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dellalyra · 4 months

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omg imagine gojo with a welsh or irish gf - another irish girl

Gojo would thrive with one of us Irish women

Because let’s face it: we’re mostly all firebrands, strong, fiery passionate women.

That strong sense of loyalty and family (blood or found) oriented attitude? He relishes it, a feeling of belonging - of being truly loved and respected by someone? Amazing. The fiery nature of our blood lends itself a protective nature. The higher ups are giving him shit? Not a chance.

“Eh? Excuse you, you wrinkly sack of shite? What your last skivvy die of? Hush your gob or I’ll shut it for you. Fucking scarlet for ya’, absolute state of ya.”

Sometimes when you’re angry your accent becomes thicker or if you’re a gaeilgeoir you might slip into your teanga nádúrtha and I stg gojo has never gotten a hard on quicker in his life than seeing you spitting fire at that typical angry Irish girl speed of light.

None of his arrogance or occasional push-too-far would float either. None of us have the energy.

“Satoru, for the love of God, if you keep going on about not wanting to do the washing up because you’re the strongest, I’m going to crack up. I don’t have the energy for your shite right now. Now get up off your arse and clean the pan.”

Probably takes him a while to get used to how casually we curse and drink too, like you’re going to see your friends?

“I’m meeting the gang for a few jars tonight, coming?”

“The fuck are you doing with jars?”

The vernacular gets him too.

“SATORU!” Comes a shout from across the house.

“Yes, gremlin?”

“Grab me a few tea cloths from the hot press will you? Good chap.”

“Hot press? Is that a sex position?”

“Oh, Jesus Mary and Joseph.”

If you guys have kids - they’re brought up with the value that the mammy is the centre of the family and nothing goes on without her say so.

Like imagine a little mini version of Satoru running around and sprinting to his dad.

“Daddy, can I have the sweets on the table?” Shiny blue eyes mirror each other.

“Ask your mother, kiddo, it’s her dairy milk.”

The patter of feet is followed by a:

“MAAAAAAA! Can I have your selection box?”

“You can in your hat!”

Satoru sick? Why do you keep giving him flat 7up or cream crackers? Suguru got wounded on a mission, why do you insist on putting sudocream on it?

Christmas rolls around and for some reason in late November it’s a very big deal one Friday night. You have cornered him, Suguru and Shoko and forced them all into Christmas pyjamas and made hot chocolates for everyone and switched the telly on.

“What is going on? It’s not even Christmas.” Suguru asks, completely lost.

“Wha? Sure it’s the last Friday in November.”

The three just sit in silence.

“You three, thick as a plank, the lot of ye. I told ye last week that it’s the Toy Show tonight!”

“The what show?”

“The Toy Show!”

“It’s a show… about toys?”

“Yeah! A load of kids showing off their toys and showing how they work and all. Fierce funny. Robbie Keane usually ends up on it too somehow.”

If ever there’s an issue where some arsehole is annoying you about stereotypes, it’s always an entertaining show for Satoru.

“Can you do a Riverdance?” The stranger asks.

“Jaysus, sure I haven’t done any Irish dancing since I was in 3rd class and my nanny forced me to.”

Introducing him to Irish delicacies?

No I don’t mean coddle, or stew.

I mean real delicacies.

Like a chicken fillet roll or a spice bag. Your Nana’s apple tart. Soda bread or a bottle of Lilt. Bag of tayto (cheese and onion, obviously) or purple snack bars? A curly wurly? Red lemonade or a mikado biscuit? (Fuck, we love sweets I’m realising as I write this) or a decent cup of tea (Barry’s or Lyon’s, I won’t start that debate here).

Most of all, I think Satoru would thrive in the warmth of an Irish woman. We might be temperamental, battleaxes sometimes, and always a bit mad but one thing I know is we love wholeheartedly and fiercely, with every fibre of who we are. That belonging, the nurturing, the warmth and sheer sense of home that we all somehow tend to exude would made Satoru an incredibly happy man.

#gojo satoru #gojo satoru x reader #gojo x reader #gojo fluff

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shirzan140102 · 1 year

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Crackdown on Iranian Women Protesting Hijab Intensifying

To nobody's surprise, the regime is taking a much harsher stance against women who continue to protest their repressive measures by not wearing their hijabs. While Iran was never safe for women thanks to this regime, they have somehow managed to outdo themselves in these extreme measures against women.

Ahmad Alamolhoda, a very influential cleric and the father-in-law of Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, recently used incendiary language, claiming that the regime is weak in enforcing the hijab and calling upon supporters (both men and women) to take matters into their own hands. In other words, he effectively gave everyone carte blanche to punish women allegedly protesting the hijab using any means they see fit. While this controversy (somewhat?) backfired on him - I'm not sure how this whole thing has ended for him, tbh. - the fact remains that he used his platform to put this message out there, and there are doubtless extremists who are thrilled to have gotten the green light to act that they please. And he is unsurprisingly not the only person who has encouraged this kind of "vigilante justice."

