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kalopses-sonderes · 2 years

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Sweet air, dangerous air

An imposter! Baker x self aware crk

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You and your friends were at a party. Well, it was more like your friends you at the party and you were out on the balcony playing random games on your phone. Everyone was getting drunk and dancing their hearts out, it was too loud and obnoxious for you.

You heard there’s gonna be a shooting star tonight, you didnt really believe in wishing on them but theres nothing better to do.

Who ever told you about the shooting star was correct, you see the star going across the sky. You wish.

I wish to be in a random video game forever. You started to laugh. You believed your wish was stupid and it wouldn’t happen, it should be impossible. Then, you felt your body start to go cold, you started coughing from this random wave of coldness covering your entire body. You stumble to the balcony doors, you tried opening it but i was locked. the curtains on the balcony wee closed to so you couldnt wave at someone for help. The music was so loud no one would hear you knocking. You started to feel colder. You stumbled backwards to the railing, almost tripping off the balcony. Your breath was heavy and it felt like it was harder to keep your balance. The railing started to crack, you knew the person hosting this party never cared about the condition of the balcony, but to the point that the railing could fall at any moment. you put more pressure on the railing, you’re in such a daze you didnt realize you should have gotten off the railing. The railing started to fall, you with it. When yoy realized you started screaming, but not for long. you passes out, a portal opened before you hit the ground.

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You woke up in a forest? The party isn’t even near a forest. you tried to get up, but fell backdown down. You looked at you hands just to see nubs of were hands are supposed to be. You gasped and tried to get yo again but with support of a nearby tree. the tree had a wanted picture stapled to it.

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WANTED!

-picture of baker/you-

Bounty: 5000$

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What kind of sick dream is this?

For the next hour you teach yourself how to walk and run in case someone is really after you, even if it is a dream.

After a while you get the hang of it. you decided to walk around to find the closes place. you accidentally run your leg on a sharp plant and it cuts your leg.

What the?

Your blood is golden instead of red. You brush it off thinking everyone in this world ls blood is also gold.

“Baker? Is that you?” You heard. You looked around, but no one was around.

Then, some cake creature runs at you. In that moment you forgot how to run so you stare at the creature with wide eyes. It sits in front of you, you didnt notice it before but it was a crown. You tried to walk away slowly but then, it barked.

“What the hell.. ” you murmured.

“Baker! I’ve searching everywhere for you! Sorry for chiffon, he gets a little happy when i mention happy.” The mysterious voice says.

The person walked up to you and kneels i front of you.

“What the hell is happening?”

#Sweet air dangerous air #sonder rambles #cookie run #crk #cookie run kingdom #crk x reader #cookie run ovenbreak #self aware crk #self aware au #pure vanilla cookie #red velvet cookie #cookie run x reader #imposter! Baker

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blookmallow · 4 years

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rating spirit halloween clowns again

speaking of spirit halloween,

i previously rated a bunch of spirit halloween clown costumes and now that its halloween times again im back at it again with animatronic clowns this time. they have a very nice pennywise as well but im only rating original clowns here

clowning around

a pretty good boy, i like his face and his spooky eyes, i always love a good monochrome clown but hes got this goofy country bumpkin accent im not really vibing with. he is VERY tall so i imagine he’s probably scarier in person though i have not had an opportunity to meet him. the screaming children are a unique touch but they kinda just look like floppy baby dolls if you look at them too closely. not a fan of anything that would cause whatever spooky attraction you’re making to have constant child screaming sounds playing, either, but, hes still a pretty good clown. hes also the only clown in this old timey monochrome style im seeing here so he gets props for that. 7/10

rotten ringmaster

i dont think clowns are usually ringmasters but points for creativity but then points lost again bc his face just looks so. generically creepy. he just looks boring to me. like hes trying to be pennywise but didn’t quite make it. this child victim looks slightly better than before but also has very very fake little cloth legs and mr ringmaster looks really weirdly proportioned from any other angle and not in a spooky way just in a Weird Bendy Way. 5/10, i dont really know why im so uninterested in this guy

cuddles the clown

look at this fucked up weirdo what am i even LOOKING at here. he looks like a clown made of nightmares and snakes. his fingers are just more clowns. i desperately want to see this thing in person i cannot get OVER this guy i cannot imagine this thing existing in physical space even with the video 10/10

mr salty

he acts like he’s flashing you only to reveal a very... particularly placed shorter clown. the little one’s name is willy. i do not like it at all 1/10 this gets one point for the fact that i like “surprise it’s TWO clowns” if this wasn’t designed Like That

i also can’t tell if they’re like, sharing the same pair of shoes or if they’re bizarre conjoined twin clowns or what the fuck is going on

fright in the box

I SAW THIS BOX EARLIER I DIDN’T KNOW THERE WAS A CLOWN IN IT i cant wait to go back and meet him. im not a big fan of jumpscare animatronics, though they are effective. i like that this guy doesnt seem to have any kind of body. he just looks like a spooky napkin. big beetlejuice vibes here i like him 7/10

tug-of-war

TWO OF THEM!!!

