#or in9 in general

[bluvlet]

father to father.

(additional art under the cut)

[moomin279]

Steven James Pemberton the only man i could find attractive shitting in a shoebox

[stealerofthe2ndbraincell]

I think the funniest thing to me about The Understudy is why the misdirection involved (to me at least) works so well.

It makes such a show of the story it's "retelling" that you really don't notice how different it is until the very end.

(this is a long, tired ramble btw. Underrated episode <3)

A major aspect of Macbeth is how, despite the obvious involvement and influence of the Witches and Lady Macbeth, he is ultimately the one who makes the decision to kill Duncan and continue to act and kill afterwards. He made the active choice to murder.

The Understudy originally presents itself as a "retelling" (?) of the Shakespearean Macbeth story through through a theatre group performing that very play. Jim, as the understudy to Tony's Macbeth, is meant to embody the Macbeth to Tony's King Duncan. Jim even appears to have similar visions/hallucinations throughout (I don't know what to really call those). His fiancée and fellow understudy Laura takes the role of Lady Macbeth (both literally and figuratively).

However, our Jim, unlike Macbeth, never makes that act. He remains pretty passive throughout the whole story.

Everything by the end of Act II seems to suggest that things are going to play out the way of Macbeth. Laura and Jim's situation is established, (their financial position, the upcoming wedding and their desire to take that main lead) and the seed of violence has been planted by Laura, similar to Lady Macbeth herself.

Even Act III seems to follow that narrative, with the "King Duncan" character of Tony (ironically playing Macbeth) being taken down from his role of authority - with Tony having his juice spiked with vodka and unable to perform.

Laura offers Jim the dagger, now being seen as bloody by Jim....

....And he doesn't take it. He doesn't do anything and eventually Tony takes it back

Jim soon gets another opportunity to take the lead and make Tony rest, as encouraged by Laura. Once again, Jim panics, refuses to act, which lets Tony go back on stage (although that does lead to Tony's ultimate downfall).

This rejection of the spotlight, despite wanting it, is an active diversion from the original Macbeth story. Although his lack of action does mean Tony is put out of commission, he never actually makes the conscious decision to harm him unlike Macbeth.

This consistent passivity of his also keeps that point of conflict between him and Laura's own ambition, which includes possibly my favourite interaction in the episode.

"I'm there if they want me"

"What!? Stuck in the corner of the room, like a television on standby?"

"Yes."

Jim is essentially the anti-Macbeth. Whereas Macbeth seems to want more than what he already has, Jim is not only seen as much lower in that social area than Macbeth ever was, but he is content that way. He wants the lead role Tony has, but also has zero want to push for it, especially not as much as Laura would want from him.

Then the scene cuts and Tony, too injured to perform, is replaced by Jim. His understudy gets the lead. Macbeth takes the crown from Duncan. And he never did anything to get it.

The closest Jim ever does to making an active choice is rejecting dinner with Laura (admittedly in a pretty prick-ish way but still), before thanking her for getting him the role in the first place implying he thought she caused Tony's accident, which is an opinion he openly states near the end.

In his version of the story, Lady Macbeth is the one that killed Duncan. Or at least that's what Jim believes.

Up to the final act, whilst there have been these cracks here and there, the episode still seemingly follows the Macbeth narrative structure.

Then Kirstie gets involved at the very end and any pretense is dropped entirely.

(side note: this whole final scene is such an underrated unnerving bit. Rosie Cavaliero is insanely good)

Arguably, although the notion of it being a direct Macbeth retelling is destroyed by now, Jim learning about Laura's suicide seems to parallel the scene where Macbeth is informed of his wife's suicide also (even though Laura and Jim were no longer together, which may parallel the emotional distance between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth at that point in the play). However, once again, our Macbeth doesn't act. Kirstie says her piece, reveals she stole Laura's ring, kisses him, leaves and all Jim really does is go back on stage.

I should note that, although this scene is Kirstie casually confessing to her involvement throughout the timeline of this episode, she isn't a fully reliable source of information.

A way this can be seen is through how she seems to speak for both Laura after her death and for Jim.

"Looking after Tony is the price I pay for what I did. Just as Laura's death is the price you pay".

"That was nothing to do with me"

"I know it wasn't. Your career had to come first. You told her that"

Jim never did that. That whole previous scene was pretty douche-y of him but by the end he clearly shows the appreciation for what he thought Laura did for him - getting him this role.

Whilst we can't be sure that Kirstie is referring to the scene just beforehand (as they seem to have broken up between scenes), judging by the content of that scene and the lack of immediate animosity from Jim in regards to Laura throughout that scene and how unaware he was of her fate, I doubt what Kirstie says is true.

Kirstie not only assumes Laura's motivations and speaks for her but she places the responsibility on him for his inaction on the same level as own active choice to harm Tony.

Essentially, Jim's lack of action being unlike the point of Macbeth as an underrated bit of foreshadowing for how The Understudy diverts from and completely flips the Macbeth play on it's head, but the obvious parallels in character and story beat act as a good misdirection from this.

(One question I do have is what is up Jim? His visions, which only occur when he seems to picture himself in the role of Macbeth, don't amount to a conclusion besides that misdirection and expanding on his own anxieties about taking up the lead role. But, in the context of the episode itself, what was up with that?)

