#in which Gabriel cannot Photoshop

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Tsukihime (2000)

(I broke this post up into multiple reblogs because I thought it would be funnier segmented that way. Here’s a link to the end)

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Submitted Prompt: Salt When Guilty, Sugar When Innocent.

Writing this because I’m in a petty mood about the fandom, and what better way to manifest my own salt and sugar than an Akuma that involves salt and sugar?

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Hawkmoth again Akumatises another student in Marinette’s school.

The reason for Akumatisation is because they are fed-up with taking responsibility for things that are not their faults, even when people know who is actually wrong but they end up being the “rsponsible” one because they are “better than that”.

Kinda like Marinette’s problem, but not as much.

They transform into Salt and Sugar, and their ability is that:

Anyone in the area (which counts as the whole school) gets affected, and in there, whoever tries to apologize for something that’s not their fault, become unable to speak when they apologize. Oh sure, they can talk, and all, but any words that involve them apologizing about something that’s not their responsibility get automatically stopped before they are said. They also feel the taste of sugar in their mouths. It’s not overpowering or sickening, it just tastes sweet.

If someone DID something wrong or was about to do something wrong, they feel bound by something and are forced to stop, and regardless of their personality and mentality, their mouths automatically apologize, and state what they are apologizing for. And they also feel the taste of salt in their mouths, which gets worse the more they fight not to apologise/fight to continue doing the wrong thing.

The age and understanding of the mistakes and responsibility plays a little part in the desicion, and the intent is also a factor. Depending on how they react to apologising and having why their behavior is wrong spelled out for them, the saltiness can disappear faster or stay longer. 

So yeah, Marinette’s class gets also affected, and everyone gets to taste a good/large amount of sugar and salt in their mouths, depending on their attitude and the circumstances.

And needless to say, some perspectives that the class had about certain characters will be changed drastically after this particular Akuma.

Marinette will find herself silent a lot of the time when involving Bustier’s “love speech” and other “mistakes” she thinks she is responsible for, but she finds herself apologizing a lot to Lila and Adrien about her obsession. She admits to stalking them, and to hating Lila before she even met her, just because she saw her talking to Adrien. Luckily, she can’t apologize for missing events or the likes when she had to deal with Akumas, because technically, she is innocent. As Ladybug, she literally cannot apologize when Chat pulls another of his stunts to make her feel sorry for being harsh on him. Surprisingly, Marinette finds herself telling Adrien that she was the one who made and gave him the scarf for his birthday, not his father. And it’s not driven by the Akuma, either, she’s just realized how not okay she was with letting Adrien believe a lie. Giving Adrien false hope about his father caring for him isn’t going to help him in the long run, and Gabriel doesn’t deserve to even pretend to be a good father. Marinette spent a lot of time on that gift, and she deserves the credit.

Alya finds herself apologizing for whenever she tries to make another plan to have her “adrinette” ship to sail, especially when Marinette tells her that she isn’t ready or is uncomfortable. She also apologizes for posting pictures of Ladybug to her blog that she knew Ladybug didn’t want posted (Oblivio, for instance) and for encouraging people to ignore Ladybug’s wishes to photoshop her and Chat Noir into romantic situations.

Lila apologizes a lot for her lies, especially her “I have injuries” ones.

Bustier keeps apologizing for allowing Chloe and other bullies to get away with all what they did, along with the fact that she is grooming the rest of her class to become a victim of abuse who can only sacrifice with no agency of their own. The Akuma forces her to spell out every single line that she’s spun them, and how it’s going to impact their mental health and have lasting repercussions down the road for how they deal with relationships. (that truth makes her standing with her students take an irreversible damage, and will cause a lot of harm to her future carreer).

Chloe apologizes a lot for being an awful person and abusing her father’s authority, rentlessly bullying and embarrassing other people, vandalism, cruelty.

Adrien keeps apologizing for tricking his classmates, guilt-tripping them to forgive Chloe even when he knows full well how awful she is, apologizes for ruining his obligations to his ‘friends’ and manipulating them when he’s the one abandoning them to make them feel sorry for him. As Chat Noir, he is forced to keep apologizing every time he tries to goof off, tries to harass his partner, and when he tries to act entitled to his powers and Ladybug’s “love”. He also finds himself apologizing to Plagg constantly, for not listening to him, betraying him, blackmailing him, and not allowing him to eat.

Needless, to say, those revelations cause a lot of changes in the dynamics of the class, especially towards Marinette, Chloe, and Adrien.

So how do the students (and the rest of the targeted poplation) deal with their mistakes? Do they grow as people from this experience? What about their “sugar”? Do they get to understand that sometimes, if it’s not their fault, then it’s not their fault and they shouldn’t have apologize for it?

How does Marinette deal with this, seeing that she can now acknowledge that her obsession and jealousy are actually wrong? Does she try to know when to apologize and when not to?

How does Adrien deal with it? Does he keep denying his faults? Or does he actually try to be a good person? Or does he simply try to fool the others into thinking that he changed so he can return to his usual antics?

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Survey #356

“i’m just a painting that’s still wet: if you touch me, i’ll be smeared, you’ll be stained, stained for the rest of your life”

