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francescosatanassi · 8 months

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"GLI ANNI PIÙ BELLI"

Pochi giorni fa la Camera dei Comuni del parlamento Canadese, con la presenza del presidente ucraino Zelens'kyj, ha riservato un lungo applauso al 98enne Yaroslav Hunka, ucraino naturalizzato canadese, per ringraziarlo di aver combattuto i russi durante la II Guerra Mondiale. Strano che nessuno (almeno inizialmente) abbia pensato all’ovvio: se negli anni ’40 combattevi i russi, la tua posizione era abbastanza ovvia. Al vecchio Hunka non è parso vero di essere accolto come un eroe di guerra, soprattutto ripensando alle operazioni militari del suo reparto. Hunka faceva parte della famosa Divisione Galizia, una formazione composta da volontari ucraini che si erano uniti al Terzo Reich. Non semplici soldati, ma uomini appartenenti alle SS che al processo di Norimberga furono accusati di aver ucciso centinaia di ebrei e civili polacchi. Le SS della Galizia furono infatti protagoniste nel reprimere la rivolta di Varsavia mettendo in atto gli ordini di Himmler: incendiare gli edifici senza curarsi di chi li occupava e sparare ai bambini, alle donne e al personale medico. Al termine dell’operazione, i civili superstiti lasciarono la città e furono pochissimi quelli che si nascosero tra le macerie. Tra questi c'era Władysław Szpilman, il musicista polacco di cui si racconta la storia nel film “Il pianista.” Dopo il conflitto, Hunka e altri 8000 appartenenti alla Divisione Galizia furono prima rinchiusi in un campo di prigionia britannico vicino a Rimini, poi con l’aiuto del Vaticano furono fatti transitare verso Spagna, Francia e Inghilterra. Da qui, il nostro “eroe” raggiunse il Canada negli anni '50, restando attivo nei circoli frequentati da ex SS. Su un blog di veterani ucraini, Hunka descrisse gli anni della guerra come il periodo più bello della sua vita. Chissà cos’hanno pensato gli ex abitanti di Huta Pieniacka, villaggio polacco raso al suolo dalle SS galiziane nel febbraio del ’44, ricordando i bambini gettati contro i muri e le donne incinte squartate. Una volta in Inghilterra, gli autori del massacro non furono interrogati e il governo inglese respinse sempre ogni richiesta di indagare sul loro passato. Nonostante i crimini di guerra dei quali si sono macchiati, una Commissione d'inchiesta canadese ha decretato che, da quando giunsero in Canada, gli uomini della Galizia "hanno tenuto una condotta soddisfacente e niente ha indicato che fossero infetti dall'ideologia nazista.” Oggi l’ex Divisione viene onorata dai nazionalisti ucraini e ogni 28 aprile si tiene una marcia per celebrarne la fondazione. Lo scorso anno la Corte suprema dell'Ucraina ha stabilito che i suoi simboli non sono riconducibili al nazismo, perciò possono essere esposti e messi in mostra. In fondo, come disse il mai pentito Hunka, si tratta solo di ricordare gli “anni più belli", non è vero?

#nazismo

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dedalvs · 11 months

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Hello, I am loving Ts' Íts' àsh and how it’s spoken! I’d love to know if you plan on releasing a full breakdown/alphabet type thing because I would love to learn more about it and how to speak it! I’m already learning parts of it and implementing it into my daily speech to get better at speaking it, especially ashfa. Would love to learn more soon!

Best regards, Samuel

If you're talking about the orthography, I did that here. If you mean the sound system and the romanization, I can do that.

Ts'íts'àsh doesn't have a ton of consonants—very few, in fact. They are as follows (romanized form [IPA]: notes [if any]):

p [p]

b [b]

t [t]

d [d]

t' [t']: this is an ejective consonant

k [k]

k' [k']: this is also an ejective consonant

f [ɸ]: this is a bilabial sound

s [s]

sh [ʃ]

kh [x]

r [r/ɾ]: pronounced like a trill at the beginning or end of a word; otherwise pronounced like a flap

That's it! Nothing too complex. Then there are only four true monophthong vowels:

a [a]

i [i]

o [o]

u [u]

Now this is where things get complicated. Any of the four vowels above or any of the fricatives above can serve as a nucleus. This means you can have a word tkh, psh, or even ss. All of those are licit. You can also have any two vowels in a nucleus—including the fricatives. So while you can only have CVV, you can actually have words like tsá, kshí, or even pskh.

(Small aside: If one of these nucleic fricatives follows an ejective, the ejective marking moves to the right of all the consonants. So a word that begins with k' and then has a nucleus of fó is spelled and pronounced kf'ó.)

There are a number of rules for what happens when two vowels (with vowels including fricatives) come next to one another. The result is too complex to list out in text, so I'm afraid I have to do a table, and since Tumblr doesn't do tables, it has to be visual. Here it is:

So, green means the sequences of vowels are allowed to go together without anything changing. Yellow means the sequence is allowed, but some sort of phonological change occurs. Red means the sequence is disallowed. There is also a general prohibition against three of the same sound in a row, even if one is an onset and two are nuclei. Thus, while ss is licit, sss is forbidden. It is worth noting that several of these vowel-vowel sequences result in monophthongs. This is important for the phonology when it comes to tone assignment. The monophthong sequences are:

*aa > a

*ai > e

*ao/*au > o

*ou/*oo > u

This means that certain instances of the vowels [a], [o], and [u] are phonologically long, and the vowel [e] is also phonologically long (and also brings it up to a five vowel system!). Some other interesting notes:

Long high vowels broke, as in English (so *ii > ai and *uu > au).

