishes he had as a child, because he "spent so many years hating [himself] because [he] listened to the voices around [him] saying that people like [him] were disgusting".

47 (NEW) : JBDUBS - The Vault (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 47)

48 (- 36) : Huntington - Love Is Love (LW: 12 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 12)

Three years after "Secret", this is his new original song.

49 (- 24) : K Anderson - Cluttered (Lyric Video) (LW: 25 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 25)

"What better visual metaphor for a messy relationship than an educational video from the 70s about life in a rubbish dump?" says the London based singer.

50 (NEW) : ILoveMakonnen feat Rae Sremmurd - Love (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 50)

The track is #1 at the Top 40 LGBT Urban Chart.

ALSO NEW THIS WEEK

Madblush - My Radio

Taken from the album "Cactus".

John Galea - Honesty

Almost a year after the track "When You Truly Love Someone", this is the new single of the British singer.

CYBER feat. countess malaise - PSYCHO

In this Icelandic music video, drag queens are getting mad when they realized that they didn't had all their command at a Drive and grab.

Loreen - 71 Charger

The Swedish singer is back with a new single, taken from the upcoming album "Ride".

Fischerspooner feat. Caroline Polachek - Togetherness

Julien Baker - Appointments

Superfruit - Goodbye From Lonely

This is the eleventh single of the album "Future Friends".

Shamir - Straight Boy

This is the lead single of the upcoming album "Revelations", out next November.

Ricky Dillon - A Fun Song

This is the new song of the YouTuber.

Issa Twaimz - The Hallowissa Song

This is the new song of the YouTuber.

James Leon - Zen (To the Power)

Jeremy Gloff - Now And Here

La Neve - American Sounds

Razorhouse - Regan's Song

Kele Okereke - Streets Been Talkin' (Acoustic)

The sound of the rain is so relaxing with this acoustic cover.

Fangoria - Disco Sally (Pianíssimo)

This piano version gives you chills.

Cher - Walls (Live @ One Young World conference 2017)

Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes (Live on SNL)

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert - Same Love (Live @ NRL Grand Final 2017)

Will this performance influence the votes in Australia in same-sex marriage survey to legiferate about marriage equality in Australia ?

Jari Sillanpää - Eläköön

This is the new track of the Finnish singer.

P!nk - Beautiful Trauma (Dance Video)

St. Vincent - Pills (official audio)

Libertad Montero La Pinchos - COMER (Lyric Video)

Bilal Hassani feat. SparkDise - Descendants 2 Medley

A proof that these two French guys are fans of Disney.

Alaska Thunderfuck - Valentina

Another parody of "Despacito" and another song about former contestant and favorite of RuPaul's Drag Race season 9.

Randy Rainbow - Desperate Cheeto (Parody)

Another parody of "Despacito" against Trump.

See you next week and don’t forget to vote for your best LGBTQA music videos ! Here are the rules :

1 ) You can vote for many videos as you want under the videos on YouTube in the comment section. It could be recent or past music videos, which must provide at least one among the following conditions:

- the music video has LGBTQA related content, in the lyrics or the music video

- the artist is LGBTQA, an LGBTQA icon or eventually ally

- LGBTQA medias talked about it.

2 ) You can’t vote more than 3 songs of a same artist per week.

3 ) In case of an artist who receive votes mostly by a fan base, we will count only one song, in a limited time of 10 weeks of presence in the top.

4 ) You can vote with only one account.

5 ) If you make 5 votes or less, your first vote will represent 5 points, your second vote 4 points, etc… until your last vote and following 1 point. If you make 6 to 10 votes, your first vote will represent 10 points, your second vote 9 points, etc… If you make more than 10 votes, your first vote will represent 20 points, your second vote 19 points, etc…

6 ) People who make 1 to 5 votes form the amateur ranking, those who make 6 to 10 votes form the fan ranking, those who make more than 10 votes form the expert ranking. We form the jury ranking. And we count now the ranking of minutes of views of our weekly playlist of the previous week. The Gay Music Chart is the addition of the five charts. In case of equality, the number of votes and the dates of votes will count.

7 ) The votes will close on Thursday, 8 PM, European time.

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‘I didn’t breathe for the last 10 minutes’: how we watch the World Cup

Photographer Christian Sinibaldi captures the joy and despair in British living rooms, as fans from Iceland to Iran, Serbia to South Korea, support their teams

When Christian Sinibaldi turned up at homes across England to photograph fans watching the World Cup, he was overwhelmed by every nationality’s hospitality. “And their food,” he says. “I’ve eaten a lot of crisps and beer, but also the traditional Brazilian dish of feijoada in north London, Mexican quesadillas and guacamole in Putney, and a lovely Moroccan tagine cooked on the barbecue in Letchworth.”

Sinibaldi sat with a fixed camera near the television screen and never asked anyone to pose: he didn’t need to. “Pretty much as soon as the match got under way, they forgot I was there.” He enjoyed watching the tension build. “Very few people left the room or changed positions throughout the game. They were glued to their chairs.”

It does mean that Sinibaldi has not watched any matches himself, because he has been looking the wrong way. “But I could nearly always tell when a goal was coming – I could see it in their faces.” There’s a reason he made time for the project this year: as an Italian, it’s one way of dealing with the fact his home side didn’t make the cut.

England 6 Panama 1

Cooper family, Milnrow, Rochdale, 24 June

Rick Cooper, 41, and wife Jo, 41, sons Leo, eight, and Aaron, four, Malc, 44, Alison, 72 Milnrow, Rochdale Timing is everything at Rick and Jo Cooper’s house, where the family are on countdown for England’s second match of the tournament, against Panama. With excited shouts of “Half an hour to kick-off” drifting in from the garden, the smell of burgers on the barbecue waft into the front room where the floor is strewn with balloons, inflatable clappers and St George’s flags.

The country is in the early grips of a heatwave and little do the Coopers – grandmother Alison, 72, uncle Malc, 44, Rick and wife Jo, both 41, and their sons, Leo, eight, and Aaron, five – know that the sunshine will not be the only turn-up for England.

Stones’ header puts England 1-0 up eight minutes in. “I missed it!” says Rick, distracted by Aaron walking in with lunch. But no one misses goals two, three, four or five – including two Harry Kane penalties – all before half-time. “This is unbelievable!” Rick shouts. “Football’s coming home.” The noise from the boys’ vuvuzelas is deafening.

“The boys were too little for Brazil 2014,” says Rick, a Manchester United season ticket holder, “so I’m enjoying watching this one with them. I was obsessed with skiing as a kid. But France 98, where Beckham got sent off, that really got me into football and I’m mad for it now.”

His brother Malc says, “You always have that hope with England, and it’s always been dashed. I remember Gazza with the tears at Italia 90, watching that with my late dad. And Maradona’s hand of God in 86, watching that on holiday in Torquay, around a tiny black-and-white TV. The injustice of it. But we’re perennial optimists, and with this young team, there’s a different mentality.”

Their mother, Alison, is the only one who saw England triumph in 66. She says, “The country couldn’t believe it. My late husband, Henry, he loved the game. He always said: ‘If they play football, they’ll murder ’em.’ He’d have been thrilled with this one.”