[go-johnny-go-go-go-go]

Dear mutuals and/or tag visitors, pls give me an episode of Inside No 9 to (re)watch. I'm in that particular state of craving some entertainment yet being too tired to choose what to watch so I'm turning to the tumblr hive mind in hope of answers. thx

[silverview]

maybe the details of art are common knowledge, but i only read up about it yesterday. it's interesting! it opened in the west end in 96 & was something of a popular hit

it's about three old friends who fall out when one of them buys an expensive painting that's an almost-blank white canvas (a quiet night in); one of them aggressively disapproves, calling it pretentious; and the third is caught in the middle trying to keep the peace

had a ton of casts – a new one every three months. (the effect of this is interesting – more on that below.) tlog were selected to be the last lot before it closed in 02. if you don't already know, who do you suppose played each role? it has nothing to do with the weirdly deceptive promo pics. answers & more below the cut

mark played the friend who buys the painting, steve played the one who disapproves, and reece played the guy caught in the middle. i wonder how that decision was made. i wonder if they considered any alternative configurations (bf had steve & reece switched, which i think makes a lot of sense). as always i'm like. but what does the character say about YOU

they got mixed reviews. nearly every review singles out reece's delivery of this monologue, though they disagree on whether it was good or not. perhaps surprisingly, they don't uniformly characterise it (or his performance in general) as particularly angry. not to be dramatic but i would kill and die to have seen it, just that monologue alone

so below i've collected the most interesting parts of surviving reviews. the last one is my fav. some of them have interesting things to say on the effect of the rotating cast, sort of the opposite of the in9 meta-character effect, which i think is pretty funny & fitting

BBC

Reece Shearsmith is a little too giddy with Yvan's furious diatribe about his impending wedding - the laughs are landing so hard that some others are being lost in the process. But he is a particularly touching and vulnerable go-between, desperately sitting on the fence in the conflict that erupts between his friends Serge (Mark Gatiss) and Marc (Steve Pemberton), and finding - as you do - that those who sit on fences are liable to get splinters.

GUARDIAN

[A] play as bland and flimsy as this requires actors who are not only heroically talented but who also have formidable technical skills. Pemberton, Gatiss and Shearsmith don't. They are likeable, even mildly engaging but you are always aware that they are putting on a performance. What's more, they are far less funny than the two other casts I've seen. Shearsmith, for example, flunks the timing of his long monologue so instead of making an audience rock with waves of laughter, he gets only one big laugh right at the end. The silences in the evening, in particular the famous olive scene, are not eloquent, just empty.

THEATREGUIDE

I've heard, though, that other casts have had other dynamics. With some, it plays as light comedy, satirising everyone's pretensions to high passions. Others make it a touching study in the fragility of friendship and all three men's hitherto-unrealised need for it. The cast changes every three months or so [...] Just be prepared for the fact that the show you see will be different in tone and effect from the one your friends saw last year, and will probably be a glib skating over the emotional issues and implications it raises. [...] And while the laidback, indeed colloquial, approach of Mark Gatiss (perky Serge), Steve Pemberton (laconic Marc) and Reece Shearsmith (wickedly neurotic Yvan) may not be to everyone's taste, it's undeniably perfect casting to complete the spectrum of wall-to-wall talent that's made the show such a feature of London's theatrical landscape. [...] Playing cheekily with rhythms of speech and timing, they create a very English rendition of what is essentially a French play, substituting the de rigueur dramatic devices and flourishes with frighteningly real personalities that transcend the dramatic crutch of Yasmina Reza's Continental-style philosophizing text and sub-text. Admittedly the first ever cast of Courtenay, Finney and Stott all those years ago set the benchmark for the production (though I found them yawnsome and wooden) - and the League have the advantage of tapping into the accumulated performances that followed.

i think "laidback," "colloquial," "cheeky," "English" and "real" might be euphemisms for northern – more on that below

CIX

Having now seen Art three or four times (to be honest, I forget which), I've begun to muse that in some strange way it's a metaphor for itself. It's not just the performance dynamics, our impression of the trio's relationship, that varies from cast to cast... it's the very sense of how much real content there is in Reza's play, of whether it takes its thematic concerns about inherent versus attributed qualities (whether of a painting or a person) very far or not. In a sense, the performers are the series of diagonal white lines painted on to the white canvas of the play. And like the lines in the painting on stage (or so we're told), they're not pure white: some are vaguely yellow, some are sort of ochre-ish... In the case of the League, the bizarrely unrelated publicity images make clear that what's hoped for is a kind of fake-blood crimson tinge. So although there's no real indulgence, director Jennie Darnell allows the three to turn in a slight caricature of the naturalism with which the piece has usually been played, that little unreality often seen in the kind of sketch comedy where the group cut their teeth. The elegant apartment set is a world away from the League's fictional town of Royston Vasey, but the casting of the individual members plays to respective strengths familiar from their various screen guises. As Serge, who has paid 200,000 francs for the picture, Mark Gatiss exudes an appropriately smug and supercilious cleverness. As Marc, who faces off against Serge by declaring the canvas "shit", Steve Pemberton is more mercurial, with an air of suppressed violence. Reece Shearsmith, the relatively cuddly one [sic], succeeds in focusing audience identification on Yvan, the less smart piggy-in-the-middle. All three are of course skilled performers, and you can see the rapport gained from up to fifteen years' collaboration in, for instance, the way Gatiss and Pemberton trade facial "mugs" as they first consider the painting. However, this very affinity with each other enables them to skim over deeper elements in the play. When Shearsmith gabbles out Yvan's great bewildered set-piece about the complications of his wedding arrangements, we applaud the high-speed delivery but don't pick up enough of what he says to engage with Yvan's travails.

kissing this reviewer on the mouth for specifically describing what he thinks their respective strengths are & especially for describing reece as THE CUDDLY ONE like... idk if it shows but i'm obsessed with how people see them, and how they see themselves & each other

