#growing up there was like- so many musicians in my life. especially in my family. especially piano

[nyxfaei]

It’s weird how malevolent has become something like- so weirdly personal to me

#growing up there was like- so many musicians in my life. especially in my family. especially piano #I have an interesting… and rocky relationship with my dad who writes music- and all the catholic shit of “’everything happens for a reason’ #not to mention the ‘this too shall pass’ which has been said to me constantly through my life by my dad #Robert frost is there too who my mom loves- and all the literary references are just very my mom who was an English professor #not to mention how much incredible loss I’ve gone through these past five years alone #this is quickly becoming an insane comfort media no wonder I’m constantly crying because of it #nyx shut up

[ancientgoddessofegypt]

ASTROLOGY QUESTIONS ? PT. 2

Hey guys, just wanted to make an open discussion of some placements that we're on my mind. If you wanna chime in, do it. Love to here your thoughts and we all converse about our astrology placements and what not! Lets go!

Pisces mercury - How does it feel to have very soothing voices? Do people ever tell you how your voice heals them? or puts them to sleep? Are you a singer/musician? Do you feel musically inclined? Are you very empathetic to the things other people say? When your out, are you able to feel certain shift and changes in the vibration around you? Have you ever thought of sound healing? Do you believe you are a star?

Libra suns - Do you consider yourself an individual who lives a double life, or someone who has to try more than one thing in your journey be it dating, home life, hobbies, etc? How often do you have to put up boundaries? & how often do you tend to lower does boundaries when it comes to people you love/are close to? Do you feel like a romantic? Are you really a flirt?

Capricorn suns - Why so serious? How do you handle your depressive episodes ? What is something you experienced that made you focus more on goals, financial stability, and anything of the mundane ESPECIALLY at a young age? What made you want more at such an early age? Do you believe you have the ability to make lots of money? Do people tell you that its hard to love you?

Mercury Conjunct Venus - How often do you use that pretty little voice of yours to get what you want? Do you consider yourself photogenic? Are you into taking pictures/being a photographer? Do you share your think pieces, poems, journals, anything related to writing? Do you write at all? Sing? Dance? Are you creative with your hands?

Jupiter in the tenth - How often do you fall into depressive episodes because you're not where you want to be? Do you know that you're well liked? Do you consider yourself popular? Do you feel as if you have imposter syndrome ?

Lilith/Mercury - How often do your thoughts bring people to a fool stop? Are you normally quiet on certain topics you're passionate about? Is there something you want to say but the reactions of others is a little unbearable? What is the MOST taboo thing you can tell me? Im all ears.

Moon/Pluto - How many emotional outbursts have changed the trajectory of where your life went? How has embracing your emotions helped you clear out the old? Is there anyone you can share a deep bond with? Was your mom (or another feminine figure) a good emotional support system for you growing up? How was the family life? Was it healing or traumatic ?

Lets discuss! Enjoy :)

#astrology thoughts #astrology questions #astrology theories #libra suns #mercury conjunct venus #jupiter in the tenth #lilith mercury aspects #capricorn suns #pisces mercury #astro observations #astro knowledge #astrology observations #deja's astro questioning tablet

[yomogi-mogi-mochi]

Myth Inspired Twst Series

Access my masterlist here. Already written:

Lilia x Dullahan MC (Oneshot)

Malleus x Light Fae Changeling MC (7 Parts- Completed)

Rook x Pygmalion MC (6 Parts- Completed)

GN terms for all!

Vil x Orpheus MC (Completed)

You're one of the ancestors of Orpheus- great poet, lyricist, and musician. However, your family is cursed to sing songs of heartbreak, woe, and sorrow until your last days due to Orpheus disrespecting Dionysus shortly before his death (his head was cut off, thrown into a river Hebrus to sing mournful songs). The gods also cursed you for all of your relationships to end in heartbreak until you find your soulmate- someone you would venture to the ends of the earth for (based off of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth). Many of your family members were driven to madness- singing songs of sorrow without having a soulmate to share them with; and many of the lovers of your family members met their untimely demise from the wrath of Dionysus. This curse is as well known as the prolific poets and bards of your family, so though people enjoy your songs- they stray away from getting romantically involved.

Despite this curse, you sing your songs with a merry tune- gaining reputation at NRC as the party person/just someone who knows how to have a damn good time. You're a hopeless romantic- falling quickly- but it all ends the same when you confess- "You know how it ends- you get it right?" . You laugh with a knowing smile- because what else could you do in the face of such absurdity?

You're childhood friends with Vil, and he's watched your heart get broken many times. Despite his feelings for you, he doesn't think you'd want to be with someone like him. The ones who did find their soulmate in your family were together with other bards, kings, heros, honorable soliders- so he thinks it's a very low probability that he's actually your soulmate- especially as he us typecasted more and more into the villan role (and is somewhat comfortable in that role with his sharp tongue, even towards you)

Slow burn ensues- friends to lovers dynamic :)

Azul x Mute Siren MC (Completed)

You used to be a relatively well-known singer in the Coral Sea, even being invited to the Ashengrotto family's restaurant on occasion. However because your mother is also a famous singer, you have a lot of her harsh standards to uphold. One day you disappear from the public eye because you are affected with the hanahaki disease- the cause of which is unknown to everyone. Azul, as a child, is worried- but you soon become a distant memory

My take on hanahaki disease is a little different- I think it could affect many types of love including familial, parental, etc. Heartbreak and unrequited love doesn't only exist in romantic contexts. When you find that you're mother doesn't truly love you- but loves you for the extension of herself that you are- you begin coughing up carnations- a flower which symbolizes a mother's love.

Finding that the flowers permanently damaged your throat after surgery- your mother sends you off to one of her sisters since you're no longer of use to her. You grow up in the Southern parts of the Coral Sea at your aunt's flower shop, before your enrollment into NRC where Azul is surprised to find you (and the slow burn begins >:) )

You speak through the language of flowers- hanakotoba- your aunt teaches you. Though no one really reads into the symbolism of flowers, Azul is familiar with it since it was one of your interests as a child.

Jamil x Shikigami MC (Completed)

As a Shikigami, you are bound to your master (an Onmyoji), to serve him until death. Shikigami are usually seen as gods, spirits, or a representation of an Onmyoji's power- so there is no escape from this life unless your Onmyoji is killed, or willingly sets you free (if you've ever seen Spirited away- they're those little paper things thay follow Haku). Because Shikigami are expendable, they're usually set up for less favorable tasks like spying, stealing, assassination, stalking, etc.

Because Shikigami are usually not able to be seen through the human eye- you show quiet signs that you don't actually have a corporeal form- like no shadow, no reflection, no footsteps, no shine in your eye, doll-like limbs. But the body that you're in actually used to be yours- which was cursed into a Shikiouji (a more elite and powerful version of Shikigami) form because you angered a powerful Onmyoji in your past life.

You are ordered by your master to enroll into NRC and kill the Kamil. However- you are stopped by Jamil, who takes you to the headmage who orders temporary in school suspension. Jamil sees your master put hands on you due to your failure- and his instinct kicks in- ordering the Onmyoji to free you. Little does he know this makes him your master now, and you trail him where ever you can.

Though he wants you to leave him alone at first, your admiration of his true skill and talent slowly begins to reveal the humanity in you, as well as bringing him out of his own shell. Enemies to friends to lovers

Lmk what you think (゜゜;)

Feel free to add!

#twisted wonderland #twisted oc #twisted wonderland angst #twisted wonderland x reader #lilia vanrouge #malleus draconia #mozus trein #rook hunt #twisted wonderland malleus #twisted series #twisted wonderland vil #vil shoenheit #vil schoenheit x reader #rook hunt x reader #malleus draconia x reader #lilia vanrouge x reader #twisted wonderland original character #twisted wonderland x reader #azul ashengrotto x reader #jamil viper x reader #twisted wonderland fan fiction #twisted wonderland fanfic #idia shroud x reader #azul ashengrotto #jamil viper #kalim al asim #sebek zigvolt #twisted wonderland vil schoenheit #twisted wonderland lilia vanrouge #vil schoenheit

[alastairstom]

Another post pointed out yesterday that the Clave was so progressive in the 1800s and (especially) 1900s while being incredibly regressive in the 2000s-2010s. This is inarguably true. It also inarguably is true to real life when it comes to views on homosexuality. While male homosexuality was illegal in the UK during the Victorian/Edwardian eras, many (though not all) people tended to turn a blind eye to it assuming that everyone involved minded their business. (Oscar Wilde, for a relevant example, was pretty widely known as being a man who loved other men. He probably would have been able to carry on as he was if not for suing a powerful and influential public figure. But I digress).

Also, it's important to note that, yeah, the TLH kids' parents were overall loving and accepting people. The one who was not such a person blessedly died before his son came out. On the other hand, Alec's parents were in a literal hate cult. But once again, digression.

Because what I really want to talk about are Shadowhunter's shifting attitudes to technology and innovation. I would like to posit that Christopher Lightwood's death was the beginning of the downfall of innovation in Shadowhunter society.

In TID, Henry contends with mockery and side glances because of his drive to invent and create. This makes sense in what his son will later describe as an "arid warrior culture." However, while generally labeled as an eccentric, the Clave - including the Consul and Inquisitor - generally leave him alone to tinker and build. No one stops him. And when he finally invents the Portal, no one shirks it. By the time TLH rolls around, it's a widely-used, widely-respected part of Shadowhunter society. It's ingrained in the fabric of their people just as steles and seraph blades are, and we still see them widely in use in the modern day.

Now, we get to Christopher, Henry's protigee.

It's important to acknowledge that Christopher may have been left alone in part because Henry's Portal was so successful. With him primarily hanging about in the Fairchild lab, nothing could go wrong. Additionally, Charlotte was Consul, and she knew how brilliant her husband was. This probably contributed to Christopher's success greatly.

Christopher grows up shrouded in this love. He is free to create and innovate as he pleases, and he comes up with the idea for fire-messaging. We see him successfully invent fire-messages by early 1904, at which point he is tragically killed by Belial.

Fire-messages are the final piece of technology that we see invented before the TMI era. All other technologies in the modern TSC canon exist in the historical stories. Thus, we can conclude that Christopher's fire-messages are one of the last creations of Shadowhunter society.

(ADHD side ramble: I'm interested to see what Grace manages to accomplish, but I cannot think of something in the modern TMIverse that she may have created. I imagine that her status as not only a woman but a widely-disliked social pariah held her back. Hate it, but my point stands. I hope she's at least given a small amount of credit for the final touches on the fire-messages.)

Anyway, fast forward to 2012. The TSCverse now has another brilliant neurodivergent mind in Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. Of course, he is extremely different from Henry and Christopher. He is more mentally present, serious-minded, and a lot less spacey. But he also views things in a significantly different way than other Shadowhunters do, finding himself drawn to technology like computers in a way that most Nephilim would shirk.

Ty and his family are forced to keep the fact that they have computers in the Institute a secret. This is likely in part because mundanes invented them, but it also feels inconsistent with previous generations. Shadowhunters of old appreciated art; Jem and Alastair were openly musicians, for example. Matthew is an obvious aesthete with a penchant for the theatre and artistic pursuits. Even when Alastair notes that they aren't supposed to like mundane things like moving pictures, he does not seem worried about facing repercussions for seeing one. Ty and the other Blackthorns seem to think that they will see legal ramifications for having a computer, and this is in a world where Jia Penhallow is Consul.

Could the Blackthorns be wrong? Sure. But it feels to me that the Shadowhunters of old would not shirk a useful technology, and the computer has limitless capacity to assist them in their demon-fighting endeavors.

