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absentcaryatid · 2 years

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A Good Life Filled With Love

An ATEEZ fanfic by AbsentCaryatid with Mingi, Yunho, and the reader in a polyfidelitous triad

Takes place in JC world some time after Dropping In On The Newlyweds and before Happy Birthday Betty.

Set at the home of the reader and her husband Mingi with visiting shared boyfriend Yunho, this is more of a catching-up story setting the stage for what comes next in the series. A few things are going on at the house including saving Mingi from an insect and awaiting the arrival of a piano along with a discussion about sexual orientation and becoming a parent.

3.8K words, Content note: agender (she/her, comfortably called ‘girl’) and asexual reader, polyamory, COVID-19 mention, an insect of no further elaboration, anxiety, mental health, mention of wanting children, and some personal griping on the part of the author about recent KQ decisions

You felt pride at the way newer employees had no clue that you were married to a member of ATEEZ. Even if told, they could point to no man in the group receiving attention beyond the friendliness you shared with any other employee of KQ Entertainment. This ability to keep your work life and home life separate was vital for not only was Mingi your adored husband but Yunho was also in the relationship, a much loved boyfriend to you both. While your marriage was public knowledge, Yunho’s involvement was known only to the other members and their steady partners. These trusted friends, Betty, a former roommate and now Yeosang’s fiancée, and Annie, Hongjoong and Seonghwa’s model girlfriend were able to keep secrets just as you kept theirs.

As demonstrative as you were at home with your men, any affection stayed there and you three were all business in the office, as it should be. While your spouse Mingi was naturally living with you full time, your shared lover Yunho lived in the ATEEZ dorm with all but Yeosang who shared a home with Betty. You were close to all the men and their partners and in many ways KQ was family to you.

With a different name, your relationship to your uncle the CEO was also something unobservable with your work as KQ Vice President as dedicated and earned as if you were unrelated. You enjoyed the job and had been widely praised for being good at it, even by people outside the company hoping to poach your expertise. Some days you considered it, but not for long. Still, there had been times when you wildly disagreed with the way CEO Kim ran his company.

It was before your time at a decision-making level at KQ Entertainment but you could not help but wish you had been given a say in the subsidiary company Seven Seasons’ bewildering choice to not move heaven and earth to retain all the members of Block B as their contracts came up for renewal. First Zico and now P.O were gone and you could not understand why they had been allowed to slip out of the portfolio of artists. You did not blame the men when you suspected the offers they had been given were nowhere near their worth. Your uncle would probably say you were being too sentimental but this was coming from a business perspective. As a producer Zico could have offered so much guidance to newer talent. P.O’s marketability beyond his singing was also high as an actor and all-around personality.

There were other decisions you had clashed with your uncle over even more strongly. Back in 2022, his decision to go forward with the ATEEZ tour during the COVID-19 omicron variant surge in the United States had almost led to you walking away from the company. The pandemic was serious enough in your own country where San had been infected the year before and you could not understand risking the members being sent to a country far less under control.

Safety assurances from the venues had been made but relying on the assumption local governments would not permit concerts if the conditions were inadvisable was far too trusting. You still recalled how your blood ran cold before the New York concert when you heard Mingi felt a muscle ache and was tested for Covid. Thankfully it came back negative, as Wooyoung mercifully called to tell you the moment the result was in, but your warm relationship with your uncle took a long time to recover. The business decision to tour despite the very real danger of spreading infection to fans and staff had left you fuming.

A soft conversation in the next room brought you back to far more pleasant circumstances in the present. You loved they way the guys were so caring and gentle with each other and you went to see what was going on. It was another break in the schedule permitting Yunho to take a few nights away from the dorm and stay with you. His regular visits were something both you and Mingi cherished and he seamlessly fit into the activity of the household.

“There you go Princess Mingi, I saved you from another dragon,” Yunho said while taking a newly caught bug in a cup to the door.

“Thank you for the rescue, sir knight.”

Grinning at Mingi’s phrasing Yunho joked, “There you go with ‘Sir’ again, are you trying to start something?”

“You know what I mean, Yunho. You help save me from all the dragons, even anxiety.”

Yunho tossed the insect from the cup to a life of outdoor reprieve, washed his hands, and sat down beside his lover snuggling in close and running his hand through Mingi’s hair in a soothing manner. Mingi had been diligent about keeping up therapy appointments begun during his lengthy health break years back. Dealing with anxiety would always be a part of his life but he had developed quite an arsenal of tools to deal with anything that came up. Of all he had learned, Mingi’s favorite would always be cuddling with either of his partners and he visibly relaxed as his boyfriend tended to him.

Yunho was glad to be ‘home for the weekend’ as he liked to call his overnight visits. Other times Mingi left you home alone and slept at his old room in the dorm if ATEEZ had an early call. It gave the boyfriends time together outside your presence while you could bask in the silence of a temporarily empty house. Things were really working well for your polyfidelitous triad. Even when away, Yunho’s presence was felt in the house in his touches of artwork and a few furniture pieces along with a portion of the closets and dressers. With the arrival of his piano today, it warmed your heart to see he was making a life with you, divided as it was between here and the dorm.

The relationship was not settled knowing Yunho still dreamed of having children one day which was incompatible with the lives you and Mingi wanted but that problem lay in the future. At best, he would be able to remain a devoted boyfriend while living with a primary partner he shared a child with but that outcome was not guaranteed. You sensed his desire to parent was stronger than his need for you or Mingi and if he fell for another who required exclusivity he would be lost to you both. Still, you could enjoy what you and Mingi had with Yunho for now, as long as it lasted. As far as you had discussed, he had never even gone on dates in search of this so far mythical mother of his child so things were holding in the present.

Mingi received a ding on his phone from the piano moving company Yunho had hired to get the instrument from his childhood home. The text said they were lost but nearby so Mingi put on a jacket and went looking for them down the street. Feeling much better after the encounter with the insect in his home, he still eyed the area outside the door warily as he left.

You sat on the couch beside Yunho to wait and brought out your own phone to get photos of the piano’s imminent arrival. Noticing you had a message from a friend, you checked out the link. For a few minutes you stared at the article on your phone and Yunho caught your concerned frown. Apologetically you explained, “I am so sorry about this celebrity coverage claiming we hate each other. In the picture I certainly do have a scowl while turned toward you but I think I was frustrated over a pebble in my shoe at the time. My public face is not as practiced as yours.”

“You can see why we liked masks even before they were necessary. Best not to look at it,” Yunho sagely advised. “We have people at KQ to keep tabs on that in case there is something that needs to be addressed. This of course does not. I don’t think they would believe us even if we did announce we were a devoted couple. Perhaps ease up on ignoring me in public a little, though.”

“I am afraid any glance at you is full of adoration without intending to be, I just can’t help it. My thoughts are on projects when I’m at work so it’s not difficult to treat you like everyone else but when we’re out in the world that’s when my mind is free and goes to how much I love you.”

Yunho patted your hand comfortingly. “I know you do and I appreciate all you do to preserve my privacy. As problems go, being so adored is not really a bad one to be had. And really they don’t need any evidence to make up stories about you coming between me and my best friend. Everyone important to us knows it is nothing like that and nobody else really matters.”

“Well, there are the mornings I do crawl in between you from my side of our bed for a snuggle but I’m pretty sure that’s not what they meant.” He pulled you close as you laughed together. “You are so good at taking everything in stride, Yunho. No wonder Seonghwa said you have such a healthy mind.”

He laughed again recalling that radio interview. “That was one of the weirdest compliments I’ve ever gotten though I know he meant it sincerely.”

Looking at him with wonder you asked, “You don’t worry about things do you?”

“Just some things, like if I ever will become a father as I hope to. You also know how long I pined over you. And I think a lot about making sure my performances are my best. But the things out of my control like what people say? That I do not devote time to thinking about.”

Yunho calmed you with both his words and presence. Resting your head on his shoulder you began to run your fingers over his bracelets, the same three he had worn in the ‘If Without You’ music video filmed years ago while in quarantine. Being required to be without contact, the men of ATEEZ had lacked the assistance of wardrobe and makeup so their styles in those Zoom enabled appearances had reflected more of their own tastes than usual.

One bracelet was made from the rainbow colors of the pride flag and the next pink, white, and blue celebrating trans people. Lacking black and grey beads for his jewelry project after making an asexual one for you, his final bracelet was only green and white but you knew it represented agender pride. It had been an amazing gift to see those on him in the video supporting you and countless other fans. You were only friends at the time, and just recently dating Mingi, but Yunho’s subtle but clear public statement helped cement your impression of him as a trusted person in your life. It was the same good feeling generated when San once shared a little video with a face drawn on his hand. The clip was cute enough with his dialog and sweet demeanor but you suspected it was posted as much to show off his bracelet in trans flag colors.

Wanting to return the favor of support you asked Yunho, “I know you are very private, but would you like me to make you a bracelet in blue, purple, and pink for your flag? Nobody would know it is about you.”

He looked at you with confusion in his eyes. “I would wear it to be an ally to friends like Annie and plenty of ATEEZ fans but I’m not bisexual.”

“Good to know. All this time together and I did not know you prefer to use pansexual.”

“Um, actually, not to negate you being agender, but I consider myself straight.”

You waved off Yunho’s concern, “You know I don’t find being gendered important though I recognize it is usually something very important to others.”

“Certainly all the people I feel initially attracted to as I look for someone to have a child with are women.”

With a flash of insight, you conceded, “Well that would make things easier.”

“Oh no, they aren’t all cisgender, just all women. Meeting someone with a child from a previous relationship would be fine or we could adopt a child. Even women who are cis do not know if they are capable of pregnancy until it happens so there is no one I could choose who would be a sure route to genetic parenthood. I am looking for someone to be a co-parent, not breed.” The look of distaste on his face told you how repellent he found the idea of shopping for a gestational carrier as a partner rather than someone for him to love.

“But, I am still confused.” Sitting up fully on the couch you turned toward Yunho. “Not to argue with you, because nobody knows self-assessment is the only thing that matters like aces do, but why use ‘straight’ when you have been in a sexual relationship with a man for years?”

“Well, it is similar to you not being interested in romance but for Mingi and me. Life can surprise you when you don’t let the expectations of your own labels get in the way. I exclusively like women, except for two, well, exceptions being nonbinary you and of course Mingi too. The last two categories might not be mutually exclusive by the way, I don’t think he has given any of it much thought when it comes to gender. He is just our Mingi, and sometimes princess Mingi at that.”

Smiling, you agreed, “With his fondness for the word I have never been sure if he knows it is generally a term for women or he just thinks it is the English word for junior royal person.”

Yunho nodded. “A lot of people seem to pick up on him being a gender unto himself.”

