#hed have to be legitimized but it be a long way of the same if yannow all that other stuff didnt happen

[hallaslin]

Chewing chewing CHEWING on the Guerrins so hard.

[rainbowgothdisaster]

Jason's thighs and tits tho 😩

this man has me so fucked up. tw for blood, bruising, guns, crying during sex, face fucking, boobjob, size difference (i wasnt originally gunna put this under the cut but then. youll see. i got carried away. i ramble.)

also this is so incredibly horny i cannot emphasize how unhealthy i am about this man. there's some nice stuff at the end but its still kinda horny just not explicitly fucking

listen. i need to sit at his feet with my head against his legs just licking and nibbling my way up. leave so many hickies and bruises. i do not care who is in control i am taking my time working up. and id work all the up to his face so that the entirety of his legs, belly, titties, and neck are completely discoloured. i would absolutely be wearing lipstick everytime im kissing around him. i NEED to leave as much of a mark as i can. i NEED him begging without me even being half way done.

i am absolutely fucking his titties by the way is that even a question?? can you IMAGINE how good thatd feel???? justing sitting on his belly and pushing them together????? i mean it might not be enough to completely envelope your cock but GOD just the fact ur doing it is enough.

if im topping (bcuz jason todd is a switch and we need more bottom!jason todd x reader content) i am folding that man in half and he will have so many hand shaped bruises on his thighs. i keep my nails really long so hed def be bleeding as well just from digging my nails in holding his knees to his chest. i dont care how itd hurt my back to bend forward and keep pounding him my face is in his titties the whole time. if hes taking it from behind then i am completely wrapped around so i can grope him. or im holding onto his thighs for leverage. either way i am dicking this man down until he is SOBBING. he already cries during sex, you cannot convince me otherwise, and i am absolutely getting as many tears and cum (and blood👀) out of him as possible.

and he would ABSOLUTELY do the same to me. i will call this man anything he wants for him to fucking destroy me. listen. imagine it. hes fucking your face, youre absolutely scratching the hell out of his thighs trying to get your bearings. or even better hes in gear and your hands are legitimately tangled in his thigh holsters. hes an empty gun in his left hand (that btw is covered in your spite) and your hair in his right. when were finally fucking good and proper as the lord intended hes got me on my back to look in my eyes but all i can do is cling to him and alternating between biting him (bcuz i just need something in my mouth and im less likely to take out his jugular than i am to bite off his fingers) and just having my face shoved in his titties. both our backs are scratched up. i can feel his legs trembling inbetween my completely useless ones.

afterwards im laying on top of him, were both covered in cum tears sweat spit and blood and legs too weak for either of us to do anything about it (not that i want to anyway), im just absentmindedly groping him (titties are just stim toys) until we pass the fuck out from *gestures vaguely* ALL OF THAT.

his thighs are absolutely unfair. need a nap? pillows. hes in gear? god his hostlers cling to him in just the right way. hes got shorts on? my eyes are never leaving his thighs. im not even being subtle i am fully staring. no one would blame me. everyones jealous i get to hit that. i would always have a hand on them when were sitting together. not even horny they're just nice and i need to feel them. soft muscle has me fucked up. hed totally flex them just to see my reaction too.

oh his titties are just as bad. sure they're not defines thru his armour but when he has to get dressed up????? jason todd in a button up???? oh my god how has he not lost any buttons yet. suits are absolutely not fair, and sure he may think the same as me all dressed up, but its not the same. bcuz i fucking said so. also taking naps on his titties is even nicer than his thighs, his thighs he could be doing something else but his chest you know his full attention is on you. fully pressed against each other. i am 5'0" and i put him at 6'4" so i come up to his titties. anytime he would corner me against a wall i am at tit height. perfect.

hes the type that once ur comfortable around each other hes never wearing a shirt again (me too babe) and thank whatever god there is for that. hes walking around just in sweats, titties out?

hed def walk around without pants too, just in boxers. you get to enjoy his thighs too? id faint. this man is so perfect. hes the type that if i looked at him too long id start crying. like in complete adoration.

i am pulling this man on the couch or into bed every opportunity i get, i need to be tangled in him. i need our legs tangled together or to be in his lap.

im not a fan of weighted blankets bcuz of how blankets work they make me feel trapped, but id love for a person to lay on top of me. just jasons weight pressed on me, half not bcuz he doesnt wanna crush me. just a reminder hes there as i fall asleep.

[scuppy]

literally abt to cry remembering what i went through my freshman yr when i took algebra 1 (context i was 14 and severely struggling w autism and general mental health issues)

my teacher made us take notes which were just example problems and then the work had completely different problems so the notes were no help to me, and everytime i tried to ask for help he'd *try* explaining it and when i still didn't get it he'd accuse me of just trying to get him to give me answers and eventually would completely ignore me when i asked for help

then at the end of the year, like last 3 weeks of school, he told us as long as we were passing we could do nothing. i was passing so i did just that, nothing. after three days of doing nothing he confronts me ans asks why im not doing my work. i was confused cuz he said as long as i was passing i could have free time, and literally the day before that he sat down with me watched me play mario so i was very confused. he told me no, i have to turn in my missing work from days i was absent due to mental health. I said ok, but i dont have any of the work or notes because i was not here. he said ok look through this pile of work and see if anything you're missing is in there. it was too high for me to reach(im 5'1), he said he wasnt gonna look for me. He also wouldnt let me get on a chair or anything to reach. so i looked through what i could reach and found nothing. i told him this and he basically said "well sorry but you cant have free time so you're still gonna have to find a way to do your missing work".

i dug up everything i could find and one of my amazing smart friends gave up her free time to help tutor me so i could get my work turned in. and then he quickly tried to stop that by claiming that we were just sharing answers... because... she was teaching me in a way i was understanding???? he kept yelling at us and would vulture right over us because "i know what you're doing" even tho she was literally just teaching me, she wouldn't give me answers or hints or anything she was legitimately teaching me.

he also had something against me throughout the year i swear cuz hed single me out over everything, once he almost sent me to the office cuz i was drinking juice in a cup and there was a rule that only water was allowed in classrooms. he completely ignored the girl behind me with a clear mcdonalds cup full of sweet tea literally right behind me.

i have a sibling going into high school in the next two years who shows a lot of the same signs of mentall illness i do. We may not get along due to them being the golden child but i swear i will come back and scream at the school myself if they try to put them in his fucking class i am NOT letting my sibling go through what i did.

[la-ro-ki]

rewatching the stream where fundy n phil meet michael and i remembered how pissed it makes me lmaoo upset ramblings under da cut bc it got long kjfskjsj

 the beginning where phil n ranboo drown him is ehh but i let it slide bc it pales in comparison to the tower fjssklskl they rlly made fundy jump from a tall ass tower over and over just to get back his stuff (which!! he didnt even rlly want most of it back tbh!!!!! just the shclatt sword :[ ) and killed him repeatedly. i get that they dont like him (well tbh its mostly phil although tubbo n ranboo certainly dont object) but hes very non confrontational and docile during this visit even as hes getting drowned and just jkjldlskldkssld despite all that he still wants to go along with them to see michael and thats a whole other disaster. 

i think fundy is one of the few ppl whos given legitimate criticism of the beeduos treatment of michael and is in a place to give that criticism?? like the direct parallels between fundy n michael are Right There and it sucks. it sucks so much. his whole point is just straight up ignored too in favor of the argument ‘michael is a mob’ bc that point is just bad. michael cannot be treated as both a mob and a child bc those hold very different statuses in the dream smp. if beeduo wanted to canonize him being straight up sentient or a hybrid then thatd be different but like. they have to choose one or the other, they cant just switch to whatever benefits them the most in that moment. michael, a mob, dying would be awful because beeduo is attached to him as a particularly special pet. michael, a CHILD, dying would be downright horrific because it would be beeduo losing their very young son. if hes killed then its the same argument. a pet killer and a child killer are drastically different things. 

if michaels a mob then of course fundys idea of he might want a lil freedom is a bit silly. if michaels a child tho then fundy is completely right in that its wrong of them to keep him locked up. ive seen ppl miss fundys point entirely too and point out that clearly the beeduo love michael bc theyre giving him a huge ass manison. the problem isnt that his bedroom is small (well it is but less severe) but that hes not allowed outside or to see anyone other than beeduo and rare visitors. beeduo can give him the biggest mansion they can buy but it doesnt change anything. wilbur gave fundy an entire COUNTRY and it still wasnt enough to salvage their relationship. 

