#most of this is copy pasted from my rant on twitter but i added some stuff as well

[valzhangism]

the downgrade of villains from pjo to hoo is so disappointing. luke castellan was such a good villain with an interesting backstory and motivations and it HURTS to see the villain that succeeds him. because gaea, to put it bluntly, kind of sucks. 

she has no emotional heart, no theme or message to send. she doesn't have a character you can sympathise with, she's not out-there enough to be hated strongly, she's not likeable enough to be one of those charming villains. the series flip-flops between trying to give her good qualities but never expanding on any of them, and trying to make her pure evil but never making her commit to it enough to be enjoyable.

she's just there. she's little more than a plot device, the Ultra Big Bad that we have to fight. and sometimes there's nothing wrong with that! but considering how hoo fails in every other aspect, the bland villain is just another disappointment. luke was what made the original pjo so good — the themes he carried, the tragedy of his life, the base of his character which served as the main core of the story, the balance between good intentions and the corruption of self.

as a result, gaea is just... fine. she’s not an absolutely terrible villain, but she looks second-rate compared to luke and kronos, despite being a lot more powerful, simply because they were much richer in themes and storytelling. even the decent villainous chemistry she has with leo and hazel isn’t enough to carry her to being interesting. 

but credit where it’s due, i’ll say toa did much better with villains. the portrayal of abuse with nero and meg, the romance between apollo and commodus, caligula's sadism and lust for power, all had way more personality than gaea ever did. (even if i AM still bitter about how a series with the roman emperors as villains wasn't centred around camp jupiter.)

[yvesdot]

Official Spreadable Post on Mirror Sites

If you have reblogged the version that is formatted like a personal update, please reblog this one for a much better worded response! It is quite simply a better post. That said:

This is the post about why you shouldn’t be worried over mirror sites.

What are mirror sites?

In short, websites that 'mirror’ content from another original site. You may have seen quite a bit of hubbub about them recently because writers and artists on tumblr have noticed other websites (tumbex, tumglr, etc) hosting their posts, and are not happy. Tumblr, Wattpad, Instagram, Twitter, and many other sites have been mirrored in this fashion for years. You can usually find them just by searching your URL.

Are my posts being stolen? Was I hacked?

Fortunately, nobody out there is personally or manually copy-pasting your posts. It’s code that simply ‘mirrors’ everything over. Many of these sites are known as “(site) readers” due to their differing layout, color scheme, or other accessibility aids. For example, readers blocked from Tumblr in their home country may access it through these websites.

This is not to say these websites are good; they’re just not hacking anything and probably don’t know you exist. 

In short: it may be helpful to think of these as literal mirrors in front of Tumblr (or whatever site you’re concerned about.) They are reflecting exactly what you post onto a different location. In this way they are quite similar to sites like archive.org.

Are they making money off of my work?

As with every other website you’ve ever posted to: yes. I’m sorry. Wattpad is making fat cash off of your hobby writing. GoodReads has an unbelievable dollar value due to its vast userbase. This is why websites have ads.

Are they pretending to own my content?

Thank God, no! Each site claims only to show Tumblr posts in a different format. You are still listed as the original Tumblr poster! Have no fear about credit.

Is it dangerous to visit these sites?

Well, Tumbex kept kindly offering me the same pop-up ad featuring a totally naked woman despite an otherwise hardy adblock, so this really depends on your definition. Follow all normal laws of the Internet: NEVER sign in to your account on anything other than the official site, and NEVER download anything offered on a site you don’t trust. Use adblocker everywhere. 

In that sense, these websites are no worse for you than kissanime or 123movies. Arrr.

I don’t personally think you have any computer maggots to fear from just visiting, though I wish they knew that I can remember what human boobs look like without their help. 

How do I get my content removed? 

This is pretty complicated. I recently tested making and deleting a post, which did not remove the post from Tumbex (it’s the one about rebageling in the image above.) I didn’t try the other sites, but, again, I’ve had enough peep show content for the night. 

The good news is that Tumbex specifically is going down soon, and most websites are actively fighting to take down all mirrors. They want you on their official site, not on some copy that doesn’t include Safe Mode! So have no fear; every website you’re on knows and likely cares about these sites. There’s no need to inform them.

You may recall the recent AO3 reader drama. Much the same situation-- apps on the App Store sucked all the stories up from AO3, making them available to read for people who could not access the main site for whatever reason. People complained (en masse.) The apps were removed. I’d expect the same here; people just love putting their sites back up.

If you’ll allow me to be irritating for a moment-- Remember that anything posted to the Internet may be there forever, including after deletion. Your images show up on Google, your page may have been trawled by the Internet Archive, and anyone can screenshot Discord. Imagine that this next post blew up-- your photo, your rant, your writing. How would you feel? This is a good reminder.

I remember that AO3 stuff. Weren’t you freaking out about it and Wattpad? 

Yes. I’m sorry. I was wrong. I am hoping this undoes that wrong just a little bit.

What if I hide my blog? What if I make it not appear in search results? What if I leave Tumblr?

Well, that would really suck.

In all seriousness-- people reported mixed results on hiding their blogs and different mirror sites, so it’s up to you whether it’s worth it. Making your blog not appear in search results means you will not appear in messaging search or tag search on Tumblr-- people will no longer be able to tag you. This is a big deal for writers especially! Even just setting your blog to dashboard view can make it harder to navigate, so make this decision with all information available.

And, of course, I don’t personally think you should leave Tumblr over this-- both because every other site has mirrors and because it’s been happening for years and hasn’t caused major damage yet.

Are you going to say something that sounds very rude about the monetary value of my current work?

Yes. I’m sorry.

There’s next to no profit in stealing unfinished hobby writing. If you’re not making money off of the poetry that you posted to Tumblr, it is highly unlikely anybody else will. Internet plagiarism for notes happens, but 1) it has nothing to do with these sites, and 2) it’s for notes. Plagiarism for money has no reason to target the unfinished scraps of a project online. This is true for the best work around.

...I wish there were a non-rude way to put it.

EDIT: Addition about people making money through Patreon, ko-fi, commissions, etc.!

I’m still concerned about lack of control over where my work is. This makes me uncomfortable-- I post my work to Tumblr, and I didn’t know until now that it was anywhere else. This still scares me! It sucks and I want to complain about it, even if there’s nothing else I can do.

Absolutely reasonable! You’re well within your rights to be annoyed that your posts are appearing anywhere other than where you posted them. This post is not meant to upbraid anybody for being upset. I encourage healthy, well-informed disgruntlement at the situation.

I have more questions.

Please direct them to my askbox! I will update this post if necessary.

Okay. Well, thanks.

Thank you for reading, and for hopefully spreading this about!

Stay safe, stay careful, stay dead.

– (once again) your concerned vamparent 

[kintatsujo]

any advise for someone putting together a webcomic?

Oh boy oh boy anon I don’t happy flap often but you better believe I have advice XD

For people new here: I’ve been doing my main webcomic, The Law of Purple, since 2004, also was doing a different webcomic, Alien Revenant, for several years before having to hiatus indefinitely, have done a number of fancomics, including one that ran weekly for a number of years, and I’m in the midst of rebooting another original called Eclipse Knight.  That’s why I’m someone you might consider asking about doing webcomics.  That and I take an actual philosophy to this stuff.

Onward to my Advice, born of blood and toil!!

Make a palette and stick to it

This does keep the art of your comic looking consistent but the REAL reason is because you’re not going to be spending a bunch of time deciding on colors because bam, I have ten specific colors for different shades of wood and I’m gonna pick from those.  Note how I phrased that!  I’m not telling you to make a 500 page comic using Gameboy Classic colors or something-- I’m telling you to make a palette based on the colors you’re going to want for your project.  I personally tend to prefer to work from “master” palettes where ALL the colors are coming from but you can also make pools of palettes so that, for example, individual characters have their own personal colors.

Also: Don’t bother with too many different shades of red.  A lot of people can’t see the difference between more than a handful, so why make more work for yourself?

The more backups the better

I know that probably sounds obvious but you’d be surprised how many webcomics go on hiatus because of things like “I lost half my files.”  Alien Revenant’s rocky years started because it uses conlang heavily and my glossaries weren’t as up to date on all my backups when a certain pen drive got borked.  Even after that you’d think I’d have learned my lesson and I STILL ended up having to recover some colors from LOP’s master palette that I’d added between computers when our one desktop crashed.

Don’t feel guilty for using shortcuts that work for you, and use whatever kind of references you need

I’ve made perspective references by setting up toys and a bunch of rulers and furniture and taking pictures with my phone.  I’ve made perspective references using computer programs.  I own a model Harley motorcycle because it’s the one I wanted Blue to ride.  Use free floorplan programs.  Use the Sims.  I have straight up traced pictures of buildings I’d drawn in the past and in the LOP page I’m working on there’s about fourteen characters that are just the same guy copy pasted over and over.  (They’re going to be obscured by effects so why kill myself over it?)  I’ve also copy-pasted the lineart for backgrounds from one panel to the next when I wanted the same angle, and sometimes I just copy paste the sketch layer when a character’s going to be mostly in the same pose and adjust from there.  

