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And WHO exactly is Sam Smith?
Opinions will no doubt be divided when it comes to answering that particular question, I'm sure, and not all favourable either. From my iconoclastic viewpoint, as ever, I would say he, yes, HE has mastered the ability to infinitely crawl up his own backside and out again more successfully than anything Houdini could have achieved as an escapologist.
Why? Because Sam Smith in reality is nothing more than an illusion. A manufactured figure who would be an absolute nothing if it wasn't for the spotlight of television and a pawn in that particular game that sucks up to HIS own vanity. You see, years ago in order to become a 'celebrity' you'd have had to work your way up from the bottom of the ladder, touring the clubs night after night, building your following, and then getting noticed if you were lucky enough and proved your talent. Even though that still didn't guarantee any promise of real success to superstar level.
If you've never heard of a rock band called 'Dumpy's Rusty Nuts' then count this as your introduction to them. Not that I'm in any way an expert fan or anything, I'm simply aware of their existence and the fact they've been around a very long time and are hugely, and I mean hugely successful. They've built their fanbase from sheer hard work, trudging up and down motorways to venue after venue, night after night, and relentlessly pursuing their passion for playing to audiences that range from hundreds into stadium numbers supporting much bigger artists, and can quite rightly qualify for the title 'legendary'.
Sam Smith, on the other hand, is nothing more than a manufactured puppet of an industry that views him as a mere product of its own making, and to be honest, I feel sorry for HIM as much as I do for those who have bought into HIS brand of egotistical bullshit. Like so many acts before HIM, he's become a creation who serves a purpose until such time as HIS bubble bursts and the next potential to extensively hype turns up. Like the majority before him though, he's so far up HIS own rear end with ego that he believes HE is something HE isn't, and somehow God's gift to a music industry that quite frankly couldn't give a damn as long as they're making money out of HIM while it lasts, and so, consequently the entire entertainment industry will mollycoddle him, blow constant smoke up HIS backside by sycophantly telling HIM how wonderful HE is because they know HE'LL buy into their grovelling, doff capping, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir, have whatever you want that makes you happy, further ego-inflating bullshit as everything about him screams ME, ME, look at ME, and how wonderful 'I' believe 'I' AM!
Just how people don't see through this bullshit amazes me. Have we really, honestly, and actually turned into a nation of such sheeple that we've come to the stage where we simply and readily buy into such bullshit with eyes wide closed?
How is it that we are so, so easily led as to not think that everyone in the background of this Sam Smith phenomenon isn't in it for what they can get out of it? The manager who takes a cut, the agent, the record label, the publicist, the costume designer, the make-up artist, the accountant, the tour manager, the personal assistant etc, etc - and all rubbing their hands from the smell of potential lucre as long as HE remains flavour of the month.
Now, I'm not against anyone earning an honest living, and neither am I suggesting there is anything dishonest within the Sam Smith circle of business interests, I simply find this entire sycophantic industry that relies on having to manufacture talent in order to sustain itself quite false and putrifying, and yes, while I concede to the fact that Dumpy's Rusty Nuts will also have their outgoings in terms of fees to management and an agent, and probably others along the way of their career they are more celebrity than Sam Smith can ever hope to be without the ego and publicity machine that has hyped HIM to faux-stardom, and in some circles at least, will live to achieve more in their forty plus year career than HE can ever hope for.
#john langley bristol writer#john langley author#john langley blog#john langley bristol#sam smith#Dumpy's Rusty Nuts#capitol#songs#tumblr#google#john langley death's door diaries bristol#death door diaries
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Muse & Blog Update:
While being on this weird hiatus I've been doing a lot of blog and muse work. There is a brand new muse page that is still a work in progress. But right now all are listed, and sorted by primary, secondary, test/new, and private. A few hurt me to say goodbye to, but unfortunately it was time.
I have a new URL and new theme/color scheme, and am hopefully going to work on some new promo stuff.
I've also overhauled my open starter tag. I will relink it as soon as it's finished, but right now I'm deleting ones from muses I've removed, will be reposting some oldies but (what i think are) goodies, and planning out new ones that I will be queuing up for the coming days. As always, they will be permanently open once released.
I have done a very large follower purge. Removed some long inactive accounts and some people that i've just never interacted with. Hoping putting some new content out there will help my will to write return more, and maybe find some new friends.
Lastly, I hope support continues to return my emails over this silly thing that @wynterlanding and I can no longer see each other on our dashboards. It had become increasingly discouraging that this is the only person it's happening to and considering how much we interact there should be no reason for it.
Thank you for sticking with me this long. This blog is going on 3 1/2 years old and I'm just so happy that I have and continue to make friends on this god forsaken hell site.
Removing:
Lyra Carlisle (Nicola Peltz)
Shiloh Montgomery (Abigail Cowen)
Sutton Moore (Milly Alcock)
Remi Moore (Emma d'Arcy)
Aylin Zorlu (Hande Ercel)
Tobias Langley (John Krasinski)
Charles Monroe- (Robert Downey Jr.)
Adding:
(don't come for me. I like my bby's to have siblings lol)
Willow Arlington - Natalia Dyer- Bartender
Ethan Arlington- Tom Holland- Physical Therapist
Fern Odair- Zendaya- Psychic Medium/ Baker (Works for my muse Josephine)
Cassian Odair - Mason Gooding - Hockey Player
FC Change:
Daphne Holt: Olivia Cooke ---> Haley Lu Richardson
#valhalla thoughts#about the blog#muse update#blog update#visage:willow#willow starter#willow interaction#muse:willow#willow ship#visage:ethan#ethan starter#ethan interaction#ethan ship#muse:ethan#visage:fern#fern starter#fern interaction#muse:fern#fern ship#visage:cassian#cassian interaction#cassian starter#cassian ship#muse:cassian
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pinned about post for the mobile girlies
hello my name is parker. 23, white, tme, not cis or het. i have many interests and reblog a lot of things about them, particularly video games, horror movies, and toxic women. i also enjoy the color pink.
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i understand i am very blunt and i dislike beating around the bush so my wording may come off a little harsh. that’s the autism. thank you for your time.
kinlist under readmore:
utena tenjou ♡ revolutionary girl utena
long john silver ♡ black sails
hardgore alice ♡ magical girl raising project
hod ♡ lobotomy corporation/library of ruina
kim dokja ♡ omniscient reader’s viewpoint
asuka langley-soryu ♡ neon genesis evangelion
vriska serket ♡ homestuck
kurapika ♡ hunter x hunter
angela ♡ lobotomy corporation/library of ruina
mahiru tsuyuzaki ♡ revue starlight
sayo ♡ umineko: when they cry
henchman 21 ♡ the venture bros
jinx ♡ arcane
utsushikome of fusai ♡ the flower that bloomed nowhere
maria ushiromiya ♡ umineko: when they cry
lottie ♡ yellowjackets
claire gorski ♡ what happens next
roxie hart ♡ chicago
kabru ♡ dungeon meshi
kipperlily copperkettle ♡ fantasy high
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𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐬 — 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐
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THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
An Multi-Muse RP Account written by Herald
MUSE LIST:
The X-Files:
The Lone Gunmen - Richard "Ringo" Langley, Melvin Frohike, and John Fitzgerald Byers. Fringe group of government watch dogs and hackers who run the self published magazine The Lone Gunman (previously known as The Magic Bullet Newsletter). Mostly written as a group but can be written as singular characters.
A.D. Skinner - FBI Assistant Directer Walter Sergei Skinner. Serves above agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Has worked with them on many occasions to help in their investigations (but primarily impede due to bureaucracy).
CSM AKA Cigarette Smoking Man - [REDACTED]
Twin Peaks:
Special Agent Dale Cooper - FBI Agent assigned to the mysterious murder of Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
Permanent Starter Call
Alan Wake:
Alan Wake - Titular writer and Champion of Light. Author of the best selling crime-thriller series Alex Casey. Last known location was that of Bright Falls. He is survived by his wife, Alice Wake.
Permanent Starter Call
The X-Men:
Erik "Magneto" Lehnsherr - A German born Jew given the gift of mutation on a warpath of revenge. He wants to see the world rid of humanity, and replaced with a new race: Homo Superior. Canon divergent, all threads will default to a Modern AU.
Permanent Starter Call
ABOUT:
This is a sideblog and will be following from @mostunwantedfbi
This blog is +18 plus. Please only people of that age respectfully follow.
My primary blog is Mulder so activity here will be slow.
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THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
An Multi-Muse RP Account written by Herald
MUSE LIST:
The X-Files:
The Lone Gunmen - Richard "Ringo" Langley, Melvin Frohike, and John Fitzgerald Byers. Fringe group of government watch dogs and hackers who run the self published magazine The Lone Gunman (previously known as The Magic Bullet Newsletter). Mostly written as a group but can be written as singular characters.
A.D. Skinner - FBI Assistant Directer Walter Sergei Skinner. Serves above agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Has worked with them on many occasions to help in their investigations (but primarily impede due to bureaucracy).
CSM AKA Cigarette Smoking Man - [REDACTED]
Mr. X - A rogue informant working with agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Twin Peaks:
Special Agent Dale Cooper - FBI Agent assigned to the mysterious murder of Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
Alan Wake:
Alan Wake - Titular writer and Champion of Light. Author of the best selling crime-thriller series Alex Casey. Last known location was that of Bright Falls. He is survived by his wife, Alice Wake.
RULES:
This is a sideblog and will be following from @spookyagentfmulder
This blog is +18 plus. Please only people of that age respectfully follow.
My primary blog is Mulder so activity here will be slow to scarce.
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Hi there!
First of all, I'd like to say that I enjoy your blog a lot and, mostly because of you, I'm now interested in learning more about the Yorks (especially Edward IV and Richard III) and the War of Roses. Do you have books and documentaries recommendations?
Hello anon! That is wonderful! I can't believe I made you interested in them. Well, there are a lot of resources for the Wars of the Roses content. The main problem is finding what is reliable as even academic work often carries a huge bias and misinformation (ahem, Michael Jones). Whatever recommendations I make are unfortunately not completely accurate and feed into myths and ideas but combining the resources, we can get a better idea of what might be the truth. But I would highly recommend you steer clear from anything written by Alison Weir or Dan Jones.
Books:
Edward IV by Charles Ross
Edward IV: A Sourcebook by Keith Dockray
Richard III, the Maligned King by Annette Carson
The Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward
The Richard III society has a reading list with some very good works but also some questionable ones: https://www.richardiii.ca/reading-list/
John Ashdown-Hill's The Mythology of Richard III and The Private Life of Edward IV are also good ones (although there is a lot of conclusions made on little evidence).
The King's Grave by Phillipa Langley and Michael Jones is a good piece into the popular history behind Richard rather than scholarly and covers his discovery and bones as well.
Richard III: England's Most Controversial King by Chris Skidmore (Possibly one of the least biased works about Richard).
Let me know if you would like some fiction recs as well!
Documentaries:
I would honestly recommend watch anything you can find on Youtube. I have linked some here but anything you find, watch it. There are some podcast episode dedicated to Edward and Richard that you should check out. Obviously these mediums are less informative than books but they are good for learning about the subject. You could also a free trial on History Hit and watch their Medieval Kings series.
I LOVE the People's Profile Channel on Youtube. They are well researched and balanced.
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Dan Jones' Britain's Bloody Crown is on YT as well (but again take what he says with a pinch of salt and imo it's not very well made).
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Some podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/richard-iii/id1564113746?i=1000537294510
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/32-edward-iv/id389246402?i=1000095458089
https://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/wars-of-the-roses-podcasts/
Hope this helped!!
