#i really recommend watching this particular part of a parade of providence because the stills of the animations dont do it justice

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An example of queercoding in Alhaitham and Kaveh's relationship: Madam Faruzan edition

Due to the rules in place for game development in China, the possibility for queer confirmation within Genshin Impact is denied, which therefore renders the usage of characters alluding to the potential romantic connection between two same-sex characters as impossible. However, the same insinuation can be made by omitting specific language which strictly conveys romantic sentiments, such as ‘couple’. Instead, the idea of secrecy or something unmentionable can be drawn upon as indicators, as this draws parallels to the taboo of homosexuality practiced within certain cultures and media forms, which the real world audience can identify.  

For example, Alhaitham and Kaveh as secret housemates. This can be used to convey an idea of ‘taboo’ as Kaveh desires to protect his reputation by concealing his shame of having to live with Alhaitham. In-game, the context here is that Kaveh wants to uphold his reputation of a successful architect, but within Alhaitham’s Story Quest, upon the player’s discovery of Kaveh living with Alhaitham, this context is omitted for some time. This prompts Paimon to question what exactly Alhaitham and Kaveh’s relationship is, with Kaveh denying that the two used to be friends but are not anymore: “I wouldn’t say ‘friends’ exactly”.

This tactic of double entendre can be seen again in A Parade of Providence when Paimon almost reveals Kaveh’s living situation to Faruzan.

Faruzan’s can be observed to resort to a thinking pose, in comparison with Layla, when Alhaitham is mentioned in relation to Kaveh wanting to buy property, as Paimon almost ‘outs’ the truth, that Kaveh resides with Alhaitham.

She then seemingly dwells upon the subject, as she returns to it after Kaveh requests for a change of topic later in the conversation. Here, Faruzan follows up on whether Kaveh lives alone, which he fails to deny. 

Here, it can be seen that she has already began associating Kaveh and Alhaitham, possibly speculating that the two live together. When Kaveh fails to supply an answer, therefore not denying her theory, she explicitly ties the two together, and asks if the two are “hiding” something.  

This question evokes a physical reaction from Kaveh, as he denies this question out of fear of being revealed, with Paimon opting to leave in order to cover her role in revealing Kaveh’s predicament.  

A deliberate potentiality has been created here in regard to what Faruzan has inferred, as her phrasing of “are you two hiding something from me?” is non-specific. Rather than asking: “are you two living together?”, she asks a question which holds multiple connotations. Due to the ambiguity of her meaning, her question can be observed as a non-explicit version of the: “are you two a couple?” question.

On the surface, this question is a reference to their situation as roommates, however, her phrasing is non-specific, and hints to another cause for “hiding” something. For Faruzan, Kaveh’s blatant evasion of the topic and dismissal of Alhaitham’s name, could easily be inferred as “hiding” a romantic connection – which is something that the player, too, can pick up on from her gesture of suspicion, her inquisitive questioning, and her excitement when piecing together the clues. The ambiguity of her question generates multiple meanings as to why she has surmised the two could be “hiding”.  

This overt secrecy in Kaveh’s living with Alhaitham, another man, prompts the player to generate associations between this in-game secrecy and real world queer shame. In this, there is an implication of the need for Kaveh to confirm the status of his relationship between him and Alhaitham. Not only does this scene connotate an ‘outing’, in which a queer character has their queerness forcibly revealed to a heteronormative audience, but this creates a sense of secrecy, which, again, can be interpreted by the player as ‘taboo’.  

Kaveh does not want to tell anyone of his living situation out of preserving his stellar reputation, however, Faruzan is missing this context. She relates Alhaitham and Kaveh together in the phrasing “you two”, coupling them together in a secret that they “hid[e]”. The player understands this as indicating to their living situation, however, this creates a separate context which Faruzan has interpreted and that, we, as the audience are not privy to, but can interpret based on her allusions to cohabitation between two men being a secret.

Whilst this is not explicitly romantic within Genshin’s world of nameless sexuality, Faruzan’s ambiguous questioning here draws parallels between real world understanding of sexuality and the connotations of queerness which stems from two men living together in secret. 

(Update: For more analyses like this, the essay this is taken from is now uploaded! It can be accessed here and here as as a pdf <3)

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Loverboy (Jimercury Oneshot)

Summary: Jim goes to Heaven to find the man that's been tormenting his mind for almost a week. (The description is really bad so please just read it it's better than it sounds.)

A/N: This was sponsored by Loverboy by Adam Lambert which I recommend listening to and also to my sheer lack of impulse control. I hope you're all well and that you have a good rest of your day. Get some sleep if you need it, drink some water if you can and treat yourself because you deserve it. This is not optional. Let me know what you thought because my muse likes feedback, leave a like or perhaps reblog if you feel like it and maybe check out my other semi-decent works?? OK, enjoy my darlings.