The Clave closed itself off to progress shortly after TLH, and Christopher's death feels a likely catalyst for that.

#i might also write a meta on matthew's impact in the tscverse expansion later #because i think he had a profound one as well in a different way #tsc deep dives #im into these today lol #henry fairchild #henry branwell #christopher lightwood #grace blackthorn #ty blackthorn

[vyl3tpwny]

ANTONYMPH (and the things that made it)

art by @voreburger

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It has been one year since I released Antonymph. This song seriously changed my life and, it would seem, the lives of many others. I am grateful for the apparent impact it has had on people and I'm hopeful that the reach of its message will continue to spread.

I wanted to talk about how we got here.

Between the months of November 2020 and July of 2021, I experienced a gauntlet of emotional trauma, hardship, and declining physical & mental health. These things came after being newly out as trans, kicked out of my home by my family, transitioning from being a college student to a totally independent adult within the span of a month or two, moving away from my home of 21 years to somewhere I've never been before, and then trying to balance all this with the onset of COVID around the world. In January of 2021, all of these things adding up and weighing on me led me into this rabbit hole of thoughts about my life in the past, present, and future. Namely, though, I thought about my home in San Francisco, where I was far away now. I thought about the memories and things that made me who I was up until that point, especially the bad stuff. The whole project of CUTIEMARKS was an analysis of my life's mental struggles throughout my childhood and budding adulthood, examined through the characters of MLP:FiM.

And you know, it wasn't all everyone and everything else. Growing up, I had felt inclined to be a lot of negative forces myself. To be honest, I'm not precisely sure where it came from, and though I'm glad I grew from it, I still used to be that way. When considering a lot of the things of my past I encountered two things that would eventually become the hallmark reasons for creating Antonymph:

I was a dick to people. In so many ways, I was just an asshole for a lot of my life. I still kind of am sometimes, but I think everyone is. I really mean I was a cunt. This overinflated ego, this desire to shut people down for what they liked, this idea that I was always right and I know best about everything. I acted on this a lot and hurt a lot of people, even my closest friends (many of whom are still around me today, and I'm endlessly thankful they stuck with me through my worst).

I was also made to feel the same way, both directly and indirectly. I talked a lot about how it felt like there was pressure from the people closest to me to only like certain things and other things are not good enough to be enjoyed. This comes especially in the case of music, where it felt like there was a lot of disdain around me for pop and non-traditional music. This extended to all types of media though. I wouldn't have been caught dead being perceived as enjoying something like My Little Pony for a while.

So conceptually speaking, my desire to write something like Antonymph came as a rebellion against these things; against the ways I treated people and the ways I was treated.

At this point of my life, I had also recognized this sort of perpetual depression and negativity that pervaded me at all times. Any type of positive emotion would either be subdued or otherwise disappear within moments. It felt like I couldn't love things and I was always just clenching my shoulders preparing for things to hurt all the time.

So, back to January 2021. Sophie Xeon, a musician who I looked up to and felt comfort in, has just died. Very few celebrity deaths have ever affected me, but this one was very personal and intense. I remember going to bed shaking and feeling sick. It was an uneasiness I'll always be able to picture vividly in my head. In the spirit of her unabashed creativity and love for everything, I started conceptualizing a project that would be as bold as I felt she was.

The first, and only, title for this project was "CUTIEMARKS (and the things that bind us)".

A deep dive into SOPHIE's work and her peers' work led me to examine the inspirations for PC Music. From there I rediscovered my love for the dancepop of the late 2000's and early 2010's. Carly Rae Jepson, Kesha, Katy Perry, etc. Around the time I started really using the internet, I secretly loved this music even though it felt like I was going against everything I was supposed to stand for at the time. I grew up in a cishet, Christian, potentially elitist music space. Things that evoked anything other than that induced guilt to enjoy. But I very, very, secretly, quietly, loved that stuff.

So I decided to make some synth patches that evoked those feelings

That's what led to this:

Once this demo was made, the path became rather clear for what I wanted to do. Around the time of the songs that inspired it, I was getting really into Tumblr and all the glittery, kitschy parts of the internet. I had been talking a lot with @voreburger (Pico) at the time of this and had a feeling he would be super into the idea. It started out as just wanting to have Fluttershy coming out of her shell with the help of internet culture. It was after pitching this idea to Pico that he sent me back a rough draft:

The idea was really coming together it seemed. What really drove it was his use of the Gir hoodie, really solidifying the internet time period(s) we were after. The Nintendo DS, the browser extension toolbars, and all that; he was onto something incredible.

By the second draft, I still only had "Antonymph (demo1)" made on my end. Taking inspiration from the art he was doing, I started writing lyrics and programming some drums:

After I had these additions to ground the idea, I started getting more ideas for the art direction of the song.

By this point I want people to understand how much Pico was instrumental to the conceptualizing and execution of this whole project. We bounced so many ideas off of each other and worked to string everything together. It wasn't a case of me commissioning him for a few things and calling it a day, it really wouldn't exist the way it does without him.

In order to test chroma key stuff, he sent this icon that he made.

It was here that I realized that Antonymph could be something bigger. There was now a few pieces of "Fluttershy in a gir onesie" that could be used for a semi-animated music video. I said to Pico the words "we'll create an entire culture around one song". That was essentially the manifesto, how deep I wanted this whole thing to go.

So I got to work. (This also appears to be the first mention of "Fluttgirshy" in our DM's)

I ran the lyrics by Pico in a group chat and we talked about the lyrical direction of the song. After coming up with some stuff together we ended up with demo3:

Between March, 2021 - May, 2021, I took time off from the Antonymph studio sessions for a few reasons:

The visual aspect of the project was now in full effect. I was messaging many of my favourite mutual artists and pitching Antonymph to them and explaining what I needed.

Focusing otherwise on lyrics.

I was working on the other CUTIEMARKS songs, now that the album was no longer a small EP project (which it was originally intended to be, as it always ends up with my music).

It was intimidating to work on Antonymph. It was very clear by this point that it was going to be a big project and a big song, likely to be heard by a lot of people. We all expected this from the start, though it ended up being even more than we imagined. Still, knowing this made it harder to work on the song because the pressure was really on.

Now at this point, many other concepts have been injected into the idea of Antonymph too:

Queerness needed to be a big part of this. Making a song about self acceptance and expression had to entail queerness (like many other aspects of CUTIEMARKS, anyway).

I wanted to help heal my homesickness a little bit, so the music video would start to include video clips that I took in California (most notably, the intro of the music video shows my BART route from San Francisco to Daly City).

I wanted my friends to be a part of it in some way. I couldn't include everyone, but I did a lot to make sure that the people I cared most about would be included in this project, knowing it would be seen by lots of people. I wanted to bring them along for this whole thing. Lots of clips in the music video include videos of my friends, and I took lots of suggestions about the song from friends in servers and group chats.

As a spiritual sequel to "Lesbian Ponies With Weapons", I wanted the song to speak to a lot of the issues our generation is facing around the world especially in the wake of civil rights and economic inequity.

Between May 17, 2021 - May 27, 2021 there were two more Antonymph demos:

After demo4, I asked friends and patreon subscribers if they wanted to be included in the song by way of putting a group of everyone saying "hell yeah" in the second verse. demo5 is where this first is implemented, but all the voices wouldn't be included until the very final version of the song.

art by @sterfler / @uzon

Slowly but surely, everything came together. I worked endlessly on coordinating all the art stuff and doing the video editing and graphic design, until eventually:

It was done. February 24, 2021 - May 28, 2021.

I don't usually talk about finances, but I know for certain that the Antonymph project itself had costed well over $1.5k to make. This is disregarding everything else I had invested into the creation of the CUTIEMARKS album entirely, and is limited purely to Antonymph by itself. And as this project has helped to grow myself as a musician, I should be able to make more projects of this scope in the future.

A few days later, I premiered the trailer for it on June 4, 2021:

And then of course, what followed was the music video itself.

And just like that, it felt like I had taken my first breath of fresh air in a long time. I braced for the response to this, and what followed was extraordinary. Across social media, the #antonymph and #fluttgirshy tags were filling with people making fanart of the interpretation of Fluttershy that Pico and I, along with the many other incredible artists, spent many months getting just right. It all went to even inspire the parody project on SiIvaGunner's channel:

Antonymph was born from the ashes of my trauma and memories, and was forged between me and a dedicated team of incredible visionaries to become this thing that a lot of people connect with now. If I was going to put out a project of this scope and reach, I wanted to make sure it was positive and inspiring, and had the potential to live past its release as something that would continue to influence people for the foreseeable future.

So, Antonymph feels like a HUGE explosion of colours and emotions. And that's because it is. Everything had mounted up to that point. Endless amounts of hardship and mistakes, culminating into something that would be unabashedly beautiful.

I am forever grateful.

Thank you so much. + Thank you so much to Pico for making this project one of the best ever.

Oh, and as an extra special thank you, the stems to ANTONYMPH are now freely available to everyone: https://we.tl/t-j7WJ9dQ6tT

art by @astroeden, made specially for the one year anniversary of Antonymph <3

#vylop #vyletpony #vylet pony #my little pony #mlp #fim #friendship is magic #fluttershy #fluttgirshy #antonymph #cutiemarks #Youtube

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

Merry Christmas Sea!!

When I was a Larrie I remember Christmas 2021 when all my mutuals wrote paragraphs and paragraphs about the "stunt" "babygate" and how they felt triggered (!!!!!!!!!!!) by Freddie's presence among Louis' family! The things I read about someone that's only a kid and about Louis from his supposed fans! In Christmas! They were "supporting each other" because he was there! Grow up women acting like that, I have no words to describe how crazy it seems to me now.

Thank God now I see it with other eyes and I realized how crazy and unhealthy that behavior is. I remember that no one could even say that he was cute. Nowadays it makes me so happy that Louis can spend time with him because it's Louis' life and because I think about the emotion he had in the first show where Freddie was present and I think about how happy he must be now and it just fills my heart with happiness! I want Louis forever happy! He deserves it.

I still see the comments that Larries leave for Louis' family and it disgusts me and the way they talk about Freddie online and how they harass Louis makes me even more disgusted and repulsed and I just hope that Louis doesn't actually read everything that.

Hello!

Louis’ life is Louis’ life. For the most part, Louis keeps his personal life fairly private from his fans— he’s had enough turmoil. I think he has tried without success to control the public discussion, sometimes with awkwardness, but 90% of the time it backfires. Now Louis simply withdraws from that area of fandom life. He’s not in family pictures and he presents only what he can control. In the end, Louis is a musician, not an influencer, and he doesn’t make his living selling his lifestyle. He used to be openly critical of the Kardashians, but that’s the model his sisters aspire to, and they’ve become wealthy that way. So … life goes on, I guess.

The family is famous-adjacent, and the public is really interested in gossip about them. Louis is caught between wanting to protect his privacy (and mental health) and wanting to support his family’s lifestyle. He’s in the strange position of being the moneymaker / parent-figure of the whole clan, but also having no real say about their public conduct, except to limit the extent they use him in their influencing activities. I don’t mean just his sisters either.

For the most part, Louis is able to enjoy his private life in peace now, and we can see that the family really enjoys their time together. After all these years, they seem to have arrived at a point of stability in some ways. It has been a complicated life. In many ways, it’s fascinating (which is why fans and the general public can’t look away), but Louis and Freddie both seem to be happy. That’s the important thing for them going forward, especially since Freddie is growing older and starting to understand his father and mother and the crazy internet culture around them (not the least since nothing about Freddie has been protected from day one— from all sides. Louis himself contributes to the curiosity about his own son. I do not exempt him). Louis has always treated family above anything else in his life. That’s one thing that will never change.