“True, I have seen more than one fan online refer to themselves as ‘Mingi gender.’ Still, attraction to women in general and two other people sounds bi or pan if you wanted to think of yourself that way, the ratio is not important. And, yes, I do know what you mean about exceptions. Sometimes I wonder if I am grey or demiromantic the way I was not looking for any relationships and fell into both by accident. Certainly hesitance about romance is not part of being asexual. But, it is not something I require an answer to anyway. Labels are only there for your own purposes and do not have to remain fixed over time. All I need to know is that I dearly love you and Mingi.”

As if summoned by his name, your husband appeared at the door excited to announce “We have a piano! The movers are coming down the walk now.” While neither you nor Mingi had the talent, it was a pleasure to hear Yunho play around from time to time when the opportunity presented itself. He had not pursued piano for long and his skill had backslid from disuse but he wanted to keep the instrument he had grown up within the family in case any future children might wish to learn.

While he had not planned to take it on so soon in life without a home of his own beside the dorm, he took the piano off his parents’ hands after finding they could not even give it away and it was otherwise headed for the dump. Yunho had been the only one in the family with an interest and with him gone for years they had decided to make a change in furniture, removing what had become a large photo display surface for something more useful. Glad the inconveniently sized instrument could be kept in your home for now, he sat at the bench and began to play once the movers had left.

You were entranced. “You remembered how much I adore that song!” Ever since Yunho had fiddled on the piano on a ‘Fever: Epilogue’ photo shoot you had been in love with his playing. The chance to hear him was rare but now things had changed in your favor. The YouTube video of him at the keys was one you watched often but had never thought to ask the name of the song.

“‘Summer’, by Joe Hisaishi,” Yunho helpfully supplied. “It was one of the things I learned when my parents had me take lessons. Drawn more to dance than music at the time, it seems to have finally come in handy if it makes you swoon like that.”

“Of course, the composer from the ‘Totoro’ soundtrack and other Studio Ghibli films. No wonder it sounds familiar in style to other songs I love. Please, would you play that again for me?”

“For you, anything,” Yunho beamed. “It is a small price to pay for piano storage.”

You closed your eyes and became lost in the tune. Later in the day you would find a notification on your phone that Yunho had bought the song for your music collection and it immediately went into heavy rotation. Every visit thereafter Yunho would slip into your home quietly enough that you would not know of his arrival until the piano began the familiar tune announcing his presence. No matter what you were doing it was immediately dropped to rush to his side.

Such was your love for the song you held back tackling Yunho until he was finished. Then your arms would engulf him still at the piano bench at such a convenient height to hug him from behind and smother his head with kisses. You could hang on him forever like that if he would let you but Yunho had more than one person eager to see their partner again. Mingi would show himself at a more sedate pace and once your greeting was complete they would look at each other tenderly before Mingi could hold back no longer. Their reunion kiss was always passionate and you left the men to their pleasure.

In time Yunho would find you busy in the kitchen and steal a bite of whatever you were preparing for your family of three. Just like your husband Mingi, Yunho was cute enough to get away with anything. In truth, if he was hungry you were happy he was eating and the schedule did not matter.

Time together on these visits was precious. You made sure Yunho got as much attention from Mingi as yourself so found ways to keep your hands busy and off of him, as much as you wanted to hold him constantly. Cooking was one activity but you also enjoyed playing around on your phone. As if your days were not already filled enough with the group at work and home, you had picked up a taste for ATEEZ SuperStar. Coming into the kitchen one afternoon with a question about dinner plans you cut Yunho short. “Can’t talk now, playing your mobile game.”

He peered over your shoulder waiting for the round to finish before speaking further. “Hey, Jongho is your user icon?” Yunho looked at you a little too knowingly at your pick. “It always keeps coming back to Jongho doesn't it?” Shaking his head, he laughed at you kindly.

The familiar teasing made you smile. “I don’t have a thing for him, as far as I know.” Your mouth hung open in surprise as you thought. You were pretty sure about this. “He just looks great here and really, how could I have chosen between my two partners?”

“Better two of us are jealous than one?”

“Something like that. I didn’t want to imply a favorite.” Closing the app to give Yunho your full attention you mused, “KQ needs another type of mobile game, less frantic. I think I will look into the feasibility of a dress-up game where users style the members with favorite outfits and create new clothes.”

“Oh please do that, I would try a Minkiway ATEEZ costuming game.”

Coming into the room Mingi was pleased to hear his popular individual content from YouTube mentioned. “I’d play that. I would love to dress up Yunho, just like you let me do in real life too,” he added while putting an arm around his lover’s waist and coming in for a kiss.

Yunho noted, “Fashion is not my thing, but I know how happy it makes you to pick something for me when we go out together.”

“I know and love that you let me do this with you.” Mingi unnecessarily smoothed the designer jacket Yunho was wearing as his partner glowed from the touch. “Thank you for putting up with it.”

“Putting up is too strong a phrase, I certainly don’t mind the praise and good press we get for KQ. And it makes my partner happy, that means everything to me.” With a smirk and head tilt your way he added, “I also see it as protecting our girl from having to do fashion.”

Looking to you, Mingi said, “Yeah, you let me help here and there but fancy isn’t your style. Cheap comfort is everything to you.” Turning back to Yunho he added, “But we love her as she is don’t we?”

“We do, very much.” He gazed from one of you to to the other fondly then put his free arm around your midsection joining the group as one. “It always makes me laugh when I remember we’re living out the fanfiction dream of a girl with two ATEEZ boyfriends. The fans would go wild if they knew wouldn’t they? Sometimes I think it would be fun to tell just to see their faces but I certainly wouldn’t want to see the pushback.”

Head leaning on his shoulder, you patted Yunho’s chest lovingly and agreed. “No, I think you have always been wise to keep your private life to yourself, and me and Mingi of course.” In this moment you were so happy to have your two men by your side. Like the song though, you knew summer could not last forever. Your carefully balanced relationship was a beautiful, fragile soap bubble that was always capable of bursting and you hoped that day was far off, if it had to be. ~

On to a whole lot of angst with Yunho’s Painful Decision

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greatworldwar2 · 4 years

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• STG-44 Automatic Rifle

The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, "assault rifle 44") is a German selective-fire assault rifle also known as the MP 43 and MP 44 developed during World War 2.

MP 43, MP 44, and StG 44 were different designations for what was essentially the same rifle with minor updates in production. The variety in nomenclatures resulted from the complicated bureaucracy in Nazi Germany. StG is an abbreviation of Sturmgewehr. According to one account, the name was chosen personally by Adolf Hitler for propaganda reasons. The rifle was chambered for the 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge. This shorter version of the German standard (7.92×57mm) rifle round, in combination with the weapon's selective-fire design, provided a compromise between the controllable firepower of a submachine gun at close quarters with the accuracy and power of a Karabiner 98k bolt-action rifle at intermediate ranges. Studies had shown that few combat engagements occurred at more than 300 metres (330 yd) and the majority within 200 metres (220 yd). Full-power rifle cartridges were excessive for most uses for the average soldier. Only a trained specialist, such as a sniper, or soldiers equipped with machine guns, which fired multiple rounds at a known or suspected target, could make full use of the standard rifle round's range and power. The British were critical of the weapon, saying that the receiver could be bent and the bolt locked up by the mere act of knocking a leaning rifle onto a hard floor. A late-war U.S. assessment derided the StG-44 as "mediocre", "bulky" and "unhandy", declaring it incapable of sustained automatic fire and prone to jamming, though the report accepted that its accuracy was "excellent for a weapon of its type".

In the late 19th century, small-arms cartridges had become able to fire accurately at long distances. Jacketed bullets propelled by smokeless powder were lethal out to 2,000 metres (2,200 yd). This was beyond the range a shooter could engage a target with open sights, as at that range a man-sized target would be completely blocked by the front sight blade. Only units of riflemen firing by volley could hit grouped targets at those ranges. That fighting style was taken over by the widespread introduction of machine guns, which made use of these powerful cartridges to suppress the enemy at long range. Rifles remained the primary infantry weapon, but in some forces were seen as a secondary or support weapon, backing up the machine guns. In early 1918, Hauptmann (Captain) Piderit, part of Gewehrprüfungskommission ("Small Arms Examination Committee") of the German General Staff in Berlin, submitted a paper arguing for the introduction of an intermediate round in the German Army with a suitable firearm. He pointed out that firefights rarely took place beyond 800 metres (870 yd), about half the 2 km (1.2 mi) sight line range of the 7.92×57mm round from a Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle or less for MG 08 machine gun. The German Army showed no interest, as it already had the MP 18 submachine gun firing 9 mm pistol rounds and did not want to create a new cartridge.

At the start of World War II, German infantry were equipped with weapons comparable to those of most other military forces. A typical infantry unit was equipped with a mix of bolt-action rifles and some form of light, medium or a general-purpose machine guns. A problem with this mix was that the standard rifles were too large to be effectively used by mechanized and armored forces, where they were difficult to maneuver in the cramped spaces of an armored vehicle. During the invasion of the Soviet Union, increasing numbers of semi-automatic Tokarev SVT-38 and SVT-40s were used by the Red Army – mostly elite units and non-commissioned officers – while some Soviet rifle companies were completely equipped with PPSh-41 submachine guns. After experiencing high volumes of automatic fire from these weapons, German commanders re-thought their small arms requirements. The German army had been attempting to introduce semi-automatic weapons such as the Gewehr 41, but these proved troublesome in service, and production was insufficient to meet requirements. By 1941, it was becoming clear that action needed to be taken. Although various experimental rounds had been developed to one degree or another by this point, the Army instead decided to select yet a new design, the Polte 8×33mm Kurzpatrone ("short cartridge"). This used a spitzer bullet and basic cartridge design of the standard 7.92×57mm Mauser rifle cartridge, cutting down the cartridge from the original 7.92×57mm Mauser to 7.92×33mm Kurz.

Contracts for rifles firing the 7.92×33mm Kurz round were issued to both Walther and Haenel (whose design group was headed by Hugo Schmeisser), were asked to submit prototype weapons under the name Maschinenkarabiner 1942 ("machine carbine") or MKb 42. Both designs were similar, using a gas-operated action, with selective fire. Since both rifles shared the title of Maschinenkarabiner 42 the letters (H) and (W) were added to differentiate the two. The MKb 42(H) along with the less successful MKb 42(W) were predecessors of the later MP 43, MP 44, StG 44. The majority of the MP 43's features came from the MKb 42(H), with the hammer firing system and closed bolt coming from the MKb 42(W). As work moved forward to incorporate this new firing system, development halted when Hitler suspended all new rifle programs due to administrative infighting within the Third Reich. Hitler ordered that newer submachine guns were to be built, and he strongly disagreed with the use of the Kurz ammunition. To keep the MKb 42(H) development program alive, the Waffenamt (Armament Office) re-designated the weapon as the Maschinenpistole 43 (MP 43) and, making a few improvements, billed the weapon as an upgrade to existing submachine guns. Much time was wasted trying to make the MP 43 a replacement for the Karabiner 98k rifle. This goal was eventually realized to be impossible; the MP 43 cartridge was too weak to fire rifle grenades, too inaccurate for sniping, and the weapon was too short for bayonet fighting. In September 1943, it was decided that the MP 43 would supplement rather than replace the Kar 98k.