Warning(s): alcohol, swearing, implied sexual content (OK why did I write it like that since when am I that posh)

Word Count: 2.2k+

Inspiration: Effervescent by @immistermercury on AO3, Loverboy by Adam Lambert, Mercury And Me by Jim Hutton

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Jim had thought Heaven would be a bit more exciting on a Friday night, if he was being as brutally honest as usual. It wasn’t somewhere he frequented much, preferring the atmospheres of the smaller clubs further south of London. For someone who wasn’t typically one to approach people first, large clubs were somewhat intimidating. He wasn’t the type of guy to buy men drinks out of the blue, to put himself in others’ personal bubbles with a smile that could do him all sorts of favours later on in the night. No, Jim would much rather people-watch with his pint of lager that never left his line of vision, something you’d expect from a patron of a coffee shop, not of a gay nightclub. Jim had adopted the philosophy that if anyone noticed and fancied the look of him, then they would go to him first. Although it was that kind of attitude that left you with a certain sense of disappointment and loneliness while sitting in the back of a taxi at four in the morning, only to take you to an even more disappointing and lonely flat and an even more disappointing and lonely bed.

This time, Jim was hellbent on not feeling anything of the sort tonight, and while that was largely down to amount of alcohol he’d drunk merely one hour into his evening, it did give him a certain air of confidence that made him almost unrecognisable. They don’t call it ‘liquid luck’ for nothing, Jim supposed as he made his way to the bar.

Heaven had a particular vibe about it that Jim found near enough impossible to pin down. It was an unspoken rite of passage, for you sure as hell didn’t get men looking to experiment down there, men who were just on the wrong side of naivety, men who weren’t gay but just in case, you never know. Men like that would get eaten alive in Heaven; ones with all sorts of bad intentions tended to lurk around the larger clubs. It wasn’t sinister, per se, but it was a bit much if you weren’t quite too sure what you were doing.

Heaven was almost always full to the brim with people, but despite that it was weirdly intimate, providing you found the right person. Jim had yet to do so but he had to give himself credit, he’d only been there for a couple of minutes. He ordered his drink, trying his best to not let the shock show on his face when he found out just how expensive drinks were at Heaven, and surveyed the scene before him. It wasn’t overly exciting, everyone in his line of vision seemed to already have someone, or in some cases multiple someones. For now, he decided to let himself be absorbed into the unique atmosphere, the deafening yet grounding music that vibrated through his very core, the fluorescent lights that illuminated what needed to be highlighted and created shadows over what needed to be hidden.

Jim couldn’t help but let his eyes drift over the sea of men surrounding him. He supposed he should have felt trapped or perhaps claustrophobic in his little corner, everywhere he looked he could see people who had yet to clock his presence. But it was just that, the fact that no one had even bothered to clock that he was there, that no one had even thrown him a glance, that made him feel somewhat isolated, something he never felt in his regular clubs. He was fighting every instinct in himself to finish his drink and go, to just forget that this evening had started in such a way, because he forced himself to remember why he was there in the first place.

That man. That one man who had somehow managed to stumble into his café on a bleak Sunday morning, still drunk from the night before and clearly not having slept yet. Why else do people go to artisan cafés at six in the morning, ask for the most lucrative drink Jim had ever heard of and then for the barista’s number because he looked simply ravishing, darling. As you can probably imagine, early morning shifts weren’t exactly busy, especially not on a Sunday of all days, and the man was just so eager to talk and inadvertently reveal half of his life story, Jim couldn’t find it in himself to let the rather interesting conversation die. He’d even offered to make him a cure for the inevitable hangover he was going to get after he eventually went to sleep. They’d talked about everything and nothing for a good two hours, until the lethargic customers looking for their pre-work coffees trickled in and heavily mumbled their never-changing orders. It was at that point when Jim had chased the man out with a tea towel and a message of get some damn sleep, for God’s sake, and once he was back behind the counter the stranger poked his head round the door to say the name’s Freddie, by the way, Freddie Mercury, before leaving for good with the sound of the bell above the door being the only thing left of his presence. Well, that, the innumerable empty cups he’d left on his table by the window and the smile etched onto Jim’s face that stayed there for the rest of the day.

At one point, Freddie had let slip that he’d been drinking with some friends at Heaven for most of the night, and that it was somewhere he went most evenings. So, Jim had taken a risk and gone on that Friday night, hoping to see his mystery man again.

He scanned over the club again and started to lose hope, even if Freddie was there, it was so dark he might struggle to see him. And even if he did, what would he do? Would Freddie even want to see him? Did he even remember him? He was rather drunk at the time, oh God what if he saw him and he didn’t even recognise his face-

“Jim!”

He snapped his head to the right so fast; he almost pulled a muscle in his neck. There he was, positively glowing under the lights that would have washed anyone else out, clad in the tightest leather, under the arm of another man. Jim’s stomach dropped about ten feet, but he refused to let that spoil his evening. Besides, he didn’t think he was capable of raining on Freddie’s oh-so-sunny parade. He forced a smile onto his face, “Freddie, hi!”

Freddie tugged on the arm of his companion like an incessant child, “Paul, this is the guy I told you about! He owns the café down the road!” His voice was so full of excitement, Jim could tell he was a little bit tipsy already, but the joy was genuine.

“I don’t own it, I just work there,” he justified, squirming a bit under intensive stare of Freddie’s friend. He knew that look, the one of suspicion, the one of I don’t know who you are, but I can’t trust you yet. Jim couldn’t find it in himself to blame him for that. He may have been trying to find reasons to hate Paul, but he just put it down to the jealousy that he knew he should be trying to rein in.

