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noxaurumque · 9 months
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Now is the Time of Monsters: Book Recs
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This is a short list of stories about entropy and being on the precipice of change, where places are living things and the future of humanity is uncertain. Lifted heavily from the recs on the Pathologic and Disco Elysium subreddits. If you like unusual, often esoteric literature that rewires your brain chemistry forever, this list might interest you!
Warning: the books on this list are intended for an adult audience
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Equal parts cyberpunk and surreal dystopia. Two worlds with two parallel narratives that gradually intersect.
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
Literally a city struggling to be born while an extra-dimensional force threatens to tear apart the connections that make the universe whole.
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan
A magical boarding school except you can't understand a single word anyone is saying, the children are dying, and the book itself is as much a living thing as the House its protagonists inhabit.
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
An episodic tale of self-discovery told through the investigation of poorly understood cryptids called "beasts." Questions the forces responsible for shaping our lives and who we are as people.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
So the fic I read that was inspired by this was about being trapped in a House that's slowly succumbing to entropy at the end of a stillborn universe. I'm told that's an accurate description.
Metro 2033 by Dmitrii Glukhovskii
A puppy of a man goes on a series of horrible adventures in the nuclear post-apocalypse and is forced to decide the future of humanity in a world of rumors and miscommunication.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The world has been touched by something strange that threatens to change life as we know it. A book that questions the border between you and I, between flesh and earth, between dreams and reality.
The City & the City by China Mieville
An existential murder mystery that thrusts you into a world of two ambiguously related, but separated, cities. An exploration of borders: be it physical or imagined.
Germinal by Emile Zola
In a cruelly exploited mining community in 1860's France, people are treated like animals to be sacrificed to an unforgiving, hungry earth. A classic realist novel that seeks to plant the seeds of change and hope for a better future.
BONUS ROUND: MOVIES
Stalker (1979)
Sopping wet men lie in puddles and sometimes in grass as they struggle to find meaning in a changed world. Inspired by the book Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky whose other works I'd also recommend!
Snowpiercer (2013)
From the director of Parasite we have a post-apocalypse where all that remains of the world is sheltered on a single, impossible train on the verge of a revolution. Based off the graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette.
NOTE: FEEL FREE TO ADD ON TO THIS WITH YOUR OWN SUGGESTIONS. I mostly made this list for myself/work purposes and haven't read everything. Also if you're here from Patho or DE, please check the subreddits if you haven't already! They have great recommendations :D
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lisiya-gori · 1 year
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war and peace things we don’t talk about enough:
nikolai at tilsit
old prince bolkonsky being exiled to his estates by paul i and deciding to just stay there out of spite
dolokhov’s persian adventures
the overall themes of entropy and decay in the rostov family’s arc
lise being baltic german (and also her mustache)
the symbolism of sonya having a patronymic but no last name and boris having a last name but no patronymic
the entire marya/anatole proposal scene
whatever the fuck was going on with kirill bezukhov
that one time marya hangs out with a trans man and andrei is canonically transphobic about it
actually pretty much every time a main character interacts with someone outside the aristocracy
the anna milkhailovna-natalya rostova friendship and its disintegration
whatever we're expected to believe ippolit does after 1805
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owensmarcher4 · 2 years
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monsterkissed · 2 years
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i don’t at all understand the people party-pooping posts of ppl foaming at the mouth for the queen’s death bc like. Yes the media will be an absolute shitshow that will be utterly intolerable and a disgusting display of wealth and class power after tens of thousands were sacrificed to covid, Yes it won’t change anything fundamental about the uk class system (i don’t actually have strong suspicions that this would somehow lead to the monarchy ending, i think they will leverage a lot of media to turn the new coronation into an Event instead and it will suck) and Yes they will use it to draw attention away from the aforementioned covid atrocities, the environmental disaster, the brexit bullshit and the continuing austerity eugenics situation and general corruption (the same way that btw, the gross boris hospital mask thing is such a blatant attempt to draw attention from those things that people are happily lapping up)
but the thing is. the thing is.
she’s fucking ancient.
she’s dying sooner rather than later one way or the other. this isn’t a shitty law you can call your rep to vote against or an event you can protest away, this is human life entropy, it’s happening no matter what any of us do or say or wish or hope. she is an old, old woman and she’s going to die, and getting upset about people for wishing she’ll die and saying they shouldn’t because it will be Bad Actually as if that will change that fact is fucking absurd.
i know it’s fashionable right now to turn to people spouting any kind of edgy radical political statement at all and talk about how actually it would be really bad for things to change and we should all just sit around pushing gentle reform until the earth burns around us but it’s not actually accelerationism to accept human mortality
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1.MASTODON - Blood and Thunder 03:48 2.RED FANG - Wires 05:43 3.DYING FETUS - Second Skin 04:42 4.OBITUARY - Sentence Day 02:49 5.DEATH - Pull The Plug 04:26 6.AMORPHIS - Black Winter Day 03:50 7.MYRKUR - Leaves of Yggdrasil 04:00 8.NOTHING - Say Less 04:15 9.TORCHE - Admission 04:00 10.BARONESS - March to the Sea 03:11 11.THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - 43% Burnt 04:31 12.PIG DESTROYER - Trojan Whore 01:34 13.NASUM - Scoop 02:21 14.NILE - Cast Down The Heretic 05:45 15.SUFFOCATION - Catatonia 03:55 16.INCANTATION - Entrails of the Hag Queen 04:33 17.NEUROSIS - Through Silver In Blood 12:11 18.HIGH ON FIRE - Blessed Black Wings 07:43 19.YOB - Ablaze 10:13 20.WINDHAND - Diablerie 05:20 21.MONOLORD - THE LAST LEAF 05:14 22.BONGZILLA - Amerijuanican 06:46 23.GATECREEPER - From The Ashes 03:59 24.EXHUMED - Ravenous Cadavers 01:49 25.FULL OF HELL - Burning Myrrh 02:12 26.INTEGRITY - Hymn, For The Children of the Black Flame 02:16 27.GISM - Endless Blockades For The Pussyfooter 03:46 28.CONTROL DENIED - Expect The Unexpected 07:16 29.NECROPHAGIST - Only Ash Remains 04:11 30.OBSCURA - The Anticosmic Overload 04:16 31.REVOCATION - The Grip Tightens 04:10 32.GRUESOME - A Waste of Life 06:00 33.ZOMBI - Breakthrough & Conquer 03:46 34.GENGHIS TRON - Board Up The House 05:54 35.SURVIVE - A.H.B. 04:25 36.THE ALBUM LEAF - Ambo 04:53 37.CEREMONY - Turn Away The Bad Thing 04:02 38.BORIS WITH MERZBOW - Away From You 07:35 39.ROYAL THUNDER - Parsonz Curse 06:57 40.KING WOMAN - Hierophant 07:59 41.CLOAKROOM - Seedless Star 07:37 42.AUTHOR & PUNISHER - The Speaker Is Systematically Broken 04:14 43.DISFEAR - Deadweight 02:52 44.IRON REAGAN - A Dying World 02:24 45.TOXIC HOLOCAUST - Nuke The Cross 02:47 46.CANDY - Super-Stare 04:01 47.RINGWORM - Death Becomes My Voice 05:19 48.INTER ARMA - Citadel 06:40 49.PRIMITIVE MAN - Menacing 08:00 50.UNEARTHLY TRANCE - Famine 06:14 51.LYCUS - Solar Chamber 10:41 52.DEVOURMENT - Cognitive Sedation Butchery 04:53 53.SKINLESS - The Optimist 05:42 54.DEVIL MASTER - Black Flame Candle 02:46 55.OUTER HEAVEN - Bloodspire 04:15 56.GENOCIDE PACT - Conquered and Disposed 04:37 57.COFFINS - Hour of Execution 04:55 58.MAMMOTH GRINDER - Superior Firepower 02:38 59.LIVING GATE - Heaven Ablaze 03:35 60.REPULSION - Maggots In Your Coffin 01:45 61.AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED - Agorapocalypse Now 02:25 62.MISERY INDEX - Fed To The Wolves 03:47 63.MORTICIAN - Rabid 02:01 64.BRUTAL TRUTH - Sugardaddy 02:36 65.HUMAN REMAINS - Rote 03:31 66.-(16)- - Me and the Dog Die Together 03:05 67.ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY - Motor-Ready 04:21 68.ASG - Avalanche 04:17 69.CEPHALIC CARNAGE - Endless Cycle Of Violence 04:14 70.CHERUBS - Sooey Pig 04:44 71.COUGH - Haunter of the Dark 07:50 72.CRIPPLE BASTARDS - Non Coinvolto 02:04 73.DISEMBOWELMENT - Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory 07:40 74.EX EYE - Opposition/Perihelion; The Coil 12:29 75.GADGET - Pillars Of Filth 01:20 76.GRAVES AT SEA - The Curse That Is 11:14 77.HAEMORRHAGE - WE ARE THE GORE 02:15 78.HORSEBACK - Mithras 05:04 79.ILSA - SHIBBOLETH 02:39 80.INDIAN - The Impetus Bleeds 06:40 81.INVERLOCH - Distance Collapsed (In Rubble) 08:39 82.IRON MONKEY - Crown of Electrodes 04:21 83.JOHN FRUM - Presage of Emptiness 04:47 84.LOCRIAN - Arc of Extinction 07:16 85.MARUTA - Hope Smasher 02:19 86.MIRACLE - Light Mind 04:49 87.THE OBSESSED - Sodden Jackal 04:23 88.PINKISH BLACK - Concept Unification 05:13 89.PUBLICIST UK - Slow Dancing To This Bitter Earth 03:36 90.RWAKE - Leviticus 07:17 91.SUMERLANDS - The Seventh Seal 03:46 92.TERMINAL BLISS - Clean Bill of Wealth 00:51 93.TRAPPIST - Victims Of A Bomber Raid 01:38 94.TRUE WIDOW - Four Teeth 06:16 95.WEEKEND NACHOS - Jock Powerviolence 01:23 96.WRONG - Culminate 02:33 97.USNEA - Lathe of Heaven 09:44 98.VICTIMS - The Horse And Sparrow Theory 03:41 99.ZEKE - Two Lane Blacktop 01:37 100.ZONAL - System Error -ft. 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wolf-nir · 5 years
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The Members of the Decay of Angels
The Decay of Angels is a five-member terrorist organization. They specialize in being a “murder association”. Although few in number, all its members have powerful and threatening abilities.
