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accio-victuuri · 4 months

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so about the Rocco Liu “issue”, I feel like I have already made a case with my candy post on the same day. I have 3 points to address and people are free to hate him or whatever because that’s on you. however, it’s ridiculous to project those thoughts and make up stories that WYB feels the same way as you do. Or that he should do certain things, because if you have all forgotten, he is a grown ass man that can make his own decisions. he can decide who he interacts with. i understand that most of the negative reactions come from a place of love and care for yibo but we should still try and be rational.

disclaimer, this is all my personal opinion based on my own values and experience. i don’t represent any fandom with this post. for those of you who wanna know what i think about his 227 kadian then scroll to the last part.

I see a lot of people making a big deal about how RL allegedly has a crush on WYB and therefore that makes him a creep.

My dudes, let me tell you a secret…..

99.9% of people who meet WYB will end up having a crush on him. Will be a little bit in love with him, after spending 2 minutes with him or even having the slightest bit of interaction like an eye contact. That’s just the kind of person he is. He is the main character.

The narrative of certain fans who get threatened of people like RL or CZX because they are in a position of power and seem to have ulterior motives with WYB is ridiculous. WYB is not some starlet who needs to get his foot in the door. RL & GQ need someone like him in that event. He has the upper hand or they are at equal footing. If people really know WYB like they say they do, it would be very clear that he sets boundaries. It’s not like WYB is defenseless.

If RL has a crush on him. Can you blame him? What’s so wrong? That makes him part of the majority. So where is the creepy part coming from?

Some are giving example of incidents that RL was inappropriate with WYB.

First of all, it is very clear that he was not being forced to ride the boat with Rocco. We all know Yibo’s standing. There is no one there who can match up to him. He is also not actively promoting a drama to join a certain set of people. So the next best thing is to be with the “host” of the event. I was actually thinking he might be alone but realized the theme was you will have someone to ride it together with you. It makes perfect sense to me. It’s the most logical choice. Yibo is the guest of honor.

Second, I don’t know where people are getting the idea that he was uncomfortable with that 3 minute ride out of very short clips. Did we even watch the same thing? As soon as he rode the boat, he was chill. He even said hi to Li Xian who called to him first. He had his coffee and was relaxed. All entertainment blogs praised him for his state. Unlike other celebrities who were so awkward or did unnecessary things. The hot search was RL & WYB rode the boat together. That’s all. No one commented on main that the two were awkward with each other. If you monitored the hot search, you would know that. The discussion and critique was more on people mocking how boring it was and that it’s just a simple boat. How it looked “cheap” and asking why is there no host to interact with the celebrities. There was nothing majorly bad about WYB. He was on hot search in a positive light even on the next day.

EXAMPLE ONE: RL was trying so hard to be close and sit next to WYB but he said no. Because his gege will be mad uwu

But if you look at it, he was asked if he wants to switch seats. Look at RL’s hand, pointing to his side of the boat. WYB declined. He was okay with his position. Does that smile look faked to you? It’s a genuine smile that’s all good with the person they are interacting with.

EXAMPLE TWO : I can’t find the video but it was RL touching WYB’s waist like guiding him and WYB moved away. I can understand why people will find that too touchy feely. I see it was WYB was surprised so he did that. RL is not someone he spends so much time but to say it’s because WYB was so uncomfortable is a stretch. He was talking to him and was v chill even in the old town red carpet.

These examples are mostly from cpfs who are irrationally threatened. Going as far as saying that the original iconic boat ride featuring WYB is the 9 min boat video with XZ. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Here we go again with the unnecessary double standard just to make a point. Trying to make it seem that the experience was horrible to WYB. The notion that WYB can and should only have good memories connected to XZ and vice versa is so unreasonable. There are times that the difference is clear but going as far as to twist things is too much. What if certain accounts picked up on it? I don’t even wanna imagine a hot search that says something like RL harassed WYB all because of what others are posting.

&&& I’m just gonna copy and paste this here:

During the boat ride, he was clapping for Rocco, like applauding him for the event i guess. In the meantime, on Weibo, the top hot search were people criticizing the “boat” thing on GQ ( literally something like GQ boat embarrassment was the tag ) As soon as the live started it went on 1 or 2. I don’t know if Bobo saw that but I just like how he showed his appreciation to Rocco, and by extension, his team. That’s just my interpretation and it could be a completely different thing but knowing WYB, he is very generous with acknowledging people. Maybe we can take a page from his book in this aspect.

He even shook RL’s hand and smiled. If you think this is somehow WYB being fake. I don’t even know what to say to you.

I also wanna point out how some are saying these things because of their prejudice against queer people who look like rocco liu. If they look a certain way then it’s most likely they are queer perverts who will take advantage of young men like WYB. While I do agree that incidents like that happen, it’s horrible how people are jumping to conclusion because of a few second clip and his “look”. I’m sorry but queer people come in all shapes and sizes. They do not look like the boys in your manhua/manhwa. It’s like you pick and choose who is the kind of queer that’s ok and palatable. Which is still homophobia by the way. It’s okay if it’s two guys who are handsome like ZZ and WYB, but if someone else comes close who doesn’t look as fine as them then it’s disgusting.

I remember that one incident, a photo of ZZ with a handsome doctor. CPFs were loving it! Already making up head canons that WYB is jealous or ZZ probably tried to make WYB jealous by using that person. How it would be cool to write a fic about that. 💀💀💀 Which makes me think that if WYB rode that boat with Yangyang for example, someone who he finds handsome and have the bare minimum interaction— CPFs will be elated! It would be twisted into something like a “omg zz is jealous blah blah blah”. This is my problem with some CPFs and how limited their understanding is of the real world. How treating the boys as fictional people is so easy and encouraged. I cringe at those who even implied that XZS suddenly posted a vlog cause he wants to assert his ownership of WYB because of what RL did. If you think that statement doesn’t make sense, then we are on the same boat. 🛶

Which leads us to big argument…

The whole narrative of how can WYB work closely with GQ even if they dissed XZ back in 227 era.

The whole article was not made by Rocco. It was a different person. Even the “accounts” they say are RL cannot be verified. Second, this whole we will never forget mentality is so fuckin toxic tbh. Why can’t their be healing from all the hurt back in 227? Do people really think XZ is out there with a fuckin notebook with all the people who took a jab at him that time? One way or another he will work with these people. That’s how the industry is. I don’t remember XZS saying his fans should seek vengeance. What i recall, repeatedly being said is to not join in on unnecessary conversations that will cause negativity amongst people.

Tho I believe that XZ is more wary of certain people, especially with those who stabbed him in the back.

Now some fans are so angry cause RL’s response with the height HS ( which i talked about here ) is to Kadian 227. The answer is simple. It’s 🍤🍤🍤 who were commenting and doing the most to spread this rumor. So this shade was for them and a reminder what may happen if they are not careful and stay on their lane. We are not new to this. XFX are known to do shady things that do not reflect Xiao Zhan. Tho it’s sad how he gets affected by it when he didn’t even do anything.

This is not special treatment to XFX or that he has some deep seated hatred for XZ. It’s XFX who has the vendetta and capitalized on what some blog and antis were implying. Just the other day, top hot search was Rocco Liu is not embarrassed. This bitch reposted the top post on the GQ boat embarrassment hot search by some blog and said he wasn’t embarrassed. Yep. He is that petty. 😂😂😂😂 He will not take things lying down. If you look at context, it’s pretty obvious.

I also saw Gabrielle, who is GG’s friend and someone who defended him during 227 shared a photo he took of his friends WYB & Rocco. So should we cancel Gabrielle too cause he is friends with Rocco? Where do we draw the line?

In conclusion, it wouldn’t kill you to take a step back and look at things without a cpf lens on. Look at the context. Trust XZ and WYB. It was honestly distasteful how some were focusing more on the drama than how amazing WYB looked that night.

That’s all. Now back to the normal posts. ✌🏼

#personal #bjyx #yizhan #i won’t entertain any more discussion continue hating on him all you want this is just my two cents #and maybe take this time to reflect too…

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rainbowsky · 1 month

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Here's a bit more fandom history for everyone.

