#izy is izzy

[hearts401]

Decided robot ocs were well overdue

And these gals too <3

[furylad]

what? how are we "told but not shown"? I don't think you know what that means. is there a scene of dialogue where someone expositions to the audience that all these things have happened to Izzy and he's changed so much, while Izzy acts the same?

no. his behaviour has changed. the way he acts the character has changed. the way the character interacts with the crew has changed.

"told but not shown" implies that you as the audience have somehow been outright told (usually through character dialogue) the outcome of an event or what have you, while never showing the event itself.

that's literally not what's happening here?

Been thinking about Izzy's whole thing this season, and ultimately I've landed on feeling that they could have done it better, but I understand why they didn't.

We're told and not shown a lot of Izzy's growth, and to an extent that feels really jarring. But we do get to see him reaping a lot of what he's sown, and while given his characterization a lot of his actions feel self-serving and it doesn't always feel consistent that the crew would rally for him like they have, I also get why they did and why it inspired such a big turnaround for him. The crew are, ultimately, kind people and they've learned from Stede to foster a mutually supportive atmosphere. If Izzy's gotten his head out of his ass long enough to realize and take advantage of that, honestly, cool.

Do I wish we'd seen more of this development? Yes. Do I wish that he needed to learn, apologize, and atone on screen the same way Ed is having to? Absolutely. Am I also glad to sacrifice that if it means we get more Ed/Stede development scenes in a shorter season? Also yes.

At the end of the day, this season looks (from the trailers and bts materials we've gotten) that it's going to end with a lot of our pirates, even those who aren't on the best terms with our crew right now (like Zheng Yi Sao and Spanish Jackie) working together against a larger enemy (looks like the British Navy and Prince Ricky). I can see why they wanted to get Izzy's development out of the way fast so it would make sense for him to be on our crew's side when the shit hits the fan.

[izicodes]

Hi, Hello! It’s me, Izzy and I am back from a very long break!

For those who don’t know who I am and just saw my post, I’m Isabelle but Izzy for short (and even shorter, Izi)! I run a Codeblr blog which I post about anything coding! I try to strictly only talk about coding, programming and computer science, but frankly, I ramble on about something else eventually! Hope you’re doing well!

Now, I know I said I wouldn't come back, but that was because I suddenly became stuck on what to post about and wanted to give myself a break and figure out how to do things on my blog and my online presence in general!

So, in summary, I am back from my break very inspired and eager to help more people get into programming / get better at programming! I will go on to talk about exactly what I have been doing during my break later on in this post, but wanted to say thank you to everyone who messaged me throughout the months and saw how I was! Very thought and extra blessings from God to you, please!

Working at my new-but-not-so-new job!

Yes! So, obviously, as a 21st Century girlie, I am working! Still at the music company that I started back in January! Now that I am 8 months into the job, I feel now I am fully immersed in the job and the projects and not feeling like an outsider! I went on multiple out-the-office events with the whole company and it was nice! Some I couldn’t attend because of religious reasons, but I still had fun! I got to meet a lot more girlies at my office that I don’t usually talk to (because I’m still the only girl in the frontend engineering team but there is a backend girlie but we don’t work close together so… distance)! Cheatingly, I am always ticking the box of “code every day”! However, work has made me do more UI/UX designing + frontend programming websites which I love! Always wanted to be both and not just one or the other! We are allowed to have 2 job titles, remember? (But make sure the salary is in accordance, of course, ~)

Learning new technologies! (for fun, obviously)

By “for fun” I mean personal reasons, the technologies I learnt on a whim were not for work but because I needed to learn them for personal projects I wanted to learn! I stress again; it’s more fun to learn something because you want to and not because you have to! So, I have been learning how to create desktop applications using ElectronJS and ReactJS (React has become my best friend!). Me now compared to me when I started my break is 10x smarter I feel like! My brain has definitely expanded somewhere…!

Latest project?!

Inspired by study productivity apps and wanting to track my Korean language progress, I am making a desktop application called ‘eStudySpace’! It would be my own personal app, but I want to see if I can actually pull something like this off! Right now I have not coded anything because I want to work on the design aspect first (which is smarter and a time saver in the future), so I have been on Figma for the last 2 weeks coming up with designs!

(It looks bad, I know this is like idea no.3287368 ugh...)

Miscs

I have been learning Korean for 4 months now. 

I have plans to move to a South-Eastern country, The Philippines? Singapore? Unsure!

I do have plans to switch to a new career but that’s more like 5 years into the future! But right now, I’m happy where I am at!

[redladydeath]

"Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said I'm just try'na have some fun Don't worry, don't worry, don't lose your head I didn't mean to hurt anyone LOL, say "Oh well!" or go to hell I'm sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said Don't lose your head"

[Grace Mouat; Vicki Manser; Mallory Maedke; Collette Guitart; Courtney Stapleton; Bryony Louise Duncan; Cherelle Jay; Jennifer Caldwell; Zara MacIntosh; Liv Alexander; Courtney Mack; Harriet Watson; Karis Oka; Natalie Pilkington; Abbi Hodgson; Esme Rothero; Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert; Ashlee Waldbauer; Danielle Rose; Roxanne Couch; Shannen Alyce Quan; Chiara Assetta; Rachel Rawlinson; Leesa Tulley; Channing Weir; Erin Ramirez; Cassie Silva; Grace Melville; Harriet Caplan-Dean; Kayla McSorley; Ayla Ciccone-Burton; Princess Sasha Victomé; Taylor Pearlstein; Aryn Bohannon; Monique Ashe-Palmer; Marilyn Caserta; Jillian Worthing; Madeline Fansler; Aubrey Matalon; Eden Holmes; Izi Maxwell; Willow Dougherty; Ellie Jane Grant; Darcy Stewart; Leah Vassell; Aleksandra Gotowicka; Shakira Simpson; Julia McLellan; Meg Dixon-Brasil; Audrey Fisher; Naomi Alade; Izzy Formby-Jackson]