Have you ever used emotional blackmail to get your own way? WOW, no. What a starter. Has anybody ever used emotional blackmail on you? Not to my memory. Who did you last worry about and why? Honestly? Myself. My physical health just isn't very good right now. When are you next at work? Do you enjoy your work? N/A When was the last time you ate/drank something gross just to be polite? I'm not sure; I'm honestly very, very bad at this. I struggle big time hiding if I don't like something. Last time you heard a growl, who or what did it come from? My stomach. When did you last make up a baby’s bottle? Never. Do you have a mouse for your laptop? (Assuming you have a laptop) I use a mouse. I'm not a big trackpad fan. Do you have the right time set on your microwave? Yeah. What is your most expensive bill? I don't have any bills that I pay myself, because I can't. Do you have a big yard? No. Is there someone you would love to punch right now? Myself lol. Does the water in your shower take a long time to get warm? Yeah, it does. Song playing? I have "Leave A Scar" by Marilyn Manson on. Are you tired? I'm always tired. If you had the power to instantly transform someone’s life (for the better), who would you choose to use this on? My mom. Her entire life has been so fucking unfair, and she doesn't deserve it whatsoever. Just one day of her being perfectly happy would make my entire life. You wake up to a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Your family is safe, but most of your city is zombified. You need weapons and various other supplies. What is your first general course of action? I seriously cannot even begin to imagine what I would do besides panic and be one of the first to die, honestly. If a family member (or boyfriend/girlfriend, if you have one) happened to be infected by one of these undead creatures, how would you go about dealing with that situation? It would tear me to shreds, but shoot them in the head to hopefully prevent them from turning. I couldn't let them suffer. Does someone’s view on homosexuality affect how you feel about them in any way? Sure as hell does. How about someone’s view on religion? This one depends on what their beliefs entail and to what intensity. If you were paralyzed from the neck down, would you still want to continue living? Why or why not? NO. NO. NO. This is seriously one of my biggest fears. Just fucking kill me. That sounds like very legitimate torture to me. Has any medication you’ve taken ever made you sick? How so? Three, to my memory. When I started Latuda, it made me throw up semi-frequently, BUT its effectiveness made me stay on it. My body eventually adjusted. The same thing happened with my current mood stabilizer, Vraylar. I was also on another, Trintellix I think, and that one did nothing but consistently make me puke, so I stopped it. Would you ever consider being a foster parent? No. Would you rather drink alone or with friends? With friends. Do you have too much time on your hands? WAY too much time. And yet I do nothing productive with it. Have you ever thought about hurting someone? Not seriously, no. Do you thank people for helping you? Always. Have you ever seen a zebra up close? Yeah, a few. Do you freak out if you see blood? Nah, it doesn't bother me. Have you ever complained to a manager about anything? What was it? No. Are there any songs that make you feel angry inside when you hear them? "Eternally Yours" by Motionless In White makes me feel that, among a thousand other emotions that are way too strong for me to handle, so I just don't listen to it. Have you ever been in a building that was on fire? YIKES, no. Are you in an argument with anyone right now? No. Have you ever written a poem for someone? Numerous times. Who’s the last person who cussed you out in anger? I think only my grandmother has done that. Who is the person you are closest to that you’ve meet online? Sara. (: Have you friended your parents on FB? I have my mom on there, but Dad doesn't have a FB. Where do you go out to eat for a special occasion? It depends on what we're in the mood for and what the occasion is. When someone sneezes, do you say “Bless you,” or “God Bless you?” Just "bless you." Have you ever seen the movie A Walk to Remember? Cliche or worth watching? Yeah, it's a wonderful movie. Do you live in a house, apartment, or another type of arrangement? House. Are you one of those people who like to spell out numbers? Grammatically speaking, any number below ten should be spelled out. I obviously spell out "ten," but w/e. Did you or do you still have a Furby? Was/is it annoying? I did as a kid. It didn't annoy me then, but as an adult I know they're creepy as shit lol. What's one event your town has that you don’t like to participate in? I don’t participate in any town events. Are any of your siblings married? What are their spouse’s names? Yeah. There's Nick, Josh, and Franky. Do you know how to sew? What's your favorite thing to sew? No. Have you ever owned a turtle? Did it ever bite you when you owned it? It's so awful looking back on, but my sisters and I kept a box turtle that wondered into our yard once as kids. No proper husbandry or anything; it was just in the kiddie pool. Thankfully, we were smart enough to not actually keep it forever (or rather, until it probably died from improper care); we wound up releasing it into the pond near our house, from which we assume it came from. Do you have Photoshop? If so, how often a day do you use it? I do; it comes with the Adobe photography bundle I have. I definitely don't use it daily, or even weekly. Has your school ever had a lockdown? If so, for what reason exactly? No, only drills. Do you enjoy it when your school has drills? (ex/fire or tornado drill?) I didn't, no, because I didn't like imagining the real situation. Do you watch any shows that you know your parents wouldn’t approve of? I'm an adult, for one. But anyway, I've never watched shows they'd have a problem with. If you have any pets, how would you describe their personalities? The cat, Roman: very, very affectionate, boisterous, demanding, playful, smart as fuck, and shy when it comes to strangers. The snake, Venus: curious, chill, and a bit timid. Do you have any friends that own a private lake? Not to my knowledge. Do you have a drone? No. Who is your favorite comedian? It was John Pinette, but following his death, probably Gabriel Iglesias. Where were you the last time you stayed in a hotel? I think at a dance competition? Do you know anyone with Crohn’s disease? Yeah. Out of all of the shows, movies, and books you love, who is your OTP (one true pairing)? Probably Spyro and Cynder from The Legend of Spyro trilogy. I love them. But I honestly don't have like, intense OTP feelings for any fictional characters? No real reasons, I just don't. Rhett and Link are my *true* OTP haha, but I didn't know if they counted since they're obviously real. Have you ever written a fanfiction? Did people actually like it? Nah. Have you ever liked playing dollmakers or online dress-up games? OH MY GOD my little sister and I would do that together ALL the time. Have you ever sent any celeb fan mail? No. Have you ever gotten a serious injury at school? What happened? No. Do your pets follow you when you walk around the house? Oh yes, he's my shadow. What was the very first social media site you signed up for? Myspace. Are you the type of person who knows exactly what they want in life? I mean, I know what I want, I just don't know if it's achievable for me. Do you have commitment issues? Nope. If you were to start a business, what kind would it be? I'd love to have like my own facility for boudoir photography. I've only shot boudoir once, but it immediately became a passion because of how empowering it was for my then-friend. I could go on a real ramble as to why I love it. What’s something you’ve done that sounds too crazy to be true? Been to psychiatric hospitals like six times. I honestly did lose count. Are there any flowers planted outside your house? No. What was the last thing you drank? Water. Truly incredible, I know. What’s the weirdest decoration you’ve seen in someone else’s home? *shrug* Did you have your own bathroom when you were growing up? No. Does anyone in your family smoke? My dad and his wife. What’s an opinion you find impossible to take seriously? That dinosaurs never existed. What was the very first election you voted in? This past one, actually. Do you feel positive and optimistic about your future? I don't want to think about this. What exes do you still associate with? Just Sara and Girt. Who told you they loved you last? My mom. Your worst enemy? I don't say I have any enemies. People who don't like me or I don't like them, but "enemy" isn't the proper word. What was your last dream about? Ugh. What a fucking question to ask, considering what I dreamt last night. I had both a nightmare and a normal dream; in the nightmare, I was sucked up into a tornado and carried away, and it felt so, so real. I was terrified. The dream is more vague in my memory, but I know I was at Jason's house (which wasn't actually his house) and his mom was still alive. I was hanging out with her and just chatting. It made me wake up in a really somber mood. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital? Psych hospitals, yes. Have you ever built a snowman? Yeah. What is your favorite milkshake flavor? Chocolate. Do you have any scars? I have a lot, but most are from negligible instances that just won't go away for some reason. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create? Putting all impossibilities aside as well as any potential health repercussions, maybe a meerkat and an opossum? Just in general a meerkat with a marsupial tail would be SO cute. Plus imagine the pattern. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had? Oh I don't know. Can you do any accents other than your own? I can pull off a really convincing British one. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain. No. I just get clean, get out. I've always hated showering (the process anyway, I obviously enjoy feeling clean), so I get my business done adequately and then I'm done. Do you believe in aliens? Eh, maybe. It does seem pretty questionable to believe NOTHING else can exist in an infinite space. I doubt they're little green men, though. What do you think about babies? WAY too much work and WAY too much responsibility. Keeping another life safe, healthy, happy... the idea alone is terrifying. No thanks.

[nihilnovisubsole]

so on my recent trip to socal, i had just enough time for a brief stop at FIDM’s emmy nominee exhibit. everything there was gorgeous, but i was on a mission, and that mission was to get reference close-ups of aziraphale’s costume. if there’s anything i love, it’s thinking way too hard about menswear, so i decided to write up a deep dive to go with them!

these photos are as close as i could get without tripping over the display, and as close as i could zoom my camera in without losing too much clarity. below the cut, i’ve added more thoughts and info about the outfit’s details. honestly, you could get most of this from staring hard enough at behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art. but it was a fun outing, and if it’s any help to anyone’s writing, art, or cosplay needs, that’s just the cherry on top.

[sidenote: i passed a crowd of cosplayers on their way out of the museum - a handful of crowleys and aziraphales and, i believe, a beelzebub. if you were at the exhibit on saturday, september 7th, and you left around 1 PM, i saw you! you looked great!]

NO. 1

aziraphale hand-ties his bow tie in a basic knot called “thistle,” “butterfly,” or “classic” depending on who you ask. though bow ties may not be standard now, it’s a style he could wear for decades without it calling attention to itself as “so dated it’s absurd.” this isn’t the only thing on aziraphale’s costume that, like him, exists a little outside of time. it’s an eccentric mix of pieces that are firmly dickensian and things that could float freely through the last 150 years.

on film, the tie looks bluish-beigey-gray depending on the light, but in person, it’s a dark, desaturated beige. the fabric is thin enough that i’m guessing it’s not wool, but without feeling it, i’m not sure whether it’s linen or matte silk. all i can tell you is that it’s not burberry plaid, though i bet he’d feel at home in a burberry-plaid-lined trench.

speaking of colors, i’ve seen people scratch their heads over whether aziraphale’s shirt is white - which would be traditional - or pale blue. after squinting at it and color-swatching it in photoshop, i think it’s white. if it’s blue, it’s so pale that it doesn’t matter. or does it? oh my god, this is going to bother me.

[edit: i’ve since heard on the costume designer’s authority that it’s pale blue. it’s so close to white, though. do with that what you will.]

NO. 2

after over a century of being put on and taken off, the velvet on aziraphale’s waistcoat is starting to lose its nap. the main wear is around the buttonholes, but there’s also some on the neck where it rubs against his shirt collar and the pocket where he hangs his chain.

the buttons on his frock coat are probably horn, and the buttons on his waistcoat have tiny gold rosettes. his trousers also have a very, very subtle stripe. it’s funny to see all the things the camera doesn’t pick up!

the real reason i took this picture was to get as good a shot as possible of his watch chain. i assume the actual watch is tucked in his pocket, and what we see out front is his medal from heaven or an ornamental charm. the chain is cable-link and the medallion has an ornate border, and the figure in the middle is an angel with its wings unfurled. i would’ve loved to get an even sharper shot and see for sure, but this is the best i could do within the confines of the exhibit. sorry!

