#but I can’t blame he he was like a tenn when he wrote this

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

uh oh, I goofed- there are actually 10 new teaser pages for Clementine Book Two

Yeeeeeeah, so remember how I said there were only four new teasers from Tillie’s insta? I was deceived, and it’s all Skybound’s fault >:[ I place all blame on them. Couldn’t be my fault. :/

@arielsprospera informed me that Skybound posted the pages on twitter, and since I avoid twitter like my entire existence depends on it, I never would’ve known had someone not informed me, so thank you! 

So for real this time, let’s look over the new pages and discuss.

Okie dokie, I think it’s safe to say they got away from the two dudes who grabbed Olivia. It was a close one, but they’re three young girls so it’s easy to underestimate them and that’s always a good advantage. 

I love that Olivia has a wound on her face and Ricca just sticks her fingers in it like, “Scars are cool.” Girl don’t do that, you’re hands are dirty, that’s how infections happen!

Speaking of-- for me the big thing with this page is Clementine saying, “My other leg hurts more, though. Something’s up with it...” 

....Clementine. What do you mean something’s up with it? Something as in you’re not caring for it properly and now it’s swelling with infection??

You’ll change the world, Clementine? “It won’t be like this forever”?

Interesting, that’s the kind of attitude I’d expect to see from S1 and S2 Clementine. ANF Clementine is where she lost a lot of that hope that the world would get better and believed things would get better, which made sense given all the shit that happened to her to lead up to that. 

She was a little more hopeful in TFS, like when Tenn tells the group he doesn’t believe the walkers will be around forever, but at this point she’s mostly accepted that this is just how the world works now and you have to do what you can to survive. 

So, what’s changed? 

Oh, and hands... Clementine and Ricca’s hands are touching. Much romance. 

Not much to say about this page other than it looks nice. I like it. Tillie does establishing shots well. 

Again, Clementine... I have a hard time feeling too bad about your leg. I get that y’all want to keep moving to get... wherever it is you’re going, but you’re not going to get far if your leg kills you. 

The group’s a mess, really. It’s not great when Olivia is the most stable, given Ricca’s vision is deteriorating and Clementine’s leg is in terrible condition from lack of proper care.

Also, I see two strangers and horse in the corner. They could just be random people they want to avoid, or maybe those two dudes had a bigger group that’s in the area and it’s best to avoid them. 

.......uhhhh

”Don’t, I’ll n-never get him back on.”  ..........what do you mean? Clementine, you took it off on page 19, you’ve taken your prosthetic off plenty of times? Unless her leg is so swollen now that it no long fits, which is not a great sign. 

And she has a fever. Because of course she does. 

Also, blegh... I still cannot get over the fact that she named her leg Kenny. This is a great example of “bad fan service,” I actually hate it so much. 

I’m just going to paste what I wrote before about this section:

Clementine’s got a fever and they’re covered in mud, shit, and blood...not great things to have on an infected leg, y’all.

Also, “We’ll eat fish.” .....insert AJ’s “I like fish!” line here.

Oh wait, you can’t, because AJ’s not here. Because he’s back at Ericson. Because Clementine left. I bet her leg wouldn’t be covered in mud if she had just stayed... just sayin’.

Not a great sign that she’s practically passed out and can’t form words. 

I looked up the song Ricca’s singing here since you never know, might have some good ol’ symbolism and pertain thematically to the story, why else put a song in, y’know? And: “a Jewish hymn recited on Friday night before the Sabbath (Shabbat) meal. The poem is based on the legend of the sages in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat.”

And yeah, from what these translations tell me, there are angels.

Oh boy, Clementine’s not doing so good. She won’t wake up, Ricca’s crying, and Olivia’s...still not doing much tbh. 

Oh boy, a boat... I wonder if that boat will take them to an island community, hmm? 

I actually really like this page, but mostly for everything except the characters. The sky is lovely and I like the texture of the sand. The characters don’t look too bad, even here they look better than they might’ve in Book One, but still. 

Also I wonder if we’re going to get another dream sequence? I mean, is it really a Clementine story without a Lee dream shoved in? And if Clementine’s passed out, this is the perfect opportunity. 

Unless Tillie decides to give her a different dream involving AJ, or Kenny... actually I’ll be surprised if AJ gets another appearance or a mention in the rest of the trilogy. He’s not important, y’know... blegh. 

There we have it. 

Clementine, Ricca, and Olivia got away from the two dudes who grabbed them, Clementine’s leg is probably infected and she’s sick with fever, and they’re going to get help from a boat in the distance who will likely bring them to the island community. 

Once again: Do y’all have thoughts? Are you excited for Clementine Book Two? I doubt you are since most aren’t, but you never know.

Personally, I’m excited to be disappointed, but hopeful to be proven wrong. Either way, I win.

#twdg #twdg clementine #clementine book two #ooooooh booooy

[someeragonmemes]

I need the entire saga from Arya prospective, where Arya is just crying because Eragon ish baby. Eragon saves her from Durza: "this kiddo wants to hep, so precious". The twins test Eragon: "DO NOT. BULLY. THE BABY." Durza attacks: "protecc the smol one". Eragon gets a crush on her: "oh god feelings? No good with them. But also child wants to impress me I'm SOFT". Eragon brings her flowers: "local bean knows how to write AWWWWWWW. Also he cares about my feELINGS SO MUCH I'M CRYING"

But slowly she learns to respect him like: "bab- ERAGON is very strong" and she gets proud mama moments but she's tsundere and an elf so she won't show any of it

Eragon: Miss Arya I have feelings for you

Arya’s inner monologue: Not on my watch baby boy

#Arya thinking of Eragon as little kid is interesting #because in the first book and second that is how she sees him #as like a child #but then he does mature #so my the time the fourth book ends he’s kind of an adult #idk paolini had a lot of maturity problems in the book #but I can’t blame he he was like a tenn when he wrote this

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[tigerintokyo]

IDOLiSH7 Part 1, Ch 4.2 side story

Side Story: A Man Still Involved

(other parts in the directory)

Translation under the break.