It's been a long time since I've heard this incident talked about, but I guess turtles are reminiscing a bit about the kind of things GG's fans subject him to, and this has come back up.

Back in 2019 when GG was in Nanjing for The Untamed fan meet, a hotel staff member left this adorable Jianguo pillow with a little note 'from Jianguo' wishing him success with the concert. GG clearly enjoyed it because he posted it on his Oasis.

At first shrimps were enjoying it because they assumed it was a shrimp who'd done it, but when they realized it was a turtle they freaked out and launched a major cyberbullying campaign against the turtle and flooded the hotel with hundreds of phone calls complaining and trying to get her fired. Some of them threatened to keep calling the hotel every day and overwhelm the phone lines until she was fired.

GG had no choice but to delete the photo. He replaced it with a solid black image, and put the line, "post whatever you want" in his profile.

Just imagine how awful he must have felt, that his fans attacked and harassed a sweet fan who'd made him a lovely gift, nearly getting her fired - all from a post he made showing his appreciation for this cute, thoughtful gift.

If you wonder why GG and DD don't acknowledge turtles and why GG hasn't mentioned XFX by name in years, this is a bit of a clue as to why. GG especially has a lot of reason to be wary of being too personal and open with fans (and no doubt 227 didn't help with that at all). GG and DD know that acknowledging turtles will only harm them and lead to more hate and war from solos.

And GG has repeatedly said - including in his statement on the anniversary of 227, which was the first time he made a direct personal statement about it - that he doesn't believe anyone should identify as "I am ___'s fan."

"I want to tell my fans, everyone has the right to like and hate. No matter if you like or hate, it should be respected and allowed in their own spaces. Of course, this right should be based on rationality and not hurting other people, while following accurate values. I hope that my fans can understand that no matter what field or age, your personal likes and actions shouldn't cross the line or go against that field's ethics or morals. No matter if it's on the Internet or in real life, everyone should be responsible for their own actions. Even more, hope that none of us should be represented by the label 'xxx's fan.'"

GG realizes something that XFX can't seem to get through their heads: when you speak of "fans of Xiao Zhan," that is not synonymous with "XFX," no matter how much they would like everyone to believe that they're his only fan group. Actually, turtles are GG's fans also, as are all people who love and support GG, regardless of how they identify themselves and regardless of how deep or casual is their appreciation for him.

So pretty much ever since this era, and especially after 227, you never hear GG refer to his solo fandom by name. And I don't think that's because he has contempt or disregard for them (although I don't doubt he must harbor 'feelings' about everything they've put him through), rather I think it's because he wants to be inclusive toward all of his supporters, and not let it be thought that he doesn't appreciate everyone, regardless of 'affiliation'.

#bjyx #yizhan #bxg ggdd #solos belong to moling su sect #it's in the air it's all around

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just-sp-in-inginthevoid · 5 months

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@chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter

Kakucho and Sanzu's parallels, let's go!

[Kakucho] - [Sanzu]

"I'll follow the man I offered my life to into hell, if that's where his path lead" - "As you fall deeper into the shadows, no matter if you kill me along the way, I will give all of my life for you, […] Mikey" = deep devotion

Similar relationship with Mucho = "You taught me how to be a real man" - "I would've loved to have a big brother like you"

Toss away his family name - Changed his family name. Which leads to them both more or less metaphorically becoming someone else, changing identity

Dead Family - Dead to him family

(+ Kakucho says he lost all of his family members, so we can't tell if he was an only child or not since he never explained what family members he had to start with)

We can argue that both became devoted to Izana/Mikey when they were around 8 y/o, following a traumatizing incident (Kakucho and Izana first met when he's 8 + he just lived the car accident & got his scar - Sanzu's scars happened when he was 9 but like. close enough. Kakucho could've also been 9 for what we know of. He was in 3rd grade after all)

Only listens to Izana (Ran to South, chapter 227: "Nah, Kakucho ain’t gonna listen to you. In fact, he wasn’t really one of us until Izana told him to be.") - Only listens to Mikey (don't think I have to justify that one)

Have no will to live on their own if Izana/Mikey die. Izana/Mikey is their will to live. Suicidal empty shell when their king dies with no goals (canon for Kakucho when South goes to 'recruit' him - it goes without saying for Sanzu, no need for a canonical proof or Wakui's confirmation to understand that)

Both see Izana/Mikey as their 'King', and take on a subordinate role

Has morals but will ignore them if Izana orders it - Got rid of his morals to do anything that Mikey asks, will go out of his way to do things Mikey doesn't ask

Does (criminal) things only if Izana asks for it + there are instances where he tries to stop Izana (Emma's death, claiming that Tenjiku lost,...) - Does criminal things even if Mikey doesn't ask for it + would only stop doing them if Mikey demands he does

First friend Izana made - First friend Mikey had

I think that's all I can think of as for now

Will edit this if I remember anything else

Ah. Both have facial scar too. I guess that's what I should've started with

#tr #tokrev #tokyo revengers #tr kakucho #tokrev kakucho #kakucho #tr sanzu #tokrev sanzu #sanzu haruchiyo

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broadlyepi · 3 months

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Respiratory distress in SARS-CoV-2 exposed uninfected neonates followed in the COVID Outcomes in Mother-Infant Pairs (COMP) Study

Top 5 Takeaways

High Rates of Respiratory Distress in Exposed Uninfected Neonates: The study found unusually high rates (17%) of respiratory distress (RD) in SARS-CoV-2 exposed uninfected (SEU) term neonates.

Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination Reduces Neonatal RD: Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 significantly reduced the frequency of neonatal RD, with a 67% decline in the odds of RD in neonates born to vaccinated mothers compared to those born to unvaccinated mothers.

Proteomic Analysis Reveals Inflammatory Response: Proteomic analysis indicated a robust inflammatory response in SEU neonates with RD, involving pathways like ciliary dysregulation and enhanced IgE production.

Demographic and Clinical Factors: The study enrolled 221 pregnant persons with COVID-19 and 227 exposed fetuses. It highlighted the correlation of RD with factors like maternal disease severity, prematurity, and the absence of maternal COVID-19 immunization.

Th2-Skewed Immune Response in SEU Neonates: SEU preterm infants with RD showed a Th2-skewed immune response, indicated by elevated levels of certain cytokines and the inhibition of FC gamma receptors.

Original Article Author and Citation

Olivia M. Man, Tamiris Azamor, Mary Catherine Cambou, Trevon L. Fuller, Tara Kerin, Sophia G. Paiola, Jessica S. Cranston, Thalia Mok, Rashmi Rao, Weiqiang Chen, Jae U. Jung, Viviana Fajardo Martinez, Suan-Sin Foo, Karin Nielsen-Saines

Suggested Citation

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44549-5

Summary

The study aimed to understand the impact of prenatal COVID-19 exposure on neonatal respiratory distress (RD). A high incidence of RD was observed in SEU neonates, and maternal vaccination notably reduced this risk. Proteomic analysis suggested a strong inflammatory response in these neonates.

Methods

The research employed a longitudinal cohort study approach, enrolling mothers with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and their exposed fetuses. Various demographic, clinical, and proteomic analyses were used to understand the complex relationship between maternal COVID-19 parameters and infant RD.

Discussion

The findings highlight the protective role of maternal COVID-19 vaccination in reducing neonatal RD. The study also revealed a Th2-skewed immune response in SEU neonates with RD, suggesting potential long-term implications, including the development of allergic processes and pulmonary fibrosis.

Conclusion

Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 significantly decreases the risk of neonatal RD in SEU infants. The study underscores the importance of maternal vaccination for reducing neonatal morbidity and improving long-term infant health.

#covid #covid 19 #covid vaccine #sars cov 2 #neonatal #health #epidemiology #breaking news

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jgnico · 9 months

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Jujutsu Kaisen's Power System

Welcome to the newly restored Power System Breakdown. My deepest apologies for accidentally deleting it. Hopefully I can make up for that by updating it with some of the information we've learned since it was first posted. (Spoiler Warning up to chapter 227!)