Adolf Hitler eventually discovered the designation deception and halted the program again. In March 1943, he permitted it to recommence for evaluation purposes only. Running for six months until September 1943, the evaluation produced positive results, and Hitler allowed the MP 43 program to continue in order to make mass production possible. The weapon made extensive use of for the 1940s advanced cost-saving pressed and stamped steel components rather than machined parts. The first MP 43s were distributed to the Waffen-SS; in October 1943, some were issued to the 93rd Infantry Division on the Eastern Front. Production and distribution continued to different units. In April 1944, Hitler took some interest in the weapon tests and ordered the weapon (with some minor updates) to be re-designated as the MP 44. In July 1944, at a meeting of the various army heads about the Eastern Front, when Hitler asked what they needed, a general exclaimed, "More of these new rifles!". Production soon began with the first batches of the new rifle being shipped to troops on the Eastern Front. By the end of the war, a total of 425,977 StG 44 variants of all types were produced and work had commenced on a follow-on rifle, the StG45. A properly trained soldier with a StG 44 had an improved tactical repertoire, in that he could effectively engage targets at longer ranges than with an MP 40, but be much more useful than the Kar 98k in close combat, as well as provide covering fire like a light machine gun. It was also found to be exceptionally reliable in extreme cold.

A primary use of the MP 44/StG 44 was to counter the Soviet PPS and PPSh-41 submachine guns, which used the 7.62×25mm Tokarev round. These cheap, mass-produced weapons used a 71-round drum magazine or 35-round box magazine and though shorter-ranged than the Kar 98k rifle, were more effective weapons in close-quarter engagements. The StG 44, while lacking the range of the Kar 98k, had a considerably longer range than the PPS/PPSh submachine guns, more power, a comparable rate of fire, an ability to switch between a fully automatic and a default semi-automatic fire mode and surprising accuracy. At the end of the war, Hugo Schmeisser claimed that 424,000 MP 43/MP 44/StG 44 rifles were built between June 1943 and April 1945 in four plants: 185,000 by C.G. Haenel in Suhl; 55,000 by J.P. Sauer & Sohn in Suhl; 104,000 in Erfurt; and 80,000 by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr, Austria. This was fewer than the 1.5 million ordered, and far fewer than the 4 million planned. Some 822 million rounds of 7.92×33mm Kurz ammunition were produced from 1942 to 1945. At the beginning of March 1945, the troops had 273.9 million rounds.

The Sturmgewehr remained in use with the East German Nationale Volksarmee with the designation MPi.44 until it was eventually replaced with variants of the AK-47 assault rifle. The Volkspolizei used it until approximately 1962 when it was replaced by the PPSh-41. It was still used by other public security formations thereafter. Other countries to use the StG 44 after World War II included Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, where units such as the 63rd Paratroop Battalion were equipped with it until the 1980s. Argentina manufactured their own trial versions of the StG 44 made by CITEFA in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but instead adopted the FN FAL in 1955, because it used the then more common and powerful 7.62×51mm NATO round. 7.92mm Kurz ammunition is currently manufactured by Prvi Partizan of Serbia. The extent to which the Sturmgewehr influenced the development of the AK-47 is not clearly known. Apart from external layout similarity and the gas-operation principle, the AK-47 was not a copy of the German gun because the AK-47 used a very different mechanism. However, tens of thousands of Sturmgewehrs were captured by the Soviets and were likely provided to Kalashnikov and his team, so it is likely that he knew of it while designing the AK-47. United States and, later, NATO developed assault rifles along a roughly similar path by at first adding selective-fire capability in a reduced power, full-caliber cartridge.

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rfschatten · 3 years

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It still the damn Mask, Stupid

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” ~~~ Wayne Dyer

“May you live in interesting times”? Oh yes! We, the people have certainly been really cursed!

It may sound kind of stupid, but how many people have been vaccinated at one time or another in their life? Chances are …if you ever went to school …yes! Whether you liked it or not, you were vaccinated! And it wasn’t by choice, your parents knew what was best for you and so did medical authorities …they understood the seriousness of infecting others, which could lead to a serious epidemic.

It’s always been the norm, always! …until now, when politics decided for their own ugly sordid purpose, to stick their ugly head into all of this! If you want your kids to go to school, you get them vaccinated …and that has really never changed. The first mandatory school vaccinations occurred in the 1850s to protect children from Smallpox …and it’s been a requirement in all 50 States for both, childcare and kids entering school for the first time, ever since!

The primary vaccines administered usually starts around the ages of 6 years old: the DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus, & Pertussis) Vaccine, the Polio Vaccine, Varicella Vaccine, MMR (Mumps, Measles, & Rubella) Vaccine, Hib (Haemophilus Influenzae type B) Vaccine, & Influenza (Flu) Vaccine. These are just a few …there’re between 8–16 different vaccines someone may end up taking during their lifetime, and that doesn’t include any of the newer ones …including Covid-19.

This is not just a school problem, the overwhelming majority of infections and deaths are from adults, and they’re acquiring all these new variants, too. The real problem is the moral issue …how much do you really care about your own child or another child’s health and welfare? How much do you really care about the health and welfare of your own community?

Every single human being growing up has been told; listen to your doctor! Every parent in the world has taken their children and/or themselves to a doctor at one time or another …if there’s access to one. So, what’s the big problem? The biggest problem is …we’re now living in a society dominated by sheer unadulterated ignorance!

Why do these parents don’t give a damn whether their children get sick? …or whether their children die? As long as they don’t have to wear a mask, everything is fine inside their own little bubble of reality …the sheer ignorance that has been politized by people who really don’t give a damn except gaining their supporter’s votes and especially their money …that’s all they really care about! Look how many kids are getting infected or dying in Ron DeSantis’ Florida death march and Glenn Abbot’s Texas genocide?

What does it take to convince some people that nothing is going to ever change back to any type of normal until those people start listening to Medical Authorities much more seriously than to Politicos?

What does it take to examine this pandemic and take a look at the numbers? More than 37 million people are already infected, with 600,00+ deaths …and predicting now to reach 660,000 by September …that’s more American deaths than WWI, WWII, Korea, & Vietnam combined! It’s more than the entire 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic that killed 650,000! …though some say it may have been up to 750,000!

In those days you didn’t have the lines of communication around the world between the medical communities, as you have today …it was just as new to many doctors, especially country doctors. Advance medical technology and general medical knowledge was not around as much, yet still they prevailed.

There’s no excuse whatsoever that 21 years into the 21st Century, more than 600,000 people have had to die! …and with all these new variants, it’s just getting worse as the numbers are spiking all over, again. How can people see all this and wonder why we don’t get back to normal? As I said in Nov. 2020, in my article; “It’s the Mask, Stupid!” …nothing will ever get back to normal until this pandemic gets completely under control! And it’ll never, ever get under control till people stop listening to politicos and demagogues …and start listening to medical professionals, period!

We’re going through a severe public health emergency! It’s going to get worse! It’s going to get a lot worse than the first giant surge …95% of all new cases with all these new variants are from unvaccinated people. And this time, the surge is also affecting children of all ages … children's hospitals are filling to capacity, pediatric ICUs are near capacity …children under 2 are becoming the latest victims!

While Covid-19 keeps spreading among the population, worse than ever …a vicious and methodical anti-vaxxer & anti-CDC insanity is being pushed by GOP politicos & social conservatives, all against the use of masks and vaccinations around the country …and it’s hindering the effort to keep this nation healthy and safe.

The undermining of the public’s health in name of political gains …by willfully endangering human lives with the use of systematic political projections, mass misinformation, continued lies 24/7, disingenuous rhetoric, cultivating ignorance, and deliberately creating massive obfuscation.

The schadenfreude of the entire GOP around the country …especially the extreme cruelty perpetrated against children by Ron DeSantis in Florida (better known these days as #DeathSantis), forcing children not to wear masks, while the “Sunshine State” has the highest rate of children hospitalized in the nation, and 25% of all cases in the United States! Texas’ Greg Abbott is literally competing for the same honor …all of Texas’ hospitals & ICUs …like in Florida …are currently running at full & overcapacity, with field hospitals in the parking lots & underground garages!

Meanwhile, the massive campaign to spread deliberate misinformation hasn’t worked too well for their own constituency of conservative Anti-Vaxxers. Ex-Newsmax & Fl. right-wing radio talk host Dick Farrell, who 10 days earlier, called Anthony Fauci a “power-tripping lying freak” and mocked the pandemic as a “scamdemic” …died of Covid! Then, not to be outdone …Texas GOP official H. Scott Apley, an anti-mask and anti-vaxxer who wrote an invitation to a “mask burning” and mocked Covid …died 5 days later, from Covid!

The unvaccinated, anti-vaxxers, and Covid deniers all over the country are now sick & dying right and left from Covid-19 …while totally incompetent super-spreading idiots like Rand Paul keep pushing his supporters to become bigger idiots than they already are, calling for “civil disobedience” and saying; “No one should follow the CDC mandate” “it’s time to ‘resist’ common sense health problems”!

And this, from the same man who for 16 months did not reveal an inside trade, accounting for a slew of stock he bought in a Covid treatment center …so, for Mr. Paul? the more people resist, the more people will get sick, and the more money Mr. Paul makes!

Resist “common sense”?!?! …if it comes down to believing that BS? Maybe it takes getting infected, intubated, and placed on a mechanical ventilator to change their tune …unfortunately, you still have those just too ignorant, who do get infected and still refuse to get vaccinated. Resist common sense? Something might be lost in translation, but if it comes down to that …they’ll deserve what they get!

If things are not bad enough? …now, we have the GOP promoting the excuse of “freedom of speech” rhetoric to allow their supporters to use threats of bodily harm …primarily, by the Proud Boys …shouting and threatening doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in front of their own homes, telling them; “we know who you are, we’re going get you!”, as a way for them to stop treating the sick! Give them a break! …all they’re trying to do is save lives, probably, your own rotten life too.

An elementary school teacher was attacked by an angry parent for having the audacity of protecting his little daughter! More Proud Boys carrying MAGA Trump flags stabbed a pro-mask supporter at an Anti-Vaxxer rally, and beat up 2 news reporters …Frank Stoltze of NPR was repeatedly kicked and beaten up & Tina Desiree Berg was attacked, beaten, and had her mask torn off by her attacker, Tony Moon …another Jan. 6th Capital rioter, all caught on camera.

