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I recently started listening to CSH and famous prophets (stars) is one of my favorites out of everything I’ve heard so far. I’ve seen you mention it on here a couple times and I’d love to hear more about your interpretation of it! Only if you feel like it of course lol but I’m not great at lyric analysis stuff and I’m super interested

hi yes i’d love to talk about it!!! i’ve been wanting to do a line by line of this song for forever so thanks for asking <3 (fair warning though this is gonna be really long)

this song is sort of the last 'event' on the twin fantasy timeline, even though it's more of a summary. it's the culmination of everything that this story has been building up to. it's a breakdown in every sense of the word. like many songs in twin fantasy and will's body of work at large, it has an insanely ambitious structure that's hard to even nail down. it's made up of around six parts but it's basically impossible to even separate into choruses/verses/bridge, etc, so i'm just gonna go section by section:

much like the first track on the album, this song starts off with a really simple, isolated bassline before will's voice comes in softly. the first thing the speaker does is apologize to the idealized future versions of himself and his partner who he had become attached to. he had all these wonderful visions of what their life together might look like, but he's finally realizing that none of that is ever gonna happen, and things are quickly coming to an end. the 'ripping of the tape' could refer to an audio tape, a reference to how the original version of this album was a lot rougher in terms of sound quality, and will has said before that he prefers the smoother, more professional sound of face to face as opposed to the lo-fi of mirror to mirror. the tape could also be what's metaphorically holding the relationship together, and it's finally failing. the speaker knows the relationship is falling apart, but the realization doesn't make it any less painful. in the final line, he shifts the blame to the subject, in a coy and resigned sort of way.

the bruises represent the speaker and his partner - painful, brought on through trauma, lesions that the speaker carries around physically on his body. 'kicking the back of the seat in' probably refers to the fact that most of the vocals for will's early projects, including twin fantasy (mtm) were recorded in the backseat of his car, hence the band name. the speaker has sort of embodied the role of 'emotional punching bag' throughout the story (you can text me when punching mattresses gets old), and the bruises, or the pain the speaker was caused through the relationship, were something he wore with pride as though they represented the burdens he was willing to shoulder for love of his partner. but the bruises are fading now, healing, steering the speaker towards the metaphorical 'healing journey' he will embark on after being set free from the expectations and needs of this person. the vocals up until this point are soft, almost spoken-word, but here we crash into a jarringly intense instrumental that totally shifts the tone.

this part is buried beneath the instrumentals, almost inaudible, but it's so important. i see this as the speaker encouraging his past self, who this album is sort of dedicated to, not to spend too much time lamenting over the end of the relationship, because everything is gonna turn out alright even though it feels like the end of the world. even still, the speaker knows his past self wouldn't listen to this advice if he could hear it.

an experience like the one conveyed through this album is very much confined to teenagers/adolescents. it's essential that the speaker and his partner are fumbling young people with underdeveloped brains. there are certain emotions and ways in which we see the world as teenagers that inevitably dampen when we become adults. even if the speaker and his partner, now grown, were to touch each other like they used to, they wouldn't be able to access the emotions that were conjured by their teenage brains. the speaker and his partner are no longer in contact, sure, but they've lost access to one another in more ways than one. the speaker likes to think that he remembers what it was like to be with his partner physically, but he gives just about the vaguest and most generic description of a human body that he possibly could, literally trailing off at the end like he can't name anything beyond a few body parts. he doesn't actually remember specifics about this person at all.

the speaker questions whether the deterioration of the relationship was his fault, if he could have done something different, been better, saved it somehow. at the same time, he's realizing that he couldn't have, and wondering if this whole thing, that he dedicated all this time and stress and agony and love and joy to, was a complete waste of time, simply because it was destined to fail. throughout this verse, the speaker is coming to terms with the end of the relationship while simultaneously resisting it. it's pretty clear that there have been a good few 'breakup scares' at this point, and the speaker isn't sure if this is the real, true, final end. is this how life is going to be from now on? waking life feels like a bad dream, and he's walking around wondering if this person is, or ever was, his, if they're truly gone. 'the great silence' is the enormous canyon that opens between two people who have just ended a relationship as intense and intimate as this. they go from indescribable closeness to functioning like complete strangers, and it would give anyone whiplash, but especially a teenager who had never felt truly loved or understood before this person. this relationship has been so unsteady that even once significant time has passed since the end, he still sometimes wakes up with the hope that he might roll over and see his former partner next to him.

will refers to himself as both 'nervous' and 'a wreck' multiple times in this album, and in several other places throughout his discography. it's kind of a recurring motif. this may also be a callback to 'the bell jar,' one of the first tracks will ever released, before he was even making music as car seat headrest. as far as 'naming names' goes, this is probably a reference to the fact that he did in fact call cate wurtz by name in famous prophets (minds) in the mtm version of the album. cate wurtz is a comic artist and the author of the lamezone series, and she may or may not be the subject of twin fantasy. i find theories about the real life person who might be the inspiration for this album largely irrelevant and uninteresting, nevermind unimportant to my personal interpretation of the album, so i'm not gonna linger on that aspect of it. the last line is probably a reference to this song's counterpart. famous prophets (minds) ends with a spoken word recitation of 1 kings 19:11 - 12. the actual final lines of the verse are as follows: "But the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper." in the song, the final line is changed to "And after the fire, a sound of sheer silence." right before will says 'silence,' the music cuts out completely.

by this point in the song, it seems like the narrator has fully accepted that the relationship has come and gone whether he likes it or not. this person has faded into and subsequently out of his life, as people often do. there's nothing more to be said, it's all over, there's no getting around this.

now we slide into the seminal refrain of this song. even though in the previous verse, it seemed like he had fully accepted the end, now he's crying and screaming and begging to go back. the end of a relationship like this is obviously going to cause some extreme inner turmoil and it's not gonna be a smooth transition for the people involved. the vocals here are kind of agonizing - it gets more and more intense until he's more or less howling. even after the final repetition, he goes on yelling and crying under the instrumentals. what is the speaker even begging to go back to? when the relationship was new and full of promise? before the two of them ever met in the first place? if he could go back, would the speaker do things differently, or does he just want to live out the events of the relationship again exactly as they happened, so he can cling to the fleeting moments of joy and hope that were there, even though he knows how things are going to end? at the end of all this, he asks his former self again not to spend too much time on it, which is somewhat ironic. once he's done yelling, the instrumentals quiet down almost entirely to just the bassline that was present at the beginning, with the occasional guitar note.

the speaker didn't want his partner to develop too high an opinion of him. even though this whole album is literally about his ridiculously high opinion of this person, he's anxious at the idea of his partner thinking of him the same way. he doesn't want to disappoint him. the speaker also asks his partner not to joke about his own death - this is the only person he's ever felt truly loved or understood by, and the speaker desperately doesn't want to lose him.

the speaker urges his partner to keep it together. because he cares about him deeply, yes, but also because he's not sure if he'll be able to give his partner the support he'd need if he truly lost it. the 'art' he mentions is likely a reference to the art of cate wurtz, but like i mentioned above i'm not interested in diving too deep into that whole deal.

now we're back to the seminal refrain of twin fantasy itself. the whole 'beach' theme is a frequently recurring motif in will's work as far back as the numbered albums. the 'grave' is the place the speaker is trying to lay his feelings for this person to rest, and the ocean is...everything. life, the universe, any given day-to-day experience that might bring up feelings of this person again. no matter what the speaker does, this situation affected him so deeply that his feelings will keep resurfacing over and over again long after the relationship has reached its conclusion.

the refrain continues in the background as the instrumentals build in intensity and will starts to shout over himself. when an artist’s work begins to gain recognition, whichever piece it was that initially drew the attention of large crowds of people may become their 'holy grail,' so to speak. if a particular song gets a singer famous, or a particular painting gets a painter famous, they might lean on the themes and techniques they used when creating that particular piece in an attempt to create another piece which draws similar attention. this leads them to 'descend into cliché' and create work with less creative integrity. the grave symbolism continues, and now at the emotional climax of the album, the speaker says he might ‘fill it in,’ signifying that he has reached some sort of emotional resolution. he is hammering in the nail to ensure that the coffin remains shut tightly, so he can finally move on with his life and walk away from these emotions which have consumed him. 'i could give you what you deserve' may be a reference to the oft repeated line ‘art gets what it wants and art gets what it deserves,’ which pops up throughout will's work. the speaker comments on the fact that he could continue to make music about this relationship, that he could ‘watch the hammer swerve,’ as he attempts to metaphorically nail the coffin shut, i.e. watch himself fail in his attempts to move on from the emotions he has drowned so many times in.

the mirror symbolism is a direct reference to the original version of this album, with the 'mirror' symbolizing the relationship between the speaker and his partner. i've talked about the 'mirror to mirror' vs 'face to face' images before, but i'll summarize it again here: the first image is one of two mirrors facing each other, creating an endless tunnel of reflection between two people who can only see themselves in the other. the face to face image is one of two people regarding each other, recognizing the other while existing as separate bodies. the mirror breaking is the transition between mirror to mirror and face to face. the fantasy is shattered, and will is now at a very different place in his life than when the original version of this album was written. he's decidedly beyond his adolescence, and he no longer sees his partner as a mirror. he wouldn't trade anything for this absolutely necessary change in perspective. 'blackstar' is probably either a reference to the david bowie album of the same name, or the radiohead song of the same name. 'painstar' is explicitly a reference to cate wurtz's work. basically, it's a concept from the lamezine comics of a star/entity which only comes around once every thousand years or so. when you touch it, you feel unfathomable pain, but only for a split second. i see the concept used as a metaphor for the pain of the relationship - was it worth the agony the speaker is currently in for the joy he once had? the vocals here once again grow increasingly intense as the speaker begs...someone, for something.

as the vocals descend in intensity, will mutters this, which is probably a reference to the bit in high to death that includes an audio sample from the movie adaptation of ray bradbury's 'all summer in a day.' it's a science fiction story which takes place on a planet where the sun can only be seen once every nine years. the main character, a girl named margot, is originally from earth, and remembers what the sun looked and felt like. the other children don't believe her, and lock her in a closet before the day the sun is supposed to show itself. when the sun does appear, the other children forget about her, and she remains locked in the closet. the sample included in the song is her calling "william! let me out! william! william! let me out, william!" margot is a stand-in for the speaker's partner, who is begging will by name to release him from the fantasy will has him trapped in. now the roles are reversed and the speaker is begging his partner to let him inside the locked closet. despite all the speaker’s efforts, the two of them still somehow end up on opposite sides of the door. will wants his partner to let him in, so that they may at least be in the dark together.

the instrumentals quiet down once again so that will is singing over a simple piano tune. this verse replaces the lyrics in the original version of famous prophets which called cate wurtz by name. in the original version, these lyrics were buried, whereas these are at the forefront, accompanied by almost no instrumentals. it's impossible for the listener to miss these. in the first ‘descend into cliché’ verse will mentioned that he could 'sing another song' as a sort of coping mechanism or way of dealing with the end of this relationship, so the 'music forsaking you' could refer to the speaker's coping mechanisms not being enough to comfort him in the aftermath of the relationship. rolling the stone over the grave is the same deal as will 'hammering in the nail' in an attempt to seal off his feelings about the relationship. this also evokes some biblical imagery, with how the entrance to the tomb of jesus was blocked with a huge stone. on the other hand, he could stare his feelings in the face, confront them head on and learn to cope. 'when the levee breaks' is probably a reference to the led zeppelin song 'if the levee breaks.' it seems like will is referencing several well-known musicians while thinking of his own 'prophecy' for his music career. this could be a reach, but the stone line might also be a reference to the rolling stones if we're going with this interpretation. the final line might refer to the fact that, even though these bands were and are incredible famous, the music industry is a cyclical entity and all famous bands will eventually fade out of the spotlight.

that 'what happened to you' might be a reference to leonard cohen's 'death of a ladies man.' will is a big leonard cohen fan and references to his work pop up fairly often. but other than that this verse fades into a soft instrumental where the fractured pieces of what will eventually be the spoken word outro start to fade in:

these are snippets from 1 corinthians 13, and reesa mallen is the actress who played margot in all summer in a day. this is a direct quote from the verse, but will shifts the order of the lines around to depart from the original meaning. the intended message of this verse is basically that love is the key to everything, and that one cannot access great and miraculous things in the absence of love. this arrangement of the lines sort of suggests the opposite - that love enters your life and wrecks you on its way out, that no matter what sort of effort you put out, when love goes it will leave you with nothing. i'll talk a little more about the use of this verse when we get to the end.

