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superfluouskeys · 9 months ago

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wip whenever ♥

thank you so much @thevikingwoman for the tag!!

i've been pretty busy/just barely not burned out so I haven't been able to write anything new recently BUT this is a perfect excuse to share more of original thing! this is a reasonable organizational system right

part 1 || part 2

sorryyyyy i am once again doing a cop out and saying anyone who wants to pls share your wips and tag me!

Although she knows it’s for nothing, Tamsin still tries her best to sneak back into the house with care. She imagines, perhaps fancifully, that Mrs. Burkow will take more kindly to the situation if she is awoken gently than if she starts out already angry with Tamsin.

Terror grips her heart afresh, however, when she sees a light coming from the sitting room, and knows full well that she did not leave it burning.

Tamsin leads the way around the corner to where the wall sconce burns a deceptive invitation. Mrs. Burkow is sitting in her usual chair with her knitting in her lap. The soft click-click-click of the needles might as well be the only sound in the world.

“All finished with your business?” she asks coldly.

“Mother—“ Tamsin tries.

“You did a fine job of it, too,” Mrs Burkow ignores her. “Must have taken you a long while to clean the kitchen up all nice so I’d wake up and think, ‘oh, what a good and grateful daughter I have.’ I do hope it didn’t interfere in your plans.”

For the second time in one night, Tamsin’s limbs begin to go numb with fear. “I didn’t mean…”

“Did you catch a glimpse of your precious witch, Tamsin?” Mrs. Burkow sneers. “Was it worth the trouble?”

“Shall I assume you are referring to me?” Althea speaks up.

Tamsin startles. The click-click-click of Mrs. Burkow’s needles comes to an abrupt halt.

Althea pulls back the hood of her heavy cloak. Even in the warm light from the sconce, she looks deathly pale, and this is only accentuated by the striking darkness of her hair. Her hair is so dark it is almost black, but the sconce’s light reveals its subtle highlights. She wears it in an old-fashioned style, a long, heavy plait that spills over her shoulder without the aid of the cloak’s hood. Her eyes are more blue than grey in this light, and her lips are drawn into a thin smile.

For the first time, Tamsin can fully appreciate the sharpness of Althea’s features, the cut of her jaw, the high cheekbones, the slightly hooked angle of her nose. Tamsin considers that Althea really does look like a witch, if one were to attempt to approximate such a fantasy. At the moment, Tamsin can’t decide whether this is a good thing or a bad thing—namely, whether Althea’s looks alone will inspire fear or fury in Mrs. Burkow.

“And who might you be?” Mrs. Burkow asks. Her tone is somewhere between the false sweetness she affects with strangers and the barely-restrained hostility Tamsin knows best.

Althea affords her the same regal greeting she gave Tamsin. She brings a hand to her heart and curtseys low. “Keeper Althea Blackthorne, at your service.”

Mrs. Burkow stands slowly, as though entirely against her will. “Gods preserve us,” she murmurs. Her gaze flickers to Tamsin, cold accusation in her eyes. “What have you done, you stupid girl?”

Tamsin cowers on instinct. Althea doesn’t miss a beat, but she steps forward slightly, as though placing herself between Tamsin and Mrs. Burkow.

“I pray you’ll forgive the intrusion,” says Althea, as though the atmosphere were perfectly friendly, “particularly at this late hour, but I’m afraid the matter I have to discuss with you cannot wait even until morning.”

Mrs. Burkow laughs breathlessly. “And what matter could that possibly be?”

Althea inclines her head subtly, a lightning-fast and near-imperceptible observation. “Perhaps you’d like to sit down?” she suggests kindly. “This may come as quite a shock.”

But apparently Althea’s status as a witch prevails over Mrs. Burkow’s usual need to play at social nicety. “I’ll stay standing, and so will you, thank you very much,” she points an accusing finger. It is strange to notice that her hand is trembling. “Say what you have to say, if it’s so urgent.”

“Very well,” says Althea, unfazed. “Your Tamsin is possessed of the Gift. At least, that is the parlance I would use. Here in your Gods place, I expect you might call her a witch.”

Mrs. Burkow throws down her knitting. “You dare come into my house and speak such nonsense?” she blusters. “What proof do you have? What nerve!”

Althea holds out her hands, still unbothered by Mrs. Burkow’s display. “I mean no offense,” she says. “I only wish to demonstrate the urgency of this matter. Tamsin cannot stay here. I have seen with my own eyes what will become of her.”

“Horrid old bat!” Mrs. Burkow shrieks. She is trembling all over now. “You won’t do this to me! She has a future!” She jabs her finger in Tamsin’s direction. “She’ll be married to a nobleman on the weekend! You can’t do this to me!”

This, of all things, seems to surprise Althea. She turns to look at Tamsin. “Married?” she wonders. “Forgive me, but aren’t you a bit young?”

Again Tamsin gets the feeling she had when Althea first appeared before her in Teddy’s barn. Althea must be an angel, sent by the gods to save her from her miserable fate. If Tamsin is not dreaming, then this is the only other explanation.

Mrs. Burkow scoffs. “And how would you know? You come in here with your crooked ideas meaning to tear this town apart, and you want to claim you know best about everything? A fine trick. Seeking out a girl stupid enough to believe a word you say.”

Althea returns her attention to Mrs. Burkow. Her serene exterior remains undisrupted, but her words are carefully chosen. “I think I’ll have to insist that you not cast aspersions upon the intelligence of my student,” she says. “You’ll understand that such things can be most detrimental to the learning process, and there is so very much to learn, you see.”

Mrs Burkow laughs coldly. “Oh, I might’ve known. Sure, play the kindly savior if you must. But just you remember—“ and this she directs to Tamsin. “Remember who took you in off the streets. Remember who put a roof over your head, who fed and clothed and washed you. Remember who has always protected you from harm, always!”

Mrs. Burkow is angry, but there is a note of sorrow in her voice, too, and her eyes are shining with unshed tears. “You may not like it, Tamsin, but I am looking out for you. What do you know about this woman? Are you really going to throw your life away like this?”

Tamsin averts her gaze, so deeply ashamed that she thinks she might weep.

“Please, there’s no need for dramatics,” says Althea. “And frankly, there’s not much of a choice. The Gift will not be denied, not for long. If you are truly looking out for your daughter, you will see reason. Do you want to see her put to the flame?”

“Oh, you wretched thing!” Mrs. Burkow cries. “Who’s to say you’re even telling the truth at all? How can Tamsin be magical? She’s nothing! A nameless orphan left to die on a church doorstep. It’s cruel, filling her head with false ideas like this. The sooner she accepts who she is, the sooner she’ll see how good she has it.”

Tamsin can feel Althea’s eyes on her, and her shame only grows. She feels hot tears upon her cheeks and ducks her head low in a vain attempt to hide them. If this is a dream, she hopes she can finally wake up now. Of course she isn’t special. Of course she doesn’t have any kind of Gift. She knew this from the beginning. What could Althea possibly have to gain by humiliating her like this?

“Please,” Tamsin murmurs. “Please just go. Whatever you saw in me, it must have been a mistake. I don’t want to waste your time.”

“You heard the girl,” Mrs. Burkow crows.

Althea looks from Tamsin to Mrs. Burkow and back, quiet and contemplative.

“I assure you,” says Althea carefully, “my eyes do not deceive me. Tamsin has the Gift, make no mistake, and so my directive is clear. I cannot allow her to remain here.”

Tamsin looks up, stunned. Mrs. Burkow, too, is cowed into silence.

“She will come with me willingly, or she will come with me by force,” says Althea. “Obviously I would prefer the former.”

Mrs. Burkow lunges. Tamsin screams. But the confrontation is over before it begins. Althea curls her fingers, and Mrs. Burkow is suspended in just the same way as Teddy Page, as though held up by invisible ropes emanating from Althea’s hands.

“Likewise,” Althea continues, as though nothing at all had happened since last she spoke, “you may cooperate, or remain incapacitated until Tamsin is gone. I expect you would prefer the chance to say goodbye to your ward?”

Mrs. Burkow watches her with wide, furious eyes. But eventually, near-imperceptibly, she nods. Althea lets her go, and she crumbles to the floor.

“I’m so glad that’s settled,” says Althea lightly. She turns her attention to Tamsin. “Now, there isn’t much time for goodbyes, so I suggest you choose wisely. You won’t need much for the trip, and nearly everything will be provided for you once we reach the Academy. Pack as you please, but I beg your consideration. I’m afraid you’ll have to share my horse until we reach the next town.”

Tamsin glances uncertainly between Althea and Mrs. Burkow, who is still recovering on the floor. Everything is happening so fast, and she herself still hasn’t fully accepted the truth of Althea’s words.

“It really is true, then?” Tamsin asks her.

Mrs. Burkow speaks, her voice low and cruel. “Sell you into slavery, like as not, you stupid child.”

This, of all things, elicits a crack in Althea’s composure. She raises her eyebrows subtly, somewhat taken aback by Mrs. Burkow’s accusation. “I confess,” she says, “I hope you’ll be so kind as to regale me with the kinds of stories your people tell about the Memory-keepers.”

It feels like a joke. On any other day, perhaps Tamsin could have found it in her heart to laugh.

“Is there anyone you’ll want to say goodbye to before we set off?” Althea prompts her kindly. “The hour is late, but you’ll be gone a long time, and so I’m certain your friends will understand.”

Tamsin picks at her skirt self-consciously. Part of her wants to say no, that nobody will even miss her, that even Mrs. Burkow is only sour about losing her scullery maid. But if this really is happening, if she really is leaving, then there is one person she ought to talk to first.

“Well,” says Tamsin, “I suppose I’ll have to break off my engagement.”

Mrs. Burkow lets out a wail of genuine sorrow. “Oh, you wretched girl! You wretched, horrible thing! You’re happy to do it, aren’t you? You’re happy to do this to me!”

Althea glances in Mrs. Burkow’s direction. “Shall I give you two a moment alone?”

“No,” Tamsin replies quickly. Then, quietly, “Please don’t.”

She doesn’t know what will happen if Althea leaves. She cannot imagine what Mrs. Burkow will say. But more importantly, she fears that the second Althea slips from her sight, she will disappear forever, and Tamsin will be left here in her miserable reality, with nothing but a foolish dream for company.

Althea nods her understanding, and she keeps watch over Mrs. Burkow while Tamsin packs. Tamsin can hear Althea trying to comfort Mrs. Burkow, but of course everything she says only makes it worse. At one point, Mrs. Burkow starts complaining that Tamsin is stealing from her, to which Althea implores that she be reasonable, that surely a loving mother wouldn’t send her daughter out into the cold night air without so much as a jacket.

