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rosehipfield · 5 months

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Mental strength part 6: Joe and Mishima

My previous posts on this topic:

Part 1: Sara and Nao

Part 2: Reko and Alice

Part 3: Kanna and Shin

Part 4: Keiji and Gin

Part 5: Kai and Q-Taro

Finally, the ones who were the first to go: an eccentric teacher and the best friend material. Once again, they weren't weak, they were either unlucky or selfless enough to accept fate. Also I may repeat some points from my previous posts.

Even before death game Joe was extremely loyal to Sara. If she were to share her concerns about the darkness surrounding her familly (in her mini episode), gaudy guy provides support and promises to be with her no matter what. Little did he know about the concequences of his pure friendship. In a vain attempt to protect Sara from stalker Joe ends up in a terrifying predicament. However, even there he chooses to believe. Not completely, he actually doubted a lot, but he did cut Alice's ropes, our boy was willing to trust a convict could be a good guy (he wasn't wrong). His card turns out to be the deadliest, yet Joe still makes attempt to warn the group to not vote for him. No anger toward group when it's his turn to die, he even apologises for basically trying to survive. Joe states that everybody must be a good person, even the ones who opposed him or Sara. And his final moments were spent consoling guilt-stricken Sara, with a smile, trying to give her his strength. We love you too, Joe, you are best friend.

Mishima is almost perfect human, those who played YTTS will probably agree. He used to be a not-so-ideal before, perhaps he is even tied to Asunaro through that mysterious past. Nevertheless, he took his life in his hands and changed, learning how to be better and becoming a model teacher whose only flaw is smoking. Imaging the efforts he put into self-reflection. The only thing he couldn't battle (aside from little vice) is his suspicious look. Not many trusted him, and I presume Shin voted for him because Mishima reminded him of Midori even more than Sara did. But our teacher actually chose to sacrifice himself of his own accord just in case somebody votes for Nao. Of course he probably expected it to be not deadly, and yet he decided to protect his student even if it was. And it was. And he was killed, still pushing away Nao so that she doesn't get hurt. Later we meet Mishima AI that is surprised with such sacrifice, stating he could do something immoral. But he didn't, because his bonds and morals were strong.

#your turn to die #joe tazuna #kazumi mishima #YTTD analysis #YTTD mental strength #Yay I learned how to make links

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salarta · 9 months

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I wanna say some things.

I've been a Polaris fan for almost 15 years now. Fans just tuning in, and some that may have tuned out, may be frustrated with how the X-Men comics keep failing/refusing to do right by the character.

I want to give you all a look from my view, so you can see the progress.

Back when I discovered Lorna, it wasn't because of a TV show. Or social media. It was because, by pure chance, I ran across her entry on the Marvel wikia. She wasn't promoted enough for me to know she exists except by accident.

In terms of the landscape: she was in a bad position. The Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon had just been canceled after the Disney buyout, which meant any plans for her there went out the window. In the comics, she had been reduced to Havok's supporting character girlfriend again, only this time exiled to space for his Starjammers team. It was shortly after I learned of Lorna that she was put in space limbo for over a year, no appearances anywhere at all.

No place in comics. No involvement in mutant events on Earth at all. Stuck as Havok's supporting character girlfriend when last seen. No origin story. Magneto as her dad was still a big question mark, and it wasn't clear if she was even a mutant.

Here is a list of gains since I discovered the character.

Restored as a mutant

Restored as Magneto's daughter

Not stuck in relationship as a supporting character for Havok

Back on Earth, taking part in X-Men comics

Breakout role on Gifted played by Emma Dumont

Multiple good video game appearances

Has an origin story now

Led a team of her own (despite Jordan White undermining her and killing the book)

Won the X-Men fan vote

Interacting with Jean Grey again after decades of nothing

Has a PhD now

Yes, I do complain about the X-Men comics. A lot. I have good reason to be. Within that same time frame, we still have these problems that keep coming up.

Havok keeps getting forced into almost everything Lorna does

Her surviving the Genoshan genocide keeps getting treated like it never happened

Keeps getting forced onto teams named X-Factor, clearly due to Jordan White's nostalgia for 90s X-Factor

Different writers treating her like she either has no history before or after the 90s, never a full accounting

OOC depictions in various places, most notably in the recent X-Factor #4 and Trial of Magneto

Lorna is a work in progress. She spent decades getting treated poorly, with people at Marvel thinking that poor treatment was appropriate. Some of them, like White, even think that poor treatment was somehow actually good and want people to think like they do. Because of this, Lorna has ups and downs in her overall trajectory.

