#robert poss

[dustedmagazine]

Robert Poss — Drones, Songs, and Fairy Dust (Trace Elements)

Robert Poss is best known for his work with Band of Susans, a late 1980s-early 1990s guitar-centric no wave band that came up in the same general scene and time frame as Sonic Youth and Swans. Band of Susans went through a number of configurations, but it never had fewer than three guitarists at a time. Consider Poss the primer inter pares (or first among equals) in the band’s squalling wall of guitars.

Now a few decades and a handful of solo albums on, Poss is still fascinated by the possibilities of amplification and feedback, though perhaps in a more lyrical, less confrontational way than in his youth.

Poss has titled this album Drones, Songs, and Fairy Dust, and indeed, it includes all of the above. Though some tracks favor one element or the other, the lines are not always so sharply delineated. There are drones in the more structured songs, and often, the lilt of melody in even the abstract instrumentals. (I’ll leave discerning “fairy dust” to others.)

Listen, for instance, to the way “Skibbereen Drive” blasts out distorted guitar chords, then surrounds them in flickering wah tones, all the while maintaining a steady, anthemic march. Or how “Out of the Fairy Dust” floats a lucid melody over seething, shifting beds of timber, a folk song living in an ambient wash. “Skew Forest” is maybe the purest expression of feedback sculpture, but even this track follows a wandering narrative line. Poss is thinking hard about texture and atmosphere but not to the exclusion of a good hook.

In the same way, the song-like tracks coruscate with detuned blare, the wall of guitar distortion almost, but not quite, burying the vocals in “Secrets, Chapter and Verse.” “It’s Always Further Than It Seems” has the rough romanticism of post-punk turning into college rock—first run Burma and very early R.E.M. come to mind—but there’s a haze and roar even in this well-shaped song.

As an album, Songs, Drones and Fairy Dust runs a bit long, piling up the brief experiments and longer compositions as Poss tries out new things. You might not want to listen all the way through very often (or you might) but pick any point on this extensive collection and you’ll find some very compelling guitar sounds, bending subtly or overtly towards song.

Jennifer Kelly

[arcane-vagabond]

Keeping in mind that the DPU won’t be finished until probably closer to the end of this year unless I hunker down and focus solely on it…

[chirpingchorus]

[prcg]

Las reglas del Departamento de Defensa permiten que los militares ayuden a matar estadounidenses, pero no directamente

La política estadounidense se ha convertido en un campo de gladiadores en el que se lucha contra los engaños. Ya sea que se trate de “colusión Trump-Rusia” o “gente muy buena” o “la computadora portátil es desinformación rusa”, nuestra política y nuestra sociedad han sido moldeadas por una cascada de mentiras, al menos desde 2016, y probablemente mucho más tiempo que eso. . Si bien los demócratas…

[mariacallous]

WASHINGTON — It took decades for defenders of the Confederacy to rewrite the history of the Civil War to recast Southern rebels’ treasonous attack against the United States as an act of honor and courage.

It took Donald Trump a mere fraction of that time to accomplish the same feat for his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.

In a mere four years, that day’s effort to end or, at the very least, suspend American democracy with a deadly assault on the Capitol, incited by Trump himself, has for a large swath of the country instead become a peaceful protest whose participants have been persecuted by Trump’s political opponents.

“What they have in common is that in both cases a story is propagated that a portion of the population wants to hear because it absolves them, or those in their in-group, of a transgression of not just the law, but of commonly held moral principles,” said Gabriel Reich, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who has studied how the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction is taught in schools.

“Liberal democracies really struggle with bad-faith actors who manipulate existing rules and norms to their own benefit,” he added.

Tom Joscelyn, a counterterrorism expert who served on the staff of the House Jan. 6 committee and was a co-author of its report, said he still finds it hard to believe that people could watch what happened that day unfold on television and then still accept Trump’s version of it. Unlike children growing up in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, for whom the Civil War was generations in the past, Trump’s followers and allies are rejecting readily available evidence of contemporary violence.

“All you need is the images and the videos from that day, his own words, and what you saw with your own eyes, and it was clear that he had crossed some bright lines,” he said. “All of that should have been disqualifying, and it wasn’t.”

Trump’s transition team did not respond to HuffPost queries. Even since his win in November, Trump has continued to lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from him and has described those who have been prosecuted for their actions on Jan. 6 as political prisoners.

“These people have been treated really, really badly,” he told Time magazine last month. “They’ve suffered greatly, and in many cases they should not have suffered.”

Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican political consultant in Florida, said he remembers as a child reading a plaque honoring dead Confederate soldiers in his town square. “That’s the way we grew up. That’s what we knew,” he said.

That Trump was able to revise his own history so quickly is a noteworthy achievement, he added.

“It is a tribute to Trump and his posse’s ability to convince half the country,” Stipanovich said. “And it is a telling indictment of the intelligence of that half of the country.”

From Protecting Slavery To The Honorable ‘Lost Cause’

When America elected the leader of a party dedicated to abolishing slavery as president, 11 Southern states decided to secede and started a war against those that remained. That these rebel states would lose was likely inevitable, given the Union’s industrial might and population advantage, and 700,000 deaths later, they did.

