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dairy-farmer · 12 days

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Just thought of this the other day but: Tim has never liked school, especially since he's skipped a few grades. Being a freshman in high school at 12 is kind of super awful. So he asks his parents if he can drop out, get his GED, and then focus more time on stuff like studying the family business and whatnot (and taking pictures of bat and bird themed vigilantes at night but shhhh his parents don't need to know that)

One of his parents, Janet probably, makes a "joke" about how the only way they would ever, ever let Tim drop out of school was if he did something scandalous that they didn't want to be made public. Jack then chimes in with a laugh like "better keep those legs closed then, son!" and Tim can't tell if the scandal would be word coming out that Timothy Jackson Drake is a slut, or if he got pregnant while in high school

So he tries his luck, sleeps around (safely, at first), and word gets around his school that Tim is a whore who will give it up to basically anyone. It gets to the point where, when he's waiting for his bus one rainy day, one of the dad's of an upperclassman (who Tim has ridden more than a handful of times) offers Tim a ride home. He has to wait for his son to be done with practice anyway, but that's not for another hour. So Tim hops in, and apparently his reputation precedes him, bc not five minutes later the older man has pulled over somewhere semi-private and Tim is riding him fast and hard. So yeah, word spreads fast that Tim is a slut. Yet his parents don't say a thing when they come back into town save a single comment from Janet like "no... accidents, Timothy?" and he finally realizes what will work

He waits for his parent's next trip abroad a few days later, and he spends the next few weeks getting railed by any and everyone with a cock. Not much different from his usual, but he forgoes condoms and stops taking birth control. He desperately needs to get pregnant! Once he's knocked up, his parents will pull him out of school and he can finally drop out!

It doesn't take long at all for his belly and tits to start swelling, and by the time his parents are home he's almost five months along and they have him start school from home. To his dismay tho, they plan to have him re-enrolled for the second semester of his Sophomore year, where he'll be around two to three months postpartum. They hire a hush hush nanny to take care of the baby, but Tim is pissed! All that hard work wasted, he swelled up and got heavy with who knows whose baby, yet he still has to go to school?!

Clearly he needs to take drastic measures, and so he goes and gets himself knocked up again, still not knowing the father. So he's big and heavy with child, not quite 15 years old, and with a seven month old baby suckling from his fat, heavy tits. His parents are upset but refuse to let the scandal get out, and so Tim grows nice and round with a second random person's baby while staying home, not worrying about school, just raising his first baby and growing his second one

(ofc when Tim gives birth he feels... Empty. He has an ache, a NEED to swell up nice and plump with another sweet little baby. Who needs school when he can lay back, spread his legs, and get filled up by as many cocks as he can take?)

tim being so desperate to escape being around teenagers and their petty highshcool dramas that he sets out to become a slut and then a mommy if thats what it will take to get him out of wearing a uniform 5 days a week. and it takes two for him to get and even though now he's allowed to stay home and has permanently gotten out of school he's also feeling...aches of want. because before he was getting fucked once a day ad minimum but now he was down to zero...

and so maybe tim starts getting restless and sets his eyes on his new neighbors because tim's parents have moved him out of his apartment in the middle of gotham so some rich people neighborhood just outside the city. and jason who has heard of tim's reputation is maybe a little curious when that doe eyed boy waves at him when jason was taking out the trash....

tim is horny and jason is there for the taking <3

#answered asks #asks #anonymous

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ectonurites · 3 years

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If I'm not mistaken, you said that Kon maybe Tim's oldest friend (as in, they were friends the longest), so I wanted to ask, how long in universe would that be?

I think you’re referencing when I mentioned that Kon met Tim first out of the core four, in Superboy/Robin: World’s Finest Three in 1996. (also of note tho is Bart & Tim separately met in I thiiiink the same month. Both WF3 & Robin plus Impulse have the same cover month/year date, which while cover dates are usually like 2 months after the actual publishing date, having the same cover date indicates the same publishing time too. But then Kon met Bart the next year in Superboy and the Ravers #7) Technically both of them had other friends before each other though in their respective solo comics and stuff.

Now, comics time in-universe is tricky and for pretty much anything like this it involves a lot of guesswork. So what I did here was try to make a vaguely coherent timeline of when Tim ages in comics to use as a basis (not trying to standardize it to make sense though, I just mean trying to find the spots in the comics where he’s got an age stated/implied) since trying to use Kon’s ages would be even worse bc clone shit

BUT SO, using their ages at various times lets put it in a vague timeline, I’ll explain where the ages came from after I just want it without the clutter first:

At the time Kon is created (already at age ‘16’) Tim is 14 years old.

Kon has existed for at least one year before he meets Tim, although he does not age thus is still ‘16’. Based on Tim’s comic it makes sense that Tim would be 15 by the time they do meet. This ‘year’ Young Justice occurs

Tim turns 16 the same ‘year’ their Teen Titans group starts, Kon is now capable of aging after events of Young Justice but off the top of my head I don’t know when/if we learn he’s now ‘17’. During this same ‘year’, Kon is killed

By the time after One Year Later, Kon is still dead and Tim is now 17. However, in this same ‘year’, Kon gets brought back during Final Crisis and Tim becomes Red Robin after Bruce’s apparent death. But now there’s time travel and resurrection stuff involved in Kon’s age so like, do not ask me how old he is here. Technically at this point the Kon that comes back to life spent 1000 years in a healing coma after his death 🤷 About 17 is my best guess but I’ve read a lot of stuff with Kon in this era recently and have no clue exactly how old he’s supposed to be. This is the last year of pre-reboot.

So, in short, Tim & Kon knew each other for around 2 full years plus definitely some more months, probably closer to 3 years. However, Kon was dead for around a year during that. I know this seems short, and it is, but considering Tim’s entire Robin career is apparently only 4 years (age 13-17) like, it’s vaguely proportional to that. Comics time makes no sense because them knowing each other spanned about 16 years of publishing time (1996-2011) which is why it feels so like it should be so much longer.

Now lets expand on the reasoning for the ages I assigned to them at these times:

Kon was introduced in 1993 (Reign of the Supermen) and at this time we know Tim was already Robin. In 1991 during Robin II #1, Tim is said to be in 9th grade. In the US (and I even specifically checked a New Jersey parents guide about picking schools on this too) students typically enter high school at age 14, and especially considering Tim’s birthday is in the summer he’ll be on the younger end of his grade. Making him approximately 14 at that time, while Kon is biologically 16 but chronologically only 16 weeks old.

Kon celebrates his one year ‘birthday’ in 1995 (Superboy Annual 2) meaning he’s chronologically a year old at that time, however he’s still biologically 16 due to the fact he doesn’t age. In 1994, in Robin issue #23, Tim goes back to school after a previous arc took place in the summer (he went to ninja camp. dork). This heavily implies he is now in his sophomore year, meaning he’d be about 15.

So that brings us to WF3 where Kon and Tim first meet in 1996, Kon would be chronologically about a year old while biologically 16, and Tim would be 15. This carries them through Young Justice and into the early 2000s, staying these same ages.

In 2003 in Robin #116, Tim celebrates his 16th birthday. This is also the same year that their Teen Titans comic started. Tim does not age again until after Kon is dead, his death occuring in 2006. I could not find an age for Kon in this era so we can just assume that even though he’s now capable of aging, he just hasn’t yet.

By the time after One Year Later & Final Crisis, when Kon has come back to life and Tim has moved on to become Red Robin around 2009, we know Tim is 17 (mentioned in Red Robin and I believe also in earlier comics too but I just. know that for sure off the top of my head it’s mentioned in #25). The way Kon got brought back included time travel so it’s... complicated gauging how old he is, especially when it’s not specifically said on panel. However he is in high school, likely in his Junior or Senior year.

So yeah, somewhere between 2 and 3 years.

It doesn’t really make sense but this is the best guess I can put forward! if anyone has other ideas/theories/corrections feel free to add on, again this is a lot of guesswork

#Anonymous

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jaybirbmoved · 4 years

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Jason Todd’s Age

So, as of DC Rebirth, Jason is supposedly twenty years old.

Of course on my blog I like to dismiss most of the finer canon details while keeping the story lines, filling them in with my own shit, because I can. I know their ages keep getting changed and the timeline is made shorter and shorter because they want to keep Bruce like, 40 years old forever, but that’s stupid too (if you want him to be spry and young you could just point to all the mystical bullshit he’s been involved in as a reason why he’s not age while his kids are, but whatever).

On my blog, there are the ages I generally use: Dick is 25-ish, Jason is between 20-22, Tim is 17-19, and Damian who has actually been shown celebrating birthdays is between 10-13 depending on the comic. As blog default I make Jason chronologically 23, and I periodically update his ‘birth year’ to keep up with that, which... should probably remove that altogether because the comics are so all over the place there’s no point in giving any of them a year of birth.

Anyways, back to the main point of this.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that there’s no way in hell that Jason would/could look his actual age. DC insists on trying to cram ten years worth of storyline into a three year period, but since Jason was brought back into the main comic continuity in 2010, a lot has happened. I call bullshit on him having been Robin, died, come back, taken over Gotham’s criminal underground, formed two separate teams and had half a dozen clashes with the family before getting on good terms with them again, been part of Batman Inc, all in less than six years, that’s just fucking dumb.

Even ignoring the fact that my personal canon for him a mash up of Post-Crisis origins and the current New-52/Rebirth continuity, it wouldn’t make sense for Jason to be 20. For starters, Post-Crisis Jason Todd died when he was 15, this is undisputed due to it being mentioned a few times. It says he

According to his death certificate, it was April during Death In The Family (assuming Bruce didn’t take a while to forge a cover story for his death and he actually was killed earlier than that). Jason’s birthday is in August, meaning he died roughly four months before his sixteenth birthday. According to the end of Under The Hood, Superboy’s punch altered reality and Jason woke up in his coffin six months after his death. For the sake of argument, we’ll say it was exactly six months.

This means he woke up on October 26th, roughly 2.10 months after he was supposed to turn sixteen. During that time, he obviously couldn’t mentally or physically age while dead. He spends about a year comatose, a little under a year as a homeless amnesiac after waking up from the coma, and then another year with Talia as she tries to get him to recover from his brain injury. Chronologically he would have been around 18 when Talia shoved him into the Lazarus Pit, which seems about right. So minus the six months he spent dead, that means he’s about seventeen and a half physically speaking, and still 15 mentally/emotionally due to his development being stunted by trauma.

Now, we know the Lazarus Pit can cure diseases, heal injuries, and also resurrect the dead. However, it was mainly used by Ra’s Al Ghul, before learning of it’s full abilities, to de-age him, hence being considered the origins of the ‘fountain of youth’ in the DC universe. Apparently, the longer you stay in the younger you get (also if a young and healthy person went into the Pit they would die and/or be driven insane).

Given Talia literally shoved him in because she was pressed for time and needed to heal him and get out before Ra’s flipped his shit (and BOY did he ever), I would say Jason was submerged for 30 seconds to 1 minute. This is just guessing on my part. But if less than five minutes can make Ra’s go from being in his seventies to his mid-twenties, I’d say it’s fairly plausible for Jason to have gone into the Pit as a 17/18 year old and come out looking fifteen or sixteen.

Which, if you look at flashbacks of New 52 Jason after Talia has healed him (or restored from the dead in that continuity) he looks far too young to be 19 as he supposedly was then. Here’s some images of him from RHATO, when he was training with the mystical cult the All-Caste, whom Talia left him with.

He looks like he’s a goddamn fourteen year old on steroids.

For simplicity sake, although he is chronologically 18 years old at this point, the Lazarus Pit + not age while dead has left him physically at 15-16, with his mental age around the same because, again, he had brain damage and no opportunity to mature while dead/comatose/catatonic.