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+mydecember+ Twilight ver. 13
( 10:50 PM )
Math-class doodle of Rukura (Raphael), airbrushed. Came out nicely. ^.^
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John's suggestion for a feel-good song that Mr. Rozario (school principal) should play over the PA system in the morning? Children of the Damned by Iron Maiden.... how I agree! ^____^
We're sick, sick people. Can you tell we're related??
song of the moment: "Genocide" by the Offspring. I really gotta get some of the Offspring cds... I want Smash, Americana, and Conspiracy of One.... *sulks*
( 9:57 PM )
Ribby-chan... s'all being taken care of. Mike and Matt be lookin' after me closely, and if Dan does anything else, he's in for some serious trouble. *heh* Mike or Matt my soulmate? Dooood, Mike's a pal, and Matt's like my older brother (he's actually my most recent ex-boyfriend in a way). Thanks for the concern, tho! And don't worry... I beat Dan up nice. If I have my way, he'll be singing soprano come next week.
*heehee* I think I've FOUND my soulmate, anyhoo. *pointed look at someone who's screen name rhymes with punkin' pie* *heartheart* ^__^
( 9:49 PM )
*runs around screaming fangirlishly* YUMMY! YUMMY! I GOT A CUTE, SCAAAAAAARY DOOD FOR THIS TEST!!!
Ideal anime guy test...
# 1 Zagato from Magic Knight Rayearth
# 2 Ashitare from Fushigi Yuugi
# 3 Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi
# 4 Hotohori from Fushigi Yuugi
# 5 Kiryuu Touga from Shoujo Kakumei Utena
# 6 Taikoubou from Senkaiden Houshin Engi
# 7 Hayama Akito from Kodomo no Omocha
# 8 Kyoichi Saionji from Shoujo Kakumei Utena
# 9 Morisato Keichi from Ah! My Goddess
# 10 Nakago from Fushigi Yuugi
# 11 Ohtori Akio from Shoujo Kakumei Utena
# 12 Ryohji Kaji from Neon Genesis Evangelion
# 13 Eagle Vision from Magic Knight Rayearth
# 14 Gabriev Gourry from The Slayers
# 15 Ikari Gendo from Neon Genesis Evangelion
# 16 Nagoya Chiaki from Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
# 17 Chiriko from Fushigi Yuugi
# 18 Li Shaolan from Cardcaptor Sakura
# 19 Tsukishiro Yukito / Yue from Cardcaptor Sakura
# 20 Eriol Hiigarizawa / Clow from Cardcaptor Sakura
# 21 Ikari Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion
# 22 Kinomoto Touya from Cardcaptor Sakura
# 23 Shiirou Kamui from X (X/1999)
# 24 Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi
# 25 Monou Fuuma from X (X/1999)
( 9:46 PM )
Ideal anime girl test... how'd they know that I adore Skuld, Ami-chan, and Misato? o.O
# 1 Skuld (Oh my Goddess)
# 2 Amy (Sailormoon)
# 3 Misato (Eva)
# 4 Belldandy (Oh my Goddess)
# 5 Kari (Digimon)
# 6 Rei (Eva)
# 7 Lita (Sailormoon)
# 8 Mina (Sailormoon)
# 9 Fuu (MK Rayearth)
# 10 Serena (Sailormoon)
# 11 Hikaru (MK Rayearth)
# 12 Sora (Digimon)
# 13 Bulma (Dragon Ball)
# 14 Mimi (Digimon)
# 15 Misty (Pokemon)
# 16 Rei (Sailormoon)
# 17 Umi (MK Rayearth)
# 18 Videl (Dragon Ball)
# 19 Asuka (Eva)
# 20 Urd (Oh my Goddess)
( 9:44 PM )
Slayers kyara test... now THESE results are good.
# 1 Gaav the Demon Dragon King
# 2 Beastmaster Zelas
# 3 Luna Inverse
# 4 Valgaav (Vally-girl! ^_^)
# 5 Xelloss Metallium
# 6 Zelgadiss Greywords
# 7 Gourry Gabriev
# 8 Lina Inverse
# 9 Rezo the Red Priest
# 10 Filia Ul Copt
# 11 Martina Whatever-Her-Last-Name-Is
# 12 Amelia Wil Tesra Seyruun
# 13 Naga (Wil Tesra Seyruun? I think so)
# 14 Kopii Rezo
# 15 Prince Phil
( 9:41 PM )
Sailor Moon test results... scary. O_O
# 1 Nehelenia
# 2 Setsuna/Sailor Pluto
# 3 Artemis
# 4 Galaxia
# 5 Haruka/Sailor Uranus
# 6 Taiki/Sailor Star Maker
# 7 Hotaru/Sailor Saturn
# 8 Michiru/Sailor Neptune
# 9 Minako/Sailor Venus
# 10 Rei/Sailor Mars
# 11 Yaten/Sailor Star Healer
# 12 Luna
# 13 Makoto/Sailor Jupiter
# 14 Princess Kakyuu
# 15 Ami/Sailor Mercury
# 16 Chibiusa/Sailor Chibi Moon
# 17 Seiya/Sailor Star Fighter
# 18 Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen
# 19 Usagi/Sailor Moon
# 20 Chibi-Chibi/Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon
( 9:39 PM )
Pokemon test...
# 1 Satoshi/Ash
# 2 Shigeru/Gary
# 3 Nyarth/Meowth
# 4 Kasumi/Misty
# 5 Pikachu
# 6 Takeshi/Brock
# 7 Kojiro/James
# 8 Musashi/Jessie
I'm Ash and Gary... isn't that damn close to weird?
( 9:37 PM )
*laughing again* CHECK IT OUT!!
CCS Kyara test results:
# 1 Kero-chan
# 2 Syaoran Li
# 3 Touya Kinomoto
# 4 Tomoyo Daidouji
# 5 Eriol Hiiragizawa
# 6 Sakura Kinomoto
# 7 Yukito Tsukishiro
I'm Kero-chan!
( 9:35 PM )
EEEEEEH!!! O_O; For the X/1999 test...
I'm Satsuki! O_o
# 1 Yatouji Satsuki - dragon of earth
# 2 Kuzuki Kakyou - dragon of earth
# 3 Sumeragi Subaru - dragon of heaven
# 4 Monou Fuuma - dragon of earth
# 5 Nataku - dragon of earth
# 6 Shirou Kamui - dragon of heaven
# 7 Kishuu Arashi - dragon of heaven
# 8 Shiyuu Kusanagi - dragon of earth
# 9 Kigai Yuuto - dragon of earth
# 10 Sakurazuka Seishirou - dragon of earth
# 11 Aoki Seiichirou - dragon of heaven
# 12 Arisugawa Sorata - dragon of heaven
# 13 Kasumi Karen - dragon of heaven
# 14 Nekoi Yuzuriha - dragon of heaven
( 9:32 PM )
*laughing like a total idiot* CHECK THIS OUT! HOW FUNNY!!! I find that the results for my taking the Eva kyara personality test are very well done!
# 1 Asuka Langley Sohryu
# 2 Gendou Ikari
# 3 Ryouji Kaji
# 4 Misato Katsuragi
# 5 Touji Suzuhara
# 6 Kaworu Nagisa
# 7 Kouzou Fuyutsuki
# 8 Ritsuko Akagi
# 9 Aoba Shigeru
# 10 Makoto Hyuuga
# 11 Shinji Ikari
# 12 Maya Ibuki
# 13 Hikari Horaki
# 14 Rei Ayanami
# 15 Pen-Pen
( 5:56 PM )
Speller!!! You owe me Mickey ears, and I want Lance's underwear!! AND FEEL MY WRATH!! *wraths Speller* MWAHAHAHAHA! JOYCE IS DEAD! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
( 7:36 AM )
Morning Blog!
Nah-nah-nah! Riot Ink business caaaards! *heehee*
I'm okay, really.
I am headachey!!! As Amy would say... my head is doing the achey brakey dance of PAIN. So, I imagine I will get nothing done in class. Ms. Fotinos is gonna kill me for skipping anyway... *sighs*
Querida! I shall continue my efforts to make dad buckle!!
Meagen-san.... really, I know what you mean. Technically, I can draw, but I kinda lack depth in my art (from what I can see). There are very few pictures that turn out with the emotion or realism I want them to come out with..... and funny enough, that kyara that I tend to make look how I want is good ol' Lucas.
Lucas: What can I say? I'm perfect. *mutters* Yeah, right...
And yes, you're getting fanart. Now if only I can manage to scan it....
Meg's Art Corner!
Raphael-chan, or as I refer to him in RPs, Lian's Rukura. This is a fine example of what I draw in math class on scrap paper. And querida? It's not THAT good. ^##^;;;;
That's all from me!
Over an' out!
( 10:48 PM )
Of course my idea is good, querida! I'm so smart after all! *tosses away IQ test scores that say only 142*
Lucas with blue hair.... streaked with green!!!!!! Yeeaaah, baby!
( 3:23 PM )
Warning, incoming rant!
STUPID! GODDAMN FLIPPIN' STUPID!! What a GOOD way to get yourself killed! Doing f*cking drugs! STUPID STUPID!!! Goddamn it! I mean, pot, okay that's bad. Bad and STUPID. But 'shrooms?!! HOT DAMN IS THAT STUPID!! And not only that, getting yourself into a situation where you get thrown out of your mom's house?! F*cking stupid! *fumes*
(note: never mind, needed to vent.... friend issues)
( 2:00 PM )
At home and skipping civics class.... *whistles and rocks back on her heels* 9.9
You know what's scary? It's scary when a dood whom you eat lunch with even jokes about wanting to rape you. That's scary. Even scarier is when he pins you against the wall and you have to fight him off, and when he comes back, your best (guy) friends beat the living sh*t out of him. Not quite sure what to make of this.... big super duper hugs and thank yous to Mike and Matt, my new bodyguards. Dan, touch me again, and they'll kill you for sure. I'll see to it. *sweet smile*
( 7:32 AM )
Morning blog!
Querida: Yep, the Mark plot is similar to our dj idea... except a bit more profound. *heh* And seriously, tho, a good plot would be something to the effect of Mark goes baaaad-niichan and tries to end the world, and you gots to stop him. There's a plot. Hooray for plots!
Cam's efforts on trying to get Mark to put some sort of value on his own body should start working someday. I mean, HOW many times has Cam explained it? Not to mention, Mark has a nice idea of how Cam thinks now that he's been inside his mind.
Mark-niichan's a slut.... but I love him anyway!
Cam: *pounds the living daylights out of Meg for calling Mark such a thing*
*heeheehee* Animal comparisons! *heehee* I gotta try that!
Rukura = gecko
Poya = otter
Yuken = viper
Lucifer = duck
Michael = horse
Zachariah = pot-bellied pig (personality wise)
Gabriel = peacock
Kanson = crocodile (someone patch in a call to australia, let's get the Crocodile Hunter in here, please... *crosses fingers*)
Meagen-san: I'm working on a fanart for you of SailorM. I shall prolly CG it tonight or tomorrow, okie?
School blows! I don't wanna go to school! WAH!
over and out.
( 6:35 PM )
For fun, and just to annoy him... Rukura's stats!
Name: Raphael Harrison
Nickname: Rukura
Age: 17
Date of Birth: February 28th
Hair: purple
Eyes: green
Height: 6'4
Occupation: student
Descent: Angel
Family: human family includes Jacob [father, deceased] and Mary-Anne [mother, deceased]. Original family includes Kanson [father], Europa [mother, deceased], and Uriel {Yuken} [half-brother]
Friends: Lucifer, Pandora {Poya}, Michael, Zachariah
Current Residence: Atlanta, Georgia
Likes: music, reading, daydreaming, being anti-social
Dislikes: homework, unwanted attention, medication, and fighting
Skills: singing, getting weirdly good grades
Setbacks: has a rather serious heart condition, which despite medication and various attempts, is damn near impossible to treat, suicidal, and generally miserable
Notes: reincarnation of the Messiah. Human mother died in childbirth, human father committed suicide a few months later. Is considered a "problem child", as he usually gets into fights at school. Been shifted around to foster homes all his life, never staying in one particular home longer than 1 1/2 years. Most recent foster family died in a car crash, leaving him the only living "relative" to claim his foster father's fortune. Lives alone.
