#its like 2.20am

[gomzdrawfr]

Crying in the club (my room)

hoping to finish my assignments by tonight, in the mean time, if yall have any nikprice/nik/price/ghost/alerudy/rudy stuff that I might've missed and you want to recommend em to me feel free to tag me under said posts or come say hi in my ask

u can rec ur own stuff too!

[beardedmrbean]

A lawyer caught drink driving told police she couldn’t take a roadside breathalyser test because she had ‘had her lips done’, a court heard.

Rachel Tansey, 44, was pulled over at 2.20am after reports her silver Range Rover Discovery was “weaving around” the road at 20 mph in a 60 mph zone.

But when asked to blow into the intoxilyzer machine, barrister Tansey was claimed she could not fully seal her lips around the tube because of the procedure.

Later when challenged the mother of three who lives in a £1.4 million mansion in Formby, Merseyside, said: “Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I am doing my very best. It is like asking someone to jump up after a tummy tuck. I cannot do it.”

Officers told Ms Tansey she would have to provide a blood sample, to which she responded: ‘‘Good luck trying to get blood from me. Let’s roll the dice. I will not consent to blood.”

She was subsequently charged with failing to provide breath and blood samples.

‘Phobia of needles’

At Sefton magistrates’ court, Ms Tansey denied wrongdoing, insisting she had not been drinking and had only been driving slowly as she had dropped a chicken wrap she had been eating and also swilling mouthwash into a cup while travelling along Formby Bypass.

She also claimed the refusal to give blood was due to her having an undiagnosed phobia of needles. She said the cosmetic surgery was non-invasive and did not involve needles.

Convicting her of both charges, District Judge James Hatton told her: ‘‘From the moment that you got out of the car you attempted to manipulate this situation.

‘‘You have tried to delay and delay and delay the officers. You tell the officers that you had nothing to drink. Clearly you had at least something to drink.

“You refused as soon as you were aware of the roadside and you made no proper attempt to blow at the roadside. You say you had your lips done.

“Clearly you are now trying to backtrack from the obvious meaning of ‘I have had my lips done’ because you knew by inference it would infer a needle being used.

‘Argumentative’

“You were argumentative with police at the police station, argumentative with the prosecutor today in court. When told about blood you made no mention of the phobia, you said ‘Roll the dice’. You won’t let your pulse be taken, you won’t let your blood pressure be taken, you won’t even try.

“I find it extremely unlikely indeed that you would be eating a chicken wrap, chewing gum and swilling the mouthwash and spitting it into a cup while driving along Formby Bypass.

“I reject your account in its entirety as there is no support for it. You are a witness who lacks any kind of credibility whatsoever.’‘

He bailed her for sentencing saying: ‘‘This will likely be dealt with by way of a community order. But I will not tie the hands of the sentencing court and will leave all options open, including custody.’‘

The incident occurred on April 20 2023, after Tansey who also runs a bar in Liverpool was reported to a police patrol about her erratic driving by an off-duty colleague.

Pc Thomas Moore told the hearing: ‘‘Upon opening the vehicle I could smell the scent of alcohol and she seemed to be slightly erratic in her behaviour. She automatically said she had been drinking plenty of mouthwash and eating chewing gum.

‘‘She said that she would be unable to provide a roadside breath test because she had cosmetic surgery on her lips the day before. She was putting her lips around the tube and forming a seal at one point to provide a partial sample but could not complete and provide a full sample.”

‘Very arrogant’

He added: “She was very arrogant to be honest.”

Tansey told the court the procedure was an “IPL,” a non-surgical skin treatment that using light to improve complexion.

“I have had IPL treatments – a course of six. You put them on your face and it is not invasive. It takes any –hair from around your chin. These things happen when you get older. When I told them about my lip it was my upper lip,” she said.

‘‘I have had a good few of those treatments and they say it can cause swelling and mild discomfort. It is UV light going on your skin. I have got very sensitive skin. But when I was talking about the procedure I have had, I was surrounded by seven men. I did not want to say ‘I have had all my upper hair waxed off.”

