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rodrigogranda333 · 7 days

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De re metallica

Consuetudinario ≠ Transcripciones De re metallica Lecturas Transgresoras núm 7 tercera serie Libro digital disponible desde el 23 de Abril a las: 13:51 UTC+1. LDN WC2B 5AZ. New Jerusalem: Hasid and Kabbalists. 18:51 horas (GMT-6) CdMx, civilisational project of the New Babylon.

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Respecto a mi octava publicación digital:

Continuado la secuencia posmodernista de la distribución masiva heredada de la imprenta para subir ─un tema poético principal donde el amor, es expresado en modos diversos─. Para influir en el imaginario colectivo de las sociedades cada vez más globalizadas.

"Poner nuestra vida al desnudo, es el arte de todos los tiempos."

─ Index librorum prohibitorum ─

solve et coagula………………………………..pagina 9 la paleta Tutsi……………………………………….pagina 21 Sokoły…………………………………………………..pagina 29 Loquillo………………………………………………..pagina 35 pelea como un tigre………………………………pagina 43 mi fan #1……………………………………….pagina 51 vetustos libros…………………………………pagina 59 algo para fumar…………………………………….pagina 67 risa y pánico de marihuanos………………..pagina 75 Ahora es “Sharon”……………………………….pagina 85 descalza como hippie……………………………pagina 97 Las niñas…………………………………………….pagina 105 whisky o whiskey…………………………….. pagina 117

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phaneinthymos · 7 days

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Consuetudinario ≠ Transcripciones

De re metallica

Lecturas Transgresoras núm 7

tercera serie

Libro digital disponible desde el 23 de Abril a las:

13:51 UTC+1. LDN WC2B 5AZ. New Jerusalem: Hasid and Kabbalists.

18:51 horas (GMT-6) CdMx, civilisational project of the New Babylon.

Descarga gratuita en PDF;

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Respecto a mi octava publicación digital:

Continuado la secuencia posmodernista de la distribución masiva heredada de la imprenta para subir ─un tema poético principal donde el amor, es expresado en modos diversos─. Para influir en el imaginario colectivo de las sociedades cada vez más globalizadas.

"Poner nuestra vida al desnudo, es el arte de todos los tiempos."

Rodrigo Granda :

“Para revelar; la Mente y el Alma”

Phaneinthymos Media Group Inc. | Phanerothyme

─ Index librorum prohibitorum ─

solve et coagula…………...………..............pagina 9

la paleta Tutsi..............................................pagina 21

Sokoły...........................................................pagina 29

Loquillo........................................................pagina 35

pelea como un tigre....................................pagina 43

mi fan #1...............………………………....pagina 51

vetustos libros……………….....................pagina 59

algo para fumar...........................................pagina 67

risa y pánico de marihuanos....................pagina 75

Ahora es “Sharon”.....................................pagina 85

descalza como hippie.................................pagina 97

Las niñas....................................................pagina 105

whisky o whiskey......….......................... pagina 117

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artaldeasens · 7 days

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Consuetudinario ≠ Transcripciones De re metallica Lecturas Transgresoras núm 7 tercera serie Libro digital disponible desde el 23 de Abril a las: 13:51 UTC+1. LDN WC2B 5AZ. New Jerusalem: Hasid and Kabbalists. 18:51 horas (GMT-6) CdMx, civilisational project of the New Babylon.

Descarga gratuita en PDF; https://archive.org/details/de-re-metallica

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Respecto a mi octava publicación digital:

Continuado la secuencia posmodernista de la distribución masiva heredada de la imprenta para subir ─un tema poético principal donde el amor, es expresado en modos diversos─. Para influir en el imaginario colectivo de las sociedades cada vez más globalizadas.

"Poner nuestra vida al desnudo, es el arte de todos los tiempos."

