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[fluffybellyhog99]

May the 4th Be with you!

Sorry I'm a day late had to recharge my saber

[fanfictionismyaddiction]

Fernando Alonso with wife reader. Their kids terrorized the whole grid as they got the mic from the AM admin which was Lance.. thanks!! :))

Chaos on the Grid

Word count: 632

Pairing: Fernando Alonso x wife!reader

Request are open

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The Formula 1 paddock was buzzing with excitement on race day, but no one could have predicted the mayhem that was about to unfold. Fernando Alonso stood by the Aston Martin garage, casually chatting with some of the engineers while his wife, Y/N, kept an eye on their two lively children, Sofia and Mateo. The kids, however, had other plans.

Lance Stroll, always one to engage with fans, was helping the Aston Martin media team with some pre-race content. He held a microphone, recording a quick segment for the team’s social media when Sofia’s eyes lit up at the sight of the mic.

“Mama, can I try?” Sofia asked, her face lighting up with excitement.

Before Y/N could respond, Lance, with a grin, crouched down to her level. “Of course, you can, Sofia! Let’s see what you’ve got.”

As soon as the mic was handed over, Mateo saw his opportunity and grabbed it from his sister. “Me first!” he declared, his small voice booming through the paddock speakers.

Fernando turned around just in time to see his son speaking into the microphone, and his eyes widened in realization. “Oh no…” he muttered under his breath, a mix of amusement and mild horror on his face.

Y/N tried to intervene, but it was too late. Mateo was already making his big debut, and Sofia wasn’t going to let her little brother hog the spotlight. She yanked the mic back, and the two began a playful tug-of-war, their voices blaring through the speakers.

“Attention, everyone!” Sofia announced, trying to sound as official as possible. “This is Sofia Alonso! My daddy is going to win today!”

“No, I’m Mateo Alonso, and my daddy is the fastest! Faster than Uncle Lance!” Mateo added with a cheeky grin, earning a laugh from everyone within earshot, including Lance himself.

The grid was in stitches, with drivers and team members pausing to watch the impromptu performance. Even Fernando couldn’t help but laugh, shaking his head as he walked over to his wife.

“I blame you for this,” he said, wrapping an arm around Y/N’s shoulders, his tone teasing. “They’ve got your flair for drama.”

Y/N rolled her eyes playfully. “They’ve got your competitive spirit, darling. I’m just here to make sure they don’t challenge Lewis to a race next.”

Just as she said that, Sofia, with all the confidence in the world, spoke into the mic again. “Uncle Lewis, if you can hear this, my daddy says you’re not faster than him!”

Lewis Hamilton, who was standing a few garages down, burst out laughing. “Is that a challenge, Alonso?” he called out, amused.

Fernando put his face in his hands, grinning behind them. “These kids…”

Lance, meanwhile, finally managed to reclaim the mic, though not without a struggle. “Okay, future F1 stars, let’s give Uncle Lance the mic back,” he said, still laughing.

The kids finally relented, and Y/N scooped them up, one in each arm, as they continued to giggle uncontrollably. “Alright, you two, that’s enough trouble for one day.”

Fernando leaned in to kiss Y/N’s cheek. “You handle them so well,” he whispered.

She smiled back at him, eyes twinkling with humor. “Well, someone has to keep them—and you—in check.”

Fernando and Y/N watched their children with a mix of pride and exasperation. The paddock had just experienced a small taste of Alonso family mischief, and it was clear that Sofia and Mateo were just as fearless and full of life as their father.

“Next time,” Fernando said with a smirk, “we’re keeping them away from any microphones.”

Y/N laughed, nodding in agreement. “Agreed. But admit it, they’re pretty adorable when they’re causing trouble.”

Fernando smiled, pulling her closer. “Yeah, they are. Just like their mother.”

[eighthman-bound]

I was really prepared to rag on Once Upon A Studio for being another Wreck It Ralph 2 or Simpsons crossover shorts type cringe cash grab of the big name Disney characters, was particularly worried from trailer Frozen would hog the limelight.

But outside of the pretty rose tinted corny opening with the live actors; dammit they got me, especially with that ending.

They really implemented a vast variety of characters, even obscure ones I was worried Disney would sweep under the rug for being box office embarrassments like Black Cauldron, Treasure Planet (man that shot of Jim was so cool) and even the CGI Dinosaur movie made a background cameo. This did feel like it was made by people who genuinely cared about the history of the animation department and knew fans would delight in seeing characters like Milo and Oswald again. And it’s just nice that it was free of the big brands Disney usually push for like Star Wars and Marvel.

The character interactions were pretty sweet, and when the singing started, yeah I got emotional. It’s a great reminder that underneath Disney the corporation, it’s animated imaginative heart is still beating somewhere.

