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comingdowns · 4 years

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𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐎.

on the twentieth anniversary of the woodsboro murders, a student from the town’s university disappears. the timing is uncanny, and it doesn’t come as a surprise to some when — three days later — her body is found on the university’s front quad, blood-stained handprints on the bedroom doors of her closest friends. that’s not the end though, friends of the familiar face are left traumatized and as they try to uncover this mystery, suspicious phone calls are being held all throughout town. could one of them be next ? and is this killer trying to make history repeat itself? twenty years later, it’s as if the children of those who lived through the first round of woodsboro murders are facing their parents‘ nightmares all over again.

this is a small discord based verse, that takes place in woodsboro, california, twenty years after the murders of the original ghostface. this verse evolves around a series of new copycat murders haunting the campus of woodsboro university, and the students involved.

the guidelines are pretty simple — no godmodding or ooc drama. this verse is muns and muses 18+ as there will be nsfw topics, but keep in mind they are in university. the killer is npc, and while your muse will never die ( unless wanted ), they will receive texts from the new killer. last but not least, this verse is open for mutuals of @onckiss or me.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

( faceclaim, gender, pronouns ) have you seen FIRST NAME LAST NAME around campus ?the AGE is known as the LABEL, which makes sense considering they tend to be +TRAIT and -TRAIT. very and on the night of the murder they were WHAT THEY WERE DOING. ( alias, timezone, url )

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒.

( christina nadin, cis female, she/her ) have you seen QUINN ESPINOSA around campus ? .the TWENTY YEAR OLD is known as the SELF DESTRUCTIVE, which makes sense considering they tend to be +AMBITIOUS and -MOODY. very and on the night of the murder they were GETTING ADDERALL FROM HER DEALER. ( lauryn, cst, mobtied )

( shawn mendes, cis male, he/him ) have you seen REMY KNIGHT around campus ? the TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD is known as the GREGARIOUS, which makes sense considering they tend to be +JOVIAL and -IRRESPONSIBLE. very and on the night of the murder they were HELPING HAZE HIS TEAMMATE. ( lauryn, cst, mobtied )

( park chaeyoung, cis female, she/her ) have you seen MALEIA CHANG around campus ? the TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD is known as the FERVOUR, which makes sense considering they tend to be +COMPASSIONATE and -TENSE. very and on the night of the murder they were SELLING CHEMISTRY EXAMS TO HER CLASSMATES. ( mary, mst, onckiss )

( michael evans behling, cis male, he/him ) have you seen KALEB DONAHUE around campus ? he TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD is known as the MAGNATE, which makes sense considering they tend to be +OBSERVANT and -IGNORANT. very and on the night of the murder they were HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HIS NEIGHBOR. ( mary, mst, onckiss )

( cindy kimberly, cisfemale, she/her ) have you seen DAPHNE ROSALES around campus? the TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD is known as the MOONCALF, which makes sense considering they tend to be +QUIXOTIC and -TEMERARIOUS. very and on the night of the murder they were MEETING HER FRIEND'S BOYFRIEND. ( zoey the hoey, gmt+10, thvtiana )

( rome flynn, cismale, he/him ) have you seen OMARI SIFONTES around campus ? the TWENTY THREE is known as the HEDONISTIC, which makes sense considering they tend to be +AMOROUS and -NEGLIGENT. very and on the night of the murder they were SLEEPING AROUND WITH HIS COACH’S WIFE. ( hailey, est, chokebith )

( alexa demie, cisfemale, she/her ) have you seen KARMA FLORES around campus ? the TWENTY ONE year old is known as the MYSTIC, which makes sense considering they tend to be +ALLURING and -PERPLEXING. very and on the night of the murder they were CONCOCTING A LOVE POTION. ( han, est, stainedful )

( taveeta szymanowicz , cis female , she/her ) have you seen TAMARA ALEXANDER around campus ? the TWENTY-TWO is known as the SYCOPHANT, which makes sense considering they tend to be SHARP-WITTED and CUNNING. very and on the night of the murder they were GETTING HIGH WITH HER EX. ( mia, gmt+8, standstills )

