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ankhisms · 1 year

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ok ep 49 live reactions and final overall series thoughts

good lord theyre going to just blast the entire world with a beam i guess. no wait the tv tower my god

i do love the zect trio team with kagami misaki and tadokoro it was a nice moment when they asked kagami if he was going to move straight forward and kagami said yes and then they defied their orders to arrest kagami and are with him now like YESSSSS

NOOOOO THEY HAVE TENDOU TWO AND THEYRE GONNA USE HIM FOR THEIR PLAN. HASNT HE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH HAVENT YOU TORTURED HIM ENOUGH

hiyori getting her little apron waaaa

is kagami really dead. did kagami really just die. ok thank fuck hang in there kagami

STOPPED THE END OF THE WORLD WITH A SINGLE FLOWER THAT SYMBOLIZES HIS SISTER. GO TENDOU GO

OHHHHH THEY DONT ATTACK TENDOU WHEN THEYRE TOLD TOAND THEY TURN BACK INTO HUMANS

TENDOU TWOOOOOOOO

very good moment when all the zectors came to tendou

kagami and tendou doint the finishing blow together was also good ❤️❤️

im so sad about tendou two like. what a miserable life. im so sad

letting the zectors go ....

GO AWAY DAISUKE OUT WITH YOU BEGONE FROM THE CAFE FINAL REUNUON FOUL MAN

hiyori biking through the ginkgos im just so happy shes safe and living her life to the fullest AND JYUKA CALLS HER ONEECHAN THAT MADE ME SOB

god damn it kagami becoming a cop. absolute betrayal

OH HIS DAD IS ALIVE I GUESS?

AND TENDOU JUST FUCKS OFF TO FRANCE FOREVER ALRIGHT

alright final thoughts:

im very bad at ranking what my top 5 or top 10 kamen rider/toku in general shows are because almost all the shows ive seen have things i think are good and fun and i love them and enjoy them in different ways yknow! i dont think kabuto would be in my top 5 if i ever made a list, but i did really honestly enjoy kabuto. it took me a long time to watch it i think i mightve started watching it in 2021? maybe towards the end of the year im not sure but i know its been one ive been watching for a long time and i am very fond of the characters and i know ill continue to be fond of them in the future for sure, i had a fun time watching the show and seeing what bizarre nonsense happened to the cast

im not about to act like i understood kabuto overall and i know thats a common thing to say about the show which makes sense after watching it like lmao yeah i see why people might not like this or say it makes no sense because a lot of it didnt make sense to me either but the thing is throughout the show and especially towards the end i could like see the outline and vague shape of themes but i felt muddled in being able to fully understand those themes and feel like i didnt really in the end 100% get what those themes might have been trying to say beyond messages about humanity having the capacity for good and changing for the better and of course messages about family and love with tendou being so devoted to both kagami and his sisters. there for sure is a part of the show near the end where it feels like everything just kind of goes off the rails and things are just happening rather than any semblance of plot, but i did like the last episodes and the last battle was especially good, the one year later ending was a little confusing but overall i felt like the ending fit the show well enough. kamen rider kabuto is a show that i have watched and tendou is unkillable and although he is insufferable i do love him

#kr kabuto lb

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jazajas · 4 years

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okay so i finished love, victor a while ago and i saw some other reviews and thoughts about it here so now i've got a pretty good list on my thoughts and feelings.

tl;dr: it has some issues, yes, but im gonna hold out and hope it gets better later on because the same thing happened with the first few eps, i wasn't that into it but then it got good, and nothing is ever great with the first season, because at that point we're getting used to those characters.

⚠️caution: spoilers ahead (im on mobile, i cant get an under-the-cut)⚠️

1. while a leah on the offbeat movie would have been amazing movie sequel (even tho i havent read the book yet, im just here for the wlw content) i am kind of glad we got this instead. mostly because I've seen book series where one movie was good, so they decide to do the rest, turn out bad (hunger games? divergent? percy jackson? the hobbit?) because so much was cut from the book-to-first movie writing, that other scenes wouldn't make sense to future movies if they had those in while cutting others. however, i am sad that i didn't get to make the choice of deciding whether what was cut was wrong etc. about future movies, but i'll take what i can get.

2. LGBTQ+ POC as a lead! that's amazing! as a ace/bi lantina that's close to home (it also is great that victor's from texas and so is ya gorl) and even then it's a mixed latinx family! i think pilar mentioned that at least the grandmother left Colombia and i saw the Puerto Rican flag in victor's room. also the salazar's are definitely from small town texas, even without knowing the name. (church barbeques, the use of the words "such a diverse city" in regards to atlanta)

3. a lack of actual lgbtq+ main storylines (so far) is kind of sad for a show like this. i was getting serious bi/pan vibes (as a lot of other people) from victor from the beginning, and when it was implied that victor was actually gay (while great, not shaming) as it has been brought to my attention, there was a lot of looking at a lot of straight relationship problems (please let us know more about benji)- edit 6/18: upon further consideration, it very much is a show about questioning your sexuality, I'm speaking about the other straight relationship issues, not mia and Victor's, its just the first season.

