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ampresandian · 1 month

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I know Rick is like master of creating and ignoring plot holes but like I had serious questions about the botl timeline so I sat down and tried to map it out:

Percy's orientation is on "Monday morning, the first week of June." This is the day he arrives at camp, and the day of Grover's hearing where the council gives him one more week to find Pan. This is probably also the longest day ever??? Percy goes to orientation, takes a taxi to camp, and then the council meeting, cabin inspection, the forges, canoeing, and sword practice all before dinner? I've worked at summer camp that's insane. That night, he gets his first IM about Nico.

Day 2, they have the conversation about the labyrinth, Percy goes to see Blackjack, and they have the war game where Percy and Annabeth find the labyrinth entrance.

Chiron sends them to get sleep. In the morning, they discuss the quest and Annabeth gets her prophecy. They agree to enter the labyrinth tomorrow. Percy gets his second Nico IM that night.

Day 4 they enter the labyrinth. This is at least 3 days into Grover's week already, depending on when the council chooses to start counting from.

At the ranch, Grover sees on TV that "It's June thirteenth. Seven days since we left camp." (This is ten days since the first day of the book, so it must have started on the third of June.) They then go to see Hephaestus and get sent to Mount St Helens, splitting up on the way but still traveling through the labyrinth (so while they feel like it's only a few hours, it's probably closer to a full day).

Percy blows up Mount St Helens and lands himself on Calypso's island, where he stays to recover until Hephaestus comes to visit. He then sails back to camp.

Walking into his funeral, Percy has been gone for "two weeks," which isn't necessarily an exact time but since that's what we're given we'll assume another 14 days, so my guess would be that it's around June 28th now?

They spend that day on camp, and leave for NYC in the morning (June 29th) to get Rachel, stopping to talk to Percy's mom on the way. They reenter the labyrinth, and enter Antaeus' gladiator arena, where they are briefly held up before escaping and making camp for the night.

In the morning, they make it to Deadalus's workshop, where they fight and escape into Colorado Springs. They reenter the labyrinth, stop by San Francisco to see Kronos take over Luke's body, and then go find Grover and Tyson to witness Pan's death in Carlsbad Caverns. They make it back to New York and Blackjack & co pick them up to take them back to camp. Immediately, the Battle of the Labyrinth occurs. Grover lets out the call of panic and Daedalus dies. That night, they hold the funeral for those lost in the battle.

The next day, the council meets to hear Grover's story. Briares leaves for the cyclopes forges, and Nico leaves camp too.

My best guess would be that time moves about twice as fast in the labyrinth, but there's a lot that goes on when they're back in with Rachel--I feel like between Deadalus's workshop and getting back to camp it should be at least a full day? So anyway my guess is that the actual Battle of the Labyrinth happens on like July 1st?

Which I guess fits with "July passed, with fireworks on the beach on the Fourth." But that's like two-three days later, so it seems very very fast to me that they would be prepared with celebratory fireworks? I don't know. But also (again, I've worked at a summer camp) sometimes camp is just like that, and chaos happens and you have to keep going and trying to keep it normal for the campers.

Anyway so technically it works but like it feels awkward to me.

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo spoilers #percy jackson spoilers #battle of the labyrinth #percy series #annabeth chase #tyson #grover underwood #nico di angelo #percy jackson timeline #rick riordan #&thoughts #summer camp

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quietlyimplode · 6 months

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the language of flowers and silent things

Whumptober 2023: Day 29 - What happened to me

Warnings: aftermath of failed mission, grief, drugging after affects

Word Count: 2.1k (gif not mine)

Summary: Pepper tried to keep moral alive. Natasha and Clint have a conversation about the wedding putting it jeopardy. Tony and Yelena have a bonding moment.

A/N: as promised - home stretch now. This is not reread at all so all mistake are my own, we are just going straight from brain to posting now. Almost there <3

Masterlist

Whumptober Masterlist

2014

NEW YORK

There’s nothing they can do.

The sceptre is gone and the tower is still broken.

Pepper feels the frustration and sadness coming from Tony as he stays in the workshop.

“It’s not you’re fault,” she tells him, and he shrugs her off.

He pushed for it.

He wanted revenge.

He hits the metal harder and ignores the world.

The hospital makes Natasha’s skin crawl.

She allows the doctor to check her once more, lies about her headache and dry throat, and nods at his instructions.

Despite everything, she wants to get back to the tower.

She’s worried about Tony, about Pepper being with Tony, and not having someone to help. She’s worried about Clint, even as he sits beside her.

They haven’t talked much, and she knows they both feel the hope of the wedding dwindle.

Pepper does what she does best and hires people to take care of everything.

Slowly, it comes together.

Two days before Christmas Eve, the tower is functional and decorated.

She looks proudly at it, and even though there’s still telltale signs of injury, the decorations make it cheerful and happy; for her anyway.

The bunny, the one that saved Tony, sits in prime position in the entrance, a large Christmas hat on its head, and it makes her smile every time she looks at it.

Tony indulges her.

He flies Christmas lights around at her request and finally she gets a smile out of him when he flies back and looks at his work.

“Pretty,” she says looking at him.

“Yeah,” he replies, pulling her close.

Steve sits by Sam’s bedside, the only avenger not to wake up straight away once given antivirals and straight oxygen.

San wakes, looking left and looks visibly relieved.

“What happened? What happened.. to me?”

They couldn’t determine the gas, likely a hallucinogenic substance from what Tony had synthesised.

“I don’t know,” Steve replies honestly, “but you’re going to be okay.”

He forgets sometimes; how new to this Sam is, how even with his experience in the Army, that the Avengers are different. Worse repercussions for seemingly easy things.

Sam nods, his eyes closing back.

“Thanks man,” he sighs, “for being here.”

Clint watches Natasha carefully.

The drugs had given him visions of her dying. Then nightmares once the antidote or antivirals had been given.

It’s a thought he can’t get rid of.

He hadn’t been brave enough to ask what she saw. She’ll tell him when she’s ready.

Being almost Christmas, he watches her more; especially as she asks Yelena to come back, to spend it with them, promising safety this time.

Clint calls Maria, asks what she’s doing for Christmas.

She promises to come, laughing down the phone telling him Pepper already invited him.

Seems they know, the only way through is together. To have people around and to follow failure with support and regrouping.

They can’t do anything now, otherwise Tony would have done it, found it and they’d be going after the sceptre.

They’re all not used to losing.

On a whim, he calls Gus, and asks him to come too.

To his surprise, Gus agrees.

He sends some details and then calls Pepper who assures him she’ll sort it out.

Clint feels bad imposing, but when he turns to Natasha and finds her staring, he feels that perhaps being around friends and family, may not be a bad thing.

Natasha sits up, the large one seater couch surrounded by thick blankets even though in the tower it isn’t warm or cold.

Clint walks through the door and nods, asking what she’s reading.

“Nothing special,” she replies, putting it down, and standing to kiss him.

“Are you okay?” He opens, wanting to know. Apart from seeing Tony, she hasn’t left the room.

“Yes,” she responds a little too quickly.

Sighing heavily, she shakes her head.

“I don’t want to sleep,” she admits.

He makes her sit back down and sits next to her.

“How’s your arm?”

Natasha’s glances at it, as if it didn’t even register a thought before he’d mentioned it.

The silence is enough to make him recant his words and talk to her about what was really on her mind.

“Why don’t you want to sleep?”

She traces the title page of her book and thinks.

“Hydra, Red Room, Shield, they’re all the same. Corporations all wanting power. All the same fear tactics and ways of controlling people. Hydra in Shield, Hydra in the Red Room, maybe even the Red Room in Hydra. Shield takes down the Red Room but not really, and where do we stand? In the middle playing games.”

She pauses.

“I’m just so tired of it all.”

He starts tracing shapes on her hand and just lets her talk.

“I had a plan,” she says quietly, “we’d get married, and we’d escape for a while. You know like Bilbo does? He puts the ring on and disappears. I thought we could go, not forever but for long enough to get bored.”

He smiles lightly.

