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Photographs, 1916

Rachel Doncath, age twenty-five. She stands steadily and faces the camera, but her eyes show a hint of glancing at someone out of the shot. There is a hint of humor about her expression, as if the unseen person were trying to make her laugh. She wears the height of fashion, a dress with a higher waist and a fuller skirt with a hem high enough to expose a pair of delicate shoes that lace up her ankles. Underneath her wide-brimmed hat, her hair is waved. A watch is clipped to her waistband, and she holds her handbag at the ready, as if she hasn't much time to waste in the photographer's studio. A notation on the back of the photograph indicates that it was taken in Otionovia during a state visit from Queen Rietta.

Rietta I of Faysmond, age twenty-six. This is her yearly formal photograph, a portrait of her in state intended for mass production. Unlike most previous years, she sits rather than stands. Her court gown, dripping with various sorts of intricate lace representing different regions of Faysmond, engulfs her, as does an impressive train swept in front of her. The glove of her left hand is removed, revealing her famous emerald engagement ring and wedding ring. The state crown of Faysmond rests on a table beside her, and on her head is a smaller (but not small!) crown. Not a curl is out of place; they seem to have been tamed with some sort of hair product. Her expression is difficult to read. There is something uncertain in her gaze.

Delclis V of Corege, age twenty-five. An unnamed photographer has caught him sitting in the corridor outside a conference room before a meeting. His face is partially turned away toward a large window through which sunlight is streaming. He wears a dress uniform with sash and decorations. His pince-nez rest on his nose. They are attached to a string tied to one of his medals. A wire fox terrier puppy paws at his knee, and he strokes its ears. A faint smile crosses his face. He appears to be desperately trying to grow a moustache.

Elystan, Duke of Gorchester, age twenty-one. He is posing in the full academic dress of a BA from Hollingham University over an elegantly-cut suit. One hand rests nonchalantly on a pile of books on a table, representing his literary studies. The other hand is on his hip, exhibiting the sleeve of his gown. He holds himself regally, shoulders back, chin uplifted a little. His eyes are less dark-circled and his face less hollow than in earlier photographs. He looks very pleased with himself.

Amarantha Melbray, age twenty-one. In a pose reminiscent of a famous self-portrait of her favorite Renaissance artist, Teofila, she sits at her easel lifting a brush to an already-complete painting of a little girl. The painting is identifiable as "Portrait of Chrysantha" (1916), produced during Melbray's time at the Royal Art Academy. Her palette and an orderly paintbox wait nearby. She wears a ruffled light-colored frock that she clearly would never have worn while actually painting. Her hair is pinned high on the back of her head and waves over her ears. She fixes the camera with a steady, intent gaze.

Tamett Låsrygg, age twenty-one. An informal photograph, made clear by the wide grin on his face. He leans casually against the side of an aeroplane. His arms are crossed over his chest. He wears a leather jacket and flying helmet with goggles. A scarf, probably knitted by his sister Emenor, drapes around his neck. Noriberrian insignia is pinned to the lapel of his jacket. The photograph is inscribed with his signature and the words "With love from New Archangel. Watch the skies for me soon!"

Josiah Callon, age twenty-one. He sits at the piano, one hand over the keys, the other holding a pair of spectacles, which he appears to have just removed. His long legs stretch out in front of him; after years of track and field at Hollingham, he is built like a runner. A morning suit, with its cutaway tailcoat, accentuates his height. Instead of the common 1910s male practice of slicking back the hair into flat smoothness using oil, his hair is parted on the side with curls dipping across the forehead above one eye. His expression is not so much haughty as it is profoundly serious and a little sad.

[treybien]

perfect 10 albums (transformative, no-skips)

Illinois, Sufjan Stevens (fave track: John Wayne Gacy Jr) (followed closely by Age of Adz)

When I Get Home, Solange (fave track: Dreams)

The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, Brand New (fave track: Jesus Christ)

Homogenic, Björk (fave track: All Is Full of Love)

The Crying Light, Anohni and the Johnsons (fave track: Epilepsy is Dancing)

Neon Bible, Arcade Fire (fave track: Antichrist Television Blues)

Renaissance, Beyonce (fave track: Heated)

Puberty 2, Mitski (fave track: Crack Baby)

Our Love, Caribou (fave track: Silver)

Crack Up, Fleet Foxes (fave track: Third of May)

Goodness, The Hotelier (fave track: Soft Animal)

Turn Out the Lights, Julien Baker (fave track: Claws in Your Back)

Under the Pink, Tori Amos (fave track: Icicle)

Historian, Lucy Dacus (fave track: Pillar of Truth)

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel (fave track: Oh Comely)

Kid A, Radiohead (fave track: How to Disappear Completely)

Skylight, Pinegrove (fave track: Darkness)

Divers, Joanna Newsom (fave track: Sapokanikan)

I'd love to know all y'alls perfect 10 albums!! @mrsterlingeverything @the-frog-blog @emperorscorpion @haierld @997 @haafuaki @globalmutt @nicky999doors @shetheyslain @prairiefevers @crouchingfawn and any other friends I forgot to tag

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loose top 145 chart - list under the readmore

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island

2. Car Seat Headrest - How To Leave Town

3. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2

4. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

5. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

6. Earl Sweatshirt - some rap songs

7. The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music

8. Bladee - ICEDANCER

9. Prince - Purple Rain

10. The KLF - Chill Out

11. Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window

12. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

13. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

14. Animal Collective - Feels

15. desert sand feels warm at night - 夢の砂漠 (Dream Desert)

16. Hiroshi Yoshimura - SURROUND

17. Duster - Stratosphere

18. bedbug - If I Got Smaller Grew Wings and Flew Away for Good

19. Prince - Prince and The Revolution: Live

20. Mike - WEIGHT OF THE WORLD

21. The Weeknd - After Hours

22. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes

23. Radiohead - Kid A

24. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

25. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

26. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand

27. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial

28. The Microphones - Mount Eerie

29. Mew - Frengers

30. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

31. The Beatles - Abbey Road

32. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

33. Ride - Nowhere (Expanded)

34. Ween - The Pod

35. Radiohead - OK Computer

36. Fishmans - 宇宙 日本 世田谷

37. Fishmans - 98.12.28 男達の別れ (Live)

38. Massive Attack - Blue Lines

39. Stereolab - Dots and Loops

40. George Clanton - Slide

41. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

42. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

43. Car Seat Headrest - Nervous Young Man

44. Indian Summer - Giving Birth to Thunder

45. Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly

46. Jane Remover - frailty

47. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring

48. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle

49. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

50. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

51. Bladee - Spiderr

52. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs

53. Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer

54. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

55. Alvvays - Alvvays

56. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

57. Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are

58. Julia Brown - An abundance of strawberries

59. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

60. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

61. Tyler, the Creator - Igor

62. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

63. David Bowie - Blackstar

64. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

65. The Beach Boys - SMiLE

66. Animal Collective - Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished

67. Nana Grizol - Dancing Dogs

68. Nana Grizol - Love It Love It

69. Gorillaz - Gorillaz

70. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

71. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective

72. Glass Beach - Plastic Death

73. Death Grips - the powers that b

74. Junior Delahaye - Showcase

75. Slowdive - Slowdive

76. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

77. Global Communication - 76:14

78. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

79. Car Seat Headrest - 4

80. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

81. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice

82. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

83. Ween - Quebec

84. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

85. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt

86. Virtual Self - Virtual Self

87. Lil Ugly Mane - Singles

88. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

89. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

90. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in Brisbane '21

91. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

92. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

93. Frank Ocean - Blonde

94. The Cure - Disintegration

95. Nirvana - In Utero

96. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

97. Mike - renaissance man

98. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

99. The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water

100. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

101. Cardiacs - The Seaside

102. Gorillaz - Demon Days

103. Duster - Duster

104. My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

105. Thursday - Full Collapse

106. My Bloody Valentine - m b v

107. Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell

108. Porter Robinson - nurture

109. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks

110. bob hund - Bob Hund

111. Teen Suicide - i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body

112. Slowdive - Souvlaki

113. Cursive - The Ugly Organ

114. Ween - God Ween Satan: The Oneness (Anniversary Edition)

115. Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak

116. Sweet Trip - Velocity: design: comfort.

117. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

118. Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars

119. The Beatles - Revolver

120. Jane Remover - teen week

121. Glass Beach - the first glass beach album

122. blackwinterwells - Stone Ocean

123. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Formlessness - EP

124. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

125. Jordaan Mason - earth to ursa major

126. Weatherday - Come In

127. The pAper chAse - Hide the Kitchen Knives

128. Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite

129. Yung Lean - Starz

130. pilotredsun - Achievement

131. Bomb the Music Industry! - Album Minus Band

132. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

133. Doss - Doss

134. Kitty - Frostbite

135. Bob Drake - Medallion Animal Carpet

136. Parannoul - After the Night (Live)

137. J Dilla - Donuts

138. Ashley Ninelives - Eagle Creek

139. Vangelis - Blade Runner - Esper Edition

140. Akira Yamaoka - SILENT HILL2 (Original Soundtrack)

141. C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha

142. C418 - Minecraft - Volume Beta

143. Disasterpeace - Fez

144. Toby Fox - UNDERTALE Soundtrack

145. Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place (background)

honorable mentions to round it off to 150:

146. Julius Eastman - Femenine

147. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

148. Dinosaur jr. - You're Living All Over Me

149. Flipper - Album Generic Flipper

150. DJ Rozwell - NONE OF THIS IS REAL

[newbestinfo]

Top 5 biggest and smallest aircraft in the world | New Best Information about the aircraft

The plane, otherwise called an aeroplane or just a plane, is a progressive method of transportation that has changed the manner in which individuals and products move all over the planet. It has made air go open to a great many individuals, permitting them to fly starting with one objective, and then on to the next very quickly rather than days or weeks. There are the biggest and smallest aeroplanes in the world. In this article, we will investigate the set of experiences, plans, and innovations behind the plane.

History of the Plane

The innovation of the plane is frequently ascribed to the Wright siblings, Orville and Wilbur, who effectively flew their controlled aeroplane on December 17, 1903. Nonetheless, the historical backdrop of flight goes back a lot farther than that. Leonardo Da Vinci, a Renaissance polymath, planned and attracted plans for a flying machine for the fifteenth 100 years, yet it was rarely fabricated. In the late nineteenth 100 years, various designers and aeronautics aficionados endeavoured to make flying machines, however, their endeavours were to a great extent fruitless. 

Biggest and smallest airplanes in the world.  It was only after the Wright siblings' effective flight that the period of flying really started. The Wright siblings' plane was a biplane plane with a wingspan of 40 feet and a load of a little more than 600 pounds. It was fueled by a 12-pull motor and flew at a height of around 10 feet for a distance of 120 feet. This first flight endured only 12 seconds, however, it was a critical accomplishment that made me ready for future improvements in flying.

Design of the Airplane

The plan of the plane has developed essentially since the Wright siblings' most memorable flight. The present planes commonly separated into three fundamental segments: the cockpit, the traveler lodge, and the wings and motors. Biggest and smallest airplanes in the world. The cockpit is the region where the pilot and co-pilot sit and control the plane. It regularly contains a scope of instruments and controls, including route frameworks, radios, and flight controls like a joystick or a burden.

The traveler lodge is where the travelers sit during the flight. It can fluctuate in size and design contingent upon the sort of plane, however commonly incorporates seats, storage spaces for putting away baggage, and theatre setups like screens for watching motion pictures or messing around. The wings and motors are maybe the main pieces of the plane. The wings give lift, permitting the plane to remain in the air, while the motors give the important push to push the plane ahead. Planes can have at least one motor, contingent upon their size

Airbus A380:

The Airbus A380 is a twofold deck, wide-body, four-motor stream carrier made via Airbus. biggest passenger plane in the world.  It is the biggest traveler carrier on the planet, equipped for conveying up to 853 travelers in a solitary class setup, or up to 544 travelers in a commonplace three-class design. The A380 has a greatest departure weight of 575 tons (1.27 million pounds) and a wingspan of 80 meters (262 feet). It is controlled by four

Boeing 747-8:

The Boeing 747-8 is a long-range traveler airplane and freight airplane created by Boeing, the biggest Boeing plane, and is the most recent form of the notable Boeing 747 family. One of the best passenger plane in the world. The 747-8 is the biggest business plane worked by Boeing and is the longest traveler airplane on the planet. The 747-8 has a greatest departure weight of 448,000 kg (987,000 lbs) and a wingspan of 68.5 meters (224 feet). It is controlled by four General Electric GEnx-2B67 turbofan motors, which provide it with a maximum velocity of Mach 0.86 (1,046 km/h or 650 mph) and a scope of up to 14,815 km (9,200 miles) without refueling.

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[bananonbinary]

renaissance-aeroplane replied to your post: these fuckers are the type who think a baby cries...

I’m gonna make like the fey and kidnap those poor kids and give them a loving family because Holy Fucking Shit ��

me too im so mad im gonna start crying. they're BABIES. fortunately as far as i've seen they haven't done anything to the youngest yet, mostly because she literally can't even roll over, but the older one is TWO and now that they can't treat her like a toy to put back on the shelf when they don't want to deal with her, they're punishing her for it.

[tiefling-queer]

★★★★★★ *whispers* tell me about all your ocsssssssss :D

:D

Allen Krueger - he’s the Chosen One and he’s just trying his best. Allen would rather be spending his time playing Overwatch with his discord pals or longboarding around listening to music than taking on these dangerous missions where people die or trying to figure out this weird axe that makes his head overload or some destiny and Choice-with-a-capital-c that he has to make. This was cool for about a day before it got incredibly overwhelming. Allen’s mixed race - his father is middle eastern, his mother is white. He’s 16 at the start of all this (which begins in 2016) and a sophomore in high school and he doesn’t deserve what we put him through lol. Allen’s big into emo, pop punk, punk, and basically anything you can find on a warped tour comp cd (since his mom was big into the offspring and green day back in the day, and his uncle is big into alt rock, so as a kid he latched onto fob and mcr and was just like ‘these. these are good’). Allen loves animals, especially marine mammals (ESPECIALLY WHALES), and was defo one of those kids who just kinda sits around and if prompted gives you their entire encyclopedic knowledge of wildlife. Allen often has difficulty putting his thoughts to words, and so he’ll trail off, try to use hand gestures to symbolize the word he’s looking for, use vague language like ‘the thing’ or ‘stuff’. That said, Allen also has problems filtering his words, and often says things as they come to mind. A double-edged sword because Talking is Hard. This boy is also just a terrible, terrible liar. He doesn’t like lying, he’s not good at it, Allen’s quick to draw conclusions about situations, things, and people, but also open-minded and quick to reconsider. He thrives on praise and a well-defined set of instructions or plan - he likes to know that he’s doing the right thing and on the right track.Allen was originally a Monster of the Week character, but is currently one of the characters in a webcomic i’m cowriting with @i-want-it-on-fire​. his personality is based on a combination of some of my brother’s personality with some of my own (so instead of a sarcastic wallflower stoner or an edgy emo theater kid, Allen is a sarcastic edgy emo wallflower)

Tam es Eleutherios - he’s a minotaur. he’s a sailor. he’s a scottish highland cow who talks like barbosa. he’s a little over a century old. he’s deadly with a long sword or a trident. he’s the last of his name and told his fiance he was getting some wine and purposefully got himself shanghaied to a pirate ship. Tam’s the equivalent of about 60 in human years, has a long, long list of vessels he’s sailed on over the past century (about half of those are pirate vessels) and he took the mission sailing on this expedition past the Ghostly Isles in the Undersea to die.For Tam, the idea of dying on an uncharted and untamed ocean is, well, exactly what he’s always dreamed of (frankly he’s surprised he lived this long). While he went through a minor crisis at first with how dauntingly still and unmoving and dead the Undersea appears to be, he’s back to his original goal after they’ve slowly discovered currents and life in the black waters. Tam’s afraid of commitment, and doesn’t like facing consequences of his actions or mistakes. He really just kind of goes with the flow, and does what needs to get done, and doesn’t put a lot of thought into what he’s doing.