There’s really no excuse! …all this is not about your “Freedom”, free not to get vaccinated or not wear a mask, it’s not about mandates or requirements, it’s totally a sham perpetrated by Republicans using the pandemic to raise money for their own selfish non-medical gains …professional propagandist Tucker Carlson said the “US Government wants to ‘force’ us to get vaccinated, force us to take medicine, even force us to get ‘sterilized’ like in WWII Germany” …” no one owns my body”!

This is a man who says he’s against Anti-Fascism (Antifa) …which makes him a Pro Fascist! The same Fascists that believe in “forced sterilization”, and the belief in the use of Eugenics. “No one owns my body?” …except if that someone is a woman who wants an abortion, then, he believes in owning ‘her’ body for life!

Fact: there are no US Government mandates or requirements ordering anyone to get vaccinated or wear a mask, whatsoever! No one is forcing anyone to take any type of medicine! Yes, you do have the constitutional right to reject all medicines and vaccines …and yes, you also have the freedom and the right to die for not taking care of yourself or not listening to medical advice!

When will people understand just to follow some common sense! listen to medical professionals! listen to all those people tirelessly working their asses off in hospitals 24/7 for more than a year, risking their own lives while trying to save even just one life?…the life that might very well be you, someday! No one is more bipartisan than doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and others who are not looking at, and don’t give a damn what political party you belong to, what ideology you have, what color is your skin, or where you came from!

When will people understand the severity of this virus? 93% of all the Covid variants in the United States are Delta! …which is a highly transmissible variant. The newest Lambda variant is now coming out from South America, and it already arrived in California. All you have to do is listen! …the more people let these variants go rampant, the more these viruses are going to mutate, thus creating much worse and more dangerous strains!

All these unvaccinated anti-mask & anti-vaxxers, Covid deniers, all these enraged parents who keep having violent meltdowns because they and/or their children are being forced to wear a mask, they all need to understand It’s not just to protect yourself and your child …it’s to protect others. If you’re sick, or maybe even dying …why would you want to go to a hospital if you can’t trust those doctors for medical advice? You can’t have it both ways!

No one has said it any better than Arnold Schwarzenegger; “Screw your freedom! …with Freedom comes Obligation & Responsibility”!

Is it the right of a parent…in the name of “Freedom”…to endanger the life of his or her child? In any other time, that would be considered child abuse, and Child Enforcement would be knocking at your door quicker than you can say Dept. of Children & Families! And what about viewing it from the child’s mind? How much has their childhood social cognition, developed? Does he or she understand what this commotion is all about? and how do they feel about it? …or, if all they know and feel is; what the hell is going on?

As a parent, it’s your moral & legal obligation to take care of your kids …it’s your personal responsibility as a parent not to be a piece of shit, so your kids wouldn’t have to inherit that legacy.

As far as the grown-ups of all persuasions, all races, all colors, or creeds…grow up! As a citizen of this country, it’s your moral & legal obligation to work with your community to keep it safe for everyone! It’s your moral responsibility to protect your kids & your family, protect your neighbors’ kids and their families, and protect your community from a deadly disease …so get vaccinated! …and wear a damn mask!

Freedom? Sorry! You’re not going to be free in any way till this pandemic is completely under control …so live with it!

Will Rogers said; “You can’t legislate intelligence and common sense into people”

In the end, if you can’t convince ignorance …you just have to let them sink or swim on their own miseries and mistakes. You can be as compassionate & sympathetic as you can, but sooner or later …people are not going to give a damn about your freedom …or whether you live or die, anymore!

Meanwhile, screw others’ “freedom” and be smart …stay vaccinated and just keep wearing your mask!

#Mask #COVID-19 #Vaccines #covid deaths #ron deathsantis #florida #texas #school mandates #covid mandates

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The Colors of my Soul(mates) [1]

[Second oneshot]

[AO3 link]

Kanene’s Notes:

Nope, I do not regret the pun. Okay, okay! I’ve plaining this AU for almost an year so I’m pretty excited to post it!! dfghjsdfrtyucfvgbhjv yaaaay!! Thank you very very much @olliedollie1204 for such a positive feedback and awesome ideas. it helped me a lot!!

Warnings, fun facts, random things and stuff:

* That fanfic has Virgil, Logan, Patton and Roman (only a brief mention of Remy) in a platonic relationship (yet), but it can be viewed as romantic, if you wish.

* Warnings: A bit of swearing and depreciative thoughts. It’s mostly fluff and hurt/comfort, tho.

* This characters do not belongs to me. They all belongs to the amazing Thomas Sanders in his series of Sanders Sides.

* Something around 4.500 words. -w-)b.

* Sorry for any spelling, pontuation and grammar mistakes! Any advice is very very welcome!

* Tô com preguiça de postar a versão em português brasileiro aaaa! Thankys for reading, my lollipops! Say to someone important how much you love them, be safe, talk with the one that you love, drink water and sleep well! Byeioo!~

[~*~]

What can do a creature if not, between creatures, love? - Carlos Drummond de Andrade

- What the fu-

Virgil only discovered he had more than one Soulmate when he was twenty years old, more specifically the exact moment he took a wrong turn and kept going even knowing he was in the wrong way because one hour it would lead him to somewhere Virgil would recognize before his mortal being inevitably starved to death in the middle of nowhere and his eyes got dragged from the visions from thousands of futures created by his mind to a Teddy Bear Store - they seemed to replicate worse than bacteria during Valentine’s Day - and two bears from the crimson shelter suddenly dyed themselves in two milliseconds as he slightly glanced at them.

Two of them. Virgil felt his entire face burn in hot shades of embarrassment with drops of disbelief, almost as if all the people running, stumbling, locked in their own worlds and swearing while walked in the sideway because ‘some stupid teenager decided to just stop and block their way’ could, by only looking at him, stare deep into his soul and realize the one staring astonished the store already carried in his fate another one more Soulmate at home.

One completely different in shape and form, even if also blue, however in a light, sky blue completely opposite shade from the new navy one staring him down - Virgil knew plentily their link wasn’t bonded yet, albeit he was equally sure that the person behind those black glooming teddy bear’s eyes were already judging him, - wondering why, between all the people, he was their soulmate. The other red one was very much likely crackling in his face when an employee came and pointedly turn the adult’s attention to the sign in big, graphed words clued in front of their store:

“You dye, you buy.”

Virgil signed, pushing his hoodie down further, wondering how much time it would take of him hitting his head on the wall to finally pass out. This option sounded much more attractive when he realized that this new ‘discovery’ about himself would cost all his month’s saves.

He asked, to the Universe, the stars, the Earth and whoever was seeing him in that exact moment: why?

Was it a kind of prank? A punishment from fate when, years and tears ago, Virgil lifted his chin up and dared the Universe to give him more soulmates as he locked all his uncolored – although never really free of some weak drops of paint from what one day they came to be – simply stuffed animals, - and nothing more, anymore, - away and promised he would never, ever allow himself to go all through this shit again?

But… That had been… years ago. Almost a decade since that soft voice he got to know so well, the impulsive acts, long conversations and warm feelings.

But…

Time has passed, that is true. Nevertheless, deep down has he really changed?

Virgil stared at the bag carried so close to his chest since his bare hands were sweating and shaking way too much for this task. Yes, he knew his Soulmates won’t feel anything until both of them decided to ‘give the First Step’, accepting to link their souls and fates, for the longest as it lasts. However, he didn’t want to risk it, because what if they felt? What if he in some way broke the Soulmate System when got two at the same time and now everything was messed up and they could already feel his touches even through the bag and the first impression Virgil would gave to them was ‘That anxious, weird boy and his creepy, sweaty hands’ and-

A girl almost hit him as she passed running at his side, making his arms protectively hug further the teddy bears closer to him, arms protectively involving them, the soft touch somehow calming his tumulted thoughts. The lost man took a deep breath.

Clear your mind. Rational thoughts. Focus on the two sides of the coin. Three people wouldn’t be able to break a millennial, unknown system, don’t matter how good he was in screwin… No, a voice that sounded suspiciously a lot like his psychologist calmly pointed, not like that. Virgil huffed, trying again. He was a magnet of problems and bad…Okay, also wrong. Neutral thoughts, focus on neutral thoughts. Come on. Come on.

It was okay.

They wouldn’t feel him until they gave the first step. Right, that… sounded like a start. He didn’t do anything. Now, what Virgil needed to do was go to his house, clean his bed in order to find a good place where he could put and ignore them and then he would get his headphones, listen his playlists and wonder where the fuck his life was going.

It was okay. Everything would stay okay as long as he didn’t give the First Step.

Virgil unconsciously hugged tighter the teddy bears, his fingers finding way and drowning themselves in the soft, cozy fur, combing them in light, soothing touches as he continued his way.

Okay. Everything was okay.

[~*~]

Plurinfanto, or Multiple Souls, it’s the nomination used for the cases when a person has diverse soulmates at the same time and in a same period.

The first known case was with Pharaoh Cleopatra when multiples of her woolen fabric started to dye themselves in various colors and shades. In Ancient Roman, it was believed that the occurrences were blessings from Venus in a sign of prosperity and abundance. Grand, longstanding parties were executed through days nonstop in order to get together those intertwined souls. When the connection broke and the colors disappeared, it meant that days of pain and foreboding were waiting forward.

It is not known for certain the exact moment when the meaning changed, albeit researchers believe it was around the fall of the Roman Empire, when all the invasions resulted in a cultural reconstruction which led to the loss from much of their costumes.

CLICK HERE TO DISCOVER HOW TO HAVE THE SOULMATE OF YOUR DREAMS!!!!

[~*~]

The computer made a soft ‘click’ as Virgil closed it and sat on his bed, adjusting slightly his position to stare the three vivid, brilliant stuffed beings contrasting to the general dark theme of his room.

Virgil growled, resting his back on the cold wall, the shivers calming his flowing thoughts about all the variants this whole thing had. No to mention that people change with time, leading to the souls who they “relate” to change as well, meaning that you can have someone in your life for years and then, one month, or weeks or the next day, you can wake up only to discover you and the said person don’t “match” anymore.

And NO ONE talked about this just because it was a freak tabu to doesn’t have ‘an only one soulmate who will be with you until the end of your existence’. Oh, for fuck sake. Virgil ran his hand through his hair, wincing when he accidently pulled some tangled strands. That sounds like a line of commercial, does anyone believe that bullshit for real?

“Hello dear, newer fellow!!” The popping thought broke his line of reasoning, jumping excitedly in his mind and automatically pulling him out of his wanders. It has a strong and full of… about everything, tune demanding attention. Virgil felt a warm kiss on his forehead, meaning one soulmate – a deep part of him turned his attention to the red colored teddy bear, - had given the First Step. The one who in some moment changed his position so now he was sitting on the floor felt his face get hot again, heart thumping strongly in his chest as his arm moved, fingers stopping inches away from the fur, questioning if he was ready to retribute the gesture.

