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utilitycaster · 1 year

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Now that the two-shots complete I was wondering if you'd be willing to share your opinions on Molly, Lucien and Kingsley and their differences. Maybe favorite to least favorite. I like your takes on Molly and wondered how the book and two shot add or even take away from who Molly and the other are. Also has the second part changed your thoughts on how Kingsley's rogue and bloodhunter levels are split?

Hey anon! This is a great and complicated question. (also, as a warning, I'm no longer tagging Nine Eyes of Lucien spoilers as it's been a month, but this does have some).

I adore the conversation that Beau, Yasha, and Kingsley had in this episode and need to rewatch it when it is not midnight and I am not very full of cold medication, and I think Beau's feelings are remarkably close to many of my own in terms about how I feel about them as people, though not obviously in the meta sense.

I think Lucien is the fucking worst as a person, obviously, but as a viewer/reader, he's very enjoyable as a love-to-hate-them villain. I've said this elsewhere, but especially in the book, where we get to see his POV, it really does feel like he doesn't really think other people continue to exist when he's not looking at them (see: Aldreda; his single noble act is giving her the opportunity for a good life, but he then proceeds to utterly ruin that relationship by having no respect for the fact that she took the opportunity and built that life without him when he didn't keep in touch). This is I think reinforced by the fact that, post-Somnovem pact, the tombtakers do kind of function that way and all return to him voluntarily after two years, even those of them who found other employment. All of the purple tieflings have a certain degree of arrogance - they are Taliesin Jaffe characters - but Lucien is the only one where it fully crosses into narcissism.

I loved Beau and Yasha's takes on Molly, because Beau always found him irritating in many of the same ways I did (self-righteousness; patting himself on the back for cheap and not terribly meaningful gestures; manipulative tendencies) but did have genuine affection for him as well. Yasha's was actually even more touching and interesting to me, because to Yasha, Molly represented a reprieve from the absolute darkest time in her life, and was her first real platonic friend...but she also acknowledged that he struggled with a certain degree of darkness. (For that matter, as an aside, I loved the statement that Molly teetered and Lucien went on a full sprint in the context of the book and in the context of the scene with Zehir in the temple. Lucien did indeed sprint, and one could argue that his sprint was at also partially motivated by love, but then we can compare it to Fjord, whose deals with darker powers come with an unshakable sense of responsibility for his actions that Lucien never had.)

It's interesting then, because I absolutely think that Molly is by far a better person than Lucien, and the book makes it even clearer that a bit of that personality was there within Lucien, not quite reabsorbed, and that Molly genuinely cared for the Mighty Nein. But at the same time, because Lucien is positioned as a villain and Molly as a hero by the nature of the story, I like Lucien's personality for his role more than I liked Molly's, if that makes sense. That said, I also really do believe that I'd have probably come around on Molly eventually, and he just happened to die when he was still kind of annoying to me and so that opportunity passed.

So, it's unsurprising that by far my favorite on all accounts is Kingsley. I think one of the biggest factors is that he is actively considering who he is and why. Lucien displays a remarkable lack of reflection; like, it's clear his parents are horrible and abusive, but also there's some shit going on when you kill them in cold blood before you turn 13 that might be worth unpacking. Molly was utterly lacking in curiosity about his past, another thing that I never particularly cared for about him. Kingsley perhaps had no option, given the context in which he was born, but the fact that he isn't merely passively absorbing information but seeking it out for himself and getting other perspectives is a huge step forward from either of his predecessors. It's interesting that Beau points out, correctly, that both Molly and Lucien were very passionate and very susceptible to influence; Kingsley is trying to be influenced by a variety of good people. There is just a degree of ownership, agency, and self-awareness we didn't see before and which we do see with Kingsley.

With regards to Kingsley's build: it is now confirmed that he's at least level 13 in blood hunter, since his brand of castigation damage is 6 (2 x his +3 in Wisdom). I also think that unless he has several items we didn't see, his stat improvements indicate he probably took 4 levels in rogue, granting him 3 ASIs (compared to Molly at level 5, he has +1 each to his INT and CHA scores; +2 to CON; and +2 to Dex). It's not a hard confirm, but he showed no L14 blood hunter abilities and it's a reasonable choice to make.

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Cinema Legends Turning 100 in 2024

Even though there is one more month to go in 2023, I thought I would get a head start on this post. Without further ado, the centenarians for 2024.

Eva Marie Saint - actress

William Russell - actor

Robert M. Young - director (Update: Died On February 6, 2024 at 99)

Lee Adams - lyricist

Priscilla Pointer - actress

Ann Vernon - actress (Update: Made it to 100)

Krishnaveni - actress

Mimis Plessas - film composer

Maria Riva - actress

Joyce Randolph - actress (Update: Died On January 13, 2024 at 99)

Ted Hartley - actor, producer

Nadia Cattouse - actress

Woody Woodbury - actor, comedian (Update: Made it to 100)

Meta Velander - actress

Pia Velsi - actress (Update: Made it to 100)

Yatsuko Tan'ami - actress

Bo Bjelfvenstam - director, screenwriter, actor

Jean Harlez - director

Madeline Anderson - director

Alfred Hoffman - actor

Kang Cheng - director

Fada Santoro - actress

Walter Schultheiss - actor

Donald Pelmear - actor

Teresa Cunillé - actress

Ip Chun - martial artist, actor

Rolf Schimpf - actor

Terry Gibbs - film score musician

Elaine Schreyeck - continuity supervisor

Stanley Sopel - producer

Eunice Christopher - actress

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Gloria Stroock - actress

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Robert Porter - producer

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Pat Jaffe - producer, editor

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Norbert Terry - director, producer

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Alice Toen - actress

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Richard Gilbert - director, producer

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Ronald Spencer - director, producer

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Hellsing Commentary 10 Notes

This commentary is done by Taliesin Jaffe, the voice director and lead script adapter of Hellsing, Patrick Seitz, voice of Luke Valentine and partial script adapter of the latter episodes of Hellsing Ultimate, and Jonathan Klein, the producer for both Hellsing anime. Direct quotes may vary in accuracy, as these are written down from audio without transcripts. I also didn't write down every joke or piece of trivia because I feel like people who watch the commentaries should get to have some nice surprises for stuff that isn't covered here.

-Most of Hellsing's cast were teens or very early twenties when they started with the series. Patrick Seitz was 21 and just out of Catholic school, "And I remember thinking 'A show about vampires and they swear a lot? Gosh, this is-' I had no idea what anime was gonna have in store for me."

-Luke Valentine's original, immediate character notes for voice casting in 2001 were "Luke Valentine. Male, mid-20s, the older of the two Valentine brothers. Slightly effeminate, but serious."