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Mitsuki: TRIGGER sure is something! This line is super long!

Sogo: They really are amazing. I've never seen such a long line for goods. And, they have a lot of female fans too.

Mitsuki: Sogo, do you go to a lot of concerts?

Sogo: Yes! I've never been to an idol concert before, but I've seen a lot of rock concerts. 

Sogo: People were moshing, and there was a platform you could stage dive from. It was a lot of fun.

Sogo: For people who aren't used to it, there's a "manner box" that you can stand in and even do like a two-step safely.

Mitsuki: ............

Sogo: Oh, um......... Mitsuki-san, have you been to a lot of idol concerts?

Mitsuki: I have! I like both male and female idols! I basically oshi the whole group, but when the crowd starts cheering for your oshi, it's way too much fun! [1]

Mitsuki: I've been collecting concert ribbons, so I hope I can get one tonight too! [2]

Sogo: ............?

Mitsuki: ........Even though we both go to live concerts, the genre is so different, we can't even understand each other.

Sogo: Yeah....... I'm not used to concerts with assigned seats, so tell me if I'm doing something rude.

Mitsuki: It's best if you don’t bother the people around you when you’re waving a fan or a light stick. Keeping them at about shoulder height is best!

Sogo: A fan! Oh, that's what they're all buying from the booth.

Mitsuki: Ta-da! I made my own!

Sogo: Wow! This is amazing....!

Mitsuki: You can enjoy even more when you do it yourself!!

Sogo: I should have made one too......

Mitsuki: I really like TRIGGER. How did you get into them?

Sogo: I heard their song on a music news site. I liked their voices and got hooked. I was surprised to find out they were idols.

Sogo: Just being able to sing that song was amazing, but they sing while dancing..... I saw they also do acting. It's really amazing.

Mitsuki: Right? Aren't idols great?!

Sogo: They really are....

Mitsuki: We're going to be great idols too!

Mitsuki: After we see TRIGGER perform tonight, let's shine even brighter!

Sogo: Yeah!

Mitsuki: Alright! Since we're here, let's go buy fans from the goods booth too. If you get a member fan and you’re lucky, he will give you some idol fan service.

Sogo: Can I get fans for all three of them?

Mitsuki: But Sogo, if it were you, wouldn't you be happier if it was just your fan, and not all seven? Ah, IDOLiSH7 hasn't made any goods yet though....

Sogo: I guess that's true.... I don't know who to choose.... Mitsuki, are you going to only get one member?

Mitsuki: I'm getting Yaotome Gaku! 

Sogo: Really?

Mitsuki: He seems to really get into it when he’s performing! On top of that, his face is really handsome.

Sogo: In that case, I'll go with Tenn-kun or Ryunosuke-san. I wonder if I'll be able to decide by the time we get to the front of the line.....

Mitsuki: Probably by the time we’re done, everyone else should have made it here too. Nagi's been up since this morning, so I don't think he'll be late! 

Sogo: Tamaki-kun was also awake before I could even wake him up.

Mitsuki: Great! It looks like those troublemakers are finally acting like idols!

Sogo: Yes!

Mitsuki: It would be a low blow if they were late on such an important day. 

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(Pow!)

Suspicious young guy: Ugh......

Suspicious tall guy: That.... son of a.....!

Nagi: Don't be scared. I've only ever learned self-defense. So all I'm doing is defending myself. I was never taught to attack. 

Suspicious tall guy: .........ugh, what.....!

Nagi: So, I had to learn this on my own.

(Bam......!)

Suspicious tall guy: ...........! Ugh.....fuck......

Suspicious young guy: W-what are you.....?!

Nagi: Now then. I don't really like feeling up a man, but..... Ah, a knife and a handgun. You're packing dangerous.

Suspicious tall guy: Give those back.....! Ugh......

Suspicious young guy: You bastard! Take your foot off his head! .......?! .......Ah......! 

Nagi: If you move, I'll shoot, and I'm a pretty good shot.

Suspicious young guy: ....................!

Nagi: I would like you to return my phone. See, isn't the home screen lovely? I'm so happy you're safe..... My angel.......

Nagi: OH......! Look at the time! This is bad! 

Nagi: If I'm late because of you, Mitsuki and Tsumugi are going to be so upset! He'll do dust box shoot again.....!

Suspicious young guy: Wh......who the hell are you?! Are you a cop?! You're not the mule?!

Nagi: Why did you think I was a mule?

Suspicious young guy: Y-you looked like him and you had that big bag! You were even at the drop off point!

Nagi: Drop off point.... ......Yamato, Tamaki......

Suspicious young guy: Who are you?!

Nagi: Before I rob you of your consciousness, I have two important messages for you.

Nagi: #1. There can't be another man in the world blessed with as much beauty as me. 

Nagi: #2. I'm not going to tell you my name.

Nagi: I would never forgive you if you tarnished my name by saying it. It would be an insult to me and my country.

Suspicious tall guy: ............! I know who you are.... I heard this from the guys in the Scandanavian Sect. ........ugh.....you're.....!

Nagi: I told you I would never forgive you.

(Wailing)

Suspicious tall guy: Ugh......!

Suspicious tall guy: ....................ugh.......ugh.....