Yet within a few short years, an effort to reinvent that loss and the motivations behind it began. Confederate sympathizers and segregationists in academia, the media and politics cast men like Robert E. Lee — officers in the U.S. Army who had taken up arms against the United States — as tragic American heroes. And the reason behind the war, the preservation of human slavery, was replaced with a principled defense of “states’ rights” — even though slavery was plainly cited in the states’ own articles of secession.

“They made sure that teachers, including university-level historians, taught that story as historical truth, while simultaneously suppressing other points of view from the media,” VCU’s Reich said.

It took decades of repetition, replete with the construction of statues and memorials to the leaders of the failed insurrection, but this “Lost Cause” myth eventually became an accepted narrative, primarily in the South but to a lesser extent all over the country. So much so that some U.S. military bases in the first half of the 20th century were named for Confederate officers.

Trump’s propaganda campaign to redefine Jan. 6, in contrast, has taken place at lightning speed.

On Jan. 6 itself and in the days immediately afterward, the early consensus was that Trump had incited the attack on the Capitol and that he was wrong to do so. Republican congressional leaders blamed him in floor speeches. Trump himself on Jan. 7 read prepared remarks warning members of his mob: “To those who broke the law, you will pay.”

Trump’s former United Nations ambassador, Nikki Haley, expressed the conventional wisdom at the time that Trump was finished. “I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have,” she told Politico on Jan. 12.

Four years later, Trump is about to return to the same White House he left in disgrace. His new administration will be stocked with those willing to repeat and spread his continuing lies about the 2020 election. And he has promised not only to pardon those prosecuted for taking part in the Jan. 6 attack but to prosecute those who tried to hold him and his followers to account.

The Triumph Of The Repeated Lie

That Trump was able to return to power, despite everything, was perhaps foreseeable because he never lost the loyalty of the Republican primary voting base.

Indeed, the day after his coup attempt had failed, the overwhelming majority of the 163 members of the Republican National Committee gave him a sustained ovation when he called into their winter meeting in Amelia Island, Florida.

Three weeks later, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, at the time the country’s highest-ranking elected Republican, visited Trump at his South Florida country club, effectively signaling that Trump remained the party’s leader. Two weeks after that, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, while lambasting Trump for his behavior leading up to and on Jan. 6, nonetheless voted not to convict Trump for inciting the insurrection following his House impeachment for that offense. A conviction would have been followed by a vote to ban him from federal office for life.

By April, the RNC was again holding fundraising events at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, putting donors’ money into his personal bank account. Officials acknowledged privately that Trump remained their biggest fundraising draw and that they had to go along with the fiction that the 2020 election had been stolen because their voters believed it to be true — even though the only reason for that belief was Trump’s lies.

And by the end of 2021, following the release of conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson’s “documentary” claiming that the Jan. 6 insurrection was actually a “false flag” operation by the FBI, Trump began calling those under prosecution for taking part in his coup attempt — even the hundreds convicted for having assaulted police officers — “hostages” and “political prisoners.”

Republican candidates for offices large and small in increasing numbers made pilgrimages to Palm Beach to win his endorsement. Journalists similarly made the trek — not to ask about his unprecedented attempt to thwart the peaceful transfer of power, but about his candidacy to regain the presidency in 2024.

The new “Lost Cause” myth for Jan. 6 was complete.

“It’s disheartening,” Joscelyn said.

Stipanovich, who broke from the Republican Party when it embraced Trump in 2016, said that a more apt — and troubling — comparison to Trump’s rewriting of Jan. 6 may be the way Adolf Hitler and the Nazis remade their 1923 Beer Hall Putsch into a valiant act of patriotism, rather than an attempted coup that sent Hitler and others to prison.

“When it failed, the heroes of the failure became the hope of the future,” he said.

Whatever the appropriate historical analogy, the fact that Trump was able to assault democracy as he did and still come back to power is worrisome, said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. Sabato also grew up in that state, where the Civil War was taught as the “War of Northern Aggression.”

“The Lost Cause was a ‘big lie,’ but I’m not so sure Trump’s ‘big lie’ will ever be a lost cause,” he warned. “This is not cynicism. It’s the reality we face.”

[the-one-and-only-043]

[(of course :)]

[Greaves raises an eyebrow.]

I'd like to see it, yeah. What's it do?

[043 is talking quietly with Roxana and Drift, who are reassuring them that no one they care about was harmed when they went Eidolon.]

...You promise?

We would never lie to you about this, sweetheart.

Absolutely. I value your friendship too much, and also Roxana would kick my ass.

Damn right I would.

[043 snorts.]

I love you guys.

We love you too, Phe-Phe.

STOP CALLING ME THAT!

Nahh.

But it's such a good nickname..

Yeah, and the people who sold me out to Zoraxis called me "Lee-Lee".

...Oh.

Damn.

[Breakdown hesitates before speaking.]

...That's rough, buddy.

SHUT THE FUCK UP.

I am trying to drive.

Skill issue.

ROXY?

Yes, that's my name.

[043 busts out laughing.]

@phoenix-and-found-family

(I'm taking the spot behind the door if you don't mind. XD)

Agent 13-12 (also known as Phoenix) looked concerned, their face paled slightly as they overheard the slight panic in the door.

They were holding a Phoenix plushie in their arms, about to ask if this was a good enough plushie to give to this Phoenix.

"... What is going on?"

"Honestly, I... don't know."

[He looked worried and just slightly scared.]