Brazil 1 Switzerland 1

Kiki Machado and friends, Crouch End, London, 17 June

Cristina “Kiki” Machado’s house is a sight, and sound, to behold during the Brazil v Switzerland game, what with the yells of the 30 people squeezed into the living room, the guitar music from Kiki’s tenant Caco Barros (at front, glass in hand) and the green-and-yellow stars chalked on the pavement outside. “We drew six,” says Kiki (in hat), “because Brazil has won five times – we drew one more for luck.”

Kiki’s living room is packed out with her “north London family”, friends collected over 20 years in this country, from Brazil, England, Lithuania, Serbia and Italy. When she arrived, her godmother gave her the number of her best friend’s daughter, Luciana, who was living in London. She never called, but seven years later they met by chance in the local library at a singalong for their children.

“My family in Brazil said people aren’t celebrating there the way we are,” Kiki says. “It’s natural when you’re away from your country to find your people and cheer together.” She remembers as a child how everything stopped during a World Cup game, so when Martha asked if she could come home from school early for the match, she said, “Of course. Your teacher will understand.”

After their 7-1 defeat by Germany in 2014, Brazilians are approaching this World Cup with trepidation. “I’m in defence mode,” says Janaína Campoy, 44 (on right, wearing glasses). “That game was a tragedy. It came just as things were going badly for us politically and economically. We lost confidence as a nation.”

The self-esteem of an entire country seems a lot to put on 11 men, but they don’t let them down. After the match, they party until midnight, because that’s the Brazilian way to celebrate a draw. “When we won in 2002, that party lasted 24 hours,” Kiki says. “The hangover lasted a week.”

Senegal 2 Japan 2

Adama Karde and friends, Ancoats, Manchester, 24 June

The music and the chat don’t stop at Adama Karde’s city centre flat. Adama, 44 (in front of picture), a musician, came to the UK from south Senegal in 2008 and the green, red and yellow of his home country is all around his living room: on flags, posters and djembe drums.

Watching with his partner Neilum Singh, 43 (second from right), and friends Iain Dixon (far right), 40, and Lamin Conteh, 42 (far left), Adama cannot hide his excitement. “Senegal is like Brazil,” he says. “Everyone plays football. When I was a boy, my neighbour was manager of the local team. He taught me, too – I’m a good player.”

An early goal from Senegal superstar Sadio Mané sends them wild: the music and chants get louder, and the energy soars. When Japan equalise, Lamin booms: “It’s game on. Game on.” But when Japan equalise a second time, the mood deflates.

“I wanted more,” Adama admits at full time. “They got the opportunity to win, but there were a few mistakes. They need to change tactics now.”

For him, the World Cup couldn’t get much sweeter than 2002, when Senegal beat title holders France in the first game and reached the quarter-finals. He watched back home, crowded around a neighbour’s TV. “When Papa (Bouba Diop) pushed that ball inside, it felt as if we could beat anybody.”

Neilum agrees: “They love their sport in Senegal. Because people have limited access to technology, they’re forced to share a TV, sometimes outside, sometimes in a cinema. Watching football with West Africans is electric – it’s just fire.”

Morocco 0 Iran 1

Essakhi family, Letchworth, 15 June

Before most Morocco matches, Mohammed Essakhi, 54 (in cap), finds himself in the kitchen cooking nibbles for friends coming over. He’s a school head chef and caterer, focusing on Moroccan and Spanish food. For this game, his starters include hummus, tzatziki and stuffed peppers. The barbecue comes after, “because when there’s a football match on, we want to watch it”.

Balbair Chahal, 42 (pictured front left), works with Mohammed at the school; Phil Moore, 56, and Amanda Brosnan, 50 (centre), are friends and fellow Leicester City supporters. They watch the game with Mohammed’s wife, Rosalind, 56, his nephew, Kaeran Duff, 30, his son, Nizar, 16, who is training with Watford and hopes to go pro, and his daughter, Azza, 22 (far right).

The 1-0 loss to Iran is “a bit of a let-down”, because the team played well, says Mohammed. Azza points to an important difference: “Footballers in England are so famous – it’s good to see people from your own background compete on the same platform.”

“I would love Morocco to win,” Mohammed says, “but realistically, it’s not going to happen. What would really make me proud is seeing Morocco host the World Cup. We’ve been asking for about 20 years.” His best football memory is the 3-1 victory against Portugal in 1986: “I was still living in Casablanca, and I remember youngsters celebrating in the street. Nobody thought it would be possible. At that time, Africa had only two teams that had qualified.”

Azza, who recently graduated, is working in Morrisons, and is delighted to wear her Morocco shirt to work when the team play Portugal a few days later. “It was to raise money for Clic Sargent [a cancer charity for young people]; we pay a pound to wear the team shirt. It was a real conversation starter. That’s what I love about the World Cup: the unity. No matter what happens or what team you support, there’s a conversation you can have with anybody.”

Japan 2 Colombia 1

Nishi family, Acton, London, 19 June

Naohiko Nishi (on right) and his eight-year-old son Atsuhiko (next to him) have no special food or drink, hang no flags, have no good-luck rituals. What they do have is a Japanese guidebook to the World Cup, with detailed information about every player: how old they are, what kind of a player. This is consulted very regularly.

Today the Nishis – Naohiko and his wife Akiko (far right), their sons Atsuhiko, eight, and Takahiko, six (front right) – are watching the game with their friends Hiro and Shiho (on left), and their children Masa, 12 (on floor), and Iroha, nine (with giraffe). The children are keen footballers: Masa, Atsuhiko and Takahiko all play at the nearby Football Samurai Academy. Atsuhiko plays football three days a week, and says he hopes to play for Japan when he’s older. For him, the best moment of this game is Shinji Kagawa’s penalty, secured in the game’s sixth minute after a handball from Carlos Sánchez: “It was kind of scary before he took it – we were very surprised that we won.”

His father agrees: manager Akira Nishino was appointed just two months before the World Cup began. “To be honest, Colombia is much better than Japan. They got a red card, which was so lucky for us. Winning this match was a great moment – because in the 2014 World Cup, Japan didn’t get a good result.” Though they were the first team to qualify, Japan failed to make it out of the group stages.

For Naohiko, the joy of this competition has been watching Japan improve their standing on the world stage. “Japan didn’t join the World Cup until 1998. Only some of them played in Europe at the time – whereas now almost all the Japanese players play for Europe. The quality has got much better and their confidence has increased.”

The win against Colombia, and a subsequent draw against Senegal, will be hard to beat, though Naohiko still holds dear his memories of the 2002 World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan: he was able to attend the opening game – where he watched Japan draw against a “very strong” Belgium.

Iran 0 Spain 1

Shirin Azari and friends, Bromley, 20 June

If only Vahid Amiri, the Iranian striker, could hear the chant from the mothers, teachers and former students of Iyda, or the Intercultural Youth Development Association, a Farsi-speaking community in south London: “Vahid pa Talayii omide team e mayii (Goldenfoot Vahid, you are our team’s hope).” Sadly, his golden foot doesn’t save the day: Iran’s only goal in the game against Spain is offside and they lose 1-0.

It is a women-only party, organised by Shirin Azari (behind sofa, in white Iran T-shirt) with friends in Bromley. “We often get together for food and gossip and chat,” says her friend Pupak Navabpour, whose children learn Farsi at Iyda. Food is the focus at these events, and it is all set up before people arrived, “so you can eat with your eyes first”.