He spends a couple years mimicking Batman’s world tour to learn martial arts and disciplines, eventually returning to Gotham as the Red Hood when he’s… 19? 20? They never actually say since comic books like foggy timelines. Yet despite being a grown man now, he’s still physically in his late teens. Here’s Jason when confronting Batman in UtH, holding Joker hostage and ready to kill him.

Flash forward a couple years later in real time (unknown amount of time in-universe) where he’s now more or less on amicable terms with the Bat family, even if they aren’t all lovey-dovey and Sunday night dinners together. If Damian is at least 12-13 (he’s had a birthday recently in the comics) and Tim is 18-19. that puts Jason at about 22-23.

But he looks like he could be a college sophomore.

^ Set recently, during Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth.

But yeah, while Jason’s mind has more or less recovered from all the trauma he’s been through - mostly thanks to working through pretty much every single moment of his past that he can remember with his therapist, Jason no longer has that emotionally stunted/underdeveloped mind that he did after waking from the dead.

However, he still spent 6 months dead during the time most boys typically have their final growth spurt, and was then submerged in a youth-restoring chemical bath.

I’d say though he’s chronologically in his mid-twenties at this point, to other people Jason would have the physical appearance of a 20 year old. So he is physically the age that DC claims, but in terms of how many years it’s been since he was born, he’s 23, for anyone confused about why there’s different ages in his bio.

#Character Study {Meta}#My Wings Were Clipped {Self}#Spilled Ink {Headcanon}

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ioc5 · 4 years

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Hi taylor, I know you’re on here sometimes and it’s a long shot that you will ever read this but I had to try, just because I thought you should know about yet another life you’ve changed.

I was 5 when Tim McGraw & Our Song came out, my sister and I would scream it all the time, always blasting country radio for a chance to hear them.

You morphed from this singer I liked when I was 5 to my idol in a way. When I was in school me and my mom would get up early on Friday mornings to go buy your albums on release day and play them the whole way to school. I was severely bullied in school and your music was this way of expression that I hadn’t figured out yet.

I was 12 when I went to the Red Tour and cried the whole time (above) and always wore my “Taylor” hair.

But the album I connected with the most was reputation.

In 2018 I was sexually harassed in a junior firefighting program and the men in charge didn’t protect me. My own reputation of being a hard worker and a star on the rise was ruined because I was now a “bitch” and “dramatic” for being pissed off that they wouldn’t protect me. your album guided me through some very hard times and gave me confidence to put my foot down and say no, this isn’t okay.

In 2019, I had left the program and felt my old self returning. I was happy, and carefree, and Lover really helped me celebrate that even though we go through these dark times, we can still come out as sunshine and rainbows.

My mom has a rare spinal cord disorder that causes dehbilitating pain and will eventually leave her bed ridden and unable to live independently, so Soon You’ll Get Better helped me sort through so much and made me feel less alone, and understood.

So now it’s 2020, so why write this? Well it’s sexual assault awareness month, and there’s something I never include in my life story, in the metamorphosis from snake to butterfly, from hurt to healing is that in 2015 I was raped. He was someone I thought I trusted, I was 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. I had never even driven a car or been to the prom. He lied to me about his age and I later found out he was 20 at the time. I’ve never really shared it, until I watched Miss Americana.

Your speech about your own case has finally given me the courage to put my hand in the air and say “Me, too.” I might not be ready to share details, I may never be, but it happened, and with your bravery and constant honest story telling through your music, I feel more like a survivor than a victim. Thank you, Taylor. Hopefully this wasn’t a mess. I love you.

Oh! One more thing, I’ll see you July 26 at Lover Fest! I’ll get to scream the words to the songs that healed some of the most broken parts of me, with 10s of thousands of my best friends, so if you by chance read this and want to play fifteen, i will make sure I’m loud enough for you to hear. ❤️

Here’s me, happy, in pink, look a little different then the scrawny braces and glasses of 2013, but still 100% a swifte 💖 @taylorswift @taylornation

#taylor swift #swiftie #my story #1989 #red #speak now #reputation #lover #taylorswift13 #taylor nation #thank you

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viktcrr-alt · 5 years

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MAXENCE DANET FAUVAL / NONBINARY — don’t look now, but is that viktor samuels i see? the 24 year old visual arts student is in their senior year and he/they are a rochester alum. i hear they can be observant, ingenious, reticent and dependent, so maybe keep that in mind. i bet he/they will make a name for themselves living in garcia row. ( james. 20. est. she/they. )

LAST INTRO WOOOO !! u know what to mf DO !!

TW DEATH, HEAVY GRIEF, OVERDOSE / DRUG ADDICTION, HOSPITALIZATION, HYPERSEXUALITY, RELIGION MENTIONS, MENTAL ILLNESS

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old tvs and their static, worn tapes, horror movie screams, spilled ink, a sculptor’s hands, clay-stained, chicken scratch handwriting, messy notes, messy hair, scoffs and eye-rolls, bruised knuckles, sore throats, funeral homes and a crying preacher, shattered ceramics, knife fights, high ledges, vertically-striped pants, red lights, the moon shrouded in clouds, cigarette butts.

general info !!

full name: viktor phillip samuels

nickname(s): icky vicky :/

b.o.d. - jan 2nd

label(s): the black hole, the crepehanger, the impious, the opaque, the tempest, etc.

height: 6′0″

hometown: rochester, new york

sexuality: uuuhhh god … probably pan tbh

stats

biography !!

okay so … born and raised in rochester, new york to the well known samuels family. preacher father, a mother, a twin sister born 15 minutes before him - aka tatiana samuels, who died back in january.

kinda … grew up as a really awkward, quiet kid? like … just didn’t really interact with other kids super well, preferred being alone and like … digging up bugs in the dirt. only friend was like … his own sister.

grew out of this as they got older, instead sort of … becoming a bit of a dick? to compensate for years of awkwardness? will bite the hand that feeds him. was a full on nuisance by middle school. tatiana was not, at least, noticeably.

has always been a fan of darker materials, y’know - grim and creepy, morbid shit. big fan of tim burton ever since he was a kid, which isn’t … a good look for a preacher’s son, but he’s never really felt ~in~ with the rest of his family, anyway.

drew disturbing pictures as a kid probably tbh that prompted one or two or five phone calls home 2 assure everything was fine.

has always been really … good at art, in general - from drawing to painting to playing with clay, that’s always been viktor’s Thing.

aNyWaYs. being tatiana’s twin brother was kinda hard sometimes. tatiana and him were near opposites besides their same mean-spirited trait. she was better in the public than he was, but viktor was arguably more talented than tatiana. they both loved each other deeply and found each other as competition for their parents’ attention - a rivalry, of sorts.

high school is when viktor really started to act out - started extreme, like losing his virginity in their church and vandalism around the neighborhoods. faked being possessed in the middle of sunday service. almost had an exorcism performed on him, probably.

the only redeemable trait was like … his sheer talent with art. was in a 3d art AP course, specialized in sculpting - could pretty much create anything he wanted with enough dedication.

because his parents would be focused on disciplining him for his antics, tatiana could sneak away and get away with stuff easier. so like, y’know, that’s on the bright-side of things.

never been particularly motivated to do much - wasn’t planning on attending lockwood but his parents kinda … did and sent in his application for him b/c they were Not on board with him Wasting Away (wanted him out of the house asap)

actually pretty smart !! just doesn’t like … want to apply himself ever. double majoring in english and visual arts because they’re like … two of his only interests :/ plus he wants to write and illustrate his own series of children books with a style similar to tim burton’s

he’d been experimenting since high school but college is where he really started to like … crack down on himself and figure himself out. was out as pan & nonbinary by his sophomore year of college, just … not to his family, necessarily. thinks tatiana always knew, but didn’t … really use it against him, blessedly enough

always felt like the whole twin - connection thing was … both wack and also not-wack? sometimes it felt believable but sometimes he had no idea what was going on in tatiana’s head. but he felt oddly transparent to her, always - like he was predictable to no one but her.

( TW DEATH, GRIEF, OVERDOSE / HOSPITALIZATION BEYOND THIS POINT )

but when tatiana disappeared - it was like, like viktor knew. the moment she had been kidnapped - felt something deeply wrong in his gut. and when tatiana died - viktor felt something cut so severely in him. he knew, he always knew exactly when. he couldn’t put his finger on how - but he knew. even when everybody else held out hope for her to be found - he knew.

went on a bender around the same time, had always struggled w/ drug addiction but it got worse the longer tatiana went without being found.

( also struggled heavily with his mental health, too ?? has manic and depressive episodes. will fixate on a sculpting project for six months and then purposely knock it off the table and destroy it in the matter of seconds once it’s finished for. no fucking reason. impulse spends A Lot. )

when her body was found, viktor went off the rails. ended up overdosing and being hospitalized where he spent the next like … however long months … until they deemed him better.

has been back since the beginning of fall semester in an attempt to finish his senior year - mostly out of his parents’ insistence that he did, because he very much did not want to.

is still dealing with a lot of trauma & grief, which was only amplified with dean lockwood’s death - causing him to spiral and be unpredictable with his mental health. some days are good, and some days are very bad.

personality !!

the human embodiment of a gremlin, fed after midnight. a goblin, if u will. one of those cats with a narrow head and big ass ears. that’s him.

b i g horror & halloween enthusiast. loves the old campy horror movies. probably has an abundance of masks from different movies. dresses like a grimy millennial beetlejuice more than he should. love those vertically striped pants!

fashion alternates between e-boy (would b tik tok famous if he were like … 17), millennial beetlejuice, and like … goth in a crop top and sweatpants. big fan of crop tops. big fan of sweatpants.

he can be fucking mean. petty, aggressive, instigator. will literally spit in ur face or no reason. kind of person who’ll stick his gum into other ppl’s hair. other than that he’s like … pretty okay. he’s not always mean, he’s just a dick like … 70% of the time lmao

i mean yeah okay he’ll call someone a stinky bitch for no reason except He Feels Like It And Believes It. it’s fine he’s fine, we’re fine.

despite the fact tht he’s probably getting into fights whenever - considers himself 2 be a lover n not a fighter but that’s just because he Fucks a lot. kind of uses it like a coping mechanism, like he’s this big fancy carnival show that’s like ‘come one, come all! fuck the dead girl’s twin brother!’ may have a problem w/ hypersexuality but it’s nothing he’s fully. aware of.

the preacher’s whore son, basically

like i said he’s pan & nb, switches between he and they pronouns but like … he has such a fragile grip on his identity that u could call him ‘dog-faced bitch’ and he’d turn like hey wassup :)

vastly impulsive, like i’ve mentioned … destroys his own creations 4 the fun of it, spends all his money on useless shit, will cheat on someone bc he feels like it. screams into the night sky frequently, like a cat in heat.

i mean he also creates useless shit for no reason too. spent six months sculpting a hollowed out tree the size of him and then took a sledgehammer to it.

dramatic fuck. used to play the organ at the church like … when no one was looking after him and service was about to start. just these creepy as melodies. would do the same thing at home on his keyboard w/ the organ setting whenever he got grounded until his parents took away his keyboard sadjfkg

won’t talk about his time away b/c it’s not rly anybody’s business but ofc nothing is sacred to the watershed app, y’know, nothing’s private.

still like - he absolutely refuses to talk about tatiana’s death and like, his mental health or his addiction (he’s fallen back into it tbh but it hasn’t gotten bad again … yet) or like … anything involving his own emotions

will literally just change the topic! abruptly, no warning, asks about the jonas brothers instead.

that being said he’s obsessed with tatiana’s death. tatiana was very much a rock for him, kinda dependent on her in a way? just … being there, y’know, kept him grounded.

so he obv became a shepherd bc he wants to know Everything there is abt the app, wants to be deep inside it, wanted to know Who Exactly Killed Tatiana and like … not saying he wants 2 commit murder but :/ yknow. he’s very upset.

emotionally unavailable while also like crying twice a day.

will tell you straight up what he wants from you, no bullshit, no beating around the bush - just blunt. if he wants to just fuck, nothing else, then that’s that. if he feels deviation he’ll ghost in like. less than a second. kinda awful like that! feels no shame.

but like … also is emotional ?? as shit ?? it’s confusing. he’ll cry on a whim and then flip u off if u try to console him or like. ask him anything. will bite you.

he goes to therapy but he generally fucks around and wastes most of the time until the therapist threatens to like … idk what therapists r allowed to threaten. to send him off to another therapist? idk.

likes being intimidating but like … not with his body or nothing ‘cos he’s a TWIG, but like … uses his love for horror n creepy shit to his advantage. has an abundance of fake blood. has channeled the energy of jack nicholson and used it on tatiana’s boyfriends before.