So far has been presented two members of this organization, Fyodor Doystoyevsky and Nikolai Gogol. The other three members remain a mystery, however it is known that possibly all of them are infiltrated into the government and the Japanese police force.
From the two members hitherto presented, it is possible to deduce that the organization is probably formed by classical russian authors, since Asagiri likes to present groups and organizations with members having the same nationality. This is the case with the ADA, Port Mafia and The Guild.
However, I believe that only two of the remaining members can be russian authors, since Asagiri has been playing reference to one of the classic Japanese authors, Mishima Yukio, which would make sense for an organization with predictable base in Japan needing a Japanese connection.
Following this theory, we know that there are several classic russian authors, an example is the very organization commanded by Fyodor, who has mostly russian authors. However, because it is a tremendously dangerous organization, it is possible to deduce that the authors chosen by Asagiri are the best known and/or controversial in the history of russian literature, both IRL!Fyodor and IRL!Gogol being part of this list.
Among several choices I have separated five authors known for their fame and influence in literature. Since this is a theory, I will introduce some of the IRL! and their possible ability. Since I’m not Asagiri and I don’t have much knowledge about russian literature, I may be wrong on some points here and there, but I hope you enjoy it!
❝  Leo Tolstoy ❞
⌈ IRL! Facts ⌋
✓ Leo Tolstoy, born as Liev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is considered to be one of the greatest authors of all time. ✓ Born to an aristocratic russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. ✓ In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession (1882). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
⌈ Ability ⌋
❝  Karenina ❞
✓ Anna Karenina is the tragic story of Countess Anna Karenina, a married noblewoman and socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing — something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry Anna if she will agree to leave her husband Count Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, the moral laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, her own insecurities, and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky and Anna go to Italy, where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances, she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fearing loss of control. ✓ Seen from a small perspective, Karenina is a novel focused on a toxic relationship because of Anna's mistrust and paranoia. (in fact I may be quite wrong, since I have never finished reading the book and probably never will -q) ✓ Thus, Tolstoy's possible ability could be something connected to causing paranoia/delusions in the victim or incubating the victim to betray his own allies. ✓ Seeing that Leo Tolstoy is probably also infiltrated in the Japanese government, it is quite possible that he is using his ability to cause discord among politicians, and if he finds himself infiltrated into another government or public force, his ability continues to be useful in conflict of national or international disposition.
❝ A Confession ❞
✓ The book is a brief autobiographical story of the author's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis. It describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical question. “If God does not exist, since death is inevitable, what is the meaning of life?”. Without the answer to this, for him, life had become “impossible”. ✓ According to IRL!Tolstoy, in the face of the inevitability of death and assuming that God does not exist, the most intellectually honest response to the situation would be suicide. ✓ Thus, the ability of BSD!Tolstoy would also be manipulative in content, perhaps something close to the ability of Yumeno or Fyodor, in that by touch or any other kind of contact, Tolstoy could manipulate the victim's mind to commit suicide, perhaps by incubating existential doubts or personal insecurities that, in extreme circumstances, could lead the person to the suicide. Honestly, that would be the last ability I'd like Atsushi, Akutagawa or Dazai to face (even if Dazai can cancel the ability).
❝  Andrei Bely ❞
⌈ IRL! Facts ⌋
✓ Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely; 26 October [O.S. 14 October] 1880 – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, communist, and literary critic. ✓ His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century. ✓ Boris Bugaev was fascinated by probability and particularly by entropy, a notion to which he frequently refers in works such as Kotik Letaev. ✓ As a young man, Bely was strongly influenced by his acquaintance with the family of philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, especially Vladimir's younger brother Mikhail, described in his long autobiographical poem The First Encounter (1921); the title is a reflection of Vladimir Solovyov's Three Encounters. It was Mikhail Solovyov who gave Bugaev his pseudonym Andrei Bely. ✓ Bely's symbolist novel Petersburg (1916; 1922) is generally considered to be his masterpiece. The book employs a striking prose method in which sounds often evoke colors. The novel is set in the somewhat hysterical atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Petersburg and the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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❝  Petersburg ❞
✓ To the extent that the book can be said to possess a plot, this can be summarized as the story of the hapless Nikolai Apollonovich, a ne'er-do-well who is caught up in revolutionary politics and assigned the task of assassinating a certain government official — his own father. At one point, Nikolai is pursued through the Petersburg mists by the ringing hooves of the famous bronze statue of Peter the Great. ✓ The main character of the book is known for wearing a strange red domino mask and cape. This visual is a way of “acting like a fool” in front of the woman who spent a lot of time courting and being rejected. ✓ The ability of BSD!Bely could be deceptive, illusory, very similar to that of Oguri. ✓ His ability could be to hypnotize the victim so that she was able to see and do catastrophic things as just “silly things”. An example would be to turn a bomb into a simple bouquet of flowers or something else that would make the victim cause chaos without actually realizing it.
❝  Mikhail Bulgakov ❞
⌈ IRL! Facts ⌋
✓ Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. ✓ He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. ✓ After illness Bulgakov abandoned his career as a doctor for that of a writer. In his autobiography, he recalled how he started writing: "Once in 1919 when I was traveling at night by train I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story". ✓ His first book was an almanac of feuilletons called Future Perspectives, written and published the same year.
⌈ Ability ⌋
❝  The Master and Margarita ❞
✓ The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. The Master and Margarita combines supernatural element with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying a singular genre. ✓ The ability of the BSD!Mikhail is very similar to that of Lucy Montgomery, the only exception is that instead of a doll, Mikhail has the body of a dead woman as his marionette, he calls her Margarita. ✓ Margarita is described as a woman in a Russian style dress of the 19th century in a lush shade of red. His eyes are black and empty-looking. ✓ She is able to obey Mikhail's three specific orders. She “comes to life” during this process through the drinking ritual of Mikhail's blood. The more complicated Mikhail's desire, the more blood Margarita consumes.