Shirin has made dolmas and Turkish burek, and serves them with rosebud and cardamom black tea brewed in a samovar, followed by gaz (almond nougat) and nabat (crystal sugar) on sticks. “That is what we do when ladies get together,” she says. “The group was singing Iran Iran by Arash, dancing and chanting in Farsi.”

“I think Iran are really good at defence, one of the best,” says Shirin, “but not attack. Even if they try to score, there’s nobody there; they keep themselves to their own goal.” Despite her criticisms, she is proud of her team, “because they don’t have the facilities or coaches that western countries have.”

Pupak agrees: “It was gutting that the goal was disallowed. They defended well and almost scored a few times – even though they lost, I think they did quite well.”

Pupak started taking Farsi classes as an adult when she realised she was beginning to struggle with her mother tongue. Now her children go every Saturday. “My youngest said, ‘But Mummy, I’m English.’ Even though I’ve spent most of my life here, I don’t feel that kind of belonging. When I watch Iran play in the World Cup, I suddenly feel that connection to home.”

Serbia 1 Costa Rica 0

Bogdanovic family, London, 17 June

On 17 June, Serbia won their first World Cup game in eight years. The more superstitious might have the Bogdanovics to thank for it: “We sit in the order we were sitting in 2010, when Serbia won against Germany,” says Deanna, 47 (on left). “We try to recreate exactly what happened that day, so we can win in the future.” Serbian snacks must be on the table and everyone must dress for the occasion.

Deanna and Brian, 47, moved to London 20 years ago; soon they will have spent more of their lives here than in Serbia. “Often you question where home really is,” Deanna says, “but the World Cup erases that feeling. I’m not usually into football, but the World Cup turns me into a completely different person. When we scored,” she says of the winning goal, “it was such an amazing feeling. I don’t think we breathed for the last 10 minutes.”

The only year-round football fan in the family is 15-year-old Vuk. Serbia haven’t qualified for the World Cup for more than half his lifetime, and he remembers being a small boy watching Serbia beat Germany. “Back then, Stojkovic was my favourite goalkeeper, and he saved a penalty. That was a proud moment.” His ritual during the game is never to jinx it by being overconfident: “Even if we were 3-0 up, I’d still keep my mouth shut until the final whistle.”

Iceland 0 Nigeria 2

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‘I didn’t breathe for the last 10 minutes’: how we watch the World Cup

Photographer Christian Sinibaldi captures the joy and despair in British living rooms, as fans from Iceland to Iran, Serbia to South Korea, support their teams

England 6 Panama 1

Cooper family, Milnrow, Rochdale, 24 June

Brazil 1 Switzerland 1

Kiki Machado and friends, Crouch End, London, 17 June

Senegal 2 Japan 2

Adama Karde and friends, Ancoats, Manchester, 24 June

“I wanted more,” Adama admits at full time. “They got the opportunity to win, but there were a few mistakes. They need to change tactics now.”

Morocco 0 Iran 1

Essakhi family, Letchworth, 15 June

Japan 2 Colombia 1

Nishi family, Acton, London, 19 June

Iran 0 Spain 1

Shirin Azari and friends, Bromley, 20 June

Pupak agrees: “It was gutting that the goal was disallowed. They defended well and almost scored a few times – even though they lost, I think they did quite well.”

Serbia 1 Costa Rica 0

Bogdanovic family, London, 17 June

Iceland 0 Nigeria 2

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adrenaline-aesthetics · 7 years ago

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Some info about my main crew that you didn’t ask for but here you go:

Warning long post

Lacie: canonically 5'7, but is my shortest big doll; she’s angry about it. Is bisexual with a preference for girls, has chronic depression and later develops PTSD, is left handed, she’s white (German, Italian, Scottish, British mix) with a tiny bit of native American from her mom’s side. She isn’t totally human, and what kind of creature she is I won’t say online because it’s too much to explain but all you need to know is she has purple fire + other powers and a ton of rage so you should fear her. Her humor is sarcastic and deadpan and she’s pretty dead inside. Sleeps 1-3 hours a night, looks it. She’s 18 in doll form.

Josh: 5'9, straight, is on the autism spectrum but is very high functioning, also has an anxiety disorder and ADD. He’s afraid of spiders and is in a few honors classes. He’s half white (Italian, Scottish) and half Mexican. He’s Lacie’s cousin (and best friend) and their fathers are brothers, Josh’s being the older one. He was born a human but was bitten by and turned into a werewolf, a power he struggles to control but he has help from a special spell that comes in the form of a tattoo thats on the back of his left forearm. His favorite item of clothing is his orange hoodie which by some miracle he manages to not destroy on full moons or fighting monsters with Lacie. He’s 18 in doll form.

Zander: 6'1, straight, has undiagnosed ADHD, PTSD, and depression. He’s not from “the human world” as he calls it, and also isn’t human. He’s white (British) and 1/4th native American. Depending on which book, he’s either a turned vampire or has been cured and returned to being the same creature Lacie is. He has a birthmark in his right palm, same as Lacie’s on her left shoulder, this is a thing with the kind of creatures they are. He dresses like he’s from a 1990s dumpster because he’s garbage. Favorite pass time is to fight, and he’s the group’s trouble maker. No impulse control or filter, but he’s learning and trying. His hair looks black but it’s actually a very dark navy blue that only shows up in certain lights, his eyes are the same shade of navy blue-matching hair and eyes run in his mom’s side of the family. He is technically 19 in doll form.

Peter: 6'4, gay and grey asexual. He’s a 90 year old born vampire who lost his clan in the magic war that took place ten years before the books began. He’s white and its ????? but his family has Scandinavian roots. He’s genius level brilliant and can invent anything out of nothing. Is the type to buy a brand new computer then rip it open to see whats inside it and if he can improve it. Is literally the only reason Zander’s alive because he took him in after he was turned during the war. Honestly give Peter points for that he deserves them. Is pretty much the only adult in the group and he is TIRED. He loves alcohol because thats one of the things vampires can have and sometimes he needs a damn drink. His doll age is, well he’s 90ish but he looks about 27-30.

Danielle: 5'2 and should be the shortest but somehow is just a half cm taller than Lacie in doll form. She’s demisexual but heteromantic. She’s got fae blood and has the ability to communicate with and control plants. She’s half French (her dad is literally from France) and half Korean (her mom’s half lives in Seattle). Her parents died when she was a baby so her aunt and maternal grandpa helped raise her. She loves fashion and looking cute, always in dresses and skirts, looks like she will crumble if you look at her wrong, but is a deadly force to not be reckon with. But she’s generally super upbeat and tries to bring positivity and love wherever she goes. She learned French, Korean, Chinese, and sign language for fun. She’s 17 in doll form.

Becca: 5'8, gay (closeted for a while), she’s the lone human in the main group but is a black belt. She’s Latina (Mexican, Brazilian, and Cuban mix). She has a loud, large, and VERY Catholic family hence why she doesn’t come out for a long time. She has 4 siblings she doesn’t ever talk about because she’s the oldest and the rest are under 12. Her natural hair color is dark brown, but she dyes it platinum blonde. She’s into theater and acting and dreams of becoming an actress. One of those annoying singer friends who loves to upstage everyone during karaoke. Has a gaydar that knows no bounds and is always right. She is 18 in doll form.

