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infinitydivine · 5 months
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Your Fated/ Destined Lover ❤️🫶🏼
Hello everyone, I am back again with a new PAC reading. Thank you all for loving my previous PAC, I appreciate it.
Choose your pile intuitively. Take what resonates and leave the other things. If you think this reading is not for you then choose another pile. If still it doesn't resonate then this might not be your reading. There are four Piles.
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PILE 1 ☆*: .。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
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Hello Pile 1. Your person is someone who has recently completed a Karmic cycle. They are coming out of successfully completed Karmic cycles and have learned the lessons. They are very well-accomplished person. Might come from a wealthy background, but it seems to me that they have it all when it comes to earthly and materialistic things. They are often seen as someone very experienced in every aspect of life, especially in their professional life. But whatever they look like from the outside, they are generally an open-minded and loving person. Emotionally very stable. Even though they wear their heart on their sleeves they don't let their emotions control them. They have a warm essence to them which attracts many people to them.
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PILE 2 ☆*: .。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
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Hello there Pile 2!
You got the same first card as Pile 1, if you are drawn to it you should definitely try it. Well, your person has recently completed a cycle of karmic lessons and has learned their lessons. They have ended a cycle. They are accomplished and well-rounded. They will make you feel complete because some of you might have been feeling kind of insecure within themselves lately?
They are someone who undergoes transformations continuously. They will not be the same person they used to be before. If you know them personally you will get what I am talking about. They constantly undergo multiple transformations that make them who they are right now. They are someone who is not afraid of changes. They might change their appearance a lot too. They are typically resilient, adapting to new phases of life with an understanding that change is a natural and necessary part of growth. This person often has a deep emotional strength, providing them with the ability to navigate through life’s transformations with grace .
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PILE 3☆*: .。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
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Number three, some of you might be coming from a difficult past. This person will be the new hope for you. They will bring new opportunities in material or financial aspects. Might be you will be partnering with someone new in the business ventures and then you will meet your future partner. They will be the beacon of light and positivity you are looking for in challenging times. They have the essence of optimism around them which will inspire you when you need them. They look like somebody who takes care of themselves a lot. They might be into skincare and healthy routines. They shine like a Star. Okay so for someone specific I am getting that this could be someone you already know or They are in the Public eyes/A Celebrity, Influencer.
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PILE 4 ☆*: .。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
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The one word that I immediately heard was- straightforward. They prioritize their own mental and emotional health above all. Doesn't like to give a crap about what anyone thinks of them. They might look calm from the outside but have many turmoils going inside them at the same time. Their presence often radiates peace and detachment from daily life. Their presence can be uplifting and inspiring, providing a fresh perspective on emotional and artistic expression.
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infipretty · 2 years
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𝑭𝒕. 𝑻𝒂𝒆𝒉𝒚𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 <3
Hello everyone! Welcome to my First PAC, I hope y'all enjoy this! Let me know which pile did y'all pick 🍻
Choosing a Pile :
Take Deep breaths and relax for a while, Choose the pile to which you feel the most guided/connected to, you may feel connected to one pile or more through a certain number or a picture. If any pile revokes a memory in you, it's definitely the pile for you! It's Alright to feel connected to more than one pile, maybe you have more messages than one! Just trust your intuition! ♡
Disclaimer :
This reading is a general one, So everything might not be extremely accurate for everyone. Everything will resonate differently for everyone. Take what resonates with you and leave what doesn't. At the end of the day, you're accountable for your own actions. You create your own reality and fate <3 SO enjoyyy y'all🍺.
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✧ 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝟏 ✧
Very sweet person but won't show. Literally the type to know your Starbucks order by heart. A Wishful dreamer. Very balanced. A whole Different person when in love and on a personal level. Hardworking. A provider. Positive influence on people. Quick adapter. Very sensual. Go with the flow type. Rich and stable. Go getter. Wants to be in control at times. A young soul with a serious persona on the outside. Good with words and a diplomat. Protects you like anything. Might be old school. May like photography and capturing memories. Might have a bit of an ego. You might think of them as a dork at first. Has to be told that they are in the wrong. My way or highway type at times. Possessive and protective. Analytical. Spontaneous being!
Their love language : This person is big on gifts and Acts of service. Wish for something in front of them and they will literally hand it to you the next day. They love to give meaningful gifts, gifts that may signify an inside joke or some part of your relationship. They just want to see you happy and they will do whatever they can for your happiness!
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✧ 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝟐 ✧
Effortlessly Charming. Could be the 'IT person' amongst people. Probably a movie and tv series lover. Might know how to cook really well. Fair and truthful as a person. Easy on life. Tall and broad. Adventurous, calm and composed. Impulsive at times . Quite pleasing to the eyes . Definitely a creative and an artistic type of a person. Believes in equality for all. Respectful. Might be popular amongst peers, naturally alluring and attractive. The type to give you hand written letters. Might come across as cocky but isn't. Can get through anything in life. Passionate and energetic. Intuitive. In touch with their emotions. Extrovert. May like partying. May have a heavenly smile. Soft. Big on Honesty and quite straightforward!
Their love language : words of affirmation and quality time! They are the type to take you shopping and shop with you. They may plan random dates and take you to late night drives. The type to cook for you on special days and take up equal responsibilities as you. They will never let you talk badly about yourself and will always hype you up but will let you know when you're wrong about something!
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✧ 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝟑 ✧
Wise and broad minded. Might have a deep voice. Extremely knowledgeable about random stuff. May like to experiment with their looks. Quite Rich and self made. Dominant. Hot asf. Coffee person. Probably likes hanging out at cafes and bakeries. Loves to debate. Deep down quite emotional and also, emotionally intelligent. Would be obsessed with you. The jealous type but won't admit or show it. Cheesy and romantic. Very intuitive. Extremely chivalrous and kinda 'ladies person'. Might come across as a flirt. Lowkey a feminine person (even if they identify as a man). Will spoil you endlessly. Gracefully diplomatic. Jack of all trades. Balanced and steady. Would want to be your best friend first and then anything else!
Their love language: Physical touch and gifts. Seriously the type to steal glances. Would give you random gifts, sometimes for no reason. Would love to cuddle you a lot and just hold you in general. The type to never let go of your hand first when y'all are holding hands. Back hugs are their thing. Would give you Forehead kisses to calm you down!
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✧ 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝟒 ✧
Overachiever and introvert. Observes a lot. Can read people like a book. Self aware and generous. Lowkey a loner but likes it that way. Someone who has been through a lot mentally and have struggled their way to the top. Extremely humble and well educated. Well planned and ambitious. Loyal and dependable. Won't leave your side even if you push them away. A Night/Nocturnal person. Introspective and the type to talk to you about life on a rooftop. Knows all your habits and your icks. Would encourage you to go above and beyond. Lowkey may like sports. The type who falls too hard. May not like to gossip about people. Well established. Shy at first. Will always look out for you first and then anyone else!
Their love language: Acts of service and quality time! They will help you with everything and anything that they can. This person will always have your back. You call them at 2 AM for something and the next thing you know is that they're on your doorsteps. Will always uplift you and guide you towards betterment. The type to make inside jokes with you. Eye contacts is a THING here. Will put you first in every situation!
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river--glass · 4 years
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Reylo Fic Recs Long Ass Fics pt 2: Alternate Universe
Someone asked for fic recs 100K or over, so here they are. See Pt. 1 for Canon Verse or Alternate Canon Verse fics. (I haven’t read all of these- my personal comments are in bold)
Equilibrium by AttackoftheDarkCurses & thebuildingsnotonfire. (modern, E, 479K)
When Rey works up the nerve to ask Grand Master Luke Skywalker to train her, she makes friends and finds something deep and wonderful in the martial art known as Taekwondo.
She never thought the choice would change her life.
Alternatively, a (long) story of love, family, and Martial Arts.
The Heartbreak Prince by diasterisms. (Harry Potter, E, WIP) 
I swore I would never read Harry Potter AU’s or Works In Progress, but for this fic I broke both rules. This is, pun not intended, so magical in every way. It has me SHOOK and if somehow you haven’t heard of it yet, do yourself a favor and check it out!
In Living Memory by SpaceWaffleHouseTM. (multiple times, E, 221K)
Ben and Rey are rendered immortal after being struck by lightning at the precise same moment, and keep running into one another as the centuries drag on. Waffle’s stories are all amaaaaazing and you need to read ALL of them.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot by SageMcMae. (modern, E, 214k)
MMA fighter, Kylo Ren is suspended from the league and sentenced to community service at his uncle’s martial arts academy. There he meets Rey Niima, a recent graduate with a natural ability and incredible potential.
Soul Searching by OptimisticBeth. (AU, Modern, E, 205K)
A Soulmates AU in which Ben is horrified to find out he’s soulmates with his 16 year old student, ten years his junior. (no underage shenanigans) This fic fucked me up. The world building is so stunning. The story is rich with love and fluff, but oh the angst. Soooo much angst and emotional anguish and two people who are trying their best but just can't communicate for shit. The overall story is so beautiful and worth every heartbreaking moment. A happy ending WILL come!
Satan Wears a Rolex by AquaWolfGirl. (Modern, E, 205K)A Devil Wears Prada AU. Unfinished, but it’s fascinating and it ends well where it is.
Hiraeth by Ferasha. (1990′s, E, 204K)
An absolute angst and pain train of a historical war fic. This is not a comfort fic. It will fuck you up. But if you’re into that, the way they’ve woven canon plot in with the Yugoslav Wars is a masterpiece. It’s dark and gritty and will make you feel things.
Le Fin Du Fin by QueenOfCarrotFlowers @leofgyth. (Victorian, E, 196K) A Crimson Peak AU!!! This writer has never let me down.
A Proposal by Any Other Name by Lucidlucy. (Modern, E, 188) A Leap Year AU.