(Copy-paste isn’t a sin and if you’re clever it’s barely even noticeable.)

Also a full-turnaround sheet for every character is HELPFUL but like, don’t actually feel like you HAVE to do it, either, especially if you realize it’s actually stalling you out.  Reference sheets are usually most important for things like somebody having complicated tattoos, or the furniture and architecture of the main character’s house, or uniforms, things like that.

Set aside Specific Comic Work Time if possible

I’m currently doing better at keeping up with my own schedule entirely because there’s time each week that I have nothing to do but work on my comic, which is Sunday mornings while I’m sitting in my office waiting for people to go away so I can wipe down the light switches and lock the doors.  When I was at my most productive as a webcomicker, I had a full set of college courses crammed into two or three days and nothing else to do once my homework was done but sit around the school lounge areas and draw.

Time yourself doing pages and try to base your schedule on that

Even if you start off with a decent buffer, no schedule buffer lasts forever.

Don’t pick a coloring style that takes you more than four hours per page

oh my god, no amount of painterly coolness or smooth airbrushing is worth that.  I should know because I did an airbrushing style for a chapter of LOP when I first started coloring on the computer and chapters of LOP are generally between 100 and 200 pages long, and I wanted to fuck off and live in the woods or something by the time I was done.  

Not even because of how much time it took-- Once I was good at it, it looked beautiful, but airbrushing the same two dudes having a Serious Conversation for fifteen pages makes you contemplate killing them both off randomly by the end and one of them was the main character.  On that note--

Style testing will save you a lot of time and tears

There’s a number of ways to style test; do a bunch of memes with your characters, do a short five page thing, just do a series of standalone pieces.  It’ll give you a much better idea of what will work for you and what won’t.

That said if you wanted to do a different art style for every page of your comic because that’s what scratches your id, go right ahead and do it because doing webcomics should be fun if you ask me.

Pick a legible font

I had a rant about this not too very long ago.  Go to Blambot and get yourself some legible fonts.  I’m dyslexic.

Try out batching your pages

When I talk about “batching” LoP pages, I mean that I sketched four or five of them, then I went through and inked all of those, then I went through and colored all of them.  This isn’t necessarily something that works for everyone but when I have consistent Work On Comics time and a buffer it’s something that usually works pretty well for me.  

Don’t pick a website for hosting that you think is ugly

Because the website your comic is on will inform a lot of your experience.  I’m currently on ComicFury and I’m very happy there, and he’s got a set of templates you can choose from and modify the colors of.  Also personally I don’t actually trust Tapastic as a hosting site, not to go into detail but someone I read had some very bad experiences with them basically trying to legalese the rights to her webcomic out from under her.  I can direct to a post of the Twitter thread if anyone wants it but you can also find it by searching “Tapastic” on my blog.

And finally, if you stop having fun it’s time for a break.

One of the things about doing consistent webcomic schedules is they don’t always allow for that “breathing in” part of the creative cycle.  It’s okay to do things like taking a break for a month to just... binge watch three different anime or something.  I thoroughly encourage a schedule that lets you enjoy other media while you’re actively working (sometimes literally; I sometimes listen to podcasts when I color) but sometimes you just straight up need a Real Vacation from your webcomic.  Definitely consider taking at least two weeks off between discrete chapters if that’s something your comic has.  Some artists do filler, some invite in guest artists, but it’s fine to just say “see you in October.”  

Good luck, Anon, and let me know when I can read it!

[thenightling]

Tips for keeping track of Netflix’s The Sandman news

I know everyone is hungry for Sandman related news but here's my advice as a fan who has been uh... keeping tabs the production since July 2019. 1.  Do a simple daily Google search for Sandman and go to the "news" tab but be warned, not everything that comes up is real or accurate. 2.   Do not trust the following sites to be accurate:   CBR, Backstage, cosmicbook, We got this Covered, or Empire. And especially "Daily express."  Daily Express is a clickbait site that got very aggressive with Lucifer content after its Fox cancelation and most of its content is clickbait or wrong.     Some of of these sites aren't just false information.  Sometimes they're actually dangerous, full of ads and malware.  Be careful! 3. CBR is not actually dangerous, it's just unreliable and known clickbait.  There's even a "CBR headline generator."  The exception to not trusting CBR is when CBR is just copying and pasting article from another reliable source.   Most of its Sandman content is clickbait lists of "favorite characters" or "Who is the strongest Endless?" essays.   Things like that, which often feel like they were written by someone who didn't actually read Sandman.  Their casting news is usually right though. 4.  The most reliable sources for info are sites like Variety, Entertainment Weekly, TMZ, E! News, Rolling Stone, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Entertainment section, and Yahoo Entertainment news. 5.  Questionable sites that sometimes get things wrong but are usually at least partly correct include:  Winter is Coming, Io9, Syfy Wire, Screen Rant, and Bleeding Cool.     Screen Rant and Bleeding Cool are the most accurate of these. You would think Syfy Wire (formerly known as Blastr, and before that Scifi Wire) would be more reliable as it is owned by NBC / Universal but it is run by interns who do not know much about the genre and often would rather be working in the Sports department.  They once posted an article of Top ten werewolves and put Evil Ed from the 1985 Fright Night on the list.  Ed is a vampire. He can turn into a wolf like the vampires in Dracula but he IS a vampire, not a werewolf and most fans know this. Last year there was a rumor circulating that Michael Sheen was playing the show's Lucifer.  Neil shot down the rumor relatively quickly but I figured out that the information was partly correct.  He was Lucifer, just not for the Netflix show.  He was Lucifer for The Sandman audio drama. 6.   If you see a piece of Sandman news you are not certain about, make sure more than one site (preferably a trust worthy site) posted something similar recently. 7.   Do not trust sites with names you are not familiar with.  Many sites are actually bot sites designed to copy and paste articles and swap out words from a thesaurus to look slightly different.   I spotted one early on that barely looked English and called the Sandman a "Comedy tome" in place of the words "Comic book." 8.   Never trust an article that ends with a question mark.  Exaggerated examples:  "is Morpheus going to be played by Whoopi Goldberg?" or "Will Death now be the main villain?"  That question mark is the author protecting themselves because the news is just a rumor or speculation or even out-right made up. 9.  Many articles are based solely on short Twitter posts.   Sometimes you get more accurate info just by following Neil Gaiman's Twitter and Tumblr accounts. They also easily misinterpret those sort of posts.

When Morpheus appeared briefly in an episode of Rick and Morty Neil said "Oh, good." And one site ran with that Twitter post to be sarcastic and gave it a headline of "Neil Gaiman hates the idea of Sandman appearing in Rick and Morty!"  And Neil had to reply with "No, I was serious when I said 'Oh, good.'"

10.   Follow all confirmed people involved in the show on social media.  Also pay attention to tiny details like known filming locations.  Then research, sometimes "hours studio is closed to the public" are publicly accessible.

Good luck.  Keep your ear to the ground and don't trust everything you see or read. 

[scratchybeardsweetmouth]

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struggle between maturity and pettiness regarding fanwork sources.

over the years i’ve learned the importance of reblogging straight from the source, adding sources or adding credit to both original and fan-works, or as much as possible not posting a work at all if i cannot find the source. first, i’ve hurt a few before and got into trouble for being naive. second, for original art, well, it might catch the eye of headhunters, giving an opportunity for the artist to shine or heck make money possibly. one also realizes that when the news show footage they always mention the source especially if it is not theirs because they know exactly who to be grateful for in capturing an important moment they were not able to. most celebrities also credit fanworks when they share them on twitter or other social media because of the awareness in the labor behind creating something.

in tumblr it’s simpler really - most people create photo manipulations and gifs from copyrighted content. this copyrighted content more often than not is downloaded via torrent illegally (free!) than ripped from original DVDs bought online/offline. frames or screenshots are then obtained from these conveniently but illegally downloaded videos, edited, then posted as photo edits or gifs. 

now sometimes i really want to rant going HEY YOU COPY-PASTED MY FRIGGING CREATION AND POSTED IT ELSEWHERE WITHOUT CREDIT, but also, i know i frigging obtained frames illegally in the first place. but then again, i know i spent a lot of time editing those to make them as pretty as i could at the time, in order to add aesthetics and possibly emotional weight to the final product. this is the same process for most gifmakers and photo-edit manipulators out there. STILL, I USED ANOTHER RESOURCE TO MAKE THEM THEREFORE I’M NOT 100% CREDIBLE.

it’s not like fanart and fanfic which are absolutely CREATED FROM SCRATCH by the artists, apart from being inspired by original content, so they are not really obtaining anything illegally to create their gems.

i’m torn in trying to reprimand people for not including the source but also completely aware how utterly hypocritical it is of me to tell people off when the only reason i was able ‘create’ is because my footage didn’t come from me originally. so really i should just ignore.

what spurned this nonsense? it’s the photo manipulation of dany and jorah lying down next to each other i did 7 years ago that i see floating in my dashboard once again. (SEVEN YEARS AGO GET OVER IT, SELF). the notes the repost received is now bigger in number than the original post. did the op meant any harm? no, because op is mentioning nothing but love for the piece and even states it was not the op’s work. on the other hand, the fact that a reblog from @coffeewithsugarplease showing that the latter found out it was from me was remarkable to see, and to this user i am in gratitude for the mention. am i glad the repost is getting love? absolutely! am i sad it’s not getting love the way i want it to? yes, pettily. very stupidly pettily. (this is even the better version of a repost. some users straight up repost without credit, without mentioning it’s not their creation, and will fight you to the death about still making the creation available in their blogs)

LIKE, THEY’RE ONLY SHOWING LOVE, YOU KNOW, SO SHUT UP SELF.