Anika: 5'9, bisexual with a preference for men. Loves to call herself a bitch, loves to BE a bitch. Petty is her middle name. She’s half white and I literally don’t know the other half because her dad is a merman and we never meet him because her mom got drunk in college and had a fling on the beach during spring break and honestly thought it was a drunken hallucination until Anika got her powers. She always wears leggings because if her legs get wet her scales show. She’s bitter about this because “it is a CRIME to cover legs as good as mine!”. Has no chill, sins constantly, is the hoe friend. Becca is her best friend and y'all know the spoiler that they later date but its complicated to explain how and when that happens. She is 18 in doll form.

Kimberly: 5'10, straight, is Lacie’s mom. She’s human unlike her daughter and the rest of her family. Is a control freak and overprotective of Lacie. They fight a lot because of this. She’s a very successful business woman and a bit of a workaholic. Has next to zero patience when it comes to things other than working, hence why her and Lacie also fight a lot. She’s White (British, German mix) and ¼th native American as her mother is half. I am still world building on stuff and doing a ton of research still so please be patient with me about stuff I wanna be respectful to Native American tribes and cultures and there’s so much to research, so, so much ;; Anyway her doll doesn’t fully match the character because Iplehouse doesn’t offer a pale olive resin color, and peach gold is too pink, so I used really yellowed normal skin and it works, also she wasn’t supposed to be Lacie’s mom it just happened when I dressed her up to stand in for a photostory lol. Anyway in doll form shes 45.

Sorry for this long post I got bored. I’ll add the last two boys whenever they come home lmao. No one has been ordered yet so I have no clue when that will be.

#ramblings #my dolls #bl crew

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toxinwing · 8 years ago

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F1 fan ask: 1, 2, 17, 22, 23, 34, and 35: if the teams were pitted against each other in a Scrapheap Challenge-type contest, who would fare the best? Thank you. :)

Thanks a lot for the questions! Just a warning: this’ll be a long one! Strap in and prepare for some rambles!

1. How did you first get into F1? Ha, well that’s a funny story, actually. And a bit of a long and complicated one! It all started with the F1 games. Back in late 2014/early 2015, I was binge watching a bunch of old racing game videos by a YouTube guy I follow…

As I was going through his old videos I found a few playlists where he decided to play the co-op career mode in one of the F1 games with one of his gaming buddies. Only there was a catch…neither he nor his friend knew anything about F1 other than that it was an open wheel racing series. They barely knew any of the tracks and were very iffy on the rules.

Thing is, I was pretty much on the exact same level with them in terms of F1 knowledge. Heck, I barely even knew it was a thing at the time. So, as these two nimrods played and learned about the game, rules, teams, and drivers, I also learned about them! Tangential learning, I think it’s called…

Eventually, I thought that it would be cool to actually start following F1 news and see if it was something worth watching (spoiler: it was!). Unfortunately, I didn’t get to actually watch a race live until 2016 because…wow, was I unprepared for the time-zone differences.

So that’s how I got into F1! Via the codemasters games. Who’d’ve thought.

2. How long have you been watching F1? Do you remember the first race you watched? I’ve been watching F1 for just over a year now! The first race I watched…well, I remember seeing clips and bits of the 2015 Brazilian GP and Abu Dhabi GP, but I didn’t watch them live nor did I watch the entire race for either. So, like I said in the previous question, the first race I actually watched was the 2016 Australian GP. But! BUT! I had a bit of a strange and…uh, traumatic viewing, let’s say.

I woke up about and hour late for the race so I turned on my preferred viewing methods and just hoped I could get caught up. I then noticed that 6 drivers were out of the race already and there was some commotion about a red flag messing up some driver’s strategies. I was like “A red flag…don’t they only bring that out for major crashes and clean up? Was that what happened? Goodness, what’d I miss?”

Well, I checked online to see some news about what happened and that first thing I saw was…Fernando’s huge crash. Oh boy, did that have me worried. My mom and I saw that crash and thought, holy s**t, he’s gotta be hurt or injured from that. Then I saw that he frikkin’ walked away?! And, yeah, later on we heard that he was more hurt than we assumed, but still! Walked away!

Oh yeah, and then I saw some gifs of Kimi calmly getting out of his burning car and then celebrated ‘cause Haas points! Yeah, an interesting first race.

17. Which GP would you like to visit and why? Maybe the Canadian GP since that’s the closest to me. I mean, if we’re talking any at all, the Spanish GP, British GP, or Italian GP would all probably be near the top of my list, and the US GP would be nice to get to as well, but all of those require me flying out somewhere and I don’t really have the money on hand for that…Heck, I don’t think I have the money for a hotel for the Canadian GP. :P

22. Do you watch all the practices, quali and race, or quali and race, or just race? I watch everything. All the practices, quali, and the race (all of which I also liveblog on here, if you want to see me cry about McHonda retirements while also trying to stay positive on everything)! And whatever else is going on that I can catch. Press conferences, tech talk, interviews, whatever. I’m consuming media like there’s no tomorrow, man.

23. Describe how do you watch F1? At home or somewhere else, with family, friends or alone? Any special pre-race rituals? I always watch at home. I watch a…er, totally legal stream, keep a back-up stream on hand just in case, and also have the NBCSN broadcast on TV. I generally watch alone due to the wonky times, but if the parents are up I’ll try and get them to watch along as well so we can give each other looks when someone says something reaction-worthy on their radio or cheer on overtakes together. Most of my friends know I watch F1, but they don’t really get racing so they just deal with me ranting and raving the next day about the race.

Before races, I try to remember to eat something or at least get some snacks ready. Just in case I need something to stress-eat or eat angrily during the race. I also try to relax myself because damn if the half hour before lights out doesn’t make me all kinds of tense. A bit of deep breathing and getting up to stretch and do a bit of cardio does wonders for that.

34. Do you watch any other kind of sport? Which one? Nope, don’t really watch anything outside of motorsport. I tried to get into hockey back in the day and my parents took me to a few baseball and basketball games, but those didn’t do anything for me. I actually thought I just wasn’t into any kind of sport before I discovered how fun and…er, interesting watching motorsport could be! I used to decry how silly it was to watch sports and how strange it was to get so emotionally invested in teams and players…oh, how naive I was…ha ha…

35: if the teams were pitted against each other in a Scrapheap Challenge-type contest, who would fare the best? Okay, so I had to look up what “Scrapheap Challenge” was and apparently it’s the same kind of show that “Junkyard Wars” was in the US and holy cow I forgot how much I loved watching that show back in the day. Hot dang. Trip down memory lane, right there…uh, yeah. Anyway.

So, the F1 teams have to compete to make machines (or maybe just ‘things’) that accomplish specific tasks using what they can find or have on hand…

Hmm…first I have to wonder if by teams you mean, like, just the drivers and team principle, or does it also include their team of engineers and strategists? On one hand, we’d have one heck of a s**tshow ‘cause I don’t know how many drivers we’ve got that could even engineer or build their way out of a plaster box. On the other, they might have too much help ‘cause…you know, giant crew of experienced engineers who know how to put crap back together.