“You didn’t tell me,” he replies, the pause obvious for him to respond.

“We need a break, I need a break. I didn’t think you’d mind. But as everything that’s happened in the last two weeks, it’s like…”

“It’s never going to happen,” he finishes.

She sniffs.

“I feel like, there’s so much in my life that has been at the whim of others, dictated by it, caused by it; but this— this lead up - when you asked me, I thought maybe, just maybe it meant that there could be one thing I was in control of, one part of my future that was not dictated by another.”

Natasha’s crying now, tears that sneak out, even though her voice holds steady.

“We can’t get married,” she says sadly.

“We can get away though,” he says hugging her closer.

“No we can’t,” she replies despondently, “there’s always going to be something. There’s always something.”

She looks up at him.

“You haven’t asked me what the hallucinations made me see,” she says, baiting him.

“What did you see, Nat?” he asks, almost not wanting to know the answer.

“Nothing,” she tells him.

“I’ve already lived through so many of my greatest fears; some induced, some produced. What happened to me… I know I can survive it all, even death. Sometimes though; I just want the world to go quiet, I just want to… rest.”

He can count the number of times she’s sounded like this, so fatalistic. Clint knows what follows and fear creeps into his soul.

He decides then and there that he’s going to make it happen.

No matter what.

Even if it’s not ideal, and what they’d planned.

Christmas Eve finds them all at the tower.

Pepper’s pushing and organising successful.

She makes Clint help put up the last of the decorations, asks about Natasha and Yelena and he thanks her for getting Gus there too.

She hands him a drink and he takes it gratefully.

“Did you know Sam had a sister too?” Clint asks.

Pepper shakes her head.

“Is that why he couldn’t stay?”

Clint nods, “he has nephews too.”

She smiles.

“I’ll have to send them something.”

They stare at the television for a while and he finally works the courage to ask.

“How hard would it be for us to get married here?” he asks.

“If we were to organise everything and make it happen, maybe tomorrow? Would it be at all possible?”

Pepper doesn’t say no immediately, which Clint takes to be a good thing.

“Tomorrow?”

She thinks.

“Tomorrow is Christmas.. we have that planned. What about the 27th? It’ll give me one more day to organise everything, flowers, a photographer maybe? We can do it here, everyone will be here already so that’s no issue,” she pauses thinking hard.

“Did Natasha want this too?”

Clint looks at the floor.

“She.. Uhhh, she doesn’t know,” he confesses.

If Pepper is surprised, she doesn’t show it.

“Okay, well you work that out and I’ll work about the rest,” she promises.

“It’s not a stupid idea?”

Clint was sure she would say it was too hard and too much; because already she had done so much. Already she had accepted them into their home, accommodated them, and now their family as well.

Pepper smiles.

“No Clint, I think the idea is perfect.”

If Clint cries in front of others, he would in front of Pepper. Instead he stands to face her.

“Can I give you a hug?” he asks.

Pepper closes the gap and hugs him first.

“What are friends for?”

Yelena explores the tower.

Her room close to Natasha’s as she finds the kitchen and the library and eventually finds a laboratory and a workshop.

The tower feels like it’s throwing up Christmas.

Yelena laughs at the ridiculousness of it.

She counts 47 trees before she stops counting, laughs at the stockings filled with candy canes, and decides that she loves the tiny touches of multicoloured lights adorning all the corners that light up like a runway where she walks.

Christmas holds no symbolism for her, no hope for presents or any wishes or whatever Santa is supposed to bring. She could come around to this though, spending a day with someone she wants too.

After Natasha had left for Berlin, she’d wandered the city, been a tourist in a city that was once terrifying for her.

All the stories the Red Room had told her about America were truth in lies. Capitalism hell; a truth; but the ability to buy anything within a commodity system.

They’d sold it as something terrible.

But Yelena had got pizza at 2am after a bad night, and the man selling it had smiled at her, and suddenly the world hadn’t seemed so bad.

If pizza and capitalism could do that, then who was she to judge it?

She watches Tony bang on a piece of metal and wanders into the workshop.

She’s silent in her movement and she doesn’t think he notices until he holds his hand out and asks her to hand him a phillips head screwdriver.

“How did you know I was here?” she asks curiously.

“I know everyone in my tower,” he responds, attaching another piece of metal.

“That’s impossible,” she tells him.

“Jarvis,” he says, “who’s in my tower?”

Yelena is startled to hear a male voice come through the walls.

“There are 9 people currently in the tower, would you like me to name them?”

Yelena smiles.

“Yes,” she answers for him.

“Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Gustav Santorini, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark and Yelena Belova,” Jarvis recites.

“Neat trick,” she says to Tony.

“Not a trick,” he mutters, still not looking for her.

“What are you doing?”

She walks closer to him, and finally he looks up.

“How is your arm?”

She looks at the seemingly sentient metal, as it magnetizes to create a protective shell every time Tony hits it and frowns.

“What’s that?”

“You’re Yelena,” Tony says redundantly.

“You’re Tony,” she retorts.

“Does Natasha know you’re here?”

“She’s knows I’m here in the general sense, but I don’t know if she knows I’m here, with you.”

Taking a candy cane, she opens it and bites down.

“What’s that?” she repeats.

Suspicion clouds Tony’s eyes and he frowns.

“Nothing.”

“It’s got to be something, and if I had to guess it looks like electromagnetic conductors that absorb impact and have the ability to reform,” she nods.

“Don’t you have anything better to do?” he asks.

“Nope,” Yelena responds, popping the P and hopping on the bench.

“Natasha is sleeping, Clint is helping Pepper, and I don’t know anyone else.”

Tony sighs.

“You don’t know me either.”

Yelena nods.

“I don’t know, but I know of you, Natasha has told me.”

Curiosity bites at him and he finally stops.

“What did she say?”

“She said you were kind,” Yelena replies sucking on the candy cane, “she also said you were bull headed but smart.”

Tony scoffs.

“I’m not just smart,” he retorts.

Yelena hops down.

“Are you just smart if all your friends are smart? Or does it make you just normal?”

Tony considers her words and turns his attention back to his project.

“Do you want to help me?”

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fushitism · 16 days

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the chemistry in my brain is altered in unspeakable ways whenever i think about Sans.

JUST WHO EXACTLY IS THIS GUY

its so easy, almost too easy, not to take him seriously and its exactly why his character can often be, well, i wouldn't say overlooked, this guy's pretty popular, but his traits tend to be.... diluted?? simplified??? for lack of better words..?

like yeah, he likes ketchup. yeah, he's laid-back n "lazy". yeah, he's a punny guy. yeah, he goes above n beyond for his brother's happiness... but what else?

do we even know much about papyrus? that guy's whole deal deserves a whole separate post!

CAN WE PLEEAAASE RECALL HOW THIS PIECE OF LORE WAS CASUALLY (in true toby fox fashion) SENT TO OUR EMAILS ?? NEVER TO BE ELABORATED UPON EVER AGAIN

why'd sans have to pull a sock incident on us at a time like this </3

PAPYRUS DID NOT MEAN IT SO LITERALLY AND YOU KNOW THAT, SANS, YOU JUST WANTED TO BE A LITTLE SHIT!!!!!!

their life before snowdin.. oh what i'd give to hear all about it...

this got me thinking, though.

we know sans likely has an affinity for quantum physics, temporal complexities and astronomy (though the latter is irrelevant to the point i'll be making)

he can teleport for God's sake why are we so unfazed by that

aaaanywho,

so like his Workshop. the one with the broken machine, yeah. look at what toby's once said abt it

why would they (who i assume r alphys + sans ?) try so hard to fix it? it's not like its the CORE (the machine said to be the source of all power 4 the undergound)

what's so important about this rusty, clanky pile of scrap metal?

