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calwasfound · 3 years
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as someone who's been eyeing up the entire like,,, dream smp thing, do you have any tips where to get started? it seems,,, complicated but im So Intrigued
hi anon!!
i mainly get my updates from twitter/tumblr but i suggest watching the vods on tommy or wilbur’s twitch!! they’re some of the main stars (haha, like this is a show). they have videos about the smp up on their channels as well, if you want condensed updates!! :)
if anybody else wants to add on with tips, feel free!!
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redorich · 2 years
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rating dsmp characters on whether i would fight them
Ant - claws?? no thanks
Bad - he'd kick my ass absolutely but it would be fun and he would be sportsmanlike. i might be able to get him with the pocket sand trick
Charlie - if i tried to punch him my hand would just sink into his goop and he would smile at me like this is normal
Connor - he's the only normal one but he does wear a sonic onesie in public which makes me want to beat him up. maybe i'd give him a swirly or smth lol
Dream - he would fucking kill me. i would much rather ruin his reputation by starting a rumor that he doesnt wipe his ass or wash his hands after he shits
DreamXD - i like living, thanks (hard pass)
Drista - i take every chance i can get to fight fourteen year olds. that being said i also dont enjoy being encased in bedrock. like i would still do it but just for the record it is a bad idea
Eret - no, if i hurt eret physically their disappointment would hurt me emotionally and it's just not worth it
Foolish - i feel like i could get in a few good licks before he starts to fight back so if im quick about it and i run away before he realizes he just got clocked i could probably get away with it
Fundy - this man SCREAMS prey. he has the vibes of a freshman. you wouldnt even have to prompt me i would just see this man walking down the street minding his own business and just mow his ass down
George - he's a good fighter but if i caught him while he is sleeping (which to be fair is 90% of the time) the satisfaction of kicking him in the ribs would be immense
Ghostbur - i would sooner strike myself down than hurt him
Hannah - damn, what a hell of a way to die o7
Hbomb (normal) - i'd spar with him because he looks like the kind of person who would make a neat noise when he hits the ground
Hbomb (catmaid variant) - absolutely not. she's girlbossing
Jack - same as fundy but like a little to the left. i'd stomp his ass for daring to be bald at me but then i would feel bad for discriminating against bald people. then he would open his mouth and say something to me and i would remember that i attacked him not because he's bald but because he's an idiot ❤️
Karl - he lives off of monster energy and bad decisions but so do i. the difference is that i could fold him like a table
Mexican Dream - i fear him
Michael - FUCK YEAH I'LL DROP KICK A CHILD I DONT GIVE A SHIT
Niki - oh no 😳 niki dont punch me in the face 🥴🥺 ahaha you're so girlboss and sexy-- [is murdered to death]
Philza - i could not step to this man but that wont stop me from trying. i'll have a soundboard full of baby zombie noises to throw him off his rhythm
Ponk - let's spar!! and then we can like make a really cool two-person kata to impress people with and charge people money to watch us fight because they dont know its fake
Puffy - short queen with a killer right hook?? ahaha i could never 😖🥺😡 ........ unless?? 🤪🥵🤤🥴🥰
Punz - same as ponk tbh
Purpled - he's a child and therefore it is not only my duty but my god given right to assault him
Quackity - he would be surprisingly competent but i could still take him.
Ranboo - too much main character energy, not touching that. he'll teleport behind me with a katana or something
Sam - "i am doing this out of my own free will" yeah and? im doing this because my meat is huge and you literally cannot stop me bestie
Sapnap - he would beat me in a fair fight but if i took off my shirt and my bonkhonagahoogs were in full view i think i could win
Schlatt - this bitch schlatt walks everywhere and has heart problems because he downs so much protein powder, idc how swole he is his spine is mine
Skeppy - made of diamonds???? i would have to trick him into knocking himself out but then bad would come for me. depends on how funny it would be
Technoblade - i would much rather team up with him to beat up someone else. he would be amenable i think
Tommy - he's also a main character like ranboo but he's just so punchable. i have to
Tubbo - kids got fucking nukes man, i may love beating up children and especially teenagers but i also enjoy not fucking dying
Wilbur (L'Manberg) - goody two shoes hero lookin headass. punch him
Wilbur (Pogtopia) - JD kinnie theater kid lookin headass. punch him
Wilbur (revived) - oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my g (his ass is grass and im finna mow the lawn)
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cat-sapphics · 3 years
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mcyt/toh crossover AU
[last post/rb] but wow i love crossovers very much so i just realized. bard!wilbur on the boiling isles. HE WOULD. WHAT OTHER COVEN WOULD HE CHOOSE. ESPECIALLY AFTER THE LATEST EPISODE LIKE LOOK AT THE BARD MAGIC AND THE BATTS REBELLION. IT’S SOOOOOO HIM /POS
also oracle!ranboo although potions & healing could fit him as well if he wants to study all 3 - ranboo’s extremely dedicated to learning so him going multi-track wouldn’t surprise me At All, not to mention how he was canonically messing with potions and shit in his dsmp lore too
although he started off studying potions at first like luz (i've noticed that the fandom's kinda adopted that one as the "default" for some reason?) but then switched because he didn't like it and it just didn't fit, tommy is 100% in the construction coven bc 1) hard work & earth elements 2) that little guy who got the power glyph in 01x05 and was like WOOO YEA 3) the Big Man Hotel 4) he’d probably be fascinated by bria, matt, and the other glandus kids taking down the slitherbeast in 02x05 & 5) he’s high full of energy and his dsmp character is full of anger, that would be SUCH a great way to take it out. also, i think he would enjoy the studying in the bard coven as a secondary track just for the hell of it (i know- i gotta keep up the "I HATE LEARNING, SCHOOL IS BULLSHIT" bit but i think i'll do that by having him act like he hates it- poorly, might i add, and convinces no one that he's unhappy), not only because one of his older brothers has a knack for it as his primary/only focus, but also because the actual cc!tommy is REALLY good at singing and i swear he used to play an instrument or two?? could be wrong... anyways yeah tommy using his voice to manipulate magic around him would be fucking sick. I’m Right. You Know I Am.