4. let us talk about cheating for a sec. never okay, in any circumstance. i feel sorry for mia that she saw victor making out with benji and the fact that he was doing any of that in the first place. victor made a choice to lie about the espresso machine and then kissed benji at the hotel and then when benji was fighting with derek, basically confessed his love and mistakes, then proceeded to makeout with benji after he broke up with derek, he built that grave and now he must lie in it. i get having feelings for a guy when you are in a relationship with a girl, and not accepting yourself enough to end that relationship but you really want it to work so you can be "normal". really, he should have told mia after he got back from the trip tho. i get being in highschool and doing stupid stuff and making dumb decisions, but for a show aimed at teens i think we should also remind said teens to make good choices even if we have to lose some realism within the character choices.

4. pilar and her decisions based off her brother pissed me off. because i honestly think that if she'd kept her mouth shut about what she knew or confronted victor about it in the first place we could have avoided a LOT of mess. did she not learn from snooping around her mother's business about her relationships that going behind a person's back doesnt end well? i did, however, like the pilar/felix friendship and was really kind of hoping that they'd get together during their coffee hangout (although now im glad that didn't happen) because they had a deeper understanding of each other. same with wendy/felix, although they do seem to much alike to work out in the long run but i still feel bad for wendy.

5. i don't know how i feel about lake and andrew, as people separate from each other. both seem to be the way they are from their upbringing (not confirmed why andrew is such an ass, but if his comment about his dad is anything to go by i bet it's got something to do with attention) but andrew seems to be less, idk, superficial? like he turned down mia because he didn't want to be a rebound, he didn't out victor, he actually stood up to early teasing the other dudes in the lockerroom were doing at victor (with teasing of his own obviously but that interaction had him on my nice list until much later). lake? lake. i honestly don't have an opinion of her? not really. i mean after hanging out with pilar i was hoping felix wouldn't go back to lake. is her name laken? i feel like her full name is laken. but they also played the "im only like this because my mom is really superficial about stuff and i do like the geeky nice guy but appearances" to "actually screw the norms im gonna makeout with him infront of the whole student body". i honestly thought she was gonna be bi because she kept hitting on mia when she was helping set up for her "date" and "big night" and there was one point where i saw her face fall at something mia said in relation to her and idk i was hoping she'd be bi (i figured early on that victor/mia wasnt gonna work and was like "oh mia/lake would be cute" but now idk.

6. okay on to the "big night", i have one word. NO. i didn't like the peer pressure into having sex. i agreed with felix when he said "your body your choice" but im also disappointed that victor made out with mia and when lake was talking to felix after victor left he didn't try to stand up for victor.

7. on to age gaps because i hadn't really thought of this at first. we'll start with benji/derek: WHAT GRADE IS BENJI?! because that determines my thoughts. if he's a sophomore that meant that he and Derek started dating benji's freshman year and thats eugh, don't do that, don't care if its a gay couple that shouldn't be happening because the maturity of the two characters is DRASTICALLY different (this is also a reason i am not a fan of cmbyn) but that would explain why they were so rocky. hoping the event at the gay bar was open to anyone not just for drinking, but not liking that fact that not one of the adults with victor were like: hey, this is a 16 year old, that's kind of wack when that dude was hitting on victor. that made me question some stuff. although i figure it might be making up for the lack of a gay bar scene in love, simon. but even then, in svthsa it's a restaurant with a bar that some people go to just to drink at, it wasn't just a bar, simon could be there but should NOT have accepted drinks from college kids, not matter how attractive.

8. i loved how bram and simon and their friends helped victor out though. i like how bram was like: hey i know my friends are a lot so here's a gay basketball league becaue there's no one way to be gay. i like how Simon talked about needing help himself just to help victor and how he said his friends were cool with it because it's a community. i like of justin(?) mentioned how being what his parents wanted was putting on a mask and pretending, not him doing drag. my favorite lines from that ep are: "and before you ask my pronouns are they/them/theirs" "'they're all gay? even that guy? he's like [insert really tall number]' 'yeah. you should see him in heels'" "or in simon's case: really unathletic" "and also because bram said that if i wore [the jean jacket] one more time he'd burn it". also katya was there. and the group hug too!

9. the back hand homophobia in relation to family is sad, but realistic and i sincerely hope his parents are kind enough not to be too harsh on victor because of it. anything they say that isn't positive or supportive of victor is bad but i hope they realize that there is more to him than that and that they can come to terms with it because it's not always that hard to be a part of that community and super religious. i am biromantic and catholic. and while there are some things i wont agree on my mom with, i know that it's more of a strike against God for kicking out gay kids from families than it is to be gay, because those parents were given trust by GOD to love those kids no matter what, and be good parents. so in the end, the parents are wrong and harmful and in the case of christians against jesus's teachings to love everyone.

10. this is fan speculation but dont think simon/bram are going through a rough patch? i honestly think it'd be a little cruel to the characters to have on of their actors be producing but then not have that relationship stay. and while it's not set in stone and obviously things happen in the real world, we have no proof script wise about there being a rift. all we have are bad photoshopped ig photos and scenes where two characters are never standing next to each other probably beccaue schedules never link up correctly for minor characters. who knows, maybe nick robinson was filming for a movie where is does have an even more major role than victor's gay guru in a series about victor so his filming time was around that. im gonna keep hope that things are okay.

