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{ scott eastwood / cismale / he/him } – ☼ { ARTHUR HAMPTON } is finally here! They’ve lived in Athens for { TWO MONTHS } and are originally from { BELTON, TEXAS }. They are a { TWENTY-SEVEN } year old { GROUNDSKEEPER AT THE ATHENS COUNTRY CLUB } and live in { SANDY CREEK }. Those who know them personally know them to be { + LOYAL } and { + PLAYFUL } as well as { - STUBBORN } and { - HOT-HEADED }. But we’ll let you be the judge of that!

Basic Information

Full Name: Jesse Ryan Hampton Arthur Clive Hampton

Nicknames: Art, Artie, Cowboy

Birthdate / Age: August 1st / 27

Gender: cismale

Orientation: homosexual/homoromantic

Hometown: Belton, Texas

Occupation(s): Groundskeeper at the Athens Country Club

Pet(s): None atm. They did just move here. But he wants a pet really bad. He’d honestly be happy with anything!

List of some likes: jogging, nature walks, literally all animals, whiskey, clubbing, foraging

List of some dislikes: tea, idle time, sewing, woodworking, astrology, heights

Tattoos / Distinguishing Marks: large scar on his right thigh, walks with a limp favoring his left, multiple old scars all over his legs/arms,

Brief Description of Familial Relationships:

Clive Hampton (father): deceased. Not good. He controlled Arthur’s entire childhood. Planned his entire career for him. They never got on well. He would have almost said he’d hated him, until he died. Now he just wishes that his father and him could have been kinder to one another.

Julie Hampton (mother): Estranged. She’s quite judgmental and cares about the family image. He does love her, but there’s a reason they’re estranged. She wouldn’t support him. So, they very rarely speak.

Arthur Hampton Jesse Hampton (brother): his twin brother with whom he’s switched identities. They’re thick as theives. Have been super close ever since their birth. Really, they’re the only ones who can read one another. His brother definitely takes on the “older brother” role. They talk almost every day,

Callie Hampton (ex-wife): Arthur’s best friend since childhood. They were never romantically involved, but always understood one another. They’re still good friends.

Harper Hampton (daughter): His adopted daughter. Though he doesn’t think of himself as anything other than her biological father. He loves her more than anything, and is doing his best to raise her right. Though she can certainly run her mouth, she’s a sweet kid and there’s a lot of her father’s kindness in her.

Additional Headcanon(s)?:

they used to own horses and Arthur dreads letting Harper get a pet, since her go-to horse names were usually something along the lines of “sea biscuit” or “mr. horsey”.

he has a limp, but often forgets about it. or tries to. He’s gotten himself into his fair share of accidents at work because of it.

Additional Information

Hogwarts / Ilvermorny Houses?: Gryffindor / Pukwudgie

MBTI / Known Labels?: ENFP

Special Talents / Gifts?: expert bull rider (though, less so with his bum leg), really good with animals!

Cautious or Daring?: Daring

Coffee or Tea? How do they take it?: Coffee, black.

Musical Taste?: can I get a... yeehaw? favors country. Especially loves Johnny Cash & Steve Grand

Obsessions?: horseback riding, working out

Crunchy or Smooth Peanut Butter?: Crunchy

Pen or Pencil?: Pen

Favorite Books / Movies:

Favorite Color(s): yellow

Favorite Food(s)?: stir-fry, sausages, bbq ribs

Favorite School Subject?: biology

Favorite Quote or Life Motto?:

What does their bedroom and/or workspace look like?: his bedroom doesn’t really feel like “him” yet. He didn’t bring a lot of things with him.

Describe their morning routine if they one:

Life goals? Long or Short Term: short term, he just wants to make a place for himself in the town, a nice place where him & his daughter can be happy. Long term he really wants to explore himself, be who he wants to be instead of who everyone else wants him to be.

Night Owl or Early Bird?: early bird

Guilty Pleasure?: shamefully keen on those christmas hallmark movies

Smoker? Drinker? Drug user?: drinker

Fashion Style?: lots of flannel & denim. pretty form fitting. honestly he’s a gay cowboy what can I say???