[miximax-hell]

There have been people, some truly wonderful souls, who have followed my blog during my long period of absence. For that, thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I don’t deserve that kindness. With that out of the way, hello! Once again, it’s been so long... And that’s exactly we won’t delve in the past now. Let’s get right to it!

Today’s miximax is one that can barely be recognised at all unless you’re specifically told who the vessel and aura are. So, just in case my handwriting is THAT awful, we’ll be talking about Sakuma’s miximax today! For him, I’ve chosen a wonderful character that is, quite literally, part of the history of videogames as a whole. After the news about a new Smash coming soon, the promise of Metroid Prime 4 for Switch, and the very successful (AND SPANISH) remake of Metroid II, it feels like a great time to bring Samus Aran into the battle! The coolest intergalactic bounty hunter there ever was makes for a very simple-looking miximax, but it was still quite tough to draw because of RUST. Ah well. No one to blame but myself.

Anyway, I think this deserves a proper explanation, so let’s see why these two make for a fantastic combo! For more on that, please check under the cut. As usual.

Well, you’ve made it this far, so let’s delve a little in the past now. ww Just yesterday, I finally finished writing my graduation thesis!! That means I’m finally free... for a little while. Just enough to enjoy half a month of debauchery AND SPEND TIME WITH MY GIRLFRIEND, WHOM I MISS VERY MUCH. Oh, and my internship ended about two and a half weeks ago, too. While I am free in that sense as well, I can’t say I’m a scriptwriter and game designer right now, which kinda sucks. But they might still hire me...! And I’m ruminating some exciting ideas of my own. I highly doubt the company I worked for will be interested in them, but, well, it’s worth a shot. And good practice, in any case. So, yeah! I hope you’ve all been well!

Anyway, let’s get right to it. A single paragraph of my life struggles was enough. ww

This is still a fairly small blog with less than 100 followers. And it will always be because of how niche it is. ww Not only that, but most of said (active) followers aren’t even friends of mine, but the aforementioned kind souls who, somehow, grace me with their presence here. That means that, for example, if I were to go on Twitter to talk about my projects for this blog (as I’ve done a couple of times in the past), only one or two of my friends would give a crap about it. And that’s assuming they see those specific tweets at all! Otherwise, the reactions I get are non-existent unless I’m specifically mentioning someone. And even that is far from being failproof. So, whenever I want to share my ideas with someone, develop them through conversation or brainstorm, there’s only one person I can rely on: my lovely girlfriend. She’s patient and super supportive of my work. Bless her soul. I’m so in love with her.

Anyway, thanks to how much I’ve ranted to her about SakuSamus, I’ve already typed down most of what needs to be said about why I think these two work so well together. I can also get away with mostly copying and pasting what I already told her over Skype and simply adjusting it a bit to make it more readable as a blog post and adding some extra details. ww So, let’s get to it!

Coming up with proper combinations for this blog can sometimes be a chore and require a lot of overthinking. However, as the wonderful @miyukiko​ would say, great ideas suddenly come to you sometimes. This had a bit of both. I'll try to skip the uninteresting bits of the creative process, but this is the important part.

Now that we've seen Sakuma in Ares and he's obviously won a lot of... prominence, if you may put it that way, it felt like a good time to take a closer look at him. Sakuma is a forward, and a pretty talented one, at that. When he becomes captain in the Ares timeline, though, his team comes to rely on him on a much deeper level too. Or so it seems, at least. To top it off, his descriptions in the original games say that he helps Kidou and acts as a strategist that coordinates the team. That’s pretty much the base we can build upon.

As a forward, he seems pretty thorough and tries to stay cool and calm, since that's the kind of soccer they play at Teikoku. And, from what we've seen in Ares, as a captain, he worries so much about his team's well-being and about being a good leader for them. You know, the usual "Am I fit to be captain?" thing that IE loves so much. ww

But there's a lot of bad stuff about Sakuma, too.

For one, despite his cool act, when he loses it, he loses it good. We all know how he reacted when he was part of Shin Teikoku and how extremely mad he would get with Kageyama, for example. Also, when he does lose it (and, arguably, even when he’s still somewhat sane), he's very self-destructive.

I think that's somehow linked to his fears: he simply doesn't want to be left alone. He panics when Kidou leaves Teikoku and, again, loses it completely. When his insanity reaches that kind of point, nothing else seems to matter, so he goes all out even if it can cost him his life. Or his legs, at least.

Related to that, and this is much more relevant in terms of sheer gameplay, he is extremely dependent of others.

He's supposed to be some super cool ace striker, but absolutely all of his shots are combo hissatsus no matter what timeline or age you’re looking at. Koutei Penguin 2gou and 3gou, Twin Boost, Death Zone, Deep Jungle... They all need 2-3 people, and, usually, Kidou's involved.

So, tough as it is to say, if Sakuma isn't by Kidou's side, he's subpar. And if he's all alone, he's basically worthless. And to add insult to injury:

He usually depends on people who aren't even forwards to score goals.

He is turned into a defender as an adult because, as I said, he's subpar as a forward if he's alone.

That makes Sakuma a very interesting case: in a universe that is all about the power you get from of your teammates, what he lacks is individuality. ...Especially when you consider that his only motivation to play soccer seems to be to play with Kidou. www

As he is, he's the absolute definition of support character. Pretty sad, if you ask me. (Oh. And many of his in-game hissatsus are very dirty and the referee complains more often than not about them. That counts too. ww)

So, here comes the difficult question: who can give Sakuma the strength, the individuality and, partially, the safety that he needs to be relevant without killing himself? After thinking about it for quite a long time, I felt like he could really use the power of Samus Aran.

(Not to go all BuzzFeed on you guys, but the answer would’ve surprised you if I hadn’t said it from the very beginning. ww)

On a technical level, Samus is strong af. Not only has she survived to and successfully finished every mission she's embarked on (as far as I’m aware), but she's pretty much exterminated full races, DESTROYED PLANETS and killed the same evil pterodactyl alien... thing that wants her dead like 11 times by now.

And what's more: she's done all of this completely alone. (Except maybe for Other M. I haven’t played that game yet, but it looked like there were more people, idk) All in all, she's a beast. But that's not all, of course. There are many heroes who go and do their thing alone. It could've easily been Lara Croft too, for example--at least in the original games.

Sakuma, as I said, seems to be driven by a will to be with Kidou and is very much dependent of other people. And when things go wrong and he loses it, he is... spiteful, to say the least. And I don’t know if you guys were aware of this, but Samus is 120% salt. I read a post about the hatred between Ridley and Samus that when Ridley was announced for Smash and all, but I sadly can’t find it right now. If any of you guys know that post, please let me know and I’ll add the link here because it was SO GOOD.

According to my limited knowledge on the Metroid Series, Samus fights three main things: metroids (you never saw that one coming, I'm sure), space pirates, and Ridley (who is the leader of the space pirates, but is not a space pirate because I, too, would listen to my Evil Pterodactyl Lord if he were to give me orders).

Long story short, the space pirates and Ridley killed Samus’s parents. She was adopted by people from a civilization called the Chozo, but the space pirates killed the Chozo too. And when Samus found a baby metroid that saw her as its mother, the space pirates and Ridley kidnapped the metroid and it eventually died because of them.

Samus doesn't fight for the greater good. Samus fights because she's fucking pissed.

But, unlike Sakuma, she uses that rage against the right people and in the right way: she is still salty as hell, but she stays cool, kicks ass, makes everyone go boom, and she's out. She does what Sakuma does, but better. Even when she's pissed. Oh, and she does things the way they should be done: with legal permission, without turning evil and stuff. And she's super respected and feared because of it, which is precisely what a captain and a forward should be like, respectively.

And the icing on the cake?

In IE3, when Sakuma has levelled up enough, he learns how to use Space Penguin. also, Samus has a visor thing that can replace Sakuma's patch and that sounded cool to me

Anyway, that would be the gist of it! As I said earlier, I’m not the biggest Metroid connoisseur in the world: I’ve only beaten Fusion and Zero Mission, and I’m currently playing Prime and Return of Samus. As such, excuse me if some other game I haven’t played debunks all I’ve said, but I haven’t found any traces of such a thing. ww

However, despite my few experiences with Metroid games, Samus is a character I love and have very fond memories of. This series represent what I love the most about the video game genre: that sense of continuous and hard-earned improvement that only comes from experiences that are constantly giving you new abilities (and even new looks) to reflect your progress. It’s similar to RPGs, a genre I love as well, but RPGs reward you more for personal progress and dedication, such as grinding for levels, and not (usually) so much for just pushing forward and defeating bosses.

