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So Much (For) Blitz —An exclusive reveal of the star of Fall Out Boy’s latest album cover

Fall Out Boy’s latest effort So Much (For) Stardust) has been critically acclaimed and lauded by fans as some of their best work to date. The album artwork, prominently featuring a doberman, has left some puzzled and looking for additional context as to the dog’s identity and how the artwork came to be. The Bad Habits Collection is proud to bring you the exclusive reveal of the dog featured on the cover of their eighth studio album alongside the full story of how they were discovered.

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When Fall Out Boy officially announced their eighth studio album on January 18th, 2023 and unveiled the album artwork for So Much (For) Stardust, there were a lot of opinions to be had. Some of the fans immediately felt connected and claimed it as their own, some compared it to Fiona Apple’s 2020 release Fetch the Bolt Cutters, and some downright found it revolting. Overall, most agreed that it was polarizing to say the least. Donned in an all black background, the front cover features both the name of the band and the album itself in the work of Omar Mroz (hereinafter referred to by his online moniker Mr.Oz). The text is covered in glitter and written out in the same style featured earlier in the rollout of FOB8’s album cycle with A Claymation Fall Out Boy Celebration, dropped as a surprise present from the band on Christmas one month earlier. The headlining attraction of this sideshow was in fact just a simple square box, containing a swirling artistic depiction of a doberman barking in the presence of a froth of bubbles.

From the moment I first laid eyes on the iconography of Fall Out Boy’s new era, I had just two questions in mind: Who is the dog? & Why choose the dog? A few obvious possibilities were immediately ruled out. Solely based on what’s been posted to social media, this dog did not belong to Pete, Joe, or Andy. Patrick has remained dormant online for years at this point, but still the odds felt slim. I did my best to brush it off, but ultimately I kept coming back to the thought of WHY? If you’re familiar with my previous work on the history of Take This To Your Grave’s album cover, you already know this type of sentiment means a lot to me. After a while of waiting for the band to bring up the topic in an interview or statement, I had essentially given up hope on any type of official explanation. It was at this moment, just 3 days before the release of the record, that I accepted the reality of the situation. This wasn’t a hot topic within the fandom. And no one was going to provide me with the answers I was looking for. If I wanted to know more, it was solely up to me. So… I got to work. — 

To take a step back, the artwork for So Much (For) Stardust first hit the internet on January 11th, seven days before the official reveal. Posted alongside the name of the first single Love From The Other Side, our barking pup friend was featured on the home feed of FILTER | NEWs on VK, a Russian social media site that I’ve been told is comparable to Facebook. The artwork was watermarked with a subtle, transparent white logo for FILTER in the background. Despite this post being up for five days (a millennia on the worldwide web), it wasn’t until the 16th that the fandom at large made this discovery, with many claiming it was an outright fake.

However, the *stars* started to align proving this leak to have a dose or two of authenticity. Mr.Oz’s claymation video from earlier in the rollout followed the story of a similar looking doberman, who just so happened to pose in the final frame in a style strongly resembling the leaked cover. 

Beyond that, a post from lyricist and bassist Pete Wentz’s Instagram dating back just two days earlier was quickly dug up. On the 4th slide of the carousel, there it was: a selfie of Pete with a Santa hat on and propped up on the shelf behind him... the physical painting of the doberman seen on the leaked cover.

All but confirmed at this point, one last clue presented itself online. The freshly created Twitter account “@muchstardust” popped up out of nowhere, making itself known by following myself and a few other notable hardcore fans in this space. @muchstardust made just one single tweet before being suspended (for reasons unknown). 

The post featured three images, the watermarked cover, Pete’s selfie, and notably, a compressed form of the actual photo taken of man’s best friend —the same one the leaked cover features an oil painting rendition of. 