Hobbies?: horseback riding, working out, gardening

Favorite Season(s)?: spring and summer. More so summer, since he loves the heat and being justifiably shirtless

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Ip Man: Kung Fu Master is Not Ip Man 5

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Ip Man: Kung Fu Master is the latest film to portray the legendary grandmaster of Wing Chun Kung Fu, Ip Man, the real life teacher of Bruce Lee who lived from 1983 to 1972. All the films have been heavily fictionalized, and the Ip Man film franchise is far from unified. There have been multiple actors, directors and filmmakers featuring Ip Man, and this new film is independent from all of those, although confusingly enough, it’s very connected.

The most prominent Ip Man franchise stars Donnie Yen. It began in 2008 with Ip Man and retained the same core team for four installments: directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Raymond Wong, and written by Edmond Wong.

Yip and Yen collaborated in some previous critically acclaimed martial arts films like Kill Zone (aka SPL: Sha Po Lang), Dragon Tiger Gate, and Flashpoint – all of which were well regarded for their high octane action and brutally satisfying fight choreography. Those collaborations set up the success of their first Ip Man film, and it’s noteworthy that Yip and Ip are different romanizations of the same Chinese character, meaning that although not directly related, Wilson Yip shares surnames with Ip Man.

The four films were major box office hits in Asia, resulting in the production of several other Ip Man films that rode the coattails of its success. Since Ip Man is a historic figure, his character is somewhat in the public domain. And while it’s best to have the blessing of the family estate, as was seen with Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, it’s not necessary. After what was perceived as a negative portrayal of Bruce Lee, Lee’s daughter Shannon protested to the press, which only resulted in Tarantino’s film getting more publicity. Bruce Lee is also depicted in several of the Ip Man films because their legends are intimately connected and it’s unclear if those characterizations were condoned by the Lee estate.

Wilson Yip’s Ip Man films tell a linear story in four chapters. After the first film, each successive sequel featured Donnie Yen facing outstanding martial adversaries: Sammo Hung in Ip Man 2, Mike Tyson in Ip Man 3, and Scott Adkins in Ip Man 4. The films follow Ip Man’s life very loosely until the final film where Ip Man travels to San Francisco to visit Bruce Lee, an event which never happened. The last installment came out last year and it was the final film by this core team, ending with Lee attending Ip Man’s funeral (another event that never happened).

There was a spin-off to this series, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, which fits in between the 3rd and 4th films. It starred Max Zhang reprising his role as Ip Man’s rival from Ip Man 3, Cheung Tin-chi, and featured Michelle Yeoh in a triumphant return to the Kung Fu genre, and Dave Bautista as the villain. Knowing that the fourth would be the last, it was an attempt to keep the golden goose alive. Produced by Raymond Wong and Donnie Yen, and written by Edmond Wong, Wilson Yip stepped down as director, passing the chair to the King of Kung Fu choreography, Yuen Woo-Ping. Master Z: Ip Man Legacy was a good film, so there’s some hope there.

In the latest entry, Ip Man: Kung Fu Master, the titular role is played by Dennis To. To had minor roles in Donnie Yen’s Ip Man and Ip Man 2 playing two different characters, Hu Wei and Cheng Wai-Kei respectively. After that, he was cast as Ip Man in The Legend is Born – Ip Man because he bore a resemblance to Donnie Yen. This film wasn’t connected to Wilson Yip’s productions. It was directed by Herman Yau, written by Erica Lee and produced by Sin Kwok-Lam. Nevertheless, several cast members from Yip’s franchise from his films appear in the film beyond To. Sammo Hung, Louis Fan, and Chen Zhihui have roles in The Legend is Born – Ip Man, although as different characters from those they played in Yip’s films. What’s more, Ip Man’s real-life son, Ip Chun appears in the film.

After The Legend is Born – Ip Man, Yau followed it up three years later with Ip Man: The Final Fight. Erica Lee served as writer again, but it had different producers. Veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong took the titular role as an elderly Ip Man, and Timmy Hung, Sammo’s son, also appears. Ip Chun makes another cameo in a different role from the previous film. That’s a sure way to get the blessing of the family estate.