[jaskierx]

the stans think con is either being polite or lying bc of contractual obligations it doesn’t matter what he says bc they think they need to save his self esteem from how david jenkins ruined his life

or else it’s a ruse to hide the fact that izy is season three hero aids jesus

yep from the people who haven't just automatically decided con must be lying there's already a lot of 'ohhh i get it! trust david jenkins! this means izzy is alive and the finale was actually stede's gravy basket'

even though in the exact same interview they ask con about s3 and he says he doesn't know what'll happen but he'd be happy to return if he was asked

like seriously folks please be better

[janedances]

Six Alt Dates Week of 27/11 - 3/12

Purple is debut/redebut/red is emergency cover/black is scheduled. West End Green/UK Tour Blue/Broadway Orange/Boleyn Tour Yellow/Canada Pink

BROADWAY 30/11 EVE: Ayla!Parr

WEST END 28/11 EVE: Gabriella!Aragon, Meg!Seymour

WEST END 29/11 EVE: Gabriella!Aragon, Meg!Seymour

WEST END 30/11 EVE: Gabriella!Aragon, Meg!Seymour

WEST END 1/12 EVE: Gabriella!Seymour, Naomi!Cleves

WEST END 2/12 MAT: Gabriella!Seymour

WEST END 2/12 EVE: Gabriella!Seymour

WEST END 3/12 MAT: Gabriella!Seymour

WEST END 3/12 EVE: Gabriella!Seymour

NORTHAMPTON 28/11 EVE: Ellie!Aragon, Tamara!Seymour

NORTHAMPTON 29/11 MAT: Ellie!Aragon, Tamara!Seymour

NORTHAMPTON 29/11 EVE: Ellie!Aragon, Tamara!Seymour

NORTHAMPTON 30/11 EVE: Ellie!Aragon, Tamara!Seymour, Izi!Howard

NORTHAMPTON 1/12 MAT: Ellie!Aragon, Izi!Boleyn, Tamara!Seymour

NORTHAMPTON 1/12 EVE: Ellie!Aragon, Izi!Boleyn, Tamara!Seymour, Shakira!Cleves

NORTHAMPTON 2/12 MAT: Ellie!Aragon, Izi!Boleyn, Tamara!Seymour, Shakira!Cleves

NORTHAMPTON 2/12 EVE: Ellie!Aragon, Izi!Boleyn, Tamara!Seymour, Shakira!Cleves

FORT WORTH 30/11 EVE: Kelly!Cleves

FORT WORTH 2/12 MAT: Aryn!Seymour

TORONTO 28/11 EVE: Kelsee!Seymour, Abigail!Parr

TORONTO 29/11 EVE: Kelsee!Seymour, Julia!Howard

TORONTO 1/12 EVE: Hailey!Aragon, Kelsee!Seymour

TORONTO 2/12 MAT: Hailey!Aragon, Kelsee!Seymour

TORONTO 2/12 EVE: Darcy!Aragon, Kelsee!Seymour

BREAKAWAY 30/11 MAT: Audrey!Howard, Deirdre!Parr

BREAKAWAY 30/11 EVE: Audrey!Howard, Deirdre!Parr

BLISS 1/12 EVE: Izzy!Boleyn

[toastynoob-turkystixx]

In 7th grade i made this Oc that was a "New Times Roman Font i" and still havent named them, i was gonna go with Izy until ppl started nicknaming me "Izzy" so that names off the table but anyways she is a self insert from a different dimension and were apparently x's cousin (Dont ask me i dont even know what logic i was going with at that time either lmfaoo) but i drew them emo [There is a ton of lore for this oc that i have not written on a google docs yet but some of it is on paper and school work!] * She goes by She/They btw!!! * :P

[wooodyguthrie]

Phil Ochs : Interview on the Democratic National Convention

When Phil Ochs returned to New York from the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention he gave an interview to Izzy Young of the folklore center in Greenwich village.

Transcript by Mitch Abidor under the cut.

IZZY: This is the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1968, In Izzy Young’s apartment and I’m talking to Phil Ochs who has just come back from Chicago.

PHIL: Don’t shoot! Don’t hit me! I’ll talk, I’ll talk! We’re not in Lincoln Park.

IZZY: It seems you were about the only folksinger in Chicago. I mean, Judy Collins didn’t and Pete Seeger didn’t show up, and -

Phil: Peter and Mary showed up __

IZZY: Do you think there’s a good reason why a lot of singers didn’t show up?

PHIL: I don’t know. It’s hard to tell. I’m sure everybody was afraid. I was afraid. And it was sort of vogueish – the folk crowd has always been very much an in-vogue crowd, and it became very vogueish to attack the Yippie festival of life as a festival of death, and it gave them a good reason to stay away. It was almost a cycle: first the underground press ballyhooed the Yippie thing and then there was all this publicity and everybody put their name on the list. And then second thoughts cam in and people started to think, well, this is an exploitation of youth and they’re leading them to a slaughter, and besides they really didn’t want to go anyway. So everybody sort of mutually decide over a two month period – the underground press and the performers – that the whole thing was a shuck.