these guys are playfully fighting over a screaming child like brothers fighting over a teddy bear. the fact that they don’t move very fast or very violently makes it seem less threatening and more like they just want to play but are very bad at it which is endearing to me for some reason. i want to hang out with them. mostly im just trying to figure out what the fuck is happening with the right guy’s face though

what is going ON here. this might be among one of the weirdest clowns i have ever seen but hes so different and visually interesting i legitimately really like him. getting some strong jigsaw vibes from the other guy, i like him as well. i like his cute overalls. big fan of these guys. 10/10

waving wally

what a nice young man he doesnt jump out to scare you or threaten you hes just wavin. hi wally. he seems friendly i would hang out with him too. i like this one bc he has mostly pretty normal features/body proportions so he looks more believably like a regular guy instead of a Monster Clown Creature which i personally like a lot more. i like his empty void eyes a lot. not sure about the light up nose though. kind of a rudolph look going on there. i like his little hat. i dunno theres something very pleasant about wally hes simple and visually pleasing and he is my friend 10/10

crouchy

crouchy is such an unpleasant name and i feel like they coulda done better than just naming him after the position hes in but whatever. this guy’s a pretty generic monster clown, there’s not a lot of creativity going on here but if you want a nice monster clown for whatever occasion you need a monster clown for, he’s pretty good. he is VERY tall. the effect is pretty imposing in person, i met him last year. he doesn’t talk he just laughs. here to have a good time. 7/10

uncle charlie

look at this guy!!! i like him. i like his very spooky face combined with the big silly flower/etc. theres a nice jarring contrast there. kinda has almost the exact same head as crouchy though. he doesn’t jumpscare you either from what i can tell he just hangs out and looks ominous. hes my friend i like him 8/10

towering creepy clown

the description says his name is grimsli. i thought his neck ruffle was a bib at first. pretty generic but i like his noodly legs. 6/10 i feel like he may have been on display here last year too he looks familiar

peek-a-boo clown

he’s a clown, he’s spooky, he plays peekaboo. pretty straight forward. his movement is pretty smooth actually though. his outfit is hideous even by clown standards, but to the point i think it actually works for him somehow. his face looks more like a weird zombie than a clown to me but he DOES have rainbow swirly eyes so BIG props for that. 7/10

clown ferris wheel

LOOK AT THEM THEY’RE SO CUTE i love the ones with the empty soulless eyes. the fact that this doesn’t have any dialogue recorded or anything and the clowns just silently stare and spin around and around with a slightly off kilter circus tune looping makes it equally unsettling and hilarious. i legitimately want this thing. if i was rich and owned a house i would have this thing in my living room all year long and everyone who knows me would absolutely hate it. 10/10

also it doesnt look like they’re selling hugz the clown on their site right now which saddens me i hope he hasnt been discontinued :( i met him last year hes good and i like him as well

#clowns #spirit halloween #animatronics #long post #pinned

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thatonefanficwriternooneknows · 5 years

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Hi! i really loved your one piece fanfics and was wondering if youre still updating them ? if theres other stuff going on i completely understand, i don't mean to pressure you. thanks for writing such great fics!!

So the long and short of it is this:

I am a Graduate Student, with no job, too many bills, and effort in the low percentages.

I also have depression, and while it is mostly seasonal, it is sometimes not. This means that when I have a low, I don’t do anything but read. And I READ A LOT.

This also means that I am a horrible filthy fandom hopper.

In the past month I have been obsessed with Kingsman, Boku No Hero, Naruto (for some god forsaken reason), Eyeshield 21, Prince of Tennis, and the Hobbit....

All at separate times and never together because I can’t function like that.

So essentially I tend to write for whatever fandom I am currently in, and therefore have TONS of weird drabbles that really need to be feature length but remain incomplete.

My one piece fanfics are my babies and I love them. I am still working on them.

However.

My beta was my now ex-girlfriend. It was not a good break-up. I have issues not relating things I did with her then to unhappy emotions now...I’m getting better tho!!

So my One Piece stories stand like this:

Once in a Blind Eye: Discontinued pending a re-write. This is personal, because I can’t stand the writing in the first few chapters (it’s AWFUL I don’t know how people can read it...)

Corporate Cues: Part 2 and 3 are currently on Hiatus while i work on my other shenanigans.

Full Coverage: I love this fic! But the WRITER’S BLOCK IS REAL. I don’t like posting chapters that I don’t consider finished so Chapter 4 is sitting pretty in my docs at 3k words until I figure out my shit.

Mythicals: Like Corporate Cues, part 2 and 3 are on Hiatus while I work on SHENANIGANS.

Unnamed Piece I Didn’t Finish For The Big Bang This Year: .....I’ve had four chapters written since 2017 and it’s kind of just stayed there >.>

So yes, I will be continuing them EVENTUALLY. But my mind is stupid and I dunno when that’ll be! Thanks for reading and being a fan! Sorry I didn’t have a more positive answer!!