....

haha lol, remember this?

remember this (x2)?

there's an abstract them here, and its clear he's not talking abt papyrus, frisk or even the player if we were to try n reach so hard.

could it be he is refereing to those in the picture with him?

if so, they must really mean a lot to him

so let's get this straight:

- we know the skelebros were NEW additions to snowdin

- we know they had an OLD life, the picture at the workshop further proving sans also had a social circle, one beyond frisk's recognition which totally strikes me as odd, given this child has been ambushed by almost all monsters at that point

- sans knows about timelines. sans messes with time and space. it's heavily hinted sans has worked in quantum physics (the book[s] found at his place) and he apparently also has some abandoned, broken machine in his workshop (one of which he's presumably tinkered with)

- as a lost soul (but also in geno), sans demonstrates his intense defeatism and resignation saying this like,

.... is sans trying to go back somewhere? do the skelebros come from a different world? a grassy place? r the residents of said place related to the picture in any way? does sans miss them? were they family? friends? lovers?! whoooooooo!1!!1 when!!! where!!!!! what is going on, toby!!!! PLEASEHWHWUE

[inhale]

but you know what, this is fine. pssssh, we don't need any of these answered, haha! no waaay! because while the UT fandom's in up in flames about such matters, toby's probably out there drawing yet another sans x reigen art piece to dish out when we least expect it (please let it be on my biryhday please let it be on my birthd)

#undertale #toby fox #sans undertale #undertale sans #papyrus #papyrus undertale #undertale papyrus #im going crazy

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hungrydogs-if · 10 months

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Happy Pride! Would the ROs celebrate Pride? If so then how?

ohh boy do they. some more than others, but they definitely celebrate. also, i'm a tad late but happy pride!!

dane and sam are the ones who attend every party, gathering, and parade.

sam is there because they're proud of who they are, and it feels like a safe space to be who they are outside of the gang. a place to blend in. they're a bit of a caretaker too, and is usually the one handing out water bottles, band-aids, and sunscreen since that is a must-have in san maro. can also be seen at art workshops as a volunteer.

dane is there to be the "loud" part of loud and proud. a bit infamous for fighting all the bigots who might get too close or too aggressive. he's still there with the gang affiliation since he refuses to wear a shirt (thus, the back tattoo) and paints his pride colors on his chest and arms. basically celebrates by rumbling with douchebags.

mona is a bit more subdued. sometimes she tags along to the parades, especially the bigger ones to keep an eye on things. she wears her colors as intricate jewelry, but she's more of a private pride person. she goes to smaller gatherings, like workshops and then donates whatever she's created to charity. also tends to fix vehicles for cheaper when someone donned in pride colors comes to her shop.

angel doesn't seem to celebrate, but they have their own way of doing it. even when swamped with work they take time to at least visit the parades, if only to witness what they could be working to protect instead of guarding the mounting pile of paperwork on their desk. working for the san maro pd has given them a bit of an insider perspective after all, and it's not all pretty. they also try to bring aurora to some functions, and the girl absolutely loves it.

and thirteen... ever wonder how suddenly there is a pride flag appearing in the most random of places? yeah, they go around the city and pepper it with flags. could be on top of a skyscraper, a random shop front, in the middle of the woods. blink and you'll miss it, but they also change the aesthetics of their bike to project rainbow leds, but since they're usually going a leisurely 90mph it's hard to catch.

#asks.#dane.#mona.#angel.#sam.#thirteen.#ro asks.#happy pride!#<3

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silverryu25 · 8 months

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Okay, hmmm, maybe Fairytales day 3 the emperor's new clothes with childhood friends to lovers? Might not be a real existing trope, but it's so cute!!!

I had some trouble with this one cause I actually forgot most of the story! Thank good for short animations on youtube UwU Hope you enjoy~

DAY 3 - Fairy tales: The Emperor’s New Clothes + childhood friends to lovers

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Sans was snipping away at nothing in front of him. Scissors flying back and fort gracefully as they cut through the resistless nothingness, dancing around in a magical display of skill.

Only a complete fool would think he was actually cutting nothing! Of course not! Sans was one of a pair of the craftsmen in the Fell kingdom, their work impossible to be seen or appreciated by the foolish or incompetent. While Sans cut away at the magical cloth, his partner was busy waiving the cloth for their most important victim customer, the King of Monsters Fellgore.

Sans and Red met young, barely old enough to totter around on their own, and quickly became friends, doing everything together. They punned and pranked, played tricks and spooks, and every other kind of mischief on the monsters around them since they could talk. Now they were here, doing what they were best at the highest level this kingdom had to offer.

Lost in thought as he contemplated how successful their newest endeavor seemed to be going, Sans didn't notice it had gotten quiet behind him. The clicks and clacks of the loom coming to a halt, filling the large room they were using as their workshop with silence.

Suddenly, a piece of the finest silks covered Sans' skull from behind, making him yelp and jump, causing him to drop the scissors. Before he could panic, a loud booming cackle filled the room, and all Sans could do was chuckle along.

Red got him again.

The edgier of the pair was leading in his pranks now, so Sans would need to put in some more effort to get him back. No matter, they had all the time in the world given the nature of their current venture.

Instead of shaking the silk off him and throwing it in Red's face, Sans quickly turned around and caught his partner in crime around his waist. This time it was Red who let out a surprised squeak as he grabbed Sans' arms to steady himself.

They stood like that for a few moments, only the thin fine silk between them, eyelights glowing bright enough to shine through the thin material. Their teeth were so close to touching, they could feel each other's breath, undeterred by the thin barrier.

Sans could see a soft red light start to dust Red's cheeks, but only for a moment, as a skeletal hand suddenly filled his vision.

"get off ya bonehead," Red stuttered growled as he pushed Sans' face back.

Sans only laughed at the rejection. It didn't matter.

He knew Red would soon be his, since the success of this venture carried an important promise with it. A promise Sans was working his bony ass off to achieve. And a promise Red was working just as hard on, no matter how much he pretended he wasn't doing anything to contribute.

The promise would finally tie Red to him as more than just childhood friends. And while he wanted that to already be reality, Sans was a patient monster, he could wait however long was needed to get his greatly coveted prize.

After all, mates were a forever thing.

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Did I hit the prompt? XD Not sure how clear the drabble is but the point is that Sans and Red made a bet they would tie the knot if they actually managed to trick Fellgore into wearing the "totally real and not non-existent clothes". Red is pretending he doesn't want that (the tsundere dork) but is actually actively helping with the scam. Once Fellgore earns his Fluffy buns title, the two skele dorks will have gone from friends to lovers UwU

#sin-cognito #SilverRyuWrites #SilverRyuDrabble #mywriting #drabble #undertale #sanscest #underfell #ut!sans #uf!sans #kustard #kustardweek #kustardweek2023

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A3! Main Story: Part 4 - Act 13: Budding Spring - Episode 5: Dawn of a New Era

momo has entered the chat momo: won’t having the fleur award be decided by voting be fun? it’ll be like a festival! Iv: want me to help w the voting? i can let my followers know momo: uhhh nope. the members won’t be happy with those kinds of votes and i’ll be happy if you just promoted their performances. thanks shiki: i’m sure it’ll be ok. mankai company can definitely get on the top of the rankings. momo: right right. everyone’s saying they’re going to vote, and that it’s time to show our power as a fandom. no sweat no sweat Iv: we’ll be rooting for you Kar: do your best momo: i will

Kazunari: Oh, there’s another announcement on En.com about the launch of a theater company.

Tsumugi: It’s like that on the bulletin board in Veludo Way too. Usually there’s only 1 or 2, but now there’s been about 10 of them.

Tasuku: There are also a lot of recruitment notices. And quite a few theater companies that were on hiatus announcing that they’re resuming activities.

Banri: I mean, with that large sum of reward money and no restrictions on entering, anyone would think of givin’ it another try.

Sakuya: Since it’s possible to vote during broadcasts, theater companies from other regions have a chance of winning too.

Sakyo: Even though the Board of Directors used to travel to regional areas, they were still limited to famous companies.

Taichi: There’s student groups announcin’ their participation, and celebrities and influencers startin’ up new companies.

Yuki: This kind of companies would receive a lot of SNS votes.

Citron: It’s like the Sengoku era’s rivalry of local craw craws!

Tsuzuru: That’s rivalry of local warlords.

Omi: As Yukio-san said at the conference, the world of theater is being revitalized.