A part of Tamsin still twists uncomfortably each time Althea speaks. The idea that she is leaving this place, that it no longer matters how upset Mrs. Burkow might be, still seems unfathomable to Tamsin.

Still, there isn’t much for Tamsin to pack. There isn’t much she wants to take. She brushes out her hair and ties it back again, more to calm herself than anything. She puts on a pair of trousers under her skirt, remembering Althea mentioned a horse, and packs a change of clothes into her bag, along with a few things from the kitchen that will keep for a few days. She’s never been out of Godsplace, and has no idea how far the next town is, or what traveling actually entails.

“All set?” says Althea.

Mrs. Burkow has not worked her way up off the floor. Tamsin approaches, meaning to help her up.

“Don’t touch me, you wretched thing,” Mrs. Burkow spits.

Tamsin picks at the strap of her bag. She feels a little sorry for Mrs. Burkow, in spite of everything. “Aren’t you going to say goodbye?” she asks quietly.

“Good riddance,” says Mrs. Burkow. “You’ll be lucky if you survive the night.”

Tamsin backs away, strangely hurt, even though it’s hardly the cruelest thing Mrs. Burkow has said this evening alone. “I suppose I’m all set, then,” she says, in the general direction of the floor.

Althea pats her shoulder gently, surprising Tamsin into looking up. But Althea is only urging her forward, and Tamsin is only too eager to take her leave of this place.

It’s gotten colder since they arrived, but Tamsin sucks in a deep breath, relishing the burn in her lungs.

“So,” says Althea, tucking her heavy braid back beneath the hood of her cloak, “where is this, ah…fiancé of yours?”

Tamsin remembers with sudden fondness what Althea had said earlier, and her spirits lift considerably. “It’s a bit of a walk, I’m afraid,” she says. “It’s not about the marriage, though, if that’s what you’re thinking. It’s just that we’re friends. I think he might be the only person who’ll even notice I’m gone.”

“It’s no matter either way,” says Althea. “If you lived somewhere a bit less…archaic, I could afford you more time. But I doubt your would-be assailant will keep his peace. If you’re accused of witchcraft, things could…escalate, shall we say.”

“You think I’d be put to the flame that quickly?” Tamsin asks, gripping the strap of her bag tightly.

“Oh, goodness, no!” says Althea. “I’d never allow it. But it would be best to avoid antagonizing the whole town all at once, don’t you think?”

Not for the first time this evening, Tamsin is stricken by a profound feeling of security. She knows she has no reason to trust Althea, and yet in the brief course of their acquaintance, Althea has done nothing but save her, over and over and over again.

“I owe you my thanks,” says Tamsin. “In fact, I think it’s a debt I can never really repay. I can’t help but feel you’ve saved me a hundred times over, just in this one night.”

Althea affords her a flash of that soft, subtle smile, but she seems otherwise largely unaffected by Tamsin’s outpouring of emotion. “Rest assured, you owe me no debt,” she says pleasantly. “It is nothing short of my sworn duty to seek out and aid young ladies possessed of the Gift on their journey to the Academy. If anything, I failed the young lady in your Town Square earlier today, and I am the one who owes a debt.”

Tamsin shivers involuntarily at the memory. Somewhere in the back of her mind, a young girl is still screaming. “I don’t think you should hold yourself responsible for that,” she says. “You’d go mad with grief if you tried.”

“I saw you in the Square,” says Althea. “The young man you were walking with, is that the one we’re visiting?”

“Mhm,” says Tamsin. “He’s from a noble family. That’s why Mrs. Burkow—I mean, my mother, was so upset, I think.”

“Forgive me if I belabor the issue, but are you not a bit young to be married off?” Althea wonders.

Tamsin almost laughs. “I’m grateful you said so, because it’s what I thought, too. It’s common for girls of noble birth to have their marriages arranged early, and then the wedding doesn’t happen until they’re sixteen or seventeen, but I’m a nobody. I never thought I’d have to worry about that.”

“So you’ve said,” says Althea thoughtfully. “You don’t know when you were born, then?”

Tamsin shrugs. “Sometime in the summer. That’s when the Burkows found me.”

“I see,” says Althea. “So, sixteen, then? Since the wedding was to be this weekend.”

“Oh. Yes, sixteen,” says Tamsin, embarrassed that she hadn’t understood Althea’s question more quickly. “Will I be…I mean, when do people usually…?”

“Usually sometime in the teen years, fifteen to sixteen being the most common,” says Althea.

“There’ll be others just starting, then?” Tamsin wonders hopefully.

Althea hesitates. “Yours is a…small class,” she says carefully.

“Oh,” Tamsin’s hopes deflate. “Is that…unusual?”

Another long pause. “Somewhat unusual, yes.”

When Althea does not elaborate, Tamsin decides to drop the issue for the moment. She can’t imagine why the number of girls starting at the Academy would be a sensitive subject, but then again, she knows next to nothing about Althea’s world. Perhaps there are any number of sensitive subjects she’ll have to learn to watch out for.

#exciting tag for writing things #personal #it's fun rereading this bc i wrote it in a fever dream several months ago so i've forgotten some stuff LOL #fresh and new content to my addled brain #maybe soon i can devote some more time to continuing it #but since i did it for nano there's a lot to draw from for sharing purposes

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lindensea · 2 years ago

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With all the talks about the WGA strikes, there's been a lot of confusion about where animation stands in this. Let's clear some stuff up! WGA is a writer's strike. Now, you might say, animation has writers too and YES it does. And you might be seeing posts saying that animation isn't unionized. But see, that's where things get tricky! Animation isn't a monolith.

SOME of animation IS unionized, and the biggest union by far is The Animation Guild (TAG), based in LA area (although it's been branching out). Click the link to see which studios are a part of TAG! Writers in TAG studios are covered under TAG, not WGA. That's why when writers strike, there are usually articles about animated productions still chugging away. Well that, and the fact that some studios ARE non-union, which means they also aren't WGA (and should also be striking tbh).

If a studio is unionized, does that mean everyone in the studio is covered in said union?? NO, it does not. Once again, using TAG as the example, since that's what I'm familiar with, TAG just covers creative employees. That's your writers, background painters, vis dev artists, animators, riggers, modelers, technical directors, executive producers, directors, etc etc etc). And that's just for the ones that work in-studio, because it gets even more complicated, but we'll get there in a second.

So what about the people who work in unionized studios but still aren't covered in the union? Well, that would be production (but also post-production and prob more I'm forgetting). Production is the organizational side of animation. Line producers, production managers, production coordinators, production assistants/secretaries, script coordinators/writers' assistants, etc. They keep everything from falling apart and make sure everything is happening that should happen. They're vital to every studio, but since they're not artists, they're not part of the union. There's been a movement to unionize, and TAG has been talking about this for years, but it's slow moving. There are a few studios whose production (or post-production!) staff have unionized in the past couple years, but it's really rare. Walt Disney Animation Studios' production staff has been working hard on this this year! Please support them.

To make things more complicated, union studios can farm out animation to overseas/foreign/partner studios, and these studios are almost always non-union. Union studios will write, develop, design all the art in house, and board the episodes (although in-house boarding has become increasingly optional in this pipeline) and send it all over to their much lesser paid, non-union "partners." This is pretty much the norm for American animated TV shows. It's been on the rise for feature films though, especially those released on streaming platforms.

But wait, there's more! What I just described is feature and tv animation in America. But VFX/animation used in live action productions, and gaming studios are, once again, whole other beasts that maybe someone else can talk about. My understanding is that those industries are even less unionized than tv/feature. And then there's non-US studios, although at least in Canada unions have been picking up steam lately

There's also the case of companies owning both union and non-union studios and thus causing more confusion. For example Walt Disney Animation Studios (Disney's feature studios, which makes things like Encanto and Frozen and Strange World almost completely in-house ) is union. Disney Television Animation is union (The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Amphibia, etc) is union but they send their shows to be animated by usually non-union studios. Pixar is non-union. 20th Century Animation is union. Marvel Studios is union, but that's specifically things like What If, not the animation in their live action movies. Walt Disney Studios, the live action feature division farms out their cg/VFX to mainly non-union studios. This is where things like The Lion King remake come from. This makes blanket statements like "Disney artists are non-union" kind of useless. Disney isn't one entity, and even though they're the worst example, that's how animation is becoming. A bunch of really different studios under one umbrella organization.

What I'm getting at here is that the animation industry is waaaaay more complicated than netizens make it seem. And netizens have a Lot of uneducated opinions which are very confidently stated as fact, which spread like wildfire. Please fact check! Look up a few articles. Fact check me even! You don't know who I am! If you genuinely want to help a cause, learning about it is the first step.

#there are waaay more intricacies too...musicians editors and actors who all belong to separate unions #facilities security AT etc #writers strike #animation industry #disney #disney live action #WGA strike

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chaotic-autumn · 2 years ago

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my relationship with tagging posts on tumblr as a person riddled with ADHD is that i spam reblog without tagging anything, and then every 2-6 weeks The Urge strikes and I use the mass post editor to create a complicated organizational system of tags that I know I will not add to anything until The Urge strikes again

#this is also how i clean my room #adhd shit #chaotic textpost #how to tumblr #mine #but also the more complicated i make the organizational system the longer it takes for the Urge to arrive again #until eventually i'm like 'fuck this' abandon the whole system and start all over #neurodiversity

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professor-tammi · 2 years ago

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re: dimilix translation differences, it was mentioned that there were a few changes in the A support (for example, it's clear that it's a piggyback ride in JP), so if you have the time, I would love your thoughts! (apparently the ENG is also much more free with how it switches between idiot and boar, but that feels like a much bigger ask). anyway, thank you again!

Here's an A Support translation, with notes and unnecessary commentary at the end :D (I'll look into the idiot vs boar thing...)

Dimitri / Felix A Support [JP]

ディミトリ：……すまない。必ず復讐は果たす。

だから、もう少し待っていてくれ。

お前たちを死に追いやった者を暴き……

どんな形であれ、必ず果たす。だから……

Dimitri: ......I'm sorry. I promise I’ll get you revenge.

So please, wait just a little while longer.

I’ll expose those who drove you to their deaths...

I promise I'll carry it out, no matter how. So...

フェリクス：おい。

Felix: Hey.

ディミトリ：グレ……いや、フェリクスか。

……見苦しいところを見せたな。

Dimitri: Gle… no, Felix?

… I’m sorry you had to see such a shameful side of me.