There was one other notable Ip Man film, The Grandmaster, from internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai. Tony Leung plays Ip Man, and this film was Hong Kong’s submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 86th Academy Awards. It made the shortlist for that category but in the end, it failed to make the final cut. However, it did get Oscar nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design and received numerous other distinguished international film awards.

The Grandmaster was a sumptuous film from the Cannes Film Festival Best Director that elevated Ip Man from typical Kung Fu movie fodder to global arthouse fare. Starring opposite Leung was China’s global diva Zhang Ziyi in a return to the martial genre after starring in films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rush Hour 2, and House of Flying Daggers nearly a decade prior.

Beyond the lavish brooding style that’s such a signature of Wong Kar-wai films, the fight choreography was taken to new heights. Leung, a Cannes Best Actor, broke his arm from the rigorous training early in production. Training had begun a year and a half prior to filming. Master choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping was calling the shots.

The opening fight scene pitted Leung against real-life MMA champion Cung Le in a gorgeous slow-motion fight in the rain. The scene took 40 nights to shoot and has been emulated repeatedly throughout martial arts films ever since. There’s even a nodding homage rain fight in Ip Man: Kung Fu Master. Wong Kar-wai, ever the auteur, released three different cuts of The Grandmaster.

Donnie Yen versus Dennis To

Donnie Yen is a Hong Kong A-lister with nearly 80 film credits to his name, including several Hollywood films like Rogue One and xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. He’s been making movies since the 80s and was raised in Boston, so his English is perfect.

Dennis To was born and raised in Hong Kong and has just over a dozen films to his credit. However, his martial competitive record is outstanding having won several world titles.

Both Donnie Yen and Dennis To began as Wushu practitioners. Wushu is a sport version of Kung Fu that China hoped to add to the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. It is the gymnastic style that Jet Li practices. Ip Man was a leading exponent of Wing Chun, a traditional style of Kung Fu.

As Chinese martial arts styles go, Wing Chun is compact. Most styles of Kung Fu have dozens of empty hand forms and dozens of weapons forms. Wing Chun only has three empty hand forms, two weapons and its signature wooden dummy. Robert Downey Jr. is an avid Wing Chun practitioner, so much so that a wooden dummy appears prominently in the opening scenes of Iron Man 3.

Apart from The Legend is Born – Ip Man and Ip Man: Kung Fu Master, Dennis To played Ip Man in one more film, Kung Fu League. This was an absurd Hong Kong action fantasy rom com where a comic book artist meets four martial arts icons: Ip Man, Wong Fei-Hung, Huo Yunjia, and Chen Zhen.

Wong Fei-Hung is the most portrayed character in film. There are well over a hundred Wong Fei-Hung movies, around eighty of which were by one actor, Kwan Tak Hing. Like Ip Man, Wong Fei-Hung was a real life folk martial hero but he was from an earlier generation having lived from 1847 to 1925. In Kung Fu League, he’s played by Vincent Zhao, who portrayed him in several later installments of the Once Upon a Time in China franchise after Jet Li abandoned the role.

Huo Yunjia was the deceased master whose funeral brings Bruce Lee’s character Chen Zhen back to Shanghai in Fist of Fury. Huo was another real life martial folk hero who lived from 1868 to 1910 and was portrayed by Jet Li in Fearless. In Kung Fu League, he is played by Andy On. Chen Zhen was completely fictional, but he’s played by Danny Chan, who reprises his Bruce Lee impersonation from Shaolin Soccer. Chan also played Lee in Yip’s Ip Man 3, Ip Man 4, and the China-made TV series The Legend of Bruce Lee.

Is Ip Man: Kung Fu Master the Unifier or a Copycat?

Ironically, the Chinese title of this film is Zong Shi Xie Wen, which translates loosely as “Lineage Master Unites.” But Ip Man: Kung Fu Master doesn’t unite the Ip Man franchises at all. If anything, it poaches heavily from its predecessors in another contrived effort to ride on their successes. Directed by Li Liming, Ip Man: Kung Fu Master was previously released online due to coronavirus closures in China and is just now making its way across the Pacific.

What’s more, Li has already released a prequel, Young Ip Man: Crisis Time, starring newcomer Zhao Wenhao as a collegian Ip Man. Time will tell if that one ever picks up western distribution to make it across the pond too.