─ Index librorum prohibitorum ─

solve et coagula………………………………..pagina 9 la paleta Tutsi……………………………………….pagina 21 Sokoły…………………………………………………..pagina 29 Loquillo………………………………………………..pagina 35 pelea como un tigre………………………………pagina 43 mi fan #1……………………………………….pagina 51 vetustos libros…………………………………pagina 59 algo para fumar…………………………………….pagina 67 risa y pánico de marihuanos………………..pagina 75 Ahora es “Sharon”……………………………….pagina 85 descalza como hippie……………………………pagina 97 Las niñas…………………………………………….pagina 105 whisky o whiskey…………………………….. pagina 117

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consuetudinari0 · 7 days

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De re metallica

Consuetudinario ≠ Transcripciones

De re metallica

Lecturas Transgresoras núm 7

tercera serie

Libro digital disponible desde el 23 de Abril a las:

13:51 UTC+1. LDN WC2B 5AZ. New Jerusalem: Hasid and Kabbalists.

18:51 horas (GMT-6) CdMx, civilisational project of the New Babylon.

Descarga gratuita en PDF;

No busques en este texto elementos estéticos en la narrativa. Busca la riqueza de su contenido, la valentía de la denuncia realizada por las personas que me han contado acerca de las adicciones, sus implicaciones y consecuencias. Durante más de dos décadas esperé una oportunidad para poder contarles mi historia que, con el pasar del tiempo, se ha vuelto varias historias entrelazadas, donde todos vamos a buscar la felicidad a nuestra manera y según nuestros alcances. Para llegar a ese estado ilusorio de felicidad, veremos cómo cada uno rompe reglas, convencionalismos, normas, códigos, incluso la propia asignación de la personalidad.

Respecto a mi octava publicación digital:

Continuado la secuencia posmodernista de la distribución masiva heredada de la imprenta para subir ─un tema poético principal donde el amor, es expresado en modos diversos─. Para influir en el imaginario colectivo de las sociedades cada vez más globalizadas.

"Poner nuestra vida al desnudo, es el arte de todos los tiempos."

Rodrigo Granda :

“Para revelar; la Mente y el Alma”

Phaneinthymos Media Group Inc. | Phanerothyme

─ Index librorum prohibitorum ─

solve et coagula…………...………..............pagina 9

la paleta Tutsi..............................................pagina 21

Sokoły...........................................................pagina 29

Loquillo........................................................pagina 35

pelea como un tigre....................................pagina 43

mi fan #1...............………………………....pagina 51

vetustos libros……………….....................pagina 59

algo para fumar...........................................pagina 67

risa y pánico de marihuanos....................pagina 75

Ahora es “Sharon”.....................................pagina 85

descalza como hippie.................................pagina 97

Las niñas....................................................pagina 105

whisky o whiskey......….......................... pagina 117

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kirkycurls · 10 months

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that last pic has infused my page with an air of smut that wasn't there previously

#james hetfield #metallica #eau de smut #it was so innocent #gonna have to de-smut tonight #de-smut and re-fluff

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magxit · 7 months

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The Swift Agenda 02 | Aug. 16 to Sep. 20, 2023

Taylor Swift — all the way from the physical and digital sales era — has now surpassed the unstoppable force, streaming juggernaut Bad Bunny as the #2 most-streamed artist in Spotify history.

Despite giving the industry a massive head start in algorithm dominance by removing her music at her peak (2014–2017) and thus losing out on Spotify’s crucial audience-building years, Taylor Swift is now only behind the king of streams, Drake, in the all-time rank and is vying for the Spotify crown as she continually DOUBLES his numbers (with a whopping 40M+ lead) on a daily basis.

It would take her approximately 4 months to ultimately close the 5-billion gap standing between her and the highly coveted title — with the impending release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) more than ready to offset whatever damage that a new Drake album may cause in the near future.

