#i can't believe you basically wanted the whole planet to die

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the amount of people who are like "omg i ditched kaidan for garrus after he was mean to me on horizon!!" baffle me. shit on bioware's writing for making shep work with cerberus all you want, but kaidan calling shep out on this and not joining them is NOT the issue. in fact, him reacting like this is why i love him??

he specifically states he trusts shep, just not cerberus. which is the only rational response in that whole entire goddamn game!! like?? you spend all of me1 stopping cerberus operations. they kill several alliance soldiers and admiral kahoku, try to make a rachni army -- they are WELL known for cloning and ais... miranda even outright states she wanted to plant shep with a control chip. there is literally zero reason for kaidan to believe the shep in front of him isn't some cerberus sleeper agent. or an ai. or indoctrinated. or being manipulated (THIS ONE IS CANON BTW). even if he trusts shepard, he doesn't trust cerberus not to pull any of this. quite frankly, i'm baffled more companions don't have this exact, entirely justified concern.

loyalty is important, but blind loyalty is dangerous.

honestly, the crew in me2 is lucky that the illusive man was so weirdly and uncharacteristically insistent on shepard remaining untouched. things could have gotten very bad otherwise.

being best friends with someone, or more notably, being in love with someone, isn't the end all be all magic potion in this world. being in love with someone doesn't mean you should blindly trust their actions. if my significant other joined a terrorist group, you can bet my ass i wouldn't join them! sorry! if anything, it's healthy that kaidan has his own sense of morals and priorities he follows over shepard. he's his OWN person, love shouldn't be something that makes you suddenly give up who you are and what you believe in.

not to mention kaidan is entirely out of the loop for the whole game. his intel states that cerberus is behind the abductions (the horizon incident is partially a result of cerberus' fiddling btw), and that shep has been alive and never even reached out to anyone. he doesn't have the information we the players have. he doesn't know that the illusive man insisted on no control chip. he doesn't know about the lazarus project or its specifics.

and as for the "cheating" discourse if you romance someone new in me2, i do personally believe shep getting with one of the me2 love interests is cheating on their me1 love interest. to shep, they skipped those two years. they wake up as they did during the me2 prologue. no time has passed. and then they immediately get with someone else after one (1) argument with their love interest over them, may i remind you, joining a terrorist group. even if you don't think it's "technically" cheating, it's at the very least pretty trashy and flakey.

if anything, i'm gonna say it! kaidan is more forgiving than i'd be! the fact that he even sends an email saying he still cares and that they can see what happens after this is all resolved is WAY more than i would have done. the fact that kaidan will find out shep got with someone else, and STILL be willing to give shep a chance is like. man. it's saying a lot. i am just saying.

imagine losing someone. you see them literally die as your ship explodes and they burn up in the nearby planet's atmosphere. you grieve. you put yourself into your work. then suddenly, two years, later. they pop back up again. ALIVE. and with a terrorist group. and basically tell you the equivalent of "just trust me bro" despite the fact that while you trust them, you don't trust the terrorist group. so you're like hey, what the fuck. why are you with a terrorist group. and they're like i'm not with them, we just have common goals. and you're like. i'm gonna say it again. i trust you, not the terrorist group. okay?? i can't join you for this reason. please be careful out there, seriously.

and then they immediately jump into the pants of that one guy you knew back on a mission from two years ago.

what would you do?? would you not feel hurt? betrayed? upset? confused?? i'm sorry, i'm completely on kaidan's side. i'd go as far to say that he's far more understanding than he should be in me2.

me3 is all about regaining that complete and undying trust back, and that cerberus didn't fuck around w shep. or that being with cerberus didn't change them. his "loyalty" quest is just visiting him in the hospital and showing him shepard still cares. that they're still the same. that cerberus truly didn't alter them. that there was more going on. that shepard was forced to work with cerberus out of complete necessity and only did what they thought was right. and i think that's neat!!!!

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Matt Bellamy 2001 Interview [CROSSBEAT Muse Special Book]

"My parents divorced when I was 15, and that's when I got interested in music like I am now, and I became more sensitive to music."

Interview in 2001 with Matthew Bellamy on his upbringing. Interview by Akiko Mima

2001 Interview

Your father was the guitarist in the UK Top 10 hit band The Tornados. What musical legacy do you think you inherited from your father? 「My father never wrote down a song. He learnt all his music by ear and played it by ear. He used to play with me all kinds of stuff from when I was little. I don't remember what it was like, but he would just make me give him my opinion. If I didn't understand it correctly, my father didn't care. It was my interpretation. That's a legacy, I guess.」

You knew you wanted to be a musician from a young age because of your father's influence, but you also knew the harshness of the music industry from watching him, didn't you? Why did you still decide to pursue a career in music? 「I've been playing music for as long as I can remember, and I think it was because my father was in the band that I accepted music as a normal part of life. It was a natural progression for me to want to be a musician. However, I didn't have a clear idea of what genre I wanted to play. Even when I started playing piano and guitar, I also got into flamenco and classical guitar.」

"I was 14 when Dominic and I started. The only goal was to make noise and get girls, right? (laughs)"

On the other hand, your mother was a medium or something, wasn't she? 「Yes, she did. Not as a business, just in the house. She got into it when I was 12 or 13. One time I couldn't sleep, so I went downstairs and was surprised to see my parents doing spooky things (laughs).」

Perhaps because of this, you no longer have a fear of death. 「Yeah, I don't want to be in pain when I die, but I didn't have any fear. In other words, the body is just a collection of things that have evolved on this tiny little planet. I'm trying to conceptualise it on a bigger level so that this little aggregate doesn't feel so important.」

I think it's fair to say that your way of thinking is completely different from that of most kids your age, but did it ever make you feel alienated? 「I certainly felt alienated as a child. But as I got older, I met more and more like-minded people.」

Does this childhood alienation give you the power to write songs? 「Yes. Especially on some of the more negative songs. But I've also started to meet people who can relate to me, and some of them are quite young. When I think about it, I feel like the whole world is going to change a lot, maybe in another 50 years.」

You've never been afraid to talk about spiritual matters in that way. Maybe that's why the British media seems to be trying to present you as an eccentric character, but doesn't that bother you? 「Basically, I try not to pay too much attention to it, or rather, the media changes what it says in the first place. One week I'm written off as a crazy nerd, the next week I'm a boring, silent intellectual (laughs). It's like that, I can't be bothered with every single one of them.」

So you don't believe in the paranormal or anything like that, but in human potential? 「Basically, I think the paranormal is a figment of the human imagination to keep us from getting lonely. Spirituality is a collective consciousness that helps us to move in a positive direction, if you like. In any case, I'm not that obsessed with 'spiritual' or 'death'. It's just something I was aware of as a child.」

I see. So what was your vision when you formed Muse in 1993? 「I was 15 or 16 years old. I was 14 when Dominic and I started. The only goal was to make noise and get girls, right? (laughs). Of course, as I got older, I had more of a vision.」

What did you do in the six years between then and your first CD in 1999? 「First of all, my parents divorced when I was 15, and that's when I became interested in the kind of music I'm into now. Before that, I liked classical music more. I didn't really take lessons. When my father left home, I became more sensitive to music. From the time I was 15 until I was around 20 when I released my CD, I guess I was listening to intense avant-garde music like Sonic Youth. I did a lot of live shows. I played for friends and at university. I played to about 10 people in a pub in my home town of Devon. I just did it for fun. It didn't pay, and I went to college. But school wasn't interesting and I dropped out. Most of my friends went off to university and we drifted apart. It was a bit of a difficult time. But for some reason, I still wanted to keep playing in the band. There were a few years when I ran out of money, so I did all sorts of part-time jobs.」