Izumi: It feels like the New Fleur Award has truly begun.

Homare: To prevent the water from becoming muddy, the flow of change is needed. Although, if that flow is too strong it will become a disaster.

Muku: A disaster…!?

Kumon: What’ll we do if we get overturned…!?

Sakyo: Until now, we were trying to catch the attention of the directors with the limited resources given to us, but from now on we’ll need a different approach.

Azami: Guess we’ll need to think of some different method.

Itaru: Older companies such as GOD-za, Hyakka, and Yuzo-san’s company don’t seem to be making any particular moves tho.

Itaru: Seems like they all just asked for votes on social media.

Chikage: I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Guy: The votes during the pre-voting period do not affect the final election. Would it not be better to simply stay calm and watch our surroundings?

Azuma: Unless we carefully plan our strategy, we won’t be able to move when we have to.

Izumi: That’s true…

Kazunari: Director-chan, what’re we going to do about the workshop you were planning for the Spring Troupe?

Izumi: Ah, ahhh, oh yeah!

Sakyo: You can’t hold that in our current situation.

Yuki: How about holding it after the pre-voting’s over and things calm down?

Izumi: Good idea… Let’s put it on hold for now.

Kazunari: Okie~

Muku: 10 minutes left…

Juza: 10 minutes and 11 seconds to be exact.

Yuki: You’ve been acting like stone statues for a while now.

Misumi: Muku and Juza are both frozen stiff and won’t move~

Tsuzuru: It’s not like this will decide the winner. Let’s calm down, you two.

Banri: You say that, but you’ve gone and opened the fridge about 10 times now.

Izumi: Well, it’s nerve-wracking regardless.

Izumi: (They’re finally announcing the results of the pre-voting today… Honestly, even though it has no effect on the finals, it’s making me queasy.)

[Door opening]

Itaru: We’re home.

Chikage: We made it in time for the announcement.

Homare: We’ve all gathered here, one way or another.

Azuma: Something like this is best accepted as a group.

Tasuku: If the results are good, we can all celebrate together. If they’re not, we’ll know we’re not alone.

Citron: It is kinda like exam result announcements and so heart-chilling!

Kumon: It’s almost time… Ah~ I’m so nervous…!

Hisoka: … Ah.

Izumi: !?

Citron: Are the results out!?

Hisoka: I ate all the marshmallows…

Taichi: Don’t confuse us…!

Omi: Well, our popularity’s increased quite a bit, so there’s no need to be so worried, is there?

Tenma: We’ve even won the Fleur Special Award, and our ticket sales have been stable.

Taichi: Right! If we rank in the top 10, we’ll at least be nominated!

Sakuya: Even if we’re a little below 10th, we can improve our ranking over the course of the year!

Kazunari: Ah! The results of the pre-vote have been announced~!

Azami: The total number of entires hit 6333…

Kumon: This is too hard to follow from the bottom…!

Muku: But if we find ourselves too quickly, that’ll be another kind of shock…

Itaru: — Found us.

Sakuya: 70th…?

Taichi: Ehhh!? I thought we’d at least hit the 20s…!?

Izumi: No way…

Tsuzuru: It’s not some other troupe with the same name, is it…?

Chikage: Nope. For what it’s worth, I checked till first place, but this is the only MANKAI Company.

Itaru: We’re within 100, but…

Sakyo: When you consider that only the top 10 are nominated, this is low.

Sakuya: If this goes on, we won’t even be considered for nomination…?

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(1) citron's craw craw line has him mistake the 割拠 (kakkyo) in 群雄割拠 (rivalry of local warlords) with コケコッコー (kokekokko, cock-a-doodle-doo), i figured craw craw is close enough to warlords to both fit and be funny

#a3!#translation #a3! translation #sakuya sakuma #itaru chigasaki #izumi tachibana #+ more

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のせ様’s (No-se-sama) Documented Events (January 2023)

(Note: This was taken from “Eto-Bun” (えと文) section in January Kageki 2023. Eto-Bun is a section written by a particular sienne in each troupe to share some little stories about them or about their troupe every three months. In this cycle of January-March, Ichinose Kouki is the one writing for Flower Troupe. And I thought, why not drabble and translate a little to see what Hanako* has for us!) *Hanako is her nickname as mentioned in OTOME, a biography of all siennes in Takarazuka.

A little introduction to Ichinose Kouki for those who are unfamiliar with her.

Ichinose Kouki・一之瀬航季

Entered the Revue in 2014 as the 100th class. Her favourite roles include Oswald Vickers for "A Fairy Tale” newcomers’ performance. She was originally going to have a newcomers’ performance lead for “Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern” in 2020 but it was cancelled due to the pandemic. Nevertheless, she went on Yuzuka Rei’s “Lock-On” Episode as a guest to talk about what she learnt from Rei, being Rei’s first “shinko kid” since she became Top Star. Later on in 2022, she starred in the Bow Workshop “Junjou” (or Complete Devotion) alongside with Mihane Ai as her partner. She also previously joined Minami Maito in her CAST side-A and was one of the members of Flor5. She will be performing with Minami Maito in her “One and Only” dinner show, also the final performance for Minami Maito as a Flower Troupe member before transferring to Senka.

Hey everyone! Have you being doing well?

I am Ichinose Kouki who’s here on “Eto-Bun” for the first time! “のせ様’s Documented Events” will be the title of this time’s “Eto-Bun” corner. The parent for titling the name is my douki Honoka (Seino) ✨

Readers like you may think, “Eh!? Isn’t Ichinose’s nickname Hanako”...!

Actually, underclassmen do call me “のせ様”~. Hahaha. In Flower Troupe, we call (OG Marika Yume-san) as “Yume-sama”, (Kazumi-san) as “Shii-sama” and others by adding “-sama” to their nickname... how cool is that✨ I also want to live up cool like that! So when given this opportunity of writing for “Eto-Bun”, I have the strategy to induce the underclassmen to start calling me “のせ様” lol.

In these 3 months, I’ll be updating everyone a lot about the charms and updates of our Flower Troupe friends.

Please look forward ☘️

🌻 Intimidating “KAGEKI”

So now, now. Let’s commemorate this as my first entry!

As I start writing, I researched more about “Eto-Bun”... “Eto-Bun” has been a general corner in “Kageki” from the time of! Showa Year 43 (1968).

“What...half a century ago!?” I was surprised.

For reference, once again I opened up the “KAGEKI”s I have at my home again and when I opened the portrait photo, the thing I immediately saw was...

“Yuzuka-san is so cool! The best!”

“This angle is nice✨“

“Hey! My douki looks great too😍”

And it was so fun reading it that this time I didn’t quite want to turn the next page yet. There’s the roundtable discussion, backstage notes. Sometimes I realised there would be new corners and I familiarised myself in reading several of these (“KAGEKI”) books. And very quickly, time passed. Lol.

Has everyone had such experience before!?

I’d say this is why the charm of “KAGEKI” is intimidating.

🌻 Flower Troupe University・Starts School!

As we’re embracing the New Year in the Grand Theatre, now Flower Troupe’s in the middle of rehearsals, but actually from the start, we were arranged with quite an irregular rehearsal pattern.

To trace back the events, this happened in the next day after meeting day (*shuugobi; the day when rehearsals of performances start). As we entered the rehearsal classroom, it was like entering a school. In front of the large white board, there were long desks and long chairs aside each other. Sensei was in her seat and holding a mic, all was readily prepared...How would this start!? We thought as we stay seated. Then Koyanagi-sensei (*director of “Mayerling”) said this.

"Everyone, have you learned the way of speaking Japanese?😁”

For me, I had Japanese lessons, but was not taught specifically the way of speaking it. Then Koyanagi-sensei continued to say, “even for English, when you are admitted into the overseas drama schools, the first thing is to directly learn about the way of speaking for your mother tongue”.

