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feeshies · 10 months

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What’s the craziest thing you’ve learned about the music business?

This is more music technology than music business, but the creation of the MP3 still blows my mind. Especially as we're still seeing the effects of the MP3 era when we look at everything from the current state of music streaming and artists' royalties to music's presence on social media. As a listener of music and a hater of paying for stuff, I am very supportive of the MP3. But reading through its history from the perspective of the music industry (who were reaching financial peaks in terms of revenue at the time), it's like watching the first act of a disaster movie.

What’s an artist band you couldn’t even be paid to see live?

Probably any festival EDM artist. It's already not my genre and I'm very ignorant when it comes to that style of music, but venues like that are also not my scene. I'd need another method to get into the music.

What’s an artist you’d kill to see live?

(Not including deceased artists) Probably Tom Waits. Out of all of the artists I like, he seems the least likely to tour/perform again so yeah. I'd kill even more to see him in a smaller, more intimate venue.

What’s some the most obscure band/artist you know?

I'm defining "obscure" as "two thousand or less streams on Spotify".

Adana Project (Armenian symphonic metal)

Mike Gunther and His Restless Souls (blues, jazz)

Unholy (doom metal)

Chris Black (...dark country...? Indie rock...? Idk, he plays the double bass and it's cool)

Golem (klezmer-rock)

Ggu:ll (doom metal)

Kyah Baby (rap)

Deleyaman (alternative/art/indie rock, dark wave, post punk, idk)

Armenak Shahmuradyan (traditional Armenian)

The Scarlet Ending (indie rock)

Nick Jaina (folk)

Cleopatra VII (Tamil hip-hop)

Which non English sung music(and excluding your mother language) do you listen to the most?

Probably Armenian, French, and Punjabi

What’s a music pet peeve of yours?

The "millennial whoop" (aka, when the chorus is just "whoa-whoas"). Also when I'm listening to modern rock and I can choreograph an entire truck commercial in my head. Those two tropes tend to go hand in hand.

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rose-from-ashes · 6 months

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I've mentioned it once or twice but Vynathr has a voidsent au! Post voiding, he is still called Vynathr (and like main verse, it's a jumbling of different things he's been called in different languages), but pre voiding, he is Vukmir Derian, the ruler of Emden, a non canon kingdom. Emden is situated in the thirteenth's equivalent of Garlemald, and like Garlemald has Russian elements and a history of being driven north by other peoples before suddenly uniting under a single figure- Vukmir- and striking back. I replaced Garlemald's Roman influences with Nordic, and Corvos with a place inspired by Armenia, hence Vukmir's Armenian surname.

Emden also shares aspects with Garlemald in terms of my headcanons for some of their motivations such as an extremely poorly managed economy pre empire and a lack of food among other things, and both are conquering nations, having an excess of metals to make weapons from when trade failed to feed them. The difference is how they are ruled- Garlemald's conquering runs on hatred and fear, and Emden's starts out solely from hunger and need before turning into general self defense and warfare during the Contramemoria. It barely had enough time to establish itself as a powerful and self reliant (and thus no longer conquering, as there was no need to and Vukmir only lashed out due to said need for food and refused trade offers) nation before the Contramemoria started to become a wider conflict that Vukmir needed to defend his people from. Of course, it was ultimately unsuccessful.

After the flood, Vukmir's worse traits- bluntness, quiet pride in his rule, and hunger for knowledge- get the hold of him, and define him, the darkness inhibiting his ability to keep a balanced mental state. In addition, his hunger consumes him. He remains a good ruler in the sense that he takes good care of his underlings, but takes up conquering again, consuming his enemies and absorbing their ranks into his own. What was quiet and reasonable pride for his accomplishments spreads to his general manner, and he becomes overly prideful in his monstrous appearance and power, and overly gluttonous for more, along with any knowledge he can get his hands on, leading him to be known as "Vynathr" the book dragon, for his massive hoard like libraries and collections- dragons being figures of myth in the Thirteenth before the flood and subsequent understanding that dragons existed in the source. The name Vynathr is a mash up of various Thirteenth shard language's words for death, conquerer, and other such things. When he grows close to someone, he reverts to his true name of Vukmir with them.