EVENING STANDARD

Not so much a piece of headline-grabbing stunt casting as three trained actors flexing their thespian muscles [...] bona fide drama graduates, not comedy chancers. This immediately shows, from their poise, projection and presence. Only the dimple-chinned Pemberton as intolerant Marc comes close to his rogues' gallery of BBC2 personae during moments of rage when he cannot come to terms with Serge's purchase of an overpriced minimalist painting. By contrast, Mark Gatiss as the punctilious, pretentious Serge is the epitome of restraint, as cool as his sharp, charcoal suit. The comic moments are all in context. Shearsmith, as the boyish Yvan, is increasingly troubled by his imminent nuptials. This eventually spills out in a breathless pseudo-Pythonesque rant against marriage that is as funny to witness as it is difficult to say. But throughout, the trio respect Reza's text, sidelining their insatiable appetite for the grotesque that has made their their brand of humour so distinctive. This may, however, be problematic. Having sold out in the West End with their sketch show a couple of years ago, some of the threesome's intensely passionate fans may see Art as a follow-up and feel shortchanged. The eye-catching poster may compound the deception, the chopper, axe and chainsaw being wielded suggesting some Grand Guignol flourishes which never materialise.

BBC AGAIN

The northern accents do not quite ring true in the sophisticated setting of a Paris apartment and often lead to flat performances, where one gets the feeling their brand of wit is not quite enough to portray Parisian conceit. The strongest display by far comes from Mark Gatiss (Serge) - the eerie butcher in League of Gentlemen - as the tall, slightly effeminate doctor who acquires the painting, striking just the right balance of preciousness and acerbic wit. The diminutive Reece Shearsmith is adequate in his portrayal of Yvan, the put-down-upon soon-to-be-married stationer caught in the middle of the feud between his two friends. But the biggest disappointment comes from Steve Pemberton, who plays Marc, the critical compadre who takes Serge's indulgence for contemporary art as a personal slight. Pemberton, normally the trio's strongest performer, well-known for his brilliant turn as Pauline in the League of Gentlemen, seems ill at ease in the role. His northern persona cannot quite stretch far enough to inhabit the part of Marc, an angry homeopathic freak whose insecurity finds it hard to cope with his friend's show of independence over the painting. Like the painting, the play does not remain colourless throughout however. One of the highlights is Shearsmith's 10-minute tirade about the difficulties of coping with the women in his life ahead of his impending wedding.

yeah this one is definitely my favourite. casually calls them ALL scallies, then calls each of them out INDIVIDUALLY for being a) gay b) short c) shit. absolute legend. did they ever find this reviewer's body

related, from this article in the guardian:

"When we first did Art, a review said 'Yes, but can they act?' and that made me angry," said Shearsmith. "I remember thinking 'What have we been doing in The League of Gentlemen? It's not standup."

in 2013, reece said art was his favourite ever play to do. highlights from the replies

[the-20th-century-girl]

I would say I am so sorry for causing this, but then we wouldn’t have the secret Reece channel in the server. It’s my new favourite place in the hivemind now.

one second you see someone mention a man you've never heard of before and two weeks later you have a screenshot folder, tiktok folder and phone gallery folder dedicated to him

[panelshowsource]

i have to be dead honest and admit i'm really no an in9 person personally ㄒ∩ㄒ there are definitely some episode i've liked, but in general the horror homage stuff — like garth marenghi's darkplace — just isn't for me most of the time (this is iconic tho don't get me wrong), plus i have a serious beef with mark gatiss and want to crush his little head like a grape :)

THAT SAID if there is an ep you hiiighly recommend then pls send bc i would be interested to see!

and fr EVERY ONE EVER has been a guest or cameo on that series and it's very fun picking them out like easter eggs!

in9 and any new episodes are regularly posted in r/tv_bunny — it's super easy to make a request there so anyone who wants to check out the series absolutely should!

doing my best to get as much joe wilkinson content on this blue site as i can!!! you know that's my guy!! 💙

omg this is so true

are you one of those people who LOVES laughers? like miles jupp, daisy may cooper, joe wilkinson, etc? that is some of my fave kind of energy 🥹

lucy is SUCH a giggler and i love when they're like that together! do you have a fave moment from the pod so far? it seemed like a pod that didn't know quite what it was supposed to be but has really started sorting itself out :")

hmm i mean, it wouldn't surprise me if claudia was asked and then talked to victoria about her experience before agreeing to do it, but i doubt victoria had anything to do with claudia being approached. not only does greg love claudia, but she's so tv famous, even more these days with the rise of traitors. i always thought she was an inevitable casting! but knowing victoria had such a good experience could have helped her :')

anon LMAOOO did you send this in the middle of the afternoon? tsk tsk... you are not the only here are your people

omg LMAO i knew this but idr how i found out initially. i love richard bringing this up as a lowkey brag. her voice would have been SO perf it's that uncannily perfect balance of calm & warm and confident

i...have a crush on her

yes of courseee you can that is my mans!! but do you just mean like a random gifs set or do you have a specific moment in mind?

i wish more people were interested in hog gifs 🥲 i love the show and love giffing it, but those sets barely get any notes boooo

she just hosted hignfy and i'm about to post gifs from that!! eeeee

thee sean lock

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[benjaminbadger]

S9 E3 fucking banged!!!!!!!!!!!!