NO. 3

i sweat bullets trying to pin down the style of aziraphale’s shoes before i finally googled my way to an answer: balmoral boots! they’re a victorian walking boot that became popular to pair with a frock coat, with contrasting suede(?) uppers and an oxford-style cap toe. while the leather parts almost glow gold in certain pics from the show, they’re a nice, rather rich caramel color in person. not that i would have been scandalized if they actually were gold. we know from the french revolution that aziraphale likes flashy shoes.

while i’m on it, i’ll admit that i love that good omens fans have just collectively decided that aziraphale wears sock garters. you understand me. i’m not going to say anything else.

in this pose, you can’t quite see how aziraphale’s trousers break, and i wonder if the mannequin is a little taller than michael sheen. on him, the un-cuffed hems have either a quarter- or half-break, a nice, standard pant length that never goes out of style. part of me is surprised they didn’t go with a more fusty, vintage full break, but... you know what? no. i’m already so deep down this rabbit hole, i cannot believe i’m sitting here researching victorian pant breaks. moving ON

NO. 4

aziraphale’s two coat cuff buttons sit on a decorative tab, and based on his lifestyle, i’m guessing they’re just for show. while functioning cuff buttons - or “surgeon’s cuffs” - are a lavish sign of a bespoke suit, aziraphale wouldn’t have needed them for their original purpose. the coat has deep flap pockets, and there’s a seam around the waistline, which was typical for victorian frock coats.

from this angle, the cuff buttons look like they’re solid beige, instead of the natural color variation in the horn buttons on the front. are they bone, maybe? did he have to replace them at some point? if he’s kept the coat pristine for over 180 years, but is averse to fixing it with miracles, he may very well have had to take it to a tailor here and there.

i asked my mother, who’s an experienced sewer, what fabric she thought the coat was made of. her guess was either linen, a light, almost summer-weight wool, or a blend of the two to produce that kind of twill. it seems like it’d be cold to wear that year-round in england, but i guess if you’re an angel, you don’t have to worry about being cold, do you?

PS: after more googling, i’ve been reminded that wool-linen blends are forbidden in deuteronomy and leviticus. part of me says, come on. it couldn’t possibly be that deep. on the other hand, this is the show that had gabriel wear shoes called “monk straps.” even if it’s not a blend, it’s hilarious to think about in the context of aziraphale being casually profane.

[tippitv]

SPN 15.02 “Raising Hell” - TippiTV Recap

Welcome to the recap of episode 2 of the final season! As with the first episode, I will be providing descriptions of graphics I would have made if I didn't have a shitty pain-wracked upper body. I tried making graphics with my feet, which feel great, but it was... too artistic...

I didn't want to set such a high bar for myself.

Okay in the intro bit Belphejack describes his warding spell on the town as a mile-wide circle where "ghosts can't get in or out." Now I'm confused because the cemetery from which all the ghosts/demons erupted like a Dr. Pimple Popper compilation video is outside of this circle. Isn’t it? All the evacuees are also outside this circle. What's keeping all the people at the shelter from getting possessed by ghosts that didn't happen to be in the town? Wouldn't it have made more sense to get everyone into the shelter and then make the circle around that? All they've done is created a Venn diagram where the warded circle doesn't touch either the cemetery or the shelter.

[Graphic: just a terrible drawing of the above to illustrate my point.]

Actually screw it I need to make this graphic.

Or wait... Are they saying this bustling town AND the cemetery fill up a space of only 1 mile and are warded together?

And that somehow the majority of ghosts are in this area for some reason and that they hadn't managed to go much further than that after they were freed?

OH MY GOD WHY AM I THINKING SO HARD ABOUT THIS?

Anyway we now move to the present day, which seems to be soon after the evacuation. I'm actually slightly pleasantly surprised that they picked up here instead of moving on to the other three billion ghosts that need dealing with.

A woman sneaks around the supposedly deserted town, covering her nose and mouth with a scarf. Ah right... the "benzene." I actually did live through a few benzene leaks and you can smell it. The CDC describes it has smelling something like gasoline but to me it smells like... a certain kind of bandaging. Medcinal and rubbery. It seems unlikely that nobody in this town would know this and point out that there's zero benzene smell in the air. The woman runs into her neighbor, who's acting like a stone cold weirdo. She's wary but keeps chatting right up until the moment he stabs her a bunch of times.

A ghost pops out of him. He somewhat resembles the prophet who lost his soul so I was mildly confused for a moment. Also throughout this whole episode it's like he can't decide what his accent is and it's very annoying. Hell, he goes through like three accents just spelling the word "disembowel" here.  Because the neighbor lady had been chatting about spelling bees.

At the high school, Castiel tells Sam about the neighbor lady going missing. For some reason, Sam has trouble getting everyone's attention. Did this town only have forty people in it? The cafeteria isn't  remotely full. Sam reminds everyone to stay out of the quarantine zone. "Any questions?" Everyone raises their hands.

Sam's face makes a bunch of faces that can be summed up as "uh oh spaghettios."

Dean and Belph are in town bonding (not really) over being good soldiers who just wanna do their jobs. The mixed-accent ghost tries to make an escape through the warding whe Dean blasts him with rock salt. Belph points out they're not dealing with regular ghosts. "That was Francis Tumblety." Oh no the inventor of Tumblr!

[Graphic: Dashcon as Hell]

Turns out Francis is more famously known as Jack the Ripper. When Belph explains this Dean is like, "Cool," which seems like a weird reaction for him to have. Also wouldn't the soul of someone as bad as Jack the Ripper have become demonic by now?

High school shelter. They picked a really weird building for their exterior shots. It looks like a cross between an Alpine chalet and a city hall. Some of the antsy townsfolk with strong Canadian accents decide to escape back to their Kansan homes.

One of the homes is currently being used as a meeting hall by the ghosts. I cannot overstate how much I hate seeing ghosts in full daylight. The makeup looks straight out of a school play. Like Sam earlier, Francis has some difficulty getting everyone's attention. What kind of parallel is this supposed to be? He gets the other ghosts to agree to mount an attack against the hunters and then they can put on a production of The Importance of Being Earnest and Dead.

Two of the townsfolk sneak back home only to encounter two of the ghosts. They look terrified even though the ghosts look absolutely comical.

[Graphic: Photoshop these two ghosts into a Scooby Doo scene]

Sam and Castiel argue about what and when to tell the evacuees. Rowena walks in on them and acts like she just got a Samstiel idea for Whumptober.

After some exposition about God and his sister and the soul-bomb that Rowena made back then, Sam says he needs her to make something similar that will trap the ghosts. She says it will be very difficult and will take her until nearly the end of the episode.

Then Sam gets called away to join the other plot line. The two people who slipped out of the shelter are now possessed and oozing some CGI out of their eyes. Man, daylight really is unkind to everything except like Jensen Ackles's complexion.

Francis Tumbledore materializes and demands they erase the warding or the ghosts will start killing people. To make his point, the two recently possessed people get their innards turned into Hamburger Helper by the ghosts inside them. Someone offscreen shoots them with a confetti gun!

Ugh. It's that wanker Ketch, which I believe is his full name, and the confetti is actually a bunch of "iron flakes." The flakes just gently tickle the skin instead of penetrating and thus damaging it, which doesn't seem like it would harm ghosts. I mean, we have iron in our blood and that doesn't seem like a deterrent to ghosts but whatever. Even Ketch's dumb pocket square is annoying me. I don't remember why he annoys me but I feel it deep in my soul.

Everyone reconvenes at the school for a stand-n-chat. Rowena and Ketch reminisce and flirt. Oh, Rowena. You can do so much better. Ketch gets around to being surprised to learn that Jack's corpse is now being possessed by the demon Belphegor, even though he's currently on a mission to kill Belphegor. He had to be momentarily ignorant so we could get some clunky exposition. Blah blah blah a demon named Ardat was the one who ordered the hit but neglected to mention what Ketch would be looking for.

Cut to Reno where Amara is in her well-appointed hotel suite getting a temple massage from a masseuse named Kimiko. Kimiko's hands disappear to be replaced by slightly more masculine hands.

Amara sits up, startled and displeased to discover her brother. I don't care if y'all are billions of years old it's gross to show up in your sister's room when she's only wearing a sheet. Also it's rude to smite a masseuse in the middle of an appointment.

"Sooo how about that Game of Thrones ending?" Chuck small-talks. "Pretty great, right?"

[Graphic: Screenshot of my post about Supernatural's showrunner comparing the show's finale to GoT that inexplicably has 35,000 notes]

Amara, naturally, is suspicious of her brother's sudden appearance and wants to know why he's there.

You know, it's too bad Castiel doesn't have that power where he could touch someone on the forehead and make them sleep. Instead of dealing with all these angry evacuees he could just tap them all into a short coma.

Rowena wants Dean to tell her more about Ketch like he's the village matchmaker instead of a guy with three billion evil souls to deal with. He's nice enough to warn her away from him, but it just seems to make her more intrigued.