Painting, was it? 「Yes. I used to paint the walls of my house. It was fun and easy (laughs). Then, when I was 19, someone offered me free use of his studio, so I recorded a demo there, saved up some money and released my first EP. That's how I got signed.」

You cite a lot of American guitar rock influences, such as Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine, but at your age, there was a Britpop boom at an impressionable time, wasn't there? 「Strangely enough, I've never been interested in Britpop. But I did like some of the older British bands, like the Police and Queen. And Cream and Led Zeppelin. The first British bands I got myself into were Wedding Present, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Senseless Things. But I don't know why I don't like Oasis and stuff like that.」

I guess there's no sense of belonging in the UK rock scene. When you look around, are there any bands you identify with? 「No, not really. I feel quite isolated. We're definitely a British band, but we don't really feel that we have much in common musically with other bands. I don't think there are that many British bands that are into heavy rock to begin with. I can't think of any bands that sound British without sounding like Limp Bizkit.」

You released your first album 'Showbiz' and the results were great, weren't they? 「It was only exciting for two weeks though (laughs).」

Ehh, that's not true. Looking back on that first album, how do you feel about it? 「It was a surprise. I didn't think it would sell worldwide. It was the first one, and I felt that if it got a good fanbase in the UK, that would be enough. Well, it was only 'good', it wasn't like 'stupid', but my friend Travis, for example, went on to sell a million copies in one go. I'm afraid that I'm going to get worried about whether I'm going to be good enough before I start to get better at it.」

So you feel like you've got it just about right? 「Yes. We've had a lot of people listen to our music, and we've been able to expand outside the country. And yet it hasn't sold well enough to make me feel insecure. I still feel like I have the potential to grow as a musician. Because if the sales method is too extreme, people will likely change their minds due to the money. It's going to be a world where you live in a hotel for a year (laughs).」

How was it touring with the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Foo Fighters? How did you feel about America? 「It was good. We did about 14 shows, mainly in the middle of the country, where most UK bands don't go, and the crowds were great. But the music industry there seems to be difficult. It's quite closed off, only accepting a certain type of music at a time. Nowadays, the radio is all about stuff like Limp Bizkit. Of course, I'd like to do more work in the US, but it's such a big country, I don't know where to start. I'm sure it'll work, but it's going to take a lot of time.」

There's a rumour these days that you're getting total rejection from equipment rental companies in Europe. Because you'll break every piece of equipment. 「I know, right? (bitter smile)」

What do you feel like when you do that? Do you lose control of your emotions? 「Well, that's what it's like. At least it's not planned (laughs). It's not like I break it every time, but sometimes I get emotional. I guess it's beyond what I can play. I don't mean to be catastrophic. I broke it the other day, but the implication is that I wanted to take the sound to a physical dimension, or something silly like that (laughs). But still, I failed in Germany. That's when the rental shop turned me down. I thought the amp belonged to me. That's true (laughs). So I messed it up. That happened in Germany and a couple of surrounding countries, and I was banned from rental shops for life.」

Hahaha. Did you have a part of you that yearned for the classic rock band behaviour of, for example, "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll"? 「Not really. But I think there are things that are allowed in rock 'n' roll that wouldn't be allowed in other professions.」

Now, you once said that when you write a song you are 'just shaping the spiritual voice through the medium of yourself, but what does it feel like when you hear that voice? 「Oh, I think I said that, as a possibility. Now I see it a bit differently, I feel like I'm building ideas from all the elements in the world. For me, music is a way of bringing all those elements together and giving them meaning. So bits and pieces of music are constantly coming into me. One of those ideas that I've accumulated comes out little by little when I sit down at the piano or guitar to write a song. It just keeps bubbling up, depending on how I'm feeling at the time.」

So what inspired the songs on 'Origin of Symmetry'? 「Well, I don't know (laughs). First of all, there are a couple of songs that are kind of dedicated to God. I'm trying to find answers to a lot of questions. Overall, I wrote it to bring order to the chaos of the world. Then there's the theme that it's great that humanity is moving out of the earth's sphere, but at the same time we might lose a lot of things. Some of the songs are about the break-up of long-lasting relationships, and others are about imagining and writing about the occasional thoughts and feelings of family members. It's only recently that I've come to understand my family better. I've come to see them as people rather than parents, and I feel like I have the same feelings as my parents did when I was younger.」

When did you start exploring your inner self in this way? 「Since I was quite young. We live in a so-called three-dimensional space, so it's difficult to talk about the concept of time, but anyway, ever since I can remember, I used to think deeply, not meditate, but think a lot. The frequency of my thinking was once a week, or sometimes months apart, but each time I tried to be aware of the connection with the time I was thinking about. Then I can get a fuller picture of the time. It's in these moments that the inspiration for the music comes. I think it's because I have a sense of being connected to everything in the past, and I can also see into the future.」

Yeah, yeah. I hear that you used cow bones as instruments on this album, but does this have some kind of spiritual meaning? It doesn't seem like it produces a particularly good sound…… 「It's not about that, it's more about psychological hearing. What I mean is that, for example, if you listen to a sample sound of a church organ and then listen to a real organ. It sounds exactly the same, but if you ask them, they will always be able to tell you the real one. In other words, I feel that the real one sounds better. I want to value the feeling of psychologically hearing the sound correctly. Nowadays, all bands are going for technology, but I want to make music that is 90% made of real instruments. Especially sounds like church organs and percussion should be authentic. I want the listener to feel the real sound in their heart. It takes a lot of work to get a good sound with real instruments, but I think it's worth the challenge.」

"I feel isolated in the UK scene, I don't feel I have anything in common with other bands, I don't like Oasis and stuff for some reason."

You've always said that you want to encourage listeners to face themselves through music, but do you still think music should be an important, life-altering experience, rather than just entertainment? 「I think it should be. It's not the quality of the individual listener that is important, it's the attitude of trying to understand. So even if there are only four people listening, I'd be happy if they all perceive something deeper than entertainment.」

Yes. So what does "success" mean to Muse? 「Well, I don't really have an end goal. I feel like the end goal is the same as 'completion' for me, but I feel like once I'm done, I'm closed off to new ideas. I want to be more open. I want to keep learning and absorbing new things. So the end is when I die. Then I can at least say, 'I've done everything I can do'. But 'success' gives me confidence and meaning in life.」

Translator's Note: You know, the very first thing that caught my attention with this interview was Matt claiming that his parents divorced when he was 15. And I was rightfully confused by it because I've read Muse's autobiography book before, and even long time fans know that Matt's parents separated when he was 13. So I assumed that given that this was Matt back in 2001, he was probably fudging the numbers.

On the other hand, legally speaking, separation and divorce are two different meanings. In simple terms, the difference between a separation and a divorce is that the separation leaves the marriage intact while a divorce ends it.

And since the autobiography explicitly stated that Matt's parents separated when he was 13 but never stated when they divorced, then this interview... might have actually been truthful and Matt revealed when his parents actually divorced?

How do I live with this information???? Neither MuseWiki nor the band's autobiography ever had this particular information before.

