#wes jansen

[just-a-latina-fangirl]

GUYS

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[travisdermotts]

my heart

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

[zoeology31]

*said in the cadence of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*

THREE-TIME ALL-STAR CARLOS CORREA

[empyrean11]

I say this will complete and utter affection... Danny Jansen, you are a weirdo.

[ay-miphae]

ay-miphae overanalyzes Ayreon - 01011001 - part 2

Age of Shadows/We Are Forever

Okay, let’s begin!

“Age of Shadows” introduces the alien race Forever and the tipping point that caused their loss of humanity - and dang is it a track, at 10:48 long. The parallels are wild in this one, and imo it’s a masterpiece in of itself and aughhh

Okay we start with some bubbling water sound effects (Y is an ocean planet) and machine sound effects (Y is also heavily mechanized,,, as we’ll see) that turn into the song’s beat. Heavy instrumental riffs (that are motifed elsewhere!) that gives an energy of conflict. Vibing. I am vibing.

Back to parallels - let’s think of this as part 1. Here we meet Forever ⚡︎ -

Wait, there’s characters?

Yeah there’s characters! (I love this visual by the way - most are Forevers but there’s a few humans as well, with Mr. L/Arjen Anthony Lucassen as the link between them. More on Mr. L later.)

The Forever don’t have names - they’re identified by symbols (𓅛 ♡ 🕈 Ω ✵ ☯ ⛧ ⚡︎ ® ☾). The idea is that they’ve lost their individuality and no longer have names...

Okay, part 1!

Forever ⚡︎ (played by Tom Englund) gives some background to the Forever’s situation - “We never saw this coming / Pride comes before a fall / We never heeded the warnings / Buried deep within us all” Okay already there’s some evidence of hubris or the Forever being some kind of tragic heroes here! Interesting... Forever ⚡︎ goes on to say explain “Our quenchless thirst for knowledge / Our urge to change and grow” caused their downfall - innovation and knowledge are good things! -but to an extent...

Part 2 gets into the chorus, with Forever ☯ (Steve Lee) and Forever ® (Daniel Gildenlöw) lamenting the beginning of the “Age of Shadows” - while it’s not totally clear what this is, it involves “giant machines” casting shadows all over their planet and also the Forever beginning to lose all their emotion. 

Part 3 is kind of a bridge section, very operatic and very dramatic! The two characters here, Forever 🕈 (Hansi Kürsch) and Forever Ω (Floor Jansen) kind of express the dichotomy, the tension that exists throughout the first half of the album. Forever 🕈 is like “no this could be a good thing! We’ll be rid of all negative emotions” with lines such as “No more aggression / No more suppression / No more depression” but Forever Ω seemingly wins out with “but there’s no more emotions, sensation, passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are”. It’s like the difference between logic and emotion, right? Thinking and feeling? Remember that for later. (A lot later.)

Alright, we’ve made it to the central section! The midpoint of the symmetry, basically what everything in the chiasm points to. This part is more soft, subdued, and I love how melodic and melancholic Jonas Renske’s voice is here. Forever ⛧ (Jonas Renske) muses on the Forever’s infinite fate like the others, although his feel more... profound? “Time ... but a curve in space ... we are Forever ... caught in our cold inertia ... eternal prisoners of time” And the imagery here! Merely a curve in space, just another axis in in hyperspace, and yet they’re destined to exist trapped inside it. Arbitrarily. Forever, with no escape from the inevitable, “longing, hoping, waiting for no one.” It’s like the literary archetype of the character who’s granted eternal life but not eternal youth and is destined for existence but in infinite oblivion! It touches on the fear that life without purpose, without meaning, is a fate much worse than death...

Forever ♡ (Anneke Van Giersbergen) includes some sentiments that don’t make much sense to me (“Forever is but a scream” etc?), but coming to terms with eternity? Yeah that really does one on the mind.

Okay now for the binary bit!

Like the album’s title, these are encoded messages in ASCII, repeating “help”, “forever”, and “SOS” (“save our ship”... or possibly “save our souls?” yeah I like that interpretation). Musically, this part is super mesmerizing and layered with more Forever ♡ lines. Thematically, it’s powerful because it’s the center of the song, the crux, and all there is is a mechanized cry for help...