As always, all information in this breakdown is taken directly from either Jujutsu Kaisen's manga (including Vol. 0) or the official Jujutsu Kaisen Fanbook.

Now let's begin with a few definitions.

Cursed Spirits

Cursed Spirits (or simply, Curses) are beings created from the Cursed Energy that humans output in response to strong negative emotions. Stronger or older Curses tend to be sentient, but not all are.

Flyheads

Flyheads are Cursed Spirits that do not have enough Cursed Energy to be considered proper Curses. They are also not strong enough to be placed on the ranking scale for Curses.

Sorcerers

Sorcerers are humans that use Cursed Energy. You do not have to have a Technique to be considered a Sorcerer.

Curse Users

Curse Users are Sorcerers that have used Cursed Energy or their Cursed Technique to harm or kill non-Sorcerers.

Assistant Managers

Assistant Managers are Sorcerers that do not possess enough Cursed Energy to fight Curses. Also called Windows, they work as intermediaries for the higher-ups and take on the responsibility of teaching the students non-Jujutsu related subjects during schooling.

Higher-Ups

Higher-Ups are Sorcerers that make up the core governing body of the Jujutsu world. As of Chapter 223, the only known and still-living member is Yoshinobu Gakuganji.

Non-Sorcerers

Non-Sorcerers are everyday humans that cannot or do not use Cursed Energy.

Clans

Clans are families with a long history of Sorcerers within their bloodline. There are four known Clans; Inumaki, Kamo, Gojo and Zenin. The latter three make up the Big Three Clans and hold significant political power within Jujutsu society.

Ranking:

Grades 4 to 1

All Sorcerers and Cursed Spirits are ranked on an ascending scale from 4 to 1 with 4 being relatively weak and 1 being incredibly strong. Sorcerers are always ranked to be slightly stronger than a Curse of the same grade.

Special Grades

Special Grades are the highest rank you can achieve within Jujutsu society. There are only 4 known Special Grade Sorcerers and 16 known Special Grade Curses.

Special Grade Potential Cursed Spirits

Special Grade Potential Cursed Spirits are Special Grade Curses that have not been confirmed to exist or have not been registered with the higher-ups. The Nature Curses (Mahito, Hanami, Jogo & Dagon) as well as mythic creatures like the Nine Tailed Fox all fall under this category.

Special Grade 1 Sorcerers

Special Grade 1 Sorcerers (or Supreme Grade 1 Sorcerers) are titles held by Sorcerer's that have collaborated with the Jujutsu Technical College. This title does not mean that they are stronger than a Grade 1 Sorcerer.

Promotions

Promotions to a higher rank cannot be given by the person in charge of you (i.e. a teacher) and before your rank is changed an assessment must be held. Sorcerers in the assessment phase of a promotion are given a Semi-Grade. (For example, Inumaki is a Semi-Grade 1 Sorcerer. His promotion was placed on hold after the Shibuya Incident.)

The Basics:

Cursed Energy

Cursed Energy is energy created by negative emotions. It can be used by both Sorcerers and Curses to strengthen physical attacks or to reinforce their body and guard against incoming damage. All humans are born with a base amount of it, but few humans outside of Japan possess enough to actively use it, with the exception of Miguel and the tribe of Sorcerers in Africa that make the black rope.

Positive Energy

Positive Energy is essentially the opposite of Cursed Energy. Not much is known about Positive Energy beyond the fact it is not the same as Reverse Cursed Energy. It has only been used by the Ten Shadows shikigami, Mahoraga, at this point in the series.

Reverse Curse Energy

Reversed Cursed Energy is Cursed Energy that has been multiplied upon itself to emit a positive feedback. It is typically used in Reverse Cured Techniques to heal but it can be used instead of normal Cursed Energy to power a Cursed Technique. Doing so results in a Cursed Technique Reversal, like Gojo’s Limitless: Red.

Cursed Techniques

Cursed Techniques are abilities that are written into your DNA at the time of your birth and require Cursed Energy to use. They usually manifest when you’re around five or six years old, but can be unlocked later in life by rewiring the necessary pathways within your brain. These pathways are typically blocked for non-Sorcerers, but that does not mean they don’t have a technique; they just aren’t aware of it and can’t use it.

Mahito unlocks Junpei’s Cursed Technique using his Idle Transfiguration in Chapter 21. Kenjacku later does this same thing in Chapter 136 to prep selected individuals for their involvement in the Culling Games.

Residuals

Residuals are trace amounts of Cursed Energy left behind after a Curse or Sorcerer uses their Technique. Think of them like fingerprints at a crime scene, but keep in mind that skilled users can hide or change their residuals to throw others off their trail.

Geto does this in Chapter 0.1 to conceal his involvement at the elementary school; Mahito also does this in Chapter 20 to lure out Yuuji and Nanami.

Cursed Corpses

Cursed Corpses are inanimate objects that have been imbued with a non-Special Grade curse. Cursed Corpses that exist naturally are hostile towards humans, but they can be created by Sorcerers by placing a core into an object to act as its heart. Artificial Cursed Corpses can act independently of the Sorcerer that created them until the Cursed Energy within its core runs out.

Muta and Yaga both have the ability to create Cursed Corpse, with the former preferring to use mechs while the latter typically uses dolls.

Abrupt Mutated Cursed Corpses

Abrupt Mutated Cursed Corpses are Cursed Corpses that have replenishing cores of Cursed Energy. This is achieved by copying the soul information of a (recently deceased) human being into three compatible cores instead of simply creating one core using Cursed Energy. These three cores will then monitor and regulate each other, ensuring that the Corpse remains stable and granting it sentience. Additionally, it takes three months for these Corpses to gain the ability to produce their own Cursed Energy.

Panda, along with Takeru and the other Cursed Corpses seen in Chapter 147 are all Abrupt Mutated Cursed Corpses.

Techniques:

Inherited Techniques

Inherited Techniques are techniques passed down through your family or bloodline. Information on these techniques are often a closely kept secret, with training of new users falling to the responsibility of older users if they are alive to do so.

Gojo's Limitless, Naobito & Naoya's Projection Sorcery, Mai & Yorozu's Construction, and Nobara's Straw Doll are all Inherited Techniques.

Clan Techniques

Clan Techniques are extremely rare Inherited Techniques within the Jujutsu world and are highly prized within their respective Clans for how strong they are. They typically appear every few hundred to a thousand years and so far have never manifested outside a Clan's main bloodline.

Gojo's Six Eyes, Choso and Noritoshi's Blood Manipulation, Megumi's Ten Shadows and Inumaki's Cursed Speech are all Clan Techniques.

Innate Techniques

Innate Techniques are specific to the person that was born with them, i.e. they cannot or have not been inherited through a user's bloodline. It has yet to be confirmed if Innate Techniques transfer to a new "host" if the Sorcerer born with them dies before it is inherited; it's likely that they simply cease to exist.

Geto's Curse Manipulation, Nanami's 7:3 Ratio, Todo's Boogie Woogie and Sukuna's Dismantle are all Innate Techniques.

Maximum Techniques

Maximum Techniques are one of the strongest abilities that a Technique User can have and require a high level of mastery to achieve. These are not limited to a specific type; both users of Innate or Inherited Techniques can have them, depending on what Technique they possess.

Geto's Maximum Uzumaki, Jogo's Maximum Meteor and Eso's Maximum Wing King are all Maximum Techniques

Reverse Cursed Technique

Reverse Cursed Technique is the ability to heal yourself or others using Reverse Cursed Energy. It comes easier to Curses than it does Sorcerers due to them being born from Cursed Energy, but it is not impossible for Sorcerers to learn to use it as well.

Shoko, Yuuta, Kenjaku, Uraume, Gojo, Yuki, and Sukuna can all use Reverse Cursed Technique on themselves. With the exception of Gojo, they can all use it on others as well. Gojo is the only character at this point in the series that has used RCT to restore his own Cursed Energy, at the cost of being able to heal his body while doing so.