Time for Dean and Castiel to hash out their feelings. I mean the feelings where Dean is mad at Castiel for not telling everyone about Jack losing his soul, not the feelings where they keep staring at each other like "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel is playing in the background but they can never act on it because they live in a very heteronormative universe. Generally speaking, Dean is also just mad at this whole thing where free will is an illusion and they've been playing God's games. "Nothing about our lives is real."

[Graphic: Screencap of the Scoobynatural episode]

Dean dramatically stalks out of the room while Cas, his back turned like they're in a soap opera, calls out to him. They face each other. "You asked what about all of this was real... we are." Dean doesn't say anything to that and leaves the room heterosexually.

He goes out on patrol with Ketch and gives him an iron necklace to keep from getting possessed. Ketch wants to know more about Rowena.

[Graphic: I mean... can I do something with Dean as Bea Arthur in Fiddler on the Roof?]

Luckily he gets word about trouble down at the ol' abandoned meat-packing plant. Two hunters have gone missing. Ketch gets thrown into a concrete wall in such a way that would kill him or, at the very least, leave him with a spine made of oatmeal. Lizzie Borden aims to kill them, but a new, unseen ghost shouts at her to leave.

Aw, it's Kevin Tran. I like how he moves the plastic doorway strips with his hands instead of just blinking his way into the room. Turns out God sent him to Hell instead of Heaven, but at least it's given him sort of a badass reputation among the other ghosts so that they do what he says. Ohh I bet that gets pissed away pretty soon.

Reno. God is watching something on TV where the CC says "a sexy pastiche of fragrant tripe" which is often the tagline of Buckleming episodes. Amara is trying to get her yoga on but he wants to talk about taking a vacation together. She figures out he needs her for something. She zeroes in on his shoulder wound that mirrors Sam's. "You're not complete," she says. "You're not at full strength."

And this, my friends, is where I began to get this tingling discomfort that made me wonder if Sam is going to become the new God by the finale.

The switch from night to day to night to day is so weird in this episode. Or maybe it always is and for some reason I'm noticing it more. Anyway while Kevin is off doing recon on the other ghosts, Sam and Dean fret about the warding starting to fade. "We're gonna need you to charge it back up," Dean says to Belph. "Sorry guys it was a one-time thing," Belph says. And nobody asks any followup questions like "WHY?"

Belph also says, in regards to Kevin, that the default setting on Heaven is souls can't get in once they've been to Hell. God made exceptions for John and Bobby but he doesn't exactly like the Winchesters anymore. I feel like y'all really ought to talk to Billie about this. Also, doesn't that mean Sam and Dean would never get to go to Heaven? This just lends further credence to a Samgod hypothesis.

Ghost meeting. One of the ghosts logically points out that all they have to do is wait for the warding to fail completely and then just stroll out. Random ghost would be excellent at snarky recapping. But Francis Tumbledry is the Veruca Salt of serial killing ghosts.

[Graphic: Screencap from Willy Wonka where Veruca is saying she wants and Oompa Loompa right now except it's Francis and he wants to break through the warding]

Kevin pops up and tries to act tough but immediately gets found out as a spy.

Rowena and Ketch flirt and make rather strained sexual innuendos for a scene while working on the ghost vacuum. You can't make me transcribe any of it! Luckily she gets called away before anybody's pants come off.

And then she apparently goes, on foot, from the high school to the warded town some five miles away. Either that or she needlessly parks really far away from her destination. Either way, it gives Francis Tumbleforya a chance to intercept her and tell her the ghosts have Kevin. Oh and Ketch gets his ass ambushed.

She meets the Winchesters in the middle of the street to deliver the news. I mean, Kevin is in the same room with the ghosts but how do they "have" him? He could blip away. This was a dorky plan from the start but I guess I relate. I, too, took a lot of AP classes in high school and I can't plan for crap.

The Winchesters meet with Francis. He sticks his hand through Kevin and turns on his heart light. 

They let this go on for a weirdly long time instead of pretending to negotiate until Rowena runs into the room. She brandishes a Himalayan salt lamp at the ghosts and shouts, "Capare!" A couple get sucked in but the rest blip away. Only Kevin remains.

Everyone runs off to where the ghosts are planning to attack the warding in a mostly invisible, budget-friendly manner. Ketch shows up, too, but everyone's too busy dreading the imminent breach to notice he's not wearing his iron necklace anymore.

[Graphic: A catalog ad from GOOP dot com selling the iron necklace as a belt to keep your nethers from getting overrun with evil spirits]

He lets Rowena vacuum up a few ghosts before knocking her out. He reveals himself to be Francis Tumbleweed and says he's going to use the crystal as a bomb to knock out the warding because bad guys always talk too much about their plans. Indeed, Dean quickly shoots him in the arm and the crystal goes flying.

Dean catches it and hands it back to Rowena so she can finish Dirt-Deviling the ghosts.

Denouement. Castiel tries to heal Ketch but can't for some reason. Did he get some kind of cooties from trying to heal the godly bullet wound in Sam's shoulder? Is he just tired? Does he just hate Ketch as much as I do? Time will tell.

The Winchesters say their goodbyes to Kevin, who's decided to wander the earth like some kind of phantom Dr. Banner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33izVlIOgnQ

"I love you guys," Kevin says. They smile at him. Like dang, say you love him too! I mean just give a guy a moment of happiness before he leaves to gradually lose his sense of self and his soul fades to nothing. Also maybe hug him. He's solid-ish.

Man, what a bummer.

In Reno, Amara is saying her goodbyes, too, but in a much sassier and satisfying away. She gets to tell her brother off and wear magenta lip stick. She mentions that he's lost so much power that he can't even leave this world without her help. Oh honey just punt him into Apocalypse World, then. Leave his ass to flounder.

We end with a bunch of ghosts (red glowing nuggets of light) trying to break into the town from the top. But like... why? They have the whole rest of the world. Why are they bothering with this mile-wide circle of real estate? The Winchesters and associates fret about how they're going to stop all the ghosts.

It's a shorter season, so they better hurry...

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EXPRESS CHEF BUSINESS

We were tasked to select one of 4 businesses to work on, and I decided to go with a food concept business. I decided to go with the food related business because I personally love to cook myself and would be interested to see what ideas I can come up with if I really had a small food business on my own.

The objective of this food business is suppose to be a quick service type of business, where it’s catered mostly for clients who have surprise guests, short on time, have had a last minute cooking disaster, poor cooks or have culinary emergencies.This business can supply a door-to-door chef at a very short notice to supply the finest ingredients to cook up a meal for 20 people or deliver fine cooked meals to your doorstep in a jiffy!

The green and orange brown colour is the company’s staple colour. Green colour is known universally as ‘GO’ which emphasizes it being fast and convenient. Brown colour together with the green helps bring a sophisticated and classy image, that even though its a fast cooking service, there’s a sense of as if dining in a restaurant. 

The logo is based off a motorcycle outline, highlighting the door-to-door services and delivery services. It’s white in colour for it to stand out from the coloured background.

POSTER

Note: The designs shown above were created through Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

CRITS:

1. Gabrielle Moey:

This concept is so cool! It'd be great if there's really a service like that! 

Branding wise, the illustration (cursive writing and the food sketch) adds a very customized/personalized touch to it, but I'm not sure if it would work as express chef leaves an impression of "fast, quick, now" kind of mood. 

As a reference you can study how Grab always try to keep things simple, because they want their audience to be able to understand it right away, and that's what they are known for, they are convenient, you can get it at the top of your fingertips. You can also use some delivery company as a case study as well to see how they communicate the "fast&quick" element through their branding.

2. Basil Cha:

There’s good color semantics

Cool idea for logo, but could be executed better

The layout is nice and clean too

Think about how you can execute more, even if it’s a small change in copy, etc. it will look better than just a single poster/image.

3. Yae-ber Neo:

Logo Stroke: could look better if you use ‘round cap’ but the ends since your logo is more fluid. It should give a cleaner look. 

Colour: not so convinced with them, experiment a little more!

4. Eunice Loke:

One thing about advertising: always have someone look at it for a different perspective on it. 

Cannot see the USP: They come to your home.

Not clear enough.

Logo: clarity can't see the motorcycle.

5. Thashini M Sivakumar: 

The logo has to be more clearer.

If want to promote a new service:

Don't get the emergency food service.

Focus on the chef part coming to the home.

"Express Chef at your service"

"At your service, in your home"

Characteristics of the chef.

Describing the chef

Depending on target audience

Whether to use images or lines.

The key is to stay on brand.

6. Sarah Ann Toolseram:

Alignment

Ai alignment.

If it's an event, dates should be bigger.

Event poster, call to action: getting people to go to the location.