( also a big fan of sfx makeup, has dabbled in it)

probably chases kids with a chainsaw (w/o the like … chain … or w/e … so it’s not actually Dangerous) around halloween

he’s generally never doing good, both mental health wise and morally.

would probably steal candy from a baby for the fun of it.

i don’t know if there’s a good to him, deep down, and i don’t know if he sees any issues with himself either !! nothing really breaks through to him anymore, the only person who ever really made him stop and Think about his actions was tatiana.

kinda introverted, recluse type who doesn’t rly like most people or going out, but he’ll go to parties if it means he’ll be high as shit.

pretty observant. likes to analyze people even though he’s probably not … fully right.

wanted connections !!

he lives alone currently but like … ex - roommates where viktor was just. a nightmare to live with.

feel like a lot of enemies is also a possibility !! viktor’s messy.

people that like … knew tatiana. dated tatiana, even, and viktor would pretty much try to intimidate / scare them at any given chance :/

close friends of tatiana too

people who hated tatiana but liked viktor. people who hated viktor but liked tatiana

people who take pity on him and he Hates it viciously and vocally.

a band of hooligan gremlin kids who do drugs and fuck shit up around town like they’re edgy teenagers even though they’re all early to mid 20s.

the girl he lost his virginity 2 in high school lmao … a distant memory

fellow rochester locals, from church or school or whatever

exes from the past !! good terms and bad terms, but i love bad terms a whole lot mainly b/c viktor’s a jackass.

don’t know if he’s soft towards anybody but we can try. we can Try.

friends, old friends, new friends, bad friends, good friends, close friends, frenemies, etc. etc. all of it

hookups !! so many hookups. fwbs, one night stands, whatever.

uuhhhh god. i don’t know. im so sleepy rn. people in the same major or similar majors.

maybe a ride or die.

people he’s a bad influence on / an enabler towards / all around toxic for them / each other.

people he’s fought !! people who’ve seen him get into random fights and were like ‘uh wtf’

fellow shepherds !!

literally anything im not picky.

#huntingtonintro #death tw #grief tw #overdose tw #drugs tw #addiction tw #hospitalization tw #hypersexuality tw #murder tw #religion mentions #mental health tw

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viktcrr-archive · 5 years

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MAXENCE DANET FAUVEL / NONBINARY. — viktor samuels is really making a name for themselves as a tier 3 shepherd. i think that he/they are studying english + visual arts in their senior year at lockwood, living in peregrinis. originally from rochester, new york, viktor is known to be observant & ingenious, but can also be reticent & dependent. — james / 20 / est / she/they.

3/5 !!! once again ... little edits

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general info !!

full name: viktor phillip samuels

nickname(s): icky vicky :/

b.o.d. - jan 2nd

label(s): the black hole, the crepehanger, the impious, the opaque, the tempest, etc.

height: 6′0″

hometown: rochester, new york

sexuality: uuuhhh god … probably pan tbh

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biography !!

drew disturbing pictures as a kid probably tbh that prompted one or two or five phone calls home 2 assure everything was fine.

has always been really … good at art, in general - from drawing to painting to playing with clay, that’s always been viktor’s Thing.

the only redeemable trait was like … his sheer talent with art. was in a 3d art AP course, specialized in sculpting - could pretty much create anything he wanted with enough dedication.

because his parents would be focused on disciplining him for his antics, tatiana could sneak away and get away with stuff easier. so like, y’know, that’s on the bright-side of things.

( TW DEATH, GRIEF, OVERDOSE / HOSPITALIZATION BEYOND THIS POINT )

went on a bender around the same time, had always struggled w/ drug addiction but it got worse the longer tatiana went without being found.

when her body was found, viktor went off the rails. ended up overdosing and being hospitalized where he spent the next like … however long months … until they deemed him better.

stayed out of school until very recently b/c he just … didn’t want to go back. didn’t want to deal with it. didn’t want to be known as the dead girl’s twin. but then his mom kinda just was like ‘u go back 2 school or god so help me’ n he was like FINE.

so ya !! viktor’s back after being gone since tatiana’s body was found. that’s it, that’s him, a lil glimpse of his life.

trying to finish his senior year b/c he … obviously left before he could.

finding out that it was george who killed tatiana has ultimately ... caused viktor to spiral. his lows are some of his lowest, his highs are ... very high, but very bad. unstable & unpredictable in his actions it’s ... a whole thing :/

personality !!

the human embodiment of a gremlin, fed after midnight. a goblin, if u will. one of those cats with a narrow head and big ass ears. that’s him.

fashion alternates between e-boy (would b tik tok famous if he were like … 17), millennial beetlejuice, and like … goth in a crop top and sweatpants. big fan of crop tops. big fan of sweatpants.

i mean yeah okay he’ll call someone a stinky bitch for no reason except He Feels Like It And Believes It. it’s fine he’s fine, we’re fine.

the preacher’s whore son, basically

i mean he also creates useless shit for no reason too. spent six months sculpting a hollowed out tree the size of him and then took a sledgehammer to it.

won’t talk about his time away b/c it’s not rly anybody’s business but ofc nothing is sacred to the watershed app, y’know, nothing’s private.

will literally just change the topic! abruptly, no warning, asks about the jonas brothers instead.

that being said he’s obsessed with tatiana’s death. tatiana was very much a rock for him, kinda dependent on her in a way? just … being there, y’know, kept him grounded.

emotionally unavailable while also like crying twice a day.

but like … also is emotional ?? as shit ?? it’s confusing. he’ll cry on a whim and then flip u off if u try to console him or like. ask him anything. will bite you.

( also a big fan of sfx makeup, has dabbled in it)

probably chases kids with a chainsaw (w/o the like … chain … or w/e … so it’s not actually Dangerous) around halloween

he’s generally never doing good, both mental health wise and morally.

would probably steal candy from a baby for the fun of it.

kinda introverted, recluse type who doesn’t rly like most people or going out, but he’ll go to parties if it means he’ll be high as shit.

pretty observant. likes to analyze people even though he’s probably not … fully right.

connections to the victims !!

tatiana samuels / his twin sister, other half - the only one able to control viktor.

george craig iii / close family friends ... they could appreciate each other, when viktor wasn’t being an outright asshole.

hana williams / ‘friends’ with benefits, their relationship was rocky at best but she was a good lay. have often fought due to their clash in personalities and viktor’s history with christoph.

christoph wainwright / an ex-hook up, an infrequent occasion whenever christoph wanted to tick off hana. viktor was often on board, never the one to consider others’ feelings.

wanted connections !!

he lives alone currently but like … ex - roommates where viktor was just. a nightmare to live with.

feel like a lot of enemies is also a possibility !! viktor’s messy.

people that like … knew tatiana. dated tatiana, even, and viktor would pretty much try to intimidate / scare them at any given chance :/

close friends of tatiana too

people who hated tatiana but liked viktor. people who hated viktor but liked tatiana

people who take pity on him and he Hates it viciously and vocally.

a band of hooligan gremlin kids who do drugs and fuck shit up around town like they’re edgy teenagers even though they’re all early to mid 20s.

the girl he lost his virginity 2 in high school lmao … a distant memory

fellow rochester locals, from church or school or whatever

exes from the past !! good terms and bad terms, but i love bad terms a whole lot mainly b/c viktor’s a jackass.

don’t know if he’s soft towards anybody but we can try. we can Try.

friends, old friends, new friends, bad friends, good friends, close friends, frenemies, etc. etc. all of it

hookups !! so many hookups. fwbs, one night stands, whatever.

uuhhhh god. i don’t know. im so sleepy rn. people in the same major or similar majors.

maybe a ride or die.

people he’s a bad influence on / an enabler towards / all around toxic for them / each other.

people he’s fought !! people who’ve seen him get into random fights and were like ‘uh wtf’

fellow shepherds !!

literally anything im not picky.

#wshintro #grief tw #death tw #overdose tw #addiction tw #hospitalization tw #hypersexuality tw #religion mention #mental illness tw

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Everything you need to make the most important meal of the day delicious.

There’s nothing inherently child-specific about a bowl of cold toasted grains soaked in milk, yet breakfast cereal seems to be inextricably associated with kids in the American imagination. Sure, it helps that most boxed cereals you’ll finding lining your supermarket aisles today come liberally infused with sugar (quite a turnabout for a food category that started with Seventh-Day Adventist health nuts, who would probably be pretty horrified if they could get a glimpse of the industry today), but there are other reasons.

You could begin, for instance, with the unchallenging flavors of corn and wheat combined with milk, making cereal an easy sell for the harried parents, usually moms, raising fussy eaters, who saw themselves reflected in generations of harried parents raising fussy eaters on TV. There’s the minimal preparation required, obviously, which made cereal the first meal many of us learned to fix for ourselves.

Add to that relentless marketing featuring every kind of kid bait you can think of—bright colors; unshakable jingles; talking animals (and cartoon chefs, and a leprechaun, and a captain of some never-seen navy); the promise of strength and coolness and superpowers; the insider-y nod to your membership in a special club that adults can’t infiltrate; and the lure of sugar sugar sugar—and it’s not hard to see how the cereals that accompanied us throughout our youth became a days-long conversation topic among the Serious Eats staff.

We’ve learned that few childhood cereals are cherished only on their own merits: The rituals that we created for eating them, the manic mascots that charmed us, and the cartoons that we ate them by on Saturdays were just as important. And we’ve learned that you can make nearly 50% of the SE staff happy by sitting them down in front of a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Here are the cereals that we still dream of forming our own secret kids’ club around, even as grown-ups.

Alpha-Bits Cereal

After an unfortunate incident wherein three-year-old Stella was left alone with Rainbow Brite cereal long enough to eat an entire box, my parents tried to steer me away from cereals with artificial coloring. That still left me with a number of excellent options—Pops, Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, et cetera—the best of which was Alpha-Bits Cereal. They taste about like Lucky Charms sans the Styrofoam marshmallow bits, which was fine by me, and I’d like to think my love for a frosted alphabet helped steer me toward the baker/writer life I lead now. A-B-C-Delicious! (This bonus commercial is before my time, but everyone deserves to hear MJ singing about Alpha-Bits, especially in a video that includes The Jackson 5 sitting down for cereal around a $14,000 Eero Saarinen dining room set. Yes, I did the math.) —Stella Parks, pastry wizard

Fruit & Fibre

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I knew and loved many a cereal when I was a kid—the candy-sweet nonsense, like Cookie Crisp and Lucky Charms, that my grandmother plied us with when we came for visits, as well as the more quotidian and practical choices of my parents, like Kix and Life. (Thinking back on it, I’m not even sure they bought Life that often, which speaks to its outsize importance in my mind. Life gets soggy faster than almost anything else, and it’s still the best damn cereal on the planet.) I was even #blessed enough to be able to enjoy a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch fairly regularly in front of Muppet Babies.

But my most steadfast breakfast companion, probably starting when I was about eight and continuing into my teenage years, was Fruit & Fibre (now apparently styled “Fruit ‘n Fibre”). Yep, I latched on to a sensible mixture of wheat flakes, nuts, and dried fruit, named after a dietary necessity and marketed at retirees, and I suppose Mom and Dad were only too happy to oblige this particular whimsy.