Ip Man: Kung Fu Master is set during when the real life Ip Man served as a police officer in Foshan. In the film, Ip Man is depicted as a righteous police captain coping with drug smuggling Tongs while the Japanese occupation encroaches on China. The film begins with an outrageous fight scene where Ip Man takes on dozens of Tong hatchet men who conveniently attack him one at a time.

The Tong is the Axe Gang, and while the origin of term ‘hatchet men’ can be traced back to 1874 as a reference to Chinese Tongs in San Francisco using hatchets, this Axe Gang feels derivative of the Axe Gang in Kung Fu Hustle, right down to the outrageous magnitude of swarming mob of hatchet men that Ip Man must face alone. There’s an attempt at metaphoric artiness as the Tong leader calmly plays Chinese chess while Ip Man battles his way up flights of stairs to get to him. The opening fight sets the tone of the film.

There’s going to be a lot of preposterous Kung Fu fights in this film with some pretentious style. But that’s fine. It’s a martial arts film. As long as the filmmakers set the level of suspension of belief consistently, fans of the genre love stylized fights.

Later, there’s a ridiculous fight scene during a dramatization of Ip Chun’s birth. It’s almost comedic in a good way, leading the midwife to remark “Fights again. They never end.” That sums up Ip Man: Kung Fu Master in a nutshell. It also dates the film since Ip Chun was born in 1924, but this is a highly fictionalized story, not a docudrama by any stretch of the imagination, so it should not be held accountable for exacting accuracy.

Beyond the Axe Gang, Ip Man: Kung Fu Master contains a lot of martial arts cliches. There’s a couple of Japanese assassins in Matrix-like trench coats. There’s a drunken master. It’s a characterization of real-life master Leung Bik who was one of Ip Man’s teachers. Ironically, Ip Chun portrayed Leung Bik in The Legend is Born – Ip Man.

There’s a point when Ip Man dons a mask and becomes the Black Knight. That recalls Jet Li’s Black Mask, but then it becomes a symbol of Chinese rebellion against the Japanese, echoing the Guy Fawkes masks in V for Vendetta, the Salvador Dali masks in Money Heist, or even the clown masks in Joker.

As To’s third outing of Ip Man, he owns the role, although not with the gravitas that Donnie Yen or Tony Leung brought. He moves a lot like Yen because both actors have roots in Wushu. He lifts Leung’s debonair fashion sense with a traditional Chinese cheongsam robe topped with a white fedora.

But this is not going to be a major blockbuster like Yen’s franchise, nor does it have any hope of an Oscar nod. This is an action-packed Kung Fu flick, a park-your-brain-outside romp to sit back and enjoy the ultraviolence. There are some furiously fun fights, and like many Chinese films set in in the period near the Japanese occupation, it ends with overblown tones of Chinese nationalism with the people chanting “China! China!” towards the film’s conclusion.

In China, Ip Man has become a franchise like the Three Musketeers. There are many versions and interpretations. There are plenty more adaptations that never even make it to western distributors. Last year, Ip Man and the Four Kings was a VOD feature film starring Michael Tong as Ip Man that opened with a tepid replay of the famous opening rain fight scene from The Grandmaster and also lifted Leung’s stylish white fedora.

There was also a Chinese TV series Ip Man that starred Kevin Cheng as Ip Man. Cheng played the young Ip Man in Ip Man: The Final Fight. This TV show ran for 50 episodes and Ip Chun and his brother Ip Ching (who sadly died in January 2020) were both invited as consultants. Ip Man has become the cinematic folk hero franchise inheritor of Wong Fei Hung, but he still trails Wong by at least a hundred films. Whatever the case, and whoever the filmmakers, we have not heard the last of Ip Man, not by a longshot.

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R U Talkin’ I.R.S. R.E.M. RE: ME? 183. “Murmur - Deluxe Edition,” 184. “Reckoning,” 185. “Fables of the Reconstruction,” 186. “Lifes Rich Pageant,” 187. “Dead Letter Office," 188. “Document” by R.E.M.