-Scream

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shafferangelina95 · 4 years

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trendyelle · 6 years

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What To Eat For Clear Skin& What Foods Will Wreak Havoc On Your Face

If youre anything like me, someone who is a grown-up adult considers their body like a trashcan, then you distinguish the daily strife that is doing whatever the fuck you miss while also wanting to have a great torso and great scalp. Lifes hard when you want to get fucked up at Ministers Ball but too gaze 100 years old in your Instagram story. Not that I would know. I did not go to Gov Ball, though I did expend the weekend “re going through” mimosas like water and gobbling sufficient food to get me my own TLC reality show. That being said, I want to change. I want to be a brand-new me. A better me. A me who applies actual vitamins and minerals into her arrangement so her scalp doesnt resemble the entire slice of pizza she feed last darknes. So heres a roll of foods you should avoid like an ex-boyfriend sliding into your DMs and foods you are able to embrace because theyll fix your fucking heads. Damn, Ive get bars. DONT: Devour Canned Food/ Meats Gross. As if. Like, who even ingests canned fleshes anymore? Other than my ex from college who had this weird preoccupation with eating vienna sausages( which, in hindsight, should have been a red-faced fucking flag that this girl was a sociopath. That and his Belk credit card that he was always boasting about ). Canned and/ or highly processed foods have a shit ton of sodium in them and generates your body to hold on to water, which is why your face is always puffy or you have pocketed under your eyes that can be seen from infinite, and your acne is at World War III proportions. DO: Eat Salmon Aside from giving you a reason to pretend to be a foodie and likewise be obnoxious on Instagram, chewing salmon is a sure method to get better searching skin. Salmon is rich with omega-3 fatty battery-acids and healthy paunches. These fatties strengthen cadre tissues and nourish the scalp to exclude you appearing fresh AF. DONT: Drink Green Juice Lol only because you often say shit like #FitLife and #CleanEating on your IG does not mean you know wtf is good for you, because SURPRISE all those juices youre boozing to cleanse your form are actually genuinely fucking bad for you. Juices are sugary as inferno, especially the dark-green juices which can have up to 50 grams of sugar in their own homes, which is actual destruction when it is necessary to having clear skin. ^ I dream every fitstagrammer when the find out they’ve been gushing liquid sugar into their synagogues bodies DO: Suck A Protein Smoothie Aside from having something to talk about with the red-hot trainer at your gym, protein smoothies can actually be beneficial for your surface. The more you are familiar with. Stay away from the juicer smoothies and opt for one with some protein in it. These the different types of smoothies are high in healthy paunches and wont leave your surface looking more ratchet than your Snap story last weekend. DONT: Eat Ice Cream Okay, this one I envisioned coming. Nothing that savours this good can be anything but destruction on your body. And since Im not on my point rn in control of my torso I approximate Im open to suggestions here. Ice cream is chock-full of sugar which can anatomy this fun act called advanced glycation end products which fucks up the protein in your organization. Why is that important you may ask? Because the proteins it fucks with the most are the ones that keep your skin plump and springy seeming. So mostly feeing ice cream is aging you.* stairs into oncoming commerce* DO: Eat Dark Chocolate Dark chocolate aka the DUD of chocolates has a fuck ton of antioxidants in it, which is v good for your scalp. So although it is feelings health and the whole day youll be bidding you two are devouring real chocolate with real flavor at least your surface will look good AF and protection against wrinkles and other bad shit. DONT: Drink Coffee HA HA HA HA this has to be some sort of sick parody. You want me to give up my will to live caffeine? Do you too want me to commit homicide the next time person replies all to a department email series? DO YOU? This one is tough for me to wrap my brain around because coffee is literally one of the only reasonableness I get out of bed in the morning, and consequently, the reason you get to experience this gleaming temperament. That being said, coffee is a diuretic( bogus news Im sure !) which causes your form to lose liquid and your skin to get v dehydrated. Stay away from this shit if you want glowy AF skin. DO: Drink Hot Lemon Water This replacement sounds about as good as the Republicans plan for health care but thats neither here nor there. Even though the prospect of booze hot lemon liquid know it sounds as tempting as sleeping with Jonathan The Tickle Monster, its actually super good for you. Its hydrating, full of antioxidants, and returns some much needed support efforts to your liver. Apparently, the liver is the main organ that detoxifies their own bodies and if youre full of poisons boozing on periods that discontinue in Y, youre more likely to break out. Sighs. And this is why we cant have nice things. DONT: Eat Bagels Okay, Im starting to feel personally victimized by such lists. Like, is person looking at my bank word and be careful to ensure that I invest a great amount of my down time in coffee shops and/ or bagel patronizes? Because Im feeling certainly assaulted rn. Apparently, bagels are the worst for your skin and can lead to a cascade of hormones aka acne breakouts for dates.* prays this is imitation information* DO: Eat Non-Processed Carbs or Oats Tbh Id preferably starve than eat something that resembles animal feed but I guess thats the rate we pay to look like the “after” girl in an acne commercial-grade. Oats are the right various kinds of carbs probs because it looks miserable to eat and also because its high in antioxidants which weve launched will not only give you clear/ glowy surface but too opposes against anti-aging. DONT: Drink Soda To utterly no ones stun except my own because I refuse to read descriptions written by health professionals people who are out to destroy my happiness, soda is bad for you. And only because you booze diet soda doesnt mean youre safe. Because diet soda specially interrupts the necessary and healthy bacteria found in your gut. Likewise boozing any sort of soda are actually fuck with your scalp. Like, reason rosacea, eczema, and acne fuck with your surface. K. Just fuck me up rn then. Too, wtf am I supposed to order at the bar to go along with my vodka then? I cant exactly suck vodka straight-out. I want to have clearer skin , not succumb. DO: Drink Kombucha Finally something that appears good on my Instagram story and isnt going to fuck up my surface. About damn day. Basically Kombucha is good for you because its fermented, and therefore full of probiotics, which will solve all your life troubles. Im paraphrasing, but still. If you miss clear scalp by the time this weekend’s brunch moves around then chug some of this and pretend like its alcohol something you experience drinking. So, in conclusion, anything that brings you delight is likely fucking up your scalp and you should cut it from your diet ASAP. I am feeling #blessed rn that alcohol did not oblige the index, but thats mainly because I refused to do any actual study that would testify otherwise. Who says you cant realize your own predestination? Listen, if all else miscarries and you have no self control dont want to relinquish your joy theres ever Facetune. Read more: www.betches.com http://selfhelpantiagingtips.com/what-to-eat-for-clear-skin-what-foods-will-wreak-havoc-on-your-face-12/