speaking of wilbur, ranboos snarky comment abt how fundys relationship with his dad wasnt the best either was fucked up and it made me feel gross. fundys relationship with wilbur is literally what makes him such a good (if not slightly biased) judge of the situation?? hes BEEN in michaels role before and he has a unique perspective on it. his suggestions werent even that bad, they were literally like ‘maybe take him outside occasionally’ or ‘let people come hang out w him’. tommy straight up said he wanted to kill michael multiple times and the beeduo was less hostile to him. also when fundy was killed in michaels room and he was like ‘hey please dont let michael accidentally grab my stuff’. and everyone was like ‘lmaoo what a fuckin loser sure hope this mob doesnt grab your lore related weapon and netherite gear’. then fundy got mad and said hed kill michael if he grabbed any of his stuff, which is completely reasonable??? fundy was killed, he didnt die by accident, and hed been nothing but kind to michael directly even after being told hes technically a mob. hes allowed to decide that the life of one pet is worth getting his very important heavily grinded items back. beeduo are like ‘we’ll make ur life living hell if u kill michael’ like they werent the ones who killed him and threatened to let his stuff despawn. phil shows a bit of mercy but its immediately taken back. bc phil, fuckin phil that bitch, taunts him by hiding some of his stuff in his inventory to bait him into killing michael. 

im probs gonna stop it here but im so fuckin genuinely pissed bc the entire stream is like that and from a lore pov its just the fucking worst. theres nothing to justify them treating fundy like that in any way when fundy has done so little to any of them jsfssdklsdks grrrrrrr

[pettyprocrastination]

for the love of god please give us some austin powers!whiskey headcanons o queen of au's 😔we're just sluts for ur content

My mf babe boo lee validating this dumb au that i love so fucking much aksksks i have like two hours before all the thanksgiving stuff happens so if anybody wants to send me whiskey shit for this au DO IT!!!

warnings: uhh talk of sex and porn, foul language. theres zero organization or skill put into these i just threw ‘em out there lmao

So the general consensus of this au for those who dont know, is an austin powers au. Yes i said that. 

Jack “whiskey” Daniels is an statesmen from the 70’s who is hailed as a legend for all the lives hes saved and ploys for global terrorism he’d stopped. In his prime, he was cryogenically frozen until the statesmen would need him at a later date (reasoning behind this is vague, even whiskey himself doesnt remember why. He get flashes of distant memories and emotions around it all, but they're gone as soon as they come.)

Cut to modern time, you’re scotch. One of the best agents who’s known for getting the job done with little to no issues, but not known to be a socializer. You are tasked as agent whiskey’s new partner as he is unfrozen and helping him adapt to the new world. 

Now lets get into the fun stuff

With adapting to the new world, you had to teach whiskey about the internet and my god was that tiring. 

He still doesn't get the point of dating apps. “I don’t need a little device to help me get laid, i do just fine with my charms and southern hospitality.” you're pretty sure he only says that because he cant figure out how the fuck to use tinder but you let it go. 

Whiskey hates porn. Like DESPISES it. This is something he decided to tell you with an “urgent” phone call at three in the fucking morning. 

“She’s faking! Thayer all faking!! What’s the point if she doesn’t enjoy it? It’s all a lie! This poor woman looks like she’s in pain!! They’ve made sex a production!! What has this world come to!?!”

You hang up and go back to sleep. 

But yeah whiskey hates it. It’s all fake and over the top and just...not what he thinks sex should be. 

To him sex isn’t a production or a race. It’s a celebration of attraction between consenting adults.  

He enjoys the ametur made stuff, where there’s legitimate attraction between those involved

This doesn't mean he’s vanilla in anyway, he just hates that porn isnt really...sex. Its not mutual pleasure, its all jarring categories, fake moaning and very sexist foundation. 

Once he finds the animal video part of the internet? Oh he’s as good as gone. He thin begins to send you links to videos' showcasing friendships between unlikely pairs, such as a sea lion and a horse, or a monkey and a ferret. You don’t tell him that you watch them all late at night when you cant sleep.

He fucking loves nature documentaries. Especially deep sea ones, focusing on fish that light up or are see-through and shit like that. 

If you watch them with him you admit its...kind of adorable. Like seeing a kid all wide-eyed at the aquarium. 

“You know what’d make this really interesting??”

“We aren’t doing lsd while watching blue planet, stop asking me that.”

He’s done drugs, like, a lot back in the day. Statesmen is stricter now, with regular mandatory drug tests so whiskey cant go out, partying like a madman and taking whatever he pleases. 

Whiskey is bisexual . As is basically everybody i write so when you tell him same sex marriage is legal in all 50 states he legit tears up. 

“Never thought I’d live to see the day.” hes so overjoyed at the news. He knows there's still a long way to go but seeing that, something he’d only dreamed and fantasize about while drawing shapes on the chest of his lover? Oh it makes his heart soar. 

Whiskey is a man with brazen sexuality but of course aware of boundaries. First day you met him you turned down his advances, he accepted this and then decided to latch on as your best friend AND wingman! :D

You cannot escape this fate you're stuck with him now. 

Anytime you go out to a bar he scouts for potential suitors. “How about the blonde at the counter, they're your style!” and before you can tell him NO he’s already swaggering over and chatting you up to them. 

Whiskey, although you hate to say it, is a charming man. Hes kind and suave and will sing the praises of somebody hed only just met and have them melting in a puddle right in front of him. It’s annoying really. You have to listen to all the women at work swoon over him and talk about how youre soooo lucky to be working with him. He must be such a dream in the field. What's it like?

You plainly tell them that the other day you saw him get stuck in a revolving door and he asked for your help.

To get out

Of a door. 

You will NEVER admit this to him but when you were a green agent?? Just starting out?? You had a major crush on the legendary agent whiskey. You’d only seen the photos and heard the stories but god you thought he was amazing. 

Then you became a skilled agent yourself (perhaps also talented with a whip and lasso) and finally met the man himself when he was unfrozen. 

Whiskey calls you “little filly” and will make jokes about how you need to respect your elders. You know since he’s technically like 89 years old lmao. 

Whiskey hates that women gotta shave, he thinks you should do it if you want but the societal pressure of it? He hates it. 

And lets be real, he’s a man of the 70’s so he fucking worships bush. (the pussy not the president) (i have a lot of thoughts on this)

He can and will go down for hours on end, almost selfish with it because he gets as much pleasure from it as you. Pressing kisses and nips on your thighs, mumbling praise against you, homeboy gets straight up pussy drunk and doesn’t know how to speak coherent sentences anymore. 

He’s a cuddler. Even before you started dating he was just very affectionate and touchy. You once had to sleep together for warmth on a mission where you were stuck in the middle of nowhere during winter and he nuzzled and cuddled you all night long with a dazed smile. (he’s also your own personal space heater so that’s nice)

You thought you were over the hype and worship of agent whiskey,and you are, but when you get to know him as a friend and not an agent. As Jack, the fool who cuddles and tries to pair you up and sings out of key while cooking? God help you, your heart starts beating when you see his dimples and big goofy smile and all you can think is. “Oh fuck.”

anyways i reall y love this au and have many thoughts please sedn requests or hcs or anything you want me to expand on <3

[funny-house]

huhu u got me to watch opal the other day since u keep talking abt it and im glad bc i Really Enjoyed It but !! anyways , i saw u mention mirror man doing makeup for someone and i keep thinking about it so Thoughts Incoming sorry in advance lmao. i think he would like to do claires makeup (and teach her abt it in general) when she gets a bit older,, both bc it seems like a legitimate hobby he would enjoy (i imagine if he werent Like That he probably could have been a makeup artist or something similar!) and bc he would like to ‘prettify’ her a bit.

and ah well,,, a lot of parents Like Him sometimes try 2 make their child a carbon copy of themselves or of an image they enjoy so if he grew to like claire more or already does like her enough for that (or just, wants things to revolve around him More) hed try to nudge things in that direction. and in his own way i think He might think hes doing something good, he knows when he was her age he would have killed to have a parent so eager to help him learn makeup and stuff but. claire isnt him. she probably isnt even interested in it at all but shes kinda desperate for Nice Moments and also doesnt wanna risk making him angry so she goes along with it. she always has her head in the clouds so all the things hes saying is too much at once but shes trying to comprehend it,,,,,

nd he keeps giggling at her for how awkwardly she moves her arm when putting on foundation and blush nd gets kind of annoyed with her for repeatedly flinching when he tries to help her with mascara nd teases her a bit for trying to taste the lip gloss (and keeps pointing out a flaw or two on her face “well, youve always had a sort of weird shaped face but youve always had the cutest little smile, its like Mine :)”) but they do it !! together !!! and nothing (that) bad happened !!!!!! so claire is happy,,,,,,,,,,, until that inevitably opens the gates of him trying to pick out what she wears for her and “””suggesting””” hairstyles for her and getting manipulative and even flatout Angry when she doesnt do what he wants her to (bc even when things Seem like theyre about claire they Are Not, its what He wants for her , in the end its still all about him) but, ive rambled enough to you already <:o) sorry for talking so much i just wanted to chat a bit abt opal with you !!!! hope ur doing well hehe . and im sorry this is rambly nd probably incomprehensible i just did a lot of work hkehri

ohhhhhhhh !!! FIRST  I am super glad that all my constant rambling about this man has allowed you to go watch Jack Stauber’s awesome little short, it’s really good and deserves all the support !!!

also i totally appreciate you wanting to share your thoughts with me ;u;

AND I TOTALLY AGREE  the whole idea of him projecting himself onto her, trying to take over her, I think that is so fitting for the short itself tbh, because it’s a reflection ( mirrors, hehe ) of what the mother wants from Claire as well. The thing that terrified Claire near the end is the mother reaching to hold onto her, specifically after the mom said that she was going to become just like her. The idea of her becoming her parents? it terrifies her, clearly!!