As I've shared in other posts on this blog, women live in abysmal conditions in Iran, like something out of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. From acid attacks to potentially higher rates of femicide (not that it's okay under any circumstance) and honor killings being mildly punished to schoolgirls (and now female university students living in dorms) being poisoned to stories like Mahsa Amini's and Nika Shahkarami's, women truly face a grave existential threat in Iran. So, when a high-profile individuals try to incite others to extreme action against women protesting the hijab, women somehow have an even larger target placed on their backs, which is terrifying.

In a recent example of women facing danger just for being women, footage has emerged of a man in the city of Shandiz emptying a bucket of yogurt on a mother and daughter as punishment for not wearing their hijabs in public. (Fortunately, other individuals were there to step in and kick him out.) In this case, this is assault plain and simple, and it should've never happened. The only bright side to this story is that the assailant only had access to yogurt; if he had had acid, like in many other cases, it would've been even more disturbing. (Nonetheless, obviously, this shouldn't have ever happened in the first place.)

Beyond that, in Iran, there is increasing rhetoric and activity to limit women's educational and vocational/occupational prospects. In addition to the school and university dorm poisonings, women are already prohibited from a large percentage of college majors, and there is footage of clerics talking about how women don't need to be employed in certain occupations, such as finance and engineering.

Against the backdrop described in the previous paragraph, the implications of recent threats of women being fined up to $60,000 dollars just for not wearing their hijabs become even more disturbing. When you combine increasingly tightening restrictions on women's education and work with the abysmal state of the Iranian economy nowadays, there is absolutely no way that women could afford to pay these fines. Even if you consider the hypothetical case of the average gainfully employed woman in Iran who is married to a man who is also employed, such a hefty fine would still have a disastrous effect on their lives.

This is an all-out war meant to strangle women into submission using every conceivable means, and it's terrifying.

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#free iran #freedom for iran #woman life freedom #women life freedom #women's rights #feminism #iran revolution #iran protests #mahsa amini

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gaiabamman · 3 months

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Wattpadians unite!

You guys!

"More Than a Pretty Face" is now complete and available FOR FREE here on Wattpad! 🥳 I'm so proud that I pulled through!

The beauty of Wattpad is that you can interact with what you read and leave comments I'll see! Will you give it a try? 🙏

I know, I know...Some of you love the physical book in your hands. Well, don't worry, I'll release the paperback sometime in the summer 💗

On Friday 2/924 I'll publish on Wattpad the first chapter of the second novel in the series, "Worth it."

For now enjoy (or read the synopsis below ) 😛

P.S. And just because it's Black history month, it's worth mentioning that the 2/3 MCs ain't white. If you'd like a novel centered on social justice, Try "In The Arms f Morpheus"

More Than a Pretty Face Synopsis

Contemporary Milan, Italy.

In the dazzling world of Vincitore Academy, Margherita, a half-Korean firebrand from humble beginnings, ignites a clash of wills with the P2, the city's elite quartet of dazzling, influential, and entitled boys.

Yet, privilege holds no sway in Margherita's eyes, and damn it, she's ready to prove it!

As she fearlessly challenges Luca Vincitore, the enigmatic and arrogant leader of the P2, Margherita unveils the hidden layers behind his perfect facade. Luca, unaccustomed to anyone resisting his charm, finds himself drawn to the one person unafraid to expose his true, less-than-pretty inner self.

Yet, in the opulent landscape of Milan, desire is a double-edged sword.

Margherita's animosity towards Luca takes a complicated turn, fueled by an undeniable chemistry. Meanwhile, her heart flutters toward Lorenzo Tristante, the quiet yet mysterious musician…and Luca's best friend.

Get ready for a tumultuous journey through love, lust, and self-discovery.

Against the backdrop of Milan's glamorous cityscape, where glamour and heartache collide, each character grapples with the complexities of relationships and social hierarchies. Brace yourself for an emotional rollercoaster that will leave you breathless. Read it now here 😺

(Yes, I love Luci. He's my alter ego)

#free readings #wattpad #amwriting #romance #romance books #hana yori dango #books set in Italy #ya #italy #to read

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legend-collection · 11 months

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Caipora

Caipora is an entity of the Tupi-Guarani mythology in Brazil. The word "Caipora" comes from tupi and means "inhabitant of the forest".

Pic by heffydoodle

It is represented as a dark-skinned, small Native American, naked with a very long red mane, smoking a cigar and very mischievous. Sometimes Caipora is depicted as a girl and other times as a boy. The representation of the creature varies among the different regions of Brazil, and is sometimes confused with Curupira, which is another mythological creature who protects the forest. Curupira is often depicted as a boy with red hair, who has his feet turned backwards in order to deceive trackers.

In some regions, the indigenous tribes believed that the Caipora was afraid of the light. For this reason, they would walk around the forest protecting themselves using firebrands. Some say it rides a great peccary holding a stick. In some other areas of Brazil, the Caipora is considered to be a cannibal and would eat anything, even the smallest insects.

The Caipora is known as a forest dweller, as a king of the animals of sorts, and is very vengeful of hunters who do not respect the rules of "fair-play" when hunting. It is told that it scares away prey and "hides" animal tracks or makes hunters lose their way in the jungle. It disorients the hunters by simulating animal noises and by leaving fake tracks.