Nagi: You aren't very smart.

Nagi: ........I have to get back to Yamato and Tamaki. Please, be safe!

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Tamaki: There's a lot of cop cars here, huh?

Yamato: Maybe because of the fire?

Police: .....I repeat. A hazardous material has been identified in this area. All civilians are asked to evacuate immediately. 

Tamaki: Evacuate.... I guess because of the fire.

Yamato: Ah......... Oh, it's Nagi on the phone.

Yamato: Hello? Where are you? "Get rid of the bag"?

Yamato: What? "Don't touch the bag"? 

Tamaki: What? But, I'm doing such a good job taking care of it!

Woman in a suit: Don't move!

Tamaki: What?

Woman in a suit: Don't get any closer to the tower! Please....!

Tamaki: What did you say? Let's go.

Yamato: Hey, Tama. Wait a second.

Woman in a suit: Wait....

Man in a suit: Senpai, it's too late! He's already within the signal's range.

Woman in a suit: ........What, oh my god...... We have to stop him right now! It's rigged with gyro sensors!

Woman in a suit: If the bomb is moved around too much, the sensor will be triggered and it will go off immediately!

Tamaki: Ugh, it's so heavy. *adjust bag* Here we go.

Woman in a suit: Gaaaahhhh!

Man in a suit: Ahhhhh!

Tamaki: Those guys are acting kinda weird.

Yamato: They keep looking over here.

Woman in a suit: I have to calm down..... OK. OK. Everything's OK! Let's try talking to him slowly.

Man in a suit: We have to make sure he doesn't get agitated. The sensor will be triggered if he moves suddenly, like bending over or pulling back.

Tamaki: Yama-san. Should I run over there and talk to them?

Man in a suit: The young one is posing like he's going to dash over here.

Woman in a suit: Stop! No! No! You can't run....! 

Tamaki: She's waving her hands a lot. Ah.... Is she a fan of ours?

Yamato: This situation is a little weird...... I'll go and talk to them. You wait here.

Tamaki: OK.

Yamato: Excuse me. Hey...........

Man in a suit: Senpai, one of the young men is coming over here!

Woman in a suit: Let's explain the situation and ask for their cooperation! Let me do the talking!

Nagi: No, let me explain.

Woman in a suit: It's you......

Nagi: You two are police, aren't you? I've been watching your movements. You know what's in that bag, don't you?

Yamato: Nagi! Where have you been?!

Nagi: He is a friend of mine. Yamato, these two are police. I have something important to tell all of you.

Nagi: ...........That's all that's happened to me. 

Yamato: You were......

Yamato: the cause of all this trouble! And there's a bomb in that bag?! You don't need such flashy stories! Your face is already flashy enough....!!!

Nagi: No, no, no! All I did was buy 27 volumes of manga. I was being a good citizen and supporting the publishing industry!

Yamato: Good citizens don't get caught up in a terrorist plot when they buy manga! 

Nagi: Yamato, be careful with your words! If you keep blaming me like this, I'm going to cry.

Yamato: I'm the one who wants to cry!

Yamato: ..........Anyway. We have to be nice and slow and not scare Tama so he can take off the bag, right?

Female detective: Taking off the bag may trigger the detonator. He should stay completely still until the bomb squad can disarm it.

Yamato: Tama?! Has to stay still?! That's impossible. He won't be able to do that.

Nagi: Tamaki said that they even wrote that he is too restless on his report card.....

Tamaki:  Hey... Are you still talking? Everyone else is evacuating, and I'm getting tired of waiting.

Yamato: Just wait! Don't move and just stay there! 

Female detective: Too restless on his report card...... But, that's when he was a kid, right?

Yamato: No, he's still the same....... .....This kind of turned into a parent-teacher conference...

Nagi: When he's playing a game on his smartphone, he doesn't move much. How about letting him play a game?

Female detective: I have to confiscate your phones. It's possible that a signal from a phone could trigger the detonator. 

Yamato: Ah, hey......

Nagi: OH! I've been separated from Kokona again......

Tamaki: Hey. You're taking too long. If I do a back flip, will you look over here?

Yamato: No back flips! Hold still and count down ten seconds! 

Tamaki: Whaaat?

Tamaki: Fine..... Ten..... nine..... eight......

Yamato: Ah...... My heart's gonna jump out of my chest.....

Yamato: ......How about talking to Tama? He has a lot of composure. He won't panic or anything.

Nagi: I agree. We can help him stay calm too.

Junior detective: No. You two have to evacuate as well. We can't have civilians staying in harm's way!

Yamato: I'm sorry, but I refuse.

Nagi: We can't leave Tamaki behind.

Female detective: You guys sure seem close. Are you classmates?

Yamato: We’re in the same group.

Female detective: Group? What kind of group?

Yamato: You’ll understand when you watch TV about a year from now. We’ll do our best so that you can figure it out.

Yamato: We have friends that are also doing their best for us too.

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Yamato: Tama, we have something important to tell you. Nagi, just in case, stand behind Tama for support.

Nagi: Alright.

Tamaki: What is it? Who are these people? Are they our fans?

Yamato: They’re with the police.

Tamaki: Police? Yama-san, did you do something bad?

Tamaki: Uh, I’m sorry. Yama-san kind of has the face of a bad guy, but he’s not a bad guy on the inside.

Female detective: We know. You guys are good friends.

Tamaki: ……...Then, what is it…….?

Yamato: Tama, I need you to stay cool and listen to me. The bag that you have on your back doesn’t belong to Nagi. That bag you have is carrying a bomb.

Tamaki: Yeah, that’s what you said before.