And Mirror Man, he is what they call a “archetypal narcissistic abuser”, in my eyes at least,  and it would be really really common to see someone like that not only be so controlling and self absorbed that they treat their child like a decoration to themselves, but also use that child, especially as they get old enough to have opinions on the situation, to turn them against their partner-- such as.... the mom

so picture this

Claire is like 10-12, and she’s bright and she’s got a good heart but she’s WELL and truly Affected by the years of being brought up in that ridiculously toxic hell hole-- I mean house no idea if the grandpa would live that long uhhh in his state, but even if he does, he’s still very sick, disabled, and senile and he isn’t going to be much help. and Claire, she’s starting to have Opinions,, on how things are running around here,,      but in swoops Mirror Dad

He’s like........ it’s your mother’s fault. Oh, absolutely, have you seen her? I mean look at her, she’s disgusting. she’s a drug addict, she’s a drunk, she’s ugly, she’s the reason you feel like this-- and maybe some of that is understandable, i mean she’s a real mess of a mom, no mistake, but hey

Nobody’s going to tell Claire who made her that way! Nobody’s going to tell her Mirror Dad was the one who trapped her in an unloving, possibly violent relationship, with a kid, and ripped apart every inch of her self worth !!!

Nope. she just sees the aftermath. So mirror dad...... turns claire on her. And she starts to side with him on things and she starts to even kinda talk like him maybe even....... learns how to do that dark and scary insecurity voice of his and one day She walks by the.... Reflection Chamber and Mirror Man is there in that way He Always Is in that seat he always sits in, and he says something very very odd to her!   he raises a finger and curls it in and says    come sit on my lap you haven’t gotten too big to sit on my lap have you?? come here!! and i mean Claire is still very very uncomfortable even being near him, and this feels like a trap, but i mean she can’t just say no, and there’s a part of her that’s kinda hoping... maybe he really is trying to be nice. and so she does and she sits with her but you’ll notice he is never looking directly at her. Even as she’s approaching literally right in his line of sight, he stares straight into her reflection, never her face.  It’s like she’s not even real unless she’s in those mirrors.

And he tells her he wants to do her makeup! yay! how fun! and he tells her to close her eyes and pout her lips and try not to flinch when the sculpting starts or he’ll use his deep voice-- and how he’s going to finally FIX her. Goody!! then maybe the constant barrage of insults and negs and criticisms will stop!! (p.s. they wouldn’t have )

And so she opens her eyes..... and the face of her abuser is looking right back. It’s her face. Or it used to be-- now it’s literally his and it’s hideous-- it does not AT ALL belong on that body, and the only thing left of her is her big shiny eyes

and she  S C R E A M S that way Claire does,,,

but this time, loud enough to crack the mirrors, and stun the dad just long enough for him not to catch her in his hands when she leaps off his lap and books it for the attic the attic, the view of the billboard with the same worn out, not updated ad for Opal’s in the window. She locks the door, it doesn’t take long for mirror man to come banging on it, telling her she’s ungrateful, she doesn’t deserve what little she has, taking back every nice thing he ever said, etc,,,

and Opal just starts clawing off the makeup/clay/whatever from her face in the mirror’s glass reflection, putting her hair back into the pigtails her father said made her look stupid

but she isn’t Opal, she’s changed, she’s aged, but Opal-- she’s always the same!! happy!! cared for!! and what is she supposed to be under the makeup? huh? Who is she besides the abuse she’s put through, that billboard and what it sells to her?  she doesn’t know! nobody does nobody ever bothered to get to know what it even means to be Claire.

[sherzasboss]

Odin

You know, I’ve been thinking lately. And I had honestly thought my hate-on for Odin was … pretty settled. He’s a bastard, ‘nuff said. Then I got to thinking and realized that, no. I had not, in fact, realized just how much a bastard Odin really was. Not until well after Ragnarok, and I really got to thinking about all of it.

OK, so. Odin has a daughter. Whether she’s his by birth or not, who TF knows (or cares). She is, evidently, NOT the daughter of Frigga. If for no other reason than the fact that literally NO ONE in Ragnarok seemed to know who the fuck Hela was. That says to me that she WAY predates literally everyone but Odin and maybe one or two really old fogies we don’t hear from. And Frigga is visibly a LOT younger than Odin, so it at least works on that level too.

Anyway, he has Hela. They go Realm-stomping together and apparently set up the bulk of Asgard’s hegemony. And then the bullshit starts.

I WILL NOT take as gospel what *any* of the three survivors of that era say happened. One is Odin, who I wouldn’t believe even if what he said came notarized by the fucking Norns themselves. One is Hela, who is batshit insane from who knows how many millennia in solitary confinement, not to mention potentially legitimately evil. The third … well, Valkyrie by her own admittance has spent the last however long drunk off her ass, bitter and angry. Which may have warped her memory of what happened to some degree.

I just find it … interesting as fuck that Hela, who was every bit as powerful as Odin - maybe even more powerful - got thrown in jail the self-same second she outlived her usefulness. Had she gone batshit and/or evil? Possibly. Did Odin see her as a threat and want to get rid of her? FAR more likely, given later events.

Anyway, she gets thrown in jail, and won’t get out until Odin is dead. Which, again, I find interesting as hell. Because Asgard and her people will/did suffer the consequences of Odin’s fuckup, but HE never does.

Then there’s Thor. Who is spoiled rotten. It’s made pretty clear in the first Thor movie that to Thor, ‘consequences’ are something that happen to other people. He’s arrogant and foolish and prideful and just really … yeah. Kind of a shitty person in a lot of ways pre-wakeup call. Having pre-movies Thor on the throne for even a DAY would have been a serious problem. More than that would have been a full-on disaster.

And then there’s Loki. Whom Odin permits to be treated poorly - Royal servants DO NOT laugh at their bosses to their faces unless they know they can get away with it. And that sort of allowance would generally be reserved for either a VERY laid-back royal or a servant said royal had known and trusted a long time. Random Servant #% pulling that shit just doesn’t happen otherwise. And a servant blatantly laughs at Loki TO HIS FACE. Loki is sneered at for his magic, treated as lesser, and generally not trusted AT ALL. Now maybe he earned some of that, but all of it? NO.

Putting it all together … makes me come up with the idea that Odin … didn’t want to be surpassed. He wanted to be the biggest, the baddest, the best. Anyone and anything that could be a threat to him had to be dealt with. Hela, he jailed. Thor, who bless him, but as a kid he was clearly gullible as fuck and easily led, Odin indulged to the point where Thor became a menace to society. Loki, who was every bit the threat Hela was, if in different ways, Odin set about defanging in other ways.

By allowing the rampant hatred of Jotuns. Because if Loki outlived his usefulness or became too great a threat, Odin could just reveal Loki’s true parentage and then NO ONE in Asgard would want Loki on the throne, no matter how good a person he’d been up to then. He fostered a competition between Thor and Loki (you were both born to be kings, but only one of you will get the throne), so that they did not think to combine forces. Because together? Those two could do ANYTHING. Usurping Odin would have been child’s play for a united Thor and Loki. Odin permitted Loki to be ill-thought of, whether or not he deserved it. Because I can guarantee you that Thor fucked up prior to the movies, but HE is not held in ill regard for said fuckups by anyone but Loki (or so it seems)

And then we get to the bit where Hela gets free when Odin dies. And whatever she was before, she is now batshit insane from isolation on top of it. And the only way to stop her is to destroy Asgard.

Awfully convenient, don’t you think? That Odin had arranged it such that Asgard’s choices were ‘really shitty king’ ‘that Jotun bastard’ … or NOT EXISTING.

Either way, Odin never gets surpassed.

[lamarkeu]

Celebrating National Boyfriend Day with

BF!GOT7

(Authors Note: In celebration of National Boyfriend Day today I wanted to write about BF!Got7. I tried to make this as gender inclusive as possible. I did really have to edit so if the wording seems off don’t be a afraid to pm me about it. Also I don’t own any of these gifs, all credits to original owners. Anyway hope you enjoy reading!)

Mark Tuan

Wouldn’t care much about at first, he thought it was a pretty pointless holiday. Like was Valentine’s Day not enough? It all just seems like a ploy to waste money on useless things.

