#stuff that may be bootlegs of the legitimate stuff

[videostak]

ordered a specific old pressing CD of king tubby meets rockers uptown cause it had the original album cover (the shanachie 1980something CD i have has different art thats of pablo playing the melodica as opposed to the og album cover which is a photograph of pablo behind a wall of posters n flyers n stuff) and like had already read on discogs that the shanachie cd was the superior one cause it was probably audio from a master tape or just v cleaned up and that the CD i got today was supposed to have bad very clear audible vinyl rip audio with audible cracks n pops of the record but i still got the CD anyways cause og album art goes hard and also unlike the shanachie CD it correctly lists track 7s name as king tubby meets rockers uptown as opposed to the shanachie one which mislists it as braces tower dub and also i think mislistss a lot of the names following that track due to the order being off by one or smthn. anyways when it came i was like wait this audio quality is kinda dogshit u can hear audible cracks and pops from the record lol but like i already knew that b4 so i dont know what i was expecting.

[absolutebl]

BL Streaming - Which Service is Worth Your Money?

I’m bored and I have a little extra time this morning so it’s time for ABL to play with the spreadsheet of doom. 

Occasionally I get the question: 

If I were to subscribe to only one platform for BL which should I pick? 

This post is dated May 2023. 

First things first. I am going to be (somewhat) objective about this and not judge on quality of content. Because if KinnPorsche is all you love in life, obvs you need iQIYI, but if you are a HIStory franchise stan, than it’s all about Viki. Those are your life choices, I’m just here to play numbers games, okay? 

Secondly, some shows air on multiple platforms, particularly Viki & Gaga, but sometimes it’s Gaga & YouTube, occasionally it’s even iQIYI + others. This has only started happening in the last few years. Bed Friend was on 3 different platforms (GaGa, iQIYI, YT) - even though it was originally announced for Viki! I honestly don’t know how to track this, so I tend to log the spreadsheet with my preferred watching platform for that language, this will throw the numbers off for those platforms. 

Since I join everything my platform preference choice is based on:  

the quality of the subs/captions   

the quality of the user experience  

My subs experience tends to be: 

YT = best for Thai

Viki = best for Korean and sometimes Japanese, okay for Thai

Gaga = best for Chinese and sometimes Japanese but very weak Thai subs

My user interface preference is: 

YT, Viki, Gaga in that order then everyone else with iQIYI at the bottom. This is because I watch on mobile devices. 

ASplay, WeTV, former Line, Amarin TV, Netflix and the other smaller suppliers (and apps) will all be grouped together for this assessment. Since they have so few offerings, by default I would not recommend subbing those platforms unless you are a hard stan of all BL with disposable income. 

Super bad BLs that I watched back in the day on grey sites or YT (pre 2020 crack down) because there were no other options and I am a completest are still listed as grey. I would never suggest anyone watch these shows anyway, so I don’t care if they have now shown up on legitimate sites. If they are somewhere, it’s likely Gaga. Which means Gaga’s percentage of the market share is probably UNDER reported by my numbers. 

Movies and cinema-only releases that never got international distribution fall into the “grey” category. If I got it off an indie subber, since that too is technically illegal, it falls into the grey category as well. 

Final note: This is from a USA based IP, I don’t use a VPN, so platforms assessments are from that perspective. 

Spring 2023, current state of the spreadsheet. AKA 

Our BL Data Set 

Total # of BLs = 564

# of BLs ongoing (so finished runtime is best guess) = 18 

Just Answer the Damn Question 

Round Number of Actual BLs - % of market share

YouTube = 218 - 38.6%

Gaga = 148 - 26.2% 

Viki = 77 - 13.7% 

Grey = 53 - 9.4% 

BLs I’ve never been able to find on any platform (including grey): 36 - 6.4% 

iQIYI = 14 - 2.5% 

Other platforms = 12 - 2.2% 

Margin of error: +- 1% (look I’m just not driven to be that accurate here)

Subscription Platforms Breakdown  - % of market share

Eliminating YouTube, Grey, and missing BLs. Viki is included because I do not know which of theirs are behind the paywall and which are not. 

Total subscribe-only BLs: 257 

Gaga = 59%

Viki = 30%

iQIYI = 6%

Sml sites/apps = 5%

(rounded) 

Okay but how about actual runtime? 

Gaga = 360 hrs - 44% 

Viki = 311 hrs - 38% 

iQIYI = 98 hrs - 12% 

Sml sites = 50 hrs - 6%

Anyway you cut it... on pure BL standards...

GAGAOOLALA WINS 

Other consideration? In most places Gaga is ALSO the cheapest per month option. 

Final Thoughts

YouTube (America’s Alphabet) 

YT has the most pieces of content and longest overall runtime because of all the Thai stuff. ALSO bootlegs show up there, especially the early Chinese and Japanese stuff. They will often get taken down and you have to hunt for it again. YT takedowns come in waves, every 6 months or so.

However, GMMTV, some Star Hunter, some Studio Wabi Sabi, all the Vietnamese & Pinoy stuff (until now), and a few choice bits of Strongberry are YT content.

YT’s app is the best UX of a poor set (for me), but the web based YT at Premium level doesn’t work with Firefox. I use YT for work A LOT, so the fee for Premium ($13.99) and lack of ads + downloads (travel) is worth it for me, but I think it probubly isn’t if you’re on a budget. 

GaGaOOLaLa (Taiwan’s Portico Media) 

Of the pay to play platforms, GaGa dominates with the most BLs by all metrics. If you’re intersted in darker BL, GL and other queer content, very high heat, the history of the genre, or Japanese stuff - most of that is on GaGa. Also all of Strongberry and some of the newer queerer series (like My Ride).  

At $6.99 a month it’s ALSO one of the cheapest options. 

Gaga is based out of Taiwan, the only Asian country with marriage equality (as of 2022) AND it specializes in exclusively queer content so they need our support. If you can afford them, you should support them. GaGa is the only platform that will always have more BL, guaranteed (so long as Taiwan is autonomous). Ironically, you can follow their YT channel for previews and teasers to their latest series, short content, and acquisitions. 

Their app isn’t great, but their web-based interface is fine. That said: there’s no categories (way to organize), and the way they roll out new episodes is unintuitive. Their mobile app ALWAYS pauses not mater what you actually want it to do and the lack of the quick skip ahead is frustrating. 

Viki (Japan’s Rakutan)

Viki specializes in longer series, mostly Thai, Taiwanese, and a few of the Chinese bromances. It also now has a lot of KBLs. But in general only more recent stuff (2018 is as far back as they go).

At $4.99-$11.99 depending, it’s low to average cost. I’m not sure which one (if any) you actually need for BL. Most of my favorite new shows tend to air on Viki, and I like Rakutan as a parent company, so I don’t mind supporting them. 

They happen to have 5 of my top ten BLs, which is A LOT (since I hand out 10/10 so rarely). So for me they host the objective best BL content. 

They have the second best app (after YT, it’s kinda a combo of YT + Netflix) but the lack of a speed-up option is frustrating for many. Also the desktop version is super buggy. But they DO have categories you can name and control, which I love.

Other Platforms 

iQIYI - is Mainland China based (hello Baidu, you ugly fucker), so the platform getting/pimping BL for an international audience only is… how do I put this?… oh yeah: shitty. I will often rename it Icky, for this reason. It clearly wants to break the market, but… do we want it in the market at all? How long will they host BLs? When will they be shut down and censored? I would say it’s only worth it if you really also like Chinese dramas. And even so, Viki also has A LOT of those. Unfortunately for us, Wabi Sabi seems to have cut a distribution deal with Icky. And, of course, there is the KinnPorsche situation (so ironic that Icky hosts the highest heat). The interface is a nightmare. They have the WORST app, even when you pay, it serves ads, some of which alpha crash the platform. 

Netflix - here in the states it almost never has new BL content. Sometimes some old stuff. They tested the waters with SOTUS and Love Sick. I have a feeling they aren’t particularly intersted in this market. So if BL is what you watch, don’t bother. At last check they still had Gameboys and Your Name Engraved Herein and Wish You. 

