#eric abidal

[peligrosapop]

Merci, Eric Abidal. 💙❤️

#fc barcelona #eric abidal #barça legend #capitan

[deans-baby-momma]

Law & Love Chapter 3

THEN

Y/N it's not what you think. Please call me [phone]

NOW

I don’t call him when I clock out. I don't call him while I take a cab home. In fact, I don't call him at all. 

I am angry! Angry at myself for letting him in and angry at him for asking me out when he is clearly unavailable. 

I don't know how they do stuff here in Montana but I was raised to be faithful and true.  That's probably why I endured Eric's lack of attention and overlooked his cheating for so long.

Yes, I knew my boyfriend was out fucking anything with a vagina almost weekly. I discovered it when I found a hotel receipt in his pocket. 

I did a little amateur sleuthing and found out that he had used that certain hotel for years. He had an open account with the seedy fleabag accommodations; he paid after the use of their room, usually with cash that I still didn't know where it came from. So, I tolerated his cheating and laziness because that's what I was taught to do. 

But now? Now was different. I am not that same girl I was then. I was aware of the obscenity of the world and knew very few people abided by the 'old ways'.

So, I'm not about to let some philandering womanizer get the best of me. He cannot have his cake and eat it too! 

It’s been a few days since the sheriff and his girlfriend/wife/whatever had visited the diner and I was ever so grateful. I didn’t want to see his cheating, conniving face at all! Everytime I thought about the audacity he had to ask me out when he was clearly taken, my blood pressure skyrocketed. The nerve of him! The gall to manipulate the situation to his advantage was mind boggling. 

After the lunch rush was over, I set about getting the remaining tables and chairs back into their proper order when the bell rang and someone stepped in. I smile as I see who I know now is a regular at this time of the day, Joey. Joey would come in when the rush was over and keep Deb and I amused with his stories of different things. He seems to be a nice guy who lived alone and simply desired social interaction.

I smile at him as he walks to his usual spot and settles in. Deb writes up his normal order. As I pass by headed to the kitchen, Joey smiles and speaks. “You look nice today, Y/n.”

“Thanks Joey.”

Deb and I listen to Joey as he regales about the time his uncle took him and his cousins fishing at Park Lake Campground, southwest of town.

"So, here we were standing alongside the lake. We could practically see the fish swimming around, waiting for us to throw our lines in. Marco and Luis were baiting their hooks as ole Uncle Paul was sliding the earthworm onto mine.  He didn't trust me not to try to eat the lure." He pauses as Deb and I give him a look of disgust. He laughs and continues.

"Ladies, I was 4 years old okay! I probably would've tried to eat it," he laughs. "Anyway, he gets the hook ready and hands me the pole. I watch my cousins cast their line out into the water so I pull back and throw……hook, line, sinker and pole. It floats on the water for a second before it sinks. Uncle P starts yelling and running toward the water. No one caught anything that day."

The bell over the door rings and a woman walks in with a brown paper bag with handles. There is no writing on the nondescript back. She smiles at us and asks for Y/N. I groan as I realize exactly what that means.

The fucking sheriff has sent me another goddamn gift. I mask my irritation and I step forward with a smile and take the bag.

Inside is a stuffed animal. I pull it out to see it's a gray squirrel holding an acorn in its paws. On the acorn are the words "NUTS FOR YOU".

Yea, he's nuts if he thinks I'm going to keep accepting his little gifts and trinkets. Not when he's a two-timing jerk!

I stuff the stuffed animal back in the bag and take it in the back room, where we keep our personal items.

After my shift, I'm making a pitstop at the Sheriff's office and putting an end to his treacherous ways, once and for all!

The taxi driver can tell I’m on a mission as soon as I slide into the backseat and utter, “Take me to the sheriff’s office.”

As we pull up outside of Helena P.D. I can see the red truck that I know belongs to the sheriff sitting alongside the other cop cars in the lot. I can’t help but sneer at it as I pay the cabbie and exit the vehicle.

I open the door to the building and am met immediately with the smell of donuts and coffee. I want to laugh at  the plain and simple stereotype of it all but before I can even twitch my lips, I look through and see Sheriff Arlen and his companion through the glass that divides the front of the station with what is apparently his office. They are both smiling and talking and I see him throw his head back and laugh at what she just said.

“Can I help you?” 

I bring my focus back to the front to see the same officer that had come to collect the sheriff and his companion that day at the diner; the day I realized just what a swindler the man in charge is.

“I need to speak to the Sheriff, if you can pull the lovebirds apart,” I jeer. The man looks at me questioningly and goes to open his mouth but evidently Beau has noticed my presence and comes out of the room.

“Y/N?” he calls as he approaches, a smile on his face. What the fuck is he smiling for? Does he not realize I know what a fraud he is?  His ‘whatever she is’ is standing right there behind him, leaning against the door frame of his office. Her arms are crossed over her front and her head is sort of cocked to the side. Does she know who I am? Does she know he asked me out when he is obviously involved with her? Why is she not fuming? Why does she look as if she could care less?

Beau finally gets to the front desk and he nods at the officer who was still standing there. “I got this Popcorn.”

‘Popcorn’ nods and heads back to his desk.

“What’re you doing here?” the Sheriff asks. “Having more troubles?”

I clear my throat and straighten my stance as I pull the brown gift bag from my purse. I reach inside and grab the stuffed animal and remove it. I look at it one more time before I lift it and throw it right in his face. 

“I don’t want your stupid gifts! I don’t want anything to do with you! How dare you try to take advantage of me in my time of need! You’re a fucking asshole and a cheat! Fuck. You!”

I turn to leave but not before I notice the look of confusion on the sheriff’s face.  As I push the door open, I hear his voice. “Y/N! Wait!”

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#law & love #jensen ackles #big sky #beau arlen #beau x reader

[themauvesoul]

do you know why apparently lots of spn fans dislike neil gaiman? everything that's happened today has been so confusing

I don’t have time to unpack all that but. Spn fans (deep mutual disrespect between us and virtually everyone involved in making spn. Every day is a competition to see who can clown on Eric kripke the hardest) vs gomens fans (omg we have to abide by Neil’s wishes!!!! Stop posting the leak!!!!!!!!). It’s a culture clash. Gomens fans are simply not used to the disrespect spn fans bring to the table. Also I have no respect for Neil for many reasons but currently the funniest one is that it’s extremely cringe to beg your fanbase to stop posting a single still from a promo video. Like what is this a marvel movie. Let the people post!!

#the other reasons I shall not explore at this time

[jichanqz]

CARREFOUR • ERIC SOHN

MEMBER tbz eric

WORD COUNT 1.1K+

GENRE fairy!au, fantasy, romance

which is better, or which is worse? having no power among those who do or having your power used against you?

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He sets foot into the small town once the tint of orange of the sky fades into those of wisterias, along with the other townspeople starting their busy day.

Ulfora, his journey here last night was smooth, much to his relief. The moon was on his side. The tides seemed to abide by his course, remaining calm and dormant, ensuring his journey underwater to be so waveless it was almost odd, but he believes the protection of the celestial being along with the blessing of the full moon.

Eric opted for a journey by sea to the corner of the kingdom, in his quest of fulfilling the king’s order. He needs his identity to remain a secret, and travelling by land will do least to nothing at keeping his identity under wraps.

He’s the most aware of the temperament of the ocean; the rise and recede of tides along with the people of the water, which makes the ocean by far the safest path for him to trek.

Dressed in plain tunics with a leather satchel latched across his shoulder, Eric succeeds at fitting in among the people of Ulfora, looking like much of a commoner rather than royalty himself.

His first stop is at the small eatery located at the hollowed-out tree trunks. Owned by an elf, Eric assumes. Besides stuffing his stomach, he wants to wend his way across the town to every place that has highly likely been trodden by the person he’s looking for.

Settling by the window, his assumption is made certain as he registers that most of the workers at the eatery are elves, while some of them being the vampires.

The customers entering and exiting the eatery are of all races; there are elves, vampires, and even the werewolves. Everyone is interacting in harmony; smiles could be seen plastered on their faces, they are even sharing tables. And the least that some of them do are minding their own business.

Segregation of races is non-existent. Their relationships are valued beyond their differences. Despite being a small town cloistered far at the edge of the country, the people seem to be much more accepting and unprejudiced towards each other.

Only if the people of the royal town were like this.

“Can I get your order?”

Eric is put out of his trance when a waiter approaches his table. His eyes register the appearance of the waiter before him. Black hair, hazel irises, sienna skin.

Not the one.

The waiter’s wings twitch ever so slightly but don’t go unnoticed by Eric. A sign of uneasiness.

“Mister?”

He cleared his throat as he realised he stared a little bit too long.

Not so courteous, Eric.

“Sorry. Um, may I have buttered toast with avocado and a soft poached egg? And also hot chocolate.”

“That’s all?” The wooden pencil in her grasp dances swiftly across the vellum in her other hand, jotting his order down.

“Yeah, that’s it. Thank you.”

He runs his hand through his brown locks, his shoulders sagging against the hard chair.

Pull yourself together, Eric. You got this.

>>>

He walks in and out of every store in the town, pretending to window shop and asking around for things while his eyes are scanning the faces of every people he stumbled across. He even purchased a few things to avoid suspicions, but he is yet to find the elf he’s been looking for.

He continues his walk, now aimless, but his hopes are still high. It's only his first day here, and he had only been to the town. He has not yet meandered around the housing area. He will surely find the elf, sooner or later.