—  As we all know now, this leak was indeed real and confirmed as the album artwork just a few days later by Fall Out Boy themselves. But that’s when the trail went cold. Later promotional photos featuring the band and taken by their long time collaborator Pamela Littky included another doberman, but clearly not the same one once examined a bit closer. On March 21st, the Chicago rock group posted “What do you think the dog’s name is? 🫧”, but never followed up with the answer. It’s as if they were taunting me specifically with how vocal I had been about wanting to solve this mystery. Just before the album’s official release, I was tipped off by someone with an early copy of the CD that the liner notes of So Much (For) Stardust credit Safia Latif for the cover painting and Jen Patterson for the photograph the cover painting was based on. With new pieces of the puzzle in play, my search for the dog in question was reignited. However, my leads proved of little to no help. I could not get in touch with Safia and could not properly identify Jen Patterson online for the life of me. Taking the hunt back to the drawing board, I reverse image searched the photo @muchstardust had originally provided, which even at this point, months later, was our only source of the actual photograph. Littered with results of the album artwork naturally, I did come across one potential connection. Once again, I found myself on the public timeline of someone’s VK.com profile. “dextromethorpan 3” had included the same photograph in a gallery of different doberman puppies posted on December 21st, 2020. This was…something. Sure, this photo likely did not originate from the VK profile I had unearthed, but at least now I knew it had been around the web for a few years. Scratching my head, I wondered how Fall Out Boy had originally come across this image. Was it something that came up on one of their feeds? Or perhaps just a keyword search? Taking it to different forms of social media, I found a potential match on the /r/doberman subreddit posted 10 months ago. Titled “Cool pic of us playing with bubbles”, the dobie in question featured strikingly similar features and color patterns, and was of course, playing with bubbles. 

So I did what any other sane fan would do… and sent a private message to the Redditor the night before the album dropped with Jen’s photograph. “/u/drc55555” responded Saturday morning agreeing that the dog did look a lot like their own, but that they didn’t recognize the photograph. I woke up in a cold sweat seeing the glimpse of the Reddit notification on my iPhone and replied informing them of the cover of Fall Out Boy’s brand new release and asking if the user was the Jen Patterson credited in the album’s booklet. A day later, they replied once again noting that they weren’t Jen, but that this has sparked a memory of another DM they had received in the fall of last year from an Elektra Records personnel, Fueled By Ramen’s distributor who Fall Out Boy had publicly rejoined the roster of just this January. Indeed, 200 days ago from this very conversation, a marketing representative from the label had reached out to the Redditor through the same platform letting them know that an artist they work with had come across the very same photo I myself found and that the artist had fallen in love with it, hoping to use it as part of the artwork for an upcoming project. /u/drc55555 had conceded that they regretted not responding at the thought of how their dog could have become famous. This is when I knew, I was HOT on the trail. Either a member of FOB discovered this photo of their dog while scrolling Reddit or had specifically sought out the same search terms as me, which meant the actual photograph used on the cover could have potentially been found through the very same method. My search accelerated and within a few hours I had run a variety of similar terms by Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, really any social media site I could get my hands on. Nothing had come up, but I hadn’t called it a day quite yet as one of the more obvious sites remained: Instagram. Heading to the explore page I have barely used in my own time on the platform, I typed in the same keywords that brought me to the pup’s uncanny match on Reddit: “doberman bubbles”. And there it was, exactly 60 rows down, right in the center, the original image of the dog I had been looking for all along along with an alternate photo of the same dog in the next slide in the same setting captioned “BUBBLES!!!!!”, posted —you guessed it, in 2020. 

—  With this case officially closed, I’m beyond stoked to introduce Blitz the Doberman to other fans of Fall Out Boy. At the time of publication, Blitz has 12.8k followers on his public Instagram account, which lead me to question how this match hadn’t already been made. Blitz’s bio reveals he was born on February 27th, 2019 and lives in Las Vegas with his human, one Jen Patterson.