According to a popular belief, its activity intensifies on those days in which hunting is not supposed to take place, therefore on Fridays, Sundays and the religious days. Religious beliefs prohibited hunting on certain days, but there are claims about ways to trick the protector of the forest. It is known that the Caipora likes smoke, so on Thursday nights, the hunters would leave smoke by the trunk of a tree and say "Toma, Caipora, deixa eu ir embora" (which means "Here you go, Caipora, let me leave" in Portuguese). The good luck of hunters is also due to the propitiatory gifts that were offered to the creature.

#tupi guarani #brazil #south america

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xenogendersgalore · 1 year

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Blog Introduction!

Hello lil ghouls! We’ve finally decided to try and write fics for the fun of it. This specific post will include;

Alter Introductions

Characters we write for

Taken anons (will change over time once we get more anons)

Rules / DNI stuff

01; Alter Introductions!

So since we are a pretty big system, there will be different alters to write different fics. That means there will be some changes in how people write. Here’s a lil introduction of the alters who will probably write on here! (We are a DID system)

Skully | Ageless | They / Xe / She / It / Static | Signs off with; - 🎞️

(Is most likely to proof read since they don’t like spelling errors / Tends to take longer while writing fics since xe is very precise / the one most likely to be writing a lot of the fics)

Jules | Ageless | It / She / They / He | Signs off with it’s name

(Adores writing for the slasher flicks / tends to forget to proof read so there may be a couple spelling mistakes / tends to write Headcanons more than full on fics)

Characters we write for!

Slashers!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

- Bubba Sawyer

- Drayton Sawyer

- Nubbins Sawyer

- Chop Top Sawyer

- Thomas Hewitt

- Sheriff Hoyt

Halloween

- RZ Michael

- Michael in general

Bowers Gang - It

- Patrick Hocksetter

- Belch Huggins

- Henry Bowers

- Victor “Vic” Criss

House Of Wax

- Bo Sinclair

- Vincent Sinclair

- Lester Sinclair

The Lost Boys

- Marko

- Dwayne

- David

- Paul

- Michael Emerson

Scream

- Billy Loomis

- Stu Macher

- Randy Meeks

Sometimes They Come Back

- Richard Lawson

- Vinnie Vincent

- David North

Misc Horror Characters

- Billy Lenz / Black Christmas

- Brahms Heelshire / The Boy

- Chromeskull / Laid To Rest

- Asa Emory / The Collector

- Norman Bates / Psycho

- Jack Torrance / The Shining

- Doomhead / 31

- Rusty Nail / Joyride

- Harry Warden / My Bloody Valentine

- Jason Voorhees / Friday The 13th

- Jeepers Creepers

- Hush “The Man”

Slenderverse!

Creepypasta

- Jeff The Killer

- Ben Drowned

- Eyeless Jack

- Homicidal Liu

- Ticci Toby

- Jason The Toymaker

- Laughing Jack

- Glitchy Red

- Lost Silver

- Bloody Painter

- X - Virus

Marble Hornets

- Tim

- Brian

- Jay

- Alex

- Masky

- Hoody

- Skully

EverymanHYBRID

- Evan

- Jeff

- Vincent

- Habit

TribeTwelve (We Don’t Support Adam Rosner!!)

- The Observer

- Firebrand

- Noah Maxwell

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2!

- John “Soap” MacTavish

- Captain Price

- Simon “Ghost” Riley

- Kyle "Gaz" Garrick

- Gary "Roach" Sanderson

- Phillip Graves

- König

- Kim “Horangi” Hong-jin

Metalocalypse

- Nathan Explosion

- Toki Wartooth

- Skwisgaar Skwigelf

- Pickles

- William Murderface

- Charles Foster Offdensen

Taken Anons!

None currently but will be listed if we get some!

Rules / DNI Stuff!

DNI Stuff!

- System Fakeclaimers!

- Homophobes

- Basic DNI criteria’s

- Haters In General

Rules!

- Only send requests to ask box plz! (We won’t get upset if you slip up tho)

- No heavy gore

- No NSFW things

- No suicide, racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, zoophilic type stuff, pedo stuff, grooming, anything like that, no smut at all!!

Blog will be updated if there are new characters we like!

#horror #slashers #slenderverse #creepypasta #marble hornets #cod mw2 #rules #characters i write for

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Fox News said Monday it is parting ways with firebrand anchor Tucker Carlson, the network's most popular prime-time host and a leading voice in the modern conservative movement.

The network announced the stunning news days after it agreed to pay nearly $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to avert a high-stakes defamation trial that had cast a shadow over the future of the network.

"FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," the company said in a short news release. "Mr. Carlson's last program was Friday April 21st."

Fox News did not specify why Carlson is leaving the network, and a spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an email from NBC News. The network's statement did not include any comment from Carlson.

"Tucker Carlson Tonight," a cornerstone of the Fox News programming lineup since 2016, was as one of the most-watched cable news shows, outpacing rivals at CNN and MSNBC.

Carlson established himself as one of the most influential figures in a conservative political coalition reshaped by former President Donald Trump. He regularly drew controversy for incendiary statements about race, LGBTQ rights and other topics.

In the lead-up to the Dominion trial, Carlson's internal communications were released and showed him criticizing Trump and acknowledging that his claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election were baseless.