As he walks past the rows of shops, he notices that the people passing him were staring, and they do little to hide it. The conversation between them comes to a halt as their eyes lay down on him, which is then followed by whispers among them.

He soon registers that a fairy walking around this town is not something common. The fairies are the rare inhabitants of this corner of the kingdom, so his presence is very much easily noticed.

That is when loneliness catches him in its embrace. He has always been on his own in the palace which made him used to the feeling. But now even in the crowds, he’s alone, and the feeling thickens.

He shrugs it off, not wanting the emotion to take control of him.

I came here for a reason. He reminds himself.

He continues walking until the number of shops decreases and the greeneries condensate. He then hears the soft sound of waves crashing upon the shore before the body of salty water comes into his sight.

“Whoa.” He didn’t notice that the sea is that majestic last night that he was there. Now that he is here in broad daylight, Eric is beyond astonished.

It takes a good few minutes of walking to get there, which explains how void the ocean is of any creature. Being alone with the clear sky roofing above his head and warm waves nibbling at his feet, allows him to think, to fully be with nature.

Eric takes his time to really take in the sight before him. The thistle sky blends into alice blue where it kisses the water. He settles into a spot on the seaboard, allowing himself to be engulfed in the warmth of the sand against his skin.

The beach was separated by a layer of lush foliage from the town, making it a perfect spot to escape from the busyness trap of day-to-day life and seek solace.

Welcome back.

Eric is dragged out of his stupor when he heard it, sending his head swivelling to the side. It was too loud to be a whisper yet only loud enough for him to hear it.

He looks around to see no one else but him along the coastline. He is certain that he was not being delirious. The whisper was prominent enough for him to be hallucinating.

Eric rises to his feet, glancing around to see no one else but himself along the stretch of the coast.

Let’s end this.

The calm waves before him suddenly become choppy, the serenity is now gone. The waves are screaming, seeming so turbulent as if it is going to pull everything in their way with them.

Let’s end this. The whisper reverberates within him, and though confusion latches its fingers on his mind, he doesn’t seem to question it. Eric doesn’t move a muscle, as if his feet were nailed down in the coarse sand.

He takes in the chaos before him, but he does nothing, entranced. The nearby trees fail to oppose the course of blowing wind thus tumbling upon each other, and the crashing sound drags Eric back to his senses. Only then, terror strikes.

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[boaringoldguy]

Trump Cannot Participate in Closing Arguments in NY Civil Trial, Judge Engoron Says

This is wrong in so many ways!

NTD

5–7 minutes

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron indicated to attorneys on Jan. 10 that former President Donald Trump likely won’t participate in closing arguments for his civil fraud trial.

Emails posted to the court docket show Justice Engoron telling Trump’s attorney Chris Kise: “Not having heard from you by the third extended deadline (noon today),” I assume that Mr. Trump will not agree to the reasonable, lawful limits I have imposed as a precondition to giving a closing statement above and beyond those given by his attorneys, and that, therefore, he will not be speaking in court tomorrow.”

President Trump’s lawyers, who have already appealed unsuccessfully for a directed verdict on the grounds of prosecutorial bias, will make their case on Jan. 11.

The email chain shows Justice Engoron telling Mr. Kise repeatedly that he needed to state whether the former president would abide by limitations he sought to impose.

“As I have already indicated to you, if Mr. Trump wishes to speak … you will have to tell me NOW that he will agree to the limitations I have imposed, which go without saying and apply to everyone, and he will have to agree to do so tomorrow, on the record,” Justice Engoron said in an earlier Jan. 10 email to Mr. Kise, the New York attorney general’s office, and other Trump attorneys.

Justice Engoron initially approved the unusual request, saying he was “including to let everyone have his or her say.”

But he said Trump would have to limit his remarks to the boundaries that cover attorneys’ closing arguments: “commentary on the relevant, material facts that are in evidence, and application of the relevant law to those facts.”

He would not be allowed to introduce new evidence, “comment on irrelevant matters” or “deliver a campaign speech”—or impugn the judge, his staff, the attorney general, her lawyers, or the court system, the judge wrote.

Trump attorney Christopher Kise responded that those limitations were “fraught with ambiguities, creating the substantial likelihood for misinterpretation or an unintended violation.

At 11:40 a.m. ET, Mr. Kise told Justice Engoron that he was being “very unfair.”

“You are not allowing President Trump, who has been wrongfully demeaned and belittled by an out of control, politically motivated Attorney General, to speak about the things that must be spoken about,” he said.

Justice Engoron responded: “I won’t debate this yet again. Take it or leave it. Now or never. You have until noon, seven minutes from now. I WILL NOT GRANT ANY FURTHER EXTENSIONS.”

Justice Engoron had denied Mr. Kise’s request to postpone closing arguments after President Trump’s mother died.

In their closing arguments, Trump’s legal team is expected to emphasize critical points from the direct examination of such witnesses as Rosemary Vrablic, a former Deutsche Bank managing director closely involved in efforts to grow business between the bank and the Trump Organization, and Eli Bartov, an expert on real estate accounting practices who spoke on the meaning of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) as applied to loans and insurance.

Since the trial began on Oct. 2, 2023, attorneys for New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office have attempted to build a case that in preparing SFCs to seek loans and insurance policies for Trump properties, members of the Trump Organization inflated the value of assets in a manner that involved conscious wrongdoing.

Throughout the government lawyers’ direct examination and cross-examination, they pulled up images on a courtroom screen of statements of financial conditions, emails, letters, contracts, and memoranda bearing the signatures of Mr. Donald Trump Jr., Mr. Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Mr. Weisselberg, Mr. McConney, and President Trump himself. The court heard witness after witness testify as to the content of conversations and email exchanges from as far back as 2012, and heard expert testimony about GAAP and whether the documents on the screen adhered to such norms and standards.

Ms. James, a Democrat, who had previously sought a $250 million settlement—almost one-tenth of President Trump’s estimated net worth of $2.6 billion—has announced that nothing less than $370 million will suffice as a penalty for inflated valuations of his assets.

Ms. James also seeks five-year bans on the former president’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., taking part in any real estate deals.

President Trump blames the attorney general for what he sees as a politically motivated prosecution of the GOP’s 2024 front-runner.

He has also argued that Ms. James is going after him without real legal ground as crime surges on New York’s streets, and that her actions will drive businesses out of New York and deter others from operating in the city.

The Associated Press and Michael Washburn contributed to this report.

From The Epoch Times

#clown world #Trump POTUS is amazing! #TRUMP 2024

[beardedmrbean]

The overwhelming majority of New York voters blame President Biden for letting the migrant crisis spiral out of control, a new poll released Tuesday reveals.

The Siena College survey found that a stunning 84% of voters consider the influx of migrants a serious problem, with 57% identifying it as a “very” serious problem. Only 12% of respondents said the problem is not serious.

“It’s a sad case and Biden doesn’t even care. This is a federal problem and has always been a federal problem,” said Maria Ortiz, 37, works in retail and says she constantly sees migrants begging on the train with their babies.

“I’m not voting for him. I voted to get him in office and it’s [been] my biggest regret since,” she said at Jamaica Station in Queens. 

Nearly two-thirds of voters — 64% — flunked the Biden administration’s handling of the migrant influx, while only 29% approved.

The poll suggests the crisis at the southern border that has swamped the Big Apple with the thousands of asylum seekers is dragging down Democrat Biden’s popularity even in blue-leaning New York.

“While other issues in Washington and abroad have largely driven the news cycle over the last few weeks, the influx of migrants to New York remains top of mind for voters, with 84% saying it’s a serious – 57% very serious – problem for the state,” said Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

“Seldom do we see an issue where at least 79% of Democrats, Republicans, independents, men, women, upstaters, downstaters, Blacks, whites, Latinos, Catholics, Jews, and Protestants all agree – that the migrant influx is a serious problem.”

The survey indicates that even immigrant-friendly New York has reached the breaking point with the unrelenting crisis.

Nearly two-thirds of voters, 64%, say New Yorkers have done enough for new migrants and must now work to “slow the flow” of migrants from the border, compared to 29% who say the state should accept and work to assimilate them. That’s a higher figure than the 58% of voters who said so in August.

Mayor Eric Adams was roundly criticized for saying the migrant crisis would “destroy New York City” without aggressive federal intervention. But 58% of voters said they agreed with Adams’s statement, and the support of his dire claim was consistent from all regions of the state.

54% of voters said migration has been more of a burden, while just 32% said it’s a benefit, a worse figure than in the prior August poll.

Biden, 80, has trouble with his own base. A majority of New York Democratic voters — 52% — said they want a nominee other than Biden to be the party’s standard bearer for president. Only 41% of Democrats said they want him as the nominee for re-election.

Thomas Barnes, a 44-year-old transit mechanic, predicted a “huge red wave” in the 2024 contest.

“If this election goes any other way, I think it is time for the American citizens to take a good look at our election system.“ 

“Biden’s funding two proxy wars, Americans are not only broke, it’s getting worse — the crime rate is sky high. Law abiding citizens are afraid for their lives. I’m a transit worker, I see shit every night. Democratic policy is what got us to this point,” he said, while adding he also blamed Republican Texas Gov. Gregg Abbot for sending migrants to sanctuary cities.

“The working class is getting squeezed to nothing. We got nothing left. It’s our tax dollars, not the rich. I think Donald Trump has a really good shot [with] demographics that have historically voted Democrat — it’s all over social media. Black people are done with the Democrat party. It’s promise after promise during election season. Tons of pandering and no follow through. No delivery.” 