7.  Damien Chung:

It’s good, it’s simple, easy to understand. Perhaps the visual can be more appealing. I think something to take note of is when you scroll through Instagram or ads, would this ad make you look at it for 5 seconds or more.

8.  Ian Lai:

I like the idea of a double-meaning logo, but I must say the F in CHEF is a bit hard to make out. The overall shape of the bike is also not very obvious, it takes awhile to get it. I think this can be improved by making the silhouette lines of the bike thicker. The express is also a bit small in comparison to the CHEF, and this might be an issue for small printed materials (imagine food boxes or serviettes) as the express might be illegible. The typography for ‘express’ can also be stronger, more bold and in all caps. You want it to contrast the cursive ‘chef’ a bit more. 

I like the idea that green = express and orange  = food/chef, but the way the colour cuts across diagonally doesn’t bring out the meaning. Imagine you have a wheel on the green side and half of it is an orange on the orange size, that would make for a stronger visual and more meaningful play on the brand colours.

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Structure Research

Zac + Zac

This image was shot from underneath the building which alters the perception as the wall at the bottom of the image seems like it is a platform that the photographer is standing on, leading towards a doorway. The glass windows of the building give the image action lines all leading towards the centre of the image to create a focal point. Symmetry and Asymmetry have been used effectively within this image as well, as until around halfway up the image, it is almost perfectly symmetrical, then it becomes asymmetrical as it reaches the top, This helps the gate or passageway idea and creates visual interest. Little colour has been used in the image and there is no detail in the sky which keeps the image looking clean. The glass of the building also reflects the light, meaning the viewer cannot see inside or cause distractions.

Image Source:https://www.zacandzac.co.uk/

Josephine Collingwood 

This image was also shot from under the building. This perspective makes the building seem larger in height as the top of the building appears further away. The focal point of the image is the centre as there is a gap between the building allowing the viewer to see through the structure. The glass windows of the building allow the reflections of the brown tiles above to be mirrored, this creates a contrast from the blue sky reflected on to the building. The contrasting colours also help to bring forward the diagonal action lines. The building consists of geometrical shapes and patterns which gives the image visual interest. I like this photograph as the photographer has used a unique perspective and planned out the best time of day to visit the location. I will need to research weather conditions for the following week prior to shooting my structure brief as the images will lack detail if shot on a dull day.

Image Source:http://www.collingwoodphotography.co.uk/architecture-photos.php

Michael Gabriel 

This interior architecture building looks to have been captured in a church. This image combines aspects of symmetry and intricacy to create a pleasing well laid out photograph with nicely placed lighting, complementing the dark and gothic theme that Gabriel has created. The natural light used in this image works well for the theme, as it gives the image a softer, hazier look, further adding to the atmosphere. The photographer has likely used an ND filter to remove any flare from the windows or has shot this image on a dull day and applied a colour filter in post-production.

Image Source: https://contrastly.com/the-art-and-style-of-architectural-and-interior-design-photography/ 

Daniel Shearing

This image was photographed a street away to include the entire building. The photographer has used a slow shutter speed to attempt to blur passing civilians and cars, however, this can make the image seem rather messy due to the people in the foreground becoming distractions in the image. When capturing my own structure images, I will need to try to avoid getting people in my images for this reason. I could use a long exposure if this isn’t possible or shoot my location at a different time of day when fewer people are around. The building is also parallel and doesn’t look as if it is falling over. I will need to use a wide angle lens to avoid distortion in my image. 

Image Source:https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/detail/dalston-works-the-largest-clt-building-in-the-world_o

Simon Kennedy

This image shows not only the building but the environment around it. I like the light mist as this adds a gloomy atmosphere. The image also has leading action lines which cross through the focal point. The top area of the image shows a bridge connected to the misty stairs on the lower half of the image. The contrast between them creates visual interest and almost frames the focal point of the image with the darker section. This also helps draw the viewer back down into the centre of the image. I will consider using this idea or something similar for my own set of structure images.  Image Source:https://www.dezeen.com/2010/12/01/heygate-abstracted-by-simon-kennedy/

Pelle Cass

This image was captured to purposefully include people as an interesting subject matter. Cass did this by taking over 200 shots and then placed the separate images into Photoshop to be digitally combined into one final shot. He selected people that he thought were interesting to be placed into different sections in the image. The people in the photo are all walking down the staircase rather than both up and down to add flow to the image as well as keep it clean looking. The horizontal lines of the staircase split up the image by adding depth, this creates a good perspective and gives the image a sense of distance.

Image Source:https://www.businessinsider.com/pelle-cass-selected-people-photos-2016-10?r=US&IR=T

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I mentioned Jon Gabriel before, in at least two of my videos. He influenced me a lot, a few years back. His audio tracks (visualizations, guided meditations) were motivating in times, when i was still addicted to terrible junk foods. He once suggested to associate chocolate with shit and processed starches with cardboard. I did create a photoshopped visualization of how lean i wanted to become. And if i pull my belly in, i look almost like this visualization now. Perhaps my ass is slightly more sagging. But i have just that lean neck and chin and overall lean silhouette.  

I agree with most of what he says, except that he is not quite vegan and high carb enough for my tastes. Perhaps he is just trying to not piss off his rich mainstream audience. Or perhaps he is a different body type and is therefore a better fat burner than me. He seems to be much more of a mesomorph than me. And lives a much more active live-style.