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vitalmindandbody · 7 years

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Tragic, fascinating, bright- living for’ wild progeny’ Zelda Fitzgerald revisited

Two films and a TV line out soon portray the life of the jazz-age novelist and spouse of F Scott Fitzgerald

She is thought of as the original wild child, a pearl-twirling defendant girl who died at the age of 47 after a ardor broke out in the North Carolina sanatorium where she was a patient. Now Zelda Fitzgerald, the southern belle grew jazz-age heroine, dubbed the first American flapper by her husband and partner-in-drink Scott, is to have her own Hollywood make-over two films are in the pipeline and a television series will air on Amazon Prime early next year.

All three activities have starry appoints fixed: Jennifer Lawrence will take the lead in Zelda , a biopic directed against Ron Howard and based on Nancy Milfords best-selling biography; Scarlett Johansson will bob her fuzz for The Beautiful and The Damned ; and Christina Ricci will play young persons and impetuous Zelda in the Amazon series Z: The Beginning of Everything. The designation of the TV serial comes from Scotts awestruck provide comments on meet Zelda: I love her, and thats the beginning and end of everything.

So what is it about Zelda that fascinates nearly 70 times after her sad discontinue? In persona it is that the turmoils the couple lived through find an echo in our own hectic times.

Interest in the Fitzgeralds will no doubt been on the projected increase is not simply since Baz Luhrmanns film of The Great Gatsby in 2013 but too from the many parallels between their lives and production and the period were living through right now, does Sarah Churchwell, author of the critically acclaimed Careless Parties: Slaying, Mayhem and The Invention of the Great Gatsby .

Its a narrative of thunder and bust and it resonates as “were about” grappling with our own boom and failure, our own concern about the cost of our extravagances and our own social lacks. The lives and lucks of Scott and Zelda peculiarly mimicked their periods: in the 1920 s they were roaring for all they were value, but with the clang in 1929, everything descended apart.

It helps, too, that Zelda was so vibrant a digit. It begins with her beauty, does Churchwell. But likewise with the floors told in the 1920 s about the high jinks and recreation she and Scott seemed to have. Beings really liked her: she was surprising, intelligent, astute, amusing and adoration a good defendant. She too liked to be the centre of attention, and so had her detractors very. These occasions combined to draw her a legend.

Scott repeatedly returned to their relationship in his myth, most notably in his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned , which details the exhilarating early days of their union; and his mournful fourth, Tender Is The Night , in which the gilded daydream has faded into a more tawdry reality. Zeldas simply novel, Save Me The Waltz , presented the relationship from her side.

They were arguably Americas first fame pairing: a carefree golden couple who wrote their course into the spotlight, composing their own myth of gin-soaked days and fun-filled nights, simply to linger too long once the light-headed had started to dim. Their recklessness sees the fib exciting and dramatic, announces Churchwell. But they paid a the highest price.

After a few giddy times, all the youthful promise deteriorated away, leaving Scott a perplexed and drunk jobbing hack in Hollywood and delivering Zelda to breakdown at the age of 30, a diagnosis of schizophrenia , now widely thought to be a bipolar illness, and a life in and out of sanatoriums.

Her story is both fascinating and unfortunates, announces Therese Anne Fowler, on whose novel Z the Amazon series is based. Here we have a woman whose flairs and vitality and ability “shouldve been” became her a brilliant success, who was determined to be an accomplished creator, columnist and ballet dancer in an age where married girls were supposed to be wives and fathers, period. Her devotion to Scott was, in many ways, her undoing[ although] he was just as imprisoned as she was. Had they adored each other less, they might both have come to better ends.

The idea of Zelda as a bright girl caught by her period has gained traction in recent years, with a number of pieces re-evaluating her through the prism of feminism although it is not always the most wonderful of fits. As early as 1974, the couples daughter Scottie refused such affirms, writing that to make efforts to vistum her baby as a classic put-down spouse, whose efforts to express her quality were frustrated by a normally male chauvinist husband were no longer accurate.

Writing in the New Yorker in 2013, Molly Fischer agreed , mention: Saving Zelda Fitzgerald is no easy-going proposition …[ she] does not want to be anyones baby, and theres something mortifying about the literary readiness to domesticate her, to alter an irritating girl into an appealing heroine.

The new films may well further Hollywoodise Zelda, sanding away her bumpy borders and reinventing her as a relatable heroine for our modern times. The molding of Lawrence so often was regarded as Americas Sweetheart in the Howard biopic is no accident.