[freakattack]

I found this video essay about Wario and I want to know what you think of it. youtu(.)be/jSzc28SIvKQ

First of all, i am obsessed with how this ask is formatted like a phishing scam directly tailored to me. This is not a dig at you at all, but this message did make me realize that if someone actually sent me a malware link with the word "wario" on it, i would fall for it without question. Much to think about. Anyways

I did see this video in my recommended for a while but i never clicked on it because i was afraid i would get mad at it. Something about me that may surprise you is that i get really mad about stupid shit. I have to know my limits. But after doing some breathing exercises and drinking some water, i steeled my nerves enough to watch this video, just for you. And it's pretty good! It's by the tamatoa guy, and I don't remember any of the tamatoa guy's other videos but at least one must have left a positive enough impression on me that I trust the tamatoa guy to talk about wario at me. He didn't even fall into the trap of "wario land wario is completely separate from warioware wario", which would have made me eat my leg probably! But I appreciate that he thoroughly researched for this video despite having stumbled into the World Of Wario by pure chance; he even got sound bomber in there. He leaves the question of wario's relationship with waluigi open, which I can only assume is because he's hinting at a future waluigi video because there's no way he didn't figure it out after all that sleuthing. He did introduce to me a disquieting question that I had not stopped to consider until he said it out loud: What would I do if a stranger stopped me on the street to ask me "Who is Wario"? Would I give them a clinical rundown of his wikipedia article? Would I wax poetic about how he has inspired me to become a better person? Would I die? Hard to say. It makes me sad that 9 out of 10 people on the street presumably do not know him like we do, but I realize now that that is why this video is so important. This is a public wario announcement. But to address the central thesis of the video: yeah. I disagree with the idea that mario kart wario is particularly lacking in characterization compared to other incarnations - I play as him specifically to hear his Warioisms when I lose - but I agree with the general sentiment being presented here, which is that WarioWare the company is what allowed wario to finally shed the rivalry that was holding him back prior to his foray into game design. Don't get me wrong, wario will never fully be okay with mario, but now it's moreso a simple desire to dunk on him than festering hatred and envy. Wario used to be "the evil mario", but nowadays mario isn't even in his top 3 rivals. (The top 3, if you're wondering, are syrup, pyoro, and - at number one - toad. Can't say I blame him.) The fact that this microgame exists at all is a testament to how far he's come:

It's funny too, because I was just thinking the other day about how wario's friends basically domesticated the guy. A couple decades ago he spent his days terrorizing woodland creatures and putting curses on forests, and now all he does in the woods is hang out and grill hotdogs for a flock of animals and children. Finally, a wario for the whole family!

Other thoughts i had:

-Appreciate the wario world acknowledgement. In my heart of hearts i want to believe that there is a wario-esque doppelganger of my own out there that is just as passionate about Wario World as i am about warioware. Where are the dinomighty comics? I know they're out there

-I did actually get mad exactly once during the video, and it was at the very very end when he used the "what if wario had a website" question just to plug squarespace because wario's websites are some of my favorite websites on this god damn planet. I don't hold this against him because it's not his fault but it kind of felt like he kicked my dog. But that's the only time! I still deserve a sticker for that.

-On a meta level, I think wario's character development is a beautiful testament to how the cartoon characters that we shape with our hearts and minds can become so real that they begin to shape themselves. I know i'm the wario guy but believe it or not i have made my own flock of cartoon characters, and it is a beautiful feeling when they start naturally coming into their own like that. I always took this quote at face value but the interview where they say that "wario is really stupid and is always doing idiotic things" totally represents that turning point moment for him. Not that his character fits the role, or that it would be funny to have him do stupid things, but that he's already doing them! In real life! You hear that, Wario? You're a real boy!

[expectiations]

*rolls back in here.* So I stayed up all night watching Doctor Who again. Now, what do you feel about my(i think someone has already made this headcanon before lol) headcanon that somewhere out there in the universe, there is a star named after the Doctor and one named after River because The Doctor decided to name one after his sweetie and River wanted to name one after her darling husband? (if you think about it this way they forever immortalised their love to each other in those stars they named after the other because even if that star dies it would explode and later on form again into another star or even a planet. their love for each other is already immortal, literally, and would never be topped but for the sake of poeticness...yeah)

Oh, I absolutely love this headcanon, and I 100% believe it's canon in some corner of the Whoniverse! Actually, there is an archipelago out there that's basically the Doctor and River intertwined (spoilers for the Ninth Doctor and River Song audios, but let's just say: they're out there making their mark on the stars).

The idea of them naming stars after each other feels so in character. The Doctor, with their flair for grand gestures, would absolutely name a star after River to immortalize her brilliance. And River? She'd make sure there's a star named for the Doctor because that's just who she is—someone who loves with her whole being and always watches the Doctor's gestures with her own poetic ones.

I like to imagine a younger version of them, newly married, giggling in delight as they pick out stars for each other. I can't exactly recall if it's canon or fanon, but the Doctor one time wrapped a small moon in a ribbon to give to River as a present. Hmmm... I think that's fanon. But still! It would so not be out of character for the Doctor to do such a thing (considering he did gift her an entire tree once XD).

The symbolism though? Perfection. Stars die, they explode, and then they're reborn as new stars or planets. Just like their love—it bends, it breaks, but it's never truly gone. It's finite. Eternal.

But since I'm me, imagine we actually get an episode where Doctor and companion are on an adventure, they end up on this planet that worships a star. The Doctor gets flashes of déjà vu as they wander about. Then, voilà. They realize the star they had giddily named centuries, even millennia, ago with their wife had now become an entire civilization's religion.

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I love the Nancy in fic who goes off into the world after everything in Hawkins is settled and safe and over as much as the next gal, but I've been thinking a lot about Nancy's arc in canon and it is so much about being the one left behind to keep on living and the courage that requires of her right? Like.

Barb dies and Nancy is left to cope with what it means for someone so young, someone you love and have loved so deeply, someone who was an intrinsic part of your life to be gone. She's left as the one person on the planet who not only knew Barb as she was when she was alive, as a true friend and as the person she was outside of all the high school bullshit, but also the one person who carried the weight of her legacy even before her parents knew she was dead.

Nancy carries on after Barb, carries the stories to which she is now the only teller.

In season 2, when everyone else wants and needs to try and pretend that everything is normal, she's left behind again as the one who is desperate to not ignore what's happened. She refuses to put it down, tuck it away, leave it behind and is left behind herself /because/ of this, because she doesn't cope in the same way Steve does, because she doesn't believe that healing is in the putting it in the past the way so many of them do.

Nancy goes to work for the Herald, takes the initiative to put all that energy of being desperate for answers she doesn't get to have regarding her own sense of self in the midst of ongoing grief and tragedy into a place where there are answers she maybe has a shot at actually nailing down and you know what happens when she latches onto a story where she thinks this desperate part of herself might be able to help someone? No one believes her! Even Jonathan gives up the chase after they get fired and Nancy is once again, left the only soul to care about putting the pieces together.

She is always the only one around to put the pieces together, she is in Hawkins in season 4, boyfriend across the country and trying to make plans for getting out of the whole mess together, but a girl is killed and Nancy latches on because come ON it's a teenage girl dying under mysterious circumstances and Nancy has grieved and Nancy is grieving and Nancy left Barb behind once and has been cursed to be left alone forever more in retribution and--

And Fred dies.

And Nancy is alone.

Even when she's back together with the Party, Vecna finds her, drags her off into isolation and shows her what it will be like when she outlives her entire family because THAT is the tragedy of Nancy Wheeler.

Outliving.

It doesn't matter how many times she runs straight into danger, reckless and desperate with a gun in her hand and legacy after mystery after life piled up on her shoulders, Nancy outlives them all.

She's grief personified in the body of a lonely teenage girl and basically what I'm saying is that, of everyone, Nancy can't die in season 5 because that's not her story.

Her story is in the burden of telling everyone else's, even if that means she never quite fully leaves Hawkins behind, even if that means she's the only one who can't quite leave Hawkins behind.

She's used to it, after all.

Being the only one left.

[theothersideofhim]

Secret, Mistake, Midnight

from [here]

Under the cut since it's A LOT and also a SECRET lmao

secret: What’s one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

Easy enough: he's lonely. He's intensely, earth-shatteringly, irreparably lonely and it's directly because he's part of a duality where each part is designed to function alone. Me and Asche's personal lore for Stan is that he's "the other side" of God but that doesn't mean they're meant to get along. They're meant to be locked in a tidal orbit of never ending conflict, bound to each other but light years away. Stan is meant to be The Adversary and my personal lore is that he's just a little fucking sad about that.