If you’ve been following this blog with any regularity, you may have noticed how often references to R.E.M. weave their way into my appraisals of other artists. That’s because the band has become a bit of a Rosetta Stone for my musical taste: eclectic, ever-evolving, beautifully melodic, with evocative (or downright inscrutable) lyrics. I delved into their decades-long catalogue- piecemeal and out of chronology in the pre-Spotify days- at the exact point in my adolescence when I was forming what that taste would be. And now I must ask the question that has so ignited the public's curiosity: When did I first hear of the band R.E.M.?

My answer, at long last, is… "Hmm, not sure." As recounted in my entry on Barenaked Ladies (or “BNL,” as befitting such an essential band): during a high school trip through Europe, a bus ride from Ireland to Wales was scored by an all-over-the-map mixtape.* I was definitely already familiar with “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” when it popped up. And I remember, sitting there as misty green hills moved past the window, that it sparked a web of associations: I likely thought of “Losing My Religion,” probably “The One I Love.” After watching a Comedy Central documentary on Andy Kaufman, I became briefly obsessed, and my mom helpfully told me that there was a song written about him, titled “Man on the Moon.” She pulled Automatic for the People, the only R.E.M. release she owned, off the shelf and played that track for me. I think I liked it, but I didn’t go further than that.

So, sitting on that tour bus, I figured that when we reached the London leg of our whirlwind trip, I would use my personal pilgrimage to Virgin Megastore (remember those?) to pick up a greatest hits collection. And I did, getting the recently released In Time: The Best of R.E.M. I loved it so much, I barely noticed that half the songs I knew, including the one that had inspired the purchase, were nowhere to be found.

As I later learned, that compilation was put out by Warner Bros Records, and as such was solely focused on the songs the band recorded while under contract to that label. And it’s true, several of their biggest hits came out of those first few WB releases. But wither “The One I Love?” Well, before they signed that lucrative deal, R.E.M. made their bones putting out arty, jangly, pastorally pretty rock music under the banner of I.R.S. Records.

It’s been awhile since I first heard their debut full-length Murmur (#183), but after the slicker, weirder, string-flavored tunes I was used to, hearing the upfront immediacy of the young-and-hungry band, playing as a tight group over a chasm of reverb, was a bit revelatory. Recorded at the now-defunct Reflection Sound Studios in Charlotte, NC (a liner note discovery that filled me with no small amount of regional pride), Don Dixon and Mitch Easter's production makes the jangle rock dreamy and beguiling while avoiding cheesy 80’s pitfalls. It’s all killer, no filler (I even love “We Walk,” all bouncy repetition and ever-climbing arpeggios)— right now, I’d say the earnest “Talk About The Passion” and the almost hiccupy hook of “Catapult” rank as my favorite moments, but that changes and shifts unpredictably.

The sonic muscle of Reckoning (#184) is cleaner, with opener “Harborcoat” immediately shaking loose the spooky cobwebs of Murmur. Again, the immediacy surprised me when I first heard it: I was hearing the version of the band that tore the roof off of tiny venues in sleepy college towns throughout the South. For a time, it was the comparative lack of the fussy arrangements and earnest, soaring melodies I’d come to expect from my R.E.M. that dismissed this album to a dusty gray corner in my mind. But the mark of a Favorite Band means that you can return to their work at different times in your life and find that while the music stayed the same, you’re hearing it with different ears. There’s not a weak link in 10 tracks, and songs that I’d once had trouble even recalling became new favorites: "So. Central Rain,” with its ringing Rickenbacker guitar line, melodic bass, and keening chorus (“I’m sorry”) is a fan favorite for a reason, and “Camera,” which recalls a departed friend of the band’s, builds to a shattering chorus. And of course, the one straight-up, tear-in-your-beer country rocker in their catalogue, “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville."

I remember driving to night classes in my first year of community college, listening to my newly-purchased disc of Fables of the Reconstruction (#185). Now this was immediately my speed, with the spooky, menacing, string quartet-inflected “Feeling Gravity’s Pull” and incantatory “Maps and Legends" leading the pack. The band had a lousy experience recording it, and they badmouth the way the songs were mixed, but to me the thick-as-kudzu production is a big part of this album’s hallucinatory power. I love the surreal, umber and burnished gold and chartreuse cover art as well: though the layout looks a little too cluttered on the CD, I bought the vinyl record from a second-hand store just to frame it, with the “Reconstruction of the Fables” ear-box side facing out from my wall.