( 6:24 PM )
Chris-kun: Dood, a meant the person playing as being Mark... ^__^;;
Meg-chan's on net restrictions, lalalalala... she's gonna get in trouble if she gets caught on the internet, lalalalala... she's rewriting stats for LotM, lalalalala.... she's TOO attached to Raphael-chan, lalala--
Rukura: *belts Meg in the head* Don't call me that!
Meg: It's your legal name, isn't it? I like it better 'an Rukura...
Dan wants me to hit him. In the eeeeeew kinda way. Do I really come across as that much of a dom? @_@
( 7:16 AM )
Morning blog!
This is bound to be a short enrty, as mom is home. Sooo...
I had a really funky dream last night, but I don't remember it. All I remember is waking up a lot, upset, and trying to recall where I was. Bennett was curled up to me most of the night (good spiritie dood ^_^), but I don't think it helped much.... ah, well, it's the thought that counts.
Yesterday, I blew $44 on prismacolor pens. I got the box set of cool greys, plus a replacement 60% warm grey as mine is running out. That's me broke for another month now.
BMB is cuuuuuute today. *giggles* I want my verra' own Mik! I *heartheart* Mik! Rach, you better get me a Mik for my birthday! Or else!
I can't draw worth beans lately. *cries*
to Chris-kun: Thanks for the comment on the layout... and maybe now I'll bug querida to do an AH game (I honestly didn't think about that @_@).
*ponders* Yeah, you could go arouns as Mark in the game, and you could sleep with every second person you run into---
Cam: SHUT UP! *thwacks Meg*
Meg: Hey, it's not my fault that your hubby is a total sl---
Cam: *throws a table at Meg*
Meg: Itaaaai. X_X
Otaaay, enough out of me.
Over and out.
( 11:44 PM )
Hal is GOD... lalalala! Hal is thy holy master!
( 11:27 PM )
Purple is a nice colour! It's the colour of hentai. ^__^;
( 12:30 AM )
BEHOLD THE NEW LAYOUT!!!
....very purple, isn't it?
( 3:58 PM )
This close >< to shooting myself...
( 3:56 PM )
I WILL get this to work.... I swear I will.
( 3:53 PM )
HTML is annoying. Background image, where are you?
( 3:50 PM )
Let's hope for the background image now.... *crosses fingers*
( 3:45 PM )
Playing with the layout...
( 3:25 PM )
This is the temp layout, as I'm altering this puppy to look how I want it to. New version should be up tonight.
( 2:43 PM )
Chris-kun: the Boa cd has two names. One is the japanese release, the other is for the international market. It's either called Race of the Thousand Camels or Twilight (like this here blog!). And the Limp Bizkit cd is called Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water.
And Hannibal is a lot different than the Silence of the Lambs, isn't it? I liked it, but I stand by the fact that Jodie Foster made a much better Clarice Starling than Julianne Moore could ever hope to be.
Anyway.
My Bennett still isn't home... Dora, is he still with you? If not, you'd think he'd be home by now... *sighs*
Okay, time for me to book it outta' here for a bit afore dad calls and has a fit 'cause the line is busy.
( 8:05 PM )
Interlude...
Meg: Cain and Yuken! KAWAII!!!!
Yuken: *giggles and twitches his neko-mimi, looking all innocent*
Rukura: ICK! Who the HELL would touch HIM!? *points at Yuken*
Meg: Well, you 'touched' him once...
Rukura: NOT BY CHOICE, GODDAMMIT!! .... *sneezes*
Yuken: *eyes Rukura venomously*
Rukura: I'll be running off to Lian now... *heads for the hills as fast as his (verra' long) legs can carry him*
( 8:00 PM )
Querida, thank goodness it's not bronchitis. That's something I get a LOT, and it's not fun at all. And ten pounds? ALRIGHT! You GO, girlfriend!! *tackleglomps* You'll be okay.... I know so! ^.^
I got the "Play" cd (Moby), which came with the edit of South Side for free. Bonus, baby! ^_____^
( 7:24 AM )
Morning blog!
Well, I feel mighty stupid this morning. Yesterday, I kinda pulled a muscle in my left leg (riiight in my calf), but it stopped hurting. Woke up from a funky dream and got up to find it hurt. Now, being the idiot I am and not usually restricted by physical pain (hey, that's what ended up breaking my ankle), I went for a shower. Feeling headachey and cramped, I worked my way down the stairs, only to pull the same muscle again and fall about halfway down and land on the cat at the bottom. ^___^;;; <---- feels very dumb
*falls over* Meagen-san, you had me scared a minute there! If you had MEANT Mark, I would have had to call in paramedics and stuff to make sure you weren't doped up on anything!!!! @_@
List of kyara and colours this blog is gonna be themed on in order of layout updates:
Cam/purple (this weekend, hopefully)
Lucas/red (whenever)
Mark/blue (whenever)
Sybandial/pink (whenever)
Jesse/green (whenever)
Each layout will have a background featuring the kyara, too! ^_^
I really need a life.
Over and out!
( 9:51 PM )
Song lyrics... one of Cam's most recent themes!
"Learn to Fly" by the Foo Fighters
Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution
Cuz this one is a lie
We sat around laughing
And watched the last one die
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cuz I'm tired of lying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
I'm done nursing the patience
I can wait one night
I'd give it all away if you'd give me one last try
We'll live happily ever trapped if you'd just save my life
Run and tell the angels that everything's all right
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cuz I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
Make my way back home when I learn to
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try to make this life my own
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try to make this life my own
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cuz I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to
Looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cuz I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
Make my way back home when I learn to...
( 7:06 PM )
Tay, I've decided the theme for my next layout... good ol' Bennett and the colour purple. How... fitting. ^__^
Now if only I can get this stupid HTML editor thing to work... *binks it*
( 11:05 AM )
Morning blog (late again)!
WHOO HOO! I GOT INTO THE ADVANCED VISUAL ART STUDIO CLASS!!! BIG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ON MR. HALL!!!!
Yeaaah, I just went to first period class this morning and got my classes for next year reviewed. Then I came home because the muscles in my abdomen are spasming and it hurts like bugger all.
To all my blogging friends; I'm gonna change the layout of this blog in the next week (I have a LOT of links to add). I'm gonna theme it around an AH kyara, so lemme know who you think would be best, please. Just post your opinion in your blog, as I read most of them daily anyway. ^__^;
( 8:23 PM )
Yeah, I've neglected my duties as a blog-person lately... I have a life, you know. (Hey, the LEAST you can do is smile and nod! T_T)
Not much is happening, really. My civics class keeps getting cancelled, so I think I'll skip it tomorrow and come home early. What else to say...? Ummm, not much.
Song of the moment: "The Kids Aren't Alright" by the Offspring. I'm on a REAL Offspring kick right now... dunno why exactly. Maybe 'cause they just amuse me. ^_^;
Grammy awards. Bleeeek. *makes a face*
Amy, kids who don't like cheese are stupid! HA HA!
( 3:33 PM )
...afternoon.... blog!
This morning I spent the whole time trying to get my scanner to work, so thus, no morning blog. But I've got some stuff say for a change!
Today, lunch period was spent bothering Dan for the most part. He really ticked me off yesterday, and I'm extracting my revenge. So, I was making him jealous by glomping Matt at every opportunity (Matt doesn't mind too much, and he's nice to hug 'cause he's always warm.... and no, Mike, he's not my boyfriend! JUST A FRIEND!! T_T). It was rather comical.
Civics class was cancelled, since Ms. Fotinos was at the Raptor's game with the people who signed up to go... the half of my class that was at school for the last three periods of the day got transferred to a Grade 12 geography class, in which was SO awkward that the teacher took pity on us and sent us all home.
Redoing Angel Hunter again. This time, on the right sized paper... I'm sticking with the page layouts, tho, as I think I've got the look I want.
And, for fun! Rukura's theme song lyrics!
Home by Depeche Mode
Here is a song from the wrong side of town
Where I'm bound to the ground by the loneliest sound
That pounds from within and is pinning me down
Here is a page from the emptiest stage
A cage or the heaviest cross ever made
A guage of the deadliest trap ever laid
And I thank you for bringing me here
For showing me home, for singing these tears
Finally I've found that I belong here
The heat and the sickliest sweet smelling sheets
That cling to the backs of my knees and my feet
I'm drowning in time to a desperate beat
And I thank you for bringing me here
For showing me home, for singing these tears
Finally I've found that I belong...
Feels like home
I should have known
From my first breath
God sent the only true friend I call mine
Pretend that I'll make amends the next time
Befriend the glorious end of the line
And I thank you for bringing me here
For showing me home, for singing these tears
Finally I've found that I belong here.
( 7:11 AM )
Morning Blog!
This song is tripping me out right now, but goddamn, do I love it! *grooves to "Home" by Depeche Mode* It's a really dramatic song... and it's sooooo making me think of Rukura. >_<;
It's very cold this morning. At least I think so, anyway, so I'm sitting here wearing the couch blanket as a cape. I feel like a doooork.
Meg's Art Corner (Freckle-chan, you copycat! T_T)
A special little picture; Lucas in his newest style of dress. Drool factor, out of 10? 12.
What else to say... ummm... Mom didn't leave me lunch money again. T_T;
Over and out!
( 2:12 PM )
Cam: EVERYONE RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!! THE END IS NEAR!!!!!
....yep, for the first time in YEARS, I'm the proud owner of twp pairs of blue jeans. I've not worn blue jeans since I was about 5... and these ones fit niiiiice. I have hips and a waist.... @__@
Anyway, mom and I went to Sears and then to Curry's Art Supplies. I got my two pairs of jeans, two men's dress shirts (one white, one black), a new sketchbook, 4 new warm grey prismacolors, and a new 05 pigment pen. I am a happy Meg-chan!
Blue jeans that fit... *in shock*
( 9:09 PM )
I have officially started rewriting the Chronicles of Benjamin Carter! WHIHAI! Here's a bit of what I've written so far.
Frail. Benjamin was frail. He was about 5'4, fifteen years of age, and pale. He was small and slight in build; a boy and not yet a man. Right now, he looked more fragile than he really was... curled up under the blankets of his rather small bed, bruised and crying. It was a familiar scene.
Benjamin wiped at his eyes with the back of his hand in a vain attempt to push the tears away. However, it was pointless since more just spilled down his cheeks as if to spite him and his efforts to stop them. He hated crying. Hated it. But at times like this --- only at times like this--- he couldn't help himself. He was so tired of being forced into the clutches of rich men; predators that liked their pleasure taken out on the young boys who could be bought if the price was right. He was sick of the violation and the abuse. Most of all, he was sick of his father pushing him into it. His own father. He hiccupped in his efforts to restrain his tears.
Benjamin wanted more than anything to run away. Run away to another city, another country, anywhere but where he was. Just out of the clutches of the people who hurt him so much. But he was trapped like the birds his father kept in the iron cages that lined the back yard. He was a prisoner, shackled to the bars of his perpetual cage. Derkshaw would catch him if he ran. Derkshaw always caught him.
"Damn him to hell," Benjamin thought bitterly, though he regretted thinking it for reasons he couldn't quite explain.
There was a tap of boots in the hallway, and Benjamin closed his eyes, breathed deeply, and pretended to be asleep. The heavy, even steps stopped outside his door. The door squeaked as it opened slightly.
Benjamin tried to keep his breathing slow and deep, tried not to flinch. He felt Derkshaw's gaze on him. It burned.
'Go away, papa, go away....'
The door opened a bit more, and the tap of boots carried into the room.
It would be a good half hour before Derkshaw left, the blood on his hands and shirt not his own.
( 2:28 PM )
Man, am I grateful for mom. She just brought me the most wonderful little care packet of a bottle of ibuprofen and a Terry's Dark Chocolate Orange bar. *sniffles happily* Thank you, mommie!