Yamato: The timer has already been activated. If you move too much, it can trigger the sensor and it’ll set the bomb off. You have to stay still until the bomb squad gets here.

Tamaki: ….. Are you for real?

Yamato: Yes.

Tamaki: ………

Tamaki: A--am I going to die….?

Nagi: You won't die, Tamaki. We have the solution. I'm sure both you and I will be safe.

Tamaki: ............uh...... M-my heart feels like it's being squeezed.....

Nagi: Relax. This isn't a big problem. They just need you to cooperate.

Female detective: I'm with the police. I want you to stay still and not move.

Female detective: Soon, my colleagues will be here to save you. Just like your friends here.

Female detective: I heard that they called you "restless" on your report card.

Tamaki:  Yeah.......

Female detective: They said the same about me on mine. "Can't sit still, fidgets too much." But, I need you to hang in there for just a bit more. 

Tamaki: ...... OK.

Yamato: Great. You're a good man.

Tamaki: I never thought I would see a bomb in my whole life......

Nagi: Life is full of surprises. You'll be bragging about it once you get this bag off you. Are you OK? 

Tamaki: I’m OK. My hands are shaking though.

Female detective: Thank you.

Junior detective: ........We'll see what the terrorists do after we've seized the bomb. I hope they don't do anything else.....

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Suspicious guy with stubble: The bomb was taken by the police?! Ridiculous! What the hell are you doing?! Do you know how many years I've spent planning for this day?!

Suspicious guy with stubble: .........Does the timer switch work.....? The bomb squad hasn't gotten there yet. They haven't completely sealed off the area either.

Suspicious guy with stubble: .........We continue with the plan. The gyro sensors can still set it off. Take out the guy holding the bomb!

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Next episode

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T/N

“oshi” - bias or favorite member of an idol group, can be one member or the whole group, called a “box oshi”

concert ribbons are the confetti they shoot out during the last song of the night at an idol concert; usually has the idol group’s logo and can be in the image colors of the idols.

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Please don’t use my translations without my permission.

#i7 #IDOLiSH7 #ainana #my translation

[jayjay1665]

You Saved Us

Written for @stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale​  writing challenge. Day #23 “It’s Not Your Fault.”

Summary: Violet reassured Clem when she feels guilt over the deaths that took place since her arrival.

Word Count: 956

Note: Mitch is alive and Violet’s not blind

A03

Wattpad

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Clem sat in the steps of the school’s admin building, her crutches leaning against the stone railing on her left, and to her right laid Rosie. Clem looked down at her with a smile and treated her to a head scratch. Rosie thanked her with an affectionate lick on the hand. Clem giggled and directed her gaze out onto the courtyard.

AJ and Tenn were sitting on the ground, papers, colored pencils, and some wood surrounding them. AJ sat on his knees as he bent over his piece of paper with a green colored pencil in hand. He stuck his tongue out in concentration as he slowly scribbled on the paper.

Clem chuckled to herself. He used to make that same face when she was showing him how to use a gun. She’s glad he could use his concentration on something a little more appropriate for a boy his age. Tenn laid on his stomach as he doodled on his own paper. He looked over at AJ’s and smiled as he pointed to something the younger boy had drawn. AJ broke his concentration to smile at Tenn and respond to him.

“It’s so nice to see them be able to act like kids.” She thought to herself.

Mitch and Willy were sitting on the couch. Mitch was analyzing a piece of sheet metal they had gotten from the raider’s supplies while Willy was practicing his carving on a chunk of wood. He tilted his head as he observed his carving progress with an unsure expression.

“Well, he is getting better. The wood actually somewhat resembles a knife this time.” She snickered to herself.

Ruby, Aasim, Violet, Omar, and James were sitting at the picnic table talking with one another. What were they discussing? Clem wasn’t too sure, but she was really happy to see James getting along well with the others. She had to admit she was pretty shocked to see James at the school’s gates earlier that morning. She didn’t expect him to take her up on her offer to come to the school, especially after that while situation with Lily…

Ugh. That woman’s name was enough to make her blood boil.

She shook her head gently to dispel the negative thoughts threatening to cloud her content mood.

This was his first time visiting since that whole mess. She was relieved to see he made it out of that cave unharmed.

Clem smiled to herself. It was so refreshing to feel happy and content after so many years of living on the run.

She allowed her eyes to wander over the courtyard once more until they landed on the…graveyard.

She immediately felt her smile fall as distraught slowly creeped over her happy mindset.

Louis…

The optimist who managed to give her a new outlook on life. The dork who was able to make her laugh. The musician who wrote a song for her…

Something. Something. A word that would play over and over in her mind.

“There had to have been something I could’ve done to save him. I…I could’ve been faster, or stronger…I could’ve- “

“Hey, Clem.” Violet’s voice interrupted her internal rant. She jumped and quickly threw on a smile as Violet walked up to her.

“Oh, hey Vi.” She replied, trying her best to steady her voice.

“Everything alright?” she asked as she sat next to her on the steps.

Clem hesitated for a moment. “Yeah.” she nodded.

Violet rested her arms on her knees and leaned on them, a sympathetic expression on her face. “Are you sure?”  

Clem felt her already unstable smile falter. She directed her gaze back to the graveyard as she felt tears well up in her eyes. Violet followed the direction of Clem’s gaze and felt her heart ache.

“I think about him, too.” She admitted softly without taking her eyes off his cross. Clem nodded as the tears came.

“I wish I…I could’ve done something…” she whispered.

Violet turned her head to look at her. “Clem…Clem look at me.”

Clem kept her head low but turned her head enough to not completely face Violet, but was still able to see her out of her peripheral vision.