WeTV - acts like LineTV used to, has Manner of Death and We Best Love and a few of the more obscure Thai pulps. But probably not worth it for anyone but a completest. 

Grey - Unknown or No Distributor 

Indie subbers: there’s some BLs that you can watch by supporting indie subbers who supply private links to their personal versions. This is not legal, but it is a slightly nicer way to get stuff you can’t find anywhere else. I’ve done this for some Thai and Japanese stuff.

I find the leads for these sources here on Tumblr. If someone is giffing and talking about a show and I don’t know how they are getting hold of it, I simply ask.

DramaCool (USA) & Dailymotion (France) & Bilibili (China) and others - AKA the grey space. You SHOULD feel guilty using these sites, you’re stealing, but it’s where many of us go for BL we can’t find anywhere else (in defiance of what few morals we have left). These are BLs that originally sold to very odd platforms or never got international distribution. Unfortunately, some of my favorites are in this category like Great Men Academy or Seven Days. It’s a nightmare. The ads are terrible and the virus/bug risk is high. They get taken down all the time. Or the leads are faked. I use an old computer to access and suggest you take all necessary precautions yourself.

P’ABL SOAP BOX TIME

Look I work tangential to the entertainment industry, so if you thought I wasn’t going to learn you a little on this subject, you got another think coming. 

HERE’S THE THING: 

You watch a show on one of the grey platforms, ESPECIALLY if it actually has distribution on Gaga or Viki - you better review that shit. You spread the word and advocate for that content here, on MDL, on social media, with fan art, I don’t care. You steal it, you find a way to pay back in your time and/or creativity. 

I get it if you’re poor, but don’t be a goddamn scab. Find a way to reward content creators with non-monetary support. If you had the time to watch the thing you stole, you have time to pay it forward in some substantial way. Do this even if you didn’t steal it but got it for free. Do this if you read fanfic. Do this with articles, blogs, books. Do this with podcasts. 

It isn’t hard to be a decent human and support creators. Don’t you dare just TAKE. If you’re that kind of person stop reading this blog immediately. I don’t want anything to do with you and you don’t deserve my words or my spreadsheet of Doom. 

/rant 

MORE ON THIS TOPIC WITH FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS

Original post on this subject that I adapted for this post. 

(source)

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Can I request a Grey x Reader where reader was another soul trapped in the game, Who helps Grey to escape? (The reader would be the same age as Grey obv-)

As it turns out, Grey wasn't the only one trapped in this bootleg hell with a bootleg Hypno.

There was you: another innocent kid who got their soul shoved into this game and turned into the "rival".

For some reason the creators gave you a Pokémon at the start: a single Porygon that was stuck between their first and second evolution. The Pokedex simply called them "Pory?gon1.5". They were a mix of round and geometric shapes, but you loved them regardless.

The same couldn't exactly be said for Grey's Hypno, called "Shinto", who was a mischevious little lass who could turn into a more nightmarish form if angered.

Besides that, she was a relatively friendly creature who hung around him all the time. You rarely saw the two apart.

Instead of playing the role as rivals, you became friends with Grey, seeing no point in battling or doing any of the typical stuff in legitimate Pokémon games.

There’s no gyms to conquer, no champion to defeat..and no other Pokémon to catch either. 

Why fight when you could work on getting the hell out of here?

Pory?gon1.5 may be the key, considering their kind can transcend cyberspace. Given everyone’s self-awareness, maybe they could look into this world's code and break it to give you both an exit.

But the problem is that they're stuck between evolutions. They didn’t have the capability of learning complex information on their own yet, and the only way they could do so is by using an Up-Grade to finish the evolution and make them a more legitimate Porygon2.

The other problem? 

No such item seemed to exist in this game. You’ve search the local technical institute, hoping someone dropped it there or left blueprints. But to no avail.

Even if you did have one on you, it required you trading for someone else’s Pokémon.

And unfortunately the only other one in this entire game fled Grey’s house some time ago.

Shinto gave you no warning and simply ran off. She might’ve overheard you two talking about temporary trading and got spooked by the thought. Of course, it’s understandable given her reaction to being captured in a pokeball...but neither of you knew where she could be or if she'll ever return.

At that point, Grey had given up all hope of leaving this place, as he resigned to sulking on the bed, head resting on his knees.

You, on the other hand, were sitting at his desk with Pory?gon1.5 on the table. They repeatedly tapped their beak against the computer screen in a fruitless attempt to boot up the trading system.

"Tell your Porygon to stop trying. It’s hopeless...” He mumbled in despair.

“I don’t think it is..not yet at least,” you tried staying optimistic. “I'm sure Shinto will be back. Is it unusual for her to suddenly leave?"

“..I dunno. She's unpredictable.” Looking up at you, he frowned deeply, the shadow over his eyes darker than ever. "I feel like we're her prisoners sometimes..she seems to know so much. H-How does she know when we cheat? Is she one of them in disguise?"

You shrugged your shoulders.

“The way I see it...she's just as much of a prisoner as us. Only difference is that you and I had a life before this. This is probably he only life she’s ever known. Maybe she's just..scared that-”

“Are you seriously trying to justify why she’s keeping us here?" His eyebrows furrowed. "She tried to kill me!! Remember??! The only one who should be scared here is-!!"

Grey suddenly stopped himself, seeing you and the Porygon now staring at him.

His previously tense shoulders slumped in defeat.

Yelling wasn't going to make a difference...why waste his energy?

You frowned slightly. "Grey.."

“...I-I’m sorry. I just..” He rubbed his eyes, trying to push back the frustrated tears that wanted to escape.

“I-I’m so tired of this. Of having even a little bit of hope...and then losing it."

Deciding to get up, you walked over to the bed and sat beside him. He sighed tiredly, leaning his head on your shoulder.

“..did we do something wrong, [y/n]?” His voice sounded so defeated, so exhausted. 

“Nothing that I know of, bud." You put an arm around him in comfort, looking to Pory?gon1.5--who somehow managed to get the computer online.

"Oh good job-!"

At that same time, both of you heard heavy footsteps and looked to see Shinto run into the room..

In her other form.

Grey immediately shrieked in terror and hugged you tightly on instinct. “S-STOP DOING THAT!!!”

“Right in my ear, dude...” You grumbled quietly, annoyed at his screaming, but you just calmly looked at Shinto.

Her glowing white pupils were unnerving, though you were more intrigued by what she carried in her hand.

“Is that..?”

Her nodding and distorted cries gave confirmation that it was the item you thought didn’t exist in this game..

An Up-Grade.

Your eyes lit up. “Grey, look! She found us an Up-Grade!”

“H-Huh..? Oh..wow..” He blinked a few times in disbelief, but sure enough, the faux Hypno brought back the exact thing you needed.

Then he let go of you, coughing awkwardly and forcing a smile. “S-So uh..you’re..not opposed to the idea of trading?”

Shaking her head, she gave you the Up-Grade. You checked it out and saw it was in near-perfect condition. After thanking her, you got up and went to give it to Pory?gon1.5, who emitted digital chirps of excitement.

But Grey was confused at Shinto's sudden change of heart, looking back to see her as her smaller self.

“I don’t understand. You...wanna help us? I thought you didn’t want us to leave..”

She was still for a moment, before reaching over to tap the screen of his Pokedex. It glitched to show her stats, but instead of a description, it revealed a message instead:

“Shinto sees friends r sad...can’t play when friends sad!!! :(((( So hope this makes friends happi again :))) Even if she has to be lonely, it OK. Shinto had lotz of fun!! Shinto forgive U for cheating btw”

“.......”

He didn’t know why his vision was suddenly growing warm and blurry.

“Okay. We should be good to go--Grey..?”

You turned back around, only to see the heartwarming sight of your friend hugging Shinto, thanking her. Although his face was hidden, you could hear how choked up he sounded, remarking how he didn’t think he’d get this emotional about her.