Oh...! So on that day Koyanagi-sensei prepared for us Flower Troupe members a special “Acting Enhancement Lesson Club”✨! What kind of theatrical troupe is Takarazuka like? What does an actress do? She asked us many of these foundational questions...and then started picking siennes to answer🤣 lol. Then when it comes to the situational acting class, Aoki Tsukasa was given the role of a rock singer character and Hoshikaze had to play her fan and it was a lot of fun. From the Top-san to the most junior underclassmen we’re all given an opportunity to play this, so it was exciting from start to finish...!

When we Flower Troupe members were having these lessons, it really felt like a framed memory of our school life. In a day of these lessons, (we’d be asked) “What is Takarazuka? What is a musical? What is language/words?” and once again we learnt a lot through this process. It was really interesting knowing all of such things...!!

Koyanagi-sensei said, “Everything is about conveying the “language/words”. That’s why it shouldn’t get too convoluted, but it should be enunciated word by word,” and that’s how Flower Troupe University came to an end☘️

🌻 The healing god appears!

During a weekend in the rehearsal period...

Suddenly, the healing god appeared!!

That week was a challenging time for the underclassmen, having to rehearse for both the musical and the choreography for the show (*Enchantement). Our heads felt like being in a state of sea urchin (*maybe meaning full of spikes, frustrated and headaches...) As I returned home for the week, feeling accomplished like “I’ve done it!”, several people seemed to have discover something...

As I saw the car that passed by, isn’t that Yuzuka-san’s dog Noah! Noah-kun suddenly appeared before us...✨

“Ka...Ka...Kawaii———————♡” (Cute)

Yuzuka-san held Noah-kun’s little hand and stuck its hand out of the car window and started waving it✨ Together with Yuzuka-san’s beautiful hand, we saw Noah-kun’s small hand. What-What-What an angel! As Yuzuka-san and Noah-kun waved their hands, that sent the weariness of the underclassmen away. (Besides, Ichinose is always touched by the beauty of Noah’s fluffy fur and side profile. I want to tell you...more about how touching this is) Yuzuka-san, Noah-kun, thank you for making us healed with happiness♡

I have other Yuzuka-san’s episodes I want to share, but ah~! I’m running out of pages!! Please look forward to the next entry...! This time, I’ve shared fully about the appearance of Noah-kun😁✨

Once again... Everyone, thank you for reading this first entry of my “Eto-Bun” to the end. Since we’re at the start of 2023, I’m so honoured to share with everyone my stories☘️ There’s so much I want to record document about but here I’m up at my 2 pages. From the start of the year, it would be the Flower Troupe performance. I look forward to seeing everyone in the audience.

Everyone, please be happy in 2023!

With love! From “Hanako” “(Ichi)Nose-san”.

#ichinose kouki #flower troupe #takawiki #hibiscustranslation #yuzuka rei #aoki tsukasa #hoshikaze madoka #kazumi shou #marika yume #seino asuka #minami maito #hibiscus translates eto-bun

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Groff, meanwhile, has been a favorite of queer audiences since HBO’s “Looking,” which focused on the lives (and loves) of three gay men in San Francisco. His movie career has been flourishing, too, thanks to appearances in 2021’s “The Matrix Resurrections” and Disney’s animated juggernaut “Frozen,” in which he voiced Kristoff.

These days, he’s gearing up for a long-awaited return to the musical stage following his Tony-nominated roles in “Spring Awakening” and “Hamilton.” In September, he’ll appear alongside Daniel Radcliffe in the first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” which recently wrapped a sold-out off-Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop.

Interestingly, Groff will always associate “Knock at the Cabin” with his “Merrily We Roll Along” role, given that he began preparing for the musical while on the movie’s Pennsylvania set.

“I’d go down to the treadmill every morning at 5 a.m. before we shot, and I’d be listening to ‘Merrily.’ So they kind of feel intertwined, even though they seem so dissimilar,” he said. “But I don’t think of roles fitting in any type of canon. It’s just pulling an arrow and shooting it off, and going back for another one.”

#jonathan groff #ben aldridge #knock at the cabin #merrily we roll along

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Technique is useful, up until a certain point. Too much technique risks creating a box of perfection that turns asana practice into a check list of pass-or-fail tests. There was a point when I thought there was a “right” answer for how each asana “should” be. Now I feel like there are as many different versions of an asana as there are different people practicing. When students are given the space to explore and the guidance to listen to the intelligence of the body, asana turns more inward and subtle. More than defining what is right and wrong, teaching yoga feels more like fostering a safe space of introspection where transformation happens. Keep practicing 🙏 Last day teaching tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur @oscillationyoga _ Next workshops: Vietnam, Taiwan, Cincinnati, San Antonio. _ Practice with me online @omstarsofficial _ #yoga #malaysia #yogamalaysia #kualalumpur #yogakl #klyoga #yogi #kinoyoga #omstars #ashtanga #ashtangayoga #yogaworkshop #yogatravel #yogatravels 💕 (at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CppbPKavJyh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#yoga #malaysia #yogamalaysia #kualalumpur #yogakl #klyoga #yogi #kinoyoga #omstars #ashtanga #ashtangayoga #yogaworkshop #yogatravel #yogatravels

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sasster · 1 year

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🗣 i’d also like to request more aderae soleah content

And every time I will oblige. This one is short and sweet!

Send me a (🗣️) + two muses on my blog, and I’ll make them have a conversation whether they know each other or not!

[Google Docs, y'know for your eyes]

“And just where have you been?” The chastising voice that comes from behind is honestly music to Aderaes ears. Oh, but he would never admit that. It’d go straight to her head, how insufferable would she be with that compliment hanging in the air? No, he’s doing her a favor by omitting that bit of knowledge from each and every one of their interactions.

Instead, the purple blood continues on to his desk and sets his bag down at the seat as Soleah taps her foot impatiently behind him. Like a cavern matron reprimanding some very naughty grubs. He smiles to himself as he begins to slowly rummage through his bag and remove all of the supplies he’d need for the evening.

“Well?” She squeaks after what must feel like an eternity of torture to her, to her credit she is being much more patiently than she usually is when given the silent treatment by her professor. “Were you abducted by aliens?”

He laughs quietly at that, finally seating himself at his desk to face her. Soleah is all smiles, two cups of bubble tea in her hand.

“Not quite alien, but perhaps something equally as supernatural in nature.” He starts, humored, inviting her to take one of the seats in front of him by way of gesturing to them.

“How did you get here so quickly with goods in hand? I’ve been on campus, maybe ten minutes, tops.” Aderae questions as she eagerly enters his office.

She prefers the seat closer to the wall, so that she can sit in the seat sideways and press herself up against it. It’s good for her back, she once told him when he questioned her odd perching habits.

“I ran.” She says in a matter of fact manner, as she sets his tea on the desk and assumes her usual seat. “Obviously. So, where have you been?” “Home.” He says simply, reaching for his drink.

Soleah scrunches her face up and closes an eye to engage in what can only be described as the silliest staredown either of the two have ever been involved in.

They stay like that for a moment until she turns to fully press herself into the wall, her attention settling on the accolades that littered the one across from her. All awarded to one His Honorable Reliance, many of them in frames a couple hundred sweeps older than her. The man was a living, breathing, artifact himself, she always made sure to tell him as much when reminded of his age.

“I’ve got some whiteout in my bag, seriously.” She offers, taking a nearly too audible sip of her drink. “Say the word and it’s bye-bye Reliance! There are other, much better titles out there. How’s about…The Guy That Minds his Business?”

Another loud sip of her drink follows.

Aderae laughs a bit to himself, it is low and kind of rumbles out of him lazily.

“Too many words, what typeface will they use?” “Comic sans!”

He pauses to take a sip, he knows well enough that words need not be exchanged. She can feel his eyes burning into her as he fixes her with a disappointed look.

“We’ll workshop it.” She nods.

“Mhm.”

“Sooo, what supernatural experience plagued you so, Double P?” “Daywalkers broke into my hive and stole all of my left socks.” He reports with a face of stone. A beacon of honesty, just as his title suggests. “Can’t work without a matching pair of socks.” “Come on Double P!” Soleah whines, fighting the smile his tale brought to her face. “Can’t you trust me?”

