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[hongism]

this is gonna be a longer post about it but the basic gist of what all i’m getting at is that inspiration is not an excuse for plagiarism.

the characterizations and the themes in the story are unavoidably similar. the mc character being a “key” to something more, the “amnesia” of the main character that does not allow them to remember much of their past, the bits of the past coming back with triggers and also the dark nature of what is being remembered. 

codenames, healer, healer being yunho, first big confrontation scene with hongjoong happening in you guessed it an infirmary. the back and forth, the banter, the interactions between hongjoong and the mc - and these are all similarities from the second part that was posted. san’s character is noted to be someone very stealthy and who can move around quickly and quietly without being noticed. going straight from the infirmary to get some food and meet other members of the crew. seonghwa calling mc princess. seonghwa taking mc to the bridge to speak to hongjoong and leaving her alone there to have a conversation with him. sparring with a member, it developing into a panic attack having to step outside sitting up against a wall until it subsides it is play by play what happens in my story. wristbands and earpieces. 

other similarities that i am simply too pissed to word out myself:

i do not need to sit here and detail why all this is similar to my story because it is glaringly obvious. mind you i couldn’t even bring myself to read the last six parts that have been posted because i was so frustrated by the similarities from the first ones. some of it is play by play what happens in a scene in mists of celeste.

note - author did not credit me for the hand my story had in inspiring theirs.

on their pinned post, they claim that i am one of their favorite authors. mind you they have talked about wanting to create something inspired by moc before

so why, @senpai-of-doom​, have you suddenly decided that it’s not worth tagging me or crediting me or even putting a disclaimer on the masterlist or the chapters of your fic? you yourself stated that is is greatly inspired by ateez, their lore, and mists of celeste. where is my credit? i have spent years on moc i have poured so much time and effort into my story, i have fought plagiarism accusations too because i know how fucking hard it is when you’re writing a pirate au for ateez! if you love writing as much as you claim to then you know how hard it is to write. so why would you take someone else’s ideas and then not give them their due?

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[wormstacheangel]

As we're approaching the end of the year, would you mind sharing what were your greatest fanfic read of 2020?

Sorry, this took me a while to answer. I only read a few on ao3 so I figured I’ll share all of them lol

Purgatory, director's cut  by runsinthefamily 

Not a chapter fic. Dean and Cas are stuck in purgatory. It’s not the journey we saw but something more exhilarating. The ending was unexpected and I loved it.

What Greater Gift by @chevrolangels

Not a chapter fic. Witch!Cas honestly I am down with anything witch!cas but this one also had a cute cat with a key around its neck. Whoever gets the key gets to marry Cas and Dean isn’t about to chase a cat. But the mutual pining and they are both so dense. Perfect.

The Silence of Souls by @thefandomsinhalor

TFW 2.0 are gonna save Mary but of course, things don’t go as planned. This involves TFW 2.0 coming face to face with Godstiel, MOC Dean, and Boyking Sam and that alone is exciting enough! Jack learning about his Dads darkest past was great. Also Godstiel + MOC Dean = serotonin 

After the End by @castielslostwings

This story picks up where “The End” leaves off, from Castiel’s perspective from inside the asylum, a twist of fate, and conditional divine intervention no one saw coming. It details what happens after Lucifer dies, Dean lives, and the world doesn’t actually stop turning. A canon-compliant “fix-it” fic for the Endverse and a Dean and Cas who deserved better. (had to take the summary from you cause I was fangirling for too long lol)

The Heroes' Journey (or, There and Back Again) by @friendofcarlotta

The Endverse crew (including Sam not possessed by Lucifer) find themselves in the bunker. They’re suspicious as hell but excited about the luxuries. Dean and Sam deal with Sam’s decision that leads to him saying yes. While TFW 2.0 find themselves at HunterCorp universe. The brothers are face to face with John again. And destiel feels all around!

Bullets Over the Bayou by @mattzerella_sticks

This was the first fic I read in three years! And it was a good one! I just read the summary again and the last few chapters flash through my head and I got excited again cause I did not see that coming wow ‘ Racing against the clock, can Dean and Castiel figure out what is so important about John Winchester’s journal that someone would kill for it?’

Any Semblance of Touch by @saltnhalo

1925, New York. No homophobia. And magic! Sign me up! 

Cas is psychometric who has sworn off magic while Dean is a Men of Letter who comes to ask Cas for help. And Dean is just a little too cute to say no to. Also, the city is in danger but it’s mostly cause Dean is cute. 

Hello Future by @notfunnydean

Not a chapter fic. Two Deans. And the one from the future is so damn soft and lovey towards Cas. Creating the present Dean to be jealous. Is there anything else you need to know? No. Go read it.

I like creature fics(if you don’t then you’re done reading the list. Thanks!) so here are the few I did read.

Sometimes You're the Sea by @nickelkeep

Not a chapter fic. Cecaelia!Castiel and human Dean.  When a freak storm overtakes the Lebanon, and Dean is knocked overboard, he's considered lost at sea. That is, until Dean wakes up onshore, with the bluest eyes he had ever seen watching over him. This was like the Little Mermaid but better. Obvs. 

Now the next few stories are all from @malmuses

The Care and Feeding of Castiel

Cas is molting and suffering in silence from being so uncomfortable. Dean wants to be there for his friend, especially when it is brought to his attention all the times he hasn’t been there for Cas. Also, Dean gets to see Cas’s wings!!

Love Bites 

Vampire!Dean. Mal has the best tag of Stranger to bats to lovers  ✨ Dean is a bat who was injured by Cas’s cat. Socially awkward Cas takes care of Dean(thinking he’s just a regular bat) and then it gets all cute. ‘ A silly story about families who aren’t quite what they seem, fake boyfriends, and falling in love with someone who’s never, technically, met you. ‘

and I’m currently reading 

A Fish Out of Water

Mermaid!Cas. Dean rescues Cas from a real bad gross place and slowly they start to get closer. Cas has trouble trusting humans because of what he has been through and Dean is nothing but patient. Wanting nothing more than for Cas to be comfortable around him. So Dean’s plan is to get Cas home and get him some therapy. I am in love with this fic! Can’t wait for the next update :)

Done. 

[lol-jackles]

What’s your thoughts on the episode? Lucifer!Sam? MoC!Dean? I see MoC!Dean was giving Sam his famous wincest stare again while killing him lol I actually was surprised when Jensen made that face I was like “why the hell is he making that expression?” It could definitely be seen as something Completely different. I mean people are already tagging it wincest. So maybe your take will shed some light on it? Or not, just your thoughts in general :)

The Lilith twist was fun because it meta wasn’t supposed to happen.  It was also fun reading my dash of those that watched the episode in real time, people knew something was “off” during the first half of the episode and as it turned out the un-ironic anvils were deliberate: the face-touching werewolf bothers as extreme fanfic versions of Sam and Dean, Sam echoing the audience’s thoughts that the case was way too easy (because of lazy writing by Chuck), and Lilith cosplaying a really distressed damsel and then accidentally impaling herself, taking Sam & Dean and the audience out of the moment and can only stand around going “whut”?  I bet even Chuck was going, “whut?” and Lilith was probably thinking “this is so embarrassing, I can’t even pretend I impaled myself ironically on purpose.“  Trust me, faulty props and accidents happen more times than you think and actors sometimes accuse stage crew of sabatoge or pranking.  Anyways, from there the second half of the episode returned to the familiar format that people know and love because characters were no longer in Chuck’s hackney writing.  

Lucifer!Sam, good to see you again, I can forget Casifer now.  Moc!Dean, don’t you dare make me remember season 10… damn it.  Oh, and speaking of impaling… .and you people think the ten thousand yard stare was wincesty.  Come on, Moc!Dean literally boned Sam to death.  And you can’t tell me Samifer wasn’t feeling flaming Dean stroking his hair.  