But you just stayed quiet, smiling softly. Your Porygon nudged your side, and you chuckled, hugging them with one arm. “Thanks, buddy. We���ll get you evolved soon.”

Once you returned them to their pokeball, you looked at Grey as he let go of Shinto, wondering if she’ll go into one willingly this time around.

He was especially terrified, holding the red and white ball with a shaky hand.

“Sh-Shinto..please don’t..destroy the world or whatever the hell you did-”

Without any hesitance, she booped her nose against the button, going inside it immediately.

He stared down at it, shocked, but hearing you clearing your throat made him turn to face you. “Oh! Right. Sorry..let’s do this.”

You grinned in eagerness, seeing that hopeful light returning to his eyes as a smile showed up on his face.

Finally, it was time for both of you to be free.

[dystopiaz]

why marijuana should be legal

Throughout the course of recent years, states have been casting a ballot to decriminalise marijuana, making it legitimate for both restorative and sporting purposes — and furthermore making it a major business. Following some guidelines from Colorado or Washington's experience, four states — New Jersey, South Dakota, Montana, and Arizona — passed measures in 2022 to make marijuana utilisation for sporting purposes legitimate.

Marijuana is the most regularly involved unlawful medication on the planet with an expected 125 million individuals consuming it in some structure or the other consistently. In India, marijuana use has been generally bound to confidence and magic. It is supposed to be a medication that assists the client with accomplishing "happiness in the first feeling of the word". India has consumed and celebrated chars (hash), bhang and weed for quite a long time.

Be that as it may, execution of rigid opiate regulations in 1986 made the deal, utilization, creation and transportation of marijuana unlawful in the country. 24 years on, the following are 10 justifications for why marijuana ought to now be legitimized in India.

1. It will kill unlawful exchange and partner wrongdoings

Marijuana sanctioning (or decriminalization) will supplant the bootleg market creation and dispersion with an 'over the edge business'. There will be rules and guidelines however the exchange will be 'populated by the public authority, ranchers, shippers and retail assistants, not by lawbreakers or street pharmacists'.

2. Marijuana habit is interesting

An epidemiological review showed that 9% of the individuals who use marijuana turn out to be clinically reliant upon it. The 'equivalent rates' for tobacco, liquor and cocaine remained at 32%, 15% and 16 percent individually.

3. Burdening marijuana will expand government's income

By authorising and burdening marijuana, the public authority will remain to procure colossal measures of income that will in any case go to the Italian and Israeli medication cartels. In an open letter to US President George Bramble, around 500 financial experts, driven by Nobel Prize champ Milton Friedman, called for marijuana to be "lawful yet burdened and controlled like different merchandise".

4. It will set out work open doors

Authorization of marijuana for sporting and clinical purposes in Colorado has made 10,000 new positions nearby. There are plenty of occupations that can be made by the marijuana business and assist with decreasing India's joblessness rate.

5. Marijuana use has health advantages

Studies have shown that marijuana use has many health advantages. It treats glaucoma, keeps malignant growth from spreading to different pieces of the body, lessens uneasiness, eases back the advancement of Alzheimer's illness, further develops digestion and is even said to prod imagination in our mind.

6. It will help local people

In states like Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, where cannabis plants develop, marijuana is the main type of revenue for some local people. Nonetheless, being a prohibited substance, the ranchers are compelled to offer it at an exceptionally modest cost to the street pharmacists and they face extra tension from the police too, who are paid to obliterate the cannabis estates. Legitimising marijuana will end this 'battle on medications' focusing on our own comrades.

7. Legitimization will guarantee that great quality marijuana is offered to the buyers

In India, sellers frequently blend hash and weed in with synthetic compounds or different medications like afeem to work on the taste, variety, surface or 'high' of the stuff. Legitimization will work on the nature of marijuana offered to the clients since the government will manage the creation and offer of the medication.

8. Marijuana has restricted withdrawal side effects and its utilisation can't be deadly

"I've heard you need to smoke something like 15,000 joints shortly to get a harmful measure of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol," says Dr. Paul Hornby, a natural chemist and human pathologist. "I challenge anyone to do that." Not exclusively is it essentially difficult to overdose on marijuana, the clients face ostensible withdrawal side effects subsequent to consuming it.

9. Disallowance has neglected to control the utilisation and homegrown creation of marijuana

It is said that 60,000 kgs of hash and 40,000 kgs of opium is delivered in Himachal Pradesh. Out of that, the main 500 kgs is seized every year. According to reports, "in excess of 1,600 hectares of cultivable farmland and 500 extra hectares of unlawfully felled public woodlands are right now under cannabis development". The rate is just expanding. In addition, nowadays, it is quite simple to purchase marijuana in India and its utilization is far and wide among the adolescent. So any reasonable person would agree that disallowance has neglected to control the 'issue'.

10. Marijuana is less destructive than liquor

Marijuana utilization was never viewed as a socially freak conduct anything else than drinking liquor was. Keeping it lawful was considered as an 'edified view, as a matter of fact'. It is presently medicinally demonstrated that marijuana is less destructive than liquor. Dissimilar to drunkards, stoners don't enjoy rash driving or vicious battles. They will generally be mollusk and lovely affected by marijuana.

[necklesslapras]

on a bootleg Lego kick, lads

[choicecaro]

Rove - Cannabis, THC & CBD

In the event that you don't dwell in California or Nevada, and you got some Rove trucks, it's conceivable that you got genuine ones that were pirated across state lines. Yet, given the vaping wellbeing emergency in the US at this moment, would you like to take your risks on a hunch?Normally, we'd advise you to check your state's cannabis permitting search site to check whether your vape image is recorded and authorized. In any case, at the hour of this composition, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control permit search is down for support, so you can't really look at that way.

 In any case, the RoveBrand  Glo carts  site, as verified above, records its approved retailers, and the dispensaries   recorded on its site are authorized and genuine. Cheerful JANE connected  with Kannabis Works, New Generation, and South Coast Safe Access, three legitimate dispensaries situated in Santa Ana, Orange County, that are recorded as approved Rove retailers. Each of the three affirmed that they convey RoveBrand vapes, and that RoveBrand is, indeed, a genuine organization. Additionally, Rove is recorded as a real brand at Leafly, which monitors that stuff, as well.

There's a vaping wellbeing emergency happening in the US at this moment. The vaping injury/sickness, which is brought about by vaping certain perilous items, has sent more than 2,000 individuals to the clinic and killed something like 40 as of this composition. Specialists accept that the harm brought about by this sickness isn't reversible, and as of late, one patient required a twofold lung relocate to endure.Specialists actually don't have a clue what's causing the vaping wellbeing emergency, however there's valid justification to speculate it's being brought about by unlicensed, untested vapes sold on the bootleg market  these are known as phony vapes, similar to the imitation variants of Rove's authorized items.

  The US Centers for Disease Control is encouraging everybody to keep away from vaping by and large. Be that as it may, in the event that you actually demand vaping your weed, adhere to the authorized, lab-tried brands accessible in your state. Or then again you can skirt the pre-filled cartridges and just vape unadulterated bloom instead.Six weeks prior, a 18-year-old male patient made an appearance to NYU Winthrop Hospital in Long Island whining about chest torment, sickness, fever, and windedness.

[scarred-hope]

Things from the Anastasia musical that had me shook:

(and no one else cares about esp since everyone who might care has already seen it...)

So I finally got around to watching a bootleg of Anastasia, and I now want to cry about the staging/blocking/choreo in a public forum. So me literally screaming about the musical is below

1.The transition between child Anya and teen Anya was smoother than butter! One of the reasons I switched to a better quality graphic, was to really see it better. That entire dance sequence was super well choreographed. (Sidenote the choreo was slightly different between versions. The first bootleg I watched had a pantomime section from Anya to her dad missing from the one I watched all the way through)

2. The entire Russian Revolution sequence was also jawdropping. The camera legitimately made me wince, such a subtle yet powerful way to reference/foreshadow the death of the family. The red light and how the stage slowly lost characters: everyone to just the family, to just the youngest and the parents, to just Anya and then that transition! just had me 😲.