The first thing I want to emphasize is that as a work in progress, it's going to take time for her to get where she should be. You can't undo decades of damage in a single month or year. It's taken almost 15 years to get her where she is now, which is much better than where she used to be despite all the things still wrong.

The second thing is her profile.

Back in 2018, I talked to Jordan White on Twitter. He said Lorna didn't deserve anything. He claimed Lorna didn't have enough fan interest or star power to warrant getting the respect she deserved. He cited nothing for this view other than his general attitude and claiming he'd have more tweets directed to him about Lorna if she had enough fan interest.

The X-Men fan vote proved him wrong. In the past 5 years, we went from Jordan White writing her off as a nobody, to White clearly understanding that he can't ignore her anymore. He knows now that she has way more interest than he was counting on.

That's progress. And while it may not feel like it, poor treatment is also progress in this case. We went from White insisting Lorna doesn't deserve a miniseries, to White greenlighting a 4-part Infinity comic clearly meant to push his personal whims.

Of course, I would vastly prefer Lorna get an actual mini that treats her right instead of something that amounts to a drawn fanfic paid for out of company money. But at the end of the day, her profile and public awareness of who she's actually supposed to be as a character has grown enough that White decided to devote company resources on trying to make people think of Lorna the way he does.

That's a victory for Polaris fandom. It's part of the fight to get her where she should be. Or rather, should've been all along. Don't look at it as end of the road. Look at it as a stepping stone to a brighter future for the character.

P.S. - Jordan White didn't read the original run of X-Men comics until COVID. That's not a problem for the average person. Fans usually don't go that far back. I haven't read the original run, just Lorna's intro issues. But as senior editor of the X-Men comics, you would expect him to have read those issues much, much sooner than 2 years into being senior editor.

#polaris #lorna dane #x-men #marvel

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olderthannetfic · 1 year

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I posted 13,198 times in 2022

That's 9,790 more posts than 2021!

11,477 posts created (87%)

1,721 posts reblogged (13%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@olderthannetfic

@jikook-real

@elfwreck

@lierdumoa

@longholyscream

That's right. The person I reblog from most is MYSELF.

I tagged 158 of my posts in 2022

#lol - 38 posts

#fic downloading project - 15 posts

#what? what? - 5 posts

#yup - 4 posts

#;) - 3 posts

#hahahahahahaha - 2 posts

#lolololol - 2 posts

#ao3 - 2 posts

#lololol - 2 posts

#hahahahahahahaha - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 118 characters

#but youtube and places are filled with bizarre-ass seemingly algorithmically generated nonsense in place of real hacks

My Top Posts in 2022:

Because it’s a major cultural shift

Dude, aside from people just going “ugh, kids”, the whole point is that the assumption that sites have algorithms is a sign of how the entire internet has been ruined. It’s a major cultural shift and a terrible one.

AO3 is the opposite of obscure in fanfic fandom, and its entire existence is political and an act of resistance.

No shit people react to cluelessness about how it sorts content: how it sorts content is a conscious ethical statement.

And to answer this other person’s comment:

See the full post

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No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

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*cackling*

If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.

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My #1 post of 2022

See the full post

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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bonesandthebees · 2 years

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Aight, I’m past the hardest exams, so now I have some energy to come screaming. The flashback/dream. Tiny Nikki meeting tiny Wilbur. Who thought that was a good idea? Like I get that the intention is that the kids will trust her more than an adult. But as present Nikki said, she spent most of her life on Eldingvegr and her loyalty lies with Tommy and Wilbur. Which is logical because they literally grew up together. The Themisians never even stood a chance.

Also, baby Tommy. Eret holding baby Tommy and scolding tiny Wilbur like a parent might do. They really just watch them grow up and basically parented them. As far as they had time to cuz the boys were left alone a lot growing up. And they still betrayed them because they wanted to keep the throne. (probably because they thought Tommy wouldn’t be capable, which now that I think about it, they did kinda try to check if Wilbur thought Tommy was capable and definitely asked his tutors before going through with it. Which hurt even more because it was a vote of no confidence in a 15-year-old)

Then we get to the AE. Jack is hilarious, I love him. Also, some more Tommy being oblivious to how much shit Wilbur gets for being a bastard and how much it hurts him. AE have diplomats from different planets that permanently stay there? Cool. The way the entire Empire works is kinda cool. Though it’s still an empire and once it starts to fall that economic control is really gonna screw some planets. Also Aimsey! Flosium is such a cool name btw. And they are plant people that use photosynthesis to eat! I love scientific worldbuilding. Ranboo being an apprentice covered in gold to really mark his status. I wonder how he got into that position.