We all know Dean stroking Sam’s hair aren’t in the script, this is just another meta example of Dean taking liberties with Chuck’s scripts.

The rest of the episode continue to follow the formula of protective big brother Dean and getting rid of magic weapons so that the Winchesters are forced to keep relying on their instincts, wits, and smarts.  Sam figured out he’s connected to Chuck and Dean doesn’t know how to deal with that new information so he wails that they don’t have the quantum gun so they can’t possibly fight God.  I think Dean was trying very hard not to think of the implication of Sam-God connection, that to defeat God means hurting Sam.  When Lilith made a move towards an unconsious Sam, Dean pleaded and begged her not to touch Sam.  He rather be tortured by a thousand cuts if it means sparing Sam from the same pain.

Score: 8 out of 10.  Two points deduction for Chuck’s amateur writing, first for the three blond girls straight out of a neckbeard fantasy and second, for dressing Ashely/Lilith in a weird ass outfit, again out of a fantasy of a neckbeard which is what Chuck is.

[vecna]

For fandom meme-swtor?

Send me a fandom!

This one isn’t as spicy as the Dragon Age one, but I still got Wordy.

Also there’s lots of KOTFE/KOTET/etc spoilers in here, so don’t read if you don’t want to see em. (Looking at you, Chignon.)

The character(s) I first fell in love with:

My own OCs haha.

But more seriously: It was actually Darth Malgus! I was always going to play a Star Wars MMO, let’s be real. But when they started posting promo videos and cinematics for the game, my Sith-loving ass immediately gravitated to that guy haha. And then, it turned out he had the same VA as The Architect from Dragon Age, and that was it for me.

If we’re talking about companions, then it was probably Malavai Quinn. Sith Warrior was the first class I got to 50, and Quinn was the first companion that I really got overly attached to haha.

The character(s) I never expected to love as much as I do now:

Most (not all, but most) of the “new” companions that came in with KOTFE and beyond. I was initially really sour when I realized we were losing all our class storyline companions, and they were being replaced with a new crew of Lana, Theron, Koth, my mother-in-law Senya, etc. Especially when they – at the time – said we’d eventually get our class companions back, but it would be a while. So I started KOTFE sure that I would hate the new crew because I would rather have the old one…. and ended up liking them quite a lot! Mostly, lol.

The character(s) everyone else loves that I don’t:

Doc is the main one, jesus christ. If you didn’t read my last post, I just really really really do not mesh well with overly sexual and Adult Humor-y characters who scold you with a “You’re no fun.” if your OC isn’t into it. Doc is the worst example of it that I’ve ever encountered. I always play a male JK, and the fact nearly all of his convos amount to, “Boy, you and me are going to be up to our eyeballs in vagina when this war ends, amirite?” “You don’t want that? Come on, the Jedi Code doesn’t say you can’t FUCK, live a little.” “You’re no fun. Well, more for me.” drives me NUTS. This combined with how he interacts with Kira just does me in. Shoves him out an airlock.

Dark Side Jaesa is another big one, albeit mainly for OOC reasons. I just hate the fact that she even exists, really. I get the appeal of a story where a Sith corrupts a Jedi to the Dark Side, but the way she does a total 180 into gross hedonism while Serving You always just makes me cringe. Plus there’s the fact that straight dudebro gamers are really nasty with her, and she’s the main companion I always see men put into the slave bikini outfit, and just yikes.

Also just a lot of one-off NPCs that everyone goes crazy for and ships their OCs with, but I  constantly forget who they even are lol. Attros Finn comes to mind. I don’t hate them! Just don’t get the appeal I guess.

The character(s) I love that everyone else hates:

Lord Scourge, although I’m not sure he’s really hated as much anymore. I just remember at launch, when all of the overly invested Revan stans absolutely HATED him because of what he did in the Revan novel, and then flooded the tags with vitriol over being “stuck” with him as a Knight, and having to hear about Revan in his companion convos. It was really, really tiresome! Maybe it’s because I never really cared that deeply about Revan as my personal character, but I could not understand the backlash.

Anyway, Lord Scourge is my favorite companion in the game by a long shot. I love the conversations you can have with him about the Jedi vs Sith, and I love the mutually respectful tone those conversations take. (Where other Bioware companions who disagree with you have a tendency to just go, “You’re wrong.” and shut you down.) The fact that he’s so tied in with the plot just makes me love him more, really.

The character(s) I used to love but don’t any longer:

Cytharat, Koth and Theron mostly. Although this takes a bit of explaining, and is a bit Discourse-y – because I really appreciate them as characters, but their role and Bioware’s decisions with them is what made me no longer love them.Here’s the thing: Bioware has a bad habit of introducing male characters that are bisexual, and then having them betray you, leading to situations where they either get murdered or vanish from the narrative entirely. Meanwhile, bisexual women like Lana are untouched and around forever.

I was overjoyed when I first saw Cytharat. Y'all know I’m a ho for purebloods, and the fact that he was Malgus’ apprentice was fascinating to me – and then he turned out to be a bi romance. I got very hyped for him, only to find out he dies like 5 minutes later – or if you save him, he’s never seen again. Huge letdown.

Koth was the first character I fell in love with of the new KOTFE crew – I even initiated a romance with him! – but it quickly became obvious there’s no way to play the expansion without him turning on you judgementally at some point or another. And then, hey big surprise, you can kill him or else he’s never seen again.

Theron I’ve loved since we first got to know him in the Forged Alliances content, but that whole storyline where he seemingly betrays you out of nowhere, only to later reveal he didn’t actually, idk. And then, once again, you either kill him or he disappears from the story. It felt like a weirdly shoehorned in plot for shock value, and robbed us of a second bi MOC character.

You see the trend here? I want to love these characters, but Bioware continually electing to do this shit with bi dudes is tiresome and makes me unwilling to invest any interest in the characters anymore.

The character(s) I would totally smooch:

None.

The character(s) I’d want to be like:

None really come to mind? I just want to be a Jedi, come on.

The character(s) I’d slap:

Hunter all day every day.

The pairing(s) that I love:

Haha, this question is hard, because most of the SWTOR ships I’m invested in are between my OCs and my friends’ OCs.

However.

SCOURGE / KNIGHT IS THE BIG ONE, THE ULTIMATE, THE ALL-TIME FAVORITE. It’s really hard to describe just how much I love this ship, and just how much time and energy I’ve invested into it over the past… 8 years wow……….. To the point of being almost territorial. And it’s also near impossible for me to talk about why I love it, because the version I ship is so personalized with my specific Jedi Knight, especially since it had to live exclusively in headcanon land for so long. Scourge is, more or less, my Knight’s support pillar and the thing that grounds him and keeps him humble, in a world where my Knight is surrounded by people who expect him to be a pure flawless messiah. But, I mean. How can you have a man look at your character and say, “I’ve waited 300 years to see your face.” and not immediately ship it. And then I finally got vindicated after all these years when it was made canon!

I really love Arcann / Knight for a lot of the same reasons as the above, but I just really adore his one (1) romance convo haha. Granted, yes he did a lot of fucked up things, but I was so grateful when he had like… a Zuko-esque redemption. Where he comes to your character and firmly believes he doesn’t deserve forgiveness, and especially doesn’t deserve affection, and is instead met with acceptance and a chance to grow and heal. That’s the good shit.

Others:

Lana / Warrior and Lana / Inquisitor are my particular jam. I endlessly enjoy the mutual respect between Lana and those particular PCs.

Malavai Quinn / Sith Warrior is a longtime fave, and although I DO love him with a female Warrior, I really do with he’d been an option for dudes as well. And I feel the same in reverse about Vette / Warrior – I do like her with a male Warrior, and it’s so sweet and wholesome and endearing, but man I wish she’d been an option for female Warriors.

I ship Risha with every woman – especially Vette and Sumalee – and will be salty until my grave that Risha / f!Smuggler isn’t possible, because I love Risha with the Smuggler but she gives me powerful WLW vibes.