Amy, Amy, Amy.... you have no idea how much stress is gone already. *heavy sigh* I can't thank you enough.
Spellleeeeeeerrrr, next weekend is go for coming over to my house to watch movies! You like freaky movies, I'll make you watch freaky ANIME movies! On the roster so far: Perfect Blue and X. Maybe I'll make a trip to Roger's Video and snag Devil Man or something. But I will get you hooked. I will. Your time will come (*sings* thy will be done!).
*laughing at BMB* Yeah, Mik, you dirty minded cutie! You think those nasty thoughts about Harley! *laughing*
Oiiii, Freckle-chan... you posted a nice list of couples you like. I think for fun, I'll do the same!
Cardcaptor Sakura
Touya and Yukito - kawaii! KAWAII!!!!
Sakura and Tomoyo - so sue me!
Oh My Goddess!
Trobadour and Urd - they were cool! Too bad he's such a dork.
Keiichi and Belldandy - well, DUH!
Magic Knight Rayearth
Ascot and Umi - I'm a sucker for Ascot. What a little cutie!
Clef and Presea - ditto that, 'cause Clef is so cute and so short!
Dragon Half
Mink and Lufa - not likely, I know, but still.
Bakuretsu Hunter
Tira and Carrot - feh on Chocolate. She's not half as cool as Tira.
Marron and Gateau - I don' like Gateau too much, but Marron is so hot. *_*
Ranma 1/2
Ranma and Shampoo - not likely, either, but I think Mousse is too wussy for her. I've always been a Ranma/Shampoo 'shipper.
Shamanic Princess
Kagetsu and Tiara - it's a sad relationship...
Sarah and Tiara - um, don't ask.
Slayers
Lina and Gourry - he's so funny around her... ^__^
Sailor Moon
Usagi and anyone but Mamoru! T_T;
Chibi Usagi and Pelulu [Perelu, Perele] - *heehee* Cute fae-ish boy with white hair!
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Shinji and Asuka - I think she really does like him. She just doesn't know how to show it.
Misato and Koji - funny funny! She's a player, tho.
RPing kyara [involving mine]
Cam and Mark - for obvious reasons.
Rukura, Lian, and Gabby - yes, a yaoi threesome. They're all so cute.
Sola [Soren] and Sybandial - so innocent and sweet. ^_^
Jyrian and Quoik - I don't talk about these two much, but their relationship is really cute.
Jesse and Rach - how can I not like this? He's cute, she's cute (haha, Rach!)
Lucas and Lila - I liked this possibility... too bad she's dead and we won't find out what woulda' happened.
Lucas and Carter - this is a slightly more demented relationship.
Cadence and Lexiel - a more intellectual relationship... even if Lexiel is kinda big on sex for sick reasons. ^_^;
Cadence3 and Cam - I'm a sick, sick girl.
Lucifer and Setsuko - if we get Setsuko back, then we can resume this. They're cute too. ^_^
Other Stories
Kiih and Ro (from Dora's "Three O'Clock") - I don't really know why... these two just kinda hit it off in my mind.
Len and Yuri (see above) - ditto the above again.
Book Series
Ron and Hermione - need I explain?
Sirius and Remus - again, need I explain?
Lestat and Louis (Anne Rice's VC books) - strange but yummy relationship
Lestat and David - intellectual and alluring.
Marius and Amadeo - Stokholm syndrome.
Cal and Meg (A Wrinkle in Time) - KAWAII!
That's that done. ^__^;
( 10:41 PM )
Sap warning ahead!
I have the best best friends in the whole world! My best friends are Speller and Amy!
Speller, who I know I don't mention on here too much (I'm sorry! ;_;), is the smartest person I know. She's also one of the most talented writers, too. How many people can write a whole novel before/during high school? Aside from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, not many. And her poetry kicks ass! She has a lot of it published. She can also draw better realistic stuff than I can, which makes me mondo jealous. It's not fair, I tell you! And she must learn to watch out for Hannibal. Beware him.
Speller likes pudding. And pears. Damn those pears.
Amy and I have been friends since 7th grade, when she was the "new kid". We actually first met in drama class. She ran over a possum on her way to work. Yeeeah! She, too, is an amazing writer. It's not FAIR! She came runner up in the story writing contest a while back. I was proud. And I SCREEEEEEAMED the loudest when she won the Todd Bayless award. I live to embarrass.... ^_~
I am grateful to have such good friends. I love them.
This concludes the sap. ^___^;
( 9:04 PM )
Querida, you're cooler than Simon and Milo! (Personally, Milo's a tad too butch for my liking, but Simon is a cute little brit guy with the sweetest little sentiments!)
....anyway.... yes, you have a neck. I hope. ^_~
And to complete the phrase you know you have problems when...you obsess over a cartoon with no neck, no nose, and huge eyes!
( 7:29 AM )
Morning blog!
I watched Perfect Blue last night. It downright scared me! Seeing Hannibal didn't scare me, seeing the Rage; Carrie 2 didn't scare me.... but Perfect Blue DID. The "real Mima" (the one who's forever in the Cham costume) is SCARY!!! And the Mimaniac is pretty scary too. o_O
Iffen you haven't seen this movie, get it. Especially if you like stuff like Neon Genesis Evangelion, X, or Serial Experiments Lain. I warn you, there's nudity, a rape scene, and a lot of gore. This movie freaked me out more than Eva did.
In other news... going to the art store tomorrow!!! And, I'm also skipping 5th period today. Maybe even 3rd, 'cause I'm stuck doing NOTHING all class anyway. -_-;
Hopefully they have the 10x15 paper I want... 'cause, you know, that being the traditional dimensions for comic drawing. Y'all knew that, right? *gives you a loooooook*
And I best be off to get ready... JA!
( 7:02 PM )
Blogger hates me.
OH! OH! EVERYONE GO READ TODAY'S BMB!!! CY AND SKIDS FOREVERRRRR!!!!
I'm having a hell of a lucky streak this week. Today, in the mail, I got an AUTOGRAPHED Simon and Milo picture, FRAMED!!! *swoons*
And I got Perfect Blue!!!!
( 5:14 PM )
Gonna go see Hannibal with Mike and Chris in about half an hour! ^__^
( 7:21 AM )
Morning Blog!
Last night, began a really angsty RP with Cam and Mark (well, it was angsty on Cam's end). Now, I only just realized that I think up really weird stuff that follow pretty much all the major time/space/reality laws. And all on a whim and at random. It's strange. You know you study this stuff too much when....
Yep, it's not every day when I come up with plots like that puppy. Using the imprints left in the reality weave to reconstruct a Mark.... that's some strange stuff (but it actually makes sense, which is what throws me). Huh.
I feel guilty... I got mad at Amy last night. She was being a little more depressing than usual, and I just couldn't stand it. I'm sick and stressed and I don't need to boost her ego all the time.
I've had this urge for the past couple of days to draw Cam shaking Lucas by the shoulders and looking very upset while Lucas looks blank. I don't really know why.... the caption for it has been running through my head, as it is this: "What am I to you?!"
Trippiness.
Well, being the idiot I am, I didn't do my civics homework. My group is gonna love me for that.... then again, they're sticking me with the job of reading the presentation on Spain because I'm the only one that knows how to speak some Spanish. *sweatdrops*
I'm having urges to draw the weirdest things.... I hate it when Cam angsts at me from his little spot in my mind.
Meg's Art Corner
A really weird little picture of c3 and a Chibi Cam. C3 is drawn more in my gothic anime style than my normal one. Turned out quite well! ^_^
Over and out!
( 7:16 PM )
Neeee, imouto! If you're not gonna be doing Yunga Neko for a while, you should get a guest artist to do, like, weekly panels just until you can work on it again. *volunteers*
( 7:14 AM )
Morning blog time again, kids!
I'm feeling okay this morning, so school for me. *sigh* School is so boring. Lunch is okay, mind you, because I have (as Speller said) "so many male bitches that work" for me. ^__^
I've been doing a lot of drawing since I got those pens. It's scary... can't wait to get more! ^__^ I also gotta get me some 10 X 15 paper, 'cause that's the standard comic size. I don't feel up to fighting with printers because the size ratio on 8.5 X 11 is uneven. Screw it. I'll just redo it all on standards.
I'm having the straaangest breakfast. Pork chops. Don't ask me, it was the only thing I could find...
Song of the moment: "Cruel Angel's Thesis (Harmonia Remix)" from Evangelion. *slobbers* I forgot what a COOL remix this is!!!
Meg's Art Corner
Ben Carter, looking cute and vaguely distant! (Hey, he's a Blink fan, too!)
Mark makes a scarilly cute girl. o_O
Appearently, so does Lucas.
Onna-Cam makes me think of Rally from Gunsmith Cats for some reason....
How cliché.
Over and out!
( 5:30 PM )
Nah nah naaaah! Meg has Sympatico access!!
Anyway, Meg also got herself some niiiiice grey prismacolor pens yesterday! Meg drew some pretty pretty pictures with them, too! Meg is happy, so she is!
Meg's Art Corner
With her new prismacolors in hand, Meg is proud to present her latest creations!
Angelique, the evil evil bitchy whore of a Demon from AH. She's pretty, tho. ^_^;
"Legacy of the Messiah" cast shot; Rukura, Lucifer, and Pandora as kids!
Carter and Lucas, a strange relationship these doods have. Carter looks somewhat like Cam, doesn't he?
Quoik, Meg's only fae kyara!!
( 2:25 PM )
Tiredtiredtiredtired....
At the Office Place, they have a set of 24 prismacolor markers for about 40 bucks. I WANT THEM, but mom says "no, I don't have that kind of money right now". So, what we're gonna do, is I'm gonna drag her to Curry's Art Supplies store in a few hours and see how much THEY'RE selling them for.... maybe she'll buckle and take me back to the Office Place. ^_~
I need grey markers...
...oh, note to all who talk to me at night online. I won't be on until really late 'cause the network will be down. Unless mom hooks us up with Sympatico tonight, I'll be on around 2am. *sniffles* I'm gonna be without my querida fix! *snifflesniffle*
( 8:34 PM )
Lack of bloggingness today, as you all may have noticed. Dunno why, I was home again....
song of the moment: "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I *heart* Flea.... what an AMAZING bass player. Too bad this song doesn't showcase him much. If you want good bass by the dood tho, "Californication" is an order.
*cheers* The restrictions to see Hannibal have been changed from R to AA! In other words, I can get in to see it! Heeey, Dan, Amy, Speller, anyone? Wanna come with? I warn y'all, tho, it's been said that this movie is grotesquely violent.
Tomorrow is gonna be a very busy day. I'm going into town with my mom and brother for most of the day, then it's home for a few hours (like, two), and to the mall where I shall meet with Quinn-chan and Chris to go for our ritual Riot Ink business meeting. Then I shall return from the depths of Quinn's anime/transformers shrine of a home and return to my humble lair around midnight. Then I'll prolly talk to my baaaaybeeeeee (aka: querida) for the remainder of the dark hours of the evening.
Oh! Celeb Jeopardy! Two of my faaaaavourite doods were on there! Seth Green from various shows such as Buffy, and Steven from the Barenaked Ladies! DOOD! And Seth has his hair buzzed in sooooo damn short that he looks bald. 0_o
Kick ass! 3 Doors Down are playing at the Warehouse on March 11, and tickets are only $27... man, I wanna GOOOOO!!!
( 12:37 PM )
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
( 12:17 PM )
Okay, today's guest BMB is quite good. ^__^
*points out the window* Heehee, a mini-plow!! *giggles*
song of the moment: "Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin (so sue me, I like this song... ).
( 12:08 PM )
Why is it on days that it's not supposed to snow, it snows the most? We've gotten about 13 cm since last night and it's still coming down... -_-;
song of the moment: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica. Heeheehee....makes me think of AH. I shall post the lyrics on here later.