#fox news #tucker carlson

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tyforthevnm · 1 year

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L.S. Dunes: “We didn’t realise how much we needed this band until we started writing for it”

After two decades of interlinking friendship, L.S. Dunes saw five of emo and post-hardcore’s most respected figureheads finally get together. Rather than trading on old glories, however, debut LP Past Lives is about parrying their shared experience – from firebrand beginnings to fatherhood – into some of the coolest ‘dad rock’ the world has ever seen…

November 9, 2022 Words: Sam Law Photography: Nick Karp

Of the thousands of fans queued nearly a mile around Chicago’s Douglas Park on September 16, 2022, none were sure quite what to expect. From the Misfits to Jawbreaker, the Windy City’s annual Riot Fest has become world-renowned for facilitating the reunions of some of alternative music’s biggest names. This year, though, the gathered masses were jostling to see a band they’d only just heard of play their first-ever gig. Thrillingly, L.S. Dunes’ live debut did not disappoint.

“I’d already had the show in my head 100 times,” grins vocalist Anthony Green, with a relish that suggests he’s re-run it another 100 since. “Sure, we were a little nervous, but it was the same nervousness you feel before you kiss somebody for the first time. It was that excited anticipation. There was tension in the air, but it was a beautiful tension. The levee was about to break!”

Despite only one of the six songs performed on a dusty Rise Stage that blistering Friday afternoon having previously been released, there was an electricity in the air. Part of that was down to Anthony’s impossibly charismatic performance: exorcising demons, crowdsurfing headlong, daring us to keep up. Part of it was down to his bandmates – drummer Tucker Rule, bassist Tim Payne, guitarists Frank Iero and Travis Stever – keeping pedal firmly to the metal. Mostly, though, it was about five masters of their craft unlocking something untapped in each other.

“It was my favourite first show with any band that I’ve ever been in,” smiles Frank. “To be 40 and still be having these firsts is fantastic. We’d maybe played together only five or six times before that, and it’s not easy to have a first show outdoors at a festival, but I was like, ‘Hey, I trust these guys. I trust in the songs. It’s gonna be an experience!’ And it was fantastic. It went off like a riot.”

Catching up with three of L.S. Dunes six weeks down the line and just a couple before the arrival of feverishly anticipated debut LP Past Lives, the enthusiasm is undiminished. Frank fizzles during a flying visit home to New Jersey between My Chemical Romance’s two mega-headlines at Las Vegas emo gathering When We Were Young. Anthony and Tucker bounce off each other on break from Thursday’s autumn tour at Angels & Airwaves guitarist David Kennedy’s coffee shop in San Diego, sporadically interrupted by planes roaring into the nearby airport. “That was a big daddy…” the drummer delivers a running commentary. “That one had a little front propeller!”

On paper, no-one in L.S. Dunes needs this band. As well as his legacy with Pennsylvanian rockers Circa Survive, Anthony just started psychedelic side-project Fuckin Whatever with members of Grouplove and Taking Back Sunday, and is gathering momentum as a solo artist. Even aside from renewed commitments with MCR, Frank has a slew of ‘solo’ projects, with latest EP Heaven Is A Place, This Is A Place dropping just last year. Travis remains a mainstay of Coheed And Cambria. Tim and Tucker have plenty on their plates with Thursday, with the latter also featuring on a slew of other releases including Frank’s EP. Collectively, they have over 100 years tenure in other outfits.

So why why start another?

According to its members, L.S. Dunes’ “addictive” qualities are threefold: connection, creation, camaraderie. As we pick at that mysterious band name, there’s a reluctance amongst the group to give too much away – a desire to keep some secrets for themselves – but Anthony reveals how the imagery of shifting sands resonated, and notes the serendipity of how their chosen title became an “accidental monogram” for LSD: a drug taken for those trying to achieve more dazzling inspiration and deeper connectedness, “with people, with nature”.

They liked the rhythm of the name, too, which reminded them of the literary initials used by esteemed authors. Like J.D. Salinger or W.B. Yeats? “Like R.L. Stine,” the frontman grins, with just a touch of mischief. Perhaps most telling is Frank’s observation that they often joked about how the L.S. stands for “low stress”.

“At the heart of it is the love of creating”

Hear Frank on how the band formed through a shared creative connection

Where most professional bands resemble multilateral marriage, built on a shared spark but inevitably burdened by expectation, responsibility and the need for compromise that comes with such personal and financial union, L.S. Dunes is an attempt to set those things aside in the name of breaking new ground. The project started with the working title ‘Dad Bods’ as an acknowledgement not just of the members’ cumulative wisdom and encroaching middle-age, but also that their growing real families come first. Their group chat was labelled ‘Father Dads’.

“No-one’s a ‘slacker’ or anything,” Frank elaborates. “Those conversations always happen in other bands. There’s none of that shit when it’s like, ‘Hey, guys, I gotta go take my kid to soccer.’ It’s like, ‘Yeah, I do too!’” With all their outside commitments laid on the table, it boils down to the well-informed faith that when one player needs to go and handle something else, there’s enough enjoyment and investment in the music that they will get back to it. And they always do.

“Not to say our other bands aren’t fun,” Anthony nods, “but there’s a sense that we can do things with this project – and get things from it, personally – that we can’t with our others.”

