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swynlake-rp · 5 months ago

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PLOT ROUND-UP!

PROM 2024 / CASS, MOON, AND HIRO

Characters and Muns Involved: Cass Hamada & Moon Butterfly-Johansen [ft. Hiro]

Plot:

Cass and Moon attend Prom together as Besties. Hiro still thinks Moon is dating his Aunt Cass. Cass and Moon remain oblivious to this idea...

In an effort to make a good impression on her best friend's nephew, Moon offers to host Hiro, along with Cass and Tad, for dinner at her apartment... Which Hiro agrees to???

Meanwhile, Moon has her own prom night thoughts regarding her friendship with Cass.

DEVYN & VEE’S PROM SAGA

Characters and Muns Involved: Devyn Morey & Vee Carrero-Noceda

Plot:

Devyn invites Vee to Prom with a Promposal at the Opening Bonfire! They have a great time, dance, spend time together. At Prom, Vee reveals that they've started learning BSL, much to Devyn's excitement. Vee decides that they might try to take BSL classes at the Community Center. They get separated shortly after getting snacks together.

Each end up having to handle a separate family situation and aren't able to reconvene.

Vee texts Devyn back after prom, apologizing profusely.

PAPER THIN

Characters and Muns Involved: Toulouse, Hades, Belle

Plot: At their anniversary dinner, a night before their actual anniversary, which landed on the full moon this year--Hades, Belle, and Toulouse tried to enjoy a nice meal. However, Toulouse was in a bad mood and accused his partners of being obligated to celebrate instead of actually wanting to. This blew up into an argument, with Toulouse storming out. However, when Remy tried to stop him at the door, he turned into a werewolf in the middle of the restaurant before fleeing into the night.

LEARN ME RIGHT/HARRIS DUNBROCH’S DAY OUT

Characters and Muns Involved: Elinor, Merida, Harris, Hubert, and Hamish

Plot:

(takes place: week of April 9-18,,, listen time is relative)

Elinor and Merida go on a cross country road trip to bring Hubert home. Along the way, they fight each other and their enemies, together. Elinor also learns about Merida's gender identity. At the end, they rescue Hubert from the clutches of the Order. (He is not happy about this turn of events.)

While their mum and older sibling were gone, Harris and Hamish stayed with the Acherons. Hades and Belle received a phone call from the school, saying Harris was acting out. It was immediately obvious this was due to his magic. (He's a medium.) Hades tried to offer help, but Harris rejected him until the ghost that was haunting him attacked Hamish. Now, Harris is taking lessons from Hades and learning to control and embrace his magic.

WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO: THE SECRET LIVES OF TIOS

Characters and Muns Involved: Isabela, Félix, Bruno

Plot: After Isabela finds her tío Félix acting strange, he confesses that Bruno is alive, in town, and currently out having a secret meeting with her mother and tía. Isabela is not happy with this information, but promises not to tell her abuela or the other kids…

SHORTEST RELATIONSHIP EVER

Characters and Muns Involved: Evangeline, Remy, Cora, Mitte

Plot: At prom, Remy asked Evy to be his girlfriend and, of course!, she said yes!! And then--immediately introduced him to her girlfriends, Cora and Mitte. Whilst talking, Remy realized that Cora and Mitte were Evangeline's ~~girlfriends~~ (in a gay way). The next morning, Remy and Evy met in the park, where Remy broke up with her--citing different expectations. Both were sad. :(

GASTON’S GIRLS

Characters and Muns Involved: Gaston, Annie, Georgette , Madellaine

Plot: (all on discord) At prom, while Annie was in the bathroom, Gaston approached Georgette, flirted and danced with her. She encouraged this, intent on showing Annie that Gaston was a sleaze and not worth Annie's time. However, Annie took out her embarrassment and jealousy on Georgette, who was citing Girl Code as her defense--whilst Gaston was giving very much "I would like to be excused from this narrative." He and Annie left together, though he was seen later coming back into the dance hall and then leaving with Maddy…

ANATOBY’S CONFESSION

Characters and Muns Involved: Annie and Toby

Plot: After arguing with Gaston, Annie said she was going home alone… but ended up taking a detour to Toby’s apartment to vent about the situation. As he comforted her, Annie confessed that she had feelings for Toby, and he admitted he felt the same, and had for a long time. The next day, Annie suggested they date in secret— ostensibly because of their relationship as coworkers, but more honestly because Annie was afraid of people’s judgment.

MY HEART IS A HAUNTED HOUSE

Characters and Muns Involved: Snow, Gem, Bones, Elliot, King, Sophie, Ting-Ting, Wolf-- more minorly: Belle Hades

Plot:

Snow has been possessed!

Lady Miracle has become the ruthless mistress of the Hauntley Manor Inn, bossing around the staff and renovating the building. The Inn is currently closed, with no one, even staff allowed in and out. Gem pissed off Lady Miracle breaking into the Inn--in retaliation she destroyed the sun room he built--but not before Snow broke through and gave Gem an important piece of information: speak to the Captain, another ghost that haunts the inn.

Recruiting Elliot, Gem comes back the next day to be met with an unhappy Wolf and Bones. While they are speaking, Hades--who sensed the disturbance in the force the night before--comes to warn them they must act fast or Snow will be lost to them forever…

NEW HEARTS ARC

Characters and Muns Involved: Raksha, Dhaumya, Babette, Tibbs Buster, Doc, Hera, Remy, Dian, Annie, Vixey, Toulouse, Belle, Félix

Plot: Due to Dhaumya's symptoms getting worse, Raksha takes him to see Hera and Doc. They tell her that Dhaumya is very sick. She cannot go to the hospital. She must leave work early to deal with Dhaumya when Babette calls. The next time this happens, Tibbs makes the call to take Dhaumya to the hospital--where the staff find out that he is a werewolf. Dian and Vixey refuse to work on him. Tibbs takes over to do the surgery. CPS is called on Raksha and Belle comes in to threaten to sue. An article about the staff that wouldn't work on Dhaumya circulates, leading Toulouse to publish a letter to the editor. At the end of the day, Dhaumya got his surgery and is on the path to full recovery. <3

PUT ME IN, COACH!

Characters and Muns Involved: Lightning, Doc, Cruz

Plot: After months of trying to change, Lightning begins to reconnect with Cruz. After consulting with Doc, Lightning decides to run one last race— and ask Cruz to coach him. Cruz says yes.

BRUCE SWIMS AWAY

Characters and Muns Involved: Bruce, Gil, Snow, King, Herc , Finn, Maddy, Arista, Ariel, Luca

Plot: Bruce decides to return to the ocean. He says goodbye to many friends, including Snow, whom he finds out from King is possessed and therefore all he can do is write her a letter to read later. Gil helps him reach Samoa which is close to where he was originally taken from the ocean and therefore where he will find his pod. Thanks to a member of his pod having a gift for speaking to sea creatures, word travels around the world and eventually to Luca that Bruce has made it home safely— and he has a son!

GO FOR THE GOLD!!! #TEAMSWYNLAKE!

OTMS

MUN: L Milo broke his curse, the Phillies are #1 in the league, and Lauren is killing it! We’ve loved to see all the big moves L is making lately! CHARACTER: EILONWY! We would just like to point out that this is the second year in a row Eilonwy received MULTIPLE nominations for June Character OTM! Yes, that’s right, the Summer Solstice arc is always that good. We’re so happy we get another year with the sunshine queen! THREAD: MY HEART IS A HAUNTED HOUSE THREADS! Members are riveted by this complex plot and all the moving pieces. Hauntings! Heartbreak! Sentient houses! This plot really has it all. Special shoutout to the Hauntley break-in thread where Gem fights the house— epic stuff! TASK: GEM’S QUEER AWAKENING! Props to C for creating an in-universe book! This was so creative and we love when people build out the world of SwynRP like this!

BOARD UPDATES

None!

TASKS

POSTCARDS FROM YOU!: Make (or find) a graphic that represents a postcard your character has sent! Write the letter that they’re sending. This is totally open to turn into a multimedia thread, or a self-para moment. Like we always say, the rules are but guidelines! The minimum you need is a postcard and the words your character writes <3 GO FOR THE GOLD!: The Olympics kicks off this month! Write a self-para of your character doing a sport. Check out the list of Olympic sports for inspo! (600 words)

EVENTS

JULY 3 - 10: FAIRY FLOATILLA! Ahem! After a few hiccups… the Floatilla is here to usher in midsummer! Watch the talented fairies lead performances out on the lake! Canonically on July 6.

JULY 10-17: SHANG’S HOUSEWARMING PARTY - Shang is celebrating his new home ownership by hosting a party! Everyone over 18 is welcome! Come on over and eat, drink, swim or dance the night away.

JULY 17 - 24: LANTERN FESTIVAL! A Swynlake tradition! Gather around the lake to send lanterns off into the evening sky with wishes written inside. Canonically on July 20.

JULY 24 - JULY 31: CASINO NIGHT AT THE COURT OF MIRACLES! Come out to the Court of Miracles for a themed casino night! Want to get involved? Reach out to Jasper (Gigi) or Jessica (Lins) if your character wants to perform or be a dealer! Canonically on July 28.

JULY 24 - 31: BOARD MEETING! A lot has happened this past month! Come out to Town Hall and talk to the Board! Canonically on July 25.

BIRTHDAYS

Characters:

Fawn Tumbleclaw – July 5

Luisa Madrigal – July 6

Amity Blight – July 7

Angelo "Ronno" Spiridakos – July 12

Raksha Bhediya – July 13

Isaac Morey – July 21

Julieta Madrigal – July 23

Pepa Madrigal – July 23

Bruno Madrigal – July 23

Errol Woolf – July 25

Hercules Kouros – July 26

Benjamin Drakken – July 27

Luz Noceda – July 28

William "Bullseye" Stoddard – July 29

Tinker Bell – July 30

Al McWiggin – July 31

#swynnewsletter

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remversestudios · 4 years ago

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Got back my Kirkus Review! Overall, I’m super happy with what I got back. Check it out when you get the chance!

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netmassimo · 3 years ago

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The novel "Cassandra's War" by David Bruns and Chris Pourteau was published for the first time in 2018. It's the second book in The SynCorp Saga series and follows "The Lazarus Protocol".

Both Anthony Taulke and Ming Qinlao find themselves in complex situations that force them to rather extreme measures, sometimes relying on the help of someone else. Their paths cross again but are their agendas still compatible?

Luca Vasquez is working on an animal experiment that gives unexpected results and what lies behind it is about to lead to the death of all the guinea pigs. Luca wants to save them and what she discovered piques the interest of General William Graves, who has just obtained a promotion to receive an important assignment. Their paths also cross with that of Remy Cade, who has to make difficult decisions about the woman he loves.

#science fiction #scifi #novel #review #The SynCorp Saga

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lokiondisneyplus · 4 years ago

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The wonderful Mancunian actress Wunmi Mosaku can be seen grappling with a leather-skinned monster in the horror film His House and drinking a body-swapping potion before having sex with a wizard in the HBO/Sky series Lovecraft Country. Pure hokum, right? After all, this is a woman who made her name with gritty performances on British television in Moses Jones and Luther, and who won a Bafta for playing Gloria Taylor, mother of the murdered Damilola, in Damilola, Our Loved Boy. Has moving to Los Angeles played havoc with her sense of reality?

Actually, no. His House and Lovecraft Country belong to a new generation of accomplished, provocative stories that invite us to compare the terror and violence of genre fantasy with that of the real world. They include the Emmy-winning Watchmen miniseries, which used Alan Moore’s superhero saga as a jumping-off point to explore bigotry and civil rights, and such racially charged horror movies as Us and the Oscar-winning Get Out, both directed by Jordan Peele, who is an executive producer on Lovecraft Country.

“The horror of humanity is the real horror, the things that we put people through,” says Mosaku, 34, via Zoom from Atlanta in the US. It’s hard to disagree. The most disturbing thing about His House isn’t the haunted council home assigned to her character, Rial, and her husband, Bol (Sope Dirisu), on their arrival in the UK from South Sudan. It’s what the couple endured before they got there: massacres, institutional brutality and losing their child as they cross the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy.

Jurnee Smollett alongside Mosaku in the HBO/Sky series Lovecraft Country ALAMY

Meanwhile, the fang-filled, head-chomping bogeymen in the Fifties-set Lovecraft Country are puppy dogs compared with the racist cops, lynch-hungry rednecks and white men burning crosses on the lawn of their black Chicago neighbours.

The fantastical elements of His House have their roots in Rial and Bol’s grief, guilt and trauma. Yet Mosaku thinks that the heightened experience of watching horror, with its jump scares, musical cues and manipulative editing, is “a great vehicle” for conveying those more earthbound emotions. “It helps with empathy,” she says. “The tension, the way one’s heart beats when watching something that’s terrifying.”