( 7:42 AM )
The Wheel of Excitement on Neopets loves me... I just won another 10 000 np. O_O
( 7:35 AM )
Morning blog!
Here I am, killing time while I wait for either mom to call me or for me to call mom. Stupid morons in Wal-Mart, you call the main office and ask to be patched through to Electronics, and they put you on hold and hang up on you. Figures, it was mom's boss that just did that to me. Moron.
I got slim to no sleep last night due to sickness. Man, do I hurt... I feel like my guts are being put into a dryer's spin cycle constantly. And after drinking 3 L of cranberry juice, I'm not too good right now. I'm kinda waiting for mom to call so I can ask her what to do... I dunno if I should stay home or go to school. I bet I'm missing a fair bit. Well, there's always Fiona and Harpreet to ask. ^_^;;
I bet Dan's gonna kill me if I'm off another day. Mike's prolly beaten him up a few times by now without me there.
*drums her fingers* Mom, I asked you to phone me... you've got 10 minutes, and then I phone YOU....and hope I don't get hung up on...
Oh! BmB's on it's guest week. Y'know, with guest artists doing the panels. I'm not liking it too much. Yesterday's was a tad too blunt, with not enough joke 'ahind it. Maybe next time, I'll try for a guest spot on there. I'd be sure to do something involving Cy and Skids. I love Cy and Skids. ^__^
I'm running very low on straight kyara. Querida manages to turn them all gay! *shakes her head* Bennett, Lucas, Rukura, Sy.... who next? *turns to Tiirak* Dood, you're not gay are you?
Tiirak: No way.
Meg: You sure??
Tiirak: Yes, I'm sure.
Meg: *looks suspicious*
Mommie bought me the Silence of the Lambs yesterday. It's such a good movie, and all the better if you've read the book. The casting for the movie is very good, too... Jodie Foster makes such a cute Clarice Starling. It really pisses me off that Julianne Moore is playing Clarice in Hannibal (which comes out tomorrow, check your local listings ^_~). She is SO not Starling material. But as long as Sir Anthony Hopkins is still good ol' Hannibal Lecter the Cannibal, I'll watch it.
*calls Mom* Wow, I got through....!!! Maybe that's because I cheated and used the associates-only code. How would I know THAT? 9.9
Looks like I get to stay home again today... *feh* Boredom and a half. Amy, if you're home, feel free to phone me or something.
Over and out!
( 10:50 PM )
Yeeeeeeeee! Querida can read my mind and alter my dreamstate!!!!
No one should have to drink 2 litres of cranberry juice in 5 hours. x_X
( 9:21 AM )
Morning blog!
I'm home sick! And it's only the 4th day of semester 2. Seems that whatever the hell was wrong with me before is wrong with me again... pain hurts, you know. T_T;
I've not much to say today... doesn't that suck when you wanna say something but you're outta' stuff to say?
OH!!! GOOD NEWS! AH Issue one is officially coming along WELL! Looks like I won't have to go to version 16... ^___^
( 9:32 PM )
Rukura and Lian... I got bored and messed around with PC Paintbrush...
( 6:41 PM )
*looking from her cat CC to her mug of hot chocolate* CC is staring at the marshmellows like they're evil..... *inches away*
( 6:29 PM )
The Angel Hunter church stainglass window...?
( 4:00 PM )
Okay, I know.... I didn't blog this morning. I was running mighty late. I had to hop fences to get to school. ^_^;;;
What did I do today? Not much. I got yelled at three times and nearly booted out of my history class (why? for drawing! >.<;;), and I nearly fell asleep in comm tech. Thankfully, Mr. Dewitte let us out early.
The layouts for pages 1-4 of AH have been redone. This is version 15... and I'm LIKING it! FINALLY!
Heeey, imouto! Mercutio was the best kyara in that play. I also liked Benvolio, he was cool too (my once-best-friend Brittany took to calling me 'Volio 'cause I liked him so much). Mercutio, tho, had one hell of an attitude, and he was interesting and VERY funny. Too bad he had to die...
I'm glad you liked the little snippet. Allow me to post another, just for you! ^__^
This is another bit I quite like.
Benjamin found it facinating to watch him, he was so calm and so... well, he was the very picture of freedom as far as he was concerned. Yes, that was it. Benjamin admired Lokistrant's blasé attitude towards life. Envy, almost.
When one night, Lokistrant was late on his ritual visits to the plantation, Benjamin worried. Could he have been hurt?.... no. This was Lokistrant. He didn't GET hurt. But maybe he just didn't want to see him anymore?
Abandonment. A reoccurring issue. His throat felt dry suddenly. He curled up on his bed, blond hair over his eyes, and wished for morning, when he KNEW that Lokistrant would not come. No second guessing when daylight was involved.
Minutes passed. And quite unexpectedly, Lokistrant was there, startling the boy. Leaning against the far wall, watching quietly, decked out in his usual dark reds and silvers. Benjamin sat up. "How long have you been there? You scared me!"
Lokistrant smiled his usual enigmatic smile, the impression of fangs something no longer unexpected. "Carter, deepest apologies for being so late." The smile was kind, but the voice was final, the tone stating that there was to be no questions asked. Lokistrant held out his hand to the boy. "Care to come with me into town for a while?"
( 7:45 AM )
Morning Blog, part II
Oh! I saw Cast Away over the weekend! It's SO good! Tom Hanks is a surprisingly good actor... I mean, who else can get away with talking to a volleyball so convincingly? And we all know that Amy likes to imagine him naked (Tom, not the volleyball). You should all go see it! NOW!!!! That's an order!
Heehee, now a little quote for fun from a story I am going to re-write.
Benjamin stared across the table at the stranger, worried. The man seemed in his twenties, if that, and had long brown hair that spilled over his shoulders and down his back. His eyes were an unnatural ruby red, and they were very intelligent eyes. Benjamin had learned early in life to be cautious, especially with the smarter ones.
The man crossed his hands on the table in front of him, casual. "Benjamin Carter, correct?"
Benjamin could dect a vague, though unrecognizable, accent. "Yes sir."
"You're fifteen?"
"Yes sir."
"Such a shame to see someone so young forced into... what you're familiar with."
Benjamin sunk down in his chair. "Why are you here? Why did you pull me away from papa?"
To match Benjamin's withdraw from the table, the man leaned forward, and smiled. Benjamin could have sworn he saw fangs. "You remind me of someone."
( 7:22 AM )
Morning blog!
Man, do I feel WEIRD this morning. I'm not sure why, exactly, but I just feel weird. I dunno. I think a certain spiritie dood slept in my bed with me last night.... *points at Bennett* 'Cause I actually slept.
Last night, during a particularly good RP, my ISP died and wouldn't let me back on. I wasn't happy. It was getting SO good, too... *pouts*
I'm so quickly out of things to say.... ^____^;;
O'er an' out!
( 11:17 AM )
Meg's random contemplations
I'm considering re-writing Carter's story, which ties in with a fair bit of Lucas' story. Been considering it for a while... Carter's got some serious problems, and he's fun to write because he's so screwed up. He's got a really weird past. His dad was SUCH a jerk.... and up until becoming a vampire, Carter was good little Bennie; never had the nerve to fight his father. *ponders* It's an interesting story. Maybe I'll start on it again after I get home from seeing Cast Away....
( 10:56 PM )
Okay, people, special announcement!!!!!!!
Congrats to Bennett and niichan on the birth of their daughter, Candra Arael Bennett! ^___^
( 3:32 PM )
Woohoo! I got switched from Casement's class to Apostolou's class! Hooray!!!
And I am already SO ahead of all the people in my comm tech class. I seem to be the only one who knows how to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Publisher, and Premier, as well as Quark and a few other programs. Damn, am I ahead. *_*
( 7:36 AM )
Morning blog!
Wow, I only slept 3 hours and I feel okay....
*falls out of her chair laughing at today's BmB* Cy and Skids are a riot! I hope they do turn out as a couple! *laughing*
New semester starts today. I'm not too happy about this, as I have history and math this semester, and history is my homeroom class. With Mr. Casement. *cries* NOOOO!!! If I get called by my last name ONCE in his class, I'm gonna commit suicide (okay, not really).
My room is now a nice shrine of large wall hangings. On the walls around my bed, I have three Card Captor Sakura wallscrolls (two anime, one manga), and one kick-ASS Prozzak Saturday People promo poster. Thank you, John. *smilesmilesmile*
On Neopets, I am neopoor. Looks like my pets are gonna be eating at the soup kitchen a lot. -_-;
Meg's Art Corner!
I know, I've not done much in the way of art lately. You know what's weird? I tend to draw more in school than at home. I think it's because I'm around so many people.
Cam's SD Panther form, doodled in MS Paint. I was bored, okay? And it DID turn out cute.
Part of my MS Paint family portrait. I still have to finish the pictures for John and Dani, and the kids too if I have enough willpower after screwing around with the stupid program afterwards.
Song of the moment: "When Doves Cry (Fatboy Slim remix) by Depeche Mode and Prince. I love this... don't ask me why. ^_^;
Quote of the moment:
"Listen sister, if I want your opinion, I'll BEAT it out of you!"
-- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Okay, that's it for now. Ja matta ne! *disappears in purple smoke*
( 12:38 PM )
Song of the moment: "Misere by Andrea Bocelli and John Miles. I have a very....expansive taste in music. So sue me. *sings along*
( 11:45 AM )
To Chris-kun:
Dooood, I don't hate you, and I'm not mad at you..... jus' chill, man. S'your blog, you can say what's on your mind...
I got my pretty pretty new cladagh ring in the mail yesterday! *kisses said ring* Mi querida gave it to me!! Isn't that sweet? ^__^
I have come to the conclusion that Cam would make a really scary bad guy. Like, not c3... but if CAM were bad. He'd be scary. I mean, he's already got some issues with where his loyalty lies... and he's pretty much infinite in power. Not to mention, after being killed about 200 times, I think he knows the painful ways to kill people. Wonder if niichan (currently my neechan) sees this? Well, at least now he knows about Cam's possibilities for becoming nothing more than a lethal weapon.
I have three neopets! My blue wocky named Cadence, my green shoyru named Lokistrant, and my yellow eyrie Poyania! ^__^
"My December" is © Linkin Park. The art is mine. Don't take.
Information on the layout is thus; this is Damien McKinnley, a character of mine whom I've been roleplaying for a little over a year now. He's Simon McKinnley's oldest child, and he's kinda angsty and depressive. Art done in paintchat and added some snow in Photoshop.
Name: Meg Graham
AKA: DJ Rabid Armadillo
Age: 17
Birthday: May 1st
Identifies as: a depressive and obsessive compulsive bisexual artist and writer
Hair: black
Eyes: grey
Bands: Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden
Movies: Fight Club, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Books: As I Lay Dying, Harry Potter, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, and the Repairman Jack series.
Anime: Fruits Basket, Kare Kano
Manga: Fruits Basket, Kare Kano
Artists: Takaya Natsuki, H.R Giger, Tony, Firefly
Family: Tony, Julian, Dora, Poe, Mina
Lives for: Firefly, art, music
Legacy of the Messiah
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Deanna
Lisa
Firefly
Dora
Becky
Dan
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Little Machine
Litost Satellite
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Lean On Me
Chronicles of a Drow Sorceress
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Haato no Kagami
Arcana
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BLOGROLL OF HYPOTHETICAL MUSES I’D EVENTUALLY LIKE TO WRITE / MAKE BLOGS FOR.
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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN PROJECTS
Most technologies evolve a good deal even after they're first launched—programming languages especially. There are two ways new technology gets introduced: the organic growth method is exemplified by the French word for working: travailler. I think the underlying cause is usually that they've become demoralized. To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. Because the list of n things is a dishonest format: when you use it. But in fact it could have substantial costs. They're working on their own projects. Inventors of wonderful new things are often surprised to discover this, but you have to install before you use it. About 10 of them so far. Why are VCs so conservative?