-Only four people have worked on Hellsing scripts: Taliesin Jaffe, Patrick Seitz, Mike McFarland, and John Breen during the original TV series. Jonathan Klein "threw a few lines into the peanut gallery," and was responsible for the "End of the line, Alfred" from Jan Valentine in the original TV series, because he wanted Jan to call Walter "Alfred" at least once.

-Taliesin was "praying" that he could use a different VA for Girlycard, though he respects why they didn't let him. "I had a plan, I can't talk about it, but I had a plan. But, this worked better, I will admit."

-Taliesin and Jonathan occasionally talk at convention panels about how "We almost lost our jobs, uh, basically, 'cause Taliesin- and I mean, Taliesin was right to stick to his guns-"

Taliesin: "I was younger and angrier."

Jonathan: "Yes, when the Japanese told us 'No, its Arucard' and we said 'No, its not! Its Alucard!' and they said 'No, you have to dub it as Arucard,' and we were like- Taliesin was like 'No. I'm not doing it! I'm not-' And meanwhile, like, the Geneon producers were like 'If- if you don't want to do it...we could have somebody else work on the show.'"

Taliesin: "I was- I was kinda doing the 'Fine.'"

Patrick: "His name wasn't Dracura."

Jonathan: "You know, that was the whole-! So we had- so, I'm sure we've mentioned this before, but I'll do it again- we said 'Okay, just ask Mr. Hirano, the mangaka, why he went with Arucard instead of Alucard, since it's supposed to be Dracula spelled backwards.'"

Taliesin: "He didn't write back."

Jonathan: "No no, that was the whole thing! They were afraid to ask him, because they were afraid he would be distracted from writing Hellsing. 'Cause he was still- this was early on in the series, and they didn't want- Young King Ours was like 'No no, he has to be working on Hellsing!'"

Patrick: "A question from America, this is gonna throw off his whole groove!"

Jonathan: "So I think the answer, they answered it by fax -for people who don't know what a fax machine is, different times- we got, like, a thermal fax that said: 'Its Dracura spelled backwards.'"

Taliesin: "I believe my exact- I believe my response to that was somewhere around- (very loud frustrated yell) and then that was, uh- "

Jonathan: "Oh of course, and the irony is, the vindication was when in like, 2005, when we finally got to have dinner with Mr. Hirano at Anime Expo, and Taliesin was like, nudging me, he's elbowing me in the gut, saying 'Ask him, ask him.' And I'm like 'Okay, okay, Mr. Hirano, I'm really sorry I have to ask you this, we really are honored to have been working on your show, and that you've chosen us, again, to do the dub- why is it Arucard? And, and not Alucard?' And he said 'Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know how to spell things in English, please feel free to correct everything I made a mistake about.' and you were, like, staring at the Geneon producers-"

Taliesin: "I was trying to burn a hole through the Geneon producers."

-Patrick pulled up the Major's "I love war" speech and watched it in order to bring back the Major's muse when he was writing OVA 10.

-Taliesin has only cut one line due to being offended, that being when Mike McFarland was helping him write Jan Valentine.

-During the same dinner with Hirano, Taliesin and Jonathan asked what he wanted out of the dub, what he wanted them to do, "And he said, and I believe in English: 'Make it cool.' Like, he was like 'Cool. I want cool! I don't care how you do it, make it cool.'"

-Taliesin states "I believe in adapting for parents. I think if like, your parents or your older brother or your, your dad can come in the room and go 'What- what's this?' (with interest) then we've succeeded...and even better if they come in and their first reaction is not 'This is foreign.'"

-Jonathan agrees and says that "It just- the way it (Hellsing) plays, the way it works, is just not your typical anime. It doesn't have any of the anime archetypes in there, that you typically find in most anime." Patrick chips in with "Seras isn't running late to a meeting with like, her schoolbag and toast in her mouth."

-Taliesin states "You will see that there is a direct correlation between Seras and Alucard- their origins, and the way that they are- like, that relationship makes sense and is a big part of what this show is about, was Dracula recognizing himself in someone else, who...has a similar origin, a modern version of it, but...wasn't crushed by it. He found someone stronger than him and turned her into a vampire. And it's a really fascinating story from that direction. And there's other themes going on here, but that's a big one for me."

-Patrick and Taliesin both talk about how they'd rather have characters be "true to themselves rather than true to the material."

-There was some discussion on whether or not Walter knew that he was evil, and Taliesin thinks that he wasn't and was being "subconsciously manipulated by his younger self."

-As of the OVA 10 commentary, Taliesin had a tumblr.

-The actress that Taliesin had almost settled on for Integra before Victoria Harwood auditioned ended up playing a younger Integra for both series.

-Taliesin had to read In a Glass Darkly because of "the Carmilla episode" of the original TV series. Taliesin also mentions that he liked Incognito, who "gets a raw deal, all things considered."

-Both Taliesin and Jonathan agreed to work on Hellsing because of a short test-animation clip by the Gonzo animation studios, which included the Major slow-clapping. (Taliesin was "so upset" that he didn't appear in the series.) They emailed each other almost at the same time saying "I want this."

-According to Jonathan, the animation for the original TV series became "really, really bad" by episode four. Although he apparently can't talk about it, Jonathan says that it needed more money, but the money went to another show that was being produced at the same time, and calls it a "robbing Peter to pay Paul" sort of situation.

-Taliesin loves Seras's character arc.

-Casting Walter's two younger voices was a long and complicated process, especially trying to get them to fit together. Ralph Lister "could probably have done young, middle-aged Walter," but then Walter's child form would "hit like a ton of bricks."

-Adapting Heinkel's speech to Walter was tricky because in the original Japanese "she was almost literally saying 'die die die kill kill kill' for this whole damn exchange." They left her doing it at the end "where it's just the tantrum" instead.

-Taliesin would've loved to dub The Dawn and was sad that he didn't get to.

-During the Major's speech to Seras and Integra, Taliesin comments again that "At this point, everyone's trying to commit suicide. Like, everyone's trying to have death by gunfire...Walter is now just trying to like, end everything, the Major's trying to end everything, all the vampires inside -the Captain was trying to, like- everyone's just trying to make it end, everyone's just running into the fire."

-Patrick and Taliesin both pause to wish for Integra's VA to read the phonebook, again.

-Taliesin routinely fucks up his computer search history after about a week working on Hellsing. Patrick laughs and states "I had those moments, where I was like ‘Hi NSA, this is for work, I promise.’" Jonathan quips through his own snickers "We’re working on Hellsing! We're not really...we’re not looking to start the local chapter of the Aryanization, I promise you." Taliesin sighs and agrees ruefully: "Yeah, I occasionally feel like adding messages into my Google search engine, going: 'Just for research, I swear.'"