Vukmir is a highlander hyur, but like Vynathr he has gigantism and is 7'7, and very muscular even for a highlander, leading him to be often mistaken for a hellsguard roegadyn. He is dark skinned and has thick, long curly black hair, a closely trimmed beard, a brown left eye and grey right eye, vitiligo (though I've yet to portray this ingame in a way I'm satisfied with), and a hooked nose. Post flood he is ten feet tall, very much still muscular, and has grey skin, large black wings, horns, and a thick, long scaled black tail. He has many eyes and a large mouth full of fangs and a long tongue under the veil, otherwise lacking a normal facial structure, but when he attempts to school his features into something resembling human, he can largely achieve this, albeit with one extra eye on his left cheek and another on his right temple.

#c: vynathr alria #c: vukmir derian #gets his own tag!

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90363462 · 1 year

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20 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time

From Rage Against the Machine to Exodus, these bands came out of the gates the hardest

It takes a rare combination of chemistry, preternatural skill, intuition and luck — right people, right place, right time — to make a bona fide killer debut album. Some of heavy music's greatest bands, like Judas Priest and Pantera, took at least a few full-lengths to find their sound and start making genre-defining masterworks, proving that a truly spectacular debut isn't required for a historic career. That said, roaring out the gate with an act of singular brilliance — whether raw like Korn's and Slipknot's or breathtakingly fully formed like Black Sabbath's or Alice in Chains' — is a surefire way to make a lifelong impression. Below, are the 20 greatest debut albums in heavy-music history

New American Gospel isn't the first album that the founding members of this titanic NWOAHM crew made together, but it is the one where they became Lamb of God. Following an incendiary 1999 debut released under the name Burn the Priest, the Richmond band pivoted to a slightly less blasphemous moniker, added drummer Chris Adler's brother Willie on second guitar, and made an album so relentlessly heavy, nasty and unhinged (see live staple "Black Label") that it's hard to believe they're as popular as they are today.

It's hard to express how much of a shock to the system the Dillinger Escape Plan's spasmodic debut LP was when it dropped onto the unsuspecting rock landscape of 1999, dominated as it was by nu-metal and pop punk. An act of frenetic mad genius, the album is a teeth-rattling thrill ride from front to back, but the sublime brutality of the main riff to "43% Burnt" — arguably DEP's signature song — is basically impossible to top.

In the Nightside Eclipse was by no means the first black-metal album, but it's arguably the genre's most impactful. Insahn and Co.'s genius layering of orchestral keyboards, medieval choirs and grander production quality atop black metal's evil, lo-fi groundwork established the genre's symphonic offshoot — a sound that has reached as far as Ed Sheeran, Demi Lovatoand the current wave of blackened deathcore innovators. Monumental influence aside, tracks like "Into the Infinity of Thoughts" are downright stunning.

On their self-titled debut, System of a Down sound like they were beamed in from another dimension where the only Earth music they had access to was Slayer, the Dead Kennedys, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and traditional Armenian music. As playful and wacky as it is politically incisive, the foursome's opening salvo scales operatic melodies one moment ("Spiders") and thrashing anti-war screeds the next ("War?"); then it's repeating the word "sugar" in a funny accent before you've even have a chance to digest SOAD's humanitarian pleas. Its open-palmed cover art is instructional: Try and grab on.

Napalm Death's Scum wasn't just the debut of a band, but also the launching point of a genre. Yes, there were other groups tinkering with the pieces before them, but Napalm Death were the first to complete the grindcore puzzle — snapping together anarcho-punk, the fastest U.S. hardcore they could find, the early extreme metal of Celtic Frost and Venom, and the primal thrash of motherfucking Slayer. At 20 blast-beat-ridden songs in 28 minutes, Scum is a throbbing, boot-stomping assault that rips harder every time you press play.

If there were to be a Big 5 of thrash metal, instead of just a Big 4, all experts, including one Kerry King, agree: Exodus would round it out. Unfortunately, though their landmark debut, Bonded by Blood, was recorded in 1984, a wider release was postponed until the following year, which may have held the band back in both reach and renown. Still, to those who know, the group's only studio recording to feature wild-man vocalist Paul "Poser Killer" Baloff is a genre-defining essential.

From the opening drum roll and needly panic chords of "Davidian" to the ear-bleeding distortion that suffocates the end of "Block," Burn My Eyes is a groovy, thrashy triumph that rarely lets up. Having cut his teeth in Bay Area thrash outfits Forbidden and Vio-Lence, Machine Head mastermind Robb Flynn concocted a noisy, discordant, altogether fresh-sounding slab of groove metal that had the power of Pantera and the dark, clangy atmosphere that defined so much of Nineties metal. Let freedom ring, indeed.