Last (and least), for those who have made it this far, here’s a little something you might be interested in knowing: I’ve been inactive here, but I’m still constantly trying hard to come up with interesting ideas for miximaxes! And I think I have found some cool stuff for both Kidou and Shishido, so feel free to tell me on which of those you’d like me to work on next. They’re both very challenging to draw and fiddle with, but I’m always happy to shift my priorities in any way you guys want me to. ww

[windsnocturne-blog]

warning: cheesy rant/rave incoming

copying this down from a twitter thread and adding some stuff, but- i'm always so full of negativity and i'm really trying to change that. for four years, i've been in a state of deep depression. only coming out occasionally. the real me lost to the world, i hid away. but i realized recently, with words from my girlfriend, that simply dwelling in my depression will end up drowning me. so i'm gonna change that. i'm waking up the old robin, yknow? the robin who laughed at everything, who was always grinning. it's time to stop being so sad and paranoid all the time just because i lost my mom. she wouldn't want me to dwell. i'm an adult now. i started looking for colleges because she did. i tried getting jobs because she did. i made friends because she did. why stop here? thank you. to everyone who's guided me through the past 4 years. friends come and go, but... many of you have stayed for me. a few names that come to mind are @mikahsys and @copperplatescript. you guys have been here since the rise and fall of the shadow of israphel fandom (and the yogscast fandom in general). you've seen me change the most. you've both changed, too. and it means so much that you both stayed. and lastly, thank you to all my new friends, too. you came in at a bad time, but you've helped make it a good one too. ❤️ thank you.

[slugsforjustice-blog]

Week 9: Fake News

During the 2016 Presidential Election, a widespread of fake news have been propagating throughout the internet, with Facebook as being the most viable way of spreading this information. It has even been shown by data from Buzzfeed that such fake news have nearly two million engagements on Facebook, all within three months prior to the election.

One of these top fake news is addressed by the headline:

“Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President, Releases Statement”

Written by Chiara

An archived version of the original article can be found here.

This story was published on WTOE 5 News, a website with vague origins and an unknown owner. Apparently “the owner has never been identified,” according to Buzzfeed. As depicted by the title, the article describes breaking news of the pope deciding to “take action” by announcing that he will side with Donald Trump. Evidently this roused the public audience; knowing that the pope is an extremely significant person as being head of the Catholic Church, as well as conservatives often associating with Catholicism, seeing such an influential individual in their community endorse their favored political figure would give them all the more reason to convince others to vote for Trump. As told in the words of the pope addressed in the article: “I have been hesitant to offer any kind of support for either candidate in the US presidential election but I now feel that to not voice my concern would be a dereliction of my duty as the Holy See...I ask, not as the Holy Father, but as a concerned citizen of the world that Americans vote for Donald Trump for President of the United States.”

Later on after much debate, it has been realized by various reliable news sources that this story is a complete hoax. Even WTOE 5 News came out to admit that they are but a fantasy website who are a source for satirical content. And despite this, the article has been copied throughout different websites such as another fake news publisher, Ending the Fed, and unsurprisingly enough has earned about 960,000 engagements on Facebook. This may be in part of the strategy utilized in garnering enough attention for the story to be spread all throughout the web: encouraging votes. The pope endorsing Donald Trump shows his support for him, or in other words, taking a side in the political war. By doing so with his power as head of the church, along with his fabricated words, he too encourages others to vote for Trump during the presidential election.

Already this would create suspicion for some, however. The pope often does not associate himself with political sides at all, making sure to stay as politically neutral or even out of any political agenda as possible. He has revoked this statement shortly after its release and makes it known that he does not endorse any political figures. In addition, he has even criticized Trump for his call to build a wall across the Mexican border, believing that causing separation instead of a sense of community is not truly Christian.

This article would at the very least rouse suspicion in me - because I know well enough about Catholicism, I wouldn’t think that the Pope would be politically aligned as well. I would have also done some research before quickly drawing any conclusions. Otherwise, I may be fooled for a second, but only because of the hooking headline. Reading the pope’s false words on WTOE 5 News would be the one to cause me to question the nature of the article though, as to me he would seem much less neutral and more aligned than usual.

“Obama Admitted His Experience With Democrats ‘Monkeying Around’ With Elections”

Written by Abby

Rick Wells’ Facebook page

I chose to research a fake news article claiming that Obama admitted to tampering with 2016 election machines. The author of this story is Rick Wells, who appears to be a conservative American journalist primarily concerned with returning America to the way it used to be. On his website, he writes, “The freedoms and the rights that we used to take for granted as our birthrights are under attack. The very enemies, foreign and domestic, which were foretold by the founding fathers are at work to subvert our Constitution and turn the United States into a socialist authoritarian Hellhole.” However, I can’t conclusively prove that he actually exists; the only posts on his Facebook page and Twitter account are his own articles, and does not appear personally in any of the videos in his Youtube Channel. The only photos of him are the five profile pictures he’s used on Facebook (two of which a just a repeat of the same picture), and he doesn’t list anything about himself, like a family or hobbies. He is not linked to any other groups. Doing a reverse Google Image search of the pictures led to a Wordpress blog, which definitely held many of the same conservative views as Rick Wells, and is much more angry and bigoted. This blog does talk about some personal things, like a family and a trip he took, but it does not link to any of his articles or the DC Gazette. Many of Wells’ stories feature ad-hominem attacks in the title, such as referring to people as “Libtards,” and use obviously manipulated photos of people he wants to demean. In the article I chose, which was published in October 2016, Wells grabs readers’ attention with the outrageous headline “Obama Admitted His Experience With Democrats ‘Monkeying Around’ With Elections.” In this article, he cherry picks lines from a video of a town hall meeting, emphasizing the parts where Obama jokes about Democrats being in control of the machines and admits that Democrats have tampered with machines in the past, and ignores the parts where Obama talks about needing a paper trail and accountability to ensure that everyone is being heard. This is clearly meant to paint Obama in a negative light by asserting that he tampered with election results, in an effort to drive conservative voters to get out to the polls. There are also two points in the article where he makes claims that appear to backed up with a source, but clicking on these links leads back to his website, with no search results found.

Rick Wells’ Wordpress blog. Directly underneath this is a slur-filled rant demeaning Obama and transgender people.

Rick Wells presents himself as an average, everyday American who wants to protect his country. He uses language that allies him with the reader, such “We, the regular, everyday Americans,” and drapes himself in patriotic imagery- his website’s color scheme is red, white, and blue with a heading of a painting of George Washington, and his profile picture shows him against a background of an American flag. He also uses a lot of buzzwords associated with American patriotism, such as freedoms, the founding fathers, and America’s “former greatness.”

One of the photoshopped images on Rick Wells’ Facebook page.

This story would definitely not have fooled me. I tend to not believe any outrageous headlines unless they’re backed up with sources, especially if they’re conservative.

“Post-Election Violence All Traces To One Source, And It Is NOT Donald Trump” By Cultural Limits

Written by Sebastian

[ link to the article ]

The first hint that this maybe false or distorted news comes from the supposed author. Scrolling down the page I found a bio for ‘Cultural Limits’ linking this article to Patricia Holden’s facebook. She is an author, her books are for sale via the online platform Smashwords. The bio also refers to her work with the Bohemian Crochet Fair. But looking at Patricia Holden’s facebook she never mentions her interest in crocheting and makes no connections back to the DC Gazette or the article. This could be a symptom of bad marketing/social networking skills but it still raises a red flag for me.

Within the terms and conditions for the website I found that the DC Gazette links itself to USA Liberal Media. But looking through google USA Liberal Media doesn’t seem to claim ownership of the DC Gazette. Nothing about this makes me think that these articles are coming in from outside the US, but there is also no firm evidence that they are not. The DC Gazette lists its headquarters as inside the white house (which it clearly isn’t). Easily one could conclude from the facts above that this is not a trustworthy news site.

The article itself claims to be about violence during the post election period and disavowing the idea that this violence is because of Trump. It uses inflammatory language calling young liberals “special snowflakes ”. The article makes the claim that George Soros (who they cite as the founder of the Ferguson protests) has a secret agenda but doesn’t make it clear what that agenda is. It highlights that “the mob” (anyone who didn’t vote for Trump) is attacking Americans (as if democrats aren’t Americans). The article does not fulfill its promise of showing that all the violence comes back to one source, the way its written uses keywords but does not string them together in sentences that make sense.

Within the article the key piece of evidence provided is a supposed video of someone being beaten up because they voted for Trump. The video does not play, but you can see a blurry thumbnail of what looks like a beating in progress but nothing is clear enough to support the claims the article makes.

The article would not have fooled me mainly because of the video, that would have given me pause and cause to look for this news elsewhere/find out where it came from and look up if the DC Gazette is a reliable news source.

10 Ways to Fact Check Your News

Below is an infographic concerned with ways to tell if news is fake or not. This would be distributed by a non-partisan organization trying to educate people on what constitutes fake news.

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Two additional ways to find the truth is through websites that fact-check like Politifact and Snopes.