“We didn’t realise how much we needed this band until we started writing for it,” Tucker expands, offering a vivid metaphor. “When someone first drives through Denver, they stare out of their window, like, ‘Oh my God, look at those mountains!’ But someone who’s lived there a while can begin to take it for granted. That’s what music was to us. We are all in love with it – writing it, playing it, performing it – but this project made us fall back in love with it. Sometimes, you need that reminder. Sometimes, you need to fall back in love with things.”

When he first began work on L.S. Dunes’ vocals, Anthony had no idea who else was in the band.

“We didn’t know if or when touring was going to come back,” he shrugs, reliving early 2021’s darkest days of lockdown. “And, if it did, we didn’t know how it was going to feel, or what it was going to look like. I was just stuck at home losing my mind, trying to get people in my life to send me music, trying to have new stuff to work on all the time. Then when this came up, it was exactly what I needed. Tucker sent me the music across and I thought it was just him and some of his dad-friends from the neighbourhood he lives in. I was like, ‘Damn! Tucker’s friends are really good!’”

In reality, the shared history between the five members of what would become L.S. Dunes is almost too stubbornly complex to untangle. Frank, for instance, remembers looking up to Thursday as a kid starting out with Pencey Prep when they were his labelmates on Eyeball Records, and how MCR were asked to play their first “really big” show when Coheed had to pull out of a support slot for Jimmy Eat World at the Allentown Fairgrounds in August 2002. Anthony, meanwhile, cherishes memories of driving out to New Brunswick, Jersey City and Philadelphia as a fan to catch early Thursday house shows, before supporting My Chem extensively in Circa Survive throughout the mid-2000s. Talk of deeper collaboration had kicked around for the best part of those two decades. All it needed to come to fruition was the world grinding to a halt.

“It was one of those things you talk about,” Frank reflects. “But it doesn’t happen because you’re on tour, doing other things. We all have like 85 bands, and sometimes you just wanna hang out and not play. But the pandemic was the time when everyone stopped. Everyone was at home. Nobody knew what the fuck to do or how long we were going to be here. So we became each other’s lifeline and were like, ‘Hey, let’s start that band we’ve been talking about for 20 years.’”

“New music became that life-preserver,” agrees Anthony. “It put a light at the end of the tunnel.”

The pieces began to come together at some point in the autumn of 2020. Broadly, writing was as simple as a musical version of Pass The Story, with one person laying down the beginning of a song, then passing the instrumental along to be built upon. “It was very much an organic thing,” explains Frank, “like when you start a band in high school and call your friends. ‘Oh, I know this guy who plays this.’ Then you just get together in a room – well, a virtual room – and start swappin’ spit!”

Of the almost-complete compositions passed over to Anthony, his soon-to-be-bandmates presumed he would initially have a crack at the couple of sparser pieces, seeking space in which he could detonate his explosive vocals. Instead, he gravitated towards the busy three-and-a-half-minutes that would become Antibodies – the first track on which they had also completed work. That piece of symbolic serendipity, coupled with the sheer effort the vocalist put in, without knowledge of who else was involved, galvanised resolve.

“The ‘blind date’ kinda thing made it even cooler,” grins Frank. “As soon as we got the tracks back from Anthony, I knew that this was a band rather than just a fun project for during the pandemic.”

The next few months went by in a blur. Although there weren’t originally plans for an album, the bangers continued to mount up. The full quintet were forced to flesh-out their self-recording expertise, with Tim stepping up as a de facto in-house engineer. They convened in person for the first time at Frank’s place in mid-2021, confirming their chemistry beyond the digital realm. Time was booked with red hot hardcore heavyweight Will Yip to record at the end of that year. Even as they went into a Jersey City studio to complete preproduction, the songs were still pouring from them, with eventual debut single Permanent Rebellion being written in the last half-hour of that trip.

At a time when scheduling shitshows had become the norm, L.S. Dunes had found calm by going with the chaotic flow. A fall just before the finish line came perilously close to derailing things, though, when on August 1, with studio time just over a month away, Frank suffered a six-stringer’s nightmare after slipping from a ladder, breaking his right wrist and severely spraining his left.

“To be totally frank...” the guitarist pauses with a wry smirk, before correcting himself to match the weight of his story. “To be serious, I didn’t know if I’d be able to play again. Everything exploded in that fuckin’ wrist. It was a real serious break. It was nerve-wracking. But it was something that I wouldn’t let myself say out loud because it was also super-scary. Not to get too serious, but I said to the doctor, ‘If you think that I’m not going to be able to play again, just leave me on the table, because there’s no point in waking me up. I can’t not play. I have to. And if you’re not the guy who can fix this, we need to find someone who can.’ I was meant to record in September, but my session moved to December, three weeks after my last surgery, with the stitches still in my arm. It was like my Through The Wire. Anthony had to wait for me. That’s why this record took so long!”

“I didn’t know if I’d be able to play again”

Frank talks about the potentially life-changing impact of breaking his wrist

From its lunging intro to the dreamy curtain drop, the record was 100 per cent worth the wait. More than just a set of songs, though, Past Lives is a glimpse into how L.S. Dunes see themselves.