He pauses to consider this. Soleah talks a lot, yes. But never about the things that she shouldn’t talk about. But, on the other hand, this specific set of circumstances might be beyond her scope. Daywalkers stealing socks certainly sounds more realistic than my late kismesis was brought back to life by his mates dead descendant.

Hell, Aderae is living it and it’s a bit of a struggle for him to believe.

But, on yet a third hand, Soleah would be really annoying about it if he doesn’t cough it up.

“It stays in this office, Soleah.” “My lips are sealed.” She beams.

“Very well,” he sighs. “Someone close to me has been returned from the grave.”

It feels so silly to say out loud.

She turns to stare at him fully, mouth agape. It only takes a second for it to morph into a teeth-baring grin.

“Was it Orfuse? When do I get to meet him?”

#long post #coko writes sometimes #soleah #aderae #mlems #jazztrolls #askter #i wrote this during my break and no i didn't proof read it and no i will not #i like them so much your honor

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MODEL MISSION 016

SCHEDULE TYPE: TRIMESTER ( PART 1 OUT OF 1 ) SCHEDULE RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be paired with another trimester schedule, unless stated otherwise. for reference as to whether your muse is eligible for this event, please click over HERE.

all of the models are called to a meeting with their managers, NAM JINHO, CHOI INYOUNG, and KANG DONGHA. not wanting to waste any time, the managers begin going through everything that will be happening in the new term.

DORMS

“in the past terms, we’ve allowed everyone who has joined legacy agency the option to stay in dorms or find their own place. however, due to the incident that happened a while back and how our bosses have been telling us to be ever so more watchful towards all of you, we’ve changed our rules. similar to last term, every person who joins the subsidiary will stay in the dorms for one term. if you have been under probation before, then that will last two terms — one for the term where you were under probation and another to follow every new person that joins us.” INYOUNG pauses to look at JINHO, who then continues on with the explanation.

“for the ones that have gone through one term in this path without any warnings, punishments, or scandals during that time, they will be given the option to live offsite. those of you confirmed to stay will be able to move into your new dorms starting from today. otherwise, for those of you who have chosen to stay in your own place, you will need to pack up and leave your current dorms starting from today as well. and just like AECHA has said in the past, just because you aren’t under our watch 24/7 anymore does not mean that you can go crazy. if we hear of any inappropriate behavior, you will be immediately brought back to the dorms.” JINHO looks at each one of the models, making sure that they know and are aware of the new dorm changes.

SNS

INYOUNG transitions to the next topic on their agenda, “for all of the individuals who joined the modeling path, it’s a necessity for them to have sns presence especially with the projects and opportunities presented to you. but this is a privilege we only give to so many people. so for some of the lucky individuals, you are permitted to have a PUBLIC INDIVIDUAL INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT. if you fail to abide by the rules or cause trouble, you account will immediately be terminated, no questions asked.”

DEBUT CONTRACT

“now we’re almost done with the basics, but there’s one legal matter that we have to cover right now.” INYOUNG turns to look at DONGHA, who is giving the contracts to some of the models. “please read and review through the new terms and conditions. once you are done, sign and return the contract to me or JINHO as soon as possible. it doesn’t have to be done right now, but the sooner the better because your modeling career will be starting soon and we want to make sure this is done in a seamless manner.”

( this is just an ic note, there is no need to submit this ooc )

FANSITE ( OPEN EVENT 6 ) & BIRTHDAY ( OPEN EVENT 7 )

for the ones that have joined the path, they will be eligible to participate in OPEN EVENTS 6 and 7.

MANAGERS UPDATE

based on the Q4 schedules, DONGHA, who used to be SANGHYUN’s manager, will be temporarily JINSEO and JINYOUNG’s manager especially for overseas activities. JINHO will be focusing on taking care of the remaining MALE MODELS ( sans SANGHYUN ) and INYOUNG will be assigned to the FEMALE MODELS.

MODELING WORKSHOPS

“after reviewing through everyone’s performance the last few months, we’ve felt that the models have been lacking in a way.” INYOUNG admits out loud. there’s a subtle hint of disappointment in her voice, but she continues on to talk. “for the majority of you, we will be offering additional modeling workshops to help remedy this.”

all of the models except JISOO, JINSEO, and SANGHYUN, will be attending the supplemental modeling workshops throughout the months of OCTOBER and NOVEMBER. during these workshops, they will be taught the fundamentals of modeling for runway and editorial along with understanding the basics of creative direction ( ex. being given the task to be a creative director for a mock pictorial and thinking of the concept, outfits, etc ).

in relation to this, any muses who have been in the modeling path from OCTOBER 2022 ( Q4 2022 ) to JANUARY 2023 ( Q1 2023 ), will be eligible to have a model brand in the next term if they gain AT LEAST 40 MODELING POINTS from now until DECEMBER 30, 2023 11:59PM EST AND complete this term’s career mission requirements. they can gain those points from completing this mission, activity check points, future events, etc.

MODEL BRANDS UPDATE

JINHO will tell the current model brand owners that there is a certain company that will like to work with FABULA so they’ve been given the advice to inquire and ask the model brand owners any tips and suggestions they may have regarding a project that they’re working on. while there’s no writing requirements behind this on the model brand owners end, it’s a chance for the models to interact with FABULA.

other than that, the model brand owners will be given a bit of a break during this term so they can take this time to brainstorm possible ideas for future collections.

SECRET SANTA

JINHO announces the next assignment on their schedules, “we know that christmas is in a couple of weeks, but to encourage all of you to get to know each other, we decided that we’ll be having a secret santa this year. in the next few weeks, each of you will be having a meeting with one of us and you will be told who you must prepare a special gift for. make sure that it’s something that the receiver will like, so make sure that they feel special, okay?”

for this, the muses ( as the giver ) will be taking their time getting to know the other person ( the receiver ) secretly and planning out a gift that they would like to give them. the gift would have to be worth around 33,000 won. they will all be exchanging gifts during the end of the year festivities and more details of this will be revealed in the YEAR END CEREMONIES post.

as seen below, the first name ( the name on the left ) listed is the GIVER while the second name ( the name on the right ) is the RECEIVER.

AYUTTHAYA MAYA → KIM JINSEO

HAN JISOO → HAN SEUNGHYUN

HAN SEUNGHYUN → ZHENG AMELIA

HOU MINGHAO → AYUTTHAYA MAYA

KIM JINSEO → HAN JISOO

KIM JINYOUNG → LIM SANGHYUN

LIM SANGHYUN → PAK JIHAN

PAK JIHAN → KIM JINYOUNG

ZHENG AMELIA → HOU MINGHAO

PROJECT ??? & TEMPORARY DORM ARRANGEMENTS

near the end of the meeting, JINHO will inform the models that during the week of DECEMBER 4, they will be skipping out on any individuals they may have for a special schedule. all of the models and actors will be residing in the lgc agency dorms during that week so that it’s easier to accompany all of them to their schedule. aside from that, no additional details are revealed as to what it is except that for one of the days, they are expected to wake up at 3AM in the morning.

during this time, the dorm arrangements are as follows:

APARTMENT 301

ROOM A: HAN JISOO, KIM JINHYUK, YOO HAEMIN

ROOM B: CHO MINKYU, LIM SANGHYUN, SEONG BYUNGHO

ROOM C: KIM JINYOUNG, MOON JINO

ROOM D: MANAGER KIM DONGSUN, MANAGER NAM JINHO

APARTMENT 302

ROOM A: KIM JINSEO, LEE HYUNSOO, ZHENG LEO

ROOM B: HAN SEUNGHYUN, HOU MINGHAO, YOON MINJAE

ROOM C: MANAGER KANG DONGHA

apartments 301 and 302 are next to each other and unlike the typical lgc agency dorm layout, it’s arranged differently to accommodate all of the actors and models in the subsidiary.