[sage-nebula]

when it comes to you, the one i remember most fondly is that one oneshot you did of future jou and his job as a radio broadcaster! it's such a fun snapshot into a lively future where jou really is making a name for himself and carving out his niche!!!

Sorry I'm replying to this so late! And oooh, thank you!!

I will admit: I was partially inspired to give Jounouchi the future career as a radio host because I was really into Welcome to Night Vale at the time, and the way Cecil both delivered news while also rambling on air about his personal life was something that I both enjoyed and something I could see Jounouchi doing. Let's be honest: the boy has the gift of gab. He is 100% the type who can talk, and talk, and talk, and if ever taken hostage by someone who couldn't put him under mind control (even if that mind control ultimately didn't last) would annoy his captor to death by never shutting up. Putting him in a career path where he then needs to be comfortable talking endlessly seems like a natural fit, then, at least in my opinion. Plus, radio hosts get plenty of opportunity to meet musicians, get news first about up and coming things (which in the world of YGO is very game-centric), et cetera, which also fits into Jounouchi's sphere of interest since he loves being on the central pulse of what's hot and new so that he can share it with everyone and also know about it himself.

In addition to all of that, I've always disliked the idea that he'd be a "professional duelist" for a few reasons. First, maybe it's just me being a killjoy adult, but I just don't see "professional Duel Monsters player" being something someone could make a career out of, especially in the world of the manga where it's not something that takes over the entire world the way it does in the anime. There are a grand total of two tournaments in the manga, each spanning two days. That does not a career make.

In addition, for Jounouchi specifically, it amounts to gambling. And while I understand that his deck does have a gambling theme because he's a lucky boy, remember that his abusive alcoholic father put their family into untold debt because of gambling. Now, gambling is an addiction (much like alcoholism), and a disposition for addiction can be genetic. So I'm not saying that it's impossible for Jounouchi to develop addictions. But what I am saying is that I personally think that Jounouchi, because of the trauma that he has from growing up as an abused child who had to work while in school (something typically illegal in Japan) to pay his father's gambling debts, wouldn't want to become a professional gambler himself. You could say, well, there's more strategy to Duel Monsters than there is slots! But we don't know that Jounouchi's father was gambling with slots. In fact, he very well could have been playing mahjong, as many mahjong parlors in Japan have ties to the yakuza (who own and operate illegal casinos since most forms of gambling are illegal in Japan). Mahjong requires just as much strategy as Duel Monsters does, and just as much luck as well. So I just feel like, for Jounouchi, becoming a professional Duel Monsters player isn't something that he would want to do. He would still like to play Duel Monsters, of course, but to stake his livelihood on it? No. It would remind him too much of his father. It was another reason why I really disliked that movie that came out a couple years ago.

So anyway, those were my thoughts going into picking that career for Jounouchi! And then of course I added in that, for the radio station, he also ends up making Let's Play videos and things like that as technology progresses (which, let's be honest, despite taking place in the 90s, technology in the YGO world progressed at an alarmingly fast rate, so they had Let's Play tech ready to go long before we did in our world, LOL). He becomes like a local celebrity in Domino, and as much as the station manager wants him to stop insulting Kaiba on air, the listeners actually love the beef he and Kaiba have with each other, so ratings always go up whenever he goes on a tangent about how much Kaiba sucks, and so the station manager can't fire him over it. It's great.

(Not that he'd fire Jounouchi anyway, since on top of Jounouchi being damn good at his job he also has personal connections to the Mutou Yuugi and Bakura Ryou and can have them in the station for interviews at literally any time so it's like . . . where else are you going to find a host like that. Nowhere. The man is literally too valuable to fire. So if he says on air that Kaiba Seto has his head shoved so far up his own ass that he can smell his own stomach lining and that Kaiba Mokuba is literally the only reason why KaibaCorp hasn't been swallowed into the depths of Hell so the underworld can reclaim its king, station management is just going to have to let him. Especially since Mokuba said that his brother doesn't even listen to Jounouchi's show, and that he (Mokuba) is cool with it since the implication here is that he doesn't belong in Hell and he understands why Jounouchi feels that his brother does. When Jounouchi heard this reply, he said, "Of course Kaiba doesn't listen to the show. It's hard to listen when your ears are in your stomach 'cause your head's shoved up your ass."

His station manager popped four ibuprofen after that.)

(Tell me which fic of mine you most associate with me, and I'll tell you something about it!)

#emexceedschangezearu #fic: 4:15 on the Gomokunarabe Line

[apriltastic]

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Something I don't talk about often is my ability to hear colors. I have synesthesia, specifically the sound-color variety. My entire childhood, I thought it was normal...that everyone experienced the same colors and patterns as I did. It wasn't until I was in high school that I ever heard about synesthesia and I finally had a name for a face so to speak, but with that I also realized it wasn't normal and would add to my classmates arsenal of things to relentlessly bully me with.

I quietly enjoyed my synesthesia all by myself throughout high school and my first year of college; as a music student, it made me feel more connected to my studies and my talent as a musician.

My husband and I started dating in October of 2012, and his friends very quickly became my own very precious friends...especially Tony. In April of 2013, Tony tragically died and within 6 months of his passing my synesthesia was gone. Looking back now, I think my brain was switched into survival mode- I did little beyond simply stumble across campus to barely pay attention or participate in class until my health suffered so much I had to withdraw from my classes.

For 10 years (almost to the day of Tony's death), I didn't feel as connected to music, I didn't listen as deeply or as much, and I certainly didn't take up many creative endeavors until I stumbled across a group of young musicians that brought my synesthesia back to life.

Not only did they bring my enjoyment of music back to life, but they reignited my passion to create and learn and grow.

All that said, I'm not looking to replace my job with my little shop. It's just me running that, and as much as I'd love to support myself and family with crochet, I don't see it as a possibility for a number of reasons. However, every like, share, and follow helps not only get more traffic to the shop, but more people seeing the beautiful art of crochet all across the world.

If you've made it this far, thanks. 🥰 I appreciate the time given to read this long-winded explanation of my art.

#crochet #synesthesia #shop small

[sharpaymichelle]

VOGUE meets with sharpay evans to discuss her life and family!

interviewer : you're known as a triple threat. a singer, dancer, actress - what can't you do!

sharpay evans : yeah, it's definitely been amazing having the recognition for all my hard work ... but i can't cook. i literally almost burned down my kitchen once, fun fact.

interviewer : before we talk about your rise to fame, you lived in albuquerque, new mexico briefly. what was that like?

sharpay evans : i did. when i moved there when i was sixteen and was there till i graduated from high school.

interviewer : what made you end up in new mexico?

sharpay evans : my past really isn't super hidden. i was just hanging around the wrong crowds and getting into trouble in my early teens. everyone thought it would be best that i just get a break from the nepo scene so was sent to live with my uncle vincent, aunt charlotte and cousin tiara.

interview : you boomed into the spotlight at the age of eighteen with your debut album, the new classic, and became known as the pop princess. what was that like?

sharpay evans : you know, i grew up in this industry. my parents really guided me every step of the way once they knew i was serious about my career. i'm really appreciative of my fans and even being given that title is such an honor.

interviewer : speaking of your parents, you're the daughter of hollywood actress derby evans and musician and producer vance evans?

sharpay evans : does this count towards one of the questions?

interviewer : yes, i guess it does, haha. what was it like being raised by them?

sharpay evans: my mother, oh my mother. she is an amazing human being and dealt with so much between me and ry. again, i caused a lot of trouble for her and she wore my trouble on her sleeves while still being a famous, well-known actress providing for us. growing up, she would take us to set with her and we'd be playing on the lot or in set school. if we were lucky, we were able to watch her scenes and i still remember being constantly fascinated by everything she did. if you didn't know, there's an indie film she did once where she had to have a kid casted and my mom advocated so hard to have me play her daughter because she knew i had the talent to be an actress even at such a young age. my mom has always believed in me. i won't lie about the fact we went through a rough patch during my teens and briefly after i broke up with my ex but i admire who that woman is every single day. i mean, there's a reason i wrote don't tell my mom on heartbreak/her and included one of her voicemails. if i ever have kids, i hope to be half as patient and loving as she is. i also just hope i don't have menaces like i was, haha.

sharpay evans : now my father, he is the reason i developed such a passion for music. looking back, i was so in awe of his life touring and him making music in the studios. i don't know how but like my mom he just saw a natural talent in me. i mean, he was gone a decent amount growing up but that was his career and he did what he needed to do to provide for us and i think that also took a toll out of him especially once i started rebelling. i remember when i came back from new mexico essentially a new person he just held me for a really long time and cried. mind you, this is a rock singer who i don't even think i had seen him cry before that very moment. my dad struggled with his own demons for years because of the industry but never really talks about it even with me till this day. i think for us, we just have a mutual understanding that, no matter what, we're here to lean on one another for support and that at the end of the day we're family. he has guided me in so many ways in life and that memory is probably, if not, my favorite of ours. i know he is proud of me.

interviewer : do you think there was anything they could have done differently?

sharpay evans : i think they did the best with what they were equipped to do. they were first time parents dealing with a kid who liked to party and you know... participate in not so great things. i struggled sharing my parents with the world as i got older and really was having a hard time understanding the nepo scene even though i grew up in it. my dad constantly was on tours or my mom was filming movies so the attention was diverted away from me and ry. i now know i should have probably just verbalized my problems rather than defaulting to some ... illegal activities. although i don't necessarily agree with some of the choices they made, i don't hold them at fault for it.

interviewer : at least you're honest! well first, i hope your twin brother, ryan, is doing great! how did he handle all of this?

sharpay evans : he is actually! he's currently doing some acting gigs on broadway right now. if you didn't know, he is actually older than me by one minute. but to answer your question, he took everything pretty hard. he came with me to new mexico for about a year but i told him to go back home to california. he found me on the floor one time after a situation and rushed me to the emergency room. like i think i traumatized him and i still feel so bad about it till this day. he's my heart that's walking on the outside of my body and the fact i hurt him so bad was devastating. ryan genuinely means everything to me. he suffered together, cried together, laughed together. we talk every day and even now, not living in the same state as one another is literally so difficult. he's just such an amazing person who dealt and cleaned up so much of my mess. i genuinely love him more than life itself.

interviewer : if we can back track to new mexico. you mentioned an uncle, aunt and cousin , what were they like?

sharpay evans : oh they're everything i hope to have in a relationship. my cousin well... lets just say i understand.

sharpay evans : my uncle vincent, i don't know if you know, was a child actor way back when but he met my aunt at a relatively young age and from what i'm told, knew from the very moment he laid his eyes on her that was his soulmate. she was just a waitress in los angeles living paycheck to paycheck wanting nothing to do with the celebrity lifestyle. when they turned eighteen, they got married but she was wanting to leave california and without hesitation, he followed her anywhere and left his career. he's now a criminal defense lawyer and is actually really happy doing it. crazy enough, the second i got to his front step i rolled my eyes at him and he literally locked me outside in the rain for twenty minutes and i had to sit on the curb until my aunt came home from work realizing what he had done. he was a strict man with me but i think i needed that type of role in my life. he wanted me to have structure and rules to know that every action and decision i made had consequences. i guess that was the lawyer in him. my uncle vincent really is such an amazing man and i'm really lucky to have a role model like him.