Freddie was oblivious to this, or at least was pretending to be for the sake of keeping the peace, “Oh shush, darling, you seemed pretty in charge when I was there.”

“That was only because I was the only one working at the time,” he said, feeling his smile become a bit more real and suddenly remembering why he was there in the first place. He was chasing this feeling of pure elation, this feeling of finally living that he hadn’t yet felt in the two months he’d been living in London.

“Enough of this boring stuff,” Freddie ducked out of Paul’s grasp and grabbed Jim’s free hand, “I want to dance,” his eyes sparkled, and Jim was sure it wasn’t from the lights overhead. Freddie quickly turned to Paul and said, “A glass of rosé for me, darling,” before tapping his arm and leading Jim through the crowd, leaving Paul with his lips parted in disbelief and in a state strongly reminiscent of a dead fish.

Further into the club, they had found a small space to dance. Freddie had his arms looped loosely around Jim’s neck and Jim had his hands tentatively on Freddie’s waist and their foreheads were practically touching because there wasn’t much space to do anything else. He couldn’t help but wonder if Freddie had chosen such a space on purpose, and he had no idea if he was just being hopeful or if he was actually onto something. He wasn’t all too sure where Freddie was going with this. He’d assumed that him and Paul were a thing, but they hadn’t actually done anything to suggest such a thing. He didn’t want to be seen as the guy who wrecks a relationship because he’s too selfish to think about the consequences of his actions. He knew he shouldn’t care about a man he’d met less than a week ago but when you’re practically alone in a city like London, you can’t help but cling to the first person who gives you even the slightest bit of attention.

This kind of attention was different, though. Jim wasn’t blind to the way Freddie looked at him, he knew exactly what that look meant and it sent shivers down his spine every time they locked eyes. Freddie leaned in closer, if that was even possible, and whispered in his ear, “You’re thinking too much, darling. You need to let yourself go.” Freddie pulled back and looked at Jim through his eyelashes, who in turn got goose bumps just from his tone of voice alone. It was honey, smooth and sweet, slipping into his mind and giving him a feeling that he didn’t think any drink or drug could top. He could feel himself slipping into a certain state of mind that felt softer than silk and tasted sweeter than sugar. He could lose himself in just the image of Freddie dancing like that, of Freddie holding him like that, and he was so damn grateful that he could have this all to himself, even if was only for one night.

Jim tried to come back to his senses, even though he wanted nothing more than to surrender them all to the man before him, “What do you want from me, Freddie? You already came here with someone.”

Freddie chuckled lightly, letting his eyes drift away before coming back to the bubble he’d created with Jim and had no intention of popping just yet, “Paul? No, he’s dull, darling. You on the other hand,” he paused for effect, looking Jim up and down before coming back to his ear, “You’re positively edible.”

Jim embraced the closeness for a second, not allowing himself to indulge in it for a moment longer or he would have been gone with no return, “I’m serious. I don’t want to be a game to you, I want to be more than that.”

Freddie breathed deeply, taking in Jim’s aura, “Paul thinks it’s more serious than it is, I don’t really care about him so neither should you. But this? I could get used to this, if you’ll let me,” he looked up at him again, the essence of faux innocence. Jim knew what he was asking, he could read between the lines, and gave him his answer by closing the gap between them.

The kiss was soft, it was slow, they were savouring every second for what it was worth. They had nowhere else to be, and if they did, they didn’t let it cross their minds for neither of them had ever experienced anything like this and they weren’t sure if they ever would again. It wasn’t perfect by any means, you can’t expect too much from a kiss in the middle of a nightclub, but it was so addictive and so different and so new and so exciting and just so human. It was that feeling that you never knew you wanted but once you tasted it for the first time, you just craved more and more and more.

When Jim finally pulled away, just wanting to see in Freddie’s eyes if he wanted it as much as he did, he found himself gasping slightly from the intensity of the look. It wasn’t like the one he’d gotten from Paul earlier, it was one so full of desire and passion, it was everything he’d been hoping for and more. He couldn’t stop himself from stealing another kiss, just a short one that promised so much more, before doing as Freddie had said only moments ago; he lost himself in the deafening music and the blinding lights and Freddie’s eyes.

And when he woke up the next morning with a splitting headache and Freddie in his arms, he was so glad that Freddie had stumbled into his life at six o’clock on a Sunday morning.

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Wonderfully Fit Kids -- Summer Crafts

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I need creative kids! I adore creating things using my creative young people! I love that your creative kids will grow up into magnificent problem solvers! ALTHOUGH I do not enjoy unrealistic expectations concerning our creative period.

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This summer the objective is to have fun, rss feed your children's paper hearts with creative functions and keep the application simple! The most important take into account creating a creative action for kids can be that they feel successful-bottom line! You don't just want to pick a project as a consequence of what YOU want them to make. It is all about these individuals being kids. Therefore it WILL be a little sloppy, it WON'T look ideal, and you may not be capable to hold their curiosity as long as you'd like, Nevertheless, you NEED to do it! So why? Because so much your kids' lives usually are scheduled, structured, plugged-in, and "multiple choice" that the value involving preserving some good ol' creative time, when it is ALL about all of them and the magical possibilities within each of their own minds, is PRECIOUS! I would argue it does not take single most important element we can do for the kids. We want these to grow into grown persons who love to overcome a problem, who have fun in the face of discouragement along with who confidently generate change! This is why everyone raise creatively meet kids!