In a beautiful twist of fate, within the hour of finishing the final draft of this piece, Blitz’s humans responded to my inquiry from earlier in the week. I spoke with Jen at length who was happy to share her story exclusively with The Bad Habits Collection. Similarly to the Redditor from earlier, a marketing rep from Elektra Records had reached out to her through Instagram on September 20th, 2022 inquiring about using a picture of her pup for one of their artists’ work, a message she initially regarded as spam. Eventually, she came to an agreement with Elektra, however, this story ended there for her. Up until Jen read the direct message I sent to Blitz’s account, she had not the slightest idea that he was featured on the cover of the new album of one of the biggest modern rock bands left in the world. I was shocked to hear this, but Jen on the other hand was incredibly excited to learn of the breaking news. I shared a photo with her of her name printed in the liner notes of So Much (For) Stardust, a cool moment for us both. Jen told me “I never considered myself a photographer, but that’s amazing!” When I asked about how Blitz already had such a huge following on Instagram, she told me all about how she’s networked with others in a doberman group and has kept a steady stream of posts coming on the daily. In discussion of what she’d like for others to take away from this article, Jen simply hoped others would get to know Blitz’s name —my entire goal of this investigation all along. Half-joking, she expressed that she’d also love to have gotten her hands on some merchandise with his face on it. Infinitely grateful for her responding to my DM and taking the time to talk with me, I’ve personally sent Jen physical copies of So Much (For) Stardust in both vinyl and CD format. I’ll be sure to update this write-up with a photo of FOB’s newest mascot posing with his album cover when they arrive! Closing out our conversation, Jen let me know that she “felt like if you hadn’t reached out, we would not have known.” To be honest, there were times in this journey that I thought it might be for the best if I gave up the search for this pup as to not invade anyone’s privacy. I figured if Blitz hadn’t already made himself known publicly, maybe there was a specific reason behind not doing so. I would have never guessed that reason was because his family were simply unaware of his new-found fame. I feel honored to have been the one to share this discovery with Blitz’s owners and again want to thank them for their contributions to this piece. Jen has also graciously shared the original photograph of Blitz the cover was based on in its full resolution, uncropped:

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After scouring the internet to to uncover this story, it all leads me to just one final question: Why Blitz? What’s the connection? Moreover, what’s the intended meaning here? Jen let me know that she herself was unaware of how and why the photograph was found and selected, but we can naturally draw our own conclusions. Discussing this topic with other longtime fans of the band, all have come to the same conclusion that Fall Out Boy’s latest effort features some of Pete’s bleakest lyrics in a long time paired somehow ever so perfectly with some of Patrick’s most uplifting and dance-worthy melodies to date. As my partner pointed out, the album artwork depicts a breed known for their usage as guard dogs with a tough exterior, but shown playing lightheartedly with what’s usually associated as a child’s toy. In the words of fellow Fall Out Boy historian and Bad Habits Collection collaborator Tommy McPhail, the cover displays “the epitome of boundless joy and simplified bliss amongst chaos”, a phrase that perfectly sums up the entire feeling artistically and masterfully expressed in So Much (For) Stardust in my own eyes. Fall Out Boy’s newest full-length studio record So Much (For) Stardust, produced by the legendary Neal Avron, is one of their strongest statement pieces in years and is now available everywhere music is streamed or sold. You can follow Blitz’s adventures on Instagram: @blitzdoberman —  “The kind of pain you feel to get good in the end. Inscribed like stone and faded by the rain: ‘Give up what you love before it does you in.’” Written by Alex Toor for The Bad Habits Collection

#Fall Out Boy #FOB #FOB8 #So Much (For) Stardust #So Much For Stardust #SMFS #2023 #Pete Wentz #Patrick Stump #Joe Trohman #Andy Hurley #Blitz #Blitz Doberman #Blitz The Doberman #Doberman #Fueled By Ramen #Alex Toor #Live On Toor #LiveOnToor

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Pusha T at Coca-Cola Roxy 10/14/22

Pusha T at Coca-Cola Roxy 10/14/22

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#atlanta concerts #coca-cola roxy #Concert Photography #Live Music #live nation #Live on Toor #Pusha T #Rap

[on-this-day-mcr]