sharpay evans : my aunt charlotte, again she was just a waitress when first meeting my uncle but now is a transplant coordinator at a hospital. i have never in a million years met a more down to earth and genuine human being before. we weren't really raised around my aunt or uncle and it wasn't because of any bad blood but really because of time scheduling. i mean, it worked out because i built a relationship with everyone on my own accord but i can genuinely say that my aunt charlotte is like a second mother to me. there's also a reason why her voicemail is on heartbreak/her. she was concerned about my well-being just as much as my mother and not hearing from me was extremely concerning. she knew i was okay but still wanted to hear from me. it was actually my aunt who convinced me to try out for drama club, get into choir and re-enroll in dance classes while i was in high school just to keep out of trouble and keep me pre-occupied. she always had my best interest at heart and knew that i needed compassion along with compassion.

sharpay evans : tiara is my younger cousin. she is relatively ... similar to me in my personality. i think that's why we tend to buttheads frequently. i get it - i took a lot of her parents attention away when i moved to new mexico. it was exactly the problem i was facing with my own parents and hollywood. we just ran into issues when she constantly was trying to sabotage my life and that's not me being dramatic. she literally tried to steal my role in my play on opening night. thankfully, i managed to put a stop to it and we talked it out but i think when i left she was just excited to finally have her house back and be considered a single child again. i love her, i really do and i want her to have the best life possible but i hope she grows into herself just like i did at some point.

interviewer : wow. it seems like new mexico really helped you, huh?

sharpay evans : honestly, i think i'll always have a deep appreciation for my aunt, uncle and even cousin. they molded me into who i am today. without them, i can genuinely say i don't think i'd be even here doing seventy - three questions with vogue.

interviewer : and what's it like being in the spotlight now compared to then?

sharpay evans : i wasn't prepared back then. i was literally a kid and the tabloids were absolutely ruthless towards me. i had no business being in the spotlight when i barely was in any projects and hadn't even released any music yet. thankfully, now, i have such an amazing support system between my mom, dad, ryan, my uncle vincent, aunt charlotte and even tiara and my pr team. everyone's primary goal is making sure not only myself but my image stays protected and safe. i feel so much more confident now being in the celebrity spotlight between making music and acting compared to back then.

interviewer : well, thank you so much for sharing yourself, your family and your house with vogue. is there anything else you want to share?

sharpay evans : yeah, stay tuned for my next album! now get out!

#i did not do 73 qs ur trippin! #my edits. #re : derby evans. #re : vance evans. #re : ryan evans. #re : vincent evans. #re : charlotte evans. #re : tiara evans. #re : the evans. #re : headcanon. #re : webweaves.

[kamreadsandrecs]

Title: The Violin Conspiracy Author: Brendan Slocumb Genre/s: mystery Content/Trigger Warning/s: explicit racism, emotionally abusive parents and family, police violence, false arrest Summary (from author's website): Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.

When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him. Buy Here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-violin-conspiracy-brendan-slocumb/18709063 Spoiler-Free Review: So I picked this up because it promised to be a mystery about a Stradivarius being stolen from a Black musician, and while that's DEFINITELY what this book is about, the mystery of the theft is more like a frame for the story of Ray's growth as a musician; the origins of the Strad; and the many, MANY complications and dangers of being a Black classical musician. So really it's more like a bildungsroman than a mystery overall, but I think that billing it as a mystery makes it more marketable? Regardless, as a bildungsroman and as a mystery, it's a fantastic read. I enjoy classical music and it hasn't escaped my attention that it's an overwhelmingly white world, so I can only imagine the kinds of hurdles musicians and composers of color, especially Black musicians and composers, face in that world - this on top of the myriad other injustices that come with being a Black person in the US. Slocumb writes about those instances with a sharpness and clarity that comes from personal experience - something which he admits to in the Author's Note at the end of the novel. Another thing I appreciated was the family aspect of Ray's life: how Black children don't always get the kind of support they might need or want to pursue less "profitable" career paths. In a way, one can't blame the family for this because of the systemic poverty that haunts many Black families and communities, and makes it so that they have to struggle to survive. The psychological damage this causes is then passed on to their children, in a cycle that can be difficult to break. On the other hand, though, Ray's bitterness at the way he's treated by certain members of his family is entirely familiar. This is especially true in the way his family only begins to think he's "doing something" with his life once he hits the "big time" as a musician. It's something many people who've pursued careers in creative fields will recognize, and will relate very hard to.

I know I said earlier that the mystery acts more like a frame for the bildungsroman that forms the actual heart of this novel, but I think they play very well with each other, because the bildungsroman provides you with a list of potential suspects: all the people in Ray's life who could possibly want to get their hands on the Strad, along with their potential motivations for doing so, and their potential methods. Whenever someone new comes into Ray's life, you look at them with some suspicion, even if they seem nice, because they could potentially be responsible for stealing Ray's violin. And I'll admit: I didn't guess who the real culprit was until Ray himself figured it out. It's always fun to try and guess ahead, but I also appreciate it when I don't figure it out until the precise moment the protagonist does. Of course, that only happens when the rest of the novel is also fun to read, which was definitely the case here. So overall, an enjoyable read with a great look at what happens behind the curtains, so to speak, in the classical music world. It's also a great look at the kind of prejudice Black classical musicians face in that same world, which they must deal with on top of the prejudice they already face in less rarefied circles. I do wish, though, that there had been a list of all the musical pieces mentioned in the novel at the end of the book. Slocumb provides a link to a Spotify playlist on his website, but I wish there'd been a list at the end regardless. Rating: five violins

#book review #book reviews #the violin conspiracy #brendan slocumb #mystery #books #music

[warlock0103]

Alright, if Loki's off limits, what about Gunmar vs. Mirage?

*Puts on Death Battle hat*

Now this is one that we can look at with some science. (Or at least a lot of googling)

Gunmar the Black, Trollkind's greatest threat and tyrant.

vs

Mirage the Soulcaller. Travelling bard and former adventurer.

After discussing the feats of Gunmar with @katanamasako and @xdeusxmachinax, (Since Mirage is my character. I know what she do.) the math was done, the numbers were crunched and simulations were made. It's time for a

DEATHBATTLE!!!

Centuries ago, when humans and trolls started fighting each other for control over the Earth, it created the War for the Surface Lands, and there were many deaths. This led the first Heartstone to rot from within, and Gunmar was born from the corruption and darkness. Joining under the warchief, Orlagk, Gunmar began his bloody conquest.

He killed man and troll alike with his inhuman strength and seeming indestructibility from kings of other troll tribes to human settlements. It was only when he betrayed his Gummgumm leader that he finally took damage. Losing an eye to Orlagk, and gaining the sword Decimaar.

Later, Decimaar would get an improvement from Morgana, and the ability to warp the minds of those with weaker wills than Gunmar to be his eternal slave unless entering an area that cancels magic.

Even after being sealed in the Darklands for centuries, Gunmar retained his ambition and hunger for power. Only he was thwarted by the Trollhunter. Merlin's chosen warrior with the power of the eclipse blade. Said to the only weapon able to deal Gunmar a mortal wound.

Gunmar's strength and indestructible nature are by far his strongest boons. He can easily toss cars and boulders around, leap through floors of a museum and through the ceiling, and as Fish pointed out, if he can get a hold of an opponent, they can be eaten in mere seconds. He's also much faster than the average human, being able to go speeds of 30 mph at least.

His weaknesses on the other hand are harder to parse. He retains the standard troll weakness of sunlight turning him to stone. Music based magic also seems to work on him via Douxie in the Wizards series. The claim that "only Eclipse can deal him a mortal wound" is especially odd given that Orlagk with Decimaar has caused him injury and even Excalibur. So it's potentially that only potent magically enhanced weaponry can hurt him, and the eclipse thing is more of a prophesy than a definitive.

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In a world of Gods and Titans, Mirage was born to struggling musician and cursed human father, and a tiefling mother with decent magic potential, Mirage grew up poor, but never unloved by her parents. They taught her how to play the violin, do simple magic spells, and survive in a world that looked unfavorably to those with her and her mother's infernal ancestry. Her parents also did their best to keep the family curse from affecting her life too much.

Should a member of the family approach a spirit of the dead, the spirit would latch onto them, and transfer all the feelings of sorrow and sadness onto the family member, that they experienced in their lifetime. Such a vast amount of negative emotion lead many of the family to suicide, and unfortunately for Mirage, her parents were no exception.

Now forced on her own at 15, Mirage eventually left her hometown to find a cure for the curse a few years later. Travelling with a Cleric of Hades looking for misguided souls, a royal guard turned mercenary, and a druid who set the world ablaze with her charm.

Mirage initially focused on support, but soon learned her skill in illusions and fire based magic. Using her father's violin, she played songs that confused foes, healed her allies, burned enemies in hellfire, create an illusory dragon that cannot be killed, but does damage like a real dragon. She even has spells to grow plants for harvest, turn invisible, teleport, and even change a creature or object into something else completely and permanently.

The burning grew even stronger when after set to do a favor for the sun God Helios, Mirage's fire magic was able to ignore a creatures natural resistance to fire. She could burn through magic armor, fire dragons, and even other flames itself.

Her adventuring days came to an end during a climactic battle with a cult of Typhon, the scourge of the Olympic gods. The cult brought Typhon back as a demigod and due to loopholes in the laws of the divine, the Gods couldn't fight him to stop his continued rampage. Not directly anyway. Mirage's group was gifted boons, and Mirage's was the Aegis Armor. Armor worn by a younger Athena, and able to defend against mental effects and blows that would kill the average human. Typhon was defeated, but Mirage was left alone as the sole survivor of her party. She retired from adventuring after that battle, but still travelled, and spread her songs across the land.

Mirage's strengths are... Many. She's a versatile spellcaster, her fire spells bypass immunity, Athena's armor make it very difficult to actually hit her, she can heal, evade, teleport and more.

Her weaknesses are that she's still mortal. If her opponent can overpower her defenses, she doesn't have much to stand up to attacks. She was never the muscle of any group she was in. Also important to note, that many of her good illusion spells take time to cast, only one can be active at a time, and while teleportation is nice, she's no faster than a normal human, and by the rules of death battle, no escape allowed.

Speaking of, the results of the fight. I don't have the time or budget to do an animation, so let's just say the result and how that was decided.

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Mirage wins.

Don't get me wrong, Gunmar is a potent fighter and physically powerful, but from the talks with Fish, his most powerful feat was throwing a car. As fast as it was going, the joules needed for that feat was ~450,000. There might be more, but let's look at Mirage's feat of tackling Typhon.

Typhon was once at least on par with Zeus, who can throw literal thunderstorms at people he doesn't like. The average strength of a thunderstorm according to google is 10^15 joules of energy, so this is the benchmark.

Typhon was turned into a demigod sort of being to free him from the bindings he was under after his initial rampage. Let's say an eighth of the benchmark, and divided again for the 4 members of her party. (The ones that actually fought Typhon that is.) Which gives us a total of 31,250,000,000,000 Joules of energy. That's roughly 31,250,000 sticks of dynamite.

Yeah... That's a bit more powerful. She would need to beat that to do damage to him, and despite not being the main attacker, she was still able to damage Typhon.

Gunmar's combat experience is also something to note. He's fought wizards before and would know how to face them, but Mirage's versatility and skill is something Gunmar has shown no perfect counter for. Even if he reaches Mirage, she has several skills that would allow her to avoid harm or even misdirect him. Hell, she could turn him into a mouse and teleport him into the deepest part of the ocean. He's a literal rock monster and would sink. Either drowning if he can, or just unable to move by the crushing weight of the ocean.