( gregg sulkin, cismale, he/him ) have you seen CONNER CHAPPLE around campus ? the TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD is known as the DEGENERATE, which makes sense considering they tend to be +LOYAL and -ILL-TEMPERED. very and on the night of the murder they were OUT GETTING HIGH BEHIND THE BLEACHERS. ( adri, est, litscigarette )

( jaxon rose, cis male, he/him ) have you seen TARRENZ LOCKHART around campus ? the TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD is known as the INSOUCIANT, which makes sense considering they tend to be +PERCEPTIVE and -FLIPPANT. very and on the night of the murder they were DEALING DRUGS. ( lizzy, 19, lovedsick )

( evan roderick, cis male, he/him ) have you seen ETHAN WATKINS around campus ? the TWENTY-THREE OLD is known as the SAVANT, which makes sense considering they tend to be +METICULOUS and -RETICENT. very and on the night of the murder they were RESEARCHING ON PAST MURDERS AROUND TOWN. ( holly, gmt+8, frgilebones )

( jessica alexander, cis female, she/her ) have you seen COLETTE LEROUX around campus ? the TWENTY-ONE is known as the ZEALOUS, which makes sense considering they tend to be +INVENTIVE and -ERRATIC. very and on the night of the murder they were HOSTING A PHOTOSHOOT IN HER BEDROOM. ( holly, gmt+8, frgilebones )

( sahar luna, cis female, she/her ) have you seen SALEM WHITTAKER around campus? . the TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD is known as the RAVEN, which makes sense considering they tend to be +CLEVER and -SECRETIVE. very and on the night of the murder they were SMOKING ON THE ROOFTOP. ( lena, 21, feminince )

#discord verse #discord rp #tumblr rp #rp verse #come join us #hehe

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recommendedlisten · 4 years

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There is never going to be a way to catch up with every great album being released these days, especially at the pace that new music comes out. Here is the first volume what will become an ongoing feature o some of the best new listens that Recommended Listen suggests you hear if you haven’t already on top of those formally reviewed.

addy - Eclipse [Topshelf Records]

If you can imagine driving through the sprawling roads and watching the day go by from sunrise to sunset, and finally the moon covering your path traveled with its bright, warm yellow glow, then you can hear the journey of long thought addy’s Eclipse passes through it. Led by Richmond-based songwriter Adam Watkins, the latest offering is afflicted with slowcore-kissed Americana that embosses melancholic daydreams of better days and crystallizes fading memories in place. In each mile covered, time somehow remains still.

Eclipse by addy

Bacchae - Pleasure Vision [Get Better Records]

We perceive so much of the world around us in grossly superficial measures, and that’s not just talking about the basic beauty standards. D.C. punk rockers Bacchae set out to break down these walls with honesty even if its ugly not just in the spaces around them, but within their own selves on their debut album Pleasure Vision. Produced by J. Robbins, the 11 songs on this effort throttle between punchy punk burners and imperfectly popified post-punk that makes the world around and inside frontperson Katie McD feel like a moment of bliss as it falls apart, and she and four-piece piece it back together brick by brick.

Pleasure Vision by Bacchae

Brian Fallon - Local Honey [Lesser Known Records]

Local Honey is Brian Fallon’s third and strongest showing of solo work yet since putting his days as the frontman of Jersey-bred punk rock heroes the Gaslight Anthem behind him. Over the years Fallon has slowly fallen away from needing to fill larger spaces with big riffs and crowd choruses. Instead, Local Honey finds him filling in smaller spaces with stories sung with an ache of specificity in their beauty against the backdrop of an Americana gothic that waltzes between Springsteen’s walks across the Atlantic City boardwalks, the National’s nighttime brood, and his own spin on nostalgia. His punk rock heart still beats heavy, but now it’s to love stories filtered in sepia where the great expectations of romance remain a timeless thrill.

Empty Country - Empty Country [Get Better Records]

Joe D’Agostino has always been one hell of a storyteller who paints words with impressionistic hues even during his time as the frontman of bombastic indie rockers Cymbals Eater Guitars. With Empty Country, the eponymous debut album from his current solo outlet, D’Agostino finds a malleable setting for tales torn from his personal pages of grief and hardship. Entwined in rustic steel and gritty indie rock, Empty Country begins from the ground level but slowly gravitating away from the dirty roads before they become flanked by the cosmos. It’s a universally bound relationship sound between our greater nature and smaller being.