APARTMENT 201

ROOM A: BAEK SEONA, ZHENG AMELIA

ROOM B: SOMSRI SOFIA, YANG AERI

ROOM C: SHIN JIEUN, XUE YIRAN

ROOM D: MANAGER SEO HEEJUNG, SHIM JOOHEE

APARTMENT 202

ROOM A: AHN YEIN, AYUTTHAYA MAYA ROOM B: PAK JIHAN, LEE HANBYUL

ROOM C: MANAGER CHOI INYOUNG

ROOM D: MANAGER BYUN MIDO, MANAGER CHOI INYOUNG

apartments 201 and 202 are next to each other and unlike the typical lgc agency dorm layout, it’s arranged differently to accommodate all of the actors and models in the subsidiary.

WRITING REQUIREMENTS

MODELING WORKSHOPS: write a 4 replies ( 2 posts per mun; 8 lines minimum ) with another MODEL about anything related to the workshops for +8 MODELING ! ** only applies to everyone EXCEPT jisoo, jinseo, and sanghyun **

SECRET SANTA: write a 4 replies ( 2 posts per mun; 8 lines minimum ) with your partner ( who can be either the receiver or giver ) as they try to get to know each other and brainstorm a present idea for them for +8 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE ! do remember that the receiver isn’t supposed to know that the giver has picked them as the person they are giving the gift to.

SECRET SANTA PRESENT: write a 250+ word solo of your muse explaining the gift that they plan to give to the receiver. this will be done in a form of a vlog, where they will be filming at the comfort of their room and/or practice room and showing off what the gift is before wrapping. the video will be released at a later time and publicly, so it’s expected for everyone to be on their best behavior. completing this will reward you +5 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE !

please use the hashtag lgc:modelmission for everything related to above. once you are done, please submit the following form ONCE on the points blog. you have until JANUARY 6, 2024 11:59PM EST to complete the writing requirements.

MUSE NAME ∙ MODELING MISSION 016 - MODELING WORKSHOPS: +8 modeling [ LINK ] ** only for everyone except jisoo, jinseo, and sanghyun ** – SECRET SANTA: +8 ( skill points distribution )[ LINK ] – SECRET SANTA PRESENT: +5 ( skill points distribution ) [ LINK ]

#lgc:event #lgc:q42023 #lgc:modelmission

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Ngaio’s sister, the fishmonger

This is Aihe (pronounced AH-Nee), Ngaio’s sister . I figured I’d bring her along as well so she wouldn’t be alone, but now she has Rainey, so…

BUT - she’s a fishmonger. And given the look of San Sequoia, how nice would it be for her to run her own stand at a farmer’s market?

Hopefully one day she’ll meet someone too. (I’m trying really hard to let everyone meet organically, so who knows what will happen?🖤)

✏️ Note: I tried this tattoo on her first, but unfortunately it was broken in game.

Also:

Between the big update and the mess that will follow, it’ll give me time and mentally prepare for the next chapters on deck.

However, WEIRD & WONDERFUL will go on as planned, as well as a continued look into ✏️ SPINSTER’S WORKSHOP!

May the odds be ever in our favor these next couple of weeks 🤞🏾

Previous / Next / Beginning

#shesthespinstersimmer #storyteller #sims 4 story #spinster’s workshop #writing & character building #Desination: San Sequoia

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hmantegazzi · 7 months

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hi! i think you meant well but also i don’t think it’s realistic that the renovated warehouses are anywhere near as accessible to homeless people as you’ve suggested. any housing of the homeless project is the EXCEPTION 9.9/10 times the renovated places are not accessible and exclusively marketed towards people of higher class. it is a fact that real estate developers have the interest of the market, not the general people in mind

also,, housing projects are almost always government funded while re developed d warehouses and the like are renovated by private companies who are only for profit. I think you also made quite a few assumptions in your line of thinking as well .

Sure enough, the exercise was to make *different* assumptions, while keeping them realistic, to show that there are more than two possible alternatives: market-oriented development that ends in gentrification and a fragile status quo.

Given that we aren't talking about a concrete case, I cannot say for sure what would be the most credible way to campaign for some sort of social housing, and just mentioned alternatives that I know have been tried successfully in cities around the world, but I guess that showcasing at least one of those concrete cases could drive the point more clearly.

This photo is super fun because it showcases how weird this whole housing project is, so I wanted to put it even before showing what it's about. The guy in the middle with the big carboard key is Felipe Ward, a far-right Chilean politician that was Minister of Housing and Urbanism in 2020, and most of the people surrounding him are members of a radical left-libertarian homeless activist movement called Ukamau, who were receiving their newly built apartments in a warehouse district in Santiago, a housing complex that they don't only fought for but literally helped to design, and the right-wing government had no other option than to follow through, finance and built it.

The place on which the project was built was a corner of the San Eugenio railyard, the main maintenance workshop for the trains serving the city, which was already under heavy stress because of dual plans to expand commuter rail operations from the neighbouring station (I should write about that some day!), and to sell to private businesses and redevelop parts of the lot that were in disuse, to help finance the aforementioned expansion. Their bet was to ride the wave of gentrification caused by the construction of the Line 6 of the Metro across the southern side of the railyard (which ultimately was displaced about half a kilometre more to the south, to a more populated avenue).

The Ukamau movement, formed in 2011 on the basis of many organisations that went back as far as 1987 anti-dictatorship fighters, and comprised of 'pobladores' (people that occupied empty plots of land and built precarious sheds there) and 'allegados' (people that live precariously in spare rooms of neighbours or family), decided to make their bet on the railyard plot, under the premise of building there a project that actually satisfied the needs of their inhabitants without requiring them to migrate to the periphery of the city, which is where most social building development was happening at the time. The proposal was soundly rejected on the basis that the space was required for the trains, but they insisted, for years, facing continuous acts of repression by the police every time they protested the decision.

Meanwhile, in the same neighbourhood surrounding the Central Station of the city, huge apartment towers with terrible building standards started to be constructed, abusing a legal loop, so that some towers are comprised of cruelly tiny apartments of 21 sq metres and have no access to sunlight at all:

The contrast between this monstrous prison-like buildings that were being sold as an "investment" for prospective landlords and the proposal of Ukamau made the latter more palatable every time the first protagonised the news because of the inherent clash with their environment, and lately, because of the living conditions of their residents.

One of the key ingredients of their success is that Ukamau didn't just demanded housing, but presented a concrete project to be built, something that was aided by their early collaboration with the architect Fernando Castillo Velasco (I really have to write about him as well!), one of the biggest figures of the modernist movement in the country and lately famous for his "communities", little collective housing projects designed and built for his students and friends. Even if Castillo died in 2013, just a few meetings after their initial encounter, his son Cristián, also architect and a former member of the Revolutionary Left Movement that fought the dictatorship on its earliest days in clandestinity, took the post under the same premise: letting the future residents have the last word on the design of their residences and their environment.

Aided by the government change in 2014, Ukamau and their architects managed to convince the Ministry of obtaining the plot from the State Railway Company (EFE), granting their members funding of the order of 38,000 USD (of the time) per family, and letting the movement act as the main contractor of the building process to control the assigned times, let their members work in some of the stages of the construction, and reinvest the profits into the provision of community amenities and the fabrication of furniture. This, of course, meant as well that EFE had to absorb the extra costs of not counting with the space in their railyard anymore (which is being a little of an issue right now).

Their project was presented in 2016, comprises 424 apartments, and looked like this:

Even then, the construction process wasn't without their complications: in one episode in 2019, the company tasked with the main edification works tried to delay their deadline talking directly with the Ministry (now in hands of the right-wing government elected in 2017), and instead of getting themselves trapped in a legal battle, the members of Ukamau went and occupied the central offices of the Ministry to demand the full compilance with the original terms.

Eventually, in october of 2020, just days after the first anniversary of the Estallido Social protests, the Maestranza Ukamau Neighbourhood was finally received by their residents, and it looks like this (you might notice that the colour palette is obviously their favourite):

But maybe the most important result of this project was that it proved that such a thing was possible to do. It didn't require lengthy legislative discussions or the full attention of a government, just a very clever strategy, tons of decision and insistence by an organised movement, and a bit of help from people in the know. So successful was this model that, by the end of 2021, twenty housing projects modelled after this one were already being presented for financing and construction.