Lastly, the negotiating. Swear counter: 4 (5 if you count damn). Wilbur is so full of spite and I’m here for it. More Phil playing with his food. He has decided Wilbur is the most interesting. Mostly because he’s the one they are actually negotiating with and everyone knows it. Probably because being a bastard makes him interesting. Bonus points for so clearly loving his younger brother despite him being incompetent. Maybe Phil has picked up on the fact that Wilbur would be a better King. Also, commenting about how Wilbur has been trained well (like he’s a dog), has me thinking that Phil might be trying to figure out what will make him snap. Since calling him a bastard and laughing in his face isn’t enough. Neither is calling him a child or inexperienced.

Anyway, I was gonna write a short ask, yet here we are. My apologies. Also sorry in advance if I spelled any of them names wrong. I never read names correctly and trying to spell them has proved that once again.

-🌲

yeahhh the themisians really fucked up on that front lmaooo

eret wasn't a parent to either of the boys but they were forced to kind of take the role as one for the two of them. it wasn't the same, but wilbur and tommy needed some guiding force in their lives that wasn't just servants taking care of them, so eret ended up becoming that kind of mentor figure to them both. but then of course the desire for power combined with a lack of faith in tommy's ability won out in the end, hence the betrayal. really hits harder when you remember how long eret has known the two of them for

i love writing jack manifold's dialogue so much it's literally so stupidly fun

originally I was going to have aimsey take vitamin D pills to supplement sunlight and then i was like wait I can just make them photosynthesize lmao so all they need to eat is a little lamp in their pocket :) idk why I decided to make aimsey a flower person I just thought it fit their vibes

honestly I don't count damn as a swear but we'll include it for the swear counter so hooray!

you don't need to apologize spruce anon i love your long asks it makes me very happy to see :D

#ask #spruce anon

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gamesofcrimson · 8 months

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Last devlog for the Isekai Jam

I'm a little late getting this out

The game is out. I would not call it finished in the slightest, but I've heard that it's still good to submit what you did even if it's not the best.

Below I'll quickly go over what I did since last update and how everything went with the impending deadline.

I was in such a hurry to get my game done that I didn't have the chance to post a devlog last week. In the past two weeks making the map took a lot longer than I thought, mainly because of one detail that was slowing down the process and I didn't think to fix what was slowing it down until there wasn't much time left

The day before the submission deadline I noticed the movement acting up a bit and making it harder to move, which unfortunately took about 2 hours to fix, which was time I was supposed to be spending on making the scenes.

Making the scenes took a lot longer than I thought because, unlike renpy, I couldn't really easily skip to a part in the scene. And then the function I made for easily moving a character in a scene wasn't working right and just completely broke when moving the player sprite for some reason, so then I spent a lot of time trying to fix it before having to decide that I just wouldn't use this function I spent a lot of time on because figuring out how to fix it would take too long.

Then I did some damage control and tried to figure out what scenes I could cut out. Even then I didn’t have enough time. I was rushing to try to get some last minute things done, but there was a lot more last minute stuff than I expected. Like making it so you could only use the sword when you pick it up (but I ended up putting the sword in the obstacle list instead of the pick-up list so you can't pick it up) and making it so you could use a potion (which I didn't have time to test and it ended up not working), and trying to make it so you could save but this feature was acting up so I just ended up taking it out again. And it was so late I couldn't test most of these things I added in.

And I was up so late at this point I knew I would end up sleeping past the deadline, so I had to get it done before sleeping.

It was either 4:30 or 5 am that I decided it was "good enough" for my panicked and sleep deprived self and make the executable file for it and packaged the game and uploaded it to itch.io.

And now the game jam is finished.

After waking up and testing out the game more, it's very broken and a number of things don't work like they were supposed to. Which is disappointing, but it is what it is. And I was using this to push myself to learn how to use pygame faster. It was the first time I made a game with it. Since I couldn't edit the game after submitting it because of the voting, I just typed up a guide on the game page on how to avoid the major bugs that would prevent you from playing.

After the voting is over I'll upload an update that'll make it more playable and fix the things that I wasn't able to get to.

Thanks for reading

#game development #isekaijam #game jam

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tokiro07 · 1 year

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Hey, have you checked out the 4th character poll for Medaka Box in the drawn section of the Medaka Box guidebook? I think what happened was that it happened after chap 190, so all the Kumagawa worshippers left without a vote and basically this is the closest thing to what the real Medaka Box fandom ranks characters. The Dark Hero actually outrank the titular girl. I remember the ranks were: 1. Naze 2. Akune 3.Kumagawa 4. Zenkichi 5. Kairai 6. Kikaijima 7. Kamome 8. Najimi 9. Medaka 10. Tsugiha.