フェリクス：もう２０年も付き合ってきた相手に、

今更、見苦しいも何もあるものか。

皆もすっかり寝静まった頃だというのに

一人で礼拝堂に籠もって何をしていた。

お前の声が聞こえて何事かと思ったが、

白昼夢でも見ていたのか。

Felix: We’ve kept each other company for 20 years.

What could you possibly feel ashamed about after so long? [1]

What were you doing hiding alone in the chapel

even though it’s an hour when everyone’s asleep?

I was wondering what was going on when I heard your voice,

but were you daydreaming or something?

ディミトリ：……お前には、隠したところで駄目か。

白昼夢……のようなものだ。

あの日死んだ者たちが、昼夜を問わず立ち現れてくる。

もしあの事件に帝国が関わっていたのなら、

皇帝がそれを黙認していたのなら……

……あの日の死者と同じ最期を与えろと叫んでいる。

胸をえぐり、首をはねて……。

Dimitri: … I guess there’s no point in hiding it from you.

A waking dream… it’s something like that.

Be it day or night, the people who died that day manifest themselves.

If the Empire had anything to do with that incident,

if the emperor consented to it…

… the dead scream for me to give them the same end.

To gouge out their hearts, to break their necks...

フェリクス：いつからだ。

そんなものを見るようになったのは。

Felix: Since when?

When did you start seeing that?

ディミトリ：６年前から……だが、

声を聞いたのは４年前……初陣の時だ。

敵軍の将の顔を、俺は知っていた。

……ダスカーで見た顔だった。

奴の首を落とした時、皆が、声を上げて笑ったんだ。

泣いて苦し��でいた者たちが。

Dimitri: Six years ago… but

I heard the voices four years ago… during the time of our first battle.

I recognized the enemy general’s face.

… I had seen it in Duscur.

When I snapped his neck, everyone raised their voices in laughter.

The same people who had been crying and in pain.

フェリクス：納得はできんが、

まあいろいろと腑には落ちた。

だがな、兄上も先王陛下も、他の者たちも

そうしてお前を責め苛んだりするものか。

お前を安穏と生きていくのを

許していないのは、他でもないお前自身だ。

Felix: I don’t support it, but

I guess I do understand. [2]

But do you really think my brother, the late king, and the others

would torture you like this?

The one who isn’t allowing you to live in peace

is none other than you yourself.

ディミトリ：……誰が俺を許すと言おうと、

俺は死ぬまで自分を許すつもりはない。

Dimitri: … Regardless of if anyone were to forgive me,

I have no intention of forgiving myself until the day I die.

フェリクス：安心しろ、

お前にそんな器用な芸当ができるなど、俺は毛ほども期待していない。

だが、お前は皆を導く国王だ。

お前が惑えば、皆も行くべき道を失う。

その苛烈な復讐心は、胸にしまっておけ。

それは俺だけがしっていればいいのだ。

Felix: Don’t worry.

I’d never expect you to perform such an impossible feat. [3]

But you’re a king who guides his people.

If you lose your bearings, the people will lose their way, too.

Shut away that intense desire for revenge of yours in your heart.

I should be the only one who knows about it. [4]

ディミトリ：……要するに、弱音を吐くなら

お前の前だけにしろ、ということか？

Dimitri: … in other words, if I feel the need to complain,

I should only do it in front of you, is that right?

フェリクス：フン……。

Felix: Hmph...

ディミトリ：……俺が畜生に堕さずにいられるのは、

こうしてお前が受け止めてくれるからだ。

ルーグにとってのキーフォンが、父上に

とってのロドリグがそうだったように……

これからも俺の右腕として

側にいてくれ、フェリクス。

Dimitri: … The reason I haven’t degenerated to a beast

is because you accept me like this. [5]

Like Loog had Kyphon,

and like my father had Rodrigue…

I want you to stay by my side

as my right-hand man, Felix.

フェリクス：……右腕、か。

まあ、悪くない響きだ。ならば……

Felix: … Right-hand man, huh.

Well, that doesn’t sound so bad. In that case...

ディミトリ：……！

おいフェリスク、いきなり何を……

Dimitri: …!

Whoa, Felix, what are you...

フェリクス：右腕としての責を果たさせてもらう。

まず、休み方を知らん王を寝台に放り込まねばな。

Felix: Let me fulfill my duty as your right-hand man.

First, I’ll toss this king who doesn’t know how to rest into bed.

ディミトリ：なあ……お前背負って運ぶつもりか？

無茶はするな。足が床についたまま……

Dimitri: Hey… are you going to carry me on your back? [6]

Don’t push yourself. My feet are dragging on the floor...

フェリクス：黙れ、貴様が馬鹿でかく育ったせいだ！

この筋肉の塊め、運びにくいにも程がある。

Felix: Shut up! It’s your fault for growing so stupidly tall!

You idiot muscle-boar. [7] There’s a limit to how hard to carry you can be.

ディミトリ：……昔もこんなことがあったな。

あの時は足を挫いたお前を、俺が運んだ。

Dimitri: … Something like this happened long ago, too.

You had sprained your leg, and I carried you.

フェリクス：ああ、あれは良い訓練になっただろう？

今度は俺の訓練に付き合え、ディミトリ。

Felix: Yeah, and that was good training, wasn’t it?

So go along with my training this time, Dimitri. [8]

ディミトリ：くく……ああ、そうだな。

Dimitri: Heh… yes, alright.

Notes / Comments:

Felix is basically saying it's too late for Dimitri to be feeling embarrassed about any side of himself here. The English version ("After 20 years, I’ve seen all of you there is to see") gets that across well!

This sentence is a little tricky to translate and I can see why the English version just went with "I think I get what’s happening here". 納得はできん has a myriad of interpretations that might make sense, such as "I don't understand", "I can't accept it", "I'm not convinced", "I'm not satisfied (with the explanation)", but it's followed shortly by 腑には落ちた, which basically means "I understand". So this is most likely Felix going "I don't really like it, but I get it". A little more judgmental in Japanese, perhaps?

Felix gets fancy with words about Dimitri having to perform the arduous, extraordinary deed of forgiving himself here. You could read it as being sarcastic, though if so, it doesn't really come across in the voice acting. (In English, this is just "Believe me, I know.")

In English, Felix is a little more tongue-in-cheek about Dimitri keeping his hallucinations to himself ("We can just call it our little secret"), but in Japanese, he goes all in on the "you can only tell me, nobody else". I think Dimitri's response makes a little more sense with that in mind; he's going, "okay, so if I can't tell anyone else ever, are you going to be my therapist? :D?"

I love the English version of this line, though I do have to point out that the Japanese continues Dimitri's trend of disparagingly comparing himself to a beast... I also appreciate that it brings up Felix's acceptance as a key factor of their relationship. It's very sweet!

Yes, the Japanese version confirms that Felix gives Dimitri a piggyback ride here.

Literal translation: "boar of muscle(s) [derogatory]". Yes there is a Japanese particle that just lets you refer to people in a derogatory way (め). [derogatory] is a part of the language

aww he said his name (he doesn't in English!)

#dimilix #ask post #text post #text: fe #text: fodlan #ship: don't you dare look back #the organizational tags strike again!!#tammi translates things

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What would an anarchist program look like?

by CrimethInc

An Anarchist Program

0. The Ends Are the Means

Those who support an anarchist program live and organize in a way that makes the program imminently possible, not in some distant future after a dictatorial party has acquired power. This represents a completely different way of creating power starting right now.

Nothing in this program, not even the abolition of the state, can justify means of struggle that would not be at home in the world we wish to inhabit, nor the postponing of questions of freedom and well-being until after some state of exception that we dress up as a revolution.

1. Mutual Survival

Under capitalism, no one has a right to survival. We are all forced to pay for the means of survival—and some of us can’t. Millions of people die every year from easily preventable causes; billions live in misery because they are denied the means for a healthy, dignified life. That ends now.

A. Every person and every community has a right to their means of survival.

B. It follows that persons and communities that choose to constitute themselves in a way that destroys others’ means of survival, or that withhold those means in exchange for some service (exploitation), are destroying the possibility for mutual survival. Therefore, their “way of life” does not constitute survival—it endangers survival.

C. Persons and communities are right to defend themselves against exploitation or threats to their means of survival, preferably by convincing those who threaten or exploit them to change their way of life to a more harmonious, mutually feasible pattern—but also, if necessary, by force.

D. Conflict and death have always been a part of life, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. With current technologies, attempts to stave off death are predicated on multiplying deaths among those who lack access to such technologies. It follows that survival is not the absence of death, but the possibility for a healthy and fulfilling life, as well as the possibility to pass something of that life on to future generations.

E. In this sense, the opposite of life is not death, but extermination, the total annihilation of a group, including even the destruction of the memory of that group. Extermination belongs to the state. It precludes the possibility of mutual survival.

2. Decolonization

Colonization is crucial to the global spread of capitalism and the devastation it has entailed. This devastation has ongoing repercussions at every level. Colonization is the basis of the United States; it has also been foundational to the major European states that functioned as the architects of the current global system of statism and capitalism. T3. Reparations and Ending Anti-Blacknesshe partial revolutions of the 20th century did not alter the basic colonial frameworks they inherited. All of this must change.

A. Colonized peoples have a right to reconstitute their communities, their languages and knowledge systems, their territories, and their organizational systems. All of these are fluid realities that members of such communities adapt to their present needs.

B. Settler societies must be destroyed. Because they are so historically ingrained, their abolition will not be a single moment of compensation (as though a price tag could be attached to all the suffering that has been caused), but a complex and evolving process. Indigenous communities should be able to define what decolonization looks like from a position of strength and healing, such as the abolition of the United States (and Canada and other nations) will allow. This is also necessary to break with the gunboat diplomacy that has characterized much of settler colonialism.

C. By definition, we cannot and will not define the limits of decolonization from the present moment, from within the reality of a settler society. Anarchists, Indigenous and otherwise, favor models of decolonization that break with colonial logics and repudiate nation-states, ethnic essentialism, punitive and genocidal practices, and mere reforms regarding who holds state power.

D. Settler communities that have historically and to the present day played the role of an aggressive and hostile neighbor helping to police and exploit Native communities in the reservation system will be encouraged to disband, and will be treated as paramilitaries if they continue any form of hostility. All “Man Camps” will be disbanded immediately, and resources will be dedicated to helping find missing Indigenous women and two-spirit people.

E. Universities, museums, and other institutions will return all bodies, body parts, art, and artifacts stolen from Indigenous communities.

F. It is right for Indigenous communities to recover all the territory they need for their full cultural, spiritual, and material survival.