❝  Heart of a Dog ❞
✓ The Heart of a Dog is a satirical work in which a doctor does an experiment on a dog rescued by him in which he transforms the animal into a human of personality and primitive aspects. (or at least that's what I understood, frankly I'm so confused with this book) ✓ The ability of BSD!Mikhail, in this case, would be quite simple: through physical contact, he is able to make a human being surrender to his most primitive and savage side, until that person becomes, in fact, a dog. ✓ Mikhail is able to control the duration of the transformation, meaning he is able to make someone turn quickly or slowly, depending on his intentions. Besides that, once the person is totally transformed, it is impossible to undo the transformation.
❝  Anton Chekhov ❞
⌈ IRL! Facts ⌋
✓ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. ✓ Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." ✓ Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
⌈ Ability ⌋
❝  The Seagull ❞
✓  The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev. ✓ The ability is to "send" your fatal injuries to the body of other people. According to BSD!Anton, the people with whom he makes this exchange are his mere seagulls who used to live happily and ignorantly, but who know him only to be a tool to kill his boredom. ✓ For the exchange to take place Anton must have made a "contract" with the other person. For the most part, people are women who have previously been their lovers or who are in love with him.
❝  Maxim Gorky ❞
⌈ IRL! Facts ⌋
✓ Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a russian and soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for theNobel Prize in Literature. ✓ Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913-1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). ✓ He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs.
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❝  The Lower Depths ❞ 
✓ The play is centered on lower-class characters living in a shelter. Everyone has questionable ethical actions throughout the plot. ✓ Gorky's ability is based on people's lies. He is able to turn any and every lie that the person has already said into reality, most often causing the destruction - be it physical, mental or social - of the victim.
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Lucky (BBTIM AU)
This is a story about two boys named Mickey Disney and Bendy DeMon. Both who are different from each other, yet shared almost the same lives...
Early morning, he wakes up.
Knock, knock, knock on the door. (Boom boom boom!)
The first boy was woken with a smile by his early morning, blue bird friend he named Toppins who he chirped cutely from the window. They were morning buddies since he helped the little one from his fallen nest on one windy day.
The second boy was unamused by the ringing alarm clock on his night table. Yet he wasn't shy for using a hammer that he carved the 'silencer' on the handle and smashed it into pieces with rage. At least it makes his mornings feeling more 'tolerable.'
It's time for fresh up, perfect smile.
It's who they are waiting for.
After they got out of bed, they do their morning, cleaning hygiene and dress up routine.
Mickey quickly got down the stairs and went straight to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for three. Him, his big brother and Toppins. It was his turn today to make it and he was pretty good with cooking, maybe not like his brother but at least he doesn't burn the toasts or the eggs. It was a simple but a neatly well balanced breakfast with the usual lightly buttered toasts, scrambled eggs, fresh cut strawberries, blue berry muffins and his brother's favorite banana-blueberry pancakes. He even got whole grains bread and made it into crumbs for his blue little friend too!
Bendy just sluggishly dragging his knuckles on the floor into the dinning hall. Despite he wished he hasn't used a lot of energy on that alarm clock, he doesn't regret it. He sat on the dinning table and lay his head on it to catch up some shut eye. But that 'Just a few more minutes' turned 'Never mind! I can do it at my office job!' once he heard Boris coming out with a trolley filled with the 'simple' breakfast feast for today. There was monkey-bread danish, cinnamon-sugared waffles, cinnamon rolls with a delicious looking frosting, New Orleans style beignets, chocolate filled croissant and a tall glass of tomato juice. For health reasons. He was pleased that his partner was very thoughtful....  
After breakfast, they went straight to work!
They go: Isn't he lucky? This Hollywood boy.
And they say...
Mickey arrived at his father animation studio for another day of animated work. He loved to draw since he was little and he was talented too. He was everybody's favorite person to talk, hang out, and even asking for help. Granted! At first, everybody thought he was going to be a brat since his father owns the business, but they were wrong. He was like the nicest guy at work like his cartoon counter part! Sometimes he even got asked if they wanted him over at lunch break to have a friendly chat. Despite he really wanted to, he politely declined since he wanted to reserved that as a little 'bro time' with Oswald.
Bendy went to work in his Joey Drew Studio the Third. He was greeted by his subordinates making a welcoming bow as their usual morning routine. Anyone who works there knew the rules when Bendy is 'in' for work. He runs a tight ship aside a really awful tyrant attitude. Despite they get pair very well, it was a literal nightmare working under him. They worked for double time cause he wanted them twelve episodes up on time in less than four days, sometimes one of them is being used as a ottoman for his feet, and sometimes he fired some people and he keeps their pay as a choice. You either live without it or die with it were the options. He was one of the perfect example of a spoiled brat. His father was the original owner and then his uncle Henry took over until he bought it from him. All they can do is try not to suck in his presence or say anything awful about him.
But to these two, it was only their 'public' image only 'they' knew.
He's so lucky, he's a star.
...Yet only the very few knew the 'real' person behind those masks they wear.
But he cry, cry, cries in his lonely heart, thinking:
If there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?
In the afternoon, it was a bit different for each day depending on the week. Yet they would always find time for their favorite big bros!
Mickey would make sure that he would finish all his work for today before he can go see his big brother at their amusement park his father wanted to open soon. Nobody knows much about him apart he's related to himself, but he wanted to be there for him and always make sure he gets noticed whenever he gets the chance. He always look up to him since they were little and he was the reason why he didn't became one of those spoiled rich kids and was very considerate to other people. He's also multi-talented like him, but different.
Mickey was charismatic, enthusiastic and has a very positive personality. Oswald was mysterious, serious and realistic type. But they were thick as thieves and they try their best to see in each others perspectives whenever they had a minor argument. But apart from that, Mickey knew one of his big brother's hidden talent and not so much of a secret that he never shared to anyone.
Ever since they were hearing the newest upstart singer Elvis Presley, Oswald was an instant fan! He got all of his vinyls songs up to date, he was doing those signature dance moves and best of all, he was a really good singer! Oh, did he forgot to mentioned that he can play the guitar too? He switched from piano. He was deeply touched on his birthday when Mickey got him the Elvis style jacket in his favorite color.
He arrived at the attraction and he spotted him working on those bumper cars. He wanted to greet him until he spotted a couple of his mechanical friends that beat him to it and he quickly hid behind the cotton candy machine. It's not that he didn't like them, it's just that every time he comes in his group of friends, they somewhat ignored his brother's presence for the whole conversations and that bothers him. So at the very least, he wanted to let him have some meaningful conversation in his co-working buddies without any 'huge' distraction like himself. The small talk didn't last much long but it seems like they were in good mood. After they left, he got out of his hiding spot and meet up with him.
Bendy was a bit picky on how he spends his afternoons. Depending on the week days, he was a 'busy' guy.
Today, he was going to revisit the CEO of an ice cream company named Frezzies Treatsies. He wanted to make some Bendy special treats for his promotional business tactics in the 'public' industry. He wanted those Bendy ans Boris shaped ice cream sandwiched with their best of the best they've got. He had taste tested their sample before and he paid a very good price for it too. Until that sonavagun cheated out of their deal and it tasted like icy sand with half-descent cream fillings when he received the first batch 'samples.'
When that happened, he calls his big guns and his best man, Boris Wolfenstein. He's the only person in this world that he would care from whatever he's got left in him. He was there at his worst and he deserves 'only' the best after him.
They LOVE to greet their business partners in these cases with a surprise, a friendly greeting, talking like gentlemen and find a solution to the problem...
By that I mean they kick down the door of the CEO, yelled 'F*k you, you double crossing sonavab!tch!,' beat the crap out of the guy until he's left breathing and told him to get their next year supply orders for what they've originally agreed on with half the price or they'll cut him up and fit into one of those smaller ice cream tubs!
Bendy always like to let Boris do most of the beating... it's like watching an skillful pottery artist making something out of a lump of clay but different...
Both boys love to spend their quality time with their favorite older brother.
Lost in an image, in his dream
But there's no one there to wake him up.
After work, they both had the evening to spend their time.
Mickey wished he didn't agreed to replace his father in a special interview that moment cause he wanted to help Oswald with their 'special' project, despite he said that he was alright to do it by himself for the evening. It may been a request by his father, but he still wished he could have picked a different evening, but he guessed it's all ready been done with him in his best tuxedo night and all freshen up for the shoot.