Combat Techniques

Combat Techniques are physical attacks that Sorcerers imbue with Cursed Energy to achieve a desired effect. Despite the strength of these types of attacks, they are rarely used, with most Sorcerers preferring to use simple hand-to-hand combat, Cursed Tools or their own Cursed Technique.

Yuuji's Divergent Fist and Panda's Unblockable Drumming Beat are both Combat Techniques.

Black Flash

Black Flash is a Combat Technique that can only be achieved when Cursed Energy is added to the impact of a physical attack within one one millionth (0.00001) of a second. This will result in spatial distortion as the Cursed Energy flashes black and multiplies the attack's output by 2.5 of its original strength.

Yuuji, Todo, Ino, Utahime, Nanami, Gojo, Mahito and Nobara have all performed Black Flashes. Yuuji and Nanami are tied for the record of consecutive Black Flashes at 4 in a row.

Barrier Techniques:

Barrier Techniques (or simply, Barriers) are techniques that allow a user to create a wall, dome or sphere around an intended area to conceal the User or trap an opponent. Despite being one of the most common and easy to use Techniques, they have a very high skill ceiling with both Sorcerers and Curses rarely mastering them fully.

Curtains

Curtains are fairly simple Barrier Techniques that are often used by Assistant Managers to conceal Sorcerers from the public during missions. That being said, both Sorcerers and Curses can create them or imbue them into Cursed Objects.

Commissioned Curtains

Commissioned Curtains are Barrier Techniques created in advance and stored within stakes. They can have conditions set upon them when they are made, such as rule that blocks or allows the entry of specific individuals or groups of individuals.

Innate Domains

Innate Domains are Barrier Techniques constructed within a user's mind. (This is where Sukuna held his discussion with Yuuji after his death in chapter 9 and what allows him to keep his soul separate from Yuuji's within their shared body.) Manifesting an Innate Domain into the physical world using Cursed Energy is how a Sorcerer creates a Domain Expansion.

Domain Expansions

Domain Expansions are highly advanced Barrier Techniques that are created within the physical world in the likeness of the user's Innate Domain. With the exception of Sukuna's Malevolent Shrine, all complete Domain Expansions will erect a Barrier around the user and have the user's Cursed Technique imbued within them. This grants the Technique a guaranteed hit against an opponent as well as a buff to the strength of their Cursed Technique so long as they are within the Domain.

Domain Battles

Domain Battles are essentially a fight of wills between the Domains of two users. Entering into one of these battles is extremely risky as the stronger and more refined Domain will always win, but you can enter into a Domain Battle to force a hole into the Barrier of your opponent's Domain in order to escape. (Megumi does this in chapter 108.)

Entering into a Domain Battle will always deactivate the guaranteed hits for both user's Techniques as long as both Domain's are active. This does not remove the passive buff to either users' Techniques that is granted within the Domains.

Incomplete Domains

Incomplete Domains are Domain Expansions that exist in the physical world but do not have a barrier around them or a Technique imbued within them. The main disadvantage here is that the user loses their Technique's buff in strength and the guaranteed hit.

Domain Amplification

Domain Amplification is a Barrier Technique that covers the user in a fluid Domain with similar properties to a Domain Expansion. They are used to neutralize any and all Techniques that come in contact with it before they reach the user.

Hanami and Jogo use this technique against Gojo in chapter 84 to neutralize Limitless. Sukuna does the same in chapter 225.

Anti-Barrier Techniques:

Anti-Barrier Techniques are an area that a user creates to counter Domain Expansions, but they can also be used independently to counter incoming attacks without an Expansion being present. Additionally, there are two main types of Anti-Barrier Techniques, Secret Art and Simple Domains. Both can be used defensively and offensively depending on the user's wishes.

Secret Art

Secret Art is an Anti-Barrier Technique that creates a fluid "armor" of Cursed Energy around the user similar to how Domain Amplification coats the user in a fluid Domain. Instead of having a set radius, it only protects the user's immediate body from damage.

This Technique only remains active so long as it is being powered by Cursed Energy and can be overwhelmed with multiple rapid attacks.

Falling Blossom Emotion

Falling Blossom Emotion is a style of Secret Art that automatically counter-attacks incoming enemies, weapons and projectiles as soon as they touch it's field of Cursed Energy. It does this by reading and immediately matching an incoming attack's Cursed Energy to nullify it using a blow of equal force. If the incoming attack is strong enough to surpass it, the Technique will instead reduce a percentage of the damage taken by the user.

The training required to use this technique is a close kept secret within the Big Three clans. As such, it has only been used by Satoru Gojo, Naobito Zenin, and Ogi Zenin at this point in the series. In Ogi's case, he extended the Technique to cover his sword as well as his body during his fight with Maki in chapter 148.

Simple Domains

Simple Domains are Anti-Barrier Techniques that create a Barrier around the user in a set radius. They were originally created in the Heian Era by Sadatsuna Ashiya with the intention of passing them down through his family in secret and given the name "Domain For The Weak."

Ui Ui, Todo, Miwa and Kusakabe have all used Simple Domains at various points in the series with the latter two using Simple Domain: New Shadow Style specifically.

Hollow Wicker Basket

Hollow Wicker Basket is a precursor to Simple Domain. As such it is less refined, requiring the user to extend their arms and interlock their fingers to activate it. Taking the form of a woven basket in the shape of a sphere, it neutralizes the barrier of a Domain Expansion rather than the Cursed Technique would be imbued into it. Since it does not target the Technique itself, it is considered useless against Incomplete and non-lethal Expansions.

Reggie Star used this technique against Megumi's incomplete Domain in chapter 171. Hajime Kashimo considered using it during his fight with Hakari Kinji in chapter 187, but ultimately decided against it since Hakari's Domain does not outright attack his opponents.

New Shadow Style

New Shadow Style is a Simple Domain that incorporates iaijutsu sword stances into its deployment. Doing so requires that the full stance is completed (draw, strike, clean the blade, re-sheathe) with the user being granted an automatic attack with their blade in return as soon as the radius of the Domain's barrier is crossed. (Note: this attack can be avoided if your opponent is fast enough. It is not a guaranteed hit like what you'd see with Domain Expansions.)

Miwa unsuccessfully uses New Shadow Style three times during the Goodwill Event, with Yuuji dodging the automatic attack the first time and Maki forcing her out of her starting position before her sword could be drawn the second time. With the third use, Maki triggered the automatic attack with a kunai before crossing the barrier herself.

Gojo uses New Shadow Style twice during his fight with Sukuna, creating a safe space within Malevolent Shrine so that he could heal his body, then his Cursed Technique, respectively.

Batto Sword Drawing

Batto Sword Drawing is a stance (iai-goshi) of New Shadow Style that coats the user's sword in Cursed Energy. Doing so significantly increases the sword's drawing speed and sets it's automatic hit to target whatever opponent is in front of the user. This is the fastest technique within New Shadow Style.

Kusakabe used this stance in chapter 115 against two Curse Users, killing them instantly. He used it again in chapter 134 to successfully counter Kenjaku's use of Geto's Maximum Uzumaki.

Evening Moon Sword Drawing

Evening Moon Sword Drawing is another stance (tachi-ai) of New Shadow Style. The conditions and effects of this stance are still unknown.

Kusakabe started to use this stance in chapter 114 but was interrupted by Sukuna's fight with Jogo.

Binding Vows:

Binding Vows are contracts made using Cursed Energy. These Vows can be made with yourself or with someone else, but they also occur naturally within the Jujutsu world. The effects of breaking a Binding Vow made with others is still unknown and something that both powerful Cursed Spirits and Sorcerers prefer to avoid. That being said, breaking one made with yourself will only result in you losing whatever you gained from the contract.

Binding Vows can be added to Barrier Techniques to strengthen the Barrier or to meet certain conditions that the user sets in the contract.

Overtime

Overtime is a Binding Vow that Nanami made with himself to limit his Cursed Energy during his normal working hours. If he is still on a mission once 6:00 PM hits, his output of Cursed Energy will greatly increase and in turn, make all of his attacks stronger.