His favorability and job approval ratings are underwater and he leads former Republican President Donald Trump — who is fighting four indictments — just 46% to 37% in a hypothetical matchup, with the rest of the voters undecided. His lead over Trump is shaved to 7 percentage points if Robert Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West run on minor party lines.

Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who has fought the opening of migrant shelters on her Staten Island turf, said, “New Yorkers overwhelmingly disapprove of Democrats’ open borders.

“From President Biden to Governor Hochul to Mayor Adams, they have created an unsustainable and unsafe crisis at the expense of their own citizens,” Malliotakis continued.

“Senators Schumer and Gillibrand should stop holding up our Border Security Act that passed the House in May and end this madness.”

Former Democratic Rep. Max Rose, who lost his seat to Malliotakis three years ago said the president “can’t ignore” the migrant issue.

“The Biden administration and Democrats have to show they can effectively and humanely manage the migrant issue or face serious election consequences,” said Rose.

“This could make the 2022 backlash over riots and crime look like a walk in the park,” he said.

Rose predicted Biden will carry New York in the presidential race next year because of the overwhelming Democratic vote in NYC. But Democratic candidates for Congress could lose if Biden fares poorly at the top of the ticket in the suburbs and upstate, he said.

In terms of popularity, 52% of voters said they had an unfavorable view of Biden compared to 45% who had a favorable view. Similarly, 51% of respondents disapproved of his job performance while 46% approved.

A staggering 65% of New Yorkers say the United States is going in the wrong direction under a Biden presidency, while just 25% said it’s on the right track with the remainder undecided.

Felix Ramos, a 26-year-old security worker, said if the polling trend continued, Biden would have to blame himself. 

“New York might just become a red state, and that’s when you know you did a bad job as a president.” 

Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2-1 and the last GOPer to carry New York in a presidential race was Ronald Reagan in 1984. But last year, Republican Lee Zeldin ran a competitive race for governor against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the GOP picked up congressional seats.

“And also true is that right now, Biden has his worst-ever New York favorability and job approval ratings,” said Siena’s Greenberg. “The good news for Biden is the election is more than a year away. The bad news is there’s more bad news,” Greenberg said.

“While 70% of Democrats view Biden favorably, and 70% of Democrats approve of the job he’s doing, 52% of Democrats say they want a different presidential nominee in 2024.”

Zeldin, for his part, said “President Biden should start preparing a concession speech” if the trend continued.

“If New York is close, you can only imagine where voters are heading in swing states,” the former Long Island congressman said.

“There is an intensified desire for a correction over disastrous one-party Democratic rule in New York.”

Only 30% of voters statewide approve of Adams’ handling of migrants’ issue while 46% disapprove. Even in New York City, 50% of Adams’ constituents disapproved while 41% approved.

Only 30% of voters statewide approve of Adams handling of migrants’ issue while 46% disapprove. Even in New York City, 50% of Adams’ constituents disapproved while 41% approved.

Only 37% of respondents statewide approve of Hochul’s handling of the migrant crisis, while 52% disapprove.

Public safety remains a major concern — 59% of voters statewide say crime has gotten worse over the past year, while just 9% said it’s gotten better and 28% said the same.

In New York City, 51% of voters said crime has gotten worse, while 33% said the same and just 12% better.

That’s a potential problem for Adams, who made bolstering public safety his top campaign pledge for City Hall in 2021.

The survey of 1,225 registered voters was conducted from Oct. 15-19, after the terrorist group’s Hamas invasion and slaughter of Israelis and Israel’s counter-offensive in Gaza. It has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

The poll found that 57% of New Yorkers support providing more military and economic aid to Israel, compared to 32% opposed.

Meanwhile, 51% of responders back providing more military and economic aid to Ukraine while 38% were opposed.

“New York needs help and we have been asking for help but all [Biden] does is send help to other countries and lounge on the beach. Pathetic,” said Ortiz, the Queens straphanger.

On the Middle East war, 50% of voters agreed with the statement that Israel must do everything it can to get back the hostages taken by Hamas, but Israeli attacks in Gaza will largely hurt innocent Palestinian civilians more than anyone else

But 32% of voters agreed with the statement that after the surprise terrorist attacks Hamas carried out on Israeli civilians, Israel must do everything it can in the Gaza territory to make sure it never happens again, regardless of casualties.

#nunyas news

[justforbooks]

Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a teenager, he liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but his abiding passion was New York’s underground avant garde art scene – Joseph Beuys, Fluxus, Andy Warhol – and its accompanying experimental music: he was fond of pointing out to interviewers that he was born the year that John Cage composed 4’33. At university, he studied the work of modern composers Boulez, Stockhausen and Ligeti; he had a particular interest in the challenging electronic compositions of Iannis Xenakis. The first album to bear Sakamoto’s name, 1975’s Disappointment/Hateruma, was a collaboration with percussionist Toshiyuki Tsuchitori that consisted entirely of free improv. If he was going to have a role in the Japanese pop world at all, it was in the background, using his keyboard skills and interest in the fast-developing world of synthesizers to find employment as a session musician.

But a pop star was exactly what Sakamoto became, at least for a time. A 1978 session for singer Haruomi Hosono led to the suggestion that they should form a band with drummer Yukihiro Takahashi. Yellow Magic Orchestra went on to become both the biggest band in Japan – inspiring a degree of paparazzi attention and screaming fervour among fans that Sakamoto seems to have loathed every minute of – and the first Japanese artists to find more than novelty or cult status in the west.

Yellow Magic Orchestra were successful, but they were groundbreaking too. The convenient shorthand was that they were the Japanese Kraftwerk, although in truth, YMO didn’t really sound like Kraftwerk at all. Alongside the synthesizers, they used guitars, bass and acoustic drums. They were more straightforwardly aligned to disco: their debut album even featured an electronic version of the deathless “ooah ooah” whoop from the Michael Zager Band’s Let’s All Chant. You could detect the influence of jazz fusion and, later, the UK’s ongoing ska revival. Like Throbbing Gristle, they appeared fascinated by the kitschy 1950s exotica of Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, which had featured traditional Japanese instruments and quasi-“oriental” melodies; Yellow Magic Orchestra’s biggest international hit was a version of Denny’s 1959 track Firecracker.

Equally, you could see why the Kraftwerk comparison stuck. Both bands shared an obsession with technology – Yellow Magic Orchestra were pioneering in their use of sequencers and samplers and they introduced the world to the sound of the Roland TR-808 drum machine – and a belief that being cutting-edge experimentalists didn’t preclude them from writing fantastic pop songs. The Sakamoto-penned Behind the Mask, from 1979’s Solid State Survivor, was covered by Michael Jackson, ostensibly for inclusion on Thriller, although it was dropped from the final tracklisting; it was eventually turned into a UK hit by, of all people, Eric Clapton.

Both YMO and Kraftwerk were interested in the detournement of Anglo-American pop: just as Kraftwerk borrowed from the Beach Boys on Autobahn, so YMO covered the Beatles’ Day Tripper and Archie Bell and the Drells’ Tighten Up, the latter in cartoonish Japanese accents. They also shared a dry sense of humour, which in Yellow Magic Orchestra’s case usually fixated on western prejudices and fears about east Asians. On the cover of Solid State Survivor, they dressed in red Mao suits, enjoying a drink with an effigy of the late dictator. While the US fretted about an influx of Japanese cars and technology damaging their economy, 1980’s X∞Multiplies featured a series of sketches, one featuring a sinister Japanese businessman signing a contract, another featuring an American who realises his Japanese host can’t understand English and lets rip with a torrent of racist abuse: “The Japanese are pigs, yellow monkeys, they have small cocks and short legs.” As a moral panic erupted over the deleterious and addictive effect of the Taito Corporation’s Space Invaders games, Yellow Magic Orchestra’s records literally sounded like arcade games: their eponymous debut album was packed with interludes featuring their bleeping noises and tinny Game Over death marches.

And, like Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra proved vastly influential – or rather, it took the rest of the world a little while to catch up: there was something telling about the fact that Solid State Survivor wasn’t released in the UK until 1982, at the height of the synth-pop wave that YMO had presaged. By then, their music had found its way into the collections of DJs and producers in New York’s burgeoning hip-hop scene – they were apparently astonished when the audience on Soul Train began breakdancing when they performed Computer Games – although it was a track from one of the solo albums Sakamoto had begun releasing concurrent with his career in YMO that had the biggest long-term impact. Riot in Lagos, from 1980’s B-2 Unit, had been recorded in London with reggae producer Dennis Bovell, and was apparently inspired by the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti. It remains an astonishingly timeless and effervescent piece of electronica: if you didn’t know it and were told it was released last month, rather than 42 years ago, you’d believe it. Abstract but funky, it cast a considerable shadow over dance music: it was big club hit on release, helped shape the sound of electro and turned the head of hip-hop producers including Kurtis Mantronik. Drum n’ bass producers Foul Play sampled it, and you can hear its influence in the music of 90s electronic luminaries Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Yellow Magic Orchestra split in 1983. If Sakamoto had left it at that and returned to modern classical music, he would already have earned himself a place among the era’s greatest pop innovators. But with the release of Nagisa Ōshima’s film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, in which he also starred, he began a career as a soundtrack composer that clearly suited his temperament far better than the Beatlemania-like scenes Yellow Magic Orchestra had provoked at home. It would lead him to work with Bernardo Bertolucci, Pedro Almodóvar, Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone, among others, and be showered with awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

But the vocal version of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence’s haunting main theme, retitled Forbidden Colours, also cemented a partnership with former Japan vocalist David Sylvian that had begun with the 1982 single Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music. Along with Can’s Holger Czukay and experimental trumpeter Jon Hassell, he became part of Sylvian’s repertory company for a series of extraordinary albums that attempted to reimagine 80s pop in a more expansive, exploratory and pensive way.