Empty Country by Empty Country

P.E. - Person [Wharf Cat Records]

To say P.E.’s vision of avant post-punk knows no boundaries would be an understatement. On Person, the debut full-length from the, Brooklyn band -- which features the remnants of deactivated punk stalwarts Pill and experimental electricians Eater -- P.E. trajectory through time, space, and personal emotion wriggles in colorful shock waves and glass bead rhythm. There’s as much sax-ual tension building up between these bodies as there is industrial anxiety. It’s like the sonic microcosm of putting the human brain under the stress of digital and physical worlds.

Person by P.E.

snarls - Burst [Take This to Heart Records]

Burst, the debut full-length from Columbus dream-pop rockers snarls, rings true to its title through its wavering sound. Singer Chlo White is at the epicenter of it all as its force of nature alongside Mick Martinez’s blurring electricity with the glitter-coated heartaches of bassist Riley Hall and drummer Max Martinez as the four-piece.navigates the oft-turbulent air of romance in all of its highs and lows. The emotional forecast may be one of unpredictability, but snarls aerodynamic precision makes any sudden shift in direction feel like a swoon.

Burst by snarls

Soccer Mommy - color theory [Loma Vista Recordings]

The followup to Soccer Mommy’s 2018 breakout debut Clean may emotionally be quite a comedown for Sophie Allison, yet it’s a big step in growth both creatively and personally as the 22-year-old contends with her own happiness in a world falling apart around her. Despite her position as a continuously rising indie rock star, life doesn’t come much easier, as color theory finds Allison submerged beneath her own self-doubts, regrets, and depressive episodes that often are the price one pays for living the quote-unquote dream. Sonically, color theory stirs slowly in harsher textures of reverb and empty space. You can envision the melancholy rainbow accordingly.

color theory by Soccer Mommy

U.S. Girls - Heavy Light [4AD]

U.S. Girls’ 2018 effort In a Poem Unlimitedwas arguably the most cohesive vantage point of Meg Remy’s avant-pop project’s socio-political musical constructions. Its followup Heavy Light bares a similar semblance through its collage of reflections bared down by the weight of the American capitalist machine and personal trauma, but in being upheld throug large collaborative effort of other voices and arms in the studio, the album takes on a majestic grandeur that furthers Remy’s vision for the world stage. It would appear that the human experience, when held up to U.S. Girls’ Light, reveals every fracture in its body in a way that aligns like a mirror image with the world around it.

Yaeji- WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던 [XL Recordings]

Yaeji is the human vessel from which mood and movement move between, and with WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던, her first full-length release mixtape and XL Recordings debut, the 26-year-old Korean-American producer presents an awe-striking adventure throughout the entire universal plane of dance, pop and electronic soundscapes that map out glassy reflections built around anxious peaks and lonely plateaus. As meditative effects build paths toward hyper-kinetic energy busts and temporal euphoria, WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던 not only showcases the emotional depths behind Yaeji’s sound, but showcases the her mastery of every particle that helps create the serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin and dopamine running throughout her affirming beats.

WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던 by Yaeji

Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind [Warp]

With their 2018 breakout Safe In the Hands of Love, Yves Tumor mutated with fascination conviction between ugly-beautiful shapes of electronic and ambient noise. For that reason, that their followup Heaven to a Tortured Mind is oozing with charismatic clarity and magnetic sexual energy presented at the foreground makes the artist’s latest transformation even more awe-striking. On this turn. Yves Tumor recreates the dynamics of rock music by channeling every spark of electricity in its horny funks into his writhing body, and never lets up on the chest-puffing theatrics in their own demonic image. The end result is sure to satiate the senses on both a physical and spiritual level.

#addy #bacchae #empty country #brian fallon #p.e.#snarls #soccer mommy #u.s. girls #yaeji #yves tumor #features #listen to these #new music & videos #new music and videos

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rapzips · 4 years

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NOZ BEST OF 2019

I stopped making these zips cause it takes so much time and also Spotify exists now but Noz is always on point so I stole this and from his Light Sleeper page and repackaged a zip that I found in the comments (by eas). Be sure to check his decade wrap ups on the best of Thugger, Future and Sosa too.