My thoughts (might be incoherent bc I literally JUST watch it):

I really love whenever In9 does something unique with the filming or camera work and this episode did NOT disappoint in that regard. They picked a really clever way to show the story and used it to their advantage, and I love how it serves the general story (the camera always being fixed on the neighbours' house and never letting you see what's happening inside Damon's, which kinda gets you into their perspective by making them more familiar to you and directing you to the same conclusions as they do)

I figured immediately that Damon wouldn't have actually killed Val (that would be wayyy too obvious for In9 I mean his name is Demon for God's sake 😭) but that's not to say I knew where the episode was going. The slow dripfeed of info did keep me guessing on some sort of other big reveal, but I actually loved the sorta lack of one. As in, it's made clear from the start that the neighbours are these painfully upper-class out of touch weirdos making huge mental leaps about this guy for the crime of not being a Perfect Neighbour like they are, but then the episode just deciding to build on their paranoia and invasiveness was a lot more satisfying than any Big Twist I was searching for. (It kinda reminds me of the Bill, in that it messes with the overperformance of social niceties that the characters subscribe to and takes them to the extreme, but without the twist that I think ruins it 😭)

Had a very interesting end too that peaks on that building extremity and twists around the neighbours' characters into the very thing they were so worried about. Love that shit. And I like that their story ended w retribution, but also w them getting what they want in a roundabout way. (SnR are so good at hiding foreshadowing and character bits inside of jokes). So far Season 9 is on a big winning streak, would be excellent to end the show w a bang

[sirbogarde]

Can't remember if I've posted this before but here's my Inside Number 9 inspired playlist. Songs that remind me of individual episodes or characters or just the vibes of the show in general.

[wowpindrop]

These are all genuine, good faith questions about a lot of the recent inside number 9 posts. Just to say straight up that I'm not trying to cause any problems or arguments here, or say anyone is wrong for how they feel. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion about the episode and the show as a whole.

Surely for something to be representation (either good or bad) it has to be intentional? Like the last weekend wasn't an episode about a queer couple it was an episode about grief and revenge, and the identity of the characters was secondary to the themes driving the plot. The point of the initial vibe seeming like a wholesome love story was to actually deliver a twisted revenge story, it wasn't intended as a negative portrayal of the community.

Also why are queer representation and love stories wanted to be told in in9 specifically? It's not exactly the ideal series for it, since the plots are generally quite dark and the stories aren't always meant to be realistic or meaningful. Plus it's written by two straight men, and S&R have said many times they write the stories that appeal to them, not what might appeal to any particular audience. If people are interested in watching queer stories why not look more to other shows that do aim to tell those stories? Although of course that's not saying that S&R can't or shouldn't make that effort with in9 when it could be done.

The last weekend having a grotesque ending wasn't unexpected, since the twists are a key part of the show. On the whole lgbt+ characters don't seem to be treated differently across the series storytelling-wise as lots of different characters end up as victims, but I understand the frustration with the tired stereotypical acting choices.

Again these are genuine questions/comments to create a conversation, so hopefully this gets a response. Respect to you and everyone else feeling upset by the whole situation.

Yeah I get that but the thing is, S and R have never shown any type of positive queer rep whether that be in tlog or in9.

I don't want to cause arguments either, I just find the situation important to highlight. Especially since a portion of the fanbase of R and S's work are in the community, and I'm fairly sure there may be aware of.

They've shown before that they can make side characters that aren't important to the storyline that are genuinely happy or just aren't arguing with people.

I appreciate that queer people are a minority and I don't expect them to put them in all the time. The only problem I have is when every single time they are in episodes, especially in the relationships and everything, that the relationships are always argumentative or having to be kept secret or have some element of mistrust in them. Which don't happen anywhere near as often in the straight ones.

The only thing that me and the people who agree with me would like is a queer couple, even if it isn't the main characters for the episode, that aren't in some sort of conflict. Or just a queer person that isn't the butt of a load of jokes.

[bluvlet]

top 5 in9 eps? :3

5. How Do You Plead?

Urban is one of my favourite in9 characters. I’m really empathetic towards him and the character he plays for his patients, and the reasons why he does it. I’m also just such a sucker for religious imagery, depictions of the devil and the classic tale of selling your soul. The atmosphere of the episode just generally really appeals to me. The gradual dimming of the lights into this green-blue darkness is just brilliant, and when Urban and Webster swap places in the lift the fluidity of that movement just itches my brain. And of course, the monologues! Love this episode!

4. Tom & Gerri

Migg is one of the scariest in9 characters to me. Steve’s performance is just so…chilling. Like Urban, Tom is another character I feel like I just get. I’ll get into it in a moment when I start talking about Diddle Diddle Dumpling, but I just am really impacted by depictions of grief and mental illness in media. Tom is one of my favourite Reece in9 performances, I just really feel for him. Also, I love Stevie’s character.

3. Cold Comfort

I love how uncomfortable this entire episode is. The camera never moves, never looks away, and in turn the viewer has to sit there and watch just as Andy has to sit there and listen. It feels hopeless. Andy is one of my favourite Steve performances + characters. All of the characters in this episode are on top of each other in this awful, cramped, emotionally charged space, yet they’re all completely disconnected and alien to one another. The only character who you feel understands the others is George, and George is…George. I’m a sucker for ambiguity and there is so much to rifle through and ponder about in this episode. Plus the sound design is so good at matching that horrible, invasive atmosphere.

2. Diddle Diddle Dumpling

I love the mise-en-scène for this episode; that sanitised, shining-esque mirroring throughout the whole house just suggests so much of what is left unsaid about David and Louise’s grief. And I do really like how little is actually said about Joseph in this episode. I’m always really invested in media where an object is so clearly representative of something else, especially when that something else is a loss or an absence of sorts. David is a very relatable character to me and I just feel so strongly for both him and Louise. What a devastating episode.

1. Wise Owl

No surprises here I don’t think! Wise Owl was the first in9 episode I ever watched, and it’s stayed my favourite unwaveringly throughout me watching the entire show. I’ve had an anxious obsession with Public Information Films ever since I was a kid - especially the fire safety ones - so having an episode modelled around them is just a narrative decision that gets me invested from the get-go. I think this episode has an entirely different feeling to it compared to the rest of the show, and I’m so happy they went with the ending that they did and I’m so happy with how Ronnie was written and performed - especially when I think about how easily they could’ve gone down a different route. Also there’s no competition in my mind for the best in9 episode ending. Such an important episode.