IZZY: You mean they decided not to go out of fear?

PHIL: I don’t know. That’s pretty strong language. They probably really thought it wasn’t a worthwhile project in terms of confrontation. There really hasn’t been that much involvement of folk people and rock people in the movement since the Civil Rights period except that one period where the anti-war action became in vogue and safe – you know, large numbers of people and all that publicity, and then they showed up.

IZZY: Do you think things are really becoming serious and the singers are afraid to face up to it?

PHIL: I think it’s become more and more like that, yeah. America is in desperate trouble, you know.

IZZY: well, how important is the underground press in all this?

PHIL: The underground press is a vital link. It’s a way to break the censorship of the establishment press, and that is very important. But the underground press is very skittish, too, very immature. But it’s a good thing.

IZZY: I heard there was a tremendous reaction to your singing in Chicago, that it went over very big.

PHIL: Yeah. (Laughs)

IZZY: They really wanted to hear music. But they didn’t have much of a chance. I heard that, in terms of rock music, that was impossible altogether. That was really squelched from the start.

PHIL: There was so much intimidation. On Sunday they tried to get a sound truck through, just for some local bands, and they couldn’t. Police blocked that. Some people were beat up; a guy I know was hit on the back of the head with handcuffs and they cut his head wide open. Anyway the songs I wrote, the political songs, are coming into vogue – I’ll use that word again. I think in ‘63 especially, at the Civil Rights apex, musical esthetics came together with politics, and it was good to be involved with both. And I think now the same thing is happening.

IZZY: where do you find politics mixing with esthetics now? What music groups?

PHIL: I mean just that certain historical movements come more to the fore than mere love of music, and they start to merge. And music becomes very important.

IZZY: can you give me some examples of groups that are that way today? How about Country Joe and the Fish

PHIL: Country Joe and the Fish is a definite example of that.

IZZY: Did you hear about them? I just saw in the Times that they were beaten up in a hotel.

PHIL: Yes, they were beaten up.

IZY: And they didn’t appear anywhere?

PHIL: No, and I understand Joe McDonald gave an interview to the press charging that the Yippies were irresponsible, which I thought very irresponsible on Joe’s part. It’s the kid of stuff that could be used by the Establishment. If people had been killed they would have used stuff like that against the protestors. It was a dangerous thing to do.

IZZY: About how many people were on the march altogether, would you say? The papers said about 15,000.

PHIL: It’s hard to gauge. But that’s a good count. A lot of the bravest people showed up. I mean they were people from around the country who really went through a major personal dilemma. Daley’s pre-convention terror tactics were a success in keeping out large numbers of people. For instance, his threats to set up large scale concentration camps. Daley issued many statements like that, very threatening statements, and these and come succeeded in keeping a lot of people away. But the people who did show up were the toughest, really, and the most dedicated. And a lot of great things happened in the middle of the terror of the police attacks. There was a definite spirit, a good spirit, unleashed in the streets. There was more coming together with Blacks, more than on any other march I’ve seen. A joining of Blacks and whites to resist mutual oppression. Especially in Lincoln Park.

IZZY: On television they kept calling these people – - they kept calling these people outsiders. You know, they’re Americans. How can you call somebody an outsider in his own country?

PHIL: yeah, well, the Chicagoans were unable to recognize that this was a national convention. They literally, psychologically couldn’t. They kept thinking, “This is our city, our convention. “ When it’s a national election they’re talking about. I’m really beginning to question the basic sanity of the American public. I think the public itself is just -- I think more and more politicians are really becoming pathological liars, and I think many members of the public are. I think the Daily News, Tribune poisoning that comes out is literally creating – and television, all the media are creating a really mentally ill, unbalanced public. And it’s significant. I think what happened in Chicago was the final death of democracy in America as we know it: the total, final takeover of the fascist military state – in one city, at least.

IZZY: Most people have no contact with the politicians who are selecting the nominees.

PHIL: well, in that sense, it was a major victory for the street people in terms of unmasking the facts. But still, basically, there’s been opportunities to deal with the convention system and come up with decent candidates; you know, the conventions did produce Adlai Stevenson and John Kennedy. But now, I can’t accept this election. I can’t see myself being loyal to a Nixon or a Humphrey administration. I don’t think there’s any choice. I think the final corruption has com home, the final – the ugliness and corruption of a South Vietnamese election which is a non-election has come to America, and now Americans are faced with a South Vietnamese election.

IZZY: Do you think there’ll be any results from this unmasking, from this education of the American people, so to speak? I mean, are they going to be more radical, eventually, because of it – the way some of the kids feel?

PHIL: I’m not sure; it’s definitely one process of radicalization and definitely another process of reaction against it.

IZZY: And the reaction against it is stronger.

PHIL: Yes, I’m afraid the reaction is stronger than the radicalization. And it seriously makes me wonder about the country. How much does this country have a right to exist at all, especially with the kind of power it has?

IZZY: I think the question always boils down to: can you change the country, or do you have to destroy the country?

PHIL: Yeah, right. I’ve always tried to hang onto the idea of saving the country, but at this point I could be persuaded to destroy it. For the first time I feel this way.