Here are a top five summer season crafts. I am using you off the lure. You don't need fancy items. You don't need to spend big money. You don't have to worry about care (it doesn't exist). All you have to do is usually provide the raw materials and the backyard kitchen table. Then, you can terry your back together with compliment yourself with raising future problem-solving, optimistic, & stirred adults!

#1 Tie-dye

You can't beat this! I recommend buying a tie-dye kit. Jacquard helps make some great, simple packages that have everything you need! This colors will extremely stay vibrant (just follow the directions). Now, you could accomplish t-shirts (you are able to do cute tanks for ladies, etc . ) AND ALSO what about tie-dying white colored beach towels, bandannas, or cover-ups. It is possible to tie-dye almost anything! DRESS YOURSELF IN gloves, or both hands will stay multi-colored designed for days and tie-dye outside. When you are accomplished, take the kids on the pool or flip the sprinkler!

#2 Artsy Summer Bag

This is truly entertaining for ANY age! We created some of these hand bags with my young ones when they were merely 1, 2 and additionally 3! All you need is mostly a plain tote case (even a coloring is fine), several masking tape so that you can mask off the ideas for painting space, and polymer-bonded paint (it's most nontoxic ). Merely place the mp3 on the side of the carrier in whatever pattern you want. If you have small kids, you can recording paper to cover other tote so all their creativity stays "in the lines" (can you believe I am announcing that?!?! ). This process is what I actually call "organized chaos". Paint the entire part of the next bag and then determine which you like the top. Then, give young kids one color at any given time. If you wanted to benefit from all colors, for instance , start with the lightest first and progress: yellow, orange, white, blue, purple, efficient. Or stay in a particular color family and so the colors don't get "mushed" into muddy hues. Paint with green, green and green. Let them make use of a paint brush, ones own fingers (this could be the beauty of summer season craft time-it's out in the open! ), or plastic stamps, sponges, or other things that is laying approximately.

Here is what you do but if the kids don't have a tough attention span. Purely make it a many occasion craft. Possibly your 3 12 months old only causes it to become through the yellow in addition to green paint, nevertheless, you really want to see the azure on there. Well, coloring the blue at tomorrow. Go with that flow! You have to by means of creative kids!

#3 July 4th T-shirts

Your kids will truly feel so proud concerning parade day once they are sporting ones own patriotic designs! Begin with a white, red-colored, or blue t-shirt. Use the same tones of acrylic application. You can use standard singer acrylic paint or simply specialty fabric car paint. First, use what you may have. Acrylic color does not come out of garmets, so you are all establish there. Buy star-shaped stamps OR in case you have star shaped dessert cutters you can use some of those by painting this edges. They can work with their fingerprints for making fun designs. Allow them have for it. Watch ones own desire to control your experience. Let it get ALL their own mission. People will know that your "little artist" is wearing a classic design and you will be the sole with the "gold star" by your name!

#4 Splatter Paint Bed furniture Set

If you have teenagers around the 8-12 vary, they will think that you're so "cool" to be able to let them make it happen. It may feel distressing, but just take your deep breath along with remember that it is info on fueling your youngsters' inspired minds!

Make use of any set of old/new solid-colored or whitened sheets. Mix some parts acrylic coloring to one part liquid in the individual yogurt cup size container. This will thin your acrylic so the covers are still comfy in the long run. Lay the bedding out on the lawn, away from the house, together with let the kids generate their inner "Jackson Pollock"! Let the bed sheets dry in the sun's light, wash, and allow the KIDS make their particular new beds! To relax after this task, treat yourself to your creative retreat and additionally tap your OWN inner-Pollock.

#5 Kids ENJOY Birds!

Make a parrot feeder. You can buy a good wooden bird feeder at a craft retail outlet, make a temporary feeder with a shoe pack, or other proverbial box, or salvage a well used bird feeder and allow it a new lifestyle. Paint it along with acrylic paint and old house application that you already have. Glue found objects into it, glitter, bottle hats, buttons, those colourful erasers hanging around because of goody-bags... you get a picture. Anything comes! Brainstorm with your small children about what you could develop into a bird feeder. See how many recommendations you could come up with... a classic shoe, a use jug, a peanut butter jar which has a wire handle to hold from a tree and also hook. That bottle could also be painted by using glass paint (or acrylic paint when well), a insert attached to the side with a loop with regard to hanging, and a votive candle inserted meant for creative outdoor decoration!

The focus of of these projects is actually honestly not upon whether or not the bird feeder is still up with the fall, or if ever the paint splattered bedsheets make it to the next period, but it is about motivating and nurturing your kid's creative ability. Imagination is a "21st One hundred year Skill" and more imperative than ever for our country wide and global wealth. If we are never raising creative young people, who is going to construct all of the solutions?