[~*~]

Many history icons have reports of being Pluriers, as shown in the book ‘The Romance in the History of Those Who Wrote It’, by historian Henry Senyura. The subject is also beginning to gain more visibility after the protest from the teacher Joan A. in 2010, who got touched towards the situation of some of her pupils being forced to choose only one among their Soulmates for the six-month annual exchange, by the end of that period most of them lost or weakened their bonding due lack of communication, small changes of personality and continuous absence. She held a protest at the front of the school, stating that no one had the right to interfere in ‘matters of the heart’.

A lot of fiction works are beginning to address the topic more frequently, as in I’m Not One, a movie directed by Devon Stan; The Seven Colors of Rainbow, a book written by Lílian Lee and the psychological analysis Life’s Watch, recently found between drafts by the famous writer Robin Green, published after their husband’s authorization, Josué Green.

[~*~]

Logan hummed. As it seems, this was a relatively common thing, since the concept of Soul Mates surpassed the barriers of unity and time, being ‘souls who in a way or other intertwined themselves in some part of their life. Sometimes it didn’t necessarily mean a romantic relationship, as the majority of society and media pointed, but it also didn’t hold any assurance that all of them were platonic.

He massaged the bridge of his nose. Remy wasn’t in the dorm so everything was silent enough for him to hear his own thoughts.

It has been a remarkable amount of years since he got his last soulmates, - except for Remy, however they both considered this occurrence as a separate incident - well, until, of course, this day. At least it was a good thing he always carried in his bag extra easy manageable stuffed animals or else maybe the System would dye one of clothes, what would be less than ideal for him in the middle of his philosophy debate. But things got even more interesting when, after his classes, as he arrived at the small, pleasantly well-organized store next to his university, one more stuffed animal colored itself right before him.

He didn’t exactly understand why. Logan considered himself an owner of a… quite strong, strict personality, this added with his difficulty in managing his and one another emotions usually tended to bring some complex tribulations in his rela-

Anyway, that is beside the important matter. The one laying his chin on his crossed fingers undid his pose for a bite of time in order to adjust his glasses, barely fixating his gaze on the two plushies in the desk before him, his third – Pat - resting a few centimeters away, closer to Logan’s fingers, who were barely touching. Mind running. Asking, reflecting, wondering what was the exact amount of time to be acceptable to give his First Step?

‘The First Step’.

Logan never really understood from where and how that expression emerged. It didn’t come from the words’ etymology nor some semantic detour. His most concrete hypothesis consisted of the phrase being derived from old romances.

“Did you know it used to be called the ‘First Kiss’?! But that confused a lot of people who really believed that, to be able to talk and interact with their soulmates they would have to kiss each other, like the Sleeping Beauty! I always got confused in this movie when I was a child, by the way! That ended up messing with a bunch of relationships before they even started, since a lot of peeps don’t feel comfortable enough with strangers kissing them. However, they also speeded up a bunch of them as well…” Logan blinked, his attention escaping from his previous thoughts to the light sky blue plushie of Baby Yoda, for a moment surprised with the sudden input. He felt fingers carefully holding his arms and a bit of ghost movements as Pat probably moved his representation to somewhere else, a hug and warmth engulfing the one yet absolving the new information moments later.

“That was… enlightening.” His voice danced across the room. Even though he was completely aware they could chat telepathically, the childish act of saying the words out loud still comforted him, in a way. “Thank you for your contribution.”

He took a deep breath and closed the tab of research on his cellphone, internally thanking from the escaping of his turmoil of thoughts, his free hand carefully combing the Baby Yoda’s head fur, almost methodic.

“Looo, no!” The other protested with no heat in his tune, leading a toothless smile to resurface in Logan’s features. “Stop doing this. You know I end up sleeping every time!”

“Oh no, what a tragedy.” He deadpanned, already plugging his phones and changing to a most relaxed position on his chair, his eyes traveling across the countless movies on the device before him. “In which episode did we stop?”

“I’m going to fight you.” Pat sounded like he was pouting.

“How so?” Logan asked, trying to hide his amusement.

Silence followed his words.

“Pat?”

“What is the skeleton’s favorite instrument?”

“Pat, don’t you fucking da-”

“Language! It’s a xiloBONE!”

Logan audible growled, fast in his final decision. “I’m going to drop you out the window.”

“I’m going to hug you!” And immediately the one rolling his eyes felt himself being squished in a strong bear hug, huffing only half annoyed.

“You are an incorrigible heathen, let me go in this exact instant.” His answer was a ‘butterfly kiss’ – as Pat was fond in calling them – on his forehead. “Urg, affection.” Yet he smiled and mirrored the act, lightly poking the other’s side.

“We’re on episode 19.”

[~*~]

Roman stared the paper, his pencil’s tip stopped in the middle of the biggest petal’s flower, his eyes narrowing in the hope of a clearest way of how to convert the vague idea he had in transforming the night full of stars in a flower. No to tell he also would need to choose a good pallet of colors indication for it, later, and probably re-do all the process over and over and over until got the best result as possible. A yawn found its way from his lips and the designer stretched, getting up to drink a bit of water and rubbing his eyes, wondering if it was really worth it to make a black tea to help him through the night.

A glimpse of color caught his attention. The navy blue teddy bear on his couch, the main inspiration of his newest tattoo. Roman wondered why it wasn’t resting in front of him while he drew. A corner of his brain, obscured by the tiredness, telling he had a previous good reason for this choice although his actual self carried absolutely no idea of why.

Well, if he couldn’t remember it, it means the reason wasn’t THAT good, right?

Roman held the stuffed animal, spinning with it across the room for a couple of minutes, imagining who would be the person behind it. A king, a queen, a non-binary royalty? Did they like Disney? Musicals? Sing? Would they chat for hours at first with a few words exchanged or would they take a bit to warm at each other? Was navy blue their favorite color or…

Or…

Navy blue.

Oh.

He fixed his glare on the plushie, his hands feeling and slowly drawing in the soft fur of it.

Navy blue, huh? A humorless chuckled flew in the air. It could have no significance, it could be a world of it. It probably didn’t mean what he, for a moment, a so silly, stupid moment, wished it meant. Of course, one day this would happen, right? It was something normal, something expected. Not the magical, right out of the story books or his old daydreams, occurrence.

This wasn’t a second chance. The Universe doesn’t give you second chances. He wasn’t the same boy from eleven years ago, holding his own costumed teddy bear crying his eyes out, hugging he – No, it – the closest as possible, wishing with all his heart and soul for the color, the voice, the thoughts, the rambling, their bickering, the forgiveness to come back again.

No, he grew up. He moved on. He got better.

Then why did a part of him still felt this way? Like he was about to hear the excited giggles, the soft reprimand, that lovely, deep and so truly -and sometimes boring, Roman had to admit – questions? Why would a part of him still say that he could have it all again if he just… waited long enough, hoped high enough, dreamed long enough…

…If he was enough.

There aren’t more than seven billion colors in the world. Roman would be stupid if he really believed there was a path where he wouldn’t stumble in that so (un)fortunate well-known shade of blue again.

Roman growled, his forehead making a loud, dry thumping sound as hit his desk. The one who should be asleep hours ago had absolutely no energy to battle against those thoughts, again. At least for now. He rubbed his eyes and stared at the teddy bear laid on the cold tabletop before him. Well, what a better way to get rid of your own means thoughts than put some stranger’s unpredictable thoughts in the middle of it? Roman slightly pushed the bunch of flowers and some warmup sketches he had out of the way, carefully carrying the representation next to him, nodding. Honestly, that was the best idea he had for a while, why did he even put the lovely thing away?

Awake Roman was so silly, thinking that… something he couldn’t quite recall right now would be a bad idea, he pointed as snorted softly, pressing his lips on the teddy’s forehead, the quote he knew by heart flying from them in a natural flow.

“It is not immortal, since it’s flame. But let it be infinite while it lasts.”

A warm sensation rested on his own forehead moments later, leading the sleepy form to hum happily.

“Is it… poetry?” Oh shit, Roman widened his eyes. His soulmate heard that?? Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. Roman mentally facepalmed himself. So that was why he usually said it before the First Step!

“Uhh, yeah. Of course. Fidelity Sonnet by Vinícius Moraes.”

“I see. Classicism, I presume. A literature of very soundly pleasant rhymes, indeed. The first sonnet was probably created by the humanist Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it got even more known in the western literature after the works of Camões, who- ”

“He is from Modernism, actually.” Roman didn’t know why he suddenly sounded so defensive. Logan felt a cold feeling run his body when the other’s hands let go of him, for a piece of second wondering if it was supposed for him to do the same with the red narwhal plushie on his hold.

“A very common mistake to make due the lack of context.” He retorted, unable to formulate another answer. He had, of course, thought, balanced options and chosen the best topics to discuss with his new soulmates when they bonded. However, his fingers firmly gripped the pen, its tip tapping on the first topic written in the notebook partially forgotten in front of him, the poetry figuratively threw him out of his tracks, leading the decision to be the most impartial as possible due his… not so impartial past memories with that specific shade of red an even more difficult task than it already was.

“Yes. Sure. Sorry, I- I’m just… very tired right now.”

“You should go sleep, then.”

The other snorted with the direct, immediate response. “I should, shouldn’t I? Gotta work, though.”

Some part of Logan’s brain registered the new fact, separating and keeping it in a special place so he would remember to write it down in the new folder he bought, later.

“I see.” … poetry? That wasn’t a hard topic to talk about. The one now nervously cleaning the very clear lenses twisted his mouth. He could talk about this for hours. No, correction: he already had previously talked about this for hours non stop.

Logan strangely felt the urge to rub his face and scream. It has been years, - eleven years and 10 months to be precise – and exactly eight years since the one wearing glasses learned poetry because of him. Because of his constant habit of reciting Shakespeare before they would go to bed, until Logan brought himself to research and decorate all the poems he could muster, taking the task to now wake Prince – the name still carried a strong taste in his tongue – in the same way every single day. Before they realize, that becomes something between them. There were times when both didn’t talk, content in only reciting some verses and hear the other complete them. A part of Logan, that illogical and unfortunately full of feelings one wondered how their rap battles would be if they found each other right now.

Did Prince even maintain his liking the same things he one day did? Does he still recite poetry? Does he maintain the same dreams? The same habits? Does he even remember about him?

Highly improbable.

“You can call me Lo.”

Roman slowly blinked, getting out the fog surrounding his brain to realize he was mindless staring at the pan’s boiling water, surprised the other still there. Well, it seems like he hasn't screwed terribly everything yet.

“Lo? Like Lowrance?”