G. Priority might be given to recovering land of spiritual importance, land that had belonged to the government, and large commercial holdings—but again, preconceived limitations should not be placed on how decolonization will unfold.

H. Communities in countries that maintained external colonial projects (e.g., the United Kingdom, Spain, France) will facilitate a large-scale transfer of useful resources expropriated from their abolished governments, the wealthy, and institutions that existed to serve the wealthy (e.g., private hospitals). These resources will go to communities in the ex-colonies.

A composition by Afro-Futurist artist Olalekan Jeyifous, part of a series exploring alternative futures for Brooklyn.

3. Reparations and Ending Anti-Blackness

Anti-Blackness and other forms of racism are fundamental to the current power structure. They grew out of colonialism and capitalism from the very beginning, to such an extent that capitalism is inseparable from racism, though the latter can take many forms. It is impossible to fully abolish these power structures without striking at the historically grounded legacies of racism.

A. Communities of people largely descended from the survivors of slavery are right to take over large landholdings that had previously been plantations, as well as the excess wealth of families and institutions that profited off of slave labor. This redistribution should be carried out on a communal rather than an individual basis, to avoid encouraging identitarian processes that declare individuals legitimate or illegitimate based on abstract criteria. Those who organize a collective or communal expropriation have the right to define their own experiences and how oppression has affected them historically, as well as to choose how to constitute themselves and whom to invite into their community.

B. Historically racialized neighborhoods that have been gentrified may be reclaimed. Because many neighborhoods, before gentrification, are in fact quite diverse and working class people of all races can lose their homes, those who are involved in housing and anti-racist struggles at the time of the revolution may form assemblies to organize the process of inviting people back into reclaimed neighborhoods, for example prioritizing prior residents or their children, and finding ways to strike a balance between revitalizing Black and other cultures of resistance and creating practices of cross-racial solidarity that break down the segregations and separations of racism.

C. People in neighborhoods that are infrastructurally unsound or unsanitary, that suffer from environmental racism or other harmful effects that will continue causing health problems into the foreseeable future, may expropriate and move into wealthy neighborhoods (preferentially targeting the wealthiest). The prior residents of those neighborhoods may move into the vacated, substandard neighborhood with an eye towards improving it through their own effort, or they may move into other unused housing, of which there is plenty, thanks to capitalist real estate markets.

D. Weapons taken from the disbanded police and military will be distributed among Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities, and to volunteer militias that fought unambiguously on the anti-racist side during the entirety of the revolutionary conflict. The communities will decide what is to be done with the weapons—whether to distribute, store, or dismantle them.

E. Resources related to education and healthcare may be taken from wealthy neighborhoods for the benefit of racialized neighborhoods.

F. The onus is on white anti-capitalists, or more correctly, anti-capitalists in the process of definitively breaking with their whiteness, to work with other white people to achieve a process of reparations that is as peaceful as possible, to help them move to other neighborhoods or territories in the case that they are evicted, to soften their landing and help them find the means for dignified survival, without creating entrenched identities or resentment that might encourage intergenerational conflicts or keep whiteness alive.

G. Assemblies of people committed to the relevant causes at the time of the revolution will set up truth and reconciliation committees to deal with whatever racist atrocities are brought to their attention, such as the forced sterilizations carried out in ICE facilities. The processes for uncovering the truth of these atrocities and achieving some kind of reconciliation will not be purely symbolic, and they need not delegitimize personal acts of revenge, but they will strive for some form of collective healing and transformative justice rather than punitive and carceral measures.4. Land

All the following points of the program are contingent on points 1-3 being put in motion in a way that is satisfactory to those who have suffered white supremacy, colonization, and racial capitalism. The rights and principles in point 4, for example, about access to land, must not be used to thwart efforts by Indigenous communities to get their Land Back.

The Esselen Tribe inhabited this land across the Big Sur coast of California for more than 6000 years, until Spanish colonizers seized it. Their claim to it was only recently acknowledged by the courts.

4. Land

The way capitalism and Western civilization have taught us to think about the land and the way to treat it has brought us to the brink of disaster. The paradigm of land as property, as a resource to be exploited, is simultaneously a failure and a travesty. The commodification of land has been instrumental to colonialism and exploitation, while the measuring, demarcation, and assertion of dominion over land has been central to the state throughout its history.

A. Land is a living thing. Land cannot be bought and sold.

B. Land belongs to those who belong to it, which is to say, those who take care of it and those whose survival is based on it.

C. Land should be respected. Communities should consider the personhood of the land and all other beings that exist in relation with it. The idea that only humans of a predetermined type have personhood is responsible for a large part of the disaster we face.

D. Land is the basis for survival, and all land is interconnected.

E. It follows that defense of the land is self-defense, and is therefore right.

F. A community that exists in an intimate, localized relationship with the land, or a community that historically has had such a relationship and proved to be good stewards of the land, will probably know best how to interrelate with a specific territory. Others should defer to them in questions regarding defending and caring for the land.

G. It is the responsibility of all communities to aid and accompany the land as it heals from centuries of capitalism and the state.

5. Water

Water is life.

A. All communities must return the water they use to the river, lake, or aquifer as clean as they found it.

B. All communities have a responsibility to help their watershed heal and purify itself after centuries of capitalist aggression.

C. In view of climate change, desertification, and all the other forms of damage to the planet, all communities have a responsibility to adapt their lifeways in the event of water scarcity, and to help each other to migrate if increasing water scarcity and desertification render a dignified survival impossible.

D. In the event of water scarcity, priority for water use is given to localized forms of sustainable agriculture and to preserving the habitats of other forms of life.

E. Polluting the water or taking so much that others downstream or in the same aquifer do not have enough for a dignified survival is an act of aggression.

F. Communities should respond to assaults on their water with attempts at dialogue and negotiation, but if these attempts are fruitless, they are right to defend themselves.

Garden River First Nation’s railroad bridge.

6. Borders

The global system we are abolishing is based on states asserting sovereignty over clearly demarcated borders, alternately cooperating and competing in capitalist accumulation and warfare. Nation-states have always led to cultural and linguistic homogenization and genocide, and borders have revealed themselves to be increasingly murderous mechanisms. All that, henceforth, is abolished.

A. People and communities, in concert, decide what communities they want to be a part of, and how they wish to be constituted, respectively. This is the principle of voluntary association.

B. All together, as best we can, we will develop principles of Freedom of Movement, balanced with a respect for the communities that are the custodians of the territories others wish to move through. These two principles necessitate the abolition of borders, on the one hand, and the abolition of individualistic, entitled tourism on the other. It is reasonable for communities, which exist in relation to a specific territory, to expect privacy as well as basic respect from visitors; at the same time, it is good for people to be able to move freely in search of a better life or even simply because movement brings them joy and well-being. These two rights, such as they are, may come into conflict. Communities and individuals commit to resolving those conflicts as constructively as possible.

C. Communities commit to offering basic hospitality and safe conduct to migrants. This could include migrants who wish to return home, having been forced to emigrate by the effects of capitalism. It could include the migration of entire communities fleeing the long-term effects of environmental racism.

D. Communities will coordinate across territories as they see fit. This could include federations organized along linguistic lines (for the sake of convenience), coordinating bodies in a shared watershed, and more. Anarchists recommend redundant, overlapping forms of organization, as well as membership in multiple communities, to resist the potentially militaristic reproduction of bordered units or essentialist identities.

A way to reorganize living environments as imagined by anarchist artist Clifford Harper.

7. Housing

Even governments that enshrine the right to housing in their constitutions have failed to guarantee this basic need. As Malatesta pointed out, capitalism is the system in which builders go homeless because there are too many houses.

A. Houses belong to those who live in them.

B. No one has a right to more houses than they need. This should not be reduced to a principle of “one family, one house,” because of the danger in normalizing one model of the family, and because some dynamic families include movement between multiple nodes, and to respect pastoral and other societies organized around seasonal migrations. However, this does mean that the vacation houses of the rich are fair game for expropriation for those who need access to land or decent housing.

C. Housing is not a commodity to be bought and sold.

D. Communities will make sure all their own members have dignified housing, and then they will help neighboring communities find the resources they need to meet their housing needs.

E. Anarchists will encourage the transformation of housing, which capitalist real estate development and urban planning utilized specifically to promote patriarchal nuclear families. People are encouraged to change their vital spaces in a way that enables more communal practices of kinship, child-rearing practices not based in the heterosexual couple, and autonomous spaces for women and gender nonconforming people.

F. Anarchists will make it a priority to provide safe housing for people fleeing abusive relationships and circumstances.

G. Communities will begin immediately, within their means, to modify housing to be ecologically sustainable, and to modify settlement patterns so that housing nuclei correspond to ecological and cultural needs, moving away from the present reality in which existing housing corresponds to the imperatives of capitalism. As this process will take decades, communities should develop plans and share ideas for organizing the transition, taking into account that there will be a rapid shift away from fossil fuels and changes in the availability of different construction materials.

H. Evicting people from their houses is an emotionally traumatizing act that we do not want to form a part of the world we are building. However, many historically oppressed communities find themselves living in situations that directly shorten their lives, whereas the ostentatious housing of rich people represents generations of accumulated plunder; in those cases, it is better for them to take the housing of those who profited off their misery than to continue in misery. Under capitalism, there is no inalienable right to remain in a particular house, and we are not carrying out a revolution in order to give rights to rich people they did not even claim under their own chosen system.

Christiania, an autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark.

8. Food

A key aspect of capitalist accumulation has been the industrialization and hyper-exploitation of food producers, both human farmers and other forms of life, trying to squeeze out an ever-growing surplus. This has led to the acts of genocide associated with the commodification of the land, the total destruction of peasant societies, deforestation and monocrop deserts, mass starvation, mass extinction, pollution, climate change, dead zones in the ocean, the destruction and commodification of communities of different living beings, the murder of living soil, and the systematized imprisonment and torture of non-human animals. How we feed ourselves is a nexus that brings together how we organize our society and the relationships we create with the broader ecosystem.

A. Everyone has a right to all the food they need for a healthy, dignified life.

B. Making sure that everyone has enough food is a collective responsibility.

C. Arbitrarily placing limits on or destroying the food supply that others depend on is an assault on their survival. They may respond to this with legitimate self-defense.

D. Workers in food production industries at the time of the revolution will socialize the means of production under their control with the aim of ensuring everyone’s access to food.

E. Communities will begin the process of redistributing large tracts of farmland and reclaiming land in urban environments to enable food sovereignty and to share access to the means to feed ourselves.