this is the true ultimate climax of the song, and of the story as a whole. it's a fractured, distorted sample of my boy, the first song on the album. i can't even describe how crazy this actually sounds you gotta just listen to it. i've talked about this before but my boy is a pretty hopeful and optimistic way to open this album, and throughout the story all that optimism and hope has pretty much been crushed. to me, this part is where the speaker has a breakthrough of sorts and truly, truly understands that it's over, even though his feelings for this person will keep resurfacing, the relationship is crumbling in his hands and soon there will be nothing left at all. the only line from my boy that's not present here is 'we won't be alone,' so do with that what you will. this section is just so insane, the instrumentals and the desperation and rawness of the vocals, there's one or two moments in here where will's voice blends completely with a guitar note, it's incredible. one of the things i love most about twin fantasy is how it manages to take this experience that would generally be regarded as frivolous, unimportant, childish, naive, etc, and successfully convey how deadly deadly serious it feels in the moment. like when we break it down to its bare essentials this album is about an online relationship between two teenagers in 2009. yet it somehow adequately conveys the absolute utter and complete long lasting devastation a relationship like this can feel in a hormone-addled teenage brain. the emotions of teenagers and adolescents are very often brushed off as overdramatic and kinda made fun of in media in general, but just because adolescent emotions are affected by teenage hormones or whatever doesn't make them any less real. in fact i think being a teenager often makes interpersonal relationship experiences similar to this all the more visceral and painful. this part of the song is where that really comes through for me and i find it so incredibly cathartic. the sheer grandiosity of the instrumentals ties it all together, and the horn arrangement in particular is amazing. will uses horns a fair amount in his work and it's always beautiful, but something about this instance specifically just shakes me to my core, man. it's like he's wailing in agony with all the choirs of heaven behind him.

now the instrumentals quiet down and an unfractured recitation of 1 corinthians 13 fades in. this verse perfectly sums up everything this story is about, and the whole idea behind remaking the album in the first place. the speaker and protagonist of the album is an adult now, and he's had years to process these events by this point. he no longer views them through that addled adolescent lens, but he remembers what it felt like to be shaken to his core by this situation. even still, he now sees the relationship for exactly what it is. he no longer sees others as a reflection of himself. he's able to regard the person who he underwent all this agony for as a separate, independent being and understand that his perception of them was false. no matter one's age, it's often borderline impossible to grasp the full significance of important life events as they're happening. only with time and reflection can we truly come to understand and process how events have affected us and how we are changed in their aftermath. the speaker in mtm is clouded by raw emotion, and therefore only capable of knowing 'in part.' the speaker in ftf is more mature, has garnered more life experience, and evidently spent many painful hours working through these events. therefore, he now 'knows fully,' and with the ability to know fully comes the ability to be fully known, to be truly loved and understood as he never could while operating under the delusions fueling this relationship. the instrumentals drop off entirely for the final line, which is a slight alteration from the actual bible quote. the original is as follows: 'And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.' this change allows for ambiguity as to which of the three remain within the speaker. the change could also refer to the two versions of the album which now exist, or it could refer to the speaker and the subject as people.

so that's famous prophets (stars). it's an absolutely incredible song and if you've never heard it you really really should. you can only really get the full affect if you listen to the whole album straight through, but i know not everybody feels like doing that lmao, same as many people don't feel like listening to a 17 minute song in the first place. but i think this song is best heard in your room, in the dark, at night, played over a speaker, while you're maybe just a little too high. can't recommend enough.

#thank you for asking i've been really wanting to write this out so i'm glad i got an excuse to #sorry it took a minute lmao i've been stupid busy #but as usual i know this is crazy long so you do NOT have to read all of it lmfao #answered #csh #twin fantasy

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sodascribbles · 1 year

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KICKS DOOR IN IM HERE FOR RTTM HEADCANONS FOR MY SELF INDULGENT FIC UNIVERSE. PRIMARILY TEAM BLUE BC THEYRE THE ONLY ONES IVE SEEN <<33 this is also mostly me bullshitting bc it has been a while since ive seen all of it but!! ill come back and retcon as needed heart emoji

below the cut bc they're long <<33

chache and snake are clones created by The Aliens™️ which i think is canon to mtm but dont quote me on that it's been a while. amy is not- the 33 in her name is an unlucky coincidence.

i cant decide if i wanna be gbu-adjacent (/ij and/or /ref) and have squid be a former blood god or if he is just The Blood God. but either way he is the Kraken as per lovely world lore

stampys immortal and has ✨ magic powers ✨ but rarely uses them. hes skilled in the same kind of wizardry that keen and heinous use, and frequently sends them letters still

snakedoctor1 was just kind of a Normal Dude who got kidnapped by aliens and cloned a lot. .....probably. i dont think about snake lore very often i only know him from mtm and squiddy sundays

superchache1 however was a... nether prince of a sort. he escaped the aliens via being summoned somewhere else, and rumor has it that he's still out there vibing

chache- our chache, 39, and every chache before that- were very firmly told that 1 was dead (he was frequently made an example of as a matter of fact)

chache and snake weren't aware of the aliens plans before the race to the moon ending, and once theyd learned it was the classic theyd grown so attached they rebelled against their creators

ok enough of clone shenanigans ill spoil the plot

amy and squid arent bio family but they grew up together and consider each other siblings <3

stampy has a twin brother, who we simply know as stampylongpants- that's not his real name, obviously, just a long convoluted joke w the familia

this twin brother has. three whole children, two of which are traumatized and adopted unintentionally and the other is probably traumatized and adopted intentionally

stampy is a great-uncle and has a dragon grandniece and at least one robot grandnephew and i will not be elaborating (.....yet)

stampy and squid are qpps sorry not sorry

chache can float. he says it's the hat. nobody believes him

KINDNESS IS REAL

i have no intent of touching shady oaks again though. so who knows how canon-adjacent shell wind up. but my girl WILL be appearing and she WILL be a sassy talking sword

squid is in fact a glowsquid

stampy is the best airship pilot of the three of them its bc he stole The Birdy

chache is vaguely technopathic but has no idea how to properly harness it so will occasionally just panic and like the jukebox will start playing or the quarry will stop/start

if you startle stampy theres like a 25% chance he bursts into flame

he does have a more human form (like squid does) but he rarely ever uses it

squid tends to flip-flop between human and squid on legs. he went full glowsquid once when him and stampy were bickering in the river below their mountain and. swam away

chache technically has a more Creachur-like form but again he has No Idea how to Use It

snake is supposed to be a creeper. something went wrong when the aliens were synthesizing but supposedly theyve since fixed it

stampy is like an 8th warden on his mother's side. usually this manifests in what he likes to call the Lay in Moss Instinct (it's exactly what it sounds like) and protectiveness over his friends

he was a normal dude at first i think but then he got cursed with furry immortality and it's been so long now that he really doesnt remember who he used to be. netty got cursed trying to reverse his curse before they decided they liked being cats better

squiashey is simply stampy's pen pal rn but dw theyll meet and date and get married even if i dont touch on it know it happened

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yourkimjaejin · 3 years

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Beyond Live - NCT: Resonace [Global Wave]

This post has been a long time coming but so much happened during this concert!

Sometimes I can’t believe I began to stan NCT just this year when it feels like five years already. I just wanna take the chance to thank the boys for their hard work during the holiday. For me, NCT really brightened up my holiday season so thank you

Now that the sappy stuff is over, Enjoy the post AGzen’s ~ Love, Author Izzy

First off let me say, Moxy and Juno were almost about to box SM’s management for their setlist. SM’s original list for AG had SLAP, WTTJ and Breakout. Moxy and Juno were not having it!!

“I thought we promised fans never before seen stages!! We want to perform more of the B-Sides fans never got to see. Unless you’re suddenly gonna announce that AG will be holding a Beyond Live, We’re gonna need this setlist to change, NOW!” ~ Juno

So the compromise the company came up with was this, Two b-sides chosen by fans and one title track that they girls decide on.

NCT AG’s twitter put up a post asking AGzen’s for their favorite AG b-sides. From that, AG’s twitter put up another tweet. This time it was a poll. The top four AG b-sides were listed. The two songs with the highest votes would be the songs the girls would perform.

The fans chose and the songs were Circle Game and Give It Up

The general consensus on why the fans chose those songs was they wanted to see the girls flex their vocal talents. AGzens knew that the had dance and rap in the bag. AG’s b-sides truly revealed how much vocal talent lies in AG

AG, themselves, decided to perform Breakout as their title track song. The girls adore the song and figured it had been awhile since they last performed it

I’ll reveal more about the new performances when we get to their placement in the show itself but for now, let’s move ahead to showday!! ~ Author Izzy

When Taeyong and SM finally announced that he would take a break to heal, SM let Taeyong pick who would fill in for his parts at the Beyond Live

Moxy arrived with the rest of AG and Jisung. On the way there, Moxy got a text from Shotaro while they were on the way to the venue

Noona, when you get here, You need to check in with Channie....I think he’s freaking out a little...

As soon as they parked, Moxy ran inside to find Doyoung pointing her to an empty dressing room. Sungchan was walking in circles, frown lines looking permanently etched on his face

SC - I don’t think I can do this noona. I can’t take Taeyong’s place. What if the fans hate me for this!

M - *Pulls Sungchan down to sit next to her* Channie....You are not taking Taeyong’s place. You’re covering for him so he can finally get some rest and the fans know that. They are gonna be so proud you because I already am *Kisses his cheek*. And so is Taeyong. You are gonna do great, Channie!!!

Moxy hugs him tight causes a smile to bloom on his face

M - Now lets get in one more practice in before the pre-record. I wanna make sure that second verse is flawless ok?

SC - Ok, Noona.

Moxy watched Sungchan run over Boss choreo with Mark and Juno one last time. Sungchan visibly relaxing and finally starting to have fun. Juno kept an eye on her dongsaeng during the recording

AG had a run through of one of their performances after The Boss unit+ Sungchan finished their pre-record

All of the girls had sparkles in their hair and graphic eyeliner around their eyes for makeup.

For the 90′s love performance, Hannah was once again rocking her ICONIC black outfit. This time her hair was in a ponytail, certain strands with crimped for volume. AGzens posted a ton of pictures of Hannah’s abs

“How did we not notice Hannah’s abs before!!!”

Aurora was looking every bit of the queen she is during the Work It performance. Her costume was a new short two piece dress with lace on the skirt. Aurora’s hair was down and curled on the ends.

Aurora rocked her lines as usual. She got real sassy when her rap line came up.

“Sass master Aurora reporting for duty!!”

During the first mnet, Haechan pointed out that technically this is AG’s first concert and asked Hannah and Aurora how they felt

H: I think we put a a lot of pressure on ourselves to put our best foot forward since this is the first time czennies will see us in a concert setting.

A: Yeah, I while this is cool we really hope things will open up soon so we can have our own concert

The rest of the members began ‘ooo’ing at Aurora’s comment

Next Stage: Nectar

Hannah was the definition of do it like a dude in this performance. All of her fans were drooling over her.

The next stage was Give It Up by AG. The song has been rearranged to include Hannah. Hannah did a quick change into her costume while Juno, Moxy and Aurora started the stage

They actually performed from the backstage area to the main stage. By the time that got close to the stage doors, Hannah was finished changing. Hannah entered just as her part started. The girls were all wearing skinny jeans, cropped basketball jerseys with black t-shirts underneath and platform vans.

LORD HAVE MERCY!!! DID THESE GIRLS SING THEIR BUTTS OFF!!

MTM (Musical Theater Moxy) came out to play with her best friend Queen Juno. These two vocals were on another level.

And don’t sleep on Aurora and Hannah, they held their parts down!

The members of AG were strutting like they were filming their own version of Strut by the Cheetah Girls.

And at the end they nailed their final note, harmonies on point and no loss of breath

“Ok I knew AG had pipes....but DAMN THEY HAVE PIPES!!!!”

“Why is literally everyone a main vocal in AG. It’s truly unfair...”

Once the girls finished, Aurora took off her basketball jersey and handed off to Juno. The three older AG members walked off the stage, leaving Aurora. The Dream members joined her. Jaemin handed off her leather jacket to put on for the Ridin’ performance

Next we have the Make A Wish performance........................WITH MOXY COVERING TAEYONG’S PART!!!!