Salt in the Blood by Hagen. (9th century, E, 169K) Featuring pre-Norman invasion Ireland, selkies, love of the sea, and mythical creatures.
The Great Big No by dietplainlite. (1990′s, E, 165K)
Kylo Ren is third generation rock royalty, a reigning brat prince starting to feel the burn of the fame he reached for with both hands. Rey is an aspiring singer on the verge of a big break, provided her A&R guy still has a job by the time she reaches LA. Their paths have crossed briefly, disappointingly, before. What happens when they collide?
The Trail Bride by SecretReyloTrash. (AU, Wild West, E, 160K)
Rey Niima finds herself in a perilous situation when her husband dies at the start of their journey West. From the few bachelors on the trail in her party; she attaches herself to the best of her options- mysterious Banker Ben Solo. A really interesting, amazing piece. Lots of introspection, and a heart wrenchingly real look into abuse and recovery. I emotionally digested for days.
The Sacred Texts by Eskayrobot & Poaxath. (Modern, E, 159K)
Doing the Unstuck by slipgoingunder. (Modern, E, 158K) A When Harry Met Sally AU.
The Mating Service by AlbaStarGazer. (Modern A/B/O, E, 146K)
If Rey had known how quickly she would find her biological mate and alpha through the world wide mating service, 'Match,' she might have considered signing up years ago.
Unravel Me by UnderTheCancerMoon. (Modern, E, 145K)
Rey and Ben push and pull their way through their 20's, experiencing the love, success, loss, and challenges that make life rich.
Fire Away by Daisyflo. (Modern, E, 141K)
The Witch in the Wood by HarpiaHarpyja @thisgarbagepicker & Inmyownidiom. (Fantasy, E, 138K)
I cannot say enough good things about this fic. It’s serving you knight Kylo and witch Rey and so so many good feelings. Sure there’s some angst and dark magic and some struggles but mostly this is a lovely Ghibli-esque story about two people living in a treehouse and talking to animals and having a really good life! Everything HarpiaHarpyja writes is magic.
Snow Without Winter by neonheartbeat. (Renaissance, E, 138K) 
If you’re into serious historical fics (this once features catholicism and Rome in 1492) this is for you.
Lemon-hot Summer by IshaRen & pr3tty_g1rl5. (Modern, E, 130K).
In which Ben is the horniest virgin alive and Rey is bored and looking for something (or someone) to do.
Stranger Than Fiction by daxcat79. (Modern, E, 127K). Grumpy writer Ben and sunshine muse Rey.
Like Red But Not Quite by @kylotrashforever. (Modern, E, 126K) KTF is a god-tier reylo writer and you need to do yourself a favor and go read everything they have ever written.
Dark Water by LinearA. (1950′s, E, 125K)
The North Shore by @strawberrycupcakehuckleberrypie. (Modern, E, 125K)
Notting Hill vibes. Actor Ben meets shop owner Rey, and both their lives are changed instantly. It’s mostly about them both being smitten and starting a really good life together!! Lovely!
Stars In My Pockets (Wear Daisies In My Hair) by LostInQueue. (Modern, E, 125K). A Reylogan fic.
we could plant a house, we could build a tree by like_a_dove. (Modern, E, 124K).
An absolute classic. It’s about growing pains and growing feelings - the transition from childhood into adulthood and all the messy bits in between. God, it will hurt you. Badly. But it’ll be so, so worth it.
go i know not whither and fetch i know not what by voicedimplosives. (1990′s, E, 118K)
Russian Mafia AU!! A truly beautiful piece of work. Great plot,great smut, great Bendemption arc. It’s an emotional rollercoaster that’s fully worth the ride.
Souviens-toi de moi by Maniable. (Modern/historical, E, 117K)
Disconnect by Weatherbug02. (Modern, E, 115K) 
Candyleg by 5cents. (1950′s, E, 115K)
The girl was too young, but old enough to have a hustler’s-eye view of her own bleak future. The boys were paying her to do a snow job on a candyleg, but she was beginning to love her work and love Solo, and she decided to stick with him till death did them part...
Baby, It’s Just Biology by polkadotdotdot. (Modern A/B/O, E, 112K)
Only If You Want To by Violetwilson. (Modern, M, 111K)
Personal security expert (and occasional under-the-table hitman) Kylo Ren has a strong feeling about the cute dive bar waitress with the strange bruises and the vicious wit. She's either a victim or the weirdest criminal he's ever met. Possibly both.
Ileenium Manor by WaterlilyRose. (AU, victorian, E, 109K)
Leia’s maid Rey instantly hates Lord Ben when he comes to take over the household. She can’t hate him for too long as he starts to pursue her. If you’re in the mood for a sweet but angsty Lord/Maid fic, this is for you.
Kohelet 3:16 (Call Me A Cab) by LinearA. (Modern, E, 108K)
Ruby Woo Red by HeartSabers. (Modern, E, 107K) Featuring makeup artist Rey and TV star Kylo.
Sixth Year by witheyesclosed. (Harry Potter, M, 107K)
The one where Ravenclaw Rey gets paired with Slytherin Ben in Potions and ohmygod he’s hot now
Lockjaw by bitterbones. (zombie apocalypse, M, 106K)
A Song of Trash and Fire: Ben and Rey Make a Porno by HarpiaHarpyja & sunshineflying. (Modern, E, 106K) 
With the help of rich Unca Wanwo, flagrant misuse of Ben's creative writing degree, and copious amounts of coffee, Ben and Rey put together the porno of the century, starring themselves and their friends . . . with interesting results.
The Hypnotist by Pandora_Spocks. (Modern, E, 104K)
From a galaxy far, far away, soulmates Ben and Rey have been reincarnated on Earth to resolve their karma. Dr. Ben Solo is a charismatic hypnotist to whom present day Reychelle Lumen has been referred to for help with her nightmares.
Score by SpaceWaffleHouseTM. (Modern, E, 104K)
Ben's friends convince him to take the Rice Purity Test, but when he and Rey are revealed to have the highest scores of their friends, they quickly form a pact to beat Poe's out by the end of the semester. I loved this! Its so so sweet and funny and all from Ben’s POV. Sweet, sweet pining Ben.
The World Shifts (And I Am Better Here) by lachesisgrimm. (Fantasy, E, 102K)
Once upon a time there was a beggar girl whose parents sold her to a thief, and she was very unhappy.--In which prophecy is used with malicious intent, and the universe exerts itself to correct the problem.
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astroismypassion · 4 years
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Hi astroismypasion, I recently sent a donation on kofi. Would love to know things on my chart interpretation. My birth chart info is Nov 1st 1991 20:41pm :)
Hi! 
First of all, thank you for your kind message. I really liked how you worded it, you instantly came across as an elegant and kind individual! 
Also, a side note about your birthday number, which is 1. I often notice Scorpios have it or they have 10. So I consider it a leader’s number. But it’s also a lonely path or so it seems. I guess it really is lonely at the top! ;) 
Thank you for buying me this delicious hot beverage. I drank iced black coffee with rice milk while writing your interpretation. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did writing! I listened to Lorde - Everybody wants to rule the world. 
Your dominant planets are: 1. Sun, 2. Pluto and 3. Mercury. Your dominant signs are: 1. Scorpio, 2. Virgo and 3. Capricorn. Your main mode is Fixed. You are Water dominant. 
FAMILY, SIBLINGS, EARLY LIFE 
If you have any siblings, they are Leo, Virgo, Sagittarius or Cancer. You have Virgo IC. Your parents might have been over critical, nit picky, nagging and complaining about you or to you. They might have compared to your siblings, friends, schoolmates or neighbours. You learnt how to read, write and speak very early on. Your parents emphasized how important it is to have realistic goals and views. They wanted you to pursue something pragmatic and useful. A bit of your 4th house is already in Libra. You are not emotionally close to your parents. You might have more of an intellectual, mental bond. They provided for your physical needs, but emotional needs not so much. You have Venus in the 4th house as well. Your parental figures encouraged you to go after your desire, wishes and what makes you passionate. You might be a private person and not many people know what you truly value and like, apart from family members and close friends. You value security, safety, comfort, home, family and nurturing. You like to take care of your family members. You have Sun sextile Moon. Your parents agreed on the style of your upbringing. They were in sync in how to raise you. You have Sun conjunct Mars. Your father encouraged you to go after your wants, desires, passions. You have Sun square Saturn. He might have restricted you in your career choice, professional life. He might have not been encouraging in the area of the 10th house or your career path. You have Virgo Jupiter in the 3rd house. You might have a lot of siblings, cousins and family relatives. They might have foreign origin or different cultural, religious background. Your family relatives might live abroad or in another city, country. You have Scorpio Sun in the 5th house. You felt like you have never known your father well. Or that he was a secretive, hard to know man. He might work as an artist, of some other 5th house topic, education, work with children or younger people. He might also do a physical job due to Scorpio here. Somewhere where there is heavy lifting involved. He might be a bit of a researcher as well. He might also one his own business. Or made a career out of a hobby. You have Virgo Moon in the 3rd house. Your mother sacrificed a lot for you. She is a bit nagging, want you to do errands for her or house chores, but she is a hard worker. She is talkative, witty and intelligent. She likes to gossip a bit as well sometimes. She might have been over critical of you, too logical and not in touch with her emotions, so you tend to rationalize your feelings as well. You just talk yourself out for your moods. 