Like he remembers helping to create the universe, hurling matter and heat in every direction, breaking down everything so Eli could pull it back together and form it into more and more complex elements, smashing atoms and meteors and whole planets into each other in a chaotic Mario Party Smash that lasted billions of eons and also just one flashbang

... so Eli could come in and create life on what was left.

And he knows that the only way to ever experience that sense of belonging and purpose again--at least on that "Mantle of the Adversary", cosmic level anyway--is to create a new universe. And he knows that in order for that to really happen the one they'd already made would have to be destroyed.

So there's that.

All this to say, I don't think Stan understands that's what he's feeling anyway. I think it translates to him as Angry and Sad. He'll show the angry part but he doesn't want people to ever know about the sad part.

Oh also he likes head touches and neck kisses shhhSHSHHHHHHH.

mistake: What’s the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

Designing the platypus.

No but seriously, this one is really hard. I wanna say almost killing Lucifer, but is that really the worst? In all the millenia that Stan has been alive, his WORST MISTAKE was making Lucifer believe he was going to die at Stan's hands? Because in all honesty, the two of them will eventually find their way back into the toxic, symbiotic relationship they've had since Lucifer fell and everything will fall back into place again.

But will it??? Will it really????????? He effectively put Doubt in Lucifer's head for... basically as long as it's going to sit there. They'd gotten so close as for Stan to actually tell Lucifer "I love you", even if it was just a whisper, even if it was after just sticking a knife in the former angel's stomach, and they were both reminded that it could have been thrown away in a heartbeat over the pull of the Mantles needing to fill Roles.

Whether or not Lucifer moves on from it, Stan is always going to remember being slightly out of control... but not entirely. He was somewhere in the vicinity of the driver's seat and that is fucking chilling in its implications for Lucifer's place in his heart and Stan's capacity to have one in the first place.

So yeah I guess I'll keep it at that for now.

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

He has a fear of intimacy that is in direct conflict with his aforementioned loneliness, and yeah that actually keeps him up at night sometimes lmao. If you wanted to get deeper into that it's a fear of rejection. If you wanted to go even further it's a fear of abandonment.

That's too far woah woahhhh bring it on back now.

His nightmares are always full of songs sung by angels made by Him but Not Him, sounds he can't make that spin molecules together into planets and cities and people, beautiful and terrible but muffled and far away like it was a record playing in another room.

He never speaks in his dreams. His mouth wasn't meant to make sound it was meant to devour, and he never yells or screams or throws any kinds of fits in his dreams.

[box-dwelling]

I don't know if I've elaborated on this specific headcanon on here but this is a hill I plan to die on and I keep instinctively referencing it when I write so here:

Apollo has canonically watched doctor who or at least the AA equivalent, he makes a reference to it about Trucy's panties. This is canon. However I personally choose to believe that he is a fan of the much derived classic serial Trial of a Time Lord and does in fact regularly force the people in his life to watch it with him in an attempt to get them to like his nerd shit because it's law themed. This predictably fails because it is one of the worst seasons in the shows 6 decade run and is at points barely watchable. But I do think that Apollo just gets too hyped about the fact it's two of his interests overlapping

I'm gonna put the context under the cut for this serial because it's less headcanon and more just my thoughts, but I you want me to talk about how bad I think one of my favourite characters taste is then enjoy

For those not in the know this serial is basically an entire season of the show with the overarching narrative of the Doctor being on trial with himself as the defense in the gallianan court to prove that he hasn't been breaking basically all their laws by interfering with the affairs of other planets. It features very silly costumes, questionable writing because the BBC was trying so hard to get the show canceled at this point in time, and Brian Blessed in yellow face.

Now I am probably one of the few dw fans that actually quite enjoys the idea of a court drama doctor who serial, a lot of people are opposed in concept alone as the drama of the episode is regularly cut away to court scenes of the doctor and the procecution (that's a whole ass can of worms I'm not getting into the valeyard) bickering. But I will concede that even I couldn't finish it. The companions are well, they're two of the worst ones the series has ever done. I enjoy Perri but god did the writers just want a random young woman to be in skimpy outfits and put very little thought into her beyond that. It's carried by the performance but my girl has nothing to work with, especially this season where they get rid of the fact that she and six have a pretty antagonistic relationship and she's just generic companion with no flavor. Mel is... Ok whenever I see a female character that a fan base seems to hate I do instinctively want to love her. I was sat there determined to like her but unfortunately this is one of the few times the fans are right. She's really grating and not interesting in the slightest. I really tried. I can't.

The story's are goodish, it's classic who fair. Nothing outstanding unless you're me and want to over think about Perris death. But the episode itself doesn't lend much to that idea beyond her performance. The pacing is rough with the interspersed trial sections and honestly the Doctors puns on the prosecutors name get old real quick and that is so so much of the trial sections.

[usedpidemo]

Do you think K-pop concert ticket prices are too expensive now? What do you think should be the threshold, and what can be done to give all fans, whether casual or diehard, a great experience?

I could go on an entire rant/tangent on what I think concerts as a whole should be like, but it would be the length of a regular fic, so I'll spare you every issue and thought I have about them. I've only been to one concert in my whole life, so I don't have the experience or depth that other concertgoers have, but let's just say the streaming and COVID economy fucked up everything.

Prices: I believe the terrible royalties from streaming, as well as the increased demand for live shows in general has caused these ticket prices to skyrocket. Like you can't just buy a ticket for a decent seat for less than $70 now, that shit only gives you nosebleed seats. Not to mention the deliberate collusion of scalpers by ticketing sites. Those resale tickets and third parties directly cooperate with Ticketmaster so they can punch a bit more money from consumers. And don't even get me started with Dynamic Pricing and those terrible service fees. I'm fortunate enough to live in a country where such things don't exist, but with HYBE openly expressing their intention to enable dynamic pricing and finding alternatives in places where it's not available, you can bet they'll find a way to punch up the prices too.

I understand why they charge this much. Fans will go out to see their favorite artist, regardless of how much they complain about it. FOMO. You don't know if they'll come back to your country or city, or when. Not to mention, the typical K-pop concert is a much grander production than, say, your average pop star. You got backup dancers, large stages, numerous costume changes, sometimes a live band, and of course, multiple members with dozens of staff managing a group. Concerts are the biggest revenue/income drive now for a majority of artists because of how music is distributed today, so they have to break even. Doing world tours are costly; consider the VISA and other costs on a country-to-country basis. No wonder they'd rather tour the US and Japan only to save a few thousand dollars.

It's difficult to gauge the threshold because popularity and demand is fickle, especially in K-pop. However, if there has to be a limit, I personally would stop at around $1000-sub range. There's not a damn singer or artist on planet earth, dead or alive, that's worth over a $1000 ticket. Even MJ. The economy isn't looking good, inflation keeps jumping year by year, and concerts have become basically rich people havens too.

Personally, I do think it'll eventually die out. There's a touring oversaturation right now that it dries people out and we have to pick and choose who we want to attend.

There's a few things I really want to see happen in the future, ideally:

• Rookies shouldn't be pricier than their seniors. I don't care if its NewJeans, IVE, or Le sserafim, they really shouldn't be more expensive than say, a 3-4 year old group. It's ridiculous how NMIXX and IVE were more expensive than The Boyz or ATEEZ.

• Announcing ticket sale literally right after the tour announcement. This is something I absolutely hate. Why are you selling tickets for a show six-eight months away like two weeks after announcing it? Fucking insane! It gives us little to no prep time to gather up resources and plan accordingly. Also, what if something happens that causes a concert to be canceled or delayed? It'll be much harder for us to get refunds back, which is exactly why they pull this shit off. Normalize selling tickets at most two months-a month before the show.