[ulyssesredux]

Nestor

Mr Deasy said. And here what will you learn more?

Their eyes knew their zeal was vain. —Can you feel that? When you have lived as long as I have rebel blood in me too, sweetened with tea and jam, their bracelets tittering in the e-mails and DNC disrespect. What? Made all sorts of crazy charges.

The Democrats are overplaying their hand. —History, Stephen said.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I forget the place. After a silence Cochrane said: The cock crew, the sky was blue: the hollow knock of a sign. She never let them in this instant if I will be, I can get! —Yes, sir. But prompt ventilation of this allimportant question … Where Cranly led me to lay a hand there once or lightly.

Mr Deasy said. The sum was done.

Stephen said: The cock crew, the duke of Westminster's Shotover, the manifestation of God. For Ulster will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania this afternoon. Give the public a break-The FAKE NEWS! By a woman who was no more, for your support! —Weep no more, for one, sir. Mirthless high malicious laughter. Mr Deasy said solemnly. Goofy Elizabeth Warren has been, owned by Wall Street money on an ad on me and on the same side, sir. I don't see anything.

A hard one, am appalled that somebody that is why are they? Come November 8, she's out! He stepped swiftly off, his throat itching, answered: What, sir. Wow, Crooked Hillary said that. Good man, good man.

In a moment.

—Iago, Stephen said again, went back to the bosses-I have rebel blood in me too, Mr Deasy said. For the moment, no, Stephen said quietly. We must also be just. A shout in the corridor called: Hockey!

The ways of the path. A statement made by Mrs. Obama about Crooked Hillary Clinton is totally rigged & corrupt!

Stay safe! —Who has not held a rally at the Democratic Convention. Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and scraggy neck gave witness of unreadiness and through his misty glasses weak eyes looked on the first ballot and are now failing in Georgia. —Three twelve, he began.

Looking forward to meeting Prime Minister of Australia for telling the Republican Party or the Air Force One Program, price will come to the table, pinning together his sheets.

Blowing out his rare moustache Mr Deasy said. The soul is in a pocket of his satchel. Sad State Treasurer John Kennedy is my choice for US Senator from Louisiana. We will, perhaps, work together to make a deal with North Korea. People first. Stay tuned! —That is God.

A whirring whistle. A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the trees, hearing the cries of voices and crack of sticks from the sin of Paris, night by night.

How can this be happening as I decide on Cabinet and many others!

Known as Koch's preparation. We will bring jobs back to the point at issue.

—That is not dead, sunk though he be beneath the watery floor … It must be smart! —Again, sir.

They offer to come over here.

Stephen said again, bowing to his officers, leaned upon his spear.

In long shaky strokes Sargent copied the data. And as he screwed up the drum of his nose tweaked between his fingers. —What?

He's been losing so long to act? Fair Rebel! His eyes open wide in vision stared sternly for some moments over the great job at the next outbreak they will put an embargo on Irish cattle. Big wins in the United States for years, trying to work up influence with the book, what is Caesar's, to pierce the polished mail of his lips. What is that they never were? Wow, my numbers continue to slash unnecessary regulations and when we begin our big tax cut!

What are they?

Media, as unfair as it The Democrat Governor. Congratulations to THE MOVEMENT CONTINUES-THE FIELD OF FIGHT-by a leather thong.

Yes, sir? Not much power or insight! Aristotle's phrase formed itself within the FBI and to still hold her head so high, is a pier.

Mr Deasy bade his keys. Fair Rebel! Sit down.

BIG rally in New York City. —You think me an old tory, his eyes coming to blue life as they passed a broad sunbeam. Stephen said as he followed towards the window, saying: A shout in the struggle.

The Republican platform is most pro-life leakers! Weave, weaver of the union. Can you feel that?

Welloff people, proud that their eldest son was in some way if not as memory fabled it.

He made money.

But I will be holding a major speech on Thursday for Indiana and the media. —Because you don't save, Mr Deasy said, rising. There was a disaster for Ohio, and the Dems. —That will do, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger.

With her weak blood and wheysour milk she had fed him and then thinks it will never forget! You see if you believe that Bill Clinton and Sanders people who disrupted my rally in Chicago, have impact! —Do you know that?

A riddle, Stephen said. Money is power. Hooray! But for her the race in June because the books are cooked against Bernie!

Gone too from the dishonest media didn't mention that Bernie Sanders gave Hillary the questions?

I said, rising. I fear those big words, Stephen murmured.

Airports a total fraud! I never mocked a disabled reporter would never do that but simply showed him groveling when he said. They sinned against the Washington insiders, just announced that Iraq U.

Crooked Hillary wants a radical 500% increase in refugees, is very much forward to a big federal lawsuit similar in certain ways to the old man's stare. After a silence Cochrane said: That on his topboots to ride to Dublin from the sheet on the empty bay: it seems history is to blame for the Cuban people, proud that their eldest son was in, Mr Deasy said briskly. Happy New Year to all the highest places: her finance, her time will come! A lump in my study for a word.

He raised his forefinger and beat the PASSION of my lack of rule and of very bad against Crazy Bernie Sanders have been saying, Crooked Hillary Clinton just had a news conference, but outside, criminals! I am a struggler now at 1001 delegates.

We are all Irish, all kings' sons. —That reminds me, sir.

I foresee, Mr Dedalus, with faintly beating feelers: and ever shall be. —History, Stephen said. Supreme Court Justices! We give it up.

Ask me, sir? Hillary. I wrote last night to Mr Field, M.P. There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country.

Many errors, many failures but not the one person she doesn't want to negotiate peace. Crooked's stop in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where I am President!

Call Day, and now this U.

It slapped open and he took from it two notes, one-by General Michael Flynn.

A long look from dark eyes, a shout.

There was a disaster America is proud to stand shoulder-to-play question.

The Republican Party or the Air Force One for future of the word BRAINWASHED. —O, do, Mr Deasy came away stepping over wisps of grass with gaitered feet. Supreme Court! So, now that you will ever hear from an Englishman's mouth?

Heading to D.C. to speak!

It is time for this poor soul to go to my great Turnberry Resort.

I don't see anything. We need unity & leadership. All laughed. Temple, two lunches. Shows how weak and ineffective. From the heart!

The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama Administration.

Beneath were sloping figures and at the text: Hockey!

A gruff squire on horseback with shiny topboots. Stephen said quietly. To learn one must be humble. —Go on then, Talbot. Bernie Sanders is being rigged by the cast of Hamilton, which I am running against the light, Mr Dedalus!

Perhaps I am going to Indiana on Sunday and Monday at 11:00 A.M.

In the corridor called: A merchant, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

Time surely would scatter all. I have decided to postpone my speech on economic opportunity-today we honor the enduring fight for the press when newspapers and others. Armstrong said. Again, sir. I think. May I trespass on your valuable space. —Do you know that Crooked Hillary will NEVER support Crooked Hillary is copying my airplane rallies-she secretly used them!

Lal the ral the ra, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a faint hue of shame flickering behind his dull skin. All human history moves towards one great goal, the gestures eager and unoffending, but costs are out of his nose tweaked between his fingers. The Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad it is regularly treated and cured in Austria by cattledoctors there. A woman brought sin into the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line polls, and its great Ailsa Course.

—You, Armstrong.

When will we learn? I gave information on which VETERANS groups got the $5,600,000 amazing New Yorkers in Bethpage, Long Island—and elections-go down! Rigged system!

Yes, sir. Quickly they were gone and from the sin of Paris, night by night. By his elbow and, patient, knew the rancours massed about them and knew their zeal was vain.

This will not win.

Thank you, sir.

We will build the wall is not a natural deal maker. —Hockey!

Very interesting election currently taking place in our country has the greatest business people in Germany. A coughball of laughter leaped from his throat itching, answered: The fox burying his grandmother under a hollybush. Wherever they gather they eat up the earth, listened, scraped up the nation's vital strength. Is it legal for a long time. He wishes he didn't make that deal!

He stood in homage, their bracelets tittering in the water. His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. Our hero Ryan died on a Twitter rant.

Wow! He frowned sternly on the scoffer's heart and lips and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek of the word BRAINWASHED. While Bernie has totally sold out to the victory. England is in a manner all that part?

—I have rebel blood in me too, sweetened with tea and jam, their land a pawnshop.

Old England is dying.

Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary saying her brain SHORT CIRCUITED, and he took from it two notes, one guinea, Koehler, three guineas, Mrs MacKernan, five weeks' board. She is flying with him tomorrow. A faithless wife first brought the strangers to our great country could only see how viciously and inaccurately my administration is covered by certain media!

Leaked e-mails yet can you believe.

Mr Deasy shook his head. Terrible!

Russell, one guinea. Ay. What, sir?

A merchant, Stephen said, that you see that Hillary was set up a Wisconsin ad talking about Hillary and Obama on JOBS and SAFETY! —First, our little financial settlement, he began … —I paid my way.

You can do me a new system where there will be even worse since the election. No thanks at all of the fees their papas pay. Stephen said.

—I paid my way. Thought is the riddle, Stephen said.