He’d change his mind as soon as he saw all the amazing work you put into today’s celebration. Maybe this day wouldn’t be as bad as he first initially thought.

He’s not the type to be interested in the material things. Being fully aware you decided to fill the day with fun activities.

You two first stoped by JYP to pick up some clothes Mark left behind from practice. Afterwards you two went to the mall to buy some new winter clothes.

Of course you paid because it was Marks special day, but not without him whining about how you didn’t need to. He eventually gave up knowing he couldn’t win with you (very smart of him to do so :p )

After buying Mark a new winter coat, a pair of sweatpants, and some headphones, the two of you would head out for some spicy ramen at a near by home style restaurant.

“I have to be the luckiest man on Earth right now, not only do I get to hang out with my cute s/o but I also get to eat ramen?! By far the best day ever.” - Mark

Lim Jaebum

Honestly I can see JB not believing that it’s a holiday. He thought you made it up so he would chill for once his life maybe even us it as an excuse for you to pamper him all day.

As soon as he found out it was legit he took full advantage of the day. Since it was his day decided that instead of going out, you two would have a lazy day at home.

Your guys lazy day consisted of you two and your 5 kids (your cats) not getting out of bed. Eventually you do get up (ever so slowly) in order to make brunch.

You’d cook some of his favourite food like soondubujiggae (spicy tofu stew) with rice and a side of bean sprouts as hed happily be feeding the cats.

Afterwards you brought pulled out a gift box which had the subwoofer he’s been asking for forever. He literally gets so soft that you still remembered that he wanted it.

Showers you in kisses and thank you’d. Those kisses of course get a little more heated and let’s just say one thing lead to another and you two ended up back in bed ;)

“I loved the subwoofer you gave me, and the amazing food you prepared but I think like this gift a little more than those two combined.” -Jaebum

Jackson Wang

This kid would be the person that had the day prepared long before you did. If this holiday is about him then he’s gonna go all out with the different activities. Let’s just say he’d take you to some places you liked and then some.

You two would go for a nice couples hike after breakfast. The walk up was insane but as soon as you got to the top, you forgot all about the pain and took cute pictures you could post on Instagram.

He’d then take his new Audi and drive to his favourite organic bubble tea and board game shop where you guys had lunch and took more pictures.

After a couple battles of connect four Jackson excused him to use the rest room. Feeling bad for not being able to get him a legitimate gift, you thought of what treat you could buy him to eat.

You asked the cashier what would be the best dessert and ended up ordering a slice of vanilla cake with strawberries.

You kindly ask the cafe owners to write “Thank you for being an amazing boyfriend” on the plate and placed it right in front of his chair. As soon as he saw it he just couldn’t help but smile.

“Thank you for being the best s/o ever Y/N, and for giving me the opportunity to be the best boyfriend ever.”- Jackson

(Side note: lmao yugyeom why are you like this 😂)

Park Jinyoung

Aside from being your boyfriend Jinyoung was basically your best friend. He knows all your secrets, your likes, you dislikes etc..

He helped not only emotionally but helped you financially, paying off your student debt and some of your family’s expenses.

You decided to take the opportunity of National Boyfriend day to thank Jinyoung for everything has done for you and what better way to celebrate the day by getting tickets to see Justin Timberlake in Hong Kong.

You two arrived in Hong Kong the day of the concert, dropped off your luggages at the hotel and hit up some of the shops to buy gifts for him as well as grab some dinner.

At the concert you and Jinyoung would be having the time of your lives. Jinyoung would be belting out the lyrics of Suit and Tie and pull out some interesting dance moves.

Of course his dad dance moves were to be expected though. One thing you didn’t expect on the other hand was for Jinyoung to drop down to his knees and propose on stage.

“ I know today was supposed to be about me, but I didn’t think I could wait any longer to make you mine forever.”- Jinyoung

(Side note: You are basically Mark in this Gif)

Choi Youngjae

You wanted to surprise Youngjae for his hard work on the latest album by taking a little couples trip to the great island of Hawaii. Life on the other hand, had other plans for the two of you.

Of course when you heard the news you were upset, but you decided that if you guys could go on vacation on national Boyfriend day why not bring the vacation to Youngjae.

While he was busy with JB and Jackson recording some new songs he wrote, you, BamBam, Jinyoung, Yugyeom, and Mark decorated the dance room in leis, a small kiddie pool with water, some fake palm trees and of course beach chairs

BamBam would print off a massive poster with a picture of the beach you two were supposed to visit and taped it to the mirrors.

You quickly shooed away the guys, turn the lights off. When Youngjae turns the lights on he is literally laughing and smiling so much you’re scared he’s gonna pull a muscle.

Once you and Youngjae settle into your matching beach chairs and sipped in some fresh coconut juice, each of the members would come in with food.

“This is the best thing ever Y/N, I’m so happy that I get to be the boyfriend of probably one of the smartest and sweetest people in the whole world.”- Youngjae

BamBam

Ironically enough your birthday happened to be the same week as National Boyfriend Day so it was a double celebration. BamBam personally did make a big deal out of it but, you did.

You wanted to find time to celebrate the day with him but your family had asked you to come home to celebrate your birthday. Though already close with your intermediate family, this would be the first time he’d meet your extended family.

Let’s be really there weren’t a small amount of them either. You’d walking into your aunts house for the party. The living room was tight pack with older family members insisting that you and BamBam eat first before heading to the basement to see your cousins.

Literally all your aunts wouldn’t stop talking about how nice of boyfriend BamBam was as he went to get your food and filled up your drink. Your uncles would joke about how skinny he was, asking BamBam if you feed him anything back in Korea.

Your cousins, especially your younger ones love him because of his endless energy (and screaming). Your youngest cousin even had openly admitted to wanting to take your boyfriend which caused BamBam to laugh.

After you guys left, you apologize for neglecting him, also for leaving him alone to fend himself from your cousins. You gave him your present, a new pair of ray bans with his name engraved on the side. He literally was blown away by the gift.

“I’m so happy I have an amazing girlfriend, with an big but, amazing family and not to mention, a cool new pair of shades. Best National Boyfriend day ever!”- BamBam

Yugyeom

Ever since you and Yugyeom dated he’s always wanted to take you to his favourite place on Earth, Everland for a day of fun.

Of course his busy schedule would never allow that, or at least so he thought. Luckily, National Boyfriend Day happened to be the same day your boss was retiring.

Your boss was very kind and nice so it took you by no surprise that his last project as your boss would be for you and the rest of your co-workers to take the rest of the day off.

Coincidentally, JYP decided to give GOT7 a day off for all the hard work they put into the new comeback. You two met at the JYP Building, and rush to the nearest bulletin train to everland.

After you payed for the two admission tickets (since it was technically Yugyeom day), Gyeom grabbed your hand and head to the nearest ride.

As you two walk out of the park during closing, yugyeom places a light kiss on your forehead as a thank you for the gift. You guys took a quick picture and continued your way back to the bullet train.

“Man, I thought we hit up all the concessions and rides. Oh well we can hit up the ones we haven’t seen the next we go, right Y/N?”- Yugyeom

[rebeccacatalinas]

Super just curious, 100% not judging, not trying to debate, really just wanna here your thoughts bc RoyAi thoughts are Good Thoughts and I too don’t think Roy and Riza were Best Friends before Ishval was over: how do you see their relationship having developed in canon??? It’s fun to imagine them being Young and Into Each Other but at the same time they were v formal at the funeral and in Ishval sooooo I often wonder how they *fell* in love (that seems too simple a term for them but anyway...).

MUAHAHA im excited to answer this [and i wanna say someday ill write it out, but lets be real, im mostly a oneshot kinda gal]. and ok it got longer than i intended but i have so much fun writing about them:

heres how i see their relationship in canon [obviously theres some of my own headcanons thrown around in here but im trying to keep it mostly analysis]:

as older teens living together - barely acknowledged one another, didn’t speak often, riza was already pretty reclusive thanks to her father’s neglect and roy was focused entirely on his studies so he could finish his apprenticeship as quickly as possible. a few conversations here and there, but considering she still refers to him as “mr. mustang” i dont think they ever became friends or spend any alone time together outside of a few meals.

tattoo reveal - i dont think there was a big jump in their relationship, it was mostly awkward and full of uncomfortable promises and roy realizing he shouldve noticed her sooner [maybe he couldve stopped this tattoo from happening? roy would definitely blame himself for something like this when he has nothing to do with it lol]. riza trusts him because of his inspiring words + her grief/confusion towards her fathers death [cuz it was probably a weird combo of grief and relief and that made her latch onto roy’s words about ‘saving everyone’ even more]

in ishval - after finding out about each other being in ishval, riza felt betrayed and angry and roy felt even guiltier and dirtier than he already had. and they have a couple of uncomfortable bonding moments ‘cause roy feels responsible for her being out there [tho riza didnt join the military for him, it WAS his words that inspired her to enlist]. i dont think they had the opportunity to spend much time together in ishval, tho riza was one of three amestrian women to appear in the ENTIRE ishval volume so i think hed be constantly worried about her [for good reason].

back burning - [this is the most complicated time for me to think about LMAO ive read like 600 fics and thought about every possible version i can for this…scene. and nothing feels completely right. i just wanna know the details of what they did, arakawa. i gotta KNOW.] i imagine it was an intensely emotional situation, guilt heightened by their recent ptsd and the way roy talked about how familiar he is with burning flesh and to what degree he can harm someone…he tried to look at it objectively and pretend not to be fucked up by the situation, and im sure he could just combine burning riza with all the other people he’d burned and let it pile onto his guilt. so theres still no love, just guilt and responsibility and pain. likewise for riza, she feels lots of guilt and responsibility and pain. LOTS of pain. i think during this time/afterwards is when roy shares his ambitions with her and his desire to change things in the military and she can fully understand how much he wishes he could undo what he did.