IZZY: I was with some girls from Germany yesterday, and they said, “You can talk to the Establishment people, you can be nice to these people.” And I said, “You can be nice to Jacqueline Kennedy all day long and present beautiful arguments to her, and then she’ll say no at the end of the day in very cultured language.” What I mean is that the people in control are not going to give up their mode of income, and that’s the only way the system can be changed. Did you come across any of that in the delegates there? I mean were there any delegates who showed an active support for the Yippies, the kids who want to change things?

PHIL: By the end some delegates were marching with the kids in the streets.

IZZY: You mean the Wisconsin delegation?

PHIL: Yes, and some New York people too.

IZZY: What about in the beginning?

PHIL: I’m sure there was mutual sympathy at the beginning. But they couldn’t show it. Chicago was just a total, absolute police state. A police state from top to bottom. I mean it was totally controlled and vicious.

IZZY: The police beat up about forty news people, and yet the news people on the radio and on television were on the side of Daley almost uniformly. In New York most of them later would say, “Well, Daley was just doing his job, taking orders from Johnson and Humphrey.” I heard your voice just for a moment one the radio. And you were the only person quoted among the folk singers. You said: “This was not Daley, this was Daley doing a job for Johnson and Humphrey.” Do you think McCarthy could have said more than he did?

PHIL: Yeah, you have to fault McCarthy for lack of dynamics and not being more outspoken. I mean it should have been summed up. There should have been a very literate and clear-cut case made against the police right there by a man of McCarthy’s stature.

IZZY: That didn’t happen.

PHIL: It happened in little bits. He and McGovern at different times spoke out. But there was nothing sustained, nothing up to the occasion. There was a defijnite lack of leadership on McCarthy’s part.

IZZY: Ted Kennedy could have said something.

PHIL: All these so-called liberals kept their mouths shut. They’re all still being good Germans, even up to today. I believe this election should be boycotted. It shouldn’t be taken seriously. That section of the middle class who went for McCarthy and Kennedy should somehow organize themselves and break away from loyalty to the present government. But it could be that the country is so diseased that it just can’t function on any kind of a decent level. T may be that the country has to be destroyed from without. That seems as likely as anything. All we’re getting is more and more repression.

IZZY: Wallace will get a lot of votes.

PHIL: Yeah, I think Wallace will get a huge amount of votes in this election.

IZZY: I think the liberal people will accept that too, now.

PHIL: probably, and when they do that’s the end. I really don’t know what to say. At a certain point, I’m going to become an enemy of the state. I’m not going to be an American any longer. I’m going to be an enemy of the Americans.

IZZY: Yeah. But how can you be an enemy of America in America? What can you do? Sabotage?

PHIL: No, not that. I might leave the country.

IZZY: I can’t see a guerrilla movement in America, actually, because the guerrilla movement, I think, would be destroyed. What other country could you go to?

PHIL: I might go back to Scotland.

IZZY: How can that help things in America?

PHIL: At a certain point you start losing interest in helping things in America.

IZZY: I’m also faced with the choice of leaving. I just got a letter from Africa and the writer says, “Gee, Izzy, I’m always thinking about what you’re saying, that the people who go to Canada aren’t helping people in America.” Phil, if you leave America, you’re making it harder for thousands of people that believe in you. You’re already more than an individual. You stand for an idea already, and you can’t just leave your followers behind.

PHIL: It’s not fair. (Laughs)

IZZY: Dylan doesn’t care. Judy Collins doesn’t care. Or they’d speak out openly. But you do care. And you do speak out openly.

PHIL: You can’t presume to say that Dylan and Collins don’t care. I’m sure they care.

IZZY: well, I feel that when a person has access to mass media and they keep quiet that means they don’t give a damn what’s happening to the people. In other words, getting Judy Collins on a TV spectacular doesn’t help the cause of freedom or peace or anything.

PHIL: it’s just that at this point America is an uncontrolled death machine. And since she failed in electoral politics to check that, it has to be checked in other ways. And one way would be a mass denial of manpower to its corporations. The extension of draft resistance: keep your body out of the Army; a” right, keep your body out of the college and out of the university. That is just preparing you for the corrupt corporation. Keep pulling people away from the establishment until it collapses.

IZZY: I don’t think it would collapse. If the intelligent people pull out the corporations would be happy.

PHIL: I’m not talking about intellectuals only. I’m talking about all the people who work for corporations.

IZZY: Well, they’re not leaving.

PHIL: No. I’m only looking for a way to get them to quit.

IZZY: I don’t think there is a way. These guys are getting their $15,000, their $20,000; they’ve got a taste of the honey and they want more.

PHIL: All right, then America I the rule of the devil. The devil has won.

IZZY: Is there any country where you see a possibility of human advancement?

PHIL: I think Mao could be the most important man in the world right now.

IZZY: Mao’s is one of the few Communist nations to criticize the Soviet Union for Czechoslovakia, whereas Castro went along with it.

PHIL: Which provided an incredible psychological blow to the left in America, which romantically almost equates Cuba and China. Which I still do. What is happening is that America is forcing the world into this kind of military protection. It’s the same thing; what the Chicago police did, and the kind of attitude that Mayor Daley has, is the same kind of thinking that was going on with John Foster Dulles. That policy forced Russia, more and more, into this protective position – this over-defensive position – which led to Czechoslovakia. You can trace Czechoslovakia to John Foster Dulles. And you can trace Mayor Daley and the Chicago police to the same kind of reaction.