“I wasn’t there, but from what Tenn told me about that whole mess on the bridge, there was absolutely nothing you could’ve done. “

Clem shook her head in denial. “But I could’ve.” She choked out through tears, “If I would’ve told…If I just…” she sniffled and wiped at her eyes. She took a shaky breath before continuing.

“This always happens…people die because of me.”

“That’s not true- “

“It is! Marlon, Brody, Louis…and so many others I know have died because of me! It’s all my fault! It’s always my fault!”

“Clementine.” Violet interrupted sternly. She reached out and firmly grasped her shoulder. Clem squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head. She sniffled as more tears fell into her lap.

“Clem,” Violet spoke in a softer voice, “you can’t blame yourself for all that. I know you may feel like you have to, but you don’t. Because honestly, if you hadn’t come along, we all would’ve been way worse off. We never would have found out about the raiders until too late. We all would’ve either been killed or stolen from our home to be made into soldiers.” Violet lowered her gaze to the ground shivered as she thought of what their current reality could’ve been. She looked back up at Clem and smiled

“You saved us, Clementine. And we can’t thank you enough for that.”

A smile slowly formed on Clem’s face. She sat up and wiped away the remaining tears before looking Violet in the eyes.

“Thank you, Violet.”

Violet smiled nodded her head in response.  

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The Buddies

Perhaps the most critical audience for Platoon, Oliver Stone’s Oscar-winning movie about the Vietnam war, are the men he served with from 1967-68. Stone was actually in several platoons, and since the film’s release, he has received hundreds of letters from veterans, some of whom he shared a foxhole with at one time or another. Like a lot of Vietnam veterans, many of these infantrymen came home with serious psychological problems, and almost all felt unappreciated by the U.S. public. Some still have not managed to put their lives back together. Last week in Chicago, six of Stone’s buddies gathered for a reunion....On the following pages, ten of Stone’s comrades in arms reflect on the moviemaker, his film and the war that brought them together.

Fighting next to Oliver Stone one day, Jimmie Danna said, “I’m the best actor in the world. It’s impossible for you to get any scareder than me, but I will not let you see me scared. That’s the reason I’m surviving.” Indeed survival was everything, according to Danna, who served three tours of duty in Vietnam, the second with Stone. “Me and Oliver were in a situation where it was keeping each other alive,” says Danna. “It was like, ‘I’ll take care of your back; you take care of mine.’ We shared everything—women, food, drugs, animosity, fear, whatever.” 

Ben Fitzgerald, 44, considers the 13 months he spent in Vietnam as “the worst experience of my life.” He blames his divorce on the trouble he had adjusting to life back in the States. “I was drinking, gambling and having a hard time dealing with people,” he says, “and my wife couldn’t understand.” A die cast operator in Humboldt, Tenn., Fitzgerald describes Stone as “a friendly-type person. I introduced him to soul music and marijuana. We shared a lot of hours and a lot of fear.” [...] Fitzgerald thinks Stone enlisted because he “just wanted to see what the war was all about. I don’t think he really had to be there, but he made the best of the situation. He told me that what he really wanted to do was be in the movies. He wrote a poem about the places he had been, and it amazed me because it was a great poem. After the war I really expected him to come up in the movies.” The father of two boys, Fitzgerald liked Platoon but doesn’t want his 69-year-old mother or 70-year-old father to see it. “I don’t think they could take it,” he says, “because they didn’t have any idea of what I was going though. But I want my sons to see the movie so they’ll know that something like this shouldn’t happen again.”

Michael Blodgett, 39, remembers walking point with Stone when the future filmmaker was attacked by spiders. “I saw the spiders fall down his shirt,” says Blodgett. “I saw his shirt pulsating in and out, and he was pounding on it like Tarzan. From that time on, he had a phobia about spiders.” [...] Blodgett calls Stone a “gentle giant” who didn’t really belong in Vietnam because he “didn’t have the killer instinct.” Blodgett remembers that Stone’s well-to-do upbringing would often show in curious ways. “Oliver knew how to operate a P-38, which was an Army can opener. But one day I gave him a regular can opener to open C rations because it was faster. Oliver had it upside down. I laughed and said, ‘Can’t you open a can?’ And he answered, ‘I’ve never opened a can in my life. The maids do that.’ ” 

In the movie, Charlie Sheen writes to his grandmother and describes the guys in his platoon, complete with their hometowns. One of those is Pulaski, Tenn., and it’s the real-life home of Crutcher Patterson, 39, who spent 12 months in Vietnam and says that even though Stone was not “the everyday type of fellow,” he and Oliver became “good buddies.” In 1984 the filmmaker visited Patterson to discuss the battle that would later become the climactic scene in the movie. “He asked me how we were positioned,” says Patterson. “He got wounded, and that ended us being together.” [...] The movie, says Patterson, “is all right with me. We tried to take care of one another; we tried to survive. We didn’t abuse the children. They were our trading partners. The kids sold us marijuana. They were trying to survive too.” 

Jack Pelletier, 38, feels Platoon is historically inaccurate. “The real war,” he says, “was much, much worse.” Still, he continues, “I thought the movie was great. My friends ask me, ‘Was the jungle that thick?’ ‘No,’ I tell them, ‘it was thicker.’ Most of the time you couldn’t walk; you had to crawl to get through. The movie showed one leech on a guy’s cheek. Well, hell, there were a million leeches. They were all over the place.” [...] Pelletier’s memory of Stone is somewhat vague. “He was the guy who slept in the first bunk on the left. He was sort of a loner. He didn’t go to none of the parties or drink in the PX. But you know,” adds Pelletier softly, “you get to know guys real well, then two days later, they ship them home in a bag. That was hard, so I didn’t get too close to nobody.”