“be my assistant” - sttiiilllll, i dont see any love in this decision. its all based on responsibility and guilt which is the core of their bond which is so sad and fucked up. he wants to give her the opportunity to take back what he took from her, in a sense. to fix what he broke. tho there wasnt anything romantic behind it necessarily [tho i imagine by this point in their lives, grumman and hughes and christmas have already started shipping them lmao], making her his assistant and giving her permission to kill him was tying their fates together forever and they were both totally aware of that and, like, its INTENSE. its like a marriage proposal but worse and more dramatic.

love???? - so when/how did they fall in love??? id say…..very gradually over the course of their time working together. lots of late nights and close encounters and accidental touching and comments from friends and family combined with a lack of legitimate dating and the fact that they planned on working together for as long as possible…i love the idea of roy having a flick switch in his brain one day and he realizes hes been in love with her for a long time, whereas riza’s admiration for him just grows to the point where her heart feels full when theyre together and maybe she doesnt immediately realize that its love [i dont see riza as someone who spent a lot of time thinking about romance] so its fun to imagine that she really just didnt realize what she was feeling. BUT I DIGRESS, thats all headcanon, i just see it being a nice slow burn between “id like to make you my assistant” and when they first appeared in the manga. a beautiful slow burn that ive read hundreds of fics for and they all get my heart flutterin’

so this turned into a much longer thing than i realized. i stand by everything here as headcanon but i feel pretty strongly about most of it, i llloooovveee roy and riza’s relationship so much lmao.

[mcnuggyy]

can you explain what it feels like to be nonbinary....i have a friend who thinks its dumb and he follows you and kind of looks up to you in a way and i bet if he heard it from someone he looks up to hed change his mind :\

Well first of all i feel that theres a huge misconception when saying gender is something you can feel… like you can feel the gender dysphoria or euphoria that comes a long with it but a cis guy will never truly be able to explain what its like to be a guy.. to him, he just is ya know? Like its not an emotion like happiness or sadness?? its just?? sort of existing? like you can express the experiences you have had regarding your gender, or race, etc. but you don’t FEEL mexicanness, you dont FEEL nonbinaryness, like you can explain how it affects you and how your gender makes you feel but the gender itself isnt a feeling, if that makes sense??

the way i express my gender does sometimes change with the way i feel but that has more to do with the way outside forces affect my mentality? For example whenever my mom is being particularly misogynistic i tend to start feeling sad and gross and kinda dysphoric and suddenly i get the urge to start presenting more masculine? It’s kind of hard to explain but thats the way gender is in general? its so different and specific for each person its impossible to truly describe it. I don’t think any cis person could tell you what it feels like to be cis… like… just try asking what its like for them to be a girl/guy and im certain they’ve never even thought about it before. They just know it, its like something you just know in the balls of your nutsack . Like sometimes you don’t know what your nuts are telling you, but once you figure it out, things start becoming so fucking clear lmao. 

Once i realized i was nonbinary it was less “i feel this” and more like ‘OHH so that EXPLains EVERYThing” 

(also anyone who thinks being nonbinary is dumb needs a serious history lesson fhff cause nonbinary people have existed since the beginning of time and its not something new “liberals” invented to seem cool… its a legitimate gender that’s been a huge part of indigenous cultures, religions, and civilizations since forever… not to throw shade but the idea of two genders wasn’t a thing until white colonialist came and told indigenous people they were “wrong” because they didn’t act,look, or think like them… some of them didn’t even have gendered language, and if they did they always had a third option, or referred to people with the same pronoun. Theres a lot of cool history and resources about endless amounts of cultures with third/nonbinary genders that i definitely recommend checking out!! )

i hope this helps a bit!! thanks pal! 💕

[johtodaycare]

...

Oh, what the fuck?

why is he out here liying in the damned grass of all things? he quit drinking specifically because of the hell sleeping on the ground wrought on his back and also on doctors orders but mostly of his own volition for the most part. okay first up taking stock of himself and his surroundings. anything wrong with me? no more than usual, creaky back and cracked joints yelling at him as always if a bit louder then is the norm but thats to be expected.

anyone around me i should be watching out for? he listens without opening his eyes yet and doesnt hear anything human nearby, theres a pokemon snoring away right up close to hiim and a few yards away he can hear the rustle rustle of little pokemon trainers wading through the grass on their way to somewhwere important for their journey he guesses but none have noticed him or stopped to check on him if they have.

who’s that pokemon? it’s persian! specifically gemothy, his beautiful baby boy! he got out of his ball at some point last night and curled his way under greg’s bad leg! how sweet of him to care for his dad like that! he’ll have to remember to give him a pokeblock when hes up and about!

do i still have all my pokemon? no pokeballs taken but he knows well enough that doesnt mean theyve not been replaced by weaker mon in the same sort of ball and while hed like to think hes 100%of telling his pokemons pokeballs just from the wear and tear theyve taken over time he knows that aint reliable.

gemothy? check. bruno? check. barkspawn? check. honcho? check. bliss? no check. whos fucking jigglypuff is this? parmesan?? no check big x mark, someone fobbed their clefairy off onto him. who the fuck gives up those 2 pokemon? even if you dont want them theres always paying customers out there who do! you can make bank on the little puffballs even just selling 1 at a time! not to mention the breeders who live off these lines!

okay thats it up we go! times a wasting and hes gotta get his blissey and his dog back. his joints can cry all they want. now where the hell is he really? just a bit off path for route 48 apparently. retracing steps what had he meant to do out here?

oh right.

he’d spent the last couple days at the safari zone catching pokemon with jun. more specifically hed been trying, and failing, to catch the meanest croagunk hed ever had the displeasure of meeting. and when jun tried to help him out hed snapped at him.

jun didnt deserve anything like that.he was legitimately trying to help him out.he usually manages to keep his cool over shit like this but hed been irritated onto his last nerve by his own joints and johto’s douchiest poison frog.

he’ll never quite get used to johto. everything is so so different from orre. everything is much nicer? he guesses? warmer maybe. nobodies as friendly in orre, where you can live most of your life next to someone and not even know their name. nobody really talks to anyone around past the age of 10 or before age 60. let alone stop to offer any help without being asked.

back in orre if you wanted to make like sisyphus on his hill with some  arbitrary ass task you were left to bang your head on the wall until you either got tired of it or hurt yourself enough to need help. nobody really gives you shit in orre, not without being asked, threatened, payed to or what. aid only comes unprompted when they need your body out of their way.

johto is so so different. it scrapes on his nerves sometimes even though it really shouldnt. going from having to maintain an image to not put a target on his back to johto where people stop and help you for no reason if you drop shit in the street. and even the people trying to rob you are more likely to challenge you to a pokemon battle then just attack you outright. what counted for the local gang was dismantled by not 1 but 2 beginner pokemon trainers.

johto is painfully different. he had to completely reverse gears on the way he behaved. do the exact opposite of what he was raised to. go completely against his instincts on damn near everything. assimilating into johto was a long process of deprogramming himself from constantly being on lookout for the slightest sign of hostility. forcibly lowering his guard to Be Nice At Least Greg. because everything hed learned in orre went from just common sense to dickish behavior in practically one day.

minding your own business is apparently cold hearted around here. you have to make nice with everyone you interact with not just your boss and some people youre friends with. people who do not know him at all worry about him! take time out of their day to see if he needs help! its overwhelming enough to make him miss being ignored.

it isnt so bad of course. in small doses from friends he can handle the attention better. but it was still weird to go from team snagem admin who’s only real draw was being so apathetic he didnt even care enough to punish you when you fucked up to having control himself 24/7 just to stay approachable enough to keep his daycare running with clients.

for the 100th time in his life he wonders if hes cut out for this shit. if he should pack up his thingsand take his antisocial ass back to orre to live with the rest of the douchebags out there. if he could maybe run the daycare in agate village.

maybe he should.

he doesnt want to though. he likes it here even if the place and the people are kind of a headache for him sometimes. its very nice when its not overwhelming and hes got more friends here than he ever did in orre. hes a selfish bastard through and through, hes never let go of shit. everything hes ever lost to time or the world or someone else had his claw marks on it.

he can make it up to jun probably? jun doesnt have to forgive him if he doesnt want to but he can put the croagunk thing mostly behind them. jun deserves an apology for it at least.