For that matter, she could just teleport them both to a location in sunlight. She knows a thing or two from her travels, and a troll's aversion to sunlight is well documented in most realities where trolls exist.

And finally, the Eclipse blade. As stated before, magic weapons like Excalibur can pierce his indestructible defenses. Hell, he's been winded by being tackled or having a large rock thrown at him. I'm 90% sure it's less of conditional immortality, and more a prophesy of what is needed to finally end him. And thanks to Helios, Mirage is a magic weapon effectively with her fire magic. Bypassing immunity, both natural and magical. Should it not be conditional immortality, Gunmar would be literal toast.

TL;DR, Against this Mirage, Gunmar's feats were just an illusion of grandeur.

#ask #anon #my art #death battle #tw: mentions of suicide #//mirage #//gunmar #long post #If I got anything wrong let me know! #I've only seen Trollhunters. None of the other series. #Or the books.

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar told Fox News' Neil Cavuto in a new interview that his music and business accomplishments have exceeded his wildest dreams.

"I've had so many dreams that I never dreamt, you know, come true," he said. "I, of course, all I really dreamt about was someday being a rock star, rich and famous guy, you know, and being able to take care of my mother and my family well, have a beautiful home, beautiful cars. That was it. You know, a gold record maybe on the wall."

The former Van Halen frontman went on to say that he's made his decisions without putting too much emphasis on the commercial aspect.

"My gut is really what guides me," he said. "If I feel something's right, I do it. If I don't, I don't do it. I'm not interested in doing things just for money. And I think that's part of the success. I'm passionate about what I choose to do with my time, especially at my age now. I'm going, 'How much time do I have to live?' I wrote a song called 'Father Time'; it's on my latest record, 'Crazy Times'. And it's all about that: how much time do I have left? I need to do things that are important to me now. I'm not success-, money-, fame-and-fortune-driven. Now I'm driven by things that I've never done that I wanna do."

In "Sammy Hagar's Paradise", Fox Nation and TMZ unite to deliver exclusive access to Hagar's 75th birthday bash while chronicling his success as a singer and businessman. The TMZ special, available for streaming on Fox Nation, covers Hagar's childhood, which included growing up in poverty, dealing with an abusive father and more.

This past November, Hagar admitted that he was thinking about how he will eventually retire from performing live.

The musician, whose raspy, soulful voice has been one of the most recognizable sounds in hard rock, from his early hits as a member of Montrose and a solo artist to his multi-platinum run as Van Halen's frontman in the 1980s and 1990s, discussed his plans for a possible retirement from the road during an appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". He said: "I've thought about it long and hard. And that's one of the reasons why I don't want to go out and tour too much next year, because it could be the last one, and I don't really know. My thing is I would never — I'm saying never say never. Well, right now I'm gonna say I will never announce a farewell tour, go do a big, long tour and then keep going and keep going, like all these other people do. It makes me sick to do that. I would rather not say nothing and just… when I do my last show, it's my last show. I might say it then, but I'd rather not make no pre-announcement, in case I wanna keep going."

"I'm so glad you asked that question. It's been on my mind real hard," he continued. "How do you go out? Do you just go away? I don't know. I'm too public of a figure and I have too many businesses and things to where I can't just go away; somebody's gonna catch me somewhere. They're gonna say, 'What are you doing?' So it seems like I almost have to make an announcement, but I'm not solid with that yet, and it's not time yet. But I am thinking that way. How am I gonna do it when it's time? And I don't know. I'd rather just say one show, 'You know what? That's the last show. I'm done. I can't do it anymore.' I'd rather just say that."

When host Eddie Trunk asked Hagar to confirm that he will not do any "money-grab" farewell tours, Sammy responded: "The day I do something just strictly for money at this stage of my life, you can call me a greedy piece of shit. I do not need money, and it's not why I do things. I don't blame some people for doing things for money — you have to; you've gotta make a living, for god's sakes — but I don't have to. So at this stage of my life, no money grabs."

Hagar's second studio album with his Billboard chart-topping supergroup The Circle, "Crazy Times", was released in September via UME. The LP found Hagar, fellow Hall Of Famer and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Grammy-winning drummer Jason Bonham and Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso Vic Johnson traveling to Nashville to record the album with eight-time Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A. The follow-up to their much-lauded debut "Space Between", a multi-category No. 1 Billboard-charting album, includes 10 songs, nine of which Hagar wrote or co-wrote, along with a notable cover, "Pump It Up", a 1978 song by Elvis Costello and The Attractions. The song "Crazy Times" was written by the whole band along with Dave Cobb and recorded live.

For more than five decades, Hagar has been recognized as one of the best and most accomplished lead singers and songwriters in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the seminal hard rock band Montrose, to his multi-platinum solo career, to his ride as the frontman of Van Halen, Chickenfoot and his latest best-selling supergroup, The Circle, Hagar has amassed 25 platinum albums on sales surpassing 50 million worldwide. Along his journey, he has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever written with songs like "I Can't Drive 55", "Right Now" and "Why Can't This Be Love", and earned the highest respect of the music industry with a Grammy Award and induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Since launching his flagship Cabo Wabo Cantina in 1990, he's turned a lifelong passion for great food, music and spirits into a thriving and iconic lifestyle brand. A pioneer in the spirits industry, Hagar's development and nine-figure sale of his Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari in 2008 is widely credited as the start of the celebrity-owned spirits trend. His portfolio of spirits now includes Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, Santo Tequila and Sammy's Beach Bar Cocktail Co., as well as several restaurants. Never one to hit the brakes, he's also found success in publishing, TV, radio and beyond, including five seasons of his hit TV show "Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar" and as host of "Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown", his syndicated radio show that's broadcast on over 90 U.S. stations. He's also a New York Times bestselling author, a dedicated philanthropist and since January 5, 2022, the first Honorary Ambassador to Los Cabos, an honor he was bestowed in recognition of his longtime investment in the people and economy of Mexico.

#post van halen #sammy hagar #the circle #crazy times #2023 #fox news #Neil Cavuto #Fox Nation #tmz #Sammy Hagar's Paradise #SiriusXM #Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk #eddie trunk

[commanderfloppy]

💗 , 🎨 & 🍵 for miss floppy?

Thank you for the ask!!!

💗 Relationships? Who are their friends, their family relations, lover(s), foes? What sort of personalities really tick them off and what others do they like? Is there anything that’d ruin a friendship for them?

As the Commander Floppy has met a lot of people good and bad, her most prominent relationship is the one she has with Dragon’s Watch, which is basically her family at this point. Especially any member under the age of 25 (they grow up so fast) who is now her kid.  

I still think most friends outside of Dragon’s Watch can be hard for her to interact with still, since she met all of them as this Godly Commander things can still be a bit…formal 

But she doesn’t really mind mostly hanging out with those she’s close too, I mean she can work in the lab with Gorrik and Taimi, talk Mesmer magic and fashion with Kasmeer, listen to Braham and Rox talk about how their lives are doing now, complain about being old with Rytlock. She’s got a pretty nice variety there already. 

Of course only interacting with your ‘family’ and people through work has definitely made her Romantic life…well completely dead.  Though that is starting to change a little with her taking a bit of a break in Cantha, a place where her reputation doesn’t precede her as much.

As Commander Floppy has so many Foes, actual ones and self-proclaimed ones, I don’t think she bothers to really keep track of them all.  That being said in terms of Foes she personally has/enemies who aren’t actively trying to kill her. She fucking HATES the Arcane Council, honestly just dealing with Asuran higher ups in general. She hates how condescending the general attitude is, the constant tearing down, she hates it so much. 

And of course Contrasting that, if you like to look beyond things like outward appearance or preconceived notions, or generally see the better in people, she likes that a bit. 

Honestly I don’t think much would ruin her friendship with you, I mean a lot of her friends have literally tried to kill her at one point. I guess if your personality did a 180, if you started being evil and it wasn’t from a magic spell or something. 

🎨 Is your OC artistic? Can they draw or paint or do they prefer another medium? Are they a writer or musician or do they do something else? Give us a quick run down of what they can get creative with!

She’s a little artistic, I like to think she is not the worst artist from a lot of years of drawing the plants and animals she saw (though she’s definitely a bit rusty now).  Another thing that could probably be artistic that she’s good at is dancing, not something she brings out often but her sense of rhythm is great. 

Otherwise I don’t know if she’s often all that creative, maybe creative at coming up with crazy plans to fight insanely strong enemies.

🍵 Are there any rumours about your OC hanging around? Nasty ones or just good humoured? Got any gossip to share about them?

Oh my gosh so many. I always imagine that the Commander is a strange mix of a Myth, a God, and a Celebrity, so there have been so many magazine articles, strange books, plays, all about her that usually get many things wrong. 

I think one of the ‘worst’ but also funniest rumors was when the topic of her lovelife became a public interest (probably thanks to a snargle book), and there were so many different pictures and articles trying to prove she was dating some random member of Dragon’s Watch. 

A picture of her hugging Braham and maybe giving him a little forehead kiss saying that ‘She’s a Cougar’ and “likes them young?”. A photo of Kasmeer excitedly holding her hand when they went shopping with the title “Lady Meade Ditches Detective! Now the Commander’s New Lover!”.  

And then of course the funniest instance which was when a photo of her and Rylock together after IBS got taken, it was snapped at a moment where their talking and hand gestures made it look like she was scratching his chin or something and that interesting framing paired with the fact they were probably chilling on a couch talking and she was maybe partially sitting on his leg (Because how the fuck else is she gonna be high enough to be in ear shot) made it a weirdly convincing but also HILLARIOUS image that everyone laughed at. Oh and this one also had some insane title about them “Recovering from hardships by finding love” or something.  Needless to say that article is framed somewhere in the Eye of the North.

#The Great Commander! #ask game answers #gw2 #commander floppy #vlixxa floppy #I love thinking about the batshit insane stuff that is written about the commander in Tyria #sometime I should draw out the one moment i have in my brain for her earlier days as commander #where she goes out to divinity's reach for business and finds some poster for a play about #But the poster depicts a sexy human woman with slightly large pointed ears #a bit in her likeness but it was funny that the fact she was an ASURA didn't seem to translate #or maybe the playwrights thought it would sell better #either way I always imagine the commander and crew being able to go to some Ember Island Players ass performances #Oh my god now I am just imagining that and all the dumb shit that there could be wrong #Making myself die of laughter as always