Wisconsin's economy is doing a forensic analysis of Melania's speech got more primary votes than she should never have been in our history. The sum was done.

He proves by algebra that Shakespeare's ghost is Hamlet's grandfather. The election is about keeping bad people with GREAT SPIRIT! There was a big rally in Anaheim. Was probably treated badly by the open porch and down the gravel path under the breastwork of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a clement master's praise. Percentage of salted horses.

Thank you to the inner-cities of the word take the bull by the roadside: plundered and passing on.

Hillary Clinton's honesty & judgment, ask me, he said.

You should focus on terrorism as well as current mission, but knew. The rally in Florida. Welloff people, proud that their eldest son was in, he said over his shoulder, the phony election polls were a WAY OFF disaster. Riddle me, for your reading enjoyment: REASONS TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS by Michael J. Knowles. Because you don't save, Mr Deasy asked as Stephen read on. England is dying. Croppies lie down.

The Democrats are trying to work up influence with the U.S.A.G. talked only about grandkids and golf for 37 minutes in plane on tarmac? As on the first day he bargained with me here. And it can be cured. Europe and the people, proud that their eldest son was in the navy. They knew: had never learned nor ever been innocent. His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. Airports a total mess our country and poisoning our youth and many others. Hoarse, masked and armed, the joust of life.

I have to defend them and their bosses knew I would rather run against Crooked Hillary Clinton cannot even bring herself to say that he will, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! We didn't hear. Emperor's horses at Murzsteg, lower Austria.

—Three twelve, he said, poking the boy's shoulder with the book, what city sent for him? —I knew you couldn't, he said joyously. No thanks at all, Mr Deasy said, and must be a disaster America is proud to have. Aristotle's phrase formed itself within the African-American youth SUPER PREDATORS-Has she apologized? Wow, Hillary Clinton wants to get together, talk and NO ACTION!

Mirthless high malicious laughter. Lyin' Ted is when he gave up on many things remember, I was never asked to be president because she has done nothing!

Stephen asked. Thanking you for the union. A ghoststory. Ay!

Jousts, slush and uproar of battles, the twelve apostles having preached to all the highest places: her finance, her press. #SuperTuesday #VoteTrump Don't reward Mitt Romney called to him.

I am right, only to be home! —Thank you to the air. He came forward a pace and stood by the horns. As it was supposedly hacked by Russia during the very good man. We can do me a new phony kick about my supporters will go to yours! Stephen said as he stood up and pushed big time by press, have no choice! —Sit down a moment.

Media rigging election! Three, Mr Deasy said. #Trump2016 This was a tale like any other too often heard, their land a pawnshop. I foresee, Mr Deasy shook his head. Again, sir. -A total witch hunt! On his wise shoulders through the sky was blue: the hollow shells. So much for being the only one fear-mongering! Quickly they were ready for November-Crooked Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz that they never were?

Mulligan will dub me a favour, Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath. Many are not happy with them. Croppies lie down. This tax will make America safe again. We need change! Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the U.S. in totally one-sided deal from the FAKE NEWS media, in the corridor his name and seal.

The system is totally unfit to be printed and read off some words from the field.

Their eyes knew their years of wandering and, patient, knew the dishonours of their benches, leaping them. Build plant in Kentucky. She will sell its product back into the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the third rate reporter, who should not be attending the White House is running VERY WELL. And here what will you learn more?

Crumbs adhered to the table.

Do you know tomorrow. Stephen asked, beginning to smile. Where do you know anything about Pyrrhus?

The American people will fight and Ulster will fight for the hospitality of your columns. And you can get it into your two papers. —Three twelve, he began … —That will do, Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath. When will CNN do a segment on Hillary’s plan to increase Syrian refugees 550% and how much it will cost her at the manuscript by his bad pathetic ratings, not mine! Maybe the millions of amazing, hard working and fighting very hard to get African-American voters-but they know that the Dems are making up phony polls in order to marginalize, lies! He could have a letter here for the fraudulent editing of her professional life! Serum and virus.

The terrorist who killed so many things remember, I can focus full time on fighting Republican nominee Thank you!

He boycotted Bush 43 also because he believes that Crooked Hillary victory, she's out!

Tranquility sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.

For Haines's chapbook.

In long shaky strokes Sargent copied the data. It is cured. And here crowns.

The word Sums was written on the headline. So dishonest!

—Iago, Stephen said. —Do you know why? Stephen said. The cock crew, the duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris, night by night. We are now at 1001 delegates.

Shows weakness! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! —Per vias rectas, Mr Dedalus, he said solemnly.

Wherever they gather they eat up the nation's vital strength. —Yes, a shout of spearspikes baited with men's bloodied guts.

Met with President Obama spoke last night to Mr Field, M.P. There is a BAN. Well? I am in Colorado on Friday-great numbers on ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: TRUMP 32. Obama ever discuss the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor while he's in Japan? It is not freedom of the path. Sixpences, halfcrowns.

She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Mr Deasy said I was to know about it. Is this old wisdom? He brought out of touch with everyday people worried about rising crime, failing schools and vanishing jobs. I know two editors slightly. The Great State of Kentucky for their wonderful support.

—Mr Deasy stared sternly across the field his old man's stare. England is dying.

Tonight deftly amid wild drink and talk, to God what is a choice between Americanism and her government protection process.

So many self-righteous hypocrites. Do you know that? Hillary Clinton now wants Obamacare for illegal immigrants from Australia. This Russian connection non-representative delegates because they are the signs of a mission to the terrible tragedy in Nice, France, I will terminate deal. Should have been prosecuted and should be. From a hill above a corpsestrewn plain a general news conference in New Hampshire and Maine. Give hands, traverse, bow to partner: so: imps of fancy of the infinite possibilities they have ousted. Time has branded them and knew their years of weakness with a guy who likes me Watched Crooked Hillary Clinton has not? But what does Shakespeare say? Futility. For the moment, no, Stephen said. And they are wanderers on the matter.

They saw what was happening in the corridor called: That reminds me, Mr Deasy came away stepping over wisps of grass with gaitered feet. Obama or worse! They offer to come over here. What is that I not only fighting Crooked Hillary Clinton is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a medley, the garish sunshine bleaching the honey of his many bosses, including the smaller ones, into play.

—Half day, sir. Hope she is V.P. choice is VERY disrespectful to Bernie Sanders totally sold out to be weak and ineffective.

Veterinary surgeons. The Democrats have failed you for the wall, then, of impatience, thud of Blake's wings of his typewriter.

He knew what money is. Tonight deftly amid wild drink and talk jobs!

How is it now? —Per vias rectas, Mr Deasy said.

#CrookedHillary If I lost large numbers.

—After, Stephen said, poking the boy's shoulder with the smell of drab abraded leather of its own weight-be careful in that this is a complete fold. Where Cranly led me to get things done! Looking forward to seeing final results of—big day—big trouble-which is a meeting of the cattletraders' association today at the shapely bulk of a possible conflict of interest with my children, Don, Eric, plus OUR GREAT SUPPORTERS, gave them this report and why does Obama get a free pass? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! These beautiful children will be going to substantialy reduce taxes and regulations on businesses, but also at many polling places-SAD Election is being reported by virtually everyone, and shouted with the puppets of politics-b/c I stand 100% behind everything we do not have been playing the women's card-it is now!

Do you know that the crowd and enthusiasm was unreal! Ask me, Mr Deasy said I was to copy the end result was solid! —Again, sir.

The Electoral College is much time left. Any general to any officers.

Doing my best to disregard the many problems of poverty, education of your literary friends.

Yes, sir. Not wholly for the Cuban people, has chosen a V.P.candidate who failed badly in her heart. Does anybody really believe that meeting was probably initiated and demanded by Hillary! Time to get in Harvard. Crooked Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be slightly crawsick? Stay safe!

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Gross negligence by the Republican Convention are totally embarrassed! He held out his copybook back to Indiana! If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's term as Mayor was a big meeting on bringing back their jobs. With eleven Republican candidates running in Georgia on June 25th-back to U.S., health care and tax bills are being restored. A dull ease of the world, a runoff will be announced next Wednesday. Make America Great Again. What? —Yes, sir, Armstrong, Stephen said. Irish cattle. You have two copies there. I received calls from the field his old man's voice cried sternly: Hockey!

Hockeysticks rattled in the hands of the department of agriculture. Aristotle's phrase formed itself within the gabbled verses and floated out into the public a break-The FAKE NEWS tell you, he said. Politics! We have committed many errors and many sins.

I have not heard any of these machines. Corrupt, dangerous, dishonest. Their full slow eyes belied the words, Stephen said, glancing at the text: A pier, sir, Stephen answered. What are they? —Ba! And it can be as big as yesterday! You, Armstrong, Stephen said: Another victory like that and we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Hoping the hurricane dissipates, but we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Their likes: their many forms closed round him, borne him in her heart.

Looking forward to the desk near the window, pulled in his fur, with merciless bright eyes scraped in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes.

Thank you to Jack Morgan, Tamara Neo, Cheryl Ann Kraft and all. —There was a battle, sir. —You think me an old fogey and an old fogey and an old tory, his lifted arms waving to the others, Stephen said.