Not every track does it for me. “Can’t Get There from Here” is fun but a little too affected in its whimsy, and “Auctioneer (Another Engine),” already a bit monotone, is the track most hampered by sludgy sound. But sandwiched in-between are “Green Grow the Rushes” and “Kohoutek,” glimpses of the environmentally-conscious, culturally-sensitive side of Michael Stripe and Co that led directly into their follow-up, Lifes Rich Pageant (#186). They expand the promise of those two tracks with “Fall On Me” and “Cuyahoga,” to devastatingly pretty effect.

Where Fables was a nighttime drive down an inky-dark American highway, Pageant is a wide-eyed survey of virgin prairie, a longing to return to unspoiled harmonic existence. “Let’s put our heads together / Let’s start a new country up,” the natives of “Cuyahoga” resolve over the ashy remains of the river bend. "What you want and what you need, there's the key / Your adventure for today, what do you do / Between the horns of the day?” Stipe exhorts his listeners in “I Believe,” and the Southern beach rock behind the words pushes you to make your move. “We are young despite the years / We are concern / We are hope despite the times,” he belts out over furious riffs and annihilated drums in “These Days," Mike Mills calling out affirmation in his backup vocal.

Right down to the absurdist sea shanty “Swan Swan H” and infectiously fun cover “Superman” that close it out, it’s hard to find a more consistent document of the band’s strengths. And now, damn, I want that to be a crackerjack segue to discussion of their next studio album, but months before that final I.R.S. release, there was Dead Letter Office (#187). A collection of occasionally rather sloppy outtakes and covers of varying reverence, the main draw here is the inclusion of their debut EP Chronic Town (on the CD, anyway. I notice that Spotify separates those songs from the DLO tracks). The angular menace of “Wolves, Lower” and the subtle, melodic magic of “Gardening At Night” (Stripe’s almost unintelligible lyrics are Exhibit A for his early-years shyness) are justifiable fan favorites to this day— not bad for the first batch of songs from such a prolific group. A must.

Buying Document (#188) finally gave me easy access to “It’s The End of the World...” and “The One I Love” (rather than, you know, waiting to hear one or the other on the radio). It also meant first experiencing one of my favorite opening salvos on record: “Finest Worksong.” It sounds HUGE, to borrow an oft-accurate phrase from notable actor/R.E.M. podcaster Adam Scott. Bill Berry’s thundercrack drums echo as if recorded in a cavernous factory where the overlords have been overthrown, while Peter Buck’s guitar chugs and drones, a dramatic change from the nimble arpeggios that made up previous records. It, and the songs that follow— “Welcome to the Occupation” ("Listen to the buyer still / Listen to the Congress / Where we propagate confusion”), “Exhuming McCarthy” ("Vested interest, united ties / Landed gentry, rationalize / Look who bought the myth / By Jingo, buy America”), “Disturbance at the Heron House”— make the album, at 31 years old, feel like a queasy reflection of our current milieu. No one feels fine right now.

Luckily, the music is still driving, fun, singable, varied in its grooves and moods. “Fireplace,” coming right after the twofer of the most famous singles, provided me such an unexpected thrill with a rare appearance by sinuous be-bop saxophone, such a different color for this band. Sax in 80’s songs is usually an utterly cheeseball affair, but this is a dark, weird tune, and is nowhere near that register of power balladry. “Lightnin’ Hopkins” is just as unique, with a metalhead rolling drum beat and Stipe acting like a throat-shredded street preacher over echoey chain-gang backup howls.

This band takes up a whole shelf in my house, so hold on tight for several more comprehensive and encyclopedic write-ups.

*It’s been over a year since I wrote that entry, and I recently realized my memory is jumbled up. I now have a clear recollection that the songs from BNL’s Everything For Everyone were repeating in my head ON THAT VERY TRIP! So I was already a fan.

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Yesterday in X-Project - February 14

(Apologies, I could have sworn I posted this yesterday!)