Taeyong had picked her to cover his parts. SM wanted one of the guys members to do it but Taeyong stopped them

Taeyong: Moxy’s got this! Trust me. (And got this she did)

Moxy’s swag level on stage is normally around a 8 or 9. For this MAW performance she somehow turned it up to 15. Moxy went into this performance wanting to make Taeyong proud but also show him that he had nothing to worry about. That the 22 members of NCT could manage with out him

Moxy literally runs off stage to get ready for the All About You performance. Jaehyun tells the fans that Moxy isn’t doing this Mnet because she is getting ready for the next performance

During the All About You performance, If you were watching Mark or Moxy’s face cam, you would have seen the two of them upstairs on the bed messing with each other (That sentence sounds bad doesn’t it??? I promise it was clean fun ok?).

At one point, Moxy was kneeling behind a seated mark, dancing and hold her camera out in front of them

After All About You, Moxy runs backstage again to change into her dress for Circle Game

After the Without You performance, Juno walked on the stage behind them towards the door Jaehyun used. When Juno appeared on the other side of the door, AG’s performance of Circle Game started.

The home stage was lit with somber lighting, The girl were all wearing white dresses and were standing on the bottom level of the set, each in front of a microphone.

The loud, boisterous voice from their last performance were replaced with soft and somber tones. The melodies and harmonies were beautiful. After the first chorus, the girls move the microphone stands out of the way

Once they get to the bridge the girls do some small choreography that they made up themselves an hour before the show started.

When the girls finished Circle Game, Juno left through the door again to join Taeil, Renjun and Xiaojun for My Everything.

After Dream performed Go and Deja Vu. You could see how happy Aurora was to perform with all the members of Dream. She even missed Mark messing with her hair and calling her mean mug.

From there, AG performed Breakout. The stylists for this concert had to carefully plan the girls costumes. The stylist left the prison costumes a went with a more simple costume. Choosing clothes that still Incorporated the bright orange jumpsuits

Moxy’s costume was particularly soft because after Breakout was a performance of Touch for 127. Fans rejoice at the chance to see soft Moxy on stage again. Next is Hannah in her all denim outfit for Bad Alive.

Lastly, 127 did a performance of Kick It where Moxy covered Taeyong verse two rap

During the fourth mnet, Aurora almost cried like Sungchan when she got her chance to talk to the fans.

Aurora: AG has been a group for two years and we haven’t been able to tour or do a concert yet. So to be here, performing for the fan’s in front of us and across the world, words can’t describe to feeling. My mom.......S-she took time off of work.....*she sniffles, Hannah and Mark put an arm around her* to see me and my sisters perform live. Eomma, I hope I made you proud tonight. I love you and I’ll see you soon.

Juno joining in on the clownery of Mark’s beginning line from Resonance

Moxy, once again covered Taeyong’s part during the Maw section of Resonance.

During the surprise live with the maknae line, Haechan was making fun of Moxy literally running around backstage to change costumes. Moxy made to attack him but Haechan ran off

AG revealing that their favorite stage tonight was Nectar!!(I mean whose favorite stage wasn’t Nectar.)

Juno, Moxy and Hannah all saying hello to Aurora’s mom during the surprise live.

#nct #NCT AG #NCT AG.Schedule #nct female member #nct female unit #nct female addition #kpop addition #kpop!au #kpop!fakegroup #kpop!addition #kpop!oc

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BepiColombo flies by Venus en route to Mercury The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission has completed the first of two Venus flybys needed to set it on course with the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury. The closest approach of the flyby took place at 03:58 GMT (05:58 CEST) this morning at a distance of about 10 720 km from the planet’s surface. Launched 20 October 2018, the spacecraft needs nine gravity assist flybys – one at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury before entering orbit around the planet in 2025. Flybys ultilise the gravitational pull of the planets to help alter the speed and direction of the spacecraft, and together with the spacecraft’s solar electric propulsion system, help BepiColombo steer into Mercury orbit against the strong gravitational pull of the Sun. The first flyby – of Earth – took place 10 April this year, returning poignant images of our home planet as the world faced lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Flying by teleworking “For the Venus flyby we conducted the large majority of our preparations over the last three months via teleworking, with only the minimum personnel required onsite during the flyby to ensure the safe operation of the spacecraft,” says Elsa Montagnon, ESA’s BepiColombo Spacecraft Operations Manager. The on-site team at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, comprised four members of the flight control team split into two groups over a period of 36 hours, together with a ground station manager, and two team members joining around closest approach to manage the images as they were downloaded from the spacecraft. “The flyby itself was very successful,” confirms Elsa. “The only difference to normal cruise phase operations is that near to Venus we have to temporarily close the shutter of any of the star trackers that are expected to be blinded by the planet, similar to closing your eyes to avoid looking at the Sun.” Two of the three monitoring cameras onboard the Mercury Transfer Module were activated during dedicated imaging slots from 20 hours before closest approach through to 15 minutes afterwards. From afar, Venus is seen as a small disc in the camera’s field of view, close to the spacecraft body. During the closest approach phase the planet dominates the view, 'rising' behind the magnetometer boom of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter. Science in the making Seven of the eleven science instruments onboard the European Mercury Planetary Orbiter, plus its radiation monitor, and three of five onboard the Japanese Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter were active during the flyby. While the suite of sensors are designed to study the rocky, atmosphere-free environment at Mercury, the flyby offered a unique opportunity to collect valuable science data at Venus. “Following the successful Earth flyby where our instruments worked even better than expected, we are looking forward to see what will come out of the Venus flyby,” says Johannes Benkhoff, ESA’s BepiColombo Project Scientist. “We’ll have to be patient while our Venus specialists look carefully into the data, but we hope to be able to provide some atmosphere temperature and density profiles, information about the chemical composition and cloud cover, and on the magnetic environment interaction between the Sun and Venus. But we rather anticipate more results next year than now, given the closer flyby distance, so watch this space!” The 2021 flyby, planned for 10 August, will see the spacecraft pass within just 550 km of the planet’s surface. Telescope teamwork Today’s encounter also provided the chance to make simultaneous measurements with JAXA’s Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter and its Earth-orbiting Hisaki Spectroscopic Planet Observatory, together with ground-based observatories to study Venus from multiple viewpoints and at different scales. “Akatsuki is currently the only spacecraft in orbit around Venus and because of its elliptical orbit it was actually 30 times further away from the planet than BepiColombo during the flyby, meaning we can compare close observations of BepiColombo with Akatsuki’s global-scale view,” says Go Murakami, JAXA’s BepiColombo Project Scientist. “A large campaign of coordinated observations are ongoing, involving professional and amateur astronomers alike, that will build a three-dimensional picture of what’s happening over time in Venus’ atmosphere, something that cannot be achieved by one spacecraft or one telescope alone," says Valeria Mangano, of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy, and chair of the Venus flyby working group. Next steps While the science teams are busy diving into the new flyby data, the operations teams will assess the performance of the Venus flyby and make a routine trajectory correction of the spacecraft on 22 October. The next dedicated solar electric propulsion arc is planned for May 2021. BepiColombo will also make its first Mercury flyby next year, in October, at a distance of just 200 km, providing the first tantalizing taste of what will follow once the mission’s two science orbiters have arrived in their dedicated orbits around the planet. There they will study Mercury’s mysteries, addressing numerous open questions in planetary science, such as: where in the Solar System did Mercury form? What is the nature of the ice in Mercury’s shadowed craters? Is the planet still geologically active? How can such a small planet still have a magnetic field? “With each flyby completed we get a step closer to answering some of these perplexing questions about mysterious planet Mercury,” adds Johannes. “Learning more about Mercury will shed light on the history of the entire Solar System, helping us to better understand our own place in space.” "While gravity assists have a practical function to set us on course for Mercury, it is wonderful to have these brief opportunities to observe Venus as we fly through the Solar System," says Simon Plum, ESA's Head of Mission Operations. "Thanks to the teams who have been working hard behind the scenes over the last months to make this flyby a success. While we work with incredibly far distances and a tremendous amount of space as we navigate the Solar System, we are again dealing with special operations under pandemic situation, where space between our people matter and the safety of our colleagues remain the number one priority.” About BepiColombo BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. Launched on 20 October 2018, it is on a seven-year journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. The mission is a joint endeavour between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), carried out under ESA leadership. BepiColombo comprises two scientific orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio). The European Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) carries the orbiters to Mercury. After arrival at Mercury in late 2025, the spacecraft will separate and the two orbiters will manoeuvre to their dedicated polar orbits around the planet. Starting science operations in early 2026, both orbiters will gather data during a one-year nominal mission, with a possible one-year extension. The mission is named after the Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920–84).

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highwiredazeken · 3 years

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THE REAWAKENING OF SUNSTORM

Interview by Ken Morton - Photo by Maurizio Del Piccolo

The melodic hard rocking sensation Sunstorm has been reactivated, featuring longtime member Alessandro Del Vecchio as well as new vocalist Ronnie Romero. Taking the place of the legendary Joe Lynn Turner, Ronnie Romero’s amazing vocals have been featured in bands such as Rainbow and Michael Schenker Group – and within the realm of Sunstorm, Romero’s performance is absolutely mesmerizing. Del Vecchio is best known for his membership within the ranks of Hardline and Edge Of Forever, as well as countless other projects and endeavors throughout his glorious tenure with Frontiers Music Srl. Highwire Daze recently interviewed Alessandro Del Vecchio to discuss the mighty reawakening of Sunstorm, their brand new album Afterlife, his longtime association with Frontiers Music, and many other epic topics. Read on…

Hi Alessandro. First of all, congratulations on the amazing new Sunstorm album! Is there any overall story or concept behind the album title Afterlife? First of all, thank you very much! I’m excited as you are for the new album. Yes, so Afterlife was the first song that we wrote for the album literally after the day we decided to move on, and we got involved with Ronnie Romero. The title I guess says it all, because it’s just to show a new chapter and new step into our future. Afterlife has this concept of getting one foot in the past and one foot in the future, because obviously we were changing our singer and we were moving forward to rebuilding the band and the brand as more of an actual group of people and not something built around Joe Lynn Turner or around somebody else’s songwriting or things like that. Like an Afterlife, a life after the actual life the band already had – so like an evolution into something brand new.

Ronnie Romero is obviously an amazing vocalist. How did he become involved with Sunstorm and what made you decide to go with Ronnie? Well, I’ve got to give kudos to our Frontiers president Serafino Perugino. I was in Florida back then. I woke up and had this message on What’s App saying “I want to move on with Sunstorm. Do you think that Ronnie Romero would be good?” And I totally jumped on it! First of all, Ronnie and I were friends, and promised ourselves to do something together as soon as we could. And to me honestly, it was the right occasion because we knew that Joe Lynn didn’t want to be part of it – he never responded to our communications about doing a new Sunstorm release. So, it was the perfect combination of our songwriting and our style – some kind of a newer voice – like a new generation sound and voice so we could project our band into the future.

What do you think of Ronnie’s work with Michael Schenker Group this year – and have you ever met or worked with Michael Schenker? I met Michael Schenker. We played I guess 3-4 times with MSG in Spain with Hardline and then we did the 70K Tons of Metal Cruise when we were with Archon Angel with Zachary Stevens. I met very briefly only once Michael, but I’ve never worked with him. But I’m very happy for Ronnie to be one of the new singers for Michael Schenker. I mean it’s kind of ironic and cool that both Joe Lynn and Ronnie are with Michael Schenker (on the new MSG album Immortal). It’s a strange twist of fate, but cool. Ronnie is my friend and my brother, and I couldn’t be happier to see him to succeed and even be more out there. I support the guy – even before he became the singer that we all know him to be.

Tell me about the inspiration behind Swan Song and that video. The video is obviously a pandemic edition of what you would do with a whole band in a field filming all together. We had to film it separately – like four different locations and put it all together. And it’s Ronnie’s wife in the video. The video is obviously related to the lyrics, and the lyrics just tell the story of what we’ve seen in this very trying challenging time. We’ve seen lots of people just fall apart and go separate ways. I don’t know how many friends of yours have broken up, but I’ve seen lots of friends of mine, and they just couldn’t cope with the times – and they had to change everything they had around them. And that song is about your swan song – your last moment into a relationship, into your friendship, into your job, into something that you love – and you have to lose something somehow. But it’s also a hopeful message into everybody’s karma, into everybody’s who is in that moment. Well, you know, the swan song is never the last chance that you’re going to have in your life – it’s always a metaphor for change for something that’s coming next. The album is kind of a personal, spiritual, hopeful message – and just to say that whatever we’re living through right now, it’s not going to be forever, so we’ve got to learn at adapt. Things are probably never what we want them to be, but we’ve got to adapt to the challenges and possibilities that life is throwing at us.