‘I’m not all my mistakes, no matter what they say about it…’ howls Anthony on the outstanding title-track, admitting today that although “we came to this project to do something new, in the process of doing that, we were sort of shaking off the dust, baggage and resentments from some of our other projects.

”L.S. Dunes is no ‘supergroup’. There is no album-padding filler here. The striking simplicity of Gordon Douglas Ball’s album art – five equal elements in perfect harmony – is very much on purpose. But it is the result of all those miles on the road leading to this point.

“I think it’s a moment in time,” reckons Frank. “It’s about the people involved in that room at that moment. And it’s a fine line. We’ve all been in touring bands, running the gamut of the successes and failures. We’ve lost friends. We’ve gone through it. All that shit that we’ve done has gotten us to this point. I’m proud of it. I wouldn’t change anything. But it also doesn’t mean that what comes next has anything to do with those experiences. Those were our past lives. This is the new thing.”

Indeed, hammering through the album’s 11 tracks, there are flickers of familiarity, but they’re in service of breaking new ground. The ‘lonely shadows’ and ‘lost souls’ of Grey Veins are wrapped around a masterful emo composition and massive chorus, destined to tug at heartstrings for years to come. Blender packs a little of the brooding post-hardcore of Thursday, but feels more texturally mature, with guitars set to stun. Grifter starts with the angularity of Circa Survive, but builds into a shadowy epic capable of holding up against the most grandiose compositions of Coheed or MCR have to offer. Then superb closer Sleep Cult does something totally unexpected: delivering Anthony’s treatise on “self-hatred and dealing with self-obsession” via 225 seconds of music that simultaneously pays homage to and woozily updates 1950s doo-wop.

There’s a willingness to speak harsh truths, too, most notably in garotte-sharp political observations of Bombsquad. “This band became a platform for me to really speak on a lot of those things,” the singer explains. “It’s about everything that was going on in our lives, from dealing with the depression and anxiety of the pandemic, to having to deal with a corrupt political system – the most corrupt empire that the world has ever seen – taking over, isolating and dividing us all.”

Perhaps most illustrative of the lot is searing album opener 2022. Back at Riot Fest, it was a number Anthony described as, “the most fucked-up song I ever wrote… about learning to get through shit, so that you don’t want to kill yourself every day.” Having started life as an acoustic confessional intended for a solo record (‘If I can't make it ’til 2022 / Least we'll see how much I can take’), the song was a designed to process the personal suffering and isolation he’d been dealing with over the last few years, but it took the input of his bandmates to properly realise its potential.

“On the original version, it felt like I was stuck in the hole of it,” Anthony explains. “Rather than make me feel better about the things I was writing, it made me relive a lot of stuff. So I sent it to Tucker and was like, ‘Yo, this is too sad, make it heavy!’ He alchemised what I’d written into something that felt much more triumphant: less like I’m digging myself into a hole and more like I’m digging myself out. Listening to it as the year is almost over, the emotion’s still there, but we did it: we made it through.”

“This band was built around making songs that feel good to play in every atmosphere”

Hear Anthony on the importance of taking L.S. Dunes on the road

So where do L.S. Dunes go from here? Throughout our chat, it’s reiterated that this shouldn’t be a one-off. The logistical effort to plan not just East and West Coast tours of the United States, but also a four-date UK run beginning at the Glasgow Garage on January 27, 2023 is evidence of their will to see this through. Festival dates for the following summer have begun to leak through. Anthony and Tucker make the tantalising observation that, if this record was what they were able to write with Zoom links and Dropboxes, who knows what they’ll deliver in the flesh.

Still, with the world accelerating into the post-COVID era, and other projects getting back up to speed (MCR, Coheed, Thursday and Anthony all have live dates booked within days of our chat) are there concerns about continuing to fit L.S. Dunes in alongside so many competing interests?

“Always,” shrugs Frank, with an easy grin. “But that’s with anything. Everyone has commitments, but everyone has commitments to everything: we all have families, other bands, we’re just doing our best to have the calendar to do it all in. And, so far, there hasn’t been a lot of push-back. I don’t mind the work at all – I live for it. But I don’t like planning shit. I’ll say yes to everything, then leave someone else to arrange it. But we all have great teams behind us – many of whom [overlap]. Everyone knows that we want to do this, and we’re doing it as a real band.”

“I would love for L.S. Dunes to become my main band,” Anthony stresses his enthusiasm. With Circa Survive recently confirming their ‘indefinite hiatus’, it feels like that might be a real possibility, though the timing of one band stopping as another starts, he insists, is purely coincidental. “It’s rare to find people that you connect with so well. Everything they send makes me want to keep writing. That’s a special thing. When you find it, you want to keep a hold of it and nurture it. We’re in a dance, right now, where the music has taken the lead. We’re just seeing where it goes.”

Tucker cracks another gleeful grin, even more buzzed as we end our chat than when we started.

“The stupidest thing to do when the music industry seemed to be dying during a global pandemic was to start another project. It’s all against the grain. We’re taking a risk, but we’re here for it. Everyone is always in search of that sick leather jacket that fits them just right. For us, this is it.”