Agent / Watcher Two is also a lowkey favorite, but I ALSO wish it could be done with a female Agent instead. Same with Agent / Raina Temple.

Agent / Vector is very sweet, but again, I will be salty until my grave that it couldn’t be done with a male Agent.

Can you guys sense a running theme here?

Finally: NGL I love Valkorion / Senya, even though that ended in pure disaster.

And people around here used to ship Keeper / Lokin, and tbh, I still kinda love it lol.

The pairing(s) that I despise:

In general terms, I fucking hate every single romance that involves the male PC romancing his padawan or underling, especially since most of them seem like very young girls. I don’t know why this is so pervasive in the game, but yikes Bioware. Consular/Nadia is the worst offender, but they’re all just cringe central for me.

But the big one is Agent / Hunter. This would have gotten me run off Tumblr back in the day, but god I hate this pairing. I mentioned in the last post that I just will never enjoy ships where the two characters actively want to murder each other, but. This just gets magnified for me with Agent/Hunter, where all the mind control and blatant abuse comes into play – and people have a tendency to write noncon rape fic of the two and present it as ~sexy rivalmance~, which is awful. Add to this the “no homo” reveal where Hunter turns out to be a woman, after getting everyone hyped about a dude flirting with their male character the whole game, and it’s just a huge No Thanks from me all around.

And for largely personal reasons I just don’t like seeing female Knights with Scourge. Listen, for YEARS  I was treated like a pariah for shipping Scourge with my male Knight, while being unable to find Scourge content that didn’t have a female Knight plastered all over him. Even though he wasn’t even a romance option one way or another, the way the fandom treated m!Knight/Scourge with disdain while ardently shipping f!Knight/Scourge was offputting as shit. And then, after years, he was made a romance option for women AND men, and all these awful people acted like they were robbed, the way people reacted when Kaidan and Jaal were made bi in Mass Effect. I’m so tired. I never want to see Scourge with a female Knight again.

[camelotpark]

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These are just some of the terms under your dumb as a box of scotts

"because Stiles isn’t a fucking idiot." (when directly comparing him to Scott and thereby calling Scott a fucking idiot)

"You have to be smart to be at Peter Hale levels of villainy. I’m not sure Scott could think his way out of a paper bag if someone gave him a flashlight and a map, TBH."

"But you know what else is brainless, and also as canonically smart as Scott?

A box of rocks."

Each of these quotes go far beyond just his academic success and instead talking about his intelligence as a whole so you're "I'm just calling him academically challenged" is bullshit. You are calling a latinx character "dumb as a box of rocks" when canonically he was shown to outsmart men I'm sure you consider his superior in every way. Just because you didn't like how he did it doesn't take away it took intelligence and skill to do it. Something the show clearly acknowledged he had and something you have worked hard to strip him of.

"And given that Scott’s bad grades are being mentioned as early as the first few episodes, how do you account for that? "

“Second verse, same as the first!"

Once again your tag goes far beyond his academic intelligence and into you thinking he is as dumb as a bag of rocks (your exact words) as a whole so trying to pull the "he failed classes" tactic now is a weak attempt to save face. A stereotype that most latinx deal with is assuming that they are stupid because they aren't "as smart" as their white counterparts and "because Stiles isn't a fucking idiot" shows you sure as hell think that despite canon showing Scott is more than capable of holding his own

I'm sure instead of just saying "Okay,maybe he had academic troubles,but that isn't a measure of his overall intelligence" you'll just dig you'll heels in more and swerve to prove this latinx character is stupid because you (a white woman) judge Scott (a brown latinx) for not knowing what every single english word means. And yes, that stupid bestiary thing comes up in the tag a lot so you use a latinx's grasp on the english language to call him stupid. You know he speaks english (as you often complain that him not speaking spanish can prove he's not a latino in canon) Yet you used him not understanding one word to prove your point, I would ask if you know that's a racist stereotype too (latinos not speaking the english language well), but it's clear you lack a lot in understanding racial bigotry beyond just hating someone for their skin color or calling them a slur.

Of course trying to attack my own intelligence because I misspelled words is tactic you used and clearly show a pattern so I'm not surprised. It's a easy lazy way to try and discredit someone because your defense for your actions are paper thin.

"I know that you never said fandom wasn’t an open place for self-expression and that we all have different tastes. Because clearly you don’t believe that, right??"

You damn right I don't believe that,not for a second. I'm a poc in fandom and have been for a long time. Teen Wolf is not my first dealing with this culture and I've seen poc fans driven from fandoms in droves because their "open-place for self-expression" was attacked. Because they dare challenge the racially bias way a poc character was treated. See, when you say "Open place for self-expression" what you mean is "Let me do what I want, let me paint this poc how I want, and I don't care if it hurts poc fans to see the characters that look like them judged more harshly by fandoms then their white counterparts. You don’t like it,don’t read it."

Then of course those poc go to safer spaces and we have people like you and StickeyKeys and the rest of your crew going "I can be here and say what I want because this tag isn't just for you to celebrate your character it's also for me to let you see how awful he/she is" See, the problem is that you don't want poc to have their space just for them. You want to be in every single part of it and eventually it makes poc fans leave the fandom completely.

An article that dared to celebrate Scott and put him in a space of queer-coded that moc are hardly ever in with fandom was attacked mercilessly and his character was demonized once again. The article never once bashed Stiles or any other character,but of course a place to celebrate a poc had to have people tell everyone exactly why that support was wrong.

A “they do it so I can do it too” is not a reason, it’s an excuse.

Your blog has literally condemned Scott for switching out a white man's cancer pills as evil and cruel when that white man has attacked him repeatedly. Has stabbed him and plainly said he would kill Scott's mother. Scott was painted as non-heroic for potentially killing a man who has tried to kill him before and would have gladly killed Scott's mother. Let's ignore that Donovan telling Stiles he’ll kill his father and attacking him is all the justification you need to say Stiles was not at fault for what he did.

You love to use the word hypocrisy without realizing you are literally the biggest hypocrite there is.

Of course I can hear the excuse now "Heat of the moment!" "Stiles didn't plan it!" "Scott’s was premeditated!" I'm sure if Scott had just slashed Gerard's throat you would back him up and defend him against accusations he's unnecessarily cruel. I'm sure if Scott somehow got the upper hand on Derek on that ice rink and ripped his heart out you would be the first to defend Scott against people saying his safety doesn't excuse his actions. He should have been “better”

I'm sure to you it means absolutely nothing to put a white man's life over a poc's and paint that poc as bad for taking actions against it, but it means something to people like me because this behavior isn't confined to just fandom. So yes, when a poc brings this up it is amazing how fast that "Open place for self expression" disappears.

"And I’m calling Scott not academically smart because that’s what his teachers say. That’s why he had to go to the parent teacher night."

Once again you literally called him no smarter than a bag of rocks.

"We could also talk about how stereotypes are different all around the world, and that your US-centric worldview isn’t the universal experience and that people from different countries and cultures aren’t ingrained with the same racial biases from birth as Americans are."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat

"Ignorantia juris non excusat[1] or ignorantia legis neminem excusat[2] (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"[1] and "ignorance of law excuses no one"[2] respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because one was unaware of its content."

The same goes for racism and stereotypes. Just because you are unaware racial bias exist with certain stereotypes does not give you a pass for using them. You learn it, you acknowledge it, and you stop doing it.

"That’s called a metaphor."  "And disagreeing with another woman’s opinion is not misogyny"

I'm glad you know what a metaphor is,but nobody said your disagreement with another woman is misogyny (or your disagreement with a lgbtq man is homophobia) The language you used to defend yourself is. You attacked their sexuality to one up them and saying that a woman or lgbtq man is "sucking someone's dick" when all they are doing is defending a character you don't like is key misogyny and homophobia, metaphorically intent or not. And don't think I didn't notice that you didn't mention your homophobia in your reply. You could have went a million different ways to defend your stance. It is disgusting and you were disgusting for doing it. There is absolutely no defense for that action.