Taylor Swift has surpassed Metallica and is now the #19 best-selling artist of all time (via @chartmastersorg ), shifting 168,860,000 equivalent album units since the start of her legendary seventeen-year career, solidifying her status as the de facto leader of today’s music industry and widening the ASTRONOMICAL gap between her and the remaining 21st-century artists in the all-time Top 100 (with the nearest one having 121M):

— Taylor in the 160M–169M range — 0 artists in the 150M–159M range — 0 artists in the 140M–149M range — 0 artists in the 130M–139M range — 5 artists in the 100M–129M range — 5 artists in the 80M–99M range — 5 artists in the 60M–79M range

Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” movie takes the world by storm as it shatters the 24-hour pre-sales record in AMC’s eleven-decade history, edging out several Marvel blockbusters.

With its STAGGERING demand, it will swiftly claim the title for the biggest concert film of all time (and beyond) upon its October 13 release.

Taylor Swift’s “reputation” has surpassed 6 billion streams on Spotify, making her the ONLY artist in history with 4 different albums achieving this feat (Lover, 1989, Midnights, and reputation).

With “folklore” merely 60M+ streams away, Taylor Swift will very soon have FIVE different albums surpassing the 6B milestone — one that is supposedly reserved for A-list artists’ absolute, definitive, career-defining PEAK eras. And, once again, just to let it sink in: she is about to have FIVE.

Taylor Swift has spent SEVERAL more weeks at #1 on Billboard Artist 100, extending her all-time record to 79 weeks.

— Nearest male: 37 — Nearest female: 20 — Nearest group: 21

Taylor Swift’s “Lover” is now the #6 most-streamed female album in Spotify history, surpassing Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next”, becoming the FIRST among the SEVERAL Taylor Swift albums projected to do so.

With 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s preorders alone ALREADY surpassing folklore’s actual first-week debut (846K), the pop bible’s re-recording is poised to OBLITERATE its predecessor’s original numbers in 2014 (1.287M) and even challenge the streaming-era giant “Midnights” (1.578M) for the biggest Billboard 200 debut for any streamable album ever.

Currently, GoldDerby predictions put Taylor Swift at the helm of the upcoming GRAMMYs:

— #1 frontrunner for AOTY — #1 frontrunner for SOTY — #2 frontrunner for ROTY

Taylor Swift has tied the record for the most VMAs wins in a single night, bagging 9 out of 11 awards and SWEEPING all major categories.

She now holds the all-time winning records for the BIGGEST categories in the VMAs, AMAs, and GRAMMYs.

— most wins for VMAs “Video of the Year” (4x) — most wins for AMAs “Artist of the Year” (7x) — most wins for GRAMMYs “Album of the Year” (3x; tied with Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra)

Going way beyond everyone’s wildest dreams, 33 MILLION PUZZLES for the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Vault were SOLVED in less than a day on Google, signaling an earthshaking demand for what is shaping up to be THE most powerful album release of the decade.

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felix-dario-ruggeri · 3 months

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In occasione di Artefiera 2024, nella notte di Art City White Night promossa dal Comune di Bologna e da Bologna Fiere, negli spazi dello studio erAArte, Micro Gallery Space One e Micro Gallery Space Two, in via Nazario Sauro 7/a, inauguriamo 5EXHIBITIONS.

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Felix Dario Ruggeri

Unlikely Landscapes // 2

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Simona Ruggeri

Maiden with Black Cat & PAL 432 new entry

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Felix Dario Ruggeri e Simona Ruggeri

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Micro Gallery Space One

Simona Ruggeri

Shrimpcat, Dama & Friends

Micro Gallery Space Two

Felix Dario Ruggeri e Simona Ruggeri

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Opening sabato 3 febbraio 2024 dalle 20 alle 24

Orari di apertura: venerdì 15:00 – 19:00 / sabato 15:00 – 19:00

Dal 3 febbraio al 15 luglio 2024

Felix Dario Ruggeri

Unlikely Landscapes // 2 (Paesaggi Improbabili)

Il paesaggio è una componente costante nel mio lavoro artistico. Nel mio nuovo progetto Unlikely Landscapes, le installazioni esposte sono note che accompagnano verso mete non definite ma di cui si percepisce la presenza, un percorso che vuole suggerire luoghi per stimolare la nostra curiosità estetica.