The first element of opening diphthongs fortify into a fricative (so *iV sequences become shV and *uV/*oa sequences become fV/fa).

Any time s and sh come next to each other the result is ssh (i.e. [ʃʃ]).

The only consonant f can occur next to as a part of the nucleus is f.

Now, the tones are fairly simple. There are three tones:

High Tone [´]: The vowel is pronounced with high pitch—much the way a vowel is in English when it's stressed.

Low Tone [`]: The vowel is pronounced with low pitch—much the way a vowel is in English when it's unstressed (and also not in front of a stressed vowel).

Falling Tone [ˆ]: The pitch starts off high and falls before leaving the vowel—like when you see a kitty and go, "Awwwwwww!"

How tone is assigned is complex. Good news is if the nucleus is consonantal (just fricatives), there's no tone. Fricatives don't bear tone in Ts'íts'àsh.

The short story for tone is that tone in Ts'íts'àsh came from a combination of an older stress system and cues from onset and coda consonants. An older stressed syllable is called a blaze syllable, and an older unstressed syllable is called a smolder syllable. A smolder syllable will always have low tone unless it has a current or former coda voiceless stop. Then it will have high tone. A blaze syllable can have any tone, but the tone it's assigned depends on the surrounding consonants. Some rules:

If the blaze syllable is open, its tone will be high, unless it begins with a voiced consonant, in which case the tone will be low.

A syllable with one vowel that ends in a voiceless stop will have high tone.

Otherwise, a syllable with a voiced consonant onset will have low tone. The sole exception is a syllable beginning with a voiced consonant that has two vowels and a voiceless stop coda. That syllable will have low tone on the first vowel and high on the second (unless the VV sequence results in a monophthong, in which case the tone is high).

Sequences of two vowels generally have a high-low sequence. The same goes for phonologically long monophthongs.

Coda fricatives will drag tone down.

VV sequences in blaze syllables reduce to singletons in smolder syllables when syllable type shifts in a word (e.g. due to affixation).

And that's all there is to it! It might seem tough to pronounce some sequences we don't have in English, but once you let yourself go and lean into it, it's kind of fun! Jessie and I were both really pleased at how well it was carried off by the actors. They really did a great job!

Thanks for the ask!

#conlang #language #elemental #pixar #pixar elemental #elemental pixar #tsitsash #ts'its'ash #ts'íts'àsh #phonology #phonetics #sir-samuel-iii

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hunn1e-bunn1e · 1 year

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MASTERLIST HUB!

🐇.•°•.🐇.•°•.🐇.•°•.🐇.•°•.🐇.•°•.🐇.•°•.🐇.•°•.🐇.

Series Non-Franchise Specials Post+

Aa.

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A3! Act! Addict! Actors!

AFTER L!FE

Attack On Titan

Bb.

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Baki the Grappler

Black Butler

Black Clover

Blackstar Theater Starless

Bleach (+ Thousand Year Blood War)

Blue Exorcist (+ Kyoto Saga)

Blue Lock

Buddy Daddies

Bungou Stray Dogs

Cc.

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Castlevania

Chainsaw Man

Dd.

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Danganronpa - D:THH, SD2:GD & DV3:KH

Death Note

Demon Slayer

Diabolik Lovers

Disney Twisted Wonderland

Dramatical Murder

Durarara! (1 & 2)

Ee.

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Ensemble Stars

Ff.

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Fairytail

Fate Series - FZ, FSN, FGO & FA

Fire Force

Free!

Fullmetal Alchemist (+ Brotherhood)

Gg.

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Genshin Impact

Gintama

Granblue Fantasy

Hh.

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Haikyuu!!!

Honkai Star Rail

Hunter × Hunter

Hypnosis Mic

Ii.

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Inuyasha (+ Yashahime)

Jj.

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Parts 1-7)

Jujutsu Kaisen

Kk.

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K Project

Kuroku's Basketball

Ll.

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Lookism

Mm.

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MAGI (Ft. LoM, KoM & AoS)

Mashle: Magic and Muscles

My Hero Academia

Mystic Messenger

Nn.

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Nanbaka: The Numbers

Naruto (+ Shippuden)

Nuu Carnival

Oo.

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Obey Me! : One Master to Rule Them All! (+ Night Bringer)

One Piece (+ Films Red & Gold)

One Punch Man

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Overlord

Pp.

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Qq.

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Rr.

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Record of Ragnarok

Remarried Empress

Ss.

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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Seraph of the End

Seven Deadly Sins

Spy × Family

Tt.

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

The Disastrous Life of Saiki Kusuo

The Legend of Zelda (Ft. BotW, TP & ToK)

The Rising of the Shield Hero

Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Revengers

Uu.

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Vv.

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Vampire Knight

Ww.

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Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun!

What in "Hell" is Bad?

Who Made Me a Princess

Xx.

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Yy.

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Yuri on Ice

Zz.