His main argument is, that the major cause of overweight is some kind of hormonal stress. Hardships in life, that are interpreted as a famine because throughout evolution most difficulties in life were correlated with at least a thread of future famine. A body that fears famine will be hungry enough to put on fat. So to loose fat long term, to maintain weight loss, that stress trigger needs to be eliminated. Life needs to be somewhat positive and free of exhausting drugs, like sleep cycle disturbing amounts of caffeine. I think i agree with this completely.  I have tons of anxiety regarding my perspective on survival. Let alone reproduction. This may hold my evolutionary biology back from giving up all of my weight. It may be the main cause for why my body holds on to every single gram of fat (above around 15 grams of fat per day), just to give me hunger for more carbs. This goes hand in hand with what i said about the endomorph type before. Nevertheless, i used to be a huge ball of white trash and now i am more lean and much more healthy than half, if not most of my age peers. Just because of a change of diet, hardly touching the stress aspect, especially the psychological aspect of stress, which is probably getting much worse, as a side effect of me becoming more and more alienated from humanity, due to being a fruitarian at heart. So you cannot say: "Oh, my body wants to be fat, that is the problem, not the junk food i eat - If my body wanted to be lean, it would be lean despite those junk foods i eat" - That isn't even true, because even lean types will become fat, slowly over decades, by eating those fattening, fat containing, calorically dense foods. You do not have to resolve that mythological childhood trauma, that you cannot even remember, in order to have an up to 90% improvement of your life quality. Just change your diet. So this is where i am tempted to disagree with Jon Gabriel a little. What he says about stress is absolutely true and cannot be ignored, if perfect healing is the goal. But he seems to slightly downplay the "nutritionist approach" (tweaking metabolism by smarting up about how different foods and macros digest and burn within the body) in favor of this stress-setpoint-argument. In reality, the priorities are the other way around: You can loose at least half of your weight, by focusing exclusively on the nutritionist approach. Maybe two thirds of your weight. Loosing the rest of your weight will take longer, because mastering the stress-aspect is more challenging. An intellectual change (what foods you consider worthy of your money) is usually happening much more quickly, than a personality and lifestyle change. But if an intellectual change around how the body is affected by shitty food is not even possible, because of dishonest neurotic self sabotage or confusion and attachment to various collective lies, the situation is even worse. This is why i had to become like 30 years old, until i had enough mental clarity to tackle my obesity intellectually. People who are still intellectually compromised can only be helped by authorities telling them the truth.  Mastering both areas, intellectual understanding and stress management, takes much time and the speed of weight loss is limited by how fast you can master weight maintenance at any level. Whenever weight loss exceeds this maintenance mastery, you will just regain the weight. You can always go to 7% bodyfat, by doing a 360 day water fast, or whatever, but that is useless. A waterfast can however be use full to get down to your current set-point, which is your current ability to maintain weight at a certain level, which is your current food choice habits and your current hormonal situation. I did never regain any of the weight i lost during my first 40 day water fast! Quick weight loss does not cause jojo effects! Only the so called "set point" does cause the regaining of weight. Fasting for a first time does probably greatly reduce your setpoint. Because it reduces oxidative stress in the body, by removing body fat and cleaning the lymph system. And it changes your sensibilities, thus improves your food choices (given that you are intellectually prepared for this). But that does not bring the set point all the way down to 7 or so percent bodyfat. I did more water fasts (20 days, 20 days, 30 days), which took me to a lower level of body fat, around 50kg, but i regained that weight every time. I guess this is where i have to spell out that my definition of setpoint is slightly different from that of Jon. I see it as a complex equation of multiple factors coming together, not as an inside job, a program of genes, brain, hormones. For example if a nervousness in your brain drives you to gain weight for 6 dark months of the year, but your food choices allow only 1kg of weight gain per one month, then in my view your setpoint is practically only 6kg higher than in the opposite time of the year. This is why in my view food preferences change the setpoint. A fruitarian who gets nervous about food would switch to foods of higher energy density, perhaps dried fruit. Someone else might introduce overt fats in stead. This person could put on 2kg in one month. Their setpoint would be 12kg higher. They may not even be able to loose those 12kg again, in the opposite half of the year, when they feel safe to do so. One year they are 12kg heavier, but loose only 6kg, next year they add 12, that makes a total of 18kg and so on. Would their brain feel less nervous about survival, would they add less than 12kg in 6 grim months, because they already have 6 extra in the first year, 12 in the second year? Maybe a little less nervous but not totally. Many factors come together in my model and its hard to predict. My experience suggests that just changing objective factors like food choices can make a massive difference to the setpoint. In my view there is a pulling force in the form of cerebral nervousness around food, or carelessness, it pulls weight up or down, through appetite for more or less calories, but does not say how much weight should go up or down, neither in terms of body-fat-percentage nor in terms of total weight in kg. How much weight goes up or down is in my view not decided cerebrally, but in the body, which “decides” mechanically through so many factors: how many fat cells you have, how much nerve energy it takes to keep that huge body alive, how large the stomach is, how much nerve energy it takes to digest your particular food choices. How much weight can you handle? Also on the other hand: how much muscles do you need, to get through the day? How much nerve energy and carbs do those muscles need to run? So how much do you need to eat to carry your weight? This huge complexity of factors is pulled, up or down in terms of mass, like a bag with objects in it. Those objects produce resistance to the pull. To explore the opposite case: weight loss or lowered setpoint - using a different analogy. Like a glass standing on a tilted surface. The glass represents our body fat. There is already a tension from gravity pulling, representing a desire for weight loss, but not enough to pull the glass over the resistance of the surface. Then the surface is tilted just a little more. Gravity did not even change. But the relationship of gravity and surface resistance changes, resistance is lowered. The glass starts to glide and falls off the surface. More tilt is an analogy to a low GI diet, since fat is more easily burned, when muscles are not instantly stuffed with carbs on all occasions. Setpoint or gravity did not change, but a change of diet triggered weight loss. This analogy implies, that gravity, representing a lower setpoint, was necessary for weight loss. Does this analogy hold true? Is it impossible to loose weight, when there is no lowered setpoint? Not quite, the analogy has it’s limits, you can of course starve off the weight, but may gain it back. My main point with this analogy is, that the initial weight was much higher than “gravity” wanted it to be. That glass was just standing there on the slightly tilted surface, not moving one damn bit. There was a surface resistance holding the glass in place and it was the diet choices alone, in this case a theoretical high GI diet, such as when you eat a 1000kcal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, instead of four bananas.  My current setpoint is roughly at 58kg at 167cm (its a good BMI but includes much fat in my case). This could be stress related or it could have something to do with my lower than ideal lean body mass. Perhaps my evolutionary intelligence is simply stressed out by this crippling weakness, around my spine and shoulders, which also involves chronic inflammation of some joints. And evolution gives me an extra appetite for it. But building up bones and cartilage and tendons and ligaments happens so slowly. Unsurprisingly my body could easily store much body fat in the process of eating for lean mass gain, given how many effective fat cells i have. So i take my protein need serious. And avoid bone loss causing substances like salt and phosphoric acid (found in coke, energy drinks, as stabilizer for some hydrogen peroxide solutions). And this is also something Jon would agree with. He recommends protein for breakfast. Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. I can’t load up my belly with slow digesting chickpeas in the morning. How am i supposed to digest fruit then? I will have my protein in the evening. The body can store amino acids and builds up muscles during sleep anyways. Protein in the morning may reduce overall appetite, but that is not a strong enough argument to justify indigestion of fruit. If only there were affordable vegan protein powders without toxic fat and without pollution.

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Let’s Get Social 2018 Reflection

Let’s Get Social 2018 Group Selfie

So many wonderful real life encounters that were just so much fun this year at Let’s Get Social 2018, which is what it is all about! Yes, ICSC RECon 2018 is behind us all and we have to get back to work and reflect on the amazing people we have met and the experiences we had, but this Let’s Get Social event keeps on giving.

Photos

We have tons of photos and business cards and follow ups and wonderful memories too. Please use our album and our cool frames (portrait or landscape) all you want too! If you want a certain picture put into a frame, please email the picture to us and we will take care of it for you. We do need you to email us the picture as it would be impossible for us to find a photo as they are not tagged or named.

Vegas CRE Team Natalie Wainwright and Dan Palmeri

Reflection

For me personally, Let’s Get Social 2018 was a breakthrough event. We took the even to another level with pretty name badges and the most incredible King and Queen of the event stepping up to buy everyone a drink! OMG. Daniel Palmeri and Natalie Wainwright of the VegasCRETeam were the first to offer support and contact me to say, we want to buy everyone a drink. How amazing is that. When Let’s Get Social was conceived, thanks to egging on by David Perlmutter of QuantumListing, it was grassroots. I did not know anyone in Las Vegas and I did try to get some Las Vegas folks to show up, to no avail. Now that I live here, it is like a light bulb got turned on! Dan Palmeri called me and said John Orr said we all need to get together and the rest is history. All of these minds think alike and this year was amazing.

Then we sprinkle in another bright mind, Blake Haggett who DMed me on Twitter and said “Would you help me put together a social media meeting at ICSC at the end of this month!” Of course, I said, yes, join us at Let’s Get Social. So it seems everyone is getting the power of social media and how we can start connecting the dots and bringing our virtual day to day outreach to reality. It all happened on Sunday night.

Star Studded Hosts

Now that all of that like minded thinking and make it extreme with the best hosts possible who do whatever they can to encourage their colleagues and pals to show up and you have a real winner here in Las Vegas and that is what happened.

But we cannot stress enough that one of our key aspects in promoting the event every year, is our name badges! We tell everyone to call or register and get your name badge which has been so beautifully designed by Lindsey Imperatore of the News Funnel/The Content Funnel and CRETech, and printed with an awesome service called SmartyPass. Then take the talent of Danielle Watson of DealPoint Merrill who does her magic to make frames for the pictures and recommended our amazing photographer Randy! What can I say, but incredible and virtual teamwork all around!

We have the most amazing hosts every year and that list is also growing! In fact, there are rumors a certain incredible guy, who I love so much, initials RS may be a host next year!! We are already counting the days to Let’s Get Social 2019 as a result of that news and we plan to promote 2019 more than you ever knew. I also know another certain host said it will be even bigger in 2019 and his initials are DP!!! So much enthusiasm it is just incredible.

Our amazing hosts:

Julie, Natalie, Vishu, David, Alan, Michael, Dan, Linda (Jason, Michael, Kateri being photoshopped in. Coming soon.)

Thank you to all of those who have supported this event year after year, like Kymn Harp, Howard Kline, Scott Stinson, Michael Lagazo, Greg Patterson, Rod Santomassimo, Paula Dempsey (in spirit) and the newbies, like Faith Hershey, Mike Lin, Chris Lindholm, Beth Azor, John Orr, Elyse Welch, Dan Palmeri, Natalie Wainwright, Gabriel Gonzalez, Blake Haggett, Marilyn August, Brent Ball, Barry Wolfe, and so many more to name. This blog is in honor of all of you who make up our Let’s Get Social annual event! Thank you!