Hmm…I’ll go with a mixture. ‘Cause I remember there was always at least one expert on each team to help them get things going and make sure the stuff they were making didn’t catastrophically fail. So, the drivers, team principle, and say…three to four engineers, maybe a strategist.

In that case…well, the Merc team still seems pretty good since they seem to know how to make stuff that typically works, but I don’t know if Lewis or Val would quite know what to do. I imagine Toto would try to help out the engineers but would drop something on his foot or something and Niki would be standing in the back, either laughing or just shaking his head and being very disappointed at everything.

Ferrari could have a chance. I mean, they’ve got the spirit! And a bunch of Italians would’d probably sooner die for their team than lose a silly little challenge. I don’t know how much help Kimi would be, though. Seb and Maurizio too, but I think they’d be good at cheering on their engineers.

My first thought was actually one of the teams near the back since they seem to be able to do a lot with very little. Toro Rosso and Sauber come to mind.

But let’s be honest. It’d actually be McLaren. Why? ‘Cause they’ve got Fernando “I Can Do Everything” Alonso. Obviously.

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And done! Whew…that took much longer than I thought it would to write out. Let’s hope there’s no mistakes ‘cause I’m too tired to go back and check. Again, thanks for the questions! It was a lot of fun! And major props and thanks to anyone who actually read through this entire thing! Y’all’re awesome!

#Nick answers #Long post #Like seriously #Man that last question threw me for a loop #'Cause I spent way too long actually seriously thinking it out #Who'd be better at turning crap into a working machine?#I wanted to go into detail with every team #But I think this post is already long enough...eh heh #Actually...throw some answers for that last question my way if you want!#Or tag me in posts if it's too long to put in my ask box #Go into detail and stuff #I'm way too curious about this #This is like...AU or fanfic worthy stuff

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The history of agricultural, botanical, pharmacological, and medical exchanges is one of the most fascinating chapters in early modern natural history. Until recently, however, historiography has been dominated by the British experience from the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, with Kew Gardens at the center of the “green imperialism.” In this article we address the hard-won knowledge acquired by those who participated in early modern Portuguese imperial bioprospecting in Asia. The Portuguese were the first to transplant important economic plants from one continent to another, on their imposing colonial chessboard. In spite of this, the history of Portuguese bioprospecting is still fragmentary, especially with respect to India and the Indian Ocean. We argue not only that the Portuguese—imperial officials, missionaries, and the people connected with them, all living and working under the banner of the Portuguese empire—were interested in gathering knowledge but also that the results of their endeavors were relevant for the development of natural history in the early modern period and that they were important actors within the larger community of naturalists.

Ines G. Županov and Ângela Barreto Xavier. "Quest for Permanence in the Tropics: Portuguese Bioprospecting in Asia (16th-18th Centuries)." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Volume 57, Issue 4, pages 511 – 548.

As the Portuguese opened new oceanic routes and thus the way to early modern globalization, they had in the back of their minds a Roman model of land settlement and colonization. This goes against historiography that relies on the “network of settlements” theory.10 These intentions can be detected in the accounts of the conquest of Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque and all the way to the identity narratives of the Christianized Goan elites at the end of the seventeenth and in the early eighteenth century.

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The difficulty of controlling the land and its production, and commerce and labor in Asia was due to the dense socio-economic arrangements and political organization already in place. In Sri Lanka, the Portuguese conquered the coastal area, including the kingdoms of Kotte and Sitawaka, and attempted to control both cinnamon cultivation and its trade, but they never succeeded in conquering the kingdom of Kandy (where most of the cinnamon was grown) in the inaccessible mountainous area in the center of the island. When the Portuguese lost its hold on Sri Lanka to the Dutch in the middle of the seventeenth century, regret at losing this territory turned into a series of narratives demanding its reconquest and extolling the beauties and riches of the island.16

By the end of the seventeenth century, instead of reclaiming the territory, the Portuguese pursued a less chivalrous goal of “stealing" (according to the Dutch) and transplanting cinnamon trees from Sri Lanka and India in Brazil. This was a long way from Dom Manuel’s initial policy of preventing the cultivation of Indian spices in Brazil, which continued to the end of the sixteenth century.17 It was also a belated effort, because the idea was an old one. Ambrosio Fernandes Brandâo proposed the transfer of pepper to Brazil in the text titled Diâlogos das Grandezas do Brasd (written c. 1617), attributed to him by Capistrano de Abreu. By describing the natural world of Brazil as infinitely useful and fertile, even more than the Asian, the author tried to prove his point that Brazil was the Promised Land for the Portuguese, as predicted by Dom Manuel’s astrologer.18

An incomplete series of letters in the Goan archives written between 1677 and 1690 shows the extent to which the Brazilian transfer was important to the Portuguese crown. Not only were saplings and seeds sent to Brazil but also cultivators from India. The king himself repeatedly demanded of the viceroys that they send “men experienced in cultivating cinnamon and pepper trees” to Bahia.19 There is evidence that plants were sent with Instructions (Regimento) on how to care for them during and after the transoceanic voyage.20 While the Portuguese continued their efforts, from the second half of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth, to make Brazil and, to a lesser extent, Portuguese Africa, with their vast territories, into centers of production of “Indian” cash crops, the competition for these same resources with the British, Dutch, and French was intense.

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In discovering Portuguese natural history archives, such as those preserved in the Colloquies, we must also take into account the structure of the edifice that encloses them. In many respects, the detailed knowledge of plants and remedies that Orta displayed in fifty-nine chapters was not unfamiliar to the experienced Portuguese merchants, apothecaries, and physicians. Tomé Pires’s letter (1516) to King Dom Manuel, with its detailed list of “drugs,” shows that Orta did not start from scratch but rather built his knowledge on a half-century of intense Portuguese trade in Asian spices, plants, and medicines. How and to what extent manuscripts by royal officials, such as Tomé Pires (14657-1524 or 1540) and Duarte Barbosa (c. 1480-1521), circulated in Goa is impossible to reconstruct, but they certainly contained strategic information shared by Portuguese crown officials. In spite of their strategic value, the Italian geographer and compiler Giovanni Battista Ramusio managed to procure and publish the text of Duarte’s Book in 1550 and parts of Pires’ The Summa of the East, without mentioning the name of the author.28 And every merchant in Goa, Orta included, must have known the text written in 1554 by Antonio Nunes, Book of the Weights o f India, as well as Measures and Coins (Lyvro dos pezos da Yndia, e assy medidas e mohedas), which listed all the spices and medicinal substances (drogas) and how they were measured and priced in various coastal markets.29

Orta never mentioned these sources and authors by name, with the exception of the apothecary Simâo Âlvares. Without disclosing his name or quoting from his Information about All the Drugs that Go to the Kingdom (Enformaçâo de todalas drogas que vâo para 0 Reino), written around 1547, Orta paraded Âlvares’s opinion, with which he disagreed, that white and black pepper belong to the same plant30 That Orta and Âlvares were not the best of friends, and possibly even rivals, is clear from the way the story is told in the Colloquies, but it indicates how local social hierarchies were important for the construction of knowledge. It is also interesting that, almost fifteen years later, Cristôvâo da Costa takes Orta’s side in this dispute.31 He even adds a drawing of the “black pepper {pimenta negro)" in his Treatise, claiming that the plants of the white and black pepper were so similar that the drawing is a good representation of both.32