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For My Next Orignal Story for one of my creations, here is my very own (if not) first foreign original story, "Bone Man". Taking place in Mexico, every year From October through November, People celebrate their traditonal holiday, "Day of The Dead" where many mexican people visit their love ones' graves and even offering them gifts for their dead members (especially families') that they lost as the spirits of the dead people who are mostly depicted as Sugar Skeletons visit their members who offer them gifts and are able to celebrate their holiday despite not being seen cause they're ghosts of the dead and the ghost can only see the living. A Hardworking Family who lived in a Farm Cottage of Mexico love to celebrate their most favorite holiday every year. A Boy named Gabriel Hernández (Born in November 3, 1895) who lived in a sheltered life loved their holiday from his country as his Parents would always bring him to celebrate the Day of the Dead along with other people. Gabriel wanted to be a musician in Mexico, his most favorite musician was José Alfredo Jiménez, for he dreamed that someday he wanted to be a Famous Musician. Gabriel is Half Mexican and Half African American. His Mother, Camilla Hernández, was a Mexican Worker Woman while his Father, Andre Lavigne, was a African French Man who moved from France to Mexican as a Tween. As Gabriel grew a Happy Life in his Childhood with his Family, however, things quickly began to change tragically as his childhood was over. in 1907, When Gabriel reached to his tweens and was somewhat 12 at that time, his Father somewhat started to drink alcohol and somehow started to became a alcholic as Andre's alcohol addiction came and somehow lost interest in spending time with his family, even his Son. One Night, Camilla and Andre were having a total fight as Andre's alcohol addiction was a bit way too much since he somehow started to cheat on her with another woman. When Gabriel woke up, he was horrified and scared as a child when he was nosy through the doorknob hole and saw his Parents fighting. This somehow now broke Gabriel's Happy Life as his parents got a divorce as Camilla was now a single Motther raising her Child on her own for now since Andre took his drinking addiction way too far and wasn't the same man that he used to be for both Camilla and Gabriel. Through out Gabriel's life, things became much worse when he and his Mother started to become poor without Andre's Money as they decided to survive on their own for now so they moved to another town in Mexico where they can hopefully make Money to survive and even earn it as well as having a brand new shelter life without Andre. Even Gabriel went to a New School as a Kid where he made some friends but most of his time in his new life, but most of the kids at his new school would make fun of him because of his music or that he once had a farm life for growing up was now somehow rough and very harsh for Gabriel after his parents divorced. In 1915, When Gabriel somehow reached to his adulthood when he was about 20 at that time, his Mother decided to open up and even create a Resturant in Mexico so they can have more money to feed customers their own creative food. A Few years after the Resturant was finally build as "Cena de dia de muertos" (most commonly known as "Day of the Dead's Dinner") where they now had all the money they wanted. When Gabriel was now somehow 25 at the time in the Year, 1920, he decided that he know wanted to become a Musician for his dream that he ever wanted as a child and got a tired of working of his Mother's Resturant and decdied to try something new. When he had a talk with his Mother about wanting to become a Musician, Camilla forbidden that because he feared that Gabriel would somehow end up much like his father. Some Men out there can be mishevious and even do such unfaitfhul and harmful things to Women, especially to some Musicians out there that some people in the world have a dark side. Gabriel didn't really wanted to become that kind of one of those men that his Mother despised the Evil Type in Human kind. But after an Argument he had with his Mother when he try to convince her that he wouldn't be like his Dad, Camilla kicked him out as Gabriel now had to live somewhere else on his own since he was now an Adult and no longer worked at his Mother's Resturant as he quit his job. Gabriel would never end up being an alcoholic man like his Father or even become Evil like the Other People in the World, especially to those other types of Men out there. One day, shortly after moving away and even living on his own for now when Gabriel walked on the streets, a Truck Driver accidentally hits Gabriel on the Road by a Truck as Gabriel gets killed and even crushed down after being hit by a truck. When Camilla found out that his Son was now dead, she grief with tears and sorrow for the loss of her Son. First divorcing the Man who she onced love and now the loss of her Beloved Son after she kicked him out, of course, it was deeply down her fault for she should have listen to what her son had said of wanting to become a musician, if she listend, she would have understand and even accept it. The Locals build a funreal for Gabriel as Camilla came a visit to her Son's Funreal and was deveasted and even heartbroken for it was her fault for losing her son out there alone in the town. Gabriel now lives in the "Tierra De La Muerte" (English; "Land of the Dead") after being hit by a Truck, he decided to spent his time among the Afterlife along with the Other People who have died as Camilla does visit his Son every year of Day of the Dead. But sometime, Gabriel started to change as he somehow became a jerk and somehow became a womanizer of other women (either in flesh or non-flesh). Through the harsh years as a child in his life, all Gabriel ever wanted was to follow his dream and to have a good life but sadly that never happened and his life was officially over. Now in 2010 in the Modern Era, Gabriel was now 115 years old in the Land of the Dead, Ghosts of Dead People can't age because they are already dead but they can still walk like the living depsite being dead. Gabriel somehow sounded and stayed in the same age that he died in like the most ghosts. Those who died in any age will never age or grow in the Land of the Dead as they're spirits still roam in the Afterlife underground where their bodies were burried underneath. Even after 91 years of being dead, he still lives among the dead, even his Mother died in an Old Age at the age of 90 in 1955 and now lives with his Mother again as their resturant was already re-made in the Land of the Dead as well after it got taken down in the Living World in 1963. Everything was now alright for Gabriel, but he wish he could have got that dream when he was alive and things would have been much better for Him and his Mother in the Living. But it is unknown to what happened to his Father, Andre, after he somewhat died due to his alcohol but his body was never found and his soul didn't make it to the afterlife. People's dead bodies who are unfound don't make it to the Land of the Dead unless if they are buried on their funreal. But then, a 24 Year Old Mexican American Woman named Gina Sanchez moves into another town (the same town that Gabriel moved to with his Mother) in Mexico to look for a Job to work at. Meanwhile, in the Land of the Dead, Gabriel goes out to a Party with the Other Dead Men as he parties with the Other Skeleton People. While at the Party, some Skeleton Women took a flirtatious flirt in Gabriel and one of the other men which makes Gabriel's taste in women even more pervy as he and the other male dead folks try to chase them through the party which leads the Skeletons themselves try to have sex with each other (Even though the Dead cannot make babies each other in the afterlife, their genitals are mainly invisible but their souls still cannot produce and can only feel their bone bodies). After a reckless time at the party, Gabriel heads home late looking drunk after a fun time at the party, once he heads home in the Land of the Dead, Camilla quickly notices that his Son has been out doing some trouble again as Camilla confronts her Son to never go out trouble again or else he'll end up like his father but Gabriel doesn't even care since he's so sick and tired of his dead life. He then heads out on the streets after his argument with his Mother just like last time in his life when Gabriel stumbles upon a Graveyard (which is a Cematary of the Other Dead People who are forgotten through years), As Gabriel was now in the cematary, so sick and often tired, he often wish he was reborn as a different person to continue to live in the life (which can happened to some dead folks who are alloweed to be reincarnated as a Different Person in the Living). But he then stumbles upon a Cat in the Forgotten Graveyard. Adored by the Cat's Cuteness at first, Gabriel decides to name the Cat "Nahla" and was about to take her home but then Nahla runs away as Gabriel chases it when he was trying to bring him to his Mother as an Apology Gift until Nahla jumps through an invisible wall at the dead end of the Land of the Dead. Gabriel, both surprise and curious to see where the Cat went through as he carefully tries out the Invisible starting with his hand. He was shock in surprise at first to see that their really is a Magic Portal in the Dead End so Gabriel decides to take a step through the Invisible Portal. Through the Portal that Gabriel walks through, he lands in the Living World again as his Body was now in Flesh again. The Portal itself is revealed to actually be a Gateway through the Living where some Ghosts can take a visit to the Living as their Flesh would appear on their skins based on how they looked like back then when they were alive. Shocked in surprise to see himself in Flesh again, Gabriel looks around and finds himself in the Living World in the Fields near the Town of Mexico, but could this be that it could change his life forever? Naturally, he does find Nahla (Who's actually a Black Cat when she was alive) as Gabriel chases the Cat again in the fields and then through town. When he finally captures the Cat herself, Gabriel almost got hit by a Car but he gets hit through the car that was driving and didn't feel pain at all. Gabriel finds himself in the City of Mexico and realizes that everything around in the Country has quite changed a lot since after his Death but he then realizes that he's still actually a Ghost as People can't see ghosts but Ghosts can only see The Living. He does find out that there are other Ghosts from the Land of the Dead living and even hanging out with the Living while the Alive People are unaware in fact that there are actually some Ghosts around in Town. Gabriel decides to go back to the Afterlife but then he then finds Gina across by in the streets reading a Book unaware as a Car was about to hit her but Gabriel saves the Woman's Life as he physically pushes off of the streets as the Driver in the Car already stops as Gina lands on the ground off the streets which makes Gabriel's Spirit a Skeleton Man again. The Driver that almost killed Gina steps out of the Car as Everyone else sees that Gina is on the ground almost got hit which makes people wonder (who saved her life?). The Driver helps Gina out as he apologizes that he didn't recognize her on the streets as Gina forgives him but she is curious on who exactly saved to push her off the streets. Fearing that he might get recognize by the Living, Gabriel insantly runs away while holding Nahla afriad that he will be seen by the Alive Souls among the Living World as he finds a Magic Mirror in a Pawnshop as he goes through it (which is actually another Portal) as Gabriel and Nahla find themselves back in the Afterlife. Glad that they were back in The Land of the Dead, Gabriel heads home without Nahla thinking that he's better off without a pet as Nahla sees that Gabriel looks so harsh so she secretly follows him which leads her to his house in the Dead. Camilla looks unpleased as she wondered on where he was as Gabriel didn't want to tell the truth so he decides to keep it a secret, hoping that maybe perhaps he could visit the Living more often. Later that night when all the dead were asleep, Nahla enters Gabriel's Home as she walks up close to find her new friend. The Street Cat herself does find her new friend sleeping in his room as Nahla licks Gabriel causing him to wake up. He sees that Nahla is in his Room asking the Cat of what she wants this time as Nahla wants to show Gabriel the living world again so he follows her to the same graveyard they want to and then back into the living world. In the Night time among the Alive World, Gabriel takes a visit to the Living once again only to himself and Nahla some magical yellow fireflies flying among the Living World while everyone is asleep, surprised to see himself around the Magic he finds the Other Ghosts who are also visiting the living just like him. Intrigued by the Modern Era that the World is currently living in, Gabriel decides that maybe he should visit the living more often just to remind me very much of the Good Old Times in his Life. The Next Day, Gabriel visits the Living again while Camilla is unaware that his Son's Secrets since Gabriel decides to keep his Living World visits a Secret for now on after they decided to keep Nahla as their new pet cat. As Gabriel visits the Living Once again, he takes a good stroll around in the Brand New City in the town of Mexico as he meets Other Ghosts there who are also taking a visit to the Living as well. On his way by, he meets Gina (the same girl who saved her life from yesterday) again as Gina walks down in the streets through people as Gabriel hides so that way he won't see her while Gina doesn't noticed that the Ghost who saved her is behind her. Once Gabriel takes a look at Gina again, he takes a closer look further while Gina is unaware but as the Dead Man looks at her Beauty, he insantly somehow falls in love with her. Unaware of being followed by a Ghost, Gina stops by at a Bakery for a Job to work at while Gabriel sneakily watches through the window of what she's doing as Gina asks the Baker to work at the Bakery for a Job. Realizing that he is somehow in love, he is then interuppted by three of the other few ghosts who found him by the Bakery Window outside which makes Gabriel look awkard as he runs away from them leaving the Three Ghosts who saw him confused. During the Job Interview at the Bakery, Gina heard voices mostly from Gabriel and thought she heard something that sounded like the voices of the spirits. Gabriel runs through some of the ghosts in the living and insantly hides behind the walls of the streets. He has never had this feeling before as his invsible heart beats in silence realizing that despite being a flirtatious for skeleton women, he has honestly never fallen in love with a Living Human before. In his life, he never fell for any girl until in the afterlife. Keeping these feelings down in secret, he stops thinking about Gina after seeing her again as he calmy keeps wandering down through the city again after a quick embarrassment. However, in Mexico, they are actually Ghost Hunters who are Agents that secretly work for a Paranormal Agent Company searching for Ghosts to spy and even capture them while that most of the Dead fear as Gabriel and the Other Ghosts who are roaming around in the living are unaware that they were being watched by. After the visit to the Living, Gabriel comes back to his Home in the Afterlife as Camilla asks on where he was as her son replies "Just Took a Visit to a New Town". It makes Camilla curious to what this "New Town" he is talking about but what she doesn't know that the other ghosts in The Land of the Dead are visting the Life World above. But when the Secret Agents have already filmed Gabriel saving Gina that was actually caught on Camera, they show it to their secret business where they could capture their Next Ghost Victim who roams around the earth. The Next Day, Gabriel shows the Living World to his dead best friends (Juan, Marco, and Pedro) as The Boys couldn't believe on how different and new their Country is now as Gabriel shows his Friends around the place. Unaware of the fact that they're secretly but actually being followed by Nahla (Gabriel's Pet Cat) as Nahla journies in to see what's going on with her new owner and his friends. However, what they are mostly unaware is the fact that the Ghost Hunters are somewhat seeing them in their technology glasses where they can see ghosts. When they are later found by them in the same day, The Ghost Hunters try to chase Gabriel and his Friends but Nahla saves them by dropping barrels all over the Ghost Capturers. After the chase, The Boys were somehow splitted apart as they didn't know each part of the city they were in. Gabriel tried to look for his friends but somehow he sees Gina again outside picking up the boxes that her Job ordered, of course, he does hide behind