11. that being said: we need more mainstream wlw content, because someone said it earlier and it really does seem to be catering to straight girls. i'll admit i did freak out when benji played call me maybe which is something i associated with him and victor but then kissed a guy because who wouldn't? we get that serenade and sweetness and then it'a ripped from us. but i did mellow out. if i flipped later it was because victor was making dumb decisions and i had to give myself a moment of compsure before i continued.

in the end, i'd say that there is a lot of growth this series needs to go through, but i also know that some people just aren't going to like it and i get that. but i also know that sometimes the best of stories have rocky starts, nothing is ever perfect from the beginning. and besides, further seasons are on hold until we figure out this covid thing, which means that you bet they're gonna be looking at our feedback. they saw what we thought before, they can do it again

i really did like it but we need more ACTUAL lgbtq+ relationship stuff from this series and better decisions on what we are teaching the younger generations, as well as what we want to focus on and realism within characters. i'm giving it an 8/10, because there is always room for growth and i really hope we get better things out of this than what we have been given in season 2.

edit: someone mentioned it really seeming like it was meant for Disney+ and i felt that. also to anyone who reaches the tags agter reading ALL OF THIS: i am sorry

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tbzmari · 6 years

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3, 18, 21, 49? 💖

3 - Has Bangtan influenced your life in any other way? 》 im still new to all of this but sure i can say so.. they make me smile when most of the times no one else can.. ive met people through them and got closer to people because of them

18 - Which member matches with your personality the most? 》 its a mix between jimin and kookie.. weird but let me explain.. i see myself a lot in jimin but when i hear jk talking about how he finds it hard to meet new people i relate a lot so i guess them two.. idk my friends are the ones who should be telling you this lmao

im doing 49 first bc 21 is long af check it below the keep reading thing i fyou want to

49 - What kind of concept would you like to see in the future? » man idk ill be pleased with whatever they give me im not a picky eater when it comes to bts concepts

21 - Name the feature you like the most about each member! 》 oo so ill speak about both physical and personality for each of them.. im sorry if i ramble and dont make any sense i just love them too much

Kay so..

•Jin~

- physical wise i think everything about him just stunns me.. although i think his gaze is like a killer for me, he is the God of Visuals..

- personality wise i love how he is the most caring and considerate person.. he puts the members before him and never complains until he cant anymore which even if i dont find that a healthy thing to do i admire him for doing so bc like thats hard af to do it takes a lot of selflessness which Jin clearly has torwards everyone.. that ep where the fight between him and tae happened was amazing bc we got to see how he really feels sometimes about being the oldest and keeping the aura and the mood always up ..man i love him

• yoongi ~

- physical wise: thAT GUMMY SMILE I MELT .. no no his gaze, ugh man idk.. no wonder hes so high up my bias list

- personality wise: hes so hardworking and just pushes through and honestly the amount of time he spends working is just amazing to me.. hes so talented and caring and gentle man these are hard for me bc honestly i love everything about each of them.. i digress.. yoongi is just that member who in the beggining always got me curious.. before i watched all the shows theyd done or the bts run eps i always though of him as the mysterious member, the cold and shut off one and hes nothing of the sort.. hes a soft and caring person who cares in a way people normally dont get and he deserves everything and more..

• hobi ~

- physical wise: his smile.. hes the sun.. the whole sun who lights my days up im soft.. hes in a competition with yoongi and kookie for my bias wrecker position

- personality wise: his upbeat and uplifting aura just takes over me.. hes so precious i just want to spend my blue days with him so i can just feel better idk like if i feel bad i usally listen to Hope World bc its such a good mixtape and like who would’ve known that he wasnt really into rapping in the beggining like hes so talented im amazed just by his existance what is he doing to me..

• namjoon ~

- phsical wise: those dimples man can he get any softer.. yes he can and when he does he gets me soft too

- personality wise: our leader is such an amazing human being.. like where else can you find a genius lyricist, amazing rapper, cheerful babyboy who just brings us joy and whos gorgeous and damn namjoon is all that do we even deserve him? probably not yet hes still blessing us with his existance and talent and we should just love him for that

• jimin ~

- physical wise : his eyes damn my baby boy can just look at me with them and ill be gone for good like does he know what he does to me i dont think so

- personality wise. okay here we go, let me tell you about how i love the fact that hes always there when they need someone like he cares so much and worries so much about all of the other members and i just want to hug him and tell him to care of himself aswell bc sometimes he needs to be told hes an amazing human being and that he deserves the universe .. let me just tell you how happy he makes me like, he can smile and ill be gone with joy hes so precous and angel like can i get one of him please i just i really really love him.. lol can you tell im jimin biased

• tae ~

- pysical wise: can i really choose? everything about that man is perfect like ??