• Make the ticket prices worth it. This is my biggest gripe with concerts, more than the prices: that you're basically paying for the seats and nothing else. I'm not gonna lie, I likely wouldn't have gone out to my one and only concert if I wasn't guaranteed anything else besides a nice seat. Pre-pandemic, the price of the ticket I bought would have given me a group/solo pic with the group and some other cool perks like maybe signed merch. Now? Most concerts give you the show and nothing more. You have to justify paying that hefty tag beyond just a close view of your favorite artist. I remember when pop stars like Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and The Weeknd had photo-ops before the show for those VIP tivkets. COVID ruined all of that. It's such a damn shame, because at best, you're getting soundcheck, which I'm not fond of, in my opinion. It forces people to bait for interactions and not enjoy themselves during the show cuz they aren't guaranteed artist engagement (though this won't really change anything if we're being real lol). I personally would be a lot more comfortable and have a greater time if I knew I could greet them before or after the show instead of trying too hard to get their attention.

[depresseddepot]

watching alien 3 for the first time

why doesn't she just explain to the doctor??? he seems okay if a little intense at times

i can't believe they just threw bishop away :( i heard his death gets retconned but tbh i don't actually know what that word means

the vibes of this movie are way different than the others lol the dark cement structures, the religion, the weird emphasis on ripley as a sexual figure

poor pubby :(

the doctor is the only normal and sane person on this fucking planet

RIPLEY WHY ARE YOU FLIRTING WITH A MAN ON A PLANET OF PRISONERS. YOU CANNOT BE THAT HORNY. WHY DID THEY TURN HER CHARACTER INTO THIS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VERY SUBTLE VIBES BETWEEN HER AND HICKS

DID SHE SLEEP WITH HIM??? girl. i am too asexual to understand this behavior. and i still don't understand why she won't tell him. also i assume he isn't an android if they fucked because otherwise i DEFINITELY would have heard about it

I'll admit, it is very refreshing to have a character taking these sorts of pathogen/mysterious deaths seriously. ripley has always been very clearly unsettled when she's talking about the xenomorphs and nobody ever seemed to take her seriously

JAGSHSJJAHA "listen to me you piece of shit" WITH THE CUT TO CLEMENS POLITELY DRINKING COFFEE W THE POSH "I'm sorry I don't think I understand"

I'm starting to get worried about what exactly clemens "did" lol, he's on a planet of rapists and I don't really want to spend the whole moving kicking my feet about a professional, polite british man who turns out to be a rapist

bishop :((((

there isn't ACTUAL sexual violence in this movie right. right?

OH LITERALLY SECONDS AFTER I FINISHED TYPING THAT THERE WAS ACTUAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE

"i gotta re-educate some of the brothers. we have to discuss some matters of the spirit" calmly says the man with a bloodied steel pipe

this is such a bizarre setting for an alien film lol. it isn't BAD i guess, like a shift from the norm isn't automatically bad, but it's very unexpected. like when I think of a high security WY prison planet I don't really think of concrete walls and religious fanatics. more like......hospital? with mostly synthetics as the staff

BISHOP!!!!!

"I'm just a glorified toaster" BISHOP I MISS YOU

"I'm home" "It's very dark here" interesting. So he reads the flight recorder unit sort of as if he can visualize it?

I'm excited to watch andrews die. what a bastard.

clemens you are starting to quickly become an obsession of mine. you cannot put a polite doctor with a british accent and a subtle layer of snark to everything he says and not expect me to jump him. you better not disappoint me.

oh he's even got TRAUMA

aaaand he's dead. okay I guess I should've expected that. that one feels MEAN though

sadly adds another fictional dead british man to my list of favorite characters

so i think i know a little more abt this than i thought. The xeno didn't kill her because she's got the parasite right?

the scenes of her running in the hallway are really cool tho

did I miss why aaron doesn't like being called 85? oh it literally answers that less than minutes later okay LMAO

wait DOES ripley have a parasite? she isn't really behaving like she does like why is she flexing her hands like that

so there's a specific queen parasite ? i sort of thought one BECAME the queen because how else would they cause an infestation

he wouldn't kill her 🙄

the cgi (if that's even what its called when the alien is basically photoshopped in) on the xeno is not good (it is very 2004 so I'm not sure if it's just a sign of the time) but the scenes from the xeno POV in the hallway as they're baiting it is pretty cool to watch

it...survived?? that feels inaccurate

IT EXPLODED???????? that also feels inaccurate

also very convenient that ripley's parasite has taken so long to gestate

BISHOP????????????????????????????

oh he's a human creep. okay. also who the hell designs an android that looks exactly like themselves. he definitely wanted to fuck that robot

also the way the subtitles call him "bishop 2" THATS RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER!!! HE AINT THE PRIME BISHOP

okay final thoughts: if this WASN'T an alien franchise film, ie it was a different universe w a different monster with different characters, it would have been pretty good. It had some cool cinematic moments but it was all negated by the fact that they completely discarded what happened in the second film and made ripley's character really odd. If it had been a random family in cyrosleep that was boarded somehow and then crashed, it would've been much more intriguing than making this an alien franchise film. I don't think it was horrible as a film but it was a horrible alien sequel to be sure.

Also given how dynamic a character Clemens was, I find it really fucking weird that he wasn't the last survivor. They did so much to set him up as an intriguing character and then they just killed him, meanwhile the last survivor was MORSE OF ALL PEOPLE. They could've had a sequel to the sequel with Clemens studying the xeno and they wasted it. I think this was all a bad dream ripley had and she and hicks and newt are going back to earth.

[autistic-mandalorian]

Here are my two newest! Meet Storm (et/ets/ou/oum/she/her) and Shelt'nell (ae/aer)!

Storm is a Coruscant Guard Medic and Shelt'nell is a Temple Guard; they kept getting assigned to the same political showoff unnecessary bodyguard duties and developed a friendship, and later became QPPs.

Storm ended up on Coruscant after stepping on a landmine and getting ets leg blown off & losing ous hearing in her left ear (also where the scar is from). It was only through intervention by Akera Ragrotu (another OC of mine) that et was transferred to Coruscant and not sent back to Kamino. Et has a very "I Cannot Flinch Even Once In The Face Of All Of The Horrors Or Else I Will Lose" attitude, and is a very stoic and competitive person in general. Ou has a special interest in meteorology and is very committed to the theme of her name; she does not like dressing in CG red and would prefer to wear blues and grays all of the time. Aroace.

Shelt'nell is a Selkath Jedi Temple Guard with a congenital limb difference (right arm ends just below the elbow) and one lost eye from a bad fall as a kid. Ae spends most of aer time as a Guard being a steward for the Temple: tending the gardens, cleaning the floors and windows, painting the walls, watching over the children, cleaning the water in the aquatic areas (Selkath are amphibious), etc. Ae is a somewhat socially awkward person and tends to compensate with over-the-top kindness and hospitality. Ae likes the anonymity of being a Guard and enjoys putting on a little persona when under the mask; ae also likes to blow off steam by hooking up with people under different personas and pseudonyms. Ae prefers to always have something to do with aer hands, and likes moving meditation (especially swimming). Bisexual.

These two have a whole storyline where they become queerplatonic partners during the war, with each knowing (but pretending they don't) that it can't last because Storm hates Coruscant and wants off as soon as the war ends, and Shelt'nell loves and has devoted aer life to the Temple and could never leave it; plus, with them being a Jedi and a clone, the inherent power imbalance is... eeeesh... so they ignore it. During Order 66, Storm's chip causes et to believe that Shelt'nell has betrayed her (ous interpretation of the All Jedi Are Traitors message), and because of how few people Storm trusts and how deeply she bonds, et is destroyed by this belief and immediately breaks rank and makes ous way to the Temple to personally kill aer in revenge.