PARTNERSHIPS AND FRIENDSHIPS
Your friends are Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Leo, Aries, Gemini and Virgo. In your romantic relationships you attract Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aries, Scorpio, Virgo, Gemini, Capricorn and Aquarius. You have Virgo Venus in the 4th house. This represents people you attract, what you value and appreciate. You attract hard working people, who are family oriented and like a sense of security, safety and comfort. You have Scorpio Mars in the 5th house. This represents how you take action, how you approach your crush, things you’re passionate about and what ignites your excitement. You might like to research different topics and subjects for fun. You might like to create your own art. You are passionate about your hobbies and interests. You might like to read about crime, research, detectives, psychology, relationships and their dynamics for fun. You might attract obsessive, strong, a bit stalkerish people. You might attract a bit childlike and immature partners. You take love affairs and dating very seriously. You have the potential of becoming a serial dater, but you still take relationships seriously. You are cautious and a bit guarded when it comes to entering a love affair. Your 7th house is full of surprises, you have Neptune, Uranus there. You might know how to cut people off. Some of your relationships can end as quickly as they have started. You might also idealize other people or not really see people in your romantic, business and platonic relationship for what they are truly. They could confuse you, so what ends up happening is plenty of miscommunication, abrupt changes and sudden events. With Uranus there, you need a lot of personal freedom, space when it comes to how you like your relationships. You dislike anyone telling you what to do in this area. 
CAREER, PROFESSIONAL LIFE, PUBLIC IMAGE 
You have Capricorn North Node in the 7th house. This indicates your life purpose. You might have a hard time picking up just one single career and stick to it. You could be pulled in many directions. You might be into business. You could also like a work environment where there is structured and you know what exactly is expected of you. You might like counselling, administration, public relations, public administration, business, commerce, therapy, advising. You could be an authority when it comes to platonic, business and romantic relationships. You might be inclined to partner with others. You will be the boss. You have Neptune and Uranus in the 7th house. This means you might have an unconventional, unique and non traditional approach to your platonic, romantic and business relationships. People don’t know what to expect from you in this area. You are unpredictable here. Sometimes you can appear too cold, too detached or that you are taking things too seriously. You might also be all about business and no pleasure. There will be an emphasis on the 5th house in this lifetime, because you have so many planets there. You have a stellium in Scorpio Sun, Scorpio Mars and Scorpio Pluto. You have a natural leader energy. You might like to be number one in the field of your choice. You have that Scorpio stellium in the 5th house. You might be very intense about things you are passionate about and even sports. You might be a hobby just so you can master it. You like working with young adult, education, children, in the arts. You might be fond of singing, performing, dancing and acting. You have Cancer Ascendant. This is how you view life, how you approach it and the path that you will walk in this lifetime. You might view yourself as being too sensitive, too emotional and that everything affects you on a personal level and easily. You have Pisces MC. You have Aries and Pisces in your 10th house. You might be attracted to solitary work or even fancy being self employed. You might have a knack for business and advertising. You could advertising something and people would want to have it. You have a lot of potential to heal others. You might be interested in astrology and tarot and different types of healing. You could be an entrepreneur, work in sale and you have very business oriented mind. Here beware of not taking yourself too seriously and be all work and no play. You might be very “cut-throw” in business, work and on your daily job. 
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS 
You have Virgo Part of Fortune in the 3rd house. This is your natural good luck, your good charm. You are at your happiest when you are of service and helpful towards your peers, siblings, neighbours, people in your immediate environment. And when you organise and plan your communication, writing, speaking and conversing. You might be inclined to writing self help books. Or on topics of improvement, organisation, health, pets, advising. You could be attracted to counselling, counselling or health fields, such as nutritions, dietetics. You have Capricorn Lilith in the 7th house. This is where negative Capricorn traits can show up. You can be too cold, too strict, an authoritarian in the area of 7th house (platonic, business and romantic relationships). You have Capricorn Juno in the 7th house. This indicates your ideal soulmate, your ideal partner. You might like someone who is compromising, stable, a provider. Someone who is ambitious, motivated, career and relationship (platonic, business and romantic) oriented. You have Sagittarius Ceres in the 6th house. This is how you wish to be nurtured and how you nurture others. You might like to give them personal space and freedom. You do errands for them or show small acts of kindness. You might show your love through actions. You could also be bluntly honest with them and tell them like it is. You have Leo Chiron in the 2nd house. There is a past wound, a hurt when it comes to your talents, skill set, your creative self expression and creative endeavours. You might have felt shamed or made feel guilty for your creative self expression. You have Venus trine Saturn. You might be attracted to older or more mature partners. You might like younger or older people than your own age. You have Venus trine Neptune. You might idealize your lovers or put them on the pedestal. You might dream of movie like or fairytale like meeting. You are attracted to creators, performers, artists, musicians, people who play instruments. You have Venus sextile Pluto. You might be rejected by certain people. Or you can have lovers that would think about you years after you have broken up. You could have obsessive tendencies when it comes to love. Or you are affected deeply and transformed every time you fall in love. You have Pluto and Jupiter currently transiting 7th house. You might expand your definition and views or transform them completely when it comes to platonic, business and romantic relationships. Or all one on one relationships. You have Saturn currently transiting 8th house. You might feel like you are isolating more, spend more time alone. You might have felt a bit restricted, limited in the area of 8th house (such as others people’s resources, spirituality, occult, mysticism, deep trusted bonds with others). You have Capricorn Eros in the 7th house. I checked your Draconic chart as well. This indicates your “inner you”, how you are “on soulike level”. You seem to have Draconic Capricorn Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Virgo Rising and Gemini MC. 
CHART RULER
Your chart ruler is the Moon. The chart ruler is in the 3rd house. This means your personality (ego, self esteem, self worth, self image, character, personality traits, physical appearance and face) will develop through 3rd house topics (communication, talking, speaking, writing, connections with siblings, neighbours, peers, schoolmates, people from your local town, your elementary and high school friends). Your personality might shine through bets in those areas and topics. This is a part of your life purpose along with Capricorn North Node in the 7th house. If you are interested in this topic, here is an additional video on these topics by an excellent fellow astrologer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBu9sY2RHJI . 
HOUSE RULERS 
The ruler of the 1st house is in the 3rd house.You may seem like “the girl (or boy) next door. Life is oriented toward communicating, gathering information and daily interactions. You gossip about the way people look.
The ruler of the 2nd house is in the 3rd house. You spend money on communication gadgets. You earn a living by working at an elementary school or make money from blogging. Your survival needs are always on your mind.
The ruler of the 3rd house is in the 5th house. Daily conversation revolves around children, hobbies, creativity, theater or the arts. Your communication style is creative and entertaining. Experiences of early education affect your ability to be creative. You have a child-like and playful communication style.
The ruler of the 4th house is in the 5th house. You find emotional security through performance. One parent influences your creative passion. You use your heritage as a means of personal expression.
The ruler of the 5th house is in the 4th house.You want your family to approve of your hobbies, interests and romantic partners. You bring creative projects home with you. You keep a scrapbook of family memories. You are self-expressive around family members. You are privately creative.
The ruler of the 6th house is in the 3rd house. Daily habits are formed around writing and communication. You like being able to take short trips around town while working. Your daily job is a way to make connections with people.
The ruler of the 7th house is in the 8th house. You choose an intense partner. You want to be with someone who can handle your emotional baggage. Partners add to your financial debt.
The ruler of the 8th house is in the 8th house. You enter sexual relationships for sex. You get emotionally entangled with other people to form deep connections. Your attitude to life and death affects your ability to deeply connect with other people.
The ruler of the 9th house is in the 7th house. You marry or have a significant relationship with a person from a foreign country. You can be condescending to your partner. You want a partner who has an equal interest in traveling. You want a partner who has the same level of education.
The ruler of the 10th house is in the 7th house.Partners should have the same ambitions and goals in mind. You gain recognition and social status through your partner. Ideally the partners should have equal status and equal standing. Partners should have balanced careers.
The ruler of the 11th house is in the 5th house.You are friends with all your romantic partners. You bring your social awareness to your children. The people you connect with are self-expressive and entertaining. You belong to artistic groups. You’re in a band. You are a huge fan of the arts.
The ruler of the 12th house is in the 5th house. You bring imagination to your art. You create music for meditation. You take dream-like photographs. There’s a sense of loss even when you’re having fun. Meditation is fun for you.
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia Joe Whitman; 24 Years Old; Los Angeles, California ; $251990-92
Medium: Chromogenic color print
Dimensions: 15 1/2 × 22 3/4" (39.4 × 57.8 cm)
Credit: Gift of the artist
Object number: 305.1993.x1-x2
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia is an American photographer whose work encompasses both documentary and staged photography, lending his large-scale color prints a narrative mixture of truth and fiction. His photographs straddle truth and fiction by combining real people and places, but not necessarily people and places that naturally go together. The staginess of his images is carefully constructed as he arranges the objects of each scene and devises precise lighting and framing for every project. His work is often described as cinematic, a description that diCorcia criticizes. He insists that his pictures suggest rather than explain a full narrative. His brand of storytelling results in unstable, unfixed images that point in certain directions but never provide a definitive map. DiCorcia did not set out to become a photographer. While attending the University of Hartford, he studied with Jan Groover, who planted the idea that a photograph is not necessarily an artifact documenting a specific sliver of time; rather, a photograph should result from careful planning and orchestration.
MoMA presented diCorcia’s first solo museum exhibition in 1993, featuring his series Hustlers, which was made in Los Angeles between 1990 and 1992. He photographed male prostitutes he approached on Santa Monica Boulevard, paying them whatever they typically charged for their services to instead pose in scenarios he had prepared for the photo sessions. The titles of these photographs, such as the photograph that we are presenting. Yet by inserting their bodies into prepared scenes in hotel rooms or on the street, diCorcia made portraits that operate in tandem with, but do not exactly reproduce, the fantasy roles these men were usually conscripted to play. “the concept was that I would pay them the same amount of money to be photographed as the lowest common denominator of sex act on the street, which is 20 dollars” DiCorcia found that there was a real metaphorical connection between them and Hollywood. There is an aspect of what they do which had to do with the presentation of self, it is also the fact that there was a kind of label. They were on Saint Monica boulevard, in the heart of Hollywood. The photograph couples an impression of stillness with the creepy, seemingly contradictory sense of witnessing a momentary moment. We can tell that the subject is completely ordinary but the photograph is carefully planned. The camera was on a tripod and the lighting was supplemented and triggered at the moment of exposure. Thus, DiCorcia would get into his car and drive to Saint Monica boulevard and approach them and ask them to take a photograph of them and tell them that there was no sex involved. “if they were real hustlers and they were trying tog et the maximum out of me, the minute I take one frame they want to take the money and go; but very often though they were not that way and we would change things around.”, DiCorcia said.