techno is in the beastkeeping coven bc Yes. like idk how to put it into words but the strong piglin hybrid who follows his own morals taming, training, taking care of, and finding help and use in wild animal breeds/hybrids.......... he was Made for that in this AU, surely?!
and of course if we have to mention techno, we have to mention phil! well, phil’s quite a bit older than all the rest so i’d assign him the role of a beastkeeping teacher. initially i wanted him to be in the same class as techno but the age difference just doesn’t fit and i want the immortal winged God of Death with a reputation™ to have a way to show off all of his experience and knowledge. oh- and of course techno is his favorite student. if a teacher and his student can form a close platonic and healthy bond, this is exactly that. and phil of course has his secret flaws, so even though techno excels anyway, he tends to get extra credit that he doesn’t deserve ;) do not make that weird ok.
OOOOOOOO TUBBO WOULD BE IN THE PLANTS COVEN. HE WOULD MAKE THOSE MFS SQUEEZE AND STRANGLE OPPONENTS IN PLACE WITH THEIR VINES’ HEAVY STRENGTH. LAUNCH HIS NUKES WITH EXTRA VENOM. HE’D BE SO GOOD AT MAKING USE OUT OF THEM (think of willow when her eyes glow in 01x03 and the s2 intro/theme). AND DO NOT TELL ME HE WOULDN’T STUDY POTIONS AS WELL. THERE ARE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES (good and bad lol) WITH POTIONS AND HE’D LOVE TO EXPERIMENT WITH THEM. (ALSO THAT’D BE THE CLASS HE SHARES WITH RANBOO SO. <333) i’m also gonna have him join the abominations coven, mostly because i don’t have anyone there yet but also because they would be really helpful in terms of helping him build with all the projects and stuff he distracts himself with. and, as we saw canonically in the blight manor, they make great servants for people who live in mansions - which tubbo and ranboo both do, of course. i replaced my initial beastkeeping idea with abominations because tubbo just doesn’t really have the nature to be up for it and excel after all, i’ve decided, and i end up adding enough people to the former track later on anyway
i might add more later (update: i very much did lmfao) but i just wanted to quickly jot down my main 6 fave ccs :]
also i’d like to think that they all attend glandus instead of hexside. it just feels right, and especially if dream and some others went there too, y’know, we learned in 02x05 that the stronger, higher-class, better-performing students don’t treat the opposites too well and there’s a lot of power dynamics over there. that’d set up dream being a nasty bully to tommy really well, especially since tommy probably wouldn’t think he’s too great at school and he wouldn’t care much about it anyway, and something similar with dream and ranboo but for different reasons. and without either of them knowing that they have this abuse from the same person in common, the bench trio would have the same dynamics for the same reasons - tommy and tubbo are best friends (and tubbo is also bullied for things like being short/weak, incapable, and a follower who has strong magical potential but can’t control it well yet), and tubbo and ranboo start dating (platonically?? or not?? idk??), and tommy feels that he’s alone in all this again. it’d also set up a competitive rivalry between dream and techno for top most favored student while also somehow creating an alliance with wilbur at the same time to “take down the system.”
i’ll keep developing this as i go, definitely...
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n-ugg · 3 years
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I didn't expect to get tagged but here we are. As you all will be able to tell in a bit, I am a massive Quackity fan
Thank you for tagging me @skeetlehands!
who is your favourite member on the smp?
Look, I love them all but these have a special place in my heart.
Quackity, Slimecicle (I am fully aware he just joined but I still love him), Schlatt, Tubbo, Eret, AweSamdude, and Ponk.
They're just great in and out of character and just have comforting vibes.
when did you first start watching the smp and what made you get into it?
I gotten in during the Pogtopia era since it took me a while to get access to the streams.