3. Actually every scene with the Romanovs just had me screaming! There was no time they were on stage that I wasn’t absolutely blown away! Alexei on the “swing” in “A Nightmare” and Anya being lifted up in “Once Upon a December” rank among my favorites. 

4. Maybe I just haven’t seen enough professional performances, but I’ve never seen a better use of digital projections. Granted it may have been also been because of the camera to my screen, but the projections never distracted me or seemed fake/out of place. They seamlessly blended into the set

5. So I want to talk about Gleb real fast. So I always like the inclusion of his character, but never liked Gleb and was confused about people shipping him and Anya. I thought there would be more to his character, like in dialogue and blocking. Oh boy, was I missing something. But instead of any good thing he did, I was missing him being a shitty person. He threatens Anya, and a group of prostitutes, and makes Anya feel super uncomfortable by touching her. His struggle in the first act is truly horny vs country. I now, more so than EVER, can’t understand how people ship him with Anya.

6. Speaking of Anya, I want to talk about her characterization. I had come into watching having seen interviews and posts with Christy. I know she is, like literally, a real-life Disney Princess. And I expected that to overrule any snark/teeth I got from Anya. And I have to apologize for doubting Christy’s acting ability because she’s a professional and Anya definitely had teeth in Act 1. (She earned her princess in Act 2). I was really impressed by “the Neva Flows Reprise”. There is a lot of really subtle stuff with flinches on top of her stated background line that sell and edgier Anya so well!

7. The blocking of “Stay, I Pray You” that mimics the end of the prologue is also some top tier shit! I just love that song so much!

8. I was fangirling the entirety of “We’ll Go From There”! The use of the train, as well as the movement of the trio throughout, was some of the most incredible choreography and staging I’ve ever seen. I cried because of it. I already liked the song, but now I LOVE it!

9. I don’t know why, but I was not expecting the whole ‘art imitates life’ bit with the ballet in Quartet at the Ballet. I kinda missed it with Dimitri singing after the prince’s entrance, but Gleb singing with Rothbart’s got its own little squeal. 

10. Back to me screaming about anytime the Romanov’s were on stage: “Still/ The Neva Flows Reprise” gets its own special mention. I just can’t with this scene. The identical stances, how the audience doesn’t ultimately see the family get shot. Even the fact that a photoshoot between Anya and her grandmother happened directly before. I’m pretty sure this bit also made me cry. I just have no words for how much I loved it. 

11. I actually hadn’t heard the “Finale” before as I was saving it for when I watched it. I’m happy I did that. I really liked the finale. Her grandmother was definitely characterized much more in the musical than in the movie, especially with this song. I love the idea of cementing Anastasia as this legendary person, tying back to both Gleb’s and Dimitri’s usage of “fairytale”. And again, the Romanovs were there, so I was going feral. 

Quick shoutout to all the songs that couldn’t make it onto the album that I heard for the first time, especially “A Nightmare”.

1000/10, would recommend, to be clear I did cry. 

[pestcontrolorlando]

Nuisance Control Insecticide Exposure

In light of the ever expanding "compound awareness" in Lancaster, PA, I chose to perform increasingly more of my administrations from the outside of homes and organizations. "Is this supported?", one may inquire. Before I answer that question, I'd prefer to address something that worries me much more: property holder elimination.

If its all the same to you, I'd prefer to get straight to the point here. Most people know the EPA directs which items can be "splashed", "hazed", or "tidied" inside an involved structure. What's more, as one may expect, that doesn't mean the items are being utilized by mark particulars, so client blunder can make pointless presentation issues. As an expert, I have seen substantially more poisonousness issues with individuals who have bother issues before I ever show up on the scene. Presently, I need to grant them for their courage as they use jars of void bug shower, "homeopathic methods, for example, red pepper, moth balls, biting gum, and so on (and I've seen it!). Yet, I truly get concerned when I see that in their enthusiasm, they have presented their family to pointless degrees of bug sprays or other family unit items that aren't even labled for bugs (or rodents).

OK, since I have gotten that out my framework, we should discuss proficient nuisance control. There has been a genuine pivot in the previous 15 years in proficient irritation control that has made us be increasingly dependable and progressively intense with our medicines. A model would be what we call IPM (Integrated Pest Management). "What's that?", you inquire. Try not to feel awful, there is some irritation control folks who don't know either. IPM is the specialty of utilizing a blend of procedures to wipe out vermin without utilizing pesticides only. A model would be this: Say we have a rodent pervasion at a dumpster close to our preferred café. Rather than tossing lure all around the dumpster outside, IPM would disclose to us that we should move the dumpster away from the structure, presenting the rodents to normal predators. At that point, request that the café proprietor have his/her workers lock the entryways shut on the dumpster aside from when it is being utilized (sanitation). At that point, and at exactly that point should a protected rodent lure station be utilized next to the dumpster, and observed routinely. Click here to read more Termite Treatment Orlando

Notwithstanding IPM, the greater part of our pesticides are being defined to have for all intents and purposes no scent and make lower dangers of introduction. A model would be miniaturized scale embodiment, a technique whereby the dynamic bug spray has a silicone "bubble" around it to diminish separate from light and dampness. Additionally, there have been a few items have been accessible over-the-counter for pets that are know being utilized in proficient irritation control items. I realize it doesn't bode well, yet general society can utilize a focus on their canine, yet can't buy a similar dynamic fixing to be utilized multiple times more vulnerable on their termites (mortgage holders don't have the hardware to utilize the item at any rate, so don't get energized). I notice this just to demonstrate that the irritation control items we use are typically more secure than most the stuff you have under the kitchen sink. What makes us so extraordinary at that point? Preparing. Also, we in the bug control industry aren't eager to lose our permit over mis-application.

Let me utilize a case of an issue with community to proficient vermin items: Before the EPA took Chlordane off the market in the 1980's, it was accessible over-the-counter, in concentrate. That implies that anybody approached a substance that was dynamic in the dirt for a long time at the weakened rate! I have met individuals who gladly flaunted slaughtering a Carpenter Ant home in their terrace tree stump by pouring Chlordane focus legitimately on the province. While this likely doesn't mean anything to the normal individual, somebody acquainted with the nuisance control industry is recoiling directly about now- - this implies potential ground sullying for quite a long time, killing anything from valuable creepy crawlies to fish in close by streams! The EPA likely made the best decision, accepting that on the off chance that they made it limited use (for business utilize just) a bootleg market would be made since nobody could envision existence without Chlordane, particularly for termite issues. I point here is that poisonousness has consistently been a lot higher with open utilization, in any event, when the items were considerably more risky.

On the off chance that you are worried about pesticide presentation, it would be ideal if you recollect that you will probably require bug control eventually, and on the off chance that you are thinking about handling an irritation issue yourself, if it's not too much trouble recall the threats to introduction of poisons are a lot more prominent when you do-it-without anyone's help. Irritation control administrators don't generally fall prey to the idea "On the off chance that a little works great, at that point a ton will work extraordinary!" Actually, we know better. Also, we need to remember concoction expenses and keeping clients!

I began by posing the inquiry, "Am I supported by rewarding the border of a home more frequently than rewarding within?" I accept that it is more for cognizant purpose, since bug control professionals experience the ill effects of two significant catastrophes: auto crashes and stepping stool mishaps. In all honesty, synthetic harmfulness plays almost no issues with bug control work force. The greater part of that is because of preparing in item dealing with, transportation, and application. However, because of market patterns, I trust it is ideal to tune in to your clients. Furthermore, it can't damage to invest more energy keeping vermin from entering from the outside of homes and organizations, before they get in where they become an issue and wellbeing hazard. This leads me to my next point: most don't have the foggiest idea about the risks of not having nuisance control! While most consider bother control as an extravagance administration, history is loaded with times that bug control was or could have been the appropriate response. Let me give a few models: The "Dark Death" or Bubonic plague that murdered 33% of Europe in the late 1340s could have been forestalled or dispensed with by bug control. Rats conveying the plague pervaded insects moved them all finished, permitting them to bounce off and chomp people. Today, most don't endure rodents, and that is because of the nuisance control industry increasing the expectations.

