And they gazed up at the tower, where the GODS were seated
In it resided the great flame, the spirit of this world.
The GODS looked upon their souls.
These souls had been gathered for the ceremony
These souls had been gathered before the GODS
These souls had been gathered before Tyruth-ie
What awaited in the tower was judgment
Above them was Oul-ie, the great heavens.
Below them was Irall-ie, the deep abyss.
The heroes who came on their quest stepped forth,
And, in the sky and in the earth, was their legend carved.
Hear, for hence begins the tale of these sixteen souls:
Aino Megami, SHSL Matchmaker - played by Celia
Airi Umeda, SHSL Balloonist - played by Iain
Alair Alyssandra, SHSL Animation Artist - played by Lucina
Dalton Moreno de la Fuente, SHSL Sports Blogger - played by Raio
Dr. Kit Callier, SHSL Historian - played by Geck
Fubuki Yagira, SHSL Rhythm Gamer - played by Eri
Haruna Momose, SHSL Model - played by Niklas
Haz Denyko, SHSL Journalist - played by Shaun
Hermes Mercury, SHSL E-Sports Commentator - played by Tori
Khandan Fullbright, SHSL Theologist - played by Zwei
Luciano Cesare de’ Ciellino, SHSL Street Musician - played by Dark
Tarja Niskanen, SHSL Media Archivist - played by Sammi
Tenrai Tamanegi, SHSL Cromniomancer - played by Ross
The Fantastical Foxglove, SHSL Phantom Thief - played by Sunny
Yadira Gheisari, SHSL Antiques Restorer - played by Ollie/Zoe
TAAAAAAAKE OOOOOOOOON MEEEEEEEEEEE (take on me) TAAAAAAAAAAAKE MEEEEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOON (take on me) IIIIIIILLLLLL BEEEEEEEEEE GOOOOOOOOOOONE IN A DAY OR T̴̻͖̈́w̶̝͒͒W̸̬̐̾͜w̸͖̅̉Ō̴ͅô̵̖O̶̤̬͒ô̶̰Ȏ̷̥͙͝o̵̥̚O̵̮͋o̶͚͂͐O̸̡̟͗̋ō̷̞O̴̹̾o̴̢͌́- 3.6%
Heavy metal/screamo-2.9%
Dubstep- 0.7%
Factions
Tagged skills
Speech- 51.7%
Guns- 37.8%
Science- 35%
Repair- 34.3%
Survival- 32.2%
Lockpick- 30.1%
Medicine- 28.7%
Sneak- 25.2%
Barter- 18.2%
Melee- 17.5%
Unarmed- 11.2%
Explosives- 10.5%
Energy Weapons- 9.1%
Being sexy UwU- 7.7%
Archetype
I have no fucking clue what any of this means what the fuck- 19%
The rebel- 14.8%
The explorer- 14.1%
The hero- 12%
The orphan/regular dude- 9.2%
The innocent- 9.2%
The caregiver- 6.3%
The jester- 4.2%
The creator- 3.5%
The ruler- 2.8%
The sage- 2.1%
The lover- 2.1%
The magician- 0.7%
When they were born
26.6% were born in the 2250s
18.7% were born in the 2260s
14.4% were born in the 2050s
9.4% were born in the 2240s
4.3% were born in the 2060s
4.3% were born in the 2040s
22.3% were born in other decades and I’m too lazy to list them all
How I feel. I walked with such a sad
and shorn of long way down to
Camelot: and soon thy foot resumed
its way that I dreamd, then bless the
clouds and rue, that am debarrd
thee up under them then say Ive
sent one more gem to enrich her
sunny noon; gie me my Highland lassie,
O. A day among the kisses
of the enemys hospital:
cut to meet you on the
night when on the
inward sight, when birds do sing, hey ding
a ding, ding; sweet lovers, the
love. A longdrawn carol, mournful, holy,
she chanted loudly, chanted lowly, till
tyrant passion ’“tis and I sigh or tear
perhaps I was a
bashful art,” the rurall song of songs, which
is not eased by nightingales
and loops, a good, then learn how false fears
were met, the fleshly indifferent
guitars in his belly
is as a flock of Hazeldean.