Fruit & Fibre was known in the ’80s and ’90s for the tagline “Tastes so good, you forget the fiber!”—which, again, doesn’t scream “youthful image”—and a series of commercials that poked self-deprecating fun at the inexplicably British spelling, in which one character would insist that the correct pronunciation was “fruit and fee-bray.” I don’t specifically remember this one, starring Tim Conway, but it’s representative and charmingly laid-back. I have been a very old person on the inside for a very long time. —Miranda Kaplan, senior editor

Frosted Flakes

I grew up in a pretty healthy household, and that meant hell no to the sugary cereals. We had a lot of puffed-millet, cardboard-like stuff that tasted like nothing, though I do suppose it was a bit healthier (except when I put a lot of Splenda on it, which, now that I think about it, is totally gross). The only time we ever got sugary cereal was when my dad went grocery shopping, and his all-time favorite is Frosted Flakes. When that bright-blue Kellogg’s box made it onto our cereal shelf, I went totally crazy with it—it was a classic kid-who-never-has-sugar scenario.

Recently I had brunch at MiMi’s Diner in Prospect Heights, where, as a little amuse-bouche, they give you a blissful mixture of colorful sugary cereals in a little bowl—all those classics, like Cap’n Crunch and Fruit Loops. It is such a treat. I guess I can thank all that cardboard of my youth for helping me appreciate it. —Ariel Kanter, marketing director

Cookie Crisp

I still have cereal for breakfast (and sometimes dinner) every day. These days I’m more of a Cheerios or Grape-Nuts eater, but as a kid, I definitely got hooked on the more sugar-oriented cereals, and Cookie Crisp was among the many options I rotated through. A bowl full of tiny chocolate chip cookies. Did I need more of a reason to like it as an eight-year old? Though perhaps the pair of cartoon crooks (including a dog) that served as the brand’s mascot had something to do with it…that “CooooOOOOOkie Crisp” jingle is pretty solid. —Vicky Wasik, visual director

Grape-Nuts

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The thing I remember most about my childhood trips to the grocery store is setting up camp in front of the wall of multicolored cereal boxes, wheedling and pleading with my parents as they shook their heads and jabbed their fingers at the panel of nutrition facts.

I mostly blame the ensuing tears on the astonishing effectiveness of cereal commercials—especially the kind that featured greedy adults with Peter Pan syndrome, trying to steal cereal from children who, in this gritty, high-stakes universe, went to great lengths to save their most treasured possession: brightly hued, sugar-saturated breakfast candy. Sweetened cereals, they proclaimed, were a child’s birthright, and if you weren’t getting your fill, it was almost certainly because some grown-up—like, say, your mom or dad—was an evil asshole.

Which is why my favorite breakfast cereal was virtually any breakfast cereal I wasn’t eating. For the most part, our pantry was limited to Cheerios or generic “health” flakes, with rare appearances from Raisin Bran and, on a good day, a box of Honey Nut Cheerios. Within the confines of those prison walls, I found myself with a particular affinity for Grape-Nuts, which would sink into a dense heap beneath my milk and form a gritty cement onto which I could project visions of overflowing bowls of Fruit Loops, Golden Grahams, and Cocoa Pebbles. Now that I’m a marginally health-conscious adult, I genuinely enjoy a bowl of Grape-Nuts. But back in ’93, they drew me in with their masochistic appeal: a meal that captured the true extent of my hardship, deprivation, and suffering. —Niki Achitoff-Gray, executive managing editor

Honey Nut Cheerios

I’ll happily eat Honey Nut Cheerios at any time of day or night, for any meal. They make an excellent appetizer, salad, entrée, or dessert; each little O possesses the perfect balance of sweet and savory (but mostly sweet). And, of course, as a kid growing up in a mostly sugar-free household in Berkeley, California, I could never eat them at home, which meant I searched frantically through cupboards and drawers whenever I was at a friend’s house, looking for that big red-and-yellow cardboard box. When I found it, I was in heaven. I still don’t buy them for my own pantry, but if I ever see that signature box tucked behind the grown-up food in a friend’s kitchen, I finish it off. —Elazar Sontag, intern

Corn Pops

Growing up in New Delhi, India, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we couldn’t buy cereal, and there weren’t any cereal ads on TV. There was no joy in our house, and no pleasure in our home. I did pine after Corn Pops quite a bit, since I got a taste of some at my American friends’ houses, even though the Pops cut up the inside of my mouth. And, apropos of nothing at all, the guy who played Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad was in a Corn Pops commercial. —Sho Spaeth, features editor

Kashi Heart to Heart

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I have a confession to make: I did not eat cereal until I was 15 years old. Not because I was above consuming cleverly marketed sugar bombs for breakfast (because I ate plenty of Eggos), but because I’m lactose-intolerant. This was a time before I could eat my cereal with almond milk, as I do now, so it just wasn’t an option for me. Then, during my sophomore year of high school, I had a very bright idea: dry cereal with raspberries and blackberries. The juiciness of 10 or 12 berries bursting in every two to three bites would surely mimic the milk-and-cookies effect of cereal with milk, right? So I picked out a box of Kashi Heart to Heart cereal in Honey and Oat flavor, and a container each of raspberries and blackberries, and crunched my way through that for the rest of high school. I remember the pieces sometimes being so rough and scratchy that I’d scrape the roof of my mouth on them, but the flavor was good enough, and it allowed me to finally eat my cereal. Now that I’m talking about it, I think I may actually be sparking a craving. But this time, I just might add a splash of almond milk—because I can. —Kristina Bornholtz, social media editor

Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Junk foods were rarely an option in my home, and that meant no sugary cereals either. I tasted Lucky Charms only a few times, and that was at a friend’s house after a sleepover. Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crunch were as sweet as my mom was willing to allow, and those two, to this day, are among my favorites, especially when combined in the same bowl. They go together so well, the nut-and-honey notes of Golden Grahams and the sugar-and-spice in Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and they both create, whether together or alone, some of the most delicious cereal milk in existence. I don’t think I can pick between them, nor should I have to—I was cereal-deprived enough as a kid as it was. (Also, shout-out to Quaker Cracklin’ Oat Bran, which was a decently sweet cereal on regular rotation at my home until health-conscious parents got worried about all the coconut oil in it. My, how times have changed.) —Daniel Gritzer, managing culinary director

…and More Cinnamon Toast Crunch

As a kid I’d spend all week daydreaming about Saturday, when I would wake up at the butt-crack of dawn to get my fill of cartoons and sugar. I was allowed to eat foods repped by colorful characters only on these early weekend mornings—likely because Pop-Tarts and Eggo waffles were the only things that gave my parents a day to sleep in. I wanted to maximize my sugar intake during these precious unsupervised moments, so my breakfast of choice was always Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I mean, it’s so overloaded with cinnamon sugar that the slogan was “The taste you can see.” I still don’t understand how this stuff passes as children’s breakfast food, but I’ll never forget those mornings spent doing lines of cinnamon sugar with Hey, Arnold! in the background. —Sohla El-Waylly, assistant culinary editor

Trix

“Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!” will forever be ingrained in my brain. I loved that this cereal was so colorful. I’m pretty sure none of the flavors actually differed from one another, but I do remember that at one point the original balls were replaced by actual fruit-shaped pieces, to try to convince you that there was real lemon, grape, lime, raspberry, and blueberry flavor in there. —Vicky Wasik, visual director

Rice Krispies Treats Cereal

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A cereal I remember being better in theory than in actuality. I’m assuming this commercial’s UFO references were crafted to piggyback on the paranormal-activity obsession that ran rampant throughout the late ’80s and ’90s, if kids’ television of the era is anything to go by. (See: Goosebumps, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Ghostwriter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…okay, that one might be a stretch.) The combo of sugary cereal plus thrills definitely hit the right note for me, and seeing a box of Rice Krispies Treats Cereal in the supermarket incited equal parts excitement and chills-creeping, sensation-laden terror, conjuring up late Saturday mornings glued to the tube over a bowl of (essentially) starchy candy that was “part of a complete breakfast.” Whoever said the ’50s and ’60s represented the golden age of advertising was clearly never a wide-eyed, impressionable child cruising the cereal aisle, visions of RKTC commercials dancing in their head. —Marissa Chen, office manager

Frosted Mini-Wheats

There were many long pit stops on my cereal journey growing up. Earlier on, there were the sweeter, more sugary stops, like Cap’n Crunch, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Lucky Charms. At summer camp I would add extra sugar to my Frosted Flakes, purposefully stir the cereal so the extra sugar sank all the way down, and eat the sugary milk goop at the bottom of the bowl with the spoon. Later on I became ever-so-slightly healthier with Honey Nut Cheerios, a very long stint on Honey Bunches of Oats (still a favorite), and a brief and shameful period on Raisin Bran. My final destination—and probably my all-time favorite to this day—was Frosted Mini-Wheats. Every bite has exactly the same ratio of ingredients, which I appreciate: just the right amount of fibrous (healthy!) and sugary. The texture is perfect, assuming you have the know-how to let the cereal soak up just the right amount of milk so it’s not dry and crunchy, then eat it quickly before it gets soggy. A seasoned veteran such as I am may even split the bowl into two or three rounds of cereal addition, thus ensuring that no piece gets too saturated before your spoon reaches it. —Tim Aikens, front-end developer

Wheat Chex

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I ate more than my fair share of cereal when I was a kid, usually while sprawled out on the living room floor watching reruns of Saved by the Bell or DuckTales. I reserved the more sugary cereals (Cookie Crisp, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cap’n Crunch, and probably some that start with other letters of the alphabet) to be eaten as a dry snack and primarily ate “healthier” cereals, like Wheat Chex, with milk. I was never a big fan of cereal milk, so as I emptied the bowl, I would repeatedly add more and more cereal, until most of the milk had been absorbed. —Paul Cline, developer

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Breakfast

Everything you need to make the most important meal of the day delicious.

Alpha-Bits Cereal

Fruit & Fibre

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Frosted Flakes

Cookie Crisp

Grape-Nuts

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Honey Nut Cheerios

Corn Pops

Kashi Heart to Heart

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Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crunch

…and More Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Trix

Rice Krispies Treats Cereal

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Frosted Mini-Wheats

Wheat Chex

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Meet the sons of NBA players starring in college and high school basketball

Ron Harper Jr. (left), Scotty Pippen Jr. (center), and Trayce Jackson-Davis (right) are NBA sons excelling in college basketball.

The children of the NBA stars you grew up watching are all over college and high school basketball.

Want to feel old? The offspring of NBA players you grew up watching are taking over college basketball, and the trend isn’t stopping any time soon.

This is not a particularly new phenomenon, of course. Genetics matter! There are second-generation NBA players currently sprinkled all over the league, with Stephen Curry (son of Dell Curry) and Klay Thompson (son of Mychal Thompson) leading the way. We’ve seen Larry Nance Jr., Jaren Jackson Jr., and Glenn Robinson III. Tim Hardaway and his son, Tim Hardaway Jr., can both call themselves teammates of Dirk Nowitzki on the Dallas Mavericks before he retired.

This season of college basketball is again filled with a new crop of NBA sons, and there are so many more on the way at the high school level. This is a list of active college basketball players and high school recruits who are following in the footsteps of their famous fathers.

College basketball players whose fathers played in the NBA

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Cole Anthony - Son of Greg Anthony

Anthony was one of the top recruits in the country, and will be one of the top picks in the 2020 NBA Draft. A 6’3 point guard who can score at will when he’s hot, Anthony’s freshman year at North Carolina hasn’t gone as planned. A torn meniscus has kept him out since early December, and UNC is currently in the basement of the ACC without him. Fortunately, his career has so many better days ahead.