Another case of vermin control that really tackled a significant issue occurred during the development of the Panama Canal. Jungle fever and Yellow Fever were transmitted by a substantial mosquito populace and executed numerous specialists. It wasn't until they utilized mechanical methods (nets, standing water disposal) and the utilization of bug sprays, that they picked up control and had the option to complete the waterway.

In light of pesticide presentation, kindly don't hazard doing-it-without anyone else's help on the off chance that it implies trading off your family's wellbeing. Also, a large portion of us in the bug control industry have your wellbeing as a main priority - keeping the bugs out, and guarding you!

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A Brief Guide to Early Literary Dracula AUs

One of the coolest things about being a Dracula fan in the 2010s is all the recent publication of materials shedding light on all of the really bonkers alternate Draculas that either nearly became Dracula itself or spun off from the original 1897 text. So yeah... here’s a rundown of the three weird psuedo-canonical AUs that this fin de siecle vampire novel just sort of... comes with.

Stoker's Notes/Typescript/"Dracula's Guest"

Bram's notes for Dracula indicate that he worked on the novel for at least seven years, that it went through many substantial changes in its plot and cast, and that he had a lot of completely metal ideas that either fate, his editors, or his slender grip on good taste did not permit to appear in the final novel. Some of these things appear in fragmentary form in the typescript for Dracula. Some of them got recycled into a short story later published as "Dracula's Guest." Some of them only appear scrawled in Stoker's atrocious handwriting on the various papers collected at the Rosenbach in Philadelphia.

Highlights:

Things initially were going to take place in Styria and the villain's name was going to be Count Wampyr.

Arthur doesn't exist and Jack/Lucy is canon.

Jonathan Harker has a "shrewd, skeptical sister."

There's a third heroine named Kate Reed (or Kate Lee) who is school chums with Lucy and Mina and apparently helps to spread the flow of gossip about Lucy and her curly-hair beau going to St. James concerts.

There's a painter named Francis who probably discovers that the Count (in addition to having no reflection and showing up as a skeleton in photographs) cannot even be painted.

Other unused characters include a philosophic historian, a paranormal investigator, and a pair of deaf/mute servants in the Count's employ.

The Count has a secret chamber where everything is blood red, and it's apparently really scary.

Quincey might be a professional inventor named Brutus Marix. He also might go to Transylvania in the middle of the book. Also, he just might SAVE THE DAY DURING THE FINAL BATTLE BY OPENING FIRE WITH AN EARLY FORERUNNER TO THE MACHINE GUN.

There appear to have been werewolves planned.

Jack has a spooky party at his house where everyone has to tell a ghost story like they're living it up at the Villa Diodati. Dracula shows up and is the thirteenth guest at this super goth affair and presumably tells the spookiest story of all.

Jonathan spends three chapters/100 pages doing all sorts of crazy stuff that happens before what we now think of a Chapter 1 of Dracula. These shenanigans include encountering the Count pretending to be dead in a Munich leichenhaus, going to see a performance of The Flying Dutchman, and doing all that incredibly spooky stuff in "Dracula's Guest" where he has adventures with wolf friends on Walpurgisnacht.

Castle Dracula sinks into the earth in a VOLCANIC EXPLOSION after Dracula dies.

There is also mention of Dracula FLYING out of his coffin into the air during the final confrontation and the Brides getting taken out by chance BOLTS OF LIGHTNING. 

Seriously. We have legitimate evidence that were we but in the true and righteous timeline, Dracula would have ended with lightning bolts and machine guns going off in an aerial vampire battle before a volcano explodes.

Makt Myrkranna (AKA Powers of Darkness AKA Icelandic Bootleg Porno Dracula)

So a few years after Dracula was published, it appears that somebody in Sweden ripped it off, made it much much more Hammer Horror, and published it as their own thing called Mörkrets Makter (Powers of Darkness). Then, after that, Valdimar Ásmundsson in Iceland ripped that off and republished it as his own thing called Makt Myrkranna (...also Powers of Darkness). This latter work just got translated into English in 2017, and there's been intense speculation as to whether or not whomever originally wrote this thing had anything to do with Bram Stoker and his early drafts for the novel, given that it is headed by a preface that is controversially claimed to have been written by Bram, himself. 

Highlights:

The first four chapters of the book (the ones everyone tends to really like) are now massively massively expanded, and Jonathan Harker (now named Thomas) gets to spend much more time exploring the castle, trying to escape, having the Count tell him creepy sexual anecdotes, and watching busty women get murdered.

The three women in the castle have been condensed into one woman, who seems to be the Count's vampiric, incesty bride/cousin/whatever and whose death involved her being locked in a bedroom with her lover until he went mad and threw himself out a window.

Instead of finding a secret room of boxes with dirt in them, Jonathan Thomas finds a secret ritual orgymurder room where primordial ape men engage in forbidden revels while the Count bites hypnotized virgins to death.

Everything that is not in the massively expanded castle section is barely sketched out summaries of lots and lots of wacky things happening with no real explanation (apparently these portions were treated with more detail in at least one version of Mörkrets Makter, but that's not available in English yet).

Lucy (now Lucia) becomes a vampire, but she is never staked, and her plot is never really resolved. Arthur, convinced she is alive after people watch her get back up from being dead, orders that people leave out some blankets and snacks for her (very considerate), and then that thread just sort of ends.

Renfield doesn't exist. Jack sort of makes up for this gap in the novel's tragically dead madmen quota by going mad and dying himself.

Said going mad and dying is facilitated by him attending one two many freaky mesmerism parties at Carfax with the Count's posse of debauched, anarchist, international conspirator, orgymurder cultist noblemen. 

Then like... a mysterious violinist shows up at his asylum and the next thing you know, the Count & Co. have taken over the joint, Quincey has to pretend to go crazy to infiltrate, and the entire place burns down. 

There is actually some sort of police investigation into all of the many many many illegal things going on. After Van Helsing knifes Dracula to death, Quincey takes the fall for him, but the investigators don't end up taking him to trial.

Kazıklı Voyvoda (AKA Impaling Voivode AKA Dracula in Istanbul AKA Turkish Nationalist Propaganda Bootleg Dracula)

Taking a cue from Ásmundsson and whomever the Mörkrets Makter guy is (or not...), Turkish author Ali Rıza Seyfi wrote his own pirated version of Dracula and published it as his own work in 1928. Unlike the Makt Mykrannaverse, the world of Kazıklı Voyvoda is fairly faithful to the original text... save that the action is transposed from London to Istanbul, the events of the story now postdates the Turkish War of Independence, and the entire cast (Dracula excepted) is now very Turkish and very fond of waxing eloquent about their immense national pride in being very Turkish.

Highlights:

Dracula is explicitly identified as being Vlad III, and he is a marauding terrible foreign menace from the exotic West, persecuting the good Eastern folk of Istanbul just as he historically persecuted and impaled their ancestors before them. Anyone who has ever read and enjoyed any academic essay on Dracula and the colonial gaze may begin to salivate uncontrollably.

Forty-seven years before Salem’s Lot, Seyfi establishes that pretty much any religious symbol works on a vampire if you believe in it, and everyone throughout the text waves around charms made out of suras of the Koran and such to great effect.

Azmi (Jonathan) gets the tiniest scraps of expanded backstory in which we learn about his childhood predisposition towards fainting and the existence of his pious mother who took him to saints’ shrines in the hopes he might faint less.

Güzin (Mina) is no longer one of Dracula’s victims (unlike in the 1953 film adaptation of this book). She is, however, still an incredibly hardcore researcher nerd who makes sure to tell her fiance all sorts of cool Vlad III history facts.