Baylock Craft stole his name, coat, and boots off a dead man. He’s been in prison for 5 years, since he was left behind by his thieves’ guild to take the fall for a job that went bad. He’s lied about his identity to get a group of rebels breaking out prisoners to believe he’s also a rebel fighter. Baylock’s a bit in over his head now, and has only recently had a couple close-enough calls to realize just how fucked he is, and how dangerous the missions the rebel fighters go on are. His goal is to get back to his home town and get revenge on his former friends.Baylock is, despite his raspberry pink skin and lavender hair, more suited to life in the shadows. His strange arcane powers come from being born during a solar eclipse, and his personality is that of someone who’s reserved and a bit shy - content to observe. He errs to the side of caution, but is kind of a bad judge of character. The betrayal and years in prison kind of twisted that original nature - he’s now mistrusting, abrasive, and guarded.

Sydel Anastol - As a younger man, Sydel had… noble intentions. Lofty goals. A sense of duty and a desire to right wrongs and protect innocents. These were the parts of him that contributed to his becoming a blood hunter as a teenager. But over the years of self-mutilating and watching the people around him lose themselves to their obsessive quests, he began to become unhinged. Hunting wasn’t about killing monsters and protecting innocents anymore - it was about the hunt. It was about the rush. It was about any distraction he could get from the pain of the hunter’s bane, even if that was more immediate pain. Those lofty ideals, they don’t make you a better fighter, a better hunter. They don’t make you heal faster or hit harder. He drifted from the order, turned to bounty hunting.Sydel hasn’t felt a human emotion in years. He spends most of his time drunk, partly to distract from the chronic pain caused by the hunter’s bane, and partly to keep from thinking about his time with the order. Sydel is eccentric, a little unhinged, will lick anything he doesn’t recognize, and is seeking the rush of a hunt or battle in order to feel something and keep himself distracted. If he can keep himself in a constant state of intoxication and adrenaline high, he can feel good. Sydel is impulsive, reckless, callous, and doesn’t think ahead or care who gets hurt as a result of his actions (though it’s usually just him so it’s fine). He’s also a masochist. All in all he’s just a garbage bastard man, trying to keep the part of himself that was trained to be an obsessive monster hunter from taking over again - ‘because that’s how you go crazy.’

Tsuruchi Natsumi just wants peace in her life, but she hasn’t had any since some asshole Matsu dropped out of the sky and demons destroyed her village. As the eldest child of the current Wasp clan leader, she’s technically pretty damn important. Too bad she wants nothing to do with it. She planned to run away at a young age, citing being ‘fed up with clan politics’ and not enjoying her training with anything other than a bow - she didn’t want to learn court niceties, she didn’t want to learn bushido, she just wanted to shoot her bow and wear comfortable clothes. However, being a child, and with things at work in the world she was unaware of, she found herself literally spirited away, dropped in the spirit world and left there, a world apart from her family. She was taken in by a seaside village she was drawn to because of her sea-spirit folk heritage on her mother’s side (originally of the Mantis Clan), where she continued to do what she does best - shoot a bow and mind her own business. As she grew older, she eventually became the village’s protector and primary watch, and things were pretty good - just her, her village, her bow, and the red panda she took in as a pet - for a little over a decade. Until the Matsu and that Phoenix clan idiot dropped from the sky and upset the balance of the worlds, leading to a disastrous string of events that landed her back in the mortal world, having her ancestral bow thrust upon her, getting sucked back into clan politics, and dealing with a brother she barely remembers telling her that she’s got, like, some kind of duty to protect the city her family founded, or some kind of destiny as the person currently wielding Tsuruchi’s Yumi.Natsumi, while she claims to not want to be involved in clan politics, still follows Wasp Code, and still holds clan grudges and prejudices. While she is compassionate and (with some exceptions) quick to make friends and form bonds with the people around her, she’s ultimately a self-oriented person - Natsumi is very in tune with herself, what she wants, and her own beliefs, but isn’t likely to pick up on the wants and beliefs of those around her. She doesn’t even attempt to anticipate the desires and goals of other people, unless she suspects they’re up to no good, and as such comes off as a self-absorbed. Her pride is easily wounded (but don’t tell her that), she’s no-nonsense in the field, and she’ll shoot her way out of any problem she can’t talk her way out of. Her experiences in the last 5 years have left her paranoid and slow to trust her surroundings once weird spirit shit starts happening.

Ainsley grew up in Mesnia, a country where magic is a capital offense, on the streets of the central trade city of Kerrys, following their older brother and cousins in attempts to become a thief. They weren’t very good at it. One day, while their brother was giving them the slip, they were enthralled by a street musician and jumped on the offer this man gave them for apprenticeship. Growing up, they split their time between shenanigans and schemes with their cousin Brynn and learning this instrument, as well as, unbeknownst to them, bardic magic. After their mentor was tried, found guilty of, and hanged for illegal use of magic, they put their time into simple cons with Brynn - or rather, Brynn would get them into trouble, Ainsley would talk them out of it, and the ferret would manage to steal some coin.Ainsley is curious, naive, quick to make friends, compassionate towards strangers, genuinely wants to do good and right the things that are wrong, and primarily trusts their eyes. They spent most of their life not believing in gods, and only decided to do so after they saw one. They’re also mostly illiterate, stubborn, and they don’t think things through very well. They drank a potion that they were warned caused ‘random mutations and death through madness’ in desperation after an enemy killed one of their party members, hoping to gain some kind of power that could destroy him (now they can breathe fire). While eventually on their travels they found out and accepted that what their bardic abilities did was magic, they were in denial about it for quite a while.

Kip - Joffric ‘Kip’ Ravenhall was born to the head priest at a temple to the Raven Queen, with a proud lineage of Ghostwise Halfling Raven Queen worshipers - funeral preparers and Grave Clerics. As a child, he and his older sister Hattie were well on their training for priesthood themselves (though Hattie would eventually leave to find her own way to follow their goddess). However, when Kip’s father fell ill while he was still young (about 18 - Halflings reach maturity around 20), Kip began desperately searching for ways to cure his disease, or at least extend his father’s life until they could get him to a priest who could help. His father, being at peace with death and believing that the dying aren’t to be pitied, disapproved of Kip’s studies and attempts to heal him, and Kip, becoming more and more desperate to save his father, eventually sought the aid of a necromancer he and his father had dealt with several years before, agreeing to bail him out of jail in exchange for training in the necromantic arts - particularly those involved with extending life. His father found out, there was a big fight and falling out, Kip abandoned his priesthood training and tensions were high when his father died. But Kip was already too curious and too far gone, and so he continued studying, occasionally seeking help from the necromancer he bailed out. Kip’s primary area of study was reviving the dead, and extending the life of the living. His belief was that if it were possible to choose when one dies, or ensure everyone died only after living a full and fruitful life, after they’ve accomplished whatever they set out to do, society could flourish. He didn’t think it was fair that study of resurrection apparently stopped once people found out that diamonds could serve as a conduit for the spells - it limited resurrection to only the rich, the powerful, and the truly desperate. If only he could, say, find a cheaper solution? A more plentiful component?His family found out about his studies. He was disgraced, accused of necromancy, and has been on the run under the alias of ‘Geoffric Greenbough’ ever since.Kip is deeply conflicted about his studies, as he believes that undead - creatures brought back without agency or souls - are affronts to nature, and those creating and using them are particularly morally bankrupt for desecrating and enslaving the dead. While he’s abandoned his religion, he still finds himself following his old ways, and often feels directionless without the peace that worship once gave him. That said, Kip is truly driven by a morbid curiosity, a desire to see and feel and know - that’s what keeps him going through failed experiments and terrible mistakes and feeling sick to his stomach. Although Kip tries to hide his true colors to keep people from getting close enough to find him out, those who travel with him will find that his humorless and cold personality is a facade, and that under that he’s a pretty playful and friendly person. The exception to this is when he’s in a situation that requires spell casting, which is a personality quirk that even predates his necromantic studies - he’s always been taught that magic is a serious thing that requires full attention and focus, and he doesn’t have time for nonsense then. Kip is incredibly loyal and very quick to become ride-or-die for those around him. Above all, he wants to help people, and he wants to make people happy. (Ironically, while his sister was more devoted to the Raven Queen than he was, Kip was always more suited to being a cleric, and if Hattie had been around to keep him level during their father’s sickness, he probably would have finished his training and become a cleric.)