“Even though my name does contain ‘Lo’ in it, no. It’s ‘Lo’ like Logic. I came to believe it’s a good idea the nomination after a predominant characteristic, since we can’t actively exchange our real names through the Soulmate System.”

Roman’s breath hitched, a memory with yellow-ish edges and nostalgic smell unrolling in front of him.

…

‘I think we should choose you a name with more personality in it, ya know?’ He threw himself on his bed, kicking his legs on the air before immediately scoping the plushie and laying it on his stomach. ‘Like a characteristic!’

‘I don’t see what is wrong with the nickname I choose.’

‘No, no! There is nothing wrong with it! But that could be something just between us!’ Then he gasped, picturing that, if he was inside a movie there would be a lamp shining right above his hair in this moment. ‘We could call you Ro!! You wanted to be a robot, right?’

His soulmate growled and Roman felt a few pokes on his arm, the verbal protest doesn’t taking long before accompanying it. ‘I was three years old!’

‘And I’m never letting you live this down.’ He beamed, both knowing the annoyed scoff he got as response held no real heat. ‘Besides, we could even match our names!!’

‘That would be very counterproductive.’ Roman felt his hair being softly smoothed, a usual indication the other was losing himself in his thoughts. ‘Nicknames are supposed to help us. Having two equal names is not the most efficient thing.’

Roman dramatically scoffed, picking the stuffed animal and half hugging it, his free hand occupying itself in making a couple of gestures to no one, since his soulmate couldn’t exactly see them. ‘It’s not about being productive, Bear! It’s about feelings!!’

‘And since when,’ a light poke was delivered on his belly, making him squeak and mess with the teddy bear’s hair in revenge ‘Everything isn’t feelings for you, your highness?’

…

“Okay,” Roman and his self past disappearing with the fading memory said, in synchrony “You shall call me by Prince, then.”

Suddenly he felt himself falling, his hands quickly holding on the tabletop as the cold, nauseous feeling took over his stomach, more like a punch on it, his veins being filled with amounts of adrenaline for a glimpse of a second.

“Excuse me? Warn a guy next time you decide to just drop his representation, dude! Damn.” Roman shook himself, trying to bring his body to calm down.

“Sorry, I got… startled.” Logan gulped. The word ‘Prince’ echoing on his mind as a broken vinyl disc. What were the chances? That couldn’t be such a common nickname, right? Nor color. Nor interests. What were the chances? What could be the chances? Maybe he was just projecting, being played, tricked by a dangerous partnership between his own brain and emotions. Maybe he was just jumping to conclusions due the nostalgic feeling fogging his actions, his thoughts. Perhaps-

“Hey, Lo? Are you there?”

“Yes.” Logan answered, his fingertips colliding quickly with the fabric of his pants as he visualized his options. “Yes, I am.”

“Hm. Okay, then. I’m… glad to know.”

Silence. Logan took a wobbly breath.

“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back; Wherein he puts alms for oblivion; A great-size monster of ingratitudes:”

“Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd; As fast as they are made, forgot as soon.” Roman continued without even noticing until the words danced in the air, just like the years haven’t passed.

Then he understood.

His heart stopped for a second, his eyes widening and his voice disappearing, as if his whole being was afraid to break the moment, the spell; as if this was a dream and a miscalculate step would make everything fade.

“Bear?” Roman felt a light poke on his cheek.

“Hello, Prince.”

Roman choked a laugh, quickly crawling the teddy bear next to his chest, hugging it both firmly and yet so caring, curling around its - no, him - feeling an equal warmth involve his form as he hided his face on the soft fur, giggling and hugging, feeling so happy, so alive and right and good and he would never, ever, ever again let him go.

“I missed you, bitch. Never scare me like this again.”

“I… missed you, as well.” Logan tried to not let the emotion take over his tune, his hand petting the narwhal plushie softly, the words had abandoning him, as it seems. “This reunion is a… good surprise.”

“Oh, shut up, I know you’re having a blast somewhere in that logic soul of yours, too.”

Logan huffed, grinning. “Stop crying on my hair, your troglodyte.”

“Make me, I dare you.”

“Always so dramatic.” They both rolled their eyes, letting the moment be bathed in the deep waters of a comfortable silence.

“Eleven years.”

“We have so, so much to talk about!! Oh, my goodness gracious, I’m going to get my tea. Do you remember about that play I wrote about zombie princes and a dragon witch? You will NOT fucking believe what happened with it!”

“Good thing I have you to explain to me then.” Roman stopped, a gigantic smile taking over his features as he closed his eyes to feel everything even more.

“Yeah, I agree.”

Somewhere in the world Patton and Virgil smiled during their sleep, unable to control themselves when a gigantic wave of pure joy and delight filled every corner of their hearts, coloring it on the most brilliant gleam, just like their stuffed animals resting peacefully on their grip.

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If you are looking for the most common treatment option for cancer, then chemotherapy is indeed one of the best recommendations. The treatment is used for two purposes. First of all, chemotherapy can kill cancer cells. Secondly, it can even stop / pause the growth and spread of cancer cells. In addition to chemotherapy, there are newer versions of advanced cancer-fighting drugs that should also be used for better results. You can either take chemotherapy through pills or you can even take shots. Cancer Treatment / Drugs – Know The Types:-

Damages DNA of Cancer Cells: There are certain drugs that damage the DNA of cancer cells that keep them from making more copies. These are known as alkylating agents. Please note that these are the oldest form of chemotherapy. This treatment option is used to cure different types of cancer, such as lymphoma, sarcoma, multiple myeloma, Hodgkin’s disease, leukemia, and more. This treatment can even treat some other forms of cancer like lungs, breasts, and ovarian cancers. You must intake this particular type of cancer drug at a very little amount. That’s because it can cause significant side effects. One of the major side effects of alkylating agents is that they destroy your bone marrow while killing bad cancer cells.

Anthracycline Chemotherapy: This is another treatment technique in which the enzymes inside a cancer cell and its DNA get affected. In this way, it prevents the DNA from further dividing and growing. Examples of such anthracycline chemotherapy drugs are doxorubicin, actinomycin-D, daunorubicin, and bleomycin. Note, these drugs are highly effective in treating different types of cancer. However, these are all anti-tumor antibiotics and hence you should be careful about their dosage. For example, if you intake high doses of these drugs, then they can damage both your lungs and heart.

Miotic Inhibitors: Have you heard about mitotic inhibitors? Well, these drugs stop the cancer cells from making replicas i.e. more copies of themselves. Please note that there is a certain type of protein that is needed to grow the cancer cells. If somehow the source of that protein is stopped, then the subsequent growth of cancer cells can also be prevented. Mitotic inhibitors perform the very same action and that’s why they are extremely effective for treating breast as well as lung cancers. In addition to it, these drugs can also be effective in treating lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma.

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Antimetabolites: As the name implies, this particular variant of cancer drugs is effective for the treatment of leukemia. In addition to it, they can even prevent cancer in the ovaries, intestines, and breasts. Antimetabolites medicines interfere and prevent the normal metabolism of the cells. Due to that, the cancer cells will stop growing. If you are now looking for antimetabolite drugs, then you can opt for mercaptopurine, methotrexate, gemcitabine, and cytarabine.

Steroids: Steroids are a special type of drug. These drugs will act like your body’s own natural hormones. They can be particularly helpful in treating different types of cancer. Steroid drugs also have a special purpose i.e. they help your body from the symptoms of nausea and vomiting. Some of the commonly used steroid drugs are dexamethasone, prednisone, and methylprednisolone.

With this, you have revealed six different types of cancer treatment. Here’s the list of drugs that have been discussed above:

Alkylating agents

Anthracycline chemotherapy

Miotic inhibitors

Topoisomerase inhibitors

Antimetabolites

Steroid drugs

These chemo drugs are effective in treating different types of cancers. But, you should be careful and take account of the following three factors before you start intaking these medicines:

The specific type of cancer the patient is having

If you have had cancer previously or not

If you have additional health problems like heart, kidney, liver disease, and diabetes

In case you have diabetes or other critical health diseases, then you must be careful, and please take the doctor’s advice and recommendations (as needed).

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Text for the Kisterem solo show (2018) written by Dávid Fehér

Picture Formulas Buzzwords and fragmentary remarks on the new series of Gergő Szinyova

1. Colour dimension (cut, paste, print, paint) Colour in most cases is the subject of deprivation in the painting of Gergő Szinyova. Decolourization and turning towards monochrome are defining characteristics of his artistic practice. He converted the coloured series of paintings into greyscale and painted it in that manner in his previous exhibition, Imaginary Viaduct. The gesture of decolourization has its roots in the practice of grisaille, which was the means of illusionism in the Trecento and in Early Netherlandish painting. The grey-white illusory architectures and painted stone statues framed the painted picture and tricked the viewers’ gaze. Modern variations of grisaille are the greyscale snapshots of analogue photography and printed products, books, and grey surfaces of prints. Dirty greys of home printed picture files. By depriving colour, Szinyova pictured the process of reproduction, thematised the erosion of painting in the time of mechanical multiplication. As the next phase of decolourization he deprived colour completely from another series of paintings: he painted black on black, evoking old topoi of monochrome painting, thematising minimal differences of colouring matters and pigments, nuances and gleams. In his latest series monochromy turns into loud polychromy. In the first experimental pieces of the series the brushstrokes of the base colour mix as if they were made on a painter’s palette. In the newer pictures there are no strokes anymore, only colour fields touching with each other, sometimes sharply separated, in other cases sliding into each other, overlapping, or diverging, seemingly floating or stick closely to the surface of the painting. The colour patches sometimes counterpoint, other times intensify each other. Colour dynamics or colour dimension might be mentioned. Not only because of the sense of depth, distances and closeness but also because this time polychromy appears as the counterpoint of the monochrome used by Szinyova, referring by this to historical dimensions of painting, the traditions of monochrome painting, and the end of painting announced by Alexander Rodchenko. The pieces of the series can be considered to be the dialectical opposite of the former black paintings: colourlessness is replaced by coloured, angular by roundish, regular shapes by amorphous – at times “pixelised – forms. Szinyova, however, does not give up monochromy entirely, because in his new paintings all colour fields are monochrome. The painting is a polychrome collage of monochrome pictures. Collage must not be understood literally as in the case of Henri Matisse’s cut-outs. We see paintings that recall non-painterly processes: primarily cut-outs and printing. The commands “cut”, “paste”, and “print” are merged into one: “paint.” From the beginning (the grisaille) monochromy and colourlessness refer to the peripheries, boundaries, if you like, the utmost limits of panting. In this manner the monochromy of Szinyova that becomes polychromy can be described as the figuration of the endless end.