-During Seras's fight with the Captain, Taliesin briefly considered throwing in a reference to The Monuments Men.

-Taliesin also considered adding a line in the exchange between Walter and the Doctor about Molière, presumably in place of the "Molière? You should be so lucky" line. "I almost had baby Walter actually- I just wanted him to record 'Fuck Molière!' you know, 'Bitch!' And I was almost on the edge of 'Fuck Molière!' but its, uh..."

-Taliesin says that "The women in the Hammer Dracula films are really where Integra comes from."

-Both Patrick and Taliesin are uncertain of where the food the Major eats goes.

-Taliesin threw in a reference to Young Frankenstein in the scene between Doc and Walter, with the "dignity and grace" line.

-Taliesin calls young Walter "still posh, but slightly like- he ends up, the young version of him is not quite as polite, a little sloppy, a little mean, a little...(inhales) just a hair, like, prepubescent punk, is the push, but still from money."

-Back during the original Hellsing TV series, a "giant throne-chair" was made for promotional reasons, which Crispin signed autographs in while in costume during an event. Taliesin kept the chair and Crispin kept the costume, although at the time of commentary Taliesin is considering loaning it semi-permanently to one of two friends.

-Taliesin used to work with the actor who played young Penwood while they were both in junior high school.

-Patrick and Taliesin both compliment Makube's VA on his performance, with Taliesin saying "he's made of slime...No, he's fabulously full of shit."

-Jonathan and Taliesin toss about the theory that Heinkel became a regenerator. "Something happened to her."

-In Integra's exaggerated flashback, Penwood is wearing a Legends of the Galactic Heroes costume.

-Taliesin says that it's nice that Integra has chilled in the 30-year time gap. "Alucard has actually -and we'll get to it when he shows up- he's kind of accepted a new role, for the first time in several hundred years. He's sort of let go of a lot of his pissed-off, and is no longer here to mock god and be angry about what happened to him as a kid."

-Taliesin noticed how Alucard's red coat probably connects to the coat Van Helsing wore. Being inspired by that generation was also the reason for Alucard's American accent. "Maybe he was like, taking a cue from Quincey, was our justification."

-Jonathan asks again what the Hellsing drinking game would be, and Patrick suggests every time you see glasses before admitting that wouldn't work. Jonathan agrees and says "Nope, we'd be dead of alcohol poisoning in the first five minutes of the thing." Taliesin offers "every time I fuck up (lip-)flap" and Jonathan says they'd still be dead in the first five minutes as they all laugh.

-Taliesin was "very very pleased" with the ending to Hellsing Ultimate. Jonathan asks if he thinks Integra would take Alucard's offer to become a vampire, and both Taliesin and Patrick say yes.

-During the original TV series, Taliesin and a sound engineer were once so mad at "the Japanese for making me do- and the Geneon for making me do something I didn't want to do" that they got "rip-roaring drunk in the booth," and the engineer actually pulled a knife on the owner of the studio for "trying to fuck with the mix...He pulled out -and I won't say which engineer to protect the engineer- but he pulled out a box-cutter and was like 'If you touch my board, I will fucking cut you.' And I was clapping and like, the studio owner pulled out a baseball bat and there was like a tense confrontation. 'Cause it was like 'DO NOT TOUCH THE MIXBOARD. WE ARE BULDING A 51 MIX, YOU ASSHOLES.'"

#Hellsing #Luke Valentine #Seras Victoria #alucard (hellsing)#Walter Dornez #major montanna max #major (hellsing)

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Chinese Spy Balloon Drifts Over U.S.

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Feb. 3, 2023.--Drifting over parts of the United States at 50,000 feet, including over U.S. nuclear silos in Montana, an unidentified Chinese Foreign Object raised red flags in the Pentagon, not buying the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] explanation that the massive object was monitoring weather patterns. President Joe Biden, 80, was informed Feb. 1, deciding to let the UFO continue what the Chinese government said was an aimless path, concluding that it couldn’t pick up significant intel. When the so called mammoth balloon, two school buses in length and girth, drifted over Montan’s Malmstrom Air Force Base housing nuclear warheads, 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and 64-year-old Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley took notice. Austin and Miley cautioned Biden about shooting down the spy balloon, fearing the debris field could endanger U.S. citizens.

U.S.-Chinese relations have been at lowest level in decades, cautioning Biden about taking any aggressive action. Biden infuriated 69-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping Sept. 23, 2022 saying he would defend Taiwan with U.S. troops in the event China tried to seize the democratic island of 40 million by force. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 60, postponed his trip to Beijing, calling Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Li to reschedule. Chinese officials insisted the airship was a weather balloon, accidentally drifting out of its trajectory due to the Jet Stream. Hard to imagine after flying over Montana heading eastbound, there’s much population to be concerned about should the Pentagon decide to shoot down the balloon. U.S. officials, speaking anonymously, said the Pentagon wanted to keep communication lines open without shooting down the spy ship.

Talking about the balloon’s limited navigation undermine the fact that the balloon continues to track its way into the Midwest, also home to several military bases. “The idea that Communist China has a spy balloon headed towards Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri right now—the home of the Stealth Bomber—is absolutely unbelievable,” said Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-Mo.). “No American should accept this. I don’t,” said Schmidt, encouraging Biden to shoot it down. Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, refuses to say whether there were any plans to shoot down the Chinese spy ship. Ryder said he didn’t think the balloon posed a threat to U.S. national security. If the U.S. pulled the same stunt over Beijing, the CCP wouldn’t hesitate one second to shoot it down. Doing nothing sends a strong message to Beijing about the extent of Biden’s and Pentagon’s hesitancy.

No one believes the CCP explanation of a weather balloon gone adrift because of the Jet Stream. Traveling from the Peoples Republic of China, the balloon had plenty of random drift to veer away from the U.S. mainland. China’s account of wind patters AKA the Westerlies was entirely feasible to Dan Jaffe, professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Washington. Jaffe doesn’t know the extent of the GPS navigational system on the behemoth spy ship, now heading toward other strategic U.S. military bases. White House officials are flummoxed over what to do, knowing that diplomatic relations with China are near the breaking point over Taiwan among other things. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierred said that “the presence of this balloon in our air space . . . is a clear violation of our sovereignty as well as international law and it is unacceptable this occurred.”