I mainly gotten in with the Sad-ist War animatics along with me trying to catch up on Quackity's VODS. Just someone that I was already familiar with being an easier shift into story and learning others through him
what is your favourite part about watching the smp?
Just watching everyone interact with other and just seeing the plot progress in real time. Its literally just dnd but with extra steps but I enjoy it so much
The improv that they all do is amazing and how everyone have different approaches to their characters makes my writer's side so happy with dissecting everything.
What piece of cursed lore is your favourite
That Wilbur canonically fucked a fish and Philza canonically fucked a Samasung fridge and just seeing the fanbase try to change into something that will at least make a bit more sense.
Im included in this, I basically joined the side that has Sally being a mermaid shapeshifting pirate. Mainly because of pirate Fundy
Who is your favorite duo on the smp
Slimecicle and Ranboo: They're the same person but in different fonts, you can convince me otherwise
Schlatt and Quackity: They managed to be super funny together with all of the jokes and balanced with making a very realistic abusive relationship work. It was always fun seeing them flirt with each other for a joke then get hit with whiplash when canon comes in to remind me that this isnt healthy
Tubbo and Tommy: They're two dumbasses who share the same braincell but then they constantly lose it and Tubbo mainly has custody of it
Wilbur and Schlatt: I just enjoy seeing Schlatt messing with Wilbur and occasionally flirts with him to get Wilbur more pissed off
Who are your comfort streamers
Quackity and Slimecicle are comfort streamers
Eret, Fundy, and AweSamdude are my comfort people (meaning I dont watch them as much but I find comfort in their presence. And the other two are also under this category)
Who is your favorite character
Quackity due to how complex his character is and yet how it looks so simple
Schlatt because is just a villian who knows how to play the game without getting caught
Tubbo, watching him trying to be hopeful with everything destroy around him and he just slowly become used to everything going wrong
AweSamdude because he is just trying his best to be a father figure others and I just got family issues
Who do you think the best actor(s) on the smp
Imma skip over the ones that we all already said and get into the ones that dont get enough praise
Quackity: Just how he managed to make his character seem so basic but in reality its really complex. And just seeing the shift from him being a chaotic force of nature to being a serious character that is trying his best to reach something that has been hanging over his head is just *chefs kiss* and he always delivers amazing lines on the spot.
BadBoyHalo: He is doing great right now, even though he is a bit rusty with starting he still manages to get into character and stay in character the entire time. When slowly easing in, you can tell its a bit forced but once he finds his footing, he knows how to deliver his lines.
AweSamdude: His entire bit where he was getting rescued from the egg fucking hurt. How he sounded weak from the entire thing and tired to where he just wanted to rest was so well. And I know he can act more energetic when he was accidentally dragged into playing a cop during Quackity's and Bad's date
Fundy: You guys need to give him more praise for his acting because he is fucking amazing at it. The little touches to how he voice when speaks is so good along with his body language in game. He knows what he's fucking doing and I love him for that. And when he snapped, it made complete sense if you payed attention to his character
I didnt add Ranboo because he's automatically at the top section due to him being a dnd player. Same goes to Slimecicle even though he hasnt acted yet. I dont make the rules. You play dnd, you know how to act
What are your favorite quotes
I dont have favorite quotes, just dialog heavy scenes.
Before Doomsday, Quackity going to take his horse far away from L'Manberg, it being the one thing he cares about. It was just so good
The entire Schlatt and Quackity argument in front of the white house
The meeting between Schlatt and Quackity with Schlatt yelling out to him in a taunting way to where Tommy and Quackity are trying to figure out what happened to the tnt. I constantly rewatch it to feel the adrinaline pumping to feel something
Wilbur's slow descend into insanity and talking to Tommy. Just showing his paranoia and fears consuming him, him projecting his fears into Tommy as an attempt of manipulation, and his hero complex shift into villian one
Schlatt's winning speech of him projecting it as something that was bound to happen no matter what. The amount of charisma and confidence that was in his voice as I was watching Tommy hiding underground in fear was just a perfect scene
Tommy's argument with Dream when everyone is protecting Tommy. Its the small details of Tommy taunting Dream to kill him, knowing he wont no matter what. Him telling everyone to protect Tubbo and everyone listening without hesitation.
The debate that Quackity and Dream had for like 11 or 14 minutes. All of that was completely unprompted unscripted, it was just so satisfying seeing someone stand up against Dream for the first time and actually beating him. Sure it was in a verble conflict but it still counts as a defeat
Be honest, who do you simp for? (Ayo if anyone says Tommy or Tubbo I will🗡)
Schlatt, Quackity, and Slimecicle
Its pretty obvious, I dont really try to hide it
Whats your favorite stream
Uhhhh I dont exactly have one so none I guess
Whats your least favorite streams
Im sorry, but all of the Jackbox stream. You need a specific group of people to play together in order to actually make it funny and keeping the energy throughout the entire thing.
After a bit later, everyone has a tendency of pandering to the audience and repeat jokes. They managed to beat jokes to the ground faster than Tiktok AND Twitter.