What makes a Photograph Iconic?
Lucaites' definition of iconic photography; “those [images] produced in print, electronic, or digital media that are recognized by everyone, are understood to be representations of historically significant events, [which] activate strong emotional identification or response”. I believe what makes a photograph iconic is its ability to transmit a message or a feeling. A photograph can not only be a copy or a snap of a real view, but a way of communicating and connecting to people. It is a photograph that tells a story, a powerful one, it comes to define a moment in time. Collectors and curators are after the ‘impact’ factor of an image. It’s the ability of an image to strike the viewer emotionally and intellectually, thereby drawing the viewer into the visual narrative the photographer is trying to convey. I believe the lighting of this photograph is the most challenging factor in it, as it is taken with natural lighting, the subject is standing in front of the lighting, not facing it. The setting is simple, the man standing looks like he is hiding from something or checking up the street, looking for something. It may also be a symbol of the barrier between him and the world, or people. Listening to the photographer talking about the subjects and how he get them to pose for his photographs, I found it disrespectful for them to be honest. The amount of money they take is too low in comparison to the money he may gain from publishing the photographs, so he doesn’t give them credit at all.
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Tish’s 3-Card Reading
Hi Tish! Thanks for asking me to do your reading!
Set up:
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The clear bottle is thunderstorm charged moonwater for spiritual power and a pure message during the reading. The change jar is a personal totem of hope and positive change for the future. I have a piece of amethyst for protection, clarity, and the clearing of reductive energies. The mason jar is full of Dr. Pepper to amplify my own power--I know it sounds silly, but I can’t get through a reading without some. I have a tarot card website up so my intuition can be structured, and I made a spotify playlist with a few of the artists that define you, so I can focus on your energy during the reading.
During the reading, my card, The Star, popped out of the deck, so I set it with the other amplifiers to boost the reading.
My deck is the Insight and Ammunition Zombie Tarot: Oracle of the Undead deck. It talks to me in plain terms and has a spiritual link to my girlfriend’s tarot deck. Please note: Pentacles, sometimes known as Coins, has been replaced in this deck by ‘Hazards.’ My girlfriend’s familiar, a juvenile black cat, also spent time under the desk during the reading.
The spread:
Position: The Past
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In the ‘Past��� position, we have a Ten of Cups Reversed. The Ten of Cups is a card that signifies close family ties and an emotional safety net, closeness and positivity. In the Zombie Tarot, this is represented by a family of humans relaxing on a beach with smoke in the background, implying that they are safe and secure for now. In the Reversed position, the card signifies the absence of this.
You’ve had a rough history with the people closest to you. You may have been emotionally neglected or even ignored by the people around you. You may have had trouble making friends or keeping a friendship going. If not physically, you may have ‘moved around’ in spirit or focus too much to maintain friendships in the normal way, thus making your feelings of loneliness worse.This may contribute to your connection to the artists in the Spotify playlist--melancholy, heartbreak, turning isolation to strength being running themes in their music. You may have felt ‘seen’ by these musicians in a way your community failed to do.
Position: The Present
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In the ‘Present’ Position, we have a Seven of Hazards Upright. Remembering that The Zombie Tarot replaced Pentacles with Hazards, this is a Seven of Pentacles Upright. The Seven of Pentacles is a card that, in the Zombie Tarot features a scientist doing experiments to learn more about the zombies he finds himself surrounded by. This card signifies success through hard work, and maintaining your tenacity throughout.
Currently, you may be doing a job that seems to have less reward than it’s worth. You may also have hopeless or negative feelings about what is going on in the world right now. The card is telling you that these feelings are okay to have, as long as you don’t let the potential negativity of the situation overwhelm you. The Seven of Hazards is telling you that your hard work, and the way you’re spending your time right now--social distancing or providing essential service--will pay off in the long run. Stay on your path, and you will find success. Don’t let temptations take this away from you, but don’t become overly confident. Temptations and cockiness may lead to misfortune.
Position: The Future
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In the ‘Future’ Position, we have an Ace of Hazards (Pentacles) Upright. The Ace of Pentacles is the card that sets the tone for the Pentacles as a suit. Pentacles discusses success be it material, spiritual, financial, physical, or regarding your talents. The Ace of Hazards in the Zombie Tarot features a zombified hand bursting out of a grave in a graveyard in classic zombie fashion. Her wrist is adorned with jeweled bracelets and her fingers have large rings upon them. This card signifies success and reaching goals.
In this position, the Ace of Hazards is a reaffirmation of the Seven of Hazards in your present. Continue taking small steps in this direction, and you will see your talents blossom and your goals be completed. The Ace implores you to look within yourself as you continue forward and to follow your heart--you are your guiding light. The hard work in your present will ensure success in your future if you have faith in yourself.
Thank you for commissioning me! I hope this helps you in some way!
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lauranjarts-blog · 5 years
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signal boost please!!! EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS
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Hello, folks, I’m Laura! So, i’ve been battling tendonitis and repetitive strain injuries for eight months, since January 2019. I was recently diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, which is a condition where your wrist nerve is compressed and causes tingling and difficulty to perform usual tasks including drawing, which is my main source of income and the thing I love the most. I made a more complete post last month on twitter regarding my journey. 
It really hurts as much emotionally as it does physically. Only an artist who has suffered from something similar will understand it.
To treat my wrist injury I have to visit a physical therapist and I need urgent help to gather enough money to pay them. So I am offering $10 Commission sketches like these. It’s what I can manage to work on without pain and tingling.
I can draw you, your partner, your OC, your favorite character, anyone.
Payment is through PayPal and prices are USD only (mail: [email protected])
I am offering six (6) slots so far until the end of the month.
Payment must be done fully in advance
After payment is receivd, i can take from three (3) to twelve (20) days to give you the final sketch
For terms of service and conditions (if i will draw specific themes such as furry), visit my commission page
Please mail me to [email protected] or [email protected] if interested and providing reference!!
If you could, tipping my jar is always going to help with my treatment. I am truly grateful even if all you can do is reblog this. Please help an aspiring artist to get her health back on track!!
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The Heartbreaking End of Panic! at the Disco‘s 2006 Summer Tour (Masterpost)
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In summer of 2006, Panic! at the Disco was on top of the world. Their debut album was an unexpected hit, despite initially being hated by music critics, and their avant-garde tour circuit across America established them as both an artistic and financial success. Even better, they had racked up an impressive four nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards.
The last performance of their tour was scheduled to be on the first day of the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, IL, on Friday, August 4, 2006: the perfect, triumphant end to the perfect tour.
Unfortunately, fate had another plan.
Ryan Ross’s father, George Hammond Ross Jr., was an alcoholic who had been in and out of the hospital for some time. He and his son had a notoriously difficult and strained relationship, mostly due to problems associated with alcoholism, and Ryan had written two songs about it: “Camisado” and “Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks”.
An article from Kerrang in 2006 interviewed Ryan about his family troubles:
Ross, meanwhile, found growing up a more tricky prospect. As fragile as a porcelain doll - as if a strong gust of wind or the wrong words would crush him to dust - he writes the clever lyrics that frontman Brendon Urie sings. He was outgoing as a small child, but somewhere along the line he became cripplingly shy. Keen to give his son a good start in life, his father, an ex-marine, worked to send him to a private Catholic school - although Ross is an atheist - hoping to provide the education he never got. Ross found he had little in common with his wealthy classmates.
Meanwhile, his home life was falling apart. His parents split up when he was young; he hardly ever speaks to his mother and rarely sees his two half-brothers. Which meant he was left alone to deal with his father’s growing problem with alcohol - as beautifully portrayed in the song ‘Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks.’ Ross’ fights with his father were exacerbated by Ross’ decision to concentrate on the band rather than going to college.
“He was pretty much dead set on me going to college and I got a scholarship,” he says quietly. “He thought I was stupid for throwing that away. His problems with alcohol magnified and skewed things even further. I was not staying at home for weeks at a time. I was staying with my girlfriend, staying with the other guys in the band. There were times when I almost had to sleep at our rehearsal space, ‘cause I didn’t have anywhere to go. Obviously I loved him and I cared about him, but when you’re getting kind of abused by that person, at the same time it’s really hard to try to help them.”
At the end of July 2006, during a televised interview in Vancouver, Ryan received news that his father was in the hospital again and that it wasn’t looking good. Understandably, this made him check his phone repeatedly and have a barely-repressed anxiety attack, which resulted in the interviewer actually taking away his cell phone and teasing him about it on-air.
This is horrifyingly immortalized in the fandom (albeit out-of-context) because Brendon showed support for his grieving friend with a comforting hand squeeze. (Jon also flips off the interviewer behind his back.)
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George Ross Jr. passed away on July 28, 2006, with memorial services scheduled for August 3.
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Ryan heard about his father’s passing while on the band’s tour bus, which he discussed a few months later in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine:
Last July, [Ryan’s] father died in his sleep at the age of sixty. Panic were en route from Vancouver to Seattle on their bus when Ross heard the news. “I could almost feel that it was going to happen, because of the way he would treat himself,” he says. “I got a phone call, and I knew right away what the police officer was going to tell me. I just knew.”