A report about the upcoming Johansson film in the Hollywood Reporter suggested it would draw on previously unreleased cloth to indicate that her husband stole his wifes ideas as his own.

Mark Gill, chairwoman of Millennium Films, the production fellowship behind The Beautiful and The Damned , agrees : She was massively ahead of her time and she took a defeat for it. He plagiarized her ideas and gave them in his notebooks. The wedding was a codependency from blaze with a jazz-age soundtrack. The movie has, nonetheless, secured the co-operation of the Fitzgerald estate.

Fowler agrees that there is a thriving propensity to utilize our own concerns to Zelda. We do anoint her as a kind of proto-feminist heroine, even though she didnt visualize herself as a feminist and didnt fully attain at anything, she supposes. But her original honour is based on conventional paternalistic standards of what the status of women, baby and bride ought to be and do. Her desires and her insistence on prosecuting them were considered inappropriate and undesirable; after her psychopathic crack she was literally told that this insistence had created her divide psyche and that the path to a antidote lay in giving up all passions that didnt conform to the paternalistic ideal.

Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence and Christina Ricci are all set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in the forthcoming yields The Beautiful and the Damned, Zelda and Z: The Beginning of Everything. Composite: Getty Images

The backlash against this image is understandable considering the fact that popular opinion of Zelda was initially driven by Ernest Hemingways notoriously corrosive descriptions in A Moveable Feast , produced posthumously in 1964, in which he dismissed her as insane and accused Scotts flourishing dependence on beverage on his wife.

Our perception has very much changed, mentions Churchwell. We have come to sympathise with her frustration, to recognise her endows and has become still more fair-minded about her alternatives. That mentioned, she cautions against attempts to create a Team Scott/ Team Zelda divide, as is so often the subject in famed literary partnerships. Its important to say that they always desired each other and wouldnt have appreciated beings taking slopes Fitzgerald wrote a few years before he was dead that it was a moral obligation that their friends understood they were a pair, a component and would abide that behavior, even if her illness necessitate they couldnt live together.

Churchwell is also scathing about attempts to suggest Zelda had a larger role in her husbands make than previously presumed. There are people who want to credit Zelda with Scotts work, which is just silly and doesnt do females any prefers, she mentions. Its not a zero-sum competition: we can recognise both of them for who they were.

Zelda had many aptitudes, but where writing was pertained she was probably extremely ill when she started to hone her gifts, and while it is true that Scott didnt especially want her to write partly out of territoriality but partly because medical doctors told him it was bad for her its also true-life that her work isnt in the same class as his. Her individual sentences are often lovely, and she can create a humor and has clever comes of phrase but her makes tend to be sketches rather than full stories. If they had acquired different selections, perhaps she could have been an important scribe, but current realities is that she wasnt.

Perhaps, then, the real key to Zeldas resumed pull on our imagination lies not in her design but in her modernity. I dont want to live I want to cherish firstly and live incidentally, she extol and it is that verve and desire for all of lifes know-hows, both good and bad, that unfolds down over the decades, granting each generation to see something new.

Z: The Beginning of Everything will air on Amazon Prime early next year

THEY SAID

I have rarely known the status of women who uttered herself so delightfully and freshly: she had no ready-made words on the one side and no striving for outcome on the other. Critic Edmund Wilson

I fell in love with her fearlessnes, her honesty and her flame self-respect, and its these happenings I would believe in even if the whole world pandered in wild surmises that she wasnt all that she should be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

I did not have a single inclination of insignificance, or shyness, or disbelief, and no moral principles.

All I miss is to be very young always and very irresponsible, and to feel that my life is my own to live and be happy and croak in my own direction to delight myself.

Other families ideas of us are dependent predominantly on what theyve hoped for.

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Microsoft’s new dog-labeling app presents hilarious outcomes for cats and presidential candidates

By now, most of us have given up on our annual January attempts to molted some of the plethora weight our widespread holiday feasting slapped on us. We’ve held dieting a shot. We’ve affected the gym. The most frantic of us may have even dipped with fucking CrossFit. Yet as the weeks go by, we’re gradually adjusted to our brand-new, slightly portlier illustrations and hearing to espouse the additional padding.

At least, that’s how most of us role. A select few will take one last-place, pathetic stair and decide to give working out at home a try. You know, because the driving to and from the gym is what certainly suctions about works out. Not everyone can afford to shell out for their own cardio machine and an array of weights, though, and opt instead to offer still-obscene dollar amounts for fruitless machines that predict a shortcut to health and fitness. For precedent …

HTAG 1 TT# 5. Osim iGallopHETAG 1 TT

Do you like horseback riding, but hate the notion of owning and caring for a giant swine? That … actually forms feel. Riding’s pretty good exercise, but horses are a hassle unless you happen to have a handy stable nearby, which you don’t. Also, a pony devour and turds, and keeping up with both expenditures about as much as a car remittance every month.