PHASE 2

2015: Sooraya makes a post to xp_teams about X-Corps and the currently difficult circumstances in offering humanitarian aid. Scott shows Miles and Matt around the mansion, and they’re sold pretty quickly. Gabriel makes a journal entry stating it’s just another day and he’s fine. Roxy posts .mp4s of cover songs she’s performed for Valentine’s Day. Jubilee drops some truth on how to be a successful human being. Jubes e-mails Cammie to apologize for getting weird and stalky with her.

2016: Ty posts about his five dozen heart-shaped doughnuts. Quentin anonymously gives Jean a teddy bear and some chocolates; Jean posts wondering who gave it to her. Clint catches Matt in the gym, and they discuss Matt’s recent unemployment and steps to go from there. After Maya wakes up in the medlab, unimpressed to no longer be in Askew World, Topaz tries to handle it. Felicia posts to Instagram a picture of a ski lift as proof that she actually did go outside. Cecilia texts Jean-Paul about their lunch plans, since it’s Valentine’s Day and all. Gabriel posts about the Valentine’s decorations at the ski lodge; to help with his snowburn, Marie-Ange takes Wade to a spa; later, he and Kevin talk about X-Force's future direction. Cecilia and Jean-Paul go out for lunch, and try to get as much free stuff as they can by pretending to get engaged.

2017: Sooraya asks Jean-Phillipe for help with a newly manifested electrokinetic she met via the Mutant Underground. Amanda provides a romance-free zone in her suite for Valentine’s Day refugees.

2018: Kyle posts wanting a Palentine’s Day. Amanda and Topaz run into each other in the kitchen; it’s not friendly and very awkward. Gabriel texts Kevin for a ride home and winds up having drinks and very frank conversation with him.

2019: Bobby wishes the mansion a happy Valentine’s Day.

2020: Doug posts a valentine card. Miles texts Bobby that they are going out tonight for tacos. Alani wishes everyone a good day.

2021: Laurie informs everyone she's not sorry for her behavior. Clarice informs Jean she won't work with Laurie anymore, but Jean isn't having it. Doug texts Kyle to say he tried.

2022: Hope A. texts Sue about Valentine's Day plans. Felicia posts a picture of herself. Maya talks about a speed dating event she went to. Kevin and Marie-Ange announce their new pipeline to the rest of the team, to mixed reactions. Darcy and Artie discuss their feelings about it on the way to the gym.

2023: April posts a video about pouring molten lead in shells. Alani posts about the death of Captain Cook as a Happy Valentine.

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Yesterday In X-Project - February 17

PHASE 2

2015: Matt emails Warren to tell him that he will be taking up the mansion's offer and moving in there. While at the country club Jessica and Warren run into one another and retire to a private room for an adult play-date. Rogue posts about a cat shelter she has found and intends to volunteer at. Warren is bored and asks Miles to come and entertain him. Scott meets Monet at the entrance hall to give the new arrival a tour of the mansion. Into The Fog: Jennie visits Wade in the medlab and something he says leads to a revelation. Monet meets Roxy and is intrigued by her mutation.

2016: Hope emails Doug and Wade, asking them to teach her some pickpocketing skills. Miles and Maya talk about the Slendermen at the former site of the Askew World portal.

2017: Gabriel emails X-Force to let them know he’ll be away for a time and to ask them to feed the X-Force fish, which confuses everyone, since they didn’t know there was an office fish.

2018: Kurt drops in on Topaz, and it’s somehow less successful than his first visit; later, a very drunk Topaz tries to text Tandy for a ride, but ends up with Ty instead.

2019: Artie posts to the journals with a crosspost from Instagram. Clarice posts to point out that someone bedazzled a Machete, and she’s jealous and wants to befriend them at the same time.

2020:

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xprojectrpg · 3 years

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2016: Hope emails Doug and Wade, asking them to teach her some pickpocketing skills. Miles and Maya talk about the Slendermen at the former site of the Askew World portal.

2017: Gabriel emails X-Force to let them know he’ll be away for a time and to ask them to feed the X-Force fish, which confuses everyone, since they didn’t know there was an office fish.

2018: Kurt drops in on Topaz, and it’s somehow less successful than his first visit; later, a very drunk Topaz tries to text Tandy for a ride, but ends up with Ty instead.