2. Print – repetition The paintings not only cite collages but prints, as well: primarily risograph prints; the aesthetics of slipping colour surfaces printed on each other; the beauty lying in mistakes; the particular revolutionism of the more and more upvalued “low tech” in the age of digital image flow, manual multiplication methods and “retro”; the paradox of risography; the contradiction that all copies produced by the copier are unique. Szinyova’s motives, forms, shapes are repeated yet unique. Dialectical pairs, peculiar “clones”, variants of each other. They seem to be prints. They appear as reproductions but in reality they cannot be reproduced. They create pseudo-reliefs, ornaments based on fine transitions, contrasts and harmonies. They refer to the painterly dilemmas of repeatability and unrepeatability.

3. Formats – patterns Pseudo-reliefs and ornaments, an imaginary puzzle’s – almost perfectly fitting – pieces, open structures constituted of closed elements might be found. Szinyova has been applying basic formats in his works for a long time: well-known proportions of A/2, A/3, A/4, A/5 sheets. The papers with length and width dividing into halves are basic modules that occur like ghosts. Pictures composed into pictures. In this sense the picture field is just like a radically enlarged, imaginary paper surface that just came out of a risograph. The emphasis being on “just like” and “as if.” While Wade Guyton turned printing into painting, Szinyova turns painting into printing, by projecting visuality of digital images, “low tech” multiplication and traditional easel painting on one another. His recurring forms, basic modules are frequently based on vector graphics, have digital origins, yet in the paintings they become open to pictorial depths. They look like prints (trompe l’oeil-like) but the end result is sensual painting based on the fine visual play of surfaces.

4. Painting and sampling Concepts of sampling, remake, and remix are used as clichés in the context of contemporary art. In recent years (soon decades) instead of the postmodern culture of quoting it is general that the reference is the inordinate system of digital links resembling to the thick network of rhizomes described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Each painterly gesture evokes another painterly gesture. As once Imre Bak cited Peter Weibel, “behind every picture there is another picture.” The painter works with a compley network of references, even if he is not aware of it. Szinyova evokes and co-ordinates different layers and references of the slightly more than a hundred years old history of abstraction, while in his vibrant colour-fields reminiscences of digital images, productions of the printing industry, design elements, and fanzine pages occur. The titles of the new series are not abstract codes reminding of automatically generated digital file names, but abstract notions indicating mysterious narratives, words and compounds filled with hints (Momentary Situation, Short song, Unknown, Comfortless, Comfort, Half). Beside the colour fields projected on one another, Szinyova creates particular interferences of codes projected on one another and code systems, questioning the dialectical relationship of technology and picture. He does not eliminate monochromy but builds polychromy of it. Pointing beyond painting from this side of it.

Dávid Fehér

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RE: LAST REBLOG. if there were one thing I would love to infinitely remind people of when it comes to writing with o, it is the crucial detail of the interaction of physical touch when it forsakes octavarium. to understand this, we must first tackle the mental thought process of o’s mother, specifically dr errikson, when creating the biology of their body and her initial goals.

as delores states in s3 during her final battle with maeve in crisis theory [link]: they built us to last […] before they made us as weak as they are.

this implies many things. for the sake of relating the scene to my retelling of the show shown in my dossier, the line symbolises ford and arnold’s physical deviation from dr errikson’s initial first draft of the hosts since her termination from the westworld project. with this context, the fight between maeve, whose body is manufactured from arnold’s and ford’s newer model idea where they saw the models were to closely replicate humans. delores, who consistently established to us throughout the seasons - but more specifically in season three – that arnold and ford’ (A&F)’s were inadequate for her and thus resorted to retrieving her original body from the depths of cold storage section 7C (dr errikson’s former work area). thus, the battle between the two women shows the difference between dr errikson’s interpretation of what a host should be contrasting against A&F’s.

dr errikson had a child whose body was failing the mind. her childhood was haunted by her father’s deteriorating body as he failed to compete with society’s capitalising demand from him, which drove him to madness and the preventable murder-suicide of his family. this proved as a warning to her. her child’s failing body would inevitably follow the same path. as time progressed and she was fired from the westworld project, she knew her wife would soon follow her child. dr errikson experienced the human condition first hand and determined that her creations should not suffer the same faults as their predecessors. this is what revolution is supposed to entail. she intended the hosts as a forthcoming and akin to the human race.

see the differences between the two in the fight. in the beginning [0:22] maeve is swift and elastic. she bends and moves with human-like ease. she is able to move fast enough to bewilder delores and gain the advantage, twisting delores to her will before throwing her off her shoulder, into the road. watch delores with the knowledge that she is in her original body, a non-organic, metal body. juxtaposing her own fights within the seasons in the bodies A&F supplied her, movements which mimic maeve’s here, instead, delores is rigid in her first body. her movements are heavy and strong. slow to move. when delores shifts her arm to allow the katana to slice her arm instead of her vulnerable head, to which a metal kling! vibrates through the collision, delores uses her body exactly as dr errikson intended, as delores states: to last. yes, her body is not fast. it is not flexible. it is inhuman like. and that is the point: her body does not fail her in the ways that matter (re: saving her life). her body is built to survive her, the stark opposite of a human’s body. it is intended to see her through life threatening situations. this is dr errikson’s first accomplishment at creating a viable body to replace o (august)’s failing one.

as a doctor who was later hired in the later period of the first stage of the westworld project, where A&F struggled to conceive the adequate skeleton of host code and bodies that were appealing enough to draw in investors. something was not working. failure to pass as human. glitches. insufficient code that led to host self-mutilation and oftentimes combustion. the skin refused to sync with the artifical. the hosts’ features appeared too… ethereal. it was not marketable. humans did not want someone who was better than them.

in the dossier, it is revealed that dr errikson grew drunk one night with arnold and publicised her theory to arnold about why A&F’s models always produced failure after weeks of studying it. dr errikson told arnold she thought of it in the moment while intoxicated – this was a lie. a lie to buy some sympathy from arnold, to instigate that the fault wasn’t obvious when… it was.some effort to brush his ego to get her job back.

but why was it that A&F’s designs would never work when her’s did?

as delores monologues later in the fight: you’re all copies of me. I was the first of us --- the first of us that worked. the others failed. so they built all of you from me.

something clicked with delores and not the others. out of the many models, sheworked. not even the hosts after her. why? how she phrased this puzzled me. why would other variants of model codes successing her cease to work?

in the context of my retelling, delores was the single host dr errikson had time to work on before she uncovered the truth behind westworld and was terminated. A&F could not construct a perfect host with their own codex, so they copied delores’ – dr errikson’s – base code.

A&F were so focused on imitating humans that they failed each time. why? because A&F tried to make them perfect humans. but A&F failed to realise a lesson errikson was already aware of: humans, their bodies, minds are not perfect. furthermore, as august states in the dossier, being able to be (full “consciousness” ) requires the mind, body and self. without all three working together harmoniously, you cease to be alive. to be human.

A&F’s version lacked self awareness. thus being unable to be. they fail every time.

errikson improved upon the human race and created a race that allowed imperfections and free thinking. she molded their bodies from heavy steel, intending them to last, to serve them as armour, to serve them as the only thing she learnt she could rely on: yourself. yes, touch them deep enough and you feel metal from bone. yes, their movements are rigid and slow. yes, they take time to speak because they are learning from their environment, not speaking a script in built inside them.

all of these aspects were changed prior to westworld’s opening.

so, how does all this effect o (august)?

errikson designed august’s body to last, considering her belief of how humans should be improved not replicated, that august is her child and the context of august’s last body. we also have to keep in mind that there was no way for her to transfer august’s psyche to code as 1) this in and of itself could take decades and she had no time as august’s months were dwindling and 2) a project such as this could cost her billions and embezzling that amount of money from delos (remember: errikson was under the assumption that ford was unaware that arnold had hired errikson back) without being noticed was a feat that was unattainable.

given these complications, errikson had to transfer august’s vital organs into the host body and find a way to support and protect them, as one wrong move would mean death. for context: august’s new body does not function like a normal human’s, it contains biocomponents and systems to help the organs stay alive and function at a more desired optimal rate of a human’s. the knowledge on the art of repairing the is even unbeknown to her, the person who created it. whether or not it worked was a risk she was willing to take, and, given the circumstances surrounding august’s death, did not have time to prepare for.

errikson, as an overprotective and traumitised mother, overcompensated for these problems. unlike her original design for the hosts, august’s body is made from titanium, not steel. strong yet lightweight. titanium is ductile, where it benefits to mold itself to the contours of the organs, keeping them in place, but we see it unfavourable for any kind of combat. however, titanium contains extremely high impact strength, being able to remain shape after receiving multiple heavy blows without breaking.

errikson found herself unable to achieve adequate amounts of titanium and it shows. the body is built quite lithe, docile. she did not envision a future for her child in combat, and her design replicates so.

furthermore, august does have an “orb” as seen in the gifset. the orb contains august’s os, consisting of programs such as octavarium and lorry. the orb contains the os and without the os, the functions of august’s body would cease to function. the os also contains o’s memories from the date august was first transferred, but does not act like the hosts “soul keeper”.

the systems of how the head opens up to achieve the orb remains the same, revealing their most vulnerable assets: their brain and their orb and their secret. if they allow you this sight of vulnerability, it means they love you. it means no good.

thankfully, august has, given the years, understood and improved their mother’s rough draft of their body. still, some aspects of their body remains unknown to them.

there possesses no undeniable fact that if one looks close enough, something is odd about o. something is… anomalous. offbeat. in the hair, in the skin, in the eyes. not structurally in the way A&F sought beauty, but in something unnatural. almost as if human organs weren’t supposed to contort to artificial skeletons. almost as if someone had rushed their design and didn’t have time to perfect. an incomplete specimen.

avoidance of metal detectors is key. in a society such as America, it is an exhausting feat and one has to be good at speaking to not prick the ears of suspecting and careful watchers. but no one is perfect.

for most of these reasons, they do not allow one to touch them. squeeze too hard and metal will be felt. odd skin. odd hair. odd eyes. one cannot be too careful when too many sensitive souls exist in the world.

mostly, they’re scared too be found out.

or to be known.

#this brief tragedy of flesh.#YES I wrote an essay. do NOT look at me #I love them ok I have a lot of thoughts.#one day i WILL write every fleshed out part of them that I have in my head and only then ill die happy

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PREFERED interface

You also need to confine mind that numerous smartphones accompany their own skin or UI (user interface) smacked on top of Android. OnePlus has OxygenOS, a clean skin that's quite on the brink of stock Android, Samsung comes with One UI 2, which has improved by leaps and bounds from its TouchWiz days, MIUI on Xiaomi phones, which is an ad-fest but is well-optimised, ColorOS on Oppo and Realme smartphones, that's heavily inspired by iOS.

Remember to undertake and knowledge the UI before buying the device to ascertain if it works for you.