See, you say people are moving goalpost when they dismantle your argument and you try and swerve. It's not. I'm saying what I always said "Scott McCall is not as dumb as a bag of rocks and you trying to prove that true is racial stereotyping"

One last thing. I have never said you can't speak on racism, if you see it by all means call it out. What I said was you can't tell other people (especially poc) what is not racist. That is not your right.

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Title: 19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam

Authors: Lew Jennings

ISBN: 1548484539

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"19 Minutes to Live" illustrates the incredible courage and determination of helicopter pilots and crews supporting those heroes that carried a rucksack and a rifle in Vietnam. Over 12,000 helicopters were used in the Vietnam War, which is why it became known as "The Helicopter War". Almost half of the helicopters, 5,086, were lost. Helicopter pilots and crews accounted for nearly 10 percent of all the US casualties suffered in Vietnam, with nearly 5,000 killed and an untold number of wounded. Lew Jennings flew over 700 Air Cavalry Cobra Gunship Helicopter missions and received Three Distinguished Flying Crosses for Valor. This memoir describes first-hand the harrowing experiences of helicopter pilots and crews in combat operations, from the far South to the DMZ, including the infamous Ashau Valley, Hamburger Hill, LZ Airborne and others.

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do you think the skamnl team is aware that the international fandom wants lucas to get a moc bf?? my instincts are saying they’re going with a white dude for popularity. also, what do you think? where can wr go bang our pots and pans so that we’d be heard

well, considering some of the actors’ friends who are moc have been posting the weird messages they have gotten so far on instagram bc people don’t know boundaries and not contact random strangers on instagram… i’d say they know about the desire for a moc!even. let’s hope they’ll cast one too. i just hope that in the case they don’t cast a moc!even people know their boundaries a little better and don’t send hate to crew or cast. 

i’m not sure about where to go to make your voice known. maybe make a post on instagram and tag the official skamnl instagram account in it? 

[hongism]

Ok so I've spent the past few days reading volume 1 of mist of celeste (found it on ao3) and I just wanted to thank you for creating such an intricate piece of work. Never have I felt so attached to a series from an emotional standpoint. Not going to lie, I have cried more times than I'd like to admit and I've spent countless nights trying to read as much as possible because I just couldn't stop. I cannot wait to see where this series will take our favorite rag tag space pirate crew.

omg !!! i always get surprised when ao3 readers trickle in here hi hello thank you for reading moc that means so much to me :c gah it’s so touching to hear that my work has been able to do that and that you’ve got that attachment and feel the emotions, i’ve definitely gotten many a tear out while writing and lost sleep bc im simply too excited to write and im so attached to the story myself that it means so much when other people are attached with me, i cannot wait to share more 💕💕

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Vee El Dee: The Good The Bad and The Ugly

If you’ve ever been on this hellsite, you’ve probably heard of Voltron: Legendary Defender. You’ll find the characters and the ships (and the discourse. Dear God the discourse) in tag after tag and on blog after blog. Now that the show has officially come to an end, I’m reviewing the whole damn thing. Talking about what I think worked, what didn’t, and what exactly the show did to make even the fans look at it so harshly now. (Just a warning “The Ugly” section discusses racism, and homophobia so if any of that triggers you I’d suggest you skip it)

Review under the cut

The Good

The Character Potential:

   Voltron’s characters had so much potential at the beginning. Their motivations, potential subplots, and clues to their arcs the first crew left us were actually interesting. How did Coran know Allura before they were frozen? What happened that caused Shiro to lose his arm? Is Lance going to reunite with his family? The show didn’t answer all of these questions mind you, but at the time they were introduced, those questions felt like they were worth sticking around to hear the answers.

The First Season:

   The first season is the only season that genuinely sticks out for me, way back in ye olden days when Voltron was a character driven show as opposed to plot focused. In season one, the plot took a backseat and the characters were what held up the show, and it’s probably not a coincidence that most of the character development and more emotional/memorable scenes occurred in season one, when there was time for the characters to develop. Likewise, the character focus allowed for everyone to get their day in the limelight -not just the characters who were valuable to the plot at the moment-.

The Balmera and The Return to The Balmera:

     I am never gonna be shy about my opinion that the Balmera arc is one of the strongest arcs that Voltron has had. Allura using the story of her people to inspire others and using Altea’s ancient connection to the Balmera to save an entire damn civilization! The goddamn adorable chemistry between Hunk and Shay! Believable suspense! Unlocking Lion Powers! The Balmera arc had it all and I was fed. Plus, Balmera gave us the introduction of the most blessed couple in Voltron history, hunay.

The Bad:

The Timeskips:

In theory, there’s nothing wrong with a timeskip. But you’ve gotta be able to show that the characters and show’s universe changed in some way during that timeskip and you can’t use them just to avoid actual story and character development. Take season six (? Or was it five? I don’t remember and I don’t wanna) when Keith and Krolia take a two year camping trip on a space whale while Voltron is off doing God knows what. Presumably during that time they developed some sort of mother-son relationship but we don’t get to see that development happening, or how that new relationship changed them, or really any proof that the timeskip happened at all besides Keith getting Galra marks and a teleporting space wolf. That particular time jump felt more like a cop-out to avoid writing Keith bonding with his mom.

Pacing:

To put it plainly, the pace is way too fast for anything to stick. The writing cycles from one season's worth of plot twists and WTF? moments to the next at the speed of light, leaving no time to address how the previous events affected the characters involved or not the show’s universe as a whole. So Lotor was actually evil all along and was using Allura to achieve his goals? Well there’s no time to mention how Allura feels about that, we’ve got three more surprise twists and a magic robot to shove into the plot! On the flip side however, the pacing is slower than a geriatric snail during fight scenes. The giant robot fights are usually the most exciting part of anything, but in Voltron, the fights are so formulaic that they just kinda… blur together into a boring fog. Lemme know if you can name this Voltron fight scene: the team’s fighting some random baddie, there’s a lot of yelling, someone gets a power up just big enough to defeat the current baddies when a bigger, eviler baddie appears who’s more powerful than the power up they just got, new baddie whoops Voltron’s ass, the support team watches in horror, someone else gets a power up that’s powerful enough to defeat the new bad guy, Voltron reins triumphant. What fight scene was that?

The Filler Episodes:

The fast pacing also means that they need to set aside breather episodes just to allow characters to interact besides in battle. That’s all well and good and there’s nothing wrong with filler episodes, if done right they can be some of the most memorable episodes a show can have (The Tales of Ba Sing Se anyone?) that is, if done right. But Voltron filler episodes don’t have that going for them. Filler episodes in vee el dee are an oasis of mud in the desert that is canon, they’re a generally unhelpful standstill point amidst a constantly changing series. I’ll admit that they can be funny at times but for the most part filler episodes are bizarre, unnecessary, and more often than not, poorly timed. If we just heard about a millenniums old empire folding in on itself and we’re just about to see a major character attempt suicide do we really need to see Coran go batshit while planning a space Disney On Ice?

The Ugly:

Racism:

#justiceforallura

I must confess that I am whiter than a polar bear in a snowstorm, but even I know that killing off a black girl (or black coded as the case may be), constantly torturing the Japanese guy, reducing the Samoan guy to food and fat jokes, and having the latino guy flirt with everyone before turning him into a farmer isn’t the best way to handle writing characters of colour. Denying said characters of colour arcs and screen time in favour of giving your white characters the same story in a different hat over and over again is also not the best treatment you can offer your poc characters. That’s not even mentioning other horrible treatment and stereotypes you’ll see the Voltron characters of colour experience. Let us also recall #notallgalra, the “what if the genocide victim was actually the bad guy” au mess in s3, all those “lol lance is stupid” jokes, the black character Kinkade speaking mainly in grunts, Allura dying to redeem the two genocidal dudes responsible for most of her trauma, and Hunk’s (half black half Samoan) family being enslaved at a fucking concentration camp like goddamn what the hell were you thinking Voltron that’s like hetalia levels of fucked up when we remember what kind of genuinely awful shit this show’s done to it’s minority characters.