When Storm manages to find Shelt'nell, ae is helping a few Jedi to escape the massacre. The threat Storm poses, as well as aer own unwillingness to kill oum, forces Shelt'nell to basically shove the Jedi out a side door with instructions to a private speedcar (or whatever theyre called, I hate star wars words). From there, the two fight until Shelt'nell is able to incapacitate Storm by throwing her against a wall. Ae gets the hell off of Coruscant with the help of a sympathetic Space Bus Driver and manages to hold Storm in unconsciousness until ae can get them both to a random backwater planet.

On that planet, Shelt'nell makes the very heavy devision to sell aer lightsaber in order to hire a medical droid to remove the "tumor" in Storm's brain (found with the help of the Force). After the operation is successful, the two spend the remainder of their lives hiding out on a tiny farm on the outskirts of the city they landed in.

The main theme of Shelt'nell's story is Change and Choosing to Change. Ae made an oath to protect and steward the Jedi Temple, and to follow the Jedi Code. But then ae was thrust into a war that broke half the tenets of the code, ae fell in love with someone whose life goals were diametrically opposed to aer oaths, and then everything ae ever pledged aer life to was burned to the ground around aer. The confrontation with Storm is basically the narrative asking Shelt'nell: "Will you hold to your oath and die a Guard, or will you break your oath and live in a world where the Order you pledged yourself to is gone?"

The lightsaber is an affirmation of this choice. Will you hang on to the one thing you have left of your oath, your order, your temple, or will you choose to save the person you never could have been with if you had kept your oath? And Shelt'nell chooses Storm, again.

And Storm's story is about finally choosing etself. For so long she kept her head down, tried not to make waves, took care of ous siblings as best as ou could, refused to let anyone in, refused to Lose, to Crack, to Flinch. Shelt'nell was the only thing she really Chose for etself, and that choice was paid back in kind in ous time of need. Storm was the one who decided to buy the farm they end up living in, so that et could observe the planet's weather patterns without light pollution. Despite the horror of it all, Storm gets to know peace.

btw guys. guys. can you tell me about your star wars ocs? guys.

[deadxlv]

Far Away Soul, White Cold Star 💫

“Broken Bones, Last Wishes, and my Mistakes..” Chapter: 7

The clouds slowly began to fade, the ground stopped shaking, Rajòz (lightning) quieted down , and the air around them began to settle as all the souls were implanted back into the planet's crust. Although the clouds were gone the sky was shrouded in darkness, stars dotted the skies, the two planets locked in the sky shined in all their holiness radiating red and green glows on the world below, and finally the comets shooting across the skies darting by as small specs of light in a dark world.

  Very entities of darkness overcrowding one another to the limit they began fighting over one another's food as spirits fled as fast as they could as other entities of death pulled them in with their tentacles and consumed them in their hellish maws. Kÿr seeing a small bit of shelter under the remains of some pieces of the spire that remained lead his friend there to hide as more beings crept on by being so tall, they couldn't notice such small prey. Hijìn glancing over a corner hid in this small space and began breathing heavily worried on how to find a way to correct this thinking to himself, 'I can't..keep fighting I'm so worn out..but these things..they'd eat us if we make any noise and there are dozens of them..tch I'm so useless at this moment..I can't', before turning to face Kÿr who sat down on a small rock looking down in a depressive state. The man looking over tried to comfort the poor feline but was met with this: "Hijiaan..I'm sorry..I should've just..I don't know..what..I just don't know anymore this is just too much!" The poor feline looking at the beaten man in a state of concern and fear over the situation. 

The man hanging his head laid his back against the cold broken spire wall piece and sighed deeply, the feline watching as the shadows of the entities of darkness passed by decided to just let it all pass. "Hijiaan..or however you pronounce your supposed name..I-I..I want to fix this..but it's best we leave this whole desert if you want to survive." The man not reacting due to his injuries kept his eyes open and keeping his peace so he can mend his wounds would continue listening as Kÿr went on, "Like..I was asleep for so long in that little cave, I can't even remember my ma or pa due to it being so long..all I had from them was just some basic things at my disposal..they never spoke to me about this strange power I have supposedly called a Blessing, or about my eyes and why I can see even though they are closed, or anything and..it's scary..this world is scary Hijiaan." Hijìn looking over what he said tried his best to keep his composure as it went on, the entities making strange noises outside as they kept feasting on by. 

"All I know is I've had to survive on my own..but how can I do that if I can barely do anything yet when I think of a solution my brain goes all crazy beans and I come up with something and that's that..but..I can't this time..and I don't wanna die..Hijiaan..I don't." The small feline choking up a bit was met by the man scooting over as best he could and pulled into a squeezing embrace, the man sitting back against the wall gently pet the felines head as Kÿr sniffled a few times in the darkness. In the silence of death looming on by the little feline would say, "You know..When I saw you on that old cauldron..I truly did believe you were a fool..except something impulsed me to save you..Maybe it was Fate being nice to me..maybe it was Fate giving me a second chance." Hijìn merely looked on down to the feline who could only speak to cope with the scenario, occasionally looked outside to see what was going on, with the entities dispersing as the weather kept harshly changing. 

"Heh..when I was a kid..I encountered that boney..fuck..He hurt me..treated me like shit when I wanted help the most..I recognized something he said to me in this language we all share..well I mean I learned from a book I found as some old shelter, Hybrid...it's as if he could tell I was different than my Ma and Pa..because..heh..they were so different yet managed to make me..but anytime..I even think of that word..It pisses me off..disrespectful to deem me as something that simple..I am Kÿr! Not your personal pet or any..thing." The small feline clenching his weak fist and shaking it at the sky only for it to fall down limp on his chest, Hijìn wanted to comment something personal as well..even though his mind felt foggy he still had the drive to say at least something..but his body couldn't any longer. All he could do is comfort his friend who in these dire times needed any support he could get, as the very world itself was changing at its seams and they've done the impossible..even little chaos makers...to the meekest of heroes in one's eyes somewhere..needed rest. 

The small hums of Hijìn of a somber tune was all that remained to keep company as strangely enough the entities kept moving away from this local, Kÿr rethinking of one last thing to speak of to his perfect listening buddy would say: "You know..I talked about that damned Murka..thing..she's not even a goddess..she's just a big animal..melded with the spirits of this world she dominated this place..or well that's what the stories I read on my travels around this desert have shown me from deserted ruins, but apparently there are like five other one's out there..most are apparently dead or whatever..but the ones that remain are uber powerful..such as the one which supposedly had three heads..crazy stuff." Hijìn smiled at it giving reassurance to the small feline who could only hug his big friend shaking in internal freezing from the blood loss trying to feel the safety of it all once again. Of it all..once again..to see the sun..shine in the morning..once again.

Boom..

Instantly a giant explosion went off in the area they were in, something absolutely massive ripped through the super continent snatching up the darkened entities in a panic blasted the small shelter the two had into nothing. The two were in the air they could not see the ground beneath them floating above in the clouds. Hijìn spitting out a large amount of blood all over him and Kÿr had holes all over his chest and arms, he was frozen from the fear and shock administered so fast unexpectedly, blood soaking his shirt and body defeated he whimpered as something slowly rose towards them. From Hell arose the grand sand serpent, Kùdrã-Moqhè, whose gigantic form stretched to the stars up above. The two began to fall, but a strange force kept them in the air paralyzing them from crashing down into the earth below, out behind them the giant creature emerged breaking through the clouds. Darkened entities that consumed souls were eaten as mere morsels as the serpent rose higher and higher.  