Unlikely Landscapes può essere anche assimilata come esperienza dinamica, quasi fisica, alcune opere ci predispongono al viaggio interiore alla ricerca di archetipi che alludono alla carne, in altre la meta finale è l'Incanto fisico e mentale dove tutto diventa reale.

In Unlikely Landscapes le opere si contaminano, interagiscono e non sempre la loro visione ha un punto di osservazione definito, sono presenti molteplici linguaggi e medium che in sinergia danno origine a un contesto dove etica, immaginazione e concettualità si supportano reciprocamente.

Alcuni punti chiave di questa ricerca possono essere così sintetizzati: ricerca minimalista sulle sinergie estetiche, convergenze e nuove tecnologie applicate all'arte tradizionale. Punti di osservazione e slittamento della percezione, interazioni tra medium, design, fotografia, antropologia del fantastico e nuove espressioni del surrealismo. Futuri possibili, dialogo tra spazialità, arte, sentimento poetico tradotto in segno, ritmo e musicalità delle strutture compositive. Realtà oggettiva e realtà fantastica/onirica. Estetica del tutto è concesso e ricostruzione di valori connessi e rielaborati nella tradizione dell'arte.

In questo momento Unlikely Landscapes è composto da 75 opere con caratteristiche e percorsi tematici differenti: Animals, Big Boobs, Fangs, Landscapes, Shining Lake, Structures, Tornados, Abstract caramelized.

Simona Ruggeri

Maiden with Black Cat & PAL 432 new entry

In un passato non troppo remoto, i contorni delle cose erano sfumati. Astrologia e magia erano considerate discipline scientifiche: Tycho Brahe, l’illustre esploratore del firmamento, fu nominato da Rodolfo II d’Asburgo astronomo & astrologo di corte.

Il famoso medico svizzero Paracelso ci sembra nostro contemporaneo quando sostiene che le malattie sono causate da un agente patogeno e non da uno squilibrio degli umori come pensavano i medici della sua epoca, ma è la stessa persona che scrive un trattato su ninfe, silfi, pigmei e giganti che condividono il mondo degli esseri umani.

Georg Agricola, nato a fine Quattrocento, è considerato il padre della mineralogia. Nel suo libro De re metallica, dove ha descritto l'attività mineraria, tra il metodo per la separazione dell'argento dal rame e la descrizione dell'arte del geometra, esamina le creature che vivono sottoterra come conigli, marmotte, furetti, gnomi e coboldi, avvisando il lettore che alcune sono amichevoli mentre altre sono pericolose per i minatori.

Lo zero non esisteva. A noi moderni questo sembra più incredibile degli gnomi, eppure è proprio così: prima non c’era e poi c’è. Ma com’è possibile? Lo zero non è un’invenzione che si può costruire. Forse non ne avevamo bisogno, poi ci siamo accorti che lo zero era già lì, nascosto tra il nove e l’uno, solo che prima non lo avevamo visto.

Per quasi duemila anni la Terra è rimasta ferma e tranquilla al centro di un cosmo fatto di sette perfette sfere girevoli, con pianeti e stelle incastonati come gioielli che le ruotavano intorno. Andava tutto bene finché gli astronomi, a furia di cercare di adattare l’armonia delle sfere ai capricciosi movimenti dei corpi celesti, sono stati costretti a spostare la Terra in periferia. Non è stato semplice convincerla a traslocare.

Oggi è diverso, abitiamo lo stesso pianeta che ospitò le generazioni umane che ci precedono, ma è come se queste persone, del tutto simili a noi nell’aspetto, fossero alieni incomprensibili. Come potevano credere all’esistenza di gnomi, unicorni, sirene e antipodi? Noi possiamo anche studiare la storia ma non riusciamo a immaginare davvero un mondo senza zeri e con gli gnomi. Siamo certi di sapere ciò che esiste e ciò che non esiste, quello che non rientra nella sfera della realtà concreta è considerato immaginario, simbolo, metafora, allucinazione collettiva… ma non è più solo se stesso.

