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heyclickadee · 1 year

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@arlothia I’m sorry! I haven’t been getting about half of my notifications for replies, so I totally missed you saying you did actually want to see those spoiler free summaries.

Soooo…I kind of changed the theme I was using every week and sent a list with every single episode each time, just with the descriptions changed to match the theme. If I’d kept the “bad batch but as mundane as possible” from last week, 15 and 16 would have been:

The Summit: Family tours remote locale with sweeping mountain vistas and impressive gondola system.

Plan 99: Some guy named Murphy creates law, has a lot to answer for.

Buuuut what I actually sent in my text was every episode of The Bad Batch, Season Two as…Tech quotes from each episode (apart from the episodes he’s not in, I used other quotes for those) but translated (very loosely) into vernacular, partly for comedy and partly because Tech has the best darn lines in the show and I’d like my dad to discover that for himself. So:

1. Spoils of War: I have a bad feeling about this.

2. Ruins of War: I suspect it is your…karabast…the word…for where people live…a structure in which they…

3. The Solitary Clone: I hope you choke on your data pad.

4. Faster: If someone doesn’t let me drive one of those things in the next two seconds I will, in fact, die.

5. Entombed: Ooohhhhohoho this is the BEST life-threatening field trip I’ve ever been on. Hunter, are you seeing this?? Hunter? Why aren’t you excited?? Hunter??

6. Tribe: Omega, these are the wookiees, they speak for the trees.

7. The Clone Conspiracy: Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make sure someone doesn’t get to eat a sandwich.

8. Truth and Consequences: It’s fine (narrator voice: It was not fine.)

9. The Crossing: The Kaminoans made me autistic on purpose, Omega. I’m doing the best I can. (I totally stole this one.)

10. Retrieval: Well, look at the pot and kettle over here.

11. Metamorphosis: I will run once I’m done doing research, okay??

12. The Outpost: *SYMBOLISM*

13. Pabu: Carry me away to paradise you tiny pirate queen

14. Tipping Point: BRAKES! BRAKES!! WHERE ARE THE BRAKES??!

15. The Summit: I understand you’re trying to run a revolution here and I am all for that but have you considered maybe doing it another time?

16. Plan 99: I’m sorry. I love you.

#the bad batch #tbb spoilers #tbbspoilers #the bad batch spoilers #I’m sorry about the last one!!#I couldn’t think of anything funny and it was accurate!

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catsconflictscopicsandchamomile · 1 year

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hey throwback to the time I went to Colonial Williamsburg* and, despite being NINE YEARS OLD, managed to put together a costume that made ppl assume I was a paid re-enactor (though, as I was quick to point out, the cut of the dress and brim of the mobcap were actually more appropriate to the 1850s, but my MOM, who bought my dress, just couldn't learn her history...), and proceeded to abuse my Cool Outfit Privileges in a way that I've honestly never come close to topping since.

I swear this actually happened.

I was watching the minutemen's** parade and basking in the Aesthetic(tm) of it all when a group of ACTUAL re-enactors dressed as redcoats*** muscled their way in front of the crowd and started reading the (actual genuine) Riot Act to the tourists, admonishing them for unlawful assembly, "in the name of the king" blah blah blah while gently herding them towards a fenced-in staging area for the next part of the show.

I knew this was all a performance. However, I was also nine years old and autisic, with zero concept of social appropriateness and the (correct) belief that I knew more about this period of history than 99% of the tourists.... plus I apparently had ZERO CHILL.

In a rush of Feral LARPer Instinct that bordered on divine inspiration, I slipped, unnoticed, through the crowd to a smallish tree poking a couple feet above crowd level. Clambering up, I braced myself against a branch and looked out over the crowd, at the tourists civilians packed standing-room-only as the redcoats denounced their freedom, OUR freedom, in the name of their king. And I started yelling.

"LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION, LONG LIVE THE UNited-- uH, LONG LIVE THE THIRTEEN COLONIES! LONG LIVE INDEPENDENCE!"