Homophobia:

If you’re reading my review in the Voltron tag, and you watched the whole series, then there’s no way in hell that you haven’t heard about Adam dying and the backlash against Voltron for it. If you are somehow the .000001% of people who don’t know, Adam (a gay moc) was Shiro’s (another gay moc) fiancé who got a grand total of forty five seconds of screen time before dying when the Galra invaded earth. Meanwhile, L*tor and Allura’s relationship got almost triple that despite being abusive as fuck. But Shiro got married at the end of season 8! In a credits scene, to a guy in the background of a couple of scenes Shiro was also in. When lgbt fans expressed outrage at their rep being hyped up despite having no bearing on the plot or even Shiro as a character outside of one scene, instead of owning up to their mistakes, the crew of Vee El Dee said (or implied) that it was the fault of lgbt fans for hyping ourselves up. Yeah okay. Except after that we got confirmation that Ezor and Zethrid were a couple! Yay! Clearly a win for us El Gee Bee Tees right? Well… not really considering that both of them were depicted as psychotic torturers who also died a couple minutes later. Gotta love those crazy dead lesbians amirite?

Klance:

But why is klance in the “ugly” section!? You cry, I thought you were a klanti! I am an anti and I did ship klance but that’s not what I wanna talk about right now. When I put klance under ugly I wanted to discuss two things, the crew and the shippers. First let’s talk the crew; several folks on the Voltron staff have at the very least, not reacted negatively to the omnipresent ship that is Keith and Lance. I’m sure you’ll also remember that Lance’s VA Jeremy Shada was considered a KICK icon before that went south. The crew was also purposefully misleading when they talked about possible romances for Keith and Lance, the language they used was ambiguous enough that shippers interpreted it as proof that klance would become canon. When it inevitably didn’t and shit hit the fan, the staff backpedaled again. Stating that klance was never meant to be interpreted as romantic and we were all fools for thinking otherwise. That’s happened in the past so it’s a reasonable defence, except for the fact that scenes with Keith and Lance tended to contain unnecessary parallels to canonically romantic relationships, (the bonding moment paralleling an allurance scene in season six and their talk at the start of season eight paralleling two scenes, hunay in season one and l*tura in season five). So it’s not unreasonable to be a little suspicious there. Klance was huge on the internet, it’s impossible for the crew to have been completely unaware of what they were doing.

Next I wanna talk shippers. I’m not saying that being disappointed that a ship didn’t become canon is a bad thing. But when you act like that’s the worst thing Voltron did amidst the sea of ableism, racism and homophobia it gets a little tiring. The fact that so many klancers rushed to demonize Allura after season seven and eight and add on that I saw more people complaining about klance not becoming canon king than Allura dying a completely unnecessary death to redeem L*tor of all people was the final straw. I washed my hands of klance and Voltron as a whole.

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So that’s my review of V*ltron. I was gonna do a separate review of season eight but I didn’t even finish s8 and to be honest it probably wouldn’t have been any more than the words “Fuck Vee El Dee, Allura Deserved Better” in big pink letters. And I know I probably made someone angry with this review but if you actually managed to stick around my ramblings all the way to the end then I salute you regardless of whether or not you agree with me.

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Gra w Graffiti, czyli rozmowa z krakowskim grafficiarzem

Obszerna rozmowa zawierająca wiele ciekawych wątków przeprowadzona z weteranem sceny graffiti stawiającym swoje pierwsze kroki już w latach 90. Być może nie znacie się osobiście, natomiast przechadzając się uliczkami Krakowa na pewno nie raz spotkaliście się z jego twórczością w przestrzeni miejskiej. Dziś jego style są rozpoznawalne oraz cenione.

Na potrzebę wywiadu oraz zachowania anonimowości, imię mojego rozmówcy zostało zmienione.

Nikola Ostrzałek: Wszystko zaczęło się od Takiego183. Jak zatem doszło do tego, że ten rodzaj twórczości artystycznej trafił również do Ciebie? Kto lub co zainspirowało Cię do tworzenia graffiti?

Marcin: Około roku 90. wyjechałem do Francji. Codziennie jeździłem pociągiem do centrum Paryża. Widziałem tam nieznajome dotąd mi formy graficzne w postaci tagów – stylowo napisanych liter – oraz rysunków. Graffiti było w pociągach, na pociągach oraz przy torach kolejowych. Pamiętam, że zawsze siedziałem przyklejony do szyby i obserwowałem to zjawisko. Dzięki temu, że przemierzałem codziennie tę samą trasę, to miałem swoje ulubione obrazki, na które czekałem. Bardzo mocne w tym wszystkim było to, że nikt ze znajomych mi ludzi nie potrafił mi jasno odpowiedzieć na pytanie, co to jest za zjawisko, kto to robi i po co to robi. To wywołało na mnie tak silne wrażenie, że po powrocie do Polski zacząłem rysować podobne rzeczy, podobne litery, ale jednak w dalszym ciągu nie wiedziałem, czym jest ta kultura. Dopiero w roku 95. – gdzie już malowałem coś farbami w sprayu – w Amsterdamie jedna osoba wyjaśniła mi czym jest kultura hip-hop, czym jest graffiti, co to jest crew, co to jest tag. Powiedziała mi o tym, że każdy ma na siebie pomysł, żeby w jakimś stopniu zaistnieć w mieście i dopiero wtedy zacząłem świadomie malować graffiti. Wymyśliłem wówczas swój podpis i zacząłem go pisać w przestrzeni miejskiej.

N.O.: Tworzysz graffiti od lat. Czy dzisiaj łatwiej jest Ci wyrazić siebie, niż na początku swojej artystycznej drogi? Czy życie i doświadczenia z nim związane zmieniły Twoje podejście do tego rodzaju twórczości, albo chociażby zmodyfikowały Twój ówczesny styl?