Attribuiamo le certezze dei nostri antenati alla credulità o all’ignoranza, non pensiamo che forse, se nel Cinquecento queste creature erano ritenute vere, magari erano vere davvero. Nel nostro mondo nuovo c’è sovrabbondanza di dati e scarsa compagnia, quasi nessuno crede di condividere il pianeta con altre creature non approvate dalla scienza.

Magari quando lo zero non esisteva un mago guardando nella sua sfera di cristallo ha detto tra sé e sé: “Che fantasia questi umani del futuro, non so come fanno a credere a una cosa assurda come lo zero… forse è un simbolo, una metafora, un’allucinazione collettiva…”.

Ora è così, prima era cosà, dopo chi lo sa.

Felix Dario Ruggeri e Simona Ruggeri

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Felix Dario Ruggeri e Simona Ruggeri

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Abbiamo scritto queste storie con una impostazione classica anche se l’opera nel suo insieme è piuttosto eclettica.

Lo stile è mutevole e diverso per ogni racconto, i temi variano: gotico, surreale, umoristico, poetico, religioso, viaggiando inoltre nei territori della science-fiction. Un universo di diversità che trae origine dalla frammentazione del tempo che ci circonda. In alcuni casi il significato sembra restare nascosto, ma va bene così, sono storie, non è necessario chiarire sempre tutto. A volte si avverte un significato criptico nel messaggio che viene comunque completato e rivelato nelle illustrazioni, così che testo e illustrazioni si integrano.

Ciò che desideriamo è attrarre e sensibilizzare la partecipazione del lettore. Non vogliamo distrarvi con un modo di scrivere insolito o stravagante, ma suscitare interesse e attenzione attraverso le idee espresse (o non espresse) nella narrazione. E’ nostro auspicio che il lettore sia complice, per questo cerchiamo di favorire la sua attenzione con immagini per proporre un modo di leggere più attraente, intimo, partecipativo, che non richieda fatica, momenti di tempo sospesi dove analizzare e scoprire indizi anche nelle immagini.

Ci auguriamo che alla fine delle storie permanga nel lettore una sensazione di piacevoli ricordi, anche se con un retrogusto amaro.

Simona Ruggeri

Shrimpcat, Dama & Friends

Riuniti nella Micro Gallery Space One, Shrimpcat, Dama e PAL 432 sono lieti di accogliere i visitatori umani. Benvenuti anche cani, gatti e chimere.

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metalcultbrigade · 8 months

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Metallica - The 5,98 EP Garage Days...Re-Revisited 21/08/1987

O primeiro a contar com.a nova formação. O baixista Jason Newsted assumiu a vaga de Cliff Burton, vitimado no ano anterior em um acidente de ônibus.

#Metallica #GarageDays... #1987 #ThrashMetal

#metalcultbrigade #metal #heavy metal #thrash metal #thrash #metallica #the garage days revisited

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thewapolls · 7 months

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I already sorta mentioned it in relation to the Adult Mag entry in the boss fight tournament, but it's fun to go over again,

BLUE BOOK is a fun reference to old English almanacs that implies a comprehensive collection of information, suitable for a magical autonomous book of magic.

NECRONOMIOCN taken famously from Lovecraftian lore, and a natural pick for a magical book enemy. Oddly despite the source material, it's not an especially threatening enemy in any of its appearances. Also it does not appear to be bound in human flesh, which is a shame because it could have made for a cool striking enemy model; although the pages of the WA1 model do have giant eyes in them.