Dont get me started with DreamTeam being in there. They're funny in thier own rights but the shipping jokes get so unfunny so quick and they dont know how bounce off of others well. The only exception to this is when Quackity, Velvet, and Ant were playing with Sapnap and Dream. And thats because they decided to mess with the straight white guys into accidently saying offensive shit and seeing those two suffer with trying tiptoe around was so amusing
Whats something about the smp fandom thay makes you sad
This doesnt get me sad, just frustrated and its mostly towards dsmptok and dsmptwt but sometimes this fandom doesnt fucking know how to analyze characters. Like when everyone jumped on Tubbo on being the bad guy when he was a kid trying to use old tatics that knows that worked before and stand up for himself
How when one person decides to do something that they believe is right, everyone just throws the term villian arc around
When one person does one good thing the suddenly everyone accepts into them being good and not ever looking into it.
For fucks sakes, I saw people keep saying that Quackity was turning into Dream or Wilbur and I just sat there being confused on how they conntected those dots that were in different books.
Its so frustrating to read through. But here on dsmpblr, you guys actually understand character analysis, are able to critique them and able to love whoever you enjoy.
Another thing is how this fanbase really puts everyone on a pedestal or objectify them. Just completely forgetting that they're human and treat the streamer as a character. Like, yeah they're playing up a persona whenever they're making content but theres a difference and you shouldn't hold them up like that.
You cant use the argument of "They're young, they dont know any better", when I first entered my first fandom (I was like 11/12), I fully understood that theres a boundary between me and the creator. What they are on screen is a persona but they're still human and I should treat them as such. Its just something that bugs me and its unnerving to see whenever people start getting wierd about it
Final bit is just how the twitch chat acts. They all force the streamer to follow the 'main' plot of it being Tommy or Techno or whoever the fandom chooses to have a favorite, completely ignoring the fact that they are their own character. No one wants to meta game because where is the fun in that but the fucking chat gets so annoying when the streamer goes against fanfavorite of the week. It drains the fun of it being multiple pov's and different characters.
When Slimecicle was barely starting stream I saw so many people spam "Go with Ranboo" and not let him even get into lore first. I hated that I knew it was coming but it was still so fucking frustrating seeing them try to boss him around. Please just let people live outside of the 'main' plot, not everything revolves around your favorites. Now shut the fuck up and let them play
What about the smp fandom that makes you happy?
The people that create art, animatics, theories, playlist, or write oneshots
All of you creators are great and deserve so much more respect then what the fandom gives you because jesus fucking christ they're all so fucking rude. You guys are the ones that are carrying this fandom on your backs and I fucking respect yall for that
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Time for da spead: @nixavia @dambette404 and @mocha-is-lost yall dont need to join.....unless😳😳😳
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Oct 5 Stream Timestamps
Timestamps from Technoblade’s “preparing for war (dream SMP)”
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01:36  Tommy told him not to stream / would tell us to subscribe but we’re all notification gang 03:35  intro / Tommy woke him up to help with a fight / looking for a thumbnail / jester_u never lets me down 06:21  back to the Tommy story/ if he’d had more stuff he would have 1v5’d / hunt for mending villager / failing to craft a lectern 10:23  mining off camera / horse breeding off camera 12:57  fancy horse is named Andrew / fast but can’t jump / secret horse facility / in between horse numbers are dead 19:43  lots of villages / “equestrian expert” / breeding explanation / “got to kill like 9/10 of the babies because they’re worthless average babies” 22:00  calling Awesamdude a noob / percentile system doesn’t work like that 25:05  almost roasts us for watching him but decides not to complete that sentence 26:18  trying to do interesting streams but everyone is nice only when he's live 28:28  "oh no my water spilled...also I  have a second glass of water that i'll drink from" / floating snow trap 29:28  "offering" villagers jobs to get a mending villager 35:13  "Whichever one of you gets the mending book gets to live" 37:29  reading server rules / not breeding bc that wouldn't be pg / "these villagers don't deserve to pass on their jobless genes" 41:05  gets a mending villager / villager tries to die 45:08  trading with fletchers / "just cause I hit them in the face with an axe a whole 5 minutes ago" 46:59  "You've got to cut down the trees before the burn down in a giant fire" / criticizing the blaze rod achievement 48:24  hard to get special arrows without villager breeding / gonna destroy everyone once fully geared 55:28  how to become a human gps? 59:35  "I haven't killed a single baby on this stream" / "imagine putting off college to be Technoblade" 1:12:30  texts to dad during $100k duel 1:16:52 John Mulaney / "I read words I don't hear them, because people don't speak to me. I'm not sad you're sad" / blow