Enchain

Enchain is a Binding Vow with three conditions that Sukuna made with Yuuji in chapter 11 in exchange for bringing him back to life. The first condition is that once Sukuna chants "enchain" he will gain full control of Yuuji's body for one minute. The second condition is that Yuuji will have no memory of making this vow. The third is that Sukuna will not kill or harm anyone during the minute he has control.

Malevolent Shrine

While not a Binding Vow itself, Malevolent Shrine is an example of a Binding Vow being placed upon a Barrier Technique. In exchange for creating an escape route for his opponent by not placing a Barrier when he manifests his Innate Domain, Sukuna's Domain Expansion gains a larger area of effect for his Technique's guaranteed hit with a maximum radius of 200 meters.

Revealing Cursed Techniques

Revealing Cursed Techniques is a Binding Vow that exists naturally within the Jujutsu world. In exchange for giving your opponent information on how your Technique works, your Technique is given a boost in strength. Using this Binding Vow is risky, but also completely voluntary.

Heavenly Restriction

Heavenly Restriction is another naturally occurring Binding Vow, but one that is involuntarily placed upon certain individuals at birth. What is gained and lost from this Vow varies from person to person. For example, Muta gained massive amounts of Cursed Energy and a wider area of effect at the cost of his body while Maki & Toji gained super-humans bodies at the cost of their Cursed Energy.

Cursed Tools:

Cursed Tools are weapons or support items that have had a set amount of Cursed Energy or a Cursed Technique channeled into them. That being said, simply channeling Cursed Energy or a Cursed Technique into a weapon or item does not automatically make it a Cursed Tool if that is not its default state.

Miwa and Kusakabe's swords do not always have a set amount of Cursed Energy within them while Yuuta's does. Yuuta's sword would be considered a Cursed Tool while the other's aren't.

Additionally, all Cursed Tools are given a rank from 4 to 1 depending on the strength of their Technique or the amount of Cursed Energy stored within them. Higher ranked Tools are more powerful and rare, and therefore, more valuable. Tools owned by Clans are usually stored within the Clan’s own warehouse or leant to the the Tokyo Jujutsu school and stored within the warehouse there for safekeeping.

Special Grade Cursed Tools

Special Grade Cursed Tools are Cursed Tools that have a Special Grade Cursed Technique imbued into them. These are the rarest and strongest Cursed Tools that you can possess, with each having their own specific abilities when used.

Playful Cloud is the only Special Grade Cursed Tool that does not possess a Cursed Technique. Originally belonging to the Gojo Clan, it instead scales infinitely to match the strength of the person using it.

Black Rope

Black Rope is a Cursed Tool that negates any Cursed Energy or Cursed Technique that it comes in contact with for a brief time. Despite this, it is not considered a Special Grade Cursed Tool due to it's Technique not being derived from a Special Grade Cursed Technique.

Sword of Extermination

The Sword of Extermination is a Cursed Tool that uses Positive Energy instead of Cursed Energy. The strength of it's attacks will scale to match whatever Cursed Energy it comes in contact with, allowing it to destroy any and all Cursed Spirits that it hits.

This Cursed Tool is one of the two swords used by the Ten Shadows shikigami, Mahoraga. It has not been ranked as Mahoraga has never been tamed by a Ten Shadows user.

Cursed Objects:

Cursed Objects are items or artifacts with a Curse bound to them and are typically created from the remains of Sorcerers or Cursed Spirits. These Objects can exist alone or be used to bind other Cursed Objects and are ranked in the same way that Cursed Tools are. They can also operate under their own sentience, depending on their strength and age.

Talismans

Talismans (or Fulu) are Cursed Objects that take the form of paper tags. Using the Cursed Spirit within them, they are able to restrain and preserve the Cursed Energy of the Cursed Object that they are wrapped around. (Basically, fight fire with fire. Or Curses with Curses.) That being said, this method of preserving Cursed Objects is outdated, as eventually the Talismans will age and mutate to attract Cursed Spirits to whatever Object they are set to protect.

Commissioned Curtains are often wrapped in Talismans to help them maintain the effects of the Curtain before its use.

Special Grade Cursed Objects

Special Grade Cursed Objects are Cursed Objects created from the remains of a Special Grade Curse or Sorcerer. They are extremely rare and cannot be destroyed, allowing them to grow stronger over time. When one of these Objects is consumed by a Cursed Spirit, that Curse will become a Special Grade as well.

Sukuna’s Fingers

Sukuna’s Fingers are the remains of the King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna. There are twenty Fingers in total, each with their own will and sentience that allows them to choose their host. Due to their vast amounts of Cursed Energy, they can attract other Cursed Spirits to them in an attempt to be consumed. Curses that eat one of these fingers become Special Grade Curses known as Finger Bearers.

Prison Realm

Prison Realm is a living Barrier created from the remains of the Buddhist monk Genshin (also known as Eshin Sozu.) This Cursed Object is capable of storing anything and everything within a timeless pocket dimension so long as the target remains within a four meter radius for a specific amount of time. That being said, Prison Realm can only hold one occupant at a time and it cannot be used again until that individual is released or takes their own life.

Cursed Wombs

Cursed Wombs are uterus-like Cursed Objects that eventually produce a Cursed Spirit. Depending on the strength of the Cursed Spirit they can grow and change their form, with Special Grade Curses typically going through the most changes. While not often, Cursed Wombs can be sentient themselves before they evolve into Cursed Spirits.

Dagon is considered a Cursed Womb up until he manifests as a Special Grade Cursed Spirit during his fight against Maki, Naobito and Nanami in chapter 106.

Cursed Wombs: Death Paintings

Cursed Womb: Death Paintings are a type of Cursed Womb that were created during the Meiji era by Kenjaku (then known as Noritoshi Kamo) using the aborted fetuses of a woman that could give birth to half-Curse half-human children. There are nine Death Paintings in total, with three of them becoming Special Grade Cursed Spirits upon their “birth.”

Choso, Eso and Kechizu are the only three Death Paintings that have become Cursed Spirits so far, with the remaining six still stored within the warehouse at the Tokyo Jujutsu school. Eso and Kechizu were killed by Yuuji and Nobara at the end of the Death Painting Arc.

And we're done!

I hope that this helped clarify some of the concepts within the manga for you or gave you some new info to think about. Reblogs are greatly appreciated, as I would prefer to have this restored and updated version take the place of the previous (now-unavailable) one.

Thank you for reading! 🖤

Gladly Restored by @crow-with-a-book

Last updated July 2023 by @jgnico (prev. rengokunico)

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France will deliver missiles to Ukraine on a monthly basis in 2024

More than 600 missiles announced as continuous support in the midst of Ukraine's struggles.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/19/2024 - 16:00 in Military, War Zones

France has committed to provide Ukraine with 50 missiles per month over 2024, totaling 600 missiles throughout the year, as the war-torn nation continues to face the effects of the conflict.

The French Minister of Defense, Sebastien Lecornu, announced the start of missile deliveries to Ukraine during an interview at France Inter, reports Le Figaro. From January 18, France will provide approximately 50 undesignated "missiles" per month by the end of the year.

Lecornu clarified that this is a distinct initiative from President Emmanuel Macron's decision to supply about 40 SCALP air-to-air cruise missiles to Ukraine.

The missile weapons supplied are believed to be modified air bombs of the AASM family, equipped with a propellant rocket and classified as missiles in the French military system. AASM is a modernization kit designed for existing free-fall unguided aerial pumps, specifically the American JDAM model used by Ukrainian tactical aviation.

The AASM kit includes a front section with orientation system and flaps and a rear section with accelerator to increase flight range. Two types of aerial pump kits are in use in France: "Hammer-250" for 227 kg Mk82 pumps and "Hammer-1000" for 908 kg Mk84 pumps.

The front part of the AASM kit can incorporate three orientation systems: inertial with GPS correction, inertial with thermal imaging orientation or similar with laser beam orientation system. In 2016, the French Ministry of Defense ordered the production of 764 AASM sets with inertial orientation system, 384 sets with thermal imaging orientation and 600 sets with laser orientation.