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diceriadelluntore · 2 months

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Storia Di Musica #318 - Black Widow, Sacrifice, 1970

Nella scelta di raccontare gruppi che hanno black nel nome, non si poteva non toccare il lato esoterico della musica: c'è tutto un filone metal, detto black metal, che porterà all'estremo queste tematiche, con un gusto quasi parossistico dell'orrido diventeranno una sorta di clichè. Il gruppo capostipite furono i leggendari Black Sabbath, ma qualche mese prima un altro gruppo che aveva black nel nome partorì un disco che se musicalmente si allacciava alle nascenti sonorità folk-prog nelle tematiche iniziava, in maniera tanto elegante quanto esplicita, l'anima nera della musica rock.

Il gruppo in questione si chiama Black Widow. All'inizio erano un sestetto, che si chiamava, nel 1966, Pesky Gee. Ne facevano parte: Kay Garret (voce), Kip Trevor (voce, chitarra e armonica), Jess "Zoot" Taylor (pianoforte e organo), Jim Gannon (chitarra e voce), Clive Jones (sassofono e flauto), Bob Bond (basso) e Clive Box (batteria), e con questa formazione pubblicano un album, fino a pochi giorni introvabile (ci sarà una ristampa ad aprile 2024), dal titolo Exclamation Mark nel 1969, che è un tentativo di farsi strada nell'affollatissimo panorama inglese di blues rock: il disco passò inosservato. In quell'anno Kay Garret lasciò il gruppo, che si riformò con il nome di Black Widow a partire dal 1970. E il batterista Cox ha un'idea. Affascinato dal mondo dell'occultismo, convince la band a recuperare materiale: leggono per settimane qualsiasi cosa riguardi l'argomento nella Biblioteca della città di Leicester e arruolano un maestro Wicca per raccogliere informazioni. Ne viene fuori così un disco sicuramente affascinante, dove alla musica sofisticata e dalle soluzioni particolari si canta in maniera spesso senza filtri di un rito ancestrale per richiamare entità misteriose. Sacrifice esce nel 1970, stesso anno del primo disco dei Black Sabbath, ma fu registrato nel 1969 e prodotto da quel Patrick Anthony Meehan che sarà produttore degli stessi Black Sabbath fino al 1976 (il loro periodo d'oro) per la CBS.

In Ancient Days parte con un sinistro organo hammond a cui in serie si aggiungono gli altri strumenti ed è "una chiamata del male" che subito muta in Way To Power: c'è l'introduzione di una sezione fiati (che sarà uno dei pilastri di tutto il disco con il rullare tribale della batteria). Il brano ricco di cambi di tempo e dai cori fa da apripista al loro brano più famoso. È sempre il flauto di Clive Jones il protagonista di Come To The Sabbath, che simboleggia con maestria l'abilità del gruppo di rifarsi a canti mistici tribali. Qui è l'andamento a crescere della velocità e dell'ossessivo ritmico ripetere del ritornello evocativo (Come, Come To Sabbath, Satan's There) a rendere la canzone ansiogena ed affascinante allo stesso tempo. Diventerà poi uno della cover preferite dai gruppi heavy metal, e persino i Black Sabbah e i sanguinosi Death SS ne faranno una riproposizione. Ma il disco è un susseguirsi di sorprese: Conjuration è il brano più dark, dalla ritmica marziale e sofisticata dove è facile sottolineare la bella voce di Kip Trevor. A questo punto c'è una sorta di parentesi gioiosa: Seduction e' una ballata meravigliosa che combina momenti jazz rock ed echi di bossa nova che stridono con il testo, vibrante e sensuale: Would you have me stay with you?\Squeeze and hold you tight?\Soothe you with my tongue and touch\Share your bed at night. Il disco si conclude con due brani: Attack Of The Demon con l'armonizzazione affidata all'organo (non c'e' praticamente chitarra ritmica) e la lunga e magnetica Sacrifice, che nei suoi 11 minuti si sviluppa in una lunga improvvisazione strumentale. Tutti i brani hanno apporti davvero minimi di chitarra elettrica, caratteristica che già ne fa un unicum. Il disco ebbe successo anche perchè la band organizzò uno spettacolo dal vivo dove oltre che cantare si esibiva in una sorta di vero rituale: ad un certo punto dello show, sbucando da parti diverse a seconda del luogo del concerto, si presentava in scena la moglie di Clive Box, che attraverso l'uso di fumogeni e carrucole sembrava volasse tra il pubblico, finchè, sul palco mentre suonavano, veniva distesa e "sacrificata". Il caso volle che una sera, presenti dei fotografi del News Of The World, il famoso tabloid scandalistico, la spada del sacrificio lacerasse il vestito della donna, che alla fine rimase nuda. Per alcuni show successivi, la trovata fu organizzata apposta, ma la foto sul giornale fece il giro di mezzo mondo, attirando le feroci critiche sulla band, alimentando lo scandalo sulle pratiche occulte seguite dai componenti del gruppo.

Inspiegabilmente, il gruppo abbandonerà le tematiche gotiche e mistiche, per riproporsi in veste folk prog nel secondo lavoro, Black Widow (1971): il segnale fu l'abbandono del batterista Box per Romeo Challenger. Rimangono un ascolto particolare e storico, sebbene in molti articoli vengono considerati fondatori del doom: possono esserlo per le tematiche, anche se il loro approccio fu quasi sistematico e pieno di fonti e non estemporaneo e spettacolare come altri, ma non lo furono certo per lo stile musicale, che rappresenta davvero un evento nel binomio rock ed occultismo.

