#annika blackbird

[esotheria-sims]

As was often the case with problems that went ignored, they tended to grow bigger the more time passed.

With a knot of dread in her chest, Annika realized one day that her belly had gotten too big to hide. Soon, her father and brother would start asking questions about her state; and when the truth came out, they'd go looking for the culprit. And not just to chat, either.

It was all her fault. She was the one who insisted on being intimate with Phillip without thinking of the consequences, even though Marcus had warned her. And now that her pregnancy had advanced this much, she was running out of options. It was either being a disgraced, single teenage mom... or being a married-off, trapped-in-a-castle teenage mom. She wasn't sure which of the two was worse.

So once she'd dried her tears and regained some composure, Annika began gathering her things, having chosen an unlikely third option. She packed clothes, provisions, and Spellweaver for protection, and headed out. She would handle everything on her own, she'd firmly decided.

But to do so, she needed to disappear for a while.

#sims 2 #ts2 #sims #gameplay #bacc #wyverns bay #wb gameplay #blackbird #blackbird week 4 #annika blackbird #mine

[lowcountry-gothic]

Schwanzmeise mit Mistelzweig

Rotdrossel mit Beeren

Zaunkönig

Blackbird

Art by Annika Weidner | Pitchblack Illustration.

#art #annika weidner #pitchblack illustration #birds #long-tailed tit #redwing #eurasian wren

[retvenkos]

requested by @missameliep​

a little parenthesis in eternity ;

listen to the playlist here on spotify!

25 songs inspired by a cozy, warm bookstore au where you stumble across a kindred soul in the tight aisles...

bookstore girl — charlie burg

glitter in the air — p!nk

nani a maika’i — kalani pe’a

too much to ask — niall horan

can’t help falling in love — haley reinhart

people watching — conan gray

rainbow connection — sleeping at last

stay — amélie: the musical

one that i love — shawn james

wait for you — mitchell morris

location — khalid

blackbird — the beatles

everything i own — bread

crush culture — conan gray

crazy — daniela andrade

the world & all her pearls — isaac dunbar

you know where to find me — imogen heap

in a heartbeat — frankie rodriguez, joshua bassett

novels — rusty clanton

she — dodie

ho hey — the lumineers

boy who has everything — annika bennett

here comes the sun — the beatles

7 hours ago — honeywater

valeria — dvicio

#playlist #bookstore au #coffee shop au #light academia #academia #3.5k celebration! #retvenkosplaylist

[thanksforthedinosaur]

maes year end list

here are (most of) the albums & eps i listened to this year my favorites are bolded genres + my ratings added for anyone looking for new music xoxo mae