F. Agriculture will transition away from the current petroleum-dependent, highly industrialized model to a localized, ecocentric model designed to fulfill two purposes: ensuring food security and restoring the health of the planet. The human diet will be resituated in an ecosystemic logic.

G. Particularly damaging technologies like factory trawlers and animal warehouses for industrial-scale meat and dairy production will be dismantled as quickly as possible.

A collective meal at Ungdomshuset, an autonomous social center in Copenhagen.

9. Healthcare

Under capitalism and the state, healthcare has been used as a form of extortion to keep poor people in misery and in debt, to surveil, discipline, and control our bodies, and particularly to torture and control women, trans and non-binary people, racialized people, and people with different abilities and mental health difference. It is one of the most damning indictments of the present system that the practices that should focus on healing function as a venue for cruelty and profiteering.

A. Everyone has a right to preventive therapies and living conditions that guarantee them the best possible health.

B. Everyone has a right to define for themselves what constitutes health, in dialogue with their community. People who share a collective experience or identity related to gender, sexuality, physical ability, mental health, ethnicity, or anything else, may develop their own definition or ideal of health; members of those groups are free to subscribe to those definitions or not to subscribe to them.

C. Everyone has a right to alter their body, in line with their gender expression or for whatever reason, as they see fit. People have an unrestricted right to contraceptives and abortion.

D. No healthcare worker can be forced to perform a procedure that they do not agree with, but denying someone access to a medical procedure is an assault on their bodily autonomy. Training in skills related to healthcare will be spread as widely as possible so no one is ever in the position of gatekeeping access to healthcare.

E. Everyone has a right to the full extent of treatment available to them in their community, or to travel in search of better conditions or better treatment options.

F. Healthcare workers at the time of the revolution will socialize the hospitals and other institutions and infrastructures at their disposal, and do their best to ensure continuing access to healthcare, to universalize and improve access and quality of treatment, to equalize treatment for historically marginalized populations, to facilitate reconciliation processes to address the abuse of such populations by the medical profession, and to reorganize their profession to remove all capitalist influences and classist organization, while still weighting internal hierarchies to favor training and experience.

G. Trafficking in healthcare, including the threat to withhold healthcare, is an act of aggression.

H. As part of the process of self-definition of health, anarchists will encourage the formation of assemblies that center people’s own needs and experiences, breaking the tradition that establishes healthcare professionals as the protagonists and people as mere receptacles for illness or treatment. People will share and increase knowledge of their own bodies, availing themselves of the tools they need to be proactive in securing the greatest health and happiness possible.

A Berkeley Free Clinic truck offering free HIV tests on a sidewalk in Berkeley, California in 2012.

10. Education

Public education has been used to create patriotic, obedient, and white supremacist civil servants, soldiers, and citizens. For even longer, Catholic education in Europe and in the colonies was used to justify colonialism and state authority. Both public and private education are linked to systematic child abuse. Contrary to classist stereotypes, people with more formal education are often more able to dismiss facts that contradict their prejudices or worldview. Education as it stands is a cornerstone of oppression.

On the contrary, education should be an unending process of growth and self-actualization. Anarchists have always been at the forefront of experimenting with models of liberating education that break with the standard formulas of patriotic, patriarchal, colonial, capitalist education.

A. Knowledge must be free; it belongs to the community.

B. Everyone must be able to access whatever educational opportunities they desire. Anarchists will encourage specific projects that end the oppressions that limit people’s access to education because of their gender, sexuality, race, class, or other divisions. Examples might include intensive trainings in fields like math, sciences, and mechanics for people from groups that have historically been discouraged from entering those fields, or history and literature courses that center the voices and experiences of subjects other than upper-class heterosexual white men. Such projects will also deploy a diversity of learning environments that do not assume a single, normative standard of physical and mental abilities.

C. Anarchists will help ensure that historically marginalized groups can obtain the resources they need to identify and develop the body of knowledge that is important to their specific community and to spread it as they see fit.

D. Children are free to engage in educational settings as they see fit, in dialogue with their communities. Free children who have all their basic needs met are constantly engaged in their own education, independently of whether they do so in a formal setting.

E. Teachers and professors who want to continue working as such may organize basic education, but anarchists will encourage the emergence of new projects based on liberating models of education rather than rote memorization or the completion of preconceived modules, especially collective self-organized self-education projects.

David Graeber speaking at Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam in 2015.

F. Professions that prove to be useful and desirable after the demise of capitalism will organize educational programs to train new members of the profession, expropriating resources from schools and universities or taking over teaching spaces within them, in dialogue with other professions.

G. Scientific organizations may constitute themselves to provide for professional training in universities, and to maintain laboratories and peer-reviewed papers. They will discuss ways to raise the resources necessary to maintain laboratories and needed technologies without capitalizing on the processes of knowledge production. One possible solution is that scientific experimentation will have to respond largely to the needs voiced by communities as a whole.

H. The advanced education needed to become a scientist is a gift from the community to the individual; the knowledge the scientists help produce should be a gift back to the community. Scientists should also honor their responsibility to share tools for education as widely as possible. Scientific knowledge and training should not be concentrated in a few hands. Good science thrives on widespread participation in the process of research and review. For science to live, scientists must cease to treat other human beings as objects in a petri dish and focus on equipping them to participate in that process.

I. Scientists, teachers, and other educators will facilitate reconciliation processes to deal with forms of abuse they may have been complicit in before the revolution, from facilitating police violence against students to working with corporations that caused people harm. Accredited scientists who used their knowledge to aid fossil fuel, armaments, and similar industries should be stripped of their perceived legitimacy in the same way that doctors can be delicensed for malpractice.

J. Associations of scientists will decide if they actually need to use some form of licensing in order to assure the quality of their work. The answer may not be the same for heart surgeons as for botanists. This implies a balance between the needs of scientists to ensure standards of quality, the interests of people to prevent monopolies or gatekeepers that limit access to knowledge and training, as well as people’s need for transparency—ensuring, for example, that those they entrust with their medical care or technological projects that might pollute their environment have not been dangerously negligent in the past. Associations of laypeople will also organize to weigh in on these decisions.

11. Production

Under capitalism, production is one of the chief means of accumulating capital for the wealthy—through alienated work, exploitation, and the destruction of the environment. In anarchy, the only question is how to meet socially defined needs, which include everything from collective survival to the need people feel to grow and enjoy life.

A. Ex-workers will seize their workplaces at the earliest convenience, studying whether the workplace (factory, workshop, office, store, restaurant, etc.) can be modified to produce something socially useful in a healthy way. If not, the workplace will be dismantled and its resources shared out among ex-workers, neighboring communities, and useful workplaces.

B. Ex-workers, excluding managers while welcoming unemployed people with pertinent skills who had been denied access to employment under capitalism, will create some form of collective, cooperative, or communal structure to organize their workplaces, federating with other workplaces across their industry in order to oversee the production of socially useful goods.

C. Delegates within these productive federations must be beholden to a specific collective mandate (promoting positions that arise from their base assembly), they must be immediately recallable if they fail that mandate, and they must continue to exercise their craft. Workplace assemblies will decide if delegates must carry out their normal work on a daily basis or if they may be excused for a limited number of months before returning to normal work, as demanded by the conditions of their work and the needs of the federative labor (for example, delegates may have to travel long distances and might not be able to work during certain periods).

D. Those who wish to be professional representatives, doing no other work but that of bureaucrats and politicians, may form their own federations of representatives in which to go about representing themselves and others to the best of their abilities. For this purpose, it is recommended that they paint their faces white, don berets and striped shirts, travel from community to community, and hold their committee meetings open to the public. People don’t need bureaucrats—but we will always need entertainment!

E. No one may be forced to work. Communities and productive federations will do their utmost to operate according to a logic of abundance rather than a logic of scarcity or monopoly. People who wish to carry out productive or creative labors in a more individual setting or manner will be encouraged to do so, and insofar as it is possible, they will be afforded the space and resources they need, though in moments of absolute scarcity, such as the difficult years of the transition, communities may prefer to favor more effective collective workplaces that are immediately responding to a community need.

F. The gendering of different productive activities is abolished. Anarchists encourage their communities to reflect on how different useful, necessary, and beneficial activities are unequally recognized and rewarded with status, and propose initiatives or new traditions by which to eliminate these vestiges of patriarchy.

G. Ex-workers are encouraged to fully transform their workplaces, deconstructing machinery into its component tools if need be in order to work at a safer pace and create an environment that is healthy in terms of noise, air quality, chemicals, and non-repetitive labors.

H. Workplaces will strike a balance between the creative or productive desires of the members, the needs of surrounding communities, and the needs of society as a whole. This means encouraging artisans in their creative development, making sure not to pollute nearby communities with harmful chemicals or excessive noise, and seeking to create things that others in society need, though embracing the logic of abundance means giving this latter directive the broadest possible interpretation except in cases of acute scarcity that threaten a community’s survival.

I. Destructive energy infrastructure will be phased out at the safest pace possible. Experts in the relevant fields will be encouraged to oversee the shutting down of nuclear power plants according to a schedule that leaves the smallest amount of highly radioactive waste and the plugging of oil wells so they do not contaminate ground water.

J. On a less urgent timeline, communities will explore the decommissioning of highly destructive “green energy” projects that endanger river populations, migratory birds, and other living things. This work will depend on the development of localized, ecological energy production and the drastic reduction of overall energy use, a part of which is the redesigning of buildings to allow for passive solar heating and cooling, a demanding endeavor that cannot be accomplished in a single decade.

K. Communities will decide what technologies and what kinds of scientific experimentation and development they will support. However, in all cases, the communities and scientific organizations involved must be able to absorb or remediate all the negative consequences of that technology. There is no justification for mining someone else’s territory or creating toxic substances that future generations will have to deal with.

12. Distribution, Communication, and Transportation

Localizing power in people and communities has an adjunct in organizing the material means of survival on as local a level as possible, for example through principles like food sovereignty. However, the danger of dependence on an exploitative socioeconomic system decreases dramatically when people can meet most of their survival needs through the resources and activity of a small local network of communities. For the remainder of those needs, as well as all the things that make life more enjoyable, it may be necessary to organize distribution across multiple regions of a continent and beyond. Additionally, travel is extremely important in an anarchist society to inculcate a global consciousness, encourage reciprocity and solidarity, prevent the emergence of borders, and collectivize knowledge as much as possible.