1. Lil Nas X – “Old Town Road” (Young Kio) 2. Polo G f/ Lil Tjay – “Pop Out” (Iceberg Beatz & JD On Tha Track) 3. City Girls – “Act Up” (EarlOnTheBeat) 4. NLE Choppa – “Shotta Flow” (Midas800) 5. NBA Youngboy – “Slime Belief” (Beatmonster Marc) 6. Sada Baby – “Back End” (?) 7. Denzel Curry – “Ricky” (FnZ) 8. Playboi Carti – “Molly/No Stylist” (Pi’erre Bourne) 9. ShooterGang Kony – “Charlie” (?) 10. DaBaby – “Suge” (Pooh Beatz & JetsonMade) 11. Injury Reserve f/ Rico Nasty & Pro Teens – “Jawbreaker” (Melik XYZ, Pro Teens & Injury Reserve) 12. Quando Rondo – “Gun Powder” (Tahj Money) 13. Roddy Ricch – “Down Below” (Scott Storch) 14. Lil Keed f/ YNW Melly & Lil Uzi Vert – “Pull Up” (JetsonMade) 15. Megan the Stallion f/ DaBaby – “Cash Shit” (LilJuMadeDaBeat) 16. Billy Woods – “Checkpoints” (Kenny Segal) 17. Gunna f/ Young Thug – “3 Headed Snake” (Wheezy) 18. Suga Free – “Premium Game” (L-Finguz) 19. Queen Key – “Evil” (Enviyon) 20. Young Thug – “Just How It Is” (Wheezy & Nick Mira) 21. Tree & Vic Spencer – “Easy” (Tree) 22. Flo Milli – Beef (Flomix)” (Ethereal – “Beef“) 23. Maxo Kream – “Meet Again” (Teej & Mike Dean) 24. Lil Tjay – “FN” (MB13 Beatz) 25. Dreamville f/ Young Nudy – “Down Bad” (Pluss) 26. Mavi – “Willpower” (ovrkast) 27. Dee Watkins – “Bad Ass Jit” (Rocktee) 28. G Herbo – “Scratchy & Itchy” (Helluva Beats) 29. Earl Sweatshirt f/ Mach Hommy – “4N” (Earl Sweatshirt & Mach Hommy) 30. Stunna Girl – “Runway” (Helluva) 31. Young Nudy f/ Lil Uzi Vert – “Extendo” (Pi’erre Bourne) 32. Female Mula – “Gats In Ya Face” (Rippa On The Beat) 33. Jim Jones f/ Cam’ron & Fred The Godson – “Pity In The Summer” (Heatmakerz) 34. Mustard f/ 1TakeJay – “Intro” (Mustard) 35. Lil Uzi Vert – “Free Uzi” (DJ L Beats – “Gangway“) 36. Noname – “Song 32” (Phoelix) 37. YNW Melly – “Beat A N***a Block” (Ey3lowbeatz) 38. Teejayx6 – “Swipe Story” (KDen Ju) 39. Xanman – “Pink” (Xanman) 40. Shordie Shordie – “Bitchuary (Betchua)” (YG Beats) 41. Duke Deuce – “Yeh” (Ayoza) 42. BlocBoy JB – “Mercedes” (Dilip & Otxhello) 43. Junglepussy – “I’m In Love” (Ben Bradley & Shy Guy) 44. Lil Gray – “Crash” (Mannyvelli & Johnny Caravaggio) 45. Cash Kidd – “Who Shot You” (?) 46. Shy Glizzy – “Demons” (Supah Mario) 47. Trefuego – “90MH” (Kevin Katana) 48. Peezy – “New Car Smell” (Marc Boomin) 49. Tobe Nwigwe f/ Paul Wall – Juice” (Lanell Grant) 50. Lil Tecca – “Ransom” (Nick Mira & Taz Taylor) 51. Comethazine – “Stand” (N/A) 52. Ruby Yacht – “No Word For Wack” (AlgernonCornelius) 53. BbyMutha f/ Ttbby – Spooky Mutha Mansion” (?) 