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IQ 123, November 2023
Text parts ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR
Previous IQ article on FITFWT: WASSERMAN’S HOLLY ROWLAND ON THE RISE OF LOUIS TOMLINSON
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I love how some authors just understand how deranged the internet can be and then portray it in fic.
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Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Yànlí/Luó "Mián Mián" Qīngyáng/Wēn Qíng
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, OC - Character, Jiāng Yànlí, Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī), Luó "Mián Mián" Qīngyáng, Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Lán Jǐngyí, Ōuyáng Zǐzhēn, Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán
Additional Tags: multiple OCs - Freeform, Epistolary, Immortals AU, wwx is a youtuber, lwj runs a dojo, they are in love, Modern AU, Social Media, kind of a chat fic?, Chat Fic Adjacent, immortal family shenanigans, immortal memes, Juniors shenanigans, Junior Quartet Dynamics (Módào Zǔshī)
Series: Part 6 of The Future is Ours to Keep
Summary:
Hello, and welcome! If you’re new here, you probably have a few questions about our lord and savior, Jason Lan, otherwise known as the Yiling Patriarch. This is the best place to start if you have never engaged with any of his videos, but also if you have seen all of them! There is a lot of extended lore that goes into our Patriarch, and it can be hard to understand at first!
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Something else you don't see everyday: Sakis Tolis covering Cine iubește și lasă - a traditional Romanian folk song maybe 2 centuries old
#sakis tolis#rotting christ#maria tanase#heavy metal#bucharest#bucurești#romania#românia#9.11.2023#quantic
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9.11.2023: Wintersalat aus dem Garten
#phototagebuch#tagesphoto#photo diary#photo of the day#photojournal#photo du jour#photo des tages#vienna#wien#urban gardening#9.11.2023#blutampfer#schildampfer#chrysanthemum#senfkohl#brennessel#mangold#majoran#radieschenblätter
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November 9, 2023 - Day 143
I always love seeing Welcome to Night Vale. I got drenched leaving work, but got to see this amazing rainbow before dinner.
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SPIRITUAL TRAINING
Date: 9 November 2023
Duration: 55 minutes at 10:30 PM
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Last night’s meditation was much better in quality than the 2 meditations before it. Through the first 40 minutes of the session, I perceived clicks coming from my head.
The chakra sounds I am perceiving during my meditations now is taking on a form. The form isn’t fully clear yet. I have been ‘hearing’ a variety of percussion like strikes during my meditations since June of 2023.
At first, the clacks and clicks I heard seemed to come from the inner but peripheral part of my head. And they were shifty. After a few weeks, the source of perceived sound became more central to my head and fixed within a particular area of my head.
In the last few weeks, the sound is creating a shape in my head. I have, in an earlier blog post, described a horse shoe shape sitting at the central base of my brain, with the open end facing my forehead.
I have also described a more 3 dimensional version of the horse shoe shape. It was a convex, longitudinally halved tube like arc in place of the horse shoe. For the last 2 to 3 meditations, I have been perceiving a thin and small arc shape placed at the central base of my brain.
The sounds I perceive makes my attention turn towards them. And my attention has consistently turned back. The turn is to the central part of my head but it is turned back and not forward to where my attention should be.
During last night’s meditation, for the first time ever, I felt discontent over my attention turning back. It is a huge blessing to have chakra sounds become the object of my attention. In reality, what the blessing means is a lifting of being held as captive audience to mental imagery. To be blessed with interiorised hearing is no ordinary blessing. I have been feeling particularly good about my meditations since June.
Last night, I felt discontent. Even the discontent I felt was felt in a mind full of Peace. It is so strange. There is silence experienced in interiorised hearing that’s perceiving chakra sounds! Peace is perceived when life energies begin their way through the head. These are the same life energies that cause the spine to vibrate, sometimes strongly, as they rise up to the head.
It is likely that the discontent I felt was my attention being taught by blessed life energies. The next lesson is forthcoming. My attention is going to be shown to move ahead towards the front, if not all the way to the centre of my eyebrows. My attention is going to be trained further by the most benign forces in the universe!
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Autumn Leaves
Quelle: Ari Fink Photography
#autumn leaves#fall#herbst#autumn#harvest#9.11.2023#platane#automne#platanus#sycamore tree#ari fink photography#barbara zanotti#urban nature#vienna#wien#dehnepark
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When the world tries to make you hard, say "fuck you" and be soft-hearted
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something that was stuck in my drafts for so long i don't remember the point of, enjoy :v
9.11.2023, support Mani
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The Habit He Can’t Break, 2/4
IQ 123 | Gordon Masson | 9.11.2023
“In Santiago, for instance, we’d sold out two full arenas of 13,000 cap, but then the government declared that for mass gatherings the number needed to be limited to 10,000 people.”
Rather than let fans down, Move added a third day, which again ended up selling out. “I remember being on a night plane from Miami, while Matt Vines was flying in from Dallas, and we were both using the aircraft wi-fi to negotiate via text for that third show. It was an interesting way to confirm putting the third date on sale, just three days before the actual show!”
He adds, “We’re taking a big bet on this tour when it comes to the number of cities and the capacities of the venues, but we’re hoping for the best, and we’ve gone out strong. We feel that the artist is in a good moment and that the latest album has just created more interest, so we’re looking forward to when he arrives in May.”
Further north, Ocesa will promote three dates in Mexico, including a stadium show at the F1 circuit, Autódromo Hermanos, Rodríguez, deepening Tomlinson’s footprint in that crucial North American market.
Meanwhile, in Tomlinson’s homeland, Jack Dowling at SJM is promoting seven UK dates in November at arenas in Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow, Brighton, Cardiff, London, and Birmingham, which will round out the European leg of the tour.