IZZY: So Dubcek didn’t have a chance from the start, then?

PHIL: He had much less of a chance with a crazy America running around. You know, from the Russian point of view, America is a mad dog loose around the world. What it will lead to is lots more assassination; terror will start in Europe against American business. I mean America is buying Europe, America is completely buying Europe. Economic brutality, you know, comes before police brutality.

IZZY: I agree with you completely on that. I’ve been saying for two years – my friends say I’m crazy – that America is going to be destroyed from the outside, not from the inside.

PHIL: From both.

IZZY: When Bob Kennedy is killed by an Arab that shows how American imperialism has pervaded the whole world. Christian Arabs are one of the smallest minorities in the world; there are only a few hundred thousand of them – but if they get angry they can kill a Kennedy. That means almost anybody no could kill an American and get away with it.

PHIL: We’re helping every government towards hell. Maybe America is the final end of the Biblical prophecy: we’re all going to end up in fire this time. America represents the absolute rule of money, just absolute money controlling everything to the total detriment of humanity and morals. It’s not so much the rule of America as it is the rule of money. And the money happens to be in America. And that combination is eating away at everybody. It destroys the souls of everybody that it touches, beginning with the people in power.

IZZY: There’s one man, Mao, who is trying to change all that. He’s trying to change the character of the Chinese people in one generation; do you think he’ll succeed?

PHIL: It’s going to be very difficult. More importantly, Mao has rally succeeded in spreading an international revolutionary feeling. In his lifetime he physically transformed China and set the basis for a sensible world revolution. And in the years when he’s supposed to be retired or dead, he had managed to mentally psych out the world. You can trace a lot of what happened in Paris and what happened in Chicago to Mao Tse Tung and the Red Guards; the whole idea of transfer of power to youth and thereby salvaging the militancy of the Revolution. Which I happen to think is a very noble effort.

IZZY: Phil, while you’re saying all this I’m thinking of folk music ad how that can possibly fit into the way the future is going to be.

PHIL: well, by the use of brute force by America internally and on the world, resistance will have to be formed step by step. In music, things like the Newport Folk Festival will have to be radicalized.

IZZY: Yeah, but there was no radicalization in Newport this year.

PHIL: No, there wasn’t; there should have been.

IZZY: I man zero, and you had some supposedly left-wing people trying to run it as directors. This year they ran amuk with country-western singers who are for the war. When Roy Acuff got the humanitarian award they gave it to him for his many appearances for the troops overseas.

PHIL: yeah, well... As a middle-aged Jewish merchant in America, you are in trouble, Izzy. That’s all I can say.

IZZY: I hear that from other people.

PHIL: We’re all in trouble.

IZZY: How do you stay sane? How do you stay sane in America? That’s the problem I have; how can you actually stay sane?

PHIL: I don’t know. That’s what I think about right now. I’ve always felt a contact with political reality from 1960 to 1968. But after Chicago I’m totally disoriented. I’m disoriented because the time has come for guns, and I’m not personally ready for guns. America’s such a violent country. The American revolution is going to be ridiculously bloody.

IZZY: Do you see a resistance growing in America? Is that possible?

PHIL: I’m just not sure.

IZZY: I think other things are happening which illustrate what you’re talking about. There is a tremendous discontent among the workers, even though they’re getting supposedly higher salaries. They’re not happy at all. And the next step would be for the workers to try and understand why they are not happy. It’s not so much that they have bad working hours or low wages. It’s just that they are not part of anything. I think the worker knows it but he hasn’t formulated what to do about it. In other words the workers hate the Kennedys and they hate the Melons [sic] and the Rockefellers, but they’re still afraid even to say it openly. They see the advertisements on TV and in the subway: travel to beautiful Bermuda. But now they’re beginning to realize they can’t go to Bermuda, you know – fly to Hawaii and all that stuff.

PHIL: I disagree with you. Part of the problem is that a lot of them can vacation in Bermuda. This part of the problem is the entrenching of the working class’s right wing by the bosses giving them an extra amount of money, which is what Hitler did, and what’s going on in America right now. And that’s the most dangerous aspect.

IZZY: Do you see any rebellion among the managerial class?

PHIL: I do see more sign of discontent from the managerial class -much more.

IZZY: How do you see it? How is it showing? What’s the visible form of it?

PHIL: The visible form was people like me participating in the McCarthy/Kennedy drive. I saw how elements of the middle class and the upper-middle class could be brought out in large numbers and contribute large sums of money to try to get a basic change in American policy. That’s the major fact that was overlooked in the Chicago convention. It had already been clearly shown that the American public would get behind decent candidates. Most of those people who came out were from the managerial class.

IZZY: Do you think they could force McCarthy to go on a fourth ticket?

PHIL: If McCarthy had the right personality, yes. But I think he’s too much a member of the democratic Establishment himself to make that break. We still need a Kennedy.

IZZY: I’ve always disagreed with you on a Kennedy.

PHIL: I know you have. But I still think that way.

IZZY: I don’t, because I feel that a man like that can’t help the people unless he changes the mode of his own income. He has to give the example. He can’t keep taking a dollar from every bottle of whiskey coming from England to America. He has to work for his living, and until he does I don’t believe a man like that can possibly change anything. I mean, I wonder why they kill only the Kennedys. Many of the rulers of this country lounge around on inherited wealth.