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It’s been more than a year since Echoes came out and I’m still not over Thabes Labyrinth

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Latest story from https://movietvtechgeeks.com/chloe-grace-moretz-finds-kim-kardashian-sad-plus-taylor-swifts-example/

Chloe Grace Moretz finds Kim Kardashian 'sad' plus Taylor Swift's example

Taylor Swift isn’t the only celebrity who has been in a highly publicized feud with reality star Kim Kardashian. You may remember, Kim also had a social media spat with young actress Chloe Grace Moretz Quite a few months back, Chloe slammed Kim for posting a nude selfie on Instagram. Inevitably, Kim (as well as a couple of her family members) clapped back at Chloe for seemingly throwing shade at a fellow female star. In the most recent issue of Variety magazine, Chloe opened up about her short-lived feud with Kim Kardashian. In her interview with the publication, Chloe noted that she felt Kim did not handle the situation well. The Kickass actress said, “It’s sad for [Kim] to reach out like that to a young woman. There’s a lot of woman-on-woman hate.” Chloe went on to address the hateful side of the Internet, saying, “A lot of mean photos have been made of me with Photoshop, and people have done really nasty memes about me, and just so you know, I’ve seen them all and I don’t find them funny and I don’t find them cute. That’s not cool. It’s bullying. And it hurts. I’m not going to deny that.” You can read more of what Chloe had to say to Variety magazine in her exclusive interview, which is featured in the publication’s “Power of Young Hollywood” edition. Taylor Swift's attorneys told jurors they aren't trying to bankrupt a former Colorado DJ accused of groping the pop superstar before a concert, but they do want others to know "that you can always say no." Swift's attorney, Douglas Baldridge, attacked the credibility of former Denver DJ David Mueller on Tuesday, asking jurors, "What's wrong with this picture? A woman gets assaulted, a woman reports it, and she gets sued." Wednesday's testimony was delayed while the judge held a closed hearing with both sides to discuss unspecified evidence. Jurors, spectators, and the news media were told to leave the courtroom. Mueller sued Swift after her team told his bosses at a country music station that he had reached under her dress and touched her backside during a meet-and-greet before a 2013 concert in Denver. He is seeking at least $3 million, saying the allegation cost him his job and reputation. Swift countersued Mueller, claiming sexual assault. She is seeking a symbolic $1, saying she wants to serve as an example to other women who have been assaulted. As Swift's attorneys tried to take the higher ground in the case, Mueller's attorneys tried to paint their client as someone who just wants to clear his name and recover his lost earnings. "Let's be clear about something from the onset - inappropriate touching is offensive, it's wrong and should never be tolerated," Mueller's attorney, Gabriel McFarland told jurors. "Let's also be clear that falsely accusing someone of inappropriate touching is equally offensive, it's wrong and should not be tolerated." Mueller testified Tuesday that he may have touched the pop superstar's ribs with a closed hand as he tried to jump into a photo with her but insisted he did not touch her backside as she claims. He said he and Swift were trying to reach around one another and "our hands touched and our arms touched" during a photo opportunity he estimated lasted no more than 40 seconds. The photo seen by jurors shows Mueller with his hand behind Swift, just below her waist. Both are smiling. "If you look at that photograph, his hand is not underneath Miss Swift's skirt, and her skirt is not rumpled in any fashion," McFarland said, noting that no one on Swift's concert team saw anything amiss. Mueller also testified that one of his station bosses, Hershel Coomer, who is expected to testify, told him that he had met Swift earlier before the show and that "he told me that he had his hands on her butt." Mueller said, "I thought he was just telling me one of his stories." But in his opening statement, Baldridge told jurors that Swift is "absolutely certain" she was sexually assaulted by Mueller, and the photo is "damning" proof of it. Baldridge repeatedly interrupted Mueller during an aggressive cross-examination and noted that Mueller has said he lost an audio recording of a meeting he had with his bosses before they fired him. "We'll never know what's on it, will we?" Baldridge asked. "No, we won't," Mueller responded. "They're gone." Baldridge also repeatedly asked Mueller if he could grasp "any reason, incentive or motive" for Swift to make up the allegation or be involved in two years of litigation. "I cannot," Mueller replied. Baldridge did get Mueller to concede that various supervisors with KYGO and its parent firm had discussed the possibility of letting him go even before the encounter with Swift. Swift is expected to testify, along with members of her entourage. Once again, Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Judge’s very own daughter is putting her on blast. For the past couple of years, Tamra’s daughter Sidney Barney has kept her distance from the star. The two’s relationship began to disintegrate after Tamra divorced Sidney’s father, Simon. In addition, Sidney has repeatedly asked her mother to stop talking about her on her reality show - a request that Tamra has continued to disobey. On the most recent episode of Real Housewives of Orange County, Tamra was seen speaking at an event, which was thrown in support of estranged family members. During the event, Tamra claimed that she and Sidney were talking again and were slowly making amends with one another. In contrast, on Monday, Sidney took to her Facebook page to reprimand her mother’s behavior, as well as address some of the reasons she decided to distance herself from her reality star mom. In a lengthy post, Sidney explained, “"I want to start by clearing some things up as my mother continues to talk about me despite me requesting her to stop speaking of me publically [sic] as I don't want to be associated with her or the show. For starters, I did not move out when my parents got a divorce nor did I chose my father's side in the divorce. My parents separated in 2010; I moved out of my mother's house in 2013. Me leaving has nothing to do with the divorce, it has to do with the living conditions at my mother's house and the way she treated me and still treats me today.” She went on to add, "The reasons I left my mothers house are that she was neglectful (leaving us at home with no food or simply ignoring us entirely), she constantly put herself first, and the biggest reason was that she was mentally and emotionally abusive. She was no mother to me. This was an unhealthy environment for all of us kids, and unfortunately, I was the only one to recognize this and take steps to get out of that toxic environment." Tamra Judge, Twitter post: https://twitter.com/TamraBarney/status/894746415838052353 Inevitably, Tamra was quick to defend herself. The blonde reality star wrote on her Twitter page, “Not surprised #brainwashed. Ask her paid for her very expensive college. I’m good when it works for her and her dad.” Halle Berry, despite her fame and fortune, once had nothing to her name – including a place to call home. “That was rough,” the Oscar winner, 50, told People about briefly being homeless as a young actress and living in a shelter in the Big Apple. “I called my mother and asked her to send me some money, and she said no, and that subsequently led to a year of not speaking to her, but that’s probably one of the best things she did for me.” Berry remembers calling her mom: “She said, ‘If you want to be there, then you work it out.’ Giving up was never an option.” The Cleveland native adds those stressful days early on in her career brought her back to her high school days when she had an “insatiable desire to win.” And she still carries that same spirit to persevere today, despite three failed marriages. She divorced husband No. 3, Olivier Martinez, in 2016. The mother of two is learning to be alone. “I’m learning that I’m fearless,” she added. “I had some many fears as I went through my third divorce. I was afraid to do that, but I was more afraid of living unhappy. It’s teaching me: Don’t be afraid of what people will think about the choices you make. We have to live for ourselves.” The Gallagher brothers’ hatred for one another is the stuff of rock and roll legend, but in a new interview Liam opened up about exactly why Noel irks him so. “Oh f–kin’ hell. He’s like a f–kin’ stalker him, man. ‘Quick! Grab me a famous person!’ F–kin’ cringe, man. Bradley f–kin’ Cooper and s–t like that? F–kin’ sit down, mate,” Liam told Noisey. “Working class traitor.” But its not just Noel’s alleged obsession with the glitz and glamour that comes with being a rockstar that bothers the 44-year-old Liam. Liam also felt that his brother – who he’s taken to calling “Potato” on Twitter – laid too much of the blame for Oasis’ 2009 breakup at his feet. “He stitched me up with Oasis,” he explained. “I was the one left to carry the f–kin’ blame, and that’s it. He went, ‘F–k this, I want a solo career.’ He f–kin’ set a few booby traps and I got f–kin’ collared with it. So as far as I’m concerned, you can f–k off. He didn’t just end it because we were in Paris and we had a ding-dong. You stitched me up and you can f–k off, you c–t. I’m your f–kin’ brother. People go, ‘Oh you’re jealous.’ I’m not. I’m living in the f–kin’ real world. I’ve got my kids, I’ve got my rock’n’roll, I’ve got my vibe. You’ve got Bradley Cooper, you c–t.” Liam and Noel, 50, are said not to have talked since the band’s breakup, something which appears to actually bother Liam some. But, as he made abundantly clear, what really irks him is how much he says his brother has changed since Oasis’ breakthrough album, 1994’s “Definitely Maybe.” “I miss the one that I was in a band with, but the one that I see now? Getting selfies with this one and that one? He doesn’t know whether he’s coming or going,” he said. “For a geezer who bangs on about how his favorite band is U2? I was in a band with that kid for 20 f–kin’ years. And in those 20 years we had a party every f–kin’ night after pretty much every gig and we had tunes on. I never heard him play one f–kin’ U2 song.” He added, “He’s full of f–kin’ shit, mate. I’m just here to f–kin’ shine a light on the f–kin’ fakes, man. And he’s one of them.” While having two of your children publically make clear how much they loathe eachother might bother some mothers, Liam says his and Noel’s isn’t particularly put out by it. “She’s gone past that now,” he said. “She’s like, ‘F–k the pair of ya.’ Just cause we’re brothers, people say: blood’s thicker than water. But it takes more than f–kin’ blood to be my brother. You have to be sound; d'you know what I mean?” Liam’s venom isn’t just reserved for Noel. He also let loose when it came to talking about … the sea. “And f–k the sea,” he said when asked if it was true he can’t swim. “I ain’t going in that. F–k that, mate. That ain’t meant for us. That’s meant for the sharks, and the jellyfish, tadpoles and stuff. But a hottub? I’m alright in a hottub. Can hang about in there for a bit.” The only thing we love more than a “power list” is a “powerless list” — in the case of this crew, VIP stands for “verifiably impotent.” Website 24/7 Wall St. published a tongue-in-cheek answer to the Forbes list — their perspective on the 50 least powerful people. They named disposable White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci as their wunderkind of weakness, followed by beached New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and reluctantly retired FBI Director James Comey. In the No. 5 spot is Tiger Woods or, as they describe him, the 899th-ranking men’s pro golfer. At No. 6 is Kendall Jenner, thanks to her pallid Pepsi ad. Jennifer Lawrence and boyfriend Darren Aronofsky don’t always see eye to eye. Lawrence, 26, revealed when Aronofsky, 48, directed her in fall’s upcoming “Mother!,” she hyperventilated and dislocated one of her ribs from the stress and intensity of filming. “I ended up getting on oxygen,” the Oscar winner revealed in Vogue’s September issue. “I have oxygen tubes in my nostrils, and Darren’s like, ‘It was out of focus; we’ve got to do it again.’ And I was just like, ‘Go f—k yourself.’” Lawrence confessed she had to construct a tent full of guilty pleasures on the set to keep her in her “happy place,” complete with “pictures of the Kardashians and ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians‘ playing on a loop — and gumballs.” Aronofsky isn’t thrilled with her reality TV obsession, she admitted with a chuckle. “He just finds it so vastly disappointing.” Still, she adores her beau, with whom she’s been linked since last fall. “We had energy … I had energy for him,” she said. “I don’t know how he felt about me.” “When I saw the movie, I was reminded all over again how brilliant he is,” said the actress, who previously dated Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and her “X-Men” co-star Nicholas Hoult. “For the past year, I’ve been dealing with him as just a human … I’ve been in relationships before where I am just confused. And I’m never confused with him.” She added, “I normally don’t like Harvard people, because they can’t go two minutes without mentioning that they went to Harvard. He’s not like that.” While Lawrence is happy in her relationship and with her career, she’s not too thrilled with the constant publicity that follows her every move — especially her moves on the pole, which went viral in May when a video of her letting loose at a strip club for a friend’s birthday hit the web. “My biggest fear from that whole thing was that people were going to think that I was trying to be sexy,” she griped. “Also, it looked like I had taken my shirt off. I was in a crop top. I did not take off my shirt. I’m on the phone with my lawyers, and everybody’s like, ‘Is there anything we need to know before it comes out?’ And I’m like, ‘No, it’s all there.’” “It’s scary when you feel the whole world judges you,” Lawrence lamented. “I think people saw [the hacking] for what it was, which was a sex crime, but that feeling, I haven’t been able to get rid of it. Having your privacy violated constantly isn’t a problem if you’re perfect. But if you’re human, it’s terrifying. When my publicist calls me, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, what is it?’ Even when it’s nothing. I’m always waiting to get blindsided again.” She explained that the press has left her somewhat guarded with fans as well, for which she feels some guilt. “I’m happy to meet people, give autographs, shake hands, and say ‘Thank you,’” she said. “I wouldn’t have a job if people weren’t going to see my movies. It’s just … if I’m on an airplane and I have no makeup on, I don’t want to take a selfie that’s going to end up on E!” Unfortunately, Lawrence can’t seek refuge from the craziness at home, for reasons hilarious enough to only apply to her. “When I first moved in, the house was crystalled out — crystals everywhere, and geodes, and I was like, ‘Please get rid of these; I don’t want people to come over here and think I’m a crystal person,’” she explained. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that! But everyone told me, ‘You can’t do that. You can’t move them. You have to have the crystal lady who put them in move them,'” she said. “I just had all the crystals yanked out. Sold them. And then my f—king house flooded.” “I hate crystals.” Kris Jenner gave a glimpse into her business savvy mind in the latest Lenny Letter. The famous momager, 61, shared how she took a broke Bruce Jenner and turned him into a lucrative motivational speaker in the ‘90s. “I told my assistant, Lisa, ‘OK, listen. We have the greatest guy here. He really knows his craft. He is really good at what he does, but he doesn’t have anybody doing anything for him,” Kris recalled. “He doesn’t have a lot going on. He has $200 in the bank. What are we going to do?’ Because the kids have to eat. We have to get it together.” Kris admits she does not have any formal business training, but learned invaluable skills from watching her first husband, Robert Kardashian, and their top-tier friends conduct business. So she forged a plan to make him successful by first assembling press kits with her own money. “He didn’t have a business card. He didn’t have a bio. He didn’t have press, nothing,” Kris said. From there, Kris sprang into action getting friends to do photo shoots of Bruce and hiring another friend to make a reel that would be used as an intro for his speeches. “I think I spent my last dime, I’m not even kidding, making these beautiful, glossy press-kit folders and took every great article that had ever been in Sports Illustrated and any really beautiful magazine and I started making copies,” she said. “We put together 7,000 press kits, and we mailed them to every speakers’ bureau in the United States. Then we sat back, and we waited for the phone to ring.” Then the calls started to roll in from Visa, Coca-Cola, and more big-name companies. Kris and Bruce were married for 23 years before calling it quits in 2013 and officially divorced in 2014. Bruce transitioned into Caitlyn in 2015. Add lying to the ever-growing list of Kendall Jenner’s alleged sins. Baby’s All Right, the Brooklyn bar that called out the reality star-turned-model for failing to tip her bartender last week, now claims she’s lying about having left a cash tip instead — and did so by quoting the German philosopher Nietzsche. “‘I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.’ – Nietzsche #nocashtip,” the bar wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post on Tuesday. The caption accompanied a screenshot of a tweet in which Jenner claimed to have left a cash tip, writing, “damn, I guess next time we won’t tip in cash.” Last Friday, the bar called the 21-year-old out for her failure to tip, posting a photo to Instagram of her $24 tab with the caption, “Don’t forget to tip your bartender :).” That post, like Tuesday’s Nietzsche-quoting missive, has since been deleted. Your move, Kendall.