Blinken and Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman both protested to a top Chinese embassy official Wednesday, one day before the White House went public with the event. Blinken and Sherman hoped that the spy ship incident would open up discussions about Taiwan, human rights, China’s claims in the South China Sea, North Korea, Russia’s War in Ukraine, trade policy and climate. How could Blinken think that the U.S. has leverage on Beijing to discuss anything other than why Beijing sent an unlawful spy ship over the United States? Whatever other issues exist with Beijing, they’re not going to be salvaged because the U.S. didn’t shoot down the Chinese spy balloon. China wants the U.S. to stop meddling in its internal affairs especially over Taiwan and what happens in the South China Sea. Blinken already provoked Beijing over human right abuses.

Failing to shoot down the Chinese spy ship speaks volumes about the current state of diplomacy with Communist China. Biden brought the two nations to near blows over violating the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, requiring the U.S. to recognize only one China, the one in Beijing, but, more importantly, end the 1954 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty. Biden told Xi he would defend Taiwan with U.S. troops. What kind of world does Blinken live in thinking the Chinese weather balloon has anything to do with the Ukraine War? Failing to act on the spy ship tells the CCP all they need to know under Biden’s leadership: That the U.S. is bluffing about military action. Former President Donald Trump, 76, has said repeatedly that foreign adversaries do not respect Biden. When it comes to a Chinese spy ship, Biden had only one appropriate option, to shoot down the Unknown Chinese spy ship.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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Thinking of making another sideblog for non-markov generated names.

Anyways: Farbaddan names

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#name list #names #name #character name #character names

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Güncel modern kompozisyon kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent modern composition recordings. Download.

01 – Max Richter – Summer 1 02 – Machinefabriek with Anna Bakker – Folklore 03 – Malcolm Parson – Ghosts 04 – Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Snåcko 05 – Scott Ordway/SOLI Chamber Ensemble – Act 1c. Paper 06 – Danny Mulhern – A Different Kind Of Blue 07 – Freya Yarde – Shimmer 08 – Julia Kent – Echo Of Wings 09 – Rooydad – I Could Have Lived Differently 10 – Pat Jaffe, Aidan Filshie – Threshold 11 – Lemos – Quarantine 12 – Andrew Yarevenko – Requiem

#modern kompozisyon #modern composition #yeni #new

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Pat Jaffe and Callum Mintzis With Band at St John's

Pat Jaffe and Callum Mintzis With Band at St John’s

26th June 2021 The premiere of a new work for large ensemble from emerging Melbourne composers Callum Mintzis and Patrick Jaffe . This collaborative composition has been written specifically for some of Australia’s finest improvising musicians was held on Saturday 26th June 2021 at the stunning acoustic space of St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell. A large ensemble work, scored for string…

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#Amy You #anglican #Ashley Ballat #Callum Mintzis #camberwell #church #Dy John #Helen Svoboda #Katrina Filshie #Kiran Samuel #Ned Wright-Smith #Niran Dasika #Oscar Woinarski #Pat Jaffe #sanctury #solitude #Willard Zhong

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envy-starlight · 3 years

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Velma! Continuation of the Scooby Gang! Opened my color generator app and this was the first thing it was one and I was like oh perfect!

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Wait wait wait, I know it's not Dobson, but David Jaffe went on a rant about PatStaresAt? Where? Why?

Kinda-sorta, the whole thing has a bit of a backstory to it, but I’ll summarize it as best I can.

Back in Feb of 2019, Pat made a joke at CliffyB(because of how Cliffy ran his company and treated his employees) which made Cliffy get super angry at Pat over, mainly because Cliffy was trying to be smug online and Pat likes to shitpost.

Skip to July of this year, and Pat makes another shitpost at Cliffy’s expense.

This, for some reason, got the attention of David Jaffe to start tweeting at Pat over his tweet and trying to get Pat to come on his podcast/go on Pat’s podcast to debate crunch in video game development.

Pat, seeing it as Jaffe just trying to get attention via outrage clicks and the like, had no interest in going along with it.

Jaffe proceeded to do his podcast about how Pat was super wrong and video game crunch is completely normal and should be encouraged or whatever, using Pat’s current Twitter avatar to draw people in.

“Let’s Us Discuss This”

He later changed the thumbnail to be less flattering of Pat and to act as if he was showing up Pat’s fans, as they had come into Jaffe’s livestream to mock the guy.

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Meanwhile, Pat barely mentioned the interactions again save for a passing mention on the next podcast and one or two superchats in his stream directly following the tweets.

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And that’s how David Jaffe had a livestream about PatStaresAt and video game crunch, all because Pat made a CliffyB joke.

#PatStaresAt #castle superbeast #super best friends #david jaffe #Cliffy b #video games #crunch #youtube #ask #anonymous

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peacemorrison · 7 years

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Taylor talking about Dave for an argentine radio

"Dave is my greatest influence, he taught me everything! He is one of the best musicians of all time."

#taylor hawkins #dave grohl #grohlkins #foo fighters #daylor grohlkins #nate mendel #pat smear #chris shifflet #rami jaffe

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cometcrystal · 4 years

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STOP PITTING VELMAS AGAINST EACH OTHER

nicole jaffe is A LEGEND

pat stevens and marla frumkin are both APPRECIATED and UNIQUE

christina lange is ADORABLE

b.j. ward is CLASSIC

mindy cohn is ICONIC

stephanie d'abruzzo is the QUEEN OF PUPPETS

kate micucci has the RANGE

linda cardellini is a QUEEN

hayley kiyoko is a GAY ICON

sarah gilman is OUTSTANDING

gina rodriguez

#scooby doo #velma dinkley

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season Eleven Rewatch: “Commitment Issues”

The basics: The team investigates the murder of a Naval Warfare Engineer at a poetry reading.

Written by: Jordana Lewis Jaffe wrote or co-wrote wrote or co-wrote "Honor", "Patriot Acts", "Dead Body Politic", "Paper Soldiers", "Unwritten Rule", "Big Brother", "Iron Curtain Rising", "Exposure", "Savior Faire", "Beacon", "Defectors", "Exchange Rate", "Black Market", "Payback", "Battle Scars", "Mountebank", "Vendetta", "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", "Pro Se" "Heist", "Born to Run" and "Provenance" (the episode that introduced Katherine Casillas).

Directed by: James Hanlon who directed "War Cries", "The Grey Man", "Kolcheck, A", "Driving Miss Diaz", "Command and Control" (number 150), "Angels and Daemons", "Where There’s Smoke", "Black Market", "Tidings We Bring", "Can I Get a Witness?", "Cac Tu Nhan", "A Diamond in the Rough", "Into the Breach" and "Human Resources".