#black widow #sacrifice #1970 #recensione

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whinlatter · 8 months

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3, 4, 14, and 37 for dean and seamus

my darling boys! 🥹 dean and seamus, off we gooooo. thank you @valfromcall!

3. Obscure headcanon

obscure headcanon 1 - dean thomas was born may 10th 1980, the day west ham won the FA cup. that west ham have never won the cup since remains a source of great regret for east london's golden boy. unfortunately may 10th also happened to be the day in 1997 when gryffindor won the house cup and harry potter scooped his ex from right from under his nose - a bad birthday for the ages. seamus tried to cheer him up by reminding him that may 10th is also the birthday of a proud son of ireland (bono from U2), which dean said was 'not helping'

obscure headcanon 2 - this is dean and seamus' son:

also this isn't obscure but their first kiss was 100% in the finnigan tent at the quidditch world cup after ireland's stonking victory over bulgaria

4. Favorite line

for seamus, it's probably when they're all in the dormitory in GoF and dobby rocks up and seamus nonchalantly goes 'someone attacking you, Harry?' aka mr finnigan giving precisely zero shits about whatever main character moment harry is having and thereby failing his audition for inclusion in the golden trio. bonus special mention to the world's worst pep talk in PS/SS:

“Harry, you need your strength,” said Seamus Finnigan. “Seekers are always the ones who get clobbered by the other team.” “Thanks, Seamus,” said Harry, watching Seamus pile ketchup on his sausages.

can't a man enjoy a condiment anymore smh

for dean, it's either "send him off, ref! red card!' from PS/SS or this from OotP:

"Well, [Moody] turned out to be a maniac, didn’t he?" said Dean Thomas hotly. "Mind you, we still learned loads."

14. Most heroic moment

seamus 'harry's a liar' finnigan getting beaten to a pulp and unrecognisably disfigured by the carrows. king shit

dean is being the biggest bravest boy in the world all on his own on the run leaving his mum and sisters behind and not being able to have a cuddle when he's lost and alone and scared and hungry all through DH :(

37. What they really think about themselves

i think, as teenagers, seamus was the one with a lot of insecurities and self-loathing: struggling with the knowledge that he was gay and a bit in love with his best mate and not really knowing what to do with it, in conflict with his mum and wrestling with who he was going to be in this big war that seemed to be looming, not the cleverest or the sportiest or the anything-est and generally a bit aggy and restless. dean was the much more relaxed one of the two. he had a strong sense of right and wrong, was sure the goodies would prevail before anything got too out of hand, was content with his kind of chill blokey vibe and got a fit girlfriend that meant he could park any of the slightly confusing feelings he was feeling for shay.

after the war, though, they swap roles. seamus has quite a settled sense of self after his school years - like, he got his fuck up out of the way (not believing voldemort was back, having his big sulk), but then redeemed himself, was on some real hero shit and really became close with the other DA lot, getting a lot out of the prestige of being an auror for a bit, no longer felt like he had much to prove, and felt loved and confident enough to come out. dean, however, really struggled with the impact of the war, feeling an intense sense of isolation and distance from the other's wartime experiences, and both envying seamus' confidence to come out but struggling to accept that he might also not be straight, like it was just another thing that would mark him out as Other. i basically think seamus and dean were hooking up a lot immediately after school and in their early twenties, but always in secret, while dean kept dating muggle girls and playing out this big tension he feels in his own identity, between the muggle and wizarding worlds, as well as over his own sexuality and internalised homophobia. i reckon seamus was the one to (eventually) recognise this was self-destructive and breaking his heart, and ended it. cue the wilderness years!

they obviously get back together eventually, though, hence west ham son (yes i'm obsessed with this child), although seamus threatened to break up with him when dean argued he should be allowed to put the imperius curse on declan rice to stop him moving to arsenal and betraying his beloved hammers in summer 2023

#these boys! break my heart everytime #i knew following UK football by osmosis would come in handy #deamus #dean thomas #seamus finnigan #headcanons #ask game