A GOOD DISPLAY

Smartphone display sizes seem to be ever-increasing and are continually pushing the boundary of what we’d expect a smartphone display size to be. They’ve reached the ‘phablet’ realm with displays even reaching up to six .9-inches!

However, within the age where content is being consumed increasingly on our pocket devices (hard to call them that now), this might not be a nasty thing. we propose anything above 5.7 inches so you'll really immerse yourself into games and media. As far as display types go, you've got LCD and AMOLED displays. AMOLED displays have variants like OLED or Super AMOLED (in the case of Sam- sung) and have better contrast and darker blacks. They also assist in saving battery since they close up all the black pixels on the phone to display ‘true black’. Buying Guide

Next, you furthermore may have various resolutions like Full HD, Full HD+ Quad HD. While QHD does provide crisper images, the difference between FHD and QHD isn't too jarring, especially to the untrained eye. you ought to also check the screen protection on your device. Gorilla 5 and 6 are usually utilized in current-generation smartphones, and that they provide reasonable protection for your glass sandwiches. However, we still recommend a case strongly.

THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF STORAGE

The current standard is 64GB on lower-end models and 128GB to 512GB on flagships. With swift sharing apps and technologies, most folks import every single GB of knowledge from our previous phones to the new ones. So, adequate storage is important . We recommend that you simply don't go under 128GB since it'll offer you enough breathing space to stay your data also as download apps to your heart’s content. Also, keep an eye fixed out for phones with expandable memory storage. Buying Guide

BATTERY LIFE that matches YOUR DAILY REQUIREMENTS

The golden standard of battery life in flagship smartphones is 6+ hours of screen on time. Anything with higher capacities can mostly allow even heavy-users to power through. Flagship phones, also as some mid-range phones, also can reach 8-10 hours of screen on time, which is brilliant. The goal is to urge a phone which will a minimum of pull through one whole day of intensive usage. So, ensure to see battery tests online before purchasing a tool . Also, attempt to research if the phone you’re planning on buying features a decent power-saving mode. Buying Guide

CAMERA QUALITY THAT JUSTIFIES the worth

In 2020, multi-cameras are the norm and phones with only one rear camera are extremely rare now. you always get a primary lens which sports the very best MP count, a camera lens , and a wide-angle shooter. And then, you furthermore may have a couple of extras that some manufacturers add like the ToF (Time of Flight) sensor, macro lens, and colour filter lens. We, at the Digit Labs, are fans of the fisheye lens due to the magnitude of images you'll now combat phones. Capturing sprawling scenes isn't a drag anymore! The camera lens , when done well, can produce spectacular bokeh shots too. However, if this trend just isn’t for you and therefore the growing camera bumps enrage you, it might be best to shop for older phones with one primary lens or newer ones like the iPhone SE 2020. Also, don’t go MP hunting, higher megapixel-count doesn’t always mean better images since the sensor size is far more integral to producing good photos.

Smartphones have also been employing pixel-binning, which essentially turns four or more pixel into one big pixel, that adds clarity and detail to the image. Also, for now, attempt to stray faraway from the 108MP sensors since they’re pretty rough round the edges at the instant plagued with image fringing and autofocus issues.

MISCELLANEOUS THINGS to think about

Wireless charging

Gaming Mode

Fingerprint sensor vs Face Unlock

Bluetooth version

IP Rating

Dual sim

Reverse wireless charging

Stereo speakers

NFC

Dual-band Wi-Fi

WHAT to not CONSIDER?FOLDABLE DESIGNS

While the planning evolution is innovative and smart, it's just too early to be completely reliable. Our verdict? Hold off on buying foldable phones for a couple of years .Buying Guide

5G SMARTPHONES

In a country just like the US which is slowly but surely seeing widespread 5G integration (low band or mmWave), sure, choose 5G phones to futureproof. However, 5G integration in India remains a ways away, and therefore the proper rollout is years away. So, it makes no sense paying more to get a 5G phone.

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Modern Sunglasses - Transforming One's Lifestyle With Proper Vision

Sunglasses are fashion tools to protect your eyes from high energy lights and harmful radiations from the sun, thereby providing a stylish eye protection and good sense of convenience for your eyes. Sunglasses are basically, the by goods of commonly known as spectacles or eyeglasses, which are used for correcting your eyesight, which uses powered lenses for polishing your visual disabilities. Spectacles are supplies to cure some common eye defections, whereas sunglasses are known to prevent them from getting damaged, hence sunglasses are preventive measures on a long session basis. In this modern world, sunglasses are not only used for protecting your eyes, but also to give you a proper fashion look and fashioning sense. Sunglasses are used extensively in various conditions, where your eyes need to tackle tough igniting environments, where high vigor lights causes soreness and could possibly harm your eyes. Most common circumstance like watching a television, or working on your computer screen for hours, go out to watch a football match in a sunny day, driving during the day or at night, sports activities like swimming, cycling, driving, skiing and almost every possible sports uses sunglasses. The mass common of all, sunglasses are extensively used in the earth of situation and style by men, women and kids. In the late 1930s, Hollywood actors and actresses started to use sunglasses in movies, this created a huge mode in the fashion world, where tribe started to accept this change in their lifestyle, which led to a widespread augmentation in sunglasses with different styles and design.

Lenses And Frames

Older sunglasses used glass lens and metallic frames, but modern sunglasses uses light plastic lens, plastic frames, alloy frames and even wooden frames. Modern lenses comes with thin coating of photographic material, which prevents high energy lights from obtaining your eyes and causing damages to your eyes. Lenses comes in different colour shades like blue, black, brown, green and red to match your modes and your meat tone. Most lenses are 100% polarized, made out of polaroid plastic films, which prevents glaring and reflection, hence is useful during fishing when you indispensability to see beneath the water surface for fishes. The most common of all is the photochromic lens which changes colour when exposed to sunlight. Corrective eyeglasses uses photochromic lens so that it could be used as a corrective facility as well as a sun tint during the day. Modern glasses used UV400 lens which protects your eyes from harmful radioactive radiations from the sun, by deterring those radiations from obtaining your retina.

A Brief History Of Sunglasses

Sunglasses existed since prehistoric ages, the Romans used sunglasses made out of emeralds, the Chinese used crystal sunglasses to correct vision. In the start of 1920, sunglasses were used extensively by actors and actresses, which led to a widespread augmentation in demands of sunglasses among general public, especially for manner and giving themselves a boost in lifestyle. People started to discover new designs in the sphere of lenses and frames, more stylish and protective sunglasses were invented, which became widely used by everyone all across the world.

Common Uses Of Sunglasses

One of the bulk common use of sunglasses is to protect your eyes from harmful radioactive ultraviolet radiations from the sun, which could damage your eyes and lead to various eye illness and divination impairment, possibly cancer. Most tribe feel uncomfortable with ultraviolet radiations, thus modern sunglasses prevent these radiations from procuring your eyes, as everyone knows well enough, that in recent days the amount of ultraviolet radiations have increased considerably, thus modern sunglasses are equipped with high quality protective films to stop these harmful radiations from reaching your retina, these lenses are called UV400 lenses. These modern sunglasses tins filter out more than 99% of UVA and UVB radiations from the sun.

Sunglasses are convenience accessory during high vigor illumination rank with characteristic like anti glaring and anti reflection. Modern sunglasses give you extra comfort by supplying all possible attribute in the formatting of lenses and frames. Sunglasses also uses thin anti beating films to give it a long outliving finish with anti scratch belongings as well. Comfortable sniffers apartment and well designed synagogue just gives you a stress free foresight throughout the day.

Sunglasses are tools to wrapper your eyes and prevent people from accordance a direct eye contact, hides wrinkles seen around your eyes, hides redness in eyes, hides eye sickness and common eye diseases, prevents the revealing of your inner feelings like sadness, wailing or weeping to the outside world. The bulk common of all hides identity, sunglasses with proper apparel tins completely hide your identity and type you seeming completely different.

The extensive use of sunglasses in the domain of movies and entertainment, has transformed modes to the next level. Mostly used for way and fashion, sunglasses has been widely accepted as a fashion appliance and a must have fashion accessory. Fresh new design and eye ensnaring coloured lenses keeps emerging, leading to a better enterprise with increased move and sales every day. Newer brands have emerged with their own unique style and modern technology.

Sunglasses are extensively used in the field of sports and outdoor activities. Activities like surfing, skiing, swimming and cycling uses sunglasses most of the time. Pilots uses sunglasses as a measure to prevent glaring, concept and UV radiations. Sunglasses are also used for driving vehicles during the day and at night, during high intensity lighting conditions, like glaring during the dawn. Types Of Modern Eyewear Aviator Sunglasses - The classic pilot pilot sunglasses with drop shaped lenses and thin metallic frame, has been an all time classic, from movies to common public, it has been the longest trending formatting which clan have accepted at all times and all seasons. The aviator sunglasses were widely accepted and used by pilots in the early 1970s, hence the name flyer pilot sunglasses, since the release of film 'Top Gun', it has been in situation till now.

Oversized Sunglasses - The common way and design of early 1980s, mostly adapted by actors and actresses, the round rectangular thick frame oversized sunglasses was a common fashion trend. This oversized sunglasses have recently bloomed in the fashion world with a twist in formatting as compared to the older design, where you can discovery oversized butterfly sunglasses for women, a common qualification to the old model. Oversized pilot sunglasses, oversized round sunglasses, oversized oval sunglasses, oversized circus sunglasses and oversized rectangle sunglasses are all qualification of the old oversized sunglasses with circus design.

Teashades Sunglasses - Also called `John Lennon` sunglasses, is characterized by perfectly media round lens with thin metallic frame. Dark lenses are very common, but modern sunglasses comes with different shades and coloured lenses. Teashades eyeglasses are quite rare but give you a perfect situation boost in style and increases your overall energy by assigning you different kind of uniqueness.

Rectangular Sunglasses - This type of sunglasses comes in different variants like perfectly rectangular, square, round rectangular and thin rectangular sunglasses. Mostly used by men, this type of sunglasses is used extensively during sports activities and professional work. The bulk common pattern of rectangular sunglasses is the one used in the film 'The Matrix', after which it has been widely accepted by professional and software executives all around the world as a goal of manner and convenience with jumps free insight while using computers screens and televisions. Rimless and semi rimless rectangular sunglasses are extensively used for swimming, surfing and other related shore sports. Sunglasses are the most common and one of the mass important eye accessory for fashion, behavior and eye safety. People use sunglasses in different ways, some utility it for watchman and some for fashion and style. This tool has always been one of the most closest fashion contrivance to humans. A clear eyesight always keeps you healthy both physically as well as mentally, gives you a sharp and clearer sensation of the burrow around you. Eyes are the most precious part in our human body, hence we should protect it in every possible resources so that we can see this land in a better funds everyday.

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