What has it been to like to record this album in the middle of a pandemic and so much social unrest in the world? The only thing that really changed was that I had more time to write. I had more time in the studio just because I wasn’t on tour. I was supposed to go on tour March 15th and stay on tour until the end of the year – and probably I would have written the Sunstorm album on the road like in the past. Like taking advantage of long flights and long travels and tour buses and countless hours around in hotel rooms. Normally I’m a natural writer and I always write. But recording, I guess musicians were the most pandemic ready, working class in the world to be socially distanced thanks to the Internet and have been making records like that for years. We probably would have done most of the process together, but it’s not the first album where musicians like myself or other producers do in the distance. I really like to embrace what is the good side of technology. The pandemic obviously hit us for the video, for pictures, for the fact that we couldn’t do the vocals and the drums all together, so we had to be separated – but you know, we took the good out of it. We had more time – that we weren’t on tours – Ronnie was supposed to go on tour as well. So, we turned a negative happening into something positive with this album.

Frontiers Music Srl is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this year. How did you initially meet Serafino and become involved with Frontiers? So, the first time I got in touch with Frontiers was around 2002 when we were shopping the first Edge Of Forever album. Then we ended up signing to MTM Music, which back then was Frontiers’ competitor, but Frontiers was also distributing them through their distribution in Italy. In 2004, when we released the first Edge Of Forever album, Frontiers was distributing us in Italy, so I met them back then. And then we stayed in touch for the years because I had record distributed by them. But it was in 2011 – almost 10 years ago – I sent them an email because I was doing successful albums for other labels and I knew they had Dennis Ward and Erik Martensson working a lot with them, so I was like, “Maybe they don’t need another producer – maybe they don’t need another songwriter. But let me challenge my destiny.”

So, I sent Elio an email saying “How are you? It would be so great during this year to work together. I was guessing maybe we could get to a closer relationship. Maybe you need songs or a producer or a mixing engineer?” And he was like “Well, we’re looking for songs for Robbie LeBlanc and Find Me. Do you have songs?” I never have songs – I’ve got to write in the moment. I was like “I don’t have it, but I could write it and get back to you very soon.” And I don’t think they expected to hear from me for a few days, but the same day I sent them the first Find Me song. Then the asked for a second one, a third one, a fourth one, a fifth one, a sixth one – and then I got an email from Serafino himself saying “Well, I like what you’re doing. Tell me more about the way you operate. Do you have a studio or whatever is your way to getting these songs to us?” And I told him what I was doing and during that conversation, he was like, “Well, would you like to write and work with Johnny Gioeli?” And I was like “What!?!” He was in Hardline! Out of one email I sent, I got a job as a songwriter – and now I’m in freakin’ Hardline!?! Everything in the matter of a few days.

Back then, when I sent in the Danger Zone master by Hardline, Serafino asked “Who would you like to work with?” And I was like “That’s kind of a strange question from the person you’re committed just to produce.” And I sent them a list with Joe Lynn Turner, Fergie Frederiksen and so many others. And we still laugh at it, because we did everything that I sent in that email. So, our relationship started like I’m not that kind of musician – I’m not a good feature on myself – but I knew I had talent and qualities – and I knew what I could do in a label like that, because I knew I could do really great for the label if they gave me an opportunity. And thank God Frontiers is always open for opportunities. If you see all the new signings and the younger acts that they sign, it’s crazy. So out of one email, I got this amazing adventure with them – with 100 or more records and I don’t know – maybe 400 songs – it’s crazy! We’re still trying to keep the numbers, but it’s been a very fortunate, great creative 10 years together, and we’re pushing to more!

On the same day as the Sunstorm release, you have the new ISSA CD coming out – two new releases in one day… Well, it’s actually three new releases, because I wrote three songs, and I recorded all backing vocals for Secret Sphere too. So, it’s three in the same day.

How does it feel that you have three albums coming out in one day (March 12th)? It’s challenging on the one side because I would like to give promotional wise the same amount of push to all the albums, but obviously Sunstorm is a band that I’m a part of – so now what do I do? We always talk about it and “obviously your priority is on Sunstorm because ISSA is going to promote the album, herself.” And Secret Sphere – they don’t need my promotion. It’s more about me, because I like to give 100 percent to everything I do. But tomorrow I’ll come out and say “It’s another multiple release day and enjoy the albums. They’re all out there. Just love the music.” That’s the only thing I can do, but it makes me feel very grateful. I feel that it’s a luxury nowadays – with all the struggling musicians, I have found a way and a balance to put out all these great records and to somehow unleash this creative fury and strength and force that I have in me. So, it’s more like a good mirror of my person – a very creative volcano. It’s a little challenging on one side, but I feel very grateful, and I feel energized that I will do even more – and that’s a good push for myself.

What do you hope 2020 brings you for and for Sunstorm and for music in general? For Sunstorm, we’re hopefully working through these challenges to bring the band on the road. So, we will do our best to turn Sunstorm into a touring entity as much as we can. For music in general, I really, really hope that 2021 is going to be a year where we can at least start to see some live activity because records are cool – and we’re all grateful that we can still manage to make records and produce – but the energy that you get onstage playing your songs, and seeing what your songs are doing to the crowd – it’s unbeatable! And it’s a bond that’s created between the audience and the musicians – and there’s nothing that could replace that. I really hope that the future is not online shows, because the interaction with the crowd is what makes concerts magical and unique. And I want to see the tears in somebody else’s eyes, and I want to hear the shouts. I want to hear the lyrics – my songs – our songs – loud through their voices. I don’t want to play for a screen – for a camera – that is fake to me. There’s no difference between that and a playback. Hopefully we will see concerts very soon. I know it will come back – I don’t know if it’s 2021 or 2022, but hopefully it will come back soon.

Sunstorm is: Ronnie Romero – Vocals Simone Mularoni – Guitars Alessandro Del Vecchio – Keyboards, backing vocals Nik Mazzucconi – Bass Michele Sanna – Drums

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Feast your eyes on this mind-blowingly close photo of Venus

https://sciencespies.com/space/feast-your-eyes-on-this-mind-blowingly-close-photo-of-venus/

Feast your eyes on this mind-blowingly close photo of Venus

Although its main mission is staring at the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will take any opportunity to send data back home to Earth.

The planet Venus represents just such an opportunity, or rather, seven of them. Seven times during its mission, the probe will swing around Venus for a gravity assist, using the planet’s gravity as a slingshot for course and speed corrections as it edges closer and closer to the Sun.

The solar probe made the third of these maneuvers on 11 July 2020, and as it approached, it took a glamour shot of the planet’s night side using the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument.

Parker isn’t the only probe to take pics of Venus as it wends its way through the inner Solar System. BepiColombo, a joint European and Japanese space agency Mercury probe, took a video of Venus as it made a gravity assist maneuver last year.

BepiColombo’s Venus flyby. (ESA/BepiColombo/MTM)

Those images show the planet as relatively smooth and featureless. That’s not at all surprising – Venus is shrouded by a thick, toxic atmosphere with clouds of mainly sulfuric acid that reflect about 70 percent of the light that hits them. That’s why Venus is one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

The Parker team expected to see a similarly featureless orb – but that’s not what they saw when they processed the WISPR data.

If you look at the image, you can see a bright glow around the rim of the planet. That, the team believes, is nightglow.

This is produced by atoms in the upper atmosphere. On the planet’s dayside, solar radiation splits upper atmosphere carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon monoxide. When night falls, the atoms recombine into carbon dioxide, causing a glow.

This is something that also occurs on Earth, and Mars, and it’s been seen before on Venus; its presence in the Parker image is not surprising.

Nor are the white streaks – while the Parker team isn’t sure what they are, there are a number of candidates, including dust, cosmic rays, material ejected from the spacecraft after being hit by dust, or a combination of all of those.

(NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher)

What is surprising is that dark smear on the planet’s face. That’s a region called the Aphrodite Terra, the largest highland region on the surface of the planet.

WISPR, designed to image the solar corona and coronal ejections, is optimized for visible light observations – yet somehow it peered through Venus’ clouds.

The scientists think they know what happened, though. Venus currently has one active mission, the Japanese Space Agency’s Akatsuki probe. It sends back similar images, taken using its infrared camera, sensitive to temperature variations.

The Aphrodite Terra, with its higher altitude, is a lot cooler than the surrounding terrain, so in infrared or near-infrared images of the planet, it would be visible.

“WISPR effectively captured the thermal emission of the Venusian surface,” said astrophysicist and WISPR team member Brian Wood of the US Naval Research Laboratory. “It’s very similar to images acquired by the Akatsuki spacecraft at near-infrared wavelengths.”

This means WISPR could be more sensitive to infrared light than it was designed to be – which, in turn, opens up new possibilities for Parker’s main mission of studying the Sun. The Parker team is currently taking a closer look at the instrument’s specs to figure out what, exactly, it did.

“Either way,” said WISPR project scientist Angelos Vourlidas of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, “some exciting science opportunities await us.”

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eloarei · 6 years

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WIP Game

List the things you’re excited to work on this year in as little or as much detail as you like, and then tag some friends!

Tagged by @enchantedtalisman (and again it won’t tag you. Tch. Sorry. But thanks for the tag!)

(Behind a cut, because you don’t want to read all that. ...Or maybe you do?)

In no particular order, because my level of excitement changes at the drop of a hat: 6 BNHA fics, and one each FFXV and FO4. 1700 words of synopses and babbling. (Friends who read my stuff: if you wanna skim through these and tell me which one(s) (if any) you’d most want to read, that’d be rad. =D Will it influence what I work on? Who knows? My inspiration is fickle as shit. But it couldn’t hurt.)

1. “Touch2” -- current WIP, 10k + notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: 20k? Picking up right where “Touch” left off, this fic is a slightly more detailed/slow/slice-of-life story than its predecessor. The 10k I’ve written so far takes place over the course of only 2 days, and it’s mostly Toshi and Izuku getting to know each other, and Toshi being yelled at by his manager (an OC called Suzuki). The general plot of the story doesn’t deviate very far from canon, as far as I’ve planned. “Touch2” will probably cover at least up to the entrance exam, but I’m not entirely sure. Given that leisurely pace, there’ll probably have to be a Touch3 and 4 as well, if not even more. I’ve been slowly hacking away at this one since the start of December, just in between whatever else I might be working on. Kind of got to a point where I need to actually think about what happens next? ^^; Also, it’s gotten too long to be a one-shot, I think, but I’m going to have to be careful how I split it up. It’s not written for splitting… Well, I’ll figure it out. Just gotta keep writing first.

2. “Make the Most sequel, and side stories” -- only notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: lots??? I’m lumping these all together, but this includes quite a few stories, some of which I have plans/notes for, some only ideas. One of the first is a fic that might be, at most, half the length of MtM, which is the events of MtM from Toshi’s POV. This was actually requested by a friend, but it was something I kind of already wanted to do, which is cool. Other side stories include perspectives from other characters, some things like dates and vacations, Izuku learning to use his powers, and some extra NSFW scenes, because why not? After all of those, I intend for there to be an ‘official sequel’, taking place towards the end of Izuku’s college run, which might function as more of an epilogue than a sequel, due to the potential lack of actual plot. Geez there is just so much potential for this series to go on in side-stories and extras and etc. I actually get a little mad at myself whenever I neglect to continue it, because it’s sort of my main, well, IP, I guess you’d say. It’s my kudos breadwinner. XD I should just do it!