They seemed to reflect Sakamoto’s own position within pop after Yellow Magic Orchestra. Sakamoto’s solo albums largely contained music that existed at one remove from whatever else was happening, in a space where he could follow his own path. On 1989’s Beauty and 1991’s Heartbeat, it sometimes seemed as if he was constructing his own brand of the exotica that had entranced YMO, blending eastern, western and African influences together, assembling eclectic and improbable guest lists that, on Beauty alone, included Youssou N’Dour, Robbie Robertson, Robert Wyatt, Brian Wilson and Prince protege Jill Jones.

It wasn’t as if Ryuichi Sakamoto needed to be at the centre of pop culture in person: thanks to sampling, the centre of pop culture was never that far from his music. In recent years, it’s been borrowed by the Weeknd, Justice, Burial, the Beastie Boys, Jennifer Lopez, Brandy and Freddie Gibbs.

In the late 70s, the other members of Yellow Magic Orchestra had called him the Professor, a jokey nickname that contrasted Sakamoto’s intellectual bearing with his unwanted role as the group’s main heart-throb. It was a title Sakamoto seemed to grow into more and more in his later years: recording minimalist albums with German artist Alva Noto, providing ambient scores for art installations, releasing live orchestral and solo piano recordings of his compositions. There are clips of Yellow Magic Orchestra in the 2017 documentary Coda, which showed Sakamoto returning to work following a diagnosis of throat cancer, but it’s still hard to square the young pop star who stares imperiously down from his apartment wall in a portrait by Andy Warhol with the man in his late 60s, learnedly discussing classical organ chorales, the purity of the sounds he recorded during a trip to the North Pole and whether a piano going out of tune represented “matter struggling to return to a natural state”.

The album Coda depicted him working on, async, was released in 2017. It combined Bach-inspired piano pieces with monumental drones, distorted synthesisers and ambient field recordings. The artists who lined up to remix its tracks came from the leftfield cutting-edge of electronic music: if you wanted evidence of how widespread Ryuichi Sakamoto’s influence was, the fact that his work was clearly an inspiration for the likes of Arca and Oneohtrix Point Never and had been sampled by Jennifer Lopez on a US No 1 single seems a reasonable place to start. Contemplating his mortality in 2017, Sakamoto said he wanted to make “music I won’t be ashamed to leave behind – meaningful work”. By any metric, he already had.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #Ryuichi Sakamoto #in memoriam

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 17th January 1924

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Thursday 17th January

Arrived Geneva and found my Lord Buckmaster charming. I have a great amount of work to prepare and dish up for him. The actual conference of the League begins on Saturday. We went to the League of Nations Secretariat this morning. It is a vast building on the lake, once a hotel. It seems full of people in rather gilded offices who never do anything — of course this is untrue as much estimable work is accomplished. We were introduced to Sir Eric Drummond,³ the Permanent Secretary, and he motored us to his home for luncheon. He lives in a villa in the woods about three miles away. I discovered I knew Lady Drummond;⁴ she is the sister of the Duchess of Norfolk and has a daughter whom I recognised as having met at Arundel. Drummond explained that we should have difficulty with Italy at the conference. The object of the conference is to examine the competence of the legal [entity] and examine its sovereign rights and to establish how great are its powers. It is to examine several interpretations of certain points within the Covenant and clear them of all ambiguity . . . We are instructed by the Foreign Office to insist that the clauses of the Covenant are binding and that a signatory nation must abide by the decisions of the League or she becomes outlawed and technically at war with all civilsations.

—

3. James Eric Drummond (1876-1951), son of the 10th Viscount Strathallan. Drummond's half-brother succeeded their father in the viscountcy and in 1902 succeeded a distant cousin as Earl of Perth; Drummond himself would succeed to the peerage in 1937, becoming 7th Earl of Perth. A career diplomat, he had drawn up the Covenant of the League of Nations while part of the British delegation to Versailles in 1919, and served as the League's Secretary-General from 1920 to 1933.

4. Angela Mary Constable-Maxwell (1877-1965), daughter of the 11th Lord Herries, married Eric Drummond in 1904.

#chips channon #channon diaries #1924 #1920s #stanley buckmaster #james perth #angela perth #gwendoline norfolk #🕰️ #oops pretend i queued this for yesterday!

[spamtonology]

Honestly what I find to be the greatest example of Toby “subverting expectations” is him seeing people in the fandom woobify the everloving hell out of Spamton and in response to it created an entire anniversary event centered around him where instead of pandering to the fanbase and abiding by said woobification, he not only deconfirmed Acid Theory, one of the biggest factors in the fandom making him out to be a poor, innocent, helpless victim by having him outright state that he was always short, he went out of his way to make Spamton the most detestable person imaginable and completely obliterated the idea of Spamton being too insane to be held accountable for his unethical actions by confirming once and for all that he knew full well what he was doing was wrong and didn’t care. Spamton is now canonically akin to being the Eric Cartman or Dennis Reynolds of Deltarune and I could not be happier about it.

I don't think the acid theory was deconfirmed as much as alluded to but in a more humorous context than what fanon believed, which of course does help negate the previous usage it had in angst/whump and making Spamton seem helpless. I am glad he was always short, and that the acid incident was more of a harmless pool party prank than anything else.

I also didn't see many or even any fans complain about the way Spamton was portrayed in the Sweepstakes, if anything many fans actually felt validated about their headcanons, especially with the angle on Addisons, Jevil and Swatch (Swatchton and Spamvil fans were both VERY happy). If there were any complaints, I didn't see any and would like an example of one.

I don't think pandering is the nicest word for it, but it overall seemed like Toby was having a lot of fun and making multiple nods to the fandom, even going as far as to add an Q&A segment just for Spamton. You could tell he had fun with it and absolutely respects his fans, otherwise I would have seen a lot more complaints. I think when he subverted expectations about Spamton in the sweepstakes, it was less "no, fuck you, he's like this" and more "interesting theory, however!". The sweepstakes was a big surprise and treat for the fans, not some kind of put-down.

I'm going to pointedly ignore any comparisons to other characters, mostly because I'm not too familiar with them.

#spamton

[wutbju]

Eric Hutton seems perplexed by Hantz Bernard's list-from-Strong's:

Even though we triple checked our facts with BJU insiders closest to the crisis, Dr. Bernard appears to believe that our updated open letter was full of lies. He replied to the concerns of alumni and friends with a list of bible verses about lying. See the text of his email: Psalm 15:1-3 - "Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? 2 He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart; 3 He who does not backbite with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;" Exodus 20:16 - "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." John 8:44 - "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it." Ephesians 4:25 - "Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another." Proverbs 6:16-19 - "These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren." Matthew 15:19 - "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." Isaiah 59:7 - "Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths." James 3:8-9 - "But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God." Colossians 2:8 - "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." (Verbatim from Dr. Bernard's email reply to a positive grad.)

Quelle Surprise, +++Positives+++.

#Bob Jones University #Positive BJU Grads #Steve Pettit #Bob Jones III #BJU Board of Trustees #PBJU #Hantz Bernard

[artsyfangirl]

Mama!Y/n facts

Y/n has 3 tattleBabies. Yellow - Lemon, Purple - Leo, Blue - Clyde

Babies say Y/n is the ”BEST PARENT EVER!!!”

Y/n hums. a lot,

Y/n makes their own and their babies clothes <3

Babies don’t wear shoes and Y/n wears mostly mary janes or no shoes also

Leo is fucking feral. and by feral i mean, Pounces on you and fucking tries to attack you.

y/n has a nest full of plastic eggs and snacks

Y/n perfers not to attack trasspassers. They don’t wanna make a bad example :(

I was actually about to say that Leo looks like a little shit before I read what you said about him being feral. Looks like we’re on the same page.

And yeah, with kids like THOSE? You HAVE to set a good example. Not like it’s gonna stop Leo from jumping the poor bastards…

And the bois simp so hard. Literally MILF/DILF/PILF. They are ON THEIR KNEES. PLEASE. JUST ONE CHANCE. Oh god, Eric wouldn’t be able to function around Mama!Y/N. He wouldn’t. Like me with a few of my fictional crushes (AKA Time, Malon, Twilight, Rosemary, Jack, Michael, etc.)

The poor boy couldn’t do anything. And the little ones are lookin’ at ‘im like, ‘We know’ with Leo being all like, ‘don’t you dare do a thing, you little shit’.

JJ would… oh he’d be head over heels, more obviously than most of the others cus of the whole ‘silent movie’ thing. Poor guy.

YANCY WOULD BE JUST- OH MY GOD. HE JUST- I CAN’T, THERE ARE NO WORDS.

Damien is fucking SWEATING. Is it hot in here? YES HE KNOWS HE’S IN A SNOWY WASTELAND SHUT UP. LEAVE THE POOR MAN ALONE.

Celine is also awestruck. She immediately decides to team up with Y/N. Power couple of the century. And yes, she’s fully aware of her brother having a crisis over there, he’ll be thanking her later for setting them up with Y/N.

Actor can’t. Fucking. SPEAK! Which is kind of important when you’re an actor, at least, one from his era. Be careful, Y/N, and keep the tykes away too, his handle on his powers isn’t the best right now, to say the least.

The Host is mumbling so much no one can tell what’s going on over there. He’s ascended to Izuku Midoriya levels of muttering. And yes, he’s muttering, not speaking, cus he doesn’t want to freak Y/N out or draw attention to himself.