These are just a few, and mostly rp characters since it’s been 3 billion years since I’ve thought about my other ocs.

As characters, they’ve all got really fun aspects to them. Allen is probably the most ‘real’ character to me, and honestly probably has the most of me in him. Sydel is my first attempt to play someone who’s just, objectively, not a good person, and it is challenging (he’s officially done damage to every member of the party except the kobold and the rogue). Ainsley is a very simple character who I honestly slip into like a glove. Kip has the most fleshed out backstory of any RP character I’ve ever had I think, and I love the internal conflict between his need to sate his curiosity and help people and his questioning about whether what he’s doing will do more harm than good.

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harm: Listed

harm’s one and only album was recorded in Pittsburgh at a college radio station where Andy Beckerman and Kyle Bittinger had shows. (Beckerman later wrote for Dusted, back at the old site, if his name seems familiar.) They finished it, left for separate graduate schools and the rest of their lives. Beckerman writes for television and hosts the Beginnings podcast now. Buttinger teaches in the pediatrics department at the University of Pennsylvania. I Am Suddenly Aware didn’t fit, long term, with anybody’s plans. But the album, newly reissued, plays like a lost Elephant Six gem. In her review, Jennifer Kelly noted that I Am Suddenly Aware, “has a casual, yearning charm to it, with its aching little melodies threading through dense thickets of euphoric keyboard sound and percussive bouts of guitar strumming.

Do you like complicated concepts for the Listed feature? Then we have a treat for you! We thought we’d list two bands that inspired harm as a whole, and then each write about 1) music that inspired us in the late 1990s and 2) music that inspires us now. If there’s one thing we at harm HQ seem to love, it’s complexity for its own sake!

Two Bands

hollAnd — Your Orgasm

your orgasm by holnd

The 1990s were a real renaissance for a lot of twee-ish music that wrapped a perplexing nostalgia for high school-era emotions in kitschy Casio sounds. Trevor Kampmann, probably more than any other musician at the time though, taught us you could make complex *and* killer keyboard-based pop songs that featured adult emotions.

Dump — A Plea for Tenderness

Besides having Electr-O-Pura and I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One coursing through our blood at the time, it was specifically James McNew’s solo recordings that pushed us in a very specific, very gentle direction. Who knows what would have happened if we hadn’t heard this album? Nu-metal casiopop?

Late 1990s

American Analog Set — The Golden Band

Kyle: A near-perfect record and my favorite from the Set. They start out with the classic American Analog Set sound and then dig further into it as the album progresses. The music is full of rich Farfisa organ that mirrored the tones we were trying to pull from our own keyboards at the time. The Golden Band is 100% an autumn record.

Galaxie 500 — On Fire

On Fire by Galaxie 500

Cindy: I was (and still am) so enchanted by this band and this album in particular. So much atmosphere. It’s the perfect soundtrack to play any season, from snowy mornings to summer sunsets. You can get lost in Naomi Yang’s bass lines, while Dean Wareham’s vocals lull you through soft and storied melodies. Plus the occasional sax moment — why not?

Beulah — When Your Heartstrings Break

Andy: Despite harm being mainly focused on using Casio keyboards in creative ways, Elephant 6 loomed large in our late 1990s lives, teaching us that you didn’t need to be an acid-soaked Angeleno to use orchestration. You could be an acid-soaked Athenian! Or a weird, quasi-straight-edge kid from The Keystone State! While I remember the day sophomore year Brett Buzzini cracked open his brand-new CD of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, it was really Beulah that cracked it wide open for me. Miles Kurosky and crew’s pop purity really dug into my cells, but unlike other things that can dig into your cells, like say, the novel coronavirus, they did not scare me into hiding in my apartment for a couple of years. No! They showed me you could overload your songs with melodies and horns and still have something that sounded holistic and controlled.

Boards of Canada — Music Has the Right to Children

Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada

John: In the mid to late-1990s, I was listening to a lot of IDM and other types of electronic music as well as the usual indie pop/rock that was around at that time. The album which influenced me most is a hazy mix of hip hop beats, lo-fi tape-scorched synthesizers and samples of old educational films. I got really into drum programming using outdated technology because of this album, which you can hear on the harm track “The Sailing Coast,” where I layered several classic Casio sounds using the Casio RZ-1 sampler/drum machine.

The 21st Century

DJ Metatron — Loops of Infinity

mandarín · DJ Metatron ‎– Loops Of Infinity (A Rave Loveletter)

Kyle: Starting in 2012, I took a deep dive into house and techno, genres which have accounted for most of my new music listening over the last decade. This album exemplifies some aspects of electronic music that I find amusing: ridiculous DJ aliases, oddly marketed vinyl-only releases and nostalgia for a rave culture in which I never participated. But the album also exemplifies how tracks work together in house and techno to create something more than the sum of its parts. The songs touch on a variety of styles but maintain a consistent mood, and they lock together to draw you into the dreamworld of DJ Metatron. Honorable mention to the Strum and Thrum comp of American jangle from 2020.

Various Artists — The Guest Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Cindy: Hear me out. This movie is an unexpectedly fun action thriller/horror flick, but the soundtrack is what made it. Full of various synthwave songs from both now and the 1980s, it has a throwback theme with a seriously dark aura. It’s like a mixtape I wish I’d been cool enough to make myself. Last year, there was an April Fools’ Day bit about a sequel coming out that they reinforced with an equally impressive (and real) soundtrack on Spotify.

Crying — Get Olde/Second Wind

Get Olde Second Wind by Crying

Andy: As a childless adult in the entertainment industry, I have a LOT of free time to check out new music, and there is SO much good stuff out there, from Rosie Tucker to Pictoria Vark to Linqua Franqa to Daniel Wyche, but I thought for Listed, I’d pick something that is more in line with harm. Crying might be defunct now, which is a bummer because this album (which is two of their EPs smushed together) does for chiptunes what I think we were trying to do for Casios, that is, transcend the kitschy nature of the medium. I love chiptunes and video game music, but Crying did something new with it, writing extremely catchy and complex songs full of actual emotions.

Tony Rolando — Breakin’ Is A Memory

Breakin' Is A Memory by Tony Rolando

John: Music that evokes nostalgia has always resonated with me for some reason. Using these toy keyboards from my childhood to craft complex pop songs was a big part of making music with harm. On this record by modular synth designer/musician Tony Rolando, there’s a healthy dose of nostalgic analog synth gear as well as modern designs from his company Make Noise. He seems to have one foot firmly planted in the past, as well as a keen eye on the future.

[justlikeeddie]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr & Charles Xavier Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier Additional Tags: Missing Scene, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Sad Aeroplane Chess Introspection

Charles picks up his brandy and knocks it back, and looks down at the chessboard. "It's been a while since I've played."

This is not the man that Erik remembers. Charles would never have evaded a matter so important; hell, Charles was never the one to break eye contact. Charles drank exclusively for pleasure, and not with the brisk, mechanical movement of someone taking their alcohol medicinally.

"I'll go easy on you," Erik says, and a strange kind of sorrow twists at him. "It might finally be a fair fight."

Charles gives him a smile so humourless that Erik, too, looks away. "Your move."

This is a brief scene-tag that I wrote years ago, straight after seeing Days of Future Past, as a sort of writing exercise to get me into the headspace for The Width of a Circle (a story that, in a classic move, I then didn’t actually write for another two and a half years). Rediscovered in the hard drive excavations of my current unexpected X-Men renaissance.

[alediazpizarro]

Senior Soundtrack

Music is a love language. Lo he tuiteado, lo he dicho, y —con ustedes— lo he vivido. Parte de mis 7 años en ASF ha sido la música que he compartido: canciones que son intereses en común, recomendaciones, o hasta tracks de obras de teatro que nunca voy a borrar de mi memoria. After all, de eso se trata la música en parte: de acordarse. Y sepan que cada vez que oiga una de las canciones en esta lista, va junto con su recuerdo. A todos ustedes, de todo corazón, gracias. No sé que sería de mi vida sin ustedes.

Les dejo la playlist que construyeron conmigo, whether you knew it or not, de 2014 para acá.