TARGUM however is a much more obscure kind of reference. It's the term used to refer to the early translations of the Tanakh from their original Hebrew into Aramaic. I like the idea of it being used here to evoke a kind of ancient foreign magic of which this is the first comprehensible version of it written down for Filgaians. Also it's bound with a Japanese style sidestich rather than with a spine, giving a distinctly antique impression.

APOCRYPHA is a another fun one. Apocrypha can refer to a wide range of things in opposition to "canonical" texts. Probably most notable, or at least most familiar to people, would be the idea of biblical apocrypha; those biblical texts by subject and/or historical era not included in the bible itself, and considered by some to be heretical. It's neat as a magic tome as it implies something more secret, or rejected, or even forbidden.

DE RE METALLICA first appears not as an enemy at all but as the erroneously transliterated "De Le Metalica" dungeon, hidden within a magic book in Wild Arms 1, and subsequently Alter Code F. The real world De Re Metallica was a 16th century text written by Georg Bauer, cataloguing in 12 books all the details of how to find, mine, purify, smelt, and craft metal --a literally earth shattering development in mining and metalwork as it not only aggregated a long history of otherwise disparate and unwritten knowledge but also ventured into the then cutting edge of metallurgy and alchemy that would provide a groundwork for future developments in actual chemistry.

Then of course we have the ADULT MAG. Rather self explanatory, really. SUKEBEBONN[スケベ本]: "Lewd Book" in Japanese, it's a phrase that tends to refer to erotic manga more than the sort of adult photo collections we might think of in the west. In fact the first Dirty Mag model in WA3 actually has "ERO COM," as in "erotic comic", written on its cover. In fact something more in line with Hustler or Playboy would actually be referred to as a "Gravure" magazine.

The COMICBOOK which is again straight forward enough. It's just called MANGA in the original Japanese. If you're not familiar, Japanese serial manga are printed in magazine format, larger size, generally lower quality paper and print, but proportionally lower in cost as well(as little as the equivalent of 5.00USD for ~500 pages), but dozens of titles to an issue. Back when the Japanese and global economy were a little better, and when people still used phonebooks, they were often compared in size, although they tend to be a bit slimmer in recent years. In case it was odd to anyone why the comic book enemy was the size of a regular book. It's a shame this enemy didn't show up in other games.

and finally, STRATEGY GUIDE, which is a fun one. With Virginia and the title "WILD ARMS 3" on the cover. Another fun gag enemy with some 4th wall breaking fun for good measure. Again shame we never saw it make a comeback in any other games.

#wild arms

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birdylion · 7 months

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2, 4, 17 and 24 for the aro asks

Thanks for the asks, anon!

2. When did you first realise you were aro-spec?

Quite late because I didn't have the words for it for a long time, and getting there was complicated. I don't recall it with certainty, but I think I first thought about maybe being ace because clearly there was something unusual about my attraction. At some point I'd heard the word and its definition enough and that it just made sense for my life experience of, for example, mostly just ending up in friends with benefits situations and never wanting anything else out of it. So, mid-twenties, I guess?

edit: I just re-read a bunch of older stuff. I realised when I was very close friends with benefits with someone, with a commitment you could call queerplatonic, but definitely without romance or romantic feelings on either side. Other people kept telling me that I was in fact in a relationship and just didn't know it, and I was SO annoyed by that. That's when I started using the aro label.

4. What moments make you think, “Well, I’m definitely aro”

Well there's all the times when I'm bewildered by other people's amatonormative assumptions, about wanting to find a partner, about needing a partner, about what it means to be in a relationship, about what romantic partners can and can't do (like voice disagreement with their partner about how much they like the color of a wall).

There's Valentine's Day, which is just such a non-issue for me that I'm entirely bewildered how there can be such an industry around it. I used to be annoyed by it, but that was before I figured out I was aro. I was so frustrated that apparently it was so important and I didn't get it, but it made no sense, and that made me angry. Now I can just shrug and say it's not something in which I want to take part.

There's bound to be more, that's just what comes to mind.