Ryan also talked about his father’s funeral in the same Rolling Stone interview:
“The day of his funeral, it was raining and... it was strange to be raining that time of year. After the service, I went back and put my hand on the casket and kind of said goodbye. Right then, it stopped raining. The clouds blew away, and the sun came out, and it got warm. I spoke at the funeral and said that I think the one thing my dad cared about since I was born was that he wanted to raise me. I think he felt like he was done with that and had nothing else to do, so he just let go and stopped living. It’s almost like it’s better this way because it’s what he wanted. I miss him, but I feel like everything’s all right now. It was sad, but I got back out on tour and only missed three shows.”
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The next day was the Lollapalooza show, and Ryan was determined to play it despite the circumstances.
The results are, as you could imagine, horribly sad in context. Ryan and Brendon’s vocals are both strained for the duration of the show, and the entire band looks on the brink of tears for most of their time onstage. “Camisado” and “Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks” are particularly gut-wrenching.
The performance was also besieged with logistical errors, including microphone trouble, poor stage management, and a sound delay that gets progressively worse over the course of the show. The boys tried their hardest anyway, but the performance is not one of their best. Making matters even stranger, portions of the concert are lost forever.
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Noticeably, Ryan also chose to do his hair and makeup in a way that covers most of his face. He has admitted to using his elaborate makeup designs as a mask and confidence-booster, so it is unsurprising that he did one of his most intricate looks on such an emotionally difficult day.
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You may recognize this look, in fact, from a popular gif taken from the tail end of their performance of “Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off.”
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The next time you see this floating around the fandom, remember the context.
~Mods C, M, and B
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Hi Jodie! First of all, I would like to confess my love for your art of course! You always inspire me so much, even when I feel like I'm totally worthless as an artist. I'm also incredibly grateful for all the information you provide in your replies and for those really helpful book recommendations. I owe 80% of my improvement to you and your generous advice!
Hello there Nonnydrops!
Thank you so much for that message, it really made my heart light up. I have no doubt you’re unleashing beast mode upon this painting thing! That’s also a really good question. I’ll try and answer it as best I can.
I think there are two separate answers, if it’s client work, mostly, I emotionally detach from the piece. If I get a list of changes/corrections or direction suggestions, I make them. In this sense, I recognise I am acting in service to someone else’s vision, that I’m not always going to be in the right ball park. That’s not to say I paint without feeling in these instances but I don’t take it personally. Communication and critique are part and parcel of getting the right result for the client, such is the nature of commissioned illustration.
When it comes to personal work, I know my artworks are not for everybody. I don’t paint for everybody, I couldn’t possibly be honest in my work and do so I don’t think. Instead, I choose to focus on the people that it does resonate with, they’re my kindred spirits, they’re the people I share some strange connection or experience with and I think that unifying side of art, in whatever form it takes, is so fucking cool. I think it’s human nature to obsess or fixate on the negative but it doesn’t serve you or your creativity ultimately. 
Hope that answers your question Nonnydrops! Happy Painting!
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MARIAH CAREY - WITH YOU
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I can let my hair down...
Alfred Soto: Pianos and polysyllabics -- after 28 years in the biz, Mariah Carey reduces her craft to its essence, with affectionate nods to Usher's Confessions and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The dialogic structure softens her startling rasp. Like most of Caution, "With You" catches me off guard. [8]
Pedro João Santos: Weeks come and go, and I keep spinning Caution. It's brief and straightforward, but there's a panoply of layers to be peeled off, from the musical intricacies and wordplay to its crux: Mariah's voice. It's in its deepest, most modulative configurations to date, and never attempts to overdo things (see also: The Emancipation of Mimi) or be ornamental (see also: Charmbracelet), and seldom does it soar beyond what appears to be humanly possible. The importance of Mariah's voice is most apparent when most of the production layers are removed, as on "With You". Amid an album of dense, exploratory grooves and sensuous ambiance, this is a consciously bare-bones track, piano and finger snaps giving a domestic fireplace vibe. Mariah's love-laden words, especially in the pre-chorus, are warm and made disarming by her airy head voice, which is then combined with a modest array of emoting Mariahs. The track slides smoothly, seemingly unwilling to transgress or bop too hard. But given proper time, it reveals itself as classic Mariah -- only with less schmaltz, the extra resonance allowed for by restraint, and a sense of honest intimacy. [8]
Thomas Inskeep: One of the most stripped-down ballads Mariah's done in years: Some simple piano chords, a click track, and that glorious voice all serve to spotlight a lovely little love lyric. I never would've thought this a DJ Mustard production, either, but he pulls this off nicely. This is grown-ass Mariah music, and I'm here for it. [7]
Edward Okulicz: A sweet and pretty good summary of what Mariah did supremely well in her second imperial phase, and lovingly sung and produced, but the song's too low-stakes. I'm bewildered by it as a single, really. [6]
Will Adams: Caution boasts a streamlined roster of lush, atmospheric R&B that's well suited to Mariah's late-career blend of unbothered diva and steely performer. Its biggest hit is a plain ballad with the requisite piano and ten-cent words. I don't understand how things work sometimes. [5]
Andy Hutchins: At the risk of heresy: To me, Mariah's balladry has always been her least interesting work. Its quality varies wildly depending on the melodies and the lyrics involved no matter how well Mimi is singing, and I'd rather hear her hit those highs in service of the joy of "Emotion" unless the song itself is as letter-perfect as "We Belong Together." "With You" is not a particularly memorable lyric, outside of the reminder that a similarly slow Mariah song was helpfully leavened by the Thuggish Ruggish Bone and the hint of a better, more colorful song in the "damn, I fucks with you" admission. The singing sounds strongly like it's been heavily Auto-Tuned in the descending bits of the first verse. And Mariah making this staid stuff, at the precise moment Ariana Grande is finally getting around to some of the most fun (read: take-no-shit) elements of the career she's been doing an inferior impression of for a decade, is depressing. Break up with DJ Mustard -- I'm bored. [4]
Katherine St Asaph: I know "Boo'd Up" exists, but that doesn't make it any less holy-hell bizarre to hear "Mustard on the beat" slamming into a "Hero"-esque Mariah Carey piano ballad. If anyone's going to make a "Hero"-esque piano ballad, it might as well be Mariah; the arrangement is absent but her vocal mannerisms are very much present, well-preserved and welcome, from the feathery-and-low octave harmonies to the ad-libs and coos. But the fact remains: "Boo'd Up" exists, and it has instrumentation. [5]
Tobi Tella: The intro of signature Mariah cooing followed by the DJ Mustard tag is a perfect encapsulation of this song: classic with a modern twist, updating with the times but never losing her signature sound. There's no way most artists 30 years into their career could release something this fresh -- thank god for Mimi! [8]
Jonathan Bradley: Mustard provides Mariah with -- for him, not her -- uncharacteristically trad production that suits well the nostalgia of her lyric. Nods to Bone Thugs and Usher cast "With You" as a gentler version of "We Belong Together"'s sketch of a relationship drawn between the twin poles of Bobby Womack and The Deele; here the denouement is cozier, and Carey's tones warm accordingly, reaching for the high lonesome wistfulness of "H.A.T.E.U." and the bedroom glow of "#Beautiful." That small scale doesn't play as restraint though; she sings neat little phrases like "there in front of the whole damn nation" and "damn, I fucks with you" knowing that they should appear in boldface. I was surprised to hear her create anything this emotionally and technically poised this far into her career, but perhaps Carey knows how unexpected it is to hear her in such form. The signature trill she throws in during the closing moments seems like it had been summoned as a warning not to write her off. [8]
Stephen Eisermann: Only Mariah is capable of making a song like this that is so specifically hers and nostalgic, without feeling tired or overly familiar. Like a modern "We Belong Together," Mariah gives us her best, most romantic vocal over a lovely, slow R&B beat. It's perfect for the upcoming Valentine's Day. [7]
Iris Xie: Mariah Carey, I want to believe that you understand love and can express its incredible decadence and all its intimacies, but I really don't feel it. The ornamentation that is her whistle notes is paired with a hollowness at the core, and the spare piano provides a blank backdrop for...what? I just don't know. This isn't like any love I knew, unless she is singing mimicries. [3]
David Moore: Probably just the title evoking soars and swoops of her past, but this one feels like it's stuck on the tarmac. [5]
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Rhyming "trepidation" with "whole damn nation," the awkward "damn I fucks with you," a cheap reference to the infinitely superior "Breakdown" -- "With You" is mostly fluff, tricking you into thinking it's meaningful via familiar vocal tricks. But even recognizing this, I'm still moved by the beginning of the chorus. There's a sudden intimacy in the image of "shots of Remy" and "bodies blending"; Mariah's lower vocal register makes this the serious, down-to-earth confessional that it wants to be, but only for the briefest of moments. I suppose sustained love is similar: a whole lot of coasting together -- surviving together -- punctuated by moments of the casually sublime. [5]
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poetryasf-ck · 6 years
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Good Grief #9 - Hannah Raymond-Cox
Hannah Raymond-Cox grew up in Hong Kong and San Francisco, and has bounced around the UK since age sixteen. She studied International Relations and Modern History at St Andrews alongside her career in poetry and her work includes original plays, slam poetry pieces, and bespoke poems. Hannah won the Stanza Slam, was a National Poetry Slam Championships Finalist for Scotland, and performed on the BBC Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has gigged everywhere from the Royal Albert Hall to a tiny dive bar in Hong Kong. She is currently touring Germany as an actor and munching her way round all the Bäckerei available. Her debut book, "Amuse Girl", comes out from Burning Eye Books next year.
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Why, if there was a reason, did you write this poem/these poems?