Dick Ware, 37, lives in Superior, Wis. and builds bridges for the Burlington-Northern Railroad. He says he and Stone were “foxhole buddies. He was a good soldier. He did his job. You couldn’t say that about everyone. He had proven himself. For a city boy, he was pretty good in the jungle.” [...] “It took me six or seven years, and I still don’t know if I’ve got it all together,” he says. “I’ve got a nice wife and two lovely kids, but I still have dreams and think about Vietnam a lot. You don’t go through something like that and not have it on your mind.” 

Jim Pappert, of Affton, Mo., has seen Platoon twice, and although he served for six months with Stone, he disagrees with some of what he saw in the film. “The movie didn’t show enough of our people being maimed and killed,” says Pappert, 38....Even good guys can get caught up in the heat of battle, and Pappert says he saw it happen. “We swept a lot of villages and searched them,” he remembers, “and there were a lot of men who couldn’t wait to get in there and beat somebody’s head off. The expression on Charlie Sheen’s face in the movie was like my expression the first time we went through a village and I saw the brutality of the Americans toward the villagers. But when you experienced the death of your own men, you didn’t give a damn about them anymore; you had no feelings for the Vietnamese.” 

Andre Fontenelle, 41, arrived in Vietnam the same month as Stone and remembers the filmmaker as “a quiet person who kept to himself.” Fontenelle feels Stone’s movie rings true, especially the scene in which a patrol is ambushed because someone falls asleep on watch. “It seemed like somebody would always fall asleep on guard,” he remembers. “It would be getting light out, and it seemed the whole damn squad would be snoring.” Now a grandfather, Fontenelle works at the post office in Aberdeen. A Vietnam veterans organization was recently started nearby, and he says he’s going to join. “I hope the government learns from its mistakes over there,” he says. “We lost more than 55,000 men. They’ve been dead for 20 years. They should be here like me—raising a family, waiting for grandchildren. To me, they were just wasted.”

Of all the Vietnam films Monte Newcombe has seen, he thinks Platoon is the most realistic. “It showed the waste, corruption, filth, napalm, blood and guts, the destruction and absolute craziness of that war....There’s a lot I can’t remember,” says Newcombe, now 40. “There’s a lot I don’t think about.” One thing he does recall is the incredible resolve of the Vietnamese people. “Here we were in their homeland,” says Newcombe, “destroying their lives and villages. I could relate to that. I knew how I would feel if they came to Oklahoma and burned down my house.” An afternoon spent reminiscing about what Newcombe describes as “the most frightening time of my life” takes its emotional toll on Monte. Tears well up in his eyes as he says, “I never wanted to kill anybody. I just wanted to get the hell out of there.” The dining room is quiet. The only sounds that can be heard are the muffled shouts of Newcombe’s small sons, playing with their toy guns in the front yard.

-"Oliver Stone's Platoon Buddies Recall the War 20 Years Later," People magazine, May 11 1987 [x]

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Alla Volodina’s Pick Of The Week

Here is an interesting article that Alla Volodina suggests to take a look at as it walks through the impacts of handwriting on your ability to learn.  How Handwriting Trains The Brain

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GWENDOLYN BOUNDS

Ask preschooler Zane Pike to write his name or the alphabet, then watch this 4-year-old’s stubborn side kick in. He spurns practice at school and tosses aside workbooks at home. But Angie Pike, Zane’s mom, persists, believing that handwriting is a building block to learning.

She’s right. Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes, can improve idea composition and expression, and may aid fine motor-skill development.

It’s not just children who benefit. Adults studying new symbols, such as Chinese characters, might enhance recognition by writing the characters by hand, researchers say. Some physicians say handwriting could be a good cognitive exercise for baby boomers working to keep their minds sharp as they age.

Studies suggest there’s real value in learning and maintaining this ancient skill, even as we increasingly communicate electronically via keyboards big and small. Indeed, technology often gets blamed for handwriting’s demise. But in an interesting twist, new software for touch-screen devices, such as the iPad, is starting to reinvigorate the practice.

Most schools still include conventional handwriting instruction in their primary-grade curriculum, but today that amounts to just over an hour a week, according to Zaner-Bloser Inc., one of the nation’s largest handwriting-curriculum publishers. Even at institutions that make it a strong priority, such as the private Brearley School in New York City, “some parents say, ‘I can’t believe you are wasting a minute on this,'” says Linda Boldt, the school’s head of learning skills.

Recent research illustrates how writing by hand engages the brain in learning. During one study at Indiana University published this year, researchers invited children to man a “spaceship,” actually an MRI machine using a specialized scan called “functional” MRI that spots neural activity in the brain. The kids were shown letters before and after receiving different letter-learning instruction. In children who had practiced printing by hand, the neural activity was far more enhanced and “adult-like” than in those who had simply looked at letters.

“It seems there is something really important about manually manipulating and drawing out two-dimensional things we see all the time,” says Karin Harman James, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Indiana University who led the study.

Adults may benefit similarly when learning a new graphically different language, such as Mandarin, or symbol systems for mathematics, music and chemistry, Dr. James says. For instance, in a 2008 study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, adults were asked to distinguish between new characters and a mirror image of them after producing the characters using pen-and-paper writing and a computer keyboard. The result: For those writing by hand, there was stronger and longer-lasting recognition of the characters’ proper orientation, suggesting that the specific movements memorized when learning how to write aided the visual identification of graphic shapes.

Other research highlights the hand’s unique relationship with the brain when it comes to composing thoughts and ideas. Virginia Berninger, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says handwriting differs from typing because it requires executing sequential strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding involves selecting a whole letter by touching a key.