"Die! Die! Die!" It's a fitting first word — screamed three times, each with more throat-shredding gusto — for death metal's opening gambit. Scream Bloody Gore isn't even Death's most accomplished masterwork, as Chuck Schuldiner made a career out of elevating the genre he crystallized up until his tragic passing in 2001, but his 1987 debut is aguably the band's most important. The unrelenting speed, the butt-ugly guitar tones whirring at full volume, and the haggard voice moaning odes to "Regurgitated Guts" and bloody baptisms — welcome to death metal.

Simply put: When Slipknot was released in 1999, there was nothing else like it. Today, there still isn't. Following their rough but promising 1996 demo, the Iowa maniacs filled out their lineup to nine strong and synthesized a brutal onslaught of deafening percussion, hulking death-metal guitars, glitchy electronics and decimating, verbal machine-gun fire from new frontman Corey Taylor. It's all the energy of extreme metal crossed with all the style of nu-metal drenched in all the atmosphere and attitude of a grisly horror flick.

In the early 1980s, few hardcore bands even made full-lengths, only a small percentage of the ones that did materialize were any good, and you can count those that held a candle to the Bad Brains' on one hand. Faster, tighter, catchier and more vibrant than any other group of their time and scene, the Bad Brains set the goal posts for NYHC ("Supertouch/Shitfit" and "Banned in D.C." are mosh-part fundamentals) and inspired everyone from Minor Threat's Ian MacKaye to Black Flag's Henry Rollins to make hardcore a national movement.

Although Trent Reznor would spend the next couple decades trying to distance himself from the synth-pop beauty of his 1989 debut by dousing his iridescent soundscapes with sheets of noise, Pretty Hate Machine will always be one of his greatest accomplishments. From the club-drunk "Head Like a Hole" and stabbing "Terrible Lie" to the menacing pseudo-rap of "Down in It" and the wailing EBM of "Sin," industrial rock was never the same again once Nine Inch Nails entered the scene.

Supergroups can be a recipe for disappointment, but Down are a blistering exception. On their 1995 debut, NOLA, the band comprised of Pantera's Philip Anselmo and heavyweights from Crowbar, Eyehategod and Corrosion of Conformity emerged form the swamp with possibly the greatest sludge albums of all time. Seared with Anselmo's Southern swagger and scorched with some of the fattest, meanest doom riffs imaginable, these 13 songs — from "Temptation's Wings" to "Bury Me in Smoke" — are a masterclass in the bayou's finest heavy-metal export.

Relentlessly brooding and terrifying, Tool's breakthrough first full-length saw the L.A. quartet take a huge evolutionary leap from the Opiate EP's rough-hewn attack. From the unnerving and controversial artwork to mercilessly pitch-black songs like "Sober," "Prison Sex" and "Bottom" (the last of these featuring inimitable guest spoken word from Henry Rollins), Undertow represents the encompassing vision of the alt-metal band before they found any light at the end of the tunnel and dove fully off the prog deep end.

Alice Chains weren't the most popular or influential of Seattle grunge's Big 4, but they were the darkest and most metallic, and they came out of the gates with the strongest debut LP of bunch. 1990's Facelift was a striking statement of intent: morbid, druggy and sludgy yet full of irresistible earworms. Smash singles like "Man in the Box" and "Sea of Sorrow" were hooky enough to rule rock radio, but Facelift also had such gut-punching heaviness that Alice weren't (completely) out of place on 1991's Clash of the Titans tour with Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer.

Korn's seminal 1994 debut simultaneously birthed nu-metal and created a sound so singularly raw, fucked-up and funky that no one, try as they might, could ever truly follow these leaders. Korn is a timeless scrum of feral vocal freak-outs, trunk-knocking hip-hop bass lines, steely guitar spasms and grooves that shadow Jonathan Davis' manic psyche — bouncing, bashing and breaking down in a fit of tears whenever necessary.

Appetite for Destruction has become such a fixture of pop culture that it's hard to even remember just how game-changing GN'R's debut was when it first hit the streets in 1987. At the time, Whitesnake, Poison, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe were all firmly ensconced in the Top 10, but only Crüe's slick Sunset Strip sleaze even came close to the feral sound and street-smart attitude of Appetite, and its unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, booze and rock & roll. Over 30 million sold copies later, it stands undeniably as one of the greatest debut LPs ever — rock, metal or whatever you wanna call it.