In this tricksy new dramatic world we’re often not sure if the monsters are real. The events of His House, Mosaku says, “feel like they could absolutely be in their heads”. In Lovecraft Country three characters wake up the day after a horrific battle with the aforementioned fanged beasts but two of them can no longer remember it. This is a kind of gaslighting, echoing the way that black people’s testimony of mistreatment has been challenged.

Mosaku’s hardest scenes in Lovecraft Country came when her character, Ruby, drinks a potion that temporarily turns her into a white woman. This allows her to experience privilege — suddenly, strangers are deferential and policemen believe what she says. Things take a more lurid turn when she drinks the potion before having sex with a white man (actually a white woman in magical disguise — it’s complicated). At an, erm, crucial juncture, the potion wears off and her pale skin cracks and peels away.

Idris Elba with Mosaku in Luther, one of the British TV shows in which the actress made her name BBC/ALAMY

It’s an upsetting sequence, aesthetically and symbolically. “It brings up lots of crazy thoughts and rage and pain,” Mosaku says. “But I think the reality is that if any of us changed the skin that we lived in, whether it was to be someone who was disabled or Asian or LGBTQ+, the world changes how it reacts to us.

“People are threatened because of my skin [which] is weaponised against me,” Mosaku says. “My stature and the fact that I don’t conform to Western ideas of beauty with my afro and my west African gap [teeth]. I have to overcompensate, to say, ‘That isn’t me. Just because I’m 5ft 9in and black doesn’t mean that I’m threatening.’ I am a happy, joyful person. But I am not allowed to express any kind of frustration or anger, because I get boxed straight back into that thing that they always thought I was.”

Born in Nigeria, she moved with her family to Manchester when she was a year old. Her parents had been professors, but struggled to find similar work in the UK. In the end her mother started her own business and her father returned to Nigeria after the couple split up. Mosaku loved music as a girl, singing for 11 years with the Manchester Girls Choir, and she shows off her gorgeous voice in Lovecraft Country, belting out Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby in a party scene.

She doesn’t speak Yoruba, her parents’ native tongue. “It’s a real shame,” she says, telling a story from her primary school years to explain why. She is dyslexic, but at that point it was undiagnosed. “My teachers saw I was struggling with reading and writing and told my parents that they needed to stop speaking Yoruba in the house, which is crazy, because they would never have done that to a French family.” For His House she learnt Dinka, the dominant language of South Sudan, as well as being tutored in the culture of the region and hearing testimonials from refugees who had made the journey through the Sahara to north Africa and across the Mediterranean.

She was set on studying maths after school until she decided at the 11th hour that she preferred acting. Hearing that another Mancunian, Albert Finney, had gone to Rada, she applied and got in. Soon after graduating she was being directed by Rupert Goold in Rough Crossings at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, and appearing in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour at the Royal Court. “Theatre is my jam,” she says. Every time she and her American husband come to the UK, “We will see a play as soon as we land. We’ll go to the Young Vic with our suitcases straight from the flight.”

After several years of yo-yoing between America and the UK, Lovecraft Country is the first time she has worked in the US for an extended period. It’s not certain whether the show will return for a second season, despite critical plaudits and ratings that compare favourably with other HBO series such as Watchmen and Succession. Either way, Mosaku seems happily ensconced in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, who she would rather not name.

There are strong rumours of a role in Loki, the superhero spin-off series in which Tom Hiddleston returns as the trickster god from the Marvel films, alongside Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Mosaku says, with an evenness that sounds practised. Given that she’s speaking from Atlanta and that’s where they’re filming the show, it would seem a good bet.

Eventually Mosaku says she would like to move behind the camera. “Even some of my favourite films, it might be a black story, but it’s written by a white person and directed by a white person,” she says. That’s the next barrier for people of colour, and it’s starting to come down, thanks to Peele; Misha Green, the creator of Lovecraft Country; Remi Weekes, the director of His House, and the like.

Mosaku talks about the notion of double consciousness, as explored in Toni Morrison’s novels: “The way that the world will box me up before I’ve even had a chance to prove who I am. It’s exhausting. Trying to do things without having to explain or apologise is really refreshing. That’s what I love about Lovecraft and I think His House does it too. We don’t need to explain. Let’s just be.” His House is in cinemas now and on Netflix from October 30. Lovecraft Country is on Sky Atlantic, Now TV, Amazon and Google

#Wunmi Mosaku #Loki #Lovecraft Country #Luther #His House

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unblogparaloschicos · 4 years ago

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Personajes: 10 jóvenes artistas que forman parte de la comunidad LGBTQ (y quizás no lo sabías)

Si Brad Pitt anunciara hoy su homosexualidad no causaría tanta conmoción como la que generó el actor Rock Hudson en 1985: claro que el anunció de este galán de Hollywood venía con la consecuencia de otro anuncio más fuerte: padecía lo estragos del VIH. Un mazazo que anunciaba que la homosexualidad o la bisexualidad eran más que secretos a viva voz: cualquier artista, por muy machote que se presentara en pantalla o en público, podría tener un pasado gay bajo las sábanas.

El mundo del espectáculo, que suele mostrar aristas mucho más benévolas de las que esconde, ha visto (u ocultado) a artistas gays, lesbianas y bisexuales casi desde siempre. Y éstos se han visto obligados a mantener una realidad paralela para esconder sus verdaderas inclinaciones sexuales, con el fin de evitar cualquier consecuencia negativa sobre sus carreras.

¿Que todo tiempo pasado fue mejor? No en este caso. Actores como Richard Chamberlain (celebrado tras su protagónico en la miniserie ”El pájaro canta hasta morir”: pregúntale a tu madre o a tu abuela si este título no te suena) o George Takei (“Viaje a las estrellas”) tuvieron que “salir del armario” a una edad avanzada, cuando los mejores años de sus carreras ya habían pasado. No todos tienen la suerte de “estar afuera” y gozar de una vida laboral extraordinaria, como Sir Ian McKellen (de la saga ”El Señor de los Anillos”, por mencionar el más popular de sus distinguidos trabajos) o la conductora Ellen DeGeneres, lo que tampoco quiere decir que la hayan tenido fácil.

Las etiquetas y los temores están cayendo. Los artistas de la actualidad exponen sus realidades sexuales con tal desparpajo que probablemente les cause envidia y satisfacción a quienes no lograron sortear el estigma en años pasados. He aquí algunos de estos casos.

1 - Nicholas Hamilton

Fue el hijo rebelde que se le plantó a papá Viggo Mortensen en la celebradísima “Capitán fantástico” (2016) y el deleznable Henry Bowers en “It” (2017) e “It: Capítulo Dos” (2019). La foto lo presenta en la premiére de ésta última producción en compañía de su novio Mihali Sergakis. No ha establecido definición alguna sobre si se reconoce como una persona gay, bisexual, pansexual o queer. Y, honestamente, no importa.

2 - Slade Pearce

Uno de sus primeros trabajos fue en la película “Los tuyos, los míos y los nuestros” (2005), en donde encarnaba uno de los ocho hijos de Rene Russo, los cuales se juntaban con los diez del rectísimo almirante de la Guardia Costera, encarnado por Dennis Quaid, para provocar un caos hogareño sin precedentes. Desde entonces, Pearce (el caballero de la derecha) ha ido alternando participaciones televisivas en series como “Dr. House”, “Ghost Whisperer” o “Crossing Jordan” y en películas como “Air Buddies”, “Whitney Brown” o “Miss Marzo”. El 11 de octubre de 2018 publicó un mensaje revelando su temor inicial a revelar su homosexualidad. Un camino extenso y de mucha crisis personal, pero tras el cual, después de mucho tiempo, había logrado hacer las paces con sí mismo y aceptarse tal como era, instando a que quienes se hallen en su misma situación a que no teman hacerlo porque vale la pena.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bozt_UIlNG-/

3 - Amybeth McNulty

“Anne With An E“. Sólo el título de esta serie canadiense será un dato más que suficiente para reconocer a la protagonista de esta mención. Irlandesa de nacimiento, en la ficción está profundamente enamorada del bombón de Gilbert Blythe (Lucas Jade Zumann) mientras que en la vida real se ha definido como bisexual: fue el 18 de junio de este tristemente célebre 2020, y casi “sin querer queriendo”.

https://meaww.com/anne-with-an-e-amybeth-mc-nulty-accidentally-comes-out-as-bisexual-fans-reactions-pride-month

4 - Josie Totah

Hubo un tiempo en que Josie Totah llevaba en los créditos de su trabajos en cine y televisión el nombre de JJ Totah. JJ inició su camino en la actuación en 2012 en una serie de comedia con sketches llamado “Kroll Show”. La televisión acogió al entonces pequeño, que desperdigó su talento en series de Disney como “Jessie”, “Nina Needs to Go!” o “Princesita Sofia“ hasta que comenzó a ganar notoriedad al aparecer en la aclamada serie “Glee“ como el avispado Myron Muskovitz. En 2016 llegó al cine en cintas como “Time Toys” y “Other People” hasta que da un gran paso al aparecer en “Spider-Man: De regreso a casa” (2017). Totah ha desarrollado gran parte de su carrera en la televisión: estrenada en 2020, “Magic Camp” sería la última vez filmó con apariencia masculina: en la serie de Netflix “No Good Nick” (2019) ya empezaremos a verla acreditada en un rol femenino. Aunque no sabemos si Lisa Haddad, nombre de su personaje, fue concebida originalmente como una adolescente transexual o como una mujer.

(Foto: https://euforia.org.es/)

5 y 6 - Connor Jessup y Miles Heizer

Quién hubiera adivinado que el chico de las series “Falling Skies” y “Locke & Key” y el actor de “Por trece razones” habrían entablado un romance, pero aquí están. Jessup había hecha pública su orientación sexual en un posteo en Instagram del 24 de junio de 2019, en el que revelaba que ya la conocía desde sus trece años (https://www.instagram.com/p/BzE6A9llBf2/?utm_source=ig_embed). Heizer, por su parte, nunca utilizó sus redes sociales para ofrecer algún comentario (¿por qué debería hacerlo?) sobre su vida personal, pero aquí está.

Este es el post en el que Jessup confirma su relación con Heizer:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8m4GG7lMjV/?utm_source=ig_embed

7 - Jaden Smith

Hijo de los actores Will Smith y Jada Pinkett Smith (a esta altura, ¿quién no lo sabe?), Jaden arrancó su carrera en el videoclip de “Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)”, tema escrito e interpretado por papá Will para la película “Hombres de negro II”. Primer paso de una carrera en la que su progenitor fue criticado por nepotismo, ya que su vástago lo acompañó en “En busca de la felicidad” (2007), “Karate Kid” (la versión del 2010, producida por su padre) o “Después de la Tierra” (2013). Su carrera fluctúa entre la actuación y la música, cuyo géneros predilectos son el hip hop y el rap.

En un concierto efectuado en noviembre de 2018, Jaden afirmó que el rapero Tyler The Creator era su pareja. Parecía broma, pero el muchacho lo confirmó en una entrevista para “Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio, The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story”.

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/jaden-smith-confirms-tyler-the-creator-is-his-boyfriend/

8 - Bella Thorne

Actriz, modelo y cantante, Thorne goza de una carrera extensa que se inició en el modelaje a los seis meses y continuó con un rol no acreditado en la comedia “Inseparablemente juntos” (o “Pegado a ti”, 2003), adonde trabajó junto a su hermano Remy. A principios de la siguiente década, su fama despegó de la mano de su asociación con Disney a través de apariciones en un episodio de “Los hechiceros de Waverly Place”, otro de “Buena suerte, Charlie”, la película de Disney Channel “Amienemigos” (2012), la serie “A todo ritmo” (en la que compartió protagonismo con Zendaya) y un rol secundario en la película “ Alexander y un día terrible, horrible, malo... ¡muy malo!” (2014).

A título personal, 2016 fue un año ajetreado para ella: finalizó una relación con el actor británico Gregg Sulkin, tuvo un romance efímero con Tyler Posey y se declaró bisexual; más tarde se rectificaría, reconociéndose, en julio de 2019, como pansexual.

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/bella-thorne-pansexual-opens-overcoming-abuse-bullying-64472878

9 - Buddy Handleson

Si quizás conoces su rostro es porque ha desempeñado casi toda su carrera en el ámbito televisivo, en especial en canales de entretenimiento infantil como Disney (”Hannah Montana”, “A todo ritmo”, “Doctora juguetes”, “Sydney como Max”) o Nickelodeon (”Wendell & Vinnie”, “Bella y los Bulldogs”, “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn”). El 25 de junio de 2017, Handleson posteó esta imagen en su cuenta de Instagram. Su declaración: “Hace un par de años me he venido sintiendo más y más confortable con respecto a mi sexualidad y creo que estoy listo para compartirlo con el resto del mundo. Finalmente estoy en una etapa de mi vida en la que puedo decir: Estoy orgulloso de lo que soy. Estoy orgulloso de ser gay”. (No busquen este posteo: por algún motivo desconocido, la cuenta se ha borrado y ha abierto una nueva).