- personality wise: now this boys is so pure like not in a sexual way but like an overall way he has such pure intentions towards others like the way he makes friends with other people so easily amazes me.. hes so kind too ik i say this about everyone of them but its true theyre all so caring in their own way and im so glad i stan this kind of people bc really bangtan is out there changing peoples lives everyday and they manage to stay humble to their core and i just love them im rambling again okay so just know my taehyungs favourite feature is his pure intentions torwards the world

• kookie ~

- physical wise: his cheeks.. hes such a bun i love him with all of me i just wanna squeeze his face all the time

- personality wise: when he talks about how much he respects hus hyungs and how their pain is his too just makes me love him more and more.. hes such a good younger brother like how can someone be so pure and full of good intentions.. hes such a good boy i love him

damn i really talked a lot.. just know i love them all a lot equally they just make my days better which sometimes is saying a lot 💗💗💗

#asks #mutuals #thank you for the ask!!

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nardaviel · 7 years

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For the fanfic questions meme - 8, 15, 23, and 51?

thank you, anon!!!! im going to answer these now bc im procrastinating on ficwriting….. orz. ill do yours later myst after ive written

fanfic questions meme

8. How did you get involved in your latest fandom?

thru tumblr. someone reblogged a set of subbed screenshots of season 1 episode 1, just after the defense club transforms for the first time. aslkjdfasdf i have no idea who reblogged it because obviously i wasnt following all these boueibu blogs at the time but i laughed a lot. i remember specifically “we look like a third-rate idol group :\” and “the chikuwabu monster has lost his temper! he forced his way into the conversation!” the caption for the image set was “if you only watch one anime this season please watch this one” and i was having a rly bad time and i wanted comedy so i was like sure ok. at that time only 2 eps had been aired

15. Is there an obscure ship which you love?

tumblr and ao3 would have me believe that kinatsuen is an obscure ship but i think whats actually going on is that lots of people like it well enough but there are other ships they prefer

so the real answer to this question is ibuatsu. i fucking love ibuatsu. i could write paragraphs and paragraphs about the beauty of ibuatsu. whenever i have an enkin au, its also an ibuatsu au. (kinchan needs to be with en and/or atsushi tho if its not supposed to be a sad tragic au) anyway yeah it kind of snuck up on me bc i knew i liked the ship ok but then i absentmindedly paired them off in an enkin au and that made me think about it more. and then the more i thought about it the more i was like … holy shit … this ship is amazing

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it

im proud of a lot of my fics… though not all of them, by any means. but two of the ones i like the most are path to the stars and grace. im listing them both bc i love them for the same reasons. …and of course i like the least popular ones the best lol thats how it always is

the short version is probably that 1. i adore the AUs that they come from (actually the fic im procrastinating on is from the same AU as grace) and 2. i think i my best writing is the sad introspective stuff. certainly that kind of writing is the easiest for me. i literally got up one morning like “you know what i want to write a merman AU fic for cerulean week” and then i wrote the entire rough draft of path to the stars in 4 or 5 hours. whether theyre the kind of fic i would want to read is another question. i think id like them if i knew i would get some sort of resolution later… and luckily for yall there is resolution coming, although, in the case of path to the stars, not for some time. STAY TUNED

i also love spindle for p much the same reasons. and some others, for other reasons. and then there are the fics that i really want to edit, and the ones i would take down entirely if multiple people hadnt said they liked them

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

i dont like the lack of feedback but other people have complained about that at length. i also dont like the lack of appreciation for long chapters because now that im writing multichapter things it turns out that i write long chapters and i honestly dont see why ppl avoid them. if you dont want to read it all at once then you can just save your place ???? how is it different from more than one short chapter ?????? ill tell you how: the chapters break in better places, theyre long enough to each have a recognizable arc of their own which is more important in serialized work imo, and the flow isnt constantly interrupted

i think i might end up bending to the will of the people with this one because i get sad when people pass over my fics but it frustrates me.

..im trying to think of something nice to say abt the world of fanfiction but those two things have been making me mad lately ;; but i love the fact of fanfiction. i love that its a thing. i love all the things you can do with it. fanfiction is like one big confession of complicated kind of messy love for canon. and i love writing but i dont have the energy to plan and write the original novel series that i can kind of dimly see in my head, and anyway i love fandom more than i love that hypothetical series so its more satisfying to make stuff with these characters and contribute to the fandom

#ask meme #Anonymous #asks #thank u anon !!!!!!!

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survivor-kalymnos · 4 years

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Ep. 9 - “im running on borrowed time”- Franco

Michele

I would love to see a full list of who everyone voted for. Its VERY fishy and a complete blindside. Makes me feel worse about disadvantage next round

lenny

Right when cranjes becomes my ally, they get kicked off. lol. what is happening in this tribe rn? I want to get to the bottom of it.

michele

ive never felt more alone in this game. people clearly lied to me.

lenny

according to dusty, Franco and Eliza flipped for the split vote. yuck! what to do now? I don't know. I think if I have any chance of getting Eliza or Michele out, I have to make a new alliance.

lenny

Dusty just said that her franco rain and worm were the ones to flip and that makes me very anxious and I don't know if I can trust rain fully :/ that makes me sad. I really hope I can.

lenny

so michele and I are talking which is v heartwarming. I apologized for being cold towards her. I hope we can work together.