On this day, August 23

In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 24th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This show was the first time the studio version of "The World is Ugly" was performed live. At this show, Gerard Way wore a custom made vintage cheerleader dress, and "I Bet it WAS YOU" was written on the drums. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

Alex Toor

#watching this happen truly unlocked a new emotion that was reserved for this specific event and will not be experienced ever again #the show is so joyful too if you have the chance the rewatch is. ack. aughsf. askldfhawuiec #swarm era #2022 #august 23 #tour date #live debut #mcr nashville

[ohimtherebabey]

a very special and personal scrapbook commemorating the shows i went to on MCR's return tour

to the best of my ability, picture credits are below the cut

mk1: (gerard in the metaman mask) @/allltherage on twitter, (gerard with no mask) abbie shipperly for alt press, (frank) @/maryamtbh on twitter, (gerard holding the flag) me

mk2: (gerard top left) anieck, (gerard bottom right) yas cowan

mk3: (gerard) sarah louise bennett for dork, (piss & vinegar) frank iero, pride flag @/desolationhoe on twitter

dublin 1: (bass drum) mikey way from his instagram story, (frank and gerard, mikey) me, (ray) @/katieshox on twitter

dublin 2: (mikey) @headfirstforheadshots on tumblr, (gerard) tony burke, (frank) from MCR's twitter

warrington: (both) me

cardiff: via @mcrbois on tumblr

glasgow: (frank) calum buchan for the modern record, (mikey) me, (gerard) jack geddes

paris: (crowd, mikey) nicko guihal, (gerard) chloé bunel for above the noise

rotterdam: (all) eva van den bosch

budapest: (gerard) @/allltherage on twitter, (mikey) alex toor

warsaw: (gerard) @/ze.omer.mizrahi on instagram, (mikey, frank) @/photos4masses on instagram

prague: (crowd) me, (gerard) jan nožička

berlin: (drumkit) @/__Youtai on twitter, (ray) @abcdefjay on tumblr, (gerard, bottom left) andrea friedrich for metal, (mikey) @/fihhlipi on instagram, (gerard, bottom right) cengiz aglamaz for loud live

raleigh: (gerard, top left) alexia blue, (drumkit) @sewerjewel on tumblr, (gerard, middle) scott sharpe for news observer, (ray) @/1eesa on twitter, (frank) @caintooth on tumblr, (gerard, bottom right) beemer for That

toronto: (gerard, top left; gerard bottom right, ray) @thelivingend on tumblr, (gerard, bottom left) angélica rincón, (mikey) @holdingonforever on tumblr

atlanta: (gerard, top right) @jacksmannequin on tumblr, (gerard, bottom left; frank; ray) alex toor

sunrise: (gerard, top left) @/MWhiteShelley on twitter, (mikey, frank) @kybercait on tumblr for ascribe, (gerard, middle) from MCR's instagram by mikey way, (gerard, bottom left) hannah howells, (gerard, bottom right) beemer

#isaac.txt #my art #fanart #return era #scrapbook #mcrtour #mcrmk1 #mcrmk2 #mcrmk3 #mcrdublin1 #mcrdublin2 #mcrwarrington #mcrcardiff #mcrglasgow #mcrparis #mcrrotterdam #mcrbologna #mcrmunich #mcrbudapest #mcrwarsaw #mcrprague #mcrberlin #mcrraleigh #mcrtoronto #mcratl #mcrsunrise #long post

[w2soneshots]

Guernsey -W2S

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Warnings: none.

In which you meet Harry’s parents for the first time.

a/n: I finally wrote something I like and it wasn’t a request🫢. I hope you enjoy lovelys🫶🏼.

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Me and Harry have been together for almost five months now. We met through instagram, he followed me, liked my posts, then finally sent me a message. Since then we've been inseparable, texting every day and it feels like I practically live in his apartment since he doesn't want me to leave, saying “no… don’t go, just one more night?” Along with his best puppy dog eyes. I get along great with Harry's friends, especially Tobi since he was so welcoming. After meeting Faith at Tobi's birthday party we became quite close and have had many great conversations. I feel as though I can always go to her if I need someone to speak to or if I just need some advice.