10 - Joshua Rush

Y por último, el caballero que ha tenido el honor de personificar al primer personaje adolescente y gay en una serie de Disney: el inolvidable Cyrus Goodman en “Andi Mack”. Rush comenzó a modelar a los diez meses de edad y a actuar en el 2009 en un papelito en la serie “Private Practice”. Entonces, ni siquiera contaba ocho primaveras.

Así sumó pequeños roles televisivos hasta que en el 2012 es llamado a convertirse en el nieto de Bette Midler y Billy Crystal en la comedia “S.O.S.: Familia en apuros”. Tras años alternando actuación en vivo con doblaje (en series como “Clarence”, “Star Versus las Fuerzas del Mal” o “La guardia del león”), en 2017 llega su gran oportunidad con “Andy Mack”.

Activista ambiental y político (se identifica con el Partido Demócrata), el 6 de agosto de 2019 declara, además de ser judío, que tiene algo en común con su personaje más consagrado: también él pertenece a la comunidad LGBTQ, identificándose como bisexual.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/06/joshua-rush-comes-out-bisexual-andi-mack-cyrus-goodman/

#adolescencia #gay #bisexual #pansexual #celebridades #NicholasHamilton #MihaliSergakis #SladePearce #AmybethMcNulty #JosieTotah #JJTotah #ConnorJessup #MilesHeizer #JadenSmith #TylerTheCreator #BellaThorne #BuddyHandleson #JoshuaRush

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hi-i-love-u-bitch · 6 years ago

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Excuse me! But where is my Sanders Sides Gamer AU???

Voices in my head: Gee Bunny, it seems you have no problem writing a lot of other fics and stuff yet you still haven’t even finished the next chapter of your Spiderverse fic???

Me: SHUT THE FUCK UP DISEMBODIED VOICES IN MY HEAD!!! IF YOU WANT THAT FIC DONE SO BADLY TELL MY LOGIC AND CREATIVITY TO GET THEIR ASSES IN GEAR AND GIVE ME SOME GOD DAMN INSPIRATION!!!!

Voices in my head:.....

Me: Yeah, that’s what I thought! Anyways, idk if I just missed a memo or something but I haven’t seen any Gamer AU of my boys and that is a crime in and of itself! Like, how dare! But fret not, I am here to provide content (Read: headcannons) that you did not ask for! Let us begin! Or should I say start!

(please note that I am not a gaming expert so feel free to add or correct stuff)

NOW WITH A PART 2!!!!

MAIN SQUAD

Roman Rosewood

Obviously loves RPGs! Anything with a good story line really! Or has medieval fantasy aesthetic!

Skyrim, Diablo, Undertale, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Fallout, Red Dead Redemption, Undertales, Dragon Age, God of War Dark Souls, Assassins Creed, Earthbound, etc.

Played West of Loathing just so he could rip on it but actually ended up loving it and spending way to many hours playing. Then he found out there was a game called Kingdom of Loathing by the same creators and went down that rabbit hole as well.

He was iffy about getting into JRPGs but then Virgil convinced him to play Persona 5 and he absolutely fell in love with the music!

All the music in his phone is either from musicals or Video games!

Also really likes choose your own adventure games like Detroit: Become Human, Life is Strange, and Telltale Games

So much video game merch! Usually figurines because he likes to make little shelves and display cases for them.

He also really likes multiplayer games because he’s a social butterfly and likes to play with his squad.

Sucks at first person shooter games but still willingly plays Fortnight or Call of Duty or Left for Dead with his friends because he doesn’t want to be a drag and complain. But also they sometimes die in game in the most hilarious ways and it just leaves everybody wheezing.

Virgil Dante

Horror games, obvs!

All about that dark aesthetic!

Devil May Cry, Silent Hill, Fran Bow, Sally Face, Resident Evil, The Witch’s House, Amnesia, Little Nightmares, Bendy and The Ink Machine, Alice: Madness Returns, SCP-Containment, Pony Island, etc.

Yes, he’s played all the Five Nights At Freddy’s games. It’s a good series and it isn’t his fault the fandom is bat shit crazy and full of ten year olds! Fuck you Roman!

Every time the Walking Dead comes out he knows he’ll end up crying by the end of it. He and the squad make and event out of it.

Japanese horror games are usually his favorite because they deal more with the psychological aspects of horror instead of the jump scares

So, yes, he’s also a fan of Corps Party and Fatal Frame

Also really good at first person shooters because he has a really steady hand (you usually have to when playing horror games least you want to restart the level) and it pisses Roman off to no end every time Virgil randomly headshots him.

Usually likes to by merch in the form of posters, t-shirts, or beanies. He only buys figurines if it’s a game he really, really likes.

At first didn’t know why people kept bugging him to play Doki Doki Literature Club but then he finally caved and...oh...that’s why.

Logan Mill

My boy loves puzzle and strategy games yo!

Legend of Zelda, Portal, Tetris, Unravel, World of Goo, Inside, Limbo, Pokemon, Shadow of the Colossus, StarCraft, Command and Conquer, Age of Empire, Heart of Iron, World of Warcraft, etc.

He likes Overwatch but doesn’t like playing with people online so he usual solos or asks the others to play. But that too usually ends in chaos.

Hates rage games because he gets frustrated easily and has broken at least four keyboards and two controllers

He still plays them anyways because he can beat it damn it! Just give him a minute!

Enjoys the God of War series despite all the mythological inaccuracies

He plays a lot of Minecraft to relax or destress and has build beautiful works of architecture and sometimes entire cities.

He thought it was stupid and childish and was embarrassed about it for a long time until the squad came over to his house one day uninvited and caught him playing. He was getting ready for them to make fun of him but they instead gushed about how AMAZING everything looked and how TALENTED he was for building all himself.

Logan ends up showing them how to play afterwards and they work together to make weird sculptures and complex tunnels underground.

He likes practical merch like backpacks, coffee mugs, pencil holders, notebooks, ect. as well as a few t-shirts and novelty ties.

Yes, he does collect Pokemon cards!

Patton Adley

Silly dating sims, farming games, and any cute game really! Plus a few side scroller games!

Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Slime Rancher, The Sims, Dream Daddy, Animal Crossing, Kirby, Monster Prom, Hatoful Boyfriend, Scribblenauts, Night In The Woods, Ni Nu Kuni, etc.

Big Nintendo fan!

He made the mistake of playing Doki Doki Literature Club without reading the warning tags and regrets it immensely...still a good game though.

He did the same thing with Huni Pop but that one made him laugh more then anything and he kind of got addicted to it. Then he found out there was a sequel called HuniCam so he went down that rabbit hole too.

He likes a lot of phone app games too like Cut the Rope, Neko Atsume, and Candy Crush.

Loves trashy dating app games, he thinks they’re so funny and cheesy

He was addicted to Mystic Messenger for a long while

Just because he has his preference doesn’t mean he won’t try other games too, Logan got him hooked on World of Warcraft (though really he did that to everyone), Virgil showed him Hollow Knight, and Roman suggested he play Undertales.

Prefers merch in the form of plushies and key chains!

He likes to bake and decorate cookies, cakes and pastries in the form of his favorite video game characters.

RED SQUAD

Duncan [Deceit] Adley (Patton’s twin)

A lot of first person shooter and combat games!

Doom Series, Super Smash Bros, Mortal Combat, Halo, Fortnight, Grand Theft Auto, Street Fighter, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Half-Life, Team Fortress, Destiny, Wolfenstein, Bio Shock, Splatoon, PUBg etc.

Patton was the one that introduced him to Splatoon and he won’t admit that it’s actually super fun.

Doesn’t mind story driven games and RPGs but he really just wants something he can zone out to and relax

He likes to troll people online, mainly assholes picking on little kids who just want to play.

He once teamed up with a group of kids on Call of Duty solely for the purpose of collectively kicking the asses of this groups of so called “real gamers” that were being jerks.

Has memorized all the combos! He doesn’t have time to sit and look up a cool finishing move, he needs it now!

Always mains the weakest/most useless character in fighting games and still manages to kick everyone’s ass.

Doesn’t have a preference in merch and usually grabs whatever he likes be it figurines, t-shirts, posters, plushies, or whatever, so long as he likes the game it comes from.

Has several tattoos from his favorite games

Emile Picani

Classic retro games, cartoonish games, and Nintendo are his jam broham!

Mario, Classic Sonic, Paper Boy, Transylvania, Spyro, Pac Man, All the Saga Disney games, Duck Hunt, Mario Kart, Galaga, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, Secret of Mana, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, etc.

Absolutely fell in love with Shovel Knight when it came out!

Remy got him into all the indie pixel games: Towerfall, Terraria, Owlboy, Hotline Miami, Papers Please, Celeste, One Shot, etc.

Duncan was the one that introduced him to Cuphead and the usually play it together and see how far each of them can go without dying.

The game is difficult but the art is still so breathtaking!

Likes the occasional psychological thriller game

Bet Virgil showed him Alice: Madness Returns and Doki Doki Literature Club (after he’s played it of course)

Likes plushies and figurine merch with the occasional poster and coffee mug.

Likes to doodle a lot of his fav video game characters and cartoons and is actually really good at it. He helped design most of Duncan’s tattoos.

Remy Knightly

Likes a lot of indie games and old online flash games!

The Stanley Parables, Oxenfree, Inside, Firewatch, Super MeatBoy, The Binding of Issac, Donut County, Henry Stickman series, Impossible Quiz, Crush the Castle series, Hyper Light Drifter, etc.

He always gets everybody hooked on one game or another

He convinced everyone to play Undertales so for like a month they all went through a HUGE Undertales faze.

Was the actual, ACTUAL one that showed Duncan Cuphead because he knew the dork would be reminded of Emile because of the animation and would want to show it to him and play multiplayer (*cough* subtle matchmaker *cough*)

(Do not be fooled, he is a pinning boy himself)

Is up to date in all the gossip of the latest games and consuls, indie or mainstream! He’s in the know, know and if you need to know something chances are Remy probably knows it.

Weeds out through all the indie horror games for Virgil and recommends what he thinks are the best ones.

Same thing with Logan and his puzzle games, he’s usually is able to find very strange ones and Logan seems to likes those best.

Obviously has a lot of merch in coffee mug and thermal form as well as a few key chains.

Occasionally streams on Twitch with Duncan and Emile (sometimes inviting the main squad too), they’re commentary is usual hilarious.

#thomas sanders #sanders sides #roman sanders #virgil sanders #logan sanders #patton sanders #remy sanders #sleep sanders #deceit sanders #sympathetic deceit #emile picani #red #prinxeity #logicality #(kind of mainly in my head)#video games #gamer au

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emmelfish · 6 years ago

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So, it looks like the roaring success of a wedding party added to Brandi’s reputation. You sure you don’t wanna roundhouse kick your BFF Dina there for smooching your firstborn son?

(John Burb – lover of drama, sitter of fences, gossip extraordinaire and never met a dirty joke he doesn’t like – glides by without a word but a mental note to regale his wife with all the sordid details.)

I still don’t know which of the two of them initiated that, but I guess this is what happens when you combine cute blond Fortune sims, one of whom has recently reached an... eligible age?... and our old friend ACR.

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Darren had at least five of those six beers, so this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Dreamer, I’m cutting you off!

Time to celebrate the transition of the terrible twins, the perfect ending to this... interesting wedding.

Growing up next to a rain puddle, is it everything you ever dreamed of Skip Jr?

Sadly, it’s also time to say goodbye to the Mortimer Goth cosplay and the buzzcut...

... and hello to... this! I’m pretty sure given he’s Sloppy and Playful, SJ’ll be a Nature sim, so it’s not even like this is hobby-appropriate costuming (it’d be better for his sister, she’s bound to be Sports or Fitness with her personality points).

There’s something so ritualistic about the way they stand around cheering somebody aging, I love it. It’s even better in weddingwear.

I’m also a big fan of how different Skip Jr looks to his older brothers. And this genetic correctness! I’m not sure how we ever put up with the gender-reversed Brandi clone EAxis stuck in the vanilla game. THANK YOU @meetmetotheriver 💟

I’m excited that he grew up well, but scared of what kind of child he’ll be. Nowhere near as terrified as I am re: Suse though.

Darren finally told one dirty joke too many? And in front of A CHILD?! No wonder he and John Burb get along so well.

Beau: Hey I’m gonna be a teenager in like a day, I can take it.