2 chainz - rap or go to the league - hip-hop - 3/5 4s4ki - nemnem - hip-hop - 3.5/5 aaamyyy - body - electropop - 3/5 adoy - vivid - dream-pop - 4.5/5 adrianwave - wave 01 - future funk - 3.5/5 agø - the door - hip-hop - 3.5/5 aimer - sun dance - j-pop - 3/5 aimer - penny rain - j-pop - 3/5 aintops - starry sky - kawaii future bass - 2.5/5 aintops - summer story  - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 akai ko-en - kienai ep - indie rock - 4/5 akio watanabe & paniyolo - passage of sky - instrumental - 2.5/5 akira kosemura - diary 2016-2019 - instrumental - 4/5 akua - them spirits - r&b - 4/5 albert karch & ichiko aoba - celestially light - indie/folk - 4/5 aldous harding - designer - indie/folk - 3.5/5 alessia cara - this summer - pop - 2.5/5 alexia avina - all that i can't see - indie/folk - 3.5/5 alex lahey - the best of luck club - indie rock - 4/5 alex lustig – room for thought - electropop - 4/5 ali barter - hello, i'm doing my best - indie rock - 4/5 alomar - soul case - indie/folk - 3.5/5 aly & aj - sanctuary - pop - 4/5 amazarashi - play goodbye - indie rock - 3/5 american football - american football (lp3) - emo/dream-pop - 5/5 amy o - shell - indie rock - 4.5/5 anamanaguchi - [usa] - electropop/chiptune - 3.5/5 andrea von kampen - old country - indie/folk - 3.5/5 andrea von kampen - twilight & evening bell - indie/folk - 4/5 android52 - ultra groove product - kawaii future bass/future funk - 3.5/5 android apartment - the stars through your eyes - future funk - 2.5/5 android apartment - collection, pt.4 - future funk - 3/5 android apartment - we are the lights - future funk - 3.5/5 and the kids - when this life is over - indie rock - 3.5/5 angel olsen - all mirrors - dream pop - 4.5/5 anima! - grow your garden - electropop - 3.5/5 anitta - kisses - pop - 3.5/5 anna burch + fred thomas - indie rock - 3.5/5 anna clendening - waves - electropop - 3/5 anna flyaway - tomorrow i will take a knife to your confidence - emo - 4.5/5 anna lunoe - right party - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 anna of the north - dream girl - indie pop - 3.5/5 annie hart - a softer offering - electropop - 2.5/5 annika norlin + jens lekman - correspondence - indie/folk - 2.5/5 another silent weekend - pen pal - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 another silent weekend - falling apart - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 antenna girl - lemonade moon - kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 the appleseed cast - the fleeting light of impermanence - emo/post-rock - 3.5/5 the aquabats - the aquabats! super show! television soundtrack: volume one -  ska/pop punk - 3.5/5 arch.moe - crystratos - edm/kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 ardency - girls against god - shoegaze/dream pop - 3.5/5 ariana grande - thank u, next - pop - 4/5 ari lennox - shea butter baby - r&b - 4/5 arlo parks - super sad generation - hip-hop - 3.5/5 arlo parks - sophie - hip-hop - 3.5/5 asako toki - passion blue - j-pop - 4/5 asako toki - toki chic remix - j-pop - 3.5/5 ashmute - night & night - k-pop - 4/5 ashnikko - hi, it's me - hip-hop - 3.5/5 asiahn - love train 2 - r&b - 4/5 aso - home - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 astrid s - trust issues - pop - 3/5 atmosphere - whenever - hip-hop - 4/5 attom - follow me - edm/electropop - 4/5 aurora - a different kind of human (step ii) - indie/electropop - 5/5 avery sennin & meltycanon - project reality - hip-hop - 4/5 ayano kaneko -  燦々 - j-rock - 3.5/5 azki - without u - j-pop - 3/5 b3lla - akihabara - kawaii future bass - 3/5 babymetal - metal galaxy - metal/j-pop - 3.5/5 backstreet boys - dna - pop - 3.5/5 bad bad hats - wide right - indie rock - 3.5/5 bad heaven ltd. - strength - indie rock - 4/5 baechulgi - soul searching - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 banvox - sellout - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 barrie - happy to be here - indie pop/dream pop - 4.5/5 basick - whatiwant - hip-hop - 3.5/5 bats for lashes - lost girls - electropop - 3.5/5 bbhf - simple - j-rock - 3.5/5 bbhf - mirror mirror - j-pop - 3.5/5 a beacon school - cola - dream pop - 4/5 bedouine - bird songs of a killjoy - indie/folk - 4/5 bella boo - once upon a passion - electropop - 3/5 belle and sebastian - days of the bagnold summer - indie rock - 3/5 bellows - the rose gardener - indie rock - 4/5 bells atlas - the mystic - r&b/indie rock - 4/5 be steadwell - queer love songs - indie r&b/pop - 4/5 bethlehem steel - bethlehem steel - indie rock - 3.5/5 better oblivion community center - better oblivion community center - indie rock - 4/5 big|brave - a gaze among them - post-rock - 4/5 big nothing - chris - indie rock - 4/5 big thief - two hands - indie rock - 5/5 big thief - u.f.o.f. - indie rock - 4/5 big wild - superdream - indie pop - 3/5 biig piig - no place for patience, vol. 3 - hip-hop/r&b - 4/5 billie eilish - when we all fall asleep, where do we go? - pop/hip-hop - 3.5/5 billie marten - feeding seahorses by hand - indie/folk - 3/5 bish - carrots and sticks - j-rock - 3/5 black belt eagle scout - at the party with my brown friends - indie rock - 4/5 blackbird blackbird - hearts - electropop - 3/5 bladee & ecco2k & thaiboy digital - trash island - hip-hop - 2.5/5 blink-182 - nine - pop punk - 2.5/5 blonde maze - hold on - electropop - 4/5 blood cultures - oh uncertainty! a universe despairs - indie rock - 3/5 blood orange - angel's pulse - r&b - 3.5/5 blossom - terra incognita - hip-hop - 3.5/5 blue hawaii - open reduction internal fixation - electropop - 3.5/5 boa - starry night - k-pop - 3.5/5 body type - ep2 - indie rock - 4/5 boerd - misplaced - hip-hop - 4/5 bora york - emotion vertigo - indie pop - 3/5 boy scouts - free company - indie rock - 4/5 breakup - miss me - electropop - 3.5/5 bridal party - too much - indie rock - 3.5/5 brightness - brightness - indie rock - 3/5 brinq + antenna girl - sayonara ep - kawaii future bass - 3/5 broken social scene - let's try the after, vol. 1 - indie rock - 3/5 broken social scene - let's try the after, vol. 2 - indie rock - 3/5 bronze - east shore - k-pop - 4.5/5 broods - don't feed the pop monster - electropop - 3/5 brooke candy - sexorcism - edm/house - 4/5 brothertiger - a chain of islands ep - chillwave - 5/5 bryzone_ybp - back of the back - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 bryzone_ybp - oceans - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 bryzone_ybp - maybe - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 bts - bts world: original soundtrack - k-pop - 3.5/5 bts - map of the soul: persona - k-pop - 3/5 bülow - the contender - pop/hip-hop - 3.5/5 bülow - crystalline - pop/hip-hop - 3/5 burnout syndromes - myojo - j-rock - 3.5/5 by surprise - cosmic latte - emo/indie rock - 4/5 camellia & nanahira - goin' - kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 camp claude - double dreaming - indie rock - 3/5 cannons - shadows - electropop - 3.5/5 cape weather - cape weather - indie rock - 3.5/5 carlie hanson - junk - pop/indie rock - 4/5 carly rae jepsen - dedicated - pop - 5/5 carmody - catching blue - dream pop - 3/5 caroline says - ohio river ep - indie rock - 4/5 caroline spence - mint condition - indie/folk - 3/5 cassie marin - love me well ep - indie pop - 3/5 cattle - sweet dream tender light and your memory - shoegaze - 3.5/5 cautious clay - table of context - pop/hip-hop - 3/5 cehryl - slow motion - pop/hip-hop - 3/5 chance the rapper - the big day - hip-hop - 3.5/5 charli xcx - charli - pop - 5/5 charly bliss - supermoon - indie rock - 4/5 charly bliss - young enough - indie rock/pop punk - 5/5 chastity belt - chastity belt - indie rock - 4/5 cheat codes - level 2 - electropop - 3/5 cheese - plate - k-pop - 4/5 chela - delivery - pop - 3.5/5 chelmico - fishing - j-pop/hip-hop - 4/5 cherry glazerr - stuffed & ready - indie rock - 3.5/5 chief. - today - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 chief. - clarity - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 chinese football - continue? - emo/math-rock - 4/5 christelle bofale - swim team - indie rock - 4/5 chromatics - closer to grey - shoegaze - 3.5/5 chung ha - flourishing - k-pop - 4/5 ciara - beauty marks - pop - 4/5 cinema staff - cinema staff - j-rock - 4/5 citycop - nesh - emo/math-rock - 4/5 city girl - chroma velocity - chillhop/electropop - 4/5 city girl - somnolent nova - chillhop/electropop - 3/5 clairo - immunity - indie rock - 4.5/5 claris - primalove - j-pop - 4.5/5 claud - sideline star - indie rock - 4.5/5 clc - no.1 - k-pop - 4.5/5 cocabona & aura misha & monma - aura - lo-fi hip-hop - 3.5/5 commander salamander - off the goop - emo - 3.5/5 common holly - when i say to you black lightning - indie/folk - 3/5 com truise - persuasion system - chillwave - 2/5 cones - pictures of pictures - indie rock - 2/5 copeland - blushing - indie rock/dream pop - 3.5/5 cosmic boy - can i love? - hip-hop - 3.5/5 couple n - love is - kawaii future bass - 2.5/5 cowgirl clue - icebreaker - electropop - 2.5/5 the cranberries - in the end - dream pop - 4/5 cray - seasons change and so do i - electropop - 3.5/5 crck/lcks - temporary - j-rock/j-pop - 3/5 crck/lcks - temporary vol.2 - j-rock/j-pop - 2.5/5 cream - love + party - j-pop/hip-hop - 3/5 cricket blue - serotinalia - indie/folk - 4/5 cristina quesada - think i heard a rumour  - electropop - 4/5 cross record - cross record - indie pop - 3/5 crumb - jinx - indie rock - 4.5/5 cuco - para mi - r&b - 3.5/5 cursive - get fixed - emo - 3.5/5 cute girls doing cute things - scene - kawaii future bass - 2/5 cute girls doing cute things - slice of life - kawaii future bass - 2/5 cynhn - タブラチュア - j-rock - 3/5 daniela andrade - tamale - r&b - 4/5 daniel land - the dream of the red sails - dream pop - 3/5 daoko - daoko×dragalia lost - j-pop - 4.5/5 the darling fire - dark celebration - shoegaze - 4/5 daughter of swords - dawnbreaker - indie/folk - 4/5 death cab for cutie - the blue ep - indie rock - 3/5 deaton chris anthony - bo y - r&b/hip-hop - 4/5 deidre & the dark - variety hour - indie pop - 3/5 delta sleep - younger years - math-rock - 3.5/5 delta sleep & tricot - ghost city rarities - math-rock - 3.5/5 dia - newtro - k-pop - 3.5/5 diiv - deceiver - dream pop - 4/5 direct - cold ground - electropop - 3.5/5 distant.lo - bloom - lo-fi hip-hop - 3.5/5 distant.lo - silhouette - lo-fi hip-hop - 3.5/5 dizzy fae - no gmo mixtape - hip-hop - 3/5 dodie - human - indie pop - 3/5 the dollyrots - daydream explosion - pop punk - 4/5 dori freeman - every single star - indie/folk - 3.5/5 dounia - not good for the ego - hip-hop - 3.5/5 dounia - the scandal - hip-hop - 3.5/5 downfall of gaia - ethic of radical finitude - post-rock/sludge - 3.5/5 dowsing - sky coffin - pop punk/emo - 4/5 d-real [愛] - stuck in a rom​-​com - hip-hip - 3/5 dressy bessy - fast faster disaster - pop punk - 3/5 dsps - fully i - indie rock - 4.5/5 ducktails - hard rock cafe chernobyl - future funk - 3/5 ducky - optimism - edm - 2.5/5 ducky - i still believe in love - edm - 4.5/5 dude york - falling - indie rock - 4/5 dude york - happy in the meantime ep - indie rock - 3/5 dusky - imagine what ep - electropop/edm - 3.5/5 e1sbar - the legend of - electropop - 3/5 the early november - lilac - indie rock/emo - 4/5 earth dad - video music - indie rock - 3.5/5 ecco2k - e - hip-hop - 3.5/5 echos - even though you're gone - pop/hip-hop - 2.5/5 eerie wanda - pet town - indie/folk - 3.5/5 eevee - ep unknown - ambient - 2.5/5 eill - spotlight - electropop - 2.5/5 electric youth - memory emotion - electropop - 3.5/5 ella vos - watch and wait - pop - 3/5 elohim - braindead - electropop - 3/5 elsa hewitt - citrus paradisi - electropop - 4/5 elton john cena - all rats go to heaven - indie rock - 3.5/5 elva - winter sun - indie rock - 3.5/5 emily reo - only you can see it - indie pop - 3/5 emily yacina - remember the silver - indie rock - 4.5/5 emmy curl - øporto - pop/hip-hop - 3.5/5 erthlings - indigo - indie pop - 2.5/5 eva tolkin - truthfully - electropop - 3.5/5 evil - evil - indie pop - 2/5 exes - once more, with feeling - pop/hip-hop - 3/5 exid - we - k-pop - 3/5 the faint - egowerk - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 faye meana - shades of a dreamer - r&b - 3.5/5 faye webster - atlanta millionaires club - indie/folk - 4.5/5 feels - post earth - indie rock - 3.5/5 field medic - fade into the dawn - indie rock - 3.5/5 field mouse - meaning - indie rock - 3.5/5 fka twigs - magdalene - pop/r&b - 4/5 fleurie - portals: the b-sides - indie pop - 2.5/5 flor - ley lines - indie rock/indie pop - 4.5/5 floral print - floral print - indie rock - 3.5/5 florist - emily alone - indie/folk - 5/5 forests - spending eternity in a japanese convenience store - emo/math-rock - 3.5/5 for tracy hyde - new young city - dream pop - 4.5/5 fractures - reset - indie rock - 5/5 frankie cosmos - close it quietly - indie rock - 4/5 fresh - withdraw - indie rock - 3.5/5 friday night plans - complex - r&b - 3/5 fujifire - fuji's dream cafe - future funk - 4/5 gabrielle aplin - like you say you do - pop - 3.5/5 gabrielle papillon - shout - indie pop - 2.5/5 galaxy fingers - the last bastion of fox quality - dream pop - 4/5 gemma ray - psychogeology - indie/folk - 3.5/5 genie high - ジェニーハイストーリー - j-rock - 3.5/5 geotheory - broken heartdrive - edm - 3.5/5 geotheory - theory voyages 003 - edm - 3/5 geowulf - my resignation - indie rock - 4/5 the get up kids - problems - emo/pop punk - 4.5/5 gfriend - fever season - k-pop - 3.5/5 gfriend - time for us - k-pop - 3/5 gia margaret - there's always glimmer - indie/folk - 3.5/5 (g)i-dle - i made - k-pop - 3/5 girl in red - chapter 2 - indie rock - 3/5 girlpool - what chaos is imaginary - indie rock - 4/5 girl ray - girl - indie pop - 3.5/5 glassio - age of experience - electropop - 3.5/5 goldroom - plunge /\ surface - edm/electropop - 4.5/5 goodbye fujiyama - キャッチャー·イン·ザ·ヘル - j-rock/pop punk - 4.5/5 goon - heaven is humming - indie rock - 4/5 goosetaf & oatmello - sugar - lo-fi hip-hop - 3.5/5 got7 - call my name - k-pop - 3.5/5 grace ives - 2nd - indie pop - 3.5/5 great deceivers - in spirit - indie rock - 3.5/5 great grandpa - four of arrows - indie rock - 4/5 group action - super music - j-rock/j-pop - 4.5/5 gurr - she says - indie rock - 3.5/5 hachioji p - graphix - kawaii future bass/vocaloid - 4/5 hamidasystem - down - j-rock/j-pop - 2.5/5 hana - hanadriel - pop - 4/5 hand habits - placeholder - indie/folk - 4/5 hannah cohen - welcome home - indie/folk - 3/5 happy kuru kuru - 4 kinds of happy kuru kuru!? - kawaii future bass - 3/5 harmony woods - make yourself at home - indie rock - 5/5 harry styles - fine line - pop - 4/5 hatchie - keepsake - dream pop - 4/5 hawthorne heights - lost frequencies - emo - 2.5/5 haybaby - they get there - indie rock - 3.5/5 hayley kiyoko - i'm too sensitive for this shit - pop - 4/5 heize - she's fine - k-pop - 3/5 hélène barbier - have you met elliott? - indie rock - 3.5/5 h.e.r. - i used to know her - hip-hop - 4/5 hibou - clarity - dream pop - 3.5/5 highnoon - semi sweet - indie rock - 3.5/5 the highwomen - the highwomen - indie/folk - 4/5 hikes - mahal kita - indie rock - 4/5 hiromi - spectrum - instrumental - 4/5 hitorie - howls - j-rock - 3.5/5 hitsujibungaku - きらめき - j-rock - 3/5 holiday ghosts - west bay playroom - indie rock - 3/5 holiday sidewinder - forever or whatever - electropop - 3.5/5 holy holy - my own pool of light - indie rock - 3/5 home - hold - electropop - 4/5 homecomings - cakes - j-rock - 5/5 homeshake - helium - indie rock - 4/5 honeyblood - in plain sight - indie rock - 3/5 honeycomebear - holic - kawaii future bass - 3/5 honeymoan - body - indie rock - 3.5/5 hoody - departure - k-pop - 3.5/5 hope tala - sensitive soul - indie/r&b - 3/5 horsebeach - the unforgiving current - indie pop - 3/5 hovvdy - heavy lifter - indie rock - 4.5/5 hozier - wasteland, baby! - indie/folk - 5/5 hydrogen sea - automata - indie pop - 3/5 hylen - lovesickness - kawaii future bass - 2.5/5 ider - emotional education - electropop - 3.5/5 i don't like mondays. - future - j-pop - 3/5 i love your lifestyle - the movie - emo - 4/5 imeiden - imeiden volume 3 - kawaii future pop - 4/5 the indigo east end - 濡れゆく私小説 - j-rock - 4/5 infinity crush - virtual heaven - indie rock - 4/5 ingrid michaelson - stranger songs - indie pop - 3/5 ings - lullaby rock - indie/folk - 2.5/5 insignificant other - i'm so glad i feel this way about you - indie rock - 3/5 instupendo - boys by girls - electronic - 5/5 iri - shade - j-pop - 5/5 isyana sarasvati - air - pop - 3/5 iz*one - vampire - j-pop - 3.5/5 izumi makura - as usual - j-pop - 4/5 izzamuzzic - unsaid - edm/electropop - 4/5 jack m. senff - good to know you - indie/folk - 4/5 jaden - erys - hip-hop - 3.5/5 jake hope - icare2much - hip-hop - 3.5/5 jamila woods - legacy! legacy! - r&b/hip-hop - 5/5 the japanese house - good at falling - indie pop - 4/5 jay som - anak ko - indie rock - 5/5 jealous of the birds - wisdom teeth - indie rock - 3/5 jean deaux - empathy - hip-hop - 3.5/5 jeffe - one hundred percent - electropop - 2.5/5 jenny lewis - on the line - indie pop - 4/5 jenny owen youngs - night shift - indie/folk - 4/5 jeremy zucker & chelsea cutler - brent - indie/folk - 3.5/5 jeromes dream - lp - screamo - 2/5 jesca hoop - stonechild - indie/folk - 4/5 jessica pratt - quiet signs - 3.5/5 jetty bones - "-" - emo - 3.5/5 jimmy eat world - surviving - emo - 3.5/5 jizue - gallery - math-rock - 4/5 jonatan leandoer127 - nectar - indie/folk - 2.5/5 juice wrld - death race for love - hip-hop - 3.5/5 julia jacklin - crushing - indie rock - 4/5 juliana hatfield - weird - indie rock - 4/5 julia shapiro - perfect version - indie rock - 4.5/5 jyocho - 綺麗な三角、朝日にんげん - math-rock - 4/5 kaina - next to the sun - r&b - 4/5 kainalu - lotus gate - electropop - 4.5/5 kallitechnis - chromatic - r&b - 3.5/5 kana-boon - nerine - j-rock - 3.5/5 karen o & danger mouse - lux prima - indie rock - 4/5 kari faux - cry 4 help - hip-hop - 3.5/5 kate bollinger - i don't wanna lose - indie rock - 3.5/5 kate teague - kate teague - indie rock - 3.5/5 kate tempest - the book of traps and lessons - spoken word - 5/5 katie dey - solipsisters - indie/folk - 5/5 kehlani - while we wait - hip-hop - 4/5 keisei - ミライトアルマチ都々里 - j-pop/vocaloid - 4/5 kemono - 美しい傷 - j-rock - 3.5/5 keren ann - bleue - indie pop - 3/5 key - i wanna be - k-pop - 3/5 khalid - free spirit - r&b - 3.5/5 kiana ledé - myself - hip-hop - 3/5 kim petras - clarity - pop - 5/5 kim petras - turn off