so that way Gina can't see him. Gina enters the Bakery as Gabriel sneakily heads inside and cheeks out the Bakery that she now works at. In the private room, when Gina was still working at her job she then finds Gabriel's Human Form in the reflection of a Mirror. She turned and saw that there was no one there behind her, strange as she thought, she thinks it was only just probably her imagintion but in truth, Gabriel hides behind the mirror and sees his crush go. Later that Night, Gabriel's friends already head home after failing for trying to find their best friend but Nahla does not give up as she headed straight to find her owner. Gabriel follows Gina the way home as he hides outside behind her house as he sneakily sees his crush on the balcony. As Gabriel peeks, Gina holds her locket that has a picture of her and her family for when she was young as she talks to herself wishing that her Father was somehow here and that he would be very proud of her since he died long ago when Gina was a child so she only had to live with her Mother for now and that she wanted to prove herself to be a working hard adult for her family especially her Dad that she misses so much who already passed away. As Gabriel hears this behind, he felt the same pain of having a rough childhood like her since they both lost their fathers at such a young age (main difference is that Gina's Father isn't an Abusive Alcoholic Man like Andre for sure). Gina heads back inside when it was Gabriel's time to finally introduce himself as he flies through the window doors on the balcony and even enters the room. Only this time when Gabriel accidentally bumps into her physically this time Gina could really now see him as she turns in shock for she sees a Dead Skeleton Ghost Man behind Her. Gabriel looks nervous as he waves "Hi" to her but Gina screams in a heart attack as she tries to throw stuff at him but Gabriel calms her down as Gina breathes in calm. Freaked out at first, Gabriel apologizes her for scaring at first because he didn't mean it like that as Gina asks to him of who he is. Gabriel explains that he was once a Living Handsome Man until he got hit and killed in a Car Carsh and now lives in the Land of the Dead (The Afterlife of Ghosts who are buried at their Funreals). This insantly makes Gina intrigued as she asks him about the Land of the Dead as Gabriel replies that it really is the afterlife and is mostly celebrated in Day of the Dead. But he also explained that he was the one who saved her life from the Car Crash that she almost died in. Surprised by the fact that Gabriel was the one who saved her, they decided to become friends and even keep their friendship a secret away from everyone as Gabriel decides to visit Gina every day now when he is roaming the living. When Gabriel returns to the Land of the Dead after walking home with Nahla, he comes back to his home but when his Mother questions him of where he was he only replies in a lie that he was just out busy doing something with his friends in the Land of the Dead. Still unaware of her Son's Secret, Camilla will soon realize of what her Son and the Other Dead have been doing. Meanwhile, upon the Ghost Hunters' Business, they have been somehow tracking down their next victims to capture for they have taken photos of Gabriel and his Friends' spirits that were now caught on camera but they plan to show them in public about the Ghosts who are somehow roaming the earth. The Next Day, when Gabriel comes again to Earth, Gina's Ex-Boyfriend, Rafael pays a visit to his Ex-Girlfriend's Job. Rafael convinces Gina to go out with him and be in a relationship again but Gina refuses because Rafael is techincally bad at relationships and that's why He and Gina broke up. But when Rafael tries to force her Gabriel insantly pranks him and wouldn't allow the ex bastard himself to fall for his living girl while Rafael is unaware that he's being pranked by a Ghost that angered him. After falling for so many pranks, Rafael quits as he gives up trying to reunite with his ex and leaves the Bakery without Gina trying to comfort him. As Gina continues her job, Nahla finds Gabriel hanging out in the Bakery as Gabriel introduces Gina to his pet cat but Gina has to be very busy first at her job there in the Bakery just to earn some money for her family. While Gina is working, Gabriel plays some music with a guitar and even sings a song but this leads him into helping out his human living girlfriend which leads them to dancing in the Bakery. But when Gina's Boss finds out of objects magically floating everywhere, he interrupts the moment as he yells down causing the Couple to stop dancing as every object that was magically floating falls down on the ground. Shocked and surprised Gina almost tried to explain but the Boss orders her to clean everything up. Fearing that there might be some ghosts hunting his Bakery without seeing Gabriel or Nahla, he decides to call the Ghost Hunters for an emergency. After an embarrassed moment, Gina and Gabriel argue on how he would have been spotted by people since ghosts can be terrifying but Gabriel replies it in a jerk way saying that he was only just being himself. Angered by the embarrasement, Gina refuses to talk to Gabriel as he tries to apologize but she still refuses. However, Nahla intervenes Gabriel and directs him to be himself as Gabriel gives Gina a Rose as an Apology. Intrigued by the Flower, Gina accepts despite his lack of qualilites as a dead person. Recently, the Two often hung out more some other time as they get to know each other and eventually became friends. Gina knew all of Gabriel's likes and what he would have been like if he was alive if he wasn't killed and even Gabriel knew Gina's likes of nature and even to get know around the world. Their romance somehow blossomed when one night, Gabriel takes Gina out in a local abandonded resturant where the two have a romantic date. After their dinner, they somehow danced when Ghosts on Earth where dancing to the Ghost Mexican Musicians including Jose Alfredo Jimenez, even Nahla enjoyed their romance. But they had decided to keep their romance a secret from others for their love was a resemblance between Life and Death. Until One Day, when Camilla finds out of her Son's Secret after when Gabriel visited to the living with Gina after their date when he brought her roses, Camilla asks on what he has been doing lately when he didn't appear more in the Land of the Dead since he's been worried about him when he finds a Guitar that he played for Gina that he actually stole in the Living when he cheered her up. Gabriel tries to explain the truth of why he didn't tell his Mother that Ghosts can actually visit the living but this horrified his Mother for Camilla actually heard recently about Ghost Hunters in the Living hunting for some ghost but Gabriel says that he didn't get captured by the Agents and that he actually quickly escaped from them. This worried Camilla more for she orders her son not to go back to the living but Gabriel explains that he would still be careful and that visiting the living ain't so bad but Camilla insantly shuts down Gabriel's visits as he locks him up in his room cause she still feared in hope that he wouldn't end up in the same mistakes as his father. But his friends somehow go looking for him across the streets, Nahla frees Gabriel with the key that she stole as she shows him back to the Cemetery. Curious to know on where they are, they somehow actually visit La Catrina, The Death Goddess of Chicunamictlan. He asks The Goddess and Ruler of Death herself on how did Ghosts find themselves in the Living as Catrina explains that we spirits are allowed to roam the earth and are only to be seen in Day of the Dead unless if someone is born to see ghosts like them but techincally sometimes when people grow older, they can somehow quickly start losing their ability to see the Dead. He also asks if they'll ever be reborn or alive again because Gabriel has been crushing on Gina ever since they first met but Catrina explains that He and Gina can't be in a relationship because The Dead and The Living are completely different since the Dead can't be affort to make families with the Family since it's actually considered to be necrophilia, unless however if Their Soul is decided to become a reincarnation of a New Person in the Living. Gabriel's Friends keep on looking for him because they think that he is somehow lost in the Living but when his Pals search through in the town of Mexico, however, one of the friends accidentally bump into Gina physically as Gina sees as he meets Gabriel's friends for the first time but they freak out when they are spotted by a living they eventually run but Gina this time chases them through the city to ask on who they are as she didn't mean to frightened them when they first saw Gabriel's Human Girlfriend. But they are somewhat captured by the Ghost Hunters who caught them, sending them to their laboratory where they trapped ghosts and to test them. When Nahla finds out that her Owner's Friends have been captured, she immediately tries to find Gabriel and Gina everywhere through the city. But when Gabriel looks to find Gina again, she somehow starts to lose her ability to see Ghosts when she somehow vividly hears Gabriel calling out her name as Gina tries to see him but as they were about to close embrace with touch her ability of seeing ghosts instantly fades away and so does Gabriel's physics of touching her as Gina tries to find Gabriel through the streets of the City but Gabriel keeps calling out for his love as it turns out, Gina can no longer see the Dead anymore. Heartbroken with Silence, Gabriel walks alone with pity as he starts to head back to the Land of the Dead. But when Gabriel heads to return home, he finds a Stray Dog that barks at Gabriel as the Dog can see his spirit as it grabs Gabriel's hat as the Skeleton Man chases the Dog who stole his hat through the city. But when he finally gets his hat back from the Dog, the Dog reveals himself to be none other than Cizin, the Mayan God of Death. Terrified and shocked to meet the Mayan God of Death for the First Time. Gabriel explains that his Human Friend cannot see him anymore and he wants Gina to see Ghosts again. But when Cizin explains that ghosts can be seen again if humans have the ability for the ones who are born with as Cizin explains that Gina was actually born to the power and the ability to talk to Ghosts. Gabriel tells Cizian that he loves her and he wishes to be alive to start a new life but Cizian can't do that and in order for him to see his Living Girlfriend again is by playing an old love song so Gina can see him again. Agreeing to this, Gabriel looks for a Guitar to play at an abandonded apartment but he somehow finds the dead corpse body lying on the ground wearing the exact same clothes as his father wore. Recongzing that the Corpse Man on the ground is actually Andre (His Father). Andre actually died due to his alcholic disease and that his own house was acidentally burnt when he caused a fire in his house as his body was never found. Disappointed and sad at the same time that his Father never had his own tombstone, he often wish he could see him again despite the horrible things that he has done. Andre would have been able to apologized if he would ever see his son and his wife again in the afterlife, so Gabriel picks up his bones and burries his parts in the ground, hoping that he would see them again in the afterlife as he borrows his Father's Guitar. At Gina's home, she is deveasted that she can not see her Boyfriend again until she hears a familiar singing voice coming from outside of the balcony. She somehow listens to the song that sound so familiar towards Gabriel's voice realizing that Gabriel is still hear and that he's actually singing a song, but when he somehow completes his love song towards Gina, his full body appears in a spirit form with the magic as Gina finally sees her Boyfriend again. They of course reunited with each other but when Nahla interupts the moment, she tells them that Gabriel's Friends have been captured by the Ghost Hunters. Shocked by this news, the Couple and the Cat order themselves to save Gabriel's Dead Friends. When The Ghost Trio were already trapped inside through the glass, the Ghost Hunters and Scientists wanted to test them on how they could touch by physics and even possibly send them back to their Grave but they figure that maybe they would have their bones to be used in a musuem which would not make the Dead and their Spirits roam around anymore. The Other Trio make their first way through their hideout as they try to find them through the lab but when they are in there, they see other ghosts and even some dead body parts in the jars which creeps them out. Eventually, they do find their Friends but once they are caught, they try to catch Gabriel to put him along with his friends but Gina has a battle with the Ghost Capturers and even the Scientists as she quickly frees her boyfriend and his friends as Gabriel's Friends escape as Nahla leads them the way but Gina and Gabriel end up being trapped once one of the Ghost Capturers put down a lockdown. When the Ghost Capturers and the Scientists see Gabriel for the first time, they can also see ghosts as well as Gabriel asks on why they keep doing this to capture ghosts. They explain that the reason as to why they capture ghosts is because long ago when Ghosts first started to roam the earth in the 18th Century, people have seen ghosts as ghosts used to haunt and terriorize around places so their Ruler decides to hire a business to capture ghosts and even trap them so they wouldn't escaped, which could explain one of the reasons that the cemetery of the forgotten exists in the Land of the Dead. Shocked by the news of this, the Ghost Capturers and the Scientist were about to capture Gabriel but Gina pushes him to safe him as Gina gets shot and killed through the heart. As the Ghost Hunters and Scientists gasp, Gabriel, heartbroken and pissed exposes his whole Spirit and even hunts the whole lab as he posses the objects to scare them. One of the Ghost Hunters try to trap Gabriel but he destorys all of the Weapons that they have. Terriyfing the Ghosts and the Scientists, he tries to kill them but then he slowly realizes that not everyone deserves to die as he flashbacks as he starts to remember the good old times in his childhood. Gabriel changes his mind as he tells them an advice to leave all ghosts alone and let they roam as he is sorry for terrifying but he asks them to bury Gina so that way, he could see her again in the afterlife and then disappears as he leaves. When the Ghost Hunters and Scientists look at Gina's Dead Body on the ground, they felt sorry as they now know what they must do; change their lives. So they quite ghost hunting and freed all of their spirits as they finally let it go. Gabriel finally returns home but he looks sad as he tells his Mother everything of what he did on earth and that he lost his human girlfriend which makes Camilla heartbroken as she sympathiezes with her son as The Mother and Son duo bond with each other as Nahla joins in after hearing the death of Gina. Even everyone including Gina's family visited her funreal, her Mother was heartbroken that she first lost her husband and now she lost her daughter as Gina's family buried her body hoping that She and her Father would find a better place together. On November when "Día de Muertos", all the people including the family members celebrated their loved ones who passed away in the holiday as they all visited to their graves. When the other Ghosts who came up in the earth to see their loved ones, Gabriel thought that perhaps he could see Gina again since she's now dead but when he tries to find her in the living, he accidentally bumps into a familiar looking Skeleton Woman as they somehow recognize each other. It turns out that the Skeleton Woman that Gabriel bumped into was Gina, who was now already dead. As Gabriel and Gina reunite, she introduces him to his Father as they come here to visit their loved ones who are alive. Since Gabriel has never been visitng to Day of the Dead for a long time, the Three somehow celebrate with Gina's loved ones as they all have a celebration party between the Living and the Dead. In the End, Gabriel and Gina were now together, as they somehow got married and eventually moved into their new home that they now lived together as Camilla and Gina's Father now work at Gabriel's Mother's Resturant in the Afterlife. I'm totally obsessed with the romance trope dynamic, "Death and the Maiden" where the concept is actually Beauty and the Beast only the Beast can be in Different Species. I actually inspired this story off of the African Folktale, "Afiong, The Proud Princess who married a Skull" however, I put that folktale in a twist in a much more Mexican style. My own Mexican Death and the Maiden story also inspires a lot of Coco and The Book of Life, but I do enjoy these foreign animatied traditonal films. Gabriel Hernández and Nahla (c) Me