[blueikeproductions]

They finally posted a trailer and poster for the next batch of EarthSpark. And it’s described as S3, though experience with Netflix makes me think this is just the remainder of S2… Still according to the marketing, fans finally got a third season, so that counts for something. It’s only roughly 7 episodes, but G1’s final fourth season was a three part finale, so a very short season isn’t unheard of.

This poster is a lot better than the past main posters they’ve used over and over.

These are better also, but they don’t get used much.

But after RotB & TFONE, I think we can all agree decent advertising isn’t modern Hasbro & Paramount’s strong suit.

As for the trailer itself, it continues a trend I’ve noticed where most EarthSpark ancillary stuff tends to down play the Terrans. Twitch appears for a split second and Thrash appears in a gag where he gets shot… continuing his “just kinda there” vibe.

The trailer primarily focuses on the traditional Autobot & Decepticon conflict, with a big focus put on Prowl, the newest and seemingly only Transformer added to the cast so far.

A news article further describes Prowl as an “old world” Autobot detective who trusts the hard facts & always finds the truth. He is immediately distrustful of Optimus’ allies, so presumably that includes the Maltos, Terrans and naturally Megatron. It’s interesting how he’s specifically described as a detective, perhaps that’s to avoid ACAB allegations I could see the old writers attempt through him….

Prowl’s G1 profiles cast him as a by the books, semi prickly, military strategist. This doesn’t really get explored in the old cartoon, and while it was touched on briefly in Marvel, IDW went hog wild with it, casting its Prowl as a corrupt cop antagonist towards the end of the run. IDW2 cast him as more of a detective pre-war though, possibly where EarthSpark borrowed it from, and while he was still a hard-aft, he had a soft spot for his pet dinosaur-alien.

The main villains of the season, unsurprisingly, are the Quintessons. Their leader is a female Judge, who the blurb declares it “is her birthright to possess the power of the Emberstone. She’s wise, dangerous, and her ego is so large that it’s no wonder she has five heads”.

What exactly constitutes gender among the Quints has never really been defined before.

It might be safe to say as far as the G1 cartoon is concerned, they’re an all male race.

WFC & CV attempted to insert female gender among the Judges, having some of the masks speak in a female voice.

That adds another oddity to Judge biology, as the G1 cartoon or Marvel UK comics never stated the other faces being separate personalities, instead other media describes them as different emotional states.

Alpha Q in Superlink did have multiple personalities based on which mask was displayed, each one squabbling/talking amongst themselves.

Presumably WFC/CV borrowed from Alpha Q, but the ES Quintesson Judge might be operating on G1 logic, each mask being a single (female) gender, as she has a female voice actor only.

The other big G1 thing the trailer shows is the Hate Plague. The leaked synopsis already revealed it, but like G1, those infected with the plague glow an intense red.

Once infected, they turn incredibly violent and try to kill each other. Despite the G1 show’s violence, nobody actually died ironically, at least it was never confirmed. The synopsis implies the Quintessons unleashed the Hate Plague on the Transformers, and while the 80’s Quints were instead among the victims of the outbreak, they do have a vague connection to it.

The oldest known leader within the Matrix, only known as “It”, resembles a Quintesson, with Japanese media confirming that’s what they are. Optimus Prime asks this ancient Quintesson how to combat the Hate Plague, with It saying the Plague couldn’t be outright destroyed but contained, where a wise man trapped the spores in a star. The spores nevertheless has a weakness to pure wisdom, so Optimus unleashes the power of the Matrix and uses its eons long store of wisdom to eradicate the virus once and for all… Until it briefly returns in Beast Machines.

As mentioned before, the Hate Plague isn’t exactly a popular concept cartoons like to go back to. Comics don’t like using it typically either, so its inclusion here is both unique but also a little… peculiar. I’m leaning towards it being a vague, modern topical metaphor for something, as an infected Megatron is fighting Optimus in particular. Probably some hogwash about Megatron succumbing to his biases and own hatred, but we’ll see soon enough.

Perhaps the most utterly bizarre detail is the blurb seemingly confirming the return of Spitfire and Aftermath.

How…?

Starscream yanked out their Allspar-er-Emberstone Shards, and the rock itself is dust. You can’t get any deader than that.

The only thing I can guess, is similar to Sari’s key, the Sleeves are the repository of the Emberstone’s life giving energies (the sleeves do just about anything else now so why not), and the Malto kids are incentivized to revive the two Decepticon Terrans for some reason.

MetroTitans in IDW also can grant life and that was carried over to Prime Wars, so it’s possible Terratronus can grant life too, and she restores the Terracons.

Worst case scenario is the two hellions are back up and running like nothing happened, and their death is never addressed again.