2019: Artie posts to the journals with a crosspost from Instagram. Clarice posts to point out that someone bedazzled a Machete, and she’s jealous and wants to befriend them at the same time.

2020:

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xprojectrpg · 7 years

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2004: Shinobi and Sarah's relationship begins. Shinobi, Marie and Bobby begin teaching junior classes. Cain's post to the journals almost creates a student rebellion. They start investigating his past, unsuccessfully. Jubilee blows up her alarm clock whilst she has the flu.

2005: Romani Road Trip: Kurt and Amanda meet in London and discuss meeting her birth family. Moira and Hank discuss ways to help Jono.

2006: Trinity: Wanda is fussed over by the women in the Kazakh nomads' camp, Nathan rescues her, and they tell her a secret from the year he spent there aged nineteen; Nathan goes riding and makes Haroun go with him; Haroun falls off and Nathan decides to leave him to make his own way back; this leads to a breakthrough in Haroun's powers, as he flies for the first time since his grounding. Jean bullies Scott into driving her into town to get "something" for the suite, and he publicly announces their marriage for the first time. Manuel invites his friends to a party to celebrate his getting the job.

2007: Forge and Crystal talk about the Winter Ball and she reveals her manifestation experience to him. Logan checks up on Ororo and ends up asking her out. X-Men Mission: Phalanx: Val Cooper contacts the X-Men with a problem in Greece: an elite squad of microchip-controlled soldiers has gone rogue on Youra; Haller tells Nathan his new codename just before they are summoned to the Situation Room; Forge comes up with a way to over-ride the microchips in the 'Spartan's' heads, and plans are made.

2008: Cain and Kurt have a training session and go out for drinks after Cain finds out about him and Wanda. Nathan takes Marius on a flying lesson in the Blackbird. Dani graduates her college classes and celebrates with Forge. Wendigo: Arriving in Canada, Marie and Logan are reunited with Garrison and are briefed before heading out.

2009: Amanda returns late at night and winds up in Pete's apartment. Morgan comes home and winds up in Jean-Paul's bed for comfort. Adrienne emails Bishop about potential shooting range access. Morgan tracks down Sam and makes good her threat to make him blush. Amanda announces her return and Angelo comes to the office to see her. Wanda announces her return and couch-bound state. Morgan emails Adrienne and drinks with Amanda are planned. Bishop emails Lil and a date is arranged. Mechanisms of Revenge: Jay undergoes conditioning. Lil and Bishop have that New Year's date.

2010: Jay has a nightmare and discovers Catseye was sleeping with him. Yvette runs into a changed Fred and offends him when she envies him about being 'normal' again.

2011: Artie posts about his powers, and how using them against bigots doesn't turn out well. Jubilee posts about heading out to Las Vegas. Warren asks why Kyle was puking in the kitchen. Jean-Paul texts Jean-Phillipe about whether he wants poutine. The Best Deceptions: In Florida, the Hayes family is attacked by Nanny and her children, trying to claim Molly; the X-Men arrive in the nick of time as the Hayes are trying to use their powers to fight back Peter; when her parents are overcome with Nanny's knock-out gas, Molly manifests, throwing a truck at Peter before falling asleep; Wasp shorts out Nanny's chair and protects the Hayes, Beast saves Peter from going over the edge of the bridge, M takes down the speedster, Jack, Nightcrawler rescues Addie and Firestar calms down Lucy after destroying her stuffed monkey friend, Bonzo.

2012: Jean and Sooraya talk about her powers following a science class. Layla thanks her anonymous shirt giver. Wanda announces her return to New York. Adrienne talks to Warren about investing in the mutant clothing store in District X. Lorna Dane returns from Scotland and Remy picks her up at the airport; Lorna announces her return from Muir Island.

2013: Haller emails Artie and Amanda about the attack by the Serpent Society. He also emails Paige about the tape.

2014: Rachel’s job interview with X-Corps ends with Angelo being dumped in the lake.

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PHASE 2

2016: Topaz emails Jean-Paul to thank him for his help. Rachel and Jean run into each other and make pancakes and New Year’s resolutions; Jean lets the mansion know there are pancakes available in the kitchen.

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