The interview went pretty well and the guy who was there was really swell. He told him all about his personal life and how's it going right now. He was even happier when he told on one of the stories about his older brother.
One time when he was ten, he was being pick on by a few kids that made fun of his unusual signature bun curls. At first he just brushes them off until they repeated the teasing everyday whenever he goes out in the public and it bothers him. His brother found that out and he told him to say to them that he was just made extra special and that they were just jealous.
However, he left out in the interview the other part that his brother told him that if they keep picking on him, he wanted him to say: 'My brother can eliminate you punks in one brawl because he's a black belt!'
Bendy's evenings is also varies depending the day.
He would have some spare time to read today's paper or watching some television. Mostly the news.
He's not really interested on events or the weather forecasts, what he's REALLY interested is BAD news. Because he's an entropy fan and he loves misery especially when it involves death.
He doesn't care about politics unless it's one of those nincompoops that's going against him, nor the news about a baby animal being born at the zoo unless it's something useful like an alligator, a lion or any meat eating animal that's going to help him dispose 'dead meats,' he wanted to see the whole world crash and burn! If it happened in THIS town he would call out to Boris and said: Let's go look for the bodies!
So far there's only the 'good' news on the television for tonight, pity. He turns it off and reads the papers instead. Which he instantly regret cause there was a picture of that ace detective rival, Felix Cat.
In THIS section and what it was told, Felix has successfully stopped one of his secret 'personal' smuggling drugs for his 'other' job and that was the third time he busted his hide out! He gritted his teeth as he crumbled the morning paper into a ball and tosses it in the fireplace.
“Stupid @$$, street cat, money loosing, ace defective, motherf#kr!” He cussed out as he took out a pack of match, light up the stick and tosses it in the fireplace to watch it burned to crisp in a matter of seconds. At least the sight of something burning lifted his mood a bit...
At least until later for tonight... he smug an idea of what to do.
And the world is spinning, when he keeps on winning.
But tell me, what happens when it stops?
At night, they were different from the public view... if they knew.
Mickey and Oswald were vigilantes for justice. They wanted to help the victims from the injustice. Since they were the future CEOs of the Disney Animations, they have access to the elites and wealthy businessmen that gave them the advantages of knowing their 'enemies' and their money safe.
On one occasion, they robbed the wealthy crooks to give back to the poor. Another was to take down a group of thugs that causes troubles for their neighborhood.
Mickey's special paints he crafted can make wondrous things. How it was possible and how he created it was his secret...
His older brother Oswald, was an inventor extraordinaire. He crafted most of their weaponry and he also just made two motorcycles just for their operations with the help of his little brother.
Their code names were Souris and Lapin. The media and the press called them the modern day Robin Hood or one of the comic book super heroes. Either way, they were very well praised by the public.
Bendy was then switched to the mafia boss.
On tonight's schedule, he was going to visit the 'mold.' A.K.A. One of the authorities of the law enforcements. He got a tip from the inside that there was some evidence against him and he decided to get rid of it.
Once that was done, he went to the abandoned docks and immediately made a bonfire to get rid of the evidence. This place was an ideal spot for getting away with almost anything, including a self-made fire pit with an old barrel. Anyone with a half of brain would be smart enough not to even go here...
Unless you have been on a hit man’s shopping list.
There was a gang of five guys... Nothing special to them aside they were armed... He had experience under his belt to tell that they are freshmen from a rival mafia. Either it was an order, a death wish, or it was just to please their bosses and go up in their ranks the 'easy' way. Pitiful.
Seems he needs to 'teach' them who's in charge and who not to mess with. Not that he planned to let them lived, it did makes him 'smile' from his mood earlier this evening...
They go: Isn't he lucky? This Hollywood boy.
And they say...
Mickey and his brother Oswald were just out on parole to look out a certain biker group that causes trouble at their favorite soda shop they liked to go when they have their day off. Not only that, it was popular among the kids and people alike. They spotted them outside of the shop, grafting the widows and walls with disturbing images...
Mickey MAY have done this in the past, but he doesn't write offensive languages and paint naked women with his art work...
“I knew this is going to bite me in the rear one day... but at least I can become a better person.” He then took out a paint grenade and tosses it at the center of the gang. One of then noticed it and just before he was going to say something, it exploded and all of the purple liquid surrounded their feet have glued them down. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't break free of their situation.
The three guys were unable to escape from their sticky situation. Which is exactly what it was supposed to do. At least until you add water to disperse it... but he's not gonna tell that to them. Then they leaped out from their shadows with their paint guns readied and they unload a round of paint balls at them. It stung them a bit with their green and yellow colored 'bullets' but the hooligans smelled something weird from them... it didn't took them long to realized they were knock out gas as they passed out on the purple glue.
They both high five as they celebrated another peace keeping victory of the night.
Bendy have made the first move with a quick draw from his knives hidden from his left sleeves. He turned from his left side and swing his left arm to throw his knives at the group. Only four of them hit the foreheads... Leaving the last one standing. Meh! He though. He smirked at his remaining visitor with his glowing red eyes and it made the newbie petrified, even though he already had his pistol drawn.
He then rapidly launched himself forward and it made the newbie shoot him. Unfortunately for him, Bendy was trained to dodge bullets and he's showing the soon-to-be departed newbie who you should NEVER mess with without paying a heavy price. Bendy then took out his signature knife, the Red Velvet, as his finishing weapon. He sliced it upwards to take out the gun and then he quick jabbed multiple times to the abs and stomach, sending more gushing blood on his cheap outfit. At least he was the smarter one with experience AND fashion sense. He took a step back to let him drop on his right knee while he struggled to breathe.
“When you reached the gates of h3ll, say hello to my pops for me once you've met him.” He then grabbed a fist full of his back hair, pulls him back and then slowly slid deep his throat. The sound of his final blood-curling scream is his king of music to his ears... Aside from Boris' clarinet pieces.
Once he stops moving, he then lets go of his head as it hit the pavement and then watched more blood that is now coming out of his body. Such a satisfying site to see after a little work out, for him. He then noticed his loyal right hand man along with three others who were 'volunteered' as escorts, or extra security, came rushing in with some blood stains on them.
Guess that explains why these insects came to him under Boris' watchful eye, but then again like he stated, he had a swell time!
He's so lucky, he's a star.
Once they got back home to their bedrooms, they revealed their 'true' image that nobody wanted them to see.
Both of them took a huge yet quiet sigh of relief and frowned... Both of them got in their jammies... and then slid into bed.
After a long day of work, day and night, they then took out from their secret compartment that's hidden from anyone who knew them. Both of them... had an old picture frame. Of their prime teenage year at a local pizzaria.
But he cry, cry, cries in his lonely heart, thinking:
If there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?
Both of them stared at the picture group for quite some time.
Weather you believed it or not, both these boys were once a trio along with Oswald. Both used to be good friends from one another.
“Why did you had to be this way?” Mickey sadly whispered at Bendy's image.
“Why did you abandoned me for something I was trained to do?” Bendy angrily scoffed at the Disney brother's faces.
He is so lucky! But why does he cry?
“We used to be best of friends... We were so similar in a way and... You were like a second brother to us.” Mickey tried to find the good in him.
“I thought I could trust you two... Have someone who I can relate... At least have a backbone to do the impossibles like I could have done only better!” Bendy tried to be detached of his true feelings.
If there is nothing missing in his life, why do tears come at night?!
“Why did you do it? Why did you broke that no-kill policy under our team name? That man didn't deserved it!” Mickey then started to sob a bit.
“I was a fool to think you knew better. You both knew I was already in a mafia family! You both knew they came before you two rodents! I had to leave no witness that night! You don't know me THAT well, just like the other living miserable worms!” Bendy silently lashes out at them.
Then they had enough. They placed it back in their secret compartments before their emotions escalated more than it should.
He's so lucky, he's a star!
They then broke down in tears.
But they cry, cry cries in their lonely hearts thinking...
They were upset.
Mickey thought of many reasons why Bendy had to do it. He knew that he was part of a mafia family. He knew that he always had a sneaky yet a dark sense of humor. He used to trust him so easily, like a true friend would.
Bendy also was thinking of the reasons why they did left him alone. He knew long ago about Mickey as a child star at the age of nine until he met him and his brother personally. He was to be honest, was happy that they had a wild knack of sense of humors similar to his. He did too, used to trust them like a true friend.