[fuck-customers]

Ok so major vent/fuck coworkers post because I swear if I don't I'm going to punch this fucker's teeth in. Its long without a tl;dr so im sorry viewers There is this slimey mother fucker at my work... lets name him Graig... and he is that insufferable "teacher's pet" kind of person (read as: the store manager's bitch), and hes that fuck that will kiss everyone's ass and act really nice and polite but then actively talks shit and tries to snitch on u for something u may or may not have done the moment ur back is turned. But he talks the most shit on people who are "in his way" (ie: people whi arent managers but are still in a higher position than him) and he actively tries to sabotage blue shirts because he thinks that if the one in front of him is gone they have no choice but to make him a blue shirt. In every case he successfully pisses off a blue shirt to the point they leave, my manager just hires another blue shirt Here's a little segway to explain how the heirarchy of Dankin Doodoos works. At the top of a specific store is the manager who wears a red shirt in the middle are the shift leaders who wear blue shirts and at the bottom are the crew who wear white shirts Now backstory for Graig so this will make sense: at this point he is a White Shirt and hes pissed because he is p much the store's bitch and all he does is complain about how he doesnt have a Blue shirt, how he deserves a blue shirt even tho he takes waaaaay too many short cuts, actively ignores when Blue shirts ask him to do something or tell him to move to a different station, actively creates and perpetuates rumors to cause discourse, is very rude to customers, didnt know how to do most stuff that ur p much supposed to learn in training, literally fucks up most of his drinks, etc the list goes on and on for why he shouldn't have one and shouldnt even work here for that matter and we were all even told by our District Manager (a big higher up) he will never have a blue shirt. I came to work at this location after him but as a whole I was an actual manager at my old store so i was immediately put in a blue shirt position. He was not happy about that one fucking bit. I didn't care. I was nice to him, hoping if i didnt give him anything to bitch about hed eventually fuck off and do his goddamn job. Now onto the reason I say fuck Graig. I used to stream myself playing video games on twitch on my off time from work, which was A) a great stress reliever and B) something I've wanted to make a career for a while now. My manager knew I used to do this because I'd gush about how much I loved doing it so much. Id given a lot of my coworkers my twitch url and told them to come watch some time and it was all fun! But then one day my manager calls me into the office (with, of course Graig pretending to need shit out the office every 5 seconds so he can eavesdrop) and she tells me that someone had sent the url of one of my stored videos on twitch to my the district manager. It would have been all good, because i literally never say anyone's name and i never say i work for Dankin, it was just a fun stream i did with my friend and honestly my hair was long and i look way different with my hair pulled up so i might not have even been recognised so any of the foul language and dicks and stuff i joked about wouldnt have even mattered. But of course they absolutely had to try and get me with something, so they saw my shirt, which said DankinRonpa (a parody of Danganronpa) on it with a bear on it was close enough to the Dankin Doodoos design that I was representing my location and decided that everything i was doing was inappropriate so I was literally almost fired. And my district manager even made the comment that she had saved the url to my page so that shes going to check in from time to time to make sure im not doing anything inappropriate. Thankfully my manager saved my ass by pointing out it was a first time offense, i didn't know that my shirt would let people know where i work, promised it wont happen again etc etc I was so upset i still havent back streaming because im terrified shell keep her promise. So now if i want to continue streaming i have to abandon my current twitch channel (and all 200 followers) and start fresh. Of course after my shift is over my actual friend that worked there at the time also as a blue shirt let me know that Graig decided he had "had enough of me" and decided to prove that he had "eyes everywhere" and sent the link to my district manager. And the kicker? The real fucking kicker? He got a job as a assistant manager at a dollar corporal and he had put in his two weeks in the same fucking email he sent my twitch url in. He legitimately had no fucking reason to do it other than to be a petty piece of shit. Oh and even after he left, he kept calling the store, asking whoever answered the phone how much they were making, then told them they could make more at his dollar corporal like are you fucking serious? And what hes doing is trying to convince people to leave their job here and to come work under him. And from what the other managers say, its because he acts like hes a fucking bigshot and yells at everyone and hes already driven off half the staff. And wouldnt you know it, because of that they severely cut his hours to the point where he came crawling back this past week. But because right now, my store is so severely understaffed because all the hires have additudes and refuse to come in on time, they damn near handed him a blue shirt. But he always nags me when i dont let him touch my drawer or count the safe, or let him in drive thru. "Oh why dont you trust people?" And then try to guess why: "is it that rumor i heard about you getting in trouble over youtube?" And honestly that pisses me off even more because he was there when i had the conversation with someone esle i worked with and even asked questions about it, so he knows. And one of these days hes going to catch me when im not in uniform and not in the store and im gonna whoop his fucking ass if he doesnt leave me alone

[racingtoaredlight]

Studio Sessions: Muscle Shoals

Premise is pretty simple...collection of songs recorded at famous studios.

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We’re starting with Muscle Shoals because Tom Dowd.

Dowd, in my opinion, is one of the most important musical figures of the 20th Century...one of the few people who can legitimately claim they changed music to the point it’s impossible to imagine a world without their contributions.  He was a college dropout because Columbia University wouldn’t accept the work he did on the Manhattan Project as a teenager towards his degree, since anything related to the atomic bomb’s creation was classified and his work for the military was beyond what was taught at the time.

But back to music, I know this is a deep cut from a band that people didn’t even know existed before Wayne’s World, but Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” would legitimately not have existed without Tom Dowd developing the practices and processes of multi-track recording.

Les Paul...yes the same guitar guy who essentially invented the solid bodied guitar...built the first machine to be able to record multiple tracks, but the original tracks destroyed in the process.  You could play over a previous track, but that original was now gone.

First came the four-track...four channels of recording...which became the industry standard.  Pet Sounds was recorded in 1965 using both 4- and 8-track machines.  Abbey Road only used 4-track machines well into the 1960′s.  But in 1957 Tom Dowd convinced Atlantic Records to purchase only the second 8-track recording machine to have ever been built...he was way ahead of the game.

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The idea is this...

You have your musical vision.  You have only 4 or 8 tracks to work with.  So what you do is you compartmentalize and segregate the recording...lets use the Beach Boys as an example.

Brian Wilson needed more firepower than the band could provide, so he hired the best session musicians in LA to lay down tracks (Wrecking Crew).  He’d have a section...say the bass, guitars and organ...go into a 4-track machine.  Those four tracks would be output in mono (not stereo because the mixing takes place later on) into one of the channels of another 4- or 8-track machine.

Now you have four musicians’ parts on one track.  You can easily see how this could get extrapolated...you could have another 4/8 tracks on a single track to the third device.  Very Inception-esque, if you will.

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Later, these mixes could be split into stereo or.../thunder...QUADROPHONIC sound.  360 degrees, son.  Dark Side of the Moon baby!  Kind of a jokey thing to think about now, but without quadrophonic sound, we never would have had surround sound.

Today things are a whole lot easier.  Most analog booths have a 64-track machine...if they still have one...and with digital recording, there are almost no limits as long as your hardware can handle it.  Think about it this way, in 1957, an 8-track machine with all it’s faults and foibles would cost an equivalent of $79,000 today.  We have exponentially more recording power on the phones in our pockets.

But we had to start somewhere, and John T. Mullin (Ampex, the company that made these machines), Les Paul and Tom Dowd were the three most important figures that got us to this point.  Dowd might not have invented the devices, but in terms of practical applications and modern standard techniques for recording, there’s almost nobody in the sound world that has a resume quite like him.

All of these recording techniques and practices were developed and refined by Dowd.  His recording of Allman Brothers’ Live at Fillmore East completely revolutionized the recording practice of live performances.  You listen to that album, the insane fidelity and clarity, and the wonderfully intimate quality of sound that makes you feel like you’re on stage with Duane, Dickey and Berry, and you’re listening to as much of Tom Dowd’s brilliance as you are the band’s.

And Muscle Shoals is where Dowd developed all of this stuff that would revolutionize the way music is listened to.  This is to say nothing of his production touch on the music itself, which you can get a great idea of listening to the arrangement of the first song.

