wait Atlas you collect vinyls I can ask you this! I trust you as a source! I'm trying to save up and potentially get a record player and start collecting vinyl as I finally have space to do stuff like that but I have no clue what kinds of record players are decent/what kind of setup I would even need or where to start. do you have any advice??
haiiii lu omg love answering questions about vinyl stuff i am abt to ramble so much jfkdfn so sorry but!! so exciting that u might be getting a record player and starting a collection!! so, with record players it's my belief that like. it is better to go for the more expensive ones, cheaper ones have poorer audio quality (if you're planning on listening to your records a lot this is. obvi very important) and aren't great for your records either (cheap needles can damage a vinyl). it feels a lot easier to say what to Avoid:
- the brands crosley and victrola specifically (notoriously cheap and low quality record playersi had a crosley as my first player and it just. wasn't great)
- portable/suit-case style record players (cheap needles, horrible speakers)
- honestly anything $100 or under just doesn't feel trustworthy to me
it might feel like a big investment/a lot to save up for for one over $100, but if youre planning on collecting for a long time and listening to a lot, it's worth the price to get a more expensive one! Here's a few i found that i think are good examples of what to look for/get (at varying prices):
- angels horn H019 (record player)
- fluance RT85N (turntable)
- orbit basic (turntable)
- wockoder (record player)
for a record player, all you need truly is the space to put it, so it doesn't require much set up because the speakers and everything is built into the turntable. As for turntables, I myself have a record player and have no experience with them (though i want to. so badly fsdjknf), i Do know they require a lot more set up from putting together the turntable itself to buying speakers to amplify what the turntable does (as it is essentially Just the thing that turns the vinyl, typically they need additional support to amplify the music). So, generally i'd say turntables are more for very serious vinyl collectors/audiophiles, starting with a record player is my advice!
(also, highly recommend investing in a good vinyl holder that you can grow into, a collection can grow Fast and it's obvi good to have them contained somewhere. There’s a lot of good ones on amazon! no specific recs here bc you cant Really go wrong w any)
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Freelancer and Gavin/Vindemiator:
Prime Universe:
“Your eyes… beautiful eyes… full of love.” - Inversion | The Void They Leave Behind [Audio RP]
Imperium Universe:
“That beautiful white in your eyes, the warmth in your voice, (…)” - Cataclysm | Truth Will Out [Audio RP]
Beatrice and Dante:
Her eyes were shining brighter than the stars.
- Inferno, Canto 2: line 55
Now Beatrice looked at me with eyes all full of sparks of speaking love, and so divine that, overwhelmed, I turned my back on her and, eyes bowed down, I almost lost myself.
- Paradiso, Canto 4: lines 139-142
But Beatrice showed herself to me – laughing, so beautiful she must be left among things seen that memory can’t pursue. And so my eyes, regaining their right strength, lifted once more. I saw myself alone, borne with my lady to a higher good. Seeing the flares of laughter in that star, which seemed now far more fiery than before, I knew full well that I’d been lifted higher.
- Paradiso, Canto 14: lines 79-87
[…] my heart, in awe now looking back at her, was free of all desires, save that alone – as long, at least, as eternal pleasure, shining in Beatrice’s lovely eyes, made me, in its reflected view, content.
- Paradiso, Canto 18: lines 14-18
Beatrice is Dante’s God-bearing image and his star (as can be read in many of his scenes with Beatrice). For Dante, she is the embodiment of truth and the reflection of holy light. Her eyes and their significance to Dante and his trip are heavily emphasized by Dante throughout Paradiso.
Beatrice also helped Dante restore his vision when he had lost it due to blindness or light deprivation. To clarify more fully:
Dante's Blindness in Paradiso XXV-XXVI: An Allegorical Interpretation, James Gaffney
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Onto Gav/Vin+Freelancer:
The lines “Your eyes… beautiful eyes… full of love.” and “That beautiful white in your eyes, the warmth in your voice, (…)” were spoken during times of disaster. In the Imperium, yes, it was after the disaster that fell upon the Freelancer, but the Imperium as a whole is its own tragedy, so there's that. The latter line was uttered during the Inversion, when Gavin dug deep into his memories to find good feelings that he could use to block out the unhappy ones that had been dragging him down emotionally and physically. Important decisions and events were started in both situations.
Every time Dante gazes into Beatrice's eyes throughout The Divine Comedy, particularly in Paradiso, he moves a step closer to divine love. (It's like stepping onto another step of the staircase and being ‘lifted higher.’)
Gav manages to survive his terrible circumstance in the Inversion thanks to his happy memories and his relationship with Freelancer. Prior to then, Freelancer's grief drove him to construct a vast ward that served as the barrier between the populace and the wandering shades. Freelancer essentially served as Gav's Beatrice, leading him to (physical) salvation for both the people and himself.