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Bigfoots

Brian Keene: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of crazy bear valley Keene: so these no-good outlaws are on the run from the law Keene: but Keene: they take a wrong turn Keene: into danger King: what kind of danger? Keene: bigfoots

Keene: its a no holds barred war to the death between cowboys and bigfoots Keene: cowboys, of course, have the advantage of intelligence and speed, as well as firearms Keene: but the bigfoots have the numbers

Keene: these bigfoots might just tear these cowboys to pieces Bram Stoker: oh but cowboys! Keene: whats the matter bram? you kill your cowboys all the time! Stoker: yeah but Stoker: i dunno, its different

King: how big are the bigfoots? Keene: eh pretty normal bigfoot sized, i'd say King: really? i expected they'd be bigger King: what about their feet? Keene: oh well, yeah, their feet are big Keene: like duh Keene: obviously

King: wait are their feet big compared to normal feet or big compared to bigfoot feet? Keene: normal King: so big compared to our feet? Keene: yes i Keene: you know the feet aren't really central to this story

Keene: ok so back to the story King: wait a second is it bigfoots or bigfeet? Poe: obviously, it's bigfoots Barker: what? that's insane edgar. it's obviously bigfeet King: no no i think edgar's right on this one Lovecraft: that doesn't make any sense Keene: so back to the story

Robert E Howard: howdy pardnas Keene: 2 Gun Bob! King: it's 2 Gun Bob! Lovecraft: 2 Gun Bob! Barker: 2 Gun Bob! Poe: whoa 2 gun bob! Stoker: OMG! 2 Gun Bob! Koontz: 2 Gun Bob! Howard: i reckon i got somethin' to say on the matter

Howard: when a cowpoke is a-ridin' through bigfoot country, he's gotta have his trusty six iron on his hip Howard: cuz ya might gotta wrassle some varmints Keene: you sound like you've had some experience with this Keene: with fighting bigfoots Barker: you mean bigfeet Keene: no

Howard: now if me an' my boys tangled with a posse of bigfoots, we'd give em a taste of the ol' pea shooter Keene: yeah but see, there's a lot of bigfoots Keene: way too many to shoot Howard: i ain't a-bothered, i'm a fast draw Howard: [twirling six shooter] possibly the fastest

JRR Tolkien: hello lads King: JRR Tolkien! what are YOU doing here? Tolkien: well i head something about Tolkien: BIG FEET Tolkien: big HAIRY feet perhaps? Tolkien: big hairy SMELLY feet? Tolkien: big gross hairy smelly feet with fur????

Keene: the story's not about big feet, it's about bigfoots Tolkien: Tolkien: oh Tolkien: how big are the bigfoots feet? Keene: normal sized Tolkien: normal for us or normal for bigfoots? Keene: you know what i'm just gonna call them sasquatchs going forward

[digitulworld]

spooky month theories and things i noticed so far lalala

-jack isnt part of the cult, and his actions are not intentionally meant to keep john from his goal, but like captain and shotgun man, he was hired specifically so his weaknesses would slow john down and prevent him from investigating the cult. jack is easily distracted, scared of clowns, and seems to not care enough about the cult compared to john. in one of the endings, although john looks out the window suspiciously, jack has a smug look, as though he isnt taking john seriously. intentional or not, its this action that allows ignacio to burn the evidence

-ignacio was ordered to burn the evidence in johns house, but, presumably by his own decision, kept photos of johns family. it may be to gain further knowledge on his family for potential blackmail. whether the attempt to burn the photo of a younger looking john is for personal reasons or not is also unknown. it is also unknown why ignacio would wait for jack and john to leave the house so that they would survive the housefire, but it might be to eventually indoctrinate or sacrifice them

-the candy dealer, due to having the same va as john, might actually be a relative of john. possibly his brother, because so far, out of all the hatzgang, robert is the only one with unconfirmed parents. he has three confirmed siblings, an uncle, aunt, cousin, and grandparents, but no mom and dad. there is no explanation or reasoning for why roberts parents havent made an appearance or mention yet

-there is a track titled "aeternum" that plays during the spooky month secret endings. aeternum means forever and eternity. this track plays when a cult member or multiple appear on screen, dead or alive. however, this track also plays in strebers rehearsal, when the scene cuts to a closeup of his now cracked photo

-frank is either a victim, servant, or has some affiliation with the cult due to him possibly being part of the undead. we know his black eyes are natural, since we see a small photo on johns corkboard of him wearing a disguise containing a mustache and white eyes. frank also shows a visual similarity to the frankenstein character trope with a massive body and square head. hes also been seen kidnapping children and selling drugged treats, similar to what mr clown and the candy dealer do

-on the topic of the undead, streber is not confirmed to be a part of it, but his short foreshadows the details of his fate, all except livs comment on him becoming a part of the undead. evermores lines on bobs attacks, saying its unknown if anyone got killed or if its just a show, along with strebers theatrical performance as a vampire, and skid and pump believing his injury was faked once they left the haunted house, leaves questions as to why bob didnt kill streber, but rather just ate his arm. i cannot find a reason why he didnt eat him in a way that would be fatal to streber, unless he knew the amount of blood loss caused from losing an arm would kill him. bob is confirmed to dismember his victims after killing them, and streber is foreshadowed to be part of the undead