And yet, Âlvares was right, which proves Orta’s larger claim that merchants and experienced casados (settlers) in Asia knew better than the naturalists in Europe, from the Greeks to the modems, but his mistake remains a puzzle. The only possible answer is that he did not possess a pepper plant in his garden in the Rua dos Namorados in Goa and thus had no experience of its complete cycle of growth and the drying process. As it is known that, due to Portuguese demand, the cultivation of Malabar pepper expanded north into the foothills of Kanara during the sixteenth century, it may be inferred from the Colloquies that it had not yet arrived in the environs of Goa in Orta’s time.3

If Orta was so wrong on pepper, can he be trusted regarding other spices, simples, and plants, some of which he confessed having never seen personally, such as durian? Perhaps not, but the dialogical form may have helped him press his point with authority.34 It is only because of Ruano’s insistent request to be told something about this Southeast Asian fruit that Orta responded first “informally,” as the two interlocutors were on their way to lunch (or dinner), with a few evocatively titillating remarks, such as “the Malays say that it is good for the feast of Venus.”35 When Ruano was not satisfied, Orta offered a formal description containing the size, shape, and color of the fmit, as well as of its flowers and leaves. What is remarkable about Orta’s description is that, for someone who had not seen the fmit, it was quite accurate. This is confirmed by Cristôvâo da Costa who travelled to Melaka and made a drawing of the tree.36 Moreover, to describe the smell of the fmit, he borrowed Orta’s phrase, “rotten onions.”

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Street art: 45 incredible examples to inspire you

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Street art: 45 incredible examples to inspire you

Street art adorns streets from all over the world. Urban graffiti might be the first form that springs to mind, but street art actually comes in loadings of different forms, from sculptures to& apos; yarn bombing& apos ;, and is also found in a diverse scope of surroundings.

We& apos; ve gathered together the work of our favourite street artists for this article, from famous faces you already know to relative unknowns you& apos; ll want to know more about. Some only want to brighten up their neighbourhoods, while others have political statements to induce. But whatever their motivating, we think what they& apos; ve created is pretty incredible.

If you& apos; re feeling inspired, check out our piece on graffiti fonts and use the influence of street art in your own designs.

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01. Sonora

Sonora was painted on the Arizona/ Mexico perimeter to open a dialogue through art

Hazard, aka Harriet Ford, is a British street artist whose work is recognisable from its bold, peaceful depictions of women with detailed hair and headdresses.

Sonora( 2017) was painted on a warehouse in the abandoned mining township of Ajo on the Arizona/ Mexico border. This comes within the framework of a crowdfunded project, designed to create a dialogue through an arts residency in a significant place at a significant time. With a headdress decorated with wildlife from the Sonoran desert, the female character represents a peaceful Mexican lady.

02. 16th Avenue Tiled Steps

The steps in San Francisco have a sea to sky theme

The 16 th Avenue Tiled Steps is a community project completed in 2005. Inspired by the famous Selaron steps in Rio de Janeiro, the neighborhood residents opt artists Aileen Barr and Collette Crutcher to collaborate in a design across 163 mosaic panels.

The steps have a sea to sky theme and the local residents sponsored handmade tiles in the shapes of the animals, fish and shells. Three mosaic workshops were held within the community so that everyone could assist in the creation of this stunning street art.

03. Cryptik

This work in New York’s lower east side translates to ‘Love thy neighbourSSSS

Los Angeles-based artist Cryptik is notable for his calligraphic approach to street art. Much of his work is based on ancient sacred texts and eastern philosophy, with echoes of the intricate geometric patterns found in Muslim art and architecture. It& apos; s all rendered with an unmistakable street art spin, making for a perfect mixture of ancient and modern. His aim is to help humanity evolve towards greater awareness and understanding.

04. Kobra

This colourful David is painted directly onto the marble in an Italian quarry

This colorful portrait of David is the work of Eduardo Kobra, a Brazilian street artist from the south side of Sao Paulo. The design is painted directly onto the marble at a quarry in Carrara, Italy, where Michelangelo and other artists detected the marble used in their statues. Kobra has been a graffiti artist since he was a teenager, and in 2016 his mural for the Rio Olympics scored him a record for world& apos; s biggest mural- a record he& apos; s since broken.

05. D* Face

This epic street art by D* Face’s cover-ups the side of a Las Vegas hotel

London-based artist Dean Stockton( also known as D* Face) generates work inspired by things he loved as a child- skate graphics, album art and cartoons- and some of his work is clearly indebted to pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. One such example is Behind Closed Doors; and epic piece of street art found on the side of the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. The design cleverly uses the shape of the building to give the mural an added sense of depth.

06. Reskate Studio

The Harreman Project, by Barcelona-based Reskate Studio, uses glow-in-the-dark paint to create street art with hidden depths. Each piece of artwork in the series demonstrates one image during daylight hours, while another is revealed when it gets dark. “The intention is to try to light up dark corners of cities, both installing new illuminations and encouraging citizens to interact with the wall, painting with light on it, ” reads the description on the studio& apos; s website. This piece, Asombrar, was created for Fisart Romania in 2015.

07. Dulk

Dulk’s street art is inhabited by surreal beasts

Antonio Segura Donat, or Dulk, grew up copying illustrations of exotic animals from his parents& apos; old encyclopaedias, and used to take his sketchbook everywhere with him. Having analyse illustration then graphic design, today he works as a multidisciplinary artist tackling describe, painting, statue and ad, but it& apos; s his large-scale street art, featuring surreal beings in imaginary landscapes, that really stands out.

08. Mobstr

Upon the Sighting of New Rendering charts Mobstr’s ongoing battle with the authorities

Mobstr is a multi-talented street artist with a strong line in fake billboards, but it& apos; s his Progressions that we really love. Documented across a series of photos, he plays fantastic mind games with the poor souls whose undertaking it is to clean graffiti off the streets, use little more than stencilled letters.

09. Smug

One of Smug’s Glaswegian pieces, gracing the city’s Castle Street

Glasgow-based street artist Smug specialises in photorealistic graffiti, and the Scottish city has become his infinite canvas thanks to a council-funded mural initiative. After picking up a spray painting can over a decade ago, the artist has developed a unique and mesmerising style- rendered entirely freehand. His meticulously detailed work can be seen transforming walls all over the UK and Europe, as well as Australia.

10. Mario Celedon

Artist Mario Celedon’s intricate paints can be seen all over the city of Valparaiso

Culture capital of Chile, Valparaiso is the home of many a talented artist, including Mario Celedon. Best known for his incredible street art, Celedon& apos; s colourful and detailed paints can be seen in various locations around the city, but our favourite artwork has got to be the intricate illustrations on these steps.

11. Ernest Zacharevic

One of Zacharevic’s Georgetown pieces

Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic brings fine art techniques to the great outdoors. Exploring a multitude of media, from installing and statue to oil paint, stencils and spray paint, Zacharevic& apos; s experimentations remove the restriction of artistic boundaries.