up the sun / deleted for bad grammar / "Lesbian Rights" / "actually funny" 1:22:03  making fun of a scam text 1:23:01  "say ommf in a high voice" / "it's been over two years from my last compliment" (dono) 1:27:15  naming pickaxe / sword / trident / potions / water elevator 1:33:37  lying to Eret about having mending books / kelp / hbomb adver.tising his challenge 1:36:23  "opportunity to steal something from Sapnap" / totally didn't scam Tommy out of a god apple 1:38:51  liked the Sadist dual animation / lesbian's are still the only ones with rights / knows about turtle potions 1:42:59  stole the name Technoblade 1:45:26  too much of a hoarder to use god apples or regular golden apple 1:46:19  doing hbomb's slimeblock challenge / chat lying about Dream being under Techno's base / pufferfish 1:56:56  FIRST TRY BABY / call with Hbomb 2:06:48  chat tries to prank Techno and he immediately finds diamonds / "Everything's coming up Technoblade" 2:10:09  had a cough for a year / not covid / going to the nether 2:23:13  needs new glasses 2:25:24  has been eating 50% cheeseburgers lately / guy who's been up 20 hours / no bannerlord / fortresses are the bane of speedrunners now 2:30:30  likes on brand fanart slightly more (for thumbnails mostly) 2:39:50  Eret gives coords for a nether fortress / taco bell challenge ending / glad he quit / bargaining with Awesamdude 2:44:29  being risky for the suspense but completely incapable of dying 2:52:26  "cause I'm built different" / "you have been noticed" / heading to the Eret fortress 3:00:00  Techno is very confused by the bastion / "Pig King among the Pigmen" (Eret) 3:28:00  Tommy in chat / Techno being bitter about Tommy telling him not to stream / Techno leaving the nether to portal travel to the fortress / Philza can't call he's sleeping 3:32:00  cows jumping into water / teleporting cow 3:39:01  pink sheep / "Now that I have seen a statistically improbable sheep i'm going to find stacks of netherwart” 3:44:35  "That dolphin is vibing...I aspire to that level of vibe" 3:50:35  directions from Eret / "Just cause the chat has trust issues" 3:54:30  (loud) "NOT EVEN CLOSE BABY TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES" / "Yeah I am very lucky I was born Technoblade" 3:59:48  getting 6 wither skulls 4:04:40  this was scarier than most tournaments 4:08:42  "This is main character energy" / would kill the turtles if they dropped anything / "I would never kill a defenseless animal, unless it had bad stats 4:10:26  "No amount of money is worth the puns" / typo in last stream title 4:14:32  "We're going to make good use of these wither skeleton skulls" / foreshadowing / "I'm not killing pigs that's not kosher" 4:16:37  not gonna ask people to make new accounts to subscribe 4:23:45  It'd be homophobic to only spawn a wither in the rainbow castle 4:26:11  "We're gonna use this wither at an opportune moment" / "We're gonna ruin the server for a day with withers...the day of reckoning" 4:27:13  "Only you can prevent forest fires" / learn how to put out fires with your fist in California 4:35:20  "Longest grocery trip since my dad" (dono) / "tsundere horse" 4:42:00  chat is very attached to the horse / chat is spoiled / Techno complimenting his own joke 4:47:00  gonna lose his voice / 13 hour stream / vc with Karl and Eret / taco bell gift card / deep voice gang 4:49:49  married people are responsible for each others' crimes 4:55:40  Karl instigating Techno Dream rivalry / Dream being mad at Techno 
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mfmagazine · 5 years
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Gina La Piana
Article by Lauren Weigle
Photo by Steve Kay Photography 
Gina La Piana is definitely a fierce force of nature.  Armed with a gorgeous singing voice, a sultry image, and an amazing acting ability, this woman knows how to work the entertainment circuit.  Making appearances on popular shows like Bones, Everybody Hates Chris, The Mentalist, and many others; her main passion is her craft as an actress.  Although she loves to sing and has success with it, acting is where her heart truly lies… This is why we’ve taken the time to sit down with her and delve a little deeper into what Gina is truly all about… who she is, where she wants to go with her career, and what she really wants in life.
So, acting and singing.  I want to hear about both.  How about we start with the singing?  Can you tell me a little bit about yourself as an artist?
I consider myself an edgy voice for women, as well as a storyteller.  My tendency is to write my music as a journal.  I’m most inspired when I’m in relationships, good or bad.  I’ve written most of my successful pieces from painful experiences.  There was one relationship that is most predominant, which I call the ‘Gray Period’.  That’s when I wrote my most popular material.  A lot of women can relate to and connect with my "agony' so to speak. (She laughs.) But, that's kind of a universal theme. I get thank you notes from people around the world saying they connected to the themes and messages in the music.  It makes me realize just how much “art imitates life” and how we truly want the same things. To be understood, loved, and cherished.  I’ve only done original work.  I’ve never been a cover song artist.  I don’t know how to be.  So, a show like American Idol could have never been a platform for me because it’s important to sing what’s in my heart and what sprung from my truth - the good, bad, and the ugly.
Okay, so you thrive on being original.  What would you say is your signature aesthetic when it comes to your own music?