I wrote the show because I’d been approached after a gig in Edinburgh (Other Voices) and was asked whether I had a full-length spoken word show they could come see. I didn’t, and I felt like… well, why not challenge myself not only to do more long-form work, but share my diasporic story? Writing to time of 3 minutes where you’re essentially doing a persuasive monologue means that nuance and context is harder to achieve, and I wanted to frame my story not as one of moments of fear and loss but one of longterm survivorship.
Why, upon writing this poem/these poems, did you perform them?
I think that there was a sense that for me - it was important to share what abuse and the aftermath of abuse/loss looks like on a practical level, in a way that was performing victimhood but as a part of a larger queer diasporic narrative. For the audience I feel like a lot of us experience grief and loss and loneliness and I wanted to connect with others like me - to say hey, you are seen. Also, it was written to be performed. My background as an actor and spoken word poet rather than a page poet means that to me, some work is explicitly created in the medium for a reason.
How does performing this piece change how you look at what happened to you?
Not really - I feel like a lot of the changing happened during the writing process. It took me the best part of 9 months to write the show, and during the last 4 of those I was working with my director and turning in fortnightly revisions. When you’re editing hardcore like that, the preciousness and connexion to the trauma has to take a backseat in service of a good story for an audience that you can deliver consistently every night.
How do you separate artistic performance from lived personal experience?
I feel like most conscientious poets I know are aware that we perform authenticity, and that means that lived experience gets condensed and presented in a way that makes an impact. My lived experience wouldn’t rhyme, it’d have way more hesitations, deviations, and repetitions, I can’t present an hour of it and go The End - it’s a show. No one piece of work can fully articulate the constant complex changes in how I feel about what I’ve lived.
Do you find yourself affected negatively by performing this piece? If so, how do you look after yourself?
I was terrified the first time I shared it - the sense of ownership was huge, and it took a great deal of trust to hand over my script to someone, and the first time I performed it was also huge. But I now treat it like a job to a certain extent - if I were being triggered or emotionally tired out more than usual in the course of a normal acting job then I’d have had to go back to the editing table and see where I could build in safety measures for myself. For me, poetry is inherently performative, and having years of acting under my belt helps me delineate performance emotion from my own mental state. Writing helps delineate too, like POLARIS’ format of “snapshots” and “scene” literally being said helps me reset my breathing and emotional state between scenes and reminds me and the audience that this is all constructed. I’m not Brecht, but I borrow bits...
Do you practice any aftercare after performing this piece (either for yourself or audiences)? (E.g., talking to audience members who are upset, taking some time out after your performance to ground yourself, ensuring you perform in places where you feel safe etc.)
Personally, I go for a pint with friends who enjoyed the piece. I warm down the same way after my spoken word show as my traditional theatre work. If I weren’t able to perform the piece without touching the unsafe parts, then I wouldn’t perform it. I feel like part of my job as an artist is to be able to reproduce the same experience every show for an audience… The great thing about the conventions of theatre and spoken word theatre means that the safe space notion is a compact made as soon as an audience enters a space with clear performer space vs audience seating. I think it does a disservice to say that as artists we need to practice aftercare for an audience - that’s not a responsibility of the performer to police or preempt reactions. Triggers and grief are so personal that what would you warn for? Frequently, trigger warnings beyond the vaguer “mature themes” remove nuance and subtlety from a piece, I’ve found. I’d rather challenge an audience that let them self-select out with my own interpretation of concerning parts of the show...
Do you do any content warnings for this piece? Why?
I do but I keep them generic! Considering the show sits in the realm of spoken word theatre, warnings are on all marketing materials and are necessarily programmed in to the theatres’ booking systems. It’s an important part of marketing a show - to know your audience and your demographic targets. I also definitely don’t want any kiddos walking into a show created for a more mature audience. POLARIS’ content warnings are: 15+, strong language, and mental health themes. Any more than that and I feel like we’re stepping into the realm of spoiler territory and nuance removal, and I feel like I’ve given enough information to the audience in other material. That material includes biography, reviews, the short and long copy for flyers and websites, the visual design of the poster itself, and more.
Does the artist owe any kind of protection or safeguarding to their audience?
In a vacuum/ideal world, the performer has a duty to one thing and one thing only: making the best piece of art they can, which says something, and communicating that something to an audience in a reproducible and safe manner for themselves. They are not there to warn the audience, make the audience feel comfortable, or look after the audience’s reactions to their work (unless directly funded to produce media that does so).  We can't cotton-wool art because it's an important medium for raising awareness, for reflecting life back at us, and for representation. Other things too, but they're less pertinent to the conversation and a medium associated with telling a “truth” to a “power”. Triggers can come from many things, not just things that can be classed as art - we as a society don’t expect them elsewhere, what makes spoken word different?
I think that the warnings in front of a typical show (eg. strobe lights, mature themes) work well enough now. We have content warning systems for some arts (cinema and video games really stand out for the level of detail available pre-purchase) but almost nothing for others, particularly books and theatre. For cinema and videogames, solitary and personal media, that makes sense to provide a measure of information to consumers who may have the ability to pause the medium or want to allow kids to watch material beyond the suggested age rating. Theatre and books, which performance poetry most closely resemble, do not warn beyond blurbs on covers or through supplementary materials used primarily for marketing. They allow for exploration, challenging those who engage with the work in a different way.
Part of the problem with asking the performer and writer to provide content warnings and/or aftercare for the audience is that the performer/writer is usually a) too close to the work (in poetry, the content’s usually personal in nature), b) busy pre-show and post-show working on performance itself and may not want to break character of “performing”, c) drained/busy at the end of performing, and d) the only person doing everything associated with that performance! A small example: halfway through my month-long run of POLARIS at Edfringe 2017, a man who’d watched me perform cornered me immediately after and asked me to talk through his reactions to the show with him, then and there. I was in the middle of set take-down, turning around the space, was tired and mildly out of breath, was emotionally resetting from the show, and was absolutely not in the right space for the conversation he wanted to have. I'm not a psychiatrist, and I don't know about any trauma other than my own. I was one person, doing the work of 5, and in that moment, I wished desperately for another person to manage audiences - with funding, of course, that a spoken word solo show doesn’t have.
Additionally, you don’t approach an actor at a traditional theatre stage door and expect a verbal warm-down, nor do you corner a writer of a book you like and ask they help you with the themes/your reaction to their work. Not to go all “Death of the Author” on this, but like - people have approached me post-show with a myriad of different interpretations on “emotionally fraught” sections. They ranged from reasonable (depression) to out of the blue to me (eating disorders) - even with my imagination on full blast I could not have predicted their personal reactions to the work. If I listed every element of the show I could think of, I still would have missed a content warning that occurred to someone somewhere. The nature of the piece is that - as adults seeing a show on queer themes and mental health, the obligation is on the person who’s chosen to consume that media to decide whether it’s appropriate or healthy for them.
If the piece has funding beyond the usual spoken word operation, in which the poet is performer, marketer, director, producer, and front of house, then there are more options. It could be good to have content warnings but in a way that isn’t visible to people unless they want to see them (so a visible warning saying ‘content that may be disturbing, ask a member of staff, or similar). That would keep both camps (the ‘I need to knows’ vs ‘I don’t want any spoilers’) happy, I reckon. Box office/FOH would be provided with a list, which the performer/producer draws up prior to the tour as a part of the tour pack. There could also be further supplementary materials, like a website for content warnings. A bigger budget, like for Trainspotting: Live! enables you to do fun things like have scratch cards with content warnings that you physically have to work for to reveal… Or you could try and set up a nationwide age rating scheme like for video games and films, but that requires maintenance and a solid review board, neither of which the spoken word scene seems likely to be able to do.
In conclusion, I think that if you engage in art then you're bringing yourself and your experiences and your worldview to it: the artist can't control if those things include triggers beyond a typical age rating and “mature themes”. So if, for example, extensive talk of food triggers you then do your due diligence pre-show and at worst, don't come - it's in the synopsis of POLARIS, on flyers, on the website, and more marketing media. If you're triggered during the show then that genuinely sucks but as far as I'm aware, it's unfortunately part of having dealt with trauma. As for post-show, well, the BBC provides links to Samaritans and other organisations at the end of their programmes. I’d rather put the onus on the audience to find ways of processing art that work for them, and encourage them to take responsibility for their reactions.
Do you believe writing about areas such as grief, loss or trauma is a form of healthy catharsis or memorialisation?
I’m not qualified to answer this question, like, at all. I’m not a therapist working directly with the person who’s going through it. So...it depends on the individual. Writing can be healthy! Or it can lead to fixation.
What kind of warnings signs would you point out to someone new to poetry or performance who was performing about their traumas?
I suppose I’d ask the person to ask themselves why they’re doing it, if they’ve got another safe place to process trauma, and to gently caution them from using poetry as a form of therapy. If you find performing the poems trigger you or leave you mentally unsafe, don’t do it. Work on editing, work on the craft, and by understanding how best to say what you want to say, you can create distance and reproducibility for performing poetry.
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A Paper Owl!
(( From this book. If you want me to type up whatever birthdate your character has, let me know. I can either send them IC or just as an OOC thing to have. :) ))
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The owl that arrives is carrying a note, which simply reads:
“Hello Professor!
Apologies for writing out of the blue, especially since I doubt you’d remember a student from nearly twenty years ago but, I picked up a Muggle book on Divination as a bit of a laugh and have had a bit of fun sending these off to people whose birthdates I remember.
- Calleo”
Once the note has been read, the owl itself will properly shift back to what it is: A two page transcription from the book in question.
Sun: Virgo Decanate: Virgo/Mercury Mode: Mutable Element: Earth Fixed Stars: Although your Sun's degree is not linked to a fixed star, some of your other planets' degrees certainly will be. By having an astrological chart calculated, you can find the exact position of the planets on your date of birth/ This will tell you which of the fixed stars are relevant to you.