the light - electropop - 4/5 king princess - cheap queen - pop - 4.5/5 kirara magic - magic shop - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 kitten - goodbye honeymoon phase - indie pop/indie rock - 3.5/5 kitty - rose gold - electropop/hip-hop - 5/5 klp - giver - edm/electropop - 4/5 kolme - do you know kolme? - j-pop - 3.5/5 kolme - hello kolme - j-pop - 4/5 [ k s r ] - unfiltered - hip-hop - 3.5/5 kuranes - lakeside - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 kyyhky - do you feel lonely? - lo-fi hip-hop - 3.5/5 la dispute - panorama - indie rock - 3/5 lady lamb - even in the tremor - indie/folk - 3/5 la fine equipe - 5th season - hip-hop - 4/5 lagwagon - railer - pop punk - 3.5/5 lana del rey - norman fucking rockwell! - pop - 5/5 lane 8 - feld / anthracite - electropop - 4/5 laura stevenson - the big freeze - indie/folk - 3.5/5 lava la rue - stitches - hip-hop - 3.5/5 layfullstop - cherries - hip-hop - 4/5 leaf beach - old growth - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 the leaf library - the world is a bell - dream pop - 4/5 leggy - let me know your moon - indie rock - 3/5 leisure - twister - indie pop - 3.5/5 lemolo - swansea - dream pop - 3,5/5 léon - léon - pop - 3/5 lightning bug - october song - shoegaze - 3/5 lily & madeleine - canterbury girls - indie/folk - 3.5/5 limonène - evergreen - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 lina tullgren - free cell - indie rock - 4/5 l i p s - l i p s ep - shoegaze - 3.5/5 lisa prank - perfect love song - pop punk - 3/5 lisel - angels on the slope - electropop - 3/5 lite - multiple - math-rock - 4/5 little glee monster - kimini todokumade - j-pop - 3/5 little glee monster - i feel the light - j-pop - 3/5 little simz - grey area - hip-hop - 5/5 living hour - softer faces - dream pop - 3.5/5 liz - planet y2k - electropop - 3.5/5 lizzo - cuz i love you - pop/hip-hop - 5/5 loane - alone - pop - 3/5 lolo zouaï - high highs to low lows - pop/hip-hop - 3.5/5 lomelda - m for empathy - indie/folk - 4/5 long beard - means to me - dream pop/indie rock - 5/5 lorelle meets the obsolete - de facto - shoegaze - 3.5/5 lost film - zero summer - dream pop - 3.5/5 lost spaces - no-vacancy - indie pop - 3/5 louise burns - portraits - indie pop - 3/5 love x stereo - 37c - electropop - 3.5/5 lucie,too - chime - j-rock/pop punk - 3/5 lucky kilimanjaro - fresh - j-pop - 5/5 lucy ducas - 2019 - indie rock - 3.5/5 lucy rose - no words left - indie/folk - 4/5 lula wiles - what will we do - indie/folk - 3.5/5 lusine - retrace - electropop - 3/5 luvbird - wildflower island - kawaii future bass - 3/5 madeon - good faith - electropop - 4/5 madison mcferrin - you + i - r&b - 3.5/5 magdalena bay - mini mix vol 1 - indie pop - 3.5/5 maggie rogers - heard it in a past life - indie pop - 2.5/5 mahalia - love and compromise - hip-hop - 4/5 majiko - 寂しい人が一番偉いんだ - j-rock - 2.5/5 mallrat - driving music - indie pop - 4/5 mammoth penguins - there is no fight - indie rock - 3.5/5 manatee commune - pda - electropop - 3.5/5 marika hackman - any human friend - indie rock - 3/5 mark kozelek & petra haden - joey always smiled - indie/folk - 3/5 mark ronson - late night feelings - pop - 4/5 mauno - really well - indie rock - 3.5/5 mcclenney - i'm not here - indie rock - 2.5/5 meernaa - heart hunger - indie rock - 2.5/5 mega bog - dolphine - indie/folk - 4/5 megan thee stallion - fever - hip-hop - 4/5 mei ehara - 私をしも - indie/folk - 4.5/5 mei ehara - 最初の日は／午後には残って - j-rock - 3.5/5 meiko - in your dreams - indie/folk - 4/5 melby - none of this makes me worry - indie rock - 3.5/5 mellow mellow - dear my star - j-pop - 3/5 mélonade - mélonade - future funk - 3/5 meltycanon - love deluxe* - hip-hop - 5/5 men i trust - oncle jazz - indie rock - 4/5 me not you - already gone - indie rock - 3/5 the menzingers - hello exile - pop punk - 3/5 merriment - funny thing - indie rock - 2.5/5 methyl ethel - triage - indie pop - 2.5/5 mia gladstone - grow - indie pop - 2/5 michelle blades - kiss me on the mouth - indie rock - 3/5 microwave - death is a warm blanket - emo - 3.5/5 middle kids - new songs for old problems - indie rock - 2.5/5 mikanzil - 4th-peace - j-rock - 3.5/5 milk & bone - dive - electropop - 3.5/5 millie turner - hide+seek - indie pop - 2.5/5 mindy gledhill - rabbit hole - indie rock - 3/5 misogi - blood moon underworld - dream pop/emo - 3.5/5 misterwives - mini bloom - indie pop - 2.5/5 misty coast - melodaze - shoegaze - 3/5 mitsume - ghosts - j-rock - 4/5 mol-74 - teenager - j-rock - 3.5/5 molly tuttle - when you're ready - indie/folk - 3/5 mono - nowhere now here - post-rock - 4/5 moshimo - todome - j-rock - 4/5 moumoon - new moon - j-pop - 3/5 the mountain goats - in league with dragons - indie/folk - 3.5/5 mount eerie & julie doiron - lost wisdom, pt. 2 - indie/folk - 3.5/5 mourn - mixtape - indie rock - 2.5/5 mouse on the keys - nhkスペシャル ドラマ - post-rock/math-rock - 3/5 mree - the middle - indie/folk - 4.5/5 mt. fujitive - sanctuary - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 muna - saves the world - electropop - 5/5 mush - thank you, we're mush - emo/pop punk - 3.5/5 mutual benefit - just another diamond day - indie/follk - 3/5 nabowa - dusk - j-rock - 2.5/5 namdose - s/t - indie rock - 4/5 nanahira - nanamega kingdom - kawaii future bass - 4/5 nanahira - trip×frolic - kawaii future bass - 4/5 the natsuyasumi band - terminal - j-rock - 3.5/5 navvi - 2503 - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 nerd magnet - 透明になったあなたへ - pop punk - 4/5 nieah - 1% - hip-hop - 3.5/5 night flowers - fortune teller - indie rock - 3/5 niki - wanna take this downtown - trip-pop - 3.5/5 niña - love letters to you - dream pop - 3/5 nina nesbitt - the sun will come up, the seasons will change - hip-hop - 3/5 no vacations - phasing - dream pop - 4/5 nora van elken - skyforest - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 nuance - botän - j-pop - 3/5 nyankobrq - arbeit - kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 nyankobrq - real cat - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 oatmello - imperfections 2 - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 oatmello & ødyssee - myst isle  - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 ocha - love story pt.2 - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 octo octa - for lovers - edm/electropop - 2/5 omaure - dystopia ave. - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 omaure - melt - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 omaure - wingsuit - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 omniboi - ego death - edm/electropop - 3/5 omniboi - quick breath - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 oohyo - far from the madding city - k-pop - 5/5 options - pacific notion ii - indie rock - 3.5/5 orancha - lemonade - electropop - 3.5/5 oshun - bittersweet, vol. 1 - hip-hop/r&b - 4/5 outer spaces - gazing globe - indie/folk - 3.5/5 overo - overo - emo - 4.5/5 p19 & camellia & nanahira - infiniti mofulity - kawaii future bass - 4/5 paellas - sequential souls - j-rock - 3/5 pale blue - have you passed through this night - electropop - 3/5 palehound - black friday - indie rock - 5/5 pasocom music club - night flow - j-pop - 3.5/5 passepied - more humor - j-pop - 3.5/5 password:password - session boyfriend - indie rock - 3/5 paula cole - revolution - indie/folk - 2.5/5 peaer - a healthy earth - emo - 3.5/5 pedro the lion - phoenix - pop punk - 3/5 penelope isles - until the tide creeps in - indie rock - 4.5/5 perc%nt - pvc - k-pop - 3/5 peregrine - as one would exist - emo - 4/5 phem - vacumhead - hip-hop - 3/5 phora - bury me with dead roses - hip-hop - 4/5 a picture of her - unavailable - math-rock - 3.5/5 pieta brown - freeway - indie/folk - 2.5/5 pikasonic - memory - kawaii future bass - 4/5 pile - green and gray - indie rock - 4/5 pink skies - infinity - indie pop - 3.5/5 pixx - small mercies - indie rock - 3/5 pleeg & yuca - horizon - kawaii future bass - 3/5 pohgoh + caithlin de marrais split ep - emo - 3.5/5 polkadot stingray - 有頂天 - j-rock - 3.5/5 polkadot stingray - ハイパークラクション - j-rock - 3.5/5 the pom-poms - i was on the news - hip-hop - 3/5 poppy - choke - metal/pop - 3.5/5 potty mouth - snafu - pop punk - 4/5 prince innocence - blue star ep - electropop - 3.5/5 project skylate - augmented life ep - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 pronoun - i'll show you stronger - indie rock - 3.5/5 proper. - i spent the winter writing songs about getting better - emo - 3.5/5 prune deer - insufficient postage - indie rock - 2.5/5 puddle splasher - the blankets blue - indie rock - 3/5 pvris - hallucinations - electropop - 3/5 [.que] - any - post-rock - 3/5 [.que] - flowers - post-rock - 3/5 queen of jeans - if you're not afraid, i'm not afraid - indie rock - 3.5/5 quin - lucid - r&b/hip-hop - 4/5 qveen herby - ep 5 - hip-hop - 3.5/5 qveen herby - ep 6 - hip-hop - 3/5 qveen herby - ep 6 - hip-hop - 3/5 radiator hospital - sings music for daydreaming - indie rock - 3.5/5 the radio dept. - i don't need love, i've got my band - indie rock - 3.5/5 rae spoon - mental health - indie rock - 4/5 raiche - drive - r&b - 3.5/5 ralph - flashbacks & fantasies - pop - 5/5 rapsody - eve - hip-hop - 4/5 raveena - lucid - r&b - 4/5 rayana