Crap writing if so, but the previous two scenarios would be preferable.

Not much longer to wait now. This might be the final batch, as the Quintessons make sense as the final end goal in the struggle over the Emberstone. The show has never been super committed to showing what’s going on Cybertron that whatever Prowl and Cosmos have to add to the matter is probably the best we’ll get. Plus the Terrans don’t have much incentive or interest to even go to Cybertron anyway; Alex would get more out of going there than his kids. Only thing I could guess is the Quints took over Cybertron off screen and that loosely ties into the Judge’s role on Earth, but eh. We’ll see.

[djsherriff-responses]

The “healthy ship” in question is between two characters who have an age gap, had one conversation and has several fan stories where the writer depicts them not having a healthy relationship

oh, and chances are possible season two will pull a Star Wars and confirm that they’re related if the Polokus comparisons are leading anywhere

I’m not gonna shame anyone for ship preferences and I’m up for media criticism but this just kinda weird? Not kinda, just flat out weird actually

It’s extremely weird people keep commenting on that Laserhawk shipping shit post with crap like “well Rayfrog is healthier-“ when the two aren’t even canon and their romantic dynamic is pure fan speculation as this point, not to mention it’s an extremely shallow view of both the characters and the show’s themes.

Yes Alex sucks ass, but to say people shouldn’t even attempt to explore Alex and Dolph's relationship in favour of a non canon ship because it’s “healthier” is just so? Dolph has so much tragedy to his character that also says so much about the environment that Dolph and many other kids who grew up like him had to experience in the setting of Eden, and Alex plays a huge part of that.

To say Alex x Dolph isn’t worth “shipping” is to basically admit you don’t care for the show’s themes of exploitation, abuse and trauma under an uncaring capitalist dystopia.

Regardless if Alex’s love was genuine, the relationship he had with Dolph was no different to how Eden used Dolph as a tool and I think that’s definitely far more interesting than just “what if Rayman makes out sloppy style with twink Globox?”

Also, you know you don’t have to ship “ethically”, right? You can have spice. Obviously criticising ships and fiction shouldn’t be taboo either but everyone is “problematic” to some degree. Please use the block button

Edit: I wanted to add now that I thought about this more is that I now realise what it is that bugs me about Rayfrog despite it being a good ship , and it’s not because it’s the most popular ship in the fandom or the two are hog 90% of tags all over the place

It’s because we got a situation where a chunk of the fandom wants to focus on Rayfrog being a wholesome ship while actively ignoring the source material is full of dark , mature and outright problematic story elements, so people who want to talk about Laserhawk’s less vanilla aspects are drowned out by people who joke about rayfrog being toxic yaoi/yuri but can’t actually handle actual toxic yaoi/yuri (wanna stress this does not apply to everyone who ships rayfrog but it’s a noticeable bias on that shit post I made)

probably also awkward that Rayman’s original series is aimed at kids so 🤷‍♀️

[daisyvramien]

CALLING ALL STAR WARS FANS:

🌟 Ahoy, fellow intergalactic wanderers! 🌟

Listen up, because we're about to blast off into a Star Wars extravaganza like no other! That's right, folks: May is right around the corner, and you know what that means: STAR WARS MONTH, BABY! Time to dust off those lightsabers and channel your inner Wookiee roar! 🚀✨

Now, hold onto your R2 units, droids and x-wings, because I've got some stellar news for you all. I'm gearing up to host a cosmic cavalcade of Star Wars themed Dungeons & Dragons adventures on my Discord server throughout the entire month! We're talking small D&D dungeons, epic games, mind-bending challenges, one-shot adventures, and even a full-blown campaign. And hey, if you've got your own original characters (OCs), you're in for a hyperspace treat!

But before we embark on this epic voyage through the stars, let's lay down some ground rules. Buckle up, because we're going full throttle into the Rulebook of the Jedi!

No Binks Allowed: Harassment, racism, homophobia, or any other form of discrimination is about as welcome here as Jar Jar Binks at a Sith convention. Let's keep it classy, folks, or you'll be banished to the swamps of Naboo faster than you can say "Meesa in big doo-doo".

Use the Force and common sense, Not the Dark Side of the Dice: When it comes to decision-making, let's rely on a healthy mix of common sense and Jedi wisdom. No using the Force to steal your fellow players' snacks, and please, for the love of Alderaan, don't try to mind trick your way out of every situation. Play fair, or face the wrath of a thousand Force ghosts (joking, just a very annoyed DM)!

Punch It, Chewie!: This is a celebration of all things Star Wars, so feel free to unleash your inner smuggler and spice things up with some banter, references, and good-natured roasting. Just remember: Han shot first, and if you can't take the heat from a little friendly ribbing, you might want to rethink your allegiance to the Rebellion.