PS: si no aparece su nombre en esta lista de canciones, lo único que quiere decir es que we have yet to share a song. Los adoro a todos. 

Abarca

Burn · Lin Manuel Miranda You have the voice of an angel, and every time I think of this song I no longer hear it in Philippa Soo’s voice, but in yours.

Tuyo · Rodrigo Amarante Dancing Kermit.

Alexander

"Eungenio” Salvador Dalí · Mecano We love the music, hate the lyrics.

Na Na Na · My Chemical Romance Debate bus trips. Blasting it from the backseat, with Nesquik and cold pasta at hand.

I’m Not Okay · My Chemical Romance “¿Estos son los Rolling Stones?”

Being Alive · Stephen Sondheim Life’s dream: be Bobby. Not literally. That would suck.

If I Could Tell Her · Benj Pasek & Justin Paul You once said this is the song you would dedicate to me. Though I think we’ve grown past that, I will always remember how warm it made me feel when you said it.

Ana

Isle of Flightless Birds · Twenty One Pilots Ya sé que me odias, pero DARARAAAARAAA

I’m Low on Gas and You Need a Jacket · Pierce The Veil El concierto que más he disfrutado en mi vida (and that’s saying a lot), y parte de por qué fue porque fui contigo. Lloramos en esta canción y en el video que grabé con mi horrible teléfono se oye lo feo que cantamos. 

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · Neutral Milk Hotel De un Tiktok (de miles) que me mandaste pero de los pocos que sí abrí.

Numb · Linkin Park WAWAWAWAWAWA 

Anna

Fashionista · Jimmy James Really obscure pre-middle school memory, pero every time it gets stuck in my head me acuerdo de ver el lyrics video en el ballet y la miss Celia regañándonos.

Ari

Life Itself · Glass Animals It slaps. Plus, concert.

Remember When · Wallows My favorite song in my “Drive” playlist, cada vez que sale I remember sitting in the backseat of your dad’s car and you turning the volume up so we could drive over the Reforma speed limit with this blasting.

The Cave of Two Lovers · That LSD guy from Avatar SECRET TUNNEL!!!!!!!! SECRET TUNNEL!!!! THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN!!!! SECRET SECRET SECRET SECRET TUNNEEEEEEEL!!!! (No Spotify version, so here’s the surf rock cover.)

Covarrubias

Toxic · A Static Lullaby Flashbacks a clase de Ms. Miranda en 7º.

Back to Black · Amy Winehouse No puedo oír esta canción sin acordarme de tu audición para Grease. Rizzo could-have-been?

Diana

The Adults Are Talking · The Strokes Es chill yet vaguely nostalgic Diana vibes to the max.

Stuck on the Puzzle · Alex Turner Thank you for liking Alex Turner. :`)

Dark Red · Steve Lacy Memorias de una tarde que pasamos armando Repentinos con una mini guillotina y pláticas de Dinamarca.

Diego

Thinking of a Place · The War on Drugs La primera que me recomendaste, y la mejor para manejar de noche.

Vissi d’Arte · Giacomo Puccini No creo que hubiera visto Tosca si no me la hubieras recomendado. Qué bueno que lo hiciste, porque esta aria se volvió de mis favoritas. 

Money · Pink Floyd Alguna vez jugamos music trivia en el salón de Stearns y me acuerdo de que yo todavía no la ubicaba pero tú la adivinaste sin problema. Years later, eres la persona que sé que le gusta Pink Floyd tanto como a mí. Lástima de Roger. :(

Layla · Derek & The Dominoes Este año tuve un classic rock renaissance que empezó, you guessed it, cuando me recomendaste esta. Clapton no falla.

Klavierkonzert Nr. 21, No. 2 “Andante” · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart También me hiciste escuchar mucha más música clásica de la que conocía, y aprendí a disfrutarla. Esta sigue siendo mi favorita.

Sara · Fleetwood Mac De las pocas de Fleetwood Mac que no conocía pero que me recomendaste en uno de esos exchanges a las 12 am y que oí con audífonos in the dark.

Resguardum Ether · León Larregui También de las pocas de este cuate que nunca había oído pero que se volvió de mis favoritas.

Fer

Good Life · OneRepublic Buenas vibes.

Can’t Fight This Feeling · REO Speedwagon Horton --> improvised conciertos en el baño.

What the Heck I Gotta Do · Lin Manuel Miranda Más conciertos de regadera/vestidor en lo que nos arreglamos juntas.

Beth · KISS El club Glee y el karaoke en el Wii.

Miss Jackson · Panic! At The Disco No lo vas a admitir, pero te gusta mi música y lo sabes. Anytime que dudas, sólo es cuestión de ponerte esta.

The Man · The Killers Nada como nuestros buenos trips manejando de noche.

Fernando

The Bad Touch · Bloodhound Gang You and me, baby, we ain’t nothing but mammals...

EugeRiq

This Life · Vampire Weekend Siempre que la oigo pienso en ti.

I Wear Glasses · Mating Ritual Me la recomendaste en alguna de mis countless Close Friends stories.

Jose

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) · The Proclaimers Picture it: a gaggle of eight or so kids marching around Cumbres de Santa Fe loudly screaming this in a terrible Scottish accent after watching a horror movie.

Somebody Else · Clones of Clones A bop!

Ocean Man · Ween I will only say four words: Lord of the Flies.

Lauro

Desencuentro · Residente ft. Soko Clases de Domínguez contigo were always lovely. Plus, who could forget the iconic “NO HAY SEÑAL”?

I Don’t Know How to Love · The Drums Otra de cuando we were still developing our own music tastes.

Luz

Papaoutai · Stromae De cuando estábamos haciendo Haiti research and really wanted to get into the francophone mindset.

Moonlight Sonata · Ludwig Van Beethoven Those Knowledge Bowl kids never saw it coming.

Beware of the Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke) · Panjabi MC Memoria tangible de Vancouver: cuando pusiste esta en el restaurante indio al que fuimos.

Madison

I Know Things Now · Stephen Sondheim No sé cuántas veces me ayudaste a ensayar esta canción. Me ayudaste muchísimo todo Into the Woods, y desde ahí en 6º sé que te tengo como amiga.

Mare

Rumour Has It · Adele ¿Te acuerdas del proyecto que hicimos de Mr. Kamm en 7º estilo “fleas on rats”? Literal después de que usamos esta canción ya no puedo cantar las lyrics de la original.

Mariana

Bitter Sweet Symphony · The Verve La oíamos dizque “para concentrarnos” en el salón de Austin.

Pas de Quatre from Swan Lake · Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky De cuando te fui a ver bailar ballet con Fran. :)

Tú y Yo Somos Uno Mismo · Timbiriche EL SOL

Manu

Fly Away · Laid Back The moment you played this at Montero’s party you literally made everyone be vibing. It’s like the Fairy Godmother of Chill. That was also the day you stopped being “Manu from TEDx” and were just “Manu” there on. Probably ‘cause you appreciated my ability to drive a stick. :`)

MDRH

Choke · I Don’t Know How But They Found Me I wouldn’t like this Dallon spinoff as much as I do without you. It’s like emo, but evolved, mature— like you. In a good, compliment-y way.

Oceans · Frank Iero Remember when we were gonna see him in concert? :( Thanks for being the only person with whom I can enjoy weird throaty emo screamy shit. At least the guitar is good.

House of Wolves · My Chemical Romance Something about the aggressive guitar and fast pace of this song has always reminded me of you.

Mich

Tear in my Heart · Twenty One Pilots Your Koreaboo initiation before you even knew it.

The Kids Aren’t Alright · Fall Out Boy Remember the lyrics from this I wrote as a dedication in your eighth grade yearbook? I meant them. 

I Write Sins Not Tragedies · Panic! At The Disco I CHIME IN—

She’s My Winona · Fall Out Boy Something about Folie à Deux, and especially about this song, always carries a you vibe.

Perfect · Simple Plan From when you got angsty and Montes called you out on it. Then it became a bit of a joke.

One of THOSE Nights · The Cab Back in seventh grade, this was the most ambitious crossover ever attempted. 