Past Lives is released on November 11 via Fantasy Records

#ls dunes #interview #kerrang #nick karp #frank iero #anthony green #tucker rule #tim payne #travis stever #november 9 2022 #november 2022 #2022 #rica.archive

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Stellan is stopping them from punching someone

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guess who somehow managed to hit another follower milestone!!! (hint: this bitch.) some of you have been with me ever since I started this blog and that's honestly wild, some of you dropped in halfway, and some of you are newer here, but I'm eternally grateful for each and every one of you in ways that you can't imagine, I never dreamed of ever getting here back in the day but here we are! (disclaimer that while my follower count actually says 3k+, a good thousand or so are bots that I don't have the strength to block anymore. we'll ignore them for the purposes of this <3) I love you guys so so much, even the ones I don't follow back, and as a token of that, let's have a little autumn-themed ask game! I'll be accepting these until the end of november, again thank yall sm <3 🍂 - send me a character/ship from a media that ik and I'll make a gifset for them 🍁 - send me a song+artist that I know of and I'll make a gifset for my favourite lyric 🧡 - make me choose: send me two characters/ships/songs/artists/etc and I'll make a gifset for whichever one I prefer 👻 (mutuals only) - send me a request for absolutely whatever tagging some mutuals under the cut <3

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Arc Two (redux) 00

((Thus begins Kae reposting Arc Two! I’ll take it slow enough to not exhaust myself this time, so don’t expect things to be spectacularly regular after I get to the end of existing content, but hopefully I’ll get back into the groove like this! After today, I’ll be aiming at Mondays and Fridays at 10am EST, and all reposted chapters will be labeled #repost))

“Give me the rundown again, Lumen. Has anything changed from your last report?” Her hands still felt clumsy and weak as they twisted her grey mane into a thick braid. How long had it been? Too long, not long enough…The line between was so fine.

Lumen tilted his head respectfully and offered her a hair tie. “Ain’t much else to tell, ma’am. Fern-fangs and our firebrand have been running bounties while ya’ve been restin’. I keep thinkin’ it ain’t wise, sendin’ our two rascals out together, but somehow they keep comin’ home safe between all the jinkin’ high and crackin’ wise. Brings in a tidy reward an’ cleans up this patch of the universe, one scoundrel at a time.” His glow brightened. “Makes ol’ Esther mighty happy, too, ‘cause it tells folks yer Protectorate ain’t done yet.”

“Our Protectorate, Lumen,” she reminded him. “You’re part of it too.”

A few sparks flickered across his brand as he laughed. “Darn right. I keep forgettin’… it feels strange, actually belongin’ to somethin’. But it ain’t a bad strange, not by a long shot.”

She laughed. “Think you could get used to it?”

Lumen flickered into the novakid equivalent of a warm smile. “I already am.”

Nyota stood up and crossed to the rack where her armor waited for her. It was lighter than she remembered; that was a good sign. After three months, she had expected it to be heavy. “So how have you and Oldarva been?” she asked as she slid the greaves on. “I notice she’s been spending a lot more time with you and Namina, when he’s here.”

His sudden hot, bright blush sent spots across her sight. “Eh, well, uh… we’re doin’ fine,” he said, voice almost distorted by a faint hum. “She’s learnin’ mighty quick with the doctorin’. Half that’s thanks to ya, of course, bein’ such a good patient.” He sparked, teasing. “And Ferny’s pickin’ up here and there too. Always brings me back supplies for makin’ medicine and the like.”

“Good,” she replied with a grin, “but you know that’s not what I’m asking.”

He hummed again, and his blush told her all she needed to know. His hands were hot but gentle as he helped her fasten the chestpiece on. Nyota’s hand lingered a moment over her own heart, above the white scar that would never fade.

“Arrowmail and Arjun have been helpin’ out the old lady,” Lumen continued as he followed her out into the corridor. “Sonny tags along with them whenever she ain’t out scoutin’ with Hadley. Esther tells me she’s been a big help with decipherin’ them runes on the Ark. She ain’t great with language like Eldie is, but she sure has the knack for findin’ more carvin’s and the like. Sounds like they’re mighty close to uncoverin’ more secrets.”

“Really? …hopefully none too dangerous.” Her boots clicked against the ship’s polished floor and she resisted the urge to check her reflection in one of the windows. It still felt a little strange, not having tired circles under her eyes or the flower in her hair.

Lumen darkened and nodded. All of them remembered all too well what had happened when the Ark opened. “Shouldn’t be as bad as that, ma’am,” he said with a reassuring pat to her arm. “And it’ll go much better now that yer up and about. Ya can go with them and make sure of it.”

“That I can,” she agreed. Her long strides slowed. There were people in the room at the end of the corridor. Familiar people. “Lumen,” she asked slowly, “is there something you forgot to tell me?”

Lumen laughed, his glow as bright as a sunset. “Ah right. Ya got visitors,” he said, then caught her arm again. “Hold on. Got somethin’ for ya.”

She stopped and obediently lowered her head as he stretched to reach her. Something whispered against her hair and she reached up, puzzled, to feel silk under her fingertips.

“It’s from Eldie,” Lumen said as he stepped back and tucked his hands into his vest pockets. “Ya don’t quite look yerself without it.”

She couldn’t resist checking this time, and smiled as she saw a simple, beautiful silk flower tucked in above her left ear. “It’s perfect. Thank you. And thank her for me.”