(They didn't necessarily save him, but they did assist in his survival, which is akin to Beatrice leading Dante through Paradiso. And yes, I am aware that Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante Alighieri met twice in occasions separated by nine years, but who profoundly touched him in each encounter, never truly returned Dante Alighieri's love in any traditional sense, but the main idea still applies, particularly in Paradiso: she served as his representation of the holy light. Read the author's Vita Nuova if you're interested in reading more about him and Beatrice.)
In the Prime Universe, Gavin's unwavering love to Freelancer saved many lives; how about in the Imperium? Will this result in an unavoidable tragedy wherein they succeed in saving humanity in one universe but fail to do so in another?
Do Vin's own Beatrice, whose eyes mirror the divine, still exist in the spirit of the Freelancer in the Imperium? Or are we seeing one of those tales where the characters are doomed from the beginning?
There's also the bit about grief (“I felt your pain, your fear...”). Will it have a counterpart in the Imperium? What will happen to Freelancer that will compel Vindemiator to act in order to help them and everyone else?
And I should also point out that the significance of eyes in the story of Freelancer and Gavin/Vindemiator and their link to the soul (for eyes are windows to one’s soul... we’ve been saying this forever) deepens the parallels between Freelancer and Psyche since Psyche eventually becomes the Goddess of the Soul by the end of the Tale of Cupid and Psyche (and, back to the Divine Comedy, the soul of Beatrice escorts Dante through Paradise.)
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hey.
im taking a mental health break off of this site/app. ill probably be on to like + check things, but i genuinely havent been active on most social media ever since the entire fiasco happened with my computer.
it wont be a wise thing, probably, considering one of my friends is giving me the cold shoulder even though i communicated to him a ton about it and then blames *me* for being the asshole to *him*. whatever. not exactly the point of this post.
i just have a lot of anger at that entire situation because its infuriating to say the least.
but yeah: hiatus/inactive for a bit, it might be long i have no idea. i just need to do things for me for a bit or at least just try to enjoy myself again. sorry in advance.
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ok for real I know they were limited in their options for explaining Stiles’ actions because DOB didnt come back but like SERIOUSLY. I have so many questions and complaints and not even all of them are Stydia related….. spoilers obviously
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Did…. Did anyone bother to tell Stiles that Allison is alive?  are we meant to believe that nobody did?? or what’s worse, that he was told and he just didn’t come to Beacon Hills or call or anything?
On that note, are we actually supposed to believe — and I am not a Sterek girlie by any means, love and light to y’all but it’s just not my cup of tea — that Derek fucking DIED and there was a whole ass memorial service that Stiles just didn’t bother to show up to???? HELLO????
I mean it’s also nearing levels of ‘spn finale Dean Winchester ending’ stupid that Derek died in the first place, given that his whooooole character arc (by my book, anyway) is springing from the place of his trauma, and the way that he has blamed himself, struggled with guilt and loneliness and has been atoning for all of the pain of what he perceives to be personal failures the ENTIRE TIME, never letting himself get too close to people, never asking for help, and instead sacrificing for and nurturing Scott as the ideal alpha that he feels he couldn’t be… I don’t know. It just feels like a needless sacrifice to me, like there are so many ways that you can restrain someone and prevent them from moving from the place where you need to. Oh I don’t know burn them alive ?maybe? Which don’t involve sacrificing yourself and burning alive yourself, right in front of your son and the rest of your loved ones. I know again there are production factors at play, maybe it’s likely that they knew damn well Tyler H wouldn’t or couldn’t come back for another movie so they decided to kill off his character?? but suffice to say I was not happy with that at all (and not in the way I think it was INTENDED to upset me.)
Anyway, I know that Stiles needed to be absent because Dylan O’Brien was not a part of this movie, but if I’m being honest, I kind of would rather that Stiles had died ! Obviously I love Stiles’s character and it’s not that I want him dead at all!! it’s just. if they were going to fully send it, and they know he’s not coming back, and they knew that they were going to make up this premonition dream to break up Stydia and (poorly) explain his absence, then it would’ve done a lot better to make that separation as permanent as in life and death. The Stiles we know would never want to be separated from the people he loves as much as he has been now because of all of the external, real life factors. In fact, the season arc with the ghost riders proved to us just how far Stiles can and would go to be present! It was aaaactually a whole thing ! So, if I’m being honest… (1) the way that he and Lydia parted, (2) the way that he isn’t present or even mentioned in the light of his loved ones dying/being resurrected, and (3) again the fact that he wasn’t even at Derek’s memorial … it all feels like a silent character assassination to me. It feels like the mentioning of “Stiles” in this new canon contains less essence of Stiles than it would’ve if he had died. I know it’s easy to have a hater moment and make criticisms and piss and moan about how I would’ve done it better, and I know it’s not always as easy as it sounds… but JESUS CHRIST
Also congrats to the sterek girlies on your own personal y yo a ti moment……that jeep shit was CRAZY



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