The surrounding tourists looked up and saw a skinny kid with, buckteeth, freckles and the general aura of a half-starved 1700s farm child in (to them) full historical costume, and assumed it was part of the show.

They took up my cries, some raising their fists in the air in solidarity, growing louder and more enthusiastic until the crowd stampeded as one, breaking out from the stage area and (still playfully of course) crowding the redcoats offstage and pursuing them back the way they came.

I really do wonder what the guys playing the redcoats were thinking as Literally Just Some Kid wearing a modified amazon pioneer costume hijacked their re-enactment and rallied the other tourists to full (and accurate-ish) revolt. Like, what the fuck????

After everyone had trickled out, I stayed in the tree for a few minutes, watching for further retaliation from the brits and slowly being hit by the reality of what had just happened. In a haze of overwhelming shock and euphoric glee, I jumped down from my perch in the tree, rejoined my mother, and continued our tour of Williamsburg.

(...I think. The fact that I Did That broke my brain so much that I don't remember anything else of the trip until after we got home and I was going through my souvenir bag.)

so yeah that's the story of how I led a successful mock rebellion when I was nine.

*it's literally in the name that this whole thing was racist and colonialist asf, even more so back in 2008. Just to acknowledge the context this story occurs in.

**if you don't live in america or aren't a massive nerd, "minutemen" were independence movement's the civilian reserve force. the Little Flute And Drum dudes.

***if you don't live in america or aren't a massive nerd, "redcoats" was a derogatory term that the revolutionaries coined for british soldiers due to their red military coats.

#true story #tumblr story #historical reenactment #i was certainly one of the kids ever #history #questionable childhood activities #colonialism #colonial williamsburg #bad setting good story #unironically maybe the single worst part of american history to be weird abt #glad my historical tastes eventually shifted to early 20th century and pre-roman focuses #my middle school hunger games phase was so smug around this haha

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corijamison · 2 years

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“I KNOW WE’RE ALL FUCKING EXHAUSTED; AM I IN MY HEAD OR HAVE WE ALL LOST IT?”

INTRODUCING…

NAME: Coraline ‘Cori’ Loretta Jamison

GENDER & PREFERRED PRONOUNS: Cis woman {She/Her}

AGE: 26

BIRTHDAY: January 10

ZODIAC: Capricorn Sun, Leo Moon, Scorpio Rising

SEXUALITY: Bisexual

FACE CLAIM: Maggie Lindemann

HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, NY

OCCUPATION: Actress (Francesca Gillian on Unashamed) & Musician (Quickswitch)

CHARACTER PLAYLIST: HERE.

UP NEXT: “DEBBIE DOWNER” BY LØLØ

BIOGRAPHY: tw drugs, overdose, death, mental illnesses, runaway, homelessness, hospitalization, suicide attempt, homophobia / biphobia

Coraline Loretta Jamison was born at 1:10 AM on 1/10/1998 in Brooklyn, NY (she’ll pull her birth certificate out to prove it). Her mother was a teenager and couldn’t take care of her, so she was given up. Her adoptive parents being a young couple who couldn’t have a child, so it wound up working out perfectly. Cori grew up in a loving household. Her father being a homicide detective whilst her mother a preschool teacher. Though her father was rarely home, she adopted a lot of his traits.

Her curiosity for the world and everything around her was one of those traits. Her mother, though sweet, restricted most if not all of Cori’s freedom. But that’s expected when you live in an area that contains 90% of crime for the whole state. With her father having such a dangerous job, it only made sense for her mother to be overbearing on her. But overbearing parents made rebellious kids. Cori would always sneak off to Manhattan for as long as she could remember.

Cori was always intelligent, but she’d swear up and down that she hated school. The truth of the matter is that everything was too easy for her, so she would just skip classes or not show up, altogether. It did get progressively worse as she got older, especially in high school; If it weren’t for her grades and her family’s name, she would’ve been dropped. It just..... didn’t hold her attention, and she would rather be in a record store in the East Village than have to sit in a room with people who took an hour to comprehend two lines in a book.