The range of these ammunition varies according to the launch height and the initial speed, officially ranging from 15 to 70 kilometers. With the expected start of ammunition transfers in January, it is expected that Ukrainian aircraft, especially Soviet-era models, such as the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters, will be the main users of Mk.82 air bombs. The heavier Mk.84 pumps, weighing 908 kg, are only compatible with the Su-24M frontline bomber.

In addition, the AASM ammunition demonstrated compatibility with F-16 fighters during the tests in 2014. Ukraine is expected to receive its first F-16 fighters this year.

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Reading (into) the vlog from Milan, part 2

continuing to carefully read (into) the vlog from Milan. this is the second part, following from here

The vlog continues with showing the arrival of the next day with quote that comes from “Saving Mr. Banks”

Winds in the east, mist comin' in

Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin.

Can't put me finger on what lies in store,

But I feel what's to happen all happened before.

— this may be alluding to one of the main themes of the movie: “can I give them the right to change the image of my character(s) as they see fit”, “will I give up my own view of my character(s) because they pay me a lot of money”.

Something unexpected is brewing?

A glass of clean still water. A glass half-full? half-empty? The meaning lies in the perception, the perception is a choice. Calm before the storm? In my own experience, the first association that comes to mind is the part of the “Four Pebbles” meditation by Thich Nhat Hahn: “Breathing in, I am (like) still water. Breathing out, I reflect things as they are”.

The not-coin token rolls around, unbalanced, clearly showing its choiceless sides. The music beat starts.

The protagonist is being dressed in leather, low-neckline top and leash-like necktie. He looks at both sides of the token that confirm that there is no choice, no alternative. “I am the bad type… might seduce your dad type… own me, I’ll let you play the role, I’ll be your animal”.

What did he feel when he first saw the outfit? We can only guess.

What associations did it have for him, image-wise? Did he remember any unsavoury gossip that implied that he earned his fame and position not because of his artistic and creative talents and hard work, but because somebody sponsored and promoted him in exchange for sexual favours? I hope not, but we can’t fully exclude this, because the mind and memory of a chronically tired and overstressed — on edge — person might be in a vulnerable position and might send intrusive flashbacks. The anniversary of incident 227 was just around the corner, which makes flashbacks of unpleasant things even more possible.

At least we know that last year during the MFW interview he said “the (low-neckline) top was a surprise even for me”. Was he surprised this year? In any interviews when the (provocative?) question “what stood out for you in this year’s outfit?” he never mentioned the low-neckline top or the leash-like necktie, but the leather coat. Long and covering almost the entire body. The object that has the least sexualised connotations, and implies power and riches and feeling protected. But it does not look like it is light; possibly, it is heavy.

The protagonist looks at the choiceless token.

But whatever is brewing, it’s not time for it yet. A little time for oneself, in the rain. A little melancholic walk. Is the water in the glass continuing to be still? it flashes by so fast. No, the stillness is broken. The unbalanced token rolls, showing the lack of alternatives again.

Time to face the proverbial music. When a coin toss is not a coin toss?

Put on the public persona face, put on the mask; a genuine little smile escapes when he sees the fans waiting for him under the rain. A nod, a thumbs up. “I see you, I acknowledge you, I commend you. I can’t stop to thank you now. Please see that I saw you.”

The videographer chooses the position that focuses on many phones and cameras surrounding the protagonist once more. He walks, and a token, balancing on edge, moves forward, maintaining its speed. Scenes flash past, all work, attending the show, photoshoot, interview. Smile, smile, smile. Be pleasant, polite, gracious. The token shows its choiceless sides.

Now for the g*cci photoshoot. “i like when you take control, even if you know that you don’t”. Is it a role-play? Who thinks they are in control, but in fact, aren’t? The protagonist? Or those who chose this outfit for him? Who else? “Own me, I’ll let you play the role”. Move, turn, pose, the photographers are working hard. You’ll be all over the Internet in no time.

The one who lets others play the roles is the one in power. Will the necktie strangle him if anybody pulls on it? Can anything be done to be in power?

Are there any alternatives while you stay in the game with your token? Toss the coin, will you? Did it make any difference?

Reading the handwritten letter. What is he thinking, re-reading the words of welcome?

“chest always so puffed guy”. these are quite some pectorals, aren’t they?

Fingers tap-tap-tap against the seat, against the mirror frame. not quite still. thinking? planning? focusing? listening inwardly?

the token keeps rolling on, if a bit wobbly. the token is twirled, held in hand. it is in his own hands, in the final analysis. the way to carry it, the way to carry oneself. it is his game.

he enters. flashlights, cameras, the unperturbed cool look. the power, where is it? it is in the eyes.

a choiceless token reminds of itself, again.

images speed up, like the passing time. it is temporary. it is work, following instructions to turn this way and that, open the folds of the coat, close the folds of the coat. a little ironic smile.

the token is held, shown with the edge to the camera with a little smile. tossed on the ground. it rolls, it slows down, it loses balance, it falls. “I am the bad guy”. whatever.

to be continued

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Amity Park is Not a Small Town

And here's fucking why.

First of all, yes, I am aware that the Trivia section on Amity Park on the wiki says that Amity Park's name came directly from Amityville, New York.

I call bullshit.

Amityville is a village. It's got less than ten thousand people living in it, and it has nowhere near the skyline that we're shown on panoramic views of Amity Park. Amity Park's skyline has much more in common with the skyline of a medium sized city such as Anchorage, Alaska.

Amity park has large office buildings. It has a penitentiary for everything's sake! It has five newspapers. These are not features of small towns, and certainly not features of villages.

The american definition of a medium sized city, (which would make the skyline we see make sense,) is 75,000-500,000 people. If we average it out, we get a city of about 287,000 people. That's a lot of people. More than enough to justify a penitentiary, five newspapers, and several high schools (giving the football team at Casper High other schools to play against, rather than having to travel to other towns every game, or vice versa).

If we use Anchorage as our measuring stick, that means that Amity Park has an Under 18 demographic of around 24% (68,880 people) and 22 or so high schools. It *also* means that Amity Park could have a footprint of over or about 1000 square miles. Granted, it's in the middle of Illinois (according to fandom) so let's scale that back a bit.

Illinois' largest municipality is Chicago, with a footprint of about 227 square miles. Its smallest municipality is Irwin, at .045 square miles. Most of the mid-sized cities seem to have footprints of around 20 square miles, so let's go with that. 20 square miles.

Now.

Pariah Fucking Dark

Look. The dude is the Ghost King. He's supposed to be the Most Powerful Ghost. Pulling a mid-sized city into the GZ is fully within his capabilities, imo. If you look closely at the scene where you see Amity Park in the Ghost zone, you can faintly see larger buildings inside the shield, indicating that at the very least, Pariah pulled a large portion of the city into the GZ.

So how didn't this get noticed?

20 Square Miles of city just fucking vanishing?

Desiree.

At some point during or immediately after the Pariah Dark incident, someone wished that everyone could just 'forget the whole thing'.

And Lo, They Did.

Anyway, yeah, Amity Park isn't a small town or village. Gl HF with this information, go forth and do as ye will.

#rant #Danny Phantom #Amity Park #Pariah Dark #Meta #My thoughts #Kali Rambles #writing

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The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (OIG) published a report last month finding that nearly one-third of medical procedures performed on immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were not properly authorized.

The report found that ICE improperly authorized 32% of major surgeries performed on individuals in ICE detention without having gone through the proper procedure first. Due to ICE’s improper authorization, the OIG audit could not verify whether the surgeries were medically necessary. The report also suggests that the forced hysterectomies performed by medical staff to women detained at the Irwin Detention Center in Georgia were not isolated incidents.

One of the issues noted in the report was that approval for these medical procedures was not given by the appropriate medical staff. According to the report, the ICE Health Service Corp (IHSC), which provides medical services to people in ICE detention, requires major surgeries to be authorized by certain personnel with a specific level of training and expertise. They must have a medical degree or equivalent and at least three years of medical training leading to board eligibility or certification that distinguishes them from other medical practitioners.