For your ideal partner, you might begin by looking for someone born on one of the following dates:
Love & Friendship: Jan. 4, 5, 10, 18, 19, 26, 30. Feb. 2, 3, 8, 16, 17, 24, 28, Mar. 1, 6, 14, 15, 22, 26. Apr. 4, 12, 13, 20, 24. May 2, 10, 11, 18, 22. June 8, 9, 16, 20, 30. July 6, 7, 14, 18, 28. Aug 4, 5, 12, 16, 26, 30. Sept. 2, 3, 10, 14, 28. Oct. 1, 8, 12, 22, 26. Nov. 6, 10, 20, 24. Dec. 4, 8, 18, 22, 30. Beneficial: Jan. 13, Feb. 11, Mar. 9, Apr. 7, ay 5, June 3, 30, July 1, 28, Aug. 26. Sept. 24, Oct 22, Nov. 20, Dec. 18. Fatal Attractions: Feb. 23, 24, 25, 26. Challenging: Jan. 14, 24. Feb. 12, 22. Mar. 10, 20. Apr. 8, 18. May 6, 16. June 4, 14. July 2, 12. Aug. 10. Sept. 8. Oct. 6. Nov. 4. Dec. 2.
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Sociable, warm, and friendly, you are revealed by your birthday to be young at heart.  A strong sense of identity often puts you up front, where you are able to gain the approval you need. Capable of unselfish gestures toward those you love, you can also be understanding and a good listener. Be careful that immaturity or self-will does not spoil your attractive charm.
With the subinfluence of your decanate ruler, Virgo, you are clever, with a practical approach and natural business sense. Although you usually analyse situations very carefully, you may have to guard against becoming sceptical. Articulate and straightforward in speech, you value knowledge and expertise.
Playful and romantic, you possess a dynamic blend of idealism and pragmatism. Although you can procrastinate, once you set your mind on something you are willing to make great sacrifices to achieve your goals. As you enjoy a touch of glamour and can be attracted to the good life, you need an active social life and are known to be an entertaining companion.
Cooperative and helpful, you can also provide emotional support for others. Although you will always have a youthful quality, it is through self-dicsipline that you are fully able to realise your potential.
When you reach the age of twenty-five, your progressed Sun moves into Libra, commencing a thirty year period of increased emphasis on your partnerships, both personally and professionally. This is the time when you may also have an expanded sense of beauty and harmony  and may want to develop any creative potential you possess.
Another turning point occurs at the age of fifty-five, when your progressed Sun moves into Scorpio, stimulating you to seek deeper meaning to your life and placing more emphasis on transformation.
Your Secret Self:
Warmhearted and loving, you seek harmonious relationships. Possessing an inner nobility and strong convictions, you may need to motivate yourself with constant challenges.
This may be obstructed by a tendency to be impulsive and the desire for instant gratification.
Since you enjoy having fun, you may go for an easy option.
Ultimately, this could cause you to lose your sense of purpose and direction.
Work & Vocation:
Your natural business sense can help you succeed in any undertaking, but you may be more drawn to careers that involve dealing with people. Your gift for communication may lead you to writing, education, or sales.
As you enjoy entertaining others, you may also be drawn to show business or the music industry. A natural diplomacy may lead you to work in customer service or public relations, and your people skills can help you succeed in promotion or publishing.
A natural aesthetic sense may draw you to occupations such as artist or designer and dealing with items and furnishings for the home.
Numerology:
Like a number 1 individual, you are ambitious, direct, and enterprising. Always ready for action and new ventures, you courageously take on life's challenges. With your enthusiasm you can easily inspire others, if not to join you, at least to support you in your latest venture. Although you are success oriented and determined, family and home life are very important to you.
Finding stability and taking care of your nearest and dearest may, at times, be a challenge for you.
The subinfluence of the number 8 month indicates that you possess a highly intuitive and active mind.
When taking on responsibilities, you like to be efficient but can also be impatient or intolerant.
Emotionally dynamic, constantly on the go, you may  need to learn how to relax.
With your quick assessment of a situation you can easily solve problems. Avoid becoming overenthusiastic, initiating projects without a proper plan.
Positive: Progressive, daring, artistic, creative, compassionate, idealistic, ambitious, hardworking, stable, strong-willed. Negative: Daydreamer, unmotivated, lack of compassion, unrealistic, bossy, bad judgement, aggressive, lack of confidence, too dependent on others, pride.
Love & Relationships:
Although you often strive for autonomy and personal achievement, a powerful need for love is likely to draw you into all kinds of affairs.
You are often benevolent and caring, but a tendency to be idealistic and a perfectionist in relationships suggests that others may fail to live up to your expectations.
Usually generous, with a charming personality and friendly nature, you can easily attract friends and partners, although some relationships may not prove to be worthwhile.
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Future Shock
In Altered Carbon, Dichen Lachman harnesses her passion to brave a dystopian world.
Dichen Lachman sits behind the front desk in the Palm Springs Art Museum lobby, her eyes loosely shut as a makeup artist dusts gold pigment across her lids. She’s wearing Ugg boots; her hair is tousled. Despite the 6 a.m. call time, she declines a coffee and instead reaches for an old-fashioned doughnut hole. Lachman (whose first name is pronounced Dee-chen) is poised but low-key, nowhere near the fiery intimidator she portrays in her latest project, the Netflix original series Altered Carbon.
The museum is closed today, quiet save for crew chatter and the clang of gown-draped hangers on the stylist’s rolling rack; art hulks off the walls in the shadows of unlit corridors. Following months of stunt work, emotionally taxing scenes, and 16-hour days on set, the stillness is welcome. Lachman spent the summer in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Altered Carbon filmed its first season. Between network events and promotional appearances from São Paulo to Seoul, she’s savoring the post-production time off at home, just being Mom. Mathilda turns 3 in May, and her favorite things are scribbling, Sia music videos, and the family dog, Whisky. Deep love for family is an attribute the 36-year-old actress shares with her character, Rei. Perhaps the only trait they share, she says — that, and a fondness for action.
When it comes to that devotion, Lachman refers to a full-body, teeth-gritting sensation, a compulsion to hug tightly, to fuse, to be together forever. Rei takes the sentiment to an extreme, but Lachman relates. “That whole idea that I’ll just eat it,” she says, in her soft Australian drawl, which she dropped for the role. “Like I say to my daughter sometimes, ‘I just want to eat you up, I love you so much.’ ”
When we catch up by phone after the museum shoot, a few weeks before Altered Carbon’s premiere, she delves deeper into the idea of eating one’s feelings and shares a story about her four-legged childhood friend, a Jack Russell terrier named Singhi.
“When I was leaving Adelaide to pursue acting in Sydney, I found two of her little furs on my jacket,” she recalls. “I didn’t want to throw them away because I felt like that was throwing my dog away. I didn’t want to keep them because I thought I would lose them. So I swallowed the two little dog furs. I imagined they’d be absorbed into my body and we’d kind of be a part of each other.”
“When I was leaving Adelaide to pursue acting in Sydney, I found two of her little furs on my jacket. I didn’t want to throw them away because I felt like that was throwing my dog away.” Dichen Lachman
Lachman had shrugged off the role of Reileen Kawahara when she didn’t hear back from casting for four months. It was an uneventful lead-up. She received sides, sans any contextual clues to the plot, and submitted a self-taped video audition.
Then she got the call.
“What is this?” She’d actually forgotten. “There’s no callback? Do they want to see me again?”
“No,” Lachman’s agent told her. “They just want you to do the role.”
“I subsequently found out Laeta was a fan of Dollhouse [2009–2010] and The 100 [2014], so she was familiar with my work,” the actress says. “This is the biggest show I’ve ever been a part of … I just feel lucky to have been a part of it and humbled watching everyone’s work on the show.” The 10-episode, multimillion-dollar series, which became available for streaming Feb. 2, is one of Netflix’s highest-budgeted undertakings yet.
An adaptation of the 2002 cyberpunk novel by Richard Morgan, the first in his Takeshi Kovacs trilogy, Altered Carbon stars Joel Kinnaman as Kovacs (pronounced Ko-vach), a body-swapping soldier summoned to solve a murder in the year 2384. Human consciousness has been digitized and can be “sleeved” into new bodies, establishing a world in which the rich live forever and reprobates evanesce in the dark, debauched underbelly of society.
“It’s woven in such an intricate fashion, you can’t really say the show is just one thing,” Lachman explains. “It’s a love story. It’s a murder mystery. It’s action packed. There are all of these philosophical ideas, too. You walk away thinking, If I could live forever, would I even want to?”
Lachman portrays Kovacs’ sister, first appearing in episode one as a figment from his past; she gets her big reveal midway through the season. (At the risk of leaking a spoiler, let’s just say Lachman’s grand entrance is badass, evidential of the months pre-production she spent training in Japanese combat.)
Along with Kinnaman, the cast includes James Purefoy as a “re-sleeved” murder victim in search of his own killer; Martha Higareda as a well-meaning cop intent on closing the case; Renée Elise Goldsberry as Quellcrist, a futuristic Robin Hood hell-bent on quelling elitism; Will Yun Lee as Kovacs’ “birth sleeve”; Ato Essandoh as Kovacs’ gun-slinging ally; and Chris Conner as the personified consciousness of a hotel where Kovacs resides. These characters are complicated and not always who they appear to be. The plot is layered with flashbacks, visions, and alternate virtual-reality dimensions. Timelines seem to intertwine, leading the viewer through a supremely satisfying plot twist to a finale that may very well render all of us worthless until the second season finally airs. According to Kalogridis, “the biggest success is that the whole thing actually makes sense
“We lived with my uncle 
and my aunts, my grandfather, and my cousins in a tiny 
little apartment. So I had a really …” she pauses, 
“colorful childhood, almost 
of another era.”