-semi related to the above observation, bob is confirmed to have a kill count of at least 8, but has only had a single joke killing in his episode with the pelo cameo. bob was specifically targeting skid and pump that night, which is why he stalled and ate candy instead of directly killing lila and kevin. he also only ate strebers arm, and stole the hatzgangs candy instead of murdering them. the only ones he actively stalked and made an effort to kill were skid and pump, even after needing to be revived by the pendant multiple times

-on the topic of the pendant, pumps eyes only turn blue when faced with a supernatural or demonic entity. when bob was run over, pumps eyes turned blue. there is a slight chance that the eyes of the universe was either allowing bob to revive, or was possessing him

-the cult has been creating the happy fella dolls with the sole purpose of being possessed. dexter was forced into the doll, as stated by pelo, and as a result he now sits in a bucket in the attic observing the items around him that he can now conclude are important, especially the mannequin which has been seen moving on its own multiple times. dexter also knows about the spider, and the thieves needing the items not for themselves, but for a higher up. it may be thematically important that the cult created the dolls, so that dexter can use this knowledge against them if he were to make a return

-pump is fascinated by eldritch monsters and befriended one, while susie is infatuated with demons and the underworld, creating a school project themed after hell and drawing demons during her free time. this may or may not be important, but the siblings do share a love for powerful beings and their interests could be relevant to the plot in later episodes

[therivershit]

Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, Paul Smith, Susan Stenger by Robert Poss

[stone-stars]

songs in c3e72:the high queen (timestamps from the ad-free version. does not include the generic combat music. “a wizard’s tournament” is the recap song.)

A Friend for Life - 9:52

The Hexblood Centurions - 11:35

A Friend for Life - 14:54

A Bastard No More - 16:42

Left is Left and Right is Center - 18:34

On the Prow - 20:13

A Fairy Remembers - 24:55

Bittersweet Sixteen - 29:17

A Glittering Reunion - 32:19

Mob Goblin - 35:27

Escape from Smuggler's Bounty - 40:45

The Writing on the Wall - 43:10

Goblin Dirigible - 46:41 (loops)

Sea Beast - 49:35

Apotheosis - 53:39

The Purge - 56:15 (loops)

Soul Coins - 1:01:25 (loops)

that one metal song - 1:17:51

Gunvar - 1:22:35

The Posse - 1:28:04

A Friend for Life - 1:31:42

Into the Planar Pool - 1:32:56

All I Need is One Thread to Spin a Web - 1:40:45

Demigod - 1:43:40

The Posse - 1:40:26

Bahumia Theme - 1:54:20

The Blows of a Friend, And Not a Foe - 2:09:38

The Bronze Bastard - 2:11:42

Into the Flame - 2:13:40

A Miracle Child - 2:28:17

Sea Beast - 2:29:44

that one metal song - 2:23:25

The Valiant Ol' Cobb - 2:33:19

All I Need is One Thread to Spin a Web - 2:40:01

Forsaken - 2:41:41

The Valiant Ol' Cobb - 2:46:02

Sea Beast - 2:54:34

The Sea Elves - 2:55:37

Tsunare - 3:00:54

Bahumia Theme - 3:06:01

Torn Apart - 3:12:07 (loops)

Oh, Melora! - 3:17:59

The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon - 3:22:47 (loops)

Oliana's Lullabye* - 3:29:34

The Frog - 3:32:47

Hexbuds - 3:35:09

The Frost Giant - 3:36:58

Hexbuds - 3:39:48

Fantastic & Fuddling - 3:40:34

The Fairy - 3:41:37

A Tale's End - 3:44:23

Hexbuds - 3:47:48

Hardwon the Giant Layer* - 3:49:49

context for each song + notes under the cut!

A Friend for Life - 9:52 - Talking about carrying on each other's wishes

The Hexblood Centurions - 11:35 - Robert addresses the Green Knights

A Friend for Life - 14:54 - Albin suggests founding a magic university

A Bastard No More - 16:42 - Albin + Sol reflect on launchpad / Sol + Albin pledge to be together

Left is Left and Right is Center - 18:34 - Callie pitches Kenna + her as knights w/ Calder as the squire

On the Prow - 20:13 - Sol sews his scarf into everyone else's tracksuits

A Fairy Remembers - 24:55 - Callie becomes an Oath of Devotion paladin

Bittersweet Sixteen - 29:17 - Kenna is "squighted" / Coming of Age

A Glittering Reunion - 32:19 - Sol tries (and fails) to contact Swag

Mob Goblin - 35:27 - Loading up to fly out / Ma Goblin gives them comm devices

Escape from Smuggler's Bounty - 40:45 - Heading out from Garrosh's castle

The Writing on the Wall - 43:10 - Gunk arrives

Goblin Dirigible - 46:41 (loops) - Akoralil brings in their allies

Sea Beast - 49:35 - The dragons of the Living Wood fly in

Apotheosis - 53:39 - Jovyre addresses the people of the Feywild

The Purge - 56:15 (loops) - Jovyre brings Cyra out and begins the execution

Soul Coins - 1:01:25 (loops) - Murph explains the battle mechanics

that one metal song - 1:17:51 - Triss 2's helmet falls off / Court with no crowns is there