3. “Loveless epilogue” -- only notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: 7k? A short...er sequel/epilogue, taking place roughly a year (I might change that) after the main story, revolving (spoiler alert) around Toshi figuring out if/when/how to propose to Izuku, and summing up how things have gone in the past year. Mushy because I love marriage, okay guys, I just love it so much, and also a little bit morbid because of an in-universe tradition that could be considered either romantic or creepy, depending on your views. =D I actually ought to write this one like… immediately, while the main fic is still fresh in my mind. It’s extremely self-indulgent, maybe more than just, y’know, my normal writing. But I think at least some of the people who read LOVELESS will like it. ^^ And I will, I think. And that’s all that really matters, right?! *shakes head ‘no’*

4. “Waste” -- current WIP, 1k + notes. BNHA. Dekumight(-ish?), and Deku+friends. Estimated total: 15k???? No. Probably more. A Fallout fusion. Vault 211 (21-1 or twenty-one one) has been carefully breeding superpowers into its population for the past 200 years, but if yours doesn’t show up by your 18th birthday, prepare to be kicked out on your ass into the unforgiving wasteland. Guess who’s the newest resident of the wastes? Lucky for Izuku, he meets a frightening creature who takes to looking out for him. ‘Human’ under some description, he’s sure, this guy has radiation levels through the roof. Burly super-mutant by day, gangly rotting ghoul by night, he doesn’t exactly have a lot of friends, but boy is he good at surviving in the hellscape that the world has become. I freaking love Fallout a whole lot, and look, Toshi/All Might is so very much a ghoul/super mutant, and vaults just give you so much free reign to give people powers and etc etc, look, it just seemed like something that would work. Not sure really how it’s going to go, but we’ll see. =]

5. “Nana/Toshi darkfic” -- only notes. BNHA. Nana/Toshi (probably NSFW) and Dekumight. Estimated total: 20k??? His mentor was beautiful, kind, strong-- perfect. He didn’t realize she was being eaten away by a dark pit in her heart. He didn’t know if leaving her alone would help it. He just wanted to be with her so badly, to please her, to make that smile real, and she lacked the fortitude to refuse him anything that would make him happy. A fic about Nana and Toshi becoming perhaps too close, and Nana struggling with depression. Following the canon timeline moderately closely, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it will include a major character death, and the fallout surrounding it. Hoo boy did the desire to write this fic just hit me like a ton of bricks a few weeks ago. This is going to be a dark, sad, uncomfortable story, most likely. And although it will end with Dekumight, the large part of the plot will still revolve around Nana/Toshi, so I’m not sure most of my normal readers will want to touch it. XD;;; I think the inspiration to write this came somewhat from the feeling that the ending to LOVELESS was not nearly as dark as it could have been, haha. Every so often I just want to challenge myself and see how many boundaries I can push. ^^;

6. “Feed” -- only notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: 15k? In a world ruled by a vampiric shadow known as All for One, Izuku’s group has been trying to find ways to fight him. Nearly everyone is of this man’s blood now, since he started handing out powers to gain followers. But it’s said that an artifact of some sort exists still which can give the power to defeat him. Izuku, with the purest blood of his group, is chosen to seek it out. But the artifact is a vampire, the last of AfO’s first ‘children’, frozen and starving after failing to defeat his ‘father’, and Izuku almost doesn’t survive the encounter. I want to write this fic, and I think I should do it while it’s still cold and gloomy, because that’s the feel of the setting, but if I get distracted and don’t get around to it, I probably won’t be too upset.

7. “Parents AU” -- current WIP, 6k + notes. FFXV. Gladnis + Ignis&Noctis. Estimated total: 40k? Teenage Ignis and Gladio happen to be babysitting the toddler prince when the Empire attacks, and in the chaos they manage to get safely mixed into the crowd of civilians fleeing the city. They decide to treat him as their own until they can be sure it’s safe to return him to someone with more seniority. But will it ever be safe? Fifteen years in hiding says no, and even when Noct is old enough to be asked to save the world, there’s no way in hell his parents are going to let him go it alone. I tried to continue writing this the other day and it was terrible. Painful. I almost cried. Literally every word of the 30 or so I managed before I gave up were the hardest things I’ve ever written. I think if I go back and play the game again (which I’d like to, since there’ve been updates and DLC), I think it will be easier. Honestly though, this is one of my favorite things I’ve yet written, so if I don’t see it to fruition, I will be moderately pissed.

8. “Same Heart” -- current WIP, 30k + notes. FO4. Estimated total: 90k (35k for act 1) The great synth detective Nick Valentine is recaptured by the Institute, remade and reset. He awakes to his new life underground, unaware that he ever roamed the wasteland-- except for the rare moments when they plug in his old memories so they can grill him for info. Though the memories are gone again after every session, they leave an aftertaste of distrust for the people he’s working with, until it’s too much to ignore. Meanwhile, he finds himself as the only person who seems to truly care about the little boy they’re all calling their savior, doing his best to help him grow up with some modicum of love in this sterile environment. When Nick finally decides to break out of their fancy little prison, it’s not a question whether he’ll take Shaun with him, and it’s obvious where they’ll go: to find the parents the Institute stole him from. This one haunts me, because I spent like 3 months doing practically nothing but writing this last year. I got almost, almost all the way through the first act (out of 3), and then… stopped. Now I know it’s going to be impossible to get back into. And this is already a very different story for me, because it’s essentially a gen fic. The intention is for acts 2 and 3 to focus on Nick and the ‘sole survivor’ Nora, but the whole first act is about him half-raising her son, Shaun. I really want to finish this, or geez, at least the first act! Because it is painful having 30k sitting around that nobody has ever seen. And it’s pretty decent! But even though I have 6 chapters done, I don’t want to start posting it until it has a halfway decent ‘conclusion’, so I need to finish the act. I have to.

And I’ll tag… uh… @oldseablues, @braincoins, @thenightisdarkandfullofbooty, @orionskingdom, @animeuzumaki7, @blessedblooduniverse, @rangrids, and anyone else who’s reading this and is also a writer. =] Tag me back so I can see it, please! ^^

#elo talks #elo fics #tag meme

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kayscreations · 7 years

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So...

Since I posted anything or posted any thrift hauls anywhere!!

Talkin’ about life and stuff under the cut but I’ll talk about the haul here.

I’m writing up some of this right now, but I actually got all this on Saturday the 16th. To the excited horror of my wallet I stumbled upon not one... not two.. not three.. but four Moxie Teenz. MT Tristen and Melrose were my first dolls that I got for myself (I... think? I think I got my first MH later...) so I’m a huge sucker for MT. There’s a good chance I’ll resell at least some of these, but this is my first Bijou, so I’m excited to have her! They were all $2.99 a piece and they each had like one or two other misc. dolls bagged with them.

Got the Prince Eric and Donny Osmond together for $2.99, mostly for Donny because I enjoyed the vintage quality and aesthetic. I just realized that his feet are all chewed up, though.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I got a bag that had AA Winter Rhapsody Barbie in it because I’ve been wanting to have a head that can be put on a DCSHG Bumblebee body, a la @cheshiretiffy‘s hybrid (I can’t find pictures/links for it??). Here’s to hoping I can still find a Bumblebee somewhere!

The miscellaneous dolls that were in with the Moxies included the Disney princesses and most of the dolls after them. The superstar girl is actually pretty cute and the Kira sculpt girl is adorable! Cute enough that I already popped her on a MtM body. I *think* she’s Animal Lovin’ Nikki. The Anna with the bun is my first Hasbro Disney doll and she’s pretty cute! I also really love that lone Disney fairy, her face is much more mature than all the other fairy dolls I’ve seen. Part of me would really like to repaint her in the style of a vintage Barbie.

The 17″ Pocahontas was $3.99 and is in fabulous condition. Her head is a bit weirdly yellowed compared to her body, for some reason? I’m tempted to rebody her onto a Barbie 17″ Magic Hair Kingdom body despite the match not being perfect, but I think I’ll hold off on it for at least a little while. Part of me still really wants that big vintage Pocahontas that exists...

The Disney Store Anna is a great body donor that was in another bag, and I got the three Livs for $3.99, also for their bodies.

The Ghoulia and Draculara were $2.99 in the same bag, and are 95% complete. They’re the true first edition originals and I got them to clean up and put away with my other older MH. Ghoulia has.... some interesting gunk on her and I’ll definitely have to wash her and all her clothes. It’s so sad seeing the original MH dolls and looking at the newest ones, seeing how far they’re come..... and not in a good way.

So, I think that’s it! I also have a whole haul from the Goodwill Outlet from the same day. Once I clean everything off, I’m hoping to post everything!

To be honest I don’t know if I mentioned it to anybody besides those close to me, but my Dad got injured at work in October of last year. It’s going to be almost a year since it happened and it’s really been a weird blur for me and my family the whole time. It’s agitated me into a lot of depression and anxiety, but! I also got a new job all the way back in May. While my new job has it’s own small issues, it’s absolutely wonderful, as my old work place was becoming legitimately abusive and was basically trying to fire me before I quit to start my new job. I also make a good bit more money than my old job (I mean... I’m not an independent millionaire now, but still).

So, during the course of all these events, thrifting has become a small haven for me and my Mom*. We started going to Goodwill Outlets (there’s one that’s actually super close to our house) where you can dig through bins and get stuff for dirt cheap prices, continued to go to Savers, almost completely stopped going to (regular) Goodwill because their prices are skyrocketing and their management is gross, and we also discovered an obscure little thrift store called 2nd Ave. This lovely little store is basically outshining all the other thrift stores. They have tons of doll, and different ones every time we visit. Everything they have is impeccably sorted and their clothes are organized so well! So yeah, this haul is from there. I have a few other finds from 2nd Ave. that I’d also like to showcase.

Basically I just wanted to say that I want to be more active on here and start interacting with dolly people again (er... although I’m not sure how social I ever was?), actually start working on dolls and projects that I’ve had waiting for years, and start having fun with all my collecting, thrifting, and hobby activities. @dollsahoy‘s videos have been a great source of relaxation and inspiration for me this whole time, as well as Anne Pecaro, who I recently just started watching. I love seeing all of @dolljunk‘s dolls and projects (as I have for years now) and I very much want to amass more Allans because of him. @dolldirt has infected me with with his love of the superstar sculpt for awhile now and I always love seeing posts from him. Part of me wants to do weekly videos about my dolls and just talking about dolly and thrift stuff, but I honestly need some guidance about using my camera and how to get good quality video. My camera is like 9-11 years old, so I suspect that it’s just not possible to film in 720p. But honestly I’m about as technically savy as a rock, so what do I know?

My apologies if any of this sounds weird, I just got a bit sick and I’m getting all sentimental and junk while writing this up.

*Me and Mom already thrifted before Dad got hurt, but thrifting has really been a was of escaping from our worries and relaxing now. I 100% admit that I’ve been giving myself retail therapy and soothing my depression and tumultuous feelings through thrifting.

#doll #dolls #thrifting #My posts #my dolls #katescreations

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helloakhi · 5 years

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Features of a GREAT Pharmacy Software System

1) System stability. The software shouldn’t crash, freeze or otherwise become unstable except for the rarest of occasions. The programming should have been done in such a way that all the simultaneous functions going on in the claims processing workflow happen smoothly and quickly. Time is money. And a software system that performs even a few seconds faster than a competitor can result in thousands of minutes saved over the course of a year.

2) Tech support. When you buy a pharmacy software system you are buying more than some coding. You’re buying a company. You’re buying a business relationship. It is sort of like a marriage. There is an expectation on both sides. You are expected to pay for their service. They are expected to actually provide service. But once you have taken the plunge and bought the software, it is very complicated and expensive to get a “divorce.” Therefore, the wise pharmacy owner will ask a LOT about their tech support and the kind of responsiveness to expect.

3) Workflow transparency. What I mean by this is that a great piece of pharmacy software allows you fast and comprehensive information about every prescription in your workflow. For every prescription that WAS filled or is BEING filled you should be able to see how it moved through the workflow and where it currently is. The simplest way to explain this is that if Mr. Smith calls in 10 prescriptions, it should be very easy to see where all 10 are in the workflow. A simple, single search should show you (for example) that 7 prescriptions are filled in the bin, 2 were too soon to fill and are set to fill next Tuesday and 1 needs authorization from the doctor. That sounds pretty basic, but many software systems would require multiple steps to gather all that information. Some couldn’t do that at all and would require many hand-written notes for the staff to be able to give Mr. Smith the whereabouts of his order.

4) Efficiency. A great retail pharmacy wants to maximize the time we have available to interact with patients and grow our business, and that means minimizing the time spent on routine prescription entry, order processing, inventory maintenance, claims adjudication, printing of labels and leaflets, etc. The ability to be able to manage workflow from various workstations simultaneously is critical. How many steps does it take to add a new patient and how many screens do you have to access to do so? How efficient is the transfer in and out process? How efficiently are refill requests managed? I know of one software system that doesn’t allow 2 employees to be working in the insurance fields at the same time, even for 2 totally different patients. Very inefficient. Some systems have dozens of fields available for adding patients, most of which you might not use, but you are forced to enter through each field every time. Just wrong. Does the software allow the entire prescription to be filled, labeled, paperwork printed and everything before the pharmacist has even seen it? This results in lots of wasted time when prescriptions need to be fixed.