Dusty

Well that was messed up LMAO That’s the second time Eliza has flipped on me and taken out my closest ally...anyway I will not be working with her anymore. But I’m gonna make her believe it. And thank you to my amazing acting skills she gave me her half of the super idol..........ma’am. I’m so sorry. She expects me to give it back to her after this round but Idk if I can do that if she isn’t in the game anymore! She also told me that it was her and Franco that flipped with rain and worm. So now I’m trying to work with Lenny and Michele who seem to be on board, and it seems like I’ll also have to working with frank and Sasha. And with this blind round there’s a fear of voting for someone that won immunity buuut at least I have a 10% advantage to help me out :) Wish me luck!

michele

kinda blew up a little so gonna lay low for strategy. i also sometimes take things too personally which is why i only do like 1 org a year so that last tribal got to me a lot. franco messaged me saying he doesnt trust me and even tho his instincts are completely correct idk it just feels weird. i think i just hate general confrontation

Frank

So I’m shocked Cranjes left but I’m quite happy about it. He was leading a lot of things so to have him go is wonderful. After tribal, Michele approached me about getting out Eliza or Franco, so we stan that. Once one of them is gone though the other needs to be taken out as well since they’re both strong and we don’t need one of the having a story of, oh my partner got out but I still made it through so much. After that get rid of Dusty and then Lenny at some point bc who. I’m fairly quiet but Lenny is practically a ghost. Right now the only person I actually trust though is Sasha, which is not something I thought I would say but here we are.

Franco

Blind rounds are so SCARY. Mainly the part about no one knowing who wins immunity. Like, we got out 2 idols last round by blindsiding Cranjes and flushing Frank's, but theres still more out there. And no one is going to know how tribal is going to play out Michele was kinda pissed at us for leaving her out of the vote. But? Sis left us out of her alliance with og Plati, and didnt give us ANY information last round despite knowing I was a target. Eliza is also.... Kinda not smart. She gave her half of the idol to Dusty because she wanted to reconcile. Which is nice and all! But thats a direct chance for him to get back at us and take a shot at us. Keeping the idol separate was best for everyone. So I just gotta pray Eliza knows Dusty as well as she says she does!! I dont expect to win this challenge. Im gonna chat around, but I think Im going to have to play my idol this round to save my skin. My name has been thrown around 2 rounds in a row, im running on borrowed time. We'll see how today goes!

Frank

So Franco messaged me about if I’m gonna vote him this round and that he doesn’t understand why I’m going after him. So I did the kind thing and explained it and said that I don’t want to work with him because he’s working with everyone and that I don’t see that as being beneficial to my game. So Franco is my target again and michele messaged me last night to get rid of him so we stan. I’m probably gonna get votes but who could be shocked by that.

Franco

surprise!! my name is going around AGAIN!! i'm so. not shocked. Frank has it out for my for some reason?? I confronted him this morning, let him know his """allies""" are throwing him under the bus and offered to exchange information or work together in some capacity but he literally turned it down. first rule of survivor is never shut down lines of communication like that!! he is denying any chance of game relationship we could have and thats such bad gameplay. I bombed the challenge because I'm dumb. And now that I know my name is circulating I'm going to have to play my idol. I just have to hope that whatever happens is good for my game. It's so hard to orchestrate votes during an invisible round, everyone is playing strictly for themselves because there's no reason not to. I really really finally want Frank gone. This is the THIRD ROUND in a row I've said that. but seriously I'm over him. he's gotta GO.

Eliza

Dear diary... Literally can’t believe we pulled that blindside off! I had to do some damage control with dusty and because I know what kind of player he is I gave him my half of the super idol. I told him I’d give it to him for this round to prove that the cranjes vote had nothing to do with him and that he is still someone I want to work with. He seemed shocked but obviously took the security and I think I have at least some of his trust back, I mean this IS the second time I blindsided him and voted out his closest ally. Now I know you’re probably thinking, ellie you’re a dumbass, and that I am but I know how dusty works at this point in the game and it’s gonna take a bold move like that one to get ANY of his trust back. Franco didn’t think it was the best move but I can’t just play according to Franco’s standards. The invisible round is absolutely terrifying, everyone agrees that it’s frank but we all know that he could 100% win this challenge. Obviously everyone with a brain wants to split but some of these people won’t wanna split again after they got out smarted, Franco might be playing his idol because we all know frank wants him out but frank has also said I need to go and I have absolutely no security rn so yeah, I’m fucking scared. Let’s see what happens!

Rain

So... I haven’t been around much today. I abstained from immunity. My depression is kicking in and even tho I’m doing well in the game, I can’t be bothered to get into it, as much as I want to. So I’ll ride Franco and Eliza’s coattails until either I pull out of this funk or I get voted out. The move tonight is to try to get frank. Except he’s kinda good at challenges (although, tbh, hasn’t been that great since returning - maybe the idol was holding him back?) so we think he may get immunity. I think voting Sasha would be better - like come on, I don’t even think he’s trying (is that hypocritical to say?) and he only talks to his allies. The other side (oh is it just dusty, Sasha, and frank now? Fuckin sweet) doesn’t even attempt to socialize with me. Dusty to some extent, but talking to Sasha and frank is like talking to a fucking wall. I’ll be happy if either of them go. But tbh at this point I’m ready to join the jury. I’m going to keep playing and keep trying because that’s what jay and the people I’ve voted out deserve to see, but whenever I go home, I know I played a good game for my first game in over a year.