[lapis-lazuliie]

not just because of what the ending turned out to be, but in regards to in9, so many people think that one of their stories revealing themselves to "not be what it seems" makes sense for the narrative, regardless of whether or not it logically fits into said narrative; because that's the reputation the lads have built for themselves since day one. they've marketed their episodes of their show as "always having a sting in the tail", and because of that precedent, they feel a large amount of pressure from their audiences to be clever with it every week.......when they shouldn't be

because an episode of in9 is so much more than its' twist. it always fucking has been. but they've completely lost sight of telling an engaging story in favour of making the ending be as brutal or dark as possible, and that is just.......wrong.

not just with n9, but media in general; unless you're writing something in the crime / mystery genre, not all of your stories need to have a plot twist. but if that's the rod you've made for your own back, then at least write a compelling story to go along with it. fuck sake

anyone who thinks the ending of the last weekend was "clever" has brainrot. genuinely

[barkilphedros-hat]

what're some episodes where you wonder what happened afterwards, whether that be the characters themselves or the events of the ep? and what personal headcanons do you have for them? ☺️

Oh there’s SO many!! I do love it when IN9 leaves the ending somewhat ambiguous like Sardines and Cold Comfort, but I always wonder how the story would have played out.

(Andy DIDN’T die at the end of Cold Comfort I don’t CARE what the script says he survived and I am prepared to fIGHT ON THAT-)

I also kinda of wonder what would have happened to Henry at the end of Zanzibar, because, ya know, he did just try to assassinate a sovereign Prince. But also, what about Rico and Gus in general? What happens to Rico’s claim to the throne now it’s been revealed not only is he not a “legitimate” heir and is in fact the son of a convicted criminal, but has a twin brother. If I were Gus, I’d be PISSED that my twin got raised as a prince and I wasn’t 😂😂

I also like to think Katie was rescued at the end of The Harrowing. Hector and Tabitha may have “won” but they seem to forget Katie mentioned both parents (I’m pretty sure her father at least knows she’s there). And she’s still attending school.... So what happens when Katie’s family turns up? The teachers question where she is? I’d love to know what sort of bullshit they would have told to excuse her disappearance. The more they turn people away, as the last known people to have plausibly seen her, it’s only get more and more suspicious. I love Hector but he doesn’t seem the sharpest pencil in the drawer so I reckon it’d be Tabitha that comes up with all the alibis 😂

Thank you so much!!

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Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iPadOS, and Microsoft Windows. It is part of the 'Affinity trinity' alongside Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. Affinity Designer is available for purchase directly from the company website and in the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and the Microsoft Store.

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Affinity Designer serves as a successor to Serif's own DrawPlus software, which the company discontinued in August 2017 in order to focus on the Affinity product range.[2] It has been described as an Adobe Illustrator alternative,[3][4][5] and is compatible with common graphics file formats, including Adobe Illustrator (AI), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) formats.[6] The application can also import data from some Adobe FreeHand files (specifically versions 10 & MX).[7]

Affinity Designer's core functions include vector pen and shape-drawing tools, support for custom vector and raster brushes (including the ability to import Adobe Photoshop (ABR) brushes), dynamic symbols, stroke stabilization, text style management, and vector/pixel export options.[5][8][9]

Affinity Designer provides non-destructive editing features across unlimited layers, with pan and zoom at 60fps, and real-time views for effects and transformations.[10] It supports the RGB, RGB Hex, LAB, CMYK and Grayscale color models, along with PANTONE color swatches and an end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC color management, and 16-bit per channel editing.[11][9]

Development[edit]

Affinity Designer began as a vector graphics editor solely for macOS. It was developed entirely from scratch for this operating system, allowing it to leverage core native technologies such as OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch, and Core Graphics.[12]

The first version was released in October 2014, making it the first of the Affinity apps to be released by Serif (and their first macOS release).[13] At that time, Serif's vector graphics application for Windows was DrawPlus; however, following the release of Affinity Designer for Windows, this product has now been discontinued.[14]

Version 1.2, released in April 2015, introduced new tools and features, such as a corner tool and a pixel-alignment mode for GUI design tasks.[15] In December 2015, version 1.4 then introduced new features for managing artboards and printing.[16] With version 1.5 in October 2016, the application received multiple new features, including symbols, constraints, asset management and text styles.[17]

The application began branching out to other platforms in November 2016, when it first launched for Microsoft Windows.[18]

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Version 1.6 was released in November 2017, introducing performance improvements and alternative GUI display mode.[19]

The first release of a separate iPad version of Affinity Designer took place in July 2018.[20]

Version 1.7 was released in June 2019 adding some key features such as HDR support, unlimited strokes and fills to a single shape, new point transform tool, new transform mode in Node tool, Lasso selection of nodes, new sculpt mode added to pencil, and also some big performance improvements.[21] Version 1.8, released in February 2020, added the ability for users to define their own document templates and keyboard shortcuts, and a built-in panel for adding stock images.[22]

Reception[edit]

Affinity Designer was selected as a runner-up in Apple's 'Best of 2014' list of Mac App Store and iTunes Store content in the macOS app category.[23][24][25] It also was one of the winners of the 2015 Apple Design Award.[26]

In 2018, the Windows version of Affinity Designer won 'Application Creator of the Year' at the Windows Developer Awards (part of Microsoft Build 2018).[27]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

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^'Windows Developer Awards - Build 2018 - Windows app development'. developer.microsoft.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-08-14.

Further reading[edit]

Affinity Designer Logo Design

Affinity Designer Workbook. Nottingham: Serif Europe Ltd. 2016. ISBN9781909581036.

External links[edit]

Affinity Designer Icon Template

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affinity_Designer&oldid=1017580272'

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I'd like to preface this by saying I am a gay man, and I am very much a fan of Inside No 9.