Today Harry's talking me to Guernsey to meet his family for the first time. We woke up early and threw on a comfy outfit then headed to the airport. When we arrived we went through security and waited around for a little while before actually getting onto the plane. After just over an hour we were landing in Guernsey.

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"Oh my god, this place is fucking beautiful." I stared out the plane window in awe of the island. Harry chuckled at my giddiness. I'm so excited to meet his family, unfortunately Rosie is at uni and Josh is on holiday so ill have to wait a little longer to meet them but ill get to see his parents. He's met mine multiple times but our schedules have never been clear enough to spend a weekend here, so when we got the chance we immediately booked the flights.

Once we'd collected our bags and were making our way out of the airport we spotted Harry's dad stood leaning against his car. I took a deep breath. "You have nothing to worry about. They're gonna love you." Harry whispered into my ear. I looked up at him "ok let's go."

"Hello, nice to finally meet you. I'm Harry's dad but you can call me Adrian." He spoke in a very cheery voice. My nerves instantly calmed. "Hi, I'm y/n." I introduced myself. "Yes I know. Harry don't stop talking about you." He chuckled. I looked over to Harry, his face was bright red and he'd gotten all embarrassed. "Does he now?" I teased him. Adrian laughed once again "well we better get going, Sue is desperate to meet you."

When we arrived outside of Harry's home my jaw dropped, it's practically a mansion. We hopped out of the car, Adrian and Harry grabbed our bags and I headed inside to introduce myself to his mum. Harry told me that the door was unlocked so I pressed down the handle and pushed it open. I was immediately bombarded by Herb, who seemed very excited to see me. I'd spent quite a lot of time with the dog since Harry had brought him with him back to London a few times.

"Hello! Come on in." Harry's mum Sue pulled me into a hug. I smiled "It's so nice to meet you." She walked me through into the kitchen "Are you hungry? I just made lunch." My eyes lit up "I'm starving and that smells amazing!" She smiled "great." Harry burst into the room seconds later and came to stand next to me. "You hungry Harry?" His mum asked. Harry nodded. "Alright, food will be ready in ten. Why don't you to go and get settled in." Harry gave me a quick toor of the house then showed me to his room. "See I told you they'd love you."

After lunch Harry wanted to take me on a walk to show me one of his favourite places on the island. So we put on our coats and shoes then he put a harness on Herb. "Come on let's go, Herbert!" Harry shouted and seconds later Herb came running towards us. I opened the door. "So where are we going?" I asked as we walked down the street. "My favourite beach." He replied.

"Wow, I can't believe you grew up somewhere like this." I admired the waves as Herb played in the sand. "I didn't appreciate it enough when I lived here, but now that I don't come here as often I realised how much I miss it," Harry said without breaking eye contact with the view. I placed my head on his shoulder and let out a breath. "I love you." "I love you too Haz."

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#w2s #harry lewis #harry w2s #wrotoshaw #wroetoshaw #w2s x reader #w2s imagine #w2s fic #harry lewis x reader #wroetoshaw x reader #wroetoshaw oneshot #fanfic #image #oneshot #w2s family #herb #herbert #meeting the parents #meeting the family #x female reader #x fem!reader #x y/n #x you #x reader #instagram #instagram au

[brokenpiecesshine]

Paramore, live in Atlanta, GA, USA (25/05/2023).

📸 Alex Toor

#2023 #live #Paramore #Hayley Williams

[queerasfact]

Queer artists 14/30 - Salman Toor

Salman Toor is a Pakistani-American painting living and working in New York City. His work often depicts candid scenes of queer men in social scenarios such as gays bars and house parties, as well as the experiences of South Asian men in the diaspora. These pieces explore themes of public and private space, the role of technology in modern life, and the treatment of men of colour. Salman's work often uses bright, saturated colours, with many of them strongly featuring the colour green. He says, "I chose green for aesthetic reasons. There is something nocturnal about it, like night vision. It’s inviting and glamorous, but it has connotations of poisonous gases and potions. But most importantly, I like that it’s not a sentimental color."