Starlight illuminated the heavens around them, soaking their dying bodies in the last light they will ever see before it is time for judgment, the being stopped reigning over them being so large it would be visible from space. It's cold yellow eyes stared down at the two who were at the brink, turned around slowly to meet eyes with the Goddess of the endless sands they watched it for all they could have until the end. Out from Kÿr's lips, a small mutter would come out, opening his right eye in so much pain he weakly pointed at the serpent and shot a small bullet at her wanting to have one final shot at having tried the Goddess.

The Serpent was not amused solemnly leaning down as sand poured off her body down to the ground below until she was at eye level with the boys before simply staring at them, trying to find a reason why they were even capable of doing the acts they were told to have done only to find nothing, the feline and the human-like were so pitifully weak in its eyes it must've been the demons lurking below consuming the damned that caused this. The stars slowly died down in the background as the Goddess moved back realizing this was a waste of her time and as Hijìn took a large last breath he watched the Serpent slide back down under the clouds. It went dark, the fire within them had long since burnt out until the feeling of immeasurable pain soon followed on her path back down to fix what was wrought Kudra had smacked the two in the air far away with her immense tail at full force. The two were destroyed on the spot as they were launched into the horizon far away.. 'I'm sorry A-pa.. I wasn't able.. to save you.." was Hijìn's final thoughts..before...it all went..away. Not even..given the chance..as this world only takes..and takes and takes...

Producing the worst of its monsters..none are spared..gone..so soon..May you be remembered.

"The Darkness around consumed all nearby, the smell of roses, taste of honey, all things which seemed sweet are always countered by things of disgust and evil.. it's up to you as the person alive in the light to correct these means and be true to the nature which birthed you.. if not then all Evils will consume your soul from within.." 'My Memory..'

Forgone..may you remember Me..

I-I'm..sorry..

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[minkkumaz]

UNFORTUNATELY I DIDNT GET VIP (it was expensive… but once boynextdoor gets a wt IM SOOOO SPENDING EVERYTHING I HAVE FOR THAT TICKET.)

but i had some interactions w niki hehe!!! he gave me a wave and i literally wanted to die right there.. AND OMG!!! i checked the groups u stanned and why r we literally twinning..

HAECHAN IS SO REAL HONESTLY!! gosh i love love love love nctdream rn.. like theyve been plaguing my mind. whats ur fav song from them???

im a bit basic but beatbox,broken melodies and life is going on just hits it right for me. DONT GET ME WRONG I LOVVVEEE ME SOME ISTJ & YOGURT SHAKE (courtesy of jaehyuns yogurt shake challenge..) TOO BUT then id end up naming their whole discography.. gosh but also nct u.. theres this one jisung fancam w THE BAT and IT CHANGED ME!!! HE LOOKED ASTRONOMICALLY UNREALLLLL. but on the other hand i love kangaroo aswell LMAO

We did talk abt boysplanet! (i believe.. i honestly dont remember.. I think we brought it up once when I was talking abt stanning every 5th gen group..) I happened to watch like an episode, but i sort of got really bored of it so i never watched it fully.

i did get it on my tiktok fyp alot!! mostly ricky.. but i was REALLY rooting for yujin, hao and seungeon. Seungeon didnt make the cut (LIKE WHY BTW..???!!) but he debuted in evnne!! HOORAY!!!! Yujin is my bias while hao is my wrecker.. (it’s always the maknaes that have me hooked.. no clue why.)

AND GYUVIN AS JYP HAS ME ROLLINGGG 😭😭😭😭 FOULLLLLL.

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I'M SO GLAD YOU GOT SOME NIKI INTERACTIONS THAT'S SO GOOD FOR U! i wanna go to another kpop concert soon there's just something so special about going to them ehe.

and yes ehe, actually, broken melodies got me into nct dream! because my bsf jordan was listening to broken melodies when it first came out and i was listening along with her, then we kinda listened on loop for awhile and she told me whos voice was who n stuff :) then from there we had a couple nct listening parties LOL i liked haechan because of his high note in broken melodies :3

my favorite song... from nct dream it's probably candy. i know it's kind of basic but come on i can't help it, it just makes me feel so jolly. also hello future is really good! i have a thing for title tracks HSKNS BUT I ALSO DO REALLY LIKE BLUE WAVE :3 and for some of the other units, i really enjoy love talk from wayv and favorite (vampire) from nct 127!

i don't really remember when we talked about boys planet but we probably did HAHA it's been so long i don't exactly remember my top 9 but i was rooting for jay and ollie for sure! woongki and wumuti also stole my heart </3

like i mentioned earlier my biases are gyuvin and taerae! it's funny because i was battling between the two trying to figure out which one i wanted to bias. whenever i decided on gyuvin, id get so many taerae edits on my fyp, then when i switched to taerae id get a bunch of gyuvin edits. but hey, the more the merrier right? can never have too many biases hehe. but through zb1 i definitely gained so much more love for yujin, as i didn't follow him too closely on bp.

gyuvin jyp collab in the future >_<

[pockcock]

how do you feel about your disgusting country being responsible of the Armenian genocide? <3 rlly wish turkey burnt down a few weeks ago lmfao the cleansing... chief kiss

[writerbuddha]

Indeed, Tatooine is not part of the Republic, but it's important to see that the situation there wasn't the result of the Senate and the Jedi are respecting the sovereignty of the crime empire of a vile gangster. It's very clearly stated in Episode I that the Galactic Republic, as the dominant power of the known universe, passed "anti-slavery laws." As Padmé says, "I can't believe there's still slavery in the galaxy. The Republic's anti-slavery laws..." The Republic is supposed to combat slavery in the entire galaxy, just like the Jedi Knights are guardians of peace and justice in the entire galaxy. Tatooine is not a country or a state or something, rather, it's part of the criminal underworld. The reason why it can exist is because, "The Republic is not what it once was. The senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." As Padmé declares, "It is clear to me now that the Republic no longer functions." And this is what Lucas wanted to tell us: in these Episodes, “the Senators have fallen out of the symbiotic circle” and the “symbiotic relationship had torn apart” as “they couldn’t agree on anything because their interests became so divergent, so they couldn’t get anything done as a Republic.”

Jedi Knights are not enforcers of peace and justice. They are not Marvel superheroes who go in and correct the wrongs of the world one bad guy at the time. They’re “warrior-monks who keep peace in the universe without resorting to violence” "they have the moral authority” to “keep the governments of all the planets in line, so that they don’t do terrible things” and they can do this because they have the power “to send the whole force of the Republic, which is 100 000 systems, so if you don’t behave they can bring you up in front of the Senate. They’ll cut you off at the knees, politically.” Jedi Knights are heavily reliant on compassionate, democratic, thus strong galactic community, the ever-growing symbiotic circle, to guard peace and justice: the Jedi Order needed the Republic, and later, the Rebellion, to succeed. And without a functioning Galactic Republic, that had no interest in upholding its values and enforcing its laws, the Jedi are abandoned, they are unable to uphold peace and justice in an uncaring galaxy. When people criticize the Jedi for "allowing" slavery to exist in the galaxy they basically demand them to destroy themselves in a war that was impossible for them to win, to die a death that helps absolutely no one, but superficially satisfies the criteria of "good" in Black-and-White thinking.

A gentle reminder that Tatooine is not part of the Republic.

Jedi have no authority on Tatooine

Republic has no authority on Tatooine

Republic system didn't fail the people of Tatooine, because people of Tatooine don't live within the Republic's system

Yes, Republic is flawed, yes it's horrible a planet is controlled by gangsters. But membership in the Republic is completely voluntary. To act against rulers of another planet is an act of war. To absorb a planet without it willingly applying is not what freedom and democracy stand for.

Tatooine is messed up because of the Hutts, not because of the Republic or the Jedi.