A. All state-backed currencies are abolished. All monetary debts are canceled.

B. Exchange of goods between communities shall be done in as equitable a manner as possible. Communities in close contact may prefer a free exchange or gift economy. Communities without the basis of trust that makes a gift economy easier to practice may decide to use quid pro quo trade, but trading up for profit (serial trading to capture a growth of value) or charging interest on the lending of goods can be considered attempts at coercion and exploitation.

C. Communities should pursue food sovereignty, meeting the majority of their survival needs from their local land base, but beyond that, infrastructures should be maintained to encourage exchange and travel.

D. Transport workers, together with affected communities, will collaborate to transform existing transportation infrastructure to be as ecologically sustainable as possible, while other infrastructures (e.g., airports and highways) are to be dismantled.

E. Already extracted fossil fuel reserves and existing infrastructures will be rationed, giving priority to the transition in agricultural production, global reparations of resources, and maintaining connectivity in rural areas with no transportation alternatives.

F. Communities, transportation workers, and those involved in fighting against patriarchal violence at the time of the revolution will work together to make sure that people can travel freely and safely regardless of their gender. Communities that enable or permit violence against women or gender non-conforming people traveling through their territory are considered to be in aggression against the rest of the world.

G. Communities will do their best to maintain existing communications infrastructure so that they can remain in touch to communicate globally and share the experiences of their respective revolutionary processes. In the long term, they will explore ways to maintain those infrastructures they find useful with recycled or non-harmful materials. They will also study whether addictive and depressive behaviors related to social networking technologies are intrinsic to those technologies or a maladaptive response to the alienations of capitalism.

13. Conflict Resolution and Transformative Justice

Prisons and police have existed for far too long, destroying people and communities. There are ways to deal with the inevitable conflicts of social existence that see people as capable of growth, redemption, and healing, and that are organized to meet the needs of the community rather than to protect a system of oppression and inequality. The revolution is a process of destroying state power; it is also a process of the rebirth of real communities. Capitalism forced us to be dependent on its mechanisms for our survival, but once it is abolished, our survival once again becomes something we create collectively.

A. Communities are reconstituted through the assemblies and other spaces through which they organize their territory and the survival of their members. A part of this means being accountable to the community on which our survival depends, and taking part in the healthy resolution of conflicts, the healing of harm, and the restoring of reciprocal relations.

B. Communities will do their best to enable fluid ways of being and relating that break with the closed, patriarchal, and micro-oppressive structures that have been traditional in many places. However, no leeway need be given to the dominant concept of fluidity of late capitalism in which people move through space without ever acknowledging their relations, their impact on others, or the simple fact that their survival is not their personal property.

C. People involved in mediation, conflict resolution, and transformative justice will share resources and encourage communities to deal with conflict and harm in a restorative way that promotes healing and reconciliation. We will also make sure that the burden of this work does not fall disproportionately along gender lines.

D. Communities will define norms and boundaries around harmful behaviors, but anarchists will encourage them to develop practices that center dialogue and processes of healing and reconciliation, rather than the codification of prohibited behaviors and punishment.

E. Communities that already have traditions of mediation and reconciliatory processes are encouraged to share their experience as they see fit.

F. All prisons will be dismantled, with communities taking in ex-prisoners who had been convicted of harming other people and committing to working with them on exploring the circumstances around the harm.

G. Committees of people experienced in transformative justice will work with ex-prisoners who are not taken in and vouched for by any community, together with the communities harmed by them, to try to find a solution.

H. Given that total opposition to prisons is not a widespread position, anarchists will organize debates on other possible responses to the worst scenarios of harm—the small minority of cases in which people repeatedly kill, abuse, or victimize others. One possible proposal is to always favor reconciliation with all resources available, but to never delegitimize autonomous acts of self-defense or revenge, especially in cases in which reconciliation is not a realistic outcome.

I. Special attention will be given to all acts of gender and sexual violence, especially those that had been normalized under the patriarchal, punitive regime that is to be abolished. People active in opposing such violence will suggest appropriate structures and practices for communities to adopt.

14. Safety

The state thrives on the lie that security and freedom constitute a dichotomy, two things that exist in inverse proportion and that we must sacrifice each in equal measure to strike a balance between them. Because security is connected with survival, the state can convince us that we would not be able to enjoy what little freedom we have if we did not prioritize security and accept its protection.

In truth, our survival, our safety, and our freedom all depend on how well we can take care of one another, not how high we build walls around ourselves. As long as states exist, even only as a projection in the minds of the power-hungry, we will need to defend ourselves from those who would subjugate and exploit us; sometimes, we will also need to defend ourselves from those who cause harm by not recognizing others’ boundaries, not empathizing with others, or not realizing the consequences of their own actions. How we organize our defense can be dangerous to our freedom. It is also a challenge to conceive of dangers and conflicts in a way that transforms us and others, rather than fixing our antagonists as permanent enemies we need to destroy.

A. All police forces are abolished, and their members should participate in reconciliation processes to address the harm they have caused. Those who refuse may be viewed as statist paramilitaries.

B. Communities may create some kind of volunteer service to protect against various forms of aggression or interpersonal harm. However, to prevent anything like a police force from emerging, whatever form this service takes, it must focus on de-escalation and reconciliation rather than punishment; it should focus on calling out the rest of the community to deal with the conflict or instance of harm rather than monopolizing the response; and the participants must not have special privileges in terms of the right to use force or access to weapons that the rest of the community does not have.

C. Communities are encouraged to create some kind of protective group, tradition, or structure specifically designed to respond to and deal with gender violence in all its forms. They may wish this force to be composed of people other than cis men.

D. Because the state will not be abolished everywhere at once, and because many communities with hierarchical values may continue to exist and may try to subordinate neighboring communities to their will, there may be a need to create anarchist militias or other fighting units—both to defend a free territory and to engage in revolutionary warfare against a statist, imperialist territory. To deserve the terms “free militia” and “revolutionary warfare,” these must be dedicated to several key principles that distinguish them from statist armies. Simply tacking on a red flag is not enough. The fighters must be volunteers; they must be able to choose their own leaders and leadership structures. There must be no officers with aristocratic privileges. The entirety of the force must decide together on acceptable measures of discipline. Assemblies that transcend the free militias—for example, federations of the communities from which the fighters come—will decide the broad strategic objectives and guidelines for humanitarian conduct. In other words the militias must not be fully autonomous: they exist to defend the needs of broader communities, rather than dominating those communities or promoting their own interests on anything but a tactical level.

E. Free militias will avoid the logic of territorial, aggressive warfare in which the objective is to conquer a space defined as enemy territory. The purpose should either be defensive warfare, defending the communities and dissuading others from attacking, or revolutionary warfare, supporting people in an oppressive society who are fighting for their own freedom. In the latter case, the initiative must come from those oppressed people and must not be organized primarily by the militias of a neighboring territory.

F. Free communities do not try to eliminate or annihilate enemies. They defend their freedom and dignity, and support others who are doing so, and then they try to make friends or at the very least make peace.

G. Safety, in an anarchist framework, is not the protection of the weak by the strong, it is the empowerment and cultivated capacity for self-defense of all, with priority given to those whose gender socialization, racialization, or physical and psychological difference has specifically disempowered them under current oppressive conditions.

H. Peace, in an anarchist framework, is not simply the absence of armed conflict, especially when such absence indicates acquiescence to oppression. Peace is an outgrowth of happiness, freedom, and self-actualization, which we hope this program will foster more than capitalism ever has, and a proactive effort. Anarchists will encourage communities to engage and exchange not just with their immediate neighbors, but transcontinentally, sharing and creating cultural bonds, affinities, and friendships on a global scale so as to make the wars of conquest and annihilation that states have been practicing for millennia inconceivable.

15. Community Organization and Coordination

In opposition to involuntary citizenship and dictatorial or representative decision-making that imposes homogenizing laws on all of society, anarchism posits the principles of voluntary association and self-organization, meaning people are free to form themselves into groups of their choosing, to organize those groups as they see fit, and to order their lives on a daily basis, with everyone’s participation.

A. Every community is autonomous and free to organize its own affairs. Every community should develop its own methods and structures of organization and subsistence.

B. Anarchists encourage models that prioritize well-being and prevent the reemergence of statist organization, including the gift economy within communities, and overlapping, redundant forms of organization that prevent the centralization of power, such as combinations of federated territorial assemblies, workplace assemblies, infrastructural organizations, and professional and educational organizations. The goal is to tie people together in a multiplicity of organizational spaces. This way, many different organizational models and cultures can be practiced, since none are neutral or equally accessible to everyone; conflict is mediated by multiplying relationships through numerous organizational and territorial bonds; and the emergence of a political class that is skilled in manipulating assemblies and that thrives in the alienated space of politics is discouraged. If there is no central space where all decisions and authority are legitimated, no matter how participatory that space pretends to be, there can be no political class. This is the difference between democracy and anarchy—not to mention the fact that anarchism has historically opposed slavery, capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism, and the like, whereas democracy has often relied upon them.

C. In order to prevent the return of authoritarian dynamics in the guise of democracy, anarchists would do well to facilitate community processes exploring how formal and informal mechanisms of decision-making distribute gendered power and how vital informal, non-legitimized spaces are to the organization of daily life—but also identifying which informal spaces enable the centralization of power and studying how different ways of organizing, opening, and diffusing formal spaces can serve to prevent rather than facilitate the centralization of power.

D. As a general rule, the only time it is acceptable to intervene in the affairs of a neighboring community is in matters of self-defense, when they do not respect their neighbors’ need for freedom and a dignified survival.

E. When a community does not respect its members’ need for food, water, shelter, healthcare, and bodily integrity, it is good for neighboring communities to offer those members support and refuge. The neighboring communities may support efforts by oppressed or exploited members of the first community to end their oppression, but liberation must always be the task of those who are most directly affected by oppression. Communities should try to avoid intervening directly or forcefully in the affairs of their neighbors.

F. Communities should strive to accept the inevitable differences they have with their neighbors, aiming to foster relations of dialogue and peace. In the case of communities that do not respect the dignity and survival of others, it may be preferable to seek mediation or cut off connections rather than escalating to physical conflict.

G. Many communities will find the need or the desire to join in larger associations for matters of culture, production, and distribution and in order to share common resources. It is preferable to form free federations or associations that maintain power at the local level, while also creating multiple, cross-cutting organizational ties so that every person in every community is a member of multiple groups—for example, the coordinating body to protect a shared watershed, a cultural-linguistic grouping, a scientific association and university system, a producers’ and consumers’ union for sharing resources, and a territorial confederation. In this way, each community has a richer web of relationships, and in the case of conflicts, disputes do not fracture into two belligerent sides, but everyone is tied together by other relationships so there is an abundance of mediators and a general interest in preserving the peace.