Montse

I Want To Hold Your Hand · The Beatles De cuando saturamos la rockola del Johnny Rocket’s con 15 canciones y pensaron que no servía. But we knew. Plus, a really fun Snapchat video de nosotras bajando las escaleras a tambos y aplausos con esta canción.

Something · The Beatles Too bad Eric Clapton stole George Harrison’s wife.

I Am the Walrus · The Beatles Want to feel what it’s like to do acid without actually doing it? Play this song on Rock Band!

Don’t You (Forget About Me) · Simple Minds De la única pijamada que me han dejado hacer, donde vimos tu película favorita. An unforgettable night with an unforgettable person.

Pato

Hit the Back · King Princess The best experience of my life was one I’m glad I shared with you. Still want to murder those Rock Lobster loiterers though— blocked us from KP. >:(

Just the Same · Bruno Major I had never heard of him, but to be next to you enjoying him, with our KP t-shirts in my bag and just-refilled water bottles, was one of the highlights of my night.

The Louvre · Lorde Remember when we played Melodrama in your bedroom? This is the song that I feel best captivates that: shoes on the floor, laying softly on the bed, sunlight streaming in through the window, the vinyl spinning, and a general feeling of levity.

No You Girls · Franz Ferdinand Friendly reminder of literally the worst physical experience of our lives. :))))

The Other Side of Paradise · Glass Animals The first GA song I ever showed you, which is a nice chain thing because it’s the first GA song I ever listened to that Jordan showed me. And a birthday vinyl we played in your room.

Romina

The Only Thing · Sufjan Stevens This entire album is your personality. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Futile Devices · Sufjan Stevens Same as above. It’s not your fault you’re a Sufjan Suf-stan. But every time I listen to Sufjan I remember you playing him at the Open Mic. That’s a very nice feeling.

Mama · My Chemical Romance Indisputably goes HARD and hey what are mommy issues without a little angst/general gender confusion?

Sam

Goodie Bag · Still Woozy El día del college fair que estuvimos juntas al principio y conocimos a la USC rep que nos cagó traías tu camisa de Still Woozy. Since then, el grupo me recuerda a ti.

Vale

Heart of Glass · Miley Cyrus Tú viviste esta out-of-body transcendental experience al mismo tiempo que yo, el día de mi cena. 

Don’t Stop · Fleetwood Mac Espero que ya te guste Rumours completo. :)

Yuhis

Chiquitita · ABBA I didn’t know you could sing. After listening to you sing this one (and almost crying), I wondered why you didn’t do it more often.

Beauty School Dropout · Frankie Avalon I am sorry pero literal I can only think of this song in your voice. Iconic!

Gracias por todo. Los quiero. Los voy a extrañar.

[writingdotcoffee]

#93: Time Tracking for Writers

The first time I heard about time tracking, I thought it was weird. You can, you know, actually use your time productively instead of spending it tracking stupid things.

Sometime later, I was going through an unproductive spell, and I was running of things to try to get out of it. So I gave time tracking a go. These days it’s an indispensable tool in my writing productivity toolkit.

My biggest arguments against this exercise were its perceived pointlessness. Surely, I know how I spend my time. How will clocking in and out help me with anything? Well, as it turns out, your perception of how you spend your time can be vastly different from reality. In the frenzy of everyday life, it’s easy to let hours slip by unnoticed and still feel that you have absolutely no time to spare.

I use time tracking as a sort-of diagnostic tool. Every time I start feeling that my schedule is a bit loose, and I’m not able to get as much done as I would like to, I will start writing down exactly how I spend my time for a few weeks. I don’t use any apps, just plain pen and paper (I did try a couple in the past, but I’ve found that fiddling with timers and logging precise distracts from the actually important things.).

For most people, merely remembering when you start and stop doing something so you can mark it into a notebook later will be precise enough. The critical part comes at the end of the day or week when you’ve collected all the data and take a good look at them.

I use an A5 notebook — one page per day. I mark blocks of time and what I was doing at the time and review them the next morning, trying to figure out where the gaps are and make adjustments.

Nothing exposes your priorities better than a snapshot of the way you spend your time. You want to be a writer? Does the snapshot you just got reflect that? Frankly, it can be a pretty disheartening experience looking at hours and hours of your life wasted away.

As the observer effect theory states — a mere observation of a phenomenon changes it. When you’re logging another hour of mindless scrolling on Instagram into your time journal, chances are that you will feel bad about it earlier and perhaps make the next session shorter.

Tracking your time for a few weeks gives you an objective assessment of what’s going on. And once you know what the problem is, you can take steps to improve no matter how bad your situation seems.

First published on radek.co.

What I Am Reading

I’m about half-way through the biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. A fascinating account of a polymath who became the embodiment of the Italian Renaissance. Walter Isaacson has a delightful style which makes for a great reading experience.

I also started reading a collection of short stories called Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami. The stories are short, but somehow, the author manages to immerse me in the narrative every time. I’m a big fan of Haruki Murakami’s style.

Short Stories

I read the following short stories this week:

I, Row-boat by Cory Doctorow

After the Siege by Cory Doctorow

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami

New York Mining Disaster by Haruki Murakami

Aeroplane by Haruki Murakami

The Mirror by Haruki Murakami

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Past Editions

#92: Decisive Moments, May 2019

#91: Writing and Life, May 2019

#90: Favourites, May 2019

#89: Libraries, May 2019

#88: Brain Surgery for Writers, April 2019

[spamzineglasgow]

(ESSAY) A Brief Analysis of Rhubarb by Scott Morrison

> On YouTube, there is a fan-made video for Aphex Twin’s Rhubarb with over eight million views.

> Accessed through the familiar white, pristine and frictionless interface of the site, this particular video immediately stands out to me as a lacuna.

> Uploaded eight years ago – a relative artefact in the endless present of the digital age - the video consists of low-resolution passages that alternate between ambient landscapes of clouds, open fields and bare forests.

> The timelapses of clouds in their quiet, candyflosslike unspooling seems instantly to be the perfect companion to the quietly unfolding music. But the video always fills me with questions: who took the time to make and upload it, eight years ago or more, and why does their emotional response correlate so exactly with my own? Why do the blurry outlines of their nostalgia tesselate so precisely with mine? And why do the images so intimately fit the music itself?

> I would like to suggest that it’s because the footage, the music, and our emotions while we listen share a similar essence, a common resonance: the fundamental tension between stasis and movement.

> Setting up this relationship is one way that music can touch the eternal, the timeless. But, as is fitting, we will return to this by moving on. The way up and the way down are one and the same.

> So why does Rhubarb feel endless? Why does it feel like floating?

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Open up this MIDI visualisation of Rhubarb.

> MIDI visualisations are like starcharts to me. Often, more than any other type of analysis, they can make clear the different voices, structures and ideas at work in a piece of music.

> They can reveal the curves and clefts of sonic constellations; the outlines of bodies and faces in the clouds.

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Harmony

> With Rhubarb, the harmony is always the first thing that hits me.

> For the duration of its 7 minutes and 44 seconds, Rhubarb is a single chord sequence that repeats without cessation or secession, recurring over and over and over again.

> This, at the simplest level, is the clearest manifestation of the tension between movement and stasis in the music. This is why it feels endless. The great law of the universe is entropy: everything will change and decay and pass. But not this piece of music – especially when we can just press play again when it finishes.

> The music may not have substantially moved by the time we get to the end of its 7 minutes and 44 seconds - but have we?

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> To be a little more granular (grains: the gauzy, hazy textures of clouds on film frictionlessly becoming pixels online), in music theory, we could express the journey Rhubarb’s harmony does or does not take like this:

II: D(i) | F#m | A | E | D :II

II: IV | VI | I | V | IV :II

Western harmony revolves around the building and release of harmonic tension. Here, however, this process is subverted - the tension is never fully built or fully released: the sequence never resolves.

> In fact, the imperfect cadence at the end of the sequence (V > IV) leads back around to another chord IV at the beginning, smudging the boundary between the end and the beginning, the omega and the alpha.

> Notably, this first chord, inverted, loses even the pull of its own root note; and the lowest pitch (an A) in the bass voice (the blue line in the video) often makes the final D a second inversion. The lowest note in the piece - which normally acts as a ground in the music’s home key - is indeed the root of the tonic, but this only appears during the dominant chord, its diametric opposite.