Aaron Carter says attempting to explain his bisexuality to his ex-girlfriend Madison Parker didn’t go over so well.

“I had to discuss it with my ex-girlfriend, and she didn’t really understand it and she didn’t want [to],” Carter shared in a new interview with “The Bert Show” on Wednesday. “And that was it. So we left it mutual and parted ways … It was something that I felt was important and that I needed to say.”

The former couple, who were arrested together in July, called it quits last week before Carter publicly disclosed his sexuality.

“To be honest, I’ve been thinking about it for many years,” he shared. “I just felt like it was something I needed to do. It was something that I just felt like was important, and I needed to say. It was a part of a new chapter of turning 30.”

Carter remains optimistic, saying he’s “really looking forward to the future … be it with a man or a woman.”

One day after her estranged daughter blasted her in a scathing Facebook message, Tamra Judge renewed her wedding vows. “Celebrating love with all the hate that’s going on. May God bless your life because it’s not always easy,” the “Real Housewives of Orange County” fixture wrote Tuesday on Instagram. “But God has a plan.. a big plan.” The 49-year-old went on to thank fellow “Housewives” Shannon Beador, Lydia McLaughlin and Kelly Dodd for their help as she and her spouse of four years celebrated their special union. Before Tamra married third husband Eddie Judge in 2013, the Bravo personality documented her wedding planning with the spinoff, “Tamra’s OC Wedding.” Her troubled relationship with eldest daughter Sidney Barney has been a storyline on this season of the Bravo franchise. On Monday, Sidney, 18, slammed Tamra for dragging her into the spotlight, particular her recent high school graduation. “The one thing I asked and have been asking for 4 years now has been to not talk about me because I don’t want to be in the spotlight. But again breaking her promises as per usual, she puts herself, her fame, her reputation, and her bank account before me,” she wrote. Tamra shared a photo from Sidney’s graduation on Instagram in June, where she reunited with ex-husband Simon Barney and their two other children, son Spencer, 17, and daughter Sophia, 11. She split from Simon in 2010, though their divorce wasn’t finalized until the following year.

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