Rage Against the Machine made it abundantly clear from the jump what they stood for and how they were going to say it. Fusing Public Enemy sociopolitical outrage with Beastie Boys exuberance, Van Halen guitar heroics with Sly and the Family Stone funk grooves and Bad Brains-ian magnetism, Rage's 1992 manifesto includes the hardest-hitting songs in their catalog ("Bullet in the Head," "Freedom"), some of the best riffs ever ("Know Your Enemy," "Bombtrack") and an abundance of righteous "fuck you"'s. A true piece of art, it's not just timeless, it's more relevant than ever.

Really, how can this not be No. 1? Black Sabbath's self-titled debut is heavy-metal ground zero. The beginning of it all. Forty minutes of groundbreaking perfection, as revelatory today as it was when it was released in the grim winter of 1970 — from Ozzy Osbourne's otherworldly yowl and Tony Iommi's immortal riffs to Geezer Butler's rumbling bass lines and occult-tinged lyrics, and Bill Ward's thundering drums. Doom metal and stoner rock owe the album a particular debt, but there's no heavy subgenre that doesn't bear its mark. What is this that stands before me? The greatest debut album of all time.https://www.revolvermag.com/music/20-greatest-debut-albums-all-time

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 1 year

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Hubble glimpses a glittering gathering of stars This glittering gathering of stars is Pismis 26, a globular star cluster located about 23,000 light-years away. Many thousands of stars gleam brightly against the black backdrop of the image, with some brighter red and blue stars located along the outskirts of the cluster. The Armenian astronomer Paris Pismis first discovered the cluster in 1959 at the Tonantzintla Observatory in Mexico, granting it the dual name Tonantzintla 2. Pismis 26 is located in the constellation Scorpius near the galactic bulge, which is an area near the center of our galaxy that holds a dense, spheroidal grouping of stars that surrounds a black hole. Due to its location within the dust-heavy bulge, a process called "reddening" occurs, where dust scatters shorter wavelength blue light while longer wavelength red light passes through. Reddening distorts the apparent color of cosmic objects. Globular clusters are groups of stars held together by mutual gravitational attraction. They contain thousands of tightly packed stars and appear almost spherical in shape. Astronomers recently used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study visible and infrared light from Pismis 26 to determine the cluster's reddening, age, and metallicity. The stars of Pismis 26 have high metallicity, meaning they contain a high fraction of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the most abundant elements in the universe. Specifically, the stars are rich in the element nitrogen, which is typical of stars in bulge clusters and has led scientists to believe that populations of differently-aged stars are present in the cluster. Pismis 26 has also likely lost a sizable portion of its mass over time due to a gravitational force called the strong inner galaxy tidal field, which the inner galaxy exerts on star clusters in the galactic bulge, causing their outer layers to pull away. Researchers estimate the age of the cluster to be 12 billion years old.

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #nasa #hubble space telescope

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fishklok · 2 years

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😭 🍩 🌱 🪤 🎵 ☄️❤

𝐎𝐂 𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐉𝐈 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒!

I'll alternate ocs for this

😭 CRYING - what makes them cry? do they cry easily?

Seonag's crying responses are often misplaced.

Like someone could tell her she's a worthless piece of trash who is undeserving of love right to her face, and Seonag would just be like "lol, mood".

But if the barista she'd been crushing on from a distance (and has never spoken to) turns out to be in a relationship, she'll be a sobbing wreck for days. I guess anything that could make her feel ignored or forgotten will make her cry more easily. And looking at raccoon hands.

🍩 DONUT - favourite sweet treat?

(since this is a short answer, I'll answer for all of them)

Seonag: Black licorice

Mystery: Banana pudding

Mihika: Potato chips dipped in nutella or chocolate sauce

Satenik: Nazook, specifically when her mom makes it.

Melik: Baklava. He grew up with the Armenian variant, but he's not picky.

Sorrel: Red Hots

🌱 SEEDLING - what is their most vivid memory from childhood?

Mystery's most vivid memory is playing Hot Cross Buns on the recorder in 1st grade, then the memory cuts out, then she remembers people screaming, and then her mother pulled her out of school and they moved away.