> In other words: the usual harmonic weights that act as the law of gravity in the blue globe of a piece of music have lost their pull. Really, this is the fundamental reason the music feels like floating – we are not in a terrestrial world of causation and consequence, of falling and entropy and decay, but in another weightless world, revolving. Floating. Endlessly. Like clouds on a screen.

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> From here in the Cloud(s), what other features can I discern in the harmony below?

> The movement of the chord voicings (i.e. how the notes of one chord shift to form the next chord) is one of perpetual descent.

> In music, descent is a downward movement of high to low most often associated with music of lamentation, loss and grief. Here, however, due, to the unchanging repetition throughout the piece, this descent spirals not downwards into the depths, but - to me at least - pushes inwards, gently eroding, nudging, nestling, searching, enveloping, suffusing.

> The overall atmosphere of the piece is one not of deep grief or loss. But there is definitely a wistful sadness and longing (the bare branches in the video, the low winter sun). These are moments of melancholy and nostalgia. But why?

> Well, what is the essence of each of these states? I would suggest that both are defined by a tension between stasis and movement: the tug of the past on the present.

> I would like to suggest that this, by modelling this dialectic tension between stasis and movement in the fundamental construction of the music, is how Richard D James can make a piece that so powerfully evokes these feelings.

> There is one last thing I would like to add, softly, before we touch the ground again.

> The harmonic language here is entirely diatonic, and, for the most part, triadic. In other words, it is a simple soundworld – an echo of the language of lullabies.

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Timbre

> The timbre (the colour or sound quality) of the instruments used only heightens the precious, fragile, lullaby-like lilt of the harmony.

> The softness of the synths is sleepy and soothing. They behave like organs; celestial simulacra; hushed, safe, endless.

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Tessitura

> Clouds, of course, live in the sky.

> They move over vast distances, surrounded by space, and air. From aeroplanes and mountaintops, I have seen the vastness of their shadows migrate effortlessly over distant hills and plains below.

> Rhubarb shares this feeling of vast, endless, weightless distance. This is partly created by the recurring harmonic structure, outlined above, which seems to be without bounds.

> The feeling of space in the track is also created, however, by the sense of space between the different voices, and the wide range between the highest and lowest pitches. To me this creates a feeling of a ground far below and a sky far above.

> In terms of production and mixing, the panning and reverb add to this - more intimations of spiritual spaces: sounding spinning about above our heads, echoing in whispers, as in caves, or cathedrals.

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Rhythm

> Clouds never move quickly. Even if they pass over us with greater speed on certain days than others, for me there is something about their scope and scale that always makes their movement a graceful procession. There is no hurry or agitation. It is an enviable, inevitable process - long lines of flawless code running endlessly.

> Clouds (those in the sky, at least), move steadily. They do not glitch or leap. And so here the rhythms are regular. They do not alter. This creates a certain feeling of stability and certainty, of predictability, of trust. Of comfort and soothing.

> At one point, a voice enters playing on an offbeat (the yellow voice at 2:17 in the MIDI visualisation). This little change is vast in the context. It opens up another part of the landscape entirely: it contributes to the impression that there are several independent cycles occurring simultaneously, which helps the piece to feel organic, flowing - trees in a forest moving differently in the same wind. Clouds of different shapes and textures hanging in the same sky.

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Melody

> Then there is that beguiling shiver of a melody.

> It appears in the highest voice (the red line that enters at 0:44) and floats and glides small distances at a time, again, with no glitches or sudden leaps.

> It reminds me of the purity of plainchant, or Renaissance masses – a single, pure human voice vibrating in a cathedral. It reminds me of Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli: a slow, predominantly stepwise melody unfolding on top of a largely fixed, triadic harmonic part.

> Again: stasis and tension; linearity and repetition.

> The feeling of walking in place on an endlessly revolving spiral staircase.

·      

Voicing

> I identify a total of five separate voices, each of which occupy a certain register, and which have a unique character. These rarely play all at once.

> It is these different combinations of the voices, alongside the harmonic rhythm previously discussed, that creates the structure of the piece. This is one not of progress or expansion, but of exiting and returning.

> Disappearance and reappearance without change feels eternal, inevitable; as if the different voices have been continuing unaltered somewhere else (beneath the mixer, above the clouds) momentarily inaudible to us, before appearing in our reality again.

> Notably, the piece ends how it begins (a way a lone a last a loved a lone), continuing as movement and stasis: unchanging materials combined and recombined in ever evolving coagulations.

> It fades out. In other words, the recording ends, but the music doesn’t.

> Buffering on servers, endlessly playing on The Cloud, or buffering again in my memory it feels - endless, like floating.

·      

~

Text and Images: Scott Morrison

Published: 29/12/19

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@renaissance-aeroplane (introvertedtothenthdegree), @opal-bee, @bluraaven, and @kriladoodles are still in the running. 

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[ray-rabies]