16. The Planet

Capitalism has brought the planet to the brink of collapse. It is not enough to destroy capitalism. We must also uproot the capitalist, Western way of relating with the land in favor of healthy, reciprocal, ecocentric relations, and we must do everything possible to heal the planet and all the living communities that share it.

A. It is our responsibility to help the planet heal and help ensure the survival and continuity of all living communities.

B. Communities will tend to their territories as best they can to remediate the destruction and pollution caused by capitalism, to identify and protect species and ecosystems that are in danger, to promote the rewilding of spaces, and to conceive of themselves as part of the ecosystem.

C. Communities and scientific associations will pool resources and share information in order to track problems of global concern, such as greenhouse gases, vulnerable species, dead zones and plastic pollution in the oceans, radiation, and other forms of long-term pollution. They will set targets and make recommendations to specific communities and territorial confederations with the goal of ameliorating these problems as thoroughly and fairly as possible.

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unfavorableinstigation said: ... isn't this the reason for tags in a nutshell?

I’m not sure how you mean this, but I’m not sure I agree regardless?

In principle, tags are organizational, but we can all agree that that is very nearly obsolete on tumblr. I tend to use them as a way to spin off in a completely different direction from the body of the post - post talks about German, say, while the tags are going on a tangent about using kahlua and cranberries in Gingerbread. Sometimes that’s relatively on-topic or a commentary on myself or other people, sometimes not. Obviously I’m quite guilty of tag rants and feel no guilt over it whatsoever.

So you could use tags as a way to more privately rant about things however recently tumblr has started making how people tag things much more public - you can see it however you view notes. Which is in some ways a neat feature, and in other ways destroys my personal use case - I really like seeing whether someone is going to actually interact when they reblog something from me, but then if I reblog something from myself the sheer volume of tags means I see no other notes that day. So, I’m not using the platform as intended and that breaks things; again I feel no guilt. But my point here is, using tags as a more private response is no longer practical.

I got lectured a few weeks ago about responding to a post, which was a bit of whiplash for me, never mind the context; but apparently the polite thing to do is make one’s own post, linking back to the original, while providing further commentary. I still think this is a singularly stupid way to do things; I don’t want to have to click through a vagueblogging link forest in order to follow a chain of conversation and, quite frankly, I have every intention of carrying on public conversations in long, obnoxious chains of reblogs with friends whenever it strikes my fancy. If you don’t like it, the J button is right there.

Which brings me to the public/private nature of what I was wrestling with in that previous post. Which, ignoring the context, the needs being expressed there were for public declaration vs private satisfaction. More public platforms have a different etiquette and make it easier to do things like J past posts, and generally have a culture of passive acceptance - I put all kinds of things on tumblr because regardless of how many hundred people can or will see it, the odds of anyone interacting with it are pretty low, and those who do I probably already know. (These days. A few years ago, when people were following me for Norse stuff, it was more exciting times. They’ve all faffed off by now.) So, for me it is a balance of public expression with minimal consequence, vs private expression with active response, on a spectrum from tumblr to The Discord Experiment to calling Mum.

But there’s still the publicity of it, which I’m becoming decreasingly comfortable with in the last few months, in ways I am really, really enjoying the benefits of. I think it’s a developmental thing, at least as much as it is a reaction to stimulus - I want there to be parts of me that you the internet has no right to, even as I use the internet as a way to express things that you the brickspace has no right to. But I’ve been really dissatisfied with being a quick, witty, sociable being; I want to get to a point of being satisfied with thinking of jokes, and laughing at them myself, and moving on with my day, without needing to express them to other people. And that is starting to happen, which is great - but I am not positive, in my conscious mind, if that is wholly a healthy developing privacy, or a pandemic-reaction withdrawal that will gradually spiral downwards. I use the passivity of tumblr to work through things on my own time, with the confidence that none of y’all have to read this, and if you don’t like it, it was your choice to read the last 5,000 words of Nimbler’s verbosity. I want to maintain that function, while also maintaining what I’ve managed to learn of... Patrickness, of being open about the things that are wrong with me and the things I need to make them better, and making sure I have ways to access those things.

The overlap of those functions is announcing, as blog maintenance, “I’m going through a rough mental patch, and this space is going to be very literal and explainy for a few days.” That’s very good for me to be able to consciously recognize! I’m developing good skills this way! I’m... really hoping to get better at recognizing when that’s over, and be able to announce end dates for that as well.

So, I’ve gone on for more than long enough, and only tangentially related to what you were saying, but: I’m not sure what you were saying! Tags are functional for saying literally everything that was in that post? (They aren’t, incidentally - there is a tag limit, I have hit it.) Tags are functional for chewing a guy out for making a joke about WWII movies? That’s not really the sort of person I want to be. Tags are functional for making blank posts while I work through things? Well, sure - but so is typing them all up and deciding later whether to delete it or not.

Which decision I have not yet made.

#replies #long post #under the cut #if I decide to cut it I'll have to kill this too of course #but I'm not in the least convinced I want to #because strangely that does not fall into the realm of privacy

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I know what you like from Dick (your post are really extensive and detailed, which is great because I love seeing people talk about what they’re passionate about) but is there any type of arc, friend expansion or themes you’d like to see with other robins like Damian or Jason?

Jason, definitely. I actually talk a lot about possibilities for him unrelated to things involving Dick - I’ve got lots of thoughts and feelings about what if he’d had a bigger support system when he was a teen, and how that could have led away from his inevitable death. Like how there was always that age group of YJ and Titans members who were just a couple of years older than Tim so never quite meshed with his YJ crew, but not as old as Dick and his friends....the Ray, Damage, Anima, etc. Like there’s more than enough there for Jason’s own Titans lineup of in-betweeners. I also have a lot of thoughts about Jason and Damage being potential BFFs, and also the idea of Jason dating Tom Bronson aka Tomcat, the werepanther son of Wildcat, Ted Grant.

And post death and return, I think Jason, Obsidian and Damage could make a great trio of misunderstood (and horrifically misused by DC) friends who’ve been through hell and back and toe the line between hero and anti-hero, but often not even so much because of their own choices but because of how they’re inevitably perceived due to things outside their own actions (like Obsidian often assumed the worst of because people are afraid of his shadow powers, and Damage has a long history of being demonized for the destructive nature of his powers by people in universe, etc).

So like, I definitely have those posts, I just suck at tagging....like search my blog on mobile for those characters’ names and posts with them should come up fairly easily.

My thoughts on expansion for Damian at the moment are currently consumed by GIVE HIM BACK HIS FRIENDS DC, WTF, FIRST COLIN, THEN MAYA, NOW JON, WHY WON’T YOU LET HIM KEEP ANY OF HIS FRIENDS EVER.

And with Tim they’re mostly like.....give Young Justice to anyone but Bendis, who I can’t stand, lol, but otherwise I’d be interested. Like, I know ppl don’t believe me lol but I genuinely don’t inherently dislike Tim, as long as he’s not being written as what I perceive to be at Dick’s expense, like, people getting pissed at Dick on Tim’s behalf for something that I will always maintain was not as cut and dried as people make it. But like, separate of stuff like that....I loved the YJ book from the nineties and was a big fan and so I’m actually really glad to have all of those characters back and reunited, its basically what I would have wanted and done with them myself all along, its just....Bendis. Why. Stop.

Also, Tim’s new superhero name will never not be the dumbest thing ever, there are SO MANY CHOICES you could go with instead and you have him like...Fail at Secret Identities AND Striking Fear Into The Heart Of His Enemies all at the same time. Good plan.

Like, when you need your hero to stop and explain to the bad guys that no, actually, his namesake is actually a pretty bad-ass bird in real life, honest, like...that’s not good. I don’t know who said that was good but like. They lied.

Cass and Duke, I just need more of together. Them in Batman & The Outsiders is again, actually a canon thing I really enjoy, even though the insistence on Cass’ broken English can go die in a fire any day now, seriously. But I love the two of them together and think they’re such an underrated dynamic and they play off each other well, and I would love to see them explore the hidden aspects of both their backgrounds together....like there’s still so much Cass doesn’t know about Lady Shiva and her intentions for Cass like what she even wants from her, and literally everything Duke learned about/from Gnomon in Batman & The Signal needs following up on STAT, even if its just to say Gnomon was full of shit and Duke should not listen to him about anything.

I also have some older posts about the possibilities of tying Duke’s powers and his family tree into the emotional entity of hope that empowers the Blue Lantern Corps, like the same way Jade - Alan Scott’s daughter - is connected to the green lantern energy and powers without actually needing to be one herself. Like, some of that meta needs tweaking because later stories I read with Duke made certain things about that not work, but like...there’s stuff there that I still would love to see played with even if just in fic, because I love the Lantern CONCEPT as a whole, and also I’m really really in love with the idea of one of Duke’s direct ancestors having maybe been an avatar of hope at some point like Kyle was for Ion, and Duke’s powers were derived from that....like we know his mom Elaine had some kind of powers as well, with the implication IMO being that they were light connected, and that’s why Gnomon was fixated on her in the first place, even if he’s lying about being Duke’s biological father....anyway, like I said, there’s definitely stuff about that lurking around my blog, I just....desperately need to get better about tagging, but also I say that a lot and then it never happens. LOL. Like I’m great at remembering to tag for trigger warnings, but tagging for organizational purposes? My brain’s like lol why would we ever do that.

But yeah, I for sure have lots of thoughts and ideas for all the family members at various times, but there’s not a whole lot of rhyme or reason to when they pop into my head or when I shift to one in specific....just that inevitably, I always shift back to being Dick Grayson hour, lol. I even have some broader Batfam/franchise posts like.....there’s one I wrote about how I’d give other Rogues than the Joker a derivative character or sidekick, like Mister Freeze, the Riddler and Poison Ivy (I think I named them Kid Chill/Tundra, the Memetic and Hemlock).

And there’s one I keep meaning to revisit about how I’d love to see the Batfamily go up against...a whole rival family, like if a branch of the Falcones returned to Gotham to try and retake power in secret, and they had a matriarch kinda like how Bruce is the patriarch of the Batfam, and then various kids and cousins to act as foils for the Batkids. Like a hacker named Smokescreen to work on hiding their activities from Oracle’s eyes, or a rival to Jason called Red Herring who like, pits the family against each other by framing crimes on various members of the family and testing their trust in each other.

Stuff like that. So I’m not a totally one track mind. Just 90%! LOLOL.