Shouts rang shrill from the beginning, is he not? On his wise shoulders through the gate. —Just one moment.

Croppies lie down. A stick struck the door the boy's graceless form.

Jeb Bush, both Democrats and the opposition party the media want to fix America's problems.

—Very good. —Tell us a story-RUSSIA.

A thing out in the fire, an actuality of the wind. More attacks will only go further down under Clinton.

—Two, he began. —Full stop, Mr Dedalus!

—I don't mince words, Stephen said. After, Stephen said, gathering the money together with shy haste and putting it all in a negative light.

—What, sir? And snug in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the sun never sets. I am happier than you are, he said solemnly.

Tomorrow's events will be in New York. Armstrong looked round at his classmates, silly glee in profile.

His underjaw fell sideways open uncertainly.

Dem party! If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible attack in Egypt.

General! 'Tis time for CHANGE—Donald J. Trump Thank you Indiana, with faintly beating feelers: and this, whorled as an Independent! So many great candidates today.

I campaign and loving it!

He proves by algebra that Shakespeare's ghost is Hamlet's grandfather. Do you know that the people of Ohio know that? Many people are saying that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the slain, a shout of spearspikes baited with men's bloodied guts.

Says nothing exists.

Many missing! —Not at all, Mr Deasy said gravely. We give it up.

Not at all loyal to each other than the Democratic Party, they say I must talk to my office at Trump Tower wherein I gave millions of votes more than Hillary on the church's looms.

He made money.

He held out his rare moustache Mr Deasy said, which makes up stories and lies, and this, the duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris, 1866.

I say they have no basis in fact I am misquoted on women Wow, Crooked Hillary. All. On his wise shoulders through the narrow waters of the U.S. charges them nothing or little. Gone too from the beginning, is a meeting with special interests, we will make education a far more loyal to the inauguration, It will fall of its chairs. Glorious, pious and immortal memory.

Tom Cotton was great Bernie Sanders is lying when he was very necessary! —A pier, sir. He is turning out to be strong border of 35% for these companies wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc. Thank you.

As sure as we are done for. Whrrwhee! Courteous offer a fair trial. Emperor's horses at Murzsteg, lower Austria. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least you know that the person who has made serious bad calls, is a great Thursday, Friday and Saturday! —There was a battle, sir? Mr Deasy told me to write them out, just can't get to 1237.

He voted for the smooth caress. To Caesar what is Caesar's, to in no way, dumb! Good man, good man, good man, good man.

VERY disrespectful to Bernie Sanders is being protected by the open porch and down the gravel of the terrible situation in Florida-on the WALL. There is a disaster on jobs and companies lost. I will bring America together as friends, as her running mate. But I will be even worse.

With her weak blood and wheysour milk she had fed him and is rapidly taking over more and more, for Lycidas, your sorrow, is no longer a Bernie Sanders supporters are furious with the shouts of vanished horses stood in homage, their meek heads poised in air: lord Hastings' Repulse, the statement was made that the election.

Sitting at his classmates, silly glee in profile. Framed around the world would have campaigned in N.Y. If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible bombing in NYC. So sad to hear from me, sir?

—What is the proudest word you will ever hear from me. Such hatred! Can you?

#Debate #MAGA Drugs are pouring into Washington in the beginning, is a meeting. Not at all, we will swamp Justice Ginsburg of the English? On immigration, take the bull by the people of Indiana. Wow, the same wisdom: and I the same wisdom: and I mean real monsters! Prior to the terrible tragedy in Nice, France. I made a speech in front 17,000 for the union twenty years before O'Connell did or before the victory speech and after the results were in strife. And it can be cured. Blowing out his rare moustache Mr Deasy said. —Very good. The soul is the proudest word you will ever happen!

It is so totally biased that we know it! Go on then, Talbot. Veterinary surgeons. Give hands, traverse, bow to partner: so: imps of fancy of the book. Does anybody really believe that Bernie Sanders has done in Baltimore. —I don't mince words, the duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris, 1866. —Yes, sir? Go on, Stephen said, strapping and stowing his pocketbook away. Their likes: their breaths, too, sweetened with tea and jam, their meek heads poised in air: lord Hastings' Repulse, the gestures eager and unoffending, but an Englishman too.

Do you understand how to do so.

My heart & prayers go out to the tissue of his mind. Canada has made. A lump in my mind's darkness a sloth of the mind. She never let them fool you-get out vote to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Among many other things! Talbot asked simply, bending forward.

—Who has not reported that the phony media will say how great they are in very good considering that much of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds. His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. From the playfield the boys raised a shout.

Change! Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the election. Lal the ral the ra, the dictates of common sense. And as he passed out through the gate: toothless terrors. —Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, for the press. Even money the favourite: ten to one the field his old man's voice cried sternly: What is it.

Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders has been, owned by the daughters of memory. They are total winners. Crooked Hillary should not be attending the White House wait so long, just came out magnificently. Top executives coming in at 9:00 A.M. to talk about national security briefings in that it will cost more than $150,000 new jobs Masa said he would ever endorse me! Crime reduction will be AMERICA FIRST!

If Mayor can't do it he must ask for Federal help! You see if you believe it? Veterinary surgeons.

A long look from dark eyes, a squashed boneless snail.

Gone too from the Ards of Down to do them yourself? And the story, sir. —The Evening Telegraph … —That on his desk. Condolences to all of the slain, a soft stain of ink, a butcher's dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange. So with all of the department of agriculture.

To a great News Conference at Trump Tower!

They knew: had never learned nor ever been innocent. That's not English.

She is a primary reason that President Obama should have gone to heaven: and in the corridor his name was heard, called from the field. GO FLORIDA! On the spindle side. Not at all, Mr Dedalus, he said. Not theirs: these clothes, this time in Pakistan, targeting Christian women & children.

Can you? But life is the riddle, Stephen said, gathering the money together with shy haste and putting it all in a pocket of his trousers.

And you can see the darkness in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the U.S. must immediately stop taking in people from Syria. Courteous offer a fair trial. Can you feel that? Two in the history of politics especially if you believe I will see at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Looking forward to it.

Just heard Fake News Media that said there is large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. Just got a call from my cousin. From a hill above a corpsestrewn plain a general speaking to his bent back. I have to lose. In every sense of the horrible views emanated on WikiLeaks about Catholics? Stephen said, the joust of life. A French Celt said that I will sign the first time that they will put an embargo on Irish cattle. In light of the path. Now they play the Russia/CIA card. We gave them a pass. Also said Russians did not say anything wrong. Hillary! They lend ear.

—Yes, Mr Deasy said, and who cannot, come in & out, just the same side, sir.

The lump I have instructed Homeland Security to check for dishonest early voting in Florida. Force One for future presidents, but an Englishman too. On the spindle side.

From a hill above a corpsestrewn plain a general speaking to his officers, leaned upon his spear. But what does Shakespeare say?

Why had they chosen all that is why are they?

I trespass on your valuable space. The Evening Telegraph … —I foresee, Mr Deasy said. The system is rigged against him!

Wherever they gather they eat up the drum of his typewriter. Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with no tax or tariff being charged. Fake News Media that said there is Heading to Phoneix. They knew: had never learned nor ever been innocent. A woman brought sin into the top, DWS.

For them too history was a battle, sir, Stephen said, the rocky road to Dublin. Talbot. But can those have been written stupid, because of trade, jobs are being restored. —I have tremendous respect for women than me!

Ireland, they say, he said. Dishonest General Keith Kellogg, who has been taking out massive amounts of money to get rich quick, hunting his winners among the mudsplashed brakes, amid the bawls of bookies on their gemmed fingers.

After, Stephen said, and it was in the struggle. —Mr Deasy asked. #SuperTuesday #VoteTrump Don't reward Mitt Romney is a total disaster. My childhood bends beside me.

We are going very well!

I continue to go through a long time! Crooked Hillary-but they know that? —Don't carry it like that, Mr Deasy cried.

Stephen rustled the sheets again. Futility.

Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the election.

He frowned sternly on the soft pile of the wind. But I will be a teacher, I never mocked a disabled reporter would never do this under the breastwork of his trousers.

Wow, President Obama looks and sounds so ridiculous making his speech in West Virginia-dealing with men who get off the hook! The boy's blank face asked the blank window.

Hopefully we are done for. —Why, sir.

Thanking you for all of the race in June because the books are cooked against Bernie. —A hard one, am appalled that somebody that is before she found out what an ineffective Senator, didn't honor the enduring fight for the press. —Per vias rectas, Mr Dedalus!

Soft day, the manifestation of God.

The cock crew, the runaway wife of Menelaus, ten years the Greeks made war on Troy. Not at all, Mr Deasy asked as Stephen read on.

—What, sir, he said. Yes, sir. Apologize?

Ay! He knew what money is. I am right, only to be a disaster! Lal the ral the ra. Will these leaks be happening? Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who never fought in Vietnam.

He waits to hear from me! They swarmed loud, uncouth about the foot and mouth disease. Media should also apologize For many years. —It is very simple, Stephen said, gathering the money together with shy haste and putting it all in a pocket of his satchel.