Now basically the whole song is paralleled in reverse - another Forever ⛧ line (“longing, hoping, waiting for no one”), then Part 3 again (“no more aggression”), then Part 2 again (“the Age of Shadows has begun”) (featuring Forever 𓅛 (Jørn Lande) this time around), and then, finally, Part 1 (“we never heeded the warnings / buried deep within us all”).

So wow, what a ride huh? The premise has been set up, we've met several of the characters, who have differing opinions, but otherwise not very distinct because they all have the same dilemma in common. And that's kind of what the song is - a cry for help, nested in dread and conflict and despair and guilt.

The age of shadows has begun - let's see what it brings!

Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 (final)

[bobo-bitchette]

POV: you're the Toronto Blue Jays after missing the post season by a game and then getting swept in the wildcard the next 2 years in a row

[anthrofreshtodeath]

This rivalry game is fucking wild, my children

[black-arcana]

[dandelion-roots]

Amor absolutus mortem vincit.

[Image description: a black-and-white digital drawing of Caleb Jansen, a white man with long black hair, from the SPECTR series by Jordan L Hawk. He's blindfolded and reaching up as he's kneeling on a furry surface, and behind him is darkness, and in it closed tiger eyes and tiger stripes. The place he touches the tiger face is glowing, and it lights up his fingers and parts of his mostly naked body. End description.]

[travisdermotts]

equally excited to see danny make history and for it to finally be over with so I don't have to hear about it every two seconds

[guillermodelacross]

[therapardalis]

The kind of sound that was usually coming out of Wes' mouth, or at least the one Thera meant, tended to run along the lines of, 'hey, so what if we ...' followed by whatever idea had occurred to him over drinks the night before or in the shower that morning.

Sometimes, those ideas were really rather good. Others, genuinely hilarious. But every single one of them carried a flag in a shade of red that was worthy a brothel on Coruscant's middle layer.

And hey, maybe she was a softie. Maybe she was too fair minded. but Thera knew full well that a) she would not like such things to be plotted against her, and b) that whenever the mood struck Wes, they probably would be. So ...

"No," She said, shaking her head, "Prankster King is going to have to do his job without me."

❝ your mouth is open and sound is coming out. this is never good.. ❞ [Wes]

First instinct was to draw in a breath and open his mouth for a retort - but Wes snapped his mouth closed again quickly enough that his teeth clicked together.

"Y'know I am the official Alliance Prankster King and I take this job very seriously. Not everyone can be a moral officer you know, it takes a special sort but I think I do an excellent job."

Feeling that the statement needed a punctuation, Wes ruined any sort of moral high ground by being unable to resist blowing a raspberry Thera's direction.

[medievalandfantasymelee]

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are now preparing for the second round of contest in the Queen of Love and Beauty mini-tournament.

This round will consist of 6 polls of 6 contestants each, with the three contestants with the most votes on each poll advancing to the next Round. Two polls will be posted per day beginning on Sunday October 27, with each poll lasting one week.

In this round we will be accepting and circulating propaganda for the candidates. Propaganda will not be posted on the polls themselves but will be circulated prior to and during the competition.

The following is a list of our remaining candidates:

Æthelflæd of Mercia [Millie Brady], The Last Kingdom (2015-2022)

Aliena [Hayley Atwell], The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

Anne Boleyn [Genevieve Bujold], Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Arwen Undomiel [Liv Tyler], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Aykız Hatun [Hande Subaşı], Diriliş: Ertuğrul (2014-2019)

Princess Buttercup [Robin Wright], The Princess Bride (1987)

Brienne of Tarth [Gwendoline Christie], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Danielle de Barbarac [Drew Barrymore], Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

Eleanore of Aquitaine [Katharine Hepburn], The Lion in Winter (1968)

Elizabeth Woodville [Rebecca Ferguson], The White Queen (2013)

Éowyn of Rohan [Miranda Otto], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Galadriel of Lothlórien [Cate Blanchett], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Giulia Farnese [Lotte Verbeek], The Borgias (2011-2013)

Guinevere [Angel Coulby], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Princess Gwendolyn [Angela Lansbury], The Court Jester (1955)

Isabeau of Anjou [Michelle Pfeiffer], Ladyhawke (1985)

Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia [Karen David], Galavant (2015-2016)

Jade Claymore [Erin Kellyman], Willow (2022)

Maid Jean [Glynis Johns], The Court Jester (1955)