M.: Styl wyrabia się przez lata. Bywało, że od estetyki wymagałem czegoś innego, potem się to dynamicznie zmieniało. Jestem zaskoczony oglądając zdjęcia z dawnych czasów, ponieważ widać, że na jednym graffiti chciałem bardzo agresywnie malować, na innym zaś się bardzo starałem. Styl generalnie ewoluuje. Poszukujesz go i on rozwija się razem z Tobą. Jeśli chodzi o wyrażanie siebie, to myślę, że czymś innym dla mnie osobiście było graffiti, kiedy ja zaczynałem malować. Wtedy szukałem czegoś takiego jak bunt i niezależność. Poszukiwałem, jako młody człowiek swojej tożsamości, wychowywałem się na punk-rocku i bardzo ważne było dla mnie to, że moje graffiti jest moje i jest niezależne. Nie interesowało mnie, czy to się komuś podoba, czy nie. Nikomu nie mówiłem, że to robię, natomiast widziałem, że inni ludzie to zauważają, gdyż infekowało to tkankę miasta. Bardzo lubiłem to, że nikt z tych ludzi nie miał wpływu na to, gdzie moje graffiti powstanie, kiedy ono powstanie, jakie ono będzie miało rozmiary, jakie będzie miało kolory, czy będzie jeździło na pociągach, czy też będzie na klatkach schodowych. To ja o tym decydowałem. Było to dla mnie satysfakcjonujące w wieku dojrzewania, w okresie buntu, któremu w taki sposób dawałem upust. Aktualnie mam 42 lata i dalej maluję graffiti, tylko na tym etapie swojego życia faktycznie wymagam od graffiti innych rzeczy. W tym momencie jest ono dla mnie czymś w rodzaju wentyla. Uważam, że każdy człowiek powinien mieć jakiś rodzaj wytwórczości. Nie ważne, czy piszesz wiersze do szuflady, czy sobie brzdąkasz na gitarze, czy maluje na płótnie – mi to daje graffiti. Na poziomie społecznym daje mi to poczucie indywidualności, wolność od tego konsumpcyjnego systemu wartości. Na zasadzie, że ja jednak nie zbieram na nową plazmę, nie muszę mieć nowego Audi. Wydaję na farby i niedziele spędzam w taki sposób, że dzielę czas pomiędzy rodzinę, a graffiti. Jest to swego rodzaju sposób wyżycia się, jednocześnie dając upust emocjom nagromadzonym w ciągu tygodnia. Graffiti dla mnie jest bardzo uwalniające. Nikogo nie namawiam do malowania, nie wymagam również, żeby ktoś to rozumiał. W tym kontekście ta niezależność została, ale dla mnie osobiście jest czymś ważnym. W swoim młodzieńczym życiu wiele razy się gubiłem – brałem narkotyki, lądowałem w ośrodkach odwykowych, jednak zawsze jak wychodziłem i musiałem zacząć swoje życie od nowa, to zawsze miałem od czego zacząć i było to właśnie graffiti. Ta tożsamość była bardzo mocno ugruntowana. Brałem udział w kulturze niezależnej. Im dłużej malowałem, tym byłem co raz bardziej – w tym mimo wszystko hermetycznym środowisku – znany i to był dla mnie swego rodzaju sukces. Jeśli przez jakieś wydarzenia masz obniżony poziom wartości, to graffiti daje Ci ten respect od innych, że jednak robisz coś dobrze, robisz coś fajnie. Uważam, że jest to bardzo mocno powiązane z poczuciem własnej wartości. Często, jeśli ludzie są sfrustrowani, bo nie mają kasy, nie mają wykształcenia, trapią ich jakieś problemy natury społecznej, np. brak zaplecza socjalnego, to dzięki graffiti potrafią uzupełnić te deficyty. Myślę, że to właśnie jest wielka siła graffiti. Różnica pomiędzy graffiti, a street artem – street art z definicji jest sztuką, a graffiti jest swego rodzaju przestrzenią, która daje coś innego.

N.O.: Graffiti to nie tylko tagi, wrzuty, czy pryski, to również styl życia. Co wg Ciebie definiuje życie grafficiarza?

M.: Wydaje mi się, że na ten moment prowadzę bardzo normalne życie. Graffiti jest przede wszystkim dodatkiem do życia. Graffiti nie jest jego sensem. Moje prawdziwe funkcje życiowe są takie, że jestem synem mojej matki, ojcem moich dzieci, chłopakiem mojej dziewczyny, pracownikiem swojej firmy, a graffiti to swego rodzaju dodatek. Niektórzy uważają, że grafficiarze powinni chrzanić system. Ja jednak uważam, że nie ma co walczyć z wiatrakami. Być może kiedyś był czas buntu przeciwko systemowi. Tożsamość wówczas była jakby antyspołeczna. Graffiti dojrzewa razem z człowiekiem.

N.O.: „Street art wymaga umiejętności, graffiti wymaga jaj”. Czy rzeczywiście jest tak, że street artowcy kładą szczególny nacisk na estetykę, a grafficiarze najbardziej cenią sobie miejsce powstania wrzuty oraz adrenalinę temu towarzyszącą?

M.: Moim zdaniem dobre graffiti, to nie musi być graffiti nielegalne, czy też graffiti na adrenalinie. W moim rozumieniu graffiti jest grą, a nie sztuką. Ono jest czymś w rodzaju gry społecznej. Grafficiarze grają w grę graffiti i zdobywają w tej grze punkty. Im masz więcej punktów, tym masz większy fame. Nieważne jakie masz tenisówki, nieważne jakie masz płyty w domu, nieważne jaki masz kolor skóry, ile zarabiasz, co robią Twoi rodzice i na jakiej mieszkasz dzielnicy. W tej grze liczy się tak naprawdę tylko to jaki masz pomysł na pisanie swojego imienia w przestrzeni miejskiej. Przeszedłeś przez etap, że miałeś bardzo dużo tagów, że zamalowałeś ileś pociągów, że nachapałeś się adrenaliny. Nagle w pewnym momencie chcesz czegoś więcej. Chcesz od swojego graffiti, żeby ono było naładowane jakimś ładunkiem estetycznym, indywidualnym. Zaczynasz ostrożniej dobierać kolory, bardziej myśleć nad projektami – to wtedy zaczyna być czymś innym. Uważam, że dobre graffiti, to takie, które w konsekwencji przejścia przez te różne etapy jest bardzo indywidualne, charakterystyczne i przede wszystkim oryginalne. Są pewne kanony, których się trzymamy w graffiti, ale każdy powinien dopracować swoją pracę, jak i styl swojego graffiti do tego stopnia, aby było ono indywidualne i wtedy gra jest wygrana. Uważam, że dobre graffiti, to graffiti stylowe. Stylu nie da się kupić za żadne pieniądze. Styl trzeba wypracować i zazwyczaj zajmuje to kilka lat.

N.O.: Czy indywidualnym można być również należąc do Graffiti Crew? I czy będąc zdeklarowanym członkiem grupy obowiązuje niespisany kodeks, do którego należy się podporządkowywać?

M.: Oczywiście, że można być indywidualnym należąc do Crew. Moc i siła graffiti to wolność. Tutaj nikt nikomu nic nie narzuca. Oczywiście, są ekipy, które łączą się ze sobą, bo podobnie myślą i koncentrują się tylko i wyłącznie na malowaniu pociągów, albo tylko na robieniu systemów, czy robieniu miasta. Uważam, że bardzo fajne jest, jeżeli ekipa, która ze sobą maluje ma na siebie wzajemny wpływ estetyczny. Mam na myśli, że widać, że ekipa maluje ze sobą od lat i nawzajem się inspiruje.

N.O.: Czy robiąc tagi w innych miastach, czy krajach kontaktujesz się wcześniej z tamtejszymi grafficiarzami w celu wskazania przez nich najlepszych miejscówek? Czy jednak w Twoim mniemaniu jest to przejaw charakterystyczny dla toyów z którym Ty się nie utożsamiasz?

M.: Jadąc do innego miasta raczej nie kontaktuję się z innymi grafficiarzami. Nigdy nie uważałem się za typowego turystę graffiti. Nie jeżdżę gdzieś specjalnie, żeby coś namalować. Generalnie ruszam się po Europie, zwiedzam miasta. W związku z tym biorę farby i maluję. Tam gdzie mieszkam zawsze maluję. Jeżeli pomalowałem pociąg w Holandii, tzn., że akurat byłem w Holandii, jeżeli pomalowałem pociąg w Berlinie, tzn., że akurat tam byłem. Po latach malowania, to nie jest nic trudnego. Jeśli gdzieś się włóczę po obcym mieście, to bardzo lubię mieć ze sobą coś do pisania i się podpisywać. Nie korzystam raczej z przewodników ludzi.

N.O.: Graffiti przez wielu jest rozumiane jako przejaw wandalizmu. W Polsce jak i zapewne w innych krajach za przyłapanie podczas tego niecnego procederu grozi kara grzywny, czy nawet więzienie. Jednym z najniebezpieczniejszych w Europie rejonów, jeśli chodzi o tworzenie sztuki graffiti jest Katania oraz Sycylia. Grafficiarze przyłapani na tagowaniu w tych miejscach ryzykują połamaniem rąk. Zaryzykowałbyś? A może już to zrobiłeś?