I am a divine dichotomy of sorts, in that what I do in the US market tends to be more edgy, pop rock, geared towards films and television, while what I do overseas as "Gina Martina" is darker, sexy electronic dance music.  I’ve been called the Jenna Jameson of electronica! (She happily exclaims.) They are all roles for me really, getting to play different characters, and aspects of my personality set to beats.
Well, you’ve been a part of several movie soundtracks.  Would you like to talk about some of your contributions in that area?
I love the collaboration involved when working on a soundtrack.  I love working in a room full of people where we’re all working towards the same visual-auditory goals.  I am a very visual person, so it’s exciting to see a piece of film in front of me, visualizing the story and literally seeing and feeling the music that is poured into the film.  It’s moving art.  It always comes back to storytelling for me.  It’s by far some of my favorite work and I look forward to doing a lot more in the future! I am such a huge fan of guys like Danny Elfman, and Hans Zimmer. What a gift these guys have! To someday be able to work in the same room with them would be a life altering experience for me.
Oh, I’m sure!  With just singing or acting as well?  Do you prefer acting to singing or are the two pretty equal?
To be completely honest with myself, I’d love to do more acting.  Music pays the bills, but my dream is to do series television.  In an ideal world, I would meld both of these facets. And maybe run the whole shebang, Sandra Bullock style.
Aside from your life as a performer, what else do you enjoy?
Eating good food, reading a great book, making love, fun with friends, investing in stock, supporting in the Bella Sera Organization, and travel, travel, travel!!! I am also what you call a spa whore…I love to spa!
Do you have much spare time to let loose and indulge in these things… like your Spa fetish?
I have quite a bit of time to myself; it’s how I set my life up. I created and built my own music company so I can let other people do the heavy lifting and I can take the credit, which allows me the space and time to enjoy my life much more.
Let’s talk about your character on Days of Our Lives.  How did you first land your role on the soap series?
I went in like any other normal casting.  I was hired originally by the lovely Fran Bascom, working at separate times in two smaller characters, (a flight attendant named Daphne and a Nurse called Rosy), whom they found memorable. They eventually brought me in as a more substantial recurring character. Yes, I played three characters in total while on Days of Our Lives.
Wow.  So multiple personalities. (I joke.)  What else?
I have both good and bad things to say about working on a soap opera.  The good: it’s akin to boot camp for actors.  You have to learn so much dialogue so quickly. Every day you have pages and pages of text to memorize and you must be spot on!  They will not accept anything less.  It is like doing theatre on television if that makes sense.  You can make far bigger choices than you could normally in either regular TV or film outside of comedy.  The bad:  I have never worked a job where women were more downright catty and mean.
Wow, that’s horrible.  I guess even soap operas have those catty co-workers.
Yeah, I literally was written off my show because a few of the girls I was working with made me miserable.  I couldn’t continue to subject myself to that much negative energy. No amount of money on Earth is worth the stress to me, and I sincerely mean that.
Well, soap operas have been such classic constants throughout television history.  What are your thoughts on the recent cancellations of the long-running soaps All My Children and One Life to Live?
In my opinion, I think it’s time to move on, because we are living in a different time in history than the era they debuted in.  I mean no disrespect, but these shows have been around since way before I was a gleam in my Father's eye, and we have since progressed in our outlook of entertainment. Viewers are much more sophisticated and looking for more cohesive story lines.
I got ya.  Okay, I’m going to take my cue from you and move on as well. (I laugh.)  Since your days as Gabby Ortiz and even before then, you’ve made appearances on so many popular television shows.  Any memorable ones that stick out in your mind?
Hands down, my favorite experience was on Studio 60.  I got to combine my 3 strengths.  I scored the episode, sang 2 of my original songs on stage, and acted opposite Matthew Perry, and all the while working for the brilliant and gifted Aaron Sorkin. Not to mention, I was directed by the ingenious Tommy Schlamme.  That job just couldn’t have gotten any better!
Okay, tell me about your most recent project Audrey.  What’s the story?
Audrey is a very unique and very funny female-driven comedy.  Taking place in real-time, the story takes us through a little over an hour and a half of a young woman's day as she waits and waits and waits in a restaurant for Gene, her date, to arrive for their critical third date.  As the clock ticks away and Gene is nowhere to be found, 34-year-old Audrey is swept up into a journey through her life as her insecurities and inner demons comically wreak havoc on her. Forced to face her deepest fears by circumstance — both real and unreal —Audrey finds the strength and courage she never imagined she had.
I understand you produced the film?  What made you cross over from actress to producer?
I realized things were changing in the film industry.  More and more celebrities are taking on Television roles, which leaves less work for newer or up and coming actors. I felt I needed to create more vehicles for myself if I want to work in this business.  I like to be in control of my career and not just sit around waiting for the next audition to come.  I wanted to create more vehicles and opportunities to show my strengths.  Hence, I'm playing the quirky impassioned best friend to "Audrey".
What first drew you to the project?
A friend whom I deeply respect and admired brought the project to me.  He was very excited about it, so I came on board.