Gunvar - 1:22:35 - Calder and Triss 2 share a moment

The Posse - 1:28:04 - Duck Team's allies kicking ass

A Friend for Life - 1:31:42 - Callie comforts Cyra

Into the Planar Pool - 1:32:56 - Marigold bursts out of the pit / Glen

All I Need is One Thread to Spin a Web - 1:40:45 - Glen gloating about killing an archfey

Demigod - 1:43:40 - Marigold breathes fire on Licorice + Sol

The Posse - 1:40:26 - Duck Team's allies (Gunk+co) take the shore to contested

Bahumia Theme - 1:54:20 - Licorice + Callie kill Glen

The Blows of a Friend, And Not a Foe - 2:09:38 - Callie comforts Marigold / Tries to break the charm

The Bronze Bastard - 2:11:42 - The allied ground troops compromise Jovyre's forces

Into the Flame - 2:13:40 - Jovyre succeeds at combining the crowns

A Miracle Child - 2:28:17 - Callie soothes and breaks Marigold's control

Sea Beast - 2:29:44 - Marigold joins their side / Marigold stats

that one metal song - 2:23:25 - Pincer attack from the ground troups / Breaking through

The Valiant Ol' Cobb - 2:33:19 - Sol goes down from the blast of sun / Pops up

All I Need is One Thread to Spin a Web - 2:40:01 - Jovyre tries to relate/appeal to Calder

Forsaken - 2:41:41 - Jovyre shows Calder Gregor wounded

The Valiant Ol' Cobb - 2:46:02 - Jovyre blasts Sol, Kenna, and Licorice with the sun again (knocking Kenna/Sol out)

Sea Beast - 2:54:34 - Ground allies succeed / Are able to save Sol

The Sea Elves - 2:55:37 - Sol falling out of the sky (unconscious)

Tsunare - 3:00:54 - Sol saves Licorice

Bahumia Theme - 3:06:01 - Honeysuckle kills Jovyre

Torn Apart - 3:12:07 (loops) - Calder takes the Feywild's power to try to cast Wish

Oh, Melora! - 3:17:59 - The serpents heal the Feywild

The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon - 3:22:47 (loops) - One last ride as the serpents join the starry sky / Saying goodbye

Oliana's Lullabye* - 3:29:34 - Oliana, Swag, and the serpent queen depart / Emily sings

The Frog - 3:32:47 - Sol 1 year later (teaching kids at Albin's school)

Hexbuds - 3:35:09 - Kenna comes to see Sol

The Frost Giant - 3:36:58 - Calder 1 year later (back in the ice knife)

Hexbuds - 3:39:48 - Kenna recruits Calder to join the team too

Fantastic & Fuddling - 3:40:34 - The Feywild now

The Fairy - 3:41:37 - Callie 1 year later (in the Feywild)

A Tale's End - 3:44:23 - Callie's play

Hexbuds - 3:47:48 - Kenna recruits Callie to join the team too

Hardwon the Giant Layer* - 3:49:49 - Emily sings us out

Notes: this ep didn't come with a song list, therefore "Oliana's Lullabye" and "Hardwon the Giant Layer", the two new songs, are placeholder titles here

[sea-changed]

Some quotes from What Soldiers Do that are not really worth their own post or that I didn't want to give their own post, but that I want to preserve for posterity/my own reference. CW for discussion of rape.

"Knowing that the GIs were souvenir hunters, the Nazis also left behind military paraphernalia rigged with explosives. When Raymond Avignon picked up a German helmet, an American soldier saved his life by making him put it down, showing him an iron thread that would trigger an explosion, then removing it with 'meticulous' care." (26)

"According to [British spy Roxanne] Pitt, on one occasion, a British airman too shy to act as a client [while hiding out at a brothel] chose instead to dress as a prostitute; the plan backfired when a French customer took a liking to him." (137) [Cites Pitt, The Courage of Fear (1957), 75-76.] Alan Bérubé are you seeing this.

"GI Robert Peters remembers how when an an older GI named Wisher got caught in a pup tent engaged in fellatio with a platoon sergeant, the commanding officer said this to his men: 'You know the penalty for putting another man's cock in your mouth? You rot in prison for life. You'll get f--ed good there." (175) [Cites Robert Peters, For You, Lili Marlene (1995), 60.] Bérubé!!

"The [US] military insisted on keeping French sexual labor invisible, not only from War Department officials, but also and even more importantly, from the American public back home. In a May 1945 memo to all commanding officers, Adj. Gen. R. B. Lovett argued that if the army was found guilty of condoning prostitution in overseas theaters, the War Department would 'be open to the charge that it is supporting conditions inimical to the health and welfare of troops. The eventual result might be public scandal with the families of military personnel charging the War Department with an unforgivable violation of trust in neglecting to care for the physical and moral well-being of its personnel.'" (186) To go along with--

"The American GI did not have to worry that his VD would go untreated, nor that his loved ones might witness 'scenes contrary to decency.' The military approach to venereal disease in Le Havre registered a growing confidence on the part of the US government to construct--whether consciously or through inaction--asymmetries of power in the transatlantic alliance: whose health was important and whose was not, whose family would be protected and whose would not." (190)

"In general, rape was probably the most widespread war crime in the European theater of war, although its violence had different meanings in various areas. On the eastern front, the German Wehrmacht committed rape with impunity as part of their aim to enslave Slavic peoples. Beginning in Hungary in 1944, the Soviet military used rape as an instrument of revenge. At the end of the war, thousands of women suffered from the crime of rape, and not only from the Red Army. According to US Judge Advocate General (JAG) statistics, at least five hundred German women were raped by American soldiers." (197-198)

"French officers frowned upon using white prostitutes for non-white troops because, in one officer's words, 'to sexually posses a white woman, a fortiori paying her like a vulgar piece of merchandise, permits [a man of color] to reverse the power relation and re-write history in his own way.' This officer's fear that sex between a black man and a white woman could erode imperial authority suggests just how vital sex was to the maintenance of white supremacy." (249) Brackets are Roberts's. The "re-write history" phrasing was enormously striking to me.