With respect, you simply can’t analyse the majority group in the same way as the minority group.

More non-lgbt characters die because there are simply more non-lgbt characters in the show. More non-lgbt characters are villains because there are more non-lgbt characters in the show. People are upset that on the rare occasions that LGBT characters are there, they aren’t treated well. If a show has 6 gay characters and 5 of them die, and 30 straight characters and 10 of them die, then yes more straight characters have died but percentage wise the gay characters are more likely to die.

Generally in media non-lgbt characters do not have their own stereotype - they can have any characteristics under the sun, while LGBT characters tend to be boxed into certain personalities. Gay men are camp, snarky, flamboyant etc, while lesbians are cold and mean. They rarely get to be the centre of the story, and are used more as side character comic relief. I think IN9 has cleared a bar on not making all of their lgbt characters like this (though a significant number are), however it’s not a particularly high bar. 

Also, you have to take into account social perception. Both LGBT and non-lgbt characters are seen sexually harassing people, however only LGBT people have to deal with the real life social perception that they are perverts or dangerous around children. Both LGBT and non-lgbt characters die horribly, however only LGBT people have to put up with the “bury your gays” trope, and the remnants of the hays code. When writing minority characters you have to think carefully about how you are portraying them. There is one (presumably) transgender character in the show, Sabrina, and this is revealed via her undressing and using the bathroom. The punchline is simply “Surprise! This woman is transgender!” and it’s a common transphobic trope in film and tv. Similarly Felicity from The Understudy is a walking stereotype that many will (rightfully) find insulting. Also, most of the LGBT characters are white and able-bodied, as if there cannot be diversity within an already marginalised group.

As for complex LGBT characters, Carl and Stuart, Urban, and Callum are great characters who get to go through some form of character progression. I felt that Stuart’s open flamboyance was an excellent contrast with the stuffiness of the central family, whether he was playing it up to annoy Carl or simply refusing to “tone it down”. I also don’t mind LGBT characters as side characters or comic relief - Mario’s little love triangle (or square?) was incredibly funny to watch - however it cannot be the only part LGBT characters get to play. These good portrayals are brought down by the played out or downright offensive ones. Urban's character was unique and brilliantly written, however Bobby is the embodiment of the gay best friend. While I loved Callum and Mario, I can't in good conscience say the show writes good LGBT characters when Sabrina and Felicity are written so poorly.

However I must add that obviously the LGBT community is not a monolith. I liked Stuart, and I thought the camp performance worked in that episode. However, I can definitely understand if another gay man found it uncomfortable or offensive and it wouldn't be fair of me to tell him he was wrong for feeling that.

IN9 isn’t as homophobic as some people make out, however people are not wrong when they complain about poor portrayals of LGBT characters. People who wanted The Last Weekend to be gentle were misguided to say the least, but I can't blame them for wanting one single LGBT couple that has a nice story.

To cut a long story short: I understand what you are saying, however I disagree with you when you say it is not homophobic. I obviously don't think the homophobia is malicious, more a sign of unconscious bias. I know they can write good LGBT characters, and I hope they do better in the upcoming series.

Why I believe Reece and Steve (and Inside No.9) are  NOT homophobic  (spoilers)

OK I am just going to look at the accusation that ‘Inside No.9 is homophobic. I will address particular concerns and try and look at particular characters in more depth. I hope I can make a good case it is far from homophobic.

Please note I will be discussing characters who are openly LGBT or who are shown to be LGBT. I will not be discussing characters whose sexual orientation is not indicated or discussed. It is actaully interesting to note how many characters sexual orientation or marital status is not indicated. This shows how these play little part in the characters motivations and actions.

We should ask 1. are the characters made ridculous because of their sexual orientation 2. punished because of their orientaton. 3.Motivated to do bad things because of their orientation.

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Ultrasound influence on the Human

STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND ON THE HUMAN AQUA-SYSTEM WITH BIO-WELL DEVICE

Krashenyuk A.I.1, Korotkov K.G 2., Kuryleva N.A.1

1. Academy of Hirudotherapy, St. Petersburg, Russia 2. St. Petersburg Federal University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia Abstract Objective: To evaluate the influence of diagnostic ultrasound onto the condition of people using different several technologies. Materials and Methods: The methods of heart rate variability (HRV), Electrophotonic Imaging (or gas discharge visualization EPI/GDV), and Akabane acupuncture test were used to assess subjects. Analysis of data from 138 apparently healthy people aged between from 14 and to 63 years, was carried out. Results: In the Akabane test, after exposure to diagnostic ultrasound, imbalance in some channels was observed in all subjects. Analysis of the HRV data showed a shift of indexes to the pronounced sympathicotonia after the ultrasound exposure. Statistically significant changes were found in of the Electrophotonic EPI/GDV parameters before and 40 minutes after the ultrasound exposure. Conclusions: Our experimental results prove that diagnostic ultrasound had a pronounced impact on a person's aquatic systems. The EPI/GDV method using the Bio- well device allows the detection of the effect of diagnostic ultrasound on the human aquatic systems, allowing us to recommend this device for the evaluation of such effects on the human body. This opens up perspectives for the use using of the Bio-Well device to assess the impact of various medical technologies, both diagnostic and therapeutic, on the human body. Keywords: diagnostic ultrasound, heart rate variability, Electrophotonic Imaging.