Well, that’s simple enough.  Any other projects coming up that we should know about?
I’m producing and starring in a film that I wrote called Brit and Brazil.  It’s an independent drama-comedy feature that will give me the opportunity to play a grittier character who turns things around in her life.  I’m most inspired by these types of stories, the underdog, who eventually triumphs and succeeds.  I’m also producing two artists signed to Warner Bros., ages 13 and 15.  The albums couldn’t be more different - One is a rock-electronic record and the other is in the urban-hip hop genre. I like to keep it crazy, the nuttier the better in my opinion. Colorful is key!
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incoherency is comforting because of the narrative weve been fed our whole entire lives that in order to be palatable media must in some way be complete and have beveled, well-defined edges rather than being a mess of finger paints, bright colors, strange dialogues and verbiage, build trees of moods.
thoughts on: -futuristic anime, 90s anime and the unique sense of mood in toonami shows. they are a very good series of shows for people who are coming of age and who must slowly be forced to reckon with the industrialization and mercenary nature of adult life, as it is increasingly held captive by capitalism. there is also something essentially spiritual about it, especially shows like precure and dbz, where an interior or exterior-made-interior force is responsible for the protagonists' success in the face of an oppressive world-system. under capitalism, it frequently is the case that the entire world or entirety-of-world is against us. heroes must overcome overwhelming odds to leave their mark on a gauntlet of greats. -cowboy bebop, final fantasy 7, metroid as meditations on loss, urbanization, dating back to blade runner. this is a type of meditation that is present in much of cyberpunk, but its also not exclusively cyberpunk, and can extend in nature to non-cyberpunk works.
thinking about necrobarista and how its attempting to "resuscitate" anime, while this approach doesnt really examine what contemporary anime like jojos, precure, and slightly more dated anime like hidaske and nichijou do well. if we get all this tunnel vision for gurren lagann and flcl we can never look forward. i think a lot of the visual work that needs to be done is probably in movies. i think maybe there could be work done to marry cinema proper with its animated counterpart. steven universe seems like it gets it, and there are some anime that really seemed like they got it. i dont think were beyond salvation.
-listening to the whos "tommy" and thinking about how trauma and the humanity of that trauma is experienced and lived-through by the main character in socratic fashion. these stories are discussed by people whose actual, authentic experience of trauma irl is doubtful at best. they are great successes on stage who dont struggle in the sense that an actual victim would struggle. calls to mind how a lot of freuds patients would fabricate csa in order to fulfill the expectations of the therapist. but in other cases, actual patients with csa would repress their experiences or not feel comfortable discussing. so thats how i feel about gurus like meher baba or i guess alan watts. less trustworthy and more like scam artists. i do believe in what they teach, however. i think that a guru can teach the truth even if that guru is a liar. maybe its the truth, but the guru doesnt know it to be true, or else, the way the guru teaches it is untrue.
-for a while i imagined my own autism to be the result of childhood trauma that was repressed, but later emerged that those memories were fabricated, to my knowledge, and was left wondering.
-learning to regard the world with a sense of wonder from media like cowboy bebop and ff7. these worlds are jaded and decaying realities but there is a sense of awe at the vast, uncompromising reality. truly vast, sprawling and yawning cities and vast starry skies up above. beholding these things and beholding the starry skies and huge cities of our own planet surely stirs something in me.
-fantasy anime tends to go the joke route like slayers or else the route of "we are all kids, bro, stuck in an mmo" and i think this is mostly due to the admittedly antiquated setting of high fantasy in european trochets and history which to japanese people probably feel like white person set dressing and as they should, i mean. there are more high fantasy themes in something like inuyasha and japans history can be feudal, edo, the meiji restoration, primordial like princess mononoke, etc, so theres more wiggle room for historical works there. slayers et al is usually reduced to "characters moving around the forest" which is almost like this grand slice of the collective anime consciousness as it stands overlapping with, say, pokemon, to the extent where its one of the cliche anime things everyone thinks about, alongside high school, robots, nurses, etc.
-another thing to which we could probably ascribe the success of something like slayers to is wizardry and by proxy dragon quest. small graph paper monster garden games. the appeal is entirely mathematical so there are only a few directions that anime directors tend to run with it (goofy gag comedy if youre making a show or cut and dried authentic dungeon crawlers with moe characters instead of the usual dbz ones). going off what you definitely learn in japanese history class if youre a japanese student, for starters, there are thousands of years of chinese history, so you have romance of 3 kingdoms type stuff. or you have high school romances accounting for the various fire emblems where the appeal becomes game of thronesy "which of my characters in dragon quest land can i make kiss each other and myself", very good ground to cover as we start asking the important questions. theres samurai stuff as we already know, drawing on years of samurai media, kurosawas films and zen spirituality, art of the blade type stuff, jeet kune do in some instances and reaching so far afield as to probably raise some interesting and important questions about pan-asiatic cultural identity which this author (white) is ill-advised to answer. but reeling it back in, the question mostly being of history, and how a lot of fantasy media draws more from History proper as a codified cultural body than histories being individuated familial experiences. its true that when a work does something unique with history (earthbounds hippy dippy approach to the 1960s, undertales handling of furry culture, yume nikkis south american murals) its tended to be seen as that works "thing" as if because hulk hogan was an all american wrestler that precluded john cena from being same, or at least, embodying a similar if slightly modified niche. nobody can make a hippy dippy rpg now or something because itd just be called an earthbound ripoff rather than a loving homage. and i think thats wrong headed and how genres become stillborn rather than invented and developed upon. we have this vast morass of stuff from the 20th century and we could be developing various 60s, 70s, 80s fantasies. hindsight is 20/20 i guess. who knows, we could see bluff city become something in 50 years time.