“SJM has done every show Louis has been involved with, including all the One Direction arena and stadium shows” notes Dowling, adding that on the first tour, the London show was originally penciled in as a Roundhouse, then two Roundhouse shows, before finally being upgraded to Wembley Arena. 
“This time, The O2 arena show in London will be sold out, while all the others have passed the expectations of where we wanted to be on this tour. In fact, when the UK dates were announced, it ranked as the fourth most engaged tour on social media in SJM’s history – his fans are just nuts.”
But Dowling also reports that the fanbase for Tomlinson is expanding. “The demographics are pulling not just from pop, but also from indie rock now.”
Dowling adds, “Louis really looks after his fans. On the last tour, they did a deal with Greggs to give free food to the people waiting in line, as some of them camped out for days in advance.”
Out of My System
Ensuring his fans are looked after properly is the number one priority in Tomlinson’s live career.
Noting that Tomlinson’s audience comprises mainly young women and girls, Rowland reveals that, at the artist’s insistence, a safety team has been added to the tour to ensure everyone that attends his shows is looked after. “They manage all the safety within the shows for the fans,” she explains. “They came in for the Wembley show last year and have been with us ever since - they’ve been beneficial to the running of the tour. 
“When he played in South America, some of his fans were camping outside for a month. So we have a responsibility to look after them. Coming to a show should be a safe place, it’s where they find joy, and we have a responsibility to protect that.”
Manager Vines comments, “One issue that we came up against almost all last year was crushing and fans passing out. We adopted a system where we could communicate with fans, who could hold up a mobile phone with a flashing red-and-white sign if they were in trouble but then we’d see them all popping up.
“I don’t know whether some of that was a hangover of the pandemic where fans just weren’t used to being in venues. But we experienced a number of situations where hydration and temperatures in venues became an issue. I know Billie Eilish went through similar issues.”
With Tomlinson determined to meet a duty of care toward his fans, Vines says that the team now sends a “considerable advance package” to promoters ahead of their tour dates. “Our safety team goes into venues in the morning, and basically ensures that a number of different things are in place – making sure that water is given to the fans, where the water comes from, and at what points in the show it happens.”
And on the crushing phenomena, he reports, “We’ve worked out how many fans it’s safe to have without a secondary barrier. So we instruct promoters to have certain barriers in place to relieve the pressure and avoid crushing.”
He adds, “I get detailed incident reports after each show, which lets myself and my management team know exactly what happened, and so far on this tour, we haven’t had any issues with crushing or hydration, which is fantastic.”
Production manager Craig Sherwood is impressed by the way the tour has pivoted to protect the ‘Louies.’ “The welfare officers are vital for the young girls were aged from, I guess, 14 upwards. They can get dehydrated and malnourished pretty quickly if they are camping out for days, so it’s important that we look out for their well-being,” says Sherwood. 
Citing the extremes that the Louies will put themselves through in an effort to secure themselves prime positions at the front of the stage, Sherwood recalls, “The first show on our US tour was in February, and it was freezing, but we found out that girls had been camping out on the pavement for five days. It’s crazy, as we know these young girls are coming from all over the world to see Louis.”
However, Tomlinson’s connection with those fans is evident in the level of merchandise sales at each show. “It’s a huge part of our business, says Vines. “In America, we averaged about $36 a head, and it’s not much shy of that in Europe – we set a few national records in terms of spend per head. But we spend a lot of time on merch plans, and we do venue-specific drops and give it a lot of care and attention, as it’s a really important element of Louis’ business.”
1/4, 3/4, 4/4
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Poor Sizhui, getting an eyeful of his baba.
Also, historians trying to straighten historical figures... Reborn Nie Huaisang’s blog/career as a historian...
9/10
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags: present day, the dangers of immortality, include forgetting what you stored and where, grown child trying to not think about their parents having sex, Immortality, sizhui is having a day
Summary:
There are many side effects of immortality. One of them is about the things you thought were lost to the past till they're dug up again. As resident most known immortal and good child, Lan Sizhui resigns himself to scouting out the exhibit of erotic art recently donated from the Lan sect to see if it's actually what they think it is.
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ARSENAL 23/24 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RECAP
Group stage
21.9.2023: Arsenal 4-0 PSV (Saka 8' - Trossard 20' - Jesus 38' - Ødegaard 70')
4.10.2023: RC Lens 2-1 Arsenal (Jesus 14')
25.10.2023: Sevilla 1-2 Arsenal (Martinelli 45+4' - Jesus 53')
9.11.2023: Arsenal 2-0 Sevilla (Trossard 29' - Saka 64')
30.11.2023: Arsenal 6-0 RC Lens (Havertz 13' - Jesus 21' - Saka 23' - Martinelli 27' - Ødegaard 45+1' - Jorginho 86' pen)
13.12.2023: PSV 1-1 Arsenal (Nketiah 42')
Round of 16
22.2.2024: FC Porto 1-0 Arsenal
13.3.2024: Arsenal 1-0 FC Porto (Trossard 41') | Pen 4-2 (Ødegaard - Havertz - Saka - Rice)
Quarter-finals
10.4.2023: Arsenal 2-2 Bayern Munich (Saka 12' - Trossard 76')
18.4.2023: Bayern Munich 1-0 Arsenal
This post will get longer season by season trust!
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9.11.2023
"I am empty in a way that exists outside the bounds of vacancy. In a way I have yet to find the words to describe."
- Lazarus Rises (amongst other things) by Berklie Novak-Stolz
Surviving through grief is something you can only fully learn by going through it yourself. Finding other sorrow-hearted sufferers healing through poetry has been a light of its own during times of need.
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