I occasionally remember to take longer meta or ficbits and put them in this sorta catch-all fic posting I have here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18557212/chapters/43986025

But like, by occasionally I mean I’ve remembered a grand total of four times, but hey, whatever. I’m a WIP. The first one is an old magic AU I’m pretty fond of....it was mostly focused on how Dick, Jason and Tim might grow up if they’d been adopted by Zatanna instead of Bruce....though Bruce ends up adopting Cass, Steph and still has Damian. Unfortunately it was written before I got caught up on DC stuff so it doesn’t have Duke in that one....though he’s in two of the others which are more just general Batfam shenanigans.

*Shrugs* Basically I’m random as fuck and hop around a lot, but I’m definitely interested in all the various Batkids, so can happily ramble about any of them with the right prompt, whether a reblog or an ask - just assuming I have the time or energy or am not being a cranky asshole at a particular character because I’m overprotective of my personal chosen fave and not above admitting it. LOL. Quelle problematique.

Like, this is a bit broader of a question then I typically know what to do with, other than just like...point to other things I’ve written that are related, lol, because like....there’s SO MANY thoughts I have or ways I could answer that, I generally don’t know where else to start haha. The more specific you are with an ask or a debate point, the better your chances of getting something definitive from me, lmao.

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best music player apps for Android

A lot of folks these days have transferred to some sort of music streaming service like Pandora, Spotify, Google Play Music, or Apple Music. However, there are those of us left that hang on to our collection of media because streaming isn’t quite good enough yet. If you have your own music collection and the stock music player isn’t doing it for you, then here are our picks for the best music player apps on Android! Please note, if you’re looking for something that plays local music and also streams music, your best bet is Google Play Music.

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BlackPlayer Price: Free / $2.69 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY BlackPlayer is a simple, but elegant music player that puts very little between you and your music. It operates on a tab structure and you can customize the tabs to use only the ones that you actually want. On top of that, it has an equalizer, widgets, scrobbling, an ID3 tag editor, no ads, themes, and support for most commonly used music files. It’s delightfully simple and a fantastic option for fans of minimalism. The free version is a little bare bones with the paid version providing far more features. It’s one of the music player apps worth trying.

jetAudio HD Price: Free / $3.99 + $2.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY jetAudio is a long time favorite of Android users because it has enough features to be better than most, but still simple enough for everyone to use. This one features a variety of audio enhancements that come as plugins so you can tweak your music experience a little more than usual. On top of that, it comes with an equalizer (complete with 32 presets), simple effects like bass boost, a tag editor, widgets, and even MIDI playback. The free and paid versions are virtually identical. The paid version just removes advertising and adds themes.

MediaMonkey Price: Free / $2.49 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY MediaMonkey is a bit of a dark horse in the music player apps business. It has a ton of features, including organizational features for things like audiobooks, podcasts, and the ability to sort songs by things like composer (instead of just artist). It also has basic stuff like an equalizer. What makes MediaMonkey a truly unique music player is the ability to sync your music library from your computer to your phone (and back) over WiFi. It’s a bit complicated set up, but it’s virtually a one-of-a-kind feature. The interface is simple and the app is an overall solid option.

n7player Price: Free / $3.49 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY n7player is a music player that tries to do something a little different and succeeds. Instead of having lists of music sorted in various ways, n7player creates a giant collage style list of your music which you can scroll through and listen to. It also comes with a 10-band equalizer, volume normalization, a tag editor, scrobbling, and plenty of other features. A lot of this is definitely form over function. Those looking for more powerful music player apps may not like this. They also recently updated their app to version 3.0. That includes Material Design and some other new stuff.

Neutron Player Price: Free trial / $5.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Neutron Music Player is another music app that isn’t nearly as popular as it probably should be. It features a 32/64-bit audio rendering engine that is (according to the developers) independent of the Android OS. The idea is that it helps music sound better. It also has a lot of other features, including support for more unique file types (flac, MPC, etc), a built-in equalizer, and a host of other audiophile specific features. It’s a bit expensive, but many swear by it as their go-to music player app.

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Phonograph Price: Free / optional donation DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Phonograph is one of the newer music player apps. It bills itself as being simple. lightweight, and easy to use. In most cases, it succeeds. It features a classic, simple Material Design UI. It’s quick to move through as needed. You can also change the theme if you want, but the theme editor isn’t especially powerful. Along with that, you’ll get Last.fm integration, a tag editor, playlist features, a home screen widget, and some other navigation features. It’s very simple and a great option for those who just want to listen to their music without anything getting in the way. It’s a music player worth trying.

PlayerPro Music Player Price: Free / $4.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY PlayerPro Music Player is another lesser-known music app that should be getting a little more traffic. It features a good looking interface that makes everything easy to use along with skins that you can download and install for more customization. You’ll also get support for playing video, a rare ten band equalizer, Android Auto and Chromecast support, various audio effects, widgets, and some fun little features like the ability to shake the phone to get it to change tracks. It even supports Hi-Fi music (up to 32-bit, 384kHz). You can demo the app for free before forking out the $4.99.

Poweramp Price: Free trial / $3.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Poweramp has long been one of the go-to music player apps choices for a lot of Android users. It has a sleek interface with themes that you can download from the Google Play Store. The interface can be too clever for its own good sometimes. It’s effective and efficient, though. There are also themes to make it look how you want. It includes many playback features, including gapless playback, crossfade, and it has support for several types of playlists. You’ll also find widgets, tag editing, and more customization settings. It’s a powerful player that seems to strike the right chord with almost everyone.

Pulsar Music Player Price: Free DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Pulsar is probably the best completely free music player out there right now. The features include beautifully done Material Design, tag editing, gapless playback, smart playlists, a sleep timer, and Last.fm scrobbling. Puslar also has Chromecast support, which is awesome. It’s not as feature heavy as some of the paid options, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s bad. It’s a great option for those looking for something minimal, lightweight, and good looking. This one also works decently well with Android Auto, if that helps.

Shuttle+ Music Player Price: Free / $2.49 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Shuttle Music Player is an increasingly popular music player. The developer took some time off from updating the app for a bit. However, it looks like the wheels are turning once again. It’s a Material Design laden music player with plenty of options. They include a six band EQ, gapless playback, support for embedded lyrics, tons of themes, Last.fm scrobbling, and more. Those who go pro can also get Chromecast support, ID3 tag editing, folder browsing, and even more theme options. It’s excellent for what it is and one of the must-try music player apps.

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BlackPlayer

Price: Free / $2.69

BlackPlayer is a simple, but elegant music player that puts very little between you and your music. It operates on a tab structure and you can customize the tabs to use only the ones that you actually want. On top of that, it has an equalizer, widgets, scrobbling, an ID3 tag editor, no ads, themes, and support for most commonly used music files. It’s delightfully simple and a fantastic option for fans of minimalism. The free version is a little bare bones with the paid version providing far more features. It’s one of the music player apps worth trying.

jetAudio HD

Price: Free / $3.99 + $2.99

jetAudio is a long time favorite of Android users because it has enough features to be better than most, but still simple enough for everyone to use. This one features a variety of audio enhancements that come as plugins so you can tweak your music experience a little more than usual. On top of that, it comes with an equalizer (complete with 32 presets), simple effects like bass boost, a tag editor, widgets, and even MIDI playback. The free and paid versions are virtually identical. The paid version just removes advertising and adds themes.

MediaMonkey

Price: Free / $2.49

MediaMonkey is a bit of a dark horse in the music player apps business. It has a ton of features, including organizational features for things like audiobooks, podcasts, and the ability to sort songs by things like composer (instead of just artist). It also has basic stuff like an equalizer. What makes MediaMonkey a truly unique music player is the ability to sync your music library from your computer to your phone (and back) over WiFi. It’s a bit complicated set up, but it’s virtually a one-of-a-kind feature. The interface is simple and the app is an overall solid option.

n7player

Price: Free / $3.49

n7player is a music player that tries to do something a little different and succeeds. Instead of having lists of music sorted in various ways, n7player creates a giant collage style list of your music which you can scroll through and listen to. It also comes with a 10-band equalizer, volume normalization, a tag editor, scrobbling, and plenty of other features. A lot of this is definitely form over function. Those looking for more powerful music player apps may not like this. They also recently updated their app to version 3.0. That includes Material Design and some other new stuff.

Neutron Player

Price: Free trial / $5.99

Neutron Music Player is another music app that isn’t nearly as popular as it probably should be. It features a 32/64-bit audio rendering engine that is (according to the developers) independent of the Android OS. The idea is that it helps music sound better. It also has a lot of other features, including support for more unique file types (flac, MPC, etc), a built-in equalizer, and a host of other audiophile specific features. It’s a bit expensive, but many swear by it as their go-to music player app.

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PlayerPro Music Player

Price: Free / $4.99

PlayerPro Music Player is another lesser-known music app that should be getting a little more traffic. It features a good looking interface that makes everything easy to use along with skins that you can download and install for more customization. You’ll also get support for playing video, a rare ten band equalizer, Android Auto and Chromecast support, various audio effects, widgets, and some fun little features like the ability to shake the phone to get it to change tracks. It even supports Hi-Fi music (up to 32-bit, 384kHz). You can demo the app for free before forking out the $4.99.

Poweramp

Price: Free trial / $3.99

Poweramp has long been one of the go-to music player apps choices for a lot of Android users. It has a sleek interface with themes that you can download from the Google Play Store. The interface can be too clever for its own good sometimes. It’s effective and efficient, though. There are also themes to make it look how you want. It includes many playback features, including gapless playback, crossfade, and it has support for several types of playlists. You’ll also find widgets, tag editing, and more customization settings. It’s a powerful player that seems to strike the right chord with almost everyone.

Pulsar Music Player

Price: Free

Pulsar is probably the best completely free music player out there right now. The features include beautifully done Material Design, tag editing, gapless playback, smart playlists, a sleep timer, and Last.fm scrobbling. Puslar also has Chromecast support, which is awesome. It’s not as feature heavy as some of the paid options, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s bad. It’s a great option for those looking for something minimal, lightweight, and good looking. This one also works decently well with Android Auto, if that helps.

Shuttle+ Music Player

Price: Free / $2.49

Shuttle Music Player is an increasingly popular music player. The developer took some time off from updating the app for a bit. However, it looks like the wheels are turning once again. It’s a Material Design laden music player with plenty of options. They include a six band EQ, gapless playback, support for embedded lyrics, tons of themes, Last.fm scrobbling, and more. Those who go pro can also get Chromecast support, ID3 tag editing, folder browsing, and even more theme options. It’s excellent for what it is and one of the must-try music player apps.

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