i feel this is because of extreme stringent expectations of intellectual property laws and their dissemination into everyday discourse online. i dont really like or agree with monolithic cultural expectations like intellectual property or *shudder* advertising, but only to the extent where i can acknowledge that whether or not i agree with them is irrelevant to their all-consuming scope and the need for marxists to actively combat them. its one thing to say "x is bad" and another to clamor for urgency of fighting x, which is, if you believe what we read every day about global warming, too late, so its not important. nevertheless there are a multiplicity of settings that could be developed into genres and identities and ideologues that rarely are if only because it would be seen as "oh yeah like that other thing". people are fickle and develop dwarflike strange moods when it comes to defining what constitutes original versus hackneyed and derivative. i think its mostly dictated by star signs and the weather.
so lately if you follow me on twitter youve probably noticed im doing sort of a tweet concrete kind of thing where i post plaintext quotes from various media taken out of context. i decided to do this for a while, maybe a few weeks, because aesthetic blogs and the aesthetic style of blogging allow me to pool and channel my energies towards larger and more ambitious styles of writing. i usually get loaded on caffeine during this process and frequently watch large amounts of anime and meditate some. its definitely a process and its geared toward something hazily, vaguely spiritual but with pretentions toward being authentically publishable as theory. the idea also being i would like to make some money to support my livelihood, and i like to write, and am somewhat skilled at it, or at least experienced in kind of a ramshackle homespun sort of way. so if my social media presence is pretty boring and kind of weirdly nostalgic or else contrariwise if you feel it has improved lately thats the reason why that happened.
ive been getting very hazy and foggy mentally lately. i feel like it has to do with caffeination and lack of sleep. its important to get everything flowing properly, and sometimes depression and anxiety make that difficult to do. theres anxiety over unemployment, something im trying to remedy, and theres anxiety over theory and where to proceed next via theory. for years i was a devout buddhist in some ways, and meditated a lot, almost every day. i prayed to the bodhisattvas and copped to buddhist metaphysics, something which, based around personal life experience, i had every reason to believe was true. lately and in my own, strange way, ive begun to question this ideology and interpret it as part of a patchwork of ideologies, each one which attempts to describe a totality, a totality which is rarely if ever described properly by any ideology. grasping at straws in a structural sense, and feeling nonplussed but with no ground to run to, and im back on the boss level in super mario 64 where bowser smashes the ground to make it fall away. attempts at restructuring as this dissolution transpires only serve to create new protocols equal in scope to pre-existing paradigms. and there are plenty of people who dont struggle this much with religion and probably still go to heaven, or think theyre going to heaven, or something. hows marge and the kids. did jerry get that new promotion. mom just got back from vacation in cancun. smalltalk style concerns arising in every day transitionary speech feel distinct and very distant from these kind of hazy, pie in the sky questions. plato never wrote about the kind of stuff you see in a cheers episode. there are philosophy books that try to merge the two, but they usually get shelved in the comedy section.
so its mostly a matter of trying to absorb and contain new information, which abides in abundance, and trying to corral it into sort of a pointing arrow to direct me where to go, in my hewing, a feat not easily done. probably the endgame is in the crafting and solution of art, but what kind of art, and whether i have the tools at my disposal to even create it, is less easily answered. so for now, i guess, im absorbing, waiting, asking questions, and who knows, and who can say.
earliest memories of religion are of the greco roman religion and not knowing about the mystery religious rites but knowing about an abstract concept of wisdom and the ocean and extrapolating the existence of athena and poseidon in that way. later i have memories of exposure to christianity and buddhism and bahai but none of these things feel particularly useful to me at this time in my life. i can more readily receive a picture, a kind of enlarged image, of a broad religious landscape and some of the questions it attempts to provide answers for, or at least, a way of thinking about. the greco roman religion, for instance, is a presentation of a deleuzian multiplicity, and the monotheistic religions are a monad, but i also dont think either of these things can say the other is inherently undesireable. tolerance seems to be the best method, but also, and likewise, not dwelling specifically in any of them. acknowledging they all exist, but not being any of them. enjoying in surfeit the tension between multiplicity and monad. that there can be many things and one thing. like the album cover of dark side of the moon.
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