5) Intuitive. The pharmacy steps and screens should be intuitive. They should make sense. I worked on a pharmacy software system where the electronic prescriptions all came into a separate screen. You had to hit “Cntrl-A” to view the script (why not a button that says “view Rx”?). Then you had to print it. Then you had to back out to the previous screen. Then click fill. The view all the patient matches (even those with totally different dates of births). It was ridiculous. Nothing was intuitive. It wasn’t smart. A well-designed pharmacy software system has an obvious place where all prescriptions are located. You can see those that are ready to “fill” and those that have “rejected” and those waiting for refill authorization and those waiting for pickup.

6) Communication. Great pharmacy software should allow an easy way to document all the necessary notes to communicate effectively and document all relevant issues and concerns. These notes should be HARD to miss. You should be able to document notes related to particular fillings of prescriptions and notes related to the patient in general. Some notes should even be allowed to FLASH or HIGHLIGHT or something. Did you call Mrs. Jones to check in on her? You should be able to easily document this. Did you call Dr. Writesalot about a prescription? There should be an easy way to save this. In my opinion, this is an area that almost no software systems are doing well. It needs improvement.

7) Affordable. Pharmacy software systems can get pricey. For those opening a new pharmacy, I recommend sitting down before seeing the price tag for these systems. But, as I said at the beginning, pharmacy software is complicated. I don’t dispute the purchase price of some of these systems. What I mean by affordable is mostly the month to month support. I expect and want my pharmacy software company to stay in business. But when they nickle and dime you for each extra service, the monthly maintenance can quickly get out of control.

8) Paperless. A great pharmacy software system should be designed to minimize paper waste and paper notes. One approach to this feature is to hold off on printing of any paperwork until the final step after pharmacist verification. Additionally, notes connected with a pharmacy order (like “Mrs. Smith also wants a box of pseudoephedrine”) should be able to be added into the pharmacy notes system rather than a paper note. If a product is going to be stored in the refrigerator, a simple button should indicate the location of the order and be clearly visible to the person at the pickup station.

9) Claim processing simplicity. The heart and soul of any pharmacy software system is claims billing and processing. We spend a good percentage of every day billing and re-billing prescriptions. But not all software systems make this easy. These days so much additional information often has to be added to claims, software systems should be designed to easily add and remember this data. Split billing should be made simple too. The process should be fool-proof, protecting the pharmacy from mistakes that could cost them money. For example,the software should make it very difficult to accidentally reverse old claims.

10) Inventory management. Pharmacy software systems can aid the pharmacy in managing inventory dollars. But to do this effectively it must be able to integrate with your wholesalers for applying new orders to you inventory on-hands as they arrive and make it easy to adjust inventory levels from within the workflow when needed. Pharmacy software should be able to help identify returnable stock that isn’t being used.

11) Clinical integration. Finally, a great piece of pharmacy software should integrate with many clinical tools which the pharmacist may want to use during the course of the day. Examples include drug interaction details and dosing guidelines and even lab data when needed. MTM services should also integrate with the pharmacy software as well.

#hrsoftbd #pharmacy software #support #best #service

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howlingheartdemigod · 7 years

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This was written in early July of 2016 and revised recently. It discusses the shooting at Pule nightclub in Orlando Florida and labels. Feel free to share this if you feel connected to it in some way.

In early July of 2016 I had a conversation with a family friend about, among other things, why labels matter.

This is a nice woman. She’s in her 50s, she owns a small business, she has two dogs, that I’ve taken care of when she’s on vacation, she’s very liberal. She’s a textbook suburban-ally. She supports you all she can, and will ask all the questions she can muster, but she won’t always accept the answers, even when they’re coming from a queer person. I’m out, as far as sexuality goes. She knew my words came from a place of experience, not just observation.

The conversation came up when I used the phrase “LGBTQIA community” instead of just saying LGBT or gay community. I saw her face scrunch up, her lip curled in confusion.

There’s a strange entitlement that only seems to exist for white allies. The idea that they are so good just because they treat LGBTQIA+ people like people, that when you use words they don’t know, they become uncomfortable. Especially so in older generations, who think because they’ve lived longer they don’t have to be educated, so long as they are kind. They're better than their parents were, and better than most of their friends still are, so why try for more?

So she asked, what did I say and what does it mean. She knew the first four so start from there.

“Well, LGBTQIA, and Q stands for,” I hesitated. I knew what I was about to say was loaded, but how could I claim to be a good community member if I didn’t claim my own identity. “-queer and questioning.” I finished.

“Hm.” She started, and I knew the script of this conversation better than she. I could have told her her next lines word for word.

“Questioning,” I blurted, stepping on her entrance, “Is for people questioning their sexuality or gender. Queer is an identifier that, my generation especially, is taking back.”

The conversation stalled. She tilted her head back in a way I knew. Something I’d seen in people every time I explain that queer, to us, is not a slur. It’s a war-cry, it’s a prayer. It’s saying “This is something about me that I am not ashamed about. Not anymore. Never again.”

Regardless, I smiled politely and nodded as she explained that was odd to her, that she didn’t like that.

I explained that it was a blanket term. An easier way for someone to say, “I’m a demisexual, panromantic, trans-woman.”

Which, in hindsight, was probably a bad idea. I should have just said, “It’s an easy way for someone who is gay and someone who is bi to have a connection.” Or some other semi-truth that we use.

“See, I don’t get that.” She said “I don’t even know those words, what did you say, Demi…”

I filled her in on the basics as politely as I could, even letting her know my own specific identifiers.

“See, why can’t you just say you’re... “ She trailed off, like she knew she was going to say something wrong, and taking a moment to regroup. “I’d rather just know you as a person. I’d rather know you as Logan. I’d get it much more if you were just like “Oh, I like this gender,” or “Oh I feel like I’m a man.” Instead of…” She waved her hand for the words that weren’t there. A feeling I understood all too well in the moment.

“It has to do with community, it has to do with identity.” I said, trying to make it easier to swallow. “When I say I’m bi or pansexual it’s like saying ‘I’ve found this thing that makes me more me. That explains how I feel and that means other people feel it too because there’s a word for it.”

She still didn’t understand, She thought it made things too complicated.

Too complicated. Those are the words that ring in my ears every time I hear them. Along with the question I never ask; How is it too complicated?

I can define genderfluid and demisexual and MtF and FtM and MtM and FtF and any number of other words. I can recognize that since I don’t identify with them, I don’t get final say. I learned words I don’t identify with. They were new to me, but I did it anyway. It wasn’t too complicated for me. How is it too complicated for you?

It’s entitlement, it’s laziness, and it’s privilege. The privilege of being straight, white, and married in a world where that is valued. It’s not too complicated. I promise It’s not. You just have to listen to the answers of the questions you ask. Instead of asking, hearing a word you don’t know or a phrase you’re uncomfortable with and then writing the answer off as “too complicated.”

She moved on then, to a story about a boy she knew who was her daughter’s age. He was clearly gay, but closeted until high school, at which point he came out and became the sort of ‘fabulous’ gay guy we all know or know of. She said it like it was a bad thing, his flamboyance. I saw that there’s a kind of power in that, a pride in that. It made sense to me that a kid from a small conservative town would identify in a loud and proud way. The story moved on, to him meeting a guy and getting married, and moving to Florida. His husband was a Drag performer and that pulled them into the nightclub scene which pulled them into the drug scene. This wasn’t good for the kid she knew. He ended up in the hospital, and she wasn’t clear on all of the details, but it had something to do with whatever he’d been into. He moved back home shortly after, freshly divorced.

On June 12 2016, he woke up to one hundred and twenty six texts and fifty missed calls. One of the clubs he’d worked at in Florida was Pulse. He’d known some of the victims.

As she was telling this story I found myself sick and sad. Like most people in the community, Orlando was hard for me. I am a queer person, born and raised in the bible belt. I live, not a few states, or a few hours, but 45 minutes away from Westboro baptist Church. World renowned for their bigotry, hatred, and bastardization of Christianity. I live so close, that they frequently protest schools and programs in my immediate area. (I live so close, I have pictures flipping them off when we drove by for a class.) I live every day knowing there are people very close to home who want me dead just for existing.

After Orlando, like so many others, I was hurting. I wrote letters and journal entries, trying to fathom why this happened, but I had the luxury of separation. I had 18hrs and 9 min. I had 1,262 miles. I had space to process and think. I was devastated. People who lived mirror lives to mine had been killed, but with this new revelation, the separation I had was gone. There was a man in my community who had known and been friends with someone who died in the massacre.

In the aftermath of this, I was blown away at how she still didn’t get it. How she didn’t get how these words were important. How they were all there at that club because of the part of themselves she deemed too complicated. How these people were celebrating the way these words were a part of who they were.

How they were killed because of it.

Forty-nine people, who lived parallel lives to me.

Forty-nine queer people.

The youngest of whom was my age. She was 18. She’d graduated from high school a week before the shooting. She had a full basketball scholarship for college. She was, by all accounts, a quiet force. A leader. A young woman who lived a life that mirrored mine, who died because of it.

Forty-nine people.

It’s been a lifetime and some change and the words are still ringing in my ears. Too complicated.

What I don’t think she considered is how the words could hit someone. How the words hit me. I didn’t hear, “These words are new and confusing.” I heard, “What you are is weird and confusing.” I heard that my existence is too complicated. That my desire for understanding is too much for her to surmount.

In every good intention there is a layer of misinformed, ill-taught behavior.

I’m not saying that this woman I know, that we call know, isn’t a good person. I’m not even saying that she’s a bad ally.

I’m saying that 49 people died. I’m saying there’s a set behavior of “I support you but I don’t want to talk about it.” “I support you, but keep it as simple as possible so I don’t have to struggle with something that you deal with.” I’m saying we will never be able to change the narrative if we don’t listen to each other. We won’t be able to change things if you don’t listen to the people who are answering the questions you ask.

We need to tamp out the idea of “too complicated.” There is no such thing. When people are dying, “too complicated” will never be a good enough reason.

#pulse orlando #pride #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq #feel free to send ?s if you have them #orlando shooting #pulse shooting #gay #Bisexual #trans #fortynine

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dirnelli · 7 years

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About Aspen Retouches

In response to a question by a follower who used my real name instead of my alias, and in order to protect my right to privacy, I'm reposting my answer after deleting the original post, which inquired about the continued operations of Aspen Retouches, which he thought had closed, after reading misinformation online: Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet, go out into the real world and see for yourself.  The owner used to have a shop elsewhere, which is now closed, and maybe the online Yellow Pages listings are not up-to-date. I suspect that he kept the same name for his new shop when he moved to the current address. Given that this guy is very old-school, I’m not sure he’s ever been on the Internet, so I wouldn’t be surprised if no updating has taken place online. But I can guarantee that his current operation at 8 rue Jean de La Fontaine in the 16th is live and booming, in very large part thanks to all the publicity I’ve given him. Truth be told, I’ve given him too much publicity, I’m now paying the price for that mistake, so I swear won’t make that mistake again: as a result of my online promotion, he’s had to hire a few (second rate) tailors to handle his booming demand, so quality has fallen while delays have gone up. He does remain an excellent tailor in his own right, but he just can’t keep up with demand while ensuring quality control, and I have myself to blame for that. A typical issue I’m facing is that I have to bring back garments twice, because half of the alterations requested have been forgotten. If you go there, check twice to ensure that alterations you asked for were indeed performed – sometimes I’ll ask for the waist of a suit to be modified, and I’ll notice that only the jacket or only the pants have been modified, not both as requested, ugh. I could’ve probably saved myself a few headaches if I had bothered to try everything on before I left the shop, but I’m generally a very busy man, so I end up having to go back a second time if something’s not right when I try on at home after pickup. Extremely annoying. But when the job does get done, it’s usually done perfect, so I can’t fault him on his tailoring chops, just on his organization. Mistakes like this would’ve never happened back when he was a one-man operation, but now that he’s subcontracting, I think information is getting lost in the fray.  FWIW I have two other excellent alteration tailors that I’m also now using, as equally gifted as Aspen, but I’m very sorry to announce that I’m no longer sharing that type of information if it’s going to prevent me from benefiting fully from my own diligent sourcing. Sorry to sound cynical here, but there’s an underlying truth to what I’m describing: as lovers of menswear, we must question whether the trade-off between promoting a brand and seeing its popularity take off is actually worth it, as consumers ourselves of said brand. The price inflation we’ve seen recently from certain brands is a prime example, the name Orazio Luciano comes to mind… we’ve certainly done our part in promoting Jean-Manuel Moreau’s operation, with it’s affordably priced Orazio Luciano MTM offering, but the next thing you know prices end up severely inflated. I’m not pointing the finger here, it’s normal for businessman to adjust to higher market demand. All I’m saying is that maybe it’s a better use of my market intelligence to keep that information to myself going forward. Just think about the number of questions I get on this blog from people asking for tips and recommendations and addresses, I’m not sure that I should be sharing so freely if I’m going to end up paying the price for sharing the information.  Just my two cents worth of ranting for today, have a nice day anyway!