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Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World Is Fun, Light, and Addicting

  I only just recently got into games where you have to build and then oversee some kind of town or establishment. Last year's Jurassic World: Evolution was my entry point in this particular genre, and I adored it, though I always wondered whether or not this was due to me actually digging the gameplay or just because I got to breed an army of Spinosaurs. Well, I guess the Animal Crossing games sort of count here, too, but I was never able to immerse myself in many of them, and they rarely have the urgency that most town-building/social simulators have. Instead, you're just kind of building your own house and hanging out with quirky animal residents. It's like if Gilmore Girls took place on the Island of Doctor Moreau. It's cute. 

    So when I was asked to review Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World, I didn't know quite what I was getting into. I knew it was the latest in the Atelier series, but I had never heard of any of those games, so I was jumping in totally blind. In it, you play as Nelke von Lestamm, an aristocrat that is obsessed with the myth of the Sage of Granzweit and the Granzweit Tree, which is a sacred, mysterious tree that is a source of immense power. So her Dad makes a deal with her: She can go and search for this tree that's apparently around the small town of Westwald, as long as she builds Westwald up and makes it prosper. 

    So, aided by her supernaturally helpful maid Misty, she enters the town and, while recruiting many helpers and alchemists, tries to make it into the booming urban center that it was always meant to be, all while working with these alchemists to find the Granzweit tree. It's a story that, for a game that's basically about making sure that people are buying stuff from your shops, is juuuust complicated enough to keep your interest. However, all of this information, including the ins and outs of navigating the menus and constructing your little city, is thrust upon you at the very beginning of the game, and if anyone is going to quit Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World, they're probably going to quit in the first two hours.

    It doesn't seem like it would be a lot, but it is, especially since there's very few breaks in it. It's a tutorial mode that feels more like a class lecture, and while the lessons that it provides are (mostly) necessary, I found myself itching to be able to just go off and do stuff on my own. As someone very, very new to this series, I appreciate it holding my hand a bit and making sure that I don't tank my village before I even really get started, but come on. It could've at least spaced it out a little bit.

  For example, it could've told me how to set up some shops, let me fiddle with that for an hour or two, and then brought up the investigation portion and how to fight off wild critters. That would've been way more enjoyable than the Economics & Alchemy 101 (with Light Monster Slaying) class that the first section of the game devolves into.

    After that, though, the game becomes infinitely more enjoyable, and if you feel swamped in note-taking during your initial sit-down with Nelke, powering through to the easy-going, fun part is worth it. Because Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World can get seriously addicting. I lost time to it, and I don't say that about very many things. The first time I played Nelke, I started around 7 PM and suddenly looked up to find that it was 12:30 AM. What? How? What had I missed? Had my wife and dog left me? Had an entire wave of hot anime memes come and gone? Luckily, I am still married, I still have a wonderful cattle dog, and the anime meme industry is still going strong, even though I lost 25% of my day to anime girls telling me that I need to sell more apple tarts and grow more wheat.

  If you're wondering where the "alchemist" thing mostly comes into play, they're the ones that save you from your villagers eating dirt all day. Along with helping you out in your overall Granzweit quest, they can synthesize materials to create new stuff that you can actually use and sell. They can also join you on your investigations out of town. These skills come in handy, especially when you start getting a ton of requests from townsfolk, as these requests are usually either "Hey, I'd love to see some of (insert item here) get sold!" or "Hey, there's a giant horned creature outside of town. Go kill, like, four of them and I'll be happy." 

  I'm sure that, for long time fans of this series, the array of alchemists will provide an added bonus, as Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World marks the 20th anniversary of the series and many of the alchemists are from prior games. So it'll be like a parade of old friends, coming in to make small talk, help you out with your quest, and prevent your town from falling into sadness and ruin. 

    If you're hoping that this atmosphere lasts and that the game doesn't spiral into typical angst, you're in luck. Sure, the characters have some issues, but they're mostly resolved through hard work, cheer, and through Misty always being around to help. Seriously, (and especially in the early portions of the game), Nelke is always like "Gahd, I have to write up the report!" and Misty bursts in with "ALREADY DONE. I DID THAT AND BREAKFAST AND OUR TAXES, ALL BEFORE YOU WOKE UP THIS MORNING." She's incredible, and Nelke probably copied off of all of her papers.

    While I played Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World for the Nintendo Switch, it's also available on PC and PlayStation 4. I recommend it to anyone with 1) The ability to sit still during an hour of slow tutorial, and 2) The ability to enjoy building a town and watching your population grow and thrive and demand more beer and apples. 

  REVIEW ROUNDUP:

+ Super addicting once you get the hang of it

+ The alchemy aspects end up being a cool lesson in time management AND FRIENDSHIP

+ Town building is simple and fun

- Opening tutorial bit is quite a slog

  Have you played Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World? What did you think of it, or any of the other games in this series? Let us know in the comments!

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15 Wrestlers Who Are On Top of WWE

Nutrition For Wrestlers

I am no dietitian but a dietitian is not any wrestler, nor would they know the best wrestler's food plan. It goes with out saying that a wrestler's weight loss plan is among the more essential parts in wrestling, considering how many people actually minimize weight throughout our careers.