Turan (Arthur), Afif (Jack), and Özdemir (Quincey) all served together during the war and became bros that way instead of just being three guys who went on crazy globetrotting adventures together before all independently deciding to propose to the same girl. 

Resuhȋ (Van Helsing) makes sure to drop a line reminding everyone of that time they all did blood tests and found out their blood types are compatible... you know... just in case anybody in this post-blood-typing era might be doing a bunch of blood transfusions and worrying about fatal hemolytic reactions.

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Dear Evan Hansen

So I developed an interest in this musical during my semi-recent Groundhog Day obsession, when thanks to following everything posted about GhD on Tumblr, I ended up on the periphery of the general Broadway/Tony discourse. Everyone was talking about Dear Evan Hansen, either how good it was or how overrated it was, and I stumbled across some post suggesting it involved teens with issues and suicide, at which of course my ears perked up because I am me.

I listened to the soundtrack and read a basic plot summary on Wikipedia. The songs weren't amazingly up my personal musical alley for the most part, but still pretty good, and I was quite intrigued by the character work in them - the increasingly obvious wish-fulfillment of Evan's story in For Forever, culminating in the choked-up repetition of "He's coming to get me", suggesting without having to say directly that actually no one came to get him; the repeated "falling in a forest" motif never quite saying he let go but making it clear this moment was more meaningful than one would expect long before the plot summary indicated we'd find out he'd been suicidal; Zoe's subtle denial in Requiem; the tragic irony of Evan inspiring everyone with a speech about how you will be found when he knows better than anyone that sometimes you won't. This was good shit! I wanted to try to see it on the same trip as Groundhog Day, but the tickets were all well sold out, and ultimately I more or less gave up on the possibility. (I'd actually missed that there was a lottery for the show, but we tried it when we were in New York and didn't win.)

It just wouldn't quite leave me alone, though, so with no prospects for being able to see it legitimately at any point in the foreseeable future, I ended up giving up and watching a bootleg.

(Excessive overcritical rambling about characterization, subtlety, etc. under the cut! It is very critical, so by all means scroll on by if that’s not your jam.)

After all the mental buildup, I ended up sort of underwhelmed by the actual show, unfortunately. When I listened to the soundtrack I'd filled in blanks, imagining all the rich development that might be happening in between the songs - Evan slowly growing closer to Connor's dad before To Break In a Glove, say. But actually watching it, it felt like there was a lot less development than I'd imagined. There isn't really anything about Evan growing closer to Connor's dad other than the song itself, or a lot of development for Connor's dad at all outside of it. Zoe's conflicted feelings about Connor, legitimate fear and hatred coupled with a strange, paradoxical longing for him to really have had a better side to him that actually loved her, are fascinating, but aren't really explored outside of what I'd already heard in Requiem and If I Could Tell Her - Zoe's role ends up being mostly about being the target of Evan's dubiously ethical romantic interest, without really tackling the things about her that were actually interesting.

When I first listened to the soundtrack, I didn't actually pick up on Jared or Alana existing as characters. I'm not great at discerning voices on a first listen, so while for example Sincerely, Me was a bit confusing, I parsed it just as a dialogue between Evan and the imaginary Connor in his head, with "Connor" making the sardonic suggestions to ridicule Evan's pathetic efforts in between theatrically reading out what Evan was typing. They were in the plot summary, though, so I figured it out eventually, and the Tumblr fandom was full of posts about Jared and Alana - how complex they were, how much people related to them, everyone shipping Evan with Jared (of course). So I looked forward to seeing more of these characters that the soundtrack didn't really show off.

As it turned out, though, they weren't much in the way of characters, really. There are a couple of lines about Alana's anxiety and how she also feels like she's alone and doesn't matter - but they're ultimately throwaways. Alana is mostly just a plot point, as the person who's invested enough in the Connor Project to care but still detached enough to start to notice and question the discrepancies in Evan's story. Her dialogue is almost entirely either pure plot advancement or jokes; she may be secretly troubled and anxious, and eventually she spells out that she originally latched onto the Connor Project because of that, but the show just keeps kind of making fun of her - the most prominent characterization she gets is the running gag where she acts like she was so totally close to Connor while making it obvious she actually barely knew he existed - and she doesn't really get to act out the complexity the show wants to imply. We never see the Connor Project affecting her life, or get a real sense that it's giving her meaning that she was lacking before; it's told and not shown. That makes sense for a minor character who's mostly there to play a role in the plot, but the fandom had made me expect a lot more, and I really think she could have been done a lot more interestingly if they'd just spent less time making jokes about her.

And Jared... is desperately unlikeable. A lot of people on Tumblr were criticizing the play for not punishing Evan enough for his actions - but at the same time everyone was in love with Jared. This is baffling, because as far as I can see, it's pretty much Jared who ropes Evan into this in the first place. Evan originally tries to tell the Murphys that Connor didn't actually write the 'suicide note', but they dismiss him and Cynthia acts extremely upset, and Evan is too timid to try to be firm and argue with these grieving parents in order to explain to them that actually their dead son had no friends. After this he's panicking and anxious about having to clear up the misunderstanding, but it's Jared who convinces him he absolutely can't tell them the truth and has to just smile and nod and keep up the pretense. After this, Jared relentlessly mocks and bullies Evan as the lie spirals out of control, makes a silly attempt to insert himself into it, gets mad when Evan says they must stick to the established story where Jared necessarily wasn't involved, then gets hurt and complains when Evan stops hanging out with him once he's got something else to do and other people who like him. Obviously Evan is in no way an innocent party here - he does start to latch onto the fantasy of this imaginary friendship with Connor and this doting family that wants and likes him, and soon he's clearly keeping up the charade for himself and not to make Connor's family feel better. But none of this would have happened if it weren't for Jared convincing him he absolutely needed to keep up the lie, yet what Jared says when it's all gotten out of hand isn't "Look, I'm sorry, this is wrong, I was wrong, you should have told them the truth from the start", but "You should remember who your friends are." Maybe Evan would remember who his friends are if you'd ever been anything resembling an actual friend to him, Jared! I gather stage directions and cut songs and so on show that Jared actually has a very low self-esteem and is covering up his insecurities with sarcasm and bullying behaviour, which is great, but I wish any of that really got through in the actual play, because in the actual play Jared is just intensely unsympathetic. As it stands, his narrative function is to show how friendless Evan is (the best he's got is this guy, who freely tells him he only hangs out with him because he's literally being paid for it) and to be the person who's callous enough to think lying to a grieving family about being friends with their dead son to save face is okay, because Evan is actually better than that and wouldn't have done it otherwise. Like with Alana, I'm sure there's something interesting there, in theory, that the actor taps into while playing him. But within the actual show, the way he acts by and large isn't interestingly informed by his insecurity; he's just being a mean-spirited, bullying, opportunistic asshole. He has no real redeeming qualities and then just kind of vanishes abruptly from the story towards the end, before he gets the chance to even react to the lie being (partly) exposed (which could have been a nice opportunity to show him being a non-dick for once).

I was also sad to discover that in the actual play, things that were subtle and interesting on the soundtrack are just spelled out. Evan explains in so many words near the very beginning, before we even hear For Forever, that he broke his arm because he fell out of a tree and the funny thing is nobody came to get him so he was just lying on the ground alone for a while. That beautiful, emotional repetition in the song - And I see him coming to get me. He's coming to get me. And everything's okay. - isn't using Evan's emotion as he makes up a false wish-fulfillment narrative to implicitly tell you about something that really happened; it's just a straightforward lie contradicting something established explicitly earlier on. There's nothing wrong with that, but man, I thought it was something sublime. Even stuff like To Break In a Glove - on the soundtrack, Evan says, "Connor was really lucky to have a dad who... who cared so much, about... taking care of stuff," and it establishes nicely, implicitly, that Evan's own dad never cared and never played baseball with him, which Connor's dad clearly understands in the pause that follows even though he doesn't remark on it directly and just reiterates his instructions about the glove. But in the actual thing, they spell it out. A moment that wasn't a big crowning moment of subtlety or anything but still nicely understated, trusting the listener to get the implied meaning without stating it outright, isn't even that. That's a bit disappointing.