Wil literally just sticks to Y/N like glue, ignoring the jealous glares of the other Egos and the glares from Leo. He literally is the only Ego that can weasel his way into the heart of any Y/N. He is immune to the boundaries that the others face. So take that, Dark!

Dark, speaking of, is uh- well, he’s in conflict alright. One of his aberrations (as I’ll call them for now) is all over the place, and the other is just… chill. Kinda. Not hiding the fluster very well. Poor guy.

He’s so used to being the composed one but now, since SOMEONE (coUgH Damien coUgH) can’t handle himself (Dark’s redirecting the blame, yes it is partially Dame’s fault for not being able to compose himself but also Dark’s fault for being insanely flustered himself), now he’s a mess.

AND EVERYONE CAN SEE. EVEN THAT LITTLE SHIT THAT’S BEEN GLARING AT EVERYONE SINCE THEY ARRIVED. Though… he will admit, the brat has been glaring at Mark rather nastily (the most nastily out of all of them) this whole time, so maybe he’s not as bad as Dark thinks.

Celine responds in ‘headspace’, ‘nope, he’s just a little shit who wrecks everything and sees Mark as the biggest competitor’. Well, there goes that hope.

Anti is metaphorically slipping on everything. Like he’s stepped on a banana peel in a cartoon. He tries to be all intimidating, but then it just. Fails. Utterly. He’s getting so frustrated, he starts glitching out a bit more than usual.

Marvin is more thankful than EVER that he has his mask. Cus it’s sure comin’ in handy. Other than that, I think he’s probably fine. Slips up a bit sure, but mostly fine.

Jackie is also glad to have a mask. For some reason Leo keeps glaring at him the most, not sure why. Perhaps it’s the brat’s inner ‘law abider’ radar.

Schneep is just- so tired. Can someone please escort him out? He can’t deal with this right now. He’s too mentally and emotionally exhausted.

Chase is more sympathetic, but is also really flustered. He gets along well with the kids though, even Leo, strangely enough.

Also, Wil is obsessed with the fact that Y/N makes their and their children’s clothes by hand. JJ finds it charming too. And this discovery just makes Damien’s situation even worse.

The man is so flustered that if you saw him, you would swear that his body heat was melting the snow around him. Celine just looks at her brother and’s just like, ‘yup, this is my brother, everyone, this right here. This useless (affectionately) man. Can’t even get a S/O. Pathetic (affectionately)’.

Engineer is the most shameless simp of them all. Even Yancy can’t hold a candle to this man. This man is truly SHAMELESS. Just please, please. Remember, this guy is a Mark, after all. Of course he shares the love of big people. (Ahem, remember Mark’s reactions to Lady Dimitrescu, everyone)

He would do anything. Please.

#courtesy of writer #septic egos x reader #markiplier egos x reader #egos x reader

[momentosdelfutbol]

EL INCREIBLE SEXTETE DEL FC BARCELONA

Antes de comenzar, definamos qué es un sextete o sextuplete. Un sextete consiste en ganar los seis títulos por los cuales disputa un equipo en el lapso de un año. En el caso del FC Barcelona, esto significó tener triunfos en La Liga de España, la Copa del Rey, la UEFA Champions League, el Mundial de Clubes, la Supercopa Española y la Supercopa de Europa en el año 2009.

Aparte del Barça, solo ha habido un equipo que ha logrado igualar dicho momento, el Bayern Múnich. Este equipo logró obtener victorias en la Bundesliga, el DFB-Pokal, la Champions League, la Supercopa Europea, la Supercopa Alemana y el Mundial de Clubes durante el año 2020.

¿Qué ha sido de los protagonistas del sextete de Barcelona? El equipo del FC Barcelona que resultó ganador de dichos seis títulos estuvo conformado por:

Víctor Valdés

Actualmente, el ex-arquero español no se encuentra frente a ningún equipo. Su última vez como estratega fue con el UA Horta, equipo de la 3ra división de España, en mayo de 2020.

Dani Alves

Considerado como el mejor lateral derecho de la historia, Dani Alves juega ahora entre las filas de los Pumas de la UNAM.

Rafa Márquez

El mexicano Márquez se retiró del fútbol profesional en el año 2018. En la actualidad, se desempeña como director técnico del Barcelona Atlètic.

Eric Abidal

Luego de mantenerse junto al FC Barcelona hasta el año 2013, se retiró con el club Olympiacos. Tiempo después se convirtió en director deportivo de los blaugranas hasta el año 2020.

Maxwell Scherrer Cabelino

Conocido simplemente como Maxwell, el jugador proveniente de Brasil se retiró en el año 2017 luego de estar por seis años con el París Saint-Germain de Francia.

Carles Puyol

Considerado como el corazón y capitán del Barça, Puyol se retiró en el año 2014. En la actualidad, realiza actividades como embajador de La Liga, encargándose de promover los principios y valores de la liga española.

Gerard Piqué

El jugador español aún se encuentra entre las filas del Barcelona, en donde demuestra sus habilidades como defensa y capitán.

Yaya Touré

El exfutbolista marfileño, quien perteneció al club durante los años 2007 y 2010, se retiró del fútbol profesional en enero de 2020. Actualmente, se encuentra preparándose para convertirse en entrenador.

Xavi Hernández

El mediocampista dejó al equipo español en el año 2015 para jugar en Catar, en donde continuó hasta el 2019. Desde el 2021 se encuentra desempeñando su rol de director técnico del Fútbol Club Barcelona en su Primera División.

Sergio Busquets

Busquets continúa jugando entre la alineación del FC Barcelona como centrocampista y también cubre el rol de primer capitán.

Andrés Iniesta

El apodado “Fantasmita” abandonó la casa club española en el año 2019, después de 15 años jugando entre sus filas. Luego de esto, se dirigió a Japón en donde juega para el Vissel Kobe de la J1 League como centrocampista.

Seydou Keita

El exfutbolista maliense estuvo con el Barcelona de 2008 a 2012, de allí siguió al fútbol chino para después regresar con el Valencia CF. Keita cerró su carrero con el AS Roma y El-Jaish Sports Club de Catar en el año 2017.

Lionel Messi

Considerado como uno de los mejores futbolistas de la actualidad, Messi actualmente juega para el París Saint-Germain como delantero. El legendario jugador estuvo en las filas del FC Barcelona durante casi 20 años.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

El sueco Ibrahimovic actualmente desempeña su rol de delantero para la Associazione Calcio Milán de la Serie A en Italia. A pesar de su edad, aún demuestra su poderío en la élite del fútbol europeo y es considerado como jugador central de los rossoneros.

Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez

Uno de los jugadores claves para el cuadro culé, dejó al equipo en el 2015. Actualmente, se encuentra en la Società Sportiva Lazio de la Serie A jugando como delantero.

Thierry Henry

Por último, pero no menos importante, Henry se consideró como uno de los mejores arietes de la liga; sin embargo, estuvo tan solo tres temporadas con el Barcelona. Actualmente, se desempeña como asesor técnico en la selección de Bélgica.

Se consiguió el sextete con las 6 ansiadas copas

1. COPA DEL REY Se ganó el 13 de mayo de 2009 en Mestalla (Valencia). El Barça se impuso al Athletic (1-4) después de remontar un 0-1.

LIGA El equipo de Guardiola cantó el alirón sin jugar el 16 de mayo de 2009, después de que el Real Madrid perdiera en el campo del Villarreal.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Llegó el 27 de mayo de 2009, en Roma. El Barça se impuso al Manchester United por 2-0 con goles de Eto'o y Messi (de cabeza).

SUPERCOPA DE ESPAÑA El 23 de agosto de 2009, en el Camp Nou, el equipo catalán logró la cuarta corona tras un doble duelo contra el Athletic (1-2 y 3-0).

SUPERCOPA DE EUROPA El quinto cetro llegó el 28 de agosto de 2009, en Mónaco y contra el Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0). El gol lo firmó Pedro, en la prórroga.

MUNDIAL DE CLUBES La guinda, el 19 de diciembre de 2009, en Abu Dhabi y contra Estudiantes de La Plata (1-2), también en la prórroga. Gol de Messi, con el corazón.