Way less happy to place a bullet in your vehicle where reference is breaks down, though . It’s not the ideal setup for the occasional 20 -minute workout, is what I’m adding. So why not get a phony mare? I’m not speak about kids’ rocking horse, or one of those mechanical police western-themed prohibits are so fond of( although if you have the chamber and money, sacred shit, utterly buy a mechanical cop ). “Theres” designs out there that simulate your body’s push during going, minus the “hanging on for dear life” constituent — which, come to think of it, is approximately 99 percent of the exercising you get from pony journeying. Oh well. Still, maybe products such as the iGallop aren’t a ended waste of time. Let’s appreciate what the ads say it can do TAGEND

… um. Ma’m? I’m not sure if you’re well informed it, but there’s no way you’re performing in an ad for a fitness product. Maybe that’s what you were hired for, but that’s either a Jessica Simpson video or the first times of a softcore porn flick. There’s no way whatever the hell you’re sitting on is a machine for “exercise, ” and even less of a chance told machine doesn’t vibrate.

OK, perhaps I’m being a little unfair. Maybe that shabby GIF is just an anomaly, and the product’s official promo draws don’t make it looks just like a orgasmatron.

Wrong !

I’m not saying this is necessarily a bad product. Few happenings that are designed to stimulate your ass slimmer are without at least a bit inherent ethic. Still, I don’t care how great a core manager this thing is — if you’re willing to move $400 at it, you might as well protrude it in a neighbourhood of honor in your living room and perhaps glue a few dildos on it. Because there’s no way in blaze any person who has considers it is going to believe it’s anything but a fancy Sybian.

HTAG 2 TT# 4. The Face TrainerHETAG 2 TT

SkyMall is a gift that stops on giving for enterprising slapstick websites. Their sales are comprised of 70 percent panicked knack orders, 30 percentage irony, and 100 percentage is just so endured and/ or drunk that ordering wine glass incumbent necklaces for your entire extended family seems like a funny meaning. Still, at least the company generally restraint its antics to the kind of clever-but-not-quite-useful trash Billy Mays had an opportunity to peddled back in the working day. It’s not like their target audience is more into the fitness marke–

Oh, god dammit .

Yes, that is a workout concealment for your face muscles. And yes , it works by working “proven principals of resistance trained to facial muscles” — which, let’s face it, is just a fancy terminology for “It’s a really fucking tight disguise, and now you have to represent faces. Cause us money.” The Face Trainer promises to take years off you, which is a claim I actually amply imagine, because there’s no way you won’t get chased off a cliff by a torch-wielding syndicate if you go out in public wearing this thing, doing frenetic Frankenstein faces to keep it from suffocating you.

Unfortunately, it looks like the product was too stupid for even SkyMall, since it’s nowhere to be found on their area today. Or is it ? A search with the keyword “trainer” gives me a bunch of Mad Max -themed neon trikes, panicking elliptical trainers with random lines, a Star Wars “Force trainer” because of fucking course, and … the “Tribal Style Giraffe Mask.”

Look at the Tribal Style Giraffe Mask. Look at it TAGEND Somewhere, the Jigsaw Killer is furiously masturbating .

There’s no way that act won’t slimed the shit out of your face the second you try it on, likely bear-trap-style. And you will try it on, if simply to stillness its constant whispering in eldritch tongues.

HTAG 3 TT# 3. ViPRHETAG 3 TT So you’re marching down the common early in the morning, doing something I generously presuppose is not crime-related, when you abruptly come across groupings of creepy fitness types waving immense records around.( Oh, get your sentiment out of the trough .) Like so TAGEND

“You won’t get away this time, Cobra Commander! ”

Hahahahahaha! What the actual fucking is going on? Did you stumble upon a Warriors -style territorial engagement between two 1980 s-themed CrossFit cliques? A no-budget Masters Of The Universe LARP?

Nothing that sane, I’m afraid. You’ve exactly watched the ViPR in action, and things aren’t going to get any better once those people actually start moving.

If you didn’t watch that video, two things. One: Delight do; you owe it to yourself. Two: That precise same convict, exclusively much louder.

The ViPR infomercial is a simple piece of work at heart.

Surely .

Basically, it’s several spandex-clad fitness enthusiasts doing the Stormtrooper stun baton twirl …

No need to click that relation. It searched exactly like this in the movie .

… simulating everyday pleasures such as shoveling …

I feel ?

… and even clumsily engaging in some of that bullshit Klingon pretend fighting in which they slap each others’ bat’leths and expect parties to be impressed.

Nerds !

Only they don’t have dazed wands, or scoops, or unwieldable blade things. They’re doing everything there is with a fucking log. Called ViPR . I entail, I imagine the record is called ViPR, but maybe I misconstrue something and it’s actually the true reputation of the entity that possesses all these beings and obliges them to do stupid shit for our amusement.

Example .

Again, I’m not saying this stupidly-named fucking thought is inevitably a bad produce at heart. It has a number of gaps that it declarations moves it fully consistent with a number of other incomprehensibly-named gadgets the more impressionable gym might boast, so I guess you can at the least join all those bullshit events into a monstrous Voltron of uselessness when you inevitably get bored with it. It’s just that if you’re trying to get in shape, I’d wager there are better ways to go about it than an exercise implement that moves you look like the Star Wars Kid grew up and connected a fraternity.

RTAG 34 TTRead more:

It’s easy to think of Microsoft as a giant, boring corporation that is good at the boring trash but bad at everything else. Over the past several months, though, the computing monstrous has shown off a bit personality with its artificial intelligence projectsthe latest of which is made to identify dog engenders.

Fetch !, the latest be applied in A.I. are derived from the quirky and experimental change arm called Microsoft Garage, can take any scene you shed at it and develop an trained guess at what dog is in the epitome. It’s facial acknowledgment but for pups.