lenny

not feeling confident about this challenge or good in general. Rain is most likely working with franco and eliza. I hope I can trust dusty. oof

Worm

So last round seemed to have back fired. I think I have alienated myself even more but I'm not sure if saying people not talking to me is showing that. They weren't talking to me before anyway so I guess nothing really changed then lol They goal this round is to target Frank which is okay with me cause I think people will start going after bigger targets next round like Eliza and Franco. Michele seems really mad at me which i can't fault her for so my goal if I survive this round is to talk to her and get her back on my side. Maybe reuniting the alliance of dusty, her, and I could make a huge impact. This challenge is really difficult so I don't think I had any chance of winning. I kinda hope I do for just in case reasons. If I being told the truth and everyone is targeting Frank then it should happen pretty easily. His idol got flushed last round so it should be simple to get rid of him. But until those votes are read I do believe that I will be the one going home.

Frank

Watch Franco have an idol and I go home. That would be funny, tbh I guess it just would be. But oh boy I am gonna get myself a nice snack if Franco goes...although let's be real I'm gonna have a nice snack no matter what. But I just want to stay and have Franco or Eliza leave since that would benefit my game to an extreme since they KEEP TRYING TO VOTE ME OUT. Or at least saying my name which is enough for me. Like if you say my name, get out!

rain

Tribal is in a few minutes, and I’ve just had an emotional chat with Franco He is truly an incredible ally and I really look forward to being in the reunion w him and finding out who he is irl (although I have a guess) Anyway, I just wanted to give him some positive edit, because I’m sure he’s very N as the villain of the game :P

Dusty

This is crazy idek if I won immunity or what’s happening I changed my vote like 3 times LMAO i voted for Eliza I don’t know what’s happening i think I’m freaking out for no reason. My only fear is michele being very quiet.

michele

being quiet worked i guess. wasnt really a game move but i didnt get voted out so yay

Sasha

I really just gave up on trying to have my own strategy/game and just voted how people told me to huh

Eliza

Dear diary... It was a tie between me and frank, this might be the last time I write in confessions but hopefully I was able to make some sort of impact in the game. Wow this sucks

Dusty

jflkdsaiof okay a tie well michele being quiet all day meant that she didnt get the chance to know the vote was for eliza... which just made me think someone decided to not flip against eliza/franco so in the revote i reached out to worm and rain to try and get them to flip which they both denied. ugh im so stupid, they would know regardless that i flipped, but now it seems like i was soooo adamant about her going... oh well. Franco is going to be pissed anyway

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I finished it. real real sad over John b macklemore not gonna lie. dude wasn't perfect like he was rough around the edges and kind of a dick but like. he was a troubled queer dude and I have a lot of sympathy for that like his love life... made me so sad and he fucking had mercury poisoning like fuck... and then his land just getting bought up by k3 lumber like I know Rita had some depth to her but fuck Rita for that in particular. also do you think Tyler found the gold? (1/ ?)

right like….i dont remember which episode it was but that they were kind of putting together the picture of john being this guy who’s life was centered around how aggressively he cared. like how pissed he gets that other ppl DONT care abt things, and his insistence that everyone sucks and needs to be better, like as self righteous and misguided as it could be, its still part of that intent where he wants to help people in the ways he thinks is necessary. like i think personally i couldnt have been patient enough to interact with him, and i mean it seems like thats kind of a theme lol…like it isnt like theres not a bunch of parts of him that are A Good Person & generous & caring and all, but on this interpersonal individual level and how he channeled things, it’s definitely not the best sometimes

like for one thing he seems like the kind of person who is overly self assured and has a really narrow perspective. like his immediate assumption about a person or situation is what he thinks of as immediately true. he’s got all these judgments he’s doling out, big and small. i couldnt have the patience for that for very long. and he still has a narrow perspective on some things obviously, like he wants a broad range of information but not necessarily other peoples experiences of analyses of things. and yknow still some white dude from alabama and his bigotry even if his “big picture” thoughts on things weren’t as awful as it was obvious was common in that town

like yknow it feels like olan sums up so many things abt john lol. like he recognized how much of a genius and how talented he was, and he never fully wrote him off although there was always shit that kept him from thinking abt being able to like, seriously be in a relationship with him. i feel like i really got what he was saying about how john wouldnt listen to him abt brokeback mtn being good or that he should see it lol coz im like. i get excited abt shit i really like & if someone waves that off or insults it i wouldnt forgive them, like theres so much of this over the top assurance in his own initial opinions and disregard for others’ that he wasnt gonna believe olan even though olan had seen it and john hadnt. and then that he finally did read the short story and liked it, like dude yeah some more of that. he’s got his own thoughts about everything but its like he feels too superior with them. and like he’s still right even if he makes friends mad, like it cant just be him or whatever.