Salman's work is influenced by both South Asian and Western canons, placing subjects who have typically been marginalised from art history into these canons. His painting The Bar on East 13th, for example, visually references Manet's A Bar at the Golies-Bergere. He states, "I like these seemingly undernourished and hairy bodies of color inhabiting familiar, bourgeois, urban, interior spaces. I see these boys or men as well-educated, creative types discovering what it means to live an artist’s life in New York City and in the thick of changing ideas about race, immigration, and foreignness, and also what it means to be American. Sometimes they can look like lifestyle images. They are also fantasies about myself and my community."

[Image descriptions: Two green-tinted scenes of bars in which men dance, talking, embrace and kiss. In the first, a bartender stands behind a bar, looking at the viewer, while the mirror behind him reflect the patron he is looking at and the bar behind him. In the second, a central figure stands in a gap in the crowd, looking down at a mobile phone which shines light across his face.]

#salman toor #queer artists #pride #pride 2022

[ectospasms]

tumblr post by @girlgerard / Gerard Way circa 1999 / “Not That Kind of Girl”, My Chemical Romance / tumblr post by @bartmobile / “Desert Song” by My Chemical Romance / Gerard Way circa 2004 / art by Anna Haifisch / photo by Alex Toor / Gerard Way performing live with My Chemical Romance in Nashville, 2022

#MCR #my chemical romance #Gerard Way #LGBTQ #trans #art #gnc #web weaving #i love you all

[merildae]

you’re honestly one of my favorite artists of all time, and my biggest inspiration as an artist! wish i lived close enough to visit one of your show. who/what are some of your biggest inspirations for your art? what’s your fav part of your artistic process?

thank you so much, that is very flattering to hear.

i really love angela dufresne, nicole eisenman, catherine opie, franz hals, nicola samori, salman toor, cy twombly, david hockney ... the list goes on!

my favorite part of my process is rendering faces and hands. although i also enjoy my digital collage/ sketching process as well.

[crustycantankerousgrownup]

I don't know if it was intentional, but I am positively obsessed with the way English-sounding names are handled in the Death Note universe.

Lawliet

Weddy

Mihael

Arire

Lian

Toors

Ale

Bess

They all sound plausible and yet nearly 10 years after first watching the series I have yet to meet or hear of anyone with even one of these names in the real world.

And my favorite; Beyond Birthday. As in, from the BB murder investigation.

It sounds like a Funfetti flavored vegan sausage.

Just-- *chef's kiss* I live. My joy comes from this and only this  💜 

#death note #death note names #beyond birthday #lawliet #mihael keehl

[atlantamusicguide]

Jesse McCartney with Jamie Miller and Casey Baer at Buckhead Theatre 06/04/22

Jesse McCartney with Jamie Miller and Casey Baer at Buckhead Theatre 06/04/22

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#atlanta concerts #buckhead theatre #Casey Baer #Concert Photography #Jamie Miller #Jesse McCartney #Live Music #live nation #Live on Toor Photography

[makerofmadness]

So I haven't posted my Persian/Farsi translations of Cookie Run character names in a while huh

you see, I've been working on properly learning Farsi better. Which has made me grow dissatisfied with my previous translations (albeit they were mainly just meant for helping me memorize words in Farsi using characters from a game I love).

when I was at home for winter break, I was finally able to sit down with my parents in person and they actually helped me translate some of the Gacha pull screens in CRK! Thanks to my maman and baba for this, they helped me for every single one of these except for Gingerbrave <3 (I think I did edit some of them after the fact, mainly just for things like names or I think spelling mistakes I made. My parents didn't type it, I did. If anything is off, just blame me)

...and then I just put off posting them until now but uh- (mainly out of nervousness but uh. I can't just keep Not Posting forever-)