PHIL: The Kennedys went out of their way to flirt with the American public, and the American public is totally infatuated with death. Anybody who flirts with the American public is taking a chance with their life...

IZZY: Do you feel that wiping out McCarthy wiped you out, too?

PHIL: It wiped out that part of me that was interested in electoral politics. But I do feel frustrated all around.

IZZY: Yeah, we still have the same problem.

PHIL: Yes. And that problem is can America be saved. And for the first time in eight years I question whether it can. I think it’s quite possible the country is so far gone and decayed that there may be no way left to save it, and that the only logical course for the progress of mankind is the destruction of America.

IZZY: America has pushed everybody to the edge of the cliff. It’s forcing people to make this kind of decision: shall I enjoy what’s left of my life and forget everyone else, or should I devote myself to working for a better world. If you can’t do either then you just have to leave. And if you leave, you get the inevitable feeling that you’re copping out.

PHIL: Well, I may cop out. But the basic thing I feel is that there’s going to be death and destruction as far ahead as one can see now. That’s all I can possibly see.

IZZY: I can see that if I continue my radio program and give concerts and put out my newsletter then I’m going to be shot, or I’ll have to shoot somebody else. But I still can’t imagine coming to that point.

PHIL: I can see it happening to you. Our only hope is the emergence of a politically tempered international youth movement which will involve itself in international revolution.

IZZY: How do you feel that writing songs can help such a movement?

PHIL: I’m not so sure that they can. The radical German students think that it’s past that stage. The songs themselves aren’t enough obviously. The songs are an adjunct to the movement, essentially, which is why the Chicago experience was really interesting for me. Let me explain: there the songs were being used in a totally non-professional, non-show business, non-paying, non-staged situation. It was an integral part of the movement while things were happening, and therefore the words and music had their greatest possible effect...

I’ve got to go. Thanks a lot, Izzy. It was nice being here on this September day, in this rotting country.

IZZY: One more question, Phil. Do you think Dylan is a secret revolutionary? In other words, he’s reaching more people and changing their minds without them realizing it. A sort of subliminal revolutionary.

PHIL: I think it’s possible. It’s possible for any writer, depending on the quality of his work, to function in that way. Brecht faced it as a responsibility. He said to himself, here I am, a writer, and I can write things that can change peoples’ minds therefore do I belong in the street getting my skull cracked which may damage my writing, or should I stay out of the way of the charging police and create my plays? Where is the primary responsibility? To me, Phil Ochs, the answer is obvious.

IZZY: Anyone who has any control in the mass media has a responsibility to speak out, both as an artist doing his or her work, and separately as an individual. Definitely, the case now is that most people won’t speak out anymore.

PHIL: But there are always those artists that function outside the active realm of politics.

IZZY: I prefer the example of William Blake, who dreamt of Jerusalem and heaven and hell; but when Tom Paine was in England and I was dangerous to harbour him, William Blake was hiding him in his own home. So William Blake knew what was going on politically even though he had his own private world as a mystic poet.

PHIL: If you’d been around at that time, you’d probably have condemned Blake for not issuing a statement to the London Times about what was wrong with the King’s politics.

IZZY: Oh, no. That wouldn’t have been necessary. Blake went on one of the few marches of the century against the King. And that was a very dangerous thing to do. But it was his way of speaking out. He believed in his vision and the only way he could protect his vision was by fighting for it.

[tasteofdeathao3]

getting on the Izzy snake bandwagon because I'm obsessed

In my mod AU Ed and Stede live out in the countryside (in my mind it's just off the east coast of Australia but that's just because that's the same area we lived when I was little) which of course means snakes. everywhere.

So of course when Izzy comes up to visit at some point he catches a glimpse of some kind of snake (presenting all sorts of issues for Ed and Stede).

warning: there will be pictures of snakes below the cutoff!

Thankfully, though they live on a lot of land intended for livestock, they only have the one or two that Ed insisted on purchasing as pets, so an infestation of mice, and the Eastern Brown Snake that follows (the second most venomous snake in the world), isn't very likely.

One day, unfortunately during one of Izzy's extended visits, Ed goes into the garage to get his car and he finds a Diamond Python all cuddled up around the wheels.

(This actually happened to me once!)

The car isn't as much of an issue - he can just take Stede's - but the garage connects to the house with a very flimsy door, and even if it's non-venomous and and docile, he really doesn't want it slithering inside.

He leaves the garage door open while he's at work, but the thing is still cuddled under his 4-wheel drive, so he and Stede have to call WIRES and distract IzY somewhere far away from any windows (because if he sees the WIRES truck he'll know there's a snake and throw a tantrum if he can't go down and pet it (which will not be happening under any circumstances)).

One day while walking in the undeveloped bush on their property (which is a lot, full of birds and plants and life) Izzy randomly perks up out of his little sulk and excitedly begins tugging on Ed's arm, pointing down to a little patch just off of the track.

There's a Red Bellied Black Snake (which I reckon would be one of Izzy's favourites) coiled up in the sun, staring right at them. Ed yelps and grabs Izzy's hand.

He tries to tug Izzy back down the path (because he knows those things, and those things bite) but Izzy wants to sit and watch it and dogs his heels in. Ed has to resort to hauling Izzy over his shoulder and booking back out of the bush.