During the final months of my aggressive profession there are solely a handful of days that I did not write down my weight each morning, what I consumed and the way a lot I worked out. By the end, I was utilizing my earlier days as a mannequin to observe two or three days earlier than a match. Albeit the craziness, the concept labored. Under, I will present you a few sample pages from my wrestler's weight loss program, but it surely's important to remember that everybody's body is different. If for some reason the wrestler's weight-reduction plan that worked for me would not for you, keep experimenting. Remember experimentation is greatest carried out within the low season.

Wrestler's Diet Generalizations

First, in any wrestler's eating regimen the drink of alternative must be water. It's one of the simplest ways to keep you hydrated. Water is just like the gasoline for our automotive, without it, we can not run. On match days we should be going from full to half a tank, not half solution to empty.

Ingesting a sports activities drink when you'll be able to is also necessary on a wrestler's weight-reduction plan. The rule of thumb is simply drink one if you labored out for over an hour. The problem is that sports activities drinks do not go through your system as shortly as water so you need to be careful with them. The only other beverage I drank was green or white tea with no components like sugar or milk. At first I used to be not an enormous fan of tea, nevertheless; gradually over time, I discovered to find it irresistible and I nonetheless drink no less than two cups of the stuff a day. Tea is high in antioxidants, and a natural diuretic which helps fluids cross by your system quicker.

A great guideline to follow is to stay hydrated so long as possible as my cutting weight post pointed out.

I wouldn't begin reducing out water until the day earlier than a weigh-in. In highschool this is very tough since weigh-ins occur nearly each other day. That is why I recommend highschool wrestlers to all the time go one weight class higher than they intend to. If extra wrestlers targeted on wrestling in high school as a substitute of what weight class, and who they must dodge, they would be much better fitted to the game in school. Plus high school students are still rising, and reducing weight impedes that course of. I made the error of sucking out too much weight on my wrestler's weight loss plan in highschool and it ruined my metabolism.

It is best to make your personal food as a lot as possible, to know precisely what you're eating. There aren't many locations where you may get a well-balanced meal, together with the marketed healthy places. Making your individual food is the smartest (and least expensive) technique to dwell when you find yourself on a wrestler's food regimen. In the event you reside on your own and have hassle in the kitchen, purchase a healthy cookbook to help you get started.

Wrestler's Weight-reduction plan Really helpful Foods

Any greens, fruit (it helps hydrate you), yogurt with dwell energetic cultures, egg whites (whole eggs are advantageous every so often), walnuts, almonds, granola, oatmeal, peanut butter and jelly on entire wheat bread, hen (baked or grilled), brown rice (not the Chinese meals kind), quinoa (one other grain), beans (if from a can rinse them off and then re-season), tuna (rinse), shrimp (not fried), and veggie burgers. Those meals mainly constituted my weight loss program through the season excluding the meals out, our group shared after sure matches.

I additionally restricted my sodium intake as much as possible by by no means including salt to anything. Stemming vegetables is one of the best ways to cook them. The principle elements to virtually all my dishes were extra virgin olive oil, onion and garlic.

Avoid all varieties of quick meals when you find yourself on a wrestler's food regimen through the season. "Food plan" stuff, like soda is just not the best option either. It's higher to drink sugar and burn it off then drink diet soda and watch TV. There are in fact, sure meals vices that all of us have. Mine was frozen yogurt, teddy grahams, fruit snacks, baked cheetos and sizzling sauce. Hot sauce was primarily the one added sodium I allowed myself to have. Do not deny your self of your food vices completely, otherwise you will go nuts. In our modern supermarkets there are various options to get your "repair." If it's cookies, you can buy 100 calorie packs of them. If it is chocolate, eat just a few blocks a day. Wrestlers burn so many energy that it isn't the end of the world in the event that they fall off their wrestler's food plan once in a while.

The top 10 feminine wrestlers of today are judged by their athleticism, their "stage" presence and their keen to be taught and progress to what the fans need to see. Wrestlers, properly if that is what you wish to name them, like Kelly Kelly and Eve Torres don't belong on a high 10 listing a wrestlers. They might be considered models, divas, and the top 10 of quick ranking boosts. Your more consistent and dependable followers choose the artwork of the entertainment over the the pillow combat matches, not because they are not all in favour of great thing about the women, however they turn on WWE and TNA for their love of wrestling leisure.

Featured first on the top 10 of feminine wrestlers of now, is WWE Diva Maryse Ouellet.

She came in as a contestant of the Diva Search WWE had to recruit stunning gifted wrestlers. Though the contest has proved to be principally a failure, it did deliver to life a couple wrestlers that took the time and effort to do greater than show their legs. Their participation in practice and training brought them to a high level. In Maryse's case, this opportunity brought her to a really high level. She has rapidly grow to be a fixture on WWE tv and has had the WWE Divas title for fairly some time. Her inexperience does show within the ring and she can be paraded in bikini matches from time to time. Maryse hits number 10 because of her persistence in changing into a respected wrestler for her capacity... and her appears.

Beth Phoenix is an excellent wrestler with great abilities. Unfortunately, the "Glamazon" gimmick that is used has taken away from her capability and has given her much less vital story traces. Beth hits quantity 9 on this record as a result of she does have the flexibility. You may expect her future in wrestling to be long and profitable.