By the way, I was surprised seeing just how many people were genuinely interested in this. I even saw some other Iranian cookie run fans :3 I was really expecting these posts to just kinda live on my blog and only on my blog so it's been really cool to see! Anyway, here are the screens:

(I chose these characters at random, pretty much)

(I'll put any and all notes under the cut, plus the romanization for those who can't read Farsi but are curious as to what these say. Though just note that when I romanize from Farsi I do omit the ezaafeh because it isn't usually written to begin with and I don't always know when to apply it)

*Gingerbrave ("Brave Cookie"): بیسکویت شجاع (biskwit shojaa')

*Hollyberry Cookie: بیسکویت میوه خاس (biskwit mivah khaas)

«!شیپور را بزنید! بیسکویت میوه خاس رسیده است» ("shipoor raa bezanid! Biskwit mivah khaas resideh ast!")

*Wildberry Cookie: بیسکویت توت وحشی (biskwit toot vahshi)

«!برای پادشاهی میوه خاس» ("baraa-ye paadshaahi mivah khaas!")

*Vampire Cookie: بیسکویت خون آشام (biskwit khoon ashaam)

«.چرا این طور جدی هستی؟ بذار آب انور برایت بریزم» ("cheraa in toor jadi hasti? bezaar ab anoor baraayat berizam.")

*Lilac Cookie: بیسکویت یاس بنفش (biskwit yaas banafsh)

«.آن‌ها که رایحه من را بو می‌کنن... هرگز زنده نمی‌مونن» ("An-haa keh raayeheh man raa boo mi-konan... hargez zendeh nami-moonan.")

*Pastry Cookie: بیسکویت شیرینی (biskwit shirini)

«!برای دسته شیرینی قدیس» ("bara-ye dasteh shirini ghedis!")

*Cocoa Cookie: بیسکویت شکلات داغ (biskwit shokolaat daagh)

«یک فنجون شکلات داغ می‌خوای؟» ("yek fenjoon shokolaat daagh mi-khaai?")

*Moonlight Cookie ("Moonlight Magician Cookie"): بیسکویت جادوگر مهتاب (biskwit jaadoogar mahtaab)

«!تو هستی که مرا بیدار کردی» ("to hasti keh maraa bidaar kardi!")

*Devil Cookie: بیسکویت شیطان (biskwit sheytaan)

«.نگران نباش، به تو صدمه نخواهم زد... شاید» ("negaraan nabaash, beh to sadameh nakhaaham zad... shaayad.")

*Golden Cheese Cookie: بیسکویت پنیر طلا (biskwit panir talaa)

«!ملکه طلا هستم» ("malakeh talaa hastam!)

*Pitaya Dragon Cookie: بیسکویت اژدها پیتایا (biskwit ezhdehaa pitaayaa)

«پس شکل واقعی من را می‌خواهی ببینی؟» ("pas shekl vaaghe'i man raa mi-khaahi bebini?")

*Snapdragon Cookie: بیسکویت اژدها گل میمون (biskwit ezhdehaa gol meymoon)

«!باه به به» ("baah bah bah!")

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Notes:

*most of these screenshots were taken by me (you can tell if they have the bar at the bottom) (don't ask why I've stockpiled Gacha pull screenshots, I don't know why I started doing that either but it ended up being useful for this). But some of these I found online of on youtube. I didn't keep track of the sources I'll admit, and these are the same screens you can find in game on any save file anyway, but I do know that Gingerbrave's screen I got via Royal Mike on youtube.

*being at home for winter break and more easily able to communicate, actually seeing my parents in-person, maman told me she didn't know what کوکی (kooki) meant and that the word for "cookie" in Farsi is بیسکویت (biskwit) (pronounced "bis-kweet," btw. Think "biscuit" but fancier). Which was a surprise for me because کوکی does yield farsi search results and a website told me it was the translation for cookie (the website was one I liked to use because it had audio for the words. A lot of translation things for farsi lack audio or romanization, and I was only just learning to read on my own at school, so I really appreciated something that reliably had audio for words). I have no clue if it's some kind of modern slang, but I've decided to use بیسکویت going forward, especially since the other main reason I'm doing this is so I can share one of my interests with my family (and not all of my family knows English decently).