Jiang Yanli [Xuan Lu], The Untamed (2019)

Kate [Laura Fraser], A Knight’s Tale (2001)

Lagertha [Katheryn Winnick], Vikings (2013-2020)

Princess Lili [Mia Sara], Legend (1985)

Lucrezia Borgia [Holliday Grainger], The Borgias (2011-2013)

Queen Lucy the Valiant [Rachael Henley], The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010)

Queen Madelena [Mallory Jansen], Galavant (2015-2016)

Margaery Tyrell [Natalie Dormer], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Margaret of Anjou [Sophie Okonedo], The Hollow Crown (2012-2016)

Lady Marian Fitzwalter [Olivia de Havilland], The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Lady Marion of Leaford [Judi Trott], Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986)

Morgana Pendragon [Katie McGrath], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Mu Nihuang [Liu Tao], Nirvana in Fire (2015-2018)

Padmavati [Deepika Padukone], Padmaavat (2018)

Rebecca of York [Olivia Hussey], Ivanhoe (1982)

Sansa Stark [Sophie Turner], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Sibylla of Jerusalem [Eva Green], Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

[thedevilrisen]

Pain

"You do this once a month?!"

"Novs, I don't want too but I can't let you stay at home today." Sid had whispered to his daughter who was bundled into a mountain of blankets, on the couch. "You're going to have to come to the rink with me beautiful."

"Dad, I really fucking hurt." Nova had shot back in response, her voice wavering.

"I know, and I'm sorry. I have to bring you though." Sid had sighed, rubbing a hand down gently down Nova's side, through the blanket. "What can we do to optimise the situation? What do you need to bring with you, what do you need Uncle Kris or Geno to get for you?"

"Some dark chocolate, strawberry creams and chai." Nova mumbled, "on almond."

"I get one of them to drop by the shops on the way through, yeah?" Sid continued his soothing rub, up and down her side. "You want to bring your blankets? Will you need any products with you?"

"Yeah, I've got some stuff upsta-" Nova started speaking but she was cut off.

"I'm making Kris get that stuff there, so we have some stuff at the rink in case you need it at the future." Sid had spoken, fishing his phone out of his pocket to send Kris a message.

"Thank's dad." Nova had mumbled, bringing her hand out to wrap around his. Something she does to express her gratitude, and had always done.

"You want me to carry you to the car?" Sid had offered.

"Could you?" Nova had asked, she started trying to wiggle out of her blanket.

"No, No. Stay there." Sid had stopped her, he bent down and grabbed Nova, blankets and all and walked out to the car. He opened the car door, placing the girl down, adjusting her blankets and and dragging her seat belt over and fastening it. "You comfy?"

"Yeah," Nova had mumbled "Can we get chai on the way?"

"How much chai do you need!" Sidney had exclaimed, laughing. "Yes, we can."

"Thanks Dad." Nova had smiled at him.

-

After Sidney had stopped by the local cafe, got some chai and his prefered coffee he drove them to the arena. Sidney looked over the center console,

"You want me to carry you in?"

"Yes please dad." Nova replied in between sips of her chai. Sid, exited the driver's side of the car. He unbuckled Nova and slid her into his arms, "Let's go! Kris told me he put the stuff in the common room. You happy to chill on the couch in there?"

"Yeah, I should be fine." Nova answered, "Can I put my show on the tv?"

"If you would like!" Sid had smiled down at her.

"Thank's Dad." Nova had mumbled into Sid's chest, as he walked along the halls to the common room. "I don't know if I would be so lucky with someone else."

"I'm lucky to have you, kid." Sid said.

Sidney carried his daughter the rest of the way down the halls into the teams common room, where most of them were lounging. Sid walked toward the couch.

"Can you boy's move please?" Sid had asked, Drew O'Connor and Jansen Harkins. They both complied and Sid dropped her down on the couch. Handing her the chocolate and lollies, leaning down and kissing her head. "You stay there, call me if you need anything alright. I will come and check on you regularly."

"Wait, why are you here Nova?" one of the boys asked.

"Pain." the girl grumbled in response. "You can't expect me to function."

"It can't be that bad!" Someone else exclaimed.

"You try some of this pain then tell me that." Nova shot back.

"Fine, we'll get one of those simulator thingys!" Erik Karlsson stated.

-

This is the prerequisite part to the pain simulator! I hope you like it!