Lumen flicked her a salute. “Sure thing. Now ya best get in there. They’ve been waitin’.”

Her entrance was greeted by a happy “Sis!” from one of her guests, a young male Apex with hair untouched by grey and warm amber eyes. The other guest, only slightly shorter than him and as effortlessly elegant as ever in her green jacket and crimson scarf, inclined her head and offered a slight smile.

“Welcome back, Nyota Saimiri.”

#arc two #repost

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from the national library of ireland’s flickr:

The Fire Brands, Bodyke, Co.Clare The sign on the effigy reads:

PRAISE THE LORD FOR HERE THE TYRANT'S ARM WAS PARALYSED

Date: Friday, 3 June 1887

commenter Ben Fagan provided more context:

Taken by Pall Mall Gazette journalist Henry Norman the day after Widow MacNamara's eviction. The first sheriff, called McMahon, had turned up with a large force several days earlier but had epileptic fit and the police withdrew. The tenants saw this as divine intervention and made this effigy of him. Incidentally the title was attributed by Norman to a photo he took of Michael Davitt and two priests, full term: "the firebrands, lay and clerical".

#fave #kill landlords #irish history

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Something is shaking European politics.

In September, Italy elected populist firebrand Giorgia Meloni, who on Friday became the country's first far-right leader since the war-time fascist Mussolini.

Days before the nationalist, right-wing Sweden Democrats made an electoral breakthrough, gaining 20.5% of the vote in an election dominated by concerns over gang violence and immigration.

Though there are some exceptions -- a pro-European, liberal recently saw off a far-right populist challenger for the Austrian presidency -- these two examples point to a possible populist, a right-wing resurgence in Europe, with populists polling well in Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Finland.

So what is happening in European politics?

“What we are seeing is the rise of anti-establishment parties that promise something radically different,” says Sam Van der Staak at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

“Right-wing, left-wing is a misrepresentation, it is really about citizens expressing that they are not happy with politics and what the whole system of government is delivering.”

A difficult concept to pin down, populism is a political approach that pitches “ordinary people” against "elites". The term rose to prominence in 2016 with the UK Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump.

Populism has now become “normalised to a certain extent”, says van der Staak.

“Back then we were all scared that populists would take over, but this time I didn't read all that much outrage about the elections in Italy or Sweden.”

‘A new political force’

One reason for this is that some policy stances of populist parties across Europe and the political centre have converged, claims van der Staak.

“Tougher views on migration have become more accepted,” he told Euronews, noting how many populist parties have also dropped their resistance to the European Union.

“A few years ago it was all about far-right, far-left populists calling for overturning the mainstream. Now we are seeing a category that is somewhere in between.”

Far-right Italian PM-to-be Giorgia Meloni, a harsh critic of the EU in the past, repeatedly claimed in the run-up to the election that her Brothers of Italy party was not against Europe.

Another “more significant” factor fuelling populism in Europe for van der Staak is that “the current system of government is not working”.

“For a long time, social welfare systems have not been able to deliver […] and the traditional levers of government have been unable to provide the answers to socio-economic problems,” he says, citing problems in parliaments and polarisation across Europe.

The UK, traditionally viewed as a stable country, will see its fourth prime minister in three years this week, with parliament hit with years-long turbulence since the controversial Brexit vote.

‘We need to keep an eye on them’

Behind concerns around populism in Europe are questions about what populist parties will do once in office.

“What we are going to have to keep an eye on,” says van der Staak, “is what these anti-establishment parties do once in office.”

“Will they govern responsibly or will they go over the edge?” he asked.

According to a forthcoming report by IDEA, shared with Euronews, almost 70% of what it calls high-performing democratic European countries have suffered democratic erosion in 2021, while 60% of mid-range democracies are eroding.

Three of these – Poland, Hungary and Slovenia – are described by IDEA as “backsliding”, meaning there has been a “sustained and deliberate” attack on their democratic systems by political actors and governments.

Hard-right political parties have taken power in all three eastern European states, though Slovenia's Janez Janša who was likened to Trump was defeated in elections this year.

Budapest and Warsaw remain at loggerheads with Brussels over their rollbacks of democratic freedoms at home.

‘I don't think so’

But others did not think Europe was taking a turn towards right-wing populism.

“It's true that right-wing populists have done well in a few countries,” said Brett Meyer, a research fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. “But not in most others".

“Look at Germany, they elected the most boring guy in the world”, he added, citing other electoral victories of centrists in France and Austria. “There is a big question mark over the resurgence of populism”.

Meyer was also sceptical about drawing Europe-wide comparisons, pointing out how recent elections in Italy and Sweden were “completely different from one another”.

In Sweden, the vote was dominated by fears over crime and migration, while Meyer says in Italy the "story was more about the weakness and fragmentation of the left”.

Sweden’s left-leaning Social Democrats won the popular vote, yet could not form a governing coalition, while in Italy the left-wing parties failed to form a pre-election agreement in contrast to the right.

Yet there was one thing that united Europe’s right-wing populists, according to Meyer.

“If I had to summarise them all up, I would say they are anti-immigrant parties”, he said. “They have all done well in countries where immigration is a salient issue”.

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