54. Rod Wave f/ Kevin Gates – “Cuban Links” (Yung Tago, Tre Gilliam & TnTXD) 55. Showbiz & Milano – “Tears” (Showbiz) 56. G-Eazy f/ Young Miami & Juvenile – “Throw Fits” (London On Da Track) 57. DuffleBag Boog – “No Sleep” (Liteease) 58. Tierra Traniece – “Fool Me Once” (Rippa On The Beat) 59. Droop-E f/ Cousin Fik & Stressmatic – “Won’t Fold” (Droop-E) 60. Doja Cat – “Rules” (Dr. Luke, Danielle Alvarez, Salaam Remi & Ben Billions) 61. Tisakorean f/ Huncho Da Rocksta & Kblast – “The Mop” (Mighty Bay) 62. Rahli – “Perc 30” (Yung Glizzy) 63. Allblack f/ Kossiko – “304” (StraightDropVanilla) 64. Mo3 – “2 Nineteen” (Stovall) 65. Nefew – “Blocklife Souljas” (Senzo Luciano) 66. E-40 f/ Scarface – “Watch The Homies” (Proptheproducer) 67. Lil Gotit – “Da Real HoodBabies” (Bankroll Got It) 68. Griselda – “Cruiser Weight Coke” (Beat Butcha & Daringer) 69. UnoTheActivist – “Adam Sandler” (Spiffy Global) 70. Trifln’ – “Huh” (Pay$ean) 71. Future – “Krazy But True” (Distance Decay, Corbin, Frankie Bash & Wheezy) 72. Wiki – “The Act” (Slauson Malone) 73. Chief Keef f/ Lil Pump – “Old Heads and Regretful Hoes” (Zaytoven) 74. AG & Cuns – “Get The Feeling” (Cuns) 75. Longmoneykese – Stickwalk” (?) 76. Rico Nasty – “Sandy” (Kenny Beats) 77. Babyface Ray – “Trill Spill” (?) 78. Homeboy Sandman f/ Kurious & Aesop Rock – “Lookout (Remix)” (Mono En Strereo) 79. Baby Smoove – Losing My Mind” (Michigan Meech) 80. ZaeHD & CEO – “Robotics” (Yvngquan) 81. Rick Ross f/ Gunplay – “Nobody’s Favorite” (Trop) 82. Mach Hommy f/ Tha God Fahim – “Mozambique Drill” (Nicholas Craven) 83. Earthgang – “Bank” (Big Korey & Ant Chambers) 84. Offset f/ J Cole – “How Did I Get Here?” (Metro Boomin & Dre Moon) 85. Danny Brown – “Savage Nomad” (Playa Haze) 86. Bandhunta Izzy – “How to Rob” (PYREXWHIPPA) 87. Conway the Machine – “E.I.F.” (JR Swiftz) 88. FMB DZ f/ DaBoii – “GiveNGO” (Jay Johnson) 89. Baby Fifty – “Spank His Ass” (?) 90. OMB Peezy – “Big Homie” (SephGotTheWaves & Drum Dummie) 91. Gucci Mane f/ Kodak Black – “Big Boy Diamonds” (London On The Track) 92. Pop Smoke – “Welcome To The Party” (808Melo) 93. Kevin Gates – “Walls Talking” (Roark Bailey & Richie Souf) 94. Lil Reese f/ Chief Keef – “BBQ” (Chief Keef) 95. MoneyMarr – “Cable Box” (Earl On The Beat) 96. Baby Keem – “Invented It” (Ambezza, Keanu Beats & Baby Keem) 97. Saweetie – “My Type” (London On Da Track) 98. Nuk – “Experiments” (?) 99. Kool Keith f/ Paul Wall – “Foot Locker” (Psycho Les) 100. Ambjaay – “Uno” (Almighty Quise)