*after looking at what some of the official localizations do with character names, and also learning how Farsi adjectives work (basically: I think Spanish works the same, where a word goes after the noun it modifies), I've realized that my way of presenting the names (formatted like: first name "[x]," last name "cookie") was wrong so if the names feel a little bit "flipped" to anyone who's seen my other posts, that's why.

*I didn't know how to translate Gingerbrave's name from English so I just reverted his name to how it is to my knowledge in the original Korean version of the game (I don't know Korean but this is what I see everything saying his name is). And to be consistent with that, I did it with Moonlight too since I know her name is also a bit different originally. This is really just to appease myself XD

*The gaming scene is huge in Iran (including mobile gaming) but because of sanctions and the App Store being blocked (Iran has its own App Store called Café Bazaar. Apparently Clash of Clans is officially available on there... or was. I heard it got banned-), a lot of games don't have Farsi localizations. And with most Gacha games being either East Asian or western, I don't even know if Gacha games are a thing in Iran. Which led to the problem of the rarity system names since the names Cookie run uses are I think not entirely unique to it, even if they are pretty uncommon in the grand scheme of Gacha games (most games use stars or letters). At least the most basic rarities, most games to my knowledge don't have "dragon" or "ancient" as an option (yeah that feels A bit special-). I don't know if anything is standard, so I just decided to decide myself what to translate the rarities as:

Common -> معمول (ma'mool)

Rare -> کویاب (kamyaab)

Epic -> حماسی (hemaasi)

Legendary -> افسانه‌ای (afsaaneh-i)

Special -> خاص (khaas)

Ancient -> باستان (baastaan)

Dragon -> اژدها (ezhdehaa)

And the two I didn't include an example for here:

Super Epic -> خیلی حماسی (kheyli hemaasi)

Guest -> مهمان (mehmaan)

*I also had to translate the names of the different types of cookies. I'll just put it all down here (I'm not completely sure if the way I translated "ranged" was satisfactory, but my maman thought it was fine and I couldn't think of anything else or find anything else that worked better):

Charge -> حمله (hamleh)

Defense -> دفاع (defaa')

Magic -> جادو (jaadoo)

Ambush -> کمین (kamin)

Support -> تقویت (taghviyat)

Ranged -> دور برد (door bard)

And the ones that i don't have examples of here:

Bomber -> بمب انداز (bomb andaaz)

Healing -> التیام (eltiyaam)

*I decided to alter snapdragon's name to what would basically translate to "snapdragon dragon" into english because the snapdragon flower is called گل میمون or monkey flower (not to be confused with the mimulus flower which is also known as monkey flower in english) in farsi so the fact that "dragon" is already present in their name would be completely lost.

*The holly plant's fruits aren't actually berries (they're more like drupes) and to my knowledge they aren't really referred to as berries in Farsi (when I looked up توت خاس it didn't really lead to anything). So I basically had to change Hollyberry's name to "Holly Fruit" (which actually DOES yield search results when you look it up)

#Cookie run #cookie run kingdom #farsi #persian language #gingerbrave #hollyberry cookie #wildberry cookie #golden cheese cookie #snapdragon cookie #pitaya dragon cookie #moonlight cookie #devil cookie #pastry cookie #lilac cookie #vampire cookie #cocoa cookie #I was really really nervous to post this but I had to just do it eventually. It's been a while since I've made a post like this. Sorry! :'3

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Salman Toor was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1983. He lives and works in New York City. Toor received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn

#Salman Toor #art #painting #21st century #genre painting

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The palm reader by Salman Toor, Pakistan born artist (1983), living in the US.

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Paramore, live in Atlanta, GA, USA (25/05/2023).

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#2023 #live #Paramore #Hayley Williams

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Salman Toor (b. 1983 Pakistan, living New York City) Poor Hobo Ghosts (2015) oil on canvas 66 x 44.5 cm