We’ll be the judge of that.

Oh god, I don’t know if I even really want to do this, but here we go.

Yo Bran, when did you change into your afterparty gear? (Seriously, I had no idea she had that maternity formalwear lurking in her wardrobe.)

Susie: *stares at fire* Yes, yes, consume the souls of my nemeses...

Skip Jr: Uh, Mr Dad, I think you’re supposed to put her down.

Beau: This is gold.

Skip Jr: Seriously DreamerDaddy, I really think she’s meant to be on the floor...?

Skip Jr: I can’t watch.

(Legitimately though, at this point I was hiding from the screen and peeping through my fingers to take these screenshots. I love a good glitch, but this was beyond terrifying.)

OH MY GOD.

THEY’VE MERGED INTO SOME KIND OF MONSTER.

Oh thank heavens. I just had Darren do the ‘put Susie here’ action and while her arms did get stuck like this for a while, everything went back to normal and she was a child and not some warped giant baby. Good bloody lord! Darren, had you forgotten how to transition a toddler? Dirk’s not that old!

Hey Suse, you’d better not be hunting bugs just to set fire to them.

Susie: Well I won’t be setting fire to anything if my stupid jar stays this empty.

While I’m kind of loving Susie’s blazer and jeans, gotta get those twins into the colors they were in as tots. It’s my rule! (When feasible.)

Yeah we get it guys, you love each other because you’re both pretty awful. Had enough of this yet Beau?

Beau: Urgh. I’m disappearing into a place where I can control everything, thank you very much. This here dollhouse.

That sounds like a strangely familiar concept.

Ah, back to some semblance of a (relatively) normal life! Skip Jr’s already making good use of those Playful Grouchy traits by beating Beau to death with a pillow, and Susie’s slyly charming her way into an older brother’s affections just as she did with Dustin.

This loading screen will look rather different... imminently. Room for two more?

Oh yeah! Remember Dustin’s strange schoolfriend who marched brazenly into the Broke trailer and randomly picked up and snuggled the twins when they were but babes? Skip Jr clearly does, and now that he can articulate this experience, is telling Beau just how traumatic it was.

Back to plate-making, you! Yes I know you want a vacay, and you’ll get one when you sell several more of these. Also what’s that ‘get caught cheating’ fear? Why is cheating even crossing your mind? You literally just got married and it upped your chem with Daz by one whole bolt – three is the magic number, don’t mess with perfection!

With Susie being an active-grouchy sports lover, I got her a nice Goal of Paul to play with. Of course the first thing she does is stand in it and jeer her brother.

Skip Jr: Listen sis, this is your game not mine.

I’m fine with whatever happens as long as that ball doesn’t hit poor Darleen’s gravestone.

Susie: So what we got going here.

Beau: Well we have this whole saga, see. Shirley here has been struggling with her feelings towards Muriel for quite some time now –

Susie: So she sets fire to Muriel’s hair in a passionate fury and then these two ladies over here come and chop her good with samurai swords to avenge Muriel?

Beau: Uh, no –

Susie: ‘I curse the day Shirley was born!’ ‘As do I, we will demand blood for blood!’

Beau: *sighs* Not really what I was going for. How exactly are we related again?

Susie: This is great! Do you have any of those little green army men? Let’s have them explode the house in an act of WAR.

Oh hi! Tinkering Lady is COOL! Dirk finally bagged the elusive invite to go play with cars and trains and robots. I think he’s our first too.

I am going to aggressively marry her into one of the families at some point, I have to. Boho style, badass purple streak in her hair and pink eyes too? She has it all!

Brandi, that is not acceptable. You have a pottery badge for crying out loud.

Oh okay, you’re going into labor. I suppose that’s a fair excuse.

Even cool Tinkering Lady is running to see the miracle of life!

Darren: Oh, you’re having the babies, love? That’s nice.

THE MOTHERFUDGING VERTICAL RING GLITCH IS BACK AGAIN ON HIS SECOND FRIGGING MARRIAGE

Susie?

Susie: Astarte and Proserpine are busy avenging Muriel and fending off acts of terror, god, leave me alone.

Dirk looks like he’s singing a power ballad and I’m loving it. Meanwhile Beau is like, this ain’t my first rodeo.

Here we go... again. AGAIN.

The cramming into the doorway while Brandi gives birth in the narrowest place in the whole house is a treat tbh.

And here they are! We gots two gals. Not saying they’re not lovely, call me a picky sim breeder but I was expecting them to be... at least S3? The genetics in this game confuse me sometimes.

Speaking of genetics, look at this brown-eyed babe! Take your pick, they could be from Brandi’s dad or either or Darren’s parents. I’ve named them after surrealist artists (because I figured their parents’d be into that), so we have little Frida here...

... and mere seconds younger, her sister Remedios!

As per usual everybody cheers the firstborn twin and poor Remy doesn’t get a look-in. Even Susie dragged herself away from her macabre soap opera to say hi.

Susie: Who run the world? GIRLS! Who run the world?

Skip Jr: Bang bang!

Beau: No. I only have three Playful points. I refuse to engage in your nonsense.

And here are the twin ladies in their matching rubberbabybuggybumpers. Next up, we have our dearest Beau hitting teenhood! I’m gonna miss him as a kid.

#emmelfishuberhood

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the-continuum · 3 years ago

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Reaping the harvest of slavery.

The respected writer Maya Angelou says of Reap the Forgotten Harvest: "If we are to rid ourselves of the blight of racism and see where we are going, we need to see where we have all come from, and how we became who and what we are. This book will help us." Juliet Highet reports on this profound book, which although only published in Britain, has not been reviewed in the British media. "The mainstream press has completely ignored it, but I am not surprised at their reluctance," says its Nigeria-born author Remi Kapo. Find out why. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE SUBTITLE OF Reap the Forgotten Harvest, reads: "An Epic Saga of Slavery", and "epic" it certainly is. The book opens a window on to an era when a minority of white and black men with no conscience went mad from greed and selfishness. It helps us understand why the madness of yesterday hasn't left us. It is still with us--and indeed slavery in one form or another continues all over the world. The book is the first part of a trilogy following the interaction of two families linked by slavery over 350 years. One family is Nigerian, the other English. When Africans were forcibly removed to the Caribbean, where full bodily contact was made between black and white, in all senses, a third family was created. That infamous trade formed the Caribbean. The saga is at times horrifying, as expected, but also profoundly moving, illuminating, uplifting, and also--perhaps surprisingly--entertaining. This is partly because it is a nail-biting, page-turning novel in rollicking style, rather than a sonorous non-fiction work. Maya Angelou has endorsed it, saying that it "can be read for entertainment for it is entertainment. It can also be read for its timeliness. If we are to rid ourselves of the blight of racism and see where we are going, we need to see where we have all come from, and how we became who and what we are. This book will help us."

Author Remi Kapo agrees: "Yes, novels are supposed to entertain, but historical ones should teach you at the same time. I wrote the book because I couldn't find any story that had the black and white of Britain playing roles with human dimensions all the way through; neither could I find much folklore between us. So it's time to start creating some. In America they've got Gone with the Wind, which is full of human dimensions and relationships between black and white, even though these were far starker than depicted. Slavery was a very brutal part of history, which Martha Mitchell softened. In my book the brutality is short and sharp and moves on--I don't linger on gratuitous violence. Had I written a book about the cruelty that really existed, you wouldn't be able to read past page 2 or 3, because it would be so horrendous." Instead, Kapo presents the human roles, the conversations, the courage, sacrifice, compassion, redemption, humour and happiness too. Kapo cited the fact that there is lots of folklore in Africa, the Caribbean and in Britain. "But when you bring that triangle together, there's no folklore between us. In my book there are actual relationships between black and white which include respect, affection and love as well as hypocrisies, stupidities, and of course the violence." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Reap the Forgotten Harvest, Faith, the daughter of a plantation-owner, forcibly initiates a sexual relationship with a Nigerian slave, Kayode, which alters over time. Understanding and empathy grow between them. "A new enquiry was emanating from her eyes into his being and humanity, rather than at the blackness of him. It was as if she really wanted to understand him and his life on the coast of Guinea." He too begins to understand where she was coming from, what she had to let go in order to cross over to his side. Eventually, even though pregnant with his baby, she helps him and his lover, also from Nigeria, to escape, with selfless emotional sacrifice. On the eve of his escape, Kayode, unaware that she is pregnant, meets her. "She had violated him at that first furtive encounter in the summer-house. Despite that violation and the iniquitous dominion of slavery, they had grown progressively closer. Consequently, he had over time, risen above his hate to forgive her abuse of him. He acknowledged the time she had then spent bridging the vast divide between her life of privilege and the barbaric reality of his existence. He had no doubt that she loved him to the extent that an affinity and equality had arisen in their curious relationship. Now while she was bidding farewell to her lover, he felt he was saying goodbye to a remarkable friend." Immediately after the birth of their baby, Faith's father sells him into slavery.

Another catalyst for Kapo's book was his conviction that relationships between black and black have been inadequately explored, how a relationship between a black man and a black woman can be as enriching as any other. Kayode and Asabi met in Guinea through his rescuing her. They were abducted from the village of Ake to the (imaginary) island of Pertigua, and their bond never breaks until he dies. "I think it's important that all our school children know that positive relationships have always existed between black people. "Now it's come to the point where our children say: 'I've heard about the slave trade, but what was it all about?' We still need to research this part of history; but we also need to extract palatable aspects and turn them into stories." In later books of his trilogy, Kapo covers the issues surrounding colonisation, the two World Wars, decolonisation and the contact between Caribbean and Africans meeting in London, "I don't want to hold back on anything," he said. "I've tried to give a balanced picture." Remi Kapo has had a colourfully varied career, starting adult life in the merchant navy, lending insider information to his description of the Middle Passage. Then he moved into the arts and journalism, as co-director of the People's Gallery, as a TV documentary researcher, as a writer for The New Statesman and New Society, and director of the Roundhouse Arts Centre. He is the author of a bestselling, nonfiction book titled A Savage Culture about racial politics in Britain. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kapo arrived from Nigeria to live in Britain at the age of seven, and has a fascinating take on the position of a writer "getting under the skin" of someone of a different race, a process he feels was vital for his first novel, Reap the Forgotten Harvest. "I had to write as a black man, and a white one, a black woman and a white one." It took him months of agonising "to set aside my black consciousness and perceptions to write the role of the white liberal Thomas Wimborne. When I was writing the slave-owner's role [Faith Bradshaw's father], I felt like a traitor, because I would be wounding my own people. When I first started dispensing beatings, I found it really difficult. I had successfully climbed into the skin of the slave-owner's white skin and behaved like he would. It was easier to deal with Wimborne, who has compassion and empathy for the slaves, yet feels powerless; since I could more easily access the liberal instincts in myself. It helped me understand one of the dilemmas of liberalism. You can see wrong and you want to put it tight, but only as long as it doesn't put you out too much. How far are you prepared to go? Wimborne was a ship's officer under the command of the captain, and at sea the captain is God." Reap The Forgotten Harvest has been published in Britain, with plans under way for publication in Africa and the USA. A film or TV series is also under discussion. But the British press has not reviewed the book. "The mainstream press has completely ignored it," said Kapo. "But I'm not surprised at their reluctance. When Roots and Lawrence Hill's book about slavery The Book of Negroes was published here, the media made a big fuss about them, because they were about American slavery, not intimately connected with Britain. Maybe my book is a bitter pill to swallow, even though as Maya Angelou commented: 'It can be viewed as entertainment.' Even so, as a gentle pill, it's still hard to take. "I thought Britain would be ready for it, because we have become so open to multiculturalism. The lack of reception by reviewers has told me that there are bigger issues in this country than even I thought, of Britain enslaving people, the black masses. Although it finished a long time ago, then why is it still too uncomfortable?" Sales internationally, and curiously in Britain too, are growing, despite the lack of media attention. Kapo receives letters from all over Africa, the southern US states, Eastern Europe, Russia and China. In Britain he has also been giving readings and attending

debates at various universities and literary festivals. "Maybe this is the British way of handling things," he sighed, "sotto voce. Perhaps race and racism are more sensitive here than even the middle class would like to admit." It could also be poor PR from his publisher in a media-driven society. However books like Kapo's, written by either black or white authors, are part of the process whereby slavery can no longer be ignored. "It ended 200 years ago, but never ended in our mentality," he said. "When slavery was happening, a stereotype of the black was created--as the subhuman African, who was seen as having no intellect ... [while] the white man ... saw himself as superior. Then along came the 19th-century social scientists like Darwin talking about black intellectual inequality, [which was] reinforced time and again. When all that was over by the Sixties, the white masses were unaware and uninformed that black people were not subhuman, related to apes, stupid or whatever. So the battle was over--we're all supposed to be equal, but nothing was done about the demonisation that originally existed between both races, and the images that were created, to this day." Kapo insists that in order to put the heritage of slavery to bed, it has to be brought out into the public arena, to be discussed in schools and universities, so that the general public comes to terms with it. Another reason Kapo wrote his book was to correct a commonly held misapprehension that Africans went like mules into slavery. "It sounds as if they never fought back, and the reason why they were enslaved so long is because of that pacifism. But from the research I did, it was clear that in order to survive, they fought back every single day--it was very bloody. This is why the Caribbean people are so strong today and why the slave trade went on so long, for 400 years. The plantation-owners had to get so many more slaves from Africa because the cane-fields were bleeding slaves every day. They were dying like flies. Continuously they fought back. What has mugged so many people is the myth that Africans went like iambs. You're joking! "That's probably the most libellous thing of all." REAP THE FORGOTTEN HARVEST: AN EPIC SAGA OF SLAVERY by Remi Kapo is published by Quartet Books

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mandimormon-blog · 7 years ago

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Life is Messy

It’s time to put the broken pieces together, and actually complete this journal entry. It’s Wednesday, November 1. I have wet-looking, large eyes, (okay, not as large at the Snapchat filter) but I feel like that’s how I see myself when I visualize myself these days, using that big-eyed, big-mouthed filter, with a voice changer.