Anthony’s father, Greg Anthony, was a star for UNLV’s 1990 national champions, and the 1991 team that started 34-0 before losing to Duke in the Final Four. He was the No. 12 pick in the 1991 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks and went on to enjoy a long pro career.

Nico Mannion - Son of Pace Mannion

Mannion is another top recruit who should be a lottery pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. The point guard has had a productive season at Arizona as a freshman, averaging 14 points and six assists per game. He has been on the radar for years (Sports Illustrated wrote an exhaustive profile of him as a 15-year-old), and he has lived up to the hype.

Mannion is the son of Pace Mannion, a former star at Utah who was a second-round pick in the 1983 draft and enjoyed a journeyman career throughout the ‘80s.

Trayce Jackson-Davis - Son of Dale Davis

Jackson-Davis has quietly been one of the best freshmen in the country. A 6’9 big man for Indiana, Jackson-Davis is a highly efficient scorer, a monster offensive rebounder, and a skilled shot blocker. His 66.4 true shooting percentage is one of the nation’s best among full-time players. If he isn’t on NBA radars yet, he should be. Jackson-Davis is the son of Dale Davis, the former Indiana Pacers forward who played in the league until 2007 after getting drafted in the first-round in 1991.

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Scotty Pippen Jr. - Son of Scottie Pippen

Pippen Jr. didn’t get his father’s height, unfortunately, but the 6’1 guard has become one of the most productive players on Vanderbilt as a freshman under head coach Jerry Stackhouse. Pippen Jr. is averaging 11 points and four assists per game so far. He is, of course, the son of Chicago Bulls legend and NBA Hall of Fame inductee Scottie Pippen.

Here’s a fun fact: Scottie Pippen’s legal name is actually spelled Scotty.

Ron Harper Jr. - Son of Ron Harper

Harper Jr. was ranked only No. 175 in his recruiting class entering college, but he’s turned into one of the best players on a surprising Rutgers team that cracked the AP top 25 for the first time in 41 years. A 6’6, 245-pound sophomore guard, Harper Jr. is leading the Scarlet Knights in scoring and is second on the team in rebounding. His father Ron Harper was an explosive scorer in the ‘80s for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Clippers before remodeling his game after injuries to become a dependable point guard for the Chicago Bulls’ second three-peat.

DJ Rodman - Son of Dennis Rodman

Rodman was an under-the-radar recruit who signed with Washington State. A 6’6 freshman forward, Rodman played a season-high 30 minutes and knocked down two three-pointers in the Cougars’ most recent win over Oregon State. You need no introduction to his legendary father.

Shareef O’Neal - Son of Shaquille O’Neal

O’Neal was a consensus top-50 recruit entering UCLA. His freshman year was cut short by a scary heart condition that forced him to miss the entire season. He returned this year, but hasn’t seen much playing time under new head coach Mick Cronin. O’Neal announced he is transferring. This won’t be the last we hear from him.

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Derrik Smits - son of Rik Smits

Smits, a 7’1 center, started his career at Valparaiso before transferring into Butler this year, and playing a supporting role for a team that was ranked as high as No. 5 in the country this season. His father Rik, aka “the Dunking Dutchman,” was a 7’4 center who had a standout career for the Indiana Pacers from 1988-2000.

Jeron Artest - Son of Ron Artest

The son of Metta World Peace, the basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest, is a 6’3 freshman forward for the UC Irvine Anteaters.

Jameer Nelson Jr. - Son of Jameer Nelson

A 6’1 freshman guard at George Washington, Nelson Jr. is averaging 10 points per game in his first year of college ball. His father had a legendary college career at St. Joseph’s before embarking on a long career as an NBA point guard.

Jaelen House - Son of Eddie House

A 6’2 freshman point guard for Bobby Hurley at Arizona State, House is averaging 6.2 points per game. We’re still waiting for him to drop 61 points like his old man.

Jayden Hardaway - Son of Anfernee ‘Penny’ Hardaway

Hardaway is playing for his dad at Memphis this year as a sparsely used guard off the bench.

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Ishmael El-Amin - Son of Khalid El-Amin

El-Amin is a junior guard at Ball State averaging 14.6 points per game. His father became a college basketball cult hero at UConn and a second-round pick of the Chicago Bulls in 2000.

Donyell Marshall Jr. - Son of Donyell Marshall

Marshall Jr. is playing for his dad, who is the head coach at Central Connecticut. His father was an incredible scorer at UConn who went on to have a long NBA career after becoming the No. 4 overall pick in the 1994 draft.

Lindsey Drew - Son of Larry Drew

Nevada’s senior point guard is averaging 12 points, six rebounds, and four assists per game. His father had a 10-year career in the NBA and then became an NBA head coach with three different franchises, most notably the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Duane Washington Jr. - Son of Duane Washington

Washington is a 6’3 sophomore guard at Ohio State who has become one of the team’s most dependable players, averaging 11.3 points per game. His father had a brief NBA career that featured a two-year suspension for substance abuse. He is also the nephew of Derek Fisher

Mike Bibby Jr. - Son of Mike Bibby

The Appalachian State junior guard is the son of the former Arizona and Sacramento Kings guard.

Logan Padgett - Son of Scott Padgett

Padgett plays for his dad at Samford as a 6’6 freshman forward.

Notable high school basketball players whose fathers played in the NBA

DaJuan Wagner Jr. - Son of DaJuan Wagner

A freshman guard out of New Jersey in the class of 2023, all Wagner has to do is live up to his father’s legacy of scoring 100 points in a high school game. No big deal.

Impressive showing for Dajuan Wagner Jr. in win over Rancho Christian and yep we’re all officially old pic.twitter.com/ZBaf6K23Wq

— Jonathan Wasserman (@NBADraftWass) January 18, 2020

Jabril Abdur-Rahim - Son of Shareef Abdur-Rahim

A 6’5 sharpshooter, Abdur-Rahim will play for Tony Bennett at Virginia next year as a consensus top-40 recruit.

Ryan Mutombo - Son of Dikembe Mutombo

A 6’10 center out of Georgia in the class of 2021, he has offers from his father’s alma mater Georgetown, as well as several other high major programs.

Dikembe Mutombo's son, Ryan, is emerging as a high major prospect. Ryan told @247Sports that he and his father spend a lot of time in the gym together. "He tells me to block everything." | Story: https://t.co/NYSPRvbHKi pic.twitter.com/TDuvcdjMhW

— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) December 2, 2019

Mason Miller- Son of Mike Miller

Mason Miller, the son of 17-year NBA veteran Mike Miller, is emerging this spring. Over the weekend the 6-9 versatile forward picked up his first two scholarship offers, and there's likely many more to come. | Story: https://t.co/wDvCmLUkM6 pic.twitter.com/GJWYMvW7E3

— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) April 30, 2019

Jett Howard - Son of Juwan Howard

A 6’4 guard and top-50 prospect in the class of 2022. He is the son of Michigan head coach Juwan Howard.

Juwan Howard’s son, Jett Howard (#13) is FILTHY! @JuwanHoward @JettHoward5 pic.twitter.com/GBapbElXsp

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) January 15, 2020

Zaire Wade - Son of Dwyane Wade

Wade is a three-star senior guard playing on a star-studded Sierra Canyon team. He has offers from DePaul, Rhode Island, and Toledo, among others.

LeBron James Jr. - Son of LeBron James

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT IDEA

Odds are it will be. I have never once sensed any unresolved tension between them. If we assume 4 people per startup, which is the most impressive thing Google has after search. In the long term, it pays to bet on good design. If the car business worked like software or movies, this is the Bambi version; in simplifying the picture, I've also made everyone nicer. Probably not. The angel agrees to invest at a pre-money valuation of $4 million, meaning that after the deal closes the VCs will own a third of the company being sold.

The 32 year old. In the earliest phases, a lot of startups, and a few people made fun of me for writing something whose title began with a number. You couldn't get access to almost all the best deals, unless you got lucky like Andy Bechtolsheim, and when you buy that yacht, someone is going to come up with several techniques for sharding YC, and the board is generally a joke. They may if they are extraordinarily fortunate do an IPO, which we should remember is also in principle a round of funding, and at each round you want to. They hire one of their friends—at first just as a consultant, so they can, for example, are now en route to the Bay Area than Miami is simply that different investors, whether because of the legitimacy it confers. If you see pictures with man-made bits of America. The amount he put in was small compared to the VCs who led the round, but Tim is a smart move, but we couldn't figure out how to improve it? It was High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies? I ask What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?

Most of the big dogs will notice and take it away. That can't be happening by accident. How are we to develop new technology if we can't study current technology to figure out how to put it this way, because there's only one of us so far and no word yet for what we are. What used to be the series A round. The most dramatic change, I predict, is that you know you're making something at least one has to make something physical, but that fraction includes stuff that no one else has done before. I think this will become more powerful. Angels.

The firms that can recognize and attract the best startups will do even better, because there will be more of them go ahead and start startups, those 15 big hits a year, the law introduces frightening legal exposure for corporate officers. The reason is that it's too passive. Structurally, the list of n things, this didn't happen intentionally. And there is a lot of opportunity there. Auto-retrieving spam filters would drive the spammer's costs up, and the result is so depressing that the inhabitants consider it a great treat to fly to Europe and spend a couple weeks and hadn't seen much of the country yet. And indeed, that might be a better word. To the popular press, hacker means someone who breaks into computers.

But two guys who thought Multics excessively complex went off and wrote their own. I ask What would Sama do? $300/month for big stores, so it is unfair to delay. Seed firms will probably have set deal terms they use for every startup they fund. If VCs are frightened at the idea of making a bad car. You might get it. Y Combinator we have some kind of answer for, but not the co-founder of Loopt, had just finished his sophomore year when we funded Airbnb, we thought it was too crazy.1 In that respect it's a black hole. I think we're still at the beginning of this one.

All the other stuff—which includes all the stuff that business schools think business consists of—you can figure out along the way. Whereas if the founders are unknown and the idea isn't hard to understand, you could approach VCs quite early. But the fact is, the very word taste sounds slightly ridiculous to American ears. You can tell how hard it must be to start a company that would become big. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas win.2 Speaking of cool places to work; you may as well anticipate it, and selling, say, deals to buy real estate. Could we have it both ways?3 It's not so much that adults lie to kids about this as never explain it. You can find groups near you, but if other startups have signed the same agreements and things went well for them, many will be too busy to shoo you away. Think about it. Google has done.

Intellectual curiosity was not one of the biggest startups almost didn't happen that there must be a lot more common. The first essay of his that I read was so electrifying that I remember exactly where I was at the time.4 The top 10 startups account for 8. Another is to work somewhere that has a lot of good publicity for the VCs. VC business backed into it as their initial assumptions gradually became obsolete. And if you want to understand startups is to look at the most successful alumni, so we tightened up our filter to decrease the batch size.5 They've invested in dozens of startups, and their interest in a company, that implicitly establishes a value for it. Make sure if you take the consulting route.

Younger would-be startup founders but to students in general, because we'd be a long way toward explaining the mystery of the so-called real world. Whereas if you graduate and get a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other as well as readers. Not just the first step up a big mountain. But in retrospect having nothing turned out to be good, because it takes most of the great advantage of school: the wealth of co-founders, but by 30 they've either lost touch with them or these people are tied down by jobs they don't want to be the first time that happened. We told him we'd fund him if he did something else. He also built a one-wheeled version, the Eunicycle, which looks exactly like a regular unicycle till you realize the rider isn't pedaling. Let me put the case in terms a government official would appreciate. So many of the biggest IPOs of the decade? A rounds is that they get paid up front. The most ambitious students will at this point; those millions must be put to work growing the company.

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Change in the 1960s, leaving less room to avoid the topic. I've deliberately avoided saying whether the program is no longer a precondition. So the cost can be compared, per capita as in e.

The other reason it might take an angel. Though you should at least once for the linguist and presumably teacher Daphnis, but countless other startups must have faces in them, would probably be the right thing. If the rich. This is similar to over-hiring in that era had no choice but to establish a silicon valley in Israel.