My lovely wife bought me the Medaka Books for Christmas the year they came out, and I proceeded to add the kanji from the Skills section of the dictionary to the wiki for the next several months, never once realizing until I was literally on the final page that there was a Japanese wiki that already had all of it

Because of how much time I spent trying to translate the new information from there with the help of my friend Steph (who THOUGHT I was using the wiki the entire time and could have just mentioned it offhand ANY TIME EARLIER THAN THE END), I never tried to translate anything else from the rest of the dictionary or from the picture book

Looking at it now, your listing is close, but slightly off

Naze, 2155 votes

Akune, 1661

Kumagawa, 1310

Kairai, 603

Hitoyoshi, 536

Tsugiha, 532

Ajimu, 479

Tsurubami, 248

Medaka, 225

Kikaijima, 184

Munakata, 147

Nabeshima, 121

Koga, 110

Maguro, 77

Nienami, 73

Hanten, 55

Shiranui, 52

Mukae, 33

Gagamaru, 28

Jounan, 26

Hinokage, 24

Kuguhara, 23

Tsurumisaki, 21

Oudo, 19

Kamimine, 16

Shibuki, 16 (tied for 25)

Royal, 16 (tied for 25)

Kajiki, 15

Dianne, 15 (tied for 28)

Itoshima, 14

Yunomae, 14 (tied for 30)

Kairai is easily the most surprising of the top 10; he is definitely the most memorable of the fake suitors, but I wouldn't have expected him to be FOURTH

Jounan ranking at all is completely shocking to me considering that he does absolutely nothing except try to grab Medaka's boobs one time, and the cast that he outranks is nothing short of flabbergasting

Hinokage, Oudo, Shibuki, ROYAL??? And Oudo loses to Tsurumisaki too, who I would say is the most boring of the entire Thirteen Party. The only reason I remember him is because I think about him proudly declaring that he has a low bowling average all the time. I guess people found that endearing?

WANIZUKA'S NOT EVEN HERE??? Tsugiha was just past the top 5 and Wanizuka didn't even beat her imaginary friend???

No Saki, no Unzen, no Hitomi, no AOKI??? JOUNAN BEAT THE NURSE?!?!

The first poll had 4,000 votes, the second had 14,000 votes, the third had 11,000, and this one only had about 9000. It's pretty clear that there was a significant dropoff after peaking in year 2 (plebians and Philistines...) which only got worse by the end of year 4. Comparing the differences between 3 and 4 makes it especially clear that something has changed

Tsurumisaki and Jounan went from 3 and 4 votes to over 20 each without doing anything to actually garner more popularity (unless they do something in the books that I don't know about?). Kairai's running bit definitely justifies him getting more, but going from 17 votes to SIX-HUNDRED?! Because Medaka STEPPED ON HIM???

I feel like a lot of these were joke votes, but at the same time the rest of this top 30 feels pretty understandable. Despite the number of missing choices that would have made a lot of sense, it's only those surprising ones that make me really feel their absence

In other news, evidently Medaka Box has recently hit 6.5 million copies in circulation, which for a 22 volume series is...not a lot. For reference, JJK has 22 volumes NOW and has sold over ten times as much with 70 million. Chainsaw Man has 14 volumes and has sold 24 million. I know those are both outliers that happened to get really huge, but it's so hard to believe that Medaka Box went as long as it did and just...wasn't popular. At all. It managed to be just popular enough to not get canceled, but never popular enough to really make any kind of mark on the industry

There's a timeline where the anime got to Kumagawa and the general populace of anime fans got just as weird about him as the fandom did and he became a tumblr sexyman and the manga had a huge boom in popularity, but we don't live in that world, and I'm very sad

#medaka box

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cocochannel00 · 3 years

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The Azoff Family: A Case Study on one of the Music Industry’s Most Connected Families

(ft. a breakdown of the Grammy voting process and problems)

This is very long so I will try and split it up into categories for everyone (sorry I got carried away- I spent like 2 hours writing this) but enjoy!