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Why “Transgender” Will Never Go Away, And Neither Will “Trans-Attraction”

A very deep, eternal and enduring force drives the increasing number of children coming out as trans. It has nothing to do with “grooming”. It has nothing to do with “indoctrination”. The real reason surprises most people because few understand it.

Transgender people have always been, and they will forever be. That’s because they, and everything else, come from a single Source. That Source has good reasons for the increasing number of transgender children coming into the world.

So the questions we should be asking are: What is this Source and why is it sending so many transgender children into world right now?”

Answering these questions will do something else. It will make judging the phenomena as “right” or “wrong”, “moral” or “immoral” superfluous. Until we answer these questions, transgenderism will confound those unwilling to understand the origin.

So let’s see where we can turn to answering these questions.

The origin of “trans”

Over the last 30 years I pursued such questions, though not specifically about transgenderism. Instead I focused on my trans-attraction. Discoveries I made are startling. But they’re also extremely empowering. Everything told to me by experts who have guided my pursuit has proven accurate. I document my journey in my other blog. My client’s experiences mirror my own documented discoveries. So I know my experiences are real. These experiences form the basis of my understanding of where “transgender” comes from and why.

The reason “transgender” is, is because transgender people represent the furthest forward expression of humanity. It is an expression of spiritual consciousness; a consciousness wanting to go beyond what has come before. So transgenderism represents spiritual consciousness going beyond past expressions of humanity.

While some transgender people want to be seen and appreciated as “women”, being transgender is not a homogeneous experience. Many want to fit in with “women”, but non-binary transgender people exist too. As do people presenting all kinds of combinations of gender expression, yet still calling themselves “trans”.

Evidence backing my claims, again, comes from personal exploration. Much of it defies description. That’s because language can’t adequately express experiences I’ve had. Evidence also comes from my mentors. Beings who have long given up corporeal existence. They once were human, but have now moved beyond that.

^^“Trans” is a spiritual experience. (Photo by Kyle on Unsplash)

The Source of my knowledge

My mentors are Abraham and Seth. Both describe themselves as “energy personality essences” who speak from “nonphysical”. Nonphysical is the “place” from which all physical phenomena emerges, including humans.

Seth and Abraham are teachers. They enjoy expanded consciousness through which they help beings like me expand my awareness. But only when we’re ready. Until then, what they share is largely unknown. Which explains why few know about them. And why even fewer believe or practice what they say.

YYears ago I asked Abraham directly my trans attraction. I did so at a public workshop they held. They offered an explanation almost identical to what Seth said in their writings.

On stage at their San Diego event, I asked Abraham: “why am I attracted to transgender women?” Abraham’s answer was, to paraphrase: Because you’re here to express a new vantage point for consciousness, one that’s never been expressed before.

Seth expressed similar sentiment, but from a more general perspective in their writings.

The leading edge

Seth when active was extremely prolific in creating content. They went to great lengths to explain, in minute detail, how reality works. In discussing the basic reality behind all physical phenomena, they had a lot to say. Here are relevant quotes hinting at transgenderism’s origins:

“Basic reality cannot know itself without creating diversity. The diversity is the various forms that reality takes, the various systems within which it expresses itself through projecting itself into infinite individualized experience.”

Further, Seth explains that each human possesses an “inner self” then adds:

“Each inner self is a portion of the basic inner reality. It cannot know itself, however, except through experience, and it must create in order to experience. The experience constantly deepens the value fulfillment of basic reality itself. [So] There is no alternative between diversity and nothingness.”

Basic inner reality then has no choice but to create. It must continually do so. Humanity is a product of this inner reality creating itself to know itself. Diversity of creation, taken in total, allows this inner reality a fuller picture of itself.

Seth says this basic inner reality can never fully know itself. Therefore it forever keeps creating to know itself. But in doing so, it creates more of it self that it seeks to know. So diversity of expression then, Seth is saying, is automatic, essential and ever-becoming more.

^^Basic inner reality is constantly creating more of itself.

The joy of transgender born of basic inner reality

Seth continues:

“That which is, is constantly aware of its growing, surging existence, through the diversity of experience which it creates constantly and simultaneously. You are part of that which is, you are that which is. It is impossible for any part of that which is not to be individualized. Every part of that which is, is alive, and knows itself.”

So it makes no sense for “that which is” to keep creating the same thing over and over. It must, instead, create anew. But it does so with current creation as its foundation. When it does create, that which is created appears to flow from what is.

Biological male and female exist. But those distinctions are superficial in the extreme. They only exist to further procreation, the process by which basic inner reality introduces itself as individualized existence into its creation. Beyond that, gender is meaningless.

That explains why a person can come into the world as “male” but feel they are “female”. The energy that makes the person IS female, or better said, expressing as feminine. It comes into the world in a new, unique perspective. A perspective presenting as “male” physically, but also aware of a dominantly energetic-essence feminine aspect, offers “that which is” a new, unique perspective. One divergent from male/female.

Each expression of “that which is” is individualized. That means each person’s experience is new unto the Universe. So even though many transgender people exist, each individual transgender person is a UNIQUELY, NEW experience for “that which is”.

And so, the reason more transgender people are showing up among young people is two-fold. The first reason is because now is a perfect time for such beings to enjoy the experience. The other reason is because of the focus being leveled on the experience itself.

All That Is loves this, even if you don't

I’ve said before, whatever we focus on gets bigger. Right now, a LOT of people are focused on the trans phenomena, including transgender people themselves. All that focus then is drawing more individualized expressions of “that which is” to the experience.

In other words, the more people push against and revel in transgender expression, the more of it will show up. Until “that which is” fully expresses all it wants to in that permutation of expression. What’s wonderful about “that which is” is, it never can fully express itself. So we can count on “transgender” being here, at high levels, for some time.

As every expression has a corresponding response, “transgender” has a corresponding experience which “that which is” is also enjoying. It’s called “trans-attraction”. In other words, as it expresses itself as trans, “that which is” wants to experience that expression from as many “angles” as possible. This explains why parents are having trans children. It’s why siblings are having trans brothers and sisters. It’s why Christians and Republicans are facing the experience too, from their unique angle.

This also explains “trans-attraction.” Trans-attraction wouldn’t exist without transgender people existing. Trans-attraction is “that which is” experiencing “transgender” from a brand new perspective. One called “romance” or “attraction”.

And this explains why many trans-attracted men are so bewildered by their experience. Most focus exclusively on their “human” experience. They mostly ignore their spiritual experience. Another word for “spiritual” is “basic inner reality”.

But the spiritual experience is always there. And it strongly influences the human one. That’s why trans-attracted people find resisting their attraction challenging. It’s also why transgender people must transition. Their Broader Perspective, that spiritual Source of all they are, craves this experience. It craves the “transgender” experience. It craves the trans-attraction experience. Both cravings are undeniable.

Trans-attraction and transgender are both here to stay

That’s why I say trans-attraction is normal and wholesome. It is a full-on expression of All That Is as it seeks to know itself. And that’s why when trans-attraction is expressed and consummated, we trans-attracted men feel so freaking good. The same is true when transgender people transition and feel the relief in doing so.

If more transgender women understood what I’ve written here, they could enjoy attention such men give them. Some could give up loathing themselves. They could help the men express themselves better. And they could help such men be more comfortable with themselves.

In the process, they can find more joy AND the love they yearn for. For “transgender” and “trans-attraction” are reflections of each other. They are both an expression of All That Is knowing itself. And when that knowing is expressed, great joy results for everyone invovled. Just ask any transgender woman in a long-term relationship with a trans-attracted/transamorous man. Like this couple:

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^^Yes, trans-attracted men and transgender women can find happiness

As long as transgender women push against such attention, however, transgender women do exactly what conservatives are doing: they just draw from All That Is more trans-attracted men. Just as conservatives are responsible for attracting into the world more transgender kids. It’s a wonderful formula through which All That Is becomes more, and in the process expands its awareness of itself.

“Transgender” as an expression of the basic inner reality is here to stay. All That Is revels in it. It will never go away. And neither will trans-attraction.

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