Don't Be a Sarlacc: In other words, don't hog the spotlight! Everyone deserves their moment to shine, so let's share the spotlight like a band of merry Ewoks sharing a roast Porg. And hey, if you find yourself feeling a bit too much like a Sarlacc, maybe it's time to pass the torch to your co-pilots and let them take the helm for a while, or even dm your GM (yours truly).

So, if you're ready to join the Rebel Alliance (or maybe even the dark side – we don't judge), send me a DM or drop a comment below to reserve your spot on the Millennium Falcon of fun! Let's make Star Wars Month one for the holocrons folks, and remember, May the Force be with you, always! ✨🌌

[transn]

today at the store i overheard an employee randomly and without prompting telling a customer about her star wars harry potter fan fiction where harry potter was adopted by boba fett and “dumbledore was not happy about that” because harry didn’t wanna go to hog warts anymore

[baraste-legacy]

Fan Art Collection Update

I'm trying to make my Star Wars/SWTOR Fan Art Collection Masterlist a bit more functional. As popular characters such as Darth Maul or Savage Opress hog tagged categories such as "zabrak art" or "nightbrother art", I'm doing some tag clean-up on them.

What I'm aiming for is having the "art" categories be as Original Character-centric as possible. The idea is that, if one clicks on a post's plain "zabrak" tag, one gets just everything and everyone, including the Opress brothers, but if one uses the "zabrak art" tag they'll be excluded. Of course, if one clicks on the "Darth Maul" tag it's our little meow meow all the way 😏.

While at it: I just cleaned up and tagged two new categories: • nightsister art • nightbrother art

I think I'll keep SWTOR companions as they are right now, accessible through all means (say, both "human" and "human art" for a Malavai Quinn). We'll see how it goes.

(I'd kill for proper search and tag management tools, including negative search 😞. There are some out there, but…)

[yarns-and-d20s]

There was this dude who wrote some works with extremely dark and brutal violence, including one where a young woman is sexually assaulted, and has her hands cut off and tongue cut out so she can't report it to anyone. Eventually she is able to tell her dad, and her dad murders the perpetrators and feeds them to their own mother before killing her, too.

Same dude also wrote about a lady whose twin brother appears to be dead, so she assumes his identity. Another lady falls in love with her while she's pretending to be her brother... but oh, no, while she's pretending to be her brother, she falls in love with some other guy! Whatever is she to do????

"how you treat [characters], even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there". What do these two things tell us, exactly, about William Shakespeare's own character? What does the very breadth of the human experience that he wrote about--from Titus Andronicus and Macbeth to Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream--say about him as a person?

My personal answer to that is... nothing. I don't think they make him bad. I don't think they make him good. I don't think the people who wrote My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic are saints while, well, let's go whole hog: George RR Martin and everyone else involved in writing Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon are all absolute monsters. The folks at Nintendo cannot all be assumed to be comprised of sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows (because of Mario, let's not get started on how fucked up things can get with Zelda) compared to the teams at Larian Studios (Baldur's Gate III) and BioWare (Dragon Age, Mass Effect).

Professional writers--for movies, TV, games, books, the stage--have written absolutely heinous and horrendous things happening to, and committed by, their characters. Maybe you think that's wrong. Maybe the fact that George Lucas, Leigh Brackett, and Lawrence Kasdan were capable of writing what happened to Anakin Skywalker and what he subsequently did as Darth Vader makes them monsters, whether or not they also wrote everything else that happened in Star Wars.

Or do the professionals get a pass because... reasons... while fan writers don't? Is it because they're someone else's characters and those characters are sacred and precious somehow so we can't make them do bad things or have bad things happen to them because they don't belong to us? Is that it?

This discourse is exhausting.

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[paulagnewart]

Sonic the Oz-Hog Act 1/12: Never Forget Your Firsts!

Sonic Super Special issue 3 AU Publication Date: 14th January 1998 Price: $3.95

It's January 1998. The Rural Fires Act had come into effect just in time, for the nation's traditional summer of sports were only superseded by its traditional summer of bushfires. Both east and west coasts had taken a hammering through a combination of record breaking heatwaves and arsonists, leading to at least four preventable deaths. Residents praying for rain got more than they bargained for within days when fires gave way to weeks of floods and cyclones.

Any kids looking to escape the ravaging weather would be disappointed; 1998 was the first summer in nearly 20 years of waking up to a host-less morning show. After one complaint from moral guardians too many, beloved wisecracking puppet Agro was booted from his own program, with Channel Seven instead offering repeats of Gargoyles, The Jetsons and All Dogs Go to Heaven. The lack of Agro meant Channel Ten's rival program Cheez TV had little to worry about, and it showed with their own January lineup of Transformers Generation Two, Spider-Man and The Tick repeats.