jay - love me like - hip-hop - 3.5/5 red velvet - sappy - k-pop - 2.5/5 the regrettes - how do you love? - pop punk - 3.5/5 reptaliens - valis - indie pop - 2.5/5 rhye - spirit - indie rock - 3/5 riah - heartbreak magic - indie pop - 3/5 ricono - reflections - j-pop - 4/5 ride - this is not a safe place - indie rock - 3.5/5 riri - summertime ep - r&b - 3/5 rocketship - thanks to you - indie rock - 3.5/5 the rocket summer - sweet shivers - indie rock - 3/5 rocoberry - how is your night? - k-pop - 3/5 romantic states - ballerina - indie rock - 2.5/5 rook1e - sleepy boy - lo-fi hip-hop - 4/5 room97 - nova+ - j-rock - 3.5/5 rosemary fairweather - heavenly a second collection of songs - pop rock - 5/5 rosie carney - bare - indie/folk - 3.5/5 sabrina claudio - truth is - hip-hop - 2.5/5 sacred paws - run around the sun - indie rock - 3.5/5 saib - basement grooves - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 saib - mangroves - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 sampa - the great the return - hip-hop - 4/5 sanaas - marineart - edm/kawaii future bass - 5/5 (sandy) alex g - house of sugar - indie rock - 5/5 senso nakamura - nakamurasanso muchu - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 sarah bethe nelson - weird glow - indie/folk - 3.5/5 sarah jaffe - smut - indie rock - 2.5/5 saro - die alone - indie pop - 2.5/5 sasami - sasami - indie rock - 4/5 satin jackets - solar nights - edm/electropop - 4/5 satomoka - merry go round - j-pop - 4/5 savoir adore - full bloom - indie pop - 3/5 the scary jokes - burn pygmalion!!! a better guide to romance - indie rock - 3/5 seira kariya - cover girl - j-pop - 3/5 sg lewis - dawn - hip-hop - 3.5/5 shachi - alone - hip-hop - 3.5/5 shady bug - lemon lime - indie rock - 3.5/5 shannon lay - august - indie/folk - 3/5 shannon wright - providence - indie/folk - 3.5/5 sharon van etten - remind me tomorrow - indie rock - 3.5/5 she her her hers - location - dream pop - 3.5/5 she is summer - wave motion - j-pop - 2.5/5 the shes gone - days - j-rock - 3/5 shunkan - cumberland falls - pop punk/indie rock - 4/5 shura - forevher - indie pop - 4/5 shy girls - bird on the wing - indie rock - 3/5 siamese cats - bouquet - j-rock - 3.5/5 sidewave – ultraviolet - shoegaze - 3/5 signals midwest - pin - emo - 3/5 sigrid - sucker punch - electropop - 3.5/5 silver sphere - yikes! - indie pop - 2.5/5 silversun pickups - widow's weeds - indie rock - 3/5 sinead harnett - lessons in love - r&b - 3.5/5 singto conley - eden - edm/electropop - 3/5 sipper - adam driver - indie rock - 3/5 slayyyter - slayyyter - electropop - 4/5 sleater-kinney - the center won't hold - indie rock - 3/5 slingshot dakota - heavy banding - emo - 4/5 slow magic - dreams - electronic - 3/5 slow pulp - big day - indie rock/dream pop - 4/5 slushii - watch yo back - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 small crush - small crush - indie rock - 3.5/5 snail's house - エイリアン☆ポップ ii - kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 snail's house - エイリアン☆ポップ iii - kawaii future bass - 4/5 snail's house - loves magic - kawaii future bass - 4/5 snail's house - scenery - kawaii future bass - 4/5 snoh aalegra - -ugh those feels again - r&b - 3/5 soak - grim town - indie rock - 3/5 solange - when i get home - r&b - 4.5/5 so much light - 5 minutes - indie pop - 2.5/5 sonoko inoue - 白と色イロ - j-rock - 3/5 sorcha richardson - first prize bravery - indie rock - 3/5 sore eyelids - avoiding life - emo/shoegaze - 4/5 spangle call lilli line - dreams never end - j-rock - 3.5/5 sparrows - berries - indie rock - 3.5/5 spinn - spinn - dream pop - 3.5/5 ☆star guitar - &ever - post-rock - 3.5/5 star house - you said forever - shoegaze - 3.5/5 starover blue - ordinary magic - indie rock - 3/5 stef chura - midnight - indie rock - 3.5/5 stella donnelly - beware of the dogs - indie rock - 3/5 stella jang - hazardous materials - k-pop - 3/5 strange ranger - remembering the rockets - indie rock - 3/5 sumin - oo da da - k-pop -3.5/5 summer walker - clear - r&b - 3/5 sunflower bean - king of the dudes - indie rock - 3/5 sun june - younger - indie rock - 3/5 sun kil moon - i also want to die in new orleans - indie/folk - 2/5 suran - jumpin' - k-pop - 3/5 sweet dove - hope is the thing with feathers - post-rock - 3/5 swum & jinsang - blossoms - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 tacocat - this mess is a place - indie rock - 3.5/5 taichi mukai - 27 - j-pop - 2.5/5 tallsaint - hard love - electropop - 3/5 tash - volume 1 - r&b - 3/5 tatiana hazel - toxic - electropop - 3/5 taylor swift - lover - pop - 4/5 teen body - dreamo - dream pop - 4/5 teen daze - bioluminescence - electronic - 4/5 tegan and sara - hey, i'm just like you - indie pop - 3.5/5 tei shi - la linda - r&b - 3.5/5 telex telexs - yes i'm 25 and i'm single - pop - 2.5/5 templime - pureness - kawaii future bass - 3/5 tender - fear of falling asleep - indie pop - 3/5 tennyson - telescope ep - pop - 2/5 terror jr - unfortunately, terror jr - electropop - 4/5 thaiboy digital - legendary member - hip-hop - 2.5/5 theodora - letsnotcallitlove - r&b - 3/5 third eye blind - screamer - pop rock - 3/5 this is fantastic for you - tiffy - screamo - 3/5 tinashe - songs for you - r&b/hip-hop - 5/5 tinlicker - about you - edm/electropop - 3.5/5 tinlicker - this is not our universe - edm/electropop - 4/5 tiny ruins - olympic girls - indie rock - 3.5/5 tiptoe. - daydream - j-pop - 4/5 tiptoe. - timetrip - j-pop - 3.5/5 tobi lou - live on ice - hip-hop - 4/5 toro y moi - outer peace - electropop - 5/5 toro y moi - soul trash - electropop - 4/5 toro y moi - smartbeats - electropop - 3/5 trace - like hell ep - pop - 2.5/5 t-rextasy - prehysteria - indie rock - 3/5 tricot - リピート - math rock - 4/5 tsubame - the present - j-rock - 3/5 tsunami bomb - the spine that binds - pop punk - 3/5 turnover - altogether - indie rock - 3/5 tusks - avalanche - dream pop - 3/5 twice - fancy you - k-pop - 2.5/5 twice - feel special - k-pop - 3/5 twice - &twice - k-pop - 3.5/5 twinkids - lizard house - indie pop - 2/5 twin limb - in the warm light, as a ghost - shoegaze - 2.5/5 two door cinema club - false alarm - indie pop - 3.5/5 tycho - weather - electronic - 4.5/5 ukiyo – ukiyo mixtape, vol. 1 - lo-fi hip-hop - 2.5/5 umi - love language - r&b - 3/5 uno - バーチャルワールドが僕らの町にやってきた - kawaii future bass - 4/5 upset - upset - pop punk - 3.5/5 vacationer - wavelengths - electropop - 4/5 vagabon - vagabon - indie rock - 4/5 vampire weekend - father of the bride - indie rock - 4/5 vantage - j-funk city: vantage's edits collection - future funk - 3/5 varsity - the basement takes (2015-2016) - indie rock - 3/5 vel the wonder - la sena ave - hip-hop - 4/5 versing - 10000 - shoegaze - 3.5/5 vessence - further - electronic - 2/5 vetiver - up on high - indie/folk - 3.5/5 violet skies - i'll buy a house - electropop - 3/5 waax - big grief - indie rock - 3/5 wand - laughing matter - indie rock - 3/5 wataru sena - on a rainy day - post-rock - 3.5/5 water from your eyes - somebody else's song - indie rock - 4/5 wasuta - cat'ch the world - j-rock/j-pop - 2.5/5 waveform* - shooting star - indie rock - 3.5/5 wavvy frog - played out - kawaii future bass - 2.5/5 the well pennies - murmurations - indie/folk - 2.5/5 weyes blood - titanic rising - indie/folk - 4/5 whenyoung - reasons to dream - indie rock - 3/5 whimsical - bright smiles & broken hearts - shoegaze - 3/5 wildlife - take the light with you - shoegaze - 2/5 wild pink - 5 songs - indie rock - 3.5/5 winter - hazy - indie rock - 3/5 wisp x - loner - edm/kawai future bass - 5/5 witchduck - witchduck - indie rock - 2.5/5 wizard apprentice - dig a pit - electronic - 4/5 wjsn - for the summer - k-pop - 5/5 wjsn - wj stay? - k-pop - 3.5/5 wjsn - as you wish - k-pop - 3/5 wookie & blossom - figures ep - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 wyl & wun two - lo-fi hip-hop - 3.5/5 xjk. - it's nothing personal - electronic - 3/5 xjk. - it's nothing personal - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 yawners - just calm down - indie rock/pop punk - 3.5/5 yerin baek - our love is great - k-pop - 3.5/5 yeule - serotonin ii - electronic - 4/5 ymck - family circus - j-pop - 3.5/5 yohuna - mirroring - shoegaze - 3.5/5 yola - walk through fire - indie/folk - 4/5 yorushika - エルマ - j-rock - 4/5 yota - strangers on film - edm/electropop - 3/5 young mammals - lost in lima - indie rock - 4/5 young thug - so much fun - hip-hop - 4/5 your smith - wild wild woman - indie pop - 3.5/5 yui sakakibara - emotion - j-pop - 3.5/5 yukiyanagi - azure world - kawaii future bass - 4/5 yuma yamaguchi - 連続ドラマw「坂の途中の家」オリジナルサウンドトラック - instrumental - 3.5/5 yuna - rouge - r&b - 4/5 yung baby tate - girls - hip-hop - 3.5/5 yung bae - bae 5 - future funk - 3/5 yutaka hirasaka - day by day - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 yutaka hirasaka - faraway, so close - post-rock - 3/5 yvette young - piano ep - math rock - 4/5 zilo - gorgeous - r&b - 4.5/5 サクラsakura-lee - little galaxy girl - future funk - 3/5 ハレトキドキ - サンシャイン・ラヴ - future funk - 3.5/5 ハレトキドキ - 追憶のネビュラ - future funk - 4/5 ペンギンラッシュ - 七情舞 - j-rock - 4/5 宇宙ネコ子 - 君のように生きれたら - j-rock/indie rock - 5/5 黒魔 (chroma) - 愛を喜ぶ街 - j-pop - 3/5 桜エビ~ず - octave - j-rock - 3/5 せだい - formula - j-rock 3.5/5