She says pictures of the brain have illustrated that sequential finger movements activated massive regions involved in thinking, language and working memory—the system for temporarily storing and managing information.

And one recent study of hers demonstrated that in grades two, four and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus with a keyboard.

Even in the digital age, people remain enthralled by handwriting for myriad reasons—the intimacy implied by a loved one’s script, or what the slant and shape of letters might reveal about personality. During actress Lindsay Lohan’s probation violation court appearance this summer, a swarm of handwriting experts proffered analysis of her blocky courtroom scribbling. “Projecting a false image” and “crossing boundaries,” concluded two on celebrity news and entertainment site hollywoodlife.com. Beyond identifying personality traits through handwriting, called graphology, some doctors treating neurological disorders say handwriting can be an early diagnostic tool.

“Some patients bring in journals from the years, and you can see dramatic change from when they were 55 and doing fine and now at 70,” says P. Murali Doraiswamy, a neuroscientist at Duke University. “As more people lose writing skills and migrate to the computer, retraining people in handwriting skills could be a useful cognitive exercise.”

In high schools, where laptops are increasingly used, handwriting still matters. In the essay section of SAT college-entrance exams, scorers unable to read a student’s writing can assign that portion an “illegible” score of 0.

Even legible handwriting that’s messy can have its own ramifications, says Steve Graham, professor of education at Vanderbilt University. He cites several studies indicating that good handwriting can take a generic classroom test score from the 50th percentile to the 84th percentile, while bad penmanship could tank it to the 16th. “There is a reader effect that is insidious,” Dr. Graham says. “People judge the quality of your ideas based on your handwriting.”

Handwriting-curriculum creators say they’re seeing renewed interest among parents looking to hone older children’s skills—or even their own penmanship. Nan Barchowsky, who developed the Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting method to ease transition from print-script to joined cursive letters, says she’s sold more than 1,500 copies of “Fix It … Write” in the past year.

Some high-tech allies also are giving the practice an unexpected boost through hand-held gadgets like smartphones and tablets. Dan Feather, a graphic designer and computer consultant in Nashville, Tenn., says he’s “never adapted well to the keypads on little devices.” Instead, he uses a $3.99 application called “WritePad” on his iPhone. It accepts handwriting input with a finger or stylus, then converts it to text for email, documents or Twitter updates.

And apps are helping Zane Pike—the 4-year-old who refused to practice his letters. The Cabot, Ark., boy won’t put down his mom’s iPhone, where she’s downloaded a $1.99 app called “abc PocketPhonics.” The program instructs Zane to draw letters with his finger or a stylus; correct movements earn him cheering pencils.

Indiana UniversityIn children who had practiced writing by hand, the scans showed heightened brain activity in a key area, circled on the image at right, indicating learning took place.

“He thinks it’s a game,” says Angie Pike.

Similarly, kindergartners at Harford Day School in Bel Air, Md., are taught to write on paper but recently also began tracing letter shapes on the screen of an iPad using a handwriting app.

“Children will be using technology unlike I did, and it’s important for teachers to be familiar with it,” says Kay Crocker, the school’s lead kindergarten teacher. Regardless of the input method, she says, “You still need to be able to write, and someone needs to be able to read it.”

Be sure to check back next week for Alla Volodina’s next article pick!

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Conservative tech critics file in as White House social media summit kicks off

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Conservative tech critics file in as White House social media summit kicks off

President Donald Trump arrives to during a “Presidential Social Media Summit” in the East Room of the White House Thursday. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

President Donald Trump told loyal social media personalities and lawmakers at a White House summit Thursday that he intends to push government action against Silicon Valley, as he railed against tech companies over allegations of anti-conservative bias.

“Today I’m directing my administration to explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech and the free speech rights of all Americans,” Trump said in a seemingly extemporaneous speech in the East Room of the White House.

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The president didn’t endorse any specific measures, though he applauded attendee Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for working on “some very important legislation.” Hawley has proposed depriving large internet companies of legal immunity for user-generated content if they can’t prove they’re politically neutral.

Trump also pledged to hold “a big meeting of the companies in a week or two” as a follow-up. No social media platforms were invited to Thursday’s summit, but Trump didn’t refrain from slamming them.

“We have terrible bias. We have censorship like no one has any understanding, nobody can believe,” he said. “They’re playing with a lot of minds and they’re playing unfairly.”

He repeatedly revisited the issue, largely tying it to unsubstantiated claims that Twitter makes it impossible for people to follow him. “I know that I’ve been blocked,” the president said, insisting that he’d have millions more Twitter followers than he currently has if Twitter weren’t blocking people from following his account. He also claimed that the number of “likes” on his tweets fluctuate suspiciously.

The comments came in a meandering speech in which Trump talked up a wide range of issues, including the benefit of low interest rates, strong employment numbers, proof that his hair is real, the physical weakness of antifa members and ratings for “The Apprentice” when he hosted the NBC show, compared to when Arnold Schwarzenegger hosted it.

Claims of anti-conservative bias proved the prevailing theme, however, and Trump punctuated his remarks by hugging social media personalities and Trump backers Diamond and Silk and singling out for praise James O’Keefe, whose undercover sting outfit Project Veritas has released what critics say are selectively edited videos depicting organizations ranging from Google to Planned Parenthood as biased and corrupt.

“He’s not controversial; he’s truthful,” Trump said of O’Keefe.