My youngest daughter and son are playing “school” together in our ultra-clean living room, ehhh, ultra-clean-ish, since they got home, I guess I do see a few candy wrappers on the floor, from yesterday evening or maybe breakfast this morning. I knocked on Remi’s door, and could hear her chewing in her room, apparently partaking of candy for breakfast. Let me end this blog on a positive note though and talk about yesterday, later.

Those wet-eyes I’m referring to are from the many tears and all of the sobbing I just finished up with, on the way home from my daughter’s Ballet Class. I thought I was doing better. I was feeling pretty good, but clearly, my feelings caught up to me. The busyness and distractions can’t distract forever. Why was I crying?

Well while in Danville, Jude ran back to the dance studio, from Joann Fabrics, and I walked, I wasn’t going to run across the mall, keeping him in eyeshot. Opened the door, plopped ourselves down on two small, wooden children’s chairs to wait the 1-2 minutes left of class. We time it quite perfectly, because a six year-old (wild) boy + waiting doesn’t really mesh. Honestly, I’m surprised he will even spend time in Joann Fabrics with me.

I heard through the door of one of the rooms a familiar song but I couldn’t place it. Don’t you just hate that? When you know a song but you can’t figure out what song it is? This happens all of the time! Oh, music, you’ve had such an impression on me, all of my life.

So, Remi emerges from the room, after the other girls, with a huge smile on her face, and a little pep in her step, because she loves ballet. She loves it. As she and Jude talk and she giggles with another little ballerina and we make our way out to the car, and I return any messages before driving (unlike on the way over to Danville, when I didn’t even realize how far I’d gotten until I crossed the border, but we don’t need to talk about that - #distracted). After I checked and double-checked their seatbelts, and we were rollin’ out; I asked Remi about her dance class. Then out of curiousity, I asked if if that music I’d heard was coming from her studio or the other studio. She said, it was her room, and she could sing it for me: “It’s just a symphony…” in the most beautiful, little, eight year-old voice, and I started singing along with her, and then I added, “Glorious!”

Confused, she asked me how I know the words and that song. As I searched for it on my iPhone and we began listening to the very version she was dancing to, per her confirmation, by One Voice Children’s Choir. She then added, “Mom! Your eyes are wet. Are you crying?”

Sure enough, it didn’t stop. It was probably the ugly-face look, tear-streaming, uncontrollably from both eyes at one time, that rarely happens. I wasn’t bellowing but it wasn’t just a tear or two. I smiled through it and tried to stop myself, but I couldn’t. My own emotions, questions, thoughts, grief and series of recent experiences seemed to just hit me all at once. Remi interrupted my thoughts and my failed attempt to sing along, “Mom, stop crying. Are you going to cry like this when I dance?”

“I probably will, Remi, I’m sorry. This song is beautiful. I’m so excited to see you dance to this.”

Journal Entry: 10/29

The longest week of our life is coming to a finale.

Let me begin with last week was Fall Break, an extra-longer-than-normal Fall Break. My husband and I were pretty busy working and doing those crazy mundane tasks of daily living, plus community service. Being totally distracted from our family and we weren’t going anywhere, so, we decided that Friday, the 20th, to take the kiddos shopping in Champaign and enjoy a “fun day” out and about. Upon arrival at the mall, we rode the cool little animals around the mall for 15 minutes and shopped a little bit, and ate a delicious late-lunch at Red Robin.

Gosh, even to type what last Friday looked like seriously causes my heart to hurt. I had to get up and take a walk around my kitchen, get on my iPhone, and return to regroup.

When we returned home last Friday, I received my passport in the mail. This was a big, big deal. I was stoked out of my mind for it, that I created the Snapchat “Passport” Saga, which has now caught on and is a thing. When I say thing, I use that term loosely, because it’s only a “thing” to a few sixth grade girls. I used the amazing jumbo-mouth filter I spoke about during my last blog, you know, with the voice changer. That passport is going places. Even Reis’s friends have snagged it up and used it for their own stories, “with Amanda’s Passport.” I will share.

It’s all fun and games with you’re using Snapchat, you and your dozen twelve year-old friends, until someone pulls up to your house for your daughter and you’re alone, selfie-snapchatting yourself about to take a run “with your passport”.

In this moment, I nonchalantly, dropped my iPhone arm to my side, as if nothing were happening here, and hopped up, and tossed my passport into the upper kitchen cabinet. Then, answered my door. The irony of answering that door was a very ‘deja vu’ experience I’d had about three and a half years ago, in a way. A mother of a good friend of my daughter’s and her son came in and said they’d tried to call her and needed to speak with Reis about Jesse, her boyfriend, but wanted to filter it through me first.

After they expressed he’d been accidentally shot, I felt the fear and chills down my spine, an instant, intense nausea, and when they asked if they could speak with her personally, I asked them to filter it through my husband first because my mind was absolutely blown. He was still out back on the swing, Jude was in the boat, and I couldn’t help but sob and I asked him to come and listen to what they had to say. Then we brought the girls together, Reis and her best friend, Karma. Since we really didn’t know what would happen, we were hoping for recovery, even possible loss of an eye, and praying for a return to normal activity. This kid was extremely active, with a very promising future. The kids were even planning on going to visit him early next week.

Of course, they were nervous, crying on and off, and wanted to know how long he’d be hospitalized. With my education in Nursing and the unknown specifics, I think my intuition was saying, “Be positive, but prepare for the worst-case scenario”. I told the girls he was in the best possible care and I didn’t know any specifics as to what would happen. Relatively soon after this, it felt almost instantaneously, and after hearing a myriad of rumors and stories, we received nightmare news, that he didn’t make it. We called all of the parents together, first, before putting this onto the kids. After they all made it there, we sat the five children down in our living room, surrounded by their parents.

Breaking this awful news to the children, opened floodgates of tears and hugging and screaming and yelling, and every emotion all at once. It was misunderstood. It was tragedy. Grief. Hysteria. These children are eleven and twelve. These kids that were here ran around together constantly with this boy. They spent time at school together, time after school until dark together, weekends together, Facetiming, Snapchatting, Instagramming, Selfie-sending, the whole sha-bang of social media communications, usually by showing their faces or whatever kind of mischief they were into, one to another. They visited the Java on a regular basis, wreaking havoc, updating their “stories”, getting kicked out of CVS, going to the Dollar Store, Casey’s, and the park. The community saw these kiddos everywhere. The girls would watch Football games on Saturdays and Soccer Games, just so Reis could see this boy.

Grief is an overwelming force that demands to be felt. If you remember, I took a Faith Community Nursing class earlier this year, when things were as slow as they were going to be and the Grief Module was a toughy. In order to help anyone else with this kind of experience we needed to know how we personally felt about grief and loss, and then recollect our earliest experience with death or any significant losses.

Grief is a bomb dropped. Yesterday there was a house, with walls, a roof, and the smells of life steaming up the windows. Today, only rubble of a disaster. Shards of broken confidence and the dust of dreams litter a cracked foundation. (Stephanie Erickson, Author of Companion Through the Darkness) I’ve also heard of the wave-analogy. They keep coming but eventually, instead of all at once barely breathing in between, they lessen and sometimes occur unexpectedly. In the moment, eventually and time can’t even be considered. It’s now. It’s in the moment.

The morning after, I came downstairs and wrote this:

Journal Entry 10/21

I’ve been up for hours and it’s 6 AM. I woke up startled, holding my own breath, and then reality sunk in. Reality that seemed like a nightmare. It’s the kind of heartache you can feel in your bones. My eyes welled up with tears, and I made my way downstairs to check on more than a half a dozen eleven- and twelve-year old girls. Laying everywhere, on the floors and in the beds, sleeping, soundly -- their youthful faces puffy from the hundreds of tears they’d cried over the past hours. I put my sleeve up to my face to muffle my own audible sobbing. I just, so badly, wanted to pick my daughter up off the the floor, and hold her, and cry with her. I wanted to take that inevitable pain away, she would feel as soon as her eyes opened and reality hit her like a ton of bricks. That pain that’s staying for awhile and will never truly heal completely.

That numb, paralyzing feeling I had, has now shifted into another stage of grief cycle. Grieving is so very dimensional and demands to be felt and I know, according to the textbook, that’s okay and eventually things would get easier and happier moments would come, but when you’re in it - it’s the perfect storm. It needs to be expressed. It takes me back, three and a half years ago, when I was wondering how my daughter, Reis, eight years old, would take the devastation learning her father had died, by choice, unexpectedly.

Later at age 10, I witnessed the grief shift for her with the loss of a beloved pet, Amidee, which was a part of the family, this seemed to be incredibly traumatic but I later found out it was because of unresolved grief previously, and now, at age 12, her boyfriend - not to mention one of her very best friends (for several years) - and “first big crush” was gone, too, completely unexpectedly, tragically. Three very different, yet horrific experiences shared in our home, in the very same place with her, in our living room, surely digging up deeper wounds or really catalyzing the grieving process.

I felt her pain deeply, for my first ‘love’ had been her daddy, around her very same age. It feels so real when you’re in it and I was crazy about that boy, as I know, and anyone who knows these kids knows, Reis is about Jesse.

The grief for this eleven year-old boy, who stood just two days before, in our kitchen, with his big, beautiful, brown eyes, his unmatched wit, and his vibrant personality -- was hitting hard, in a way that cannot be described in words. This boy who’d been a wonderful friend to my daughter for years, and been a positive, encouraging role in her life, during this beginning transition into middle school, had been taken from this life, before the story was finished. Such permanence.

On the brink of complete and utter devastation, and all that encompasses that, here I am, replaying those “what if” and “why” questions, not fathoming the pain his mother is going through (thinking of my own sweet son) or this boy’s father, or his dear brother, and sister and all of their family, grieving their great loss and grieving for each other. My thoughts traced over everyone who called this little boy a “son” because he was truly a best friend to several boys and a few moms saw him very often, anyone who loved this guy - these thoughts, on repeat, through my mind, and searching for words of comfort, before putting on my own armor for the day, to be present, a shoulder for my sweet baby girl to cry on, a game face for dozens of friends and families. This group of friends, so close and always together, have just had their lives altered forever. This boy was one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable, and he’s left an impression on all of hearts and minds, leaving us changed, forever.

On Sunday, Jesse and Kolton came inside, and waited on the girls to put on sweatshirts and go out into the drizzly elements. I didn’t feel great that day, but I did snap a picture of the girls leaving and the boys were on the steps, barely visible. That day was the same day the kids had been stalking Jesse’s photos on social media, and snapchatting him photos of them, with the line from the song, Mad World. “All around me are familiar faces..” This is probably normal thing for little girls in middle school, in 2017. Then they all left but came back through later when we were working on the flag for the boat, my husband constructed in 90 minutes.

On Wednesday of that week, he’d been inside the house, because the girls said it was “too cold” to be outside, at 55 degrees. Reis had slumped her shoulders down and was dragging her feet around the kitchen declaring her hunger, it was 12:01 p.m.. As I leaned against the bar, on my phone, without looking up, I selfishly said, “Get yourself some food, there’s plenty here, find something.”

Reis then sent my husband a message asking him to get them food and there was a whole orchestra of messages between the three of us. Reis expressed she hadn’t been feeling well and the only real meal she’d had, the evening before, was a salad from the Beef House. (Real first world problems, here.) It was true, she missed school that Monday, because she had been under the weather, but I insisted she go Tuesday if she wanted to see her friends on Tuesday evening or throughout Fall Break.