🪤 MOUSE TRAP - what will always lure them into certain danger? a loved one in danger? a promise of something they are always searching for?

For Mihika, it's knowing (or believing) that things will be better if she can make it through.

🎵 MUSIC NOTE - what is their playlist like? their favourite artists? do you associate a particular song with them?

I don't have a Satenik playlist yet unfortunately. She really likes rock and roll, mostly because it was banned from the house growing up. But she's definitely not ready for death metal. Seeing Elvis dance on tv already felt like it was pushing her limits. The song I associate with her (and the song Magnus associates with her in my fics) is Seems So Long Ago, Nancy by Leonard Cohen.

☄️ COMET - what do people assume about them? are they right?

Satenik assumed Melik knew what was best for her more than anyone else in her life.

❤️ RED HEART - their love language(s)?

Sorrel's love languages are:

She's aroace and doesn't really like the whole "love languages" thing.

Yes platonic love can also be applied, but she just doesn't feel comfortable around the concept of love

Because usually the emphasis is on romantic love

She likes hanging out, I guess.

Also as a scientist, she finds the love languages offered to be too surface-level in the way it categorizes the human experience

#seonag tallach #mystery potato johnson #mihika ekanayake #satenik varoujan #melik hammersmith

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stephenjaymorrisblog · 2 years

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The Sound of Rage!

(“Rage Against the Machine” Has Returned!)

By Stephen Jay Morris

7/12/2077

©Scientific Morality

I heard it from gun nuts: “A gun is only a tool. It’s like a shovel, you use it to bury corpses. It’s a tool to kill animals and people, plus to open padlocks.”

Music has multiple purposes beyond its artistic value. It can be used for TV commercials. It’s subliminal background noise for Baby Boomers shopping in grocery stores. During the 60’s, music that played over a store’s sound system was branded, “Muzak,” which was actually pop music recorded by orchestras. Now, the original recordings are played so that, while you are in the dairy section and you hear the song to which you lost your virginity, you tend to buy more. The music of the 60s is everywhere: in the movies, on the beaches, in video games, in commercials. It inspired my generation to rebel against tyranny. Agitprop music is not just for commies anymore. Right, Left, up, and down! Conservatives like marching songs and Country & Western. Aaron Lewis, ya all! The Left embraces the most motivating music ever! Liberals like folk music and Anarchists love loud, hard-on, Rock noise. Listening to the MC5 in my youth made me want to smash the state with a primal scream! Now-a-days, the only time I scream is when I have a harsh bowel movement. The popular music now is for people high on Benzodiazepines. Trap Rap? Whatever. Decades ago, the Paean was: ROCK & ROLL! Now, it’s…I don’t know.

In my life, I never would have thought that there’d be the day when Liberals and Progressives used the word, “fascist!” For years, now, Republicans have been calling Democrats “Communists.” Are you going tell me that THAT label isn’t fuckin’ retarded?! Some Conservatives know that Rock music is a catharsis for young people. That’s why some are going around and shooting up public places. They have no other way to relieve themselves! As a youth, I had two ways of relieving myself: jerking off and playing my music LOUD. I had no urge to kill anybody afterward. I remained in the refractory of my life. As for now, I keep busy in my old age. Instead of washing my truck, I engage in Hermeneutic studies so that I can argue with some Right wing Christian.

Ever since that 70’s metal band, “Areosmith,” collaborated with Hip-Hop pioneers, “Run DMC” in 1986, when rap music was coming of age, “Walk This Way,” never sounded so good! It was when, for a short time, that Black and White and youth united. “Public Enemy” and “Anthrax” came together in 1991 for the song, “Bring the Noise.” By the end of the 90’s, there was the advent of “Nu-Metal.”

What was “Nu-metal?” Here’s the skinny of it: It was a mixture of Rap and Heavy Metal. Acts like “Papa Roach,” “Limp Bizhit,” and “Kidd Rock” showed up in public, and it was on for little while. Most of the songs were about the usual subject of sex but, in the underground, there were political rappers in the mix. “System of A Down,” from Glendale, California, had Left-leaning songs. They were experimental also, in that they incorporated Armenian folk music and funk. Their followers were advocating Anti-Authoritarianism.