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gregor-samsung · 4 months

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“ Un operaio in tuta turchina stava oliando una grande trebbiatrice, curvo sulle ruote e gli ingranaggi. Io m’ero fermato in mezzo al cortile, e lo guardavo lavorare da lontano. Oliava le sue macchine, continuava a fare il suo mestiere, come se la guerra fosse lontana, come se la guerra non avesse neppure sfiorato il villaggio di Pestchanka. Dopo alcuni giorni di pioggia era uscito il sole, l’aria era tiepida, le pozzanghere d’acqua fangosa specchiavano un pallido cielo azzurro percorso da lievi nuvole bianche. A un certo punto entrò nel kolkhoz un ufficiale tedesco delle SS seguito da alcuni soldati. L’ufficiale si fermò a gambe larghe in mezzo al cortile, guardandosi intorno. Ogni tanto si voltava a parlare ai suoi uomini: alcuni denti d’oro luccicavano dentro la bocca rosea. A un tratto vide l’operaio curvo a oliare la macchina, e lo chiamò. «Du, komm, hier!». L’operaio si avvicinò zoppicando. Anch’egli era zoppo, lo avevano lasciato indietro perché era zoppo. Stringeva nella mano destra una grossa chiave inglese, nella sinistra un oliatore d’ottone. Nel passare accanto al cavallo gli disse qualcosa a voce bassa, e il cavallo cieco gli strofinò il muso sulla spalla, lo seguì zoppicando per alcuni passi. L’operaio si fermò davanti all’ufficiale, si tolse il berretto. Aveva i capelli neri e crespi, il viso grigio, magro, gli occhi opachi. Era certamente un ebreo. «Du bist Jude, nicht wahr?» gli domandò l’ufficiale. «Nein, ich bin kein Jude» rispose l’operaio scotendo la testa. «Cto? ti niè Evriu? Ti Evriu! tu sei ebreo!» gli ripeté in russo l’ufficiale. «Da, ja Evriu, sì sono ebreo» gli rispose in russo l’operaio. L’ufficiale lo guardò a lungo, in silenzio. Poi gli domandò lentamente: «E perché, un momento fa, mi hai risposto di no?». «Perché me lo hai domandato in tedesco», rispose l’operaio. «Fucilatelo!» disse l’ufficiale». “

Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt, Introduzione di Mario Isnenghi, Mondadori ( Collana Oscar narrativa n° 1102 ), 1978; pp. 84-85.

[ 1ª ed. originale nel 1944 presso l’editore Casella di Napoli ]

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underworld-park-offical · 8 months

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CLYDE: Hey, so have you heard this one song?

CLYDE: “Aye e aye e aye I'm your little butterfly”?

TWEEK: What?

CLYDE: Okay

CLYDE: Do you know what fuckin’

CLYDE: Nightcore is?

TWEEK: What the fuck is nightcore?????????

CLYDE: Okay so like

CLYDE: You know what music is, right?

TWEEK: No?????????

CLYDE: Okay, Okay, Okay

CLYDE: You sweet

CLYDE: Sweet

CLYDE: Summer child

TWEEK: Uhhhhhh??????

CLYDE: So like

CLYDE: Nightcore is like

CLYDE: When you take a song

CLYDE: And speed it up

CLYDE: Like really, really fast

(Meanwhile in Craig's mind)

CRIAG (Thinking): Goddamn that new kid is giving Jeffery Dahmer vibes, frfr

CRAIG (Thinking): Maybe I should just ask him straight up

CRAIG: Hey uh

CRAIG: Hater

CRAIG: Or whatever

TWEEK: UGH

TWEEK: WHAT

TWEEK: WHAT DO YOU WANT

CRAIG: I'm like

CRAIG: /nbr rn

CRAIG: But like

CRAIG: Are you like

CRAIG: A demon?

TWEEK: WHAT????

TWEEK: OH MY GOD NO TWEEK: JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU COULDN'T BE MORE OF AN ASSHOLE

TWEEK: NO

TWEEK: I'M NOT A DEMON YOU ASS!

CLYDE: Don't worry about it

CLYDE: Craigs just an asshole

CLYDE: We all hate him

CLYDE: It's okay

TWEEK: What????

TWEEK: Then why do you guys still hang around with him????

CLYDE: It's fun to pick on him

TWEEK: ….Oh

TWEEK: AAGAFAYIDXJUYHVKHCXJHV>KGJCKHVCJGVHK

CLYDE: WHAT THE FUCK CLYDE: GRA^YFYUGFYAFIU WHAT IS HAPPENING CLYDE: I'M GONNA PISS MYSELF

TWEEK: Don't

TWEEK: Just Don't

TWEEK: I’ll start projectile vomiting

CRAIG: NAURRRRR the power went out!!

TOLKIEN: Oh thank god

TOLKIEN: Maybe you can actually be a member of society for once

CRAIG: Bitch

CRAIG: My followers literally love me sm

CRAIG: They’re probably really worried about me right now

CRAIG: Wondering where my mid-day Insta photo is

TOLKIEN: Sure buddy, they're definitely worried

CRAIG: They are

CRAIG: You're just like

CRAIG: Jealous of me and my awesomeness

INTERCOM: ╬╒ ╬╬╬■ ■ ╬╬╬ ╧╧╬ ╬ ╒ ╬╬ ╬ ╬ ╧ ╧ ╬ ■ ╬ ■ ╬ ╒ ╬ ╬ ╬

CRAIG: Ewwww

CRAIG: That was that gibberish language I heard in my dream!

CRAIG: So that means the new kid is giving demon

TWEEK: FOR THE LAST TIME I'M NOT A FUCKING DEMON YOU BLUE GUMBALL SON OF A BITCH

TOLKIEN: Leave the new kid ALONE

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#craig tucker #craigfluencer #hellpark #south park #south park edits #sp #southpark

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austerlitzborodinoleipzig · 6 months

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At this point I genuinely think junior men is my favourite event of the whole GPF.

There's just something so endearing about it. You have leggy boys fighting gravity and physics. You have smoll balls of talent ready to throw hands.

You get emo music. You get teenage angst. You get programs that's just a jumping drill with epic music in the background.