The app, available on Web and mobile, also provides some fragments of information for each produce, discontinuing lore on a dog’s disposition, size, coat and what types of houses are best suited for each.

Fetch! differentiates the first crack at animal discovery from Microsoftprior to it, the company rolled out several apps specific for identifying information about humen. Using its neural networks scaffold, Microsoft created tools that guess a person’s age, identifies twinneds, and detects passions in facial expressions.

So how accurate is Fetch? Stick with purebred bird-dogs and it’s pretty good.

Microsoft Fetch

Mixed reproduces threw the app for a loop.

Microsoft Fetch

Dogs in disguise can beat the algorithms.

Microsoft Fetch

It didn’t do enormous with caricature dogs…

Microsoft Fetch

… though in it’s justification, Charlie B. Barkin from All Dogs Go to Heaven was technically dead and Snoopy was acting as a World War I fighter pilot, so Fetch! is rightthere are no pups to be found in those images.

Fetch! also thinks every feline is a pomeranian.

Microsoft Fetch

It might not be for felines, but Microsoft tones Fetch! isn’t just for dogsit’s for humen as well. “Just for recreation, we include a mode that would allow us to find out what hound engenders you and your friends are, ” the app description reads.

It’s smart of Microsoft to include that in its programming a room be held accountable for photographs of parties, because that’s exactly what everyone was going to heave at the app anyway. There’s simply one real practice to take advantage of that boast to the best of its ability: by throwing the remaining presidential candidates at it.

Microsoft Fetch

“Gets along with just about everyone” couldn’t be further from the truth for Ted Cruz, a follower who has managed to irritate even his closest friends in the U.S. Senate. But “eager to please” is mostly how his foe Marco Rubio described him on the campaign trail, saying he is “willing to say or do anything that are intended to win.”

Microsoft Fetch

“Face of a werewolf.” Yep, that checks out.

Microsoft Fetch

Rubio is the youngest party extending for chairwoman, so energetic and anxious fit him well. And his path to succes is in need of him to soak up voters from lesser nominees as they drop out of the hasten, which is basically preying on small-scale swine. He’s emphatically vocalhe just seems to say the same circumstance over and over again when he now open the mouth.

Microsoft Fetch

Jeb Bush( likely the inspiration for the Retrieve! mention with his Jeb! branding) is the real golden retriever here , not Ted Cruz. He’s just waiting for the voters to realize that.

Microsoft Fetch

John Kasich has been in politics for a very long time. He knows the game. Has it all precisely been an ongoing distraction to keep him from rending up tissues in the trash bin?

Microsoft Fetch

Bernie Sanders is no other candidate passing for chairman who isn’t beholden to the Big MilkBone manufacture. He wants to give every person the opportunity to be a good dog.

Microsoft Fetch

Everyone knows Hillary Clinton’s resume. They know what she’s reached and what she wants to do. But to earn the confidence of the voters, she is going to have to finally answer the issues to: is she a rough or smooth collie?

Photo via Microsoft

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There's An App For That: Media Programs and Cheaper Alternatives

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There's An App For That: Media Programs and Cheaper Alternatives

My job as Director of Media, Communications, and Technology means that I have to handle a lot of tasks that involve a lot of different things. I’m in charge of getting CD and DVD Messages together, creating and updating multiple websites, creating advertisements, running internet social networks, and sending our newsletters and e-letters. In all of this I have to work with a lot of different applications. Frequently I’m asked how we do this. After being asked a few times I’ve decided to put all the information together in a list. And since I realize not everyone has the money to buy Photoshop and a bunch of other high priced apps, I’ve put in some cheaper and free alternatives. This may not be the best way, the easiest way, the most popular way, but for now, it’s how we do things.

Graphic Design

The number one program that we use at work for graphic design is Adobe’s Photoshop. If you don’t know, Photoshop is the end all, to be all program. Every professional graphic designer either uses it or wishes they did. If they don’t, then they are the exception to the world. We use Photoshop for every visual print or web graphic, and even some in our DVD menus. Our message inserts, advertisements, and some more things are all done with Photoshop. I’ll get to the ‘more things’ later.

Though we use Photoshop, I understand not everyone can. Photoshop ranges from around $500 to $1500 depending on the suite and the version. You can get the normal Photoshop or an Extended version that does 3D and some other stuff, which costs more. If you get the design standard suite, you also get Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and Bridge. Bridge is a program for organizing files, Illustrator creates and edits vector files, while InDesign does your desktop publishing. Acrobat makes and edits PDF files. All of these are professional standard programs. This means the magazines you see on the racks at Walmart, are probably made using this software (in some way, shape, or form). Photoshop also has a ‘lite’ version called Photoshop Elements, but if you’re serious about graphic design, I’d pass on it. Now if you want an alternative to this, you can always Google “free alternative to Photoshop.” But one of the big alternatives to Photoshop is a program called Gimp. For a free program, I’ve heard wonderful things about it. There’s also Krita, Adobe Photoshop Express (free web-based program), and Photoscape (among many others).