HERE’S THE ZIP

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jimhair · 4 years

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If you can look at this image with eyes focused at a distance, it will become 3D. (Don’t get a headache!) I’ve admired the work of the early photographers who wandered the world and brought back stereo views of foreign lands, and people, and thought we are living in such strange times, maybe I should make stereo views too. Carleton E. Watkins, 1870-1885 lost most of his work in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, but there are still quite a few examples in the online digital collections of the University of California. Watkins was the photographer whose work helped establish the protection of Yo Semite and the creation of a National Park. I would have loved to discuss his work with @anseladams or see if @fraenkelgallery had in their collection examples of his stereo views. Remi, Portland, August 8, 2020 #stereo #street #celebration #blm #blacklivesmatter #pdx #earth #human #family #photography #hasselblad #camera #schwarzweiss #blancoynegro #blancinegre #bnw @ilfordphoto #fp4 #film #blancetnoir #白黒 #Hēiyǔbái #siyahbeyaz #shirokuro #blackandwhite #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #portland #nw #streetphotography #oregon @hasselblad @hasselbladculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CDwQ_BvnDJc/?igshid=1d7m8ik91w9l6

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whitehotharlots · 7 years

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The Day of the Wokeists

Before we begin, here’s a brief list of musicians whose work has not been pulled off streaming services, whose records are still for sale online and in shops, and whose labels did not issue massive recalls:

Remy Ma, who shot someone, and then while on trial for the shooting had a group of friends beat up the boyfriend of a witness.

Jerry Lee Lewis, who married his 13-year old cousin and then broke into Graceland in 1974 to try and murder Elvis.

Rick James, who locked a 24-year-old woman in his basement for six days, raped her repeatedly, and burned her legs and genitals with his crack pipe.

Phil Spector, who pulled a gun on 4 separate women who refused to sleep with him, and eventually shot a 5th woman in the woman in the mouth, killing her.

Mark E. Smith, the world’s angriest-looking man and serial domestic abuser.

Chuck Berry, who installed cameras in the bathrooms of the restaurant he owned and taped women as they peed.

Ice Cube***, who beat the shit out of a female rapper at her record release party while his bodyguard threatened to shoot anyone who tried to intervene.

Ian Watkins, lead singer of Lostprophets, who convinced several female fans to allow him to rape their small children. When police confiscated his computer he had to give them his password so they could unlock it. It was—I swear to god—“ifuckkids.”

That’s just the first several that popped into my head. I didn’t even need to google them. And that’s also just very major offenses, not including minor crimes such as when Paul Simon appropriated African culture, or when Vampire Weekend appropriated Paul Simon’s appropriation. Or that Jamie Killstein guy who got popular for being Super Woke but then wasn’t nice enough to the groupies he fucked. Or Iggy Azalea and Azalea Banks—I forget which is which, but I know one is bad because she is white and raps while the other is a black woman who thinks that gay people are demons.

So, okay, let’s talk about a hot musical act called PWR BTTM. They are a pair of queer, gender-fluid youngsters who write painfully simplistic teen angst rock. The music is middling, I think. I’m frankly happy whenever I see any young people playing guitars, but their sound reflects the boring edgelessnes that typifies “indie” music in the late twenty-teens. Maybe I’m just getting old, or maybe their music is objectively dull. I dunno. At any rate, it’s inoffensive but doesn’t do much for me.

In interviews, the kids seem charming: introspective enough for people in their early twenties, honest, pleasingly effeminate, self-possessed but not cocky. There’s no obvious signs of idiocy or pretension.

Their shtick is shtick, only now shtick has become conflated with people’s deep-seeded (inalterable, unquestionable) identities, so it’s super loaded and dangerous to comment upon. So, umm, they’re gender fluid. And they express that by covering themselves in glitter. Which makes their concerts seem safe to other kids who indentify as non-binary. I’ll accept all that at face value.

Yesterday, the group’s new album had just dropped and it was getting rave reviews: 4 stars from NME and Rolling Stone, and a B+ from Consequence of Sound. Stereogum compared them to Sleater-Kinney, Fugazi, Husker Du, and the Beatles. Again, I am not a musicologist and my taste is just my taste, but I own literally every album released by each of those groups and I can find zero trace of any of them in PWR BTTM. But that’s just me.

Woke Social Media was even more effusive in its praise. They were, in actuality, borderline violent in their praise. This morning, I found over 20 accounts that were angry the album was getting less-than-perfect reviews (B pluses instead of A’s) and accused the aforementioned publications of being all sorts of phobic. It wasn’t enough to compare PWR BTTM to the Beatles. PWR BTTM needed to be called better than the Beatles.

But then god shrugged. Posts began to emerge. PWR BTTM, it turned out, were not woke purveyors of safety and inclusion. Oh no. They were rapists.