Spins are all kind of bad. SS sometimes have vanished. Then you witness the next coming of Patrick Chan. Then the skater gives you theatre club levels of performance. You get quads and double axels in the same program.

And it's only the beginning, during the next seasons you'll see them in seniors and the awkwardness will be gone and the programs may be better and the jumps are more impressive and sometimes growth will make it so that the JPGF winner is still waiting for his breakout season and is stuck in lower ranks while the one who finished 6th with a disaster skate is a world medalist.

Anyway here's to Stephen Gogolev, Koshiro Shimada, Camden Pulkinen, Adam Siao Him Fa, Petr Gummenik, Tomoki Hiwatashi, Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Andrei Mozalev, Nikolaj Memola, Lucas Broussard, Shunsuke Nakamura, Nozomu Yoshioka, Robert Yampolski, Takeru Amine Kataise, Rio Nakata, Hyungyeom Kim, Juheon Lim, Adam Hagara, Daniel Martinov, François Pitot

#figure skating

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rallamajoop · 11 months

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A Guide to Resident Evil Village's Weirdest Unlockable Weapon

RE8’s LZ Answerer (aka: did you know you this game lets Ethan unlock a fricking lightsaber?) is surely the weirdest video-game-thing I have ever spent far too much time working to unlock – and then even more time figuring out once I had it. So GDI, I’m writing up a proper guide on this thing, because there is sweet-FA other info out there about it on the web.

For a novelty-weapon, this thing is complicated. It has multiple different modes, and multiple different colours, none of which are very intuitive and most of which aren’t actually very useful. But it can still be damnuseful for anyone going for the knives-only achievement, and may even come in handy going for the no-healing-items achievement. And even as a pure novelty, c’mon – this game gives you a fricking lightsaber, how is that not awesome?

So here’s the lowdown.

Unlocking the LZ Answerer

For this, you need an SS Rank on every level in Mercenaries mode. Including the Hard levels, which is a heck of a job. But if you’ve bought the Winters Expansion (and you should), then by the time you’ve got SS ranks on every standard level, you’ll have unlocked Lady Dimitrescu as a playable character (just an S on the last level is needed). And Lady D is broken on hard mode.

Her rush-in-and-choke-slam move will one-shot any regular enemy besides the Soldat Panzer or Jet, and she can tank more damage than anyone else and use healing items if you’re stuck. You’ll still need regular attacks to deal with boss enemies, but getting SS or even SSS ranks in hard mode with Lady D is sometimes easier than scoring the same ranks in easy mode, because the scores you need are lower. She’s not your best option for SS ranks on the lower difficulty, and even with her, those hard mode stages are still a challenge, but she’s totally your best option.

Once you’ve got those scores, the Duke will sell you the LZ Answerer very cheaply at any point where you can access his shop – even if you’re reloading from an older save. Sadly, it’s not available in Mercenaries mode, or when you’re playing the main campaign as Chris.

If you're paying really close attention, you might note this thing uses the same model as Chris' target locator. Why it's called the 'LZ Answerer' we will probably never know.

Using the LZ Answerer

Here’s where things get complicated.

Switching Modes

The LZ Answerer has three different colour modes, each with different effects, and each of which can be activated in either single- or double-bladed versions. Like all ‘knives’, you can either slash with it or hold the aim button for a forward stab for extra damage.

To activate your sabre, hit the attack button, or hold the aim button.

To activate double-bladed mode, hold down the aim button. After a few seconds, the second blade will start extending. You have to keep holding aim until it’s finished extending or it’ll disappear again. You can actually attack during this period – Ethan will simply do a forward stab – as long as you don’t release the aim button. The annoying part is that if Ethan is knocked down or if you change weapons, the sabre will deactivate, and you’ll have to do this again.

You can change the colour of your sabre the same way you switch ammo for your grenade launcher: hold ‘aim’, and hit the interact button (F on keyboard). Switching colours will also switch you back to single-bladed mode, unfortunately.

Entering double-bladed mode doubles your damage and changes Ethan’s attack animation. It’s well worth using, but does take more time to activate, which becomes an issue under pressure – especially when Ethan gets knocked down mid-battle and you have to reactivate it again in a hurry.

Note that Ethan’s usual parry-ability to push an enemy away doesn’t work when you’re using the LZ Answerer, or any other knife-weapon. Apparently you’ve got to be holding a gun for that.

Colour Modes

Red: Attack mode. Sabre does maximum damage in this mode.

Blue: Defence mode. Sabre does less damage (about 1/4 of red), but can be used to parry attacks, knocking enemies back.

To parry successfully, you need to hit the block button just as an enemy attacks. Just holding block down will still block, but won’t knock the enemy back.

Green: Healing mode. Sabre does even less damage (about 1/12 of red or 1/3 of blue), but heals Ethan slightly with each hit.

Healing mode will also boost your HP when you attack farm animals, or some inactive Soldats. From my own experiments, this didn't work on the Soldats in Heisenberg's operating room, but did work on the first inactive Soldat you encounter, sitting in its chair, and on the Soldats you find lined up in alcoves in the passage by the backup generator room (one of which does attack you, so something of a pattern there).

Double-bladed mode: Doubles damage of whichever colour mode is active.

Damage reductions here are relative – I don’t have exact figures, but have done a bunch of experimentation on multiple difficulties, recording how many hits it took to down an enemy. But I did some running around the Stronghold on various difficulties to test this thing out a little more thoroughly, so have some figures.