(look how cool these guys are! they're venomous but not very aggressive, and give birth to live babies! we used to see them at school a lot)

Occasionally little harmless snakes will slither up into the trees beside their houses, and Izzy will sit right in front of the window, watching it intently.

He's so obsessed with it that he refuses to leave until it does - meaning Stede has to drag his play mat to whatever window he's situated beneath and get him his iPad and blankie so he doesn't have to take his eyes off of the snake, and Ed has to feed him his dinner and change him while he's just staring at the poor little snake trying to have a sleep beside him.

(non-venomous, a non painful bite, and calm around humans. they're a gorgeous snake)

The worst, and the only time Izzy didn't yell and cry until he could go and see the snake, was when there was a brown snake on the roof.

Ed had been outside feeding their chickens when he'd spotted it, splayed out on their roof.

He heads straight inside after locking the chickens up, putting towels over the cracks under the back doors and putting the grate over the fireplace in case in somehow manages to slip down the chimney (typically they don't go inside houses, but Ed isn't taking any chances).

Stede goes out to take a look when he gets home with Izzy, but Izzy dutifully sits in his little chair and watches warily as Ed and Stede call WIRES.

Stede scoops him up and takes him away while the snake handlers come and get it, but they watch from an upstairs window as they load it into the truck and drive off of the property.

(Brown snakes are the second most venomous snake in the world, aside from the Inland Taipan (also an Australian native). They typically live in populated areas, and while they prefer mice to eat (making farmland perfect) they will sometimes slither onto suburban properties and hang out. They are aggressive, and should be left alone.) Someone I grew up with had this happen to them when we lived in the city!

[fragileizy]

15 Questions / 15 People

this is late by [checks notes] literally 15 days. 17 days. oopsie doopsie i am so sorry. i got tagged by my beloved @valiantlyjollynightmare !!

1. Are you named after anyone? (irl): no, i don't think so! my parents couldn't decide between two variations of this name and they decided to meet in the middle and pick a third option. (internet): izy is my nickname i grew up with! of course, lots of people spell it izzy but i've always been adamant about keeping the one 'z' only. tashio is a reference to inuyasha; inuyasha's dad is 'inu no taisho' which is basically the dog king(/lord) and even as an eleven year old i knew. i KNEW. this was the man i WANTED. since i was eleven or whatever, i've been going by izy tashio online :)

2. What was the last time you cried? february 3rd 2023! since then i haven't cried :D

3. Do you have kids? not yet! but i can't wait. i want a family, and i've even picked out all the names i want and aaaahhhhh.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? yes, definitely!

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people? that's a great question, i genuinely don't know. it's a person-by-person case, i don't think i always notice something first. maybe their height...?

6. What’s your eye color? brown/black! whatever!

7. Scary movies or happy endings? happy endings! i hate bad endings and i avoid them like the plaaaague.

8. Any special talents? i can make a farting noise with my hands :3 (i genuinely can't think of anything but this is a true fact, so.)

9. Where were you born? i was born in brazil!! i've been back and forth from usa to brazil my entire life.

10. What are your hobbies? i love writing and drawing, though i think at this point my writing skill has surpassed my art skill. hand problems have made it difficult to hold pens and pencils, so there's definitely a biased towards writing instead of drawing.

11. Do you have a pet? unfortunately, no! i have plans of adopting two cats and owning a golden, though.

12. What sports do you play/have played? i used to play soccer for most of my life, but one year i missed the chance to sign up because of ADHD brain gave me executive dysfunction and i never picked it back up again. i feel like i would've been in a much different point in my life, had i stayed active with soccer.

13. How tall are you? 150cm! | 4'11" !

14. Favorite subject in school? math!

15. Dream job? unavailable question, i'm in survival mode at the moment! the job isn't the important part, but what i'm able to do with the money that it provides is all that matters. being able to come home after work and live comfortably; being able to travel and be able to work on my hobbies is all that matters to me in a job. no-obligation tagging: @writerriderdirtythirties | @leafweaverryn | @rosie-b | @littlemourningstar | @uchidachi | @keentrigger | @transiconlink | @furia-lepida | @miraculouslymundane | @apollo-zero-one | @asukiess | @purrfectlypunny | @feather-dancer | @creamikimi | @the-goddess-of-sleep | @midnightskydancer

[fragileizywriting]

izzy it's been a while, i'm trying to write fics now but i'm struggling with writing. I can't go from point A to point B without losing interest, how do you do it?

!!!! congrats on writing fics!! i hope it goes well!!!

i'm writing the enxt demon lovin chapter right now and it's getting a little messy. there's a lot of dialogue i want to use but can't find the right spot for them so it's essentially like assembling the pieces? like a jigsaw puzzle? it's a little hard. i'm going from point a to point b to point c to point d to...

yeah.

when i get into bad-writing breaks, this is the only way i can write. (there's a sas fic that i've never published that is entirely written like this because i wrote it when i was super, super fragile and didn't want to think too much, and it's so broken up that i'm not actually sure how i'd piece it together.)

anyway, i keep writing like this until i "finish the chapter", and either go back and start to weave the blocks of text together, or i just keep going onto the second chapter. before publishing, i check for these spaces, and fill them in as best as i can. or not. just have the dialogues just go into each other and fix them so it sounds like coherrent dialogue. whatever. shitty pots scenario. not every line needs to be as good as mozart, it's just gotta be written. maybe i'll change adjectives so that some words aren't immediately next to each other. maybe i'll change who says it so that they don't repeat.