Guest stars of note: Moon Bloodgood is in two episodes in a row as Katherine Casillas, Marsha Thomason returns from last season’s holiday episode “Joyride” as NCIS Special Agent Nicole DeChamps and Dawn Noel returns from “Provenance” as LAPD Officer Jessica Cole. Phillip Garcia as Miguel Vela, Rima Rajan as Daisy Patel, Mary-Pat Green as Carla and Angela Trimbur as Janice Eckhart.

Our heroes: Should have figured this out earlier.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Looking for Anna and some help from Nell. Sam: According to Katherine, likes Katherine. A lot. Kensi: Strategically moving a knife fight into a pool. Deeks: Loves salty bookstore lady Carla. Eric: Bad at social cues. Nell: Willing to help Callen look for Anna. Hetty: Not today.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Having a moment with Nell until Eric showed up. Sam: Finds social clubs pretentious, complete waste of money and time. Kensi: Would like all their cases to start in pleasant situations like poetry readings and cello concerts. Deeks: Feels he should be offended by Carla’s anti-hippie feelings. Eric: Ruining the Callen-Nell moment. Nell: Having a moment with Callen ruined by Eric. Hetty: Nope, not today.

Who's down with OTP: The OTP of note in this episode was Sam and Katherine. There were some bumps along the way but things were better at the end.

Who's down with BrOTP: The real BrOTP here was DeChamps with the team – she is a great recurring character with real chemistry as a friend with Sam.

Any pressing need for a young FBI Agent: Only of DeChamps wanted a partner for the day.

Who is running the team this week? Callen. On and off the books (with Nell).

Fashion review: Blue button-down shirt for Callen. Black tee for Sam. Kensi has a white tee-shirt under an olive-green zip-up sweater. Deeks is wearing a blue henley under a tan suede trucker jacket with a shearling collar. Red pullover sweater for Eric after wearing a dark blue tee and black work-out shorts to start the day and for his mid-day workout. Blue and red floral blouse with a dark green jumper.

Music: “The Number 4” by Khruangbin is playing at the poetry reading.

Any notable cut scene: No.

Quote: Katherine: “I'm just glad you didn't show me any special treatment there today.” Sam: “Special treatment. And why would I go and do that?” Katherine: “Oh, because you like me.” Sam: “Do I?” Katherine: “ A lot.” Sam: “Oh, really?” Katherine: “Definitely. I can see it all over your face.” Sam: “Oh. Is that so?” Katherine: “Like, all over it. And you want to know if I'm free for dinner.” Sam: “For dinner. When is that? “ Katherine: “Tonight.”

Anything else: The previously-s are Callen and Sam talking about Anna, Callen finding Anna on a security camera, Eric under attack in San Francisco, Sam meeting Katherine. A busy previously offering.

At a poetry reading in a bookstore, one of the poets finishes her reading and makes her way to the back of the store. There is a long, long line for the restroom. The poet, Janice Eckhart, is talking with those waiting. But she really needs to use the restroom. After knocking on the door, she lets herself in. A man on his knees is bent over the toilet. He’s not vomiting, he’s dead, strangled.

Early the following morning, Nell is burning files in the burn room. Callen joins Nell, asking what’s she doing. She’s evasive. When Nell asks why Callen is in early, he’s evasive. Callen thinks Nell is trying to blow him off. “Because I am. I definitely am.” Not taking the hint, Callen asks for a favor. Nell has had her quota of burning incriminating evidence.

Callen asks Nell to help him find Anna. There was a triple homicide in Barcelona. Assuring Nell Anna wasn’t a victim, he wants to make sure she’s OK. And maybe not involved. Nell is on-board but worried that she may not find Anna.

Since it is leg-day, Eric is in early to work out. He broke up the Callen-Nell moment and feels badly about it. Eric’s watch starts beeping. Saying he doesn’t want to ruin the moment the three of them are having, Eric isn’t answering. Callen assures Eric the three of them are not having a moment, Callen and Nell were, one he “clearly murdered.” They have a case. Admitting he’s bad at social cues, Eric is going to gather the team.

Kensi and Deeks arrive in Ops. When Eric sets up the case at a poetry reading, Kensi wishes all their cases started at poetry readings of cello concerts – something pleasant. “Oh, wait for it,” Nell says. “And we’re back,” Kensi and Deeks say simultaneously when they learn about the murder. The dead man is Michael Carpenter, former active-duty Naval Warfare Engineer, current private sector software engineer at Go-Go-Go. They don’t have much else on Carpenter.

Nell goes off script. She learned Go-Go-Go is funded by the same Chinese Shell Corporation that was behind Logic Wide. Eric is nervous suddenly, though he keeps saying “cool.” With Callen and Sam going to Go-Go-Go, Kensi and Deeks are on their way to the crime scene. Nell apologizes to Eric. She wasn’t sure how to tell him – she found out during the briefing – and decided to just rip the Band-Aid off.

At Go-Go-Go, there is a very open office design. A number of people are working at desks, non-office chairs, a beanbag and a couch. Miguel Vela, the man in charge, is willing to speak to Callen and Sam. He orders his staff to go outside for while – “get your vitamin D and gets those 10,000 steps in” – while he talks to NCIS. Callen says they are there to talk about Michael Carpenter. Vela calls him the “punk” who skipped work. When Callen explains why Carpenter skipped work, Vela is stunned.

Callen asks about what Carpenter was working on at Go-Go-Go Vela said nothing, same answer for what they do at Go-Go-Go – nothing. Sam pushes. Vela talks about algorithms but goes back to nothing. Pointing out the large office space they’re in and nice offices in Venice along with the VC funding from China, Sam thinks it is something. Vela assures them his company is building a better search engine. “He didn’t die because of us.”

At the poetry book store, Kensi and Deeks introduce themselves to Carla, the bookstore manager. She is not a fan of the poetry reading. Or the people at the poetry reading – “pretentious hippies with tattoos in languages they don’t speak.” Deeks gives her the eye, asking if any of the poets seemed capable of killing Carpenter. No, they lacked the original idea to kill someone and “the cajones to take someone’s life.” Kensi asks Carla for an alibi. Offended, she tells Kensi she was working crowd control – “you can never trust a hippie.” Deeks feels he should be offended. She also has a security tape that will prove her innocence. As they walk to the security area, Kensi doesn’t know what to make of Carla. Deeks loves her.

Callen asks Vela how is what Go-Go-Go doing that’s any different than Google. Vela tries to pass it off as subtle and highly technical – things Callen and Sam wouldn’t understand. That’s fine with Nicole DeChamps as she joins the conversation. Callen and Sam are pleased to see her. Vela is not when DeChamps says the search engine is probably what got Carpenter killed.