Introduction The term "aqua-system" in relation to the human body was first proposed in1, as the description of the aqua systems of cells, tissues, and organs. We propose a broader definition of aqua system of the body by including all fluids, such as sweat, blood, lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, urine, and intracellular and intercellular water of all tissues and organs. The dose of ultrasound is difficult to quantify. The action of the vibration stops the moment the ultrasound is turned off. The time required to restore the normal functioning of the cells may be up to tens of minutes2. A number of methodological issues arise while assessing the impact of diagnostic ultrasound on a person. Owing to the nonlinear effects of ultrasound on aquatic systems, there is no equivalent parameter for predicting the effects of ultrasound, in particularly long-term effects. Ultrasound is not perceived directly by human senses, it is not possible to determine the level of energy received by a patient, as it depends on the type of apparatus and diagnostic modality method, and the doctor's qualifications and experience3. The effect of ultrasound on the operators of ultrasound devices has not been physically explored. The most studied physical effects of ultrasound that cause unwanted effects are the mechanical and thermal effects4. There is a cavitation effect when the ultrasound pressure exceeds a certain limit. An essential aspect is that the level of ultrasonic power needed for heating tissue by 1°C depends on the type of tissue2. The consequences of the above-mentioned effects of ultrasound exposure are uncontrolled chemical reactions in the area of wave propagation that may influence chemical processes in the body. Ultrasound increases cell membrane permeability and accelerates diffusion processes, the hydrogen-ion concentration changes in tissues, causing a cleavage of high-molecular compounds, thus accelerating metabolism5. In addition to the release of mechanical energy, the formation of cavitation bubbles is accompanied by the appearance of electric charges on the boundary surfaces, causing luminescence and ionization of water molecules, the formation of free radicals, and hydroxyl radicals. Chemically, the decaying products of ionized water molecules in the tissues of the body are extremely active. This high activity leads to a number of biological effects under the influence of ultrasound5. For example, the ultrasound increases nitrogen solubility in water by 12%6, which can affect the dynamic network of hydrogen bonds among water molecules. Polymorphic changes in almost all tissues, organs, and systems of the human body under the influence of high-frequency ultrasound have been mentioned in several studies1-4. Ultrasound may have a negative effect on the health of doctors. For example, in the Chuvash State University, in Russia, the health of 85 doctors of ultrasonic diagnostics was studied: many violations were revealed, including those in the cardiovascular, nervous system in the form of dysfunction of vegetative centers dysfunction, and the changes in the macro- and microelement composition of blood serum in the form of reduced iron, phosphorus, calcium and chloride7. The aim of our work was to study possible effects of diagnostic ultrasound on the state of meridians of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the state of the autonomic nervous system, and the aqua system of people. Materials and methods To assess the influence of diagnostic ultrasound the following methods were used: 1. Ultrasonography with ultrasound scanner DP-9900 Plus Mindray (Korea); 2. Akabane test (thermo acupuncture) with “Reflexomaster PM-01” device (Russia); 3. Cardiorhythmography with “Expert-01” device (Russia); 4. Electrophotonic imaging (EPI/GDV) with Bio-Well device (USA); The Akabane test consists of measuring the heat sensitivity of the end points of different meridians, situated on at the hands of a person, and reflects the asymmetry of the temperature sensitivity of the right and left fingers, related to the particular meridian8. The result depends on the subjective response of the patient, like "no feelings– I feel" during the test. In the Akabane test, only the time until the “I feel” response in the symmetric points is compared. There is an imbalance in the channels in which the response time of the left and right sides differ more than twofold. In the HRV method, the heart rhythm is recorded, followed by with a subsequent mathematical analysis of its structure. The main HRV indexes are discussed in9. Electrophotonic Imaging EPI (GDV bioelectrography) is already in use in 62 countries, with great success in many fields10-13. This effect occurs when an object is placed on a glass plate and stimulated with a high-intensity electrical field, resulting in a visible glow produced by the gas discharge. This glow is detected by a sensitive CCD camera and processed in the computer as a digital image. In the EPI technology, images captured of all 10 fingers of each human subject provide a set of quantitative parameters, which may be used for statistical analysis and practical applications. EPI applications are being developed10-20 in different areas. The parameters of the image generated from photographing the finger surface under electrical stimulation create a neurovascular reaction on a part of the skin, influenced by the nervous-humoral status of organs and systems. Owing to this, the images captured on the GDV/EPI register an ever-changing range of states. In addition, the EPI readings of most healthy people vary only 8–10% over many days of measurements, indicating a high level of precision in this technique.10-13. A total of 134 people aged between from 14 and 65 years were surveyed— all of them by the EPI method; 51 people with the Akabane test (45 women and 6 men), and 15 people (of 22 to 46 years, 14 women and 1 man) with the HRV test. The distribution by sex and age is presented in Table 1. All people were apparently healthy, without serious chronic problems and health complaints; arterial pressure, measured before the test, was within the normal range for all the participants. All participants were explained the test procedure and they signed an informed consensus. The protocol of the experiment was approved by the ethics committee of the Academy of Hirudotherapy. People were advised not to eat, smoke, drink coffee or strong tea 1.5–-2 hours before the examination and not to take a deep breathe, cough or swallow during the HRV measurement. A survey of patients was conducted during the first part of the day in a darkened room by eliminating emotional arousal factors, including conversation and phone calls. Women were measured in the inter-menstrual period. Before the measurement, patients rested for 5–-10 minutes in a horizontal position. The HRV study included a 5-minute ECG recording (no less than 300 cardiocycles) in the supine position with quiet breathing. After this, GDV testing was performed, lasting for about 3 minutes. During ultrasound test patients lay on the their stomach, the ultrasound sensor was positioned on the back in the lumbar area, and kept there for the duration of the entire experiment. After initial 10 minutes, the ultrasound signal was turned on for 10 minutes and then turned off. Patients were measured before, immediately after, and 40–-60 minutes after the application of ultrasound. Results As a result of experiments using the Akabane test, imbalance in some channels was observed among all subjects