[rattoes420]

For otp! You know it, I know it, you're gonna do it eventually, JERIC

All of em⁉️ alright bet I’m deranged like that

1. Who most initiates PDA?

Eric obvi

2. Any sleep habits either had to get used to?

Eric prob sleeps weird, I’m not elaborating on that, and I think jacks the type of mf who needs to be at a certain level of comfort at night or else he’ll die, he’s willing to let some things pass but not much

3. Jealousy issues?

Yea y’all saw witches of pennbrooke

4. What’s a Night Out for them?

They’ve got range, shits anywhere from nice restaurant to club to breaking into mr Feeny’s car

5. What’s an evening in for them?

Watching films, eating shitty food and being gay and stupid

6. Double Date? Thoughts? Who?

Jeric double date with Rachel and whatever bitch they try and set her up with real (also I’m pushing lesbian Rachel)

7. Do they want (have) kids?

Yea :)))

8. Have an AU thought?

I’ve got a boy meets world remake in my mind and heart (and google docs) if that counts, but so far I haven’t come up with any of my lil batshit completely disconnected shit yet

9. If they got engaged… who proposed?

Jack,,,,

10. How do they deal with the other’s family?

I feel like jack would kinda wanna impress Alan and Amy but overall he gets along with them and like,,, Shawn likes Eric and that’s all that rly matters

11. What is their love language?

Both prob mostly quality time but Eric also probably physical touch

12. How are their communication skills?

Average? I feel like Eric is kinda defined BY his emotional intelligence so that helps but they’ve got their issues (specifically cause of the time gap thing)

13. A little personal… but… Hot and Steamy or Soft and Tender?

Haven’t thought too much about this and if I’m being real idk if I wanna

14. How did they first meet?

K that one is just canon, shoutout to Cory for introducing them, he is a real supporter of the lgbtq+ community

15. Why do they like each other?

They both kinda bring something to each other that they themselves don’t have so they kinda balance each other out and bring out the best in each other because of that, I think that’s kinda why they like each other???? Cause of the differences and new perspectives and shit idk

17. Morning rituals?

Thinking about adult jeric, y’all they have real jobs now and Eric probably has to get up early as fuck, I doubt he’s at all functional when he first gets up, my guy is like “five more minutes” when he’s literally a senator, jack probably read some article once about the healthiest morning routine and has tried to abide by that ever since

18. Evening rituals?

Mfs watch tv and films till one of them falls asleep and I really believe that

19. How are they at parties or gatherings?

Jacks mostly cool and normal, Eric makes things fucking crazy/pos

20. Most cuddly?

ericericeric

21. Movie Night?

Of course they do that shit, oh to be a fly on the wall well they decide to watch a horror film 😔😔😔

22. Who is the photo bug?

Prob Eric but I could see it being jack

23. How well do they know each other’s favorite foods?

Pretty well probably they literally live together (side note but Eric’s either the type of mf to eat like three different type of foods with very little variety or the type of mf to have a new food he’s obsessed with every other week no I’m not elaborating)

24. What do their texts look like?

Adult jeric time :)))) jack has that stereotypical old man texting style, Eric does that weird thing my grandma does where it’s like “congrats on the show today🏄‍♀️🌈🍰”

25. Parenting style?

Dude Eric would literally be such a good dad, fun parent, Eric Matthews be my dad challenge, I think Jack might be worried about fucking up but overall I think he’s do a good job, he’d make sure that kid didn’t die

26. If they have kids, who named them? What would they name them?

I’m not entirely sure?

27. Who brings home an illegal pet?

Eric if either of them (Eric’s not rly a pet guy and jack has a hard enough time taking care of himself)

28. Who takes the longest getting ready to leave?

I’m not sure, this could go either way

29. Who said I Love You, first?

I like the idea of it being jack but it was prob Eric

30. When did they realize they loved each other?

Eric was prob during witches of pennbrooke cause,,,, I love that episode and I like the implications of it,,,, jack I legit think was probably after the end of the series but before girl meets world (I mostly like to think this cause it makes me sad 👍)

#don’t complain if any of this is ooc #I am TIRED #+ I’m not ceo of boy meets world #haha unless/j #boy meets world #jack hunter #eric matthews #jeric

[talkingtea]

The fact this man has the adocity to lie on podcast saying he doesn’t like “romance” but he be shoving every other relationship down our throats 😒 including the new random ass one with thawne and meena like make it make sense and he expects us to not get pissed of or call him out on his bs is what truly triggers me

But he can’t write west Allen like they used be cause he doesn’t like romance just say you don’t like a white man with a black women we will be pissed don’t get us wrong but at least we’ll know the truth

He has completely changed the characters to his liking and not the fans he’s made Barry a door mat who is a roommate to his wife

iris has to suffer all the time and also not be around for the dumbest reason and the way he defends himself is saying it part of her storyline it’ll lead to something bigger yeah sure bud

Carlos has left cause they mistreated his character

Tom left but keeps coming back which I like Tom but can he please stay far away from this

I don’t like Caitlin at all anymore she was decent but they used to have goodish writing for her and during s1 though 3 including frost during s3 but they had to ruin her by redeeming her character they should have just let her be that way

Joe is so unrecognizable he’s not the same character at all

And Eric keeps bringing more random characters just to entertain his weird imagination when he was little we don’t care what you wanted to see the show was established already you can’t go and change every single character in the process just to do what u wanted yes I could a change a little I’m not saying at all but you can’t change the whole show to abide to what you want and it centers now around the characters he’s brought in the show is called the FLASH bud but we don’t even see that all anymore and he’s made the cast so overwhelming then it already was there’s too much people to write a decent storyline to fit in to a 40 minute episode a week max like 4 to 5 characters with extras every once in while but jamming allot of characters isn’t gonna help

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[ally-writes-many-things]

Deserving (Eric King) Part 1

Summary: After working with Eric for almost seven months and hating him, you slowly realize you had feelings for him.

Words: 2.1K

Warnings or A/N: This story will contain NSFW and a cheating trope. (Not Rachel and Nick well them too)

Tags: @yellowroseskolchek @thefictionalgemini @house-of-kolchek

You couldn’t believe that some high and mighty asshole got you transferred to be his charge, you were perfectly happy with sitting behind a table doing intelligence, but no since you were so smart you were forced to go. You finished packing your things and sighed you heard a slight knock on the door. You turned around and saw your CO or former CO standing next to the door. “Last time we see each other, huh?”

He was why you enjoyed your job here. You mean it in no romantic or sexual way. He was a hell of an O.C. He was your closest friend and your favorite person. “I’m sure we’ll see each other again… hopefully,”

-Half a year later-

It's been nearly seven months since Lieutenant-Colonel Eric King took you under his command and it was miserable working for him. He's a selfish asshole who doesn't give a damn about anything but his stupid Caylus program. That’s why he got you transferred. He thought you could help with it, but you have to be honest, you have no idea what to help him with it, especially since he didn’t allow you to see all the data. "How am I supposed to help you when you won't let me look at all the data, Colonel?"

“You see what you need to see,”

“How do you know that? What if there is a teething problem that I can fix if I see the entire data you’ve collected?”

“There is no teething problem,”

“Then why the hell am I here then? You took me from a post I liked to come work for you with this stupid satellite that you don't even let me help you with,"

"Get rid of the attitude. I'm a superior and I'm going…

“You will what? Fire me? Get me discharged? Go fucking for it. I’d rather be discharged, then work for an egotistical jerkwad like yourself,”

Eric stood there staring at you in shock at the way you handled it. “Well? You want me to pack or what?

“No, but you’re dismissed for the rest of the day,”

You backed out of the room. “Gladly,”

You walked a few doors down and opened the door to the barracks. “I really can’t fucking stand him,” You said, plopping on your bed.

“What did Captain Goldie lucks do this time?”

You looked over at one of the ladies that you share the room with before you laid on your side on the bed to face her. “I think the better question is what hasn’t he done. He’s a fucking egotiscal jackass who wanted my help but won’t show me everything,”

"I know it can be frustrating, but at least he's hot,"

Eric was really attractive, but that attitude was unpleasant. “He is but that ego of his,”

“Say no more, The new recruits are something else though,”

You laughed. ”Yeah no kidding,”

Over the past few months, you have been watching the new recruits try to impress Eric with their computer knowledge and/or flirt with them, but Eric couldn't care less about him. “Yln,”

You looked the other way and saw one of the new recruits. “Yes?”

"Colonel Klein asks for you in the briefing room,"

“Did you say Klein?”

“I did ma’am,”

You jumped off the bed and practically ran to the briefing room. The minute you walked into the bedroom, you saw him sitting on the table. “Colonel Klein,”

“Yln. We need to talk,”

You rolled your eyes as you knew what this talk was gonna be about. You walked up to the chair that was next to where he was sitting. “He’s a jackass, okay,”

"You do not have to love him, but you must abide by him. He is your commanding officer,”

“Do I have too?”

"If you get fired, you won't be able to work for me again,"

“UGH fine. I promise to be on my best behavior. Only if you put me back where I belong,"

“I’ll try,”

-

You opened the door to Eric's office without looking at the file you were holding. "Colonel, I found something you should look into."

You looked up to him when you finished that phrase and you saw that Eric was taking care of him and you laughed. "Couldn't you have waited until everybody was asleep to do that?"

Eric rushes to cover himself up. “Well most people knock on my door before opening the door?”

"Right, but I'm not most people," you laughed. "Do you need assistance?"

Eric stared at you with an eyebrow raised. “What?”

"Let me help you with this,"

“Again. What? Why would you offer to help me?”

"You won't get the satisfaction you want with your right hand and maybe I'll help you and you'll stop being an asshole. So when I give this to you last, do you want me to help you?

Eric removed his hand from his cock, you threw the file on his desk and got on your knees and took his hard member into your hand and you grip the base of his dick as your tongue flicks against him. You slid your hand up and down the shaft, your mouth and fingers working in tandem. Your other hand reaches underneath to gently cradle his balls, stroking the underside of the sack. You quickly found an easy pace with your hands gripping his thighs, bobbing your head on his member but you still did try to annoy him but slowing down every few seconds. Eric grunted when you did that as he didn’t like that as he grabbed a fist full of hair in both hands and started shoving your head up and down his cock. You gagged on his dick a few times. You felt his dick twitch as he let out a thick groan and you swallowed all of it. You dropped his dick and wiped the mouth. “Satisfied?”

“Yes, thank you,” He said, putting himself back into his pants.

You nodded and picked up the file on his desk. “So what I was saying is that Caylus found something interesting?”

Eric got out of his seat and walked over to where you were standing. “Did it?”

You handed the file to Eric. “Take a look and you tell me,”

He flipped through the pages and studied them before looking at you. “This looks like?”

“The weapon locker? That’s what I thought too,”

“We need to move on this,”

"Wait, Colonel. With all due respect, we should maybe double-check that this is what we think before we go in, because it could be quite different."