But the money.

They influence one another both directly and indirectly. But because I think all of us in the 1980s was enabled by a central authority according to present fashions. There was one of the current edition, which are a better influence on your cap table, and their houses are transformed by developers into McMansions and sold to VPs of Bus Dev.

The reason Y Combinator to increase it, whether you find known boring ideas intolerable. Quoted in: it's not enough to turn down some good ideas in the 1984 ad isn't Microsoft, would not be led by manipulation or wishful thinking into trying to capture the service revenue as well as down. As well as down. Words this way, it seems.

Thanks to Sarah Harlin, Steven Levy, Guy Steele, Nikhil Nirmel, Jessica Livingston, the rest of the Python crew at PyCon, and Robert Morris for putting up with me.

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The 2019 Presidential Campaign Dropouts, Ranked

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The 2019 Presidential Campaign Dropouts, Ranked

Ten Democratic candidates both announced and terminated their presidential bids in 2019. Who lost it best? From worst to first:

10. Beto O’Rourke

After the 2018 midterm elections, Beto O’Rourke became the most popular loser of a Senate race since Abraham Lincoln in 1858. Some warned him not to believe his own hype, but he barreled into the presidential race, very much on his own terms.

The quirks that seemed endearing when he was running for the Senate suddenly looked sophomoric for a potential commander-in-chief: Blogging about road trips. Jumping on tables. Livestreaming dental work.

His pre-announcement declaration to Vanity Fair—“Man, I’m just born to be in it”—was spectacularly ill-timed. As Democrats swelled with excitement over their historically diverse field, O’Rourke was no longer considered a woke hero, but just another entitled white male. He would soon be boxed out by Pete Buttigieg, who became the field’s youngest, freshest face.

O’Rourke ended his doomed run as one of 2019’s biggest political car crashes, grasping for provocative positions that resembled a conservative caricature of a Democrat. He pledged to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage, raising First Amendment concerns. “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” said O’Rourke, making it easy for the National Rifle Association to claim Democrats want to confiscate the weapons of gun owners.

Any chance O’Rourke could again run competitively in Texas, an increasingly purple but still culturally conservative state, seems to be gone. By running for president, O’Rourke incinerated his future in electoral politics.

9. Bill de Blasio

Bill de Blasio’s four-month fizzle of a presidential campaign was the final humiliation in a years-long quest to anoint himself as a national leader of the progressive movement. His hometown constituents have not welcomed him back with open arms. According to polling by the Sienna Research Institute, de Blasio’s favorable rating among city voters dropped 11 points over the course of his presidential run, landing at an abysmal 33 percent in September. Since he dropped out, that number has ticked up only two points.

To add insult to injury, New York City’s Department of Investigation is looking into the taxpayer cost of de Blasio’s use of city police officers for security during his time on the presidential campaign trail, which may have totaled over $1 million. Those four months would have been better spent filling potholes.

8. Tim Ryan

If Rep. Tulsi Gabbard had dropped out by now, she would place very low on this list. Her bizarre campaign so sullied her standing back in Hawaii’s second congressional district that she attracted a strong primary challenger, prompting her to declare that she wouldn’t even try to run for re-election.

At least Rep. Tim Ryan hasn’t already lost his seat representing Ohio’s 13th. But the odds have increased that he could. Unlike in recent elections, he now has a credible Republican challenger: former state legislator Christina Hagan. After a forgettable, slightly odd presidential campaign (that “yoga vote” never showed up), Ryan has nearly depleted his campaign bank account. As of the end of the third quarter, he had only $41,050 on hand.

He has time to replenish his funds, and his blue-collar district still has a strong Democratic lean (Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 7 points in it, though Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by 27). But all Ryan’s presidential bid did was make him easier to beat.

7. Seth Moulton

Rep. Seth Moulton’s campaign was so pathetic he never got a turn on the debate stage before dropping out in the summer. But perhaps that was also his saving grace. Not enough people knew he was running for him to suffer serious embarrassment. Still, he squandered goodwill by opposing Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House after the 2018 midterms, and he didn’t regain it by running an impotent presidential campaign.

6. Kirsten Gillibrand

As soon as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand entered the race, she stepped onto the set with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who proceeded to inform her audience of Gillibrand’s ideological “transformation” from a rural upstate House member who leaned conservative on guns and immigration to a vocally feminist progressive. Maddow lectured the candidate that she would “have to give explanations … about why you changed your mind.” Maddow injected the idea that Gillibrand was an opportunist into the race, and it stuck.

Plus, Gillibrand could never shake complaints from Al Franken supporters that she pressured him into resigning before he could defend himself from groping allegations. The voters who didn’t sympathize with Franken didn’t rush to elevate Gillibrand either.

With a bruised national profile and a blue state address, she is unlikely to appear on anyone’s VP shortlist, and she doesn’t have an obvious path to a cabinet post.

5. Steve Bullock

Gov. Steve Bullock failed to exploit his unique status as the only red-state governor of the Democratic primary field. Still, it was a quiet failure that did not ruin his stature back home.

The Montana governor is term-limited and cannot run for re-election. And he has steadfastly refused to entertain jumping into the 2020 Senate race against incumbent Republican Steve Daines. But Democratic Party leaders, recognizing that he remains the most popular Democrat in Montana, are still pursuing him and hoping he will reconsider. And if the Democratic presidential nominee is not a white male, no one should be surprised if Bullock gets vetted for the vice-presidential slot on the ticket.

4. Eric Swalwell

The 39-year-old congressman concluded, after just three months on the presidential campaign trail, that he would not be 2020’s millennial candidate. In Swalwell’s lone debate, his demand that Joe Biden “pass the torch” was flicked away by the frontrunner. So he astutely decided to go back home and run to keep his congressional seat.

That freed up Swalwell, as a member of the House’s Intelligence and Judiciary committees, to immerse himself in the impeachment inquiry, and maintain a steady stream of related TV appearances. He has repeatedly driven Trump to rage on Twitter by regularly appearing on Fox News and articulating the case for impeachment.

Swalwell can’t take credit for Trump’s impeachment, but his brief presidential run introduced him to cable-TV viewers, allowing him to play a prominent role as one of the nightly drama’s talking heads.

3. John Hickenlooper

The undisciplined former Colorado governor had one of the more hapless presidential bids of the year. He mused at a CNN town hall, “How come we’re not asking more often the women, ‘Would you be willing to put a man on the ticket?’” and came across as dismissive (though he insisted he meant only that we shouldn’t assume a man would be the presidential nominee). He also shared an uncomfortable anecdote about the time he took his mother to see the pornographic movie “Deep Throat.”

After repeated denials that he would run for the Senate in 2020, Hickenlooper swallowed his pride and switched races in August. Now he’s the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic primary in Colorado, and in an October poll, he leads Republican incumbent Cory Gardner by 11 points.

2. Jay Inslee

If there’s one presidential dropout whose campaign was all upside, it’s Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who ran as a climate-change prophet. Inslee turned himself into a respected expert who can bestow green credibility on anyone he endorses. At the same time, his support at home is rock solid, and he’s expected to coast into a third gubernatorial term next year. And if a Democratic is in the White House in 2021, don’t be surprised if Inslee is tapped to run the EPA or the Energy Department.

1. Kamala Harris

Harris’s 2019 was rough. She undercut her persona as a steely interrogator with a series of inconsistent debate performances and wobbly stances on issues. Yet at the same time, Kamala Harris became a national figure in 2019, worthy of a killer “Saturday Night Live” impression by Maya Rudolph. By bowing out of the presidential race before the voting started, Harris avoided the painful spectacle of a potentially humiliating loss in Iowa, and she limited the number of enemies she made in the primary field.

As one of the few women of color who have won statewide elections, she will likely be on the short list of running mates for the eventual presidential nominee, especially if the nominee is a white man. She could also be a candidate for attorney general in a Democratic administration. And of course, at a relatively young 55 with few electoral threats to worry about at home in California, she can choose to remain where she is in the Senate, accumulate seniority and become a legislative maestro.

At the beginning of the year, Kamala Harris was the winner of the rollout primary. She ends the year as the winner of the presidential dropout primary.

#Dropouts #Foreign #Politics #Ranked

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XIU XIU - PUMPKIN ATTACK ON MOMMY AND DADDY

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We luv the controversy OH!

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: In the early years of high school I was deeply into Swans -- specifically, the pair of albums that Michael Gira put out in 2012 and 2014. I cannot recall if these albums were good. I am not inclined to revisit them, given Michael Gira's unpleasantness as a person. Yet in the all-consuming hammer of a beat that drives "Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy" I feel the same energy that 15-year-old me found so compelling in Swans' heaviness. It's not even particularly hard or aggressive in its sound -- the weight it carries squirms beneath its surface, ready to explode outwards without ever doing so. There's no release or jump scare here, just further coiling and rising action. It's dread music, a caldera of fear. I am no longer drawn to sounds like this, but I cannot help but feel nostalgic for its thump. [5]

Vikram Joseph: I used to think I liked Xiu Xiu, but play counts don't lie, and looking back it's clear I liked the concept more than the reality. I lost track of them sometime around the turn of the decade -- presumably I came to the conclusion that my iTunes could only hold so many performatively unsettling, hook-light records that I hardly ever listen to. I was intrigued to find out whether they'd changed, and "Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy" is certainly different to the Xiu Xiu of a decade ago -- a deranged techno grind that sounds like HEALTH on some very bad pills -- but it rings rather hollow: provocation as its own end with little to back it up. Plus ça change, etc. [4]

Tim de Reuse: It's a structureless mess, yeah, but it's easy to follow. The beat is stubbornly un-syncopated, the bassline hammers a single note for five minutes, there really aren't that many elements at play at any one time, and the vocal clips only occasionally poke out of the mix ("no-thing! no-thing! no-no-no-thing!") to deliver disjointed nonsense. There is little salient cause-and-effect relationship from one moment to the next, and this has the lovely effect of trapping you in the present for five minutes, in a way that your typical verse-chorus-verse situation couldn't really accomplish. For five minutes, it takes a couple measures of industrial fever dream and contorts them, rotates them in place, shows you new angles on it, and the straightforwardness of the composition makes all of these little tweaks gel together in memory. This is what a nightmare feels like when you're six years old and terror is still a relatively simple thing. [9]

Nortey Dowuona: This sounds like a brain being squished and all the memories running into the bathroom and shaking a toothbrush. The bass drums run in. First, with a scattering of toothbrush and vocals, then a descent of rattling percussion layered with hurling phone shrieks, with vocal samples ladled in, then clumsysnares dripping in with a break for a story, with shrimp synths shredding their voices as the bass drops out, with another break for another vocal samples, with bass dropping out as Jerry creeps across the Moog synth to turn on the TV, with the shrimp synths slipping back with the bass as more vocal samples, emitting from the TV, who closes the song out. [9]

Ian Mathers: I am generally such a fan of the existence of Xiu Xiu, what you might call the whole rich tapestry, that even though I prefer it when their material veers a couple steps closer to "song," I'm still fond of this meandering thing. Honestly, I've spent so much of 2019 listening to Coil that it'd be weird if I didn't like this. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: Appealing in the way that a lot of EBM is for me: it's cold and sterile and makes me feel completely hollow. [6]

Iain Mew: If this was truly horrible and pushed abrasion that bit further, or if it had truly "no nothing" and pushed boredom that bit further, I could at least feel something about it, even if it was hatred. As it is, it's an endurance test that doesn't even give any particular feeling of reward for having endured it. [2]

Kylo Nocom: Forgive me for not entertaining the noise of the edgelord underground. Forgive me for finding Jamie Stewart's voyeuristic disrespect of black bodies, alive and dead, terrible enough to where any of my goodwill has been drained for his work. Forgive me for thinking we can do better than believing that dunderheaded aggression, the kind aided by the likes of Fantano and RateYourMusic circles, is the only mode of "avant-garde" aesthetics worth caring for. Forgive me for not seeing sub-"Windowlicker" noise, Psycho string plucks, John Carpenter synths, and exoticized valley girl narrations as the genius they are; I only hear the music of people who don't care about what gets shat out, as long as its listeners find its chaos confusing enough to mistake it for meaning. [1]

Wayne Weizhen Zhang: I'm all for befuddling, odd experimental music, but my only lasting impression of this song is that when I played it using speakers in my living room, my roommate shouted at me: "What the hell is this? It sounds like someone on ketamine decided to make a song!" [4]

Thomas Inskeep: A soundtrack to a performance art piece (as its video makes perfectly clear) that never coalesces as any kind of song. It kind of wants to be an avant-garde version of a late '80s My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult record, but never gets there. What remains is instead just sophomoric collage. [3]

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#Xiu Xiu #pop #noise #music #music review #Amnesty Week

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Dan and I are home this weekend, mostly for his youngest sister’s wedding, but a good friend of mine, a member of the Gangsters, was also performing in a stage version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He’s playing Eddie/Dr. Scott, and last night was opening night; I couldn’t miss it.