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practical records - open source - electronic - 4/5 mirai chaya vol 0 - kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 mirai chaya vol 1- kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 mirai chaya vol 2 - kawaii future bass - 4.5/5 prhythmatic3 - house/edm/kawaii future bass/vocalid - 3.5/5 prhythmatic house 2 - house/edm/kawaii future bass/vocalid - 3.5/5 neonstride - edm/kawaii future bass/future funk - 3.5/5 virtuareal.00 - kawaii future bass - 3/5 spd gar 002 - kawaii future bass - 3.5/5 fugene 03  - edm/kawaii future bass - 3/5 ha[za]ard attack 4 - edm/kawaii future bass - 3/5 popover+teatime 5 - edm/kawaii future bass - 3/5 lilium x6 - edm/kawaii future bass - 4/5 j-neration toys 2 - edm/kawaii future bass - 4/5 fear and loathing in beats - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5 futures vol. 6 - lo-fi hip-hop - 3/5

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[urbanwronski]

  Three weeks after its slender election victory, the Morrison government is all at sea. Three Chinese warships steam into Sydney Harbour uninvited. Spring our ring of steel. Laugh at our border security. PLA navy sailors roam The Emerald City, on a four day sleepover. And a shop. Cans of infant formula walk out the door. Sailors can double their money re-selling Aptamil back in China. Pooh-poohing “conspiracy theorists”, The Australian eagerly spins a yarn that the Chinese warships are on a “baby milk raid”.