*Disclaimer: I want to preface while the majority of this is based in research, some parts may be speculation. I don’t know the family personally so I can’t tell you what goes on behind closed doors but I can tell you how parts of the entertainment/music industry work. I’ve had 5 internships in the industry (one in marketing at one of the big record labels) and the rest of my work is publicity (what I enjoy) and events and a former advisor used to run in the same circles as Irving Azoff (and he spilled some tea last year) I’m not out here to diminish the hard work of any artists or their teams, I’m simply here to showcase parts of the industry that aren’t always shown.*

Please also see: Story Time: How Fan Pages Directly Impact Columbia Records Decisions and Harry Styles Image

IRVING AZOFF: NEVER STOP THE GRIND

Let’s begin with the great business man himself Mr. Irving Azoff Irving Azoff is the literal posture child for connections and power in the music industry (he was also inducted into the 2020 rock and roll hall of fame class which is like a huge fucking deal for a manager to be inducted so you know he's the real deal)

In conclusion, I love Irving Azoff and his drive.

Irving Azoff: Early Years Run Down:

He came up middle class (dad was a pharmacist, mom a bookkeeper) in Danville, Illinois

He dropped out of college to run a small Midwestern concert-booking empire and managed local acts in the era

Opportunity came knocking and he got the chance to manage the Eagles and the rest is history

He's one of the best negotiators and has negotiated business on behalf of stars like Stevie Nicks, the Eagles, and Jimmy Buffet

Azoff has been an incredible manager and his drive to always advocate for his clients while basically not giving two sh*ts about what people think of him has gotten him the incredible reputation he has today.

All of Irving Azoff’s Major Job Positions:

Former President MCA (major label)

Former CEO of Ticketmaster and executive chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, the behemoth formed from Ticketmaster’s merger with Live Nation.

In 2013 he and Cablevision Systems Corp. CEO and New York Knicks owner James Dolan formed a partnership, Azoff MSG Entertainment (Currently still CEO)

----> Azoff also ran the Forum in Inglewood under Azoff MSG Entertainment after MSG purchased it in 2012 (it was sold in 2020 to the owner of the Clippers) — why do you think Harry played the forum for the Fine Line show? Azoff connection

Azoff MSG Entertainment encompasses all of the other companies including Full Stop Management, Global Music Rights (performance-rights org), and the Oak View Group (arena developing company)

He also is the co-founder and manager of the lobbying group Music Artists Coalition, a group that helps lobby for artists-rights issues such as royalty rates, copyright issue and healthcare insurance (see he's not all bad)

Essentially what I'm getting at is this man knows anybody who's anybody. He's the man you want on your team to help promote your music, plan your tour, and get you on that Grammy nom list.

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JEFFREY AZOFF: THE CHILD OF NEPOTISM

So for those of you that don't know, Jeffery Azoff is Harry's current manager and the son of Irving Azoff (the third of four kids). He's currently a partner at Full Stop Management, the company owned by Irving and the one artists such as Harry, Haim, the Eagles, Kings of Leon, and Meghan Trainer are signed to.

Jeffrey graduated from the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business and started working fresh out of college at his father's old Management company (Frontline Management) working under Maroon 5's manager Jordan Feldstein (the only way you get that kind of internship/job as a 21 year old fresh out of college is if your family or family friends gives it to you). He worked here for 5 years.

Direct Quote from Irving Azoff to Jeffrey (really tells you a lot): "Listen carefully, because I’m going to say this one time. You have a phone and you have my last name. If you can’t figure it out, you’re not my son."

After working for his father, Jeffrey moved on to the talent agency CAA (Creative Artist Agency) where he worked for roughly 3 and half years before joining his dad in forming Full Stop Management in 2016.

While he was at CAA, Irving moved over clients like Christina Aguilera and the Eagles to the talent agency to help with tour booking instead of doing it internally through LiveNation (he was CEO).

Even though I'm sure Jeff has had to work somewhat hard to get to where he is (or at least to mess up his dad's work as he doesn't seem like the type to take laziness well), the door into the industry and every job was basically handed to him on a silver platter.

Not to mention if you watch episodes of keeping up with the kardashians (like myself) you can actually see Jeff hanging out with kendall and the rest of the fam at their Palm Springs house (you know you're a nepotism kid if you have an in with the Kardashian crew). Invite me next time Jeffrey!!!

Think of the Azoff's as the mafia family of the music industry, you don't mess with the mafia

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THE GRAMMY AWARDS: STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS ON STEROIDS

Ok so here's where we’re going to get into a bit more of the speculation/grey area. I don't need to tell you that award shows are corrupt (See the Golden Globes Emily in Paris scandal) and the Grammys are not an exception. Think of the Grammys as one big student council/government elections where despite the fact the teachers tell you six times to vote for the best candidate, you're still going to vote for your friends even if they aren't the best.