On Casual difficulty, a single-bladed red sabre will kill a standard lycan or moroi in 1 hit. Your blue sabre will need 4 hits – or 2 with a double-blade. For comparison, the Karambit knife (unlocked after you finish the game for the first time) took me up to 3 hits to take down a lycan. Some of those hits may have been misses – its range is so short that it’s often hard to tell if it’s connecting at all – but you can see the LZ Answerer is already starting to lose its edge.

To kill 1 lycan with the green sabre will take you around 6 hits, even if it’s in double-bladed mode, so presumably closer to 12 with a single blade (I say ‘presumably’ because good luck counting out 12 hits on a single lycan). Even on Casual.

Up the difficulty to Hardcore, and you’ll need 2 red hits to take down one lycan (or 1 hit in double-bladed mode). By Village of Shadows, you’re looking at 2 double-bladed hits from your red sabre per kill – so if we do the math, we’d be looking at 48 hits with a single-green sabre. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Where it really gets complicated

So in theory, this is a weapon with a lot of versatility: 6 different modes, the ability to parry and knock down enemies or even heal yourself, and do serious damage without spending ammo. In practice though, only the red mode is really useful (damage in other modes is just too steeply reduced), and even then, more of a novelty than a substitute for your guns.

See, here’s the thing: using the LZ Answerer really drives home that this is not a game designed for melee combat, and letting enemies get into melee range is a Bad Idea.

Even on casual difficulty, most enemies will strike at you the moment they get into range, and your sabre has no real impact or stopping power. Enemies will regularly take multiple hits from it without flinching, and it does nothing to interrupt incoming attacks.

So you can hit a lycan the moment you get into range, and that lycan will still tank the hit, dive straight through the blade, knock you into the dirt and go for your neck, locking you into an extended animation and forcing you to reactivate the sabre again from scratch before you can go in for another hit. If you want time to reactivate both blades, you’ll probably have to run away and come back.

In theory, being able to parry incoming attacks in blue-bladed defensive mode should be a good solution, but in practice, parried enemies are blown too far away to set them up for a counter-attack. By the time you’ve closed the distance, they’re probably getting back up again. Using your regular block in melee combat and then attacking immediately after is actually the more viable strategy. Note also that, even on a successful parry, Ethan still takes damage, and all that damage adds up pretty quickly.

But the biggest problem is that defensive mode reduces sabre damage by around 75%. That means up to 4 times more hits to take down an enemy, and at least 4 times more chances for them to get through your guard. By far the most effective strategy I could come up with – regardless of difficulty – with was to just rush enemies with my double-red sabre and take them down before they had the chance to react. Apparently the best defence really is a good offense with this thing.

Healing mode is only worse: one hit from a green sabre does barely 1/12 the damage of your red sabre, and you’ll need multiple hits to raise Ethan’s health by even a single colour phase. Trying to kill enemies at short range with what amounts to a pen knife just results in getting bitten more, and ending the battle with less health than you started.

Some Actual Tactical Advice

The long and short of all this is that in 99.9% of circumstances, there’s no reason to use any mode but red. The best tactic available is killing your enemy in one hit, before it ever gets the chance to attack at all.

Strategy-wise, I found two different semi-viable ways to use this thing in combat, both working best in double-bladed red mode. Switching colours mid-stream is just too slow to be practical under pressure.

Block as soon as an enemy gets close to you, then use the window after it attacks to attack back. You’ll take some damage, but not as much.

Charge in swinging the lightsabre madly, preferably while weaving to the left, hitting the enemy without putting yourself in a good position for it to hit you back. On lower difficulties, this will kill most enemies in one hit.

If you do get knocked down in the midst of a fight (and you will), you’ll probably end up finishing the fight with a single-bladed sabre. C'est la vie.

In Conclusion

So with all these issues, is there are a reason to use the LZ Answerer at all? Well, actually, yes.

For all its problems, the red sabre is still the best knife-class weapon in the game. Even in single-bladed mode, it does more damage than the Chris’ karambit, and has better range to boot. And if you’re going for the knives-only achievement, that’s not to be sneezed at.

Though green-bladed mode isn’t useful in combat, it will actually heal you a little even when attacking farm animals or (surprisingly!) inactive soldats. And if you’re going for the three-healing-items-or-less achievement, then that's actually useful.

That said, by the time you’ve unlocked the LZ Answerer, you should already have unlocked ‘special customisations’ for all your weapons (a much easier Mercenaries-mode unlockable). And with that bonus, Ethan’s basic starter pistol, the Lemi, also heals you a little with each hit. It doesn’t do much damage, but you can do damage with it from a safe distance, and that’s often going to be way more practical.

All that said, the green sabre can be more efficient. Testing this out, I found that, killing the two goats with the green sabre refilled my health all the way from red to dark green, whereas killing those same two goats with the Lemi only increase my health from red to orange. And being able to stand there and just whale on inactive Soldats is a pretty effective way of refilling your health too.

Ultimately, the LZ Answerer is mostly just a novelty weapon that can be pretty frustrating to use in practice. But as a cute gimmick that mostly exists as an excuse to play more Mercenaries and reuse Ethan’s knife-wielding animations in a fun way, that’s all it really needs to be. It’s neat, but you’re not missing a lot if you never unlock the thing, and that’s okay.