Since she wasn’t against gluten-free nuggets and fries from the freezer bin, I whipped out the jumbo package of ground beef and made cheeseburgers, g/f mac-n-cheese, green beans, and potato wedges.

The squad: Reis, Karma, Kennady, Ella, all sat around the dining room table, and Jesse stood next to Reis, saying he was good, each time I offered, stating he had a large breakfast. The girls pigged out, per the norm, and my husband came in and sat in the empty seat at the dining room table, asking everyone to listen up. This was about to get good. My husband and I are huge fans of ‘Resilience’, and he had a way about conveying a good message to these youngsters.

In a calm, very rational manner, he asked the girls what the word, “Entitlement” meant. Jesse cut into the conversation, “I’m not very smart, you’re gonna have to tell me.” Allen, gently corrected him, “You’re smart. It’s okay if you don’t know, I want to explain it.”

He then read from the definition (which later I was told by Reis that the girls thought Allen didn’t know the definition and that was why he was reading it), and discussed what it was to have ‘privileges’.

*Crickets*,yet, again, but by this point, Reis sprang up and cleared her plate and began working on the dishes. Our eyes met twice and she gave me ‘the look’ of utter humiliation and embarrassment.

Jesse, always outspoken, commented how he really didn’t have privileges, the girls agreed they didn’t either, but Allen, again, gently corrected them all by explaining the cell phone was a privilege, not a right, as was the time the kids were able to hang out together, the sports and activities, they most likely don’t fund themselves, and the list goes on.

All-in-all the conversation was for Reis’s benefit, and I’m positive she’ll never forget it. I know I won’t. I whispered to her, her friends know her dad and her friends are not upset or offended, they are just fine and dandy. Clearly, they were laughing and conversing with him even after the “talk” was over. After he left, and I was drying the dishes, I witnessed Reis snapchatting Jesse from across the room while Ella, Kennady, and Karma lounged on the floor and couch, and Jude, too, Jude occasionally showing Jesse his game because he honestly has always thought when Jesse, Josh, or Kolton come over, it’s to play with him.

Later, I said something about my passport, and Jesse asked me where I was going, and I said, “To Mexico!” in an over-exaggerated voice, Reis didn’t miss a beat, because she said, “Your home country”, back to him. I then raised an eyebrow at them both, and he said, “Yeah, did you know I’m from Mexico?”

“Jesse, I know your who your parents are, you’re not from Mexico.” He then told me, “Yeah, I know. But they say I am because I’m tan.”

Later, I went into Reis’s room, and tiptoed over the bags and clothing that had been “straightened up”, when motion caught my eye outside of her bedroom window. I peered outside to see Jesse, wearing a Sombrero along with his buddies, too, with Kolton, the Copas Boys, Davy, possibly a Kindell boy, too, and my son, in the custom “Despacito” a boat, my husband had constructed. The girls were standing all around, too, and I said, “Allen, come here and look at this sight. Grab my phone. I need to take a photo.” I didn’t get my phone and never took a photo but it’s imprinted in my mind, forever.

The boat evolved from a fishing pole. My son begged me to make a fishing pole with him, so I did. We both used sticks and tied a small ribbon to the end. Funny thing is, we fished up some leaves because the ends of the ribbons were fuzzy enough to pick them up. We pretended we were fishing from our dock (aka picnic table) and the tailgate of my husband’s truck, and Jude would do the commentary of our excursion. I feels like a lifetime ago, since this happened, since so very much has happened, seriously.

Life has a way about teaching you about priorities. Doesn’t it?

The candlelight vigil was something I’d never experienced and a spiritual feeling I’d never felt before, ever. It was beautiful. A moment I remember while shuffling around trying to make sure everything was good to go, was watching my daughter walk, briskly toward the restroom. I could see her wiping her eyes more than once on her way there, so I followed her. When I walked up to the doorway, I witnessed her sobbing, embraced by a group of her friends, all crying together. It was beautiful and painful all at once. She saw me and gave me the nod (aka the head shake) that I wasn’t needed here, so I turned around and walked away.

I can’t express how much it hurts or how helpless a mother feels when she can’t take the pain away. She can’t make it better. She can’t fix this. I’m learning. A good friend visited me during lunch, while I was in the office, yesterday. He had heard something that made him think of Reis and of me.

He told me about the Metamorphosis of a Butterfly. As we all know, the butterfly doesn’t begin as a butterfly, but rather a caterpillar. Then before the big change, it forms a chrysalis and eventually emerges, completely changed as a butterfly.

A scientist was observing this process, and he noticed the butterfly he was observing was having trouble emerging. So, he simply clipped the top of the sac and almost immediately and simply, the butterfly was able to get out. Yet, even though this seemed to make it easier, the butterfly’s wings did not expand and it never took flight.

Why? Because the butterfly needed that experience, to breakthrough the sac without aide, in order to pump fluid from it’s abdomen through the veins in the wings, which causes the wings to expand to their full size. It’s something the butterfly must go through to fly.

Initially, this story hurt my heart. I think it’s pretty normal for us, as parents, to want our children to live very uneventful, normal lives, with little suffering, grief, and anxiety. We don’t want our child bullied. We don’t want them to feel lonely or depressed. Naturally, we don’t want them to hurt or to feel pain. We want to take their pain away, “fix it”. We’d gladly take on their suffering if we could.

Even friends feel this way. I can’t even tell you how many kids, said to me, they wished they could take Jesse’s place, so their friends wouldn’t be hurting so much, because he was such a great person, and so Reis would be okay.

These comments aren’t alarming because they were each saying this only out of love.

They love Jesse, they are going to keep loving Jesse, and they love each other, yet this wasn’t their path or plan. I assured each of them they are meant to be here, right now, for each other, and although we can’t put the ‘why things like this happen’, into words, one day we will look back on this and see what kind of growth came from this experience, how this changed our life, how we could help other people and how we were better friends. Jesse’s charisma and goodness can be emulated in each of our lives, every day. As hard and as cliche as it may sound, he can live on, through us.

Yet with removing trivial pursuits, as my husband says, “You’ll find a new obsession or addiction.” That obsession is Snapchat.

I created a “story” on Halloween Eve (Is that a thing? Maybe I should say on October 30) the Five Step Approach to TP’ing Homes. In fact, I sent it to all of my snappy buddies, then I had to create a collaboration of those five things for “My Story”. It was about as epic as The Passport Saga: Oh The Places Amanda’s Passport Will Go, I mentioned.

As mentioned, the median age of my Snapchat Friends is probably 12, and I’ve recently come to the conclusion that a Twelve Year-Old Girl is most likely my Spirit Animal. Clearly, because that’s what I went as for Halloween. That or “Mama Vandallama” my criminal alias.

So, I washed my hair extensions, finally. They’d survived Tyreischella with Boho Braids, and feathers still affixed, and Haunted Trailz, on Saturday, when I gave it my best acting skills plus the girls clipped my extensions into Whylee’s hair after the Trailz. Those extensions needed recovery.

Ok, and to be real honest, we tried doing what the Trailz Coordinator wanted, during Haunted Trailz. My husband was supposed to appear to be dragging me across the trail and apparently, my acting skills are rusty and maybe we shouldn’t even refer whatever I did as acting or a skill. So, I played “dead”, trail goers would shine the flashlight on my “pretend dead” acting, which allowed my husband to come up from behind, in a creepy mask, and startle them pretty, darn good. This lasted for only a couple of hours, because by that point we had a dozen sixth graders asking to go home to the warmth, and they weren’t going unattended.

Anyway, shampooed extensions, lying out to dry. A friend of mine stopped in with some money from the event over the weekend, and she mentioned another perfect addition to the ‘Four-become-Five Step How to TP Approach’, and I added that in. I let her in on what was going down because at that point I had a pair of black panty hose on my head like a do-rag which may have seemed a little more legit since my “weave” was out on the counter.

On Halloween morning, I clipped in my extensions, to prepare my disguise for the evening. After returning home from work that day, I opened my daughter’s room to half a dozen girls dressed in all black, as instructed. I then put on some war paint, and was ready. I found it pure comedy as more kids showed up to our home, they openly were being dropped off by their parents and carrying 4-6 rolls of toilet paper in their arms. I guess there were no objections or clearly those kids had a stellar alibi-to-come. I’m gonna go with the no objections option.

There were 8, then 9, then 11, then 16 kids in our group. It felt a lot like the meme “I feel young until I hang out with twelve year-olds, then I remember I’m definitely 31.” They didn’t really have a plan, and when they thought they had a plan, they actually knocked on their teacher’s door. They were chased off a majority of the time, which is comical, and by the time we stopped in for some free hot dogs at the Old Gym, they were ready to have an “escape vehicle”. Sadly, my husband’s truck was containing some doors and junk that wouldn’t support 12 kids, too, so we took the “Hot Mess Express” (my Mountaineer). The juvenile delinquents put the seats down (both rows), so it was flat, and they insisted on maneuvering safely in and out of the vehicle by keeping the tailgate lifted the entire time. Remi came, too, so she said on my console, and I always had a co-pilot. We tried a few teacher’s houses and relative’s homes, but inevitably each and every time, the kids would come in a dead sprint back, and without time for a roll-call, I’d yell, “Are we all in?” “YES! GO GO GO!” and I’d almost have to close my eyes and speed off. Nice thing about keeping that tailgate lifted, even while driving down Liberty Street or Third Street was my license plate wasn’t showing. So, unless one of the dozen kids in the back were ID’d, jail was looking like more of an idea rather than a destination for me, that evening. “Accompanying 16 Minors” would have been epic, but I’m glad we safely and reasonably toilet papered and Ding Dong Ditched.

The spin off the DDD was we purchased actual individually wrapped Ding Dongs, and left those at most of the homes, true Ding-Dong Ditchin’.

This morning, when I woke up I felt like I needed about 24 more hours of sleep. I wasn’t sore from running around but the few short sprints I did partake of, I wasn’t prepared for, whatsoever. I may run 4-6 miles most weekdays, but those are leisurely. Laughing, talking, texting, and running, no sprinting, no loss of air or breath, just leisure -- and if you refer to it as jogging, I take offense.

There are times when You might feel aimless And can't see the places Where you belong But you will find that There is a purpose It's been there within you All along And when you're near it You can almost hear it It's like a symphony Just keep listening And pretty soon you'll start To figure out your part Everyone plays a piece And there are melodies In each one of us Oohhh it's glorious And you will know how To let it ring out As you discover Who you are Others around you Will start to wake up To the sounds that are In their hearts It's so amazing What we're all creating It's like a symphony Just keep listening And pretty soon you'll start To figure out your part Everyone plays a piece And there are melodies In each one of us Oohhh it's glorious And as you feel The notes build Higher You will see It's like a symphony Just keep listening And pretty soon you'll start To figure out your part Everyone plays a piece And there are melodies In each one of us Oohhh it's glorious

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Book Cover Love Master List

Book cover can be so pretty. They need love sometimes. These are all the book covers that I love. Complete series that have a the covers have a red heart beside the series name(❤).I hope you love them too.