[atopvisenyashill]

@chena-h jace has spent a lot of time on driftmark completely ignoring the problem bc every time he bitches about it everyone starts dunking on him lmao.

he is focusing on the factors he can control, and since daeron was sent p young to foster in oldtown, aegon is the one who is like “hey shouldn’t we foster one of your kids with their grandparents or at least let them get to know their betrothed better?” and rhaenyra can acknowledge that if she wants rhaenys & corlys to stick to the betrothals & continue to have her back, she has to continue nurturing the relationship. so jace & luke are there a lot the way that like, brandon was seemingly in the riverlands a lot to get to know catelyn & robert and ned were fucking around all over.

we don’t get a lot of particularly wild rumors that spring up out of dragonstone in the books - it seems like it’s easy to just hang out & plot there & it doesn’t get back to the mainland, i mean no one really knows how religious & weird stannis has turned until after he breaks his silence. so all anyone in kl knows for several years is “rhaenyra & aegon seem to get along pretty well but they haven’t had any kids yet” and this has helped jace’s blood pressure immensely. but rhaenyra lets them know she’s pregnant & they’re going to stay in kl for the duration (they’re bringing gerardys with them, the whole move is aegon's idea bc he wants his mommy to meet his first kid) and jace’s first reaction is “how the fuck did she even get pregnant aegon is the one wearing the dresses isn't he” and his second thought is “oh my god why would you do that” and he absolutely follows them to the capital (he is in fact also just, a worrier and this’ll be the first kid rhaenyra has had since joffrey, he’s her heir and he reserves the right to pace anxiously outside the birthing room the entire time she’s in labor).

and of course like. aegon throws a rager immediately upon arrival to the capital & wears a dress there & is surrounded by a posse of hotties both men & women and there’s some sexy lyseni sailor on his arm the whole night & alicent and otto are fucjing sick over it & viserys, known party king, does not see the issue with aegon liking to party, it’s not like anything particular awful happened at the party (“but the dress-“ “it’s a party!”) and more importantly, clearly rhaenyra has learned she can’t go to such places bc she wasn’t there, so as far as he’s concerned, the whole thing is chill.

of course jace knows the sexy lyseni sailor was in fact rhaenyra who has gotten so good at passing as a man atp that he’s tricked mushroom multiple times into thinking he caught aegon with some random silver haired male whore & not rhaenyra & he thinks it’s hilarious bc he knows mushroom. jace’s life has never been harder. he can’t outwardly agree with the greens without exposing that his mom is there but he really agrees that this is super risky & dumb to do while they’re at the capital. and while aegon is boymoding during the day, rhaenyra just goes to small council wearing trousers now. THAT ONE viserys thinks is a bit much altho it is in line with rhaenyra’s ~willful nature , viserys just sees it as another way of acting out, and he doesn’t love it but it’s a bit quieter than the brothel escapades of yesteryear so he hasn’t done more than grumble (which - the reason they came back was bc aegon wanted to see her mom bc she’s becoming a parent for the first time & it’s nerve wracking & rhaenyra gave in bc we know rhaenyra has a very complex relationship with motherhood & birth too. but rhaenyra let alicent know that’s why they came back - even tho aegon did Not phrase it as “i want to see alicent” lol - and alicent is very thrown by this entire situation. is it an improvement or not?

and jace just has NO ONE to talk to about this alsjdfls. can't even publicly bitch about it. and now everyone knows because rhaenyra and aegon have decided to split their time between dragonstone and the capital and people are calling aegon "prince aegon the conquered" and make dick-less jokes about rhaenyra all the time and rhaenys and corlys told him not to react but the vein in his temple is getting a WORKOUT it's throbbing so much alsdfjl.

[turangalila]

[Musica quinque vocum : motteta materna lingua vocata. Ab optimus & varijs authoribus elaborata, paribus vocibus decantanda : nunquàm antea excussa. Nunc vero sub signo anchorae in lucem prodit, maximo labora & diligentia emendata, ut patebit experientibus. / Musices quinque parium vocum a pluribus optimis authoribus elaboratae. (Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1543)]

Anonymous Attrib. to Leonora d'Este.

– Ego sum panis vitae

Ego sum panis vitae qui de cælo descendit / patres vestri manducaverunt manna in deserto et mortui sunt, / Hic est panis de coelo descendit si quis ex ipso manducaverit non morietur. // Ego sum panis vivus, qui de cælo descendit / Si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in æternum. // [Jn 6:48-52a]

– Haec dies

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus / exultemus et laetemur in ea, / Alleluia. // Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. / Alleluia. Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, itaque epulemur in azimis sinceritatis et veritatis, Alleluia. //

– Angustiae mihi sunt undique

Angustiae mihi sunt undique et quid eligam ignoro melius est mihi incidere in manus hominum quam derelinquere legem dei mei.