like it wasnt just that he was weird or that he had weird interests or anything that struck me as why he was always so lonely lmao like not that im saying it was his fault or it was only One Thing, but those smaller issues of him could kinda be impossible to get past, but at the same time a lot of ppl seemed like they werent willing to cut him off entirely or write him off cuz of all the other shit about him, he really was like, so unusual in all these ways and clearly it wasnt like there was a shortage of conversation to be had with him

anyways yeah it seems really counterproductive that he was born where he was and couldnt get out. like, not fitting in at all at school, being like what sounds like someone would call bi but i doubt he’d’ve grown up w that kinda language available even if it wasnt shittown alabama—but it does sound like he preferred men and that it was such a bad place for that, like relationships couldnt even be a factor for anyone around there hardly b/c being openly together was hardly an option, one night trysts was all that was really relevant. but it was obvious he was always wanting to be with someone and he just didnt have a way to do that, and couldnt manage to really find anyone. it really is such a heavy subject to think of queer people just being in the wrong place and time to understand themselves and what they want and even if/when they do, not have access to it

uhh yeah one thing that made me the maddest abt tbe last ep was finding out k3 took the land. like how fuckin symbolic. and those shitty rich white supremacists who feel like they literally run the town, fuck them. i WAS never sure abt rita and charles coz like. the relatives who nobody’s seen hide nor hair of, suddenly turning up overnight and wanting to take over everything? thats textbook suspicious. and like sure they probably wouldnt know tyler but its weird they never seemed interested in like, even hearing him out that he mightve been close to john and ought to be involved. like it COULD all just be a misunderstanding between two distrustful parties but still

i mean its nice to know mary grace was getting better care it sounds like, but thats not exactly proof that all their intentions were good. i mean, the k3 thing was like, did you care abt what john wouldve wanted at all? coz he seems to have cared abt that land a lot. and definitely not cared for k3. and they werent ever much sympathetic abt the question of if john wanted tyler to have money. oh, and i hated her calling john’s suicide selfish, but i know unfortunately a lot of ppl do that and i hate whoever does it lol. but like one thing i couldnt get over was her wanting his freakin nipple rings. im like? for Sentimental Value???? you want his body’s nipple rings?????!!!!!!! which later when it was revealed that was probably this queerass sexual thing was just this whole other layer of ghjfhsvvgh

lorddd

the other suspicious thing on that end was johns list of contacts. that not everybody had been contacted. like, wtf happened there. maybe not some paid off conspiracy, but? still a pretty fuckin straightforward task that was ridiculously bungled

Aanyway lord the mercury poisoning angle at the end i was like !!!! fuck is this the new thread now!! cuz it had kind of been mentioned before yknow, the firegilding or whatever, and now he’s doing that all the time suddenly w/o protection or ventilation and im like holy shit. this guy is maybe one of the only people in the world who’s doing this and just poisoning himself via this ancient art, for this fuckin genius he has for clock repair. which is so specialized, like, this dude is probably one of the best in the world. but he’s doing his own thing and that doesnt involve not inhaling mercury. and the fact that he made his own cyanide which was also something used for the clocks, i’m like, these Parallels. this irony. how is this real

i honestly dont know about the gold!!! like, i really feel like he had some, for starters, but the fact people werent even sure if he was a millionaire or he was broke is wild. i was suspicious abt those gates in the crawlspaces, idk what they were for even if not treasure hunts. the maze just feels like so obvious, and the theory abt the doghouse too….and saying there mightve been gold in the freezer that was taken….man. i am not sure what to think. or if he left like honest treasure hunt clues or if it was just buried scattered around w no trail to follow. man. hearing that come up, like maybe this guy has a secret hidden treasure with clues? im like this is so unreal. but i could believe he really did

#ok obvs this was meant to be privately published and i thought it had been #free access to some of my Take i guess #my take on the nip piercing scandal

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Grae Reviews: Alice Nicholls - Kind Quiet Riots

So yeah, there’s been dust gathering around here lately hasn’t there. In my defense that’s because I’ve spent quite a lot of time working on someone else’s website and that’s meant I’ve had less time for my own. I’ve got my end of year music roundup coming up soon that I can’t wait for, but in the meantime I thought I’d do something different and #sharetheawesome one more time as I review my mates new EP.

(Authors Note: This post was edited on 25/01/2018 to correct typos and update relevant info. It was originally published on 21/11/2017)

As you’ve probably figured out by now this review comes with multiple massive asterisks over it because I’m reviewing something made by a mate, it gets even stickier considering that I played a set at the launch event for this very EP. So, with bias duly laid out on the table, and my infamous tendency to big up my mates creative work at every possible turn, I should also point out that I do intend to retain what little dignity as a writer I have (I did write a song that is pretty much grade A tumblr bait once so I basically have no shame at all), so I will be honest with my feelings about each track on this 6 song EP. Good job I have talented mates really then isn’t it?

So let’s crack on. Kind Quiet Riots is Alice’s 6th release (if her Bandcamp page is to be believed) and a follow up to the infinitely intriguing Folk Law, which was a collection of traditional songs reworked in Alice’s unique playing style (if you’re a fan of early days Biffy Clyro you’ll appreciate Alice’s attitude to time signatures). The new EP, as the title suggests, is a collection of politically charged songs. Although the cool thing about this one is that Alice isn’t scared to turn the looking glass back on itself and that creates a major intrigue.