Lachman was born in 1982 in Nepal. At that time, more than 90 percent of the country’s population of 15.7 million worked in agriculture, fielding rice, sugarcane, and oilseeds. Fewer than one in 10 owned a telephone. There was no FM radio. No television stations. Terrain continues to hinder development, but modern-day residents can tune in to Altered Carbon — Netflix extended its streaming services around the globe in 2016.
“I was there until I was about 7,” Lachman recalls. “I think we had Superman, Supergirl, and Police Academy, but no real TV to speak of.” Those VHS tapes were her immersion into science fiction. “We shared electricity with India at the time, so three or maybe four nights out of the week we didn’t even have electricity; mostly it was candlelight. We lived with my uncle and my aunts, my grandfather, and my cousins in a tiny little apartment. So I had a really …” she pauses, “colorful childhood, almost of another era.”
Lachman’s father, a Sydney native, was trekking through the Annapurna region of the Himalayas when he met his would-be wife, originally from Tibet, who was working at her family’s restaurant, a backpacker/tourist destination. “He told a friend, ‘I’m gonna marry that woman,’ ” Lachman recounts of her parents’ meeting. He did. The family moved to Australia when Dichen reached school age. “I remember taking my cousin to school [in Nepal]; it was in a hut, and they were still writing on slate with chalk. My father thought I’d have more opportunities if we were in Australia, so we moved to Adelaide.”
She was 23, living on her own in Sydney and dabbling in low-budget films — not long after the dog-fur incident — when she landed the role of Katya Kinski on Australia’s long-running soap opera Neighbours, a veritable breeding ground for Aussie exports. (Margot Robbie, Chris and Liam Hemsworth, and Russell Crowe are all alums.) A leading role in Joss Whedon’s sci-fi series Dollhouse brought Lachman to California in 2008.
Here, she met husband Maximilian Osinski, who is also an actor in the sci-fi/superhero sphere. Both have appeared in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC, albeit in different seasons, and worked together on TNT’s end-of-days drama The Last Ship. Most recently Lachman portrayed alien ringmaster Roulette in Supergirl’s second season. Then Netflix came calling.
“It’s so refreshing because all of the women are such intricate, complex characters,” Lachman says. “They get to be beautiful and fierce, and they hit back. I think this is largely due to Laeta really wanting to show us off like that, to give us more than just a one-note character.”
As Kalogridis puts it, fierce women are the backbone of the show; they promote an underlying message of “owning your body and owning your power.”
Kalogridis has a stellar team, from set decorators and fight choreographers to visual effects artists and cinematographers, whose credits read like a best-of sci-fi list: Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: Civil War, War for the Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman, The Martian. “This was definitely a labor of love for a lot of people,” she shares. “It’s not a movie, but it’s not necessarily what you associate with TV. It’s sort of occupying an interesting in-between space.”
“We were world-building,” adds costume designer Ann Foley, who joined the Altered Carbon team after four years with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., during which time she dressed Lachman. “That was one of the things that really drew me to this project — helping Laeta build and develop this world. One of the challenges when you’re doing anything futuristic is trying to keep it grounded and relatable so people don’t get distracted by the costumes. You don’t want to pull anybody out of the story.”
Foley orchestrates a visual crescendo through the season in ensembles that define each character and provide covert signals to the viewer. Lachman’s commanding wardrobe evolves alongside Rei’s tumultuous story arc; androgynous Samurai- and Sōhei-inspired combat gear metamorphoses into regal, sinewy shapes. Threading together her range of looks is one choice color. “You see so much green in the world where Reileen and Kovacs grew up,” says Foley, referring to scenes filmed in Vancouver’s verdant forest near Widgeon Falls. “You’ll see there will always be an element of that color in her costume, because that helps to inform who the character is.”
In Episode nine, Rei sits with Kovacs and tries to express the intrinsic bond she has always felt with him — a full-body, teeth-gritting sensation, a compulsion to hug tightly, to fuse, to be together forever. Despite hundreds of years of separation, in this world where one’s consciousness can live forever, occupying different bodies, Reileen has never stopped loving her brother. They are family, and family comes first.
“Remember what Mom used to say?” Reileen asks Kovacs as they sit at a small table in a seedy Moroccan-style hookah lounge. She chooses each word slowly and carefully. “ ‘I love you so much, I could eat you up.’ When you were arrested, they put me in an orphanage. All I had left of you was one of your old shirts … They ripped that shirt out of my hands — I can still feel it tearing, the threads still in my fingers. I knew they were going to take those too. So I swallowed them. Just to have something, anything, left of you.”
That passion is the characteristic Kalogridis saw in Lachman and the reason she sought her out for the role. “She brings a real depth and age to a character,” Kalogridis says. “I absolutely believe her version of a woman in her late teens/early 20s and a woman who is 255, 260 … Dichen’s just a very old and interesting soul. She is the warrior goddess.” Lachman has ventured a long way from Kathmandu, from Adelaide, and from Sydney, but as with all of us, the sum of her past experiences defines the person she is today.
“There’s a moment,” Lachman says, “where [my character] discovers Takeshi in the yukuza warehouse, and they just start killing everyone around them. She looks at him and smiles. There was all this action happening around us, and I had to try to cover my laughter because I kept thinking, I can’t believe I’m doing this. Who am I?! I’m originally from a Third World country, then a sleepy little town in Australia, and I’m running around like Rambo on this set with hundreds of stunt guys and people shooting guns at each other …
“This is what I dreamed about.”
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How can we improve the performance of the store by delivering service one after another?
This is Our Lash.
Eyelash extension technology is not unique and may be easily copied by peers or replaced by other technologies.
Therefore, on the basis of technology and service as the core competitiveness of the store, regardless of the technical aspects, we need to refine customer management, achieve the ultimate service, customer satisfaction, mouth to mouth, and can be passed on, so as to improve the performance of the store.
01. Customer psychological analysis
1) Take the initiative to choose channels.
When a customer has a demand for eyelash beauty, she will definitely go to a variety of ways or channels to understand the relevant brands and store services.
If she has not selected the brand and store, she may learn about it through various channels, such as group buy website, outdoor advertising, street store door tags, consulting friends, etc.
If she chooses your brand and store, she may know your brand and store through less channels and more through comments and friends' introduction. She will focus on the technology, service, after-sales and other relevant contents of the store.(Therefore, the store's public reviews and high praise from website are very important, as is the reputation of existing members/customers.)
2) Passively accept high-quality services.
Generally speaking, customers have higher requirements for durable and repetitive consumer goods in terms of overall service quality.
There may be three or four eyelash shops on the street next to or opposite your shop. Faced with such a big competitive environment, shops need to provide customers with different experience and services.
When customers go to each store to try, she will be differentiated psychologically, each store has the price, technology, service, management and other aspects of the plan.
Given similar management, technology and price, customers are more likely to choose the one with good service.
02. Customer refinement management model
Since customers are more willing to choose a store with good service, how can the store achieve the ultimate service and customer satisfaction?
To provide services unexpected to customers, namely, the refined management of customers that we will talk about today includes the following five parts:
1) Management by objectives
Target disclosure at the beginning of each month (Target number of members converted this month, and Target number of customers that may convert this month)
Weekly goal discussion (focus on Monday morning to analyze the customers who have booked this week)
Strengthen the target of the morning meeting every day (check the historical data for the customers who come to the store on the same day, analyze the customers of key convertible members, and make sure that we have a good idea)
2) Data management
Record the detailed information of each customer (such as name, telephone number, date of first visit to the store, items consumed, amount of money, favorite style, related preferences of customers talked about during the service...
Record as much as you can)
Reasons for not converting will be discussed in the meeting (in the weekly target discussion, reasons will be analyzed for customers who failed to convert into members, and reasons will be found out to strive for next conversion)
3) Transaction management
For unfamiliar visiting customers, we should strive for each customer to stay more, and use interlocking plan to lock customers;
Use service details and chat techniques to close the distance with customers, and move customers emotionally;
The lash artist should be familiar with at least 10 cases of post-ciliary changes of customers, which can be shown in pictures.
When customers leave the store, please see them to the door and use farewell language.
For customers who only do eyelash beauty, we can recommend manicure, hair removal, semi-permanent, beauty and other items, as well as ancillary products such as eyelash fixation solution.
4) After-sales service
Customer 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 1 month telephone return visit;
Holiday SMS blessing;
Invitation to preferential activities;
Birthday blessing welfare reminder;
Communicate and deal with customer feedback in time
5) Value added management
Interview or research of some members and customers
A gathering of themed events
Reward for referral of members
According to customer data analysis, launch new theme activities
3. Value the customer's lifetime value
1) Classification of member customers
Use the member management system to classify the member customers, such as age, whether they have children, occupation classification, membership level.
Differentiated understanding through different categories can reduce the risk of customer management failure and maintain these members and customers well, so as to bring more referrals and word of mouth.
2) Analysis of active members/customers
Use the 80-20 rule to identify key members or unconverted key customers.
The transformation value of these key customers is manifested in repeated consumption, increasing customer unit price, transfer introduction and so on.
Selecting these members/customers whose contribution value is 80% from the overall customer base and continuously strengthening service and maintenance to retain these high-value members/customers can also reduce the cost of the store's marketing activities.
3) Necessity of exclusive interviews with members/customers
You may think that it is unrealistic to study individual customers to improve the profits of a store, but for a store, regular market research is very necessary.
Through one-to-one interviews, we can extract the commonalities of practical members/customers, so that when the lashes artist learns the information of other old members/customers, he can immediately know whether these members/customers have created the maximum value of the store.
Of course, fine customer management is not unequal treatment of customers, but the need for survival, development and improvement of performance of eyelash stores.
If the same amount of time and effort is invested in customer refinement, the results may not be as good. But by serving the members/customers with the highest value, you can get the most customer traffic and store performance.
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