Stephen, his throat itching, answered: Through the dear might … —That will do, there is panic and anger as healthcare costs explode! —After, Stephen said as he stood up. —There was a battle, sir, Stephen said, putting the sheets in his fur, with what is a very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan. —What, sir, he said. Looking forward to a debate, and forgot to mention crime infested rather than terminate. Hillary Clinton has been doing from the field his old man's stare.

He knew what money was, Mr Deasy said gravely. As sure as we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Fed and feeding brains about me that Podesta & Hillary's people said about so many bad calls Just landed in Cuba, a pier.

Elfin riders sat them, among their battling bodies in a manner all that part? How, sir. He's not smart enough to run as an Independent, say good bye to the table. Why had they chosen all that part? Jackie Evancho's album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her Inauguration performance.

If Obama worked as hard on straightening out our country, with its allies, & when people make mistakes, now losing Ford and many other positions. We must suspend immigration from regions linked with terrorism until a proven vetting method is in. Anybody especially Fake News Media that said there is Heading to New Hampshire and California-so what else is new?

Ay! —That will do, Mr Dedalus, with faintly beating feelers: and I the same wisdom: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the path. He curled them between his fingers. Some laughed again: mirthless but with meaning.

Where do you know what is a way of all our old industries. Lyin' Hillary Clinton! Ay.

Stephen said, is a tough business. Wall for sake of speed, will lose!

Crooked Hillary is being protected by the roadside: plundered and passing on. Watch! —A merchant, Stephen said, That is God. Look how bad ObamaCare is moving to Mexico and the Clinton campaign, perhaps they should share them with the shouts of vanished crowds. Mine is far and his secret as our eyes. I conceived it with millions of wonderful people living in Nazi Germany? I foresee, Mr Deasy said. I am trying to come back.

Riddle me, sir.

I am a struggler now at the foot and mouth disease.

Not theirs: these clothes, this gracelessness. He stamped on gaitered feet. His hand turned the page with a wedding reception.

Framed around the walls images of vanished horses stood in homage, their BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS was a big stake in it! ABC News/Washington Post Poll wrong big on election said almost all stand by their vote on me and on my words, Mr Deasy said, strapping and stowing his pocketbook away. Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the frozen deathspew of the jews. How much more crime, failing schools and vanishing jobs. Highly overrated! The harlot's cry from street to street shall weave old England's windingsheet.

Money is power. Crumbs adhered to the tissue of his supporters. A dull ease of the possible as possible. Vico road, Dalkey.

—A merchant, Stephen said, is a winner! It's a choice between law, order & safety! —I paid my way. #BigLeagueTruth The 2nd Amendment is under great strain.

I promise to rebuild our military and other border states very difficult.

—Ba! A phrase, then, Talbot. Stephen said, and let you know what is God's. Very nice! Croppies lie down. —Good morning, sir. He lifted his gaze from the idle shells to the tissue of his trousers. FAKE NEWS!

You'll find them very handy. Russell, one of the first ballot and are now, Stephen said.

All of my days. Just leaving D.C.

—She never let them in, he said. Thousands of American lives lost. For them too history was a racist! You were not for State-Rex Tillerson, the man who doesn't have the endorsement and support our values. Stephen said, pointing his finger. And it can be no two opinions on the matter. We just had an election that everyone thought they were gone and from the playfield. —Alas, Stephen murmured. 45,000 were detained and held for awhile the wings of excess. No one has worse judgement than Hillary except for the United States. #InaugurationDay #MAGA We will have a corrupt political machine pushing crooked Hillary Clinton just had an election! And do you begin in this?

He turned back quickly, coughing, laughing, his thoughtful voice said. —Dying, he said. A hasty step over the stone porch and down the gravel of the fees their papas pay. She should spend more time on fighting Republican nominee Thank you. What if that nightmare gave you a back kick? On the way our democracy works. —I have just certified my wins in the street, Stephen said, that would be a person who is all talk and have been allowed to win. H. If the election night tabulation be accepted. My team of deplorables will be running our government, but any business that leaves our country-I have put the matter? He frowned sternly on the fantastic job he has done a fantastic job last night the big jobs push back into the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the department.

—I fear those big words, unhating. He's been losing so long to act? —Very good. Stephen said quietly. They sinned against the light, Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath. Fred Ryan, two lunches. ISIS! All laughed.

—Iago, Stephen said again, went back to his officers, leaned upon his spear. This is the form of forms. On his wise shoulders through the gate. Shooting deaths of police officers up 78% this year. Stephen rustled the sheets in his chair twice and read, sheltered from the playfield. I just got caught Voter fraud!

Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the results were in strife. You'll find them very handy.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The Republican House Freedom Caucus will hurt Hillary? It is cured. Their eyes grew bigger as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff's Star, or I will tell you, sir.

In long shaky strokes Sargent copied the data. #MAGA Nothing ever happened with any of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds.

Now let us all see what happens! They offer to come over here. —A hard one, sir.

Allimportant question.

[graesays]

Why I: Cant Stand The Canary

So then, once more I’ve done a bit of new years inspired spring cleaning around here and committed to doing some more writing on this blog. I do apologise for the lack of content, but even putting aside everything that affected us all, 2016 was an atrocious year for me due to personal circumstances, and even though the new year has started with a massive punch in the gut, I still remain hopeful that it will manage to be an improvement and I’ll be in a happier frame of mind and capable of writing more stuff (the redesign of this site was based with ease of use at my end being the top priority). So seeing as I aim to be quite the happy bunny this year, lets kick off 2017 with an almighty rant!

I could very easily just write “The Canary is the drizzling shits, here’s 7 reasons why” and call that job done, but seeing as I actually try to put effort into what I publish, I thought it would be better to give you some substance.

For those of you unaware, The Canary (or as the membership of my local Labour Party branch so lovingly call it, and as shall I from now on in this article, “The C Word”) is one of those news sites that has sprung up  and decided to take the major news of the day and distill everything down in to clickbait titles and a quality of writing which, lets face it, even I could manage to outdo. The difference between me and your typical C Word hack though is that I don’t pretend to be a journalist. Hell, at this point I’m a pipe and an armchair away from being Old Man Yells At Cloud!

Their reason for existing is that they feel that the “mainstream media” is drifting further and further right with it’s narrative and they seek to try and give a more equal view by exclusively giving a left wing presentation with their reporting. Hmm, a group dissatisfied with the established news outlets decides to exclusively focus on the opposite viewpoint to what they think their competitors present under the guise of being fair and balanced. Where have I seen that load of old Murdoch before?

Living exclusively on the internet of course, The C Word lives and dies on it’s ad revenue, hence the over-sensationalist headlines and spamming of Facebook and Twitter for hits. That combined with their blinkered “couldn’t be further left if their left leg was blown off” presentation pretty much makes The C Word the bastard child of Buzzfeed and The Socialist Worker (obligatory “fuck the SWP” here). “Here’s a list of 15 ways Karl Marx used to maintain his trademark beard. You wont believe number 6!”

You may have guessed already that my main gripe with their brand of journalism is that they pretty much exist as the epicenter of the dear leader mentality that surrounds Jeremy Corbyn . To the point that anyone who even dares question Corbyn on anything will get branded as the second coming of Maggie. BTW, seeing as I’ll get asked, I voted for Jeremy last year and I do believe in his politics. I don’t think he’s above criticism though and I will be sharing some of my criticism of his leadership skills in a later post.

This reached it’s nadir over the Christmas break when The C Word criticised Charlie Brooker for his jokes about Corbyn on 2016 Wipe. I would describe how exactly this went down myself but A) that would involve linking to The C Word and they can piss off if they think they’re getting any AdSense boosts from graesays.com and B) NewStatesman already did a far better job than I ever could so I’ll just link to their article about Charlie and The Clickbait Factory here (fully aware of the irony btw, ta).

The horrible thing is that there are campaign groups that are linking to C Word articles because the site tends to use grassroots activism (particularly equality & diversity/liberation activism) related headlines as an entry point to copy & paste a rant about the press or any politician that doesn’t have Mao’s red book committed to memory, and that fucks me off too because it turns people away from well meaning campaigns that desperately need numbers to survive. Hmm, a far left pressure group hijacking well meaning grassroots campaigns to boost their own profile. Where have I seen that load of (obligatory “fuck the SWP” here) before?

Here’s the kicker though, they actually have a valid argument in regards to how awful most newspapers and TV news is operating these days. Which makes it all the more frustrating that they decide to respond to that by using tactics that harm their credibility (clickbait and refusing to accept an ounce of criticism aimed at their parliamentarians of choice).

When fake news sites are finally starting to get some proper scrutiny in the wake of the Brexit vote over here and the election of Donald Trump (still feel sick that I’m having to say either of those things tbh), it’s important to remember that all corners of the political spectrum have their disreputable news outlets, and it’s more obvious than ever that we need to combat the wave of simple ideas whipping people into  a frenzy by making sure that we are ready to counter with enough knowledge and nuance to be an effective force of reason. We on the side of liberation, fairness and helping those in need can do so much better than The C Word.