Having vowed to never introduce a 10% tax on all goods and services under their watch, John Howard’s conservative Government prepared to backflip on their election promise. A move destined to make teen wallets even lighter when buying CD singles of that month's chart-topping song, Aqua's Doctor Jones. Personally the already high price of CDs was of little concern back then, instead more worried about accidentally sleeping in Saturday mornings and miss another installment of The Dinky-Di's quest to stop Earth's number-one eco enemy Mephisto. Sadly if ratings were any indication, I was the only one waking up early enough to watch anyway.

Names including “Beetleborgs”, “Extreme Dinosaurs”, “Venus DeMilo” and “Pokemon” were unheard of, though would certainly go on to pester parents by year's end. SEGA World Sydney, Australia's largest indoor theme park and last refuge for everyone's favourite rodent, was crawling towards its first anniversary. Two new final volumes of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, a series which hadn't aired on TV in years by that point, trundled onto VHS with all the invigoration of an afterthought. In short the high-speed hedgehog's classic heyday was coming to an end.

Yet things weren't all doom and gloom. For fans still yearning that new hedgey action, Archie Sonic continued to thrive among the mass of imported titles jostling for pole position on newsagent shelves. Quantities were plentiful and demand remained strong, even through a whole dollar price increase by year's end.

As the title boasts, life is built on firsts. Those unforgettable turning points destined to remain etched within our minds. Be them first kiss, first job, first concert or even first Star Wars action figure. When we grow old, the urge swells to reflect or even revisit those small, beautiful starting points. It's a feeling Archie certainly shared, with their appropriately first comic to reach Aussie shores that year: Sonic Firsts.

For a publisher who spent decades following the Mad Magazine bread-and-butter approach of constantly publishing past material, it’s surprising Archie took so long adding their best-selling title to the reprint rotisserie. Within its fancy 48 pages, Sonic Firsts offered a quartet of classic adventures invaluable to new readers while attempting to smooth out what eventually became continuity snares. Michael Gallagher and Scott Shaw! kicked things off with the eponymous Don't Cry For Me, Mobius, a fine starting point for the comic if ever there was one. Rabbot Deployment saw Shaw! superseded by Dave Manak and the introduction of Bunnie, who was granted something of a backstory when such things for anyone outside Sonic and Sally was rare. The pair returned for their flatulence flaunting The Lizard of Odd, an otherwise standard tale if not for Super Sonic's debut. Mike Kanterovich and Ken Penders brought it home with This Island Hedgehog, a straightforward misadventure which nobody could've guessed at the time just how important (or bloated, take your pick) a certain Rad Red's life story would become.

For some newsagents the switch to Sonic Super Special's permanently numbered quarterly format proved difficult to grasp. This issue was often solicited by retailers as Brave New World, raising more than a few eyebrows on parents who already forked out for that edition. It was unusual but ultimately humourous in hindsight when years later, the first eight issues of Sonic Universe were billed as Sonic X. But more on that another time.

The Special was a success for Archie. It showed there was a market for reprints among Sonic fans, even if it took several more years to truly milk its potential. Fans could fork out the standard price for their 48 page floppy, or if feeling a little more extravagant, shell out double the price for a comic book shop exclusive 'perfect-bound' edition. Touted by Archie as "Sonic's first ever Trade Paperback", the simultaneously released special boasted heavier cover stock and a minimally-formatted introduction by former editor/writer Paul Castiglia. If that wasn't enough, both versions were later reissued (either 1:1 perfect reprints or just unmoving warehouse stock, you be the judge.) to comic shops among a slew of 'back catalogue' miniseries and specials around late 2004. Marvellous.

In all, Sonic Firsts was a nifty if unintended celebration just in time and right on the mark for Archie Sonic’s 5th anniversary. The future was bright and the only way was up. Juuuuuust pay no heed to one of the Special's writers banging on about reprint royalties when this issue was announced. They certainly did. :P

Next Time: Take a flier to the comic's future as everyone's favourite embattled Echidna faces a deeply personal dilemma. A true clash for the ages which left both fans and editor reeling from its outcome. Will things ever be the same again? Will this description quit with the cheesy song references? Unlikely.