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[effluentbalatron-blog]

-- gunhardyTemerity [GT] began pestering effluentBalatron [EB] at 22:51 -- GT: Well howdy doodle egberto. GT: Have you got a moment for a chat chap? EB: hey jake. EB: i have all the time in the world as of right now. GT: Oh you do? Thats swell! GT: I guess youre settling nicely at your old house? GT: Be sure to send photos yeah? Id love to see the home of the legend that started it all. EB: sure. i can do that. GT: Not right away of course... when youre doing better and all! EB: i think i can manage to take some comm pictures of a few (relatively) benevolent harlequins. GT: OH BOY. GT: (Relative) benevolent harlequins are my very favorite kind! :D EB: *doctor jingles.png.* EB: *whistles the clown.png.* EB: i hope that tickles your fancy, my dude. EB: it was never really my thing but they're alright i guess. EB: *a whole lot of fucking figurines.jpg.* GT: Hah! Hahaha! OH MAN. GT: I love this whimsical collection of fellows! GT: Theyre so cheerful and full of good spirits! GT: Its men like these that id like to have at a party im not sure about you. EB: pfft. what a party that would be. you, my dad and a bunch of "funny men" as he'd call them. GT: Thats a keeper. Hehehehe! GT: But where would you be? EB: i think i'd skip it. no offense. GT: Even if i were there? Id be sure to make it fun for the two of us bro. GT: Do you trust me or do you trust me?? EB: jesus, dude. i'd have to be a heartless monster to say no to that. GT: HEAR HEAR. GT: So... GT: How are things in the homefront? Anything like you remember? EB: not much changes in this part of the world, jakey. and i like it that way. EB: it's good. it's safe. EB: cold as balls. EB: roxy cleaned the place up pretty good. she's been helping me out. EB: is ruleus ok? GT: Ru the man us has really taken to his own here! I mean... hes sort of claimed our room as his new territory and it certainly doesnt help that citrins gone and supported his new authority. GT: He sure likes the twins though! Who would have thought? EB: oh. i'm glad it's working out. EB: i've been trying to teach him about gentle touches. GT: He sure likes to teach citrin all he knows! EB: hehe. they're such cute lil buddies. GT: Needless to say hes a cutie pie... and youre doing a great job. EB: thanks but EB: i dunno. EB: i freaked out and left him there. i know he's fine with you guys. and probably doesn't even notice but. EB: well. i know. GT: Hey now... GT: It doesnt seem like the effort matters much but. Rest assured. GT: Its something that looks entirely different from his perspective. GT: Hes just a kiddo after all. And youre being a good daddy not showing him anything but the love. EB: i hope that's how he sees it. GT: One day hell understand but until then? Youre only human john bomb. The best kind of human being there is! EB: i don't see how you can actually think that. EB: ugh. sorry. EB: you're just trying to help. GT: Dont be sorry broseph. GT: I... GT: Well. GT: :( GT: I think about sollux quite a lot. GT: If i werent some bumbling oaf with a wasteful of magic power maybe hed still be here. EB: i mean. of course you think about him. EB: he was special to you. and it hasn't been that long. EB: not that it really matters how long it's been either. EB: and...another thing. EB: this magic stuff is a bunch of bullshit! EB: they didn't teach us how to use it or anything. it doesn't matter how powerful we are if we don't know what to do. or when to do it. EB: how are you supposed to know? how am i supposed to know? GT: Well... GT: Its just... GT: Im awful sorry john. If i knew the answer or what to say i would sure try to say it. GT: But ive been so lost and frankly befuddled with how convoluted this magic business is. GT: I think i have been since the beginning. GT: And... im sorry for how complicated it makes things. EB: no, jake. don't be sorry. i just. i was trying to say that... EB: i don't even know. i just feel really angry about it all. and i'm just as confused as you are. GT: Thats alright bub. GT: For what its worth i... know youre trying your best. And i fully believe youre a good person coming out of all of this. GT: If you have your flaws and all... so what? So long as you try to do the right thing in the end? EB: i'm grateful that you think that. and i mean. i'm grateful people are still on my side and stuff. you, and roxy. and kankri. and dad. EB: but at the same time. it's like. EB: i don't know if i actually can. to be honest, dude. EB: ever since i got on the ship i never actually wanted to leave. no matter what terrible shit would happen, i never thought i'd take ruleus and cut out. EB:  even when feferi died. EB: but now i am thinking about it. a lot. even though i am really trying not to. EB: i don't wanna go back to the ship. or be the doctor anymore. GT: And... GT: Whats wrong with all that? EB: what do you mean? GT: You know id still love and respect the hell out of you bro? Even if you did drop and call it quits. EB: but it's a fucking terrible thing to think about. i already promised i'd try to keep everyone safe. after everything everyone has been through, after the sacrifices everybody made. and the people that have died fighting in the war? GT: I... GT: I know. GT: I felt this way too when uhm. GT: I thought of the possibility that dirk wouldnt wake up. EB: oh. GT: It was just me citrin and the twins i felt. What... what was i going to do? What was i good for? EB: aw jake...:( EB: that's different, buddy. your situation is differnet. GT: I couldnt pull it together. I couldnt be someone the world counted on! But... GT: Why was any of this worth sacrificing my kiddies without their dads? I... I was them. EB: i'd never judge you for that. GT: I was the one growing up on my lonesome and wondering what it is that was so terrible about myself... that i felt... GT: Maybe i wasnt enough to keep my grandma with me. It was an atrocious feeling! It still is! GT: So no!!! I dont think theres anything wrong with letting yourself feel this sort of hullabaloo weakness! EB: i'm confused as hell about how i feel. EB: but i can see what you mean. i think...coming from you it's easier. EB: i'm not saying i am actually going to quit. but. GT: Aw buddy... It just... GT: I understand. It just... feels as though it stops being about you and what you want. Mayhaps its easier to focus on what someone who needs you wants instead. EB: mayhaps. EB: thanks jake. GT: I love you! EB: i love you too, bro. GT: I wish i could swoop the hell in and scoop you in a big ole hug! GT: Id spend the night with you easily. :( EB: hehe i miss our movie nights. EB: though i wouldn't mind if the entire dirkjake clan plus ruleus descended on my dad's poor house. EB: it's fun to think about anyway. GT: Whos to say they wont??? I reckon the whole clan ought to travel around and see the sights! EB: who wouldn't want to see snowy picturesque maple valley wa. we have skating. beavers. and old people riding street legal snow blowers. GT: Sounds like a dream! EB: we also now have roxy lalonde. GT: You mean she was missing before? GT: PSHHAW. EB: i'm really confused now. do you know something i don't. GT: Roxyandra Lalonde is a key ingredient to any party gathering! EB: that i agree with. EB: you know who else we can add to the mix. EB: kankri! EB: your favorite. GT: Oh... EB: pff. GT: Yeah sure buddy! Whatever youd like! EB: hahahaha. GT: ;D EB: why are you winking. what's with the wink. GT: I made you laugh my bucko! EB: oh. EB: that was decidedly unrancorous of me, huh? GT: HUH HUH. I guess youre diddly damn so its unrancorous! EB: /rolls my goddamn eyes/ EB: okay. it's time for john to get some sleep. GT: You mean resting your handsome big pearly blues? You gotcha! GT: Ive got kiddies to systematically put to beddy bye now. GT: Youll be alright bro? EB: i honestly have no idea. but. i feel a little more hopeful about it now. EB: that's something i guess. EB: nah, not "i guess". it is something. GT: *Sniffle.* EB: don't cry. GT: I cant help it. D'8 EB: you big hairy baby. GT: I just miss you to pieces!!!!! EB: i hope you legitimately cry in front of dirk so he feels pressured to bring you here. GT: Dont say that because ill be tempted! GT: Dammit john. GT: Hit the hay would you?? EB: :) EB: ok. goodnight. EB: tell ruleus....nothing i guess because i don't want him to feel weird but. think "john misses you" loudly at him. -- effluentBalatron [EB] ceased pestering gunhardyTemerity [GT] at 01:00 --

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Donald Trump isnt the only villain the Republican party shares the blame | Jonathan Freedland

The US presidents links to Russia reflect the depth of the political crisis. This is a scandal of the entire American right

Whos the villainhere? Naturally our rage focuses onDonald Trump, a pantomime baddie drawn, as he would put it, from central casting. But behind him stand many others, and its about time they sharedin the opprobrium.

Start with the unfolding scandal over Trumpworlds links with Vladimir Putins Russia, and the increasingly close parallel with the Watergate affair that toppled Richard Nixon. Both episodes, then and now, began with an election-year break-in at Democratic party headquarters. In 1972, that involved burglars with torches. In 2016, it was hackers and passwords. But in each case, real and virtual, the apparent objective was the same: the acquisition of damaging political intelligence. In 1972, the culprits were taking their orders from the American president. In 2016, at least according to 17 US intelligence agencies, the orders came from the president of Russia.

Watergate spawned the now-cliched maxim that its never the crime, its always the cover-up. In the current case, its correct that had Trumps associates told the truth immediately about their contacts with Moscow, they would now be confronting controversy rather than scandal. If attorney general Jeff Sessions had admitted that he had met Russias ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, twice last year, hed have prompted raised eyebrows rather than calls for his head.