Remember, hackers are lazy. And yet people working in their own homes, which aren't even designed to be workplaces, end up being more like an older brother than a parent. For example, I use it when I get close to a deadline. I know from experience whether patents encourage or discourage innovation, and the cost of checks, you can say later Oh yeah, we had a practice session where all the groups gave their presentations. To many people, Lisp is a natural fit for server-based applications, it will make a very big difference to the bottom line how many users make a critical mass? Once you start to design things, and there are companies that specialize in selling to you. A can-opener must seem miraculous to a dog. They're outlying data points; what makes them gripping also makes them irrelevant. And even more, you need to.
It's a fine thing for parents to help their children indirectly—for example, about how to set up a separate computer for using the Internet still looked and felt a lot like work. There are two kinds of symmetry, repetition and recursion. They don't get sued by other startups because a patent suits are an expensive distraction, and b it means that Y Combinator, we planned to invest the way other venture firms do: as proposals came in, we'd evaluate them and decide yes or no. That turned out to be a place to work. I found that I could tell immediately, by the sound, when there was a causal connection. No one wants to begin a program with a bunch of small organizations in a market can come close. That's an alarming possibility when you have to compile and run separately. Basically, I had to add a few more checks on public companies. When my father was working at Westinghouse in the 1970s, he had people working for you have to make it true, and the essay will still survive.
After publishing his theory of colors in 1672 he found himself distracted by disputes for years, finally concluding that the only solution was to stop publishing: I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I had to add a few more checks on public companies. Good ones, anyway. Multics and Common Lisp occupy opposite poles on this question. Nor is there anything new, except the names and places, in most news about things going wrong. Any really good new idea will seem bad to most people; otherwise someone would already be doing it. But between the two there is a substantial gap. This might be true. And as the example of open source and blogging have to teach business: 1 that people work harder on stuff they like. This territory is occupied mostly by individual angel investors—people like Andy Bechtolsheim, who gave Google $100k when they seemed promising but still had some things to figure out. You don't have complete control, of course, but someone who really understands an article probably has something in his brain afterward that corresponds to such an outline. Something that used to be like.
But it worked so well that you envision the scene for yourself. There is a parallel here to the rise of civil order, which happened at roughly the same time the US economy rocketed out of the problem here is social. Whenever someone in an organization is a kind of selflessness. If we send them an email asking what's up, and they won't even dare to take on ambitious projects. There is now a whole neighborhood of them in the first ten topics. They don't get sued by other startups because a patent suits are an expensive distraction, and b it means that Y Combinator, we planned to invest the way other venture firms do: as proposals came in, we'd evaluate them and decide yes or no. The same principles of good design crop up again and again. There is one thing more important than brevity to a hacker: being able to do what you want to optimize, there's a reason for that. Barnes & Noble was thus the equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. Google is, they're probably being told right now by VCs to come back when they have more traction.
It's quite possible there will be zero. Nothing is more powerful than a community of talented people working on projects of their own people would rebel. The founders of Kiko, for example, by helping them to become smarter or more disciplined, which then makes them more successful. Good hackers care a lot about matters of principle, and they don't want the hassles that come with it. The metaphor people use to describe the way a startup feels is at least a roller coaster and not drowning. But I suspect it's the startup world that has changed, not them. Is anyone able to develop software faster than you?
There must be a better game without checking? In any purely economic relationship you're free to do what you want and publish when you want to stop buying steel pipe from one supplier and start buying it from another, you don't know what you're going to write when you start. Maybe in the long term the right answer for dealing with Internet distractions will be software that watches and controls them. Another way to get a big program is to start with a throwaway program is a program you write is code that's specific to your application. Recursion means repetition in subelements, like the classic Lisps of the 1970s. I can barely read Lisp code when it is set in a variable-width font, and friends say this is true for other languages too. Whereas anyone can express opinions about current events in a bar. Not explicitly, of course. You have to be able to recognize it. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Thanks to Barry Eisler, Fred Wilson, Robert Morris, Jessica Livingston, John Gruber, Langley Steinert, and Patrick Collison for putting up with me.
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History, part 1: Richard II.
Research Assistant Hailey Bachrach will be blogging about History. This week she shines a light on Richard II.
It’s a common question when faced with a history play, by Shakespeare or Marlowe or anyone else: what do I need to know to before I see it? What background do I need to make it make sense?
The assumption seems to be that these plays are impenetrable without a solid background in English monarchical history—that the original audiences must have had this knowledge. And it’s true that some Renaissance audience members may have come armed with information gleaned from the chronicle histories of Rafael Holinshed or Edward Hall, who compiled massive, sprawling narratives of England’s past, and which writers like Shakespeare and Marlowe drew upon when writing their plays.
But many others wouldn’t have. Such books were extremely expensive, and that’s assuming you knew how to read. But that doesn’t mean that only the wealthy and literate knew anything about the past. Just like many of us today will get a vague sense of periods we’ve never studied from films or books, in Shakespeare’s time, plays and ballads served to fill in many people’s understanding of England’s history.
So if you were an ordinary English person who’d never read a chronicle history, what might you have already known going in to see Shakespeare’s Richard II for the first time?
If you were a theatre fan, you might have been familiar with the story of King Richard II from the play now generally called Thomas of Woodstock. It now only survives in an incomplete manuscript, but may predate Shakespeare’s play—and fittingly, depicts events that take place slightly earlier in Richard’s reign.
In this play, you would have seen Richard’s neglect of his new bride, Anne of Bohemia, and his sorrow at her sudden death. You would have met his favourites, Green, Bushy, Bagot, and Scroop, all elevated to important political positions that they then abuse for personal gain, unconcerned that they are impoverishing the citizens of England in the process. Ghosts appeared to remind you of Richard’s regal lineage: his father, the war hero called the Black Prince and his grandfather, King Edward III. And you would have met Richard’s uncles, John of Gaunt; Edmund of Langley, the Duke of York; and the titular Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, the humblest and gentlest of them all, who Richard’s favourites persuade him to have murdered. Richard is quickly seized by remorse… but not quickly enough to save Woodstock’s life.
But sometimes connections were less direct. Marlowe’s Edward II and Shakespeare’s Richard II were likely written around the same time, and they are plainly plays in close conversation with one another. Aside from their central scenarios of irresponsible kings surrounded by favourites, even lines and images seem to echo from one play to the other. Edward II was written before Richard II, and these echoes may have sounded for original audience members, shaping their expectations of Richard based on what they’d seen in Edward.
Thomas of Woodstock isn’t a direct prequel to Richard II, and of course neither is Edward II (though Edward was Richard’s great-grandfather). All three plays offer their own interpretations of their parallel characters or scenarios. But the plays’ similarities and vague familiarities are what many original audience members would have brought with them into a new history play—not a list of facts about the reign of King Richard II. In a time before national history was taught in school, and before the majority of the population was literate, plays were as good a source as any for learning about the past… or at least a version of it.
Writers played fast and loose with historical fact—and often the chronicles themselves were contradictory or incorrect—and the facts (or ‘facts’) that an audience member had learned from one source may have been flatly contradicted by another. Even if you came into a history play with some knowledge of its subject, that knowledge might turn out not to apply.
This pick-and-mix approach to history was all that most audience members would have brought along with them into a new play. The upcoming season offers the exciting opportunity for us to have a similar viewing experience, accumulating knowledge from play to play, and letting playwrights teach us their own version of history.
Richard II opens in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on 22 February.
Edward II appears at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse until 20 April.
Edward II production photography by Marc Brenner
Richard II rehearsal photography by Ingrid Pollard
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Language, Gen X, LGBTPQRS - whatever!
Having already lived through 'ist' and 'ism' being tagged to almost everything by the millennials, my awareness of just how much our language has become diluted - When familiar terms misappropriated so as to become a catch-all, rather than being specific to origin became luminously apparent. This degeneration of a generation appears to have continued as if hereditary, with terms such as 'hatred' and 'hate speech' now having the broader translation of disagreeing by means of simply feeling offended, which, in itself,
can mean all things to all people, as if, somehow, feeling offended is mandatory.
The fact that we were all born with free will and the ability to make choices seems to have been conveniently bypassed in favour of feelings towards something, or someone, and plain common sense that we would normally apply in such circumstances is bordering on non-existent nowadays. If I happen to strongly disagree with a female's perspective on something for example, then another catch-all term comes into play - 'misogyny,' and I'm somehow prejudiced against women. Utter bollocks!
I've also noticed quite starkly how nowadays it's become almost de rigueur for people to take it upon themselves to be offended on behalf of another, without realising just how patronising that can be in practice, with white, middle-class, young people engaging in a BLM march and it becomes all about them, and how they feel, when bizarrely they outnumber those who are black, as just one example. The overbearing sense of entitlement by Gen X in particular, from one point of view could be argued that it reflects a sense of freedom of expression and confidence in belief. Although conversely, there is also the perspective of this being more of an underlying insecurity in an increasingly less secure world Notice how terms such as 'crisis' and 'emergency' have become popularised so as to yet again be attributed to anything where 'situation,' or 'challenge' would otherwise suffice.
You see, going back a generation, or three, the pre-millennials were, by and large, brought up to be more robust, resilient, and stoic because pre- World War two it was almost embedded into the bloodline that nothing was handed down on a plate, there was no bank of mum and dad, parents were parents - and not 'friends' to their children: and nothing in life came easy. Now, while I'm no advocate for war, I cannot help but think that maybe another widescale war would hit the reset button. Because as things stand right now, if there was a war Gen X would be lining up to buy adult nappies off the shelves, so to speak.
It's become a very selfish world, I've noticed. A world of self-entitled, me-me's. None potentially worse than that faction of the LGBTPQR whatever movement: and more particularly the 'T' element. Now, to set out my stall from the get-go, I have absolutely nothing against trans people per se, for several years I had around 180 trams (MtF) friends who were regular visitors to my home and would come and stay for days at a time. On occasion, I've administered their hormone injections when asked and offered advice when relevant
questions that would further enable and empower their journey forward were put to me.
To all intents and purposes, these were chics with dicks, and despite them all having received breast implants they were always very vocal as to still being male through bone density, pelvic shape, and muscular strength. Yet, see them in the street and you would absolutely believe that they were female in every sense. So, it came as no surprise that their comments towards what we see as Gen X, 'faux' trans, scruffy appearance wannabees, with facial growth while wearing a dress kind of gender centaurs, were less than favourable in content. Do people have the right to dress as they choose? Absolutely! It's arguably just their seemingly visual indolence that sets them apart from the 'real' trans people. So, if anyone chooses to dress like a female, good on them, just at the very least put some bloody effort into it because, generally speaking, women, for the most part, take pride in their appearance, wash their hair regularly, and don't go out looking like a WTF!
This, and other factors when it comes to Gen X heavily suggest a general malaise towards life where it's believed through learned helplessness, that self-entitlement is the magical key that opens the door to nearly everything, and in its naivety of such belief, the Gen x trans faction has created a degree of toxicity towards itself. Why? In the main because their entire world appears to be all about 'me'. Now, this is where we get down to 'brass tacks' interesting because it reverts back to language and how it's been manipulated to whatever collective narrative suits at that time, and it it doesn't fit people will soon find a way to shoehorn it in. So, people choose to 'identify' as
…………
The keyword here is 'identity,' and identity is something we assume based on, for the most part anyway, the immediate environmental influences that we accept as most resonating with us as we grow through the various stages of our lives. So, as a for instance, when I was a child I clearly remember playing various roles as a doctor, fireman, soldier, and cowboy because those were the roles I identified with, largely due to television, and as I grew older my identities evolved again, and again, and again to where I am now as an older adult. However, identity does not make us who we are because identity is a construct: an idea or theory containing conceptual elements, and therefore entirely subjective
because there is no empirical evidence to support it, other than it being someone's fantasy world: and based on life being a big stage in which we all play a part, the Gen X trans would be there in costume, and possibly look like something between the audition rejects of the Rocky Horror Show, and a drag queen's worst possible nightmare. Basically, the misfits.