#review

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jompsology · 7 years

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I feel like an excellently way to get this started is to begin what will eventually be an embarassingly long admission of countless Thrifting Regret Stories. Regrets more often than not were simply me putting money before the value of the garment, and if the thing does fit, well shit, there's nothing wrong with that, but the problem is them fitting...cuz this happens...more often than you know...and simply put, some things you just do not let go. This item above I can honestly blame purely on my career length of thrifting and the fucking insane rollercoaster it had been thus far. One day I may organize the photos etc...but essentially my first month of thrifting, happened to coincendentally be quite possibly, the most epic fucking run I have ever seen anybody compile over the span of 6 months, I mean even 8 months I've only witness from 2 people.....the last 2.5 years of sharing, and endless years of stories. So in short, every spot I hit, I was literally coming up with legit grail pieces, nothing that was truly worht something on a personal level...naw sorry, my frst Savile Row Bespoke Suit came then,,,but anyways, the problem was, that I hadn't ever done this before, Never even been in thrifts before. So I sorta just concluded that due to the where I live and the amount of money here, these must be the way shit goes, fucking Kiton and Brioni raining from the skies daily...crazy.... So just as a rookie who wins a ring doesn't truly appreciate that thing until he never wins another, I too, didn't fully appreciate aa damn thing I was pulling. I mean I had never handled all this Kiton before in my life, and 2 weeks i had an entire clothing rack full of that shit and Brioni (and one other brand saved for a future post). However I always knew Oxxford Clothes. Essentially America's only true storied quality suiting company. Mostly purchased by documented clients at trunk shows as MTM type garments, however they do offer a bespoke service as well, although I see Oxxford said to be bespoke so fucking much and it literally 99,99999% of the time, NO IT IS NOT. Homies name is in the pocket because he ordered the garment, it is made to measure, it has a listed size, stop lying dick. However I thrifted this Oxxford Coat, and right off the bat, my goddamn dead grandmother could tell you, this shit doesn't just pop up at ever corner thrift and mom and pop. 100% Cashmere coat, the lapels 100% Fox Fur (Couldn't have been anything else so positive), and yes I was floored when I came across it, and found it awesome when I tried it on and it fit like it was made for me. Obviously without question I purchased the thing. It get's a little tricky with keeping certain items like this however for one specific reason, it may be extremely rare, you may be well aware, and it also may be in pristine condition and fit you perfectly to boot. But honestly, I mean, Its a fucking full lenght cashmere w/Fox Fur Lapels coat....This would be a novelty item to keep, or if you are a collector like myself currently, obviously placed in the collection. But I looked like a wanna be fucking Frank Lucas, I would never present myself in public wearing that for anything either social or perhaps more formal even, It is baller as fuck and I knew that without question, but it wasn't me,,,,,,but Instead of keeping this in my trophy closet, I proceeded with... THE FIRST REGRET OF MY THRIFTING CAREER. I flipped it. I made a lot of fucking money. Totally meaninless. Cuz that coat is gone forever, and never will I ever see one again. Countless Oxxford Cashmere Coats. none with Fur. Jompso Thrift lesson #1: For fucks sake, knowing something is worht a lot of money doesnt mean shit, please, know what you have truly, then and only then, are you in a position to decide what to do. HOMEWORK, ALWAYS BE LEARNING, NEVER STOP, EVER...THIS ONE EXAMPLE I GOT A SMALL EXCUSE, I WAS A ROOKIE AND NAIVE, THE OTHER SHIT? I GOT NOTHIN...

#OxxfordCLothes #OxxfordClothesChicago #OxxfordClothesCashmereCoat #OxxfordClothesCashmereCoatWithFoxFur #Thrifting #ThriftingRegrets

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What are some of your favorite MTM episodes and why?

Thank you for the question! I’m sorry it took me so long to reply; I wanted to give you a decent answer but I haven’t had much free time this week. I was goingto give you a top 10 list and, after much deliberation, I ended up with a top15 list instead; I couldn’t narrow it down any further. And if anyone wants to reblog this with their own favourite episodes, or send me an ask about it, that would be very welcome.

I’m posting this under a cut because it got very long (sorry about that).

1x02 – Today I Am a Ma’am

This episode features the first of many disastrous Mary parties, and personally, I don’t think they got any better than this. “Allow me to introduce myself:I’m another person in the room” is one of my favourite lines of the wholeseries. And I love the part where Rhoda dumps food all over her lap and Marylooks over in horror. That is absolutely the kind of thing I would do at a party, if it didn’t violate every social rule in existence. (Also, Ilove any time Rhoda is in a scene with her real-life husband at the time, DickSchaal, aka Howard Arnell.)

2x21 – Where There’s Smoke, There’s Rhoda

This is the one where there’s a fire in Rhoda’s apartment, so she moves in with Mary for a few days. I thinkthis is one of my favourite Mary/Rhoda episodes, because it puts them inconflict with each other while still managing to reinforce how strong andbeautiful their friendship is. They end up fighting because they’re just sodifferent, not because they intentionally want to hurt eachother. They have each other’s best interests at heart the entire time. And theend where Rhoda agrees to go stay with Phyllis is fantastic. I love the look onPhyllis’ face that just screams “HELP ME.”

3x06 – Rhoda the Beautiful

This, of course, is the episode where Rhoda won the Ms. Hempel Beauty Contest. I have alot of feelings about this episode. I really don’t like the implication that Rhoda wasn’t beautiful when she was fat, and that she only became beautiful after she lost weight. For one thing, Rhoda was neverall that fat, and for another thing, she was never not gorgeous. Also, weighthas absolutely nothing to do with beauty anyway. But I do think the episode madeit clear that the important thing wasn’t Rhoda’s weight at all. Her problem was that she didn’t feel good about the way shelooked. And even winning a beauty contest doesn’t solve that problem for her. Onanother show, that might have been the end of it, but for Rhoda, even that external validation isn’t enough to make her feel confident. Only after admitting her victory to Mary and receiving her support is Rhoda able to take some pride in her appearance.I love this episode because it doesn’t dismiss Rhoda’s self-image issues asunimportant. Instead, it gives them the emotional weight they deserve. Rhoda’s not sillyfor feeling bad about the way she looks. She’s not shallow for caring about herappearance. And she’s not vain for taking pride winning a beautycontest. The writing (and Valerie Harper’s Emmy-winning performance) reallyemphasize how hard it was for Rhoda to feel good about herself, and how braveshe is for gaining that confidence. I adore the scene where Rhoda tells Marythat she won. She looks down instead of meeting Mary’s eyes. Her voice shakes.She’s clearly terrified. And Mary’s reaction is so wonderful. Rhoda neededMary’s support here, and she absolutely got it. Although this episode dealtwith some really important subject matter, and it was definitely inspiring and poignant, it was ultimately a story about one woman earning some well-deserved confidence, and her best friend who helped her get to that point.

3x16 – Lou’s Place

This is theepisode where Lou tries to be the happy, welcoming bartender, but he can’t keepit up, so he ends up individually terrorizing his patrons. I always laughwatching him try to angrily force everyone to have a good time. “What thehell’s wrong with you, anyway? You just sit there like a bunch of clods… Nowthis is the Happy Hour.” I’m laughing out loud just thinking about it. I thinkit’s one of the funniest scenes in the whole show. And I cannot imagine how EdAsner kept a straight face through the whole scene. Or anyone else, for thatmatter. I also love the scene where Ted tries to arm-wrestle Lou while posing for the photographer. And Murray giving Ted change for $500 in nickels was a great ending.

4x17 – Cottage for Sale

This is the one where Lou almost sells his house but Mary changes his mind at the last minute. It’s just a nice, quiet episode that I’ve seen a million times and it always makesme smile. We see Lou give Mary a lot of helpful (and not-so-helpful) advice andguidance over the course of the series. I like this episode because it’s one ofthe times where Lou depends on Mary to be the voice of reason and help him realize that in some cases, his emotions are more important than logic. And I like thescene where Lou makes Mary breakfast: a scrambled omelet, with green pepper,green onion, and… beer. He’s just so pleased with himself for it. Phyllis is also very good in this episode, in her typical nails-on-a-chalkboard sort of way.

4x20 – Better Late… That’s a Pun… Than Never

“Wee Willie Williams was the oldest living citizen in Minneapolis. There were other citizens in Minneapolis who are older; however, they happen to be dead.” Although the Wee Willie obituary scene is already enough tomake this episode legendary, this is also one of my favourite Mary and Lou episodes. I likethe part when Lou says that he missed Mary more than anyone else did, because that’s not the kind of thing he admits very often. Apart from that, I think it’s very sweet that Rhoda gave up a Robert Redford/Paul Newman movie to write obituaries with Mary until 4 in the morning. That’s quite a favour, even considering what happened as a result. And I would really love to know which character went into Lou’s office overnight and broke all his pencil points. (It was probably Murray.)

4x21 – Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite

I love mostof the Teddy Awards episodes, and this is one of my favourites. This was a goodepisode for Ted. I love the look on his face when he realizes that he won. Forall his confidence before, he seems genuinely surprised, which suggests that much of his trademark overconfidence is actually fake. Ted had so few victories in the show, and his acceptance speech makes mesad for him almost as much as it makes me laugh. And his meeting with WalterCronkite was pure genius. (I wonder if Ted ever gave him his pipe back?)

5x01 – Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?

I really admire Mary in this episode. She’s scared of going to jail, andshe even cries about it, but she does the right thing anyway, without really considering any other alternative. She’s not flawless, butshe’s brave and principled, which is something I love about her. This is alsoanother really good Mary and Lou episode. Lou’s ethics are such a fundamentalpart of his character, and he demonstrates many times over the course of theseries that he’s very rarely willing to back down on things he cares about. Butin this episode, he tells Mary that he doesn’t believe in the freedom of thepress - going against everything he believes in as a newsman - because he can’t handle her being in jail. That demonstrates just how much he cares about Mary,even more than the ensuing hug. And I always laugh when Sue Ann tells Mary, “Dear, when you get out, if you get out, I’ll beright there to help you find your way back into decent society.” (I’m curious as to howSue Ann got all those tin prison cups on such short notice. Does she just have themlying around in her studio at all times? Was she doing a special on prisonfood? Does she collect them? We’ll never know.)

5x19 – The Shame of the Cities

This is theepisode where Lou and Mary make a documentary on a politician that Lou thought was shady but who turned out to be incredibly boring. The “Thank you, Mr. Mugger” scene at the end is one of myfavourite scenes in the show. Mary Tyler Moore was so damn talented. I alsoreally like Charlene, and I like the part where she casually tells Mary thatshe dated Frank Sinatra and Mary can’t get over it. And I lovethe scene where the news team has a meeting in Lou’s office to work on the documentary and Ted listens in until Lou shuts the door on him (at which point you hear his offscreen cry of anguish).

5x23 – Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcasters School

This is the one where Ted is tricked by a con man and he has to run a broadcasting school with just his colleagues for support. I don’tknow exactly why this episode is so funny to me, but I really enjoy it. I lovethat everyone pulls together, however reluctantly, to help solve Ted’s problem.And I like Ted’s school song: “We have no gym and we have no pool, but we haveheart at Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcaster’s School!” Short, but catchy. I also love how Mary completely loses her patience by the end of it. (“Who IS this person? What are we DOING here?!”) Although, having watched “GetSmart,” I find it very confusing that Mary is on a date with Siegfried.

6x09 – Ted’s Wedding

I don’t knowwhy they didn’t call it “Ted and Georgette’s Wedding,” but anyway, this was a veryfunny episode. Ted and Georgette were adorable, of course. Sue Ann was brilliant as thefrilly, flower-toting task manager who magically had everything together at thedrop of a hat. And the tennis-playing priest was perfect. (“Bride on mybackhand, groom on my forehand!”) The wedding is sweet but still hilarious, andalthough this is a significant episode with two of the main characters getting married, it fits very neatly into theshow.