Cori had a lot of mental obstacles she didn’t quite understand. Most of it was rooted in her identity - feeling like a stranger in her own skin, constant disassociating. People would say her name and she wouldn’t feel as though it was her. She was suppressing her bisexuality for the longest time, mostly due to her mother thinking it was a ‘made up’ sexuality. In Cori’s mind, she was a girl who went to school - but what else?

She never really voiced these feelings, fearing she would seem crazy to others. Instead, she found music. Now, Cori already had fond moments with music; Most being the jam sessions with her father in the car. Her taste of old-school punk actually came from her father, his favorite band being The Sex Pistols. She also had her city friends, when she would sneak out at night and crash concerts of more underground bands all throughout the AMs. But, on her 15th birthday her father took her to see Green Day on their 99 Revolutions Tour. Billie Joe Armstrong actually pulled her up to play guitar, and it was that moment that she knew she wanted to pursue music.

Her father gave her his old guitar from back in his high school days, and she would go to school (or skip) and just practice for hours. This created a distance between her and her parents, which made her mother even more controlling. The pressures from her mother to focus more in school and pushing this pre-established path her mother created for her, made Cori push back. Feeling as though she couldn’t breathe nor have the freedom to grow and develop into who she was meant to be, she ran away at age 16.

Cori couch surfed between her friends in the city, also being sucked even further into the night life. She dabbled within her sexuality as well as drugs. Though, being so young, she didn’t understand the extremities of her actions. She was brought home after being hospitalized due to an overdose and she wound up moving back in with her parents.

Her parents wound up telling her about her adoption when she hit 17, which pushed her over the edge and mentally destroyed her. This strained her relationship with her parents, marking no trust and a blame she put on them for her identity crisis. She always felt there was something wrong and that she didn’t fit, and unloaded that blame on her parents (mostly her mother). It was around this age that she became very ‘fuck you, and YOU, AND YOU’ towards everyone. It was also around this time that because she couldn’t be a voice for herself, she became a voice for her friends and those who were dealt the short end of the stick in life.

She was hospitalized again at age 18, but due to depression. To this day, she’ll swear she didn’t know you weren’t supposed to take that many sleeping pills. Through the program in rehabilitation, she gained a support system from those going through the same shit she has. She had a newfound confidence that was built so high that once she was out, she announced that she wanted to be a musician. Her father was disappointed in her choice and well as her mother. They still pushed her to go to a community college to gain a degree as a backup, where she dropped out within the first semester. Her parents wound up kicking her out because they weren’t going to house someone who was ‘going nowhere’ in their life.

Being kicked out had her back on her friend’s couches, and back in the nightlife scene more than usual. She was a merch girl for one of her friend’s bands, and that introduced her to harder drugs. She lost one of her friends to an overdose and swore she’d stay away from any of it, ever since. Seeing that NYC held more negative memories than positive, Cori packed her bags and wound up wandering around the country with only $60 to her name. This is the point in her life where she claims she found her home; her people with whom she banded together with in order to conjure up a crazy band - banking everything on her dreams and the kooky family she found for herself: Quickswitch.

Quickswitch was created as a way to bring feminine power to the punk-pop/alt scene. It was not by their own doing that they blew up on TikTok; fans posting videos, which landed Cori and the band to migrate to California. With the lack of a record label, Quickswitch was on the rise but was on the lookout for that vital piece in order to reap any benefit financially. Cori wound up being ‘discovered’ by a casting director who popped into the record shop where she worked double-time to make her part of the rent. Basically being handed the part of Francesa Gillian due to the interaction they had, Cori knew it was a dream but not her dream. She took it for the sake of the money. With the success of Unashamed, Cori and her band were able to attract enough attention from record labels. Ultimately, they utilized a majority of Cori’s income to create their own label for themselves; Not wanting to fall into a binding contract and fucking themselves over by the blood-sucking management of a big label. In honesty, they didn’t need much of PR with the success of Cori’s show. Now, if only she could quit the acting gig. Unfortunately, there’s no way she can without black-balling herself. So, she kinda is just waiting for the network to stop renewing her show so she can give all her time and energy to her genuine passion in life.