Moving their conversation from the work area to a conference room, DeChamps explains what Vela was doing. Project Dragonfly was being built by Google for the Chinese government. Was being the key word since it was being built to give the Chinese government the personal data of every person doing a search. Looking up the wrong information could get a citizen arrested – or worse. Protests against Google because of their cooperation with the Chinese government caused the company to kill the project. China is paying Go-Go-Go to pick up Project Dragonfly’s work. Vela wants to talk to his lawyer. Sam thinks that because he doesn’t want to “Go-Go-Go to jail.” Sam couldn’t help himself.

While Vela goes to call his lawyer, DeChamps tells Callen and Sam she got the info on Go-Go-Go from a DoD connection. She was able to trace the funding from China to Go-Go-Go. She probably isn’t the only person to figure out the connection. That may be what got Carpenter killed. Vela, on hold, assures NCIS he did nothing illegal and his company did nothing Illegal.

Eric has switched from leg day to “everything must hurt day” when Nell finds him in the gym. He’s riding an exercise bike like Lance Armstrong because “I’m dealing with stuff now.” Nell thinks getting the bad guys may be the best way to work through stuff.

Callen, Sam and DeChamps get some lunch from a food truck. She hasn’t seen them for months but they say nothing new is going on. Figuring she can’t get them to talk about themselves, she asks Sam about Callen. Callen is trying to commit to something for once. Sam says a sports team so DeChamps knows that means a woman. Asking Callen about Sam, Sam announces it is time to go back to the case. Callen agrees.

DeChamps wants a rain check on all things Sam Hanna. She was working the connection between Go-Go-Go and the Chinese government when she heard about the murder so she drove up from San Diego. Sam wonders if some of the Google protestors figured another march wouldn’t work with Go-Go-Go and took out one of the engineers. If Carpenter told the wrong person about what Go-Go-Go was doing, that person could have killed him or told someone who killed him. While the Go-Go-Go search engine would be illegal in the US, it isn’t illegal to build it for China.

While Kensi reviews the security video, Deeks asks Carla how many books does she read a week. Since this is a criminal investigation, Carla isn’t comfortable answering a personal question. Deeks asks for a guestimate. “Four or five a week if my allergies are in check and there’s a new John Oliver waiting for me back home.” If the Dodgers are winning, she’s flying with six or seven books along with the return of both the McRib and her estranged daughter. Less than three, her mother-in-law is in town. Kensi is listening to all this, entertained and appalled.

Carla points herself out on the screen, walking through a “hotbed of stoners, hippies and CBD enthusiasts.” The three sees Carpenter walking in with a woman. All agree he doesn’t fit in with the stoners, hippies and CBD enthusiasts. Deeks and Carla say at the same time “and who is that girl he’s with?” Deeks makes a face, Carla says she reads a lot of mystery novels.

When Callen, Sam and DeChamps walk into Ops, Nell has the driver’s license of Daisy Patel up on the big screen. Callen asks about Eric who is “feeling big feelings in the gym,” according to Nell. Sam bring DeChamps up to speed with Eric’s problems. Nell reports that Patel is a dental hygienist by day, environmental activist by night. DeChamps thinks she’s the wrong kind of activist may have branched out or spoke to other activist friends. Kensi and Deeks have Patel in the boat shed.

Reviewing her Facebook posts, Kensi knows Patel cares about the planet. Patel is teary-eyed as she is being questioned. Deeks reviews all her protesting and organizing activities. She is worried that activism is why she’s in the boat shed. “I thought I was helping you figure out who killed Michael.” She’s angry she’s a suspect because she cares about the environment.

Deeks asks what Patel knows about Carpenter’s work. She knows nothing. There were non-disclosure agreements making his work confidential. What she does know is that Carpenter was proud of what he was doing. He worked long hours and worked hard – he believed in what they were building.

Leaving Patel in interrogation, Kensi and Deeks have a conversation in the hall. They find it odd that Carpenter believed in denying Chinese citizens basic human rights. Patel, they believe, is not involved in his death. Talking to Callen, Sam and DeChamps on the plasma, Kensi and Deeks review what they learned. Sam is eliminating Vela, who seemed genuinely upset that Carpenter was killed. Nell arrives with news of a Go-Go-Go advisor – Katherine Casillas.

Enjoying her midday coffee and what looks like a mimosa at a fancy social club, Callen Sam and DeChamps join Katherine at her large corner table. Sam is anti-social clubs. DeChamps is entertained by the Sam and Katherine show. Callen introduces “insurance magnate and apparently the most connected person in the world” Katherine to DeChamps.

Confirming she sits on the board of Go-Go-Go, she thinks she’d be a bad board member if she didn’t know what they were doing for China. Vela called her about the murder – a murder Katherine isn’t sure is connected to his work. Raising her voice, DeChamps disagrees. When Katherine asks DeChamps to lower her voice, DeChamps gets louder – there is nothing to hide, after all. Katherine stands behind what the company is building 100%. Sam is really disappointed.

Eric is bench pressing when Kensi and Deeks ask him to help in them in Ops. “I’m not really in the headspace for this.” Kensi calls him a narcissist who is neglecting his job. He stinks, literally. Eric finally agrees. Kensi yells “get!” and Eric gets to the showers to clean-up and go to work. Deeks tells Kensi he doesn’t like it when she talks to people like that. She’s surprised. He asks her to tell him to shave and cut his hair. When she does, Deeks tells her “I freakin’ love it.”

A distracted Sam tries to push away his relationship with Katherine. As Callen gets the car, DeChamps wants to know why Katherine disappointed Sam. Sam was bothered that Katherine wasn’t the person he thought she was. DeChamps said that’s the problem with their jobs.

In Ops, Eric is brought up to speed just in time for a 9-1-1 call to come across their computers from Go-Go-Go. Eric updates Callen, Sam and DeChamps. At Go-Go-Go, the place has been trashed, several staffers roughed up. LAPD tells Sam that a masked, armed man and woman raided the offices. They stole all the hard drives and kidnapped Vela. Carpenter’s death, now Vela’s kidnapping – this is just the beginning. DeChamps can’t wait to hear Katherine’s story.

In the boat shed, Callen is willing to interrogate Katherine but Sam is up to it. DeChamps really wants to do it but Sam turns her down – she can’t have all the fun. Callen thinks if DeChamps had all the fun, she’d never leave. She isn’t leaving San Diego for LA. Callen and Sam go in together.

Talking to “Agent Hanna”, Katherine thinks NCIS isn’t seeing the whole picture and she isn’t doing their work for them. She gives them the runaround and Sam isn’t having it. The case is bigger than the three people in the room. She wants them to see the forest for the trees. Callen and Sam leave.