Then, from Los Angeles, California, came the Nu-Metal band, “Rage Against the Machine.” They named themselves after a punk fanzine called, “No Answers,” which incorporated that phrase. Tim Commerford, on bass, Zack De La Roacha, lead singer, Brad Wik on drums, and Tom Morello on guitar. They played sonic heavy metal with Hip-Hop beats. Like the “Clash” and the “MC5,” they sang about international oppression and rebellion. Their song, “People of the Sun,” is about South American peasants—hard politics about Third World people. You won’t see Kidd Rock doing that shit! He’s too busy sucking Donald Trump’s dick!

Zack doesn’t sing, he raps! He sounds like Bobby Seale, of the Black Panther Party, giving a speech at an anti-war rally. He reminds me of “The Last Poets” of the late 60’s, shouting out angry rhymes against racism. Their music is really reminiscent of the MC5; their sound based in heavy beat and loud guitar that comes in the cadence of feed back. Once their sound gets a hold of you, it won’t let you go!

Nobody knows what their ideology is. The band’s symbol suggests Anarcho-Communism. But who cares? Their songs are universal and blatantly pissed off! I mean, was “The Clash” Trotskyites? Who gives a fuck?! Will their reunion inspire a “Zoomer Revolution?” I don’t have an answer for you. One thing is clear, however: Conservatives are terrified of anger and change by Progressives. When they hear a Rage tune, they will melt into a puddle of piss. The CHUDs love to humiliate the pacifist Leftists by labeling them “emotional women.” But, just wait until they are confronted by a group of Lesbian Anarchist Feminists weilding AK 47s. Their flaccid cocks will retract back up between their pasty legs.

Now, that’s entertainment!

#nu metal #rage against the machine #stephenjaymorris #poets of tumblr #american politics #anarchism #youtube #punk #post punk #hardcore punk

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fortressofserenity · 3 months

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Armenia and Avatar

It concurred to me that the way the elements are portrayed in the Avatar animated stories actually have more in common with Armenian ideas and cultural beliefs, well in some regards, than it does with China despite taking a lot of cues from it. Within Chinese belief and philosophy, wood and earth are separate elements. Wood is associated with the colours blue and green, whilst brown and yellow are linked to earth. The colour black is linked to water, if because there’s not much light that gets reflected the deeper you go underwater.

Metal’s linked to the colour white, perhaps because it approximates the reflective grey of metals like silver and iron but also gold to some extent. The only thing consistent between the two is that the colour red’s linked to fire, but it’s kind of surprising that for all of Avatar’s East Asian posturing they fail to take the Armenian influence into account. Or that the way they depict the elements accidentally resembles the Armenian conception of them, airbenders wear yellow and yellow’s linked to the element of air in Armenian thought.

That and the airbenders being subjected to a genocide’s no different from what Armenians underwent in the early 20th century, which makes one wonder if the Avatar writers appropriated Armenian culture since the elemental conception resembles the Armenian version more. That there are practically no Armenian coded characters and Armenian artists in their ranks raises further suspicion of cultural appropriation, if because some of it resembles Armenian culture in some, however accidental, ways. The way Avatar portrays them feels more at home in Armenia, than it does with its Chinese counterpart by the way.

It’s also telling that as the airbenders live in the mountains, so do many Armenians hence the Armenian highlands. Armenia was also a colony of Turkey and eventually Soviet territory, so it’s surprising why they never bothered realising this startling coincidence. I think Avatar would reek less of East Asian cultural appropriation if they used Turkey, Iran, Armenia and Georgia as the inspiration for the nations in the Avatar stories, since its elemental philosophy resembles the Zoroastrian version more.

Zoroastrianism being the religion that strongly influenced the Caucasian countries and Iran, possibly Turkey to some extent as parts of it used to be Armenian territory. The elements in Chinese and Taoist belief are five in number, consist of fire, wood, earth, metal and water and they go from full yang to full yin* though it may not be clear cut in bagua. While fire is a yang element, its trigram is the same as the one for middle daughter. Conversely speaking, water is a yin element but its trigram’s the same as the one for middle son.

Dragons are masculine animals but are linked to the water element in Chinese thought, which the Avatar stories fail to take into account. But if the Avatar writers used the Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries more as inspiration for the stories they tell, that would involve properly attributing elements to where they culturally come from. The four element system is foreign to Chinese thought, plus it closely resembles the Persian model more.