Alphabetical Covers:

A Madness So Discreet-Mindy McGinnis

All The Bright Places-Jennifer Niven

A Court Of Thorns And Roses

A Court Of Thorns And Roses(A Court Of Thorns And Roses #1)-Sarah J Maas

Anna

Anna Dressed In Blood(Anna #1)-Kendare Blake

Abby Sinclair

A Brush of Darkness(Abby Sinclair #1)-Allison Page

Asylum❤

Asylum (Asylum #1)-Madeleine Roux

Sanctum(Asylum #2)-Madeleine Roux

Catacomb(Asylum #3)-Madeleine Roux

Arcadia Bell

Kindling The Moon(Arcadia Bell #1)-Jenn Bennett

Summoning the Night(Arcadia Bell #2)-Jenn Bennett

Beneath The Scars-Melanie Moreland

Blood Sinister-Celia Rees

Beau Rivage

Kill Me Softly( Beau Rivage #1)-Sarah Cross

Blackwell Pages

Loki’s Wolves(The Blackwell Pages #1)-K.L.Armstrong &M.A.Marr

The Cold King-Amber Jaeger

Coraline-Neil Gaiman

The Coldest Girl In Cold Town-Holly Black

The Conqueror’s Saga

And I Darken(The Conqueror’s Saga #1)-Kiersten White

Now I Rise(The Conqueror’s Saga #2)-Kiersten White

Bright We Burn(The Conqueror’s Saga #3)-Kiersten White

Callaghan Brothers

Dangerous Secrets(Callaghan Brothers #1)-Abbie Zanders

First and Only(Callaghan Brothers #2)-Abbie Zanders

House Calls(Callaghan Brothers #3)-Abbie Zanders

Seeking Vengeance(Callaghan Brothers #4)-Abbie Zanders

Cruel Beauty Universe

Cruel Beauty(Cruel Beauty Universe #1)- Rosamund Hodge

Chicagoland Vampires

Some Girls Bite(Chicagoland Vampires #1)-Chloe Neill

Friday Nights Bites(Chicagoland Vampires #2)-Chloe Neill

Twice Bitten(Chicagoland Vampires #3)-Chloe Neill

Hard Bitten(Chicagoland Vampires #4)-Chloe Neill

Drink Deep(Chicagoland Vampires #5)-Chloe Neill

The Curiosity House

The Shrunken Head(The Curiosity House #1)- Lauren Oliver & H.C. Chester

Code 11-KPD SWAT

Center Mass(Code 11-KPD SWAT #1)-Lani Lynn Vale

Dangerous Lies-Becca Fitzpatrick

Don’t Look Back-Jennifer L. Armentrout

Daughter of Deep Silence By Carrie Ryan

Daughter Of Smoke And Bone❤

Daughter of Smoke & Bone(Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1)-Laini Taylor

Days of Blood & Starlight(Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2)-Laini Taylor

Dreams Of Gods And Monsters(Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)-Laini Taylor

Darkest Powers

The Summoning( Darkest Powers #1)-Kelley Armstrong

Dark Guardian

Moonlight(Dark Guardian #1)-Rachel Hawthorne

Full Moon(Dark Guardian #2)-Rachel Hawthorne

Dust Lands❤

Blood Red Road(Dust Lands #1) By Moira Young

Rebel Heart(Dust Lands #2)-Moira Young

Raging Star(Dust Lands #3)-Moira Young

English❤

Dirty English(English #1)-Ilsa Madden-Mills

Filthy English(English #2)-Ilsa Madden-Mills

Flame In The Mist- Renne Ahdieh

Furthermore-Tahereh Mafi

Fangirl-Rainbow Rowell

Heartless-Marissa Meyer

The Hurricane ❤

The Hurricane(The Hurricane #1)-R.J.Prescott

The Aftermath( The Hurricane #2)-R.J.Prescott

The Heroes of Olympus

The Lost Hero(The Heroes of Olympus #1)-Rick Riordan

The Son Of Neptune(The Heroes of Olympus #2)-Rick Riordan

Hidden Legacy

Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy #1)-Ilona Andrews

Hudson Valley❤

Nuts(Hudson Valley #1)- Alice Clayton

Cream Of The Crop(Hudson Valley #2)-Alice Clayton

Buns(Hudson Valley #3)-Alice Clayton

Hex Hall

Hex Hall(Hex Hall #1) By Rachel Hawkins

Harry Potter-J.K.Rowling

The Philosopher’s Stone 20th Anniversary Edition Paperback

I Was Here-Gayle Forman

The Infernal Devices❤

Clockwork Angel(The Infernal Devices #1)- Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2)-Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Princess(The Infernal Devices #3)-Cassandra Clare

Indexing

Indexing(Indexing #1)- Seanan McGuire

The Grisha ❤

Shadow And Bone(The Grisha #1)-Leigh Bardugo

Siege and Storm(The Grisha #2) By Leigh Bardugo

Ruin And Rising(The Grisha #3) By Leigh Bardugo

Guild Hunter

Angels’ Blood(Guild Hunter #1)-Nalini Singh

Archangel’s Kiss(Guild Hunter #2)-Nalini Singh

The Killing Jar-Jennifer Bosworth

Kate Daniels

Magic Bites(Kate Daniels #1)-Ilona Andrews

Magic Burns (Kate Daniels #2)-Ilona Andrews

Magic Strikes(Kate Daniels #3)-Ilona Andrews

Magic Bleeds(Kate Daniels #4)-Ilona Andrews

Magic Slays(Kate Daniels #5)-Ilona Andrews

Long May She Reign- Rhiannon Thomas

Leave A Mark-Stephanie Fournet

Let It Snow- John Green, Maureen Johnson & Lauren Myracle

Life And Death-Stephenie Meyer

The Lunar Chronicles

Cinder(The Lunar Chronicles #1)-Marissa Meyer

Scarlet(The Lunar Chronicles #2)-Marissa Meyer

Cress(The Lunar Chronicles #3)-Marissa Meyer

Legend

Legend (Legend #1)-Marie Lu

Missing- Kelley Armstrong

Made for You-Melissa Marr

My True Love Gave To Me

Magisterium

The Iron Trial(Magisterium #1) By Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

The Copper Gauntlet(Magisterium #2) By Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

Mayhem❤

Mayhem(Mayhem #1)-Jamie Shaw

Riot(Mayhem #2)-Jamie Shaw

Chaos(Mayhem #3)-Jamie Shaw

Havoc(Mayhem #4)-Jamie Shaw

The Mortal Instruments❤

City of Bones(The Mortal Instruments #1)-Cassandra Clare

City Of Ashes(The Mortal Instruments # 2)- Cassandra Clare

City Of Glass(The Mortal Instruments # 3)- Cassandra Clare

City of Fallen Angels(The Mortal Instruments #4)-Cassandra Clare

City Of Lost Souls(The Mortal Instruments #5)-Cassandra Clare

City Of Heavenly Fire(The Mortal Instruments #6)-Cassandra Clare

Mythos Academy

Touch of Frost(Mythos Academy #1)-Jennifer Estep

Kiss Of Frost(Mythos Academy #2)-Jennifer Estep

Magonia❤

Magonia(Magonia #1)-Maria Dahvana Headley

Aerie(Magonia #2)-Maria Dahvana Headley

Man Hands

Man Hands(Man Hands #1)-Sarina Bowen & Tanya Eby

Monsters of Verity❤

This Savage Song(Monsters of Verity #1)-Victoria Schwab

Our Dark Duet(Monsters of Verity #2)-Victoria Schwab

November 9- Colleen Hoover

Of Beast And Beauty-Stacey Jay

Our Chemical Hearts-Krystal Sutherland

Poles Apart-Kirsty Moseley

Passenger

Passenger-Alexandra Bracken

Percy Jackson And The Olympians

The Lightning Thief(Percy Jackson And The Olympians #1)- Rick Riordan

The Sea Of Monsters(Percy Jackson And The Olympians #2)- Rick Riordan

The Titan’s Curse(Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3)-Rick Riordan

Poison Study

Poison Study(Poison Study #1)-Maria V. Snyder

Assassin Study(Poison Study #1.5)-Maria V. Snyder

Magic Study(Poison Study #2)-Maria V. Snyder

Fire Study(Poison Study #3)- Maria V. Snyder

Power Study (Poison Study #3.5) by Maria V. Snyder

Shadow Study(Poison Study #4)- Maria V. Snyder

Night Study(Poison Study #5)- Maria V. Snyder

Dawn Study(Poison Study #6)- Maria V. Snyder

Roseblood-A.G.Howard

Real

Real(Real #1)-Katy Evans

Mine(Real #2)-Katy Evans

Remy(Real #3)-Katy Evans

Rogue(Real #4)-Katy Evans

Real Love

Eye Candy(Real Love #1)-Jessica Lemmon

The Rule Breakers ❤

The Rule Book(The Rule Breakers #1) -Jennifer Blackwood

The Rule Maker(The Rule Breakers #2)-Jennifer Blackwood

The Raven Cycle ❤

The Raven Boys(The Raven Cycle #1)-Maggie Stiefvater

The Dream Thieves(The Raven Cycle #2)-Maggie Stiefvater

Blue Lily, Lily Blue(The Raven Cycle #3)-Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven King(The Raven Cycle #4)-Maggie Stiefvater

Reawakened

Reignited(Reawakened 0.5)-Colleen Houck

Reawakened(Reawakened #1)- Colleen Houck

Spinning Starlight-R.C.Lewis

Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda-Becky Albertalli

Suspicion-Alexandra Monir

Stitching Snow-R.C.Lewis

The School For Good And Evil

The School For Good And Evil(The School For Good And Evil #1)-Soman Chainani

Simon Snow

Carry On(Simon Snow #1)- Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son(Simon Snow #2)-Rainbow Rowell

Shatter Me

Shatter Me(Shatter Me #1)-Tahereh Mafi

Slater Brothers

Dominic(Slater Brothers #1)-L.A.Casey

Bronagh(Slater Brothers #1.5)-L.A.Casey

Alec(Slater Brothers #2)-L.A.Casey

Keela(Slater Brothers #2.5)-L.A.Casey

Kane (Slater Brothers #3)-L.A. Casey

The Storymakers❤

Spelled(The Storymakers #1)-Betsy Schow

Wanted(The Storymakers #2)-Betsy Schow

Banished(The Storymakers #3)-Betsy Schow

Six of Crows❤

Six of Crows(Six of Crows #1)-Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom(Six of Crows #2)-Leigh Bardugo

Stalking Jack the Ripper

Stalking Jack the Ripper(Stalking Jack the Ripper #1)-Kerri Maniscalco

Stage Dive

Lick(Stage Dive #1)-Kylie Scott

Play(Stage Dive #2)-Kylie Scott

Lead(Stage Dive #3)-Kylie Scott

Trick-Natalia Jaster

It Ends With Us-Colleen Hoover

Twilight Saga

Twilight(Twilight #1)-Stephenie Meyer

New Moon(Twilight #2)- Stephenie Meyer

The Tiger Saga❤

Tiger’s Promise(The Tiger Saga 0.5) by Colleen Houck

Tiger’s Curse(The Tiger Saga #1)-Colleen Houck

Tiger’s Quest(The Tiger Saga #2)-Colleen Houck

Tiger’s Voyage(The Tiger’s Curse #3)-Colleen Houck

Tiger’s Destiny(The Tiger Saga #4)-Colleen Houck

Tiger’s Dream(The Tiger Saga #5)-Colleen Houck

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before(To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before #1)-Jenny Han

Tales of Beauty & Madness❤

Nameless(Tales of Beauty & Madness #1)-Lili St.Crow

Wayfarer(Tales of Beauty & Madness #2)-Lili St.Crow

Kin(Tales of Beauty & Madness #3)-Lili St. Crow

Throne of Glass

The Assassin’s Blade(Throne of Glass 0.5) by Sarah J. Maas

Uprooted-Naomi Novik

Unexpected Reality-Kaylee Ryan

Until Harry-L.A.Casey

Ugly Love- Colleen Hoover

Unfinished Fairy Tales

The Ugly Stepsister(Unfinished Fairy Tales #1)-Aya Ling

Twice Upon A Time(Unfinished Fairy Tales #2)-Aya Ling

V is for Virgin❤

V is for Virgin(V is for Virgin #1)-Kelly Oram

A Is For Abstinence(V is for Virgin #2)-Kelly Oram

Wintersong

Wintersong(Wintersong #1) -S.Jae-Jones

Shadowsong(Wintersong #2)-S. Jae-Jones

Women of the Otherworld

Bitten (Women of the Otherworld #1) -Kelley Armstrong

Stolen(Women of the Otherworld #2)-Kelley Armstrong

Dime Store Magic(Women of the Otherworld #3)-Kelley Armstrong

Industrial Magic(Women of the Otherworld #4)-Kelley Armstrong

Haunted(Otherworld #5)-Kelley Armstrong

White House❤

Mr. President(White House #1) - Katy Evans

Commander in Chief(White House #2- Katy Evans

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My Favorite Albums of 2017 (So Far)

Here is my list of my favorite albums half-way through 2017.