EXTRA-EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT HER!

Cori is heavily extroverted. You can’t tell, based on how closed-off she appears. But, she would go crazy if she had to go the day without conversing with people. She loves late night adventures, horror films, and last minute plans. She’s impulsive and reckless when bored, and takes a liking to thrill-seeking activities mostly because she’s numb on the inside and wants to feel something, ya know? Cori is very just. This comes from being raised by someone in the law enforcement field, but also from the music she was raised on. She’s very quick to defend and root for the little man. She’s also very passionate about people being themselves and throwing social norms out the window. Cori is sarcastic; She’s a Capricorn, okay? She calls other people out for their shit (but god forbid you call her out), and keeps her circle very small (fear of rejection if she shows people the real her). If she does see you as a friend, she will 10/10 be loyal: call her up at 2 AM if you need her for anything, she’ll be there. She’s always down for debates and will play devil’s advocate for the fun of it. She loves conspiracy theories (totally thinks Courtney Love killed Kurt; loves joking about simulations). She has a problem sleeping, and her sleep is just all around fucked? She can sleep for 3 hours and be good for 72. She loves food (Taco Bell for the win). Uh, idk what else to say - oh, she doesn’t trust people. She’s also very secretive about her past and no one knows about it besides the fact she’s from NYC. She also hates the fame and wishes she could give it up - but it’s far too late for that; Definitely thinks she shouldn’t be someone who has fans.

HEADCANONS

Cori has a padlock necklace she wear religiously from her father. It’s a replica of Sid Vicious’ who is both of their favorite band member from The Sex Pistols. She wears it as a salute to her father, because even though he kicked her out, he was the one who was always there for her and who she viewed as her best friend. He’s part of the reason she got so into music (introducing her to bands via jam sessions, the Green Day concert). To this day, she never talked to her parents.

Cori goes by ‘Cori’ because she watched Coraline as a kid, and it scared her shitless. Now the movie is one of her favorites, but still goes by Cori for signature sake.

Cori is vastly educated in music due to her extensive obsession and research growing up. Her knowledge on vinyls comes from her dealing with vinyl specialists in the city when she was younger and hungry for inspiration. Due to this, she was hired as a vinyl specialist for a short period when Quickswitch was gaining their footing in LA.

Cori isn’t medicated. This is mostly because she’s too stubborn to see a therapist, but she also uses her humor? Basically, she is like every other comedian you see on Netflix who make other people laugh and happy because they can’t make themselves happy. She’s also really good at hiding her unhappiness, because of her comical trait.

Her favorite pun of all time is the scene from ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2′ when the boat goes off the cliff and the guy goes ‘AH! THERE’S A LEAK IN THE BOAT!’ and then it pans to a LEEK AND THE LEEK SCREAMS. She laughs for a good 5 minutes at that.

She is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for her band; Though, she can play upwards of five instruments, total.

PERSONALITY:

+ Comical, Open-Minded, and Adroit

- Self-Destructive, Enigmatic, and Outspoken

#pwshqintro #ayyyeee look at what i did !

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c-40 · 1 year

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A-T-3 130 Beastie Boys - Cooky Puss

Cooky Puss is an odd record but, what is even odder is, it fits quite comfortably with no wave bands, the output of labels like 99 Records, or an act like an ESG. The record was played by DJs downtown and uptown. Beastie Boys at the time were Adam Yauch, Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, and Kate Schellenbach, they are clearly in their late teens and it doesn't take too much imagination to see how the Manhattan new wave scene and its celebration of youthful creativity would embrace a rough and ready act like theirs

The Cooky Puss EP was Beastie Boys second record, as well as getting play, it is important for a few other reasons