If you’re looking for alternatives to Illustrator, you can check out a program called Inkscape. It’s along the same lines as Gimp. And again, for a free program, pretty good. Again, you can do some Google searches and come up with some good stuff I’m sure. If you’re looking to buy a graphics program and don’t want to pay the high cost for Photoshop, you can do that too. There’s Paintshop Pro, Pixelmator, Pixel Image Editor, and many more.

I’m going to wait until I get to talking about how we do our newsletters to say anything about alternatives to InDesign.

Photography

As you probably can tell, I do a lot of photography. If you do a lot of photography or just do some and want to streamline the whole process, then I recommend Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. However at a price tag of $300, unless you do a lot of photography and need to edit your photos a lot, then you may just want to stick with doing this in a cheaper/free graphics program. There is a free program out there called DarkTable that tries to mimic some of the features of Lightroom. You can give it a try. I used it for about a week off and on before I decided to fork out the cash for Lightroom.

Since I’m putting this list together, I might as well add this. If you want to do some stylized photos and want to try some HDR, then check out Photomatix. It’s gotta a pretty price tag on it too – the Pro version is $100. But they do have another version that sells around $40 I believe. But if you’re going to get it, go all out. If you want to do some HDR, there are some alternatives. Nik’s software has a piece of software called HDR Efex Pro, however, it’s more than Photomatix. There’s three free alternatives that I know of, but they are free and it kind of shows. There’s Luminance HDR or QTPFSGUI as it’s also called, Picturenaut, and Essential HDR.

Desktop Publishing

To make our newsletters we have used several different programs in the past. At one point we were using MS Publisher, which is what we currently use to make our e-letter. To do that, we create it in MS Publisher, then export it to MS Outlook to send out through email via MS Office’s features. Currently though, we use Apple’s Pages, which is part of Apple’s iWork suite. We occasionally Adobe InDesign as well whenever we do magazines. Scribus is a free, open-source program for page layout that you could use as an alternative to those. If you want a free, open-source office suit, try Open Office.

Audio/Video Editing

To edit our CD messages, we use SoundForge. However we used to use the free Audacity program. And for all of our video editing we use Final Cut Studio. Apple just came out with a new version of Final Cut Pro, which we don’t care for really. We’ve decided to stick with version 7 for all of our stuff. So for all of our video production, we use Final Cut Pro to do the editing and importing. To burn it to a DVD we’ve used a variety of things. To do a complete and professional DVD in the office, we use the programs that come in the Final Cut Studio suite. Those pieces of software include Soundtrack for composing music, Motion to do motion graphics, and DVD Studio Pro to actually make the DVD. However if you want to do some video editing you can try the free Avidemux, which does simple video editing. You could also look at HyperEngine-AV (Mac only).

Also, check out Light Works. It’s still in beta and is only available for PC, but by the end of the summer it is supposed to be on Mac as well. Also, it’s the video editor that was used to edit “The King’s Speech,” so you know it’s good. To make your own music on the computer you can use the Soundtrack program mentioned above, as well as Apple’s Logic Pro and Logic Express (both are meant for professional musicians, while Soundtrack is just meant to add a score to your videos) As far as free software, there isn’t much. But for video editing and audio editing you can check out some of Adobe’s Creation Suite. They have Premiere for video editing and Audition for Audio editing. Premiere comes in three versions as well – Elements, Express, and Pro. There’s also After Effects for motion graphics. Avid has ProTools and ProTools LE for audio creation and editing. You can also check out Sony’s software – Acid for audio creation, and Vegas for video editing, andDVD Architect for DVD and BluRay creation.

Web Design

Like all other areas of media, there’s a lot of options. For web design, the options are as limitless as Google search results. However, this is what we do. To actually create our web site we use a Photoshop plug-in called Sitegrinder. This plug-in takes Photoshop files and converts them into HTML websites. From here we edit anything that needs to be edited in the code using various text editors. Right now I’m jumping back and forth between TextWrangler and Aptana Studio (both free). Of course if you invest in Adobe’s Creative Suite, you can use Dreamweaver to build your websites and get a visual and a code design interface. There’s cheaper alternatives to Dreamweaver though. Check out Coda, Espresso, RapidWeaver, and TextMate for Mac. You can also look into Web Image Studio, EditPlus. You can also just do a Google search for “alternatives to dreamweaver.”

If you’re looking for a free version, you can try Kompozer. I’ve tried it and I don’t care for it much, but you may be different. You could also look into Amaya, Bluefish Editor, Screem, and as I mentioned earlier, Aptana Studio.

After you get everything edited and fixed up you’ll need an ftp client to upload the site and most likely, you don’t want to use your host’s ftp. We use cyberduck, which works on PC and Mac. You can look into fetch and Filezilla also, as well as classicFTP.

Podcasting

Many people want to do podcast today as well. We actually take our messages and turn them into podcast, instead of actually recording programs in a studio or something like that. To do that, we edit the message as described above and then we cut them into podcasts and attached intro and exit tags in either Soundtrack or Garage Band. We then upload it using iWeb. However, with Apple discontinuing iWeb in 2012, we’ll have to figure out another way, which I’ll then probably update on here then.

That’s about it for now. I’ll update later on Mobile App Development, which we’ve started looking into recently. Now, the professional paid version of all these pieces of software is always going to have more features and be better, but the free, open-source versions aren’t really that bad in themselves. But with a little research, Google-ing, and asking others who have been there, you can find a toolbox of programs that works best for you.

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