Taken by surprise, but never taken aback, ScoMo is OS. Unplugged. He plucks a ukulele, which he gifts to a grateful Manasseh Sogavare, newly-elected pro-China PM of our newly-rediscovered Pacific nation “family” in The Solomon Islands Honiara. The PM’s stunt is all part of a cunning plan to woo The Hapi Isles back to us.  The mass logging operations on “the lungs of the world” on the tiny island of Vangunu by Axiom Holdings, of which self-described “corporate doctor” Malcolm Turnbull was chairman, 1991-2, part of an act of catastrophic environmental vandalism, are not mentioned.

Multinational timber companies have logged ninety per cent of Solomon Island rainforest. Now logging is decimating remaining trees at 19 percent the sustainable rate. Its national forest will disappear by 2036. Whilst Unilever has been a major exploiter of local rainforest in the past, today eighty percent of timber is exported to China.

Embedded reporters spurn rainforest issues; focus, instead, on helping ScoMo spin his warship story, ” It’s a regular, reciprocal, visit.” The PLA is on its way home after “anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden”, a mere 12,271 km away? Shiver me timbers.

Inexplicably also missing the PLA visit memo, former Raytheon employee, Andrew Hastie pal, Defence Minister Brigadier (ret) Linda Reynolds is a big fan of the Libs’ “merit-based” exclusion of women. She’s not on hand to greet sailors personally. It’s no big snub. Linda probably has her work cut out not instructing the AFP to raid the ABC, not calling Ben Fordham at Nine’s 2GB and certainly not putting the wind up Annika Smethurst, News Corp’s Sunday Telegraph political editor.

So much not to do, so little time. It’s a week of surprise visits, lightning raids on our nation’s credibility, our attenuated, attention-span and an orchestrated attack on the heart, the liver and the lights of our democracy, our free press. And plausible deniability.

As with the week’s AFP raids on a free press, China’s visit to Sydney is not what it seems. Parading 700 well-armed fighting men along with your latest, state-of-the-art frigate and supply ship and amphibious landing craft is no show of force. No upstaging of Morrison’s diplomacy. No coincidence with the eve of the Tiananmen Square anniversary. It’s just part of today’s beaut “rules-based global system” keeping us safe.

So what if the warships dock in Sydney just as ScoMo tries to bribe Honiara with offers of loans to help them build an undersea Huawei-free communications cable to spike China’s influence in the Pacific? Why would our PM be in Sydney just to honour a visit from our major trading partner? ScoMo is in The Solomons, en route to the UK where important myths about D-Day, saving Europe from fascism, and presenting HM The Queen with Winx The Authorised Biography all demand to be commemorated or performed in person.

Luckily Morrison has time to announce his government’s catchy new policy of “Pacific step-up” a revamp which turns out to be just as bad as the old in ignoring climate change. Even older is his bold, new, back-to-the-future Kanaka 2.0 offer.

In the 1860s, Australian blackbirders began to lure what would amount to at least 30,000 Solomon Islanders to work on sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji. New recruits got six pounds per year, a fixed rate for forty years, despite wage inflation elsewhere. Blackbirders and entrepreneurs, Robert Towns and John Mackay are commemorated in Queensland place names and in civic statues today.

Following this having a go but decidedly not a fair go tradition, Australia will gift $2.7 million over three years to Honiara’s government to help it fly Solomon Island FIFO workers here to be wage slaves on Aussie farms where they’ll “fill labour shortages in Australia” or undercut local workers by being paid lower wages and working longer hours in harsh conditions.  Half of all our migrant, temporary workers are underpaid. Hundreds of workers and millions of dollars in underpayment are involved.

The exploitation of migrant workers in Australia, a key report published last March, after a two-year inquiry by the federal Migrant Workers’ Taskforce, concludes that wage theft is widespread. A third of Australia’s foreign workers are paid less than half the minimum wage, and wage theft is especially severe in fruit and vegetable picking, according to Wage Theft in Australia, a survey undertaken by academics Bassina Farbenblum at UNSW and Laurie Berg at UTS. The Fair Work Ombudsman, they say, needs help.

Apart from the brutal legacy of its colonial past and its involvement in post-colonial exploitation, Australia may be belatedly realising how its climate change denialism and its cult of thermal coal; its abject failure to curb its own greenhouse gas emissions and its cuts to foreign aid help our Pacific neighbours reach out to China for aid instead.

But, in a post neoliberal, post-truth, Trumpian universe nothing is ever our own fault. Like Sydney’s Chinese warship fiasco. It isn’t true and it’s someone else’s fault.

Why, look!  The visit’s just something else retired Defence Minister, Pyne, forgot to pass on. Not a show of force by China at all, on the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.  Papa Morrison says there is no need for over-analysis by experts or media. Nothing remotely resembling gunboat diplomacy to see here.

NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian is also in the dark, but leaving Premiers out of the loop is part of ScoMo’s Trumpista leadership style. Speak up more in COAG, Gladys.

Similarly, the Chinese government obliges by sparing its own citizens from overthinking. It gets a scratch crew of two million online censors to block internet sites which might tell its people how Chinese government troops brutally fired on student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen 4 June 1989. Precise figures are impossible to obtain, even with a free press, but two thousand may have been killed. As many as ten thousand are believed to have been arrested.

Thousands of other uprisings which spread to other centres, including Shanghai city, were also brutally repressed.

The Sydney PLA display catches ScoMo off-guard but he rallies later. Perhaps it’s jet-lag after nearly thirty hours in flight. Is he into the Tories’ class A recreational drugs enjoyed by so many otherwise promising successors to Theresa May? Unlikely.

ScoMo’s off and racing, wowing the Queen with, “How good is Winx?” a half-hour riff on a single platitude. A torrent of reports quote him explaining how well it all went. Her Majesty is spell-bound. Pity Phil is otherwise engaged. Taking the air. A twenty minute session becomes thirty-five. Or does it just seem longer? Lucky Queen.

Meanwhile, Dutton’s stakes rise as he wins the Alter-Copy-Erase media trifecta as a top staffer in Defence, or somewhere in the vast and powerful Home Affairs super-ministry, kits out his AFP with extraordinary warrants to raid the press on three separate occasions while both his PM and he, himself are OS. Nothing to see here.

A steward’s inquiry would just be a waste of time. Any Senate estimates committee will be treated with what in six years has become a show of open Coalition contempt for accountability and a painful reminder of the politicisation of the Public Service. Consider how the former minister for Environment, Melissa Price, was bullied by Queensland’s coal-pushers Matt Canavan and James Paterson into passing Adani’s flawed plans for water and wildlife conservation even if it meant the abdication of due diligence.

No-one’s home in government, Sunday, when a group of leading water scientists slam Adani’s “flawed” plan to protect groundwater near its Carmichael mine. Seven leading experts, from four major universities, warn that Adani’s water plan jeopardises Doongmabulla Springs seven kilometres south-west of its proposed excavation site.

The mine will bring extinction to a range of flora and fauna which currently depend upon the springs. Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science will meet this week to review Adani’s water management proposals. Yet, as we’ve seen with earlier federal government approvals, it’s important that we don’t get too carried away with the facts.

Cayman Island MDB company bagman and Energy Minister, Oxonian old boy, Angus Taylor finally nails how to evade our rising carbon emissions. It’s all good news. Everyone else in the world will breathe easier by burning our LNG. Official statistics can’t be trusted. So our greenhouse gas emissions are rising for the third year in a row? The good news is how our gas exports lower pollution in other countries. Genius. Gus wins most far-fetched stretch of credibility at less a canter than a rising trot.

Labor’s climate change and energy spokesman, Mark Butler, notes soberly that the data shows we are not on track to meet our Paris targets. “Not only did Angus Taylor not release emissions data by the deadline set by the Senate last Friday … the Liberals will try every trick in the book to avoid scrutiny of their record on tackling climate change.”

Best trick of the week for avoiding scrutiny, however, is getting the AFP to raid journalists for their sources, a reminder of the police state we’ve become. Important laws have been broken? National security is at risk? Spare us.

“The point is that politicians have constructed a repressive legal regime designed to protect the executive branch of government, impede accountability to the public and exert a chilling effect on the press,” Denis Muller writes in The Conversation.

“Quiet Australians” go wild with silent joy this week as ScoMo’s Stasi, the Department of Home Affairs, sends an AFP goon squad to frighten Annika Smethurst, News Corp’s Sunday titles’ political editor, Wednesday for her 2018 story that Home Affairs wants to spy on everyone. Their seven hour search of her Canberra home, includes her recipe books and underwear drawer. “You’re knickered” some flustered Federal cop is, doubtless, just itching to say on camera. Remarkably, Smethurst keeps her cool.

Of course, there’s more. The ABC is raided the next day. Two years ago, ABC broadcast a seven part series, The Afghan Files which investigates misconduct by Australian SAS troops engaged in our longest and most futile war; a campaign which not even our masters, the United States, can explain, let alone justify. The report documents possible unlawful killings. It includes fresh details of notorious incidents, including how Australians severed hands of slain Afghan Taliban fighters.