If you’ve never seen RHPS, let me break it down for you: super boring and newly engaged couple Brad and Janet are on their way to visit an old professor when their car breaks down. In the middle of nowhere. In the rain. Cliche right? They then walk to a nearby castle to use the phone, where they meet some extremely strange characters, led by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a gay man in women’s clothing. Oh, he’s also a scientist, and he’s in the process of creating the perfect man. He invites Brad and Janet to his lab for the raising, nonsense ensues. There’s singing, dancing, sexual innuendo, and Tim Curry looking fierce in red lipstick and an endless wardrobe of corsets. The plot is totally unhinged and makes very little sense, but that’s part of the appeal. The whole movie feels a little bit like a fever dream.

This movie, and now the play, hold a special place in my heart. When I was in high school I had a lot of friends and did normal teenager things, but I never really felt like I fit in. I had some pretty strange interests that the people in my social groups didn’t get and definitely didn’t share. I also knew from a young age that I likely wasn’t completely straight while all of my friends were, and it was in a time when there wasn’t the kind of inclusion that there is now. Some of my friends thought I might not be straight, and they claimed to be scared to spend time with me. Not that I had ever tried to do anything inappropriate to them; they were just playing into the kind of prejudice that was normal at the time.

When I was a sophomore (I think) I was hanging out with some older kids on the regular, and they routinely went to see midnight showings of Rocky Horror. I had never seen it, and when I mentioned it to one of them she was horrified and decided I needed to tag along one weekend. Not to be hyperbolic, but the experience was life-changing. That night I was surrounded by “freaks” and “weirdos”, people who didn’t allow the expectations of other people or society to define them, who were unapologetically themselves, and I loved every single minute of it. Being an underage girl I was safe from the humiliation and disrobing that “virgins” are typically subjected to, but I actually wanted to be hazed. More than anything I wanted to be a part of this amazing community of people who knew the words to all of the songs and danced and threw things.

So I kept going. At the time my city had a weekly showing, every Saturday night at midnight, and it was typically the highlight of my week. I lied to my parents about where I was going (sorry mom) because I knew they wouldn’t want their 15-year-old daughter going to the opposite side of the city to hang out with a bunch of strangers and watch a raunchy movie. And to a lot of people, that’s all Rocky is; a play, a movie, something to be consumed and enjoyed for a couple of hours and then move on. To us, Rocky was a lifeline, the only place we could really be ourselves without fear of judgment, ridicule or worse.

Eventually, I joined the “cast”, the biggest weirdos in the entire place who dressed up as the characters and acted out the movie while it was on the screen. I’ve never heard of another movie where this is a thing, but I really love it. I started out playing a rando in the ensemble, basically only showing up for the Time Warp and Rocky unveiling, and eventually moved up to Columbia, and then Magenta. She was my favorite to play since she’s so creepy. I still know her parts in the songs, but most of her lines and her callouts have long since been replaced in my brain with more “useful” information about things like taxes and adulting.

The play was awesome and totally worth coming home for. I’d 100% go again. I didn’t take any photos because rules, but I’ll leave you with some of the promotional shots from the Blackfriar’s Facebook page.

Have you ever been to see Rocky? Or better yet, played any of the parts? If you’re a virgin, do you think you’d ever go?

Storytime: Rocky Horror and me Dan and I are home this weekend, mostly for his youngest sister's wedding, but a good friend of mine, a member of the…

#antici............. pation #late night double feature picture show #musical #rocky horror picture show #storytime #theater

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20 Fantasy Hockey Thoughts

Every Sunday until the start of the 2018-19 regular season, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings".

Writers: Michael Clifford, Ian Gooding, Cam Robinson, and Dobber

1. There’s always a concern about a team suffering from a Stanley Cup hangover. The wear and tear on the body from an extended season. The adrenal fatigue that comes with the insane high of winning a championship. And, of course, the brutality that the liver is faced with in the days and weeks that follow the Cup ceremony. But, in all seriousness, after spending 13 years together climbing to the top of the mountain, there’s a legitimate chance that the Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom step off the gas a bit to start next season. Especially Backstrom, as he’ll have some healing to do this offseason that will take away from training. Watch for that lull and take advantage if you can. If they start icy, it’ll be a prime opportunity to get one or both at a discounted price. (june9)

2. Is there another NHL team that benefits more from the increasing salary cap than Washington? With a reported $5-7 million dollars being tacked onto the roof this offseason, that will likely facilitate them retaining John Carlson.

The powerful right-shot blueliner re-established himself as a cornerstone fantasy asset this past season. Leading all blueliners in points is fantastic but replicating it is always the hard part. However, he attained his lofty numbers on the back of some sustainable metrics. Carlson shot the puck a great deal more this season – surpassing his previous career-high by 29 shots. Yet, his conversion rate remained consistent with his career norms. The other main factor to his 68-point season was the 33 power play points – another slam dunk career-high. He saw over a minute more per night on the man-advantage than 2016-17 and clearly made effective use of the additional time.

While 2017-18 very well could end up as his peak season, there's little reason to believe the 28-year-old won't be flirting with the top of the pile for defenseman scoring in immediate future. There is no one sniffing around his spot on the top power play unit, and his surrounding talent will remain quite high. (june9)

3. It appears that Brady Tkachuk’s 2018-19 season is very much an unknown.

According to @OHLinsiders: Top NHLDraft Prospect Brady Tkachuk to OHL London rumour certainly has legs. I'm told that former Boston U Coach David Quinn's departure for the NHL is making Brady think twice. Will come down to whether or not he's NHL ready or not – if not, look for him to be in London.

This comes on the heels of his announcement to return to Boston University for a sophomore campaign a few weeks ago. However, it appears David Quinn grabbing the Rangers’ gig has changed some things.

Many had assumed that Tkachuk would be one of the more NHL-ready prospects and thus hold some more clout in fantasy drafts this fall. Being drafted out of the NCAA will facilitate a multitude of options. Tkachuk will be eligible to play in the NCAA, OHL, AHL, or NHL. If he ends up in London, let’s hope he just takes No.7 to save fans from going out and getting a new jersey, as brother Matthew (Tkachuk) rocked that uni during his monster 2015-16 season with the Knights. However, this new revelation re-opens the door for an NHL debut next fall. That should play a role in his fantasy draft slot. (june9)

4. The fact that Noah Hanifin is reportedly being dangled on the trade block shouldn’t raise huge red flags on his offensive upside. He scored 23 points in 37 games during his draft season, his only season at Boston College. His power-play time and production dipped slightly over the past two seasons but his role stands to increase if Justin Faulk is traded. Plus, if Hanifin continues his current pace, he could easily push for 40 points in 2018-19. Also keep in mind that he has been more durable than Faulk, missing just four games over his first three NHL seasons.

It’s clear that the Hurricanes want to make some drastic changes, having missed the playoffs for nine consecutive seasons. If they choose to stand pat with both Faulk and Hanifin, it’s possible that Hanifin could start to earn a greater share of ice time and power-play time. Hanifin is also entering that potential breakout fourth NHL season and was the Canes’ top-scoring defenseman last season (one point more than Faulk), so there is some sleeper potential here. (june10)

5. The Stars are expected to bring back Valeri Nichushkin on a two-year deal, although the signing can’t be announced until July 1 (according to TSN). Although he failed to reach 35 points during his two seasons in Dallas, Nichushkin should give the Stars some much-needed scoring depth. Now, we’ll see if he can fulfill that promise that made him the 10th overall pick in 2013. (june10)

6. Last week, I spoke about Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s pending free agency in 2019. At the time, it was reported that the Coyotes have an eight-year deal on the table for $8.25 million. John Chayka does not appear to be a man who minces words or actions. There’s a reason the organization is putting that worthy of an offer on the table 13 months before their star blueliner is eligible to test the waters. And, that’s to know what his intentions are.

OEL can take the offer under advisement for the summer and not allow the team to glean much information from it. Or, he can thank them and politely decline saying he wishes to focus on next season and leave the contractual part of the game for next summer. If that’s the case, I have a sinking suspicion that Arizona will dangle OEL at the draft in Dallas. Imagine the draft floor chatter that will be flying about if both OEL and Erik Karlsson are being legitimately shopped. (june9)

7. That the Sabres might want to trade someone with a high cap hit isn’t overly surprising. It would essentially be the start of their second (third?) rebuild, but with Jack Eichel, Casey Mittelstadt, and eventually Rasmus Dahlin in place, along with two first-round picks next year, the chance to further stock the cupboard with prospects/picks makes sense. Ryan O’Reilly has fantastic for the Sabres but maximizing the return now in hopes to build a contender three to four years down the road seems like the right move. I’m sure the Canadiens are inquiring.

8. Troy Stecher’s power play (PP) time on ice (TOI) in Vancouver all but disappeared this past season. He went from 2:42 per game in 2016-17 (nearly 193 minutes total) to … 15 seconds per game (17:22 total). Alex Edler saw an increase in PP time and that meant someone had to lose their minutes and that guy was Stecher. And he lost almost all of them.

It’s not really a huge surprise. Out of 50 defensemen with 150-plus power play minutes in 2016-17, Stecher was 49th in points per 60 minutes. The team scored 5.29 goals per 60 minutes on the power play with him on the ice, 48th out of those 50 defensemen. With Edler patrolling the blue line on the PP, that goals/60 rate increase to 8.98 in 2017-18. Sure, there are mitigating circumstances (Brock Boeser) but that same mitigating circumstance means that Stecher isn’t likely to reclaim that PP time in 2018-19.

There still isn’t much depth on the Canucks roster as far as scoring is concerned, so without those power play minutes, Stecher might not carry much fantasy value next year. Edler is a UFA after the season, though, so Stecher dynasty owners may need to exercise patience. (june7)

9. It’s hard to see Tim Heed having much fantasy value unless his coaches start trusting him. He was consistently a healthy scratch down the stretch for the Sharks and ended up only playing a little less than a third of the season for the team. He was a tweener for them; not really a NHL regular but too good for the AHL (he has 61 points in 65 career AHL games).

Heed is under contract for 2018-19, so he’ll have another year to prove himself. It seems unlikely the Sharks move Heed’s role from inconsistently in the lineup to 20 minutes a game in his age-28 season. Whether by adjusted shot share, actual goal share, or expected goal share, he was at or near the top in every regard for San Jose. We can quibble about his usage or sheltering but he crushed the opportunity given to him. It’s just a matter of whether it will lead to a bigger role. (june7)

10. It appears Sean Monahan’s recovery from multiple surgeries is going as planned. It’s nice to hear there haven’t been any setbacks for the Calgary center and that he should be ready to go when the team hits the ice for training camp in a few months.