A lone facebook poster said she knew of several people who had been somehow molested by the group—details were sparse, but they alluded to bandmates hitting on people who didn’t want to be hit on, trying to sleep with people under 18, and “violating consent.” Others posted, as well, all saying not they themselves were victims but that they had heard of others who were victims. Most damningly, (which is to say, most specifically) Jezebel published an account of an anonymous woman who claimed one of the bandmates tried to have sex with her while she was passed out.

The denunciations came in an avalanche. Their label dropped them. All, or nearly all, venues canceled. Their opening acts and touring band members quit. All copies of their music was removed for purchase from streaming sites, new physical copies of their album cannot be bought on Amazon, and their label is offering to refund the money of anyone who bought the record. (Amazon is offering used copies of their latest for $30.00 per CD; LostProphets’ “Liberation Transmission,” meanwhile, is free to stream with Amazon Prime and can be ordered on CD for $5.99, shipping included).

So we have two possibilities, here:

A couple of young queer kids were/are really big sex creeps, and they’ve been allowed to prey freely upon vulnerable kids because they do a good job of using woke terminology. OR

A couple of young queer kids are weirdos, have probably creeped out or angered people but haven’t actually done like actual Assault, but they are now being unduly smeared through thirdhand, low-follower social media accounts making accusations that are absolutely unverifiable.

At any rate, the only acceptable reaction to an accusation is enthusiastic and unqualified acceptance. So PWR BTTM’s career is now done. Period. Anyone who does not sufficiently distance themselves from the band are subject to immediate excommunication from polite society. This very overview I am writing, if it gets noticed by more than a few hundred people, will be considered tantamount to physical assault, and people will try to identify me so as to get me fired.

And here, my friends, the foundational psychosis of the Woke Edifice has been laid bare. You cannot provide broad inclusion while demanding absolute conformity. Absolute conformity results in blunt reactionaryism, exclusion, violence, and heaps of obvious and unappealing self-contradiction. One minute you’re demanding the head of a writer for daring to suggest that a band’s identity gimmick doesn’t make them the greatest musical act of all time; the next, you’re demanding that no one so much as begin to question the fact that that band is raw evil.

I don’t want to dismiss the beauty of the connection that musicians can have with their fans, how seeing PWR BTTM act uniquely queer was probably very empowering to lots of young people and so these revelations must really suck. But, like, it’s still just a band: they were never actually protecting anybody or setting anyone free. At heart, the identity stuff was a gimmick. PWR BTTM were able to manipulate their audience—or were able to be taken down so absolutely, so quickly—because the rules that guide the ethical precepts that envelop and create their audience are both flimsily constructed and viciously enforced. Wokeness is very, very easy to manipulate but still somehow almost impossible to control. Once unleashed, it will always consume its purveyors, the wasters will always become the wasted.

It’s no coincidence that wokeness elevates cultural trifles into matters of absolute import. By definition, a demand for conformity must be policed in a harsh and aggressive manner, which leaves no room for consideration, discussion, or even basic self-evaluation. Blatant hypocrisy goes unquestioned, and so do takes that are absolutely and objectively incorrect. The most superficial signaling is celebrated as enlightenment , and any efforts toward complication are considered a sign of evil and disease.

But here’s the neat thing, demonstrated by the list that began this piece… these rules only apply to the people who subscribe to them. And subscription is voluntary, for those who don’t work in the media and/or have sense enough to keep their opinions off of the internet. And every time a fire like this one starts up, the woke sphere tightens its demands and gets a little meaner, and it becomes even more unappealing for everyone who isn’t already initiated.

***It was Dre who beat up the female rapper, not Ice Cube. I guess I actually should have googled it...

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Senior Capstone Exhibition, 2022: Make Art, Create Change

Featuring works by Elizabeth Angel, Danielle Benoit, Pedro Cabrera, Sha’e Collinge, Judith Davis Deacon, Falicity Downs, Abigail Eaton, Megan Goodwin, Lilly Hanna, Allison Hernandez, Monserrat Hinojosa, Sabrina Hedayati, India How, Tyshell Johnsonp-Hill, Connor Keeran, Kristen Kojima, Hannah Larson, Raegan Lomanto, Arianna Michel, Remi Montes De Oca, Yesenia Piceno, Taylor Prentiss, Bella Prospero, Catrina Rodriguez, Samantha Saldana, Vivian Velasco Vasquez, Jasmine Venegas, and Delinda Watkins.