*Yin and yang are opposing forces that balance each other out, the former is dark and feminine but the latter is light and masculine.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar fandom #cultural appropriation #armenia

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chantylay · 6 months

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The first Eurovision song of the year is here. While this is exciting news in the fandom, we should not lose sight of current events. Israel has begun an open genocide and Azerbaijan have forced the displacement of Armenians who have lived in the contested territories for longer than Armenia or Azerbaijan have existed as independent countries. We cannot be complacent and must call on the EBU to finally sanction Israel and Azerbaijan like they did with Russia. On to the review for France's 2024 entry: "Mon Amour" by Slimane. The video has been sourced from his professional channel, not the Eurovision one.

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"Mon Amour" is a stirring and emotional piano ballad. Slimane's vocals are amazing, as is to be expected of a previous winner of The Voice France. Everything about it is well done, but not not incredibly unique if I'm being honest. I expect it to sweep with the juries, and the demographics that usually vote for big ballads sung by good looking men. Which is not a bad position to be in. The lyrics describe an intense love on the part of the singer towards someone who is distant literally and emotionally, begging them to tell him if they love him. It's a tried and true subject for balladeers everywhere.

The performance video here is fairly stripped back, with Slimane in a dark studio. He mostly stands in place and gesticulates as he sings while the lights and camera changes do the rest of the work. It's a pretty typical way of showcasing this kind of ballad, that works to maintain the intimacy of the song. Like the song, it is good quality while still feeling a little by the numbers. The biggest risk taken was with his styling, and I'm not sure it worked. The metal vest thing over a generic black dress shirt feels disjointed, both as a look and with regards to the subject matter of the song. His heart is on his sleeve in his mannerisms and lyrics, but he's wearing this pseudo armor/disco ball over the shirt he wears to the office? What was the thought process that went into this look? Whatever it was, I hope they take some of the time between now and May to rethink the concept and design an aesthetic that suits him and the song better.

#eurovision #France #Slimane #mon amour #Youtube

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leolcann · 1 year

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Recipe for Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate

Making the perfect Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate should only take approximately 1 hr 55 min . It’s considered an Easy level recipe. Below are the ingredients and directions for you to easily follow. The Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate recipe can feed your family for 8 servings.

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Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate Popular Ingredients

1 cup dark red kidney beans, soaked overnight and rinsed well

2 cups water

1/4 white onion, minced

1 bay leaf

3/4 cup walnuts, lightly toasted

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 tablespoon freshly chopped dill

1 tablespoon freshly chopped mint or basil leaves

1 tablespoon freshly chopped flat-leaf parsley

1/4 cup pomegranate seeds, about 1/2 of a pomegranate, plus more for garnish

Toasted walnuts, for garnish

Steps for making Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate

Bring beans and water to a boil with onion and bay leaf. Simmer until tender. Drain well and discard bay leaf. In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, puree with walnuts, butter, chopped garlic, salt and pepper, to taste, until smooth and creamy. Mix chopped herbs together and blend half of them into the beans.

Season well and spread onto a small baking sheet, lined with plastic wrap. Cool completely.

Sprinkle generously with pomegranate seeds and remaining fresh herbs then roll into logs, using the plastic wrap to help roll. Wrap tightly and chill again.

Slice and garnish with walnuts and pomegranate seeds.

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Recipe for Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate

Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate Popular Ingredients

1 cup dark red kidney beans, soaked overnight and rinsed well

2 cups water

1/4 white onion, minced

1 bay leaf

3/4 cup walnuts, lightly toasted

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 tablespoon freshly chopped dill

1 tablespoon freshly chopped mint or basil leaves

1 tablespoon freshly chopped flat-leaf parsley

1/4 cup pomegranate seeds, about 1/2 of a pomegranate, plus more for garnish

Toasted walnuts, for garnish

Steps for making Armenian Bean and Walnut Pate

Season well and spread onto a small baking sheet, lined with plastic wrap. Cool completely.

Sprinkle generously with pomegranate seeds and remaining fresh herbs then roll into logs, using the plastic wrap to help roll. Wrap tightly and chill again.

Slice and garnish with walnuts and pomegranate seeds.

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Easy Appetizer

Easy Side Dish Recipes

Side Dish – A side dish, sometimes referred to as a side order, side item, or simply a side, is a food item that accompanies the entrée or main course at a meal.

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You might need the following Cookware

Cooking pots

Frying pan

Steamers

Colander

Skillet

Knives

Cutting board

Grater

Saucepan

Stockpot

Spatula

Tongs

Measuring cups

Wooden Spoon

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