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[fluffybellyhog99]

For all those fat Star Wars Fans out there a special one Darth Piggyus or Jedi Piggykin Fatwalker

[edwardastormwrites]

A History Lesson on Amy Lowell, Gangsta Rappers, the 1920's, and The Greatest Generation (of poets) written by Edward Storm

The year was 1921 and Harriet Monroe has been on the scene for almost a decade with her new magazine called Poetry. Ms. Monroe has become a major figure in American Poetry. Poetry is published in a rough blue collar city known for the hog butchers and the dirty lake that it sits on. She is one of the lead proponents of the "new school" of poetry. This is no old school English style magazine that she runs nor is it published in a cosmopolitan city like London or Manhattan. No, this magazine is full of modern speech and the poems lack the end rhyme and measured types of rhyme of the past decades. The free verse movement is now at full speed and our first leader and super star is a woman named Amy Lowell. Amy was as radical a figure in poetry as someone like Nicki Minaj was several years ago when she burst onto the scene in hip-hop. Actually, that isn't true. Amy was probably even more radical than Nicki. Maybe not quite as radical and bold at Cardi B walking about her WAP, or was she? Comparing the 1920's with the 2020's is challenging. However, one thing is for certain. Amy Lowell was forever changing the status quo of female independence. Her poem "Patterns" reads somewhat like a rap song in which the rapper is strutting her stuff and telling her audience about her decked out clothing and jewelry.  “I walk down the patterned garden paths/In my stiff, brocaded gown/With my powdered hair and jeweled fan/I too am a rare. Yup, don't get in this beauty's way. She is a woman and she is unique as any man and she is independent.

The 1920's were the beginning of a major revival of interest in American poetry. The coming decades would see the emergence of some of the greatest poets in history. Amy Lowell is one of them for sure, but there are many others, both female and male. What a time to be alive for poetry lovers. The same can be said for hip hop today. There are so many amazing rappers all producing work that is is hard to keep up with all of them. Lowell was leading the new poetry movement but other outstanding poets from different different movements. Ezra Pound and TS Eliot stand out more than anyone. World War I was a tragedy beyond all tragedies and the entire English speaking world was affected in a major way as were all the other centers of western poetry like Paris. The world grew up quickly as the result of WWI. The world seemed much smaller than it had just a decade before. No nation was safe from international disputes. The United States had always tried to be an independent place that lived in isolation from Europe's problems and conflicts.  Leadership in the United Stated failed to stay isolated and was to put back together all branches of the military after huge cuts in the years of economic prosperity which the nation has enjoyed ever since reconstruction has ended. The wonders of the modern age where upon us and so were the horrors of the modern age. Cars and airplanes began to connect all the states together in America. However reports of the brutality of the war front in Europe made humankind seem less sophisticated than ever before. TS Eliot wrote his masterpiece "The Wasteland" about WWI during this time period. Lowell wrote another masterpiece during this same decade about a fallen husband who dies in battle during the war. " And I answered, “It shall be as you have said/ Now he is dead" and to end the poem she wrote "In a pattern called a war/Christ! What are patterns for?".

Who was out there making a name during these years and in the few decades to come? Well, Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Wallace Stevens, Weldon Kees, Elizabeth Bishop, WIliam Carlos WIlliams, Dorothy Parker, ee Cummings, Paul Dunbar, and many others. A large class of poets were born in the 1880's and 90's and would live long lives into their 80's. Frost, WIliams, Sevens, Sasson, Parker, Bynner, Sandberg, and Eliot would all live into their 70s or 80s. This is pretty amazing considering that America was just at the dawn of modern medicine. This group of men and women made modern poetry what it is today. WHen this generation of poets was born no houses had electric lights in America and transportation was via the horse. When this generation died off America was putting men in space and had endured and won two world wars. Poetry written before this time period and after this group of poets had died can often seem stiff and lacking action. Well, there is a reason for that. The world was transformed into modern times in the lifespan of a single man. Some of the greatest literature in world history came out of this time period.  Hardship inspires great art.  This is a sad truth is it not?

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 10/18/22

look i originally typed "placeholder" which somehow typo'd into "placegilder" and now i'm fascinated by what that concept could possibly be

listening

Romance Without Finance, covered? by? Charlie Parker. for something by one of the founding fathers of bebop it's remarkably difficult to find info on this song.

"wait a minute kay we didn't know you knew anything about jazz" i don't! just enough to be dangerous!

it's been stuck in my head bc of the lyrics

You so great and you so fine You ain't got no money you can't be mine It ain't no joke to be stone broke Baby you know I ain't lying when I say Romance without finance is a nuisance Please please baby give me some gold

cheers i'll drink to that bro

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reading

sat by a river and read one and a half chapters of Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, bc people keep telling me i would like Gormenghast and this is the first book in the trilogy. after which i threw it in my bag and forgot about it for the rest of the week. this is not a dunk on the book this is just how distractible i am. the style/voice/etc of Mervyn Peake could diplomatically be described as an acquired taste. not sure if i've acquired that taste yet. not that i am unfamiliar with a longwinded fantasy, i've just been reading very short things lately and am experiencing some whiplash.

god we love a font. GOD we love a series of covers that link together. these come to me courtesy of a very nice old man's moving sale, which i happened upon in august? early september? at the end of the day when everything was free. ended up dumping the milk crate of tools in my trunk into the trunk proper and carrying off an overflowing milk crate of paperbacks like this.