I wonder if in some previous iteration of the story it used to be subtler, but they later made it more explicit to make it easier to follow. That or, you know, I extrapolated subtlety simply from having incomplete information. One of the two. (If it's the latter, though, I'm amused at how coincidentally good that incomplete information is.)

I was also surprised by just how little we learn about the actual Connor, even after seeing Tumblr jokes about Mike Faist being nominated for a Tony for spending fifteen minutes onstage. I expected fifteen minutes meant we'd see just enough of Connor to be able to form a reasonably complete picture along with the stuff we'd learn second-hand - but we don't really get to form any clear picture of Connor at all. We see that he smokes weed, that he suffers from severe paranoia, that he has violent episodes. There's, I think, pretty much exactly one scene giving real, subtle, humanizing insight into his character - the one in the computer lab, where Connor talks to Evan and signs his cast despite his outburst earlier (showing that he awkwardly wants to make up for shoving Evan but is still unwilling to directly apologize or address it), and he jokes about how they can both pretend they're friends (implying he too might be lonely and wishes he had friends, and if things had gone differently perhaps they could have become friends for real), but then when he sees Evan's letter referring to Zoe, he lashes out with sudden intense paranoia again and pushes him away (implying he does care about his sister on some level, as well as showing just how bad his mental health issues are and giving an idea of why he's not exactly popular). This one scene really is very good and exactly the sort of thing I wanted from this musical! But this is his last scene before he dies, and the majority of Connor's time onstage is as the imaginary version of him in Evan's head, which isn't very well developed and doesn't have very much to do with the real Connor. Moreover, we don't end up learning very much from Connor's family after his suicide at all. They used to have picnics at an apple orchard; Connor once had an episode where he screamed he was going to kill Zoe; that's pretty much about it. I was expecting imaginary Connor to kind of be developed as a character in his own right, based on Evan's perception of what the actual Connor was like at school, but imaginary Connor doesn't end up getting much in the way of characterization, instead serving more as a mouthpiece to manifest some of Evan's inner monologue as it pertains to how he relates to Connor and projects his own feelings and experiences onto him. That kind of makes sense, since Evan knows basically nothing about Connor, but just the same, it feels like a missed opportunity to flesh out Connor's character in general. When Connor and the made-up fantasy of him that Evan creates are such a huge part of the story, it seems natural to make use of the real Connor to compare and contrast Evan's fantasy Connor, but the show ultimately doesn't really go there, and Connor remains kind of just the potential to be a character more than a real character. I think that's a shame; it'd be fascinating to get a good look into the mind of someone with Connor's kind of severe mental health issues (as opposed to Evan's anxiety, which is much easier for an average person to grasp and relate to), and I think it'd strengthen the show's commentary on teen suicide if the kid who took his own life were a real, developed character that we can properly understand and empathize with.

All that having been said, though, it's still a good show. I might have appreciated it more if I hadn't spent weeks making up my own version in my head before I gave in and watched the bootleg, but there are still a lot of things it does do really, really well. Evan's anxiety and general self-hatred and character progression is well portrayed; he's relatable and sympathetic while making hugely misguided, horrible choices, with real, intriguing psychological depth actually driving the things he does. And some things really are good and subtle in the final product, like Evan relating to Connor and projecting onto him because he'd been suicidal himself, the general hints at that fact before it actually comes to light. So Big / So Small is genuinely one of the best-done tearjerker songs I've ever heard; the truck story is kind of cheesy but it's so cute and childlike and tragic and spaced out in the perfect way with Heidi's feelings of being helpless and overwhelmed. Heidi in general is such a good character; she's trying so hard, and loves him so much, but she has to get by and just doesn't have the ability to be there for him as consistently as someone like Cynthia. And with how hard she works, and how much she loves him, of course it hurts her to learn her son has found this second family behind her back, a family of rich strangers that feel sorry for her and want to give her handouts. She's so flawed and I love her.

(After Anybody Have a Map?, where Cynthia and Heidi's experiences of trying their hardest for their sons when they don't really know how are compared, I was hoping they'd both be getting similar levels of development, but alas, Cynthia definitely gets the short end of the stick. She gets more development than Connor's dad, and the way she unlike the rest of her family unreservedly loved her son in spite of everything is interesting, but again, without actually getting much insight into Connor, it's hard to gain a complete understanding of why she feels that way, or of her mental state in general.)

Requiem is a really beautiful song and my favorite in the show, although the aforementioned So Big / So Small kind of needs its own scale because damn. Sincerely, Me is very catchy. The "To disappear, disappear" chorus of Disappear was one of the first bits that stuck with me on the soundtrack, particularly the way the quiet abruptness of the latter "disappear" actually conveys the feeling of disappearing. Good for You and Anybody Have a Map? are both good.

And the performances are very good in general. Rachel Bay Jones as Heidi may actually be my favorite because as I explained above I really like Heidi, and Ben Platt's anxiety as Evan is palpable and believable. I may not like Jared the character, but Will Roland does nail the role, I think. And of course, I'm sure the show is much better live than watching a bootleg. Live theater is a whole different experience, and if I ever do get a good chance to see it properly, I'll go for it.

(But I liked Groundhog Day better.)

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JFK Assassinated by The Mob?

Amanda DeSantis 

December 15th, 2019

Introduction: Criminal law refers to a ​conspiracy​ as an agreement that is made between two people or a group of people and their plan to do something unlawful or harmful. Conspiracy theories are able to thrive on the internet but theorists must be able to create a legitimate story that isn't just pointing fingers at people. Considering conspiracies are narratives that go against the main story everyone believes and tells an alternative story making it an alternative form of media.

The mob is considered to be a highly influential Italian-Amerian criminal society. It is no surprise that over time the mob has been involved in some high crime conspiracy theories. One, in particular, has to do with the death of our 35th President John F. Kennedy. It is believed by many that his death was done by the mafia.

Background of the Mob: The Mob being present in the United States dates all the way back to 1869. Over time they became very influential in New Orleans, New York City area, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other poor Italian cities on the East Coast. During the prohibition era in the 20’s, they took control over bootlegging. “​By the 1950s, the Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra, Italian for “Our Thing”) had become the preeminent organized-crime network in the United States and was involved in a range of underworld activities, from loan-sharking to prostitution, while also infiltrating labor unions and legitimate industries such as construction and New York’s garment industry​” (Origins of the Mafia, 2009). They had a major influence on the economy in the US, they began college sports gambling, gas tax fund, controlled restaurants, and they had the most economic influence in Las Vegas, Nevada by opening The Flamingo.

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Part of the Chicago Mob Sam Giancana met Frank Sinatra at Villa Venice a gaudy club that he was performing at. Sinatra would say he had no connections to the Mob but he remained relatively close to Giancana over time and returned favors over time. Sintra met JFK in 1960 it was during one of his performances in Vegas and from there on they became close. JFK’s family both Robert and Joseph Kennedy had mob ties in certain areas of the U.S.

“Sinatra supposedly introduced Giancana to John F. Kennedy campaign in 1960 in an attempt to deliver union votes to the future president” (Blakemore, 2018). ​It was clear that there was some type of influence, especially in states that Kennedy was carrying the election. Rumored the mob members were ordered to stuff the ballots. After being elected and multiple affairs JFK and his own family seems to have gotten on the mafias bad side according to some and that is the reason for the murder.

Laying the Groundwork: Fake news​ was something that did not really exist back in the 1960’s due primarily to the fact that were not as many media channels and people were writing to be descriptive not to share a personal opinion. The unanswered question of JFK’s murder could’ve potentially laid the groundwork for those who create alternative media and the conspiracies theories that are created. To this day the idea that JFK was killed by the mob is still a recurrent idea. Once statements like this are created it makes it rather difficult to put it to rest and not revisit the idea.