17. How do you feel about sex/love songs?

First, what moves me most about music is the actual musical part, the melody and harmonies and rhythm etc. I only listen to the lyrics half the time. So I often don't notice unless I pay attention, but then I'm bored when every other song is about that. Human experiences are more than just romance. I'm sure "I want you but I can't have you" feels like something you have to cry out loud, but ... there's so much diversity in the human experience, aren't you bored to sing about romance all the time?

Sex/love songs that come to mind that deeply move me:

I'm you man, by Leonard Cohen (devotion)

Ready to call it love, by Mika (uncertainty about (queer) feelings and commitment)

Nothing else matters, by Metallica (deep trust between lovers)

Arguably sex/love songs:

You're my best friend, by Queen (look Deacon wrote it about his wife)

Songs about other topics, just for the fun of it:

Cats in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin (familial love and the passing of time)

Streets of London, by Ralph McTell (social misery)

Riez, by Stromae (starving artists)

The Islander, by Nightwish (being forgotten by the world, I guess)

For Good, from the musical Wicked (two people having changed each other for the better)

Gracias a la vida, by Mercedes Sosa (being grateful for your life)

Fade to Black, by Metallica (depression, suicidal ideation)

Eleanor Rigby, by the Beatles (lonely people)

Wanderlust, by Nightwish (wanderlust)

Fils de joie, by Stromae (how society treats sex workers)

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free, by Nina Simone (being able to be yourself)

I am what I am, by Gloria Gaynor (being yourself)

Friends will be friends, by Queen (friends being there for you and vice versa)

24. Best part of being aro?

Best part of identifying as aro is that I can do away with all the little excuses I found before for not dating or looking for relationships: I'm too busy with school/uni, I'm going abroad soon and it wouldn't be fair to start something now, etc. And internally, I feel just so much more chill about the whole thing now that I can just shed society's expectations and say 'no thank you' while still acknowledging that it is a thing that's important for others.

Best part of being aro is ... it seems other people are very stressed about romance, and I'm just not? Sure, I'm sometimes frustrated and feel alienated that others seem to live in such a different internal world than I do, but from what I see, I wouldn't want to think that much about dating and partnering up and being with someone just for the sake of being with someone. The best part of being aro is definitely that I had an easier time dissecting amatonormativity; it was easier for me to get there and I think that changes my life for the better, all in all. Alloromantic people can do that too, but I guess it's not as intuitive.

#aromantic #a game is on #anon ask #queer #birdypersonal

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How God Hates Us All made Slayer great again

In 2001 Slayer re-established themselves as kings of metal with their church-baiting warcry God Hates Us All.

September 10, 2021Words:Ian Winwood

In the summer of 2001, Slayer took to the road in the United States as part of the Extreme Steel tour with Pantera. On a bill that also featured Morbid Angel, Static-X and Skrape, one day Kerry King played the Texan cowboys from hell a number of songs from his group’s as-yet-untitled new album. Responding to a line from the track Disciple, Kerry was told, “Man, God Hates All would look [great on] a shirt.” It would, he agreed, but it would work better still as the title for Slayer’s ninth studio LP.

“How can you look at the world and think God doesn’t hate us?” wondered the guitarist. Kerry King was once asked to nominate his own superpower and answered that he would like to be able to set churches ablaze simply by walking past them. In Slayer World, this made him the band’s most qualified theologian.

“Wars, disease…” he said. “If we’re so perfect, why are we so fucked?”

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God appeared to agree. God Hates Us All was released on September 11, 2001, mere hours before passenger planes were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the most Slayer-esque act of the modern age. Five years later, these atrocities would inspire Jihad, the band’s finest song of the 21st century. They would also throw the world into a state of flux for the next decade and more.

Ahead of the curve, the world of heavy music had been in turmoil for a number of years. The advent of nu-metal in the middle years of the 1990s saw the sound and look of metal change in remarkable and pliant ways. Tunings went down and guitar solos were eschewed. Long hair was no longer de rigueur. Baseball caps and vivid oversized sportswear became the wardrobe of the choice.