Based out of Penang, Malaysia, the artist first grabbed global attention in 2012 after creating a series of murals for Georgetown Festival, resulting in the BBC dubbing him Malaysia’s answer to Banksy. Since then, his Georgetown murals have become cultural landmarks and his run can be seen from Singapore to LA.

12. Peeta

One of Peeta’s 3D graffitti ‘sculptures’

Italian street artist Manuel Di Rita, who goes by the moniker Peeta, is known for his 3D graffiti. Using gradients of colour, his 2D street art gives off the impression of multiple dimensions, creating the illusion it is sculpture, rather than paint. On top of this, the artist generates actual graffiti-inspired street art sculptures.

Since he first started making street art back in 1993, Peeta has travelled the globe, spending a lot of time in both Canada and the US. After gaining plenty of experience as a graffiti artist in Europe and America, he started painting canvases and now runs his own business selling canvases and sculptures.

13. Phlegm

Phlegm paints and places his illustrations all over the world

Sheffield-based Phlegm started out in self-published comics before bringing this detailed illustration style to the streets. The UK artist generates surreal, storybook-style imagery, running solely in monochrome. Each piece of street art forms part of a grand narrative that widens worldwide, from Canada to Australia.

14. MrDheo

MrDheo dedicates himself to photorealism, blended with graphic components

MrDheo has no formal artistic train, and it& apos; s this that he believes has helped him to develop his own techniques and evolve without direct influences. The Portuguese artist& apos; s bold, graphic style lends itself to graffiti art; the bigger the better. MrDheo& apos; s street art appears in over 30 international cities, and he has collaborated with a number of major brands and companies.

15. MVM Graphics

Moore W. Moore has been painting geometric murals for more than half his life

Boston based artist Matt W Moore- who runs MVM Graphics- has been painting on walls for over half their own lives. “It& apos; s a magical experience to actualise an idea extra-large in the public space, ” he smiles. “Lots to see in this section. Everything from my early years of graffiti and street-level art, to my more recent abstract murals. Indoor and outdoor, I& apos; ve got you covered.”

16. Mademoiselle Maurice

A flock of metal origami birds adorns this street art

This impressive piece of street art was created to mark the opening of the Urban Nation contemporary art museum in Berlin. It& apos; s the work of visual artist Mademoiselle Maurice, and features a flock of 3D birds brought to life in metal origami.

17. Herbert Baglione

An eerie creation for an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy

Herbert Baglione is a Brazilian street artist. One particularly striking project, entitled 1000 Shadows, considered him add his stamp to an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy. Balione created eerie shadows across the floors, walls and doors of the building, often interacting with deserted wheelchairs for extra creepiness.

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18. Fallen 9000

This inspiring tribute to fallen soldiers only managed to last a few hours

To mark International Peace Day back in 2013, British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by 60 volunteers and 500 local residents, took to the beaches of Normandy and etched 9000 fallen soldier silhouettes into the sand using rakes and stencils. The piece was washed away by the tide after merely a few hours, but generated a lasting impact.

19. DALeast

DALeast’s 3D style is instantly recognisable

Born in China, DALeast has spread his distinctive 3D technique of street art across public spaces all over the world. The artist paints creatures that appear to have been run from twisted metal. His pieces are instantly recognisable and burst with energy.

20. Pez

Pez began painting in 1999 on the outskirts of Barcelona

Street artist Pez( Spanish for fish) started painting in 1999 on the outskirts of Barcelona. Wanting to find a way to communicate and spread good vibes to the people of the city, Pez decided that his signature mark would be a fish character with a huge smile.

Since then, the artist has gone on to gain international recognition, exhibiting his work all around the globe. The last few years has also see him make several new characters, including demons, angels and Martians. All have one thing in common- a huge and infectious smile.

21. David de la Mano

Spanish artist David de la Mano generates astounding monochromatic street art

Spanish artist David de la Mano creates striking and often somewhat unsettling street art based around silhouettes. This typically creepy piece is entitled Silent Sound.

22. NeSpoon

Polish artist NeSpoon decorates Warsaw with beautifully intricate patterns

Although she also generates more traditional murals, Polish artist NeSpoon also generates street art that& apos; s a little different. Alongside paints, NeSpoon also decorates buildings with cobweb-like doilies, and etches intricate designs into cement.

23. C2 15

C2 15 ‘s stencilled street art features the marginalised and vulnerable

Parisian artist Christian Guemy- also known as C2 15- employs stencils to produce beautiful street art illustrating vulnerable and marginalised groups of society including refugees, street children and the elderly. Since creating his first work over 20 years ago he& apos; s developed a huge following. His street art can be spotted in galleries, auctions and on streets all over the world, in cities including Barcelona and London.

24. Interesni Kazki

Ukranian duo Interesni Kazki create vibrant street art

Ukrainian duo AEC and Waone, aka Interesni Kazki, make bright and vibrant street art that references a variety of cultures and art forms including sci-fi, Mexican folk tales, religion and classical art. For the best part their surreal ideas are created with acrylic paint utilizing rollers, although on some very small pieces of run they use spray cans.

25. Gaia

Gaia makes surreal and colorful murals

New York-born, Baltimore-based street artist Gaia& apos; s unbelievable abilities, combined with his strange compositions have gained him worldwide recognition. He& apos; s also keen to help others explore the street art medium, setting up celebrations and group conferences to fill places like his town of Baltimore with new and arousing murals.

26. Julian Beever

Julian Beever generates whole 3D worlds with just a pavement and some chalk

There& apos; s nothing quite like strolling along your local high street and coming across a whole new, 3D world- completely made of chalk. Many other chalk artists could have featured in this list, but it& apos; s Julian Beever& apos; s playful approach to the medium that has us in awe.

The British artist started out as a busker, before attract commercial commissions in the mid 2000 s. He even made a 10 -part TV series and released a book, Pavement Chalk Artist, in 2011.

27. See No Evil

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For two consecutive summers, Bristol- home of Banksy and centre of a vigorous street art scene- was hosted to one of the most important one festivities of street art Europe has ever seen.

Organised by legendary street artist Inkie and Team Love, it was See No Evil& apos; s mission to transform one of city& apos; s most deprived stretchings of road into a work of art. Nelson Street, located in Bristol& apos; s city centre was a dreary, gray walkway. Artists from around the world, including New York& apos; s Tats Cru and LA& apos; s El Mac descended upon the city to bring it to life.

28. Slinkachu

Slinkachu’s Little People Project combinations street art and photography

Using characters from model develop sets, Slinkachu& apos; s Little People Project is a mixture of street art and photography. If you& apos; ve had the pleasure of stumbling upon one of his odd little creations, you& apos; ll appreciate his humor and childlike imagination.

Slinkachu says that the titles he gives to each scene, “aims to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, virtually being lost and overwhelmed”. However, he is quick to add that “underneath this, there is always some humour”.

29. Joshua Allen Harris

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As you& apos; ll already have assembled , not all street art involves the use of spray paint. This video from Joshua Allen Harris indicates just what can be created with a few household items.

Now principally a photographer, back in 2008 Harris caused a stir with his Inflatable Bag Monster project. The artist generated animals use disregarded plastic bags and attached them to subway grates around New York, ready to be inflated into life by gusts of air from passing develops. Some of the pieces had an environmental angle, such as the plastic polar bear, which deflated to its demise to offer a strong message about global warming and the effects it continues to have on the world we live in.