You can find my 2016 year end album list here and my 2016 EPs list here

I also have been doing monthly top albums lists: January, February, March, April, May

Honorable Mention:

Big Wild - Invincible EP Genre: Electronic / Dance

Proof: When I Get There, Empty Room (Feat. Yuna)

Cold War Kids - LA DIVINE Genre: Alternative / Indie Rock

Proof: Love Is Mystical, So Tied Up (Los Feliz Blvd) Feat. Bishop Briggs

Hundred Waters - Currency EP Genre: Synth-Pop / Electronica

Proof: Jewel in My Hands, Particle

Kahlid - American Teen Genre: Pop / R&B

Proof: American Teen, Another Sad Love Song

Lyves - Like Water EP Genre: R&B / Pop

Proof: Darkest Hour, No Love

Overcoats - Young Genre: Indie / Synth-Pop

Proof: Leave The Light On, Nighttime Hunger

RØMANS - Automatic EP Genre: R&B / Pop

Proof: Happy Love, Automatic

Sampha - Process Genre: alt-R&B / Soul

Proof: Blood On Me, Timmy’s Prayer

Seramic - I Got You EP Genre: Indie Pop / Funk

Proof: I Got You, Some Mistakes

Spoon - Hot Thoughts Genre: Alternative / Indie Rock

Proof: Hot Thoughts, I Ain’t The One

SOHN - Rennen Genre: Electronic / Pop

Proof: Hard Liquor, Conrad

Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister - Planetarium Genre: Indie Pop / Electronica

Proof: Jupiter, Saturn

Tinie Tempah - Youth Genre: Hip Hop

Proof: Texts From Your Ex (Feat. Tinashe), Girls Like (Feat. Zara Larsson)

Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Revival Genre: Alternative / Indie Pop

Proof: Whispers, Killing Me To Love You

The List:

16.) Bishop Briggs - EP Genre: R&B / Soul / Pop

Proof: River, The Way I Do, Dead Man’s Arms, The Fire

15.) A R I Z O N A - Gallery Genre: Synth-Pop / Electronic

Proof: Annie, Feed The Beast, Cross My Mind, Electronic Touch

14.) Bleachers - Gone Now Genre: Pop

Proof: Hate That You Know Me, Don’t Take The Money, Everybody Lost Somebody, I Miss Those Days

13.) Serena Ryder - Electric Love EP Genre: Indie Rock / Blues

Proof: Got Your Number, Revival, Electric Love, Utopia

12.) Tei Shi - Crawl Space Genre: R&B / Pop

Proof: Keep Running, Creep, How Far, Say You Do

11.) Fenech-Soler - Zilla / The Covers EP Genre: Synth-Pop

Proof: Kaleidoscope, On Top, Night Time TV, Touch / Show Me Love (Robin S Cover), Control (Janet Jackson Cover)

10.) Rationale - Vessel EP Genre: R&B / Pop

Proof: Prodigal Son, Vessels, Reciprocate, Tethered

9.) Phoenix - Ti Amo Genre: Synth-Pop

Proof: J-Boy, Fior di Latte, Goodbye Soleil, Fleur de Lys

8.) TCVVX - TCVVX EP Genre: alt-R&B / Electronic

Proof: Into Sleep, Tonight, Crash Course, Days

7.) Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ Genre: Hip Hop

Proof: FOR MY PEOPLE, TEMPTATION, LAND OF THE FREE, AMERIKKKAN IDOL

6.) Erik Hassle - Innocence Lost Genre: alt-R&B / Pop

Proof: No Words, If Your Man Only Knew, All of You All Over Me, Missing You

5.) SZA - CTRL Genre: alt-R&B

Proof: Drew Berrymore, Prom, Broken Clocks, Anything

4.) Gorillaz - Humanz Genre: Pop / R&B / Hip Hop

Proof: Momentz (Feat. De La Soul), Andromeda (Feat. D.R.A.M.), Let Me Out (Feat. Mavis Staples & Pusha T), The Apprentice (Feat. Rag’n’Bone Man, Zebra Katz & RAY BLK)

3.) Lorde - Melodrama Genre: Synth-Pop

Proof: Sober, Homemade Dynamite, Writer In the Dark, Perfect Places

2.) The xx - I See You Genre: Indie Pop

Proof: Dangerous, Say Something Loving, Lips, On Hold

1.) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Genre: Hip Hop

Proof: DNA., FEEL., LOYALTY. (Feat. Rihanna), HUMBLE., LOVE. (Feat. Zacari), XXX. (Feat. U2)

Others:

Super Dope to Dope:

A.CHAL - ON GAZ [Mixtape], Alexandra Savior - Belladonna of Sadness, Allan Rayman - Roadhouse 01, Allen Kingdom - Lines, Allie X - Collxtion II, Althea - Cold Thoughts EP, Amber Coffman - City of No Reply, Amber Mark - 3:33am EP, Amir Obé - None of the Clocks Work EP, Amp Live - Atmosphere EP, ANE - Bitan EP, ANOHNI - Paradise EP, Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act II, EP, Autumn in June - Magenta, Aquilo - Silhouette, Axwell /\ Ingrosso - More Than You Know EP, Bebe Rexha - All Your Fault: Pt. 1 EP, Bell Biv DeVoe - Three Strips, Betty Who - The Valley, Big Boi - BOOMIVERSE, Blackbear - digital drugloard, Bloom - [SIN]SES EP, B.o.B. - Ether, Brockhampton - Saturation, Brother Ali - All the Beauty in This Whole Life, Buddy - Ocean & Montana EP, Bush - Black and White Rainbows, Cashmere Cat - 9, Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel [Mixtape], Chloe x Halle - The Two Of Us [Mixtape], Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound, Collie Budz - Good Life, D. Begun - Nosimoto (Nas x Madlib Mash Up), Dan Auerbach - Waiting on a Song, David Banner - The God Box, David Bowie - No Plan EP, Daye Jack - No Data, Deorro - Good Evening, Depeche Mode - Spirit, Destructo - Renegade EP, DJ Quik & Problem - Rosecrans, DJ Skarface - Shadow The Jewels (DJ Shadow x Run The Jewels Mash Up), Dorrough - Ride Wit Me, Drake - More Life, Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa, Dumfounded - Foreign EP, ELHAE - AURA II, Ella Mai - Ready EP, Elsa & Emilie - Kill Your Darlings, Father John Misty - Pure Comedy, Fazerdaze - Morningside, Feist - Pleasure, Fifty Shades Darker (Motion Picture Soundtrack), Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up, Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice, Future - HNDRXX, Future Islands - The Far Field, FKJ - French Kiwi Juice, The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody, Flume - Skin Companion II EP, Flume - Skin: The Remixes, Gabe ‘Nandez - Disconnected EP, Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Jardín, girlpool - Powerplant, Goapele - Dreamseeker, Goldfrapp - Silver Eye, GoldLink - At What Cost, The Gold Setting - Volume and Tone EP, graves - Hilo EP, Grouplove - Little Mess EP, GTA - Good Times Ahead: The Remixes EP, Half Waif - form/a EP, Halsey - hopeless fountain kingdom, Harry Styles - Harry Styles, Heat - Overnight, Her - Tape #2 EP, H.E.R. - Vol. 2, Incubus - 8, Jack & Jack - Gone EP, Jacques Greene - Feel Infinite, Jacob Banks - The Boy Who Cried Freedom EP, Jamiroquai - Automation, James Fauntleroy - Dojo EP, James Fauntleroy - Warmest Winter II EP, James Hersey - Pages EP, Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, Jasmine Thompson - Wonderland EP, Jessie Reyez - Kiddo EP, Jimi Tents - I Can’t Go Home, JMSN - Whatever Makes U Happy, Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness, K.Flay - Everywhere Is Somewhere, Kehlani - SweetSexySavage, K.I.D. - Poster Child EP, Kingdom - Tears In The Club, The Knocks - TESTIFY EP, Klyne - Waterflow (Remixes) EP, Krewella - New World Pt. 1 EP, Kweku Collins - grey EP, LÉON - For You EP, Lewis The Child - Love Is Alive EP, Lido & Santell - Passion Project II EP, LINKIN PARK - One More Light, Little Dragon - Season High, Logic - Everybody, London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light, Maggie Rogers - Now That The Light Is Fading EP, Major Lazer - Know No Better EP, Mali Music - The Transition of Mali, mansionz - Mansionz, Mary J. Blige - Strength of a Woman, Matisyahu - The Undercurrent, Matt Martins - The Drum Chord Theory, Migos - C U L T U R E, Mila J - Dopamine, Minus The Bear - Voids, MisterWives - Connect The Dots, MUNA - About U, Murs - Captain California, NAO - For All We Know - The Remixes - EP, Nappy Roots - Another 40 Akerz, Nelly Furtado - The Ride, The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions, Nick Murphy - Missing Link EP, Niia - I, no suits - Virgin EP, nobigdyl - Canopy, NJOMZA - sad for you, October London - Color Blind: Hate & Happiness EP, Oddisee - The Iceburg, Organized Noize - Organized Noize EP, PARTYNEXTDOOR - COLOURS 2 EP, Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea Of Love, Phantoms - Phantoms, Problem - Chaciville, Promnite - Snake Charmer EP, Perfume Genius - No Shape, Portugal. The Man - Woodstock, Qveen Herby - EP 1, Raekwon - The Wild, Real Estate - In Mind, Rejjie Snow - The Moon & You, Ride - Weather Diaries, Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular, Ronald Bruner Jr. - Triumph, Roy Woods - Nocturnal, Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3, Saga & Thelonious Martin - Molotov [Mixtape], Sadat X - The Sum Of A Man, Sango - De Mim. Pra Você, Saudin - Before I Met You EP, Sevdaliza - ISON, Shakira - El Derado, Shamir - Hope, Sinead Harnett - Chapter One EP, Sir The Baptist - Saint Or Sinner, Slowdive - Slowdive, Smino - blkswn, Snakehips & MØ - Don’t Leave (Remixes) EP, Snoop Dogg - Neva Left, Sigrid - Don’t Kill My Vibe EP, SiR - Her Too EP, Shy Girls - Salt, The Social Misfits - The Misadventures of Fern & Marty, SoMo - The Answers, Sonder - Into EP, Steve Lacey - Steve Lacy’s Demo EP, Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer, Surfer Blood - Snowdonia, Swet Shop Boys - Sufi La EP, Syd - Fin, T-Pain & Lil Wayne - T-Wayne [Mixtape], Taylor Bennett - Restoration of An American Idol [Mixtape], Tennyson x Mr. Carmack - Tuesday Wednesday Thursday EP, Thelonious Martin - A Dozen For Dilla [Mixtape], THEY. - Nü Religion: Hyena, Thievery Corporation - The Temple of I & I, Thundercat - Drunk, TOPS - Sugar at the Gate, Trey Songz - Tremaine: The Album, Trombone Shorty - Parking Lot Symphony, Tuxedo - Fux with the Tux EP, Tuxedo - Tuxedo II, Two Another - EP Two, Vic Mensa - The Manuscript EP, Wavves - You’re Welcome, Wiley - Godfather, WHY? - Moh Lhean, Wyclef Jean - J’ouvert EP, Yellow Claw - Los Amsterdam, Zara Larsson - So Good, 24hrs. - Not Open Late EP, 24hrs. - Sunset Blvd. EP

Dope Enough to Meh:

Anik Khan - Kites EP, Aye Nako - Silver Haze, Bassnectar - Reflective, Pt. 1 EP, Big Sean - I Decided, Blank Body - Isolator EP, Bonobo - Migration, Bryson Tiller - True to Self, The Chainsomkers - Memories…Do Not Open, Charlie Wilson - In It To Win It, deadmau5 - stuff i used to do, Devin The Dude - Acoustic Levitation, Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors, The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts, Ed Sheeran - ÷, Eric Bellinger - Cannabliss EP, Eric Bellinger - Eric B for President: Term 2 EP, EMI - Planet, Faith Evans & The Notorious B.I.G. - The King & I, Fat Joe & Remy Ma - Plata O Plomo, Felix Snow & Wintertime - No Winter Without Snow EP, FOREVER ANTi PoP - Finessin the Rhythm EP, Frances - Things I Never Said, G-Eazy & Carnage - Step Brothers EP, The Goo Goo Dolls - You Should Be Happy EP, IAMSU! - Boss Up [Mixtape], IAMSU! - Boss Up 2 [Mixtape], J Hus - Common Sense, Jeremih - Cinco De MihYo EP, J.I.D. - The Never Story, Jidenna - The Chief, John Mayer - The Search For Everything, John Mayer - The Search For Everything: Wave One EP, John Mayer - The Search For Everything: Wave Two EP, Kid Ink - 7 Series EP, LaToya Luckett - Back 2 Life, Lord RAJA - Amadeus EP, Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog, Machine Gun Kelly - bloom, Mike WiLL Made-It - Ransom 2, MIKExANGEL - NOTHiN 2 SOMETHiN, Mr. Torphat - Trust Me EP, Nav - Nav, Nef The Pharaoh - The Chang Project, Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actual Event EP, Norah Jones - Day Break, Palm - Shadow Expert EP, Paramore - After Laughter, P.O.S. - Chill, dummy, Rag’n’Bone Man - Human, Rayven Lenae - Midnight Moonlight EP, Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want?, Richard Russell - Everything Is Recorded EP, Rick Ross - Rather You Then Me, Ryan Adams - Prisoner, Slow Dancer - In A Mood, The Shins - Heatworms, Talib Kweli & Styles P - The Seven, T.I. - Us Or Else: Letter To The System, Various Artists - Def Jam Presents: Direct Deposit, Vol. 2, Various Artists - HOWSLA, Wale - SHINE, WATERS - Something More, WebsterX - Daymares, Wrekonize - Into the Further, Yaeji -Yaeji EP, 24hrs - Night Shift EP

Not Feeling:

COIN - How Will You Know If You Never Try, Future - FUTURE, Kool A.D. - Sky Ladder, Two-9 - FRVR, Young M.A. - Herstory EP

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