M.: Jeśli chodzi o Katanię, to nie uważam, aby było to trudne miejsce do pomalowania. Byłem, malowałem i nie wiązało się to z większymi trudnościami. Powiedziałbym nawet, że było łatwo i przyjemnie. Jeśli chodzi jednak o sytuację w Katanii, to rzeczywiście jest tam tak, że system metra należy do mafii. We Włoszech graffiti nie jest bardzo karane, ich to po prostu – delikatnie ujmując – denerwuje. Jak najbardziej zgadzam się ze stwierdzeniem, że graffiti jest przez wielu traktowane, jako akt wandalizmu. Moim zdaniem nawet najpiękniejsze graffiti zrobione bez zgody właściciela jest działaniem przeciwko mieniu. Sztuka jest dobra dla twórcy i dla odbiorcy. Nie ma nic dobrego w zamalowanych oknach pociągu, czy zniszczonych kamienicach. Tutaj się nie upieram, że to jest sztuka. To jest jednak ta gra.

N.O.: Obrazy urozmaicające otoczenie możemy spotkać w różnych zakątkach świata. W Lizbonie, San Francisco, w Łodzi, czy na Kreuzbergu. Czy jest na świecie takie miejsce, które miałeś okazję odwiedzić – i oznaczyć – albo w którym po prostu jesteś zakochany mimo, iż jeszcze nie miałeś okazji tam być?

M.: Bardzo chciałbym pomalować Nowy Jork. Nigdy tam jeszcze nie byłem. Natomiast bardzo inspiruje mnie Berlin, a dokładniej Kreuzberg.

N.O.: Domniemam, iż każda z akcji dostarcza innego rodzaju emocji, wrażeń i stopnia adrenaliny. Czy misje te można w ogóle kategoryzować? Jeśli tak, to co wybierasz – wypad na yard, czy jam?

M.: Uważam, że są to dwa rodzaje różnych emocji, gdzie każda z nich jest bardzo ważna. Na yardzie bardzo wyczuwalny jest moment  - jesteś tu i teraz. Przychodzisz na yard, denerwujesz się, że Cię złapią. Wiesz, że robisz coś nielegalnego, wiesz, że mogą być tego konsekwencje. Natomiast czujesz napięcie w trakcji, zapach smaru na yardzie. W momencie, kiedy zaczynasz malować, serce Ci wali i wtedy tak naprawdę czujesz, że robisz to tu i teraz. Skupiasz się na kontrolowaniu farby, dobieraniu kolorów. Magicznym momentem dla mnie jest jam. Różni ludzie, z różnych zakątków świata spotykają się i malują swoje litery, robią swój styl. To jest coś bardzo nieuchwytnego. Nigdzie indziej tego nie spotkałem. W żadnym muzeum, czy teatrze. Jam dla mnie, jako dla twórcy graffiti jest czymś magicznym. Lubię przyjechać na jam, gdyż jest to inny rodzaj emocji. Lubię przebywać z tymi ludźmi. Czasami odejść od swojego rysunku i popatrzeć jak oni wykonują swoje prace, jakie im towarzyszą emocje. Wtedy czujesz miłość do tego co robisz.

N.O.: Jak według Ciebie odróżnić kiepską sztukę od tej dobrej?

M.: Dobra sztuka musi być dobra i dla twórcy i dla odbiorcy. Musi być w niej zawarte swego rodzaju rzemiosło artystyczne, warsztat, kunszt oraz umiejętności. Sztuka powinna w pewien sposób zaskakiwać odbiorców. Tak, aby odbiorca poczuł emocje podczas oglądania i obcowania z nią.

N.O.: Wczoraj i dziś– co było dla Ciebie największą przeszkodą w tworzeniu graffiti kiedyś, a co jest nią dziś?

M.: Myślę, że kiedyś – jak byłem młody – największą przeszkodą był dla mnie dostęp do farb, czyli związane z tym koszty, kupowanie kliszy, wywoływanie kliszy, a później ich wywoływanie na papier. Wszystko kosztowało. Uważam, że to miało swoje dobre i złe strony. Musiałem poświęcić fajki, czy pójście do klubu. Mało tego, czas spędzałem siedząc na peronie i czekając na pociągi. Musiałem poświęcić czas, żeby zrobić zdjęcia, później poświęcić pieniądze, żeby je wywołać. To zajmowało mi dwa tygodnie – 36 klatek. Później musiałem ją rozwinąć i zadecydować, które z tych klatek są dla mnie najważniejsze. Musiałem zastanowić się co wydarzyło się przez te dwa tygodnie oraz które wywołam zdjęcia. Kiedy jechałem do innego grafficiarza, a on otwierał pudełko po butach, w którym były zdjęcia, wtedy wiedziałem, że jest on wiarygodny i prawdziwy. Od razu czułem do niego szacunek i respect, gdyż wiedziałem, że on – tak jak ja – poświęcił swoje pieniądze, swój czas i że nie robi tego dla żartów, czy dla mody. Tylko w tym co robi jest po prostu autentyczny. Sądzę, że poniekąd dlatego u mnie graffiti przetrwało. Poświęciłem bardzo dużo energii, pracy oraz emocji dla graffiti za młodu i do dnia dzisiejszego ono mi towarzyszy dając mi bardzo dużo radości. Dzisiaj mniej wymagam adrenaliny. Czasami zdarza mi się namalować coś nielegalnie, czy się podpisać. Takie są jednak korzenie graffiti, stąd to się wzięło. Dziś największą przeszkodą jest dla mnie wolny czas. Zdarza się, że ciężko jest zorganizować taki moment, gdzie jesteś wypoczęty i idziesz sobie pomalować. Generalnie staram się, dbam o to, żeby tak organizować swoje życie, żeby znaleźć lukę na graffiti. Udaje mi się to i jestem z tego bardzo zadowolony. Uważam, że bardzo dobre w graffiti jest to, że jest ono kolektywne. Wchodzisz w relację z ludźmi, z innymi grafficiarzami. Ja maluję dla nich, oni malują dla mnie. Jesteśmy na tyle hermetycznym środowiskiem, że wzajemnie na siebie oddziałujemy.

N.O.: Jesteś Kingiem?

M.: Sądzę, że nikt z siebie nie powinien robić kinga. To środowisko robi z Ciebie kinga. To ich należy zapytać, czy nim jestem. Jeżeli ja uważam kogoś za kinga, to jest to dla mnie ktoś taki, kto przeszedł przez różne etapy graffiti. Kto potrafi zrobić miasto, kto potrafi zrobić srebro (w trudnym miejscu w mieście napisane Twoje litery; srebrne, duże, bomba, blockbuster), kto potrafi zrobić pociąg, kto istniał na linii, kto potrafi zrobić burnera, wildstyle, bubble style i jest dobry w różnych stylach i technikach. Ten kto przeszedł przez te wszystkie etapy dla mnie jest kingiem. Przede wszystkim ten kto szanuje innych nim jest. Toyem jest ten kto używa graffiti do tego, aby gardzić innymi ludźmi. Graffiti jest swego rodzaju narzędziem po to, aby szanować innych ludzi. Uważam, że dzięki temu, że mam graffiti, jestem lepszy dla moich dzieci, jestem lepszy w pracy. Nie mam żadnych ciśnień, napięć. Potrafię dawać im upust przez co jestem lepszym człowiekiem.

Graffiti istnieje w różnych przestrzeniach miejskich. Innymi prawami rządzi się ono na liniach kolejowych, innymi prawami rządzi się na hall of fame, innymi na mieście. Graffiti działa w świecie rzeczywistym. Jesteś – istniejesz. Graffiti jest bardzo autentyczne i prawdziwe. Trzeba działać na bieżąco, aby egzystować w tym świecie. Należy poświęcać swój czas, energię i pieniądze, a czasami nawet wolność, czy spokój ducha, żeby dalej być w grze.