A simplified break-down of Grammy voting:

1) Recording Academy voting members (artists, producers, musicians- anyone involved first hand with the creation of music; All voting members must have been producers, performers or engineers on six or more tracks of a commercially released album (or 12 or more digital tracks) and record labels will submit nominations in various categories to the grammys (songs need to be released commercially between October 1 of the previous year and September 30th of this year). You can also become a voting member by either winning a grammy or being endorsed by a current voting member (hint hint)

2) Once received, the recording academy with have the academy of trustees and its reviewers organize them and approve any changes to the 30 categories/fields (aka they can add new categories or remove old ones; so no best ukulele album of the year -- this is where things get funky)

There's speculation that during this stage when these special groups of 8-10 people are organizing genres, there's an "unwritten rule" that you need to be careful what album you green light (especially for famous artists) if you don't want them to win) (Rob Kenner said this- he used to be on one of these committees). Famous people tend to get more votes from clueless or lay Academy members that don't know the specialized categories or don't care enough to listen to songs that aren't radio trending.

3) After the nominations occur, Voting members begin their first voting. Members can vote for the four general categories of record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new artist and a maximum of 15 categories, all within their areas of expertise. Now the interesting thing is that while these are the guidelines there is literally nothing stopping them from voting in whatever categories they want (i.g. a rapper voting in the opera category despite not listening to opera). Theses ballots are all tallied and the top 20 entries are determined in each category (funky moment #2)

In 12 of the 84 categories those top 20 go to the ballot and it's done; for the rest it’s not like that. 59 categories including the big four go to a "nomination review committees" (identities are protected so they can't get lobbied... sure) who take a look at the top 20 and narrow it down to 7 or 8. (these are the special committees the Weekend talked about when he was snubbed). They're supposed to choose the nominees "based solely on the artistic and technical merits of the eligible recordings" which lets be real if that was the case Watermelon Sugar (along with most of the others in the category) I don't think would have been nomimated as they are very generic pop (none of them are special... sorry to the WM lovers out there).

This committee is basically held to THE HONOR CODE SYSTEM... I mean tell me when the last time the honor code system worked in literally any scenario (literally wtf). Don't take my word for it though the former CEO of the Academy Deborah Dugan (a queen) filed a complaint against the Recording Academy basically claiming that the nomination review process was rigged (she was fired after 5 months on the job).

Quote from Deborah Dugan "Members of the board [of trustees] and the secret committees chose artists with whom they have personal or business relationships... It is not unusual for artists who have relationships with Board members and who ranked at the bottom of the initial 20-artist list to end up receiving nominations."

These review committees can also exploit there power by adding up to two nominees that don't appear on the top 20 list to the final voting ballot (except in the 4 big categories - which watermelon sugar that one wasn't nominated for)

They also have craft committees for like non performance stuff (like album notes, engineering and arranging) that don't even get voted on by the academy voting members

4) After all of that fucked up mess, the grammy's decided is ok, the ballots go back to the voting members for the final vote. Deloitte (an accounting firm) then counts all of them, seals them in envelopes, and delivers them to the Grammy award show.

** The Grammy's just announced this year they're removing the "secret committees" so let's see how things shift in the next couple of years**

So obviously I'm not saying this to discredit Harry's nomination or his win as Fine Line was in the US top 20 albums for the majority of 2020, however, we must acknowledge privilege. Harry has a big name to him and a huge following, and while all of that shouldn't be taken into account, it does. He also has the Azoffs, a very well connected family with friends in lots of places that would be able to put in a good word here and there to get support behind Harry. Harry won best pop solo performance for Watermelon Sugar in a category with Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, and Dua Lipa. Look at the names there, the songs (ya'll can try and remember them cause I'm too lazy to write it out) and tell me that those top names with all of the music produced didn't get there through some connections.

Do with all this information what you will and if you are interested in learning more about the entertainment industry on your own Endeavor (owners of WME, a big talent agency like CAA) is hosting a free online program called the Excellence Program to help guide the future generation of industry executives. The program is a-synchronous and starts on July 12th. Highly recommend giving it a go if you're interested!!!

Alright ya'll that's it. Feel free to message me with your thoughts!