The barrister said she was “shocked and really anxious about what was going on” after being pulled over, and claimed that she had offered to provide a urine sample after failing to provide a breath or blood sample.

“If you ask me to give blood it’s like the shutters come down. No chance. No way. I was in a high state of anxiety at the time and my head just goes to a different place. 

“I was really angry that they would not take the urine off me. They would not listen. It is just a knee-jerk reaction. I just go into defence mode,” she said.

Ms Tansey was bailed for sentencing to March 4 at Liverpool magistrates’ court.

[zevsarainai]

i just finished watching ep 111 (c2 obviously) of critical role AND WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WAS THAT ENDING

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no but i’ll find more of hyunjae in that one suit with the v neck you like or in shirts with the wide necklines so you can see his collarbones that you love so much <3 🌟

HEY its 2.20am WE DONT DO T HAT HERE

[angelwaters1704]

Making Performance 2 Final Blog Post

When starting the process of our Titanic piece we had a lot of key themes, ideas and issues. We started with the idea of having drowning as our key theme because we could use that to our advantage with visuals and direction but after a few conversations with our tutor we decided that the theme drowning is a very broad subject that needed to be cut down so we focused on one specific theme and idea. For the next week we met a couple of times to decide on our theme, which is were we came up with death and  but after trying to explore that idea it still didn’t sit right with us, so after a while we combined all of our ideas and came up with the theme and idea of loss because even though our characters didn’t die the night the titanic sank, our characters all lost a part of them self in one way or another.

Owen McCafferty’s play Titanic is set in a courtroom with a lot of characters coming in and out to be questioned. My group and I decided that we would also want to set our piece in a courtroom with one person questioning all the witnesses from all different angles of the titanic sinking. Through our meetings and class times my group discussed doing a lot of visuals that we would use throughout our piece including the motif of water and the use of a candle to show our theme of loss. With our motifs we had a lot of creative vision for our piece and they all worked really well within our piece but because we had it set in a courtroom some ideas didn’t make sense but we used enough for our motif of water, when it came to the motif of the candle we decided to start our piece with a candle that we blow out and to end our piece with a candle that we blow out to show the theme of loss and a sense of connection between all of our characters.

We had a lot of creative breakthroughs within our process of our piece, to me I feel that our biggest breakthrough was when we found our theme of loss. When we found that everything clicked into place, we found more visual ideas for our motif of water and we also found the symbol for the candle making it a motif to show that a light went out in all of us that night even though none of our characters died.

When it came to the dramaturgical decisions we used a lot of lightings to convey our meanings and themes. At the start of our performance we all (apart from the two lawyers) had no lights on and were seen from the candle light before it was blown so straight from the beginning we had the theme of loss by having a part of us blown out. From there the two lawyers had their main lights on when questioning the witnesses to show power and authority whilst the witnesses on the stand all had a spotlight to show the guilt, fear and interrogation of what happened. My group and I used the candle light again at the end to show the final loss after the audience had heard all of the different stories of the night in question.

The play Titanic by Owen has a drama and history genre because of the questioning of the characters that were on the Titanic to find what exactly happened that night and who and what was responsible the night of the disaster. Owen McCafferty is originally from Belfast in Ireland who got inspired to create a play to hear the survivors stories of what happened and who was responsible the night the Titanic sank.

Titanic, too, has its base and selfish figures (the capitalist Cal Hockley, his man-servant Lovejoy, and White Star executive Bruce Ismay)

At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died.

In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses.

Owen McCafferty's Titanic retells the survivors' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts.

Titanic will provide ‘true lies’ about the past in order to bring us closer to that remote era than mere facts, documents and salvaged artefacts ever could.

https://youtu.be/_xKDRmhp6lQ - survivor interviews

The Titanic lies 12,600 feet underwater. The ruins of the Titanic lie nearly 2.5 miles beneath the surface of the ocean, approximately 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The ship broke in two, and the gap between the bow and the stern is about 2,000 feet in the sea bed

The iceberg that hit the ship may have jutted out 100 feet above water. The iceberg that the Titanic collided with is speculated to have been anywhere from 50 to 100 feet above water. The entire iceberg is believed to have been between 200 and 400 feet long.  