Now, remember when I referred to the Gen X trans faction creating a "degree of toxicity towards itself"? Well, It will come as no great surprise that the reason for this is due to their mission creep to manipulate the law into believing that their concept is real. So, from that, my question is how can an entirely fictional concept ever be regarded as affording people equal rights, and the politicisation of such? Because if it does we're suddenly finding ourselves in a never-never land where the law of this country is concerned.
Let's say that tomorrow I decide to identify myself as a dwarf, and change my name by deed poll to 'Mini-Me.' Now even though I'm a little over six feet tall, as this would now be my legal identity, if anyone dared to challenge that I would be within my legal right to claim that I'm being discriminated against under the Act, and put forward an argument to say that compared to those who are far taller than me I'm dwarfed by comparison, because there is no counter-argument against that. It's an incontrovertible fact.
Okay, while I fully accept that was a random example straight off the top of my head while typing and there are far better examples of the point I'm making, you'll be intelligent enough, I hope, to envisage
where I'm going with this.
There are people around the world who have paid thousands and thousands, if not their entire life savings to look like their favourite celebrity, and they'll walk, talk and adopt every possible mannerism of that person. Does it transform them into their favourite celebrity? Absolutely not.
Again, it's entirely conceptual. So, while I'm not in any way uncomfortable with people living the life they choose to live and for them to be happy with it, the message is for Gen X to check their egos and not get carried away with their delusional selves. Out of all the genuine trans people I've known, not one of them has ever made a big deal about it, would never dream of politicising it; or expecting some kind of special treatment by being trans. In fact, they are predominantly the most confident and happiest people among those I've met from all walks of life.
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I don’t think this is really a story about Tom King.
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I. TRAINED TO BE GHOSTS
So, the other day, DC Comics announced a new publishing initiative called DC Rebirth.
(The other day was 2016).
And when DC Rebirth was announced, DC also announced that the new writer of one of the Batman comics would be a fellow named Tom King.
What struck me as a little daffy at that time about the DC Rebirth hype was that it wasn't trumpeting King as a wordsmith with a track record of praised books under his belt. King had a respectable reputation at that point, books received with some polite applause, a critical mass that they could've focused on.
But instead of focusing on any of that, the announcement was instead that “King will be using his experience in counter-terrorism to bring new threats to Gotham.”
Counter-terrorism was the centerpiece for how King’s Batman work was promoted. For example, Newsarama published an article entitled "REBIRTH BATMAN Writer TOM KING On His Own 'Rebirth' From C.I.A. To Comic Books," where King explained that he was
"... supposed to go into law school and then 9/11 happened and I did this CIA thing. [...] I was big into counter-terrorism, loved going overseas and that’s a very good job and very rewarding, but I had a kid and to be really good at that job, you have to be around 15 hours a day. With the counter-terrorism you have to be able to go 24/7. So those were the options I was looking at."
The interviewer was awed by King's counter-terrorism credentials, asking some perfectly lovely questions like "Were you at headquarters in Langley" and "given your past as a C.I.A. operative, the stress level has to be somewhat lesser than that, right?"
In other words, rather than ask King about his plans for Batman, comic interviewers were asking him to judge the job of writing The Batman on a scale of 1 to CIA counter-terrorism.
This is “a thing”, now. I remember seeing a lot of fans excited about how Charles Soule was an Actual Lawyer. Fans similarly seemed overly-excited that Gerard Way was formerly in some ska band. Or if I understand recent comics news correctly, a lot of fans are thrilled that comic books about talking toads are being created by a Real Life Cryptofascist. Fans suddenly want comic creators to have impressive resumes outside of comics now-- perhaps a logical consequence of an era of aggressive comic creator self-branding.
And so King mentioned his CIA credentials often. It was part of his whole sales pitch to comic fans -- it was why he was qualified to write about their favorite heroes.
But as I was reading all this hype about how Tom King's past in the CIA had prepared him to write Batman comics, I found myself asking myself a pretty simple question:
Did I really believe that Tom King was an actual CIA agent?
II. RED LIGHT! GREEN LIGHT!
By 2016, I'd spent some time writing a kind of schlocky psuedo-commentary on comic news.
None of this writing was very impressive or interesting, according to Very Serious Comic Fans on the internet. If you missed it, you suffered no great loss. But I had wanted to explore the following premise: that maybe there was a toxic stew around the North American comic book industry of dishonesty, male insecurity, neediness, relentless careerism, selfishness, and silence, that (a) encouraged and excused bad conduct and (b) was therefore ultimately more significant in understanding why so many comics are terrible than anything one could learn reviewing some inconsequential issue of the Discourteous Avengers.
And it had turned out that there was plenty to write about. Constant sex scandals-- the grodiest kind, frequently overlooked by the same comics creators who lectured fans online day after day. Intellectual property theft, that comic creators happily participated in. People claiming they were at the vanguard of creator rights, who had ripped off their co-creators. Creepy "male allies" and other curious, charmless do-gooders.
Dumb scams. Lazy writing. Bad apologies.
It all grew very tiresome. I’d rather review some issue of the Discourteous Avengers now, please and thank you.
But did I believe Tom King was a CIA agent?
*Could* I believe that after what I'd written about?
...But of course, what did it matter what I believed?
Did it matter if I found it all a little odd, that some funny-book writer would super-casually volunteer that he had a history of being a CIA counter-terrorism agent just to sell Batman comics?
Of course, it didn’t matter.
After all, it's not like I could write a letter to the CIA, asking them if Tom King was a spook!
...
I'm not a Republic serial villain.
I wrote to the CIA nearly three years ago.
III. THE LIST IS IN THE OPEN
I prepared a letter, and I faxed it into the CIA. I did it for the only reason really worth doing anything-- I thought it'd make for a good goof for my prestigious tumblr blog. Here's my letter:
And perhaps you'll notice something in my letter-- something that I had noticed when researching the topic:
People do this!
People make up being in the CIA for personal benefit. And they don't just do it in small ways-- they go on FOX NEWS-- they lie big-- they lie that they're ex-CIA in spectacular ways, and at a spectacular cost. It's kooky, but this is a thing that happens.
It happens so often that it has its own name: "Stealing Valor."
And if this is a thing that happens, I guess that means you can't just take people at their word when they say they've been in the CIA. I guess...?
So, that evening, I sent my paranoid little letter off to the CIA. Then, I had dinner, and then I went to sleep, not expecting anything.
Heck, I probably forgot that I'd even sent it-- it was just a moment of tumblr-spurred mirth, after all. I had the notion that the CIA won't actually tell you who its Secret Agents are. If you've ever wondered if Tom King was fibbing about his CIA career, you probably didn't take that extra step of writing the CIA because (a) you have that same notion, that being a Secret Agent is, uh, a secret, and (b) unlike me, you tragically don't have a sufficiently prestigious tumblr blog that you needed goofs for.
But I needed that goof-fuel, darling.
I certainly didn't expect the CIA to write back!
...
Then, the CIA wrote back:
First, let me note that it's an extremely odd feeling to get a letter in the mail from the CIA. I always assumed the CIA didn't communicate with people by ordinary mail. Based on a lifetime of bad movies, I just assumed that if I ever spoke with the CIA, they'd have a man in a black trenchcoat meet me in a park. Or I’m brown, so maybe I assumed that I would meet with the CIA under more “caged” circumstances.
I never imagined the closest my life would come to a spy novel would be “I got a form letter about a Batman writer”.
You kind of do a little "am I on camera? Is this a Jamie Kennedy experiment?" move before opening an envelope that has “The CIA” on it, too, which is great fun. All in all, I recommend having the experience.
Also an “extremely odd feeling”?
"We do not have a record of the individual."
.... what?
But wait. Wait-- wait!
There had been news articles. News articles about how he was in the CIA! Actual journalists had looked at this-- not just schlocky commentariat that the Very Serious Comic Fans on the internet frowned upon. Real, entertainment journalists-- the kind that write recaps of TV shows!
Entertainment journalism-- that's a proper thing, right? Isn’t that a thing?
This was an e-mail exchange I had in April 2016 with a journalist for a general-audience internet publication-- not a writer for a comics-focused website. Let me type out the interesting bit, in case that’s a little fuzzy for you:
He and Geoff Johns mentioned that he’d worked for the CIA during the creators announcement at WonderCon. From that, I did an interview with Tom at the convention. It was a quick turnaround. All of it was taken at his word and supported by DC. There have been comic press articles in the past mentioning that background, though it wasn’t the main focus. If you have reasons to believe his claims aren’t true, I’d be interested in hearing.
Oh dear, "entertainment journalism" might not actually be a thing, you guys!
This was an e-mail to someone who had written an article with the word “CIA” literally in its headline, essentially asking me (a random person e-mailing them) if perhaps *I had any information* about whether Tom King was really in the CIA.
Is that how journalism is supposed to work? I suppose that I don’t know. What the hell do I know about journalism? I just know what you know-- that if you have lunch with Bari Weiss, apparently the thrilling taste of a shrimp salad sandwich and the pleasure of her company will somehow magically make you forget how completely noxious and toxic her contribution to public life is.
But maaaaaaybe, instead of “entertainment journalism,” all we really have are clickbait farms that are so desperate for "content" that they put a minimal effort into any kind of fact-checking, in order to more quickly churn out articles. In which case, we can't rely on any of the shit that gets published as actually having journalistic merit, as having been checked or double-checked, as having been vetted or verified-- especially when it comes to a "who really gives a shit?" industry like comics, since the point of the articles is just to generate clicks from a historically disrespected audience, not to challenge them.
And maaaaaaybe that's a situation getting infinitely worse since even talking about the wrong guy could get you sued, including where comics are concerned.
But wait, wait, wait, wait-- look, there's DC Comics. The entertainment journalist I had contacted said DC supported King’s story-- Geoff Johns himself had vouched for that story. It’s not like DC would do all that without checking-- right? It's not like DC Comics would allow one of its star writers to steal valor-- right???
Sure, we could say DC Comics has an imperfect history when it comes to "women" or "treating women like human beings" or "looking the other way for years and years after getting complaints that its employees mistreat women" or "hey they never fired any of the high-level executives who looked the other way for years and years while one of their editors preyed upon women, even though those high-level executives had thereby created an unwritten company policy to tolerate and thus ratify sexual misconduct, irreversibly damaging the culture around comics".
Heck, we'd all say that they’re terrible people enabled by cowards, where that topic is concerned. All of us. Every single one of us. No hesitation.
But who is saying that DC Comics has a history of not catching that one of its writers was lying about having served his country?
...Oh, except True Believers might remember: DC Comics tooooootally has a history of failing to catch that one of its writers had lied about having served his country!
Back in about 2004, there was a comic called Stormwatch, and the writer of that comic claimed to have liberated Panama while working for the Army Rangers. All of which was true, except (whoopsie-doozy!) for the part about a comic book writer having liberated Panama while working for the Army Rangers, because duuuuuhhhh of course that wasn't true-- were you dopers all stoned on grass??? He was some frumpy comic nerd; that was obvious bullshit; he got caught (though not by DC, who did not give a shit, not enough to check); it was remarkably embarrassing.
But this is completely different than that.
This isn't some comic guy ridiculously claiming to have liberated Panama while being an Army Ranger.
This is a comic guy claiming to have liberated Iraq while being a CIA Counter-terrorism agent.
Completely different!
But wait a second, Tom King also wrote for Marvel Comics. And it's not like Marvel comics has a history of letting writers lie about who they are...
...except for when Marvel's editor-in-chief lied about who he was, when bizarrely impersonating an Asian man, astonishingly without there being any real consequence for having done that, whatsoever.
So...
...
... what?
IV. RELAX YOUR CRACK, FOGHORN
Anyways, after I got this letter from the CIA, nearly three year passed.