– O beate Christi confessor

O beate Christi confessor Roche quam magna apud Deum sunt merita tua quibus nos credimus ab omnibus malis posse liberari, / concede nobis famulis tuis ut tuis sanctis praecibus ad gloriam perveniamus. // nos morbo epydemie posse liberari; et aeris temperiem concede.

– Angeli, archangeli, troni

Angeli, archangeli, troni et dominationes, principatus et potestates, virtutes, cherubim atque seraphim, patriarche et prophete, sancti legis doctores, apostoli, omnes Christi martyres, sancti confessores, virgines Domini, anachoritae: Sanctique omnes, intercedite pro nobis.

– Tribulationes civitatum audivimus

Tribulationes civitatum audivimus, quas passae sunt, et defecimus. Timor et hebetudo mentis cecedit super nos. Domine, miserere. // Peccavimus cum patribus nostris, injuste egimus, iniquitatem fecimus. Domine, miserere.

– Suscipe verbum, virgo Maria

Suscipe verbum, virgo Maria, quod tibi a Domino per angelum transmissum est. Concipies et paries Deum pariter et hominem, ut benedicta dicaris inter omnes mulieres.

– Sicut lilium

Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter filias.

_ Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter. / Princess, Nun and Musician / Motets from a 16th century convent. Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens. Directed by Laurie Stras & Deborah Roberts. (2017, Obsidian – CD 717)

[mizerable-drowning]

fanmade designs of michael's uno buddies! I wanted to do last month... but they're scuffed :') (esp Michael, he's the last one drawn and I really was tired for him... HE LOOKS HORRIBLE IM SORRY MIKE LOL I LOVE YOU MIKE PLEASE I PROMISE I CAN DRAW YOU PROPERLY)(I'm aware how easily I can resize certain things)

the jeremy/bonnie bro was already drawn by the ooftroop, he's there for refence

theyre moreso concepts because i am not satisfied with them, but I'll leave notes!

Chica and Fred uno buddies are surfboys! basing off what the ooftroop said about them moving out of utah, I had the random idea of them becoming pro surfers before becoming marine biologists

why? idk, fredbro gave me surfer dude vibes and I went with it.

I notice jeremike's eye colors paralell with each other, obviously

foxy = red

bonnie = blue

so i did that with fred and chicabro! chicabro's shirt is sapphire, I desaturated it and made it more purple-y for fredbro's eyes, I made chicabro's eyes fredbro's green shirt

from now on i'll just dub fredbro as iggy leopold, and chica as sioux robertson, I'll explain later (I actually don't know if I can name them, I'm just giving them names just so I don't write fred/chicabro constantly)

iggy is white so he's sunburnt.

funfact: while searching for vintage surfer dude shirts, I found the exact shirt the phone dude has! (and I know it cuz oof posted it on their twitter before, the exact image) Sioux just has the swim suit thing

...I wasn't sure what to do with Sioux's hair... I had zero idea how to translate black hairstyles into the UCFT art style. I tried to do twists, but they look horrible; I didn't wanna overtly detail them as I felt that'd be outta place of the art style, but it looks horrible as this. IIRC there's not really any black hair styles drawn in UCFT (yet) so no references sadly

I'm sorry for that man, will experiment with Sioux's hair

I wanted to make Iggy's window peak obvious, hence the 2 different hair colors, I supposed it's sunbleach idk

Okay why did i dub them with stupid sounding names?

Sioux comes from Siouxsie Sioux, why? Suzie posses Chica right? Suzie and Siouxsie are pronounced the same, but I wouldn't name him Siouxsie, so Sioux it is

Robertson comes from Robert Smith, thought of dubbing him Sioux Smith, but Fritz Smith exists

Ik unrelated characters can share the same common name, but meh :P

Iggy comes from me thinking of what stupid names I can name a surfer and a jojo reference, Leopold comes from well... Freddy originally being named Leopold... So what if Iggy adopted the Freddy mask because of the shared name? that lines up in the timeline I think

These are honestly lowkey placeholder names just for this yap session, I'm not gonna use those out of this post

maybe I'll give them serious names who knows, if I have oof's blessing ofc

Sioux and Mike's sketches, i deleted Iggy's

yes mike drastically changed... i didn't feel like doing something from the ground up +consistency so I just reused the base... terrible... learnt my lesson

Final notes:

I found some minor details in the UCFT style fascinating,

it's kinda hard to tell if something is drawn by oof or hyatiid hyatiid does most of the drawings IIRC, but I feel like I can tell when the artist switches and their minor quirks! I can't say for sure who's who but:

Michael's eye brow color changes sometimes, from a darker color from his main hair, to straight black. I also notice his eyebrows are a layer above hair, not sure if that's always the case as I haven't seen enough drawings of his eyebrows above his mullet to tell

Jeremy's piercing & scar placement is inconsistent, not that noticeable as it's generally the same area, but not the exact same everytime

Michael's hair detailing varies a lot

Eyes. they can be close, far, rounded, etc. rounded eyes are mostly for happy expressions

I think Oof keeps the whites of William's (purple form)eye contained with Hyatiid doesn't? I also think Oof is the one the draws lines under the eye without a fading effect while Hyatiid does