Over half the people on board could have survived if all of the space available on the lifeboats was used.

Only three of Titanic's four funnels worked. The robust ship's four funnels were partially for show -- only three of the funnels ejected soot. The other was merely used for ventilation purposes and added a certain majestic aesthetic to the ship.

The first lifeboat was released an hour after the iceberg struck. It may seem like common sense for a ship to immediately release safety lifeboats upon hull breach. The Titanic, however, did not release its first lifeboat until an entire hour elapsed.

The ship carried 2,223 passengers and crew. Of the 2,223 people aboard the Titanic, 1,517 did not survive the collision with the iceberg. The ship was not even at full capacity -- it could hold more than 3,500 people.

The ship was just under 900 feet long. The Titanic measured 882 feet and 9 inches in length, making it the biggest vessel of its time. Today, the largest cruise ship is Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas, clocking in at nearly 1,200 feet long.

The ship burned an estimated 825 tons of coal per day. The Titanic was far from a light craft, weighing some 46,000 tons. This behemoth of a vessel burned a reported 825 tons of coal per day in 159 furnaces that heated 29 boilers.

Less than a third of all people aboard the ship survived. Only 705 of the 2,223 passengers and crew members made it back home. Some 61% of the passengers who survived were first-class guests. Less than 25% of third-class passengers survived.

This semester we watched two different live performances:

The first was a show called ‘Shakesqueer’ by Tom Marshman. Tom Marshman used a lot of techniques to create his online performance, one technique that was used was camera movements and angles to create his creative vision. He also told his story not only through one camera but a hidden one on the other side of his clothes which also had a mirror effect to reflect on the different sides of the story. The way he told the story with the different angles and camera movements and effects, it made me feel a part of his journey and also his closet of clothes. There were a lot of deeper meanings in the show which I loved because they made the show a lot more interesting than it already was when you noticed them, Tom also used a comedy effect to convey his deeper meaning. Us as a group took influence with the different camera angles and movement from Tom Marshmans piece.

The second show was called ‘Sherlock and Homes’ by the theatre company Shark Teeth. I really enjoyed this piece of theatre because it explored the different ways we can work with an online performance in today's day and age. The company used a lot of breakout rooms and their chatbox to get the audience involved and make it fun. Shark Teeth’s piece was a murder investigation and we the audeince had to figure out who was guilty for the muder. They combined a lot of stories and reasons to make it more playful. My group and I took influence from this piece, not necessarily in the fun of it but in a way to make it more interesting and to keep the audience engaged with facial expressions and the way some characters speak to get their point and story across.

Another online performance we used took influence from was from a performance last semester that used shadows to create the creative vision. As soon as one of my group members brought it up we all knew straight way that we wanted to use it to create chaos and dramatic content.

Throughout the process of creating our titanic piece I had a lot of visual ideas to bring the piece to life but I found it very hard to communicate my ideas when it came to writing the script so my group and I decided to “assign” job roles that but we would all have a say in every bit of the roles throughout. My weaknesses throughout the whole process was communication with my group about how I was feeling. I also feel that communication was and is something that we could have worked on as there were some disagreements and miscommunication in our group. I feel that despite our differences one of our group strengths was that we worked well together and got through it and put on the best performance we could. My personal strength in the performance I felt I used my voice well for my character because of her status in society at that time, I felt as though I used the dramatic triangle well in the sense of one of the voice over in the last bit, Lady Duff Gordon and the audience knew something no one else knew.

If I could go back and do the whole experience again I would try and communicate better with my group and also push a lot more of my ideas as most of them were dismissed because it ‘didn’t’ fit the writer's intentions.

During the process of Titanic I learnt a lot especially when it comes to group work, but also a lot about camera angles and movement. I have learnt to not be afraid of trying things like delivering a line with a different eye line and how to create an intense piece on an online platform.