30. Banksy

Banksy’s stencils often tackle political issues- this work in Paris remarks on the treatment of refugees

The best-known street artist across the world, Banksy& apos; s challenging, contrary and thought-provoking, stencil-based art has made a huge impact on both high and low culture. In recent years he& apos; s branched out with more ambitious projects including a hotel in Bethlehem and a theme park in Weston-Super-Mare, but his politically charged stencil artwork continues to make an stir wherever it appears.

Hailing from Bristol, UK, the artist keeps his identity a secret. Some assert he has a team of people working on each creation while others believe he still works alone. Whatever the case, his art remains as impactful as ever.

31. Pavel Puhov

Puhov is sometimes called the ‘Russian BanksySSSS

Known as the& apos; Russian Banksy& apos ;, street artist Pavel Puhov( aka Pavel 183 or P-1 83 ), has been cooking up a political storm in his native country for over a decade. Like Banksy, the artist& apos; s identity is unknown, adding to the mystique surround him.

The Moscow-based graffiti artist& apos; s creations often have a strong political stance. Some have included paintings of riot police, civilian protesters and even a reimagined painting of National Geographic& apos; s infamous Afghan girl photo. Placing his art in very public locatings, such as subway doors, attains certain that it& apos; s not ignored.

32. Jan Vormann

Jan Vormann ‘repairs’ old builds with brightly coloured blocks

A German native, Jan Vormann spent three years travelling the world,& apos; repairing& apos; crumbling and disregarded buildings with his brightly coloured version of Polyfilla. The venture had humble beginnings, starting out in a small art fair in Rome before moving onto bigger ventures. He has even filled the holes of houses in Berlin that had been damaged by firearms during the second World War.

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33. EVOL

EVOL transforms street furniture into mini-buildings

For his Buildings project, street artist EVOL transformed street furniture into miniature high-rise blocks, complete with graffiti and er, ogres. The German artist exhibits his work in warehouses as well as local streets for all to enjoy. The intricate detail of each piece is incredibly realistic, and it& apos; s great to see something bearing and functional turned into something that will set a smile on people& apos; s faces.

34. Guerrilla Crochet

Guerrilla Crochet has induced crochet cool once more

It& apos; s official- crochet is not just for grannies. Guerrilla crochet( or, in the UK,& apos; yarn bombing& apos ;) has been causing a blizzard in recent years, with renegade street artists enveloping everyday street furniture in brightly coloured woolly loveliness. One of the most prolific crochet street artists is Agata Oleksiak( aka Olek ), who has covered everything from the Wall Street bull to London taxis.

35. Isaac Cordal

Issac Cordal’s work exudes a strong sense of personal injustice

Like Slinkachu, Spanish artist Issac Cordal likes to work with little figures. Unlike the former, however, Cordal tends to take a more melancholy approach. Most of his street art represent the everyday businessman and their struggles to deal with the mundanity of everyday life.

36. Ronzo

Ronzo’s bird statues liven up mundane surroundings

Independent artist Ronzo describes himself as& apos; Vandal Extraordinaire& apos ;. On his site he claims that he exists because “this fragile Earth deserves a voice”. We& apos; re not quite sure what he entails by that, but we like it.

The artist& apos; s 2012 Birdz project ensure colourful bird sculptures popping up on London& apos; s Brick Lane as well as council estates, along with a graffiti mural of the& apos; Olympic Bird& apos; and a a& apos; Credit Crunch Monster& apos; placed on a building overlooking The Old Truman Brewery.

37. Vj Suave

Vj Suave is a collaboration between artists Ygor Marotta, hailing from Brazil, and Cecilia Soloaga, from Argentina. The duo make live visual performances utilizing a mixture of character illustration, animation and projection. The video presents a series of intricate designs and colourful characters coming to life and walking the streets. A truly unique street art event.

38. Guerrilla Gardeners

Guerrilla Gardeners are on a mission to attain our streets a greener place

This project assured sneaky gardeners constructing it their mission to turn our streets a greener place. The team behind Guerrilla Gardening became a global hub, with planting taking place in cities from London to Beirut. The collective carried out their work during the night.

39. Kello Goeller

Kello Goeller brought pixel art to the streets of New York

Kello Goeller took pixel art into a new dimension in this awesome sculpture. The piece, entitled Pixel Pour 2.0, was created from wood and latex, and could be found on Mercer Street in New York. Goeller is a multidisciplinary performance artist, and can currently be found crafting& apos ;d reamscapes& apos; in Portland.

40. Invader

French artist Invader completes his 8-bit art behind a mask

French UFA (& apos; unidentified free artist& apos ;) Invader has been invading cities across the world with his perfect pixelated artwork for years. He always completes his artwork behind a mask, so as to not give away his identity. This project, entitled Space Invaders, is inspired by first-generation arcade games. The characters are made out of tiles cemented onto walls, and Invader has set up a scoring system for them, with each character rating between 10 and 50, depending on its size.

41. Roadsworth

Popsilos brings an artistic twist to the ugliest of structures

Peter Gibson, aka Roadsworth, started his street art journey painting the street of Montrealo. Initially motivated by a desire for more cycle tracks in the city and a questioning of the world& apos; s& apos; automobile culture& apos; in general, the artist then moved on to urban landscapes and bigger, more ambitious projects- including the above Popsilos project. In 2004, Roadsworth was arrested and charged with 53 counts of mischief. Despite the heavy fines, he continued his street art quest.

42. Miina Akkijyrkka

Miina Akkijyrkka turns use vehicles into animal sculptures

Finnish sculptor Miina Akkijyrkka has a thing for kine. She scours her native country for use vehicles and turns them into these huge animal sculptures. The artist has been working her magical for the purposes of an impressive 50 years.

43. Vhils

Part of an initiative that uses art to campaign for environmental issues

Alexandre Farto, who works under the moniker Vhils, is a street artist hailing from Portugal. He has gained renown for his murals, created using a bas-relief carving technique that involves cutting either directly into walls or removing layers of advertising posters.

The above artwork, located in Sumatra, Indonesia, aims to raise awareness about a new species of orangutan that has already become jeopardized due to unregulated palm petroleum farming and irresponsible construction in its natural habitat. This piece is part of Splash and Burn- an initiative that uses art as a route to draw attention to environmental issues.

44. The Glue Society

Grab a giant spoonful, quick!

It& apos; s so hot on Tamarara beach in Australia that this ice cream truck has melted! OK, you got us, it& apos; s actually a brilliant street art statue created by artists at The Glue Society. The installing, entitled Hot With The Chance of Late Storm, was displayed on the beach during the opening of the 10 th annual Statue By The Sea exhibition back in 2006.

45. JR

Artist JR has been dubbed the ‘French BanksySSSS

French photographer and artist JR& apos; s political street art began during the Paris riots of 2005. Angered by the way the areas involved were being presented in the media, he took photos of the residents pulling funny faces and flyposted them around the city.

His passion-filled, often didactic artwork has since appeared in deprived regions across the world, from the suburbs of Paris to the shantytowns of Rio. He& apos; s also been arrested in China, and in 2011 was awarded the TED prize, worth $100,000.

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