#bone man #original story #original stories #my stories

[graillemm111]

Life isn’t finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.

Hi!! I’m Crystal, Crystal Graille Mangulian

A lot of people call’s me ystal, but wait! let me tell you a secret, here at home they call me ohany because it was my grandmother’s name.

I just turned 15 last January 28, I am born and raised in Conner Apayao, the fruit basket of the North.

We are four in Family, I’m the eldest and Xian is the youngest.

I completed my junior high school at Conner, Central, National, High school and graduated with honors , and now i am currently studying in St. Paul University Philippines. People often describe me as a jovial, carefree, and optimistic kind person, but what people don’t know is that sometimes I experience bad days, and that’s alright.

So yeah let’s move on, lets talk about my favorites and what I love.

I love to play instrument, I know how to play Piano, Violin, Ukulele, and Guitar and I can also sing.

I came from a family of musicians. I joined a lot of singing and music contest growing up,

I was raised with faith in God, i go to church every Sunday with my Family, I was very thankful and contented for having a happy family and for what I have in my life.

I love traveling especially in far places like Baguio, Ilocos, Manila,Zamboanga and many more to create memories and experiences, I also love watching movies, k drama’s, C drama’s, and Thai Drama’s,

I’m a fan of Lany, I love their songs. I have 5 black pets, 2 black dogs named Phorsha and Chayo, 2 black cats named Tango and Jive and 1 black bird named Clever, I couldn’t take care of them because I am busy studying so my grandmother takes care of them all.

I love taking pictures and selfies, sometimes I am also a model but not the professional model that you think HAHAHAHAHA

So yeah I will tell you a story, when I was a kid, I always asked my dad how’s the feeling to be a musician, because all I wanted is to be a musician, it is my dream to perform stage and people is cheering on me and shouting my name, and my dad said “it’s hard to be a musician”

I’m Inspired to be like them, and now I’m grateful to be one of them,

I’m a musician but not famous. I’m super happy because I like what I am doing, and finally it happened

I do have a lot of weaknesses, sometimes i put pressure on myself, I don’t know how to manage time and I really need my parents to always be by my side, but now that i am a senior high student i need to be independent, and I’m still adjusting in this new environment.

I do have a lot of friends, we are enjoying our lives while where not that busy. I forget all of the problems when I am with them.

I was very thankful for what I have in my life.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life, -to be happy.

It’s all that matters, you only live once.

Where do I see myself 10 years from now? Was my learning in spup vital to where im leading to?

10 years from now, I see myself with some good qualifications (degree), working in a reputed institution, spending time with family and doing something for my society and mother nature. Over the next few years I will try to fulfill all my plans with all my strength. I will not leave any opportunity which proves to be a hallway to the completion of my goals. I will try my best to be a valuable and irreplaceable asset for the institution I work for. As any other youngster I also want to change happiness and success for myself as well as for my parents and my brother.

Thinking about my future is scary and fascinating at the same time: on the other hand, I have lot of plans and goals that I wish to accomplish; on the other hand, I have fear of choosing the wrong path or not achieve everything I have planned. Nevertheless, just like many other people, I have a personal plan on how I see myself in 10 years from now. This plan accumulates everything that I find essential in my life, my family, my career goals, and my passion for self-development. In general, 10 years from now, I see myself as a successful medtech, helping my parents to cover their debts and treat them to please with everything they need ,

And yes my learning in SPUP is vital to where im leading, and I know that i can handle my chosen strand and course so I can say it is vital.

Was STEM the best choice after all?

- Yes STEM is the best choice, pursuing a STEM strand will allow me a wide variety of future opportunities after graduation. I choose STEM because it is accurate in my course when I go to college. STEM helps me to give a little light about my lessons in my college life. I want to pursue Medical Technology in college. I choose STEM because I know this strand is compatible in any kind of course in college. We all know that this strand is much harder than other kind of strand but on the other side it makes our mind advance and it makes us much prepared on college life I felt lucky to have found the strand that I’m really comfortable with. Looking back, I also had difficulty in choosing a strand last year in junior high. My school offered only the academic track, and I had four strands to choose from. It was a struggle—one day it was STEM, another day it was ABM (Accountancy, Business and Management), and then some days it was HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences), or even GAS (General Academic Strand). In the end, choosing the right strand may simply be about rediscovering one’s inner child. I chose STEM not because I’m a math or science geek, but because, at a young age, I loved asking questions that were very much STEM in nature. I like watching Discovery Channel and National Geographic. I love inventing parachutes and other stuff to play with. And I guess that, somehow, the child in me still knew what was best. Apart from that for some, choosing the right strand is not just about making new friends and discovering new things related to a subject. More important, it is about envisioning your dream job and career path. Choosing a career is difficult in itself, but senior high school prepares you to make crucial decisions that will impact your future. In my case, since I have yet to decide which career suits me best, I felt that STEM would be most helpful. Studying and working in STEM means learning about the world around you, finding innovative solutions to real-world challenges, and playing a role in some of the country’s major discoveries and developments. “STEM is difficult but intelligence is not measured by a number on a piece of paper. You go to school to learn, not to memorize no matter how much it seems like everything is just memorization. Learn the concepts. Don’t just memorize the terms. Take charge and strive to learn and grow. Don’t be complacent. STEM is ever growing and ever-changing and you should be too.”

What course will you take in collage and why?

In this modern era, there are a lot of things that are beyond our knowledge, things that are unkown and cannot be perceived. As a young pursuer, I dreamt of being one of the people who play a vital role in the community. Right before, I thought hardly to decide of what course should I take and directly relate it to my interests, I came up through a lot of science related courses until I’ve heard and searched about Medical Technology, I was first enthralled by the thought of it most primarily because it focuses on the extraordinary such as things that are not visible to the naked eye.

When I was young, I was afraid of Health practitioners especially medtechs, because they do nothing but prick my finger and draw blood from me, back then I wasn’t aware of what profession they are in because they lock themselves in an isolated room which I don’t have a clue that it was a laboratory. My young wondering mind brought me to the idea of playing pretend with my childhood friends, me as a medtech and them as the patient, I would prick their fingers using match sticks and inject or draw blood from them using a “click” ballpen.

I chose Medical Technology course because I was influenced by it since I was young and it’s my interest and I know that when I became a successful medical technologist, I would play a vital role in my country and help the people in need of proper diagnosis.

And that's the end of my blog, I hope you enjoy it, Thank you and God bless!!

[lostvox]

Growing up on the internet was something that ended up being both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it allowed me to learn about so many different things from around the world that I would never even know existed. It gave me community in the various places I have frequented since 2007, and helped me grow into myself as a musician and artist.

On the other hand, it also gave me incredibly crippling imposter syndrome - I felt that I could never compete with those who were older, smarter, and more talented than me. I always felt a sense of belittlement from my own mind because I wasn’t where I wanted to be in life. It also crushed my kindness and made me a meaner person for a long time, and I’m still working on trying not to be them anymore.

But the biggest thing it has done for me, especially in the last six years, is given me my agency back. I was so afraid of being made fun of as a kid; I had a lot of trauma from both family and friends that made me a reclusive person. The internet let me be who I wanted, and gave me knowledge to help me find who that was.

The internet helped me find the furry community. It gave me an understanding of trans identity, and it exposed me to what life can truly be like as a queer person, which I had never had access to as someone who grew up in predominantly red areas.

It also taught me to live authentically, and that ‘cringe’ is a construct. Being able to write songs about wanting to be a dog, wearing animal costumes in cities all over the US, and foster more intimate relationships with those I love in my life has been a gift. I know I wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for all of my friends hiding in my computer.

All this to say, I’m so glad to have the life I do. I’m thankful to be able to act like a dog and have people be like “yeah! bark bark!”. But most of all, I’m grateful for the parts of everyone I’ve met being embedded in my soul for the rest of time.

#sorry for the novel lmao #feeling strong feelings today