In truth, Slayer had endured a difficult decade anyway. Leaving aside the Seasons In The Abyss album, from 1990, the final 10 years of the 20th century had seen the band unveil just two further of albums of original material. Caught in a nu-metal storm, Diabolus In Musica, from 1998, provided a nod to these changing times. The Californian quartet’s most adventurous release – never again would they attempt to write songs as innovative as Stain Of Mind and Wicked – and by far their most intriguing, Slayer’s attempts to park their tank on a new cutting-edge lacked just one thing: an identity.

In this, the group were not alone. Iron Maidenslogged through a swathe of the 1990s with singer Blaze Bayley, a solid presence who lacked the charisma of his predecessor Bruce Dickinson. Even market leaders Metallica spent the second half of the decade attempting to escape the shadow of their 31-million selling Black Album. Between 1996 and 1999, the San Franciscans released four albums, only one of which – S&M – was met with anything approaching universal acclaim. The group did, though, start the 21st century in reassuring style, with the convincing I Disappear, from the 2000 summer blockbuster Mission: Impossible 2.

In the fullness of time, it would take Metallica a further eight years to re-establish their identity with the slightly-too-comfortable Death Magnetic album. Iron Maiden exorcised their recent past with ruthless efficiency by re-recruiting Bruce Dickinson and releasing Brave New World, in 2000, an LP that reassured listeners that normal service had been resumed. But it was Slayer who returned from their brief paddle into uncharted waters with the greatest sense of urgency and violent panache.

As an album, God Hates Us All reassured its constituents that the band had come home to the thrash-tastic turf that would not exist without them. More than this, over the course of a further three studio albums this stall would budge not an inch in the years that elapsed until the group called it a night in 2019. In his own blunt style, Kerry King explained that, “I want us to be the AC/DC of thrash. I want people to know exactly what they’re going to get when they hear us.”

Which is not to say that the band’s first album of the new century was merely an exercise in nostalgia. Recorded in Vancouver, God Hates Us All was produced by Matt Hyde, whose subsequent credits would include Deftones and Parkway Drive. Accompanying this modern sound were lyrics that eschewed the Satanic and occult themes with which the group had established their identity in years past with songs such as Altar Of Sacrifice, Spill The Blood, and Born Of Fire. In its own quiet way, this too was a nod to metal’s unlikely march toward self-examination.

“There’s no Satanic or supernatural elements to [the album],” Kerry King explained. “It’s just more about things that people can relate to. All our albums are angry, but this one is really pissed-off because it’s inward looking. I’m usually the Dungeons & Dragons spooky dude. On this record I made a conscious decision not to do that. I wanted to keep our dark themes, but also to write stuff that people can relate to. I tried to think about what pisses me off and why and how people could relate to that, rather than saying, ‘The Devil’s over there fucking your mother’, or something.”

Accompanied by a crisp music video for the song Bloodline – the band’s first since Dittohead, seven years earlier – God Hates Us All is not Slayer’s best album. But it is one of their most assured, and one which cemented their contemporary relevance to a new generation of metalhead. In 1991, the group capped off their first 10 years of active service with a live album titled Decade Of Aggression; yet the ’90s could have been called Decade Of Relative Uncertainty. But after years of laziness – only one track, the supreme Disorder, featuring Ice-T, breached the silence spanning 1990 and 1994 – and excursions such as the thrilling but contextually misguided punk-covers set Undisputed Attitude (1996), once again Slayer were back in a game of their own creation.

On the day that God Hates Us All was released, the Californians planned to fly to Europe to embark on the Tattoo The Planet tour, co-headlined by Pantera. Stranded in Dublin following the fall of the Twin Towers, the Texan group embarked on a row that would break their band apart forever. One week later, Kerry King and co. crossed the Atlantic and topped the bill unaided. In doing so, once more they stood alone as the kings of very, very, very heavy metal.