anyway, if you're losing interest, what i do is i just hit enter a few times so i can see a visible space when scrolling through the fic and just keep going, and let future izy figure that shit out. good luck, future me! 🫡🫡🫡

[tracknews1]

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[netpillsmedia]

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[lorelodge]

izzy knows that he should turn around, go back to his bunk, leave ed to cause chaos on his own — but he doesn't. & he rolls his eyes when the other boy jumps to the dock, the impact causing a thud that seems loud on the hushed ship. it was wiser to walk silently down the gangplank, to be certain. yet all it takes is a single boyish taunt, & izzy is determinedly setting his jaw to follow his friend right over the gap. his legs are shorter than ed's, it's true, but izzy takes a few steps at a run before jumping to make up for the lost length. he manages to reach his target with only a few inches to spare, & when he straightens & smooths his hair back into place, his mouth is curled into a smig smile — as if to remind ed not to underestimate him. ❝ do you even have a plan ? ❞ he asks, hot on the other boys' heels as they steal away from the ship & toward the small but still lively port town, casting two long shadows over the dock. ❝ or are you just going looking for trouble ? ❞ - @musecraft

IZZY COMES HURTLING TOWARD HIM like a canon ball. Quick feet helped him narrowly avoided collision- with the loud noise Izzy made landing having him wonder if they were being too overt. "Shhh... Jesus, Izy, you got rocks in your pockets?" He snickered, giving the other boys hand a sharp tug. "C'mon, before you wake the whole damn yard." Ed practically buzzes with anticipation as they make the short journey into town. "Of course I have a plan!" His plan was to think of a plan, not that Izzy needed to know that. "Relax. I've got this handled." What exactly they were handling didn't become clear until they arrived at the bustling town. The legitimate vendors were long gone, leaving only the most unsavory figures. Men who were far too flush with coin for their own good. He gave Izzy a roguish grin, "my pockets feel a bit light."

[redladydeath]

More info bellow the cut

Uncompleted Covers

Bryony's missing covers are A/C/P from her time with the West End V2 and UK Tour V3.

Cassandra's are B/S/H/P from her time with UKT2&3.

Cherelle's are A/H from her time with WE V2 and UKT3.

Courtney's are A/S from her time with the 2019 North American Tour and 2020 Broadway Previews.

Ella's are B/S/H/P from her time with the Australian Tour V1.

Grace's are S/H from her time with UKT4.

Hana's are B/C from her time with WE V2.

Liv's are H/P from her time with WE V2 and UKT3.

Madeline's are C/H from her time with AUT2.

Mallory's are C/P from her time during the 2020 Broadway previews.

Nicole's is Seymour from her time during the 2020 Broadway previews.

Paisley's are B/S/H from her time with WE V3.

Roxanne's is Cleves from her time with WE V3.

Zara's are S/P from her time with WE V2.

Ongoing

As of 12/31/23, Dora still needs to play S/P to complete her covers.

Ellie still needs to play S/H to hit swingo.

Gabriella may still need to play B/C/H/P to hit swingo.

Giulia still needs to play C/P to complete her covers. Additionally, she was originally a rehearsal swing covering B/C/P.

Hannah may still need to play A/B/S/C to hit swingo.

Izi still needs to play A/P to hit swingo.

Izzy still needs to play S/H to complete her covers.

Krisztina still needs to play B/H to complete her covers.

Meg still needs to play A/C/P to hit swingo.

Monika still needs to play Aragon to complete her covers.

Naomi may still need to play A/S/H/P to hit swingo.

Sierra still needs to play C/H to complete her covers.

Tamara still needs to play A/B/C/H to hit swingo.

Wesley still needs to play B/H/P to complete her covers.

Promoted rehearsal swings

Amy was a B/S/P rehearsal swing. She later became a principal Seymour.

Gabbi was an A/C/P swing. She later became a principal Aragon.

Haley was a B/C swing. She later became a principal Cleves.

Hannah was a B/S/C swing. She later became a principal Seymour.

Reca was an A/S/C swing. She later became a principal Cleves.

Sarah was a S/H/P swing. She later became a principal Howard.

Sunayna was a A/B/H swing. They later became a principal Boleyn.

Audrey was an A/B/H swing. She later became an onboard B/S/H swing.

Princess was an S/C/P swing. She later became an onboard A/B/C swing.

Weird Situations

Cristina nominally covered all six roles, but it seems as though she was only ever intended to cover Parr.

Lori was an A/C/H rehearsal swing, but joined Bliss 1.0 as a Howard understudy only.

Maddison was originally a S/H/P rehearsal swing who was promoted to principal Howard, but her production was cancelled due to Covid.

Sadie was supposed to be an onboard A/B/C swing, but her production was cancelled due to Covid. She later returned as a B/S/C/H rehearsal swing.

Shantel was brought in to be a Cleves understudy, but never debuted.

Shekinah only covered A/C, but was at one point contracted to cover all six roles (although this may be a rumor)

Sophie-Rose was meant to be an onboard S/H/P swing, but she was never able to debut due to Covid.

Emily was a B/C/H rehearsal swing who played Cleves during a public performance at Disney World.

The swingo status of every Six swalt so far

[thedeviousdevilxx]

Slash u okay honey?

Guns n Roses, “Paradise City”, last song of the show, Stockholm Sweden 1991