About Exhibition: A celebration of culminating Senior Capstone projects that reflect the synthesis of knowledge, skills, and abilities developed over the course of a student’s learning experience at CSUMB.

Dates: May 16-May 21, 2022

Exhibition Reception: May 20, 2022, 3-4pm

Exhibit Hours: 12-4pm, Monday – Friday (Saturday, May 21, 2022, 12-2pm)

Capstone Exhibition Location:

Building 70, VPA Programs and Exhibition Space

May 20, 2022 SENIOR CAPSTONE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

Senior Capstone Ceremony: May 20, 2022: 10:00-11:30am, VPA quad (between builds. 71 & 72)

Senior Capstone Student Presentations: May 20, 2022,12-2pm, build. 72

Senior Capstone Opening Reception: May 20, 2022, 3-4pm, build. 70, rm 111 (VPA Exhibition & Programs Space)

Free & Open to the Public!

All attendees/participants abide by CSUMB's COVID-19 guidelines & masks must be worn indoors.

Minor Attendees: Minor attendees must remain in supervision of their parent or legal guardian during the course of this event. CSU Monterey Bay's staff, faculty, students, and guests will not be held responsible or liable for the supervision of any minor participant/attendee during the VPA Event(s).

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Championship round-up: Norwich regain top spot

Norwich conquered Millwall 3-1 to keep their automatic promotion push

Norwich conquered Millwall 3-1 for their automatic promotion -push to preserve

Hull his mouting an unlikely playoff print after it beat Birmingham 2-0 Ipswich 2- 1

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Published: 18:56 GMT, March 2, 2019 | Updated: 18:56 GMT, March 2, 2019

Norwich maintained their bid for automatic promotion with a 3-1 victory over Millwall to return to the top of the championship.

After being beaten by the best place of Leeds after the 4-0 victory of United over West Brom on Friday night, the Canary Islands reacted nicely.

City opened the score in the 16th minute, with Marco Stiepermann shooting in an unguarded net from 12 yards after Jordan Archer had saved a shot from Onel Hernandez

But Norwich got the points in the second half with goals from Christoph Zimmermann and Teemu Pukki, the latter scored his 24th in the league this season.

Two goals from Jarrod Bowen, counting his number to 18 for the season and 14 in his last 16 games, Hull & # 39; s pushed for a play-off spot when the Tigers Birmingham beat 2-0 at the KCOM stadium.

Marc Pugh fed with a by-ball, 23rd minute before adding a 60th minute penalty after he was knocked down by goalkeeper Lee Camp.

Brentford enjoyed a 3-0 victory and beat QPR in Griffin Park for a seventh deficit at home base. in the competition this season, after a 50th minute penalty after Grant Hall had eliminated Ollie Watkins before the French striker then brought in Said Benrahma for the second in the 71st minute.

Sergi Canos completed the score deep in injury time.

[R] Serena Canos hit the last goal of Brentford in injury time to seal a 3-0 victory at QPR Stadium

After drawing their last five, and with only one win in their previous 18 in the league, the Millers grabbed the lead of the second minute when they had to defend Semi Ajayi, on their way home to throw Will Vaulks long his second goal in two games.

Although Blackburn equalized in the 51st minute via Amari & # 39; i Bell, the home team was led six minutes later, with substitute Ryan Williams on hand to return home Vaulks on his way home for Ajayi second in the 84th minute. Charlie Mulgrew got Rovers & # 39; second with an injury time penalty.

seemed to have saved a point when Gwion Edwards sailed from a narrow angle seven minutes before time, only for Mo Barrow to give the Royals the win with a nice late finish.

Oli McBurnie did well that he missed a penalty by Swansea & # 39; s defeat of Bolton

Nine-man Bolton collapsed on a 2-0 defeat in Swansea for their degradation fear

After Remi Matthews had saved a bad Oli McBurnie penalty in the 36th minute – his second miss on the spot this season – Bolton switched to the downfall of 10 men

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David Wheater turned out to be a straight-off in the 73rd minute for a deliberate error on Wayne Routledge, with McBurnie and Bersant Celina, capitalizing to give the swans the victory.

Daniel Johnson moved into the opener three minutes before the break, but Famara Diedhiou grabbed a run for the visiting Robins in the 69th minute

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