[im-out-of-it]

SEASON 1, EPISODE 12 “MALEC”

I just want to start off by saying this is thee best episode in all of season one and probably the whole show (at least one of the best.) because this is the moment that Alec finally chooses himself. he’s not just choosing Magnus but he’s finally doing something for himself. this is my favorite episode or at least in my top five. I will warn anyone who doesn’t like long posts that this is going to be broken up in several posts because I want to highlight with gifs of the important scenes and there’s just so many 🥹

1. okay so let’s get to it!!!!!! I want to start off also by saying how important the title of this episode is. it’s Malec. not only did the show provide us with a healthy, fun, entertaining lgbtq+ couple but they made sure it mattered. no other couple in the show has a episode named after them. Malec was an afterthought in the books. literally the writing for it is so messy and lazy and CC didn’t give a fuck about them until it made her money. even most of their stuff, Alec and Magnus don’t have much of a pov. I can’t even remember Magnus’s pov in TMI. the bane chronicles do not count because that is all Magnus.

2. but it’s important that 1. they named an episode Malec. 2. they show Magnus’s feelings as well Alec’s. and 3. who doesn’t love that kiss??????

3. “the cobalt blue. it’s elegant, masculine, very Alec”- Izzy (cough cough mags incoming)

4. what are you trying to say Izzy? 😌

5. “let’s just stick to the mission”- jace. oh so now you care about missions?????? you were fine running off with clary and doing whatever but now the missions matter??? his whole attitude of I don’t need to talk to Alec and he’s busy with the wedding- yeah, busy trying to repair all the damage you started jace

6. “I guess I should thank you, I don’t know what would have happened to Izzy after the trial if you hadn’t come back with the cup.”- Alec. but also let’s remember who is the one that ran off with the cup acting as though they knew better. look I don’t trust the clave, they obviously have their own agenda but I wouldn’t trust clary or jace with my life either. they don’t think and go ahead and do whatever they wish. Izzy could have been deruned if clary and Jace continued to do whatever they wanted- and they almost handed the cup to Valentine. I will say a nice thing about clary, she felt something off with Valentine and if not, Valentine would have the cup already

7. one Malec argument coming right up and one man in cobalt blue

8. Alec: can we have one discussion without drinking?????

9. Magnus: but babe just one drink

10. Alec is like can we not do this????? I need a clear head if I’m about to marry someone I don’t love lmao

11. Magnus is like are you sure?????? let me give it one last attempt

12. I’m giving Magnus all the points

13. I’m so sad for Magnus in this scene like it’s breaking my heart

14. IM SORRY BUT HES SO SAD AND IT MAKES ME SAD

15. Alec: love, how the fuck am I supposed to know if I’m in love with Lydia??????? I just wanted a partnership 😭 (I had to replace the gif because I used the wrong one so I’m going to use this one instead SORRY)

16. I wonder if there’s a part of Alec that views marriage in a completely different way than others would. Magnus thinks marriage (just my take) is between two people who love and adore each other very much. it’s something absolutely serious to him hence might be why he’s never married, and maybe never found “the one”. while Alec has his parents as a guidance.

16. Maryse and Robert have a rocky relationship. Robert has been cheating on Maryse but in the show, alec doesn’t find that out until season three. but children are able to see their parents aren’t happy. and most shadowhunters die at a young age. so while Alec is looking for a partnership to aid his family honor and complete that family duty, he doesn’t feel perhaps in a way it’s based on love. Alec never thought he could have what he wanted. he never once thought it was possible.

17. so all I’m saying, is what if a small part of Alexander thought this with Lydia was the best he could get? if he’s drilled it into his head, maybe he knows the expectations are to marry a woman and not even that, but a shadowhunter. we don’t know if Maryse or Robert has talked about being gay which I highly doubt it, they both seem like the type of parents to never confide in their children- full offense to them. and this is just how I take Alec’s words. I didn’t come up with his character but I do relate to Alec a lot and I do feel as if I know him

18. Alec is constantly the one salvaging his family’s reputation. Izzy tries but look at how Maryse treats him. it’s always “Alec do this, send this report in, watch the institute while we’re out” like this responsibility never falls on jace and I hope it never would but it’s always on Alec. so maybe in a way, Alec feels that he doesn’t have a choice. he’s never been able to feel completely and fully happy being himself. just my take on Alexander though

moving onto part two

[arcane-vagabond]

Bunny

Part of the Dagger Posse Universe

Story: Outrun the Devil

Love Interest: Robert "Bob" Floyd

Life isn't always easy, and the working class are all too aware of this. New Orleans has a certain reputation for harboring ill-minded men and catering to their needs.

Bunny's whole life has been spent working at the brothel of one Lady Marie Dubois. She was raised there, having never known her parents, working as a maid until Madame Dubois deemed her old enough to serve to customers. Bunny quickly grew to be a client favorite, becoming the brothel's highest earning girl. One day, Bunny wakes up to realize that this is not the life she wants for herself, and so she steals away on a steamship heading up the Mississippi. From there, she decides to head west to a small town out in the New Mexico territories called "Maverick."

If Bunny knows one thing about this world, it's two things: everyone earns their keep and men are only ever after one thing. When she meets a sweet man that goes by the name of "Bob," however, her knowledge of the world is tested.

Catch Bob and Bunny in Outrun the Devil!