#Resident Evil Village #LZ Answerer #Ethan Winters #Resident Evil #my gifs

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beladusnotsosecertdiary · 2 years

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Hello !!! I wanted to say that i loved what you did with Saint Seiya ! This anime is so underrated ! KEEP GOING ! ❤ i was wondering , is it possible to make a request ? Female reader . How Albafica , Shion , El Cid and Asmita react when their daughter [ reader ] died in front of them ?

Even stars can die

Fandom: Saint Seiya Lost Canvas

Characters: Albafica, Shion, El Cid, Asmita

Type: Scenario

Theme: 🟦

Reader Insert: Female

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Synopsis: If there one lesson that is constantly taught to people like the saints is that death doesn't discriminate. It takes what it wants without warning. But why did it have to be you? Why did it have to take his little star away from him?

Albafica

While like your father you have immunity to the poisonous roses of Pisces. However, that doesn't mean you are immune to aliments. Thus, brings you to your current situation.

Serval days ago, you came down with a fever. At first it seemed like the usual yearly fever that happens. But then it got worse. You have been bedridden ever since.

Your father had called for a doctor who told him that there was nothing that could be done. Even Pefko and the herbalists who live on the Island of Healing couldn't do anything for you.

"It's okay dad." You say your voice almost gone. "I'll be okay."

"Of course, you will be." He says.

"I don't want to leave." You say suddenly. "B-But I don't think the gods will let me. I'm sorry."

"There is nothing to be sorry for my little star." He tells you quickly trying to keep his composer.

"Do you think I'll see grandfather Rugonis?" You ask.

Just like that the Pisces Saint has been broke into tiny pieces that won't be put back together anytime soon. He is so stunned that he can't answer you. But that's okay. You don't mind.

"I hope I do. From what you said, he sounded like a nice person."

"He was." Albafica finally speaks. "He'll love you. ... But I'm selfish and want to keep you all to myself."

"Hold me? Like you used to?"

"O-Of course." Now the tears are finally falling.

Carefully he takes you into his arms. You rest his head on his chest feeling warm and safe as his arms encase you. There is no way of telling how long you two sit like this. But you know it has been a while as you feel very tired suddenly.

"I love you." You say with a smile as tears slide down your cheeks.

"I love you too my little star." He says feeling your cosmo extinguish.

Manigoldo who had been outside the room feels it too. All the gold saints who you viewed as your uncles sense it as well. Manigoldo bites back his tears listening to the cries of agony from your father. There is nothing he or the others can do or say that would comfort Albafica now or later.

Shion

With his line of work, he knows that this was bound to happen. He just believed that you would be a little older when it did. Even so that wouldn't make it any less tragic.

"Please little star hold on." Shion says holding you in his arms as he runs through the forest.

You had gotten attacked by a specter who must have been watching him for a long time to figure out who you were. After all you had been one of his best kept secrets. Not even Dohko his best friend or his Master knew about you. All with the intention of keeping you safe.

But that specter found out. Even had the guts to strike you right in front of him. Now he runs with you in his arms, heading for the nearest village so that you can be saved.

"F-Father..." You speak softly, "put me down. Please put me down."

"I can't! You'll!"

"Please father. It hurts."

He stops running. He carefully lowers you to the ground holding your hand in his. He is trying not to cry but you can see his eyes watering. You give him a sad smile.

"I'm sorry. I don't want to leave you. B-But I am happy. Happy to have been your daughter."

"[Y/n]..." Shion trembles.

"If there is a next life, I want to be your daughter again. I love you, fa..." Your eyes close and your body goes limp.

"[Y/n]? [Y/N]!!!" He screams as cries of agony rip from his throat.

El Cid

It was DeJa'Vu for him honestly. You had always been sick born with an uncurable illness. Just like Mine was. But unlike hers, yours had a treatment. Even with the treatment however, your lifespan was still going to be short.

And now after thirteen years, the gods have deemed it your time to go. El Cid had told the servants to attended to the Capricon Hose that he did not want to eb disturbed. Rusk, Lacaille, and Tsubaki are the only others in the room with me and you.

Rusk, Lacaille, and Tsubaki had become your brothers. They loved you just like your father did. And thus, your father wasn't the only one losing you. The three stand a few feet behind your father giving him space as they hold back your tears.

"Please don't be sad. You'll me sad too." You tell him.

"I am afraid that I can't help it." He says his voice trembling.

You give your father a smile and go, "Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly, Lavender's green,"

His heart stops at the familiar lyrics. That is the lullaby of which he would sing you to sleep with.

"W-When I am king, you shall be queen." He continues.

You both sing the lullaby with Rusk, Lacaille, and Tsubaki listening silently. When the song ends your breath your last and your eyes close with a content smile on your face. The four feel your cosmo fade away.

"Sleep well my little star." El Cid whispers.

A/N: I know you requested Asmita was well, but he is a very difficult character for me to write. Also, I am not all that familiar with his character. So, I apologize. But I hope you enjoyed the other three. Thank you for the request.

#saint seiya the lost canvas #saint seiya #pisces albafica #aries shion #capricorn el cid #saint seiya x reader

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