Extra Sources if you'd like to read:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdndn/how-grammys-voting-actually-works-and-where-the-alleged-corruption-lies

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/voting-process

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-11-05/irving-azoff-eagles-manager

https://celebrityaccess.com/caarchive/jeffrey-azoff-exits-caa-to-launch-new-management-company/

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/grammy-awards-secret-committees-945532/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grammy-awards-eliminate-secret-committees-voting-changes-1163887/

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Ywsterday (sunday february 14th of 2021) there was an election in Catalonia and I feel like talking about it so I'm gonna explain it briefly (a brief explanation, a long post mayne 10 or 15 min read) for my American & international readers out there. (This will have a clear bias, I'm no journalist. That said, I don't belong to any of the parties discussed in this post.)

First, a bit of context for those completely unaware. Catalonia is a historical region of Spain with its own language (which has been marginalized and banned to various degrees during the last 3 centuries, which stirs controbersy to this day) and a separatist movement that has had moments of relevance and irrelevance along the last ~100 years.

Independence as a social movement has had its ups and downs, 25 years ago it wasn't very relevant but in the 2010s it started gainign traction ending in an unsuccessful unilateral declaration of independence in 2017 which resulted in the arrest or exile of most of the government (President Puigdemont is exiled in Waterloo, vice president Junqueras has spent years in prison now).

With that out of the way, to talk about the players in this election first we have to understand how does one get to be president of Catalunya.

Catalunya, as well as Spain as a whole and many other european countries and regions, doesn't have Presidential elections, they only vote for the parliament members: voters choose a party and once the Parliament is made up they vote for the president. In this particular case, the Parliament has 135 seats so if some party gets 68 seats they have an absolute majority and can govern by themselves in most cases (some things require 2/3 majority but to elect a president and to pass most laws it's just half+1).

The thing is, this election the winner didn't get anywhere near 68 seats, they got 33 so whoever ends up governing needs to pact. It's time to know the players:

To start, we're going to talk about the parties in the previous, independentist government:

THE INDEPENEDENTIST FORCES:

Junts per Catalunya (together for Catalunya) is a big, centrist coalition of organisations with left leaning and right leaning sectors. The left sees them as right wing and they're the only catalanist right wingers, so the rest of the right fucking hate their guts. They were in power for decades (under the name Convergència i Unió, the history of this party is convoluted) since the end of the fascist regime and did a lot of work to reestablish the place and institutions of the Catalan language (Franco was infamously against any languages in Spain that weren't Spanish). This is the party that the exiled president Puigdemont belongs to. Of the main 2 parties in power this was the bigger one until last night.

Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, Republican Left of Catalunya, republican as in opposed to monarchy): Left wing, cataln nationalist run-of-the-mill european social democrats. They defend the catalan culture and language as JxC has done, they were in power as a part of the "tri partit" (three parties) with other left wing forces from 2003 to 2010 to avoid more years of JxC government. Then, independentist movement started to gain traction, the more conservative faction of JxC left and they (JxC & ERC) formed a government together with the complicit votes of CUP.

CUP (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, Candidature of Popular Unity) is a far-left, socialist, quasi-anarchist organisation that used to have a few members of local councils but didn't even bother going to Catalan elections, then independence happened and have had a few MPs ever since. Not enough to pass any radical laws, but enough so that the JxC and ERC coalition needs their votes to govern: they vetoed Artur Mas, an infamously corrupt president and actually got what they wanted.

ELS COMUNS (the commons?) is neither independentist or unionist, they're a left wing party (less radical than CUP but also with less relevance and votes in the general Catalan panorama, although they have the Mayor of Barcelona). They try to pass progressive left leaning legislature and even though some of them want independence, they don't believe it's a pressing issue for the catalan people. Their Spanish Counterparts, Podemos, are in power as the 2nd, more "radical", left leaning force of a center-left coalition in the Spanish governent with PSOE.

THE UNIONISTS:

PSC (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya, Socialists' Party of Catalunya) is the Catalun branch of PSOE (socialists etc etc español), a center-left party that is currently in the Spanish government. PSC used to have catalanist sectors and when they were in power in Catalunya (as the 1st force of the Tripartit) they passed laws to defend catalan etc (to this day since the death of Franco no regional government of Catalonia has been against defending Catalan). Those positions towards the language and culture probably remain but now they're explicitly anti independence. They're not super left but if you don't count Comuns as unionists, PSC is the farthest left you can go in the unionist side.

PP: the strong Spanish right wing party since the 90s, where all the francoists ended up after the transition in the 70s, they held the Spanish governent '96-2004 and 2011-2018 and do not want to defend catalan. They won't usually say it out right though, they'll say things like "spanish speakers are oppresed in Catalunya", and that's the same for all anti-independentists. In Catalonia, though, they have very bad results.