multiples of 5 for that ask meme

this is gonna be a slightly abbreviated version just cos of how many songs i have on here but here we go (under the cut so i’m not internationally hated)5: Which songs have “dream” in the title  Dream Lover-DionDream Police- Cheap TrickDon’t Dream It’s Over- Crowded HouseDream a little dream of me; california dreamin’-the mamas and the papasSweet Dreams-EurythmicsDream- Mahavishnu OrchestraAnd Dream of Sheep;An Architect’s Dream;The Dreaming- Kate BushAmerican Dream;Dream For Him;Find A Dream;House Of Broken Dreams;In My Dreams-CSNYDream-Tally HallAsleep and Dreaming; Busby Berkeley Dreams-The Magnetic FieldsApocalypse Dreams-Tame ImpalaBoulevard of Broken Dreams-Green DayCircle Dream-10000 ManiacsCountry Dreamer- WingsCowboy of Dreams;Shinin On Your Dreams- Crosby NashCity of Dreams; Dream Operator- Talking HeadsCaught In A Dream-Alice CooperDeadly Dream of Freedom- TriumviratDream Again;Lucid Dreams-Franz FerdinandDream Attack-New OrderDon’t Let Me Lose This Dream- Aretha FranklinDay of The Dreamer-RenaissanceDream Away;Dream Scene-George HarrisonA Dream Away-The CarsDream Clock-Weather ReportA Dream Goes On Forever- Todd RundgrenThe Dream Nebula-NektarDream of The Archer;Dreamboat Annie-HeartDream One;Dreaming From The Waist-The WhoThe Dream of Blue Turtles-StingDream Police-Gary NumanDream Time;The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong-The JamDream Within A Dream-PropagandaDream Within A Dream-SpiritDream Within A Dream-Alan Parsons ProjectThe Dream’s Dream-TelevisionDream World-The MonkeesDreamer-SupertrampThe Dreamer-Nicky HopkinsDreamer’s Ball-QueenDreaming-PolystyreneDreaming;Dreaming Is Dangerous-Bruno CoulaisDreaming of 4000;One Summer Dream;Ordinary Dream-Electric Light OrchestraDreaming of Me-Depeche ModeDreaming While You Sleep-GenesisDreamline;Middletown Dreams-RushDreams;Flash’s Dream;Only A Dream-The KinksDreams-Fleetwood MacDreams-Allman Brothers BandDreamtime;Endless Dream;Sweet Dreams-YesDreamy Lady-T RexxEverybody Has a Dream-Billy JoelFever Dream-Nash The SlashFurther Than Funk Dream-Medium MediumGirl of My Dreams-Charles MingusGasoline Dreams- OutkastHad A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy)-Roger HodgsonThe Gunner’s Dream;Julia Dream;Post War Dream-Pink FloydHere I Dreamt I was An Architect- The DecemberistsI Don’t Sleep I Dream-REMHung Up On A Dream;Is This The Dream- The ZombiesI Dream Myself Alive-A -HaI Dreamaed There Was No War-The EaglesI Had Too Much To Dream Last Night-The electric PrunesI’m Only Dreaming-Small FacesIn Every Dream Home A Heartache- Roxy MusicInfinite Dreams-Iron MaidenIs It A Dream;Street of Dreams- The DamnedIt’s Only A Dream-TrapezeJohnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams-Tears For FearsLittle Dreamer- Van HalenKeep Dreaming-Pineapple ThiefMaximum Dream For Evil Knieval-Flaming LipsMoney Honey Impossible Dream-The Sensational Alex Harvey BandMusic In Dreamland-Be Bop DeluxeNew Gold Dream-Simple MindsNice Dream-RadioheadRainy Day Dream Away;Still Raining Still Dreaming-Jimi Hendrix ExperienceQueen of Dreams- StrawbsRed Brick Dream-XTCRunnin Down A Dream-Tom PettyRado’s Dream-FoxygenSex Sleep Eat Drink Dream-King CrimsonSleep of No Dreaming;Stupid Dream-Porcupine TreeSome Dreams Come True-BanglesThe State of Dreaming- Marina And The DiamondsSweet Dreams- BeyonceThese Dreams-Jim CroceTomorrow’s Dream-Black SabbathWeird Dream-HarmoniaWest County Dream-Mountain GoatsWhen Poets Dreamed of Angels-David SlyvainWildest Dreams-AsiaYou Make My Dreams Come True-Hall & Oates40 Day Dream-Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes10: Which songs have “blue” in the titleBlue;Blue Boy;Blue Motel Room-Joni MitchellBlue-Fine Young CannibalsAcute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues-The KinksAll Blues;Blue In Green-Miles DavisAeroplane Blues-Black KeysAmbulance Blues;Blue Eden-Neil YoungAntichrist Television Blues-Arcade FireBaby Blue-BadfingerBaby’s Tears Blues- Mort GarsonBacklash Blues;Blues;Central Park Blues;Gin House Blues;Little Girl Blue-Nina SimoneBallet For A Blue Whale-Adrian BelewBehind Blue Eyes; Red Blue and Grey;Summertime Blues-The WhoBeyond The Blue Horizon;9 Times Blues-Michael Nesmith And The First National BandBirmingham Blues;Mr Blue Sky;Boy Blue;Bluebird;Bluebird is Dead-Electric Light OrchestraBlonde Over Blue-Billy JoelBlowing The Blues Away-Max WebsterBlue As a Jewel-Be Bop DeluxeBlue Beard-Band of HorsesBlue Cheese- Courtney BarnettBlue Days Black Nights-Buddy HollyBlue Eyes- Elton JohnBlue Jay Way;For You Blue-The BeatlesBlue Letter;Jigsaw Puzzle Blues-Fleetwood MacBlue Light-Mazzy StarBlue Light-UltravoxBlue Monday-New OrderBlue Oyster Cult (Subhuman)-Blue Oyster CultBlue Overall-XTCBlue Orpheus;Drunken Blue Rooster-Todd RundgrenBlue Nile-Alice ColtraneBlue Rhumba-Aqua VelvetsBlue Ridge Mountains;Blue Spotted Tail-  Fleet FoxesBlue Room In Venice-Rick WrightBlue Sky-A-haBlue Sky;Come And Go Blues-Allman Brothers BandBlue Suede Shoes;Cocaine Blues;Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny CashBlue Sunday;Runnin Blues-The DoorsBlue Turk-Alice CooperBlue You-Magnetic FieldsBluebird-WingsBluebird-Buffalo SpringfieldBluebird Revisted-Stephen StillsBluejays and Cardinals;Blues In Dallas-Mountain GoatsBlueprint-FugaziBlues De Luxe-Jeff Beck GroupBlues From An Airplane;Chauffer Blues;Eskimo Blue Day-Jefferson AirplaneBlues Man-ManassasBrilliant Blues-Pete TownshendBlue Angel-MarillionBristol Steam Convention Blues-The ByrdsBullet The Blue Sky-U2Buried Alive In The Blues;Kozmic Blues-Janis JoplinCan Blue Men Sing The Whites-Bonzo Doo Dah Dog BandCharlie Manson Blues-Flaming LipsCatfish Blues-Jimi HendrixClear Blue Skies;Suite Judy Blue Eyes-CSNYCrazy Lady Blue-UtopiaComputer Blue-PrinceDamn Right I Got The Blues-Buddy GuyDeep Blue;Electric Blue-Arcade FireDeep Blue;Devil And The Deep Blue Sea;Marwa Blues-George HarrisonDeeper Blue- Bruford Levin Upper ExtremitiesDachau Blues- Captain BeefheartEarly Morniing Blues and Greys;Papa Gene’s Blues;Some of Shelly’s Blues-MonkeesElectric Blues- HairEmpty Bottle Blues-TMBGEvening Blues-TrafficEstablishment Blues-RodriguezEveryday I Have The Blues-Rolling StonesFeelin Blue-CCRGoodbye Blue Sky;Jugband Blues-Pink Floydh20gate Blues-Gil Scott Heron and Brian JacksonHobo’s Blues-Paul SimonHoneymoon Blues;Cross Road Blues;Me and The Devil Blues;;etc-Robert JohnsonI’m So Blue-Michael JacksonInner City Blues-Marvin GayeInvitation To The Blues-Tom WaitsIt’s All Over Now Baby Blue;Tangled Up In Blue-Bob DylanJeff’s Blues;The Nazz Are blue-The YardbirdsOut Of The Blue-Roxy MusicLooking Good In Blue-BlondieMy Melancholy blues-QueenNew Blue Moon-Traveling WilburysNight Owl Blues-Lovin SpoonfulOoby Scooby Doomsday or The D Day DJ’s Got The DDT Blues-GongOtherness Blue-Sun RaPink And Blue-OutkastPoor Boy Blues- Barclay James HarvestProtex Blue-The ClashProzakc blues-King crimsonRainbows All over Your Blues-John SebastianRunning Gun Blues-David BowieSame Old Blues-Bryan FerrySeem To Have The Blues All The Time-Procol HarumSepository Nihlist Blues-FoxygenScrew You (Young Man’s Blues)-Elton JohnSky Blue-Peter GabrielSittin And Cryin The Blues-Willie DixonTurn Blue-Iggy PopWildwood Blues- NazzWinter Is Blue-Vashti BunyanWoman’s Blues-Laura NyroWorn Out Blues- Gotye9-5 Pollution Blues- Neil Innesi give up -_-

15: Which song titles start with “Where”Where Have All The Flowers Gone-Joan Baezit’s 3 am now i am giving up

20: Which song titles start with “Good”

25: A song with a strange title  In And Out The Chakras We Go (Formerly Shaft Goes To Outer Space)- Todd Rundgren30: The very last song on your list of songs35: A song longer than 10 minutes (a sampling) (i apparently have hundreds) Singring And The Glass Guitar (An Electrifyed Fairytale)-Utopia (18:22)Healing-Todd Rundgren (20 min)Supper’s Ready-Genesis (23 min)Echoes- Pink Floyd (23 min)A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers- VDGG (23 min)Ommadawn-Mike Oldfield (32:50)Mountain Jam-Allman Brothers (33:50)Treatise on Cosmic Fire- Todd Rundgren (35:19)Thick As A Brick-Jethro Tull (42:53)The Ikon (live)-Todd Rundgren’s Utopia (45 min)Journey To The Center of The Earth-Rick Wakeman (54:20)40: The first 5 songs that play when you hit “shuffle”Breakaway-The CarsMutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)-Bourgeois TaggPassover-Joy DivisionLunar Sea-CamelJingo-Santana

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[bananonbinary]

Hey, I've been reading along on your misadventures with this church, and I just wanted to shoot you a message to say that it seems like you've been dealing with total bullshit and I'm sorry about that, that sucks. I've had kind of a complicated relationship with churches in the past myself, and I think you're absolutely making the right call to walk away from that community. I hope you can find a community that genuinely cares about you and your needs someday.

thank you

actually im feeling a lot better now that it’s DONE, you know? like i dont have this stress on my shoulders anymore, and i feel fully vindicated that i literally didnt do anything wrong to fuck this up because they couldnt actually name a single thing when pressed. there’s absolutely nothing i shouldve done differently except not making one wrong assumption, i can now just move on with my life and try to find God through people that ACTUALLY show Their love.

@renaissance-aeroplane commented on one of my posts about this about their mom being a pastor and super supportive of their gender, that honestly gives me a lot of hope that i DO have a church family out there somewhere, i just got unlucky this time.