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watching

three! tv shows i like are dropping on a weekly basis im in hog heaven (andor, the vampires, chainsaw man)!!!

instead we're going to talk about Werewolf By Night, which was Fine. it's a little marvel halloween special starring one of the eleventy billion comics characters you've never heard of, directed by their longtime composer Michael Giacchino.

i am going to damn it with lukewarm praise and say it's Fine! it's automatically in the top tier marvel products for me bc the fact it is so clearly filmed on a soundstage works in its favor, bc it is one big nod to classic horror. not a pastiche, not a love letter, but many many many visual references. there was only one Joss Whedon Humor Marvel Moment (TM) which i appreciated. i have spent far, far worse hours with this franchise.

excellent opening credits tho. not worth watching if you're a classic horror fan bc it will probably infuriate you, maybe worth watching if you've dropped off the marvel bandwagon and want to check and see if you still like it or not. this is up there with winter soldier for me as far as like. coherence of artistic vision and the ability to confidently tell one story, and it's still Just Okay as a whole.

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playing

this was originally going to be a diatribe about human experimentation in fallout 4. yes yes we all know the vaults are human experiments. that's not what i'm talking about. i would like them to connect the dots between pre-war people vanishing off the street for military human experimentation and post-war vanishing off the street for...industry? experimentation a little more explicitly.

INSTEAD, i did something i never do, which was look for a game to play specifically for the tuesdaypost bc i wanted to talk about something in this slot. so off i went to the New & Noteworthy page.

i played The Looker, which is a parody of awardwinning but insufferable puzzle game The Witness. i have not played The Witness bc i find it insufferable, but i have watched roommates play through chunks of it. The Looker is insufferable in a different way, where (spoilers behind rot13)

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some of the puzzles are genuinely clever. the laser unfolding in a long sequence that felt like a real life hour made me cackle.

i don't know who this streamer is, or if he's secretly garbage or anything, but this video does contain some of the best bits of the game

it's about an hour and a half and it's free, what more could you want? the way its mechanics unfold is a successful parody of the highbrow puzzle game genre as a whole (imo), not just The Witness, so if you play this without knowing anything about The Witness do report back in pls

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making fallow week. lots of things simmering away in the background, not a lot of photogenic things happening, many things that are easier to explain as a whole once they're done.

[spacedreamerz]

Trent Northwick Headcanons!

Trent is a very talented actor.

 Trent goes to acting camp every summer. He really enjoys it.

He gets cast in the main roles almost all the time. He’s usually the main antagonist. Apparently, he plays evil roles very well. 

Trent considers himself an intellectual fine artist. 

 One of his dreams is to go to France. He can actually speak French well. 

 Trent loves watching anime and reading manga. He’s constantly hogging the TV watching Toonami at night. 

Some of his favorite anime are Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Bleach.

Some of his fav manga are Death Note, Sun-Ken Rock, and Naruto. 

 Nobody can beat Trent at DDR.

He’s also a beast at rhythm games.

He really likes photography. The main reason he got into it was to have an excuse to take pictures of girls, but it soon turned into a genuine hobby of his.

He totally cried while watching the Titanic.

Trent enjoys poetry. He can actually make some good poems.

He’s obsessed with musicals and plays. That’s one of the main things he geeks out about when talking to friends.

He totally vibes to boy band songs. (Not that any of his friends know that)

Trent has a pretty good singing voice. He’s thinking about hiring a vocal coach still.

Trent’s ultimate goal is being on the big screen. Starring in actual movie roles.

Leonardo Dicaprio is a big inspiration for Trent. 

He really wants to write a play himself. He has a lot of good ideas. He’ll be the lead role, of course.

Trent got into acting and theater because of his mother. She was a makeup and special effects artist for a lot of plays when he was younger. When there was no one to babysit, she’d drag Trent with her on set. He loved the atmosphere and he loved seeing the plays. 

Trent’s actually a pretty good leader. A bit of a selfish one, but good nonetheless.

Trent is a big soccer and hockey fan. He and his dad went to games all the time.

Trent is very good at origami. 

He likes going to museums.

Trent is obsessed with collecting seashells. He just thinks they’re so pretty.

Trent started acting when he was around 9. He told his mom multiple times how much he’d love to be an actor in a play or some type of movie. So she started looking for acting gigs for her son. She found an ad in the newspaper saying they could use a child actor for a commercial. She asked Trent what he thought about it, and he eagerly accepted the chance. He ended up doing really good in that commercial and his mom signed him to a lot more commercials.