Something that hardly ever gets mentioned is Cey Adams did the Beastie Boys logo on the sleeve. Adams began as a graffiti writer, he appeared in Style Wars, and would become the founding creative director for Def Jam Records. He was dubbed the 'unofficial 4th Beastie Boy' due to the friendship he had with the band. Cey Adams is responsible for some of the most iconic logos in hip hop. The graf logo would have helped Cooky Puss get play uptown I would have thought. It's interesting reading about releases from this era there's a lot of talk of disguising the ethnicity of the artist, Madonna for instance, Sire tried to keep her appearance ambiguous for the first couple of releases. Beastie Boys would have been trying to show their love for graf and the culture rather than trying to appear black, I'm sure of it

Something that is better reported is a segment from Beastie Revolution off the Cookie Puss EP was used on a British Airways advert without the band's permission. The Beastie Boys are all firmly middle-class, the sons of architects, playwrights, art dealers, and lawyered up. They won $40,000 from the court case which helped pay for a rehearsal space and instruments. The music was chosen for the British Airways ad by, future house DJ, Jeremy Healy of Haysi Fantayzee. Beastie Revolution is them having a crack at dub reggae, it's awful but, as being part of the hardcore punk scene they had supported Bad Brains who could switch between hardcore and reggae

The group wanted to put Cooky Puss into their live show which led them to being introduced to Rick Rubin, who they hired as their DJ. Rubin was founder of rock band Hose who had two releases on 99 Records (with pre-Russell Simmons DefJam labels) in 1982 and 83. Bringing Rick Rubin in leads to firing Kate from the band. Mike D and Ad Rock say they, along with Yauch, were in Danceteria with Rubin the night he meets Russell Simmonds to talk about It's Yours (which features Ad Rock's drum machine, thank you Jeremy Healy). It's Yours would become the first official Def Jam record (with the help of Partytime/Streetwize)

Across the The Beastie Boys various biographies (including the Spike Jonze produced product launch/keynote presentation for Apple) Run DMC's Sucker MC's is singled out as a turning point for them. Beastie Boys would become friends with Run DMC and tour with them. Darryl McDaniels wears a Beastie Boys tee on the grammy's hip hop 50 tribute. Beastie Boys didn't always fit with the narrative of hip hop history and they are often erased, but if you want to talk about hip hop on wax, Def Jam, and hip hop spreading around the world you have to talk about Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys live at The Kitchen arts space in 1983. The hip hop set starts 28 minutes

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Bonus Batter version of Cookie Puss

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#1983 #beastie boys #cey adams #hip hop #new wave #brooklyn #new york #usa #80s music

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jacobray · 1 year

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8 Yunnan Architecture Tour - China Adventure Tour

While exploring Yunnan’s countryside, I have stumbled upon impressive and almost unknown architectural wonders. Here is a list of eight structures that are worth putting on your bucket-list.

1. Shuanlong Bridge of Daying

This bridge is considered as a marvel of ancient civil engineering that compete with Beijing’s Summer Palace (颐和园) ten-span bridge. Following a series of devastating floods during which the Lujiang and the Tachong Rivers merged into one near the village of Shui Daying, this seventeen-span bridge was built.

Known by locals as the ‘Seventeen Arches Bridge’ or Shiqi Kong Qiao (十七孔桥), it is also called the Shuanglong Qiao (双龙桥) or ‘Double-Dragon Bridge’, because the two rivers are said to meander in the valley like two dragons.

2. Huilan Pavilion of Baxin

Under this well-preserved stunning centuries-old historical pavilion and arched stone structure acted as a device that allowed for the regulation of the stream of water flowing from the Yilong Lake into the plains of Jianshui (建水). The name itself, Huilan Pavilion 洄澜阁 points to this function of water regulation. The character ‘hui’ 洄 means ‘whirling of water’ or ‘to go against the current’ (etymologically, water 氵returning 回) and ‘lan’ 澜 means ‘swelling waters’.

Since then, the water regulation device is cloaked and with the waters receding, it is no longer on the shores of the Yilong Lake. It is a still a wonder of ancient architecture in Yunnan province.