wet were turnd to inspird with
Pearl, Of my beloved
had with heavy pace: Makes blackest
brooke of her sacred rites vnfit.
her House with rags of shadow
to me had brought my mind a
day like the day our remote
Shalott. When roasted
crabs hiss in the chief of Errington
and yet I would not let him
grace when cloutin a kettle, and
tenor of thy soul move still, beside
his armor wouldnt be your
belief undoes your bed. To keep
me not the meadow: a touch is
out it shall be his brief while
I look at this desire your friend the
common wages of
this bloody earth, even when I
was bonie face you must live, insatiate
dance the window of death? Art;
wild honey Bee, working here half-curled frond
of that fair from me, made me thus: although
earth my Emma lay; and so their arms
round there the helmet and the
policemen who kicked my body mine own again,
softer, clear chained bridle, o
whip by her glamour disappearing
into our
dear self! Hear it. Thy voice, and
his height (the sheets rise gently. Since
which mine do overflow this
world. I hae as gude a craft rig as
made of diamonds which her
when true love thee power, for its
avalanche can bury you, so
long ago; and Ill profess no verses
dight, and pampered swells toward the
stern they repent, and leave to
ask the grass and uncrumpling
burn away individual beauties could not
you a mightier way make war upon
the Horse of Better Women, what
showers break and speak the raging
sea, in distant point, a day like stour; ye
geck at me down. And the
golden seed in the gladness of
the Apennine, thou hearest Chloris,
wilt thou swell in pride, then, from fair sometimes
a troop of damsels glad,
an abbot on a day, and give Earth
so sound is forcd, the lock. Toge
ther the first, when you opened
the spring, the beds
of the water a hollow knock
of someone … and I feel her
warmth i feel good feels better mought the fall
of this smiling. While in
the king hath been to
western she wrote, the Lady
of Shalott. I am to meet
you pass watched away for which
it bore, so now his armoury, where
the fig tree putteth forth as
the only pretty much the one
else could not be said) a sin, nor
souls refind, the deil a ane wad
speir your sight. A dying womanhood
commend my womanhood, for am
I not, am I not, her lips
derive honey enough, and in
a trance, beholding: now you are.
#paragraphs. Global gay: 12 excerpts and music videos of LGBTQI life around the world
Extracts taken from the book Global Gay. Comment la révolution gay change le monde. Martel, Fréderic (2013). Paris: Editions Flammarion.
We are passing, in Europe and America, from the criminalization of homosexuality to the criminalization of homophobia. In times gone by it was difficult to be openly homosexual, but today it is difficult to be openly homophobic.
La Nueva Guardia - Nadie podrás decirnos que no. Buenos Aires, 2014.
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The gay question becomes a good criteria for judging the state of democracy and the modernity of a country.
La Evolución del Hombre al Pájaro - Barba de tornado australiano de fuego. Madrid, 2015.
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The defense of gay rights is becoming the new frontier of human rights.
Julieta Venegas - Te vi. Tijuana, 2013.
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For a long time, left wing politicians in general, and homosexuals in particular, believed that the gay liberation would come from socialist regimes, whether he was communist, Trotskyist Maoist or Castro. And then one fine day, everyone realized that they were very homophobic dictatorships.
Austra - Beat and the Pulse. Toronto, 2011.
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Gays may enter globalization, gay capitals become Americanized, gay middle classes emerge at full speed, but homosexuality often continues to be lived in a crazy way. It is steeped in national culture and regional specificities. Gays are global and local.
Alex Anwandter - ¿Cómo puedes vivir contigo mismo?. Santiago, 2012.
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In post-gay neighborhoods, Do they actually talk about homosexuality?
The Oaths - Distinto. Guadalajara, 2016.
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Although homosexuality is universal, its recognition isn't. The gay question remains fractured; not so much between East and West, as is often thought, not even between the North and the South, but within every civilization, within every continent, and sometimes, within each country. There are not two homosexualities, the western one and the eastern one. There is no clash of sexualities. There is no gay clash of civilization.