after exposure to diagnostic ultrasound — the most pronounced changes being seen in the meridians of the bladder (V), kidney (R), spleen- pancreas (RP), stomach (E), large intestine (GI) and lungs (P) (Fig.1). Changes in the meridian system returned to its original state in most cases within one hour. With these results, a method was developed to determine the impact of diagnostic ultrasound on the body in real time21. Analysis of HRV data demonstrated a shift in indexes to the pronounced sympathicotonia after the ultrasound exposure: SDNN — standard deviation of all NN intervals — decreased; PAPR — adequacy of regulation processes –increased; SI — the index of regulatory systems tension — grew; AMo — the number of RR intervals in the unit range — was enhanced; and there was a rigidity of rhythm and reduced heart rate variability. It was shown that after the work with ultrasound, the rigidity of the cardiac rhythm was much greater expressed among the operators of the ultrasound device than among for patients subjected to ultrasonic examination. Parameters began returning to the initial values after about one hour. The detected changes were seen as a presence of a large number of rigid and the increased amount of short chains of shock waves of the first, second, and third orders. Statistically significant changes of in the Electrophotonic EPI/GDV parameters before and 40 minutes after the ultrasound exposure are presented in the Tables 2. A significant difference was found in the GDV-grams of different fingers for the following indexes: area, normalized area, energy, intensity, and internal noise. (description of the parameters is given in10-13). For most participants, they increased after the exposure, while the stress index and form factor decreased. This can be seen as a sign of activation of a person's aquatic system due to the impact of low-intensity ultrasound. Changes in these indexes for different sectors of the fingers, corresponding to different organs and systems of the body in accordance with the data of Bio-Well software, are presented in Table 3. We may conclude from the results shown in Table 3 that the areas of the body, in which statistically significant differences before and after exposure to diagnostic ultrasound was found, were situated in the projection of the bladder channel. Of all the channels, the bladder meridian (V) has the largest length. It originates at the inner corner of the eye and ends on the foot. According to the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine22, Channel V is functionally connected to the channel of the kidneys; so, we may conclude that it reflects the influence of the ultrasound on all body fluids. Electrophotonic technique enables the tracking of the changes of in EPI area index over time. This signal is taken from the standard cardio electrode positioned on the right wrist of the patient. Fig. 2 demonstrates examples of time dynamics of the EPI area index before, during, and after the application of the low-intensity ultrasound. As we see from Fig. 2, reaction to the ultrasound was different: in most of the of people, the EPI area index increased while in some it people it decreased. No dependence on age or gender was found. Controlled experiments, imitating the process of measurements, but without application of the ultrasound, demonstrated no significant changes in the measured parameters for all applied technologies. Discussion As can be seen from all this data, a person’s aquatic systems demonstrate pronounced response to exposure to ultrasound. The nature of the response suggests the occurrence of a wave process: during the first hour of observation, we could noted the appearance of four to five peaks in the time dynamics of the luminescence area of people subjected to ultrasound. We can assume that active generation of free radicals in the aquatic systems takes place in the contact zone of the ultrasound sensor with tissues. Given that the whole aquatic system is joined united by a network of hydrogen bonds, it can be assumed that sweat on the surface of terminal phalanges of fingers react to the impact in the lumbar region. As was shown in11 , Electrophotonic signal strongly depends on microcirculation of fingers and, in particular, on the level of perspiration. This was confirmed by the experiments in the Russian institute of Hydrodynamics. The authors conducted model experiments of corona discharges stimulation according to the EPI/GDV method on multiple artificial capillaries made of polymethylmethacrylate with an inner diameter of 50 μm filled with an aqueous solution of NaCl. Photos of glow on the fingertips and on artificial capillaries looked similar23. The authors concluded that the observed glow on the contour of the fingers of a person was strongly depended on corona discharge in the open pores of the sweat glands. In24 , a group of volunteers drank water with a high negative value of the redox potential (RP), up to hundreds of millivolts. This water in a closed container retains its properties, including the negative RP value in the range -400/-200 mV for at least 6 months. This resulted in the highly reliable differences in the EPI/GDV parameters before and after drinking this water. For all volunteers, an increase in the luminescence area was observed. The detected increase was tracked for 14 days for eight of the 20 subjects (40%) who took this water daily. All these results confirm the idea of the importance of the human aqua system for body functioning. Water is sensitive to the acoustic and electromagnetic effects, which may affect the cluster structure of intracellular water, and water entering the structure of meridians. It is shown that the acoustic signal can cause a wave resonance in a person's the aquatic systems. Our results illustrate the need for more careful handling of diagnostic ultrasound, especially in the early stages of pregnancy. It is known that organogenesis occurs in 6–-8 weeks of pregnancy. Strong external influence at this stage may cause teratogenic effects. It should be noted that the risk of ultrasound in early pregnancy has been demonstrated in experiments on animals such as pregnant mice and chimpanzees25,26 Conclusions 1. The results of our experiments prove that diagnostic ultrasound has a pronounced impact on the aquatic systems of a person. This study is especially relevant for assessing the risk involved in ultrasonography for the fetus in early pregnancy and for assuming that it is it as one of the causes of occupational diseases of doctors using ultrasound diagnostic and therapy. 2. The EPI/GDV method using the Bio-Well device allows detection of the effects of diagnostic ultrasound on the human aquatic systems, which allows us to recommend this device for the evaluation of such effects on the human body. 3. The obtained results allow a significantly extension the diagnostic interpretation of the Electrophotonic information, particularly in monitoring of the impact of any influences on the human body, both therapeutic and professional. This opens up perspectives for the use of the Bio-Well device to assess the impact of various medical technologies on the human body. 4. The obtained results should be considered as preliminary and need confirmation at the next level of experiments. Acknowledgments The authors thank the management of St. Petersburg "Yunionmed" Center for providing assistance and support in conducting the experiments. References 1. Slesarev VI, Danilov AD. 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