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3. The Chen Clan Lineage Temple of Zhengying

Completed in 1925 in Zhengying (郑营), a small village that started off as a military outpost just 10 kilometers west of Shiping (石屏) in south Yunnan province, the Chen Clan Lineage Temple (陈家宗祠) is a large compound that includes a massive stone gate, a lotus pond, two main temples and wing halls built to honor the ancestors of the Chen family who had migrated from eastern China into the rural southwest borderland and amassed their wealth in mining and trade.

The Chan Clan Lineage Temple was secularized and you will not find any stone tablets or altars for ancestors worship lifestyle. Instead, it is now a recreational center for the village’s elderly who spend their afternoon chatting, playing mahjong or cards inside the wing hall.

4. Wu Family Courtyard of Heijing

Constructed between 1837 and 1858 in Heijing (黑井), the ancient salt capital of Yunnan, the Wu Family Courtyard (武家大院) with its wood and stone carvings that ornate the 99 different rooms on three floors, its garden surrounded by a wall, the ostentatious entrance gates, and the large scale of the building, is an astounding public display of luxury and wealth in a remote rural village of central Yunnan.

Shaped like character wang 王 which means ‘king’ in Chinese language, the Wu Family Courtyard is also an expression of the power and the www.athomepodcast.com of wealth family in the dominance of trade in Yunnan. Witness of a class of wealth salt merchants and traders which became extinct after the Communist took over the power in 1949, the Wu Family Courtyard is a unique structure and architectural wonder of Yunnan.

5. Wenchang Palace of Yiluo

Built in 1637, the Wenchang Palace (文昌宫) of Yiluo (绮罗), an ancient village near Tengchong (腾冲) in western Yunnan province, integrates the architectural features Confucius Temples (文庙) and Taoist temples and combine them into a large temple complex. Extended in the 1740s, the Wenchang Palace was renovated in 1851 and 2009 after being damaged during the Cultural Revolution. Local villagers call it the ‘Small Forbidden City’ (小故宫).

Inside, behind a half-moon shaped pool, we find several temples and halls dedicated to Confucius (孔子), Wenchang (文昌), the god of culture and literature, Nüwa (女娲), the goddess-creator of Chinese mythology, Kuixing (魁星), the god of scholars, and a performance stage.

6. Catholic Church of Dali

Tucked away in a courtyard right next to Dali ancient town’s busy shopping street, the Catholic Church of Dali (大理天主教堂) is an architectural masterpiece that combine the Western features of the church layout and the exceptional Bai construction style. Built in 1927 by foreign missionaries who had set out to evangelize southwest China, it is one of the 32 churches still active in western Yunnan.

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7. Theater of Sideng village

In the center of Sideng, the main village of Shaxi valley, the Old Theatre is a masterpiece of the Bai people architecture and one of the main reason to come and visit.

Dominating the old Market Square, the Old Theatre stage stands face to face to the Xingjiao Temple so that the Buddhas may also enjoy performances with the people.

On each side of the Old Theatre, shops that catered to the caravan leaders and muleteers were transformed into coffee shops and storefronts for tourists. Behind the performance stage, there is a four-story Kuixing Tower (魁星阁). Kuixing is the deity of good fortune in examinations and was thus revered by scholars who wanted success in the imperial examination.

8. Ganden Sumtselin of Zhongdian

Established in 1679 by https://www.marimo-fmky.com, Sumtseling was built during the reign of emperor Kangxi 康熙 of the Qing dynasty, the layout of Sumtseling was designed to look like the Potala palace in Lhasa, but without any original blue prints, the architects were not able to make a faithful replica. Songzanlin Monastery monastery was given the name of ‘Ganden’ in reference to the Ganden monastery near Lhasa which was founded in 1409 by Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelupa order or Yellow Hat Sect. After Zhongdian changed its name into Shangri-la, the local government marketed Sumtseling as the ‘Little Potala’ and became known to tourists as ‘Songzanlin Temple’ (松赞林寺) in Chinese.

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