When the EP was released I was familiar with 3 of the 6 songs from playing gigs and various open mic nights with Alice, so I’ll make things easy on myself and cover one of those first. The opening track, Deluge, is a guttural response to changing times and a political shift in the wrong direction (the song was written in the immediate aftermath of the 2015 general election where despite all signs and hopes to the contrary, the Tories gained a majority, UKIP hit a record vote share and the Brexit vote process was set in motion). The song does offer hope but is unbelievably bleak in tone, which fits perfectly with both it’s lyrical theme and its instrumentation, the first of two outings on the piano and a perfectly slotted in accompaniment on the violin.

Next up is Get Some Learning, another shot fired at the right-wing (particularly stale, pale, male right-wingers). It’s also another great example of a superbly underrated talent Alice has, getting dark music out of a ukulele. This was the first song from the EP that I hadn’t heard tested out on the scene and while I like to think I have at least as much of a grasp on what to expect from her musically (well, in as much as you can from someone who stuffs her car to the brim with instruments to play at gigs, as she says herself, techies hate her for it), I got shown up again. The two songs of hers that feature the uke that stick in my head are not really that politically charged (unless I’m hugely missing a trick, and if so I apologise) and I always assumed that if there was one thing that even the most talented ukuleleist couldn’t manage, it would be to get an angry political rant out of it. Well, aren’t I thick?

Track 3 brings me back on familiar territory. Man in the Machine is a response to a conversation that Alice had with a bloke at a gig back in her old uni stomping grounds. After assuming she was carrying her boyfriends instruments and being corrected only to respond by declaring something along the lines of “women can’t write angry songs”, this angry song about dickhead men on the scene. Obviously I can’t share my own personal experience of gendered persecution by a fellow artist because……yeah, but I can say that there is an ever growing list of occasions where I have seen people (sometimes musicians, but white male slam poets tend to be the worst offenders in Leeds at least) use their platform to decry efforts towards equality or just treating others like they’d just wiped them off the sole of their shoes. This is a song that I like, but definitely hits its intended goal of making privileged male artists (read: people like me, save for the disability obviously) think about what they’re doing. It also features some quality guitar playing and I guarantee that once you’ve heard this you’ll have the line “They cry encore, they always want more” stuck in your head.

Now though, pray silence for my favourite song of the bunch. Track 4, Tall Stories. Alice is back on the piano for this one and on this one occasion she has company in the form of another super talented Leeds musician, Dave Lynch on the snare. This song is so utterly captivating purely because of how well presented the theme is. This song is a re-telling of the fairytale Rapunzel, where rather than being rescued by a prince, Rapunzel is instead rescued by other women who promise a life free from patriarchal values, only to end up imposing their own values upon her. This is an unashamed attack on people who claim to be feminist but who willingly fail to be intersectional and it’s a premise that probably needs high level songwriting chops to pull off, good thing Alice has the pen in hand on this occasion then. That said I do need to give a particular shout out to Dave. I heard Alice play this song solo a lot before I heard it with the drumming included, and I was worried that because I’d gotten so attached to the demo where Alice plays solo on piano, that I wouldn’t like it with the drums. Thankfully there’s no reason for concern because the drums blend in so well and on reflection they’re a great fit for the theme. Hats off Dave. I strongly suggest that if you’re gonna give the EP a sample, make sure this is one of the songs you try.

The final two songs are one’s that I knew nothing of heading in and because I’ve only had access to them for 2 weeks as of the time of writing this review, I wont be as in depth (UPDATE: I’ve re-written these parts 2 months later). Suffice to say that they are still fantastic. Track 5, One Flew Over turns the spotlight onto the state of of the way we still treat mental health in this country, both in terms of stigma and the atrocious state of how we treat it. This enforces that this EP is not the place for anyone looking for a happy hook. I am a big fan of this song though and although a classical guitar isn’t something I regularly see Alice bring out at gigs, I would love to see this get a live airing some day. That’s what I said two months ago, Now this song has by a long distance become my favourite song from the EP and I can’t stress enough that you should listen to it. Like, right now!

The 6th and final song, Token is an unapologetic strike back at those who marginalise women, and fittingly features the most raw instrumentation on the whole EP, just Alice and the guitar tuned like a cello that I’ve dubbed the coolest looking guitar in the world. Although all the other songs are clearly genuine statements, this one stands above the rest as a pure heart on sleeve moment, and the most fitting way to close out this EP. I get the impression that this is the track that Alice would be most proud of (She’s currently putting together a video for the song at the time of writing) and it’s clear to see why. This feels absolutely like the statement of intent that I’m sure she meant for this song to be.

Now clearly this review is propped up by the fact that I know Alice personally and I have some insight into these songs that a casual listener probably won’t get upon first listening, but I do feel that even without that knowledge it’s absolutely possible to be taken in by this EP. The politically charged will get along more than well with the lyrics and even the apolitical amongst you will enjoy the musicianship. Alice is superbly talented in front of all the instruments she has in front of her (by my count thats a piano, violin, ukulele and 3 different variety of guitar, I expect to be corrected if I missed/misheard anything). In fact the only people I can see having an excuse for a case of buyers remorse would be anyone who’s a target of this collection of kind quiet riots.

And on that awkward segue, the EP is available on Bandcamp at the link below where you have the option to try before you buy. Therefore you have no excuse not to give this a whirl and support your local musicians.

Bandcamp Link: https://alicenichollsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kind-quiet-riots

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