If there's nothing missing in their life...
And now after that faithful night, their thrusts were shattered and their bonds were broken.
Mickey was heartbroken and was in a depressed state once they've returned to California. It took almost a week to convince himself, along side with his brother, father and some of his animation friends from their family's studio to move on.
After that incident, he was more careful of who he wanted to be friends with. He wasn't gonna turned pessimistic over everybody just for that one incident, but he will be more cautious like his brother would be on who to trust from now on.
Bendy was also heartbroken but angry instead. It took him about a week too, but he was in Boris' care after they learned what happened between them. (Because only Boris can calm him down.) He even took more jobs that's normally preferred to the other lowly members, but Bendy said that he needed to vend out his 'frustrations.' In truths, he was just finding ways to keep 'them' off his mind....
Once he was 'over with it,' he was determined not to be emotionally vulnerable like that again. He would never trust any new comers until they've proven themselves to him and also, he would never let anyone who had similar 'interests' be his 'acquaintances' on the spot. Also, they will be shot on his site if ever they did left him like they did.
Why do these tears come at night?
After they cried their eyes out, they fell asleep. They knew that nothing that they can do now can change the past. What's been done it's done. They learned their adult lessons in a hard way, but they did find a solution that fits both of them.
It's not that they took that photo out every night, but they've kept it as a memento of the good times they used to have and why they needed to be stronger as a person.
“Tomorrow's another day...” Bendy said before he sleeps.
“Maybe one day, it will be better.” Mickey cheered himself up before he too sleeps off.
He's so lucky, he's a star!
But he cry, cry, cries in their lonely hearts thinking:
If there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?
-----AUTHOR’S NOTES------
It’s been almost three months since I’ve started to write this one shot. Mainly due to work and lack of motivations.... And updates, youtube, and other stuff...
The Song was from an early 2000′s music era. back when they still had some good songs and one of early Britney Spears’ songs titled Lucky.
The music video depicted about how one girl  despite seemingly having it all – fame, wealth, beauty – is truly lonely and unhappy on the inside. So I imagine how Bendy and Mickey would feel the same way in a manner of daily lives they live at the moment.
If I wrote it incorrectly of their characters, I’m sorry. If you had a hard time understanding the fighting situation, I’m sorry for that too cause I suck on combat explanations.
I was just as curious on the canon story line of how Bendy, Mickey and Oswald met and why are they on rocky terms at the moment. The only info I’ve gotten were from pasts question posts and arts. Maybe in the later chapters I might get a better picture of their relations.
Anyways, this is just an AU of the BBTIM AU, It’s non canon but it’s just a pass time until the next comic pages are up.
BBTIM characters like humanized Mickey and Bendy belongs to Marini4.
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Melodie: Entropy.
Randy: Entropy?
Melodie: Yeah, entropy. Boris explained it. It's why you can't get the toothpaste back in the tube.
Randy: You mean, once something happens, it's difficult to put it back the way it was?
Movie:whatever works- woody allen
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atasha Irons is the daughter of John Henry's brother, Clay, and Clay's wife Blondel. She is introduced in the first issue of Steel's solo series, where she is initially portrayed as being 13. Like the rest of her family, she knew about Steel's secret identity all along. Contrasting sharply with her brother Jemahl, Natasha is shown to be very level headed and practical. By issue #14, she is shown to be working (presumably as an intern) for a U.S. Senator. She appears to have aged forward to be about 16 somehow. Nat is a supporting character throughout Louise Simonson's run on the series. She is kidnapped by Hazard and Steel has to rescue her. She also uses the drug Tar to help fight at her uncle's side briefly. She is later kidnapped by the villain Plasmus and apparently kills him by shattering once Steel froze the villain (although he later turns up alive). Natasha was devastated at the loss of her beloved great-grandmother, Bess Irons, but is the only one of her family who stays with Steel when he moves to Jersey City (see the Steel entry for more details of the Irons family).
With Christopher Priest at the helm of Steel starting with #34, Nat was radically altered. She was transformed into a more stereotypical modern teenager with a flippant attitude. All trace of her previous work for a U.S. Senator was never referenced. During this time she also meets and befriends a teen named Paul, whom she dubs "Boris". Her father also makes a return as the villain Crash. When an assassin named Skorpio poisons Nat, Crash has to turn himself in so that he can give a blood transfusion and save his daughter. He is never seen nor heard from again.
Nat later goes with Steel to Metropolis when he opens up Steelworks there. She becomes his assistant, even reprogramming Superman's Kryptonian robot Kelex to speak hip hop slang. For a time she is dating a local boy, Boris.[2]
The new SteelEdit
Natasha as Steel. Art by Pascual Ferry.
When the Entropy Aegis of Darkseid traps John, Natasha designs a suit of armor that uses the Aegis' power, teleports to Apokolips, and fights Doomsday with the help of Superman, Superboy, Supergirl, and the pre-Crisis Supergirl.[3]
John is too injured to continue operating as Steel. Having intended to pass his legacy as Steel on to Natasha, John made a new, more advanced suit of armor for her to use.
When Natasha hears that Superman has been injured by a ghostly ninja, she dons her armor and becomes the new Steel. She teams up with Cir-El and Girl 13 to stop the ninja. During the adventure, she uses her hammer to fire an electric pulse into Superman's heart to start it again.
As part of the Superman/Batman "Public Enemies" arc, false news of Batman and Superman's capture by the forces of President Lex Luthor is leaked to draw out their various associates into attacking the White House. Cir-El, Natasha, Krypto, Superboy and the Batman Family do exactly that. Natasha is neutralized early in the incident, staying back to try to rescue Cir-El and Superboy from a crushing deathtrap. Instead, Batman saves them.
Natasha is briefly seen in a cameo role during the events of "Infinite Crisis".
StarlightEdit
In 52, Natasha has a violent falling out with her uncle John, over John's disgust over what he feels is the self-absorbed narcissism of the DC Universe's superhero community. When Natasha discovers that the Teen Titans (whose roster was devastated by the events of Infinite Crisis) are holding an open call for new members, John forbids Natasha from going and instead insists she continue the clearing out debris from the battle of Metropolis. When Natasha refuses, John dismantles her armor, and she is left powerless. John also makes it clear that she will have to build her own armor if she wants to be a super-hero.[4]
Natasha as Starlight.
Soon, Natasha attempts to rebuild her armor, with little success. When she learns that John had his DNA rewritten by the exo-gene, Natasha wrongly assumes John chose to have his DNA altered and snaps.[5]
After a fierce argument with her uncle, Natasha applies for Luthor's "Everyman Project" and becomes one of the first official subjects.[6] When John, looking for Natasha, threatens to kill Luthor at a Lexcorp party, Natasha appears, along with a team of super-powered people in Luthor's employ, and beats him severely. From that point, she is estranged from her uncle, who makes numerous attempts to contact her, which she rebuffs. Gifted with new skills, Natasha is given the codename Starlight.[7] While in battle, she witnesses her friend Eliza Harmon (a.k.a. Trajectory) killed by a new Blockbuster. Natasha is finally contacted by John on New Year's Eve, who forces her to rethink everything that Luthor has told her. After the "Rain of the Supermen," in which Lex Luthor deactivates the powers of each Everyman hero outside of Infinity, Inc. (causing many to plummet from the sky; this forms the basis of the title pun on "The Reign of the Supermen" storyline), Natasha realizes that her uncle was right all along.[8] She then begins working as a double agent within Luthor's organization. However, she is found out and beaten by Luthor, who has acquired superpowers.[9]
Steel and the Teen Titans launch an attack on LexCorp and manage to rescue Natasha. However, Lex stripped her of her Starlight powers.[10] Later, she is seen escorting Luthor into custody, wearing a new set of armour made for her by her uncle.[11] The duo restore Steelworks, and Natasha is later seen, during the World War III assembling a nanotech payload missile to fire over Black Adam, although the missile is stolen by Booster Gold.[12] Natasha survives the battle, and resumes working at Steelworks.