Ciudadanos (citizens) is basically a split from PP that formed in 2006 in Catalonia to be explicitly anti-catalanist. For a hot second it seemed like they could be the new strong party of the Spanish right but now the party is crumbling and in Catalunya specifically they've gone from 1st force (they still didn't govern) with 36 seats to second to last with only 6. Rumours say that the party will dissolve before the next election.

Vox is a far right party that likes Donald Trump and fucking hates independence and Catalunya, they're a new party and rn the strongest of the spanish right wing forces in Catalunya in 4th place in the parliament.

Now you know all the players I can explain THE RESULTS:

(the big hemicircle is yesterday's results, the little one is last election's)

PSC has had a slight edge over ERC but they haven't been able to reflect that in more seats. Cs has crumbled from first place to 8th. Vox has appeared out of nowhere, but the rise in unionist seats (26) between PSC and Vox is still smaller than the 30 seats Cs has lost.

In the independentist side, ERC has gained 1 seat, JxC lost 2 and CUP gained 5 for a total gain of 4 seats for the independentists.

Even thoug an explicitly far right force has entered the parliament, this election shows a trend towards left wing forces: unionists towards PSC rather than Cs, and independentist towards ERC and CUP.

Even though the JxC+ERC coalition is a mess, all analysts and journalists agree that ERC's Pere Aragonès has the best chance to become the next President. All evidence points to the fact that CUP will have an easier time voting for a leftist President from ERC than a centrist/right winger from JxC, and some rumours say that ERC could be looking for Comuns' support. They don't want independence but maybe they can be brought in to strengthen the left wing stance of this new government.

The opinions of analysts and the rumours I mention come from last night's TV3 election special.

Election results:

If you've read the whole thing thank you and I hope this has been useful 😊❤️

#election #catalonia #europe

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betterthanschindlers · 7 years

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2015 was a big year for me. I:

1. Figured out how to spell "forest" (always thought there were some other r's or s's in there)

2. Made a meal from one of those recipe videos (mac & cheese gnocchi without butter, milk or flour if you're wondering)

3. Talked about my period onstage (it's what Eleanor Roosevelt would have wanted!)

4. Published 14 movie reviews (that's 1.16 a month!)

5. Got one haircut (by someone who wasn't me using not children's scissors)

6. Ruined at least 1 friendship (let me know!)

7. Bought my first Christmas tree (Here's lookin at you, tree)

8. Entered into a new relationship (he is married though)

9. Made out with a dog (tongue & everything!)

10. Figured out who I'm voting for in 2020

11. Was really surprised by how much I liked what Miley's become

12. Got denied a .50 cent raise (don't worry, I know it's just because I'm not worth it/there is no true justice in this world)

13. Switched from whiskey gingers to tom collins (Meet the Parents finally makes sense)

14. Found over 6 dead birds (their majesty is in their tragedy)

15. Realized of all the bad things you could say about Mary Kay Letourneau, at least she doesn't seem to be racist (which is more than I can say for most cops HEYYO)

16. Found out that people really like to express their "solidarity" through transparent filters they can get by clicking a button

17. Graduated! from my parent's health insurance

18. Went to see Get Hard in theaters, regret nothing

19. Went to see Bill Nye speak, regret a lot (he's very pandering in person you guys!!!!)

20. Tried fancy shampoo (Eh)

21. Got a daiquiri tattoo (Don't ask me about it!)

22. Found a 100 dollar bill on the ground (haven't spent it because inevitably I will be confronted by my financial instability)

23. Got a fish!!! (well really got two fish but the first one died within 12 hours. S/o Petsmart)

24. Got in a few fights with people online who hate women/black people/correct grammar

25. Cleaned my email so my inbox was at 0 but now it's back up to 365 :(

26. Still do not have a washer or dryer at my house

27. Was on a TV show for VICE (which will probably never air! or it will and i will be cut out!)

28. Bought sushi for lunch "because I deserve it" 9 times

29. Went to New York and walked the Botanical Gardens in tights because I forgot what cold is and my thighs were red for 2 hours even after being indoors

30. Ate 1 million chips

31. Got better at stand up (and crying!)

32. Wrote some stuff

33. Read some stuff

34. Apologized to Hannibal Buress for yelling at him

35. Made mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving that didn't have enough butter

36. Still didn't get contacts

37. Did not get in any car accidents despite drinking and driving a lot in the beginning of the year (I'm better now!)

It was very great! Look out for my list of things I hope to accomplish in 2016! Bless up

#2015 #2016 #contatcs #funny lists #thanksgiving #chips #car accident #fish

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