Flipgrid videos

https://flipgrid.com/c2034044

https://flipgrid.com/5bdacef7

https://flipgrid.com/dca59a75

I chose these flipgrid videos because they played a very big part in our piece. My group and I used a lot of the clips in our main piece to create the creative vision we wanted. We used these clips because we played a lot with the water motif and I feel that it brought our characters more to life.

Social Media Page link:

https://www.instagram.com/titanicbathspa/

Bibliography

http://owenmccafferty.com/

http://owenmccafferty.com/titanic

https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/person?docid=person_mcCaffertyOwen

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/may/02/titanic-scenes-wreck-inquiry-review

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2.681/titanic-scenes-from-the-british-wreck-commissioner-s-inquiry-1912-1.512907 (Crawley, 2012)

[laudelanever-blog]

quasimodo quarantino #13

2.20am

why does it confide in reprisals, restrictions, demands with no diluting, carve through the pit of what we think is right or deserving? feelings are a dictator, relentless. everyone around you sees it, hears it, talks of it, desperate for more and begging for it to end. everyone claims to be among it and then ostracizes its relation when all the while there is actually noone inside it. it sits alone, strings everyone together like webs formed in mold then picks up the nearest frail stick and gently strikes through. all entangled yet vulnerably clinging together desperate not to stick to the unknown, stick to the stick, the crushing beast of it all. there are no boundaries requested, it is what it is then it isnt when it is not and it is not. little bitch dictator.

why cant love be a best friend? why cant we ask for considerations and leniency and time off and time on and time off and time on and just play and cry and nestle in the synchronicity that comes in the form of safety when feeling like something plus you will be forever.

why is love a doing word when noone has control of what is to be done of love?

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i am fucked.

i am the one done.

i crawl internal and die there, inside out.

what a weapon is love?

what a dictator is love?

but fuck, didn’t love look really sexy at that party last night?

[byuunss]

you did well.

when I first heard the news, I could hardly believe it. The first thing that came to my mind was “this is definitely fake”. However as I continued to read and as more news articles are being published, I realised that what I read wasn’t a lie. i was lost, immediately. even though I don’t stan shinee or am a fan of jonghyun, the news literally hit me like a truck. i won’t deny, I’m still living in denial. it feels so surreal. it feels like a nightmare. I honestly wanna wake up from this. I search up the news every day, hoping that the industry would say the news is forged. but today, 21.12.17, it’s d-day. honestly speaking though, how am I suppose to come to face with the fact that he is no longer with us? whenever someone talks about him, the first thing that comes to my mind is “he recently just shot an MV.” or “oh the handsome guy from shinee?!” I still can’t come to terms with it. it feels like 1 week ago he was alive, but now he’s gone. everything is happening too quickly and I honestly have no idea what to feel about it.

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besides, this situation has also taught me a lesson : to reach out to anyone who’s in need no matter what. always be kind to others, always be helpful to others. bcuz we don’t know what they’ve been through.

those who are suffering from depression, please please please find someone to talk to. call ur friends, family, teachers, classmates, or the depression hotlines available in ur country. i know it’s tough, but please be strong. if talking to a stranger is comfortable with you, approach me. confide in me. I can be ur listening ears and ur shoulder to cry on. find a distraction too. just never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever bottle up your feelings. life is tough, I know, we know. share ur burden with others, it’s perfectly fine. we all need a pillar in our lives. it’s okay to share ur problems with someone, it’s okay to be imperfect, its okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to be hurt, it’s okay to be sad, it’s okay, it’s okay to be happy, it’s okay to be stress, it’s okay to be who you are and who you want to be. it’s perfectly okay and perfectly fine. why? bcuz we are humans, and humans have feelings. and this is what humans do. you can overcome depression and you can do it. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

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last but not least,

YOU DID VERY, VERY WELL, KIM JONG HYUN

WE LOVE YOU & MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

YOU WILL BE FOREVER & ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED IN OUR HEARTS

❤️💐

just some rly late midnight thoughts I needed to say to lighten up my chest a bit. goodnight!

2.20am • 21.12.17