Trump also called up guests including Hawley, whotook the opportunity to boost his proposal to strip liability protections from the major tech companies. The immunity is afforded to online platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

“Google, Facebook, Twitter, they’ve gotten these special deals from government. They’ve gotten a special giveaway from government. They’re treated unlike anybody else,” Hawley said. “If they want to keep their special deal here’s the bargain. They have to quit discriminating against conservatives.”

The companies deny any political favoritism, and Republicans have not offered evidence of systemic discrimination against conservatives.

Other attendees included House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who have all hammered tech companies over bias claims.

A number of right-wing online personalities and pro-Trump activists were also in attendance, including some who have made racially divisive remarks or promoted conspiracy theories. The cast of expected attendees has brought condemnation from critics such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which said the administration is “essentially conducting a hate summit at the White House.”

The event was widely panned by Democratic lawmakers, who have long brushed off conservative allegations of Silicon Valley bias as baseless and politically motivated.

“Instead of combatting Russian social media misinformation, punishing anti-competitive practices, or protecting Americans’ data and privacy, the President has invited trolls, conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, and the whole comments section to the White House,” tweeted Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia. “Give me a break.”

Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), who is spearheading an investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior in the tech sector, said in a statement he’s “never seen evidence of tech firm bias against conservatives.”

He continued, “If someone wants to show me some empirical data, instead of some alt-right member’s paranoid claims, I’d appreciate it. In the meantime, it would be great if President Trump would get serious about antitrust.”

Even before the summit started, it appeared to sow some discord among certain far-right provocateurs who had actually been banned on social media platforms and were not invited to the White House.

Indeed, some of the most prominent far-right personalities who have been banned for spreading hoaxes or inciting violence were left off the guest list. That includes InfoWars founder Alex Jones, right-wing activist Laura Loomer, conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.

That had some of Trump’s loudest and most controversial allies suddenly targeting their ire at the White House.

“I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t hurtful,” Loomer, who has criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for being Muslim, wrote on the messaging service Telegram. “I’ve given up everything to support President Trump and the fight for free speech yet it’s almost like I don’t exist.”

“I believe we all deserve an answer as to why every banned person was kept out of the summit,” Loomer posted on Telegram later. “I’m not mad at anyone. I still love President Trump. But this question needs to be addressed.”

The social network Gab, which has taken in voices banned on other networks, was incredulous that the attendees did not include “those who have sacrificed everything for the uniquely American principle of freedom of expression and individual liberty on the internet.”

“It seems instead that the White House has invited ‘safe’ z-list MAGA celebrities and cheerleaders, the great majority of which have never experienced online censorship or no-platforming at any level,” the company posted on its Twitter feed.

Political cartoonist Ben Garrison had his invitation to the summit rescinded after the White House was peppered with questions about one of his cartoons, which critics said played into longstanding anti-Semitic tropes about Jews controlling the government. Garrison wrote in an online missive that he was “disappointed” but blames the media, not the White House, for the decision. “I will continue to support our President,” he concluded.

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I love your stories! Can we get an updated masterlist? I want to read all your stories!

Here ya go! Thanks for reading! 

last conversation

Part I of [reasons to survive]

Summary: Three months after they took down the delta, Clementine finds Louis out in the cold trying to pay his respects and talk to Marlon.

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pillows and thunderstorms

Part II of [reasons to survive]

Summary: A horrible thunderstorm is a perfect opportunity for another date, but Clementine had expected candlelight, or maybe some soft music, but this… is neither of those things. She’s definitely not complaining, though.

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good riddance

Part III of [reasons to survive]

Summary: Louis knows it’s not real, just another nightmare. That doesn’t make it feel any less horrifying.

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with you

Part IV of [reasons to survive]

Summary: Clementine pops the question, Louis has nightmares, Violet’s angsty, Mitch doesn’t know how to handle gross feelings, Ruby’s a goddamn sweetheart, Willy doesn’t know how to knock, Aasim can’t dance, and James is here, too. Nothing like a wedding to bring this family together.

Part I| Part II |Part III| Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Read on AO3 | Read on Wattpad | Read on FF.net

write to me

Requested one-shot

Summary: “You can’t change what happened, Clementine,” Lee’s frown deepens as he eyes her. “It’s okay to feel like this. Hell, I don’t think you’d be human if you didn’t. But, blaming yourself, and blaming Tenn, doesn’t change the fact that he’s gone. And you can’t be mad at him for saving Tenn’s life. That’s not fair, not to yourself, not to Tenn, and definitely not fair to Louis.”

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no more wasted opportunities

Based on Louis’ friendship route.

Summary: “Friends are all we’ve got, and I’m glad we have each other.” She believed those words to be true; Louis is her friend. Aside from AJ, he’s the one person she’d deem her best friend within the walls of this school. However, to say her feelings halted there behind the line of friendship would be a lie.

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confessions and constellations

Is it lousim? Or rusim?

Summary: AJ finds a crumpled up piece of paper with a poem on it. Not understanding what it means, he shows it to Clem. It seems that the two of them have a mystery on their hands. They know who wrote it, but… who is the poem about?

AO3

it’s fine

Written prior to ep3.

Summary: During a game of war, Louis reveals the reason he was sent to Ericson.

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in the stars

Based off an ask.

Summary: Clementine didn’t see it happen. But she heard it.

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when he smiled

The first fic I ever wrote for the fandom [aka me testing the waters of writing these characters so take that as you will]

Summary: “ …And when Lily’s knife finally plunged deep into Louis’ shoulder and he let out an anguished cry, Clem saw red.She couldn’t remember the seething scream that bubbled from her lungs or yanking the used arrow from a walkers head and aiming, but before she could even think, the arrow shot through the side of the woman’s neck with a sickening sound…” Louis is horribly wounded after the defeat of the raiders.

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