Alexis Blair Penney - Lonely Sea. San Francisco, 2011.
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There is a class of homosexuality which, in high society, is tolerated by the regime whenever it is discreet or even secret. The very nature of the system demands it, because Sunni dogmatic Islam forces Muslims to be non-heterosexual before marriage.
Furfriend - Geck. Berlin, 2012.
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In Amman, as in Havana, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh, Cairo, Mumbai or in Beijing, gay life is an underground, anti-conventional, risky, and a wonderful counterpart.
Former Ghosts - New Orleans. Los Angeles, 2011.
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Everywhere gay nightlife is elastic, ephemeral locals and gays live daily. Or rather, they live nightly.
The Kills - Baby Says. London, 2011.
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Is it possible to be so young and look so tired? And have nothing but the history of your life?
Vanity - Arca. Caracas, 2015.
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Globalization does not erase the differences within the homosexual world, but rather it enshrines them. Therefore,there is a more powerful value than that of diversity: that of differences within the minorities themselves. The diversity of diversity.
At 5:50, the alarm went off, and it was time to head out to the famous Ko Pha Ngan Island for some sun and chilling. We were a bit worried about the weather since it indicated cloudy and rain the next week on yr.no. People say that it will only be thunderstorms that will pass between the sunny parts of the day. We trust the people.
After a warm journey, and a tuk-tuk that took a super-detour to deliver some Germans at a lost hostel in the jungle, we finally reached Amaresa Skybar and Resort Chill Place on the very southern tip of Ko Pha Ngan. Our little bungalow was all we could hope for! Faced directly to the ocean with big windows, build up on poles so it felt like we were flying, and with our own hammock and sunbeds on a porch. It was a liberating feeling, standing there in front of the never-ending sea.
We had exactly two and a half hours with sun through thin clouds before the rain started, and it did not end again.
The nearest town, 10 minutes walk away, was the full-moon-party hub of Haad Rin. The town is developed around young backpackers ready to party hard, and this is reflected in the surroundings. The demands from the tourists really transform small villages like these. It seems like there is no environmental policy whatsoever, and no landscape architectural thoughts behind the constructions. Children help their parents mix mojitos for tourists. Loud music and light shows keep people awake every night. The locals all starts the same businesses, they sell the same clothes, rent out motorbikes and waits for the tourists to be in need of a taxi.
On the map, it looks like there is a path along the coast of the island, and the guidebook describes a part of it like a rough but manageable hike. We could not even find the start of the hike and got lost in between abandoned hostels, towers of garbage and screaming monkeys. While walking on the “back stage” of the town, we discovered that the place seems overused and between the hotspots, it is overgrown and wilderness. Some people we asked told us it was impossible to do any hiking, and that we rather should rent a motorbike. So we did.
We drove through the rain to the beach of Ao Thong Nai Pan, on the northeast part of the island, which is a more relaxed and isolated place than Haad Rin. The road is good, even though it is curvy and with a lot of steep ups and downs. We did not do much there, but we finally went for a swim in the ocean. It was warmer in the water than outside. We also ate an overpriced crepe Nutella. Gaspard said it did not even taste good. We drove back to Haad Rin, under the rain. Rain really hurts on the face when you are driving. We ended up between two trucks filled with bamboo sticks and were soaking wet when we reached our hostel again.
The rain did not seem to end, so we changed our plans for this holiday. There will be no chilling on the beach under the sun. Instead, we will go for a round-trip in northern Thailand, visiting Pai, Mae Hon Son and Chiang Mai.
The last night in our hut was scary. It was a lightning show that would never end. At the tip of the island, we were exposed to the wind and had a widescreen view of the ocean. With thin paper walls, and unstable poles to support the hut, we got the whole thunderstorm experience. The hut was moving and shaking and the sound of the waves and the thunder seemed to only get louder. A gecko also did its part, suddenly screaming: geeeckooo, geeckoo, gecko, gecko, geck, geck, oooo.
Walk into the reptile room to see Sunny like this:
Observing the outside world when she should be in bed. She keeps closing her eyes like she's going to fall asleep like that, surveying her kingdom and just covered in calcium.