And by lying under oath, insisting hed had no such meetings, Sessions has made his position as head of the US criminal justice system morally untenable. But even if he survives, Sessions has raised suspicions about what, exactly, he was so keen to cover up.

The same goes for the meeting Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn are now known to have had with Kislyak after the election and before the inauguration. That encounter, too, was never disclosed and would have remained secret had journalists not discovered it. Indeed, with a camera permanently stationed in the lobby at Trump Tower, Kislyak must have been spirited in via a back entrance. If it was a perfectly legitimate diplomatic meeting, why the secrecy?

Its becoming a pattern. Senior Trump officials fromthe president downwards deny all contact with the Russians only to be contradicted by the facts. They then have to explain why they lied, behaviour unacceptable even to those who might otherwise be relaxed about dialogue with Moscow. As Watergate showed, a first lie can spawn hundreds of others and its those that get you.

But there is one big, dispiriting difference between the scandal unfolding now and the one that unseated Nixon. Four decades ago, Nixon was forced to resign because Republicans in Congress deserted him. They put their partisan allegiance aside in order to act against a president who they saw as endangering the republic. This time, the picture is very different.

Sure, Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham vow to hold Trump to account. But the rest of them are profiles in moral weakness, prepared to turn two blind eyes to the actions of the president simply because he wears the right party colours. So Devin Nunes, chair of the House intelligence committee, which should be investigating all this, says theres nothing there. His colleague Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House oversight committee, declined to look into the Flynn affair because its taking care of itself. Oversight, it seems, is precisely the right word. But please dont get the impression that Chaffetz is lethargic in his supervisory duties. On the contrary, theres one scandal hes very keen to investigate even now: Hillary Clintons use of a private email server.

Remember that? Lock her up, the Republicans chanted throughout 2016, believing that Clinton had put sensitive information at risk. The email affair dominated coverage and fatally damagedher campaign. Well, it turns out that as governor of Indiana, vice-president Mike Pence also used a privateemail account to conduct state business, including sensitive security matters and counter-terrorism, and that account was promptly hacked. Pence kept strangely quiet about that.

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You see, its not just Trump. This week Republicans waved through yet more of the presidents absurd cabinet appointments. In comes Ben Carson, who had earlier declared himself unfit to head any department because he had no experience: he will be in charge of housing and urban development. Republicans also ratified Rick Perry as energy secretary: Perry famously forgot, in a 2011 presidential debate, that energy was one of the departments he wanted to abolish.

Its Republicans who are making amockery of Trumps claim to speak forthe forgotten millions by planning atax cut that will send billions of dollarsinto the pockets of the very richest. Its Republicans who devoted years to denouncing Obamacare, promising to replace it with a system that would miraculously provide betterhealthcare to more people for less money. Now that theyre in charge,thats been exposed as the magical thinking it always was. Trump isthe face of that idiocy saying this week that, Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated, when in fact everybody but him and theblowhards on Fox News knew precisely that many, many years ago.

But we cant just point the fingerat, and pray for the downfall of, Donald Trump. He is merely the face of a deeperRepublican malaise. The hypocrisies he embodies extend far beyond him. For decades, Republicans cast themselves as the party of family values, wagging their finger at anyone who had fallen short of the moral standards they set. But when Trump came along, promising them the tax cuts and seats on the supreme court they craved, all that went out of the window. Suddenly they were prepared to embrace a thrice-married worshipper of mammon who brags about sexually assaulting women and was happy to assess his own daughter as a piece of ass. Note the polling on white evangelical Christians. In 2011 they were the group least likely to accept that a candidate guilty of immoral behaviour in their personal life might nevertheless be able to act ethically as a leader. Now they are the by 2017 to become the most forgiving on that score.

Consider the way Republicans usedtoclaim freedom as their own, posing as libertys champions. Now it emerges that fewer than half of all Republican voters believe news organisations should be free to criticisepolitical leaders a freedom that is surely fundamental.

And of course, for decades Republicans wrapped themselves in the flag, claiming a monopoly on patriotism, casting themselves as the heirs to Ronald Reagan and all those who stood strong against Russian authoritarianism. Yet now, delegates to the CPAC ultra-conservative conference will happily wave little Russian flags, so long as they have Trumps name on them.

Its natural to direct our fury at Trumpand to want to see him gone. Butit was the wider American right that, over more than two decades, feasted on bigotry, ignorance and contempt for science, facts and the compromises required by democratic governance it was that right that incubated Trump and Trumpism. If impeachment and removal from office are ever to be more than a fantasy, it will be Republicans who will have to make it happen. And that will require them to do more than change a president. They will have to change themselves.

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I really don’t know how to start this, I don’t even know how long I've felt like this. I'm just fed up of it, I miss being happy, I miss the old me. About 6 moth ago the girl who I was madly in love with ended things with me, at the time she said it was because I didn’t treat her good enough, and, for a long time I believed that. I know I could have been better to her, but I didn’t think she was unhappy, I thought we were happy, hell id seen an engagement ring and had started saving up for it. Turns out some other fuck had been talking to her and they had gotten close, I don’t know if anything happened while we were together, I doubt it, but hell what do I know. When she ended things I wasn’t in a good way, at all. I lost a stone in weight in a week (a mix of eating twice in a week and having about 6 hours sleep). I was at my lowest ever. But I had my family around me, my friends, and without them I don’t know where I would be now. Probably 6 ft under. About 3 week later I moved back to uni, to finish my BSc, 3rd year, final year, almost there. I was adamant I was going to improve myself, last year I didn’t go out much, nobody really bothered with me so I wasn’t going to go out of my way for them, last year I had everything I needed. But now I needed them more than they could imagine, so I did. I made more attempts, I went out every week basically, and I was happy. I felt I made more friends (true friends) this year than I had 1st 2 years. I was young(ish), single, and I was aiming at improving physically, hell i could have said I was a decent catch… Itd be a lie but that’s how I started feeling. I felt id moved on from my ex. Well, I know I have, she moved on to someone else, and hes nothing special, her mum, sister, sisters boyfriend said she screwed up basically. This was it, id moved on, had friends, was happy, keeping busy, keeping fit. Most importantly.. Keeping happy. Then I started having feelings for someone, someone who I had gotten close to last year (purely as friends) but we'd gotten close (normally this is good, yay I've moved on, go for it) . This is when this all started again,  she has a boyfriend which immedietly puts her in a no go zone. I'm not a cunt. I wouldn’t do that. Would I? Weeks went by, we stayed as we are, I tried to bury the feelings, even now she doesn’t know how I feel. But as the weeks went by, the feelings stayed, if anything got stronger. We had such a good connection. Then one night we were out drinking, I ended up stopping at hers, turns out her and her bf werent doing good and she just felt lonely, felt shit, like I had all those months ago. Nothing happened between us sexually, wanna make that clear. She wouldn’t do that, she's too good. We talked, for so long we talked. We fell asleep in each others arms and it was nice, to have somebody there, to not be alone. Since that night we've gone out for food quite a bit, just us, and again, we just talked. This has been the only time I've felt genuinely happy in so long.  Just to have this connection with someone who I felt so fondly of. Even if I did feel like a cunt because of the fact she still had a bf. I knew nothing would happen while they were together, so if it made us happy going out, so be it. Then one night out, I somehow pulled, someone I knew but wasn’t close friends with. It was nice. But all the time I had the feeling that I've definitely screwed any chance of getting with the other girl. I'm not someone to have a one night stand, I'm 22 and that’s my first. But she was going away with him for a few days anyway so they had the chance to patch things up. The good guy in me wanted them to, hes a great guy, he makes her happy and she's an amazing, funny, gorgeous, smart girl. Even now I don’t think he realised just how lucky he is. But the dark side of me didn’t want it to work, I wanted her to come back upset saying it was over at the same time. The selfish me wanted that. And I felt fucking awful for feeling like that. I legitimately felt awful for wanting that. So I convinced myself that they would work it out and theyd be happy. They did. we went out for food when she came back and we talked, he admitted he'd been shit recently and said hed make it better. He'd be better. I was happy for her. But I had the feeling of 'how long will that last' and again, I feel shit for it. Catching up to present day now. So as it stands theyre together, theyre happy (atleast for now). Nothing came of that one night fling. I'm back to feeling shit, the only time I don’t feel shit is when I'm with people. keeping busy. But I can't expect people to be there 24/7 for me. At night I will be alone, I need to get used to that. But I can't. I've gotten so used to feeling shit, I don’t know how to not. I've had insomnia for a few month now, suspected its liked to mild depression., averaging 4/5 hours a night, sometimes 2 sometimes 6/7. I havent fallen asleep before 3am since before december. That much I know. I don’t know if its depression why I feel like this, I don’t know if its just me being a fuck up, I don’t knw what it is. I'm just so fed up of this. Fed up of feeling shit. Fed up of feeling alone, where I need to have someone with me. That isnt the me I know. I just want to be happy. I want to. I really do.