Walking with Kensi and Deeks, Nell has done a deep dive on Katherine, Miguel and the rest of the Go-Go-Go staffers. Nobody has any connections or sympathies for the Chinese government. Kensi thinks greed is a good reason. Nell looked into the money – it isn’t much. There is funding but it is “child’s play” compared to what everyone was making at their old jobs. People took pay cuts to work at Go-Go-Go. They have no equity in the company either. Everyone knew each other in the company – grad school or past employers. They are all connected.

In Ops, Eric has security footage of Miguel’s kidnapping. He was stuffed into the trunk of a Lexus SUV registered to an Abdul Khan, a Saudi national.

DeChamps joins Callen and Sam in interrogation. After calling Saudi Arabia “a little too hot and socially repressive” for her, Callen asks Katherine what she knows about the kidnapping. Sam pushes Katherine to tell the truth. She states clearly the company did nothing wrong. The Chinese spoke to the Saudis about the search engine. The Saudis wanted in but Go-Go-Go said no. They were threatened but kept saying no. Sam is furious – she should have told them. She promises Sam she has her reasons and that they’re “legit.”

Callen, Sam and DeChamps think Katherine’s story makes sense. Explains why Carpenter was killed. And Sam knows once Vela explains how the algorithm works, he’s of no use to the Saudis.

Kensi and Deeks are chasing the Lexis SUV. This is high end SUV chase action. At one point, Kensi loses the SUV. Deeks is about to lose his lunch as Kensi makes some wild turns to find the Lexus. Eric is tracking it for them. Nell takes over the directions, finding a way to cut off the Lexus. Kensi does, causing the Lexus to flip. The driver and his passenger are dead, no Miguel.

Nell finds Khan owns a home in Hancock Park. Vela could be at the home. The team is meeting at the house to see if Khan is there. Satellite heat sensors are not registering anyone in the house but as Kensi picks the lock on the front gate, the team hears people talking. Getting on the property and to the house, Callen and Sam go to right as Kensi, Deeks and DeChamps go left. Callen and Sam see several people dunking Vela’s head into the swimming pool.

DeChamps followed by Kensi climbs over a wall to get to the other side of the pool. They can hear Khan’s men demanding the software. Callen sees a pair of guards not far from the pool. On his command, the team starts the rescue. Deeks gets a runner. Callen and Sam fight with the disarmed bodyguards. As Kensi starts to pat down the sole woman, the woman pulls a knife and starts fighting with Kensi. Deeks watches as the two go into the pool. A sleeper hold in the pool ends that fight in Kensi’s favor.

With both Kensi and Vela wrapped in towels, Vela confirms Go-Go-Go is working for China. They are likely taking dirty money. He knows it looks bad but it wasn’t illegal. Katherine knows that. The technology is fake – it does not work. When Google shut down Project Dragonfly, Vela knew China wasn’t going to stop. Putting together a group of people he knew he could trust, Vela underbid his competitors and got the contract to build the search engine. Everything they’ve built for China doesn’t work unless you’re searching from a government IP address. It looks to the government as if Go-Go-Go’s search engine is legit but it isn’t.

Vela couldn’t tell anyone because he hasn’t delivered the software to China yet. They have to keep up the façade until they make the delivery. “Michael Carpenter died a hero,” Callen tells the others. Vela agrees. Sam asks about Katherine. The idea for doing all this was hers.

The team is at the bar with DeChamps toasting doing good work, using technology for the right reasons and the best team in town. DeChamps asks Sam to dinner. Just as he’s about to politely decline, she tells him to leave and go after Katherine. Nell pulls Callen aside. The triple homicide in Barcelona is connected to several other killings across Europe. Reviewing the footage, Nell isn’t sure it is Anna in the surveillance tape. Callen is.

At the boat shed, Katherine is in the main room being watched by a guard. Sam relieves the guard. Katherine and Sam apologize at the same time. She is grateful she was not shown any special treatment. Sam doesn’t understand why Katherine would think she merited special treatment. “You like me. A lot,” is her reply. She sees it all over her face. Also all over her face – that he wants to take her to dinner. Sam thinks this is his lucky day, with a hint of sarcasm. “We’ll see about that,” Katherine tells him.

What head canon can be formed from here: The case of the week here would have been more interesting if the team would have figured out that a Navy Warfare Engineer with an environmentalist girlfriend, a handpicked group of friends working with Sam’s soon to be girlfriend probably weren’t selling out the human rights of a nation. They seemed almost intentionally clueless about the case.

Mary-Pat Green, salty bookstore manager Carla, is something this show does well. They find an actor who can take their part and make it something more. She was there to move the storyline along. The writing was fine but she sold the hell out of it.

Episode number: Episode 14 of season 11, 254th overall.

#NCIS: Los Angeles Rewatch #NCIS: Los Angeles #NCIS: LA #NCIS Los Angeles #ncis la

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Movie Night at a Giant Wizard’s Tower

A (mini) Tale of the Mystic Woods

A short story featuring the Half-Giant Wizard Yonah, his student the Princess Sophia, and a bunch of his wizard friends! Based on the one word prompt “MIRROR”

Content Warnings: NONE!

This story is purely GT! Short and sweet and comedic! ---

“T MINUS 10 MINUTES PEOPLE!” Sophia called. “Loud much? My ear is right there!” The moment Yonah stepped through the doorframe had projected her voice across the massive kitchen as she stood on Yonah’s shoulder. And she didn’t need magic to do it. Thank you princess training. She got an affirmative response from the stove where Avshi Mersberg and Elisheva Tor were making batches of popcorn. “You’re just sensitive!” she chided, patting his forehead as he walked over. “It’s almost as if being a half-giant means I have better hearing than a human” he mused, “Amazing how that works” “And worse eyesight?” “No comment” he adjusted his thick rectangular glasses.

The popcorn was just about done. Several large bowls full. They had the classic cheese, garlic and butter, sea salt and sugar, and a few more interesting flavors. A smorgasbord of puffed kernels in a rainbow of labeled bowls!