(Let's just say if your question as you read this is "why didn't you do better comics journalism", the very most I am able to answer that question at the moment is to just wave my hand vaguely at those three years and then kind of shrug confusedly. The reasons for that will presently have to remain as secret as the truth about the CIA’s contact with UFO’s).
Three years is enough time to take a deep breath.
Is this letter I received from the CIA three years ago evidence of... anything, really?
The answer is obviously no.
After all, the CIA also checked a box that says "A release was not provided from the individual. Please provide his/her authorization and resubmit the request."
Because my letter didn't attach some kind of release from Tom King authorizing the release of his personal information, perhaps the CIA was not in a position to really answer my question. Maybe they have to say they don’t know an employee if the employee hasn’t provided a release. Who knows? I don't know how the CIA works. What do I know about the CIA??? I just know what you know-- that George HW Bush had them invent AIDS.
Obviously, some form letter plus me fussing about comics history are alone not sufficient evidence to conclude anything. Not really.
Or when the CIA suggests that it doesn’t know anyone named “Tom King” -- heck, maybe he didn't use the name Tom King while he worked for the CIA. Maybe he had a cool spy name, like spies have in the James Bond movies. Maybe the CIA knows Tom King only by his Official Spy Name of Patty Myvagina or Vani LlaNipples. Or maybe Tom King is just his pen name, and his real name is Tommy Godemperor-- maybe Tom King is his more humble pen name.
Or maybe the CIA forgot who Tom King was-- maybe the CIA was just really hammered while he worked for them. Bitch, you don't know the CIA's life-- you don't get to judge us!
Or after that Stormwatch fracas, maybe DC Comics actually learned a lesson and put in place some kind of system (any kind!) to make sure none of its writers were possibly engaged in stealing valor before supporting and vouching for their service, rather than just trusting in the “moral character of comic book writers.” Maybe that's a no-brainer that they should have such a policy given their history of dealing with some rather scummy-sounding individuals. And therefore, maybe it'd be extremely unusual if they were unable to answer (a) whether such a policy existed or (b) how Tom King's claims about being in the CIA were checked on by them (if at all). Maybe that’s what this story would actually be about, in an ideal world!
(Put me down as being hypothetically curious about that, if anybody wants to ask, as I would sure expect that DC would be extremely cooperative with promptly answering such reasonable questions!)
If you stop and think, there's a million reasons why some CIA form letter is potentially meaningless-- a million ways I could be made to look offensively stupid, in short order. Pay stubs! Medals and certificates! Employee ID! Friends from the service! Or maybe the CIA already has said something contrary to their form letter, that I somehow missed, or Tom King put some evidence out already that I’m blissfully unaware of. All in all, Tom King and/or his super-fans can most probably make me look very small and very foolish, very easily.
So am I saying you should not believe Tom King’s story or “official” biography? No, I am unable to say that, and am definitively not saying that, at this time. You are urged to continue to believe whatever it is you may have believed heretofore.
(Based upon the foregoing, and in order to make the foregoing again 100% clear, here is a little DISCLAIMER, affirming that I am neither stating nor implying that I have any substantive knowledge of any unique kind as to Tom King's affiliations with the CIA or the veracity of his representations relating thereto, or DC Comics's actions with respect to that subject, or the knowledge of any party in relation therewith. At best, I am offering only mere opinions on this topic (which I understand to be a matter of public interest) and in fact, my ultimate opinion on this topic is that any documents attached hereto are unreliable. Such documents and opinions are presented herein purely for entertainment purposes, and not to be relied on beyond the purposes presented herein, within these United States or elsewhere, from now until the end of time. I am further adding that though I have quite disliked the one or two Tom King comics I have read at present date and may have said so in an animated fashion for entertainment purposes, I have no personal malice towards Mr. King and in fact, wish him the best, in all of his future endeavors. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed as a waiver of any of my rights at law or in equity, all of which are hereby expressly reserved).
V. A RADAR TOWER IN ALASKA
And so once this gets properly snope-d, (*if* that should happen... shrugs confusedly), it’s more likely than not that
the CIA's form letter will be proven to be an innocent mix-up;
my suspicions will be proven paranoid, disgraceful, dull;
DC will be happy to explain all the things they did to properly investigate Tom King's claims before vouching for them in the media;
I'll somehow be made to look even more buffoonish than ever before-- which is no small feat.
It will be a great day for everybody -- except terrorists, who would have to continue to fear the writer of The Batman, day and night.
(And I guess I'll have made an enemy of a counter-terrorism specialist-- Jack Bauer might take a break writing about the Penguin to set up a perimeter around my one-bedroom apartment. That might suck, but wheeeee, life's an adventure!)
But regardless of what happens next, regardless of what embarrassment may be coming my way, I will say this: watching Tom King for the last three years, and getting to ask "But What if He Weren't" has been delightful. Just getting to ask that question has been a gift.
“There used to be a bounty on my head from the fucking Taliban-- I can deal with a few Twitter followers.”
These quotes have been weirdly entertaining for me, in a very dark kind of way, difficult to verbalize. I've gotten to see these (possibly innocuous) statements as fun clues to a Mystery that other people weren't even trying to solve. Does this sound like a real-life CIA Agent to the rest of you?? How am I the only person going “W-w-wait a second” here??? But maybe that is what a CIA agent sounds like-- probably that’s what we ultimately learn from all this! After everything, why would I expect the Deep State would sound any better than that??? Wheee!
It has been a singular experience for which I am enormously grateful to the CIA and Mr. King. It’s been a real crack-up.
The part that I actually keeping coming back to, though, the part that's been the most interesting part for me hasn't been what job some guy had before writing Batman. No, the part I keep coming back to is the part we started at:
Why do comic fans want Batman to be written by a CIA agent?
Why is that a selling point?
"What does it take to be good at writing? Oh, a career in counter-terrorism." -- Charles Dickens.
Wait, wait, he never said that because that's not a thing people go around saying!
And yet comic fans seem to believe it. Why?
Counter-terrorism experience has very little to do with the job of crafting characters, believable dialogue, solid plotting, interesting page layouts, etc. I don’t read his comics, but I’m not sure I understand how dreaming up “What if Batman got engaged to Catwoman?” ever necessarily required a jaunt to Mahmoudiyah, how one informs the other. It just seems to be a non-sequitur.
During those same nearly-three years, some left-leaning guy was fired from writing GI Joe, allegedly because he clumsily expressed some (very dumb sounding) 9/11 sentiment online (though IDW disputed that). And Marvel Comics during that same time tried to publish a team-up comic with military contractor Northrup Grumman, that it had to cancel after a backlash.
Maybe for comics fans, having a leftist write G.I. Joe wasn't America enough, the Northrup Grumman comic book was too-America in ways that it's uncomfortable to think about, while the guy who writes Batman being a CTU agent is just America-enough, in some kind of psycho Goldilocks scenario.
I subscribe to a certain level of "Support the Troops", at least as I define that phrase for myself. I don't know how positively I feel about the CIA's history generally or in Iraq specifically (some of that torture stuff sounded pretty uncool!)-- I don’t know what I make of our foreign policies generally. But I had a Midwestern upbringing and as such, I suppose that I do believe to some extent in certain old-fashioned ideas about sacrifice and there being a respect owed that. At least, I had a friend who didn’t quite survive Iraq, not really, so I feel a certain way about that. And perhaps that’s a feeling or an experience shared by many comics fans.
But my gut's saying that's not the whole story, though, about why fans would get so turned on by the idea of a CIA Batman writer.
Comics-- you pick up sometimes on a lot of messy relationships with the concept of masculinity. People might not remember, but comics used to have these utterly grotesque message boards where comic people would yell "LOOK AT ME, I LOVE WHISKEY" at each other, night after night, role-playing He-Man at each other. And it certainly bleeds into the contents-- it's a lot of characters solving problems through fight scenes; a lot of orphans who never knew their dads because OH EXQUISITE PAIN; a lot of women who have to die because they don't understand how hard it is to Man. Ahhhh, to Man-- so difficult!
You pick up on this being a hobby particularly beloved by people with damaged relationships with their father figures.
Maybe a story about the writer of Batman being a CIA agent gives those fans some feeling of being macho-adjacent, that fills some hole for them, that satisfies some fantasy, for reasons maybe too dark to really talk about much.
VI. THIS TAPE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT
But I don’t think this is really a story about Tom King.
When you look at the whole structure of things, when you look at How the World Is, with comics, with anything...
How much do you see a system that can be easily gamed?
Put another way: do you believe you live in a world where people have it in them to be dishonest? Do you live in an ecosystem that gives people a motive to lie?
And if so, do you believe you live in a world where our systems work, and our institutions work, a world where dishonest people will be caught and not allowed to promulgate falsehoods without being stopped? Do you believe you live in a world with journalism in it and not just hot takes? Do you believe you live in a world where anyone's checking the hype, besides creeps on tumblr who Very Serious Comic Fans all gave up on eons ago?
Do you believe you live in a world where the truth matters to anyone?
And if not, if your answer to any of these questions is no, then who do you trust? Who can you trust if you fear that you live in a world where dishonesty is a winning strategy? Why trust anyone? Why trust anything?
I'm not a comics journalist (generally)-- comics journalism probably just gets you sued. And to the extent I might have liked for actual "comics journalism" to have been done here, (waves hands at three years and shrugs confusedly).
But maybe we can both at least marvel at what's possible, how much might be possible, in these confused times, among these sometimes-troubling people. All the bizarre and uncanny possibilities, in this strange place where we hope we are awake.
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Chippenham Museum Reopening with Modern Art Exhibition • Chippenham Town Council
Chippenham Museum is reopening to visitors on Monday 17 May with new modern art exhibition Spotlight On. Open Monday to Saturday with free entry, visitors can drop-in 10am to 1pm or book a free timed ticket at 1pm, 2pm or 3pm to enjoy sole use of the museum.
Open until 19 June, ‘Spotlight On: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham Museum’ is the second part of the museum’s exhibition series celebrating North Wiltshire’s creativity. View 40 works from the museum’s post-war modern and contemporary art collection. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics and photography; almost all of which are on display for the first time. All 40 works also feature in an accompanying catalogue (£5) available from the museum and its online shop.
Melissa Barnett, Head of Heritage and Museum Services, said “We are thrilled to be welcoming visitors back to share our love of Chippenham. Our Spotlight On exhibition is the perfect exhibition to reopen with: a collection of artworks uniting to represent our local area’s inspiring creative community. We would like to thank the artists for donating their artworks and making the collection possible.”
Local artists Amy-Jane Blackhall and Tristan Reid delivering artworks to Chippenham Museum for the exhibition
The museum has been awarded Visit England Good To Go status, with a detailed plan to ensure visitor safety in line with government guidance including enhanced cleaning, test and trace recording and use of face coverings.
Melissa continued “Across the country many have missed the peace and comfort of spending time in museums and galleries. We offered Private Views when we reopened last year, which were popular with families and those who felt more at ease with sole use of the museum. We’re pleased to be offering Private Views again in the afternoons alongside the ability to drop-in in the mornings.”
Alongside the exhibition, visitors to John Coles Park and Monkton Park can spot ten images of the exhibition’s artworks on trees with trail Art Outdoors. Scan the trail’s QR codes for information about the artists and trees while enjoying Chippenham Town Council’s green spaces. This trail has been sponsored by The Kington Langley Arts Society. The museum has also launched a blogs series introducing thirteen of the artists featured in the exhibition.
‘Spotlight On: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham Museum’ is open from 17 May to 19 June. Chippenham Museum is a free entry Chippenham Town Council facility. The museum looks after and shares the town’s collection of 35,000 objects with events, family activities and changing art and historical exhibitions.
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1. Chance to make new buds2. Throwing out head cannons3. Having a mutual enjoyment in a pairing to the point of tagging and such
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