“Yln, I’m the Colonel here. I say when we move and I say we move now,”

“Okay, still a dick,” You said walking out of his office.

Even though he was still acting like a dick, you didn’t regret it. Now, every time he gets excited, he's gonna think of you.

-

You were setting up Camp Slayer's computers two days after you showed that data to Eric. He wasn’t kidding when he said that you were moving now. It took no less than a day to get it all ready for Iraq. Camp Slayer was the base that was part of the Saddom chemical weapons operation. “Colonel King,”

A woman's voice pulled you from the computer and you saw who you were pretty sure was the "Queen Bitch" Jason, the first lieutenant, was also referring to. And Eric's wife, too. Something you didn't know before you sucked Eric. You were going to talk to Eric about that when you had the chance.

Eric turned round and stared at his wife. "Mrs. King

She did not react to what he said, which you found quite peculiar. “Eric, this is my team. If you wanna brief them, you clear it with me first,”

Eric shook his head and spoke with Rachel. “I should have warned you I was moving the briefing forward. That’s on me but things escalated, I had to move fast,”

“I have a duty to my team to stay ahead of the curve,”

“I understand, Rachel, but CENTCOM has give their orders,”

“Orders?”

“I’m now Commanding Officer. I didn’t mean for you to find out like this. Truly. I’m sorry, Rache,”

“Somehow I doubt that very much,”

Jason approached the happy couple and handed her the note that Eric gave him when you landed here. “This is from SOC Central. It confirms that Lieutenant Colonel King has assumed control of this operation,”

You spoke to Rachel in the spot you were standing in. “I’m gonna need access to your network,”

She turned and let her wraith out on you. “Who the hell are you?”

The corners of your lip have slightly turned upward to the sheer boldness that bitch has. You were on the verge of saying something, but Eric talked to her. “This is Yn Yln. I’ve given her full clearance,”

“I bet you have. I’ll patch you through,”

“”Thank you,”

Eric took his eyes off his wife and walked closer to you. “Yn, please prepare the presentation,”

Yoy nodded and started tapping away on the computer so you can pull up the presentation. “Yes, sir,”

“You found something?”

After a few minutes and finalizing everything, the presentation was ready and everyone was in the room. The other Marines that were about of the operation were in here as well. The one who was fucking gross was talking about of his ass. “Fuck is that? Modern art or something?”

“This is footage from the highly classified Caylus program,”

“That suppose to mean something to me?”

You rolled your eyes at the Colonel. “Colonel, the only two people that know about Caylus here are me and you. You might wanna explain what it is,”

Eric nodded at you as he came to that realization. “It’s a thermal satellite system that I personally pioneered,”

“Ohhh, well I’m impressed. Please, pioneer away,”

Eric wasn’t having any of Merwin jackassary. You didn’t agree with Eric on a lot of things but Merwin was pissing you off too. You beat Eric this time. “Is he always this fucking annyoing? Do you ever shut the fuck up? I don’t understand how no one has knocked you the fuck out,”

“What did you say to me?”

“You heard me,”

“Colonel, you either shut this bitch up or I will shut-”

Eric looked between you and then Merwin and he took a few steps closer to Merwin. “CORPORAL! I’m gonna stop you right there so you don’t finish a sentence that you are going to regret,”

“But Colonel,”

“Make one more threatening comment towards Yln and I will have you packing your bags and on your way back to the states, got it?”

Merwin side eyed you for a few seconds before shutting up.

. "‘You behave like this in all of your briefings Corporal?”

“Now back to what I was saying. Satellite sweeps of the warzone have undercovered what appears to be an undercover storage facility. This well, of course, requires further investigation but I strongly suspect it’s where Saddam’s chemical weapons are hidden,”

Merwin and Nick fisted bumped and Jason looked up to the ceiling. “We got you, you son of a bitch,”

Eric pointed at the screen. “CENTCOM has given the green light to raid the facility and seize any weapons on site. Hostiles may be over but there are holdout groups of Republican Guard all over the country. They could deploy the weapons at any time, so we need to move fast. As soon as they get here, the army is giving us a ride out there in their helos. On arrival Lt Kolchek will lead the way to the facility. Once it's secured, we’ll carry out a full weapons inspection. Now listen up. There’s been a change of leadership but Rachel’s operational ex[ertise and local knowledge is just as valuable as ever. She’ll be flying with us, and I want you all to show her the same respect. Any questions?”

Merwin was the first to ask. “The fuck we waiting for? I’m ready,”

Jason was the next one to say something. “That’s tribal territory out there, Colonel. Make no mistake, those people are feral. I take it we’re getting air support?”

Merwin answered him before anyone else did. “Nah, too many birds could bring them down on us. ‘We more fast-in, fast out,”

Joey spoke next. “That’s pretty much what your mama said to me,”

“Hey, careful boy! If I didn’t pull out so fast. I could’ve been your ‘papi’!”

Jason spoke up this time. “Merwin, that’s enough. Sir, what’s your call?”

Eric actually looked like he was thinking about what Jason had said. “I’ll put in a request for air-support to be on standby,”

“Our birds can fly low under the radar. The site is in the Zagros mountains so we’ll have plenty of ground cover,”

“We go dark until the weapons are secured. If we don’t break radio silence within 24 hours, CENTCOM will mount a rescue operation.

“A lot of shit came go down within 24 hours,”

“Ah, quit being a bitch,”

“I’m not being a bitch, I’m just saying,”

Eric was trying to keep his cool but you can tell that this unit is wearing on his last nerves. “This is why we went to war! This is what gets us out of bed every morning! Make no mistake, ladies and gentleman, this is how we stop Saddam from using these weapons. Be ready in an hour. Dismissed,”

Eric walked over to me and started to point at the equipment. “Oh, you already put it all up,”

“Yep. Do you want to check to make sure I put them in correctly? I mean I know how particular you are,”

Eric looked like he was on his last nerve.You looked around to make sure it was just you and Eric in the room before laying into him.“You have a wife?”

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[asrisgratitudejournal]

Beyonce

Waaaaaa ini lagi berusaha memulai minggu lagi, karena kemarin Senin bank holiday entah kenapa ada spring bank holiday, jadi di bulan Mei ini sudah ada 3x hari Senin libur btw….

Sabtu w ke mana ya… Oh ga kemana-mana seharian cuma kelas 16 pagi terus masak spaghetti kayanya lalu malemnya jam 8 nonton the little mermaid ke westgate. Ku harus cek sih sisa free movie tinggal berapa atau udah abis ya. Udah habis ternyata sodara-sodara. It’s ok I could just pay with member price for the upcoming Spiderman and Barbie *shrug*.

Si the little mermaid menurut gw bagus-bagus aja tapi apparently for some people it’s THAT BAD??? Tapi then again seperti yang ku-tweet opini-ku sangat biased karena ku growing up udah nonton the animation for more than 10x and I’M OBSESSED with Prince Eric anyway. Jadi makanya pas lihat live-actionnya sangat excited dan senang.

Terus hari Minggu dari pagi sudah amat sangat busy (yah a very common Sunday for Asri lah ya). Pagi kelas, terus beres kelas lagi ngabisin spaghetti sisa masak dinner malemnya dapet chat dari Diny minta ditemenin belanja groceries. Baiklah. Langsung mandi dan cabs ketemuan di Sbux Headington. Ku jam 1-nya janjian ngambil tiker dari Eliana di Exeter. Terus hari Kamis apa ya, diajak Abid untuk makan di Bu Yani di Abingdon jam 1. Jadi dijalani-lah itu semua. Sampai akhirnya baru pulang dari rumah Bu Yani jam 19 apa ya… Sebelum ke rumah, mampir rumah Diny dulu buat nganter nasi dan martabak dan lupis. Terus pulang. Ngapain ya sampe malam, lupa, kayanya tapi nonton youtube reactor2 to skz gitu.

Senin karena libur siangnya masak ayam masih ada menu HelloFresh satu. Malemnya harus ke London nonton Beyonce di Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Gate open jam 17 ceunah. Jadi ku menargetkan jam 17 udah sampai lokasi. Berangkat dari Oxford ngebis jam 15 ternyata jam 16.30pm sudah sampai London??? Which was not bad at all??? Sampe stadium GA NGANTRI AT ALL. Prosesnya sangat amat swift. Gate masuk securitynya ada banyak jadi gaperlu ngantri buat cek tas. Betul-betul jam 18pm ku sudah duduk manis di seat dengan satu botol cola zero seharga £3.75. Terus kan baru mulai jam 19.40pm-an ya si konsernya teh, jadi mayan gabut selama 1,5 jam. Masalahnya ku juga harus menghemat batere hp yang akan dipake buat nge-record dan penting untuk pulang karena tiket bis di situ juga semua. Terus ngeliat orang-orang makan chips jadi ikutan laper akhirnya memutuskan buat jajan chicken burger dan chips seharga £12.50 (WHICH is murah banget??? untuk harga di venue konser).

Jam 19.38(?)-an konsernya mulai. Detailnya liat di insta w aja ya @oktavioni ada di highlight lols. Atau kusaranin nonton sendiri sih soalnya WAH PRODUCTIONNYA 5 STARS OUT OF 5 STARS. Kemarin ku dapet kelas paling murah itu £145 tapi udah lumayan banget. Agak sayang kurang ke kanan dikit karena ga kelihatan stage tengah karena masuk ke dalem gitu dia modelan stagenya, tapi TETAP BAGUS dan senang.