He does really well in English.

Trent is terrified of snakes, spiders, and needles.

Trent likes taking care of house plants. He has a money tree plant named Jennifer (he calls her Jenny). She was named after Jennifer Lopez. One of Trent’s many celebrity crushes. 

Trent ADORES Studio Ghibli movies. 

Trent goes Christmas caroling every year.

Trent’s interested in cosplay, though he won’t do it. He doesn’t want to be made fun of.

He has a bonsai tree. He makes sure to take extra good care of her. He named her Faye after Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop.

He’s amazing at improv.

If he’d actually try it, Trent would really like Grottos and Gremlins.

He used to have Nerf wars all the time when he was younger.

Sometimes, he’ll randomly run into one of his friend’s rooms with a Nerf gun and shoot them.

He’s terrible at pinball.

He’s good at pool.

Trent hides a lot of things from his friends. He’s afraid of being seen as a dork or even worse…a nerd.

His friends always show up to the plays he’s in. He’s really happy when they do. It inspires him to do his absolute best. However, it makes him a bit more nervous.

Trent has a really good memory.

He loves chilling in pools.

He’d love to go on a vacation to the Maldives. 

Trent’s interested in tourism.

He desperately wants to get out of Bullworth. There’s nothing for him there. He wants to go to a big city. Las Vegas to be more specific. 

Trent mostly wears sports jerseys. 

Trent takes acting VERY seriously. It’s like his livelihood. 

He definitely practices pick-up lines in the mirror.

He’s really romantic when it comes to dating. 

He strangely seems to know a lot about architecture.

Trent likes ceramics.

He seems to have this delusion that Ms. Phillips is madly in love with him.

[leafsbabe]

how Joe Burrow is like as a boyfriend

- Joe is such a softie

- i bet he likes it when you call him Joey

- he’s definitely a total gentleman

- he pulls out chairs or opens doors for you

- always offers to carry your bag

- very much the kind of boy you take home to your parents

- obviously they’d love him very much

- he’d also love taking you home to meet his parents and show you around his hometown

- he’s just very nostalgic and loves his hometown a lot and he wants to share it with you

- you can stay in his childhood star wars bedroom

- Joe likes it when you’re around him

- like when he has stuff to do trying to manage emails and you just sit on the other end of the couch while he types away

- he’d constantly ask you to sleep over until he subtly tries to ask if you’d be down to move in with him

- he wants to move together rather fast but only because he has a lot of space and he gets kinda lonely when you’re not there

- really good about chores like he had his system down good before you moved in so it takes a bit of persuasion to get him to agree to let you help him out

- sadly he’s a morning person

- but mornings aren’t so bad when his smile is the first thing you see when you wake up

- so many small kisses

- big big big fan of giving you forehead and cheek kisses

- very cuddly

- he loves to give you his shirts and hoodies because they’ll end up smelling like you

- and you look super cute in his clothes

- loves to just cuddle up on the couch or in his bed and maybe watch a movie or just chill

- resting his head on your chest is a yes

- because it’s very soft and a very nice place to nap

- but also because boob

- really enjoys napping together

- very tender

- just wants to make you feel loved and cared for and safe

- but also long slong makeout sessions on the couch

- and a ot of them

- his bed is big

- like california king big

- and he has some seriously soft blankets

- like 10/10 would sleep in it

- i bet Joe is a spooner

- when you sleep at night you just always end up all over each other and entangled

- sometimes he wants to be the little spoon

- and he’s the cutest little spoon there ever was

- even if he’s bigger than you

- also he’s a total blanket hog

- oh no

- i just imagined Joe at home all soft and sweet and definitely just freeballing

- like he’s just there looking like a whole damn meal

- he’s way too hot to just be a snack

- lowkey wants to shower you in presents

- but meaningful gifts and not just random stuff he brought for you like everything has to come from his heart

- just imagine Joe looking up flower language because he doesn’t want to just go and get you any lame old bouquet

- he probably says “i love you” first

- really likes holding your hand

- that way he feels connected to you but he can also play with your fingers as a distraction when he gets bored

- he always has a little bit of extra energy when he knows you’re watching his games

- because he wants to make you proud

- especially when you’re watching him in person and not on tv

- because he knows he can get his postgame kiss a little bit sooner

- and if he gets hurt or has some bruising you will kiss it better but you’ll also elp him hold ice packs in place

- and maybe he can convince you to play sexy nurse for him

- but in the end the knowledge that you’re there for each other and have each others back is more than enough for him

- and he’ll definitely get in touch with your best friends to find out how your dream engagement ring looks like because he wants forever with you