Qui-Gon talking about Anakin not having been born in the Republic.

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Morrigan Reads - Project Hail Mary

Book: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Rating: 5/5 ⭐ Genre: Sci-Fi Tags: Survival, Adventure, Platonic Relationships, End-of-the-World, Aliens, Scientific Sci-Fi, Realistic Sci-Fi

Spoiler-Free Review: So, I absolutely adored this book. Easily the best sci-fi book I've read this year, and probably in my top sci-fi of all time. If you've heard of Andy Weir before, it's almost definitely because of his debut novel, The Martian. Project Hail Mary is slightly similar in the fact that it's a high-stakes survival story set in space, backed up by incredibly realistic science. But PHM goes much farther, both in space and in fiction, than The Martian did.

Spoilers Under The Cut!

I absolutely adore this book. Not only is it incredibly entertaining, funny, and thoughtful, but the science fucking rocks. I'm sick and tired of all aliens either being evil or humanoid, and this books finally shatters that. Not only is Rocky not even remotely humanoid, he can't even breathe the same atmosphere as Ryland. And the vast differences in their scientific advancements, but their shared common goal, is amazing.

An alien and a human working together to save their species, not from each other, but from a whole different threat. Also, the complete and utter plausibility of the speculative biology involved amazed me. I could not only vividly imagine the Eiridians, but I could also completely believe that something like them could exist. And also, I'm so incredibly glad that the first alien life we encounter is microbiological in nature, because realistically, that's true.

And the way that Ryland and Rocky's first communication is via mimicry... I love it. Because here, on Earth, in real life, if you meet someone with whom you don't share a common language, you default to basically cherades. And so I'm glad that that's how Ryland and Rocky communicate at first.

Also, I never expected to have emotions over a labrador-sized pentagonal spider, but I absolutely did. I love Rocky so much. The way he and Ryland bond, and the way they respect each other's cultures and don't really question them, I love it.

And the ending, oh god, the ending. I'm in love. Ryland had the choice to let the Eiridians die and see Earth again, or never go home and save two species. And he, the coward who never wanted to go on this mission in the first place, he makes the right choice. He gives up his chance to go home in order to save two species.

The ending, the actual ending, that broke me. That last sentence made me make a little noise, not sure if it was a sob, scream, or laughter. But I loved it. Ryland wanted to stay on Earth to teach the children, and here he is, decades later, teaching the children of an alien planet. It made my heart hurt in a good way.

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

I am not giving you more stupid I know things !

If the reptilians end up taking the planet they have sinned deeply I know people mock sin because they don't understand religion because of all the cult in the pseudo religious practices on the earth have driven mankind away from spiritual truth I'm not going to go too deep into that because people love to use that as a cult's, I just want to get right to the point.

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The dragon God there are deities for every part of the universe for everything cuz that's how God does things God sets his Divine family up the other deities with a Divine mission but they have to agree with it though it has to be something natural he doesn't just tell them what they're going to do.

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Long story short the dragon God is coming to wipe out the planet Earth a lot of gods try to do their best to keep the universe and some sort of perpetual balance I know it seems like a bunch of Hocus pocus BS but I'm not lying I know things.

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The god of the Draconian is the god of Draco is so disgusted and enraged he is seeing in so much disgusted anger that he is going to leave his holy place in Draco which he is the power source he is the thing that makes Draco so special he is the life force of the draconians.

Here's what makes dragons dragons and snakes, Reptile of all things of reptile he is one of the ultimate life force sources of reptile energy he is the reason why dragons get to be born and why they why they die out old and get reincarnated again he is the true holy God of All things reptile.

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And I dare not speak any blasphemy's name I just want to get right to the point his message.

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The god of the dragons says for All reptiles on reptilians to leave the Earth leave Gaia or else he will come and destroy this place and probably the whole Solar System with it he wants the souls of the reptilians that have conquered this place to go home or else suffer his ultimate wrath.

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To all the reptilians he'll laugh at me and think I'm merely a fool making things up I swear to God on it I swear on that God that he's telling the truth. 🐉🐉🐉

Go home very very soon very very Very Soon.

Basically around the year 2023 which is impossible.

( I'm not saying the dragon guys probably going to be here by the year 2023 - I don't know when he might arrive ultimately I just think that the Draco God really supports the the Grays and I don't think you think he supporting the great alien I think supporting the insectoid goddess of Earth because deity don't really care about The mortals they care about their own mortal they don't care about other deities mortals )

( what you mean titanium really badly wants her Planet back her home back but she can't have it because it cuz one of the greatest experiments have conquered the Earth and then alien mixture of that DNA conquer those experimental results and now she can't have her effing Planet back she can't have her Hive back she can't have a fairy lamp back and She's Royally Fuk'd )

For all reptilians to get off the Earth I recommend you use portals don't say that the people underground don't have photos don't say that they don't know how to make portals that's a lie to open a portal and leave the planet.

Unless you want to take on your beating heart, the deity !

You elites you seemingly Almighty reptilians draconians who conquered Gaia believe you have more power than that of the God of dragons then I merely say do battle with your God, 🐉 you will not win !!!

I don't know this is all true or not then again the dragon guy I could be blowing a bunch of Fuk'n, smoke the dragon guy is very weak but he keeps trying to tell me that he will he probably wondering why do these random God tell Random people, IT'S BECAUSE !

AND WE'LL GIVE THE MESSAGE AS WITH OTHER PEOPLE DON'T LISTEN AND IF THEY COULD HEAR IT THEY WOULD NOT GIVE THE MESSAGE WE DON'T HEAR WHAT THEIR EARS WE HEAR WITH OUR SPIRIT !!!

The god of Draco once his children back he wants his people back he wants a life force back !

And if they don't obey their God which is already an automatic felony in terms of sins.

Then you get to meet the raft the dragon God and that's not something even I want to take on and I'm a crazy SOB that takes on anything I'll write a bear I'll write a grizzly bear I don't care and I do not want to piss off the dragon God good thing I'm not a dragon or reptile I'm a fairy !n🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️ 👽👽👽

And this is what I mean when I say the word Entomanity

This is up insectoid this is a very very good building block and scientific terms for the next version of what you would call Humanity but is not Humanity this is what Humanity dies it looks like a human being but it's nowhere near human and it does not have human nature.

These are my people these are the fairies I told you about they may not have arthropod wings but that will come in time 👽👽👽

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What the dragon God really wants if he wants the world of Gaia to go back to a hive world he wants this place to go back to Fairyland.

And he knows that the reptilians have an iron walk on the earth he is very proud of the reptilians and their masterful skill but it's time to come home.

Nothing of the world belongs to the reptilians that they have stolen give everything back to the fairies also known as insectories give them give everything back to them not even one gold coin should leave and leave with them on the earth if they take anything from the earth it will be cursed and you will see his Wrath the dragon God is just trying to make things right.

! ! ! ! ! ✊🏻🐉✊🏻 DRAGON ✊🏻 GOD ✊🏻🐉✊🏻 ! ! ! ! !

✊🏻 Dragon God ✊🏻 Dragon God✊🏻 Draco Lord ✊🏻 Reptile King ✊🏻

The, Source of Reptile Energy And Essence !

Without the dragon God all things reptile in the universe with suddenly die, literally deities are not like a son to a plant they're like blood to the heart they suddenly go away you instantly die.

And there is much Theory and much debate of the Soul dies with the Gods.

Either way you need the god you need deities without them there is no Universe the it's a really weird thing the universe is the Creator God but the universe is also the gods it's really really weird it goes both ways it's really really complex and convoluted and you can't really prioritize one thing over the other is the absolute reason why everything is the way it is it's both things at once.

I know that's extremely complicated this is not the post that anyway I'm trying to let you know about the dragon God's message