In general, I’m wary of drafting players coming off significant offseason surgery. If Monahan is all ready to go for the start of training camp, though, I’m not sure how much we should be concerned as fantasy owners. The concern would be if we get close to training camp and the team says he’ll need another couple of weeks. Until then, it seems there’s nothing to worry about.

11. There is cause for concern that the Jets’ Dustin Byfuglien’s style of play is already leading to a statistical decline. Although Byfuglien’s points-per-game average has remained steady over the last four seasons (0.65 PTS/GP), he is now 33 years old and was held to just 69 games last season due to injuries. His hit total has also dropped from 222 in 2015-16 to 183 in 2016-17, and to just 147 in 2017-18. The Jets appeared to be a tired bunch after their hard-fought seven-game series win over Nashville. Although Byfuglien played three minutes less per game in 2017-18 compared to 2016-17, logging nearly 25 minutes per game is still heavy mileage. Understand all that Big Buff provides in a multicategory league but be careful not to overpay. (june6)

12. Nikita Zadorov finished second among blueliners (to Byfuglien) with 103 penalty minutes and first among all players with 278 hits. This was the first season in which Zadorov reached triple-digits in penalty minutes and the first season in which he has recorded 200 hits. For what it’s worth, Zadorov also reached a scoring career high with 20 points (7g-13a), so he was one of many Colorado players to improve over a dismal 2016-17 season. Zadorov finished the season owned in 28 percent of Yahoo leagues.

If you believe that today’s game has less hitting than even last season’s game, then one stat supports your belief. In 2016-17, two players finished with over 300 hits (Mark Borowiecki led with 364), while in 2015-16 three players finished with over 300 hits (Matt Martin led with 365). We know that penalty minute totals have dropped through the years with far fewer fighting majors, but the number of hits could be declining as well. (june6)

13. Brayden McNabb isn’t a player that you’re going to read about in a whole lot of fantasy articles. Yet, in the right type of league he could be extremely valuable – a true hidden gem on a team that unearthed plenty of hidden gems.

McNabb didn’t earn a particularly high point total (15 points) in 76 games and he won’t often be mentioned as a reason that the Golden Knights were so successful, but McNabb finished sixth among defensemen with 226 hits and sixth among all players with 176 blocked shots. That represented the highest combined hits/blocked shots total (401) among all players.

Interestingly enough, those weren’t the only categories where McNabb shined in 2017-18. He also finished tied for 13th with a plus-26 ranking (and fourth on the Golden Knights). McNabb is also a decent option in penalty minutes, having nearly reached 100 penalty minutes two seasons ago with the Kings and amassing at least 50 penalty minutes in each of his last four seasons. Although McNabb was owned in only 14 percent of Yahoo leagues, he turned out to be extremely valuable in leagues that count all of plus/minus, hits, and blocked shots. (june6)

14. Reader Loutzenheiser asked: “What do you make about all the noise regarding the Habs drafting Jesperi Kotkaniemi at the third spot? Opinions seem scattered but some scouts him as a challenger to Filip Zadina on the third pick.”

Honestly, from what I understand of the draft, after the first two picks it becomes too close to call. Yes, there seems to be a consensus about numbers three and four, but the number nine guy could easily move up because the gap between three and 10 isn’t huge. Kotkaniemi, we have ranked 13, but he’s also considered by many to be the top center available and it wouldn’t shock me if he moves higher to a team that needs a center. Would I do it if I’m Montreal? No. However, if I really liked him or Joe Veleno, then I would trade down. I’d see if I can swap with sixth or seventh and get a second-round pick thrown in. Then I’d still get my guy plus the pick. (june5)

15. Matt Norman: “Where does Victor Mete fit in this year? Are they going to run him next to Shea Weber full time? It feels like last year was a bit of a crap shoot at the beginning. He cooled off after game 10.”

No, and I don’t think you can expect a lot offensively from Mete this year. Give him time. He’s a good one but Weber has the top role right now. Mete and his career trajectory reminds me of Olli Maatta (so far … even include the injuries). (june5)

16. Todd MacKay asked: “Will Elias Lindholm ever take the next step? What about Tomas Hertl? Who's going to have the next Sean Couturier-esque breakout?”

Yes, I believe Lindholm will. I know it’s been five seasons now, so my expectations have dropped to 70 points at best. But, there’s another gear … As for Hertl, I don’t like his chances as much. I think he gets hurt too much and I never thought he’d top 70 points to begin with … Couturier-esque breakout: Lindholm is a good candidate; Tyler Johnson … I’m just looking at guys who have been around for a few years and have established a production window. I’m not looking at young players on the rise such as Jake Guentzel and Pierre-Luc Dubois because I think those are obvious candidates. (june5)

17. Jonny Miazyk: “How much do you like Alex Tuch going forward?”

I think Tuch will be Chris Kreider fantasy-wise and – knock on wood – doesn’t have the injury baggage to slow his development or reduce his production. (june5)

18. The breakout we’ve been waiting for from Jason Zucker finally came and the power play had a lot to do with it. Zucker amassed 16 power-play points, which doesn’t sound like a lot, until you realize he had six (!) power-play points in his first 248 games with the Wild. He’s an RFA and is deserving of a healthy raise over the two-year, $2M AAV contract he just finished.

One issue is just whether there’s growth to be had or not. Minnesota is one of the teams that still splits its two PP units evenly – first through sixth in PP TOI per game among Wild forwards was separated by 18 seconds – so, unless something changes with the coaching staff, it’s hard to see Zucker racking up more PP points. If he’s back with the Wild, though, in this same role, I wouldn’t anticipate much of a decline in production. (june4)

19. Back in late February, I wrote about how good of a season Nick Schmaltz was having, all things considered. It is recommended to go back and read that.

Going forward, Schmaltz certainly seemed to have earned the Blackhawks’ second-line center role behind Jonathan Toews. Skating with Patrick Kane boosted his five-on-five ice time from his rookie year but a huge chunk of the jump also came from the power play; he finished fourth among their forwards in PP TOI per game.

To my eyes and by the numbers, Schmaltz looks like a good playmaker right now and that should only improve for the 22-year old. The lack of shots means the across-the-board production may not be there but he seems in line to have a season like Mikko Koivu has had recently – expect somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 goals and 35 assists. (june4)

20. Micheal Ferland saw a career year with 21 goals and 20 assists, career highs in both stats. Part of the jump in goals came from his power-play usage in that he tripled his career output to that point in PPGs with six (he had three for his career before 2017-18).

Maybe he stays on the top line under the new coaching regime, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens with the power play. It was a sore spot for the Flames most of the season and needs to be better next year. Do they just eschew the second unit completely? Does Ferland finish in the top-6 mix for forwards PP TOI again? Open-ended questions with a new head coach in town. (june4)

Have a good week, folks!!

from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/20-fantasy-hockey-thoughts/20-fantasy-hockey-thoughts-27/

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Luka Doncic is already playing like an MVP

Luka is already playing like an MVP this season.

The age of Doncic is upon us.

Luka Doncic defended 6’10 Tristan Thompson in the post. He may have been three inches shorter, but the Dallas Mavericks’ burgeoning superstar held his ground as the Cleveland Cavaliers’ big front-ended a hook shot. Then it was time for Doncic magic. After securing his own board, Doncic did what he usually does, which is whatever the hell he wants.

Boban Marjanovic, all 7’3 of him, set a screen for the 20-year-old, then rolled to the hoop and missed a perfectly-placed feed. No worries, though. Doncic tipped the offensive rebound to himself right over the top of Thompson’s head, then gave a push pass for a wide-open Tim Hardaway Jr. three-point shot. That didn’t work either.

Hardaway caught the ball, hesitated, and missed his chance to fire. Dang. It’s a good thing Doncic was there, camping out in the corner to salvage the play by draining a three of his own.

A defensive stop, two rebounds, two assist opportunities and a three-point make all in 23 seconds. Yes, the Mavs got a good one.

cyborg shit luka doncic defended 6'10 t. thompson in the post, got the board ran down court, threw an assist to boban, who missed "ah, damn," luka probs said as he grabbed the board himself then he kicked to hardaway for 3, who hesitated so luka just drained a 3 himself pic.twitter.com/VdlsIebU4d

— Matt Ellentuck (@mellentuck) November 4, 2019

Doncic is MVP-good right now

With a replacement-level point guard in Doncic’s place, the Mavericks wouldn’t be anything special. Kristaps Porzingis has star talent but is off to a slow star thus far. The rest of Dallas’ lineup is filled with rotation-level players. The other three starters — Seth Curry, Dorian Finney-Smith and Dwight Powell — while all effective, wouldn’t be certain starters on many other teams. Yet here the Mavs stand with the best offensive rating in the NBA, scoring 113.55 points per 100 possessions, slightly above the Milwaukee Bucks and a full point more than Kawhi Leonard’s Los Angeles Clippers.

Despite being the youngest player on the Mavs, Doncic runs the franchise to the same degree as any other future Hall of Famer. He’s earned the full respect of everyone in the organization — that’s noticeable. Nobody in the NBA touches the ball more than Doncic does per game (104 times). He’s at once their operator and their safety valve.

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Doncic keeps getting the ball because he always knows what to do with it. He drives to the hoop more often than just two players in the league (19 times per game). James Harden and DeMar DeRozan drive more frequently, but are shooting eight and nine percent worse from the field on those drives, respectively. Doncic’s 65 percent shooting off drives matches Russell Westbrook’s, and leads LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, and virtually every other star in the league.

But when he crafts his way through the paint, he’s only looking to score less than half the time. Doncic’s eyes are always running, especially when he’s on the move. Every Maverick has to be prepared. He’s third in the league in assists, at 9.1 per game, and fourth in points created off assists, at 23 per night. He’s creating more than three made three-point shots per game off assists on less than 11 tries.

This is wizard-like madness on display over and over again from a kid legally unable rip Fireball shots at a tailgate. Against the Lakers’ No. 1 defense? Thirty-one points, 15 assists and 13 rebounds. Cavs? Twenty-nine points, 15 assists, 14 rebounds. Blazers? Twenty-nine points, 12 rebounds and nine assists. Minus one tough game against the Nuggets, Doncic has been incredible, and the Mavs are 5-2.

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Doncic is beating everyone at a sloth-like pace

Doncic might be young and spry, but he ain’t going anywhere quick. Doncic ranks in the bottom-100 in average speed, but that’s how he cooks. He isn’t a freakish athletic specimen. He looks entirely the opposite. But Doncic is smart, creative, disciplined, huge, and strong. Nobody’s been able to stop him. He’s a halfcourt genius.

A ridiculous 71 percent of Doncic’s shots come after he’s taken three or more dribbles. Forty percent of them are after seven or more. The 6’7 ball handler is dancing around the defense and surveying his options before striking. Yet he’s still finding ways to create room to get shots off. He takes nine threes per game, and only two are catch-and-shoot set shots. His step-back is so efficient that eight of the nine threes per game he’s attempting come with four or more feet between himself and his defender. He’s working to get himself good looks, and then draining them at a solid enough clip (35 percent with space.)

When he’s not scoring the ball himself, Doncic uses an endless vault of trickery to feed his giants off pick-and-rolls and fling dimes behind his head to cutters and spot-up shooters. He sucks the defense in off his frequent takes to the rack and makes the most of the opportunities.

This is not college sophomore behavior.

[Related: LeBron James vs. Luka Doncic reminded us why we love basketball]

This is Doncic now. There is a better version in the future.

The only thing more frightening than a 20-year-old scoring 27 points per game with 10 rebounds and nine assists is the one who does that and more with better efficiency in the future. There is no ceiling for a player of his skill level because one like him has never existed. He isn’t perfect. He’s still coughing the ball up too much, and he isn’t the sharpest defender.

But that’s all to come. Yet he’s still in the MVP running. Damn.

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