Natalya Neidhart is quantity 8. With the suitable story strains and push from promoters, Natalya could at some point high this list. Her father was Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and she was educated in the dungeon by the Hart Household. This means she is really powerful! Natalya additionally has a stable which refers to themselves as The Hart Dynasty which consists of Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith. David is the son of Davey Boy Smith, Tyson Kidd is the final particular person to be trained out of the Hart dungeon. Now provided that WWE would let her wrestler extra.

Daffney might be probably the most underrated feminine wrestler on this record. She is available in at number 7 as a result of she is a great wrestler. What separates her from others is her capacity to behave as well. With an performing background, this TNA Knockout and Shimmer lady ought to have plenty of doors open for her. Daffney was as soon as Cruiser weight champion in WCW and nonetheless remains extremely athletic and hardcore.

Melina Perez takes the 6th spot. WWE Diva and very proficient wrestler. It's recognized that she was one of the quickest learners and best technical wrestlers amongst all of the Diva stars. Best Wrestlers WWE The sky is the limit for Melina and her expertise, her future tremendously is dependent upon WWE format and story strains as WWE seems to go for weight and looks over talent at times.

Our fifth ranked female wrestler of right this moment is Angelina Love, also known as Angel Williams. The Canadian magnificence largely identified for her role in TNA because the chief of the "Lovely Individuals" where she has been embarrassing wrestlers since her arrival, even taking the title from Awesome Kong. You possibly can take into account her rank a demotion considering that her matches normally embrace the help of Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky.

Tara, formerly often called Victoria, is ranked quantity 4 because of her shear energy and determination to be the most effective at what she does. She was convinced into wrestling by the former WWE famous person Chyna. Victoria has overwhelmed a few of the finest together with Lita and Velvet Sky. In July 2009 she became the TNA Knockouts champion just after a couple months of her arrival.

Gail Kim has taken feminine wrestling to new heights, which is why she lands at number 3. She is a excessive-flying athlete very like Lita, former WWE, with even a bit of more finesse. Gail has beaten nearly everyone in her path excluding Awesome Kong.

Michelle McCool hits the quantity 2 spot. Like Maryse, she was a contestant on WWE Diva Search. Although this former college trainer has the talents to prove she belongs in wrestling. Wonderful talent and an important persona, Michelle should be a fixture in wrestling for a very very long time.

Our number 1 female wrestler of right now goes to Awesome Kong, also known as Amazing Kong and Kia Stevens. She now wrestles for TNA and has had numerous expertise wrestling in Japan with different super talents there. Awesome Kong is probably the most dominant feminine wrestler of anytime. Every opponent she has confronted has been demolished. Kong has the technical skills, and she or he scares anyone who faces her. To top it off, she is not afraid to climb the highest of the ropes.

Combined Martial Artwork and Final Preventing Championships have exploded in popularity. More and more people are training for MMA and UFC tournaments. Regardless of being "combined" martial arts, there seems to be a dominate skill set inside the cage: wrestling, or ground game.

The interest of the article is to discover three potential reasons for why athletes proficient in the ground game continually excel in MMA contests, and people three are high quality of instruction, expertise developed, and the rules of the competition. These are, what I contemplate, to be the top causes wrestlers proceed to reign supreme in MMA competitors.

First, let's think about the quality of instruction. Many individuals in martial arts have incredible teachers, however one thing to contemplate is the length of time any pupil of the arts has been learning martial arts. With wrestling, it's a sport backed by many colleges, and begins as early as elementary faculty. This means there are kids studying the best way to work on the bottom without having to pay membership dues like they must do at any martial arts studio. This permits a broader base of potential fighters to draw from; not just the mother and father that can afford it.

Further, in contrast to a martial artwork studio that can continue to teach you regardless of skill so long as you pay the dues, wrestling coaches are pushed to provide results; not paychecks. This implies college students should compete for a place on the workforce which places a number of strain on wrestlers to increase their abilities. With out the power, he won't make the crew. If a wrestler stays on the workforce through school, it means he might have as many as seven years of expertise underneath his belt with one other four to 5 years in college to coach, all before getting into an MMA contest. The low value, long term, and competitive nature of instruction goes an extended technique to creating competent fighters who are most comfy on the ground.

Second, let us take a look at the skills wrestlers are taught from day one and the way it improves their fighting means. One of the most necessary fundamentals to any bodily confrontation is positioning. Take into consideration how properly you may defend your self if your opponent is standing behind you. You are not going to do too nicely with that. Wrestlers are drilled on positioning, and figuring out where the most effective place to be a selected transfer. They change into very conscious of how their opponent is maneuvering, and whether he's in good or dangerous place.

As a wrestler, if someone have been trying to set you up for a throw, you'd immediately really feel your opponent's shift in body weight, and you'd know exactly where to position yourself to neutralize his benefit. Wrestlers have an incredible working data of positioning which they can use to their advantage whereas standing, or sprawled on the bottom. This forces anybody else to work a lot tougher than they often need to, and this works in the wrestler's favor by carrying down an opponent's energy reserves.