Fan culture​ refers to a community that is built around an idea in pop culture. From the ’60s till now this death has been transformed into a 50+ year phenomenon. Books have been written and films have been created post analyzing the files that are available to the public. Those behind the films and books are partaking in the participatory culture that surrounds JFK’s death. Each person to take on explaining this theory has similar ideas but they vary. These people take their assumptions and turn them into legitimate ideas backed with facts. These people also partake in fan culture by sharing and circulating ideas and interpretations​ by posting their work on the internet. Based on this event, from each book or film a new form of the idea the mob being involved in JFK’s death is shared.

(Works Cited)

History.com Editors. “Origins of the Mafia.” ​History.com,​ A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, ​www.history.com/topics/crime/origins-of-the-mafia​.

Blakemore, Erin. “Frank Sinatra's Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File.” ​History.com​, A&E Television Networks, 14 May 2018, www.history.com/news/frank-sinatra-mob-ties-fbi-file​.

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Following my last question what are your thoughts on Nintendo's strict policies concerning fan games?

I mean, I kind of have a whole video about this. I think there’s too much conflation between the work of fans and the work of bootleggers. There’s a long history of cheap, poorly games created and sold by pirates. 7 Grand Dad, Sonic Jam 6, Super King Kong 99, etc. Those are legitimately harmful bootleg games created (or in some cases, hacked together) to steal money, basically.

Nintendo in particular has always been hugely invested in stopping piracy. As of this writing, there’s a post going around my Tumblr dash of Nintendo banning entire 3DS systems from accessing the Internet on the firmware level if they have homebrew installed. If you connect your 3DS to the internet while homebrew is installed, it will permanently disable all WiFi functionality on that system. That’s not just blocking you from using the eShop, it’s street pass, everything. You can’t turn WiFi on. The button won’t work anymore, or ever again. It doesn’t matter if what you were doing was harmless or not. That’s the kind of serious Nintendo is about piracy. Always has been.

And its these kind of “all or nothing” rules that Nintendo applies to fan games. You may not be pirates, people at Nintendo know you aren’t pirates, but they have to set an example and they’re going to do so with extreme prejudice.

In my video I outline ways to maybe avoid stepping on Nintendo’s toes, and I do think that will help you fly under the radar to an extent. The problem is its literally impossible to follow my rules. If you want to distribute your game, every place (Mediafire, etc.) available to host it runs advertising to pay for server costs. Nobody is allowed to profit from Nintendo’s stuff but Nintendo. Downloading a fan game drives ad revenue to that file host.

Even hosting the file yourself, on your own web server, probably won’t work because you have to pay somebody for that. Even if the server is a physical PC in your basement, you still have to pay the phone company. It’s hard to know where the boundaries are, and I think Nintendo would be happy if the takeaway was “stop, don’t start.”

This stuff requires a delicate touch Nintendo won’t spend the effort to provide. Fan games are no more harmful than fan art or fan fiction, but because fan games sit adjacent to real piracy, Nintendo would rather fight some of their most dedicated customers, and that really sucks.

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i don't even try to get pain management from a doctor anymore. I don't bring up the subject with my primary physician. He's very good at what he does, and i trust putting my health in his hands, but the discussion is not worth the trouble.

We have people in America using fentanyl bootlegged from China, and for this reason people who have a legitimate reason for pain management will find it very difficult to get treatment. Does that make sense? No. If you do manage to get treatment, it is only temporary. I have chronic conditions, so i have to handle the problem on my own. So be it. Life is far from perfect.  

Where i am going with this may be surprising: this piece of writing is about online harassment.

Several years ago i wrote an open letter to then President Barack Obama outlining my difficulties with pain management. During his tenure, the medication that was being prescribed for me at the time was arbitrarily moved to a more restrictive classification. That was the last straw, really, before i finally gave up seeking medical treatment. My primary physician, in fact, is well qualified in pain management, but restrictive regulations make it difficult.

There are also some irresponsible medical professionals who will not treat anyone for pain, even temporarily. That approach is for their convenience. They are do-nothing doctors. Avoid them. Some of them may be on restricted licenses due to their own misbehaviour with drugs. They are recovering addicts, and their patients pay the price for their personal problems. These medical professionals would do well to find respectable jobs. They will tell you to go to the emergency room if you are in pain. I can't go to the emergency room every day. 

There was also a meddling pharmacist at a supermarket, an immigrant from Ghana, who called my doctors and said i got my prescription filled early. Well whoop-tee-doo. Early. Screw me all to hell. I wasn’t asking the doctor for enough to keep it covered, but i tried to keep it at a minimum. I don’t shop at that supermarket chain anymore. Any of the stores. A neurologist first starting a practice was terribly obnoxious about it. 

Fear and paranoia on my part. I don’t need it. 

So anyways, i posted an open letter to the president online, and it went to his desk. I did not receive a personal reply, but rather comments were made publicly, which is fine with me. I didn't post my contact information anyways, and i didn't expect the president to see the letter. He could get my address if he wants it. He was the president. But i am an introvert, a very private person. So we're good on that point.

I have received one message indirectly through an intermediary. As a matter of fact, i have a great deal of respect and admiration for Barack Obama. I voted for him twice. He's cool and i like him. I have simply registered complaints about overzealous and restrictive prescription drug policies. An honest disagreement.  

I have begun to realise that probably more than a few people read my stuff. So for the record: Barack Obama did a superb job as president, and i trusted him unconditionally to lead the country. He is a galvanising public speaker and a true leader. He and i are about the same age, products of Generation Jones. I am always interested if he is planning to make a speech. Michelle and his daughters are exemplary ladies. If Michelle Obama were to run for president, she would get my vote. I don't expect her to run for office, but i would take Michelle over Trump in a heartbeat. I am also interested in what Trump has to say publicly, but for different reasons.

To drive home the point, i am 99.9% satisfied with President Obama in all respects.

And i realise that President Obama may check my writings, and that is entirely appropriate. He probably does, otherwise i would get no feedback. My writing is public. I am also aware that Trump reads my stuff, but it doesn't have the same feel. I am quite critical of Trump, but i am not intimidated by Trump. Or anyone. 

So i am bringing this, in a roundabout way, to the topic of online privacy. Lawrence O'Donnell suggested that tens of thousands of people read my writing, and honestly that came as a surprise, and i didn't quite believe it. But he's a pro at the game, so it is probably true.

I do not answer the telephone. I do not use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MySpace, or 4chan. I use YouTube, but only for music. I don't check the other areas, and i do not upload to YouTube.

All i use is my Tumblr account. That is the choke point. I block anyone i don't like, and in some cases people i like but can't interact with further. So it's me, Justin, Milamai, and the person who posts Rothko. Nice and cozy. And oh yes, Yvan Hydar, another artist i hear from occasionally. If i have left anyone out i apologise. 

I am very introverted, which may be difficult to explain considering the public nature of my writing, which is primarily focused on politics and taking Trump down. Justin's work is invaluable. Thanks again. And i understand many people are not introverts and need more social interaction, but if you are in the public eye, you must make some adjustments.     

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I will share an anecdote about my father. He has passed but i have some of his belongings. When he was getting old, in his late 60s, two young men, strangers, appeared at his door, saying their car had broken down and requesting the use of his telephone. He said okay, I'll be right back and let you in. He came back with a very nice shotgun, and said come on in the house, one at a time. They were rattled as he held the gun on them. They both came in and made a pretense of using the telephone. 

Gun control is an issue we are discussing, of course, and i am on the fence about it, but i do feel safe, and i am safe. Responsible use and storage of firearms is important. I agree that our country is saturated with guns, and there will be mentally deranged people who go on a rampage from time to time. And beyond the notorious events, Americans die of gun violence every day. I am a native Southerner, descended from farmers, and guns were necessary on the family farm. It is traditional in my culture.

But the gun violence discussion is important, and we must keep discussing the issue, and try to find ways to prevent the irresponsible use of firearms.