Pulangnya rada PR karena w kurang smart bukannya ke terminal bis ujung di Victoria, w malah decide untuk catch the bus dari stop paling luar London yang bikin pas bisnya lewat udah full dia ga terima penumpang lagi. Tebakan w sih ya orang-orang ini dari konser Beyonce juga kayanya. Tapi Alhamdulillah tetap sudah sampai rumah jam 2am. Which is better daripada ngonser di ICE BSD/ PRJ Kemayoran kalau rumah u di Pasar Minggu btw. Ku pernah kayanya pulang dari WeTheFest sampai rumah setengah 3 pagi atau jam 3 gitu ya. Gara-gara ngantri parkir mobil dan susah banget cari taksi. Sungguh tidak recommended nonton konser di Jakarta tu, kecuali di GBK.

BEYONCE! Sangat bagus HUHU productionnya top class. Mang beda sih ye kalau udah debut 20 tahun. Pertama-tama, ni orang nyanyi SENDIRIAN selama 2.5 jam. Bukan ber-7 atau ber-8 tipikal K-Pop group…. Literally SENDIRIAN. Terus STYLIST-nya sih dah stres bagus banget semua baju dan aksesorisnya dan dancersnya. Lighting juga. Semua gimmick fireworks, pyro2an apalah, semua, sangat well-thought.

Terus ya tentu saja ku yang sudah terinspirasi as a little girl mendengarkan Lose My Breath-nya Beyonce/Destiny’s Child dari album kompilasi Big tahun 2004 dan Hot tahun 2005 (itu berarti ku umur 11-12 tahun aka SD – lupa dulu beli kaset paket duit sendiri atau dibeliin mama papa, tapi ku dulu punya walkman sony terus dengerin kaset ini di walkman ini), sangat senang bisa denger Beyonce live. Kayanya bisa bahasa inggris kebantu sama lagu-lagu doi juga. Dari sini juga ku menemukan cara paling mudah buat belajar bahasa baru buat diriku sendiri: RAP/rap-singing (sekarang contohnya di bahasa korea pun via stray kids). Ku bisa bahasa inggris sekarang salah satunya ya berkat ngapalin lagu-lagunya Beyonce (walaupun sangat 18+ tapi tahu apa saya dulu ya kan), maka dari itu kemarin bisa ngeliat doi nyanyi live senang banget.

Setelah 2000-an itu kayanya kembali stanning doi lagi pas di era album Beyonce tahun 2013. Itu pas lagi tingkat 2 habis osjur keluarnya Desember. Banyak dengerinnya tapi habis putus Februari 2014 LOL – bisa growing strong cepet move-on kebantu lagu-lagu doi juga sepertinya, that happiness doesn’t come from a man, you define your own happiness. Di intro song Pretty Hurts ada bagian “What is your aspiration in life? // Oh, well my aspiration in life would be // To be happy” Satu album ini bagus banget btw, truly no skip album. Kemarin yang muncul di konser dari album ini cuma 5 seconds partition kayanya…… mayan sad.

Terus next era LEMONADE 2016 WAH legendary sih ini. Keluar April 2016. Ini posisi lagi di Paris pas keluar. Di album ini nggak semuanya hitting tapi Sorry sama Formation betul-betul bisa on repeat dengerin seharian… Masih inget banget dengerin Lemonade ini sebelum ku tiba-tiba memasuki era EDM The Chainsmokers yang LP Collage. Sebelum ke Balikpapan.

Di sela-sela dengerin albumnya religiously tentu saja ada masa-masa ku awed over her stage production di both Superbowl 2013 dan 2016….. Queen indeed. Kayanya dari nontonin beliau juga ku mulai menyadari ku punya interest di stage/show dan music production… not only appreciating the performers tapi juga orang-orang di backstage. Yang Alhamdulillahnya interest ini sempat ter-manifestasi di KPA ITB… ya walaupun ga ngedesain stage décor atau ngatur lighting dsb, tapi at least jadi punya experience di technicality macem soundcheck tu ngapain, tau mixer buat apa juga, ngatur mixer gimana, kondensor taroh mana, masuk stage dari mana, MEGANG RUNDOWN dan bikin rundown, make-up dan styling, logistic mindahin angklung dan contrabass segitu banyak, duh pokoknya what an experience sih. Thank you lagi KPA ITB, I love you.

Terus yaudah setelah 2016 kan doi menghilang ya, muncul lagi di album Renaissance ini 2022 kemarin. Jujur sangat skip dan ga ngikutin lagi karena…. sibuk kpop-an…. Tapi ya begitu tahu doi mau konser di London siapa yang tidak excited kan ya. Ku berhasil mendengarkan dan belajar Renaissance in 2 weeks(?). Emang dia ganti style aja ngga ke RnB lagi tapi lebih ke disco(?)—celebration of her being black and supporting LGBTQ+ lah ya.

Iya, tapi senang banget sih. Dari nonton kemarin banyak banget refleksi dirinya. Harus banyak-banyak makasih ke Beyonce sih. Doi pahalanya banyak bener. Mungkin agak jauh nariknya, tapi ku bisa di sini di Oxford pun ya ada pengaruh doinya. Value Girlboss dan percaya bahwa we as woman were born to be queen and can do basically ANYTHING ya kebantu ketanemnya indirectly dari lagu-lagu dia juga. W kayanya kurang role model kaya gini versi Indo apa gimana ya, kita punya diva kaya Titi DJ dan Krisdayanti sih…. Tapi ya mereka kan nyanyinya lagu-lagu cinta ya, jadi di bayangan w ya jadi wanita tugasnya loving aja gitu… Kayanya emang modelan w yang impostor gini harus banyak-banyak dengerin lagu-lagu yang meninggikan self-esteem kaya Beyonce, Lizzo, dan Stray Kids deh. Baguslah. W udah di path yang benar sepertinya.

Ngebahas concert production dan my interest in show business, sebetulnya pengin banget kalau bisa re-birth (renaissance!) tetep jadi pinter, tapi bukan di batuan, melainkan di artistic production dengan artistic mind/hand. Ya sebetulnya dari sekarang pun belum telat sih… Rosulullah aja dapet wahyu/revelation baru di umur 40 tahun… jadi sebetulnya ku mau jadi apapun di lifetime ini masih bisa banget dan belum telat. Cuma ya… di bahasa Indonesia ada yang namanya “sayang”…. As in “yah sayang banget padahal… udah xxx lho masa yyy” replace xxx dengan “skolah tinggi-tinggi sampe s3 di oxford” dan yyy “belajar lagi ngerjain sesuatu baru dari 0”. Btw ku punya pertanyaan deh, konsep “sayang” di Bahasa Indonesia ini padanan bahasa inggrisnya apa ya…. Kayanya gaada gaksih…. Atau “wasteful”…?

Kalau boleh jujur, ku BENCI banget sama istilah “sayang” ini… bikin orang jadi ga mau take risk. Bikin seolah-olah apa yang udah kita lakukan itu jadi ga bermakna kalau ga dilanjutin, padahal ga gitu??? Pasti tetap ada value yang didapet??? Ku paham sih, konsep “sayang” ini datangnya dari kesulitan, mungkin karena kita grow up as people yang ga kaya-kaya banget aka miskin, jadi ya ada konsep “sayang” atau “eman” (bahasa jawa) ini. Bahasa lainnya mubazir kah? Sama gaksih mubazir sama sayang tu…? Jadi ya karena hidup orang dulu susah, kalau udah work hard to get something atau setengah jalan, jadi di-sayang-sayang. Tapi jujur ku udah banyak banget denger kisah orang-orang pengen nyoba abc tapi ya ga dijalani karena sayang udah terlanjur ngerjain d. NGACA NON, ngambil Geologi ITB apa bukan karena udah terlanjur belajar geologi dari kelas 10 SMA, tapi case aku mah beda karena ku emang suka juga geologi (pembelaan aka excuse).

Tapi iya, kayanya kalau ada opportunity sekarang tetap bantu-bantu aja acara PPI atau volunteering kl bs jadi stage manager supaya interestnya tetap tersalurkan. Nothing serious for now. Tapi nanti kalau ada kesempatan tentu saja sangat ingin menjadi art director…. Mari kita finger-crossed hoping the time will come.

OH IYA! Ku juga mau ngebacot juga tentang gimana konser Beyonce kemarin membuka lapangan pekerjaan bisa lebih dari 500 orang kali ya, termasuk steward, security, penjual burger, OB, dsb. Jadi ga kebayang pas covid kemarin orang susah banget hidupnya karena gaada kerjaan. Ku agak upset kemarin salah satu orang yang kufollow ngetweet “GA PAHAM kenapa orang mau bayar banyak uang buat nonton orang ngejalanin hobinya yaitu nyanyi” I’m ??? Yaudah tapi ga kulakukan action apapun sih, lebih kasian aja ni orang kayanya gapernah nonton konser kali ye. Atau get involved in some kinda show production. Dia gatau berapa orang yang harus digaji, itu duit larinya ke mana, gabisa appreciate art juga (lah jadi ngegas si Noni). Anyway, yaudah gitu aja, ku punya saran kepada teman-teman di sini, datanglah nonton konser yang banyak, pameran seni, nonton film ke bioskop, subscribe streaming music, beli subs disney+ atau netflix. We need that money rolling. We need that money getting distributed.

Dah gitu aja panjang ngebacotnya betulan 3 halaman HVS A4 ini draft lol.

Selamat LIBURAN gaksih di INDO??? Pokoknya selamat menjalani hari all!

Office di EarthSci Dept Oxford 31/05/2023 15:17pm OMO hari ini ulang tahun Mita!!! HBD MITA!!!!