6x18 – Once I Had a Secret Love

I actuallyfeel weird about this episode because of the Lou/Sue Ann storyline. I find it disturbingthat Lou was made to feel guilty for having a drunk one-night stand. And Ithink that if Lou had been a woman and Sue Ann had been a man, that storylinemight have played differently. But asidefrom that, this is a really emotionally heavy episode because of the Mary/Louconflict. It’s the first time we’ve ever seen Lou be really devastated bysomething Mary did. And I think it’s interesting that he just shuts down,instead of yelling or being sarcastic like he normally would after being hurt. It shows a side of him thatwe don’t normally get to see, and I have a lot of feelings about it. I also have a lot of feelings about the Mary andLou resolution scene, which is very sweet. And Ted is wonderful in thisepisode. “Mary, why are you weeping? Into a sock!” That part always makes melaugh. This was the episode that made me realize how much the show show relied on Ted to keep the show funny while they did heavy episodeslike this one. (I think the episode where Murray falls in love with Mary is another example.)

6x22 – A Reliable Source

This is the episode where Mary quits her job after Lou insists on running a potentially incriminating story on her Congressman friend. The scenenear the end where Lou helps Mary type her resignation letter is another one of myfavourite scenes. I like any time Mary call Lou by his first name, because sheso rarely does. And although I think that Mary was wrong about wanting to keepthe story about the Congressman off the air, I admire her for sticking to herword anyway. I also think it’s sweet how Murray and Ted really try to supportMary in her fight against Lou, even though there isn’t much they can do. And it amuses me that Ted so readily assumes his friends are trying toget him a raise when they’re really talking about totally irrelevant things. “Thegood Lord has blessed me with many friends… And not a damn one of them’s gotany pull around here!”

7x10 – Murray Can’t Lose

There are afew episodes during season 7 where you can tell that the writers and the castknew it was going to be their last season, and they just went all out with thesentiment. This is one of those episodes. There are a lot of good scenes inthis one, such as Mary singing in Lou’s office, Ted using Lou as aventriloquism dummy, and Georgette’s excellent dance sequence. But my favouritepart is the end scene where Murray gives his acceptance speech to all hisfriends, even though he didn’t win. I think what Murray says to Mary is lovely: “You do theimpossible every day. You make people forget how beautiful you look becausethey’re too busy realizing how beautiful you are.” It’s a perfect summary ofthe way Murray feels about Mary, and it’s also such a good way to describe her. And I love that Murray finallyadmits to Ted that he does actually like him. (Of course, Tedhad to ruin the moment.)

7x11 – Mary’s Insomnia

Apart fromthe highly inaccurate depiction of insomnia, I adore this episode. It wasdirected by James Burrows, who is one of the most legendary directors of alltime (he also did Cheers). Maybethat’s the reason why there is so much excellent physical comedy in thisepisode. Aside from that, and aside from this being such a nice Mary/Louepisode, I like that Ted actually got to get back at Murray for his years ofinsulting him. I also love the scene where everyone shows up in Mary’s bathroomwhile she’s taking a bath, and only Murray has the good sense to be embarrassedabout it. And Lou accidentally lapsing into “Up the Lazy River” while attempting to sing a lullaby is another one of my favourites.

I could absolutely go on and list another 15 episodes, and probably another 15 after that, but I think it’s in everyone’s best interest if I stop here. Thanks again for the question! And like I said above, people should feel free to reblog and add your own favourite episodes. I’d love to hear what everyone thinks.

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Episode Notes | S1E1, Pilot pt. 1

Here we are, at the beginning of these proper episode notes! It’s worth- well, noting, if you’ll pardon the redundancy, that in these early season one episodes… I believe it’s the first eight or so- things are a bit rocky. We’re going to talk about that a fair bit, as we come to these situations, but the important thing is to note that a lot of the character notes I make in these early episodes are merely going to be speculative, because the characters change a lot in these early bits. Also worth noting, is that this early section of season one is not an ensemble show. It’s starring Gordon Jump and Gary Sandy, and everyone else isn’t even in every episode. They also feature the long revered but admittedly lengthy opening credits, which you can watch here, if you don’t happen to have the DVDs on hand as some of us do.

I will also try to mention what music is playing when, if I know it, but even though I listen to a LOT of classic rock, I’m afraid I’m not the greatest at recognizing it when I don’t already know it and the great “identify the song that’s playing” feature of my phone can’t help me when there’s dialogue over the music. SO. I will do my best but no promises.

OKAY. SO. Pilot episode, part one.

This would be an opportune time to discuss the history of the creation of WKRP, but I kinda wanna save that post for another day. It isn’t really something that’s part of the episode notes anyway, so we’ll skip that bit for now. Instead, we’ll talk about just the episode itself and the introductions of the characters and the overall plot.

The plot here is that the worst radio station in Cinci has hired (yet another) program director, who is Andy Travis. He is coming in for the first time today. And of course, he is the straight man to all the nuts at the station, the normal guy from the outside, and the original plan was to have him be our eyes to the station, to tell the stories from his point of view- which is of course, a mistake, and why the show later became officially an ensemble situation.

This is a typical sitcom plot where we have a new person, and they go around and meet everyone in the new place- an overused but very useful (and I feel still very useable) trope for meeting the characters of a new location or show or what have you.

We open on this one, on Jennifer tending to the plants in the lobby. While I believe there are always at least some plants in the lobby (I guess if I’m wrong we’ll find out in the future now won’t we), I don’t think Jennifer is so into them in later episodes. I don’t even think there are any plants in Jennifer’s apartment. But in these early season episodes, she is very protective of the plants and she spends a lot of time…..with them, if I may word it like that, and I honestly think that the writers not quite knowing what to do with Jennifer begins here on day one.

Also, the music the show opens with (not the theme, I’m talking when Jennifer is tending the flora and fauna), is perhaps the least WKRP sounding music I’ve ever heard in my life and it’s honestly sort of amusing. But also weird.

Herb is introduced second, in all his sexist glory, and I must say how clear it is that he developed a lot in this first season. He is played very stereotypically sleazy in this episode, especially, and his clothes- while still in bad taste, are actually pretty classy. For Herb.

For a man that wears a giant blue and white checkerboard suit with a matching tie later in the series.

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They also establish that he’s married here, and it almost feels like they did it just for the laughs- once again, he’s played sleazy here, not totally but definitely more so than later in the series, and it seems apparent to me that they didn’t plan on analyzing why this married man can’t bring himself to cheat on his wife, as they (sort of) do in later episodes.

Also, “would you like to meet Bert Convy in person”. Herb's concept of impressing women is by introducing them to game show hosts. Need I say more?

Next up, in walks our temporary star, Andy. His stereotype is also immediately enforced, as is everyone’s on this show. He’s a cowboy, from Santa Fe, and the Big Guy hired him on the phone.

Speaking of the Big Guy, another bit of odd characterization is Jennifer’s last descriptor- “the jerk who runs this place.” Now, we all know Mr. Carlson and we all know that is a very unfitting description of the man. Regardless, I think it is a simple joke. I don’t think the plan was ever for it to describe Carlson, because for all the off character traits of the early episodes, that is not one of them.

Les is also immediately established, with a character trait that sticks with him forever- “award winning farm reports”. I think this is a joke about Cincinnati, but it will of course very quickly become a joke about Les and his obsession with hogs.

We also learn a crucial bit of information- “the last program director lasted 30 minutes before the Big Guy fired him.” Yet another strangely harsh precursor to the Big Guy’s entrance, because regardless of what people say about him, he is never played like a jerk.

Jennifer sets up the idea that Herb is “dying for some steamy one night stand”, which I think is interesting because as we will learn later… he isn’t, not really, but perhaps she just uses him as something to bounce the idea off of to test Andy.

I still don’t get the setup from the other characters, who surely know better, but it seems like Mr. Carlson is perhaps putting on airs to try and seem like “the jerk who runs this place” so that if he has to fire Andy, maybe it’ll help him have the guts to. But I wouldn’t think Jennifer, Herb or Les would be fooled, and I also don’t think Les would be capable of doing a proper job of acting to convince Andy. So. Not sure about that stuff, but as for the Big Guy himself, you can see his act fall away when he says, “Ooh! Do you think that’s wise?” in response to Andy telling him he quit his job in Santa Fe.

The introduction of Mama being verbal, but not having her in the first half of the pilot, is an interesting choice that allows the imagination to run rampant, and I like it.

Then of course, comes the immortal introduction of Johnny Caravella- Johnny Midnight, Johnny Duke, Johnny Cool, Johnny Style, and Johnny Sunshine- But not yet Johnny Fever. The coffee keeps in sharp as a tack.

I do find Johnny’s failure to realize who and where he is and to stay awake, is an odd thing, because it goes away in the second episode. Perhaps we are to believe that he’s cured of that with the format change- but he does it one more time at the end of this episode, so perhaps not. Either way, that’s another character trait they didn’t keep.

And now the farm thing with Les quickly becomes a hog thing, as he shows up fresh off the air with the hog futures. (“hogs have futures, I don’t”) and in comes another trait for Les that I don’t remember him as having, and which I honestly don’t think he keeps after the pilot: Being a suck up. Of course, Herb is always a suck up, because he’s Herb, and we see that in this scene too, but the reason is, they were both up for Andy’s job.

Speaking of Andy’s job, what better poster could he unroll that would make the audience release a collective gasp, than a KISS poster? It’s no secret what he’s planning to do.

The next character we meet is Bailey, in the booth with Johnny, where we get to see Johnny Caravella in action- and then the format change.

Johnny thinks he’s a little too old for this rock n roll stuff. He wants andy to find someone “about fifteen years younger.” He sees himself as past his prime, and he seems to have accepted it. But being convinced of the idea, and doing it, elicts an incredible change in Johnny- it’s like watching him come to life. And, of course, the moniker of Dr. Johnny Fever is born.

We’ll probably discuss this more in later episode notes, but Johnny was a breakout character, and MTM had to do some damage control to keep him from taking it over, because by then they had decided the show would do best as an ensemble piece and that’s how it would stay.

Another interesting thing I want to note before we get to the action packed wrap up of this half of the pilot, is the ships. We know right away that the NoTP of the show is Jennifer and Herb, but possible OTPs include Johnny and Bailey. However, it does seem that they’re lowkey pushing an Andy and Bailey thing here too. Kinda like they were thinking of some kind of triangle situation. Which, obviously that is never realized, but I do find it interesting (and it is worth mentioning that it’s not hard to find Andy/Bailey fic around lol).

SO. The wrap up. In bursts Mr. Carlson, ready to promote Herb (Herb and Les bail on Andy right away to support the Big Guy, back to that I-knew-Herb-was-professional-butt-kisser-but-why-is-Les-behaving-this-way thing) and fire Andy because Mama Carlson heard the station three days in and she is upset.

Mrs. Carlson is played by Sylvia Sydney here, but for some reason after the pilot she is always played by Carol Bruce. Now, I love Carol Bruce, but of course she is a less believable age if Arthur is indeed over 40, as he proclaims in a later episode.

Regardless, Mama comes in, demanding to to know what is going on, and the Big Guy is generating all sorts of stories for her. But the sway of money and the first sign of a backbone she’s ever seen in her son, convince her to allow the hijinks to continue- “for a while.”

The final introduction- Venus Flytrap comes in just in time to elict one of the biggest eyerolls I’ve ever seen from Mama Carlson. He’s presented as, and pardon my use of the possibly inappropriate term, a bit of a jive turkey in early episodes like this one, and it’s played straight. But when Hugh Wilson, creator of the show, sat down with Tim Reid (who plays Venus) to work on this stuff, it is later revealed that it’s mostly an act from Venus, who is far from that stereotype.

We close on a beautiful shot of Mr. Carlson not understanding kids these days as he and his briefcase wander somewhat forlornly down the hall, past the booth, and Venus does his inaugural nighttime show.

All in all, I say this is a good pilot, and if I just….. Saw it and nothing else I think I would be interested to see more. I’m not sure if this is the pilot for the same show we all know and love, as I said, because so many small details are going to change very rapidly, but such is the way with pilots.

I’d rate this, keeping in mind that it’s a pilot, a solid 7/10.

Stay tuned for more (hopefully shorter) episode notes as we get farther into the world of WKRP!

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