The OIG’s review of a sample of 227 surgery reports found that in only 72 of them, the surgeries were approved by the appropriate level of personnel, such as nurses or nurse practitioners.

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the yt algo decided to rec a video talking about something called the 227 incident? and I have....thoughts.

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Taylor Alison Swift (13/10/2023)

Taylor Alison Swift was born December 13 1989 to Andra and Scott Swift. On March 11th, 1992, Taylors' younger brother Austin Swift was born. He became an actor and helps his sister with some of her music-related things. Taylor and her brother were born in Reading Pennsylvania. When Taylor was 14 she and her family moved to Nashville Tennessee and Taylor went to pursue her career in country music. In November of 2004, Taylor signed to the, at the time nonexistent, record label Big Machine Records owned by Scott Borchette. Taylor made a few demo CDs that she would give to people to promote herself and her music to people.

In June of 2006 Taylor debuted her first single Tim McGraw, she wrote the song as an ode to a lover who would be leaving town. The song served as an introduction to her self-titled debut album. Taylor Swift, otherwise known as Debut or Self-Titled, was released on October 24th, 2006, and contained the singles Teardrops on My Guitar, Our Song, Picture To Burn, and Should’ve Said No. The album became the longest-charting album of the 2000s, spreading 227 weeks on the Billboard 100. Taylor wrote or co-wrote every song from the album during her freshman year of high school.

In 2006 and later re-released in 2009 Taylor released a holiday collection. The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP was the first and only Christmas collection that Taylor has released. The collection includes four country-pop-styled covers of the songs Last Christmas, Santa Baby, Silent Night and White Christmas. Along with two of her previously unreleased tracks Christmases When You Were Mine and Christmas Must Be Something More.

Between the release of her Debut and her sophomore album Taylor released an EP titled Beutiful Eyes which had Teardrops on My Guitar Acoustic Version, Should’ve Said No Alternative Version, and two previously unreleased tracks titled Beutiful Eyes, and I Heart ? It was never released on streaming and the CDs are now considered rare.

On November 11, 2008, Fearless was released as her sophomore album, which had the singles Fifteen, Love Story, White Horse, and You Belong With Me. Taylor considered this album to be her breakthrough moment as Fearless was her first number-one and became the most-awarded country album. Taylor Swift, who was 20 at the time, was the youngest person to have won Album of The Year until 2020 when Billie won.

During the 2009 VMAs when Taylor was accepting an award for Fearless rapper Kanye West climbed on stage and rudely interrupted her. Swift looked noticeably deflated by West's comments with ‘Boos” erupting from the ground. Fun Fact: Taylor used to be a Kanye fan. When Taylor later recounted on the events, she said she was really excited because she had just won the award, and then excited because Kanye was on stage and then she just wasn't excited anymore. Taylor's mom apparently yelled at him for doing this to Taylor. Kanye, following the incident, apologized on his blog and to Taylor. Taylor released a song called Innocent on her third album forgiving him for the 2009 VMAs incident but let's put a pin in this for now.

In 2009 Taylor appeared on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investication. She played as Haley Jones in Turn, Turn, Turn.

Following the success of Fearless people had doubts about Taylor's songwriting ability. Taylor wrote her third album Speak Now alone to prove these people wrong. Speak Now was released on October 25, 2010. It contained the singles Mine, Back To December, Mean, The Story Of Us, and Ours. Speak Now won many awards including a Grammy for Best Country Album.

In 2010 Taylor also played a role in Valentine's Day in which she played as Felicia Miller. She also contributed to the soundtrack with Today Was A Fairytale and Jump Than Fall.

On October 22nd, 2012, Taylor released her fourth album Red. While at the same time, she went through a dramatic visual change as she straightened her curly hair and had started her shift towards pop music with the album containing a mix of pop and country. Red had songs such as I Knew You Were Trouble, 22, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, and Everything Has Changed were Billboard charting singles at the time they released. Red was nominated for a Grammy for Album Of The Year. Rolling Stones named All Too Well the best song of the 2010s.

In 2012 The Lorax came out. bit weird to be mentioning The Lorax in a Taylor Swift essay huh? But did you know Taylor had a role in The Lorax? In 2012 Taylor Swift was the voice for Audrey. Bit of a fun fact for you.

Also in 2012, Taylor worked on the soundtrack for The Hunger Games. She and The Civals Wars produced Safe And Sound for the movie.

In 2013 Taylor was in an episode of New Girl, where she played as Elaine.

Taylor's fifth album, 1989, named after her birthyear, was released on October 27th, 2014, and was her official switch into pop music. 1989 has her biggest hits to this day titled Blank Space, Style, Out Of The Woods, Shake It Off, Bad Blood, and Wildest Dreams. 1989 was the only album in 2014 to sell a million copies in its first week. 1989 won a Grammy for Album of The Year making Taylor the first woman to win Album of The Year twice for two different genres.

Also in 2014, Taylor played Rosemary in the movie adaptation of The Giver.

Around the time of Taylors' Grammy win she became entangled in a heavily publicized feud with Kanye West (remember the pin, it getting taken out now) Following the incident back in 2009 at the VMAs the two had seemed to have moved on and were even seen together at multiple events, nice right? It was until 2016 when Kanye released a song called Famous in which he calls her a “bitch” and claims he made her famous, not to mention an incredibly disgusting music video. Taylor responded to the song by claiming that she never said he could call her that. She never signed off on the line. But then Kanye and his then-wife Kim Kardashian leaked an edited version of the phone call that made it seem as if Taylor was lying. Taylor was canceled, called a liar, a snake, and had people making fun of her “downfall”. Taylor removed herself from social media and the public eye following the backlash. Later the full phone call was leaked proving that Taylor did in fact not sign off on the line.

During the time of the drama Taylor went on a hiatus, breaking her cycle of releasing an album every two years. During this time she worked on songs such as This is What You Came For with her at the time boyfriend Calvin Harris under a pseudonym (the song of which she has just recently gotten credit for), a country song (outtake from Red) called Better Man that she sold and featured on to Little Big Town, and I Don’t Want To Live Forever With ZAYN that featured in the film Fifty Shades Darker.

On August 18th, 2017, Taylor wiped her social media accounts to tease the release of Look What You Made Me Do, which was released at the end of the month. Her sixth studio album Reputation came out on November 10th of the same year featuring the singles …Ready For It?, End Game, and Delicate. The record was her biggest sale at the time, selling over 1.2 million copies in the USA during its first week. Reputation also became the best-selling album of 2018.

Reputation was Taylors' last album with Big Machine Records before signing with Republic Records. Following her new contract, Scott Borcettha sold her albums masters to Scooter Braun, her first six albums that she wanted to own the masters for. Swift described her disappointment on social media but vowed to re-record her stolen albums so that she could own them. Apparently, Scooter didn't think that she would be album to do this successfully but at almost four re-records down (pin that for a second) you can see who's winning that.

Taylor was dedicated to artistic ownership and it became a large focus point of her 2019 album, released on August 23, Lover. She co-produced most of the tracks on the album, as well as directing or co-directing each of the music videos. The album featured the initial singles ME!, Lover, The Man, and You Need To Calm Down. Cruel Summer was later released as a single in the summer of 2023. In November of 2019 the American Music Awards named Taylor Artist of the decade. Taylor also, in the same night, beat Micheal Jacksons' record to become the artist with the most AMA awards in history, this one being her 29th award. The next month Billboards named Taylor the Artist of The Decade.

Fun fact in 2019 Taylor was in the infamous movie Cats. She played the cat Bombaurina. In the movie, she sings Macavity.

In January of 2020, Taylor released a documentary called Miss Americana that showed fans a glimpse of Taylor's life and decision to speak up on politics. The documentary featured a song called Only The Young that Taylor wrote while she was recording Lover.

Following the Covid-19 pandemic Taylor yet again switched in genres. On July Taylors'Taylors' 8th album Folklore was released after being surprise announced just the day before. The only single from the album was Cardigan. Folklore has a more alternative sound and instead of being autobiographical, like Taylors' work normally was, it was focused on telling other people's stories. The album included the Folklore Love Triangle which is three songs. Cardigan, Betty, and August, each told the perspective of three different people who as the name suggests, is about a love triangle. Betty (Cardigan) was dating James (Betty), but then James cheated on her with a girl named Augustine (August). James ends up choosing Betty in the end.