That our national broadcaster is subjected to a search in which the AFP have almost unlimited search powers is shocking; their warrant enables them to search almost everything – and copy – alter or delete files; in brief, tamper with the evidence. But even more alarming is the way in which the raid seems calculated to intimidate; prevent other journalists from risking speaking truth to power. This is not the act of a democratic government; a free, just and open society based on the rule of law. It is tyranny.

Even 2GB Drive’s Ben Fordham is harassed Monday for reporting that six refugee boats tried to reach Australia. Are random police raids part of the price we pay to live in ScoMo’s police state? It’s a state where, over time, the government has acquired extraordinary powers of surveillance, while citizens have been progressively stripped of their right to speak up; blow the whistle or just to report the truth.

An hour after his report goes to air, Fordham’s producer is contacted by the Department of Home Affairs to advise the refugee material was “highly confidential”. “In other words, we weren’t supposed to know it,” Fordham tells Sydney listeners.

Everyone is under suspicion – just as with the reversal of the onus of proof under Robo-Debt, the jewel in our anti-welfare state crown, where Centrelink demands you pay back money they reckon you owe. Unless you can prove you don’t. It can be stressful, especially when you have no documents. Some Australians kill themselves as a result.

Some of us die as a result of just getting a letter. 2030 people don’t survive receiving their first Robo-Debt letter. The initial letter doesn’t specify how much you must pay back. Instead it asks you to confirm your previously submitted income information. Of those who are subsequently told they owe money to the department, 812 are dead.

It would, of course, be rash to make any connection. Former Minister Keenan is quick to voice caution. It’s a bit like the common explanation denying the role of climate change in extreme weather events. Causation is complex, therefore, don’t blame government.

“Any number of factors in an individual’s life could have contributed to their death during such an extended period and it would be foolhardy to draw a link to one particular cause without evidence to support such a claim,” he reassures us. And warns us off.

Acting AFP terror head Neil Gaughan is a star as Chief Inquisitor. He knows what fear can do. He can’t say, he says, whether some journalists will be charged with offences. He knows this leaves fear of prosecution dangling over as many heads as possible.

The leaks are sources of information about matters which the AFP should have been investigating -its primary focus – instead the sources become the target. The raids testify to the peril this poses to both reporters and their sources. Some have proposed law reforms protecting journalists but as many others point out, this involves all of us.

The New York Times notes: “… the real affront is to democracy, which flounders in the absence of a free press. It should be self-evident to the guardians of Australian security that rogue soldiers and overreaching surveillance are the true risk to Australia’s security, and that such threats will become far more dangerous if the wall of secrecy is made impregnable.”

ABC chair Ita Buttrose issues a statement in which she reports her protest and notes,

“In a frank conversation with the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, Paul Fletcher, yesterday, I said the raid, in its very public form and in the sweeping nature of the information sought, was clearly designed to intimidate.

It is impossible to ignore the seismic nature of this week’s events: raids on two separate media outfits on consecutive days is a blunt signal of adverse consequences for news organisations who make life uncomfortable for policy makers and regulators by shining lights in dark corners and holding the powerful to account.” 

In the meantime, ScoMo better get a fresh set of musical instruments to present and more books on racehorses on order if he is to continue his amazing foreign policy triumphs. He may just be able to find himself a diplomatic post to the Solomons or somewhere equally remote and low-lying when he loses office in Peter Dutton’s coup.

ScoMo embraces police state in shocker of week. Three weeks after its slender election victory, the Morrison government is all at sea. Three Chinese warships steam into Sydney Harbour uninvited.

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And then came the moment everyone was looking forward to the most: it was time for Marcus to blow out his birthday candles!

No longer a boy, a world of new opportunities opened up before his mind's eye. Where would life take him from here? He didn't know, but one thing was for certain: if he kept feeling this good about life, only sky was the limit!

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With the arrival of the guests, the celebrations could commence!

The limited space of the little hut didn't stand in the way of a good time, even with a few extra visitors in attendance. There was chatter, laughter, dancing, and even a few magic tricks to keep the spirits high! ✨

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The bad weather followed Annika to the next location. Maybe it wasn't the evil warlock's fault at all and the weather was just shitty? Not that a little rain would stop her from doing what she set her mind to do!

Growing up, fishing used to be a Big Deal to Annika. It was one of the first activities she picked up when her family washed ashore the Bay, and although it was out of bare necessity at first, she's grown to genuinely enjoy it as an activity over the years. Her family didn't need to forage or hunt for food anymore (the Bay's markets were well-stocked and anything they couldn't find there, Gabriel would bring from the city), but there were days when Annika couldn't resist the nostalgic call of the waves.

Nor did she need to! The old temple ruins proved to be a great fishing spot, and they were just down the street from the Blackbirds' place.

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Next stop: Forgotten Ruins!

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Nature has awoken and the trees and bushes around the house have gone berserk with fruit and flowers! Would be a shame if it all went to waste, wouldn't it? Annika to the rescue!

She first plucked the blackberry bush (making sure only to pick the ripe ones), and then moved on to the dwarf fruit trees. She picked the pears and the pomegranates, which looked particularly tasty. Maybe she'll save one for later!

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Hey, followers: trivia question time! 🤓

What is the symbolic meaning of pomegranates❓

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🌅

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And how are the Bayers enjoying the new formal garden?

The answer: Each in their own way!

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Under the golden rays of the vernal sun, the Queen's melodic voice carried across the gathered crowd with an authority that befit her royal stature.

She delivered a heartfelt speech about growth and unity, comparing the restoration of the park - a once-desolate plot of land - to the realm itself and its enduring spirit.

As she concluded her address, the busy street erupted in applause, the townspeople eager to make the most of the long-promised green oasis.

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When Annika woke up from her emergency nap she found, much to her annoyance, that her swollen belly had not gone away and that her father was now sitting across from her with a worried look on his face.

So much for sleeping her problems away.

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Uh-oh, Annika's in a pickle! 😶 This one turned out rather long, so another story post it is! Full scene available here, but feel free to leave comments under this post. Reading your thoughts will surely make my day! ^_^ ♥

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Fencing would always leave Annika famished and wanting for an extra serving of whatever was for lunch that day. She told herself she'd stop overeating, though, since she noticed she was putting on weight around the belly area. Which was odd, considering the amount of exercise she did daily.

She didn't pay any of it much mind until one fateful day, when she felt an odd movement in her gut. It couldn't have been food poisoning, because the food was most definitely fresh. Was she starting her period? When was the last time she was on her period, anyway...?

Right in the middle of her mental calculation that it wasn't last month, or the month before, she felt another kick (yes, kick; she was sure of it now), sending her into a full-blown panic. Missing periods, a growing belly... Was she...?

The third kick only confirmed her lingering fears. "...Great. Dad and Marcus are going to KILL me", she thought ruefully, though she knew full well that her family's ire was the least of her problems right now.

Her body felt heavy all of a sudden, her eyes grew tired; she slipped into a looser nightgown and crashed into bed, hoping to sleep through Gabriel's arrival and all the uncomfortable questions that would undoubtedly ensue. She was so not ready to face any of that right now.

And, who knows? Maybe once she woke up she'd find that none of it was real and that she'd just dreamed it all up.

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To everyone who said 'fertility' in response to the pomegranate riddle - congrats, you clever foxes, you! 🦊That was indeed the implied meaning! 😉 But whether it was the only correct answer, remains to be seen...

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From time to time, the royals would take a trip out of town to check on their non-city dwelling subjects and see how they were faring. Today, it was Feanor paying a visit to the Blackbirds.

Annika seized the opportunity to personally congratulate the prince on his new progeny. They chatted for a bit, and then Gabriel took over, occupying his attention for the rest of the evening.

Over a serving of fresh croissants brought from the city, Gabriel looped him in on everything that's been going on beyond the borders of the kingdom, making sure to include all the juicy gossip that would've been too lowly for the Queen's refined ears (not Feanor's, though; he loved a good gossip session).

If Gabriel was on good terms with Feanor before, they became very good friends after today! Nothing quite like bonding over some scalding hot tea (and croissants!)

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