Legenda:

Tag – grafficiarski podpis

Wrzut – szybko wykonane graffiti, najczęściej dwukolorowe

Prysk – graffiti

Toy – amator, początkujący graficiarz

King – znany i szanowany w środowisku graficiarz

Wypad na yard – wyjście na akcję, której celem jest malowanie pociągów

Jam – akcja, w której legalnie maluje się ściany specjalnie przeznaczone pod graffiti

Akcja/Misja – wypad w wybrane miejsce w celu zostawienia graffiti

Autor: Nikola Ostrzałek

[gr8nan-blog]

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[fromthecommsroom]

Hungry Like the Wolf 359

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by SpaceJackalope

The S1 Hephaestus crew is suffering through an awkward night, so Hera decides to learn some stuff.

Rated T for mild swearing, and partial non-sexual nudity.

Words: 3492, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Wolf 359 (Radio)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Doug Eiffel, Renée Minkowski, Alexander Hilbert

Relationships: Dominik Koudelka/Renée Minkowski, Doug Eiffel/Kate Garcia, Doug Eiffel/MOC

Additional Tags: Food, Memory, a story about awkward bonding with your coworkers and missing people on Earth, Ships appear only minorly

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[pastelgrungewrecker]

All We Do Is Dance

But they ain't got a chance They ain't got a chance I need a gun 'Cause all I do is dance

Tensions were running high on the ship- with Kup added to the roster, and the eerily silent Perceptor tagging along... Things felt off.

Until Blaster hit play.

The red comm-mech hummed to himself, making minor adjustments and checking the camera screens that showed various places on the ship. Kup and Springer sat in the central facility, sipping at their cubes. Perceptor was in the makeshift lab, puttering to and fro like a workaholic pendulum.

The rest of the unit was outside, bickering and showing off their weapons.

Blaster grinned wide.

“Welcome to Radio Cybertron.”, he snickered to himself, pulling up the music file queue and setting it to shuffle, “This is your DJ speaking; let’s feel those chill vibes, mechs.”

He clicked play.

A few moments, flickering lights and consoles lit up as the soft sound of white noise rose over the announcement system.

Mechs in each camera view paused, looking up at various point on various walls.

Then bass began thumping gently throughout the ship. Guitar, percussion- a rhythm overtook every bolt and hullplate of the spacecraft as vocals chimed and hummed out of the speakers.

Perceptor shook his helm, turning back to his work. Blurr laughed, but a pede tapped in time. Springer was grinning, leaning back in his seat as his helm bobbed in time with the song.

And Kup barked a laughed before his rust-rasped voice echoed in time with the lyrics.

Blaster slunk away from his station, creeping into the narrow halls as the music rose and bumped off every wall and through every doorway. Outside, previously bitter and snippy mechs suddenly broke out into peals of laughter- playfights broke out as they tackled each other down and wrestled in the dust like farmyard puppies.

Springer harmonized with Kup, both keeping time with stomped pedes.

Blaster let himself give in to the urge to bob and bounce down the halls- nodding exaggeratedly when he passed an open door to where Kup and Springer would. They moc saluted him, their smiles tired but relaxed.

Blaster pointed at the exit hatch before sliding out of sight; showing the officers where the party really was as the music roiled out into the outside air and Blaster continued deeper into the ship until he found his goal.

The labs.

Tapping in the keycoade in time with the music cycling through the playlist, the door hummed open to reveal the odd mech out singing in that Kimia clarion-call; a University voice wrapped around brightly dark lyrics as Perceptor’s pedes tapped over the floor in a kind of dance-walk rhythm.

The scientist froze when Blaster’s voice sounded alongside his own; managing to drop a datapad to the floor with a discordant clatter.

Blaster grinned, holding out a hand.

“C’mon mech. Bout time ya learned ta party wi’ the rest of us, yeah?”

“Your accent is atrocious when paired with the choice in musical accompaniment.”, sighed Perceptor, something almost... fond in his voice.

Blaster offered a hand and a garish smile, “C’mon.”

Perceptor sighed, taking Blaster’s hand and being tugged out of the labs as he yelped in surprise. And Blaster’s own bellow of laughter announced their approach to the exit hatch as he coaxed the scientist to dance along with him.

Blaster, being Blaster, couldn’t just WALK down the exit ramp, of course. He had to leap up onto the locked collapsible railing and slide down, sparks clipping out from under his pedes as Perceptor called for him to be careful and gave chase.

Kup’s laughter was like an old gate, creaking and familiar as Blaster bounded from the rail to the ground and Perceptor managed to trip over the crouched communications mech-

To be easily caught by Blurr.

“O-Oh my.”

Blurr cackled as Blaster stood and dusted himself off; Springer calling for the rest of the unit to fall in as trotted up the ramp to grab the side of an unmarked crate.

“Let’s bust ‘er open boys! Kup snuck this lot past the last customs crew, let’s go!”

And they hauled down the crate, popping the top like a bottlecap to show the faint glow of engex.

Blurr helped Perceptor settle back up on his pedes; winking as the scientist looked away.

Blaster moved away, sitting by Kup’s leg and feeling a gentle flick of an audial from the elder mech.

“Good job, young’n.”

Blaster grinned back at him as the sun dropped a little lower.

And the music played on.

[luminousfinn]

1) So I've noticed something happening in the sw fandom and that's people going super far into the whole "Bodhi is a cinnamon roll; too pure" and just making him not have a love interest or whatever. And I get that part of it's because the movie doesn't really explore his relationships with the Rogue crew but I'm still just :/ because fandom has always been able to write a lot about a character that was "a blank slate" and I'm just :/// because Bodhi is the most visibly brown in the film and

2) and he's erased. I feel like they'd do the same with Baze and Chirrut and try sort of do in a way by having them be background characters. I'm just kind of upset I guess? That there's a rise in fandom where they're desexualizing Bodhi and having him be in the background because he's too "pure." Either they do that or they find ways to hurt him really badly and idk if I'm overreacting/sensitive to this stuff but it's been bothering me a lot.

3) and maybe that's just because they're following the way the movie is set up. The movie very clearly has the moc propping up the white main lead and maybe fandom is just going along. Although I kind of feel like they would've done this anyhow.

Oooh boy does that “cinnamon roll” thing get me going. Every time I see it I want to go on a rant on that post, because like you I see it applied far too often to Bodhi.

As for not shipping. A year ago I might have blamed the movie mostly, that the lack of exploring Bodhi’s relationships with he others was the primary reason. But that was before Hux and before Kylux became a mastodon.

If fandom can take a character like Hux, that has absolutely zero background or personality and only interacts with his main “ship mate” for like two minutes and do what it did? Then it can do the same to Bodhi, who has so much more character already, but is still that famous blank slate that is always brought up as just being “more interesting” (god I’ve had to listen to a year’s worth of that bs).

It could, if it cared. But lets be real, we all know why Hux and Kylux became as big as they did.

I understand fully why you’re upset and me too. And I don’t understand why fandom insists on desexualizing Bodhi constantly - well, I do but I don’t. And the same with hurting him in the extreme.

I think I’ve said this once before but I’ll happily say it again. What I’m seeing happen to Bodhi right now, is a double whammy of what happened to Finn and Poe combined. Either he’s desexualized (too precious, too pure like Finn) or his pain and trauma is fetishized (like Poe’s has been and still is).

And no, I don’t think yo’re being too sensitive. This was how what happened to Finn and Poe in the fandom began, I hope this time it’s nipped in the bud and doesn’t become more than it is.

I haven’t seen as much with Chirrut and Baze, but I think that’s more to do with the crowd I have with and being picky when I enter the tags. (TFA fandom taught me survival skills well, if I did learn the very hard way.)

As for taking the movie’s lead? They totally would have done it anyway. TFA is the living, breathing proof that fandom can boost any character to absurd heights, it can give any character the story it wants it to have. If cares.

But it doesn’t care about characters of color. Which is sad, because there’s so much potential in Bodhi, Baze, Chirrut and Cassian.