VaporlockEdit
The new Infinity, Inc. series reveals that the Everyman Project has had a lingering effect on its subjects. Natasha now has the ability to dissolve into a cloud of gas, although she has difficulty controlling it.[13] Her uncle suggests she adopt the codename "Vaporlock."[14] In the final issue, of the series all the Infinity Inc members are prisoners in the Dark Side Club.[15] By the end of the Terror Titans miniseries they are released thanks to Miss Martian.[16]
"Jenny" Blake and Project 7734Edit
After being released from the Dark Side Club, the members of Infinity Inc. take new names and infiltrate a government project named Project 7734. The goal of the project is simple: the death of Superman. Towards that end, the government project has placed satellites in space that fire magic lasers, plucked the powerful Atlas from the time stream, release Metallo, and brainwashed people.
Natasha is not sure whom to trust as part of Project: Breach (the brainwashing of Captain Atom). She visits Earth to tell Jimmy Olsen, who has been looking into Project 7734, about Captain Atom and leaves just before Jimmy is found and shot by Codename: Assassin. In the Captain Atom back-up story in Action Comics, Captain Atom remembers who he is, revealing his real name and rank along with the "Codename: Captain Atom". Joining others of Project 7734 (such as Codename: Superwoman and Codename: Metallo), Natasha is part of the team that takes down Captain Atom to brainwash him before they are attacked by the natives of the magical world where Project 7734 is located. The natives want her to help them with Captain Atom.
Following this, Natasha is shown helping Steel rescue civilians during the Reign of Doomsday event. Doomsday attacks Natasha in order to draw Steel's attention, and though she escapes unscathed, Steel is ultimately beaten into submission and captured.[17]
DC RebirthEdit
In the "DC Rebirth," continuity, Natasha is back to using her armor and no longer has any of her Vaporlock abilities.[18] Here she was in a romantic relationship with Traci 13, but they broke up [19] (though it's not confirmed whether she's a lesbian or bisexual). Following the No Justice event, she becomes a member of the new incarnation of the Titans.[20]
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Session 1: Communication Theory, Digital Media and Social Media: Notes
1949 Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, context rapid expansion of telecommunications and computing industries.
Quantification of information
Process of communication model
Wave or data or information
Information is the material form of a signal or message It is its embodiment
Communication
Transmitters
Receivers
Messages
We can think of singal or message as a change or pattern of energy
It must be understood by both transmitter (the company or studio) and receiver (the audience)
Signals and messages changes or patterns of energy which convey information.
It is important that through a common medium and channel through the signal is transmitted or received
Medium - the substance that carries the message the form of the message it is changed patterned by energy
Channel - the particular way the medium is changed or patterned
For the spoken word 
Medium - substance that carries the message sound in air
Channel - the particular way in which the medium is changed or patterned, the voice via the megaphone
For the act of reading
Medium - light
Channel - letters, words or pages
Feedback - closing the loop
There could be some error of encoding from the transmitter (the studio or company)
How do we know whether the message has been received or understood ?
Through Feedback
Books have no feedback loop
Social media can provide feedback for the newer online form of advertising from the comments section
Noise can interfere with transmission and/or reception
Faulty equipment
Lack of data
Echo in a call
Lagging Video
Cultural and/or personal factors
Noise can be a danger for communication
Message to noise ratio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIe416Twpo
Wesley Thorp - Glitch Art TedTalk video from the lesson
Encoding and decoding
In a technological process of communication the meaning of the message is encoded by the designers and operators of the system and is decoded by their audiences.
How is meaning constructed?
How is it interpreted?
The process of transmitting and receiving, encoding and decoding is not linear but rather much more complex - Stuart Hall, 1973
Audiences are not passive they’re not just recceivers
“ since there is no necessary correspondence between encoding and decoding, the former can attempt to ‘pre-fer’ but cannot prescribe or guarantee the latter, which has its own conditions of existence. Unless they are wildly aberrant, encoding will have the effect of constructing some of the limits and parameters within which decodings will operate” Hall 2007:
A problem to be solved an opportunity
Redundency and entropy
A redudent message is a predictable message it might not be necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a56RPZ_cbdc
Pipilotti Rist - Ever Is Over All
Cybernetics and Norbert Wiener
Focuses on feedback and its ongoing circularity.
A more dynamic perspective on communication as a co system in a constant state of adaptation.
From the Ancient Greek “Kubernates”, “Steersman”, mutual interaction
Circular loops of feedbackRedundant Messages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SplEuWp0Yw 
Houghton, R. (2017). Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is getting a new game on top of her live-action movie reboot. Available: https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/a844907/lara-croft-tomb-raider-new-game-live-action-movie-reboot/ . Last accessed 10/11/2020.
We decided Lara Croft would be a good example because female characters in games, typically have enlarged features to make this more appealing to male audiences the most common demographic for typically playing video games. 
Entropic Messages
Bell, B. (2016). Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography. Available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36389581. Last accessed 10/11/2020.
We decided a good example of entropic messages would be from the Victorian era where noble families would typically take photographs of their deceased children but make them up like they were alive, due to their being a lot more premature deaths during this time period as disease and malnutrition were harder to eradicate.
Noise
Francisco, G. (2020). Glitch Boris. Available: http://giselafrancisco.com/tag/glitch-art/. Last accessed 10/11/2020.
This is a photographer we found while searching for glitch art, this is an example of a photograph that is clearly Boris Johnson but the glitch in this art makes it appear you are viewing this through a television screen with a broken LED. 
Feedback: Do you think that noise in that glitch art enhances or hinders communication? Does noise help to convey a particular message?
I feel it can do both in particular, it enhances the communication because although it can hinder if the arts saturation or shade is too high or bold as this makes the imagery less visible, but in this case the communication is still clear I feel the imagery is like this as the Boris Johnson is in the news a lot because of Brexit and Covid-19 both big events in recent British history. and the glitch appears to be like its fast-forwarding or a broken LED, perhaps conveying the message about how fast moving Britain is with us as a people and Johnson being on there its a representitve of him being a man of the people.  Maybe a hidden message of how quickly the direction of Britain is going ?
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2017: #8-STRANGE MONSTERS FROM ART
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Pandora’s Box issues forth a tale each year about monsters in different mediums.  We have previously examined monsters in everything from books, to comics, to even songs (see 2016: #6-STRANGE AND DANGEROUS MONSTERS FROM BOOKS, 2013: #3-STRANGE COMIC BOOK MONSTERS, and 2014: #4-STRANGE MONSTERS FROM SONGS).  Art, specifically paintings, woodcuts, and statues, offer a wealth of monstrous possibilities.  Horror specifically about art is best seen with Rod Serling’s The Night Gallery tv series which was about spooky paintings which each told a tale.  Ray Bradbury’s book and film, The Illustrated Man, was about tattoos that each depicted a future event.  Many horror films have paintings with false peek eye holes.  Sometimes monsters in paintings come alive such as in the recently released It and the evil nun in The Conjuring 2.  The Dark Shadows tv series often featured paintings, from old paintings of unaging vampires to Dorian Gray inspired paintings (see 2016: #7-GUIDE TO DARK SHADOWS).  Jack Nicholson as The Joker in 1989’s Batman walked through an art gallery and said, “I don’t know about art, but I know what I like (see 2017: #10-SUPERHEROES).
There is a lot of spooky art perfect for Halloween.  The Greeks had artwork of mythological figures, and the Middle Ages presented paintings of Death personified.  In 1505, Hieronymous Bosch completed the triptyche, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which features three panels representing the Garden of Eden, the garden of earthly delights, and Hell (see above image).  I particularly like the Hell panel, and it is perhaps my favorite painting.  There are many monsters and horrors that inhabit Bosch’s landscape of Hell.  There are giants rats tearing apart knights, and creeping about are bird-men, fish-men, and even crocodile-men.  One particular marching crocodile-man is my favorite figure in the painting, and I would love to know what Bosch would say his story would be (see below).  
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The painting also includes armies, descending moons, fiery pits, and giant human bodily organs converted into objects including rooms.  Similar hellish work to Bosch’s was released in the 1600’s by Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburg as seen with his The Harrowing of Hell (see below).
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Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare from 1793 produced a perturbed imp and a demonic horse (see below).  Freud kept a reproduction of that painting in his apartment in Vienna.  
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Perhaps the most recognizable horror-related painting is Edvard Munch’s The Scream (see below).  The Scream is a series of four paintings Munch painted between 1893 and 1910.  They were inspired by a red sunset that Munch felt like was a scream of nature.  