While it was an impressive amount, but at over 23 feet tall it was barely a mouthful for Yonah. They hadn’t bothered to make it in that kind of quantity. The towering jar of kernels rested on the counter and Yonah stopped to take a small handful. Cupped his hands together His eyes flared up with fire. Power surged through his hands. It was… less of a pop and more of a firework crackle as smoke escaped through his fingertips. When he opened his palms he had a large handful of popped corn. Several bits fell to the floor, in his hands it looked like odd pebbles. “Show off!” Eli said, pouring the final batch into a wooden bowl stained a deep purple. But if she was half-firewitch she would have done the same. Yonah just smiled as he brought the still burning hot corn to his face. It didn’t smell particularly appetizing, it was unseasoned. There was a reason they were making it by stovetop. Yonah didn’t exactly want to cover his own hands in oil and salt, and his friends didn’t want to eat popcorn that had so much contact with his bare hands. Still he munched on it quite happily. In that moment he was both the tween girl offering sugar cubes to a barely broken stallion and the stallion itself eating out of the girl’s hands. “Want some?” he paused to hold up what was left to Sophia. “Ugh no way! These are covered in your slobber!” She pushed the hand away He shrugged and she was unbalanced for a moment. “I’ll take some!” said a voice from the space above Yonah’s head. A mass of dirty blond curls fell across his face. A human reached down from his head to snatch at the slightly slobbery pile as he brought it back to his mouth. He hadn’t even noticed they were there! “GAH!” Yonah nearly dropped the popcorn, which have been a bitch to clean up. Would have, if he didn’t have magic. But he didn’t drop any as Noam Berkowitz was pulled back onto his head by her brother Noah. “How many times have I told you two not to do that?” he reached up and playfully fought the pair with his fingers. “Do what? Sneak up on you? We figured you could smell us!” with his keen hearing he knew that was Noam. “You know it doesn’t count when I already know you’re here!” Normally he COULD smell their presence. Giants have an unnaturally acute sense of smell. Even as a half giant, Yonah’s olfactory awareness made their hard learned thief skills useless around him. But that was when they hadn’t been hanging around for the past hour, their scent blending into the rest of the smells of the tower, the rest of the humans, and now the overpowering garlic. Sophia rolled her eyes. Despite being a half a decade to a decade older than her (and she being 21), these wizards were rather childish. The bowls of flavored popcorn were loaded onto a plate. Avshi and Eli scrambled up Yonah’s arm to sit on his other shoulder and he picked up the plate, carrying it and his friends to the living room where everything else was set up. Sitting on the couch were the rest of the humans. The rest of the usual Crew: Mica Cohen, Shoshana Jaffe, and Zohar Levine , and also Sam Kahnt. They set up an array of cushions and bean bag chairs. As the ones who were there first, they chose the best spots. Well, nearly. The best spot couldn’t be set up ahead of time. “So, bring us up to speed!” Sam asked of Sophia before she had even disembarked from the giant wizard. “There’s a recap! And you missed a lot of episodes!” she retorted. Yonah released his riders and pulled up the ottoman to press against the couch. Propped up on a giant pillow was a very plain mirror. Plain for a magic mirror that is. It was still finely made and framed with a twisting pattern of silver. Yonah gently touched the frame, not wanting to get fingerprints on the polished surface. “Mirror Mirror with silver border reveal to us the Silken Breath Order” The mirror went foggy, the loading buffer processing the request and verifying their subscription. It wasn’t inexpensive, but having the subscription cast on such a large mirror had increased the price. The first notes to the theme song for Ice Princess started to play. The title card held in front of a mirror a thousand miles away and then removed to show a this days performers dancing to the familiar choreography that Sophia had long ago memorized, and instinctively got up to dance in time to. As the theme ended and the stage fell to shadow another card fell across the view. “Ice Princess, A Silken Breath Production, Is Brought To You By The Slayers Cake! Makers Of Fine Pastries And Swords For Hire. Whether You Need Scores of Crullers For That Last Minute Wedding For Your Recently Rescued Darling Or An Experienced Fighter To Rid Your Town Of A Rabid Eldritch Monster, The Slayers Cake Can Do It All!” The card changed. “Previously On Ice Princess” A series of beautiful paintings accompanied by narration were shown, recapping the last episode before. It was a lot. Sam looked a bit lost. “And Now Without Further Ado, The Order of the Silken Breath give you Episode 103 of Ice Princess” During the advertisements Yonah placed a large pillow behind everyone to lean on, took a pinch of the powder at his belt and shrunk down to join his friends. It was mostly to watch the show on a giant mirror. But also... Once situated on his favorite cushion Sophia took the bowl of garlic popcorn and her place in his lap. She leaned back into his soft chest and he leaned forward, squishing her a bit more.

Best seat in the house. — Everyone was silent as a inoffensively dark red colored card was lowered into view. They blinked for the first time in several minutes. Intermission. Sophia had to shake her head to bring herself back to reality. “What the FUCK!” She turned to her left to see a stunned Shoshana, who had frozen with a handful of popcorn, most of it fallen into her lap. Her frizzy light brown hair had seemed to puff up even more over the course of the last two hours. “Did, did Freddy fucking DIE?” was the first thing out of her mouth. “And they LEFT THE BODY!” Sophia pointed out as Yonah lifted her out of his lap. He stood up and stretched and hopped off the couch, returning to his normal size. Then offered his hand for anyone who needed to use the toilet to climb up and headed off to the restroom. They had thirty minutes before the second half of the episode. Before heading back they stopped by the kitchen to refresh the snacks. This time in quantities that Yonah could eat at his normal size without consuming it all in one bite. Just last night he and Sophia had made a batch of GAZ. A sort of lightly sweet nougat full of nuts! Now it was set and ready to be enjoyed. When he returned, friends on head and shoulders, snacks in hand, it was clear the three left behind had barely noticed they were gone. “Bit shitty of the writers!! They just got to the lab! I thought we’d get at LEAST a few episodes exploring it! There were so many things there worth investigating and now! FUck! It’s all gone!” “How are they gonna get back to it? They didn’t find the Princess! She’s there right? Right?” “Get Back? That explosion caused it to cave in, There isn’t anything to fucking go back to!” “No way it’s actually destroyed, but that jungle guardian isn’t going to be easily to get past. Shit that thing was scary!” “The puppetry was amazing. Holy crap if I didn’t know better I’d have thought it was an illusion!” It didn’t really matter who was talking, they stopped when Yonah put down the food and friends. “Last call to use the restroom!” He announced as took away the cushions. No one had to go, but they all scrambled away as he lay down on his side.

Now he took up the entire couch. But that didn’t mean there was nowhere to sit! Once comfortable everyone climbed onto him. Zohar nestled into the crook of his arm. Avshi perched on his shoulder. Noah and Noam sat between his arm and the right side of his face. Not having been fast enough, Mica, Shoshana, and Sam sat up against his arm. Sophia lay on his head, making a nest in his thick black hair. In Yonah’s opinion (and objective truth): Watching a Fantasy Soap Opera while eating sweets and adorned in friends was the best way to spend an evening.

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