She later released Folklore: The Long Pond Studios Sessions on Disney+ where she performed the whole album live for the first time. Folklore won Album of The Year in March 2021 making Taylor the first woman and fourth artist to win Album of The Year three times.

Another surprise project, a follow-up album titled Evermore was released on December 11th, 2020, two days before Taylors' birthday. Evermore expanded on the stories told in its sister album Folklore. The only single from the album being Willow.

In 2021 Taylor refocused on regaining her ownership over her work and to make the re-records more exciting and different she included From The Vault tracks which were songs that had been scrapped from albums and were unreleased.

She kicked off the first re-record era by releasing Love Story (Taylors Version) in February right before making Fearless (Taylors Version) her first re-recording. The vault track Mr. Perfectly Fine was also released as a single for the record.

Taylor's second re-recording was for her fourth album Red which came out November 12th, 2021. It featured the singles I Bet You Think About Me and All Too Well (Ten Minute Version). All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) became a short film that stared Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brian.

Breaking up the re-recordings Taylor released her tenth album Midnights was released on October 21st, 2022. Midnights tells the stories of many sleepless nights scattered across her life. The singles from the album were Bejeweled, Anti-Hero, and Lavender Haze. Midnights success gave Taylor the record of being the first person to occupy the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and gave Taylor the record for the most streamed album on Spotify in one day.

In 2022 Taylor played in Amsterdam, she played the role of Liz Meekins.

On March 17th of 2023, to celebrate the start of the Eras tour, she released The More Lover Chapter which contained the songs Cruel Summer, Lover, The Man, The Archer, and the previously unreleased song All Of The Girls You Loved Before. She also released The More Red (Taylors’ Version) Chapter which contained the songs I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylors’ Version), 22 (Taylors’ Version), We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylors’ Version), All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) (Taylors’ Version) [From The Vault], and two new Taylors Versions, Safe And Sound (Taylors’ Version) and Eyes Open (Taylors’ Version). Finally, she had also released The More Fearless (Taylors’ Version) Chapter which included Fearless (Taylors’ Version), Love Story (Taylors’ Version), White Horse (Taylors’ Version), You Belong With Me (Taylors’ Version)and a track that originally was on the deluxe edition of Speak Now, If This Was A Movie (Taylors’ Version).

Taylor then got back to the re-recordings and on July 7th, 2023, she released Speak Now (Taylors Version). Its only single was the “From The Vault” track I Can See You which had a music video featuring Taylor Lautner and Joey King. Joey King had also been in the music video for Mean thirteen years before.

Taylor's most recent re-recording as of today will be 1989 (Taylors Version) and it is expected to be released on October 27th, 2023, the exact date as the original was released 9 years prior. The re-record will contain 5 vault tracks and Taylor considers this her favorite re-recording. She had already released two singles from this re-record before Red (Taylors' Version) was released, Wildest Dreams (Taylors' Version) and This Love (Taylors' Version). The five vault tracks are called “Slut!”, Now That We Don’t Talk, Say Don’t Go, Suburban Legends, and Is It Over Now?.

As of right now the last two re-recordings are Reputation (Taylors Version) and Taylor Swift (Taylors Version).

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year-end sugar rush round up 🍭

it’s time for the last round up of 2023. we have made it through another year filled with clownery and love for the boys! as per my tradition in posting year end candy recaps, i am releasing early 31st cause i am gonna be busy with nye shows. i hope you enjoy looking through all the happiness the final month gave us. have a great new year’s eve everyone!!!

if you wanna look through the past months or year/s then go to this link. 🔗

i’m adding a little exercise to this post tho and ask you, what are your top 5 cpns of the year? please comment or reblog with your answers!

• The tattoo rumor resurfaces ( new clue? )

• Bowing to the crowd as thank you

• 13 fake rumors - from the vault

• potential wedding photoshoot and “superman can’t fly”

• not really cpn but a media account on tiktok posted a video of xz’s appearance in MBS. they used the tags related to xiao zhan for more views, but they included one that has wang yibo’s name on it. 😂 i know that they might have just chosen an already existing tag with xz and wyb name on it and forgot to edit it. but it’s still a funny incident.

• 12/3 ZSWW Fake Rumor ( pre singapore timeline )

• 12/4 fake story contribution ( wolf mates for life )

• Washing candies only make it sweeter

• An example of bjyx being an open secret ( sort of )

photos were going around of a yibo vcr played in a chanel annual meeting in china. we were all happy to see wyb lookin so good and fresh faced, but what we noticed is his top.

the style of top he was wearing (p1) is very similar to that of GG’s (p2) at the airport when he was flying back to Beijing. it’s probably because the weather is getting colder so they wear this instead of their usual esspensive t-shirts?

the point is it’s kind of like the same-style in a close timeframe from each other. so it seems like their tastes in casual clothes are still very close.

• 12/7/23 Candies ( GQ MOTY + XZS Singapore vlog)

• The GQ MOTY hat was a gift from XZ 🤍 // Part two : I have to say that this has become a favorite one among cpns and has become notorious since so/os from both sides are trying so desperately to wash it. those on xz’s side using rocco’s 227 kadian to dispute everything even if it was their fault they were called out while xz was busy working his ass of shooting LOCH. this is just a reminder that the celebrity is not equal to their fans. whatever drama both sides do to each other, has nothing to do with us and does not reflect the boy’s relationship. 🤍

• Coffee from Singapore CPN ☕️

• All the things that happened Monday Morning of 12/11 which includes the magazine covers, pants, xz going online for a moment etc.

• xiao zhan’s snowman ⛄️

• The fact that WYB was wearing the bone necklace tho hidden during his BAZAAR photoshoot. The ones in focus were of course Chanel, but those who pay attention will see it. A proof of how special it is. Imagine WYB being bare faced and only had stuff that he actually needs, and he decided to keep the necklace on.

• Not exactly CPN but more of a similarity i love to see. cause Shandong Satellite TV decided to air BAH right after SBMS! We love to see their works not only be shown in online platforms, but also in satellite TV stations.

• Candy Throwback : Alexander Mcqueen shoes, Nike off white & WYB’s missing mole

• 12/15 double attack of stock photos from XZS and YBO. The black and white theme! Anytime these two decide to give us some update is a happy day!

• Du Hua describes WYB’s looks as that of a rabbit

• Tencent Video All Star Night CPNs 💛

• 12/19 they both went back to Beijing. ZZ was in Shanghai to film and WYB also filmed CCTV stage. The thing is WYB started filming at 2:00 AM and then he was back at the airport to leave at 10:00 AM. They both arrived to BJ so close to each other. CPN is they tried really hard to be back home & be together that day ♥️

• throwback cpn : wyb prepares xz’s room in hengdian (2021)

• their studios posting so close together for winter solstice! tho wyb’s is a preview for his new single, ybo still greeted people.

• Winter solstice CPNs ( WYB’s song preview and GG’s photoset )

• Clowning about a possible secret message from a 9key code

• “Everything is lovely” similarity from xzs caption and yibo’s new single and more clues like a possible connection to an lrlg post & what looks like a rabbit and character for ox.

• black and yellow similarity!

• 12/26 WYB EP cpn post ( teaser lyrics )

• FAE : Free and Easy sweater

• Same style of editing between XZS and YBO who we all know are dating ☺️☺️☺️

• 12/28 candies

• Marie Claire x Xiao Zhan issue 🍭🍬

• Yibo’s new singles : Bystander & Everything is Lovely

• LRLG 12/30 translation and short commentaries

• LRLG responding to cpf comments

• Wang Wang Xianbei 😂😂😂😂

• Similar clothes and Participating in the same single for a nye song

That’s all for now, See you next year!!!! ❤️💛💚

#yizhan #bjyx #there is no science here i’m just clowning like i always do

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