Whereas preventing a wrestler, you possibly can "fuel out" in a short time for those who're not used to coping with someone who is snug while standing or working the ground sport. As soon as his opponent is tired, the wrestler can capitalize on this by going for the submission, or using some other strategy to end the fight. If he can seal the cope with a punch, he'll punch. No space of the battle is off limits to a wrestler, while many hanging-only fighters are uncomfortable with engaged on the bottom.

Lastly, since we're speaking the MMA arena, we've got to contemplate the nature of the foundations of the sport to totally understand the advantage wrestlers may have. Ultimately these fights are a sport. Violent they may be, however a sport they're still. Deadly strikes and crippling blows are strictly prohibited, which is definitely advisable for any sport the place the athletes anticipate to have a career. Managers wouldn't have anybody to handle if their fighters solely lasted one fight, both. Further, there is a restricted attraction to no-holds-barred combating. This was the issue UFC confronted in its inception. There was too much blood, and the final inhabitants discovered it distasteful. Only a few corporate sponsors have been keen to tie their image to such brutal entertainment.

As soon as certain guidelines had been put in place, there was a lot less blood and fewer genuine accidents. Now that the UFC was much less of a blood sport and more of a full contact contest, its recognition skyrocketed. An unintentional side-impact of those rules was giving an edge to wrestlers. Take into account the number one protective posture in ground combating; the full guard. The defender has his legs around the waist of the aggressor to forestall a full mount. In the ring the place groin assaults are prohibited, this can be a wise plan of action. Exterior the ring, however, even the least educated particular person can see why presenting your attacker with your most susceptible part would be fairly foolish.

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A Mid-Summer Update

Hey everyone, so it’s been a long time since I posted a blog about what was happening in my life, but here goes.

It has been a fantastic couple of weeks here in the UK, what with the lovely weather we have been having and such. I have been making the most of the weather by going down to my local outside swimming pool a lot and going swimming as well as sunbathing, it’s like being on holiday but back at home. I got completely sunburnt one day though when I must have been out in the sun too long, it has all faded to a lovely brown colour now though, not that I recommend you go and get yourself burnt to achieve this. I have never seen my arms and face as dark as they are now, I am hoping that we will get some more nice weather soon (the gloomy days are here at the moment).

  Just me casually sunbathing b the pool.

  Whilst at the gym I also took part in 3 personal training taster sessions which I briefly talked about in my previous blog, I have loved having these as in those sessions I already know what I need to be doing to get my healthy eating back on track and now I have a completely different routine whenever I head to the gym. I now use the TRX machine a lot more than I have ever done previously, where the possibilities are endless! I try and keep to a routine of 40 minutes cardio and 20 minutes resistance, followed by a dip in the pool (which I find relaxing). I have noticed definition change in my arms and neck especially, but I am not weighing myself yet as I get carried away by weight loss changes and at the moment I just want to focus on making this my routine and then eventually I will check my weight too. The thing you have to remember is that weight fluctuates all of the time, and I used to feel defeated whenever I saw the scales go up, not realising that this is probably only a temporary thing. I have also been doing a lot of cycling recently and I have changed from RunKeeper to Strava to keep logs on my rides and it provides me with so many more statistics that makes the nerd in me feel fabulous!

  The TRX Machine, it has so many possibilities!

  Talking of fabulous, last Saturday I travelled to London again for two different events. The first was for London Pride 2017 and in particular, the parade which travelled down BBC Broadcasting House on Regent Street and travelled down to Trafalgar Square. The event was fantastic and it was so lovely to see so many people be happy and proud of who they are, and it opened my eyes to the big spectrum of different people out there as well, we are all unique in our own little ways and we should all embrace that and not try and conform to the norm. What is normal anyway? I saw some celebrities there too including Duncan James, Tom Daley, Jodie Harsh and some guys from The Only Way Is Essex. I also saw a load of my old friends too and it was great to reconnect with some of them after a long time, if there was one thing I learnt that day it was to not neglect people or friends and try to keep in contact with as many people as you can. You can watch the vlog from this event below:

From London Pride it was time to head to Hyde Park for the BST Hyde Park 2017 event, with The Killers headlining this time around. I went back in 2015 and it was a great experience but this time around I got there late due to Pride, but I still got there in time to see Elbow and The Killers perform and they were the main acts that day after all. I think the standout for me came from Elbow and not The Killers when everybody in the audience was singing “One Day Like This” at the top of our lungs, it was a truly emotional moment if you ask me. It was great to see The Killers live too, I saw them briefly back in 2013 when they were at the MTV EMAs in Amsterdam but it was great to be there for a full concert this time around and they have a great selection of hits, I have been listening to a load of their songs recently. You can also check out the compilation clip from this event below:

So that’s it really, an update for you. There have been a couple of other things I have done recently including cycling around Epping Forest in West Essex and having a paddle in the man-made pools at Cassiobury Park with Amy and her daughter, that was a sweet moment. I can honestly say that so far this has been the best summer of my life and I am loving every minute, and I think it’s mainly because I have wanted to embrace so many different things this time around, trying to get out and about as much as possible. There are still so many things planned, especially in August and one day soon I will definitely be heading down to the New Forest in Hampshire to do some more cycling trails.

  I can’t wait to go cycling around the New Forest

  I hope you are all having a lovely summer and don’t forget to click back for more soon!

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