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In 1915 the interesting artistic movement of Dadaism developed, and Dadaists created all sorts of odd art demonstrating the absurdity of life.  Max Ernst produced a forest of woodcuts and paintings that include chairs entirely made out of human bones, flying god-heads, half-human absurd abominations, and an ominous elephant-like monster in his The Elephant Celebes from 1922 (see below).  Ernst spent time as a child with fevers staring at patterns in wood grain, similar to Salvador Dali’s paranoiac-critical method (see 2016: #10-MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE 7).  
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Dadaism formed into Surrealism, and Dali’s work has all sorts of melting monstrosities, flaming giraffes, and the like.  Dali’s Paint-Maker’s Plight from 1941 shows an eyeball humanoid similar to costume’s worn by The Residents (see below and 2012: #1-SPOOKY MUSIC).
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In 1954 Francis Bacon painted the dark, Figure with Meat, which features a grotesque pope seated between a grossly bisected cow (see below).  In 1989’s Batman, Nicholson’s Joker sees Figure with Meat in the art gallery scene and stops to comment that he likes that one.  
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In 1967 Picasso’s untitled Chicago statue was dedicated, and it is a monster that most resembles an Afghan Hound (see below).  I frequently walk past it, but it sure does not bark or growl; too bad it doesn’t.
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Surely the cherry, or bloody bit, on the horror cake is Otto Rapp’s Deterioration of Mind Over Matter from 1973 which features a rotting human head melded with a bird cage (see below).
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In the last fifty years there have been many artists that have specialized in painting or drawing monsters.  Frank Frazetta created scores of fantasy paintings especially Conan the Barbarian related artwork (see below).  
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Boris Vallejo still releases sword and sorcery artwork as well artwork depicting superheroes (see below and 2017: #10-SUPERHEROES).  
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Bob Eggleton, Larry Elmore, and Erol Otus release artwork that is oriented towards Dungeons & Dragons (see below for Erol Otus artwork).  Wayne Barlowe has released paintings of aliens, monsters, and even devils.  There is so much available art of monsters, that we must mix them all up in the churning cauldron of creepiness and watch the three best monsters crawl out.
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Salvador Dali certainly is an artist who can contribute one of the three strangest monsters appearing in art, but which one?  He produced artwork more surreal than the world had ever seen.  Dali had so many monsters appearing in paintings, it is hard to decide which is his best.  His work contains quite a few stretched out or melting people, often just huge heads held up by supports.  But those are not monsters.  He featured a titan bursting out of our planet in one painting and an elongated black ghost of  Vermeer in another.  His 1936 painting, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) features a large monster that is the definitely the first to bubble out of the cauldron of creepiness (see below).  The unnamed monster represents civil war.  It is a weird collection of limbs, and seeing it travel through the desert landscape it is painted in would be fascinating.  It appears to be dismantling itself or removing its own limbs, and it represents self-destruction.
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The second painter identified by the cauldron of creepiness is Ivan Albright.  Ivan Albright is a painter who used a very distinctive type of magical realism in his work.  His dark paintings show wrinkles upon luminescent wrinkles, cracks, scratches, edges, and the effects of entropy.  His work is both disturbing and mesmerizing (see 2016: #3-BLOODY MESMERISM).  His incredibly detailed painting, The Door, is almost as large as a full sized door, and it looks like a door to the Outer Limits (see 2017: #3-GUIDE TO THE OUTER LIMITS).  But that isn’t a monster.  Surely his best artistic contribution to the imagery of monsters is from his 1943 painting, The Picture of Dorian Gray (see below).  This painting was commissioned for the The Picture of Dorian Gray film with Angela Lansbury from 1945.  The black and white film switches to color when the painting is shown.  If you ever have the opportunity to see this painting, do so; it is located at Chicago’s Art Institute.  It is a large painting, with blood dripping off of Dorian Gray’s hands and psychedelic, magical colors dripping all over the place like 1969 Haight Asbury.  The animistic depth and detail of the painting are incredible.  Dorian Gray looks like he could turn you to stone like a medusa if you met his gaze (see 2013: #2-MEDUSAS).
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The third artist suggested by the cauldron of creepiness is that of H.R. Giger.  His work is dark, often grey, and with sexual and cyborg themes.  His 1976 painting, Necronim IV is definitely his most influential work and contains his greatest and famous monster (see below).  The monster is what inspired the design for the Xenomorph alien species in the popular science-fiction horror series, Alien.  There were four original Alien films, two recently made interesting prequel films, and two Alien vs Predator films.  I doubt Giger knew when he painted Necronim IV that it would have the greatest name recognition for the word, alien.  
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If the cauldron of creepiness issued forth these three monsters from art in the flesh, and they fought to the death, which would win?  Boiled Beans, Dorian Gray, or Necronim?  It would be hard to find a suitable arena that Dali’s Boiled Beans monster could fit into.  Perhaps a large Greek arena would suffice.  I expect Boiled Beans would stand there – barely – hopefully cognizant of the proceedings and demonstrating some form of sensory awareness.  Dorian Gray would very slowly saunter forward, and each step he took would age the place rapidly like it was being contaminated as in the film, Silent Hill.  The Necronim would move faster than the other two, and would swiftly scamper to the center of the arena, releasing a cold alien hiss.  That would get Boiled Beans attention who would start to shake and move.  The Necronim would attack Boiled Beans since it is a larger perceived threat than Dorian Gray.  The Necronim would attach itself to the mammoth leg of Boiled Beans and start madly scratching and tearing like a rabid black cat.  Blood would gush, possibly not normal blood – but blood made of boiled beans!  Boiled Beans would get in one powerful punch on the Necronim sending it across the arena crashing into the stone stands, sending rock splinters scattering.  Dorian would still be slowly sauntering to the center, very detached.  Boiled Beans vicious blow to the Necronim would cause himself to collapse, with his limbs appearing as a mass of trees falling down simultaneously.  Due to Boiled Beans self-destructive nature, as the dust settled it would be revealed that the large monster died upon collapsing to the ground by being crushed by its own hefty limbs.  The Necronim would inspect Boiled Beans confirming its death before proceeding to Dorian Gray who was still approaching.  The Necronim would be all over Dorian Gray, tearing him to pieces in a bloody blur!  Dorian Gray was already going to pieces, and a Xenomorph would wipe him out, with his arms and legs flying off all over the place.  But the Necronim would not strut away from the battle as a survivor.  The glowing energies of Dorian Gray would have touched the Necronim… entropic energies.  The Necronim would rapidly rot like it had been aged many decades, and it would burst with its alien acid blood spraying and sizzling.  As the acid fumes filled the air, Dorian Gray’s limbs would reattach and he would stand back up.  The power that kept Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray going was a wish that very much behaved as if he had sold his soul to the devil.  Dorian Gray would walk away from the mass of Boiled Beans and the fuming Necronim and smile… then his lips would fall off.
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Alternative Film/Video 2017, International Competition
13-17 December 2017, Belgrade
Program #1
The End of Time, Milcho Manchevski, United States/Cuba, 2017, 5 min.
Welcome 5x4, Davorin Marc, Slovenia, 2017, 3 min.
How Can I Ever Be Late, Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena Harold, United States, 2017, 5 min.
Re-Vue, Dirk de Bruyn, Australia, 2017, 6 min.
Wishful Thinking, Allan Brown, Canada, 2017, 13 min.
Durch nacht zum licht, Friedl vom Groller, Austria, 2016, 3 min.
The Entropy of a Collective Atmosphere Colored in Red, Igor Simic, Serbia, 2017, 3 min.
I Love You, Ines, Ana Husman, Croatia, 2017, 14 min. 
Program #2
Tower XYZ, Ayo Akingbade, United Kingdom, 2016, 3 min.
Leopard Man Study, Duo Strangloscope, Serbia/Brazil, 2017, 8 min.
(I)FRAME, Karissa Hahn & Andrew Kim, United States, 2015, 10 min.
Orphan of Asia, Kuo Ying Hsiu, Taiwan, 2017, 4 min.
Viewfinder Material, Baptiste Jopeck, France, 2017, 16 min.
A Walk to the Beach, Rafael Gomez, Spain, 2017, 7 min.
Return to Forms, Zachary Epcar, United States, 2016, 10 min. 
Program #3
Antarctica, Salise Hughes, United States, 2016, 4 min.
She Blinks and Flowers Tremble, Niko Novak & Matevz Jerman, Slovenia, 2017, 8 min.  
Confident, Karen Akerman & Miguel Seabra Lopes, Brazil, 2016, 12 min.
Inside - The Color Version, Dietmar Brehm, Austria, 2017, 5 min.
Puerto Rico Tautology (14-Dubs High), Rob Feulner, Canada, 2016, 7 min.
Lost Highway Revisited, Igor M. Toholj & Nevena Matovic, Serbia, 2016, 13 min. 
Program #4
Some of the Sensations, Peter Lichter & Bori Mate, Hungary, 2017, 4 min.
Unknown Hours, Calum Walter, United States, 2016, 10 min.
Junkanoo Talk, Rhea Storr, United Kingdom, 2017, 12 min.
Where Am I, Joao Leal, Portugal, 2016, 6 min.
Herz und tat, mund und leben, Nina Kreuzinger, Austria, 2017, 12 min.
165708, Josephine Massarella, Canada, 2017, 7 min.
Black & White Box, Osi Wald & Efrat Rubin, Israel, 2017, 10 min. 
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(Höhere Auflößung)
Die letzten meiner humanoiden OCs! (somit sind die meisten fertig)
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Roman Otrovski: Grimm - Zirkus Direktor
Peti Tolvaj: Wermaka - Zirkus Löwe
Béla Nemes: Wermaka - Zirkus Tiger
Irida und Irini: Wermaka - Zirkus Zwillingspumas
Grete: Wermaka - Zirkus Leopard
Dragan Kovač: Wermaka - Zirkus Pavian
Kyrylo: Drakoza - Zirkus Makaken (Lebhafter)
Vassili: Wermaka - Zirkus Makaken (Freundlicher)
Vasyl: Arakowa - Zirkus Makaken (Stiller)
Ganzorig: Gargyr- Zirkus Makaken e (Humorloser)
Bonbon: Clown - Still und freundlich
Marbles: Clown - Stumm und höflich
Patches: Clown - Zynisch und sarkastisch
Drita: Wermaka - Trapezkünstler
Afrim: Wermaka - Trapezkünstler
Dimitrije: Wermaka - Magier
Iskra: Wermaka - Dimitrijes Assistentin
Camelia und Catina: Drakoza - VerbundeneTrapezkünstler
Borys und Denys: Wermaka - Zweiköpfiger Mann
Jiřina: Arakowa - Die Spinnenfrau
Katina Mavroneros: Arakowa - Mikes Nachbar
Emilios Mavroneros: Arakowa - Katinas älterer Bruder
Makos Mavroneros: Arakowa - Katinas älterer Bruder
Pavlos Mavroneros: Arakowa - Katinas Cousin
Iraklis Mavroneros: Arakowa - Katinas Vater (Clan Anführer)
Danai Mavroneros: Arakowa - Katinas Mutter ( Clan Anführer)
Lazaros Lefkapos: Arakowa - Clan Anführer der Lefkapos (Feinde der Mavroneros)
Marika Lefkapos: Arakowa - Clan Anführer der Lefkapos ( Feinde der Mavroneros )
Kiki Lefkapos: Arakowa - Lazaros Tochter
Nikolaos Lefkapos: Arakowa- Lazaros Sohn
Spyros Lefkapos: Arakowa - Lazaros Sohn
Sirius: Mensch- Mitglied der Eldritch
Alioth: Mensch- Mitglied der Eldritch
Thuban: Mensch- Mitglied der Eldritch
Betelgeuse: Mensch - Mitglied der Eldritch
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Leah: ? - Arcanum Monster
Danny: Tinker - Arcanum Tinker
Kero: Wermaka - Sehr müde
Arna: Drakoza - Freundliches Froschmädchen
Miwa: Drakoza - Arnas Schwester
Kyris: Drakoza - Arnas und Miwas Adoptievschwester
Oris: Drakoza - Agil und energiegeladen
Bela: Drakoza - Erschöpft
Karnis und Tervis: Drakoza - Äußerst Stur
Ceros: Drakoza - Karnis und Tervis Aufpasser
Luminița Funar: ? - Voodoo Hexe
Charline Karras: Mensch - Balthazars Mutter
Celino Barsotti: Mensch- Vittores alter Freund
Vladislav Tepes: Vampir- Der Graf
Octavian Tepes: Vampir- Vadislavs Sohn
Cătălina Tepes: Vampir - Vadislavs Tochter
Bruno Haas: Vampire - Alter Doktor
Anselm: Doomra - Ehemaliger Piratenkapitain, heutzutage ein Outlaw (oder Himmelspirat Kaptain, hab mich noch nicht entschieden)
Barret: Skoodra - Teil von Anselms Crew
Darren: Skoodra - Teil von Anselms Crew
Deevos und Neevah: Doomra - Zwillinge. Part of Anselms Crew
Bentley: Doomra - Teil von Anselms Crew
Ulysses: Doomra - Teil von Anselms Crew
Mecan: Meeteko- Teil von Anselms Crew
Eris: Raagon - Teil von Anselms Crew
Duke: Raagon - Teil von Anselms Crew
Wade: Raagon - Teil von Anselms Crew
Temple: Skoodra - Teil von Anselms Crew
Sores: Drakai - Einer der Sonnenbrüder (der fröhliche)
Sora: Drakai - Einer der Sonnenbrüder (der schroffe)
Misah: ? - Arcanum Anhänger
Leves: ? - Alkahest Anhänger
Kaster: ? - Panacea Anhänger
Seena: ? -  Azoth Anhänger
Deasun: Drakoza - Misstrauisch und unzufrieden
Gordie: Drakoza - Versucht immer fröhlich zu sein
Matt: Drakoza - Bleibt für sich
Robin: Drakoza - Schwer zu reizen
Sean: Mensch- War zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort
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Tekarohs: Godra - Panazee Drachenkönig
Dahnirohs: Godra- Alkahest Drachenkönig
Sikkunrohs: Godra - Arcanum Drachenkönig . Der Grund, warum das Arcanum verbannt wurde
Sokomires: Homunkulus - Sikkunrohs Homunkulus
Bluhtarohs: Godra - Azoth Drachenkönig
Tikurah: Godra - Panazee Perytonkönigin
Kronorah: Godra - Alkahest Perytonkönigin
Aikurah: Godra - Arcanum Perytonkönigin
Blukorah: Godra - Azoth Perytonkönigin
Pikuria: Godra - Panazee Arachnekönigin
Rachnia: Godra - Alkahest Arachnekönigin
Sulphoria: Godra - Arcanum Arachnekönigin
Ruskonia: Godra - Azoth Arachnekönigin
Golduron: Godra - Panazee Gargoylekönig
Siluvon: Godra - Alkahest Gargoylekönig
Kaparion: Godra - Arcanum Gargoylekönig
Merkuron: Godra - Azoth Gargoylekönig
Hirsite: Skaia - Peryton Göttin
Drakonis: Skaia - Drachen Gott
Arakona: Skaia - Arachne Göttin
Gargynos: Skaia - Gargoyle Gott
Ordnung: Skaia - Weltenschlange
Chaos: Skaia - Weltenschlange
Entropy: Skaia - Weltenschlange
Clef: Godra - Schwer zu reizen
Quill: Ghost - Clefs Begleiter
Breve: Godra - Meistens gut gelaunt
Dolce: Ghost - Breves Begleiter
Cesura: Godra - Still und beobachtend
Piano: Ghost - Cesuras Begleiter
Quaver: Godra - Immer mürrisch
Forte: Ghost - Quavers Begleiter
Azimuth: Skaia - Ruhig und organisiert
Mizutah: Skaia -  Unberechenbar und hysterisch
Sokores: Skaia - Vincents früherer Besitzer
Mynek: ? - Wirts Besitzer
Marin aka Nord: Skaia - Immer über etwas besorgt
Fewur aka Süd: Skaia - Gebieterisch
Wendaz aka West: Skaia - Versucht sich aus Dingen rauszuhalten
Ero aka Ost: Skaia - Will nie in etwas hinengezogen werden
Rugen: Skaia - Selbstgefällig
Ritter des Lichts - Ein stiller Beobachter
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Über Songs of MadneSS
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